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Luke's Gospel, Chapter 20. We're
going to be reading the first eight verses. Before I read these
verses, let me just say, when the Apostle Paul wrote his letters, oftentimes it was with tears
that he wrote. And I think that it would be
a huge mistake to come into this room for a
service like this and not think about the passion of the Lord
and the tears that were in his eyes as he gave us these words. The passion of the Lord for us
to understand his word is more than we could ever know. And it's so easy to come to a
meeting like this and we start out and our attempt is to learn
something of the sense of what is being said here. And we can
be satisfied with just an academic knowledge of what is said. and not lay hold on the emotions
of God. And that's a big mistake. This book is given to us with
passion because the Lord loves us more than we could ever know.
And he's given us these things to help us because we've got
a problem. And most of the time, we do not
know it. We've got a problem and do not know it. One of the
reasons is because our hearts are deceived. We're deceived in our
perception of ourselves, our perception of life as a whole. We're pretty much deceived about
so much of life. So the Lord has given us these
things to help us in that regard. Reading verse one, and let me
say the title of this message tonight is the most dangerous
people in the world. The most dangerous people in
the world. And it came to pass that on one
of those days, as he taught the people in the temple and preached
the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him
with the elders and spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what
authority doest thou these things? Or who is he that gave thee this
authority? And he answered and said unto
them, I will also ask you one thing, and answer me. The baptism
of John, was it from heaven or of men? And they reasoned with
themselves, saying, if we shall say from heaven, he will say,
why then believed he him not? But if we say of men, all the
people will stone us, for they be persuaded that John was a
prophet. And they answered that they could
not tell whence it was. And Jesus said unto them, neither
tell I you by what authority I do these things. So our first challenge here is
to grasp something of the sense of what the Lord is seeking to tell us here. But we want to remember the passion
of God. in our understanding of these
things. These words right here. Let's look to the Lord in prayer.
Father, we do ask tonight that you would bless us with an understanding
of what you're saying here, that the message might reach our hearts
and to understand that so often we know academically what's said
here, but in the application of what is said, we practice
a practical unbelief, a practical unbelief, because
we do not live it. So I pray that you would help
us to overcome this problem as we gather here tonight and consider
the meaning of the passage. And we pray in Jesus' name, amen. If you'll notice in a overall
study of the Bible, you'll notice that the Lord does not focus
a whole lot on what we consider to be the lowlifes of this world,
the drunkards and the harlots, the thieves, He does address
those things. But it's not the focus of so
much of the message of the Bible. As a matter of fact, if you will
consider carefully the Bible, you will discover that the focus
of just about everything that he said was to leaders. spiritual leaders all throughout
the Bible. It's important to note that.
And one of the reasons is because if we can learn the relationship
of man at his best state with God, man at his best state, we might consider carefully where
we might stand in relation to people that we assume are close
to God. Churchgoers, people that are
faithful in going to church, people that are Bible teachers,
people that are missionaries, people that live a moral life
publicly and it's recognized by everybody who sees them. It's interesting that the focus
of the message of the book is on those people. And that's important for us to
think about. And with those thoughts, it leads
us into why I decided to title this message, Who Are the Most
Dangerous People in the World? And the answer is religious leaders. Religious leaders. I hope to
some extent to prove this tonight and what we're going to look
at. This is actually what the Bible teaches. It's people in
religious circles. And so The first passage I want
to read to you. You do not have
to turn to this. If you'd like to, you can. But
it's Isaiah chapter 9 verses 14 through 16. Therefore the Lord will cut off
from Israel head and tail, branch and rush in one day, Now, with
that, remember that Isaiah was a prophet that was raised up
by God to warn the people, and especially the religious leadership, that they had completely misjudged
their condition as they stood before God. They had no idea
what peril awaited them because before too long the Babylonians
were going to be raised up by God to go down and utterly destroy the people of Benjamin and Judah. He would set on fire the temple
of God built by Solomon, burn it to the ground. And the religious leaders had
no idea that this was the temperament of God toward them. It's very
important to note that. It goes on to say, in defining
who the head and the tail was, it says, the ancient and honorable,
he is the head, the ancient and honorable in terms of the perception
of the people. He's the head. But remember the
Lord said, I will cut off from Israel head and tail." He was
going to take their head right off. The ancient and honorable, he
is the head. And the prophet that teacheth
lies, he's the tail. This is the focus of the prophecy. And then he says, for the leaders
