WEBVTT - Billy Lambert - Oct 19 - 10:00 am 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.140 This is Getting to Know Your Bible, a program dedicated 0:00:15.180 --> 0:00:17.849 to the proclaiming of the good news of Jesus Christ. 0:00:23.670 --> 0:00:24.810 Here's Billy Lambert. 0:00:25.570 --> 0:00:26.770 Hello, I'm Billy Lambert. 0:00:27.010 --> 0:00:30.480 I am the regular speaker on Getting to Know Your Bible. 0:00:31.770 --> 0:00:33.800 And I want to welcome you today. This may be 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.160 the very first time that you have seen this telecast. 0:00:38.300 --> 0:00:40.379 I want you to know that the thing that we 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.080 emphasize on getting to know your Bible is the Word 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.989 of God. The Bible is the greatest book that has 0:00:47.130 --> 0:00:51.090 ever been written. Many years ago, there were those that 0:00:51.409 --> 0:00:54.190 wrote books that thought they would replace the Bible. 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Box 314, Somerdale, Alabama, 36580. 0:02:06.530 --> 0:02:07.660 Or call toll-free 1-877-711-5214. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.440 I want to read today from the book of Hebrews. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.130 I want to read from the second chapter of Hebrews, 0:02:30.970 --> 0:02:33.470 verse 1 through verse 4, and I'm going to be 0:02:33.550 --> 0:02:37.950 reading from the New King James Version. Therefore we must 0:02:38.010 --> 0:02:41.690 give the more earnest heed to the things which we 0:02:41.730 --> 0:02:45.270 have heard lest we drift away. For if the word 0:02:45.310 --> 0:02:50.739 spoken through angels proves steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:56.359 received a just reward, How shall we escape if we 0:02:56.419 --> 0:03:00.560 neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:04.370 to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:09.269 us by those who heard Him? God also bearing witness 0:03:09.330 --> 0:03:13.590 both with signs and wonders of various miracles and gifts 0:03:13.669 --> 0:03:19.440 of the Holy Spirit according to His own will. I 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.700 want you to notice the question. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.250 Of verse 3. 0:03:23.250 --> 0:03:31.250 How shall we escape? There are some things in life 0:03:31.350 --> 0:03:36.620 that we can avoid. You can go around these things. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:41.080 You can detour around these things. You can avoid these things. 0:03:42.940 --> 0:03:48.200 But there are just some things in life that are unavoidable. 0:03:49.420 --> 0:03:56.460 There's absolutely no way To escape them. The question of 0:03:56.500 --> 0:04:01.220 the writer here in Hebrews is how shall we escape? 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.000 And let me mention some things today from which there 0:04:06.190 --> 0:04:11.070 is no escape. People are still trying to escape these things, 0:04:11.150 --> 0:04:14.529 but they will never be able to do so. You 0:04:14.570 --> 0:04:24.700 cannot escape having personal responsibility. God made us creatures. that 0:04:24.940 --> 0:04:30.400 are to be responsible for our conduct in our lives. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.210 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 10 says we must 0:04:34.570 --> 0:04:39.610 all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that we 0:04:39.690 --> 0:04:44.310 are going to answer one day, and that answerability cares 0:04:44.380 --> 0:04:50.420 with it responsibility. You see, I'm not a machine that's 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.470 been turned loose in the world. I am a creature 0:04:55.410 --> 0:04:59.920 made in the image of God, a human being made 0:05:00.010 --> 0:05:04.020 by God. And I'm going to answer to God for 0:05:04.060 --> 0:05:08.640 the life that I've lived. And so I have personal responsibility. 0:05:09.540 --> 0:05:12.380 It seems as though in our modern society that many 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:18.029 people want to escape responsibility. They would like to blame 0:05:18.290 --> 0:05:21.589 their conduct on other people. 0:05:22.550 --> 0:05:23.490 There's so much. 0:05:23.550 --> 0:05:28.169 Finger pointing going on today. It's not my fault, it's 0:05:28.630 --> 0:05:31.970 their fault. But there are some things for which we 0:05:32.010 --> 0:05:39.720 are all personally responsible. Parents have personal responsibility in the 0:05:39.820 --> 0:05:44.500 rearing of their children. You cannot point the finger anywhere else. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:46.719 You have that responsibility. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:51.980 In Ephesians, the sixth chapter, Paul wrote, beginning in verse one, children, 0:05:52.930 --> 0:05:56.210 Obey your parents and the Lord, for this is right. 0:05:56.970 --> 0:05:59.910 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment 0:05:59.930 --> 0:06:03.030 with promise, that it may be well with thee, and 0:06:03.810 --> 0:06:06.370 that thou mayest live long on the earth. And your fathers, 0:06:06.410 --> 0:06:09.810 provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up 0:06:09.930 --> 0:06:12.990 in the nurture and in the admonition. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:13.560 Of the Lord. 0:06:14.300 --> 0:06:20.920 Parents, fathers, and mothers have personal responsibility in the rearing 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.700 of their children. And you cannot give that responsibility to 0:06:24.900 --> 0:06:30.080 anyone else. You cannot give that responsibility to the school 0:06:31.060 --> 0:06:35.130 that your children may attend. You cannot give that responsibility 0:06:35.230 --> 0:06:40.029 to the church. You cannot give that responsibility to the state. 0:06:40.890 --> 0:06:45.330 You cannot give it to the federal government. You are 0:06:45.390 --> 0:06:49.960 responsible for bringing those children up in the nurture and 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.159 admonition of the Lord. Proverbs 22 and 6 says, Train 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.300 up a child, and the way should go. And when 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.990 he is old, he will not depart from it. Parents 0:07:01.029 --> 0:07:07.669 have that responsibility. And also, we are responsible for obedience 0:07:07.710 --> 0:07:10.950 to the gospel of Christ. I have a personal responsibility. 0:07:11.810 --> 0:07:12.830 In order to obey the. 0:07:12.790 --> 0:07:16.080 Gospel, one must believe the gospel, that is, believe in 0:07:16.700 --> 0:07:20.380 Jesus Christ, and believe that He lived, that He died, 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:24.090 He was raised from the dead, And we not only 0:07:24.130 --> 0:07:27.690 must believe in Christ, we must be willing to repent 0:07:27.730 --> 0:07:32.330 of our sins. Acts chapter 2 and verse 38 says, Repent. 0:07:32.010 --> 0:07:34.110 And be baptized, every one of you. 0:07:34.830 --> 0:07:37.989 People cannot be saved unless they are willing to repent 0:07:38.010 --> 0:07:41.500 of their sins. And that to be saved by the gospel, 0:07:41.540 --> 0:07:44.500 obedience to the gospel, I must confess that I believe 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.100 in Jesus Christ. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:47.860 In Acts 8 chapter. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.440 There was a man who asked, Here is water, what 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.620 hinders me from being baptized? And he was told, If 0:07:53.660 --> 0:07:56.250 thou believest all thine heart, thou mayest. He said, I 0:07:56.290 --> 0:08:01.430 believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Have 0:08:01.470 --> 0:08:04.710 you made that confession? And in order to be saved, 0:08:05.370 --> 0:08:11.030 one must be baptized into Christ. Galatians 3 verse 27 reads, 0:08:11.070 --> 0:08:13.870 For as many of you as have been baptized into 0:08:13.930 --> 0:08:18.610 Christ did put on Christ. You cannot put Christ on 0:08:19.210 --> 0:08:23.570 unless you're baptized into him. For it is in baptism 0:08:23.610 --> 0:08:27.570 that we put on Jesus Christ. And no one can 0:08:27.630 --> 0:08:31.090 do that for you. No one can believe for you. 0:08:31.830 --> 0:08:35.370 No one can repent for you. No one can confess 0:08:35.429 --> 0:08:38.580 faith in Christ on your behalf. And no one can 0:08:38.620 --> 0:08:44.500 be baptized for you. That's a personal responsibility. And then 0:08:44.540 --> 0:08:50.000 we are all responsible for our conduct. Day by day conduct. 0:08:50.740 --> 0:08:53.940 There are those that want to blame their conduct on society. 0:08:54.500 --> 0:08:57.340 They want to blame their conduct on things that have 0:08:57.380 --> 0:09:00.739 happened in years gone by. They want to blame their 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:06.760 conduct on other people. And that's known as passing the buck. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.970 People have been blaming their conduct on others since the 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.429 beginning of time. It was in the beginning of time 0:09:14.970 --> 0:09:18.230 that God came to Adam and asked Adam why he 0:09:18.270 --> 0:09:20.699 had sinned. In other words, Why have you done what 0:09:20.740 --> 0:09:22.960 you do? He said, it's the woman that you gave me, Lord. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.800 And the woman said it was a serpent. They wanted 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:31.569 to blame their conduct on someone else. People are prone 0:09:31.660 --> 0:09:35.290 to do that. Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the 0:09:35.330 --> 0:09:39.110 Ten Commandments. And while he was up on Mount Sinai 0:09:39.290 --> 0:09:41.730 receiving the Ten Commandments, the people were at the base 0:09:41.770 --> 0:09:45.150 of the mountain breaking some of them. And they even 0:09:45.370 --> 0:09:48.510 asked Aaron to make them a calf of gold. And 0:09:48.570 --> 0:09:52.380 so when Moses came down off of the mountain, Aaron 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.660 tried to blame it on the people. He said the 0:09:55.740 --> 0:09:59.069 people wanted it. I did it because the people wanted it. 0:09:59.450 --> 0:09:59.989 Why did he? 0:10:00.050 --> 0:10:06.470 Not accept personal responsibility and if there's anything that needs 0:10:06.530 --> 0:10:11.480 to be corrected in our world and especially in America 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:18.460 is people need to start assuming responsibility for what they 0:10:18.500 --> 0:10:25.410 do for their lives. I read a little story once 0:10:25.510 --> 0:10:32.310 about a sign at a Manila depot. And the sign read, 0:10:32.390 --> 0:10:38.640 the superintendent of the Manila depot is responsible. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.420 For everything that happens and everything. 0:10:40.980 --> 0:10:47.080 That doesn't happen at the Manila railroad depot. Well, that's 0:10:47.140 --> 0:10:51.679 accepting responsibility. And I wish that I could impress upon 0:10:51.740 --> 0:11:00.040 you how important it is to assume personal responsibility. No 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.160 one can assume responsibility for your worshiping God. I can't 0:11:04.220 --> 0:11:07.400 worship for you. I can't sing for you. I can't 0:11:07.460 --> 0:11:11.060 give for you. I can't do anything for you as 0:11:11.140 --> 0:11:15.640 it relates to worship. That's a responsibility that you have 0:11:16.340 --> 0:11:20.069 as an individual. God is to be worshipped. Revelation 22, 0:11:20.070 --> 0:11:20.900 9 just says. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:21.760 Worship God. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.540 And we are to worship Him in a specified way, 0:11:26.260 --> 0:11:29.699 in spirit and in truth, John 4, 24. 0:11:29.700 --> 0:11:33.099 And no one can do that for you. 0:11:33.700 --> 0:11:35.959 So there's at least one thing in life of which 0:11:36.020 --> 0:11:42.819 there is no escape. There is no escaping personal responsibility. 0:11:44.210 --> 0:11:49.079 But then we cannot escape the all-seeing eye of God. 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:55.840 Genesis chapter 16 and verse 13 reads, Thou, God, seest me. 0:11:57.220 --> 0:12:00.150 And that's not all bad, is it? Now, if you're 0:12:00.190 --> 0:12:03.510 living the right kind of a life, and you're living 0:12:03.590 --> 0:12:07.250 in a right relationship with God, it ought to be 0:12:07.290 --> 0:12:12.449 a comfort to know that God sees you every day, 24-7, 0:12:14.260 --> 0:12:17.130 He knows what's going on in your life. He knows 0:12:17.190 --> 0:12:20.530 the needs that you have in your life. He knows when. 0:12:20.410 --> 0:12:25.150 You need picking up and when you need encouragement. Thou, God, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.520 seest me. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.080 But not only does he see the good, he sees 0:12:32.700 --> 0:12:37.100 that which is not good. And so God is aware 0:12:37.140 --> 0:12:40.430 of everything that goes on in our life. And there 0:12:40.570 --> 0:12:46.830 is no escaping God. The all-seeing eye of God. The 0:12:47.090 --> 0:12:50.830 eyes of the Lord, we're told in Proverbs 15 and 3, 0:12:50.830 --> 0:12:55.780 are in every place beholding the evil and the good. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.520 Jonah found out that you cannot run away from the 0:13:00.700 --> 0:13:04.180 all-seeing eye of God. God told Jonah to go to 0:13:04.260 --> 0:13:08.750 Nineveh and to proclaim against it and to say, Yet 0:13:08.790 --> 0:13:11.410 forty days in the city of Nineveh shall be overthrown. 0:13:12.210 --> 0:13:16.270 But Jonah decided to go in the opposite direction. You see, 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.100 he thought that he could run away from God. And 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.840 he went down into the sides of a ship, down 0:13:21.900 --> 0:13:24.120 into the ocean, and down into the belly of a whale. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.679 And when you start trying to escape the all-seeing eye 0:13:27.700 --> 0:13:32.230 of God, it's going to take you down, down, down. 0:13:32.950 --> 0:13:39.589 There's just no escaping the eye of God Almighty. But 0:13:39.670 --> 0:13:43.390 another thing that you cannot escape in life is having 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:48.880 influence on other people. In Matthew chapter 5, beginning in 0:13:48.900 --> 0:13:51.780 verse 13, Jesus said, You're the salt of the earth. 0:13:52.780 --> 0:13:54.860 But if the salt hath lost its savor, it is 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.160 thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and 0:13:58.260 --> 0:14:01.579 trodden under the foot of men. And then Jesus said, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.349 You're the light of the world. A city that is 0:14:03.370 --> 0:14:06.030 sown on a hill cannot be hid, and neither do 0:14:06.050 --> 0:14:08.210 men light a candle and put it under a bushel, 0:14:08.230 --> 0:14:11.150 but on a candlestick. And there it gives light to 0:14:11.309 --> 0:14:15.160 all the house. And then Jesus said, Let your light 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.420 so shine before men that they may see your good 0:14:19.460 --> 0:14:23.720 works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. So 0:14:23.780 --> 0:14:28.010 when we realize that we are lights in the world 0:14:28.090 --> 0:14:30.910 and we're salt of the earth, we're going to have 0:14:30.930 --> 0:14:33.990 a good influence on other people and you cannot escape that. 0:14:34.770 --> 0:14:37.230 I remember when I first began to preach the gospel. 0:14:38.070 --> 0:14:40.270 I'd just gotten out of school, been in school for 0:14:40.290 --> 0:14:44.000 about four years, and now I'm in my early 20s, 0:14:44.090 --> 0:14:47.570 I'm out preaching the gospel. And there was a man 0:14:47.610 --> 0:14:49.390 who came to me one day and he said, I 0:14:49.410 --> 0:14:53.950 want you to know that you'd better not do anything wrong. 0:14:55.230 --> 0:14:59.560 You'd better watch your every move, your every step, because 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:04.020 my teenage daughter thinks everything you do is right. And 0:15:04.060 --> 0:15:07.500 that was just like a burden that was put upon 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.780 my shoulders. You see, I had never realized the tremendous 0:15:11.860 --> 0:15:16.120 responsibility that I had to set a good example before 0:15:16.140 --> 0:15:16.600 other people. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.860 But all of us ought to do that. 0:15:18.860 --> 0:15:21.590 1 Timothy 4 and 12 says, Be thou an example 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.489 of the believers. And then he tells us in what 0:15:24.670 --> 0:15:26.570 areas of our lives that we ought to be good 0:15:26.630 --> 0:15:29.770 examples to the believers. And to put it plainly, we 0:15:29.810 --> 0:15:31.810 ought to be a good example in everything that we 0:15:31.850 --> 0:15:38.170 do in life. You see, someone is following after you, 0:15:39.550 --> 0:15:42.150 and you have an influence on their lives, and they're 0:15:42.230 --> 0:15:47.430 following your example. An example is a pattern. An example 0:15:47.500 --> 0:15:51.660 is a pattern to be imitated, and we need to 0:15:51.700 --> 0:15:55.800 be sure that the example that we set before others 0:15:56.060 --> 0:16:00.540 is a good one. On a little girl's tombstone were 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:05.400 these words, It was easier to be good when she 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.980 was with us. It would not be a good thing 