back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 9.4.2022
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If you guys have the chance to sit a little closer to the middle of the aisle, please do so. 00:14:43.000 |
Yeah, we have a video that we're going to be watching, 00:14:45.000 |
and then I'll get to our announcements afterwards. 00:19:06.000 |
The reason why we watch this video is because Pastor Lee from, 00:19:11.000 |
not Dropbox, Baby Box, is actually going to be with us in a couple of weeks. 00:19:17.000 |
And so on two Sundays, on September 18th, he was going to be joining us. 00:19:21.000 |
And we're going to be having a special session where he's going to be giving his testimony. 00:19:26.000 |
And we have an opportunity to interact with him, ask him questions about his ministry, 00:19:35.000 |
So after the service, you'll be able to go grab lunch and come back to the cafe area. 00:19:39.000 |
And we're hoping that we can do it over there. 00:19:41.000 |
If we have too many people, we may have to come back into this room. 00:19:44.000 |
But he is coming in two weeks, not next Sunday, but the Sunday after. 00:19:48.000 |
And so we're going to be giving announcements. 00:19:52.000 |
But for that next Sunday, we are planning to take special offering for his ministry. 00:19:57.000 |
And so it will remind you through emails and through posts that we're going to be collecting for next Sunday. 00:20:04.000 |
And then we'll be able to give it to him when he comes. 00:20:08.000 |
The Lee family is going to be taking care of him all day that day. 00:20:11.000 |
But, again, he graciously offered to be while he's here with us to present that for us. 00:20:19.000 |
And, again, we'll remind you of the offering that we're taking next week. 00:20:23.000 |
Just a few announcements before we get started. 00:20:26.000 |
First of all, our membership class, our new round of membership class is starting on October 2nd. 00:20:31.000 |
So today was the last day of membership class for this session. 00:20:35.000 |
And then a new round is starting on October 2nd. 00:20:39.000 |
So if you're interested, please let him know or refer them to Pastor Nate, 00:20:43.000 |
and he'll tell you what's going on with that and when to come. 00:20:52.000 |
We're trying to get our children to be at church, and they can learn about the Reformation. 00:20:59.000 |
And so if you can come and help out with that so that the children and the families can come 00:21:04.000 |
and experience that day together, so please let Esther Leong. 00:21:10.000 |
So, again, if you don't know who she is, we'll put that information on the website and also on our app. 00:21:16.000 |
And so you can contact them and let them know that you'll be able to come and help out. 00:21:22.000 |
The others we'll get to when we get closer to the date. 00:21:25.000 |
This is the first and only time I'm going to make this announcement. 00:21:31.000 |
And for the regular, look for Johnny Wang and John Yang. 00:21:35.000 |
I think they have a table outside, so I don't know if they're going to do it today because they don't want to melt. 00:21:41.000 |
But they did have it last week, so if you haven't signed up, please sign up as soon as possible 00:21:46.000 |
because they're going to be putting people on the teams. 00:21:48.000 |
There is a WBBA, Women's BBA, and let's see, David Jung's name, Ashley Hamamoto, is in charge of that, 00:21:59.000 |
So those of you who want, rather play half court. 00:22:02.000 |
You're just as skilled, but you'd rather play half court. 00:22:06.000 |
And see Elder Phillip, and he'll direct you to the things that you'll need to participate in that. 00:22:15.000 |
So let me pray for us, and we'll give an opportunity to give you an offering. 00:22:18.000 |
Again, if it's possible to use Zelle, because we're having issues with the other avenues of electronic funding 00:22:25.000 |
If you did bring a physical check, again, we have a box on the way out that says "offering," 00:22:33.000 |
After the offering, we're going to have our Sister Kaylee come, 00:22:38.000 |
and she's going to give her testimony and be baptized this morning. 00:22:45.000 |
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the privilege that we have to be able to come and worship you together 00:22:52.000 |
