 probably heard it said that what you don't know won't hurt you but that's not really the truth obviously we know that because what we don't know that might be happening to us medically can hurt us but also what we don't know that's happening to us spiritually can hurt us and what I mean by that is in terms of the spiritual implications is not as it relates to salvation not as it not as regards to you missing out on something eternally but about you missing out on something here on this side of eternity as a believer this issue of salvation I think is further clouded and further complicated by simply not knowing what God has stated that he's going to do why he's doing it and his remedy and then the result of the remedy remember if we and we're gonna go back to the Old Testament and work our way through and just look at what God has said how he's dealing with people and we won't take very long but I want to make this I want to I want to drill this into our heads as often as possible as deep as I can possibly drill it into because it's important now recall the problem that God has with mankind is that mankind is wayward mankind is not trustworthy there's nothing about us that is trustworthy the problem is though the very thing that we are not is what's required of us for salvation the same word for trust and faith that the same thing and we are not faithful we're not trustworthy but we were but it is our faith our trust in him that gains us interest entrance into eternity therein lies a problem and God knows as God brings us up we look in a book like Deuteronomy this is after the children of Israel have have accepted the covenant with God the mosaic covenant the old covenant the law they've accepted they said that all that the Lord said that we will surely do but they don't and then we go to Ezekiel 30 let's start let's start in 30 verse one and 30 verse one he says so it shall be when all these things have come upon you the blessings and the curse which I have said before you and and to you call them to mind in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you and you return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to all that I command today and you and your sons and we know the issue here is that he has stated with them he has spoken with them he has told them even before they go into the land before they go into the land and I say Ezekiel I'm sorry I meant I meant I meant Deuteronomy even before they go into the land that God is promising them that he's already said that he's going to banish them because of these blessings and cursings and the cursing part is that he's gonna banish them and but he's going to bring them back well why well because of their heart let's continue he says in verse two and you return to obey the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and you and soul according to all that I commanded you today you and your sons then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and will gather you again from all the people where the Lord your God has scattered you now the issue with what that is notice he says with with all your heart obey him with all your heart and your soul well there's the problem now God knows that that's the problem which is why he says to them that they are going to be banished from the land but they're gonna be brought back into the land why is God who is a just God going to bring them back into the land because clearly they deserve to be taken out of the land clearly they they don't deserve to be in the land clearly they and we look in hindsight we can go back and look in the scriptures they have violated what the Lord told them they have violated the covenant that they voluntarily accepted and agreed to why then God would you bring them back that makes no sense well we're gonna find out in just a little bit but let's continue he says going in verse what I leave off that verse verse 3 no I'm sorry verse 4 if your outcasts are at the end of the earth from there the Lord your God will gather you and from there he will bring you back verse 5 the Lord will bring you back into the land which your father's possessed and you shall possess it and he will prosper you and multiply you more than your father's verse 6 is the issue moreover the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul that you may live in so there is the issue he said he's gonna circumcise your heart and look at the reason why he says he's gonna circumcise your heart he says circumcise your heart so that or in order for you to love the Lord your God with all your heart that's why he's gonna circumcise your heart because you don't do something that you say so with your mouth. You maybe even mean it. Maybe when you say it, you meant it, but clearly it's it's it's not true. And so what is he going to do? Circumcise your heart. Now there is a command where he even tells them themselves to go and circumcise your heart. God commands them to circumcise your heart. Let's let's start in verse 11. For this commandment, which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. Now notice what he says. He says the commands, the things that God gives them. He says they're not too difficult. They're not out of reach. By the way, this is what this is one of the reasons why we had this this whole discussion as to whether a person can or cannot do what God commands them to do. God literally just says they're not too difficult. They're not out of reach. You can do what God has told you to do. This whole issue about the the sense that I take on total depravity that we are so depraved, not that we cannot do it, but we're so depraved that we will not do it. And God has literally just stated that they are not out of reach. They're not too difficult. Look what he says. He says for this commandment, which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. It is not in heaven that you should say who will go up for us to get it for us and to make us hear it. That we may observe it, nor is it beyond the sea that you would say you should say who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear that we may observe it. But the word is very near you in your mouth and in your heart that you may observe it. And so you understand what God is saying. The problem is you just won't do it. And he even goes on. He's already commanded them to you circumcise your heart. Well, the problem is this, the problem is this. You won't. You simply will not circumcise your own heart. And so what does he say? Verse 15, he says, see that I have set before you today life and prosperity and death and adversity in that I command you to love the Lord your God to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgment that you may live and multiply and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it and see they have not entered into the land just yet. They're going to but see I set before you blessings and cursings, life and death. Well, which one are you going to choose? Let's let's continue verse 18. I'm sorry, verse 17, but if your heart turns away and you will not obey but are drawn away and worship other guys and serve them. I declare to you that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter it and possess it. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I've set before you life and death, the blessings and curse. So choose life in order that you may live you and your sentence. And look what he says by loving the Lord your God by obeying his voice and by holding fast to him for this is your life and the length of your days that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give to them. Now I asked the question earlier. Why would God even go back to? Why would he? Why would God relent? Why would God not punish them? Why would God do what he should do by all rights, be a just God, a just judge and give them the punishment that they deserve? They voluntarily entered into this covenant. They said all that you said we shall surely do. We shall surely keep. And they don't they violated the covenant not just once over and over and over and why why would God graciously forgive them? Well, first of all, thankfully for that because the same that can be said about them can be said about each one of us. But here is the reason why we just read why God is going to forgive them. Why God is going to be gracious to them. Look what he says. He says in verse 20. He says by loving the Lord your God by obeying his voice and by holding fast. He's looking says for this is your life and the length of your days that you may live in the land which the Lord here it is. The Lord swore to your fathers to Abraham to Isaac and Jacob to give to them. So why is he long suffering? Why is he forgiving to them? Because he made us he made a promise. He swore to who to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob and just because you guys aren't faithful to your word. God is not the same. God is faithful to his word. He did ask Abraham. Hey Abraham, let's make a covenant. No. He tells Abraham that I'm making this covenant this promise this agreement this binding agreement