WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:27.640 . 00:27.640 --> 00:34.320 summer. There were 52 there and you got to hear George Corralis. He's one of our 00:34.320 --> 00:38.680 boys returned. He's been all over the world. He's come home and this is the 00:38.680 --> 00:42.920 reason we have the church. Every once in a while you get to hear great preaching 00:42.920 --> 00:48.680 from a great man. And we've had the most additions this summer that 00:48.680 --> 00:53.920 the church has ever had. Though it's been a hard summer, there were some great 00:53.920 --> 00:58.840 things and school got opened up and all the labor and intensive things that went 00:58.840 --> 01:04.720 into that. And I praise God for it. It's on its way and things look as good as 01:04.720 --> 01:12.320 could be expected. We've got a full schedule of teachers and we were so 01:12.320 --> 01:18.520 thankful for that. So I would like to at this time to turn to 2 Samuel verse 11. 01:18.520 --> 01:23.720 And I just want to read something. This is an exciting sermon. I'm glad I got this 01:23.720 --> 01:30.800 time because sometimes they're awfully hard. This is a hard scripture to handle 01:30.800 --> 01:38.040 but at the same time is what we need. The title is There is a God. There is a God 01:38.040 --> 01:44.040 and he gives it and this is in that series of Luke, Katie, and Studies, the 01:44.040 --> 01:49.880 master storyteller. But he calls it thin arrogance. You know when you're up there 01:49.880 --> 01:54.640 on a mountain, the air is thin and when you're up there, you know, so pride and 01:54.640 --> 02:02.040 fill of self, love and selfishness, you're up there in that higher 02:02.040 --> 02:07.760 environment which is pretty much arrogance, thin arrogance. You see the play on 02:07.760 --> 02:14.640 words. Let's turn all of us to 2 Samuel verse 11 through 13. We won't read all 02:14.640 --> 02:19.760 of it but let's just start off for 2 Samuel chapter 11 and beginning in 02:19.800 --> 02:24.440 verse 1. We can just hold your Bible there. There'll be some other scriptures 02:24.440 --> 02:28.440 but this is the heart and soul of the sermon. You know this story. It's a sad 02:28.440 --> 02:33.000 story. If I were God, I wouldn't have put the story in there but then I'm not God 02:33.000 --> 02:37.320 and that's also part of the sermon too. None of us are God. In the spring at the 02:37.320 --> 02:42.320 time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the kings men and the 02:42.320 --> 02:47.640 whole Israel army but David remained in Jerusalem. Now that's the part that's 02:47.680 --> 02:51.120 the arrogant part. Kings were supposed to go out in the spring time and fight 02:51.120 --> 02:56.200 the battle with the Ammonites but king stayed home and messed around and didn't 02:56.200 --> 02:59.680 do what he was supposed to do and he wasn't in the place he was supposed to 02:59.680 --> 03:07.480 be. God had assigned him a project but he didn't go along with God. If you 03:07.480 --> 03:14.280 ever sometimes not gone along with God and so in verse 2 he was messing around 03:14.280 --> 03:17.720 on top of the roof top. Now that isn't where a king is supposed to be and it 03:17.720 --> 03:22.200 was toward evening time and he looked down there and guess what? From the roof 03:22.200 --> 03:26.920 he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful. Larry mentioned last 03:26.920 --> 03:31.720 week that you know you can't even get a picture of the programs that are clean 03:31.720 --> 03:36.360 or bad because they're all advertised with the same generally speaking this 03:36.360 --> 03:41.240 kind of a figure and what was that yo-yo doing on top of the deal looking down 03:41.240 --> 03:46.280 on somebody else's home and somebody else's wife and so we know that some 03:46.280 --> 03:52.520 problems came from that. I would also share with you verse 5. He gets in 03:52.520 --> 03:58.800 trouble of course and I think verse 5 we get that phrase but I am pregnant. 