 Good morning everyone. I hope you all are doing well. Someone asked me why do I spend so much time talking about salvation? Why do I spend so much time talking about maybe one saved always saved eternal security? Why do I spend so much time talking about one thing more than others? Well, here's why because that's the whole point of the Bible. The whole point of the Bible is salvation. The whole purpose of Jesus is salvation. I don't know if you guys realize this, but that actually literally is the title that he carries, whether it's Yeshua, whether it's in Greek Jesus, whether it is how we say it, Joshua or Jesus. His title literally is the Lord who saves or the Lord saves. And so for that reason, yeah, I'm going to talk about that a lot. That is going to be the overwhelming majority of what I talk about. As a matter of fact, when you go throughout the channel, just peruse the channel and go to the part where it's got all the videos and just kind of peruse it. And you'll see a whole lot talking about salvation. Now, you'll see some goofy stuff in there. You know, people, this guy's having somebody go down to eat grass or this person is saying something that's false over here, or we'll talk about tons or we'll talk about baptism. We'll talk about a lot of different things, but the overwhelming majority of the dominant topic is going to be salvation. And who is salvation found in? Well, none other than Jesus Christ. And so the whole point of this is to talk about the true story of Jesus. I don't think people realize this, but he's all throughout the scriptures. Okay. Now, by the way, before I get going, before I get carried away here, I'm taking questions as we're going. We may even depend upon how quickly we go. May even have a Q and A at the end. But I'm taking questions as we go. The questions are going to be for or geared towards this about Jesus. You'll see where I'm going. And so kind of make sure the questions are kind of in line. In other words, let's not be over here in Genesis and you're asking questions about infant baptism, right? Don't do that. So let's kind of keep it on topic, but I'm excited about this. This is by, you can wake me up at three in the morning and ask me about this topic. And I'm going to pop up. If I'm in the middle of a workout, you can say, Hey, what does this mean? Talk about, I'm gonna stop. This just gets me going. Because this is the main thing. Sometimes guys, we forget about what the main thing is. The main thing isn't always the doctrinal things. Doctrine is important without question. It is, it is important. But it makes no difference. Doesn't good to know all the things about doctrine and theology, how all the eyes are dotted and teeth are crossed. And you don't know Jesus within your loss. You know about how the book is put together, but there's no love in your heart because he doesn't reside in your heart. There's an issue there. And so that's the main thing. And that should be borne out even how we communicate to each other, the way that he communicates to us, how he is long suffering towards us, patient towards us. We should be the same way. Some folks say, Hey, why don't you go at this guy this way? Whatever. Well, because I'm so thankful that God didn't go at me that way, because he is trying to reconcile my life to him. The whole point of the atonement, we're going to talk about that, is at the very end, there should be this reconciliation. So that's how it ought to be with us, one to another. And he alludes to that in the very beginning, when he said, Let us make man in our image according to our likeness, the way we are. And we talked about this before in the Bible said about that, that relates to form and function. And the function portion is that we are together, that we are unified. That's why it says here it is, the Lord our God is one Eckhart in unity, we are one together. And so the way that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is, that's the way we're supposed to be. And the only way to do that is if I make sure that you know the same Jesus that I know, are y'all with me. And so I get pumped up and excited about that. Now, before I go, someone asked me, I've been seeing the other messages, what does red lives matter mean? Well, red lives matter is not like black lives matter, not like blue lives matter, all lives matter. No, these are the only lives that matter. In the end, in the end, when you go before the Lord, there's going to be one thing, one criteria that you're going to be judged by, the blood. That's it. The blood. If you have not been stained, covered, baptized, dipped in, rolled around in the blood, you're going to a place where you don't want to go. And so red lives are the only lives that really matter ultimately in the grand scheme of things. And so we want to get more people on our team. Amen. So that's why. Anyway, I want to go ahead and get started again. If you've got questions, if you've got questions as we're going, try to keep one topic, keep one task, put a big cue or question in front of it. So I'll know if I haven't gotten to the question. Guys, in one day, one day I'm going to do, I'm going to put the camera over here so you guys can see what's happening on this end so you can see what I see. Because I've gotten emails, hey, you didn't answer my question, you didn't this, you didn't that. And if you see how fast sometimes the questions go through here, it's hard. Plus, I got other things that I've got to kind of keep myself governed by. So keep asking the questions if it's an important question, if it's really that important. And sometimes what happens is sometimes a moderator will see it and also, you know, I pay attention more than anything else to the moderators. So that being said, so if the moderators feel like it's an important question, they'll alert me as well. So anyway, that being said, I want to go ahead and turn to the scriptures. But y'all do know that the entire book, the entire book is about Jesus. Now, if you hadn't figured this out, if you hadn't figured this out, Maesh, the way you get a shirt, we won't do them just yet. It's going to be a while. It's going to be maybe a week or two before once the website gets up. And the proceeds for the shirt go towards sending Bible and studying, Bible and studying material into prisoners. That's what the process is going to go for. So I just want to let you all know it's not a source of income for me, or for the channel, or for the ministry. It is to go into getting Bibles and studying materials into prisoners because they don't get very much. So anyway, I'll let you know in the future. But I wanted to go ahead and bring them out. There's some more to come. I'm not going to wear the pink ones. There are some for the ladies and their different designs. You all have seen the little B Smart. There's more to it than just the B Smart. There's B Wise. And there's a scripture that goes with it. There's B Cute, by the way. And there's a scripture that goes towards looking our best. There's a lot of different ones that we have. And so I'll have those out for you guys to see. But anyway, that being said, all throughout the scriptures, it's about Jesus. It's about him. Right? Now, you don't have to look too far to see that we are some rotten people. We do things. Pick the bad route. We'll take it. If there's a right way to do it and the wrong way to do it, we'll choose the wrong way. You can point us towards the right way and we'll back into the wrong way. That's just kind of how we are. Look at your little kids. Look at a two-year-old. Look at a three-year-old. You tell them, don't do something. I use example. Don't eat the cookies. Leave the room. Come back. The bag of cookies torn open. Cookie crumbs all over the little two-year-old's face, all over the ground in front of them. You ask them, did you eat the cookie? Did you disobey me? And what are they going to say? No. Evidence all over their face. Why? Did they have to go to school to learn how to lie or how to disobey? How to be deceptive? No. No. It's just, it's just who we are. Right? Little kids are bad. Just like big kids like us are bad. And it takes a good guy to come in us and that's what God is trying to do throughout this entire episode throughout the pages of the Bible. And so, matter of fact, let me go ahead and put it on screen. I think it's, I think it's this one right here. Yeah, there it is. So in John 546, Jesus says, for if you believe Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. Well, wait a second. That doesn't, that's kind of odd. How in the world could you have, could he have wrote about you or even thought about you, but he didn't know about you? Well, we're going to find out again, again, the name Jesus is the title of who he is. It signifies who and what he is and who and what he is did not just occur, did not just show up on the scene at his earthly incarnation being birthed through Mary. No, no, he existed before. We're going to see that he is the Son of Man and what that means and that he is ancient days. We may not even get to the point of Son of Man, but that's one of the most popular phrases for him to call himself. And that's found in Daniel and that speaks of his deity as well. So then we talk about how if there are other passages such as Matthew 13, 17, let's see. Starting 16, blessed are your eyes, Jesus says, for they see and your ears for they hear. Now he's speaking about how good it is for you guys to see and hear me, not me, but Jesus. And Jesus says to them, for truly I say to you, many prophets and righteous people long to see what you see and did not see it and to hear what you hear and did not hear it. Well, what's he talking about? What he's talking about is before the cross, before this new covenant that he makes with Israel, before things that have been set in place, before this current state that we're in, this state of grace, they were looking to Jesus. They were looking for salvation then. Now the name that they use wasn't necessarily Jesus, but they were looking to be delivered from their sin, from their plight, from their eternal destination. They were looking for that. And so you've got the Abraham's of the world. You've got the Moses's of the world. You've got the Isis. You've got these Old Testament prophecies, righteous people. How are they righteous? They were in right standing because of, because of the atonement. We're going to talk about that because the problem that we have guys, you all know that when sin entered the world, there was a sharp divide, a divide between man and God, right? And so there's always been God trying to reconcile man to him and he would do it through these different offerings, but they're never adequate enough. Now it was though that if you performed the way he wanted you to, then you would be in right standing. But what's the problem with us? We're not going, we're not consistent. We can do right for one moment and then the next minute we're not, right? And so therein lies a problem. Therein lies the issue. Houston, we got a problem. And so what God wants to do is to come and to save us. The need for a savior, the need for salvation necessarily means that we can't do it ourselves. And so what he's going to do is he is going to sin salvation, but guess what? Guess what? Let me ask you guys a question. Brother Conrad, I see you. If your child, I don't know if you have any children, but if your child was in need or Joan or any of you other guys, Christopher, whoever, if your child was in need, would you rather go see about and save your child if you could yourself or send someone else? Which would you rather do? Four daughters. I hear you, brother. Which would you rather do? Lisa, would you rather go see about your child yourself or send somebody? My issue says myself. I'm going to see, you know why I'm going myself? Congress, I'm going myself, me. You know why? First