WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:29.000 You made a deal with the devil, didn't you? 00:30.000 --> 00:35.000 And he said, I'll give you my soul for the riches of this veil of tears. 00:35.000 --> 00:36.000 And he got it. 00:36.000 --> 00:42.000 Sometimes when you make a pact with the devil, he'll square away with you for a while. 00:42.000 --> 00:51.000 And this is what he says in that famous classic view of a sellout to Satan. 00:52.000 --> 00:59.000 Two souls, alas, dwell in my breast apart. 00:59.000 --> 01:03.000 And you know, it's always an uneasy pact that you make with the devil. 01:03.000 --> 01:10.000 And I just wonder how many of us are sometimes prone to make a little deal with Satan. 01:10.000 --> 01:13.000 And when we do that, it makes us extremely unhappy. 01:13.000 --> 01:18.000 Who in the world, Paul says, can set me free from this nature that is within me? 01:18.000 --> 01:23.000 And I think every Christian born again, of course, has to cope on a daily basis 01:23.000 --> 01:31.000 with that little bit of the old way, that old poison of the past that's still in his system. 01:31.000 --> 01:37.000 It wasn't an instantaneous conversion to righteousness or purity or holiness 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 and the walk that's like Jesus Christ. 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 It takes a while. 01:42.000 --> 01:47.000 And we just don't grow up instant manhood, instant machismo. 01:47.000 --> 01:50.000 We've got to develop those things. 01:50.000 --> 01:56.000 The psychologists were quick to see that within man there is a great conflict. 01:56.000 --> 02:02.000 And almost every psychologist, though as bad as they are in their thinking and man alive, 02:02.000 --> 02:06.000 if you're just depending on Freudian psychology to heal you, 02:06.000 --> 02:09.000 you need to look into what Christ offers. 02:09.000 --> 02:12.000 There is more to it than that. 02:12.000 --> 02:15.000 But once in a while, they stumble into some truths. 02:15.000 --> 02:22.000 One of them was that there's eternally an inside conflict with all people. 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 I've known that. I've heard that. 02:24.000 --> 02:27.000 I've seen that, haven't you, and people all around me. 02:27.000 --> 02:31.000 This conflict, it's within me. It's within you, all of us. 02:31.000 --> 02:34.000 There is an inner conflict between good and evil. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 That's just the way it is. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 And I wish it were not so, but that's the way we left it. 02:38.000 --> 02:42.000 Sigmund Freud, who had some strange relationship with his mama, I'll tell you, 02:42.000 --> 02:46.000 and he saw the sexual side of the ugliness that's within us. 02:46.000 --> 02:56.000 Is it Albert Oddler who gave us the concept of the ruthless drive of our ravenous nature? 02:56.000 --> 03:01.000 In other words, he stressed that power desecrates humans. 03:01.000 --> 03:08.000 And you know, we found that true, is it gives somebody power and they immediately become contaminated. 03:08.000 --> 03:12.000 Give a president power, and maybe he assumes too much. 03:12.000 --> 03:17.000 Give a king power, and he lords it over and makes a hostile world. 03:17.000 --> 03:25.000 And Carl Jung gave us this concept that evil within us is a wild ravenous wolf. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 I think of the hound of the Baskerville. 03:27.000 --> 03:35.000 And you remember that classic English story where they painted these great dogs with phosphorus paste? 03:35.000 --> 03:42.000 And in the night they would be set out across the moors, and they would kill anybody that was walking along the lonely paths, 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 the hounds of the Baskervilles. 03:44.000 --> 03:49.000 When I think of sin, I think of the hound of death, the hound of the Baskervilles, 03:49.000 --> 03:57.000 and the frightening, drooling, yellow-eyed beast that sometimes stands within us as well as before us. 03:57.000 --> 04:02.000 You know, psychosomatic medicine makes some sense. 04:02.000 --> 04:08.000 Psycho-spirits, the inside part of the soup gate, psychology, that's part of it. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 The soma, the body. 04:10.000 --> 04:13.000 And sometimes our mind can hurt us physically. 04:13.000 --> 04:18.000 Sometimes our worries can eat a hole in our duodenal area. 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 Now maybe you never knew you had a duodenal. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 I was not sure about mine. 04:23.000 --> 04:26.000 It seems to expand from time to time. 04:26.000 --> 04:35.000 I think there's another important thing here, that like a corpse bound to us, sin can affect our health. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 Sin can affect our integrity. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 Sin can affect our attitude. 