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All right, good evening. Welcome
to Liberty Baptist Church for the midweek service. If you can,
let's all stand. We're gonna call the roll. When
the roll is called up, be honored. ♪ When the trumpet of the Lord
shall sound ♪ ♪ And time shall be no more ♪ ♪ And the morning
breaks eternal bright and fair ♪ ♪ When the saints of earth
shall gather all around the earth ♪ when you're ♪ And yonder I'll be there ♪ On
that bright and cloudless morning ♪ When the dead in Christ shall
rise ♪ And the glory of His resurrection share ♪ When His chosen ones
shall gather to their home beyond the skies ♪ And the roll is called
and yonder I'll be there Let us waver for the master from
the dark descending sun Let us talk of all his wondrous love
and care And when all of life is over and our work on earth
is done And the road is called up yonder I'll be there When
the road is called up yonder See you back tonight. I left
my phone on so I could tell you of all the folks that we have
that folks have asked us to pray for that might be in the Problem with music. Yes. There
it is. So it says let's see pray for
mrs. Cool service we ask Lord that you
take care of our loved ones friends and relatives that are down in
the Florida area and also pray Lord you'd be at the ones are
recovering in all the other states that got hit last week and I
pray Lord you just bless in the recovery efforts there in Jesus
name amen you may be seated all right wonderful wonderful words
of life Sing them over again to me, wonderful
words of life. Let me more of their beauty sing,
wonderful words of life. Words of life and beauty, teach
me faith and duty. Beautiful words, wonderful words,
wonderful words of life. of life. Christ, the blessed
one, gives to all wonderful words of life. Sinner, listen to the
loving call, wonderful words of life. All so freely given,
moving us to heaven, beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful
words of life. Sweetly echo the gospel call,
wonderful words of life. Offer pardon and peace to all,
wonderful words of life. Jesus, only Savior, sanctified
forever, beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life. Pray for Brother Coral, if you
would. Some of you know that he's coming at the end of the
week, but he came in yesterday and spent the evening here, and
he flew down today. We dropped him off at the airport
again this afternoon, and he's flying down to Mexico to speak
at Brother Wynn's tonight. They have a Wednesday night service.
a Thursday night service, so speak at that, and then he'll
teach in the college on Friday, and then fly back in here Saturday,
and then preach for us all day Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday. So, again, as far as the prayer list, there's a
new prayer list on the back, little back table. The new one
is the green one. It is the up-to-date one. I took some folks off that
said we could take them off, and we added some folks. But
the things we always pray for is Brother Nicholas' health and
Cindy, Brother Wynn's and his family's safety. Natalie is over
the... some of them for health issues
that, again, they probably will have till they die, but we're
just praying that many of them will get, I mean, again, that
some of them would get over it, but a lot of them have, a lot
of them have cancer and things like that, that they may not,
they may just have that for quite some while, but pray for them. And then as far as the stuff
going on, As far as the regular stuff, this week, tomorrow night
at 645, we have someone in a visitation here at the church. And then
Saturday, we have bus visitation, and so we're in at 1045. And
then Sunday, we're back in church services here, and Brother Coral
will be here. The older Sun School classes can bring the kids in.
Teachers sit with the kids if you bring them in. But Brother
Coral will be teaching in Sunday School. He'll preach the Sunday
morning service, the Sunday night message. And then he'll be with
us Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 7.30. So Sunday night it will
start at 6 like our regular service. The other days, it will start
at 7.30. So again, that's Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The books,
he has some new books, one on, I think, on Islam, and I can't
remember what the other one is. They had some new kids' books,
but they didn't show up, so I talked to Mrs. Coral today, and they're
gonna try to see if they can ship them the expensive way,
like next day mail or something, whether they get here in the
next day or two. If someone happens to have some kind of, I don't
have, my wife used to have the, or if you call it, where you
can get it, you pay a monthly fee and you can ship stuff for
free. If anyone in here has that and can use that to have other
stuff shipped, let me know and I'll have you get ahold of Mrs.
Coral, and that way they can ship the stuff here. Because
if you've ever shipped books, you realize a big box of those
books will cost us anywhere from $25 to $40 to ship a box of books,
sometimes more than that because they base it on size and weight.
And so that's why we don't ship them back every year. The reason
we've kept them here And we always just box them up and put them
upstairs, and next year bring them back down. It's because he used
to spend about 200 bucks to get them here. At the end, we'd box
them up, spend 200 bucks to get them back. And so we spent $400,
and that's not counting any books that they sold. So again, it
made it hard for him to make a profit. So we just kept them
here. So we just keep them here, and they only bring the new ones.
We try to keep seven of everything. If we have some of the old ones,
if the stacks are getting short, they'll send us some extra ones.
But again, they're going to try to, they forgot to send us, their
secretary got married and went on a honeymoon. So she called
me the other day and she said, we need to ship you some books.
Can you send me the list? And I said, already did. She said, yes, but
she's on the honeymoon. We don't want to bother him.
So I sent her the list. And then they apparently forgot
the kids' books. When I looked through the box today, I said,
do you have new kids' books this year? And she said, we did. We
didn't send you any?" And I said, no, ma'am. So, again, if you
have, what is it where you can send stuff next day cheap? What's
it called? Oh, there is anything? Huh? Yeah,
Amazon Prime. So you can't do Amazon Prime
that way? That's the only stuff you order? Okay. Well, I knew
my wife always had stuff coming this way, so only thing I ever
dealt with was the returns. I ended up having to drop stuff
back off at UPS or something. So, all right, so forget that.