of all, they're mine. I love them. I love them more than anybody else who I could see and would love them. So I'm going. Guess who does the same thing? Guess who does the same thing? Good old God. Good old God. He is going to see about us himself, right? He's going to take care of it. I'm not, what do they say? How do we say it? If you want anything done right, you got to do it yourself. And so guess what God does? He does just that. Let me, let's, let's talk about some, and we covered sometimes where God has shown up on the scene. We call these, these Christophanes or these theophanes. These are these appearances of deity in human form and flesh, right? We're not going to hammer out the whole issue about God's or about Jesus's. Yeah, we are. I'll take it back. We're not going to get into a deep discussion about the Trinity. Okay. If you've got an issue, if you don't, if you're not a vibing with the Trinity, okay, fine. You know what? Another day, another time. Right now, today, we believe in the Trinity. Right now, today, we believe that Jesus is God. We believe that God took on flesh and came to pay a price for us. We believe that while God took on flesh and humbled himself and came in the form of a man, that his, that his fullness is still in heaven, governing everything and that his spirit of buys all over the earth. That's what we believe. And we believe not in three gods, but that God, the father, God, the son, God, the, God, the Holy Spirit, as Moses says, all of them are one. Hero is with the Lord, our God plural they use is that God is one. So that's what we believe. You don't, if you don't believe that amen to you, we're going to pray for you. We'll work to get you right. But if you don't believe that, you ain't right right now, but that's okay though. Follow what we're saying and see if you can see the beauty in this. Because we've got a God who says, no, don't work to get yourself right. And I'm not going to send anybody else to get you right. I'm going to die for you. Unlike every other religion. I think that that that's just so cool that I ain't got to go do the heavy lifting because I can't. I can't. I have a hard enough time managing my own affairs, but now I got God to come in and step in. So we've seen in Genesis 18, for example, God show up. God shows up on the scene and he appears and says verse one of 18 and the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of memory. So here we've got the Lord God speaking to or coming before Abraham. Now we talked about this before. We talked about who the angel of the Lord is. The angel of the Lord is the Lord. The Lord is God and God is I am. So I use this basic math equation. If the A equals B and B equals C, then obviously C equals A and A equals C, right? And so if Jesus is the Lord, if the angel of the Lord is the Lord and Jesus is the Lord and the Lord is God and God is I am and Jesus is also the I am. It doesn't take a real big math brain to figure this out and to see how much love He has for us. So by the way, I don't know if you guys can tell how excited I am. I'm really working off love. Let's see. Probably in the last three days, nine hours of sleep. I'm not exaggerating. Nine hours of sleep almost losing my voice. There's some stuff that I do that don't even make the camera that I want to say some things, but I can't say some things would have you. And so, but I'm fired up. I really am. Let me talk about some more about this awesome, good, awesome, wonderful, awesome, great, awesome God here in Micah 5. Look what he says. But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathat, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth from me. Look what he says. One who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from old, from ancient of days. Somebody verse may say ancient of days, from ancient of days. You know what that means? You know what that means? That means he's old, but he's older than old. He's before old was, he's before time was. And that's who the ruler of Israel is coming out. He's speaking to Israel. We're going to find out that he ain't just dealing with just Israel. He's got a plan for Israel. He's got a plan for not Israel. In other words, he's got a plan for me. He's got a plan for Darrell. He's got a plan for Christina. He's got a plan for Lisa. He's got a plan for a chess chat. He's got a plan for dining. He's got a plan for all of us. Now, all of our plans aren't necessarily the same, but guess what? They all converge on the cross and we end up in heaven. That's what he does. Now, two things got me fired up. Two things. No, three things really, three things. One, this coffee in my official co-sponsored mug. That's got me pumped up a little bit. The spirit's got to be going. I keep telling y'all, this gets, this does something to me. And I'm not, I don't, I'm not mad or anything like that. I don't, I don't, if you disagree, you disagree. Hey, you know. And another thing is that after about three, four, five o'clock, I'm going to get some rest. And I'm, I have never looked forward to resting like I am today. So I don't know why I'm so pumped up. You ever been so tired you couldn't go to sleep? I was, I was so tired the last few days, I couldn't go to sleep. And so now I'm looking for, I'm going to take, I'm going to take some night quills, some, some unisam and, and, and play some, some soft music and sleep. That's what I'm going to do. So anyway. So a word from our sponsors right there. So he's speaking of who's coming. I cannot go over all of the scriptures of the Old Testament that talk about him coming. Can't do it. Don't have enough time to do it. Right. But let me, let me throw a few more out here. As a matter of fact, I have this so small, you can't see it. Let me go to Zachariah 99 says, rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold your King is coming to you. Righteous and having salvation is what? Righteous and having salvation is he. Righteous and having salvation is he. Humble and mounted on a donkey on a cult. Wait, whoa, wait. Did that say on a cult? On a, did that verse just say on a cult? Wait a second. A quick word from our sponsors again. That did say on a cult. I just, I didn't know if y'all, if y'all coughed that didn't say on the cowboys. No, not with the giants. No eagles done it with the, anyway, I'm gone. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But he keeps talking about, I'm sorry, just, but he keeps talking about no patrons there. There are no patrons in the Bible, by the way, but he keeps talking about what he's going to do. Can I say something real quick before I, before I get to where I'm going? And we're going to talk about this on next week. No cowboys don't ride coats. No, they don't. Sorry, Derek, but we keep talking about, about Jesus and how he's coming. And I want to kind of make this, make this seem right, make this fit. How many of you all would say, just put a one in the comment section, if you think that you are either a strong Christian or you want to be a strong Christian, put a one in the comments. If you are a, or you put yes, if you are a strong Christian or want to be a strong Christian, I just want to know. Now you can put a no or two if you're not and don't want to be one. Okay. But I just want to know if you either are or want to be a strong Christian. I just, I want to, I want to see, because maybe, maybe it's just me. And I think, I think we're going to find out something here, something that we miss a whole lot as, as, as, as believers we, we do. Cause we're so jet. There's a lot of ones, one and want to be a man. There's something that we're missing. Now I can do this all day long. It's going to be nothing but ones, nothing but ones, nothing but ones. What does that mean? What does that mean to be, you know, like, I like that, Nathan said, one times one. What does that mean to be a strong Christian? How is that shown? Let's say I got a problem with somebody who I, who I, who I love. I'm a Christian and I believe this person is not acting like a Christian. A strong Christian means I need to be forceful, right? You go get it right. No, that ain't it. What we're going to find out is that you can be strong and humility is born through your strength. How do I know? Well, here we've got God who has taken on flesh, who has decided to come and save us. And how did he do it? He didn't come with a sword. He didn't come with an army. He didn't come with flaming arrows. He could, you know what he could have done? This is me because you ever try to do the lazier route, the easy way. Why, why, why do things the hard way when you can do it the easy way? Well, what's the easy way? Lord, cast down fire and burn up everybody that don't love you. That, that's what I would do. I would do, but now again, I'm not, I'm not God. Thank, thank God that I'm not God. Thank God that you're not God. Because if we were God, we'd be horrible gods, right? So I would just, even Peter and John, what do they do? They go to Samaria and, and, and they, they were rejected and they said, Lord, shall we catch, shall we call down fire? No. If it were me, if I were Jesus, no, you idiot. No, these are the people that you're going to go to, right? So nobody's going to cast down fire. We're going to fill them. If we say in church, the God of Christ way, fill them with the Holy Ghost and fire with a mighty desire. But anyway, so no, there's a better way. And in this way, God is going to show his love. God is going to, God is able to, unlike us to simultaneously demonstrate his justice, his righteousness at the same time show his love, right? So let me put this on the screen for you guys. Here. So look what he says at Psalms 22, 16, for dogs encompass me. A company of evil doers encircles me. Now let's stop for a second there. Let's stop for a second. Let's stop for a second. We're talking about the God of the universe. And he says dogs have encompassed me. A company of evil doers. What could Jesus easily do with these dogs with these evil doers? What could he do? Shoot, get kick rocks. Go on and get. I had a buddy of mine, they would tell his other buddy, they were just good friends and he would always tell two guys. And when one of the guys are embarrassed, he said, go on, get your purse, get in truck. Tell the dogs, go on, get your purse, get in truck. Get it. That's what he could do, but he doesn't. Let's get back to it. He says, they have pierced my hands and my feet. Obviously, we're speaking about Jesus. They have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all of my bones. They stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and for my clothings, they cast lots. Now I'll leave it right there. I won't keep reading. How many of you all, if you found yourself in that state and that predicament would have responded the way Jesus did? Would you have stayed on the cross? No, not me. Matter of fact, I'm not getting on the cross. If it were me and you point me to the cross, I'm going to take the cross and beat you with the cross. That's me. Again, thank God, I'm not God. So he comes in this humble fashion and it's not like he doesn't know what to expect. The prophecies are there telling us what he is going to expect. We're going to find out a little bit why he's going to expect that, but let's go back to it. In Isaiah 53, he says, he was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And as one from whom men hid or hid their faces, he was despised and esteemed not. Let me keep reading. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted, but he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities upon the chastisement that brought us peace and with his wounds we are healed. This is one of those moments where I should have went KJV because I actually do like how I learned it, wounded for our transgressions. I like the KJV version, the New King James Version better, but either way, the point is the prophecy is clear of what he's going to face and he faced it. And he said for the joy, for his joy, that's why he went to the cross, for our salvation. So he knew exactly, he knew exactly what he was saying. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew exactly what he was heading into. Now, let's go ahead and get deeper into it. Go with me too. I'm saying go with me. Let me put it on the screen. Genesis 3. Put it on the screen. Verse 15. We talked about this before and this is where it all begins. He says, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. Obviously, neither Adam nor Eve and doubtful Satan had any idea of what God was talking about at this moment. Very doubtful. Through progressive revelation, we'll find out more and so we'll hear more about what actually happened. But we see it being born out more and more and more in Genesis 12. We see the story unfolding a little bit more and God tells Abram to get out of your father's house, his country, into a land that I will show you and then he tells him that I will bless you, make your name great, your descendants great. And then in the end, he says, and through you, through you, Abraham, through your descendants, I will make all the nations of the world. I will bless all the nations of the world. And we know it's not just through him, Abraham, but through his descendants because he reiterates this through Jacob, through Israel. And he comes down and he meets with Jacob. He wrestles with Jacob. Why? Because Jacob is a regular man, but he is going to use Jacob. He chooses Jacob instead of Esau, who was not the firstborn, but he takes Jacob, renames him, calls him Israel, has an encounter with Israel. Jacob says, I've seen God face to face, name the place Pineol, which means I've seen God face to face. And so God is already showing in this first book of the Bible how he is interacting with mankind, how he desires to interact with mankind, and his ultimate goal in interacting with mankind to bring mankind to him, back to him. Now, there's a problem though with mankind. Mankind is not in the right state. For whatever reason though, God has decided that I am going to use blood to be the remedy to pay for sin. Why? Don't know. Don't know. You don't know. I don't know. No one knows why God decided to make blood the reason, to make blood the currency. He does say though that the life of the blood is in the flesh. And we're going to look at that in just a little bit. And so he decides again, he makes the rules. He determines what is necessary for atonement. So let's play this out before we go to this issue of atonement. The person that's agreed, the person that's been sinned against, the person has the issue, gets to determine to the person that caused the issue, the person that sinned, the transgressor, that person gets to determine what it would take to satisfy their anger, their wrath to reconcile the two. Now, the Hebrew word for atonement is the word k'far. It's got the connotation of a covering, a canceling, and reconciliation. And truth be told, it's really covering canceling in order that there would be reconciliation. But how does that work? Well, it works like this. And I'm just going to pick somebody. You know what? I'm going to pick Latanya. Latanya stole something from me. Okay? She stole my wallet. Do people even carry wallets anymore? She stole my wallet. And by the way, check her out here for the sole ministry, check out her YouTube channel. She stole my wallet. In my wallet, I had my driver's license and I had $20. And the wallet was probably worth $10. So I catch her with, no, you know what? No, scratch that. I got a better one. She stole my watch. Latanya stole my watch. The watch isn't very expensive. It's $100. She stole my watch. She says Latanya. I said Latanya, you stole my watch. She said, yeah, I know. I'm sorry. But Latanya, though, she stole my watch is wearing my watch. Wait a second. How are you going to say you're sorry for stealing my watch, but you're wearing my watch? Latanya, no bueno. Yeah, but I apologize, Cory. I don't, I shouldn't have stole your watch. I'm going to give it back. But she didn't get my watch back. So as long as she's got this watch, we got a problem. As long as she's got my watch in my face, we got a problem. Latanya finally says, you know what? Okay, I want to make this right. What do I have to do to make it right? Well, first of all, Latanya, give me my watch back. That's what you do. Number one. Number two, since you took my watch and I was, I was, listen, I was late to work a few times. I had my watch. It was my favorite watch. I want you to give me another watch, a Rolex. Wait a second. Wait a second, Cory. The watch you had was a cheap $100. Matter of fact, you paid $100 when it was brand new. It's all scratched up and done it. I'm going to give you a watch back a few extra dollars you want, but you want a Rolex on top of that? Yeah, that's what I want. I get to determine what it's going to take for you to satisfy my anger. Not you. You can't tell me what it's going to take to mend this. I do. Latanya says, okay, fine. She says, I'll do whatever it takes. So Latanya apologizes, giving my watch, gives me back all that I required. My watch, my Rolex and so forth apologizes. So she's not wearing the watch. She has, she's made amends. After that's happened, next year, can I ever go back to Latanya and say, you stole my watch. I'm mad at you. No, because what was required to satisfy or to atone was done. So I can't bring that back up. So in this instance, she is justified. She's in right standing. Why am I saying that? Because that's exactly what God does. Now, God has determined what the payment is going to be for sin. He is determined that it's going to be blood. Matter of fact, really what is determined that it should be our blood, but he's just determined that it's going to be blood. And he has instituted this practice of what's called substitutionary atonement. Propitiation, which is the payment of sin or expiation, is the payment of sin by blood. That's how the atonement is going to be done. This repitiation will be done by blood. And because it's a sacrificial atonement, substitutionary atonement, it can be done by someone else or something else. In the Old Testament, it is done by these animals. Now picture this. God has stated that this priest, who also must be in right standing, is going to mediate between the people and God. So he's in right standing. Get this picture straight, guys. This priest is in right standing, which means he's not God himself. So he has had his sins atoned for. So he's atoned for. And now in right standing, he goes and stands between the people and God. And he's going to take what God wants. He's going to take one. I can't keep seeing this watch that you're wearing in front of me. I can't keep seeing your sin. So take this watch, take the sin, take the lust, take the lying, take the fighting, take the cussing, take the fussing, take all of that, pronounce it, agree that you've done it on the head of this scapegoat. Now I want you to show up with your heart prepared. Okay. You will have fasted and you would have kind of prepared your hearts and mind that you are sorry for what you've done. And we're taking all the sins confessing on the head of the scapegoat. We're going to send this scapegoat and send the scapegoat out. Wear away from us. Never to be seen again. The Bible tells what happens to the scapegoat, but I don't think it's going to be too good. I wouldn't want to be that scapegoat. But then there's another animal. This is a sacrificial offering. We're going to take him and we are going to kill him and we're going to shed his blood. Now we're going to make this offering and the Lord is going to accept the offering. If the Lord accepts the offering, then guess what? We're good. We're good. You are now in right standing. Your heart was right there. You came with the right heart. You knew that you needed this and God accepted it. The terms of this atonement were met. Are you with me? And so according to Leviticus 16, now the people are in right standing. They are justified. Let me say this again. When you're justified, you are declared right and treated as such. God cannot, well, he could. I don't want to, I hate saying cannot, but God will not come back and say, wait a second, the thing that I required that was paid on second thought, not enough. No. Now, the way this worked though was this was for one year. There were other offerings, but this is, this is the, this is the, this is the main one. This is the atonement. This is the day of atonement. Matter of fact, we still call it Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. Yom Kippur is atonement, but the day of atonement in those days and it satisfied God for one year. You stood in right standing with God for one year. Now, if you saw the video on yesterday about where Jesus went through those three days, the issue was with the atonement that there was one thing it did not do. The one thing it did not do was if you died and your sins were atoned for, all it did was ensure that you would not have an eternal torment, that you didn't go to hell and die, that you didn't die and go to hell forever. Okay. That's all it did. It kept you in right standing. The problem that it didn't do was it did not pave a way for you to go to heaven, to be with the Father. We talked about, and I won't, I won't cover this name, but we talked about Elijah and Enoch and that they, even though they were taken up into the heaven, into the sky, that they didn't go to where God was. They didn't go to the ultimate after the third. They didn't go there. Okay. That happens after Jesus' ascension. And so these Old Testament saints, as we call them, they're waiting for Christ. They're waiting for the end of the story. They're waiting for Jesus to do what he's supposed to do. They don't know that his name will be called Jesus to us or Yeshua or Jesus. They don't know what his name will be called. They just know that God is getting ready to save. And so when it said earlier that Moses wrote about him, put it back on the screen. Moses wrote of me. There's no passages in the Bible where Moses literally pinned Jesus. No passages. So how is this? Well, he's speaking of what he's going to do. On this day of Atonement, he's speaking of Jesus, of his coming. Wait a second, Cory. That's a stretch. How is Moses speaking of Jesus in regards to the Atonement? Well, I'm glad jazz. Did I push the wrong button? I didn't. Okay. I'm glad jazz. Let's go to the screen. Let's go out of Leviticus 16. Now, I'm not going to spend too much time. As a matter of fact, I just glanced over because if I went through all of this, we'd be here a little bit longer. But y'all know how it works. The priest, his sins are atoned for. Again, I just said all the sins are cast on the head of the scapegoat. And then the sacrificial offering is made. And their sins are atoned for one year. Now, I cover this passage over and over again, because it is so important. And I want people to know about this. In 1711, he says, for the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it on the altar, why to make Atonement for your souls? For it is the blood, it is the blood, it is the blood that makes Atonement by the life. And so he's got all these different rules as to why we shouldn't do things with blood, eat things that has blood in it and so forth. The blood has a meaning to God. And so he says that is how sins are going to be atoned for. I see you, Joe. I'm coming to you in a second. That is how sins are going to be atoned for through the blood. But you just said that he's writing about Jesus. Let me show you how. Some of you all have seen this before, but I don't think there's nothing wrong with going over it a second time or 10th time or 30th time. Remember, I said this part right here, where he says