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Series B – Second Sunday After Epiphany – Sunday, January 14, 2018 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:28	the holy Gospel According to Saint John chapter 1 verses 43-51 the next day
0:34	Jesus decided to go to Galilee he found Philip and said to him follow me now
0:39	Philip was from beceda the city of Andrew and Peter Philip found Nathanael
0:45	and said to him we have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote Jesus of Nazareth the Son of God
0:51	the son of Joseph Nathanael said to him can anything good come out of Nazareth
0:56	Philip said to him come and see Jesus taught Nathanael coming toward him instead of him behold an Israelite
1:02	indeed in whom there is no deceit Nathanael said to him how how do you know me Jesus answered him before Philip
1:09	called you when you were under the Fig Tree I saw you Nathanael answered him Rabbi you’re the Son of God you’re the
1:16	king of Israel Jesus answered him because I said to you I saw you under the Fig Tree do you believe you will see
1:21	greater things than these and he said to him truly truly I say to you you will see Heaven open and the angels of God
1:27	ascending and descending on the son of man this is the gospel of the Lord in the name of Jesus
1:34	voices voices everywhere which of them shall you listen to there’s voices out
1:39	there claiming to be speaking the word of God let me give you an example it’s
1:45	now 2018. and all of the people who claim that they hear God’s voice
1:50	speaking directly to them claiming to be prophets have taken to the interwebs to
1:55	pronounce the word of the Lord for 2018. so there’s a little bit of a problem
2:01	they’re contradicting themselves one prophetess her name is Cindy Jacobs she
2:06	also claims to be an apostle she says that 2018 is going to be a remarkable
2:13	year it’s just gonna be blue skies abundance and blessing all around buckle
2:19	up get ready get the buckets out God’s Reign is going to pour down you better be ready to collect it but then Jim
2:26	Baker who also claims to hear directly from God says that 2018 is the year of
2:32	Sorrows that there’s going to be famine and pestilence and you better buy food
2:38	buckets from him in order to survive what’s coming and he’s also prophesied that there will be a terror attack at
2:45	the Winter Olympics next month who are we to listen to then you think about that voice from the 19th century that
2:52	voice by the name of Charles Darwin his voice rang out and said oh no no no man
2:58	was not created in the image of God God did not create the world in six days no
3:04	no no no no no your grandparents were all monkeys and there’s a lot of people today
3:10	in the Church of all places parroting those words picking up the
3:15	voice of Darwin and speaking it as if it’s truth in Christ’s Church but then what about that voice inside of your
3:22	heart that voice that says oh it’s just a white lie it’s not that big a deal it
3:30	doesn’t this isn’t really that damaging of a sin as long as it doesn’t hurt somebody else
3:36	now oftentimes we listen to that voice more than we listen to the crackpots on TBN that voice that comes from our own
3:44	sinful heart that would tell us to do likewise than what God’s word tells us to do voices voices everywhere to which
3:53	of them do you ascribe deity to which of them do you bend the knee
3:58	it’s kind of the question before us today Hebrews 1 verses 1 through 3 says this
4:04	long ago and many times in many ways God
4:09	spoke to our fathers by the prophets but in these last days he has spoken to us
4:16	by his son whom he has appointed the heir of all things through whom also he
4:23	created the world he Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God the exact
4:28	imprint of his nature he upholds the universe by the word of his power
4:34	you see the question before us is where can we hear the voice of this fellow where do you go today to
4:43	hear the voice of Jesus to hear the voice of God there’s a lot of voices claiming to be the voice of God but to
4:50	which of them should you hang your hat to the ones claiming to be receiving prophetic Revelation to the scientists
4:57	who deny that the world is a special creation to your own voice within your
5:03	heart challenging what God has said is sin and not sin or the voice of the devil that comes and
5:09	tempts you which voice do you ascribe God’s voice to him
5:16	in first Samuel our Old Testament reading there’s a wonderful phrase that’s worth picking up but the story is
5:21	too good to not tell first Samuel chapter 3 we learn about the boy Samuel
5:27	Samuel by the way was the very very first of a particular type of prophet in the Old Testament Moses himself was a
5:34	prophet Deuteronomy 18 makes this very clear that Moses was a prophet he heard
5:39	God’s word and he spoke God’s word to the people he was basically kind of a
5:45	relay station God spoke it stopped there he relayed the message and when God
5:50	speaks and you are to speak what he says you don’t modify the message that’s no
5:59	bueno Eternal consequences will ensue but Moses Faithfully relayed what God
6:06	spoke and he prophesied that there would be a prophet who would be like him who would arise to whom we must listen he
6:13	prophesied about Jesus and in the interim God raised up another set of
