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Matthew chapter 7 verse 24, and if you'll

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stand we'll take a look at it.

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Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and

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doeth them, I will liken him unto a

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wise man, which built his house upon a

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rock.

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And the rain descended, and the floods came,

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and the winds blew, and beat upon that

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house, and it fell not, for it was

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founded upon a rock.

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And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine,

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and doeth them not, shall be likened unto

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a foolish man, which built his house upon

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the sand.

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And the rain descended, and the floods came,

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and the winds blew, and beat upon that

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house, and it fell, and great was the

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fall of it.

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And it came to pass, when Jesus had

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ended these sayings, that the people were astonished

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at his doctrine.

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For he taught them as one having authority,

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and not as the scribes.

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When he was come down from the mountains,

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great multitudes followed him.

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Let's pray.

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Father, we do thank you again for your

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word tonight, and we ask that as we

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come, Lord, to the close of this greatest

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sermon ever preached, greatest message, Lord, ever given

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to man, Lord, though it takes the rest

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of the word of God to understand it,

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this phenomenal sermon, Jesus, that you gave on

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the mount, we pray that as you concluded

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it, that the great conclusion of it would

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come to our hearts.

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And the importance of it, the absolute fundamental

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truth of who you are, and what we

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do with it, Lord, that you would bring

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it home to every one of our hearts,

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a great understanding of it.

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For Father, we ask it in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Well, as we have been going through the

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Sermon on the Mount, of course, by now

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the great principles of the Christian life have

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been very, very well stated, of course.

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And now Jesus, as he is closing off

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here in chapter 7, he has been going

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through a series of exhortations, essentially, exhorting us

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of the fundamental importance of following these things,

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not just simply listening to them and hearing

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them.

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But as Jesus says, in verse 26, everyone

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that heareth these saying of mine, and doeth

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them not.

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He's there, he looks and he says, it

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isn't, did you hear them?

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He said, what did you do with them?

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What happened with them?

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And here is, he's bringing home the applications.

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Now he's bringing home the great decision, essentially,

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to us of what do we do regarding

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whether are we going to follow the true

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prophets or the false prophets?

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For Jesus said, you know, he is through

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the Sermon a number of times.

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He said, you know, you have heard that

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it hath been said by them of old

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times, but I say unto you, he said

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that six or seven times to them.

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You have been hearing by the false prophets.

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One thing, I'm telling you another one.

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the gospel and the importance of understanding the

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reality of following with him.

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And over and over, I've seen, you've heard,

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but I say, and now he's telling us,

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you got to decide whether you are going

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to go the broad way or you're going

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to go the narrow way.

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narrow as the way, and few there be

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that enter in there at their at, Jesus

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says.

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reality that one day, the Bible tells us

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that it's appointed to all men once to

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die.

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is going to happen to all people is

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that they will one day stand before God

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to give an answer for their life.

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Jesus is bringing it down to this one

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central great reality that each and every man

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will one day give an answer for his

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life in this final judgment.

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gives some astounding things.

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He says, there's a lot of people that

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will say, but Lord, Lord, didn't I?

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who spent their whole life thinking they were

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a Christian.

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once again bringing home another application.

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There are the importance there of following him,

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obeying him, doing the things that will determine

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and define our eternal life.

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And here, Jesus, he gives this final illustration

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essentially of two men.

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Both of them contractors, you might say, so

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to speak.

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Both of them building houses.

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Christians, as you would look at it.

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seem to be ones, you might say, who

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study the things of God, study Christianity.

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the gospel.

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disciples of it, building their life in a

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way that would be right before God.

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very clear difference between the two.

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One of them is God's child, and the

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other one is not, but thinks they are.

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An awesome sight, isn't it?

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What a thing to think of one day

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happened to us.

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one hand, there's quite some similarities, I suppose

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you might say, when you would look at

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it.

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to dwell.

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it's kind of described, it almost appears as

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if the houses, you know, are almost next

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to each other, very close.

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for the sake of the illustration gives here,

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Jesus gives here, you might say, built their

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house the same design.

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both had the same architect, same subcontractors, you

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know, all the way through.

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same framers, maybe same plumbers, same electrical, same

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roofers, you know, in a sense of building

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all of this house.

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these houses, they might appear exactly the same,

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you know, right down to the very little

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sign over the door, God bless this house.

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would look at the houses, you'd almost get

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the picture, they're almost identical.

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see them that way at all, not even

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for a moment.

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child of God, the other is a pseudo

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-Christian.

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for the sake of the illustration, as Jesus

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gives it, it's almost hard to define the

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difference between them.

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sense, in the illustration.

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there, it's very difficult to see or determine

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any real difference at all.

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and the true prophet.

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the true prophet, both of them say they're

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teaching the truth, leading people into the truth,

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both of them use the Bible.

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in God, or say they do.

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Both of them would talk about Jesus Christ

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in the way of following Christ.

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good morals, ethics, values, clean living.

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and the false prophet, sometimes very clearly, to

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detect the difference.

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themselves Christians.

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sometimes very, very carefully.

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Christian and the false Christian, they may look

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very, very much alike.

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true Christian to shame.

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may be even as good or better than

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a born-again Christian.

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They may have ethics, they may have morality,

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they may have all sorts of standards that

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are very, very impressive.

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they kind of keep and hold on to.

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this and we can do that, and God's

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grace is there.

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on the surface, more righteously.

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seem to embody themselves within what they might

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call the family of God, whether it could

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be a Mormon, it could be a Jehovah's

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Witness, it could be Christian scientists, it could

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be all sorts of others that are within

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it, and you would try to observe them.

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family, the values, the way that they may

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do business, their honesty, their integrity, they may

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be outstanding.

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They may be somebody that, when you look

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at it, they've got great biblical truths on

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which they hang and have acquired their values,

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their ethics, their moralities, the way they built

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their lives.

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every stud in the wall, you might say.

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For every, you know, aspect of the wiring

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that goes through, and all the connections in

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the roofing, it may be something that they

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can look and say, the Bible taught us

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how to put this roof up here.

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have followed scriptural truths all the way through

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the construction of their house, their relationships, their

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marriages, their families, their business practices.

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right, very biblical, very, very good, and kept

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to the letter of the law, kept wonderfully,

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kept very, very well.

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raising their children, in all the aspects of

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their life.

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where Jesus is making quite a difference here,

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you might even look at one and say,

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what right do you have to judge them?

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children, look at their home, look at their

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values, look at the way that they do

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business.

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far as Jesus is concerned, he divides them

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right down the middle, doesn't he?

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He looks at one and he says that

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it's God's, and the other one isn't.

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Very simple, very clear, very obvious from God's

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perspective.

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From heaven's perspective, there's no struggle at trying

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to determine at all which is which, which

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is okay.

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In God's analysis, when God sits down and

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he evaluates and he judges, though you and

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I, you know, could put together a huge

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panel that could never agree on anything as

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to who is and who isn't, obviously and

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clearly from God's perspective, when he sits there

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in heaven, he isn't going to have any

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trouble.

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Every human being, when they stand before God,

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will be easily, simply, quickly definable to God.

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God isn't going to sit there and have

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to say, you know, I got to ask

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you a few questions.

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I can't make up my mind about you.

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I just go back and forth.

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You've got so many great strengths.

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You've got some really good stuff, but I've

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never understood this.

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No, maybe we as a panel might do

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that.

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God won't have that.

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He'll have something that he knows, that he

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knows, that he knows as deep and as

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rigid and as true and as honest as

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anybody can know anything.

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And here Jesus separates between the two.

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Doesn't have any problem.

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And he makes it very clear, though, and

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I suppose this is the important aspect of

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this illustration that Jesus gives, is that ultimately

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in his decision-making, in his evaluation, it

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doesn't have anything to do, essentially, with what's

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above the ground.

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Just that simple.

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When you look at here, you know, what

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is really going on as Jesus is evaluating

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it, it's not on the outside.

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It's what's under the skin.

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It's what below the ground, you might say.

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As Jesus gives this illustration of these two

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men building their houses, one of them is

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upon a rock and the other is on

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sand, and that makes all the difference in

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the world.

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That's the total determining aspect about it.

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Luke chapter 6, verse 48, Jesus said, He

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is like a man which built a house,

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and he digged deep, and he laid the

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foundation on a rock, and when the flood

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arose and the stream beat vehemently upon the

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house, and he could not shake it, for

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it was founded upon a rock.

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And here in Luke's, you know, evaluation of

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Jesus' statement here on it, he looks there

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and he says, here's somebody that they dug

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deep, and they dug deep until they got

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to bedrock.

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They went down, they laid a foundation upon

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a rock.

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And here as he looks there, he says,

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then this is the determining factor.

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And one will ultimately stand or fall.

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One will either be wise or foolish.

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A wise man builds his house and a

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fool.

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A man who is just an absolute fool

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is somebody that has made a terrible mistake

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here as he looks at him.

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And you might say, what makes him such

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a fool?

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Why is it that one of them, and

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I suppose both of these men in one

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sense, you might look at it, they both

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worked just as hard in many ways.

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Cost them the same, you might say.

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You know what it was, you know, they

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got the 16 inches on center on all

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the studs in the walls and things.

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They maybe got all of the, you know,

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the right engineering done on the roof for

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the, you know, the load to hold the

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snow load or to all the other aspects

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about the house.

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It may be engineered the walls and it

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may be where all the electrical is grounded

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and all the plumbing, you know, flows in

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the right direction sort of a thing and

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downhill and everything else.