that I'm going to do this for you to bless you and all throughout the old covenant. We see that they keep violating it but God keeps saying because of the promise that I had. I will remember the promise that I had with your father Abraham with your father Isaac and Jacob that's the reason why the whole point is God is going to show that he's faithful though. We are not God is going to prove his love even his justice and his righteousness but he'll also show his love at the same time. Are you with me? So what is God going to do? How is he going to bring this about? How is he going to keep his promise? Well, if the issue is the person's heart and their heart is wrong. He keeps telling love me obey me. Follow me. Love me with all your heart and with all your soul. Why is it going to happen? Well, you don't have the heart to do so but what he will do though as he has decided to because he's a just God because he's a right guy righteous guy they nor can us any of us go before him and be in right standing. We have to be what's called justified. We have to be in right standing before the Lord. Well, how does that happen? Well, we know in Leviticus 16. I don't know why I have this up here but in Leviticus 16. Excuse me in Leviticus 16. He gives us how this atonement works. I won't even go over it. I'm going to assume. I'm going to assume. You know what? I'm sorry. I shouldn't assume that because there might be someone who hasn't heard. Let me put this on the screen for you guys. You apologize. Apologies. I'm sorry. Leviticus 16 and I want to go towards. Well, let's start here. Let's start in verse and separate 16 verse 11. Then Aaron shall make I shall offer the bull of the sin offering which is for himself and to make atonement for himself and for his household and he shall slaughter the bull of the sin offering which is for himself. So the high priest has to make atonement for himself. Why? Because he's not right. He has to be in right standing to go before the Lord. Why is he going for the Lord to intercede between us and God? He's the mediator. He is the priest and then after that, then we see that he shall also have this sin offering this goat. Let's go to verse 15. Then he shall slaughter the goat on the of the sin offering which is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and to do with it. It's do I'm sorry to do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull. And sprinkled on the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat. He shall make atonement for the holy place because the impurities of the sons of Israel because of their transgression in regard to all all of their sins and thus he shall do for the 10 of meaning which abides in the message. And so he's got to make atonement for the place and for the people. Then he's also going to make it take all the sins of the people. Confess them on the head of the scapegoat. And send that goat off. This is in verse 20 in verse 20 of chapter 16. When he finishes atoning for the holy place and the 10 of the meeting and the alter he shall offer the live goat then Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities all the sins of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins and he shall lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by hand by the hand of a man who stands in readiness the goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to the to solidarity land to a solid I'm sorry to a solitary land and he shall release the goat into the wilderness. So now let's get understanding what's happening. The high priest has to have his sins atoned for so that he can be right before the Lord as he's also mediating between the people and God. He himself has to be atoned for before he goes to make atonement very important. Remember this room that point then he's got to make atonement for the people as well as the place the meeting place the 10 of meeting place as well. Then lastly he has to take the sins of the people confess them on the head of the goat and send that live goat out into the wilderness. The picture is there is a covering and a canceling there is a removal of the sins before the Lord out of the camp. There's also a canceling a debt because a payment is made this blood shed by this animal and the Lord accepts it. Now this is a solemn and a eternal commandment for the people. Let's go down. Let's drop down to verse 29 verse 29 says this shall be a permanent statute for you in the 7th month on the 10th day of the month you shall humble your souls and do not any and do no work whether the native or the alien who so so germs among you by the way that's important to notice not just Israel not just the Jews but anyone who is also amongst them who would also which participate even they don't want to participate they still can't work as well but if they want to be part of this they can take part of this as well. Let's continue. He says for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord notice what he says you're not really you're not clean you're just clean before the Lord important fact. There's nothing in this that makes them stop sinning there's nothing in this that makes them change their heart. There's nothing in them that gives them a new heart a new disposition a new desire to not sin they may want to at least for the time being but there's nothing in of themselves their skin hasn't changed their heart hadn't changed their desires haven't changed and so they're clean not in this regard but before the Lord many have a Lord looks at them that's how they're clean because God is determined that that that atonement will be made if you do this. He has determined what will make him whole. He has determined what will satisfy his wrath and in this case a blood offering by this animal are you with me and in and in afflicting your souls having no work and so forth this fast as well and then you place in faith in what God is doing because you believe that God is actually you actually see that God is going to accept the offering and then because of your faith in what God has supplied you shall be saved. Let's continue reading. He says first 31 this is to be it is to be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you that you may humble your souls. It is a permanent statute. Wait a minute. How is this a permanent statute? How is this a permanent statute? Ask me again Tyra. Make sure I remember as I get towards the end. How is this a permanent statute? If we no longer observe the day of atonement. Matter of fact, let me go ahead and type it in just so I won't forget myself. Okay. I'll go ahead and mark that and I'll try to remember to come back to it. But how how in the world is this a permanent statute if we no longer observe the day of atonement unless my Bible is incorrect. He says in verse 31 it is a permanent statute. The last portion of it is a permanent and the Hebrew word for permanent is this word. Well, I'm which is eternal. This is to never stop. Well, we don't do it anymore though. God. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. We do. We do have this atonement this that that that was decreed or that was determined for them to do. We do still have this. The only difference is we don't observe it every year continuing. So the priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as priests in his father's place shall make atonement. He shall thus put on the linen garments the holy garments may and make atonement for the holy sanctuary and he shall make atonement for the ten of meetings in the altar. He shall also make atonement for the priest and for the people all the people of the assembly all the people of the assembly all the people of the assembly. He shall make atonement for all the people of the assembly. There's a reason why I'm saying that all the people of the assembly assembly. Yep. I just wanna make sure in the Hebrew it says the same thing. Why is that important? Well, all the people didn't have to be there. All of the adherents didn't have to be there. However, if you weren't there, guess what didn't happen for you? There was no atonement. All the people of the assembly, you needed to be there. It's not as though that we had a proxy for you. Someone can go in your state or you know what he's doing for everybody, I'm good. No, that's not how this works. So verse 34, he says, now you shall have this as a permanent statute to make atonement for the sons of Israel for all their sins once every year, just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so he did. So they're gonna do this every year. Now we're getting somewhere. I wanna give you the backstage, the backdrop, the backstory. Did I say that right? I wanna give you the complete story as to why we do what we do on this side of the cross. Or going to the cross. What's the point of the cross? Are you with me? So this is a permanent statute. This is gonna be done. This is an eternal statute. This is forever. But for them, they have to do this year after year, every year. And in doing so, you have your sins atoned for so you are in right standing with the Lord for one