Episode Transcript
Good afternoon everybody.
That's gonna be our verses there for this uh, whoop, there you go.
Camera ladies tell me that's good right there.
So I hope y'all can read all them.
That's gonna be the verses we'll be visiting today to accompany us within the Book of June on verse 11.
So wherever we go.
Like I told Marla, there's a very old man that got caught dropping my mouth, so if it looks like I'm popping in those sounds coming out of the top It looks like one of them Godzilla movies.
All that's up.
All right, here we go.
Hope everybody's had a wonderful week.
John's good to see you today, sir.
That smile always brightening my day.
All right, we're gonna be in the Book of June.
We're gonna be back on verse 11 where we're left off.
Because you, verse 11, we're gonna start right here.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Remember that?
That's the way we're talking about that.
So last week we left off in the Book of June, now verse 11.
Now Jude has been warning us about the ungodly who is crept in among them on the Word.
Now just to revisit here a little bit, a definition of the word ungodly means irreverent, irreverent.
These people that Jude's warning us about did not revere God.
They did not revere God.
The definition of the word revere means to regard with fear, mingled with respect and affection.
Before I knew God as my Savior, I mean before I knew Jesus as my Savior, I knew that there was a God.
And the majority of the people you ask, they'll probably agree, "Oh yeah, there's a God.
I believe there's a God."
But see, the problem is before I was saved, I did not revere God.
I did not respect God.
I did not believe that God could take it away from me like that.
And a twinkling of an eye, folks, everything he did gone just like that.
And there's one person in control of all that, and that's our God.
Our God is the one who gives us life.
God is the one who breathed life into man's nostrils.
God is the one that gave you life.
And just like that, it can be gone.
See, I did not revere God as my Creator.
I did not respect God.
Adam and Eve, when they sinned in the Garden of Eden, they ran away from God.
And they hid from God.
And they knew that there was a God.
They knew that there was a God.
But they didn't revere Him.
They didn't respect Him.
When God told them, "Do not eat of that tree," they didn't believe Him.
They didn't revere God.
So these ungodly people that you were telling us, that you were telling us about, they did not revere God.
Now, Jude says here in verse 11, this is where we're going to have thought.
He says, "Woe unto them."
Now, last week we said the word "woe" gives us the idea of an outcry of grief.
An outcry of grief.
And I gave the picture of a cowboy stopping a runaway stagecoach pulled by a team of horses.
And he stopped that runaway stagecoach by jumping on their horses and saying, "Whoa!
Whoa!"
He had that cowboy yell at those horses to stop before it was too late, thus stopping them before they got hurt and destroying the stagecoach and anyone who might be traveling in the stagecoach.
Jude says, "Woe unto the ungodly."
Why?
Let's look back at verse 11 in the book of Jude and let God tell us through Jude.
He says, "Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Belong, but of Balaam, for reward and perish in the gain-saying of court."
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord.
Lord, we thank you for all those who come, Lord, to hear your word talk, Father.
And I pray, Lord, that the sanctre edified today, Lord, and that the lost are pointed to you, here, Father.
Lord, just please let your spirit teach us, Father, and let people learn today, Lord.
I just pray, Lord, that we learn today, Father.
Thank you so much for Jesus and all that you do, Lord.
Thank you for your word, Father.
Thank you so much for your word, in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Okay.
So, he says, "For they have gone, they have gone."
These words translate from the Greek.
Give us the idea of too traverse, too traverse, which means to travel or depart away, to turn as on a pivot, to swivel as the needle of a compass traverses.
When I was a very young man, I was given a compass, and I thought that was the neatest thing.
John, you ever had a compass?
Yes, sir.
All right.
I thought that was the neatest thing.
It has some letter stamped inside of it.
Did yours have letters in it?
Yeah.
It has some letters stamped inside of it at the very end of an arrow-looking thing, a pointer for a lack of better word that just seemed to just float around inside this little handheld container with a see-through lens of some sort.
So, the letters inside were N-E-S-W.
Now, I didn't realize John was thinking his mind, "That ain't north.
That ain't south."
So, north, south.
Okay, I, my daddy gave me two.
Daddy did the same thing.
Boy, that ain't north.
Yep.
But anyway, you had N-E-S-W inside that little compass with that little arrow that would sit there and float around.
Now, every time I would move, when I moved one way while holding this compass, that arrow inside would point to one of the letters showing me which direction I was facing.
So, if I was facing north, John, that arrow would point to the end, wouldn't it?
And if I went to the south, it would point to the south or east, it would east, west, and it would west.
When I would move one way or another, the arrow inside would move to a different letter showing me that was the direction I was facing.
Now, keep that in mind as we discuss the next words here in the book of Jude.
Jude says they have gone in the way, in the way.
This word in Greek gives us the idea of a road, a road.
Now, when we travel and we want to get to our destination, we can either go the right way and get to where we want to go, or we can go the wrong way and never get to where we want to be.
That's right.
We can get on the right road, but what is going to happen if we're going in the wrong direction?
So, I'm on the right road.
Say, I want to go back to Maybank from here.
