1 00:00:14,139 --> 00:00:17,339 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast. 2 00:00:18,379 --> 00:00:24,100 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. 3 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,100 Thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:33,780 --> 00:00:41,200 You know, I know John Kratz doesn't need a whole lot of introduction because you know him. 5 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,880 He teaches on Wednesday evening routinely. 6 00:00:45,460 --> 00:00:46,799 He's an elder at the church. 7 00:00:47,119 --> 00:00:50,719 He has a long history of pioneering new church, 8 00:00:50,719 --> 00:00:55,700 founding new churches and church building, pastoring. 9 00:00:56,460 --> 00:00:59,380 And he's just a real treasure to our church family. 10 00:00:59,799 --> 00:01:01,920 And we really treasure his teaching. 11 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,040 And so let's thank the Lord for John Kratz as he comes up. 12 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:08,340 Praise the Lord. 13 00:01:09,379 --> 00:01:11,879 And I want to say, you know, I was thinking, 14 00:01:12,260 --> 00:01:15,060 can I swing Sunday morning, you know? 15 00:01:15,359 --> 00:01:18,519 And I reached out to him and it's a long, we're about to go through 50. 16 00:01:19,479 --> 00:01:23,599 We will still have prayer night. 17 00:01:23,939 --> 00:01:31,299 And the reason I wanted to maintain prayer night was that we want to pray for that holiday. 18 00:01:31,780 --> 00:01:35,120 That not only people will have rest and respite, 19 00:01:35,219 --> 00:01:42,540 but that they will realize how important it is to give thanks to our nation of 250 years. 20 00:01:42,540 --> 00:01:44,159 When you, yes. 21 00:01:47,060 --> 00:01:50,760 When you think of what's going on in Iran, 22 00:01:53,439 --> 00:01:55,260 and is it pink light? 23 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:57,239 I thought it was supposed to be green light. 24 00:01:59,819 --> 00:02:00,359 All right. 25 00:02:00,819 --> 00:02:01,579 Green, green, green. 26 00:02:01,739 --> 00:02:02,019 Okay. 27 00:02:06,439 --> 00:02:10,280 There are so many less fortunate people than us. 28 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:10,620 Yes. 29 00:02:11,199 --> 00:02:13,500 Because of the turmoil in the world. 30 00:02:14,580 --> 00:02:16,419 And I've been watching closely in Iran. 31 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,300 I subscribed to a fellow that his father lives in Iran, 32 00:02:20,439 --> 00:02:22,800 and he gets real hot messages from his dad. 33 00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:28,460 And I just, my heart goes out to those people what they have been doing. 34 00:02:29,319 --> 00:02:34,919 And in light of it, and then obviously still the tyranny in North Korea. 35 00:02:36,959 --> 00:02:42,199 And what we want to do on Friday is just ask the Lord that people would remember 36 00:02:42,199 --> 00:02:44,199 what it is that is important. 37 00:02:44,979 --> 00:02:46,319 First of all, it's the Lord God. 38 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:47,800 And second of all, it's our family. 39 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,219 And third, it's a blessing that we live in this country. 40 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:50,560 Amen. 41 00:02:51,740 --> 00:02:52,219 All right. 42 00:02:54,999 --> 00:03:00,000 Chris had asked me to change the title of my sermon. 43 00:03:00,219 --> 00:03:02,539 I think it was walking away from the Lord. 44 00:03:03,099 --> 00:03:08,560 So anyway, I changed it and I want to share with you 50 verses. 45 00:03:09,379 --> 00:03:13,039 It will be about 1.30 by the time we leave today. 46 00:03:13,939 --> 00:03:14,979 Not so. 47 00:03:15,599 --> 00:03:15,840 All right. 48 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:20,759 I will only give you a brief synopsis of the chapter, 49 00:03:20,759 --> 00:03:25,439 and we will then take parts of that chapter and work through them. 50 00:03:27,659 --> 00:03:34,379 The application of Stephen and what he said is most important because he sets a framework 51 00:03:34,379 --> 00:03:38,219 for the entire history of Israel. 52 00:03:38,819 --> 00:03:43,580 First of all, he talks about Abraham, his choice, God's calling, 53 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:46,280 and the covenant that he made with Israel. 54 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:48,259 Then there was Joseph. 55 00:03:48,580 --> 00:03:53,460 He, of course, he was rejected by his brothers, yet God used him. 56 00:03:54,180 --> 00:03:55,139 And then Moses. 57 00:03:55,719 --> 00:04:01,219 He was also rejected, and God surely used him to deliver the nation. 58 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,319 And then Israel's rebellion. 59 00:04:03,819 --> 00:04:05,939 Doesn't this sound all nice and fuzzy here? 60 00:04:06,479 --> 00:04:08,360 Moses was rejected by Israel. 61 00:04:08,639 --> 00:04:13,740 They worshiped idols, and God was rejected by Israel. 62 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,420 That's truly an interesting chapter to go through. 63 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:20,920 And then, of course, it ends up showing us 64 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,980 that the tabernacle and the temple that God dwelt there 65 00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:29,139 was greater than anything that we could have as far as a building is concerned. 66 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,459 So Israel's repeated rejection of God provides us, you and I, 67 00:04:34,779 --> 00:04:38,040 with some spiritual lessons, and we want to go over those this morning. 68 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:46,980 The New Testament explicitly teaches that these events were recorded for examples to us. 69 00:04:48,519 --> 00:04:49,279 Think about that. 70 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,379 All these things that are negative, and yet they are examples. 71 00:04:52,740 --> 00:04:53,819 So we're going to go through them. 72 00:04:54,439 --> 00:04:59,199 I'm wondering if you think about, and we talked on Wednesday night, 73 00:04:59,259 --> 00:05:04,399 some longer time ago, about the forming of a nation, the nation Israel. 74 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,800 And I would suspect that Satan, when he saw this come about 75 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,319 and God started to move once again in the earth 76 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:13,259 and bring these people together, 77 00:05:13,579 --> 00:05:16,360 that he realized that he had to do double duty 78 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:21,319 in order to withstand and put down the unification of these people. 79 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:27,560 So consequently, we have this eternal war between Satan and the people of God. 80 00:05:28,459 --> 00:05:32,339 And so that's, in and of itself, an interesting element 81 00:05:32,339 --> 00:05:34,879 because we know that the nation of Israel failed. 82 00:05:35,540 --> 00:05:39,160 They failed to bring the promises of God to the people. 83 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,339 Remember, they were supposed to be a testimony, 84 00:05:43,339 --> 00:05:47,199 a living testimony of God's goodness throughout the earth. 85 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,839 And to be honest with you, that was a fail-safe situation that never came about. 86 00:05:52,759 --> 00:05:57,420 Second of all, they communicated to God through priests. 87 00:05:58,220 --> 00:06:05,579 We have learned that there is no mediator between Christ and us, 88 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,240 except the Lord Jesus. 89 00:06:07,879 --> 00:06:15,639 And here they were being educated, being groomed in sacrifices. 90 00:06:16,980 --> 00:06:23,199 They were also, when they inquired of God, not like you and I, 91 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:28,220 we come and we inquire of the Lord in our car, in our prayer time or whatever, 92 00:06:28,439 --> 00:06:29,860 and we can commune with the Lord. 93 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,220 Their communication was simply in question form. 94 00:06:34,220 --> 00:06:37,639 Lord, do you want me to buy the Cadillac and he'd go to the priest 95 00:06:37,639 --> 00:06:41,300 and the priest would put his hand in his vestige and bring out one of the stones? 96 00:06:41,459 --> 00:06:42,519 It's either yes or no. 97 00:06:42,819 --> 00:06:44,819 It was kind of a cold relationship. 98 00:06:45,399 --> 00:06:49,019 But be that as it may, that's where they were in the Old Testament. 99 00:06:50,340 --> 00:06:53,720 Third, there was no internal cleansing from sin. 100 00:06:54,439 --> 00:06:56,040 They were told about their sin. 101 00:06:56,399 --> 00:06:57,699 Once a year, they came around. 102 00:06:58,060 --> 00:06:59,360 They were cleansed. 103 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:02,500 But there was no relief like you and I have in the Holy Spirit. 