How many of you know that one of the great things about being in the storm and knowing that God caused the storm is the realization that the one who caused it can shut it down too there's 2 places on the switch one says on and the other says off and he said control of both of them. And when they prayed into the Lord and cried out to him in their trouble he heard their prayer and he calmed the storm so that the waves are still I always think about this in connection with the stories in the New Testament about the Lord Jesus with his disciples the Lord I believe allowed things to happen in the lives of his disciples to teach them lessons they couldn't learn in any other way some lessons are not learned in the classroom Do you know that there are learned by experience as you go through things together do you remember the occasion when the disciples had gotten into the ship to go over to the other side and the Lord Jesus got in the ship with them and he crawled into the back of the boat any curled up and went to sleep and they got out into the middle of the sea and it became very stormy and it was evident that the disciples were ready to just forget about everything they thought they were going to die. And then it suddenly dawned on them that the one who had created the wind in the waves in the sea was. Asleep in the back and according to Matthew's Gospel we read in Matthew a 26 that Jesus said to them Why are you fearful oh you of little faith and heroes and rebuked the winds and the sea and there was a great calm. If you ever noticed how many stories there are in the Bible about storms and ships and water and waves and all of them seem to be given to us to help us understand what we should do when we go through the storms in our lives when we are at our wit's end hey we're just a little bit more than a week away from our annual Bible sale which takes place over the Thanksgiving weekend November the 29th through the 3rd of December we make my study bibles available at a special reduced cost and there vailable in now 3 different translations you can get this study Bible in the New King James version in the end i.v. And now in the e.s.p. Translation which is being released right before Thanksgiving this new translation has just been finished it's out it will be available for your purchase during the November Bible sale and when you order your Bibles they will be guaranteed to be there in time for Christmas if you order them right away you can even get them in time to send them to your family in different places never as there ever been Infusing your morning little light of God's word here to am 67 calle t t k l g g h d come or city dim and now at 95 point one and streaming world was at 670 calle t.t. Doesn't come. Close to a slow news that it slow do. Oh no not that it. Will load. In 1st John chapter 4 verses one to 3 God's word says Beloved do not believe every spirit but test the spirits whether they are of God because many false. Prophets have gone out into the world by this you know the Spirit of God Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God and this is the spirit of the anti-Christ which you have heard was coming and is now already in the world well these words were written by the Apostle John nearly 2000 years ago which means the coming of the anti-christ is even closer now than it was for him and that makes this warning all the more important for us today doesn't it are you ready would you recognize the anti-Christ if he was among us welcome to through the Bible I'm Steve swats and in today's study our teacher Dr j. Vernon McGee tells about the kind of person the Anti-Christ will be so go ahead and grab your seat on the Bible bus and while you do through the Bibles president Greg Harrison I want to share with you some answers to prayer in fact let's devote the next few weeks to praise and thanksgiving on the broadcast great ideas Steve our prayer team has been praying for months for the needs of people around the world and asking God to open doors and bless ministries and reach countries with his word and we want to take this latter part of the year as we head into Thanksgiving in the Christmas season to just celebrate God's answers to prayer because we know that prayer isn't just asking God for things it's also offering him our thanks for his answer right and God has been so faithful and blessing this ministry and we want to spend some time highlighting that for our listeners so that you can also be praising the Lord with us and if you're a member of the world prayer team you'll be getting some great praise reports So this is a good time to sign up I'm going to put that in before you do because you usually plug I do for a team let's get to this 1st one k. Let's do that it's Dave in Oregon I'm so glad to have found your program on the internet I grew up in church but never really read the Bible or had a vibrant relationship with God like many in college I strayed and became involved in worldly pleasures as a result I'm now a youngster. Father raising a beautiful daughter that's when I knew I needed to change I began searching the internet and found Dr McKee's teaching everything began to make sense when I began to study the Bible I am grateful for God's forgiveness and grace in my life and I pray I will be a godly example to my daughter thank you for leading me back to the Father and Steve one of the many things I love about that letter is when God reaches a father or a mother and their 1st impulse is to lead their children to Christ and and teach