1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,560 And we trust that not all of you 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:04,780 slept in your cars last night. 3 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:08,180 And I will say this, the nice air 4 00:00:08,180 --> 00:00:11,380 -conditioned room over at the end, without any 5 00:00:11,380 --> 00:00:12,820 kids running around at 5 o'clock in 6 00:00:12,820 --> 00:00:14,740 the morning saying, get up, or whatever they 7 00:00:14,740 --> 00:00:17,420 were doing, was very, very nice. 8 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:21,660 And all I can say is I really 9 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:22,200 appreciate it. 10 00:00:22,260 --> 00:00:23,760 Now, there are two people I have been 11 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,780 very thankful to see here this week, besides 12 00:00:26,780 --> 00:00:27,560 many, many others. 13 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,020 One was this morning when I saw Brother 14 00:00:30,020 --> 00:00:31,600 Ernest Woodhouse get here. 15 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:33,820 I was very thankful for that, for some 16 00:00:33,820 --> 00:00:34,840 very obvious reasons. 17 00:00:36,060 --> 00:00:37,700 And we did talk him out of his 18 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:38,100 coat, though. 19 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,900 Not us, but somebody else up there. 20 00:00:41,020 --> 00:00:42,540 I saw he had his blue coat on. 21 00:00:42,660 --> 00:00:45,700 I said, oh, no, don't do that to 22 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:45,960 me. 23 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:48,700 But anyway, so very glad to see our 24 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:50,160 Brother Woodhouse here this morning. 25 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:53,100 And also, last night, it was a thrill 26 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:54,380 for me to see our Brother Hal Green. 27 00:00:54,380 --> 00:00:57,620 And I know that you've all been praying 28 00:00:57,620 --> 00:01:00,080 for him and the brain surgery that he 29 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:00,660 did have. 30 00:01:00,820 --> 00:01:03,080 And I'm just thrilled to see the rapid 31 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,140 recovery we've already seen in Hal's life. 32 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:07,840 I've not seen him since he had the 33 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:08,640 surgery up at Mayo. 34 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,360 And we're just thrilled to even have him 35 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,140 here this morning to be with us. 36 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:15,820 I don't know if he's here this morning 37 00:01:15,820 --> 00:01:16,100 or not. 38 00:01:16,580 --> 00:01:18,440 He kind of overdid it last night, I 39 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:18,700 think. 40 00:01:18,860 --> 00:01:19,400 He was a little tired. 41 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:20,900 But keep praying for Hal. 42 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:23,440 And we just praise the Lord for him 43 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,640 being here and being able to be with 44 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:27,460 us during this conference. 45 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,120 Well, I'm not going to ask how many 46 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,340 of you read Ephesians 4, 17 to 24 47 00:01:32,340 --> 00:01:34,060 since last night. 48 00:01:34,140 --> 00:01:35,540 So let's read it together this morning. 49 00:01:35,660 --> 00:01:40,180 Ephesians 4, beginning at verse 17. 50 00:01:45,570 --> 00:01:47,390 Now let me... 51 00:01:47,390 --> 00:01:50,070 Eddie, Johnny, what time am I supposed to 52 00:01:50,070 --> 00:01:51,110 be down before I get shot? 53 00:01:51,110 --> 00:01:53,470 How about 20, 22 after? 54 00:01:55,030 --> 00:01:55,590 11? 55 00:01:56,410 --> 00:01:56,870 No. 56 00:01:57,110 --> 00:01:57,970 Oh, okay. 57 00:02:01,140 --> 00:02:01,880 Thank you. 58 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:03,660 Verse 17. 59 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,480 This I say, therefore, and testify in the 60 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,140 Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other 61 00:02:10,140 --> 00:02:12,520 Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds, 62 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,960 having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the 63 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:17,920 life of God through the ignorance that is 64 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,120 in them, because of the blindness of their 65 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,860 hearts, who, being past feeling, have given themselves 66 00:02:23,860 --> 00:02:27,540 over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with 67 00:02:27,540 --> 00:02:28,120 greediness. 68 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,620 But ye have not so learned Christ. 69 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:32,960 If so be that ye have heard him 70 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,480 and have been taught by him as the 71 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,000 truth is in Jesus, that ye put off 72 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,960 concerning the former conversation the old man which 73 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,000 is corrupt according to the deceitful lesson, and 74 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,180 be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 75 00:02:49,180 --> 00:02:51,520 and that ye put on the new man 76 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,100 which after God is created in righteousness and 77 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:55,680 true holiness. 78 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,940 Last week we were with my parents in 79 00:02:58,940 --> 00:03:00,440 kind of a family reunion for a couple 80 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,600 of days and we were looking at the 81 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,420 pictures that Prince Charles and Princess Diana celebrated 82 00:03:06,420 --> 00:03:07,580 their first anniversary. 83 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,840 And they had their little baby boy who 84 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,040 is now second in line to the throne 85 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:14,460 of England. 86 00:03:14,460 --> 00:03:16,400 Now Prince Charles is first. 87 00:03:16,940 --> 00:03:18,120 I don't know if he can't wait until 88 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,560 his mother gets off the throne, I don't 89 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:19,860 know. 90 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,980 But anyway, behind Prince Charles now is his 91 00:03:22,980 --> 00:03:26,100 son with that nice long British name. 92 00:03:26,220 --> 00:03:27,660 I wouldn't try to repeat all the names 93 00:03:27,660 --> 00:03:29,380 that their young son has. 94 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:31,360 But he is now second in line to 95 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:31,580 the throne. 96 00:03:31,660 --> 00:03:34,200 But just imagine this young son who is 97 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,660 the one who is going to inherit the 98 00:03:36,660 --> 00:03:38,420 throne of England maybe in the days to 99 00:03:38,420 --> 00:03:38,660 come. 100 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:40,580 And all of a sudden he gets up 101 00:03:40,580 --> 00:03:42,600 to be around a teenager and he decides, 102 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,740 you know, I really don't like this king 103 00:03:44,740 --> 00:03:45,080 thing. 104 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,100 I don't like this royalty fit that I 105 00:03:48,100 --> 00:03:48,740 have to go through. 106 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,080 So I'm going to go out and I'm 107 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:51,040 going to live like a pauper. 