I thought maybe someone might have something like Amazon Prime,
and I didn't know if it worked both directions or not. But pray
that we can get those kids books here, because I know if you're
like me, I like to get the kids book, use them for the kids or
grandkids. So again, that's this weekend,
and then Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. As far as stuff in
the near future, There's a sign-up sheet down the hallway that is
for a church clean-up day on October the 26th. It starts at
7.30 in the morning. It says bring your gloves and
there'll be food and water provided. Mark and Maria's wedding is November
the 9th at 4.30 p.m. Christina is having a bridal
shower on November the 16th. That is Saturday at 2 p.m. And
that is here at the church. If you'll see Mrs. Sells about
the food sign up, we'd appreciate that. And then the next event
on the calendar, now Brother Coro is this weekend, the next
event is Brother Jeff Owens. He'll be with us on the 4th,
which is a Wednesday night. Then he'll be at Texas Baptist
representing Liberty Baptist Church because we're the ones
hosting the youth conference. We're just using Texas Baptist facilities
because they have a gymnasium. And we play games and stuff in
the gym. So that will be on the 6th, which is a Friday, 7 o'clock. And then Saturday starts at 10
o'clock. He'll preach. Brother Owens will preach once Friday
night and twice Saturday during the morning and early afternoon.
And then there'll be volleyball and stuff later in the afternoon.
But again, that is coming up in a short time. So again, then
a couple of months after that, we'll have the Valentine's banquet
and then Two weeks after that, Brother Gomez will be here. So
we do have a lot of preaching coming up in the future. And
that's always a blessing to have special speakers and special guests come
and preach for us. But pray for this weekend. Pray for Brother
Cora while he's down in Mexico. And then pray for him as he travels
back. And he'll be with us this weekend. All right, again, let's
stand. We're going to sing, Who is on
the Lord's Side? ♪ Who is on the Lord's side ♪ Who
will serve the King ♪ Who will be his helper ♪ Other lives to
bring ♪ Who will lead the world's high ♪ Who will face the fall On the Lord's side, here for
Him we will go By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine We
are on the Lord's side, Savior, we are Thine Fierce may be the
conflict, Strong may be the foe, But the King's own army None
can overthrow. Round is standard ranging, Victory
is secure. ♪ For His truth unchanging makes
the triumphant ♪ ♪ Joyfully enlisting by Thy grace divine ♪ ♪ We are
on the Lord's side, Savior, we are Thine ♪ The reason I'd often
go to the special speakers we have Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father,
thank you for the opportunity to be in church tonight. I pray
that you bless this offering, bless the gift and the giver,
exceed the needs of our church, Lord, and be with the prayer
requests mentioned. Thank you for Pastor Nichols
and Brother Block, and be with them. In the name of Jesus Christ,
we pray, amen. All right, I wish I had given
him more. Do that one more time. By and by, when I look on his
face Beautiful face, thorn-shadowed face By and by, when I look on
his face I wish I had given him more More, so much more More
of my life than I ever gave before By and by, when I look on his
face I wish I had given him more By and by, when he holds out
his hands Welcoming hands, nail-ribbon hands By and by, when he holds
out his hands I wish I had given him more More, so much more More
of my love than I ever gave before By and by when he holds out his
hands I wish I had given him more In the light of that heavenly
place Light from His face, beautiful face In the light of that heavenly
place I wish I had given Him more More, so much more Amen. Dark the stain that soiled man's
nature, long the distance that he fell. Far removed from hope
and heaven into deep despair and hell. But there was a fountain
opened and the blood of God's own son. Purifies the soul and
reaches deeper than the stain has gone. Conscious of the deep
pollution, sinners wander in the night. Though they hear the
shepherd calling, They still fear to face the light. This the blessed consolation
that can melt the heart of stone. That sweet balm of Gilead reaches
Deeper than the stain has gone All unworthy we who've wandered
And our eyes still wet with tears As we think of love that sought
us through the weary, wasted years. Yet we walk the holy highway,
walking by God's grace alone, knowing Calvary's fountain reaches
deeper than the stain has gone. When with holy choirs we're standing
In the presence of the King And our souls are lost in wonder
While the white-robed choirs sing Then we'll praise the name
of Jesus with the millions round the throne. Praise him for the
power that reaches deeper than the stain has gone. Praise the Lord for full salvation. God still reigns upon his throne. And I know the blood still reaches
deeper than the stain has gone. Amen. I think that was one of the songs
for the robot fuse to sing. I don't know if you ever heard
Brother Orloff preach. Actually when I was a teenager I got on
his, on the Swear the Lord tape club and I also got one of the
first Bibles, one of those things where if you send them a love
offering of a certain size they'd send you a large print Bible
and I got one of Brother Orloff's Bibles. I used to hear him preach
on the radio. He was one of those guys that
didn't prepare messages. He would only say, I'm going
to get up there and preach whatever God lays on my heart. And he
would say, what happens if you do that? You guys would be very
disappointed. This is loud as well guys as it was for Brother
Nichols. I don't know if they can hear it but I can. And so Brother
Rolfe was one of those guys that when he preached he would preach
a little bit and then he'd sing a song. Then he'd preach a little
bit because he had songs that they always just came to his
mind while he was preaching. So he would sing a song or two
during his preaching. He had a good voice as well.
But he was one of those old fashioned fellas. had a bunch of boys and
girls homes down in Corpus Christi. I don't know if they're even
still in existence now, but they used to get a lot of boys and
girls, men and women, and help change their lives from lives
of addiction and rebellion and other stuff. And some of them
went back to it, of course. It's kind of like some folks
go to jail and come out and come out reformed. Others come back
and go right back to what they did before. So it is tough to
stop people when they're addicted to stuff. It's very difficult.