03:58.800 --> 04:05.960 Wasn't his wife was it? Whoops that's happened before believe you me and that 04:05.960 --> 04:10.720 is the result of sin and you know so then that's the whole story that I 04:10.760 --> 04:15.440 wouldn't want to stress no want to spend any time stressing because Uriah 04:15.440 --> 04:22.480 Bathsheba's husband is lied to because he had the privilege to come home from 04:22.480 --> 04:26.880 the wars and to come and see his bride and all and the idea was that while he 04:26.880 --> 04:30.680 was there then the king wouldn't be blamed on the little child that was 04:30.680 --> 04:36.640 coming but but the husband who had the right to have this child and so you see 04:37.320 --> 04:43.360 he had the lie to do that and you know lies just aren't good news for anybody 04:43.360 --> 04:49.680 and certainly not a godly king appointed to great works and then let's take verse 04:49.680 --> 04:55.320 13 in matter of fact he was so concerned about this and his lying and you know 04:55.320 --> 04:59.360 once you start into sin and you start telling a few lies you have to cover it 04:59.360 --> 05:02.760 with a mess of other lies don't you before long you're overwhelmed by what 05:02.800 --> 05:07.920 you have done you're not in control and lie proceeds lie and lie proceeds lie 05:07.920 --> 05:13.040 until it becomes a kind of lifestyle and that can happen to anybody and he 05:13.040 --> 05:19.040 causes Uriah to be drunken but he raises up this is a noble man and he goes 05:19.040 --> 05:24.000 back and he stays with the king to guard him and then he goes back into war and 05:24.000 --> 05:30.440 then guess what he puts Uriah in the front line to die verse 13 says this 05:30.440 --> 05:37.760 less seen so your Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and next at David's 05:37.760 --> 05:43.400 invitation he ate and drank with him and David made him drunk now then look at 05:43.400 --> 05:49.640 verse 15 put Uriah on the front line where the fighting is fierce then 05:49.640 --> 05:55.800 withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die so he adds to a cheap lie 05:55.840 --> 06:02.400 which is so easy to do a more expensive thing a commitment to murder somebody 06:02.400 --> 06:08.040 who is innocent one of God's elect warriors you see well I don't want to be 06:08.040 --> 06:13.600 like that guy but in some ways I do look at the next thing in that story when 06:13.600 --> 06:21.560 Uriah dies she becomes David's wife and bears him a son that's in verse 26 so 06:21.560 --> 06:28.040 he's gone full circle there hasn't he and the Ammonites kill the husband that 06:28.040 --> 06:33.120 takes care of that problem it's all legally done but I want you to think of 06:33.120 --> 06:37.800 the dangers of small sins just being in a place where you're not supposed to be 06:37.800 --> 06:41.920 and not doing the thing you were intended to do that basically was the 06:41.920 --> 06:48.880 arrogance of that great king God I don't care I choose to do this thing you see 06:48.920 --> 06:54.520 in verse 27 we read some of the most poignant words that you will ever read 06:54.520 --> 07:02.920 in all of the Bible and there it says verse 26 and 7 when Uriah's wife heard 07:02.920 --> 07:06.680 that her husband was dead she mourned for him and after the time of mourning was 07:06.680 --> 07:11.040 over David had her brought to his house and she became his wife and bore him a 07:11.040 --> 07:19.360 son but the thing that David did did not please the Lord now that story would 07:19.360 --> 07:23.600 certainly have made something that be highly acceptable on TV especially at 07:23.600 --> 07:29.400 children's primetime hours wouldn't it today that would make a glorious story 07:29.400 --> 07:36.560 on modern TV or film or whatever medium that the medium chooses to use that 07:36.560 --> 07:42.400 would serve it a great hearing wouldn't it would be a very popular thing but you 07:42.400 --> 07:47.240 know since it did not please the Lord there was a pathetic thing that was 07:47.240 --> 07:53.600 involved because some awful things are going to register on that awful things 07:53.600 --> 08:00.320 will be a result of it and then in second Samuel 12 19 just go over just the 08:00.320 --> 08:09.800 next chapter read verse 19 it says this is the child dead yes he is dead and so 08:09.800 --> 08:16.080 some innocent child suffers because of what this thoughtless