back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 7.18.2021
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♪ O to grace, O to grace how great a debtor ♪ 00:10:25.180 |
♪ O that day, O that day when freed from sinning ♪ 00:12:06.920 |
And so the volunteers will be sticking around 00:12:13.040 |
again, starting from tomorrow at five o'clock 00:12:15.560 |
and try to bring the children a little bit earlier 00:12:17.980 |
so that they can be registered and into small groups 00:12:21.240 |
and situated before they get into their classes. 00:12:24.040 |
And so that's starting tomorrow all the way to Friday. 00:12:41.680 |
But this year, we have almost full attendance. 00:12:52.560 |
And so, well, I was told we have about 640 people 00:13:04.960 |
So the service that we're having at the retreat 00:13:12.920 |
But again, there will not be a live service here, 00:13:18.920 |
and join us for the physical service where we're at. 00:13:25.600 |
So we'll remind you of that as we get closer to that date. 00:13:39.360 |
we will be having the physical home, small group, 00:13:47.040 |
But starting from our next session in September, 00:14:04.360 |
Pastor Mark is leading a inductive Bible study, 00:14:08.460 |
And that's gonna be taking place August 1st, 8th, and 22nd. 00:14:19.600 |
If you haven't done that kind of study before, 00:14:22.140 |
I would highly recommend you take that class, 00:14:28.360 |
you'll be able to follow along with that, okay? 00:14:32.880 |
And the first session is happening on August 1st for that, 00:14:43.380 |
So if you are a member, or you're becoming a member, 00:14:53.540 |
so it'll give you just enough time to go grab lunch 00:14:58.780 |
we will introduce our new members to the church, 00:15:09.860 |
so whether it's elementary or the parking team. 00:15:18.260 |
They need help, so they'll probably have a sign-up table 00:15:21.660 |
and you can sign up for six months to a year to do that. 00:15:28.140 |
so that you can know what's going on inside the church. 00:15:30.380 |
So next Sunday, you'll see right after the second service, 00:15:33.140 |
you'll have all these booths that are gonna be set up, 00:15:39.300 |
I think, well, maybe after the members meeting, 00:15:44.780 |
So if you have any questions about how can I jump in, 00:15:47.860 |
how can I get involved, how can I serve the church, 00:15:51.180 |
next Sunday service fair is for that purpose, okay? 00:15:56.920 |
the cafe night is happening at the end of this month 00:16:05.620 |
And so they've already had an EV outing yesterday. 00:16:09.540 |
and then another big event happening on the 24th 00:16:14.620 |
just to encourage the church to go to do evangelism. 00:16:18.140 |
And so if you haven't signed up and you wanna sign up, 00:16:21.940 |
and they're gonna be, I think, at the UTC Center to do that. 00:16:26.780 |
And then if you sign up, they'll give you more information 00:16:31.740 |
And then if you have people that you'd want to invite, 00:16:38.620 |
but the other part of it is so you can invite people 00:16:40.620 |
to come to that and just let our outreach team know 00:16:44.380 |
that's, again, being led by our brother, June, 00:16:46.700 |
and so let him know so that they can better pray 00:16:57.940 |
and I wanna remind you again that we're trying 00:17:00.020 |
to transition from Venmo to PayPal and Zelle, 00:17:03.020 |
so if you're able to pay your offering through Zelle 00:17:22.820 |
And those of you who are still using physical checks 00:17:38.020 |
All right, so I'm gonna take a minute to pray 00:17:46.100 |
Heavenly Father, we're so grateful and thankful, 00:17:59.500 |
I pray, Father God, that whatever we are entangled with, 00:18:03.480 |
the distraction, Lord God, that we so easily give into, 00:18:10.380 |
help us each Sunday morning as we come together 00:18:14.700 |
that we would have a greater sense of your glory, 00:18:17.400 |
that we would be transformed from one glory to another. 00:18:21.840 |
