The Cure For Hypocrisy - Part 1 // Isaiah 29:1-24

what George grab your Bibles in turn if you would to Isaiah 29 Isaiah chapter 29 we're looking at a message entitled tonight the cure for hypocrisy the cure for hypocrisy a lot of people you and I know people who will say I'm not going to go to church because the church is filled with hypocrites of course it is the world is filled with hypocrites did you know that you might see well speak for yourself pastor I'm not a hypocrite yes you are a hypocrite is anybody who knows to do the right thing and doesn't do that right thing and then tries to spin off to others as though you've done the right thing it's part of the human nature to practice hypocrisy we have to fight it and if anybody tells you that they can't go to a church because the church is full of hypocrites is for them to admit themselves that they are perhaps the worst of all that they would sit in judgment upon people because they see themselves lofty and somehow equal to God or somehow better than everybody else but in hypocrisy is to be resisted in 5 Noah Webster in is great 1828 dictionary I believe this is the only dictionary that people out on the actual dictionary know a Webster of the American language 1828 you can buy it online regarding hypocrisy Noah Webster says that the word means a simulation to feign or to fake to separate or to discern or to judge watch now to feign to be something that you're not too dissimilar to act in a sense of concealment of one's real character or motives more generally he says hypocrisy is the assuming of a false appearance or virtue or religion a deceitful show of a good character in morals and religion a counterfeiting of religion Webster cites in his dictionary this is a dictionary remind you Luke chapter 12 verse 1 and 2 in the meantime when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together so that they trampled one another Luke 12:1 he began that is Jesus to say to his disciples first of all beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed nor hidden that will not be known God hates a Patras see you and I should hate it too but we should hate it first in our own lives we should fight to resist Apocrypha in our lives and listen we can do it in prayer meetings we can do it on our day-to-day living we can do it in front of people one thing's for sure we may fool people but God is never fooled I'm going to show you a couple of things that by way of I don't know elimination first slide I saw this uh the hypocrite is a person who's not himself on Sunday Wow think about that for a mil a moment that's that's powerful and the next one is this very very powerful statement by George Orwell truth is the new hate speech during times of universal deceit telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act why do I bring that up because today there is a sense of hypocrisy where people are hiding behind things to portray or to put forth the different face truth strips us of hypocrisy God is truth Jesus Christ is truth and listen you and I do not know do not understand and nor can we discern hypocrisy outside of the Spirit of God you and I are living in dangerous days according to the Bible days that you and I need to be more in the word and careful to be absorbing the word than any of their time he said that's a huge statement I agree it's a huge statement but is this not 2016 are we not later or further down the path in the hour of the church's existence in any other time as of tonight according to the Bible the scripture says in the last days you and I are now deeper into the last days than any other time and the Bible says in the last days perilous times will come we're in those days right now as you shall see we'll learn about tonight now this is an interesting chapter because we have to begin the chapter with the verse that ends the chapter look at verse 24 skip all the way down chapter 29 verse 24 these also that is the Jewish people who erred in spirit will come to understanding God is speaking about the Jewish nation in the last days we'll be reawakened and those who complained that is again the Jewish people will learn doctrines circle the word doctrine everything we talked about tonight has to deal with doctrine doctrine is the issue of the study doctrine is the issue of what the people of Israel rejected doctrine the word in Hebrew for doctrine is that which has been given you got to write that down invert along verse 24 that which has been given instruction the transmitted of information that is received the learning the word means having been given the course the path the knowledge to move forward God has given us doctrine Church listen you and I will not survive these last days without adhering to biblical doctrine not emotional doctrine not what you feel not what you think not what others say what does the Bible say in fact about these days vitally important now I'm going to give you a barrage of verses that we need to need that we need to put down before we get into the study 2nd Timothy 3 verse 16 listen to this 2nd Timothy 3:16 all scripture that's doctrine is given by inspiration of God that's awesome because it means that God has breathed out the Bible and it's profitable for doctrine that is learning or instruction for reproof for correction instruction and righteousness that the man of God may be complete thoroughly equipped for every good work Church you and I if we have this Bible open in our lives will lack nothing to finish the course God has given you an eye everything to be successful believers