that I have given part. This is God literally saying, he says, I have given in the Hebrew. It's over here on the right side. If you look, it's the why I need, not that team, which is I, I have given. And that is how you say in Hebrew, I myself, I'm giving the blood myself. And so what is Moses writing down? What is Moses literally writing down? He's saying that God himself is supplying the blood. God is not going to supply the blood through some other alternative means. He's not going to the blood bank. He's not getting someone else to do it. He's going to do it. He will be the means of sacrificial atonement. He will do so. He himself. And so now they weren't getting this. And but Jesus keeps saying the scriptures keep verifying of me. Abraham spoke of me. Abraham rejoiced, as he says in John 8, rejoice to see my day. What do you mean? Well, before Abraham was, I am Abraham knew Abraham spoke to me. I spoke to Abraham. I was there. I created Abraham. And so this is what he's alluding to. Do they get all of this? Do they understand? Is it crystal clear to them? No, it's not. It wasn't crystal clear to them, just like it wasn't crystal clear to the other apostles, just like it wasn't crystal clear to the other prophets. But when we look back, okay, I see exactly how you have laid this thing out. And so we know the problem with mankind, the problem with mankind is that even though God has set up that he is going to atone for sin, we're still not going to do right. And so something has to happen to get us to do right. Now let me go to answer this question real quick. She says, where was Enoch and Elijah was waiting if they weren't in paradise? They were in paradise. They were in paradise. But paradise just at the time before the cross was not in heaven. Jesus did descend. Jesus did not ascend initially. We know he didn't. If that were the case, one in John 3, he tells Nicodemus that no one has ascended yet. So meaning that not even Elijah, not even Nicodemus, not even Elijah, not even Enoch, as he's telling Nicodemus, no one has ascended. No one's gone up there yet. Then Jesus tells the woman, tells Mary that even after his resurrection that he has not ascended yet. So it could not be that he ascended up to paradise at his death, but then tell her that he has not ascended yet. So at this point in time, paradise is in this place of the dead for the Old Testament believers who are waiting for Christ to finish his mission. And we're going to cover that in a second. We're going to get to that in a second. We're going to see exactly why he came. Because think about this for a second. Think about this. If what Jesus did was sufficient, not what Jesus did, if the atonement was sufficient, why does Jesus have to come? Why does Jesus have to come? If when you die under the Old Covenant, when you die, you still get to go to heaven. If that were the case, you die, you go to heaven. What's the point of Jesus coming? We're going to look at that in a second. There has to be a reason. It's not that he just came just because, you know, I just just just exercise and futile, just to do something. I got time on my hands. No, he came for a reason, and we're going to see what the reason is in just in just a little bit. The problem is though, mankind is jacked up. We know to do right, but we won't do right. And so our hearts are desperate. Matter of fact, I should have finished reading Isaiah. We go astray from the moment that we're born. Our heart is desperately wicked. We just want to do our own thing. And so God has stretched his hands out to a wicked and adulterous generation. That's what God has done. God has, God is calling for, looking for, reaching out to people who are unfaithful. That's us. And so what is he going to do? Well, let's see if we get a glimpse out of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 32, he says, 32, 39, he says, I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me forever for their own good and the good of their children after them. So look at that passage again. Look at verse 40. He says, I will make with them an everlasting covenant that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts that they may not turn from me. Wait a second, God, how are you going to do this? Now, obviously he's speaking to these people. Look what he says in 41. I will rejoice in doing good and I will plant them in the land, in this land, in faithfulness with all my heart and all my soul. That's so kind of you, Lord. That's so loving, so wonderful of you. But these are unfaithful people. And his problem with Jeremiah is that, or Jeremiah's problem to the people, is that these are unfaithful people. They're like us. You say one thing, you do another. You even mean one thing and then do another. So what he, what he's going to do is, he says, I will give them, I, God, look at it again. I will give them one heart and one way. That's important, guys. I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me forever. So whatever he's going to do, he's going to do it so that they're, that we're doing this in this one way forever. And we're going to fear him forever. And he says, for their own good and for the good of their children after them, I will make with them an everlasting covenant that I will not turn away from doing good. And look what he says, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts that they may not turn from me. God is promising when he does this thing that he's going to do, that's going to put the fear of him in them forever and that they, whoever these they are will never turn away from him. Okay. I'm going to answer this question. Remember, Paul, what Paul, what happened with Paul was after the cross. Remember, I should have, I should have answered that question when I got to that point. No, what, you asked a question? Let the Bible interpret the Bible. I got, I may not see your question. Remember, we're talking about two different dispensation before the cross and after the cross. You all do realize that things changed after the death, burial and resurrection and then subsequent ascension. Okay. Things change a little bit. So if you notice, you will see you, you've seen, you've seen Moses, you've seen Elijah, you've seen Samuel come up from the dead. When did we stop seeing that happen? We stopped seeing that kind of activity after the death, burial, resurrection and the ascension. You know why? You know why you don't see them coming up because they're gone? They gone. And so different things are now going, are now able to transpire. Okay. And so now after Jesus makes a statement, when he makes a statement in John 3 that no one is gone to heaven. No one's ascended. No one has ascended. After his ascension, people have ascended. Okay. There are now, there are now beings there. Okay. So let's see. Let me answer this question. You said you're talking about, what about your, what about this question? Matthew 2753. Let me go to it. Let me go to it. I don't want to, I don't want to be guilty of ignoring you. Matthew, would you say 27? Oh, 2751. Okay. I'm sorry. Let's go there. And behold, oh, I see you're asking. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn into, I tell you what, I tell you what, I tell you what, I tell you what, perfect question. However, we're going to get there. Okay. I'm going to cover that in just a little bit. Okay. I'm going to cover that. So let me put a star by that. So I can remember to cover that. Make sure moderate is also that I, that I cover that. So I'm going to get that. You asked how good your question was. The question was so good, it's already on the, on the docket. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna get there. That's a perfect question. Matter of fact, I think somebody might even been you that asked that question yesterday. And so I didn't want to answer. I'm not ignoring you. I wanted to make sure that I covered it in full detail later. So anyway, so now what God, what was literally talked about here was that God is going to do something to cause people to never stray again. That was the problem with Israel. The problem with Israel guys that Israel strays wonders that you realize God, when he named something, when he, when he calls something that he calls it right, you, you call it God, you called it right. So when you call it a sheep, you called it right. Sheep, wonder, sheep, wonder, sheep, disobedient, they may mean where they may not mean. Well, I don't know. But he calls a sheep for a reason. And so the problem that God has with not only with just Israel, but with us, we have wandering hearts. But he says, I'm going to do something that is going to cause them to never wonder again, to fear me and never depart. That's just what he said in Jeremiah 32. He says the same thing in Ezekiel, that I, I, I, let's go, let's go to Ezekiel again. Not again, but for the first time. Ezekiel, I use these passages over and over again, because I really do intend to, to, to kind of nail them, kind of, kind of, you know, send them home. He says, I will sprinkle. This is God. Look what he says. I, the first person pronoun that's God doing. He says, I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean. So when, when, when God sprinkles clean water on you, you shall be clean from all your uncleanness. Isn't that, isn't that what God's trying to do? And from all your idols, from all your idolatry, he says, I, I, I, God will clean you. Not you will clean you. And notice what he's also saying. Nowhere in this, this text is he ever asking you to keep yourself clean. I think that, that's important. Verse 26, and I, I, I, I will give you a new heart. Who's going to change your heart? When someone says, you got a bad heart. Well, it ain't for you to fix it. It's for God. I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. I, I, I, I, I, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And you can't see it because it's in English, but in, in the Hebrew, um, this word, why not, why not the T is also I give. So it's, so it says, I will give you a heart of flesh and I will give you a heart of, uh, uh, I'm sorry, I will take the heart of stone from your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh. Looking verse 27, and I will put my spirit within you and I will put my spirit within you and I will cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Are you with me? This is God's doing. I'm going to do this. I see the problem. There's been enough examples from all these years for you all to see that in spite of the problem, in spite of this accurate diagnosis, you all can't fix it. You all don't have the cure. I got the cure. I'm going to give it the cure. I'm the cure. Okay. I'm the cure. What's that old song? Jesus is my doctor and he writes all of my scripture. Some of y'all don't know that. Some of y'all too young for that. He gives me all my medicine in the room. I'm sorry. So I, I'm going to do this. God's going to do this. So this is what he, God is saying, think about this guys. God is saying what he is going to do. If God says he's going to do it, is he going to do it? Won't he do it? Won't God do what he says he's going to do? Sure he is. There's, there's no stipulations on this. He says, I'm going to do what I'm going to do. And what he says he's going to do, I'm going to put a new heart in you and cause you to walk in my statutes. Come on in the room as old singing. Y'all, listen, y'all go, y'all go to YouTube music and look at that video. Old lady, she bought out, she's 137 years old and she's just in love with the Lord. She don't have a whole lot going for her. You can just look at her. She's not a wealthy lady, not a rich lady, maybe not even very educated lady, but she's a godly lady and she's singing that song and one of my favorite songs, by the way. Anyway, so God said what he's going to do and then he tells what the result of it is going to be. There's