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A highlight from Acts 030 - Power Through Purity
"All right, well good evening everyone. Let's open our Bibles to the book of Acts chapter 5 and verse 12. I want to invite the men in the room to our men's fellowship breakfast 8 a .m. Saturday. Paul Scharf is going to be presenting. And then we have a family fun day I think in the afternoon, right? So we're trying to put the word fun back into fundamentalism. That's our new motto here. So big day Saturday. But for this evening, let's open our Bibles to Acts chapter 5 verse 12. And verses 1 through 11, Ananias and Sapphira have been slain in the Holy Spirit as we saw last time. Don't mean to make light of that. So there was sort of an issue of purity within the church. As you had these two people that were kind of bringing in sin into the church and the Lord dealt with them through maximum divine discipline. And then what typically happens is when the issue of purity is handled correctly, then the church sort of takes on new power. So you have, beginning with the rest of the chapter, the power of the church. There's a tremendous description of its power in verses 12 through 16. But as typically happens when God starts to bless or use somebody, it invokes jealousy. And so you'll see jealousy there in verse 17 amongst the Sadducees leading to persecution. So the rest of chapter 5, you can kind of divide it up as the apostles' power, verses 12 through 16. And then how they were consequently persecuted, verses 17 through 42. So let's go ahead and start off here with the apostles' power. Here's a little outline of the apostles' power, verses 12 through 16. And we start off with apostolic authority, verse 12. It says, At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people, and they were all with one accord in Solomon's portico. So the first thing you see here, verse 12, is apostolic signs. And again, the apostolic signs are following how the Lord dealt with purity. So the church is now practically purified with Ananias and Sapphira, who were bringing Satan's agenda into the church, now out of the scene. And then the church takes on new authority or new power. So I guess one point of application for us is if we want to see the Lord's power in our lives, we need to maybe, I don't know, spend less time seeking power and more time seeking purity, because God uses pure vessels. And the more we give ourselves to the issue of practical sanctification, the more we give room for the Lord to work through us via his power. And the power here in the first century was manifested through the apostles. Signs and wonders were taking place. This is a sign gift. You have to understand a lot of these things in the book of Acts in the context of it's the apostles on the earth. They are sort of foundational to the outworking of the church. And so what you see in the book of Acts is miracles, signs and wonders will cluster around the apostles. Paul in Ephesians 2 verse 20 says of the apostles, having built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone. So the first, in this metaphorical temple, the first stone that goes in is the cornerstone. And then the cornerstone, and that's Jesus. The cornerstone is very important because through the cornerstone, you arrange all the other stones in the whole structure of the temple. And after the cornerstone is put in, then you put in the foundation stones. And so the Lord built the church, first putting in the cornerstone, Jesus, the most important stone. The stone by which all other stones are gauged and measured. And then after he was put in, in this metaphor that Paul is using, as he analogizes the church to a temple, in came the foundational stones of the apostles. And so that's what you see happening here. 2 Corinthians 12 and verse 12 talks about the signs of a true apostle. It says, the signs of a true apostle were performed among you with all perseverance by signs, wonders, and miracles. So that's what's taking place here. And one of the things to understand as we go through the book of Acts is every single miracle that happens in the book of Acts was performed either by an apostle, or it was performed by someone operating under the delegated authority of an apostle. So Arnold Fruchtenbaum writes of verse 12. He says verse 12 provides evidence of apostolic authority. The account of the second persecution of the church begins with apostolic signs. Again, it is important to note that in the book of Acts, only the apostles and the apostolic delegates who were appointed by the apostles by the laying on of hands were able to perform miracles, signs, and wonders. This fact has come out four times before in the book of Acts, and he's got the verses there in parenthesis. Acts 2, 43, Acts 3, 6, and 7. Acts 4, 22, and 33. And then he says, and now it's once again repeated in this verse. So you see these apostolic signs taking place, and then you see the oneness that the believers here had with each other. You get a glimpse of their spirit of unity, because the rest of verse 12 says, and they were all with one accord in Solomon's portico, Solomon's porch. Now when the church was just getting ready to start, because it was birthed on the day of Pentecost, just prior to that, in Acts 1, verse 13, they were meeting in the upper room. It says, when they had entered the city, they went to the upper room, where they were staying, and then it lists the 12 apostles. Well, by the time you get to Acts chapter 3, you can't cram everybody into the upper room. Peter preached that opening sermon on the day of Pentecost, where about 3 ,000 were saved. And according to our last numerical count, Acts 4, 4, now at least 5 ,000 are saved. And now we're in Acts chapter 5, some estimate that there could be as many as 10 ,000. So the church, just like was predicted, once the spirit fell, would start to grow exponentially. And so they couldn't fit in the upper room anymore. So they had to move to the portico, or the porch of Solomon, within the temple. You see them doing that in Acts 3, verse 11. It says, while he was clinging to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the so -called portico of Solomon, full of amazement. So part of the temple was named the porch of Solomon, because Solomon was the builder of the first temple, all the way back in 966 BC. And one of the things that's interesting is the early church had no problem meeting in the temple. They weren't saying, you know, we've got to get out of here, you know, we need to become Methodists as fast as we can, we need to become Presbyterians as fast as we can, we need to become Episcopalians as fast as we can, we're going to need some stained glass windows. Let's get rid of all this Jewish stuff. They had no intention to separate themselves from Judaism. All the believers at this point are Jewish. And you don't even have a Gentile converted in the book of Acts until in Cornelius Acts chapter 10. And as Jews, they had no problem celebrating Yeshua. Jim, in his opening prayer, used the word Yeshua, which is just the Hebrew name for Jesus. Jesus is the Greek name. But they had no problem celebrating their newfound life in Yeshua, in the temple, because they saw Jesus as the fulfillment of Judaism. Judaism points to Jesus. The whole purpose of the nation of Israel, one of its major purposes, is to bring Jesus into the world. So, you know, we sort of have drawn this, as Gentiles, this sort of line between us and the Jews, but the early church never did that. They didn't see the need to because they saw Christianity. In fact, this movement isn't even called Christianity yet. The word Christian is not even going to be used until Acts 11. They're just believers in Yeshua, or Jesus. And they saw that as being connected to Judaism. Judaism pointed to that, and they had no ambition to, you know, disconnect themselves from the temple in Israel. And then this expression, one accord, is very interesting to me, because that's what Jesus said would happen in the upper room. He said in John 17, verses 20 through 23, just a few days before his death, when he prayed, and he prayed there the Lord's Prayer. John 17 is the Lord's Prayer, right? Because that's the Lord praying. Matthew 6 is not the Lord's Prayer, although we errantly call it the Lord's Prayer, because Jesus never prayed that prayer in Matthew 6. That's the disciples' prayer. He was teaching the disciples how to pray. And I hope he didn't pray that prayer, because one of the lines in it is, Forgive us our debts. Jesus was sinless. So if you really want the true Lord's Prayer, read John 17, where he prays first for himself, verses 1 through 5, and then he prays for the 12, really the 11, because Judas left the room, verses 6 through 19, and then from there, I think to verse 26, the end of the chapter, he prays for the church, or those that would believe through the ministry of the apostles. And as he's praying for the future church, he mentions the unity that the Holy Spirit would bring to the church. He says in John 17, verse 20, he says, I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those who believe in me through their word, that they all may be one, even as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they may also be in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. The glory which you have given me, I have given to them that they may be one, just as we are one. I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that you sent me, and love them even as you love me. So there's a prayer there in his true Lord's Prayer, where he says, everyone that's going to be affected by the ministry of the 11, I pray that they would be just as unified as we members of the Trinity.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "solomon" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"On a nightmare the following is a paid commercial message in their hit a heart needs a second chance 38 special said please forgive me and forget it I was wrong and I admit it why can't forget the past hi this is Lon Solomon and how right they are every heart does need an opportunity to forget the past because we all make mistakes well the good news news of the Bible is that God is the God of the second chance God says that when he forgives our sin he forgets it in fact the Bible says that he buries it in the depths of the sea need a second chance need to forget the past hey bring that all to Jesus Christ and he'll take care of it not a sermon just a thought for more information check out our website not a sermon .com that's not a sermon at Wednesday morning November 29th glad you're with us 122 in the
Abundant Encounters
Let Jesus Help You Heal Your Inner Critic
"You know, some of us really have an inner voice that's pretty painful and doesn't have a lot of patience for us. And I've definitely had that several times. I've had to learn to speak to myself and be gentle with myself. And the primary source for me learning to do that has been the voice of Jesus Christ in my life saying, no, no, I love you. I'm actually really enjoying this moment in your life. I've been waiting so long for you. I had a desire in my heart that you would exist and so that's how you are. Because you would not exist if I hadn't had that hope and that desire in me. You know, things like this that I just feel like he's said to me so personally. There are things that he said to all of us and obviously right here in the scripture, this is to all of us. So even if you're struggling to connect with the amazing and I believe very available voice of Jesus telling you how valuable you are, how important it is that you are in existence. Then you have the scriptures and the scriptures are full of Jesus. And the amazing thing about the word of God is that it is alive. It's living and breathing. And so there is a pulse behind it. But we all really do need to hear from Jesus. One of the things that has been commonly found to challenge our connection with Jesus Christ, and this is in my own experience, it's also in different inner healing ministries, you learn a lot about this. But when it comes to Jesus, sometimes we, in our past, we have learned to experience our friendships, our relationship with our siblings in a kind of destructive way. And maybe we even had to protect ourselves because of trauma or bad experiences with people that we should have been able to trust and should have been able to have genuine friendships with. And so sometimes that gets in the way of us being able to connect with Jesus. And Jesus, we know in theory that Jesus is perfect, we get that. But if we're not connecting with him on this romantic level, then it is, there may be a connection issue. And so, as you consider your friendships when you grew up, and those kind of things, then maybe you can begin to find the connection or find the place where the connection was distorted. And the Holy Spirit will help you in this. I don't know if some of you, as we were reading through Song of Songs, I know that sometimes these, you know, my darling, you are so beautiful, you are so lovely, and statements like this will trigger us. Like, oh, I just don't, I don't feel, I don't feel that way. And so those also, those moments like that can help us kind of key into maybe some, some things we're believing that may not be true because this is the scripture. And in this scripture, Solomon, you know, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is writing this to you. And some people actually wonder why the Song of Songs is in the Bible. I believe this is the purpose, that it is there to help connect us to the relationship that we have with this amazing Lord. It's not like something earthly, it is a heavenly, divine connection.
The Big Take
Fresh update on "solomon" discussed on The Big Take
"Is kind of fascinating. You graduate William & Mary in 1983. How did your career begin? Where did you go from college? Yeah, I have a very traditional finance background. I started at J .P. Morgan right out of school, went through their bank training program, wanted a foreign Or an assignment and the next thing I knew I was in Delaware. And what I ended up doing, though, company, was the beginning of what we call asset -backed securities today, pulling together credit card card loans for Sears, for MB &A and First USA car loans. And if you remember your history, banks at that point were just us beginning to compete with the big Wall Street firms and commercial paper and asset -backed securities were the first securities that the Fed gave banks permission to underwrite. And so suddenly we were having to compete with Solomon, with Bayer, You with know, CSFB in their territory. And so my job basically became, how do we outthink them? Because there was no way we could out muscle Merrill. And so we had to, we had just had to be better at structuring, finding ways to make things less expensive, you know, bring something else to bear. So what years were this? When were you at J .P. Morgan? I I was was there from 83 to 96. Okay. And then what ultimately, so you missed all the fun during the financial crisis. I did. I planted the seeds. Although back then performing in credit card debt wasn't quite the same as Ninja loans being fed into mortgage back. No, I mean, CLL squared. And, you know, I left J .P. Morgan to actually go work for First USA, one of the credit card companies. And, you know, part of that was this clear view of the trajectory that securitization was going to change the business. You know, little did I realize that a year here. We'd get bought by Bank One because Bank One needed desperately to have a credit card business. And so my career, made another pivot to go from the treasurer of a startup credit card company to being the eighth largest bank in the country. Eventually, you rise to the role of CEO of private client services at Bank One. Tell us a little bit about that job. Yes. So Bank One had merged with First The merger was tumultuous. And so the board ultimately brought in Jamie Dimon. Bank. I talk about it merging with Jamie because this combination was a terrible Cultural Fit. It was almost viewed as a Tiffany buys Walmart combination. The egos were not happy with it. And Jamie did a great job of sort of reminding People that the enemy was outside the business, but he quickly uncovered where the merger had not executed the way it meant to. One of those was in the client, the wealth management area where we had lots of great skills in terms of trust and private banking and all of these elements, but no general practitioner. It was like we were running a hospital with no folks who could look at the patient holistically. And so one of the first things I did in that job was to identify who can be the point person so that you can cross -sell and deliver a much fuller array of products than just the single products we were offering. But I'll tell you, my timing couldn't have been worse, Barry. I took that job in early 2000 and basically rode the market down. And I'll tell you, nothing teaches you more about how things work than watching them not work on the way down. And so it was really eye -opening to see how overconfidence turns into panic as we went through the dot -com bubble. So you're anticipating my next question. Your first was book Moods and Markets. The second book is all about confidence. What led to this interest in that aspect of behavioral finance? Was it the asset properties? Was it watching a roll -up entity? Or was it the dot -com collapse that sent asset prices depending on where you were invested? I like to remind people NASDAQ peak fell to trough 81%.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from SEC DROPS CASE AGAINST RIPPLE BRAD GARLINGHOUSE & CHRIS LARSEN OVER XRP & GARY GENSLER IS DONE!
"Welcome back to the thinking crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as a thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, I'm sure many of you have heard about the breaking news and that the SEC has dismissed the lawsuit against Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Ripple co -founder Chris Larson. Folks, this is huge news. It's another big fat L for scumbag regulator Gary Gensler. As I've been saying, we've got to keep the fight up. We've got to continue to use social media and spread the facts because the SEC is not on lawful grounds here. They continue to take L's. Their lies are getting exposed. Their hypocrisy is getting exposed and their lack of allegiance to the law is being exposed. So, folks, the SEC is in trouble. Gary Gensler is in trouble. Let me highlight something here that attorney James K. Filan tweeted of the dismissal. It says stipulation of voluntary dismissal. It is hereby stipulated and agreed to by and between the parties and or their respective counsels that the above caption action is voluntarily dismissed with prejudice against the defendants. Bradley Garlinghouse and Christian A. Larson and without cost pursuant to Rule 41 and all the jargon that follows that of the federal courts or the federal rules of civil procedure document filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Folks, we are on the winning side of history. The SEC is on the losing side. We know the game and that was weaponizing the SEC started with Jay Clayton. It continued and expanded under Gary Gensler, Wall Street and the TradFi folks weaponizing the SEC, which is supposed to be a neutral party, which is supposed to protect investors. They've been weaponized to go after and kill the crypto startups so that these TradFi incumbents can come in and take over. But the cards are on the table. Everything is getting exposed. And I'm wondering what Jay Clayton is thinking right now, because he filed this lawsuit and ran out the door the next day. And Bill Hinman, we know his connection with Ethereum. So the SEC, as I've stated many times, has fallen far from its core mission of protecting investors. It has been involved in a lot of corruption, lies and politics. It's a shame what has happened. And remember, just earlier this month, folks, Judge Torres, and this was on October 4th, she said that the SEC cannot appeal the ruling. So their attempt to appeal was denied. Loss after loss. Not to mention the SEC took a loss with Grayscale and those three judges destroyed Gary Gensler in the SEC, saying they were arbitrary and capricious in denying the Bitcoin spot ETF for Grayscale. Coinbase and Binance and other big players are fighting back. And I think Coinbase has a strong chance of winning as well. And we see the language coming out from these judges against the SEC is pretty strong. They're not standing up for lies and hypocrisy, right? And what other else corruption the SEC has been up to. So Judge Sarah Knepper in the Ripple lawsuit said the SEC lacked allegiance to the law. Folks, this is huge news. Here's what Ripple's chief legal officer, Stuart Alder Roddy, had to say. The SEC made a serious mistake going after Brad and Chris personally. And now they've capitulated, dismissing all charges against our executives. This is not a settlement. This is a surrender by the SEC. That's three consecutive wins for Ripple, including the July 13th decision ruling that as a matter of law, XRP is not a security. The October 3rd decision denying the SEC's bid for an interlocutory appeal. And now this. So Stuart is absolutely right. Here's what Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse had to say. Today was an even better day. Ripple 3 SEC 0. In all seriousness, Chris and I in a case involving no claims of fraud or misrepresentations were targeted by the SEC in a ruthless attempt to personally ruin us and the company. So many have worked hard to build for over a decade. The SEC repeatedly kept its eye off the ball while secretly meeting with the likes of SBF failing again and again to protect U .S. consumers and businesses. How many millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted? Feels good to finally be vindicated. I like what Brad just did here, folks. What have we been talking about? Gary Gensler met with Sam Beckman Fried and the SEC staff met with Sam Beckman Fried and FTX officials multiple times. Yet they did no investigation into the massive fraud this guy was doing. Yet they're trying to go shakedown NFT companies. Right. And stop NFTs. Oh, no. Pokemon NFTs. Oh, no. We got to protect you from that while Sam Beckman Fried is committing the biggest heist in the history of the world. Right. It's what incredible is happening when you look at these things holistically. It's pathetic. Gary Gensler is a clown. So Brad says it goes without saying, but I truly work with the best lawyers in the business, including but not limited to Stuart Aldarati, Deborah McCrimmon from Ripple, and clearly Gottlieb's Matt Solomon, a heartfelt thank you for your leadership, wisdom and friendship.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "solomon" discussed on Mark Levin
"Understand should military operations commence and they don't want them to commence and i warned about this you better limit the displacement dozens you better be more precise with your munitions you better not block the steady flow of fuel now going into gaza you better make sure those people are fed and are medicated and a water you're in charges real israel you're in charge now i've taken care of the people in gaza not defeating them not reading them from your border you're now in charge of a welfare state to take care of these people while hamas is killing them and killing you and not only that katar which funds hamas katar which protects the numerous billionaires who've made money off the un money off of our money off of katar is our leading negotiator for a hostage damages you then i have to hear fools in the media so well it's not biden it's netanyahu then yahoo oh yes yes yes because he pieces the left in israel they want peace you know and they're really the peaceniks you know there's even a rumor out there and i haven't been able to confirm it but i'm trying that the israelis are trying to buy weaponry from other countries so they don't have to rely it certain including missiles from south korea this is a rumor so far or more than a rumor i'm trying to confirm it but that solomon stepped in the way and nixed the deal see they want the israelis to rely 100 percent and then of course biden says aid in the future may be contingent on following u .s policy oh and by the way we want a two -state solution and by the way uh... just go away will you? i'll be right back month on seventy seven w a b c u j a federation of new york is providing critical relief to the people of israel emergency cash assistance for victims of terror essential trauma counseling care for thousands of children in shelters life -saving equipment for hospitals and first responders the toll is massive and the needs will can you for weeks and months to come donate now at u j a dot n y c that's u j a dot n y c mister christmas here we're dusting off the sleigh and taking the vinny medunio show on the road join me vinny medunio and 77 w abc music radio at the empire outlets on saturday december second at five p m for a live broadcast proceeding their annual tree lighting you'll find me and the crew on level three in center to court by the huge christmas tree broadcasting live this saturday december second at five p m stay with us after for the tree lighting performances by me wagner high school theater and an appearance from santa claus go go go to empire outlets dot nyc for more that's empire outlets dot nyc seven w abc presents overnight autobies tales of the bizarre extraordinary and here's frank morano presidential campaigns can get pretty bitter just look at what's happening now between presidents biden and trump this is not the first campaign though where you'll have had two rivals that ran against one another facing off again that is precisely what happened in the election of eighteen hundred the election of eighteen hundred was a rematch of the election of seventeen ninety six where john adams was victorious against thomas jefferson eighteen hundred was a little bit of a different ballgame and after many ballots in the house of representatives ultimately jefferson was notorious jefferson and adams who had worked pretty closely together in philadelphia in seventeen seventy six came the bitterest of rivals one was a federalist one was a democratic republican and this continued
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from UnBelief of UnSheep
