I Solemnly Swear (Hebrews 6:1-3)

a church that stand if you would and look to the screens as we read this together small portion of scripture that's okay we have a little bit of a time together tonight before communion and this is a great setup for the following weeks in Hebrews chapter 6 Hebrews chapter 6 one of the most controversial chapters in the New Testament but it doesn't have to be that way um I'll read verse one if you read verse 2 I'll read verse 3 and that will be enough for tonight therefore leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ let us go on to Perfection not playing again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of Faith toward God is [Applause] verse 3 and this we will do if God permits father again bless we pray in Jesus name amen you may be seated so now we come to this portion of scripture where the author which I personally it's irrelevant but I personally believe it's Paul I think there's a reason why he left his name off of the epistle it's directly focused on the listen watch me on the Jewish Hebrew believer in Jesus as Messiah who have now come to this point of their walk where there's a need for this epistle to be written thus the epistle to the Hebrews these are Hebrews Jews who are worshiping Jesus as Messiah but some and listen just like any generation of Believers for the last two thousand years some began to waver we learned last week that some became what dull of hearing and so the warning is written in this chapter that we need to press on don't give up don't slow down in fact the title of the message is I solemnly swear what is it that we would solemnly swear if we were in court we would put our hand on the Bible I think do they still do that and we would say I solemnly swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God and now you're under oath and uh that carries with it a great weight if you believe it or not it's irrelevant uh God's real you put your hand on the Bible and God takes seriously every word that comes out of our mouth and when those Hebrews back then said I believe that Jesus is the Messiah what happened over time is that they began to waver they began to gravitate toward back religious practices now listen people do that today there's the Temptation in people's lives and some people cave into that where they might come out of a profound uh what's the word liturgical practices where it's it's there's a regiment to their religion are you with me that they do certain things in the morning in a certain way and they pray certain prayers and they they celebrate or they practice certain things at certain times and it's somewhat robotic uh but for them they find comfort in the routine and um they even prefer their prayers to be written out or have somebody write their prayers out in advance it's it's the practice of it and the danger of that is you can lose the personality between you and God uh the intimacy when things get routine uh listen one of the things about love uh actual love love that is uh can I put it like this love that concerns you so what do you mean by that that um you're a husband and a wife and you're you're married and you're in love and how do you know some people will be married and they'll say I don't know if we're still in love with each other well why do you even think that why do you say that well because I don't get goosebumps anymore that's not love is not measured regarding Goosebumps well when he used to look at me I got this tingle that's called infatuation and it ended somewhere between 18 to 22 months after you guys met the emotions began to settle down you can't live in a constant state of that kind of existence listen some of you may be thinking what are you crazy Jack that's one love no no listen if that's what you think love is then you don't know love love is after all the feelings have settled in think about it things have become comfortable that's not a bad thing it's how you manage it and your relationship with one another needs to be managed and it needs to be administered to and taken care of and nurtured and over the years your relationship of love goes through what I'll just call a Sanctified or Divine evolution it's not about the giggles and it's not about the tickle it's all about appreciating that person that you have decided to love it's a decision you make and listen it's that kind of commitment that keeps the marriage together a lot of young people today are not aware of this they think it's it's all about uh the feeling and so they wind up going from one person then they get bored and they go to another person and there's this big rush and a big high and then the emotions wear down after 18 to 22 months and then they trade that person in for somebody else and they're constantly trying to ride the wave thinking that love is up here when in reality that is all the infatuation and newness of it When Love is an actual decision I decide I choose to love you that's why in a wedding service we would have in the ceremony that I would ask the wife and husband to be do you choose today to forsake all others and make your pledge to this person all the days of your life and they say I do and the good thing about what we do here in our weddings is that you can't get married here unless you go through through a pre-marital uh training or or a class why because so many things happen where the feelings listen when you're when you're spiking on the feelings there's a good chance that you don't get down to the big questions and the big answers everything is just oh he walks a certain way you think it's amazing she walks a certain way you think it's amazing she moves her hair and you almost pass out that stuff changes it doesn't mean it's bad you start appreciating other things look I'll make my point it's kind of kind of tough but here it is you can move your hair and you can smell fantastic but if you're a rat you know if you're just a creep to be around that's all