104 00:07:03,079 --> 00:07:04,180 Think about that. 105 00:07:04,959 --> 00:07:08,079 I mean, how many know when you sin and you come to the Lord 106 00:07:08,079 --> 00:07:10,680 and you just ask the Lord, Father, forgive me, 107 00:07:11,060 --> 00:07:15,339 how the Lord just cleanses your heart and you feel so clean on the inside? 108 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:18,360 They could never have that to the degree that we do 109 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:19,699 because there was no Holy Spirit. 110 00:07:20,019 --> 00:07:22,160 The Holy Spirit brooded over the face of the earth, 111 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,060 but he wasn't inside the individual people. 112 00:07:25,060 --> 00:07:27,319 So, the last one before we get into it, 113 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:30,100 Stephen's epitaph is our warning. 114 00:07:30,660 --> 00:07:32,040 He talks about rejecting. 115 00:07:33,019 --> 00:07:35,259 He talks about what they didn't do. 116 00:07:35,420 --> 00:07:39,480 And I want you to understand that these things are for our admonition, 117 00:07:39,519 --> 00:07:41,639 like it says, they are examples to us. 118 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:49,139 So, let's take a look at one of the things that we will be working with today 119 00:07:49,139 --> 00:07:54,379 is there are four questions that I will be asking you throughout this presentation. 120 00:07:54,379 --> 00:07:58,560 And I want you to take it, think about it, and answer it in your own heart. 121 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,459 I won't ask for a show of hands. 122 00:08:02,379 --> 00:08:02,540 All right. 123 00:08:02,879 --> 00:08:07,160 So, the first theme that Stephen had was Israel's rejection of God. 124 00:08:07,819 --> 00:08:12,000 Israel had repeatedly resisted God's chosen servants 125 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,160 and their messages thereby rejecting God. 126 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,579 So, I want to give you examples, all scripture-based here. 127 00:08:19,639 --> 00:08:21,180 Joseph was rejected. 128 00:08:21,759 --> 00:08:22,939 He was the son of Jacob. 129 00:08:22,939 --> 00:08:25,240 And it says in Acts 7-9, 130 00:08:25,279 --> 00:08:32,399 and our ancestors moved with envy and sold their brother Joseph into Egypt, into slavery. 131 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:34,059 Think about that. 132 00:08:34,419 --> 00:08:37,820 God was going to use Joseph and yet they were going to want to, 133 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,240 first they wanted to kill him and get rid of him. 134 00:08:40,460 --> 00:08:41,399 And then they sold him. 135 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:44,340 So, they didn't cooperate with God's plan. 136 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,879 And the theme for that is basically where the brothers rejected God 137 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:51,259 who wanted to save them through Joseph. 138 00:08:51,259 --> 00:08:56,779 They thought, well, listen, he's conceited, he knows, he always tells us he's right, 139 00:08:56,980 --> 00:08:59,320 and we don't want him, and we're going to get rid of him. 140 00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:00,919 And so, consequently, they did. 141 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:07,159 But as you know, God brought an opportunity there for Joseph to save his whole family. 142 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,679 They rejected Moses in 7-27. 143 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,379 It says, who made the ruler and a judge over us? 144 00:09:14,779 --> 00:09:16,980 Remember when he wanted to help his own people? 145 00:09:18,980 --> 00:09:21,240 Well, unfortunately, they didn't want help. 146 00:09:22,039 --> 00:09:23,820 They came to him and they said the following, 147 00:09:24,179 --> 00:09:26,480 this Moses, whom they rejected. 148 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,200 He's not our leader. 149 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:35,460 And poor Moses, in all his life, he had, I think he had a complex, to be honest with you. 150 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:41,059 And all the rejection that has gone through our minds as we read the scriptures, 151 00:09:41,659 --> 00:09:45,360 that man, he had to be drawn to God to get patience and mercy. 152 00:09:46,019 --> 00:09:50,960 7-29 says this, but our ancestors refused to obey Moses. 153 00:09:51,519 --> 00:09:54,200 They rejected him and wanted to go back to Egypt. 154 00:09:54,799 --> 00:09:57,879 Imagine that, all that he's done, all that he interceded, 155 00:09:57,940 --> 00:10:00,480 and pray for it at the mountain, and that all of a sudden thing go, 156 00:10:00,759 --> 00:10:02,120 I don't want to do this anymore. 157 00:10:02,379 --> 00:10:04,639 I'm going to go back to Egypt where the leaks are. 158 00:10:05,460 --> 00:10:09,379 And then 7-41, it says, and they made a calf in those days 159 00:10:09,379 --> 00:10:16,100 and offered sacrifices under the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 160 00:10:16,860 --> 00:10:21,600 Imagine the visitation that God had through all the miraculous, 161 00:10:22,299 --> 00:10:23,639 and they're saying, no, we don't want this. 162 00:10:23,759 --> 00:10:24,460 We want to go back. 163 00:10:25,059 --> 00:10:27,320 Okay, so we're setting the stage for these things. 164 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:29,279 And the theme for that is, again, 165 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:34,080 Israel repeatedly resisted God's deliverance and God's word. 166 00:10:35,340 --> 00:10:36,840 So they rejected the prophets. 167 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,700 And this is a damning statement from Stephen. 168 00:10:41,340 --> 00:10:47,120 He said in 7-52, is there one prophet that your ancestors didn't mistreat? 169 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:50,840 Not one, they rejected all of them. 170 00:10:51,700 --> 00:10:55,740 And the failure is that they didn't recognize God's authority 171 00:10:55,740 --> 00:10:58,899 in the spoken words of the prophets. 172 00:10:59,980 --> 00:11:04,480 All right, to understand Israel's repeated resistance, 173 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,980 I always wondered, well, why did they resist? 174 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,220 Why were they so stiff-necked and rebellious? 175 00:11:11,899 --> 00:11:18,559 So we must first look at the origins of these patterns in the generation's past. 176 00:11:19,299 --> 00:11:20,360 Because you know what happens? 177 00:11:21,460 --> 00:11:25,100 Generationally, we go along, and some of us are grandparents in here, 178 00:11:25,179 --> 00:11:28,500 some of us are parents, and you see the traits of your children. 179 00:11:28,820 --> 00:11:33,159 You see them being reproduced in their very lives as they go along. 180 00:11:33,719 --> 00:11:37,919 And my son now, he's just 50 years old, and he called yesterday, and he said, 181 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,980 Dad, he said, for all the things that I didn't think were right, 182 00:11:41,620 --> 00:11:44,480 and all the things that I thought you needed to do, 183 00:11:44,659 --> 00:11:47,120 he said, I'm finding myself doing these very things. 184 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,480 So it is an omission that he understands what life is about. 185 00:11:52,139 --> 00:11:55,000 So now let's take a look at the conflict 186 00:11:55,559 --> 00:12:01,200 and the failures seen in Abraham's descendants going forward. 187 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,879 They reappeared in history. 188 00:12:04,879 --> 00:12:06,500 Think about the—oh, excuse me. 189 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:11,019 The focus of Stephen's question then is this, 190 00:12:11,700 --> 00:12:16,980 that Israel's treatment of the prophets was not an isolated situation, 191 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:20,460 but it was a total failure in long-standing 192 00:12:20,460 --> 00:12:25,759 and a pattern of resisting God's purposes and God's representatives. 193 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,580 So now we have a pattern that is developing in these people. 194 00:12:29,580 --> 00:12:36,980 So let's explore going back in time and find out what the issues are. 195 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,679 All right, we'll start off with Isaac. 196 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,559 And just remember this, if you can't see the writing, 197 00:12:42,799 --> 00:12:46,500 think of the red lines, because all these red lines are red flags 198 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:50,740 when you look at the qualification of these people as servants to the Lord. 199 00:12:51,639 --> 00:12:56,559 So Isaac, he was coward, he was deceitful, he had the fear of man. 200 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,759 Rebecca is my sister. 201 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,659 That's what his claim was, to protect him so they wouldn't kill him. 202 00:13:03,259 --> 00:13:06,919 So consequently, he lied and both his father, 203 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,559 which Abraham also said of his wife, so there is some deceit there. 