with all the distractions and all the things that are going on in our lives. 00:22:55.000 |
We thank you, Father God, for calling us week after week to fellowship, to share, to sing, to hear your word. 00:23:03.000 |
I pray that your Holy Spirit would minister this morning. 00:23:06.000 |
May your word and the fellowship of your spirit, our singing, all of it, Lord God, may be anointed by your grace. 00:23:13.000 |
And especially now as we give this offering, may you, that even in our giving, Lord God, 00:23:19.000 |
that you would correct our hearts, guide us, focus us, that we may offer it to you in a way that honors you 00:23:26.000 |
and may it be multiplied for your use in your kingdom. 00:24:56.500 |
♪ Who can light the fires of a thousand burning suns ♪ 00:32:30.560 |
of how God saved a broken, wretched, depraved sinner. 00:32:34.040 |
By God's grace, I was born into a Christian household 00:32:39.480 |
under the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 00:32:44.280 |
I remember praying the prayer with my parents, 00:32:50.680 |
nor a true understanding of what it actually meant 00:32:53.580 |
to accept Christ into my life as Lord and Savior. 00:32:56.720 |
Because of this quote-unquote salvation that I had, 00:33:01.800 |
whether it was doing my best to be a morally good person 00:33:14.360 |
and ultimately a personal relationship with God. 00:33:19.720 |
as something meant for new believers or converts, 00:33:31.400 |
blind to the very things that separated me from God 00:33:43.240 |
he disciplined me in my sophomore year of high school 00:33:49.100 |
During this period of my life, God revealed my sins to me, 00:33:52.800 |
especially during the beginning of these problems. 00:34:03.720 |
not only against my friends that I hurt, but against God. 00:34:11.880 |
Looking back, I think that this was the first time 00:34:18.480 |
My life at this time was filled with the desire 00:34:25.660 |
at the extent of tainting the reputations of others. 00:34:28.660 |
I will forever be thankful to God for this child 00:34:36.080 |
providing me with a loving family who prayed for me, 00:34:51.480 |
Later that year, when my older sister, Sarah, 00:35:01.640 |
She led Bible study sessions with me and my younger sister, 00:35:06.800 |
and to truly apply God's word into our own lives. 00:35:10.320 |
In these moments, God softened and renewed my heart, 00:35:17.280 |
I can say with confidence that I was truly saved 00:35:19.760 |
and regenerated with a new life in the Holy Spirit 00:35:27.480 |
that I began to be in the word daily up to this day. 00:35:33.440 |
who gave me this desire and hunger for the word, 00:35:36.160 |
and that it is only by Christ's death and resurrection 00:35:41.240 |
that I am able to have this relationship with God. 00:35:44.360 |
God has given me so precious a salvation and new life, 00:35:47.420 |
allowing me to see and experience true peace, joy, love, 00:35:55.960 |
God has continually reminded me to surrender myself to him 00:36:00.840 |
and to live my life according to his will instead of my own. 00:36:20.920 |
courage, and openness than I have ever experienced, 00:36:28.960 |
and has taught me to let go of the struggles I face 00:36:31.240 |
by lifting them up to him who is able to conquer all things. 00:36:37.560 |
why God chose to save me, or why he loves me, 00:36:41.300 |
a sinner who has fallen so short of his glory. 00:36:44.440 |
One passage that I really love is Romans 38 to 39. 00:36:49.440 |
It says, "For I'm sure that neither death nor life, 00:36:58.340 |
"nor depth, nor anything else in all creation 00:37:01.540 |
"will be able to separate us from the love of God 00:37:05.720 |
While I cannot fathom the true depths of our creator's love, 00:37:11.140 |
that no matter what may come in this life on earth, 00:37:14.180 |
I can place my hope fully on the living hope, Jesus Christ, 00:37:17.860 |
who I have died with to sin and have risen with in new life. 00:37:21.740 |
All I can say is thank you, Jesus, for saving me. 00:38:14.760 |
If you can turn your Bibles with me to Luke chapter three, 00:38:17.960 |
I'm gonna be reading starting from verse three 00:38:22.160 |
down to verse nine, but we're gonna be dealing 00:38:25.060 |
with the whole section all the way up to verse 14 today. 00:38:35.740 |