in the things of the Spirit 2nd Timothy 2:15 great famous verse be diligent to present yourself approved to God a worker who does not need to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth that's doctrine what does Bible doctrine teach regarding hypocrisy Acts chapter 20 verse 26 therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocents as Paul of the blood of all men Wow for I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God doctrine therefore take heed to yourselves and to the flock of God among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to Shepherd the Church of God which he purchased with his own blood how is the church to be led through the waters of deception in these last days doctrine Matthew chapter 5 verse 17 jesus said do not think that I've come to destroy the law in the profits what's that doctrine I did not come to destroy but to fulfill for assuredly I say to you till heaven and earth pass away one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all this fulfilled God is committed to doctrine and so should we to know the Bible so number one as we looked at this study again we'll go as far as we can tonight the cure for hypocrisy verses 1 through 6 is that God will parent his children that's what God does how does he combat hypocrisy in our lives God is the ultimate and awesome parent over his people and of course it's with Israel as it is mentioned to us here in the Book of Isaiah he says in verse 1 whoa - Ariel - Ariel the city where David dwelt area as we'll see in a moment another name for Jerusalem ad year to hear this is a rebuke in other words just normal religious activity let feast come around yet I will distress Ariel there shall be heaviness and sorrow and it shall be to me as Ariel I will in camp against you all around this is God speaking about his nation his people Israel but specifically Jerusalem I will lay siege against you with a mount God says I will raise siege works against you God says in verse 4 you shall be brought down you shall speak out of the ground listen to this that it means to murmur or to mutter or like a faint voice your speech shall be low out of the dust your voice shall be like a mediums that's creepy out of the ground and your speech shall whisper out of the dust he's speaking to his people his children why because they've disobeyed him they've rejected him and they thought you know what we're too powerful or too prosperous we have forgotten God but we keep all the feast we do everything right we go to church every week so to speak we say hallelujah we say god bless america but they had removed themselves far from God he's warning them verse 5 moreover the multitude of your foes shall be like fine dust and the multitude of the terrible ones like chaff that passes away yes it shall be in an instant suddenly you will be punished by the Lord of hosts with thunder and earthquake and with great noise with storm and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire you see Jackie you kiddin me God will do this God will do this as the perfect parent that he is to his own children that forget him because he doesn't give up on us he doesn't give up on Israel he doesn't give up on us you who are born again tonight God will never give up give up on you never he will not stop working with you but listen you might say oh no none of these evils will become my reality I can keep doing what I'm doing maybe tonight you're a Christian but you're in a backslidden state you're living for your own flesh you're indulging and things that you know God is telling you not to do and you think you're getting away with it and God is saying to you you know what I'm going to cause your life to be so laid low that it's as though the dust is speaking you won't even have hardly a breath I'm gonna take it from you because you won't listen to me God says as parents you know we kind of do that in a way with this parents go to your room you can't you know have this or you can't do that go to your room you see well my kids are too uh my kids are too old to do that too no they're not well they're - they're too big to spank okay listen there's there's more effective ways to discipline a child these days you know can you imagine canceling their internet connection your kid may be too big but you can stop paying their phone bill I'm dead serious listen one parent I know I did an amazing thing there their kid wouldn't obey wouldn't obey the parent went into their bedroom and took the hinges off their door and took the door out of the room that's pretty powerful stuff I think I'd rather be spanked and had the doors taken off of my bedroom but listen that's done out of love listen God deals with his children and the Bible says he's gonna deal with his children Israel notice how or what God has in his toolbox to bring discipline he says he's going to bring Thunder and earthquake and great noise God uses these things is that amazing he uses natural disasters he may not cause them but it'll use them so you might say well pastor Jack who sinned in Louisiana for it to be flooded like that or who sinned in this great earthquake just outside of Rome in the last few weeks first of all answer this everyone has sinned in Louisiana Italy and chino hills' hello we're all sinners the Bible says listen we all sin but God asked us he begs us to ask him for forgiveness okay remember that the fact is that no one specifically sinned in Louisiana that brought on a flood it wasn't somebody sinning just north of Rome that brought about that earthquake