But they worked at it really hard and had a lot of folks down
there. And I always thought it was funny, they didn't want you
drinking soda, because you could go down and stay in one of their
little trailers or cabins and then you could see the ministry.
And they didn't want you to drink soda, but if you drink soda,
they want you to put the cans in the area so they can recycle
them. And I thought, they don't want you drinking them, but they're
okay keeping the cans if you do drink them. So I always thought
that was kind of funny. In your Bibles in 2 Timothy,
we'll finish tonight. This is part six of passing down
a spiritual heritage. We're going to look at 2 Timothy
1.5 which is where the original text was and we're going to go
to Psalm 78 and we'll see the last part of what the message
covers tonight. Now 2 Timothy 1.5 said, Now what
that meant was genuine. It wasn't fake, it wasn't pretend,
it was the real thing. Now it's always a blessing to
see third, fourth generations of Christians still being faithful, by the
way still having standards. It's easy to have the first generation,
and then the second generation is a little bit more liberal,
and the third generation is pretty liberal, and the fourth generation
don't even get saved many times, and that happens lots of times.
But again what he is saying here is this was the third generation.
Now again notice it wasn't dad that was faithful, it wasn't
dad that was setting the example, and father should set the example.
But from what we can tell Timothy's dad might not even have been
saved. If he was saved, he was not the one that was the spiritual
guide to Timothy. Because Paul said, and again
Paul knew the family, because Paul knew Timothy very well.
And Paul said, Grandma was a godly lady, your mom's a godly lady,
and I'm pretty sure you're a godly fellow as well. By the way, that
is pretty high praise coming from a fellow named Paul the
Apostle. almost as high, I mean not quite
as high as coming from Jesus, but up there pretty high. So
again what Paul said was Timothy has the real thing. Then in Psalm
chapter 78, now in your verses there, anyone need the verses?
Henry will be glad to run them over to you. If you need verses
raise up your hand and Henry will bring you some verses. Mrs. Wallace
needs some if you could. Anyone else? For those of you
that, most of you have already figured it out, I stick them
on the back table. I used to have the kids run them around and give them
to people, but I just stick them on the back table now. And I
usually, if I, every other week when I do the prayer list, I
stick it back there as well. Notice in Psalm chapter 78, now we're
going to start, I'm going to start reading in verse three,
where we started originally. And then we'll be at verse seven
and eight, which is in your notes. which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their
children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For
he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in
Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make
them known to their children, that the generation to come might
know them. the children which should be born, who should arise
and declare them to their children." So He said I want the fathers
to give it to their kids and then when they have kids pass
it to their kids. Verse 7 and 8 will be tonight
and these will be the points of tonight's message. That they
might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God,
but keep His commandments. That's three of the points again
setting their hope in God, not forgetting the works of God,
but keeping His commandments. And then the fourth point will
be and that they might not be as their fathers. Now that's
kind of a sad thing to say you don't want someone to be like
their father, but in this case the reason was because their
fathers were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that
set not their heart aright and whose spirit was not steadfast
with God. So he said don't want you to
be like your dads because your dads weren't godly. Now that's
why it's so important on us as fathers and mothers to be godly,
because I wouldn't want it that God would tell my kids don't
be like your daddy, be like these other folks. And so that was
what happened in Psalm chapter 78 verse 7 and 8. What we looked
at in the past was with the first First point that we looked at
was what should be passed down. We have four things that should
be passed down. The praises of God, the strength of God, the
works of God, and the testimonies of God. Then the second main
point was how should it be passed down and that was make them known,
declare them, and set your heart aright. That's what we covered
in the past weeks. Tonight we're going to look at
why we should pass it down. and that again, there's the four
reasons that we looked at, three of them was in verse seven, again
that they might set their hope in God, first one, not forget
the works of God, second one, but keep his commandments, third
one, and might not be as their fathers, the fourth one. So we'll
look at those this evening, let's pray, and then we'll get right
into the lesson. Lord, I ask you for your help and your blessing,
I ask for your power and your wisdom, Lord, help me to say
what I should and get through this stuff and make it as clear
as possible that it might be a help to somebody, and Lord,
we promise to give you the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. So we're
looking at why we should pass it down. Now in verse 7 I mentioned
the first thing it says is that they might set their hope in
God. Now Brother Nicholas has told
you hope in the Bible is not like when we say I hope it because
what that means is I mean it is one of those things it's like
wishing or we Again, in the case of the Bible, the definition
of the Bible is a confident expectation. Now, the reason we can have a
confident expectation is because of who we are hoping in or who
that hope is placed upon. That hope is in Jesus Christ.
And we're gonna look at that a little bit in just a moment.
But again, understand, hope in the Bible is a confident expectation. It's based on the assurance that
God has promised it. Now, there are a lot of folks
that have convinced themselves that there's some things that
God has told them to do. Now, if you tell me that God
told you to do something, and it comes from the Bible, I'll
always be in your corner. If you tell me that God told
you to do something because you saw a vision in the night, or
He spoke to you in a cloud, I mean, you saw some kind of cloud up
in the sky, and so on and so forth, I'm gonna be a little
hesitant, okay? Actually, I'm gonna be a lot
hesitant, all right? Now, you say, could God do that? Yes,
He could. Does he usually do that? And the answer to that
is no he doesn't. And again that usually goes back to the Pentecostal
upbringing. And that usually is because folks like to think
that they're more spiritual than somebody else. So we would like
to convince you that God does stuff for me and talks to me
and he doesn't talk to you because Well, you know, I'm who I am.
