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00:00Alright, so tonight we're in 1 Corinthians chapter 2. 1 Corinthians chapter 2. The Bible
00:08says, And I, brethren, when I came to you, not with excellency of speech or wisdom,
00:15declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you
00:21save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. So again, we see like in chapter 1 where He's saying,
00:27I didn't come with great speech. I didn't come with, you know, you have all these people
00:32that do speeches, politicians and stuff. They have these great words and it's supposed to
00:37sway people because of the words they say. He's saying, look, I didn't come with that. The
00:41only thing I came with to you except that Jesus Christ was crucified. That's all He did when
00:48He preached to them. Nothing else, nothing great, nothing that a grandstanding. All He did
00:55was preached that Jesus Christ was crucified. We need to take a knowledge of that. Again,
01:02that it's not all words. It's the words of the Holy Spirit. It's not anything that we
01:07do when we show somebody the gospel. It's not our words. It's not us telling some great story
01:13in a great manner and then people get saved. It's the words of the Holy Spirit which is
01:17sitting right in front of you in your lap.
01:19And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my speech and my
01:27preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and
01:33of power. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God.
01:38Again, He's saying, you know, while I was weak and in fear and trembling, He said, the power
01:45of God is what did. And, you know, a lot of times when you are weak and you're trembling
01:51and you're scared, it's the Holy Spirit that takes over. There's been several times where,
01:56you know, I would be, the first time of preaching, I'd be very nervous and scared. And you could
02:04tell when the Holy Spirit has kind of took over, not to the point that He's possessing you
02:10or anything, but He just gives you the words that you need to say. That's happened plenty
02:15of times and that's what He's telling you. He's saying, when I was weak and trembling,
02:18the Holy Spirit took over, not from the enticing words of man's wisdom. He keeps talking about
02:24that. Not the enticing, but the Holy Spirit does that. We need to understand that. Even just
02:32as simple as giving somebody the gospel that's unsaved, it's not all words. It's the words of
02:37the Holy Spirit. Nobody's flesh ever gets saved. It's their spirit. So if you go to them with
02:44your words of how you want to explain the salvation and that Jesus died on the cross, that's great.
02:50That's great for us to talk about. But when you're talking to an unsaved person, you need
02:56to use this right here. Romans 3.23, Romans 6.23, John 3.16. All these verses, because these
03:02are the words of the Holy Spirit and that's what pricks people's heart to be saved. You
03:08know, I've heard people say, you know, you'd tell somebody, hey, you're 100% sure if you
03:12died today, you'd go to heaven. They'd say, no, I'm not, but I'm sure whatever you're going
03:15to tell me is nothing that my mother told me or my grandmother or my father or my pastor.
03:20Well, maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. Maybe they told you something, but maybe they did not
03:25use the words of the Holy Spirit. That's what gets people saved. And that's what Paul's trying
03:29to tell them. You've got to understand, Paul was known as what? Somebody who beat up Christians
03:36that put them in jail. So he's got to show to them, the Corinthians, that he's not that
03:41guy anymore, that he's got the Holy Spirit and that he has that power just like they do.
03:47And that's what he's trying to tell them. Verse 6, how be it we speak wisdom among them
03:54that are perfect. Again, the Bible is using the word perfect. It's not talking about sinless
03:58because we can just compare that to the Bible and know that we've all sinned and come short
04:02of the glory of God. So it's not that we're perfect, but complete. The book of Job, Job
04:081, talks about Job being a complete person. It means he was perfect. Not that he was sinless,
04:15but that he was what? Complete. Among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world
04:23Lord, nor the princes of this world that come to naught, but we speak the wisdom of God
04:29in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
04:36Lord, keep your finger there and go to Mark 4. Mark chapter 4. Mark chapter 4.
04:58Mark 4. Start in verse 9.
05:13And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. This is Jesus speaking.
05:19And when he was alone, they that were about him would the twelve ask of him the parable.
05:24And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to known the mystery of the kingdom of God.
05:30But unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables, that seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
05:47So Jesus is clearly telling them, you know, I'm speaking in parables because it's not for them to understand until they believe who I am.
05:58That's what he's telling them. He's saying, you understand, because he's allowed them to do it.
06:03And it reminds me of a lady one time who went out soul winning, and I told her about John 3.16, and she could quote the word to word, verse to verse of John 3.16.
