Episode Transcript
- All right, good afternoon, everybody. - Yeah, he sure did. - I hope y'all had a great weekend.
Just take care of the people watching online.
Hello, everybody.
Hope y'all, whoop, this way.
Hope you can read that now.
There's gonna be some verses.
Well, it'll be the verses that we're going over today, unless I missed one, and hopefully I didn't.
But if I go a little too fast for you, then you can go back and look at this, and you can look them up later if you want to and read God's Word there.
So there we go.
Let me get another shot of this water juice right quick.
All right.
Man, what a wonderful-looking crowd.
Good to see each and every one of you today.
What an encouragement y'all are, each and every one of you, an encouragement.
Thank you for coming and hearing God's Word.
And we're gonna go ahead and get on started in here.
And last week, we reminded ourselves, or as Jude said in verse 5, we put you in remembrance of who Jude has been telling us about.
Since we were unable to come and dig into God's Word together for the two prior Sundays, because of sickness running rampant in the building, and I'm so glad to see everybody's well and feeling better.
That's wonderful.
But since they shut us down because of sickness running rampant, we needed to remind ourselves that Jude is writing to the brethren about the ungodly.
It's very important that you stay in God's Word, or else your mind will wander away and get filled with other things.
Your mind is very important.
And if the devil can find a way to get in, he will.
And he will fill your mind with things that don't glorify God.
So it's very important to fill your mind with the truths of God instead of the lies of the devil.
The Bible says we should put on the whole armor of God.
And we're gonna be reading about that in Ephesians 6, chapter 6, verses 10 through 18.
We're gonna go over that.
As a teacher, sometimes it's hard for me to cut off certain verses because I want you to hear the full Word of God.
I want you to hear that we've been studying the book of Jude, and here we are over in Ephesians, and we're gonna talk about the whole armor of God.
I want to get it all in there, but I have only a limited amount of time to get it all to you.
So just bear with me as we go through Ephesians.
Folks, if it wasn't important, it would not be in God's Word.
It is important.
God gave it to us, and we need to hear about it.
So just bear with us as we jump into Ephesians, and we're gonna talk about the whole armor of God.
So let's pray.
Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your Word, Lord.
Thank You for all that You do, Father.
We're so thankful for each and every blessing You bestow upon us, Father.
Thank You for those who have come today, Lord, to hear Your Word, Lord.
And I pray now that You'll just allow Your Spirit to teach us, Lord.
Help us to absorb Your Word here today, Father.
We thank You, and we love You so much, Lord.
Thank You for Your Word, and thank You for Jesus.
In His name I pray, amen.
So everybody should be in Ephesians.
I've got you marked.
Ephesians chapter 6.
Good, good.
John's good.
Everybody's got it.
Okay, here we go.
You good, Thomas?
Ephesians chapter 6.
First hand.
I've got you marked there.
I think.
Didn't I mark yours?
Ephesians.
It's gonna be on...
Look it.
1642.
16.
16.
1642.
Go.
Thomas says go.
Ready, go.
Alright.
In Ephesians...
Now we're gonna talk about the whole armor of God here, folks.
In Ephesians chapter 6, verse 10, Paul says, "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might."
Now folks, how are you gonna get strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might, if you don't consume God's Word?
If you don't stay close to God, how are you going to get strong in His Word, folks?
You've got to stay in God's Word.
"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil."
The word "wiles" used here means trickery.
Trickery.
Trick or treat.
That's right.
That's what the devil said.
He said trick and treat.
He didn't say bad.
He said the promise is bold, but you ain't what you get.
The longer you stay away from reading God's Word, the easier it is for the devil to trick you.
Ephesians 6, 12.
We're gonna go on there.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God."
The whole armor of God protects you from head to toe, folks.
The whole armor of God.
"That ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, and take the helmet of salvation."
What does a helmet do?
Covers her head, doesn't it?
"Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God."
The Bible is the Word of God.
When football players go out on the field, and I'm doing this to Thomas, he likes football pretty good.
When football players go out on the field to play football, in order to protect their heads, which house their minds, what do they put on their heads?
A helmet.
That's right, Thomas, we got that.
That helmet is a defensive tool against a serious brain injury that can occur while they are playing ball.
