WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:05.280 I ask that you start by turning in your Bibles to 1 Peter chapter 3, verse 15. 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.000 One verse is all I've got today. 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:09.919 We're going to break it apart. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:22.079 And I hope that, as I always pray in Sunday school, or anytime I have the opportunity to speak, I pray that you get one word that you need at this critical juncture of your week. 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:23.600 Then you get that today. 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:29.359 And that when you get to that point in the week, you'll think back and say, Man, Sunday, I heard that in church. 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:34.000 That's my prayer for you guys, that God will speak to you and He'll give you an opportunity to use it this week. 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:40.719 While you're looking at 1 Peter chapter 3, verse 15, I'll tell you that it's an honor to speak and preach to you guys. 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:43.840 Thank you, Pastor Danny, out in TV land in Indiana. 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:48.479 Thank you, Pastor Rick, for letting me have all the support this week to get focused on this. 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:55.759 March the 10th, Pastor Danny did not know this when he asked me to preach today, but it is kind of an anniversary for me. 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:03.920 March the 10th of 2012, I woke up at home for the very first time in 10 days. 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:14.319 I spent 10 days in the hospital, and March the 10th of 2012 was the first morning of what I consider to be my second half. 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:20.000 I had gone into the hospital for some halftime adjustments that God needed to make in my life. 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:23.840 And from February the 28th to March the 9th, I was in the hospital. 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:32.640 On March 10th, I woke up with a cancer diagnosis, an appointment with an oncologist, all kind of fear and anxiety in my life. 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:39.439 But praise God, I'm here today, seven years later, and I can tell you this, Amanda and I were talking about it some this morning. 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.599 So far, these seven have been really good mostly. 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:57.680 It took a long time, but hey, I'll tell you what, God, I don't think that it's any coincidence that my first time to preach to you is March the 10th, the seven-year anniversary of the start of my second half. 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.519 It's good to be here together today. 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:06.959 I also don't think it's a coincidence that I am preaching on the back end of the mission team who just got back from Honduras. 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.120 Deidre, we're going to bring her back up. 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.120 She leaves for Nepal day after tomorrow. 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.520 So we're going to pray for her before we leave here. 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:15.680 So Deidra's just in here for a minute. 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:35.280 But the mission team, when I think about foreign missions, a lot of times I think about the Great Commission, which is Matthew chapter 28, and says, Go therefore into all nations, baptizing them, or go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I've commanded. 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:44.400 You also think some of Mark 16, 15, which is Luke's favorite verse, go into all the earth and preach the gospel to every living creature. 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:50.240 And when I think about Honduras and other countries, Mike went out, to all the earth. 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:58.000 But what I want to talk about today is something from 1 Peter 3.15, and it's more of a show and tell. 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.840 The idea that I have for you today that I want to preach from is not go and tell. 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:06.639 The kids go to camp in the summer, go tell, but I want to talk to you about show and tell. 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:11.680 So let's jump right in here and read this verse, this one verse. 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:12.879 It has five parts. 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:14.159 I'm not going to get all five. 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.439 I'm going to try to get the first four for you today. 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:33.280 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks a reason for the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:45.120 We're going to not get to the meekness and fear portion, but we're going to talk about sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and always be ready to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you. 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:51.759 Let me just start off by saying that when I say show and tell, you probably think about the schoolhouse. 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:54.960 Show and tell brings back memories of show and tell at school. 00:03:55.039 --> 00:04:02.879 And it was neat, you know, the kid bring in a toy, and you might see they might bring in something you would know a little more about them when you had show and tell day at school. 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.639 But the schools lately, they're kind of limiting show and tell. 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:09.919 And the reason they are, it kind of exposes them a little bit. 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:17.120 Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, second grader, bomb squad notified when he brings in a hand grenade for show and tell. 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:25.199 Luckily, the school resource officer takes this and puts it in the dumpster where the bomb squad retrieved it and determined that it was not activated. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:28.160 But show and tell, kid brings a hand grenade. 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:33.680 Right here in Huntsville, Alabama, second grader, shoots himself in the hand with a pistol that he brings. 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.959 Show and tell it's his dad's pistol that he brings. 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:38.399 Authorities were notified. 