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00:16 Hi friends, The Hour of His Judgment. That's our theme and 00:19 it is a much needed message for the world today. We're going to 00:23 be looking at a number of Bible verses in the New Testament 00:26 and in the Old Testament. They are going to help us to 00:29 understand why this message is so vital. Let's just begin with 00:32 a word of prayer and then we'll get right into the word of God. 00:35 Father in heaven, we just want to pause in your presence right 00:37 now and we want to ask that you will guide and direct our hearts 00:41 to you in this hour of judgment, the theme of this summit at 00:46 Secrets Unsealed is one that is of vital importance to each one 00:50 of us especially in the time in which we live, a time when our 00:54 culture is exploding with accusations and criticisms and 01:00 shutting people down. We just want to pray that your voice 01:03 would be heard, that your word would be heard above the den 01:07 of noise of this world. And you would direct each one of us to 01:10 this vital gospel message of the hour of your judgment. Please 01:16 Father speak to each heart. Use me, guide me, direct me to your 01:21 Holy Spirit. We pray in Jesus' name Amen. 01:24 You know Jesus said something really significant in Matthew 01:28 chapter 12 and verses 36 and 37. I just want you to look there 01:33 with me at these verses. Jesus says here, Matthew chapter 12 01:37 36 and 37: 01:58 That's Matthew chapter 12 verses 36 and 37. Jesus very clearly 02:02 here talks about a day of judgment. He talks about a day 02:05 of judgment in the context of idle words. Now a lot of people 02:08 might assume or come to the conclusion after looking at 02:13 these two verses that are read here by Christ that are in the 02:18 gospel that the judgment is a negative thing, it's a bad thing 02:21 it's a scary thing. You've got to give an account of every idle 02:25 word. Oh my. What are we going to do? But actually the judgment 02:28 is good news. We live in a cancel culture, we live in a 02:33 culture of shame. We live in a culture right now where you have 02:37 to be careful what you say. You have to be careful what you say. 02:40 You even have to be careful of what you might have said five 02:43 years ago, or 10 years ago or 20 years ago. You've got to be 02:46 really careful because there are people that are looking up every 02:50 word that you may have spoken that might be off just a little 02:53 bit and they're going to shame you, they are going to cancel 02:56 you because of those words. Maybe there are opinions that 02:59 differ from their opinions. Maybe their political opinions 03:02 are different from your political opinions, or maybe 03:05 their moral opinions are different from your moral 03:07 opinions. They're going to seek to criticize you for those words 03:12 That's the kind of culture we're living in right now. And so 03:16 Jesus' words are really significant for us because they 03:20 tell us that these people, people that take it upon 03:24 themselves to condemn and criticize others for their moral 03:28 views or their political views they're going to have to give 03:31 an account. The day of judgment is a day of accounts. Everyone 03:35 of us are going to have to give an account. If you've ever been 03:38 judged by a person, if you've ever been gossiped by somebody 03:41 someone's made you the center of criticism, even maybe 03:45 Christians. Sometimes I know that as Christians we can be the 03:48 worst in the area of criticism and gossip and judging. We can 03:54 become self-righteous. These words of Christ are really 03:58 encouraging because they're calling us to trust God, to rely 04:03 on God for all the idle words that have been said, for all the 04:07 things, the criticisms and gossips that have been said 04:10 It's calling us to rely upon God and trust in him and he's going 04:13 to sort it out. That God has a day of judgment. These words 04:17 aren't just spoken by Jesus. These words are spoken in the 04:22 New and in the Old Testament. They're spoken in other places 04:25 in the Bible. I want us to look at a couple of places where we 04:28 see the same thing repeated. One of those places is Romans 04:34 chapter 14 and we're going to look in Romans chapter 14 and 04:39 verse 10. Now the whole chapter of Romans 14 is really good when 04:45 it comes to judgment. We'll get back to that; we'll look at that 04:47 a little bit more. But it's not only that Jesus taught that 04:51 there would be a day of judgment but Paul here in Romans also 04:54 speaks about this. If you look here in verse 10 of Romans 14 04:58 he says: 05:08 So Paul here is very clear. We're all going to stand before 05:10 the judgment seat of Christ. And the context of this Paul is 05:15 saying so because we're all going to stand before the 05:17 judgment seat of Christ, because as we read in Matthew chapter 05:21 12 verses 36 and 37, because we have to give an account of 05:25 every idle word, especially the gossipy word, the judgmental 05:29 word, the critical word. Because we are going to have to give an 05:32 account, because we're going to stand before the judgment seat 05:34 of Christ why are you setting at naught your brother? Why are you 05:38 judging your brother. You might ask the question, well is he 05:40 talking about a brother in the Lord. Well yeah of course he's 05:43 talking about a fellow Christian He's talking about anyone and 05:46 everyone. We can't say to us today, we can't say well I'm not 05:51 my brother's keeper and think this only applies to Christians. 05:54 It applies to every single person on planet earth. If you 05:58 are being critical of leaders, of presidents or prime ministers 06:02 or kings or of stars or athletes Whoever it is in your realm, in 06:10 your world you're being critical if you're going to stand before 06:13 the judgment seat of Christ and you're going to have to give an 06:15 account of every idle word that you've spoken. Now this may seem 06:21 again a little bit scary, but to me it brings a lot of hope 06:24 because as a believer in Jesus Christ I'm focusing on wanting 06:29 to be like Jesus and not speak judgmental words and not speak 06:32 critical words and when I read these verses I think, yes I need 06:35 to leave this person and that person and this issue and that 06:38 issue, I need to leave that with God. I need to leave that with 06:43 God and not be critical and judgmental toward these 06:46 different let's just say political people or whoever it 06:50 is in my life that's bombarding me or hurting me or bringing me 06:54 trials or causing me problems. I've got to leave that with the 06:58 Lord. The hour of judgment calls us to put our trust more fully 07:02 in Jesus Christ for vindication from all of the hurt and pain 07:07 we're experiencing by the idle, critical, judgmental words of 07:10 others. And that is good news and very important news for each 07:16 one of us. James also talks about this in James chapter 2 07:21 and verse 12. Let's just look there in James chapter 2 and 07:25 verse 12. He speaks about a judgment and we're going to find 07:28 this theme not only in