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Okay, let's turn in our Bibles to 2

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Corinthians.

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We're moving along.

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I got the wonderful privilege this last week

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to be in Florida.

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And it was probably an 80, 85 every

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day and sun.

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We have a little shower one day, but

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and then come back to this last night

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at one o'clock, I got an Uber

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at Judson, I and Zach got an Uber

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from the airport in Columbus.

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First Uber I've ever been on.

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Got a nice guy and nice car and

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picked us up, waited for us, we had

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our luggage was held up because those conveyor

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belts, for some reason, they wouldn't work and

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they couldn't figure it out.

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It didn't seem like anybody cared.

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And finally, one guy started pushing the things

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out of the back door and people started

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to run for their bags.

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It took us a while to get out,

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but one o'clock we got in last

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night.

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So it looks like I got to bed

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last night at one o'clock.

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at one o'clock.

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All right, let's look at 2 Corinthians chapter

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seven.

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And I'm not gonna do a lot of

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review here this morning.

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eight and we'll take these verses one by

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one, but I'll give you a little bit

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of review once we read here in verse

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number eight.

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So let's start, let's pray first.

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Heavenly Father, we want to thank you this

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morning that we have the privilege of owning

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or having a book called The Word of

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God and something that is the most valuable

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thing a man can own and possess and

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to know you and to understand your will

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and purposes.

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we sit here, to open our hearts and

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minds to realize how important this book is

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that we have.

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And that we live by the word and

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that faith comes by this book.

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And so Lord, may you stir our hearts

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today and bring forth faith.

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Lord, wash us each one in the blood

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of Jesus Christ and help us to be

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a clean vessel to not only convey the

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word, but also to receive it.

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And so Lord, we submit ourselves to you.

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We acknowledge your greatness and that we tremble

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before you and desire to please you and

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to do your, and fulfill your will and

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do your purposes, Lord.

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we open up your word, in Jesus' name,

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amen.

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All right, we're gonna start out here in

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verse number eight and I'll do a little

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bit of review back in 1 Corinthians.

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It says in verse number eight, this is

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in 2 Corinthians chapter seven, for though I

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made you sorry with a letter, I do

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not repent.

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Though I did repent, for I perceive that

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the same epistle hath made you sorry, though

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it were, but for a season.

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has written to the church at Corinth.

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And he refers back to his first epistle,

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which he says he made them sorry.

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Have you ever written a letter to someone

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and you know that this letter is gonna

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cause them a lot of grief?

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It's gonna cause them a lot of sorrow?

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Well, Paul wrote a letter to this infant

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church.

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He established the church and you know what

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it's like to have new convert and maybe

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have 15 or 20 converts and you just

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love them to death.

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he has to write things in this letter

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that are very severe and very difficult for

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him to write.

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five, which we have already alluded to and

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2 Corinthians, but I wanna read to you

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a part of that letter.

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chapter five, it is reported commonly that there

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is fornication among you and such fornication as

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is not so much named among the Gentiles,

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that one should have his father's wife and

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you are puffed up and have not rather

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mourned that he that has done this deed

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might be taken away from among you.

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but present in the spirit have judged already

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as though I were present concerning him that

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has so done this deed in the name

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of our Lord Jesus Christ when you are

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gathered together and my spirit with the power

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of our Lord Jesus Christ to deliver such

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at one unto Satan for the destruction of

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the flesh that the spirit may be saved

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in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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Paul wrote.

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in here, but this specifically is what we're

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gonna talk about today because he's gonna allude

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to it here in 2 Corinthians chapter seven,

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but this letter brought sorrow.

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You can imagine we as a congregation getting

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a letter like that and having rebukes like

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that.

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he said, I do not repent though I

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did repent.

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I do not repent, present tense.

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In his heart presently, I do not repent

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that I did it, though I did repent,

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past tense.

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that letter, he had some second guesses.

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He sent the letter out, I don't know

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if he sent it by a messenger, but

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maybe after he sent this letter out, he

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said, oh boy, was I too tough?

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Maybe I shouldn't have said what I said.

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You know how that is?

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were too mean or you too firm.

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the fact that he did repent in the

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past, but now he sees that there's repentance.

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I do not repent because of what has

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somewhat struggles with having to write this first

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letter and giving rebuke.

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Now, there's a lot of rebuke in that

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first letter for many different things.

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And we've talked about some of those things,

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but he's struggling.

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that Paul struggles greatly to bring these rebukes,

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to bring these admonitions.

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that is because love is long-suffering.

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They were his babies, spiritual babies, just probably

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two, three, four years.

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This church has been established.

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You can imagine he's given his life there

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at Corinth.

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He suffered at Corinth.

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He's won souls.

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He loves these people.

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his heart.

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I love them dearly, but yet I need

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to bring rebuke.

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And so he writes this letter.

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written.

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says this, for out of much affliction and

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anguish of heart, I wrote unto you with

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many tears.

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I mean, he's weeping over this letter.

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He's anguishing over this letter as he writes

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it.

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He says, not that you should be grieved,

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but that you might know the love which

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I have more abundantly towards you.

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this, I think we all learn from this,

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is that rebuke is sometimes necessary.

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And these words are sometimes necessary, but it

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ought to deeply grieve us.

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It ought to be something that troubles us.

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Now, I've done a lot of evangelistic work

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on college campuses, and I've met a lot

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of evangelists and a lot of preachers on

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college campuses.

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And sometimes you get the idea that these

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guys just love to go out and rip

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people.

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And, you know, you sometimes wonder, do you

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really care for the people?

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really care for these people?

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And do you really have compassion on them

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in the situations that they're in?

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But I've seen many college campus preachers, street

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evangelists, that seem to just be harsh, that

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seem to love to just get out and

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just rebuke sin and rebuke people.

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And I think rebuke is necessary.

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The Bible encourages us to do so, but

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it seems like here, Paul's heart is, I

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love these people.

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Maybe mothers, you understand what Paul is going

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through here.

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You know, you love your children, fathers, I'm

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sure too, but you need to bring some

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rebuke.

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And so understand his heart.

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I mean, if we went and talked and

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he's saying, I hated to write that letter.

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It was just so grievous to me, but

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I knew I had to say what I

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had to say.

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And that's a good heart.

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trying to express here.

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Acts chapter 20 says this, therefore watch and

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remember that by the space of three years,

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I cease not to warn everyone, night and

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day with tears.

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I love that passage there.

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I am warning them, but I'm doing it

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with tears.

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It is grievous.

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It's hard for me to do that.

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And so let's remember that God does not

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take any pleasure in the death of the

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wicked.

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Scripture says he takes no pleasure in it.

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It's not like God's up in heaven.

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Oh, this is just great.

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I like to rip these people.

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I like to see them die and go

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to hell.

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No, it's the heart of God.

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He takes no pleasure in the death of

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the wicked, but that the wicked would turn

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from his wicked way.

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apostle.

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I take no pleasure in having to rebuke

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you and admonish you for what's going on

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there.

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I take no pleasure in it.

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But God is gonna destroy the wicked and

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we need to rebuke the sinner, even though

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it may be difficult.

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I love Charles Finney.

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Some of you know Charles Finney and he's

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considered the greatest evangelism here in America by

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many.

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But I love to read his autobiography.

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It's his personal writing and his notes and

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all the things that he had gone through.

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I've got this book at home.

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It's a wonderful book.

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But one of the things, probably the only

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thing that troubles me about some of the

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things that he writes is occasionally he'll write

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and talk about this meeting he had in

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a certain city where he preached.

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He really, he said he really ripped them

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and there were people crawling under the pews

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and he was almost talking about it in

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such a way he was laughing about it.

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He was just kind of joking about it,

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about how people run such conviction.

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Kind of gave me a little check, you

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know, about, I do a lot of evangelistic

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work and preach the gospel and preach oftentimes

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hard messages and the deal with sin and

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things of that nature.

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But it's not a laughing matter.

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It's not a joking matter, obviously.

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It's something that Paul does here and he

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says this is a grievous thing to have

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to do.

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Verse number nine, let's keep reading.

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Now I rejoice, not that you were made

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sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance, for

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you were made sorry after a godly manner

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that you might receive damage by us in

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nothing.

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Now his pleasure is not that they were

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made sorry or that they grieved, but he

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was rejoicing and his pleasure is in that

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their grief brought about a repentance.

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And not only a repentance, but a godly

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repentance or a godly sorrow.

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Now what is a godly sorrow?

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I wanna spend a lot of our time

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here this morning on that.

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What is this godly sorrow?

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Well, look at verse number 10.

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It says, for godly sorrow worketh repentance to

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salvation, not to be repented of, but the

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sorrow of the world works death.

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And so there's two kinds of sorrows here

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and you experience them, I experience them and

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I trust that we lean more heavily to

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the things that deal with a godly sorrow.

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But what is a godly sorrow?

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What is the kind of sorrow that is

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a good sorrow and it's a godly sorrow?

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Well, remember last week, I shared here a

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little bit on what holiness is and we

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talked about holiness as being not just turning

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away from the bad, you know, putting away

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the bad, but it's actually then connecting ourselves

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with the good, connecting ourselves with the Lord.