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:40.639 Unfortunately, it turns out the pistol was stolen. 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.519 Arrests were made, charges were prosecuted. 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.279 Show and tell can get you in trouble. 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.399 The schools don't necessarily want you to show and tell. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:52.399 And I believe this, the devil doesn't want you to show and tell. 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:59.839 Go and tell, you might have an excuse that if I'm not going, then I don't have to tell. 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:07.040 But show and tell, wherever you go, whatever you do, show and tell. 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:12.959 But first things first, I'm a definition kind of guy, and you guys are looking at your blanks. 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:13.759 We're going to fill them in. 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:15.680 I'm a fill-in-the-blank guy. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.560 Sanctify the Lord God in your heart. 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:23.680 Let me tell you this: if Jesus is not in your heart, you're not going to be able to sanctify him. 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:31.680 Fortunately, Romans 10, 9 tells us if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you can be saved. 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:33.519 We're going to talk about that more later. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.839 But if you do have Jesus in your heart, my question is, are you sanctifying him? 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:48.639 And sometimes when I read in the Bible a word that I'm not really sure what it means, I can just skim over it and say, well, okay, he's sanctified. 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:54.959 But if you look it up, sanctify means to set apart or to treat differently. 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.519 Set apart God in your heart. 00:05:57.839 --> 00:05:58.720 That rhymes. 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:00.800 Treat him differently. 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:05.439 1 Peter 1:15 tells us to be holy. 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:09.600 Just as he who called you is holy, be holy in all your conduct. 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:11.600 And I'll stop, I talk fast sometimes. 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:15.759 I know I hear that very often. 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:22.800 So set apart and treat differently God who is in your heart. 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:28.079 That's first for a reason, because if you don't do that, you're not going to do the rest of this verse. 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:29.040 Let me just tell you that. 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:33.439 First things first, you got to sanctify the Lord God in your heart. 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:35.120 You've got to set him apart and treat him differently. 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.279 And you can do that by being holy. 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:45.600 What I think about when I think about something that is set apart, I have to tell you guys that we moved back in October. 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:51.839 And when we moved, we moved all the heavy stuff and we moved all the stuff that I needed help with. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:58.800 And then I went over to Walmart, and you will not believe what they're selling at Walmart these days. 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:07.120 They have a hundred and twenty pieces for$10 of what they call newspaper. 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:11.839 I used to pay 75 cents for 120 pieces of newspaper. 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:13.759 They had things written on it that I could read. 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:26.079 Now they're selling this stuff$10 for 120 sheets, but I bought it, and the reason I bought it is because I had to go and I had to get some wrapping going on and I had to get and very carefully place these items in a tub. 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:27.120 It can't be too heavy. 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:43.439 Six tubs that I packed up with the$10 newspaper, and I moved them from one house to the other house, and we unwrapped all of our china, and then we washed all of the china, and then we put it up in a shelf, and it's got a light in the cabinet, and the light shines on it, and it's set apart. 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:46.959 We treat it differently. 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:52.319 Do not come to my house and hope to eat on the china because it's set apart. 00:07:52.800 --> 00:08:00.959 I told, I told Amanda this, and of course, to prove a point, she brought out the china on Christmas morning. 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:06.079 And the kids get the china and they're holding it, and I said, No, but we're gonna hold this with two hands. 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:12.240 We're not we're not holding the china with one hand, and we gotta clean it, and I'm worried we're gonna put it in the dishwasher. 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:13.199 I don't know. 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:14.079 It's set apart. 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.480 It's not the correl, we don't eat on it every day. 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.079 I'm not gonna let you touch it. 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:19.759 I don't want it getting dirtied up. 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:20.959 You can come and see it. 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:21.920 It's set apart. 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.680 We're in the world, but not of the world. 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:25.279 Is Christ set apart in your heart? 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:27.360 Have you set apart the Lord God in your heart? 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:28.639 Is he sanctified? 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:32.159 Now, I walked by the other day in the sugar bowl from the China set is Adam. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:34.080 I said, but maybe who's coming over? 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.840 This is set apart. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.039 The Bible tells us this in 1 John chapter 1, verses 5 through 6. 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:47.120 He says, Walk in God is light, in him there is no darkness at all. 