06:18And I said, oh, okay, well, that's great. If you died today, would you go to heaven? No, I'd go to hell.
06:25And you'd say, hey, what does that mean to you? Well, it just means you've got to be a good person.
06:30What? That whosoever believeth? Where does that come?
06:34Folks, they don't have the Holy Spirit. They do not understand. They can read. They can memorize verses in the Bible.
06:42They can do all this stuff, and they can spew them out to you, but the Holy Spirit is not showing them.
06:47This book is not like the book of Shakespeare or any other kind of literature where somebody can learn it and they can memorize it.
06:55If you don't have the Holy Spirit, you will never understand it. That's what he does.
07:00Go to Romans 16.
07:04And that's what Jesus is trying to tell them.
07:06I'm unlocking the mystery.
07:08The mystery of what?
07:09Before the world was even created, the mystery that Jesus Christ was going to be the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth.
07:19Before Genesis 1.1, Jesus knew he was going to have to do that.
07:24Look at Romans 16, verse 25.
07:28Now to him, that is a power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery.
07:38What does revelation mean?
07:40It's to reveal something.
07:41The word manifests you sometimes.
07:43To reveal, to show the mystery of Jesus Christ.
07:48Jesus Christ, which was what?
07:50Kept secret since the world began.
07:52Since when?
07:53Since before Genesis 1.1, it was a secret.
07:57Folks, if you could go back into time to the Old Testament, those people didn't know why they were sacrificing animals.
08:03They didn't know.
08:04They didn't know why they were taking a lamb every year, making sure it was perfect, and why they couldn't take this lamb with a broken leg and all this stuff.
08:13And why they were making sure it was perfect, complete, the best lamb in the whole group to take and then to sacrifice.
08:22They had no idea because it was a mystery.
08:24Look at verse 26.
08:25But now is made manifest, means revealed, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God,
08:37made known to all nations for the obedience of faith, to God only, wise, be gloried through Jesus Christ forever.
08:46Amen.
08:46So this mystery that we're talking about in Corinthians, go back to 1 Corinthians 2, is being made manifested.
08:54God ordained it.
08:56So, you know, I heard people say sometimes that Jesus was plan B.
09:01The Jews didn't work out.
09:03No, no, no, no.
09:03Jesus was not plan B.
09:05He was plan A.
09:06This clearly tells us that Jesus Christ was plan A before anything was created, before this earth was made, before man, before dust was spit into and made a man.
09:18Jesus knew that he was going to have to die for the whole world.
09:22That was the whole plan from the get-go.
09:24Verse 8.
09:27Look, this verse, I want you to look at this verse clearly.
09:30Which none of the princes of this world, talking about what?
09:34The princes of this world, you think about the presidents, the leaders, whatever, knew, for had they known it, if they had known what the whole mystery was, they would not have crucified the glory.
09:47Think about that for a minute.
09:50I've pondered this verse a lot this week, and I've been thinking about this, you know, if Satan knew, we know that immediately, Judas Iscariot, what happened to him?
10:01He took Satan into him when he took the sop, and Jesus said, go and do that, talking about to betray him.
10:11Folks, if Satan knew that what he was doing, when he was part of it, to put Jesus on the cross, if he knew that was going to save every person, all mankind, he wouldn't have done it.
10:22And that's what's so great, is that just shows you, you know, the Mormons, they have this goofy idea that God the Father had Jesus and the devil are brothers, and God the Father liked Jesus' idea better than Satan's for whatever reason.
10:39He said, I'm going to go with your idea of brother Jesus instead of brother Satan.
10:43That's just stupid.
10:44This just goes to show you that God is in charge.
10:47He knew the whole time.
10:49He didn't reveal any of the secrets to anybody.
10:53And the whole thing, Satan thinks he's doing some kind of big plan.
10:56He thinks he's messing things up by killing Christ.
10:59He's falling right into God's hands.
11:01It's kind of funny when you think about it, isn't it?
11:03Look at verse 9.
11:08But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared, but God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.
11:23For the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11:27So where was this written at?
11:29Keep your finger there and go to Isaiah 64.
11:34Isaiah chapter 64.
11:35All right, so tonight we're in 1 Corinthians chapter 2.
11:531 Corinthians chapter 2.
11:56The Bible says,
11:57So again, we see like in chapter 1 where he's saying, I didn't come with great speech.
