WEBVTT 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:15.039 Welcome to the Preaching of the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W. 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.480 Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of Delant, Florida. 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:31.280 Our prayer is that these half-hour Bible study programs will bring the lost to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and enable the saved to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Savior. 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.159 Now here's your host, Pastor James W. 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:34.880 Knox. 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:56.719 I'm Brother James, and I greet you one more time. 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:05.840 In the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, he is and always will be the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:11.120 I welcome you one more time to the Preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast. 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:29.280 This program is a ministry of the Bible Baptist Church in De Land, Florida, USA, heard by the grace of God on this radio station and many, many others across the nation and around the world, and now streaming out there in the vast unknown, the world wide web, the internet. 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:32.959 Thank you who are watching and those of you who are listening. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:43.920 We pray that God will help you today, and that our time together will be well spent as we study the pure and perfect word of God, this good old King James Bible. 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.680 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but God's word shall not pass away. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:54.159 And so we build our lives and place all of our hope and trust in the living words of the living God. 00:01:54.319 --> 00:02:02.159 We began a study many programs ago on the eternal security of the born-again believer. 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:09.680 There are many groups of professing Christians who do not believe that salvation is by grace through faith. 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:11.759 They do not believe it is a gift of God. 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:28.240 They believe it's an earned reward, a payment that God makes to those men and women who have been good enough, who have achieved enough, who have refused enough, who have earned themselves a place in heaven. 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:30.719 We do not believe the Bible teaches that. 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:36.960 In fact, as we study the Bible together, we come to the conclusion that salvation is by grace through faith. 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:38.400 It is a gift of God. 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:41.120 It is not of works, lest any man should boast. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:03:08.000 We come to the conclusion that no man is righteous in the eyes of God, but that Jesus Christ the Lord suffered, bled, and died upon the cross at Calvary to pay for all sin and all transgression, and that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life, God declaring them righteous on the merit of Jesus Christ, not on their own merit. 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:13.599 And this declaration of God is called in the Bible, it's called justification. 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:47.680 And so what we are looking at are twenty-five places in the Word of God, which all teach, God only has to say something once, but 25 places in addition to our starting point in Romans 8, which state that once a person has been saved by the grace of God, upon their receiving Jesus Christ as Savior, that they are assured of eternal, everlasting life as a gift of God. 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:56.319 Our first passage today and our next passage in our study is proof text number six found in Ephesians chapter one. 00:03:56.719 --> 00:04:33.360 In Ephesians 1, we're going to read together verses 12 through 14, which say that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ, in whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession under the praise of his glory. 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:38.959 Okay, so here's the order in the verses we just read. 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:43.120 A sinner hears the word of truth. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:58.800 Did not begin before Adam was formed, did not begin before God spoke the heavens and the earth into existence. 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:08.560 The Bible says, as far as your soul is concerned, my soul is concerned, the starting place is a sinner hears the word of truth. 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:17.040 Second, the sinner believes what God calls the gospel, word of truth, gospel, gospel, word of truth. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.639 The sinner believes the gospel and is saved. 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:34.959 Immediately, the father seals those who trusted the Son with, by, in the Holy Spirit. 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:39.360 So the Father sends the Son to die and rise again. 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:47.439 The Father puts the son to death, bruises him for your sins and mine, raises him from the dead, having accepted his sacrifice. 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.560 The son ascends to the right hand of the Father. 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:57.680 If you will believe the preaching of the gospel, Christ died for you, buried, rose again, ascended. 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:02.319 If you believe the preaching of the gospel, God the Father will justify you. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:18.240 He will declare you righteous on the merits of Jesus Christ, as we have said, and then give to you the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit will seal you, mark you as God's, seal you, preserve you in Christ. 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:20.480 Praise the Lord. 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:35.759 This is God's promise that he will keep in his possession everyone who is purchased, or whom he has purchased, until the saved one enters heaven. 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:45.519 The gift of the Holy Spirit is God's earnest down payment, if you will, on the fullness of our certain inheritance. 00:06:46.160 --> 00:07:02.240 And what you read twice in these verses is that your salvation, my salvation, everyone who's saved, listen now, our salvation is to the praise of his glory, verse 12. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:06.240 Under the praise of his glory, verse 14. 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:14.480 There is not a chance that there's a group in heaven right now bragging about their baptism. 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:20.480 There's not a chance there's another group in heaven bragging about their patron saint. 