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:53.039 If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:57.440 No darkness at all in your heart when you're sanctifying God. 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.000 Wade's verse, thank you, Wade. 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:05.120 Colossians 3, 2, set your mind on things above, not things of this earth. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.200 That's the way to sanctify God in your heart, because here's what I know. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:13.919 I know that my eyes and my ears are my gateways to my heart. 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:28.240 The things that I see and the things that I read and the things that I will listen to bring information into my heart and create thoughts and ideas, and they determine, my eyes and ears, largely whether or not God is sanctified in my heart. 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:35.759 So I tell you that to tell you this, if we're supposed to set our mind on things above, some of you guys are gonna leave here maybe. 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:45.120 I don't know if you have teenagers, maybe you have certain radio stations that you listen to, maybe don't, but I'd lived with teenagers for several years, so they have to come into play. 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.200 I must consider them a bit in this. 00:09:47.279 --> 00:10:01.440 And there is a song by a popular teenage love to singer, and it goes something like this: I like dollars, I like diamonds, I like stunting, I like shining, I like Balenciagas, the ones that look like socks. 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.120 Let me stop here and educate you. 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:08.480 There is an$800 pair of tennis shoes that is made to look like athletic socks. 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.519 And this lady is singing about all of these things. 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.759 She keeps going and says, I'm going to the jeweler and put rocks all in my watch. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.480 Money, money, money, money, money, money, money. 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:19.759 They're singing about money. 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.759 And none of that got to do with things above. 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:30.080 Now I know what you guys are saying, you're probably saying, Dave, we don't listen to that stuff. 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:34.000 When I was a kid, country was kind of the safe place. 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:38.000 Probably because my mom liked country, so we could listen to country music. 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.799 All right, well, let me give you one from the country song. 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:45.919 I I dug my keys into the side of his pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.639 I carved my name into his leather seats. 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:53.519 Now, isn't that just speaking of something from above called forgiveness? 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.159 Now that's a song by a young lady, and I looked it up this morning. 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:00.240 That is two songs after. 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:08.159 She's tore all the rest of the car up, so that's all he's got left to take, right? 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:16.720 So when you listen to these things in your mind, they get in your mind, and it's funny. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:19.039 All right, but the devil will use that. 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:22.480 Soon as somebody does you wrong, you say, well, I dug my keys. 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:28.399 And if they can do it in the song, they don't mention the charges that are being pressed and all of that in the song. 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:38.159 But the devil operates like that if you don't sanctify the Lord God in your heart, if you don't focus on things above. 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.240 What are some things above you can focus on? 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:43.679 Well, you can focus on, I learned this little song, I'm gonna try to do it. 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:49.360 Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, goodness, and self-control. 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:51.679 Some fruits of the spirit. 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:53.759 Focus on these things. 00:11:54.080 --> 00:12:00.559 Some of you guys say, Dave, and just let me tell you, I'm talking to me, not you. 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:03.919 We don't really listen to the country, we don't really listen to the pop. 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:12.240 I don't really listen to anything in the car, maybe WDJC, but when I get home and turn on my television, there's the news. 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:21.679 And the news, when I watch the news, it makes me sad, or it makes me mad, or it makes me mad because I got sad. 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:26.639 Then when I look at the things on the news, they're not talking about anything above. 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:32.799 24 hours you have access to things of this earth if you want it. 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:37.519 Over and over and over and over again. 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.360 Will you sanctify the Lord God in your heart? 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:44.080 Will you focus on things above? 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.919 That's the most important part of all of this. 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:51.440 I think you have your blanks filled in, so we'll move to number two. 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:54.639 Always be ready to give a defense. 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:59.039 Always be ready to give a defense. 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:04.960 A defense is a capability of resisting attack. 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:11.039 An argument or justification of something. 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.360 A capability of resisting attack. 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.000 An argument, I keep going off the screen, I'm sorry. 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.720 An argument or justification of something. 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:25.039 That's what a defense is, according to the Webster dictionary that I've looked up. 