I pray that what you have invested in your word 00:18:32.360 |
I pray that you would help us to give it to you 00:18:36.940 |
joyfully, Lord God, that it may be multiplied for your use. 00:18:40.660 |
We thank you, Father, in Jesus' name we pray, amen. 00:20:34.760 |
♪ The galaxies can't help but shout his word ♪ 00:21:25.240 |
♪ The light of life was crushed for our abode ♪ 00:21:30.760 |
♪ He died our death and rose up from the grave ♪ 00:22:22.720 |
♪ Your red disguise descending in His glory ♪ 00:24:42.940 |
♪ Your blood, your blood speaks a better word ♪ 00:24:51.620 |
♪ Than all the empty praise I've heard upon this earth ♪ 00:26:01.340 |
♪ Your cross, your cross testifies in praise ♪ 00:26:06.340 |
♪ Tells of a father's heart to thank for it for us ♪ 00:26:25.140 |
♪ Your cross, your cross testifies in praise ♪ 00:26:31.140 |
♪ Tells of a father's heart to thank for it for us ♪ 00:28:12.700 |
- All right, if you can turn your Bibles with me 00:28:19.740 |
to Hebrews chapter 12, we're gonna be in part two 00:28:24.960 |
It looks like we're gonna have another part next week. 00:28:30.260 |
All right, Hebrews chapter 12, verse 18 through 24. 00:28:41.160 |
For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched 00:28:45.940 |
and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom 00:28:56.460 |
that those who heard begged that no further word 00:29:02.220 |
if even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned. 00:29:06.340 |
And so terrible was the sight that Moses said, 00:29:14.900 |
to heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, 00:29:17.780 |
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn 00:29:20.220 |
who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, 00:29:23.660 |
and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 00:29:26.460 |
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, 00:29:28.680 |
and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better 00:29:33.560 |
Heavenly Father, we pray that you would help us and guide us. 00:29:55.420 |
that I started ministry probably earlier than I should have. 00:30:11.180 |
just out of, again, just to be obedient to my discipler, 00:30:32.660 |
But there's a lot of things that I did early on 00:30:38.580 |
And one of the things that I remember very distinctly 00:30:46.780 |
Those of you guys remember what cassette tapes are? 00:30:49.540 |
And in the tape, basically, it was a recording 00:30:52.380 |
of a demonic encounter that this live radio program guy 00:30:57.140 |
was having, and so he wanted me to listen to it. 00:31:02.900 |
And so I thought, "Oh, this would be a good idea 00:31:07.100 |
And so I remember Elder Joe was also in the youth group 00:31:12.800 |
Yeah, he was there, so he was one of the guys 00:31:17.140 |
So it just happened, the night that I was playing 00:31:24.120 |
and it was up in the darker part of the church, 00:31:33.700 |
but Bible Answer Man, and so people would just 00:31:51.560 |
"I just pulled over, and something led me to call, 00:31:56.940 |
And so, in the beginning, it sounds like a prank call. 00:32:03.100 |
she started to say things like how she was raised 00:32:06.460 |
in a satanic home, and that her whole upbringing 00:32:10.300 |
was to prepare her for this particular sacrifice. 00:32:13.740 |
And so, initially, it sounded like, "Is this a prank call?" 00:32:18.060 |
And again, this is all recording live on the radio, 00:32:22.620 |
that even the hosts are kind of caught off guard, 00:32:27.140 |
And so they started to share the gospel with her, 00:32:29.820 |
and then she said, when he mentioned the name Jesus, 00:32:38.620 |
"Does he want to have sexual relations with me?" 00:32:41.460 |
And obviously, it's blasphemous what she was saying, 00:32:46.740 |
and she said that's the only thing that she knew, 00:32:53.860 |
and all of this, supposedly, was to prepare her 00:32:56.740 |
for some sacrifice that they were gonna make. 00:33:07.820 |
