WEBVTT 00:00:02.479 --> 00:00:03.919 Elder Danny Wisner. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:20.559 I gotta say this, uh, I wanna say a few things in introductory. 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.600 Number one, enjoyed being here so much. 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:26.559 It's been such a blessing, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.879 I know sometimes people think, you know, the visiting preacher has to say that. 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:33.600 If I don't feel that, I ain't gonna say it. 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:35.840 If I don't feel it, I'm not gonna say I don't feel it. 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:38.479 I'm just gonna say it's let's worship the Lord. 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:40.560 But uh it's been so good to be here. 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:41.840 Thank God for it. 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:49.759 Uh so much enjoyed being with the kings and uh their whole family, and it's just been a wonderful time uh uh for us. 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:51.039 It's been very refreshing. 00:00:51.200 --> 00:01:00.000 We've had uh some intense uh time in the Wizardner household of uh just trying to follow the leadership of the Spirit, trying to follow the Lord. 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:05.840 So it's been very good to be in the house of God for a weekend and and and get refreshed by the Spirit. 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:10.879 Um I'll say this, uh very much enjoyed Brother Blake's prayer. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:18.480 Uh Lydia got on to me when we got in the van yesterday after church and was like, You snickered during Brother Don's prayer. 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.159 I was like, I snickered because of how honest he was. 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:23.920 I love what Brother Don said. 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:29.840 He said, uh, he said, I don't know what the very elect is, but I feel to be part of that. 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.840 And I was like, Amen, brother, you know, and so I just had to get that out there. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:35.920 Uh I mean, because it tickled me. 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:36.719 It tickled me. 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:39.680 I uh like like man, the honesty in that prayer. 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:44.480 And the uh the song, the uh How Tedious and Tasteless the Hours. 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:53.280 When I we sung that song, we got to that part where it says, Prisons with palaces prove, uh, you know, if Jesus only is there. 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:56.159 It made me think about a story that Brother David Crawford told me. 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.680 And we're gonna have a couple introductory things and then we're gonna move on. 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:17.120 But it made me think about a story that Brother David Crawford told me the first time that he went to Tanzania, Africa, and he said he had been to third world countries before and and and everything, and uh, you know, he was used to to seeing the poverty and not used to it, but he knew he was gonna see it. 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:25.439 But he said, as soon as he got off the plane there and in uh in Africa and Tanzania, he said it was the it was just so depressing. 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:45.759 Everything was just so depressing, and and all the homeless people in the refugee camps, and and he said his his soul was just on the floor, and and they were riding to the church, to the church meeting house, and in like a jeep or something, some open-air vehicle. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:03:02.879 And the traffic is very bad, and they're like getting closer and closer to where they're meeting at, and he says they get like less than a half a mile, a few hundred yards from where they need to be turning in, to where they're like meeting under a tent with some classic lawn chairs, you know. 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:06.400 And he starts to hear something very familiar to him. 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.240 And and he said, I started to hear songs of joy. 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:15.520 He said, This is the most depressing place I've ever been in my life. 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.159 And I start to hear songs of joy. 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:28.560 And he said, and and I recognized the tune, even though I didn't recognize the language, and what it was was the Primitive Baptist Church was uh uh there in Tanzania, was already singing. 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:36.080 They were they were waiting on them to get there, and they were already singing, and in Swahili they were singing, what a friend we have in Jesus. 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:56.960 And Brother David said, whenever I walked upon that scene, and these poor, destitute people who didn't have hardly anything in the world, and they were singing with joy on their faces, he said, that song uh uh prisons with palaces prove if Jesus is only there. 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:03.759 I I know I messed that up, but but he said, Brother Danny, I seen what we believe and what we sing about, what we preach about. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.680 I seen it in real life. 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:08.240 How we say, I don't want anything but Jesus. 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.840 These people didn't have anything but Jesus, they were happy about it. 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:18.319 And I want I want to tell you, I want to convince myself more and more that all I need is Jesus. 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:32.800 And then in Brother Blake's prayer, he talked about the um what a blessed hope or what what a blessed belief it is for us to have the understanding that we're looked at through the blood of Jesus Christ. 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.519 Man, I love that. 