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They may have plenty of water, you know,

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pressure to run the house and everything.

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But when it comes down to it, both

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of them can work awfully hard.

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They can sweat.

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They can put out all the energy in

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the whole world building the thing.

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But when it's done, one of them followed

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the rules and the other didn't.

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And it's almost as if one of them

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wanted a house and then almost to get

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on with other things.

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He didn't have the time for the foundation.

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Didn't have it.

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One builds, you know, and he, and maybe

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he looks at it.

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He says, this is all I need.

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This will get the job of living done.

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And it's something there that a lot of

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people, sometimes I think when I look there

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at what people believe, and I'm not here

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to make fun or ridicule, you know, any

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religious systems particularly.

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But to me, when I look, for example,

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at the foundations of Mormonism, when I look

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at the foundations and the truth of what

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God, where Joseph Smith got all of his

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information, well-proven, very, very thoroughly documented, no

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question about the fraud that went on in

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his putting together the religion.

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Now, I don't mean that as a cheap

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shot.

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I mean, it is an honest accusation.

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It's well-proven.

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And anybody that wants to go to the

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roots and look at the foundation of it

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and look at the Mormonism, you can do

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the same thing with Mary Baker, Eddie in

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Christian Science.

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You can do it the same thing with

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Russell and Rutherford and Jehovah's Witnesses.

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You can do it when you want to

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go and you look and say, where did

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they come up with this?

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How did they come about with these things

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of which millions of people are living under

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them and believing them and going to church

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and building these unbelievable homes, building these huge

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churches, dwelling inside of these religious systems and

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they've got great structure to them, great all

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sorts of other things.

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But when you look down, what is it

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upon?

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What's the foundation of its existence?

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Is it God from, you know, all the

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way through?

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Is it God's presence?

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God's power?

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God's supernatural revealed truth?

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Or is it something there?

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You got some mud.

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You got a lot of man's thinking.

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You got a bunch of clay.

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You got a bunch of things there that

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isn't.

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That as it's built in many of these

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theologians from the various religions trying to defend

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them, they will even acknowledge you.

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They made a lot of mistakes.

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And, you know, when Joseph Smith declared that

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there was people running around on the moon,

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well, he kind of slipped on that one.

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But somehow and other people don't say, wait

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a minute, this is the guy that also

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read these plates from Moroni.

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Might be Maloney, you know what I mean?

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So it could possibly be in a sense

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there, but they don't look at it.

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They don't look at the foundation.

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They don't want to really know deeply all

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the way.

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And this is the terrible thing.

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A lot of people, you know, they remind

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me of me at Christmas, you know, or

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something to where, you know, you get a

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toy for your kids.

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And on the outside of the box, it's

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just kind of a little thing that says,

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you know, requires some assembly, you know, or

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something.

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And look out for those.

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You open it up and you realize you

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need an engineering degree, you know, to put

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these things together.

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And you only got 10 minutes to do

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it because the kid's sitting there pounding his

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foot, saying, I want to ride it.

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And so you don't sit there and read

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the instructions.

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Not if you're, you know, I mean, you

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haven't got any time to really read them,

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you know, and sort of thing.

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And also, but even particularly when you're really

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intelligent, intelligent people don't need to read instruction.

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And not particularly if you're as intelligent as

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I am.

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In fact, I am smarter than any of

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those things because I am so good at

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putting things together.

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I even end up with extra parts when

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I'm done.

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I don't even need some of the stuff

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that they put in there until you want

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to use it.

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Then all of a sudden you'd realize, uh

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-oh, I think those parts fit somewhere.

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And the tragic thing is, is that there

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are literally millions of people that have put

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their entire life together and the parts don't

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fit, but yet they say, well, it works

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okay for now.

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Not realizing the only issue is, does it

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work eternally?

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Does it work forever?

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Here, both of these houses under normal weather

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conditions apparently did absolutely fine.

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Under just normal living conditions, normal seasonal things

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that happen, the normal issues of life, you

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could take the Christian, the true Christian, born

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-again Christian, you could, you know, line right

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up next to him all sorts of other

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religious people and let the regular, the rainfalls

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and the just and the unjust and the

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regular storms, the regular trials and the regular

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issues and you can have as many non

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-Christians sometimes live through the seasons of life

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almost as good, if not sometimes as well

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or better than the Christian.

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And you look at these houses and apparently

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they did just fine through life, the regular

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seasons of life, so to speak.

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But you see, these people, the ones that

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built it upon the sand, they didn't realize

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that the most, the most, not just a

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most or a, you know, important quality, but

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the very most important aspect of the construction

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had really nothing to do with the daily

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issues of life.

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It had nothing to do with, you know,

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this house, when it was to be built

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and when it was designed, it was designed

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for the great specific reason of standing strong

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in the day of eternal judgment.

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This is the house Jesus is describing here.

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This is not just simply kind of a

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place to dwell through our three score and

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ten here.

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This is a house that is built directly

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with the sense that one day a storm

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is going to come like no storm has

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ever dreamed of coming.

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There is going to be a rain and

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there's going to be winds and there is

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going to be, you know, a tornado that

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is going to come upon my life called

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death, unlike any other thing I have ever

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confronted.

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And that's what my life must be built

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upon.

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That day in mind, that issue in mind.

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This home was built not just for the

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daily, as I said, the normal conditions.

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Both of them seem to live through those

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conditions just fine.

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But one of them was built for a

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specific day and it was built, you know,

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for a day of judgment, not just thinking

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about the ordinary conditions.

540
00:20:51,590 --> 00:20:53,650
And it's something that this is something, though,

541
00:20:53,710 --> 00:20:56,190
where the other man realizes this is why

542
00:20:56,190 --> 00:20:58,370
I want to build my house the way

543
00:20:58,370 --> 00:20:59,290
I'm building it.

544
00:21:00,250 --> 00:21:02,550
The regular conditions of life, you know, in

545
00:21:02,550 --> 00:21:04,750
the regular weather, those are fine.

546
00:21:04,830 --> 00:21:06,570
And both of them kind of seem to

547
00:21:06,570 --> 00:21:08,710
stand up pretty good through those things.

548
00:21:09,150 --> 00:21:11,750
But one real aspect, you know, of the

549
00:21:11,750 --> 00:21:13,850
house when it comes down, the only aspect,

550
00:21:14,050 --> 00:21:16,070
as far as Jesus is concerned, about it

551
00:21:16,070 --> 00:21:17,090
is the foundation.

552
00:21:18,150 --> 00:21:20,270
He looks at that and he says that

553
00:21:20,270 --> 00:21:23,550
is going to determine the great storm, the

554
00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:26,490
real storm, the inevitable storm that every human

555
00:21:26,490 --> 00:21:27,750
being knows is coming.

556
00:21:28,570 --> 00:21:29,750
I don't know what's going to happen to

557
00:21:29,750 --> 00:21:32,250
the economy this year or next year or

558
00:21:32,250 --> 00:21:33,330
the next few years.

559
00:21:33,850 --> 00:21:35,330
I don't know what's going to happen in

560
00:21:35,330 --> 00:21:35,710
the world.

561
00:21:35,810 --> 00:21:36,690
I don't know what's going to happen with

562
00:21:36,690 --> 00:21:37,030
wars.

563
00:21:37,150 --> 00:21:38,110
I don't know what's going to happen with

564
00:21:38,110 --> 00:21:38,530
the nations.

565
00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:40,310
I've got some pretty good ideas prophetically.

566
00:21:40,970 --> 00:21:42,850
I don't know the timetable for them.

567
00:21:42,890 --> 00:21:45,850
But one thing I do know is one

568
00:21:45,850 --> 00:21:47,710
day the Bible says God is going to

569
00:21:47,710 --> 00:21:49,450
close up creation as a vesture.

570
00:21:49,550 --> 00:21:51,090
He spoke it into existence.

571
00:21:51,730 --> 00:21:54,550
In Hebrews chapter 1 tells us God will

572
00:21:55,150 --> 00:21:56,610
close it up as a vesture.

573
00:21:56,990 --> 00:21:59,370
He created and He's one day going to

574
00:21:59,370 --> 00:21:59,810
end it.

575
00:22:00,170 --> 00:22:02,450
And everyone that He created, that lived within

576
00:22:02,450 --> 00:22:04,050
it and was created by Him is going

577
00:22:04,050 --> 00:22:05,610
to stand before Him.

578
00:22:06,630 --> 00:22:09,690
And then that's the determining issue of all

579
00:22:09,690 --> 00:22:10,630
of life.

580
00:22:11,350 --> 00:22:13,670
And was the house built for the final

581
00:22:13,670 --> 00:22:15,930
judgment or not?

582
00:22:16,990 --> 00:22:18,750
And you know, you can have all your

583
00:22:18,750 --> 00:22:21,410
regular little seasonal patterns that everybody can live

584
00:22:21,410 --> 00:22:21,630
through.

585
00:22:21,770 --> 00:22:24,330
But these are, this isn't a hundred year

586
00:22:24,330 --> 00:22:27,510
flood conditions or a thousand years or you

587
00:22:27,510 --> 00:22:31,590
know, this is eternal flood conditions that Jesus

588
00:22:31,590 --> 00:22:32,590
is talking about here.

589
00:22:33,130 --> 00:22:35,390
And you see one man has built his

590
00:22:35,390 --> 00:22:37,210
house as he kind of did it all.