I mean, you know, look at this and why wouldn't God have a relationship
with me and not one with you? So usually pride is involved
in that. And by the way, if you know anything about pride, that
was the devil's main point. It never has been the one that
God's too proud of. So again, wants us to realize
Yet, we need to base our hope on the assurances or on the promises
that God has given us. Now, some of the aspects of hope,
and again, I'll give you these four quickly, and then we'll
get right on, but some aspects of hope, again, this confident
expectation. What it is, it gives us a firm
foundation. Now, most of you that know anything
about building realize the rest of the building is important,
but not as near as important as the foundation. The foundation
is what the rest of the building is built upon. Again, if the
foundation is not good, it doesn't matter. The rest of the structure
is going to have problems in the future. Now, here in San
Antonio, we have problems with foundations because the foundations
shift. Now, that doesn't happen everywhere.
Does that happen in other states? Maybe in some states. We never
had that problem in Missouri. I mean, I never heard of anyone
talking about here. It happens a lot. When we used
to rent this property next door, When we would walk across there
in the summertime, sometimes there'd be cracks in the dirt
that big. I mean, we'd have to be careful
with small children to fall in the cracks, and we'd lose them, and
we'd have to put a rope down and try to pull them. I mean,
here the earth moves a lot. That's not true everywhere, but
it's true here. Now, again, you want a firm foundation. And again,
because we have that confident hope in Jesus Christ, we have
a firm foundation. Another thing that it gives us,
it gives us an anchor for our soul. We sing a song about that.
We have an anchor by the way if you're saved you do have that
anchor and again, it's a good anchor I mean and again if you
try to anchor in the sand Your ship's gonna move if you anchor
in the rock I mean your anchor catches a rock you're going to
be secure and again Christ is that that rock so again because
of that The aspects of hope we have a firm foundation. We have
an anchor for the soul. We have a source of light now
again the Lord uses us to But the truth is, and we're supposed
to be lights. How bright we are is based on how dirty we are
not. Because dirt, if you've ever
had a lantern or had a globe over your light and it gets a
bunch of dirt on it, The bulb's still bright. The problem is
the stuff, the globe that's around the light, and sometimes even
the light. If you don't have a globe, the
bugs can get on the bulb itself and make it pretty dirty. Now,
don't try to wash it while it's still hot. Not a smart thing. You say, how do you know? Because
I've seen people do that, and it's not a good experience. Not only
is it not easy to hold when it's hot, but you're also probably
going to make it, it's probably going to blow up and you're going
to end up without a light bulb. But the fact is the light's brighter
if the bulb is not dirty. And you and I are the bulbs Jesus
Christ gives us. He's the light and he gives us,
he's the source of our light. But again, we want to make sure
that we are a good light. And then the last thing as far
as some aspects of hope, it's an environment where faith can
grow because of the fact that we have That that expectation
or that hope in Jesus our faith can grow and again you and I
should continue to grow There's not a time now. There's a time
we quit growing physically, but there should never be a time
that we could growing spiritually now I don't care how many times
you've read through the Bible. I heard Brother Nichols and Brother
Corl talking while they were sitting eating. And Brother Corl was
talking about a place where he had seen something he just never
had noticed it before. And he said, I bet I've read
that, because he said, I've read the Bible through between 150
and 200 times in my lifetime. And he says, and I just never
noticed that. By the way, the Bible is the most shallow book that
if you get a new convert, they can read the Bible and understand
some. Now they won't understand all of it, but also it's the
deepest book that no matter how many times you have read it,
there'll still be something that you didn't get the time before.
Because by the way the time before you wasn't quite as mature or
quite as grown up and you didn't I mean But finally the light
you read it and the light comes on this time again. It's important
that you and I realize We have that we have the Word of God
now in the Hebrew word The in the Hebrew the word for hope
is T I K V A H tick, but it means expectation Cord or a rope and
we're going to look at that you think we've heard the expectation
but cord or a rope the root word for tick for is to bind and Or
to wait for or upon so again it means to bind kind of like
tying a Christmas tree to the roof of your car Adjoining it
together by the way you and I are bound to Christ we got saved
I mean he moves in our heart so the truth is Again, when you
think of that binding you think of in there and you note you
have Joshua chapter 2 verse 18 in Joshua 2 verse 18 It said
behold when we come into the land thou shalt bind up This
line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us
down by, and thou shalt bring thy father and thy mother and
thy brethren and all thy father's household home unto thee." Now,
who was this that had this scarlet thread hanging down? Rahab. What was she hoping for? What
was she expecting? That if she had that rope hanging
down, what was going to happen? She was going to be kept alive.
Her family wasn't going to die. Now, the rest of the folks, they
were all dying. But because she had helped the children of Israel,
because she had helped the spies, when the spies left, they said,
she said, can't you do something for me? And they said, yep, but
hang this rope. And by the way, you say, how
does she know they was there? Well, let's see, they marched
around the city one time, on the first day, they marched around
the city. I think she knew they were there. Now, she probably
had no idea what they were going to do. I doubt they sent her
a message and said, you know, they probably didn't fill her in on
the plan. But you say, what'd she do? She put that rope down.
You know what she was expecting? Expecting to be safe because
of that rope. Again, because there was a promise
made to her by the children of Israel. In Jeremiah 29, verse
11, For I know that the thoughts that I think toward you, saith
the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected
end. Again, When we think of expected
in it means a rope to the future or again We have something we
can count on in the future now There are folks here if you're
if you're not careful you'll count on money you put your hope
or your expectation in money now again Some of you have money
in the stock market. I used to tell you for years
I would say if the stock market crashes tomorrow guess how much
money I lose Zero and the stock market goes way up high tomorrow
guess how much money I gained zero but a few years ago my son
said dad I've been messing in the stock market, and he said,
you got a little money, give me some money and I'll invest
it. The problem was, right when he invested that money, that
was the last time that the stock market, that time right before
it crashed here a few years ago. So my $7,000 I gave him, like
the next, I mean like two or three days later when it crashed,
it was down to like $2,000. So I've never been real successful
in the stock market. So I like to better win. If it went down, I lost zero.
