Bill Kauble
Leader of the club.
Hello.
Hello, hello. We’re getting there.
As my dear friend Steve, Burrington said it looks like you’re wearing a coffee filter.
As you can see all of our men, all of our men have masks on. They need to put masks on right now.
You put mask on,
or the beatings will resume. Thank you.
We welcome you to Good Friday. And as Travis said, as he was remarking about his parents, that was an absolute blessing that both of his parents knew Jesus. And both of his parents are in heaven.
And, and the testimony of both of his parents are powerful. We all love, Sam, we all love Sam, we love you. We’re fond of your brother, but we love you
very much. We want to welcome you here this morning. We believe that our purpose in being here is to encourage each man in their personal relationship with Jesus Christ. And the way that we do that is we gather and we celebrate who Jesus is for us. And we hear a great message and we hear great most of worship. But we also believe that animacy vertically and horizontally could be much more accomplished in a forum group. And so we searched far and wide for the leader that would lead us to do that. And we couldn’t find one. But then we found Ron Tovar. And then his sidekick, jack, Daniel, I mean Frank Daniels. So come here, boys.
I love jack and his
and his friend, Frank,
we have a desire in our heart, a desire in our heart, every one of you would be in a forum group, you’re going to say, Well, I’m too busy. I’m too busy staying at home, watching the TV. I’m too busy playing poker with my buddies. We don’t think you’re too busy for Jesus Christ. And we know we say that with love. But the beatings will resume if all of you do not join a forum group. So with that introduction, Ron, would you care to say something? Yes.
Ron Tovar
You know, a lot of
times we we think that we’re doing things and we’re just doing them, but
when you join a forum group, and you invest some time, and three other men or however many are in that group, you’re planting seeds. And when you plant seeds, sometimes those seeds come back and bear fruit. And that fruit can come and knock right on your door. And such a thing happened for myself. That was
Mark sickler came into one of our meetings. And he,
as many of you know, he was on his way to be sentenced and all and he’s close to all have our hearts a repented man and he ended up going to prison.
But he was in our four M group for a while and and you know, God was preparing them for that. And God has given him a desire in his heart to win 12,000 souls in jail in prison. Can you imagine that? And and, and in doing so we hear all these things about what he’s doing and Bible studies and even repeating Pete’s messages through Michael lows, or writings and stuff. And all that’s happening. But what happened for me was that my grandson got in trouble. And guess what?
Mark had three different opportunities to speak to him about Jesus Christ and being born again.
And that was a full circle for me. Some, some of us have people that are out there and we think it’s impossible to reach them. But God has a way to reach them and he did it through for him. And and so that’s what for him is about three men or four man five or whatever, about bonding together, praying for each other, and and get into more intimate relationship with Jesus. That’s that’s what it’s about and, and touching the world winning souls man by man, man by man. We have these lists and other Frank tell you about that.
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Yeah good morning. I just I can’t express how important it is for men to be in a forum group, especially at times like this.
When there’s so much isolation, that’s the worst thing for any human being is to be in isolation. So it’s really important for you to be a part of a forum group where you can pray together, share together, cry together, express your feelings together, study the Word together. And so here’s a form a signup sheet is very simple I need to do is put down your name, and your address and your phone number, and your email address. And also, there’s a selection here where you can have a first choice and a second choice. And we’ll try to get you into an existing group now, so don’t don’t hesitate Sign up now.
Bill Kauble
Thank your man that’s watching, that there would be a stirring in their heart a desire for a closer relationship with you, father. And we know this vertical relationship to the forum is the gift that you have given us. As a father, we ask you to bless Ron and Frank and with their efforts, and every man that’s a shepherd, and co Shepherd Lord, we just lift this up in Jesus name, amen. Amen. As you guys know, we exist by the donations that you guys give us. And so right now we’re gonna give a blessing. And we ask that if you are part of this body, that you would give generously, and he give often. So Father, we just lift up this offering. And Father, you have been so faithful for us for so many years for 20 some odd years. It’s been amazing Lord. And we just asked you to continue to fill these coffers and multiply them. for your purposes. We pray that but the name and the blood of Jesus Christ, and he has risen. Amen.