591
00:22:37,790 --> 00:22:40,430
He built his old house with not really

592
00:22:40,430 --> 00:22:43,770
that there's a true final building authority that's

593
00:22:43,770 --> 00:22:44,930
going to inspect the job.

594
00:22:45,730 --> 00:22:47,670
No, this guy, he really didn't need a

595
00:22:47,670 --> 00:22:49,310
structural engineer, so to speak.

596
00:22:49,470 --> 00:22:51,270
He knows everything he needs to know.

597
00:22:52,390 --> 00:22:53,450
This house works.

598
00:22:54,250 --> 00:22:55,470
It works for my friends.

599
00:22:55,550 --> 00:22:56,470
It works for my neighbors.

600
00:22:56,630 --> 00:22:58,390
Everybody around me is living in these houses.

601
00:22:59,070 --> 00:23:00,670
And it's a reasonable house.

602
00:23:00,690 --> 00:23:03,610
It's structurally fine or whatever, you know, and

603
00:23:03,610 --> 00:23:05,810
besides, we've never had a flood like you're

604
00:23:05,810 --> 00:23:06,910
talking about in this area.

605
00:23:07,210 --> 00:23:09,410
Maybe in some other place they need to

606
00:23:09,410 --> 00:23:11,090
how, you know, build a house for floods.

607
00:23:11,230 --> 00:23:13,670
And we've never had a recorded earthquake in

608
00:23:13,670 --> 00:23:14,470
this place here.

609
00:23:14,570 --> 00:23:16,530
So what do you need to build them

610
00:23:16,530 --> 00:23:18,170
with those standards for?

611
00:23:18,970 --> 00:23:20,690
And that seems to be the way a

612
00:23:20,690 --> 00:23:21,590
lot of people live.

613
00:23:22,730 --> 00:23:25,290
The answers that they really have in life

614
00:23:25,290 --> 00:23:29,290
is they even have their religious life, is

615
00:23:29,290 --> 00:23:30,310
their spiritual life.

616
00:23:30,390 --> 00:23:32,890
It isn't all about one day standing before

617
00:23:32,890 --> 00:23:36,410
God and being, you know, accepted in God's

618
00:23:36,410 --> 00:23:37,510
presence eternally.

619
00:23:37,730 --> 00:23:39,690
Their issue is, is there, you know something?

620
00:23:40,130 --> 00:23:42,570
When I stand before God, I built my

621
00:23:42,570 --> 00:23:43,510
house right.

622
00:23:45,110 --> 00:23:47,030
Everywhere, you know, I'm not afraid to stand

623
00:23:47,030 --> 00:23:47,610
before God.

624
00:23:47,710 --> 00:23:50,110
Every stud is 16 inches on center here.

625
00:23:50,230 --> 00:23:52,410
Every, it's all got, you know, three nails,

626
00:23:52,550 --> 00:23:53,630
you know, down there at the bottom.

627
00:23:53,730 --> 00:23:55,350
It's got three nails at the top.

628
00:23:56,050 --> 00:23:58,330
You know, there are fire blocks in between

629
00:23:58,330 --> 00:23:59,650
and all the walls here.

630
00:23:59,750 --> 00:24:01,390
It's properly insulated.

631
00:24:01,930 --> 00:24:03,210
The wiring is good.

632
00:24:03,370 --> 00:24:04,630
The snow load is effective.

633
00:24:04,750 --> 00:24:06,090
They can, they go through the whole thing,

634
00:24:06,090 --> 00:24:09,250
but they look down at the foundation of

635
00:24:09,250 --> 00:24:11,810
what it is truly all about.

636
00:24:12,750 --> 00:24:14,570
As I said, one of them, you know,

637
00:24:14,630 --> 00:24:16,190
is a man there that he's just thinking

638
00:24:16,190 --> 00:24:19,110
about this life and this works, works for

639
00:24:19,110 --> 00:24:19,410
me.

640
00:24:21,010 --> 00:24:22,450
But the other one looks, and he says,

641
00:24:22,510 --> 00:24:24,170
I want a house that's going to last

642
00:24:24,170 --> 00:24:26,270
and last and last.

643
00:24:26,550 --> 00:24:28,770
And it's going to last through anything and

644
00:24:28,770 --> 00:24:30,730
the greatest storm that'll ever happen.

645
00:24:31,690 --> 00:24:32,910
That's what Jesus is talking about.

646
00:24:32,910 --> 00:24:35,250
A man that built his house upon the

647
00:24:35,250 --> 00:24:35,610
rock.

648
00:24:36,210 --> 00:24:37,390
Well, look at the rock.

649
00:24:37,510 --> 00:24:39,850
It's pretty simple who that is in a

650
00:24:39,850 --> 00:24:40,110
moment.

651
00:24:40,210 --> 00:24:42,910
But until we realize that that's the issue.

652
00:24:44,410 --> 00:24:45,990
When I was up in San Jose, there

653
00:24:45,990 --> 00:24:47,370
was a man in our church up there

654
00:24:47,370 --> 00:24:50,230
who his father had worked, you know, a

655
00:24:50,230 --> 00:24:52,490
whole career, was getting ready to retire.

656
00:24:52,630 --> 00:24:54,210
In fact, a number of years earlier, just

657
00:24:54,210 --> 00:24:56,630
planning his retirement in the Monterey Bay area.

658
00:24:56,850 --> 00:24:58,750
He bought a lot there that just looked

659
00:24:58,750 --> 00:25:01,650
out over the Monterey Bay there, the ocean,

660
00:25:01,790 --> 00:25:03,830
just a beautiful place with that's where he's

661
00:25:03,830 --> 00:25:05,070
going to build his retirement home.

662
00:25:05,070 --> 00:25:07,350
And he came around time to getting close

663
00:25:07,350 --> 00:25:07,910
to retirement.

664
00:25:08,050 --> 00:25:09,810
And so he goes over, you know, get

665
00:25:09,810 --> 00:25:11,830
some plans and turns them into the city.

666
00:25:11,870 --> 00:25:13,350
And he's going to start building this house.

667
00:25:13,390 --> 00:25:15,430
And the city comes back and says they

668
00:25:15,430 --> 00:25:17,130
want a bunch of seismic work and they

669
00:25:17,130 --> 00:25:20,410
want a bunch of extra soils analysis and

670
00:25:20,410 --> 00:25:21,230
compaction stuff.

671
00:25:21,270 --> 00:25:22,130
And he was angry.

672
00:25:22,810 --> 00:25:23,630
So what do you mean?

673
00:25:23,670 --> 00:25:25,230
He went back and forth with them and

674
00:25:25,230 --> 00:25:26,070
he fought him on it.

675
00:25:27,010 --> 00:25:29,130
But then the city still said, you're not

676
00:25:29,130 --> 00:25:30,790
getting a building permit until you do this.

677
00:25:30,810 --> 00:25:32,730
And he had to pay thousands of dollars

678
00:25:32,730 --> 00:25:34,930
and go hire this company to come in

679
00:25:34,930 --> 00:25:36,730
and do this silly work.

680
00:25:37,910 --> 00:25:40,750
But when the information came back, he found

681
00:25:40,750 --> 00:25:42,750
out that he had to go down almost

682
00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:43,710
30 feet.

683
00:25:44,510 --> 00:25:45,850
I mean, here this place, it had been

684
00:25:45,850 --> 00:25:47,770
so settled in, there were huge trees growing

685
00:25:47,770 --> 00:25:48,030
there.

686
00:25:49,210 --> 00:25:51,110
There had been, he had this place and

687
00:25:51,110 --> 00:25:52,770
he's looking at it, wouldn't look at this

688
00:25:52,770 --> 00:25:53,010
place.

689
00:25:53,330 --> 00:25:56,630
There's trees, there's huge things been here for

690
00:25:56,630 --> 00:25:59,050
many, many years, hundreds of years of growth

691
00:25:59,050 --> 00:25:59,270
here.

692
00:25:59,350 --> 00:26:01,330
And now you're worried about if a house

693
00:26:01,330 --> 00:26:01,830
will make it.

694
00:26:01,830 --> 00:26:04,810
And when he, when they came back and

695
00:26:04,810 --> 00:26:08,570
showed him that his house, if he built

696
00:26:08,570 --> 00:26:12,550
it as originally designed, as it began to

697
00:26:12,550 --> 00:26:15,830
settle, the foundation would crack, everything would have

698
00:26:15,830 --> 00:26:18,590
been absolutely destroyed over a period of time.

699
00:26:19,450 --> 00:26:21,850
Cost him over $100,000 to then go

700
00:26:21,850 --> 00:26:25,130
down, to get literally the bedrock, to put

701
00:26:25,130 --> 00:26:30,770
solid, you know, concrete, you know, things going

702
00:26:30,770 --> 00:26:32,610
down into it to build the house upon

703
00:26:32,610 --> 00:26:32,890
it.

704
00:26:33,470 --> 00:26:35,430
But it was something there that he had

705
00:26:35,430 --> 00:26:37,150
close to a million dollar home, I believe

706
00:26:37,150 --> 00:26:38,330
he was putting on this thing.

707
00:26:38,590 --> 00:26:40,530
And to imagine had he put a million

708
00:26:40,530 --> 00:26:43,130
dollars, his entire life savings for his dream

709
00:26:43,130 --> 00:26:46,770
home on something only to watch it give

710
00:26:46,770 --> 00:26:47,090
way.

711
00:26:47,370 --> 00:26:48,350
And he fought it.

