How To Spot A Phony Part 1
November 24, 2020
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Today we are going to examine one of Jesus’ most disturbing; and least understood; parables: the parable of the wheat and the tares.
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How To Spot A Phony Part 1
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- [ANNOUNCER] FROM THE PULPITOF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
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- OF DALLAS, TEXAS,
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- THIS IS PATHWAY TO VICTORYWITH DR. ROBERT JEFFRESS.
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- HI, I'M ROBERT JEFFRESS.
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- AND WELCOME AGAIN TOPATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- SOME PEOPLE THINK THATGROWING UP IN A CHRISTIAN HOME
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- OR GOING TO CHURCHAT THE HOLIDAYS
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- AUTOMATICALLY MAKESTHEM A CHRISTIAN.
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- BUT AS WE READ IN SCRIPTURE,
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- BEING A GENUINE FOLLOWER OFCHRIST ENTAILS SO MUCH MORE.
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- TODAY WE'RE GOING TOEXPLORE THE DIFFERENCE
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- BETWEEN AUTHENTICAND FALSE BELIEF.
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- BECAUSE WHEN ITCOMES TO SALVATION,
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- THE HEART IS THE ONLYTHING THAT MATTERS.
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- MY MESSAGE IS TITLED,"HOW TO SPOT A PHONY,"
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- ON TODAY'S EDITION OFPATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- [ANNOUNCER] EVERY DAY,PATHWAY TO VICTORY IS REACHING
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- MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE
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- WITH THE ULTIMATE HOPE INTROUBLING TIMES, JESUS CHRIST.
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- AND WE'RE INVITING YOU TOHELP US PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL
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- ACROSS AMERICA THROUGHTHE HOPE AND TRUTH
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- MATCHING CHALLENGE.
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- EVERY DOLLAR YOU GIVEBETWEEN NOW AND DECEMBER 31ST
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- WILL BE MATCHED ANDTHEREFORE DOUBLE.
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- SO TAKE ADVANTAGEOF THIS OPPORTUNITY
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- TO MULTIPLY YOUR IMPACTFOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
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- TOGETHER, WE WILL PIERCETHE DARKNESS OF OUR DAY
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- WITH THE HOPE OF THE WORLD,THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
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- HOW IS IT THAT SOMEBODYWHO TALKS LIKE A CHRISTIAN,
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- WHO APPEARS TO EMBRACE SOMEOF THE VALUES OF A CHRISTIAN,
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- HOW IS IT THAT THEY CAN BEUSED BY SATAN TO ACCOMPLISH
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- HIS PURPOSE HERE ON THE EARTH?
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- WE'RE GOING TO DISCOVER THEANSWER TO THAT QUESTION
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- IN THE PARABLE WE'REGOING TO LOOK AT TODAY.
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- JESUS SAID THE WORLD ISFILLED WITH PHONY CHRISTIANS.
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- PEOPLE WHO TALK LIKE CHRISTIANS,
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- THEY PROFESS TO BE BELIEVERS,
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- THEY COME TO CHURCH,
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- THEY SERVE AS SUNDAYSCHOOL TEACHERS,
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- DEACONS, AND EVEN PASTORS.
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- BUT EVEN THOUGH THEYAPPEAR TO BE CHRISTIANS
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- IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT,
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- THEY WILL BE SEPARATEDFROM TRUE BELIEVERS
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- AND THEY WILL SPENDETERNITY IN HELL
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- ALONGSIDE THE MOST VILEAND HARDENED CRIMINALS.
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- DO YOU FIND THATDIFFICULT TO BELIEVE?
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- IF SO, CONSIDER THE PARABLEOF THE WHEAT AND THE TARES.
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- IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLESTURN TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 13,
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- AS WE DISCOVER HOW TOSPOT A PHONY CHRISTIAN.
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- MATTHEW CHAPTER 13,
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- THE LAST TIME WE BEGAN THISSERIES ON THE PARABLES.
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- REMEMBER THE DEFINITIONOF A PARABLE,
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- YOU PROBABLY LEARNEDIT AS A CHILD,
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- AN EARTHLY STORY WITHA HEAVENLY MEANING.
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- WELL THAT'S WHAT A PARABLE IS.
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- A PARABLE TAKES DIVINE TRUTHAND IT LAYS IT ALONGSIDE
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- EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES.
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- JESUS LOVED TO TEACHTRUTH THROUGH PARABLES.
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- LAST TIME WE SAW THE FIRSTPARABLE IN MATTHEW 13,
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- ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
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- IT WAS THE PARABLE OFTHE SOILS AND EXPLAINS
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- WHY IT IS THAT EVERYONEWHO RECEIVES THE GOSPEL
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- DOESN'T EMBRACE THE GOSPEL.
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- IT ALL HAS TO DO WITH THECONDITION OF THE HUMAN HEART.
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- AND NOW BEGINNING IN VERSE 24,
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- JESUS IS GOING TOSHARE ANOTHER ASPECT
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- OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
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- AND THAT IS, NOT EVERYONEWHO APPEARS TO BE CHRISTIAN
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- IS IN FACT A GENUINE BELIEVER.
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- LOOK AT THE PARABLE IN VERSE 24,
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- JESUS PRESENTED ANOTHERPARABLE TO THEM SAYING,
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- "THE KINGDOM OF HEAVENCAN BE COMPARED TO A MAN
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- WHO SOWED GOODSEED IN HIS FIELD.
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- BUT WHILE MEN WERE SLEEPING,
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- HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWEDTARES AMONG THE WHEAT
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- AND HE WENT AWAY."
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- NOW THAT SEEMS STRANGE TO US
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- BECAUSE WE DON'T LIVE INAN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
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- LIKE JESUS DID.
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- BUT HIS DISCIPLESUNDERSTOOD THE STORY.
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- IT WAS VERY COMMON INJESUS' DAY FOR SOMEONE
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- IF THEY WANTED TO GETEVEN WITH SOMEBODY ELSE,
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- IF THEY HAD AN ENEMY,
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- THEY WOULD GO INTO THEIR FIELDAND THEY WOULD PLANT TARES.
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- THEY WOULD PLANT WEEDSIN THAT PERSON'S FIELD.
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- IN FACT THIS WORD TARE IN YOURNEW AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION
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- OR A KING JAMES VERSION,
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- IS REALLY ANUNFORTUNATE TRANSLATION.
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- THE WORD ACTUALLY REFERSTO THE DARNEL SEED.
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- IT WAS A RYE POISONOUS GRASS
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- THAT IN MANY WAYS LOOKEDLIKE GENUINE WHEAT.
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- IT WOULD GROWALONGSIDE THE WHEAT,
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- BUT WHEN IT FINALLY CAME TOFRUITION, IT HAD NO FRUIT IN IT.
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- IT WAS EMPTY.
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- AND NOT ONLY THAT,
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- THE WEEDS OF THE DARNELSEED WOULD STRANGLE OUT
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- THE GROWTH OF THE GENUINEWHEAT THAT WOULD PRODUCE FRUIT.
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- AND SO IF YOU WANTED TOGET EVEN WITH AN ENEMY,
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- YOU WOULD PLANT THISRYE POISONOUS GRASS
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- IN THE FIELD OF YOUR ENEMY.
