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Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative and author of over 100 books, booklets and Bible studies.
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0:00 Overcomers. Taken from the Greek word, from which we get our English word Nike. Referred to the goddess of victory. It had to do with being victorious.0:12 Nike has built a whole industry around the swish, calling those who purchase their products to be a winner. This word comes from the Bible,0:25 and it's simply called overcomers. So we've been walking through the use of that in Revelations 2 and 3. How do you become an overcomer and what can you0:36 expect as you function as an overcomer, not an undercomer? 1 who is operating in victory and not operating in defeat.0:49 Now, order to be an overcomer, that means there's got to be something that you have to overcome. There's going to be something that's going to be a challenge in your life. There's going to be opposition that you're going0:59 to have to supersede. When you go through an airport, and you go through the magnetometers, the x-ray machines,1:12 they're looking for things that should not go on the plane. And so if you have a liquid with a certain amount of content, they will they will take it from you.1:24 They will hold it back and say, you you can't carry that on. If you've got a knife, they're gonna tell you, no, you can't take that on. You if you've got a firearm, obviously, you can't take that on. What they're1:36 gonna do is stop you because they're gonna let you know there's certain things that the plane will not tolerate. That there's certain things that it will not accept. And if you1:47 try to pass those things through, they're going to reject you because there are limits on what they will allow you to carry on the airplane. Now, I'm sure you have seen and1:59 maybe you have been a part of arguing with TSA agents of why you should have the ability to bring on the plane something that they say you2:11 can't bring it on the I am so sorry, but you can't do it. They create a a boundary. I am certain in your life,2:23 there are expectations that are non adjustable, that you simply say that's a boundary and I can't accept that. I'm certain parents, you have2:35 children who bring home worldviews, thoughts, perspectives, arguments, and you argue back, that's not acceptable here. Even though it may2:47 be popular with your friends or with your schoolmates, because you are giving them a boundary of toleration. Certain things you will not tolerate.2:59 Well, today in Revelation chapter 2, the Lord is going to talk about the intolerance of an overcomer. If you are going to be an3:10 overcomer and not an undercomer, if you're going to be a winner and not a loser, if you're gonna be victorious and not live in defeat,3:22 you must have your toleration limits. There are certain things you will not tolerate. You won't accept. It's outside of the boundary.3:35 He writes to the church at Thyatira. He says, beginning in Revelation chapter 2 verse 18, to the angel that is the messenger, that is the pastor of the church at3:46 Thyatira write. The son of God who has eyes like flame of fire and his feet are like brandished bronze says this. So he introduces this3:58 designation to the church at Thyatira. So let me tell you about Thyatira. It was a place known for its guilds or unions.4:10 Some of you perhaps belong to a union, a teacher's union, or a steelworkers union, or some other kind of official gathering related to people who share4:22 the same occupation. Those unions are designed to bring certain benefits, protections, and guarantees to those who participate in that particular enterprise.4:34 So Thyatira was known for its guilds, they called them then, or unions. In the midst of these unions and this city called4:45 Thyatira, a church was established. The beginning of that church is summarized for us in acts chapter 16 verse 14 when Paul the apostle comes4:57 across a woman named Lydia, and Lydia was a seller of purple, it says, purple dye. And these dyes was part of couture clothing for the uptown shoppers.5:09 And so she was a manufacturer of it. She was a distributor of it. She was a wholesaler of it. And Paul came and led Lydia to Christ in acts chapter 16 verse5:20 14. Out of that grew a church, Thyatira Bible Fellowship, out of the salvation of Lydia. And so a church begins to5:32 grow in the midst of this secular city called Thyatira. Well, Thyatira is known for its skills and its unions, but let me tell you about a5:44 couple of aspects of the unions because that will help you to understand what Jesus is getting ready to say to the church. Not only were the unions connecting people who had the same5:55 occupation for protection and for privileges and for rights, but each union had its own God. So the unions had a spiritual6:07 or religious aspect to them. So if you were part of Thyra Tyra's teachers union, then you were expected to give recognition to the6:19 teachers union God, or whatever God was tied to that union. So that was 1 part of it. So Thyatira was a workers union and had a6:30 religious aspect. But it not only had a religious aspect, the unions in Thyatira also had a social aspect, like a fraternity or a6:42 sorority. So there was a social aspect to the unions. So