of this people cause them to err. And they that are led of
them are destroyed. That's important. It's a dangerous
thing to be under the influence of somebody that assumes authority
in the things of God, but doesn't know God. Doesn't understand
the burden of the Lord. As a matter of fact, in Jeremiah
chapter 23, the Lord addressed that very issue of the false
pastors that walked around all the time talking about the burden
of the Lord as though they were close to God and knew his burden. No they weren't. They weren't
close to God and the Lord sent Jeremiah to tell them not to
use that word. Do not use that word and the Lord's wrath was against
the people and as Jeremiah preached no one believed him and their
emotions were so hostile against him they put him in prison and
would have killed him had God not restrained and so in Isaiah
chapter 9 he tells us what I believe is
a theme in the entire Bible For the leaders of this people cause
them to err, and they that are led of them are destroyed. In
Matthew chapter 23, we find another passage that essentially teaches
the same thing. And there are many passages that
do this, I just picked out three. Matthew 23, verses 13 and verse
15. But woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites, For you shut up the kingdom of heaven
against men. For you neither go in yourselves,
neither subjugate them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you can pass sea and land
to make one proselyte or one convert. And when he is made,
you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. That's some of the strongest
language you'll read in the Bible. And Matthew chapter 23 is full
of it, the whole chapter. Scalding language. And the focus of it is the religious
leadership, the scribes and the Pharisees, the lawyers. In Luke's gospel, chapter 12,
verses four and five, we read these words, But I say unto you,
my friends, be not afraid of them that kill the body, and
after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn
you whom ye shall fear. Fear him which after he hath
killed hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say unto you, fear
him. Fear him. So who are we to fear
in the world? Is it the drunkards? Is it the
publicans and harlots? Is it the ones that most anyone
would look at as the lowlifes of this world? That's not God's
perspective. He said, I'll tell you who you
need to fear. you need to fear the Pharisees. This verse that I've just read
in Luke chapter 12 about fearing certain people had to do with
the Pharisees and the leaven of the Pharisees. The danger
of religious leaders teaching untruths. Things that are not
true. A misunderstanding of what the
Bible is actually saying. I'm telling you the message from
heaven. I've said this many times, it's a horrible message. It's
a scary message. And as we've noted in other studies, It's not the purpose of this
church just to get people to believe in God. Just believing in God doesn't
cause people to sweat. But what does cause people to
sweat is being wrong about your actual
relationship with God. not knowing that you're on your
way to hell. Not knowing that you're on your
way to hell. If a person will pause long enough to think about
what was just said, it'll make you sweat. Because the consequences of taking
God's word lightly is enormous beyond anything we could ever
comprehend. being lost forever without any
hope, without any hope. Folks, it's so important for
us to have tender hearts. It's so important for us to acknowledge
the many things in life we do not know, the many things that
we do not understand, and present ourselves before God teachable. We need to learn. We need to
think. which is an epidemic problem
in our world today. People do not think. And we need
to think. And we especially need to think
about what God has to say. And so in Luke chapter 20, as
we get into the passage, we want to look at the verses. And we
want to consider why religious leaders can be dangerous. And you'll notice that the subject,
the way the Lord builds this thought around these eight verses is around the word authority. It has to do with authority. Very important to understand
that word authority as it relates to what the Lord is talking about
here in these eight verses. Let's read verses one and two. And it came to pass that on one
of those days, as he taught the people in the temple and preached
the gospel, the chief priests and scribes came upon him with
the elders. So here's your religious leaders.
And speaking to him saying, tell us, But what authority do us
out of these things? Or who is he that gave thee this
authority? And so the very first thing that
we're confronted with here, as the Lord focuses on the most
dangerous people in the world, it has to do with their comprehension
of authority. Now, I'll tell you what. It's
very possible that a person could come to Calvary Memorial Church
all their life and think that they really understand the message
of this chapter and prove every day that they
do not understand it by the way they apply authority in their
own life. That's what we need to think
about tonight. What do we really know about
this word, authority, in the practical application of it?
Because you see, you might be able to define authority in excellent
dictionary terms, but if we do not apply the meaning
of the word in a practical way, as it's presented in this passage,
then it's practical unbelief of the Word, as it might apply
to us. It's practical unbelief. If we
do not live it, it's practical unbelief of the meaning of the
Word, as it might relate to you and me. It's kind of like practical atheism. James said, the devils believe
and tremble. But what's missing in the life
of the devils is the practical application of what they know.