flushed out in 18 to 22 months because you know what you may be an incredible good looking person but after a while you know you grow on the person and what grows is like a monster on their face it's like I don't know if I think you're so hot anymore why because you're getting to know the person and you realize where's all the tingles well you make a decision right there listen it's it's the decision you make to love who and how that relationship operates and is it christ-centered and it's a beautiful thing it's amazing thing yesterday I was talking to a police officer and it was all good it was all good and uh and he said um uh how long have you been married I said 43 years coming up uh in a few months and he said 43 years have you wait to the same person I said yeah do I look that old that I yes same person and he said that's amazing he said uh I'm on my second marriage but we've reached I think he said something like 20 23 years and and um he began to tell me about his life and I was honored by the way that he just began to share and uh what was beautiful about it here's this big Burly guy and he began to reveal his heart to me and I was moved by that that he felt comfortable enough to do that but it was neat because after a few moments he got down to the issues of life and the relationship and so what's happened in the book of Hebrews when we come to chapter six is that there are those that are now considering the departure from this relationship with Jesus and going back to where they had the predictable relationship of religion and so this chapter will be very timely for us because there are those in our world today at a time like this that are considering giving up on Jesus uh giving up on faith and what that looks like is this I don't want to read the Bible anymore I want to feel something I I don't want to wait for him I want to uh I want to do my own thing or I want to go back to what is where I can touch it give me a give me a statue give me an icon give me some form of something that it doesn't require this invisible Faith to know God I want to have some sort of external experience I want to talk to somebody as though I was talking to God so give me a person are you hearing me people these are things that people either hang on to or they can revert back to other than a personal intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and so we look at this in our time together very very quickly and it's this Hebrews 6. we look at verse 1 where there the scripture says therefore meaning based upon all these previous five chapters of what was said therefore leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ let's move on this is a challenge he's saying there's things that are basic there's things that are part of the relationship let's move on now not in a bad way not as though I'm tired of it let's move on no as Believers that is settled that's the foundation let's now move on God wants you to move on as a Believer to the next level of your development of your growth in Christ and I love how the the author writes it he puts it in the sense that leaving the discussion of look the elementary principles of Christ this is the absolute Basics we're going to grow up now I made a comment last week something about and uh people liked it and people hated it and that was this that a lot of people in times of trouble found out because they never never went on beyond the elements the basic elements of Christ that uh some people discovered that they had in fact uh been in a church that was really more of a dairy remember I said that rather than a church they were raised on milk and they never went beyond the milk they never got into the meat of the word this is what he's saying now that's why the word there in your Bible is therefore in light of what I I he said in chapter 5 therefore let's leave those things and press on it's not that those things are to be forsaken no they're to be built upon and that's very critical so what he says there in verse 1 let us go on to Perfection You Oughta circle the word Perfection because the word Perfection means completion or maturity it doesn't mean sinlessness you're going to be happy to write that down it doesn't mean sinlessness it doesn't mean that you're going to be sinless in this life let us go on to completion hey we started building a house so to speak right laid the foundation framed it uh got all got some of the the the the door jams the headers in things like that let's put a roof on it and then you stop no you finish it and that's what he's saying the work that God has begun in you he's going to finish that I love that Philippians 1 6 you might want to write it down it won't be on the screen Philippians 1 6 tells us that once God has begun a good work in you he will complete it so right now for all of us we need to stop on this so to speak construction site and ask ourselves has God started a work in me can you say at some point in your life God started to work in your life now somebody might say well God did a work in my life a long time ago but I strayed away then come back somebody might say today God started to work a few weeks ago or a few months ago but it's not going uh so well hang on well I I don't I don't see much progress stay at it you know Peter put it this way when he was challenged when the disciples heard that Jesus said by the way it was code word when Jesus said unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you you'll have no part of me now Christianity is not some sort of freakish cult uh cannibalistic religion in fact later on he said the words that I spoke their spirit and their truth and the Bible says some of the disciples who heard that turned and walked away from Christ and never walked with him again and then Jesus turned to Peter and said are you going to go away also and Peter said Lord to whom shall we go where do we go you alone here it is he qualified it you alone have the words of