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 Sin can destroy our health. 04:42.000 --> 04:47.000 In this veil of tears, we have to cope with that sin which was within us. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 Can you see the magnificence of the church? 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 It's the only group I know that addresses sin. 04:52.000 --> 04:58.000 Man, you don't talk about sin in any other organization except in the household of the faith. 04:58.000 --> 05:05.000 And where people meet in the name of Jesus who cancels sin and gets rid of sin. 05:05.000 --> 05:10.000 You know, it is like a corpse bound to us, but I'll tell you this much. 05:10.000 --> 05:20.000 There is hope in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ because we are not bound forever by the wickedness and the ugliness which is on the inside of us. 05:20.000 --> 05:30.000 We may rise above this degrading dead corpse that is strapped to us face to face. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 I never have bought total depravity. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 And I've mentioned that before. 05:35.000 --> 05:38.000 It says, you know, you can't do any good even if you wanted to. 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 You can't find God if you're seeking for him. 05:41.000 --> 05:49.000 And unless the spirit decrees it, you will never know of the healing redeeming grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. 05:49.000 --> 06:01.000 No, I believe we all have that potential within us to know the Lord and to know His lovely peace and His heaven that He preaches about. 06:01.000 --> 06:09.000 And the glories of a good life and a sound life and a sweet life and not the filthiness of this pigsty we find ourselves living in. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 Listen to Galatians 5, 24. 06:11.000 --> 06:18.000 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature, its passions and its desires. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 See, we've crucified Him. 06:20.000 --> 06:24.000 Now maybe some of those sins are getting loose. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 They've kind of fallen off the cross. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 We didn't nail it hard enough. 06:28.000 --> 06:34.000 And we tacked our sins through the cross when Jesus died, didn't we? 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 Maybe it was a loose connection. 06:36.000 --> 06:40.000 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 06:40.000 --> 06:43.000 You know, Christians have another drummer, don't they? 06:43.000 --> 06:49.000 Man in the army, we always had a guy who didn't know his left feet from his right feet. 06:49.000 --> 06:53.000 And he could not keep step with the drummer. 06:53.000 --> 07:00.000 But Christians have a beat, a silent beat that beats across the land that we can walk with it up. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 A two, a three, a four. 07:02.000 --> 07:05.000 A two, a three, a four. 07:05.000 --> 07:11.000 I've seen one little sergeant just wax eloquent and you better be with him when he says, 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 why should Christians be any different? 07:13.000 --> 07:19.000 We march, we beat, we keep in step with a higher spirit, a more noble spirit, 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 a better walk and a higher calling of life. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 Keep in step with the Spirit. 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 How are we best to do that? 07:26.000 --> 07:32.000 I really believe that there's no hope in any council outside of the Lord Jesus Christ 07:32.000 --> 07:37.000 in giving us stability and the ability to win a victorious life, 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 to live a happy and satisfying life, to raise our children into faith. 07:41.000 --> 07:47.000 Well, in my land, I'd hate to raise a child in this veil of tears without his precious body, 07:47.000 --> 07:50.000 the church, and without the kingdom of God, the church, 07:50.000 --> 07:55.000 and without the word of God, a pattern for every step that I take 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 that I might follow the trail that leads to him. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 Carl Jung wasn't always bad. 08:00.000 --> 08:03.000 Jung silenced his yay in German. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 Jung, Carl Jung. 08:05.000 --> 08:09.000 It seems to me that side by side with a decline of religious life, 08:09.000 --> 08:12.000 the neuroses grow noticeably more frequent. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 Isn't that funny? 08:14.000 --> 08:18.000 The more we get away from God, the more neuroses we find. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 They've named 175 things. 08:20.000 --> 08:25.000 Of course, they get paid $155 an hour to help you with your problem. 