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This is What's Right, What's Left, with Pastor Ernie Sanders. Good evening and welcome to another edition of What's Right, What's Left on this seventh day of December 2025. And tonight, folks, um Little bit under the weather. Fact actually I'm a lot under the weather, but My dear friend. Kenny Pyhoski.
came in on his own time to help because this this program is prerecorded.
So that I could go. to the Christmas concert tonight. Thank you, Kenny. No problem. Good evening, Pastor.
Good evening, my friend. Uh the title of the message if we get through this thing tonight is two kinds of people. and their choices and their ends. And, um, you know, Kenny've heard the expression The inmates are running the asylum.
Well When far left pundits like James Carville and Bill Maher are admitting it Many on the left have lost their mind. and are acting crazy. It's imperative that we take action to protect our families from this criminally insane portion of our society. Yeah, they're just insane. That's correct.
Now some Some might say, Now, Come on, pastor They're really not really dangerous though. I mean Uh, you know, just a little crazy. I mean, f for example, What harm is there in For Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh to put Tampex dispensers in boys' bathrooms.
Well Kenny, do you know what what harm that could do?
Well, not only is it a waste of taxpayer money, but it also can confuse kids. Yeah, I'd be a bit confused if I was a young kid. I mean You know, you go in there, you have 'em, what do what am I supposed to do with this, huh? And how many of them wind up in toilets too and cause more havoc?
Well, think back when you were The fourth the fifth grade. What would you have done? You'd have been throwing em at each other or something like that, right? Oh, easily, yeah. You'd find the hallway full of tampax.
out there. But but it's just a I mean, just Now just think about this. Putting tampecks in boys' bathrooms. That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy.
But. Anyhow, I'm done. Then you go on and you've got This contangy Brown Jackson, who? Doesn't know what a woman is.
Now think about this. She's a woman. But she doesn't know what she is. She had no idea.
So, I mean, here now this is our Supreme Court. These are the people that are supposed to be in the Supreme Court. How did she get on that court? I can tell you this It wasn't because of her abilities as as a judge. Sh she got there because of her color.
Joe Biden. It sure wasn't her supreme intellect either. You you're telling me. And then you have Just recently Okay. You've got the uh superintendent of The Michigan State Education Superintendent.
Sue Carnell. And then they had an event. And during the question period Someone asked her How many genders exist. And she just about lost it. She she didn't say two?
No, gee. She didn't know what to say. She was she was, uh, totally stumped. Um had had no idea. Can you imagine that?
Here you know, when you're in charge of the Department of Education, means dealing with youth And she didn't know how many genders there were. You would think a position like that, you would find someone, you know, that might be smart or ed educated. You would hope. You would think. Yeah.
Well You know Even though today it's it's it's common knowledge, for example. I wanna let me. start I think I'm gonna go to Genesis. or in our Genesis to Romans chapter one and verse twenty four. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, To dishonour their dishonour their own bodies between themselves.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped? and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Now, think about this. Therefore, God. Exactly. Gave them up. To a cleanness.
What are some of the things that are uncleanness? Um, sodomy? Mm-hmm. Um whoredom. Yeah.
Um Pretty much on every sin. You know, it gets into the whole. Everything that the left embrace today, especially their women. Especially their women can be found to be noncleanness, okay?
Now how do we know that?
Well, let's go on and keep reading. Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the Creator? or the creature more than the Creator, whose Bless for ever Amen Now Here, who do you th what do you think the uh creature that they were worshiping is? Um, I mean, that could Would would that be themselves? It would be man, yeah, it would be man, but more so where you have like you have these idols out there to day.
whether there be movie stars or athletes, Well People that don't go to church, instead they Uh you know, they spend their Sundays watching football, which is not the problem with watching football, but Here jis worshippin'. Um those that are The billionaires and the millionaires Remember how With Barack Obama, they were calling him Messiah. Yeah.
And remember what uh Um Calypso Louis said Louis Firrakan when he said When Obama speak, Messiah speak. Yeah.
Unbelievable.
So he goes on to say For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affection. For even their women did change the natural use unto that which is against nature Well Today there's there's there's some lag I can't even really talk about some of the Uh Really perverse. sexual Habits they're having to with it with women having multiple Um, I I hate to say multiple partners fornicators. In one night. In other words, at one time.
