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Welcome to another message from
God's Word. We're going to give you a little
bit of a treat tonight. I think it's a treat. This is Valentine's Day. This
is February the 14th, 2019. That doesn't
even hardly sound real. Valentine or Valentino was a
real person. He was a pastor. Now, the Catholic
Church made him a saint, canonized him later on. But when Valentine
lived between about 226 A.D. Some people have him going around
all the way back to 180 something A.D. But he died a triple death. Did you hear that? He died a
triple death in February the 14th, 269 A.D. Now, at this time
in history, there was no such thing as a Catholic Church. They
were all Baptists. And in Rome, there was a controversy
between Cornelius and Novatian at this time, and it was over
Church discipline. But the church in Rome, where he was in Italy,
was still really, by faith and practice, a Baptist church. Now,
he was in one of the cities around Rome, and he was a pastor and
a spiritual leader. And Claudius the cruel Claudius Gotham. He was the emperor of the Roman
Empire at that time. Claudius was going out to conquer
and trying to control his western front and eastern front, and
he had to have a lot of soldiers. And he had found out that his
soldiers, if they were married, they wanted to go back home.
They didn't want to stay out on campaigns for years and years
and years. So, he forbid his soldiers to
be married. Now, some of the Roman soldiers
were Christians. You have to realize that some
of the Roman soldiers were Christians. Even though Christianity was
not looked upon, it was frowned upon, but some of the soldiers
were Christians. And Constantine made an edict, a law, that none
of his soldiers and none of the men of that nation there, for
a period of time, they could not get married. Now, we did not have a church
and state this time. I want you to understand that
church and state did not exist still. This was before the church
and state idea. Now, the pastors did not, what
we might call, sign decrees and have Mary's license like we do
today. That all came from Catholicism,
church and state later, many, many years later. By 325 AD,
then we have Constantine the Great and we have the church
Catholic actually begins. And then they wanted to control
the births and marriages, people from birth to marriage to death. And so at this period of time,
this is 300 and something AD, this is 200 we're talking about
now. They didn't have marriage license. What did a pastor do
at that time? A man and a woman would come
before a congregation and they would state that they wanted
to live in holy matrimony, that they wanted to have children,
that they wanted to have a marriage, and they wanted to have God in
their lives, and that they would follow God in their married lives. It was not a license or anything,
but it was a commitment. It was a public commitment. And
so people would come to Valentino or Valentius, however you want
to say his name, and they would say, we want to get married.
We want to come together in marriage as two people in the eyes of
God. And so he would get up before
the congregation, and they would lead out, and he would say a
few words, and they'd have a prayer, and these people would go home
and be married. Well, Claudius, the cruel, said,
stop it now. Stop it now. And he had Valentino arrested. Well, Valentino preached to the
emperor about Christ and his gift of himself and his eternal
life that he offers. And the emperor was very interested
in him in the beginning. But Valentino tried to convert
him. And so the emperor got mad and
condemned him to death. Now I told you that he had a
triple death. A triple death. How do you kill
somebody three times? How do you do that? Well, the
triple death that Constantine was sentenced to was first of
all, they beat him with clubs. And then they stoned him. And
then, to make sure he was dead, they decapitated him, they beheaded
him. Well, Valentino was in prison. And in prison there was a guard,
a captain there, called by the name of Asturias. Asturias. And Asturias was guarding Valentino
and he listened to him preach and he believed. He became a
believer. And he also had a daughter, some
people say adopted daughter, that was blind. And the daughter
listened to Valentino. He brought her and she listened
to him preach and to read the word of God and she believed. Well, Asturias asked Valentino
Valentino, do you think, if you prayed, do you think God might
heal this beautiful girl's eyesight where she can see? And so he
prayed, laid his hands upon her, and she saw. Her sight was given
to her. And she would come to his cell
every day and he would read to her. And it finally came time
to where it was time for him to be executed with this triple
execution, beating with clubs, stoning, and then beheading.