12:18I didn't come with, you know, you have all these people that do speeches, politicians and stuff.
12:23They have these great words and it's supposed to sway people because of the words they say.
12:28He's saying, look, I didn't come with that.
12:30The only thing I came with to you except that Jesus Christ was crucified.
12:36That's all he did when he preached to them.
12:38Nothing else, nothing great, nothing that grandstanding.
12:43All he did was preach that Jesus Christ was crucified.
12:46We need to take a knowledge of that.
12:50Again, that it's not all words.
12:52It's the words of the Holy Spirit.
12:54It's not anything that we do when we show somebody the gospel.
12:58It's not our words.
12:59It's not us telling some great story in a great manner and then people get saved.
13:04It's the words of the Holy Spirit which is sitting right in front of you in your lap.
13:08Again, he's saying, you know, while I was weak and in fear and trembling, he said, the power of God is what did.
13:36And, you know, a lot of times when you are weak and you're trembling and you're scared, it's the Holy Spirit that takes over.
13:43There's been several times where, you know, I would be, the first time of preaching, I'd be very nervous and scared.
13:50And you could tell when the Holy Spirit just kind of took over, not to the point that he's possessing you or anything, but he just gives you the words that you need to say.
14:03That's happened plenty of times and that's what he's telling you.
14:05He's saying, when I was weak and trembling, the Holy Spirit took over, not from the enticing words of man's wisdom.
14:11He keeps talking about that, not the enticing, but the Holy Spirit does that.
14:18We need to understand that.
14:20Even just as simple as giving somebody the gospel that's unsaved, it's not all words.
14:25It's the words of the Holy Spirit.
14:27Nobody's flesh ever gets saved.
14:29It's their spirit.
14:31So if you go to them with your words of how you want to explain the salvation and that Jesus died on the cross, that's great.
14:38That's great for us to talk about, but when you're talking to an unsaved person, you need to use this right here.
14:46Romans 3.23, Romans 6.23, John 3.16.
14:49All these verses, because these are the words of the Holy Spirit and that's what pricks people's heart to be saved.
14:57You know, I've heard people say, you know, you'd tell somebody, hey, you're 100% sure if you die today, you'd go to heaven.
15:02They'd say, no, I'm not, but I'm sure whatever you're going to tell me is nothing that my mother told me or my grandmother or my father or my pastor.
15:09Well, maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
15:11Maybe they told you something, but maybe they did not use the words of the Holy Spirit.
15:16That's what gets people saved.
15:17And that's what Paul's trying to tell them.
15:19You've got to understand, Paul was known as what?
15:22Somebody who beat up Christians and put them in jail.
15:26So he's got to show to them, the Corinthians, that he's not that guy anymore.
15:31That he's got the Holy Spirit and that he has that power just like they do.
15:36And that's what he's trying to tell them.
15:37Verse 6, how be it, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect.
15:43Again, the Bible's using the word perfect.
15:45It's not talking about sinless because we can just compare that to the Bible and know that we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
15:52So it's not that we're perfect, but complete.
15:54The book of Job, Job 1, talks about Job being a complete person.
16:00It means he was perfect.
16:01Not that he was sinless, but that he was what?
16:05Complete.
16:05Among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor the princes of this world that come to naught.
16:16But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
16:25So keep your finger there and go to Mark 4.
16:29Mark chapter 4.
16:45Mark chapter 4.
16:47Start in verse 9.
17:01And he said to them,
17:02This is Jesus speaking.
17:08And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
17:13And he said to them,
17:14Unto you it is given to known the mystery of the kingdom of God.
17:19But unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables.
17:24That seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and not understand.
17:31Lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
17:37So Jesus is clearly telling them,
17:39You know, I'm speaking in parables, because it's not for them to understand.
17:44Until they believe who I am.
17:47That's what he's telling them.
17:48He's saying, you understand.
17:50Because he's allowed them to do it.
17:52And it reminds me of a lady one time,
17:55Who went out soul winning,
17:58And she was, I told her about John 3.16,
18:01And she could quote the word to word,
18:04Verse to verse of John 3.16.
18:07And I said, oh okay, well that's great.
18:09If you died today, would you go to heaven?
18:11No, I'd go to hell.
18:14Or you'd say, hey, what does that mean to you?
18:16Well it just means you've got to be a good person.
18:18What?
18:20That whosoever believeth?
18:22Where does that come?