All at one time. That's this is the the One of the fad things that's that's going on out there amongst those Um amongst the unclean. Yeah.
the horrible thing, especially when it comes to the children and the the pedophilia. Um It's amazing. Remember when we were when I was young, when I was going to school, You would hear about a teacher having sex or you know Milestone the child one of the s are being caught with one of the students, but it was ninety percent of the time it was a man with one of the young girls that's flipped all the way around. Yeah, that's c completely the exact opposite now. Yeah, that's what I was saying about especially here, you know, it just seems to have really affected the women more, so He goes on to say And likewise also the men having the natural leaving their natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another.
This is L G B T Q. This is what they they think is proper. This is what Spectrum News won. You know Spectrum News, whatn't they? They seem to promote this all the time.
This is a good thing, celebrating it. Yeah.
And, um, of course, you know, you saw Joe Biden and Obama with the Sodomite flag on flying over the White House. And Where it says it's seemingly Oh. Men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving themselves the recompense of their error which is meet. He goes on, and even as they did not like to retain Uh God in their knowledge. God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do the things which are Not convenient.
So, now if if Kentanzi Brown Didn't know what What a woman was could we show her this verse say Uh here And likewise men ah No, let me go back to that. Even their women, even their women did change the natural use.
So Ketanji because Ketanji's a feminist to the hilt. Um A woman is someone that is doing this. Do you know any of them, huh? I I mean it It would be har kinda hard to be a feminist if you don't even know what a woman is. Like, it's the the logic's just not there.
It's it's literally insane. Absolutely, it is. It's it's it's insane. And even as they did not like to hear the oh boy, here's the one here. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness. Maliciousness full of enemy murder debate They said malignant whisperers. Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud boasters Inventor of evil things, disobedient. This is a whole litany. of characteristics you find that's that's embraced by the Democratic Party, isn't it?
Well, I was going to ask if you were reading scripture or if you were reading their mission statement. Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable and merciful. But look at this verse here. Who knowing The judgment of God. That they which commit such things.
Are worthy of death. Not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Do you remember? When Barack Obama was first running, And they asked Barack Obama. About marriage.
And he says his definition of marriage is between one man and one woman. On that very day that he made that statement, I said That will change the very instant. He gets elected, his statement will change. Yeah, always does. It always does.
On that very day, the same thing with Rick Warren. Rick Warren went right along with him.
Now you have. The um And we knew because I knew that Obama was a sodomite. I knew he was a sodomite. you know, bef way before he ever got elected, And so here Again, who knowing the judgment of God as they which commit such things are worthy of death. not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
In other words, I remember when, um I had Carol. Everett on this radio program. She ran about five abortion mills in Texas. We led her to the Lord. She got got saved and got out of that.
But one day she said to Here hung the program. She said, When these women say to you, personally, I could never have an abortion. But I'm not going to judge those that do. She said, Listen. That's shop talk.
What they've just told you is they've that they've had at least one. You could take trust me on that. all these abortion laws. And that's what he's saying. We know in the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death, and not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
What do you think that meant? Where does that come from? worthy of death. Where would you find in the Bible? That committing abortion would be worthy of death.
Um I mean, wouldn't that be like right at the beginning? Right, right in Genesis? Yeah.
During a Noate covenant when God gave us the divine institution of human government. where you got the third point was the the Most important point in Genesis 9, 5 through 7, we're talking about The uh And that's where you got the statute of the death penalty. About those that That God had given given man dominion over the environment, but He kept dominion of man for himself, so whoever destroyed the image of God. He tells you the entire purpose, the entire purpose. Of divine human government was to preserve the image of God, that being man.
That's the entire purpose. And so those that he tells you right there, those that transgress God's dominion destroy his image. have to forfeit their own lives. And so Even though today it's kind of common knowledge, Kenny, that. There is absolutely no Scientific evidence, and this is why we're going back to where we started here.
In fact, in verse twenty 21 Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful. but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made to the corruptible man. And so here Even though today, again, it's common knowledge that there is absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever.
There is absolutely no scientific evidence. To justify the teaching of evolution in our public schools. I mean, they've proven that over and over. Um any legitimate scientist will tell you that. Yeah, it just doesn't make any sense.
Well, we've we've had uh I don't know how many on on this radio program that, you know. Tell you. It doesn't, because It's mathematically impossible to have a creation without a creator. There's never that's never happened. It's never happened and it's just and it never will.
Right. You you c uh You can't create yourself. And so Here t you know, to Again. There's no evidence to justify the teaching of evolution. And our public education system is still being taught as fact.