6:18	prophets they became known as the school of the prophets and you can say their founding member was a fellow by the name
6:24	of Samuel and here we see his call and this wonderful attitude that we as Christians
6:30	ought to consider applying in our own lives the boy Samuel was ministering to
6:35	Yahweh in the presence of elife you know the story Samuel was a child who was
6:41	born because of the prayers of his mom who was Barren and she dedicated him to the Lord and although he was not a
6:47	levite she sent him to work in the Tabernacle as a young boy and he was
6:53	there ministering under Eli Eli will just say was a permissive fellow not a
6:59	very faithful high priest at the time in fact Not only was he permissible and things that he ought not to do and
7:05	you’ll see that in just a minute he his sons also served at the Tabernacle with him and these were well worthless
7:13	fellows they like to hook up with some of the ladies who worked at the Tabernacle hooking up with the ladies
7:19	working at the Tabernacles the sexual sin and Eli knew about it and he did nothing nothing to stop it but keep that
7:27	in mind Samuel’s serving he’s not a levite he’s serving in the Tabernacle
7:32	under Eli and the word of the Lord was rare in those days there was no frequent
7:38	Vision at that time Eli whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see was lying down in his own place
7:45	the lamp of God had not yet gone out and Samuel was lying down in the temple of
7:51	the Lord where the Ark of God was that’s a polite way of saying that Samuel was
7:57	actually sleeping in the holy of holies which you’re not supposed to do I mean
8:04	you’re only supposed to enter the holy of holies once a year with the sacrifice for the day of atonement and the blood
8:11	then gets poured on The Mercy Seat which is the lid for the Ark of the Covenant he’s sleeping in the holy holies and
8:16	Eli’s doing nothing to stop this but God is merciful he doesn’t count against Samuel and so the Lord then decides that
8:24	he’s going to have a conversation with Samuel the Lord called to Samuel and Samuel said here I am and he ran to Eli
8:31	I said here I am you called me and he said I didn’t call you
8:36	go lie down again so he went and lay down it’s the Lord called Samuel again Samuel
8:43	Samuel Rose went to Eli said here I am you called me what an obedient child how come my kids
8:49	weren’t like this but he said I did not call you my son lie down again now
8:54	Samuel did not yet know the Lord and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him and the Lord called
9:00	Samuel again the third time and he rose and went to Eli and said here I am you called me
9:05	Eli perceived that Yahweh was calling the boy therefore Eli said to Samuel go
9:11	lie down and if he calls you you shall say speak Yahweh
9:17	your servant your slave listens so Sammy went and laid down in his place
9:24	and the Lord came and stood this is language that evokes Genesis 3 where the
9:31	Lord is walking in the cool of the day so you know who’s showing up here it’s Jesus he’s the one he’s the one standing
9:38	there so the Lord came and stood calling as at other times Samuel
9:45	Samuel Samuel said speak
9:51	for your servant listens hmm great attitude by the way great way to
9:57	respond when God speaks we say Lord speak and we will listen
10:04	but that begs the question where do we go to find the voice of God where is God
10:09	speaking today is he wanting to speak to you inside of your heart to give you special
10:16	revelation of your supposed god-given destiny that you’re supposed to fulfill in this life is he raising you up to be
10:23	some kind of a prophet who will say nonsensical words like this is the season where suddenlies will happen
10:29	where is God speaking because we as Christians our attitude should be Speak
10:35	Lord for your servant listens and hears let’s consider Our Gospel text as we try
10:41	to find the answer to this John chapter 1 Our Gospel text says this the next day
10:46	Jesus decided to go to Galilee and this was after he had called Peter to be his disciple and even after John the Baptist
10:54	upon seeing Jesus said Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world so Jesus is in Galilee by the way
11:01	Galilee is not exactly known as one of those places that produces profound theologians Galilee is kind of a
11:09	blue-collar town the people there are earthy and you recall in Luke’s gospel
11:15	when Jesus did call Peter to be his disciple that as part of that whole
11:20	ordeal in calling Peter to be his disciple Peter realized who Jesus was and realized just how sinful he was and
11:27	he said to Jesus depart from me I am a sinful man and indeed
11:33	he was even going so far as to betray Christ and disown him when he was on trial
11:40	so Jesus goes to kind of a fruitless territory to raise up disciples and he
11:48	found Philip and no don’t think that just because this is a blue-collar town these kids didn’t know their catechism
11:53	and that’s kind of the point you’re going to see this here although these guys blew up grew up in blue collared
11:59	Galilee were hard-working people whose hands were rough and gnarled from the work that they were doing they knew
12:06	their Bible they knew and the only Bible they had was the Old Testament you can see this so Jesus found Philip