them in the ways of God and that's the multigenerational or the sort of ripple effect of what God allows us to be a part of now now here's one and I want you to hear this this 1st statement I'm going to read but realize it's an extraordinary statement anywhere but particularly in this part of the world this is from a psalm in Morocco I am a Christian now exclamation point he said I understand what this means and learn more every day while listening to your program pray for me that I do not get in trouble because of my Christianity now Steve that's a short letter that is a powerful powerful statement of a man's life has been changed and that's what God does through His word Yeah here's another one this is from Osama in Egypt your radio program cannot be substituted by others I listen to it literally every day as a nominal Christian I always thought I was doing the right thing but after listening I discovered my love for Jesus was shallow with no roots Now I understand what it means to be a Christian and after listening I can say I'm a true follower and proud of my Jesus Christ and now I know him and I love these last 2 letters the they come from a part of the world that is largely dominated by Islam even though Osama said he was a nominal Christian which means he was probably born into a Christian home he probably had the cross on the side of his right as we've seen when we went to Egypt that's right but he didn't have it in his heart that's a great pick any of them don't yes very great picture and so this is why we pray and we have our. Per team praying every day for the needs of the world because we know that with prayer and the Word of God any kind of life change is possible Yeah let me pray Greg as we begin our study Lord we pray specifically for these 2 listeners for Osama Morocco as he's having some extreme challenges now that he's trusted Christ for his salvation and then also for Osama we pray that you would bless him as he moves in his faith and his relationship with Jesus Christ and the many others Lord that are maybe born into Christian homes in other parts of the world and they may believe other faiths that is they come to Christ that you would strengthen them and that you would bring them up in the fear an admonition of the Lord through the study of your word pray that you would bless the ministry that you would bless our program as we open your word now in Jesus' name amen Now here's through the Bible with Dr j. Vernon McGee. Now Franz last time we left off at a very sad cliff hanger place we had just introduce the one who is the s. Cat a logical character who is yet to appear on the earth the anti-Christ he is called of Bly person and we saw 1st of all a dead baby Clyde that would come and that was full of failed and Titus epiphany is of the Salusa Di line in Syria and he fulfilled a great deal that has to be said of the Ana cries when he could never fail out all it is sad concerning the anti-Christ he will be sightings Mion he will be the incarnation of everything that is evil and wicked and wrong and as far as mankind is concerned and the things of this world we saw last time the 2 things that this drive him here and there are other things that describe him he has men in names as we saw over 39 times but he has self whaled that is the thing that characterizes him here he'll do a hoarding to his who wail out different from the large Isa's who said he came to do the Father's will and not is own wail and that he had come in his father's name but that would be one come in his own name in him they would receive and a 2nd thing that characterizes this one is his absolute lack of humility is Sesay of pride and egotism and that of course was actually in the beginning the undoing. Site and we've bond here exalting him Sal and that means exult himself against God He is the typical representative of that which is against God and fact that which is our own my church you and I have a night share that the Bible describes like this the carnal mine is enmity against God it's not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be so all the land they encounter in the flesh cannot please God Here is the picture of that whole nature that you and I doubt and that well be a pen in my eyes and be brought the past when that's want to pierce and that will be humanism carried to the end degree and the carnal mind will turn to that individual we are beginning I say beginning I think it's always been true when man began to choose their own rulers and leaders what kind of Nyan do they choose one is generally like they are and that's the reason that you and I are getting such sorry leaders that are in the world today you look around you in every department today the leadership of the world is right full well they are the kind of folk we picked out the Lord you remember right here in Daniel said I'll set over them the basis of rulers now that says they and I Christ who will appear in the end times now we are toast something else about him and verse 37 neither shall he regard the God of his father's nor the desire of women nor are. Regard to any God for he shall not identify himself but of all now it has been assume that sense it says he'll not regard the gone to his father's that he would have to be an s. Orry a lie but of course that is not true that statement could refer to a Protestant a Roman Catholic or a heathen it could come from any of the Is places after all they man who headed up years ago that American Association for the advancement of atheism he was the son of a