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.200 to be said about all people. It'd be nice to 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.600 be able to say that about all people. But you 0:16:12.620 --> 0:16:14.800 can't say that about all people. It's easier to be 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.960 good when they were with us. That simply meant that 0:16:18.180 --> 0:16:21.610 her influence was of such nature that it was so 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.110 much easier to live a good life because of the 0:16:24.350 --> 0:16:27.710 influence that she had on other people. I've been around 0:16:27.750 --> 0:16:30.640 people like that, haven't you? that it made it so 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.060 much easier to be good and to live a good 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:38.520 life because of the light in their life, their influence. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.520 And you're not going to escape it. You're not going 0:16:41.570 --> 0:16:44.510 to escape having influence as a father and as a mother. 0:16:45.110 --> 0:16:48.270 I wish I could impress every father, every mother watching 0:16:48.310 --> 0:16:53.120 this telecast right now how important it is to set 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.680 a good example before your children and the time to 0:16:57.740 --> 0:16:58.100 do it. 0:16:59.130 --> 0:17:00.710 Is not later but now. 0:17:01.750 --> 0:17:06.420 If you have ever had the opportunity to pour a 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.379 sidewalk at your home or maybe something else that was 0:17:09.420 --> 0:17:13.760 made of concrete, maybe you made a patio out of 0:17:13.820 --> 0:17:16.659 concrete and you had the men to come out with 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.060 a truck and they poured out the concrete and it 0:17:19.100 --> 0:17:23.700 was all smoothed down and before it dried, maybe you 0:17:23.740 --> 0:17:28.419 got down and you wrote with your finger or something else, maybe. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.900 A stick, the date that this was poured. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.980 And it was easy to put that date in that 0:17:35.070 --> 0:17:38.430 concrete because you see it was still green. 0:17:39.130 --> 0:17:40.330 It was still soft. 0:17:40.950 --> 0:17:43.490 But you come back in 24 hours and you try 0:17:43.530 --> 0:17:46.350 to do that. And you will not be able to 0:17:47.190 --> 0:17:50.170 put a date on it because it will have hardened. 0:17:50.890 --> 0:17:55.070 And when children are small, their hearts are pliable. Their 0:17:55.109 --> 0:18:00.020 hearts are tender. Their hearts are impressionable. And that's the 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:05.240 time for us to set before them a good example 0:18:05.660 --> 0:18:10.330 to follow in their lives. Because as they get older, 0:18:10.930 --> 0:18:15.210 it becomes more difficult to make an impression upon them. 0:18:15.730 --> 0:18:20.870 Because they're beginning to develop their own personalities. They're beginning 0:18:20.930 --> 0:18:25.050 to feel independent. And whatever we say and whatever we 0:18:25.090 --> 0:18:28.929 try to do does not have the same effect on 0:18:28.990 --> 0:18:33.480 them as it did when they were young. And as 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.280 a parent, you're not going to escape the influence that 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.620 you have on your children. And the fact is, the 0:18:40.700 --> 0:18:45.000 fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. Your children are 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:50.699 going to be just like you. They're going to follow 0:18:51.609 --> 0:18:56.320 in your footsteps, your example. So no, you do not 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:01.360 escape personal responsibility. You cannot escape the all-seeing eye of God, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:07.470 and neither can you escape having influence on other people. 0:19:08.730 --> 0:19:11.270 But there's yet something else that you cannot escape, and 0:19:11.290 --> 0:19:16.170 that's the consequences of sin. Oh, now, if you could 0:19:16.210 --> 0:19:22.980 escape the consequences of sin, well, that would make headlines. 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.700 In the newspaper. But you cannot. 