there was a working aspect tied to a religious aspect tied to a social aspect. So6:53 you got together with the people that you work with, and you partied with them, and you and you enjoy good time with them because you shared the same occupation. Well, the problem occurred when people became7:05 Christians and belonged to the union, and they were expected to recognize the union's God and to party with the other coworkers7:17 that it involved things that went against the Christian faith. And that created a crisis for the Christians in these secular7:28 occupations. I am sure many of you can understand the crisis because many, if not most of you, have been in the crisis. We're working in a secular7:40 occupation. You have been expected, challenged, and sometimes even demanded to compromise spiritual values in order to keep your7:52 job or to get a raise on your job. You had to go along to get along. So that is the scenario of Thyatira, and that is8:03 the dilemma that the Christians are facing who are working in 1 of these unions in the city. They're caught in the conflict of needing a job, working a8:15 job, but having to compromise their faith or compromise their morals in order to be accepted in the job, and that is the scenario. Verse 18 says,8:28 the son of God, the 1 with eyes of fire and feet of brandish bronze says this, Jesus Christ has already been introduced as the son8:40 of man. But on this occasion in verse 18 to the church at Thyatira, he's not introduced as the son of man, he's introduced as the son of God. And of8:51 course, Jesus is both the virgin birth. Mary's egg was fertilized by the Holy Spirit, so you had undiminished deity poured into sinless humanity9:03 so that Jesus Christ is called both the son of man and the son of God. As the son of man, he can relate to your humanity. As the son of God, he can9:15 relate to God's deity. So he has 1 hand in heaven and another hand on earth. 1 foot in glory and another foot in history because he's both the son of God and the9:27 son of man. As the son of man, he can feel you. As the son of God, he can handle you because he is both the son of God and the son of man. He is now introduced9:39 to us as the son of God. As the son of God, deity, he says he has eyes of fire, which means he can penetrate what's going9:51 on. See, when you walk through those metal detectors at the airport, I don't care how much you cover stuff up. I don't care how deep you put it in your suitcase. The10:03 penetrating eyes of the X-ray machine is gonna go beneath what is evident and what is obvious to what is beneath and what is hidden. And10:14 Jesus' eyes of fire penetrates the facade. He knows when you're really Christian, and he knows when you're faking it to make it because10:26 his eyes of fire penetrate to the reality of a thing. He not only has eyes of fire, it says in verse 18, it says he has feet10:38 of brandish bronze. Well, what do you do with feet? You walk. So he's got eyes to see it and feet to get to it. So not only does he know what's going on,10:50 he can get a hold of what's going on, and his feet are so strong, brandished bronze, that when he decides to move, everybody got to get out of the way.11:01 So Jesus Christ now presents himself to this church as the all seeing authoritative 1 to these Christians who are caught in these11:13 unions that are being demanded that they tolerate certain beliefs and practices that compromise their Christian faith. So that's the dilemma. He compliments them11:25 in verse 19, where he says to them, I know your deeds, your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than your deeds at first. So you are doing better. You11:37 are growing. You are a congregation that I see wants to do the right thing, and so I wanna commend you for that. But after commending them, he now11:48 criticizes them. He says in verse 20, but I have this against you. Do you have your seat belt on? I got 1 problem, but it's a12:00 doozy. He says, I have this against you, even though you got all this good stuff, that you tolerate well, there's our message, the intoleration of an overcomer,12:12 that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my bondservants astray so that they commit acts of12:24 immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. What's Jesus's problem with this church? His problem is what they tolerate. Well, he says, you12:36 tolerate the woman Jezebel. The problem was toleration. Watch this now. Jesus, the son of God says, I've got a problem with12:47 you, Thyatira Bible Fellowship. Not only are you doing good things, but you are tolerating12:59 other folk doing bad things. Stay with me here. Even if you're not doing it, you're tolerating it. Even if you're not13:11 participating, you are accepting of it. Right. What you're doing is saying, well, it's not God's standard, but that's not my business. Your business is your13:22 business. My business is my business. And who am I to judge? So you had this prophetess, self proclaimed, because she called herself a prophetess. God never called her 1. She's13:34 a self proclaimed prophetess, and she's going around speaking on behalf of God leading church members astray. Stay13:46 with me here because I'm going somewhere. Leading church members astray, but because she's a prophetess, she's got God's name all up in