You don't have to convince the devils that there's a God. They
know there's a God. The devils believe and tremble. But the failure is a practical
atheism. In other words, if you believe
there is a God, but you live every day as though there isn't
a God, then what is the difference between being an atheist and
being a professing believer in God, but you practically do not
live as though you believe he's there? He that cometh to God
must believe that he is. And that is a rewarder, he's
a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. But do we diligently
seek him? What does it mean to diligently
seek the Lord? Can we examine ourselves and
say that we do, that we diligently seek him? Where's the evidence
of it? This is why Paul spoke so carefully about the need to examine
ourselves. To examine ourselves. We need
to do that. We need to be humble enough to examine ourselves and
just allow the fact that we might be very deceived. Even as these Pharisees were
and these elders that we read about here. The priest, the chief
priest, the scribes came upon him with the elders. An elder is a person that is supposed to be a person who
sees the big picture of life. In John's writing, in his first
epistle, an elder is a father, a spiritual father, that has
known him from the beginning. The whole idea is the scope of
the understanding of a spiritual father. He sees the big picture
of what the Bible teaches. And these that came were elders
that should have known the big picture, but they didn't. And because they didn't, they
were some of the most dangerous people on the face of the earth. And so authority is what's before
us here and the need to understand this term. I think that a careful study
of the Bible will reveal the fact that beginning in Genesis,
this is where the theme begins, authority. Yea, hath God said, You shall not eat of every tree
of the garden. Yea, as God said. And so the
temptation had to do with the subject of authority. Is God
the authority? Oh listen, you can be the authority. For God knows that in the day
you eat thereof, you shall be as God, discerning good and evil
for yourself. You've got a mind. You're a good
person. You can decide what's right and
what's wrong. You don't need God. I'm telling
you that most people live that way every day. I'm telling you. If that's the way you live, you
need to sweat. Need to sweat. Because to live
that way is to be absolutely lost. And to be without God in
the world. Just like these people right
here. They were just as lost as they could be. on their way
to hell. And the Lord said to them, you
go out here in your religion to make a convert and when you
make him, you make him twofold more the child of hell than you
are. And that's what he said. They're the most dangerous people
in the world, folks. I'm telling you something, if you're a professing
Christian, you better live like it. The Lord looks at the practical
application of it, not the head knowledge of it, but the heart living of it. And if it's not in your heart, in a way that converts you and
changes you from the way you used to be to the way the Lord
wants you to be, then you're missing it. We shouldn't be offended by these
kinds of thoughts. I'm telling you that God weeps. I believe that if we could see
the Lord tonight, if we could actually see his face, see his
countenance, as we read the words that he wrote, we would see the
tears in his eyes. This is huge in the mind of God. This is huge. And you see, it's
the very first issue in the whole Bible when it comes to the human
race, the issue of authority. And how do we understand that? Well, in the Garden of Eden,
the conflict was between the authority of heaven and the authority
of men. And I believe it's the basis
for Henry Morris' book, A Long War Against God. And this is
what it was, right here. This conflict over authority. Who's gonna decide what right
and wrong is? Now let's look at verses three
and four. And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask
you one thing, and answer me. The baptism of John, Was it from
heaven or of men? And so the Lord in his wisdom
is showing us the simple contrast, the simple way of really understanding
this huge term of authority, this huge subject that damns
men's souls if they do not understand it. And he says it's as simple
as the authority of heaven versus your authority. The authority
you assume you have in terms of what is right and wrong in
life. I'm going to tell you something.
If you do not have a fear in your heart of being wrong in
God's judgment, good question whether you're saved. You ought
to sweat over that. Because you see, one of these
days we're going to die. It's been said that this subject's
being mentioned a lot in our church. Well, it ought to be. King David wanted to remember
death often. He said, Lord, make me to know my men. and to
measure my days what it is, that I might know how frail I am.