And in the middle of sharing the gospel with her, 00:33:13.580 |
into a demonic voice, and there's dead silence 00:33:19.380 |
the hosts were trying to figure out, is this real or not? 00:33:25.520 |
and so the recording is that encounter that they have, 00:33:38.580 |
I thought this would be great for our youth group. 00:33:54.660 |
it was maybe about a 10, 15-minute recording, 00:33:56.940 |
at the end of it, they actually said when this happened, 00:33:59.820 |
and it just happened to be exactly that same day, 00:34:02.740 |
two years before, and it was two weeks before Halloween, 00:34:16.180 |
Even I was in shock, and then thunder started to happen, 00:34:25.500 |
we were introducing Friday night prayer meetings, 00:34:33.900 |
It was a great way to start the prayer meeting, 00:34:45.100 |
that some of the younger girls were so scared 00:34:47.460 |
that they couldn't sleep at night for months, 00:34:50.180 |
and they didn't even tell me this until way later 00:34:53.560 |
that they couldn't even wake up in the middle of the night, 00:34:56.000 |
because they were so scared of what they heard. 00:35:05.120 |
But the purpose of this story, to tell you the story, 00:35:07.520 |
isn't that like, was that a prank, was that real? 00:35:13.360 |
It seemed very real, but the point of my story is, 00:35:17.680 |
whenever we hear stories of demonic encounters, 00:35:26.520 |
But is that fear based upon what we've learned in Scripture, 00:35:31.960 |
or is that fear based upon what we've been conditioned 00:35:38.180 |
Now, I personally don't think Christians watching 00:35:45.180 |
Because your frame of work of the spiritual world 00:35:56.120 |
may be coming from you being exposed to certain things 00:36:00.440 |
And I think in a large capacity that this intense fear 00:36:19.500 |
God spoke to me, I went to God, I went to his presence. 00:36:22.420 |
And not to say that none of that is true or it's wrong, 00:36:26.860 |
but typically when we talk about God and his presence, 00:36:47.460 |
And so whenever we talk about the presence of God, 00:37:07.300 |
In fact, I believe some of the greatest heresies 00:37:12.300 |
that creeps into the church is coming through men 00:37:15.800 |
who are more fearful of men than they are of God. 00:37:25.540 |
or whatever things may come as a result of it, 00:37:27.980 |
fear of God is what causes us to stay on the narrow path. 00:37:33.080 |
In fact, the Scripture says in Romans chapter three, 00:37:38.260 |
Apostle Paul gives a description of the fall of mankind 00:37:58.260 |
And then he concludes that section by verse 18 by saying, 00:38:07.700 |
is all the things that he mentions in the previous verse, 00:38:10.460 |
he says the base reason behind why they are doing that 00:38:17.980 |
so they don't understand the consequence of their sin. 00:38:21.020 |
And as a result, they can live in compromise. 00:38:24.880 |
But if we think about the spiritual encounter, 00:38:42.500 |
They got on their knees, begging for his mercy. 00:38:46.380 |
"Son of man, have you come before time to torture us?" 00:38:52.820 |
Fear, not someone who can destroy your flesh, 00:38:59.900 |
because the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. 00:39:12.220 |
The law was given to make sin utterly sinful. 00:39:19.400 |
our natural state is we measure ourselves by ourselves. 00:39:35.380 |
So I'm a decent person because I do this or that. 00:39:45.240 |
until we recognize that how disgusting sin is. 00:39:55.440 |
I learned for the first time what goes into hot dogs. 00:40:01.100 |
And some of you guys probably learned it too. 00:40:04.740 |
oh my God, you can't put that in your mouth anymore 00:40:08.560 |
But once you understand the disgusting nature 00:40:12.540 |
of these things, you naturally want to stay away from it. 00:40:14.980 |
But part of the reason why we are attracted to sin 00:40:20.400 |
Until we recognize the destructive result of sin, 00:40:29.100 |
until we recognize the dire need because of the sin. 00:40:43.600 |