12:13	and he said to him follow me notice he did not say if you make a decision you
12:19	can ask me into your heart and then you can decide to follow me no When Jesus Says follow me
12:26	that’s not to invoke your free will because you don’t have free will when it comes to God you see Jesus is speaking
12:32	the way God speaks in Genesis where he says let there be light and there was light Jesus says later to his disciples
12:39	you did not choose me I chose you so
12:44	there’s Jesus out there in Galilee he says to Philip you follow me and guess
12:50	what happens when Jesus speaks in that way Philip decides to get up and follow him because Jesus said so it was Jesus
12:57	doing the choosing now Philip was from bethsaida the city of Andrew and Peter Philip found Nathanael and he said to
13:04	him so you know immediately after beginning following him Philip has got to go tell everybody about Jesus and
13:09	watch these amazing words we have found him
13:15	which means they were looking for him and the only way they would know that they were looking for somebody like
13:20	Jesus was because they were reading their Bible because the Old Testament it’s all about Jesus it’s pointing to
13:27	Jesus creating the expectation that the Messiah will come they’re waiting for
13:33	God’s chosen anointed one to appear and Philip says we’ve found him and listen
13:38	to these great words the one of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote ah and he connects the one who the
13:47	prophets wrote about to Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph now Nathanael also being a
13:54	well-catechized Jew although working tough in a blue-collar job he knows his Bible and he’s going through the
14:00	database in his mind going whoa wait a second here the Messiah is not supposed to come from Nazareth the Messiah is
14:07	supposed to come from Bethlehem and so he immediately kind of puts the brakes on and he asks the question
14:14	can anything good come out of Nazareth that’s not where the Messiah is supposed to be from see he knows his Bible and
14:20	you’re going to note that Jesus credits him he credits him for this in just a minute so Philip said to him all right
14:26	come and see now as they’re approaching Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and he said
14:33	to him behold an Israelite in whom there is no
14:39	deceit and the reason he’s crediting him is because of his biblical skepticism
14:46	because he knows where Jesus is supposed to be from and so Jesus doesn’t knock him for
14:52	saying well wait a second Jesus Praises him for it because Philip
14:58	and Nathanael already know where to hear the voice of God and to hear the voice of God in the scriptures and you’re
15:05	going to note these fellows are not tainted by the false religion of the Pharisees and their false views that
15:12	there is a second voice of God to be found in What’s called the oral Torah
15:17	these guys aren’t tainted by that they know Moses and the prophets and they know this and Jesus says to fill up that
15:24	this Nathaniel that he’s a fellow in whom there is no deceit because well you can think of it this
15:31	way Nathaniel and Philip are the first two bereans before there were bereans that’s the idea and Jesus Praises them
15:38	for that so Jesus said behold an Israelite in whom there is no deceit Nathanael said to him
15:45	how do you know me and then Jesus says something that he can only know
15:50	miraculously because he’s the son of God Jesus answered him before Philip called
15:56	you when you were under the Fig Tree I saw you Nathaniel answered him Rabbi you’re the
16:02	Son of God you’re the king of Israel now remember when Peter made his great confession about who Jesus was
16:09	you know who do people say that I am Peter Chimes up and eventually says you are the Christ the son of the Living God
16:15	and Jesus says to Peter flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my
16:21	father who is in heaven and you sit there and go take a look at this fellow right at the very beginning as he’s
16:26	being called to be a disciple Jesus miraculously tells him something about his life that he could not possibly have
16:32	known Crossing through time and space which Jesus has this amazing ability to do and he believes and we must conclude
16:40	from the other passages of scripture that it is God who has now worked in him to make this confession regarding Christ
16:47	and so Jesus basically says to him because I said to you I saw you under
16:52	the Fig Tree do you believe man this guy’s bowled over pretty easily right you’ll see greater things than these and
16:59	he said to him amen amen I say to you you will see Heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and
17:07	descending on the son of man the exact same language by the way used for Jacob’s Ladder now this is for a
17:13	different sermon at a different time but it’s important for us to always remember that Jacob’s Ladder is not a what
17:18	Jacob’s Ladder is a who Jesus is Jacob’s Ladder he’s the one who crosses the gap
17:24	between Heaven and Earth he is the one who has descended to Earth and has ascended he is Jacob’s Ladder different
17:32	sermon though now remember what Hebrews said long ago at many times and in many ways God spoke to our fathers by the