"Scripture puts it in all the things of life. We've seen belief as we've been working through John's gospel. We saw it from the very first chapters. As John the Baptist points out Jesus, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Andrew heard him, runs to find his brother Peter. We have found the Messiah. These are statements of belief. Nathaniel, even in that first chapter, you are the Son of God. Mary in the second chapter, do whatever he tells you. The Samaritans, this is the savior of the world. And even in the previous chapter, chapter nine, this man born blind comes to the conclusion, Lord, I believe. So we've seen belief, but we've also seen unbelief. Nicodemus in chapter three, how can these things be? At least in the first conversation Jesus had with Nicodemus. The Judeans, they pick up stones to throw at him. The Galileans want to take him by force and make him their own king. Would -be disciples in chapter six turn back and walk with him no more. And the Pharisees say he is a sinner. He has a demon. He's insane. These are all statements of unbelief. And it's this unbelieving response is that we're gonna see in our text today. And John shows these things to us that we might not only recognize unbelief when we see it, but we might recoil from it in every way. But also, we who've been called into fellowship with Christ Jesus, we're his witnesses in the world. And grappling with the reality of unbelief really is given to us in the scripture so that our perspectives, our priorities, our motivation, and our methods for gospel witnessing might be shaped by what we see and hear in this portion of scripture. In this passage, we're shown the unbelief of those who are not Christ's sheep. So I'll just call them the unsheep. Jesus continually refers to the sheep. Well, there's the sheep, and there's the unsheep as well. Not only are we shown their unbelief, but we're actually given here the fundamental reason for their unbelief. This puts things in perspective. So let's consider the text. Beginning in verse 19, follow along as I read verses 19 to 26, I'm reading out of the English Standard Version. There was, again, a division among the Jews because of these words. Many of them said, he has a demon and is insane. Why listen to him? Others said, these are not the words of one who's oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind? At that time, the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the Colonnade of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, how long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you. And you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. The first thing we see here that the unsheep in this world are divided, really divided among themselves. They don't agree about Jesus. This division here, the parties in this division that we see in verses 19 to 21, it's not Jesus' disciples and the rest of the Jews in Jerusalem. Now this division is among the Jews, as John puts it here. Among those who did not believe in him. They can't figure him out. And the reason for the division among the unsheep is stated by John there at the end of verse 19. It's because of these words. Particularly the words Jesus spoke in the first 18 verses of chapter 10, where he plainly states his unique status as God's shepherd of all men who's been sent into the world. There never seemed to be any real division among the Jews over Jesus' miracles. Whether it was healing a person or casting out demons or multiplying bread on a hillside. Now the division always came when he started talking. It was over his words. This is nothing new. We've seen this before in John's gospel in chapter seven, verse 43. John records, so there was a division among the people over him. In chapter nine, verse 16, and there was a division among the Pharisees over him. And then we see it again here in verse 19. What's the division? Well there's two positions about Jesus that are put forward here in verses 20 and 21. The first position is that Jesus is demonized. That's literally how it reads in the Greek text. It says in most translations he has a demon, but what they mean is he's being controlled by a demon. And thus, not a second thing, but just an explanation of the first. He's insane. He's lost his mind. He's not in control of his own faculties. A demon is controlling him. They had to have some explanation outside of the natural realm for the miraculous works that he did. They could not ignore his miracles, such as healing this man born blind in chapter nine. And since they rejected his own explanation, that he has come from God, he is God himself, they had to come up with some other plausible explanation. He is being demonized and thus is insane. Kind of like the guy who had a legion of demons across the Sea of Galilee and Jesus went in a boat and he came out, he lived in the tombs, he gashed himself with rocks all the time. He was insane, literally. And they're saying, well, that's what Jesus is like. It's not a very novel explanation, at least at this point in John's gospel, towards the end of Jesus' three -year ministry. Even at the very beginning of his ministry, this explanation was being offered up in Matthew seven, in Matthew eight, in Matthew nine, in Matthew 12. Jesus has a demon or does his works by the power of the prince of demons was put forward, it seems, first by the Pharisees and then it just begins to be repeated by the people. So that by this time, late in Jesus' ministry, it was the opinion, notice in verse 20, of many of them. This was the majority opinion about Jesus, at least in this crowd. But it wasn't the only opinion. They were divided on this issue because verse 21 says, no, he's not demonized. There's no evidence for that. He's not gashing himself, he's not out of his mind. Both his works and his words, they don't give any evidence of any one that we've ever seen that's been oppressed by a demon. And yet, again, notice the text. This was the minority. It was just others who were saying this. Now, these two refused to respond to his claims to be God's authorized shepherd sent from heaven. And thus the best they can say about him is, hey, this guy doesn't have a demon. Now, frankly, that's not much of a compliment. I mean, nobody puts that on their LinkedIn page or their Twitter account, you know, does not have a demon. And they're not for him. They're just not against him in such a hostile way as these who make up claims about him. So this historical detail of this division in the crowd, it actually illustrates something that the scripture states plainly elsewhere. That is the plain reality that most will reject Jesus. Jesus himself said, broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are on that path. But also, many of those will, in fact, be actively hostile to Jesus. Not everyone, but many will. That's how it was for Jesus. How historically it was for Jesus's own 12 disciples and Jesus says that's how it always will be. And yet, I need to point out, it wasn't that way at the beginning of Jesus's ministry, when people hadn't heard very much from him. They had only seen the things he was doing, but they hadn't heard him say who he was. They hadn't heard him yet say who they were in their natural state, and they hadn't heard him say what they must do if they are to be saved. Remember back in chapter two, when he audaciously cleansed the temple for the first time, many, John records at that time, were very intrigued, even seemed to believe in him, and began to gravitate toward him with much fervor. But what happened as his ministry continues? As they heard him speak more and more about who he was and who they were and what they must do to be reconciled with God through him, well, by John 10 and 11, the tides turned and many now are hostile against him. Here's something I think we need to consider as we think of ourselves in this world as his witnesses, who essentially are to be repeating the things he said about himself to the world around us. If we find in our day and age that most people we encounter are just kind of ambivalent towards Jesus, they don't believe in him, but they're not hostile, maybe it's because they have not been confronted with his true person, who he really is, and who he says they really are, and what they must do in order to be right with God. Maybe they haven't heard it. And so they're just ambivalent, dismissive, but not hostile towards Jesus. I think we need to grapple with what Paul says to Timothy in 2 Timothy chapter two, or chapter three, verse 12, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, will be.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "solomon" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"Munger and Warren Buffett just together built something so iconic in the investment world. I wrote a letter to Buffett probably five years ago just thanking him for how incredibly generous that him and Munger have been with all of us. I mean it literally changed our lives. By communicating the discipline that they practiced, they shared why they were doing what they're doing all these years in the writing, in the annual meetings, sitting there and taking questions for six hours all the way up into their 90s. It's like a of goldmine wisdom. I used to get irritated because I kind of they wish would restrict the questions to better questions because as the years went by there were a lot of goofy questions that came up. Sometimes they got some goofy answers which were fun. Yeah, but here was this incredible resource. Charlie Munger was the Solomon of our era. He was the wisest man in the investment business. He was a tech grad, Harvard Law educated, started a law firm in Los Angeles, had a successful career in real estate, a successful career in making common stock choices, and the right hand guy to the most successful investment selector and asset allocator of all time. I mean just we admired so him much and then of course we admired him immensely because he'd say exactly what he was thinking and didn't really care very much who he might offend in the process. You mentioned that you've been doing this for over 40 years. What are some lessons that you've incorporated from Charlie Munger over these decades into the way that you manage portfolios and you allocate assets? Yeah when we're talking to people, I'm here in New York talking to new customers and we tell them when it comes to value people, we hold our winners to a fault compounding because is the eighth wonder of the world. So if you can find a business, let's just right off the top of our head pick Occidental Petroleum, who Munger and Buffett started buying in the last year and a half or two years. They're generating massive free cash flow. They're paying down debt with it but then they're also buying back stock. So like Buffett says, over the years if if it's a company generating high returns on equity, high free cash flow, buying back their stock, he ends up owning a larger and larger and larger part of the business as the years go by. That's what he did Coke. with That's what he did with Iraq Express. That's what he did with a lot of different companies. Holding your winner's is default a key component of alpha. As I explained to people, you buy stock a at 30 and pay cash, the worst thing that can happen is it goes to zero. You lose 30 points of alpha. If you buy a stock at 30 and it goes to 90 and you sell it and it goes to 210, and Buffett Munger taught that to people as a powerful thing, it's much better to get a less company spectacular that you can hold all the way through a 10 or 15 times your money than it is a spectacular company that you might make five times in five years, but you've got to be smart enough to sell it and go to another project. Well, and you're, you know, something I want to ask you a bit more too about what Charlie Munger was to Warren Buffett, what he brought out in Warren Buffett. Having said that, I want to bring Noah Buhier into this because, you know, Noah, it's one of those things where you think, as we're hearing from Bill, you know, these are both brilliant men, successful men and would have been on their own, but something about them together brought out even so much more. Yeah, I think that's a critical point here. The combination of talents that they brought to bear really was deeply important in the evolution of Berkshire. The other thing, just speaking as a journalist, the thing that relationship. So incredibly amazing about Charlie Munger was his directness and his willingness to speak his mind, even if his opinion wasn't necessarily a one. popular As a business reporter and someone writing about investing, you always knew that Charlie was not just going to give you the pity quote, but something that actually had some real substance behind it. And I think that's in large part what has resonated with a lot of investors over time. I mean, people would go with one of the things that's underappreciated about Charlie Munger is that deep into his 90s, people would go to Los Angeles to hear him speak at the annual meeting of a small publishing company called the Daily Journal. Buffett had nothing to do with this thing. They would just go to hear Munger alone. And I remember the first time I went to this thing, there were maybe 100 or 200 people. And three or four years later, word had gotten out and a couple thousand were going. I mean, you have to understand, Charlie Munger was respected in his own right. He's often known for his affiliation with Buffett, but he really did have his own loyal following. To back up Noah on that, one of our favorite things is when it comes to climate change. He just said, why don't we just build a seawall? Right? That was his opinion. It's like, okay, if it's real, let's do what they did in Amsterdam and Just build just a seawall in California and New York. And that's so simple and logical and less expensive. But that's Charlie Munger. It was always common sense, always one. The difference between the two men is Warren wants to die without any enemies. He has more of an urge to be liked. It's a wonderful man and he wants to be liked. Whereas Charlie could care less if he's liked. Right? He just wants to share wisdom, share truth. What was it like from the different meetings you went to and just kind of seeing them up on stage, things that kind of stood out for you? Well, there's hardly any better comedy routine that's ever been done. The back and forth. Of course, Munger had lots of the singers, but Buffett had plenty himself. And yeah, they played off fantastically. I had a next door neighbor that was four years ahead of me in school and I had no brothers, three sisters, and he was one of four brothers. And he and I are extremely close friends, he's but four years older than me in the same way that Munger was six or seven years older than Warren. But yet, we met and we were finishing each other's sentences and that's the way these guys were. They were finishing each other's sentences. They'd say the first part of the sentence and they didn't have to continue because other the guy already knew what the rest of the sentence was going to be. It's just that kind of relationship. I know. I'm so glad you're with us because we've been reading from your obituary nonstop for the last hour here. To Bill's point about this idea of common sense and not always needing to be liked. You mentioned some of his donations and this one's at the top of mind for me It's relatively recent. A 4500 person dorm on UCSB's campus which got a lot of people interested in dormitory architecture who didn't think that they would actually be interested in dormitory architecture. Here Munger is trying to solve this problem of student housing and he got a lot of blowback to idea this and ultimately they canceled it. What happened? Yeah, I mean, In his later years Munger used these donations that he gave to universities to play I mean, he was deeply deeply interested in architecture and you know, he had some pretty unconventional ideas that I think really bothered people and it became its own you know, subplot. It's alright, but like you have to for understand Munger, he was a incredibly widely widely read person. He wasn't as narrowly interested in investing and you know, how to make money. Obviously he spent a lot of time doing that but he had an interest outside of it. in it. But the other thing I wanted to add and this
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"solomon" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"But in front of the king, Solomon, this, by the way, you know how brilliant this is? I've got to say this even though the time is running. Somebody once said to me, well, what if the first woman sincerely is wrong? You know, what if she woke up and she looked and she really thought it was, you know, it wasn't her child when it really was? And she's telling the truth and she's all excited. Well, what if she was really wrong? The brilliance of this is that Solomon can see that any woman that would say, kill it, just to get back at some other woman, even if that was her child, she's not competent to raise it. It's absolutely brilliant. But the brilliance is that Solomon, by this move, reveals the world's wisdom and true godly wisdom. Because the first woman shows us the essence of true wisdom, the secret of the universe, the secret of salvation. I mean, if you grab hold of this, this is the meaning of everything. The world's wisdom in the second woman is, she reached for something and lost it. Godly wisdom was, this first woman, she gave something away and gained it. Because the essence of true wisdom is, the way up is down. The way to find your life is to lose your life. The way to get power, real power you can't lose, is to submit. The way to get freedom, real freedom that you can't lose, is to serve. The way to get rich, real riches that you can't lose, is to give away. The astounding thing about this woman was, she gave away her motherhood so that her child could have joy. She gave away all of her joy, she gave away all of her hope so her child could have it. And ironically, what did she get? As she gave it away, she not only got the motherhood back, but she got it back safe and purified. She got back a motherhood that now she's going to conduct well. If that second woman had gotten the motherhood, it would have been an absolute tyranny in her life and the child's life. This is the deep structure of wisdom and if this is the meaning of your life, and as I'm going to show you the meaning of the universe, how do I say? First of all, it's the meaning of your life. Every problem that I have, every problem that you have, has to do with this. The most important thing in Abraham's life was Isaac. God comes and says what? He takes a sword and he puts a sword. He puts a sword over the darling. And if Abraham says, all I gotta do is act like I'm giving Isaac away, then I'll get him back, then that's not giving him up at all. Until he gave Isaac up, Isaac wasn't safe for him. Isaac was the ruling yoke in his life and as a result, he's going to make all those mistakes that anybody makes who makes parenthood the god. The foolishness that would be in his life, do you see all that? And this, in every single instance, in every single situation, this is the decision that you and I have got to make. We've got to find ways of giving up things and of being willing to say, I see a sword. You see, Solomon, that woman, that woman is us. That woman is showing us how we're supposed to react. Sometimes there's a sword over the things that are most dear to us and we say, how in the world could God be doing that? But instead of get, look at what she does. First of all, she doesn't panic, she's poised. Do you notice that? She doesn't say what I think the normal mother would say, which is, no, no, no, no, no, no. She doesn't. She says, please, my lord, give her the living baby, don't kill him. There's poise, number one. Number two, there is no resentment, there's no bitterness. There's no bitterness toward the woman or even toward the king. And thirdly, there's a sacrifice. This is a woman who's given parenthood away and now she can get it back. Now, here's what I'm trying to say. Some of you would like to be married until you're willing to say, Lord, I give up the right to be married, you're more important than marriage to me. If you don't want me to be married, fine. You've got a sword over marriage, fine. Don't you realize, until you say that, you're going to kill anybody who does marry you and yourself with them. You have to give up your insistence on a happy family. You have to give up your insistence on your career. You have to give up your insistence, you have to. You've got to do what she's doing. Don't you see? The second woman was the way of the world. The way of the world, the world thinks the Christian way is utterly stupid. The world says, wait a minute, the way up is up. But no, the way up is down. The way down is up. Do you see? The way to lose your life is to find it. The way to find your life is to lose it. This comes over and over and over again. Solomon found it. Why did he find it? Has anybody noticed, for example, how weird it is, or did he even think about it, for an Oriental king, an ancient Near Eastern king, to be hearing personally a case between two prostitutes? Now, I think I know what the normal worldly king would say. He would say, I have to guard my reputation. I want people in awe of me. I don't want them to think anybody can get in here. Screen my calls, you see. Power. You can't have accessibility to me. But he opens it to them. He shows the humility of taking two nothings, two nobodies, and he treats them as somebodies. And in the end, what's happened? He gives up the image, but look what happens at the end. Verse 28. They're in awe of him. He gives up honor and he gets it. You try to grab honor and you lose it. You try to grab parenthood and you lose it. You give it up and say, Lord, whatever you want, and whatever you get back will be safe. Now, here's the point. You can say, wow, do you see this woman? Incredible poise, whereas the first woman, the second woman, is panicking. You see, bitter, selfish. The first woman, poised. How can she be that way? Because she's made a fundamental choice in the middle of her soul to follow the true king. Now, you say, I wish I could be like that, but I can't. But I want you to know, if she can do it, you can do it, because you know something that she doesn't know, and you have availability, something that she doesn't have available. There is a power and there is something that you can know that will melt your heart into greater poise than that, greater forgiveness than that, greater sacrifice than that, greater self-control than that. Why? We know of one who is both the true king and the true sacrificial servant. First of all, we know someone who had the audacity to show up and say, not what the son of Sirach said, come to wisdom. Take the yoke of wisdom upon you. Learn of wisdom and get the rest of wisdom. But we have someone who had the audacity to not say, I'm the greatest teacher, but he said, come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon me. Obey me. I am the true king. In fact, I am wisdom itself. And the reason, if you make Jesus your king instead of anything else, instead of anything else, the reason you will have that poise is because he's the only king that can't be taken from you. Do you hear that? Any other king you serve, you're always going to be nervous in the service because he can be taken from you, but also he's the only king that can forgive because it's not just Solomon pointing us to Christ here. The woman is too. Do you know what the woman did? She looked at the throne and she said, no, no. Don't ruin his life, ruin mine. Don't tear him into two, tear me into two. So that he can have hope and joy, I will lose and give away all my hope and joy. But don't you realize there was a greater one than that who stood before the eternal throne and he looked at us and he saw the sort of judgment over us. He saw that we should be punished for our foolishness. And what did he say to the throne? What did he say to his father? He says, no, don't ruin them, ruin me. Don't tear them into pieces, tear me into pieces. I will give up all of my joy and all of my hope so that they can have joy and hope. And he did. And that's why the cross is, as Paul says, foolishness of the world, but the wisdom of God because it's the ultimate place where somebody won through losing. It's the ultimate place because he went so far down deeper than the woman did and Solomon did, but so far higher. He lost so much more than anyone ever has and that's why he can give us so much more because he's gained so much more. Do you see him do that to you? Have you understood that he's done that for you? Has that begun to melt your heart? He's the only king that you can't lose. He's the only king that will forgive you. And if you have him as your true king, you will be wise. You will be utterly wise. If you're not sure you're a Christian, or put it this way, if you know God is not the most important thing in your life, Jesus is the most important thing in your life, despair of wisdom, my dear friends. You can't get a little illumination from Jesus. Don't you see? You have to take the yoke on. You've got some yoke on. There is something that's the meaning of your life. He's got to be your meaning in life. He's got to be the reason you get up in the morning. He's got to be the thing that you bring everything into line with because you're bringing everything into line with something. And until he is that, he won't be any wisdom for you at all. And Christian friends, you say, well, is this helping me figure out whether to marry this person or not? Can't you be practical? Of course. Let me just put it this way. On the one hand, he's the king. Wisdom comes from the king. And that means, listen to his word, take as much as you possibly can of his rules into your heart, saturate them, your heart with them, so that you can make wise decisions. But you say, but I thought wisdom also happens in places where the rules don't help. All right, but he's a king. And you know what that means? He gives you guidance, but he doesn't necessarily, how do I put it? I'm going to put it better this way. Because he's the king, he's wise for you. That's why the people in verse 28 are so excited. If your next-door neighbor is the wisest man in the history of the world, that doesn't maybe help you that much. But if your king is the wisest person in the history of the world, that's a tremendous benefit because he's going to be wise for you. Jesus Christ, it says in 1 Corinthians 1, is your wisdom, your righteousness, your sanctification and redemption? He is your wisdom, which means, relax. Saturate yourself with his word. Make sure that you're not being controlled by false rulers as you make this decision. And then make your decision and relax. Why? Because he's going to be wise for you. If you make a mistake, he'll weave it in. He'll weave it into your life pattern so that he brings you into the place where you need to be. If you really understand that the true king is your wisdom, you will relax, make your decision, do the best you can. Pray to him and don't be paralyzed anymore. Why do you see how much easier it is? Come to him. God does not give us a watertight argument. When he gives us wisdom, he gives us a watertight person. God does not give us a set of concepts when he gives us his wisdom. He gives us a person. Come to him, know him. And that's what the Lord's Supper is about. It's getting in touch with him and that's the way you get wise. Let's pray. If you're not sure you're a Christian, put it this way. If you know God is not the most important thing in your life, Jesus isn't the most important thing in your life, despair of wisdom, my dear friends. You can't get a little illumination from Jesus. Don't you see? You have to take the yoke on. You've got some yoke on. There is something that's the meaning of your life. He's got to be your meaning in life. He's got to be the reason you get up in the morning. He's got to be the thing that you bring everything into line with because you're bringing everything into line with something. And until he is that, he won't be any wisdom for you at all. And Christian friends, you say, well, is this helping me figure out whether to marry this person or not? Can't you be practical? Of course. Let me just put it this way. On the one hand, he's the king. Wisdom comes from the king. And that means, listen to his word. Take as much as you possibly can of his rules into your heart, saturate them, your heart with them, so that you can make wise decisions. But you say, but I thought wisdom also happens in places where the rules don't help. All right, but he's a king. And you know what that means? He gives you guidance, but he doesn't necessarily, how do I put it? Let me put it better this way. Because he's the king, he's wise for you. That's why the people in verse 28 are so excited. If your next door neighbor is the wisest man in the history of the world, that doesn't maybe help you that much. But if your king is the wisest person in the history of the world, that's a tremendous benefit because he's going to be wise for you. Jesus Christ, it says in 1 Corinthians 1, is your wisdom your righteousness, your sanctification and redemption? He is your wisdom, which means, relax. Saturate yourself with his word. Make sure that you're not being controlled by false rulers as you make this decision. And then make your decision and relax. Why? Because he's going to be wise for you. If you make a mistake, he'll weave it in. He'll weave it into your life pattern so that he brings you into the place where you need to be. If you really understand that the true king is your wisdom, you will relax, make your decision, do the best you can, pray to him, and don't be paralyzed anymore. Why do you see how much easier it is? Come to him. God does not give us a watertight argument. When he gives us wisdom, he gives us a watertight person. God does not give us a set of concepts when he gives us his wisdom. He gives us a person. Come to him. Know him. And that's what the Lord's Supper is about. It's getting in touch with him, and that's the way you get wise. Let's pray. Let's pray. All of you here on the Gospel in Life podcast were preached from 1989 to 2017 while Dr. Keller was senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church.