preacher. And the styling started and the Theological Seminary that's one that is to come will not regard the God of His father now as I have indicated before I think it takes 2 man the full fail less office and they're both presented in the 13th chapter Ravel lation the 1st one is a political ruler that comes out of the Roman Empire and probably the Greek section of the Roman Empire but here is the one that doesn't have to be and this trail I did tall now I do think that there's 2nd beast that arises a religious leader and he imitates Christ I assume that he will be and then it says that he'll not regard the desire of women now again this refers we believe to the desire of Hebrew women to be the mother of them my side he would not regard In other words the large easer scribes would be absolutely not only to reject it but would become the enemy the end of Chrysler leads a rebellion against God and Cripes it's at that time as the 2nd Psalm puts it the Kings or the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the lard and again this is Messiah saying let us break their bands us son cast away their cards from us and it says here nor regard and they gone now that means very plainly that he opposes all religions and worship except worship of him sell he is not only a believer in the active manical movement but he promotes In fact he is saying one religion or one world will be as motto and he. Is that religion heal my had not found himself above all and that is the final ruination of the self will of this whale 14 is total ambition is self Fadhil ation now that says the frightful prospect for the final day is of the Great Tribulation period we are told in Revelation 13 Let me quote this for you beginning of verse 15 and he had power to give life and to the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of be should be killed any cause a tall bald small and great rich and poor and blonde receive a mark in their right hand or in their far it and that no man my buyer sale save he that had the mark are the name of the beasts are the number of his 9 now that's the frightful picture of that day you wouldn't be able to do business you wouldn't be able to go into a restaurant any you wouldn't be able to buy a taken on a plane or train with out non-market of be saved I tell you that's going to be Dick Tator ship with a vengeance now in verse 38 but in here is a state shall he honor the God of forces and of God whom his fathers knew not Shelley on her with gold and silver and with precious stones and pleasant things now to actually hear the God of forces should more accurately be translated God Oh or rests it now it is true that we are living in a day of which someone has written mankind is increasingly making gods out of forces Well that is true today but that's not what Daniel is so. I ng here Dr Newell pointed this out and I'm quoting him now we know from pagan mythology that both civil and Diana are various lair represented as crowned with monkey teared crowns plainly setting forth the idea of fortification with turrets that all months and so for now actually what those represent and I'm sure that you've seen in pictures of these key their noddles that he is not a tiered crowns with all kinds of fortresses on them well actually it means the kingdoms of this world and he will honor the God that has the kingdoms of this world and who is a lad lost sight and offered Christ the kingdoms of this world and our Lord rejected his offer apparently had a right to offer it and then and I Christ well except they all are and he becomes the world's dictator now we are told that in both 2nd Fassel lonely and the 2nd chapter verses $9.10 and in Revelation 13 to that and a Christ has gone except worship and he will have the world worship things site in that day and he'll become a world dictator all the kingdoms of the world will be under his rulership he'll be the 1st really world dictator now verse $39.00 vi shall he do in the most strongholds with a strange God whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glow and he shall cause them to rule over many and shall divide the land for gain Now this is going to be seitan Zahau hour and he's going to make the most of it as he knows his time is shown. We are told in Revelation 1212 therefore rejoice she heavens and need well in them woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea for the devil is come down on day you have been great wrath because he know it that he hath but as shart time now and I Christ's will be the client to do the will of Satan completely and that day and of Christ will rule over many people and dispose of the property as he pleases he is the wilful King and he is the final World Dictator where you know now from verses 40 to 45 we say the victory of the wilful King this man of saying then of Christ is temporary now I'm reading verse 40 and at the time of that an shall be king of the South push at him and the king of the Nor shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships and he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass over now if you will notice it's the time of the I am not the end of time but the time of the end and they and here of course is the end that the Annual is had in mind all through this section and that is the last days of the nation Isreal the large eases label it the Great Tribulation period now we are told that at that particular time the king of the South evidently a ruler of Egypt and it's impossible for us today to identify that one actually Egypt has