108 00:03:51,140 --> 00:03:52,100 I'm going to go out and live like 109 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:54,280 one of the typical bums, you know, out 110 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,980 wherever the Skid Row is in London. 111 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:57,720 And I'm going to do my thing. 112 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,720 I'm going to do all the grubby and 113 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:00,700 I'm going to do the whole thing. 114 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:02,940 And so he acts loose and smells like 115 00:04:02,940 --> 00:04:04,320 a very, very grubby person. 116 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,600 But the reality of the matter of this 117 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,500 whole situation is that this young boy, whether 118 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:11,200 he likes it or not at this point, 119 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,580 of course that goes beyond the illustration, but 120 00:04:13,580 --> 00:04:15,880 whether he likes it or not, he will 121 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,959 always be the son of Prince Charles. 122 00:04:20,420 --> 00:04:22,380 And he will be second in line to 123 00:04:22,380 --> 00:04:23,400 the throne of England. 124 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:24,960 Now, of course, we know he can abdicate. 125 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:26,580 He can do other things like that. 126 00:04:26,820 --> 00:04:29,100 But we know that he is royalty. 127 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:32,240 And that is part of what the Apostle 128 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,160 Paul is trying to appeal here to is 129 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,020 that we are king's kids. 130 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,180 We are children of God. 131 00:04:40,180 --> 00:04:42,980 We are in Christ and Christ is in 132 00:04:42,980 --> 00:04:43,360 us. 133 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,880 And the lifestyle that he's appealing to us 134 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,340 to live is to be a life that 135 00:04:48,340 --> 00:04:51,360 is consistent with those who are in Christ, 136 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,000 those who are children of God, those who 137 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,520 have been redeemed by the blood of the 138 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:55,720 Lamb. 139 00:04:56,140 --> 00:04:57,880 Now, last night we talked about the beginning 140 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,200 of this section with this appeal, this urging, 141 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:02,020 this beseeching that he talked about in verse 142 00:05:02,020 --> 00:05:02,360 1. 143 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:05,260 And he picks up the same idea again 144 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:07,480 in verse 17 when he says the word, 145 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:07,940 therefore. 146 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:09,840 He's going back to this urging. 147 00:05:10,020 --> 00:05:11,720 He's going back to this appeal, to this 148 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:12,500 beseeching and begging. 149 00:05:13,140 --> 00:05:14,420 But he goes on with a little bit 150 00:05:14,420 --> 00:05:17,080 stronger term, terms that have a little bit 151 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:18,580 of an ominous overtone. 152 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:21,420 This word for testify here is a word 153 00:05:21,420 --> 00:05:24,040 that goes beyond just a courtroom testimony. 154 00:05:24,260 --> 00:05:24,840 It can be that. 155 00:05:25,180 --> 00:05:26,760 But it goes to a place where it 156 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:27,780 is almost a warning. 157 00:05:28,980 --> 00:05:30,040 And he talks about... 158 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,480 And this message, by the way, I'm really 159 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:32,060 excited about. 160 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,000 Even though there's some really dark things in 161 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,080 this message, there is an exciting message that 162 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:38,780 I'd like to communicate to you as we 163 00:05:38,780 --> 00:05:40,280 get on up to verse 20. 164 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:42,940 Now, the first thing he starts off and 165 00:05:42,940 --> 00:05:45,300 talks about, he talks about the negative side 166 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:47,320 of what we are no longer. 167 00:05:48,180 --> 00:05:53,060 He says that ye henceforth walk not as 168 00:05:53,060 --> 00:05:55,340 other Gentiles walk. 169 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,680 Now, he's not saying there, by the way, 170 00:05:57,740 --> 00:06:00,500 that you don't walk as those who are 171 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:01,280 non-Schwarzes. 172 00:06:02,620 --> 00:06:02,980 Okay? 173 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:04,140 That's not what he's saying. 174 00:06:04,140 --> 00:06:07,620 He's not using this in racial terms between 175 00:06:07,620 --> 00:06:08,880 Jew and Gentile. 176 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:10,660 All the portions in the Word of God 177 00:06:10,660 --> 00:06:13,380 where you see this word Gentile, it refers 178 00:06:13,380 --> 00:06:14,820 to a religious system. 179 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,180 A system that is without God, that denies 180 00:06:18,180 --> 00:06:19,880 the presence of God in their lives. 181 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:23,260 So, he's not talking about non-Jews racially. 182 00:06:23,540 --> 00:06:27,660 He's talking about people who are separated from 183 00:06:27,660 --> 00:06:30,660 the commonwealth of Israel in the terms of 184 00:06:30,660 --> 00:06:31,500 the kingdom of God. 185 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:34,640 That we no longer are part, that these 186 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,460 people are not part of the family of 187 00:06:36,460 --> 00:06:36,900 God at all. 188 00:06:36,980 --> 00:06:37,760 They're Gentiles. 189 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:40,320 And he says we're not to walk, not 190 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,160 to have our lifestyle like that anymore. 191 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:44,740 And he gives a six-fold description in 192 00:06:44,740 --> 00:06:47,780 verses 17 down through 19 of the way 193 00:06:47,780 --> 00:06:49,160 that Gentiles walk. 194 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:51,300 Now, please note as you're taking a look 195 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:54,920 at this that the cruciality of the words 196 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,600 that have to do with mind. 197 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,760 Notice verse 17, in the vanity of their 198 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:00,320 mind. 199 00:07:00,700 --> 00:07:04,560 Verse 18, having their understanding darken. 200 00:07:06,140 --> 00:07:07,760 The life of God through them. 201 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:09,300 The ignorance. 202 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,540 And then you go on and see more 203 00:07:11,540 --> 00:07:12,600 as we see later on. 204 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,340 The cruciality of the mind. 205 00:07:15,780 --> 00:07:17,620 Now, I was just reading about a report 206 00:07:17,620 --> 00:07:18,040 of this. 207 00:07:19,380 --> 00:07:20,840 The criminal mind. 208 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:23,960 A report that was done by two penologists 209 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:24,760 or criminologists. 210 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,320 And it used to be that people said 211 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,940 that criminals were a product of their society. 212 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,300 Those of you who have ever seen the 213 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:35,880 West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, that they 214 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,340 have a song in there on Officer Krupke. 