We put on the helmet of salvation in order to protect our minds as well.
If the devil gets a hold of your mind, serious consequences can occur.
So you must protect your mind by protecting what goes in it.
Be sure and fill it with God's Word.
Read your Bibles, folks. 618 says, "Pray always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching therein too with all perseverance and supplication for all things."
Read your Bibles, folks.
Pray for one another.
Pray for one another.
Keep your minds filled with godly things.
Sir?
Oh, okay.
Pray for one another.
Keep your minds filled with godly things.
Galatians 6-7 says, "Be not deceived.
God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
What you plant in your mind is what will grow.
Plant God's Word in your mind, folks.
And with that said, let's make some progress in the book of Jude today and plant what Jude says here in verse 12 where we left off last week.
You got it, family.
Come on back here to verse 12 in the book of Jude.
Jude 12.
This is where we left off last week.
There you go, Don.
You got it.
You almost got it, John, right before Revelation.
There you go.
Jude 12.
This is where we left off last week, John.
Y'all got Jude 12?
Need some help?
The book right before Revelation.
You got it?
Yeah.
All right.
So we're going to try to make a little progress in the book of Jude today.
Jude says in verse 12, now he's talking about the ungodly, remember?
"These are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear.
Clouds they are without water, carrying about the winds.
Trees whose fruit withereth without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots."
Now we left off talking about where Jude says, "Clouds they are without water, carrying about the winds."
Jesus tells a great story in Matthew about how the winds can blow you away or how you can sustain the winds when they come.
And we all know that the wind is going to blow.
Y'all know the winds are going to blow?
The winds are going to blow.
So let's see what Jesus says in Matthew chapter 7, and let's read verses 21 through 27.
We got your mark here.
Matthew chapter 7.
And we're going to be right here.
Okay.
You got it, John.
You got it in this back of your mind.
Now then, Matthew 7, 21.
Jesus says this.
This is Jesus talking now.
He says, "Not everyone that saith unto me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
Before we go any further, let's talk about this first.
I had a man ask me last week about people who did not believe in Christ but had their own religion, such as a Buddhist or a Hindu, and he said a couple of other religions as well.
And he wanted to know if they would be...
Let's see.
I'm sorry.
I got one of those.
He wanted to know if they would go to heaven when they died.
I gave him these verses that we're about to cover here.
I gave him these verses that we're about to read, not knowing that they would be tied into this week's lesson.
I didn't know that these were going to be tied into this week's lesson.
But these are the verses I gave the man.
When people ask me a question, I want to give them God's answer.
So I gave him verses from God's Bible, God's Word, to let him read.
That way God can open his eyes.
Brother Adrian Rogers says, "If I can talk you into something, somebody else can talk you right out of it."
So he let God do the talking.
And that's what I want to do.
When you ask me a Bible question or something like that, I'm going to do my best to point you to the Word of God, and I'm going to let you see for yourself in God's Word what God says to me.
So this is the verses that I gave the man.
Jesus says, "Not everyone that saith unto me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
Now here a while back we discussed Cain and Abel.
I believe we should put ourselves in remembrance of what took place in order for us to understand this very verse better.
So let's look at Genesis 4, verses 1 through 7.
Now what we're going to do here now, I didn't mark this.
The reason I didn't mark it for you is because I want you to turn there for yourself.
Genesis is the very first book of the Bible, and we're going to learn.
As I was telling people earlier, if you give a man a fish, he'll feed himself for a day.
But if you teach a man how to fish, he can feed himself.
Now I'll help you, but we need to start learning how to find verses, folks.
It's healthier for you to find the verses on your own.
Genesis, the very first, Genesis.
Look at there, Miss Baby, you already found it.
You found it too, John.
Genesis, the very first book, John.
So we're going to Genesis.
Genesis.
We're going to find Genesis.
We're going to find chapter 4.
Let's find Genesis chapter 4.
Miss Baby, you got it.
Look at you.
You see?
Three.
Three.
You see.
Five.
There's three, so four's got to be in between there somewhere.
There it is, all the way around.
Six.
See that big old six there?
That's a chapter.
There's chapter 5.