17:38	prophets but in these last days he has spoken to us by our son in the words of
17:45	Samuel the prophet Speak Lord your servant listens so again I beg the
17:51	question and rephrase the question where on Earth are we to go to hear the voice of God you’ll note that Philip and
17:58	Nathanael are praised for listening to the voice of God God in the written scriptures well remember that Jesus
18:06	whose disciples he’s calling right now in our text later tells his disciples
18:12	these important words the one who hears you hears me the one who rejects you
18:20	rejects me the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me that’s Luke
18:26	chapter 6 verse 49 so the one who hears you hears me now in our confessions when
18:33	we confess the apostles and the nicean Creed in the Nicene Creed we say things like this we believe in one holy
18:41	Universal and here’s the word Apostolic church what do we mean by that
18:47	word what is meant by it how are we to understand it Apostolic means that this is a church
18:54	that preaches the apostolic message the apostolic scriptures the apostolic
19:00	gospel the one that the apostles taught because how many books did Jesus write
19:06	zero how do we know about Jesus what he did what he said what he said would take
19:13	place how do we know about anything about Jesus answer only through his disciples who became the apostles so to
19:21	be an Apostolic church is to confess that the only place we know of where we
19:27	can say with 100 certainty that we are hearing the voice of Jesus is in the
19:32	apostolic word written for us in the Bible
19:37	plain and simple now someone recently asked me Pastor Roseboro how do I know
19:43	whether that voice inside of me is the voice of the Holy Spirit or is the voice
19:49	of my own sinful flesh or the voice of the devil great question by the way fantastic question how do you know
19:55	answer when the voice inside of your head is reciting back scripture you’re
20:01	hearing the voice of the spirit let me put it this way scripture itself tells us to meditate on God’s word
20:09	meditate on it what does that mean it does not mean going and sitting in the Lotus position taking your fingers and
20:16	your thumb and doing this and going home um no
20:22	meditate the Hebrew word for meditate is a very interesting word picture we’ve
20:27	all seen cows I know Roger has dealt a lot with cows when we visited his home very early here at Kong’s vinger you
20:33	guys had cows at your home and I went out with him and he had took hay and was feeding the cows from this ginormous
20:40	thing of hay and what do cows do when they eat
20:45	um it’s terrible to look at but you know what I’m saying they chew their cud they
20:53	chew and they too and they choo choo choo choo choo that’s what the Hebrew
20:59	word for meditate literally is the word picture for take God’s word inside of
21:05	you and now now chew on it that’s the idea you want to get God’s
21:11	word deep down inside of you you take it you read it you think about it you
21:18	meditate on it let your mind keep grinding on it and thinking about it and letting the depth and the magnitude suck
21:25	the morrow out of the word of God so that it gets deep down inside of you
21:31	memorize it this is a foreign concept nowadays take portions of scripture
21:38	memorize it so that you own it and what you will find happening is that as you
21:44	meditate on God’s word as God’s word gets inside of you remember God’s word is living it’s active sharper than a
21:53	double-edged sword and there’s a reason for this that we’ll talk about that in just a second but as God’s word gets
21:59	inside of you as life circumstances come your way remember when Jesus was tempted in the
22:05	wilderness to do all kinds of bizarre stuff because the devil’s a sick puppy how did Jesus send the devil packing it
22:12	has written this that and the other thing quoted Deuteronomy to him and that’s the idea so when the voice
22:18	inside of your head is saying the exact same thing as scripture you’re hearing the voice of the spirit
22:24	how do I know this well consider with me what second Timothy chapter 3 says starting in verse 14. Paul writing to
22:31	Young Pastor Timothy who was one of the pastors of a congregation in the city of Ephesus
22:36	he writes to him and he says as for you young Pastor Timothy continue in what you have learned and have firmly
22:42	believed knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings
22:52	hmm Old Testament and it’s funny because as Paul’s writing this he’s now also writing scripture the sacred writings
22:59	which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus and important words that we should all
23:06	be familiar with all scripture graphey is the Greek word grafe means writing
23:12	all scripture is breathed out by God Theo nustas the picture here breathed
23:19	out by God think of it this way Adam when Adam was
23:24	formed by God there’s his lifeless body made from the dust of the earth not yet alive but it
23:32	says God breathed on him the Breath of Life so you have this wonderful picture of
23:40	God of Christ standing over the lifeless body of Adam and going
23:46	and he wakes up and he’s alive you see all scripture is breathed out by God and
23:53	it’s profitable for teaching for reproof for for correction for training in righteousness so that the man and will