204 00:13:12,299 --> 00:13:14,299 Esau was his favorite child. 205 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,019 He aided Esau's venison. 206 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:22,440 And he failed in his life's calling as a leadership of the home 207 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,360 to help his sons get through the quarreling, 208 00:13:25,820 --> 00:13:28,019 the scheming, and the lying in their lives. 209 00:13:28,100 --> 00:13:29,379 He just let it go. 210 00:13:30,340 --> 00:13:33,720 So that doesn't paint a very good picture for us this morning. 211 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,220 No strong leadership. 212 00:13:37,179 --> 00:13:40,200 So now Rebecca, his wife, well, here, now we have something. 213 00:13:40,340 --> 00:13:42,720 The mother is always right and she does well. 214 00:13:43,460 --> 00:13:44,259 Well, guess what? 215 00:13:44,379 --> 00:13:47,580 The mother had twins and they struggled in her womb. 216 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,220 Jacob, the youngest son, was her favorite. 217 00:13:50,220 --> 00:13:55,879 And she deceptively prepared a plan for Jacob 218 00:13:55,879 --> 00:14:01,000 to steal Esau's blessing from the father. 219 00:14:01,639 --> 00:14:02,840 She did this. 220 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:04,480 Isn't that something? 221 00:14:04,899 --> 00:14:07,940 How many don't want that to say about your mom? 222 00:14:09,039 --> 00:14:12,379 So consequently, she was devious in her actions 223 00:14:12,379 --> 00:14:14,460 and she was cunning in thought. 224 00:14:14,460 --> 00:14:20,779 But she was calculating the best for her son through deceit. 225 00:14:21,620 --> 00:14:24,700 So consequently, we have a father and a mother 226 00:14:25,420 --> 00:14:28,519 that work good qualifications for leadership, 227 00:14:29,259 --> 00:14:30,259 to be honest with you. 228 00:14:30,980 --> 00:14:32,139 So we have this. 229 00:14:33,559 --> 00:14:35,480 Now let's go on to Esau, the older brother. 230 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:37,480 He was the oldest of the family. 231 00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:40,820 And I had prepared some of this later on when, 232 00:14:40,820 --> 00:14:44,980 or earlier when we were talking about the exodus 233 00:14:45,620 --> 00:14:48,299 and in Genesis we touched on these things. 234 00:14:48,460 --> 00:14:49,340 So I'm rehearsing. 235 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:51,179 For those of you that remember these things, 236 00:14:51,340 --> 00:14:52,799 I cleaned it up a little bit 237 00:14:52,799 --> 00:14:56,120 and I just want to show you a pattern that goes forth here. 238 00:14:56,820 --> 00:14:58,519 He lived a wild life. 239 00:14:58,679 --> 00:14:59,600 He was impulsive. 240 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:04,759 He despised his own birthright of little value 241 00:15:05,460 --> 00:15:07,460 and only lived for the moment. 242 00:15:07,759 --> 00:15:10,620 He sells his birthright to his brother for simple food. 243 00:15:10,820 --> 00:15:13,340 And he hated his brother for doing it. 244 00:15:13,580 --> 00:15:15,820 And he associated it with forbidden people. 245 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:18,759 He married Canaanite people. 246 00:15:19,059 --> 00:15:22,200 He grieved his parents and he wanted to kill his brother. 247 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:25,679 So there again, you have all these traits 248 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:29,059 as history going forward. 249 00:15:29,299 --> 00:15:32,759 Now we come to Jacob, which was later called what? 250 00:15:33,019 --> 00:15:35,779 Israel as he fought with the angel of the Lord. 251 00:15:36,039 --> 00:15:37,440 And he was the younger brother. 252 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,299 And you might think, well, he was special. 253 00:15:40,820 --> 00:15:41,720 God saved him. 254 00:15:41,919 --> 00:15:42,480 Well, guess what? 255 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,460 He struggled with Esau's heel in the womb of their mother. 256 00:15:48,620 --> 00:15:50,279 He preferred a quieter life. 257 00:15:51,220 --> 00:15:55,639 He takes advantage of Esau by bargaining for his birthright. 258 00:15:56,179 --> 00:15:57,700 So he's devious also. 259 00:15:58,639 --> 00:15:59,980 He's a con artist. 260 00:16:00,460 --> 00:16:03,460 He schemes and he disguised himself as Esau 261 00:16:03,460 --> 00:16:06,620 and he lied who he was to his father 262 00:16:06,620 --> 00:16:09,279 in order to steal Esau's birthright. 263 00:16:09,879 --> 00:16:13,379 Always self-centered, always motivated and calculating. 264 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,320 And these things are the attributes that we see 265 00:16:17,919 --> 00:16:19,379 as far as history is concerned. 266 00:16:19,519 --> 00:16:21,039 Just take a look at all those red lines. 267 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:22,700 You don't have to remember the words, 268 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:23,639 but they weren't very good. 269 00:16:24,279 --> 00:16:26,259 So now this is how we're building a nation. 270 00:16:27,740 --> 00:16:29,940 Israel's history then begins with a family 271 00:16:29,940 --> 00:16:32,220 full of human weakness and dysfunction. 272 00:16:32,559 --> 00:16:33,720 And you can say that. 273 00:16:35,460 --> 00:16:37,539 Demonstrating that God's purpose is dependent 274 00:16:37,539 --> 00:16:41,279 upon the faithfulness rather than the human perfection 275 00:16:41,279 --> 00:16:42,200 that they had. 276 00:16:43,799 --> 00:16:48,379 So these red line trials would become only a microcosm 277 00:16:48,379 --> 00:16:50,779 of what Israel experienced in their own life. 278 00:16:51,179 --> 00:16:51,820 They struggled. 279 00:16:52,820 --> 00:16:55,740 And the same traits, again, that disrupted the family 280 00:16:55,740 --> 00:16:58,440 would eventually be magnified in the life of Israel. 281 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:00,759 Why were they stiff-necked and rebellious? 282 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:02,279 Well, now you have an understanding 283 00:17:02,279 --> 00:17:03,600 and a history of all that. 284 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:07,500 So now let's graphically bring this home. 285 00:17:08,519 --> 00:17:13,880 Let's talk about the occurrences of obedience and disobedience. 286 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,880 And maybe when you take your picture, you want to wait. 287 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,500 I don't care that you do, but the graph probably 288 00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:23,380 will be more explanatory as we go into this. 289 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,380 So just hold on a second. 290 00:17:25,980 --> 00:17:29,359 Now you see at the bottom, you see the number from 0 to 24. 291 00:17:29,579 --> 00:17:32,799 Those are occurrences that happened in a general sense. 292 00:17:32,799 --> 00:17:35,339 We have frequent occurrences at the top. 293 00:17:35,779 --> 00:17:37,940 We have moderate occurrences at the bottom. 294 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,259 So let's take a look at the wonderful attributes 295 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,839 that existed in Israel. 296 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:46,900 Some people were repented. 297 00:17:47,099 --> 00:17:47,640 Some prayed. 298 00:17:47,859 --> 00:17:48,240 Some worship. 299 00:17:48,660 --> 00:17:49,660 Some had dependence. 300 00:17:50,019 --> 00:17:50,579 Some were obedience. 301 00:17:50,839 --> 00:17:51,680 And some were faithful. 302 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:53,059 Some had humility. 303 00:17:53,839 --> 00:17:55,640 And you notice at the bottom, the graph 304 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:00,039 is an interpretive summary of the overall record 305 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:02,579 from Exodus to the exile. 306 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,619 So again, if you're counting numbers, 307 00:18:06,740 --> 00:18:08,640 give me a little bit of latitude here 308 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:09,819 because when I did these things, 309 00:18:09,819 --> 00:18:11,140 it was hard to put them all together 310 00:18:11,140 --> 00:18:11,980 and piece them together. 311 00:18:12,220 --> 00:18:13,759 But again, this is what you have. 312 00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:16,279 So now there's a cut line across the top. 313 00:18:17,259 --> 00:18:18,660 So they had these things. 314 00:18:19,559 --> 00:18:22,660 And you'll notice that they professed 315 00:18:22,660 --> 00:18:24,160 to be all these things. 316 00:18:24,180 --> 00:18:27,759 And they averaged out maybe between a 6 and a 12 or a 15. 