king did at this 08:16.080 --> 08:22.160 moment you know a precious baby is taken away and you know that it certainly 08:22.160 --> 08:27.920 fit in with today's world wouldn't it 4500 innocent little babies were 08:27.920 --> 08:35.040 aborted this day and the next day and the day after that and what a pathetic 08:35.680 --> 08:43.000 spell that casts over this society today that that is an acceptable way of life 08:43.000 --> 08:48.000 for us to do things so we'd have been right in with the oh good King David's 08:48.000 --> 08:52.600 time wouldn't we how sad that is and you can see the effect of sin that's 08:52.600 --> 08:59.320 involved here Roman 623 says for the wages of sin is death but the gift of 08:59.320 --> 09:05.000 God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord and you know even grace the 09:05.000 --> 09:10.840 magnificent grace that God designed and Jesus prayed the price for even that is 09:10.840 --> 09:19.120 not adequate grace cannot cover everything the effect of sin is even 09:19.120 --> 09:27.800 difficult to bury in the grandness of God's gift of grace what a sad society 09:27.800 --> 09:36.840 that we must not underestimate the effect of sin in people's life I've been an 09:36.840 --> 09:43.920 elder just to see in another month I will have been an elder for 50 solid years 09:44.000 --> 09:50.040 and never been excused from it ever been absent from it there are sometimes I 09:50.040 --> 09:56.000 would like to forget a lot of the things that I got to know about people there 09:56.000 --> 10:00.240 are sometimes I'd want to scream and cry if it weren't for grace if it weren't 10:00.240 --> 10:06.160 for Jesus Christ because we get ourselves in such abundant messes and 10:06.160 --> 10:10.800 sometimes against all common sense and against our own health and against our 10:10.840 --> 10:15.520 own happiness and against our own peace of mind but we to continue sometimes in 10:15.520 --> 10:19.520 that way don't we I was just thinking all these things that were involved there 10:19.520 --> 10:24.280 and that great man's life was adultery well that's so common there's a group 10:24.280 --> 10:32.800 in town that was going to have an AA alcoholics but adultery 10:32.800 --> 10:38.680 anomalous they couldn't find a place big enough for the crowd and murder 10:38.880 --> 10:47.800 murders manifest 4500 babies I know that possibly in the church that even such a 10:47.800 --> 10:54.360 thing as abortion has been used as a birth control method I hope not I pray 10:54.360 --> 10:59.440 not or your peace of mind won't be as what it ought to be and lying I've heard 10:59.440 --> 11:03.000 of a time or two somebody in the church lied have you ever heard of that it's 11:03.040 --> 11:08.800 conceivable and drunkenness well that bothers a lot of people doesn't it and 11:08.800 --> 11:13.240 it's a kind of sign of the times of the day isn't it and it hurts us so badly 11:13.240 --> 11:17.880 see and I don't think though we have grace and all those things can be 11:17.880 --> 11:23.240 covered you will ever quite forget those things you talk about breaking that 11:23.240 --> 11:28.560 tender relationship between a man and woman in the form of godly marriage 11:29.440 --> 11:35.080 you'll never quite forget some of those things and I may say with impunity 11:35.080 --> 11:41.960 that sin leaves a stamp on all of us in spite of grace in spite of forgiveness 11:41.960 --> 11:46.440 there are just some things that we will have to live with because there are some 11:46.440 --> 11:53.480 consequences in this veil of tears in our actions and in our performance in 11:53.480 --> 12:05.800 life Saturday morning we had a great discourse by Mike and Mike where did he 12:05.800 --> 12:10.520 go I wanted him to hear this it was great you passed that on would you dear 12:10.520 --> 12:17.920 lady he had a thing that was called or he pulled up that we studied and men's 12:18.280 --> 12:24.960 prayer group man is going to town y'all his title was there is a God and you are 12:24.960 --> 12:32.800 not him and this was by Matthew slick and Mike used this to great advantage you 12:32.800 --> 12:38.560 know Cato called it thin arrogance when you ignore God your way