And he came into the district around the Jordan 00:38:43.320 |
of Isaiah the prophet, the voice of one crying 00:38:46.120 |
in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. 00:38:48.860 |
Make his path straight, every ravine will be filled 00:38:52.040 |
and every mountain and hill will be brought low. 00:39:00.800 |
So he began saying to the crowds who were going out 00:39:05.360 |
who warned you to flee from the wrath to come. 00:39:07.840 |
Therefore bear fruits in keeping with repentance 00:39:18.320 |
Indeed, the ax is already laid at the root of the tree. 00:39:26.800 |
Heavenly father, we pray for your Holy Spirit's power 00:39:38.500 |
Soften our hearts that we may be easily molded 00:39:59.560 |
the cry room is going to be moved to the other side, okay? 00:40:03.120 |
We're trying to prepare for the students coming 00:40:06.240 |
and so we're gonna get all that ready by this week. 00:40:21.620 |
and then we're gonna be opening up that area, 00:40:24.980 |
and we're gonna take extra seats to be seated over there. 00:40:34.620 |
and so the dates are January 20th through 28th. 00:40:41.000 |
where we leave on the 20th and come back on the 28th. 00:40:44.520 |
If you are an eye doctor, we need you more than ever 00:40:50.100 |
because that's the main work that we're doing. 00:40:55.980 |
but we need more assistance than doctors normally 00:41:11.640 |
So during service, just raise your hand and I'll know. 00:41:14.800 |
Yeah, so actually Cross Life has always joined us in this 00:41:21.720 |
So we're gonna have to lock up the spots today 00:41:28.760 |
As soon as possible, if this is on your heart 00:41:30.640 |
and again, especially if you're an eye doctor, 00:41:35.880 |
you know years ago when we first started going out to India, 00:41:45.600 |
that we were going was so deep in the boonies 00:41:49.280 |
that even the missionaries who were stationed 00:41:59.520 |
There's Hindu nationalists who basically has free reign 00:42:25.240 |
and those of you, there's some of you who are here 00:42:33.560 |
You know, if something happens, make sure that, 00:42:36.360 |
you know, that people are able to be prepared 00:42:39.960 |
and I remember before I left, I had to leave like, 00:42:57.560 |
and there was about an hour worth of road that was paved 00:43:00.400 |
and after that, it was like basically one road, 00:43:14.640 |
man, this is a long way to go on this dirt road 00:43:21.120 |
and so obviously, each year, we got more accustomed 00:43:32.720 |
from the second year, that Hyundai was coming. 00:43:35.480 |
So, you know, before all the factories were out 00:43:44.200 |
part of land over there and so every year we went, 00:43:46.720 |
we saw a little bit more, a little bit more being developed 00:43:52.240 |
it's become actually one of the best highways, 00:43:54.120 |
better than here, it's like four lane highways 00:43:56.040 |
on both sides and because it's headed out to nowhere, 00:44:02.560 |
So you have, what used to take us about five and a half 00:44:05.520 |
hours to get to where we go, now it's about three and a half 00:44:09.720 |
hour and a half of driving and right up to Hyundai, 00:44:14.840 |
in the middle of nowhere, you'll see Korean barbecue, 00:44:20.440 |
you see Korean signs everywhere in the middle of India, 00:44:23.520 |
you know, and then all the roads right up to that 00:44:30.160 |
Obviously, we knew something important was coming 00:44:35.400 |
as Hyundai has invested so much money right there 00:44:39.880 |
and then they said over 30,000 people who have come 00:44:46.120 |
they're, you know, wealthy people, executives 00:44:48.360 |
and so they had to build all this infrastructure 00:44:52.320 |
Obviously, you know where I'm going with this, right? 00:44:55.400 |
This road was invested because without these roads, 00:45:02.160 |
that was the whole purpose of John the Baptist. 00:45:09.360 |
to prepare the best roads to get to the Messiah 00:45:14.760 |
every ravine will be filled and every mountain 00:45:18.640 |
the crooked will become straight and the rough road smooth 00:45:29.520 |
But when we think of John the Baptist's ministry, right, 00:45:37.520 |
The caterpillar, you know, wasn't there at that time. 00:45:46.440 |
In fact, there's no record of John the Baptist 00:45:53.800 |