317 00:18:28,299 --> 00:18:30,380 But now pile on top of that, 318 00:18:30,380 --> 00:18:32,900 all these things that you have read about Israel, 319 00:18:34,379 --> 00:18:37,119 complaining, disobedience, rebellion, unbelief, 320 00:18:37,619 --> 00:18:39,460 idolatry, fear, stubbornness, 321 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:41,799 carnality, and hypocrisy. 322 00:18:42,519 --> 00:18:44,039 Those are all the bad things. 323 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:46,539 It's like when we get our children together 324 00:18:46,539 --> 00:18:48,680 and we talk about and we read in the riot act, 325 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,220 look, these are the things you've done. 326 00:18:50,799 --> 00:18:52,240 And then they get, oh my gosh, 327 00:18:52,339 --> 00:18:53,819 but these are the things you should do. 328 00:18:54,059 --> 00:18:55,440 So this is the difference. 329 00:18:55,799 --> 00:18:59,019 But the red lines are greater in number. 330 00:18:59,019 --> 00:19:02,339 They go anywhere from around 15 all the way up to 24. 331 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,180 Complaining versus gratitude. 332 00:19:10,940 --> 00:19:12,259 That says it all. 333 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:14,579 They could have been full of gratitude 334 00:19:14,579 --> 00:19:16,200 for what God did for them. 335 00:19:16,619 --> 00:19:19,640 How they brought, how He brought them out. 336 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:20,599 But they didn't. 337 00:19:20,779 --> 00:19:21,299 They complained. 338 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:27,279 One of the most repeated sins in Israel was complaining. 339 00:19:27,279 --> 00:19:30,960 The examples in Exodus, complaining about water, 340 00:19:31,180 --> 00:19:32,759 in Numbers, complaining about food, 341 00:19:33,279 --> 00:19:36,059 in Numbers 14, complaining about Moses and Aaron, 342 00:19:36,220 --> 00:19:37,660 complaining about God's judgment. 343 00:19:38,059 --> 00:19:39,200 They were complainers. 344 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:40,980 And what did God say? 345 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:42,440 He said, I'm tired of these people. 346 00:19:42,539 --> 00:19:44,240 I want to kill them, kill them off. 347 00:19:44,420 --> 00:19:45,599 And Moses said, no, wait. 348 00:19:46,759 --> 00:19:48,299 So we have this dilemma. 349 00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:50,200 And yet these were the children of God 350 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,859 that were supposed to represent His kingdom. 351 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,579 Another one, rebellion versus obedience. 352 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,359 You can see the contrast there. 353 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,539 Look, they were more rebellious than they were obedient 354 00:20:01,539 --> 00:20:03,299 because of the number situation. 355 00:20:04,259 --> 00:20:05,680 So we have this dilemma. 356 00:20:06,579 --> 00:20:09,160 And what Stephen's message is in 7 is, 357 00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:11,920 again, despite God's constant faithfulness, 358 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,599 Israel's dominant national pattern was one of what? 359 00:20:16,140 --> 00:20:18,579 Complaint, disobedience, unbelief, and idolatry. 360 00:20:19,660 --> 00:20:21,519 And that's not much to say for a nation. 361 00:20:22,259 --> 00:20:24,619 And then we have the faithful remnant, 362 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,920 and we're going to come back to the faithful remnant 363 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:28,579 as we get through this. 364 00:20:28,940 --> 00:20:32,299 Those were the people that ushered in and carried 365 00:20:32,299 --> 00:20:35,980 what God wanted to do as far as the nation is concerned. 366 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,759 The pattern, then, is precisely what Stephen emphasizes. 367 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,940 He recounts, again, Israel's history. 368 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,319 First God visits, they resist. 369 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,740 God disciplines, Israel cries out. 370 00:20:52,220 --> 00:20:55,480 God delivers, and now that's not the end of the story. 371 00:20:56,759 --> 00:20:58,380 Eventually, they rebel again. 372 00:20:58,619 --> 00:21:00,519 It's very cyclical in nature. 373 00:21:01,559 --> 00:21:03,619 All right, these cycles continue throughout much 374 00:21:03,619 --> 00:21:06,579 of the Old Testament until the coming of Jesus, 375 00:21:07,059 --> 00:21:10,059 whom Stephen says they also rejected 376 00:21:10,820 --> 00:21:14,019 completing the pattern of total resistance to God. 377 00:21:14,420 --> 00:21:15,400 Now, this may be negative. 378 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,019 Well, John, what's the good part? 379 00:21:17,019 --> 00:21:18,460 Well, we'll get to the good part, okay? 380 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:20,160 Just have to set the stage here. 381 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:22,319 All right, let's take it one step further. 382 00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:23,319 Let's look at this. 383 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,420 The unfaithful majority versus the faithful remnant. 384 00:21:27,420 --> 00:21:28,819 We talked about those things. 385 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:29,920 There's a separation. 386 00:21:31,019 --> 00:21:33,960 And again, a practical estimate of many historians 387 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,599 is there's about two to two and a half million people 388 00:21:38,139 --> 00:21:40,740 that fled and left Egypt. 389 00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:42,460 And so they were in the wilderness, 390 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:44,339 and God provided for them. 391 00:21:44,380 --> 00:21:45,299 You know the stories. 392 00:21:46,259 --> 00:21:50,420 However, because of what we've been talking about, 393 00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:56,079 there is a lot of statistics that, unfortunately, 394 00:21:56,539 --> 00:22:00,640 about 80% to 95% of the people were unfaithful 395 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:01,839 in that whole grouping, 396 00:22:01,980 --> 00:22:05,099 which was about two and a quarter million people 397 00:22:05,099 --> 00:22:06,220 that were unfaithful. 398 00:22:06,519 --> 00:22:07,660 That's a travesty. 399 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:09,380 Now, think about this. 400 00:22:10,980 --> 00:22:12,859 Imagine in our congregation 401 00:22:13,420 --> 00:22:18,319 that if 80% of us in this room were reluctant followers, 402 00:22:20,159 --> 00:22:22,440 resisting and complaining about Chris 403 00:22:23,180 --> 00:22:25,980 and the elders not doing what they should do. 404 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,140 They should do this, and they should do that. 405 00:22:28,759 --> 00:22:30,319 So my question to you is, 406 00:22:30,539 --> 00:22:34,319 and this goes back to the example of the Israelites, 407 00:22:34,859 --> 00:22:36,880 what example might radiate from us? 408 00:22:37,839 --> 00:22:40,500 What kind of impact would our church have in Lansdale? 409 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:43,519 Oh, sure, we're putting flyers out there for VBS, 410 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,400 but you know those people down there, they're crazy. 411 00:22:46,220 --> 00:22:47,759 You know, they all talk about us. 412 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,819 Would people want to really join our fellowship? 413 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:52,480 I don't think so. 414 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,980 Looking at what God wants to do 415 00:22:55,980 --> 00:22:58,759 from as far as the nation of Israel is concerned. 416 00:22:59,220 --> 00:23:01,160 In Ezekiel, it says this. 417 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,519 Israel has rejected and rebelled my rules 418 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,500 more wickedly than the nations around her. 419 00:23:10,940 --> 00:23:12,480 They were worse than the nations, 420 00:23:13,039 --> 00:23:14,700 and yet they were supposed to be a testimony. 421 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:16,559 So this is the dilemma. 422 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,039 Now, the faithful few, 423 00:23:20,740 --> 00:23:23,900 which represented anywhere minimum from 5 to 20%, 424 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:25,720 that was about a quarter of a million people. 425 00:23:26,140 --> 00:23:30,259 These are the deposits of people that God worked through. 426 00:23:31,180 --> 00:23:33,099 And you'd look at these names on here, 427 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,920 and I picked out prophets, and I picked out messengers, 428 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,319 and you can see that there's Abraham, 429 00:23:38,599 --> 00:23:39,980 there's Jeremiah, there's Ezekiel, 430 00:23:40,299 --> 00:23:41,960 there's David, there's Samuel. 