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:55.759 I love the fact that we're looked at through the blood of Jesus, and and you know, if whenever I get that, and what Brother Luke talked about yesterday, how that Jesus on the right hand of God, and God looks at us through the blood of Jesus because we're on Jesus' right hand. 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:01.680 And, you know, it makes me think about I like to visualize stuff sometimes. 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:13.360 Do y'all remember when uh the son of Zebedee's uh uh uh mother came to Jesus and said, uh, and for some reason my mind just went blank. 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:21.920 Uh John and his brother, uh, she said, let my two sons sit, uh, one sit on your right hand and one sit on your left. 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:23.920 Do y'all remember what Jesus said? 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:32.959 Jesus said, she said, let one of my sons sit on your right hand when you enter into thy kingdom, and let the other one sit on the left hand when you enter into thy kingdom. 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:34.079 Think about that. 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:35.920 You know what Jesus said? 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.399 You know not what you asked for. 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:40.160 You know what he meant? 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:50.800 If I'm up in heaven and John is sitting on my right hand, and his brother is sitting on my left hand, his brother ain't got no mediator. 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:57.120 Because here's God the Father, here's his brother, here's Jesus, and here's John. 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:03.040 God the Father would be looking at John through the blood of Jesus, but he wouldn't be looking at his brother. 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:04.639 I mean, isn't that cool? 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:08.959 Like Jesus says, you don't know what you're you don't want to be on my left hand. 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:17.360 You want to be on my right hand, to where I'm your mediator, to where I'm your intercessor, and to where my father is looking at me through my blood, looking at you through my blood. 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:20.879 If you have your Bibles with you, like you turn over to uh 2 Peter chapter 1. 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:22.560 Y'all please pray for us. 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:31.360 I've just come to learn, Brother Josh, whenever I got like a bunch of things on my mind, before I preach, I just get them all. 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:33.360 I'm gonna hit them sometime in the sermon. 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:33.839 You know. 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:36.879 So over in 2 Peter chapter 1. 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:46.480 If the Lord will bless us this morning, as we uh turn there to 2 Peter chapter 1, I want to kind of bring the thought process to what's on my mind this morning. 00:06:46.639 --> 00:07:15.519 You know, uh, there there are three things, and at least three things that Peter pins in Scripture that are very fascinating to me and very impactful to me, and the reasons that is very fascinating, there's a lot of things in Scripture that the Lord blessed Peter to pin through God's inspiration that are very uh fascinating and impactful to me. 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:39.120 But these three things I'm gonna try to bring out this morning, uh, they're very fascinating and they're very impactful to me because Peter's the one that pinned them, and because of who the one that pinned them is and just what he is saying and the perspective that the one that pinned them had. 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:40.720 Does that make sense? 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.720 So let me just give you an example. 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:56.240 If Danny Wisner's starts telling you, trying to teach you about woodwork and cabinet making, don't listen to me. 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:56.959 Right? 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.399 You know, brother Luke Larry is one of my best friends in the world. 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.839 He's never asked me about cabinet making, and there's a reason for that. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:12.319 But whenever he was talking to Brother Josh yesterday, he was asking Brother Josh about some cabinets that they had just got put into their new house. 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:18.240 It didn't hurt my feelings that Brother Luke didn't ask me, because he knows I don't know nothing about cabinets. 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:21.759 But he asked Brother Josh, because Brother Josh is a cabinet maker. 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:28.639 You know, I'm pretty sure if you want to find something out about alligator hunting, you're not gonna ask Brother Josh. 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:32.000 I'd be an alright fella to ask. 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.000 I've, you know, I've killed a few in my day. 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.399 I, you know, I grew up alligator hunting. 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:49.200 But I'm but what I'm saying is sometimes what people say, because you know who they are and what they went through, now don't get me wrong, the word of God is the word of God, right? 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:59.360 But but but it just makes more of a more of an emphasis to you sometimes when you realize who it is that's saying it. 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:00.240 You understand that? 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:09.039 Like the scripture that uh brother Josh quoted this morning or read this morning where Paul says, When I came to you, I came not with wisdom of words. 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:15.200 See, that wasn't somebody like me who scored a 13 on their ACT in English saying that. 