If it went up, I gained zero. But again, usually when you invest
in something, you expect, you would like to think, you hope.
I mean, you like to think, but again, money's not always that
way. Money won't always help you. People won't always help
you. Again, if you put your hope in
people, you put your hope in politics, especially in politics. You put
your hope in your abilities. Again, when you put your hope
in these things sooner or later, they're gonna fail But by the
way, you and I should put our hope and our expectation in Jesus
Christ Use him as our rope I mean tie ourselves to him and we are
much safer and much more secure again Hope is a rope. Hope also
is an eager expectation. We know this verse in Isaiah
chapter 40 notice verse 31 We sing it. I think there's a song
about it. I Know there's there's that's
often we quoted this but notice i say a forty verse thirty one
when i say hope is an expectation it says this but they that wait
upon the lord again that is that expectation shall renew their
strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall
run and not be worried they shall walk and not faint now when we
say hope is an eager expectation that when it said they that wait
upon the lord what it means is those who look to the lord those
who wait with expectancy on the lord and by the way you and i
are supposed to make sure that you don't leave without the Lord.
Okay, now you can leave, you can leave other folks. Sometimes
you'll say, you guys either get in the car or you're gonna get
left. Don't ever leave without Jesus. You and I wanna make sure
that we always have, I mean that, now again, you and I are riding
with Him, okay, so make sure that you get with Him. Don't
make the Lord, don't expect the Lord to wait on you. My daddy
used to always say, you wanna ride, you make sure you're in
the vehicle when it leaves, because we're not waiting on you. You
say, Brother Block, did they ever start driving down the road
without you? And the answer to that was, yes. You say, what
did you do? You ran behind the truck down
the road trying to get them to stop. Did they stop? Yeah, usually.
Did they stop right away? No, not usually. Because it was
like, well, I told you. And it's like, well, why didn't
you stop? You saw me back there. And they said, hey, we told you when we
was going to be leaving. And then you went from there. So that's
your own tough luck. You say, was you ready next time?
Oh, yeah, I was sitting in the truck next time. You don't have
to be real smart to learn your lesson. But again, we want to,
again, hope. Again, we want to have that hope
that's an eager expectation. We're waiting on the Lord. Hope
is an act of binding. Notice Titus chapter 1 verse
2. In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised
before the world began. Now you say, what is that hope?
That hope is an expectation. It is an act of binding. Again,
by the way, we should know the promises of God. If we know the
promises of God, then we can claim the promises of God. When
I was a teenager, I had a bunch of little cards and a little
thing, and it was all the promises, it was a bunch of promises of
God. And you say, Brother Walker, are there a lot of them? There
are a lot of them. A lot of promises of God in the Bible. Now, if
God makes you a promise, then you can hold Him to that. Now,
there are times we try to hold God to something that He doesn't,
I mean, He didn't commit to. But if He commits to it, trust
me, if He committed to it, He's going to carry through with it,
because God can't lie. Again, make sure you find those
promises, learn those promises, believe those promises, then
you can expect those promises. You can have that expectation,
that hope. Now I said again, The first thing that he was going
to look at was that they might set their hope in God. The second
thing that came out of verse 7, 78, 7 was that they might
not forget the works of God. You say that the children of
Israel do that? They sure did. Notice there in your notes you
have Exodus chapter 12 verse 31 it says and he called for
Moses and Aaron by night and said rise up and get you forth
from among my people both he and the children of Israel and
go serve the Lord as you have said he set him free now they
had already been trying to negotiate this for a while and There was
a time he said you can take you know, you can take the adults
and then you can take the kids but I mean they kept negotiating
but by the way, God wasn't negotiating and God always said, here's what's
going to happen, and nothing, I mean, I'm going to keep judging
you until this happens. Say, what was it? That he let
his people go. I'm talking about men, I'm talking
about women, I'm talking about kids, I'm talking about livestock.
In this case, they even took some of the Egyptians' jewelry
with them as well. Even took some of the Egyptians' wealth.
You say, why did that happen? Well, because they asked, and
the Egyptians wanted them to leave so badly, it's like, oh, come
here, take this, just go. You say, what had happened? They
just lost their firstborn. Some of the wives lost a husband.
Some of the husbands lost a wife. Almost every family, if they
had kids, and there might have been families without kids, families
with kids, they lost their oldest child. Maybe they lost, again, their
oldest grandchild. A lot of death that night. So
again, the children of Israel were set free by God. Then they,
by the way, in Exodus chapter 14, there in your notes, verse
21 and 22, they get to the Red Sea. Enemies behind them. God's
guided them. And He told Moses to stretch
out his hand, in verse 21, and Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong
east wind, all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the
waters were divided. And the children of Israel went
into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground, and the waters
were a wall unto them on the right hand and on the left."
Now there are folks who try to tell you the children of Israel walked
through the Reed Sea I believe it is, and I've heard Brother
Nichols and others say either way it would have been a miracle.