431 00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:43,960 The messengers were Joshua and Amos. 432 00:23:44,180 --> 00:23:45,980 So these people were the preservation 433 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:50,559 of God's desire for nations to be built through, 434 00:23:50,660 --> 00:23:52,039 and he's spoken to their heart. 435 00:23:53,140 --> 00:23:56,160 So God preserved a faithful remnant 436 00:23:56,820 --> 00:23:59,500 through whom he accomplished his redemptive plan. 437 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:01,140 Isaiah 10, 20 says, 438 00:24:01,299 --> 00:24:04,339 the remnant of Israel will truly rely on the Lord. 439 00:24:04,339 --> 00:24:06,200 A remnant will return. 440 00:24:06,740 --> 00:24:09,059 In other words, he is working with these people. 441 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:10,460 In Zephaniah, it says, 442 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,440 I will leave you with the meek and the humble. 443 00:24:12,799 --> 00:24:15,960 The remnant of Israel will trust in the name of the Lord. 444 00:24:16,279 --> 00:24:18,680 So we have the composite of people 445 00:24:19,220 --> 00:24:20,539 that he wants to deal with. 446 00:24:20,779 --> 00:24:23,000 So now my question to you, number one, 447 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:27,579 are there areas where you secretly wish to return 448 00:24:27,579 --> 00:24:29,480 to the comfort of your old ways? 449 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,059 Well, you know, this Christianity thing, it's tough. 450 00:24:33,059 --> 00:24:35,000 And I tell you, it's not easy 451 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,640 when God deals with in your life. 452 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:37,299 We know that. 453 00:24:37,660 --> 00:24:40,599 But is there areas that you'd rather go back to? 454 00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:43,079 I just want you to remember these things 455 00:24:44,180 --> 00:24:47,059 that before they physically had an idea 456 00:24:47,059 --> 00:24:48,819 that they wanted to go back to Egypt 457 00:24:49,379 --> 00:24:52,240 and the old life, it was in their hearts already. 458 00:24:52,579 --> 00:24:53,519 It started there. 459 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,099 Well, you know, what about this? 460 00:24:58,279 --> 00:24:59,220 And what about that? 461 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,880 And the difference of opinion that we may have 462 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:02,980 and the disgruntledment. 463 00:25:03,259 --> 00:25:05,240 I want you to remember that. 464 00:25:06,139 --> 00:25:10,000 Please obey God's word, even when it's difficult. 465 00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:13,460 When God speaks to you and he speaks a ramah to you, 466 00:25:13,579 --> 00:25:15,200 it's sometimes not where we say, 467 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,680 okay, we'll take this and we'll run with it. 468 00:25:17,839 --> 00:25:20,279 Oh my gosh, Lord, you want me to really do this? 469 00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:24,019 You know, when I moved from my castle 470 00:25:24,019 --> 00:25:26,700 and my hobbies to Meadowood 471 00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:31,599 and I prayed, so Lord, what is the next opportunity here? 472 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,799 All I saw was in bits and forms, 473 00:25:34,980 --> 00:25:36,779 400 people that didn't know the Lord. 474 00:25:38,299 --> 00:25:40,980 That is a ministry in and of itself, 475 00:25:41,259 --> 00:25:42,680 because I'll be honest with you. 476 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:46,539 Some of you young people would be invited there, 477 00:25:46,859 --> 00:25:49,259 but for them to listen to you about the Lord, 478 00:25:49,460 --> 00:25:51,680 it's probably more difficult than it is for me 479 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,140 because they look at my life and say, 480 00:25:53,180 --> 00:25:55,000 okay, you're old and craggy anyway. 481 00:25:55,619 --> 00:25:59,160 Not really, but okay, so what's different about you? 482 00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:01,059 And then you can give testimony. 483 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,839 And that's many opportunities there. 484 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:05,460 So Israel rejected Moses 485 00:26:05,460 --> 00:26:08,460 because they didn't like where obedience was leading them. 486 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:09,880 I don't want to do that. 487 00:26:11,059 --> 00:26:19,500 But yet, it was wonderful in the obedience that they had 488 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:22,599 that they listened to God and the remnant went forward 489 00:26:22,599 --> 00:26:25,599 and preserved what God wanted to do. 490 00:26:26,220 --> 00:26:27,799 Guard your heart from unbelief. 491 00:26:28,259 --> 00:26:30,380 Do not make idols of your own desires. 492 00:26:30,940 --> 00:26:31,720 Listen to this. 493 00:26:32,059 --> 00:26:35,640 They rejoiced in the works of their own hands 494 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:36,740 when they made that camp. 495 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:38,160 They weren't disappointed. 496 00:26:38,460 --> 00:26:39,339 They said, man, look at this. 497 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:40,220 We made this. 498 00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:46,920 And they gave the Lord the mighty God that they saw 499 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,839 do all these miracles for a golden calf. 500 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,880 And we won't, again, elaborate on it 501 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:51,799 because you know the story. 502 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,740 In Philippians 3.13, 503 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,799 forgetting those things which are behind 504 00:26:55,799 --> 00:26:59,259 and again reaching for those things which are before, 505 00:26:59,259 --> 00:27:02,259 our objective is looking ahead. 506 00:27:02,619 --> 00:27:04,799 Not in life, gee, I wish I did this 507 00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:06,660 and I wish I wouldn't have done that. 508 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:14,799 Now, Stephen's second theme was resisting what God wanted 509 00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:18,839 in the fact that they lusted after visible Gods 510 00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:20,559 because they couldn't see God, 511 00:27:20,900 --> 00:27:22,559 but they wanted to see God. 512 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:24,859 So they made idols. 513 00:27:25,299 --> 00:27:27,140 So the Israelites continually struggled 514 00:27:27,140 --> 00:27:28,480 with a divided heart. 515 00:27:29,259 --> 00:27:32,240 Tell me about how to work in life 516 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,480 and how to divide it hard at some point in time. 517 00:27:35,019 --> 00:27:36,380 Yeah, I mean, you know, it's tough. 518 00:27:36,539 --> 00:27:37,859 Should I do this or should I do that? 519 00:27:37,980 --> 00:27:39,480 You're back and forth and maybe you know. 520 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,339 So they had a divided heart. 521 00:27:41,940 --> 00:27:43,619 They exchanged worship of the creator 522 00:27:43,619 --> 00:27:46,039 for the false promises of man-made Gods 523 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,160 and they sought security. 524 00:27:48,779 --> 00:27:51,259 They sought guidance and satisfaction from these. 525 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,839 I mean, looking back on how could you have that? 526 00:27:55,039 --> 00:27:57,279 It's something made of wood, something made of stone. 527 00:27:57,279 --> 00:28:00,339 So now here are excerpts right from the chapter. 528 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,839 In 719, Stephen says this, 529 00:28:05,279 --> 00:28:06,140 they rejected Moses. 530 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,720 We said that our ancestors refused to obey. 531 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,019 Again, they rejected him and wanted to go back to Egypt. 532 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:15,740 Now, let's make Gods. 533 00:28:15,940 --> 00:28:16,779 That's what they said. 534 00:28:17,180 --> 00:28:19,420 By making idols, they offered sacrifices 535 00:28:20,419 --> 00:28:25,079 and burnt offerings and prayed for guidance to the idols 536 00:28:25,079 --> 00:28:27,880 when they had the blessing of the Lord right in the camp. 537 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:34,339 The golden calf hands out another treatise in 741. 538 00:28:34,819 --> 00:28:36,279 And they made a calf in those days 539 00:28:36,279 --> 00:28:38,480 and rejected the works of their hands. 540 00:28:39,779 --> 00:28:42,339 742, worshiped the sun, the moon, and the stars. 