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- IN FACT IT WAS SUCHA COMMON PRACTICE
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- THAT THE ROMANS HAD A LAWAGAINST DOING SUCH A THING.
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- SO ANYWAY, JESUS SAID,
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- THIS IS WHAT HAPPENEDTO THIS PARTICULAR MAN,
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- VERSE 26, "BUT WHEN THE WHEATSPRANG UP AND IT BORE GRAIN,
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- THEN THE TARESBECAME EVIDENT ALSO."
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- HOW DID THE TARESBECOME EVIDENT?
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- BECAUSE WHEN THEY SPRANG UP,
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- AS MUCH AS THEY APPEAREDTO BE GENUINE WHEAT,
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- THEY HAD NO FRUIT,THEY HAD NO GRAIN.
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- VERSE 27, "AND THE SLAVESOF THE LANDOWNER CAME
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- AND THEY SAID,
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- 'SIR, DID YOU NOT SOWGOOD SEED IN YOUR FIELD?
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- HOW THEN DOES IT HAVETARED, THIS FAKE WHEAT?'
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- AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'ANENEMY HAS DONE THIS.'
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- AND THE SLAVE SAID,
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- 'DO YOU WANT US THEN TO GOOUT AND GATHER THEM UP?'"
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- I MEAN THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
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- IF YOU SEE ALL OFTHIS FALSE WHEAT
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- THAT IS STRANGLING OUT THEGENUINE GROWTH OF WHEAT,
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- WOULD IT MAKE SENSE TOGO AHEAD AND UPROOT IT
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- ONCE YOU DISCOVERED IT?
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- LOOK AT VERSE 29,
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- "BUT THE MASTER SAID,
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- 'NO, LEST WHILE YOU AREGATHERING UP THE TARES,
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- YOU MAY ROOT UP THEWHEAT WITH THEM.'"
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- THE DANGER OF PULLING UPTHIS FAKE WHEAT WAS TWO-FOLD.
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- FIRST OF ALL, THE DISCIPLESCOULD MAKE A MISTAKE.
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- THEY WERE SLAVESCOULD MAKE A MISTAKE
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- AND ACCIDENTALLY MISTAKE,
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- GENUINE WHEAT FOR FAKE WHEAT
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- OR FAKE WHEAT FOR GENUINE WHEAT.
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- AND NOT ONLY THAT,
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- THE ROOTS HAD BECOME SOENTANGLED WITH A GENUINE WHEAT,
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- THAT IF YOU TRIED TO PULL UPTHE FAKE WHEAT, THE FAKE TARES,
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- YOU MIGHT ACCIDENTALLY UPROOTTHAT WHICH WAS GENUINE.
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- SO ON VERSE 30, THE MASTER SAID,
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- "INSTEAD ALLOW BOTH TO GROWTOGETHER UNTIL HARVEST.
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- AND IN THE TIME OF HARVEST,
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- I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS,'FIRST GATHER UP THE TARES
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- AND BIND THEM INBUNDLES TO BURN THEM UP,
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- BUT GATHER THE WHEATINTO MY BARN.'"
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- HE WASN'T SAYING DON'TEVER TRY TO SEPARATE
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- THE TARES FROM THE WHEAT,
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- HE SAID WAIT UNTILTHE RIGHT TIME
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- WHEN YOU CAN EASILYDISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE TWO,
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- THEN YOU CAN GATHER THETARES AND BURN THEM,
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- AND THE WHEAT WILL BEGATHERED INTO MY BARN.
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- NOW JESUS TOLDTWO OTHER STORIES.
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- ONE ABOUT THE MUSTARDSEED IN VERSE 31 AND 32,
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- ONE ABOUT THELEAVEN IN VERSE 33.
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- BUT THE ONE THE DISCIPLESWANTED TO KNOW ABOUT
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- WAS THIS ONE ABOUT THEWHEAT AND THE TARES.
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- LOOK AT VERSE 36:
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- THEN HE LEFT THE MULTITUDESTO WHOM HE HAD TOLD THE STORY
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- WENT INTO THE HOUSE AND HISDISCIPLES CAME TO HIM SAYING,
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- "LORD EXPLAINED TO USTHE PARABLE OF THE TARES
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- AND THE FIELD."
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- WHY DID THEY WANT TOKNOW ABOUT THIS ONE?
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- BECAUSE IT WAS THEMOST DISTURBING
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- OF ALL OF JESUS' STORIES.
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- IT'S A STORY THAT REMINDS US,
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- YOU MAY BE ABLE TO FOOL OTHERPEOPLE ABOUT YOUR FAITH,
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- YOU MAY EVEN BE ABLETO FOOL YOURSELF
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- ABOUT YOURRELATIONSHIP WITH GOD,
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- BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL GOD.
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- THERE IS A TIMEOF JUDGMENT COMING
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- WHEN GENUINE BELIEVERSWILL BE SEPARATED
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- FROM PHONY BELIEVERS.
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- TELL US LORD, WHATDOES THIS MEAN?
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- WELL JESUS WAS ONLY TOOHAPPY TO ANSWER THEIR REQUEST
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- FOR AN INTERPRETATION.
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- AND BEGINNING IN VERSE 37,
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- HE TELLS US WHATTHIS PARABLE MEANS.
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- AND BE SURE YOU HAVEYOUR OUTLINES OUT,
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- AND I WANT YOU TOWRITE THESE THINGS DOWN
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- BECAUSE THEY'RE JESUS'EXPLANATION OF THE PARABLE.
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- AND HE ANSWERED,AND HE SAID TO THEM,
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- "THE ONE WHO SOWS THE GOODSEED, THIS IS THE SON OF MAN."
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- JESUS IS THE SOWER.
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- HE IS THE ONE WHO PLANTS THEGOOD SEED INTO THE GROUND.
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- VERSE 38: AND THEFIELD IS THE WORLD.
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- THE FIELD REPRESENTS THE WORLD.
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- IT'S NOT JUST THE CHURCH,
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- IT'S THE WORLD THATCONTAINS THE CHURCH.
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- AND AS FOR THE GOOD SEED, THESEARE THE SONS OF THE KINGDOM.
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- THE GOOD SEED REPRESENTSGENUINE BELIEVERS,
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- GENUINE CHRISTIANS.
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- NOW REMEMBER INTHE FIRST PARABLE,
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- THE SEED REPRESENTEDTHE WORD OF GOD,
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- BUT HERE IT REPRESENTSGENUINE BELIEVERS.
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- AND THE TARES THEY ARETHE SONS OF THE EVIL ONE,
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- VERSE 38 SAYS.
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- THE TARES REPRESENT UNBELIEVERS,OUR FAKE CHRISTIANS.
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- BY THE WAY, THIS IDEAOF FAKE CHRISTIANS
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- LIVING RIGHT ALONGSIDEGENUINE CHRISTIANS,
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- THAT IS NOTHING NEW.
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- IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCETHE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIANITY.
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- AS I WAS PREPARINGTHE MESSAGE THIS WEEK,
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- I THOUGHT I WOULD PULL DOWNDR. CRISWELL'S COMMENTARY
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- ON MATTHEW AND SEE HOWHE HANDLED THIS PASSAGE.