no doubt about that, guys. There's no doubt about that, right? So now, if we know what he is going to do, now let's see how he carries us out. We just say it. We look at the scriptures and, and by the way, guys, I'm seeing some of your questions. So go ahead and if, if you ask a question and I see the question and I know I'm coming to the question, keep asking it, but I'll address it. If it's a question that I need to go ahead and address now, because I won't get to it, I'll try to get to it. So anyway, in other words, keep asking questions. I'll do my best. I'll determine if I need to answer it now or later. So the issue is, okay, God, we know what you're going to do. We hear what you said you're going to do. We just want to know how you're going to do it. So how is God going to carry this out? How is God going to figure this out? Now, real quick, a quick word from our other sponsor, Water, brought to you by the Indianapolis Colts. So how are you going to fix this, God? How are you going to do what you said you're going to do? How are you? Because remember, we said God has a plan for not just Israel, but he has a plan for not Israel. He's got a plan for Cory, but he's also got a plan for Brian. He's got a plan for Lisa. He's got all these plans. They all converge at the cross and they're manifest. They're shown up in heaven. How are you going to do that? How are you going to do that? How are you going to be the sacrificial? How are you going to be the atonement? How is it that Moses wrote about you? How is it that Abraham rejoices to your day? I know in the person of Jesus Christ, we're not going to spend time because we've done it before, but we can go over all of the prophetic scriptures about his coming and what he's going to do and about him being on the cross and so forth. And he says that he came on his own. No man takes my life. I lay it down. I do that. And what he is going to do, he is going to do exactly what the system requires. There's going to be a priest. That's what the atonement required. A mediator, a priest. There's going to be a sacrificial offering and there's going to be, I'm sorry, there's going to be a scapegoat and there's going to be a sacrificial offering. Let's do the scapegoat first. John says when he's seeing Jesus, he says this before Jesus has any disciples with him. Look y'all. That's kind of, you know, how you say it in Texas. Look y'all, the Lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world. What does the scapegoat do? Just that. So he talks about, he talks about what the old covenant is requiring and he sees it in Jesus already. Now obviously John the Baptist knows because he's the one that's making the way straight. He's preparing the way. Okay. He's the one that he says, go dip, go baptize all these people. Keep baptizing folks. And the one who you see the spirit descend on, that's him. So what's John doing? He's going around the countryside. Repent y'all. Get your life right. Repent. Repent. And as he's doing what did John say, he says, I didn't know him, but that he should be revealed to Israel. I went baptize him. And I know he is the one because he's the one who the spirit descends upon. So I'm baptizing somebody. Come up. No spirit. All right. You ain't him. Baptize somebody. All right. You ain't him. But now he knows who Jesus is, but just to be validated, just so that we can know for sure, here comes Jesus. Cause he says, listen, I need to be baptized by you. He says, no, do what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to baptize me. So he baptizes Jesus. And just like it happens, baptize them and bam, it's confirmed. Spirit comes down and rests upon him and he hears his voice. It's confirmed. And so now y'all, that's the guy, the lamb who takes away the sins of the world. The lamb who takes, right? So now he plays that part. We'll read in Hebrews where he is told, we're told that he is the great high priest. He's a priest. He's a mediator. And we have a high priest who can even sympathize with us. Why? Because he took on flesh and born some of our same infirmities and weaknesses, not sin infirmities, but he was like us. Now, by the way, does that mean that he could identify with some of the same temptations like was Jesus tempted with lust? No. Some of you all may have a herb addict addiction. You like to roll stuff up and set it on fire and inhale it. Did he have that addiction? No, he didn't have that. Did he have, maybe he had a bad mouth. He had to fight that? No, no, no. He was able to identify because he had some other, some other things he did with life. For example, he was hungry. He could be sad. I don't have to, I don't have to struggle with the same thing that you struggle with to know what a struggle is, right? And so he could identify in many cases with us. So now, so he was, he was a high priest, but he is also the sacrificial offering. His blood, now we don't have to do a whole big dissertation on this. We don't have to do, we don't have to go through a bunch of scripts to realize that it's his blood that's going to pay for the sin. He is going to play the part of, let's keep the old Paul tells us in Rome that he is a propitiation of our sin. Okay. So that being said, how are you going to do this, God? Because one thing we already know, one thing we already know, let me do, let me answer this. One thing we already know is that we can't be before you guys. You can't come and interact with us just how you want to, when you could, we just wouldn't live. Okay. Now let me answer this question real quick. It says, when Jesus was tempted in the desert by Satan, Satan offered Christ world power. Isn't that temptation of lust? He offered him, and that lesson, by the way, the word to be tempted doesn't mean that you succumb to it. That doesn't mean that it works, right? You can come and you can lay some cocaine on this desk to try to tempt me. What is in my piece of linen thread that's on my face? You can lay some, some cocaine right here to try to tempt me. Okay. You're trying, but it ain't working. There it is right there. I got some piece of lint or something or cat hair or something is bothering me. You can try. I'm sorry. I'm tripping over here. You can try, but it won't do anything. Right. Now, you can find something that I like to tempt me, but what are you going to offer Jesus to tempt him? But this is what God, this is what Satan wants to do. Okay. And so, no, it's not the coffee, but a quick word from our sponsors, Maisha. Anyway, I tell you, I was pumped up today. I'm also tired. I got about this much energy in my body and from the coffee and the Lord, I'm just, I'm sky high. I'm literally crashed as soon as I hit end on this recording. But the question is going to be, oh, by the way, let me finish up on that thought that though he was faced with temptation, he was not tempted. He didn't succumb. I can attempt, I can attempt to tempt you. I can attempt to tempt Jesus, but he can't be tempted. Are you with me? Okay. So, and so, so when it says that he was tempted in every way, it doesn't mean that he was tempted with the exact same temptations that we've received, like an unto in a similar fashion. So, let's say, I don't know. I don't have this temptation, but let's say I have a desire for chocolate. That's just my weakness, right? And this other person has a desire for drugs, alcohol. Well, my temptation of alcohol, I mean, for chocolate is like your temptation for, it's the same way, different means, but the same, you see what I'm saying? So, no, he was not tempted in every way in the same way that Jesus was tempted by girls. He was tempted by money. No, but he can identify with us. Are you with me? So, now the question is going to be, how in the world, God, are you going to figure this out? How are you going to make this where you come and actually be the one that's going to deliver us? You're going to come and see about your children yourself. How are you going to do that? Well, let's go to the scriptures. In Philippians 2, by the way, guys, I figured out where that piece of hair was at, that piece of lint. It was on the inside of my glasses. So, anyway, Philippians 2, look what it says, verse, let's start in verse 6. Now, you know, let's start in verse 5. Have this mind among yourselves are in you, which is also in Christ Jesus. Or which is his mind, this mind of humility. He says, who, that being Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not count equally with God a thing to be grasped. Now, let me stop there for a second. To count yourself to be equal with God is blasphemous. Okay? No good. That's not good. He didn't think there was a problem with that. Why? Because it wasn't a problem. He is God. That's the point that he's making. Okay? So, back to it, he says, this humble Christ, who didn't think it was a big problem for him to be considered equal with God, because he is God, a thing to be grasped. But look what he says, but he emptied himself by taking the form of a servant being born in the likeness of men. So, now we see how he's going to do this. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross. Now, in doing so, God has exalted, highly exalted him, and bestowed him the name that is above every name. Now, let me go back up. Let's go back up. Look at what he says. This word right here. Let me fix my thing over here. There it is. Why is this acting now? Oh, there it is. Okay. My screen is tripping on one side, but this word right here. In English, it says emptied. Y'all see that? But if you look in the right-hand corner, is this word right here? Echinocin. Echinocin. Take the egg off, and it's kinosin, echinocin. This is where you look in the bottom left-hand corner. It is the word to empty, to make effect, all right, to evacuate. Well, what did he empty himself of? So, let me ask you guys this question. This is still Bible study. Thank you, Brother Ron. What did he empty himself of? Oh, I do. I do, Ron. Yeah, I'm going to. Do you still have a plan doing a quick study on how you approach the Bible and lay out? Yeah, I am. I'm taking some time to do because I want to do it in a way to where... Here's the problem that you can run into. I told you guys before my government induced hiatus in the Bureau of Prisons that I own an operated investment firm, and I had different people. It was in the DFW area, and we had clients on the southern part of the DFW area, on another part, couple offices. Some of the clients were very savvy investors, very wealthy. Some didn't have very much money at all. We had clients who had made $20,000 a year, $30,000 a year, and then we had some clients who had made that an hour. And so some understood more than the others. The problem is trying to explain this in a way at the same time to where everyone gets a benefit and everyone... I don't leave someone off. If I'm talking about some complex strategy, the person who's never invested doesn't get lost, but the person who's in that area they can understand as well, so it can be beneficial and filling for both. That's what I'm running into and trying to put this together. And so I'm going to have it, and it will probably be, if not next week, the week after. I've got a little red indicator telling me that your past do on putting this together. I'm working on it. It's just the way I want to do it. I want to have word studies, and I want to show you guys how to... Because when I go to the Greek or the Hebrew, I can see the voice, the tense, the mood, and so forth. If I'm looking at the Greek verb or the case of declension, if I'm looking at a Greek noun, but you all don't see that, even if you go to the strongest in chords, it'll tell you generically what this word means, but how does this word apply? How is this used? And how do I know if this word means after or while if it's meta? How do I use this word? And so I want to show you all how to use even a concordance or even