I get on 175.
I'm on the right road.
What happens if I go that direction away from Maybank?
I'm not going to get to Maybank, am I?
That's right.
I'm on the right road, but I'm going the right direction.
We can get on the right road, but what is going to happen if we're going in the wrong direction?
We will never end up at the place we want to be.
We are going in the wrong direction.
They, the ungodly people that Jude is telling us about, they started coming to church.
They heard God's Word, but they did not believe it.
They traversed.
Just like that arrow inside of that compass, when I moved that arrow moved, if I was pointing to the north, the arrow pointed to the north.
If I pointed to the south, the arrow pointed to the south.
These ungodly people were pointed to God, but they did not believe, so they turned away from God.
They were on the right road, pointed in the right direction, but they turned away.
And our verse says, "They have gone in the way of Cain."
Now, who was Cain?
I'm so glad you asked, because I so wanted to share with you who he was.
Let's look at Genesis chapter 4.
Now I've got John Mark here in Genesis chapter 4.
You're welcome, sir.
Genesis chapter 4, very first book in your Bible.
We're going to read Genesis chapter 4.
That's 4.
We're going to read read 1 through 3.
We're going to read on the next page, 1 all the way down.
You got it, Mom?
Thomas is on the way.
Ron is good.
Y'all ready?
Let the pastor get there and we'll begin.
All right, Genesis chapter 4.
Now this occurred right after Adam and Eve were shown the exit sign in the Garden of Eden, and escorted out of the Garden of Eden.
So Adam and Eve sinned.
God said, "You went against my word.
I asked you not to do that.
If somebody comes to your house and you ask them not to do something, what are you going to do?"
Same thing.
God didn't show them the exit sign.
They just left the Garden of Eden.
Verse 4.
I mean chapter 4 verse 1.
"And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and there came and said, 'I have gotten a man from the Lord.'"
Now remember we're looking at where Cain was here.
"And she began again to bear his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground."
So right away we see there's a distinction between these two young men here.
One was a keeper of sheep, a shepherd, and the other was a tiller of the ground.
He worked with the ground, the other one burnt with sheep.
"And in the process of time, it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground and offering unto the Lord."
So Cain brought of his works to the Lord.
Remember Cain was a farmer.
He was a tiller of the ground.
So what Cain grew out of the ground, he brought to the Lord as an offering.
"And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof."
Now that means that's a good, healthy sheep.
The fat thereof, good, healthy sheep.
That's the choice prime sheep right there.
"And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering.
But unto Cain and to his offering, he had not respect."
And Cain was very raw and his countenance fell.
Now when Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden, and God told them that they will surely die if they sinned against God, if they went against his word and ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
After they ate of that tree, God took pity on them, and he slew an innocent animal.
Innocent blood was shed in the place of Adam and Eve's immediate death there.
God made coats and he clothed them with the innocent shed coats of those sheep.
Those sheep had nothing to do with nothing.
They didn't sin against God.
The sheep were perfect.
They shed their blood in the place of Adam and Eve, and there's what they shed.
So Abel, he brought an offering of blood to the Lord.
A blood offering from an innocent sheep.
And Abel brought, I mean Cain brought, of the ground of his works.
Cain out there working, doing all this toil and away, took pride in what he did.
I grew that right there.
Oh man.
Cursed ground.
In cursed ground.
That's right, brother there.
The ground is cursed.
So Cain brought the cursed ground to the Lord.
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect, and Cain was very rough and his countenance fell.
The word "rough" means to glow or grow warm, to blaze up of anger, zeal, jealousy.
Cain got mad because the Lord wouldn't accept his offering.
They should have known Adam shouldn't have told them kids.
By the shed of blood was we saved.
And I would, I would imagine that they knew.
I'm pretty sure that they knew Adam would have had to talk.
We were saved by the shed blood of this incident.
God clothed us.
So Cain would have known.
He should have known.
And I would imagine he did know.
But he took pride in what he did.
He took pride in his works.
He brought his works.
Not even thinking that God is the one that allowed that girl to begin with.
But he took pride in what he did.
He was jealous now because God wouldn't accept his offering, but he accepted Abel's, his brother's offering.
And the Lord said unto Cain, "Why art thou wrong?
And why is thy countenance falling?"
God's asking, "Why are you mad?"
And the word "countenance" means the face as the part that turns.
Cain has turned from God now.
The face is attached to the head and that turns.
He was facing God.
He got mad at God.
He turned away from God.
That's what these ungodly people did.
They heard about God.
They turned from God.
And the Lord said unto Cain, "Why art thou wrong?
And why is thy countenance falling?"
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted.
If you do the same thing Abel did, you will be accepted too.
If you bring a blood sacrifice to me, you'll be accepted too.
And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
You see right here folks, two religions.
The one God requires is shedding of the blood and the one God does not want the bringing of your works.
Some other topic.
If it is not the shedding of the blood, it's not accepted by God.
Period.
That's what we're seeing here.
And Cain topped with Abel his brother that came to pass when they were in the field.
That Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.