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So repentance from dead works and turn to

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God.

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There are many people in the world who

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put away bad, who put away bad, who

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put away bad, but never embrace the Lord.

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And yet here is a sorrow.

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It's a sorrow that puts away or desires

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to put away sin, but it's a sorrow

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that is towards God.

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It is a godly sorrow.

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There are many people in the world that

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want to put away sin.

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There's people out there that want to get

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rid of alcohol.

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They don't want to do drugs.

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They don't want to be immoral.

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They're tired of being in bondage to pornography.

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There's a lot of people who are atheists

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who want to get rid of sin and

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don't want to live this way anymore.

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And they are sorrowful, grieving over their life.

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You can imagine being a drunk.

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My dad was a drunk for a while.

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I mean, I remember times in my youth

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when he'd come home from the golf club

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and he'd stumble into the house.

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And I remember one time my mom drug

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him down.

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She was a pretty tough young lady.

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She drug him down the hall, threw him

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in the shower and turned the water on

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cold.

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I have that in my memory as a

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child.

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Did my dad rejoice in the fact that

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he was drunk often?

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No.

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He had sorrow about it, but that sorrow

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was not something that was turned in the

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right direction.

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Turn to the Lord.

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Sorrow for sin is not just a turning

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away from sin and grieving over it, but

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it is also a turning to God.

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The prodigal son repented, but in his repentance,

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he said, I will go to my father.

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Now, he could have been down there eating

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the husk of the swine.

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He could have been down there.

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He said, I don't like this life.

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I don't like the way I'm living.

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I'm going to repent.

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And go where?

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You know, go to a psychologist, go to,

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you know, turn over a new leaf.

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But godly sorrow is something that turns to

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the Lord.

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It recognizes that it's sin is against the

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Lord.

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Now, many people are sorry for their sins.

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Zach, sitting over there with Mr. Thomas, he

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and I were down in Florida.

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We were at, just got a chicken supper

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and a nice location there, Indiantown Road there

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in Jupiter.

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And it was a nice warm night.

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So we get our chicken.

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We go out and sit on the curb

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out in front.

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A lot of people around and cars going

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back and forth.

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We just got a couple of bites into

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our meal and we hear this boom.

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I mean, it was a boom.

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And it wasn't metal on metal.

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It seemed like more like plastic or the

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fiberglass.

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And I looked around and there was a

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black truck, pretty new black truck, had just

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plowed into another truck.

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And I think that truck either had come

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out in front of him or he was,

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the other one was going through the red

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light, but they just plowed into each other.

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So I walked up to take a look

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and there's this nice black truck, you know,

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probably a 20, 23 kid, probably 20 years

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old.

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He's there just with his hair just, oh,

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just so angry and so frustrated.

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His car was just demolished.

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He was sorrowful.

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I didn't see any God this sorrow though.

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He was sorrowful because his insurance rate is

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probably gonna go through the roof.

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He was sorrowful because he's just lost this

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nice car.

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I mean, the windshield wipers were doing the,

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the airbags had been blown.

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The whole front end was smashed in.

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He hit him hard.

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And there's a lot of that that goes

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on.

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There's a lot of sorrow, but it was

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not towards God.

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Many sit in jails today.

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You go to the jails, you can visit

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them.

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They're sorrowful.

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I wish I would've never done what I

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did.

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And I'm sitting here in this jail for

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five, 10, 15 years.

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And it's not a, it's not a happy

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time.

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They're sorrowful, but that sorrow is not directed

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in the right way.

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It's not directed toward the Lord.

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That's why if you've been in jail ministries,

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that's why you'd go oftentimes to jails.

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But you see a lot of people that

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want to participate and have Bible studies and

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all those things.

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They have a sorrow about their condition, about

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their confinement, but that sorrow is not truly

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a godly sorrow because when they leave that

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place, they go right back to doing what

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they wanted to do anyway.

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And oftentimes end up right back in the

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same condition.

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Let me read to you a godly sorrow

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here.

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And there are many examples of this in

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the Bible.

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Psalm 51 is David's cry.

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And I want you to notice which direction

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his cry goes.

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He says this.

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Have mercy upon me, O God, according to

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thy lovingkindness, according unto the multitude of thy

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tender mercies.

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Blot out my transgressions.

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Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse

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me from my sin.

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For I acknowledge my transgression and my sin

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is ever before me.

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Now I like this one here.

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Verse four, against thee and thee only have

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I sinned.

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Well, what about Bathsheba?

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What about Bathsheba's husband?

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Against thee and thee only have I sinned

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and done this little evil, this evil in

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thy sight.

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Now that's where I know that God is

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working in the hardest when the sorrow is

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turned toward him.

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Lord, have mercy.

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I've sinned against you.

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And not, oh Lord, I just crashed my

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truck and this is such a grief.

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My insurance rates are gonna go up.

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You know, if that young man was truly

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repentant and God was working his heart, first

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thing he would have did like Jonah.

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Lord, forgive me.

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Lord, you've been talking to me.

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Lord, I know I shouldn't have gone that

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fast.

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Lord, have mercy.

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But I didn't see any of that.

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I saw a young man that was sorrowful,

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but for the wrong reason.

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Jonah experienced that.

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You know, Jonah got in the whale's belly

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and he realized real quick, oh God, I'm

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sorry, Lord.

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And so he sorrowed in a right way.

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Many stand in courtrooms on sentencing day.

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You've seen this.

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And they express true regret.

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And I think they're true.

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Their heart is true.

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And they look to the family.

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Maybe they've murdered someone or they were drunk

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and they were driving and they killed someone.

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And you have mom, dad, grandma and grandpa,

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brother and sister sitting in the courtroom and

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they turn and say, I am truly sorry

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that I killed your son.

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I'm truly sorry.

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And I believe they are.

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But it doesn't get them anywhere as far

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as towards the Lord.

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And yes, the judge says, well, I'm glad

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you're sorry because some people aren't very sorry.

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They're belligerent.

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But what we're talking about here is a

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sorrow that says, God, most of all, I'm

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sorry towards you.

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I agree that I sinned against you.

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I murdered someone.

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And that's the way certainly it ought to

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be, a godly sorrow.

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And I believe that the Spirit of the

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Lord works that in us.

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And I think that we ought to have

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that on a regular basis here.

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I think when you sin, the first thought

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ought to come to your mind is, oh

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God.

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Not, oh me, what's this gonna do to

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me?

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But oh God, have mercy upon me.

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Well, it says here that the sorrow of

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the world works death.

549
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,560
Back here in 2 Corinthians, the sorrow works

550
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:13,220
death.

551
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,780
The godly sorrow works repentance to salvation.

552
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,180
But the sorrow of the world works death.

553
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:23,580
And you see this a lot.

554
00:21:23,860 --> 00:21:25,420
Suicide, you see this a lot.

555
00:21:25,540 --> 00:21:26,540
People become hopeless.

556
00:21:27,380 --> 00:21:29,100
They have done something awful.

557
00:21:29,780 --> 00:21:31,600
They have committed an awful crime.

558
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:33,800
And they sit in a jail cell maybe

559
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:35,540
and they don't see any hope.

560
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,080
And they're sorrowful and they're grieving and they're

561
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:38,580
depressed.

562
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,960
And the only option they see at that

563
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,840
point is get the sheets, make a noose,

564
00:21:44,540 --> 00:21:45,160
I'll hang myself.

565
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000
Happens a lot.

566
00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:50,760
That kind of sorrow is hopelessness.

567
00:21:51,580 --> 00:21:53,620
The same sorrow that Judas had when he

568
00:21:53,620 --> 00:21:55,380
went out and hung himself because he didn't

569
00:21:55,380 --> 00:21:56,800
see any opportunities.

570
00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,200
His sorrow was not towards God.

571
00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:01,140
No place in the Bible do we ever

572
00:22:01,140 --> 00:22:04,440
see that Judas cried out to God for

573
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:04,860
mercy.

574
00:22:04,940 --> 00:22:06,520
And I believe God would have been merciful

575
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,240
to him had he sought a godly sorrow

576
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:11,820
and a godly repentance.

577
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,860
The Bible says he sorrowed because of his

578
00:22:15,860 --> 00:22:21,380
position before the Pharisees and the high priests.

579
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,100
And he went back to them and tried

580
00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:23,860
to make it right.

581
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:25,720
Great thing, try to make it right.

582
00:22:27,380 --> 00:22:29,500
But there was no sorrow towards God.

583
00:22:32,870 --> 00:22:35,210
Well, here in verse 11 is a good

584
00:22:35,210 --> 00:22:37,590
example of what true repentance is.

585
00:22:37,750 --> 00:22:40,450
And not only this man here is one

586
00:22:40,450 --> 00:22:43,330
who expressed, you know, the man who committed

587
00:22:43,330 --> 00:22:46,290
this act in 1 Corinthians chapter five, he

588
00:22:46,290 --> 00:22:47,070
got his heart right.

589
00:22:48,010 --> 00:22:49,770
It seems like he got right with God

590
00:22:49,770 --> 00:22:52,650
and he did a thorough job of repenting.

591
00:22:52,970 --> 00:22:55,690
And they were rejoicing that this whole situation

592
00:22:55,690 --> 00:22:56,990
turned for the good.