Either he rolled up the sea itself and the water was up, I mean
like walking through an aquarium sometimes where you see all the
fish and stuff. I mean, and I'm sure some of
the kids went, I mean, they saw, they tried to see if their finger
would go through the water, but there was a wall of water. Say, why do you say
it was a miracle if they went through the Reed Sea? Because
the Reed Sea was only about 18 inches deep. It would have been a miracle
if all of Pharaoh's army and the horses and the soldiers all
drowned in the Reed Sea. So either way, but the fact is
we don't think it was a Reed Sea. We think it was exactly,
you say, well, there's only a difference of an E. Yeah, but God didn't
make mistakes and again, we believe that this is what inspired of
God So if he says it's a Red Sea was a Red Sea So they walked
but they walked through on dry ground now. He could have made
him walk through on muddy ground He could just put the water up
and if you ever have moved the water up the ground still wet
Especially when you've had water there so long. I mean sometimes
you got you got deep mud and But in this case it was dry ground,
because he stirred the water up, and then he let a wind blow,
he put the fans on, and he dried it out for them. So they walked
across, and then when Pharaoh's army got in there, he brought
the water back down on them. So the children of Israel, they
saw God do all these things and got them out of Egypt. Then they
see God do this at the Red Sea. He went on, notice there in Exodus
chapter 17, verse six, you know what else they saw? They saw
again what God did. God gave them water out of a
rock. 17 six says behold I will stand
before before thee thereupon the rock and order that thou
shalt smite the rock and there shall come water out of it that
the people may drink and Moses did so on the side of the elders
of Israel now understand this wasn't just a little bit of water
we're talking about a me and me and have people you know how
much water it takes to Water a million and may not people
and their livestock their dogs or cats or their cows or sheep
I mean we'll talk about a pile of water probably a waterfall
came out of that thing and They saw that, I mean a miracle. They'd
already seen the Red Sea, they see this. Next was the quails.
And again, there was a lot of them. I could have covered, could
have did 20 different things. Just put a few here. Notice next
was the quail. There in Exodus 16 verse 13. And it came to pass that even
the quails came up and covered the camp. And in the morning,
the dew lay round about the host. Now, I don't know if you've ever
seen a covey of quail. I don't know if you've ever seen
a covey of quail. Now, where I grew up, they were called bobwhites.
Okay, we only had, we had bobwhites. And Bob White's, a large covey
might be 12 or 15. Most coveys, especially if they've
been shot or broken up, if they've been divided, sometimes there'll
be just three, three or four, five or six. Now when I was in
California, they have a thing called Blue Quail or Mountain
Quail. Now there I've seen some massive groups. I mean, one time
I had to stop on the road, because I mean, they were going across
the road, and I'm talking about several hundred. But again, understand,
to feed a million people, we're not talking about, we're talking
about far bigger covey than what I saw. We're talking about, because
again, the quail's not very big. Most of those guys could eat
two or three quail. Even most kids could eat a quail.
Most ladies can eat a quail. So each family was going to use
several quail. Again, he fed them with quail.
Now, you say, how'd they get them? Probably when they tried
to fly, when they flew into each other, trying to get up, because
quail fly in every direction. So when they went up, some of
them knocked themselves out as they tried to get away. Then
also, I'm sure some of those kids, that's where they got their
slingshot practice. It'd be like, hey, mom, can I go get the quail
for supper? Yeah, take your slingshot. I mean, I don't know if they
had nets. Nets would have been nice, but I don't know if they
had nets. But maybe God didn't even let the quail fly. I don't
know, but all I know is they ate quail. Again, a miracle that
this many people had quail. Notice the next thing. Numbers chapter 14 verse 2, and
I have in my notes, but still the Israelites murmured. And
all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron,
and the whole congregation said unto them, here's what they said,
would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, or would God
that we had died in the wilderness. They said, why did God even bring
us, I mean, why didn't we just stay back? Now, they'd seen all
these miracles. But had it changed them? And
the answer to that was no. That's why he told the kids,
don't be like your dads. Your dads were rebellious. Your
dads have seen the works of God, and they're a rebellious generation.
So again, the third thing is that they, again, when we was
talking about it, we said number one was that they might set their
hope in God. Number two was that they might
not forget the works of God, and the children of Israel did.
Now you and I have seen God do some amazing things in our lives.
But isn't it kind of funny that after God has done a lot of stuff
in our life, something comes up and we doubt God? Now I realize
we haven't seen water come out of a rock. I don't think anyone
here has seen water come out of a rock. And I've never seen that big
a cubby of quail, okay? And I've never seen an ocean
parted, okay? So the children of Israel saw
some bigger things than we've ever seen. But by the way, just like
the children of Israel, we can see God work and we can see God
deliver. And the next time we have a problem, guess what? Sometimes
we doubt. wonder why God is not doing something. So again, the
third thing is it that they might keep His commandments. And I
must very quickly notice there in Deuteronomy 6, 17, You shall
diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His
testimonies, and His statutes, which He hath commanded thee.
Verse 6 of chapter 8 says, Therefore thou shalt keep the commandment
of the Lord thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.
He said that's Old Testament. Yes, it is. Notice the New Testament
right below it 1st John 5 2 & 5 3 says by this We know that we love
the children of God when we love God and what? Keep his commandments
for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments and
his commandments are not grievous So again, he said I want you
to teach them to keep his command keep the commandments now You
can't keep them if you don't know them That's why we have
to come to church and that's why we have to read the Bible
because that way we can see what God wants us to do I don't know
about you, when I first got saved, I didn't know all the things
a Christian was supposed to do. I didn't know what was expected of me.
I had never been a Christian before. When you join a sports
team, or you go to a private school, guess what they have?
They have a rule book. Liberty Christian Academy, we
always read it word for word every first day of school for
years I almost had the rulebook memorized because I read it I
read it at the PTA meeting the Friday before then I read it
Monday the first day of school So I read the rulebook in the
in the 39 years. I've been here the last few years
I haven't read it word for word, but for years. I've read it word
for word so I mean I read it 70 or 80 times and Now, understand, if you get pulled
over by a police officer, sometimes they'll say, do you know how
fast he was going? And you'll say, no. Maybe you even know how fast.
