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Speaker 1: Romans fourteen seventeen. Dear Father, thank you for your grace

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Speaker 1: me to look beyond past troubles and find comfort in

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Speaker 1: the present moment. Remind me that your forgiveness is what

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Speaker 1: helps me to move forward and start over. Father, remind

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Speaker 1: me that peace and joy in my heart begin with

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Speaker 1: forgiving myself. If you have so graciously forgiven me, then

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Speaker 1: I will do the same so that I can move

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Speaker 1: forward on the marvelous path you have set for my life. Amen.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to to day's daily prayer. For

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Speaker 2: Hi. I'm doctor Aberdonshaw and I'm the pastor of Clear

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Speaker 2: Recharch and this is our Sermons podcast. I hope these

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Speaker 2: sermons are a blessing to you and you offend. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for listening.

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Speaker 3: Now let's hear God's work together well.

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Speaker 2: As many of you know, Andy Griffith Show is one

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Speaker 2: of my favorites I've watched each of those episodes countless times,

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Speaker 2: and Otis Campbell, the town drunk, is one of the

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Speaker 2: favorite characters. Even though he did not come on the

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Speaker 2: show as many times, he was one that people always

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Speaker 2: enjoyed look forward to it.

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Speaker 3: He would stagger.

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Speaker 2: Into Sheriff Taylor's jail and then sleep off the moonshine.

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Speaker 2: That's what he did, and he was lovable, he was funny,

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Speaker 2: but it was to no avail. If only, if only

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Speaker 3: The town I.

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Speaker 2: Grew up in, there were many such and we would

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Speaker 2: as hard as it is to believe, people would pull

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Speaker 2: Somehow they got married because you know, over there Christians

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Speaker 2: This morning is part two of our message called Influence.

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Speaker 2: We are still in our series through Romans. We are

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Speaker 2: Romans thirteen to fourteen are going there because we're looking

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Speaker 2: There's something when you're seeing the speech of God. It

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Speaker 2: For the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking,

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Speaker 2: For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable

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Speaker 3: Therefore, let us pursue.

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Speaker 2: Let us pursue the things which make for peace and

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Speaker 2: the things by which one may edify one another. Do

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Speaker 2: All things indeed are pure. Let me repeat that again,

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Speaker 2: But Paul also describes two groups in the church, and

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Speaker 2: But here's Romans chapter fourteen, verse one. Receive one who

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Speaker 2: He uses two different words in the Greek. The first

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Speaker 3: One of their points of contention was over drinking.

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Speaker 2: The strong felt like, well, listen, we're gonna drink because

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Speaker 2: First Corinthians ten twenty three, which is, all things are

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Speaker 3: Yes, I can, but it does not help me.

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Speaker 2: All things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.

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Speaker 2: it says here. It is good neither to eat meat,

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Speaker 2: is offended or is made weak. Now, in some translations

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Speaker 2: there are three, three descriptions of the weak brother, and

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Speaker 2: I think all three should be there. And they are

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Speaker 2: three different Greek words. The first one is the word proskopto.

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Speaker 2: Proscopto means to strike.

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Speaker 3: Or to beat against.

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Speaker 2: They keep striking and beating against and they can't seem

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Speaker 3: They should have.

440
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 2: Gone to Abraham and said, can we come to you? No, no, no,

441
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 2: They didn't want to leave too far away from Sodom

442
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 2: and gomor.

443
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 3: So listen to what happens here.

444
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 2: The girls Lot's daughters embark on a plan Genesis nineteen

445
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: thirty one. The first born said to the younger, our

446
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: father is old, and there is no man on the

447
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 2: earth to come into us, as is the custom of

448
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine,

449
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 2: and we will lie with him, that we may.

450
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 3: Preserve the lineage of our father.

451
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 2: So they made their father drink wine that night, and

452
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 2: the first born went in and lay.

453
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Speaker 3: With their father.

454
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 2: People often think that both Noah and lad they just

455
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 2: kind of passed out. No, they could not have done

456
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 2: what they did by passing out. They were aware, and

457
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 2: they were not aware.