these things happen in the earth but God will use them depending upon what's going on but let's just remember this God deals in the affairs of man someone might say how can we know what's really going on then in our lives if things happen that are catastrophe or not well then we must look at our own national situation what you do next is realize number one that the whole world is sinned I've sinned you've sinned we've all sinned and just because it's a disaster it doesn't necessarily mean that as a result of specific sin so you pull back and then you ask this next question could this be a national thing in Israel's case it was a national thing question does God judge nations listen God judges nations but I know this for a fact from the Bible God deals with nations that he loves the most he is this should be a surprise to you to whom much is given much is yeah yeah America has been super blessed but we need to understand that nationally from God's perspective a nation ripens itself for judgment it can do that I believe America has past right I believe we're living on mercy as a nation so you might say why are things going so crazy in my own life personally oh now that's a different thing and you need to really seek this out so church listen if we you get nothing from tonight get this thing's bad happen in the world we understand that from the Bible number two is the issues that are happening for example national issues where though you and I may be law-abiding Christians in this nation in this state or this county there are things that happen in the nation that have nothing to do with your goodness or your inability to be good are you with me it's a national issue where the nation as a whole is forgotten God Daniel Jeremiah Ezekiel Isaiah all of them godly people suffered at the hands of invaders or catastrophe because the nation as a whole had sinned none of us want to hear this but it is a fact that God deals with you see we think that if we're all really good people there's gonna be earthquakes everywhere else except under our house but that's not the way it works you might say because we're such wonderful people there's floods everywhere else but not at our house that's not how it works the fact of the matter is this that when judgment comes it can affect the nation and be directed towards a nation but God's people will suffer and yet God is not holding you as the one that's responsible that's listen I'm gonna pause for effect right now because listen when stuff happens when it is the first temptation in your mind is going to be what did I do wrong God why I want this church I can't speak for any other Church but I want this to church to realize that when something comes to this nation you need to realize as Abraham said shall not the Lord of all the earth do right will it break our heart when God disciplines America absolutely will it hurt absolutely will it affect us forever absolutely but wasn't that God just in his intervention absolutely but when it's happening to something in our lives where we must step back and then look in why is this calamity happening in my life you need to stop and ask yourself and you need listen no one can do this for you you've got to get alone you got to stop and you got to say God this is not a national issue is that an issue with my life God is there something that I've done personally against you God is about have I sinned against you and if listen please if God doesn't speak to you that know--this if there's nothing to correct then it may very well be that the fact that you were under the attack of the enemy God is more than able to speak to you about when he deals in your life I firmly believe this that when God does deal with us when he is disciplining us as a as a faithful parents I think he tells us I think he gives us warnings time and time again when God speaks to my life he'll say Jack I want you to not think that way I want you to stop doing that and he'll say it maybe ten a hundred or a thousand times and then there comes a day when God brings out the wooden spoon and he uses it why why would he do this to get us to run to his arms now look I think it's against the law in California I think to even talk about disciplining the kid I'm not sure anymore what this crazy states doing I almost don't care about what it does anymore but God says if you don't discipline a child they'll bring reproach to you in the end a child left himself as a disaster a child left himself will be horrific ruins they don't ruin the grew in the kids life by not showing them loving discipline but have you ever seen a situation where child is told you know what you should not have thrown the cat into the pool or a microwave or whatever you put the and and so you're gonna be disciplined for this have you noticed that when that happens the kid crawls after after the kid has been dealt with the kid is now free of guilt listen did you know that free of guilt the situation was rectified the kid his psyche is free of guilt that's why and that's when you see them running to their mom or dad's lab cuddle up to them and say to the mom and dad I love you well I love you too sweetheart but remember you can't do that anymore don't paint the garage door when we're gone I okay I can I get it that's what got does to us God is the absolute wonderful awesome parent the word or the name Ariel you might want to circle this the word name means Lion of God has dual meanings by the way lion of God are also the altar of God and there's a play on words here God is saying to his own children