They'll say, do you know what the speed limit is in this area? And you
may think, oh, I got him here. No, I don't know what the speed
limit is. If you think that helped you or saved you, it did not. You are expected to pay attention
to the signs. Your ignorance of the law does
not deliver you from the penalty of the law. They'd be like, you
walk in and rob a bank, and then the police get you, and they
say, I didn't know I couldn't rob a bank. Try that, see how far that gets
you. All right? When you call me from
there and say, do you know a good attorney? Do you know a good
lawyer? I'm in jail. Why? Because I robbed a bank.
Was you stupid? No, I didn't know you couldn't
rob banks. People would draw money from the banks all the
time. I didn't realize I couldn't do it with a gun. I just, I mean,
we have, you know, we can open carriers, so I just thought it
was okay. Again, we need to know His commandments. We can't keep
them if we don't know them. By the way, we won't keep them
if we don't love God enough. Now, I don't know about you,
but when I love somebody, I try to make them happy. And again, what that means is
you try to do the things that they like. You try not to do
things they don't like. That's why if husbands want to
be a good husband, we try to keep our wives happy. If wives want
to be a good wife, they try to keep their husbands happy. Kids want to
do the, I mean, they want to get anywhere with mom and dad.
They want to keep their parents happy. By the way, if we want to have God's
blessings, we want God to give us stuff and answer our prayers.
We got to keep God happy. We got to keep his commandments.
He says there in John 14, 15, if you love me, keep my commandments.
If we love Him enough, we'll keep His commandments. Again,
underneath this, keeping His commandments. If we obey and
keep His commandments, we reap benefits. Malachi 3.10 talks
about a financial benefit we reap. 1 John 3.22 talks about
a prayer benefit that we reap. Notice the prayer one. Whatsoever
we ask, we receive of Him, because what? We keep His commandments.
Now there are a lot of folks that say, I prayed and He didn't answer
my prayer. They think that God should answer every prayer that
they pray. You say, does that happen? And the answer to that
is no. I can tell you that if you don't have a correct relationship
with Him, He doesn't answer your prayer. By the way, He also tells
us if we don't have a proper relationship with others, He
doesn't answer our prayer. He tells husbands and wives,
we don't have a proper relationship with our husband and wife, He
doesn't answer our prayer. Now, understand, if we obey Him
and keep His commandments, there's some benefits. And I have here
in my notes, God has good benefits. Now, many times when you're looking
for a job, the benefits that they have are important, because
sometimes the hourly wage is pretty close, but you're looking
for the one that has a fairly good hourly wage and good benefits,
especially when it comes to insurance and things like that. So again,
we want to make sure that we keep His commandments. Then the
last thing, and I'll be done, He said this, He said that they
might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation. That came from Psalm 78, verse
8. Now, I do hope that God doesn't Look at you or I and say, you
know what? I hope nobody turns out like
them. That's why as parents and as preachers or teachers or anyone
else, we're supposed to be an example. Now, when I say an example,
it is something that someone can pattern their life after.
How many of you have ever had a pattern that you either use
for sewing or for woodworking or for something else? Now, if
you follow the pattern, You'll end up with the right sizes and
shapes. Some of you bought a building, or you bought something before,
and the hose were off. I mean, they pre-drilled the
hose. But if the hose are off, it is a mess, because it's not
easy for you to fix it. Say, what happened? The guy just
was off a little bit. And by the way, you don't have
to be off very much for that screw not to fit in that hole. But
if that screw don't fit that hole, it is really tough. And
by the way, it also means probably the next one's off, and the next
one's off, and the next one's off. So a lot of times, it's not even
a screwdriver. It's a little, I don't know what
you call it, an awl or something. You stick it in there, and you'd
wall it around, and then you put that screw in there. And
then you'd have to, I mean, it could have been an easy job,
but it's not an easy job because somebody didn't cut the pattern
right. When I was in shop class, and I enjoyed shop class. Shop
class and PE were my two favorite classes. The rest of them were all school,
so they weren't near as much fun. But in shop class one time we
made flower boxes. And they had a pattern. And if
we laid the pattern down and we drew stuff around the pattern.
Now here's what you don't do. You don't take the pattern and draw
that one and then take the pattern and set it over there and take
the one you cut and now use that as a pattern. Because if you
keep doing that, when you get down here to this ways, you're
a long ways from the original pattern. You know why? Because
you got off a little bit and then a little bit more. Then
you say, how do you know? Because that's what we did. And then
our flower boxes did not match up right. Now, if you use the
same one as the pattern for this one, and then you take the pattern
over here and use the same one as a pattern for that one, and
you take the pattern over here, I mean, then you're going to be okay.
But again, understand Christ set a pattern for us. Again,
Notice 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 21 my favorite verse my life
verse and what it says in 1st Peter 2 21 for even here into
where you called Because Christ also suffered for us. What did
he do leaving us an example that you should follow his steps now?
It is easy to follow a trail By the way that trail tells you
a couple things One someone else has already been through there
to it usually means it's a little clearer than if now if you ever
had to make your own trail and Not near as much fun, a lot more
scratching, a lot more, I mean, sometimes you get down on your
hands and knees and some, I mean, but when there's a trail, for instance,
wherever my cows walk, my cows make a trail, because my cows,
I mean, and by the way, they don't care if stuff scratches
against them, so they, and they're a little wider than me, thankfully,
so they, usually if I get on the cow trail, I can keep from
getting in trouble. Now, if you try to follow a rabbit
trail, that's going to be a little bit more difficult. Now again,
Christ said in the example, why that we should follow His steps?