the New Testament. We're going to find 07:30 it also in the Old Testament. James chapter 2 and verse 12 07:35 he says: 07:45 So there's a judgment taking place and this judgment is going 07:48 to be taking place in relationship to the law of 07:51 liberty. Now we're going to spend a whole session on the law 07:55 of liberty. Our next session is going to be on the law of 07:57 liberty. We'll spend a lot of time on that. Right now though 07:59 our main theme for this presentation is going to be this 08:04 idea of judging individuals and being judged by individuals and 08:12 how we process that. How can we process that as believers? How 08:15 should we process as believers? And we're going to look at this 08:19 in the context of this wonderful good news of the judgment because 08:23 we're going to find that the New Testament writers all taught 08:26 that there would be a day of judgment as a positive thing not 08:29 a negative thing. They taught there would be a day of judgment 08:33 in the context of us putting our trust in Christ and getting rid 08:37 of idle words or negative words or critical words of judgmental 08:41 words toward believers, our fellow believers, toward mankind 08:44 towards our leaders. Paul talks about this for example in 08:48 1 Timothy chapter 2. He says that first of all because we're 08:53 saved by the grace of God and the love of Jesus Christ we 08:55 should pray for our leaders and our presidents and kings and all 08:59 those that are in authority. If you can imagine that. Praying 09:02 for these guys rather than criticizing them. This is the 09:06 calling, the high, high calling of the hour of judgment message 09:10 in the context of the Bible. Now let's look at an Old Testament 09:15 verse. This one is found in Ecclesiastes chapter 12. We go 09:19 all the way back to the Old Testament. Ecclesiastes chapter 09:21 12 and I want us to look at the last couple of verses in 09:26 Ecclesiastes. These two verses are kind of in a way summing up 09:31 the whole matter for us. That's how they're written. 09:34 Ecclesiastes chapter 12 we're going to look at verses 13 and 09:39 14. Ecclesiastes chapter 12: 13 and 14. Solomon says here 09:44 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. So this is a 09:48 summing up of the whole matter. Solomon went through a period 09:51 of darkness and he was given great wisdom from God and then 09:55 he kind of apostasized and turned away from God and lived 09:57 in the world for many year and then he kind of came back to God 10:01 and as he came back to God, he didn't kind of come back to God 10:03 he fully came back to God. As he came back to God he wrote all 10:08 kinds of proverbs and words of wisdom and Ecclesiastes kind of 10:13 sums everything that he learned and how this world and 10:16 everything that's in it is just kind of vanity, it's all vanity. 10:19 And in the context of heaven and eternity and salvation in Jesus 10:24 Christ, this is all vanity. He says the conclusion of the whole 10:27 matter in this context is: Fear God and keep his commandments 10:31 for this is the whole duty of man, for God shall bring every 10:35 work into judgment, verse 14, with every secret thing, whether 10:39 it be good or whether it be evil So God is going to bring 10:45 everything into judgment. He's going to bring every secret 10:48 thing into judgment if it's good or it's evil. All is coming into 10:52 judgment. And again, we'll talk a little bit more about this in 10:55 a future presentation. But for now we want to focus on the 10:58 fact that God is going to have a day of judgment and everything's 11:02 going to be brought in whether it's good or evil. Everything's 11:05 going to brought in for God to judge. Now again this is good 11:10 news. This is really good news because it alleviates us from 11:16 the burden of criticizing and judging others. It alleviates 11:19 us from the burden of shaming other people, of being 11:23 judgmental of other people. As Christians, as believers in the 11:25 gospel we need to take a hold of this message. In fact, that's 11:28 what we're told in 1 Peter chapter 4. We're told very 11:32 clearly, verse 17 of 1 Peter chapter 4, that this is a gospel 11:38 message, this is gospel truth. Let's just look there in 1 Peter 11:41 chapter 4 and verse 17. 1 Peter 4 and verse 17: 11:45 This is what it says: 12:01 So the judgment is connected to 12:07 obeying the gospel of God and the gospel is good news. That's 12:10 what the gospel is, the gospel is good news. So what we find 12:13 here are three important points: Point number one: Judgment 12:17 begins at the house of God. That means it begins with believers. 12:19 It begins with Christians. We ought to know better. There's a 12:22 lot of people in the world that don't know better. They don't 12:24 know better than to judge and to criticize and be condemning 12:27 toward you know presidents and prime ministers and leaders and 12:31 even you know whoever it is. They don't know better But we as 12:34 believers should know better. The Bible is filled with stories 12:39 that lead us away from being critical and judgmental toward 12:42 others, even others that hurt us, even other that are evil. 12:44 That we are to take a 12:46 higher plain, a higher road in the way that we deal with people 12:50 and individuals. We see stories like David and Saul in the Old 12:55 Testament. Saul was a wicked king, he was trying to kill 12:57 David. He was an apostate king. He was wiping out his own people 13:03 Killed of the priests of Nob and he was after David and again and 13:07 again David escaped from the spear of Saul and there were 13:11 times when David had a opportunity to get Saul back but 13:14 David had the fortitude, he had the courage, the inner courage 13:19 to be the man that God wanted him to be. And he refused to do 13:23 that. He left David in God's, excuse me, David left Saul in 13:26 God's hands. He said God judge between me and you. And God 13:30 avenge me of you but I'm not going to put my hand against you 13:33 And this is what the New Testament is calling us to. 13:35 And we see it all through the New Testament but especially in 13:38 the life of Jesus. Jesus Christ refused. He could have laid his 13:43 enemies down, he could have taken them out. He refused to do 13:48 that. He received everything and he trusted himself to the hands 13:51 of God. Into God he entrusted his spirit. And he said in the 13:55 context of that on the cross, Father forgive them for they 13:59 know not what they're doing. And this is the high calling of the 14:02 Christian. Now we fail so often. We fail to reach this high 14:06 calling but God's judgment hour is calling us back to this 14:09 experience. If we've failed, it's time for us to embrace the 14:13 gospel. We need to get into more detail about that right now. We 14:17 need to really understand what the gospel is, because this is a 14:20 gospel message. The hour of judgment is a gospel message. 