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- DR. CRISWELL MADE AGREAT POINT WHEN HE SAID,
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- "FROM THE BEGINNINGOF THE FAITH,
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- BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS
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- HAVE LIVED RIGHTALONGSIDE ONE ANOTHER."
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- EVEN IN JESUS' CIRCLE OFTHE 12, THERE WAS A TARE,
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- HIS NAME WAS JUDAS.
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- HE APPEARED TO BE A BELIEVER.
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- HE EVEN LIVED RIGHTALONGSIDE THOSE DISCIPLES
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- FOR THREE YEARS, BUT HEWAS A PHONY CHRISTIAN.
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- AMONG THE 500 WHO SAWTHE RESURRECTED LORD
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- AMONG THEM WERE SOME TARES.
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- SOME WHO DOUBTED.
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- RIGHT ALONGSIDE PAUL,THE GREATEST MISSIONARYWHOEVER LIVED,
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- THERE WAS A DEMAS THEMAN WHO FORSOOK PAUL
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- BECAUSE HE LOVED THETHINGS OF THIS WORLD,
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- MORE THAN HE LOVED THE LORD.
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- YOU LOOK AT THE GREATCREEDS OF THE EARLY CHURCH,
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- THOSE GREATCONFESSIONS OF FAITH.
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- DO YOU REALIZE ALL OFTHEM WERE REACTIONS
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- AGAINST SOME HERESY THAT HADBEEN BEGUN BY UNBELIEVERS
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- IN THE EARLY CHURCH?
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- SINCE THE BEGINNINGOF THE FAITH,
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- WE HAVE SEEN BELIEVERS ANDUNBELIEVERS SIDE BY SIDE.
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- THAT'S WHAT HE'STALKING ABOUT HERE.
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- VERSE 39: THE ENEMY WHO SOWEDTHE UNBELIEVERS IS THE DEVIL.
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- SATAN IS THE ENEMY.
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- JUST LIKE THE ENEMY CAME
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- AND TOOK A LANDTHAT WAS NOT HIS OWN
- 00:10:34.457 --> 00:10:36.659
- AND HE PLANTED THESEFALSE WHEAT, THESE TARES.
- 00:10:36.692 --> 00:10:41.630
- SO THIS WORLD REALLY DOESN'TBELONG TO SATAN, IT'S GOD'S.
- 00:10:41.664 --> 00:10:44.967
- BUT SATAN IS THEGREAT TRANSGRESSOR,
- 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.069
- HE IS THE ONE WHO HAS COME
- 00:10:47.103 --> 00:10:48.871
- AND TRIED TO DESTROYWHAT GOD IS DOING.
- 00:10:48.904 --> 00:10:51.841
- THE HARVEST, THAT REPRESENTSTHE END OF THE AGE.
- 00:10:51.874 --> 00:10:55.945
- THE HARVEST EQUALS THE FINALJUDGMENT AT THE END OF THE AGE.
- 00:10:55.978 --> 00:10:59.915
- THAT'S AT THE END OF THE GRACEERA THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW.
- 00:10:59.949 --> 00:11:02.818
- IT'S NOT AT THE RAPTURES,WE'LL SEE IN A MOMENT,
- 00:11:02.852 --> 00:11:04.754
- BUT WHEN CHRIST RETURNSAT HIS SECOND COMING
- 00:11:04.787 --> 00:11:07.189
- TO SET UP HISKINGDOM ON THE EARTH,
- 00:11:07.223 --> 00:11:08.824
- THAT'S WHEN THISJUDGMENT TAKES PLACE.
- 00:11:08.858 --> 00:11:11.427
- AND NOTICE ALSO THE REAPERS,
- 00:11:11.460 --> 00:11:13.062
- THE ONE WHO SEPARATEBELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS
- 00:11:13.095 --> 00:11:16.198
- ARE THE ANGELS.
- 00:11:16.232 --> 00:11:18.100
- THAT'S THE MEANINGOF THE PARABLE.
- 00:11:18.134 --> 00:11:21.203
- LOOK VERSE 40,
- 00:11:21.237 --> 00:11:23.773
- "THEREFORE JUST AS THETARES ARE GATHERED UP
- 00:11:23.806 --> 00:11:27.309
- AND BURNED WITH A FIRE,
- 00:11:27.343 --> 00:11:29.145
- SO SHALL IT BE ATTHE END OF THE AGE.
- 00:11:29.178 --> 00:11:32.148
- FOR THE SON OF MAN WILLSEND FORTH HIS ANGELS,
- 00:11:32.181 --> 00:11:34.984
- AND THEY WILL GATHEROUT OF HIS KINGDOM
- 00:11:35.017 --> 00:11:37.052
- ALL STUMBLING BLOCKS ANDTHOSE WHO COMMIT LAWLESSNESS."
- 00:11:37.086 --> 00:11:43.225
- THIS IS THE JUDGMENTTHAT WILL OCCUR
- 00:11:43.259 --> 00:11:44.293
- WHEN CHRIST COMES BACK TO EARTH.
- 00:11:44.326 --> 00:11:46.529
- REMEMBER WHEN CHRIST RETURNSAT HIS SECOND COMING,
- 00:11:46.562 --> 00:11:49.799
- IT WILL BE AT THE END OFTHE GREAT TRIBULATION.
- 00:11:49.832 --> 00:11:52.501
- AND AT THE END OF THATSEVEN YEAR OF TRIBULATION
- 00:11:52.535 --> 00:11:55.371
- ON THE EARTH THEREWILL BE SOME CHRISTIANS
- 00:11:55.404 --> 00:11:57.540
- WHO SURVIVED THAT TRIBULATION.
- 00:11:57.573 --> 00:11:59.575
- THESE WILL BE MEN ANDWOMEN WHO WERE SAVED
- 00:11:59.608 --> 00:12:01.811
- AT THE BEGINNINGOF THE TRIBULATION.
- 00:12:01.844 --> 00:12:03.712
- THEY PERSEVERED IN THEIR FAITH.
- 00:12:03.746 --> 00:12:05.147
- THEY WEREN'T MARTYRED.
- 00:12:05.181 --> 00:12:06.348
- THEY ARE ALIVE WHENCHRIST RETURNS.
- 00:12:06.382 --> 00:12:09.752
- THERE ARE ALSO UNBELIEVERS
- 00:12:09.785 --> 00:12:11.253
- WHO WILL BE ALIVE AT THEEND OF THE SECOND COMING.
- 00:12:11.287 --> 00:12:13.622
- PEOPLE WHO WEREN'TDESTROYED BY THE PLAGUES
- 00:12:13.656 --> 00:12:15.658
- THAT GOD SENT UP ON THE EARTH.
- 00:12:15.691 --> 00:12:17.359
- SO WHEN CHRIST COMES BACK TOEARTH TO ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM,
- 00:12:17.393 --> 00:12:20.729
- THERE HAS TO BE A JUDGMENT.
- 00:12:20.763 --> 00:12:22.464
- ONLY TRUE BELIEVERS CAN THENENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD
- 00:12:22.498 --> 00:12:25.201
- HERE ON EARTH.
- 00:12:25.234 --> 00:12:26.635
- SO THIS IS WHEN THIS GREATJUDGMENT IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE.