215 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,900 And in that song they say, we're depraved 216 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:44,260 on account of we're deprived. 217 00:07:44,860 --> 00:07:47,000 And so the idea behind that song is 218 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:52,260 that depravity, reprobation, or the psychopathic, sociopathic mind 219 00:07:52,260 --> 00:07:56,100 is a result of bad environment, bad circumstances. 220 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,300 Growing up in a slum, growing up in 221 00:07:58,300 --> 00:08:01,160 poverty, growing up in adverse situations. 222 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,920 And they say that that's what's causing the 223 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:04,260 criminals. 224 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,900 That's why all the prisons are so full 225 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:08,040 of them, because of circumstances. 226 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,440 But this study that came out, they said 227 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:11,660 no, that's not true. 228 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,400 That we're finding that crime is not a 229 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,100 result of circumstances, or environment, or situations that 230 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:20,560 people are born into. 231 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,980 But that crime is a result of a 232 00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:25,380 mindset, the way people think. 233 00:08:25,860 --> 00:08:27,260 And this of course reminds us of the 234 00:08:27,260 --> 00:08:29,340 words of Solomon when he says, as a 235 00:08:29,340 --> 00:08:33,260 man thinketh in his heart, so is he. 236 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:36,960 Now the Gentiles, these religious system that leaves 237 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,419 God out, has a certain mindset. 238 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,440 And this mindset is described here in verses 239 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:43,620 17 through 19. 240 00:08:43,980 --> 00:08:46,140 Now the first thing it says, it says 241 00:08:46,140 --> 00:08:48,360 in a vanity of their mind. 242 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,520 Now that word, vanity, is the word I'm 243 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,640 sure that you're acquainted with, is the word, 244 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:54,000 it means empty. 245 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,860 It's full of nothing. 246 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 It's useless. 247 00:08:59,280 --> 00:08:59,940 It's pointless. 248 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:00,980 It's purposeless. 249 00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:04,880 It has no goal, no motivation, no orientation. 250 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:06,920 Now I find that very interesting, because I 251 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,380 graduated from the University of Illinois in Chicago. 252 00:09:09,980 --> 00:09:11,980 And I'll never forget, after I first became 253 00:09:11,980 --> 00:09:15,840 a Christian, that I was subjected, now we 254 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,360 use that word, subjected to a humanities course. 255 00:09:19,980 --> 00:09:22,420 And in this humanities course, this man had 256 00:09:22,420 --> 00:09:24,020 us reading all different kinds of books. 257 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,600 And he just, every class period, he expounded 258 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,620 on the wonder of evolution and how man, 259 00:09:31,740 --> 00:09:34,980 through the product of eons, of ages, and 260 00:09:34,980 --> 00:09:37,240 we're the epitome of creation. 261 00:09:37,380 --> 00:09:39,860 He said, oh man, he was really persuasive. 262 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,120 Of course, I had the unique opportunity of 263 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:43,620 talking to R.J. Little at the time 264 00:09:43,620 --> 00:09:44,640 when he was still alive. 265 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,760 And R.J. Little gave me some really 266 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:47,520 neat ammunition. 267 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:49,840 So one day in class, I stood up, 268 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,100 I raised my hand and said, Professor, could 269 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:54,140 I ask you a question? 270 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:55,720 Yes. 271 00:09:55,940 --> 00:09:57,000 At this point he didn't know I was 272 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:57,200 Christian. 273 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:58,540 I said, if you were walking through a 274 00:09:58,540 --> 00:10:01,300 desert and you saw three bricks on top 275 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:03,740 of one another, and with mortar in between, 276 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:04,660 what would you conclude? 277 00:10:05,860 --> 00:10:08,360 Well, I'd conclude, man's been here. 278 00:10:09,060 --> 00:10:10,840 I said, well, I'd take a look at 279 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,400 all of this creation and all of the 280 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:15,960 handiwork that I see around here and I 281 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,040 conclude, God's been here. 282 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:20,940 Hubba, hubba, hubba. 283 00:10:22,020 --> 00:10:23,860 It was really kind of funny watching that. 284 00:10:23,980 --> 00:10:25,140 And he said, well, I don't see it 285 00:10:25,140 --> 00:10:25,760 that way at all. 286 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,080 But you know, he could see the three 287 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,260 bricks and you take a look at this, 288 00:10:29,380 --> 00:10:32,920 I'd much rather see this than three bricks. 289 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,880 But anyway, then I used another one on 290 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:39,020 him. 291 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:40,400 And he says, well, I've read the Bible 292 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,400 through and through and I heard another one 293 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:45,760 that you used on people like that. 294 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:47,360 And I said, that's what you get for 295 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:48,900 reading other people's mail. 296 00:10:51,420 --> 00:10:54,540 But anyway, but the idea, this guy, he's 297 00:10:54,540 --> 00:10:55,060 a doctor. 298 00:10:55,380 --> 00:10:57,640 He's a Ph.D. He has all that 299 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:58,460 the world has to offer. 300 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:00,240 He's gone to the world's well and he's 301 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:01,760 drunk deep and he came out empty. 302 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,540 And that's the Gentile mind. 303 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:07,260 They say, we're so full. 304 00:11:07,540 --> 00:11:09,500 They got Ph.D., L.L.D., D 305 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:11,120 .L. and all these different things that they 306 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:12,060 got behind their names. 307 00:11:12,420 --> 00:11:13,720 And they say, we've got it all. 308 00:11:13,980 --> 00:11:15,920 And the reality of it is, they've got 309 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:16,380 nothing. 310 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,540 But the Gentiles are walking with an empty 311 00:11:19,540 --> 00:11:20,120 mind. 312 00:11:20,260 --> 00:11:22,400 A mind that is full of vanity. 313 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,860 And then it says, having the understanding darkened. 