Signs of the Times (Part 4)- The Great Falling Away (Part 3)

Signs of the Times (Part 4)- The Great Falling Away (Part 3)

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Office Introduction And Series Setup

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Well, it's a beautiful day to be in the kingdom of God, and I'm so excited to be bringing another episode of Dimensions to you right from my office. I'm not at the studio, I'm at the office here at my church. We have Wednesday night small groups, but I'd love to have you be a part of. But I couldn't leave y'all out. I had to make sure I bring you a word in season. And listen, you're not going to want to miss because I am actually doing part four, Signs of the Times, with a part three on the great falling away. I've been spending a lot of time on the great falling away that's happening right before our very own eyes. And it's important that we get prepared for the return of Jesus Christ. Because yes, he is coming back. Many are falling away. It's a time to get rooted. It's a time to get grounded. It's a time to know the word of God like never before. So you're not going to want to miss this. This is going to be a blessing to you. Signs at a times, part four, with an emphasis on part three of the great falling away. All that and more coming up next on Dimensions. Yes, that's right, five days a week. Dementions exist for the purpose of helping the body of Christ prepare for the return of Christ by keeping oil in your lamps, love in your heart, sin and leaven out of your life. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. So it's important that you get this dimensions in you each and every day because Jesus Christ is coming back. And you want to be ready when Jesus returns. We sing a song back in the day. I want to be ready. Ready when Jesus comes. Come on, somebody. It's important that we're ready for his return. And that's why I'm coming at you to make sure you got the word, that we know the word, we understand the word. We're walking in holiness. We're walking in the power of his glory. That's why I love the parable in Matthew 25 about the parable of the ten virgins. Five were wise and five are foolish. The only difference is that the five foolish did not have any oil in their lamps. Symbolic of the presence of the Holy Spirit abiding in their lives. Why? Because if you have oil in your lamps, you've got love in your heart, you've got sin in your life. If I have oil in my lamp, that means I'm illuminated. If I've got oil in my lamps, it means I'm insulated because I'm warm. And as a result of that, I'm not getting cold because I don't have sin eleven, which is the antagonist or the antithesis to the Holy Spirit and the oil that is in my life. And that's the reason why we're here today. So please take a minute right now. Like, subscribe, follow, and share. Take a moment and get that out. Make sure people get a chance to come and enjoy Dimension with you. And if you have not downloaded the Dimensions podcast, take a minute and go to wherever podcasts are being held and download the latest episode of Dimensions. And guess what? Every time we go live, we upload it to the cloud. It'll come right to your device, wherever it is that you have instructed it to do so. So please take a moment and do that as well and help us get the word out. Let me get the word to you. So then you have the word of God operating in your life because you're going to need it in this season. You know, I've been talking about the signs of the times and about the end times, and we truly are in the end. And we see very few people talking about the end times, and we need to be addressing it. We need to be talking about it. And this is the reason why. A lot of people get caught up and pent up in regards to uh, you know, what's going to happen. And when's he coming back? Are you pre-tribulation? Are you post-tribulation? Are you mid-tribul? Are you all millennialists? Are you, what exactly are you as a believer? People get tied up in all these things. Yeah, we heard this big thing. Remember, somebody was supposed to uh the last year they were prophesied that Jesus was going to come back during the Feast of Tabernacles between September and October, and then they bumped it out a little bit in this big old heretical thing that went out there back in the day, 88 reasons why Christ was coming back in 1988, and then 2000, everybody