1 00:00:01,530 --> 00:00:03,790 Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:04,270 --> 00:00:05,970 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:05,970 --> 00:00:07,970 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:07,970 --> 00:00:10,770 Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers 5 00:00:10,770 --> 00:00:11,070 too. 6 00:00:11,710 --> 00:00:14,050 This week we have William MacDonald with his 7 00:00:14,050 --> 00:00:17,210 message, Seven Corrective Lenses for Spiritual Eyesight. 8 00:00:18,980 --> 00:00:21,120 This afternoon for our bible study to second 9 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,960 Corinthians chapter five, fifth chapter of second Corinthians 10 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:30,780 and we'll begin reading with verse nine. 11 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,560 Second Corinthians chapter five verse nine. 12 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:39,440 Wherefore we labor that whether present or absent 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,780 we may be accepted of him. 14 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:44,840 For we must all appear before the judgment 15 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,000 seat of Christ that everyone may receive the 16 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,760 things done in his body according to that 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,000 he hath done whether it be good or 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:53,440 bad. 19 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,340 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we 20 00:00:56,340 --> 00:00:59,280 persuade men but we are made manifest unto 21 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,620 God and I trust also are made manifest 22 00:01:01,620 --> 00:01:03,099 in your consciences. 23 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,500 For we commend not ourselves again unto you 24 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:09,060 but give you occasion to glory on our 25 00:01:09,060 --> 00:01:11,460 behalf that ye may have somewhat to answer 26 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:13,980 them which glory in appearance and not in 27 00:01:13,980 --> 00:01:14,280 heart. 28 00:01:14,820 --> 00:01:17,060 For whether we be beside ourselves it is 29 00:01:17,060 --> 00:01:19,840 to God or whether we be sober it's 30 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:20,760 for your cause. 31 00:01:21,260 --> 00:01:24,020 For the love of Christ constraineth us because 32 00:01:24,020 --> 00:01:26,800 we thus judge that if one died for 33 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,540 all then we're all dead and that he 34 00:01:29,540 --> 00:01:32,720 died for all that they which live should 35 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,460 not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him 36 00:01:36,460 --> 00:01:38,960 which died for them and rose again. 37 00:01:39,260 --> 00:01:42,180 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the 38 00:01:42,180 --> 00:01:45,060 flesh yea though we have known Christ after 39 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:47,780 the flesh yet now henceforth know we him 40 00:01:47,780 --> 00:01:48,360 no more. 41 00:01:48,980 --> 00:01:51,160 Therefore if any man be in Christ he 42 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:52,040 is a new creature. 43 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,580 Old things are passed away behold all things 44 00:01:55,580 --> 00:01:57,940 are become new and all things are of 45 00:01:57,940 --> 00:02:00,620 God who hath reconciled us to himself by 46 00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:03,120 Jesus Christ and hath given to us the 47 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,640 ministry of reconciliation to it that God was 48 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,360 in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not 49 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,320 imputing their trespasses unto them and hath committed 50 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,520 unto us the word of reconciliation. 51 00:02:16,220 --> 00:02:19,080 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ as 52 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,020 though God did beseech you by us we 53 00:02:21,020 --> 00:02:24,080 pray you in Christ's stead be reconciled to 54 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,760 God for he hath made him to be 55 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,200 sin for us who knew no sin that 56 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,300 we might be made the righteousness of God 57 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:32,820 in him. 58 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,160 We then as workers together with him beseech 59 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,560 you also that he receive not the grace 60 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,980 of God in vain for he said I 61 00:02:39,980 --> 00:02:42,280 have heard thee in a time accepted and 62 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,340 in the day of salvation have I succored 63 00:02:44,340 --> 00:02:44,540 thee. 64 00:02:44,780 --> 00:02:47,440 Behold now is the accepted time behold now 65 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,000 is the day of salvation. 66 00:02:52,070 --> 00:02:53,330 I think this is one of the most 67 00:02:53,330 --> 00:02:57,830 significant passages of scripture dealing with Christian life 68 00:02:57,830 --> 00:02:58,830 and service. 69 00:03:00,370 --> 00:03:02,550 If you listen very closely you can hear 70 00:03:02,550 --> 00:03:04,930 the heartbeat of the great apostle Paul. 71 00:03:05,490 --> 00:03:08,210 This passage of scripture tells us what made 72 00:03:08,210 --> 00:03:10,790 him tick it tells us what made him 73 00:03:10,790 --> 00:03:13,350 act the way he did and I'd like 74 00:03:13,350 --> 00:03:16,170 to think of it with you this afternoon 75 00:03:16,170 --> 00:03:20,450 in terms of spiritual vision and I would 76 00:03:20,450 --> 00:03:23,570 like to suggest that in this passage of 77 00:03:23,570 --> 00:03:26,850 scripture the spirit of God gives us seven 78 00:03:26,850 --> 00:03:31,110 correctional lenses for our glasses and if we 79 00:03:31,110 --> 00:03:33,350 go forth in life and look at life 80 00:03:33,350 --> 00:03:36,850 through these seven correctional lenses we'll never go 81 00:03:36,850 --> 00:03:39,930 astray we'll never miss out on that which 82 00:03:39,930 --> 00:03:41,830 is central in life. 83 00:03:42,610 --> 00:03:45,070 Now they tell us that nobody has perfect 84 00:03:45,070 --> 00:03:47,350 vision and I guess that's true a lot 85 00:03:47,350 --> 00:03:49,730 of people have 20-20 vision but as 86 00:03:49,730 --> 00:03:51,830 far as the curvature of the human eye 87 00:03:51,830 --> 00:03:55,970 is concerned everybody has a measure of astigmatism 88 00:03:55,970 --> 00:03:59,070 and it's certainly true in spiritual things that 89 00:03:59,070 --> 00:04:01,950 nobody has perfect vision. 90 00:04:02,310 --> 00:04:04,370 Well when you go to the eye doctor 91 00:04:04,370 --> 00:04:07,330 or to the optometrist you know most of 92 00:04:07,330 --> 00:04:08,630 you know many of you know what it's 93 00:04:08,630 --> 00:04:11,270 like you sit there in the chair and 94 00:04:11,270 --> 00:04:15,269 he puts an awkward looking thing in front 95 00:04:15,269 --> 00:04:16,430 of you it used to be a set 96 00:04:16,430 --> 00:04:18,269 of frames but now he has a big 97 00:04:18,269 --> 00:04:20,430 machine of some kind that he puts in 98 00:04:20,430 --> 00:04:21,950 front of you and you look through two 99 00:04:21,950 --> 00:04:24,110 holes in the machine and there's a chart 100 00:04:24,110 --> 00:04:25,510 down there at the other end of the 101 00:04:25,510 --> 00:04:28,850 room and he puts the light on the 102 00:04:28,850 --> 00:04:30,970 chart and you look out through these two 103 00:04:30,970 --> 00:04:33,990 openings and he says now Mr. McDonald what's 104 00:04:33,990 --> 00:04:36,470 the top line on the chart and I 105 00:04:36,470 --> 00:04:38,450 say to him what chart is that doctor 106 00:04:38,450 --> 00:04:42,270 and well he says this is really bad 107 00:04:42,270 --> 00:04:45,650 and so he starts to snap down some 108 00:04:45,650 --> 00:04:49,930 lenses into the frames you know and when 109 00:04:49,930 --> 00:04:51,690 they first start coming down he says now 110 00:04:51,690 --> 00:04:54,210 do you see anything and I'm always reminded 111 00:04:54,210 --> 00:04:56,210 of the scripture that says I see men 112 00:04:56,210 --> 00:04:59,410 as trees walking because it's still kind of 113 00:04:59,410 --> 00:05:01,930 blurry you know just as your faces are 114 00:05:01,930 --> 00:05:04,050 to me right now but then the more 115 00:05:04,050 --> 00:05:06,610 he snaps these lenses down into place the 116 00:05:06,610 --> 00:05:11,090 more things come into focus and the better 117 00:05:11,090 --> 00:05:13,490 the vision is and it really is quite 118 00:05:13,490 --> 00:05:15,550 remarkable before he gets through you have 20 119 00:05:15,550 --> 00:05:18,570 -20 vision well now the spirit of God 120 00:05:18,570 --> 00:05:21,190 in this passage of scripture gives us some 121 00:05:21,190 --> 00:05:24,690 corrective lenses that we as Christians should keep 122 00:05:24,690 --> 00:05:28,410 in our glasses at all times and I'm 123 00:05:28,410 --> 00:05:29,590 going to go over them with you this 124 00:05:29,590 --> 00:05:31,350 afternoon but first of all I'd like to 125 00:05:31,350 --> 00:05:33,390 make a few comments on some of these 126 00:05:33,390 --> 00:05:37,190 verses verse 9 we began with it says 127 00:05:37,190 --> 00:05:39,970 wherefore we labor that whether present or absent 128 00:05:39,970 --> 00:05:42,490 we may be accepted