18:23Folks, they don't have the Holy Spirit.
18:25They do not understand.
18:26They can read.
18:27They can memorize verses in the Bible.
18:30They can do all this stuff.
18:31And they can spew them out to you.
18:33But the Holy Spirit is not showing them.
18:36This book is not like the book of Shakespeare.
18:38Or any other kind of literature.
18:41Where somebody can learn it.
18:42And they can memorize it.
18:44If you don't have the Holy Spirit,
18:45You will never understand it.
18:47That's what he does.
18:48Go to Romans 16.
18:53And that's what Jesus is trying to tell them.
18:55I'm unlocking the mystery.
18:57The mystery of what?
18:58Before the world was even created.
19:00The mystery that Jesus Christ
19:02Was going to be the Lamb slain
19:04From the foundation of the earth.
19:07Before Genesis 1.1
19:10Jesus knew he was going to have to do that.
19:13Look at Romans 16 verse 25.
19:18Now to him
19:19That is a power to establish you
19:21According to my gospel
19:23And the preaching of Jesus Christ
19:24According to the revelation of the mystery.
19:27What does revelation mean?
19:28To reveal something.
19:30The word manifests is used sometimes.
19:32To reveal.
19:33To show the mystery of Jesus Christ.
19:37Which was what?
19:38Kept secret since the world began.
19:41But since when?
19:42Since before Genesis 1.1
19:44It was a secret.
19:46Folks if you could go back into time
19:48To the Old Testament
19:48Those people didn't know
19:50While they were sacrificing animals.
19:52They didn't know.
19:53They didn't know
19:54While they were taking a lamb every year
19:56Making sure it was perfect.
19:58And while they couldn't take this lamb
19:59With a broken leg.
20:00And all this stuff.
20:01And while they were making sure
20:02It was perfect.
20:04Complete.
20:04The best lamb in the whole group.
20:06To take.
20:07And then to sacrifice.
20:10They had no idea.
20:11Because it was a mystery.
20:13Look at verse 26.
20:14But now.
20:16Is made manifest.
20:18Means revealed.
20:20And by the scriptures of the prophets.
20:23According to the commandment
20:24Of the everlasting God.
20:26Made known to all nations.
20:28For the obedience of faith.
20:29To God only.
20:31Wise.
20:32Be glory through Jesus Christ forever.
20:34Amen.
20:35So this mystery that we're talking about.
20:37In Corinthians.
20:38Go back to 1 Corinthians 2.
20:39Is being made manifested.
20:43God ordained it.
20:45So you know.
20:46I heard people say sometimes.
20:48That Jesus was plan B.
20:50The Jews didn't work out.
20:51No, no, no, no.
20:52Jesus was not plan B.
20:54He was plan A.
20:55This clearly tells us.
20:56That Jesus Christ.
20:58Was plan A.
20:59Before anything was created.
21:01Before this earth was made.
21:03Before man.
21:04Before dust was spit into.
21:06And made a man.
21:06Jesus knew that he was going to have to die.
21:10For the whole world.
21:11That was the whole plan.
21:12From the get go.
21:13Verse 8.
21:15Look.
21:16This verse.
21:17I want you to look at this verse clearly.
21:19Which none of the princes.
21:21Of this world.
21:22Talking about what?
21:23The princes of this world.
21:24You think about the presidents.
21:26The leaders.
21:26Whatever.
21:27Knew.
21:29For had they known it.
21:31If they had known what the whole mystery was.
21:33They would not have crucified the Lord.
21:36Think about that for a minute.
21:39I pondered this verse a lot this week.
21:42And I've been thinking about this.
21:43You know.
21:43If Satan knew.
21:45We know that immediately.
21:48Judas Iscariot.
21:49What happened to him?
21:50He took.
21:51He took.
21:53Satan into him.
21:54When he took the sop.
21:55And Jesus said go and do that.
21:57Talking about to betray him.
22:00Folks.
22:00If Satan knew.
22:01That what he was doing.
22:03When he was part of it.
22:04To put Jesus on the cross.
22:06If he knew that was going to save.
22:07Every person.
22:08All mankind.
22:10He wouldn't have done it.
22:11And that's what's so great.
22:13Is that just shows you.
22:15You know.
22:15The Mormons.
22:16They have this goofy idea.
22:18That God the Father.
22:19Had Jesus.