thought Y2K that Christ was going to come back before then. And I mean, then we had 2012 with the Nostradamus prophecy. And so people thought the end of the world was coming in regards to that. Do I believe that we are getting close to the end of the age and even at the telltale end of it without a doubt? But I think it's more important that we prepare ourselves to be ready for his return than as if, well, we're trying to identify and break down. Think about it. If we focus on the when instead of the why and the how, we should be prepared. Then I think that the problem is it doesn't matter when he comes, most people won't be ready. Uh it's like this, you know, you when you are packing to go to a place and say if you're gonna go stay there for two weeks, you don't spend the majority of your time when you're supposed to be packing, uh ordering a ticket. That's the easy part. It takes you five, 10 minutes to order a ticket. But it's the packing, it's the preparing, it's all those things. That the date and the time when you're going to be leaving to get on that plane, it is what it is. You once you've said it, the only thing sometimes maybe they adjusted, there could be a delay or something like that. But the majority of your packing is preparing for where you're going. I'm convinced that church people are not getting prepared for the return of Jesus Christ. How do I know that? Very, very simple. It is because people are not living in holiness. Not all, not all, but uh, many people are not prepared by living holy. We are living a lot for this world. We're becoming more watered down. We are falling away more and more from the things of God. People desire the things of God less than ever before. If you go past a certain amount of time, people are looking at their watch and their clock saying, How long is he going to be? I remember there was a time we used to have Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings, we'd have Wednesday nights, we'd have prayer meetings, we'd have all night prayer meetings, we fasted, we had worship night and youth nights and kids' nights and women's meetings and men's meetings, we had all these things all in the time when we knew that Christ was coming, but that was just getting us prepared. Now we've gotten to the point where now you have a if you start service sometime Sunday morning at 45 minutes to an hour. If we haven't started the sermon by then, we're getting nervous. I got a boat I got to get to. I've got all these things I've got to get to. I've listened, the kids got back. It's amazing how many games now are played on a Sunday morning. It's amazing how many people are uh so caught up with doing whatever they've got to do, they don't have time. Many people are working. We're working. Think about this for a minute. And I didn't plan on going, but that's where the great falling away comes in. Think about how many people are leaving the faith for earthly things. Jesus said in Matthew chapter 6, take no thought what you're gonna eat or what you're gonna drink or where you're gonna sleep or what you're gonna put on. Isn't life more than food and more than raiment and more than clothing and more than these things? He said, after all these things, the Gentiles seek. But so many people leave God for a job. They leave God for a woman. Oh, I lost something here. Give me one second. I'm sorry, my my phone is acting a little crazy here. I may have to do something a little different here. I think my phone, my thing just died here. The devil doesn't want you to get this. So you know what we're gonna do? We're gonna do something impromptu right now, because I didn't plan this, but if this has happened, you know, it's kind of funny. That's how the rapture can come. You're in the middle of doing things, and bam, something just broke out. I don't believe in necessarily doing it all over again. We're just gonna go ahead and go with it, just like we are right now. But listen, there's a lot of people that are not getting prepared for the return of Jesus Christ. And we've got to be prepared, y'all. People are leaving God for for uh for for things uh of jobs. People are leaving God for uh things that the that that are the the world is offering. Just give me one second. I'm almost there. This is what you call being impromptu, y'all. But this is what we do here at Dimensions. Hallelujah. Let me get this right. Let me get this right.