to do, you know, basically lower the mountains 00:45:56.280 |
and fill the ravines, all of this was by one thing. 00:46:00.680 |
All we know about John the Baptist, that he was a preacher. 00:46:04.640 |
The way he was going to prepare for the coming of Christ, 00:46:08.960 |
that's going to lead to Christ was through his preaching. 00:46:12.600 |
And so we need to recognize what his preaching was. 00:46:26.080 |
His preaching is described for us in that prophecy of Isaiah 00:46:39.000 |
we had contractors here, you know, putting windows 00:46:43.760 |
And it used to be a racquetball court in that room, 00:46:49.720 |
And they would ask him, "What is this room for? 00:46:55.760 |
And you could see the confusion on their faces. 00:47:04.740 |
"You have a separate room for people to cry?" 00:47:08.640 |
And it never dawned on me that that's how they would hear it 00:47:13.200 |
And so initially I was like, "You know, for the babies." 00:47:20.600 |
It's like, you know, young parents who have young children, 00:47:36.440 |
Crying meaning, like he was proclaiming with passion, 00:47:45.640 |
And, you know, when I think of John the Baptist 00:47:57.400 |
a reluctant prophet who literally had to have his arms 00:48:06.320 |
knowing that if they repented, that God would forgive them, 00:48:19.200 |
Maybe he whispered, you know, as he was walking along, 00:48:33.920 |
I can see Jonah is the exact opposite of John the Baptist, 00:48:49.440 |
with the nation of Israel to prepare for his coming. 00:48:56.200 |
in fact, we don't have many things that we know 00:49:00.000 |
His primary message is recorded in verse three. 00:49:02.080 |
It says, "He preached a baptism of repentance 00:49:09.720 |
baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 00:49:14.560 |
Now, preaching repentance is not new to John the Baptist. 00:49:19.500 |
If you study any part of the Old Testament prophets, 00:49:33.160 |
yet you do not obey his commandment, judgment is coming. 00:49:36.400 |
But what makes John the Baptist's preaching unique? 00:49:40.120 |
Is that they called it the baptism of repentance. 00:49:44.000 |
Again, in order to understand exactly what's going on, 00:49:47.320 |
why baptism of repentance is described to his message, 00:49:59.340 |
In fact, that ceremony of being dunked into the water 00:50:07.000 |
That ceremony was kind of similar to what we do today 00:50:13.120 |
in our society, like an invocation or dedication. 00:50:27.040 |
and that's to kind of separate you from your civilian life 00:50:34.200 |
that now you're getting special permission to do this work. 00:50:43.440 |
in the secular world was used kind of like an invocation. 00:50:46.320 |
And in particular, when somebody decided to serve 00:50:56.480 |
that they're putting down their civilian life 00:50:58.680 |
and they're taking on this public life to serve. 00:51:11.280 |
is to signify exactly what it signifies to us, 00:51:15.360 |
and that now you're gonna begin to live a new life. 00:51:20.440 |
people would have understood that that's what it is, 00:51:25.280 |
But John's baptism is not just described as baptist, 00:51:33.000 |
It wasn't just an invocation, it wasn't just a dedication, 00:51:46.680 |
and then now you've taken upon yourself a new job. 00:51:50.600 |
It required repentance, a complete transformation, 00:51:59.280 |
In fact, John became so prominent in his generation, 00:52:03.660 |
Josephus, a Jewish historian who was not a Christian, 00:52:11.820 |
Josephus in his writing actually mentions John the Baptist 00:52:21.800 |
it was just, they were just kind of going from dedication 00:52:24.960 |
from one way of life to a new way of life externally, 00:52:27.120 |
but it says John's baptism required a cleansed soul. 00:52:35.160 |
understood what it meant to proclaim baptism of repentance. 00:52:44.320 |
that I see in the New Testament of true repentance 00:52:46.920 |
is Apostle Paul, you know, where he, before he met Christ, 00:52:51.600 |
you know, he was willing to murder in the name of God, 00:52:55.740 |
but then he meets Jesus and the road to Damascus 00:53:07.240 |
Can you imagine for three days what was going on in his mind? 00:53:13.600 |
and that everything he understood about the law may be wrong. 00:53:16.040 |
