Christ Centered Evangelism Session 9

"You shall be witnesses unto me." We're called and commanded to be sores of gospel seed. But we must fill that seed bag with the truths which cluster around the proclamation of the person of Jesus, the work of Jesus, and the prosecution of the sinner. That brings us to letter C. We've been in a lot of negative stuff. Let's get positive. Let us see the goal of this practical application that we're going to study in this session and tomorrow night's first session is that you may be personally equipped to share with anyone from any background the truths concerning the person of Jesus, the work of Jesus, and the terms of Jesus.

For God is highly exalted Jesus and given him a name which is above every name. God the Spirit has come to put the spotlight on Jesus. God the Son commanded us to be witnesses unto Jesus. Not a place, not a felt need, but to Jesus. Paul the Apostle following Jesus said, "We proclaim him." We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord. We don't proclaim a formula. We don't proclaim a program. We don't proclaim a place. We proclaim the deity of Jesus, the holiness of Jesus. That's what they did in the Book of Acts. The sinfulness of sinners, they prosecuted the sinners of their sin.

They proclaimed the good news of the person of Jesus, yes, Matt, and the work of Jesus at the cross and at the resurrection. They kept proclaiming him and his work. They proclaimed, as I've already said tonight, the lordship of Jesus. They proclaimed the conditions, the terms of Jesus. And we must also proclaim the necessity and explain the nature of Bible repentance. Proclaim the necessity and what is the nature of saving faith. They even proclaimed on numerous occasions in the Book of Acts, the consequences of fulfilling to obey the gospel terms. And that's what we're going to do.

And if you'll turn off the idiot box the next two or three months for 30 minutes a night, turn on to Jesus and begin to fill your seed bag with what I'm gonna give you, three or four months worth of material in two sessions. Number one, if you will, you will be prepared to share the vital truths about the Lord Jesus with people, with people from every background, no matter if they're Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Catholic, Los Baptists, Los Pentecostal, or pagan. It doesn't matter who they are.

We're not called to memorize a sales pitch or give a formula, but we are called to be witnesses under who he is, what he did, what are his terms to a saving relationship with him. And if you will, number two, in every encounter you'll be furnished with the specific truths that are appropriate to share with that particular person. I wanna so saturate my mind with the word of truth, and then I wanna be led by the Holy Spirit in every gospel encounter, but I'm equipped to share these truths with that person. That person I'm talking to may not even believe that Jesus is God the Son.

Can you go through the scriptures and show them Jesus is God the Son? You'd be shocked at how many people, even in this county, don't understand who Jesus is. Maybe they do understand who Jesus is. Well, I wouldn't park there so long. I'd go to the holiness of God and their own sinfulness and move through. Sometimes it's a person from an evangelical background, Protestant background, Baptist background. They know a lot about Jesus and their mind, but they need to be confronted with the lordship of Jesus because Jesus has never been their Lord, so he's not their savior. They need to be confronted with the terms that Jesus confronts us with.

My point is we want to saturate our mind, as we'll see tonight, with these truths, because, number three, some people would quickly acknowledge and agree with some truths about Jesus, yet they may be totally ignorant concerning other vital saving truths. And God can use specific truths to awaken them to their needs of a saving relationship with Jesus. Sometimes I get to spill a whole lot of gospel seeds, sow a lot of gospel seed into a person's life and an encounter. I get to share the bad news and the good news. Sometimes I'm only able to plant one seed or a couple of seeds in that conversation. That's God's business.

We're not putting together a sales pitch. We're proclaiming Him. Now I'm gonna give you, as I said, three or four months worth of material in a couple of sessions. It's gonna be overwhelming, so keep that in mind. Let's get to it. Where do I begin? I begin with the deity of Jesus. I'm teaching this study in Hyderabad, India, to about 100 pastors. I've been teaching all week, and I've been teaching all night our time. And it's the end of the week. I'm absolutely exhausted. I'm getting into a cab at 4.30 in the morning for a 45-minute drive from where I'm staying to Hyderabad International Airport.

The taxi driver, Billup, as soon as I get in the car, soon as we take off, he says, "I see you're from America. "Have you been here on business?" And I tell him what I've been doing here. And you know what he says? Jesus. I've heard the name Jesus, but I know nothing about Christianism. That's what he called it. Can you tell me about Christianism? Where would I begin with Billup? God loves you and has a wonderful plan for you, Lord? No. I need to begin with who Jesus is. I begin with the deity of Jesus. Notice at letter A, number one, Jesus Christ is God the Son. But I'm not just telling him that.