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I'm getting it. Give me one second. That's why we're doing this. There we go. Almost done. How am I looking, Mr. Producer? Am I all right? I'm good?

Satan’s Strategy To Make Us Sleepy

Mark 13 Watch And Pray

Delilah Comfort And Slow Drift

Luke 21 Hearts Weighed Down

Matthew 6 Treasure And Priorities

Counted Worthy To Escape

SPEAKER_01 8:32

All right, good, good, good. I had to do this. But see, this is the thing, devil doesn't want you to hear this. So many people are leaving God for jobs, they're leaving God for relationships, they're leaving God for all these things. And the reality is, ladies and gentlemen, is that those things aren't very important. And that's how I know that the the body of Christ is not ready for the return of Jesus Christ. It's because our passion has fallen away. You know, as I was preparing for today, there were three scriptures I wanted to give that I'm going through impromptu. Uh Mark chapter 13, 32 through 35. I want to show you this. And it's talking about the return of Jesus Christ. And I'm talking about the coldness that's happening. I thought about it. If I was Satan and I knew Jesus was coming back, what would I do? How would I get people prepared when I look at the scriptures? I would not come and bring this massive attack and cause people to seek God. Watch this. I would give them a life of ease. I would lay back, I would let them get carnal. I wouldn't send much attack their way. I would let them get sleepy. I would let them get tired. I would let them slumber. I would let them miss church and don't even bother them. Just leave them alone. Don't because see, now watch this. And I feel this by the Spirit of the Lord today. That it's all about, you have to remember the devil is a chess player, not a checkers player. And what's happened is he's given people a false sense of peace. As a matter of fact, I believe the scripture says that when they say peace, peace, then sudden destruction will fall upon them. And that's exactly what the devil is trying to do in this day and hour. He's trying to get people away from church. He's trying to get people caught up. The Bible says it would be like the days of Noah and the days of Lot, which I'll get into later on, probably not on this episode, but another episode. Uh the Bible talks about how uh it would be, they would be caught up with carousing and they would be caught up with drinking and eating and being married. I always thought, what did that have to do with anything? What do you mean eating, drinking, and being married? Well, think about it. If you're Satan and you want people to miss the rapture, you're not gonna attack. Why would you do that? Because they'll start pressing into God. The gospel will become more palatable. They'll start having a desire for the things of God, they'll start searching out for the things of God, they'll start calling out to the things of God, they'll start pressing in, the gospel will be ready. But what I'm gonna do, hey, I'm just gonna let everybody chill. Go to sleep, go to sleep. The devil in this season is singing spiritual lullabies from the pulpit to lure God's people to sleep. So they are not ready for when Jesus comes back. Now look at this. Mark 13, verse number 32. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven nor the sun, but only the father. Take heed, watch, pray, for you do not know when the time is. So it's funny. He says, You're not gonna win the time, but just watch and pray. Take heed, watch and pray. Very important. Take heed. Understand that it's coming, watch, keep a lookout, make sure you're alert, be alert and pray. For you did not know when the time is. Like a man going to a far country, left his house, and gave authority to his servants and to each his work and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch, therefore, take heed. Be on alert, for you don't know when the master of the house is coming. In the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning. Look at verse 36. It's very important. Lest coming suddenly he finds you sleeping. Now, this is the amazing part. He says you don't know if he's gonna come in the evening, at midnight, or the crowing of a rooster, but notice this or in the morning. But look, he didn't say in the afternoon or throughout the day. There's something between the evening and the morning. But see, this is the thing. Now watch. Now I want you to catch this. You could come in the evening, which is more towards the end of the day, midnight, which is there, the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning. So he, of course, now you could look at morning and say it could go all the way through to 12 o'clock. But my point is that it's gonna come somewhere in that time when people will be going to sleep in the natural. Notice the most, the majority of them is evening, midnight crowing of the rooster, all times when most people that aren't going anywhere, that aren't present are sleeping. They're sleeping on the time or going to sleep. One of the biggest enemies of the great falling away is the luring away of people from the things that slowly rocking them to sleep. They have, listen to me, the church has its head in the lap of Delilah. And Delilah is stroking the head right to sleep and causing them to go to sleep. A little slumbering, a little folding of the hands, a little sleep, getting their Z. Do you know how many times as a pastor I've looked through, whether I'm preaching or I'm in a service, that people are sleeping even in church. If you can't stay awake in church, oh my goodness. Now, maybe you're in a dead church. That could be part of it. But some people, it doesn't matter how you preach them. It's because how they live all week, the falling away. The falling away. Not the drop off, the falling away. A slow, precipitous drop off that is going to happen. Jesus gives a major thing here, says, Lest I find you sleeping. You don't usually just fall asleep. You what do you do? You lay down, you cuddle up, you get comfy, you toss and turn till you find that specific spot, and your body enters into that sleep. First thing that Jesus said, don't let me find you sleep. Okay? Now let's go to Luke chapter 21. Now I want you to catch this. This is why, see, people wonder all the time. Like people, I tell people, listen, I would never take a job that takes me away from the house of God. I wouldn't do it. I would not date get into a relationship that takes me away from the things of God. I wouldn't do anything to my in the best of my ability to take myself away from the things of God. And people say, why not? Because we are in the end of the end, ladies and gentlemen. We have to understand that. Very, very important. Look at this. Luke chapter 21, verse number 34. But take heed to yourselves. Look at this. Lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the