up in that rare 12:38.560 --> 12:44.240 atmosphere see where it's difficult to live and difficult to breathe and really 12:44.600 --> 12:50.080 arrogance is a self-will nature isn't it it is the opposite of me 12:50.080 --> 12:56.280 he wasn't where he belonged this great king nor doing what he was supposed to 12:56.280 --> 12:59.760 do now have you ever been accused of that have you ever been where you 12:59.760 --> 13:04.960 shouldn't belong or you haven't done what you were supposed to do certainly the 13:04.960 --> 13:08.960 latter part of that I imagine every one of us has practiced almost from week to 13:08.960 --> 13:13.360 week you know you know you should have done it I've mentioned many times that I 13:13.440 --> 13:19.000 just I'm not happy sometimes when I know I should be doing something and I 13:19.000 --> 13:25.960 don't do it it drives me wild why do I sometimes get in that mode I don't know 13:25.960 --> 13:31.080 I'm just a sissy sometimes there are sometimes the weather so far I don't 13:31.080 --> 13:35.840 want to get up and drive 27 miles into town and and talk to somebody who 13:35.840 --> 13:40.880 doesn't want to be talked to you know I'm just a weak man pussycat if you will 13:40.920 --> 13:47.680 sometimes I I just don't want to do it and that you probably have had little 13:47.680 --> 13:52.280 assignments that maybe God laid on your conscience that you didn't want to do and 13:52.280 --> 13:56.920 I pray that it isn't very often because that's not a happy life is it not really 13:56.920 --> 14:05.360 at all and so Jesus said in Matthew 5 5 blessed are the meek for what blessed 14:05.360 --> 14:10.720 are the meek for they will inherit the earth one be great one own great 14:10.720 --> 14:16.000 possessions a great house and massive lands and wealth unknown then you will 14:16.000 --> 14:21.720 inherit the earth someday if you are turned over to God a meek person and 14:21.720 --> 14:27.480 mild you know the kids at camp are such a joy we had a great camp again that was 14:27.480 --> 14:33.800 just another blessing of the summer I always try to get the kids to loosen up 14:33.800 --> 14:39.040 a little bit because kids need to loosen up a little bit and so we imitate a 14:39.040 --> 14:44.680 snooty person now if you want to if you had a kid go to camp maybe you could have 14:44.680 --> 14:51.440 them show what a snooty person is like you know and they'll go or stiff neck 14:51.440 --> 14:57.360 people you know they'll imitate that and they'll find they'll begin to giggle a 14:57.360 --> 15:02.200 little bit and realize have you ever been around a snooty person who really is 15:02.200 --> 15:08.400 haughty who really are looking down on others I thought it would be fun to do 15:08.440 --> 15:15.360 something else here that's in Isaiah 3 16 to 20 this is cool you ought to put 15:15.360 --> 15:27.480 that Isaiah 3 down verse 16 3 to 16 and matter of fact I would have loved it if 15:27.480 --> 15:33.480 you would go home and read chapter 3 of Isaiah because it sure talks about this 15:33.520 --> 15:38.680 arrogance and self-willed in relationship to God now well we picked on the men 15:38.680 --> 15:42.680 let's picked on King David how about let's pick on the ladies for just a 15:42.680 --> 15:46.400 little bit they you know this group around here wouldn't understand all 15:46.400 --> 15:50.760 this stuff but there are a lot of churches that would believe you me a lot 15:50.760 --> 15:57.000 of ladies who would Isaiah chapter 3 verse 16 and it says this the Lord says 15:57.000 --> 16:02.600 the women of Zion are haughty walking along without stretch necks flirting 16:02.600 --> 16:05.840 with their eyes winking winking winking winking tripping along with mincing 16:05.840 --> 16:12.120 steps and tripping along with mincing steps with ornaments jingling on their 16:12.120 --> 16:16.120 ankles therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of 16:16.120 --> 16:20.240 Zion and the Lord will make their scalps ball in that day the Lord will snatch 16:20.240 --> 16:24.040 away their finery the bangles and the headbangs and crescent necklaces and 16:24.040 --> 16:29.720 earrings and bracelets and veils the headdresses and ankle chains and