541 00:28:43,140 --> 00:28:47,160 God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven. 542 00:28:47,579 --> 00:28:49,180 Now he gets disgusted with him. 543 00:28:49,740 --> 00:28:51,460 Moloch was something they dealt with. 544 00:28:51,460 --> 00:28:55,599 You carried the tent where the God of Moloch was worshiped. 545 00:28:55,660 --> 00:28:57,880 Remember, all these things were done 546 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,059 during the visitation of God going through the wilderness. 547 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:04,359 And yet they had two divided lives. 548 00:29:08,139 --> 00:29:12,579 743, they took along the star of your God, Radom. 549 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,799 Seeking guidance and security through false spiritual power is idolatry. 550 00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:18,839 Understand that. 551 00:29:20,099 --> 00:29:21,819 Idolatry simply means this, 552 00:29:22,339 --> 00:29:24,900 that you're not merely bowing down to something. 553 00:29:25,039 --> 00:29:27,640 And oh, by the way, we love the Lord. 554 00:29:28,220 --> 00:29:32,140 You are giving yourself to someone or trusting 555 00:29:32,140 --> 00:29:35,759 or giving devotion or worshiping or being obedient 556 00:29:35,759 --> 00:29:39,579 and have affection that you shouldn't have 557 00:29:39,579 --> 00:29:44,740 because God wants you to worship him, not these created beings. 558 00:29:45,779 --> 00:29:46,559 Now think about this. 559 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:47,380 Here are these things. 560 00:29:48,020 --> 00:29:51,059 All these occurrences happen during their travel. 561 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:52,420 They made a calf. 562 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,980 They rejoiced in their works. 563 00:29:56,279 --> 00:29:59,259 They carried the tent with the God of Moloch, 564 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:02,059 and they took along the star of your God, Radom. 565 00:30:02,859 --> 00:30:08,099 So how was it possible for Israel to carry the tabernacle 566 00:30:08,099 --> 00:30:11,740 while also carrying these idols during God's visitation? 567 00:30:12,619 --> 00:30:13,619 Let's make this graphic. 568 00:30:14,019 --> 00:30:14,759 Think about this. 569 00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:17,480 That little print down there, you probably can't read. 570 00:30:17,619 --> 00:30:18,099 That's for me. 571 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:19,059 All right. 572 00:30:19,220 --> 00:30:20,099 Here we have a congregation. 573 00:30:20,980 --> 00:30:23,740 Some of you are saying your rosaries. 574 00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:27,859 Some of you are reading the Qur'an. 575 00:30:28,980 --> 00:30:31,500 Some of you are chanting Buddha chants, 576 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:35,180 and yet we ask for the presence of God. 577 00:30:35,799 --> 00:30:39,559 An undivided congregation will not go anywhere. 578 00:30:40,660 --> 00:30:43,019 A congregation that gives themselves 579 00:30:43,019 --> 00:30:45,759 to what we're talking about here is a congregation 580 00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:49,579 that can conquer evil and be a testimony to Lansdale. 581 00:30:50,559 --> 00:30:53,640 We can make this very practical in the sense 582 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,160 that this is what it came down to. 583 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,839 Can you imagine being part of the people 584 00:30:57,839 --> 00:30:59,440 carrying the Ark of the Covenant, 585 00:30:59,940 --> 00:31:02,839 and here they were also carrying the tent of Moloch? 586 00:31:03,759 --> 00:31:05,980 I mean, that's having like insurance in your pocket. 587 00:31:07,380 --> 00:31:09,039 It really was an insurance, obviously, 588 00:31:09,380 --> 00:31:10,579 but that's what they did. 589 00:31:11,299 --> 00:31:14,059 So we have that connection. 590 00:31:14,299 --> 00:31:15,319 That is idolatry. 591 00:31:15,839 --> 00:31:18,799 So what was Israel's greatest problem? 592 00:31:20,420 --> 00:31:24,779 A reoccurring tendency to resist God's leadership. 593 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,579 That's very, very critical. 594 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,299 When you come to be part of a fellowship, 595 00:31:35,259 --> 00:31:36,920 in essence, what you're saying, 596 00:31:37,099 --> 00:31:39,160 you're laying down your life to God, 597 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,579 but you're also giving yourself 598 00:31:41,579 --> 00:31:43,380 to the leadership of the church, 599 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,039 because these are the shepherds 600 00:31:45,039 --> 00:31:47,000 and undershepherds for you. 601 00:31:48,180 --> 00:31:49,500 Well, I think this, no? 602 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,039 You give yourself to the shepherds 603 00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:54,160 and the undershepherds. 604 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,559 That's the protection and hedge 605 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,799 that you have and the protection 606 00:31:58,799 --> 00:32:00,980 for all that comes along in life 607 00:32:00,980 --> 00:32:04,140 as you need counsel, as you need prayer, 608 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,619 you give yourself and God honors that. 609 00:32:06,619 --> 00:32:09,059 There's always an understanding 610 00:32:09,059 --> 00:32:10,859 of authority in the church, 611 00:32:10,980 --> 00:32:11,779 wherever you look. 612 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:13,799 The mistrust, having doubt 613 00:32:13,799 --> 00:32:15,599 or little confidence in his promises, 614 00:32:20,020 --> 00:32:22,000 they substituted other things 615 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,859 for wholehearted devotion to him. 616 00:32:24,759 --> 00:32:25,859 Does this sound familiar? 617 00:32:26,359 --> 00:32:28,079 Wholehearted devotion, okay. 618 00:32:28,359 --> 00:32:29,559 Where you are in your heart. 619 00:32:30,579 --> 00:32:31,539 Again, I'm not going to ask 620 00:32:31,539 --> 00:32:33,160 for written statements, so don't worry. 621 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,200 Yet, through their, throughout history, 622 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,900 God's faithfulness provided greater 623 00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:41,200 than their failures, 624 00:32:41,940 --> 00:32:43,299 proved greater than their failures, 625 00:32:43,740 --> 00:32:45,920 providing both a warning against unbelief 626 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,339 and encouragement to trust him completely. 627 00:32:49,460 --> 00:32:52,279 Now, divided hearts, what's that mean? 628 00:32:53,259 --> 00:32:54,759 I think you all know what that is. 629 00:32:55,559 --> 00:32:58,279 The Israel was outwardly part of the covenant. 630 00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:00,339 They expressed all the things 631 00:33:00,339 --> 00:33:01,539 that we've been talking about, 632 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,259 but they lacked the devotion 633 00:33:03,259 --> 00:33:04,579 in their own hearts. 634 00:33:04,579 --> 00:33:06,259 So what does that look like? 635 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,619 They repeated the sins of their forefathers. 636 00:33:08,619 --> 00:33:09,680 We talked about that. 637 00:33:10,039 --> 00:33:11,339 A reoccurring theme in Scripture 638 00:33:11,339 --> 00:33:14,200 is that each generation often repeats failures 639 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,259 of the previous one, 640 00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:19,420 and they, again, possessed an uncircumcised heart 641 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:21,519 because they were carnal. 642 00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:23,900 What does that mean? 643 00:33:24,259 --> 00:33:25,299 An uncircumcised heart 644 00:33:25,299 --> 00:33:27,160 is a fleshly heart without God 645 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,039 that is hardened, unresponsive, 646 00:33:30,559 --> 00:33:31,799 and distant from God. 647 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:33,920 Israel's hearts were closed 648 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,119 to God's influence and guidance. 649 00:33:36,779 --> 00:33:37,799 Now, look at all these Scriptures. 650 00:33:38,299 --> 00:33:39,859 When it said that they were stiff-necked 651 00:33:39,859 --> 00:33:40,539 and rebellious, 652 00:33:41,460 --> 00:33:43,779 the stiff-necked during Exodus 653 00:33:43,779 --> 00:33:44,779 all the way to Acts 654 00:33:44,779 --> 00:33:47,019 was nine times he said that in the Bible, 655 00:33:47,539 --> 00:33:48,460 and they were proud. 656 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:49,900 That was five times. 657 00:33:50,380 --> 00:33:52,460 So you could see what we're dealing with 658 00:33:52,460 --> 00:33:54,259 as far as the nation is concerned. 