712
00:26:49,350 --> 00:26:50,310
They forced him.

713
00:26:50,370 --> 00:26:53,170
They said, you will not build it unless

714
00:26:53,170 --> 00:26:54,530
you do it this way.

715
00:26:54,850 --> 00:26:56,530
Well, God doesn't fight with people.

716
00:26:57,310 --> 00:26:59,070
He does tell every one of them, though

717
00:26:59,070 --> 00:27:01,590
he says, however, you build your life and

718
00:27:01,590 --> 00:27:04,110
if it is upon the sand, I don't

719
00:27:04,110 --> 00:27:06,150
care what it is you build, you know,

720
00:27:06,210 --> 00:27:06,790
going up.

721
00:27:07,470 --> 00:27:09,770
If you don't build it right, going down.

722
00:27:10,390 --> 00:27:12,570
And the the ultimate thing here is that

723
00:27:12,570 --> 00:27:15,830
what is why this is so important is

724
00:27:15,830 --> 00:27:17,330
as far as God is concerned.

725
00:27:18,070 --> 00:27:19,830
When you look at this, why is the

726
00:27:19,830 --> 00:27:21,490
foundation so important?

727
00:27:22,470 --> 00:27:23,430
And it's very simple.

728
00:27:24,250 --> 00:27:26,910
You see, as Jesus is speaking here, he

729
00:27:26,910 --> 00:27:28,490
wants us to know you and I were

730
00:27:28,490 --> 00:27:29,070
not married.

731
00:27:29,270 --> 00:27:31,370
We were probably we were not created for

732
00:27:31,370 --> 00:27:31,890
the house.

733
00:27:33,290 --> 00:27:35,250
We were not created for marriage.

734
00:27:36,270 --> 00:27:38,030
We weren't created for Christian marriage.

735
00:27:38,130 --> 00:27:39,970
We were created for Christian families.

736
00:27:40,150 --> 00:27:41,790
We were created for Christian homes.

737
00:27:41,910 --> 00:27:44,810
We were created for Christian values, for Christian

738
00:27:44,810 --> 00:27:46,290
business, for Christian ethics.

739
00:27:46,570 --> 00:27:48,430
We were created for Christ.

740
00:27:48,810 --> 00:27:50,990
And there's a big difference between the two.

741
00:27:51,350 --> 00:27:53,090
One of them is a series of principles

742
00:27:53,090 --> 00:27:56,230
of human behavior by which you build relationships

743
00:27:56,230 --> 00:27:59,330
and you maintain relationships and you deal which

744
00:27:59,330 --> 00:28:01,110
are very important and very good.

745
00:28:01,450 --> 00:28:03,050
And those will help you through this life.

746
00:28:03,330 --> 00:28:04,710
But they were not the reason I was

747
00:28:04,710 --> 00:28:04,910
made.

748
00:28:05,010 --> 00:28:07,530
I was made by God, for God, to

749
00:28:07,530 --> 00:28:09,690
be with God, to be filled with God.

750
00:28:10,450 --> 00:28:13,910
I was made to belong to him eternally.

751
00:28:15,170 --> 00:28:16,990
And there is as far as God's concerned,

752
00:28:17,070 --> 00:28:17,810
we look at marriages.

753
00:28:17,970 --> 00:28:19,850
And yes, there's wonderful things for good Christian

754
00:28:19,850 --> 00:28:23,450
marriage, good Christian homes, good Christian ethics, good

755
00:28:23,450 --> 00:28:26,750
Christian values that are in the Bible that

756
00:28:26,750 --> 00:28:27,730
we ought to practice.

757
00:28:27,730 --> 00:28:29,350
And if we do, our lives are going

758
00:28:29,350 --> 00:28:29,950
to be blessed.

759
00:28:30,910 --> 00:28:33,770
But the issue here is that do I

760
00:28:33,770 --> 00:28:35,970
sit there and realize above all else, I

761
00:28:35,970 --> 00:28:37,810
was not just created to get through this

762
00:28:37,810 --> 00:28:39,410
life and put a roof over my head

763
00:28:39,410 --> 00:28:41,590
and have a nice hunky-dory time.

764
00:28:42,030 --> 00:28:44,530
I am created with an eternal aspect of

765
00:28:44,530 --> 00:28:46,270
which this life is a vapor.

766
00:28:47,410 --> 00:28:49,590
The three score and 10 that we have

767
00:28:49,590 --> 00:28:51,510
here in light of eternity, it's a flash

768
00:28:51,510 --> 00:28:52,050
in the pan.

769
00:28:52,130 --> 00:28:53,630
It just comes and goes.

770
00:28:54,350 --> 00:28:57,010
And yes, we will maybe look back and

771
00:28:57,010 --> 00:28:59,430
realize from an eternal perspective for a few

772
00:28:59,430 --> 00:29:02,330
flickering moments, I was married, but in heaven,

773
00:29:02,410 --> 00:29:03,910
there's neither marriage nor given in marriage.

774
00:29:05,350 --> 00:29:07,190
We won't be producing children.

775
00:29:07,970 --> 00:29:09,870
We will be living with God.

776
00:29:10,730 --> 00:29:12,850
And unless and as far as God is

777
00:29:12,850 --> 00:29:15,430
concerned, as I enter into an eternal relationship,

778
00:29:15,710 --> 00:29:17,910
what religion is to be all about, a

779
00:29:17,910 --> 00:29:19,410
relationship with God.

780
00:29:19,830 --> 00:29:22,970
Unless I look there and realize this is

781
00:29:22,970 --> 00:29:25,650
the primary issue of all of life.

782
00:29:26,490 --> 00:29:29,390
And here Jesus is simply saying, listen, yes,

783
00:29:29,430 --> 00:29:30,350
you've got each other.

784
00:29:30,510 --> 00:29:31,350
That's wonderful.

785
00:29:31,610 --> 00:29:33,090
I want to help you with each other.

786
00:29:33,210 --> 00:29:34,570
And yes, you've got business.

787
00:29:34,670 --> 00:29:35,490
That's wonderful.

788
00:29:35,710 --> 00:29:37,130
I want to help you with your business.

789
00:29:37,390 --> 00:29:39,190
And yes, you've got crops to grow.

790
00:29:39,270 --> 00:29:40,450
You've got homes to build.

791
00:29:40,530 --> 00:29:41,430
You've got things to do.

792
00:29:41,650 --> 00:29:43,010
I want to help you with all that.

793
00:29:43,190 --> 00:29:44,450
And I do and I will.

794
00:29:46,150 --> 00:29:48,110
But you were made by God in His

795
00:29:48,110 --> 00:29:48,530
image.

796
00:29:50,110 --> 00:29:53,750
And until you realize the very need of

797
00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:55,870
having Him above all else, Christ is our

798
00:29:55,870 --> 00:29:56,230
life.

799
00:29:56,830 --> 00:29:58,310
Christ is our home.

800
00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:01,030
Christ is our eternal existence.

801
00:30:02,010 --> 00:30:04,310
And until something happens where I settle it

802
00:30:04,310 --> 00:30:06,390
on that, and when I also then begin

803
00:30:06,390 --> 00:30:08,350
to build and I look and realize that

804
00:30:08,350 --> 00:30:11,650
everything I would build upon, my own effort,

805
00:30:11,830 --> 00:30:14,770
my own energy, my own righteousness, my own

806
00:30:14,770 --> 00:30:16,950
commitment, it's sand.

807
00:30:18,430 --> 00:30:22,130
My own goodness, my own consecration, God, I'm

808
00:30:22,130 --> 00:30:23,470
going to build and I'm going to build

809
00:30:23,470 --> 00:30:24,890
it good and I'm going to try hard

810
00:30:24,890 --> 00:30:26,430
and I'm going to be wonderful.

811
00:30:26,610 --> 00:30:28,630
God says, no, you aren't and no, you

812
00:30:28,630 --> 00:30:28,990
won't.

813
00:30:29,410 --> 00:30:31,550
You can't dig deep enough on your own

814
00:30:32,260 --> 00:30:33,270
to get a foundation.

815
00:30:35,070 --> 00:30:37,890
The most costly aspect of the home is

816
00:30:37,890 --> 00:30:38,590
the foundation.

817
00:30:39,990 --> 00:30:43,210
It's the whole basis of the home and

818
00:30:43,210 --> 00:30:45,150
it is something that we cannot do.

819
00:30:46,730 --> 00:30:48,110
But as the Bible says, that no man

820
00:30:48,110 --> 00:30:50,530
can build on any other foundation than that

821
00:30:50,530 --> 00:30:51,950
which is already laid.

822
00:30:52,450 --> 00:30:53,850
It's already done.

823
00:30:54,490 --> 00:30:56,130
For me to try to build it or

824
00:30:56,130 --> 00:30:58,630
redo it is ridiculous and it's a denial

825
00:30:58,630 --> 00:31:00,550
of the sufficiency of Christ.

826
00:31:01,150 --> 00:31:02,430
But when I look at my life and

827
00:31:02,430 --> 00:31:04,370
I'm able to look and realize, Lord, you

828
00:31:04,370 --> 00:31:05,210
are everything.

829
00:31:06,450 --> 00:31:09,790
And what you did to give me a

830
00:31:09,790 --> 00:31:13,570
foundation to die upon the cross, to bear

831
00:31:13,570 --> 00:31:17,230
my sins, to forgive all of my iniquities,

832
00:31:17,370 --> 00:31:19,450
to look at me and say, I forgive

833
00:31:19,450 --> 00:31:20,430
you and I love you.