Pete McKenzie
Let’s try that again. He is risen.
And you say he is risen indeed. Now that’s actually a Sunday thing. This is Friday, and that’d be a Sunday thing.
Today, we’re talking about Good Friday, and why is it good?
Friday’s here but Sunday’s coming. I still got it.
Yeah, what’s good about Good Friday? I think that’s a good question.
And, you know, I used to wonder about that I grew up going to Easter and getting Easter baskets as a kid and having eighth grade haunts and rabbits and chocolate, especially chocolate rabbits.
And all that. I guess I never really understood and knew what Easter was all about. And knew all the songs that we sang in church, but he is risen on Easter day. But Good Friday, we didn’t really celebrate much we didn’t. I don’t ever remember a Good Friday being an issue growing up in church. And maybe it was in sound, but it wasn’t an hour’s. So over the years, I started looking into what’s good Friday, all about why did Jesus have to die? I’ve been asked that question before, but from people. Why did he have to die?
And so as I prayed about it and read through the Scriptures,
I saw that Jesus came to die.
That was the whole point that
that he came for.
Matter of fact, he shared with you before that.
When he came, he was unusual. He won like any other prophets are preachers or evangelists that it showed up and all the false teachers that show up and he was different. And he attracted people. And they, of course, were attracted because of the miracles he did. And he did miracles to attract them. And then he taught him the word. We’re gonna see a video in a minute and Nicodemus is
meeting that he had with Jesus, you know, he came to him in the night you may recall that. But
I looked at the scriptures and was saying what led up to Good Friday to Jesus’s crucifixion. Cause around john 11, Jesus had been ministering to crowds and drawing great crowds and feeding them with with fish and loaves and feeding the 5000 healing paralytics and blind people, just doing his ministry and teaching it the Sermon on the Mount and 1000s of people would be there. Often next thing I’m going to ask him when I get there is how do you How did 5000
People hear you sitting then
had to get that done. Because he didn’t have a mic like I’ve got here.
But they got it done.
And then in around john 12, Jesus stopped ministering to the disciples, I mean to the crowds, and he started pouring into his disciples just downloading. He tried to prepare them for what was coming.
It’s like, God always warns his people, when judgment is coming, or some cataclysmic tragedy like him going to the cross was coming. He wanted to make sure that they wouldn’t be confused later. Now, they were totally confused when he was teaching all this stuff. When he was trying to prepare them. They didn’t get any of it. But Jesus knew that they would get it when Pentecost when they received the Holy Spirit. And then everything he had taught them with all of a sudden makes sense, that happened to me, when I came to Christ, I couldn’t understand the Bible, I’d read the Bible and didn’t get anything out of it. But when I received the Holy Spirit, when I was 22 years old, after being in church my whole life,
then I started reading the Bible. And it was so fun to understand what it was saying, and it spoke to my heart. That didn’t mean I became a student of the Bible automatically. But it did mean that I understood it when I did read it.
And I looked in john, starting with john 12. And actually, where Mary anoints Jesus, he’s at Mary and Martha and Lazarus house, and he had raised Lazarus from the dead net, to gotten a lot of attention. So Matter of fact, when he entered Jerusalem, on that last time for the Passover, and for all that was going to happen. There were so many people there that had seen Lazarus, and they knew he was dead. And Jesus waited three days, so to make sure that nobody had any question about him being dead, so that when he raised him from the dead, there would be no question what had happened. And so we raised Lazarus from the dead, and all those people were in Jerusalem for Passover, and they were witnessing to people, and they were telling people about Lazarus, and I’m gonna guess it Lazarus was there too, but he may have wanted to avoid the crowds.
We don’t know that. But Marissa Nona, Jesus and Judas, the treasurer, the betrayer, rebuked her for doing that.
And Jesus says, Don’t rebuke her, let her alone, so that she may prepare me for the day of my burial.
Now, they didn’t understand what that meant. And she didn’t understand that she anointed him with all and then he entered Jerusalem. And that was what we celebrated last Sunday and Palm Sunday. And people were glorifying him and
putting palm branches down. And he wrote into Jews from on a donkey, which was a royal King Lee thing to do.