14:22 We also need to realize that the judgment starts with the 14:27 believer, but then it moves to the disobedient. It says right 14:30 here in verse 17, it says what will be the end of those who 14:32 don't obey the gospel, who disobey the gospel. So 14:36 there's going to be a judgment for those who disobey the gospel 14:38 And then it goes on to say that this is a gospel message. It 14:43 directly relates to the gospel. The gospel is in the context of 14:47 this verse in 1 Timothy 4:17. It says judgment's going to begin 14:51 at the house of God and the context of that is obeying the 14:54 gospel. Now this is really important when we look at 14:58 Revelation chapter 14 verses 6 and 7 because this is where we 15:02 find the center of our message. Revelation 14:6 and 7. So let's 15:06 just open our Bibles to Revelation chapter 14 and let's 15:09 just look at verses 6 and 7. This is, in a sense, God's last 15:15 message for the world. John says he saw another angel flying in 15:29 The whole world is to hear this gospel and as this everlasting 15:32 gospel was brought to the whole world the first pronunciation of 15:35 that comes forth from this gospel, verse 7 is: 15:51 So here we have the everlasting gospel connected directly with 15:56 the hour of his judgment. Do you see that? In other words, there 16:00 is a direct link between the judgment of God and the gospel 16:04 of God. The judgment is good news. That's what we need to 16:08 understand. It comes under the heading of the everlasting 16:11 gospel. But it's not good news to those who don't understand 16:15 the principles of the judgment and that's what we need to look 16:18 at. We've got to look at the principles of the judgment. Why 16:21 does God have a judgment. Now we're going to be looking at 16:24 four major points in this series The first point we're going to 16:28 be looking at, the one we're going to highlight right now is 16:30 that God has a judgment so that we human beings will stop 16:35 judging other people. We just need to stop judging other 16:38 people. That's why God has a judgment. He wants us to stop 16:41 judging people. He wants us to let go of criticisms, let go of 16:44 judgment, let go of canceling people, let go of shaming people 16:48 That's not our prerogative. We don't know the heart. We don't 16:53 understand that what's going on in the very inner workings, in 17:00 the very inner workings and thinking of other people. We 17:03 don't know that. Only God knows that. And so it's beyond our 17:07 capability to judge and criticize other people. We're 17:10 just not called to do that. We are called to a higher 17:15 experience. And so God is telling us right here in Romans 17:18 We'll just go back there to Romans chapter 14 because it's 17:20 a powerful, powerful chapter, one that I think is what we 17:25 would call present truth for our world today. Romans chapter 14 17:28 and let's just look here at a little bit more of what Paul 17:32 says here. Just to get a little bit of the context we'll start 17:35 in verse 10. Just a little bit of the context. Paul here is 17:39 speaking to Christians, to believers. But these believers 17:43 they have different backgrounds. Okay. This is the early church 17:48 and the believers that Paul is speaking to many of them are 17:53 Jewish converts. What I mean by that is, they were Jews who 17:58 followed and believed in the Old Testament writings that were 18:02 given to them by Moses on down and then when Jesus came they 18:07 accepted Christ as the Messiah. Now this was a big deal to a lot 18:10 Jews because most of the Jewish nation the leaders rejected 18:14 Christ as the Messiah. And so it was big for them to accept 18:16 Christ as the Messiah. Now Paul is not just speaking to Jews 18:19 there in Romans. He's also speaking to Gentiles. Now 18:22 Gentiles didn't know anything about Moses and all those 18:24 writings (indistinct) really they didn't know anything about 18:27 that. Historically the Jews had had generations of Moses and 18:31 his writings. The Gentiles probably didn't have any 18:35 understanding of all that, but they accepted Christ as Messiah 18:39 also. You have Jewish converts and you have Gentile converts in 18:42 Christian church. And because of their backgrounds they have 18:46 differences. The Jews here in this context and in Galatians 18:50 and Ephesians and Colossians, the Jews are struggling with the 18:55 idea of letting go of all of the ceremonial type laws. They had 19:02 to do with the Passover and the Day of Atonement and Paul over 19:06 and over again throughout his writings. And circumcision, etc. 19:09 Paul talks about how all of these were shadows that were 19:13 fulfilled in Jesus. And he came along, there came a Sabbath 19:16 days and certain things you were supposed to eat and certain 19:18 things you were supposed to do on these certain feast days. 19:22 And Paul is telling the Jewish believers, listen these were all 19:26 pointing to Christ. We no longer have to observe them. They've 19:29 been nailed to the cross. They were fulfilled in Jesus. Jesus 19:31 is our Passover basically. Now if you're a Jew in this time 19:36 when most of your nation leadership are not accepting 19:38 Christ as Messiah and you are accepting Christ but then you're 19:42 being told that you know all this stuff that Moses wrote is 19:44 no longer viable. That could be hard, that could be difficult 19:49 Paul recognizes this, but he's also dealing with Gentiles and 19:54 Gentiles are like being told by these Jewish converts hey you 19:56 need to get circumcised and you need to eat this and you need to 19:59 keep these feasts, you need to do certain things. There's these 20:02 extra Sabbaths you should be observing. So the Gentiles are 20:06 kind of struggling with this. In fact, they had a big meeting in 20:09 Acts 15. They had a big meeting about of all of this and they 20:12 were talking, all the leaders of the Christian church were 20:14 talking about what should we do with the Gentiles. Should we 20:17 make them keep all the laws of Moses that we ourselves haven't 20:21 even been able to keep. And they finally said no. Let's just do 20:24 some basics here. We know that these have all been fulfilled in 20:28 Christ and these have been nailed to the cross. They're 20:31 completely, they're just filled up with meaning of all these 20:34 ceremonial laws. The lamb of God we don't need to slay that 20:36 anymore. So this is the context of what Paul is speaking to in 20:41 Romans 14. And he's telling the Jewish converts and the Gentile 20:44 converts don't despise one another. Don't judge one another 20:47 Let every man have enough room to be fully persuaded in his own 20:53 mind as to what you should do. Just give him room to be 20:58 convicted in his own mind. One person eats this, another person 21:01 eats that. One person observes this day, another person 21:04 observes every day. Let every man be fully persuaded in his 21:06 own mind. That's the context of Romans chapter 14. But the 21:10 biggest point he's making here, the one that huge, because 21:14 the principle applies to us today. We can say well the 21:16 ceremonial law, that's not a major moral issue. Well even if 21:19 it's a moral issue the principles that we're about to 21:22 read here apply to us today. And these are the principles 21:25 that Paul gets to that is the foundation of his message in 21:29 Romans chapter 14 beginning here with verse 10. Let's just look 21:32 at these verses. Roman's chapter 14 beginning verse 10. He said: 22:02 And here's the clincher verse 13: 22:12 Now of course Paul's talking to believers and so this is 22:17 especially applicable to us. But it's applicable to us who 22:20 believe in Jesus Christ in the way you relate to everyone, 22:23 everyone. Stop judging people... 