The girl didn't come to the prison that day right early. She was
very sad. Valentino left her a message,
it says, in history. God bless you, your Valentine. That was the first Valentine
card, supposedly. She got the card, she got his
note, and she planted a flower on her doorstep, by her doorstep,
and that flower every year on February the 14th it would bloom in memory of Valentino. He was
beaten with clubs, he was stoned, and he was beheaded. He's buried
now. And then later on, in February
14th, 269 A.D., Valentino gave his life for the
gospel. And we remember him today. We remember him as standing for
the faith in his time and his place. We live now As the legend of
Valentine came on down to us, now we give our wives and girlfriends
Valentine's cards. When I went to school, everybody
made little Valentine's cards and they would give, the girls
would give the boys a Valentine card and the boys would give
the girls a Valentine card. And that's what we do now. We look and we have little Cupid,
little angel looking things, little Cupid, little, Cherubs
are in diapers, shooting arrows in people's hearts and things
like that. This is all legend. It's all real cute and everything.
But the real story of Valentine is the story of death. It's the
story of a man that gave his life for the gospel of Jesus
Christ. And by the way, the only people
in the world at that time were either Gnostics, which he was
not, or Baptists. which he probably was in faith
and practice. We look at different ones. We
look at Patrick. If you go to the site discovertheword.com
or discover the word with drjim.com and it's linked to sermonaudio.com. Up there, there's a square little
black thing with a black and blue background postage stamp
looking thing with a radio tower with beams coming out. If you
push on that, you go over there to the website, the other sister
website, and down there it says St. Patrick was a Baptist. And
you can read that story also. We'll have St. Patrick's Day
coming up here sooner or later. But Valentine was a Christian.
He was a pastor and he gave his life for his faith. Now let's go to the 11th chapter
of the gospel according to Matthew and verse number 25. Now this
is kind of a short lesson here from 25 through 30. And Jesus
has been talking to his disciples and
his apostles, and he talked to great multitudes. And he told
them about basic Christianity, basic Christianity. And basic
Christianity now is a whole lot different than Judaism. Judaism
isn't, Christianity isn't an evolved Judaism. Christianity
is Christianity. Opposing Judaism in raw reality
Judaism here you keep the law You offer sacrifices and you're
looking for the Messiah to come in Christianity the Messiah came
You trust in Christ that he is your Sabbath That all of the
things that those festivals the young Kapoor the day of atonement
that he is our atonement first John 2 and 2 He is our salvation,
John 3, 16. He's our one and all. He's our
only mediator between man and God. That is our Christ. And that's what we're going to
talk about now is basic Christianity. Basic Christianity. You write
that down, Marilyn? Basic Christianity. In ecchano tol chiro. apokrythes ho eisous eipen, exo
logou mai, sue pater kyrie tu ranu, kai teis geis hoti, ek
krypes tauta aposofon kai sineton kai apakalypsos pauta nepios. In that the season and that word
Cairo that means season that's not time and that season Having
answered Jesus. He said I Give thanks to you
father and now he's talking to the father The father son and Holy Spirit
are one triune God now the Sun is glorifying and magic and putting
in great majesty the father and Jesus told us how to pray say
our father which is in heaven hallowed. Holy Precious is your
name that will be done On earth as it is in heaven, etc Now he's
going to praise God. He said I give thanks to you
father Lord of the heaven and of the earth because you have
veiled and hidden and made cryptic these things from wise ones,
the wise ones, who he's talking about, who were the masters of
the law, the rabbis, the priests, the high priests, from the wise
and intelligent, and you did cover up, you did uncover, you
did uncover them to speechless babies. for those babies that
don't know how to read and write or even speak, and that's talking
about you and me. 1126, nehopater hoto hutos udokia
agenito emprostensu. Yes, the father because thus. You judged good or it was your
good pleasure, it seemed or it became for itself. down in the
presence of you. What he's talking about here?
He's talking about the plan of salvation. The plan of salvation. Basic Christianity, the plan
of salvation is that God in eternity past decided how that he would
save all mankind. How that he would redeem all
man to himself. This is the only way of salvation
now. And eternity passed, he wrote his name down in the Lamb's
Book of Life. And in space and time, we believe.