And then the Greeks came seeking Jesus, and they came up to fill up and they said, Sir, we would see Jesus, have a friend, that’s a pastor, and he said, they gave him a new pulpit in his church. And they had engraved on that pulpit, sir, we would say, Jesus, just to remind him every Sunday, who they want to hear about, and to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
And so Jesus, they said, we would see Jesus. And so Philip told Andrew and Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus, and he answered and said, The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
So basically, he was preparing them. And,
and then he foretold his death. And Jesus did this several times where he would tell the disciples, I’m going to Jerusalem, they’re going to arrest me, they’re going to beat me up, they’re going to persecute me, they’re going to nail me to a tree, but on the third day, I will rise again.
They couldn’t believe it, they first wouldn’t receive it, and they couldn’t believe it. And but he was just preparing them the best he could, for what they were about to face and what they were going to go through because it was going to be very difficult. Now judgment is upon the world, now the ruler of this world would be cast out. You want to know why Jesus died, he died, to deliver us from the ruler of this world. That’s what we need today. We need to be delivered from the ruler of this world who is dominating this world today and even more so. It’s kind of like he let a few demons loose, and they’ve always been loose, and they’ve always been doing their thing in the spiritual warfare that goes on in life. But now there’s just more and more just being released on us. And they’re the bullies are running amok. If you want to put it in those terms. Jesus knew that was going to happen.
And then that was happening during these days. So he was foretelling his death to them and preparing them for it.
And then they went on the night before the he was going to be arrested. And that later that night, and he had what we call the Lord’s Supper. And you’ll recall that he wanted them to make sure they and he understood that Judas would be his betrayer that he won, he won something that would surprise him, it wasn’t something that was he’s going to be caught off guard, he knew that. And he prepared his disciples for that. And, and they he needed them to know that he knew that was going to happen, and he allowed it to happen. And that he knew all this stuff was going to happen that happened to him during his Passion Week. So that they wouldn’t think that he was caught off guard. And they would know that he voluntarily went to the cross, He allowed them to kill him. He allowed them to, to suffer like to put him through that suffering. And at the Lord’s Supper, you recall that he washed his disciples feet,
and told them that what I’ve done to you, I want you to do with each other, wash each other’s feet. And he came to Peter and Peter said, Well, don’t just wash he said, not my feet, Lord. I’m not worthy.
Can you identify with that?
Jesus said, Peter, if I don’t wash your feet, you have no part with me.
And what that represented was the feet were dirty with sin.
And Peter, Peter said, Well, if that’s the case, and wash my whole body, and he says your whole body is already clean, it’s your feet. As you walk through this world, you’ll get your feet dirty, you’ll sin, you’ll have a have issues. And you need to wash each other’s feet, help each other, stay clean and forgiven, remind each other of the gospel remind each other of being delivered, remind each other to the lie that we’re on the salt of the earth, what I’ve been teaching you.
And so after washing the disciples feet, he told Judas to go out and do what he had to do. And so Judas went out and,
and to betrayed Jesus. But before we got through chapter 1334, and 35, is one that we memorize in the two seven, as we’re going through the forum, a new commandment I give to you that you love one another.
Even is I have loved you.
By this, all men will know your motto, disciple, if you have love for one another.
And so Jesus was making sure that they took care of each other, that they love one another. And that’s what he wants you and me to do. That’s what he wants us in churches to do. That’s what he wants us Christian families to do. Love one another. And the amazing thing is, he’s given us power to do that, not just love the those who are doing what we want them to do, and the way we want them to do it, when we want them to do it, and how we want them to do it. But those who don’t do that those who don’t wish us well, those who spit on us and slap us and mock us and ridicule us, those who forced us to go one mile.
We can volunteer to go to those who slap us on one sheet we can turn the other cheek.
Those who
are our enemies we can love and pray for
Jesus on the cross prayed Father forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing. He’s given me a new through the cross. And and as the Holy Spirit in the prepared them. He said, I’m sending a comforter.
