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Psalm 25:1-22

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  1. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Psalms Bible Study.

  2. I'm so excited to be here with you, Ray. So,

  3. Psalm 25. I haven't been able to read it today.

  4. I've been pretty busy. You know, I was in the

  5. middle of.

  6. You didn't study?

  7. No, I didn't study. Well, I mean, you witnessed my day.

  8. Everything was going fine.

  9. I'm kidding.

  10. I'm kidding.

  11. I'm kidding. Yes.

  12. It's been an eventful day.

  13. People bought a lot of meat today.

  14. Yep.

  15. It's just kind of an oxymoron in a way because

  16. they're hunters, so aren't they getting meat?

  17. Yeah.

  18. I don't understand why they....

  19. Yeah, you'd think, no, they're not hunting for meat, Rachel.

  20. They're hunting for trophies. Yeah, believe me, anybody that can...

  21. We don't need to get into that. You're getting off topic.

  22. Yeah, we are.

  23. We're just meant to be like it.

  24. So, here, let's change the topic. So, why do you

  25. think this chapter has the same amount of verses as

  26. Revelation has chapters?

  27. What? I didn't even know.

  28. Okay, how many chapters are in Revelation? Didn't look. Oh.

  29. Let's see here.

  30. 22. How many verses are in this chapter? 22.

  31. 22.

  32. I didn't know. Well, you did know.

  33. How would I know to do that?

  34. This is a good place to start. Yes, yes, you

  35. did know. Yes, you did. Don't say you haven't read

  36. Revelation before. You know there's 22 chapters in Revelation. You know. Yes,

  37. you do know it.

  38. I don't.

  39. And you've read Psalm 25 before.

  40. Yes, you do.

  41. Just because you couldn't recall it to memory does not

  42. mean you didn't know it. Yes, you did know it. Right?

  43. I didn't have understanding. Oh. Oh.

  44. So what do you mean you didn't have understanding? You

  45. know how many.

  46. I didn't understand what I knew. So why would I

  47. be able to recall it? You can only recall it

  48. if you understand what you know.

  49. Now, wait a minute. This is two separate sets of data.

  50. You knew independently... That there were 22 verses in Psalms,

  51. and you knew independently that there were 22 chapters in Revelation,

  52. just you hadn't put the two together. But if you

  53. would have just asked me, you would have just asked me,

  54. how many chapters are in Revelation?

  55. I would be like, I don't know. If you would

  56. have asked me, how many verses are in Psalm 25?

  57. I'd be like, I don't know. Let me look.

  58. Like, why would I memorize that if I could just

  59. open it up and look?

  60. Rachel, you didn't need to ask. We could have put

  61. you under hypnosis and you would have been able to

  62. tell this category. There's 22 verses. We have proven this.

  63. This has been in the past. Yes, you do know.

  64. You weren't able to. But you differentiated it a little bit.

  65. You said that not that you could recall. It had

  66. nothing to do with recall. It had something to do

  67. with understanding. That's something completely different.

  68. Well, I don't.

  69. Know. I think that when you understand something, then you're

  70. able to.

  71. Remember it better.

  72. Bring it to your memory. Well....

  73. Because, like, okay.

  74. Oops.

  75. Let me just say, like, if there was a crime, whatever,

  76. you know, somebody... Somebody had their eyes on the back

  77. of a vehicle, but they didn't understand what they were

  78. looking at until after the crime, right? And so then

  79. they have the psychologist come and help them remember the

  80. license plate number because they couldn't just recall it off

  81. the top of their head because they didn't understand what

  82. they were looking at at the time.

  83. But they did know it. You're proving the point. I

  84. already said that psychologists have proven this. Yes, you do

  85. know it. Yes, you do. You do know it.

  86. So, in other words, you're saying that even if you

  87. read the scripture and you don't understand it when you

  88. read it, it's still important.

  89. If you believe it. If you believe it, it will

  90. take on a permanent memory in your mind. You will

  91. be able to recall it.

  92. But what happens if you've never read it?

  93. If you've never read it, then no.

  94. So there's no way you can recall it at any

  95. point in time. Even if you're put under hypnosis, you've

  96. never opened up the book of Revelations and read it through,

  97. you would never be able to recall what it says.

  98. Exactly, honey, exactly.

  99. Wow.

  100. And you just don't understand that the hypnotist in this

  101. case of memory recall is the Holy Spirit. It is

  102. the Holy Spirit.