eternal life that's awesome what a beautiful thing so you hang in there and know this that he's hanging on to you I believe that God's got a grip on the true believer's life that he will not let go and I I stress True Believer we're gonna have a lot of fun in this chapter and I'm going to get a lot of mail I did this uh many years ago I did this chapter a study on this chapter many many years ago and I got so much mail from pastors uh telling me how wrong I was to encourage the people that they could be so secure in their relationship because if they're if they believe that they're that secure in that relationship they'll abuse it you hear what I'm saying that's pretty scary if somebody in that level of authority as a pastor says you can't let the people know that because if they know that God's got them in his hand and they're safe in Christ they might abuse that what kind of a weird thought is that no you're going to find out that there is the reality that you can be flirting with religion for years if not decades this is why trials are so important and then finally something flushes it out you can be a pastor you can be a priest you can be an evangelist you can be the most respected Christian businessman in town but something happens where your foundation is shaken because what we're looking at in verse 1 was not laid well and an engineer designed time has come where the testing takes place the fire comes and our faith is refined this is not God trying to knock us off the perch so to speak this is the reality that comes up against faith and every single one of us as Believers will be tested in some area of our faith is it true is it real listen friends as painful as trials are just know this trials are sent to us by God himself engineered and will not go beyond what is necessary listen Temptation that's a whole different story Satan hits us with temptation God doesn't tempt us trials are to refine our faith and there's nothing worse than failing a trial you want to know why because God loves you and God's got a hold on you if you fail in the fiery trial he'll let you go to recovery and you'll get better and then you'll go through it again and uh he'll take you through it again until you pass sometimes his messages hang on like a think of a fiery torch just blowing you you know all over you and your hair is on fire and you're scorched and and when it's over you're and the smoke is coming off of you and and the Lord announces you made it and uh congratulations and you now move to the next level of spiritual maturity because you've endured this fiery trial and so that's going on to completion where we learn how immaturity because we've gone beyond the basic foundations that Christ Jesus has for us and we realize wow you can hang on to those promises they're real they they come to pass God's going to keep his word and uh we're living in a time like that right now it's way harder listen in fact I have to I'm going to take this poll in here right now I bumped into somebody today they came by the church today for uh for some reason I don't even know why they were here but uh had the opportunity to bump into them and um our our relationship Within uh Calvary Chapel at Costa Mesa goes back 40 years 40 years how many Christians do you know that you that you knew 40 years ago that are still walking with Jesus today this is a sobering thought all of a sudden maybe you've been a Christian 20 years and you had friends who were Christians 20 years ago where are they now it's a very interesting question because as time goes on it almost seems as though as time goes on there's less of those who we once knew there's always the family of God around you and I love that by the way some of them have come from other places I mean it this way they come from other experiences other places and they're they're like my age okay they're my age and we've got similar time frame stories I accepted Christ and in my late teens when I was 19 this person might say oh I was 21. and we've got similar timelines but then there are those who we can look back and say they gave up they quit they went away the Bible tells us and first John or second John John says that these are they who were with us but they were really not of us they were they were hanging out with us but they were not of us they went back into the world it's amazing to me that when Paul comes to Second Timothy and uh chapter four that's the closing writing of the Apostle Paul he's nearing the end of his life he's now been given the symptoms of death he is going to be beheaded in Rome he's in the memory team prison and uh he goes down a list and by the way he says after uh this guy has gone to uh thessalonica and this one has gone to this location and the other he makes a comment about a man who a decade or two earlier he says Demas is with me then he says that Demas uh was ministering and then the last time Paul mentions Demas he says Demas has abandoned me having loved this prison World he's gone back into it can you imagine traveling and ministering with the Apostle Paul don't you think you kind of like automatically are going to be going to heaven just by virtue of the fact you've been so convinced by what you've seen and heard no it's not true but then Paul says only Luke is with me wow listen there's a lot of friends and there's a lot of foes in our Christian experience things change some people they get the feelings evaporating and so they think well I'll just go back to some new Rush so then you're going to ask the natural question in this chapter do they lose their salvation Pastor Jack no they didn't they never had it but they sang with us yes they did didn't they and they had a better voice than you didn't matter did it oh but they I saw them lead people to Christ know what you saw was them restating the word of God which has power and people responding to the word of God not them listen Matthew chapter 7 tells us that in the day of judgment