08:25.000 --> 08:29.000 So it behooves them to have a lot of problems to help you with, 08:29.000 --> 08:36.000 to give a fancy name to it, to blame your sweet mama instead of you, 08:36.000 --> 08:40.000 and to ask you, what do you think about this, Fat Albert? 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 What do you think about this? 08:42.000 --> 08:47.000 Well, if I were going to a counselor, I'd want to know what he thought about it, wouldn't you? 08:47.000 --> 08:52.000 And if I had the answers, I sure wouldn't pay $155 to a yo-yo, 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 would you, mentally and spiritually? 08:55.000 --> 08:57.000 Some of the things they say don't even make sense. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 Listen to this. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 He goes on to say, it's from the clergyman, 09:00.000 --> 09:06.000 not from the doctors that sufferers should expect such help. 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 That's amazing. 09:08.000 --> 09:13.000 There was a godly man who was a psychologist and it can happen, can it? 09:13.000 --> 09:17.000 The church preach is the reality of sin. 09:17.000 --> 09:22.000 I don't think a lot of you really realize how dirty the world is. 09:22.000 --> 09:28.000 I always carry this little badge around because it says I'm part of the department, 09:28.000 --> 09:34.000 and I can go in and talk to troubled kids or men or women because I'm deputized to do so. 09:34.000 --> 09:39.000 That means if I get my lips ripped off sometime in the jail there, 09:39.000 --> 09:42.000 that I'm covered by the government. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 Isn't that wonderful? 09:43.000 --> 09:48.000 Well, there's no healing in the jail. 09:48.000 --> 09:52.000 There's no healing in the jail unless God's word can get in the jail. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 That's why we go a lot. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 This group spends a lot of time in jail, did you know that? 09:57.000 --> 10:03.000 You probably get tired of it, but hey, it keeps me realizing that there's a reason for the church, 10:03.000 --> 10:08.000 and the reason is that sin is counteracted alone by the church. 10:08.000 --> 10:12.000 There's no other thing that is the thrust against sin. 10:12.000 --> 10:16.000 There's no other thing that's going to make the world any better. 10:16.000 --> 10:21.000 You know, there is a reality to sin, and when you get away from the Word of God, 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 you face the ultimate reality. 10:23.000 --> 10:27.000 You begin to sting and burn for the things that you commit, 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 and you begin to have accumulative problems as you get away from the Word of God. 10:31.000 --> 10:41.000 And that's why I think neuroses, and you believe it, 157 agonies that you can get charged $155 to have explained to you, 10:41.000 --> 10:48.000 all those bad things you see when the Word of God has a better answer, you know? 10:48.000 --> 10:53.000 Think of two animals, the cat and the crocodile. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 Now, I don't know whether you've been to a big zoo or not, 10:56.000 --> 11:04.000 and you've seen that big old four-footed pussy cat that weighs about 680 pounds and is about 11 feet long, 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 but you know how he walks? 11:06.000 --> 11:13.000 You know, he just struts, doesn't he, in his eyes or like this, and he has a wrinkle in his forehead like a worried man. 11:13.000 --> 11:15.000 And he just paces, doesn't he? 11:15.000 --> 11:27.000 Well, as a matter of fact, Jude said, you know, that James said that sin walks like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. 11:27.000 --> 11:31.000 And I think that's real. He devours. 11:31.000 --> 11:35.000 A lion only lives. He's very lucky to live over 22 years. 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 But you take a look at the crocodile. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 He eats a lot of meat. 11:40.000 --> 11:43.000 He does very fine in life, but he can wait. 11:43.000 --> 11:51.000 And those old yellow reptilian eyes, you see, and that great ramp where the tooth comes up like this into the upper socket, 11:51.000 --> 11:55.000 that separates it from an alligator, and he's a little bit different than the crocodile is, 11:55.000 --> 12:01.000 but he lives sometimes over 100 years by a change of pace, 12:01.000 --> 12:10.000 because he's relaxed in the nature, in the structure of life that God has placed there within that creature. 12:10.000 --> 12:16.000 And you know, I think we'll live longer if we'll live in the framework of God's commandments. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 I really believe that with all of my heart. 