Living Waters of Grace 09.02.25

This is living. Waters of Grace, the teaching

ministry of Lewis Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary

Chapel of Westmoreland County in Greensburg, PA.

Now here's Pastor Lewis as he continues teaching through God's

Word. I pray that somebody will say,

you know what? Enough of this lying to myself,

enough of this living this life of sin, enough of being in

bondage to something that I will never ever be able to pull

myself out of. Freedom only comes through Jesus

Christ, Jesus says in John 8. He said that if the sun sets you

free, you will be free. Indeed, He's the only one that

can set us free. Sometimes, when the struggles of

our daily lives become overwhelming, we forget that

we're not alone. We often overlook the fact that

there's someone with open arms who wants us to know that this

battle doesn't have to be so hard.

In today's message, Pastor Lewis encourages you to give your life

to Jesus. Allow him to be your strong

tower, your rock, your shoulder to lean on in the Lord of your

life. Trust that with his guidance,

you can navigate through life's challenges with renewed hope and

purpose. Now here's Pastor Lewis in Jude

chapter one with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.

This is the point of example. He delivered them all.

All of them, and they all went into the wilderness on their

way, going to the promised land. They all did.

But while they were in the wilderness he destroyed those

who did not believe because of unbelief.

They were judged and they were destroyed and because of their

and it came in a lot of different ways.

It came in rejection, it came in rebellion, it came in sexual

morality, all kind of ways of just not trusting the those

Caleb and and Joshua, when they went in to spy out the land.

And when they went to spy out the land, they came back and

gave a report and said, look, we can go in and take it.

The other people that was there said, no, we can't take it

because they're too much for us. And because of their unbelief,

they didn't go in. So the first generation of that

group in Egypt, none of them went in besides Joshua and

Caleb. It was their children who ended

up going into the promised land. Their children.

None of them went in because they were judged because of

unbelief. Let's not have unbelief in our

hearts to miss what it is God wants to do for us.

Even as the the centurion said one day, he said, look, I

believe, but help my unbelief. And we all have some areas of

unbelief, if we're honest with ourselves.

And you find out those areas of unbelief whenever adversity hits

US and it hits US hard sometimes and it's hard for us to believe

that God will pull us out of this or even can pull us out of

this like, oh, I'm doomed. This is not going to end right?

And we take our eyes off of him and we started looking at people

who can help me with this. What can I do for myself to pull

myself out of this? Let's not be caught in unbelief.

And then the next example he uses, he uses the example of the

angels. And he said then the angels who

did not keep their proper domain, but left their own

abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under

darkness. So you went from the children of

Israel to now he and, and how they were judged because of

their unbelief. And now he goes to the angels,

these angels and, and, and what we have to understand is that

angels have free will. Angels have free will and, and

Satan himself have free will. And he chose to rebel against

God, to rebelled against God. And because of that, he and the

angels who rebelled with him, which was 1/3 the Bible tells us

we're cast out of heaven. We're cast out of heaven.

They decided that they wanted their will and not God's will.

They wanted to do what they wanted to do and not do what God

wanted them to do. Oh, they had a proper domain.

They had a place in heaven. They were there, but they turned

away from them, turned away from God to follow their own will, to

follow their own heart. And the Bible says as a result

of that, He now has them reserved in everlasting chains

under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Just think about that. Because they were looking to

have a life of freedom to do what they wanted to do, to live

their own free will and not surrender to the will of God.

They still end up in bondage. They still don't have any

freedom. They're in the darkness, chained

darkness because of their decisions to live their own life

the way they want to live it. But you know what?

That's no different than what we have and where we are when we

lived according to our own desires, when we lived according

to our own will, and we thought we have, we were having freedom.

We were living freedom. Oh my, I want to do what I want

to do. I don't want nobody giving me

rules and telling me what to do. Come in when I want to come in,

go where I want to go and do what I want to do.

We thought we had freedom, but we were in bondage to the very

sin that we gave ourselves to. And today I just want to say

that maybe someone can hear this.

You know, we think it's freedom to live in our own free will,

but God gives us His word that we obey for our protection.

Obedience is for the purpose of our protection.

That's why we want our kids to obey us, because it protects

them. Because we know, we've seen,

we've experienced, and we want to protect our kids.

So we give them structure, we give them guidelines, we give

them dare say it rules, but it's for the purpose of protecting

them. It's not to harm them.

It's not to stop them from having fun.

It's to protect them. God gives them to us, and it's

when we reject that protection, it's when we reject His will for

our lives, that we find ourselves in bondage to the very

sin that we give ourselves to. That's what happened with these

angels. And then in verse 7, it says

that Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in a similar

manner to these, having giving themselves over to sexual

immorality and going after strange flesh, are set forth as

an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

The vengeance of eternal fire. Very interesting.

And he says that these the Sodom and Gomorrah, Sodom and Gomorrah

very interesting because what Sodom and Gomorrah was actually

destroyed for was their immoral, sexual, immoral lifestyles and

their, their desire to go after what it calls here in in my

version says strange flesh. Other versions may say unnatural

desire. Some may even say perversion.