Israel Lion of God that's who you are but also this the word means lion like and that's all a great plus Church listen that's a great plus the word also means the altar of God Ariel the altar of God the play on word is this it's great to be lying like when you're walking with God it's great to be like a lion when you're walking with God it's great to be like an altar dedicated to God when you're walking with God but when you're not those become great catastrophic things in your life to the lion like can be rebellious against God listen to be an altar of God the word implies a place of sacrificing most scholars and some of you have it in your margins of your but of your study Bibles that God is saying you can either choose tonight to be an altar of God for the glory of God or you can stay in your rebellion and not listen to my words God is saying and you Jerusalem you Israel or you America will as a place of the altar of God there'll be sacrifice you choose strong words very strong by the way the Ezekiel chapter 43 verse 16 uses this word regarding the Millennial temple a lot of people read from Ezekiel chapter 40 on to the end they kind of freaked out because the Bible tells us that when Christ returns in Ezekiel that every year there's gonna be a lamb sacrificed in Jerusalem did you know that once Jesus Christ comes back there's gonna be a lamb sacrificed in Jerusalem once a year that kind of freaks people out so why would that happen it's a good question why would Jesus have a lamb sacrificed in Jerusalem when he comes back for a thousand years in his millennial reign every year because just as the Old Testament they sacrificed the lamb to look forward to the sacrifice of the Messiah Savior coming to the cross those during the Millennial age will look back reminded by the sacrifice of the lamb in the Book of Ezekiel to what Christ did at the cross isn't that heavy you can read Ezekiel 40 on to the end of the Book of Ezekiel and find out what the Millennial Kingdom will be like it's quite amazing did you know the prophecies talk about how David for example will be the Lord's Prince in Jerusalem for a thousand years did you know that the Book of Ezekiel addresses that it's David himself that will be I don't know how else to put it I mean Jesus is the king of all the earth but there's gonna be like a governor as it were of Jerusalem and guess who that is it's David how do you know that it's in the Book of Ezekiel 4 vs. 40 on out to the end read about it later it's an amazing thing in 1st Peter chapter 4 verse 12 the Bible says beloved do not think it's strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you are you in a trial tonight in life are the things that are disrupting you and you're not sure where it's coming from just hang on hang on to God you're in a trial as though some strange thing has happened to you but rejoice to the extent that you are partakers of Christ's sufferings that when his glory is revealed they also be glad with exceeding joy if you are reproached that is because you're being like Jesus for the name of Christ blessed are you do people do people hate you because your position or your lifestyle or your biblical view offends people listen if people hate you because you're a nincompoop then so should they if people don't like you because you're a jerk I'm with them but if people don't like you because you're like Jesus that's a different thing Jesus is or the Bible says I should say blessed are you for the spirit of the glory and of God rest upon you on their part he is blaspheming but on your part he is glorified that's a good word for our age is it not are you following Jesus so close that there's people around you who hate you I know there's people that go to that come to church here and they go home and they're mocked when they walk in the door by their husbands or their wives mocked and they're prodded and they're pushed on all the buttons are touched to try to get them to snap there are parents who gang up they get their kids to gang up with the with the Christian parent to try to cause them to sin and bring accusation against them happens all the time how sad you see that well listen one of the great cures for hypocrisy is when God deals with us it strips hypocrisy away from us if you heard a Hollywood or the Screen Actors Guild I think it's on their logo I should have brought it I should have given it shown you a picture of it do you know what the heap will Creek is yeah good like the hypocrites is Hollywood's symbol of acting it's the hypocrite it's the to mask when but the happy face one with a sad face the to mask it's the heap will creep that's what that is and you put a face on and then when the scene changes you put another face on and then at the other at the end of the day you put your real face on right and you go home everybody knows who you are at home put on a work face hypocrite you got a you have you have your company mask this is who you are at the company by the way listen that's why a lot of Affairs happen at the company affair as you know extramarital affairs it's a joke because the person at work is a hypocrite they have a mask listen everybody at work has a mask so to speak you're there and you're on company time and you're working and it is to make money it is to be promoted and you will put up with stuff at work for the dollar for your paycheck to keep your job you will put up with stuff to to advance when I say you I'm not talking about you I'm talking about the human in the world some of you are looking like what your