22:20And the devil are brothers.
22:23And God the Father.
22:24Like Jesus's idea.
22:25Better than Satan's.
22:26For whatever reason.
22:27He said.
22:28I'm going to go with your idea.
22:29Of brother Jesus.
22:30Instead of brother Satan.
22:32That's just stupid.
22:33This just goes to show you.
22:34That God is in charge.
22:36He knew the whole time.
22:38He didn't reveal.
22:39Any of the secrets.
22:40To anybody.
22:41And the whole thing.
22:43Satan thinks he's doing.
22:44Some kind of big plan.
22:45He thinks he's.
22:46Messing things up.
22:47By killing Christ.
22:48He's falling right into God's hands.
22:50It's kind of funny.
22:51When you think about it.
22:52It is to me.
22:56Look at verse 9.
22:58But as it is written.
23:00Eye hath not seen.
23:02Nor ear heard.
23:03Neither hath entered into the heart of man.
23:05The things which God hath prepared.
23:07But God hath revealed them unto us.
23:10By his spirit.
23:11For the spirit searches all things.
23:14Yea the deep things of God.
23:16So where was this written at?
23:18Keep your finger there.
23:18And go to Isaiah 64.
23:23Isaiah chapter 64.
23:38Isaiah chapter 64.
23:43Starting in verse 4.
23:4564.4
23:46And the Bible says.
23:49For since the beginning of the world.
23:51Men have not heard.
23:53Nor perceived by the ear.
23:55Neither has the eye seen.
23:57O God beside thee.
23:59What he hath prepared for him.
24:00That waited for him.
24:02So nobody knows.
24:03Nobody has perceived.
24:04And said.
24:05Hey I know what God's got in store for me.
24:07I know what the plan is.
24:08Nobody knew.
24:09So.
24:09Thou meetest him that rejoicest.
24:13And worketh righteousness.
24:15Those that remember thee in thy ways.
24:17Behold thou art wroth.
24:19For we have sinned.
24:20And in those is continuance.
24:22And we shall be saved.
24:24And here's the most famous verse.
24:26In verse 6.
24:27But we are all as an unclean thing.
24:30And all.
24:31Our righteousness.
24:33Our filthy rags.
24:34And we do all fade as a leaf.
24:36And our iniquities like the wind.
24:38Have taken us away.
24:39So I like to use this verse.
24:42I wrote Romans 3.23 up under.
24:44Because when people talk about.
24:46Hey I'm a pretty good person.
24:47You know I've done this.
24:48I've done that.
24:49You know I go to church.
24:50I read the Bible.
24:52And you know I'm a pretty good person.
24:53I'm going to heaven.
24:54That's like you taking a rag.
24:56Going into your scepter tank.
24:57Or the sewer.
24:58Cleaning out the walls.
24:59And saying here you go God.
25:02Or just hand it to your wife.
25:03Or hand it to your friend.
25:05They'd punch you in the face.
25:06Because they don't want that nastiness.
25:08Well that's the way God looks at us.
25:10When we think our righteousness.
25:12When we think hey I'm a pretty good person.
25:13I deserve to go to heaven.
25:15It's like taking that rag.
25:16And handing it to God.
25:17It's not our righteousness.
25:19It's the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
25:21Go to Ezekiel 33.
25:28Ezekiel 33.
25:29Ezekiel 33.
25:36I told you I've been going through the chronological of the Bible.
25:41And I just got finished with Ezekiel.
25:44And this verse.
25:45In Ezekiel 33.
25:47I've read it before.
25:48But sometimes you read stuff over again.
25:51And I listen to it when I'm driving.
25:53And it just comes at you.
25:55You know people always talk about.
25:57You know.
25:58Repenting of their sins.
26:00Or you know.
26:01Whatever.
26:02That you know.
26:03The sins they commit.
26:05Maybe you know.
26:05Sometimes you ask people.
26:07Hey.
26:07You know.
26:08What have you done.
26:09And they'll say.
26:09Well I've done a lot more good than bad.
26:11So they think it's like a balancing act.
26:13Where they think their good stuff is going to outweigh their bad.
26:17And a lot of people are doing these works.
26:18To try to outweigh the bad.
26:20Well this verse just destroys that.
26:22Look at Ezekiel 33 verse 11.
26:26Saying to them.
26:27As I live.
26:28Said the Lord God.