Sound ON
Fresh update on "solomon" discussed on Sound ON
"The shutdown threats and so forth, I think the NDAA stays a little small and just passes without much attached to it. Well, how about we attach something about motions? Could Republicans seize on that rule change to force an end to the Tuberville blockade or move a big number of promotions along with the NDAA? Could it be vehicle a for something that's actually quite related like that? Yeah, I mean anything can happen. I mean, look, I don't think, I think outside of Tuberville, Senator there's not many people that are on board with that policy. And, you know, we also have an election to about, think you know, even though we are just over a year or under a year away from the 2024 election, every single member on Congress who's running in next year has already started thinking about that. So don't be surprised if you see some grasps for bipartisanship when and if they show up, because people don't want to be there. I mean, certainly there are a lot of people out there who want to be seen fighting and shutting government down and so forth like that. But there are people out there that says, I look, came to Washington, I came to get stuff done, let's get some stuff done. But yeah, well, and some of the stuff they're getting done if they can't actually get bills passed is at least holding hearings and getting to do the performing. This time next week, be talking to Nathan Dean about all the big bank CEOs in Senate banking, December 6 fun. You're going to be up there for that, I'm guessing, right? Oh, yeah. Can't wait. Also, on the same day, Mark Zuckerberg and a bunch of social media CEOs are going to be in the judiciary. It's going to be a big day on the Hill. But for the banks, Nathan, what are you going to be watching? It's the Basel three end game. He would say that I teed that up just so we would work it into this program. If anybody watched the New York Jets this weekend, first, I'm sorry, but second, you know, there was a commercial because the bank trade associations are trying everything to stop the Basel three end game from getting implemented. And the in Fed, my words, is being on extremely thin ice right now. They're trying to search for what they what I call like the Goldilocks rule, the rule that makes the moderate Democrats happy, also makes the progressives happy, and they can get it through without being sued over APA an violation. You know, we saw a statement from the Goldman CEO David Solomon this morning about he was concerned about the cost benefit analysis. In my words, I'm concerned about this rule is not going to stand up the legal muster and AKA Fed, when you read my comment, please note we're looking at this to make sure it's going to, you know, not pass to the courts. So I think we're going to see the Jamie Dimon show he likes to dominate these hearings. You know, but again, it's all coming down to the fossil three end game. This will be fun. This is like a like Kaylee going to a concert, like yours playing next week. They're all on the same hearing. It's like a double bill. Let us know when Thanos finally brings the end game. That is something that I'm still waiting It's for. great to see you as always. Nathan Dean. Find him on your terminal. You're a client too. That's the best part of all this. He's also your dad if you want at Bloomberg Intelligence with great insights every week here on sound on I'm Joe Matthew, along with Kaylee lines. Want to bring you up to date. We've had a lot of breaking news today. As we mentioned earlier, world and national headlines with now Nancy Lyons in the Bloomberg 99 1 newsroom in Washington. Hi Nancy. Thanks Joe. 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Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"solomon" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"If work is the most important thing in your life, the wisdom that emanates from that will be decisions that actually destroy and undermine your work. In the long run, when you choose work over rest, work over relationships, you know what ends up happening in the end? You become less productive. When you make your parenthood the most important thing, you will destroy your parenting. When you make money the most important thing, you will wipe your money out. In front of Solomon are two women, and Solomon, in his brilliant move, does something in order to figure out what's going on in their hearts. Instead, it's so interesting, instead of he looking at them and just making a guess, he decides for them to reveal, he finds a way for them to reveal to him their wisdom, the foundations of their life, what their yoke is. He takes out a sword, and he's not going to kill the child. And the reason we know he's not going to kill the child is because he's not surprised when their differentiated responses come up. Oh no. The sword is not the solution, it's the responses of the solution. And here's the thing. One woman shows that her motherhood is more important than the child. One woman shows a motherhood idolatry. One woman shows she is so unhappy with the idea that her rival would be a mother. She's quite happy to see the child killed. She doesn't care about the child. See, if parenthood is the most important thing in your life, you don't really care about your children. You're caring about yourself. If your career and success is really the most important thing in your life, you don't really care about the work. You're caring about yourself. And that's the reason why you will always be led into foolishness, and her foolishness. When she says, let him die, then neither of us will have him. That's foolish, of course. Anybody hearing that right away would know, that's not the mother. And therefore, what's going on? She's a fool, but why is she a fool? Why does she make that foolish remark? Because motherhood is her yoke, it's her authority. And see, in reaching for it, in doing anything she could to get it, and being jealous and angry at the people around who might have it instead of her, she fell. One of the biggest obstacles for people to believe in Christianity is that they think they already know all about it. But if we look at Jesus' encounters with various people during his life, we'll find some of our assumptions challenged. We see him meeting people at the point of their big, unspoken questions. The Gospels are full of encounters that made a profound impact on those who spoke with Jesus. And in his book, Encounters with Jesus, Tim Keller explores how these encounters can still address our questions and doubts today. Encounters with Jesus is our thanks for your gift to help Gospel in Life reach more people with the amazing love of Christ. Request your copy of Encounters with Jesus today when you give at gospelinlife.com slash give. That's gospelinlife.com slash give. Now, here's Tim Keller with the remainder of today's teaching. Reaching she fell, but thirdly, now we said, we saw the need for wisdom, we now see the structure of wisdom. The structure of wisdom is whatever your king is, whatever the yoke is, whatever you've given yourself to religiously, and everybody has, will be the thing from which all your wisdom derives. And it will be, in the end, foolishness. It will be foolishness on its own merits, in its own terms. In other words, you will lose the very thing you most want. Because fundamentally, no king but the true king really is the king, and therefore you are out of touch with the realities of life. You're out of touch with the warp and woof of what life is really like.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"solomon" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"You realize that pretty much the people in this room, in Western civilization, Western culture today, there has never been a group of people more in need of wisdom because we have a hundred times more forks in the road than anyone ever has. You say, how could that be? Traditional culture made your mind up for you. I mean, in traditional cultures, somebody chose your wife or your husband. In traditional cultures, generally, people told you what you had to do, what your job was going to be when you grew up, what town you were going to live in, who your friends were going to be. If you tried to move to another town, they'd say, what are you doing over here? Your family's from that town. Get back there. What are you doing over here? We're not going to give you a job. You don't belong here. Go back. There were not that many forks in the road. We have hundreds of forks because all bets are off. Everything's wide open. There has never been a group of people that needed wisdom more than we do. You need wisdom when you come and two stand before. But maybe more key, the real problems, situations in our life where we need wisdom are the places where the rules don't help us. See, Solomon had this incredible case that required incredible wisdom because the rules didn't help him. Why? Well, think of what the rules were for a judge. For example, if a man and a woman are arguing over whether they can raise a child, almost every society has told judges what the rules are. Societies decide whether a man, whether the husband or the wife would be a better sole parent. Now, these things change. You know, it was different 100 years ago than now. But the point is, if you're a judge, usually you have a rule for that. A man or a woman, and usually the judge has a rule. And if the rule of society given to the court is usually let the mother raise the child, unless the mother is unusually hurting or broken in some way, then you'd follow the rule. But these are both women. Rules won't help. Okay, what if one was a middle class woman, you know, educated, and what if one was a clearly dysfunctional, violent, illiterate street walker? Well, in most situations, judges have rules. Society give them rules. And in most societies, they would say, the middle class woman would be the one, you know, who would be more likely to be able to give this child a good upbringing and so on. But they're both prostitutes. They're both in the very same spot. They're at the very bottom of the rung of the ladder. They're at the very outskirts of, they're socially marginalized, but they're the same. And usually, courts have rules when it comes to things like corroborating evidence. But you see in verse 18, it's made very clear nobody else, nobody else could corroborate one woman or the other. Now, see, this is where you need wisdom, is it not? The problems in our lives are not those forks in the road where the rules can rule one out. Our problem is there's two people to get married to and both of them are according to the rules. I mean, the rules don't tell me. The rules don't tell me what career to take. The rules don't tell me. Those are the places where we need wisdom. Wisdom is necessary when the rules don't help. The conversation I have with some regularity that I hate, Christian husband or wife comes to see me. I'm the minister. And they've discovered that their spouse has been unfaithful to them. They've had an affair, multiple affairs. And they sit down before me and they say, what does the rules of God, what do the law of God say? And what do I have to say to them? Should I leave my spouse? Should I divorce my spouse or should I stay? And what I have to look at them and say is I have to say, you have a right to stay or to leave. The Bible doesn't say you have to stay, it doesn't say you must stay. You have to decide for yourself whether you're going to restore the marriage or whether you're going to leave. Well, the person says, does that mean there's no right answer? Oh, no, of course there's a right answer, I say. Unfortunately, there's a wise answer and there's a foolish answer. And instead of relying on the rules, you're going to have to rely on your competence with regard to the realities of life. Do you know your own heart? Do you know your spouse's heart? Do you know the times and seasons? One decision is going to be the right one, one is going to be the wrong one. You'll know five years from now, you can't rely on the rules, you're going to have to rely on your wisdom. I hate that conversation, but I don't hate that conversation anywhere near as much as the other person does. Wisdom, that's why people go crazy reading Proverbs, which is a book of wisdom, because Proverbs are not rules. If you go to Proverbs 26 verse 4 and 26 verse 5, in 26 verse 4, one Proverb says, do not answer a fool according to his folly, and the other says, answer a fool according to his folly, back to back. And you say, well, which is it? And you see, is it right to take an unreasonable person and enter into a debate with them and try to refute them? Or is it better with an unreasonable person just to not, just walk away and not get into any kind of discussion at all? And what is the answer of the book of Proverbs? Sometimes it's a disaster to do so, and sometimes it's a disaster to not do so, and you can't rely on the rules, you have to rely on your competence with regard to the realities of life. Almost everybody probably knows some words that you wish you could have taken, you could take back, words that you said to somebody and they've ruined something. But do you know how many times the words that you wish you could take back did not break the rules? I'll give you three rules for words, they have to be honest, they have to be fair, and they have to be well-intentioned. You know, you're not there just to hurt people, you're saying it sincerely, trying to be helpful. Honest, fair, and well-intentioned, but do you know, you can say things, and I have, that were, they were with the rules, they didn't break the rules, the rules didn't wear, didn't rule them out. And yet I never should have said them. I wish I could take them back. Why did I say them? I wasn't wise. I was incompetent. Wisdom is competence with regard to the realities of life when the rules don't help. There's never been a group of people in the face of the earth that needed wisdom more than we do. Whatever you think the rules are, whether you think it's God's rules or whatever you think the rules are, you're going to come to these forks in the road where two are in front of you and they're both arguing, and they're saying the same things, and there's no way that you can figure it out by the rules and you're going to have to rely on your own insight. That's the need for wisdom. Do you have it? How's your wisdom? How are you going to get it? Let's move on. Secondly, we learn here not just of the need for wisdom, but we also learn something about the anatomy. I think I didn't use that term the first time, did I? The anatomy of wisdom or the structure of wisdom, that's another way to go. And here's the point. The king gets wisdom. Look at verse 28. It says, they held the king in awe because he had wisdom. In the Bible, kings have wisdom. People go to the kings because that's where they expect wisdom to be. Now, here's a fundamental principle. We're going to have to take just a couple of minutes on it, but it's very, very important. Whatever you hold most in awe in your life, whatever your king is, whatever the ruling power is, whatever you are most under authority to, that is the source of your wisdom. Wisdom always, always emanates from the king. And if you have the true king, you'll have true wisdom. And if you have red king, you'll have red wisdom. And green king, you'll have green wisdom. And purple king, you'll have purple wisdom because your wisdom is completely determined. The Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Your Lord is the beginning of wisdom. What is your Lord, though? And what the Bible teaches is, if anything except Jesus Christ, or the Lord himself, is the true king of your life, the wisdom that your life is operating on is actually foolishness on its own terms. Let me show you what I mean. First of all, I don't have time to make much of a case for this. If you go back into the Old Testament, in the book of Proverbs, the Hebrew word most often used for wisdom is a word that actually means training. It means discipline, and it means to come under authority. And in the Old Testament, there's no such thing as wisdom without coming under authority of something, serving something and giving yourself to it religiously. There's a book, an ancient piece of Hebrew wisdom literature that's not in the Bible, but it's interesting and important, and it's called The Wisdom of the Son of Sirach, and at the very end of the book, a man who found wisdom invites people to find wisdom, and here's what he says. He says, come to me, you who want wisdom, and lodge in my house of learning. Buy it for yourselves without money, and bend your neck to the yoke. Be ready to accept discipline. See for yourselves the great rest and peace I have found. Now, this is what the Bible says. Your wisdom is based on whatever you've bent your neck to the yoke. Yoke always means control, authority. What have you given yourself to religiously? That is the source of your wisdom. Let me just show you quickly. What if you say, well, I'm a Buddhist, well, I'm a Jew, well, I'm a Christian, well, I'm an atheist. I'm not talking about what you profess. What is really the most important thing in your life? What is really the thing that you're yoked to? What is really the thing whose authority you're under? What is it that you feel like you've got to have, you must have? If it's money, for example, if the most important thing in your life is money, there will be a wisdom that emanates from it, and here's what that wisdom will be. You will take a job, if you choose it, here's a fork in the road, and here's a job that satisfies you, that fits your gifts, that's very fulfilling, but it makes $30,000 a year, and here's a job that isn't very fulfilling, that doesn't really fit your gifts, but you can do it, and it's going to make you $120,000 a year, and you'll do that. You made a choice. Both of them, you know, the rules don't help, you made a choice. Why? Because of your priority, because of what's most important to you. But here's the thing. Any wisdom that emanates from any king but the true king is actually foolishness on its own terms. Because here's what happens, if money is the most important thing in your life, you choose a job that isn't fulfilling to you, and in the long run, you will become less productive, you will burn out faster, you'll have more money problems. I'll give you another example, if money is the most, the ruling thing in your life, you'll make decisions sometimes to do ethically improper things. You'll cheat on your income taxes, you'll cut corners, which as you know, in the long run, can destroy you financially, or if your money is the most important thing, very often you'll take gambles, you'll come to forks in the road, and you'll take gambles, which of course could lead to financial disaster. Let me give you another example, and then I'll try to summarize them. What if the most important thing in your life is parenthood? Is your children? And if your children are happy, you're sort of living your life out through your children, you'll push them to do things that really don't fit them, but that will make you happy, and then they'll turn on you and hate you. What if the most important thing in your life is work? Not money, but work, your career, recognition, you know, excellence and recognition, that seems so noble, okay, much more noble than money, but I'll tell you what's going to happen. If that's the most important thing, when you come to these forks in the road, you will choose work over rest, you will choose work over family, you will choose work over relationships, and in the end, here's the great irony.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"solomon" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. Throughout the Bible, there are signs that point us to the Gospel. Today Tim Keller is looking at how we can discover them and what they teach us. First Kings 3, 16 to 28. Now two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. One of them said, My Lord, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was there with me. The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone. There was no one in the house but the two of us. During the night this woman's son died because she lay on him. So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I, your servant, was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast. And the next morning I got up to nurse my son and he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn't the son I had born. The other woman said, No, the living one is my son, the dead one is yours. But the first insisted, No, the dead one is yours, the living one is mine. And they argued before the king. And the king said, This one says my son is alive, your son is dead. While that one says, No, your son is dead and mine is alive. Then the king said, Bring me a sword. So they brought a sword for the king and he gave an order. Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other. The woman whose son was alive was filled with compassion for her son and said to the king, Please, my lord, give her the living baby. Don't kill him. But the other said, Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two. And then the king gave this ruling. Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him, she is his mother. And when all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice. This is God's word. Now, If you don't yet, you will soon sense an acute need for wisdom. If you haven't yet, you soon will take a job you never should have taken, hire somebody you never should have hired, date somebody you never should have dated. That hasn't happened yet. And you see, There's some Old Testament scholar that said that the definition of wisdom in the Bible is competence with regard to life's realities. Competence with regards to life's realities. Why does your life blow up when you date the wrong person? You never should have gotten involved. When you take the wrong job, you never should have taken this job. You overestimated this, you underestimated this, you didn't understand this. Why does your life blow up? Because you made a choice that was not competent with regard to life's realities. And as time goes on, I understand by common sense and even by research, the older you get, the more you worry. And I don't know something about that. And even though I'm sure that that's a complex phenomenon, I know one of the reasons is this. The older you get, inevitably you come to see how important wisdom is, how difficult it is to gain, and how your life absolutely blows up when you make choices without wisdom. Now, there's a young man many centuries ago who at the age of 20 became king of Israel, Solomon. And when he did, he got wisdom and he exercised wisdom in a way that can teach us a great deal about how we can get it ourselves. And if we take a look at this narrative, we'll see, we learn at least three things, and we'll just go over them kind of briefly. It shows us the need for wisdom, what situations in which we need wisdom, then secondly, it shows us the anatomy of wisdom. What it's really made of, how it's structured. But then lastly, it shows us the essential principle of wisdom that runs all the way through it. The essential principle of wisdom. The need for it, the anatomy of it, and the heart of it. The need for it. Now, in some ways, this illustration is what is an illustration. It's the only one of Solomon's cases that is given to us. And it has two characteristics that tell us the kinds of situations in which wisdom is needed. The first characteristic is what? The choice. Two stood before him, and that's where you need wisdom, at forks in the road. You come along, should I marry, should I not marry? Should this school that school, this job that job, this career that career, stay in New York or leave? Stick with the project, or forget it. You come to forks in the road, and listen.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from A Kings Wisdom Solomon
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. Throughout the Bible, there are signs that point us to the Gospel. Today Tim Keller is looking at how we can discover them and what they teach us. First Kings 3, 16 to 28. Now two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. One of them said, My Lord, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was there with me. The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone. There was no one in the house but the two of us. During the night this woman's son died because she lay on him. So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I, your servant, was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast. And the next morning I got up to nurse my son and he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn't the son I had born. The other woman said, No, the living one is my son, the dead one is yours. But the first insisted, No, the dead one is yours, the living one is mine. And they argued before the king. And the king said, This one says my son is alive, your son is dead. While that one says, No, your son is dead and mine is alive. Then the king said, Bring me a sword. So they brought a sword for the king and he gave an order. Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other. The woman whose son was alive was filled with compassion for her son and said to the king, Please, my lord, give her the living baby. Don't kill him. But the other said, Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two. And then the king gave this ruling. Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him, she is his mother. And when all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice. This is God's word. Now, If you don't yet, you will soon sense an acute need for wisdom. If you haven't yet, you soon will take a job you never should have taken, hire somebody you never should have hired, date somebody you never should have dated. That hasn't happened yet. And you see, There's some Old Testament scholar that said that the definition of wisdom in the Bible is competence with regard to life's realities. Competence with regards to life's realities. Why does your life blow up when you date the wrong person? You never should have gotten involved. When you take the wrong job, you never should have taken this job. You overestimated this, you underestimated this, you didn't understand this. Why does your life blow up? Because you made a choice that was not competent with regard to life's realities. And as time goes on, I understand by common sense and even by research, the older you get, the more you worry. And I don't know something about that. And even though I'm sure that that's a complex phenomenon, I know one of the reasons is this. The older you get, inevitably you come to see how important wisdom is, how difficult it is to gain, and how your life absolutely blows up when you make choices without wisdom. Now, there's a young man many centuries ago who at the age of 20 became king of Israel, Solomon. And when he did, he got wisdom and he exercised wisdom in a way that can teach us a great deal about how we can get it ourselves. And if we take a look at this narrative, we'll see, we learn at least three things, and we'll just go over them kind of briefly. It shows us the need for wisdom, what situations in which we need wisdom, then secondly, it shows us the anatomy of wisdom. What it's really made of, how it's structured. But then lastly, it shows us the essential principle of wisdom that runs all the way through it. The essential principle of wisdom. The need for it, the anatomy of it, and the heart of it. The need for it. Now, in some ways, this illustration is what is an illustration. It's the only one of Solomon's cases that is given to us. And it has two characteristics that tell us the kinds of situations in which wisdom is needed. The first characteristic is what? The choice. Two stood before him, and that's where you need wisdom, at forks in the road. You come along, should I marry, should I not marry? Should this school that school, this job that job, this career that career, stay in New York or leave? Stick with the project, or forget it. You come to forks in the road, and listen.