23:59	even say woman of God may be complete tell us finished and equipped for listen
24:04	to these words every good work there is no good work that Christ is
24:10	calling you to do or will call you to do that God’s word the written word of God
24:15	will not prepare you for in fact you know with certainty every time you open
24:22	up God’s word and you are reading it in context that you are hearing the voice of God
24:28	so if you want to hear the voice of God read your Bible if you want to hear it out loud read it out loud
24:35	or come to church and when the pastor is preaching the word and you are hearing the word of God
24:41	you’re hearing not his voice you’re hearing God’s voice now the pastor deviates and starts teaching nonsense
24:47	then you’re hearing the voice of the devil stack that fellow right even if it’s me that’s the idea you’re here to hear
24:54	God’s voice not mine you’re here to hear Jesus not me that’s the idea
25:00	so the word of God will equip you for these things so this living active word of God is the place where we as
25:06	Christians say Speak Lord your servant is listening
25:11	speak and God speaks now I want you to consider something then this Jesus who said the one who
25:19	hears the apostles hears him this Jesus has spoken through the Apostle John and
25:25	I want you to consider the very last chapter of the Bible if you would look with me at Revelation
25:31	chapter 22 and I want you to hear the words of Jesus in the pen in the quill of John John the
25:39	Apostle not John the Baptist but John the Apostle and I want you to consider this that this chapter literally is not just
25:48	the last chapter in your Bible it is the very last chapter written in
25:55	all of scripture put it on a timeline chronologically the Gospel of John is
26:01	the last book to be written it is written when John is a very old fellow
26:06	John was very young when he was called as a disciple and they tried killing him
26:11	several times to make him a martyr and it didn’t work God wouldn’t allow him to
26:17	be killed so they exiled him exiled them to Patmos and this is where
26:23	he is so he’s an old fellow he’s now got gray hair probably a little senile and
26:29	cranky like me because you get the idea so this is an old fellow Peter’s long gone Paul is long dead the other
26:37	disciples are in their graves having died martyr’s death and he now is
26:42	receiving this wonderful vision of what is coming and seeing the third
26:49	heaven and the Throne of Christ and the Saints around the Throne of Christ worshiping Christ and so what we’re
26:55	hearing here is the very close of the Bible itself and listen to the words of Jesus in this
27:03	revelation so the angel he showed me the river of Water of Life
27:09	brightest Crystal flowing from the Throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city
27:15	also on either side of the river the Tree of Life with its 12 kinds of fruit yielding its fruit each month very
27:24	fascinating thing that we got this picture of Water of Life even in the new earth water of life somehow talking
27:32	about baptism and the tree of life and the 12 fruits makes you wonder about
27:38	those 12 disciples and maybe the cross something like that the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the Nations
27:44	and no longer will there be anything accursed but the Throne of God and the lamb will be in it the cert and the
27:50	servants will worship him they will see his face and his name will be on their foreheads and night will be no more they
27:57	will need no light of lamp or sun for the Lord will be their light and they will reign forever and ever
28:04	he said to me these words are trustworthy and they are true and the Lord the god of the spirits of the
28:11	prophets has sent his Angel to show his servants what must soon take place and
28:16	now hear the words of Jesus behold I am coming soon
28:23	blessed is the one who keeps is the Greek word means to guard guards the
28:31	words of the prophecy of this book a little bit of a note here last chapter
28:37	of the entire book of the Bible chronologically the last which book of Prophecy do you think
28:44	Jesus is referring to do you think he’s merely referring to the Book of Revelation
28:50	no because we have other passages where Jesus in The Gospel says the one who
28:56	loves me will guard my word so blessed is the one who keeps the
29:03	words of this prophecy of this book and I don’t think you’re out of place to say this is not referring merely to the Book
29:10	of Revelation but is referring from Genesis all the way up to this point
29:15	and then I John the one who heard and saw these things and when I heard and saw them I fell down to worship at the
29:21	feet of the Angel who showed them to me but he said to me you must not do that
29:26	I am a fellow slave with you and your brothers the prophets notice that the
29:33	angel puts John on the same level as the prophet they’re all servants serving you
29:38	and they are the ones writing these things to serve us so I’m the servant
29:43	slave just like your brothers the prophets and with those who guard the words of this book
29:51	worship God and then he said to me do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book
29:57	for the time is near let the evildoers still do evil the filthy still be filthy