458
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 3: They were aware what was happening.

459
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 2: They just did not realize in their drunken stupor that

460
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 2: that was their own child, their son. And then with

461
00:28:54,280 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 2: Lot his daughter, which means they raped him. Listen to

462
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 2: this right here, and he did not know when she

463
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 2: lay down or when she arose The next day, the

464
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: younger daughter repeated the same act with the father.

465
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 3: People have a problem with the first.

466
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Speaker 2: One, Oh no, no, that didn't happen to Noah. They

467
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 2: have no problem with the second one. Both of them

468
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 2: are the sins of the worst kind. Now in our

469
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 2: world today, there are people who get drunk, and in

470
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 2: their drunkenness, they go and abuse their children. Some of

471
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 2: the people who work in that line, you know, you

472
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 2: know you have dealt with that. I have heard, I

473
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: have seen people who have been victims of that horrible deed.

474
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 2: What is happening here in Genesis is God is giving

475
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Speaker 2: two instances.

476
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Speaker 3: That they are so awkward to talk about it? Are

477
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 3: you ready with them? Are you okay with it? Isn't

478
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 3: that awkward to even talk about this? Why do you

479
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 3: think God did that?

480
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 2: Because He wants you to know this is how terrible

481
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 2: that thing is in these situations. In both cases, it

482
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 2: is what happened to the person who was drunk, not

483
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 2: the drunk person doing it to somebody else.

484
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 3: It happened to.

485
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 2: The person who was drunk, and the person who was

486
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 2: drunk in both situations was the Father.

487
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 3: The Book of Beginnings.

488
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 2: Is therefore a reason to give you a sense of

489
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 2: wake up call that just know this is what these

490
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 2: things do. And by the way, again, I want to

491
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 2: remind you last week in sermon go back and listen

492
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 2: to it if you haven't. What we have here is

493
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 2: not the same as what is mentioned here. The concentration

494
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 2: here is much much much lower. It's negligible compared to

495
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 2: the alcoholic content of any of these things, even a beer.

496
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 2: Some may say, well, I hear what you're saying, but

497
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 2: I know when to stop. You know when I drink

498
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 2: you know, it's something like this. This is only my

499
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 2: second time opening these things and not crazy, and I

500
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 2: hope it's my last time. So some even try to

501
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: give me training on how to hold it. I'm like, no,

502
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna.

503
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 3: Let it fizz. I don't care.

504
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 2: I have no desire to make it look more appealing

505
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 2: than it is. And maybe this is appealing to you.

506
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 3: I don't know.

507
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 2: People say, you know, I can do this, I can

508
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 2: drink that and I can stop. Okay, that's great, Pastor Shaw,

509
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 2: I can drink this and not come back to it

510
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 2: for another six months. What would Paul say to someone

511
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 2: like you? He was said that, but there is someone

512
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 2: there who cannot stop there.

513
00:31:53,880 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 3: They have to keep going. They cannot stop. Remember those words,

514
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 3: those Greek words.

515
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 2: I give them for a reason, because they're weak, they're powerless,

516
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 2: they're stumbling, they're walking away from God. As I mentioned

517
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 2: to you, people drink for all kinds of reasons. They

518
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: as I'm you know, some feel being a man's man,

519
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 2: or they feel refined, or if you feel like one

520
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: of the boys, or they feel like man. I'm a

521
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 2: hard working guy. I owe this to myself. I am

522
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 2: not a drunkard. I just I just have ones in

523
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 2: a while.

524
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 3: I have a little bits. It's not that bad.

525
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 2: And yet there are people who cannot do that, and

526
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 2: there are many reasons for that.

527
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 3: Sometimes the reason is as simple as some mirror. I

528
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 3: just don't like the way I look.

529
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 2: Just to clarify, it's more women than men in that category.

530
00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 2: Most men think they are God's gift to humanity, but

531
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: there are many who say, I just don't like the

532
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 2: way I look. I just don't like the way.

533
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 3: I don't like my nose, I don't like my ears,

534
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 3: I don't like my figure.