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A highlight from Zechariah Evangelism
"Good morning. Our third Sunday sermon series through Zechariah is coming to a close here. I'm not sure if we'll have another message after this one. Usually, after I get to the end of a book, we'll go back and do a review message, which was last month, and then a message relating, whatever the book was, to evangelism. So that's today. Zechariah evangelism. And so let's pray that God will bless us today. Lord God, we thank you that all of your Word is an evangelistic tool, for faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And we know that we see scriptures that we can identify better as evangelistic, but we know that all of your Word is truth, and truth convicts of sin, and conviction of sin then can lead to repentance. And so we pray, Lord, that you would make us wise evangelists. And so help us in that today. We ask it for Jesus' sake. Amen. The book of Zechariah is a revelation or a revealing of Jesus the Messiah. As such, it is a good resource for evangelism. Today we utilize Zechariah for evangelism in the form of a letter to an unbelieving friend. So I hadn't done this before, so it may seem a little bit strange. It's going to seem a little strange to me. But I have always found that evangelism encourages the saints to say, well, I don't need to come to faith in Christ, but I love hearing, well, it's kind of like the hymn, isn't it? I love to tell the story. I love to hear the story of unseen things above. And so if it just falls flat, then I know you all will still love me. And you'll just say, don't do that again. That was silly. Just send your letter to your friend and preach us a regular message, OK, if it doesn't work out. But I think it's going to encourage you. OK. Kids speak. Kids, what book are we looking at today? Zechariah. What are we going to do with Zechariah today? We're going to use it to write a letter to a friend telling them how important it is to trust Jesus. So I sent you an email with this without anything but the letter. So if you actually wanted to use it and instead of friend put somebody's name, you could do that. Dear friend, would you allow me to share some observations about a certain book in the Bible? I have found this book particularly beneficial, and I believe you may benefit from its content as well. It's the book of Zechariah, the second to the last book in our English Old Testament. God showed Zechariah some strange things, and probably many today would think he wasn't quite in his right mind when he saw them. But all his visions had their basis in what Moses and the preceding prophets had been shown. First, though, a little historical setting for the book. It was written when the Jews came back from captivity in Babylon. God had allowed his own people to be defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. That was because they had done just about everything he had told them not to do and had stopped doing the things they were supposed to do. As Zechariah reminded his audience, the Lord of Heaven's assembly said, exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other. You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen. But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear. Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord of Heaven's assembly had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord of Heaven's assembly has poured out to great wrath. You can see that God had given them very sensible directions for treating each other right. Who would not agree that these rules were fair and just? Yet they had turned a deaf ear mistreating one another. And even though we agree that compassion and helping the disadvantaged are right, would it take much digging to where we too have turned a deaf ear to divine instructions? Kids speak. Kids, God gives us the rules for how to treat each other right. But have we broken those rules? Yeah. Do we need God to forgive us? Zechariah had opened his message with a similar reminder. He didn't place the responsibility in the past. Rather, he laid the impetus to respond on his own generation. Therefore, say to the people, the Lord of Heaven's assembly says, turn to me, says the Lord of Heaven's armies, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of Heaven's armies. Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, this is what the Lord of Heaven's assembly has said, turn now from your evil wickedness. But they would by no means obey me, says the Lord. God told the people to turn to him, even though it appeared that they had already started obeying God again, since they had made the dangerous journey from Babylon to rebuild a burned -down Jerusalem, the walls of which had been completely leveled, exposing them to dangerous enemies. But God saw that their hearts were still not turned to him. Even though they were facing many difficult and discouraging circumstances, God knew that no obstacle could be greater than having their attention divided from him. Kid Speed, if we obey some things, God says, does that mean we obey everything he says? No. All of us probably could say we obey some things. He told them if they turned to him, he would turn to them. Well, that's certainly a square deal. Before God gave them into Babylon's hands, he had spent generations trying to turn them from their misdeeds. Now he was patiently starting over with them again. And how did they respond? Zechariah 1 .6, and they turned and said, the Lord of Heaven's assembly planned to do with us according to our ways, yes, according to our deeds, so he has dealt with us. God told them to turn, and they turned. Zechariah's audience responded favorably to his message of repentance, at least at first. They took responsibility for their waywardness, and they accepted God's gracious invitation to fellowship, that he would turn to them as well. Now they were ready to hear how God would bring them a final deliverance from all danger. It would come through a single man. Kids speak. Kids, the people Zechariah was talking to knew that they hadn't done what God said, so they turned back to him. Is that what we should do, too? Come on, nod your head with me. They were rebuilding Solomon's temple, but Zechariah had a message of another temple that would have to be built if they were going to be finally saved, Zechariah 6 .12. This is what the Lord of Heaven's assembly says, here is the man whose name is the sprig. He will branch out from where he is and will rebuild the temple of the Lord. They were rebuilding the temple, so it must have been a surprise to hear about someone else who needed to come and build another new one. Ezra and Zerubbabel were leading the present rebuilding effort. Who was this other man in such a strange name, the sprig? But Zechariah and his colleagues had already been told about the sprig. They had already been told that the sprig had something to do with the priesthood. God had spoken to their own high priest, Joshua, not the Joshua of the book of Joshua, Zechariah 3 .8. Listen, high priest Joshua, you and those companions of yours who sit with you, for these men are a sign that I am presenting my servant the sprig. The very fact that God's people needed a new high priest every time the last one died showed that a final permanent priest was needed. The fact that they had a day of atonement every year showed that their sins were not being removed permanently. They needed a once for all payment for sin. That was apparently going to be the work of the sprig. And why call the sprig? Simply because he would start fresh. He wouldn't build onto the existing structure of the Levitical priesthood, and that is exactly what has come about. Jesus came from the tribe of Judah, not Levi. Yet he acted as a priest, offering himself as a sacrifice for sins. Kids, one of the names for Jesus in Zechariah is sprig. What's a sprig? Well, it's a plant when it first starts growing. Why was Jesus called sprig? Because he had to do everything over right from the start. We had messed everything up, so he had to start all over like a little sprig. God then immediately added a new name to Christ the sprig, calling him a stone. For he grew from his small beginning to become the sacrifice for sin, both permanent and solid qualities a stone represents. Zechariah 3 .9. Look, the stone that I put in place in Joshua's presence, on that one stone are seven eyes. And look, I will do the engraving myself, declares the Lord of Heaven's assembly. And I will remove the perversity of that land in a single day. There's one of the strange symbols of Zechariah, a stone with seven eyes. Of course, it's figurative. The mental image of a seven -eyed stone probably confuses us at first, but the stone is made less mysterious in light of the engraving, an engraved stone. The eyes most simply symbolize sight. Really the most elusive aspect of the image is the seven. That one takes a little bit of biblical familiarity. We find by induction, looking at places where seven occurs, that seven connotes completeness. So seven eyes indicate complete sight. The stone then is a figurative way to tell us that the Messiah would be omniscient. To see everything is to know everything. In other words, the Messiah would be God. Kids speak. Kids, another name for Jesus in Zechariah is the stone. Why is he a stone? Because he stays the same, like a rock, when he says he will save us. That word is as firm as a rock. Well, what about the engraving on the stone? Well, in light of the prompt removal of the land's perversity, the engraving is most likely the engraving of the land's perversity into the stone. It's an engraving God does himself. And isn't this what God the Father did when Jesus was on the cross, engrave his people's sins into him? Kids speak. Zechariah calls Jesus a rock that God carves on. Well, what did God carve into Jesus? Our sins. When our sins were carved into Jesus, did that take the sins away from us? Yep, carved onto him. That's how it works. This sprig who became the stone was God's way of explaining to Joshua the high priest what had just happened to him. So rewind to the beginning of the chapter, Zechariah 3, 1 through 4, and he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of the Lord, and Satan was standing on his right to accuse him. But the Lord said to Satan, the Lord rebukes you, oh Satan, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you. Is this not a stick snatched from the fire? And Joshua was clothed in filthy garments and was standing before the messenger. And he answered and said to the one standing before him, saying, remove the filthy garments from him. And he said to him, see, I have taken away your guilt from you and will clothe you with rich garments. The high priest, the man in Israel who presided over the sacrifices for removing sin, he himself stood unclean before God. Satan was there accusing him. But God did not argue the basic fact of Joshua's defilement. No, in fact, God's rebuke of Satan got right to the matter of Joshua's deficiency. He called Joshua a stick snatched from the fire. Joshua was like a stick that was going to burn, but God had pulled him out of the fire. Kids, God said that Joshua the high priest was like a stick that was about to burn, but God pulled it out of the fire. Is that what God does when Jesus saves us? Pulls us out of hell? Yeah. We were headed right for hell. So, wow, we should really thank Jesus, shouldn't we? Ah, dear friend, I can tell you that describes me as well. I was a stick ready to burn, already as good as it ignited. Yes, that has me listening to God's words as closely as I'm sure Joshua was. Remove his filthy garments. Men on earth couldn't see the dirty clothing, but there in heaven we see the reality. Joshua already believed that he needed spiritual cleansing, otherwise he would not have made the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement for his own sins. But now he got to see how his defilement looked in God's presence. Satan didn't even have to lie, though he's good at it. A defiled Joshua was his exhibit A, and he needed no further proof. Friend, if the highest religious official amongst God's people was tarnished by sin, everyone else on earth was as well. The high priest needed the engraved stone to be engraved with his own sins. That's why God showed Joshua that vision, so that Israel's high priest could model for the nation their need to hope in God's final high priest. I have that same hope. I have trusted in Jesus of Nazareth as the sacrifice that covers my sin, dear friend. Kids, if Satan came before God and said, look at Pastor Cain, he's a dirty sinner, how can he be a Christian? What would God say? He would say, but I cleaned Pastor Cain up by what Jesus did on the cross. You can say the same thing for you, right? You may have noticed that I am referring to Jesus as both the high priest and the sacrifice. That is correct. He is both. If our sins were engraved into him, that makes him the sacrifice. But he was the one who offered himself up to be sacrificed. He is also the priest. In fact, Jesus fulfilled virtually every aspect of the temple, the furniture, its procedures, and the priests processing them. He puts the fill in fulfillment. I have been to your ear a long time. Thank you for your patience. I will bring this to an end. Zechariah 12, 10. And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer, then they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn over him. Jesus was a Jew, and he came to his countrymen first. They passed him by. But one day God promises that they will recognize him. Zechariah 13, 1. On that day, a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and from impurity. And they will recognize their Messiah. They will recognize what he did for them. Kids speak. Another thing Zechariah says Jesus is like is a well. Why is that? Well, because you can wash with water from a well just like you can have your sins washed away by Jesus' blood. Until then, that same well is open to all men. Zechariah 2, 11. Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on the day of salvation, and they will also be my people. And here we are. Christ's saving message reaches more and more people groups year by year. But the end gathering will not last indefinitely. Christ will return to finalize his work on earth. Zechariah 14, 4. On that day, his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. That was the location from which he left the earth in the sight of his apostles ascending into heaven. That is where he has an appointment to return. Kids, where is Jesus right now? Heaven. Will he always stay there? No. He's coming back here to be king of everybody in the world. Oh, that'll be a great day, won't it? Dear friend, there is a sacrifice that washes away our sins and renews us. Do we need cleansing and new life? Zechariah, like the rest of scriptures, tells us that if we have dishonored God and broken his commandments, we need Jesus' purifying sacrifice. I pray to God that you will join me as one who confesses Christ as Lord and Savior. For the walking wounded, as 1 Thessalonians 5, 14 says, uphold the strengthless. It's easy to forget that when we first came to God, we were complete spiritual invalids. I think most of us continue to think, hmm, I don't think I've changed much since then, but we're supposed to mature. All scripture is profitable for teaching, for conviction. The gospel is good news. May fear not cause me to hesitate in telling it as though it were basically bad news. It does contain bad news, but the gospel is basically good news. If you just tell good news without contexting it with the bad news, unless the person already gives you that and says, oh, I'm a defiled sinner. What can I do? Well, of course, you can just march right into, here's the means of cleansing. But if not, you need to let them know that, yes, we are sinners headed for hell. But the gospel is basically good news, which is how we should present it. All scripture is profitable for correction. I will remember that the good news is what properly contexts the bad news of our sinfulness, our enmity with God, and our coming judgment. God justly put all these aside in the cross. And all scripture is profitable for teaching, conviction, correction, for schooling in righteousness. Nothing wrong with asking God to just drop witnessing opportunities into our lap rather than worrying about segues. How do I get from a regular conversation into a gospel conversation? And, of course, we want to be able to do segues, too. But in the meantime, it's a good thing to ask every day who knows who I'll meet today. Maybe the door will just swing wide open, and I need to be ready to walk in. Wrap up, Colossians 4, 5, and 6. You can see it on the left side there. Walk in wisdom toward those on the outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. And then breaking it down phrase by phrase, walk in wisdom toward those on the outside. God give me a special wisdom like a person on a mission. Redeeming the time, God give me sufficient urgency. Let your speech be always with grace. God give me words that make good transitions to the gospel. Having been seasoned with salt, God give me a bright countenance and inviting words that you may know how you ought to answer each one. God give me increasing sensitivity to see particular burdens in the lives of others that I may point them to the burden -bearer. Amen. Let's pray. Lord God, thank you for your words. We pray, Lord, that you will grant a day of revival when the subject of God and of being right with God is simply part of the national conversation. And we know that you have done this before in days of revival, that people simply become curious again. And you pique their curiosity and we can simply walk right into witnessing situations. But until then, Lord, we pray that we would remember Colossians 4, 5, and 6, that we would walk in wisdom towards them, that we would seek out opportunities, that we would always have gracious speech, and that we would season it with salt and make it attractive. And that you might help us better and better to recognize needs in people's lives that will present the gospel's introduction. Lord, bless these, your people, all your people here on earth, worshiping you today. In Jesus' name, amen.
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A highlight from The Professors Disillusionment
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. This month we're looking at directional signposts through history that point us to Christ. All through the Old Testament from Genesis to Jonah, you see signs that point us to Jesus. Listen now to today's teaching from Tim Keller on Pointers to Christ. Verses 15 to 26. Then I thought in my heart, The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise? I said in my heart, This too is meaningless. For the wise man, like the fool, will not long be remembered. In days to come both will be forgotten. Like the fool, the wise must die. So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things that I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? All his days, his work is pain and grief. Even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless. A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God. For without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and happiness. But to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after, the win. This is God's word. one Now, of the things that an awful lot of people have said is that Ecclesiastes is a great book. In chapter 97 of Moby Dick, I know it so well, Melville says the truest of all books is Ecclesiastes. Thomas Wolfe in a pretty well -known American novel, You Can't Go Home Again, he says, one of his characters says this, Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, the noblest, the wisest, the most powerful expression of humanity's life on earth, the highest flower of eloquence and truth. There's an awful lot of people who talk like that, say this is the best book in the Bible, this is the truest, this is the greatest. But I can almost guarantee you that none of them felt that way the first time, not the first time they read it. Because what you have when you first read Ecclesiastes, what you're struck with, is a teacher, a professor, as we'll see, in absolute despair. The very first verses, the first few lines of Ecclesiastes go like this, meaningless, meaningless, utterly meaningless, everything is meaningless. And of course, the passage I just read is just the same. And so you have someone in utter despair with the bleakest view of life, and the reason people generally get very confused when they read it, people who are believers, people who believe in God, people who have the traditional faith, they say, I'm confused because it seems like he's contradicting everything the rest of the Bible says. And people who don't believe or have trouble believing or who are not as believing, when they read it, I'll tell you what they say. What they say is, who needs this? They say, this guy is a professor, this is the kind of guy who drinks himself into a raise on the left bank talking about the meaninglessness of life, this is the kind of guy who makes these art films that, you know, are so bleak and terrible that play in obscure little corners of Greenwich Village. Of course, the world has people like that, but most of us aren't like that, we don't see life like that. Who needs this rant? Who needs this pessimism? Now, the reason why it's so confusing is because a couple of things are missed. The first thing is because people don't realize the instructional approach. We don't exactly know who wrote Ecclesiastes, I won't get into the debate, it's debatable that Solomon writes, it doesn't matter because in the very first line, he calls himself a teacher, a word that can mean a professor. And if you read Ecclesiastes, you'll realize that this man, and it's the only book like this in the Bible, this man is running a seminar. He's not lecturing, he's not preaching, like a good philosophy professor, he's running a seminar. He is making you think. He is goading you with questions. Ecclesiastes, unlike any other book of the Bible, is not pedagogy, it's andragogy. Pedagogy literally means child instruction, memorizing, wrote, you see, drill, spoon feeding. Andragogy is a word that means adult instruction. Goading, asking questions, getting people to look at their own foundations, discovering truth for themselves. That's one of the reasons why Ecclesiastes seems so odd. But the other reason it seems so odd is because people, I don't think notice, unless you look clearly and I'm going to try to show you this morning, that the teacher is looking at life all the time. He's always saying, I see, I see, I saw this, I looked at life and I saw this, but he looks at life in two different ways and he goes back and forth between them. Let me show you the first way he looks at life and the second way he looks at life. It'll teach us a great deal. The first way he looks at life, in the first view, let's say how he looks and what he sees and why he sees it. Now, the first way he looks at life is he looks at life under the sun. You notice how three times in this passage, verse 17, 20 and 22, he says, I found this meaningless under the sun. I saw all my work under the sun was meaningless. This is a term that's used 30 times in the book. This is a term that is not used anywhere else in the Old Testament, so it's clearly critical to and very important to the whole book. And what he means by this, almost all the commentators I've ever read agree, what he means by under the sun is life here and now considered in isolation from anything else. Life under the sun is, he says, I'm going to look at the world as if this life under the sun is all that there is. I'm not going to look at life above the sun. I'm not going to think about God or eternity or heaven or hell, see. I'm not going to think of anything beyond. I'm going to look at life as if this is the only life we have, at least the only life we know. You know Carl Sagan in the beginning of every one of his Cosmos PBS segments, in the very beginning you'd hear Carl Sagan's voice come on and he would say, the cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Now most people are not atheists in the strict sense like Carl Sagan. What Carl Sagan is saying is, this life, this world, there is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no eternity, okay? There is nothing but this life, life under the sun, there's nothing else. Most people aren't atheists. Most people would say, well, I believe in God, but the modern person says, I believe in God or something, but we can't know. We can't know God's will for sure. We can't know about the after. We can't be sure. And so essentially the modern person says, we have got to live life as if this is the only life we know. And the teacher says, deal. I'm going to look at life as if it's the only life we know. That's how he's looking at it. That's the first way he looks at it. I'm going to look at life under the sun. But what does he see? What he sees is absolute inconsequentiality. Now, he kind of looks at it in several ways. He notices the injustice. If you look down, he says, it's unjust. Some people work very, very hard and never enjoy the fruit of their labor, and other people who don't deserve it at all enjoy it. And then he says, and worse than that, it's possible that you could work very hard to accomplish something in life, and then when you die, not only don't you get it anymore, but some fool comes along and takes over, and next thing you know, everything you've worked for is gone. You build an institution. You establish a school of thought. You do some good deeds, and somebody else comes along afterwards and just ruins it. But you see, that all is just, those are all just symptoms. Because up in verse 15 and 16, he really gives you the bottom line. In verse 15 and 16, as I read, he says, the fate of the fool will overtake me also. He says, therefore, this is meaningless, for the wise like the fool will not long be remembered. Now what he's bringing out here is something, again, incredibly modern, but something he's trying to grab you by the scruff of the neck and show you. And we're going to talk about why, but for now, let's say the what. We'll talk about why he's doing this, but right now, let's say what he's looking at. And what he is saying is, a wise life, a wise action, or a foolish life, a foolish action, a compassionate life, a compassionate action, a cruel life, a vicious action. In the end, makes no difference at all. None at all. If it's really true that life under the sun is all there is, if it's really true that when we die, that's it, and eventually the solar system dies, in other words, eventually something will sweep everything away, civilization will all be swept away, it won't make a bit of difference how you've lived at all. And therefore, there is no way, if you realize that life under the sun is all there is, that you can say one action is more significant than another, because it makes no difference in the end at all. Now, that's very bleak, you say. And the question comes up, why, you know, we're all smart people, we walk around, why is it that the average person, and the average person in Western culture who shares the teacher's premise that this life is all we know, but they go on out there and they don't feel that life is meaningless, they don't say one thing is as insignificant as another, that everything is ridiculous, everything is meaningless and vain and futile, no. So why does he, and here's the reason why. He looks at the whole of life, the big picture, and we refuse to. The key is, take a look at this question that he brings out, I have been meditating on this question for some years, and I just saw something this week that I'd never seen before. Here's the question he asks, and he dares you to ask the question. He says, down here in verse 22, what does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? That's the question. Every word is significant. First of all, he says, assuming that this life is all there is, first of all, he says, what is the gain? What do you get? What is the difference? Now, why do you ask that question? Because he's really showing us that you ask that question about any individual piece of your life, do you not? If somebody says to you, I would like you to go to the corner of so -and -so place, and I would like you to stand there for an hour tomorrow, you would say, for what? Well, the person says, I don't want to tell you, I'd just like you to do it. And you say, no, no, no, no. I want to know what difference it'll make, what gain there will be, otherwise it's a waste of time. You would never do anything. If it made absolutely no difference at all, if nothing came of it at all, you'd never do anything. But the thing that, in other words, we look at every part of our life like that. But the reason that the teacher comes to despair, existential despair, is because he uses a little word in that question that is so critical, and that is the word all. What do you get from the whole of your life? And the reason the average person shares the teacher's premise but does not share the teacher's despair in this world, in this Western culture, is because we refuse to use the word all. See, the average person, I mean, there's probably a lot of people right here listening to this, and you're going to sit through the 30 minutes or whatever, but you would never sit through 30 minutes personally with somebody. If somebody sat down and said, well, what do you believe about life? And you said, well, I'm kind of an agnostic, I'm kind of a, I sort of believe in God in general, it might be true, but the one thing is all we know is that we're here, we don't really know for sure why we're here or where we're going or, you know, we can't be sure. Now, the person says, well, in that case, you must, you have to look at life and say that nothing means anything, that there's no right and wrong ultimately, there's no significance between one action over another, that no one action is more meaningful or more significant than the other. And you wouldn't stand for that. You would say, oh, give me this, I took philosophy 101, this meaning in life, so philosophers need this, philosophers ask the big questions. The average person, the average person lives for the daily things. Sure, I don't know, I'm an agnostic, but I'm optimistic about life, why? Because when I take a boat ride in Central Park, I feel good, it's meaningful. When I hug somebody I love, it's meaningful. When accomplish I something at work, it's meaningful. When I do a compassionate deed as opposed to a selfish deed, it's meaningful to me. I'm having a fine life. You can't throw all this on me, you can't put me back into philosophy class. Now, you know what you're doing? You're refusing to ask the word all. There was an old Mutt and Jeff cartoon some years ago. Remember Mutt and Jeff? And at one place, Mutt, Jeff comes up and there's Mutt, and right in the middle of a street, right in the middle of a, you know, a road, a street, he has built a very, very tall pile of stones, and at the top of the pile of stones, there's a lantern, and Jeff says to Mutt, oh, Mutt, why did you build this pile of stones? Oh, he says, that's easy, so I could put the lantern up there. So that it's up high so that it gives a lot of light. Oh, okay. Why did you put the lantern up there? Well, I want the lantern up there so the cars will see the pile of stones and they won't crash into it. Why did you put the pile of stones there for the car to crash into? Well, so that I could put the lantern up there. Now, what is he doing? It's very simple. He's finding meaning of one part in the meaning of another part, but he's refusing to ask the question, does the whole thing have any use, or is it just stupid? Why do you work? Usually, a person says, I'll tell you why I work, so that I can do things that I like to do. I have avocations, I've got hobbies, I've got leisure, I like travel. Why? Well, that really recharges my batteries. Why? So I can work. See, the lantern is for the stones, the stones are for the lantern, and if you refuse to stand back and say, but what is the whole thing for? What is the whole thing for? How do you know your whole life isn't stupid? That your whole life isn't pointless? How do you know your whole life is not just a very, very large stone lantern in the middle of a highway? How do you know this? Now, here's what the teacher is saying. The teacher is saying, grow up. This is not pedagogy, this is andragogy. Don't be an ostrich. Ask yourself the question. If you would never do one thing, if it made no difference at all, okay, it would be meaningless, it would be a waste of time, unless it made a difference. What difference does your whole life make? What are you living for? What difference does it all make? Now, the average person just does not want to hear this. I had a little conversation with somebody, by the way, I know very well, I'll get back to why I think this was a valid conversation, but it's a dangerous one. I had a conversation not too long with somebody I knew very, very well, and this person had just said, what he said was, he says, you know what, the way you know what's right and wrong is, there's no reasons for it, there's no way to know what's right and wrong, you just have to know what's right and wrong in your heart, and if you know in your heart, then it's right, and then you just need to do it, and that's how you live, that's how you find meaning in life. And I said, well then, what do you say to Hitler? He felt it real hard in his life, and he did it, so that was okay. Oh no, my friend said, well you know, he says, the trouble is, most of the people's hearts in the world know that what Hitler was doing was wrong, therefore it was wrong. And I said, well you know, up to 150 years ago, most of the hearts of the world thought slavery was just fine. Do you think slavery was just fine? No. Why not? And he just looked and he shrugged and he says, you know, these things are so complex, if you think about this, you'll just dig a hole. Now this is a person I knew a very long time, and it was very, very cordial. Now here's the question. The teacher is saying, when someone says, I don't need to ask this question, I don't need to ask this question, what you really are saying is, my optimistic agnosticism, and that's the worldview the teacher is trying to absolutely smash, my optimistic agnosticism will fall apart if I ask that question. It can't deal with that question. It is demolished by that question. It is absolutely inadequate to that question. Optimistic agnosticism. Life under the sun is all there is, but there's moral truth. There's human rights. There's human dignity. Listen, if your origin isn't significant, you come from nothing, and if your destiny is insignificant, you're going to nothing, have the guts to admit that your life is insignificant. And stop talking, as if, on the one hand, you feel like you can poke holes in other people's inconsistencies. You'll poke holes in Muslims who say, I believe in God, but then they do something wrong, or Christians who say, I believe in God, do something wrong. You'll poke holes in everybody else's inconsistency, but you won't look at your own. You know, Jean -Paul Sartre made a very interesting statement. His most famous essay was right after the war, 1946. He wrote his essay called Existentialism and Humanism, and this is what he said. He says, God does not exist, and we have to face all the consequences of this. The existentialist is strongly opposed to a certain kind of secular ethics which wants to abolish God with the least possible expense. The existentialist, indeed, thinks it is very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding any values disappears with God. There can be no a priori good, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. So nowhere is it written that we must be honest. Nowhere is it written that we must not lie, because the fact is we're on a plane where there's only us, human beings. Dostoevsky said, if God didn't exist, everything would be permissible. That is the very starting point of existentialism. If God does not exist, there is nothing within or without that can legitimize any conduct. Now, you know what is very interesting to me? Sartre took this idea, life under the sun is all there is, and you know what he says? He says, don't talk to me in any way that says that you believe that one kind of conduct is more legitimate than any other kind. One of the things that's come out recently, he died in 1980, one of the things that's come out over the last few years is what a misogynist he was. Jean -Paul Sartre was very bad to women, the women he knew, and he was very misogynist, but you know what? Whenever I read the people who accept his premise about life, and then get very upset about it, if he was alive, he would rise up, and he was only 5 '2", so that's, he would rise up, and he would say, please. He would say, you want to be free. You want to say, I am free to do what I want to do. You want to be free. As far as I know, this life is all there is. I'm not controlled by eternity, by moral absence, by God. I want to be free. Then you have got to have the guts to accept the utter meaninglessness of all distinctions. You want to be free, fine, but you have to accept it. Meaningless, meaningless, utterly meaningless, everything is meaningless. Come on. You know, Christians look like real hard -nosed skeptics compared to a view that says, life under the sun is all there is, but I'm optimistic. I have meaning in life. I can enjoy things. I know some things are right, some things are wrong. I know it's better to be compassionate than to be violent. I know these things. Talk about blind faith. Talk about naive religiosity. why Now, is he doing this? Because he also tends to see life, the preacher, the teacher, the professor sees life in a different way. One of the biggest obstacles for people to believe in Christianity is that they think they already know all about it. But if we look at Jesus' encounters with various people during His life, we'll find some of our assumptions challenged. We see Him meeting people at the point of their big, unspoken questions. The Gospels are full of encounters that made a profound impact on those who spoke with Jesus. And in His book, Encounters with Jesus, Tim Keller explores how these encounters can still address our questions and doubts today. Encounters with Jesus is our thanks for your gift to help Gospel in Life reach more people with the amazing love of Christ. Request your copy of Encounters with Jesus today when you give at GospelInLife .com slash give. That's GospelInLife .com slash give. Now, here's Tim Keller with the remainder of today's teaching.