Everything he understood about the Messiah was wrong. 00:53:19.760 |
he committed murder in the name of God was wrong. 00:53:33.160 |
He didn't just see like, oh, I shouldn't have done that. 00:53:35.140 |
Oh, maybe I should have been more vigorous in doing this. 00:53:37.520 |
So everything after he met Christ was completely different. 00:53:43.520 |
that even the apostles had a hard time believing. 00:53:47.580 |
How can be this the same guy who took responsibility 00:54:00.040 |
And it took a while to warm up to his conversion 00:54:12.040 |
because baptism in and of itself means conversion, 00:54:21.200 |
In every way, he's a completely new creation. 00:54:23.880 |
And that was the preaching of John the Baptist. 00:54:51.320 |
and that was very specific about an anointed prophet 00:54:57.680 |
So it wasn't that they didn't have the word of God. 00:55:08.200 |
the Old Testament, than they ever had in history. 00:55:10.960 |
I would say it would be, at least up to that point, 00:55:22.600 |
than we have ever, any Christian has ever had in history. 00:55:28.380 |
Our problem is what translation we should use, 00:55:38.640 |
and hear the best preachers of our generation 00:55:41.160 |
just click of a button in our car, in our ear. 00:55:50.120 |
See, the period that the first generation Jews had 00:56:02.440 |
the Romans allowed them to practice their faith, 00:56:17.380 |
is that there's going to be the famine of the word, 00:56:20.160 |
that they're gonna be staggering from place to place 00:56:22.020 |
to hear the word of God, but they're not gonna find it. 00:56:27.940 |
or they're not gonna know what the Old Testament says. 00:56:41.440 |
where we have the word of God, access to the word of God, 00:56:43.580 |
but we are more ignorant to what the word of God says 00:57:02.060 |
They could tell that he was a prophet sent from God. 00:57:04.740 |
And so people out of curiosity begin to come, 00:57:10.940 |
but in the other gospels, it mentions that Pharisees, 00:57:16.900 |
were coming to this guy, Ethan the Widener, strange guy. 00:57:25.600 |
So you would think that when John saw these people 00:57:35.460 |
that John the Baptist may have addressed them saying, 00:57:45.300 |
You would think that that's what he would say. 00:57:51.460 |
"Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" 00:58:00.180 |
These distinguished people were coming to listen to him. 00:58:03.740 |
In fact, that's probably one of the worst things 00:58:06.020 |
that you could have called a Jew at that time. 00:58:14.740 |
snakes is how Satan was presented at the Garden of Eden. 00:58:25.700 |
but a viper is venomous and is dangerous to other people. 00:58:37.780 |
And he says, "Watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees." 00:58:41.340 |
Leaven is basically another word of saying the poison. 00:58:50.940 |
"Not only are you a snake, your mom's a snake. 00:59:07.020 |
You think about today, what's the worst thing 00:59:19.100 |
I mean, there's a lot of things that we could think of, 00:59:20.620 |
and in our generation, you can get away with a lot of things 00:59:24.100 |
that's almost like the worst thing you can say, right? 00:59:36.500 |
Jesus himself uses this term repeatedly to the Jews. 00:59:41.120 |
Matthew 23, 33, "You serpents, you brood of vipers. 00:59:57.220 |
"and you want to do the desires of your father." 01:00:14.460 |
to therefore bear fruits in keeping with repentance, 01:00:22.780 |
"God is able to raise up children to Abraham. 01:00:24.920 |
"Indeed, the ax is already laid at the root of the tree, 01:00:44.280 |
in our generation, are people who are in the church, 01:01:03.520 |
thinking that they are in the front of the line, 01:01:12.380 |
John the Baptist was calling through all that fluff, 01:01:20.820 |
"who warned you to flee from the wrath that come?" 01:01:23.740 |
You know, probably some of them were thinking 01:01:25.500 |
that if they came, John the Baptist is becoming prominent, 01:01:28.900 |
that so many people are going out to see him, 01:01:31.220 |
and so they were so committed to their own glory 01:01:33.480 |
that maybe if we attached ourselves to this prophet, 01:01:46.420 |
You think that just going into the water and coming out 01:01:55.640 |
There's a reason why he says, "You brood of vipers." 01:02:02.140 |