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:28.080 That was somebody who was a Greek scholar, somebody who studied at the feet of Gamil said, I came to you and I acted like I didn't know nothing. 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:37.200 That emphasized more to me how important the message of Christ and him crucified is. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:38.799 You understand that? 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:58.559 So here we're about to look at three things, Lord willing, if we get that far, that Peter says that because of who he is, and because of what he experienced, and because of what he went through, it should emphasize to us just what he is saying and what he means. 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:06.639 And the first one is found over in 2 Peter chapter 1, and we'll start off in uh the 16th verse. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:09.679 Look what Peter says. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:23.519 He says, For we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:29.279 He's like, we didn't make this stuff up, we didn't just come up and write this down. 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:37.440 What we are testifying of you about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we seen with our very eyes. 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:46.240 He says, For he received, he mean Jesus, for he received from God the Father honor and glory. 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:54.559 When there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved son, and whom I am well pleased. 00:10:54.799 --> 00:11:01.440 And the voice which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the holy mountain. 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:03.919 You know what Peter is referring to right here? 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:12.480 He's referring to when him and the and some and two other disciples uh were up on the Mount of Transfiguration. 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:21.840 Call me over to Matthew 17, and I want you to understand exactly what Peter is talking about, and exactly what Peter is referring to. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:39.679 In Matthew chapter 17, it says, and after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:59.440 So this holy mount that Peter is talking about is whenever Jesus took James, John, and Peter up into the Mount of Transfiguration, and whenever they get into this high mountain, Jesus was transfigured before them, and it says his face did shine as the sun. 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:01.440 Now you think about that. 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.279 I want you to, like I said, whenever I read the Bible, I visualize. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.960 I want you to imagine that Jesus did come to me. 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:10.399 Because Mr. 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:16.639 Peter talking, he's like, I'm the eyewitness, brother, I went on that mountain with Jesus. 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:25.519 And then he's saying, We were up there, and we see Jesus transfers, and we see his face, stop like the sun. 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:28.720 What are you starting to preach in right now? 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:32.320 And my face just shining like the glory is sun. 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:36.240 Well, it's not going to, because I'm not the son of God. 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:39.600 But I'm saying, wouldn't that mean something to you? 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:42.159 Somebody be like, what's the best sermon you ever heard? 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.039 I'll tell you, I'll be like, I'll tell you the best one I ever saw. 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:50.000 I don't know about her, but I'm gonna tell you the sermon was shining on that, brother. 00:12:53.519 --> 00:13:00.080 And was transfigured before them, his face to shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as light. 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.159 His raiment looked like light shining off of him. 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:06.879 Man, that's awesome, right? 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:16.240 And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias, which is Elijah, talking with him. 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:18.639 So, brother, I want you to get this. 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:26.159 James, John, and Peter are standing on this mountain, and Jesus is transfigured, and his face is shining like the sun. 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:33.120 His his raiment has turned into a Q beam spotlight. 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.679 It's shining like white. 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:45.919 And now two people who didn't live on earth anymore have appeared and is talking to Jesus. 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:54.799 Like all of a sudden, Moses and Elijah just show up and start having a conversation with Jesus. 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:01.840 Would that not be the most fascinating thing that you've ever seen in your entire life? 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:06.320 I mean, if that happened to me, I'd be constantly telling people about it. 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:15.679 I'd be like, you know, like last night we were having fun swapping stories and all this stuff at Brother John's Sister Chloe's house, and we were having a good old time. 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:25.279 And uh, but I'm gonna tell you what, if this would have happened to me, if I would have been Peter, I'd have been like, look, y'all, let me tell you what happened to me. 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.600 Let me tell y'all the greatest story ever. 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.200 Like, I seen Jesus' face shine like the sun. 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.519 Uh, I seen Moses and Elijah uh talking to Jesus. 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:37.440 Wouldn't that be amazing? 