WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:13.240 I think that it's as much worship for our Father to see you coming together before and after our worship time. 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:26.600 ! I think it's worship when He sees you fellowshipping with one another, enjoying being with each other, hugging, slapping one another on the back, reacquainting. 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:31.020 I think the Father has pure joy in that time. 00:00:32.120 --> 00:00:34.600 And I want you to see it as such. 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:41.179 It's not a put down to this room. 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:42.039 This is just a room. 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:44.120 It's not a sanctuary. 00:00:44.740 --> 00:00:53.060 You put birds in sanctuaries and put latches on the doors so they can't get out. 00:00:53.680 --> 00:00:55.160 This is not a sanctuary. 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:58.699 There's a sanctuary that dwells within us. 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:07.200 And so I think the beauty of the church gathering is that fellowship. 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:11.819 For it is the fellowship that He created us. 00:01:12.979 --> 00:01:21.500 Prior to anything existing, the Father and the Son and the Spirit had fellowship. 00:01:21.500 --> 00:01:27.219 And prior to creating human beings, God created other beings. 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:34.140 Angels and cherubim and serubim and all kinds of creatures are... 00:01:34.140 --> 00:01:37.859 I mean, it wouldn't surprise me that there are planets with other creatures. 00:01:38.099 --> 00:01:40.099 I don't exclude that. 00:01:40.099 --> 00:01:42.379 God didn't tell me all that I needed to know. 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:44.839 Just only what I needed to know. 00:01:46.839 --> 00:01:52.419 And yet, one day, the Trinity says, 00:01:52.420 --> 00:01:57.599 let's bring others into this fellowship that we have. 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:06.420 This inner connectedness, this relationship that we share with each other. 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:12.319 And the idea of creating a man and a woman was born. 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.340 Don't teach your kids that one day they're going to be angels and have wings. 00:02:19.580 --> 00:02:20.879 What foolishness. 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:25.099 They, while they're... 00:02:25.099 --> 00:02:29.299 Can see and be in the presence of God, they cannot share. 00:02:29.419 --> 00:02:33.439 They were not created to share in the fellowship. 00:02:34.699 --> 00:02:36.060 But we are. 00:02:36.979 --> 00:02:40.240 And that's why the Scripture says that we were born in the image. 00:02:40.340 --> 00:02:43.740 We were made in the image of God. 00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:46.640 Because we were made to fellowship. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:53.420 Father, Son, Spirit, and Church. 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:55.640 The Bride of Christ. 00:02:56.680 --> 00:03:04.480 What greater honor given to us than to be considered the Bride of Christ. 00:03:05.379 --> 00:03:09.100 There was always a mystery in the Old and the New. 00:03:09.100 --> 00:03:11.840 And it says it in Colossians, I believe. 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:14.200 Christ in you. 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:17.539 The hope of glory. 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:20.480 Ezekiel never saw that. 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:21.939 Elijah never saw that. 00:03:22.060 --> 00:03:23.259 Moses never saw that. 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.599 Abraham didn't understand that. 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.599 Jews today still believe that when it talks... 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:37.060 God talks to Abraham and talks about grains of sand on the seashores. 00:03:37.060 --> 00:03:39.400 He's only talking about Jews. 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:42.900 But we know different, don't we? 00:03:44.700 --> 00:03:46.599 He's including us in that. 00:03:47.620 --> 00:03:50.860 We are sons and daughters of Abraham. 00:03:53.640 --> 00:03:55.340 Pretty big deal, I think. 00:03:55.340 --> 00:04:01.039 And so when we come to the Acts of the Apostles... 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:03.300 Well, let's see. 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:04.439 We got corrected on that. 00:04:04.699 --> 00:04:07.199 Acts of the Holy Spirit. 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.480 Well, let's think about that for a second. 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:13.480 Who is the Holy Spirit? 00:04:13.580 --> 00:04:15.319 Well, he's Christ in you. 00:04:15.539 --> 00:04:17.079 The hope of glory. 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:21.120 So maybe it's the Acts of Jesus Christ in you. 00:04:21.579 --> 00:04:25.839 Who is your and my hope of glory. 00:04:27.479 --> 00:04:32.079 And something new that never existed before... 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.079 ...was never in the mind of any man, woman, or child before... 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:40.979 ...came into the world with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 00:04:40.980 --> 00:04:46.100 And in that very first chapter, here comes the Holy Spirit... 00:04:46.100 --> 00:04:49.900 ...the incarnate Christ indwelling us. 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:52.379 He was the incarnate Christ. 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:56.100 He was living, breathing. 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:00.980 But in order to be everywhere, in all of our hearts... 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:02.759 ...he had to go away. 00:05:03.220 --> 00:05:04.980 And he says there's another one coming... 00:05:04.980 --> 00:05:08.480 ...and he will be your comforter. 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:12.480 He will comfort you when times are hard... 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:14.480 ...when things are harsh... 00:05:15.500 --> 00:05:17.540 ...when the storms are blowing. 00:05:18.060 --> 00:05:22.400 And he will comfort you even in the good times. 00:05:23.200 --> 00:05:25.759 And so the comforter comes. 00:05:26.540 --> 00:05:28.439 And he comes to indwell us. 00:05:28.980 --> 00:05:33.480 And now we're moving from Jesus who is in flesh and blood form... 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:37.879 ...and we're moving into something brand spanking new. 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:41.160 I had a theology professor and he said... 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:47.840 ...you know, it's possible that God himself lacked for one thing. 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:51.400 It's hard to imagine that. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:52.140 That could be true. 00:05:52.780 --> 00:05:53.379 Really? 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:55.680 What could he lack for? 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:02.680 Up until Jesus living this life and dying on a cross... 00:06:04.019 --> 00:06:11.400 ...God may have lacked the experience of being a human being. 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:15.120 Of what it means to be tempted. 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:16.680 Of what it means to hurt. 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.139 Not only for yourself but for somebody else. 00:06:20.139 --> 00:06:22.579 To see people cry. 00:06:22.779 --> 00:06:25.019 To see humanity going by. 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:28.139 For where he lived there in Nazareth... 00:06:28.899 --> 00:06:30.099 Was it Nazareth? 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:31.259 Where did he live? 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:32.800 What was the name of that town? 00:06:32.899 --> 00:06:33.240 Nazareth? 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:34.500 Yeah. 00:06:35.060 --> 00:06:37.139 Nazareth was a trade center. 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.360 I just wanted to see if Wes was still listening to me. 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:45.300 You do it to everybody else. 00:06:45.400 --> 00:06:46.340 I thought I'd do it to you. 00:06:48.520 --> 00:06:50.680 Nazareth was a trade center. 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:52.800 That's where real trade was going on. 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:55.800 And Israel was placed by the Father... 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:00.800 ...right in the perfect place to be the crossroads... 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.220 ...of the trade of the world. 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:06.020 And Israel... 00:07:06.020 --> 00:07:07.600 I mean, you go east to Israel... 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:09.340 ...desert, desert, desert, desert, desert. 00:07:09.339 --> 00:07:12.000 We see regularly pictures of Syria... 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:13.339 ...the Afghanistan... 00:07:13.339 --> 00:07:15.299 ...and Iran and Iraq... 00:07:15.299 --> 00:07:16.899 ...and they all look bleak, don't they? 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:20.379 And they had one or two trails... 00:07:20.379 --> 00:07:22.339 ...and to go across some of those deserts... 00:07:22.339 --> 00:07:23.339 ...from Persia... 00:07:23.939 --> 00:07:26.159 ...which would be modern day Iran... 00:07:26.159 --> 00:07:27.339 ...all the way to Egypt... 00:07:28.559 --> 00:07:31.179 ...thousands of miles over... 00:07:31.179 --> 00:07:32.339 ...just nothing... 00:07:33.579 --> 00:07:35.719 ...hardly any bushes or anything. 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:38.720 And so... 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:40.640 ...everybody came around through Israel. 00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:46.720 And where Jesus was at in that carpenter's shop... 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.660 ...there were the languages of the world... 00:07:49.660 --> 00:07:50.720 ...being spoken by everybody. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:56.580 ...and the trade language became Greek. 00:07:57.300 --> 00:08:00.880 And the original language of the New Testament... 00:08:00.880 --> 00:08:03.720 ...what's called today is Koine Greek... 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:05.980 ...wasn't classical Greek... 00:08:05.980 --> 00:08:06.720 ...it's Koine Greek... 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.120 ...it is street Greek is what it is. 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:11.720 You know, there's English... 00:08:12.380 --> 00:08:15.200 ...and then there's street English. 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:20.199 And some of us that don't get around street English very much... 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.579 ...might not even understand what's going on. 00:08:24.159 --> 00:08:26.199 So many abbreviations... 00:08:26.740 --> 00:08:28.199 ...and shortcuts... 00:08:28.980 --> 00:08:29.759 ...in there. 