the descendancy that you're from is Satan himself. 01:02:09.260 |
and he says the consequence of their fake repentance 01:02:22.020 |
"Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, 01:02:23.900 |
"he takes away, and every branch that bears fruit, 01:02:26.180 |
"he prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 01:02:31.260 |
"and he is thrown away as a branch and dries up, 01:02:33.820 |
"and they gather them and cast them into the fire, 01:02:41.640 |
who has fake repentance and there's no fruit? 01:02:43.880 |
He doesn't say he who does not bear any fruit 01:02:57.280 |
no real transformation going on, no real fruit going on. 01:03:08.320 |
he's gonna cut down and be thrown into the fire. 01:03:26.560 |
Having no fruit or repentance is not just feeling bad. 01:03:41.660 |
There's so much sometimes of our repentance is, 01:03:43.900 |
hey, I struggle with pornography and I feel bad. 01:03:49.800 |
And then you fall and then you go back two, three days later 01:03:56.460 |
And all you're doing is commiserating with other people 01:04:07.580 |
Repenting means to turn away, to put that away, 01:04:11.620 |
to do everything in your power to put that away. 01:04:22.860 |
You know, I know that there's people in this room 01:04:42.140 |
But no matter how broken your internal clock is, 01:04:46.940 |
if you knew the serious consequence of being late, 01:04:53.180 |
So I don't know anybody who is late to everything else, 01:05:13.140 |
And all of a sudden you show up to work on time 01:05:15.300 |
because if you don't show up to work on time, you get fired. 01:05:20.940 |
but you don't think the consequence is serious enough 01:05:42.440 |
That's exactly what John the Baptist was cutting through. 01:05:46.400 |
He said, "Go with the bare fruit with repent." 01:05:50.680 |
If you're gonna genuinely repent, turn from your sin. 01:05:57.960 |
Years ago we were at Together for the Gospel, 01:06:10.780 |
and one of the questions that came in from the pastors was, 01:06:29.620 |
And you know what John the Baptist, John Piper, right? 01:06:35.060 |
John Piper basically said, "Tell him he's going to hell." 01:06:47.100 |
So hyperbole, John Piper is just kind of joking, 01:07:01.660 |
It says, "If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. 01:07:09.920 |
"into the unquenchable fire where their worm does not die 01:07:24.680 |
that maybe he doesn't understand the consequence 01:07:28.640 |
of continuing to sin without true repentance, 01:07:32.720 |
that it may not be true, that his faith may not be true. 01:07:36.720 |
If he just confesses, like, "Oh, yeah, you know, 01:07:38.980 |
"I didn't believe in God, but now I believe in God. 01:07:48.720 |
And the rest of it is, one saved, always saved. 01:07:51.160 |
And so how I live, what I do, what I invested, 01:07:54.740 |
it doesn't matter anymore because one saved, always saved. 01:08:06.060 |
and maybe articles or things that you've heard 01:08:09.340 |
from other people thinking that your sin does not matter 01:08:15.780 |
The same God who hated sin to the point where he abolished 01:08:22.660 |
is the same God that we will meet when we die. 01:08:42.460 |
it is the same holy, holy, holy God that you will meet. 01:08:52.560 |
If you have convinced yourself that that is not the case, 01:09:13.860 |
because they have these external things that they're doing, 01:09:18.120 |
you have given security to somebody who's going to hell. 01:09:21.700 |
That's why men of the past who preached the word of God 01:09:29.520 |
John the Baptist preached crying in the wilderness. 01:09:35.020 |
He cried because he was crying for their salvation 01:09:45.200 |
gave a sermon called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." 01:09:48.200 |
And it was a catalyst for the great awakening in America. 01:09:53.320 |
Consider what we consider a good sermon today 01:09:58.420 |
versus Jonathan Edwards that caused the revival 01:10:03.180 |
And I'm only giving you a very small snippet of his sermon. 01:10:08.620 |
He says this, "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, 01:10:12.660 |
"much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect 01:10:15.700 |
"over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked. 01:10:21.760 |
"He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, 01:10:25.640 |