314 00:11:26,780 --> 00:11:28,980 That this mind, that you, you know, things 315 00:11:28,980 --> 00:11:30,880 to us, having the Spirit of God coming 316 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,580 in and having illumined our lives and lightened 317 00:11:33,580 --> 00:11:35,300 up our lives on the inside and we 318 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:37,220 read the Word of God and it's plain 319 00:11:37,220 --> 00:11:37,680 to us. 320 00:11:38,380 --> 00:11:39,260 It's obvious. 321 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:41,380 And you sit there and you try to 322 00:11:41,380 --> 00:11:44,480 show it to them and, huh? 323 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,140 And they just don't seem to understand what 324 00:11:47,140 --> 00:11:47,900 you're talking about. 325 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:49,640 They don't seem to be able to relate 326 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,460 what you're talking about at all. 327 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,620 They're, I don't understand this. 328 00:11:53,980 --> 00:11:56,960 And we're last night, you know, one of 329 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,780 the advantages of being in a motel. 330 00:11:58,980 --> 00:12:00,220 I did a nasty, I turned on the 331 00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:02,200 TV and crisis to crisis program last night 332 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,060 with Barbara Jordan. 333 00:12:03,940 --> 00:12:05,540 And of course, you know, Barbara Jordan is 334 00:12:05,540 --> 00:12:08,280 the Congresswoman, the black Congresswoman is an attorney 335 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,960 who has gained a great deal of fame 336 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:12,400 during the Watergate trials. 337 00:12:12,540 --> 00:12:14,160 She was one of the ones who interrogated 338 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,260 all the people with Sam Ervin and company 339 00:12:16,260 --> 00:12:17,660 during the Watergate trials. 340 00:12:17,860 --> 00:12:21,680 And she was doing a report on the 341 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:25,040 portrait of a religious zealot. 342 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,360 And it was Ed McAteer who was the 343 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:29,640 president of Roundtable. 344 00:12:30,220 --> 00:12:32,560 And of course, you see Barbara Jordan who 345 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:35,100 is a very, you know, precise individual. 346 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:38,560 She says her word very plainly, very distinctly, 347 00:12:38,620 --> 00:12:39,940 you know, exactly what she's saying. 348 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,940 And you could see, you know, the sarcasm. 349 00:12:43,620 --> 00:12:46,500 And yes, the films were really kind of 350 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:46,780 good. 351 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,720 You know, it gets you some good Baptist 352 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:49,140 revivals. 353 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:51,120 It had Jerry Falwell and James Robertson and 354 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:51,900 all these different things. 355 00:12:52,260 --> 00:12:55,020 And the gospel, how to be saved and 356 00:12:55,020 --> 00:12:55,860 all these different things. 357 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,020 And of course, they were putting this on. 358 00:12:58,140 --> 00:12:59,780 See what we're being subjected to? 359 00:12:59,940 --> 00:13:01,580 What this religious right is like? 360 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:02,400 I said, amen. 361 00:13:02,740 --> 00:13:03,360 So she's going. 362 00:13:03,780 --> 00:13:04,960 It really sounds pretty good. 363 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:06,660 But see, the problem that they have is 364 00:13:06,660 --> 00:13:08,220 their understanding is darkened. 365 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:10,920 And the things that lightened up in us 366 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,320 because God is living on the inside, they 367 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:14,100 don't understand. 368 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,140 They don't understand what you're going to a 369 00:13:17,140 --> 00:13:18,220 Bible conference? 370 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:20,480 What do you do there? 371 00:13:22,540 --> 00:13:26,060 Well, we sit down and we have Bible 372 00:13:26,060 --> 00:13:26,400 studies. 373 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:28,680 What else do you do? 374 00:13:29,860 --> 00:13:31,980 Oh, then we talk and fellowship and drink 375 00:13:31,980 --> 00:13:32,620 a lot of coffee. 376 00:13:34,060 --> 00:13:35,120 What else do you do? 377 00:13:36,220 --> 00:13:37,540 Well, we have more Bible studies. 378 00:13:39,260 --> 00:13:40,620 Oh, there's a little bit of softball in 379 00:13:40,620 --> 00:13:40,940 there, right? 380 00:13:43,340 --> 00:13:44,400 None of you guys, I can tell. 381 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,580 But they don't understand this. 382 00:13:48,660 --> 00:13:50,460 And we have a seminar that we're involved 383 00:13:50,460 --> 00:13:50,640 with. 384 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,420 It's called Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts. 385 00:13:52,460 --> 00:13:55,380 And we've talked to people at the seminar 386 00:13:55,380 --> 00:13:56,760 building and when we first went to the 387 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,120 Keough Auditorium in St. Louis. 388 00:13:58,580 --> 00:14:01,240 And they asked, well, what is this like? 389 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,480 Because they're all geared up for a rock 390 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:03,900 concert and things like that. 391 00:14:04,020 --> 00:14:06,240 And all these people and the very first 392 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:07,980 time that we watched them cleaning out from 393 00:14:07,980 --> 00:14:08,700 a rock concert. 394 00:14:09,140 --> 00:14:10,660 And the first night they're out there and 395 00:14:10,660 --> 00:14:13,200 the concession stands, they couldn't get... 396 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:14,520 You sure you don't want to sell any 397 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:14,740 beer? 398 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:15,980 Yeah, we're sure. 399 00:14:17,380 --> 00:14:19,380 Your people, all 4,000 of these people 400 00:14:19,380 --> 00:14:20,420 aren't going to want any of that. 401 00:14:21,220 --> 00:14:22,280 No, they're not going to want it. 402 00:14:22,860 --> 00:14:23,380 You're sure? 403 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:24,540 We're sure. 404 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,560 So, the first night they watched it and 405 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,320 they couldn't believe people were walking around with 406 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:31,560 a trash can in their hand looking for 407 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:32,140 trash cans. 408 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:32,940 They're not used to that. 409 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,860 And these guys would come up to us 410 00:14:35,860 --> 00:14:38,060 afterwards and say, what is this group now? 411 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:40,840 They don't understand what's going on. 412 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,260 See, that's what the Gentiles are like. 413 00:14:42,420 --> 00:14:44,320 Outside of God, this religious system. 414 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:45,920 Their mind is vanity. 415 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,460 Secondly, that their understanding is darkened. 416 00:14:48,780 --> 00:14:51,540 Thirdly, they're alienated from the light of God 417 00:14:51,540 --> 00:14:53,420 through the ignorance that is in them. 418 00:14:53,940 --> 00:14:55,080 Now, isn't that kind of... 419 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:56,520 God sits there and takes a look at 420 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,940 man's might, man's intelligence, man's power and what 421 00:14:59,940 --> 00:15:00,420 does he call him? 422 00:15:00,460 --> 00:15:01,120 He calls him ignorant. 