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:30.879 There is no group in heaven right now dusting the ashes off and boasting of how they made it through purgatory. 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:45.920 There is no group of people in heaven who are receiving glory, who are seeking glory, or who deserve glory, because no one there attained heaven. 00:07:46.720 --> 00:08:10.720 Everyone there and everyone who will enter there will be giving all the glory to God, because he is the one who provided his son to establish a gospel and then was made it amazingly simple in agreeing that he would save the sinner who believes. 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.279 And thank God for that. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.160 After believing, you say, Preacher, what if I slip? 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:17.279 What if I fall? 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.360 What if I turn the wrong way? 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.160 What if I lean to the right hand or the left hand? 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.240 You have and you will. 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:32.960 God has made provision for that in the sealing, the preserving power brought by the Holy Spirit. 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.279 Your sins were paid for by the power of Jesus Christ. 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.960 Your sins were forgiven by the power of the Father. 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:51.360 You are kept by the power of the Holy Spirit, and that's why God gets all the glory from all the saints through all the ages. 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:59.759 Now move ahead to Ephesians chapter 4, and let's look at verse number 7 or proof number seven. 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:04.960 And for this we need verse number 30. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:06.879 Yes, verse number 30. 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:22.399 The Bible says in Ephesians 4 and verse number 30, grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:34.960 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice, and be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. 00:09:36.000 --> 00:10:02.000 You'll be surprised, if you're a new Christian, you'll be surprised when you start reading your Bible how many times in your life you have cursed or sworn or uttered an oath and didn't even realize the devil had put the word of God in your mouth so you would learn to disrespect the very truths of scripture for Christ's sake? 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.559 That's not a curse. 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:09.360 That's not something to be thrown about as you're swearing. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:24.720 God the Father, for the sake of Jesus Christ, has sealed in a state of salvation everyone who trusts the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:26.480 Now, now let me show you something here. 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.159 Watch the order. 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.360 If you're a Christian, God's writing this to you. 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.440 I'm a Christian, God's writing this to me. 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:39.279 He says, grieve not, do not bring grief, sadness, sorrow, heartache, pain. 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.799 Do not bring grief to the Holy Spirit of God. 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:44.399 Well, what if I do? 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.000 Whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:51.679 He is not going to break the seal if I grieve him. 00:10:52.639 --> 00:11:00.399 He is not going to fail in his assignment, his responsibility. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:06.159 If I fail in mine, the day of redemption, my soul is saved. 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:06.960 Your soul is saved. 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.519 If you trust in Christ is saved, your soul is saved. 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:10.799 Your body is not. 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:18.480 There's coming a time, Romans 8, when God will redeem not just spirit, not just soul, but also the body. 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:36.480 We will be with the Lord fully and completely until that day the Holy Spirit of God is pledged, the word of God is as stated, so you can stand upon it, that we are sealed in Jesus Christ, sealed in this state of salvation. 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:37.679 Now, watch. 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:49.600 He tells saved people to do away with bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking, malice. 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:51.440 Now, now listen. 00:11:52.320 --> 00:12:00.559 How can he tell a Christian to stop doing those things if Christians didn't do those things? 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.679 How can he tell a saved person, stop being bitter? 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.200 How can he tell a believer, stop with the anger already? 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:14.080 How can he tell someone who's born again, put away the evil speaking? 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:25.360 If people who have trusted Christ have not yet spiritually outgrown these sins and these failures. 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:34.159 So what you what you have in religion is if you trust the Lord, he'll save you. 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:44.000 But if you become bitter, if you become clamorous, if you become a person of malice, then he will cast you away. 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:47.440 But that can't be so. 00:12:48.480 --> 00:13:00.879 Because the people who have those problems are not cast away, they are sealed and encouraged to let the Lord make them better, not threatened with expulsion. 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.039 And he says, Be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another. 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:17.200 Now, if every believer was kind, there wouldn't be an admonition in the Bible to practice kindness. 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:26.320 If everyone who was born again was tender-hearted, we wouldn't be urged to soften our hearts. 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.120 Look, here's the fact of the matter. 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:47.120 If you're a man married to a woman, and the two of you have been blessed by God, you've conceived a child and brought a child into the world, that child at age two, age three, age four, is contributing nothing to your household. 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:54.879 In fact, you probably have very few chores or duties for that child to perform. 00:13:55.039 --> 00:14:03.120 You do spend a lot of the time saying no, no, no, and someone could walk into your home and say, I don't think that's really your child. 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:04.320 Why not? 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:06.559 Well, it's so disobedient. 