I’m sending a helper, someone is going to help you live out this life I’m giving you. So at Pentecost, they received the Holy Spirit. And they couldn’t live that life. I don’t know about you. But I tried to live that life without the Holy Spirit. And all I got was guilt and shame, frustration, even anger, anger at myself, angry because I couldn’t be good Amy because I couldn’t keep the rules. And Jesus says, I’m going to give you a helpers to help you do that. And that’s a Holy Spirit. And they received the Holy Spirit at one point and they you know, they turned the world upside down after that with a gospel and preaching the gospel.
In chapter 14, he comforted his disciples, He says, Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God believe also in me.
Don’t be troubled about anything. And Paul said it over and Philippians four be anxious for nothing. What part of nothing? Do I not understand?
The answers for nothing.
Don’t let your heart be troubled. And in john 14, he said, my peace I give to you My peace I live live with you not as a world gives do I give to you so don’t let your heart be troubled and don’t be fearful.
And then in chapter 15, where he starts really downloading discipleship into their lives. I am the vine and you’re
The branches abide in me in Midland my word about in you and you will bear much fruit for apart from me, you can do nothing.
The third question we asked them we’re putting a wristband on a guy for a man of God is do you want to spend the rest of your life learning to become just like Jesus. So Jesus was preparing these guys. And he says, I want you to love one another. And then I want you to abide in me and the way you love one another as your body and me, the closer you get to God, the better you’re going to love each other.
It’s like when I’m teaching on marriage, and I’m sharing the marriage triangle. Jesus is up here. And here’s Pete, and here’s Susan, you and your wife if you’re married,
the closer I got to Jesus, the more I love, Susan, the closer I got to her. That’s what Jesus is basically saying, if we walk with him and abide in Him, we can love one another. But apart from me said, you can do nothing, nothing eternal, nothing righteous, nothing good, nothing pure, nothing true.
Nothing praiseworthy, nothing lovely. And that’s what we’re supposed to dwell on. And that’s what we want to when we have this spirit. So he was downloading into these guys in 15.
Then 16, Jesus warned these things that I spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling, and he didn’t want his disciples to stumble. But if they didn’t believe, if they didn’t have the Holy Spirit, that’s what we do we stumble.
So what’s the point?
why Jesus have to come?
And you know, I came to the conclusion that Jesus came because I’m a sinner.
CCN became the issue in the Garden of Eden. Jesus said, Look, Adam and Eve, don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Because if you do, you’re gonna die. And that’s not just physically death, that spiritually, you’re going to die in your relationship to me up until this point. They had a great relationship. It was a loving relationship. It was fellowship, it was closeness. It was love.
And that’s what they enjoyed with God in the garden. But he didn’t put one tree in the middle of the garden tree. Well, it were to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the tree of life. He says that tree of knowledge of good and evil, don’t eat from that tree. If you do, you’re going to die. The devil comes along. And we can resist anything but temptation. We’ve already established that in this group.
And you know what happened? They failed and great was the fall.
The problem from then on was sin. It’s always been the problem. It’s a universal problem. Every baby born I look at babies that are born and the mom is holding him in the dad’s beaming, and I go, that’s a cutest little sinner. I oversell.
I never have one. I’m like that.
This is my precious little baby. Yeah, but he’s the center. And he’s gonna cause you a lot of misery.
That’s what we’re born to cause our parents misery and then our kids calls us misery.
But it’s because of sin. And so I started writing one day, I took all the things that I’d learned in Scripture and the things that I knew about sin, and
I’ll read it to you.
Know yourself and know your enemy, for they’re the same.
The Bible teaches that all have sinned, which means that I’m a sinner by nature.
I have the disposition of sin since my birth. It’s my natural DNA.
Because of this, I know that there is no goodness are righteousness in me.
I’m a slave to sin, and I can’t do anything about it.
I can’t fix or save myself. I’m spiritually helpless and hopeless. My sin does not make me a center of sin, because I am a sinner.
My sin is not something I do. It’s something I am.
My nature is to want to be my own God.