Behold, every man at his best state is
altogether vanity." Very important to think about dying because when
you're dying, is our opinion going to compete
with God's declaration of truth? Are we going to say or argue
with God that we were right in the way we lived and the decisions
we made, the choices we made in life? Are we going to argue
with God, who is the judge of all the earth? Very important
to understand that while we're living day by day. Because you
see, your practical application of your understanding of authority
on a daily basis is really a disclosure of your actual spiritual relationship
with God. That's how we know. And that's what the Lord is teaching
us here. And so in verses three and four, we see that there are
only two possible sources when it comes to authority, and that
is heaven, or God, or men. Authority is with men. In other
words, I'm a person and I can know right and wrong. That was the reason for the fall
of the entire human race, is the idea that man can know apart
from God, without God. You know the Lord said in John
15 verse 5, without me you can do nothing. And that includes
understand this subject right here. You can't understand the
subject without God, without an understanding of who God is. And then in verse five, we read
something that's tragic. It's actually a definition of
humanism. Verse five, and they reasoned
with themselves. They reasoned with themselves. You actually see this twice in
this chapter, and you don't know how much I would love to teach
you this whole chapter tonight, but I can't do that. But he gives a parable that further illustrates the
importance of the first eight verses. And it had to do with this vineyard
that had been planted, and the hatred of the caretakers of it,
who wanted it to be their own, and not the rightful owner. And
it says in verse 14, but when the husbandmen saw him, they
reasoned among themselves, saying, this is the heir. Come, let us
kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. And that's what we actually are
doing when we go through life exalting our own authority above
the authority of God. It's the same thing as killing Him in our minds by ignoring
Him. There are different ways to kill
people. One way you kill people is just treat them as though
they don't exist. And that's exactly what a lot
of people do every day. They live as though God doesn't
exist practically. What can we look at in our lives
every day that is a practical illustration of the fact that
we know that he exists? and that we should submit ourselves
to his authority. What are the practical things
that we can point to? As we examine ourselves to see
whether we be in the faith, that's what the Apostle Paul, you know,
wrote the Corinthians about, and he warned them, he told them.
He said, examine yourselves, prove your own selves that you're in Christ. that Christ
is in you, except you be reprobates, void of judgment. There ought to be evidences that
we can see in our own lives that prove that we love God. Can we say,
well, I can prove that I love God because I go to church. Well,
so did the Pharisees. So did the scribes. So did the
lawyers. They went to church. They were
very faithful about it. Everybody knew them. That's why
they were viewed as spiritual leaders. They were. They were viewed as spiritual
leaders. And the people had great respect for them. And their respect
for them was causing them to be twofold
more the children of hell than the Pharisees were. We better stop looking at men,
better start looking at God and understand the tremendous importance
of this book and thus saith the Lord. It's a wonderful thing when people
come to a church and they listen to what's being said and even
try to prove it wrong. with the word. I think that's
a good thing. I'm not offended when people
come up to me and say, I think you missed it on that one. Because you see, I want to get
it right too. And I need all the help I can get in getting
it right. I don't want to be wrong on this
one. I listened when Pastor Kelly said, There are a lot of things
that you can be wrong about. But you don't want to be wrong
about this one. When he said those words, I would never forget
them. I think about those words often.
I'm so glad that I do. Because you see, I've got to
die right by myself. And what you think of me has
nothing to do with my eternal state. Nothing. And what I think
of myself has nothing to do with my eternal state. But I tell
you what has everything to do with it. It's how God thinks. It's not what you think your
relationship to God is, it's what he knows it is. It's the
only thing that matters in life. And so we see a terrible thing
here. In verse 5, they reasoned with themselves. That is the
definition of humanism. Their reasoning was not consistent
with Isaiah chapter 1 and verse 18. Come now and let us reason
together, saith the Lord. They didn't reason with God.
They didn't want to reason with God. They didn't have enough
respect for Him to reason with Him. I'm telling you, it's important
for each one of us. I remember something else Brother
Kent said one time, he said, he said, it's no more my responsibility
to study the Bible than it is yours. He said, you think that
just because I'm the preacher, all you need to do is just come
in here and hear what I say. Well, listen, Kent has a soul. He was concerned
about his, eternal soul, his relationship with the Lord. But
you have a soul too. And the only source available
to the human mind that you can go to to find out what your soul's
relationship is to God is right here in this book. And that's
why I said it's no more my responsibility to study the Bible than it is
yours. Listen, you've got a soul. How concerned are we for our
soul? We need to go to this book, to the word of the Lord and learn
how he thinks and learn carefully his definition of what it means
to be saved. And not go through life deceived,
satisfied with our definition of salvation as we understand
it. I don't want to go through this
life With how I feel about it, I wanna go through this life
with God being my judge. And this is what the Psalmist
David said. I think I'll turn to this, because
I think it's Psalm, I think it's Psalm, yeah, Psalm 26. Here's what he says. The Psalmist David said, judge
me, O Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity."