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:33.679 If you first sanctify God in your heart and get all of that stuff out, you'll have a little more time to get ready to give a defense. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:38.879 Let me tell you this in the Bible, trials and attacks are promised. 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:45.279 Peter's gonna tell us later on in 1 Peter chapter 5, verse 8, that the devil prowls like a roaring lion. 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.000 A roaring lion is not a sneak attack. 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.000 You can hear it coming. 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:57.840 Jesus tells us in John 16, 33, in this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, because I've overcome the world. 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:04.320 Paul tells us, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ, Jesus, can expect persecution. 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:07.279 So Jesus said tribulation, Paul calls it persecution. 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:14.000 Peter comes back and says, Do not be, think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is sent to try you. 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:19.759 So we got Jesus saying it, we got Peter saying it, we got Paul saying it. 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:21.600 Trials are promised. 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:34.960 At all Saints Episcopal School, when I was a young boy, we learned this song, and it went something like this the wise man built his house upon a rock, house upon a rock, and the foolish man built his house upon a sand, house. 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:46.240 If you look just a little bit deeper into the story of the wise man who built his house upon a rock and the foolish man who built his house upon a sand, what you'll see is in both cases, the storms come. 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:52.960 They're coming, and if you don't get prepared, you're not gonna be ready. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.080 This verse tells you to sanctify the Lord God in your heart. 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.960 It tells you to always be ready to give a defense. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:07.600 And luckily, this morning, you've got yourself a formal criminal defense attorney to tell you how to give a defense. 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:09.440 I gotta use what I got. 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:10.879 Don't hate me for it. 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:22.480 Back in the day, I had this particular client, and he had his first set of cases in 1980 when I was two. 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:30.720 So when I come into contact with this fellow in 2008, he knows a lot more about it than I do. 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.120 He's been on drugs, it's a sad story. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:35.600 I do think that I heard that he got saved late in life. 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:36.960 He's passed away now. 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:55.120 But I got appointed to represent this guy, and he lived next door to the little old lady, and the case that I got appointed to represent, he had been accused of stealing the little old lady's generator with his 20-year-old buddy. 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:02.159 And I talked to my guy and I told him, I said, uh, you know, what do they have against you? 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:03.600 You know, what kind of information do they have? 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:12.960 And it turns out that the police, as they should have, when the little old lady's generator comes up missing, they go to the pawn shop. 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:17.279 And at the pawn shop, they have video cameras. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:29.120 And on the video camera at the pawn shop is my guy carrying the generator out of the truck and into the pawn shop, and there's a ticket. 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:33.279 I mean, it's I talked to my guy, and he said, I instill it. 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:34.799 I instill it. 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:37.120 I instill it. 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.360 I'm not pleading guilty. 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:48.559 And he tells the prosecutor, you can dismiss this case and charge me with the right thing, but I instill it. 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.679 And I'm just looking at this guy, I'm like, well, you know, you know more about it than I do. 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:56.240 You know, you've been 28 years of experience with this stuff. 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:00.480 But I he he would not plead guilty, so I had to get ready for trial. 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:07.519 And what I did, I went and I sat down and I started reading the rules, and I started looking at some cases, and I started thinking about this situation. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:13.279 I looked at all the information they had, and what I found out was this in Alabama, there's a charge called theft of property. 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:15.759 And if I steal something from you, that's yours. 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:16.799 It's theft. 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:25.839 But if if somebody else steals it and brings it to me and I just have it, take it to the pawn shop, I haven't stolen anything that's receiving stolen property. 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:27.279 Don't hate me again. 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:39.680 I so I sit down and I look through all of this and I prepare and prepare and prepare and prepare, and for some nine months I prepare this case, and I go into court and I have my Johnny Cochrane moment. 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:43.920 Kids, Johnny Cochran is the reason that the Kardashians have a TV show. 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:48.000 He he's he's the lawyer that got O.J. 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:49.039 Simpson acquitted. 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:55.039 In my Johnny Cochran moment, I came up with this theory just because you sold it, don't mean you stole it. 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:02.079 And let me tell you what, we won! Not guilty. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.000 Because he wasn't guilty of that. 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:13.839 But the point of all of this is that I want to tell you if trials and attacks are promised, then you need to be prepared. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.440 You need to prepare. 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:22.319 And I've come up with six things that can help you prepare. 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:29.680 And all of them begin with the letter C, because I'm trying to learn to do that seminary stuff. 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:33.920 And most of them make sense. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:36.720 Alright. 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:42.720 So the first thing that you need to do in your preparation is you need to go to a companionless place. 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:44.640 Companionless. 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:45.920 That's really a word. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:52.640 Alright, companionless place, Matthew 6, 6, Jesus tells you to go into the room and shut your door. 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.880 And then the other verses that I've listed there give three pictures of Jesus. 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:05.839 One in Mark 1.35, I believe it says, Jesus rose up early in the morning before daylight, and he went to a solitary place, and there he prayed. 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:13.200 Matthew 14, 23 tells a story of right after Jesus finished feeding the 5,000. 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:16.000 Alright, if this is me, we're having a party. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:17.359 I just fed 5,000 people. 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:22.319 The Bible tells us in Matthew 14, 23, after he'd sent the multitudes away, he went up on a mountain to pray. 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:24.079 Oh, they've got the verses. 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:27.359 He went up on a mountain by himself to pray. 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.000 Alright, and when evening came, he was still there. 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:36.480 And we keep going on there in John chapter 6, I believe, or Luke chapter 6. 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:41.519 It came to pass that he went out on a mountain to pray and continued there all night. 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:48.160 We see in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus goes a stone throws away from his disciples to pray by himself. 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.960 You can come here and hear the word of God, that's gonna happen. 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:55.839 You can go to Bible study and hear the word of God, that's gonna happen. 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:58.720 I hope you have devotions with your children or your grandchildren at home. 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:02.960 But there needs to be a time when you're in a companionless place. 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:07.200 Jesus sets that example for us, nobody else around. 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:13.359 My place is upstairs in my office, my wife's place is in the middle of the living room. 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:23.440 Now she gets up early to make sure that happens, but if a kid interrupts her companionlessness, she lets him have it. 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:26.079 I gotta read this before I can deal with you. 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:28.079 Something like that is what she might say. 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:30.640 You need a companionless place. 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:33.759 The next thing you gotta do is consider the rules. 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:38.799 This Bible is a rule book, and you gotta consider the rules. 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:42.079 Joshua 1.8 tells us this. 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:42.640 You know it. 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.039 David Wilson quoted it over and over. 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:54.799 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:59.680 That keeps on and saying, Then you make your way prosperous and have good success. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:04.400 So you got to have a companionless place where you can consider the rules. 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:05.039 That's what I did. 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:14.559 I had to sit down and getting ready for this trial, get all the junk out, and focus in on the rules, and then I had to, number three, contemplate past situations. 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.480 In the law, they call it old cases or case law present. 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:28.000 In the Bible, though, I mean, we've got from the start of the Bible to the end of the Bible, this is the story that God has given us of his interactions with man. 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:45.039 From the beginning all the way to John on Patmos, this is God's cases of how the rules have been applied to man and the glories and the triumphs and the judgments that God and man, that's that's the way they interact. 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.000 And we believe we God is not gonna change. 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:49.759 He's the same. 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:55.440 This is your case law to go by to be victorious in your life. 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.039 Contemplate past situations and then compare to your life. 00:21:59.200 --> 00:21:59.759 Oh my god. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.119 Goodness, I'm going through this. 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:01.759 Who went through? 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:04.400 I mean, if you first Peter, are you doing a little suffering? 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:08.960 Because Peter talks about suffering and suffering and suffering and suffering and suffering and suffering. 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:09.759 Alright? 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:13.519 David got chased by the king when he was supposed to be the king. 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:15.519 Nothing about it was fair. 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:26.720 You can look back where in the Bible there's somebody in there that's got a situation similar enough to what you're going through that you can draw that relation and say, here's what I need to do. 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:29.039 If you want to. 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:30.559 Not easy. 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:32.799 2 Timothy 3.16. 