659 00:33:55,299 --> 00:33:57,599 So my second question to you is, 660 00:33:58,059 --> 00:34:00,240 are you outwardly part of God's kingdom 661 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,920 but still dragging one foot 662 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,480 in the world outside this door? 663 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,900 Yes, it's wonderful to come in here 664 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:06,779 and shake hands 665 00:34:06,779 --> 00:34:08,420 and praise and worship, 666 00:34:08,619 --> 00:34:09,539 but what do you do 667 00:34:09,539 --> 00:34:11,219 when you go outside their door? 668 00:34:11,340 --> 00:34:12,500 When we're not around 669 00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:14,519 when your brothers and sisters aren't around, 670 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,400 and only you can answer that. 671 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,500 All right, 44 through 50. 672 00:34:21,699 --> 00:34:22,440 See, we're getting down. 673 00:34:22,579 --> 00:34:23,380 That's not too bad. 674 00:34:23,579 --> 00:34:24,719 We're coming right down 675 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,960 to the last of 50 verses. 676 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,119 The presence of God 677 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,000 is greater than anyone given place. 678 00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:34,480 Think about this, 679 00:34:34,619 --> 00:34:35,260 the presence of God 680 00:34:35,260 --> 00:34:36,460 that we felt here this morning, 681 00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:37,599 and if you didn't feel that, 682 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:38,940 I don't know where you were 683 00:34:38,940 --> 00:34:39,619 during worship, 684 00:34:40,059 --> 00:34:42,440 but that happens all over the world. 685 00:34:43,659 --> 00:34:44,739 He comes and visits 686 00:34:44,739 --> 00:34:45,639 as people worship 687 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:46,619 but as praise him, 688 00:34:46,739 --> 00:34:47,960 the word goes forth 689 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,360 and people rejoice 690 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,139 and the same experience 691 00:34:51,139 --> 00:34:52,099 that you could have 692 00:34:52,099 --> 00:34:54,260 going from here to Idaho 693 00:34:54,260 --> 00:34:55,500 and finding a church 694 00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:56,340 that loves the Lord 695 00:34:56,340 --> 00:34:57,679 walk in and you feel at home. 696 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:58,820 How many have ever traveled 697 00:34:58,820 --> 00:34:59,639 and visited churches 698 00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:01,099 and all of a sudden you felt home? 699 00:35:01,539 --> 00:35:02,119 Yeah, I mean, 700 00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:02,940 I could live here. 701 00:35:03,119 --> 00:35:03,579 That's great. 702 00:35:05,340 --> 00:35:07,300 That's the way it should be. 703 00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:09,320 Seeking the presence of God 704 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:10,639 is the most important thing, 705 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,400 but the Levites 706 00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:16,559 and the priests didn't believe that. 707 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:17,480 They thought it was 708 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,159 the structural edifice, 709 00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:22,559 and if you go from the tabernacle 710 00:35:22,559 --> 00:35:23,559 to the temple 711 00:35:23,559 --> 00:35:26,340 and all the vivid rituals 712 00:35:26,340 --> 00:35:27,300 that they have gone through 713 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:29,179 and the laws that they made, 714 00:35:29,679 --> 00:35:30,699 they encumbered people 715 00:35:30,699 --> 00:35:32,059 with these terrible laws 716 00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:33,619 and they thought 717 00:35:33,619 --> 00:35:35,219 it was glory to God. 718 00:35:37,900 --> 00:35:38,719 And that's a cue 719 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,199 for the musicians, okay? 720 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,360 The temple was a blessing from God. 721 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,280 It was a center of worship. 722 00:35:46,940 --> 00:35:48,699 It was a symbol of God's covenant. 723 00:35:49,099 --> 00:35:51,260 It was a place of sacrifice and prayer, 724 00:35:51,260 --> 00:35:53,099 but it was never intended 725 00:35:53,099 --> 00:35:54,059 to be an idol. 726 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,159 So you can have idols of pagan origin. 727 00:35:58,420 --> 00:35:59,619 You can have idols 728 00:35:59,619 --> 00:36:00,699 of what you think 729 00:36:01,219 --> 00:36:04,360 are the liturgical accepted rituals 730 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:05,280 that you go through. 731 00:36:05,739 --> 00:36:06,480 I live with this. 732 00:36:06,599 --> 00:36:09,480 I live in a retirement home 733 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,300 that they have a ecumenical service, 734 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,480 and every once in a while I'm asked, 735 00:36:15,039 --> 00:36:15,960 and I tell you what, 736 00:36:17,539 --> 00:36:19,260 with the ritual that they go through, 737 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,099 and I'm not impugning anybody, 738 00:36:21,260 --> 00:36:22,400 but it's the fact that 739 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,920 it's the danyaflaxing 740 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:25,940 and the candles, 741 00:36:26,119 --> 00:36:27,400 and not that there's anything wrong 742 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:28,739 with that, but oh God, 743 00:36:28,739 --> 00:36:30,659 you know, there's more to these things 744 00:36:30,659 --> 00:36:32,679 than just the outward form of doing. 745 00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:35,019 It's God visiting you. 746 00:36:35,119 --> 00:36:36,320 It's God in your heart. 747 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:38,980 And this is what 748 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:42,199 the liturgical ministry was. 749 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,539 It was a thought of all the things 750 00:36:44,539 --> 00:36:45,559 that we should do, 751 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,360 and all the hats that we wear, 752 00:36:48,659 --> 00:36:50,260 and the authority that we have. 753 00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:53,760 Stephen's central argument then 754 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,639 is this, Acts 4, 755 00:36:56,699 --> 00:36:58,019 Acts 7, 48. 756 00:36:58,019 --> 00:37:00,579 However, the Most High does not dwell 757 00:37:00,579 --> 00:37:02,119 in temples made with hands. 758 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:03,619 He doesn't. 759 00:37:03,940 --> 00:37:05,460 The Jewish leaders had elevated 760 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:09,460 the temple as the place of worship. 761 00:37:12,539 --> 00:37:13,659 And that's what they thought. 762 00:37:15,059 --> 00:37:16,780 We don't need a special location. 763 00:37:17,059 --> 00:37:17,980 We go down the street 764 00:37:17,980 --> 00:37:18,840 driving in our car. 765 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:19,619 We ask the Lord. 766 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:20,420 We feel His presence. 767 00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:21,139 There we are. 768 00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:22,579 Heaven is my throne, 769 00:37:22,659 --> 00:37:24,079 and the earth is my footstool, 770 00:37:24,139 --> 00:37:24,500 it says. 771 00:37:26,119 --> 00:37:27,539 And then realize this, 772 00:37:27,539 --> 00:37:29,440 that God's the center of everything. 773 00:37:30,079 --> 00:37:33,219 Has my hand not made these things? 774 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,539 It's disappointing to think 775 00:37:37,539 --> 00:37:39,860 that all that transpired, 776 00:37:40,619 --> 00:37:42,840 He wanted to get rid of the nation, Israel. 777 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:44,820 He wanted to start afresh, 778 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:45,940 and obviously we know 779 00:37:45,940 --> 00:37:46,739 that He did that 780 00:37:46,739 --> 00:37:48,179 through the coming of Jesus 781 00:37:48,179 --> 00:37:49,420 as Lord and Savior. 782 00:37:50,519 --> 00:37:51,800 So the third question 783 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,420 that I ask of you is this. 784 00:37:54,260 --> 00:37:55,699 What competes with God 785 00:37:55,699 --> 00:37:57,380 for first place in your heart? 