535
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: I don't like something, and drinking temporarily helps me to forget,

536
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 2: to forget what I'm insecure about now you over here, like,

537
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 2: I don't know.

538
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 3: What their problem is.

539
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 2: They should get over that and not stop me from drinking,

540
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 2: because I can drink this, and I mean there's still

541
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 2: some left in there. I don't have to and I

542
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 2: don't know why they need to keep drinking because they

543
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 2: don't like the way they look. There are other people

544
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 2: who drink because they have a certain portrait of life.

545
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 3: Somebody gave them a portrait.

546
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 2: Maybe it was a father, maybe it's a grandfather, mother, teacher, coach,

547
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 2: someone in their life told them it's just what you

548
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: should look like. And when they look at that portrait,

549
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 2: that go, I'll never look like that, I'll never be

550
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 2: that person. How can I temporarily forget what that looks like?

551
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: What do I need to do to temporarily not have

552
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 2: to think about this?

553
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 3: Then there are people who have.

554
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 2: Something like this, a photo album of life. You know,

555
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 2: we all have this, and in that photo album we

556
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: have memories, memories of our past, memories of growing up,

557
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 2: where things were done, things were said, sometimes done and

558
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 2: said by our loved ones that hurt, they're painful. And

559
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:04,720
Speaker 2: so I'm going to have this a little bit because

560
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: when I have this, I.

561
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 3: Don't remember this.

562
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 2: The only problem is you can have this today and

563
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 2: the photo album doesn't go away.

564
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 3: It's still there.

565
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 2: Sometimes it is not what someone said or did to you.

566
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 2: Sometimes it is your own bad choices, your own bad decisions,

567
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 2: and Satan comes and whispers in your ear. By the way, recently,

568
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 2: people have told me that, how did you know I

569
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 2: was hearing that voice? That was like, because Satan is

570
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 2: constantly talking, and that voice says to you.

571
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 3: You are a horrible person. You are unlovable.

572
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: If people only knew what you are like, no one

573
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 2: will ever love you.

574
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 3: No one likes you. You know, they're nice to you

575
00:35:54,840 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 3: to your face, but no one likes you. If I

576
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 3: just have this, then I don't have to worry about

577
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 3: this for a while. You see, these are just some

578
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 3: of the reasons.

579
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 2: Sometimes it is something like the tragedies of life. You know.

580
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 3: If I drink this, then it keeps.

581
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 2: Me from crying. People have talked to me about this.

582
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: I just can't stop crying. I cry over this and

583
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 2: I cry over that, and so if I do, the

584
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 2: only problem is this does not keep you from crying.

585
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 2: The tears will keep coming. In fact, they only get worse.

586
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 2: For men, this especially true, and it is.

587
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 3: A ship, he said, What does that have to do

588
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 3: with anything like a drunken sailor.

589
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 2: No, we all feel like our ship will come in

590
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 2: one day. I don't know what I'm talking about. One day,

591
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 2: my ship will come in.

592
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 3: One day, all.

593
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 2: The things that I hope for will come in. And

594
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 2: now I'm thirty, but the ship is still not insight.

595
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 2: I'm forty, I'm fifty, I'm sixty. So I'm going to

596
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 2: turn to this. And here's the most interesting thing. When

597
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 2: you don't see your ship coming in and you turn

598
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: to this, you look for somebody else whose ship is

599
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 2: not coming in, and then you have this evil, diabolical

600
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 2: straight from the hell fellowship, because your ship didn't come in.

601
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 2: My ship didn't come in. Let's drown our sorrows together.

602
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 2: Sometimes those people are in your family, Sometimes those uncles

603
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 2: or aunts who get with their nieces and nephews.

604
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, I'm telling you. I've seen things.

605
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 2: What the Bible talking about in Genesis.

606
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 3: Those are the extremes.

607
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 2: But I've seen things that I would I'm like, wow,

608
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 2: you would do that with your own family member. It

609
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 2: means you feel like your ship hasn't come in. So

610
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 2: you're going to ruin their life and tell them that

611
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 2: they're is not coming in. You see, these are some

612
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 2: of the reasons why the weak cannot stop.