They, they, they, they sought perversion, strange flesh, same

sex relationships and so forth. And you know it, it talks about

it back in Leviticus. You know it, it gives a number

of scriptures concerning God's attitude and his position on

sexual immorality, particularly homosexuality specifically talks

about that. I'm not going to read all of

those all of those scriptures, but I am going to read the

verses because and the reason why is because I want you to arm

yourself is because there's a lot a lot of people in society

today isn't an interesting thing that God destroys Sodom and

Gomorrah from We actually this country actually embraces today.

Try to normalize it and God is saying no, it's an abomination

to me. Don't go in and do what the

inhabitants of this land did. It's an abomination.

It's sin. This country embraces it, even

celebrates it and call it pride, which is exactly what it is.

Because they're so prideful that they won't humble themselves.

We're so prideful sometimes that we don't humble ourselves before

the Lord. Thank you, thank God for grace,

Amen. Because the truth is, is that

even if they would turn and repent, if the children of

Israel would have turned and repented, God would have

forgiven them. If the people in Sodom and

Gomorrah would have repented, God would have forgiven them.

He told Abraham, he said, look, if I find Ted, they started at

50. He said, I'll tell you what, if

I find 1010 righteous people in the cities of Sodom and

Gomorrah, I won't destroy it. There wasn't 10 people in Sodom

and Gomorrah that did not pray that would repent does not

wasn't 10 and it was destroyed by fire.

So I want to read these verses so you can have them if you want

to write them down, put them in your phone however you want to

do it. But the first one is Leviticus

Leviticus 18 · chapter mention

chapter 18 and verse 22. Also in Leviticus chapter 20 and

Leviticus 20 · chapter mention

verse 13, also in the and then in Romans chapter 1 and verse 26

Romans 1 · chapter mention

and 27, First Timothy chapter 1 and verse 10, and even in the

1 Timothy 1 · chapter mention

book of Revelations chapter 21 and verse 8.

Revelation 21 · chapter mention

But then there's another scripture that I actually want

to read, this one because not only does it shows God's

righteousness, but it also shows His grace.

It shows His grace. And this is First Corinthians

1 Corinthians 6 · chapter mention

chapter 6 beginning at verse 9. And he says this.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the

Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.

Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers.

Here we go. Nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkers, nor revilers, nor

extortioners will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Cannot make it any clearer of what God feels about that sexual

and moral sin. Not only that one, but it's not,

not not only when they listed you listed others, but that one

was listed as well. But this is the part that gives

me hope. This is the part that should

give us all hope. In verse 11 he says, and such

were some of you and search were some of you.

One of these in here captures some of all of us at one point.

And such were some of you. But that's why I like the butts

in the Bible. But you were washed.

You were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of

our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

So that is not a permanent condition for you to be a

homosexual. I'm sorry that people feel like

it is. It's not.

You can be delivered because Jesus says, you know, I mean,

the Bible says here and such were some of you.

So he delivered them, They were delivered, they were washed from

it, they were sanctified and they were justified.

That means they were declared righteous and that by the Spirit

in the name of Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

I just pray that we understand that God is serious about sin.

He is serious about sin. He desires for us to obey Him,

but even more important is that there's grace there for all of

us, no matter what our sin is, no matter how long we've been

doing the sin, no matter what people call you concerned ought.

He ain't going to never change. She ain't going to never change.

No, you can. God can change you.

The Spirit of the Holy, the Spirit of God can come in and

cleanse you and make you new. If any man be in Christ, he is a

new creature, a new creation. Old things are passed away.

That means to die. They're passed away, passed

away, mean and died and now all things are become new, new.

It's a new you. And we all have that in Christ

Jesus. And the next line says, and all

things are of God, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord.

But it's because of this sin that the day is so special.

Our Palm Sunday, Jude took us back into the history and showed

us from the Old Testament God's righteousness and how He will

judge sin. He showed us that through the

example of the Israelites, the example even of the angels, and

the example also of those in Sodom and Gomorrah.

And that's why it was so important that Jesus Christ

came. If you ever have anybody that

tell me that they don't tell you, they don't know the

significance of Jesus Christ and him coming, come here, take them

here. Because some of these sins we're

still doing today. All these sins we're still doing

today, we're still rejecting them.

We're still living in sexual immorality.

We're still dealing with unbelief, but Jesus Christ came

so that we be forgiven of our sins and the hostility that we

had against God the Father, it's now we now have peace with him

because of Jesus Christ. Bible says back in the book of

Luke and also in the book of Matthew, when he talked about

the triumphant entry and when he talked about the triumphant

injury. We, we, you know, we're talking

about Jesus Christ who told the disciples that day to go on in

to Jerusalem when they got to Beth Fetch.

It's going to go over to the city or over or to the village

next to you and I want you to find a coat.

There's a coat that's going to be tied there.

The coat or the the, the the foal of a donkey.

No one's ever ridden on this thing.