to use a lexicon, really a lexicon more than anything else. And so that's what we're going to do. And so that way, we all can be better students because I think people get bothered sometimes when I say, well, here's what the Greek means. Here's what the Hebrew means. And then they get frustrated because, well, I don't know the Hebrew and Greek. Well, okay, well, let me help you see what I'm seeing that way. You can say, hey, Cory, because this happened before. We were doing a class in prison, and I was showing them this particular Greek word because we had done a studies like this before. Guys say, well, wait a second, Cory, do you think this might mean that? Because I looked at that. Now, this guy could not read Greek, but he could follow the rules. And I said, you know what? I feel bad. I feel embarrassed because I think you're right. I think I'm wrong. Went back and I searched and searched and searched to make sure and come to find out. Yeah, he's right. I was wrong. I was, I read it too fast, what happened? And so there's a way for you guys to do it. You won't be a scholar, but you won't also feel like you're lost when we covered Greek or that is too cumbersome that you can't get old because you can't listen. If I can do it, and I let me tell you this, guys, I hate reading. I hate reading. I hate reading. If there's something on the internet, I want to look it up and they got a video to go along with it. I'm going to watch the video. That's just me. Thank God for YouTube. I can hear, I can, I can watch what you're going to say or hear what you're going to say rather than read it. I hate reading, but I have to read. So anyway, that being said, um, oh, so the question is, what did Jesus empty himself of? He had to empty himself of something in order to become before us in order for him because look what he does. Let's look at it. Let's look at it again. He says he emptied himself by taking on the form of a servant being born in the lightness of men, right? He had to humble himself. Well, so apparently this emptying was required for you to come humble yourself. That's part of the process. So let me ask you guys a question. Gary, you're wrong for that. You are wrong. You're wrong for that, Gary. Anyway, let me get back. Hold on. Words from our sponsors. I get myself on track from Gary. By the way, if y'all haven't gone to Gary A2A's YouTube channel, he's funny. Y'all check him out. What do y'all think that Jesus emptied himself of? What do you think that Jesus emptied himself of in order to come? To humble himself in order for him to humble himself. And I want you to think about this for a second. In order for him to humble himself, with my God in flesh to humble himself, what did he empty himself from? I see glory. Lisa says glory. Anyone else? What did he empty himself from? By the way, while you all answered his question, I had a former teacher. He would ask me questions, right? Questions that we know. And he's, what's one plus one? Two? And he said, are you sure? Well, I was until you asked me that way, but Christina says divinity. His divine hood, glory, deity. Now, let me say this, guys. It's not deity. It's not his divinity. Okay. He never sets aside being God. Never sets aside that. Never happens. What he does, though, is veiled because he, he, he empties himself of some glory. Now, how does that work? I couldn't tell you. Couldn't tell you the end of workings of that. Could not, could not, could not. And so I would not. All I do know is on when he's getting ready to go. Father, I'm getting ready to go. This is, this is my, if Jesus were me voice, I'm getting ready to go tomorrow. I was going to be rough. I've done the work that you told me to do. I came here for what you said. Now I've been rocking with you for a long, long time, forever. As a matter of fact, it's a stupid analogy I'm giving out right now, right? And so look what he says. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the what? With the glory that I had with you. No, God, I got the wrong one up. I'm big. Okay, there it is. I'm sorry. And now glorify me with the glory that I had before the world existed. Let me move this out the way. All right, see that? So what is he doing? What is Jesus emptying himself of? Of his glory. We beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten. So he is the, who does Moses go to see? Who does Moses speak with on the mountain? What does he see? His, tell me y'all with me, his glory. Moses, what I'm going to do, I'm going to hide you in the behind the part. I'm going to hide you in the cliff of this rock and let my hind the parts of my glory, let you just see a little back in part of the tailpipe of my glory is a buddy of mine. You say, I'm just, let's see the tailpipe of my glory. There's Oh, Southern buddy of mine in prison. That's what he called it. He said, I'm, let you see the, the, the, the exhaustion, my glory, right? Catch a glimpse. Now, what is it? Somebody asked what, what exactly is glory? The, the word there's used in y'all here, this term of shekinah, this dwelling, this presence, we don't have a full definition of his glory. We just don't know. We'll see it one day though. I can tell you that. Well, I hope you see it one day. I'm gonna see it one day. So don't know what it looks like, what it feels like to prep, but all we know is that he is the glory. Jesus is his glory. And since God doesn't share his glory with anyone, this would be absolute blasphemy for Jesus to make this prayer and to say, give me back the glory that I had with you from before when, when Jesus had this glory before there was even an us before the world began, give me back that glory. I've done God. Now watch how I say this guys. The plan that we put together is about to be completed. So I'm, I'm asking you, I'm saying, hey, give me, now he's not saying give it back to me at this moment, but give me back the glory that I had with you from the very beginning. I had to, then this is me, somebody may disagree, I had to divorce to empty myself of some glory to come before these people, to die before them, to, I'm humbling myself coming in a form less than angels. Right. Very important to understand. Again, this isn't some, some, some, uh, just, just some, some, some, some Joe blow, some shmo, some just random guy, some angel, any old person coming. No, this is God in flesh because Leviticus 1711 tells us this is God. This is his blood. That's why he says in Hebrews, sacrifice and offering you didn't have, you didn't desire. That ain't really what you was after, but a body you prepared for me, a body. Why? So that, so that you can share this blood. We're going to show them how it's done. We're going to show them, uh, what true sacrifice, what true love looks like. That's what we're going to do. And so he empties himself. And so he's making this prayer in John 17, and it'd be blasphemous if he hadn't done that. And if he was not God in flesh, that'd be blasphemous because we're, we read a few weeks ago how, um, he says that he will not share his glory with anyone else. No one else can be worship like God. No one else could share his glory, but that way Jesus, you're asking me, that's blasphemous. If I got on this camera, anyone else didn't say, um, Lord, share your glory with me. No, you might not see me forever. You might see a, a smoke stain. It just, just burnt up. But I will, that's blasphemous. No, um, we're not sharing his glory, nor could any other angel as well. This is God. Okay. And so what he does is he is coming to, to empty himself of something. Now, again, he's always God because he's called God. He doesn't say, no, I'm not God or I'm not God at this moment, or I'll be God again. I'm out of the office, but I'll be back being God a little bit. No, he never once denied being God. He never once denied being equal with God. He never once denied the powers of God in him. And from time to time, he would use those powers, wouldn't he? So now, why does he have to do this? I'm getting somewhere. Why does Jesus have to come in this form? Why does in this veiled form, why does he have to do that? Well, remember what was required. What does, remember the example that I used when, when, when, when, when Latani installed my watch and we equated that to, to the day of Atonement was required blood. So since blood is required, I have a Lord to not change now. He's not changing. He's going to do the exact same thing. He's going to use this priest. He's going to use this scapegoat and he's going to use a sacrificial lamb. He's going to wrap all that up in none other than the person of Jesus. And he is going to pay the, pay the sacrifice. Remember I said that he's got, he's got two groups that he's dealing with. He's got these Jews that he's dealing with because he's got a promise to them. God didn't have to make a promise that he can't keep. He's got a promise for Jesus. I mean, for, for the Jews, but he's also got a promise for Gentiles, which he made in Genesis 12 three through you Jews, through Abraham, through Isaac, through this lineage. Oh, by the way, here comes Jesus who was born physically through this lineage. All the rest of the world is going to be blessed. So all these plans are converging all together. All right. Are y'all following me? So now the problem is though the law that these Jews are under us Gentiles who were around at that time, we ain't thinking nothing about the law. We don't know anything about the law. We're looking at these poor Jews like these religious nuts over here. They're following something. I don't know what they're talking about, but for the Jews, they know they had to adhere to the law. What does the law require? What does the law require? Bam. I don't know if you meant to do that, but it came in right, right on time. Payment in blood. That's what the law required. The law required that payment in blood, the law required that our sins be atoned for. Now I want to put this passage up right here. John, not John, Matthew 5, 17. Jesus makes this statement. He says, do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. No. He says, I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. The word right here is the word play, role side to feel or to fulfill. Okay. Now what that means is I'm going to end this I'm going to end this. Well, the ending of the fulfilling of it is what? What does the law require for these people to be in right standing? We read it in Leviticus. We didn't go in full detail, but there has to be this day of atonement. There has to be atonement. Okay. And so what is Jesus going to do? That he is going to fulfill the law for Jews and also in doing so make way for us. I'm going to accomplish two things. You know how we say I'm going to kill two birds with one stone? Well, that's what he does. He kills two birds with one stone. He deals with Israel and he deals with not Israel who's going to be in him as well. Okay. And so he didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law and look how Paul says it. Look how Paul puts it. He says that for Christ is the what the end of the law for righteousness to everyone else. Now the Greek word here shifts a little bit. Look over to the right side is the word Telos, which is the word Telos, which is to end or to perfect. So Christ is the perfection, the end of the law for what? For righteousness. For who? For the believing ones. Okay. This is a, and by the way, this word, am I told you what it means to believe? Believe is not a a one time act. All believers are engaged in a one in a one time entrance into a continual act of believing believers. Don't stop believing. I don't know why that song is popping my head. Don't stop believing. Anyway, believers don't, I need to put that on here. I need to put that sound effect on here. Believers don't stop believing. They don't. Believers aren't a person who believes on Monday and Tuesday. I'm tired. This is, this