613
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 3: And you're saying, get over it.

614
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 2: Forget about the ship, or forget about the portrait or

615
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 2: the sorrow or that accident, that accident happens, so what,

616
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 2: And they're saying, no, that accident happened, and.

617
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 3: It is my fault. It is my fault. You see.

618
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 2: I hope you begin to understand. He said, where do

619
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 2: you understand all this? Where did you get all this information?

620
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 2: Of course, as a pastor, having talked to hundreds of people,

621
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 2: and my wife as well, who's a counselor, and seeing

622
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: some of the things and hearing some of the stories,

623
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 2: you begin to piece things together why people do what

624
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 2: they do.

625
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 3: And after a while it's no longer.

626
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 2: Just because I have these issues, is because I am addicted,

627
00:38:53,960 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 2: because I am an alcoholic, and now you can stop. Unfortunately,

628
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 2: none of the reasons people drink are ever truly satisfied.

629
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: In fact, there's an opposite effect that happens when people

630
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: go down this road, and the opposite effects. Wayne Grudem

631
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: talks about this in Christian Ethics he talks about this.

632
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 3: He says that there.

633
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 2: Are eleven million children in the United States under the

634
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 2: age of eighteen living with at least one alcoholic parent.

635
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 2: And I know this may be difficult for some of

636
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 2: you who had to endure that of married couples.

637
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 3: Marriage as hard as it is. Imenm in July.

638
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 2: Its okay, marriage is hard. This is some reason why

639
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 2: people turn to these things, who get into physical altercation.

640
00:39:54,360 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 2: Some sixty percent of seventy percent abuse alcohol. Roughly percent

641
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: of individuals with severe mental disorders are affected.

642
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 3: By substance abuse.

643
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: Some thirty seven percent of alcohol abusers and fifty three

644
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 2: percent of drug abusers also have at least one serious

645
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 2: mental illness. In the past couple of years, we've heard

646
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 2: a mental illness, mental ills. We all the biggest problem

647
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 2: in America's mental illness. Nobody's talking about alcohol.

648
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 3: He said, well, now this is the drugs. Listen, this

649
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 3: is the gateway.

650
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 2: This is the legalized gateway, and the rest follows. Grutam

651
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 2: gives a couple more statistics. He says, of all people

652
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 2: diagnosed as mentally ill, twenty nine percent abuse.

653
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: Of alcohol or drugs. Passa.

654
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 2: Shaw doesn't Paul doesn't. Paul tell Timothy to use a

655
00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 2: little wine for his stomach. Again, don't forget last week

656
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:05,280
Speaker 2: in sermon that wine was much diluted. You cannot compare

657
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 2: modern day alcoholic beverages to ancient biblical wine. Having said that,

658
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 2: you need to also read the studies that the results

659
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 2: are inconclusive. Why do it because the doctor said, you

660
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 2: know you can do this and help me. Most of

661
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: the time what you find out is liver disease, pneumonia,

662
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: cancer of the esophagus, internal bleeding.

663
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 3: And the list goes on.

664
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 2: My goal here is not to keep you from drinking this.

665
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 2: I could preach a great sermon, go out, get some

666
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 2: good food.

667
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 3: Go home.

668
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 2: It's because when you see the consequences and you see

669
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 2: the lies, pray for me right now, because every time

670
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 2: we're preaching this, the enemy is being exposed. He does

671
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: not like it. You see the impact the whole that

672
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 2: this thing has, and it's destroying lives. We're not even

673
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 2: talking about traffic. So I called my good friend Greg Hughes,

674
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 2: and I said, listen, help me out.

675
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 3: Because I'm not an expert.