I want to equip myself with gospel seed concerning the deity of Jesus, because saving faith in the deity of Jesus comes by hearing and hearing by what? The word of God concerning Jesus. So let's fill our gospel seed bag with some seed concerning the deity of Jesus. This is what the Book of Acts preachers proclaimed. Let's notice here's some good ones. There's so many, but here's a few good ones. Letter A, 1 Timothy 3.16 says God was manifested in the flesh. When was God manifested in the flesh? When did God take on the form of a man? Of course, we know the answer.

But the person I'm witnessing to, first of all, above anything else, must understand who Jesus is. He is God incarnate. He is God the Son. This is a great gospel seed on the deity of Jesus. Letter B, Hebrews 1 and verse 8. This is God the Father speaking to Jesus. And notice what God the Father says about Jesus. But to the Son, he says, your throne, oh God, is forever and ever. I said, "Bill, up here in that verse, you know what we hear?

We hear God the Father calling Jesus God, proclaiming the deity of Jesus, that he is the eternal God the Son." This person I'm witnessing to needs to understand above everything else that they're dealing with the visible revelation of the invisible God. He is the God man. The Lord Jesus is not one of 33 million false into God's billop. He is the one and only true and living God, amen? We know that, but they need to know that. The letter C, there's a great one. You probably already have it memorized, John 1 and verse 1. "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God." You know this verse.

What is the scripture saying there? "Before the creation of time and space, before the creation of the universe, the Word, the Lord Jesus existed as God the Son." Now, we are all well aware that we didn't exist until we were conceived. But the astonishing truth is there was never a time when Jesus did not exist as the co-equal, co-eternal, co-existent God the Son. And in verse 14, you know this verse. You've got it memorized. "And the Word became," what? "Flesh and dwelt among us." So I want this billop, I want him to understand that Jesus is not just a great moral teacher. He's not just another leader of a world religion as CNN may say.

He is God. He's not one of many manifestations of God. He is God, amen? Hey, that's what I want Billop to know, but there's more I want him to know concerning the deity of Jesus. Number two, the Bible declares that Jesus is your creator, Billop. The second message at Pentecost, Jesus is called the Prince of Life. That means the author and originator of life. He's not a creation of God. He is creator God. And it's right there in the text, in the Gospel of John, John 1.3. You know this verse. Speaking of Jesus, God the Son, "All things were made by him. And without him nothing was," what? Made that was made.

God the Son spoke the universe into existence, Billop. And God the Son also created you, Billop. And he created you for a purpose. Notice that letter B, speaking of Jesus Christ, God the Son. Notice what Colossians 1.16 says, "You may not know this one." It says, "All things were created through him, Jesus, and for Jesus." Billop, you weren't created for yourself. You weren't created to live for yourself. You weren't created to live for the things of this world. You were created for him, to come to know him, to live for him. This is what I want this young taxi driver to understand, that Jesus is God, and Jesus is his creator.

And Jesus created him to come to know him and live for him. Now, I'm sitting in a Baptist church, and here comes a visitor. His name's Sid Shapiro. He's an Orthodox Jew. He tells me later he has the front seat at the synagogue, every Sabbath. He doesn't even believe in the New Testament. Where did I take him in the Old Testament to show him Jesus is God? You know these verses, we sing them every Christmas, letter A, Isaiah 7.14. What am I doing? I'm filling your seed bag with truths concerning the deity of Christ. The Old Testament prophet Isaiah says, "Sid, behold a virgin shall conceive, "embarrass son, and you shall call his name." What?

Emmanuel, who with us? God with us. You know what Sid said? He said, "That's Jesus, isn't it?" I said, "It sure is, Sid." Notice letter B, Isaiah 9.6. "For unto us a child is born, "unto us a son is given, "and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor Mighty Who." God, everlasting Father. Now we keep in mind that the Holy Spirit must take the word and bring it to this person, not just in information, but illumination. We understand that, but I must be equipped with the seed. Because I'm responsible to be the sower of the seed the Holy Spirit takes and quickens. I'm witnessing to a Jehovah's Witness in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Her name was Jean, she's in the Jehovah's Witnesses. And so here's some great verses I took her to on the deity of Jesus. I'm just filling your seed bag. I told you it was gonna be overwhelming. The letter A, Exodus 3.14. Remember when God, Jehovah God, manifest himself in the burning bush to Moses, he gives Moses orders that he's gonna use him to deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses says, "Jehovah, God, "what is your name? "Who shall I tell them has sent me?" And he says, Exodus 3.14, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel," what? "I am has sent me to you." I said, "There's God." Right, Miss Jean? That's Jehovah God.