there will be those who have preached the gospel cast out demons and did many wonderful works and Jesus will say to them I never knew you depart from me you workers of iniquity they did Miracles what about listen there have been people who have been healed by Cults who use the name of Jesus and pray in Jesus name and they're healed by who the cult or Christ having Mercy on that person and healing them it's wild it's amazing God uses and responds to his word and if you want to get deeper into that look at the bizarre Ministry of Balaam in the Old Testament what a weirdo the guy the guy was a prophet of God but we're not sure tonight if the guy wound up in Hell or not isn't that weird so your relationship is all important to say the least let us go on to completion watch this not laying again the foundation of Market down number one repentance from dead Works listen Church he's announcing to us repentance from dead Works should be a given that's passe we've done that we move on now we came to Christ you understand that he died in the crust for your sins this this challenge right here is meaning this get up now and move forward because all that stuff that you were concerned about at the earlier moments of your salvation has been taken care of in Christ Press On let's go wow I mentioned Paul earlier but wouldn't have been awesome well I say wouldn't have been awesome hopefully we could keep up with them but the Apostle Paul remember John Mark couldn't keep up with Paul that was quite a rift and you can read about that in the book of Acts but uh wouldn't have been great though to have Paul look at you one morning imagine getting you you wake up and you're just not feeling right and Paul might say what's wrong with you I just don't feel right well who cares how you feel um I don't feel so hot myself but you know what today's the day that the Lord has made isn't that what the Bible says we're going to rejoice and be glad in it so get happy and get happy now we've got a lot of ministry to do and I don't want you dragging your mug around because if you drag your mug around then I'm going to feel like dragging my mug around and we're not going to get anything done for the Kingdom so listen by the looks of the Sundial on my wrist we're running out of time let's go and um I love that I love that challenge so we've dealt with repentance yes repentance is the beginning of the Gospel look at this next thing he says and of Faith toward God this is a given this has been tested the author of the book is saying you've got faith in God yes I do right on let's go let's move on now let's build upon that let's do Romans 10 17. faith comes by hearing hearing the word of God and you just move on let's keep going and you look at verse 2 introduces us to the third challenge I don't know if you got those first two challenges number one repentance from dead Works number two is Faith toward God and in verse 2 is the third Challenge and the baptism move on from the baptism or the doctrine of baptisms notice in your Bible it's a it's a an S plural baptisms interesting challenge right think of it baptism is what water water is identification of our life in Christ baptisms this leads to the Holy Spirit coming into you as a believer listen it's not complicated watch my hands because I I lack the ability to say it so you have to let my hands do the talking the moment you come to repentance the Holy Spirit according to First Corinthians 12 baptizes you into the body of Christ that is a singular event one time never needing to happen again the Holy Spirit does the baptizing into the body of Christ read First Corinthians 12 later that your homework when you got saved when you repented of your sins and trusted Christ the Holy Spirit when he came into your life listen simultaneously things happen watch are you guys with me the moment he moved in at your moment of faith came in to seal you seal s-e-a-l seal you with his presence or the word is stamp he stamped you think of that and by the way that stamping of the holy spirit is a down payment it is a reservation made upon you unto the day of redemption Ephesians chapter 1 and 2 tells us this he stamped stamp you uh and holds you in reserve until the day of redemption the day of redemption is when you and I either get raptured or resurrected check that out it's the totality of the Body Soul and Spirit so remember some of us long enough do they even do this anymore lay away does anybody do it is it even a thing anymore somebody say some of you are saying yes and some of you are saying no do you remember a place called uh Kmart or zody's [Applause] white front man listen to some of us we're going to start talking about Geritol in a moment used to Babel it's amazing I think it's fantastic it's certainly biblical is that you could you could go into those stores you could pick something off the shelf or try it on and it fits but you can't afford it so what you do is you put it on layaway and you make sort of a down payment of some sorts in some places it's just you boy can you believe in America there was once a time when you wrote your name on a piece of paper and you tore this thing and they put it on the item and they gave you a number and that was enough that was enough and they held it for you until you had enough money to come and receive the purchased possession it was it's amazing it was considered purchase when you put your name on it that's the word seal the Holy Spirit sealed you into the day of redemption the Holy Spirit put you on layaway until Christ picked you up and that's true for every believer that's true for any one of us who trust Christ and so in that moment First Corinthians 12 the spirit of God baptizes you into the body of Christ the church but then listen Jesus after the day of Pentecost Jesus baptizes the believer with the baptism of the Holy Spirit listen it's the baptism of the holy spirit that means Jesus does it are you following me the