  103. That's an allegory. I don't recommend letting yourself be hypnotized.

  104. This is not an endorsement to you. Let me just

  105. do a disclaimer. Maranatha Ministries does not support Letting yourself

  106. be hypnotized for any reason whatsoever.

  107. Not for any reason whatsoever. Just a disclaimer there. And

  108. I'm sorry that I triggered you with the word hypnotist.

  109. I should have said psychologist. I should have said shrink

  110. or whatever. But anyway. So yes, our enemies are sitting

  111. all around us. So yeah, you're right. So anyway, it

  112. talks about here. The paths of your soul. The paths

  113. of your psyche.

  114. It's.

  115. Just trust me.

  116. It's there.

  117. So. It is saying. In the opening verses. When you align.

  118. How do I say that?

  119. Because we're not doing yoga here. We're not doing that.

  120. We're not doing that.

  121. Either. I'm just in a pickle. I don't know. It

  122. just doesn't matter what I say. You're going to turn

  123. it against me. Okay?

  124. I'm just putting out these disclaimers there. People are getting

  125. us the wrong way.

  126. Oh my God. Okay, so when you've been born again,

  127. when you've been baptized in the Holy Spirit, you no

  128. longer get your marching orders from the physical instincts. You

  129. switch over and you get your You're operating instructions from

  130. the spiritual instincts.

  131. Galatians 5, walking in step with the spirit.

  132. Yes. And it's not yoga. All right. So when you

  133. align yourself with the Holy Spirit, this is what it

  134. says in the very first verse. When I, I mean,

  135. technically when it says, when I take my spirit, And

  136. set my spirit up. These things happen. We haven't even

  137. read it yet. But I promise you. Oh my goodness. So.

  138. What's your thoughts on this chapter Rachel?

  139. My thoughts on this chapter. Hmm. Well for me it

  140. was very personal. So. Spoke to me on a completely

  141. different level. Even though I knew that you were going to.

  142. see the prophecy of it, but I was just reading

  143. it for my own self, but it was very personal.

  144. Yes, knowing your history, you could certainly take this pretty

  145. personal on every level. With your physical family, with church family,

  146. on every level, your in-laws, on every level, you could

  147. you can definitely associated with this and well I guess I.

  148. Better not but not just this because it's so relatable

  149. and then after this we're going to be going right

  150. into 1 Samuel 25.

  151. Which is.

  152. Completely all about God preparing our way And so, if anything,

  153. this is all about reminding ourselves about how God has

  154. and is and will prepare our way. And we can

  155. trust in Him. We can. We can absolutely trust in Him. Right.

  156. Right. Amen. So, before we go any further, and I've

  157. got to say this, the opening verse is, O Lord,

  158. to you, O Lord, I lift my soul. This only

  159. applies to those that have been born again, that's getting,

  160. that's been baptized in the Holy Spirit. If you haven't

  161. done this, this doesn't apply to you. You're going to

  162. be thrown to the wolves. There's no other way to

  163. put it. Um, You will not tread on serpents or scorpions.

  164. They'll tread on you. Because it's one or the other.

  165. It's not both.

  166. It's one or the other. I remember back in the day,

  167. back when it was camp, and we were, it was

  168. the second level. So when we were in youth camp,

  169. Holiness Church, you get halfway through the week, And you

  170. go to the next level of sanctification, right?

  171. Right.

  172. Because a lot of us already had come there. We

  173. were saved, right? So we were seeing other people, our

  174. friends and different people being saved. But then halfway through

  175. the week, then they get to us and talking about sanctification.

  176. And basically in the holiness church, they believe, is this

  177. is when you surrender everything to God. That you give

  178. up everything about your life, about who you are. Everything

  179. is His now. And you are making that choice to

  180. do that.

  181. And I remember when.

  182. I did that, and it was literally this verse. My

  183. soul was lifted up and I felt it. It was

  184. like a burden being lifted. And that's what they would

  185. call it. The burdens of this world were lifted away.

  186. And you just... I mean, there's no description. There's no

  187. word for the emotion.

  188. Felt there.

  189. I don't think there's any language that has a word

  190. for that emotion. But it's an emotion that we felt.

  191. And some of us were crying, but it wasn't necessarily

  192. tears of joy or sadness. It was just this unnamed emotion.

  193. Okay.

  194. And so this is, you're talking about, This is not

  195. for you if you're not born again. This begins, this

  196. chapter begins in that moment.