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:43.679 And then it says that Peter didn't even know what he was saying, and he says, Lord, it's good for us to be here. 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:52.159 And in the fourth verse, then Peter answered and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:55.519 If thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles. 00:14:55.759 --> 00:15:00.080 One for thee, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:04.960 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:12.559 And behold, a voice out of the cloud which said, This is my beloved son, and whom I am well pleased. 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:13.360 Hear ye him. 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:14.799 You know what happened? 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:16.639 A bright cloud. 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:21.120 As if what they've already experienced, Brother Blake, wasn't enough. 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:27.519 Wasn't enough to be like, Jesus' face shine like the sun. 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.960 His his raiment, his clothes are white. 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.440 And they didn't have bleach back then, but uh his clothes are white. 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:45.679 Moses and Elijah is talking to Jesus, and they one was carried up into glory, the other one died and was buried by God. 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.759 And now they're back on earth and they're talking to Jesus. 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:57.679 And then Peter in his speech says, hey, let's let's make three memorials, let's make three tabernacles, basically. 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:01.600 Let's make three memorials one for you, one for Moses, one Elijah. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.360 And God didn't like that. 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:04.240 You know why? 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:11.679 Because Peter was putting Jesus, Peter was putting Moses and Elijah on the same pedestal as Jesus. 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:22.639 And so then God shows up, a bright cloud overshadows him, a bright cloud overshadows him, and God speaks from heaven and says, This is my son. 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:24.639 Hear ye him. 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.320 Don't get caught up in Moses and Elijah. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:30.000 You hear him, I'm gonna tell you. 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:34.240 And that's one thing I want every child of God to understand. 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:41.840 Whenever they're blessed to hear the word of God, don't we ever, ever, ever worship a minister? 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:46.720 That's how we go off in the air, because that minister is gonna fall. 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.440 That minister is a sinner. 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:53.279 You follow him, you're eventually gonna be following somebody into sin. 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:59.039 Brother, we need to understand the ministers, the preachers, they are a gift to the church. 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.840 The church is not for the minister, the minister is for the church. 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:08.240 Like, if you've received any blessing this weekend, that's for you. 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:10.559 It ain't because I'm a good guy. 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.920 It ain't that the Lord just wanted to bless me. 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:15.519 He blessed you. 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:18.880 I'm the servant. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:23.279 I'm gonna take preacher pictures, blow my mind sometimes. 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:28.720 Because we're the servants, we're the waiters, we're the ones giving you the food. 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:38.240 When's the last time you went to a graduation party at a restaurant or a big celebration at a restaurant, and then you want to take pictures and you're like, Wait here, come here. 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:40.319 Let's take a picture of all the waiters. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.319 Now we can take a picture of your family. 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:47.920 I'm gonna I'm gonna give us everybody getting a picture, but I'm still we're just the waiters. 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.440 You you you God's children. 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:54.799 If God blessed, it's because of you. 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:58.319 I mean, God bless us, but you understand what I'm saying. 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.079 And Brother Johnson's blessed is because of you. 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.319 He's your servant, your preacher, your shepherd. 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:12.720 But what I want you to understand about this over Matthew 17, God speaks from heaven. 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:17.519 So Peter's seen Jesus' face turn to the sun, if you will. 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:20.400 He's seen his clothes turn white. 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:30.720 He's seen Moses and Elijah talking to Jesus, and then he heard God talk from heaven from a cloud, saying, This is my son. 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.200 Wouldn't that be the greatest thing you ever experienced? 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:37.279 You know what Peter says? 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:39.759 Look what Peter says. 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:49.599 18th verse, talking about the voice he heard when God says, This is my beloved son, whom I'm well pleased. 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.000 1 Peter, 2 Peter 1 and 18. 00:18:52.960 --> 00:19:01.039 And this voice, which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount. 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:08.559 We have also a more sure word of prophecy. 