of him I think 129 00:05:42,490 --> 00:05:45,190 any of you who have uh more recent 130 00:05:45,190 --> 00:05:47,370 versions of the bible will find that they're 131 00:05:47,370 --> 00:05:49,990 more accurate in this case verse 9 in 132 00:05:49,990 --> 00:05:52,830 the king james version makes it appear that 133 00:05:52,830 --> 00:05:55,730 by laboring you can become acceptable to God 134 00:05:55,730 --> 00:05:58,570 and that isn't true is it what makes 135 00:05:58,570 --> 00:06:01,130 us accepted with him not the labor of 136 00:06:01,130 --> 00:06:03,110 our hands could fulfill the laws to man 137 00:06:03,110 --> 00:06:06,110 we're accepted in the beloved we read in 138 00:06:06,110 --> 00:06:09,510 Ephesians chapter 1 our acceptance before God is 139 00:06:09,510 --> 00:06:12,490 in the person of his son and so 140 00:06:12,490 --> 00:06:14,650 the real meaning of this verse is wherefore 141 00:06:14,650 --> 00:06:18,250 we make it our aim our ambition that 142 00:06:18,250 --> 00:06:20,250 whether present or absent we may be well 143 00:06:20,250 --> 00:06:22,070 pleasing to him ah well it makes a 144 00:06:22,070 --> 00:06:25,450 big difference doesn't it you don't labor to 145 00:06:25,450 --> 00:06:28,290 be accepted with him you come and believe 146 00:06:28,290 --> 00:06:30,590 in the Lord Jesus Christ receive him as 147 00:06:30,590 --> 00:06:33,330 Lord and Savior and you're accepted in him 148 00:06:33,330 --> 00:06:35,890 but you do labor that whether present or 149 00:06:35,890 --> 00:06:37,910 absent you may be well pleasing to him 150 00:06:37,910 --> 00:06:40,530 and that's exactly what the apostle Paul was 151 00:06:40,530 --> 00:06:45,710 saying his life was one torrent of desire 152 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,050 that he might do the thing that pleased 153 00:06:49,050 --> 00:06:54,460 the heart of Jesus Christ really was one 154 00:06:54,460 --> 00:06:58,380 great torrent of desire to be well pleasing 155 00:06:58,380 --> 00:07:01,500 to him well now we're going to skip 156 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:03,420 down to verse 11 and we're going to 157 00:07:03,420 --> 00:07:05,480 come to the first corrective lens that the 158 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,680 apostle Paul had in his glasses it says 159 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,480 knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we 160 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,780 persuade men but we are made manifest unto 161 00:07:13,780 --> 00:07:16,320 God and I trust also are made manifest 162 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,040 in your consciences I call this corrective lens 163 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:24,700 the fact of hell the fact of hell 164 00:07:24,700 --> 00:07:29,360 knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we 165 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,580 persuade men you know it's very easy for 166 00:07:32,580 --> 00:07:35,700 us as Christians to forget about hell isn't 167 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:39,120 it it's very easy for us as believers 168 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,180 to soft pedal the doctrine of hell and 169 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:46,460 the more we're able to slide it in 170 00:07:46,460 --> 00:07:49,320 the background the more comfortable our lives will 171 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:54,120 become but the apostle Paul had some corrective 172 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,060 lenses in his glasses in which he constantly 173 00:07:57,060 --> 00:08:01,260 saw the flaming fires of hell and it 174 00:08:01,260 --> 00:08:04,000 made a difference in his life life now 175 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,960 I know it's an unpopular doctrine today and 176 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,260 yet my bible still says the smoke of 177 00:08:09,260 --> 00:08:13,760 their torment ascendeth up forever and ever doesn't 178 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,220 it say that in your bible my bible 179 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:20,540 still says where their worm dieth not and 180 00:08:20,540 --> 00:08:23,900 the fire is not quenched and I want 181 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:26,200 to tell you it's a solemn thought it's 182 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,340 a solemn thought our loved ones our relatives 183 00:08:29,340 --> 00:08:32,080 our friends the people we're visiting day by 184 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,220 day if they go out into eternity without 185 00:08:34,220 --> 00:08:36,980 the Lord Jesus Christ it's the lake of 186 00:08:36,980 --> 00:08:40,919 fire forever and forever about a year ago 187 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:42,640 this time some of our young people the 188 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:44,860 fellows in the dormitory at school began getting 189 00:08:44,860 --> 00:08:47,040 desperate with God about that and they they 190 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,900 had a rummage sale up in the dorm 191 00:08:48,900 --> 00:08:51,840 it caused quite a stir some of the 192 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:53,700 fellows began coming in and buying some of 193 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:55,380 the bargains and then the spirit of God 194 00:08:55,380 --> 00:08:57,480 convicted them what were they doing buying all 195 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:59,560 these things in a world where men were 196 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:02,200 perishing and the sales fell off rather abruptly 197 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,360 all of a sudden well then the fellows 198 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:08,100 at a dormitory room full of suits and 199 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:10,880 shoes and radios and jewelry and all the 200 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:12,140 rest and they didn't know what to do 201 00:09:12,140 --> 00:09:13,420 with it so one day one of them 202 00:09:13,420 --> 00:09:14,560 came in to me and said we'd like 203 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:15,840 to take some of this down to the 204 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,680 resale center and I said why don't you 205 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:19,400 said we don't have a car I said 206 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,680 oh I see well we'll go down so 207 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:23,080 we got the car and we filled it 208 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:24,520 up with goods and went down to the 209 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,940 resale center but on the way down this 210 00:09:26,940 --> 00:09:29,040 fellow said to me this mcdonald a parable 211 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,120 of the rich man in hell and I 212 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,100 said to him yes he said would it 213 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:36,680 be safe to say would it be correct 214 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:38,260 to say that the rich man is still 215 00:09:38,260 --> 00:09:40,960 in hell and I said well you'd have 216 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:42,380 to say that if you believe the bible 217 00:09:42,380 --> 00:09:45,420 record he said would it be accurate to 218 00:09:45,420 --> 00:09:47,500 say that he hasn't served a second of 219 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:51,190 his sentence well I said I think you'd 220 00:09:51,190 --> 00:09:53,090 have to say that if you really believe 221 00:09:53,090 --> 00:09:56,850 what the bible teaches then he said to 222 00:09:56,850 --> 00:09:58,930 me of course some people say it was 223 00:09:58,930 --> 00:10:02,010 just a parable and what he was doing 224 00:10:02,010 --> 00:10:03,690 was opening the back door in case I 225 00:10:03,690 --> 00:10:05,530 wanted to go out but I didn't want 226 00:10:05,530 --> 00:10:09,270 to go out there's always a back door 227 00:10:09,270 --> 00:10:10,630 if you want to escape some of the 228 00:10:10,630 --> 00:10:12,550 clear meanings of some of the scriptures you 229 00:10:12,550 --> 00:10:14,870 know there are always people who might have 230 00:10:14,870 --> 00:10:17,730 theological explanations of why these verses don't mean 231 00:10:17,730 --> 00:10:20,610 what they say but thank god for people 232 00:10:20,610 --> 00:10:22,690 who accept the bible at its face value 233 00:10:22,690 --> 00:10:26,710 and their lives are transformed and empowered by 234 00:10:26,710 --> 00:10:28,090 it well I believe that was the case 235 00:10:28,090 --> 00:10:30,150 for the apostle paul he put this correctional 236 00:10:30,150 --> 00:10:32,390 lens in his class as the fact of 237 00:10:32,390 --> 00:10:35,470 hell knowing therefore the terror of the lord 238 00:10:35,470 --> 00:10:37,730 we persuade men and can't you just feel 239 00:10:37,730 --> 00:10:40,390 the urgency in the life of the apostle 240 00:10:40,390 --> 00:10:42,510 paul as he went over land and sea 241 00:10:42,510 --> 00:10:45,130 telling them that there was a hell to 242 00:10:45,130 --> 00:10:48,190 be shunned and a heaven to be gained 243 00:10:48,190 --> 00:10:51,330 now before we come to the next correctional 244 00:10:51,330 --> 00:10:53,990 lens I'd like you to notice verse 13 245 00:10:53,990 --> 00:10:55,950 for whether we be beside ourselves it is 246 00:10:55,950 --> 00:10:58,030 to god whether we be sober it is 247 00:10:58,030 --> 00:11:02,950 for your sake apparently this truth so gripped 248 00:11:02,950 --> 00:11:04,950 the great apostle paul that it made him 