the discussion because a prophet speaks on13:58 behalf of God. So she's saying God said this and God thinks that and God feels this, and and she's making it sound all spiritual, wrapped in all Christianese, and she's making it sound like it's holy and like it's coming14:09 down from heaven. And in the name of God, prophetess, she's leading people astray. She's becoming a David Koresh or a Jim Jones Jones using the name of God to lead people14:21 away from God. And what the church was doing wrong was tolerating it, accepting it, not saying anything about it,14:33 allowing it to spread. As long as I'm not doing it and as long as I'm not caught up in it, I ain't gonna say nothing about it. That's not my business. Well, Jesus says, well,14:45 it's my business. If you come to my house and you got Jack Daniels in your back pocket, you got to leave Jack14:57 outside. Because in my house, we don't tolerate Jack Daniels. Just my house. It's just the way it is. If you and your15:08 girlfriend come to my house and y'all used to shacking in your house, in my house, you're gonna be in 2 separate rooms. I15:20 don't care how long you've been shacking. I don't care how much you love each other. All that's irrelevant. In my house, if you get to stay the night, you're be in 2 separate rooms. You you don't get to knock boots in my15:31 house if you're not married. You just that's that's not in fact, if you smoke, we don't have ashtrays.15:43 I'm not trying to be mean. It's just in my house, we don't allow smoking. Now why not? Because it's my house. So in my house, there's certain things I accept, certain things I don't accept.15:55 And that just because it's my house, guess what? This is God's house. And in his house, there are certain things he accepts and certain things he doesn't accept, and neither does he want16:07 the other family members to accept it. He says, you tolerate it. You accept it. And he says, it is unacceptable. Now it involved 2 things. It involved16:18 worshiping a false god. He says idolatry. The unions worship the idols. He says, well, the unions may worship the idols, but I'm the only true16:29 God. You don't get to worship the idols just because everybody else is doing it. Then there was a lifestyle issue. He says your morals are askew. Just because everybody else in16:41 the fraternity and sorority are acting crazy or drugging it up or sleeping around and doing this and doing that. Just because they are doing that as part of16:53 the union and that's the way they roll. Well, no. The son of God says that in my house, based on my standard, that's not how you roll.17:05 Not only is it not how you roll, you don't even agree with it. In other words, they should know your stand. You shouldn't be such a17:17 hidden Christian that they don't think it matters to you because you are clear on where you stand. What he's saying is that this17:29 church tolerated Jezebel. So let me tell you about Jezebel. We find Jezebel in first Kings chapter 16 and verse 17. Jezebel was married to17:41 Ahab, the king of Israel. Jezebel was the daughter of a king, and she was a worshipper of the god Baal. Baal was the fertility17:53 god and the god of the pagans. She taught her husband into worshiping Baal. So we got a strong willed18:05 woman, married to the king, who comes to the king and says, well, if you go if you're gonna be married to me, you got to go with my God. So he compromised with18:16 her, and when he compromised with her, he's the king, he's leading all of Israel in the compromising with her. Sister girl, Jesse,18:28 had such powerful influence that she even threatened the prophet of God, Elijah, and told him, because she had 850 false prophets, said, look, look, you keep doing18:40 what you're doing, and I'm a kill you. I'm a kill you. You will not live another day because I I'm running this roost. I know my my husband got the title, but I got the power. Some of you men know what that feels18:52 like. You got the title, but she got the power. And so she she lets it be known that we are gonna worship Baal. And she got Israel to compromise.19:03 That's why Elijah asked them, how long will you halt between 2 opinions? How long you gonna go both ways? How long you gonna be 1 way in church and another way at work? How long you gonna be 1 way with the family of19:15 God and another way in your sorority or fraternity? How long you gonna be 1 way with your spiritual family and a whole another way with your biological family? How long are you gonna go both ways? Because he wants you to19:27 know as long as you go both ways, you'll never be an overcomer because you you are not operating on his standard. He says, you tolerate it. You accept it. Even if19:39 you're not doing it, you are allowing it and it's going unaddressed. It is shameful today what churches are beginning to allow.19:51 It is shameful today because this woman is in the church. She's a power broker in the congregation. It is shameful today how churches are dumbing down God's standard because they don't want20:03 to offend. They don't want anybody to call him intolerant. Because you know, that's the new word today. You Christians are so intolerant. Well, yeah.20:15 Because there's certain things that the son of God says we're not to tolerate. But in order to be popular, in order to get people, make people feel