423 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,800 You know, I probably should have used this 424 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:06,960 verse in my humanities professor along with one 425 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:07,980 of my... 426 00:15:07,980 --> 00:15:11,060 a few of my philosophy professors and all 427 00:15:11,060 --> 00:15:12,220 of my psychology professors. 428 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,000 And, you know, they think they're so wise 429 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,360 and God takes a look at it and 430 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:17,980 says, it's just ignorant. 431 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:22,500 There's nothing of value there that is going 432 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:23,660 to change people's lives. 433 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:25,400 You know, I was... 434 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,200 Jack Wurzen was down speaking at school one 435 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,680 time and he had debated with this beautiful 436 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:33,860 woman from Texas. 437 00:15:35,540 --> 00:15:37,060 Madeleine Murray O'Hare. 438 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:40,560 And I said, beautiful... 439 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:41,100 you know. 440 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,840 Well, anyway, he was debating with her up 441 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,160 in Wisconsin and there was a call-in 442 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,940 program and this young girl called in and 443 00:15:49,940 --> 00:15:51,440 said, Miss O'Hare. 444 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:53,740 By the way, isn't it kind of exciting 445 00:15:53,740 --> 00:15:54,840 her son's gotten saved? 446 00:15:55,460 --> 00:15:56,280 Isn't that exciting? 447 00:15:56,580 --> 00:15:58,980 But she said, Miss O'Hare, she... 448 00:15:58,980 --> 00:16:01,380 I didn't used to believe in God. 449 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:08,220 I was in drugs, immoral and suicidal. 450 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,480 I had attempted suicide a number of times. 451 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:12,680 My life was miserable. 452 00:16:12,860 --> 00:16:13,540 I was unhappy. 453 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:15,960 My parents were broken up. 454 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:17,060 I was kicked out of the house. 455 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:17,980 I had nowhere to live. 456 00:16:18,060 --> 00:16:18,720 I had no money. 457 00:16:19,260 --> 00:16:22,660 And I was getting ready to attempt suicide 458 00:16:22,660 --> 00:16:24,940 again and all of a sudden I turned 459 00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:27,420 on the Word of Life program with Jack 460 00:16:27,420 --> 00:16:27,820 Worston. 461 00:16:28,540 --> 00:16:29,880 And he told me how to become a 462 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:31,160 believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. 463 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:33,140 And I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as 464 00:16:33,140 --> 00:16:35,020 my Savior and it came in and I'm 465 00:16:35,020 --> 00:16:35,540 happy now. 466 00:16:35,740 --> 00:16:37,340 I'm back in school and I'm finishing up 467 00:16:37,340 --> 00:16:37,780 high school. 468 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:39,600 I'm back living with my parents. 469 00:16:39,980 --> 00:16:42,600 That my life has meaning and purpose and 470 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:43,640 joy and all the rest. 471 00:16:44,020 --> 00:16:45,420 And he said, Miss O'Hare, what do 472 00:16:45,420 --> 00:16:46,180 you have to offer me? 473 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:50,380 You know what? 474 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:51,980 What does she have to offer them? 475 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:53,500 Absolutely nothing. 476 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:58,000 She's alienated from the life of God. 477 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,380 She is walking in darkness and in death. 478 00:17:01,820 --> 00:17:03,960 And she has nothing to offer other than 479 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:05,020 darkness and death. 480 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:06,700 And that's the Gentile's walk. 481 00:17:06,940 --> 00:17:09,420 The Gentile's walk is a life that is 482 00:17:09,420 --> 00:17:09,680 alienated. 483 00:17:10,220 --> 00:17:12,119 It is at odds with. 484 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,220 It is enemies with God Himself. 485 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,859 And then fourthly, because of the blindness of 486 00:17:17,859 --> 00:17:18,300 their heart. 487 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:19,760 Now, you might take a look in your 488 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,160 margin there and you see that's the word 489 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:22,280 that they have, the word hardness. 490 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,500 Well, they can make there's a big long 491 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:26,119 discussion if you get into the commentaries on 492 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:27,620 this and what the meaning of this word 493 00:17:27,620 --> 00:17:27,980 is. 494 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,160 I think it might be the idea is 495 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:31,060 something like this. 496 00:17:31,380 --> 00:17:33,580 That as long as this little eyeball that 497 00:17:33,580 --> 00:17:35,620 we have right here is kind of soft 498 00:17:35,620 --> 00:17:41,340 and flexible, pliable, and like that, it works 499 00:17:41,340 --> 00:17:41,720 fine. 500 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,220 But if that eye starts becoming rigid, just 501 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:45,840 like if our veins become rigid and things 502 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,580 like that and it starts getting hard, that 503 00:17:48,580 --> 00:17:50,180 that would cause blindness. 504 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:51,600 And I don't know if that can even 505 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:51,960 happen. 506 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:53,460 But this is the illustration behind it. 507 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,080 The eye getting hard and the hardness produces 508 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:58,940 a blindness so that people can't see. 509 00:17:59,380 --> 00:18:01,660 And so we see that the heart of 510 00:18:01,660 --> 00:18:04,540 the man outside of God, outside of the 511 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:07,140 family of God, without having God living inside 512 00:18:07,140 --> 00:18:09,880 of him, that he's described as being blind 513 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,480 in his heart or hardened in his heart. 514 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:12,800 Of course, we can think of Pharaoh. 515 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,600 Pharaoh hardened his heart and God hardened his 516 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:15,800 heart. 517 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,320 We see that the willful hardening of his 518 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,060 own heart, but then the judicial hardening that 519 00:18:21,060 --> 00:18:22,180 came from God Himself. 520 00:18:22,540 --> 00:18:24,160 So we see the blindness of their heart. 521 00:18:24,620 --> 00:18:25,640 And isn't this interesting? 522 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,180 You know, that we see all these... 523 00:18:27,180 --> 00:18:29,320 they don't understand things and then you come 524 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:30,920 up and they say, don't you see? 525 00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:32,600 You come up and you talk to parents 526 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:34,500 and you see what they're doing with their 527 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:34,920 children. 