249 00:11:04,950 --> 00:11:07,930 look like a fanatic you know that word 250 00:11:07,930 --> 00:11:11,230 fanatic is a dirty word in many circles 251 00:11:11,230 --> 00:11:13,810 today it's a it's an unpopular word but 252 00:11:13,810 --> 00:11:16,790 apparently there was that about the apostle paul 253 00:11:16,790 --> 00:11:21,650 that made him beside himself of course it 254 00:11:21,650 --> 00:11:24,670 was about the lord jesus too there was 255 00:11:24,670 --> 00:11:26,970 that zeal in the life of the lord 256 00:11:26,970 --> 00:11:29,590 jesus that made his own brothers think he 257 00:11:29,590 --> 00:11:33,300 was out of his mind and when he 258 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:36,380 went cleansing the temple the uh disciples remember 259 00:11:36,380 --> 00:11:38,220 that it was said of him the zeal 260 00:11:38,220 --> 00:11:40,940 of thine house has eaten me up just 261 00:11:40,940 --> 00:11:42,940 think of that just think of the blessed 262 00:11:42,940 --> 00:11:49,300 lord jesus christ consumed with a zeal for 263 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:51,260 the things of god and that's what his 264 00:11:51,260 --> 00:11:55,530 life was like and so i read this 265 00:11:56,570 --> 00:11:58,390 and i hear people say well you don't 266 00:11:58,390 --> 00:11:59,970 have to be too you know i mean 267 00:11:59,970 --> 00:12:02,370 you can attend church once on sunday i 268 00:12:02,370 --> 00:12:04,790 mean we've all got to be religious and 269 00:12:04,790 --> 00:12:07,830 uh but just become a little outspoken for 270 00:12:07,830 --> 00:12:09,910 the lord jesus and people look down their 271 00:12:09,910 --> 00:12:12,570 sophisticated noses at you and think that you've 272 00:12:12,570 --> 00:12:14,450 gone too far well never mind the great 273 00:12:14,450 --> 00:12:16,210 apostle paul went too far too he says 274 00:12:16,210 --> 00:12:18,330 whether we be beside ourselves as to god 275 00:12:18,330 --> 00:12:20,110 whether we be sober it's for your sake 276 00:12:20,110 --> 00:12:22,230 no matter what his mood might have been 277 00:12:22,230 --> 00:12:25,550 at any particular time his goal was the 278 00:12:25,550 --> 00:12:27,490 same the glory of god and the blessing 279 00:12:27,490 --> 00:12:29,730 of his fellow men well that speaks to 280 00:12:29,730 --> 00:12:33,570 my heart today all right now the second 281 00:12:33,570 --> 00:12:37,190 correctional lens is found in verse 14 he 282 00:12:37,190 --> 00:12:40,110 says for the love of christ constrain us 283 00:12:40,110 --> 00:12:43,010 this is the second thing first of all 284 00:12:43,010 --> 00:12:45,310 he had those correctional lenses in the frames 285 00:12:45,310 --> 00:12:47,990 that by in which he saw the flaming 286 00:12:47,990 --> 00:12:49,870 fires of hell and it made a difference 287 00:12:49,870 --> 00:12:51,250 in his life and it sent him forth 288 00:12:51,250 --> 00:12:53,450 on a passion to see men and women 289 00:12:53,450 --> 00:12:56,710 delivered from that terrible fate but he saw 290 00:12:56,710 --> 00:12:59,230 something else there was there were correctional lenses 291 00:12:59,230 --> 00:13:02,570 in his glasses and constantly he saw a 292 00:13:02,570 --> 00:13:05,250 cross and on that cross the son of 293 00:13:05,250 --> 00:13:10,590 god lifted high between heaven and earth and 294 00:13:10,590 --> 00:13:13,430 he considered the fact of the death of 295 00:13:13,430 --> 00:13:17,750 christ and what it meant that the vision 296 00:13:17,750 --> 00:13:22,880 burned in his soul you know last sunday 297 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:24,540 as we were remembering the lord or the 298 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:27,340 local assembly the thought came to me that 299 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:29,580 really in my life i've only had occasional 300 00:13:29,580 --> 00:13:34,220 glimpses occasional glimpses of the glory of jesus 301 00:13:34,220 --> 00:13:36,320 dying for me on the cross of calvin 302 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,680 i wish the truth would seize me and 303 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:41,020 grip me and constrain me and compel me 304 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:46,360 more than it does i'll never forget one 305 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:52,680 one day out in honolulu in 1945 we 306 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:54,980 christian fellows in the navy used to um 307 00:13:54,980 --> 00:13:57,320 used to exchange christian books a lot of 308 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,400 time to read wanted to redeem the time 309 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:00,880 and a sailor boy came to me one 310 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,440 day and he said to me have you 311 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:04,300 ever read ct stud and i said no 312 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:05,500 i've never read it he would you like 313 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:09,820 to i guessed i would innocence abroad i 314 00:14:09,820 --> 00:14:11,700 didn't know what was going to happen and 315 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:14,640 so he gave me ct stud and i 316 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,560 began to read it on a saturday i 317 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:18,820 got off duty at noon threw myself in 318 00:14:18,820 --> 00:14:21,320 the grass outside the boq and began to 319 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,200 read this book ct stud and god began 320 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,660 to deal in my heart and um at 321 00:14:27,660 --> 00:14:29,200 supper time i didn't bother to get up 322 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,560 and go in for supper there was something 323 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,000 else more important than that and got dark 324 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,920 and i picked myself up off the grass 325 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,260 and went into the room put on the 326 00:14:37,260 --> 00:14:39,900 light i finished the book at midnight you 327 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:41,440 know when i finished that book at midnight 328 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,840 i knew i'd never go back to the 329 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,800 first national bank of boston my little world 330 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,820 of ticker tape went out the window that 331 00:14:48,820 --> 00:14:51,600 day do you know what did it a 332 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,720 statement by ct stud he said if jesus 333 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,600 christ be god and die for me then 334 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,780 no sacrifice can be too great for me 335 00:15:01,780 --> 00:15:04,980 to make for him and that verse slew 336 00:15:04,980 --> 00:15:07,500 me that day it really did i couldn't 337 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:11,200 answer it but i closed the book for 338 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:12,720 that week i sat down and wrote a 339 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:14,080 letter to the bank and told him don't 340 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,120 bother to hold the job i won't be 341 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,000 coming back to it i didn't know what 342 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,760 the lord had for me but i knew 343 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,440 god had spoken to me i knew i 344 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,280 felt a divine tap on the shoulder and 345 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,220 i praise god for that i praise god 346 00:15:27,220 --> 00:15:30,400 for that whole experience experience i'll never forget 347 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,580 if jesus christ be god and died for 348 00:15:33,580 --> 00:15:37,080 me then no sacrifice will be too great 349 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,560 for me to make for him you know 350 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:41,380 we sing this all the time and every 351 00:15:41,380 --> 00:15:43,600 time i sing that hymn just a faint 352 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,040 glimpse of light comes in upon me but 353 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,540 not the great unveiling that it should be 354 00:15:48,540 --> 00:15:52,180 when i survey the wondrous cross on which 355 00:15:52,180 --> 00:15:55,860 the prince of glory died my richest gain 356 00:15:55,860 --> 00:15:59,280 i count but lost and poor contempt and 357 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:03,220 all my pride see from his head his 358 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:07,220 hands his feet sorrow and love flowed mingled 359 00:16:07,220 --> 00:16:10,480 down did air such love and sorrow meet 360 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:15,840 or thorns composed so rich a crown were 361 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,500 the whole realm of nature mine that were 362 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:23,780 an offering far too small love so amazing 363 00:16:23,780 --> 00:16:29,380 so divine demands my soul my life my 364 00:16:29,380 --> 00:16:33,340 all i'll tell you there's nothing that'll melt 365 00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:37,420 the ice of our hearts like a vision 366 00:16:37,420 --> 00:16:40,160 of the lord jesus christ dying for us 367 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:44,360 on calvary's cross and it's