"He is of pure eyes and to bear to have you in his sight. 01:10:28.660 |
"You are 10,000 times more abominable in his eyes 01:10:32.200 |
"than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. 01:10:35.080 |
"You have offended him infinitely more than ever 01:10:41.260 |
"that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. 01:10:48.600 |
"that you were suffered to awake again in this world 01:11:04.040 |
"since you have sat here in the house of God, 01:11:09.860 |
"wicked manner of attending his solemn worship. 01:11:12.600 |
"Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given 01:11:20.200 |
That's a very small portion of his whole sermon, 01:11:24.920 |
Josh Moody, who is a historian of Jonathan Edwards, 01:11:32.340 |
"Jonathan Edwards started a sermon that he did not finish. 01:11:37.220 |
"that the people listening shrieked and cried out, 01:11:42.720 |
"that Edwards was forced to discontinue the sermon. 01:11:45.420 |
"Instead, the pastors went down among the people 01:11:49.260 |
"Many came to save and acknowledge of Christ that day." 01:12:02.060 |
and gave their life to Christ during this period. 01:12:07.220 |
and there were so many raw emotions that broke out 01:12:12.620 |
that Jonathan Edwards actually had to write a book 01:12:23.460 |
There's a lot of people who are crying and being baptized, 01:12:42.020 |
And then after he does that, he begins to break down, 01:12:44.180 |
what does the Bible say about true repentance? 01:12:47.860 |
We have become so familiar with sin in our generation 01:12:52.500 |
that we are more concerned about offending sinners 01:13:12.720 |
but we're so concerned that we allow all kinds of sins 01:13:20.000 |
and so concerned about sinners feeling uncomfortable 01:13:25.000 |
that we water down and misrepresent this holy God. 01:13:28.520 |
There is no reverence of God in our generation, 01:13:37.740 |
It is not that God doesn't want sinners in the church. 01:14:15.320 |
You cannot be a part of the fellowship unrepentant, 01:14:32.620 |
the Bible says the judgment is coming upon him as well. 01:14:35.400 |
Apostle Peter, after the resurrection of Christ, 01:14:43.220 |
And this is a man, before he met the resurrected Christ, 01:15:01.260 |
Jesus of Nazarene, a man attested to you by God 01:15:05.620 |
which God performed through him in your midst, 01:15:08.720 |
this man delivered over by the predetermined plan 01:15:13.080 |
you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men 01:15:17.380 |
You're gonna say, well, some of you guys weren't there. 01:15:30.220 |
He cuts through all of that and said, no, you did it. 01:15:40.180 |
you can't repent if you don't own up to your own sins. 01:15:43.780 |
If you come to God and say, well, I am the way I am 01:15:50.300 |
I am the way I am because my leaders did this. 01:16:50.060 |
After everything good that we've experienced here 01:16:52.420 |
so that we can also have everything good afterlife. 01:17:01.980 |
Christ is not somebody to be appreciated from a distance. 01:17:36.140 |
So now when they heard this, they were peers to the heart 01:17:38.780 |
and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, 01:17:44.700 |
and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ 01:18:07.500 |
and somebody near you so it's not so inconvenient 01:18:12.820 |
Think about all the things that we tell people. 01:18:15.460 |
Again, if all of those things are available, great. 01:18:28.540 |
has been given to you in the knowledge of his son, 01:18:31.220 |
For those of you who already did Bible study, right? 01:18:35.700 |
Everything that you need has been given to you. 01:18:44.020 |
I can't because of this, I can't because of that. 01:18:55.140 |
because other people are not praying with me. 01:19:01.580 |
I can't pray because I wasn't taught to pray. 01:19:10.820 |
for a life in godliness has been given to you. 01:19:13.020 |
Not will be given to you, but it has been given to you. 01:19:30.340 |
"and the ravines will be raised up," he says, "to repent." 01:19:38.820 |
the people who normally need to hear usually gets offended. 01:19:53.860 |
John the Baptist gives and he calls them out on their sin. 01:19:56.860 |
And the Pharisees and the leaders are offended. 01:20:13.100 |