  197. Yes.

  198. In that moment.

  199. What you're describing.

  200. When you're born again, this is where this, this is where,

  201. this is where this, this is verse 1.

  202. That moment. Yeah, that's what.

  203. I was saying. So we call it born again. The

  204. Holiness Church calls it being sanctified. Sanctified. There's a lot

  205. of words for it.

  206. One thing is for sure. What you're feeling could not

  207. have been super... I mean, hunger could not have overridden it,

  208. could it?

  209. No, you wouldn't know that you really felt hungry in

  210. that moment.

  211. You would not have felt hunger, right? But yet you're

  212. associating it with those types of things. And that's what

  213. you mean. In that moment, the burden was your natural

  214. physical instincts. Hunger, thirst, yada, yada, yada. Your natural physical

  215. desires were overridden in that moment by something else. And

  216. until you've had that, you can read the words of

  217. Psalm 25, but that's all you're going to do is

  218. just read them. And when you read them, you won't

  219. read them as if you're reading a dictionary. You'll read

  220. them like you're reading a Facebook post. They won't be

  221. real to you. They won't be.

  222. It's always difficult. They won't be incarnate to you. They

  223. won't be corporeal to you.

  224. Let me see it more like.

  225. It won't there's a point where God's words live in

  226. become part of you they're.

  227. Living in you yes yes so alright Rachel I think

  228. we've done what we could do for that for those

  229. that have not been born again so alright read it

  230. until you've got something to say about.

  231. It to you oh Lord I lift up my soul

  232. O my God, I trust in you. Let me not

  233. be ashamed. Let not my enemies triumph over me. Indeed,

  234. let no one who waits on you be ashamed. Let

  235. those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause. Show me

  236. your ways, O Lord. Teach me your paths. Lead me

  237. in your truth and teach me, for you are the

  238. God of my salvation. On you I wait all the day. Remember,

  239. O Lord, your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for

  240. they are from old. Do not remember the sins of

  241. my youth nor my transgressions. According to your mercy, remember me.

  242. For your goodness' sake, O Lord. Good and upright is

  243. the Lord, therefore he teaches sinners in the way. The

  244. humble he guides in justice, and the humble he teaches

  245. his way. All the paths of the Lord are mercy

  246. and truth. To keep to such as keep his covenant

  247. and his testimonies. For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon

  248. my iniquity, for it is great.

  249. So, you don't want to stop and talk about any

  250. of this?

  251. Oh, I just....

  252. You're going too far.

  253. I'm doing... Well, you could have stopped me. Okay, so... Hmm.

  254. Don't say you don't have anything to say.

  255. About that okay so um show me your ways oh

  256. lord teach me your paths lead me in your truth

  257. and teach me for you are the god of my

  258. salvation on you i wait all the day which day.

  259. According to the word, there's only one day. That's the

  260. day of the Lord. There's only one day. That is

  261. a trigger phrase, especially in Hebrew. There's only one day,

  262. his day.

  263. Because if it was really all the day, every day,

  264. it would have said all the days of my life,

  265. like in Psalm 23, Psalm 23, 6. Where it says,

  266. surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days

  267. of my life. So if it was like, on you

  268. I wait all the day, like meaning like every day,

  269. all day long, then it would have said that, right?

  270. Right.

  271. So this verse 4 is talking about the day, the

  272. great day of the Lord.

  273. And the whole word is constructed upon getting to that

  274. day that day he's going to do something else but

  275. anyway the only way there's only one thing that will

  276. lead you in his truth that will teach you there's

  277. only one thing that will do this there's only one

  278. way you can know The Lord's way. Now think about this.

  279. Read verse 4 again, Rachel.

  280. Show me your ways, oh Lord. Teach me your paths.

  281. Okay. Just so everybody knows. This is talking about Calvary.

  282. Okay. If you.

  283. You know there's so much I could say here.

  284. But.

  285. Once you have eyes that can see, you understand what

  286. he's talking about. You understand why Jesus said, hey, you

  287. have to pick up your cross and follow me. This

  288. is what he was talking about. And people don't stop

  289. to think, okay, lead me in your truth. You know,

  290. show me your ways, Lord. You can't go where God is.

  291. How are you supposed to go in the way of

  292. he who sits upon the throne? You can't. You can't

  293. go that way. But repeatedly, on more than one occasion,

  294. before the... Look, this is how everybody was supposed to

  295. know he was going to be crucified. Because he kept

  296. telling his own disciples, you're going to have to pick

  297. up your cross and follow me. Where did he go?