only as we're 368 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,500 able to forget that that we can ever 369 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:54,500 become complacent it really is oh christ thy 370 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:58,300 bleeding hands and feet thy sacrifice for me 371 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:03,500 each wound each tear demands my life a 372 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:06,880 sacrifice for thee that's what paul said in 373 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,140 romans 12 1 and 2 i beseech you 374 00:17:09,140 --> 00:17:11,380 therefore brethren by the mercies of god and 375 00:17:11,380 --> 00:17:13,740 he had just taken 11 chapters to expound 376 00:17:13,740 --> 00:17:16,160 the mercies of god he says i beseech 377 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:17,460 you by the mercies of god that you 378 00:17:17,460 --> 00:17:21,200 present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable 379 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,700 unto him be not conformed to this world 380 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:28,580 be transformed by the renewing of your mind 381 00:17:28,580 --> 00:17:31,460 and he speaks of it as our reasonable 382 00:17:31,460 --> 00:17:35,680 service and really nothing else is reasonable in 383 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,700 the light of calvary well the apostle paul 384 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:41,660 says the love of christ constraineth us as 385 00:17:41,660 --> 00:17:43,700 you know that's an interesting expression that word 386 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:47,300 means it really moves us along in the 387 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:49,240 united states at christmas time there's quite a 388 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,200 rush down around the department stores and the 389 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:53,860 rush is so great that really about all 390 00:17:53,860 --> 00:17:55,720 you have to do is just get into 391 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,320 the middle of the crowd and lift up 392 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,820 both feet simultaneously and the crowd will just 393 00:17:59,820 --> 00:18:02,220 bear you along and that's what the word 394 00:18:02,220 --> 00:18:07,140 means constrains it means impels along moves along 395 00:18:07,140 --> 00:18:09,100 and the apostle paul says is a great 396 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:11,240 constraining force in my life and it's this 397 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,420 that i saw the lord jesus christ come 398 00:18:13,420 --> 00:18:15,920 down from heaven to bethlehem and go on 399 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,400 to the cross for me and the lord 400 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,820 of life and glory poured out his soul 401 00:18:20,820 --> 00:18:23,740 to death for me a guilty vile ungodly 402 00:18:23,740 --> 00:18:26,340 sinner and i'll never get over it as 403 00:18:26,340 --> 00:18:28,160 long as i live and throughout all eternity 404 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,960 i'll never get over it well he says 405 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,120 here the love of christ constrains us because 406 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:36,340 we thus judge i like that expression because 407 00:18:36,340 --> 00:18:38,420 we thus judge what does it mean when 408 00:18:38,420 --> 00:18:40,680 he says god doesn't expect us to throw 409 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,720 our minds away when we come to this 410 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,960 whole christian faith he wants us to sit 411 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,040 down and ponder it sit down and consider 412 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,080 it all right he says sit down before 413 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,760 the cross and start thinking and what will 414 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,140 you think well he says we thus judge 415 00:18:54,140 --> 00:18:56,120 that if one died for all then we're 416 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:58,540 all dead why did jesus die for us 417 00:18:58,540 --> 00:19:00,700 all because otherwise we were all dead and 418 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:02,440 on the way to hell that's why he 419 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:04,880 died for us he died for us because 420 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,880 we couldn't save ourselves he died for us 421 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:08,180 because we were at the end of our 422 00:19:08,180 --> 00:19:10,500 ropes and if left to ourselves we would 423 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:13,540 have perished eternally the fact that he died 424 00:19:13,540 --> 00:19:16,000 for us was proof positive that we were 425 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,220 dead in ourselves why did he die that 426 00:19:19,220 --> 00:19:20,940 he died for all that they which live 427 00:19:20,940 --> 00:19:23,960 should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto 428 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,180 him which died for them and rose again 429 00:19:26,180 --> 00:19:28,540 the lord jesus didn't die for me in 430 00:19:28,540 --> 00:19:30,980 order that henceforth i might go on and 431 00:19:30,980 --> 00:19:32,840 live my life the way i want to 432 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,580 live it pleasing myself in all things he 433 00:19:36,580 --> 00:19:38,400 died for me on the cross of calvary 434 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,280 so that henceforth i might not live unto 435 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,100 myself but unto him who died for me 436 00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:45,040 and rose again the purpose of his dying 437 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,340 was that he might be lord that's why 438 00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:50,620 that's why he died that he might be 439 00:19:50,620 --> 00:19:53,420 lord it's a wonderful revelation that comes to 440 00:19:53,420 --> 00:19:56,280 the human soul when the child of god 441 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,740 realizes that he was bought at the cross 442 00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:03,200 and that fact means that i no longer 443 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,680 belong to myself i belong to the lord 444 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,960 jesus and if if i'm to take my 445 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,060 life and do with my life what i 446 00:20:11,060 --> 00:20:13,000 want to do with it then i am 447 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:18,680 a what anybody a thief that's what it 448 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,360 is a thief because you're taking something really 449 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:25,020 that doesn't belong to you isn't that true 450 00:20:25,020 --> 00:20:27,400 i say it's a wonderful revelation when that 451 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,140 comes home to the heart and then the 452 00:20:29,140 --> 00:20:33,140 only logical reasonable sane sensible thing you can 453 00:20:33,140 --> 00:20:37,040 do is say thou hast bled and died 454 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,260 for me henceforth i will live for thee 455 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,220 the only sensible sane reasonable thing to do 456 00:20:45,220 --> 00:20:47,000 is to turn over the reins of the 457 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,600 life to him that he died for all 458 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,440 that they which live should not henceforth live 459 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,280 unto themselves but unto him which died for 460 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,740 them and rose again so there's the second 461 00:20:55,740 --> 00:20:58,780 corrective lens the love of christ and of 462 00:20:58,780 --> 00:21:00,980 course that takes you right back to calvary 463 00:21:00,980 --> 00:21:03,640 the cross keep it in your glasses keep 464 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,960 it in your spiritual classes look at life 465 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:10,340 through that correction now the third corrective lens 466 00:21:10,340 --> 00:21:13,220 is found in verse 16 it says wherefore 467 00:21:13,220 --> 00:21:15,880 henceforth no we no man after the flesh 468 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,360 yea though we have known christ after the 469 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:21,280 flesh yet now henceforth no we him no 470 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,500 more what does that mean well the first 471 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:27,400 part of it means that now that i'm 472 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,380 a christian i don't look at men as 473 00:21:30,380 --> 00:21:33,320 mere men in the flesh before i was 474 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,160 saved i would walk down the street and 475 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:36,800 i'd see that woman going by with a 476 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,880 ridiculous hairdo and i'd kind of snort inwardly 477 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,120 and kind of