boss called me earlier today but there's a mask oh he's so he's so attractive what he's so ugly oh no his work ethic he's a hard worker he's amazing how do you know oh I see I'm happy he's I see him at his cubicle there and look at her she's amazing she's so smart she's so how do you know it's all for the check it's all for the promotion so to speak are you with me and then there's a mask on the freeway and by the time you get home to the work mask is off the freeway mask is off and then there's the real new that walks in the door that's who we are when somebody says you're so wonderful you're so fantastic you need to stop them in their tracks and say to them you need to ask my husband or you need to ask my wife if that's true better yet ask the kids all the kids will let you know my grandson about two hours ago said Papa you're crazy and it used to be where I thought that was cute but now I'm thinking at my age maybe he's on to something but we want to be careful about that because God knows who we are in to slay hypocrisy in our lives is to realize that God sees everything and knows everything about us at all times and God has given by the way the church and the believer a supernatural ability that the Bible calls discernment discernment is an amazing thing there's the gift of discernment that is given to certain people in the body of Christ but every believer has the level of discernment before you're a Christian maybe you were gullible two things are you you just somebody said something as I go WOW and now as a Christian if you notice there's things where it's just all of a sudden it could be somebody who says something or sorry you meet someone or it's just whatever and it's just like something's wrong and you don't talk about where you can't put your finger on it and you know when we talk Christian ease you know Christian you sounds like this because we don't know what to say we'll say things so I don't have a piece about that sometimes that can be a cop-out or it can be an actual statement trying to define the discernment aspect where God is warning you you shouldn't go into business with that person or you shouldn't go there you shouldn't that person's stay away I've noticed that children and dogs have amazing discernment watch listen if there's somebody in your family or comes to your door and your dog is not happy with them or your kid most of the time you watch your dog and your kid will agree something's wrong with that person if you think they're just sweeter than molasses you better stop and look at the dog or the kid you can also say lord I need your insight on this person lord I need to know what's up something's wrong they seem to be talking to me but they're mask is a little crooked the eyes don't line up just right the tongue is over here the teeth are this way and there's a little faux little snake make tongue coming out you know it's like something wrong watch out be careful the second thing is this the cure for hypocrisy is that God will defend his nation how Park you say how does that match listen God will defend his nation as of course Isaiah speaking about Israel but when I think of hypocrisy in our nation think of our nation America hypocrisy how can God bless and lead a nation when it's filled with hypocrisy listen if God is going to bless and defend a nation he's going to strip away hypocrisy I wonder if America could even identify or recognize somebody who would be authentic on the campaign trail today I may get in a lot of trouble what I'm about to say but I believe with all my heart I believe that we catch we the church and at least discerning people in America I believe that we could shut down this these antics of politics if we would pause long enough and get off Facebook and get off a Twitter and get off TV and stop long enough to ask God for wisdom and discernment and say Lord I'm gonna do the right thing I'm gonna get behind the person that's going to do the right thing and I believe we could shut down visit these antics and the games of politics if people who just thought let alone the church got behind people who really could care less how the vote goes they just stood for truth pure could you met think about you said well let or never happen you know why it never happened because the church cannot understand or figure out truth when it hits them in the face the most listen George Washington could come back today and we'd throw him out his own country listen what would happen if Jesus came back today and walked among men I'll tell you what happened he'd be crucified and today the church is blind because it's not interested in seeing the light but God wants to defend his nation Israel look think of the most we just heard a prayer request tonight about China's an interesting animal as a nation it's Antichrist anti God terrified of the Bible and yet it's the largest Christian population growing and the earth today yeah you think of that yeah you think of a hundred eighty degree opposite of that China's losing their country the politics the church is exploding the underground Church is exploding in China but what's interesting is you know if if imagine the Chinese Christians praying God will hear their prayer and bless their nation in spite of their leadership because God's people are praying and interceding for their country and and you listen I want that kind of hope for America but here's the deal it's not Obama it's not Clinton it's not Trump it's not Manny Moe and Jack it's not Billy Barty and it's not anybody else listen it's the church