back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 11.8.2020
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♪ Beautiful Savior, you have brought me near ♪ 00:01:16.520 |
♪ Blessed Redeemer, you have set this captive free ♪ 00:10:50.440 |
♪ The sun cannot compare to the glory of your love ♪ 00:11:02.680 |
♪ No mortal man would dare to stand before your throne ♪ 00:11:30.400 |
♪ I bring an offering of worship to my King ♪ 00:11:35.400 |
♪ No one on earth deserves the praises that I sing ♪ 00:11:42.560 |
♪ Jesus, may you receive the honor that you're to give ♪ 00:12:12.280 |
♪ The sun cannot compare to the glory of your love ♪ 00:12:24.440 |
♪ No mortal man would dare to stand before your throne ♪ 00:12:52.160 |
♪ I bring an offering of worship to my King ♪ 00:12:57.160 |
♪ No one on earth deserves the praises that I sing ♪ 00:13:04.360 |
♪ Jesus, may you receive the honor that you're to give ♪ 00:13:19.880 |
♪ I bring an offering of worship to my King ♪ 00:13:26.280 |
♪ No one on earth deserves the praises that I sing ♪ 00:13:33.520 |
♪ Jesus, may you receive the honor that you're to give ♪ 00:14:11.080 |
and those of you who are online joining our service. 00:14:14.400 |
We have a few announcements before we get started. 00:14:17.120 |
First of all, our college ministry is going on campus 00:14:29.360 |
and he'll give you directions on what they're doing. 00:14:32.000 |
Next Sunday, our seeds department is gonna be opening up 00:14:42.080 |
And because of that, we're asking the parents, 00:14:47.360 |
to reserve the parking across the street for the parents. 00:14:52.280 |
and you need that parking space, you can do that. 00:14:55.920 |
to either park down the street or in the corner behind 00:14:59.920 |
and we'll have parking signs to kind of direct you 00:15:02.440 |
so that we can reserve just for the second service. 00:15:06.520 |
but second service in order to save that space. 00:15:13.200 |
So if your kids are 18, that's not small, okay? 00:15:15.920 |
So that's for the service parking across the street, 00:15:28.840 |
And also maintenance day, this coming Saturday, 00:15:38.220 |
We have a lot of little things that we need to get to. 00:15:44.520 |
So if you guys can come at 8.30 next Saturdays. 00:15:54.180 |
Also next Sunday after the second service at 1.30 p.m., 00:15:58.160 |
it's just enough time for you to go grab lunch 00:16:03.640 |
to address the worldview of secular social justice, 00:16:08.680 |
and what it teaches and why we need to be careful. 00:16:11.600 |
And then we're gonna have the second part of that Q&A 00:16:14.660 |
to address what does that mean for us as a church? 00:16:18.300 |
Or what are some things that we need to be mindful of? 00:16:22.820 |
And you do need to sign up because it is not open. 00:16:31.020 |
So if you're planning to come and you haven't signed up, 00:16:48.320 |
to give the offering online or the physical offering box. 00:17:02.700 |
in the midst of all that is going on around the world. 00:17:09.400 |
not politics, not finance, not health, not friendships. 00:17:26.680 |
that you would help us to come to the throne of grace 00:17:30.420 |
with confidence that we may find help in time of need. 00:17:34.920 |
So we ask Lord God that your word, as it is opened, 00:17:39.080 |
that it may minister to us, guide us, lead us, rebuke us, 00:23:03.100 |
♪ And your grace, your love too deep to fathom ♪ 00:23:10.940 |
♪ And your love, the seeds that have been strewn ♪ 00:24:37.340 |
♪ Your faithfulness, my refuge in the night ♪ 00:25:28.620 |
♪ You rose, the grave and death are conquered ♪ 00:25:41.980 |
♪ You rose, you rose, the grave and death are conquered ♪ 00:26:23.700 |
- All right, if you can turn your Bibles with me 00:26:38.020 |
the third person on this list of heroes of faith. 00:26:54.740 |
prepared an ark for the salvation of his household 00:27:17.820 |
May your word have its intended effects in our hearts. 00:27:23.260 |