528 00:18:36,180 --> 00:18:38,120 They're programming their children for destruction. 529 00:18:38,620 --> 00:18:40,300 And you come up and don't you see 530 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:41,480 that what you're doing is wrong? 531 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,400 And they don't see it because of the 532 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:44,640 blindness that's in their heart. 533 00:18:44,860 --> 00:18:46,120 Because of the hardness in their heart. 534 00:18:46,460 --> 00:18:47,640 You know, one of the greatest things that's 535 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,480 been propagated in our society has been Benjamin 536 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,240 Spock's Baby and Child Care. 537 00:18:53,740 --> 00:18:55,840 Even Benjamin Spock, you know, later on, of 538 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:57,440 course you can't take all those books back. 539 00:18:58,100 --> 00:19:00,500 Benjamin Spock, later on, recanted of what he 540 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:02,560 had said in Permissive Education. 541 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,060 Because he began realizing, even though he didn't 542 00:19:05,060 --> 00:19:07,060 understand the Bible, that, you know, the parent 543 00:19:07,060 --> 00:19:09,040 who doesn't thank their child, who doesn't discipline 544 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,360 their child, is a parent who really did 545 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:12,180 not love their child. 546 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,080 That there is hate in their heart for 547 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:14,540 that child. 548 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:16,580 And so this permissive type thing that was 549 00:19:16,580 --> 00:19:18,380 going on, and so I never forget this 550 00:19:18,380 --> 00:19:21,880 one cartoon that really epitomized permissive child training. 551 00:19:22,380 --> 00:19:25,520 And these parents were hovering over their little 552 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,720 girl in the middle of their house, which 553 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:28,320 was burned down. 554 00:19:29,380 --> 00:19:31,140 It was just in rubble all around them, 555 00:19:31,460 --> 00:19:33,700 and you see the smoke coming up, and 556 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:35,660 they take their little girl. 557 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,820 Now we realize that you are expressing some 558 00:19:39,820 --> 00:19:41,700 of your frustrations with life. 559 00:19:47,550 --> 00:19:48,150 Right. 560 00:19:49,130 --> 00:19:52,770 Don't you see that that kind of thinking, 561 00:19:53,290 --> 00:19:55,810 that that kind of attitude of heart, is 562 00:19:55,810 --> 00:19:58,590 producing all kinds of wickedness and immorality in 563 00:19:58,590 --> 00:19:58,990 our world? 564 00:19:59,170 --> 00:20:00,430 And that's what he goes on to say. 565 00:20:00,830 --> 00:20:04,410 He says, "...who being past feelings have given 566 00:20:04,410 --> 00:20:07,670 themselves over unto lasciviousness." 567 00:20:08,250 --> 00:20:10,050 They give themselves over. 568 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:13,590 They are so callous towards natural things without 569 00:20:13,590 --> 00:20:15,690 natural affection, that they don't have love for 570 00:20:15,690 --> 00:20:16,870 their parents, they don't have love for their 571 00:20:16,870 --> 00:20:18,730 children, they don't have love for other people. 572 00:20:18,870 --> 00:20:19,710 They're past feelings. 573 00:20:20,090 --> 00:20:22,170 And not only that, they're past feelings that 574 00:20:22,170 --> 00:20:23,930 the Spirit of God, Bertrand Russell, used to 575 00:20:23,930 --> 00:20:26,870 say that, and Bertrand Russell was of course 576 00:20:26,870 --> 00:20:28,710 one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto 577 00:20:28,710 --> 00:20:31,390 back in 1933, and we'll talk a little 578 00:20:31,390 --> 00:20:32,790 bit about that on Friday when we're in 579 00:20:32,790 --> 00:20:33,910 our seminar on humanism. 580 00:20:34,230 --> 00:20:36,250 But Bertrand Russell being one of the signers 581 00:20:36,250 --> 00:20:37,630 of that, he said, "...back when I was 582 00:20:37,630 --> 00:20:40,810 a young man, when I began first espousing 583 00:20:40,810 --> 00:20:44,030 my principles of atheism, there was something inside 584 00:20:44,030 --> 00:20:46,530 of me telling me, you're wrong, you're wrong, 585 00:20:46,790 --> 00:20:47,310 you're wrong. 586 00:20:47,530 --> 00:20:50,670 Well, I've grown past that now." 587 00:20:50,670 --> 00:20:52,690 Well, he really hadn't grown past it, had 588 00:20:52,690 --> 00:20:52,810 he? 589 00:20:53,290 --> 00:20:55,990 He had become past feelings. 590 00:20:56,870 --> 00:20:59,910 He couldn't respond any longer. 591 00:21:00,450 --> 00:21:02,150 He was beyond feelings. 592 00:21:02,650 --> 00:21:04,830 And notice that this person goes beyond feelings, 593 00:21:05,210 --> 00:21:07,230 gives himself over to lasciviousness. 594 00:21:07,510 --> 00:21:09,690 Now, this word for lasciviousness is a very, 595 00:21:09,850 --> 00:21:11,290 very strong word. 596 00:21:11,690 --> 00:21:13,130 It's a word that has to do with 597 00:21:13,130 --> 00:21:17,850 sensuality, but not just in the gallery of 598 00:21:17,850 --> 00:21:20,890 our mind, not just in the quarters of 599 00:21:20,890 --> 00:21:23,050 our heart, but it's a person who is 600 00:21:23,050 --> 00:21:27,690 involved in lasciviousness, sensuality, wantonness, in an open 601 00:21:27,690 --> 00:21:32,690 and public way whose lifestyle is just violate 602 00:21:32,690 --> 00:21:38,070 the public standards in mores, that he parades 603 00:21:38,070 --> 00:21:41,850 as a public show his sensuality. 604 00:21:43,970 --> 00:21:45,290 And don't we have that today? 605 00:21:46,310 --> 00:21:49,230 I mean, today, where the American Psychiatric Association 606 00:21:49,230 --> 00:21:55,280 calls homosexuality normal, where the city of San 607 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,240 Francisco, and I've talked to a number of 608 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,620 people from San Francisco, literally, is run by 609 00:22:00,620 --> 00:22:03,160 this quote-unquote, and isn't this terrible that 610 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,260 this word has been so misused, the gay 611 00:22:05,260 --> 00:22:05,740 community. 612 00:22:06,020 --> 00:22:06,820 I mean, that used to be a nice 613 00:22:06,820 --> 00:22:07,660 word, the gay nineties. 614 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,420 Now use that word and it's a ruined 615 00:22:10,420 --> 00:22:10,700 word. 616 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:11,940 You can't use it anymore, can you? 617 00:22:12,660 --> 00:22:14,680 And the whole city is run by that. 618 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,680 But you go on and you can talk 619 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,000 about the movies, the billboards, the magazines, and 620 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,860 all the things that we're subjected to in 621 00:22:20,860 --> 00:22:23,680 our society, and things are paraded openly. 622 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,580 That's what it says. 623 00:22:26,660 --> 00:22:27,540 To work. 624 00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:29,800 And you know what that word there is? 625 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:30,580 To do business. 626 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:34,540 Make merchandise of, that the Gentiles are making 627 00:22:34,540 --> 00:22:35,680 merchandise of uncleanness. 628 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:38,740 I was just reading some reports that the 629 00:22:38,740 --> 00:22:43,840 estimates of the people who are involved in 630 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,280 the business of pornography, that last year some 631 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,300 people have estimated that just pornography did a 632 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:55,540 business of a hundred billion dollars in our 633 00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:57,800 country last year. 634 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:01,220 Now that's a lot of money. 