My sin is rooted in my pride and selfishness. And in this is in in this there’s warfare. My warfare is not against my sin. I can never fight with sin. Jesus deals with sin and redemption. Meanwhile, my sin nature is independent from God, and is outright rebellion against him
as a bona fide genuine sinner. I love the darkness because my deeds are evil. The result of my sin is death in hostility to a loving God who offers me life.
I’m capable of committing the most awful sins and atrocities. My sinful heart and mind does not submit to God. nor can it
is a sinner no matter how hard I try. I cannot earn my salvation
or get God
Love me, or accept me or approve of me. He already does.
Not having the Spirit of Christ in me I’m controlled by and kept in bondage by the devil and his demons to do His will.
The devil tempts me to sin
and then accuses and shames me when I do.
I ruthlessly control myself ish control oriented territory.
I’m in spiritual darkness and my best efforts will not get me out.
In my spiritual darkness often think I’m in the right light, left to myself because of my sin emcell to set to self destruct.
I know what is wrong, but I cannot keep from doing it. Because I have no power over. Even when I do write my sinful heart often does it with wrong motives.
am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips.
The thing about sin is it hurts others and sometimes I care.
My sin separates me from God and others and because it’s all about me.
My son breaks hearts steals the trace lust covets, hates in lies. My son deceives cons, masks, cheats, manipulates and disrespects others.
My son loves things and uses people.
My sin weakens me and makes me dysfunctional in bankrupts my character.
My sin is ruthless with others, and soft on myself.
My sin is materialistic, shamanistic egotistical, vengeful, angry, resentful, bitter, and Savage.
My sin is deceptive, causing me to think I can get away with it without consequences.
My sin makes me feel guilty and ashamed. My sin makes me ineffective, impotent, feeble, frail, and fragile.
I see and makes me feel pitiful and contempt for others and myself.
My sin causes me to hide and wear a mask, which robs me of my dignity, my self worth and my value.
My sin robs me of spiritual authority makes me timid, fearful, rather than bold.
My sin blinds my eyes so that I cannot see my sin or know or do the truth.
My sin real rationalizes my crimes justifies my actions, and minimize is my guilt.
My sin hardens my heart It’s unloving and unforgiving and boastful, proud, arrogant, rude rash, so abusive and disobedient. so ungrateful and wholly, slanderous, without self control, brutal, treacherous, mean violent, conceited, intractable
and unavailable for anything but self gratification.
my sin can focus on another Christian sin against me to the point that I now see them as a sinner and I give myself permission to reject them.
My sin must protect my outward image and reputation and threatened in silence those who have solved it.
I see it makes me defensive. It makes me explain myself make excuses vindicate
but not take responsibility because I have become a victim.
My sin can lead me into every kind of sexual immorality and perversion coming from the wickedness of myself a chart that says I love me I want you
my sin to me and declaring that it’s okay and permissible to damage and abuse others while it’s actually offending My Holy God
my fully seen is quick to claim my own rights in any demon will make sure that I get them.
My Sin causes me to expect much from others but little for myself.
I see and leads me to make vows and promises that I cannot and will not keep if it doesn’t serve my selfish purpose. So all about me.
I see and loves impurity and indecency. It worships idols practices disobedience likened to witchcraft, and sets itself up against every law and command and standard of a holy God.
My sin spreads discord, envy, hate division, dissension, factions and jealousy that destroys relationships and families.
My sin is marked by selfish ambition and the desire to profit at the expense of others and to use them to get ahead.
My sinful pride will not allow me to make peace by humbling myself asking forgiveness or making restitution.
My sin defends itself from all righteous, other centered, intense and efforts. My sin loves to lord it over others and exercise prideful authority over them.
My sin resists authority in every form and rebels against it to my pero
sin has a day of devastating effect on me that causes me to try to ease my conscience, guilt and shame and things which offer temporary relief but long term bondage and misery, such as drunkenness, orgies, and addictions to power, wealth, drugs, comfort food, and celebrity.
My sin seeks revenge on those who have wronged me and makes me feel right and good about the pain I’ve inflicted on them.