I pray, Lord God, that you would soften hearts 00:27:27.620 |
If we have drifted, call us back that we may be anchored, 00:27:33.100 |
that we may live lives truly worthy of the gospel 00:27:39.060 |
I pray that these truths would not fall on deaf ears. 00:27:51.760 |
All right, so when we think about the story of Noah, 00:28:05.220 |
who are sitting on this large boat two by two, right? 00:28:10.460 |
you're very familiar with this picture, you know? 00:28:22.360 |
and that's obviously a rendition of a tsunami 00:28:30.380 |
The story of Noah is really the devastation of mankind, 00:28:37.460 |
It really is a foreshadowing of what God says 00:28:56.540 |
and only eight people survived this judgment. 00:29:11.220 |
And it also is a picture of how God will save mankind. 00:29:19.380 |
when we teach our children that we don't simply sanitize 00:29:26.420 |
and I'm not saying that we can't ever use those pictures, 00:29:28.640 |
but when I was younger, before I became a Christian, 00:29:31.080 |
when I thought of Noah, I've had that in my mind. 00:29:34.320 |
It's a cute picture of animals coming together 00:29:41.020 |
And I remember once reading what the story was about. 00:29:45.660 |
It's like, wow, this is the story of the judgment of God. 00:30:01.820 |
Majority of it is God warning year after year after year. 00:30:10.540 |
And in the end, just as God says, "Devastation comes." 00:30:21.380 |
And then chapter six, seven, eight, and nine, 00:30:26.660 |
So we have about six chapters in the book of Genesis 00:30:37.640 |
And yet in this text, we only have one verse. 00:30:44.520 |
but that every part of what he says in verse seven 00:30:58.000 |
We need to take heed as we study Noah's life. 00:31:10.400 |
what happened to Noah, serves to remind the world 00:31:28.600 |
we're trying to have an easier life, a healthier life, 00:31:42.440 |
But if you read the book of Revelation, it's pretty clear. 00:31:44.680 |
The devastation that's coming at the end of human history 00:31:54.720 |
Because it's going to be an eternal judgment. 00:31:56.960 |
What is it that we are to learn from this text? 00:32:06.120 |
that I think we really need to pay attention to. 00:32:13.980 |
And that really is the core of the gospel message. 00:32:18.960 |
It's not simply that there is a superpower being 00:32:22.400 |
who created the universe, who loves you unconditionally, 00:32:38.080 |
He is so angry, he was so grieved by what he saw. 00:32:43.960 |
He told Noah that they are all gonna be gone. 00:32:49.160 |
Not just a few select, not just people here and there, 00:32:59.480 |
for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. 00:33:09.160 |
And when he says all flesh, he meant all flesh. 00:33:16.440 |
I mean, look at the whole world has been locked down 00:33:19.560 |
because we're afraid that we're gonna get this virus 00:33:29.000 |
And so in fear, the whole economy has been shut down. 00:33:44.200 |
All flesh, 100% of the flesh has fallen short. 00:33:48.240 |
For the earth is filled with violence because of them 00:33:52.000 |
and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. 00:34:03.320 |
He started, he may have started out with that, 00:34:17.040 |
In fact, it escalates because he said the wrath of God 00:34:23.360 |
If God was so grieved with 1500 years of men rebelling 00:34:28.200 |
and sinning against God, how about tens of thousands 00:34:32.400 |
If he was angry with a few hundred thousand people sinning, 00:34:40.560 |
So when he says the anger of God is being stored up 00:34:54.120 |
"Surely the Lord God does nothing unless he reveals 00:34:56.600 |
his secret counsel to his servant, the prophets." 00:35:00.320 |
God uses Noah, the prophets, the scriptures, the church, 00:35:07.160 |
the apostles, missionaries, pastors, lay people. 00:35:10.720 |
Each one of us has been called what he revealed to us 00:35:16.880 |
He says, "Surely the Lord God does nothing unless he reveals 00:35:22.080 |