635 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,560 Think we could rent the campground for a 636 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:04,980 hundred billion? 637 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:09,140 Think you could retire on a hundred billion? 638 00:23:10,260 --> 00:23:10,940 Live off the interest? 639 00:23:12,180 --> 00:23:13,420 You could live off the interest and give 640 00:23:13,420 --> 00:23:14,980 about four hundred million a year in interest. 641 00:23:16,620 --> 00:23:17,780 That's a lot. 642 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,340 And they're making merchandise of it with greediness. 643 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:23,400 And have you ever seen that book? 644 00:23:23,620 --> 00:23:24,980 Looking out for number one. 645 00:23:25,940 --> 00:23:27,000 And that's what people are. 646 00:23:27,180 --> 00:23:27,780 The greediness. 647 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,180 No matter what it takes. 648 00:23:29,340 --> 00:23:31,000 I'll take what you've got if necessary. 649 00:23:31,780 --> 00:23:33,080 That's the Gentiles' walk. 650 00:23:35,180 --> 00:23:39,020 But then he says, but ye have not 651 00:23:39,020 --> 00:23:40,460 so learned Christ. 652 00:23:43,340 --> 00:23:44,820 That's where the Gentiles walk. 653 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:45,980 He's not saying this is the way they 654 00:23:45,980 --> 00:23:46,200 are. 655 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,360 He says that's the way the Gentiles walk. 656 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,060 But ye have not so learned Christ. 657 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,800 If so be that ye have heard him 658 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,900 and have been taught by him as the 659 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:57,080 truth is in Jesus. 660 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:58,740 Now can I give you a little bit 661 00:23:58,740 --> 00:23:59,960 of a lesson in the language of the 662 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:00,340 New Testament? 663 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:03,280 That if there, there's four kinds of if 664 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:04,380 in the Greek New Testament. 665 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,660 One is if and it's true. 666 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:08,480 If and it's not true. 667 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,280 If and it's probably true. 668 00:24:10,660 --> 00:24:12,160 And if and it's probably not true. 669 00:24:12,260 --> 00:24:13,760 Those are called conditional sentences. 670 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:15,600 First cause, second cause, third cause, fourth cause, 671 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:15,880 and last condition. 672 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:17,880 Now that if right there is a first 673 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:18,660 class condition. 674 00:24:18,980 --> 00:24:20,120 If and it's true. 675 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,420 If so be and you have that ye 676 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:26,160 have heard him and have been taught by 677 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,880 him as the truth is in Jesus. 678 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,020 This is true of you. 679 00:24:30,340 --> 00:24:32,520 So that Paul realized that when he was 680 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,200 writing to these people in Ephesus, this little 681 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,640 church in the middle of this moral cesspool 682 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,580 in Ephesus, he says I know you really 683 00:24:40,580 --> 00:24:41,480 have been born again. 684 00:24:41,780 --> 00:24:44,000 You really have met the Lord Jesus Christ, 685 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:45,160 this historical person. 686 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:46,940 And by the way, it's very rare for 687 00:24:46,940 --> 00:24:49,400 Paul to use that word Jesus just by 688 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:49,700 itself. 689 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,180 It's either Lord Jesus or Jesus Christ or 690 00:24:52,180 --> 00:24:53,240 the Lord Jesus Christ. 691 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,880 Rarely does he use the word Jesus all 692 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:56,540 by itself. 693 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,500 And when he does, it's usually referring to 694 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:02,720 the historical person, the Lord Jesus, the man 695 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:03,900 Jesus Christ. 696 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,380 And so that the truth in this man 697 00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:08,780 Jesus, we know that that's true and if 698 00:25:08,780 --> 00:25:11,700 you've met this man who literally lived, who 699 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:14,800 literally died and shed his blood, who literally 700 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,920 was buried and rose from the dead on 701 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,120 the third day, that's this man who lived 702 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:19,680 in history. 703 00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:24,310 He is the embodiment of truth. 704 00:25:24,970 --> 00:25:26,710 And he says, I know you've learned him. 705 00:25:27,270 --> 00:25:28,990 And you did not learn Jesus the way 706 00:25:28,990 --> 00:25:30,050 the Gentiles are walking. 707 00:25:30,870 --> 00:25:32,690 Now that kind of lifestyle we can see 708 00:25:32,690 --> 00:25:34,310 prayed on the front page of the newspapers 709 00:25:34,310 --> 00:25:36,510 in Nashville, St. Louis, Des Moines, or wherever 710 00:25:36,510 --> 00:25:36,990 you're from. 711 00:25:37,050 --> 00:25:38,670 We know that that kind of lifestyle is 712 00:25:38,670 --> 00:25:39,110 being lived. 713 00:25:39,590 --> 00:25:41,510 But the sad thing that Paul is warning 714 00:25:41,510 --> 00:25:43,290 them about, he says, now some of you 715 00:25:43,290 --> 00:25:46,650 Christians who are in Christ and Christ is 716 00:25:46,650 --> 00:25:48,550 in you are living though just like the 717 00:25:48,550 --> 00:25:49,270 Gentiles walk. 718 00:25:49,730 --> 00:25:51,150 You're walking like they walk. 719 00:25:51,510 --> 00:25:53,230 And he says, hey, no, that's not the 720 00:25:53,230 --> 00:25:53,850 way it ought to be. 721 00:25:54,130 --> 00:25:58,730 Verse 22, that ye put off concerning the 722 00:25:58,730 --> 00:26:01,270 former conversation of the old man which is 723 00:26:01,270 --> 00:26:03,090 corrupt according to the deceitful lust. 724 00:26:03,830 --> 00:26:06,050 Now that word put off with a companion 725 00:26:06,050 --> 00:26:08,570 word in verse 24, put on, I'm sure 726 00:26:08,570 --> 00:26:10,170 you've heard this before, it's just the terminology 727 00:26:10,170 --> 00:26:12,650 of putting off clothes and putting on clothes. 728 00:26:12,650 --> 00:26:14,070 How many of you have ever read to 729 00:26:14,070 --> 00:26:16,310 your children the little seven series book by 730 00:26:16,310 --> 00:26:18,310 C.S. Lewis called The Chronicles of Narnia? 731 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:21,700 Three of you? 732 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:23,220 Four of you? 733 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:25,520 Come on, you've got to do that. 734 00:26:26,860 --> 00:26:28,820 Oh, the children are too old to grow 735 00:26:28,820 --> 00:26:28,980 on. 736 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,040 My child is 35 years old. 737 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:32,560 He wouldn't stand for me reading to him 738 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:33,000 right now. 739 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:35,860 Well, they've got a beautiful little description on 740 00:26:35,860 --> 00:26:37,400 the Boy to the Dawn Treader. 741 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:38,740 This one guy is selfish. 742 00:26:38,860 --> 00:26:39,300 He's greedy. 