comfortable, in20:27 order to make people all happy, in order to get more money, we tolerate the intolerable. God says it is unacceptable. What20:38 is unacceptable to God must be unacceptable to God's people. We live in a day when even God's20:50 people are dumbing down God's standard. Now none of us is perfect. None of us is perfect. But when you look. When you when you are sick and you can't tolerate the pain anymore, when you go21:02 to the doctor, let's say it's an emergency, you go to the emergency room, you know why? Because the pain has become intolerable. You don't want the pain anymore. So you go to the emergency room. The emergency room21:14 doctors take you in because that's what hospitals do. They take you in because they want to help you with the pain. They want to deal with that which you consider intolerable. Well, let's say21:25 you have to go into surgery. If you go into surgery, guess what's also intolerable? Them having germs in the room. They're not gonna take the position, well, we only have a few germs in here, so don't21:37 worry about it. Because when they cut you open, it's only a few germs that can give you infection. So you you in a sterilized room with sterilized equipment because germs are intolerable, And you21:49 want the doctor to hold the position that germs are intolerable because it has to do with your health and your well-being. So you go there because your pain is intolerable. You want them to be intolerable so that they22:01 can heal you because the whole job of the hospital is to make you better, not merely help you tolerate what's wrong. While the church of Jesus Christ is22:13 supposed to be a hospital where spiritually sick people can find healing. We are not supposed to be a hospice. A hospice is where you22:25 make people comfortable while they die. K? That's what you do with a hot spitz. I know. A hot spitz simply says, well, nothing gonna get22:37 better. You get ready to leave here, but we just gonna make you make you as comfortable as we can. And what a lot of folk want is comfortable church. Don't deal with my sin. Don't deal with my22:49 rebellion. Don't talk about God's standard. Just sing a nice song so I can feel good. Make me wanna wave my hand in the air like I just don't care. Make me wanna flip the pew. Make me feel23:01 good, but don't give me a standard. He says to them, you have tolerated Jezebel.23:12 You've tolerated her, and she's doing damage to the church. And God says what? And I'm not even being mean about it. Look at verse 21. I gave her time to23:24 repent. Oh. And she does not want to repent of her immorality. Now, we're gonna get back to this thing of repentance because it's it's 1 of the23:36 most powerful words in the Bible because it opens up the door of God changing his relationship with you. So repentance, it means to turn. Okay? He says, even23:48 though this woman, Jezebel, has been promoting immorality, been promoting idolatry. I gave her an opportunity to fix it.24:01 Repent. God creates repentance windows. Those are periods of time he gives us to turn.24:13 There are windows, different windows for different people, different circumstance, but he gives us windows. Remember he told Jonah, go tell Nineveh, in 40 days Nineveh will be destroyed. The bad news, Nineveh is gonna be24:25 destroyed. The good news is you got a 40 day window to change my mind. So God creates windows of repentance, opportunities within a timeline before he24:37 moves. He says, I gave Jezebel, even though she was involved in this kind of wickedness, and even though she was influencing other people to this kind of wickedness, I gave her24:48 a window of opportunity to turn. What was her problem? She does not want to repent. Now, sin25:00 is bad, but not wanting to repent is worse. Because now you've entered into the category called rebellion.25:12 All parents who have children know what it is for a child to do wrong, feel bad they're doing wrong, struggle with doing wrong, but wanna do right. That's a25:24 whole different ballgame from a child who says, I don't care what you say, I'm gonna do what I wanna do, and I'm a do it while living in your house. Oh, exactly.25:37 Houston, we have a problem because now you're not dealing with just the sin, you're dealing with the rebel. With the rebel. And when you have25:49 a rebel, something's gotta give. 1 thing that should be in every parent's regimen is what you will not tolerate. It should be26:01 clear. In this house, you don't cuss. I know all your posse is cussing, but don't bring that up in here because we will not tolerate that in my26:13 house. Don't don't bring drugs up in here. In fact, you can't even bring some of your friends up in here because because I don't like how they look. I don't like how they act.26:25 Yeah. And what you've done is you've created a boundary Yeah. That you will not tolerate. That's right. In fact, we tell that to our kids, don't we? We I'm not tolerating that here. You're not speaking to your mother26:36 that way or your father that way. I'm not tolerating that here. So we want God not to do what we regularly do, and that is give boundaries of what we tolerate26:48 Yeah. And what is acceptable. And you really don't wanna hear from your kids, but my friend's mother. Well, then let your friend's mother feed you, clothe you, put a roof