- 00:12:26.669 --> 00:12:29.738
- NOW, I WANT YOU TOHOLD YOUR PLACE HERE
- 00:12:29.772 --> 00:12:31.106
- AND TURN OVER TOMATTHEW CHAPTER 24.
- 00:12:31.140 --> 00:12:33.742
- ANOTHER REFERENCETO THIS JUDGMENT.
- 00:12:33.776 --> 00:12:36.212
- I WANT TO SHOW YOU ONE OF THEMOST MISINTERPRETED PASSAGES
- 00:12:36.245 --> 00:12:39.582
- BY CHRISTIANS IN ALLOF THE NEW TESTAMENT
- 00:12:39.615 --> 00:12:41.817
- RELATED TO THE SECOND COMING.
- 00:12:41.851 --> 00:12:43.586
- IT'S IN MATTHEW 24,BEGINNING WITH VERSE 36,
- 00:12:43.619 --> 00:12:48.791
- CHRIST HAS JUST DETAILEDBEGINNING IN VERSE 29
- 00:12:48.824 --> 00:12:51.927
- HIS COMING TO EARTH, HIS SECONDCOMING, HIS VISIBLE RETURN.
- 00:12:51.961 --> 00:12:58.100
- NOW NOTICE IN VERSE36, WHAT HE SAYS,
- 00:12:58.133 --> 00:12:59.602
- "BUT OF THAT DAY ANDHOUR NO ONE KNOWS,
- 00:12:59.635 --> 00:13:03.672
- NOT EVEN THE ANGELSIN HEAVEN NOR THE SON,
- 00:13:03.706 --> 00:13:06.709
- BUT THE FATHER ALONE."
- 00:13:06.742 --> 00:13:08.911
- ANYBODY WHO TELLS YOU,
- 00:13:08.944 --> 00:13:10.679
- THEY HAVE FOUND THESECRET TO THE BIBLE CODE,
- 00:13:10.713 --> 00:13:13.148
- OR THEY HAVE FOUND THESECRET OF BIBLE PROPHECY,
- 00:13:13.182 --> 00:13:15.384
- AND CAN TELL YOU WHENCHRIST IS COMING BACK AGAIN,
- 00:13:15.417 --> 00:13:17.519
- WRITE THEM OFF AS A QUACK.
- 00:13:17.553 --> 00:13:20.122
- NOBODY KNOWS WHEN CHRISTIS COMING BACK AGAIN,
- 00:13:20.155 --> 00:13:23.559
- NOT EVEN JESUS HIMSELF KNOWS.
- 00:13:23.592 --> 00:13:26.061
- IT'S RESERVED FOR GOD HIMSELF.
- 00:13:26.095 --> 00:13:28.530
- THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID.
- 00:13:28.564 --> 00:13:30.199
- BUT WHAT HE DOES COMENOTICE WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE,
- 00:13:30.232 --> 00:13:32.334
- VERSE 37: FOR THECOMING OF THE SON OF MAN
- 00:13:32.368 --> 00:13:35.304
- WILL BE JUST LIKETHE DAYS OF NOAH.
- 00:13:35.337 --> 00:13:37.940
- FOR IS IN THOSE DAYS WHICHWERE BEFORE THE FLOOD
- 00:13:37.973 --> 00:13:41.310
- THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING,
- 00:13:41.343 --> 00:13:43.579
- THEY WERE MARRYING ANDGIVING IN MARRIAGE,
- 00:13:43.612 --> 00:13:45.614
- UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOAHENTERED INTO THE ARK.
- 00:13:45.648 --> 00:13:49.118
- VERSE 39: AND THEY DID NOTUNDERSTAND UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME
- 00:13:49.151 --> 00:13:54.857
- AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY.
- 00:13:54.890 --> 00:13:58.127
- UNDERLINE THATPHRASE IN YOUR BIBLE,
- 00:13:58.160 --> 00:14:00.195
- TOOK THEM ALL AWAY,
- 00:14:00.229 --> 00:14:02.531
- SO SHALL THE COMINGOF THE SON OF MAN BE.
- 00:14:02.564 --> 00:14:06.302
- NOW, WHO GOT TAKEN AWAY BYTHE FLOOD GOD'S JUDGMENT,
- 00:14:06.335 --> 00:14:09.939
- BELIEVERS OR UNBELIEVERS.
- 00:14:09.972 --> 00:14:11.640
- UNBELIEVERS, THE UNBELIEVERSWERE TAKEN AWAY BY THE FLOOD.
- 00:14:11.674 --> 00:14:16.512
- NOW HERE'S WHERE IT GETSINTERESTING VERSE 40:
- 00:14:16.545 --> 00:14:18.514
- THEN THERE SHALL BETWO MEN IN THE FIELD.
- 00:14:18.547 --> 00:14:21.317
- ONE WILL BE, THERE'S THESAME WORD, TAKEN AWAY,
- 00:14:21.350 --> 00:14:25.220
- AND ONE WILL BE LEFT.
- 00:14:25.254 --> 00:14:27.323
- TWO WOMEN WILL BEGRINDING AT THE MILL.
- 00:14:27.356 --> 00:14:29.591
- ONE WILL BE TAKEN AWAYAND ONE WILL BE LEFT.
- 00:14:29.625 --> 00:14:34.697
- WHERE IS THE WOMANAT THE MILL TAKEN?
- 00:14:34.730 --> 00:14:37.099
- WHERE IS THE MANIN THE FIELD TAKEN?
- 00:14:37.132 --> 00:14:38.934
- TO HEAVEN? NO. (CHUCKLES)
- 00:14:38.968 --> 00:14:40.803
- THIS ISN'T THE RAPTURE.THIS IS THE SECOND COMING.
- 00:14:40.836 --> 00:14:43.872
- THE ONES THAT ARE TAKENARE THE UNBELIEVERS
- 00:14:43.906 --> 00:14:46.241
- WHO ARE TAKEN AWAYINTO ETERNAL JUDGMENT.
- 00:14:46.275 --> 00:14:50.112
- THAT'S WHAT JESUSIS DESCRIBING HERE.
- 00:14:50.145 --> 00:14:52.114
- THE JUDGMENT THAT TAKESPLACE WHEN HE COMES
- 00:14:52.147 --> 00:14:55.017
- HIS SECOND VISIBLE COMING.
- 00:14:55.050 --> 00:14:57.353
- NOW GO BACK FOR A MOMENTTO MATTHEW CHAPTER 13,
- 00:14:57.386 --> 00:15:00.556
- LET'S SEE WHERE THESEPEOPLE ARE TAKEN AWAY TO.
- 00:15:00.589 --> 00:15:03.092
- WHAT IS THEIR DESTINATION?
- 00:15:03.125 --> 00:15:05.761
- MATTHEW CHAPTER 13,BEGINNING WITH VERSE 42,
- 00:15:05.794 --> 00:15:10.265
- TALKING ABOUT CHRIST IT SAYS:
- 00:15:10.299 --> 00:15:12.301
- AND HE WILL CAST THEMINTO THE FURNACE OF FIRE.
- 00:15:12.334 --> 00:15:16.338
- IN THAT PLACE WHERETHERE SHALL BE WEEPING
- 00:15:16.372 --> 00:15:20.142
- AND GNASHING OF TEETH.