ridicule her now i'd see 478 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:45,400 some fellow and i had a way of 479 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,060 pigeonholing people and classifying them you know according 480 00:21:49,060 --> 00:21:51,780 to my own proud estimate of what people 481 00:21:51,780 --> 00:21:54,300 should be the apostle paul says now that 482 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:55,880 i'm i don't look at people that way 483 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,120 i don't look at people look down upon 484 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:04,180 them and scorn them and ridicule them i 485 00:22:04,180 --> 00:22:06,860 look at people and i see precious souls 486 00:22:06,860 --> 00:22:09,780 for whom the lord jesus christ has died 487 00:22:09,780 --> 00:22:13,360 makes a difference doesn't it really makes a 488 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:16,580 difference precious so the apostle paul says when 489 00:22:16,580 --> 00:22:18,420 i look at a man i don't even 490 00:22:18,420 --> 00:22:20,560 think of what he is now so much 491 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,740 as what he could be for god throughout 492 00:22:22,740 --> 00:22:25,840 all eternity that really is tremendous isn't it 493 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,700 really is tremendous to think that that man 494 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:33,500 wallowing around in the gutter steeped in sin 495 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:37,160 and drunkenness and misery and all the rest 496 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,740 could hear the gospel could respond to the 497 00:22:39,740 --> 00:22:42,460 gospel could receive the lord jesus christ and 498 00:22:42,460 --> 00:22:44,620 could be there gathered with those from every 499 00:22:44,620 --> 00:22:48,400 tribe and nation in eternity worshiping the lamb 500 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,020 of god what a vision that's what the 501 00:22:50,020 --> 00:22:53,460 apostle paul is saying here as forth no 502 00:22:53,460 --> 00:22:55,020 we know men after the flesh we don't 503 00:22:55,020 --> 00:22:57,280 look at people in that way anymore we 504 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,000 have a we have a new way of 505 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,700 looking at them i would call this lens 506 00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:06,740 the the value and eternity of a soul 507 00:23:06,740 --> 00:23:11,860 the value and eternity of a soul and 508 00:23:11,860 --> 00:23:14,120 in this connection i would think of the 509 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:18,700 most ragged sinful person in all the world 510 00:23:18,700 --> 00:23:22,020 tonight and remember that if i could heap 511 00:23:22,020 --> 00:23:23,980 all the riches in the world all the 512 00:23:23,980 --> 00:23:28,200 stocks bonds diamonds gold silver money real estate 513 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,080 and all the rest if i could heap 514 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,960 it all into a big mountain that that 515 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,620 one soul least esteemed in the world tonight 516 00:23:34,620 --> 00:23:36,500 is worth more than all the treasure put 517 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:39,780 together what is a man profited if he 518 00:23:39,780 --> 00:23:41,560 gained the whole world and lose his own 519 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,640 soul or what shall a man give in 520 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,900 exchange for soul and i look at calvary's 521 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:47,700 cross and i see the lord jesus christ 522 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:49,800 dying there for sinners and i get some 523 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,280 estimate of god's value of a human soul 524 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,610 and that's what paul's saying here so i 525 00:23:57,610 --> 00:24:00,370 look at people and i see potentially the 526 00:24:00,370 --> 00:24:05,170 brand of redemption on every human forehead yes 527 00:24:05,170 --> 00:24:07,290 if even if we seen christ after the 528 00:24:07,290 --> 00:24:10,070 flesh yet now henceforth no we him no 529 00:24:10,070 --> 00:24:12,770 more what does that mean well you know 530 00:24:12,770 --> 00:24:16,590 it's better to know christ today by the 531 00:24:16,590 --> 00:24:19,250 spirit through the word of god than it 532 00:24:19,250 --> 00:24:20,710 was to have been one of the disciples 533 00:24:20,710 --> 00:24:22,070 and know him when he was here on 534 00:24:22,070 --> 00:24:24,950 earth does that sound like heresy to you 535 00:24:24,950 --> 00:24:27,310 well let me explain i believe that's what 536 00:24:27,310 --> 00:24:28,770 the lord meant when he said to mary 537 00:24:28,770 --> 00:24:31,170 don't cling to me mary i'm going to 538 00:24:31,170 --> 00:24:33,730 ascend to my father and after i ascend 539 00:24:33,730 --> 00:24:36,010 to my father and the holy spirit comes 540 00:24:36,010 --> 00:24:37,730 you'll know me better than you ever knew 541 00:24:37,730 --> 00:24:40,490 me before let me just explain it this 542 00:24:40,490 --> 00:24:42,270 way when jesus was here on earth in 543 00:24:42,270 --> 00:24:45,970 the body supposing he were standing here well 544 00:24:45,970 --> 00:24:48,910 he'd be closer to ray than he would 545 00:24:48,910 --> 00:24:51,190 to the folks in the back row there 546 00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:54,630 who's he closer to tonight in this room 547 00:24:54,630 --> 00:24:56,950 oh he's just as close to one of 548 00:24:56,950 --> 00:25:01,340 us as he is to the other and 549 00:25:01,340 --> 00:25:03,220 not alone there but matthew when he was 550 00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:07,120 here on earth saw jesus through matthew's mark 551 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:09,680 saw him through mark's eyes luke saw him 552 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,580 through luke's eyes and john saw him through 553 00:25:11,580 --> 00:25:13,540 john's eye and we see him through the 554 00:25:13,540 --> 00:25:15,820 eyes of matthew mark luke john and the 555 00:25:15,820 --> 00:25:18,640 spirit of god reveals him to us in 556 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,440 all the splendor that god wants us to 557 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,500 see him we used to sing when we 558 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:24,540 were children i think when i read that 559 00:25:24,540 --> 00:25:26,900 sweet story of old when jesus was here 560 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:28,860 among men how he called little children as 561 00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:30,880 lambs to his foe i should like to 562 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,600 have been with him then well i should 563 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,660 like to it's really better to be with 564 00:25:34,660 --> 00:25:37,400 him now it really is we know the 565 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,620 lord jesus better by the spirit through the 566 00:25:39,620 --> 00:25:41,960 word of god today than the disciples knew 567 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,980 him when he was here on earth and 568 00:25:44,980 --> 00:25:46,760 so paul says we don't cling to christ 569 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,500 in that carnal earthly way that some did 570 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:51,580 when he was here though we have known 571 00:25:51,580 --> 00:25:54,200 christ after the flesh yet now henceforth no 572 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,680 we him no more well there you have 573 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,040 the the third correctional lens the value and 574 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,940 eternity of a soul we sang that last 575 00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:08,600 sunday and teach me savior teach me the 576 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:13,480 value of a soul and then the next 577 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,460 correctional lens is found in the very next 578 00:26:15,460 --> 00:26:17,260 verse it says therefore if any man be 579 00:26:17,260 --> 00:26:19,920 in christ he's a new creature or there 580 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,620 is a new creation all things have passed 581 00:26:22,620 --> 00:26:25,660 away behold all things are become new and 582 00:26:25,660 --> 00:26:28,360 i would call this correctional lens the purpose 583 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:32,700 of our creation the purpose of our creation 584 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:36,180 first of all why was i created in 585 00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:37,740 the first place i want to look at 586 00:26:37,740 --> 00:26:40,040 life through that correctional lens and also why 587 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,500 was i created anew why was i born 588 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:46,340 again why was i created in the first 589 00:26:46,340 --> 00:26:49,800 place and why was i saved falls as 590 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,060 if that i may apprehend that for which 591 00:26:52,060 --> 00:26:54,700 i was apprehended of christ jesus so there 592 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:56,120 must have been a purpose in it and 593 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:57,840 i want that purpose to be lived out 594 