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:12.000 You know what the more sure word of prophecy is? 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:13.440 It's the Bible. 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:20.880 Brothers and sisters, one of the things that we take for granted the most in this world is the written word of God. 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:23.839 We really do. 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:34.880 Job says, I believe it's Job 23 and 12, he says, I will esteem the words of his lips more than my necessary food. 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:47.359 Job says, I'm going to honor the words that come down from God's mouth more than I am the food that I need to survive. 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:49.279 Does Brother Danny do that? 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.319 You can look at me and say, I do not. 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:54.880 I value food very highly. 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:03.759 But I tell you what, I want to convince myself that as much as I need food to eat, I need the word of God to survive. 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:06.720 To thrive in the kingdom of God. 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:09.359 I'm not going to hell if I don't read it. 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:13.920 But I'm going to tell you, brothers, there's times when I don't read it and I feel miserable. 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:21.519 I mean, the Lord says, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that recedeth. 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:24.079 We need to live on this. 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:29.599 And then look what Peter says when he's describing how important the word of God is. 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:31.039 Look what he says. 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:43.440 We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that you take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place. 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:45.599 You know what he just said? 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:51.279 Brothers, we don't quite understand what it's like to be in a dark place anymore, do we? 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:53.279 We got so much technology. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:55.200 We got lights everywhere. 00:20:55.359 --> 00:21:04.160 I'm going to tell you, I got to go way out in the woods where uh in the summertime to where leaves are everywhere for me to really understand a dark place. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:05.680 But you know what? 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:09.200 This world that we live in, it's a dark place. 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:13.279 This world that we live in, there are lions after you. 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:15.680 There are snakes after you. 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.200 I want you to understand we're living in a dark world. 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:30.400 And if we, uh one of the things I'm not looking forward to, moving back to Louisiana, I have a severe phobia of snakes. 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:41.119 Because when I was playing high-go-seek when I was four-year-old one time, I went and I hid between the house and the shed, and I looked down, and there was a snake wrapped around my legs. 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:43.519 And I freaked out. 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:47.599 I mean, I don't think I went back outside for three days. 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:49.039 I mean, it was rough. 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:52.880 And because I am definitely scared of snakes. 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:58.319 And one thing I'm not looking forward to is going back and moving back to the swanks. 00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.759 I mean, we really believe. 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:15.519 So I'm gonna have to walk out and shall I show it. 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:21.279 And people say, you need to tell me to the water dumb. 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:26.880 And if you don't have a dumbbell, and that one is a flash of mine. 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:40.880 If you don't have a slight summer, and if you know that was lying in the summer, someone and if you don't have a stuff, and you walk in the dumb, you wouldn't tell me stuff with your flashball, would you? 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:48.880 And think of the settings on your woman, I'm a mama, shall we have a dumb place? 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:53.440 I'm not telling you public about the company. 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.079 I'm not gonna think about this. 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:10.799 What the preparations of the government's already, and he said that it's happening on the lumber government with cruise, and then he's gonna tell them this finger which is the word of God. 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:16.799 I'm gonna tell you the three of the most common three of those. 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:18.559 I don't know how you want to say it. 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:25.839 But three of the most covers, three of the most things that make up the football, have to do with the word of God. 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:34.319 Instead of the have your feet prepared, I'm gonna show up with the preparation of the gospel, I'm gonna have your lines coming about with truth. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:35.519 This is the truth. 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:40.319 I'm a the sword of the spirit, I'm a it is the word of God. 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:48.160 Now they didn't do warfare back then like you and I do, like they do warfare now. 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:51.920 They didn't have tanks and all the stuff they have. 