year. But there's a problem though. Even though God has granted this, has caused this, the problem is our hearts, or their hearts. And if we were there to be us too. The problem is they're wayward hearts. And so you've got this atonement that God has given for you to have because of your sins, but you've got this wayward heart. Which is also why you have these other sacrifices that you can have throughout the year as well, these other sin offerings that you can have as well. Are you with me? Notice going forward, we don't have these sin offerings and we don't have the day of atonement. We have had one sin offering. We've had one day of atonement that satisfies God's wrath for us. Remember that. It's important to understand that the reason why we stand guilty before the Lord is because a debt is not paid. The debt that God has required of himself for himself to satisfy himself. Oh, by the way, he's provided the sacrifice. And so we either go to heaven or go to hell because a sin debt has not been applied to us. It's really that simple, ladies and gentlemen. If the sin debt has been applied to you or to me, then we go to heaven. If it has not, now it's been made. We see that the payment was made, but it's only applicable to all of those in the assembly. In other words, you have to be there. And then you afflicted your soul. You didn't work, you fasted. And then you with faith believe that God accepted this payment. Now, if the priest who was not in right standing and he enters in, well, then sucks to be him, right? Which is why he would have this rope tied to his ash twerk around his waist because if he ain't right, we'll soon find out. Hey, where's priest so and so? Well, he ain't responding. Let's pull him on out. So he had to be right before. Now we're gonna see a change in this, but remember the issue with mankind, even though God has graciously supplied this atonement, mankind still is wayward. And so what does God have to do? Well, let's go to Ezekiel, chapter 11, verse 19. You know, do I wanna start 19? Yeah, let's start in verse 17. Let's start in verse 17. And we'll pick up on this theme because remember God has already stated he's gonna scatter them and put them out of the land and he's gonna bring them back. He's already told us that he's iterated that numerous times in between due to running up to Ezekiel, but here he's saying the same thing again. This is after he's, because someone's gonna bring up, someone's gonna bring up this whole issue about a righteous man. If he does unrighteousness, will his righteousness still stand? No, it will not. No, it will not because look at the dispensation that we are in here where they are under the law. You can be right today in right standing and then later on not being right standing because of your sin. And that sin puts you in an unright standing which necessarily requires atonement again. We do this year after year after year after year. So what is the remedy? Well, God is introducing this remedy in chapter 11. Let's start in verse 17. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, I will gather you from the people and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered. And I will give you the land of Israel. Remember, he's giving them the land because he's promised who? Not them, but Abraham and also Isaac and also Jake. Yes, he's talking about Israel, but we're gonna see in just a little bit that it's not just Israel, but he's making this promise right now in this term, dispensation. We talked about this the other day, this economy, this administration and the word administration. I mean the word dispensation comes from this word, which is the house rules. Oikonamian, which is Oikos, which is house. And in Mia, which is law or rule. So the rules of the house, the standard, the house laws, the house rules, the rules that God is covering us by in this dispensation is the law. The problem is though, what the law did not address was their heart. That's the problem that the law did not address, didn't mean to. And then the second thing is us also being eternally reconciled with God, in other words, to be with him forever in his presence. That needs to be taken care of as well. Neither of those two things happen under the Old Covenant. Let's continue, verse 18. When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it. So when they come back into the land, this is gonna happen. So there's an order of these things happening. Then look what it says in verse 19, and I will give them one heart and put a new spirit within them. And I will make the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh. Why? That they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and do them, then they will be my people and I shall be their God. So he's doing this to change their hearts. Why? So that they will follow after him and they would stop moving away. Clearly that has not happened by and large with the nation of Israel, but we can see where the beginning process of that has started. Give them a heart. Now, what does the Bible say? As a matter of fact, I didn't intend on doing it, but let me go ahead and put it on here just so you guys can see this. Jeremiah 32. What's gonna happen when they get this heart? Uh-oh, it would help if I spelled Jeremiah, correct? What's gonna happen when he gives them this new heart? He says, when I give them this new heart and one way, I'll give them one way of doing things that they may fear me always for their own good and for the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from. So I'm not gonna turn away from them also to do good to them and I will put the fear of me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from me. So when this does happen, two things are going to occur. Two things are going to occur. One, God will not turn away from the people and then two, the people will not turn away from God. So we've got both parties, God and the people, neither are going to depart from the other. Obviously, what's the implication? If neither party is going to depart from the other, well then neither party is going to depart from the other. Okay, I'll come back to that, I'll get that. So the issue is now what's happening now. Prior, these people were told to do something and they would not do it. They would not keep doing it. What does God want to do? He wants to change that. He wants to change the fact that his people will not be disobedient and follow him. He wants to make it so that his people will continue to follow him. Did you just hear what I said? By the way, is there anyone that would object to that statement? God wants to make it so that his people will continually follow him. Let me say it again, God wants to make it so that his people will continually follow him. Does anyone disagree with that statement? I hope you don't disagree with that statement because that's the whole point of salvation. That's the whole point of the Holy Spirit. God wants us to follow him. And he says, matter of fact, definitively that us as his children or in other words, his sheep will follow him. Spirit of the Lord comes in us and then we will follow him. We will keep his commands as he says it in Ezekiel 11. We also, if we wanted to read it in Ezekiel 36 and we read it in Jeremiah 32, yeah, 32. And so this will not change. This is what God says will happen. If God says this will happen once he puts his spirit in man, then what will happen? Then it's not even a trick question. If God says, once he puts his spirit in man and he's doing so in order that they will not depart, that they will not turn away, that they will keep his teachings and they will follow after him, then what's gonna happen once he does that? Exactly what he said is gonna happen when he puts his spirit in us, which is why Jesus makes his statement that in order to see the kingdom of God, you must be born from above, be born again, born of water and spirit, be born of the spirit. That necessarily has to happen. The problem was in those days, it hadn't happened. And so God wants to fix that and God is gonna fix two things. God is gonna fix two things. He's gonna fix the heart issue, the continually walking to get rid of this whole being a follower of God and then also departing, because they did that. They did that under the old covenant. They did, Israel was just guilty of that. That's, as a matter of fact, that's what Israel was known for doing, never being faithful. As a matter of fact, he says, all day long, I have stretched out my hand to an unfaithful and wicked generation. Or wicked people, I'm sorry. That's Israel. That's who they're known, that's what they're known by. Now we can talk about other people who are known by something, the Nicolations. We can talk about what they're known by or these other groups they're known for lying, but the Jews, they're known for being wayward. So now what God has done is we see that he is gonna place his spirit in man's heart and that they will never turn from him. Well, that happens. Obviously, we know that's the beginning, portions of that has already happened. But what about it as