593
00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:01,660
But notice here what happened in this man's

594
00:23:01,660 --> 00:23:04,360
heart and in these others' hearts who were

595
00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:06,200
glorying in this whole situation.

596
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,560
It says here in verse 11, for behold

597
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,420
this selfsame thing that you sorrowed after a

598
00:23:11,420 --> 00:23:15,140
godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you,

599
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,200
yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation,

600
00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:23,120
yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea,

601
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,660
what zeal, yea, what revenge.

602
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,620
In all things you have approved yourselves to

603
00:23:28,620 --> 00:23:29,940
be clear in this matter.

604
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,160
Now there's a bunch of things listed here,

605
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,540
but this is what real repentance is.

606
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,160
If you have real repentance in your heart,

607
00:23:41,410 --> 00:23:43,670
you'll see this in your life and you'll

608
00:23:43,670 --> 00:23:44,310
see this.

609
00:23:44,850 --> 00:23:48,490
If it's God's work and he's producing repentance,

610
00:23:48,730 --> 00:23:52,250
you'll see each of these things.

611
00:23:52,370 --> 00:23:53,490
I'd like to go through each of them

612
00:23:53,490 --> 00:23:54,950
one by one.

613
00:23:55,510 --> 00:23:59,310
This is what real godly sorrow brings about.

614
00:23:59,530 --> 00:24:03,750
First thing is what carefulness it wrought in

615
00:24:03,750 --> 00:24:04,070
you.

616
00:24:04,070 --> 00:24:05,810
It starts out there.

617
00:24:05,930 --> 00:24:07,090
You know what carefulness means?

618
00:24:07,670 --> 00:24:09,090
You look it up, it means this.

619
00:24:09,570 --> 00:24:14,270
Speed, eagerness, or diligence.

620
00:24:14,890 --> 00:24:17,910
It's the idea of I want to get

621
00:24:17,910 --> 00:24:20,010
right as soon as I can.

622
00:24:21,140 --> 00:24:22,190
I want to get right.

623
00:24:22,830 --> 00:24:24,030
I have an eagerness.

624
00:24:24,950 --> 00:24:27,770
There's a carefulness about me that says I

625
00:24:27,770 --> 00:24:30,250
want to get things cleared up as soon

626
00:24:30,250 --> 00:24:31,030
as possible.

627
00:24:31,550 --> 00:24:36,510
It does not linger like Lot, lingering.

628
00:24:38,150 --> 00:24:40,210
Lot had little repentance in his heart toward

629
00:24:40,210 --> 00:24:41,850
what he was doing there in Sodom and

630
00:24:41,850 --> 00:24:44,610
his heart going toward the wealth there at

631
00:24:44,610 --> 00:24:44,850
Sodom.

632
00:24:44,990 --> 00:24:46,110
He wanted to linger.

633
00:24:49,430 --> 00:24:51,330
I want to get right, right now.

634
00:24:52,650 --> 00:24:54,570
What carefulness it wrought in you.

635
00:24:56,030 --> 00:24:57,590
There's many examples of this.

636
00:24:57,730 --> 00:25:00,530
I'd just like to read one for each

637
00:25:00,530 --> 00:25:01,230
one of these here.

638
00:25:01,330 --> 00:25:02,830
In Acts chapter two, you don't have to

639
00:25:02,830 --> 00:25:05,650
turn there, Peter preaches to this great multitude

640
00:25:05,650 --> 00:25:07,390
of people on the day of Pentecost, and

641
00:25:07,390 --> 00:25:08,190
he says this.

642
00:25:09,150 --> 00:25:10,910
Therefore, let all the house of Israel know

643
00:25:10,910 --> 00:25:13,630
assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus

644
00:25:14,150 --> 00:25:17,850
whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

645
00:25:18,610 --> 00:25:21,010
Now when they heard this, they were pricked

646
00:25:21,010 --> 00:25:23,450
in their hearts and said unto Peter and

647
00:25:23,450 --> 00:25:25,570
to the rest of the apostles, men and

648
00:25:25,570 --> 00:25:26,810
brethren, what shall we do?

649
00:25:26,890 --> 00:25:27,930
This is carefulness.

650
00:25:28,330 --> 00:25:30,870
Right now, speed, diligence.

651
00:25:31,370 --> 00:25:32,710
We were guilty.

652
00:25:33,330 --> 00:25:35,070
We did crucify the Savior.

653
00:25:35,510 --> 00:25:36,890
What should we do?

654
00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:38,650
Amen.

655
00:25:40,130 --> 00:25:42,170
Not wait till tomorrow, wait till next week,

656
00:25:42,310 --> 00:25:44,470
and well, I don't know, maybe I'll deal

657
00:25:44,470 --> 00:25:44,990
with it sometime.

658
00:25:45,330 --> 00:25:46,650
No, it's like right in the end of

659
00:25:46,650 --> 00:25:48,650
the sermon, what should we do?

660
00:25:50,350 --> 00:25:51,490
That's the spirit of God.

661
00:25:53,110 --> 00:25:55,890
That's carefulness, that's diligence, that's speed.

662
00:25:58,270 --> 00:25:59,830
I love it when we're, this is a

663
00:25:59,830 --> 00:26:01,370
great example of the spirit of God moving.

664
00:26:01,790 --> 00:26:04,050
You're preaching a revival meeting, before you finish

665
00:26:04,050 --> 00:26:05,570
this sermon, people are getting up and coming

666
00:26:05,570 --> 00:26:06,110
down and praying.

667
00:26:06,890 --> 00:26:08,270
I'm not gonna wait till the service is

668
00:26:08,270 --> 00:26:08,430
over.

669
00:26:08,530 --> 00:26:09,890
I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna deal with

670
00:26:09,890 --> 00:26:10,390
God now.

671
00:26:11,830 --> 00:26:12,550
That's repentance.

672
00:26:13,750 --> 00:26:16,890
There is a carefulness in the heart.

673
00:26:18,790 --> 00:26:20,950
And so Peter says to them, be baptized,

674
00:26:21,090 --> 00:26:22,850
repent, and be baptized, then in the next

675
00:26:22,850 --> 00:26:25,450
verse he says, then they that glad and

676
00:26:25,450 --> 00:26:27,850
received his word were baptized the same day.

677
00:26:29,230 --> 00:26:31,710
And so real repentance is not something that,

678
00:26:31,950 --> 00:26:34,570
well, it'll linger, we've got time.

679
00:26:35,150 --> 00:26:37,450
No, it's today, that's why the scripture says

680
00:26:37,450 --> 00:26:39,270
today is the day of salvation.

681
00:26:41,550 --> 00:26:45,050
God is granting you repentance, and there ought

682
00:26:45,050 --> 00:26:46,150
to be a willingness to move.

683
00:26:48,670 --> 00:26:49,950
You say, you sit here, you say, well,

684
00:26:49,990 --> 00:26:51,410
someday I'll deal with my sin.

685
00:26:51,510 --> 00:26:52,750
Well, that's not a work of God.

686
00:26:53,630 --> 00:26:54,670
That's your own mind.

687
00:26:55,690 --> 00:26:57,470
Someday I'll deal with my sin.

688
00:26:57,550 --> 00:26:58,730
No, no, no, that's not God.

689
00:26:59,270 --> 00:27:01,230
If God is dealing with you and granting

690
00:27:01,230 --> 00:27:03,870
you repentance, your heart ought to be now,

691
00:27:04,710 --> 00:27:05,210
today.

692
00:27:06,450 --> 00:27:07,410
There's a carefulness.

693
00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:14,740
Saul, he learned this in his own life

694
00:27:14,740 --> 00:27:15,940
there on the road to Damascus.

695
00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:17,520
It was right away, what do you want

696
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:17,920
me to do?

697
00:27:18,140 --> 00:27:18,680
I'm done.

698
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,020
Let's deal with it right now.

699
00:27:22,020 --> 00:27:23,060
And he got right.

700
00:27:25,980 --> 00:27:29,180
The second thing here is mentioned is clearing

701
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:30,040
of yourselves.

702
00:27:31,940 --> 00:27:34,960
So you're speedily getting things in order.

703
00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:36,280
You want to get things in order.

704
00:27:36,860 --> 00:27:39,420
The second thing is the clearing of yourselves.

705
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:40,520
What does it say?

706
00:27:41,820 --> 00:27:44,000
For behold, this selfsame thing that you sorrowed

707
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,460
after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought

708
00:27:46,460 --> 00:27:46,840
in you.

709
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,080
Yea, what clearing of yourselves.

710
00:27:50,820 --> 00:27:51,540
You know what that is?

711
00:27:52,660 --> 00:27:54,920
It's the word apology or restoration.

712
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,020
If I have to deal with anything, I'm

713
00:27:57,020 --> 00:27:58,780
gonna make an apology.

714
00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:01,880
First and foremost, what did David do against

715
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:02,360
thee?

716
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,860
Have I sinned and done this great evil?

717
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,200
I'm going to clear myself with God.

718
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,340
Prodigal son, I must go back to my

719
00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:14,660
father.

720
00:28:14,740 --> 00:28:16,120
What's the first words out of his mouth?