his secret counsel to his servants, the prophets." 00:35:40.240 |
In Jude 14 and 15, he was the first evangelist 00:35:46.640 |
You know, but what's interesting is Enoch has a child 00:35:54.840 |
And his claim to fame in the Bible is that he lived 00:35:57.360 |
the longest of all human beings recorded in Genesis. 00:36:13.560 |
Now you know that God does nothing by accident. 00:36:20.800 |
even the names of the patriarchs have significance 00:36:27.800 |
Methuselah's name is, when he dies, it shall be sent. 00:36:49.120 |
So God did not all of a sudden sprung it up on mankind 00:36:53.400 |
and say, I'm done, and then you guys are finished. 00:36:55.400 |
He's been telling Enoch, he's been telling Noah. 00:37:22.000 |
They will not come to church if we emphasize this aspect. 00:37:25.960 |
That's why hell slowly has fallen off the pulpit. 00:38:09.680 |
He didn't just pick out a few people here and there. 00:38:15.480 |
Isaiah 13, nine, "Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, 00:38:26.600 |
"and he will exterminate the sinners from it." 00:38:43.840 |
even Christians in the church in this generation, 00:38:55.560 |
about two animals going home and resting and having fun. 00:39:02.360 |
In 2 Peter 3, 10, "But the day of the Lord will come 00:39:06.880 |
"like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away 00:39:10.360 |
"with a roar, and the elements will be destroyed 00:39:13.160 |
"with intense heat, and the earth and its works 00:39:22.040 |
This means that every beautiful place that we visited, 00:39:28.520 |
everything that the world says is magnificent. 00:39:35.640 |
And he warns the church not to be caught off guard, 00:39:47.040 |
Revelations 9, 18 and 19, "A third of mankind, 00:39:49.520 |
"a third of mankind was killed by these three plagues." 00:40:02.880 |
70% of what he says is about the judgment that's to come. 00:40:06.840 |
And in one verse he says, "These three plagues 00:40:08.840 |
"killed a third of mankind by the fire and the smoke 00:40:11.920 |
"and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths. 00:40:15.380 |
"For the power of the horses is in their mouths 00:40:17.320 |
"and in their tails, for the tails are like serpents 00:40:19.800 |
"and have heads, and with them they do harm." 00:40:34.680 |
a fire and brimstone, that's an ancient thing. 00:40:45.420 |
who think fire and brimstone is not biblical. 00:40:56.240 |
And yet, the Bible tells us to not to ignore. 00:41:01.040 |
As much as we love to hang verses and memorize scripture 00:41:05.160 |
and put it on our T-shirts and tell it to our children 00:41:07.260 |
about the grace of God, the faithfulness of God, 00:41:33.000 |
what happens in the day of Noah is gonna seem merciful. 00:41:46.840 |
Romans 118, "For the wrath of God is revealed," 00:42:01.560 |
If you go on and share the gospel to the unbelieving world, 00:42:42.680 |
we're not gonna meet a gracious and loving God. 00:43:18.440 |
It is a glimpse of what will come in the future. 00:43:31.520 |
It's because he left the church as a witness. 00:43:47.680 |
And the Bible tells us that you and I are here 00:43:50.040 |
just as Noah was given this message to share. 00:44:10.320 |
that God was so disturbed by the sins of mankind 00:44:50.920 |
Imagine God was grieved because of sin of mankind 00:45:15.320 |
When he says, "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit," 00:45:39.800 |
It's not saying, "Don't get on the wrong side." 00:45:43.680 |
To grieve the Holy Spirit is to stir up anger and wrath. 00:46:03.080 |
"For I am sorry, I am grieved that I made them." 00:46:27.000 |
He said, "Do you take lightly the grace of God, 00:46:31.120 |
"not knowing that God saved us from this wrath?" 00:46:46.120 |
after being around the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, 00:47:03.400 |
Do you not know that repentance is God's kindness? 00:47:11.640 |
If observing mankind stirred him up that much, 00:47:14.320 |