22:34 Instead of judging people remove the stumbling blocks. Instead 22:37 of judging people, don't cause other people to fall. Now people 22:40 will fall over your attitude. As Christians, as an evangelist, as 22:43 as someone who's been in ministry for 35 years I can't tell you how 22:48 many times I've seen possible believers, people who we've done 22:53 evangelism with, people we've done Bible studies with, I can't 22:55 tell you how many times they stumble and fall over the 22:59 leaders because they fail to be accepting, because they're 23:04 filled with judgmental, critical thoughts toward people who are 23:08 you know, just learning about Christ. Maybe just coming into 23:12 the church and all of a sudden they get, you know, this 23:14 attitude, the spirit comes like hey you know how come you're 23:17 here dressed like that? Well this person is dressed like that 23:20 because that's all they know. They don't know what you know. 23:23 And we need to stop judging and criticizing them all because of 23:26 their political views or because of whatever it is. We as 23:30 Christians are called to stop judging other people. And this 23:34 is the message that God is bringing to us in the hour of 23:37 his judgment. It's a powerful message when you think about it. 23:41 God has a judgment because he wants us to stop judging people. 23:44 That's good news. We are off the hook. We no longer have to judge 23:47 others. We no longer have to bear the burden of being 23:51 critical and judgmental because God... You know you think people 23:54 are getting away with stuff. You think well that person needs to 23:57 be exposed and this other person and look at what they're doing. 24:01 Well we of course there is a place for that in the church. 24:04 There's a place for discipline in the church, there's a place for 24:07 exposing sin and error in the church but when it comes to 24:10 personal gossip and individual criticism, judgmentalism, that's 24:14 what God is calling us away from If we see a brother or a sister 24:19 that's struggling we need to pray for them, we need to 24:21 intercede for them. We don't need to go gossiping to everyone 24:23 about what they're doing. That is what Paul is speaking to here 24:26 He's speaking to the way that we deal with people who may have a 24:29 different background than we have. You know the Gentiles had 24:32 a completely different experience than the Jews and the 24:34 Jews also had a different experience than the Gentiles. 24:36 The Gentiles were why do you have such a hard time giving up 24:39 on the ceremonial laws. They might have said that to the 24:41 Jewish brethren. And God's saying, Now wait a minute, wait 24:44 minute you need to understand they've been keeping these laws 24:47 these ceremonials laws for generations. It's going to be 24:50 hard for them to be harder for them that it is for you. 24:52 And it's the same with us. God 24:55 tells us in Acts chapter 15 and verse 8, let's just look at this 24:59 verse because it's so powerful. God tells us in Acts chapter 15 25:02 verse 8, Acts 15 and verse 8. This again is the context of the 25:08 big meeting in Jerusalem about Jews and Gentiles and the 25:12 differences that these believers were going to have in relation 25:15 to each other and in relation to the truth, in relation to the 25:20 Bible. Acts chapter 15 verse 8: 25:29 So here we have the apostles dealing with the issue, the 25:34 differences, and then in this context you have Peter rising 25:38 up and being filled with the Holy Spirit and basically saying 25:40 hey listen. You know what? God knows their hearts. They may not 25:43 be circumcised, they may not be doing all the ceremonial things 25:46 but God knows their hearts and you know God gave them the 25:49 Holy Ghost just like he gave us the Holy Ghost. So we need to 25:51 back up here. We need to back up. And this is what God is 25:54 calling us to today. The hour of his judgment says God knows the 25:58 hearts. God is the one that reads hearts. 26:05 And that's why it's so important for us to recognize 26:08 in the hour of judgment that we need to leave judgment with God. 26:11 In fact, 1 Corinthians 13 tells us we need to love hopes all 26:16 things, believes all things, endures all things. Love never 26:19 fails. We need to hope even if we see people that we know we're 26:24 convinced that they know. We need to hope that the 26:26 Holy Spirit will 26:27 work on their hearts. That's what Stephen did when he was 26:29 being stoned. He was being stoned by the Jews because they 26:32 were so angry with him because he was bringing through 26:34 the Holy Spirit 26:35 conviction to their hearts that they had rejected Christ. As he 26:38 was being stoned the Jews took off their coats and put them in 26:43 the arms of a man that was standing there, his name 26:45 was Saul. And as he held these coats 26:49 he watched the Jews stone Stephen to death and he 26:52 watched Stephen being stoned. As he watched Stephen being stoned 26:55 these words came out of Stephen's mouth as his face 26:58 shown with the brightness of heaven and he said looking up 27:01 into heaven, Stephen said, Lord lay not this sin to their charge 27:05 And Paul never, Saul never forgot, he couldn't erase those 27:08 words. He couldn't erase that witness and that witness led him 27:12 to Jesus. Now what if Stephen would have said Oh man these 27:16 terrible people. I can't believe what they're doing. No. He was 27:19 filled with the Spirit of God and he rose up in prayer and 27:23 said Lord lay not this sin to their charge. Forgive them. He 27:26 interceded for them and that caused Saul to be converted. 27:29 Paul who became a powerful evangelist of the New Testament. 27:33 So only God can read the hearts. We can't read the hearts. And 27:37 you see this all through the Bible. In fact, if we look at 27:41 Hebrews chapter 11. Now this is a powerful chapter on the 27:44 investigative judgment for believers. When you look at 27:47 Hebrews chapter 11 you're looking at what the 27:49 investigative judgment looks like for the believer. Hebrews 27:52 chapter 11 is what we call the faith chapter and in Hebrews 27:55 chapter 11 we have all these men and women of faith, you notice, 28:00 that believed and followed God by faith and in the context of 28:05 this it's powerful because... Before we read verse 32 which 28:09 kind of sums up all the experiences of the believers, 28:12 let's just get the context of Hebrews 11 because it's really 28:15 powerful. Hebrews 11 is 28:17 talking about how faith is the substance of things hoped for, 28:21 the evidence of things not seen. It's talking about how we by 28:24 faith step forward and follow God and it's describing now the 28:29 experiences of all these different believers. There's 28:32 that you will notice in Hebrews 11 that is amazing in it's 28:37 revelation of the investigative judgment or of the hour of God's 28:41 judgment. God is talking about believers here and their 28:45 experiences and he always, in Hebrews chapter 11, he always 28:50 speaks to the affirmative. He never speaks to the negative. 