not had a native ruler for years and as God made it very clear in prophecy it was gone. Put over that nation the basis of rulers and he's done a pretty good job in not connection by the way but here is going to rise one end and time any Well probably be able to do what Nasser no other ruler in Egypt has been able to do unite all of Africa and he will be coming against the Ana cries another king of the North he is I think then if I do hear it takes the place of the Salusa dyed dynasty and we believe that that is the one that comes out of the North mentioned in Ezekiel $38.39 the king of the north we believe represents Russia today and Russia opens the campaign of Armageddon Armageddon is not just a battle but in the entire war and at the very beginning the king of the North has a lemonade because God moves in far the judgment of this nation Now this of course 1st of panic arrives he has begun to move out of the way us as here come to a games in a glorious land I'm reading verse 41 he shall enter also into the glow Reus land and many countries shall be overthrown but these shall escape out of his hand even Edam and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon In other words the entrance of Russia and a Palace fan Perceptor Tate's the great crisis and conflict the Great Tribulation period when and I Christ and His Palestine that's the glorious land he finds that he's going to have trouble with it a Moab an element and that is the territory of course where the sons of Ishmael are the day of the Arabs and he's going to have trouble with them far quality release for. Yes 42 he shows stretch forth a sound also upon the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape Egypt and the king of the South yield to him you say and now verse 43 but he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of sale over and over all the precious things of Egypt and the Libyans and the Ethiopians she'll be it is there you see he'll have control of the wealth of the world it won't be in this country then it should have been moving out of this country fast by the way but the wealth of the world will return back to that area where it was at the beginning battle and had control Egypt had control and Greece at one time and then Rome is going to return back to that area he will control the in time money markets of the world at that time and Libyan Ethiopia surrendered to him and that means he does have control of Africa and then verse 44 but tidings out of the ease and out of the North trouble him therefore he shall go forth with great the Orica destroy and utterly to make away many you see tidings out of the east and that means they all are now with its teeming millions that great army that comes from the Battle of Armageddon begins to move and it troubles less world ruler may I say they're all moving to the final a salves and at that particular time there is no hope for the world and certainly no hope for God's people sell in God himself now in verse 45 Let me read yes and he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the sea is in the lower ass hole in mountain yet he shall come to as an anon show. Help him now the sea share refers to the Mediterranean Sea and glorious Holy Mountain refers to Jerusalem and other words and not price at this time of stablish is as headquarters for Worldcon West between the Mediterranean Sea and Jerusalem and instead of ruling that though he's destroyed by the personal return of the large eases tribes and we are told again and again that only the coming of Christ would be able at that time does say of any at all upon the earth because evil has taken over and only Christ can deliver at that particular time and he does to establish His Kingdom Now that brings us to the last chapter Chapter 12 of the Book of Daniel and we will be concluding the Book of Daniel then next time because as we come to chapter 12 this is the conclusion of this vision that concerns us real in the latter day and we need to keep that before us that we began looking at a preview of s. Real in the latter days the great tribulation now we are going to be told they order of God's program and the deliverance of the remnant of this surreal and the resurrection of the Old Testament signs sans centers and God's final word to Daniel concerning conditions at the time of the end and we'll be coming to that next time we are going to discover something here that I think is very important great many use verse one to try to prove the church is going through the Great Tribulation period well if we've been following Daniel and listening to him we. Than he's talking about people in the last nice and he's not talking about the church the church has already been raptured the church is not here that says the resurrection of the Old Testament site which does not take place at Ha I'm odd the Rapture church it takes place at a and other great tribulation period and in order that they might enter the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus will stablished here upon this earth will see that next time and conclude the book of Daniel many of the prophecies in the Book of Daniel have already been fulfilled and as Dr McGee says this is one of the many ways that we can be assured of the truth of Scripture and that God's promise to us will also be fulfilled if you want to know more about God's promises and how you can know him better visit our Web site at t t v dot org and click on How can I know God and if we can help direct to towards resources by Dr McGee that answer your questions