so that they can see and be brought to the cross 00:40:56.080 |
without recognizing and understanding Mount Sinai, 00:41:11.140 |
is so that people who lost their jobs can't get groceries 00:41:38.340 |
not understanding the necessity of the gospel 00:41:55.820 |
and the gospel is just being passed out, I'll take it. 00:42:03.140 |
and instead of recognizing what it is that we have received, 00:42:06.660 |
the grace of God is given to us so that we can go to God, 00:42:10.020 |
so that we can be reconciled with this holy God. 00:42:28.360 |
so that we can use that to freely evangelize, 00:42:35.800 |
without having this fear that we're breaking this law. 00:42:37.940 |
You've been given liberty to freely come and worship God. 00:42:47.400 |
grace is just a free ticket to do whatever you want. 00:43:08.400 |
"For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, 00:43:11.320 |
"and to a blazing fire, to darkness, to gloom, to whirlwind, 00:43:31.740 |
"If even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned. 00:43:35.620 |
"And so terrible was the sight that Moses said, 00:43:40.020 |
So his presence and giving up the law caused terror. 00:43:58.640 |
"and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. 00:44:03.120 |
It's the same voice that they heard in Sinai, 00:44:15.740 |
and the voice which I heard was like the sound 00:44:26.660 |
You notice how the same voice of God that thundered 00:44:34.580 |
please do not, tell him to stop speaking to us directly, 00:44:41.900 |
they hear the same voice, the same sound thunder, 00:44:54.700 |
and the other mountain breaks out in singing? 00:45:04.300 |
and then come to Zion, and one leads to terror, 00:45:08.800 |
is where the Bible describes the gap of the cross. 00:45:43.940 |
So it's important that we understand how we got here. 00:45:47.480 |
Mount Zion, he says, is not a place where you can touch. 00:45:58.980 |
was on the Mount Zion, it's a physical place. 00:46:10.660 |
Mount Zion is a reference to where God made his dwelling. 00:46:17.380 |
He's not referring to any of those particular sites 00:46:19.260 |
because he says it's a mountain that cannot be touched. 00:46:23.780 |
In other words, it's another word for heaven. 00:46:26.660 |
And so the way that the Bible described Mount Zion, 00:46:29.740 |
he says in verse 22, it is the city of the living God, 00:46:52.900 |
Now the distinction between Mount Zion and Mount Sinai 00:47:03.180 |
So temporarily he came and revealed a portion of his glory, 00:47:09.500 |
In fact, remember the picture that I showed you 00:47:13.420 |
because of his presence and his glory, the fire? 00:47:48.260 |
created this terror just by his glimpse of his glory, 00:47:53.260 |
how can a sinful man possibly be invited to Zion? 00:48:05.100 |
of the giving of the law is to create this tension. 00:48:31.980 |
And the nation of Israel understood this paradox, 00:48:37.180 |
You remember when the Israelites were coming out 00:48:43.620 |
and it didn't take them long for them to start grumbling. 00:48:46.660 |
Soon as they felt like the Egyptians were coming, 00:49:01.100 |
And so they just would complain and complain. 00:49:09.800 |
"I'm not going to be able to withhold my anger toward them." 00:49:14.680 |
"If you do not come with us, we will die out here." 00:49:27.380 |
we will die because his presence is not with us. 00:49:33.100 |
"We need you here, but we can't have you too close." 00:49:54.580 |
So he comes from Mount Sinai to the tabernacle, 00:50:11.360 |
"And if you come to my presence in a nonchalant way, 00:50:45.780 |
and it begins to move to the threshold, the outer court. 00:50:54.020 |
And then from there, he goes up to the hilltop, 00:50:56.580 |
looking over Jerusalem and the temple, reluctant. 00:51:06.260 |
And as a result of that, the protection for Israel is gone. 00:51:18.120 |
The prophets tell us the 70 years of captivity happens 00:51:20.840 |
because they specifically disobeyed God's command 00:51:26.140 |