My sin is critical of others and it loves to put them down which in appropriately makes me feel better about myself and superior to them.
My sin unrepented off will keep me from inheriting the kingdom of God and all the blessings he has for me and Christ.
I’m wearing myself out here.
Have you gotten the idea about sin,
sins awful sins, hideous sins, ugly, sins, deceitful.
Sin, separated man from God. The whole point of Jesus coming to down the cross was to take redeem us from our sin to deliver us to transform us to conform us to his image.
Jesus and john the baptist came preaching a message of repentance, and grace and faith in forgiveness.
Paul had such a struggle with sin in Romans seven. He had talked about the things that I know I should do or don’t do and the things I know I shouldn’t do. I love doing wretched man that I am who have saved me from the body of this death.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus Can I get a hallelujah from the congregation.
Therefore there is no condemnation.
All that’s I’ve read about sin and more everything that sin means there’s no condemnation.
He welcome the centers. He hung out with centers in tax gatherers and prostitutes and homosexuals and con men.
And he offered him life and a new life a different life. He offered him hope and peace and love, genuine love, real love, sacrificing LOVE, LOVE THAT pours out.
Love that serves.
Therefore there’s no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus because through Christ Jesus love the spirit of life sets me free from the law of sin and death.
Let me read that again.
For those who are in Christ Jesus because through Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit of life sets me free from the law of sin and death.
In Romans five, eight, but God demonstrates His own love toward us in it while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Jesus Christ died for sinners, not for good people. There’s so many people that don’t need a savior, because they’re good, they keep the roof they keep the laws. They feel good about themselves. They compare themselves to those who are centers.
To those who don’t keep the law who’ve gotten themselves in trouble, gotten pregnant and had abortions.
gotten a girlfriend or wife pregnant and forced him to have abortions. He died for those people He died for the tax gather that was hated Matthew, who became Levi or Levi who became Matthew.
Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I’ll give you rest
should be no question about Good Friday. And what Jesus did in what he did to prepare his man for it, he wants to prepare us for what’s coming.
He wants to get us ready.
He wants us to love one another, even as he has loved us.
He wants us to serve one another and give out in sacrifice and stand in the face of danger with no fear.
Take the pain, take the punishment, take the persecution for His glory as he did when he was reviled, he reviled not.
And as he’s done he asked us to go and do your the light of the world you’re the salt of the earth.
What more does he have to say? and What more does he have to do to convince us that we can do nothing apart from him? That we have a savior who cried in sweat like great drops of blood in the garden. In his humanity, he didn’t want to go that cross who would? He didn’t want to suffer the beatings and persecution? But what’s the point? What’s gonna help me might get this we are missing a point if I can’t see myself kissing him in betrayal. I miss upon if I can’t see myself hacking off Malka, seer and worldly defense. I miss upon if I can’t see myself sneering Are you the king then? I miss upon if I can’t see the scourging blew up in my own hands. I missed the point if I cannot hear myself deny him. When confronted with my love for him. I miss a point if I don’t go weeping into the night after denying him three times. I missed the point. If I can’t see the spit from his mouth running down his face or my mouth running down his face.
I miss a point if I can’t hear my mouth saying crucify Him, crucify him. I miss a point if I can’t hear myself mocking and jeering at him. Going along with the crowd. I miss a point if I can’t see myself jamming the crown of thorns down on his head. You see it? I miss a point if I can’t see myself pounding the nails into his hands in fee. I miss a point if I cannot hear myself say if you’re the Son of God come off that cross. And I miss a point if I can’t hear myself say with a Roman soldier. Surely this was a son of God. What more does he have to do? Nicodemus came to Jesus in the night. And he had a lot of questions. And he had an amazing encounter with Jesus. Let’s watch it now.