it relates to us as Gentiles, as us as non-Jews? Let's go to, well, first of all, before we get that, let's go to Romans five first. Notice what he says that, for while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. At the right time Christ died for the ungodly. He died for everybody. Now I'm not really intending on making this a Calvinistic thing or whatever, but this is also one of my issues that I point to when it comes to limited atonement. He died for the ungodly. Who's the ungodly? All of the ungodly, the ungodly. Not just certain, but the ungodly. He died for the ungodly. Now if I'm made effective for all of the ungodly, like we saw on the day of atonement because they all weren't around. If you decide not to show up, well, then it doesn't apply to you. If you did and you humbled yourself, uplifted your souls, then it's for you. Even if you were there and did not humble yourself, afflicted your souls, then it didn't apply to you. You can't just show up to the party and think that you're also gonna get blessed. That's not how that works. You have to do it in keeping with him. The problem is though that they were way more unfaithful. So God is gonna fix that. He's gonna remedy that. But look what he says that he died for the ungodly. One will hardly die for a righteous man. So he didn't die for righteous people. He died for unrighteous people. Though perhaps for the good man, some would dare even die too. But God demonstrates his love towards us and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than having now been justified by his blood. Here we're getting to the good part. Being justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God. Being justified, that term being justified means to be declared right and treated as such. If I'm justified, I don't have to worry about being viewed at least by God as unjustified. Because what did that entire act in Leviticus do? Said that we would be clean before God. We are clean before God. If you are clean before God, if God views you as clean, well then what's there, what payment is left to pay? What's there left to do if all the dictates of God's wrath have been satisfied, then what is there left to do? Let's continue reading. He says, we have been justified by his blood. We shall be saved, we shall be saved, we shall be saved. No more of this talk that we are saved once we get there. No, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through him. For while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son. Much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved. And not only this, but we exalt in God through our Lord Jesus, here it is, through whom we now have received the reconciliation. And the reason why I wanted to focus on this passage is this word reconciliation, it's not like the other times that we've seen the word reconciliation. So far I can't find any other examples in the scriptures except here where the word reconciliation is used. I don't know if I had it happen high enough. It where the word reconciliation is used, it is the reconciliation. Some versions may say reconciliation without the definite article, the, but here we see over in there on the right side, in the Greek it is the reconciliation. It is tain, kadale game, which is the reconciliation. We have received it. What is, and the reason why I say that I've only found it once, one is speaking of this redemption that we have through his blood, which is what we see in the atonement. It's literally pointing back to the atonement, but now it's being done for us now in this, listen to the word, this new dispensation according to Christ's blood. It is through his blood, not the old covenant blood, not the blood of bull to goats. It's not through that blood, but through his blood, through the son's blood that we have this reconciliation. And why do I use this term in Ephesians three, verse one, he says, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ, for the sake of you Gentiles, if indeed you have heard of the stewardship, or some of your version may say the dispensation of God's grace, which was given to me for you. And the reason why I say this dispensation, look over on the right, it's the same word, or kind of me on, which is the house rules or the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given to me, that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery as I wrote before you in brief. By referring to this, when you read, you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ. So what Paul is talking about, there's this mystery, there was something there that the Jews didn't fully understand, even Paul himself did not fully understand this mystery. What's the mystery? Let's continue reading. He says, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the spirit, to be specific that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus. They're not, the promise wasn't made to them specifically, but they are partakers of this particular promise. And so what he's speaking of is that God has been dealing with Israel all this time. He's giving them these different covenants. The old covenant, he's replaced it with the new covenant, this promise, this agreement, this binding, but guess what? We are also partakers of it. It wasn't made with us as Gentiles, but guess what? We are partakers and we benefit from it as well. This is what Hosea goes on to say in chapter two that I will call a people who are not my people to be my people and I will be their God. We're gonna have this exact same love for him. Now, no one understood, no one was following, no one, it didn't quite make sense. As a matter of fact, it makes sense that it didn't make sense to them because God didn't make sense to them. A little bit of riddle there. But God, even though he states it, these people are so preoccupied with them, their selves, their sins that they didn't really fully get it. It was stated to them, they just were not paying attention. So Paul is saying it has been revealed in this way. Keep going, let's go back to it. To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given to me to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of, I think about the unfathomable riches of Christ and to bring to light what is the, there's that word again, dispensation or administration or economy of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which was carried out by Christ, Jesus our Lord. What do you mean by the eternal purposes? Well, remember what we read about in Deuteronomy as well as in Leviticus. This plan, this promise, what he's doing is eternal. Are you with me? Are you Aaron? I appreciate the super chat. This is going to be, and how is it going to be eternal? Well, since we no longer have the day of atonement, we do have an atonement, the atonement which is carried out by Christ on the cross and we only needed one time. Just one atonement was necessary. One scapegoat, Jesus the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. That's what John calls him. We have one high priest, that's Jesus. Hebrews references that makes that known. Also, we also have this blood payment, this sacrifice that was sufficient. This is why Paul says in our Colossians that this debt was nailed to the cross. The debt was paid. You go to hell if the debt that was paid was not applied to you. You go to heaven if the debt that was paid is applied to you. How is the debt that was paid applied to you? By faith. The same way that it was applied to them during the day of atonement. The exact same way. Corey, I get that. That makes sense. But why then do you call this? Why would you name this what we don't know does hurt us? I'll get there in just a second. Cause not knowing this does hurt us a lot. As a matter of fact, if we look at some of the lines of questions that we have on various broadcasts we have through Q and A's, a few of them that we may have seen yesterday. This keeps coming up. There's a concern, a question, something in the heart that bothers so many people who are actual true Christians. Let's go to Romans chapter eight. Wonderful passage, wonderful book. Look what he says. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. If you are in Christ Jesus, guess what there is not? A condemnation. None whatsoever. Someone said, well those who walk according, well that portion we know for a fact was not in the original text, but even if we were to take those who, if we were to take that, if your verses may say for those who do walk according to the, do not walk according to the flesh, but after Christ, that's fine. That's fine because guess what he says is going to happen? What does he say in Ezekiel is going to happen? What does he say in Jeremiah is going to happen? That we will walk after him. That we will not walk after our own selves according to the flesh, but after him. So that part is clear. We will walk after him. We are going to follow him forever and ever. Again, in Jeremiah are working for Super Chat. Again, he states, he say, I didn't state it. God states this, that once the spirit is in us. So here's the question, is the spirit of God in you? Now I don't know, no one else can tell us, but you know, if so he says you will not turn away, nor will he turn away. But wait a minute though, it felt like I turned away. I mean, I sinned, and so because I sinned, I feel bad. Well, you should feel bad. You know why you feel bad? Because the Holy Spirit is in you and he convicts you. He is bothersome. The only reason why I wouldn't feel bad because there's nothing there to hurt it, to bother it. Some of you guys can't drink milk because the milk harms or kind of disrupts or messes with the internal hairs inside your stomach or what have you, well, it aditates it. Well, the Holy Spirit is bothered when you sin. And so if he's bothered, you're bothered. You know, saying, you know, if mom ain't happy, nobody happy, well, the Holy Spirit ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. If the spirit of a living God in you is not happy, well then you ain't gonna be happy. You will not be able to sleep. You will be restless, you'll be bothered. That's a good thing. Guys, that is a good thing. It'd be horrible if you sin and, you know, whatever. There's God knows my heart. There's always tomorrow. I'm good, these little weird things we do. Okay, well thank you for the super chat. If you're bothered, amen, you should be bothered. You should be bothered. Just like here in America, you're bothered by the things that you see happening in our country. You should be bothered. I'm American. This is my country, this is my land. I hate sin what I'm seeing. You should be bothered. You should be bothered by some of the things that happen in your house. You should be bothered. When you sin, and oh by the way guys, you all do, I'm not Jesus and you ain't Peter, but I could say before the rooster crows, you will sin, something you're going to do. But he did say though, the commands even before this regenerative heart, he says even these commands, they're not too bothered, they're not too difficult, they're not too far out of reach, they're not way over there. God literally says, what I'm telling you to do is not way over there, you can do it. God literally says to do so. Now if he says that to the Jews in Deuteronomy, now we've got this regenerated heart clearly sin or observing God's commands are not out of hand. It's not impossible for us to do those things. And so that's why we're bothered even more so. They can say, well, God, you put these things on us that we couldn't fulfill back then. But no, no, no, God says that they're not too burdensome, they're not too hard, they're not too far out of reach, you can reach them, you just don't want to. But now I gotta change your want to. I gotta change your, I gotta change your heart, I gotta fix your heart. Now in fixing your heart, does that also fix your flesh? No, but God is doing so to show that you can't have victory over your flesh. Is that unfair that God has literally put the fix in? No fair Lord, you cheated, says the demons. No fair God, you cheated, you're causing them to walk right. You're causing them to do right. That ain't fair. I should have the same amount of influence in their lives. So says a demon in their lives as you do God. It's not fair God that you put your spirit in them to cause them to walk. That's not fair, that is not fair. But where does God do that? Where can we say, cause are we robots? Are we robots? Well, first of all, we're not robots. We're not robots, but even if we were, I wouldn't care. Even if we were, who is, can I just say this guys, who is the genius that would have a problem if God has made us robotic in the spirit? Who's the goofball that would have a problem with God causing us to walk right? Which one of you goofy people want to have your own way? Cause we know what your way is gonna lead to. Which one of you people has the audacity to think that you can get it your way and you will do it right every day? No, you won't. So if God puts the fix in you, if he's put something in you that cause you to walk right, you complain about that? You have a high view of yourself and a low view of God. But let's go to the scriptures. Look what he says. He says, then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit that's his spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone and from your heart of flesh and give you a new heart. How do we know the spirit that's in us will be his spirit? Because he says, I will put my spirit. This is Ruki, or we get the word Ruach, but it's Ruki whereas the the pronomial suffix is E, which is my. So I will put my spirit within you and I will cause you the Hebrew word is Assad to make to do. I will make you, I will cause you to walk in my statutes. But wait a minute, Corey, that makes us robots. If you say so, fine, whatever. All I know is the spirit in us is gonna cause me to walk. And so does that mean wanna walk in a straight line? No, clearly not. Peter didn't, Paul didn't, James didn't, John didn't pick a John, not none of them did so, but that's literally what it means. I didn't write it, he wrote it. I'm just repeating it. You're the one that has a problem with it. That is indeed if you do have a problem with it. Smart Christians will not have a problem with this. Smart Christians will not have a problem with knowing that I'm incapable of doing things right all the time. I mean, do you know the reason why supervisors put in these different things to happen in case someone does something wrong on the floor? You're in a factory and something goes wrong, you're operating machinery, you're handling chemicals. There are things in place in case, inevitably, when people make mistakes. Why? Because they will. No, there is no such plant that's gone every single day without any safety violations. This is gonna happen, certainly in our lives as well. And so what does God do? God puts in a system of mechanism to keep us from continually doing that. It's not the issue of every now and then sending is the issue of continually sending and not continually walking in him. But what do sheep do? Sheep follow. Sheep are in a present act of tense of following. Sheep are in a present act of tense of continually believing. And so what does he do? He changed our heart and look what the result is. He says there is no condemnation for those who are in crisis for the law of the spirit of life has set you free in Christ from the law of sin and death. Has set you free. Has set you free. Has set you free. Has set you free. Okay, fine. For God has done what the law weakened by flesh could not do. Which is what? Caused us to walk in him by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh for and for sin. He condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. So what does he do? He fulfills the law, this necessary yearly requirement. He did it one time. He did it one time. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh but those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit. Now, I wanna drop down. I wanna point something out because all it takes for you is to believe. And if you believe, then you are justified, right? Well, since we're justified, let's drop down to one of my favorite, one of the more powerful passages or sections of the Bible. He says, what then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for all, for us all, how will he not also give, with him give graciously us all things? Here it is. Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who, there's that word, justifies. Now, I wanna go over here and look at this word. This word justifies. This word justifies is the word D'chaon. Now, it can be used as a verb, it can be used as a noun. The word D'chaos is to justify or to be right. But notice the tense of this verb. This word, verb, is D'chaon. D'chaon is, look at the bottom left-hand corner, it is a present active participle. It is a present active participle. You guys are smart Christians, so I'm pretty sure you guys know what a participle is. We know what present is, present tense. We know what active is, it's just continuing. Participle means it's kind of a state of. Because it's a present active participle, apply that to the word declared right, or justified. He is justifying, that's bad English, but I'm using bad English to make a point. That's it CG, he is continually justifying us. Why? Because of the one act that Christ did on the cross at the ultimate reconciliation, at the ultimate atonement. He is D'chaon, D'chaon, which is justify inga, just. And the problem is people who want to nullify that don't deal with the text. They look at the text, well, wait a minute Corey, it seems to me though, but wait a minute, can't we stop believing, can't we? Yeah, you know what? There are people who can believe and stop believing. There are, let me say it again, America, there are people who can stop believing. They were never called Christians. Jesus spoke about that in the Parable of the Sowers. There's always been folks who can have a mental ascent, who can think for the moment. Yeah, I recognize, I understand, I understand the words that are coming out of your mouth that Jesus died on the cross. And the reason why he did so was for my sin. I believe he did so, I really believe so. But right now I'm about to go over here and smoke some stuff and get with this girl over here and go do some other sinning. See, you can believe it, but there is no faith according to that belief. It's what we call a mental ascent. I actually intelligently understand what's happening. I get that. I get that. So there are people who can believe. There are people who can follow for one day, one minute, but we know they're not ours, they're not us, they're not our people or his because they stop. But what does the Holy Spirit in us do? Cause us to not stop. Cause us, as Ezekiel says, to keep following, to keep walking, to keep observing. Jesus said, the Lord says in Jeremiah that he will never turn away from us and we will never turn away from him. Which is wise as there is no condemnation. Which is why Jesus says I'll raise every last one of them up. I'm getting to the reason why what you don't know can hurt you. I'm gonna get to that in just a second. But he says that we are being justified. We are being made justified or he's justifying us before the Lord, always. And so look what his next name is. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died more than that, who was raised, who was at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. So who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, now some are gonna wanna get cute. No one can separate us from the love. No one can. The fact of the matter is if you think that you lose your salvation then you're saying that we're being separated from love from what he did. He no longer justifies us. Paul says who are the elect, the elect are the ones that he chose. He gave us all the opportunity in the world to choose him and none of us did, none of us will. Nobody chooses him continually. There nobody seeks him continually. There are those that do seek. We even saw in the Old Testament there are those that seek. But the Bible says that none seek after him. Well, again, present active part of it. But there are none that are seeking, there's just none. People come after him. Hey Jesus, how you, listen, can I be your friend for the day? And then Tuesday I'm one of something different. That happens. Scripture tells us that it is conditional if we remain. Give me the passage that says it's conditional. Give me the passage, what is his name? So I can look for it, Dawson. Give us all the passage that says it's conditional. Yeah, the condition is that if you have the Holy Spirit you remain. That's the condition. If you have the Holy Spirit you remain. So the question is, do you have the Holy Spirit? If you have the Holy Spirit, what did God literally say is going to happen to you and your ability to remain? He says, you will. He will cause you to walk. You cannot get past that. Thank you, Flatbush 21st. He says the issue is vanity and a reluctance to fully submit to God's will because of looking at self instead of, I'm sorry, instead of God trusting the creation versus the creator, okay. And so, if he literally says what's going to happen, it's going to happen. God, it's not a man that he should lie. He's not like me and you. We can say something and change our minds. He's not a liar. John 15-6, okay, Dawson, I love you. Remember, let's go to John 15-6. Let's see if it says that. And I'll finish my point because you are actually making my point of the topic, which I appreciate that, by the way. And I'm not picking on you. I don't want you to think I'm picking on you, he says. But if anyone, let's see if that's what he's saying. He says, I am the branch, you are the vine. You are the branch. Whoever bides in me, the one abiding in me, or the main one, the abiding one in me, the abiding one in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit for apart from me, you can do nothing. So he's stating the branch. He just stated the branches that are in him are the ones abiding. Then look what he says. If anyone doesn't abide. So now I think what he's doing, he's making a contrast from the abiding ones and the one who does not abide. I just said that there's someone that can come to him, that can place faith in him for the moment, that can believe for the moment, that can trust for the moment, that can follow for the moment. But those were never called Christians because when we see in the Bible, what's described of a Christian is someone who is a present active participle, the believing one, how pistol on will sit over and over and over and words do have meaning. So he says, and it looks by first glance, but that's what he's saying. This was the passage or one of the passages that used to bother me so much in thinking that you could lose your salvation. If you abide, I said to my pastor, the late Dr. Bolton, look, now here I am and associate pastor struggling with this as well. It looks to me that you could lose it. Come on, Logan, thank you for the super chat. Thank you. It looks to me though, according to this, that if you do not abide, you will be tossed aside. Look, he says, if anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown away like a branch and withers and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. If you abide in me and my words, abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done. Now, the word for abide here, same all throughout, if you abide, if you remain, you absolutely correct. Dawson, you are absolutely correct. If you abide, if you remain, the remaining ones in him, don't have to worry about anything, but if you don't, if you don't abide and you don't bear fruit, you will be cut off, cast out, with it up, gathered together and thrown in the fire. I absolutely agree with that. Problem is though, he didn't stop in verse six, seven or eight, did he? Continuing this thought in verse 16, no, I'm sorry, let's start in verse 12. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one that he has than this, that someone laid down his life for a friend. You are my friend if you do what I command you. Question, Dawson, and anyone else, will we do what he commands us? Now, I need to ask you this question though, and I want you to give me a response. Will we as believers do what he commands us? Well, the question is, will we who have the Holy Spirit do what he commands us? Will we, before we continue there, let's go back to easy Q 36. I will put my spirit within them and I will what cause you to walk in my statutes or my commands, same word, and you will observe, you will be careful to observe my ordinances. So what he's going to do is, he's going to do exactly what we could not do absent him. That's why he says, apart from me, you can do nothing. Absolutely nothing. But with me, because of me, see in the past you guys couldn't. We've got a whole history book, the Old Testament that shows us couldn't do anything. Now, we're going to see what happens even with Satan's influence when I step in and when I give you my spirit. It's one thing to follow God when you hear his voice coming out of heaven. It's one thing to follow God when you see the red sea split open. It's one thing to follow God when you see fire come down from heaven. It's one thing to follow God when you see the ground open up and swallow centers. It's one thing to follow God when you see manna coming from heaven. It's one thing to follow God when you see quail. Now you got manna sandwiches coming down from heaven. It's one thing to follow God when you see that. But now what about the spirit? That's it Dawson, that's it. So if we are led by the spirit, we will. Will we be led by the spirit? Well, he says we will. So let's go back to John 15 and let's continue reading. He says, no longer shall I do I call you servants for the servant does not know what his master is doing but I have called you friends for all that I have heard from my father I have made known to you opposite of the spirit. You did not choose me, but I chose you. You did not choose me, but I chose you. So I chose you in the past and appointed you. This is where I think I appointed you that you should go and bear fruit in your future to buy. Now I heard someone do a rebuttal to what I said on this point and says that word just means to, to place something when that word is used. It's not saying here I have ordained you and appointed you though you may fail. No, because when you go back and you read even the commentary or the lexicons, they'll say that this is putting them in a place causing not necessarily cause them but putting them in place to do so. I'm appointing you, I'm ordaining it. I'm gonna make it happen by the way. Does he say I'm gonna make it happen? Well, we know he's gonna make it happen because again, what have we already heard about his Holy Spirit? And oh, by the way, this is after he says when the Holy Spirit, when a person is born of the spirit, what they're going to do. Now the question is if you are in Christ, remain in him, you must remain in him. You must be in him. Well, weren't we told that's gonna happen anyway? Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1-3, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places just as he has what chose us. Jesus just said, you didn't choose me, but I chose you. Same word that you choose here, but I chose you. And this word is in the heiress middle meaning it was done in the past. You didn't do it. He did it for his benefit in him before Prochadilebas, which is Chadilebas which is before the foundation of the word, before the word was I chose you. That, why did I choose you? That you would be holy and blameless before him. Not that you would be holy and blameless, period. Cause you're not, we're not, I'm not. But we will be holy and blameless before him. He says, in love he predestined us. He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself according to the kind intentions of his will. And let's drop down to verse 13 in him. You also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation having also believed. Now look at this word for belief. This is a heiress active participle. So because it's a participle, it is you have, you have in the past begun believing. There's the aspect of this is continuous. So in the past you have continued, you have started this process of continuing believing in the past, you started that. He says, you were sealed because of that, you were sealed in him with the Holy Spirit, with, I'm sorry, with the Holy Spirit of promise. And look what he says, you have been sealed with the Holy Spirit, that's protection, who is given as a pledge. And the word for pledge is this Greek word, arabon, which is an earnest money deposit. So security deposit of our inheritance with a view of the redemption of God's own possession. This word, apollotrosin is to be redeemed because the word apollotrosin in front of it is to be redeemed, never to be enslaved again. So we have been sealed with the Holy Spirit. It's a deposit until when? Until he's given us this deposit until we get there. If we don't get there, well then you just wasted your money then Lord, but he didn't. Someone says, yeah, but I can put down a deposit on something and take it back. Yeah, you do, God doesn't. You can do that, but God does not. Now, he chose us to be in him. We've covered the grammar that chose us, us is the direct object and the indirect object is in him. He chose us. Well, what did he choose us for? All we know is he chose us and he chose us a long time ago before the foundation of the world, but he chose, it doesn't matter what he chose us for to be in him. That's how that goes. And so the reason why this is important because it hurts. Matt, before I go, let me answer this question. Since it's salvation, I've asked this question for months. Please ask this for me. How do we reconcile Colossians 212 in regards to regeneration, preceding faith? Okay, let's do this. Let's go to Colossians 212. But I did promise to cover that and then I'll make my point. Colossians 212. Having been baptized, I'm sorry, having been buried with him in baptism in which you were also raised up with him through faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead. Colossians 212? Am I, okay. You're gonna have to help me understand this. What else to be able to, Africa, what do you, and thank you for the super chat, I appreciate that. I'm not following your question. I'm not following your question. So if you can submit that again, if I don't see it moderators, let me know where he or she resubmits that. I'm not following. I'm not understanding the question you had. Having been buried with him in baptism, I'm not seeing how that relates to your question in regards to regeneration. Now, again, my understanding, my belief, and it's not my belief, by the way, it's not my belief, it's just the scriptures that in the Old Testament, people were not regenerated that we can tell. If they were, they may have been, the Bible just does not explicitly say so. The Bible explicitly says so in the New Testament. I don't know why he would explicitly say so in the New Testament, but not in the Old Testament. If the truth is the truth, and it's an important truth, why would you not explicitly say so? So, and then he says that what I've told you to do, it's not out of reach, it's not impossible you do. You can do that. God says, God says to those Jews, you can do it. So, I think that nullifies the whole issue of inability. I think it's just unwilling, you won't do it. I'm gonna fix that. And the only reason why I'm gonna fix that, not because you deserve it, not because you're worthy, not because you're great. Matter of fact, you're the least great people on the planet, you Jews. No, not because of that, but because I made a promise. I made a promise to Abraham. Which necessarily means I made a promise to Isaac. Which necessarily means I made a promise to Jacob. And I'm doing all of this for my glory. Not mine, not me, Corey, not me, but my glory as God. I'm doing this for my glory. Which question? Which question, Chess Champ, I'm not sure what you, which question, do you, did you want me to answer? I have no idea. I'll look for you at BJ Taylor. Okay, BJ Taylor. Okay, does regeneration take place after salvation? Well, let's go back to first, to Ephesians, first reason. First Ephesians, where is it at? Oh, Ephesians 113, let's go to Ephesians 113. In him, in him, you also after listening to the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, having all, I see what you're saying, because it says after listening to the message, having also believed you were sealed. Well, there's never been a person in the history of America, at least post-cross, after the cross, that God saved without hearing the gospel. You have to hear the gospel. So necessarily you hear the gospel first. Now, guys, tell me the truth, be truthful. I'll be honest. I can't tell you how many times I heard the gospel and did not listen, but I heard the gospel. Paul says, how shall they hear without a preacher? How are they gonna call on someone who they've never heard of? They've gotta hear the gospel, then they believe. Well, I believe the believing part comes from, and it's not the mental, let's say, belief. No, God wants you to do something different. This is where their heart is regenerating, and then they continue to believe it, and that's because of when they heard it, and then God does them to their heart, and then they start this process of continuing to believe it. We don't wanna be like the people in the parable of the soulers who believed, or even the ones who took it into their heart, and then the devil comes and robs it out of their heart, as he says, so in order that they would not be continually believing, are you with me? Why is this important? Why should we cover this really every week? Why should we make sure that we have this settled? Because they're covering their heart, because they're questions that happen all the time. How do I know that I'm saved? How do I know that I have not back sleep? I feel bad. I get these questions all the time. Now, thankfully, and this is the good part, this is why I love you. Let me just say this, let me just say this. I don't think there is a YouTube channel with better or smarter viewers than this one. I think the smartest people on YouTube find their way over here. I think so. Even those guys who are in disagreement on some things, smart, because we go through the scriptures and we work this stuff out, and the best part about you guys being smart, you know why some of the questions, a lot of questions I don't have to answer or deal with because you guys do. I've seen so many times where someone is, I think I may have back slid. No, I'm not just flattering you guys, Cephas. No, I really am not, I really am not. I see the questions and I see you guys' response. I see, and I can't do it. The whole point, first of all, it's a cool intro. I don't know if you guys, when the intro comes on, I get it, I get it, your head gets to bobbing, your feet get to tapping, you get to, you know. All that, I get that. Look at the words that come across in the intro. Love it, learn it, live it, be smart. There is a reason why that's there. Love it, learn it, live it, be smart. I know the music can kind of get you in a trance and like, yeah, you know. She said, I started dancing, grooving. All right, well, fine. I don't know, I got me one to dance to. But love it, learn it, live it. Love it, learn it, live it. Go on and dance, Rick. Go on and dance, Rick. But yeah, CG, love it, learn it, live it. Love what? His word, learn it and then live it. How do we live it? Not just by hoarding the information and the knowledge, no, by conveying it to someone who needs it. There are people who simply are believers and are safe and do not understand the totality of their salvation. And so I've seen people who are bothered because they sin and they're upset. And then here comes someone who says, no, no, no, no, listen. And they comfort the person. They thank the person. I've seen, I don't know how many times someone has had a death in the family or someone is sick or what have you. And then you guys also go and pray for the person as well. Best YouTube family out there. Yeah, listen, there's a lot of good ones, a lot of good channels and a lot of good preachers out there, but nobody has the audience that we have here. No one has the family that we have here. It's why you go places and you see each other, other places or whatever. It's like when the smart Christians show up, the whole channel just changes. The whole chat's just, yeah, all right, y'all. We're here now, let's stop this foolishness. So that being said though, but I told you all the story of my wife and I going to Hawaii. We paid all this money, we flew from California. By the way, if you're gonna be in California, the best way to do it is to be flying out of California. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But we flew, we left California and we flew to Hawaii. When we got there, we got on the boat and it was the love boat. It was the love boat because me and my baby were there. No, but we got on the boat and we sailed around all the islands for a week. Hawaii's expensive, Hawaii is expensive. Go to McDonald's in Hawaii. The price that you pay now for McDonald's is what we were paying back then in Hawaii. It's just expensive, everything's expensive. And when I got there, we got there, we didn't realize, because we're paying all this money for these different excursions, for the helicopter tours and the scuba diving stuff and they had these little small submarines where you can go down and look at the way, Hawaii is extremely expensive. You know what the problem was? We had the ability to pay this stuff as we went along. We had the ability to make the payments to come out of our pocket to do certain things to enjoy the trip. We had to come out of our pocket to enjoy this trip even more so. We enjoy it, as a matter of fact, we're going back. We're gonna have to go back. We're gonna have to go back. Maybe I'll start prophesying. They don't have to be true prophecies. I'll start prophesying and say the Lord told me I had a dream, y'all, and then y'all start sending a whole bunch of money and then me and the missus go on. That's how it works, right? If you prophesy, it doesn't have to be true. You prophesy enough. You cast out enough demons, this cat of mine, I'm a cast of demons out of them, it doesn't matter. I'll be rolling the dough and then we'll take another trip to Hawaii. When we go the next time, do you know what we're gonna learn? You know what we're gonna know? We're gonna know something the next time that we did know the last time. All the money that's coming, that were coming out of our pocket to pay to enjoy this trip, the trip's been paid for. We have a nice cabin. It's on the outside of the boat so where we can look out and see the ocean. We sailed by the island where the lava's flowing into the ocean, beautiful scene. The pictures, the whales and so beautiful. We had a nice sight of this trip. Everything was paid for except for the things that weren't paid for, the excursions and some of the meals. Did you know the bad part about the trip was when we got home and looked at our documents, our brochures? Do you know that all the things that we paid for had already been paid for? Do you know that all those excursions were taken care of and we didn't have to come out of our pocket? We didn't have to make the thing more enjoyable than was already taken. How crazy is that? And do you wanna know what's funny about it? What's even worse about it? The bad part is that not only was this an all expense paid trip that we are coming out of our pocket to pay for. You know what was really the worst part about all of that? The people there didn't tell us. The people who knew better or should have known better didn't tell us. You mean tell me, you folks on this boat, no one came and said, hey listen, you got these bills and so forth, you keep coming to the room and offering more blankets or towels and this and that, can we do this and want a tip? But you never gave us that tip, huh? You never told us that this trip was paid for. You never told us that all we had to do was sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. Can you imagine someone being on a nice trip like that wondering, huh, calculate, do I have enough to make it? Calculating the cost to make it. Well, it's already been calculated for you, but I'm sitting there or someone's sitting there thinking, well, do I have enough money? Okay, we wanna take this excursion, but we can't because this is, man, it's expensive. We can take that one, but that one's what was paid for. Somebody could have told us and they never did. Wow, what you don't know can hurt you. He came to give you life and life abundantly on this side of attorney as well as that side of attorney. You don't have to walk around defeated wondering if that sin is the sin that tripped you up and caused you to fall into hell. Now you gotta get back up and repent all over again and go get baptized all over again and go to five more churches and come to the altar. You gotta do it all over again. No, because we're sheep and we understand knowing the word that we're gonna keep doing. Sheep don't walk in a straight line but we still keep falling after him. And our walk gets better and better and better. Could you imagine if someone would have told us that? Therein lies the problem. And so why do we do this so that people will know? People will know. Repentance is life's long thing though. But once you have this repentant heart, then you're always trying to turn away from anything that looks like sin, anything that feels like it smells like sin. It's like once you stop eating fried baloney and you started eating some real stuff, like that smell of fried baloney that didn't do it for me anymore. Or spam, I used to love spam. You used to love spam, I thought spam. Where did this stuff come from? This stuff fell out of heaven. Now spam is some garbage, I can't stand spam. I hate spam, I don't know. I wanna find the guy that invented it and go beat him up in Jesus' name. I don't wanna hurt him too bad. I used to love spam. Can't stand it now. Ugh, rotten. It's like oat milk. It's like oat milk. Who does oat milk or soy milk? It should be the real thing. Yeah, Chadwick is of the devil. Same thing with those Vienna sausages. I don't know who eats Vienna sausages anyway. You're not safe if you eat Vienna sausages. That's just not from God. That's just me. As Paul says, this is not of the Lord, this is me. Or like, amen, Jeff. Amen, Jeff. Jeff just said, Jeff, I wish I could give you a gold star. Or the Cowboys. I haven't brought them up in a while. And the reason why I haven't brought the Cowboys up in a while because they know about their team so I don't have to keep reminding them. Pig feet too. Now, Chetlins, the total different story. Chetlins are wonderful. Pig feet, not so wonderful. I don't even know what. Cow tongue. Some of you people out there have invented some of the worst things to absolutely eat. They're just, ugh. But I pray for you. I pray for you. Like Jesus says, Satan has a desire to sift you like wheat but I pray for you. Some of you guys are eating some strange stuff but I pray for you. But imagine having all the things because everyone that believes you can forfeit what God has given you, wouldn't you at least want the insurance to know that you can't? What would you rather have? Now I met a guy who said, I'd rather we could lose it. Okay, okay. It's because you don't read your Bible or you think too highly of yourself but take heed, let's you fall. And so guys, this is the reason why and this is the reason why I don't have a problem with covering this enough. And I'm thankful that you guys, no we're not looking good though, cause we're not looking good. Cowboys won't admit it but I wouldn't admit it. It's a culture, we're not looking good. But I'm thankful that you guys are always there ready to help somebody out, help somebody out. Thank you Dawson, I appreciate that. I do appreciate that. For the steak, I haven't had a steak in 30, 80. Yeah, it's been about 30 years since I last had my last steak. Why would he rather he could lose it because he's one of those guys that thought that he didn't sin that much and he'd like to look at everyone else's sin. Look at him over here, look at her. Why, why, why does he have that? Why is she wearing that? That's the kind of person that he was. Just kind of ultra self-righteous. Oh, but that's fine. Life is gonna teach him a lesson and there's no better teacher than life. So guys, I wanna thank you so much. I will look forward to seeing you guys on tomorrow. I've got to go, one, do some things, get ready for the Mrs. She comes back in town today. I gotta tell the cat he can't stay with me no more. He likes it. These four days, the cat's been hanging out with me. So I will say this though, he does not take up as much room as my baby. Yeah, the cat, if I move my leg or whatever, he just moves the other side. He is accommodating. So anyway, guys, I love you so much and I will see you all tomorrow. God bless you.