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A highlight from Soul Winning 101 - The 5 W's of Evangelism
"All right, hey folks, good evening. This is Daniel Karzewski coming to you live from Washington, D .C. again. Here on tonight's episode, we're gonna talk about soul winning 101, or also known as evangelism 101. And so, first of all, there's five basic questions that you have to answer, and that's the five Ws, the who, what, where, when, why. And what are we doing this for? So, number one, what is evangelism or what is soul winning? It is going out and snatching the souls out of the gates of hell, or out of the pits of hell. But furthermore, what is evangelism specifically? And it comes from the root of the Greek word angel, which also means messenger, or also known as the act of sharing the message of God's word. And that's where we get our commission and our commandment from in Matthew 28. And we're supposed to go forth and share the gospel, which means the good news with everybody, because sinners need to have their sins forgiven, and lost people need to know that they're lost, and they need to know that they can get a savior, and they know that they can get out of their wicked, wretched lives that they're living that's not taking them anywhere, especially not in eternity's sake. And then number two, why do we evangelize? Well, number one, we're commanded by God there in Matthew 28, like I just mentioned, and then also for the glory of God and the good of man, and 2 Peter 2, 9 tells us. Then where are we to go, and where are we to share it? Well, everywhere, near and far, indeed, the whole entire world, just like Acts says in chapter one, verse eight. And then, when are we supposed to do it? Anytime, anytime the Lord leads us and tells us. I think it's almost always that we've got tracks on us, and we're handing them out to everybody that we meet. We don't even know these people, but God knows them, God sees their heart, and God wants to save them. In 2 Timothy 4, verses two, that's where it tells us, anytime. And then who are we supposed to do it with, and who are we supposed to share it with? To everyone, to all, to all people in the whole entire world Mark 16, verse 15 commands us. And then, of course, there we've got some different tools in the toolbox, we've got spiritual warfare, we've got different equipment, different weaponry, and Ephesians 6 that we see putting on the whole armor of God, using prayer as a weapon, as a sword. Then we've got apologetics in 1 Peter 3 .15, be ready to answer every single man. And then we've got different techniques, we've got Jesus's example, we've got different ways to relate and create and convict and reveal to people. Then we've got one -on -one situations, we've got tracks, we've got door -to -door, we have different events and signs, public proclamation that goes out, we've got people that go out and play music and dramas and do skits on the street, in churches, whatever the case may be, there's all different types of ways to do it. And then, what's the biblical method of the gospel presentation? Well, I mean, it's just like, what would Jesus do? Ray Comfort has a great ministry called the Way of the Master, and he goes out every single Saturday, matter of fact, I've been out there with him on occasion and seen him and got to pray with him and got to watch him, and it's really just such a blessing to be able to see that man's ministry the way that he does it, and that's the same way that we're trying to do it. And if you're looking for a good example of a way to evangelize, follow Ray Comfort's way, the Way of the Master, and it's the biblical way, and it's the law in the evangelism, because you've got to get the sinner lost, oftentimes, before they can realize their need for a savior. And that's just like John 4, verses three through 30 tells us, it tells us we need to use the law in the evangelism, as opposed to some type of life enhancement where it's Christianity and getting saved and Jesus Christ on the cross, it's some good luck charm that we wear on our necklace, and that gets us saved, that couldn't be farther from the truth, and so we need to get people out of that thinking, and we need to use the law to convict people that they are sinners and that they are in need of a savior from hell and eternal damnation and hell fire and brimstone and get them to realize that heaven is so much better. I mean, we shouldn't have to scare people into heaven, but it says, just like in Jude, verses 21 through 23, that there are some that are saved by fire and some that are saved by compassion. And God tells us unto the proud man, he's gonna receive judgment and rebuke and reproof and condemnation and judgment. He's gonna receive the word of God because he's not understanding the spiritual things. He can only understand the natural things of man. But then under the humble, he receives grace and mercy, love and kindness, forgiveness, and he's willing and ready to receive, you know? And I've seen people like that on the street before. And then who is to evangelize? Who is qualified? What are the qualifications? Ephesians chapter four, verse 11 through 12, and then we've got the examples in all of scripture, Moses, Gideon, Jeremiah, Peter, James, John, Paul, and the list could go on. We could go on all night listing every single person in the Bible who was somebody that was out there evangelizing and witnessing and using God's word as a message to reach the loss for their generation. And that's what we're called to do. We're called to reach our generation for the loss. However many years that may be, I don't wanna go another day without telling somebody about Jesus. I mean, life is a vapor, and what are you gonna do? You gonna get to 80 and, oh, well now I'm gonna start working. And matter of fact, I've seen that. I've seen a 72 -year -old woman get saved, and she said, wow, I wasted 72 years of my life, and nobody wants to be like that. I sure don't wanna be like that, you know? In the 30s, thinking about, man, okay, well, what should I do for the next 40 years? Should I just waste them and see as much gain as I can get? Well, I mean, Solomon told us that all is vanity. He was chasing after the wind his whole entire life. He strived after every pleasure he could possibly get his hands on. And he said all was vanity. And the end of the preacher is to do God's word, obey his law, be righteous, and worship God and serve man. That's the end of the law. That's the end of God's word for man, is to obey him and worship him and serve others. And that's the 10 commandments. That's the whole entire word of God summed up. It'd be Jesus said it too. He said, love God with all your heart, mind, soul, body, spirit, and love your neighbor as yourself. And if we do those things, we've done all the law and the prophets, praise the Lord. And then finally, evangelism and you. There's different styles of evangelism. Everybody can evangelize in some way, shape, or form. You don't have to talk, but I remind you that Moses and Jeremiah and many other preachers and prophets said, Lord, I can't speak, I'm a small person. I mean, David started out small too and we all start out somewhere, but there's different types of serving. You can just give somebody a bottle of water and a track, whatever the case may be. Anytime we give food to the homeless, we always give them a track with it because you never know. We don't give money unless we're given to specific charity or we're given our time or we're given to a local New Testament church that's gonna gain, gather food and we're gonna go out and serve the food ourselves. And I really don't give to a lot of big charities out there because unless I know that they're extremely reputable and they're serving the Lord Jesus Christ. I mean, I know my friend Matt, he's down in Malawi, South Africa. He's doing the Lord's work there. He takes 12 disciples every three years and disciples them and sends them out as pastors. It's a perfect biblical ministry and I love it and I love supporting him because every time I send them 50 or $100, I know that's gonna feed one of their students for a month or two on end. It's gonna be wonderful. And so there's a great need for evangelists and the urgency of evangelism in today's day and age. And so that is Soul Winning 101 wrapped up. I love y 'all, God bless. Like, comment, subscribe, send us a note. We love you all, take care and God bless. We'll see you next time.
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A highlight from IDL82 Part 3 Chapter 38 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers, and more, go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there, or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks and God bless. Part Three, Chapter 38 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 38, Councils to Married People. Marriage is a great sacrament both in Jesus Christ and His Church, and one to be honored to all, by all, and in all. To all, for even those who do not enter upon it, should honor it in all humility. By all, for it is wholly alike to poor as to rich. In all, for its origin, its end, its form and matter are wholly. It's the nursery of Christianity, whence the earth is peopled with faithful, till the number of the elect in heaven be perfected, so that respect for the marriage tie is exceedingly important to the commonwealth, of which it is the source and supply. Would to God that His dear Son were bidden to all weddings as to that of Cana? Truly, then the wine of consolation and blessing would never be lacking. For if these are often so wanting, it is because too frequently now men summon Adonis instead of our Lord, and Venus rather than our Lady. He who desires that the young of his flock should be like Jacob's, fair and ring -streaked, must set fair objects before their eyes, and he who would find a blessing in his marriage must ponder the holiness and dignity of this sacrament, instead of, which too often weddings become a season of mere feasting and disorder. Above all, I would exhort all married people to seek that mutual love so commended to them by the Holy Spirit in the Bible. It is little to bid you love one another with the mutual love. Turtle doves do that, or with human love. The heathen cherished such love as that. But I say to you in the apostles' words, Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as unto the Lord. It was God who brought Eve to our first father Adam, and gave her to him to wife. And even so, my friends, it is God's invisible hand which binds you in the sacred bonds of marriage. It is He who gives you one to the other, therefore cherish one another with a holy, sacred, heavenly love. The first effect of this love is the indissoluble union of your hearts. If you glue together two pieces of deal, provided that the glue be strong, their union will be so close that the stick will break more easily in any other part than where it is joined. Now God unites husband and wife so closely in himself that it should be easier to sunder soul from body than husband from wife. Nor is this union to be considered as mainly of the body, but yet more a union of the heart, its affections and love. The second effect of this love should be inviolable fidelity to one another. In olden times, finger rings weren't want to be graven as seals. We read of it in holy scriptures, and this explains the meaning of the marriage ceremony, when the church, by the hand of their priest, blesses a ring and gives it first to the man in token that she sets a seal on his heart by this sacrament, so that no thought of any other woman may even enter therein so long as she who now is given to him shall live. Then the bridegroom places the ring on the bride's hand, so that she in turn may know that she must never conceive any affection in her heart for any other man so long as he shall live, who is now given to her by our Lord himself. The third end of marriage is the birth and bringing up of children, and herein, O you married people, are you greatly honored in that God willing to multiply souls to bless and praise him to all eternity? He associates you with himself in this his work, by the production of bodies into which, like dew from heaven, he infuses the souls he creates as well as the bodies into which they enter. Therefore husbands, do you preserve a tender constant hearty love for your wives? It was that the wife might be loved heartily and tenderly that woman was taken from the side nearest Adam's heart. No failings or infirmities, bodily or mental, in your wife should ever excite any kind of dislike in you, but rather a loving, tender compassion, and that because God has made her dependent on you and bound to defer to and obey you, that while she is meant to be your helpmate, you are her superior and her head. And on your part, wives, do you love the husbands God has given you tenderly, heartily, but with a reverential confiding love? For God has made the man to have the predominance and to be the stronger, and he of his flesh, taking her from out of the ribs of the man, to show that she must be subject to his guidance. All holy Scripture enjoins this subjection, which nevertheless is not grievous, and the same holy Scripture, while it bids you accept it lovingly, bids your husbands to use his superiority with great tenderness, loving -kindness and gentleness. Husbands dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel. But while you seek diligently to foster this mutual love, give good heed that it do not turn to any manner of jealousy. Just as the worm is often hatched in the sweetest and ripest apple, so too often jealousy springs up in the most warm and loving hearts, defiling and ruining them, and if it is allowed to take root, it will produce dissension, quarrels and separation. Of a truth, jealousy never arises where love is built up on true virtue, and therefore it is a sure sign of an earthly sensual love, in which mistrust and inconstancy is soon infused. It is a sorry kind of friendship which seeks to strengthen itself by jealousy, for though jealousy may be a sign of strong hot friendship, it is certainly no sign of a good pure perfect attachment, and that because perfect love implies absolute trust in the person loved, whereas jealousy implies uncertainty. If you, husbands, would have your wives faithful, be it yours to set them the example. How have you the face to exact purity from your wives, asks Saint Gregory Nazianzen, if you yourself live an impure life? Or, how can you require that which you do not give in return? If you would have them chaste, let your own conduct to them be chaste. Saint Paul bids you possess your vessel in sanctification, but, if on the contrary, you teach them evil, no wonder that they dishonor you. And you, O women, whose honor is inseparable from modesty and purity, preserve it jealously, and never allow the smallest speck to soil the whiteness of your reputation. Shrink sensitively from the various trifles which can touch it, never permit any gallantries whatsoever. Suspect any who presume to flatter your beauty or grace, for when men praise wares they cannot purchase, they are often tempted to steal. And if anyone should dare to speak in disparagement of your husband, show that you are irrecoverably offended, for it is plain that he not only seeks your fall, but he counts you as half -fallen, since the bargain with the newcomer is half -made when one is disgusted with the first merchant. Ladies, both in ancient and modern times have worn pearls in their ears, for the sake, so says Pliny, of hearing them tinkle against each other. But remembering how the friend of God Isaac sent earrings as first pledges of his love to the chaste Rebecca, I look upon this mystic ornament as signifying that the first claim a husband has over his wife, and one which she ought most faithfully to keep for him, is her ear, so that no evil word or rumor enter therein, and not be heard save the pleasant sound of true and pure words, which are represented by the choice pearls of the Gospel. Never forget that souls are faithfulness lead to familiarity and confidence, and saints have abounded in tender caresses Isaac and Rebecca. The type of chaste married life indulged in such caresses as to convince Abimelech that they must be husband and wife. The great St. Louis, strict as he was to himself, was so tender towards his wife that some were ready to blame him for it, although, in truth, he rather deserved praise for subjecting his lofty, marital mind to the little details of conjugal love. Such minor matters will not suffice to knit hearts, but they tend to draw them closer and promote mutual happiness. Before giving birth to St. Augustine, St. Monica offered him repeatedly to God's glory, as he himself tells us, and it is not a good lesson for Christian women how to offer the fruit of their womb to God. Who accepts the free oblations of loving hearts and promotes the desires of such faithful mothers? Witness Samuel St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Andrea Deficile, and others. St. Bernard's mother, worthy of such a son, was wont to take her newborn babes in her arms to offer them to Jesus Christ, thenceforth loving them with a reverential love as a sacred deposit from God. And so entirely was her offering accepted that all her seven children became saints. And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis her son. Witness her oft -repeated words, My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin, words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind and strengthen him in treading God's ways. We call races and generations, houses, and the Hebrews were to want to speak of the birth of children as the building up of the house, as it is written of the Jewish midwives in Egypt, that the Lord made them houses, whereby we learn that a good house is not reared so much by the accumulation of worldly goods as by the bringing up of children in the ways of holiness and of God. And to this end, no labor or trouble must be spared, for children are the crown of their parents. Thus it was that St. Monica steadfastly withstood St. Augustine's evil propensities, and, following him across sea and land, he became more truly the child of her tears in the conversion of his soul than the son of her body in his natural birth. St. Paul assigns the charge of the household to the woman, and, consequently, some hold that the devotion of the family depends more upon the wife than the husband, who is more frequently absent, and has less influence in the house. Certainly King Solomon, in the book of Proverbs, refers all households' prosperity to the care and industry of that virtuous woman whom he describes. We read in Genesis that Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, or as the Hebrews read it, he prayed over against her, on opposite sides of the place of prayer, and his prayer was granted. This is the most fruitful union between husband and wife which is founded in devotion, to which they should mutually stimulate one another. They are certain fruits like the quince, of so bitter a quality, that they are scarcely eatable, save when preserved, while others again, like cherries and apricots, are so delicate and soft that they can only be kept by the same treatment. So the wife must seek that her husband be sweetened with the sugar of devotion, for man without religion is a rude rough animal, and the husband will desire to see his wife devout, as without her frailty and weakness are liable to tarnish an injury. Saint Paul says that the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, because in so close a tie one may easily draw the other to what is good, and how great is the blessing on those faithful husbands and wives who confirm one another continually in the fear of the Lord. Moreover, each should have such forbearance towards the other that they never grow angry or fall into discussion and argument. The bee will not dwell in a spot where there is much loud noise or shouting, or echo, neither will God's Holy Spirit dwell in a household where altercation and tumult, arguing and quarreling, disturb the peace. Saint Gregory Nenzen said that in his time married people were wont to celebrate the anniversary of their wedding, and it is a custom I should greatly approve, provided it were not a merely secular celebration, but if husbands and wives would go on that day to confession and communion, and commend their married life specially to God, renewing their resolution to promote mutual good by increased love and faithfulness, and thus take breath, so to say, and gather new vigor from the Lord to go on steadfastly in their vocation.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Mike Signorelli
"Trump calls Florida heartbeat bill a terrible mistake, and Mike Pence talks war with Russia. So I think if you will allow me to speak critically of Donald Trump for five minutes, I will speak critically. No, no, no, no. Look, you know, and I know, everybody listens who to this program knows that I don't think Trump is perfect. I think he ought to be the next president. And I think that, as you know about me and about many people listening to this program, that we are radically pro -life. We think it's a moral issue. And I think that Trump has made, I think he misspoke. I think it was, I don't know. Well, talk about it so people understand what we're talking about. Donald Trump went on face the nation and said that the heartbeat bill Ron DeSantis bravely signed in Florida was a terrible thing, a terrible mistake. And he said that he wouldn't commit to supporting any kind of federal restriction on the taking of unborn life. And he said with characteristic real estate bravado, well, I'm going to have policies that are going to make everybody happy. Everybody's going to walk away happy from the table. That is not how things work. When you're talking about life and death issues, Mr. President, that is how things might work. If you're negotiating over ownership of a golf course. All right. All right. Each of you is going to get nine holes. Okay. You'll each get nine holes. It's wonderful. You got, you've got half a golf course, half a loaf is better than none. But we remember from the story of Solomon, half a baby is not better than none. In this case, we're talking about cutting the baby in half. Literally we're talking about should abortion, should the pro -life position be, we want a bad abortion after maybe 15 weeks, which would only get rid of maybe 8 % of the abortions in America. If that's the pro -life position, it's not worth a damn thing. That's the law in Germany. That's the law in France. That's the law in Belgium. All these countries where euthanasia is now taking over. Having a 10 week, a 15 week abortion ban solves absolutely nothing. It just means the women who are so dopey, they don't even know they're pregnant until like 18 weeks won't be able to get abortions. That's all it means. He's really just punishing the stupid. It's not saving a significant number of babies. I don't know who Trump is getting his advice from on the abortion issue, but they're not on our side. They are like the Jared Kushner. They're not on our side. What Trump is saying is a complete loser position. It's like saying we're going to build the wall. We're going to build the wall with the Mexican border, except every 20 feet there's going to be a gap. We'll get most of the wall built. There'll guess who will come. I think a couple of things need to be said. First of all, I already said it. Trump is not perfect. So he often has done things that I think are harmful to himself. And saying that I think just politically is a mistake. But we also have to say without a doubt he has been the most pro -life president we ever had in this country. Because of him and standing up for Kavanaugh, Roe v. Wade was overturned. I want to remind people of that. I also want to remind people that he spoke at the March for Life. No other president had done that. And so right now, I guess I find everything with him, not everything, but a lot of stuff just funny. It's almost like he'll say anything Ron DeSantis says, he'll say the opposite. I know. You could be triggered and tripped into that. And it's his Achilles heel that whatever Trump, whatever DeSantis says, Trump will somehow try to spin it. Trump even said that Andrew Cuomo did a better job on COVID than Ron DeSantis. That is literally the most insane thing any American politician has said since Jefferson Davis said I want to secede from the union. It's up to that level of crazy. But Trump, I mean Trump does this stuff for effect. In other words, for political effect to drive people crazy. That's why I guess I find it at least partially entertaining that he'll go out on a limb and say something like that just to trigger DeSantis. The problem is this stuff isn't cute. There were thousands of people murdered in those nursing homes in New York. Abortion isn't cute. This is not something funny. This is not like letting Jared and Ivanka turn the White House into their own little party hut. This is really serious. And our only leverage over Trump is right now during the primaries. If he gets the nomination, he can do whatever he wants because he will be elected president unless they assassinate him, which I do not put past that. I do not put that past the deal. Oh, I know that there have been attempts that we haven't heard about, but obviously they would do anything to get rid of him. We have our leverage now, especially before the Iowa caucus. Trump needs to be told if you keep saying this weak, rhino, wimpy garbage about abortion, maybe we'll hold our noses and vote for you against Joe Biden because we don't want to be put in prison camps. But we're not going to go to the mattresses for you. We're not going to go to the wall for you. We're not going to be fanatical, devoted supporters. We will hold our nose and vote for you the way we held our noses and voted for George W. Bush. Do you want to be the next George W. Bush? Well, no, John, I think it's worse than that. I think what will happen, what will happen is many evangelicals, pro -life evangelicals simply won't vote, which I think is an unbelievable mistake because they feel it's principled not to vote for Trump because he said this about what DeSantis's view. On the other hand, let him think that and maybe it's true and let him act accordingly. It's like if we are so on the reservation, Eric, that they know they have our votes no matter what they do, the Republican Party will keep treating evangelicals and pro -lifers the way the Democratic Party treats blacks. That is, you have no choice where you're going to go, take whatever scraps we throw you. So no, I think it's good. Let him be a little afraid that we will go off the reservation. No, that's why I just said that. That's why I just said that. In other words, I actually believe that that's true because when you look at what happened in the last number of elections, there are many evangelicals who are so pious in the negative sense that they would say, I'm just going to sit home and I'm not going to vote because Trump had three wives and I'm going to let Hillary Clinton or Satan or Adolf Hitler take over America because I'm so pious that I won't pull the lever for somebody who doesn't agree with me on everything or who puts out mean tweets or says things I disagree with. That is effectively how we got Biden because we didn't have a serious situation that we're in. On the other hand, Mike Pence is saying that unless we give long range missiles to Ukraine so it can kill lots of Russians, we'll have to go to war with Russia because it will invade Poland. So in order to avoid war, we have to fight a war. It's exactly what George W. Bush said about Iraq, that we have to fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here so they won't do 9 -11 again. Now we know now Iraq had nothing to do with 9 -11. It had no weapons of mass destruction. So he lied us into the Iraq war. In Vietnam, they told us we had to fight the Vietnam war so that the communists wouldn't take over Japan and then Hawaii. The whole domino theory is something that warmongers and the military contractors they work for, they whip it out every time they want to get us in a useless war. They say, well, remember Neville Chamberlain? Remember 1938? And I always say, remember August, 1914, when they blundered into World War I and destroyed all three of the main governments involved in it, all based on nothing, based on lies, based on garbage. Sometimes it's November, September, 1938. Sometimes it's August, 1914. And you're the idiot warmonger about to plunge the world into destruction because of your silly fantasies private about being a big man. Mike Pence is one of those warmongers and he's very dangerous right now. There's never enough time to talk to you, my friend. We'll get you back as soon as possible. Thank you, folks. We'll be right back. Thank you. For 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And when I say only, trust me, they're the only one. Glenn and the team have been great supporters of this show, which is why I'm proud to partner with them. 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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Guided Into Truth