cares of this life. Wow. You know, drunkenness is partying. Carousing, you know, when you look about carousing, it's just phandering, doing different things and hanging out and going and enjoying the things of the world. Let's think of a carousel, going round and round and just going up and down and getting drunk and the cares of this life. That doesn't mean necessarily the negative things. The cares of this life are just things that are important to us in this life. But then you got to go to Matthew 6, where he talks about the importance of not allowing this life to be the thing that you search after. And matter of fact, hold your finger there. I'll come back to that. Let's go over to Matthew 6, just so you have this and you understand. I love this here. Look at this at verse 19. I'm going to read for a little bit because I want you to catch. I think this is so important. This is one of the greatest enemies of Satan right now. And the church is not talking about it. People are falling asleep and they don't even know it. They don't even realize it. Have you ever, when I was younger, I remember I'd want to stay up real late and I was really, really tired, and my mom would be watching something to me. And I just didn't want to go to bed. And all of a sudden she'd catch me sleeping. And I'd say, No, mom, don't sleep. I'm okay. She's like, Yeah, you were. I said, okay, all right, I'm sleeping, you know. All right, I'm gonna stay awake. And you slowly, you know, how people do that, and they and then they go out and then they catch themselves a little bit. And then you wake them up and say, hey, you're snoring again. They they they just slowly fall to sleep. You don't you ever done that? You don't even realize that it's happening. That's the dangers of spiritually falling asleep. You don't even realize it's happening to you. Listen to me. We need preachers that are like drill sergeants in this day and hour. Why? I'm not concerned as much about the day and the time that Jesus is going to come, but I'm more concerned about will the church be prepared when the day and the time comes. Are we prepared lest I find you sleeping? Look at what it says here. Matthew 6, verse 19. Do not lay up for yourself treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy, where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourself treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be. That's why many people right now have left God for a job that doesn't pay well. I was talking to somebody just recently. They wanted to come back to church, and I bumped into them at a store. And I said, they said, I want, so I called them up on the phone. Hey, you want to come in? Oh, I gotta work. This is the thing. They were working at a store making maybe a little more than minimum wage. And so I gotta work, I gotta work, I gotta work. And I'm sitting there thinking in my mind, you don't think God will give you more than the job that you have if you're to make him a priority? They said they wanted to go into ministry, but they're working and laboring. And I'm like, wait a minute, this is not what God would have of you to do. Okay? Now look at this here. It says here that the lamp of the body is thy. Let's matter about that's jump down to verse 24. No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he'll be loyal to the one, despise the other. You cannot serve God and man. And I say God and the things of this world. Look at verse 25. Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you're gonna eat or what you're gonna drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather no bargain. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valued than them? Jump down now to verse number 31. Therefore, do not worry, saying, What shall we eat? What shall we drink? What shall we wear? For after all these things, the Gentiles. See, ladies and gentlemen, you're not a Gentile. You're not a world lady. We're not worldling people. We don't seek after the things of this world. We seek after the things of God. For Heavenly Father knows you have need of all these things. You don't have to seek after the things that the Gentiles seek after. What does it say in verse 33? Seek first, seek first. Come on, somebody type that in the chat. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, his way of doing things, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be worried about his old things. For tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Now back over to Luke chapter 21. Want you to see this here, how powerful this is. But take heed yourself, lest your heart be weighed down, weighed down. Tired. When you're weighed down, you're tired. It's easier to fall asleep. Carousing, drunkenness, cares of this life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly, for it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the earth. Watch therefore. Look at that. Watch. Make sure you're alert and pray. Look at this that you may be counted worthy to escape the things that will come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man. Look at verse 37. And in the daytime, he was teaching. The Bible says, work while it is day, for night cometh when no man can work. And in the daytime he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and stayed on the mountain, caught all of that. Then early in the morning, all the people came to him in the temple to hear him. It's funny. He went out and prayed at night, but he worked in the day. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, it's getting darker and darker and darker out there in the world. It is so important that you get to where you need to be. Do not let him find you sleeping. Pray that you may be counted worthy to escape those things. Think about that for a moment. Pray that I'm counted worthy. I pray that, God, I'm not falling asleep. And I pray, God, that I have that oil in my lamp, love in my heart, send 11 out of my life. And that's where you can go to Matthew 25 if you want to, and you can check that out as well. About the parable of the ten virgins. There were five that were wise and five that were foolish. And they paid the cost for the oil so they could be illuminated and insulated in the dark hour. They did not fall asleep. It's very, very important. Do not fall asleep in the season. It is time to awaken. Hallelujah. It's time to awaken and make sure that your spirit is awake during this time. Go back over to Matt, Mark chapter 13. This is so powerful. My goodness. So powerful. He says again in verse 36, lest coming suddenly he finds you sleeping. Don't get caught sleeping. This is the time to awaken. This is the time where you got to say, okay, I've got to seek the Lord right now in my life. I need to be in church. And look at this here. Now watch this. I want you to see something here. And I want to I want to see so let me let me find this here.