721
00:28:16,220 --> 00:28:19,160
I have sinned against you and I wanna

722
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:19,820
make it right.

723
00:28:19,860 --> 00:28:21,220
I want to clear my heart.

724
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,320
That's a good work that the spirit of

725
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:24,880
God does.

726
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,280
Diligently stepping out and saying, first thing I

727
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:29,380
gotta do is clear my heart.

728
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:31,740
I wanna repent.

729
00:28:33,850 --> 00:28:35,270
Yea, what clearing of yourselves.

730
00:28:38,460 --> 00:28:41,320
An apology and maybe even a restoration.

731
00:28:41,620 --> 00:28:44,500
Zacchaeus, when his salvation came to his house.

732
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,220
Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I

733
00:28:47,220 --> 00:28:47,940
give to the poor.

734
00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:50,660
And if I have taken anything from any

735
00:28:50,660 --> 00:28:53,200
man by false accusation, I restore.

736
00:28:53,980 --> 00:28:54,720
There's your word.

737
00:28:55,140 --> 00:28:57,700
I restore him fourfold.

738
00:28:58,500 --> 00:28:59,520
Do you think when he went to the

739
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,760
door, somebody opened the door.

740
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,440
Excuse me, I just want to apologize to

741
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:06,640
you.

742
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:08,700
I want to confess something.

743
00:29:09,180 --> 00:29:11,120
I robbed you, I ripped you off.

744
00:29:12,060 --> 00:29:13,600
And not only am I gonna give you

745
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:14,940
what you got, I'm gonna give you four

746
00:29:14,940 --> 00:29:15,980
times back in return.

747
00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:19,720
I want to clear my heart.

748
00:29:20,540 --> 00:29:22,480
I want to make things right.

749
00:29:22,780 --> 00:29:24,960
And maybe one to one is not sufficient

750
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,520
because you've been through some trouble.

751
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,940
I'm gonna give you four times what I

752
00:29:28,940 --> 00:29:29,180
took.

753
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,600
I want to make sure you're clear.

754
00:29:31,820 --> 00:29:32,940
I like that.

755
00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:38,890
Yea, what clearing of yourselves.

756
00:29:41,460 --> 00:29:44,340
Sometimes clearing yourselves with God means to destroy

757
00:29:44,340 --> 00:29:45,340
sinful articles.

758
00:29:45,540 --> 00:29:47,200
I remember Brother Craig, when he was converted,

759
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,320
he wanted to clear his heart.

760
00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:50,540
He brought his marijuana bong.

761
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,300
He brought his videos.

762
00:29:52,580 --> 00:29:54,680
He brought his rock music.

763
00:29:54,860 --> 00:29:56,460
He brought his drug paraphernalia.

764
00:29:56,700 --> 00:29:58,000
We put it all in a big barrel

765
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,060
and we burned it.

766
00:29:59,140 --> 00:30:02,920
There's this desire to clear yourself with God.

767
00:30:08,430 --> 00:30:09,850
That happened in the book of Acts.

768
00:30:10,810 --> 00:30:13,210
You and I went over this when we

769
00:30:13,210 --> 00:30:14,570
went through the book of Acts, but in

770
00:30:14,570 --> 00:30:17,630
Acts 19 it says this, that many that

771
00:30:17,630 --> 00:30:21,750
believed came and confessed and showed their deeds.

772
00:30:21,890 --> 00:30:23,990
Many of them also which used curious arts

773
00:30:23,990 --> 00:30:26,430
brought their books together and burned them before

774
00:30:26,430 --> 00:30:26,970
all men.

775
00:30:27,370 --> 00:30:28,910
And they counted the price of them and

776
00:30:28,910 --> 00:30:31,350
found it 50,000 pieces of silver.

777
00:30:31,970 --> 00:30:33,690
I gotta clear my heart with God.

778
00:30:33,730 --> 00:30:35,010
I gotta get rid of this stuff.

779
00:30:35,510 --> 00:30:37,070
And I'm not gonna go and sell it.

780
00:30:37,810 --> 00:30:38,450
Because it's wicked.

781
00:30:39,290 --> 00:30:40,550
Why would I take it down to the

782
00:30:40,550 --> 00:30:42,690
thrift store and let someone else get involved

783
00:30:42,690 --> 00:30:43,350
in this wickedness?

784
00:30:43,650 --> 00:30:44,530
We're gonna burn it.

785
00:30:45,350 --> 00:30:46,490
I wanna clear my heart.

786
00:30:49,070 --> 00:30:51,930
And so there's a carefulness.

787
00:30:53,330 --> 00:30:56,930
There's a clearing of ourselves.

788
00:30:58,650 --> 00:30:59,850
Boy, you know, do we see a lot

789
00:30:59,850 --> 00:31:01,250
of repentance today like this?

790
00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:05,940
That's concerning to me because you know, God

791
00:31:05,940 --> 00:31:07,360
is the one who gives us repentance.

792
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,800
He grants us that kind of repentance.

793
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,780
Well, the next one here is indignation.

794
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,980
Yay, what indignation.

795
00:31:20,740 --> 00:31:23,200
I cannot believe I did that.

796
00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:25,620
I can't believe it.

797
00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:29,060
Probably that boy that wrecked, crashed his truck.

798
00:31:29,180 --> 00:31:30,140
Just was so angry.

799
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:31,940
Why did I do that?

800
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,400
Ah, what indignation.

801
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,580
I'm gonna stir you up a little bit.

802
00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:47,550
Anger at yourself, anger at your sin.

803
00:31:50,510 --> 00:31:52,450
You don't make any excuses for it.

804
00:31:52,490 --> 00:31:53,590
You know, that's the problem today.

805
00:31:54,490 --> 00:31:57,770
Well, instead of being angry at myself and

806
00:31:57,770 --> 00:32:01,110
my sin, I said, well, I have someone

807
00:32:01,110 --> 00:32:01,610
to blame.

808
00:32:03,860 --> 00:32:05,260
It's the way I was brought up.

809
00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:07,780
It's my mother's fault.

810
00:32:07,860 --> 00:32:08,960
It's my father's fault.

811
00:32:09,020 --> 00:32:10,300
It's my sibling's fault.

812
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,680
It's the government's fault.

813
00:32:12,780 --> 00:32:14,020
It's the church's fault.

814
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,160
It's the pastor's fault.

815
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,940
It's all these people to blame for my

816
00:32:18,940 --> 00:32:19,240
sin.

817
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,320
That's not gonna work, is it, Caleb?

818
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,540
No, it's not gonna work.

819
00:32:31,130 --> 00:32:32,370
What indignation.

820
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:39,500
Next one is fear.

821
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,040
This is what true repentance brings out in

822
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:43,440
the heart.

823
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,400
Oh, I gotta get right with God.

824
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:47,880
Oh, I've gotta clear myself.

825
00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:50,740
I cannot believe I did that.

826
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,080
I'm not gonna do it anymore.

827
00:32:52,220 --> 00:32:53,160
I hate it.

828
00:32:55,890 --> 00:32:56,410
Indignation.

829
00:32:58,250 --> 00:32:59,350
And then comes fear.

830
00:33:01,010 --> 00:33:01,850
Yea, what fear?

831
00:33:02,030 --> 00:33:02,970
Yea, what fear?

832
00:33:03,830 --> 00:33:04,750
The fear of God.

833
00:33:05,010 --> 00:33:06,290
You know, there's so little of that today,

834
00:33:06,430 --> 00:33:06,530
too.

835
00:33:06,590 --> 00:33:07,750
The fear of God's judgment.

836
00:33:10,630 --> 00:33:12,690
Usually when the Spirit of God convicts and

837
00:33:12,690 --> 00:33:15,070
brings a person to repentance, there is a

838
00:33:15,070 --> 00:33:15,810
fear of God.

839
00:33:17,210 --> 00:33:18,890
You know, the fear that this is going

840
00:33:18,890 --> 00:33:19,990
to displease God.

841
00:33:20,110 --> 00:33:21,790
This may even send me to hell.

842
00:33:22,010 --> 00:33:25,990
This sin, it's sending me down to a

843
00:33:25,990 --> 00:33:26,650
devil's hell.

844
00:33:26,910 --> 00:33:28,270
I fear God.

845
00:33:28,270 --> 00:33:30,830
True repentance involves the fear of God.

846
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,920
I like the story there of the Philippian

847
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:39,360
jailer.

848
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,460
It says he came into Paul and Silas

849
00:33:41,460 --> 00:33:42,180
trembling.

850
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,180
Now, I know that earthquake caused him probably

851
00:33:45,180 --> 00:33:48,800
a little shaken up, but he came trembling.

852
00:33:49,020 --> 00:33:51,640
He said, what must I do to be

853
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:52,140
saved?

854
00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:55,500
I fear your God, the one you've been

855
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:55,960
praising.

856
00:33:56,140 --> 00:33:57,140
And now this thing happened.

857
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,560
I fear God, help me.

858
00:34:02,740 --> 00:34:04,240
Here's something I thought about this morning.

859
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,200
We all always ought to live in the

860
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:07,679
fear of God because the Bible says to

861
00:34:07,679 --> 00:34:09,020
serve the Lord with fear.