676
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 2: On law enforcement statistics, I said, can you help me

677
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: some He said, oh absolutely. In a few hours he

678
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 2: sent me some Here are the numbers from the North

679
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 2: Carolina DMV war twenty twenty three, and we have law

680
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 2: enforcement here this morning, and they see this on a

681
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 2: regular basis. In twenty twenty three, fatal alcohol related crashes

682
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 2: in just that year, we're three hundred and forty five,

683
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 2: three hundred and forty five. And again, I don't know

684
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: individual situations. Maybe kids who will never graduate, maybe young

685
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 2: people who will never finish college, never marry, never do

686
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 2: the things they want to do. Their life was taken

687
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 2: away just in twenty twenty three in North Carolina non

688
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:59,240
Speaker 2: fatal injury crashes five four hundred property damage only crashes,

689
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 2: six thousand total alcohol related crashes, twelve thousand total injuries, eight.

690
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,720
Speaker 3: Thousand, four hundred. Sum.

691
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 2: He sent me some more figures. Here's one coming from

692
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty one MAD MAD is Mother's Against Drink

693
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 2: Drunk Driving Court Monitoring Report. The age is sixty percent

694
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 2: of defendants where ages twenty one.

695
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 3: To thirty nine.

696
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 2: Dad, we all awake here this morning, Dad's you can

697
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 2: put this down, your son, your daughter?

698
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 3: Can't? They keep going? I don't know if anything is

699
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 3: worth losing my son's life or my daughter's life.

700
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 2: How amazing it is that we justify these things knowing

701
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 2: the risks.

702
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 3: How interesting.

703
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 2: According to the report here, seventy three percent of defendants

704
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 2: were male, thirty two percent where men ages twenty one

705
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 2: to thirty nine repeat offenses, seventy eight percent first time

706
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 2: twenty two involved in multiple offenses. Blood alcohol content forty

707
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 2: five percent registered point zero eight, two point one four

708
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 2: forty eight percent registered point fifteen or higher.

709
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 3: And the numbers keep going.

710
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,959
Speaker 2: Here's another one from the National highbad Traffic Safety Administration,

711
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 2: and they found that every day about thirty four people

712
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 2: in the United States die in drunk diving crash driving crashes,

713
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 2: one person every forty two minutes. Means by the time

714
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 2: this sermons over, somebody will die somewhere. In twenty twenty two,

715
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 2: driving debts represented thirty percent of all traffic fatalities. In

716
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, twelvey four to twenty nine drunk driving

717
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 2: debts are up twenty two percent since twenty nineteen. In

718
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and estimated three hundred and sixty thousand

719
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 2: people were injured. And here's a very important stat two

720
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 2: out of three people will be impacted by drunk driving

721
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 2: in their lifetime.

722
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 3: You say that you're just trying to scare us. I

723
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 3: hope so.

724
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,720
Speaker 2: I sure hope so, because if the stats are correct,

725
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 2: some of you may not finish this year. If the

726
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 2: statistics are correct, it tells us that one in ten

727
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:57,439
Speaker 2: drinkers will become alcoholics. Imagine if I were to tell you, hey,

728
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 2: hop in my truck with me. We're gonna run to

729
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 2: a restaurant down the street and pick up some food.

730
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 2: And as you're getting in, I tell you, by the way,

731
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 2: just to let you know, one out of ten times

732
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 2: I drive, we have a fatal crash.

733
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 3: Just want to let you know that. What would you do?

734
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 2: At that point, You'd be like, WHOA hold on one second.

735
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 2: He'll get out of my truck and say, why don't

736
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 2: I meet you there? One in ten will become alcoholic

737
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 2: because it is a gateway to alcoholism. I know our

738
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 2: time is so short with fash show. Jesus made water

739
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 2: into wine.

740
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 3: How in the.

741
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,240
Speaker 2: World can you say that these things are terrible bad?

742
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 2: I get the diluting part, but Jesus turned water into wine.

743
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 2: And I've even heard preachers preach on this man. And

744
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 2: you know, Jesus was a man's man, and he enjoyed life,

745
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 2: and he laughed, and he and he had a great

746
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 2: Have you have you read John chapter two?

747
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 3: Have you read that? Maybe you need to read it.

748
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 3: I'm gonna read a couple of verses John chapter two,

749
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 3: Verse six.