She said, "Yes, I am that I am." I said, "Well, let's go to the New Testament." You know the verses. John 6, you see it there, 35. This is the Lord Jesus speaking. And what does he say? "I am the bread of life." He's saying, "As I am, I am the giver and sustainer "of all spiritual life." And what did they say? The religious but lost crowd. They knew exactly what he was claiming. They said, "Aren't you the son of Joseph the carpenter?" Jesus is claiming to be I am in letter C, John 8.12. I said, "Miss Jean, Jesus is speaking again." And he says, "What?" "I am the light of the world.

"I'm the fountain from which all spiritual life flows "and becomes spiritual life." And what did the crowd do? They called him a liar because they knew precisely what he was claiming. He's about to raise Lazarus and the dead. And what does he say, letter D? "I am the resurrection and the life. "I'm the author of the resurrection. "I'm the source of eternal life." And he proves it by raising Lazarus and the dead before their eyes. And here's a key verse. "What am I doing? "Oh friends, my seed bag is filled with seed "concerning the deity of Christ.

"So I'm ready to give an answer to that Jehovah's Witness, "that Mormon or that pagan." So many of them today don't have a clue. They think he's a little baby in a manger. But notice what Jesus says, number five. In John 8.58, such a key verse. "Before Abraham was," that's a few thousand years back. "Before Abraham was existed, I am." He is declaring to be the self-existent one. He's speaking in the present continuous tense. And he says, "I am Jehovah God.

"I am the co-equal, co-eternal, co-existent God." And the passage says they picked up stones to kill him because Leviticus 24 says, "If a man makes a claim like that, he's blaspheming God." But this man's claims were true. And notice number six, oh, this a powerful verse. "Brother Adam, oh, this business Jesus is God." That doesn't matter, just as long as you go through a little plan, admit your sinner, and repeat a prayer, you're good, you're in. You don't have to worry about whether Jesus is God and I don't listen to this. This is Jesus speaking. Number six, "If you do not believe that I am." There is no he in the original text.

It's in italics. "If you do not believe that I am, "you will die in your sins." This person I'm speaking to, I don't need to take for granted that they know even who Jesus is. He gotta begin at first base. Who is, who did he claim to be? He is God, amen? We know that, but the person I'm witnessing to needs to know that. Sometimes I'll witness to a person like that and he'll say, "I wouldn't believe that Jesus "is who he says he was unless I could see him face to face." You know what I'd say?

Note number seven, the testimony of another disciple, doubting Thomas, "I won't believe that Jesus is risen "from the dead unless I can put my fingers in the marks, "my hand in his side." And the resurrected God, the son, appears to Thomas and says, "Don't be unbelieving, Thomas. "Be believing he fell down and confessed my," what? "Let her be my Lord and my God." If Jesus were not God, he would have rebuked Thomas for making that claim. He would have rejected that worship. He would have resisted it, but he received it. Because Jesus is God. And number eight, I'm moving along. The testimony of Jesus himself, "I am my father," or what?

One in essence, one in attributes. I'm witnessing unto the deity of Jesus. You would be absolutely amazed and shocked even at the percentage of people in this county, in this collapsing culture, who really don't really know who he is. But if I'm witnessing to a person, they're from a background where they understand who Jesus is, they're seeing what I'm saying, then I won't park there, I'll move along. But if I'm talking to a person from a cult, they're just a pagan background, an ignorant background, I'm gonna park there before I move on. But if I do move on, where are you gonna move on to?

I'm gonna move on to another theme, which kept coming up in Book of Acts proclamations, and it is the holiness of Jesus. I call it letter B, the purity of Jesus, brother Ed. Why would you fill your gospel seed bag with truths concerning the holiness of God, the holiness of Jesus? Because a sinner must see himself compared to God. Conviction and contrition is birth when we see ourselves in the light of the holiness of God, then we have grounds to cry, "Woe is me." For I am undone. No one hungers in thirst for the good news of God's tremendous provision until they see the bad news of their terrible problem before a holy God.