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.680 You know how they did warfare? 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:55.839 I want y'all to think about this. 00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:58.559 They lined up, right? 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:00.799 Front line. 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:02.960 Front line against frontline. 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:06.000 Y'all, y'all, y'all think about this. 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:15.119 The Bible tells us that the full armor of God, the gospel, you reading the Bible equals your shoes. 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.720 You reading the Bible equals your pants. 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:24.079 You reading the Bible equals your weapon, your sword. 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:34.640 If you don't read the Bible, you don't have a sword, you don't have pants, and you don't have shoes on, and you are about to go fight a battle. 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:40.640 And those shoes that those men wore, they had spikes in them, so they would stomp your foot. 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:44.480 And now you don't even have shoes on to protect your feet. 00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:48.480 So I want you to I want you to picture this. 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.640 I gave this analogy one time there was a 12-year-old that couldn't quit laughing. 00:24:52.880 --> 00:25:02.960 But you're over there to about to go against the other front line, and you're picking out which one you're about to go after. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:12.880 And you look over there and there's some squirrely fellow standing over there, he ain't got no sword, he ain't got no shoes on, and he ain't wearing no pants. 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:15.039 Brother Johnson, I don't know about you. 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:16.880 I'm going after that guy. 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:20.079 Because he's gonna be an easy target. 00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:48.480 And whenever we think that we can make it in this world, without taking heed to the word of God, as a light that shineth in the dark place, when we think we can make it in this old brand of sinner sorrow, without reading the word of God, whenever we think that we can make it in this world without our shoes, when we think we can fight this battle without our shoes, without our pants, and without our sword, I'm gonna tell you we're an easy target for the devil. 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:52.319 We need to be reading the word of God. 00:25:52.559 --> 00:26:00.000 And I don't care if you've read it every day of your life, you need to make sure you keep reading it every day of your life. 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:03.279 Because this is the light that shineth in darkness. 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:04.880 This thing protects us. 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:06.720 This thing shows us stuff. 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:13.680 I'm gonna tell you, I feel so malnourished whenever I don't read the word of God. 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:15.680 But you know why? 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:21.119 But you know what just emphasizes more to me about how important this word is? 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:30.240 Peter says that this word is more sure than that great scene that he painted on the Mount of Transfiguration. 00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:33.119 Man, that's amazing. 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:35.440 You know why? 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:39.440 Because experiences can dwindle sometimes, right? 00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:43.279 Have you ever experienced something and you'll be like, I don't know exactly how that happened? 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:45.519 Because it depends upon your mind. 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:48.319 The word of God never changes. 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:51.200 The word of God never changes. 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:52.960 It's the truth. 00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:59.039 Go me over to uh go me over to 1 Peter real quick. 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:01.519 We'll go to the second thing here. 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:09.279 1 Peter chapter 2. 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:28.720 The second thing that really provides emphasis because of Peter writing this is Peter is going to tell us how Christ gave us an example of how to suffer. 00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:39.680 And whenever he does that, he's going to refer to what Christ suffered on the cross and the night that he was betrayed. 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:50.880 And one of the reasons that this provides great emphasis to me is because I know that Peter seen Jesus spit upon. 00:27:52.880 --> 00:28:00.160 Before Peter denied the Lord thrice and went out and wept bitterly, he's seen Jesus spit upon. 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:06.480 He's seen them blindfold him and smite him and say, Prophesy to us. 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:08.240 Which one smote me? 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:14.960 He's seen wretched, horrible sinners punch our Lord and Savior. 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.880 And he's seen the Lord and Savior not respond at all. 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:34.079 And Peter is going to say that what the way that Jesus responded, the way that Jesus endured that suffering is an example of how you and I should suffer. 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:43.839 And it's one thing for me or Brother Josh to get behind the pulpit and say, you know, when Jesus was reviled, he reviled not again. 00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:48.240 It's another thing for Peter to say, I seen it. 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:50.720 I seen them spit upon him. 00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:54.240 I seen these sinners bind up my Lord. 