We repent of our sins and call upon the Lord to save our souls. That repentance and that calling
upon the name of the Lord is a miracle work. It's a miracle
work. It is a powerful work. The restoring
of the soul is a miracle. Jesus went about all the land
of Palestine, Canaan, whatever you want to call it, Judea, Samaria,
even Syria, and he healed people by the power of God. Every time a soul believes in
Australia, New Zealand, China, the Philippines, especially in
the Islamic world, when a person believes it is a miracle. And
what God does in people's life is miraculous. It is powerful. Repentance and faith is a majestic,
powerful work. It is a divine work. It doesn't
come from you. That restoring of fellowship
with God in your life and the power to walk off from sin and
go the right way. We were like children, all victims
of sin at one time. But we, while we were dead in
our trespasses and sins, give his life for us that we that
call upon him might have eternal life and have the power of God
unto salvation. Yes, the Father, because thus
it was your good pleasure, it seemed, down in the presence
of you. What did God do? In eternity
past, He chose to save us in the Beloved One, in Christ Jesus. John 3.16 says, For God so loved
the world. Now the whole world God in eternity
past, he created Lucifer, which became Satan, he created spirits,
he created angels, and we know that one third of them rebelled
against God, the spirits and the angels, and they stood in
opposition. But through the merits of God's
Son, he would In space and time, Kaihologos sarxikanato, and the
word, the Jehovah became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld
the glory, the glory of the only begotten from the Father, full
of grace and truth. No one has seen God in any time,
but the only begotten God, the one being in the bosom of the
Father, that one has led himself out. If you confess with your
mouth that Jesus is Lord, that God sent him into this world,
that He died for you on the cross of Calvary and that God raised
Him from the dead, you shall be saved. You shall be saved. And that
gift of repentance and that gift of faith will explode in your
life. Are you going through times of
trouble? Are you? down and bewildered and sometimes
just don't know what God wants with you, why He's even dealing
with you, because you just don't have the will, you just don't
have the wherewithal, you just don't have the power to do what
He wants you to do. Yes, you do. All you have to
do is put one foot in front of the other and say, Lord, lead
me. And He'll do it. It's a power
unto salvation. because in this way, in this
manner, it was judged good by Him, it was His good pleasure,
down in front of you all. Now let's look at verse number
27. Panta moi paradofe, hipo tu patros mu, cae udes epigonosce
ton hwion e me ho pater ude ton All things to me it was handed
over, each and everything. Each thing, third person singular, first
person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first
person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person
singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person
singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first
person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first
person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular,
first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular,
first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first
person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person
singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular,
first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first
person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular, first person singular,
first person singular, first person singular, He was delivered to them. The baton
was handed to the son in the procurement of salvation for
the human race. Now I'm not saying that everybody's
going to be saved there. But God did die that everyone
in the human race, the propitiation was made. Whether you take it
up, that's that real fine line gift that God gives to you in
volition. That you're capable of responding
to God. and believing. And when you respond
to God, the power of God explodes in your life, in your mind, in
your soul, in your spirit, and in your person. All thanks to
me it was handed over by the agency of the Father of me, and
no one, he fully knows the Son, except the Father. Neither the Father, anyone, he
fully knows. Except the Son into whom or in
whom if he may will the son to reveal Uncover to put out on
the stage under the spotlight. That's you people That's you
God at one time in your life when you believed and came unto
the What we might call the conviction of the Holy Spirit of God because
that's the only way you're gonna get saved. I You can't decide
to be a Christian one day. You can't decide to just go to
church one day. It's the power of God that leads
us unto salvation. And the power of God that leads
you unto salvation leads you in the Lord's footsteps. Jesus said, if you don't believe,
you don't follow me, you're not worthy of me. What makes it able
for what makes it a why are you able to follow God? By the power of God that's how
Now let's go on a little bit further verse number 28 do it
a pros may Ponte's ho a coal peon tase chi-4 t soul man away
cargo on up who so he must Salvation isn't works. Salvation
to the people that Jesus came to, the priests and the Sadducees
and the Pharisees, all of these people, salvation was accumulation
of good works, whereinby you would finally walk up the pathway
of God into the path of heaven. The pathway isn't there, people,
on your own. There is no pathway. It's a false
road. The Jewish people believe that
when you first die that you're very sad, your soul is very sad,
and that it wanders around the body for about three or four
days up to a week. And everybody laments and cries
and bawls and goes on. But then that spirit, that soul,
that person goes up there and it starts to get used to heaven. Starts to get used to heaven
and then it's a little happier. And the Jewish people, they have
stages of bereavement and then great joy. But I'm gonna tell
you something, that road's not there. That road is not there,
that road alone is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Come unto me, all of you laboring. This word, it comes from, it's
copiontes, it's nomine plural masculine present participle
active, comes from copio, and it means to do hard working,
beating labor. You used to have a guy that worked
for me out there on the farm. I'm going to tell you something.