sashes 16:29.720 --> 16:34.440 and the perfume bottles and charms the signal rignets and nose rings the fine 16:34.440 --> 16:38.200 robes and the capes and cloaks the purses and mirrors and the linen garments 16:38.200 --> 16:42.320 and tears and shawls well at least they had on more stuff than the women do 16:42.320 --> 16:47.840 today didn't they and he says guess what instead of fragments there will be a 16:47.840 --> 16:52.560 stench instead of a sash a rope instead of well-dressed hair baldness instead of 16:52.560 --> 16:57.160 fine clothing sackcloth instead of beauty there will be a branding so you 16:57.160 --> 17:02.200 know Acton snooty is not a pleasant thing in God's eye be careful then how 17:02.200 --> 17:08.800 you act see and being having all that bangles and stuff read that in King 17:08.800 --> 17:13.600 James you'll really laugh because they use things like wallops and trusses and 17:13.600 --> 17:18.560 a different vocabulary than girdles and stuff like we do today see for ladies 17:18.560 --> 17:25.480 anyway I think that that would be good and if you want to turn over the page in 17:25.480 --> 17:35.320 that same chapter just back one verse 12 you suppress my people women rule over 17:35.320 --> 17:40.160 them all my people your guides lead you astray they turn you from the path and 17:40.160 --> 17:49.520 then just across in chapter 4 look over to number 20 yes number 20 woe to those 17:49.520 --> 17:54.320 who call evil good and good evil and put darkness for light and light for 17:54.320 --> 17:59.200 darkness and then look it down at 22 what a time this was woe to those who 17:59.200 --> 18:05.320 are heroes at drinking wine we have our heroes you know you go to a party and 18:05.320 --> 18:08.920 that guy that can drink more wine anybody else is just really flaunting his 18:08.920 --> 18:15.160 stuff isn't he he's a champion at mixing drinks what a way there are some 18:15.160 --> 18:19.640 folks who would qualify for senior championships and this veil of tears 18:19.640 --> 18:24.920 wouldn't there well so be it that's not the way we want to be and I think that 18:24.920 --> 18:30.040 there's a better way you know Proverbs 16 18 says prized goes before 18:30.040 --> 18:37.000 destruction or old King James as a fall and a haughty spirit before a fall a 18:37.000 --> 18:45.440 haughty spirits a stiff neck like that king that would ignore the advice of God 18:45.480 --> 18:53.760 judges 5 5 23 says Kershji Mara's Mara's was a minor tribe Kershji Mara's of 18:53.760 --> 18:59.480 Judah Jerusalem Kershji Mara's and Dee Dee says the second time Kershji Mara's 18:59.480 --> 19:04.120 bitterly for they came not to the help of the Lord against the battle against 19:04.120 --> 19:09.960 the mighty they didn't come to help curse them you see they heard the noise of 19:09.960 --> 19:15.320 battle and decided maybe it was just a camp thing or maybe it was just someone 19:15.360 --> 19:19.280 whoopin it up it wasn't a battle to the life and death this is a battle to the 19:19.280 --> 19:23.560 life and death this is a holy jihad that we have before us this day believe me 19:23.560 --> 19:29.880 with all of your heart and I think that judges 5 23 is just a picture of not 19:29.880 --> 19:34.760 only the Canaanites but of us in our present world we will be cursed when we 19:34.760 --> 19:41.840 do not rise to the occasion to fight the enemies of God Almighty and then first 19:41.920 --> 19:48.800 Peter 5 6 says God opposes the proud but he gives grace to the humble grace does 19:48.800 --> 19:53.560 come to those who bow their neck to the will of God and I pray that every day 19:53.840 --> 19:57.960 you bow your neck and bow your head to the will of God and not be selfish 19:58.520 --> 20:04.240 remember it all started with a simple thing of a kind of a natural impudge to 20:04.240 --> 20:09.320 look at a beautiful women break bathing seems like such an innocuous and 20:09.320 --> 20:14.920 harmless thing by today's standards and yet it all began with man's self will 20:14.920 --> 20:20.000 didn't it and it hurt God and lastly I would like to say this it is the 20:20.000 --> 20:29.480 importance of a godly man and the value of a godly family because God