WEBVTT 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:11.759 You're listening to the road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:14.480 Any women, I think a day's coming. 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:16.000 And we're seeing it more and more. 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:17.519 We're seeing it gradually happen. 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:28.160 I think it's increasing in greater measure that the spoken word is going to bring deliverance power like the world has never seen before. 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:30.960 So, church, join up. 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:34.560 Be a part of the army of what God's doing. 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:38.320 Let Him use you in a mighty and powerful way. 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:43.759 Today, Pastor Steve continues his series on the Book of Revelation. 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:49.359 At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.679 For more information on The Road, visit theroad.org. 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.960 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:07.439 We are looking at the beginning of the second half of the Great Tribulation period. 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:09.920 We might call it Jacob's Trouble. 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:27.760 This time period where the kingdoms of this earth have been warned and warned and warned again and again by angels and by these two witnesses and by the 144,000 evangelists, these Jewish evangelists. 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.400 If you're new to our church, we're going through the book of Revelation. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:31.840 So we've been covering all that. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:40.079 And now we're coming into this second half of a three and a half year period, second half of a seven-year period of this great tribulation. 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.280 And then we have this proclamation. 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:57.920 And I don't know if the people of the earth can hear this proclamation or if we're just getting a bird's eye view of what is said in the heavenlies, and we can see it, forecast it out into the future of what's going to happen. 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:06.719 But he says the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:12.719 Christ is being proclaimed as sovereign over the kingdoms of this earth, over the kingdoms of the world. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:14.159 Isn't that exciting, folks? 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:20.319 We're seeing that wherever Christ is proclaimed, addictions are broken. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:29.680 Wherever the word of God is read, I said to a young man this week who has been struggling with some stuff in his life, and I said, dude, here's what I want you to do. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:41.120 I just want you for the next 30 days to just read the word and read the word and read the word as many hours as you can every day. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:49.120 That's all I want you to do is read the word, pull out your journal, and get a really cool journal like I have, because this one's really anointed. 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:57.120 No, you can use a spiral notebook, I don't encourage you to use it, but put it right there beside your Bible, open the word, and read it and write in your journal what God's saying to you. 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.479 And in 30 days, God's going to do something miraculous. 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:02.800 First day, super boring. 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:05.520 Second day, more boring. 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:07.919 Third day, you hate my guts. 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:14.240 Fourth day, you think about all the things you're missing in your life because you're reading this book, this ancient book. 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:18.000 Fifth day, something will start to move. 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:23.919 Sixth day, you can't wait to read at least five minutes. 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:26.719 Seventh day, and it's gonna, and that's the way God works. 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:27.759 He hooks you in. 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:29.360 Just start, just start. 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:39.280 So what happens is the kingdoms of your world become the kingdoms of the Lord Jesus Christ as you spend time in worship and prayer. 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:42.960 So I'm really into Lauren Daigle these days. 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:44.639 Anybody like Lauren Daigle? 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:46.960 Man, I dig Lauren Daigle. 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:48.159 And it's so cool. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:55.039 You can just YouTube on your phone and just put it right there and worship. 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:58.960 With Lauren Daigle, like you're in that house or something where they're doing the recording. 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:00.639 It's really awesome. 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:02.800 And so to worship him. 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:07.919 But this earth is not the kingdom of God right now. 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:15.360 And most of us here were never educated, we were programmed in our schools. 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:52.879 Even now, we're taught a theory of how the cosmos came into being and how you and I were manufactured, evolved, by a man who never even completed anything that he started and who died without ever clearly having any scientific scientific evidence to support what he believed, but yet every school system believes that his theories are fact and his name is Darwin. 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:58.879 And I do believe in microevolution because I breed dogs. 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.040 So we have dogs that we breed. 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:13.040 If you're looking for a really cool killer, hunting, obeying, loving member of your family lab, probably in the next two months we'll have a set of them ready for you. 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:14.959 First come, first serve, though. 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:15.519 Okay. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:25.519 But we breed because we can take something called an intelligent agent and manipulate a breed. 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:27.120 It's called microevolution. 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:34.000 So you can see a change in a breed by the way you set up the male and the female together. 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:35.519 That's called microevolution. 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:47.040 We have sheep in cold weather in certain parts of the world that have a thicker, longer wool because of that cold weather. 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:48.639 That's called microevolution. 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.040 We believe in microevolution. 