and he goes even further than John the Baptist. 01:20:16.100 |
And they wanna make sure that this doesn't happen again. 01:20:25.280 |
"And the crowds were questioning him, saying, 01:20:28.800 |
"If you're calling us out and my repentance is not genuine, 01:20:36.940 |
"The man who has two tunics is to share with him 01:20:39.720 |
"who has none, and he who has food is to do likewise." 01:20:46.620 |
People who are wealthy were selling their possessions 01:20:49.480 |
and then people were living together, being generous. 01:20:55.920 |
I mean, Jesus himself said, "You can't serve two mammons." 01:21:01.320 |
Either you will serve money or you will serve God. 01:21:14.120 |
then maybe there was a repentance externally. 01:21:17.340 |
Maybe you were baptized, but it wasn't true baptism. 01:21:22.100 |
Now, the Bible didn't call everybody to live poor. 01:21:24.680 |
He didn't say you have to sell all your possessions. 01:21:27.460 |
Ananas and Sapphira actually get into trouble 01:21:34.260 |
But the reason why he points this out is because of that, 01:22:02.400 |
"And some tax collectors also came to be baptized 01:22:04.680 |
"and said to him, 'Teacher, what shall we do?' 01:22:11.920 |
"questioning him, saying, 'And what about us? 01:22:16.060 |
"'from anyone by force or accuse anyone falsely 01:22:28.800 |
Because that's where they spend the most of their time. 01:22:33.480 |
You know, we kinda have a tendency to compartmentalize, 01:22:55.260 |
where we bear fruit, and then the other parts 01:22:58.320 |
where people are not watching, it doesn't really matter. 01:23:02.500 |
He doesn't say, "Make sure you come to the temple 01:23:06.300 |
He said, "Make sure that your sacrifices are really clean, 01:23:13.920 |
where the rubber meets the road, it's at their job. 01:23:16.460 |
Make sure that there's true fruit in what you're doing, 01:23:29.240 |
You cannot have peace of God without having peace with God. 01:23:46.420 |
How much of your frustration in your walk with God 01:23:57.200 |
You want to have a relationship with God on your terms, 01:24:03.420 |
and God repeatedly tells you, "No, you cannot, 01:24:10.000 |
You cannot come to God with unconfessed sins. 01:24:14.720 |
You cannot come to God when you sweep it under the rug. 01:24:19.880 |
if repeatedly all you are doing is feeling bad, 01:24:31.960 |
You cannot have peace with God in your marriage. 01:24:38.400 |
with your relationships, until there is peace with God. 01:24:42.200 |
And the only way that you can have peace with God 01:24:51.880 |
isn't that a holy God looked at your sin and said, 01:24:54.180 |
"You know what, I'm not gonna keep you accountable. 01:24:57.320 |
"and then from that moment on, when you confess, 01:25:13.280 |
It's not, if you feel bad, He will forgive you. 01:25:23.720 |
"Because this people draw near with their words 01:25:31.120 |
"and their reverence for me consists of tradition, 01:25:38.620 |
Everything I know about my walk with God is just habit. 01:25:51.300 |
"You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you. 01:25:59.220 |
"But in vain do they worship me in teachings and doctrines, 01:26:05.920 |
John the Baptist's message is loud and clear. 01:26:12.460 |
Jesus comes on the scene, He takes the baton, 01:26:16.200 |
and He says, "Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 01:26:25.820 |
"Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 01:26:28.460 |
And then He gave that baton to the pastors and evangelists 01:26:36.220 |
"Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 01:26:40.640 |
Whether that is in the first century or 2,000 years later, 01:27:07.640 |
I pray that this message will be loud and clear to all of us. 01:27:14.120 |
Yes, we wrestle, we struggle, we get tempted, we covet, 01:27:23.760 |
The God who is holy, holy, holy calls us to Himself, 01:27:59.840 |
Lord, if we have become low to sleep in our compromise, 01:28:40.300 |
Lord, all the time, energy, and money that we are putting in 01:29:12.080 |
help us, Lord God, cling to Him with all our might. 01:32:21.100 |
♪ So then know, so then know Thy full salvation ♪ 01:33:23.080 |
♪ Haste then on, haste then on from grace to glory ♪ 01:34:46.000 |
to be rebuked, to be encouraged, to be built up, 01:34:54.380 |
to be the aroma of Christ wherever you send us.