over your head, put clothes on27:00 your back. But up in here Yeah. There is a standard. And so that's why we must regularly call the church to repentance, each of us individually and all of us27:12 together so that the Lord is free to help us to be overcomers. But as long as we are rebels, this woman was not struggling, she was a rebel. And she was27:23 influencing other people, and other folks were around there saying, well, that's her business. I ain't got nothing to do with that. Oh, here's here's the way we say it. I'm not supposed to judge.27:38 Okay? So let's get this straight. Yeah. Let's get this straight because we people are confused on this thing. You are to always judge the distinction between27:50 truth and error. That you must judge. You must judge legitimately. You must judge biblically. You must judge lovingly. You must judge responsibly.28:03 And then you get this sympathetic thing. Well, well, God is a God of love. Yeah. Well, that's half a God. That's 128:15 side of God. Romans 11 says, knowing the goodness and severity of God. See, you got these 2 sides of God.28:27 My God. Hey, come on. Some of you parents, you got 2 sides. Oh, I love you. You're so cute. I brought you in here. I'll take you out. You just switch.28:40 Because you got these 2 sides. See? Yeah. See, and everybody wants the cute side of God. The loving side of God. And that and he is that. He is that. So let me let me give you the clarity28:52 here. The clarity is this. We love all people. We do not love all ideas. That's the distinction. You love all people29:04 Yeah. But you do not love all ideas. So the question say, they wanna mix them together. If you don't like my idea, you don't like me. So they put you on this false guilt trip. K? That's illegitimate guilt.29:16 I can love you, but I must reject that idea because it goes against what God says, and God is my standard. So you must hold in29:28 your hand 2 things, truth and love, and the 2 must be kept together. You don't give up truth for love, you don't give up love for truth. You have to hold both of them simultaneously29:40 because there is a standard. I I've mentioned it before when when Jonathan was 11 years old, my youngest son, and he said, dad, come on. Come on. Come over to the family life center. Come over to the family life center.29:50 Why, Jonathan? Why, John? I gotta show you something. I gotta show you something. Okay. I go over to the family life center. Why am I here? He says, because I want you to see me dunk. Dunk what? Dunk the basketball. He's30:00 this high. 11 years old. Dunk the basketball. How you gonna dunk the he says, let me show you. He dribbles the ball, takes it with 2 hands, runs, jumps, woah, dunks the basketball. Before you get too impressed, he got30:11 the custodian to lower the rim. So a 10 foot rim was not a 6 foot rim, and he dunked the basketball. Yeah. Well, I got the custodian to raise the rim back up30:23 to 10 feet, and I said, well, I see what you're trying to do, but the goal here is not to lower the standard, but it's to grow you to reach the standard. God is not lowering his standard30:35 to please folk. What he wants to do is grow me, you, and us up to meet the standard. So you don't have to be here having met the standard, but you should be here30:47 wanting to grow so you can meet the standard, which is what spiritual growth and discipleship is all about. It is growing to reach the standard. Yeah. And so he's saying you30:58 tolerate, you accept, you dismiss the standard. And so what is a result of that is he31:10 goes on to say, I will throw her, Jezebel, on a bed of sickness and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds. So that's31:22 bad news and good news. The bad news is he says, I'm gonna throw her on her bed of sickness. 1 way God disciplines us is with sickness. He allows31:34 sickness. All sickness is not due to discipline, but some sickness is. And 1 of the ways he disciplines, he says, I will throw on a bed of sickness. So let me tell you what happened to Jezebel. Jezebel kept going, kept31:44 going, would not repent, would not repent, and then she crossed the line. And God said, that's it. So 1 day she's sitting up there in the window, she falls out of the window, hits her head,31:56 blood splatters everywhere, she laying on the ground and she dies from the fall. This is this is in a in a second Kings chapter 9 verses 30 to 35. And so she's out there, blood is32:08 splattered. So the men come to get her body to bury her. But when they come to get her body, there's nothing left but her skull and her feet because the dogs32:20 have devoured her. Not only did God take her life, it was the shame of being eaten by the because you would not repent. Wow.32:33 And he says, and for Jezebel and her followers, these are those who were practicing what she was doing. There would be the discipline of God.32:45 And you say, well, I don't believe God is like that. That was that was in the old testament. Well, this verse is in the new testament. And so is Hebrews chapter 10 verse 30 and 31. Because Hebrews chapter 10 verse 30 and32:57 31 makes it clear. He says, vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and I will judge my people. I will judge my people, not to be mean, but to bring33:08 corrective measures into their lives. Yeah. There is the temptation