834
00:31:21,450 --> 00:31:23,750
And that's something, by the way, hopefully every

835
00:31:23,750 --> 00:31:24,530
one of us know.

836
00:31:25,770 --> 00:31:28,270
Hopefully as we're sitting here tonight, there's not

837
00:31:28,270 --> 00:31:30,250
a one of us that we do not

838
00:31:30,250 --> 00:31:31,970
know deeply within our heart.

839
00:31:32,510 --> 00:31:35,390
Jesus Christ is the hope of the world

840
00:31:35,890 --> 00:31:36,690
and of us.

841
00:31:37,390 --> 00:31:39,110
Individually that I can look around and not

842
00:31:39,110 --> 00:31:40,450
say, how have I done?

843
00:31:41,010 --> 00:31:42,230
How do you like the framing?

844
00:31:42,530 --> 00:31:44,010
What do you think of the roofing?

845
00:31:44,270 --> 00:31:45,310
Nice interior.

846
00:31:45,950 --> 00:31:47,910
How do you like it?

847
00:31:48,330 --> 00:31:50,010
But we look at that and realize no

848
00:31:50,010 --> 00:31:52,570
matter how good it is, what is my

849
00:31:52,570 --> 00:31:53,070
life?

850
00:31:53,690 --> 00:31:58,270
When the storm comes, when death comes, when

851
00:31:58,270 --> 00:32:02,450
the final analysis come, what holds me up?

852
00:32:03,550 --> 00:32:05,630
And when I look there and realize that's

853
00:32:05,630 --> 00:32:07,610
to where the price has been paid by

854
00:32:07,610 --> 00:32:08,430
Jesus Christ.

855
00:32:09,790 --> 00:32:10,790
Him alone.

856
00:32:11,710 --> 00:32:13,370
As somebody once said, I heard the words

857
00:32:13,370 --> 00:32:13,810
of love.

858
00:32:13,910 --> 00:32:15,130
I gaze upon the blood.

859
00:32:15,590 --> 00:32:18,150
I see the mighty sacrifice and I have

860
00:32:18,150 --> 00:32:19,010
peace with God.

861
00:32:19,650 --> 00:32:22,550
When I look there and realize my hope

862
00:32:22,550 --> 00:32:25,330
is built on nothing less than Jesus blood

863
00:32:25,330 --> 00:32:26,170
and righteousness.

864
00:32:26,450 --> 00:32:29,490
My life is based on him and him

865
00:32:29,490 --> 00:32:29,830
alone.

866
00:32:30,850 --> 00:32:32,930
And as Jesus, you know, the is closing

867
00:32:32,930 --> 00:32:35,850
out the sermon, you know, and talking about

868
00:32:35,850 --> 00:32:37,690
a wise man, he's talking about a fool.

869
00:32:38,310 --> 00:32:40,390
In Proverbs, it says there that a wise

870
00:32:40,390 --> 00:32:43,470
man, he seeks and he covets wisdom for

871
00:32:43,470 --> 00:32:45,910
the gain thereof is better than fine gold.

872
00:32:46,090 --> 00:32:48,230
That the wise man wants to look and

873
00:32:48,230 --> 00:32:52,910
say, is my house built on the foundation

874
00:32:52,910 --> 00:32:54,250
of Jesus Christ?

875
00:32:55,110 --> 00:32:55,830
It's that simple.

876
00:32:56,950 --> 00:32:59,170
And when you and I tonight, where are

877
00:32:59,170 --> 00:32:59,450
you?

878
00:33:00,170 --> 00:33:01,370
Where am I?

879
00:33:01,910 --> 00:33:03,550
Is it something that, you know, with many

880
00:33:03,550 --> 00:33:04,690
people it's done early.

881
00:33:04,930 --> 00:33:06,250
You know, it's done at the beginning.

882
00:33:06,410 --> 00:33:07,290
We try to get it.

883
00:33:07,330 --> 00:33:09,730
An interesting thing as you look at people

884
00:33:09,730 --> 00:33:11,690
at the farther they get through construction.

885
00:33:12,150 --> 00:33:14,390
If you've ever noticed this, the older somebody

886
00:33:14,390 --> 00:33:16,470
gets, the less likely they are to respond

887
00:33:16,470 --> 00:33:17,090
to the gospel.

888
00:33:18,130 --> 00:33:19,750
They've been building a long time.

889
00:33:19,870 --> 00:33:21,030
Hey, I got a lot of walls.

890
00:33:21,150 --> 00:33:22,390
I got a lot of stuff here done

891
00:33:22,390 --> 00:33:23,670
and you want me to go down to

892
00:33:23,670 --> 00:33:25,590
the very foundation and start all over?

893
00:33:25,650 --> 00:33:26,230
I don't think so.

894
00:33:26,530 --> 00:33:28,950
That's why statistically, most people when they become

895
00:33:28,950 --> 00:33:30,290
Christians, they're younger.

896
00:33:31,990 --> 00:33:34,730
After the teenage years, every year a person

897
00:33:34,730 --> 00:33:36,850
gets older after they're a teenager, the less

898
00:33:36,850 --> 00:33:39,810
likely they are to give their life to

899
00:33:39,810 --> 00:33:41,770
Christ because the more they've already built and

900
00:33:41,770 --> 00:33:44,150
they just want to say, hey, look, I've

901
00:33:44,150 --> 00:33:45,150
done a lot of work in my life.

902
00:33:45,210 --> 00:33:46,230
I've done a lot of building.

903
00:33:46,410 --> 00:33:47,990
I've done, I'm a long way through the

904
00:33:47,990 --> 00:33:48,450
project.

905
00:33:48,850 --> 00:33:50,930
I don't want to go back and look

906
00:33:50,930 --> 00:33:51,950
at the foundation.

907
00:33:54,610 --> 00:33:58,430
And sometimes, God has to bring a, you

908
00:33:58,430 --> 00:33:59,830
might say a pre-flood flood.

909
00:34:01,870 --> 00:34:03,730
Imagine with many of us, the way we

910
00:34:03,730 --> 00:34:05,830
kind of came to Christ is kind of,

911
00:34:05,910 --> 00:34:06,830
we were building along.

912
00:34:06,930 --> 00:34:07,489
We were fine.

913
00:34:07,610 --> 00:34:10,570
Everything was pretty good for normal conditions.

914
00:34:10,710 --> 00:34:12,770
And sometimes God has to bring something that

915
00:34:12,770 --> 00:34:14,030
just shakes it.

916
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:17,360
I had a nephew.

917
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,440
I still had, I didn't have, I have.

918
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,199
You know, a wonderful young man when it

919
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,320
comes to ethics and values and morals and

920
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,100
a good husband and a good father and

921
00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:28,620
wonderful qualities and wonderful human being.

922
00:34:28,780 --> 00:34:30,360
You can't, you can't look at anything he's

923
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,699
done and have accusation against it, essentially.

924
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,100
Just wasn't a Christian.

925
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,300
Graduated from college, went through his life, going

926
00:34:39,300 --> 00:34:40,060
through things.

927
00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:42,080
Didn't need Christ.

928
00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:45,520
Now, wonderfully, God in his mercy, just kind

929
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,500
of let the economy shift and let things

930
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:49,920
start underneath him to where his life really

931
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,020
starts getting shaky.

932
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,719
And only, and then he moved back, he

933
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:55,520
was back east.

934
00:34:56,180 --> 00:35:01,040
And his wife, wonderful Christian, loving, praying, caring.

935
00:35:01,340 --> 00:35:04,860
His daughter, wonderful little Christian, precious little girl,

936
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,100
no doubt loving, caring, praying for daddy.

937
00:35:07,460 --> 00:35:09,240
Meantime, he's going along, things are fine.

938
00:35:09,420 --> 00:35:10,940
He was so nice, he'd go to church

939
00:35:10,940 --> 00:35:11,220
with him.

940
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,760
Didn't believe it, but he'd go to church

941
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,220
because he didn't want, he was a nice

942
00:35:14,220 --> 00:35:14,580
guy.

943
00:35:14,580 --> 00:35:17,400
And nice guys go to church with Christians.

944
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,120
And they sit there and they don't let

945
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,820
anything bother them because they don't believe that

946
00:35:21,820 --> 00:35:22,120
stuff.

947
00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:24,120
They don't need it.

948
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:25,860
And there they sit.

949
00:35:27,140 --> 00:35:29,420
And yet, finally, something had to shake.

950
00:35:30,980 --> 00:35:33,680
Lo and behold, the mother and daughter were

951
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,080
shaken to the core and my niece and

952
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,920
her daughter, when the pastor who'd given all

953
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,720
their call, every service they ever did, and

954
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,960
all of a sudden, he gets up and

955
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:46,760
he walks down.

956
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,780
And somehow or another, finally, need Christ.

957
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,640
Finally realizes my life is hopeless outside of

958
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:55,940
Christ.

959
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,740
How long that takes, I don't know.

960
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,800
But whatever it is, there's a fellow I

961
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,300
don't want to look at him tonight so

962
00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:05,120
much, but he's sitting down here who I

963
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:05,980
haven't seen for years.

964
00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:07,660
He went to my church in Redland, sat

965
00:36:07,660 --> 00:36:08,360
and listened to me.

966
00:36:08,460 --> 00:36:13,880
Priest, phenomenal sermons, powerful sermons, tremendous sermons, folks.