862
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:10,820
Rejoice with trembling.

863
00:34:11,020 --> 00:34:12,980
We ought to be a repentant people all

864
00:34:12,980 --> 00:34:13,560
the time.

865
00:34:14,260 --> 00:34:14,500
Amen.

866
00:34:18,620 --> 00:34:20,360
Oh, Lord, I don't want to do that.

867
00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:21,540
Oh, I don't want to do that.

868
00:34:22,139 --> 00:34:23,780
When we lose the fear of God, it's

869
00:34:23,780 --> 00:34:24,620
like, oh, I don't care.

870
00:34:25,179 --> 00:34:26,199
I'll just do whatever I want.

871
00:34:26,260 --> 00:34:28,639
I'll sin, it doesn't, I can use 1

872
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:29,300
John 1, 9.

873
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,480
I can just take care of it.

874
00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:34,199
It's, we lose our heart of repentance.

875
00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:37,840
By the way, repentance is not for some

876
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:38,600
wicked people.

877
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,840
Godly sorrow is not for some, you know,

878
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:41,840
unconverted people.

879
00:34:41,980 --> 00:34:42,960
It's for us too.

880
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:54,420
Godly sorrow, not

881
00:34:54,420 --> 00:34:56,120
a fear of circumstances.

882
00:34:56,340 --> 00:34:57,520
We don't fear circumstances.

883
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:58,880
We don't fear people.

884
00:34:59,000 --> 00:34:59,940
We fear God.

885
00:35:01,460 --> 00:35:03,020
The next one here, I'm going to combine

886
00:35:03,020 --> 00:35:04,240
these next two together here.

887
00:35:04,340 --> 00:35:08,080
It says, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what

888
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:08,320
zeal.

889
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,580
People who have repentance, they have vehemence, that's

890
00:35:14,580 --> 00:35:15,120
heat.

891
00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:18,980
They have zeal, they get after it.

892
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,560
They have zeal for the things that are

893
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,440
good and the zeal for the things that

894
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:26,180
are godly.

895
00:35:26,940 --> 00:35:28,500
You know, I think of Paul's example on

896
00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,100
the road to Damascus, a very good example.

897
00:35:30,220 --> 00:35:32,000
As soon as he got smacked to the

898
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,640
ground, as soon as God granted him repentance,

899
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,960
he said, what do you want me to

900
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:37,200
do?

901
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,080
And God told him and he got at

902
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:39,360
it.

903
00:35:40,460 --> 00:35:41,660
There was some zeal there.

904
00:35:45,770 --> 00:35:47,730
And then the next one here is revenge,

905
00:35:47,870 --> 00:35:48,830
yea, what revenge.

906
00:35:51,370 --> 00:35:52,410
I like this one.

907
00:35:53,570 --> 00:35:55,170
You know, it produces in the heart this

908
00:35:55,170 --> 00:35:58,070
idea of I want to get back at

909
00:35:58,070 --> 00:36:00,110
he who has deceived me and sought to

910
00:36:00,110 --> 00:36:00,610
destroy me.

911
00:36:00,710 --> 00:36:01,970
I want to get back at the devil.

912
00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:05,900
I remember Brother Craig, I like to use

913
00:36:05,900 --> 00:36:07,800
him oftentimes because he has such a clear

914
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:08,460
testimony.

915
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,340
And this is all in his life.

916
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,540
He said, I'm going to do to the

917
00:36:12,540 --> 00:36:14,660
devil by the power of the spirit what

918
00:36:14,660 --> 00:36:16,080
he's done to my life.

919
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:17,680
I have this revenge.

920
00:36:19,060 --> 00:36:20,460
You know, Donald Trump has said to be

921
00:36:20,460 --> 00:36:21,860
on his revenge tour.

922
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,400
We ought to be on a revenge tour

923
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:23,940
too.

924
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,480
And you know, revenging what the Lord or

925
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,200
what the devil has done in our life

926
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,560
to the evil, we ought to give ourselves

927
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:34,360
to the good.

928
00:36:34,620 --> 00:36:35,360
I like this.

929
00:36:35,420 --> 00:36:37,100
Turn over to 2 Corinthians 10, just a

930
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:37,620
page or two.

931
00:36:38,140 --> 00:36:40,060
It talks about this very thing here in

932
00:36:40,060 --> 00:36:42,540
2 Corinthians 10, starting in verse three.

933
00:36:42,540 --> 00:36:44,200
It says, for though we walk in the

934
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,640
flesh, we do not war after the flesh.

935
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,560
For the weapons of our warfare are not

936
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,240
carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling

937
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:55,020
down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every

938
00:36:55,020 --> 00:36:57,980
high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge

939
00:36:57,980 --> 00:37:01,180
of God and bringing into captivity every thought

940
00:37:01,180 --> 00:37:04,300
to the obedience of Christ and having, notice

941
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:07,380
this, and having in readiness to revenge.

942
00:37:09,020 --> 00:37:09,900
There it is.

943
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:21,030
Having in readiness to revenge all disobedience when

944
00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:22,390
your obedience is fulfilled.

945
00:37:23,150 --> 00:37:24,570
You ought to have a little revenge.

946
00:37:26,210 --> 00:37:28,910
Nothing wrong to have some vengeance against the

947
00:37:28,910 --> 00:37:29,130
devil.

948
00:37:30,790 --> 00:37:32,710
You know, you did that to me, I'm

949
00:37:32,710 --> 00:37:33,250
gonna get you.

950
00:37:34,690 --> 00:37:36,290
I'm gonna, by the power of the Spirit

951
00:37:36,290 --> 00:37:38,370
of God, I'm going to destroy your works.

952
00:37:39,530 --> 00:37:40,710
Not only in my life, but I'm gonna

953
00:37:40,710 --> 00:37:41,850
reach out and help others.

954
00:37:42,350 --> 00:37:45,010
Like Brother Irving was telling, I'm gonna reach

955
00:37:45,010 --> 00:37:46,270
out and help the man in the ditch.

956
00:37:47,450 --> 00:37:49,490
And I'm gonna take my revenge.

957
00:37:53,060 --> 00:37:55,640
And so those here, these are the things

958
00:37:55,640 --> 00:38:00,440
that are real, real serious, true, this is

959
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:01,860
the work of the Spirit of God.

960
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,060
We ought to ask ourselves the question, is

961
00:38:10,060 --> 00:38:11,800
that the kind of repentance that we have?

962
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,260
Or something similar to that?

963
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:20,440
Now let's keep reading.

964
00:38:20,740 --> 00:38:22,300
We're gonna change our subjects here a little

965
00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:22,500
bit.

966
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,840
Verse 12 says, wherefore though I wrote unto

967
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:29,290
you, I did it not for his cause

968
00:38:29,290 --> 00:38:32,330
that had done the wrong, that one who

969
00:38:32,330 --> 00:38:35,570
sinned, nor for his cause that suffered the

970
00:38:35,570 --> 00:38:37,430
wrong, the one who was hurt by that

971
00:38:37,430 --> 00:38:42,170
sin, but that our care for you in

972
00:38:42,170 --> 00:38:47,210
the sight of God might appear unto you.

973
00:38:47,310 --> 00:38:49,670
Now, Paul says here, I did not write

974
00:38:49,670 --> 00:38:53,190
that letter, that first epistle for the individuals.

975
00:38:55,670 --> 00:38:57,090
I wrote it for the body.

976
00:38:58,870 --> 00:39:00,110
And by the way, if you have a

977
00:39:00,110 --> 00:39:04,150
body, you know, my body here, you can't

978
00:39:04,150 --> 00:39:06,210
really write for an individual member that's hurting

979
00:39:06,210 --> 00:39:08,450
because the Bible says when one member suffers,

980
00:39:08,570 --> 00:39:09,030
what happens?

981
00:39:10,430 --> 00:39:11,810
All the members suffer.

982
00:39:13,750 --> 00:39:17,010
So, you know, Paul's not singling out this

983
00:39:17,010 --> 00:39:18,730
man who sinned and the one who was

984
00:39:18,730 --> 00:39:19,290
afflicted by it.

985
00:39:19,330 --> 00:39:20,890
He said, I wrote this for the whole

986
00:39:20,890 --> 00:39:21,790
congregation.

987
00:39:23,850 --> 00:39:31,490
Because it's a congregational issue and how it

988
00:39:31,490 --> 00:39:32,890
is affecting the whole body.

989
00:39:32,990 --> 00:39:34,850
Turn with me back to 1 Corinthians chapter

990
00:39:34,850 --> 00:39:35,230
five.

991
00:39:35,310 --> 00:39:37,490
Let's read that and see how it affects

992
00:39:37,490 --> 00:39:38,230
the whole body.

993
00:39:40,250 --> 00:39:41,810
I'm not gonna read down through the whole

994
00:39:41,810 --> 00:39:46,370
passage here, but this man is committed fornication

995
00:39:46,370 --> 00:39:48,230
with his, I don't know, stepmother.

996
00:39:48,330 --> 00:39:50,090
I don't know how that whole situation worked

997
00:39:50,090 --> 00:39:51,510
out there, but it wasn't a good one.