26:28I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
26:31But that the wicked turn from his way and live.
26:35Turn ye.
26:36Turn ye from your evil.
26:38Evil ways.
26:39For why will ye die O house of Israel?
26:41Therefore.
26:43Thou son of man.
26:44Saying to the children of thy people.
26:46The righteousness of the righteous.
26:48Shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression.
26:52What does that mean?
26:53Just like we saw in Isaiah 64.
26:55Your righteousness will not deliver you.
26:58From your.
26:59From being.
27:00From whatever is going to happen to you.
27:02From your sin.
27:04And for the wickedness of the wicked.
27:06He shall not fall thereby in the day.
27:09That he turneth from his wickedness.
27:10Neither shall the righteous be able to live.
27:13For his righteousness.
27:14In the day that he sent it.
27:15Look at verse 13.
27:16Here's a key verse.
27:17When I shall say to the righteous.
27:19That he shall surely live.
27:23If he trusts to his own righteousness.
27:27And commit iniquity.
27:29All his righteousness.
27:32Shall not be remembered.
27:33But his iniquity.
27:35That he has committed.
27:36He shall die for.
27:37So what does that mean?
27:38That means if you think you're a good person.
27:40And man I'm a great person.
27:41I've done a lot of good things in my life.
27:44That you're not going to be remembered for that.
27:46You're going to die in hell for your sins.
27:48And you're going to burn in hell for your sins.
27:50That's what that means.
27:51That God's not going to remember you about your righteousness.
27:54He's going to remember the iniquity.
27:56Because we shouldn't be trusting.
27:57That word trust.
27:59In his own righteousness.
28:01We need to be trusting in Jesus Christ.
28:04Go back to 1 Corinthians 2.
28:10Verse 10.
28:11But God has revealed them unto us by his spirit.
28:15For the spirit searches all things.
28:18Yet indeed things of God.
28:20For what man knoweth the things of a man.
28:22And save the spirit of man which is in him.
28:26So there's no man out there that knows about God that's unsaved.
28:29That's what he's saying.
28:31He's saying you may know something about a man.
28:33But you don't know the spirit of a man.
28:36Except when you're saved.
28:39Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God.
28:42So the only thing that you can know from the things of God.
28:44Is by having the spirit of God.
28:48No unsaved people.
28:49Again they can quote verses left and right.
28:52But no unsaved person can know the spirit of God.
28:57They can tell you they do.
28:58But they're lying.
28:59That's what that verse says right there.
29:02Now we have received not the spirit of the world.
29:07But the spirit which is of God.
29:10That we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
29:15Verse 13.
29:17Which things also we speak.
29:20Not in the words which man's wisdom teaches.
29:23But which the Holy Ghost teaches.
29:26Comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
29:29Again the Bible's hammering the fact.
29:32That it's the spiritual things that you will get only from the Holy Spirit.
29:36These are the things that the Holy Ghost teaches.
29:38Verse 14.
29:39But the natural man.
29:41What does that mean?
29:41The unsaved man.
29:42That's what you can think of.
29:43The natural man.
29:44It means that you're a regular old man.
29:46Not a spiritual man.
29:47The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God.
29:51This means.
29:52This is why that lady could quote you John 3.16 backwards and forwards.
29:56And say it and say.
29:57I don't know what it means.
29:59Because she was a natural man.
30:01She did not know the things of God.
30:03For they are foolishness unto him.
30:07Neither can he know them.
30:09Because they are spiritually discerned.
30:12But he that is spiritual judges all things.
30:15Yet he himself is judged of no man.
30:18Keep your finger there and go to John 10.
30:21John 10.
30:22Just went through the book of John.
30:29So this should be kind of fresh on your mind.
30:32But John chapter 10.
30:38I'm sorry.
30:39John 16 first.
30:41And then we're going to go to John 10.
30:42John 16.
30:45Just a little fresher of what the Holy Spirit does for us.
30:48We take that for granted folks.
30:50We take for granted what we get when we are saved by the Holy Spirit.
30:55But look at John 16 verse 7.
30:59Nevertheless I tell you the truth.
31:01That Jesus it is expedient.
31:03Means that hey.
31:04It's best for me.
31:05It's a good thing for you.
31:06For me to go away.
31:08For if I go not away.
31:09The comforter being the Holy Spirit.
31:11Will not come unto you.
31:13But if I depart.
31:13I will send him unto you.