I've mentioned twice this week that sinners left to themselves will always compare themselves by the wrong standard. They'll always compare themselves to other sinners. Oh, but if a sinner sees himself in light of the holiness of God, then he has grounds for conviction and contrition. So I wanna confront this person with the holiness of God. Listen to J.I. Packer. I'm quoting him in the book "Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God." He says this, "If we would say far more about the Lord's holiness and justice than about his love, then we would say far more when we began to focus on his amazing love at the cross." Did you get that?

Did you follow me? Did you follow Mr. Packer on that? Let's put some seed back. There's many verses. I'm using them in compared to Jesus. Jesus is holy. In Acts 3.14, if you wanna write that extra one down. Second message after Pentecost. He speaks of the holy one speaking of the Lord Jesus. Here's a great one on the holiness of Jesus. Letter A, Hebrews 4.15. Speaking of Jesus, he was tempted in all points as we are yet without what? You know that verse. It's speaking of the absolute sinlessness, holiness, purity of Jesus, God the Son, without any sin. Never made a mistake. Never made an error. Never made a misjudgment. Moral perfection.

Free from any pollution of sin. Here's a great one on the holiness of Jesus. The holiness of God the Son. Letter B, Hebrews 7.26. Speaking of Jesus says he is holy, harmless, undefiled, holy in his relationship to God the Father. Harmless in his relationship to other sinners. Undefiled in relationship to his inner core. Holy without any contamination. Even Pilate had to say, I find no fault in him. Even the demons had to confess he's the holy one of God. Here's a great verse. We'll come back to later on, letter C on the holiness of Jesus. Second Corinthians 5.21. For he, God the Father, made him God the Son, who knew, know what?

Sin, telling us Jesus is perfect. He lived a perfectly righteous life. God the Son came to the earth as the Son of Man. Perfectly obeyed the law that we have shattered. Perfectly pleased the Father when we failed to. Perfectly submitted to God the Father. His entire life was holy, holy, holy. And here's another one, just another one. First Peter 1.19. Speaking of Jesus, he's a lamb without blemish and without spot. You know these verses. I'm witnessing the billop, he's quiet.

And I'm praying that he'll see his life in light of the deity of Jesus and the holiness of Jesus because no one comprehends and truly embraces the good news of the love of God and the cross until they first get a conception of the bad news of the holy God with whom they have to deal and the moral law that they have shattered. So if Jesus is holy, that means there's some practical implications of his holiness. They're good, you can use 'em. Notice letter number two. There are four realities this person must understand in light of the holiness of Jesus. Some powerful implications of Jesus holiness. The first one was letter A.

I said, "Billop, Jesus hates sin." He detests sin. He abhors sin. He has an intense animosity and a holy hostility fixed against sin and the sinners who are unconverted who commit those sins. Notice what the psalmist says in Psalm seven and verse 11. Speaking of God, God is angry with the wicked every day. Did you know that? 14 times the psalmist speaks about his holy hatred for sin. Now his anger's not like your anger. Your anger and my anger is tainted with our humanness, sinfulness, fallenness. Jesus' anger is pure, perfect. It's a holy animosity. It's a just hostility. And how does it manifest?

In his righteous wrath fixed against sinners. There's another verse. Oh, Billop is quiet up there. I said, "Billop, listen to this verse from the Bible, Psalm five and verse five. It says, "God hates all workers of iniquity." Now who are workers of iniquity? Just the guys at death row and parchment? No, that's every sinner who has not yet come to the Jesus of the gospels on his conditions. God has a pure, holy hatred for sin. He detested, he despises it. He's saying in his word, I have this intense animosity, this holy hostility against sin. He loves everything that is conformity to his holiness and his holy commandments.

But he hates everything that is contrary to his holiness and his holy commandments. Right? Brother Ed, have you torn John 3.16 out of your Bible? No. God loves unconverted rebel sinners because God is love. But that's not all the truth. That's only part of the truth. And we heard earlier in the week when you take a gospel and take part of a truth and make it all of the truth, that part of a truth becomes an untruth because you get out of balance. God is love, but not at the expense of his holiness. God is holy, but not at the expense of his love.

And this sinner that I'm witnessing to will never treasure the love of God in the cross until they get some sense of the holiness of God and his holy indignation fixed against them for their sin. But there's another implication of God's holiness and its letter B, Jesus must judge sin. He must judge sin. And do you know that those who have not come to Jesus on his terms, you know what Jesus says about them two verses up to John 3.16? He says, you see it right there, he who does not believe, that's savingly believe, he who does not believe is condemned already.