998
00:39:51,970 --> 00:39:54,170
In 1 Corinthians chapter five, let's jump in

999
00:39:54,170 --> 00:39:56,230
here in verse number five.

1000
00:39:56,350 --> 00:39:58,230
It says, to deliver such in one unto

1001
00:39:58,230 --> 00:40:01,030
Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that

1002
00:40:01,030 --> 00:40:03,370
the spirit may be saved in the day

1003
00:40:03,370 --> 00:40:04,390
of the Lord Jesus.

1004
00:40:05,590 --> 00:40:07,710
Your glorying is not good.

1005
00:40:09,190 --> 00:40:11,230
Know you not, and this is right on

1006
00:40:11,230 --> 00:40:14,050
the doorstep of verse five.

1007
00:40:14,510 --> 00:40:18,150
Know you not that a little leaven leavens

1008
00:40:18,150 --> 00:40:19,770
the whole lump.

1009
00:40:19,770 --> 00:40:24,530
Oh, I'm concerned about not that little leaven,

1010
00:40:24,990 --> 00:40:26,810
that one or two individuals.

1011
00:40:27,350 --> 00:40:29,870
My concern is that this sin is going

1012
00:40:29,870 --> 00:40:32,290
to leaven the whole lump.

1013
00:40:32,950 --> 00:40:36,710
So I'm writing to the church about this

1014
00:40:36,710 --> 00:40:37,150
leaven.

1015
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,720
Notice in verse six, your glorying is not

1016
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:44,000
good.

1017
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,620
Now the leaven is these individuals who are

1018
00:40:46,620 --> 00:40:48,700
glorying over this sin.

1019
00:40:50,980 --> 00:40:52,020
It's not a problem.

1020
00:40:52,020 --> 00:40:56,840
And that attitude, that attitude is what brings

1021
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:57,200
leaven.

1022
00:41:04,670 --> 00:41:05,730
I know when I was in the Baptist

1023
00:41:05,730 --> 00:41:07,590
church, and this is happening to many churches

1024
00:41:07,590 --> 00:41:12,540
right now, they used to take a strong

1025
00:41:12,540 --> 00:41:14,100
stand against divorce and remarriage.

1026
00:41:14,620 --> 00:41:16,040
But one day they stood up.

1027
00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:19,140
I know the young man got divorced.

1028
00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:22,580
And I was a friend of his.

1029
00:41:23,140 --> 00:41:24,780
I actually owned a Domino's Pizza, read a

1030
00:41:24,780 --> 00:41:26,420
Domino's Pizza in Mansfield, Ohio.

1031
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,340
I delivered pizzas for him for a while.

1032
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,400
His wife divorced him.

1033
00:41:31,180 --> 00:41:32,720
He was in the Baptist church.

1034
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:33,600
Awful thing.

1035
00:41:36,460 --> 00:41:38,020
Then about a year or two, and the

1036
00:41:38,020 --> 00:41:40,240
church for 20 years stood against divorce and

1037
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:40,660
remarriage.

1038
00:41:40,820 --> 00:41:41,640
They wouldn't do it.

1039
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:49,180
But I saw them take this young man,

1040
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,040
and he got another wife, and in the

1041
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,620
church, all the people married him.

1042
00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:59,140
I'll say this.

1043
00:41:59,180 --> 00:42:00,400
My parents go to that church right now,

1044
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:01,920
but the church is filled with divorced and

1045
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:02,440
remarried people.

1046
00:42:03,660 --> 00:42:04,260
Filled with them.

1047
00:42:05,460 --> 00:42:10,360
Because they embraced, they gloried, they embraced something

1048
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,060
that was sinful, something that was wrong, and

1049
00:42:13,060 --> 00:42:15,900
the people stood there, and they watched it,

1050
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:17,720
and they said, well, if it's not a

1051
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:19,280
bad thing, I'll do it.

1052
00:42:20,180 --> 00:42:22,260
And their minds were leavened.

1053
00:42:22,660 --> 00:42:27,460
And pretty soon the whole congregation, not only

1054
00:42:27,460 --> 00:42:29,680
that, people were coming to that church because

1055
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,780
of their position.

1056
00:42:32,380 --> 00:42:33,960
And the church was filled with it.

1057
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,520
When I was there at the beginning, it

1058
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,320
was something that was very much against.

1059
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,120
And so we need to be careful that

1060
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:48,620
we don't glory and accept, and even lift

1061
00:42:48,620 --> 00:42:50,080
up sinful behavior.

1062
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,520
Because these minds here, especially these young ones,

1063
00:42:54,620 --> 00:42:55,600
can become leavened.

1064
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,200
I must not be that bad.

1065
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:00,720
So I can do it.

1066
00:43:05,370 --> 00:43:07,830
Verse 13, I'm gonna leave you here with

1067
00:43:07,830 --> 00:43:09,730
some encouraging words and go along with what

1068
00:43:09,730 --> 00:43:10,950
we've shared already this morning.

1069
00:43:11,210 --> 00:43:15,730
But in verse 13 here, it says this,

1070
00:43:15,790 --> 00:43:20,790
therefore we were comforted in your comfort, yea,

1071
00:43:20,970 --> 00:43:23,850
and exceedingly the more joyed we for the

1072
00:43:23,850 --> 00:43:27,630
joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed

1073
00:43:27,630 --> 00:43:29,670
by you all.

1074
00:43:30,010 --> 00:43:32,650
Now these people, they did repent.

1075
00:43:33,410 --> 00:43:36,310
And that brought comfort, not only to themselves,

1076
00:43:36,870 --> 00:43:39,550
but also to Titus.

1077
00:43:39,670 --> 00:43:41,950
Now Titus is evidently one who is helping

1078
00:43:41,950 --> 00:43:43,550
Paul in this church.

1079
00:43:43,670 --> 00:43:45,650
And maybe Paul had gone someplace else and

1080
00:43:45,650 --> 00:43:47,930
Titus was staying there and he was visiting

1081
00:43:47,930 --> 00:43:48,810
and helping the church.

1082
00:43:49,170 --> 00:43:51,110
Seems like his heart is very much involved

1083
00:43:51,110 --> 00:43:52,110
in a church at Corinth.

1084
00:43:52,490 --> 00:43:56,030
And he's been going through this grief over

1085
00:43:56,030 --> 00:43:56,730
what's happening.

1086
00:43:57,150 --> 00:43:58,350
Now there's repentance.

1087
00:43:58,810 --> 00:44:01,710
And now Titus is rejoicing.

1088
00:44:07,230 --> 00:44:09,790
Notice verse 14, For if I have boasted

1089
00:44:09,790 --> 00:44:13,450
anything to him, to Titus of you, I

1090
00:44:13,450 --> 00:44:14,370
am not ashamed.

1091
00:44:15,750 --> 00:44:18,470
But as we speak all things to you

1092
00:44:18,470 --> 00:44:21,470
in truth, even so our boasting, which I

1093
00:44:21,470 --> 00:44:25,530
made before Titus, is found a truth.

1094
00:44:25,590 --> 00:44:26,790
Now think about this for a minute here.

1095
00:44:26,870 --> 00:44:30,690
Paul boasted of Corinth to Titus before all

1096
00:44:30,690 --> 00:44:31,250
this happened.

1097
00:44:31,810 --> 00:44:34,130
He's telling, oh that church there at Corinth,

1098
00:44:34,550 --> 00:44:35,950
they're just great people.

1099
00:44:36,410 --> 00:44:37,510
They love Jesus.

1100
00:44:37,510 --> 00:44:39,430
And they're just babes in Christ.

1101
00:44:39,530 --> 00:44:41,570
But Titus is doing such a great job.

1102
00:44:42,350 --> 00:44:44,150
And he's boasting in them.

1103
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,380
And now he's concerned he's going to be

1104
00:44:48,380 --> 00:44:48,800
ashamed.

1105
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:51,040
Like, oh my.

1106
00:44:52,740 --> 00:44:54,380
Things have gone off the rails.

1107
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,300
And I told Titus this church is doing

1108
00:44:56,300 --> 00:44:56,900
wonderful.

1109
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,700
And now he's finding out this whole mess.

1110
00:45:02,070 --> 00:45:04,050
So Paul boasted of Corinth to Titus and

1111
00:45:04,050 --> 00:45:05,970
then all these things fall out.

1112
00:45:06,670 --> 00:45:08,730
But now there was repentance.

1113
00:45:08,730 --> 00:45:12,010
And he says my boasting is truthful now.

1114
00:45:12,070 --> 00:45:15,530
Which I made before Titus is found truthful.

1115
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:27,730
Now, I don't, I don't, I don't understand

1116
00:45:27,730 --> 00:45:28,430
these things.

1117
00:45:29,190 --> 00:45:30,490
But Paul was boasting.

1118
00:45:30,590 --> 00:45:31,810
There's some things we can boast about.

1119
00:45:33,250 --> 00:45:35,450
And Paul seemed to boast about the people.

1120
00:45:36,150 --> 00:45:38,010
This church is a great, there's a lot

1121
00:45:38,010 --> 00:45:38,370
of writings.

1122
00:45:38,830 --> 00:45:39,930
This church is doing great.