- 00:15:20.175 --> 00:15:23.979
- JESUS IS SAYINGTHE ETERNAL DESTINY
- 00:15:24.013 --> 00:15:26.648
- OF PHONY CHRISTIANS IS HELL.
- 00:15:26.682 --> 00:15:31.954
- PERHAPS ONE OF JESUS MOSTVIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF HELL
- 00:15:31.987 --> 00:15:35.691
- IS FOUND IN A PARABLEWE'LL LOOK AT IN DETAIL
- 00:15:35.724 --> 00:15:37.960
- IN THE WEEKS AHEAD,LUKE CHAPTER 16.
- 00:15:37.993 --> 00:15:40.829
- THE STORY OF THERICH MAN AND LAZARUS.
- 00:15:40.863 --> 00:15:43.832
- REMEMBER THE RICH MAN DIEDAND HE WENT TO HELL, TO HADES.
- 00:15:43.866 --> 00:15:48.771
- NOT BECAUSE HE WAS WEALTHY,
- 00:15:48.804 --> 00:15:51.106
- BUT BECAUSE HE WASSELF-SUFFICIENT.
- 00:15:51.140 --> 00:15:53.275
- HE COULD NEVER BRINGHIMSELF TO CALL UPON
- 00:15:53.308 --> 00:15:55.744
- THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUSCHRIST FOR HIS SALVATION.
- 00:15:55.778 --> 00:15:59.581
- REMEMBER WHAT JESUSSAID WHEN THAT MAN
- 00:15:59.615 --> 00:16:01.950
- SHUT HIS EYES ON EARTHFOR THE LAST TIME
- 00:16:01.984 --> 00:16:04.119
- AND AWAKENED IN HELL.
- 00:16:04.153 --> 00:16:06.455
- THE BIBLE SAYS: AND INHADES, HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES
- 00:16:06.488 --> 00:16:11.093
- AND SAID, "FATHERABRAHAM HAVE MERCY ON ME
- 00:16:11.126 --> 00:16:15.264
- FOR I AM IN AGONYIN THESE FLAMES."
- 00:16:15.297 --> 00:16:20.169
- JESUS TAUGHT THERE WAS
- 00:16:20.202 --> 00:16:21.703
- ACTUAL CONSCIOUS ETERNALSUFFERING IN HELL.
- 00:16:21.737 --> 00:16:26.642
- AND HERE HE DESCRIBESIT IN VERSE 42,
- 00:16:26.675 --> 00:16:29.111
- AS A PLACE THAT WILL BECHARACTERIZED BY WEEPING,
- 00:16:29.144 --> 00:16:33.015
- WAILING, GNASHING OF TEETH.
- 00:16:33.048 --> 00:16:37.219
- PEOPLE WHO SAY, OH, I DON'TCARE ABOUT GOING TO HELL,
- 00:16:37.252 --> 00:16:39.088
- THAT'S WHERE ALL MYFRIENDS ARE GOING TO BE
- 00:16:39.121 --> 00:16:40.489
- AND WE'LL HAVE AGREAT TIME THERE.
- 00:16:40.522 --> 00:16:43.559
- THEY DON'T KNOW WHATTHEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
- 00:16:43.592 --> 00:16:47.029
- YOUR FRIENDS MAY BE IN HELL,
- 00:16:47.062 --> 00:16:49.098
- BUT YOU WON'T KNOW IT.
- 00:16:49.131 --> 00:16:50.699
- BECAUSE IT'S A PLACE OFINDESCRIBABLE LONELINESS.
- 00:16:50.732 --> 00:16:54.470
- OF WEEPING ANDGNASHING OF TEETH.
- 00:16:54.503 --> 00:16:58.707
- PERHAPS THE MOST TERRIFYINGTHING ABOUT HELL IS,
- 00:16:58.740 --> 00:17:01.677
- IT'S A FOREVER DESTINATION.
- 00:17:01.710 --> 00:17:05.948
- THE WEEPING, THE WAILING,THE GNASHING OF TEETH
- 00:17:05.981 --> 00:17:07.716
- WILL NOT ONLY BE DUE TO THEPHYSICAL SUFFERING THERE,
- 00:17:07.749 --> 00:17:10.285
- BUT IT WILL BE THE REALIZATIONTHAT THERE IS NO WAY OUT.
- 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:17.326
- THE AWFUL TRUTHABOUT HELL IS THIS,
- 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:21.363
- WHEN YOU WILL HAVE SPENT10 BILLION, TRILLION YEARS
- 00:17:21.396 --> 00:17:26.034
- IN THAT PLACE OF WEEPINGAND GNASHING OF TEETH.
- 00:17:26.068 --> 00:17:29.204
- WHEN YOU HAVE SPENT 10BILLION, TRILLION YEARS THERE,
- 00:17:29.238 --> 00:17:32.641
- YOU WILL NOT HAVELESSENED BY ONE SECOND,
- 00:17:32.674 --> 00:17:37.112
- THE TIME YOU HAVELEFT TO SPEND THERE.
- 00:17:37.146 --> 00:17:40.782
- THAT'S THE AWFULTRUTH ABOUT HELL.
- 00:17:40.816 --> 00:17:44.586
- PEOPLE SAY, I JUSTDON'T BELIEVE THAT.
- 00:17:44.620 --> 00:17:46.788
- I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
- 00:17:46.822 --> 00:17:48.323
- I DON'T BELIEVE GOD WOULD EVERALLOW SUCH A THING TO HAPPEN.
- 00:17:48.357 --> 00:17:53.829
- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
- 00:17:53.862 --> 00:17:55.664
- IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THATTHEN JESUS CHRIST IS A LIAR.
- 00:17:55.697 --> 00:17:59.201
- YOU HAVE TO COMETO THAT CONCLUSION.
- 00:17:59.234 --> 00:18:00.769
- BECAUSE JESUS TALKEDMORE OFTEN ABOUT HELL
- 00:18:00.802 --> 00:18:03.172
- THAN HE DID ABOUT HEAVEN.
- 00:18:03.205 --> 00:18:04.907
- YOU CAN'T SAY, WELL, I ACCEPTWHAT HE SAID ABOUT HEAVEN.
- 00:18:04.940 --> 00:18:06.975
- I JUST REJECT WHATHE SAID ABOUT HELL.
- 00:18:07.009 --> 00:18:08.877
- NO. HE SPOKE MORE OFTEN ABOUTHELL THAN HE DID ABOUT HEAVEN.
- 00:18:08.911 --> 00:18:12.214
- WHY? BECAUSE IT'S A REALITY.
- 00:18:12.247 --> 00:18:15.918
- IT'S THE PLACE FROM WHICH HECAME AND DIED TO DELIVER US.
- 00:18:15.951 --> 00:18:21.823
- JESUS SAID, "THOSE WHOARE PHONY CHRISTIANS
- 00:18:21.857 --> 00:18:25.827
- WILL BE CAST INTOTHIS PLACE OF FIRE."
- 00:18:25.861 --> 00:18:28.931
- BUT NOTICE IN VERSE 43,
- 00:18:28.964 --> 00:18:30.432
- THE DESTINATION OF GENUINEBELIEVERS, IN CONTRAST,
- 00:18:30.465 --> 00:18:33.435
- "THEN THE RIGHTEOUS WILLSHINE FORTH AS THE SUN
- 00:18:33.468 --> 00:18:36.505
- IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER.