They teach it as fact.
Now you've been known. I've noticed in the last few years in some States. The the truth of creation. was allowed to be taught right alongside. The Yeah.
Fool's doctrine. That's what evolution is, the fool's doctrine. The Bible says a fool has said in his heart, There is no God. And so now there are those you know double minded double minded individuals. They'd say, well, they believe in both God and evolution.
They believe that God used evolution. for creation. How do you answer that? I could see where they're trying to figure out a way for evolution to still be relevant, but it that doesn't really make much sense to me either. Because I've always said like if if evolution was true, And we evolved what is if we evolved from monkeys then why are there still monkeys?
Like it doesn't make any sense. Right. There's only one absolute authority and source of creation. Only one, only one, okay, and that's God's word. The Bible, King James Bible.
In that he tells you very clearly, okay, God tells you how he started. in the six days of creation That they were in the evening and the morning were the first day. These were six. Tw uh twenty four hour days six in a row, twenty four hour days. It tells you it's very there's no stutter in there.
It's very clear on that, Shane. That that's what they were.
So to say that God used. Evolu evolution over millions of years, and as they say, I remember. That Carl Sagan, do you remember Carl Sagan? I I remember the name. I don't know exactly who it is though.
It, you know, is a very strange I was speaking. In fact, I did a television program down in Van Wert, Ohio, some years ago. And on the television program we had a uh twins saved. Uh, 'cause a woman was listening to the pro watching and called in, who was pregnant and she was gonna board her babies, but She didn't and a year later we went back on and she was there with her babies, you know. um are on the program anyhow, but anyhow.
Twins. But, um So If I remember right. Yeah, yeah. I know something similar happened on the radio too, but Anyhow, while I was there I I was I s was in a motel room. And in the morning when I was putting on my socks The television's on and Carl Sagan's there, and it's almost like he's looking through the T V screen.
right at me. And he looks and he points. And he talks about Uh Those of us that don't believe An evolution. And he and um he says 'Cause he know he talked that way. He said Fifty million years ago there was nothing.
There was it on you. There was no me. And then there was this clasmatic explosion. and out of the cosmetic explosion. came everything all manner.
So I said wait a minute, let me see if I got this right, right? See fifty billion years ago. Go ahead. You're out nobody. And what they did if is nobody Who wasn't there?
What, and he took. An energy force that didn't exist. And He took that energy force that didn't exist and he ignited material that didn't exist. And so when that person that wasn't there ignited the material that wasn't there. You had a plasmatic explosion that didn't happen.
and out of that came everything. Makes perfect sense. Yeah, well guess what? That's what That's what they're teaching the kids in the public school system. And you wanna know?
Why they're coming out the way they are?
So here Yeah, that sounds way more plausible than a creator creating everything. Yeah, yeah. Again, the idiocy, it it it's it's frightening.
So, the public education system literally teaches young people to to major in atheism today. Thus Creating the biblical definition of a fool. And now here, what we just read. It's a s a very sad sequence of events in there. Let's take a look at what we just looked at.
Because Of their deliberate repudiation of God. One, he gave them up to uncleanness. He gave them up to uncleanness.
So we talked about. about that. Uh I mean, they're very unclean. Uh when I I think the definition when you watch that radio program, that T V program, the view with those women. I think that's it almost a definition of uncleanness on their their um their language.
They're vile. Yeah, they're vile. They're vile people.
Okay. When you hear Uh My you know, and it's Well I mean, when you hear people like James Carville, James Carville's vile, too, this guy. But Uh, it it's you know, when we were growing up and I remember You know, people would when when a woman would cuss or people would look up, you know. 'Cause you you hardly ever saw that. Wh when I was young Going up.
In the fifties. The only time you ever saw a woman with a tattoo was when you went to the c circus. You didn't s you know, but today Well, and I'm just amazed at, you know, On television? And Um you know, on the internet, the vile language that they use and these These congresswomen, that Presley woman, that um Omar, but the the one that's worse that's worse than the uh The one Moslem woman And I'm trying to remember her name. She's the w she's the worst at all.
I mean, she c can hardly Say a sentence without dropping the F bomb. And it's pretty nasty. But anyhow So Because of that he gave more to uncleanness, too. because they worshipped the Crete Creature more than God. He gave them up to vile affections.