31:14So Jesus is clearly saying.
31:16I have to leave before the Holy Spirit comes.
31:18And when he is come.
31:21He will reprove the world of sin.
31:23And of righteousness.
31:25And of judgment.
31:26Of sin because they believe not on me.
31:28Of righteousness because I go to my Father.
31:31And you see me no more.
31:32Of judgment because the prince of this world is judged.
31:36I yet have many things to say unto you.
31:39But you cannot bear them now.
31:41How be it.
31:41When he.
31:42Talking about the Holy Spirit.
31:43The Spirit of truth is come.
31:47He will guide you into all truth.
31:50So just to let you know.
31:52If it's not truthful.
31:54It's not of the Holy Spirit.
31:56For he shall not speak of himself.
31:59And that of just means a source.
32:01Does not mean that the Holy Spirit is not going to speak of himself.
32:05He's going to speak of the Bible.
32:07That's what he's going to do.
32:08The source means it's not going to come from himself.
32:11When people say yeah I prayed that God would give me this car or whatever.
32:16And God answered my prayer.
32:18Wrong my friend.
32:19That's free will.
32:20God did not give you that car.
32:22He may have gave you the ability to buy that car or whatever.
32:25God just doesn't do that folks.
32:27We have free will.
32:29But whatsoever he shall hear.
32:32That shall he speak.
32:34And whatever he hears is right here.
32:35Genesis and Revelation.
32:38And he will show you things to come.
32:40He shall glorify me.
32:43For he shall receive of mine.
32:45And shall show it unto you.
32:47All things that the Father hath are mine.
32:49Therefore said I.
32:50That he shall take of mine.
32:52And shall show it unto you.
32:55Excuse me.
32:56Now go to John 10.
32:58Now go to John 10.
33:05John 10 verse 4.
33:08John 10 verse 4.
33:10And when he putteth forth.
33:13This is talking about the good shepherd.
33:15This is Jesus.
33:15And when he putteth forth his own sheep.
33:18He goeth before them.
33:19And the sheep follow him.
33:21For they know his voice.
33:23And a stranger.
33:25They will not follow.
33:27But will flee from him.
33:29For they know not the voice of a stranger.
33:32Go down to verse 14.
33:34I am the good shepherd.
33:36And know my sheep.
33:39And am known of mine.
33:42Go to Matthew 7.
33:47These are truths of the Bible.
33:49That Jesus knows his own.
33:52And the voice of a stranger.
33:54We should not be following him.
33:56And sometimes you listen.
33:58You know.
33:59Sometimes you may hear.
34:00A different Bible version.
34:01Folks to me.
34:02It just sounds like the voice of a stranger.
34:05You know.
34:05I don't know.
34:07That's what it sounds like to me.
34:09Just does not sound real.
34:10Look at Matthew 7 verse 21.
34:14Not everyone that saith unto me.
34:16Lord, Lord.
34:16Shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
34:18Somebody was just quoting to this.
34:20To this verse to me today.
34:22But he that doeth the will of my Father.
34:25Which is in heaven.
34:26Folks.
34:26This has nothing to do with you being a good person.
34:29This has nothing to do with you standing before Jesus when you die and answering for your sins.
34:36That's what he was trying to say.
34:38That the Satan is going to have to answer to what they've done.
34:41Folks.
34:42That's not going to happen.
34:44Jesus said he casts our sins behind his back.
34:46The day that you take your last breath and you enter into heaven.
34:49He's not going to bring up your sins.
34:51What would you say?
34:52What would you say?
34:53There's nothing to say.
34:55You're talking to the man who created everything.
34:58In his own image.
34:59He knows what the right answer is.
35:02What would you say?
35:03There's nothing to say.
35:04But the doing the will of my Father is what?
35:08So we're going to get to that in a minute.
35:10But many will say to me in that day.
35:12I wrote above there Revelation 20.
35:14Because in that day.
35:16What day is that?
35:18We understand when somebody takes their last breath.
35:21Matthew.
35:21Luke 16 tells us that people are either in heaven or hell.
35:25The moment they take their last breath.
35:27So what day is this?
35:29It's the day of when the unsaved will stand before Jesus Christ.
35:33And he's going to open up the books.
35:35And he's going to judge them.
35:38And nobody's going to be found innocent.
35:42Everybody's going to be found guilty.
35:43Lord, Lord.