00:08:29.939 --> 00:08:32.200 I go down to Nicaragua... 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.620 ...and their first language down there is English. 00:08:35.980 --> 00:08:37.200 And they can speak in English... 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:39.200 ...that any of us would understand. 00:08:40.460 --> 00:08:42.200 But when they get amongst one another... 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:43.879 ...they speak in English... 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.200 ...that most of us wouldn't even... 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:47.860 ...you might catch a word or two... 00:08:47.860 --> 00:08:49.560 ...and think, what language is this? 00:08:49.580 --> 00:08:50.560 It's not Spanish. 00:08:50.660 --> 00:08:51.620 I know it's not Spanish. 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:55.640 And it's what we might have called... 00:08:55.640 --> 00:08:57.200 ...years ago, Pig Latin. 00:08:57.960 --> 00:08:58.440 English. 00:08:59.220 --> 00:09:00.000 It just... 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:01.680 ...is birthed out of... 00:09:01.680 --> 00:09:03.520 ...out of that particular culture. 00:09:04.780 --> 00:09:06.420 And only they understand it. 00:09:06.420 --> 00:09:09.020 Well, this is the world that Jesus grows up in. 00:09:09.019 --> 00:09:12.699 This is the world that Jesus is dealing in. 00:09:12.819 --> 00:09:15.019 He is speaking multiple languages. 00:09:15.259 --> 00:09:17.299 He's learned multiple languages... 00:09:17.299 --> 00:09:20.679 ...because of this atmosphere of trade... 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:22.259 ...and commerce... 00:09:22.259 --> 00:09:24.360 ...in that part of the world. 00:09:25.659 --> 00:09:27.500 Now, given all of that... 00:09:27.500 --> 00:09:31.019 ...we come to acts of Jesus Christ... 00:09:31.019 --> 00:09:35.299 ...and the first thing that has to happen is... 00:09:35.299 --> 00:09:37.240 ...we've got to get the Holy Spirit. 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:42.240 In this transition from Jesus... 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:45.240 ...walking, breathing human flesh... 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:49.240 ...to what we now call the church... 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:51.159 ...and just for your information... 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:54.240 ...when I first named this Christ Family... 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.060 ...I didn't name it Christ Family Church. 00:09:58.299 --> 00:10:00.320 Because in my mind... 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:03.080 ...the word church in our culture today... 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:04.779 ...is pretty much irrelevant. 00:10:04.779 --> 00:10:09.059 In fact, it has more negative connotations... 00:10:09.059 --> 00:10:10.899 ...than it does positive connotations. 00:10:12.419 --> 00:10:13.779 Donald Trump... 00:10:13.779 --> 00:10:15.779 ...the word in Greek, ekklesia... 00:10:16.579 --> 00:10:18.100 ...he holds ekklesia. 00:10:19.179 --> 00:10:21.779 Every time he has a group meeting... 00:10:21.779 --> 00:10:22.779 ...it's an ekklesia. 00:10:24.220 --> 00:10:25.679 This year, for the first time... 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:27.779 ...I got to go down to the Gwinnett Braves... 00:10:27.779 --> 00:10:29.779 ...and drive students down there... 00:10:29.779 --> 00:10:31.779 ...and I got to sit in that... 00:10:31.779 --> 00:10:34.779 ...Gwinnett Braves stadium... 00:10:34.779 --> 00:10:36.779 ...and I was a part of... 00:10:36.779 --> 00:10:37.620 ...an ekklesia. 00:10:39.699 --> 00:10:40.779 And people think of... 00:10:41.299 --> 00:10:42.779 ...church when they hear the word church... 00:10:42.779 --> 00:10:43.879 ...and they think, well... 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:44.779 ...they're only after money... 00:10:44.779 --> 00:10:46.779 ...they only talk about negative stuff. 00:10:46.779 --> 00:10:51.259 ...what's with all the chandeliers? 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:55.779 Do you know there was a guy that... 00:10:55.779 --> 00:10:58.939 ...in California that built a crystal cathedral? 00:11:01.139 --> 00:11:05.779 His budget every year to keep that glass clean... 00:11:05.779 --> 00:11:07.779 ...which was not really crystal... 00:11:07.779 --> 00:11:12.779 ...it was more like the windshield on your car... 00:11:12.779 --> 00:11:18.779 ...was far, far, far greater... 00:11:18.779 --> 00:11:21.779 ...than the budget that we'll ever have here totally... 00:11:22.779 --> 00:11:24.879 ...just to keep the glass clean. 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:30.839 We've done some foolish things in the name of church. 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:34.139 So I thought, you know... 00:11:34.139 --> 00:11:34.840 ...the real... 00:11:35.540 --> 00:11:36.840 ...what real church... 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.580 ...what New Testament church should be about... 00:11:40.580 --> 00:11:41.080 ...is family. 00:11:42.680 --> 00:11:44.580 So I called it Christ's family. 00:11:44.680 --> 00:11:45.639 I didn't call it Christ's family. 00:11:45.920 --> 00:11:46.399 Church. 00:11:48.160 --> 00:11:51.180 I figured family was a good enough word. 00:11:52.220 --> 00:11:54.379 So I would stand before you this morning... 00:11:54.379 --> 00:11:54.840 ...and I wouldn't say... 00:11:55.620 --> 00:11:56.400 ...good morning, church. 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.139 I would say, good morning, family. 00:11:58.139 --> 00:12:03.259 For while I'm an old uncle... 00:12:03.259 --> 00:12:05.139 ...that sits over there pretty much by himself... 00:12:05.779 --> 00:12:07.419 ...and doesn't say much to any of you... 00:12:07.419 --> 00:12:09.139 ...don't engage very much... 00:12:09.139 --> 00:12:12.139 ...I purely enjoy... 00:12:12.139 --> 00:12:13.139 ...watching... 00:12:14.100 --> 00:12:14.139 ...you... 00:12:15.379 --> 00:12:16.019 ...fellowship. 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.860 Brings great joy to my heart. 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:20.799 My father is... 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:23.139 ...giving me the opportunity... 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:25.139 ...to participate in over... 00:12:25.139 --> 00:12:27.139 ...3,000 new churches... 00:12:27.139 --> 00:12:28.139 ...curches being started... 00:12:28.139 --> 00:12:30.199 ...across this country... 00:12:30.199 --> 00:12:31.159 ...and in other countries. 00:12:32.259 --> 00:12:34.139 I've had my fingerprints... 00:12:34.139 --> 00:12:36.279 ...on some aspect... 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:37.419 ...of church... 00:12:37.419 --> 00:12:38.139 ...churches... 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:40.139 ...individual churches... 00:12:40.139 --> 00:12:41.139 ...being started... 00:12:41.139 --> 00:12:43.139 ...over 3,000 times... 00:12:45.340 --> 00:12:47.139 ...and yet I get... 00:12:47.139 --> 00:12:49.139 ...to be here with you... 00:12:49.139 --> 00:12:52.139 ...and enjoy the fruit... 00:12:52.139 --> 00:12:54.139 ...of what the father... 00:12:54.139 --> 00:12:56.139 ...the difference that the father can make... 00:12:56.699 --> 00:12:58.240 ...in our lives. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:12:59.360 How does that start? 00:12:59.980 --> 00:13:02.139 The Holy Spirit comes within us... 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:04.139 ...our comforter... 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:05.139 ...our... 00:13:05.659 --> 00:13:07.139 ...down payment... 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:10.139 ...for this hope... 00:13:10.699 --> 00:13:12.279 ...that is to come... 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:13.139 ...Christ in you... 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:15.139 ...the hope of... 00:13:15.139 --> 00:13:16.139 ...glory. 00:13:16.139 --> 00:13:16.779 ...glory. 00:13:17.319 --> 00:13:18.139 Oh... 00:13:18.139 --> 00:13:19.480 ...that's exciting. 00:13:20.439 --> 00:13:22.480 If you can't get excited about that... 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:23.139 ...there... 00:13:23.139 --> 00:13:25.740 ...you're missing a gene somewhere. 00:13:27.659 --> 00:13:29.620 Something's not right in your DNA. 00:13:31.379 --> 00:13:34.480 If there's a reason for gene therapy... 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:35.340 ...that would be it. 00:13:36.699 --> 00:13:38.919 We need to inject you with something. 00:13:39.059 --> 00:13:41.259 We need to punch you with something. 00:13:41.379 --> 00:13:42.519 We need to do something... 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:45.519 ...because it doesn't get any more... 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:46.519 ...glorious... 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:47.480 ...than that. 00:13:48.220 --> 00:13:50.519 Well, I think if Moses knew that today... 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:51.659 ...Moses would say... 00:13:51.659 --> 00:13:52.419 ...sign me up. 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:54.939 Abraham would say... 00:13:54.939 --> 00:13:57.179 ...hey, I give up everything I've got for that. 00:13:58.639 --> 00:13:59.360 Elijah... 00:13:59.360 --> 00:13:59.519 ...Elisha... 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:01.519 ...all of the great old prophets... 00:14:02.439 --> 00:14:03.519 ...would say... 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:06.379 ...that's for me. 00:14:08.659 --> 00:14:10.519 And that's where we start... 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:12.480 ...in Acts. 00:14:13.939 --> 00:14:15.799 About 30 AD... 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:16.919 ...there at the beginning... 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:17.419 ...spring. 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:20.279 And things begin to roll. 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:22.519 But... 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:23.519 ...chapter 9... 00:14:24.179 --> 00:14:24.519 ...where... 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:27.519 ...Clay would have been today... 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:29.519 ...Clay got his... 00:14:30.059 --> 00:14:31.519 ...25,000 mile... 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:32.639 ...tune-up. 00:14:36.819 --> 00:14:37.519 And, you know... 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:39.860 ...a lot of times when they do a tune-up... 00:14:39.860 --> 00:14:41.360 ...they disconnect the battery... 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:42.500 ...of your car... 00:14:42.500 --> 00:14:44.139 ...they disconnected him... 00:14:44.139 --> 00:14:46.139 ...his head from his... 00:14:47.139 --> 00:14:49.139 ...they put him asleep... 00:14:49.139 --> 00:14:49.700 ...is what they did. 00:14:49.779 --> 00:14:50.960 They just knocked him out. 00:14:53.220 --> 00:14:54.460 Chapter 9... 00:14:54.460 --> 00:14:55.700 ...we see the conversion of Paul. 00:14:55.820 --> 00:14:56.139 Now... 00:14:56.139 --> 00:14:57.560 ...the conversion of Paul... 00:14:57.560 --> 00:14:59.139 ...is not a seminal moment... 00:15:00.139 --> 00:15:02.139 ...in this transition... 00:15:02.139 --> 00:15:04.139 ...that's going on... 00:15:04.139 --> 00:15:06.139 ...in this birthing... 00:15:06.139 --> 00:15:07.360 ...of the church. 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.759 ...and the conversion of Paul... 