Work on that farm's hard work. Marilyn, you sweated 100 gallons of sweat
out there at least, out chopping weeds and shoveling things in
your life. Oh, Ricky would come in for lunchtime,
and we'd cook him lunch. And he'd come in for lunchtime,
and he sat down. I'm beat up. Boy, I'm beat up. Oh, that was
a hard job out there. Oh, that was hard. And it was. Works for salvation would beat
you up. Religion will beat you to death. False religion will. And you won't get anywhere. Where's
it going to get you? To a dead-end road. Jesus Christ
and Him only. He said, come unto me, all the
ones laboring heavy. And having been burdened down,
and they were, Jesus told the Pharisees standing there, he
said, they load you down, those Pharisees load you down with
great burdens that they themselves won't lift with one little finger.
But yet they'll lay it on your backs. Don't walk across the
grass on the Sabbath, you might sow seed. Don't eat an egg laid
on the Sabbath, buy chicken, or a guinea, or a duck, or a
goose. That's bare bottom, that's forbidden.
Don't go but so far on the Sabbath to do anything. Don't do any
kind of work on the Sabbath. You go into a Jewish home on
the Sabbath and you go into the bathroom and the day before the
Sabbath they'll go in there and they'll take toilet paper and
they'll pile it up in little piles. because pulling toilet
paper off the toilet paper roll is work. Some of the Jews, if they're
really religious, they won't even go to the bathroom on the
Sabbath. They hold it till the next day. Foolishness, great
burdens that men wear down other men's shoulders. Jesus said,
come unto me, I shall give you rest. Rest from all your labors
and toils in religion. Relax in the truth. Relax in
Jesus Christ, our Savior. Verse number 29, Hapate ton zogon
mu ef himas kai mathete. At imu hote pros eme kai tapenos. Te Kardia Kai Hurei Seitei Anaphusen
Teis Psycheis Himon. Ye take and ye carry the yoke
of me. You carry the yoke of me. My yoke. You carry my yoke.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. You carry my yoke upon you, and
you learn, you become a habitual learner, that's what he says
here. That's second person plural, present indicative active, imperative
active. You learn, you become a habitual
learner from me. Because meek, pros, that word's
meek, that's lowly, that word is humble. I am, and humble, absolute, true humility
in the heart. And you shall find anapusen. Anapusen means to stop moving. Stop moving. Stop moving. Anapusen. It means to stop moving,
stop laboring. It means to lay down and rest.
Lay down and rest. Stop moving. Cease activity. To the souls of you all. Verse number 30, and then we'll
go back and read this from the Amplified Bible. For, or Hol-gar-seagulls,
Mu, Cray-stohs, Ky, Toh, For-tee-ohm, Mu, Ah-lah-frohn, Estin. For the yoke belonging to me,
and belonging to you now, gentle, Christos, it's gentle, it's mild,
it is easy to carry. And the burden of me, light it
is. Now I'm going to tell you something,
the burden that Jesus Christ paid for your sins was not light
to Him. But He paid it for you. He died
for all of us, that we might have life. Let's read this from verse 25
onward. Yes, Father, I praise you that
such was your gracious will and good pleasure. All things were
entrusted and delivered to me by my Father, and no one fully
knows and accurately understands the Son, except the Father, and
no one fully knows and accurately understands the Father except
the Son, and anyone to whom the Son deliberately wills to make
him known." He wills to make him known. There's a lot of controversy
in the election, and superlapsarian, infralapsarian, and sublapsarian,
and those are great big words. But I'm going to make it real
simple to you. Jesus Christ died for all men. It is not efficacious,
it isn't what we call valid for all men, even though He died
for all men, but it only becomes valid when you believe. And when
you believe, when you surrender your will to God, when you give
up your you and put Jesus Christ on the throne of your life, when
you hand your soul, your spirit, and your body over to God, He
will give you the power to believe and to live for Him. The Son deliberately wills to
make known, come to me, all you who labor, are beat down with
hard labor, and are heaven-laden and overburdened, and he's talking
about the religious people that were religiously overburdened.