12:18.000 --> 12:22.000 Let's read Colossians 2, 11 and 12, and here's what he says. 12:22.000 --> 12:29.000 In him, you were also circumcised in the putting off of the sinful nature, 12:29.000 --> 12:36.000 not with the circumcision done by the hands of men, but with the circumcision done by Christ, 12:36.000 --> 12:42.000 having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your fate 12:42.000 --> 12:47.000 in the power of God who raised him from the dead. 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 Praise God for that. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 Now a lot of people have skipped baptism, anything to it, 12:52.000 --> 12:56.000 but however he says, having been buried with him in baptism, 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 this is the way we put away the old man. 12:58.000 --> 13:05.000 When I walked away from the watery grave, I left a lot of fat Albert there in the water. 13:05.000 --> 13:06.000 It's a picture of the grave. 13:06.000 --> 13:08.000 Oh, it's just a symbolic thing. 13:08.000 --> 13:09.000 It's a commandment. 13:09.000 --> 13:12.000 It's very symbolic. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 And he refers to circumcision. 13:15.000 --> 13:21.000 By the way, was there a Jewish man ever invented who was not circumcised? 13:21.000 --> 13:24.000 Absolutely not. 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 You didn't have a choice in the matter. 13:26.000 --> 13:27.000 It was done on the eighth day. 13:27.000 --> 13:29.000 God took provision for that. 13:29.000 --> 13:36.000 The great blood clotting factor, pro-thombran, is found on the eighth day at its maximum. 13:36.000 --> 13:40.000 It just happened that God lucked out there and happened to choose the eighth day 13:40.000 --> 13:44.000 so the little boys wouldn't bleed to death when he commanded that they be circumcised. 13:44.000 --> 13:47.000 This was a picture of a more noble thing. 13:47.000 --> 13:54.000 This has, as all biblical things, a daily application to our life. 13:54.000 --> 13:58.000 Jewish women have virtually no cervical cancer. 13:58.000 --> 14:08.000 I wonder why that is, because Jewish men are circumcised according to the law, do you think? 14:08.000 --> 14:14.000 If you're very smart, you'll say, well, there's something important in the Word of God, 14:14.000 --> 14:17.000 a better way to live, a more noble way to live. 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 Let's go back to it. 14:19.000 --> 14:20.000 We've abandoned it. 14:20.000 --> 14:21.000 We're not happy. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 Our neuroses increase. 14:22.000 --> 14:27.000 Let's go back to the Word of God and obey His will and obey His commandments. 14:27.000 --> 14:28.000 I thought I would share that with you. 14:28.000 --> 14:32.000 I'm not a medical doctor, but I've had enough biology to be frightening. 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 I've had a lot of it. 14:34.000 --> 14:44.000 Now listen, Romans 7, beginning in verse 21, says this. 14:44.000 --> 14:49.000 I never take time to thumb through the Bible that wasted time, but I didn't have time. 14:49.000 --> 14:53.000 Let's go to Romans 7, verse 21. 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 So I find this law at work. 14:55.000 --> 14:58.000 When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 Have you ever played that little game? 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 Like the dog chases its tail. 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 It wasn't while it catches it. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 Have you ever seen that dog's face? 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 What have I done here? 15:07.000 --> 15:11.000 And sometimes we find we get caught, don't we, chasing ourselves in a circle. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 That's really what sin does. 15:13.000 --> 15:14.000 It wastes our time. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 Oh, man, it's so frustrating. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 You can't go anywhere chasing your tail. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 Or some folks stand on their tail. 15:19.000 --> 15:22.000 It's kind of hard to go forward standing on your tail. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 Isn't that correct? 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 For in my inner being, I delight in God's law. 15:26.000 --> 15:31.000 But I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind 15:31.000 --> 15:36.000 and making a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 15:36.000 --> 15:40.000 What a wretched man that I am. 15:40.000 --> 15:45.000 King Jamie, I really like King Jamie better here, but hey, can't have it all. 15:45.000 --> 15:52.000 Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the bondage of the body of this death. 15:52.000 --> 15:55.000 You know, when you've made a mistake in the Roman Empire, 15:55.000 --> 16:00.000 remember one letter is completely addressed to the church in Rome, the Romans. 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 Romans. 