750
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 2: Now there were there six water pots of stone, according

751
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 2: to the number of Say it loud if you can,

752
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 2: purification of the Jesus did not say when a time

753
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 2: came for him to turn water into wine, he did

754
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 2: not take wine jars. He took six water pots filled

755
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 2: with water for the purification. You know, during the time

756
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 2: of Jesus, many of these traditions were at an all

757
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 2: time high. These rituals were an all time high. And

758
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 2: so Jesus at this wedding celebration, wine runs out, his

759
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 2: mother comes to him, you know, all that that goes on.

760
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 2: But then when he actually decides that he will do

761
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 2: this miracle, he tells them to go ahead and top

762
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:13,399
Speaker 2: it off those six water pots, not wine jars. That's

763
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 2: a lot of water, by the way, turnd fifty gallons

764
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 2: of water turned fifty gallons. To give you an idea,

765
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 2: imagine a fish tank which is six feet long and

766
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 2: two feet wide and.

767
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 3: Two feet tall.

768
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 2: It's a lot of water, and then of course he

769
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 2: turns that water into wine. But listen to what Jesus

770
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 2: said in verse seven, filled the water pots with water,

771
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 2: and then he does the miracle, and the master of

772
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:51,919
Speaker 2: the feast comes and says to the bridegroom, every man

773
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 2: at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when

774
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 2: the guests have well drunk, then the inferior you have

775
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 2: kept the That does not mean it is more alcoholic.

776
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 2: It just means this tastes so much better. Typically, you

777
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 2: will give the better one first, and then as their

778
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 2: people are buzzed, because the weddings will last like a

779
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 2: week or so, then he would bring the inferior.

780
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 3: You are bringing the better one.

781
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 2: Now did y'all get that you are bringing the better wine? Now,

782
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 2: when you read it in the context, what did John

783
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 2: the Baptist say? He says, something better is coming. I

784
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 2: can't even touch his sandal strap. Something better is coming.

785
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 3: You've had all these purification customs and laws and traditions.

786
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 3: Something better. And who is the something better? It's Jesus.

787
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 2: And then it says here in John chapter two and

788
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 2: verse eleven, this beginning of what we all sound like

789
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 2: a bunch of snakes, signs, this beginning of signs. You know,

790
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 2: when our team went for like a couple of days

791
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 2: to the beach, he was a rapid trip to the

792
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,959
Speaker 2: beach and rapid back. He saw he saw a sign

793
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 2: to Atlantic Beach, big old sign to Atlantic Beach. Now

794
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 2: what if I had said, hey, guys, fall over, we

795
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 2: are at Atlantic Beach, and I would have told him,

796
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 2: you know, come, let's get out here right at the

797
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 2: exit ramp and let's sit right here.

798
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 3: Guys. Hey boy, don't you enjoy the water? Look at

799
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 3: the water, play with the sand. Well there's no sand here,

800
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 3: just broken glass.

801
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 2: And and and you know, trash and whatever. No, no, no,

802
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 2: we are at Atlantic Beach. Read the sign to Atlantic Beach.

803
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 2: To Atlantic Beach.

804
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 3: He said, no, that's just a sign.

805
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 2: When Jesus turned water into wine, it was a sign,

806
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,479
Speaker 2: sign of what, sign of who he was.

807
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 3: That now he has.

808
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 2: Come, Now the real party can begin. What we've done

809
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 2: is we said, Oh, I love the sign. Though right

810
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 2: here it says Jesus turned water into wine.

811
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 3: This beginning of science.

812
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 2: The passage is about Jesus being the good wine who

813
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 2: brings true joy and celebration. Everything prior to him was inferior.

814
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,760
Speaker 2: When Jesus comes into your life, then the real wedding

815
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 2: feast begin. He is the bridegroom. How interesting We just

816
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 2: forgot the reason and we stopped at the sign. You know,

817
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 2: there is even a deeper reason. The reason is Christ.

818
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 2: When he comes into your life, he begins to fill

819
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 2: you with true joy and peace. And not only does

820
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:07,800
Speaker 2: Jesus come into your life, but the Holy Spirit also

821
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 2: comes into your life.