about God's Word or his immense love for us give us a call at 1865 bible or shoot us an e-mail at Bible bus at t t v dot org Of course you know we love to hear from you so as we close out the year we're focusing on offering the Lord praise and thanksgiving for how he's used his word in our lives this year what you write to us an e-mail or letter and tell us your story you can e-mail us at by a boss at t t v dot org Tomorrow we conclude our study and Daniel Well I'm Steve swats and I'll be here saving a seat on the Bible bus just for you see. This is that they. Live. In the oh oh we're so grateful for the faithful and generous support of through the Bibles partners who are being used by God to take the whole word to the whole world the preceding program is sponsored by. Through the Bible network. The nation's most powerful Christian Voice World War at 670 Caleb t.t. Dot com and all over Colorado in digital age d n a m 670. Years I. Hears. You can't make it by the trust. Of the one day. And so whenever you explain the gospel the truth of the gospel is what causes people to see if they really see it and understand it majority of people trust the Lord. And so when in a person to the Lord one thing getting somebody to walk with the Lord to live it more difficult because you don't have to serve God to go to heaven so some people don't believe in serving God at all I just think we ought to serve the Lord because of what he's done for us and so in our ranch meetings we used to we're And when hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them are then we would have that was our soul winning too and it was like a soul winning machine then we took kids to these camps because then we want to get them to dedicate their lives to serve in the Lord so you took away everything away from them that they didn't need they would already own no television no cell phones they didn't exist in those days and so they didn't have any of those things and we took away all that friendship they had with the kids in school and just got them in detail and just gave them some Bible for 5 hours a bible a day a lot of activities where I'm out where I'm on is much as we could so they go to sleep at night sometimes that we're. Not all of time some kids you can't wear em out and ship all the counselors and the speakers would be worn totally worn out. And then just to get a few people that dedicate to life in order and then out of those they get to go to and then out of those they get just a few of the service morn. And then some. Never make it. Never do with their life what God wanted to and that's so important so I got a few verses that I want to add to what I had done the other week but verses to help us in walking with the Lord now these are some of the things that goes over in my mind and I've always felt if it's good enough for me it just might be good enough for somebody else because whatever motivates me well if it motivates me maybe if they knew the same thing that motivated me it might motivate them and I've come to realize that you you can everybody is motivated to do what they want to do but trying to get somebody motivated do what God wants them to doom even kids teenagers they're motivated to do whatever they want to do with parents or themselves trying to figure out a way to motivate the kid to do something he supposed to do like train it was Rome or cut the grass or with a good attitude and they struggle and the Christians well even become adults we find out we're still struggling because we have a will of our own and we want to do whatever really pleases us but anyway these are some of the verses that kind of stuck in my mind and I want you to look there in the 1st part where I have a Genesis Chapter 5 verse 22 and you get in the line is in your Bible later but says a Nick walk with God Now I made a statement at the Grace conference and I made it here. That a lot of people talk about well you know and I notice a lot of Baptist churches do this and also there's a. A lot of big churches are going to a mega churches and they talk an awful lot about everyone needs to have a relationship with God now have a ship with God can mean one of 2 things are you related Yes my daughter of she's my daughter how you relate it when she was born my family so that's a relationship but you maybe talk about not just she's my daughter but hard getting along so we may want to know how to get along so whenever somebody is talking about you know you need a relationship with God nor you talk about been born into his family and you've been is child and being your father and that's the relationship you're talking about or are you talking about how are you walking with God How is your walk with the Lord now suggest a totally different thing but no going to use in a word you've got explain because when you just tell the last man you know you need a relationship with Lord what do you mean if you get explained that don't want to just talk about salvation because you can get saved today and never have a walk with God because you could die the very next breath or lack thereof and you can be a challenge God and never have a a wall with God So can you be saved and I have a want Yes So whenever you talk about having a relationship it sounds good sounds even spiritual but the only problem is you can explain what do you mean by and it just comes another way of. Well it's it's not clear. And so I believe in clarity trying to be as simple and clear as you possibly can but in a walk with God So is that something I've