"Well, as you heard announced this morning, today is a special day for our church. The air is getting a little bit cooler, a little more crisp. The rain is starting to come and fall kickoff is happening. This means many of our ministries and programs are getting kicked off, ending their summer hiatus and getting rolling for the coming year. Now in conversations I was having with the guys on our pastoral staff earlier in the summer about the different ideas for fall kickoff, themes to go with, emphases to put out there. We had a bunch of different ideas and I won't share with you the ideas that ended up on the cutting room floor, but I will restate our theme for fall kickoff this year is guided into truth, which I think is a theme that really encapsulates what we are to be all about as followers of Jesus Christ, right? I mean, when you think about it, for those of us who are followers of Jesus Christ in the room this morning, we have been guided into truth in the ultimate sense in that someone somewhere at some point in time shared the gospel with us. They shared the good news message of Jesus Christ dying and Jesus Christ rising and Jesus Christ saving sinners like you and me so that our sins could be forgiven and our hope of eternal life secured. And then we responded to that gospel with repentance and faith turning from the sin that once had its claws in us to put our trust now in Christ finished work on the cross. So we we have been guided into truth in that sense. Now. We're also called to guide others into truth. And if we're faithful to Christ and obedient to his Great Commission for his followers, we guide others into truth. That's what we do. That's what we're marked by we do so around our dinner tables as we teach our children about Christ and we do so at our family gatherings as we openly recognize that all that we have the roofs over our heads the air in our lungs the food in our tables the experiences that we get to share together. They are all because of Christ we do so at church whether we hold a formal teaching post or not. We give instruction and encouragement and exhortation from God's Word pointing other people people around us to Christ and then for a select few we guide others into truth by sharing the gospel message with the lost for some that means doing so through door -to -door evangelism for some that means at the Holmes Lake prayer tower for others. This happens more organically and the day -to -day evangelism that you've heard spoken of more recently where people are more adept at moving their conversations from more of mundane topics, you know, the weather and Husker football and the like to the gospel and getting to the hope that's found in Jesus Christ. Well today's message is going to have one aim and the bull's eye that I've been praying that this message would hit is to press in on this notion that evangelism is the territory or the realm of only that select few in the church. I'm going to throw the flag on the thought process that goes John Kerry is the deacon of evangelism and therefore John Kerry and his team. Those are the evangelists of the church. I'm going to challenge those of you who whether through fear or or laziness let's just get real here a lack of concern and love for those who are truly lost or abandoning your responsibility to do what Christ has commanded you and I both to do which is to share the gospel with the lost. I'm going to exhort you this morning to stop warming the bench and to get in the game. So last week we looked at prayer you might recall from Colossians this morning. We're looking at evangelism. I figured I could complete the trio of all topics that people like to hear about giving maybe next Sunday. No, but I'm going to say what needs to be said about being more evangelistically minded individually and as members of this body of believers to be more faithful in sharing the gospel not from a place of personal preference or desire because that really doesn't matter here. I'm going to speak to you through a text of scripture one that is very familiar to many of us and a text that is so rich in terms of the description it provides and the picture it paints of what it means to be guided into truth and what it looks like to guide another into truth turn with me if you would in your Bibles to Acts chapter 8 Acts chapter 8 Matthew Mark Luke John Acts book number five of the New Testament. We're going to hit pause on our series and Colossians this week so that we as a church body in keeping with our fall kickoff theme this week can zero in on this text where we encounter someone who was guided into truth and also see someone who is guiding another into truth. We're going to look at Acts 8 25 through 40 this morning. I'm going to try to take the whole bite. We'll see how I do this morning sermon has five points. They're all alliterated. We're going to see the context first in verse 25 in leading up to verse 25. We're going to see the command in verse 26. We'll see the contact in verses 27 through 30 the conversion in verses 31 through 35 and then the consequences in verses 36 through 40 now since today's passage or today's sermon is one of these one -off sermons before we just drop ourselves into this passage. It would be important and good if we establish some of the context. So as we look at the context here first point number one, let's look at some of the background here. The Book of Acts was humanly speaking written by Luke the same Luke who gave us the Gospel of Luke and what both the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts revealed to us very clearly is that Luke was a very detailed and meticulous historian. We see that over in the Gospel of Luke the very beginning verses of Luke Luke 1 3 where he says this to Theophilus who is the immediate recipient of the gospel. He says it seemed fitting for me as well having investigated everything carefully from the beginning to write it out for you in consecutive order. So we see how meticulous already Luke was and then here in the Book of Acts, which is really part 2 of Luke's writing the sequel as it were to the Gospel of Luke. He continues on and giving this very precise and detailed historical account of the early church. In fact, let's go ahead and take a few moments to do a real high -level flyover of the first seven chapters of Acts leading up to our text for today. In fact, go with me over to Acts 1 and you can do the flyover with me. In Acts 1 we see that the resurrected Christ appeared to his apostles and according to Acts 1 3 he did this over a period of 40 days and spoke of the things concerning the kingdom of God and then over the course of those 40 days and at the conclusion of those 40 days the Lord said to his apostles over in Acts 1 8 that they will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all of Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest part of the earth file that statement away in your minds, by the way, we're going to come back to it a couple of times this morning then in Acts 1 9 we see Luke recording the Ascension of our Lord to the right hand of the Father where he is seated today says after he had said these things he was lifted up while they were looking on and a cloud received him out of their sight then in Acts 2 Luke gives an account of the day of Pentecost one of the traditional Jewish feast days what was Pentecost and this is the day on which the Holy Spirit as Christ had earlier promised would happen descended and fell on that assembly there in Jerusalem. This is the day on which the Apostle Peter gave one of the most powerful sermons ever preached and according to Acts 241 about 3 ,000 souls came to Christ were converted through that preaching of Peter Acts 3 were told more about the ministry now of both Peter and John still in Jerusalem. We see that Peter heals a lame beggar in this chapter and then Peter also delivers a second sermon from the portico of Solomon and in this sermon the second sermon Peter gives in Acts 3 15 he calls out the Jews of the day as it says here in verse 3 15 for having put to death the Prince of life the one whom God raised from the dead a fact to which we are witnesses that in Acts 4 we see the arrest of Peter and John recorded and then we see their interactions with Annas and Caiaphas and other Jewish high priests and it's in front of those high priests that Peter filled with the Holy Spirit Acts 4 12 says this and there is salvation and no one else for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved then over in Acts 5 Luke gives the account of the second arrest of Peter and John and the other apostles we see that they were flawed and eventually released and after they were flawed and after they were released Acts 5 41 says they went on their way from the presence of the council rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for his name in the very next verse Acts 5 42 says while they were still there in Jerusalem every day in the temple they go from house to house and they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ in Acts 6 Luke tells us verse 7 that the Word of God kept on spreading in the number of disciples continue to increase greatly in Jerusalem and then the very next verse Acts 6 8 we are introduced to Stephen who full of grace and power was performing great wonders and signs among the people and then the remainder of Acts 6 we see that Stephen was then brought up for trial essentially before the Jewish leaders on charges of blasphemy then in Acts 7 Luke gives us this very detailed account of the the bold testimony and defense that Stephen gave which included him turning the tables and indicting the very people who were trying to indict him for having murdered their Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ and that doesn't go very well for Stephen because we see in Acts 7 54 says when they had heard this meaning Stevens testimony and indictment of them they were cut to the quick and they began gnashing their teeth at him and then the rest of Acts 7 records Stevens ultimate death by stoning Acts 8 now begins with these words in verse 1 Saul the one who would later become known as Paul was in hardy agreements with putting him meaning Stephen to death and then look at the very next words and on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria and what does that remind you of what we saw back in Acts 1 8 where Christ himself said to his followers that you shall be my witnesses from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria and then to the remotest part of the earth now take a look at Acts 8 4 we're going to work our way closer and closer to our text because Acts 8 4 here really sets up the immediate context where we'll be today says therefore those who had been scattered out of Jerusalem it means went about preaching the word Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them the crowds with one Accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing from the case of many who had unclean spirits they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.
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"Okay, well come on in. The water's fine. Good to see you all this evening. And welcome back to our Wednesday night Bible study. We took a summer break. And in the last quarter, we started a study on the book of Acts. Made it all the way through chapter 3. And this morning, not this morning, this evening, if you could locate Acts chapter 4 and verse 1. Sort of to get the cobwebs out. The book of Acts is about the birth and the growth of the church. So in Acts chapter 1, Jesus ascended. In Acts chapter 2, the church is born. Day of Pentecost. In Acts chapter 3, Peter and John heal a lame man. I think he was born lame. He was about 38 years old. And his legs were miraculously restored in Acts 3. Which gave Peter a chance to preach to a crowd. And Peter there condemns 1st century Israel for their rejection of the Messiah. And chapter 3, as you surely could imagine, flows right into chapter 4. Where Peter and John get arrested. So here's an outline of Acts 4. Even going into Acts 5, the Ananias and Sapphira incident. But you have the apostles arrested, verses 1 through 4. The apostles examined by the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin is the existing Jewish legal authority, religious authority in 1st century Israel. That's in verses 5 through 12. Then the Sanhedrin makes a decision, verses 13 through 22. And then the apostles go to prayer. And this is a very powerful prayer that they pray in verses 23 through 31. And then the chapter kind of ends with them, the church that is living in their communal arrangement. Which we saw develop in Acts at the end of Acts 2. And that sets the stage very nicely for the first 11 chapters in chapter 5. Because in that communal arrangement, it involved selling your property and giving the proceeds to the church. And there was a couple there, Ananias and Sapphira, who publicly misrepresented their generosity. And they were slain in the Holy Spirit. And when I say slain in the Holy Spirit, that's not a good thing. Okay. And God brought upon them maximum divine discipline. And that had, as we're going to see, a purifying effect on the early church. So anyway, that's kind of the lay of the land that we're moving into this evening. I don't think we'll be able to cover all of this this evening, but we can make a healthy start. First of all, the apostles are arrested. We have an interruption. The reasons for the arrest. The arrest and the results of the arrest. So notice, if you will, Acts chapter 4, verse 1. It says, as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them. So when it says they were speaking to the people, this is in reference to the sermon that Peter primarily was giving in Acts 3. Where they healed a man who was lame, born lame. He knew nothing but the lack of use of his legs for, I think it says, 38 years. And he's miraculously healed, not by Peter and John, but by Jesus through Peter and John. It's just Jesus is exercising his ministry now from the Father's right hand. Through the church, through the apostles. And a big crowd gathers and Peter uses the opportunity to condemn first century Israel. Their decision nationally to reject their own Messiah. So that's what it means there when it says as they were speaking to the people. So as they were speaking to the people, they're now interrupted by the religious authorities. Who are the religious authorities? It says it right there in verse 1 of chapter 4. The priests, the captain of the temple guard, and the Sadducees. So these are religious officials or workers. We have priests, the captain of the temple guard, and another group here called the Sadducees. And easy to remember the Sadducees is the Sadducees were always sad, you see. Sadducees. Basically, the Sadducees were people that if we were to try to parallel them today with somebody, we would call them theological liberals. A theological liberal denies what the Bible says. You know, it denies prophecy, denies miracles, and that kind of thing. And that's who these Sadducees were. The Sadducees only believed in the first five books of Moses. That's all they believed in. They didn't accept the rest of the Old Testament. So that's why when Jesus is talking to them about resurrection, the Sadducees, and the Gospels, he does not quote from Daniel chapter 12, verse 2 to prove resurrection to them. I mean, why didn't he quote Daniel 12, verse 2? Daniel 12, verse 2 is a great verse on future resurrection. It says, many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but others to everlasting disgrace, to disgrace and everlasting contempt. So why didn't Jesus, when he is arguing with the Sadducees and the Gospels about resurrection, why doesn't he quote that passage? That's a beautiful passage to quote from. Well, the answer is the Sadducees did not accept Daniel as authoritatively coming from God. They only accepted the first five books of the Bible. So it wouldn't do any good to prove resurrection from the Book of Daniel to the Sadducees. So instead, Jesus quotes the Book of Exodus. And I'm getting this from Matthew 22, 32 and 31. Here he's speaking to the Sadducees and it says, but regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God? And now he's quoting Exodus. the I am God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but the living. In other words, he points out that based on the Book of Exodus, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive right now. And he uses that to prove future resurrection. So why would he quote that passage? Because that's one of the books they would accept. He doesn't quote the more obvious passage because the Sadducees did not accept anything other than the Pentateuch, the Torah, the first five books of Hebrew Bible. The Sadducees were also sad, you see, not only because they denied all other scripture outside of Moses, but they denied resurrection. That's why Jesus is debating them about resurrection. They did not believe in angels. Acts 23 and verse 8 says, for the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor an angel. Matthew 22 and verse 30 indicates that the Sadducees didn't believe in resurrection. So you're dealing with people that only believed in the first five books of Moses. They didn't believe in angels. They didn't believe in resurrection. So Sadducee is a pretty good name for these people, right? I mean, I would be sad too if I had a limited acceptance of the authority of the totality of what God has revealed. The Sadducees are a little bit different than the Pharisees. In fact, they're a lot different. In the Sadducees, we can analogize them to modern day theological liberals. Pharisees were conservatives, but they were hyper legalists. They brought in, and this goes back to the Babylonian captivity, the Jewish rejection of the Sabbath sent the nation of Israel into the Babylonian captivity for 70 years. And when the nation of Israel came out of that captivity and came back into their homeland, they said to themselves, we're never going to let that happen again. And so they built what we call a fence around the law. Meaning we're going to pass so many laws against breaking the Sabbath that no one will ever think about breaking the Sabbath. So they had all these rules about how you couldn't eat on the Sabbath. You know, you couldn't rescue a man on the Sabbath. All of these things come into the life of Israel through something called Mishnah, and then Talmud, and there were two Talmuds. There was one in the land of Israel. There was a later one developed in what's called the Babylonian Talmud. And this is why Jesus said of the Pharisees, you make null the word of God through your traditions. Because what happened is the tale started to wag the dog. They started to read the law superimposed over the law were a bunch of man -made regulations and restrictions. So when Jesus is dealing with the Pharisees, he's always dealing with this issue. You know, he's feeding his disciples on the Sabbath. Pharisees are upset about that. He's healing people on the Sabbath. Pharisees are upset about that. And what are they upset about? They're upset about the fact that he's not respecting their rules. Where Jesus' point is the tale's wagging the dog. Your rules are being superimposed over God's actual law to the point where you're burying the original intent of the law under layer after layer after layer of man -made regulation. So Jesus, as the Lord of the Sabbath, was always trying to get back to what the Sabbath meant. It was supposed to be a blessing for man. Pharisees are saying, nope, you can't do anything on the Sabbath. You can't heal someone on the Sabbath, even though that's a blessing for man. You can't feed your disciples on the Sabbath, you know, pick crops and that kind of thing on the Sabbath. Even though that's a blessing for man, you're ruining our rules. So that's a little bit of who the Pharisees were. Pharisees are conservative, but they're beyond conservative. They're hyper legalists. Sadducees are just deniers of what the totality of God's word says. The Pharisees are going to be dominant in the synagogue. They had a higher sphere of influence in the synagogue. What was the synagogue? The synagogue were these places that Jews would gather, you know, all over the Greco -Roman world. And they gathered there during a time when there was no temple to go to. Remember the temple, the first temple that Solomon built was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and wasn't rebuilt until the days of Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah. So what did the Jews do? They would gather in the Greco -Roman world in these places called the synagogue. And the Pharisees were dominant in the synagogue. The Sadducees, as I'm trying to describe it, were dominant in the temple area. So that's why the people that are harassing the apostles in early Acts, really all the way up through Acts chapter 12, are the Sadducees and not the Pharisees. Because the Sadducees had ascendancy in the temple area. In Acts 1 through 12, the early church hadn't spread out yet. And it had a very strong sphere of influence in Jerusalem. So that's why the early church is dealing with the Sadducees, the Sadducees, the Sadducees, the Sadducees, until the Apostle Paul in Acts 13 and 14 goes out on missionary journey number one into southern Galatia. And then you'll start seeing him going to the various synagogues outside the land of Israel. And now the people coming against Paul are not the Sadducees, but now they're the Pharisees. So Sadducees, liberals, Pharisees, legalists. Sadducees dominant in the temple area, Pharisees dominant in the synagogue. Sadducees will be dominant as long as the church has a place of influence in Jerusalem. But the Pharisees as opponents of the church will become dominant as the church spreads out and moves outside the land of Israel. So verse one says, as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them. That's a little bit about who the Sadducees are and why they are the primary detractors of the church at this particular point. So Peter and John, Peter's conversation that he was having in Acts three, a very effective conversation is interrupted. The reasons for the interruption are given in verse two. It says being, now notice this, not just disturbed, but greatly disturbed. Being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and in proclaiming Jesus the resurrection from the dead. So here are these apostles and if you drop over to verse 13 for a minute, you see the way that the religious authorities looked at the apostles. It says, now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. So what is upsetting to the Sadducees is number one, these apostles are teaching the people and they never went to our Sadducee school. I mean, they don't have a Sadducee degree. In other words, they don't think like we do. I mean, if these apostles thought the way we thought, then they would only accept Moses. They would reject angels. They would reject resurrection. And here are these men who are untrained fishermen teaching the masses there in Acts chapter three. In other words, they don't have the authority to be teaching anybody is how the Sadducees were thinking about the apostles. And what really upset them is they kept talking about Christ's, but starts it with an R, resurrection, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now that was really upsetting to the Sadducees because the Sadducees didn't believe in resurrection. And here they're claiming that the man that the nation of Israel just turned over to Rome for execution has risen from the dead and his tomb is empty. That doesn't fit our doctrine. The Sadducees would say to themselves. And this puts the apostles on a collision course with the Sadducees. The moment Peter in Acts 2 24, which is a wonderful sermon, said these words, he became, I think at that point, a marked man by the Sadducees. Peter said, but God, speaking of Jesus, raised him up again, putting an end to the agony of defeat, since it was impossible for him to be held by its power. Peter continues the subject matter in Acts chapter three and that sermon there in verse 15. And it says, but put to death, speaking of Israel, the prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead. And he says a fact to which we are witnesses. Remember what Paul would say to the Corinthians. Now there's 500 eyewitnesses, 1 Corinthians 15. Check it out for yourself. They've all seen the resurrected Christ. So what they were saying is Israel rejected her own Messiah. That made the Sadducees angry enough. So then they said this Messiah rose from the dead and the Sadducees were upset even more because they didn't believe in future resurrection or any kind of resurrection. That's why when you look at verse two, it says they were being greatly disturbed, not just disturbed, but greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people. Here are these unqualified fishermen teaching doctrines that we, the religious authorities, oppose. Now you put all of this in motion and you can see why they're arrested. And their arrest is described in verse three. So they laid hands on them, that would be Peter and John, put them in jail until the next day for it was already evening. Now, why didn't they put them on trial right then and there? It's part of Jewish law. Jewish law says no trial in the evening hours. The only one that they violated that rule for was who? Jesus, because they couldn't wait to rush him through the judicial system to get him dead as quickly as they could. So they violated everything in their rule book. But here at least they're respecting the rule book and they're not having a trial in the evening hours because that is forbidden by the Mosaic law. And what is the results of all of this thing, all of this? Because we're kind of in the mindset that, oh no, if the mandates come back, which they could, they're talking about it, you know. And Sugar Land Bible Church stays open, which is at least my intention. I mean, I would like to stay open. I don't think a pastor or an elder board has a right to shut down a church because whose church is it? It's God's church. If God wants to shut down a church, it's his church, he's more than capable of doing it. A pastor doesn't have an authority to close down a church. So if all these mandates come back and hypothetically, let's say we stay open, my goodness, what if they come in here and they fine us? What if they come in here and they arrest us? What if they do like they did to that pastor of that Baptist church in Northern California where they actually chained the doors and keep assessing fine after fine after fine against him with an attempt to completely drive the church that he was pastoring, you know, under? You know, what do we do then? Well, this is where Acts chapter four is so instructive.