responsibility lies at the foot of the church thank you listen this is the big deal the church needs a crowd to how's America gonna get better will America get better you think it's gonna come from the politics you're wrong it's gonna come from the church obeying God he wants to defend this nation Willie he wants to verse seven says the multitude of all the nations who fought against area and they listen to this even all who fought against her and her fortress and de-stresser shall be as a dream of a night vision even though Israel disobeys God and God brings four nations to judge them notice what God does in defense of his people Israel that those who are conspiring it's like a night dream verse eight to them it shall be as when a hungry man dreams what does a hungry man dream about food and look he eats what does he eat in his dream but he awakes and his soul is still empty or as when a thirsty man dreams and look he drinks but he awakes and indeed he is faint and his soul still craves so the multitude of the nation shall be who fight against Mount Zion Wow why because when you fight against erielle Jerusalem Mount Zion you fight against the God of the Bible nobody succeeds who goes against Israel nobody succeeds who messes and I'm not talking about Israel's politics I'm talking about God's land that's his and when you rise up and you try to put political pressures and when you try to manipulate God's people even though they be blinded and even though they be wayward from him that's his land and they are his people and he will not sit he says oh yeah you want to dream about prosperity well when you wake up you'll still be poor oh you are you hungry huh you're hungry yeah I tell you what dream about it because that's all you have verse nine pause and wonder blind yourselves and be blind they are drunk but not with wine they stagger but not with intoxicating drink for the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes namely the prophets ouch and he has covered your heads namely the seers what does this mean they have become drunk not with wine and intoxicating drink they become drunk the word means on false teachers false listen are you guys listening you're so quiet but we had a time yes but so what listen um they become drunk on false teachers I was so tempted tonight to put up on the screen what's going on out there in the name of church and then I thought well I don't know if I thought I think guy convicted me don't you dare because they would introduce falsehood into your mind that otherwise you may be ignorant about that people famous people have millions of hits on their sites saying things about prayer saying things about the Bible saying things about this or that completely false and the church sits there because it doesn't know the Bible cannot discern what they're saying is false or true you and I will not have any plumb line to judge what's being said in this pulpit or any pulpit unless we have our Bibles open and when they say well when you pray expect it cuz God owes you false doctrine God owes you nothing by the way prayer is to bend your heart to the will of God not to get God to be your puppet service oh I'm claiming that brother I'm claiming it you just claimed it and when you wake up you'll still be claiming it it's a big deal false doctrine it's been my life's experience that when you touch someone's false doctrine they get upset about it and they'll debate you on it most interesting when you touch their traditions they'll kill you is that what Jesus said in mark 7 13 he says for you make the Word of God of no effect through your traditions which you have handed down and many such things you do Jesus talks about their religion as to and loves false teaching and false prophets because false prophets tell you what you want to hear Church listen please leave with this in your ears let it be burning are you prone tonight to gather to yourselves teachers on the internet or go to a church that all they do is tell you what you want to hear the Bible warns us that in the last days one of the indicators of being in the last days is that people will heap to themselves teachers that tickle their ears is listen there's a lot of tickling going on and I believe the amount of tickling is direct proportion to the lack of Bible reading lack of Bible reading lack of Bible knowledge is an open door to tickling is it what the Bible says or is it what pastor tickle says oh you know what I just I just go because listen I just go because it makes me feel good look I'm not against you feeling good but every week it's just it's it's just how Rostron path the Christian life is and it's just so easy I don't know listen it's not easy being a Christian see pastor don't say that I brought my friend tonight I want them to become a Christian I want to tell your friend something right now we're at war we're at war and our enemy's invisible okay and your soul is the prize it's so serious Jesus came from heaven and earth to fix it he died on the cross a brutal death and was resurrected from the dead to save you and Satan hates your guts and he wants to grip your soul and pull it down into hell that's why he gets you sexed up drugged up dumped dumped dumped up doped up busied up never stop and think about serious stuff that's what he's doing to get you so preoccupied that you don't pull back and realize wait a missile God wants you think about it God wants you so bad that Jesus died on the cross for you Satan wants you so bad that he'll give you anything you want God defends us by telling us the