had people say you know you need a intimate relationship with God. Doesn't know what you mean by that are you talking about having a walk with God and there's people who have a closer walk with God and somebody walk closer than somebody else or you haven't a deeper walk with God or you know as I've grown older in the Lord I believe my walk with the Lord is deeper than it used to be because I feel like I can understand God better I know he understands me but as I grow in the Lord I'm understanding God and I want to walk with what I want to have a deeper a greater meaning in my walk with the Lord because I realize you know it's just a short period of time that we get to live after we trust the Lord and we never know when the walk is going to be through so as I go back and I look at some of these guys in it walk with God but also want to know what do you mean by I walk with God. Look at the next verse in Nick walked with God and he was not for God took him also when talked about and God took him but he took them because they see he had this testimony that he please God So walking with God means you're living in such a way that's pleasing to God we walk in such a way that pleases the Lord because this is not you know I have never been with somebody and you can walk in the same direction and never talk to no man and a woman been in a car and drive 500 miles and never say a word while we're having a relationship. Where. The young reason you may be getting along because you're not communicating and all. But not noticed as the very next verse Genesis Chapter 6 and version 9 these are the generations of know what Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation and Noah walk with God Now God bless these that walk with him and I see that in the New Testament God says many many times for us to walk with God or walk as he is in the light and walk in love so this walking with God My fellowship with God Remember the Bible uses the word fellowship many times but fellowship is like 2 fellows in a ship but they go in the same direction and so our fellowship with the Lord is a reference about our wall with God So if I want to walk with God then I should walk in truth if I want to walk with God should walk in and light if I'm walking with God I should walk in a way that is pleasing to God so that my walk means something this does not a word and God says that. He wants your joy to be. Another word to be close to the Lord as close as you want to get you know no one can make you get saved and no one can make you walk with God because it's a choice that you me and nobody can make you do that God may make you wished you had him but it's still a choice between you and the Lord to walk with Him Look at the next scripture we have here to wall with God means to please God And so you want to find out what pleases God So one of the reason that we study the Word of God is so we'll find what makes God happy is you were always concerned about what makes me happy what pleases me what do I want to do with my life now. I want to know that. God never asked these Old Testament saints or the New Testament saints what would you like to do with your life. What would you like to be. Or where would you like to go it was I studied the scriptures I don't see him asking him that question would you like to be a doctor or lawyer would be a fireman. Because boy what you want to do with your life God just simply says put his will in His Word and the same word reveals the will for all of God's children you see I don't have one Bible that this is for Yankee and God gave another by what what this one is for Jesse So Jesse has to read the fine God's will for his life and I have to read this from it will only get one bible for all the people and all of God's family and through the Word of God we find out the will of God wherever I am as he says in Matthew Chapter 10 whatsoever city you go to this is what you do. And who's ever House you enter this is what you do if you get married this is how you supposed to treat your wife this is supposed to be watch your husband this is how you pose to be about your kids so the Bible hits on every subject whatever job and whatever you do what your hands find the do do with all the mind whatsoever and whatever you do you see God given us so much freedom so much room to move. And to serve and to choose. But there is a reason for our lives that we get from the Word of God that I didn't find in the Word of God. Oh there it is Yankee when you're 70 years old go to Tampa Florida. That really helps when I'm really help if you just found it in all here's one for Jesse Jesse years supposing Mary Carillo on the beach. You don't find the will of God like that. Now I want you to know that I believe that is simpleton look at the very next verse doll aren't worthy Oh lord to receive glory and honor and power for a created all things and for Viper pleasure they are and were created Now who created us he did. What to please him for by pleasure Bart and were created so I was created to please God So then I need to find out what pleases God No where in the world my going to find how to please God when you go to the Safeway store and you buy some of the books off the shelves and you find it in there somehow you know he gave us His word so as we read and study the Word of God you'll find this pleases God and you'll find out there's other things that that doesn't please God So I find God's will for my life I find in those things that please God and I find out what doesn't please God because there's