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"Well, good afternoon. Thank you for being here. I was thinking this afternoon as I was looking at all the people that are here, how the Lord used obviously it was His Word, but 12 apostles, 12 apostles. There's 12. To flip the world. What a God we serve. I shared this verse with a prayer group on Wednesday. Romans 10 .1. Romans 10 .1. We'll read that verse to you and then we'll pray. Beginning in verse 1 and only verse 1, Romans 10. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Let's pray. Oh God, let it be true by Your mighty hand that our desire, our heart's desire, our prayer, our prayer to You is that our family would be saved. That those within our church wall would be saved. Lord, let it be true that our heart's desire and our prayer to You would be that Manchester would be saved. That Tennessee would be saved. Lord, that America would be saved. Lord, we just openly confess, Lord, just repent in our hearts. God, that we have such a narrow, small view of You. God, You are mighty to save. I mean, God, forgive us, oh God, forgive us how we have tried to limit You, Lord, as if we could. Lord, forgive us if we've thought that great moves of You are impossible. Lord, oftentimes we pray for revival, Lord, and we pray for awakening, but Lord, perhaps if we were pressed on it, we would say we don't truly believe it. Oh, let it not be, Lord. Oh, we need You, God, oh, we need You. Lord, You have storehouses, treasuries in Heaven that we know nothing about. Great is Your faithfulness, Lord. Oh, would You pour out Your Spirit. Oh, Lord, would You bring great revival, great awakening, Lord, in our own hearts, Lord, in our own homes, in our own church houses, Lord, in our world, Lord, make Your glory known. Oh, give us a better understanding of who You are, Lord. Lord, You're faithful time and time again. Thank You for Your Word. Oh, strengthen me, Lord, strengthen us. We ask this in Christ's name. Amen. Well, I've been tasked with speaking on how and when we evangelize. I'm really honored and encouraged that Pastor John and this church have that desire to learn about evangelism, that they take evangelism seriously, and I know Bobby would include himself in this, but just as an evangelist, as a minister, we just want to avail ourselves to you if you have questions or if you need the encouragement, if you need resources, if you need tracts, if you want opportunities to serve alongside us, we just want to avail ourselves to you and afford that to you. I'm encouraged that John and Richard both drove down from Nashville, and that was a good drive. Richard shared with me he just needed the encouragement. There's not a lot of encouragement even in our churches. How sad, but how true, not always a lot of encouragement to evangelize. So Bobby prepared. I think he has a lot of lessons on this, and he shared with me one of his and kind of with the attitude, if my bullet fits your gun, then use it, and so he did a lot of the mining on this. I've definitely added some of my heart's desires to share with you. I trust it will be an encouragement to you. So how and when we evangelize. I'd say the greatest verse, at least for me, is, Bobby shared that with you earlier, Romans 1 .16, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel. When I think of that verse, drawn to the words of Christ, that those that are ashamed of Him, He'll be ashamed of us. That's heavy on us, does it not? Are we ashamed of Christ? Are we ashamed of God? Are you? Now you may give lip service and say no, but what does your actions say? Are you ashamed of God? Romans 1 .16, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel, for it's the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek quote that was shared with me. Moeller said this, at the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who do not share the gospel. It's not churches that don't support it or antagonistic people on the streets or lack of knowledge, but the biggest obstacle of evangelism is Christians who don't share the gospel. So for professing Christians, you know, why are we not sharing the gospel? What's the reason? So what is evangelism? This is evangelism. Speaking to others the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's evangelism. Speaking the gospel, the good news of Christ Jesus. This should include that God is the holy creator of all things, that man is a sinner deserving of God's eternal wrath, that Jesus lived a perfect life and died a substitutionary death, substitutionary, we get our word substitute, right, in our place, in the place of those that believe, that he rose from the grave and grants eternal life to all who believe. And lastly, the only way to be reconciled to God and saved from his eternal wrath in hell is to repent, to turn from your sin and turn to Christ. And trust him alone. You're turning to him in faith. And so, you know, that's, sometimes that's a hot topic or sometimes that's misunderstood at repent and believe. But brothers and sisters, it's really the same coin. If we're going to turn to Christ, well obviously turning to him, we're turning away from something else. It's that change of mind. If we are now believing in Christ, we're looking to him, then we've changed our mind on the love of our sin. So how do we evangelize? How do we evangelize? So what do you think of when you think, I need to evangelize or I'm going to evangelize or I have the desire to evangelize? How would you evangelize? There's many ways. There's only one message, but there's many ways. So one heading would be personal evangelism, right? So we would take, we would witness, we would proclaim that gospel to those that we already have a relationship with and that personal evangelism. So think of someone like your worker, your neighbor, your friend, your family. It's personal. We know them on a personal level. It's one to one. It's usually in somewhat intimate setting, personal evangelism. So think of it this way. How much, how much must we hate someone not to share the gospel with them? So do we really believe that there's a hell to be shunned? Do we believe that? Do we believe that there's really a hell for all those who do not believe the gospel? Do we just say that or do we really believe it? And if we do believe that there is a hell to shun, that there's a hell to flee from, there's a wrathful God to flee from and come to him on his terms, then how much must we hate someone not to share the gospel with them? And I'll take it a step further, but ultimately by not proclaiming the gospel to someone, that message of reconciliation, in effect we're damning them. We're saying, you're not good enough for me to tell you how to be reconciled with God. We leave them helpless, we leave them hopeless. So we must ask ourselves that. You know, it's awkward. It's inconvenient. Bobby talked about sometimes that fear. Brothers and sisters, I think what it boils down to is that we fear man and we don't fear God. You know, we'll try to water things down like, well, fear in God means honoring him or reverencing him or being in awe of him or respecting him. It's true. It's all those things. But we're to fear him. We don't fear him like the worldly. We don't fear him like those that do not have an advocate with the Father. But we're to fear him. One of the great things of fearing God is if we fear him, we don't have to fear man. So how much must we hate someone not to share the gospel with them? So how we evangelize personal evangelism. Who's heard of friendship evangelism, right? Let's be buddies. Let's hit it off well. Let's build a rapport. Let's build a relationship with them. And then, you know, when I've gained their confidence, I've gained their trust, when they know that I truly care for them, well, then maybe I'll slip the gospel in. Is that how we're to evangelize? So at what point do you share the gospel? Is you've it had your friend -versary on 90 days in or two years in, or when do you transition from I'm only a friend to now I want to share the gospel with you? How about this? If they're your friends and you use the excuse, well, they don't want to hear about Christ, well, what's more important now, your friendship with them or telling them how to be reconciled with the holy God? I'm not saying that we don't share our one true hope with our friends. It's not that we don't build relationships or that we don't care for people, that we don't do life with people. We don't have to become someone's friend. We don't even have to be liked by them to tell them the truth and love. You know, I think it's a wonderful scheme of the devil, right, to delay. Well, I need to really get in and know them before I share the gospel. Or is it really, I don't really want to right now, so this is my excuse. I'll just keep building this relationship and maybe one day I'll build the confidence. Bobby spoke on that as well as you oftentimes hear maybe even on t -shirts, so share the gospel at all times and if necessary use words, foolishness. All the time use words. How else are they here? And then what about strangers on how we evangelize in personal evangelism? Is it okay to impose our views on them? Bobby gave a wonderful example, right? I'm a barber. I talk to people every day, all day. I talk to people till my brain hurts and I just want to be alone in a cabin for months. But I'm not called to do that, though, how badly I want to. But they will tell me everything. Stuff I don't even care to hear. Stuff I don't want to hear. It's because it just overflows, right? They want to talk about their sports car or their hobby or their wife or their kids. It's not all bad things, but it just overflows out of them. And they're going to tell you. They're going to tell you exactly what's on their mind. And so how many times have we heard professing Christians say, well, I don't want to impose my views on others. And we would impose our views if we saw someone fixing to get run over. We would snatch them. We'd help them. We'd grab them. We'd do what it took. I don't think we fully comprehend eternity and the holiness of God. And so, yes, we impose our views. The one true view, the only view. Brother, sister, you must be reconciled to God, for if you are not, you will meet Him in that final day. Jesus and the apostles, they preached primarily to strangers. We see that all throughout the gospels and the book of Acts. They didn't have to become their friends. They didn't even have to know their name to share the gospel with them. And we see specifically the example in John 4, the woman at the well. There was no friendship there. They met there at the well and the gospel was proclaimed. So that's personal evangelism. Secondly, and how we evangelize is oftentimes an open air. I've been with Bobby and been out with John. And I know some, even a guy or two here that's been willing to go with me. And I know Richard goes out on the streets as well. So open air preaching. And that's the public reading of scripture or the proclamation of the law or preaching of the gospel in an outdoor setting. This is Charles Spurgeon who said, Bobby shared this quote with me. I've read it before. I love it. This is what Spurgeon says. He says, no sort of defense is needed for preaching out of doors. But it would need a very potent argument to prove that a man had done his duty who has never preached beyond the walls of a meeting house. So just to explain that a little bit, if you didn't grasp it, saying there's no excuse, you don't have to have a reason to go preach on the street. But you'd have to have a really good argument to say why you always stand here and preach, but you've never went on the street. So we are called beyond the four walls. Love George Whitfield. So much history there. Read an abbreviated biography on him not too long ago. Just so convicting. He said, I believe I was never more acceptable to my master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. You know, I think we have some type of romanticized thought that like a long time ago everyone loved God or a long time ago it was like more peaceful or like a long time ago it wasn't as wicked as it is now. Not true. There's nothing new under the sun. There's always been haters of God. And when you read some of the accounts of George Whitfield, you know, he had dead cats thrown on him, had blood thrown on him, had people stand beside him and just clang drums while he was preaching. We've had things thrown at us and I'm sure put on us and such, but when's the last time you had blood dumped on you or a dead animal put on you? That's not to say that we oftentimes don't go through difficulties or hard things. We do. But don't have that romanticized view that, well, a long time ago it was easier. Brothers and sisters, it was not any easier than it is today. And then a principle manner by which God spread his word throughout the scripture was through the open air. And we see that. Noah, a herald of righteousness. Solomon, Ezra, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jonah, think of all the prophets. John the Baptist coming and preaching his message of repentance. Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Jesus, the disciples, Philip, Paul, Paulus, all them outdoor open air proclaimers of the good news of Jesus Christ. And preaching ultimately is a calling from God internally that should be confirmed by and a submission to one's local church. So by no means is this a lone wolf. Is this a, well, you know what I see oftentimes in some street ministers and those that are very evangelistic in their zeal is, well, everyone on the church is not on board. And so, you know, let's just ride off the church. I'm the only holy one. You know, it's just me. No one else wants to go. Maybe everyone's not called to go on the street. I think a lot are that don't. But maybe not everyone's called. Maybe that sister in the church that doesn't go on the street, she's called to just a ministry of prayer. And so we need to be plugged into the local church and be submitted to the local church. The Lord has oversight for us for a reason. So another way, as Bobby said, we, some guys, they're kind of more drawn to apologetics. And apologetics, again, is not the I'm making an apology, but it is a defense of a certain set of beliefs. But apologetics is not evangelism unless it includes the gospel message. And so this refutation of facts or, you know, this just debating for the sake of debating. Brothers and sisters, if it doesn't, if it's not grounded on Christ, the message of Christ is not heralded in it, it's not evangelism. Though it can bolster one's faith, though it can shut up often many that want to come with an argument, but many of those that you'll meet that want to have these arguments, they don't even really know what they're saying, most of them. They just, that's their defense, their defense of the gospel. They're trying to shut you down and turn you off and soothe their conscience. And so just a practical point of advice I can say when sharing the gospel with others is they're going to come at you with all kinds of angles of, well, can we trust the Bible? Or my cousin told me this, or I knew a professor that said this, or whatever it is. And that's fine, we can have those debates, we can bring apologetics into it. What we have to remember is we always have to circle back around to this question, is what are you going to do with your sins on Judgment Day? What are you going to do with your sins on Judgment Day? For the Christian, you'll stand closer than righteousness of Christ.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Black Exodus to MAGA with Brandon Tatum and John Solomon
"We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you've told us matter the most to you, life and religious liberty. Go to ACLJ .org right now and join us in the fight. Hey everybody today on The Charlie Kirk Show, John Solomon joins us and Brandon Tatum joins us. There is a resurgence happening in Black America. Watch closely. Get involved with Turning Point USA at TPUSA .com. That is TPUSA .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at TPUSA .com to join our educational movement that is TPUSA .com. Email me directly. Freedom at CharlieKirk .com. Become a member. Members dot CharlieKirk .com. That is members dot CharlieKirk .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created. Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust. Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is one of the most important investigative journalists in America. John Solomon from Just the News who also has a new shout on Real America's Voice every evening. You guys should check it out. John thank you for joining us. John walk us through the State Department emails, the memos that you've obtained and how that relates to Victor Shokin being back in the news cycle. Yeah I first interviewed Victor Shokin in the fall of 2019 and he said exactly to me what he said to Fox News last week and what is remarkable with that he's been incredibly consistent. Who's not been consistent? Joe Biden because Joe Biden has told us lots of things that have been unraveled to be untrue and some of them are big ones right. My family never got money from China. Yes it did. In fact Hunter Biden was going to plead guilty to like three, four, five, six million dollars in two years from China and not paying taxes on it. The laptop was disinformation. No it actually was a real laptop. I never talked to my son or his business partners about their business. Yes he did. He met with them at dinners, dialed into phone calls. The litany of falsehoods goes on and on but one of the enduring statements that Joe Biden has stuck to actually sustained all the way through the 2019 impeachment of Donald Trump and everything since the elections and even until this year. In fact just a few weeks ago he and the Washington Post and others were continuing to utter this line was yes I did fire. I did force the firing of that Ukraine prosecutor. I did meddle in Ukraine's internal politics and yes that prosecutor was investigating my son's company Victor Shokin but I had that my decision to get rid of him had nothing to by career officials. So given his record I went out to try to find the documents to see if that was true. It turns out there was a task force. This task force was made up of career justice treasury and state department officials and the national security council and together they made a recommendation in fall 2015 that Joe Biden shouldn't withhold the billion dollars. He should give the billion dollar loan guarantee because Victor Shokin was making adequate progress on an anti -corruption reform agenda. In fact the state department sent a wonderful letter to Shokin saying you're doing a good job that came from Victoria Nuland the top state department official for Ukraine affairs. So Joe Biden wasn't carrying out policy he changed the policy and it just so happened he changed the policy in a way that met his son's problem. His son as we know from his business partner Devin Archer was being pressured to deal with Shokin to slow down or stop the investigation. Well Joe Biden effectively did that when he fired the prosecutor by withholding a billion dollars he was told by career officials he should give to Ukraine. Pretty extraordinary unraveling of a story that Adam Schiff and all the impeachment managers and Joe Biden and the Washington Post fact checker and others imposed on the American people for four years. So John connect this also with this fake email account that Joe Biden also had Robert Peters and so what's what's strange about this is that he had a fake email address and it was at PCI .gov and so right it's a fake email but it's also a government email and multiple email addresses burner phones this Biden crime family actually might be more sophisticated than we ever gave them credit for. Yeah listen I think when you hear James Comer and Jim Jordan talk now that's the point they make and I think you just made it very effectively why do you need a burner phone why do you need three fake email addresses Robinware, JRWware and Robert L Peters if you're doing everything above board why are you forwarding things from your private account that are government official documents to your son what are those I first discovered these accounts in 2021 it's my lawsuit or it's my FOIA that led to the lawsuit yesterday and the discovery that there are now 5400 emails on these private accounts that are in the possession of the national archives the archives won't release that information why they had no problem releasing Donald Trump's information right but I what's interesting about this is in the few episodes that we've been able to find emails from these accounts what is Joe Biden doing he's forwarding sensitive government information from his government account his private account his private account to his foreign business pursuing son Hunter Biden I'll give you two examples one is in may of 16 just a few months after Joe Biden succeeded in getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired he has a call set up with the Ukrainian president who he pressured Petro Poroshenko that call and the scheduling of that call is sent to his son Hunter Biden who just happens to have an interest in what Petro Poroshenko did and in the country of Ukraine as he's working for Brisbane earlier there is a an embassy cable that comes out of Turkey Istanbul that tells the vice president there's about to be a secret release of a U .S. hostage a U .S. prisoner in Turkey who had long been held this is non -public information it's a sensitive moment letting this get out because Turkey may or may not do it right it's a it's a tender dry moment they want to be careful and what does Joe Biden do he forwards that information to his private account and then he sends it to his son again non -public government information has a little bit of the rings of Hillary Clinton and her private email server obviously there's some differences but Joe Biden has a Hillary Clinton problem he also has a problem with falsehoods and with clearly now getting his job by lying to the American people his last job interview during the debates all false information so so here's what doesn't make dot gov email address that's not a federal government email address that's a state of Pennsylvania email address that if you type in and it goes to like the Pennsylvania department of corrections so why does he have a Pennsylvania email address who made it for him and secondly the bear the buried lead here is that from an eeop eop ovp which means executive office the vice president the staffers obviously knew that this was the communique channel so who made a Pennsylvania based email address for a sitting vice president yeah we don't know the answer or whether that's an alias that refers to yet another account but it is clear that government officials were corresponding with it and then that account would forward at some time that and other accounts like it because there's three accounts that we identified they then get forwarded to another account so there's a lot of questions here sometimes an email address can look like something and it can be forwarding to another one we don't know the answer but the pattern is concerning why lie why have a burner phone why have uh multiple email accounts that you're doing government business on when you're trained when you first come into office you shouldn't do that uh there's something untoward and we don't know the full extent of it yet but Joe Biden's one thing we do know the story Joe Biden gave the American people during impeachment and since to get his job as president doesn't add up the fact contradicting conflict with what he's told us that's a big problem for a president heading into reelection with an already low popularity rating because of the fact that he's got a bad inflation uh bad inflationary economy uh has had major missteps on the world stage like the Afghanistan withdrawal an unpopular president with now the smell of corruption around him yeah it's very strange if you type in pci .gov then it goes to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections I mean so Joe Biden's not technically savvy enough to make his own email address so somebody made him an email anyway so if anyone out in the universe knows the story of why Joe Biden would have that he never was a senator from Pennsylvania he was a senator from Delaware he grew up in Scranton and so the private email he had was a government email address for Pennsylvania somebody has to answer for that okay so but despite all this John I want to play this piece of tape it's infuriating I think the evidence is overwhelming it's not a hard tough call let's start impeachment proceedings but Republican Don Bacon says nah I'm not convinced play cut 51.
Mark Levin
Judge Sets March 4, 2024, As Trump Trial Date in Election Interference
"Are extreme so I will decide March which 2024 is two months after the Department of Justice asked this is a phony fan dance in other words she gave DOJ and mr. Smith what they wanted this wasn't Solomon this wasn't Solomon a type decision this was a Marxist kind decision and so President Trump's lawyer rightly says we can't possibly prepare proper defense under the Constitution under this time frame well give it a shot she says why because the ability to appeal substantively the issue the President Trump might want to appeal which is he cannot possibly get proper representation legal or the lawyer cannot possibly give him the kind of representation he needs in other words ineffective counsel would be after the fact she knows this she's metabolical now as for moving the venue here's what she says she doesn't even read to comment on that yet but she's not going to she says I'll watch very carefully the jury and what but people have to say and so forth why and why is she doing that it's a setup because she knows Donald Trump is going to criticize the process in her and then she'll turn to Donald Trump's lawyers and say well the jury's it's you mr. president you're the one who's biased the jury against you it's sick it's Ocean Drive in Coney Island Ocean Drive is the only luxury in New York with a spectacular ocean view you wake up in the morning and breathe that ocean air I'll that you're gonna live ten years more when I became successful I want to live on the ocean if you have worked hard you deserve an apartment on Ocean Drive
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Trump Mugshot Merchandise? with Rudy Giuliani and Kane
"We are representing a second whistleblower from the FBI, Marcus Allen. Due to whistleblower retaliation by the FBI, I've been suspended without pay for over a year. Because of you, ACLJ donors, you get the best attorneys in the world. Hey, everybody found the Charlie Kirk show. Rudy Giuliani and Citizen Kane join us. Rudy Giuliani is going through a tough time right now. We have to back him. Email us your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk .com and subscribe to our podcast and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. We have a tendency on this show to ignore all the chatter from the Vichy French Republicans. When somebody is under attack unjustly, they always have a place on the Charlie Kirk show. We've done this over the last couple of weeks, especially, and we're going to keep on doing this. And America's mayor, a decent man, an honorable man, is under attack in a disgusting way. And I think we all have to rally behind Rudy Giuliani. Rudy Giuliani has done nothing wrong. Rudy Giuliani is under attack because he was loyal to Trump and loyal to the country. And he joins us now. Mayor Giuliani, thank you for taking the time. First, how are you doing? And your response now being booked in Fulton County, Georgia. Well, thank you very much, Charlie, for that introduction. And I respect you for doing this, not only for me, but for all of the other people that are unjustly charged who maybe don't get as much attention. I have the benefit of getting a great deal of attention for what's been done to me. I have tremendous experience in this area, and I've been through far worse than this. There are a lot of people going through it for the first time, and it's terrible. But it's almost impossible to describe if you were brought up like a normal American. I wake up mornings thinking I'm not in America. I wake up mornings thinking I'm in what used to be described as the Soviet Union or East Berlin or maybe even Nazi Germany. The idea that people can be charged based on politics, even if you just posit the following. Right now, we have under indictment based on the indictments of four different Democrat district attorneys, all very questionable different attorneys. The strongest and most powerful candidate of the opposition party for president, who was the prior president. Now, that never happened in America before because we're a democracy and a country of laws. It does happen in communist countries, fascist countries, Nazi countries and totalitarian states. If that doesn't frighten the hell out of us, nothing will. So, Rudy, walk us through, I mean, you in a different time, you were one of the top prosecutors on the planet going after actual RICO cases, actual gangsters. And for doing nothing wrong now, they are coming after you for the same sort of similar charge that you once prosecuted. They don't know RICO if it hit him across the face. No, they don't. I mean, they've made unbelievable errors. I wish that the professor who wrote this, Professor Blakey, could be here because I think he'd give him an F minus. You know, missing from the RICO case is the extortion. People say, well, is it organized crime? And actually, it's crime by a very large organization over a very long period of time that has at the core of it very serious extortion. For example, if Trump had called the AG and said, get me 11000 votes, which, by the way, the president meant out of the 200000 that you and I know was stolen. And I know that for a fact, because that AG had sitting in his desk a report that he was hiding that virtually says that. Now, nobody tells you that, but it came out eight months, eight months later with a John Solomon request. FOIA But in any event, it would have to have been magic words there, words like, if you don't do it, I'm going to break your legs. If you don't do it, I'm going to shoot your wife. Those are the cases I prosecuted, not cases where people are persuading, people are debating, people are even arguing. We're all entitled to do that because of the First Amendment. What we're not entitled to do is to threaten harm and we're actually entitled to threaten harm as long as we don't have the means to carry it out. But we didn't even get to that stage. So this is a ridiculous RICO case. It's a ridiculous case to start with. And the worst part of it is it's a frontal attack on the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It will deter other people from contesting elections that may very well have been stolen from them. And the only way they're going to find out is to go to court and aggressively argue their position. And this is in order to ensure a single party state. That's exactly right, Mr. Mayor. So I need to ask you, do you think that part of the reason they went so wide on the RICO is to try to get you to turn against Donald Trump in a multilevel kind of gangster type indictment? Do you think that's what they're trying to do here, Mr. Mayor? Yeah, I mean, they could get me to turn on Donald Trump and Donald Trump would turn out to be innocent. I mean, people say to me, are you going to cooperate? I'm happy to cooperate. I don't know a single damn thing that suggested Donald Trump committed a crime. You want me to tell you what happened? I'd be happy to tell you what happened. And look, I've already, Charlie, gone through my house being raided, my iCloud account taken for three years and spied on. And the day they took my iCloud account was the first day that I represented Donald Trump. And the day they gave it up was the day that I stopped representing him. So they took it in order to spy on Donald Trump. And then about eight months ago, they wrote a letter to the grand jury after costing me three or four million dollars in my law practice that there's no evidence over 20 years that I committed a crime. And then this Fannie Willis comes up with this garbage in Atlanta, which is me being a lawyer as well as Professor Eastman and the others. We were acting as lawyers. I mean, you used to think you got some protection for that. But Donald Trump has no First Amendment rights. Donald Trump has no right to counsel. I mean, they raided my law office. When I was a prosecutor, which I did a lot better than they ever did, I never raided a lawyer's office. Yeah, and I had lawyers representing the mafia, terrorists, Nazis. I had a lot better reason to do it than in an election dispute. So this is an assault on our Constitution. No one is exaggerating. And the president certainly isn't. When he says to people, it is very likely this administration continues. This can happen to you. So, Rudy, you're going to have to defend yourself. And in this particular venue, how can people help you with your legal fees and the costs associated with that? I'll get for you the exact place. But we have a legal defense fund, which they can help out with. It'll allow us not only to defend ourselves, but to become more aggressive and to go after them and try to get the information that they have. Because the strange thing is, Charlie, the crimes being committed here are being committed by them. I mean, this is Chapter 7. This is Chapter 7 in a book that begins with a Russian collusion. So that book has a conclusion, right? That conclusion is Democrats lying, Trump, Giuliani, Republicans telling the truth. And then there's another book, Improper Conversation with Ukrainian President Leading to Impeachment. That has a conclusion also. Democrats lying, particularly shifty -shift, Trump, Giuliani, Republicans telling the truth. Then we got the hard drive for which, if you go back and pick out the last debate, you see Biden accusing us, the president and I, of being Russian pawned. In fact, he calls me specifically, Rudy Giuliani, a Russian pawn. Well, that ends up 16 months later with Democrats and Biden lying, Trump, Giuliani and Republicans telling the truth. Now, I go on and on. There's no reason to believe that these aren't going to end up the same way. The sides didn't change here. I mean, the lifetime criminals, the Biden crime family didn't all of a sudden change and become honest. Believe me. If you could get that link or whatever for us so that we could promote it. I'll get the link for you. OK. Yeah. I just want to reiterate here on The Charlie Kirk Show, we are proud to be a place of political asylum. If you're under attack, you're going through a crisis and you're a good person. You are welcome on this program. Most of the Vichy French media run away. Oh, we don't want Rudy. We don't want that's not what we do here. One of the reasons why the left is taking over the country is we turn our back on our own far too easily. We're here to change that. Rudy Giuliani has done great service to this country and he is welcome anytime.