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.200 It does so many things that are wrong. 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.240 It it really doesn't act like you at all. 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:17.039 That's growth, not birth. 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:23.840 That's training, not you understand the difference? 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:32.720 The moment you trust Jesus Christ as your Savior, the Bible calls you a child of God, a newborn babe. 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.039 Now let me ask you something. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:15:10.480 If after twenty years of training and eight twelve years of schooling, and a small fortune of investment, and tears and laughter and meals and shelter and clothing, if your son, if my son, if your daughter, if my daughter says, I don't love you, I don't agree with you, I don't like this way of living, I'm going to go out and do my own thing, and you may or may not hear from me again. 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:13.440 Are you not grieved? 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:16.320 Is your heart not broken? 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.919 Are you not greatly disappointed? 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:22.559 Question. 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:24.399 Is that your son? 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:27.679 Is that your daughter? 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:30.159 Why, of course. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:31.840 Of course. 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:39.120 As many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:40.559 Now look in the passage. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:41.759 Look in the passage again. 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.080 One more look at this, Ephesians 4. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:50.399 So there's bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking and malice, none of those are good. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:57.039 Kindness, uh, tender heart, forgiving others, that that's all good. 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.799 The one we're told to stop, the other we're told to start. 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:05.200 Even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:06.320 Look at this. 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:22.799 The things that saved people are doing that are disappointing to the Lord, the things that saved people are doing that are acts of disobedience, Ephesians 4 says, they've already been forgiven. 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:26.960 Do you see that? 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:32.559 When Jesus Christ died upon the cross, what did he die for? 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:34.159 You say, My sins. 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:36.559 All of them are part of them. 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.080 Well, uh, all of them? 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:43.120 Don't say it with doubt, say it with certainty. 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:48.000 Every sin you would ever commit was in the future when Christ went to the cross. 00:16:48.720 --> 00:17:00.399 This idea that he died for the ones that I committed before I got saved, but somehow he didn't make payment for the ones that we commit after I got saved? 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:01.279 Where did you get that? 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:03.039 You didn't get that out of the Bible. 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:08.960 You got that from a minister, you got that from a denominational handbook, you didn't get that from the Bible. 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:10.960 Jesus paid it all. 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.839 He cried, it is finished when he died upon the cross. 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.160 All right, uh, proof number eight. 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:24.240 We are establishing from the Bible the eternal security of the born-again believer. 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:26.640 And Hebrews chapter 13. 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:31.599 Hebrews chapter 13, if you're following along in your Bible, give you a second to find it. 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:36.240 Hebrews chapter 13 and verse number five. 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:43.920 Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have. 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:55.119 Now, before I even finish the verse, here's what ministers tell me, and here's what people under such ministers tell me. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:03.519 Well, I just believe that after you're saved, if you sin, that you lose it. 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:08.319 And I always say to them, Well, are you telling me you don't sin? 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:13.519 And in their minds, in their minds, they don't commit adultery. 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:14.640 That's a bad one. 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:17.440 Uh, they don't kill anyone, that's a bad one. 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:31.200 They they don't uh rob, steal, you know, that traffic humans, that uh all these terrible things in their mind, what they determine are terrible sins, that they're confident. 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:33.440 I don't do those things. 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:35.440 All right, well, how about this one? 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.640 Be content with such things as you have. 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:41.839 How are you doing with that? 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:56.400 The weather that you have, the temperature that you have, the money that you have, the health that you have, the circumstances that you have, the home, the clothing, the vehicle that you have. 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:57.359 Really? 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.559 You're content all the time. 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:08.000 You see, it's not up to you to define sin. 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:09.440 God defines it. 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:13.680 And it's not up to me to determine whether or not I'm meeting the standard or not. 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:15.599 Uh God determines that. 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:28.480 And he just before he's gonna tell us that that we have eternal security, he just points out how impossible it would be to keep our salvation if it were up to us to keep it. 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:33.440 Discontentment is a sin. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:39.839 That's why God could easily say, all have sinned and come short of his glory. 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:41.279 So let's finish the verse. 