There's people all over this county tonight walking around just ate and suffered, sitting down watching the TV or at a ballgame. They've never come to Jesus on his terms. They've never savingly believed on Jesus. And right now at the ball field, they are condemned. It's not that they're gonna be condemned. They are condemned right now, Jesus says. And 20 verses after John 3.16, John the Baptist says, watch this, the wrath of God abides on them. What's the wrath of God? It's his holy indignation. His just hostility is abiding on him. Notice it does not say, listen closely, the Bible does not say the wrath of God abides over their sin.

It says the wrath of God abides over the sinner. We're saying Jesus hates sin. Jesus must judge sin. And for a witness to ignore these realities in his evangelistic proclamation is to both misunderstand God and misrepresent God. He hates sin. He must judge sin. His wrath abides over sinners. Every sin requires God's hatred of it. Every unconverted sinner demands God's punishment of them. But there's more bad news. And I'm in that backseat praying that Bill of is gonna see the bad news. And so I say, let her see their sins have separated them from God. You know this verse, this is one that some folks do use and have used in the past.

God says in Isaiah 59.2, he says, your iniquities have what? Separated you from your God. This person who has not come to the Jesus of the Bible on his conditions is presently separated from God. They are condemned right now. The wrath of God is abiding over them right now. But there's more bad news letter D. God's requirement for entering into heaven and escaping his wrath. Listen, is perfect righteousness. And this is the clincher. Nobody's escaping the wrath of God, the just wrath of God. Nobody's entering into the presence of God in heaven unless they have a righteousness that is equal to the righteousness of God himself.

And God will not lower that requirement. He cannot lower that requirement. This is why Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, you see it there, Matthew 5.48, be perfect. Even as your Father in heaven is perfect, the word is not mature. The word is exactly what it says it is, be perfect. Oh, I want Billup to understand that there is a righteousness that he does not have and he desperately needs. I said, Billup, do you meet that requirement? You know what he was saying in the front seat? I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner. You don't get saved till you get lost. And we need a perfect righteousness.

That presents a major problem because there's how many righteous? Romans three, then there is none. Righteous, no, not one, no one can meet this requirement. Well, Brother Ed, you're presenting a requirement before Billup that he cannot meet. That's precisely what I'm doing. 'Cause I'm longing for him to see himself as he truly is. A bankrupt, destitute, lost, rebel sinner. And I want him to see that the best of human righteousness is absolutely worthless and useless in the presence of a perfectly righteous God.

As a matter of fact, do you know the best 30 minutes you ever lived has enough sin in it to damn you to hell? (congregation laughing) And me, I didn't say the worst 30. I said the best 30. Because God says your righteousness is, we're talking about an unconverted person, your righteousnesses are as what? Filthy rags to a holy God. You didn't say your sins are as filthy rags. He said the best human moral performance that you can concoct to me is like the used rags of a leper in my presence. Number three, when a sinner truly sees the perfect standard, he has grounds for conviction and contrition. He has grounds to declare spiritual bankruptcy.

He has grounds to experience that godly sorrow that produces repentance leading to salvation. He has grounds if the Spirit of God is taking the word of God and piercing his heart. He has grounds to have a broken and contrite heart. He has grounds now to hunger and thirst after a righteousness that he does not have and he desperately needs. Letter A, this conviction is a work of the Holy Spirit, isn't it? He's come to reprove of sin and of righteousness and judgment. Only he can powerfully prosecute and penetrate the sinner but we must lay out the evidence. We're responsible to lay out the evidence.

So we go to one more point and we close tonight and this is an essential theme throughout the book of Acts. Every single book of Acts proclamation would lead us to this, the sinfulness of man. Now remember, we're God's prosecutors. We are his mouthpieces that the Holy Spirit uses and we're not looking for just a verbal agreement. A, admit your sinner. Are you sin? Yeah, so can you imagine a prosecutor at a murder trial and he turns over and says, hey, admit your sinner, do you think he's gonna do that? Is it a defendant? No, he's gonna do what? He's gonna lay out the evidence.

Paint the picture of what that murderer is and the evidence and that's what we must do. We must lay out the evidence of sin. So we wanna paint some pictures. I'm moving on about what sin is. I want this person to see themselves as a living offense to the holiness of God and in desperate need of a savior and a deliverer. I want him to see his true condition. So I paint some pictures, I paint some evidence. What is sin? Letter A, here's an evidence you can use. That's what we do, but we know it. Going your own way, that's sin. I just wanted to problemize that he said, all we watch, he could go astray, we have turned everyone to what?