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God loves the world in this way. But he gave his only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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As Dallas in the creator of the chosen and the scene you’re about to see in the scene, the most impactful and famous chapter in the Bible john chapter three, the conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus. Now what you’re about to see will not only be the gospel captured accurately, but you’ll also see the historical context, the cultural context and the personal human context that we added that was set up by the previous six episodes. So enjoy the scene as it is. But if you want to get the full impact as to why this scene was so powerful, be sure to watch the entire season one of the chosen check this out. I
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don’t know where to start. I have so many questions. I shall we said first. Yes, of course. The Eastern slumps. Many wandering preachers have succeeded in gathering crowds, but their rhetoric and fiery tone I’ve heard a few of them over the years myself. So you know the time but I have never heard any paralytic much less it actually happened. So what is your conclusion? I believe you are not acting alone. Now one can do the signs you do without having God in Him
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to someone who has come from God and that was their belief going over in the synagogue.
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Which is why we are here at this hour. What else have you come here to To show us that kingdom that is what our rulers are worried about, about that guy, that sort of kingdom that a person cannot see. Unless he is born again. Born again. Yes. You mean creature, conversion from Gentile to Jewish? No, that’s not what I’m talking about, and what is born again, I hope you don’t be returned to the womb, because that would be a problem for me, my mother, and she rest in peace is dead. Truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. And that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. That part of you that is what must be reborn to new life.
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Teach of Israel and your to do not understand this. Trying Rabbi what you hear the wind? How do you know it’s the wind? Because I can feel it. I hear it sound. Do you know where it comes from? No. Do you know where it’s going? No. That’s what it is to be born again. The Spirit. The Spirit may work in a way that is a mystery to you. And why you cannot see the spirit, you can recognize his effect. Mind is consumed with thoughts. What has triggered these words would cause when the teachers of the law? Yes. And I do not expect otherwise. They speak of what I know that they have seen and it has not been received by the religious leaders hard to receive. So if I have told you of earthly things, and you do not believe how can I tell you heavenly things? I believe your words. I just feel you may not have a chance to speak many more of them before you are silenced. I have gone to the more than speak words Nicodemus. More miracles. Yes. But even more than that. Do you remember when the children of Israel complained against God and against Moses in the wilderness of Paran? Yes, they wanted to return to Egypt and because the manner that God sent them, and then they were bitten by serpents. And they were dying. But God made a way for them to be healed. Moses lifted the bronze serpent in the desert, and people only needed to look at it. So was the Son of Man be lifted up for that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life. Our people are not dying from snake bites. They’re dying from taxation and oppression. Sorry to disappoint you. But I did not come to deliver the people from Rome and from Word from sin,
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from spiritual death. God loves the world in this way. that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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dogmatic life to give up there is a lot you would give up but what you will gain is far greater and more lasting. smother when you’re born again mysteries.
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Is it easy for us color picker time on the morning of the 50 leave. And when we By the way, the southern border is the kingdom My heart is swollen with fear.
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bless it are all who take refuge in Him. Maybe you came in here today and you just were coming to the men’s group. Want to see some other guys wanting to get back together and be in this atmosphere. This environment the Holy Spirit’s welcoming now saw. Ministry has created an environment where the Holy Spirit’s welcome to come and help himself to our lives. It will cost you something you will have to sacrifice you will have to give up. But what you gain is so much better. Maybe you’ve been a casual Christian, you’ve just been taking things for granted. You’ve been busy about the things you’re busy about in the world has gotten your attention and you’ve had a lot more time for it and putting out fires and trying to fight off depression, fear, anger, politicians, government mandates. And you’ve forgotten what the real issue is. You’ve forgotten what God has called you to do and why he saved you and forgive your sins and maybe you have no assurance of salvation today. Maybe you were baptized once, maybe not. Maybe you say you believe that you had a hard time reading the Bible and live in it. walking with God. abiding in him. You’ve avoided fellowship and prayer groups and for him groups in church. I’ve had enough of that. I’ve been in church all my life. Paul never got tired of preaching the gospel. For me to live is Christ to die is gain. He lived it every day. The reason Paul lived it every day as he was on his way to Damascus one day, and he was going to go kill in jail Christians. And God met him on that road where they meet you. Maybe today he’ll meet you. Why are you persecuting me? Why are you avoiding me? A doubt on the cross. Your sin is destroying you self destruct. You’re vindicating and rationalizing and explaining, justifying. And I need you to repent of that. I need you to come out into the light where I’m in the light and you walk in the light, you’ll have fellowship with me, in the blood of Jesus Christ, His son will cleanse you from all unrighteousness of sin. That’s the message. That’s the only thing that really matters. What matters to us if we have a country or not, it’s built on the constitution and gives us our rights as Americans. But is that the most important thing there is it’s temporary. Peace is always temporary. If it’s not, the pieces surpasses all comprehension. So what are you going to give yourself to something that sinking like the Titanic Are you going to give yourself to something that’s eternal and will never pass away.