28:53 There's nothing negative in here In fact, just let's take a look 28:56 at a few verses. It talks here in Hebrews chapter 11 about how 29:01 Abraham went out, he didn't know where he was going. He just went 29:04 out. He just left the land of Ur He went out and he had no idea 29:08 where he was going. Just continued to travel as God led 29:11 him. But it doesn't say anything about the fact that as Abraham 29:14 was traveling as he went to the Philistines area, territory, he 29:18 went to Egypt that he was afraid that the Egyptians might want 29:25 his wife because she was so beautiful. And so he told Sarah, 29:29 he said now when we go into this town I want you to tell them 29:34 that you're my sister not my wife. Now that was kind of true 29:39 because yeah she was a half sister. But the truth of the 29:43 matter is that they were married but Abraham told her to lie. 29:46 It doesn't say anything about that in Hebrews 11. It doesn't 29:49 talk about how Abraham told her to lie. It talks about how Moses 29:52 by faith just stepped out and he turned away from the pleasure 29:57 of sin for a season and he suffered with the people of God. 30:01 It doesn't talk about how Moses killed an Egyptian and buried 30:04 him in the sand. It talks over and over again about the various 30:09 different people who by faith stepped out and followed God. 30:13 All the accounts in Hebrews chapter 11 of God's faithful 30:17 people are minus their failures. Are minus their errors. Are 30:24 minus their sins. They're gone. And that's exactly what the hour 30:27 of judgment looks like. We'll talk about this in more detail 30:30 in future presentations, but the hour of God's judgment for the 30:35 believer in the gospel looks like Hebrews chapter 11. In fact 30:39 if you read Hebrews chapter 11 you're going to be surprised at 30:42 who's there. The who's of Hebrews 11 can be surprising. I remember 30:47 the first time I read Hebrews chapter 11 and let's just begin 30:49 here with verse 32. Hebrews 11 verse 32: 31:07 He goes on to say: 31:32 I mean we're talking about all of these successes, all of the 31:37 good things, all of the positive things that God's people did but 31:40 you'll notice that Samson is mentioned. Look at the life of 31:43 Samson. Your like man that guy really messed up. I mean he 31:46 really messed up and he was born of two Godly parents and one of 31:50 the first things he wanted to do was marry a Philistine woman. 31:52 Now the Philistines were not like... We don't marry the 31:55 Philistines. His parents were like no, no, no, no. He's like 31:57 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She well pleasing in my sight. And 32:00 it was all about what she looked like, not about what she was 32:03 like on the inside. And indeed she was not a good person and 32:05 that didn't last very long. He lost his first wife and then 32:09 Samson, a judge in Israel, one who was anointed of God with 32:13 superhuman strength to judge his people and to rule them and 32:18 defeat the Philistines goes and now he marries a Philistine but 32:22 ends up with Delilah. Now he's in love with Delilah, but 32:27 Delilah is, she's wicked. She doesn't love him. I mean she can 32:32 say she loves him but what's she trying to do. She's trying to 32:34 actually find out the secret of his strength so that she can 32:39 tell that to her Philistine lords and Samson can be captured 32:43 And that's exactly what happens. Eventually Samson give in to her 32:47 tells her well the secret of my strength is in my hair. You cut 32:49 my hair, I'm as weak as any other man and boom. The 32:53 Philistines come and cut his hair when he's sleeping and it's 32:56 over. They come and capture him in his sleep and she cuts the 32:59 hair and it's over. It is literally over for Samson. And 33:02 the next thing he knows his eyes are out and he's in this you 33:06 know ring just serving the Philistines, grinding corn and 33:10 eventually becomes the sport, their play. But he prays and he 33:16 repents and his hair begins to grow and God brings back his 33:21 strength and he set himself, asks to be set before two 33:24 pillars of the temple and the Philistines are there having this 33:27 great feast, this festival. And he pushes the pillars down and 33:30 all the Philistines die. And he himself asks to die with them, 33:33 in a sense committing suicide, in a sense. And we see Samson 33:39 who messed up time and time and time and time again. We see 33:42 Samson mentioned in Hebrews chapter 11. See this is the hour 33:46 of God's judgment, not the hour of our judgment. We would have 33:49 judged Samson, we'd say ah I don't know if that guy's going 33:51 to make it. In fact, I thought that for a while until I read 33:54 Hebrews. When I first came to the Bible I read from the Old to 33:57 New, I read the whole Bible through. I was like Samson, man 33:59 that guy really messed up. I don't know if he's going to make 34:02 it now. I read Hebrews, I'm like yeah I guess he is going to make 34:04 it. See that's us, that's human beings. We look at people and we 34:09 make judgments that are not necessarily in harmony with 34:11 God's judgments. But we look in Hebrews 11 where God vindicates 34:16 his people where all of their sins and failures are covered 34:18 because they're believers. By faith they have the 34:24 righteousness of Christ. In the Old Testament it would be the 34:27 blood of the lamb. That's how they saw the blood of the lamb. 34:29 Because their Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed One was 34:33 symbolized by a lamb that was slain. The blood was spilled for 34:36 them. A lamb without blemish, a lamb that was perfect because it 34:39 was the perfection of Christ's life as well as the death of 34:42 Christ that covered us with his righteousness. It's both, that 34:49 is one. And that's what Samson has. He has the righteousness of 34:52 Jesus Christ. He's in the faith chapter along with other guys. 34:57 I mean there's some other guys here that are questionable. 35:00 Like for example Gideon. That guy was a man of faith for sure. 35:03 But he also made a golden ephod and caused the children of 35:07 Israel to go whoring. I mean you read that in Judges chapter 35:09 four. And Barak, yeah that guy was a man of faith but he 35:12 wouldn't go out to war against God's enemies even when God 35:16 called him to do it unless Deborah went with him. Have you 35:20 ever struggled with idolatry or with fear or with addiction like 35:26 Samson had, addiction to lust and to sex. These are the things 35:31 that were in the lives of these men that are saved by the grace 35:34 of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Why? Because they 35:38 continued to trust in God and not in themselves. And so 35:44 they're mentioned here in this hall of faith chapter, they're 35:46 mentioned here. This whole hall of faith chapter is why we 35:50 understand that the hour of God's judgment is a gospel 35:54 message. It's part of the everlasting gospel for the 35:57 believer. But what will happen to those who don't obey the 36:00 gospel? See God is calling us to accept the gospel of Jesus 36:04 Christ now while we can. We're living in the judgment hour and 36:08 if we don't accept the gospel of Jesus Christ now while we can 36:11 we're going to be without a mediator once probation closes. 