always a do's and don'ts some things that are said to bow to the Lord and some things are not acceptable so that's why he says do those things that are pleasing in his sight . So notice this next person by fate in it was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony or what it is see up there in Genesis 522 he walk with God does walking with God Please God. So every child of God can please God by walking with God and walk in love and walk in truth she is not based upon talent. But it is based upon character so this is why it is so important to live what he says that he please God But the other verse is a because he walk with God that please God no I'll walk with God that please God when I started to understand some of all I wanted to do was just please God I had to get to where I don't want to tell God what I want to do and say this is what I want to do Bless Me Ok I just let it happen I've never tried to figure it all out because it's a lot easier just do what right you know to do see a path of righteousness is just put down all those things you know to do that right and to become a path. Of righteousness just do all the right you know to do and when you read study the Word of God and says that's not good that's one thing I don't need to do is just like in the book of John 15 when he cuts off things out of your life that Hender your growth order fruit that you may have so you cut off out of your life those things that. Just ate up your time sapping your strength and put it into more fruit for areas of your life you may plan a lot of things and some things grow and some things don't grow well whatever grows keep water now at. I have had a few deaths of a vision you know Rob had dreams that never materialized and I've lived long enough to realize I am so glad that everything that I've wanted in desired hasn't happened but isn't there a verse in the Bible that says Daylight Dies self in the Lord and He shall give the . That is the fires of vine hard I found out that some of the things I don't need but overall God has blessed and fulfilled my riches desires and I'm glad I've lived long enough to be able to do that because see I can tell somebody else not look you serve the Lord God bless your life because I know it's true. Look at the next verse but without faith it is impossible to please and so we're supposed to please God but with out faith you can't please God Ok Well where do you get that it do you go by that it's a store where you get. To go to church and get a little faith faith cometh by. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the. Word of God. Without faith it is impossible to please him and get as for he that come of the God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek to please them to please him I had it in India but that's in the context of what he's talking about. And so it is impossible to please God without doing what he tells you to do because it really plays as God when you read the Word of God and you believe it and you live by faith live in by Faith is taking God It is word believe in it what he says is true and you do that and God bless you. So the next verse So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God You will not find the will of God watch and some t.v. Program you can enjoy it and be amused and it can be entertained but you don't generally find the word of God on t.v. Unless it was there 8 years when I was doing t.v. Or listen to the ready you know you can hear the Word of God but one of the best ways is just to sit down with the Bible and begin to read it and study it and meditate in it. And so he says faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Look at the next statement I have heard this in the bold don't trade the law of the Lord in order to get the love of the world God lays us down pretty strong because our whole Christian life after we trust the Lord is a test of our love do we love the Lord more than the things of the world and that's evident by the decisions that you make so having choices God will let you choose everything that's against him. It will let you walk contrary to him. Doesn't mean he loves you less but you won't learn as much about him because he may have to change and discipline but he says if you will obey me and serve me he says my father will make Himself known to you you'll learn things about the Lord through obedience in the me of the way. Get this the 1st statement there is lava not the world. Who said well the Word of God says that love not the world well what is the love of the world you mean I'm not supposed to love being here God but near Well there's nothing wrong in being here and he says that in this world He has freely given to us all things to enjoy so we can enjoy a lot of things but we're not to love these things because everything in the world is going to pass away so don't spend your life on all those things that will pass away so he makes the comparison love not the world neither the seed that were things that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in and now doesn't say you're not saved because we're not saved because we love God we don't have to love God to be saved were saved because he loved us and then he says we love Him because He 1st loved us and he says that the love of Christ has manifested and he is men offensive his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so he's already manifest it is love toward us now the goal is can we manifest our love by to him by what he's done for us not to look at us the very next