And again, like I'm saying today, I don't, I don't even, you know, want. use the terms on on Christian radio, but they have, you know, terms for what is happening out there, uh you know, if if you make the news and y you really get into What has taken place? I mean What has taken place in the mainstream Democratic parties It was really Uh not worse than anything that took place almost, almost on Epstein's Island. I mean, there's some very vile, vile things that they did, especially where it comes to children. And because they did not even care to know about God, he gave them over to a reprobate mind.
Now that's one who has no moral standing. Uh And it as completely Uh unprincipled. without any personal. Give me some examples of some of those you might know that's Yeah. Would uh would fit there.
Um well, I mean, pretty much look at the entire Democrat Party. Yeah.
Um Well, Bill Clinton's one of the first that comes to mind. Bill Clinton. Hilary is not far behind, if at all. What about the Podesta brothers? Yep, yep, them.
Those guys are really known. Um, what about that Prince Andrew? Mhm. There's an audio voucher. Uh, I mean, you you look in at Um And th these people used to what about that They call her Lady Gaga.
Yeah.
I don't know I don't know really much anything about her. They they they had Uh a picture of her Um Up on the internet they they showed Some of the people that they that Well, I d I really can't get into it. But Put it this way. She's topless, and her father was standing behind her, h holding her. her father.
According to the the article. Holding her breath, you know. No morals. Yeah, this is what I'm talking about. This is Um Totally.
Well These are the people that that one female comedian that wanted to Decapitate President Trump G carried out. A fake head of Trump around. Yeah, well it was uh Kathy Griffin, I think was her name. Yeah, yeah. Um, some of the things that She said Just was I mean, just really really sick.
I mean, and so this but this is the left and this is today And this is exactly what we just read out of Romans, okay. Um was not nearly not nearly a a fi applicable goal From the time it was written as it is today. And so it this this Bible is the word of God is is like the time.
Well, I I don't want to call it a time machine, but in a sense Let's um Let's go over real quick to Isaiah chapter Five. In Isaiah chapter five. Stir anywhere. Verse 18, Woe unto them that draw iniquity. With cords of vanity and sin as it were with a cartrope.
So that say let a let him make speed and Hasten his work, that we may see it. and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it.
So they're saying Here Let us put our sin It's like they've got a cart and and they put that all their sin in that cart. And they pull it out and they flaunt it, they flaunt it in the face of a holy God. And they say, And let the council of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come. That we may know it. In other words, let's see what God's going to say, how God's going to react to us flaunting our sin.
in front of him. Do you think that's a smart move? No, no, not at all. You don't uh well, God's not one to be mocked first and foremost, and you certainly don't want to flaunt your sin in front of him like you're proud of it. That's It's literally insane to do.
What would you say would be probably one of the best examples of them that do that today? Oh, it's got to be the LGBTQ, LMNOP, whatever community. I would say that that's their you know, they're what what God has called an abomination. They flocked it in front of him. Jerry Carter just this weekend spoke to The L G B to delude gross belligerent transgressing queers.
And Jimmy was telling them to stand up and go back and fight against Magda, fight against those Christians. You gotta fight, fight, fight against them. And he's a he's a sick puppy. I mean Joe Biden is a pedophile. And and it's I mean here we had We had with a Barack Obama homosexual president.
Well, that was uh that was Joe Biden telling him to fight against mega. Yeah.
Okay, I thought you said Jimmy Carter.
Well, no, no, okay. Uh no, Joe Biden.
Okay. Just wanted to clarify. Jimmy Carter never did it never w did that, but I'll tell you I have a real problem believing he was a Christian because I heard Jimmy Carter say. God's Word, the Bible teaches That abortion is a sin and that it's murder. But I I was elected by my constituents.
To to guarantee them their rights, and that's what I'll do. You need to believe that? Yeah, well, I mean, that's just the face of a coward there, you know. Yeah.
He knows what's right and refuses to do what's right, you know, and refuses to support what's right. And Uh And he's just a coward. That's what it boils down to. He was supposed to be a a Sunday school teacher. Do you think he Somehow he had one of those Bibles that didn't have Acts five twenty nine in it.
Maybe. Maybe. So Anyhow, so he goes on to say. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. But darkness for light.
and light for darkness and put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. I'm gonna have to whip my whistle.
Alright.
Okay. I've got a tough night. I've got to go over there and speak tonight yet. And uh it's too late to get anyone to replace me.
So he says. And woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight.