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:59.119 I seen them put him in a mock trial because I followed him afar off. 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:04.960 I seen, you know that spinning on somebody is an assault? 00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:09.039 That's how nasty it is to spit on somebody. 00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:11.920 I seen them spit on my Lord. 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:14.079 And he did nothing. 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:22.319 Call me over to 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 18. 00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:34.720 He says, Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the frog. 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:42.240 For this is thankworthy of a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:43.680 That makes sense, right? 00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:49.440 If you do something wrong and you suffer for it, Peter says, that's what you ought to do, right? 00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:57.519 I mean, if you do something wrong and you suffer for it and you do it well, that's what you ought to do. 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:04.400 But it says, for what glory is it if when you be buffeted for your faults, you take it patiently. 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:10.480 But if when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable to God. 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:12.160 I don't like that. 00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:16.319 That's one of the reasons I need to read the Word of God. 00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:20.000 Because there's some things that God tells me to do. 00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:28.000 There's a way of life that God desires for me to live that by my nature I don't want to live. 00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:39.759 And the word of God teaches me, even though I don't want to do that, do it anyway. 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:45.279 It says this, it says, For what glory is it? 00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:49.519 If when you be buffeted for your faults, that means beaten, you shall take it patiently. 00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:54.240 But if when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently. 00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:55.839 This is acceptable with God. 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:07.440 How many of us, probably all of us from time to time, as soon as we suffer wrongfully, whenever we're trying to do the right thing, do we automatically pray and take it to God? 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:09.680 Or do we complain about it? 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:13.279 He said the acceptable thing is to take it to God. 00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:16.400 But my wife's here, so I can't lie to you. 00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:17.920 I wouldn't want to lie to you anyway. 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:19.680 I don't always do that. 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:22.480 I'm like, why is this happening to me? 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:24.720 Don't they know who I am? 00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:30.079 I mean, but he's saying, take it patiently, that's the acceptable thing. 00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:53.279 Because it says in the 21st verse, for even here unto were you called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who when he was reviled, reviled not again. 00:31:53.680 --> 00:32:03.039 When he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. 00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:07.359 Now I'm not saying if somebody breaks into Brother Josh's home, he doesn't protect his wife. 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:08.960 That's not what I'm talking about. 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:15.680 But I'm talking about, brothers and sisters, when somebody talks about me, I just need to pray for them and move on. 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:19.279 The Bible says, don't answer a fool according to his folly. 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:28.400 When somebody attacks me, if it ain't gonna hurt my children, if it ain't gonna hurt my wife, if I'm able to move on, I don't defend myself, I just keep on going. 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:38.079 I'm gonna tell you, we are not in the business of defending ourselves verbally and and and and uh um trying to make ourselves look righteous. 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:42.559 The Lord gave us an example of how to suffer. 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:48.720 Brother Josh, but so many times, whenever I feel attacked, I just want to go on the defensive. 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:56.480 The Lord was reviling, he revived not again, and it says this was an example of how you and I should suffer. 00:32:57.680 --> 00:32:59.359 And I'm gonna tell me against the pastor. 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:05.920 This has convicted me because I'm gonna hear about some critique or something, and I immediately want to defend myself. 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:34.559 You know what I'm gonna just give it, take the bottom, because that's what Jesus did, to be dependent, give me a ticket on, and I'm gonna tell me the brothers and sisters, and if it is whatever we hit, I'm gonna put it in the ticket, because of the way the kid's the bumps, and what does it want to get to the next one? 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:45.599 Pitty, I'm the pick of the pity, and the pick up the water wanna be able to please get a woman to please God. 00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:52.799 You know how many people are in captivity because they're so worried about what other people think about them. 00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:00.799 We need to choose one person to please, and that's God. 00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:04.559 I'm gonna tell you, in pleasing God, you're gonna please your wife. 