I will cause you to cease moving. Cease activity. Stop. And look
at me. Jesus told old Nicodemus, if
I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto me. That means all men.
That all men have an equal chance unto believing. That all men,
that's all men, Pontus, all men can believe. and whosoever will
shall have eternal life. I will cause you to rest, and
I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls. I'll give your souls
life. It is a miraculous, it is a powerful,
it is the divine work. Take my yoke upon you, and learn
of me, for I am gentle, humble and lowly in heart, and you will
find rest and relief and ease and refreshment and recreation
and blessed quiet for your souls. For my yoke is wholesome, useful,
good, not harsh, hard, sharp, and pressing down, but comfortable
and gracious and pleasant, and my burden is light and easy to
be borne." We don't understand what that means there in the
modern language. My burden, my yoke is light.
A yoke is like a saddle, it's like a harness. Saddle and harness. Now you go back into the days
when I was young, they were still using stock animals for some
things. But I'll tell you one thing, they've always used horses
for cowboying and there's still cows running all over the ranges
and the hills and the pastures. Every time you go to McDonald's,
somebody killed a cow. Somebody rounded up that cow.
Somebody gathered that cow. Now, I know
that people do it by helicopters today, and they do it with quads
and all kinds of stuff, even motorcycles in some places. But
cowboys. In the old days, a horse would
wear out about 10 or 12, 15 years, and he was done for. Why was
he done for? Because he had hard work and
abuse. And how many of you ever have seen a horse's back with
saddle sores on him? The old horses in the old days
were slimmer and narrower and the saddles were narrow. And
a saddle had a sheepskin on it. Now at one time, the sheepskin
was a pad between the horse and the saddle and the man. And then
they began to pad underneath the sheepskin because the sheepskin
would wear out, and they'd pad it up. And then a horse would
have a saddle sore on it. And they'd take a saddle blanket
and they'd cut a hole right where that saddle sore is. And that
was for that horse. And the old horse can only be
ridden so long and he'd be this worn out. Then you had to drape
that saddle and put it on another one. And the same thing with
the oxen. The oxen, sometimes all they
had was a rough hewn timber. Well, smoothed out a little bit,
and it has a U-shaped thing, and they put it through there,
and they put pins through that, and that cow had to push against
that. And there would be calluses and sores on that yoke. Jesus
says, my yoke is easy. Some gentle Animal owners and
farmers used to take sheepskin and put it around in between
and wool and blankets in between the yokes and the neck of the
ox or the cow to make it easier for them so they wouldn't have
to be pulled. When you're pulling against a hard load, when you're
pulling against a hard load, when you got a heavy man sitting
in the saddle and that man is rubbing, that saddle is rubbing
your sore in some places, it's hard to go. Those poor old oxen
were hard, hard to pull. When you pulled against something
that gave you pain, it's hard enough to pull and strain against
something that's easy to pull. Or it's not hurting you. But
when that thing is gouging you, it's hard to stand. And false
religion is like a sharp yoke and a unpadded saddle. The faith in Jesus Christ is
the power of God in salvation. Our Heavenly Father, we send
this message out for you, for your people today. I pray that
you work miracles out there in the world, that you give people
the joy of their salvation, and that they can shout and praise
God for what you've given them to do. And Father, may we always
Thank you for the salvation that you so freely give us in Jesus
Christ. Please forgive me where I fail
you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Basic Christianity 101
Series Matthew From the Greek Text
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| Duration | 37:26 |
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| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Matthew 11:25-30 |
| Language | English |
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