verse tells you what a little bit about what he means by love not the world so he says for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh This is what he's talking about. The lust of the flesh that's the bitterness the hatred the envy jealousy backbiting it's the it's the desires of the flesh that are wicked that are wrong and contrary to the will of God and you'll find that holiness mentioned in a boat go bug elations in Chapter 5 so every one of us have sent desires and what isn't is don't love those central desires don't make the goal of your life olf Elena Cental desires and you have to even watch your thought life and then look at the next one and the last of the eyes that means the things that you can see don't fall in love with the things of this world the things that you desire of the flash and the things that you can see you can see a car and fall in love with that car nothing wrong with having a car that done wrong and have a house nothing wrong in having any of these things a lot of God's men were very prosperous and they had a lot of things but don't love them that you wrap your whole life around of things of this world that gonna pass away and they eat up your time remember when it says that the devil runs to and fro and he's like a lion seeking whom he may. Devour the way he devours the Christian is the eats up your time gets us a spending time because seed life is made up of when you waste time you waste life you waste opportunities you waste purpose you waste a lot fo law and is going to cost you dearly so don't let the devil cause you to love something that will end up nothing but your time and your not been profitable you should try to be profitable and everything every day that honors the Lord and give what else he says and the pride of life that means the honor of the fame the glory of God says you don't have to be the biggest you don't have to be the best you don't have to feel your life with the pride of sinking that can see it whenever you want that and you want to more than anything else in the world and when you want things that money can buy members not the money is not the problem it's the love of money because well if I had the money I can get this and get that given and so people begin to fall in love with money and peers themselves through with many sorrows so he says don't don't love those things because they're going to bring a lot of heartache things of the world or hard to good. Hard to cave and great sorrow when you lose him and so many people have pierced Him selves do and become so entangled with the affairs of this life that they cannot please him who've called him to be a soldier so you have to watch that now and get this he says for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride is not the Father but is of the world and God knows that if his children want to walk with him and have fellowship with Him then you cannot fall in love with the world there is a division there's a separation and you need to learn to love the Lord with all your heart. Because if you don't that's why he says unless you have a mother and father and brother and sister Sarah he says you cannot serve me because your love for them will mean more to you than the love you have for God and you will take and do what it takes to win them and not when cries please them and not please cries you have to love the Lord anough that you will and to take the shame from every source and no to please God just something to think about now look at the next statement the impact of doing God's will will bring life long blessings. The longer I live I believe the more the blessings of God I see there was a time when I thought the blessings were all the good things that happened to me and now all of the things that have been made that I didn't like were the bad things I'm not totally convinced that that's the per specked of what I should have because there's always the Divine Perspective from God's angle and there is a human perspective from our angle and we don't always agree oh what really is a a blessing and somebody came up to me long ago and says Boy I got some bad news says no you got some news is not bad unless you have perceived it to be bad but some things might come across as that's bad but it might be good and some things we consider that might be good might be bad so there's people who have news but it depends on your perspective and I find out that a lot of time my perspective isn't right I will react with a attitude towards something that's happening in a very negative way. And so over the years I've tried to learn don't get over excited when I get news or below the level of average when the thing is bad news because I've lived long enough to find out that some of those things that hurt. Very valuable lessons that. I've been able to use. Some good. For you a new listener to. Do you enjoy the teachings of. Well if you've never contacted us before we want to give you. A gospel driven man every day we receive many e-mails from folks who have questions of repentance and salvation about faith in works and about how to share the gospel with friends and loved ones this book The Gospel given covers all those topics and we want listeners of to receive a free copy there's no obligation for. The series simply at 180-576-3771 or write to us and request your free copy of the given me. Is 4811 George room. 33634 again don't forget to include your mailing address and God bless you and thank you for listening. 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