The Bible in a Year
"solomon" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"There's two things about this. Just to keep in mind, I came across a website that talked about how the large shield will be roughly equivalent of maybe $150 ,000 a piece, maybe not a modern equivalent, but $150 ,000 a piece for each one of these shields. And the smaller shields would be worth about $77 ,000 a piece, which is interesting for those 300, 200 large shields and 600 or 200 large shields and 300 small shields. It would be roughly $53 million for these shields. And someone had pointed out that, yes, that was, it's decorative and it's meant to kind of put on display the beauty, the power of the kingdom and of the king himself. But those also shields would be useless in battle. This person pointed this out. This shields be useless in battle and you kind of have the sense of, oh, so this is just for show. So when King Solomon is assembling and building the temple, he is doing it for the Lord because it is not just for show. I mean, you have the sense that through and through King Solomon is doing this for God himself. David has said, do this and his son is doing it and he's doing it for God, but all these amassing of other things. So, you know, so much gold that it says that, that, you know, gold counterfeit or silver counterfeit nothing in the days of King Solomon. You have the sense that, huh, who is King Solomon amassing all these other things for? Who is he building these or who is he creating these 500 shields of hammered gold for just be hung up in the house of the forest of Lebanon? You think, huh, is this a little bit, hmm, posturing, right, especially when it comes to shields. Again, as I mentioned before, shields be useless, gold shields be useless in battle because they're too heavy and they're too soft. And I wonder, is that what Solomon is becoming? Is Solomon becoming an image of strength, but who's not strong, right? Because King David, he was strong image of strength, but is King Solomon becoming an image of strength, but not actually strong, like 500 shields of gold images of strength, but not actually strong. And this is where we kind of begin to get to ask the questions and not the question to condemn King Solomon or to condemn anyone else, but to really expose our own hearts is where do I want to give off an image of goodness or holiness or wisdom or strength where it's because I don't believe that I'm wise or holy or good or strong, and we want to be truly wise. We want to be truly good and truly holy and truly strong and truly belonging to the Lord. And a that's key thing. What I want to do is I don't just want to give off for the Lord or for anyone else, an image of something if that's not who I actually am. And also there's times, right, of course, where we are weak and we are not as holy as we ought to be or good as we ought to be or wise as we ought to be. In that case, we say, okay, God, make my desire, make my internal reality match up with the desire of my heart, which is help me to become a holy person, a good person, a wise person and a strong person in your sight for my family, for my friends, for your church and for your glory. That's a great prayer. If I do say so myself, that's a great prayer to be able to pray. And so let's pray for each other for that exact thing. I am praying for you. Please pray for me. Please pray for each other. My name is Father Mike. I cannot wait to see you tomorrow. God bless.
The Bible in a Year
"solomon" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"Chapter 4 Confident plea for forgiveness from enemies To the choirmaster with stringed instruments A Psalm of David Be angry, but sin not. Commune with your own hearts on your beds and be silent. Offer right sacrifices and put your trust in the Lord. There are many who say, O that we might see some good, lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O Lord. You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound. In peace I will both lie down and sleep, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. Father in heaven, we thank you and give you praise. We thank you so much for the gift of your word. We thank you for the gift of peace and deliverance, Lord God, because you do, you deliver us from our enemies. Now, even when we're in distress, even when it seems like the world is crashing around us, even when it seems like there are obstacles and truly there are obstacles in our lives, you make us lie down and sleep, Lord God. When we can't sleep, when we cannot find rest, when our minds are so busy, are so scattered, and we feel so stretched, so thin, then we can realize that we need to rely upon your grace and your mercy. God, when we pray, deliver me from this thorn, deliver me from this trial, you speak to us the words you spoke to St. Paul. My grace is sufficient for you. Power is made perfect in weakness. And so, we acknowledge our weakness so we can accept your power, and we know it's true. Your grace is sufficient for every one of our days, for every one of our moments, and so we give you praise. In Jesus' name we pray, amen, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
The Bible in a Year
"solomon" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"To this podcast by clicking on subscribe in wherever, whatever app or whatever application you are listening to this Bible today. One thing to keep in mind is the fact that today we are going in 1 Kings, we're going to look at King Solomon building the temple. And there's a lot of dimensions, a lot of cubits involved in this. And so if you want to have kind of a little more accurate sense of like how to picture this, if you are anywhere near a computer, it might be helpful for you to pull up something like King Solomon's temple or dimensions of King Solomon's temple. And it would probably give you some images people have recreated that would say probably look something like this. That could just be helpful because chapter 6 is very detailed. It's great. It's awesome. But it sometimes is hard to picture because we're going to, I'm going to be giving you a word picture from the Bible, from 1 Kings chapter 6. And if you want to have the actual picture, just Google something like King Solomon's temple, dimensions of King Solomon's temple, images of King Solomon's temple, and it will give you a dimension and images and picture of King Solomon's temple. As I said, today is day 148. We're reading 1 Kings 6, 2 Chronicles 9, we're praying Psalm 4. The first book of Kings, chapter 6, Solomon builds the temple. In the 480th year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. The house which King Solomon built for the Lord was 60 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was 20 cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and 10 cubits deep in front of the house. And he made for the house windows with recessed frames. He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around. The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house. When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple while it was being built. The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third. So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar. He built the structure against the whole house, each story five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar. Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"solomon" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"Portions of the following program may contain pre recorded material. Do you regret essentially accusing the president of treason? Do you regret some of the things you have said? Well, I called his behavior treasonous wishes to betray one's trust to Aiden about the enemy and I stand very much by that claim. You are the former CIA director accusing the sitting president of the United States. It's not a private citizen. A lot of people here, the former CIA director, accusing the sitting president of the United States of treason. That's that's monument. That's a monumental accusation. Well, I think these are abnormal times. This book reveals everything, Obama's director of the CIA who actually voted for gas hole, the Communist Party, candidate. Yes, the Communist Party candidate for the presidency before he joined the CIA, John Brennan, accusing the then sitting president of treason which of course brings with it the death penalty. He hasn't been charged with treason, but yesterday he was charged by local district attorney, and we have crossed the Rubicon. What perfect person could we find to discuss the ramifications of not only yesterday's news, but also what we've witnessed in the last 7 years in America, a man who has dedicated his life to reporting the news being an investigative journalist without an agenda. He is now the head of his own media organization. It's called just the news dot com and he is of course our good friend John Solomon. John, welcome to America first one on one. Yeah, great to be with you. So I presume, given what you've done in your decades of work as a true journalist, as the author of most recently of this book, let's put it up on the screen so everybody can order it, fall out, nuclear bribes, Russian spies, and the Washington lies that enriched the Clinton and Biden dynasties. Yesterday's events didn't come as too much of a surprise to you, sadly. No, I think we've been inching towards this moment for 7 to ten years. The idea that we would create weaponize local prosecutors that George show us movement to get local prosecutors, fashioned in his own ideal ideology. The weaponization of federal law enforcement that we first saw with the Russia collusion case and continued. The ability to create false realities, which we saw throughout the 2020 election when intelligence community leaders like John Brennan told us that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation even though it wasn't. Or that one Hunter Biden had done in Ukraine was legit when it wasn't. And I think the ultimate evolution of that would be to get us into that kangaroo court sort of moment where a political score that should be resolved by American voters is instead inject it into the court system by a prosecutor who upgrades a misdemeanor to a felony 5 years after the statute of limitations had expired. I think Stalin and Lenin are looking going, wait, why didn't we think of that? And I think this moment has just been a slow train wreck unfolding in yesterday was the first crash moment. As somebody who's covered these issues for so long at various of the most prestigious or formerly prestigious organs, I'm curious because I find myself trying to answer this question and I don't have any certitude as yet..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"solomon" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"It. I'm the only one that can get the job done. I know exactly what has to be done. To imagine a more succinct precise of the challenge we face. But I would add one additional detail. Yes, it is the globalists that do not believe in the nation state, the westphalian order in national sovereignty. They believe in some one world conglomeration where they get to define the values that you are allowed to expose, but beyond that, there's additional wrinkle. It's not just that nation states are bad, that sovereignty is bad. There is one nation above all else that must be targeted for dismantling. And it's ours. It's not just the globalists, vice the nation states. That's just a part of the story. It's the globalists against America. Why? What's special about this nation? Because this is the only nation on Planet Earth. That recognizes why you are free. The source of your liberty, it's not something granted to you, a hundred, a thousand, 2000 years ago, it's not something deigned to be offered to you by the elite by a king O queen, a president or prime minister, this is the only nation where we say your liberty is derived from the fact that you are made in the image of God. That is why the globalists hate America most. The question that you have to ask yourself is what are you doing about it? The diagnosis is clear. President Trump is utterly correct. Are you just listening to talk radio? Are you doing more than that? What are you doing to politically take back your freedoms? Getting engaged. Now, before it's too late. I'm Sebastian gorka. This is America first and the Salem news channel. We have an incredible lineup for you today. The third will be the manhood hour with one of my Salem colleagues. John Sullivan has some incredible breaking news out of Wuhan in the very next segment. We will be talking national security with Jim carafano, my former White House colleague Boris Epstein and so much more. The number here, 8 three three three three gawker. Oh yeah. Happy patty's day. Follow us on all podcast platforms, subscribe today. It's free. Spotify, stitcher, Apple, iTunes, give us a 5 star review, we'll be back in a moment. Making sense out of today's nonsense. Here's doctor Sebastian gorka. So what we do every single day happy Friday everybody happy Saint Patrick's Day the number here is 8 three three three three gawker that's 833-334-6752 don't go anywhere, Phil Antoinette, Judy. And the rest we will get to your cause as soon as we've spoken to the great John Solomon, but first things first, what did you do? As a child with your pocket money. I had a wicked sweet tooth, also I loved my bicycle, so I'd always be getting things to upgrade my drop handlebar racer. His young girl, age 15 called Sarah. She saved her money for something else. I just wanted to say, I really admire your work with food for the poor each year. I have an envelope that I keep on my nightstand, and each time I do get some money, I put a little bit away throughout the year, maybe like a dollar or two. It's for food for the poor. And so this year I saved up $80 to give, and I'm not saying any of this to brag. I just wanted to encourage your listeners..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"solomon" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Solomon of Goldman Sachs on the future of bonuses and global Wall Street. We operate a business where every single year, we have to pay our most important asset, which is our people. It shouldn't be surprising to people watching the performance of the business this year that 2021 was an exceptional year. It was a record year for the firm. It was the highest at revenue year ever for the firm. 2022 is a different year. And so naturally, compensation will be lower. We're still early in the process of making those decisions, but just like every year, we pay for performance, and we will pay people based on the overall performance of the firm. And especially for our senior people, we consider the overall performance of the firm as we go through our compensation process. How do you balance also? This year you had been reintroduced the natural calling of headcount, the bonus discussion is not just here. It's obviously everywhere on Wall Street. How do you balance that with kind of the story that we saw just a year ago, this talent war that we saw this booming market for people. And what's happening this year going into next gen to tougher times. How do you balance retention as well as those more difficult conversations? Well, we take a very long-term view with everything we do. And you have to adjust to the environment. And so you make changes around the margin. But at the same point, you take a long-term view and you try to think about your business over time. We're extremely focused on surveying our clients and our core businesses. Our clients have been active. And so it's important for us to strike the right balance in protecting our franchise and making sure that our people are paid for performance. On the other hand, we're in an environment that's a tougher environment broadly, performance is not as strong. And so we balance them. Catch more
Bloomberg Radio New York
"solomon" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The Bloomberg surveillance podcast, a conversation with David Solomon of Goldman Sachs on the future of bonuses and global Wall Street. We operate a business where every single year, we have to pay our most important asset, which is our people. It shouldn't be surprising to people watching the performance of the business this year that 2021 was an exceptional year. It was a record year for the firm. It was the highest at revenue year ever for the firm. 2022 is a different year. And so naturally, compensation will be lower. We're still early in the process of making those decisions, but just like every year, we pay for performance, and we will pay people based on the overall performance of the firm. And especially for our senior people, we consider the overall performance of the firm as we go through our compensation process. How do you balance also? This year, you'd reintroduce the natural calling of headcount, the bonus discussion is not just here. It's obviously everywhere on Wall Street. How do you balance that with kind of the story that we saw just a year ago, this talent war that we saw, this booming market for people. And what's happening this year going into next gen to tougher time. How do you balance retention as well as those more difficult conversations? Well, we take a very long-term view with everything we do. And you have to adjust to the environment. And so you make changes around the margin. But at the same point, you take a long-term view, and you try to think about your business over time. We're extremely focused on surveying our clients and our core businesses. Our clients have been active. And so it's important for us to strike the right balance in protecting our franchise and making sure that our people are paid for performance. On the other hand, we're in an environment that's a tougher environment broadly performance is not as strong. And so we balance them. Catch more of this and other conversations on today's Bloomberg
The Flow Up
"solomon" Discussed on The Flow Up
"That direction. Don't try something you realize. Yeah, I like it. So don't try to do something that was uncomfortable or it wasn't purposeful. So the goal is to have enhanced the sexual experience. If you start and that wasn't purposeful towards enhancement sexual experience, going to different direction, but if you try something and you both liked it and it enhanced that sexual experience, continue.
The Flow Up
"solomon" Discussed on The Flow Up
"Right, just being in the moment of trying to submerse myself and just trying to learn more as a person about learn more about the culture of rope and then just learn more about myself and that connection, I'm a connection hole. Learn what that meant and my actually meant that, hey, okay. So what if I'm weird and I'm like tying women up, I'm just buying women who like to be tied up and he's gonna live like that way. And so that's how much I already started. Wow. Really, really beautiful. I mean, you know, you walk in a year purpose and that is a part of other people's story and their journey. I have the pleasure of speaking with someone that actually had a service from you. And I'm going to talk to her a little bit more. But you know, one of the things she has had so many good things to say about her experience, but one of the most things that I found fascinating was how much she talked about how this rope session with you was a part of her almost spiritual journey. Correct. And how, you know, it had just played a piece you want me to. She brought you to all. Ari. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah. You know, she just talked about how intricate what or intentional what her experience was for you, how it kind of played a part in her spiritual journey and how, you know, she was evolving into the woman that she was becoming and where she was in her life. And so she was like, yeah, I go to like once a year or something. And I was like, wow, that's pretty pretty dope that you, you know, that you block out this time for, you know, this amazing experience with this unique experience with you. I mean, it's so unique. You don't see a lot out of about these services. How is somebody even go about? No, I know you're in Chicago based. So for anybody who is in Chicago, we're definitely going to put some information on how to get in contact with Solomon, if you're curious and I'll give you opportunities at the end to buy talk a little bit more about it. But for people who maybe in a different city and maybe are not here, how would they get in contact with, how would they get started with find someone to kind of have similar experiences with? It won't be anything like Pixar's movie. But so one usual Google's usually a social media as you just search engines where you get that was a bit more accessible. So I would bring out to the people you know who are kinky and then ask them. So if you know someone who's kind of into the BDSM lifestyle that kinky, an expert, but they know someone who does rope, you know, kind of back through that process. And then you can go through that as maybe use like a flat line. Which is a social media platform for the yes sir. And Superman. Twitter is kind of Google shabari or wrote bondage. There are some awesome people that move it around. There's my dash. There's Atlanta has a bunch of people Texas has some amazing people in New York out in LA there are some amazing people up in the northeast and Portland area in those amazing people. So a lot of times users hashtags that you see. Sabari or rope bondage or naughty life and those things that go through things you may see. And just kind of use that to find someone to find someone who looks like you in the position that you would like to be in. So if you're a curb your woman and you want to be suspended, find someone find the photo of the woman who was suspended like you want to be suspended and kind of go through those hashtags until you find either the model or the person to be at the rope or the photographer. They have a conversation with them. And they should be able to help you move on to the next. Right. Unfortunately, there's no real directory where you can go get tied up dot com or something like that. Most of us know other people who know other people. Right. If you say, so if you're in a place, like say, if you're in the Texas and you're like, I don't want to be tied up by a man, you know, he went in there under a black and I was like, oh, that's impossible in Texas. Shocking bliss is in Texas. That was an amazing women. If you were to land and you're like, you may want to be with rema, if you want to do something on the more psychedelic side, maybe job to some dashing time. So LA, my goodness. My LA people don't kill me. I'm sorry. I just have some LA listeners. I know more than models, but out that way. But there are some dope people out there where there's people in Northern California. There's a system out in the Oregon area. It's like the house of good and evil. She's an awesome, I think her name is all goodness gracious. Please don't. It is old. And I call her oh, but she's dope. And so there are people you know. And it works the other way around sometimes people find me through other people. And that way. That is. It's bigger than I thought. I'm thinking I'm having this ice cream in the conversation with you. Obviously, this is really good. But you're just dropping in so many names. Right. You know, you're aware of it. So you just really realize how many people are out here living their best life. And you wouldn't know unless you look for it. So it sounds like you got to have some patience and some due diligence. Don't just hop on the fur. Don't do anything. Don't just hop on the first person talking about the entire life depends on it. Does it make.
The Flow Up
"solomon" Discussed on The Flow Up
"Hey, what up folks? Welcome to another episode of the blow up and explore the space for self healing practices. I am your host, jabril Simpson. I'm a yoga and reiki practitioner, Taro reader, wife, mama three. Seeker of all things healing. In this episode, I take a deep dive into the art of rope bondage. I sit down with a nap tag Solomon Abrams here in Chicago, and he explains the purpose of bondage, how to explore the practice safely and how to get started for those that are curious about the art. This one I'm excited and a little bit shy to share, but we gonna go ahead and get through this because I think that there's just so much good information that a lot of women and other folks can really use and maybe add to their own spiritual practices or healing practices, whatever. I think that somebody can get something that somebody gonna need to hear something today, okay? So I don't know who needs to hear this, but we gonna go home with this show. So I'm excited. Thank you for tuning in to episode number 9, healing with rope bondage, beat your installment aprons. Hello, it has been a minute since I have recorded an episode of the flow of. So I definitely want to say, hey, how are you? How have you been? I'm well, and I'm so glad to be back on the microphone. This is healing in itself just preparing for the episode's producing the show recording. I need this. So thank you for listening and further validating this show. This episode, I want to just be completely transparent with you. I've been holding onto it for a while. And I've been doing that for a couple reasons. One, I had some audio technical difficulties when I recorded with my guest Salomon. We recorded here in Chicago and in office and south shore and everything was well, the conversation just flowed. It went on for about two hours. It was just so good. And when I got home and started editing, I noticed that I did not save before exiting, so I exited the program that I recorded without saving. So I was really, really bummed about it. It was very, very frustrating. However, I am thankful that I did have some type of backup. This was actually the first episode that I recorded live on YouTube as well. There's a live stream of this episode that is unedited on YouTube, so if you're curious too, if you're into that type of content, then please feel free, it'll be in my show notes to check it out, but because I did that I was able to hold the microphone up to my computer to my YouTube channel and rerecord for two hours into the program. So it isn't the best quality that I prefer that I'm used to, but I hope that you steal are able to enjoy the show. Now for the second thing that I was holding onto this show was because I'm a little shy. This is one of the first times that I'm openly talking about a topic that is taboo and the last episode that I recorded healing crystals for better sex. I believe this episode number 8, even though you know I was expressing myself and my sensuality on that episode it wasn't quite as deep as we get here. So one I was a little shy and when I was talking with my husband about it and you know get preparing for the episode, he was listening and looking at the graphics and he kind of mentioned like, you know, people may think that I'm into rope bondage or that I've experienced this and I was like, really? Like I'm just exploring and talking about it, but he's like, yeah, I think people are gonna think that you are in this lifestyle. And I sat with that and I was like, well, I can't live my life based off of how people think of me or what they're gonna think. I can't make my decisions based off of that. And I was really proud of myself for doing that because I do care what people think. I really, really do. So just to be able to stand in and be like, hey, I gotta move and I gotta do what I wanna do. Is a good feeling for me. And it definitely activated my throat chakra. So even though I'm shy, I'm still releasing this episode. And I do want to say for those who may want to know, like, okay, did you try this? Are you into this? I'll give you this type of answer, okay? So how I got curious about. I'll tell you how I got curious about rope bondage. It wasn't from Fifty Shades of Grey. I never even saw that movie. So I may be a little bit late to the party, but one day my husband came home with some pink rope and a book called the artist shabari or something about shabari. And he was like, can I tie your hands? Can I tell your ankles? Let me try this tie on you. And I was looking to him like, what? What a thing your head like when did you even get curious about this? I've never heard you talk about this. It was just hilarious. And for those of you who know my husband, one day he may come home with a rope another day he may come home with chickens. You just, you don't know what you're gonna get with this guy, okay? Every day is something where every week he's like Kramer coming through the door with something some new project or toy. But he had an interest in it and he did a couple knots on my feet and you know, I was like, okay, this is cool. This is pretty. And going along with, that's happening, right? And then I'm on social media and I see this guy silent Abrams. We actually have a few mutual friends, but I see his artwork, his photography, and it's very afrocentric sensuality and he uses a lot of rope in his photography and there's these intricate ties in just amazing graphics that I was like, wow, this is so beautiful. And the women that he shot, they were.
The Archive Project
"solomon" Discussed on The Archive Project
"A far more reasonable piece. It's difficult for me to talk about. How important song of solomon was is to me. I've never reread it front to back scared. Perhaps of losing that initial spark of joy and yet there are still whole suad. This event that i can quote from memory lines like i am not a strange woman. I am a small woman. I am small. Because i was pressed small or my favorite. If you surrendered to the air you could ride et. The book slipped into my consciousness. As.
Run It Again
"solomon" Discussed on Run It Again
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KOA 850 AM
"solomon" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
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