0:19:25.619 --> 0:19:29.140 You see, there's a consequence to every action in life. 0:19:29.980 --> 0:19:32.210 And when we do things that are in violation of 0:19:32.250 --> 0:19:34.130 the will of God, there's a consequence. 0:19:34.609 --> 0:19:36.649 For instance, if I were. 0:19:36.550 --> 0:19:39.889 To try to violate God's law of gravity, that's a 0:19:39.970 --> 0:19:40.750 natural law. 0:19:41.369 --> 0:19:42.550 There's a consequence. 0:19:43.290 --> 0:19:47.710 Suppose that I go to some mountain and there's a 0:19:47.869 --> 0:19:51.260 precipice on top of that mountain that you can look 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.420 straight down and suppose I were to say, you know, 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.100 I think if I were to jump off the top 0:19:56.140 --> 0:19:59.240 of this mountain, I have so much faith in God, 0:19:59.300 --> 0:20:01.600 I believe God will save me and I'm going to 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:06.980 defy God's law of gravity. Well, there'd be a consequence 0:20:07.020 --> 0:20:10.450 to such foolish action. because I would kill myself if 0:20:10.550 --> 0:20:10.850 I were. 0:20:10.750 --> 0:20:11.250 To do that. 0:20:11.869 --> 0:20:14.990 You see, you cannot violate a law of God, whether 0:20:15.030 --> 0:20:19.060 in the natural realm or the spiritual realm, without a 0:20:19.230 --> 0:20:24.439 penalty being involved, without a consequence. In Galatians, the sixth chapter, 0:20:24.500 --> 0:20:27.800 verses seven and eight, the Bible says, be not deceived, 0:20:27.859 --> 0:20:32.040 God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:32.720 He also reap. 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.260 He that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:38.490 reap corruption. He that soweth to the Spirit shall of 0:20:38.510 --> 0:20:44.889 the Spirit reap life everlasting. We reap what we sow. 0:20:45.950 --> 0:20:50.790 You cannot sow one kind of seed and expect to 0:20:50.869 --> 0:20:55.350 reap something else. You can't sow a bad seed and 0:20:55.390 --> 0:20:59.020 then have a good harvest. You sow a bad seed, 0:20:59.580 --> 0:21:02.480 you're going to have a bad harvest. And you sow 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.480 to the flesh, you're going to reap corruptions. 0:21:07.510 --> 0:21:08.310 Well, we need to be. 0:21:08.270 --> 0:21:11.360 Sowing to the Spirit. And we sow to the Spirit 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:13.419 as we follow the teachings that have been. 0:21:13.460 --> 0:21:14.960 Inspired by the Spirit. 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.880 Doing those things that help us to live a good 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:22.679 life now and be in eternity with God in the 0:21:22.780 --> 0:21:27.369 after a while. So what are you sowing today? If 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:31.750 you're sowing to the flesh, and if you're sowing bad seed, 0:21:32.510 --> 0:21:36.869 there's going to be a consequence to your life. 0:21:38.490 --> 0:21:40.909 And for example, you're going to reap what you sow. 0:21:41.690 --> 0:21:43.530 And you're going to reap more than you sow. 0:21:44.050 --> 0:21:46.149 Why a farmer wouldn't go out in the field and 0:21:46.190 --> 0:21:49.310 plow up a field and then plant one seed in 0:21:49.390 --> 0:21:52.560 hopes of just getting one seed back. When he plants 0:21:52.730 --> 0:21:57.260 one seed, he hopes to get back many other seed 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:03.780 of like kind. Because fruit reproduces after its kind. And 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.250 he wants many seed from that one seed. And from 0:22:07.570 --> 0:22:12.010 one bad seed that you sow in life, there will 0:22:12.050 --> 0:22:15.989 be many of the like kind that's going to be 0:22:16.230 --> 0:22:20.020 reaped in your life. Sometimes people wonder, why is all 0:22:20.060 --> 0:22:23.619 this happening to me? Maybe it's because you're not sowing 0:22:24.220 --> 0:22:27.780 the right kind of seed. You see, you cannot break 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:32.770 the laws of the land without there being a consequence 0:22:33.390 --> 0:22:36.670 to your breaking the law of the land. Be sure 0:22:36.730 --> 0:22:40.190 your sin is going to find you out. Your sin 0:22:40.210 --> 0:22:42.730 will find you out in the execution of human laws. 0:22:43.350 --> 0:22:46.340 Your sin is going to find you out in your body. 0:22:46.820 --> 0:22:50.120 You violate the law of good health and you're going 0:22:50.140 --> 0:22:53.040 to pay a price for it. You see, you're not 0:22:53.100 --> 0:22:58.050 going to be able to escape the consequences of sin. 0:22:58.330 --> 0:22:59.950 And let me tell you the end result of a 0:22:59.990 --> 0:23:02.929 life of sin. Listen to Romans 6 and verse 23. 