Well, Wine and men of strength to mingle with strong drink. And woe unto them that justify the wicked. Reward and take away the righteousness of the righteousness from them. Boy, I'm gonna tell you the left Those on the left. Will always They will always choose evil over good.
Yeah, I mean you you see that what's going on right now with these narco-terrorists, they're they're actually coming out in defense of drug dealers. What is white? What? Even though their own children even though their own children are dying. Uh of course, they don't have many children, they don't believe in in having babies.
Um They would rather kill babies any day than than give birth, okay? Why, well they love death, they will always choose the the evil over good. They would allow children, even their own children, to be given over into pedophilia. These people are so sick They bring their children out to these Drag queens And they let these pedophiles in that to fondle their children, little children, okay. Um Here The left is so sick.
They were let. Biological Males They call them trans women now. Have access to girls, women in girls' and women's bathrooms and showers. In other words, And this is this has happened several times when Uh they walk right in there, stark naked, and get in the shower with these young girls.
Well they would allow these trans things to Compete in women's sports. such as boxing Wrestling What is what has already have we already seen both in boxing, wrestling, and in volleyball. What has been some of the um results of uh men Competing or playing against the women.
Well, you you're having some of these women get severely injured. Yeah.
I want to say the world's strongest woman competition was just like a week or two ago, and a dude won it. Of course. And the woman who was in second place, the real strongest woman, walked off and took a lot of flack for that, but she. You know pretty much said this is this is garbage, you know, and and walked off the podium.
Well Do you remember the last Olympics? In the boxing you had the number one woman. Against one of the trans things it lasted less than a minute. And he messed her up. Big time.
And then you had um Wrestling You had s uh some some of these young girls really get hurt. Uh wrestling against the men. These bills. But the one too uh when they were playing volleyball a couple of them spiked the balls so hard Um hit these girls in the heads that ge couple of these women got concussions.
Well, and and there's at least one that will never be the same. Like, she'll never fully recover from it. Yeah, I heard about that. And so So it's it's not a smart thing, is it? No, not at all.
Okay. You can't pretend that you're not physically stronger than a woman if you're a man. We're just made differently. They will always defend the murderer. The rapist The child molester?
The abuser over the victim. The left will always defend those that commit the crimes over the victim. The Democrat judges will put the most violent criminals back on the streets. as fast as possible. Yeah, but they'll throw you in jail for as long as they possibly can if if you stand outside an abortion clinic, you know?
Praying just praying even, you know. Oh, believe me, I've I've got arrested outside those abortion chambers many, many times, but I b but I always In the end I always got better than what I want. I w always went after them. and I hit em harder than they hit me. You have to do that.
Remember that Daniel Penny fellow who Stop that guy that had a knife there in the subway in New York? And that Red. that communists, that anti Christ, Antichrist bragged went after he wanted to dig white. Because he Kept somebody from getting hurt, okay. And Bragg Bragg just wanted people to get hurt, right?
And Remember well, just like the very same one. That that that one that set that young woman on fire in the train, the subway. Poor young woman said, set her on fire, burned her to death, and people just sat there and watched her burn to death. Nobody helped her. They just watched her.
And that was one of the brag had that that guy had been Let out. How many times was he Uh Convicted. No salt. We see that time and time again. These guys are just being let out on misdemeanor charges instead of the felonies that they're.
That they should be convicted for because not only does it pat the numbers, it makes it look like violent crime is down if we don't charge them for the actual crime that they did. And then they let them back out so they do it again. And they refuse to hold anyone accountable. That's why these judges need to be held accountable for the actions that these people are doing when these judges aren't. Are in sentencing these guys.
These judges need to be the ones serving the time. Exactly. Remember that Matt Joni guy? Yeah.
He shot shot a man, a father, and a husband, and a father shot him in the back like a coward. That little h you know That um What a coward but now they've made him The left has has made him an icon. They've made him a hero for sneaking up behind the man and shooting him in the back. And so Here Uh when we take a look at those Well Just in fact, you know what happened just this past weekend? There were two boys.
They're in Massachusetts. Two teenage boys, they took a fourteen-year-old. Danika Troy. into the woods. They killed her and then they set her on fire.
Now those boys figured that being minors That the worst that they were going to get would be probably probation. And that's probably what they're going to end up getting in Minnesota in in Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, yeah. Unfortunately, you're probably right.