967
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,440
Ones that I'll tell you, you'd think in

968
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,780
hell, they were just listening to this begging

969
00:36:18,780 --> 00:36:20,500
they could come back and listen to it.

970
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:22,080
But it was that good.

971
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,220
It didn't faze him a bit for years.

972
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:26,840
His wife, a wonderful Christian lady, would bring

973
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:27,720
him and he'd sit there.

974
00:36:28,180 --> 00:36:29,860
Bank vice president, I got it all together.

975
00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:33,180
Finally, I'll never forget, one Sunday, I gave

976
00:36:33,180 --> 00:36:34,160
him all the call and he looked at

977
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:35,500
it and I thought, oh no, I'm ready

978
00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:36,040
to go to heaven.

979
00:36:36,540 --> 00:36:37,360
Comes to Christ.

980
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:38,700
Couldn't believe it.

981
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:40,960
I've wondered for years, is he still around?

982
00:36:41,060 --> 00:36:42,380
Is he still walking with the Lord?

983
00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:44,580
A few months ago, I pick up a

984
00:36:44,580 --> 00:36:46,300
paper and I saw his paper, name in

985
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:51,160
the paper, in the criminal wanted, no, in

986
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:56,320
the starting a new bank thing and part

987
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:56,780
of the thing.

988
00:36:56,860 --> 00:36:58,080
And I thought, Lord, how is he doing?

989
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,200
And I look out here at night and

990
00:36:59,200 --> 00:36:59,820
here he's sitting here.

991
00:37:00,140 --> 00:37:01,320
So I can hardly wait to find out

992
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:01,840
from his wife.

993
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:02,660
She'll tell me the truth.

994
00:37:03,020 --> 00:37:09,220
But anyway, but when we look where, where

995
00:37:09,220 --> 00:37:10,040
is our life?

996
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,660
What is the very foundation of it?

997
00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:15,400
This is what Jesus has got to say.

998
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,940
And, you know, I think the saddest thing

999
00:37:17,940 --> 00:37:20,880
every year, how to every year, you know,

1000
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,740
when the weather turns, it seems like every

1001
00:37:24,740 --> 00:37:27,500
season we sit here in California and we

1002
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:30,960
watch as the news, when the rains and,

1003
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,060
you know, when the floods come to where

1004
00:37:33,060 --> 00:37:36,380
these multimillion dollar homes sitting right on the

1005
00:37:36,380 --> 00:37:39,300
ocean, you know, that have got, I mean,

1006
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,840
some of the most beautiful homes in the

1007
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:46,480
state, in these fabulous homes, hundreds and hundreds

1008
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,420
of dollars a square foot, marble floors and

1009
00:37:49,420 --> 00:37:54,400
gold plated faucets and, you know, beautiful stuff

1010
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,240
all the way through the finest materials in

1011
00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:00,840
there, inlaid, you know, you know, walnut and

1012
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,940
pecan and extravagant woods used in building these

1013
00:38:04,940 --> 00:38:06,180
beautiful libraries.

1014
00:38:06,180 --> 00:38:09,980
And yet the sand begins to give and

1015
00:38:09,980 --> 00:38:13,020
the guy is sitting out there watching his

1016
00:38:13,020 --> 00:38:15,220
backyard as it's going in while he's looking

1017
00:38:15,220 --> 00:38:18,200
over, trying to grab his chandeliers, you know,

1018
00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:20,420
out of the house and his pictures off

1019
00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:23,840
the wall while he's watching his entire house

1020
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,280
go down like a bunch of, you know,

1021
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,420
cards into the ocean as it just folds

1022
00:38:29,420 --> 00:38:30,100
into nothing.

1023
00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:32,260
It had nothing to do with how much

1024
00:38:32,260 --> 00:38:35,320
it cost, how much effort, how good all

1025
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,160
of the engineering was from the foundation up.

1026
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:39,840
It had to do with the reality it

1027
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,660
is not upon a rock.

1028
00:38:42,580 --> 00:38:44,160
And a lot of people go through this

1029
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,780
life and they've got some beautiful lives and

1030
00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:48,980
they've got some well-constructed homes, they've got

1031
00:38:48,980 --> 00:38:51,340
good integrity, they've got good qualities, they've got

1032
00:38:51,340 --> 00:38:52,180
good things.

1033
00:38:53,580 --> 00:38:55,900
But they haven't had something happen and realize

1034
00:38:55,900 --> 00:39:00,200
the only thing that is important eternally is

1035
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,660
not how good of a husband or father

1036
00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:04,280
I've been, not how good of a builder

1037
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,000
I've been, not my honesty, not my integrity.

1038
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,100
I'm not saying that those aren't important.

1039
00:39:10,580 --> 00:39:14,060
But the final analysis is he that has

1040
00:39:14,060 --> 00:39:15,840
the Son has life.

1041
00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:18,060
He that hath not the Son of God

1042
00:39:18,060 --> 00:39:20,040
hath not life.

1043
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:22,980
And either I can say my hope is

1044
00:39:22,980 --> 00:39:24,880
built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and

1045
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,400
righteousness or I'm lost or I'm hopeless and

1046
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:28,900
it's done.

1047
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,260
And when we realize there, as Paul says

1048
00:39:32,260 --> 00:39:34,720
in Corinthians, he says, for no other foundation

1049
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:38,060
can no man lay than is laid, which

1050
00:39:38,060 --> 00:39:39,200
is Jesus Christ.

1051
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,240
And something that sometimes and I think is

1052
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:44,740
a good thing for us to do is

1053
00:39:44,740 --> 00:39:46,940
stop and look, is this what life is

1054
00:39:46,940 --> 00:39:47,660
all about to me?

1055
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,020
To know God, to know His love, to

1056
00:39:51,020 --> 00:39:53,560
know His mercy, to know His power.

1057
00:39:54,580 --> 00:39:57,760
The evangelists oftentimes in past revivals, sometimes to

1058
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,480
today, we think they were very harsh because

1059
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:04,120
people like Charles Wesley, John Wesley, Whitefield, literally

1060
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,080
they would examine, they wouldn't let somebody call

1061
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,320
themselves a convert until they had been examined,

1062
00:40:09,860 --> 00:40:13,460
until they had confronted them and they had

1063
00:40:13,460 --> 00:40:18,340
a deep conversation and they were counseled that

1064
00:40:18,340 --> 00:40:21,960
they understand totally that Jesus Christ is our

1065
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:22,580
only hope.

1066
00:40:22,940 --> 00:40:25,020
His blood upon the cross is their sufficiency.

1067
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:26,040
His work.

1068
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:27,920
And they wouldn't even let them join.

1069
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,500
They wouldn't let them come in until they

1070
00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:32,220
had been almost interrogated.

1071
00:40:34,460 --> 00:40:36,040
Do they truly know Christ?

1072
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,580
While back when I'm talking to the team

1073
00:40:39,580 --> 00:40:41,840
from Gospel for Asia, of which they were

1074
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,700
telling me on how that they'd recently done

1075
00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:44,860
a baptism.

1076
00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:47,480
I believe it was for 13,000.

1077
00:40:48,460 --> 00:40:49,500
13,000.

1078
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,000
And many of those, now there are literally

1079
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,220
hundreds and hundreds of churches over there wanting

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00:40:55,220 --> 00:40:56,920
to affiliate with Calvary because a lot of

1081
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,900
Calvary has been so involved in many ways

1082
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,920
with K.P.O. Hannon and with these

1083
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,440
churches being planted over there, but thousands of

1084
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:04,640
them.

1085
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,500
And I'm sitting there saying, now guys, I

1086
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:07,260
got to ask you something.

1087
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:08,420
I mean, how do you know?

1088
00:41:09,340 --> 00:41:11,020
I mean, 13,000 people.

1089
00:41:11,860 --> 00:41:13,100
How do you know they're saved?

1090
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:14,980
I mean, when you got a massive thing

1091
00:41:14,980 --> 00:41:16,580
like that and you're baptizing them.

1092
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:18,260
Oh, they said, no, no, no.

1093
00:41:19,660 --> 00:41:23,600
We won't, all those 13,000, they weren't

1094
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,960
baptized until they had walked with Christ for

1095
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:28,440
a minimum of six months.

1096
00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:33,840
And then they were all individually discipled and

1097
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,800
taught and went through a class with their

1098
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,560
pastor before they were presented for baptism that

1099
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,340
they indeed understood and that they had revealed

1100
00:41:43,340 --> 00:41:44,460
the life in Christ.

1101
00:41:45,180 --> 00:41:46,740
I thought, wow, we don't do that.

1102
00:41:48,020 --> 00:41:50,140
You know, and things, and in a sense

1103
00:41:50,140 --> 00:41:53,820
of, you know, and the revival is sometimes

1104
00:41:53,820 --> 00:41:54,140
of old.

1105
00:41:54,220 --> 00:41:57,440
They just thought it was so important that

1106
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:58,820
they could look at somebody and say, is

1107
00:41:58,820 --> 00:42:01,320
this who you are?

1108
00:42:03,610 --> 00:42:05,310
Where is your eternal life?

1109
00:42:06,410 --> 00:42:08,470
Because one day the Bible says everything that

1110
00:42:08,470 --> 00:42:11,470
can be shaken will be shaken.

1111
00:42:13,650 --> 00:42:15,050
Every one of our lives.

1112
00:42:16,150 --> 00:42:19,030
And either something has happened to where we

1113
00:42:19,030 --> 00:42:20,710
realize the rains will descend.