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:11.639 ...is about eight years after... 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:13.639 ...the resurrection... 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:15.360 ...and the ascension of Jesus. 00:15:16.100 --> 00:15:17.340 It's not, you know... 00:15:17.340 --> 00:15:18.500 ...next week... 00:15:18.500 --> 00:15:19.639 ...or two years from now... 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:21.639 ...it's about eight years... 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:22.379 ...before this happened. 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:23.639 In between... 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:25.639 ...he is called... 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:26.639 ...the... 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:26.639 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.060 ...of the church. 00:15:28.700 --> 00:15:29.639 Not... 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:30.700 ...a persecutor... 00:15:30.700 --> 00:15:31.379 ...he is... 00:15:31.379 --> 00:15:31.940 ...the... 00:15:31.940 --> 00:15:32.639 ...persecutor... 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:34.039 ...of the church. 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.319 ...everybody could stand back... 00:15:36.319 --> 00:15:37.360 ...all the chief priests... 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:38.659 ...everybody could stand back... 00:15:38.659 --> 00:15:39.439 ...and say... 00:15:39.439 --> 00:15:40.419 ...go Paul... 00:15:40.419 --> 00:15:41.240 ...go Paul... 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:41.639 ...well no... 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:42.519 ...he was Saul then... 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:42.699 ...when he... 00:15:42.699 --> 00:15:43.519 ...go Saul... 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:44.439 ...go Saul... 00:15:44.439 --> 00:15:46.439 ...get it done... 00:15:46.439 --> 00:15:49.439 ...my hands are clean... 00:15:49.439 --> 00:15:52.439 ...Saul was doing all of it... 00:15:52.439 --> 00:15:54.439 ...but they were... 00:15:54.439 --> 00:15:56.439 ...ra-ra-ing him on... 00:15:56.439 --> 00:15:58.279 ...even Herod... 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:00.439 ...got into the act... 00:16:00.439 --> 00:16:02.439 ...but it's not... 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:03.720 ...a seminal transition. 00:16:04.160 --> 00:16:05.220 What happens in... 00:16:05.220 --> 00:16:06.640 ...chapter 9... 00:16:06.640 --> 00:16:08.320 ...verse 32... 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:09.420 ...is that... 00:16:09.420 --> 00:16:11.320 ...Peter... 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:14.720 ...is given a revelation... 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:15.720 ...a vision... 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:18.720 ...and... 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:20.720 ...chapter 10... 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:21.720 ...Peter... 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:25.100 ...is called to the house... 00:16:25.100 --> 00:16:26.720 ...of a Roman centurion... 00:16:27.380 --> 00:16:28.720 ...a battalion commander... 00:16:29.520 --> 00:16:31.040 ...which was a big position... 00:16:31.040 --> 00:16:31.720 ...in the Roman army... 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.540 ...this Roman army... 00:16:35.540 --> 00:16:37.840 ...was called the Italian cohort... 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:39.820 ...and he was over it... 00:16:39.820 --> 00:16:41.620 ...and he was... 00:16:41.620 --> 00:16:42.460 ...he was... 00:16:42.460 --> 00:16:45.320 ...he was a believer... 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.000 ...he was wanting to believe... 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.820 ...he was wanting to understand... 00:16:49.820 --> 00:16:51.560 ...and he sins for... 00:16:51.560 --> 00:16:54.320 ...he sins for Peter... 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.600 ...and Peter is now going into the house... 00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:58.700 ...of a... 00:16:58.700 --> 00:17:01.000 ...of a Gentile... 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.000 ...no... 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.140 ...no... 00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:05.339 ...no... 00:17:05.339 --> 00:17:05.620 ...no... 00:17:05.620 --> 00:17:06.500 ...that's not the... 00:17:06.500 --> 00:17:08.779 ...that's not the way of a Jew... 00:17:08.779 --> 00:17:11.779 ...he was going to sit down... 00:17:11.779 --> 00:17:12.620 ...and eat with them... 00:17:12.620 --> 00:17:13.279 ...oh no... 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:13.539 ...no... 00:17:13.539 --> 00:17:13.880 ...no... 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:15.000 ...that's... 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:16.779 ...not the way of a Jew... 00:17:16.779 --> 00:17:18.779 ...it... 00:17:18.779 --> 00:17:21.879 ...it was forbidden... 00:17:21.879 --> 00:17:23.879 ...anything in that house... 00:17:23.879 --> 00:17:25.379 ...and eaten in that house... 00:17:25.379 --> 00:17:25.779 ...was... 00:17:25.779 --> 00:17:27.180 ...unclean... 00:17:27.180 --> 00:17:29.079 ...to the Jew... 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:30.579 ...it didn't matter how much... 00:17:30.579 --> 00:17:31.879 ...you washed your hands... 00:17:31.879 --> 00:17:34.579 ...it was still going to be... 00:17:34.579 --> 00:17:35.879 ...unclean... 00:17:35.879 --> 00:17:38.180 ...and here's this... 00:17:38.180 --> 00:17:40.680 ...before you can have... 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:41.399 ...revelation... 00:17:41.399 --> 00:17:42.579 ...you've got to have... 00:17:42.579 --> 00:17:43.779 ...illumination... 00:17:43.779 --> 00:17:47.279 ...and Peter's eyes... 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:49.180 ...were opened... 00:17:49.180 --> 00:17:50.980 ...and on the heels of that... 00:17:50.980 --> 00:17:52.579 ...was this revelation... 00:17:52.579 --> 00:17:55.579 ...that God had opened... 00:17:55.579 --> 00:17:57.579 ...the door to all... 00:17:58.420 --> 00:17:59.579 ...peoples... 00:17:59.579 --> 00:18:02.980 ...and Nathan wanted me to speak today... 00:18:02.980 --> 00:18:03.579 ...on racism... 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:05.779 ...and I ain't going to say... 00:18:05.779 --> 00:18:07.579 ...much about racism... 00:18:07.579 --> 00:18:13.579 ...but here you begin to see... 00:18:13.779 --> 00:18:17.079 ...you see... 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:18.379 ...long before Muhammad... 00:18:18.379 --> 00:18:19.379 ...thought up... 00:18:19.379 --> 00:18:20.779 ...the idea of having... 00:18:20.779 --> 00:18:21.779 ...infidels... 00:18:22.579 --> 00:18:24.779 ...Jews had... 00:18:24.779 --> 00:18:25.779 ...Gentiles... 00:18:26.779 --> 00:18:28.779 ...the intent... 00:18:28.779 --> 00:18:30.779 ...of Jews for Gentiles... 00:18:30.779 --> 00:18:32.079 ...wasn't as dramatic... 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:33.379 ...as it was for Muhammad... 00:18:33.379 --> 00:18:34.779 ...with infidels... 00:18:34.779 --> 00:18:36.879 ...but the concept... 00:18:36.879 --> 00:18:37.779 ...is still the same... 00:18:38.779 --> 00:18:41.180 ...the Bible never talks... 00:18:41.180 --> 00:18:42.779 ...about racism... 00:18:42.779 --> 00:18:45.079 ...the Bible... 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:46.079 ...though... 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:47.480 ...uses the word... 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.079 ...in the original language... 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:49.779 ...the Greek... 00:18:49.779 --> 00:18:50.680 ...ethnos... 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:51.579 ...and we get the word... 00:18:51.579 --> 00:18:52.779 ...ethnicity from it... 00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:54.779 ...it... 00:18:54.779 --> 00:18:56.779 ...acknowledges that there are... 00:18:56.779 --> 00:18:58.079 ...ethnic groups... 00:18:58.079 --> 00:18:59.079 ...of all... 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:00.079 ...types... 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:00.779 ...and... 00:19:00.779 --> 00:19:01.779 ...flavors... 00:19:01.779 --> 00:19:02.779 ...and... 00:19:02.779 --> 00:19:03.779 ...body types... 00:19:03.779 --> 00:19:04.379 ...and... 00:19:04.379 --> 00:19:05.779 ...skin color... 00:19:05.779 --> 00:19:06.779 ...and... 00:19:06.779 --> 00:19:08.279 ...it goes all the way back... 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:08.779 ...to Nimrod... 00:19:08.779 --> 00:19:09.779 ...I think... 00:19:09.779 --> 00:19:12.079 ...people were being disobedient... 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:12.779 ...to God... 00:19:12.779 --> 00:19:13.779 ...you remember... 00:19:13.779 --> 00:19:14.079 ...and... 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:14.480 ...and... 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:15.180 ...they were... 00:19:15.180 --> 00:19:16.379 ...instead of... 00:19:16.379 --> 00:19:17.779 ...going to the ends of the earth... 00:19:17.779 --> 00:19:18.279 ...and... 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:18.879 ...and... 00:19:18.879 --> 00:19:19.879 ...multiplying... 00:19:19.879 --> 00:19:20.779 ...they were gathering... 00:19:20.779 --> 00:19:21.680 ...themselves up... 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:21.879 ...and... 00:19:21.879 --> 00:19:22.480 ...and said... 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:22.680 ...whoa... 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:23.579 ...this is really good... 00:19:23.579 --> 00:19:24.079 ...let's... 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:25.079 ...let's build us a tower... 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:26.379 ...so we can... 00:19:26.379 --> 00:19:27.779 ...we can just physically... 00:19:27.779 --> 00:19:28.379 ...ourselves... 00:19:28.379 --> 00:19:29.980 ...go up to heaven... 00:19:29.980 --> 00:19:30.680 ...we can go up... 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:31.480 ...we can come down... 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:32.079 ...we can go up... 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:33.279 ...we can come down... 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:34.879 ...wouldn't that be a neat thing? 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:38.880 ...God baffles them by... 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:40.880 ...separating them by language... 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:43.980 ...if you want to reach a person... 00:19:43.980 --> 00:19:44.880 ...of another ethnos... 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:47.880 ...learn their language first... 00:19:49.280 --> 00:19:49.880 ...and then... 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:51.880 ...Jesus told the 70... 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:52.680 ...when he sent them out... 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:52.880 ...he said... 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:54.880 ...now go and stay in that person... 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:55.880 ...of peace's house... 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:57.880 ...and eat whatever... 00:19:57.880 --> 00:19:59.880 ...they eat... 