said I'm 20:29.480 --> 20:35.160 not going to kill you but I will cause you to suffer by the very thing that 20:35.160 --> 20:41.160 you abused your family and it does come true he really does the value of a 20:42.040 --> 20:52.320 godly family you all Casper's a reasonably conservative town reasonably so if 20:52.320 --> 20:58.360 you've been to other places in the world is wild than this by a thousand fold and 20:58.360 --> 21:04.360 you know California is the heart of a way of life that many of us still don't 21:04.400 --> 21:11.720 recognize is even in the world or even in America today but it is there and we 21:11.720 --> 21:17.440 have to be aware of it and the importance of being a godly man is more 21:17.440 --> 21:22.440 important now I believe that at any time on the face of the earth because the 21:22.440 --> 21:29.640 heart and soul of a godly family is a stalwart spiritual warrior of God the 21:29.640 --> 21:36.760 man of the house he is the priest for his wife and his babies his grandbabies 21:36.760 --> 21:43.080 his great-grandchildren and there is room for stalwart warriors to come 21:43.080 --> 21:48.560 forward and to speak out those of you who do not have a great spiritual warrior 21:48.560 --> 21:54.000 in your household you must stand the gap but God designed that two would work 21:54.040 --> 21:59.520 together to profit better in the household of faith and for eternal life 21:59.520 --> 22:05.960 and for the things that lead us to Jesus Christ we need a stalwart warrior again 22:05.960 --> 22:15.040 come to the call be the man play the man and look after your family you know a 22:15.040 --> 22:20.800 godly family as far as I'm concerned could be the one thing you know in the 22:20.800 --> 22:26.120 admonition and the teaching of the church I think is the one thing that 22:26.120 --> 22:32.320 could save America I don't believe that better bombs better gun sights better 22:32.320 --> 22:36.400 chemistry through poisoning and what have you I don't think all those things 22:36.400 --> 22:41.440 gonna save the world but I do believe that the inspiration of godly men and 22:41.440 --> 22:47.720 women a godly church a church is too tough to care a church that keeps 22:47.720 --> 22:52.320 sending out its babies keep sending out its people keep sending out its boys 22:52.320 --> 22:58.320 and girls and that was the beautiful part if you concern me of seeing and 22:58.320 --> 23:04.760 hearing George talk again he's one of our boys that's come home from far off 23:04.760 --> 23:09.680 far off around the world there's just nothing he hasn't done especially Russia 23:09.680 --> 23:14.880 what a difficult place and what a powerful witness he was he makes me feel 23:14.880 --> 23:19.040 like I'm an inadequate man and therefore I try to stick my chest out and 23:19.040 --> 23:23.360 work harder and do more and when your kids come home and they've outdone you 23:23.360 --> 23:28.760 that's a reason to keep trying harder isn't it well the psalm of David number 23:28.760 --> 23:33.200 101 and I would pray that when you get home maybe you would read Psalm 101 all 23:33.200 --> 23:40.040 of it but I just want to read one verse and it says this I will walk in my house 23:40.040 --> 23:46.680 with a blameless heart now remember this is the same guy that started off with 23:46.680 --> 23:52.200 that self-willed problem of his with Bathsheba he this is why God tolerates 23:52.200 --> 24:00.800 it he comes back to God this is why God keeps using this man because he changes 24:00.800 --> 24:05.360 and he comes back and he finally listens he finally it gets through it's like a 24:05.400 --> 24:09.480 hearing aid that one in a while the batteries turn on and then it will they'll 24:09.480 --> 24:17.120 say dumb bunny change me that just happens he kept coming back to God kept 24:17.120 --> 24:23.040 coming back to God I will walk in my house with a blameless heart I will set 24:23.040 --> 24:29.640 before my eyes no wicked thing that's what King Jamie says and then the NIV 24:29.640 --> 24:39.560 says I will set before my eyes no vile thing so now you can see that beautiful 24:39.560 --> 24:47.640 figure of an unclothed woman becomes in God's eyesight vile wicked you