1114
00:42:21,630 --> 00:42:24,270
Interesting, just one thing here before we close.

1115
00:42:24,890 --> 00:42:29,010
But George Gallup, Gallup polls, you're very familiar.

1116
00:42:29,010 --> 00:42:33,130
That probably the most recognized pollster in the

1117
00:42:33,130 --> 00:42:36,590
country has done just a poll that just

1118
00:42:36,590 --> 00:42:37,690
came out last week.

1119
00:42:37,870 --> 00:42:40,130
It's this recent of just last week.

1120
00:42:40,530 --> 00:42:43,290
But 72% say their lives have meaning

1121
00:42:43,290 --> 00:42:45,390
and purpose because of their faith, according to

1122
00:42:45,390 --> 00:42:47,650
this new Gallup poll just publicized last week.

1123
00:42:48,350 --> 00:42:51,830
And then in the nation's spiritual index as

1124
00:42:51,830 --> 00:42:55,050
they call it came out of there, 74

1125
00:42:55,050 --> 00:42:57,290
.7 out of a possible 100%.

1126
00:42:57,290 --> 00:42:59,550
But 74.7 as they went through a

1127
00:42:59,550 --> 00:43:02,930
list of questions felt that they are fine.

1128
00:43:03,370 --> 00:43:05,990
Essentially, overall health, you know, they believe that

1129
00:43:05,990 --> 00:43:08,810
77% believe that the hope of a

1130
00:43:08,810 --> 00:43:10,570
nation is on a spiritual health.

1131
00:43:11,410 --> 00:43:13,830
They believe that life is 72% life

1132
00:43:13,830 --> 00:43:15,790
has meaning and purpose because of faith.

1133
00:43:16,570 --> 00:43:19,230
Faith is involved in every aspect of life.

1134
00:43:19,550 --> 00:43:22,610
60% of the people say in this

1135
00:43:22,610 --> 00:43:26,650
poll that taken by Gallup, 80% said

1136
00:43:26,650 --> 00:43:27,410
they were Christians.

1137
00:43:27,910 --> 00:43:30,590
Only 6% say they were non-Christians

1138
00:43:30,590 --> 00:43:32,550
and the others were some mixture of other

1139
00:43:32,550 --> 00:43:32,810
things.

1140
00:43:33,170 --> 00:43:34,990
80% of our country.

1141
00:43:36,210 --> 00:43:39,230
I'd just like to know, are 80%

1142
00:43:39,230 --> 00:43:40,690
of your friends saved?

1143
00:43:41,630 --> 00:43:43,730
80% of the people in your neighborhoods

1144
00:43:43,730 --> 00:43:44,250
saved?

1145
00:43:45,350 --> 00:43:47,290
80% of the people that you live

1146
00:43:47,290 --> 00:43:47,830
and work around?

1147
00:43:47,950 --> 00:43:48,450
I don't know.

1148
00:43:48,530 --> 00:43:49,970
I got to go check out my neighborhood.

1149
00:43:50,310 --> 00:43:52,170
I'm in a wrong neighborhood here.

1150
00:43:52,450 --> 00:43:53,770
There's some wonderful people.

1151
00:43:54,370 --> 00:43:56,250
You know, sort of a thing, but it's

1152
00:43:56,250 --> 00:44:00,450
something where 74% believe that God is

1153
00:44:00,450 --> 00:44:03,310
actively involved in their life.

1154
00:44:04,110 --> 00:44:08,190
67% believe that faith in Jesus Christ

1155
00:44:08,190 --> 00:44:09,230
is their hope.

1156
00:44:10,490 --> 00:44:11,010
67%.

1157
00:44:11,010 --> 00:44:12,930
Now, you just look at this.

1158
00:44:13,590 --> 00:44:14,690
Say, where are these people?

1159
00:44:15,530 --> 00:44:15,950
Where do they?

1160
00:44:16,110 --> 00:44:17,590
We need to import them.

1161
00:44:17,890 --> 00:44:19,710
We need some more of them around here

1162
00:44:19,710 --> 00:44:21,250
or something, wherever they all are.

1163
00:44:21,490 --> 00:44:22,270
I don't know.

1164
00:44:23,010 --> 00:44:25,150
But the thing is, is this tells me

1165
00:44:25,150 --> 00:44:28,650
that there are massive numbers of people who

1166
00:44:28,650 --> 00:44:32,310
are building their house and it's going through

1167
00:44:32,310 --> 00:44:36,810
seasonally fine, but eternally, they're in trouble.

1168
00:44:38,070 --> 00:44:39,330
How's your house tonight?

1169
00:44:40,530 --> 00:44:43,750
Not the outside, but when you tear up

1170
00:44:43,750 --> 00:44:45,490
the carpet and you go down and you

1171
00:44:45,490 --> 00:44:48,010
look, is it something where you can look

1172
00:44:48,010 --> 00:44:51,490
at it and who you are starts with,

1173
00:44:51,650 --> 00:44:53,870
in the beginning, God created the heavens and

1174
00:44:53,870 --> 00:44:54,310
the earth.

1175
00:44:55,430 --> 00:44:58,030
And God said, let's make man in our

1176
00:44:58,030 --> 00:44:58,470
image.

1177
00:44:59,410 --> 00:45:01,650
And God said, the day in which thou

1178
00:45:01,650 --> 00:45:03,450
sinnest, thou shall die.

1179
00:45:04,550 --> 00:45:06,870
And God said, the wages of sin is

1180
00:45:06,870 --> 00:45:09,230
death, but the gift of God is eternal

1181
00:45:09,230 --> 00:45:11,710
life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

1182
00:45:13,090 --> 00:45:15,050
Is it something where you can look in

1183
00:45:15,050 --> 00:45:17,470
the foundation of your house as chapter and

1184
00:45:17,470 --> 00:45:20,170
verse and the blood of Christ all over

1185
00:45:20,170 --> 00:45:23,570
it, the sacrifice, the atonement, the gift of

1186
00:45:23,570 --> 00:45:26,490
God, eternal life through Jesus Christ.

1187
00:45:26,870 --> 00:45:28,270
That's the foundation.

1188
00:45:29,610 --> 00:45:31,490
And the rest of it ought to be

1189
00:45:31,490 --> 00:45:33,950
affected because that same Jesus who gave his

1190
00:45:33,950 --> 00:45:35,390
life for us is the one who gives

1191
00:45:35,390 --> 00:45:37,530
himself to us and helps us build the

1192
00:45:37,530 --> 00:45:38,070
rest of it.

1193
00:45:39,610 --> 00:45:42,190
But how the, but the ultimate thing is,

1194
00:45:42,250 --> 00:45:43,990
is do I rest upon him?

1195
00:45:46,070 --> 00:45:47,550
Do I rest upon him?

1196
00:45:49,230 --> 00:45:50,290
Where are you tonight?

1197
00:45:51,710 --> 00:45:52,510
Let's pray.

1198
00:45:53,190 --> 00:45:55,130
Dear father, we do thank you for your

1199
00:45:55,130 --> 00:45:56,050
love and your goodness.

1200
00:45:56,270 --> 00:45:59,530
And we ask that as we close out

1201
00:45:59,530 --> 00:46:02,530
this message, that Lord, your heart for us

1202
00:46:03,150 --> 00:46:04,730
would be brought to us, the Lord, that

1203
00:46:04,730 --> 00:46:07,450
we would realize that is the word of

1204
00:46:07,450 --> 00:46:09,770
God says that Christ died not for our

1205
00:46:09,770 --> 00:46:12,570
sins only, but for the sins of the

1206
00:46:12,570 --> 00:46:13,070
whole world.

1207
00:46:13,770 --> 00:46:16,670
There is not a person here tonight that

1208
00:46:16,670 --> 00:46:17,870
you did not die for.

1209
00:46:18,610 --> 00:46:20,830
There is not a person here tonight that

1210
00:46:20,830 --> 00:46:22,270
cannot have this foundation.

1211
00:46:23,470 --> 00:46:25,450
For God so loved the world.

1212
00:46:27,410 --> 00:46:31,530
And Lord, even as Paul says that God

1213
00:46:31,530 --> 00:46:33,350
is not willing that any should perish, but

1214
00:46:33,350 --> 00:46:34,810
all should come to repentance.

1215
00:46:36,650 --> 00:46:38,650
Lord, that we should look and realize tonight.

1216
00:46:38,910 --> 00:46:40,230
You look at every one of us.

1217
00:46:40,890 --> 00:46:42,930
You say, I'm not willing that I'd lose

1218
00:46:42,930 --> 00:46:45,630
any one of you, but every one of

1219
00:46:45,630 --> 00:46:46,870
you would come to me.

1220
00:46:47,850 --> 00:46:49,130
Provided the way of forgiveness.

1221
00:46:50,650 --> 00:46:52,050
And Lord, that we could look and realize

1222
00:46:52,050 --> 00:46:54,350
in the final analysis, there's only two people

1223
00:46:54,350 --> 00:46:55,190
really in the room.

1224
00:46:57,010 --> 00:46:58,250
You and us.

1225
00:46:59,350 --> 00:47:01,170
Not where we've been and what we've done

1226
00:47:01,170 --> 00:47:02,790
and how hard we try and who we've

1227
00:47:02,790 --> 00:47:05,830
impressed and how good our morality or integrity

1228
00:47:05,830 --> 00:47:07,590
or our promises were kept.