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:56.400 Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as ye have, for he hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:58.400 I'm just curious. 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:00.160 Do you believe that? 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:02.960 I just want to know. 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:15.359 I will never leave thee nor forsake thee, so that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:18.079 How about that? 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:28.400 Never, not in a year, not five years from now, not between now and the day I die, not in eternity. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:40.559 God has promised, my savior has promised, he will never leave me. 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:42.079 That's pretty good. 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:43.599 You said, What if I leave him? 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:44.720 You can't. 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:46.160 You can't. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:48.160 If if you go over there, there he is. 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:49.519 If you go over there, there he is. 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:51.039 If you climb up there, there he is. 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:52.640 You dig down there, there he is. 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:54.480 He he's not leaving you. 00:20:55.119 --> 00:21:01.119 Therefore, you can't leave him, nor forsake thee. 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:09.920 Friends, may loved ones, may, associates will. 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.640 In fact, look at the wording of the verse. 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:21.519 He says, I will not fear what men shall do unto me. 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:23.839 There's a promise. 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:26.720 Somebody's gonna shall do you. 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:32.640 You're you're gonna get a shall do one day that's not going to be pleasant. 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.039 I've had plenty of them in my life. 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:39.599 I've seen people I thought would never walk away, walk away. 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:45.519 I've seen people I thought you could count on when you couldn't count on anyone else, and turns out you couldn't count on them. 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:47.119 But I'm I'm telling you something. 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:50.799 I'm telling you, God's not like that. 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:57.279 He has given us his word that he will never be gone. 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:01.359 We will never look around and say, where did Did God go? 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:04.960 Why did he leave me here all alone? 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:09.039 Why did he forsake me and fail to be my helper? 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:10.880 Never happen, it'll never happen. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.960 Titus 1 3 says, God cannot lie. 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:17.839 God cannot lie. 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:25.440 And so we may, verse 6, boldly say, the Lord is my helper. 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:28.160 Now here's a fact. 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:46.480 From the earliest days of my Christian life, I have had expectations of God that weren't based upon the Bible. 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:51.920 They were based upon something I thought or imagined or something I was taught. 00:22:53.680 --> 00:23:03.119 And when God didn't meet my false expectations, I lost a measure of confidence. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:09.599 And I had to return to the Bible and keep reading and studying my Bible. 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:14.880 And the more I learned about the Lord, the more I realized He hadn't broken any of his promises. 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:22.000 I just had been taught things or absorbed things throughout the course of my life that just weren't so. 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:31.200 And as time goes on, all these decades have rolled by, and those of you that have been saved a long time and lived a long time, you know this is true. 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:35.680 In good health, it's easy to be bold. 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:39.519 In prosperity, it's easy to be bold. 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:47.359 When things are going well in the church you attend or pastor, it's easy to be bold. 00:23:48.400 --> 00:24:02.240 But when the storms come and the trials come and the reversals come and the heartaches come, God doesn't change, his promises haven't changed. 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:10.319 We just tend to lose our bold, certain confidence. 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:14.079 And here's what God would tell us. 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:40.079 Wherever you are, whatever you're experiencing, whatever some man, some woman, some group of people may have done to you, you can be as bold in that hour as in the best hours of your life in proclaiming the Lord has not forsaken me. 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:43.599 The Lord has not left me. 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:46.799 It's a wonderful thing. 00:24:47.200 --> 00:25:00.400 One of the first public displays of Christianity, I recall, is seeing a billboard sign along a highway. 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:02.960 And I don't remember where, but I remember the sign. 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:11.839 This was a late 60s, early 70s things. 00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:16.160 But but it was had on that sign, Psalm 46, 1. 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:24.319 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:34.880 And how many times has trouble made one of us wonder if God was present? 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:45.440 How many times, how many times has trouble made one of us wonder if God was really helping or going to help? 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:50.480 I'd say more often than either of us wish to recall or admit to. 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:52.400 You might have an earthly father who gave you stones or scorpions, but your heavenly father, it's all eggs and bread. 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:00.480 Don't put trust in yourself. 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:06.720 Put your trust in the Lord, and you'll never, never be disappointed. 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:09.039 Well, we've got just a couple of minutes left. 00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:14.880 We have, I've mentioned to you so many times, we have dozens and dozens 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