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:08.239 In pleasing God, you're gonna be a good husband. 00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:11.519 And pleasing God, you're gonna be a good church member. 00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:16.079 And pleasing God, you're gonna be a good father, you know? 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:22.800 So I'm not saying you don't do good to people, but I'm saying the one that I'm worried about the most pleasing is my Lord. 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:23.519 Amen. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:30.800 Because sometimes in pleasing people, to please people, you're gonna have to please people and not God. 00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:36.719 Because sometimes people, they don't want you to do the right thing. 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:40.159 They want you to do what makes them happy. 00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:43.840 I'm gonna tell you, I want to commit myself unto God. 00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:51.599 And whenever people attack me or talk about me or whatever it may be, I just want to take it to the Lord and have peace with God. 00:34:51.679 --> 00:35:01.360 Because I've tried to defend myself before, and no matter how I did it, no matter what I said, I never felt satisfied because those people were never gonna say that they were wrong. 00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:06.400 That's not where it's at. 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:13.440 Our pleasure, our fulfillment is in, our fulfillment is in Christ. 00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:16.559 And our fulfillment is not in what other people think about us. 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:19.679 And I can get caught up in that too much about delivering a message. 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:24.000 I I used to be just so captivated with I hope I hope everybody thought was okay. 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:24.960 I hope this, I hope that. 00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:25.519 You know what? 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.000 I just preached the message and move on. 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:32.159 Did I feel like that's what the Lord put on my heart? 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:33.199 Yes, I preached it. 00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:34.639 Do I feel like I studied it? 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:35.840 Yes, I preached it. 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:37.199 Just move on. 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:41.199 And anything we do, just do it to the Lord and move on. 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.360 It says, who his own self, I love this. 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:55.119 Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness by whose stripes we are healed. 00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:58.159 Look, if he bore our sins, they're bore. 00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:00.559 We don't have to bear them no more. 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:05.199 Uh uh in an eternal sense, we're going to heaven because he bore our sins. 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:07.920 I won't I I do want to chase a little rabbit real quick. 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:16.159 I do see what time it is, but uh over in 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 23 it says, Who when he was reviled, reviled not again. 00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:22.480 When he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:26.239 Go me over to Isaiah 53 real quick. 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:39.360 Over in the seventh verse, it says, He was this is talking about Jesus. 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:51.440 I want you to see how significant this verse is about it identifying that Jesus was the one that Isaiah 53 is talking about, that Jesus is the Messiah. 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:53.440 He was oppressed. 00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:55.280 This is this talking about the Messiah. 00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:57.199 He was oppressed, Isaiah 53 and 7. 00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:01.280 He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. 00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:09.199 He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shears is dumb, so open is not his mouth. 00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:30.320 So right here, it emphasized three times in this one verse that the Messiah, the Savior, the one who is going to bear our sins, the one who is going to be chastised for our iniquities, this one who is going to receive the punishment that you and I should have received. 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:36.800 It's going to, it tells us in verse 7, three times it emphasizes this one is not going to open his mouth. 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:40.079 This one is going to be dumb like a sheep before his shears. 00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:44.079 And then go with me over to Matthew chapter 27 real quick. 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:45.599 Verse 12. 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:51.039 This is just really cool to me when I seen this the other day when I was studying the Word of God. 00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:54.960 Look what it says here in Matthew chapter 27. 00:37:55.920 --> 00:38:02.639 Verse 12, it says, And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, talking about Jesus, he answered nothing. 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:08.800 And then, well, in the 11th verse, well, 12th verse says, He answered nothing. 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:15.360 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearst thou not how many things they witnessed against thee? 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:23.199 And he answered him to never a word, insomuch that the governor marveled greatly. 00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:46.079