786 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,760 Are you, in Israelite, 787 00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:03,840 that's following afar? 788 00:38:04,619 --> 00:38:06,900 Participating in the dance, 789 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:07,920 the ritual, 790 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:09,280 all these things, 791 00:38:09,519 --> 00:38:10,480 giving sacrifices, 792 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,960 and inside the heart 793 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,500 by some degree is dark. 794 00:38:14,659 --> 00:38:16,940 There's many rooms in your heart. 795 00:38:17,980 --> 00:38:19,099 Lord, take my life. 796 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:20,880 If you have five rooms, 797 00:38:20,980 --> 00:38:21,980 are all five rooms 798 00:38:21,980 --> 00:38:22,800 given to the Lord? 799 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:24,059 Or is there still 800 00:38:24,059 --> 00:38:25,320 some secrets in there? 801 00:38:25,699 --> 00:38:26,579 Something that you still, 802 00:38:26,579 --> 00:38:27,980 again, have 803 00:38:27,980 --> 00:38:29,599 that you don't want to give up. 804 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:33,179 Jesus is our authority, folks. 805 00:38:34,340 --> 00:38:36,139 I got to understand 806 00:38:36,139 --> 00:38:38,079 that you understand that too. 807 00:38:38,780 --> 00:38:39,760 He's the authority, 808 00:38:39,780 --> 00:38:41,739 both in good times and bad. 809 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,880 When He asked you to do things 810 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:45,199 that you want to do, 811 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:46,320 you are released 812 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:47,159 and it's a blessing. 813 00:38:47,639 --> 00:38:48,340 And there are things 814 00:38:48,340 --> 00:38:49,500 that He wants you to do 815 00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:51,019 that you don't like necessarily. 816 00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:52,599 But yet, 817 00:38:53,159 --> 00:38:54,659 He asked you to do these things. 818 00:38:54,659 --> 00:38:57,880 Are we not simply 819 00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,300 a servant of God? 820 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:01,820 Are we not simply 821 00:39:01,820 --> 00:39:03,239 a doorkeeper in the house? 822 00:39:04,139 --> 00:39:05,539 And as God uses you 823 00:39:05,539 --> 00:39:06,780 and brings you 824 00:39:07,299 --> 00:39:10,199 to some level of maturity and use, 825 00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:11,300 you can thank God 826 00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:13,039 for what He does through you. 827 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:14,940 Not for your own good, 828 00:39:16,079 --> 00:39:17,559 not for your own aggrandizement 829 00:39:17,559 --> 00:39:18,579 for His glory. 830 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:20,639 So we want to submit 831 00:39:20,639 --> 00:39:21,539 to His authority. 832 00:39:22,059 --> 00:39:22,840 Israel, again, 833 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,079 I think you get the message. 834 00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:25,159 Rejected Moses 835 00:39:25,159 --> 00:39:27,059 and we must not reject Jesus. 836 00:39:29,820 --> 00:39:31,460 The Israelites exchange God 837 00:39:31,460 --> 00:39:32,539 for a golden calf. 838 00:39:33,579 --> 00:39:34,239 What a trade. 839 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:36,659 What a poor trade. 840 00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:40,079 And they carried Moloch's tent with them 841 00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:41,639 when they went through the desert. 842 00:39:43,019 --> 00:39:46,119 Again, opposite of Israel's rebellion 843 00:39:46,119 --> 00:39:47,820 then is a heart 844 00:39:47,820 --> 00:39:50,059 that continually trusts Christ, 845 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,159 obeys Him, 846 00:39:52,159 --> 00:39:54,260 rejects the idols, 847 00:39:54,420 --> 00:39:55,599 whatever they may be, 848 00:39:55,699 --> 00:39:57,539 and follows the Holy Spirit 849 00:39:57,539 --> 00:39:59,539 wherever He leads you. 850 00:39:59,780 --> 00:40:00,219 Wherever. 851 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,099 Hebrews 3.15 says, 852 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:04,900 today if you hear His voice, 853 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:06,980 do not harden your hearts. 854 00:40:07,820 --> 00:40:08,659 And the last question 855 00:40:08,659 --> 00:40:09,440 that I ask you 856 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:10,400 this morning is this. 857 00:40:11,079 --> 00:40:12,860 Do you trust Christ enough 858 00:40:12,860 --> 00:40:14,179 to surrender your life 859 00:40:14,179 --> 00:40:15,159 if you have not? 860 00:40:16,079 --> 00:40:17,000 Put the fears 861 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,880 and the future behind you 862 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,300 and give your life 863 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:21,559 totally to God. 864 00:40:21,559 --> 00:40:24,099 I can tell you as a matter of fact 865 00:40:24,099 --> 00:40:25,699 I live both sides of a life. 866 00:40:27,159 --> 00:40:29,239 And there's only one place to be 867 00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:30,940 and that's in the presence of the Lord. 868 00:40:32,579 --> 00:40:33,380 Alright, let's pray. 869 00:40:35,340 --> 00:40:37,539 If you would like to declare Jesus Christ 870 00:40:37,539 --> 00:40:39,340 as your Savior, your Lord, 871 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:41,179 and your King, 872 00:40:42,179 --> 00:40:43,360 pray this prayer with me. 873 00:40:45,260 --> 00:40:45,719 Father, 874 00:40:46,699 --> 00:40:48,800 I come to you with humility 875 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,139 and gratitude. 876 00:40:51,639 --> 00:40:53,739 Acknowledging that you alone are God. 877 00:40:55,539 --> 00:40:56,800 You are my Creator, 878 00:40:58,519 --> 00:40:59,259 my Redeemer, 879 00:41:00,419 --> 00:41:02,860 and the rightful Lord of my life. 880 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,880 I confess that too often 881 00:41:07,579 --> 00:41:09,719 I have followed my own desires 882 00:41:11,019 --> 00:41:12,460 instead of your will. 883 00:41:14,079 --> 00:41:16,820 Forgive me for every act of pride, 884 00:41:18,260 --> 00:41:19,340 self-reliance, 885 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:21,460 and disobedience. 886 00:41:23,179 --> 00:41:24,019 And today, Lord, 887 00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:26,840 I surrender myself completely to you. 888 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:29,119 Lord Jesus, 889 00:41:30,139 --> 00:41:32,300 you gave yourself for me on the cross 890 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,679 and you alone are worthy to reign in my life. 891 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,340 I yield my heart to you right now. 892 00:41:40,559 --> 00:41:41,800 My mind now. 893 00:41:42,380 --> 00:41:43,559 My will right now. 894 00:41:43,659 --> 00:41:44,860 My plans now. 895 00:41:45,340 --> 00:41:46,960 My relationships right now. 896 00:41:47,039 --> 00:41:48,559 And my possessions even now. 897 00:41:48,619 --> 00:41:49,260 My time. 898 00:41:49,980 --> 00:41:53,179 And the future is in your hands, Lord. 899 00:41:53,340 --> 00:41:54,380 We thank you for that. 900 00:41:55,340 --> 00:41:58,119 Take away everything in me 901 00:41:58,119 --> 00:41:59,860 that dishonors you, Lord. 902 00:42:01,079 --> 00:42:02,199 And if you've given your life 903 00:42:02,199 --> 00:42:03,780 to God before today, 904 00:42:04,219 --> 00:42:05,699 there may be things that are 905 00:42:05,699 --> 00:42:07,659 in the compartments of your life 906 00:42:07,659 --> 00:42:09,719 and the inward struggles that you have 907 00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,340 that you haven't given up. 908 00:42:12,699 --> 00:42:14,099 But search my heart and 909 00:42:14,099 --> 00:42:16,239 reveal any hidden sin, Lord. 910 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:17,639 Any idol. 911 00:42:18,519 --> 00:42:19,400 Any fear. 912 00:42:20,460 --> 00:42:24,000 Or any ambition that competes 913 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,760 with your rightful place 914 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,820 as Lord in my life. 915 00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:32,199 Create in me a clean heart 916 00:42:32,759 --> 00:42:36,599 and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 917 00:42:37,099 --> 00:42:39,280 In Jesus' name, amen. 918 00:42:44,359 --> 00:42:46,960 Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church 919 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,480 as we praise God and discuss His Word. 920 00:42:50,159 --> 00:42:51,420 Don't forget to join us 921 00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:53,239 for Worship Lives Sunday mornings 922 00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,619 at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube. 923 00:42:56,659 --> 00:42:58,719 Be blessed and have a great day!