how much more if we are storing up this wrath for ourselves? 00:47:33.240 |
You notice here, he doesn't talk about pornography. 00:47:55.920 |
"And they did not understand until the flood came 00:48:15.760 |
and living a life away from the purpose of God, 00:48:20.800 |
just living our lives just like everybody else in this world, 00:48:25.520 |
often go to church, pay your tithe, do your part, 00:48:37.400 |
See, God left a witness, Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah. 00:48:44.600 |
Secondly, God gave opportunities for people to repent. 00:48:51.040 |
Not only is Noah's ark serves as a warning to mankind, 00:48:56.040 |
it's actually an opportunity where God is being patient 00:49:09.080 |
in the middle of nowhere, literally middle of nowhere. 00:49:14.720 |
And you know what it says in Hebrews 11, seven, 00:49:18.640 |
when he heard the warning was coming that isn't there yet, 00:49:41.160 |
The word reverence, in some of your translations, 00:50:03.200 |
Now, whether you believe his faith is genuine or not, 00:50:13.260 |
"And because I fear God, I don't fear anything else." 00:50:17.880 |
It's like, don't you fear your peers and other people 00:50:23.260 |
in the entertainment industry, the politicians, 00:50:25.060 |
that you're being called this and you're being called that? 00:50:29.540 |
of having that political thing and being religious? 00:50:34.420 |
"And because I fear God, I fear nothing else." 00:50:53.300 |
This ark was 500 feet long, 85 feet wide, 50 feet high, 00:50:58.300 |
five-story building, even though it had three levels. 00:51:08.940 |
So there's 34,000 known species that are living in there. 00:51:22.360 |
if you were to say, "Was that boat big enough?" 00:51:34.100 |
What do you think that Noah did for 120 years 00:51:45.380 |
Why this drama of rain and flood for 40 days and 40 nights? 00:51:54.900 |
Why did he do that with the aid and then just destroy them? 00:52:34.380 |
It's almost like it wasn't meant to go anywhere. 00:52:41.100 |
And God did it on purpose, to leave a witness. 00:52:46.460 |
when people asked him, "Why are you building that boat?" 00:52:57.860 |
God said you're gonna be judged if you do not repent." 00:53:18.660 |
Genesis 6.22, "Thus Noah did according to all 00:53:31.680 |
We've made Christianity so complicated today. 00:53:39.900 |
It's almost like if you convert and became a Christian, 00:53:44.060 |
you have to go to seminary to even understand 00:53:47.940 |
what you're supposed to believe or not believe. 00:53:54.900 |
And you wanna know what he has to say, read the Bible. 00:54:09.180 |
Now, I'm not saying any of that stuff is bad, 00:54:11.420 |
but if you say you're a follower of Jesus Christ, 00:54:18.100 |
you actually have to believe in Jesus Christ. 00:54:23.140 |
You can't say that I believe the warning is coming, 00:54:45.440 |
But if you believe in the message that the Bible teaches, 00:54:54.400 |
or you don't believe it and don't follow him. 00:54:57.440 |
But you can't say I believe and then not follow him. 00:55:00.040 |
It simply says he believed, he feared, and he did it. 00:55:14.580 |
First Peter 3, 20 to 22, who once were disobedient 00:55:18.360 |
when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah. 00:55:26.040 |
telling them to repent during the construction of the ark 00:55:38.100 |
he left a witness to us of what God was going to do. 00:55:41.860 |
That through his death and resurrection in our baptism, 00:55:47.260 |
Just like he condemned the world for rejecting him, 00:55:53.440 |
And those who believe and are saved through the water, 00:56:06.020 |
having gone into heaven after angels and authorities 00:56:15.620 |
Yes, I know the room is filled with Chinese Americans, 00:56:22.480 |
but I'm gonna teach you some Chinese today, okay? 00:56:37.880 |
And I know somebody's gonna correct me too after that. 00:56:40.520 |
That's the word for boat in the Chinese character. 00:56:58.400 |