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:03.980 ...missionaries far too long... 00:20:03.980 --> 00:20:04.880 ...have... 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:05.880 ...separated themselves... 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:07.580 ...from those that they're... 00:20:07.580 --> 00:20:08.880 ...intending to reach... 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:10.880 ...when it comes to food... 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:12.880 ...but Jesus realized... 00:20:13.520 --> 00:20:14.580 ...you not only have to know... 00:20:14.580 --> 00:20:15.180 ...the language... 00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:15.880 ...but the language... 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:17.880 ...is the entrance... 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:18.880 ...door to the culture... 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:20.880 ...and you gotta... 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:21.880 ...eat... 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:22.880 ...what they eat... 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:25.880 ...oh... 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:27.880 ...I've never had squid before... 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:30.880 ...eat the squid... 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:33.880 ...oh... 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:35.880 ...I don't like tomatoes... 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:39.880 ...eat those tomatoes... 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:46.880 ...and now we find ourselves... 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:49.880 ...in this... 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:51.880 ...complex world of... 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:52.880 ...ethnicity... 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:56.880 ...now we'll go to Galatians 2... 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:05.880 ...the first missionary journey... 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:07.880 ...of Barnabas and Paul... 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:09.880 ...has already happened... 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:10.880 ...and when they get done... 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:11.880 ...they come back... 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:13.880 ...and they go to Jerusalem... 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:14.880 ...to give a report... 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:15.880 ...of what's happened... 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:17.880 ...all the Gentiles... 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:19.880 ...yes we did what we were... 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:20.880 ...supposed to do... 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:20.880 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:22.880 ...first of all... 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:24.880 ...we went to the synagogue... 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:25.880 ...and gave the Jews... 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:26.880 ...an opportunity... 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:27.880 ...to say yes to Jesus... 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:29.880 ...but when they... 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:30.880 ...they didn't respond... 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:32.880 ...then we went to the streets... 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:34.880 ...as we sat... 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:35.880 ...and made... 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:37.880 ...a tent... 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:38.880 ...on the corner... 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:39.880 ...we told everybody... 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:40.880 ...about Jesus... 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:42.880 ...and we just testified... 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:44.880 ...of what we had seen... 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:45.880 ...and what we had heard... 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:46.880 ...and... 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:47.880 ...and... 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:48.880 ...we lived our lives out... 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:50.880 ...he says in Thessalonica... 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:51.880 ...in Thessalonians... 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:52.880 ...he said... 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:53.880 ...I... 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:54.880 ...I... 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:55.880 ...gave my life... 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:56.880 ...to you... 00:21:57.880 --> 00:21:57.880 00:21:57.880 --> 00:21:58.880 ...lived my life... 00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.880 ...out in front of you... 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:00.880 ...and that's what they did... 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:01.880 ...they just lived... 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:02.880 ...Jesus out... 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:04.880 ...in these towns... 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:05.880 ...that they went to... 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:06.880 ...and they went through... 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:07.880 ...the area of Galatia... 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:08.880 ...and... 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:09.880 ...then they come back... 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:10.880 ...and they make the report... 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:12.880 ...and in Galatians... 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:13.880 ...the first chapter... 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:15.880 ...he's recording... 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:16.880 ...for us... 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:17.880 ...the... 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:18.880 ...occasion... 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:19.880 ...of that... 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:20.880 ...council in Jerusalem... 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:22.880 ...and how he had... 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:23.880 ...to kind of set... 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:24.880 ...Peter straight... 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:25.880 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:26.880 ...by now... 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:27.880 ...Peter... 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:28.880 ...even though he had this... 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:29.880 ...illumination... 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:30.880 ...and revelation... 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:32.880 ...was backing off... 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:34.880 ...because there were some... 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:35.880 ...Pharisees... 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:36.880 ...who had become believers... 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:37.880 ...and kept saying... 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:38.880 ...no it's Jesus... 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:39.880 ...plus... 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:41.880 ...circumcision... 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:42.880 ...Jesus... 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:43.880 ...plus... 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:44.880 ...plus... 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:46.880 ...and that's what... 00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:47.880 ...many are doing... 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:49.880 ...in the churches today... 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:51.880 ...and why the church... 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:54.880 ...leaves such a bitter taste... 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.880 ...in the mouths of people... 00:22:57.880 --> 00:22:59.880 ...who have yet to come to know Christ... 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:00.880 ...because it's... 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:02.880 ...always seems to be about... 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:02.880 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:03.880 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:04.880 ...plus... 00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:06.880 ...plus... 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:08.880 ...and yet what we have... 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:09.880 ...here... 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:11.880 ...is Jesus... 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:12.880 ...is... 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:13.880 ...enough... 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:15.880 ...when I was the age of most... 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:16.880 ...many of you... 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:17.880 ...college... 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:17.880 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:18.880 ...just got saved... 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:19.880 ...I... 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:20.880 ...I used to preach... 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:21.880 ...and teach... 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:22.880 ...Jesus... 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:22.880 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:23.880 ...me... 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:24.880 ...equals... 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:25.880 ...enough... 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:28.880 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:29.880 ...dum... 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:30.880 ...dum... 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:32.880 ...dum... 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:33.880 ...it took me a while... 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:34.880 ...to realize... 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:35.880 ...he didn't really need me... 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:36.880 ...at all... 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:38.880 ...it's just... 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:40.880 ...Jesus is enough... 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:42.880 ...the fact that he wants... 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:43.880 ...to include me... 00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:44.880 ...in what he's doing... 