822
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 3: Now life is to be lived full of the spirit.

823
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 2: What does Ephesians say, Do not be drunk with wine,

824
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 2: which is which is debauchery, which is dissipation, but be

825
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:24,760
Speaker 2: filled with the spirit.

826
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 3: We forgot that.

827
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 2: We just said, just don't get drunk with wine. How interesting,

828
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 2: isn't it. We just took the first part of it,

829
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 2: and he said, forget the second one. Just don't get drunk.

830
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,720
Speaker 2: Jesus said, here's I'm turning. I'm turning water into wine.

831
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 2: Now come to me when you drink upon me. I

832
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 2: am the living water. I am the water of life.

833
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 2: Remember he said that to the Samaritan woman, you come

834
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 2: here to drink, get this water, But the water I

835
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 2: will give you will.

836
00:52:56,560 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 3: Burst forth as rivers of living water. Forget about that.

837
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 3: We're just talking about Jesus having a drinking party.

838
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 2: Carl Jung, if you know anything about analytical philosophy, Carl

839
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:18,479
Speaker 2: Jung was a psychologist, a brilliant man, but he didn't

840
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 2: believe in Jesus Christ.

841
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 3: Of course, he.

842
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 2: Didn't claim to be an atheist, but he was not

843
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 2: really a Christian. There's a story about a man named

844
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 2: Roland h And this appears and pass it On, which

845
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 2: is a publication of Alcoholic Anonymous, and some.

846
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 3: Of you may have read it.

847
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 2: But a Roland age came from a very wealthy family,

848
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 2: but he had a drinking problem. And he went to

849
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,839
Speaker 2: Jung all the way up in Switzerland and said, can

850
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 2: you please help me? And Jung said, okay, I'll definitely can.

851
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to help

852
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 2: you and guide you. And he did that for a

853
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 2: whole year and it seemed like the man was cured,

854
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 2: and so he left. And the moment he left, this

855
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:09,919
Speaker 2: man Roland started drinking again, and so he reached back

856
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 2: to Young and he said, look, I'm drinking again. Can

857
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 2: you help me? And Jung said, look, I really try

858
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 2: to help you the last time. I don't think I

859
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 2: can help you and Jung told him that the only

860
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 2: thing that would help him would be a spiritual awakening.

861
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, Young was not a Christian. Jung did

862
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 2: not believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God.

863
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 2: And yet he is telling this man, you need a

864
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 2: spiritual awakening. And Roland replied that he believed in God

865
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,919
Speaker 2: and that he just needed, you know, just some help

866
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 2: with his drinking. No, Jung said, you need more than

867
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 2: just some casual belief. Some of you believe in God,

868
00:54:54,480 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 2: but it's just casual, Jung told him, and I'm paraphrasing,

869
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 2: he said, you need to make a rock solid commitment

870
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 2: in your faith to Christ. In the end, Roland came

871
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 2: to faith in Christ and he was set free, which

872
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 2: means even a non Christian psychologist known.

873
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:21,720
Speaker 3: For a view which took a very different route.

874
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 2: If you know anything about his psychosists and all that

875
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:31,240
Speaker 2: believe that you and I are spiritual beings, did.

876
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 3: You know that's why they call these spirits.

877
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 2: These things are substitute for what only the Holy Spirit

878
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 2: can do for you and me. As believers, we are

879
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 2: to be filled with the Holy Spirit of God. When

880
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:59,399
Speaker 2: you are filled with these things, they only temporarily take

881
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 2: the edge off off, relax you, make you a fun person,

882
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 2: make you someone that people love.

883
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 3: When He fills you.

884
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 2: In those moments when the enemy tells you, when you

885
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 2: hear that voice that says you cannot be loved, the

886
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit reminds you nothing can separate you from the

887
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:29,760
Speaker 2: love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

888
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 2: So now when I feel unloved, I just need to

889
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 2: have a little bit of this.

890
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 3: And I feel good.