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,980 in my life now let's think of that 595 00:27:00,980 --> 00:27:04,960 do you think that men are born babies 596 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,320 in order that they might die grocers is 597 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,160 that why people are born you know within 598 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,780 the last two years i've been making a 599 00:27:12,780 --> 00:27:14,740 study of some of the things that men 600 00:27:14,740 --> 00:27:18,320 that men have lived for passionately and devotedly 601 00:27:19,740 --> 00:27:22,480 i have a young friend professing christian and 602 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,920 the the passion of his life is turbulence 603 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,120 in the upper atmosphere he wrote a phd 604 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,850 thesis on it is that why we were 605 00:27:30,850 --> 00:27:32,870 born i mean i can see there's a 606 00:27:32,870 --> 00:27:34,390 place for this in life i mean for 607 00:27:34,390 --> 00:27:35,730 an occupation if you have to have an 608 00:27:35,730 --> 00:27:38,530 occupation why study turbulence in the upper atmosphere 609 00:27:38,530 --> 00:27:40,790 but to make it the main passion of 610 00:27:40,790 --> 00:27:44,590 your life is that what it is i 611 00:27:44,590 --> 00:27:48,870 have another friend and and um his great 612 00:27:48,870 --> 00:27:51,370 study in life is seaweed in woods hole 613 00:27:51,370 --> 00:27:55,930 massachusetts well you laugh at that but you 614 00:27:55,930 --> 00:27:57,510 haven't heard anything yet i went over to 615 00:27:57,510 --> 00:27:59,730 concordia seminary with the last two years and 616 00:27:59,730 --> 00:28:02,090 put down pull down some books from the 617 00:28:02,090 --> 00:28:04,350 shelf on subjects that men have made an 618 00:28:04,350 --> 00:28:07,850 intensive study on subjects deep subjects like um 619 00:28:07,850 --> 00:28:12,070 like uh mineral deficiencies in the tomato and 620 00:28:12,070 --> 00:28:15,530 the cocklebur is that why we were born 621 00:28:15,530 --> 00:28:17,990 well some of you are laughing but after 622 00:28:17,990 --> 00:28:19,970 you get out maybe in the field and 623 00:28:19,970 --> 00:28:21,890 the going gets rough and you feel a 624 00:28:21,890 --> 00:28:24,830 strong pull to go back and you know 625 00:28:24,830 --> 00:28:28,930 get into the academic world again you probably 626 00:28:28,930 --> 00:28:30,370 want to study what some of the rest 627 00:28:30,370 --> 00:28:32,450 of them have studied the browning reaction in 628 00:28:32,450 --> 00:28:36,630 potato chips people are spending their life on 629 00:28:36,630 --> 00:28:40,590 that today they really are the browning reaction 630 00:28:40,590 --> 00:28:44,670 potato chips or oxygen consumption in the earthworm 631 00:28:46,090 --> 00:28:51,730 or the butterflies of burma really i can 632 00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:54,470 authenticate every one of them i mean is 633 00:28:54,470 --> 00:28:58,330 that why i was born why did god 634 00:28:58,330 --> 00:29:01,630 save me really why did he save me 635 00:29:07,930 --> 00:29:10,190 i'd like to suggest to you tonight that 636 00:29:10,190 --> 00:29:14,610 nobody that no christian is ever called to 637 00:29:14,610 --> 00:29:20,330 be a plumber a carpenter a baker or 638 00:29:20,330 --> 00:29:23,610 any of those things well that's shocking i 639 00:29:23,610 --> 00:29:26,430 know but before you jump on me let 640 00:29:26,430 --> 00:29:30,550 me say this our calling is to be 641 00:29:30,550 --> 00:29:32,510 witnesses for the lord jesus christ and those 642 00:29:32,510 --> 00:29:34,710 other things are secondary i don't say there's 643 00:29:34,710 --> 00:29:36,190 no place for them in the christian life 644 00:29:36,190 --> 00:29:38,870 but that's not our call paul the apostle 645 00:29:38,870 --> 00:29:42,150 never said he never said paul called to 646 00:29:42,150 --> 00:29:46,030 be a tent maker he said paul called 647 00:29:46,030 --> 00:29:48,690 to be an apostle the tent making was 648 00:29:48,690 --> 00:29:51,090 to pay expenses and i don't despise the 649 00:29:51,090 --> 00:29:53,590 tent making not for a minute but dear 650 00:29:53,590 --> 00:29:56,910 young friends today it's not our calling in 651 00:29:56,910 --> 00:29:58,830 life no matter what your relatives say no 652 00:29:58,830 --> 00:30:00,350 matter what your parents say no matter what 653 00:30:00,350 --> 00:30:04,170 the professors say god has called us to 654 00:30:04,170 --> 00:30:10,070 higher service than them he really has he 655 00:30:10,070 --> 00:30:12,550 really has and so he says therefore if 656 00:30:12,550 --> 00:30:14,190 any man be in christ he's a new 657 00:30:14,190 --> 00:30:16,590 there's a new creation all things are passed 658 00:30:16,590 --> 00:30:19,150 away behold all things have become new and 659 00:30:19,150 --> 00:30:20,690 i want to look at life through this 660 00:30:20,690 --> 00:30:23,350 correction lens and say why why am i 661 00:30:23,350 --> 00:30:25,590 here why did god stoop down in sovereign 662 00:30:25,590 --> 00:30:27,950 grace and save me i want to find 663 00:30:27,950 --> 00:30:29,590 out and i want that purpose to be 664 00:30:29,590 --> 00:30:31,410 worked out in my life whatever it is 665 00:30:33,810 --> 00:30:37,370 when the brooklyn bridge was being built well 666 00:30:37,370 --> 00:30:39,190 the man had he had it all out 667 00:30:39,190 --> 00:30:40,990 on the blueprint there the designer of the 668 00:30:40,990 --> 00:30:43,170 brooklyn bridge and they started the construction and 669 00:30:43,170 --> 00:30:45,370 right after they started it he was seriously 670 00:30:45,370 --> 00:30:47,450 injured and dragged off to the hospital and 671 00:30:47,450 --> 00:30:50,830 all the time the bridge was under construction 672 00:30:50,830 --> 00:30:54,570 this man was in the hospital finally on 673 00:30:54,570 --> 00:30:56,210 the day the bridge was finished and to 674 00:30:56,210 --> 00:30:58,530 be dedicated he was well enough that they 675 00:30:58,530 --> 00:31:00,070 could put him in a stretcher and put 676 00:31:00,070 --> 00:31:01,750 him in the ambulance and take him down 677 00:31:01,750 --> 00:31:04,170 by the river and show him the completed 678 00:31:04,170 --> 00:31:09,040 structure and when they put him out there 679 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,880 on the stretcher by the bank of the 680 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,120 river and he looked up and saw the 681 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,680 bridge he said it's exactly according to plan 682 00:31:17,180 --> 00:31:20,080 but you know one day god is going 683 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,480 to call us home to be with himself 684 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:22,880 and he's going to bring out the blueprint 685 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,480 of our lives i believe it with all 686 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,320 my heart i want to be nice if 687 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:29,920 you can look at the blueprint in that 688 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,260 day and say it's exactly according to plan 689 00:31:32,260 --> 00:31:35,940 that's really what will count in that day 690 00:31:35,940 --> 00:31:40,920 now just let me pause here to say 691 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,040 a word about this verse not in connection 692 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,080 with our correctional lenses this verse used to 693 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,520 bother me as a young christian i'd hear 694 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,060 people get up and say therefore if any 695 00:31:49,060 --> 00:31:50,640 man be in crises a new creature old 696 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,640 things have passed away all things have become 697 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,160 new and they got up and and they 698 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:55,900 gave their testimony they created the impression that 699 00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:57,720 now they were saved or no problems at 700 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,100 all everything was rosy and i used to 701 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:02,380 sit there and think i wonder if i'm 702 00:32:02,380 --> 00:32:09,050 saved i sure can't say that i mean 703 00:32:09,050 --> 00:32:10,730 i was just being honest with myself and 704 00:32:10,730 --> 00:32:12,470 saying well boy when i got saved i 705 00:32:12,470 --> 00:32:13,990 wish i could say that old things passed 706 00:32:13,990 --> 00:32:15,930 away and all things became new but they 707 00:32:15,930 --> 00:32:18,950 didn't still had a lot of old habits 708 00:32:18,950 --> 00:32:23,390 still had a lot of old desires still 709 00:32:23,390 --> 00:32:25,190 had the strivings of the old nature within 710 00:32:25,190 --> 00:32:30,000 me i guess i'm not saying once again 711 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,200 wherever there's a difficulty in the bible i 712 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,060 say again the key hangs in the door 713 00:32:34,060 --> 00:32:35,200 and the key is in this verse it's 714 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,100 in christ therefore if any men be in 715 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:41,020 christ and this verse is describing what i 716 00:32:41,020 --> 00:32:42,520 am in christ and i thank god i 717 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,060 can stand before you today and say that 718 00:32:44,060 --> 00:32:46,340 in christ all things passed away and all 719 00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:48,440 