in the world. There used to be a time when I was growing up, when you were growing up, where the culture supported33:20 biblical values. Even if even if they didn't operate by them, they respected them. Right. So certain values, that was just a respectable thing to do even if you weren't doing it.33:32 But today, biblical values are not only rejected, they are flaunted. The opposition to them. They have gone public with the rejection of biblical values33:44 in a whole lot of areas. What is God expecting of you? He is expecting of me and you and us to repent where we have failed and then to hold a standard of where33:56 we will not tolerate. It's intolerable. The fact that your father beat your mother has absolutely no no34:08 permission for you to put your hands on your wife. And no wife has to accept that. No wife has to accept being abused on any34:19 level. That's unacceptable. That's intolerable regardless of how you were raised. So there must be a standard that the kingdom of God holds to that we get back in34:31 line with if we're out of alignment so that the church of Jesus Christ is distinct in the culture. Because no longer will it be popular to be 1 of the culture.34:43 Used to be popular, you could be 1 of the culture. But now, you take a biblical stand for life, you take a biblical stand for marriage, you take a biblical stand for water, you take a biblical stand and you're gonna be34:55 on the out. Now, why would this be a problem if you were working in thyroid thyroid? Well, now if you blow into this union, and this union says to keep your job, to get35:07 a raise on your job, to get promoted on your job, you got to go along to get along. If if you don't party with us the way we party, nothing wrong with a good party, but but when it goes left, if you35:19 don't you don't go left with us, if you don't go worship with us, I'm a tell you now, you're not gonna make it in this company. You're not gonna make it in this career. Unless you've made that decision35:30 in advance, unless you've decided in advance that there are certain boundaries I will not cross, then what you have to understand is that you are making a choice35:43 between the true God, the son of God, and the false gods who will not be there when your world crashes. So I'm a tell you that now because those false gods are not real.35:56 They're just convenient. Because let me tell you something about an idol. Folks only pick idols they can control. See that? See, folk pick idols because they can tell an idol36:08 what to do. The problem with our God is you don't get to control him. See, that's why folk don't want that God. Because that God can't be dumbed down to the culture.36:19 So he says to them, he says, I'm a judge the children, but he still gives them it out. He says, unless you repent. Repentance would remove the fact36:31 of the judgment of God. But he makes it clear. I say to the rest, verse 24, who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching.36:43 Watch this now. Who have not known the deep things of Satan as they call them. I have no other burden on you. Okay. Let me let me talk to a little36:55 bit. To the rest of you who are not compromising, who are repenting, to the rest of you. He says, who do not accept37:08 the teaching of the deep things of Satan. So that raises the question, isn't it? What are the deep things of Satan? So they're not so deep things,37:20 and they're deep things. A satanic thing is an invitation to disobey God. That's a satanic thing. We37:31 all face that. We all have fallen short in that, where we've disobeyed God. That's satanic. But let me tell you what a deep thing of Satan is. A deep thing of Satan37:43 is not only when you disobey God, when I disobey God, when we disobey God. A deep thing of Satan, when you've really gone down to hell to hang out with him, is when you call evil37:55 good. Now you didn't just you didn't just go into the bottom of the pit and you're hanging out with the devil. See, as long as you call evil evil, you're saying something true about it.38:07 But the moment you go to call evil good, this is legitimate. This is okay. That's why Romans 1 says things got worse and worse and worse. Not only did people do the things, but they they applauded those who38:19 did them. In other words, they gave approval. And you see today what we clap for, what we affirm, what we celebrate, and we call we call wretched good. And we we38:30 celebrate the most evil of people, the most evil of lyrics, terminology, the most evil of actions, but we we applaud it and we say, ain't that nice and ain't she great38:42 and wasn't that funny and isn't that nice and and we go along. And all of a sudden, what we used to shut at and say, oh, boy, that's nasty. We now say, that's the38:54 deep things of Satan. You've you've now gone and you've now partying with the devil. But he says, for those who do not accept the teaching of the deep things of39:05 Satan, who don't call evil good. He says, I have no greater burden for you. This is a great statement. I have no39:17 greater burden for you. See, what I've been talking about today based on what he's talking about is kinda weighty. You can feel this, you know, you know, might not get a rave, I might not get a promotion if I don't doShow more
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