743 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,140 He goes out and he puts some dragon 744 00:26:42,140 --> 00:26:44,440 gold on his arm and he turns into 745 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:44,880 a dragon. 746 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:49,620 And he's got all of his problems. 747 00:26:49,820 --> 00:26:51,420 And finally, Aslan the Lion, which is a 748 00:26:51,420 --> 00:26:53,100 picture of Jesus Christ, takes him up onto 749 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:55,620 Aslan's mountain and he says to Yusuf, this 750 00:26:55,620 --> 00:26:57,720 dragon, take off your dragon skin. 751 00:26:58,220 --> 00:26:59,780 So he sits there and he takes off 752 00:26:59,780 --> 00:27:00,340 his dragon skin. 753 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:00,760 He looks. 754 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:01,860 Do you know what he's got? 755 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:03,280 He's still got a dragon skin. 756 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,660 So he grabs his dragon skin and he 757 00:27:05,660 --> 00:27:06,120 puts it off. 758 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:08,600 Another dragon skin. 759 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,080 He grabs the dragon skin and puts it 760 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:10,320 off. 761 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,100 Oh, I can't get it off. 762 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:14,860 That's right. 763 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,860 We can't get off that old dragon skin. 764 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:20,160 That is something that can only be accomplished 765 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,020 by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. 766 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,580 It is Jesus, when we have met Him, 767 00:27:24,660 --> 00:27:27,160 that we learn Christ and heard Him and 768 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,980 have been taught by Him as the truth 769 00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:29,900 is in Jesus. 770 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:32,160 When we have this experience of being in 771 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,820 Christ and Christ in us, then we find 772 00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:37,080 out that this putting off is not on 773 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,740 something that we can do by some moral 774 00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:39,280 rearmament. 775 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,380 Benjamin Franklin, 13 point program of improving himself. 776 00:27:43,660 --> 00:27:44,940 He does this, he does this, he does 777 00:27:44,940 --> 00:27:46,640 this, and after he finishes 13 points and 778 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:47,800 what he's still got, he's still got dragon 779 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:48,020 skin. 780 00:27:49,540 --> 00:27:51,760 But then Aslan takes his claw and it 781 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,200 comes up and it cuts right to the 782 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:54,000 heart of the dragon. 783 00:27:55,060 --> 00:27:56,140 He thought it was going to hurt. 784 00:27:56,980 --> 00:27:57,400 It didn't. 785 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,200 And Aslan the lion peels off that old 786 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,840 dragon skin and there's the new Yusuf, the 787 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:06,220 new man. 788 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,640 Now, can I tell you another thing about 789 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,160 the Greek language that that word put off 790 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,320 and that word put on is in the 791 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,200 aorist tense. 792 00:28:15,380 --> 00:28:17,360 Aorist tense, not present tense. 793 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:23,720 If it's present tense, keep on putting off. 794 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:24,840 Uh uh, that's not what it says. 795 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:26,380 You put it off. 796 00:28:27,460 --> 00:28:28,560 That's being interpreted. 797 00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:33,460 It is once for all and forever put 798 00:28:33,460 --> 00:28:35,200 off at the cross of Christ. 799 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:38,520 Romans chapter 6, he tells about that, you 800 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,860 know that in Galatians chapter 2 verse 20 801 00:28:40,860 --> 00:28:44,640 that this old man is crucified with Christ. 802 00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:49,020 The old man, this Gentile walk, hey, get 803 00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:49,660 excited about this. 804 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:50,360 Go ahead and smile. 805 00:28:50,540 --> 00:28:52,140 The old man is crucified. 806 00:28:52,940 --> 00:28:57,800 He has no more claim on believers in 807 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:58,800 the Lord Jesus Christ. 808 00:28:59,940 --> 00:29:02,640 So our position is it is put off. 809 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,820 So, in our practice, no problem. 810 00:29:05,820 --> 00:29:08,820 Our practice can be a result of putting 811 00:29:08,820 --> 00:29:09,300 it off. 812 00:29:09,540 --> 00:29:12,040 But the problem is that our practice of 813 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,800 putting it off is not following our position 814 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,320 in Christ that we're living as a Gentile's 815 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:18,560 walk. 816 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,000 And then he says that he put on 817 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,500 the new man which after God is created 818 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:27,300 in righteousness and true holiness. 819 00:29:27,860 --> 00:29:30,820 Now this new man, this new man that 820 00:29:30,820 --> 00:29:32,820 we put on and that we're clothed and 821 00:29:32,820 --> 00:29:36,040 produces righteousness and holiness, that's what we're going 822 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,920 to talk about as we go on through 823 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,420 the rest of Ephesians chapter 4 and 5 824 00:29:40,420 --> 00:29:42,160 and on up into chapter 6. 825 00:29:42,580 --> 00:29:44,580 This new man, what does this new man 826 00:29:44,580 --> 00:29:46,160 like when it comes to using your tongue? 827 00:29:46,420 --> 00:29:47,320 How does that like? 828 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:48,680 When it's out in the business world? 829 00:29:48,780 --> 00:29:50,120 When it's in your family and your husband 830 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:50,880 and wife relationship? 831 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:52,640 What is that new man like? 832 00:29:52,980 --> 00:29:55,080 Now he's not just saying put on the 833 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:56,800 new man and then running and saying figure 834 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:57,600 it out for yourself. 835 00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:59,320 That's not it at all. 836 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,180 But he's saying here that this old man 837 00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:05,120 which is described here in verses 17-19 838 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,440 because of being in Christ has been put 839 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:08,740 off. 840 00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:10,860 Has been put off forever. 841 00:30:11,140 --> 00:30:12,820 We are crucified with Christ. 842 00:30:14,540 --> 00:30:17,120 The old man is dead in Christ. 843 00:30:17,460 --> 00:30:19,260 It has no more claim to him. 844 00:30:20,780 --> 00:30:24,000 And we can put on in practice the 845 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,040 man that we are in Christ. 846 00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:29,000 We can live consistently with him. 847 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:29,660 Let's pray.