Christian stuff is hard. You would never believe her. Sound good at the time. It felt good, but you know, you, you, you, you thought he was cute, but that was it. You wouldn't really in love. You thought she was cute, but she would, no, no, these are folks. This is the committee, the committee folks. That's what believe believers enter into a continual state of believing. They never depart. They never stray away. They never walk away. Is that what it is journey? Yeah, journey. So that's what a Christian is. We have gotten the wrong definition of Christianity from non-Christians. Isn't that crazy? Isn't it? Hey, Stacey, let me ask you a question, Stacey. If I went to a transgender dude who called himself a woman and I judged you as a woman by him, would that be right? That would, no bueno, right? That's my Spanish for today, y'all. No bueno. That would not be right. Huh? Christina, if I judged all women by transgendered men, nope, she says, nope, would no bueno. That wouldn't be right. So why do we let people judge Christians based off of non-Christians? Folks who really aren't, just because they call themselves, just because you call yourself a woman, I mean your woman. It's because you call yourself a Christian. I mean, you are Christian. And so we do that. We do that often. No, you're not. Now, I'm as compassion as I can get, but I'm also straight for people think, and I get it, some people depend upon which day of the week you see me or what I'm doing. You might think that I'm a little too soft or I'm a little too hard. I, fine. I tell you what though, when I go, I go. If I need to, to kind of be, you know, kind of pointing and sticking, you, you listen, if, if, if we, if, if, how do we say down like four flat tires, if that's how I'm with you, I'm going to tell it to your face how it is. I'm going to tell it to your face how it is. I don't, I, I ain't scared of you. You don't have to be scared of me. I'm going to tell you like it is. Listen, you're wrong. You're a horrible person. You're a rotten person. You're a liar. I believe this. I believe this. If you are a liar, if you are a thief, if you are a cheater, what you, what you ought to do is own it, own it. I'm riding. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm a cheat. I'm a pervert. I'm full of lust. I'm an addict, whatever. Own it. I'm going to tell you that's who you are. Why? Because you got to, you have a destination to be at. You have a destination to go to. You've got somewhere to be. And just like if you go to some mall or some amusement park and you don't know where you are, you've got to go to the, to the, to the directory. Look on the directory. What are you going to see? You're going to look for the place that you're going to after you determine where you're going. What do you have to do? The next thing you look for is the spot, the star, the square of the circle that says you are here. You need to know where you are in order to know how you're going to get to where you're going to go. And so if you're a liar, if you're a thief, you're a cheat, I'm going to tell you who you are. Why? Not because I'm trying to, I want you to, I'm trying to put you down. Such, such a person is who I was. And I needed to know that I'm this kind of person because if I don't think I'm sick, I don't feel like I have a need for a savior. And that's a problem with the world. The world doesn't feel like that they need a savior because they don't feel like they're sick. But you are, I am, right? So that being said, so I'm not going to let people tell me what a Christian is and what a Christian is not. Now there's two ways when I do it. I'll tell a Christian if a Christian is not behaving Christian like, and this is going to be key. You're going to hear me talking about this theme for the next few weeks. I'm going to hammer it so much so that those that disagree with me, I might come to you. But if I have an issue with a Christian, I'll go to the Christian. If I have to warn the Christians about that person, the person that I'm warning up people about, I'll put that person I'm warning about on blast. Did y'all get that? Marcus Rogers, he ain't a Christian. He's dangerous to Christians or potential Christians. So I'm going to warn everybody about Marcus Rogers. Frank Smith is a Christian, acting number coming. I'll go to Frank Christian. Did y'all see how that worked out? It's just what Jesus did. It's what Paul did. So I want non-believers to know, hey, you're not a non-believer, but you can become one. So now that being said, we're not going to let the world's definition of a Christian dictate what Christianity actually is. Christians believe. That's what Christians do. It's what we do. Okay. So Jesus fulfills the law. He is the end of the law. How so? What you're going to do, Jesus? How are you going to complete this? Now, I'm going to run through this part real quick. In John 3, Jesus meets up with Nicodemus. Nicodemus says, we know that you come from God. Jesus says, Jesus kind of turns it a little bit. He says, truly, truly, I said to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of heaven. What is he referring to? He's referring to what we read in Ezekiel 36 earlier, where God has stated that he is going to birth somebody from above, so to speak. This word here is ganethi anothem, born from above, ganethi anothem, which means be born from above from the spirit. So God is going to put his spirit in. Now, I'm going to move past this. I don't want to cover this again, but this is where God is saying, in this passage where God is saying that he is going to do the work to kind of clear some things up in your head, and then you are going to, you are going to make the choice. So God, fight me on this if you want to. It's okay. That's literally what this means. I'm going to put my spirit in you, fix you up, and then you're going to choose me, which is why you can say you didn't choose me, but I chose you. You didn't love me first, but I loved you first. That's how that works, right? Now, here, I want to show you something really, really, really, really important. And where is, where is the question? Kenneth Williams, I'm about to deal with this question in just a second. All right. I'm about to deal with this question in just a second. Let's go to the Bible, back to John 3. Now, remember the condition of the world when Jesus shows up. He's dealing with these Jews, and he is getting ready to make it also work for them, but also for Gentiles. He's got to do something about this law though. The law requires this atonement, where he's going to, he's going to do this. He's going to, he's going to satisfy the law in an awesome way. So let's go to it. In verse 12 of John 3, he says, I've told you earthly things and you don't, you do not believe. Speaking of Nicodemus, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? Look what he says. No one has ascended into heaven except he who has ascended from the heaven, who has ascended from heaven, man, why would you just throw that in there? Why, why is, oh, I got to ask this question. And I apologize. John says, why is it so hard to join your Facebook page? Guys, I apologize. I am the worst. I got a Facebook page. I got two of them. I don't know anything with them. I don't do anything with Facebook, but I'm going, it is going to change. You are going to see me repent Facebook repentance in about a week's time. I'm sorry. I apologize. I got a bunch of Facebook friends and don't do anything with them. I'm sorry. I'm still getting acclimated to this technology stuff. I remember, I just got on this stuff. It's been, it ain't been two years, been a year and a half. Still haven't gone on to Twitter. I'm going to, I gotta, I keep something going to Twitter. I'm going to Twitter and see what the whole fuss, the whole hubbub is all about. But now, so why would Jesus say in the middle of what he's getting ready to say, and y'all know John 3.16 is getting ready to come up. John 3.16 is getting ready to come up and we know, we can quote John 3.16 off the top of our head. Why is he talking about, why is he saying, why would you throw in there that no one has ascended? Jesus, question Jesus. Nobody asking about anybody ascended. That ain't even what I'm talking about. Why would you throw that in there, Jesus? Here's why, because these Jews have a problem. When I told you guys that the atonement, if you died with your sense of tone for, you died in right standing, all you did was go to this resting place waiting for Jesus because you could not go to heaven. This is why Jesus is called the first born, the first fruits among those who fall asleep or the first born among the dead. He didn't, he didn't, he wasn't born again. He didn't go to hell and was tormented, but he is the first born, the first fruits among, among those who died or the first fruits among those who fall asleep or the first born among the dead. Meaning when he went up, the captive that he led up were these people and anyone else that died and died before him. He's bringing this point up that no one has ascended for a reason. It's not just thrown there just because, it's thrown there because guess what's getting ready to happen. When I finish doing what I'm going to do, there are going to be some people in heaven. However, right now no one has ascended into heaven except he who has ascended, which is that's God, right? Now, let's keep reading. This is really important, guys. This is really important. Verse 14, and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. Now, look at verse 15. It says that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. Can I ask you guys a question? Verse 15, whoever believes in him may have eternal life. Where have you heard that before? Well, I've heard it in John 3.16. John 3.15 is reiterated in John 3.16. Well, why? Let's go back to it. Now, here's the Greek guys. It says, henapasapistouane, order that all the believing ones in him will have life, aka zoane ionia, which is life into eternity. Why is that stated? Well, because the same way that those in the wilderness who were bit by these serpents that God even calls these serpents to bite them, to get sick and some died, fashion this serpent, anyone that looks upon it and trusting, you'll be saved. In that same way, look what he says, in this same way, look at John 3.16. In this same way, the word here for four is the Greek word for hutos. Look at the bottom left-hand corner. In this way or so, this is just how God saves the world. This is how God loves the world. Now, does God love the world? Yes. Is that why he sent his son? No. That's not, even though it says for God to love the world, that he gave his only begotten son? No. He says this is the way that God shows his love for the world, that he's in his son. Why did he send his son? And I know it's like, well, he said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, Corey. Did you just say that God didn't send his son because he loved the world? No, that's not why he sent his son. As a matter of fact, it's in the Greek, but it's also in English. Let's look at it. Look at what he says in English. He says, he sent his son, the Mount of the Nace, so that, or in that, or in order that this, this word right over here, this Greek word over here, Hannah, tells us it's a, it's, it's, it means in order that it's a purpose. The purpose for him sending his son is that the believing ones in him would not perish, that whoever believes would not perish. So why did, why did Jesus have to come? He sent Jesus that all the people that are believing in him, even the Old Testament people that are believing in him will never, ever, ever, ever perish. Cause remember the state is that if you adhere to the day of atonement, this year you're saved, this year you're in right standing, this year you're in the tones for what not next year, you gotta do it again. You gotta do it again. But this way, once it's done, no more. What's the, what's the Spanish word for finished? I need another Spanish word to add to my, my arsenal, my Spanish arsenal. So this is what Jesus did. He finished it. He completed it. Right? That's why he had to come so that no one would ever have to perish. It's not good news that salvation has come. No, that ain't, that's not good news. No, salvation's already been here. The good news that salvation has come permanently, permanently. By the way, Kiera, did you get my email sweetheart? Good news has come permanently. I'm going to make that, make that call today. It's come, Joan, is that really how you say finished in Spanish complete? I don't think that's right. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's how you, I don't think, I think you guys are worse at Spanish than I am. That's what I think. So however you say finished in Spanish, yep, looked it up. Okay. All right. It's over with. There's no more sacrifice for Nito. There's none. That's what you guys do. There's no more sacrifices left to pay. And oh, by the way, he makes this statement in Hebrews. La Meita, that, you know what? That sounds correct. That sounds, that sounds Spanish E, right? I had a guy, you hear some funny stuff in prison, right? This, this old country white guy, good dude, but he's talking to a guy from Mexico. He said, so you speak Mexican, right? No, I don't speak Mexican. Yeah, you do. You speak Mexican. No, I don't speak Mexican. It was just funny. And, and, and the white guy was getting so frustrated like this idiot don't even know he speaks Mexican. And somebody put them inside there, they don't speak Spanish, buddy. Anyway, so whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, look at the show off. You show off. He's showing off Spanish. Okay. All these show off. All, all, all right. All right. There you go. There you go. No, no most, no most. I say it's over. It's over. Amen. That's what Jesus said. It's over. That's it. We're gonna get to that part. We're gonna get to the good part in just a second. We're gonna get to the good part in just a second. Yeah, that's what we're trying to get to the guy. He's, yeah, you speak Mexican. So that's why Jesus came. Jesus had to finish what they were doing under the Old Testament, under the Old Covenant, under the Old Covenant. He had to complete that. He said, I did not come to destroy the law, but to what? To fulfill the law. So now let's go to your question. Kenneth asked about Matthew 2751. Where's that at? He has about Matthew 2751. Let's put that on the screen and I want to read that passage. Matthew 2751. All right. Matthew 2751 is it? Okay, there it is. He says, behold, the curtain of the temple was torn into from top to bottom and the earth shook and the rocks were split. The tombs also were open and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they went to the Holy City and appeared to many. Now, a couple of things. First of all, that's scary. You know you were in trouble. You didn't did something wrong. You didn't kill Jesus. You didn't crucify Jesus on the cross. And now the walking dead has happened. You got dead folks walking around. Now you know you didn't did something wrong. Now the Bible doesn't go a whole lot into this and I wish it would have expounded a little bit more. I wish it would have said more, you know, one, who these people were, what happened to them? Did they turn around and just die again? When did they die again? It doesn't say. But it tells us something awesome. But the more important thing is what happened to the temple. Why? Why was the current of the temple torn into from top to bottom? Because we don't need it anymore. We don't need the temple anymore. Y'all can do turn into a turn into a bed and breakfast. Do something with it. You know, store some stuff into it. We don't we don't need it anymore. Nope. No more sacrifices are needed. Right. Right. Because what did he say came to do not to destroy it, but to fulfill it? The law required that the sacrifice needed to be paid. And it was paid in a complete fashion. How complete of a fashion was it done? Well, in John 1930, what does Jesus on the cross say? He says to telesty. I told you guys before, even though in English it says it is finished, it's more than just it is finished. About the best way to put it, it has been finished from long ago. Why did you say like that, Corey? Why did you say it had been finished from long ago? Because what what was determined to have happened, that's reiterated in Leviticus 17, reiterated Leviticus 16, that's spoken of in Genesis, Genesis 12, that's spoken up in Genesis three, that's constantly spoken about throughout the Old Covenant, throughout the Old Testament about what Jesus is going to do. This thing has been completed. Y'all just sing it now. That's what the perfect tense is. The perfect tense is a past action that's been completed. Why would you use that tense on your saying what's happening now that it is finished? It has been finished from way back when. Meaning that, guess what guys, they would stand to telesty on a bill if I don't owe anything left. So he used that word intelligently. There's nothing else left to pay. The debt was paid and nailed onto the cross. Nothing else left to pay. Now, what I think you need to understand, why he came and did what he did to show his love, to show his concern, to show his desire as we get ready to wrap up. Do y'all remember, and this is probably going to be another video, another short and end up, depending on how I deliver it, but do y'all remember the first thing that God said when Adam and Eve sinned? Anybody remember? Anybody remember what was the first thing that God said when Adam and Eve sinned? Somebody tell me, what's the first thing that God said that's recorded, I should say? He said, where are you? He called out to them. He called to the man and said to him, where are you? I only think about that for a second. He wants to know where he is and he uses his name. You do realize that God knows your name. That God has everything about you laid out. He knows who you are, right? And he wants to know where you are. Now, do you remember the conversation? I don't know why I always go to this conversation, because God is always good about calling out our names. He has an intimate understanding of us. And so he calls out for Adam, Adam, where you at? What didn't happen? Then after the cross, and I don't know why I make this connection, but did you also notice that when Mary shows up at the tomb and she's distraught? She is distraught. Now, none of the fellas knew. None of the fellas, they were all gone. They cut out. But Mary went and she's crying and she sees somebody supposing he is a gardener. You ever been so frantic, so distraught that you're not even paying attention? And she doesn't recognize who he is. And she's asking him. She's literally having a conversation with him. She's talking to him, meaning he's talking back. And she says, if you have taken the body, tell me where you've taken him so I can go get him. Tell me where he is. Now, think about this. She is supposing in her heart that he's still dead. Because why else would you lay a body somewhere else if the body is not dead? She's supposing the body is still dead. But take me to him. Please. She's so frantic and distraught. She turns around. And then what does Jesus do? He calls her name. And when he calls her name, she recognizes his voice calling her name. That's what God does, y'all. Because of his intimacy with you, his desire, his love for you, he'll call you by name. And what does he do? Turns around. Now, she's overcome with joy because he called her name. Y'all, this is the time where we can sit and fight about what day did he die on and how long was it? All this other stuff or whatever. And we can even fight about what do we call it? What's his real name? We get in these little silly conversations. Not that they don't matter, but they just don't matter as much. The question is, guys, if he called your name, would you know it? And have you ever called on his name? That's the thing. That's it right there. Even if we fight about one saved, all the way saved, you can lose your salvation. We can fight over this or that, these different doctrine issues. The main thing is the main thing. It's not what you know, but who you know. Do you know his name? When he called, what does he say? My sheep hear my voice and I call them by name. Mary. And she turns around. So when he calls you, we even hear. So that's why I get so excited about this. That's why I get, it just, it moves me. That's why I just, I don't think there's a better study than the salvation of a God saving his people. I don't think there's a better, there's a better thing to talk about. That's why I don't get too bent out of shape about somebody that we disagree on something theologically. No, I don't because there's a bigger fish to fry. I'm more important. I'm more concerned about someone going to heaven. Yeah, that's what I'm concerned about. When did I first hear his voice? August 12th, 1991 at 6.02 PM in my dorm at Texas Tech University. I remember the day that I was born. I remember that day. And since then, I've been quite different. Had some growing and do still some growing and did, but I remember, I remember that day. I remember like it was yesterday. And what was funny, I was criticizing and attacking the other Christians. One of my best friends, I played football at Tech. He played basketball and my buddy Catril, Christian brother. And I would ask them questions. How do you know? How do you know that the Bible is real? How do you know it's just made up? It's just, it could be fake. Maybe it's just some good stories. How do you know? I said, what if the Bible is just made up? He said, I don't know why they touched me. He said, what if it's not? It just hit me. Well, if it's not, I'm in trouble, huh? If it's real, I'm in trouble. Now, if it's just a bunch of lies and fairy tales, well, then guess what? Then, we're all okay. We're all okay. But he said, Cory, why don't you do this? He was no theologian. He's a 19 year old college student like me. He said, Cory, why don't you do this? He said, the Bible says if you and me lack wisdom, let me ask God. So he said, why don't you do this, Cory? Just go and ask God. Just however you can. Just be honest and sincere ask him if he really exists. I didn't know anything about how to talk to Jesus or how to pray. I didn't know anything about doctrine in this stuff. So you know what? I'm going to give it a shot. Well, what's been happening? God's been doing some work on me, hadn't he? And so the previous day, I am in my dorm and I said, Lord God, whoever you are, I don't know if you're real. I might be making a fool of myself. I don't know if you're real, but if you are, can you show me? Can you be real to me? Can I see what I need to see? Can you show me what you need to show me? And I won't tell you how to do it. I'm not going to say it's got to be done this, this, this, this in this way. No. And I know I ended the prayer in amen because I knew enough to say that. And then what happened was, I mean literally just I'm talking about minutes later, people knocking on the door, talking about Jesus, turning the TV on, some commercial about going to church. I see a flyer about someone wanting to go to church, other tech students wanting to go to church. Like, wait a second, turn the volume down on all this God stuff coming in my ears because that's what happened. It's like, are you serious, Lord? It was just a deluge of just people talking about God, people in the lunch line talking, hey, you know, talking about church or someone else, someone with their Bible was like, that's all I'm hearing now. And so at 6.02, the next day, I made it official. Now, had something happen before then? Yeah. But at that moment, that's when I trust.