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This is very important.

Days Of Noah And Lot

Packed Bags And Perilous Times

2 Timothy 3 End Time People

Romans 1 And The Reprobate Mind

Judgment As God Gives Over

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And I really believe that this is something that I want you to catch. And I want you to know the Bible. That's the thing. I want you to know the Bible. You know, the Bible talks about in Luke chapter 18 about how uh there's one that's talking about the unjust judge and the widow and the widow woman that comes to him. And uh it says in verse 8 that will I find faith when I come? Wow, will he find faith on the earth when he comes? Think about how staggering that is. Will he find faith? Will he find faith? I mean, it talk about the times. Think about he said it'd be like the days of Noah and the days of Lot. You know what's the most concerning part to me? I've always preached this, but I I I battle with it lately. You know, I've always said God's not gonna leave this planet for more than he comes for when he comes and returns with Jesus Christ. But you know, if you look about the days of Noah, he left a whole lot more than he took. There was only eight people that came out of Noah that came out of that time. Then you take a look at the days of Lot when they were in Sodom and Gomorrah. I mean, think about it. The message was going out to the angels, and the men wanted to sleep with the male angels because they were that perverse. They didn't want to hear the gospel, they wanted to rape the men. Lot offered his daughters and says, Here, take my daughters. They didn't even want the daughters. They said, No, we want the men. That's how bad it was. And when Lot and them came out of it, what happened? It was only Lot, his wife, and his and his daughters. And this is the reality. And I want you to catch this. And his wife ended up looking back and didn't make it. Only three came out of there. I mean, you can go through it all. I mean, it doesn't, I think there's so many warnings he talked about that you may be counted worthy to escape. That means there's a value. There's someone, if you're counted worthy, you had to have seen the value and paid the costs up front. And that's why I tell everybody in my church, and I hope your pastor doesn't say you need to be in church. This ain't the time to be out on the boat. This ain't the time. Each Sunday, I mean, I mean nothing wrong with having a boat. I mean, some people, I heard one guy one time, he was always telling me, Oh, I gotta be out on my boat. I ain't gonna be here for a few months. What do you mean I'm gonna be here for a few months? I look, man, you gotta get ready. You gotta get ready. Jesus is coming back. You already got a plane ticket. That's done. Date and time, the key is will your bags be packed? Is everything in order? You got your passport? Did you pack all your things? You got your personal care items, you got everything ready to go. So when it's time to head out, you're ready to go. You're not trying to pack at the time that you're, I mean, you got two hours and trying to pack and get there to the airport and make it through security and all that stuff. You do all of that up front because you anticipate the fact that somebody, that you're getting ready to go somewhere and you're getting ready to leave where it is that you are. And I'll tell you what, this is a day and hour, ladies and gentlemen, that we are living truly, truly, truly, truly in perilous times. Now, I want you to look at something here. I want you to go with me over to the book of 2 Timothy chapter 3. This is good stuff, ladies and gentlemen. What I'm doing is giving you a snapshot of the end. This is what's going on. Look at this here. 2 Timothy chapter 3, in verse number one. But know this that in the last days, perilous times will come. I'm gonna get into this later on because I don't have a whole lot of time to go into it. Men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, bolsters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, despisers of those that do good, traitors. Oh my goodness, that we ever live in that day and hour. Headstrong, hard-headed, haughty, proud, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying its power, and from such people turn away. For of this art are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various love, always learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the day and hour which it is that we live in right now. Now I want you to go with me, and I'm gonna I'm gonna touch on this before I wrap up. I'm almost done. I'm out of time. Go with me to Romans chapter one. I told you I wanted to give you a little bit of this. This is one of the uh I'm not gonna go through it all right now, but if you look at verse 18 all the way through 32, it really talks about God's wrath on those that run righteous, and it's the talk, it's the discussion, the discourse, Paul's the discourse to the Romans about the reprobate mind. And um it I'm gonna reach you just a little bit here because it really shows some things. In verse 20, now it's 18 through 32 that you can really meditate on. But in verse 20 it says, for since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are that are made. Even his eternal power and God is that they are without excuse. So basically saying that the things that have been created and all that, hey, you know, there there's no excuse. There is a God, and if you want to see it, you'll be able to see it. Because although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened. That's the falling away. Darkened means a process. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and creepy things. Therefore, God gave them over to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves, to exchange the truth of God for the lie, worshipped and served the creature, anything that was created, rather than God Himself, who was blessed forever, amen. Look at this. Now, here's where I want to get, and I'll hit the rest of this maybe next time. For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions, for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise, also the men leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men, committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error, which was due. Wow. My God. Even though look at this, even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, because they don't want to, they don't want to retain, they don't want to acknowledge God to be God, God gave them over to a reprobate, a debased mind to do those things which are not fitting. Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetous, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness, they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient parents, undeserving, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful. Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same, but approve of those who practice them. Wow, that's a mouthful. I'll get into that tomorrow. Talking about the reprobate mind. The thing I want to get to is part of judgment. Now watch this. Part of judgment is God says, I will give them over to themselves. We are in perilous times. I will give them over to themselves. So as a result, because they did not want to acknowledge me, because they did not want me, I'm gonna give them over to themselves. And they're gonna, I'm gonna let them have it their way. And I'm gonna let them develop a reprobate mind. I'm gonna let them uh men will begin to desire men. Women will desire to uh desire women. They they won't desire one another anymore. They will want to fulfill sexual desires amongst things that are shameful. Transgender, all these things are all product of God's saying, have it your way. People say, well, why would God do that? Because they've ignored, look what it says there. They acknowledged for being God, but they didn't want to, they didn't want to accept him as that. So he says, fine, have it your way. So the purpose, and I'm and I'm gonna close with this. The purpose of the reprobate mind is for people that have sealed themselves. Is that God, I know you're God, I don't want you. God says, okay, good. But God is so merciful. Now watch this. He says, have it your way. He doesn't just destroy them, they have to reach a quota of sin. There's a breakthrough threshold in sin. So he gives them over to themselves so they can begin to do all the things they need to do. So then they can get the full judgment. God's not going to judge them just because it's that he didn't want them. They've got to go ahead and fulfill. So part of the way that God brings judgment is allowing men and women to do whatever they want, fulfill their lust. They don't want to be saved, they don't want to give their hearts to God, they want to worship the creature more than the creator, go for it. All right. And the more that they keep doing it, that's where if you look at uh back in the book of Genesis, we're talking about how God said the sin of the Amalekites has not been made full yet. So there's a cup that fills up, and then when it hits a certain point, then God pours it out. So all the things that we're seeing is actually still God allowing the cup to be filled up before total judgment comes. And this is the reason why we still have time to repent. We still have time to make a right, we still have time to preach the gospel, and we have time to get prepared. And that's the reason why I'm sharing with you the Bible. Get back to Scripture, which is my last thing is this. I want you to sign up for another level Bible Institute if you haven't. You need to know the word. Go to anotherlevel.church. You can text Bible Institute to 412-586-7159 so we can get into the word and know the word and operate in the word. God wants you to become a wordsmith, rightly dividing the word of truth, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. Hallelujah. And that's why I want you to know this. I want you to know more of these things. Say, Pastor, how do you do this? Because I've studied. I'm not the most studied, but I am studied. And I'm continually studying. And I want you to join me at another level Bible Institute. So you can know, but we got two great classes that we're starting off with. We're going to build on from there. If you want to be a part of our licensed ministry program, these two will be part of it. And so we have the overview of the Bible, and we also have comparative religions where you'll learn about every almost every religion that's out there and how you can give an apologetic response to those religions and understand them in regards from a biblical worldview. So it's going to be good. I hope that you'll join me and I hope that you'll come back tomorrow for part five of Signs at a Times. Except this one, we'll get into the reprobate mind. I'm going to talk about how it brings judgment and why we are where we are as a people. I hope that you've been blessed. I hope that you'll take the time to share this and you'll also get it out there to everybody that you can. And then you'll also go and get the podcast so you can keep this with you and listen to it again and study it, and God will help you. And you will have oil in your lamps, love in your heart, sin 11 out of your life. So when Jesus comes back, you'll hold up your lamp and say, Father, I'm ready. Receive me now. That's where you're going to be, and that's why Dementia is here. So until then, unless Christ comes back, I'll be back tomorrow at 8 p.m. giving people the word of God by helping them keep oil in their lamps, love in their heart, sin in their life. I'll see you then.