things became new they didn't all it didn't 720 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,880 all happen in me but it did in 721 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:51,980 christ he said what do you mean in 722 00:32:51,980 --> 00:32:54,340 christ well condemnation for instance was one of 723 00:32:54,340 --> 00:32:57,000 the old things there is therefore now no 724 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,240 condemnation to them that are in christ jesus 725 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,200 you see those things have all passed away 726 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,440 thank god they are passing away in me 727 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,240 too all the old habits all the old 728 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,440 but they didn't all happen at once it's 729 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,460 like lazarus the lord said lazarus came come 730 00:33:12,460 --> 00:33:15,000 forth and that body wrapped like a mummy 731 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,560 came hurtling out of the grave it really 732 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,580 did he didn't walk out he was bound 733 00:33:19,580 --> 00:33:21,940 he came out he got life and then 734 00:33:21,940 --> 00:33:24,100 the lord said loose him and let him 735 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:26,280 go and then he got rid of his 736 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,840 grave clothes well when we're saved we're saved 737 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,980 instantly and then over the days that follow 738 00:33:31,980 --> 00:33:33,220 we start to get rid of the grave 739 00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:35,920 clothes don't we so this verse doesn't bother 740 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,900 me anymore this verse is my position it's 741 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:40,160 what i am in christ and god wants 742 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:44,420 my practice to increase increasingly correspond to it 743 00:33:44,420 --> 00:33:45,920 but i don't look at it anymore and 744 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,460 wonder if i'm saved because i can say 745 00:33:47,460 --> 00:33:49,520 thank god in christ all things have passed 746 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,760 away all things have become new and i 747 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,780 want it to be true in william mcdonald 748 00:33:54,780 --> 00:33:58,280 more and more too all right then i 749 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,640 call the next correction lens the responsibility of 750 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,240 those who have the answer the the responsibility 751 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,280 of those who have the answer and i 752 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,600 want to tell you it's a solemn thing 753 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,300 to have the answer and not to do 754 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:13,719 anything about it verses 18 through the end 755 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,580 of the chapter remind us that god has 756 00:34:16,580 --> 00:34:19,480 committed to us the answer to the world's 757 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,440 problems the ministry of reconciliation this is what 758 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,040 men need we're ambassadors of christ and the 759 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,880 picture is god on his knees before men 760 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,920 and women beseeching them through us to be 761 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,659 reconciled to him through the lord jesus christ 762 00:34:34,659 --> 00:34:36,120 and i want to look at life through 763 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,360 this correctional lens mcdonald you have the answer 764 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,020 you know what the world needs and what 765 00:34:42,020 --> 00:34:44,199 the world needs desperately what are you going 766 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:48,280 to do about it in 1942 i went 767 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,239 on duty in the navy in my first 768 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:51,659 tour of duty it was a dry land 769 00:34:51,659 --> 00:34:53,719 navy actually it was the air arm of 770 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,380 the navy i was down in kansas city 771 00:34:55,380 --> 00:34:58,600 and one night i went into the officer's 772 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,860 mess hall there and uh there was only 773 00:35:00,860 --> 00:35:05,580 one other person in it uh pilot pilot 774 00:35:05,580 --> 00:35:10,340 from minnesota max newtson and i he had 775 00:35:10,340 --> 00:35:12,300 ordered his supper and was reading the kansas 776 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:15,260 city times but i went in and ordered 777 00:35:15,260 --> 00:35:17,240 my supper and i had the paper too 778 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:20,320 and was reading it the spirit of god 779 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,100 said to me you better witness to him 780 00:35:23,380 --> 00:35:25,040 how he was busy he was wrapped up 781 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,460 in his paper and i was wrapped up 782 00:35:26,460 --> 00:35:28,620 in mine spirit of god seemed to say 783 00:35:28,620 --> 00:35:30,100 to me witness to him tell him the 784 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:33,340 story you've got it you've got the answer 785 00:35:33,340 --> 00:35:35,900 supposing he goes out into outer darkness what 786 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:39,620 then and i didn't do it you know 787 00:35:39,620 --> 00:35:41,280 how we were in a combat zone there 788 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,520 was no danger you know nothing like that 789 00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:48,160 you know that night max newtson took off 790 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,080 in a cargo flight with a co-pilot 791 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,580 for the west coast landed at windslow arizona 792 00:35:54,580 --> 00:35:58,860 took off and the plane disappeared couldn't find 793 00:35:58,860 --> 00:36:00,000 it anywhere you mean what do you mean 794 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,300 disappeared in the continental limits of the united 795 00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:05,800 states how can a plane disappear disappeared a 796 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,320 week went by they didn't find it month 797 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,960 went by they couldn't find it two months 798 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,140 three months went by couldn't find it just 799 00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:15,940 went out into nowhere the end of six 800 00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:18,900 months when the spring thaw came some boy 801 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,420 scouts were climbing san francisco peak just outside 802 00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:23,980 of windslow arizona they saw the tail structure 803 00:36:23,980 --> 00:36:26,260 of a plane sticking out of the snow 804 00:36:26,260 --> 00:36:28,520 and you know the rest of the story 805 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,240 i was there at the hangar back in 806 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,220 kansas city when they brought back the effects 807 00:36:35,220 --> 00:36:37,460 they brought back there the luggage i can 808 00:36:37,460 --> 00:36:41,520 see it today as vividly and of course 809 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,700 they spread all the personal effects out on 810 00:36:43,700 --> 00:36:46,040 the tarpaulin there on the hangar deck and 811 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,240 the inventory it but then they send it 812 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:52,130 home to the parents and i can't tell 813 00:36:52,130 --> 00:36:53,370 you what it meant for me that day 814 00:36:53,370 --> 00:36:57,660 to walk by that hangar door and see 815 00:36:57,660 --> 00:36:59,660 max newtson's stuff all there and the other 816 00:36:59,660 --> 00:37:03,340 fellows too and i went back to my 817 00:37:03,340 --> 00:37:06,360 room and wept hot tears and asked the 818 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:07,860 lord that that might not happen in my 819 00:37:07,860 --> 00:37:11,420 life again spirit of god it really told 820 00:37:11,420 --> 00:37:14,440 me well that's what paul's speaking about here 821 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:19,440 the responsibility of those who have the answer 822 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,820 put those lenses in your spiritual glasses and 823 00:37:23,820 --> 00:37:27,320 look at life through that and then the 824 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,060 last one that i'd like to mention to 825 00:37:29,060 --> 00:37:31,600 is found in verse 10 i'm going back 826 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,140 because it'll be the last chronologically in our 827 00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:39,280 lives but we must all you know it 828 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:40,880 says in the king james version we must 829 