00:05:51.839 --> 00:06:06.959 In your app today, Stu Orr, a new member of our church or becoming a member, I don't know if he's a member yet, but he keeps hanging out with us, who is studied in these areas, gave me, I said something short. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:12.319 So he gave me like this little thumbnail sketch of micro and macroevolution. 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:16.079 It's the appendix in the notes today in the sermon. 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:25.040 So if you've downloaded the app and you have the sermon notes, the appendix has a better description of macro and microevolution. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:25.920 Now what's the difference? 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.800 So microevolution is what we observe within a species of change. 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:42.160 But macroevolution in the rim of species is actually a species change of which we've never ever observed. 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:45.759 We've never seen a squirrel become a fish or a fish become a squirrel. 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:50.800 Now, I was a gymnast in college, high school and college. 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:56.959 So there were times when I was on the high bar when I did have some similarities to a monkey. 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:02.959 But I didn't become one. 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:15.199 The term macroevolution is used when the microevolutionary processes are theoretically extrapolated to account for the origin of a new species. 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:20.079 So that change goes beyond the limits of microevolution. 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:32.959 It was Darwin's quote unquote big idea that if the mutation, and Darwin called it random variation, was great enough, the selection process would eventually create a new species. 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:36.319 The dog would eventually turn into another species. 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:42.639 Further extrapolations by macroevolution could eventually produce all the species. 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:48.879 Every creature on earth could then be shown to ultimately descend from a universal common ancestor. 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:50.319 Did everybody study that? 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:51.360 Did you? 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:52.480 Of course you did. 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:53.279 Yeah. 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:59.839 But macroevolution has never been observed in living organisms. 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:08.720 Has not been produced in the laboratory, nor can it be shown by the fossil record to have operated anywhere in the past. 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:11.439 Now I'm simple. 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:13.199 I'm not real smart. 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:14.720 I'm from Georgia. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:16.959 But I figured it out. 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:31.040 If something is that extensive and it affects every species the way it's taught, then there should be somewhere like a half fish, half man. 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:37.200 It couldn't have all begun exactly at the same time and then all ended exactly at the same time. 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.679 There should be somewhere wherever the evolutionary process hasn't quite worked out. 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.639 Now, granted, sometimes when we look around, you wonder. 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.840 But I haven't seen anybody that's halfway there. 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:51.759 Guess what? 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:53.600 Guess what? 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:59.360 This world is going to become the kingdom of God. 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:00.799 God is moving. 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:02.960 Right now, Satan controls it. 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.159 Right now he controls the educational system. 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:12.320 But God has called us as saints to do exactly what he says here. 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:16.799 The kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of our Lord in Christ. 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:18.960 That's our responsibility, church. 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:27.519 And so we gather on Wednesdays at noon at every home for Christ, and we're praying for revival in the church in Colorado Springs. 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.720 We're praying for awakening in our city. 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.279 This city's never seen that before. 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:41.600 We're asking God, use us to bring about a great move of your kingdom. 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:55.919 Because as Jesus was in his 40 days fast and he's coming to the end of it, and Satan comes up to him and he says, Look, I can give you all the kingdoms of the world if you'll bow down and worship me. 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:58.399 Interesting, Luke 4, 5. 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:02.320 This is what the interaction looks like. 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:16.960 Then the devil, taking him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and the devil said to him, All this authority I will give to you and their glory, for this has been delivered to me, and I will give it to whomever I wish. 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:21.440 It has been given to me, and I will give it to whomever I wish. 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:26.559 Therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours. 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:34.879 And Jesus answered and said, And get behind me, Satan, for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve. 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:38.399 Note that Jesus never disputes with what Satan says. 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:44.240 That these kingdoms have been given to him, and that he's over these kingdoms of the earth. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:46.879 And so Jesus doesn't dispute with that. 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:53.919 So men and women, whoever your king is, that's what your kingdom will be. 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:59.519 And in whatever kingdom you follow, that will be the economy that you follow. 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:03.200 Wrong king, wrong kingdom. 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.480 Wrong king, wrong kingdom. 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:10.399 Before the flood, wrong king, wrong kingdom. 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:12.960 Egypt, wrong king, wrong kingdom. 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.600 Babylon, wrong king, wrong kingdom. 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.879 Isis, wrong king, wrong kingdom. 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:24.720 United States of America, wrong king, wrong kingdom. 