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:46.880 ...praise God... 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:48.880 ...that I get to be involved... 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:49.880 ...that I get to... 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:50.880 ...to be a part of... 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:52.880 ...what he's doing... 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:54.880 ...but he don't need me to do it... 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:55.880 ...he wants me... 00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:57.880 ...involved... 00:23:57.880 --> 00:23:59.880 ...he wants you... 00:23:59.880 --> 00:24:00.880 ...involved... 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:02.880 ...you may not believe it... 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:03.880 ...yet or not... 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:04.880 ...but I'm going to tell you this... 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:05.880 ...and I want you to write it down... 00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:07.880 ...and always remember it... 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:09.880 ...there is at least one person... 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:10.880 ...in this world... 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.880 ...while you're alive... 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:14.880 ...that the only Jesus... 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:15.880 ...they'll ever believe in... 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:16.880 ...is the Jesus... 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:17.880 ...they see... 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:19.880 ...in you... 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:22.880 ...could be... 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:23.880 ...your children... 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:26.880 ...could be a family member... 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:28.880 ...could be somebody... 00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:29.880 ...in your class... 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:30.880 ...this next semester... 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:33.880 ...but there's at least... 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:35.880 ...one person in your life... 00:24:35.880 --> 00:24:37.880 ...that the only Jesus... 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:39.880 ...they'll ever believe in... 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:40.880 ...is the Jesus... 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:41.880 ...they see... 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:43.880 ...and hear... 00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:44.880 ...from you... 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:47.880 ...and now... 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:49.880 ...verse 11... 00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:50.880 ...chapter 2... 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:53.880 ...Paul opposes Peter... 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:54.880 ...but when Cephas... 00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:55.880 ...came to Antioch... 00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:57.880 ...you remember that's Peter... 00:24:57.880 --> 00:24:59.880 ...I opposed him to his face... 00:24:59.880 --> 00:25:01.880 ...because he stood condemned... 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:04.880 ...for prior to the coming... 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:05.880 ...of certain men... 00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:06.880 ...from James... 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:08.880 ...he used to eat... 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:09.880 ...with the Gentiles... 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:11.880 ...but when they came... 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:13.880 ...he began to withdraw... 00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:14.880 ...and hold himself aloof... 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:16.880 ...fearing... 00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:18.880 ...the party of the circumcision... 00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:20.880 ...and the rest of the Jews... 00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:22.880 ...joined him in hypocrisy... 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:23.880 ...with the result... 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:24.880 ...that even Barnabas... 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:25.880 ...was carried away... 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:26.880 ...by their hypocrisy... 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:28.880 ...but when I saw... 00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:29.880 ...that they were not... 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:30.880 ...straightforward... 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:31.880 ...about the truth... 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:32.880 ...of the gospel... 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:33.880 ...I said to Cephas... 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:34.880 ...in the presence of all... 00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:36.880 ...if you being a Jew... 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:38.880 ...live like the Gentiles... 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:39.880 ...and not like the Jews... 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:41.880 ...how is it... 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:42.880 ...that you... 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:43.880 ...compel the Gentiles... 00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:45.880 ...to live like Jews... 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:47.880 ...we are Jews... 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:48.880 ...by nature... 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:49.880 ...and not... 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:50.880 ...sinners... 00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:52.880 ...from among the Gentiles... 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:54.880 ...nevertheless... 00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:55.880 ...knowing... 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:56.880 ...that a man... 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:57.880 ...is not justified... 00:25:57.880 --> 00:25:58.880 ...by the works of the law... 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:00.880 ...but through faith... 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:01.880 ...in Christ Jesus... 00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:03.880 ...even we have believed... 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:05.880 ...in Christ Jesus... 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:07.880 ...that we may be justified... 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:09.880 ...by faith in Christ... 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:11.880 ...and not by the works of the law... 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:14.880 ...since by the works of the law... 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:15.880 ...shall no flesh... 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:17.880 ...be justified... 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:18.880 ...or saved... 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:20.880 ...but if while... 00:26:20.880 --> 00:26:21.880 ...seeking to be justified... 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:23.880 ...in Christ... 00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:24.880 ...we ourselves... 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:26.880 ...have also been found... 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:27.880 ...sinners... 00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:28.880 ...is Christ... 00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:30.880 ...then the minister of sin? 00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:33.880 God forbid... 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:36.880 ...may it never be... 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:38.880 ...for if I... 00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:40.880 ...rebuild what I have... 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:41.880 ...once destroyed... 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:42.880 ...I prove myself... 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:43.880 ...to be a transgressor... 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:46.880 ...for through the law... 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:47.880 ...I died to the law... 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:49.880 ...that I might live... 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:51.880 ...unto God... 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:53.880 ...not for God... 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:55.880 ...that little word... 00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:57.880 ...to is really critical there... 00:26:57.880 --> 00:26:58.880 ...to understand... 00:26:58.880 --> 00:26:59.880 ...what to... 00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:00.880 ...or unto God... 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:01.880 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:02.880 ...there's more expressions... 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:03.880 ...of us living... 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:04.880 ...unto God... 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:05.880 ...than there is... 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:06.880 ...ever expressions... 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:07.880 ...of us living... 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:08.880 ...for God... 00:27:09.880 --> 00:27:11.880 ...our primary... 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:13.880 ...living is... 00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:14.880 ...unto God... 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:17.880 ...for through the law... 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:18.880 ...I died to the law... 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:19.880 ...that I might live... 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:20.880 ...unto God... 00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:22.880 ...I have been crucified... 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:24.880 ...with Christ... 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:26.880 ...and yet it's no longer... 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:26.880 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:27.880 ...but it's Christ... 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:28.880 ...who lives in me... 00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:30.880 ...and the life... 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:31.880 ...which I now live... 00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:32.880 ...in the flesh... 