see and 24:47.640 --> 24:52.400 it can be can it it was designed in God's nature to be a beautiful thing and 24:52.400 --> 24:56.720 was part of the process of we were reproducing the earth and it's God's 24:56.760 --> 25:03.080 great wisdom but it also can be used by another God the God of this world and he 25:03.080 --> 25:09.760 uses it to great advantage doesn't he well the heart of a godly family is a 25:09.760 --> 25:15.800 family man is a godly man and what thrills me is the number of godly men 25:15.800 --> 25:19.800 that we have in the church and the number of godly women because it is 25:19.800 --> 25:26.360 manifested in your children and your grandchildren 2nd Samuel 12 11 here was 25:26.400 --> 25:31.840 the punishment out of your own household I'm going to bring calamity upon you 25:31.840 --> 25:37.760 and oh well I made a little list of sins that this man's immediate family brought 25:37.760 --> 25:45.480 to their daddy the king and here's what they were incest rape murder conspiracy 25:45.480 --> 25:52.840 to throw the king out of his job and truly God does oppose the proud doesn't 25:53.120 --> 25:58.840 James 4 6 God opposes the proud but he gives grace to the umbil you notice how 25:58.840 --> 26:05.080 awful how often the beatitudes reflect much of the 10 commandments and then 26:05.080 --> 26:11.360 the teachings of Jesus Christ as well first Peter 3 15 says this first Peter 26:11.360 --> 26:23.440 chapter 3 15 and beginning oh let's take verse 15 but in your heart set apart 26:23.440 --> 26:29.000 Christ as Lord always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asked you 26:29.000 --> 26:34.680 to give the reason for the hope that you have but do this with gentleness and 26:34.680 --> 26:40.760 respect I think that's one reason why some people win so many others they can 26:40.800 --> 26:45.200 talk about things people don't know about without hurting them without 26:45.200 --> 26:50.920 upsetting them without appearing superior in the things they do but do you 26:50.920 --> 26:58.120 notice that he says you are to be a testimony to me he says verse 18 for 26:58.120 --> 27:04.360 Christ died for sins once for all the righteous for the unrighteous to bring 27:04.360 --> 27:09.800 you to God he was put to death in the body but he was made alive by the 27:09.800 --> 27:13.640 spirit through whom also he went and preached to the spirits that are in 27:13.640 --> 27:19.360 prison who disobeyed him long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah 27:19.360 --> 27:25.880 while the ark was being built in it only a few people eight and all were saved 27:25.880 --> 27:33.320 through water you know mama and papa Noah and shim him and japheth and their 27:33.320 --> 27:40.240 wise six and two is eight eight and they were saved in only a few people eight 27:40.240 --> 27:45.040 and all were saved through water and this water symbolizes baptism that now 27:45.040 --> 27:49.760 saves you of not the pudding of the way the filth of the flesh but the 27:49.760 --> 27:54.280 interrogation of their answer of a good conscious toward God through Jesus Christ 27:54.280 --> 28:00.960 and my lands it saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ who in the 28:00.960 --> 28:06.280 last verse 22 has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand with angels 28:06.280 --> 28:13.280 authorities and powers evens in submission to him he has all authority he 28:13.280 --> 28:19.680 was our redeemer he came to save us you know what you belong in the ark with 28:19.680 --> 28:26.920 him you belong in the ark with him you belong in that place where you know 28:26.920 --> 28:29.720 you're where you're supposed to be and you know what you're supposed to be 28:29.760 --> 28:35.000 doing and that's the king to move God to work in God's household let's stand as 28:35.000 --> 28:40.520 we sing our hymn of invitation this is a hard sermon to preach it's not a pretty 28:40.520 --> 28:47.160 sermon it was a difficult one for me but it is all about the life that we lead 28:47.160 --> 28:53.800 and so if you have a decision to make now is that acceptable time behold now is 28:53.800 --> 28:59.520 the day cleanse me number 438 29:23.800 --> 29:25.860 you