Holy Spirit put you in the church the body of Christ and from that moment on it's Christ who baptizes you with the power of the Holy Spirit it's not that you get saved again you're saved the spirit of God comes upon you if you want to look at this in more detail read Ephesians chapter 5. and look up the word in the Greek Epi e-p-i the spirit of God came among the Believers do you remember this on the day of Pentecost they were already saved but the spirit of God Came Upon them and the Bible tells us trying to explain it to us like tongues of Fire something was going on we don't know what it was but it appeared over their head and it was a manifestation of the first event ever but not the only obviously of the spirit of God coming upon the Believers for power you want to ask the Lord to baptize you with the power use whatever term you want by the way some of look this is uh this this church is full of people from every denomination of Christianity some people use the word baptism of the Holy Spirit some people who use the word filling of the Holy Spirit or the endowment or the endowment of power or uh whatever there's a lot of terms and people get all tripped up in the different terms all I know is this the moment I trusted Christ the Holy Spirit moved inside of my life and sealed me until the day of redemption that's why the Bible says God will never leave your forsake you how does that happen the Holy Spirit stays and then once that happens when you make yourself available for service listen I'm going to tell you something right now a lot of Christians it's not a secret I just feel like I feel like if I say it this way everyone's going to lean in to listen if Christians got off their southern region and decided to step out and serve God's people Watch What Happens are you are you terrified yep do you feel helpless uh-huh are you trembling certainly that's when he shows up when you say I don't think I can do this God and he goes guess what you can't that's why I need you to ask me for my power Jesus said if you ask for the holy spirit will your father give you a scorpion how much more will your father give you the spirit if you ask and so you ask him and so many Christians have never experienced the power of God because they've never put themselves on the place of needing power why would God give you some experience of power when you plan on doing nothing with it it's like God give me a chainsaw and uh you wake up in the morning there's a brand new chainsaw sitting out there in your backyard and you just go my that's a beautiful chainsaw isn't it glorious you call your friends come and look at my chainsaw and you never start it you never use it oh God give me the I want to know more about you God I want to be I want to see your power God and God is saying well why don't you get up and make yourself available you know think about it Moses is at the at the Red Sea and he's gets right to the water the Bible says and he stops and there's roughly we estimate two to two and a half million people behind them Israel and Moses goes up and he turns to the people and says stand still and see the salvation of the Lord it's an epic moment and God says Moses why are you doing this put your foot in the water and go quick the Egyptians are coming isn't that great it's so practical Moses doesn't know what to do there's water the enemy's coming stand still and see the salvation of the Lord and God says stalking and run isn't it great and as soon as Moses got into the water it parts Joshua crossing over into Israel from Jordan to the promised land the whole prescription is given this is how it's going to happen this is the way it's going to go but the priest as soon as the priest put their foot in the water then it dried up well I'm not going to do anything until God shows me then guess what you're not going to do anything you want his power sure do I want to see some action then you've got to show up make yourself available Faith toward God doctrine of baptisms spirit of God coming upon you and by the way that is according to Ephesians 5 that is an ongoing prayer request that God will answer be filled with the Holy Spirit but in the Greek is it is the Pres it's the continuance it's be being filled with the Holy Spirit and just to settle down some of your nerves somebody might say and you know what and you and you know what the manifestation of that reality is don't you it's speaking in tongues no it's not it doesn't say that it happened before that way but in equal manner reported in the Bible is the Holy Spirit came upon them and they spoke the word of God with boldness boldness courage is one of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit and of course always the fruit of the Holy Spirit when he has a control on your life and then he says uh in verse two in the lane on of hands it's beautiful the lane on of hands what does that mean that the more Ministry in small group settings is most often where it's applied the lean on of hands simply means this it's the recognition that I see something in your life or you see someone you see something in someone's life and you you know what the gifts of the holy spirit are for example you know that this particular person has as the remarkable ability you see it happening they don't even realize it but they have an amazing amazing gift of Mercy it's not human it's it's beyond very merciful and the Bible says that Mercy is a gift of the Holy Spirit one of the gifts that God gives to the church and you see that and you can you can lay hand physically lay hands on someone and pray for them you can see that somebody might be called to the ministry and the elders are called or the church is called to lay hands on them and pray we're told in the Bible to lay hands and pray for the sick you know you think about it Christianity is a very touchy religion very touchy Faith I've heard that before though also about this church people will say oh I'll invite