  298. He went to Calvary. He sacrificed himself.

  299. Right?

  300. That's what being born again is. You talked about it already.

  301. You have to put off Your natural carnal instincts.

  302. Well, you can't. We can't really do that ourselves. God

  303. has to do that for us. That comes second. But

  304. in order for that to happen, you have to be

  305. willing to give up everything.

  306. Everything.

  307. Everything. Pride. Pride. your job if God wants it to

  308. be different or to take it, everything you own, your family,

  309. you have to be willing to let go of whatever

  310. it is that God wants to, you give it to him.

  311. You're giving it to him. Okay, so my house, God,

  312. you can take it, but if you choose to let

  313. me be able to Keep this house. It's still yours.

  314. And it's everything in it. I'm giving it to you.

  315. It belongs to you. You know. The food that's in

  316. my refrigerator. Is yours. All of the money that I have.

  317. Is yours. If you want to take all of it.

  318. You can. And I trust you.

  319. I trust you.

  320. But if you don't take it, I will be thankful

  321. that I have it and I will still consider it yours.

  322. Okay, let's talk about this. Let's talk about something that's really,

  323. really close to home.

  324. They don't

  325. get a new car every year for any frivolous reasons.

  326. They only do so for pride's sake. Now, that's a fact.

  327. That's beyond contestation. So, this is a very difficult thing

  328. you're talking about. Okay? Because, now, I can take you

  329. to many churches. The people running those churches... They won't

  330. be caught dead in last year's model. You know that.

  331. Well, it's not just because of that. There's a lot

  332. of things connected with that. It's social standing, too. They

  333. do certain jobs, certain social standings. Yes, you do have

  334. to have a brand new car that's that year. Yes,

  335. you do. And so this is where it comes into play.

  336. You have to be willing to give all of it up,

  337. not just the car.

  338. You stop and leave.

  339. If you... You have to be willing to give.

  340. God your job. Yeah. You must stop living for social standards.

  341. And you must start living for God. Right.

  342. You shed all of that off. Every bit of it.

  343. Every bit of it. And it's individual to each person.

  344. So I can't... It's not really fair to specifically say

  345. because it is different. But if you really... If God

  346. is drawing you right now, stop and pray. Focus and

  347. say to God, God, what am I holding back? What

  348. am I holding back? What is it that I have?

  349. Because sometimes we're holding things back we don't realize we're

  350. holding back. So we say, God, show me if what

  351. I'm holding back so I can have it so I

  352. can know to make sure it's yours. And is a very,

  353. very important to this is what it means to dedicate

  354. your life to Christ. It is what it means. This

  355. is what it means to dedicate. This is more than

  356. just praying the prayer that Jesus, I believe that you're

  357. the Christ. This is that next step.

  358. Are you done? This is described in verses 8 and 9.

  359. You need to know this, ladies and gentlemen. If you've

  360. been water baptized to a congregation and you can vote

  361. at your church, this is talking to you. Read verses

  362. 8 and 9 again.

  363. Good and upright is the Lord. Therefore, he teaches sinners

  364. in the way. The humble he guides in justice. And

  365. the humble he teaches his way. All the paths of

  366. the Lord are mercy and truth. To such as keep

  367. his covenant and his testimonies. For your name's sake, O Lord,

  368. pardon my iniquities. it is great stop I'm.

  369. Going to read the verses to you this is categorically

  370. talking about he painfully said he teaches sinners but yet

  371. only the humble does he teach his way okay only

  372. to those who keep his covenant and his testimonies is

  373. your pardon does he pardon your iniquity This is categorically

  374. talking about Hebrews chapter 10, starting in verse 26. For

    Hebrews 10 chapter mention

  375. if we sin willfully after we've received the knowledge of

  376. the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.

  377. So he's talking about after you've been water baptized, you're

  378. in the congregation. Now you can vote in your church.