I want you to go bring it to me. They said, wait a minute, we

can't go and take somebody's donkey.

It's just like you or use Clark's example.

You out there looking at his car, you get ready to take his

car. He come out and say, hey, what

are you trying to do with my car?

That's what they were asked, just what Jesus was telling them

to do. But see, what they didn't

understand is that Jesus had already worked in the heart of

the owner of that donkey. So he said, no, go ahead and

tell them if anybody asks you why are you taking that donkey,

you tell them that the Lord has need of it.

Now, I don't know if that's going to work with Clark's car.

So, so don't y'all go out there and car his car trying to get in

his car and then say, hey, the Lord got need of it because you

want to take it on Route 30 and see what it can do.

But Jesus had already worked into the heart of the owner of

that donkey and said the Lord has need of it.

He brought the donkey back to Jesus.

They put the coats on the back of the donkey.

They set Jesus on the donkey and as they're bringing him down as

they can, that that descent that goes into Jerusalem.

When the people finally get a chance to look up and see Jesus

coming on that donkey, the Bible says they begin to shout, they

begin to holler out. Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the

highest. Save, save us, save me in the

highest. Jesus comes down and he's riding

on that donkey. And not once did he tell any of

them to not worship him. That time he didn't say, no,

don't tell anybody because he was presenting himself as the

king. He was presenting himself as the

true Messiah. David Holland out and said, Son

of David, which means that you are the Messiah because we heard

about you back in Zechariah. The prophet Zechariah told us

that the son of David will come and he's going to be riding on

his coat as he's a king. That's you, son of David.

He's coming down this hill and the people were seeing him and

they're crying out, but unfortunately they're crying out

because they're thinking that he's coming to save them from

the Roman rule that he's coming to start a revolt against the

Roman government. They didn't realize that he was

coming in to save them from so much more.

He was coming to bring them eternal life.

And they're yelling hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.

He's the king and the and the Pharisees are saying rebuke your

disciples. You hear what they're saying.

They're calling you king. They're calling you son of

David. That means they're saying that

you're the Messiah, the son of the living God.

And Jesus just simply said, look, if I if these keep solid,

the very rocks will cry out. All of his creation worships

him. So he's come in and they're

waving palm branches and they're celebrating him.

He knew even his disciples didn't know or understand, but

he knew then in about 5 or 6 days that many of those same

people who are crying out Hosanna who are calling him

king. Who are praising Him and

worshipping Him? Many of those same people will

be crying out, Crucify Him, crucify him.

But He did it. He presented himself as a lamb

going to the slaughter that day. He presented himself as King.

He knew what would happen, but He did it for you.

He did it for you. He did it for you and you.

He did it for me. He never turned back.

And then of course, next Sunday we'll talk a little bit about

that cross. But I'm grateful today.

Praise and worship, take and come forward, please.

But I'm grateful today that Jesus Christ came.

Bible says over in the book of Mark that even the Son of Man

did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life a

ransom for many. I'm one of those many.

Bible tells us that He came to seek and save that which is lost

and that it's not his will that any should perish, but all will

come into repentance. I thank God for that because I

was a loss. I am the lost.

But now I'm found and I pray today that the message reached

someone's heart. I pray that somebody will say,

you know what? Enough of this lying to myself,

enough of this living this life of sin, enough of being in

bondage to something that I will never ever be able to pull

myself out of. Freedom only comes through Jesus

Christ. Jesus says in John 8, He said

that if the sun sets you free, you will be free.

Indeed, He's the only one that can set us free.

So I pray today that somebody receives His salvation, that

somebody understands that it was because of the sin of those

examples and the sin that we do today that He had to come.

We need a Savior, we need a Savior, and Jesus Christ is that

Savior. He is the way, He is the truth,

and He is the life. He is that Savior.

Nobody comes to God except through Him.

He is that Savior. So we need to come to Him.

I pray to somebody does that. You can just tell.

Lord, look, I confess, I am a Sinner and I am in need of a

Savior. You could just tell Him that you

believe that He died for your sins.

You believe that he was buried in, that he rose again on the

third day and asking for forgiveness for your sins and to

be your savior and to come into your heart and teach you, show

you, lead you in how to live the Christian life.

You won't see stars. You won't see any kind of big

meteors in the sky or hear fireworks go off.

You don't hear any of that, but in your soul, the Bible says

when you believe that the Spirit of the Son of God comes to live

in your heart and He will change you, He will change you.

This has been Living Waters of Grace, a ministry of Calvary

Chapel, Westmoreland in Greensburg, PA Pastor Lewis

Harrell has been teaching through the book of Jude.

This is a book of warning as the audience that Jude was writing

to was coming under attack from false teachers.

Even in the early days of the church, there were teachers who

claimed to have a unique revelation from God that

superseded Scripture. Pastor Lewis wants you to be

sure to be on your guard against those teachers today as they

will try to distract you from following the way of Jesus.

By focusing on what God's Word says, you can call out false

teachers for what they are and stay on the good path.

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