people you should come visit you should come visit they come and visit I see them later at Home Depot or whatever did you come yeah I came they had a lot of hugging going on there the people would say that there's very people were just like what people hug have you noticed that here it drives people nuts uh that's the only thing I've ever known I got saved at Calvary Costa Mesa I got hugged and then I started hugging you and then you started hugging others and it's just a Biblical hug Fest thing hey look at beats uh it beats what they do in the Middle East they kiss each other what they kissing the cheek and kissing the cheek it's like no that's okay it's kind of funny and then you know you offend them and it's just that's the way they communicate uh care and all but it's just amazing laying on of hands look at this the resurrection of the Dead do you understand that we are not Buddhist or Hindus you know that we are not new agers we're not tree huggers or Crystal ballers we're Christians what does that mean that means that we believe in the resurrection not reincarnation what are you going to come back as you're not coming back like the way you think well man when that guy comes back he's going to be a carpet no he's not it's not going to work that way that's pagan Resurrection is a biblical Old and New Testament Doctrine Jews believe in Resurrection Christians believe in Resurrection and then later on uh eventually Islam was born through Muhammad but Muhammad believed in the biblical Resurrection so Islam Christianity and Judaism are the three faiths that believe in Resurrection I don't I don't care about the other two I care about what the Bible says and the Bible teaches Resurrection and John chapter 5 says Resurrection from the dead some to everlasting life listen and some to Everlasting death he said what do you mean Everlasting death yeah yeah yeah you're alive and you spend eternity dying that's called hell who wants that I don't want that you want that I don't want that man and then finally here at verse the end of verse 2 and 3 and of Eternal judgment so three is the baptisms fours laying on of hands you look at five is the resurrection of the Dead these are all Basics let's get these things behind us and six is of Eternal judgment we know that the Bible teaches that God someday will bring Justice they'll be judgment he's holy yeah there has to be and verse 3 just simply States right there and this we will do if God permits that's a beautiful statement we're going to end with this and this we will do if God permits here's the good news God not only permits he's saying let's go let's leave the basics behind let's grow up let's move on I don't know about you I think I do I hope I do but I'm I'm just saying there's nothing more thrilling to me and I hope to you and that is spiritual growth and spiritual maturity it's absolutely awesome and it's so sweet because it goes this way when God is maturing us we become more like children as we mature he said that's a contradiction not at all the kingdom of Gods Jesus made it very clear is like children in this world that you and I live in that is so mean the most beautiful thing to see in this world Still Remains is the love and the faith in the actions of a child and what do you think by the way what do you think right now there are very sick perverted reprobate Godless abandon people who are completely devoted to robbing your child of Innocence we are in the last days that a an adult he said just told me this morning no this evening that that there was some officer I don't know the story so I'll just I'll just keep it as I heard it that an officer investigating what's going on in our world today and I don't know the terminology maybe you know what I'm talking about but they they uh they posed as a 12 and a half year old they assumed the identity of a make-believe 12 and a half year old online somehow however this works and went to a a some School District recommended website for kids and signed up and and went in and got in and then received all of this download or information links to all of this how to uh how to determine your gender how do you know you're a boy or a girl are you sure it was all filled with doubts and she told me that and I thought for a moment Jesus said when he gets a hold of the person who thought that went up he said it will be better for you in the day of judgment that you've never been born then when I get a hold of you the person who says you know I think this innocent child just needs to grow up the world is a tough place and instead of protecting their innocence they just need to get get on with it Jesus says you just wait till I get a hold of you you never offend a child you never abuse a child you never show them pornography or lewdness or the things that are going on Even in our own community there's some stupid hamburger place in Ontario having these perverted drag queen evenings and having and telling parents to bring your kids kids get in for free and kids get a free uh french fries or something and then they have this stuff the world is shaking hang on to Jesus you'll never regret it and all the stuff that's happening we're to stand against it we're to speak up about it the Bible says to expose it but at the same time know this don't be moved by it because he told us these days would come to us in the last days don't be afraid don't be scared listen one of the big proofs and maybe I'm nuts probably am actually Charles Spurgeon said those of us who are pastors the reason why we're able to press on is because we're a little bit touched we put it so gently he buddy in the context he said if we weren't touched he met you know a little off he said if we weren't little off we would go crazy under the pressure so I think of it this way all of the ugliness and meanness that's going on out there tells me any day now Jesus it's so obvious any day

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