35:45Have we not prophesied in thy name.
35:47And in thy name have done.
35:49Have cast out devils.
35:51And in thy name done many wonderful works.
35:53So you know these people are unsaved.
35:55Because they're trusting in their works.
35:58These are preachers that think.
35:59Hey man I'm a great preacher.
36:00I get up here and preach every Sunday and Wednesday.
36:03And people just love me.
36:04And I'm going to heaven because I'm a preacher.
36:06I had a guy in Texas one time.
36:07I said you know if you die today would you go to heaven?
36:10He just stood there for a minute.
36:11He said I've been a preacher for 35 years.
36:13I said so you think because you're a preacher you're going to heaven?
36:15He said yeah.
36:16Don't you?
36:16I said no.
36:17Bye bye.
36:20That's what they think.
36:21And then look at verse 23.
36:23And then.
36:24And then will I profess unto them I never knew you.
36:30Now it's funny people use this verse and say hey you can lose your salvation.
36:35But that's not what it's saying.
36:36It's just the opposite.
36:38If Jesus never knew you that means he never knew you.
36:42He's not saying I used to know you now I don't know you anymore.
36:46Because that's what it said in John.
36:48Because the voice of the stranger when Jesus knows you.
36:52And how does he know you?
36:53When you believe on him.
36:55I go to John 6 real quick.
36:58John 6 is.
36:59I wrote that above here.
37:00John 6 38.
37:02Because it says the will.
37:04People hear that word will.
37:06And they think what's the will of God?
37:08Is it me doing the right thing?
37:10Keeping the commandments?
37:11What is that?
37:11Well John 6 tells us.
37:15Excuse me.
37:16John 6.
37:19Verse 38.
37:20I came down from heaven.
37:22Not to do my own will.
37:23But the will of him that sent me.
37:25And this is the father's will which hath sent me.
37:28That all which he hath given me I should lose nothing.
37:31But should raise it up at the last day.
37:34And verse 40 is a key verse right here.
37:36And this is the will of him that sent me.
37:38Talking about God the father.
37:39That everyone that seeth the son.
37:42And believe on him.
37:47So what's the.
37:48To be saved.
37:49To believe on Jesus.
37:50May have everlasting life.
37:52So he's saying.
37:53Here's the will of the father.
37:55That if you see the son.
37:57You believe on the son.
37:58That you'll have everlasting life.
38:00And I will raise him up at the last day.
38:03What is that?
38:03That's the second coming.
38:05That's the resurrection.
38:06So it's not the will as in doing something to get something.
38:12The will of God is what?
38:14Believing on Jesus and his righteousness.
38:16It's very simple folks.
38:17God makes it easy enough that anybody can understand it.
38:21Go to 1 Corinthians.
38:221 Corinthians 2.
38:26Verse 15.
38:27But he that is spiritual.
38:29Judges all things.
38:31But he himself is judge of no man.
38:34So the Bible is teaching us here.
38:36That if you're spiritual.
38:37You're walking in the spirit.
38:38You're trying to do everything right.
38:39Not being perfect.
38:40Not sinless.
38:41That's not what we're talking about.
38:43You're just.
38:44You're coming to church.
38:45You're reading your Bible.
38:46You're praying.
38:46You're trying to do everything right.
38:48You're trying to do what you can.
38:50That no man is going to judge you.
38:52Because you're judging yourself.
38:54You're constantly making an evaluation on yourself.
38:56Saying.
38:57Hey.
38:57Am I doing everything right?
38:59God.
39:00Is there anything in my life that I need to fix?
39:02Is there anything?
39:02You're judging yourself.
39:04So no man has to judge you.
39:05That's what it's saying.
39:07And then the last verse.
39:08For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
39:10That he may instruct him.
39:12But we have the mind of Christ.
39:14Folks.
39:14Here's the mind of Christ right here.
39:17We don't have to go find some kind of archaeological dig or anything.
39:21And try to find it.
39:22We have it right here.
39:23And it's the 66 books.
39:24And the King James Bible.
39:26This is the mind of Christ.
39:27We don't have to do any digging.
39:29We don't have to find anything.
39:31We don't have to go find books.
39:33We have the book right here.
39:34Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
39:36Let's bow our heads and do whatever.
39:36All right.
39:36Let's bow our heads and do our heads and do our heads.
39:37We don't have to go find what we areキ Ceau х