1229
00:47:08,950 --> 00:47:10,710
But we'd look there and realize at the

1230
00:47:10,710 --> 00:47:11,830
very core of our being.

1231
00:47:12,750 --> 00:47:15,430
Have we found that the only one that's

1232
00:47:15,430 --> 00:47:17,270
any important is the love of God?

1233
00:47:18,050 --> 00:47:20,450
And if I ever come to realize your

1234
00:47:20,450 --> 00:47:24,530
love forgives me, your love adopts me, your

1235
00:47:24,530 --> 00:47:27,430
love atones for me, your love looks and

1236
00:47:27,430 --> 00:47:29,210
says, you may be fine in this life

1237
00:47:29,210 --> 00:47:31,870
with the people around you, but if you

1238
00:47:31,870 --> 00:47:35,350
want to spend eternity with me, it's free

1239
00:47:35,350 --> 00:47:37,350
to you.

1240
00:47:38,630 --> 00:47:41,050
Though the price was everything to Jesus Christ

1241
00:47:41,050 --> 00:47:41,910
upon the cross.

1242
00:47:42,970 --> 00:47:45,070
And Lord, if anyone would think they're going

1243
00:47:45,070 --> 00:47:46,990
to go to heaven on any other foundation

1244
00:47:46,990 --> 00:47:49,210
than the sacrifice of Christ, may they know

1245
00:47:49,210 --> 00:47:49,770
they're hopeless.

1246
00:47:51,630 --> 00:47:53,170
And Lord, I pray that even tonight as

1247
00:47:53,170 --> 00:47:54,990
we close, maybe there's some that would look

1248
00:47:54,990 --> 00:47:56,110
and say, you know, I'm not.

1249
00:47:58,610 --> 00:48:00,450
I don't know that my house has had

1250
00:48:00,450 --> 00:48:01,130
this foundation.

1251
00:48:01,630 --> 00:48:03,350
I've got a lot of biblical truths and

1252
00:48:03,350 --> 00:48:04,870
a lot of principles, and there's a lot

1253
00:48:04,870 --> 00:48:05,750
of wonderful blessings.

1254
00:48:05,750 --> 00:48:08,610
I've been through a lot of seasons, but

1255
00:48:08,610 --> 00:48:09,930
I don't know if I'm ready for this

1256
00:48:09,930 --> 00:48:10,310
storm.

1257
00:48:10,970 --> 00:48:12,810
And Lord, I pray that right now, if

1258
00:48:12,810 --> 00:48:14,350
they want to look and realize it's just

1259
00:48:14,350 --> 00:48:16,490
you and them, even tonight, though there's others

1260
00:48:16,490 --> 00:48:17,990
around, you look at them and say, I

1261
00:48:17,990 --> 00:48:18,470
love you.

1262
00:48:20,010 --> 00:48:21,230
And I forgive you.

1263
00:48:21,590 --> 00:48:23,930
And I want you so desperately.

1264
00:48:23,970 --> 00:48:24,830
I'd die for you.

1265
00:48:26,450 --> 00:48:28,230
And Lord, I pray that even now they

1266
00:48:28,230 --> 00:48:30,050
could open their heart and come to you

1267
00:48:30,590 --> 00:48:32,430
and realize how great your love is.

1268
00:48:32,830 --> 00:48:34,770
And even as we're praying, maybe that's where

1269
00:48:34,770 --> 00:48:36,910
some of you are to say, Don, pray

1270
00:48:36,910 --> 00:48:37,230
for me.

1271
00:48:37,270 --> 00:48:38,630
I want to receive Christ tonight.

1272
00:48:38,670 --> 00:48:39,830
I want to know I'm his child.

1273
00:48:40,530 --> 00:48:41,890
And if that's where you are, wherever you

1274
00:48:41,890 --> 00:48:43,310
are, I'd like you just lift your hand.

1275
00:48:43,510 --> 00:48:44,410
I want to pray for you.

1276
00:48:45,150 --> 00:48:46,730
You want to invite Jesus Christ.

1277
00:48:46,830 --> 00:48:47,370
God bless you.

1278
00:48:47,470 --> 00:48:48,150
Down here in the front.

1279
00:48:48,210 --> 00:48:48,730
Any others?

1280
00:48:49,030 --> 00:48:49,890
You want to give him your life.

1281
00:48:49,990 --> 00:48:51,190
You in the back, in the side.

1282
00:48:52,410 --> 00:48:53,030
Any others?

1283
00:48:53,730 --> 00:48:54,770
You want to give him your heart.

1284
00:48:54,990 --> 00:48:55,990
The two of you over here.

1285
00:48:56,070 --> 00:48:57,590
Three over in the back there.

1286
00:48:58,610 --> 00:48:59,290
God bless you.

1287
00:48:59,330 --> 00:48:59,890
Any others?

1288
00:49:01,310 --> 00:49:03,070
Tonight, you want that foundation.

1289
00:49:03,250 --> 00:49:04,230
God bless you down here.

1290
00:49:05,610 --> 00:49:08,290
Just give you another moment before we close

1291
00:49:08,290 --> 00:49:08,590
it.

1292
00:49:08,670 --> 00:49:11,590
But maybe there's somebody tonight you realize, I

1293
00:49:11,590 --> 00:49:14,190
want to be able to stand just alone

1294
00:49:14,190 --> 00:49:15,750
with God and realize I can look at

1295
00:49:15,750 --> 00:49:16,650
him and say, I love you.

1296
00:49:17,170 --> 00:49:18,950
Thank you for all the blessings, all the

1297
00:49:18,950 --> 00:49:20,190
goodness, all the things in life.

1298
00:49:20,250 --> 00:49:21,770
But I want you more than any of

1299
00:49:21,770 --> 00:49:21,970
them.

1300
00:49:23,510 --> 00:49:25,450
And tonight you want to know that Jesus

1301
00:49:25,450 --> 00:49:26,590
Christ is in your life.

1302
00:49:26,750 --> 00:49:28,190
Any others before we close?

1303
00:49:29,170 --> 00:49:30,650
God bless you in the very back.

1304
00:49:32,530 --> 00:49:34,430
Another moment before we close.

1305
00:49:35,410 --> 00:49:37,410
If he's speaking to your heart, give your

1306
00:49:37,410 --> 00:49:38,030
life to him.

1307
00:49:38,710 --> 00:49:39,490
He loves you.

1308
00:49:40,970 --> 00:49:41,750
Respond to him.

1309
00:49:42,790 --> 00:49:44,410
Father, we thank you for your love.

1310
00:49:45,230 --> 00:49:46,550
And we thank you, Lord, for your goodness.

1311
00:49:46,730 --> 00:49:48,390
And I just pray that each one right

1312
00:49:48,390 --> 00:49:49,990
now that has lifted their hands and maybe

1313
00:49:49,990 --> 00:49:51,550
others that haven't, but would look and say,

1314
00:49:51,610 --> 00:49:54,090
Jesus, I know I'm ultimately going to stand

1315
00:49:54,090 --> 00:49:54,690
before you.

1316
00:49:55,510 --> 00:49:57,150
But I don't want to stand before you

1317
00:49:57,150 --> 00:49:57,710
as judge.

1318
00:49:59,190 --> 00:50:01,510
I'd rather tonight stand before you as a

1319
00:50:01,510 --> 00:50:03,910
sinner who stands before his savior.

1320
00:50:04,950 --> 00:50:06,550
Just thank you for forgiving me.

1321
00:50:08,410 --> 00:50:11,570
And if it's my choice, which it really

1322
00:50:11,570 --> 00:50:13,150
is for every one of us, we will

1323
00:50:13,150 --> 00:50:15,110
stand before you, but it's our choice whether

1324
00:50:15,110 --> 00:50:16,990
we'll stand before you as a judge or

1325
00:50:16,990 --> 00:50:17,450
a savior.

1326
00:50:18,310 --> 00:50:19,690
That you give to us.

1327
00:50:20,790 --> 00:50:22,670
You can build your house on sand or

1328
00:50:22,670 --> 00:50:23,370
upon a rock.

1329
00:50:24,710 --> 00:50:27,010
But Jesus, may we come and realize that

1330
00:50:27,010 --> 00:50:28,810
my life is sand outside of you.

1331
00:50:29,490 --> 00:50:31,250
And you, Jesus, are the rock.

1332
00:50:32,770 --> 00:50:34,890
And I just pray tonight for each one

1333
00:50:34,890 --> 00:50:35,770
that has opened their heart.

1334
00:50:35,870 --> 00:50:37,290
May they just respond to you.

1335
00:50:38,170 --> 00:50:40,350
Lord, may they find themselves, giving their heart

1336
00:50:40,350 --> 00:50:41,890
and their life to Jesus Christ.

1337
00:50:43,810 --> 00:50:45,670
So we praise you and thank you.

1338
00:50:46,970 --> 00:50:48,810
And even if tonight you have raised your

1339
00:50:48,810 --> 00:50:50,310
hand, I just want to pray and give

1340
00:50:50,310 --> 00:50:53,150
you the opportunity to respond and follow me

1341
00:50:53,150 --> 00:50:54,130
in this prayer, if you would.

1342
00:50:54,490 --> 00:50:56,570
Lord Jesus, thank you for dying for me

1343
00:50:56,570 --> 00:50:57,410
on the cross.

1344
00:50:59,090 --> 00:51:01,050
I ask you to come into my heart.

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Cleanse me from my sin.

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For I receive you now as my Savior

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and my Lord.

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In Jesus' name I pray, amen.