and where it came from, so it either came from Greek 00:57:00.380 |
or Latin or something, and then that's how we dissect 00:57:02.800 |
the word and say, hey, this is what this word means. 00:57:04.680 |
Well, Chinese characters, it's embedded into their character. 00:57:07.680 |
Well, mainland China has been using the simplified version, 00:57:17.040 |
And this Chinese word for boat are three words, 00:57:33.440 |
one of the words that really intrigued me was the number six. 00:58:05.680 |
So I opened up the Bible and I showed it to her. 00:58:14.800 |
you can go to a website that has a bunch of this stuff. 00:58:29.560 |
like offered up over an altar the word for righteousness? 00:58:35.320 |
You know, I said, well, this is what the Bible says. 00:58:42.400 |
You know, we could just say it's embedded into the culture, 00:58:47.840 |
they've used this language for thousands of years. 00:58:51.940 |
That's why I always, you know, I'm very skeptical. 00:58:56.200 |
I said, they didn't have boats before missionaries? 00:59:00.000 |
So it didn't make sense, but you know, I'm skeptical. 00:59:04.360 |
they must have had that from the very beginning. 00:59:17.520 |
God has left imprints of himself if you are interested. 00:59:25.720 |
He said he left evidence of himself in all of creation. 00:59:30.680 |
He gave us the word of God, the Holy Spirit, all of it, 00:59:39.560 |
But the problem is, the Bible says we suppress the truth 00:59:45.680 |
that all the other things that he said is true. 00:59:50.140 |
That is that you have to pick up the cross as well. 00:59:56.080 |
So if this is true, I don't want this to be true, 01:00:14.640 |
Cultural Christianity is simply jumping through the hoops 01:00:19.920 |
to appease what is expected of whatever church 01:00:31.160 |
following Christ requires us to focus our eyes upon Christ. 01:00:37.640 |
And true unity in the church is unity that happens 01:00:53.600 |
even if it takes us to different parts of the world. 01:00:56.200 |
See, God, through Noah, warned them for 120 years 01:01:13.480 |
Genesis 6, 8, "But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord." 01:01:20.720 |
Noah became an heir of righteousness according to faith. 01:01:23.600 |
You know, whenever we study Hebrews chapter 11, 01:01:30.360 |
So the first group of people will look at Hebrews 01:01:47.880 |
And so some people will read this 11, chapter 11, 01:01:50.480 |
to challenge whoever that they are challenging. 01:01:54.400 |
Look, we're supposed to do, we're supposed to give our life. 01:01:57.800 |
And then other people will read this text and say, 01:02:04.240 |
Everyone starts by, "By faith, by faith, by faith." 01:02:07.320 |
It's not about what they did, it's about faith. 01:02:21.960 |
because the point that he's trying to make is 01:02:26.960 |
the evidence of genuine faith is that they obeyed. 01:02:37.240 |
You can't profess faith and then just go home. 01:02:49.280 |
and then just go home and live like everybody else. 01:02:58.520 |
If you profess and there's no evidence of that, 01:03:02.880 |
And if you think that you're gonna somehow gain righteousness 01:03:06.960 |
and yet thinking that somehow you can earn your righteousness 01:03:12.440 |
He's saying, "Noah did all of this because he believed 01:03:46.440 |
What's interesting here is out of all those people. 01:03:53.120 |
Now, we have no idea how many people were there, 01:03:55.160 |
minimum thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, 01:04:03.160 |
meaning they could have had hundreds of kids. 01:04:22.640 |
That's a pattern that we see all throughout Scripture. 01:04:44.200 |
"there has also come to be at the present time 01:04:46.640 |
"a remnant according to God's gracious choice." 01:04:52.120 |
Romans 9.27, "Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, 01:05:11.840 |
So we don't like to be the first ones to do anything. 01:05:14.840 |
We usually wait until we see if it's acceptable 01:05:19.120 |