His own way, it may be a thousand different ways. But what makes it sin is it's your way and not God's way. That's it. Let me explain, what is sin? Those are the, it's the failure to need God's perfect savior. It's the failure to live for the purpose for which you were created. You were created by him and for him. He comes in no end and to live a life that was centered on him, directed by him, policing him, afraid he could do that to sin. I'm laying out the evidence. I'm painting some pictures in order for this person to come to the Lord, he must first come to the end of any trust in his own goodness or righteousness. Here's a great one.

I talked about it last night. It was ending the moral law. Letter C, the failure to obey God's commandments perfectly. Now, I was developing this for Cuba a long while ago. It was before the next. (mumbles) The Australian issue. Well, wait a minute. This was before that, that it's in the Bible. That's where he got it. I want to use examples from the moral law so that sin might be utterly sinful to this person. So I said, "Bill, you know what God's name is?" He says, "You shall have no other God before you." You shall love God for the 100% of your heart, mind, soul, and soul. Bill, have you obey that command?

You know the failure to obey that command one time, the sin against God is worthy of eternal functioning. The law of the Bible, the thing to remember, said honor your property. You know, they built so far here in the early 20s, that you perfectly honored and obeys your property and honor not only in your actions and your words and your attitude. The fans on his sin against God are just worthy of eternal functioning. Bill, if you shall not commit adultery, have you ever looked at another woman that lost when you're not a child? If you have, Jesus said you've already committed adultery. You shall not steal.

I hear everything, even this wall, this everything that's been belonging to you. Bill, have you ever stole some time in this town and you should have been working with the children? Waking? The value of what you stole was irrelevant. Because it only takes one time to steal and become a treatment of God for the people. You shall not bear false witness. Have you ever told a lot of it? This represents something? You need even a little white thought. How many lives must a person tell to become a lawyer since God is closer to 50? Do you mind me? Come on. The Bible says all lawyers will hunt their parts and their wages, but I don't. What do I do?

Who is a lawyer? Every mouth may be and all the world may become guilty. I wasn't preaching, I'm your lawyer. Brother D, the failure to love God with all of your heart. What have I done here? I've laid out the evidence. For God's prosecutor. So I fill my seat bag with pictures of what sin is. I'm not going up the bill of insane. All sin can surely worry about our years. You know what I'm saying? No. No, I want to lay out the evidence so that the Holy Spirit would penetrate his heart and process you. He is a lost, rebel criminal. He's a courtroom of God. Amen? Are you with me? Amen. Amen. Here's a great verse you probably used.

That's one of the best. Letter B, John 2.10. I said, "Well, here's the problem, man. "It's even worse if you've got the whole law "and you've only broken one, you stumbled at one point. "You are guilty of..." Oh. You broke one commandment, you shattered the entire moral law of God. And letter C, Galatians 3.10. We're not the cause, you know what God says? He says, "I've heard." "I give everyone who did not continue in all things "which are written in the book of the law." I said, "Well, imagine you have a bow and arrow in your hand.

"About 50 meters away, there's a target where you go by." In Philip, you've got 100,000 arrows stacked up over here. What you must do, Philip, is you must take every single one of those arrows that you must hit that bow and arrow perfectly over your hand. You miss that bow and arrow by one time, you'll occur. I said, "Phil, I've never shot a bow and arrow." This is a problem. It's a bullseye in the oral law of God. The bow is your character. The arrows are your thoughts, your words, your actions, your reactions, your attitudes and motives. Oh, you have a distant bullseye here. You've missed it thousands of times.

And we close, but I mean the wages of this thing the whole time, one time, we fight. There. I just physical bear. The spiritual death, the second death. Not what you're gonna do, brother, and I'm praying that Philip realizes he has a two-fold problem before God. He has a bad record because he has a bad heart. He's not only shattered the commandments, but he's done so because he has a whole character. You know what he's saying? In the front too. (inaudible) Tomorrow night, I'm gonna get to get you. You ain't? You gotta understand that. Before you go on to the verse, you'll get me.

Finish in a pastor's conference in Uganda, and I'll shut up, and we've got 500 pastors at that conference. And again, there's another taxi fan down there. His name is Daniel. I got a 30-minute drive this time, and for the first 15 minutes, I gave him a condensed version of it. We took a few sessions to talk to him about that. I knocked it across. He slowed down again. He stopped and turned around, and he said, "Daniel said it." That's good. And it is good. When you see that. (inaudible) Don't miss the environment. You'll think all I talk about is that it is.