Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

You may have you may act a certain remember I said there might be a some type of sin that's persistent in your life or a sin that you got mad at God for something, there's all these different kinds of sins but you haven't rejected the Holy Spirit. You have this thing in your brain that says, maybe I need to then you haven't committed the unpardonable sin. So the fact that a person feels remorse proves that blasphemy against the holy spirit has not yet been committed. So this is what Jesus is doing. He was warning us not to not to reject truth but and not to abandon your faith. Don't reject truth. Don't abandon your faith regardless what happens. Okay? This is what will save you. You're here for a reason. You've come here for a reason today. [01:24:15] (51 seconds)  #RepentanceIsHope

But don't this is what's interesting. He's telling these people, but don't do what they do. They're hypocritical. He said, because they don't practice what they teach. They tie and they give then he gives us an example. They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people's shoulders, but they themselves aren't willing to lift a finger to move them. Have you ever seen that? You just talk a good game and there's no work or extending behind it. Right? Think about that. But but that's what the pharisees were doing. That's what they were doing. So Jesus is speaking to them about that. Now, not all pharisees in Jesus' days were hypocrites. Not everybody. Just like they weren't the only hypocrites in Israel. There's hypocrites all over the world. But Jesus was condemning these particular pharisees because I'm a read you in a little bit what and next, when we get into Matthew twelve twenty two to 28, what has occurred and why is it occurred? And so we'll get to that in moment. But what he did, he condemned them. [01:04:09] (63 seconds)  #PracticeWhatYouPreach

And as you know, Jesus, this is where Jesus walked on water. This is one thing that most people tend to forget, you know, Peter walked on water as well and he was close enough to Jesus until he lost a little bit of faith. It wavered just a little bit just like the waves were going back and forth, he sort of lost sight of Jesus. How many of us, and this is part of my open I guess, have lost sight of Jesus a little bit and you start wavering. And when you start wavering, you know what happened to Peter? What happened to Peter? Anyone know? He started to sink. [00:43:58] (36 seconds)  #KeepYourEyesOnJesus

How can this sin be unforgivable if God is always willing to forgive? I got a few minutes left before I close. Because it's gone beyond the possibility of recovery. You cannot be recovered from this on the sinner's part because God respects you know what he does? If he wanted us to all follow him and worship him, he'd just make us all robots. But you know what he gave each one of you? Each one of us? Free will. Will. The freedom to choose. You make a choice. Whatever you're doing, whatever how old you are, you all made a choice here. [01:22:31] (32 seconds)  #FreeWillMatters

is when you have refused so stubbornly to repent because you have heard this time and time again, but you still reject the truth knowing it to be true. This severs the path of which god draws a person. When you've been now all of us who have come to know Christ, you've had to feel a tug. There is something that pulled you close and that and you were saying, what is that? That was the holy spirit tugging you. So, you say to yourself, because you choose light but you didn't choose darkness. Now, from this definition, you're gonna say, well, how do I know if I've if I've if I've have committed the unpardonable sin? Well, you it's real easy for you to figure that out. The and why? Because if you have a troubled conscious, this kind of sin could never coexist in your mind. So you haven't rejected the truth. [01:23:08] (67 seconds)  #TroubledConscience

So what Jesus does, he's gonna we're gonna talk about that rejection in a moment, but he does offer mercy and grace, he does not offer rules. And also, as I said earlier, I'm gonna talk a little bit about the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which is blasphemy in in what you could understand today is you all know what a pardon is. Right? You're forgiven for something. You you know, get pardoned out of jail. But this blasphemy against blasphemy, can you say it again? Blasphemy against the holy spirit is an unpardonable sin. And I'll get into a little bit of that and you can question yourself, have you committed the unpardonable sin? [00:51:49] (41 seconds)  #ExamineYourHeart

and I said this to the class today, knowing your thoughts. So he knew what the pharisees were thinking. So if you think if Jesus knew what they're thinking, he knew back then, did you think that Jesus knows what you were thinking right now? Right now. Right now, he knows exactly what all of us are thinking because he just you know, he knew their thoughts. If he knows their thought, he knows our thoughts, every one of us. So he told him, then he gives an example. Every kingdom divided against itself is headed for destruction, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. If Satan drives out Satan because again, he had just healed someone who couldn't speak and he had a swiveled hand. [01:07:35] (47 seconds)  #NoKingdomDivided

This role is to draw what does Jesus want us to do? He wants to draw humanity toward repentance and I told you earlier, you have to turn away from sin and self, so you have to repent. And then but you also wanna draw toward the truth. Do not reject the truth. I told you all last week about a little bit information about the bible, do you know and I'm just gonna mention this real quick. There's over 60,000 references of the old to the new testament. I guess with computer computer the way the world's worked with computers and and AI and all these different, they have they they have studies been done, Over 60,000, if you wanna call it, points that go from old to new. The bible is true. It's your choice to believe what it says. [01:25:38] (51 seconds)  #RepentAndBelieve