- 00:18:36.538 --> 00:18:38.207
- HE WHO HAS EARS, LET HIM HEAR."
- 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:42.477
- WHAT JESUS IS SHOWINGIS THE GREAT CONTRAST
- 00:18:42.511 --> 00:18:44.947
- IN THE ETERNAL DESTINY
- 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:46.381
- OF THE UNBELIEVERAND THE BELIEVER.
- 00:18:46.415 --> 00:18:48.917
- THE UNBELIEVER WILLBE FOREVER IN HELL.
- 00:18:48.951 --> 00:18:51.386
- THAT PLACE OF DARKNESS.
- 00:18:51.420 --> 00:18:53.088
- THE BELIEVER WILL BE WITHCHRIST FOREVER IN HEAVEN.
- 00:18:53.121 --> 00:18:57.759
- ONE REASON WE HAVE AHARD TIME BELIEVING THAT,
- 00:18:57.793 --> 00:19:01.396
- ONE REASON WE HAVE AHARD TIME BELIEVING
- 00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:03.131
- THERE REALLY IS A DIFFERENCE
- 00:19:03.165 --> 00:19:04.433
- BETWEEN THE ETERNALDESTINATION OF THE SAVED
- 00:19:04.466 --> 00:19:07.736
- AND THE UNSAVED IS,
- 00:19:07.769 --> 00:19:09.071
- RIGHT NOW IN THIS WORLD,
- 00:19:09.104 --> 00:19:11.340
- BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERSEXIST SIDE BY SIDE
- 00:19:11.373 --> 00:19:14.843
- WITH ONE ANOTHER.
- 00:19:14.876 --> 00:19:17.512
- THAT'S TRUE IN YOUR WORKPLACE.
- 00:19:17.546 --> 00:19:19.248
- WHERE YOU WORK RIGHT NOW,
- 00:19:19.281 --> 00:19:20.515
- THERE'RE BELIEVERS ANDTHERE'RE UNBELIEVERS,
- 00:19:20.549 --> 00:19:23.819
- WORKING AT THE SAMEPLACE OF BUSINESS.
- 00:19:23.852 --> 00:19:27.956
- IN YOUR HOME VERY POSSIBLY,
- 00:19:27.990 --> 00:19:30.592
- THERE ARE UNBELIEVERSAND BELIEVERS
- 00:19:30.626 --> 00:19:32.928
- WHO LIVE UNDER THE SAME ROOF,
- 00:19:32.961 --> 00:19:34.863
- WHO PERHAPS EVENSLEEPING IN THE SAME BED.
- 00:19:34.896 --> 00:19:38.500
- EVEN IN THIS CHURCHTHIS MORNING,
- 00:19:38.533 --> 00:19:40.502
- FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH DALLAS,OUT THERE IN THE PEWS,
- 00:19:40.535 --> 00:19:43.939
- THERE'RE BELIEVERSAND UNBELIEVERS
- 00:19:43.972 --> 00:19:47.442
- SHARING THE SAME PEW.
- 00:19:47.476 --> 00:19:49.177
- EACH HERE, EACHPURPORTING TO WORSHIP GOD.
- 00:19:49.211 --> 00:19:53.882
- SOME ARE GENUINE BELIEVERS.SOME ARE FAKE BELIEVERS,
- 00:19:53.915 --> 00:19:57.586
- BUT EVEN THOUGH WEEXIST SIDE-BY-SIDE,
- 00:19:57.619 --> 00:19:59.921
- THE WHEAT AND THE TARES,
- 00:19:59.955 --> 00:20:01.556
- BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS,
- 00:20:01.590 --> 00:20:02.958
- EVEN THOUGH WE EXISTSIDE-BY-SIDE IN THIS WORLD,
- 00:20:02.991 --> 00:20:05.761
- JESUS IS SAYING THERE IS ATIME OF SEPARATION COMING.
- 00:20:05.794 --> 00:20:09.831
- THERE IS A TIME WHENGOD WILL SEPARATE
- 00:20:09.865 --> 00:20:12.334
- THE REAL FROM THE FAKE.
- 00:20:12.367 --> 00:20:14.503
- REAL CHRISTIANS FROMPHONY CHRISTIANS.
- 00:20:14.536 --> 00:20:17.906
- AND THAT SEPARATION WILLLAST FOR ALL ETERNITY.
- 00:20:17.939 --> 00:20:23.845
- AND WHAT'S THE APPLICATIONOF THIS PARABLE FOR US?
- 00:20:23.879 --> 00:20:27.516
- LEMME SUGGEST TOYOU FIRST OF ALL,
- 00:20:27.549 --> 00:20:28.950
- THREE WRONG ORFALSE APPLICATIONS
- 00:20:28.984 --> 00:20:31.887
- THAT PEOPLE MISTAKENLYMAKE FROM THIS PARABLE.
- 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:35.157
- FIRST OF ALL, THISPARABLE IS WRONGLY APPLIED
- 00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:39.328
- IF IT LEADS TO ANAPATHY FOR LOST PEOPLE,
- 00:20:39.361 --> 00:20:42.964
- AN APATHY FOR LOSS PEOPLE.
- 00:20:42.998 --> 00:20:44.166
- THERE'S SOME PEOPLEWHO WOULD SAY,
- 00:20:44.199 --> 00:20:45.734
- WELL, SINCE YOU CAN'T REALLYTELL WHO'S A REAL CHRISTIAN
- 00:20:45.767 --> 00:20:47.669
- AND NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN,YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN TRY,
- 00:20:47.703 --> 00:20:49.805
- JUST LEAVE IT UP TO GOD,
- 00:20:49.838 --> 00:20:51.473
- LET HIM WORRY ABOUT IT.
- 00:20:51.506 --> 00:20:53.108
- AND PRETTY SOON YOUWILL FIND YOURSELF
- 00:20:53.141 --> 00:20:54.810
- NOT SHARING YOUR FAITH WITHANYONE BECAUSE YOU THINK,
- 00:20:54.843 --> 00:20:57.646
- WELL, I CAN'T TELLWHO'S REALLY A BELIEVER
- 00:20:57.679 --> 00:20:59.514
- AND NOT A BELIEVER.
- 00:20:59.548 --> 00:21:00.649
- THAT'S NOT WHAT JESUS IS SAYING.
- 00:21:00.682 --> 00:21:02.818
- IF YOU LOOK AT LUKE 15, ASWE WILL IN THE MONTHS AHEAD,
- 00:21:02.851 --> 00:21:06.355
- JESUS TOLD THREE PARABLESABOUT A LOST COIN,
- 00:21:06.388 --> 00:21:09.991
- A LOST SHEEP AND A LOST SON,
- 00:21:10.025 --> 00:21:12.661
- TO SHOW THAT GOD LOVESPEOPLE WHO ARE LOST.
- 00:21:12.694 --> 00:21:15.630
- THAT'S WHY HE SENTCHRIST TO RESCUE THEM.