891
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 2: When that voice tells you, and it's a real voice,

892
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 2: a voice says to you, you will never reach your

893
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:49,760
Speaker 2: ideal portrait.

894
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 3: You have a portrait of life. The Holy Spirit.

895
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:53,959
Speaker 2: Reminds you that he who has begun a good work

896
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 2: in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

897
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 2: When that voice says your ship has not come in

898
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 2: and will not come in, the Holy Spirit reminds you

899
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 2: that you are already seated in the heavenly places in

900
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. When that voice reminds you of all the

901
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 2: bad and painful memories, by the way, those memories come,

902
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 2: and sometimes they come in the middle of the night

903
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 2: and they wake you up. And sometimes people go, I

904
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 2: just need to get just a quick drink, just to

905
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 2: put me to sleep. In those moments, the Holy Spirit

906
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 2: reminds you that you died and your life is hidden

907
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 2: with Christ in God. Folks, what you and I are

908
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 2: doing when we turn to these things instead of turning

909
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 2: to the Holy Spirit to fill us. And by the way,

910
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 2: this cup does not leak, but we leak.

911
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 3: Daily.

912
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 2: You and I leak and daily we need to be

913
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 2: filled with the Holy Spirit of God, which means every

914
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 2: moment when that voice comes, when that accuser comes to

915
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 2: you and says, this is who you are, pick up

916
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 2: that mirror, pick up that portrait, pick up that album

917
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 2: you are to remind yourself that you are in Christ,

918
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 2: and the Holy Spirit intercedes for you with groanings that

919
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 2: cannot be uttered. You know, I don't know what that

920
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 2: man's problem was. Our hometown are community drunk?

921
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 3: I don't know. I never talked to him.

922
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 2: I always, as a little boy, just would go around him,

923
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 2: and every time I saw him he was sober. But

924
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 2: something in his life kept him going back to those

925
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 2: things until his wife, you know, she saw that there

926
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 2: is something real in Christianity and not to look at

927
00:58:57,440 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 2: her husband. Some of there are people here who have

928
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 2: I've had loved ones in their lives, who claim to

929
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 2: be all Christian and sang and danced in church in

930
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 2: front of everybody, and yet they lived a life that

931
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Speaker 2: was in slavery.

932
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 3: To these things, I do want to tell you.

933
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 2: That there is there is the real life where people

934
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 2: are truly filled with the Holy Spirit of God, when

935
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:21,479
Speaker 2: they truly have the joy of Jesus Christ. Don't let

936
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 2: one hypocrite keep you from trying the real deal. I

937
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 2: don't know where you are this morning. If you've never

938
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 2: given your heart to Jesus Christ. Don't let one hypocrite,

939
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 2: one father who Sunday morning acted one way and then

940
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 2: Saturday night was something else. Don't let one person, one aunt,

941
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 2: one uncle, want somebody, one deacon, one Sunday school teacher

942
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 2: keep you from having what God has for us, which

943
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 2: is the Holy Spirit of God.

944
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Speaker 3: This morning, we're gonna pray.

945
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 2: If this is your vice, If this message was hard

946
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 2: to listen to, God can set you free.

947
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 3: Now.

948
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 2: Sometimes that freedom is just like that immediate. Sometimes it's

949
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 2: a program. Sometimes it's a fellowship of believers that helps

950
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 2: you and encourages you to get over this addiction. But

951
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 2: whatever it is, don't walk out the same way you

952
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 2: walked in the Enemy does not have anything good for you.

953
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 2: What many of us are doing is I want a

954
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 2: little bit of Jesus and a little bit of the Enemy.

955
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 2: I'm good with that. I need Jesus to get me

956
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 2: into Heaven. I need the Enemy to get me through life.

957
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 3: And he says, here's a can, here's a bottle. Choose Jesus,

958
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 3: Choose the Holy Spirit. Be filled with the Holy Spirit.

959
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: You will be like God.

960
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 2: Human unity.

961
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 3: God was severed and through it all God's promise remain true.

962
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: Follow me.

963
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 3: And I would make a great This is the Chosen People.

964
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965
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