So Like what happened to those that that killed that young Ukrainian woman. On the train. That Democrat that stabbed her f come up from behind and stabbed her to death. Did you know that on that very same train There, you just had. Um, in this past week, You had another A woman set on fire.
And then just over this weekend you had a Another a person stabbed Uh, multiple times on that same train. Did you know that? No, I did not know that. That's insane. That's Chicago.
Then um Here Um What will we see? All of these killers. We're put back on the streets. To kill a yin.
Now did you know What that judge who who put The uh That that guy, this latest one that that's uh set that girl on fire, he put her, Did you know why? With seventy arrests. With seventy convictions? With seventy convictions, arrest convictions. Did you know what that judge said?
Why, that female Liberal Democrat judge said? Why he was back on the streets?
Well, because he was too dangerous to be in that mental hospital that they originally had him in. Yeah.
What what is the purpose of uh h hospitals for the criminally insane? What is the purpose? It it's to pretty much contain them and keep them away from uh civilized uh this more more civilized people. Yeah.
And yet You know, I mean This is this is absolute lunacy. But you know that um You know, within all of this lunacy The answer to all this is found right in God's Word, the Bible, you know. Always is. Let me read to you. Here.
Ephesians chapter 3. For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, free you Gentiles. If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given. me to your d'ye note. Do you know what that dispensation of the grace of God is?
Would that be now? Yeah, it's the church age. How that by the revelation he made. Knowner to me the mystery As I wrote a four A few words.
Now that term mystery in the New Testament of of was always well, several times associated with the mystery religions of the Roman world, but this one here isn't. Um Here Yeah when we take a look at this here. Um these secrets were probably Um Well Pretended they gotta frame that here. New Testament times again they were associated with the mystery religions of the Roman world but That Initiates in these cults were given access to the pantheistic occult and occult series of the spirit world is what they would say, which were hidden from ordinary adherence to those cults so These secrets were properly practised in the idolatry devoted to Well Variants of the variants of the all those different occults.
So Here And they were popularity practised in the idolatry. And so here What happens uh You had these various gods and goddesses representing the different forces and systems of nature. Christ and the Apostles had adopted the term to refer to God's plans here, So what what Paul is talking about is totally different with previously had been kept secret from his people. In the earlier when he referred to dispensations, Um except for He often the Lord Jesus often spoke in types and shadows. And there's a lot of types and shadows in the Bible.
D do you know where types and shadows are? Um Wouldn't that be kind of l like a parable?
Well, no, types and shadows is where God shows you that He's going to do something on one level. And then again he shows you he'll do the same thing on a a different level. Like on a grander scale. Yeah.
Also types Like the ark was a type of Christ. Why was the ark a type of Christ?
Well, because salvation they found salvation in that ark.
Okay, so that was what you call a type of Christ. Oh. It's the type of shadows they're Thanks. on a smaller scale which you're going to see later on a grander scale. He goes on to say, Whereby when you read, you may understand.
My knowledge in the mystery of Christ. when it in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body, and partakers of his promise, in Christ by the gospel. Wherefore I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me, But any effectual working it was power. And to me who am less than the least of all the saints in this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles, The unsearchable riches of Christ Why do you think Paul often referred to himself as the least of the apostles?
Uh because he knew his past and didn't feel worthy. Right. He persecuted the church, huh? Yeah.
And to make all men see what it is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God. who created all things by Jesus Christ. To the intent that now until the principalities and powers and heavenly places might be known by the Church. and the manifold wisdom of God According to the eternal purpose which He proposed in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access which and confidence by the faith of him. whereby I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
And then he goes on to say, For this cause for this cause. I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So now, He's saying that he's going to pray To God the Father. Why do you think he said he's he's going to pray to God the Father? Um I'm I'm not sure. I mean, he's Always you should always be praying.
Well, Jesus instructed how to pray, and he always said Um pray to Yeah, pray to the Father in his name. Let me let me jump back here for just a minute back to to uh Ephesians one Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus. And to the faithful in Christ Jesus, grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings. in heavenly places in Christ.
What is that w w um How does that?
Well pertain to your salvation. Um Well, it's because of Jesus that we're saved, but Uh He's he's the kind of intermedi intermediate between us and the father.
Well, let me let me read this f verse three again. Blessed be the God the Father of our Lord Jesus, who had blessed us with All spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
Now, what's the very first. spiritual blessing one can receive. Um would that be life? Salvation. Or salvation?
Okay. Yeah.