- 00:21:15.664 --> 00:21:18.700
- AND IF WE REALLY HAVETHE HEART OF GOD,
- 00:21:18.734 --> 00:21:20.469
- WE TOO WILL BE LOOKINGFOR THOSE WHO ARE LOST,
- 00:21:20.502 --> 00:21:23.238
- NOT TO JUDGE THEM, BUT TO LEADTHEM TO A PLACE OF SALVATION.
- 00:21:23.271 --> 00:21:29.044
- JESUS ISN'T SAYING WESHOULDN'T TRY TO DETERMINE
- 00:21:29.077 --> 00:21:31.346
- WHETHER SOMEBODYIS SAVED OR LOST.
- 00:21:31.380 --> 00:21:33.281
- WE OUGHT TO TRY TO MAKETHAT DETERMINATION,
- 00:21:33.315 --> 00:21:35.450
- NOT TO JUDGE THEM,BUT TO RESCUE THEM.
- 00:21:35.484 --> 00:21:39.788
- BY THE WAY, LET ME GIVEYOU A FOOLPROOF QUESTION
- 00:21:39.821 --> 00:21:43.358
- YOU CAN USE TO DETERMINE WHETHERSOMEBODY IS SAVED OR LOST.
- 00:21:43.392 --> 00:21:47.295
- THERE'S SOMEBODYYOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT.
- 00:21:47.329 --> 00:21:48.730
- YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHETHERTHEY'RE SAVED OR LOST,
- 00:21:48.764 --> 00:21:51.099
- ASK THEM THIS SIMPLE QUESTION,
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- WHAT ARE YOU DEPENDING ON TOGET YOU TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE?
- 00:21:54.202 --> 00:21:58.273
- WHAT ARE YOU DEPENDING ON TOGET YOU TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE?
- 00:21:58.306 --> 00:22:01.977
- MOST PEOPLE EVENCHURCH PEOPLE WILL SAY,
- 00:22:02.010 --> 00:22:04.079
- WELL, THE FACT THAT I TRYTO KEEP THE 10 COMMANDMENTS,
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- OR I LIVE BY THE GOLDEN RULE,
- 00:22:08.116 --> 00:22:11.486
- OR MY GRANDFATHER WAS AFOUNDER OF THE CHURCH,
- 00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:15.023
- OR I WAS BAPTIZEDWHEN I WAS AN INFANT.
- 00:22:15.056 --> 00:22:17.492
- THEY'LL COME UP WITHALL KINDS OF THINGS.
- 00:22:17.526 --> 00:22:20.295
- ALL OF WHICH ARETHE WRONG ANSWER.
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- THERE'S ONLY ONE RIGHTANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
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- WHAT AM I DEPENDING ON TOGET ME TO HEAVEN WHEN I DIE?
- 00:22:25.867 --> 00:22:28.503
- THE FACT THAT I'VE TRUSTEDIN JESUS TO BE MY SAVIOR.
- 00:22:28.537 --> 00:22:32.741
- THAT I BELIEVE THATHE DIED IN MY PLACE,
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- THAT HE TOOK THEPUNISHMENT THAT I DESERVE.
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- ♪ MUSIC
- 00:22:38.380 --> 00:22:43.718
- IT'S CLEAR THAT GOD HASVERY LITTLE PATIENCE
- 00:22:43.752 --> 00:22:46.555
- WITH COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANS.
- 00:22:46.588 --> 00:22:48.690
- YOU CAN FOOL OTHERPEOPLE ABOUT YOUR FAITH,
- 00:22:48.723 --> 00:22:50.959
- BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL GOD.
- 00:22:50.992 --> 00:22:53.962
- WELL, I'M EAGER TO TELL YOU
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- ABOUT THE RECORD-BREAKINGMATCHING CHALLENGE,
- 00:22:55.597 --> 00:22:58.099
- THAT'S JUST BECOME ACTIVE.
- 00:22:58.133 --> 00:23:00.235
- A GENEROUS GROUP OF FRIENDSHAVE BANDED TOGETHER
- 00:23:00.268 --> 00:23:02.704
- TO GIVE PATHWAY TO VICTORY,
- 00:23:02.737 --> 00:23:04.306
- A SPECIAL YEAR-ENDGIFT OF $1.2 MILLION.
- 00:23:04.339 --> 00:23:08.543
- BECAUSE OF THIS ARRANGEMENT,
- 00:23:08.577 --> 00:23:10.045
- EVERY DOLLAR YOU GIVE TOSUPPORT PATHWAY TO VICTORY
- 00:23:10.078 --> 00:23:13.281
- BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR ISAUTOMATICALLY DOUBLED IN SIZE,
- 00:23:13.315 --> 00:23:17.752
- UNTIL WE REACHED THE FINAL GOAL.
- 00:23:17.786 --> 00:23:20.121
- SO RIGHT NOW YOUR GENEROUSYEAR-END GIFT OF $100
- 00:23:20.155 --> 00:23:23.925
- WOULD BE MATCHEDUNTIL IT BECOMES $200.
- 00:23:23.959 --> 00:23:27.529
- A $500 GIFT BECOMES $1.000.
- 00:23:27.562 --> 00:23:31.032
- A $5.000 GIFT WOULDBECOME $10.000.
- 00:23:31.066 --> 00:23:34.870
- NO MATTER THE SIZE YOUR GIFTWILL HAVE TWICE THE IMPACT
- 00:23:34.903 --> 00:23:38.640
- BECAUSE OF THISMATCHING CHALLENGE.
- 00:23:38.673 --> 00:23:41.009
- THE DARKNESS IN OURBELOVED COUNTRY IS GREAT,
- 00:23:41.042 --> 00:23:44.045
- BUT THE HOPE OF THE GOSPEL,
- 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:45.647
- THE LIGHT OF GOD'S TRUTHIS GREATER AND BRIGHTER.
- 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.451
- PLEASE HELP ME BOLDLYSHARE THE GOOD NEWS
- 00:23:49.484 --> 00:23:51.820
- WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS AND HELPME PROCLAIM IT TO THE WORLD.
- 00:23:51.853 --> 00:23:55.557
- NOW STAY THERE I'LL BE BACKWITH MORE IN JUST A MOMENT.
- 00:23:55.590 --> 00:24:00.762
- [ANNOUNCER] FROMONE DAY TO THE NEXT
- 00:24:00.795 --> 00:24:02.697
- LIFE IS ALWAYS CHANGING,
- 00:24:02.731 --> 00:24:04.366
- BUT NO MATTER WHAT LIFE BRINGSOR WHAT YOUR DAY LOOKS LIKE,
- 00:24:04.399 --> 00:24:07.936
- YOU CAN STAY ROOTED IN GOD'SWORD THROUGHOUT THE COMING YEAR
- 00:24:07.969 --> 00:24:11.673
- WITH THE BRAND NEW 2021 PATHWAYTO VICTORY DAILY DEVOTIONAL,
- 00:24:11.706 --> 00:24:16.611
- FILLED WITH PRACTICALINSIGHTS FOR YOUR DAILY LIFE.
- 00:24:16.645 --> 00:24:19.681
- THIS BEAUTIFULLEATHER-BOUND DEVOTIONAL
- 00:24:19.714 --> 00:24:21.983
- CONTAINS 262 DEVOTIONS,
- 00:24:22.017 --> 00:24:25.020
- BASED ON THE TEACHINGOF DR. ROBERT JEFFRESS.