to the community that we belong to before we move. 01:05:36.200 |
Just as he saved the eight among the multitudes, 01:05:41.640 |
the Bible says that he will do the same at the end. 01:05:44.240 |
In Matthew 7.13-14, "Enter through the narrow gate, 01:06:10.320 |
Cultural Christianity isn't a lesser Christianity. 01:06:16.160 |
And it is so powerful that we can live all our lives 01:06:23.160 |
jumping through hoops to belong to whatever church 01:06:25.840 |
that you belong to, and yet you never truly followed Christ. 01:06:36.080 |
You know, when we're young, part of the reason 01:06:38.040 |
why children are cute is because they don't think too much 01:06:56.080 |
they're very aware, in fact, hyper aware of their friends. 01:07:05.120 |
You have to have a certain kind of sunglasses, 01:07:11.160 |
But you know that peer pressure never goes away. 01:07:28.200 |
you buy certain houses, you buy certain cars, 01:07:35.680 |
You get married and have kids, what do other kids have? 01:07:49.840 |
I spent a lot of time with seniors when I was teaching ESL. 01:07:56.960 |
You would think that at the age of 70 and 80, 01:08:11.200 |
So they compare the success of their children 01:08:20.920 |
And so we rise to the expectation of the community 01:08:33.440 |
See, cultural Christianity can be easily explained 01:08:44.240 |
They want their children to be taught morals. 01:08:49.000 |
They go to church because they need community. 01:08:54.120 |
Because we live in a society where there isn't any community 01:09:04.160 |
they have community with whatever it is that they have. 01:09:08.880 |
And they feel secure and they're not worried about death. 01:09:15.560 |
Because what they are observing is cultural Christianity. 01:09:21.760 |
because they think that's what Christianity is. 01:09:27.920 |
that he calls us to makes no sense psychologically 01:09:32.640 |
Jesus took rich fishermen and told them to follow him 01:09:41.680 |
professing that their savior was resurrected from the dead. 01:09:46.400 |
Apostle Paul, who already was in the top of the world 01:09:50.640 |
as a Jew, said, no, now you will suffer many things 01:10:04.520 |
He told him he was gonna suffer for his name's sake. 01:10:12.840 |
See, the biblical Christianity that Jesus calls us to, 01:10:17.680 |
there is no psychological, sociological answer 01:10:20.400 |
unless you actually believe that judgment is coming. 01:10:29.440 |
Why would you risk the future of your children? 01:10:42.440 |
or you actually believe what you profess to believe. 01:10:57.880 |
You just happen to have a lot of Christian friends. 01:11:01.280 |
You just happen to be raised in a Christian home. 01:11:04.480 |
Your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents 01:11:11.120 |
if you grew up in that culture is to remain there. 01:11:13.640 |
So you happen to run into a bunch of Christians 01:11:20.320 |
So the easiest thing for you to do is to stay in that 01:11:25.000 |
you just jump through the hoops that they jump through. 01:11:30.840 |
There's a reason why God calls people out into the desert. 01:11:38.920 |
and makes them stay alone with God for a period 01:11:48.600 |
The sociological aspect of modern Christianity 01:12:03.840 |
that we hold on to this community for dear life. 01:12:09.160 |
Even when false doctrines are being preached, 01:12:13.480 |
even as it slips, you hold on to community for dear life 01:12:25.680 |
I learned this when I was younger back in college 01:12:34.960 |
there was a longing in my heart to belong somewhere 01:12:38.000 |
and I couldn't articulate that when I was younger 01:12:40.720 |
but I realized that that was what was going on in my heart. 01:12:43.680 |
I didn't belong here, I didn't belong in Korea 01:12:48.160 |
and then right when I was confused, puberty hit. 01:12:50.680 |
And then right when I was confused, puberty hit. 01:12:57.640 |
And then in the midst of all of that, I became a Christian. 01:13:04.920 |