There's chapter 4.
Four, five.
Four right there.
Y'all got it back there?
Y'all got it?
Just got it?
So that's how we find a chapter in our Bible.
Now, another way you can do it, at the very front of your Bible, it'll tell you.
Well, it's not quite at the very front.
But see, here's all the books of the Old and the New Testament.
One more page over gets all of them all.
See?
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus.
And it tells you what page they're on.
See there, Don?
That's the page that they're on.
All right.
We're learning.
We're learning.
That's a good thing.
It's always good to learn.
Now, in Genesis chapter 4, 1 through 7 is what we're going to be reading about.
Now, we're going to be reading about Cain and Abel.
Okay?
There's only two religions in the world.
This man was asking me about a totally different belief.
There's only two religions according to God's Word.
Now, you either believe God's Word or you don't.
I choose to believe it.
Genesis 4, 1.
"And Adam knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bare Cain."
The first child's name is Cain.
Of Adam and Eve.
"And said, 'I have gotten a man from the Lord.'"
Genesis 4, 2.
"And she again bared his brother Abel."
So Abel is the secondborn of Adam and Eve.
"And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground."
Verse 4, 3.
Chapter 4, verse 3.
"And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain," the firstborn, "brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord."
Now, remember Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Cain grew vegetables and maybe fruits and all kinds of stuff.
But he grew things from the ground.
Genesis 4, 4.
"And Abel," Abel is Cain's brother, "he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof."
Remember, Abel was a farmer or a rancher.
"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 wroth and his countenance fell."
That means Cain got mad in his face.
"Oh, no."
He got all of a sudden mad.
Because God didn't accept what Cain wanted to bring.
That's not what God required.
God didn't require that.
"And the Lord said unto Cain, Why are thou wroth?"
And why is that countenance falling?
"If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?"
God is saying, "If you do what I have asked, I will accept you too."
You didn't do what I asked, Cain.
You brought from the fruit of the ground.
You didn't bring of the firstlings of your flock.
You didn't bring the shed blood from the flock.
You didn't bring the spotless, innocent animal that I required.
Cain, you didn't bring what I asked you to bring.
You brought fruit of the ground.
Now what's the problem with that?
Cain didn't do what he was told to do.
Cain didn't do what God asked him to do.
When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, God told Adam and Eve, "Do not eat of the tree of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil."
God told them not to do that.
And what did they do?
They ate of it.
That's right.
They ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
God did exactly what he told them not to.
Cain did exactly what God told him not to.
Cain did not do what God told him to do.
He didn't believe God.
Adam and Eve didn't believe God.
Adam and Eve were evicted from the Garden of Eden.
Cain, his offering wasn't accepted.
Why?
He didn't believe God, folks.
He didn't believe God.
"If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
All of these other so-called religions are the religion of Cain.
Why?
Because they're not bringing the innocent blood of the Lamb.
They're not bringing what God requires.
They're the religion of Cain because they want to do it their way.
They don't want to do it God's way.
They don't want to do it the way Abel did it.
They want to do it their way, the way Cain did it.
Guess what?
They're not accepted.
God is cutting dry in that area.
"If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
If you do it God's way, you're going to be accepted."
It's that simple.
You see, there are only two religions in the world.
You have the religion of Cain who offered God the works of his hands in order to be forgiven by God.
But that is not what the Lord wants.
Our verse in Matthew chapter 7 says, "Not everyone that saith unto me, 'Glory, glory,' shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
Abel did the will of the Father which is in heaven.
He brought to the Lord what the Lord requires for us to bring in order to be saved.
And that is the shed blood of an innocent and spotless substitute.
Our spotless, innocent substitute has already been provided for us.
And the will of the Father in heaven is for you to believe.
John 3.36 says, "Now this is not brother Doug, this is God's law.
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.
And he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him."
That's pretty cut and dry.
You can't make it no clearer than that.
You can do it God's way or you can do it your way.
You can't do it both ways.
Back in Matthew chapter 7, we're going to go ahead and go to 22.
"Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord.'"
Now notice, these people, they don't say, "My Lord, my Lord."
They simply say, "Lord, Lord."
"Have we not prophesied in thy name?
And in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works."