36:15 Once this earth's history comes to an end we're not going to 36:19 have the covering that God wants to give us. You know Jesus spoke 36:23 to the Jews. They had a day of probation and he said how often 36:26 I would have gathered you and covered you as a hen covers her 36:29 chicks and you would not. It's not God that decides who's going 36:33 to be lost and who's going to be saved. It's us. We make that 36:35 decision individually. And God is calling us to make that 36:38 decision for him right now. He's calling us to give our hearts to 36:41 him right now. So the hour of judgment is a powerful message 36:46 because it's a message that calls us to look to Jesus Christ 36:53 Hebrews 11 presents us with an outline of what the judgment 36:56 looks like for the believer. And the judgment of the believer 36:58 looks like we stand before God without fault. If you read 37:01 Hebrews 11, just read it carefully you will not find one 37:04 fault mentioned of all the lives of God's believers that are 37:07 mentioned there, not one fault. Not a single one. And that's 37:11 what the judgment looks like for the believer when we put our 37:14 faith in Jesus, when we sincerely put our faith in Jesus 37:17 all of our sins are blotted out, all of our faults are covered by 37:21 the righteousness of Jesus Christ. And we need that. Samson 37:23 needed that, Barak needed that, Gideon needed that, Moses needed 37:26 that, Abraham needed that. 37:28 The liars, the killers, the murderers, the 37:31 adulterers, the sex addicts all needed that, and we need that. 37:36 We need that and God is going to give that to us in the hour of 37:40 his judgment. But remember he gives that to us as believers, 37:45 as those who lay aside their sins, who toss those sins, who 37:48 give those sins to Jesus and accept his righteousness, are 37:50 born again and who live for him, who put their faith completely 37:54 in Jesus Christ. Now as believers we need to see what 37:59 that looks like because a lot of times we don't. As believers 38:03 we need to exemplify the spirit of being born again, the spirit 38:10 Christian. So also let's look at a couple more verses here I 38:13 think are really significant. We are looking at in Luke chapter 7 38:16 and we're going to start with verse 36 of Luke chapter 7. 38:20 We look at a couple of aspects of this story. This is the story 38:24 of Mary. This was woman who was redeemed by Christ and she had 38:30 a sordid past. It was a bad past she had a sordid past but she 38:34 was redeemed by the gospel. And when she was redeemed by the 38:38 gospel she didn't just say well now I'm saved now it doesn't 38:40 matter how I live. When Mary was redeemed by Jesus Christ, her 38:45 life changed. She was transformed in the way that she 38:49 lived her life. She lived for Jesus Christ and that's what the 38:53 gospel calls us to do. In the hour of judgment is also in that 38:59 context an hour when our hearts are revealed before God and He 39:04 sees our true motives. He sees if we're really following him or 39:07 not. This is why this is such a significant message for us today 39:11 Because we need to recognize as Christians that, as Christians 39:14 we need to recognize that we are not getting away with anything. 39:17 We may think that we can get away with dark thoughts or 39:23 being unChristlike when we're driving our car down the freeway 39:26 or being critical of our leaders We've not getting away with any 39:29 of that. God is calling us to a much higher standard than that 39:32 in the context of the everlasting gospel and that's 39:35 why the everlasting gospel is so powerful because it transforms 39:38 our hearts. So here's the story. We'll begin in verse 36, not 39:43 because there isn't more to it but because of our time 39:46 restraints here. Verse 36 of Luke chapter 7: 39:56 So Jesus was being invited by a Pharisee, his name was Simon 39:59 by the way. He's been converted he's been healed of leprosy. 40:02 He actually hasn't been fully converted if you will. He's one 40:05 of those professed followers of Christ. He's one of those guys 40:09 that he believes in Christ because he's healed him, he's 40:11 done something for him but his heart hasn't been completely 40:14 transformed and this is what we're going to see as we go 40:15 through the story. And we're going to see a contrast between 40:18 a true believer and a false believer or professed believer 40:22 someone who falls short of actually having a complete 40:25 transformation God wants. It's important for us to see this. 40:29 So it says here going on in verse 37: 40:46 Now some Bible commentators will say that this alabaster box of 40:49 ointment was like worth a year's wages. It was very expensive. It 40:55 was something that she was reserving for Christ to anoint 40:59 him believing he was going to die. But then she had heard that 41:02 he wasn't going to die. You know the messages went out and they 41:05 confusing, the disciples were confused about this. So she 41:08 brings this ointment that she's been saving. It was years' worth 41:11 of wages, this was very expensive. She was brings this 41:13 to anoint his feet now because she wants to show her love for 41:19 Jesus. Now notice Simon is called a Pharisee, Mary is 41:24 called a sinner. It's very important to understand that 41:28 in the context of the judgment. So it goes on here, next verse, 41:32 and it says, it's talking about Mary now: 41:49 And the next verse says: 42:15 Wow! Simon. You just got healed of leprosy. You invited Jesus 42:20 the Messiah over to your house. You're a professed believer in 42:24 Christ, you're having a feast in his behalf and you have the 42:28 nerve to judge and criticize this woman. Oh yeah, Simon, 42:31 didn't even phase him. He didn't even think about it. He's like 42:34 yeah of course, look it, she's a sinner. I know all about her. Oh 42:36 yeah. That terrible wife. I can't believe that Jesus would 42:41 let this person touch him. I don't even know how she got in 42:45 here, you know, he might be thinking. Now he's thinking all 42:48 this in his brain and this is exactly the way we think. We 42:51 look at other people when Jesus touches our lives, when he heals 42:55 us, when he restores us, when he does something, we look at 42:58 other people and we judge them and criticize them. Wow man I 42:59 can't believe... Oh Jesus probably has nothing to do with 43:02 that person, nothing to do with that person. Wow I'm sure Jesus 43:05 would never even, no way, he wouldn't even let them touch him 43:07 This is the attitude of Phariseeism. That's why he's 43:10 called a Pharisee. Simon