Now, he starts out by saying, Judge me, O Lord. His focus is
on the Lord. And with that being the first
thought, he says, In my perception of myself, for I have walked
in mine integrity. And then he says, I have trusted
also in the Lord, therefore I shall not slide And then he says, examine
me, O Lord, and prove me. You see the difference between
authority and David's understanding of authority when it came to
judging himself as compared to God judging him? Folks, the most
dangerous thing you will ever do in the course of your life
is go through life being satisfied with your relationship with God.
That's a dangerous thing. Safety is in letting the Lord
Himself examine you. And He does it right here in
His Word. He loves us. He wants us to understand it
that way. Because we're not the judges
of our eternal soul. He is! And it's good that we
understand that. And so David says, examine me,
O Lord. Well, it's good to start, as
Paul said to the Corinthians. Examine yourselves to see whether
you be in the faith. Prove your own selves. Know you
not your own selves, how that Christ Jesus is in you, except
you be reprobates. Well, it's good to start there.
At least you're thinking about what you're doing and how you're
thinking. But if you want to really get
it right and enter into full assurance of salvation so that
if death comes suddenly, unexpectedly, you get, you know, taken out
of this life, you don't have to prepare anything because you're
already prepared. And you've come to the Lord and
you've let him examine you and judge you and prove to you by
His Spirit, that you're a child of God, a son of God. That's
where you get your eternal security. It comes from God. It doesn't
come from you. It doesn't come from your opinion. It comes from
the Word of God. And trust that one. Okay, so verses 5 and 6 present
a dilemma. that the Pharisees find themselves
in, and they reasoned with themselves, saying, if we say from heaven,
he will say, why then believeth ye him not? But if we say of men, all the
people will stone us, for they be persuaded that John was a
prophet. And so He has spoken to them
about the preaching of John, who represented the authority
of heaven. And they were caught between a rock and a hard place
here because they really didn't want to acknowledge the truth
of either. Because if they acknowledged
that John told the truth and authority is only from heaven,
then we've got a problem. That demands conversion. And
that's what they did not want to do. See, that's why people
do not get saved, is they don't want to be changed. They don't
want God telling them what to do in any area of life. People want to live the way they
want to live. They want to judge their own life and their plans
and that be the end of it. But there's a God in heaven that
has written about the ways of men. There's a way,
the same as writing to a man, but in there are the ways of
death. This breaks God's heart to look down and see people that
are of that mindset, that are trusting themselves and their
own way and their own choices in life as though the blessing
of God is on them. and so they were afraid to acknowledge
that authority was from heaven. And if they rejected Christ and
were critical of John, they feared the popular opinion of men, and they concluded If we say
that authority is of men, all the people will stone us, for
they'd be persuaded that John was a prophet. Well, the dilemma here is between these
two alternatives, God or men, popular opinion. And so verse seven tells us,
and they answered that they could not tell whence it was. They
could not tell. Why did they come to that conclusion
that they could not give an answer? When there are only two possibilities,
authority is either with God or it is with men. And if it is with men, if authority
is decided by men, if it's true that men decide what is right
and what is wrong in life, then what need we of God? We don't
need God. And that was exactly the temptation
in the Garden of Eden. God knows, then there are, and
you start deciding for yourself. He knows that you'll be as wise
as he is, knowing good and evil. You can know good and evil. You
don't need God to tell you what's right and what's wrong. All you
need is your opinion. You ought to sweat over that
one. Dangerous way to live. Dangerous way to live. And so they did not want to acknowledge
it. John's preaching was right that the only authority is from
heaven because that would have meant they would have had to
pay more attention to what he had to say. And that's true tonight. But they found themselves in
a position where they could not tell because no one wants to
be thought of as a self-appointed authority. who could care less
what God thinks or what other people think. And so they chose to keep the
curtain down on the stage of life as they performed. They didn't want to come out
and let it be known exactly what they were like in their hearts
when it came to this matter of authority. They wanted to continue to parade
around as the representatives of God according to the tradition
of men. Big mistake. God weeps over this. His tears are all over these
words right here. Because it could very well be
the case that there are people right here in this church tonight
They're living exactly this way. With plenty of religion in the
life, but very little truth. Very little truth. It's the way we live. It's the
way we practically apply the things that we profess to believe
that puts the difference between the genuinely saved and the genuinely
lost. Verse 8, and Jesus said unto
them, neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. Now this is what's called stalemate. I think of it as the accursed
condition. If we had time to look at it,
it'd be interesting to do so, but I'm just going to tell you.