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:34.880 ...in the Son of God... 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:35.880 ...who loved me... 00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:36.880 ...and delivered... 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:37.880 ...Himself... 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:39.880 ...up for me... 00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:41.880 ...I do not... 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:42.880 ...nullify... 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:43.880 ...the grace of God... 00:27:43.880 --> 00:27:44.880 ...for if righteousness... 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.880 ...comes... 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:46.880 ...through the law... 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:47.880 ...then Christ... 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:48.880 ...died... 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:49.880 ...needlessly... 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:50.880 ...needlessly... 00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:54.880 ...huge stuff... 00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:55.880 ...right there... 00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.880 ...our president... 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:01.880 ...was recorded this last week... 00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:02.880 ...and it was replayed... 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:03.880 ...again and again... 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:05.880 ...and he said... 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:07.880 ...everybody... 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:08.880 00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:10.880 ...bias... 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:11.880 ...and he's right... 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:13.880 ...I believe that... 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:15.880 ...we are all biased... 00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:17.880 ...somehow or another... 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:18.880 ...in fact there's probably... 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:19.880 ...more bias in the world... 00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:21.880 ...than there is... 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:22.880 ...what we used to say... 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:23.880 ...when I was a kid... 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:25.880 ...Carter has little liver pills... 00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:26.880 ...or... 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:28.880 ...50 flavor ice cream... 00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:29.880 ...parlor... 00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:30.880 ...or... 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:31.880 ...there's lots of biases... 00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:33.880 ...and there's lots of reasons... 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:35.880 ...that those biases... 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:38.880 ...find themselves embedded... 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:39.880 ...into our thinking... 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:41.880 ...and into the decisions... 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:42.880 ...that we make... 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:43.880 ...and how we act out... 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:45.880 ...some of it's cultural... 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:46.880 ...some of it has to do... 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:47.880 ...with the geography... 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:49.880 ...that we find ourselves in... 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:50.880 ...some of it has to do with... 00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:53.880 ...our family experiences... 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:54.880 ...or our... 00:28:55.880 --> 00:28:57.880 ...the color of our skin's experiences... 00:28:57.880 --> 00:28:58.880 ...there's... 00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:00.880 ...thousands... 00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:02.880 ...of reasons... 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:03.880 ...for bias... 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:05.880 ...bias... 00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:06.880 ...in and of itself... 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:08.880 ...is not sin... 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:11.880 ...it's what you do... 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:12.880 ...with your bias... 00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:15.880 ...that becomes sin... 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:18.880 ...it's how you live that out... 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:20.880 ...and I believe... 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:21.880 ...that bigotry... 00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:23.880 ...is taking a bias... 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:25.880 ...to its extreme... 00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:26.880 ...where... 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:27.880 ...it becomes... 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:28.880 ...hatred... 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:30.880 ... 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:33.880 ...see... 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:34.880 ...I don't believe in racism... 00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:37.880 ...racism... 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:40.880 ...in its definition... 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:41.880 ...is really... 00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:42.880 ...an... 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:43.880 ...ethnic bias... 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:47.880 ...but to say... 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:49.880 ...a person is a racist... 00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:51.880 ...well... 00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:52.880 ...there's only one race... 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:53.880 ...that I know of... 00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:54.880 ...and it's called human... 00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:57.880 ...and so it's like saying... 00:29:58.880 --> 00:29:59.880 ...I hate all human beings... 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:01.880 ...and in fact... 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:03.880 ...there have been... 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:04.880 ...records of... 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:05.880 ...of people... 00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:05.880 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:07.880 ...hate people so much... 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:08.880 ...that they have no... 00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:09.880 ...conscious... 00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:10.880 ...no... 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:11.880 ...feelings... 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:12.880 ...whatsoever... 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:13.880 ...as to... 00:30:13.880 --> 00:30:14.880 ...the death of human beings... 00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:15.880 ...or... 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:16.880 ...the life of human beings... 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:19.880 ...a lot of them end up... 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:20.880 ...being hermits maybe... 00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:22.880 ...they just get away... 00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:24.880 ...they can't stand... 00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:25.880 ...being around people... 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:28.880 ...I guess that would be a racist... 00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:30.880 ...just... 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:31.880 ...detest all people... 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:35.880 ...but up until that point... 00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:36.880 ...what we're talking about... 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:38.880 ...is bigotry... 00:30:39.880 --> 00:30:41.880 ...and bigotry takes... 00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:43.880 ...all kinds of... 00:30:43.880 --> 00:30:44.880 ...especially when it comes to ethnos... 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:45.880 ...that's where we get... 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:47.880 ...ethnic cleansing from... 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:49.880 ...is a hatred for... 00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:51.880 ...a particular people... 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:52.880 00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:54.880 ...to the extent... 00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:56.880 ...that we no longer... 00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:58.880 ...care about them living... 00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:01.880 ...there are many people... 00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:02.880 ...in the Middle East... 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:03.880 ...that feel that way about Israel... 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:05.880 ...if they thought... 00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:06.880 ...they could get away with it... 00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:07.880 ...they would bomb... 00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:08.880 00:31:09.880 --> 00:31:10.880 ...out of existence... 00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:11.880 ...tomorrow... 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:13.880 ...tonight... 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:18.880 ...and these kind... 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:19.880 ...this kind of bigotry... 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:21.880 ...this ethnic bigotry... 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:23.880 ...exists... 00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:24.880 ...all... 00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:25.880 ...over the world... 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:26.880 ...and unfortunately... 00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:27.880 ...many people... 00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:28.880 ...many people who have come... 00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:29.880 ...from other countries... 