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:40.399 But just before the coming of Christ, just before the coming of Christ, and I believe we're living in those days, that kingdom is going to rise up with greater and greater power. 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:41.759 Isn't that exciting? 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:45.360 That the greater works of the kingdom are coming. 00:11:46.080 --> 00:12:10.720 That when Victor shares about a woman that he encounters out of a car in the middle of Mosul and on the whole battleground there, and God sets her free, that's the kingdoms of not this world coming into the kingdoms of this world to bring freedom and revolution and a new life in her life. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:31.519 We see Jesus come into the Samaritan woman and he preaches to her and he shares the gospel with her, and we know tradition uh from history and tradition that she went back into that whole region in the first churches of the in the book of Acts, not exclusively in the book of Acts, but we know during that same first century period, we're planted through her. 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:36.240 Because she was set free by Christ's word to her. 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:38.080 And many women, I think a day's coming. 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:39.679 And we're seeing it more and more. 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:41.200 We're seeing it gradually happen. 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:52.080 I think it's increasing in greater measure that the spoken word is going to bring deliverance power like the world has never seen before. 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:54.879 And so, church, join up. 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.480 Be a part of the army of what God's doing. 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:02.320 Let him use you in a mighty and powerful way. 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:04.639 Verse 16. 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:23.759 And the 24 elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, We give you thanks, O Lord God Almighty, the one who is and who was and who is to come, because you have taken your great power and reigned. 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:29.519 There can't be the right kingdom until there's the right king. 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:34.960 Twor elders in chapters four and five representing the church, worshiping the Lord. 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:36.639 And now they come here. 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:42.639 They're giving thanks to the Lord, the one who is and who was and who is to come. 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:46.000 That's the way God works, church. 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:53.279 When we allow the king to rule in our life, he becomes the who was and who is and who is to come. 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.600 I think one of the hardest areas is the who was. 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:00.559 The who was is hard for all of us. 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:10.320 That's that whole history that all of us carry here of struggles and pain and getting ripped off and being hurt in relationships. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:11.840 Isn't it exciting? 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.120 We can take on the king who was. 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:20.639 Who is and who is to come. 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:23.840 He can come and he can heal our wases. 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:26.720 He can heal your wases. 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:39.919 Because who you is, that's where we talk where I come from, who you is is usually because of who you was. 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:46.799 And the problem with you is, for where you're going, is because you still got that wases on you. 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:58.799 And so you're carrying the wases into the issue so that your so that your to comms kind of stink because you're still a was. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.480 When Christ has said you're born again. 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:06.720 And you're a new creation in Christ. 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:18.960 The problem is, is we do a lot of work on the ises and not enough work on the wases because we're not enough in this book. 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:35.120 Because when we begin to saturate our mind and our heart, and if you weren't a part of it a couple weeks ago and I talked about the Lectio Divina, I encourage you to go back and look at those two sermons I did from Revelation 10 dealing with eating the book. 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:38.399 The title is Eating the Book One, Eating the Book Two. 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:46.399 But in that quick little two-part from Revelation 10, we talked about the fact that you, it's called spiritual reading. 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:47.919 That's what Lecto Divina means. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:49.200 It's from the 12th century. 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:52.480 But as you read it, you eat it. 00:15:52.639 --> 00:16:01.759 And the way you eat it is you meditate on it, you pray the scriptures back to the Lord, and it metabolizes into your spiritual bloodstream. 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:03.279 Isn't that cool? 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:09.840 And that cleansing power begins to work in a supernatural way with our wuzes. 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:14.240 Because a lot of us got a lot of wuzes. 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.000 Because what we is is because of what we was. 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:27.360 And so even though we're saved, we bring with us these battered parts and these hurtful parts, and you hurt others, and we hurt others. 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.360 We all, and everybody's got it. 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:40.399 And so as we begin to get involved in what we call whole-hearted discipleship, and that means we need blood-stained allies. 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:51.279 Men, you need two or three guys that know you, that you have a relationship with that can speak into your life because you're still messed up. 00:16:51.440 --> 00:17:00.320 I mean, you're saved, but there's this whole process that happens through other people also ministering in our life, through discipleship. 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:02.000 That's why Jesus did it the way he did. 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:04.640 Women, you need two or three women in your life. 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:10.960 And we use the term bloodstained allies because we need some people we can trust who are also bloodstained. 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:16.640 In other words, they've been through the war, they've been through the battle, they understand, and they're working this thing out. 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:18.400 We're working out our salvation. 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:20.079 Do you understand it, men and women? 