16:01.000 --> 16:02.000 I love it. 16:02.000 --> 16:05.000 We're going to read a lot out of Romans in the few minutes that we got left. 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 Because that was a sinful empire. 16:08.000 --> 16:12.000 And God had an answer to great organized sin. 16:12.000 --> 16:13.000 He really did. 16:13.000 --> 16:18.000 They tied a man with wet thongs face to face with a dead man. 16:18.000 --> 16:19.000 That's what he's talking about. 16:19.000 --> 16:27.000 Can you imagine what a grotesque way to spend the afternoon in the hot sun of the tropics? 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 And think of it day after day. 16:29.000 --> 16:34.000 And a lot and very many people would retreat in the front ranks of the Roman army 16:34.000 --> 16:39.000 seeing what happened when you chickened out on Caesar. 16:39.000 --> 16:45.000 Oh wretched man, when you drag around that body, 16:46.000 --> 16:53.000 the grimace of death, facing it until you die, smelling it until you die. 16:53.000 --> 16:56.000 And all at once you see the picture of sin. 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 Who can separate me? 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 Who can take the scissors and go, 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 and then get that ugly thing out of my face, 17:04.000 --> 17:09.000 and to walk with fresh air through spring flowers and green meadows. 17:09.000 --> 17:13.000 Ah, that's what the Christian life's all about, isn't it? 17:13.000 --> 17:16.000 That is distinctly what it's about. 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 What a wretched man. 17:18.000 --> 17:19.000 Who's going to rescue me? 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 Well, he says, thanks be to God. 17:21.000 --> 17:26.000 It is by Jesus Christ our Lord. 17:26.000 --> 17:30.000 A lot of people think, well the church has just told me so many things I can't do, 17:30.000 --> 17:34.000 but the church ought to be telling you the many things that you can accomplish 17:34.000 --> 17:38.000 because you're freed from that old wretched man that used to hang on to you. 17:38.000 --> 17:43.000 That was dead and keeps sucking you under and keeps pulling you under. 17:43.000 --> 17:49.000 Ever tried to rescue a fair damsel out in deep water and you got four guys hanging on to you? 17:49.000 --> 17:54.000 You got to get rid of the crowd and get out there and grab ahold of her and bring her back in. 17:54.000 --> 18:02.000 And Christ rescued his girl, his bride, his church, his sweetheart. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 Reading in Romans 8. 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 You know, this starts out in 8 what? 18:06.000 --> 18:10.000 There's therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh 18:10.000 --> 18:15.000 but who seek and walk after the Spirit, who have that different step, that different drum. 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 But it goes on to say, you've heard that many times. 18:17.000 --> 18:18.000 Verse 15. 18:18.000 --> 18:22.000 You did not receive a Spirit that makes you slaves again to fear, 18:22.000 --> 18:27.000 but you received the Spirit of sonship. 18:27.000 --> 18:28.000 You're a son. 18:28.000 --> 18:30.000 You get the inheritance. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 You're an elder son. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 You get all of the inheritance, see? 18:34.000 --> 18:39.000 And by him we cry, Abba, which in Aramaic is to say, oh, papa, 18:39.000 --> 18:46.000 I don't know what your daddy was to you with the Freudian psychology we have, you know? 18:46.000 --> 18:49.000 Daddies aren't respected much anymore, are they? 18:49.000 --> 18:53.000 Let me tell you, I respected my papa. 18:53.000 --> 19:00.000 And to see him in those last days, I don't weep much. 19:00.000 --> 19:03.000 When a dog dies, I'm real mushy. 19:03.000 --> 19:10.000 But I'll tell you, Abba, papa, little daddy. 19:10.000 --> 19:13.000 We used to pick him up in these last years and hold him against the wall. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 He would splutter and swing, you know, at all this. 19:16.000 --> 19:20.000 Because he didn't weigh anything in those last days of cancer. 19:20.000 --> 19:23.000 It's nice to have boys that love you. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 Because that was scary. 19:25.000 --> 19:30.000 You could reach through papa's shoulders, big, powerful man he used to be. 19:30.000 --> 19:38.000 You wouldn't have touched him in any unseemly way when he walked in his prime, you know, like brother Studley. 19:38.000 --> 19:43.000 But papa, how many times I think of my daddy? 19:43.000 --> 19:46.000 Any of you here really think of your daddy, your papa? 19:46.000 --> 19:47.000 And that's what he's saying. 19:47.000 --> 19:52.000 Oh, my relationship to you, Lord, is like my daddy. 19:52.000 --> 19:57.000 And that's a legitimate way to say the father's name, daddy. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 A person only you can say daddy to your daddy. 20:00.000 --> 20:06.000 And I can't say daddy to Larry's daddy, or he to mine. 20:06.000 --> 20:12.000 I can only say daddy to the sonship that I belong, my family. 20:12.000 --> 20:14.000 Your family is the same thing. 20:14.000 --> 20:15.000 Romans 8, 10. 20:15.000 --> 20:23.000 Now, if Christ does live within you, His presence means that your sinful nature is dead. 20:23.000 --> 20:26.000 I can remember my papa saying, be gone, dog. 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 We always had a dog. 20:28.000 --> 20:31.000 And I like to think of papa saying, be gone, dog. 20:31.000 --> 20:38.000 Be gone, sin, which does so easily beset us. 20:38.000 --> 20:43.000 Man, dog and pork chops are hard to be separated, aren't they? 20:43.000 --> 20:48.000 To get anybody to play with me when I was growing up, mama would tie a pork chop around my neck. 20:48.000 --> 20:53.000 At least the dogs would play with me. 20:53.000 --> 21:00.000 The death and the resurrection of Jesus is available to everyone who loves the Lord Jesus Christ. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 Not instant deliverance. 21:02.000 --> 21:06.000 Oh, this is the instant generation. 21:06.000 --> 21:10.000 Man, I want patience now. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 I've heard people say that. 21:12.000 --> 21:15.000 They want to be loved now. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Instant gratification. 21:17.000 --> 21:27.000 And I'll tell you, it's unreal to think that unless you're a king or Ted Turner, you're not going to have that instant gratification. 21:27.000 --> 21:31.000 And theirs will be rather short-lived, believe you me. 21:31.000 --> 21:34.000 Your sinful nature is dead. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 You can say, be gone, sin. 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 You have that prerogative. 21:38.000 --> 21:39.000 He says, total depravity. 21:39.000 --> 21:42.000 He says, you can't even tell sin to leave you alone. 21:42.000 --> 21:48.000 You can't even accost Satan and say, be gone, Satan, but you can. 21:48.000 --> 21:51.000 That's the devil's doctrine, isn't it? 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 Obedience is the way it's done. 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 Listen to Romans 8, 13. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 I want to read quickly some scriptures. 21:56.000 --> 22:02.000 If you cut the nerves of your instinctive actions. 22:02.000 --> 22:05.000 Now, this is the Hollywood version, but it's a very sound one. 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 Listen to what it says. 22:06.000 --> 22:15.000 If you cut the nerves of your instinctive actions by obeying the spirit, you are on your way to real living. 22:15.000 --> 22:23.000 And King James says, instead of that cutting your nerves, you see, get rid of it. 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 And that's what you do when you cut the nerves. 22:25.000 --> 22:27.000 You have no feeling, do you? 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 Listen to what he also says. 22:29.000 --> 22:30.000 Romans 8, 4. 22:30.000 --> 22:37.000 We are living no longer by the dictates of our sinful nature, but in obedience to the promptings of the spirit. 22:37.000 --> 22:42.000 Christians have a prompting of the Holy Spirit. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 Galatians 5, 24. 22:44.000 --> 22:52.000 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the lower nature with its passions and its desires. 22:52.000 --> 22:53.000 They're unsatisfying. 22:53.000 --> 22:54.000 We get rid of them. 22:54.000 --> 22:57.000 Colossians 3, 8 through 10, but at least the last part there. 22:57.000 --> 23:00.000 But now you yourselves must lay aside anger. 23:00.000 --> 23:05.000 You must lay aside passion, malice, cursing, and filthy talk. 23:05.000 --> 23:08.000 Have done with them. 23:08.000 --> 23:15.000 Somewhere along the line in your spiritual life, you just have to say, be gone. 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 Damn spotless sin. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 Get out of here. 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 You have no part with me. 23:22.000 --> 23:34.000 And I know, like Dr. Faustus, two souls the last do dwell within my breast apart, and then one soul, and it belongs to Christ. 23:34.000 --> 23:43.000 And in that throne of your mind, sitting on that chair is the Spirit of God and the precious Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Redeemer. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 Billy Graham has said this. 23:45.000 --> 23:52.000 There's not one verse of Scripture that indicates that you could be a Christian and live any kind of life that you want to. 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 You can't do it. 23:54.000 --> 24:04.000 It is only when we come to the will that we find a heart of repentance that must be determination to forsake that sin. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 And we have that parochiality. 24:06.000 --> 24:09.000 We are not the animal. 24:09.000 --> 24:12.000 We have a dog at home that eats chickens. 24:12.000 --> 24:16.000 Not too bad, only 13 so far. 24:16.000 --> 24:20.000 I'll tell you, I can just tell you about that dog's nature. 24:20.000 --> 24:25.000 We don't let sweet daddy play with the little chickies. 24:25.000 --> 24:27.000 Not anymore. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 We tried it once. 24:29.000 --> 24:32.000 Wonderful reaction that we got. 24:32.000 --> 24:35.000 We could count on his inward nature. 24:35.000 --> 24:41.000 If you understand your inward nature, you also may understand that too. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 Is it worth it? 24:43.000 --> 24:47.000 Well, a lot of people say, oh, the church is always stultifying my id. 24:47.000 --> 24:48.000 I just can't have any fun. 24:48.000 --> 24:50.000 I can't do what I really want to do. 24:50.000 --> 24:55.000 Most of the time, we find that many of the things we want to do put us down and hurt us. 24:55.000 --> 24:59.000 And I thought, when I was this age, I wouldn't have problems with sin anymore. 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 Well, that was kind of stupid, wasn't it? 25:02.000 --> 25:10.000 I have some different problems about sin, but don't you tell me that when you're 68 that you are going to have sins anymore, 25:10.000 --> 25:16.000 and you'll wait till that time to be decent and honest and right and holy and right with God? 25:16.000 --> 25:18.000 No. 25:18.000 --> 25:21.000 No, we all will cope with it at every level. 25:21.000 --> 25:32.000 And I want you to know that God provides a reward for us when we do His will, when we follow His plan. 25:32.000 --> 25:40.000 I had a woman one time tell me, you know, if we want them to work with a youth group, bless her heart. 25:40.000 --> 25:48.000 She said, well, you know, we just really can't give up our Saturday night. 25:48.000 --> 25:51.000 Well, I can provide that. 25:51.000 --> 25:54.000 I wonder how that came out with her. 25:54.000 --> 25:58.000 Children scattered all over the earth, married 14 times a feast. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 They've been married three times. 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 They've run around with a Saturday night crowd. 26:02.000 --> 26:07.000 They'd have been better off to have given their night to the Lord Jesus Christ and their precious children, 26:07.000 --> 26:12.000 rather than saying, we just can't give up our Saturday night. 26:12.000 --> 26:15.000 Or it could have said Friday or Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday. 26:15.000 --> 26:18.000 Well, it wouldn't have mattered. 26:18.000 --> 26:19.000 And we think of that. 26:19.000 --> 26:21.000 So I just can't give up something. 26:21.000 --> 26:24.000 Hey, when Jesus asked you to do something, you'll give up a thing. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 You gain everything. 26:26.000 --> 26:28.000 You gain your soul. 26:28.000 --> 26:32.000 You don't have a parted breast, so to speak. 26:32.000 --> 26:40.000 You have within you a single-minded heart, and it's dedicated to God Almighty. 26:40.000 --> 26:47.000 And I pray for that little couple, because I run into parts of both of them over the years, 30 years ago. 26:47.000 --> 26:55.000 And they're still doing just like they always were, not giving up anything on any day for the Lord Jesus Christ. 26:55.000 --> 26:58.000 And what miserable people they really are. 26:58.000 --> 27:00.000 In conclusion, Mark 10-10 says this. 27:00.000 --> 27:02.000 Now, I promise you. 27:02.000 --> 27:08.000 Now, if the Lord says, I promise you, friend, that's a little different than when I say, I promise you. 27:08.000 --> 27:11.000 That sometimes happens, sometimes doesn't, doesn't. 27:11.000 --> 27:20.000 I promise you, nobody leaves home, or his brothers or sisters or his mama or his papa or children or property 27:20.000 --> 27:33.000 for my sake or the gospel without getting back a hundred times over now in this present world or life 27:33.000 --> 27:37.000 and in this world to come, eternal life. 27:37.000 --> 27:45.000 Would you give up your Saturday night realizing you're going to profit a hundred times until you die 27:45.000 --> 27:48.000 and after you die, you've got everything. 27:48.000 --> 27:56.000 You stand at the right hand of the Lord Jesus Christ for eternity or whatever he wants you to do. 27:56.000 --> 28:01.000 You don't have to just stand there looking dumb, but I'm sure he's got something for you. 28:01.000 --> 28:07.000 And that's what he promises you, not the hurts and not the play. 28:08.000 --> 28:22.000 And in this world, we will have a hundred times the things we worked the hard for in the world to come, eternal life. 28:22.000 --> 28:25.000 As we stand and sing our hymn of invitation.