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:30.880 ...and have settled in the United States... 00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:32.880 ...some of that comes with them... 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:39.880 ...but what do you do with it? 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:44.880 Well, in Christ Jesus... 00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:46.880 ...he frees us from it... 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:50.880 ...now you're free from it... 00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:51.880 ...but you still can choose... 00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:52.880 ...to put it in your pocket... 00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:54.880 ...I get in these verses here... 00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:55.880 ...especially up there in... 00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:56.880 ...verse 17... 00:31:56.880 --> 00:31:58.880 ...that we're no longer... 00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:00.880 ...having been born again... 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:03.880 ...considered by God... 00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:04.880 ...as sinners... 00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:08.880 ...but over and over... 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:09.880 ...and over and over... 00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:10.880 ...and over again... 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:11.880 ...all the way through... 00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:11.880 00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:12.880 ...all the way through... 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:13.880 ...all the way through... 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:13.880 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:15.880 ...it talks about saints... 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:17.880 ...it's addressing... 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:18.880 ...themselves to saints... 00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:20.880 ...not sinners... 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:21.880 ...to saints... 00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:22.880 ...now who are the saints? 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:25.880 ...are they a select... 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:26.880 ...little group of... 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:27.880 ...pastors... 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:28.880 ...and their wives... 00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:29.880 ...who are... 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:30.880 ...you know... 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:31.880 ...more into it... 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:32.880 ...or more up on it... 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:33.880 ...than you and me? 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:36.880 ...or is he talking about... 00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:37.880 ...all of us... 00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:38.880 ...who are born again? 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:40.880 ...you can't be a saint... 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:41.880 ...and a sinner... 00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:42.880 ...at the same time... 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:44.880 ...now because you're a saint... 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:46.880 ...doesn't mean you can't sin... 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:48.880 ...in fact... 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:49.880 ...that's the most miserable person... 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:51.880 ...I know on the face of the earth... 00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:52.880 ...that I've ever counseled with... 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:54.880 ...that I've ever tried to help... 00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:55.880 ...is the saint... 00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:56.880 ...who still... 00:32:57.880 --> 00:32:58.880 ...chooses... 00:32:58.880 --> 00:32:59.880 ...sin... 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:01.880 ...that's... 00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:03.880 ...misery... 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:07.880 ...well I've heard all the excuses... 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:09.880 ...I can worship God... 00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:10.880 ...just as well out here... 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:11.880 ...on this fishing boat... 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:12.880 ...as I can... 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:13.880 ...in that church... 00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:19.880 ...jillions and jillions... 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:20.880 ...of excuses... 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:23.880 ...but none of them... 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:24.880 ...hold water... 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:27.880 ...buckets... 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:29.880 ...got no bottom to it... 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:41.880 ...the biggest barrier... 00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:44.880 ...if you don't write anything else down... 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:46.880 ...write this one word... 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:49.880 ...the biggest barrier... 00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:54.880 ...between the ethnos of this world... 00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:58.880 ...is the assumptions we make... 00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:00.880 ...about the other ethnos... 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:04.880 ...are just people in general... 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:09.880 ...I've met some of the sweetest people... 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:10.880 ...on the face of this earth... 00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:12.880 ...but when you first see them... 00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:13.880 ...tatted up... 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:14.880 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:16.880 ...ugly... 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:19.880 ...there's some ugly people in this... 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:21.880 ...I drive a school bus... 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:22.880 ...there's some ugly kids... 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:23.880 ...on that school bus... 00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:25.880 ...and I'm not talking about... 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:26.880 ...just the way they act... 00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.880 ...I'm talking about the way they look... 00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:31.880 ...and there are literally a couple... 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:33.880 ...I've got a couple that are stinky too... 00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:38.880 ...we jump... 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:40.880 ...and make assumptions... 00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:42.880 ...based on our senses... 00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:45.880 ...and I think that's why the Proverbs... 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:47.880 ...cautions us... 00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:49.880 ...to be slow to speak... 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:51.880 ...slow to make a decision... 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.880 ...slow to make any kind of judgments... 00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.880 ...because we need to take... 00:34:59.880 --> 00:35:00.880 ...time to... 00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:02.880 ...there was the old commentator... 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:03.880 ...Paul Harvey... 00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:05.880 ...who used to talk about... 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:06.880 ...and the rest of the story... 00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:09.880 ...until you really know... 00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:12.880 ...who it is that you're working with... 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:14.880 ...you really don't know them... 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:17.880 ...you've got to eat what they eat... 00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:19.880 ...you've got to engage... 00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:21.880 ...in their lives... 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:24.880 ...and I've got to tell you... 00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:26.880 ...that's tough... 00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:28.880 ...it's a whole lot easier for me... 00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.880 ...to stay home and watch TV... 00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:33.880 ...than to go get involved... 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:35.880 ...in people's lives... 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:37.880 ...because if you're involved with them... 00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:39.880 ...long enough... 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:41.880 ...they'll start... 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:43.880 ...showing... 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:44.880 ...their lives... 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:47.880 ...and not just a... 00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:49.880 ...shiny bright... 00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:51.880 ...facade... 00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:55.880 ...so that's all I have to say... 00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:56.880 ...about racism... 00:35:57.880 --> 00:35:58.880 ...to tell you the truth... 00:35:58.880 --> 00:35:59.880 ...check your own heart... 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:02.880 ...open your mind up... 00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:04.880 ...make no assumptions... 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:06.880 ...take your time... 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:07.880 ...to get to know people... 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:10.880 ...before you make decisions... 00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:13.880 ...I'd like to be... 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:15.880 ...straightforward and honest with you... 