You say, but yeah, but that's Jesus. I'm nothing like Jesus. Well,
I'm glad the next guy out. You don't have it in your verses
because of the fact that I didn't want to run off another page
for just three verses, but let me read it to you. And you can
turn over there if you'd like to. In 1 Corinthians chapter four, we're going to
look at a verse there and then we'll look at one also in 1 Corinthians
chapter 11. So 1 Corinthians chapter four,
verse 16 says, wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. Now
you would think that this is a proud thing, but he wasn't
saying it as a proud thing. What Paul was saying is I'm trying
to, I'm living for the Lord. Follow me. Now that, by the way,
that puts a lot of pressure on you. Okay? And it's a good pressure
because it means I have to do right because there's folks watching
me. There's folks following me. How many of you have ever led
a group someplace? How many of you wish you never have to do
that again? You know why? Because almost always there's
somebody that you lose. I mean, especially if you leave
early in the morning, we used to go to youth conference. We'd leave at three or four o'clock
in the morning and we try to keep track of people's headlights.
Uh, but if we had like six cars, I couldn't see all the cars behind
me. So I was always hoping that the folks behind me, the folks
behind them were watching the folks behind me and the folks
behind. I mean, if they were all watching it, but it never
fell. We had somebody that got lost. And we'd pull over. Or somebody would think they
had to go to the bathroom. And they're not good at math.
Now, if you're good at math, you have to understand, if you pull over,
and you say, well, he's only in there for five minutes. I
understand that. But if you know math very well,
if you're five minutes behind them, if they're traveling 60
miles an hour, in five minutes, they went five miles. You say,
yeah, but they're only five miles. That's not very far. Yeah, but
for you to catch up five miles means you're going to have to
go really, really fast. or you won't ever catch them.
And here's what happens. Someone will pull over and they
go to the bathroom. We'd check and we couldn't find them. And
then they said, so we need to all pull over so they could catch up.
Or they would say, no problem, you just keep going, I'll catch
you. By the way, by the time, before they catch us, usually
someone else had to go to the bathroom. So now the whole group pulls
off, we pull off to the bathroom, the car that was trying to catch
us, now they're going down the highway. So we're all going to
the bathroom, we get back and we say, where you at? What marker
are you at? Now they're five miles in front
of us. And it's very difficult to travel like that. And I used
to have some that would ride right on my bumper. And so they
would scare me. I'd think, if I slim on my brakes.
I'd had others that would say way back then, I'd say, you've
got to pull out. I can't stop at every light waiting
for you to catch up. So again, being the leader is
not only, so again, it'll make you work to live for the Lord,
because if folks are watching, if your kids are watching, your
husband or your wife, or your relatives are watching, it puts
some pressure on you. But Paul said in 1 Corinthians 4, 16,
wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. In 1 Corinthians
11, 1, he said, be ye followers of me. Why? Even as I also am
of Christ. Again, Paul wasn't saying, look
at me. Paul was saying, you follow me, because I'm following Jesus.
So what that was saying is, brother block's in the front, I'm following
brother block, you follow me, because I'm following brother
block. And by the way, if they were following brother block, and
then you follow the guy following brother block, and that person followed the
one that's following the one that's following brother block, I mean, and you know what
I'm saying. Now I started sounding like Kamala Harris, I mean, saying
a lot of stuff that you think, what in the world did he say?
But the truth is, what Paul said is, you follow me, because I'm
following Christ. So by the way, if you're following
me, guess what? You're also following Christ, because that's who I'm
following. So again, and by the way, that wasn't Jesus, Paul
was, And you say, well, Paul was what he called the worst
sinner. He called himself the chiefest of sinners. So if you're
wondering, if Paul had a lot of growing to do and Paul had
a lot of change to do, yes, he did. But again, Paul was an example. And by the way, also Lois and
Eunice were, because again, in 2 Timothy chapter one, verse
five, Paul himself commented about how, Timothy, if you just
have the faith that grandma had and you live like grandma did,
and you have the Christian life like your mom did, You're going
to be a good Christian because they got the real thing. They've
got their genuine people. They're not the fakers. They're
not movie stars. They're not pretending to be
somebody. That's really who they are. They're good folks. So again,
you and I are supposed to pass down a spiritual heritage. In
order to pass it down, we have to have it ourselves. So it means
that we have to work on having a spiritual heritage so that
we can pass that down to our kids. And then we have to get
to them, make sure we drive home the importance of them passing
it down to their kids. Because what a blessing. Again,
I said this the other day, we have some families here that
they're second and third generations at Liberty. And some other folks,
your kids don't attend here, but your kids are faithful in
church someplace else. By the way, that is a blessing when
we have second and third and some fourth generation young
people. And when I say young people, some of them are 40 years
old now, but I mean, or 50, living for the Lord. Young people that
grew up here that had godly parents and godly teachers and preachers
that pointed them in the right direction. And now they're pointing
their kids in the right direction. And some of their kids are getting
married and they're trying to point their kids in the right direction. That's
what Timothy had. He had a grandma and a mom that
was doing right. And Timothy was trying to do
that as well. And by the way, he probably got married, had kids, and then
taught that to his kids. And again, the goal for him would
have been for his kids to teach their kids and so on and so forth.
A godly heritage. He's passing it down to the next
generation.
"Passing Down a Spiritual Heritage, part 6"
| Sermon ID | 10102409577060 |
| Duration | 1:01:58 |
| Date | |
| Category | Midweek Service |
| Bible Text | 2 Timothy 1:5 |
| Language | English |
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