something as small as a forum groups can reach 1000s of men all over the country in the world because of its multiplication aspect because of zoom, the technology that we all discovered during this pandemic. We got guys in Minnesota meeting with guys in Glendale who are getting meeting with guys in Irvine, all in the same meeting. We got guys that are going to to seven they’ll go through journey group and then they’re going to go out and get their own three guys. We got guys that are involved in forum that have never walked in this room or walked in the room up in Florida and no, no even know who we are. But they’re in foreground for him groups. And I we hear amazing stories about what’s going on in those groups, how God is meeting men. And if you’re going to redeem what was lost in your own life, then you got the opportunity. Maybe it’s in your church, maybe it’s in another group, but you have opportunities. Let’s don’t waste it. Let’s let the blood that was shared and ran down that cross from his head and his wound in his side and his feet. This make it count. Go out and get him heaven. But make sure that you have salvation in your own heart. And did you realize what a sinner you are and what you’ve been forgiven for. And one day, there’ll be judgment. And at that judgment, seek to separate the sheep from the goats. And you’re not a goat, if you’re in Christ, and you’re going to go to heaven and not spend eternity separated from him inhale. It’s a real place. And it’s a real ending for those in your family and your friends, and your neighbors and your divine appointments that God gives us every day. There’s nothing more important than sharing this good news with others. So I don’t know what you think’s been important and taking your time. But if you don’t have time for Jesus, he’s not first in your life. And he exhorted us to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Jesus came to save souls not to save Israel from Rome. And that’s what we need to be about our Father’s business. Amen.
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Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for our sins. And then if we accept Jesus as our Lord and our Savior, we will have the gift of eternal life. And you said, Jesus, come follow me. That gets us to Matthew 2818 and 19, which says
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Father is your last name is the price for that we thank you that machine in Hebrew means if anointed Messiah, anointed Christ in three, the Anointed One, you’ve already anointed Jesus to be anointed The one who came to pay the price for a sense for what I was looking at the details for so that we understand what we’re talking about praying for Archer holies spirit in a mighty way that goes with that oppression. And who are those mercies come by way of knowledge and understanding of who you are, what you did, what you’re doing that what you’re going to do. We have the road map for lilies blesses, in a mighty way, there’s 60 years here, there shouldn’t be 6000 levels. We shouldn’t be filling stadiums all the way out that state is to counter it with equal opportunity weapon systems, you are the weapons system, you have to hide Ross, He who has to hide with superior forces always wins the battle, you’re superior to all things that we’ve already spoken into existence. So look, we’re counting on you, in a mighty way, come for, for out that Holy Spirit. We read, you’re going to keep it in mind. And so he’s not going to freak us out when he pulls verses of scripture offered such a time as that. I remember and God bless him. I know he’s home. A few major groups bender told me many, many years ago, I don’t want you to make a note. You just go out there in front of those Marines and you tell them what’s on your heart policy. You’ll use your mouth so are we asking for you to enter into our lives in a mighty way? How does that help us to learn to practice in the privacy of our own
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God, we thank you for your faithfulness. We thank you that when you do it, it’s done. And no one can undo it. You’ve done it in our hearts. You’ve been faithful to us you’ve delivered us from sin you’ve given us your Holy Spirit. You put righteousness righteous robes on our backs. And we are so grateful guys, I want you to stand with me and sing this grade is I say oh god
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Lord, I hope this is music to your ears. as men stand and sing about your faithfulness, now May we go out and live it and give them heaven in Jesus name And all God’s men said given heaven guys
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