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:16.880 ...and let me be... 00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:17.880 00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:19.880 ...I have a bias... 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:21.880 ...I've got a lot of biases... 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:23.880 ...but I'll just share one with you... 00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:25.880 ...and this bias happened... 00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:27.880 ...even before I was saved... 00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:30.880 ...I don't like hanging out... 00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:32.880 ...with smart people... 00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:34.880 ...who act like fools... 00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:39.880 ...now what changed... 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:41.880 ...when I got saved was... 00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:43.880 ...was some of the things that... 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:45.880 ...I accepted as being alright... 00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:47.880 ...to hang out with... 00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:48.880 ...was foolish things... 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:53.880 ...but I found out in the Bible... 00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:55.880 ...that in this case... 00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:56.880 ...it was alright... 00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:57.880 ...because Proverbs tells me... 00:36:58.880 --> 00:36:59.880 ...walk away from the fool... 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:01.880 ...walk away from the... 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:03.880 ...the foolish people... 00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:04.880 ...that some of the... 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:05.880 ...most foolish people... 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:06.880 ...I've ever met... 00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:07.880 ...are educated... 00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:12.880 ...I listen to... 00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:14.880 ...news on TV... 00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:16.880 ...and... 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:16.880 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:17.880 ...educated people... 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:18.880 ...and I hear some of the... 00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:20.880 ...dumbest things... 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:25.880 ...and I just quietly... 00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:27.880 ...move away from them... 00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:28.880 ...for God didn't give it to me... 00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:30.880 ...to change them... 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:32.880 ...that's God's business... 00:37:33.880 --> 00:37:35.880 ...don't get involved... 00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:36.880 ...in the Holy Spirit's... 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:37.880 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:39.880 ...in other people's lives... 00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:41.880 ...unless you have a distinct... 00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:43.880 ...invitation from Him... 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:44.880 ...to engage... 00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:46.880 ...watch your... 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:47.880 ...watch your assumptions... 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:51.880 ...stay out of bigotry... 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:53.880 ...let Father... 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:55.880 ...teach you about your biases... 00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:57.880 ...and teach you... 00:37:57.880 --> 00:37:58.880 ...what's acceptable... 00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:00.880 ...what isn't acceptable... 00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:04.880 ...and don't worry about racism... 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:06.880 ...as far as you're concerned... 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:08.880 ...I can't... 00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:11.880 ...I can't decide for others... 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:13.880 ...here's the only one... 00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:15.880 ...I can really decide for... 00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:17.880 ...even Nathan... 00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:18.880 ...I can't tell Nathan anymore... 00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:20.880 ...he's his own man... 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:21.880 ...he's gonna make his own choices... 00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:23.880 ...I can't tell him... 00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:25.880 ...but I can influence him... 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:31.880 ...as far as it depends on you... 00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:32.880 ...and your household... 00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:35.880 ...walk rightly... 00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:37.880 ...before the Father... 00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:38.880 ...and don't let... 00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:40.880 ...racism... 00:38:41.880 --> 00:38:42.880 ...become an issue... 00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:44.880 ...don't let bigotry... 00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:45.880 ...become an issue... 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:47.880 ...in your life... 00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:49.880 ...let the Father... 00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:50.880 ...do healing... 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:51.880 ...if he needs to... 00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:52.880 ...correction... 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:53.880 ...when he needs to... 00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:55.880 ...and all those things... 00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:57.880 ...will be good in your life... 00:38:58.880 --> 00:38:59.880 ...and if you'll live that out... 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:01.880 ...others will get it... 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:04.880 ...others will get it... 00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:06.880 ...we started out... 00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:07.880 ...to do set free... 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:10.880 ...the aim of set free... 00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:11.880 ...was to go after... 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:13.880 ...the folks that nobody else wanted... 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:16.880 ...if there's a ladder of economy... 00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:17.880 ...you know... 00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:19.880 ...many people start into... 00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:20.880 ...addictive lifestyles... 00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:21.880 ...way up here... 00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:22.880 ...with a lot of money... 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:23.880 ...in their pocket... 00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:24.880 ...and we were aimed at... 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:25.880 ...those that had fallen off... 00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:26.880 ...that ladder... 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:27.880 ...were in the mud... 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:28.880 ...in quicksand... 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:29.880 ...couldn't get out... 00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:30.880 ...even if they wanted to... 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:32.880 ...they had to have a hand... 00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:33.880 ...to get out... 00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:34.880 ...they had no place to stay... 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:35.880 ...they had no... 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:36.880 ...no meals... 00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:38.880 ...I mean they were just... 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:41.880 ...next to death... 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:43.880 ...that's the ones... 00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:44.880 ...we wanted to reach... 00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.880 ...but we never said... 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:47.880 ...well we're going to reach... 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:48.880 ...all of those who are black... 00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:52.880 ...all those that are white... 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:54.880 ...we never did that... 00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:57.880 ...but the Father trusted us... 00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:58.880 ...enough... 00:39:58.880 --> 00:39:59.880 ...to give us... 00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:01.880 ...those that were black... 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:02.880 ...and those that were white... 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:04.880 ...and those that were Hispanic... 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:05.880 ...and those... 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:07.880 ...he gave us... 00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:09.880 ...who he wanted us... 00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:11.880 ...and trusted us... 00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:13.880 ...to work with... 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:14.880 ...put your life... 00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:15.880 ...in that position... 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:17.880 ...and watch the Father... 00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:18.880 ...work... 00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:19.880 ...in you... 00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:20.880 ...through you... 00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:21.880 ...to you... 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:22.880 ...by you... 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:24.880 ...and for you... 00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:26.880 ...to the glory of God... 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:27.880 ...to the glory of God.