If we had the time to turn to Joshua chapter 6 and read verse
1, you would discover there something that I discovered many,
many years ago when I was doing some Bible study in that section. And I read these words, none
went out and none came in. I sat there and I thought about
that. None went out. None came in. The people of God
were on the outside. And their very life hung in the
balance depending on their attitude toward the people of God outside
those walls. But none of them would go out
and they wouldn't let the children of Israel in They viewed the
children of Israel, the true representatives of the true and
living God, as enemies. They didn't want to hear what
they had to say. They didn't want their God. They wanted their
own concept of God. And so the accursed condition
is when any human being will not go out to you as a witness. and will not let you as a witness
come in to them. That shows it up. No hope for
a person like that. When a person clams up and just
shuts down and will not listen to the testimony of God, that's
the accursed condition. No hope for a person like that.
There's no remedy. And when the Lord said here in
verse 8, And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you but
what authority I do these things. That was their damnation right
there. There was no remedy for them.
No remedy. This is the accursed condition. So this passage illustrates the
long war against God, to use the title of Henry Morris' book. Who decides what is good and
what is evil? Many will mentally assent to
what the Bible says, and many can quote it, just like the devils
can quote the Bible. But they practically deny it. Which is all together the same
as unbelief. If we do not live this, then
what hope do we have now? One final thought is this. Let's
bring this home. And let's examine ourselves.
Have you found yourself trying to control the people around
you lately? Disgusted with their choices
in life? Have you got a way of thinking
that is so different from the way
other people think that your judgment of them is,
man, they're just getting everything wrong. And you get bent out of
shape over it. Get bent out of shape over it.
Because they do not think the way you think. I'm going to tell you something.
That is an earthly example, to a great extent, of your actual
relationship to God when it comes to understanding the subject
of authority. Because you know what kind of
authority we have in reality? Zero. We have no authority when it
comes to our relationship with God, and we have zero authority
when it comes to the free will of man. None. None. Absolutely none. And so how do you approach people
that do not think the way you think and do not behave the way
you would like for them to behave? What do you do about it? Well, you do the same thing that
the Lord did. If people close their ears, there's
nothing you can do. If your relationship with people
is like those at Jericho, where none went out and none came in,
you just have to sort of accept that that's the situation. There's
not a thing you can do about it. And one of the reasons we ought
to understand there's nothing that we can do about it is because
there's nothing God can do about it. God will not go beyond the liberty that he has given
you to make choices in life and force
you to make his, he'll never do it. The only way that you can, the
only way the Lord can influence your authority and your behavior
in this world is by him wooing us to himself
Bringing us to our senses, like the prodigal son, he came to
his senses. And he got to thinking about
what he ought to do. And he made a good choice, finally. And he went to his father. But he volunteered to do it.
You can't make the people around you do anything. God can't make
you do. He can't make you go to heaven.
He can't. And he won't. Because free will
would not be free will if he did. That's why I say the most dangerous
thing in life is the freedom to choose. You have the freedom
to choose every day. It's the most dangerous thing
known to man. is the liberty that we have,
the freedom to choose. It'd be a wonderful thing to
fear that, to fear the liberty that we have, enough that we
seek counsel from God and counsel from people that know God, that
really do know God. Let's pray. Father, thank you
for this time we've had. I pray that you would be able
to visit with us in a very personal way so that
the things you've written would become a reality in our lives.
We look to you, Lord, to bring this about. We cannot do this.
We can't even control ourselves, let alone other people and what
other people do. Just help us to believe the message,
to believe the words that you've given us, and the great love
that you have for us. This is our prayer in Jesus'
name, amen.
The Most Dangerous People In The World
| Sermon ID | 510172015412 |
| Duration | 57:59 |
| Date | |
| Category | Midweek Service |
| Bible Text | Luke 20:1-8 |
| Language | English |
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