  379. You continue to sin willfully. This is what Psalms 25

  380. is talking about. Okay, so let's continue. If you continue

  381. to sin willfully, verse 27, but a certain fearful expectation

  382. of judgment and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

  383. Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on

  384. the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much

  385. worse punishment do you suppose will be he thought worthy

  386. who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the

  387. blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, a

  388. common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace. That's what

  389. Psalm 25 was always trying to tell you.

  390. Can I just say something that I noticed here?

  391. Yes.

  392. When it says good and upright is the Lord, therefore

  393. he teaches sinners in the way. The humble he guides

  394. in justice and the humble he teaches his way. All

  395. the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. I

  396. just picture us walking along a path and we've got

  397. the humble who he's guiding in justice and he's teaching

  398. them his way and then the sinners he teaches in

  399. the way he's still teaching them as they're going he's

  400. hoping that while they're walking along they have accepted that

  401. he's Christ so he's continuing to teach them he's still

  402. hoping Because he loves them. Because all of his paths

  403. are mercy and truth.

  404. Right.

  405. So he's still hoping. So when you have accepted Christ

  406. as being the Savior of your life, and you're not

  407. born again.

  408. Mm-hmm.

  409. You're not born again yet. So you're still sinning. Mm-hmm.

  410. You're still sinning. But God sees that there is hope

  411. for you. Mm-hmm. When you sin, when there is, when

  412. bad things are happening to you because of your sin,

  413. there are things happening. There is spiritual warfare happening that

  414. you are being affected by and it is touching you

  415. in a serious way. You've got You've got things happening,

  416. things going on. God is allowing you to be punished

  417. in this life for your sinning because he knows there's

  418. hope for you.

  419. Yes. What is Rachel trying to say? Somebody who wins

  420. the lottery, they ain't got no hope. someone who has

  421. clawed their way to the top and now they're the

  422. president of the company, they're damned already. What Rachel's trying

  423. to say is that those that have entered the body

  424. of Christ and continues to sin willfully, you will know

  425. they have hope if they routinely have catastrophes. Okay? That's

  426. what she's trying... And you can tell the difference... In

  427. verse 12, that's what verse 12 is from. So you've

  428. got the sinners and those who have been born again

  429. on this same planet. Read verse 12 and it tells

  430. you how to tell the difference between the two.

  431. Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall

  432. he teach in the way he chooses. He himself shall

  433. dwell in prosperity and his descendants shall inherit the earth.

  434. The secret of the Lord is with those who fear him.

  435. Amen. Praise God.

  436. And he will show them his covenant.

  437. Amen. He will indeed.

  438. So here's where I was seeing some. So verse 10,

  439. all the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth

  440. to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. And

  441. then the secret of the Lord is with those who

  442. fear him, and he will show them his covenant. What

  443. is the difference there? Showing them keeping his covenant and

  444. then he showing them his covenant.

  445. Boy, that's a big question, Rach.

  446. Because this is like the secret of the Lord is

  447. with those who fear him.

  448. What's the secret? Well, honey, I've read it. I mean,

  449. I've already read it. I've already read it in Hebrews

    Hebrews 10:26–29

  450. chapter 10, verses 26 through 29. I've already read it.

  451. So when I was reading, keeping his covenant and his testimonies,

  452. I'm thinking communion in the gospel.

  453. You live your life as he lived his, right? Jesus

  454. Christ didn't practice iniquity, Rachel. This plainly said, and we've

  455. read it. It was up there in that verse, and

  456. I did share it. Okay, verse 11. For your name's accepted.

  457. Pardon my iniquity, for my iniquity is great. He is saying,

  458. only those people who stop the iniquity will have their

  459. iniquity pardoned. And those people will be those who fear

  460. the Lord. So, you only know the secret You can

  461. only know the secret if he teaches you his way.

  462. It's circular in its event horizon. An event horizon denotes

  463. a point in time, but time is circular, so this

  464. is really a circular event horizon. You must have one

  465. to have the other, but they can't see it because

  466. they're too busy lying to their spouses. They're too busy,

  467. you know.

  468. But this is, yeah. And all of this is, it's

  469. really just a trap that chains you.

  470. Yes.

  471. If you're, you don't even know it until you have

  472. that moment where you finally have said, God, take it all.

  473. And it is lifted. And you are able to look

  474. back down on, on your, old life and see that

  475. it was all chains and weights on you. And it

  476. was a big spider web of.

  477. Just struggle. Yes.

  478. And it's all gone in that moment. You just don't realize.

  479. Well, let's get back to the car.

  480. You're right.

  481. You had to have a brand new car because you

  482. can't have that position at work without the new car.