truth I love that slide by George Orwell truth is the new hate speech you tell the truth now you can get arrested tell the truth then you get in trouble a tremendous thing we have a New Testament measuring-rod God speaks to us in what's called parabolic words parabolic pair parables the nation won't listen to God Isaiah speaking to them in Israel won't listen God sends them prophets but they won't hear and the light as it were coming out of their mouths speaking truth and they don't get it and Jesus comes on the world saying and he speaks did you know the Bible tells us that when Jesus spoke publicly he spoke in parables did you know that see you've you and I have such a privilege we have the Bible we got to hear through the words of the pages of the Bible what they talked about around the campfire we got to hear between Jesus and the disciples as they walked on the road but when Jesus spoke publicly did you know he spoke and he spoke in parables to all the people and it was so radical the disciples say why do you talk to us plainly in private but to the peep you speak in parables and Jesus said Isaiah we'll talk about it next week he said Isaiah spoke about this to the people I speak in parables because seeing seen it's been a long day seen they don't perceive and hearing they don't understand they hear truth and they go what in a person which is amazing about a parable is that you can have two people standing here and Jesus will speak to them or you can read a parable from the Bible and one person will say oh my goodness that is the most amazing thing I've ever heard that is so powerful and then it's person standing goes what in the world did he just say you ever wonder about that parabolic kitchen was actually invented by God himself truth goes out and it separates the real from the false it's the same light hitting everybody it's the same truth hitting everyone but how it lands in the heart and how its processed and perceived is solely dependent upon the recipient as that person judges the word you're judging the Bible every time you and I read it we judge the Bible will we let it in or will we pick and choose what we will have to be our doctrine and there's a lot of picking at Jesus and today when people say I'm all for the God of love let me - but that's not all he is he's just Bible doctrine is the key to your survival we're at a time will end we have a lot more to go we'll do it next time but what is it you believe it's so critical listen can you can you defend for example watch this let's play along in closing we didn't lose your Bible then worship team can come out to prove the point we're all done how many of you believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God raise your hand okay can you prove that in the Bible can you argue that from Scripture if you cannot argue it from Scripture then you only made a claim a moment ago that you cannot that you cannot back up if you see I believe Jesus is the Son of God cuz my mom told me he was did you know that you do not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God well you know I've have you made him your own do you know why the Bible is the inerrant Word of God God's Word revealed can't you can you make an argument in Scripture you must know doctrine you must be able to give an argument for the reason for the hope that is within you that's why we gather in Wednesdays that's why we gather in Sunday's that's why we gather in small groups for doctrine let's stand Heavenly Father tonight we commit ourselves to doctrine we wouldn't know if there's a heaven or a hell without doctrine we wouldn't know that all of our sins can be forgiven through Jesus without doctrine we wouldn't know that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord at that moment of death outside of doctrine we wouldn't know that your thoughts toward us or for a future and for a hope we wouldn't know that you love us without doctrine father as a church may we be more committed to doctrine over emotion doctrine over rumor doctrine over website doctrine over sermons doctrine over preaching doctrine and Lord tonight I pray that you'd baptize us afresh in the power of your Holy Spirit come upon us Lord and may we go forth with the reality the fact the truth that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of not only everyone in this room but for all the world's that truth goes out but how a heart receives it that's personal it's my prayer tonight that if you're in this place that you would have said yes to that truth that yes jesus is my Lord and Savior yes if tonight that's your decision you tell him yes you say Lord yes I want that to be my reality my truth I want to receive the forgiveness of God that comes through Jesus Christ at the cross for me and quite frankly friend if you're here tonight and you're saying I don't need it it is junk I pray with love for you and compassion for you I pray that you will not be able to rest day or night I pray that you won't be able to sleep until you bow your knee to Jesus the lover of your soul but that choice is yours but as for us in this house we will serve the Lord you

Channel: Real Life with Jack Hibbs

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Keywords: Jack Hibbs, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, Real Life with Jack Hibbs, Isaiah, Wednesday night study, salvation, Jesus, Jesus Christ (Deity), sin, forgiveness

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Length: 49min 46sec (2986 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 02 2016