is identified as a Pharisee because 43:14 of the context of this story is telling us that this is what 43:17 Phariseeism looks like and there's a whole lot of 43:19 Phariseeism going on in our world today friends. There's a 43:22 whole of Phariseeism going on and unfortunately it's going on 43:25 in the church too. Political Phariseeism, social Phariseeism 43:29 religious Phariseeism. And this is what it looks like. You don't 43:34 want to just say wow a Pharisee. Yeah they were these guys that 43:36 lived you know in Jesus' time and they just were very 43:38 legalistic. No Pharisees are people who are critical and 43:41 judgmental of sinners. Are you critical and judgmental of 43:44 sinners? The reason why it's important to ask that question 43:47 is because the hour of God's judgment is come and it's not 43:50 going to bode well for you if you're critical and judgmental 43:52 of sinners. When you stand at the judgment seat of Christ you 43:56 know all of us are going to have to you see. So you need to 43:59 remove the stumbling blocks. This is what God is calling us 44:02 to do. Remove the stumbling blocks. Because we are to stand 44:05 before the judgment seat of Christ to give an account of 44:08 every idle word that we've spoken whether it's good or evil 44:10 That's what God is calling us to. That's the standard God is 44:13 calling us to. God is calling a people who will follow the lamb 44:16 wherever he goes and it says in Revelation chapter 14 that they 44:20 have no guile in their mouth. They are faultless before the 44:23 throne. And that's speaking specifically of critical, 44:27 negative, judgmental thoughts. We could study Revelations 7 in 44:31 the context of that and the tribe that's been replaced... 44:34 The tribe of Dan who was a judge and a backbiter has been 44:37 replaced by the tribe of Manasseh who was one who 44:40 forgave. That's what the word Manasseh means, to forgive, to 44:42 remit, to remove, to forget. Dan the word means to judge, to 44:45 backbite, to criticize. We can look all through the Old and New 44:50 Testaments. We can find the same principle. The accuser of the 44:53 brethren was cast down who accuses them before God day and 44:55 night. I have a whole presentation on that. We need to 44:57 recognize that for many of us, maybe for most of us, the last 45:00 frontier in our Christian experience is the words that we 45:04 speak. Because with Adam and Eve that's what started it. When 45:07 they were hiding from God, God came to them and he said what 45:09 are you doing here? And Adam said, it was the woman; critical 45:14 judgmental. And the woman, seeing what Adam said, it was 45:17 the man, it was the serpent, excuse me. And of course who are 45:19 they blaming, God. God if you wouldn't have made this woman 45:21 for me I wouldn't have... Then God if you wouldn't have made 45:23 the serpent I wouldn't have... Right? We have to be cleansed 45:27 from these critical, not only, words but the words are 45:33 communicating the thoughts. God wants to cleanse us from this 45:37 so we can stand without fault before his throne. And he will 45:39 cleanse us from this. So as we see the story, Jesus now has the 45:44 job of working with Simon. How would he reach this Pharisee who 45:47 is professing to believe in me but he doesn't really believe in 45:50 me because his thoughts are off. How am I going help him? And so 45:54 Jesus responds and says to Simon Simon, Jesus answering him: 46:34 Now he turns to the woman. Jesus turns to the woman and he says: 47:21 Now Jesus wasn't teaching here different levels of forgiveness. 47:25 He wasn't teaching forgiveness on the basis of what 47:28 you do for him. 47:29 No, no, no. Jesus was teaching that when we are forgiven we 47:32 will be all out for him, that we will be everything for him. 47:37 Jesus is telling us, and here's the basic outline, he's telling 47:40 us that first of all believers stand behind Jesus. They don't 47:44 stand behind their own works. They don't have any merit to 47:46 stand behind. Mary stood behind Jesus. Believers stand behind 47:51 Jesus in this gospel judgment and believers number two give 47:57 everything to Christ. She poured out a year's worth of wages. She 48:00 gave all to Jesus. Can you imagine? Not only did she give 48:03 this ointment to Christ but she came into the Pharisee's house 48:07 to a house where she knew she'd be criticized and condemned. You 48:11 know sometimes I feel like new believers come into the church 48:14 who are going to be criticized and condemned, I mean they know 48:16 they're going to be criticized and condemned because of their 48:18 past life. But they come anyway. Why? Because they're there for 48:21 Jesus. When I first came to Jesus, I'm telling you, my past 48:26 I would come into church and I just felt like the whole church 48:28 was criticizing and condemning. Now they weren't but I felt that 48:30 way. I just felt that way because of my past. I thought 48:33 all these people here, they're all praising God and they're all 48:36 saints and I'm the only sinner here. I'd come in, I'd drive 48:39 into the parking lot in my '73 Chevy Camaro you know hot rod 48:43 with my girlfriend under my arm wearing my leather jacket just 48:45 fresh out of the world and as soon as I stepped into church I 48:48 was like oooh I'm not in a bar anymore am I. No I'm in a church 48:52 and people here are saints and I felt uncomfortable. That's Mary. 48:58 Mary is in a situation where she knows she's coming into the 49:02 Pharisee's house. She and Simon have a relationship, they have 49:05 history, they have past. She knows that and yet she comes. 49:08 Why does she come? She comes for Jesus. Don't go to church for 49:11 people, go to church for Jesus. Don't stop going to church 49:14 because of people because you're going there for Jesus. You're 49:18 there to worship Christ. And that's what Mary was there for. 49:21 Now she was hiding behind Jesus and she was pouring out all this 49:27 service and she was trusting Christ and his forgiveness and 49:31 his righteousness. She trusted Christ for forgiveness, she 49:34 trusted Christ for righteousness So this story is beautiful. In 49:40 fact, it's mentioned in all four of the gospels. This story is 49:43 found in every one of the four gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and 49:47 John. And it has different forms One of the forms that I really 49:51 like is found in John's gospel and in just a couple of verses 49:55 let's see I want us to look at in John's account of this story 49:58 because I think it's really powerful. John chapter 12 and 50:02 let's look here at just a couple of verses in John chapter 12 of 50:06 this same story. John 12, we are just going to look at 50:09 verses 7 and 8 of John chapter 12: 50:24 So Christ here is speaking to the Pharisee, to Simon, but he's 50:31 also speaking to his disciples because in the other accounts of 50:35 this story there are other voices of criticism. Judas for 50:39 example, is a voice of criticism Now this is a disciple of Christ 50:42 Can you imagine? Judas is a voice of criticism. And I say 50:46 can you imagine because we need to apply this to the church. 