And so he's telling you that it's your salvation's kept in heaven. He's telling you now here, according to it, He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world. that we should be holy and without blame before him and love its predestination. Having predestined us into the adoption of children by Jesus Christ Himself according to the good pleasure of His will.
Now, To the praise and to the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved. Says not Paul, It's saying back in chapter three verse fourteen For this cause I bow my knee into the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named And so As of the whole family in heaven and earth they're named William. What are what are we called? Christians. Yep.
Yeah.
that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory. To be strengthened. With might. by his spirit. In the inner man here now So Paul is praying to the Father of Jesus to whom the entire church on earth is named Paul's prayer is that God would give us the power to comprehend what we uh need to understand to to be laborers to The glory of God, he says, that Christ may dwell in your hearts.
By faith, in ye being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints, which is the breadth and the length and the depth and the height So he's telling you that he's giving you Uh comprehension he's He's comparing that to dimensional saying that in every way That we would have a complete comprehension, okay. A complete comprehension. of what we need to know to do what. To be saved.
Well, not just to be saved, but not to be saved, but to be Functional to serve the Lord to be able to place up the crowns in heaven, okay. It may be able to comprehend with all saints which is the breadth, the length, and the depth, and the height. And to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. Then you might be filled with all the fulness of God. In other words, The Godhead, the fullness of God is the Godhead that within us, Jesus said, When you've seen me, you've seen the Father.
And he says Uh when the Holy Spirit dwells within us, then He dwells within us.
So we have the the Godhead. Dwelling within us, don't we? Yeah, absolutely. And to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you might be filled with all fulness of God.
Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask. or think according to the power and working in us now. Here Yeah. Wait, It's it's hard to Wrap your your head around The fact That In accordance with God's will. There's there's really nothing There's really nothing.
that we can ask of Hill Um to do for us That he can't do. And also, what's happening is sometimes.
Well You know, we don't ask of things we should. In other words, Uh, by not asking, you know, of God, you know, for such things, sometimes you say, Well, that's that's that would be almost impossible. Um Does God have a problem with you asking him in accordance with his will to do magnificent things? No. Nothing's out of the realm of possibility for God.
Yeah, and but I even myself I have to Admit that sometimes I I think, you know, I'm not, you know, God is a.
Somehow I I get this he's so busy You know, what business have I got asking him to do something for me when there's so many people that need his attention more? And I I lose fact. Are those facts of the Well the The point that Got it. God has no shortages. He can take care of His power is unlimited.
Yeah, I mean, he knows how many strands of hair are on your head. He knows. How many stars are in the night sky, you know, like it's nothing's out of the realm of possibilities. What about how many of your teeth are for real? Oh, he knows.
Yeah.
How many are yours? I don't know. Do you know how many of yours are real? Pretty much so. But anyhow Yeah, that that goes along with your your hips and your knees and your shoulder.
Man, I got a a whole lot of metal in me, I can tell you that. And so Oh. No nobody could say about me that he doesn't have any metal. I I got plenty. Anyhow.
Uh, titanium. In fact, I got a bunch of titanium. Anyhow. No. Here, so we don't You know, we don't Sometimes I think God's disappointed in us for not asking more.
Maybe, yeah. Yeah.
Anyhow, I know we're up against that the the time that we come to every time it every day at this time And that's the most important part. Let me go back to. Where we were in verse 1. Um Chapter one In verse 7, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom.
and Prudence, having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in himself. that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might Gathered together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on the earth, even in Him. in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. that we should be to the praise of his glory. And the first trusted in Christ.
In whom? You also trusted after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. in whom after also that ye believed ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of your inheritance unto the redemption of your purchased possession unto the praise of glory.
Now Let me ask you this. If you're out there, someone out there and they just heard what I just read tonight. and they've never called upon the name of the Lord. But they heard This they they were they heard this invitation what I just said Um is that evidence of being predestined By Almighty God, is that not evidence they've got an invitation? Absolutely.
And Well, let me tell you, Are are they always going to be given now God knows the answer to this, but they don't. Should they should they not immediately, immediately and call upon the name of the Lord. And asked For forgiveness of sin and ask the Lord Jesus to be the Lord of their life? Yes, absolutely. There should be no hesitation.
Right. Can you ever do anything anything that will mean as much? Nope. I know we're up a we're about out of time, so I wanna say how many seconds do I have? Um like ten.
Good.
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