- 00:24:25.053 --> 00:24:27.722
- MORE THAN 500 PAGES IN LENGTH,
- 00:24:27.756 --> 00:24:30.559
- THE BRAND NEW 2021DAILY DEVOTIONAL,
- 00:24:30.592 --> 00:24:33.295
- IS THE PERFECT COMPANIONFOR YOUR MORNING
- 00:24:33.328 --> 00:24:35.697
- OR EVENING BIBLESTUDY OR PRAYER TIME.
- 00:24:35.730 --> 00:24:38.433
- EACH WEEK OF DEVOTION CONTENTIS THOUGHTFULLY ORGANIZED
- 00:24:38.466 --> 00:24:42.037
- TO GUIDE YOU THROUGHOUT 2021,
- 00:24:42.070 --> 00:24:44.472
- EVERY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY,ALL 52 WEEKS OF THE YEAR.
- 00:24:44.506 --> 00:24:48.209
- FROM NEW YEAR'S DAY TO EASTER,
- 00:24:48.243 --> 00:24:50.145
- DISCOVER HOW TO LIVEAN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE,
- 00:24:50.178 --> 00:24:53.248
- AS YOU SEEK TO SERVEGOD AND HIS KINGDOM.
- 00:24:53.281 --> 00:24:56.184
- AS SPRING TURNS TO SUMMER,
- 00:24:56.217 --> 00:24:57.919
- LEARN HOW TO LET GOD SHAPEYOUR ATTITUDES AND CHOICES.
- 00:24:57.953 --> 00:25:01.523
- AND AS YOU MOVE INTO THE FALLAND BACK TO SCHOOL MONTHS,
- 00:25:01.556 --> 00:25:04.492
- GAIN A DEEPERUNDERSTANDING OF WHY JESUS
- 00:25:04.526 --> 00:25:07.362
- IS THE ONLY TRUEPATH TO SALVATION.
- 00:25:07.395 --> 00:25:09.998
- ALL THIS AND MORE IN ABEAUTIFUL LEATHER-BOUND BOOK
- 00:25:10.031 --> 00:25:13.335
- THAT YOU CAN TAKE ANYWHERE.
- 00:25:13.368 --> 00:25:15.437
- LIFE MOVES FAST, AND SOMETIMESIT'S HARD TO KEEP UP,
- 00:25:15.470 --> 00:25:19.207
- BUT NO MATTER THESEASON OF THE YEAR
- 00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:21.409
- OR THE SEASON OF YOUR LIFE,
- 00:25:21.443 --> 00:25:23.345
- THE BRAND NEW 2021 PATHWAYTO VICTORY DAILY DEVOTIONAL
- 00:25:23.378 --> 00:25:27.782
- WILL HELP SEE YOU THROUGH IT.
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- ♪ MUSIC
- 00:25:29.751 --> 00:25:31.653
- WHEN WE REACH HEAVEN ONE DAY,
- 00:25:31.686 --> 00:25:33.188
- WE'LL LIKELY BE SURPRISED BYWHO IS AND WHO ISN'T THERE.
- 00:25:33.221 --> 00:25:37.659
- SO OFTEN PEOPLE LOOKGODLY FROM THE OUTSIDE,
- 00:25:37.692 --> 00:25:40.629
- BUT THE CONDITION OF THEIRHEART REVEALS ANOTHER STORY.
- 00:25:40.662 --> 00:25:44.699
- AND JESUS IS CLEAR ABOUTTHE ETERNAL DESTINY
- 00:25:44.733 --> 00:25:47.902
- OF PHONY CHRISTIANS.
- 00:25:47.936 --> 00:25:50.171
- WELL, THERE'S MUCH MORE TOLEARN FROM THIS STORY OF JESUS.
- 00:25:50.205 --> 00:25:53.308
- AND NEXT TIME, I'M GOING TOSHARE FOUR TIMELESS PRINCIPLES
- 00:25:53.341 --> 00:25:56.811
- THAT COME FROM THE PARABLEOF THE WHEAT AND TARES.
- 00:25:56.845 --> 00:26:00.315
- STAY TUNED FOR A PREVIEW OFWHAT'S COMING UP NEXT TIME
- 00:26:00.348 --> 00:26:02.717
- ON PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
- 00:26:02.751 --> 00:26:05.654
- [ANNOUNCER] TODAY WHENYOU GIVE A GENEROUS GIFT
- 00:26:05.687 --> 00:26:07.656
- TO SUPPORT THE MINISTRYOF PATHWAY TO VICTORY,
- 00:26:07.689 --> 00:26:10.492
- WE'LL SAY THANKS BY SENDINGYOU THE BRAND NEW 2021
- 00:26:10.525 --> 00:26:14.396
- PATHWAY TO VICTORYDAILY DEVOTIONAL.
- 00:26:14.429 --> 00:26:16.998
- PLUS THE PARABLES OF JESUSBROCHURE IS OUR GIFT TO YOU
- 00:26:17.032 --> 00:26:21.102
- SIMPLY FOR CONTACTING USTODAY AT PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
- 00:26:21.136 --> 00:26:23.905
- AND WHEN YOUR GIFTIS $100 OR MORE,
- 00:26:23.938 --> 00:26:28.877
- WE'LL ALSO SEND YOU
- 00:26:28.910 --> 00:26:30.378
- JESUS' FAVORITE STORIESTEACHING SERIES ON CD AND DVD.
- 00:26:30.412 --> 00:26:34.683
- REMEMBER YOUR MINISTRYGIFT RIGHT NOW
- 00:26:34.716 --> 00:26:37.318
- WILL BE DOUBLED IN IMPACT
- 00:26:37.352 --> 00:26:39.020
- THANKS TO OUR ACTIVEMATCHING CHALLENGE.
- 00:26:39.054 --> 00:26:41.956
- SO BE SURE TO CALL ALRIGHT,OR GO ONLINE TODAY.
- 00:26:41.990 --> 00:26:45.293
- NOW, COMING UP NEXT TIMEON PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
- 00:26:45.326 --> 00:26:48.997
- JOY, SELF-CONTROL,
- 00:26:49.030 --> 00:26:52.801
- FREEDOM FROM BITTERNESS.
- 00:26:52.834 --> 00:26:55.970
- AGAIN, THE WORD OF GOD SAYS:
- 00:26:56.004 --> 00:26:57.772
- WHERE THERE IS NO FRUIT, THEREIS NO GENUINE SPIRITUAL LIFE.
- 00:26:57.806 --> 00:27:04.779
- ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS.
- 00:27:04.813 --> 00:27:07.682
- DON'T CHEAT ON THE ANSWERS.
- 00:27:07.716 --> 00:27:09.551
- BE HONEST BECAUSE YOURETERNAL DESTINY IS AT STAKE.
- 00:27:09.584 --> 00:27:16.691
- [ANNOUNCER] SET YOUR DVRAND JOIN US NEXT TIME
- 00:27:16.725 --> 00:27:19.060
- FOR PART TWO OF THE MESSAGE,
- 00:27:19.094 --> 00:27:20.595
- HOW TO SPOT A PHONY,
- 00:27:20.628 --> 00:27:22.630
- HERE ON A PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- ♪ MUSIC
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