50:48 Simon is a newcomer. Judas has been following Jesus for a while 50:52 You can be in the church for a long time and still be working 50:55 against Christ when it comes to bringing in new believers who 50:59 come from a life of sin. And this is exactly what Judas did. 51:02 Judas was being critical also. He was saying stuff like well 51:06 you know what a waste. This ointment could have been sold 51:08 and the proceeds 51:11 could be given to the poor. As if he cared about the poor. 51:15 He was an embezzler. He would take money from the little 51:19 source, the little treasury for himself, to use for himself. He 51:24 didn't care about the poor. He cared about all that money that 51:27 he could have had access to and this is exactly why Jesus says 51:33 Let her alone. And I love that phrase, let her alone. Because 51:39 that's the phrase that Jesus uses as a type of the judgment 51:44 that comes to every believer. He's going to say to the accuser 51:47 of the brethren, and we'll study this again in another 51:49 presentation, he's going to say let her alone, let him alone, 51:54 let them alone. These are brands plucked from the fire. Jesus 52:00 Christ is going to vindicate us if we stand behind him in the 52:04 judgment but that leads us to a life that is poured out to Jesus 52:10 One of the most important aspects of that life is the 52:14 tongue and what we say, how we speak about others, what we say 52:19 about others. This is vital for us as believers. In Matthew 52:23 chapter 14, let's just look there, Matthew chapter 14 and 52:28 this is another account of this same story. Matthew chapter 14 52:33 and verse 8: Jesus says, Matthew 14 verse 8, actually that's the 52:43 wrong verse. It should be John 14, I mean John chapter 7 52:49 It's the same chapter that we were just looking at. John 52:53 chapter 7 or excuse me John chapter 12 and the next verse. 53:00 Okay, here we go. John 12 the next verse, verse 8: For the 53:03 poor always you have with you but me you have not always. So 53:09 Jesus here is speaking in the context of leaving Mary alone. 53:12 He's speaking about the fact that you always have the poor 53:14 but I'm not going to always be with you. And so Jesus is saying 53:19 she has done a good work on me because she's come to anoint me 53:22 before my death. The disciples were sending out the message 53:26 that Jesus wasn't going to die. There was confusion among the 53:28 disciples in relation to this. And I think that the same thing 53:32 is true today. There's a lot of confusion about Christ and the 53:36 gospel and the truth of the gospel and God wants to clarify 53:39 that truth. And he goes on to say and this is where I'm going 53:43 to turn to Matthew and it's Matthew chapter 26, I believe. 53:48 Matthew chapter 26 and we're going to look here in Matthew 53:53 chapter 26 at verse 13. Matthew 26 and verse 13. 53:58 This is the other account and this account is very similar to 54:03 the account we looked at in John's gospel. It goes on to say 54:09 this: it says, and Luke's gospel Verse 13: 54:30 What does that mean, for a memorial unto her? Well whenever 54:35 the gospel is preached this that the woman has done is going to 54:40 go with it because it's going to remind us that Christ came 54:43 into the world to save sinners of whom we are chief. That's 54:46 what Paul says in 1 Timothy chapter 1:15, 16. It's going to 54:50 remind us that the Pharisees and the disciples of Christ that 54:54 judge and criticize aren't going to stand in the way of Jesus 54:58 Christ vindicating those who come to him as sinners, who 55:00 stand behind him in the judgment, who trust in his 55:04 righteousness, who even though they have a terrible life like 55:07 Samson and Barak and Gideon who messed up again and again and 55:12 led God's people astray that as long as they put their trust in 55:15 Jesus, as they turn to him that he gives them salvation and that 55:21 is the bottom line. That is the motivation from love of Christ 55:24 of forgiving out sins and bringing us again and again to 55:27 him. He says as many as come to him I will in no wise cast out. 55:33 Coming to him again and again. The love of Christ motivates us 55:37 to live for him and that's the bottom line. So in our first 55:41 session here we talked about three basic truths in this first 55:47 hour of judgment message. Truth number one: God has an hour of 55:51 judgment so stop judging one another, Romans chapter 14: 55:58 Let us not therefore judge one another anymore. Let's just stop 56:00 it. Let's just stop judging other people. God has an hour 56:03 of judgment. He's going to take everything into consideration. 56:05 He reads the hearts. He's the only one that can read the 56:08 hearts. And that's the second takeaway. Acts chapter 15 verse 56:11 8 and there's a lot of other verses that describe that. God 56:14 knows the heart. You don't know the heart. I don't know the 56:18 heart. We don't know the hearts of other people. We don't know 56:20 what they've been through when they come. God knows the heart. 56:22 God knew the heart of those Gentile believers and even 56:25 though they weren't measuring up to the Jewish standard, God 56:29 accepted them and gifted them the Holy Spirit and worked 56:32 through them. And then finally obey the gospel, obey the gospel 56:38 There's obedience here that is called forth from the gospel of 56:43 Jesus Christ. The judgment is all about obedience and not 56:47 disobedience. The judgment calls us into an understanding of the 56:52 obedience of the gospel. Because when we think about the judgment 56:56 ahead of time, as we're doing right now, we think about giving 56:58 account for every idle word. We think that God's going to bring 57:01 into account in the judgment everything secret and not secret 57:05 good and evil. We think about that. It calls us to put a 57:09 complete trust in Jesus, to stand behind him, to stand 57:13 behind his righteousness and let go of those sins, to give him 57:17 those sins and to receive from him the power to go forward 57:21 in obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm going to talk 57:24 a little more about that in our next session but for now it's 57:29 vital for us to recognize that the hour of his judgment is 57:31 calling us to stop judging others, to stop being critical 57:34 of others, to give our heart to Christ and to know that he reads 57:38 all hearts and to put our trust in him so that we can be 57:42 obedient to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I pray that that will be 57:46 your experience. Let's pray together. 57:48 Father in heaven we thank you so much for your word. Thank you 57:50 for this hour of judgment message that calls us to put our 57:54 trust in you, to stop judging others and criticizing others 57:56 because when we do that we make it evident that we have not your 57:59 righteousness, your justification. Father help us 58:03 to be like David, like Stephen help is to be like Jesus and to 58:07 follow him wherever he goes, to stand without guile, we pray 58:10 in Jesus' name, Amen. 58:13 ♪ ♪ |
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