1123
00:45:40,490 --> 00:45:41,650
They're full of faith.

1124
00:45:41,930 --> 00:45:43,150
They're full of love.

1125
00:45:44,210 --> 00:45:45,530
And so he loved to boast.

1126
00:45:45,810 --> 00:45:47,690
He loved to boast about the churches.

1127
00:45:48,130 --> 00:45:51,310
And Corinthian church he boasted a lot about.

1128
00:45:51,670 --> 00:45:53,750
Especially he says to Titus, Titus this is

1129
00:45:53,750 --> 00:45:54,710
a great church.

1130
00:45:54,930 --> 00:45:56,310
These are great people.

1131
00:45:56,630 --> 00:45:57,550
They love God.

1132
00:45:57,610 --> 00:45:58,530
They're holy people.

1133
00:45:58,610 --> 00:45:59,850
And all of a sudden all this stuff

1134
00:45:59,850 --> 00:46:00,130
happened.

1135
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,040
Look over to 2 Corinthians 9 here.

1136
00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:07,400
I just give you an example of this.

1137
00:46:07,460 --> 00:46:08,880
We're gonna see this a little later on

1138
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:09,120
here.

1139
00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:10,740
But the same thing.

1140
00:46:10,820 --> 00:46:13,360
Notice these words boast and ashamed as I

1141
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:14,760
read down through a couple of verses here.

1142
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,040
In verse one of chapter nine.

1143
00:46:16,660 --> 00:46:19,220
For as touching the ministering of the saints

1144
00:46:19,220 --> 00:46:21,080
it is superfluous for me to write to

1145
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,600
you for I know the forwardness of your

1146
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,080
mind for which I boast of you to

1147
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:28,120
them of Macedonia.

1148
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:29,580
These people at Corinth.

1149
00:46:30,140 --> 00:46:32,060
These people are great givers.

1150
00:46:36,940 --> 00:46:38,840
For which I boasted of you to them

1151
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,080
of Macedonia that Achai was ready a year

1152
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,360
ago and your zeal hath provoked very many.

1153
00:46:45,060 --> 00:46:46,900
Yet have I sent the brethren lest our

1154
00:46:46,900 --> 00:46:49,200
boasting of you should be in vain in

1155
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,880
this behalf that as I said you may

1156
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,580
be ready lest happily if they of Macedonia

1157
00:46:54,580 --> 00:46:57,560
come with me and find you unprepared, we

1158
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:01,300
that we say not ye should be ashamed

1159
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,940
in the same confident boasting.

1160
00:47:05,340 --> 00:47:09,170
In other words, I'm telling all these people

1161
00:47:09,170 --> 00:47:10,230
how generous you are.

1162
00:47:10,790 --> 00:47:12,870
And I'm bringing them along with me to

1163
00:47:12,870 --> 00:47:14,870
show them their generosity.

1164
00:47:15,770 --> 00:47:19,490
Would you start taking up offerings now just

1165
00:47:19,490 --> 00:47:21,470
to make sure that when I get there

1166
00:47:23,290 --> 00:47:25,930
your generosity can be seen so I'm not

1167
00:47:25,930 --> 00:47:26,390
ashamed.

1168
00:47:27,470 --> 00:47:29,570
It's like me boasting of this congregation here.

1169
00:47:29,970 --> 00:47:32,410
These are the most generous people.

1170
00:47:32,950 --> 00:47:34,970
I mean, brother, when you come here and

1171
00:47:34,970 --> 00:47:37,090
you speak here, they're gonna give you a

1172
00:47:37,090 --> 00:47:38,550
wonderful love offering.

1173
00:47:40,290 --> 00:47:41,890
And then we take a love offering and

1174
00:47:41,890 --> 00:47:42,610
get 20 bucks.

1175
00:47:44,250 --> 00:47:45,030
I'm ashamed.

1176
00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:50,160
Here brother Sean, here's your offering, 20 bucks.

1177
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:51,680
It's all I could get out of these

1178
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:51,900
people.

1179
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,840
But it's interesting that Paul says, go ahead

1180
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:58,480
before me.

1181
00:47:58,620 --> 00:48:01,480
I wanna make sure that money's ready so

1182
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:06,430
that my boast of you will be true.

1183
00:48:06,570 --> 00:48:08,650
So Paul, he wants to speak, this is

1184
00:48:08,650 --> 00:48:09,630
what I wanna bring out here.

1185
00:48:09,870 --> 00:48:12,330
He wants to speak highly of the church

1186
00:48:12,330 --> 00:48:13,290
to others.

1187
00:48:16,980 --> 00:48:18,380
And you know, a lot of people today

1188
00:48:18,380 --> 00:48:19,720
wanna tear the church down.

1189
00:48:21,340 --> 00:48:23,980
Everybody wants to tear it down, look for

1190
00:48:23,980 --> 00:48:24,820
some fault.

1191
00:48:26,860 --> 00:48:28,500
But you see here a desire, look at

1192
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:29,580
verse 15.

1193
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,240
I'm gonna finish up here and look at

1194
00:48:31,240 --> 00:48:32,460
verse 15 and 16.

1195
00:48:32,620 --> 00:48:34,640
And his inward affection is more abundant towards

1196
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,340
you while he remembers the obedience of you

1197
00:48:37,340 --> 00:48:37,660
all.

1198
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,820
How with fear and trembling you received him.

1199
00:48:41,260 --> 00:48:44,280
I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in

1200
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,940
you all, in all things.

1201
00:48:47,220 --> 00:48:49,700
Notice his words, he rejoices in you all.

1202
00:48:49,700 --> 00:48:51,920
He has confidence in you all.

1203
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:53,820
Our boastings of you.

1204
00:48:57,140 --> 00:48:59,120
You know, one thing I've seen here as

1205
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,400
I've gone through this 2 Corinthians is that

1206
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,680
it seems like Paul has a real desire

1207
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:05,560
to be positive.

1208
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,260
Some of you mentioned some of these things

1209
00:49:09,260 --> 00:49:11,400
this morning, but a real desire to be

1210
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:11,980
positive.

1211
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:13,400
You know, I don't wanna like, I don't

1212
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,200
like this writing this letter about this negative

1213
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:16,100
and rebuking.

1214
00:49:16,220 --> 00:49:18,340
I know I have to do it, but

1215
00:49:18,340 --> 00:49:19,400
I do it with anguish.

1216
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:20,620
I do it with tears.

1217
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:23,960
I'd much rather be positive.

1218
00:49:26,820 --> 00:49:28,860
But he has a desire for the positive,

1219
00:49:29,860 --> 00:49:32,260
a desire for the church to do well,

1220
00:49:32,380 --> 00:49:34,320
a desire even to boast.

1221
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,000
Oh, the church had remnants.

1222
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,320
Such a great church, such a great group

1223
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:41,880
of people.

1224
00:49:45,860 --> 00:49:47,080
That is in his heart.

1225
00:49:50,390 --> 00:49:51,270
And you know why that is?

1226
00:49:51,330 --> 00:49:52,570
I believe this to be the case.

1227
00:49:52,810 --> 00:49:55,950
Love hopes all things.

1228
00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:59,620
Love believes all things.

1229
00:50:00,740 --> 00:50:04,680
Love endures all things.

1230
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:08,180
And I believe as Paul looked at the

1231
00:50:08,180 --> 00:50:09,140
people of God, and we ought to look

1232
00:50:09,140 --> 00:50:10,300
at the people of God this way, is

1233
00:50:10,300 --> 00:50:11,880
he looked at him with great hope.

1234
00:50:13,220 --> 00:50:15,820
You can be something incredible.

1235
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,180
And I'm not looking at you with your

1236
00:50:19,180 --> 00:50:19,800
failure.

1237
00:50:20,420 --> 00:50:22,000
I'm looking at you as what I see

1238
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,100
as what you can do.

1239
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,120
And I'm looking at this church as what

1240
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,560
they can do, not their failure.

1241
00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:30,580
You know, this church has so much failure.

1242
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,740
You got people taking the Lord's Supper and

1243
00:50:33,740 --> 00:50:34,940
some of them are dying.

1244
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,520
You got the misuse of gifts.

1245
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,520
You got all kinds of stuff, division going

1246
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:39,440
on in the church.

1247
00:50:39,780 --> 00:50:42,700
And yet he's boasting in them, rejoicing.

1248
00:50:42,820 --> 00:50:44,320
He says, I have confidence in you.

1249
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,220
Wow, I don't know if I would.

1250
00:50:50,090 --> 00:50:51,550
You know, that's a beautiful place to be,

1251
00:50:52,270 --> 00:50:55,450
to have that hope and confidence and rejoicing,

1252
00:50:55,730 --> 00:50:56,850
even though there's problems.

1253
00:50:57,730 --> 00:51:00,590
And yes, there comes a place where you

1254
00:51:00,590 --> 00:51:02,850
may have to, with tears and anguish, say,

1255
00:51:03,090 --> 00:51:05,810
you're doing something dead wrong.

1256
00:51:06,530 --> 00:51:08,750
And I'm gonna admonish you for it, in

1257
00:51:08,750 --> 00:51:09,050
tears.