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:34.559 I can't preach this without. 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:36.160 I learned this verse here. 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:45.519 It says, all scriptures given by God is profitable for doctrine, reproof, a correction and instruction in righteousness, but that ain't the way I learned it. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:52.640 I learned the pastor Danny way of it, that the Bible will tell you what's right, what's not right, how to get right, and how to stay right. 00:22:54.400 --> 00:23:02.480 What's right, the doctrine, what's not right, the reproof, how to get right the correction, and how to stay right the instruction in righteousness. 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:07.920 You look at the old cases, you compare them to your life, and you say, oh, here's what I need to do. 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:11.119 And then number five, you need to converse with God. 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:14.720 Converse is an interesting word there. 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:19.119 Please notice that I did not say you need to just talk to God. 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:28.240 Don't you hate having those conversations where the other person will not shut up. 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:33.680 We have a limited amount of knowledge in our mind. 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:38.240 God is the creator of the universe and he knows everything, and who does most of the talking when you're praying? 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:42.799 God give me this and this and this, and bless this person, help me to get over this and help me to get through this. 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:44.559 And somebody's sick in the hospital. 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:49.839 Listen a little bit, converse with God, held a conversation, let him talk a little bit. 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.319 You just got to sit in the quiet for that. 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:56.799 And then finally, well, God tells us this in Jeremiah 33:3. 00:23:57.039 --> 00:24:02.480 He says, Call unto me, and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know. 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:12.319 Philippians 4, 6 tells us to be anxious for nothing, but with everything in prayer and supplication, let your request be made known to God. 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:13.279 Tell him. 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.359 Cast your cares upon him, for he cares for you as later in 1 Peter. 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:19.119 I know Pastor Danny's going to preach that. 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:21.440 You got to talk to him, but then you need to listen back. 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:26.319 Pray lest you fall into temptation, Jesus tells us in Matthew 26, 41. 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:32.799 So you need to have a conversation with God, and then finally you need to commit to memory. 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:38.240 You need to commit to memory because when you get into the trial, you may not have time to look it up. 00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:45.359 When you're faced with the fire, you might not have time to flip to the Bible and say, Oh my goodness, where's that verse that I need to know? 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:46.559 Right here, right now. 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:51.200 Psalms 119, 11, Your word have I hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you. 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:52.559 I'm working on that. 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:54.240 It's not easy. 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:56.160 I told Amanda getting ready for this. 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:57.440 I said, she said, What are you doing today? 00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:00.559 I said, Well, I typed all my scriptures three times each. 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:01.759 She said, How many scriptures you got? 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:02.480 I said, 28. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:04.079 She said, My goodness. 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:08.720 But I want to commit them to memory because this really is for me as much as it's for you. 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:10.720 These verses are for me. 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:11.839 Commit them to memory. 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:13.599 Nine words that made all the difference. 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:15.200 You guys are probably wanting to know what that means. 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:19.759 The nine words that made all the difference up here at King's home. 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:26.720 You might think this is not true, but they do have a foolish dispute from time to time. 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.799 And I would get in the middle of it, passionately speaking, as I am right now. 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:40.559 And it turned into me getting in trouble sometimes because the tempers would flare and things would get out, and I wasn't mad, but it seemed like I was because I talk loud. 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:42.720 And I just like to move around. 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:48.400 So I started reading 2 Timothy, which is the book I love. 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:54.319 This is like the book Paul knew in 2 Timothy that he was kind of going to die. 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:57.200 So I liked, uh I like to read 2 Timothy. 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:01.680 And in 2 Timothy 2.23, I got the nine words that made all the difference. 00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:05.519 Avoid ignorant and foolish disputes, knowing they generate strife. 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:09.279 And I I said it, and somebody would come to me, Mr. 00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:12.799 Dave, and I would say, avoid ignorant and foolish disputes, knowing they generate strife. 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:18.960 And I would go high sometimes, avoid ignorant and foolish disputes, knowing, and I would go back, low, avoid ignorant and foolish disputes, knowing they generate strife. 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:22.799 I said it, it was like a cord on a doll, and they came to me, and that's what they were gonna get. 