So every one of those 70 years represents a year 00:51:28.900 |
that they disobeyed God in keeping the Sabbath. 00:51:55.500 |
And so the Pharisees, basically their initial intent was 00:52:02.340 |
And even the word Pharisee basically means holy, 00:52:11.640 |
We wanna make sure that by keeping the Sabbath, 00:52:26.060 |
a boyfriend who cheated against his girlfriend. 00:52:39.460 |
And this cycle is repeated over and over and over again. 00:52:42.460 |
And he means it, but then he can't control himself. 00:52:46.460 |
And that's how it's described in the book of Hosea, 00:52:48.700 |
between the relationship of this prophet and Gomer. 00:52:52.020 |
And he says, this is what our relationship looked like. 00:52:55.240 |
That I kept on being gracious to you, gracious to you, 00:52:58.320 |
but you would continue to prostitute yourself 00:53:01.180 |
So by the time we come to Christ and his revelation, 00:53:14.200 |
And that's what Paul is describing in Romans chapter seven. 00:53:29.100 |
"It wasn't the law, but the sin that was residing in me, 00:53:33.380 |
"by effecting my death through that which is good. 00:53:40.220 |
To bring us to the point where we are desperate for the cross. 00:53:44.040 |
And then if you look at Romans chapter seven, 00:53:47.540 |
verse 19 and on, he describes, I'm just gonna summarize. 00:53:57.420 |
"Who will set me free from the body of this death? 00:54:08.060 |
To bring him so that sin would become utterly sinful. 00:54:25.880 |
If God is the one that I need to run to to have life, 00:54:48.560 |
For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus 00:54:50.760 |
has set you free from the law of sin and death. 00:54:55.440 |
and all the law did was reveal what you should be doing, 00:54:59.760 |
which is what he was explaining in chapter seven. 00:55:02.320 |
He has set you free, weak as it was through the flesh, 00:55:08.120 |
He doesn't say God will do or he will continue to do. 00:55:16.520 |
he's not saying that his earthly life is done. 00:55:19.840 |
He's saying that everything that he had decided, 00:55:24.200 |
and was carrying it out for the salvation of mankind 00:55:37.600 |
Sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, 00:55:47.440 |
And that's why he says at the end in verse 24 00:55:51.280 |
that Jesus' blood speaks better than Abel's blood. 00:56:06.160 |
Cain ends up killing Abel because of his jealousy 00:56:19.580 |
he ends up killing him, and God seeks him out. 00:57:37.420 |
See, you and I, again, recently in a generation, 00:57:41.140 |
and it's not just this generation, every generation, 00:58:05.680 |
the first person to get the punishment for that 00:58:18.300 |
not this building, but the building that we had prior, 00:58:27.980 |
and I could tell that their English wasn't that great. 00:58:35.220 |
where supposedly the sanctuary is supposed to be. 00:58:37.800 |
And my Chinese is just good enough to go to the bathroom 00:58:43.620 |
but beyond that, I can just pick up words here and there. 00:58:46.740 |
But I could tell there was some kind of a fight, 00:59:00.860 |
I mean, the blood had already stopped bleeding, 00:59:04.660 |
And the other guy was outside just roaming around, 00:59:15.180 |
And so he's saying this in Chinese, obviously, 00:59:17.300 |
and then one of the guys was interpreting this for me. 00:59:23.860 |
So I said, "Okay," and then called the police. 00:59:25.260 |
So the police come, and he's trying to take a report, 00:59:27.500 |
but all of a sudden, as soon as the police come, 00:59:37.940 |
I mean, he's broken English, but he speaks enough. 00:59:47.540 |
And the police came, and they called the ambulance. 00:59:49.580 |
The ambulance came, but his English really was not good. 01:00:08.060 |
that maybe these guys are here illegally, right? 01:00:20.900 |
So he got a interpreter on the phone from the department 01:00:42.500 |
And I know exactly what he was talking about. 01:00:50.620 |