These are people who use the name of the Lord for a backdrop in order to use you for their personal gain.
Just like those people Jude has been telling us about back in Jude.
Matthew 7.23, Jesus says, "And then will I profess unto them," this is Jesus talking to those people who don't know Christ, "I never knew you.
I never knew you.
Depart from me ye that work iniquity.
The will of the Father is for you to agree with him."
Christ is omniscient.
This big fancy word means that he knows all things.
He knows those of us who believe and those of us who don't.
In the day of judgment, those who don't believe on Christ as their Savior, Christ will tell them, "Depart from me ye that work iniquity."
That is as direct and to the point that it can get, folks, and the choice is yours.
The will of the Father is for you to agree with him.
The will of the Father is for you to believe him.
Cain did not agree with God.
Cain did not believe God.
Abel did.
Abel brought to God what God requires in order to have eternal life.
Why?
Because he agreed and believed.
He agreed and believed.
There is only one true God and only one true Savior.
Anything else is the religion of Cain.
Isaiah 43, 10 says, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe me and understand that I am he.
Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me."
Isaiah 43, 11 says, "I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Savior."
Isaiah 45, 21, "Tell ye and bring them near.
Yea, let them take counsel together.
Who hath declared this from ancient times?
Who hath told it from that time?
Have not I the Lord?
And there is no God else beside me.
A just God and a Savior.
There is none beside me."
One God, folks.
One God, one Savior.
Anything else is the religion of Cain.
One God, one Savior.
"Look unto me," 45, 22, "look unto me and be ye saved.
All the ends of the earth.
For I am God and there is none else."
Hosea 13, 4, "Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me.
For there is no Savior beside me."
John 3, 18, "He that believeth on him is not condemned.
But he that believeth not is condemned already.
Because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
Abel believed God.
Cain did not.
Are you an Abel or are you a Cain?
There's no in-between ground, isn't there?
Now let's move on with our story that Jesus is telling us about the winds.
We're going to deal with our next verse in Matthew 7, 24.
Jesus says, "Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock, and the rain descended."
How many of you all know the rains are going to come?
"And the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not.
For it was founded upon a rock."
A rock.
Jesus is the rock, folks.
Jesus is the rock.
"And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand."
Psalm 14, 1 says, "The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.'"
"The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.'"
They are corrupt.
They have done abominable works.
There is none that doeth good.
We're starting to wrap this up, and then we're on the last verse.
Matthew 7, 27 says, "And the rain descended," talking about the foolish person that built his house on sand.
"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house."
That's going to happen to each and every one of us.
Y'all know that, and I know that.
The rains come.
The floods come.
The winds blow.
They beat upon our house.
But this one here, it fell.
It says, "And it fell, and great was the fall of it."
That is what's going to happen on Judgment Day, folks, if you don't know Jesus Christ.
The fall will be great.
It will be a great fall.
And there's no returning from that fall.
No returning.
"The house of the ungodly shall not stand when it is tried," folks.
"But the house of those who do the will of God hath God protecting theirs."
And there is nothing more powerful than God, folks.
Nothing more powerful than God.
Believe in God, folks.
Believe on the Lord and be saved.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much, Lord, for each and every person that's come today, Lord, to hear your Word taught, Father.
And I pray, Lord, that you are glorified here, Lord, and that the saints were edified, Lord, and that the laws were appointed to you, Father.
We pray if there's one here that doesn't know Christ as their Savior, Lord, that you would draw them to the cross, Father.
Show them Christ.
Show them how Christ died for their sins, Lord, and was buried and rose again on the third day, Lord.
Show them their Savior, Father.
Show those who are seeking, Lord.
We thank you and we love you so much.
Thank you for your Word, Father.
We enjoy your Word so much.
It is a blessing and highlight of our days, Lord.
Help us to learn, Lord, and share what we learn with others.
We want to pray for the caregivers here, Lord, those that care for the people here, Lord.
We pray, Lord, that you bless them.
Bless them with the strength to do so, Father.
We pray that they're appointed to you as well, Lord, and that they care for these people just as much as you do, Lord.
We thank you and love you, Lord, and we ask these things in Jesus' name today, Lord.
Amen.