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:24.720 So finally they started saying it. 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:27.839 And then Luke started saying it. 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:29.359 Kids are watching. 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:31.839 So you know what happened in all that? 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:35.759 We quit having as many ignorant and foolish disputes. 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:42.240 Because nine words made all the difference that I was willing to commit to my memory because I had to to get through that trial. 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:46.319 So here's your just a minute challenge. 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:48.880 I don't know where you guys are today. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:51.279 I've given this challenge to my Sunday school. 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:53.440 I give this challenge to the youth group. 00:26:53.599 --> 00:27:03.039 There are some of you guys in here, I've told my age, and there are some of you guys who have had dynamic Bible reading and preparation plans since probably before I was born. 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:07.839 There's other guys in here who maybe don't read the Bible every day. 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:13.519 There's guys in here who uh who don't read the Bible like they should. 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:18.240 You're not getting ready as much as you um as you should. 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:20.240 Hold on just a minute. 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:22.000 I still got a little ways to go. 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:22.960 Thank, I'm sorry. 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:26.720 I don't want I don't want you guys to start thinking we're landing this plane just before. 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:27.519 Alright. 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:35.920 So forgive me. 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:37.599 I've never done this before. 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:38.319 All right. 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:42.720 Your just a minute challenge goes something like this. 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:46.400 I calculate, I think we've got 42 weeks left in this year. 00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:47.839 Starting tomorrow. 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:54.160 If you are at a place where you don't read the Bible every day, will you say tomorrow and every day for the next seven? 00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:58.880 I'm gonna read my Bible, I'm gonna pray for just a minute. 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:05.359 Because if you're not doing anything, if you'll just give God one minute, that's seven minutes a week to preparing your defense. 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:07.200 The trial is coming. 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:09.200 Will you give him one week? 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:12.079 And then the next week, will you add one minute? 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:14.480 And of course, you know where I'm going with this. 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:22.079 If you will give the just a minute challenge, you can go from no Bible reading to those dark, cold days in December when you can't go out anyway. 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:25.200 You'll be reading the Bible 43 minutes a day. 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:28.720 And praying and preparing your defense. 00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:30.960 Will you do that? 00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:32.720 If you will, I'll tell you this. 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:34.079 Here's what I believe. 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:37.200 I don't think come January you'll go back to one minute. 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:39.440 I just don't believe you can. 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:42.880 So, those are the first two points. 00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:44.880 Thanks, by the Lord God, in your heart. 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:46.960 Always be ready to give a defense. 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:52.799 Number three, to everyone who asks a reason. 00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:58.640 What you guys may be asking me right now is, hey, what if I sanctify God in my heart? 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:03.839 I get all the ears and eyes cleared out, and then I go and nobody asks a reason. 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:08.720 Because this verse doesn't say anything about going and telling anybody about Jesus. 00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:11.200 It says, sanctify God in your heart. 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:12.720 Always be ready to give it offense. 00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:17.519 To anybody who asks a reason, you wait on them to initiate the question. 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:20.960 But what if nobody ever asked me? 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:28.799 And to that I would say, you need to start Nike, yes, Nike, the Bible. 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:30.640 Just do it. 00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:38.000 James 1.22 says this be therefore doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:39.920 Just do it. 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:42.880 Nike the Bible. 00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:44.160 It's the way I remember it. 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.599 My mind operates crazy. 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:52.000 The next thing that I say you should do is live in a way to make people ask. 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:54.400 Live in a way to make people ask. 00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:58.240 And the question you want them to ask is, how did you do that? 00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:00.640 Or why would you do that? 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:04.559 If you can live in a way to make people ask questions, how did you do that? 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:06.480 Or why did you do that? 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.200 I think you're going to have an opportunity to tell. 00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:12.960 Show and tell. 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:16.559 So do the Bible. 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:21.200