and he jumps off the ambulance, and he was gone. 01:00:53.620 |
And so the officer looked at me, just smiled, 01:00:59.340 |
And then they just, just nice enough, and he just left. 01:01:10.620 |
'cause he knew that if he stood before the judge, 01:01:13.540 |
that he would be judged before the other guy. 01:01:18.740 |
They ended up, like, the guy started giving him money, 01:01:22.860 |
you know, the guy who caused the damage ended up leaving, 01:01:30.540 |
sinners cannot stand before a holy God demanding justice, 01:01:35.440 |
because justice means you get what you deserve. 01:01:52.980 |
That's the tension that the whole world lives under. 01:02:03.920 |
But the Bible says, "He didn't bring us to justice." 01:02:19.260 |
Where we deserve to be destroyed, and God has mercy on us. 01:02:24.680 |
You get pulled over, you're going 105 miles per hour, 01:02:27.320 |
the police says, "I'm not going to give you a ticket." 01:02:37.600 |
They pull you over, they decide not to give you a ticket, 01:02:40.080 |
and they give you a $30 gift certificate to Chick-fil-A. 01:03:04.080 |
carry out justice, he absorbed the justice of God, 01:03:07.640 |
that we will be spared from hell that we deserve. 01:03:12.280 |
But he didn't leave us there, he raised us up 01:03:14.800 |
as co-heirs with Christ, so that when we are in heaven, 01:03:29.560 |
not recognizing what it is that we have in Christ, 01:03:32.920 |
they get bored, because they receive the grace of God 01:03:37.040 |
like it was just free candy, it was just being passed out, 01:03:39.040 |
it's like, "Oh, I'll take it, oh, raise your hand, 01:03:40.760 |
"come down the aisle, oh, okay, I'll take it, just in case." 01:03:43.800 |
There's so many people in the church, it's harder, 01:03:46.920 |
it's more sacrifice for them to leave the church. 01:03:55.200 |
Their community is based around Christianity. 01:04:00.120 |
So they stick around, yet never fully grasping 01:04:10.640 |
because worship is something that is inspired 01:04:13.320 |
because of what you recognize that you have in Christ. 01:04:21.640 |
the superficial stuff on the outside, the benefit. 01:04:32.160 |
It doesn't produce joy, it's just obligations, 01:04:45.920 |
with Christ in Zion because he's the new mediator 01:04:51.280 |
As Moses was mediating between Israelites and God, 01:04:57.520 |
And yet Christ stands as our mediator forever in eternity, 01:05:14.440 |
The son of God absorbed the justice that you and I deserved. 01:05:27.480 |
check off the things that we're obligated to do, 01:05:33.120 |
You notice that he doesn't say we will come to Zion, 01:05:35.320 |
but he says we have come to Zion, we have come. 01:05:44.800 |
So we don't live in misery until we get to heaven. 01:06:11.040 |
in the worst neighborhoods in this area, in Orange County, 01:06:14.780 |
you're still living in the most expensive place in the world. 01:06:18.240 |
And I'm not just talking about in our generation, 01:06:29.480 |
go to Africa and ask them, you wanna get some boba? 01:06:53.820 |
or we come to church and we compare ourselves 01:06:56.660 |
with people who have a bit more than we have. 01:06:58.260 |
And though we are rich beyond the imagination 01:07:03.060 |
of the rest of the world, we live every day thinking, 01:07:13.180 |
The Bible says that everything that you and I need 01:07:19.120 |
Everything that you and I need has been given to us 01:07:24.940 |
and yet most Christians live their lives thinking, 01:07:37.320 |
Not realizing what it is that we have in Christ. 01:07:45.600 |
You see, if we don't realize what we have been saved from 01:07:55.340 |
And sad to say, this is the state of our generation. 01:08:02.900 |
Christians who profess the right things with their mouth, 01:08:14.740 |
What do I have to do to help me belong to this community? 01:08:20.900 |
There's gonna come a time where he's not gonna be asking, 01:08:23.580 |
are you worshiping this mountain or that mountain? 01:08:36.900 |