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:44.480 This is how the kingdoms of this world, that's us, this kingdom, begins to become the kingdoms of God through giving our was and our is and our to come to the one who was and is and is to come. 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:45.599 Isn't that exciting? 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.240 That's what you get when you get saved. 00:17:48.480 --> 00:18:05.200 You get the Holy Spirit, you get Jesus, you get the Father, you get the Holy Spirit, the triune God comes to live in you to begin to transform you from the was and the is to come because he is the was and is to come. 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:10.160 And so what it is, it's greater and greater surrender. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:11.519 Hello? 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:21.519 So what you surrendered to five years ago when you came to know the Lord, I hope, is really different than what you're surrendering to the Lord today. 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:24.480 Because at first he didn't have your wallet. 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.359 At first, he may not have had your time. 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:32.799 I mean, it's daylight savings time today. 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:36.079 And it's that spring forward one. 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:38.799 It's the bad one. 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:41.599 You're here. 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:47.359 So how many of you would say ten years ago you would have been here? 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:50.720 Like three hands go up. 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:54.559 Because we're being transformed, aren't we? 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.599 You're not the same as you were 10 years ago. 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:00.079 And so we're on this journey, church. 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.000 It's it's the road less traveled. 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:03.759 We're on this road less traveled. 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:09.680 And so this is a picture of our life of the who was and is and is to come. 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:26.319 And as you give more of your was, is, and is to come to the one who is the was and is and is to come, he will transform your past, your present, and your future by you giving more and more control of your life to him. 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:34.480 And the fears that some of you carry are gonna disappear. 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:36.480 They are. 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:40.960 Where you were fearful last year, you won't be fearful next year. 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:42.559 Because you'll keep every day. 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:51.200 And it's always and it's always incremental, but as we incrementally give these things to him, he's doing a deeper work within our life. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:57.279 And in so doing, your kingdom is becoming the kingdoms of our Lord in Christ. 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:07.519 And the nations were angry, and by the way, as the kingdom moves with greater power, the nations are going to get angrier. 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:10.640 We have an angry nation right now. 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:15.680 The nations were angry and your wrath has come. 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:22.559 And the time of the dead, that they should be judged. 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:36.079 And that you should reward your servants, the prophets, and the saints, and those who fear your name, small and great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth. 00:20:36.480 --> 00:21:02.240 And so, warning after warning, and some of you are new to our fellowship, and so you haven't been through the book of Revelation with us, but but there's what we're seeing here, we see this progression happening, you guys, where there is a work of God warning the earth with witnesses, warning the earth with a third, a third of the water being destroyed, and a third of mankind being destroyed. 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:11.920 And God is crying out to humankind and inviting them into the kingdom, not wanting that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:23.279 So he's crying out, and now we're coming to that last half of the seven-year tribulation, the the time of Jacob's trouble, the tribulation of the tribulation. 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:26.000 But we don't want him. 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:30.240 America does not want Christ. 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:35.039 Colorado Springs does not want Christ. 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:43.200 If you have your Bibles open, because some of you are just looking at the app, I think it's on the app too, but look at Romans 1. 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:45.599 Romans 1 18. 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:54.400 One of the most important passages in the New Testament on the heart of man. 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.680 Verse 18 for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:05.519 Against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness. 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:12.000 Because what may be known of God is manifested in them, for God has shown it to them. 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:24.000 For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:26.720 That's underlined in my Bible, they are without excuse. 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:27.759 Verse 21. 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:39.359 Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:48.880 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:49.839 Verse 26. 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:59.119 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions, for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:13.680 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. 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:23.519 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind. 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:27.359 So God gives us over to vile passions. 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:32.240 God gives us over to a debased mind because that's what we want. 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:39.200 And so God gives us that freedom to choose what we're going to do. 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:51.440 And it's almost like when you read this, the impression of many commentators and theologues of the past has been it's like man is becoming a wild beast. 00:23:52.720 --> 00:24:05.200 Verse 29, being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness. 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:07.039 They are whisperers. 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:13.039 I think it's interesting, isn't it, that phrase comes up in scriptural about being whisperers? 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:23.359 Backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents. 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:24.880 Okay, kids. 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:27.599 Always take my kids to this. 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:28.880 No, I don't. 