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,980 all appear before the judgment seat of christ 830 00:37:42,980 --> 00:37:45,160 but the revised version and other versions say 831 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,280 better we must all be made manifest before 832 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,800 the judgment seat of christ there's a difference 833 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:56,580 between appearing and being made manifest i call 834 00:37:56,580 --> 00:37:57,960 the doctor and i tell him that i'm 835 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,320 having severe intestinal disorders and i want to 836 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,200 see him and so he says very well 837 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,040 appointment two o'clock tomorrow so tomorrow tomorrow 838 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,220 afternoon i go to the doctor and i 839 00:38:08,220 --> 00:38:11,440 stand before him i appear before the doctor 840 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:16,140 well that's quite tame i think very exciting 841 00:38:16,140 --> 00:38:17,700 about that then he said to me look 842 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:19,380 i got a little machine over here called 843 00:38:19,380 --> 00:38:21,080 a fluoroscope and i'd like you to just 844 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,780 come and stand in front of the machine 845 00:38:22,780 --> 00:38:24,740 and so i go and stand in front 846 00:38:24,740 --> 00:38:26,260 of the machine and he turns on the 847 00:38:26,260 --> 00:38:28,840 the current and he sees right through me 848 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,380 he does he sees right through me at 849 00:38:32,380 --> 00:38:35,280 two o'clock i appeared before him that's 850 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,280 one thing but when he turned on the 851 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,460 current i was made manifest before him and 852 00:38:40,460 --> 00:38:42,400 this verse says for we must all be 853 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,480 made manifest before the judgment seat of christ 854 00:38:49,290 --> 00:38:52,750 that everyone may receive the things done in 855 00:38:52,750 --> 00:38:54,590 his body according to what he hath done 856 00:38:54,590 --> 00:38:56,790 whether it be good or bad you say 857 00:38:56,790 --> 00:38:58,850 well what how do you fit this correctional 858 00:38:58,850 --> 00:39:00,830 lens in your class well i'll tell you 859 00:39:00,830 --> 00:39:06,610 how day by day by asking ourselves the 860 00:39:06,610 --> 00:39:10,290 question what will really count a hundred years 861 00:39:10,290 --> 00:39:15,150 from today that's what what will really be 862 00:39:15,150 --> 00:39:18,050 important then and i want to tell you 863 00:39:18,050 --> 00:39:20,610 a lot of the things that young christians 864 00:39:20,610 --> 00:39:24,070 are looking are are going after today are 865 00:39:24,070 --> 00:39:26,930 going to look pretty sick a hundred years 866 00:39:26,930 --> 00:39:31,350 from today pretty sick the whole thing will 867 00:39:31,350 --> 00:39:34,190 be brought into review not for condemnation we've 868 00:39:34,190 --> 00:39:37,050 already gone over that land that we've compassed 869 00:39:37,050 --> 00:39:38,590 that mountain long enough we're not going to 870 00:39:38,590 --> 00:39:40,030 take it up again today this has to 871 00:39:40,030 --> 00:39:43,510 do with reward loss and reward but you 872 00:39:43,510 --> 00:39:45,410 know in this connection i often think of 873 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,840 of a doctor in montreal i think his 874 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,980 name is dr penwell and he has been 875 00:39:52,980 --> 00:39:56,600 a specialist in brain surgery you know and 876 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,060 he developed a technique some years ago where 877 00:39:59,060 --> 00:40:01,800 he could put a person on the operating 878 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,780 table and with nothing more than a local 879 00:40:03,780 --> 00:40:05,900 anesthetic he could open up the brain and 880 00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:08,620 actually expose the human brain and he has 881 00:40:08,620 --> 00:40:11,240 a little electrode in his hand and the 882 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:13,700 woman is lying there and her brain is 883 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:16,420 open and he touches a certain section of 884 00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:18,180 the brain and he says to her um 885 00:40:18,180 --> 00:40:20,340 do you feel anything yeah she says i 886 00:40:20,340 --> 00:40:22,120 feel my little finger when you do that 887 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,300 ah he charts that that's the part of 888 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:26,400 the brain that controls the little finger so 889 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:27,980 he'll touch another part of the brain he'll 890 00:40:27,980 --> 00:40:29,660 say what is it now oh she'll say 891 00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:33,000 i'm um i'm back in the hospital i'm 892 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,580 i'm back in the hospital i'm having my 893 00:40:34,580 --> 00:40:37,120 first baby she says i can smell the 894 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,040 ether just by touching that part of her 895 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,180 brain with the electrode it all comes back 896 00:40:42,180 --> 00:40:45,360 to her that visit to the hospital and 897 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,080 uh so he'll touch another part of the 898 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:48,540 brain he said what what is it now 899 00:40:48,540 --> 00:40:50,280 and she'll say oh i'm in the living 900 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,460 room of my home we have the record 901 00:40:52,460 --> 00:40:54,960 player going aida i can hear it quite 902 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,440 clearly just imagine by touching that part of 903 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,060 her brain it all comes back to her 904 00:41:01,060 --> 00:41:04,840 listen if dr penwell in montreal with a 905 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,160 little electrode touching the human brain can do 906 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,380 that what can god do at the judgment 907 00:41:09,380 --> 00:41:13,400 seat of christ that's it and that's what 908 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:14,860 paul's talking about here and he says every 909 00:41:14,860 --> 00:41:17,540 day as i go through life i want 910 00:41:17,540 --> 00:41:19,220 to keep in mind the fact that pretty 911 00:41:19,220 --> 00:41:21,540 soon i'm going to stand before the judgment 912 00:41:21,540 --> 00:41:24,140 seat of christ and my life will be 913 00:41:24,140 --> 00:41:27,880 brought into review the things done in the 914 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:32,820 body but i want to hear his well 915 00:41:32,820 --> 00:41:36,740 done in that day well done thou good 916 00:41:36,740 --> 00:41:41,100 and faithful servant enter thou into the joy 917 00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:44,260 of the lord what's really going to count 918 00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:48,080 a hundred years from today so in this 919 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:52,160 passage of scripture we have these correctional lenses 920 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,700 i don't know what god might have for 921 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:56,000 you in your life i don't know just 922 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,140 what his will is but i do know 923 00:41:58,140 --> 00:42:00,120 this that if you really keep these correctional 924 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,000 lenses in the glasses look at life through 925 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,880 them you'll come to the end and your 926 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,880 life will have been worthwhile but i think 927 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,340 that's what john meant when he said and 928 00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:12,360 now little children abide in him that when 929 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,400 he shall appear we may have confidence and 930 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,740 not be ashamed before him at his coming 931 00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:20,540 do you ever think of the possibility of 932 00:42:20,540 --> 00:42:23,720 shame before christ at his advent most people 933 00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:27,500 will deny it as a theological impossibility the 934 00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:30,900 bible speaks about it as a practical possibility 935 00:42:30,900 --> 00:42:35,220 and not be ashamed before him that is 936 00:42:35,220 --> 00:42:40,540 coming you've been listening to the from the 937 00:42:40,540 --> 00:42:43,640 pulpit and classic sermon series this week you 938 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,480 heard william mcdonald with this message seven corrective 939 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,140 lenses for spiritual eyesight tune in next week 940 00:42:49,140 --> 00:42:51,600 to hear zach coonan speak about first corinthians 941 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,660 chapter 11 verses 1 through 34 on from 942 00:42:54,660 --> 00:42:56,340 the pulpit and classic sermons