and those of you who've been in our church for a while, 01:08:45.100 |
that is portrayed in the book of Revelations chapter five. 01:08:48.000 |
In verse one it says, "I saw in the right hand of him 01:08:53.700 |
"and on the back, sealed up with seven seals." 01:09:14.240 |
"'Who is worthy to open up the book and break its seal?'" 01:09:19.600 |
"No one in heaven or on earth or under the earth 01:09:21.980 |
"was able to open the book or to look into it. 01:09:26.880 |
"because no one was found worthy to open the book 01:09:37.460 |
Verse five, "And one of the elders said to me, 01:09:41.000 |
"Behold, the lion that is from the tribe of Judah, 01:09:46.060 |
"as so as to open the book and its seven seals." 01:09:52.300 |
He is able, no one else is able but the lion of Judah. 01:09:57.700 |
The lion of Judah is the Messiah that's going to come. 01:10:02.300 |
And so John turns his head to look for the lion of Judah 01:10:06.860 |
and verse six says, "And I saw between the throne 01:10:20.780 |
"And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him 01:10:29.400 |
"each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, 01:10:37.340 |
Man, lion of Judah, he turns to look for the lion 01:10:51.200 |
he came as a lamb and covered us with his blood. 01:10:55.580 |
And it is this picture that is portrayed for us 01:11:17.460 |
People who have seen the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ 01:11:20.940 |
can help themselves, but to break out in worship, 01:11:58.060 |
And you know your sins better than anybody else. 01:12:10.940 |
You know how easily you get entangled with this world. 01:12:17.820 |
and things didn't work out the way you wanted to. 01:12:33.900 |
Church filled with people who have no answer to his love. 01:12:42.700 |
A song that can never be inspired by anything in this world. 01:12:51.440 |
no amount of love and treasures in this world 01:12:55.780 |
that would inspire you like the gospel of Jesus Christ. 01:13:15.480 |
It's not a new song, it's actually an old song. 01:13:30.920 |
And I think, humanly speaking, we could agree. 01:13:33.580 |
He lived his adult life doing horrendous things 01:13:41.420 |
And on one of his journeys, the boat hits a storm 01:13:54.000 |
If you save me from this, I will repent and serve you. 01:13:58.880 |
Doesn't happen overnight, but he kept his promise. 01:14:05.680 |
fighting slave trading because he understands 01:14:26.500 |
It starts, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound." 01:14:30.140 |
You know, we say that word, amazing grace, so often, 01:14:33.620 |
but we don't take enough time to actually ask, 01:14:45.660 |
He knew how amazing that he would save a wretch like me. 01:14:57.020 |
and I didn't do anything to deserve to go to jail. 01:15:27.180 |
He said the fact that he recognized the terror of God 01:15:59.340 |
But so many years of being concerned for life, 01:16:02.180 |
raising children, so many years have gone by, 01:16:05.860 |
and we can't confess that that's where we are now. 01:16:13.780 |
Remember the height from which you had fallen. 01:16:17.760 |
Repent and do the things that you did at first. 01:16:28.780 |
He will my shield portion be as long as life endures. 01:17:00.140 |
And this is a man who understands God's grace. 01:17:11.200 |
That we know what it is that we have in Christ 01:17:14.980 |
so that we may worship him in spirit and in truth. 01:17:25.120 |
So I know this is a song that we probably sung 01:17:28.320 |
but I pray that you would sing this with a renewed fervor, 01:17:32.960 |
understanding the words that this would not just be 01:21:20.020 |
First Peter 2.6, for this is contained in scripture. 01:21:34.360 |
and he who believes in him will not be disappointed. 01:21:38.000 |
Lord, we pray that you would continue to open our ears, 01:21:55.700 |
I pray, Father God, that this truth would transform us, 01:22:01.240 |
that wherever it is that you send us this week, 01:22:41.400 |
♪ An empty grave is there to put my Savior's lips ♪