1258
00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:13,180
It sure is totally opposite to what most

1259
00:51:13,180 --> 00:51:17,300
people are involved in, just criticism, criticism, negative,

1260
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:18,580
bad.

1261
00:51:18,860 --> 00:51:20,680
Everything is bad.

1262
00:51:26,690 --> 00:51:27,990
Love hopes all things.

1263
00:51:29,030 --> 00:51:30,370
Love believes all things.

1264
00:51:30,490 --> 00:51:31,750
Love endures all things.

1265
00:51:32,610 --> 00:51:34,370
Do you know that God wants to forgive

1266
00:51:34,370 --> 00:51:34,590
you?

1267
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:38,700
Do you know he wants to forget the

1268
00:51:38,700 --> 00:51:40,720
bad that you do and reward you for

1269
00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:41,100
the good?

1270
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:42,900
You know, it says he buries your sins

1271
00:51:42,900 --> 00:51:43,820
in the deepest sea.

1272
00:51:44,340 --> 00:51:45,920
He doesn't impute your sinning.

1273
00:51:46,180 --> 00:51:48,680
In his heart, he's, I don't want to

1274
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:50,240
judge them.

1275
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,300
I don't want to chastise them.

1276
00:51:52,460 --> 00:51:55,160
I want what's good for them.

1277
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,020
Love says, I have confidence in you.

1278
00:52:02,140 --> 00:52:03,520
You know, if you love someone, I have

1279
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:04,440
confidence in you.

1280
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:06,040
Me?

1281
00:52:06,540 --> 00:52:09,020
Yeah, you, I have confidence.

1282
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:12,900
I have a lot of hopes for you.

1283
00:52:14,730 --> 00:52:16,630
As a matter of fact, I'm boasting of

1284
00:52:16,630 --> 00:52:16,850
you.

1285
00:52:17,170 --> 00:52:18,050
Mothers, do you ever do that?

1286
00:52:18,130 --> 00:52:19,610
Your children, you boast about them.

1287
00:52:19,690 --> 00:52:21,250
Oh, they are so good.

1288
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:26,060
You know why you do it?

1289
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:26,740
Because you love them.

1290
00:52:30,470 --> 00:52:31,650
You can do this.

1291
00:52:31,730 --> 00:52:34,330
You know, all these things are out of

1292
00:52:34,330 --> 00:52:35,230
a heart of love.

1293
00:52:36,150 --> 00:52:38,690
You start getting into critical and condemning and

1294
00:52:38,690 --> 00:52:40,450
negative and blah.

1295
00:52:41,170 --> 00:52:42,350
It's not a heart of love.

1296
00:52:46,220 --> 00:52:47,420
And so I'm gonna read to you here

1297
00:52:47,420 --> 00:52:49,440
one verse, which is, you're probably familiar with

1298
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:49,600
it.

1299
00:52:51,660 --> 00:52:53,880
And then I'll finish here.

1300
00:52:53,980 --> 00:52:55,800
Listen to what the Lord says in Jeremiah

1301
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,540
29, a very familiar verse.

1302
00:52:58,700 --> 00:53:00,760
For thus saith the Lord, that after 70

1303
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,240
years be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit

1304
00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:06,640
you and perform my good word towards you

1305
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,180
in causing you to return to this place.

1306
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:09,820
Now, Israel's done wrong.

1307
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,760
They've sinned grievously and they've put in captivity.

1308
00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:15,860
And yet here's God's thoughts toward them.

1309
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,440
For I know the thoughts that I think

1310
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:19,080
towards you.

1311
00:53:19,660 --> 00:53:21,860
I know the thoughts that I'm thinking, even

1312
00:53:21,860 --> 00:53:22,580
in captivity.

1313
00:53:23,420 --> 00:53:24,960
Maybe some of you are in captivity here

1314
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:25,320
this morning.

1315
00:53:25,500 --> 00:53:28,060
I know the thoughts I'm thinking about you,

1316
00:53:28,780 --> 00:53:32,060
saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not

1317
00:53:32,060 --> 00:53:36,700
of evil, to give you unexpected end.

1318
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:38,240
I have good things in mind.

1319
00:53:42,940 --> 00:53:44,140
And you know, God is love.

1320
00:53:45,860 --> 00:53:47,300
And he takes no pleasure in the death

1321
00:53:47,300 --> 00:53:47,540
of the wicked.

1322
00:53:47,620 --> 00:53:49,160
I don't think God takes any pleasure in

1323
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:50,500
seeing anyone go into hell.

1324
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:53,160
Being perished.

1325
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:55,300
I think he says, oh, it's a grievous.

1326
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,320
But even us, as he looks at us,

1327
00:53:58,440 --> 00:53:59,700
maybe we're struggling with things.

1328
00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:02,220
He says, I've got good thoughts for you.

1329
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:03,880
Good thoughts.

1330
00:54:04,260 --> 00:54:05,940
I have an expected end for you.

1331
00:54:09,740 --> 00:54:12,720
So let's not be discouraged here.

1332
00:54:12,820 --> 00:54:14,620
Let's respond to love.

1333
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:16,300
Let's respond to him.

1334
00:54:19,660 --> 00:54:22,120
I know my thoughts that I think towards

1335
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:22,360
you.

1336
00:54:22,620 --> 00:54:23,680
You know, God thinks thoughts.

1337
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:24,700
As a matter of fact, the one of

1338
00:54:24,700 --> 00:54:26,760
the psalmist says, he thinks more thoughts towards

1339
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:28,340
you than the sand of the sea, brother

1340
00:54:28,340 --> 00:54:28,700
Thomas.

1341
00:54:29,620 --> 00:54:31,440
And I was just down in Jupiter by

1342
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:32,240
the sands of the sea.

1343
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:33,780
And there's a lot of them down there.

1344
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,040
I brought some home in my shoe.

1345
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:38,320
As a matter of fact, what I brought

1346
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,040
in my shoe, it would take me weeks

1347
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:41,100
to count the sand.

1348
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,200
And yet it says his thoughts toward us

1349
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:45,280
are more than the sands of the sea.

1350
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:49,240
So whatever position you're in, if you're in

1351
00:54:49,240 --> 00:54:52,980
captivity, just realize that God has got good

1352
00:54:52,980 --> 00:54:53,580
things.

1353
00:54:53,580 --> 00:54:57,400
And I'm not a positive thought preacher here,

1354
00:54:57,580 --> 00:54:59,200
but God is positive.

1355
00:55:01,950 --> 00:55:02,610
He is.

1356
00:55:03,070 --> 00:55:08,150
So that excuse helps us understand how Paul

1357
00:55:08,150 --> 00:55:09,670
says about the Corinthian church.

1358
00:55:09,770 --> 00:55:11,190
I have confidence in you.

1359
00:55:11,510 --> 00:55:12,890
I rejoice in you.

1360
00:55:12,930 --> 00:55:14,710
As a matter of fact, I'm boasting about

1361
00:55:14,710 --> 00:55:16,050
you all over the place.

1362
00:55:16,150 --> 00:55:17,790
And yet you've got all kinds of problems.

1363
00:55:18,950 --> 00:55:21,130
But I see better things.

1364
00:55:22,010 --> 00:55:23,430
We need to look at our children that

1365
00:55:23,430 --> 00:55:23,630
way.

1366
00:55:23,730 --> 00:55:23,950
Amen.

1367
00:55:23,950 --> 00:55:24,150
Amen.

1368
00:55:25,150 --> 00:55:26,650
We look at our husbands and wives the

1369
00:55:26,650 --> 00:55:27,110
same way.

1370
00:55:27,210 --> 00:55:27,350
Amen.

1371
00:55:28,250 --> 00:55:29,290
We need to look at our brothers and

1372
00:55:29,290 --> 00:55:30,130
sisters that way.

1373
00:55:30,930 --> 00:55:31,670
Love them.

1374
00:55:32,450 --> 00:55:32,670
Amen.

1375
00:55:36,460 --> 00:55:37,860
All right, I've said enough.

1376
00:55:38,300 --> 00:55:39,720
Let's have a word of prayer and we'll

1377
00:55:39,720 --> 00:55:40,100
close.

1378
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,820
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the revelation

1379
00:55:43,820 --> 00:55:44,300
of your word.

1380
00:55:44,380 --> 00:55:46,980
Thank you that you love us and that

1381
00:55:46,980 --> 00:55:49,620
you have good things in your heart towards

1382
00:55:49,620 --> 00:55:49,960
us.

1383
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,120
Lord, may we be open to receive that.

1384
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:59,200
And may we truly love one another and

1385
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:00,860
be positive toward each other.

1386
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:03,220
Yes, Lord, we may have to rebuke, but

1387
00:56:03,220 --> 00:56:05,440
we do it with tears and grief and

1388
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:05,780
sorrow.

1389
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,040
And so Lord, may you change us into

1390
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:11,000
the image of your son.

1391
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,140
And bless the teaching here of your word

1392
00:56:15,140 --> 00:56:17,020
to each one of our hearts.

1393
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:19,080
Lord, we do love you this morning.

1394
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:20,700
Thank you for all you do for us.

1395
00:56:21,540 --> 00:56:22,520
In Jesus' name.

1396
00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:23,520
Amen.