So Cain, out of jealousy, killed his own brother.
And the Lord said unto Cain, "Where is Abel thy brother?"
And he said, "I know not, and I'm my brother's keeper."
And he said, "What hast thou done?
The voice of thy brother's blood cried unto me from the ground.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
When thou tills the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth."
And Cain said unto the Lord, "My punishment is greater than I can bear."
Cain did not bring a blood atonement, a blood sacrifice to the Lord.
If you do not bring that blood sacrifice to the Lord, you're going to say the same thing Cain says here.
"My punishment is greater than I can bear."
It's through the blood that we are saved.
It's through the blood that Abel was saved.
It's through the blood that anybody in the Bible who believed was saved.
Cain's compass was pointed in the right direction.
He went to God.
He brought God a sacrifice.
His compass was pointed to him.
He knew that there was a God.
But he made the decision to point it in the opposite direction.
His countenance had fallen.
His compass was pointing to God.
God didn't accept what he had brought.
Because he didn't bring the right sacrifice, Cain turned his compass away from God.
He turned his face from God.
His countenance failed.
He was pointing in the wrong direction.
He walked away from God.
He was on the right road, shown which way to go, but he chose to go the opposite way.
He traversed the right path.
Hebrews 9.22b, that means a little of the second part of the verse.
"And without shedding of blood is no remission."
That word "remission" means pardon.
"Without the shedding of blood is no pardon."
Hebrews 11.4 says, "By faith, Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain."
"By which he obtained witness that he was righteous."
We are righteous through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
The Bible says there is none righteous.
No, not one.
None of us are righteous.
But Jesus Christ was through him, through faith in Christ, we are made righteous.
We are given Jesus' righteousness through the belief in Christ.
"By which he obtained witness that he was righteous."
God testifying with his gifts.
God accepted Abel's gifts.
"And by it he being dead yet special."
Now John the Baptist called Jesus the Lamb of God.
John 1.29 says the next day John said Jesus coming unto him and said, "Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world."
Let's close today by reading Romans 5, 8 through 11.
We're going to close today by reading Romans 5, 8 through 11 there, God.
Romans chapter 5, 8 through 11.
Here I am.
You getting there?
Yes, ma'am.
Romans 5, 8 through 11. 4 and 5, we're going to be here.
Romans 5, 8 through 11.
We're going to close with this today.
"But God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."
Christ died for all these undodgy people that Jude was telling us about.
They refused to believe.
Christ died for Cain as well.
Cain did not bring the blood, he didn't believe in the blood.
He believed in bringing the works of his own hands.
Verse 9, "Much more then being out justified," or you could say just, "by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him."
Remember Cain said his punishment was greater than he can bear.
But Abel didn't have to go through that because he was saved by the blood offering.
5, 10.
"For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son."
That word "reconciled" means to change mutually.
When we were enemies of God, we were enemies of God.
If you have not accepted the shed blood of Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are still enemies of God.
For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled or changed mutually, no longer enemies, but on the same side, we are on God's side.
We were reconciled to God by the death of his Son.
"Much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."
5, 11.
"And not only so, but we also joy in God through our love of Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement."
That word "atonement" means "exchanged."
No longer enemies, but friends on the same side as God.
One more verse, Hebrews 11, 6 says, "But without faith, none of us were there.
We did not see Jesus actually up on that cross.
But by faith we believe it.
But without faith, it is impossible to please Him.
For He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seeks."
Folks, if you're seeking to be forgiven, if you want to know Christ as your Savior, don't just take Brother Doug's word for him.
Please seek God.
Ask God to show you.
I promise you, God will show you if you want to know.
It will change your life.
It will give you life.
You'll be a totally different person if you just want to know.
And I pray that you do, and I pray that you will.
Heavenly Father, we thank You so much, Lord, for Your Word, Father.
Lord, I just pray, Lord, that people learn.
My words won't work, Lord.
It's Your words, Father, that work.
And I pray, Lord, that Your words got people's attention, Lord, and open their eyes, Father.
And I pray, Lord, that there's one here that don't know Christ as their Savior, Father, that they will diligently seek You, Lord.
I pray that You would draw them to the cross, and that You would show them, Jesus, Lord, just like You have shown in other saved people.
Please, Lord, I pray, Lord, that they'll seek You, Father.
We thank You for those that come, Lord.
We thank You for those that watch.
Lord, we just pray that You will glorify here today, Lord, and that the saints were edified, and that the laws were pointed to You, Father.
We thank You for building the library, coming back, and leading the song service for us, Lord.
That's a blessing.
And we thank You and love You, Lord, and we pray for safe passions for each person leaving here today, Lord.
And we pray that the people here today have a great and wonderful week, Lord.
We thank You for the caregivers that are here, Father, that take care, that help take care of these people, Lord.
They're such a blessing, Lord.
And we pray, Lord, that they know how much of encouragement that they are, Lord.
We pray that You'll be with them, Lord, and let them know that they're not alone, Father.
We thank You and love You, Lord, in Jesus' name, Father.
We pray, Amen.
Amen.