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:34.400 Undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful. 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:37.680 God gives us over, church. 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:43.759 If you want to go after the king of sex, you can have his kingdom too. 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:48.880 If you want to go after the king of greed, you can have his kingdom too. 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:53.279 King, kingdom, economy. 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:55.519 Always works that way. 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:59.599 Whoever's your king, that's your kingdom, that becomes your economy. 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:12.079 So, so if it's the king of passions and vile passions and sexual immorality, that will become your kingdom, that will become your economy. 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:14.559 And God will give you over. 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:16.000 He will allow you to do that. 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:23.279 And I remember as a kid just um going to the mall with my parents in Huntsville, Alabama. 00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:27.519 I think that's the first time that's the first impression I have of going to a mall. 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:36.319 And as a kid, like five or six, and I think I was maybe not that young, maybe I was like seven or eight, and mom just let me go to the sporting goods store. 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:40.640 And then she went and did her thing and she came back and picked me up all the time. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:42.880 You can't do that now. 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:49.440 Wrong king, wrong kingdom, wrong economy. 00:25:50.880 --> 00:26:00.319 But here's what happens: when we give ourselves, not just to salvation, but to sanctification, when we give ourselves to Christ, we get a new king. 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:06.400 Now the kingdom's still messed up because you still control your kingdom, but now you've got the king. 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:16.720 You start going after the king and going after the king, and this kingdom starts getting gradually taken over by the king. 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:26.400 And then, you know, and then you go back to you as the king, and then the kingdom changes again, and then you think that was a bad choice. 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:39.440 And then you go back and you can you put Christ back on the throne of your heart, and then he gets some more, and then you back up and you and you, you know, you you go in and you do your thing, and right? 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:41.680 Christian life's kind of eh. 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:47.920 But then we start getting discipled. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:54.799 We start worshiping the Lord, and he begins to change us from the inside out. 00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:59.440 We get baptized, we get filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:01.440 And then we go back. 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:05.039 It's always two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, one step back. 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:07.440 But you see, get the king right. 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:19.440 Get the king right, and then start surrendering to the king, and then the king takes over the kingdom in our lives. 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:35.759 According to Gallup poll, secularization of our society has gone from 15% in the 1950s to 40% in 2001 to 60% by 2010. 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:46.559 And what we mean by secularization is where the Judeo-Christian values and the biblical worldview are no longer the foundation of one's worldview. 00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:47.599 Does that make sense? 00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:57.279 So as we begin to see things from a secularized viewpoint, we begin to make decisions because that becomes our king and that becomes our kingdom. 00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:11.440 Colorado Springs has 79% of the city not attending any religious institution, not just Christianity, but any religious institution on any given Saturday or Sunday. 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:18.640 So 79% of this city, 79% of this neighborhood around this church is at home right now. 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:20.880 We could do the survey probably right now. 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:30.319 We could go knock on doors, and eight out of ten people would not be at any religious institution this Sunday, on any given Sunday, at any time. 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:41.920 America's unchurched population is more people than all but eleven of the 194 nations of the world. 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:54.000 According to the Barner Report, there are over 195 million unchurched people in America today, and that makes us the third largest mission field in the world. 00:28:54.799 --> 00:29:00.799 Jesus said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:12.480 He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:21.839 If you're part of the road, you've heard me say this ad nauseum, but I'll say it again, that God gave us this heart to make Jesus great in this city. 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:30.480 And to make Jesus great in this city, so that the making Jesus great in this city would explode out to the whole world. 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:37.519 We have the largest number of mission organizations of any city in the United States, maybe in the whole world. 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:45.039 And if God came with revival and awakening here, what an impact it would have worldwide. 00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:54.720 So I want to challenge you, or if wherever you go this week, that you would look up and see the harvest. 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:56.079 Look up. 00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:58.160 Don't say four months. 00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:00.799 Don't say when the end times come. 00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:04.079 He says, look up, see the harvest. 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:06.640 There's a harvest before us. 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:18.480 And then the temple of God was open in heaven, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple, and there were lightnings and noises and thunderings and earthquakes and great hail. 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:25.359 So the Ark of the Covenant, time of Solomon, was only a replica of the Ark of the Covenant in heaven. 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:30.799 The temple on earth, Solomon's temple was only a replica of the temple on earth. 00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:38.960 So whether Indiana Jones ever finds the Ark of the Covenant, it exists in heaven. 00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:39.920 We're going to see it. 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:41.680 And we're going to be a part of it. 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:47.599 You've been 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