30:02	the righteous still do right the holy still be holy behold again Jesus is speaking I am coming soon bringing my
30:10	recompense with me to repay each one for what he has done I am the Alpha and the Omega the first and the last the
30:16	beginning and the end blessed are those who wash their robes so that they may
30:21	have the right to the tree of life that they may enter the city by the gates ah
30:27	so brothers and sisters let me take a moment here to reflect we’re all guilty
30:32	of listening to voices that we ought not to listen to listening to the voice of the devil listening to the voice of false teacher
30:39	listening to the voice of our own sinful flesh and our own sinful hearts and as a
30:44	result of listening to them we have believed and done things that have
30:49	soiled our robes with the filth of sin there’s no way around it and there is no
30:57	Tide Pods that you can use to clean it out nothing you can do
31:03	however remember that from the side of our savior
31:09	after who’s pierced bruised nailed to the tree suffered bled and died that
31:15	when the Roman soldier thrust his spear into the side of Christ out flowed blood
31:20	and water the two things when mixed together become our baptism
31:26	and it is in the blood of Christ that we wash our robes that have been soiled
31:32	with sin so that they can be made white by the Crimson blood of Christ
31:39	and Jesus says of those who have been United with him in his death and his
31:44	resurrection who’ve had their sins washed away by the Water of Life mixed with the blood of Christ in baptism that
31:51	they are blessed and they have the right to the tree of life that they may enter the city by the gates that’s you and me
31:58	so let us never forget the great gift that God has given us in our baptism to wash away our sins let us always
32:05	remember that our baptismal water flows from the cross itself and that we in the
32:12	hearing the voice of Jesus realize that we are blessed now outside of the city
32:18	Gates outside of the New Jerusalem are the dogs the sorcerers the sexually immoral the
32:25	murderers the idolaters and listen everyone who loves and practices
32:30	falsehood falsehood from the person who sits there and says I’m hearing the voice of God
32:36	and you need to come to me to learn what God is saying right now for this season to the person who twists God’s word and
32:43	makes merchandise of people and tells you send in your seed offering to me and
32:49	God will bless it to the person who listens to the voice of the world and
32:55	its Pleasures or the voice of your own sinful flesh and its desires to the one
33:01	who practices falsehood loves falsehood doesn’t love to hear the voice of God in
33:07	his truth those people are outside the city Gates they have no place in the New Jerusalem
33:14	and then Jesus says I have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches I am the root and the
33:21	descendant of David the bright and The Morning Star the spirit and the bride say come and let the one who hears say
33:27	come and the one who is thirsty come let the one who desires take the Water of Life without price and I warn everyone
33:34	who hears the words of the prophecy of this book again I keep pointing to all
33:40	of scripture the one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book if anyone adds to them God will add to him the
33:46	plagues described in this book and if anyone takes away from the words of the books of this prophecy God will take
33:52	away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city which are described in
33:57	this book you see it as a sin to listen to other voices than the voice of God Eve in listening to the voice of the
34:04	serpent plunged us into the mire that we find ourselves in so we must repent and
34:11	keep this in mind that God when his voice rings out it must always be a solo
34:18	it is never part of a choir and if you’re mixing the voice of God with other voices and making him sing
34:25	tenor in a choir or in a trio or a quartet or whatever
34:31	you’re falling short you’re adding to his words or Worse you’re subtracting
34:37	from it and this is sin sin that we must repent of sin that we must be forgiven
34:44	of so listen only to the voice of God there’s only one place you can go to hear it
34:49	and that’s the written word of God listen to his voice and listen to him singularly he will never lie to you
34:58	and he who testifies to these things says surely I am coming soon amen amen
35:03	come Lord Jesus so brothers and sisters the word of God has spoken God has condemned us for our
35:11	idolatry to listen to other voices and he is assured us of the Forgiveness of our sins because of what Christ has done
35:17	for us on the cross he has assured us that this is has been applied to you individually by uniting
35:24	you to him in his death and his resurrection in the waters of baptism and he assures you that he is coming
35:29	quickly soon very soon and that you will see him face to face and enjoy the
35:35	Delights of eternal life in a World Without End all of this by his grace through faith so stop listening to the
35:42	other voices repent be forgiven and then bearing fruit and keeping with repentance we say Speak Lord your
35:50	servant listens in the name of Jesus amen [Music]

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