for the first time in my life, I felt I belonged. 01:13:21.080 |
but when that happened, nothing else mattered to me 01:13:46.960 |
but I had to learn because that's a community 01:13:50.240 |
To this day, I have songs memorized in my head 01:14:07.920 |
And I was, "Yes, that's the reason why I came to Biola." 01:14:22.200 |
and at that time, I was the youngest guy there 01:14:23.880 |
and all of my roommates were 10, 12 years older than me. 01:14:35.840 |
all of my peers started joining this ministry. 01:14:38.520 |
So even though I was the only one at that time, 01:14:42.120 |
this tiny little ministry of like three or four 01:14:51.320 |
not only did I feel like I belonged in God's kingdom there, 01:14:55.240 |
I never felt that at church, in neighborhood, anywhere. 01:15:16.120 |
and then it was no longer the cool thing to do. 01:15:22.080 |
And I was so tempted because for the first time, 01:15:42.880 |
And so I was really on the verge of telling my leaders 01:15:57.520 |
and I was rationalizing, it's the same thing. 01:16:04.720 |
So I decided that I'm gonna give it six months. 01:16:25.880 |
Sure enough, six months came and it became crystal clear 01:16:34.640 |
What I was being challenged by, what I was learning 01:16:39.960 |
that I thought I was gonna miss in doing that. 01:16:44.040 |
was because that made such a huge impact in my heart 01:16:56.760 |
But that desire to want to belong was so strong 01:17:12.000 |
I'm not gonna be able to be a part of this community. 01:17:14.600 |
And at the end of all of that, I realized, wow, 01:17:22.240 |
that if I'm not careful, I can live the rest of my life 01:17:27.240 |
jumping through hoops to try to belong somewhere 01:17:40.120 |
The truth will always pull us out of our comfort zone. 01:17:44.280 |
Don't look around to see if your friends are doing it. 01:17:49.480 |
If you have a community of people to do this with, 01:17:53.320 |
first and foremost, do you believe what the Bible says? 01:17:59.960 |
From my experience, if you follow Jesus genuinely, 01:18:17.280 |
Some of the most intense feeling of loneliness 01:18:22.320 |
came after I made a decision to follow Jesus. 01:18:38.600 |
than after I truly committed my life to Christ. 01:18:45.520 |
He's more to me than anything else in this world. 01:19:07.000 |
Have we sanitized the gospel like the Noah's Ark, 01:19:21.040 |
where we made a to-do list of things that we do. 01:19:25.200 |
And if you behave this way, if you say certain things, 01:19:27.320 |
if you go certain places, then I'm okay with God. 01:19:30.040 |
Yet it does not fit the message of the gospel. 01:19:50.280 |
all of everything that we see in the book of Revelation 01:20:10.200 |
And he will divide between those who are covered 01:20:27.080 |
Narrow is the gate that leads to eternal life. 01:20:36.680 |
Do not let peer pressure keep you in nominal Christianity. 01:21:04.040 |
will not just go through one ear and out the other. 01:21:17.320 |
and embrace the truth of salvation seriously, 01:21:24.040 |
live up to the gospel that you have given us, 01:21:32.600 |
Lord, as you warned us that in the end times, 01:21:55.640 |
that we may also be heirs of righteousness by faith. 01:22:04.040 |
- Let us all rise as we sing our closing praise. 01:26:03.320 |
Father, we confess that we are powerless without you. 01:26:15.840 |
that we cannot bear any fruit unless we remain in you. 01:26:19.240 |
Lord, teach us what that means, that we may practice it. 01:26:24.200 |
That we may see abundant fruit, Lord God, in this generation. 01:26:53.640 |
We pray, Father God, that we would be men and women 01:26:59.200 |
of true faith, that we would not simply be hearers 01:27:03.760 |
of the words, but we would also do because we believe. 01:27:13.000 |
Help us, Lord God, wherever you send us this week 01:27:31.380 |
build us up and empower us that we may be the light 01:28:12.840 |
♪ An empty grave is there to hold my Savior's lips ♪