  483. So once you get rid of that car, okay, once

  484. you realize, I don't have to pay, you know, $ 500,

  485. you know, $ 750 a month for a car payment. I

  486. don't have to do that. No, you don't. You don't

  487. have to do that. All of a sudden, that entire

  488. web of lies collapses. So, Now that you don't have

  489. to pay $ 750 for a car payment, now you don't

  490. have to undermine your co-worker to try to take his job.

  491. You don't have to do that anymore. So you don't

  492. have to lie and deceive and cheat. You don't have

  493. to do any of those. The whole thing collapses. The

  494. whole thing collapses in on itself. The whole thing collapses.

  495. That's what it's trying to say. And these people are

  496. walking with us, but they don't get it. And they'll

  497. gnash their teeth at you if you tell them. They'll

  498. hate your guts.

  499. It's because this beginning verse, or verse two.

  500. Yeah.

  501. Oh, my God. I trust in you. I trust you.

  502. Yes.

  503. I can give this to you. I know you're not

  504. going to let me to be destroyed. I trust you.

  505. I know you're not going to let me be ashamed

  506. in front of my enemies or let them triumph over me.

  507. I know you're not. I know that you love me.

  508. But there's only one way to do that. You realize.

  509. And that is really... I mean, when I'm interacting with

  510. people who are... Up there, yeah. Trust is really one

  511. of the biggest hurdles there is in this. Do you

  512. really trust God? Do you really trust Him to be good?

  513. No, they don't.

  514. Not even a little bit. Do they really believe, verse 8,

  515. good and upright is the Lord?

  516. No.

  517. And this is, I know they don't, but they can't

  518. get to that point.

  519. Yes, they can't.

  520. And may He show them through us that He can

  521. be trusted. Those of us who do trust Him, may

  522. He show those who haven't trusted Him yet that He's

  523. worthy to be trusted. And that he is good and upright.

  524. And he does want good for us. He's not going

  525. to crush us. Not going to do that.

  526. Okay. And there's no real point for me to say

  527. anything more. So anyway, you might as well pick it

  528. up in verse 15. That's where he left off, right?

  529. My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he shall

  530. pluck my feet out of the net.

  531. You just talked about that, this web. Right. Yeah, that's

  532. what he calls it here. Anyway, 16.

  533. Turn yourself to me and have mercy on me, for

  534. I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart

  535. have enlarged. Bring me out of my distresses. Look upon

  536. my affliction and my pain and forgive my sins. Consider

  537. my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me

  538. with cruel hatred. Keep my soul and deliver me. Let

  539. me not be ashamed for I put my trust in you.

  540. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me for I wait for you.

  541. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all their troubles. Okay.

  542. By the way, he will do that On his great day,

  543. that's when he actually does it. So, okay. What, let me,

  544. you know, I'm a pretty good physics teacher, right, baby?

  545. I mean, when it comes to the physical sciences, I

  546. can really, really bring it home, right? So what this

  547. is talking about is like having a compass, right? And

  548. the compass, the needle, always points to magnetic north, right?

  549. Mm-hmm.

  550. And you know all your paths off that compass, don't you?

  551. When you're born again, you take the compass and throw

  552. it away and get an altimeter.

  553. What's an altimeter?

  554. It tells you what your elevation is above sea level. Okay.

  555. It tells you your elevation above the dirt. It tells

  556. you how high you are above ground level or how

  557. far below you are ground level. That's what you have

  558. to do. This is how I've taught it to children.

  559. Gave them my compass. You know I have, well, I

  560. have several in the basement. Anyway, and it really comes

  561. home when I showed my sons this. Taught them how

  562. to use it. Took them outside. Taught him how to

  563. shoot azimuth. And then I told him, okay, let's talk

  564. about something else. You have to take that compass. This

  565. is the physical world. Throw that away and get yourself

  566. an altimeter. Only an altimeter can tell you how high

  567. you are in the spirit. So when you try to

  568. teach these things to people, well, we know proof of this, right?

  569. We have exogenital proof what can happen when you do this.

  570. They can.

  571. Expel you, you know, spew you out like Jonah got

  572. spewed out of the mouth of the whale, right? But...

  573. Big fish. So it is that simple. It's that simple, people.

  574. And if you don't understand it.

  575. If you don't understand it, you need to look, you

  576. need to memorize. You need to memorize Matthew chapter 26

    Matthew 26:26–29

  577. verses 26 through 29 and Hebrews chapter 10 verses 26

    Hebrews 10:26–29

  578. through 29. You need to memorize them together, put them

  579. together and drill it into your head. You need to

  580. convince yourself that's true because until you overcome these lies,

  581. until you overcome this jealousy, But all these.