0:23:02.910 --> 0:23:03.490 For the wages. 0:23:06.430 --> 0:23:11.879 of sin is death. That's not physical death, that's eternal death. 0:23:12.490 --> 0:23:15.600 Physical death is the separation of the soul from the body. 0:23:16.460 --> 0:23:19.580 Spiritual death is the separation of the soul from God. 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:24.080 And when we sow to the Spirit, when we live 0:23:24.180 --> 0:23:28.929 a life of sin, you're not going to escape the consequences. 0:23:29.330 --> 0:23:33.540 That's the reason we have hope in Christ. And by 0:23:33.580 --> 0:23:37.000 giving our lives to Jesus Christ through obedience to His gospel, 0:23:37.700 --> 0:23:40.379 by believing in Him and repenting of our sins and 0:23:40.420 --> 0:23:44.220 confessing faith in Him and being baptized into Him, we 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:49.810 have hope of life eternal because our sins have been 0:23:49.869 --> 0:23:52.970 forgiven in His blood. But if we're living a life 0:23:53.050 --> 0:23:57.230 of sin, refusing to repent of our sins, refusing to 0:23:57.290 --> 0:24:00.090 come to Christ who can give us the hope of 0:24:00.170 --> 0:24:05.190 eternal life, There's going to be a consequence that you're 0:24:05.230 --> 0:24:09.510 going to pay, and you cannot escape it, nor can 0:24:09.630 --> 0:24:15.889 we escape death. It's appointed unto a man who wants 0:24:15.930 --> 0:24:19.800 to die. I don't know of anything we can do 0:24:19.859 --> 0:24:24.000 about that. You see, you might say, well, you know, 0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:26.300 Brother Lambert, I take vitamins every day. 0:24:26.340 --> 0:24:27.220 Well, that's a good thing. 0:24:27.300 --> 0:24:29.720 I'm not opposed to a person taking vitamins, but you're 0:24:29.740 --> 0:24:33.430 still going to die. You say, well, I get exercise 0:24:33.530 --> 0:24:36.910 every day. Well, that's a good thing. I recommend that, 0:24:36.970 --> 0:24:40.879 and I do some of that myself. But you're still 0:24:40.910 --> 0:24:43.179 going to die. You say, well, I try to eat 0:24:43.220 --> 0:24:45.399 the right kinds of food. That's a good thing, and 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:48.080 I recommend that. I encourage that, but you're still. 0:24:47.859 --> 0:24:48.580 Going to die. 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:51.820 You say, well, I get the right amount of rest 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:55.030 every night. Well, that's a good thing, and I recommend that, 0:24:55.070 --> 0:24:57.910 but you're still going to die because it's appointed unto 0:24:57.950 --> 0:25:00.990 a man once to die. I know of people who 0:25:01.030 --> 0:25:02.970 are now in their 90s. I just went to a 0:25:03.020 --> 0:25:05.260 birthday party of a woman I've known more. 0:25:05.119 --> 0:25:08.379 Than 50 years. And it was her 90th birthday. And 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:09.940 she is in excellent health. 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:14.420 She looks like she's about 75 years old. And her 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:16.700 mind is as clear. 0:25:16.369 --> 0:25:19.790 As it ever was. But one day she's going to die. 0:25:20.350 --> 0:25:21.430 One day I'm going to die. 0:25:21.570 --> 0:25:23.530 One day we're all going to die because you cannot 0:25:23.590 --> 0:25:27.950 escape death unless you should be living when the Lord comes. 0:25:28.369 --> 0:25:32.449 You're not going to escape death. Wisdom cannot outsmart death. 0:25:33.210 --> 0:25:39.970 Strength cannot withstand death and the strength of death. There 0:25:40.010 --> 0:25:44.070 is nothing that we can do to keep from dying. 0:25:44.840 --> 0:25:48.500 There's just a step between you and death. There's just 0:25:48.580 --> 0:25:52.500 a step between me and death. And that's the reason, 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:55.440 that's the reason we need to. 0:25:55.420 --> 0:25:56.540 Be prepared for it. 0:25:57.060 --> 0:26:01.800 Live every day as though this was your last day 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:07.639 on the face of this earth. Live prepared every day. 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:11.180