  582. Things just make it hard. It really makes it so

  583. much harder.

  584. Makes it worse.

  585. This isn't really hard.

  586. No.

  587. It's not really hard. That's why Jesus said it's not

  588. about increasing our faith. It's about whether or not we

  589. have it. We don't have to have a lot of faith.

  590. It's not about that.

  591. It's just do you have it or do you not

  592. have it? You just need it. Yes.

  593. It's like water. Look, water that has taken on one

  594. oxygen molecule, the whole water body is oxygenated. I know

  595. people can't, they can't calculate that. This is why, what happens, Rachel,

  596. if we go over there to your fish tank and

  597. unplug the water pumps or the air pumps, what happens?

  598. They die. You suffocate them. There is no, the water

  599. has no way to get oxygenated Because they don't have

  600. wave action. That's how the ocean gets oxygenated, people. If

  601. you see white caps, that's God putting the spirit in

  602. the water. But I can explain this to the cows

  603. come home. I can explain it on an astrophysical level.

  604. I can give you massive amounts of information about it.

  605. But if you don't believe it, if you've rejected it,

  606. you're You have insulted the spirit of grace. You have

  607. no hope of being born again.

  608. And you don't have, like, you don't even have to

  609. know any of those things.

  610. You can just trust God.

  611. Yes. You really, you really can just trust him.

  612. Right.

  613. People went for thousands or hundreds of years not having

  614. access to a Bible. Yeah. And they just trusted God.

  615. Oh.

  616. And God was with them.

  617. Yes, because they had picked up their cross. So they

  618. stopped living for, they put down their cross, which was

  619. a new car, which was a better job, which was

  620. a more expensive house. They threw that cross away and

  621. picked up his cross and started following him.

  622. I'm talking about before they had Bibles and cars there.

  623. I'm trying to tell these people the difference.

  624. Right.

  625. Yeah, you can stop what you're doing. You can start,

  626. you can pick up his cross and follow him and

  627. just stop lying.

  628. When you think about the people in Rome who accepted

  629. Christ and they lost everything. They lost everything.

  630. Citizenship.

  631. They lost their land. They lost citizenship. They lost their safety.

  632. Well, that was a key part of it. Once you

  633. lost your citizenship, you lost all the above.

  634. And yet they were coming to Christ in droves. They

  635. didn't have the Bible.

  636. That's right. And you realize what they were, what these

  637. Romans were, were nationalists. I'm not lying to you. I

  638. know my history. I can tell you these things in Greek, okay?

  639. They were Roman nationalists that rejected their nationality. Once they

  640. did that, they lost their citizenship to Rome and they

  641. become Christians.

  642. Okay.

  643. And fully entrusting. They gave it all up. All of it.

  644. All of it.

  645. Yes. Their sin, all of their possessions, everything.

  646. And in doing so, they gained everything. They gained the

  647. kingdom of heaven.

  648. Yep.

  649. They will now take part in the resurrection.

  650. Even the ones that were sent into the Colosseums.

  651. They're alive now. By God, they are not in Hades.

  652. They're in the third heaven. They're in paradise. No, no,

  653. they're not dead. They live now. So yeah, they went

  654. into the Colosseum.

  655. They went into the Colosseum after knowing others went into

  656. the Colosseums. They were into the Coliseum after seeing others

  657. and what happened to them in the Coliseum. They still went.

  658. They sure did. That's a historical fact. That's a fact.

  659. But.

  660. Anyway, we need to let that lie right there.

  661. Yeah, yeah.

  662. Okay?

  663. Because this is true. And if you've rejected it, there's

  664. nothing Rachel and I can do to help you.

  665. Well, there's... there's a point where it's time to let

  666. God do his job.

  667. Amen. And that's where we're at.

  668. Now it's, now it's his turn. Now it's the Holy

  669. Spirit's turn to speak to you. If he's speaking to you, listen, listen,

  670. please listen. Wow.

  671. Boy, I'm hesitant to even let anybody add to that. Anyway, um,

  672. Anything anybody wants to add to that or questions or comments?

  673. Anybody?

  674. Going once. Going twice. Third time's a charm. I mean, listen.

  675. I don't know what else to say. You have to

  676. listen to me. You have to listen to it.

  677. Right, everybody. Until next time, God bless. Godspeed.