Jerry Jones - THE LAST WORDS OF SIMON PETER — Transcript

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1. 0:00Second Peter chapter 1
2. 0:03I'm going to begin reading with verse
3. 0:0512.
4. 0:08Wherefore I will not be negligent to put
5. 0:10you always
6. 0:13in remembrance of these things.
7. 0:16Though you know them
8. 0:19and be [music] established
9. 0:21in the present truth.
10. 0:24Yea, I think it meet
11. 0:26as long as I am alive
12. 0:30in this tabernacle [music]
13. 0:32to stir you up
14. 0:35by putting you in remembrance.
15. 0:39Knowing
16. 0:42that shortly I must put off this
17. 0:45my tabernacle
18. 0:47even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown
19. 0:50me.
20. 0:51And moreover, because of the fact that
21. 0:55I'm not going to be here a whole lot
22. 0:57longer
23. 0:59I will endeavor
24. 1:01that you [music] will after I die
25. 1:05to have these things always
26. 1:08>> [snorts]
27. 1:09>> in
28. 1:10remembrance.
29. 1:13I want to preach a thought that I have
30. 1:15preached a time or two.
31. 1:18It's one of those sermons
32. 1:23that grows that
33. 1:26you never preach it right. You never
34. 1:29You never get it right.
35. 1:33But the thought grows and grows.
36. 1:36And I hope this time maybe
37. 1:39I can do it
38. 1:41a semblance of justice.
39. 1:44I want to preach the last words
40. 1:47of Simon Peter.
41. 1:50Lord Jesus, thank you for this time
42. 1:52together.
43. 1:54What you've already said to us [music]
44. 1:56in this incredible day.
45. 1:59I pray your blessing on everyone here,
46. 2:01the touch of your hand.
47. 2:04I pray you'd reveal
48. 2:06something special to each of us.
49. 2:09Quicken our minds and hearts,
50. 2:11our memories, oh God,
51. 2:14in Jesus' name.
52. 2:16Amen. Thank you so much. Please be
53. 2:18seated. I'm so excited to see so many
54. 2:21young people here.
55. 2:23Our future sitting on these pews.
56. 2:26Young men, young women,
57. 2:29that God has put a call on your life.
58. 2:32Because of the error that elevates Simon
59. 2:36Peter
60. 2:38to be almost a demigod,
61. 2:41that labels him the first Pope, he would
62. 2:44have been shocked to hear that.
63. 2:47Sometimes
64. 2:49we, I think, shy away from recognizing
65. 2:53the role he played
66. 2:55in the church.
67. 2:56One of the three disciples who were part
68. 2:59of the inner circle, stood on
69. 3:01transfiguration
70. 3:03and saw the veil of clay set aside for a
71. 3:07moment.
72. 3:08The one who, though he would betray the
73. 3:11Lord,
74. 3:12would find his way back to Galilee and
75. 3:16find repentance and forgiveness
76. 3:19and start fresh.
77. 3:21The one who was given the keys to the
78. 3:23kingdom. I'm not sure that I comprehend
79. 3:26what that means, that whatever you bind
80. 3:29on Earth
81. 3:31will be bound.
82. 3:33And whatever you bind in heaven
83. 3:36will be bound.
84. 3:38And when he stood on that great day of
85. 3:41the birth of the church, Pentecost, and
86. 3:44when they asked, "What must we do?" was
87. 3:46that the exercising of that power?
88. 3:50"Repent, and be baptized, everyone of
89. 3:54you in the name of Jesus Christ for the
90. 3:57remission of sins and you shall receive
91. 4:00the gift of the Holy Ghost.
92. 4:02For the promise is to you and your
93. 4:04children and all that are afar off.
94. 4:08Simon Peter
95. 4:10called of God.
96. 4:12And now
97. 4:13after a long and fruitful ministry
98. 4:17Simon Peter leaves us
99. 4:20his last words.
100. 4:22He's in Rome, probably in prison, but
101. 4:25certainly he knows that death at the
102. 4:27hands of Nero is near.
103. 4:31And while he waits for the rattle of the
104. 4:32key
105. 4:34or the pounding of a fist at his door
106. 4:37announcing that his martyrdom has at
107. 4:39last arrived, he sits
108. 4:43and he writes.
109. 4:45He has a deep concern.
110. 4:47He is troubled in his spirit.
111. 4:50There is something weighing heavily on
112. 4:54his mind.
113. 4:56He's not thinking about death. He's not
114. 4:59thinking about pain or anguish.
115. 5:02Tradition says that he will ask to be
116. 5:05crucified upside down. Unworthy he feels
117. 5:10to die as his Lord died, but that's not
118. 5:13what's on his mind. Not now. He's not
119. 5:15thinking about his future. He's thinking
120. 5:19about ours.
121. 5:21With deliberate care
122. 5:24he describes in this final missive, his
123. 5:27last words to a church that he will give
124. 5:31his life for.
125. 5:33He is talking about an issue
126. 5:37in that church.
127. 5:39Not just then
128. 5:41but for all time.
129. 5:44Simon Peter, I think, knows he is
130. 5:48writing to the church of every age.
131. 5:53Peter already knows that some of what
132. 5:56Paul has written is scripture. He calls
133. 5:59it so.
134. 6:01And is it too much for us to think that
135. 6:04Peter realizes as he sits in that
136. 6:06squalid cell that what he's putting on
137. 6:09that piece of parchment will live on
138. 6:12forever and ever.
139. 6:15That an age that he cannot even imagine
140. 6:19a year that he could not even calculate
141. 6:23will read these final words.
142. 6:26And will be reminded of what weighs on
143. 6:29the mind of this disciple of Jesus.
144. 6:34What troubles the great apostle
145. 6:38is the surprising
146. 6:40ability
147. 6:42of creeping falsehood
148. 6:45to overpower
149. 6:47eternal truth.
150. 6:50I think we forget sometimes that truth,
151. 6:53though it's powerful and liberates,
152. 6:57truth, though it endures, that it
153. 6:59marches ON UNFAZED BY situations
154. 7:04and theories and ideas, and yet TRUTH
155. 7:08CAN BE LOST IN one generation.
156. 7:13TRUTH CAN BE LOST BY one careless
157. 7:17moment.
158. 7:18I think Peter recognizes and we find it
159. 7:22as he writes that he sees that our
160. 7:26greatest danger will not come from those
161. 7:30outside the church, those who hate
162. 7:34CHRISTIANITY AND ALL WHO PRACTICE IT.
163. 7:38THERE THERE IS OBVIOUSLY truth in
164. 7:42Peter's mind that IT IS IN TIMES OF
165. 7:45PERSECUTION, MOCKERY, AND STRUGGLE, AND
166. 7:49SUFFERING THAT THE CHURCH DOES ITS BEST
167. 7:52WORK.
168. 7:54THAT PERSECUTION WILL NOT STOP US. THAT
169. 7:58THE BLOOD [screaming] OF THE MARTYRS IS
170. 8:00THE SEED OF THE CHURCH. THAT IT IS WHEN
171. 8:03THE DEVIL IS ON THE RAMPAGE THAT THE
172. 8:06WORD OF [screaming] GOD STANDS FIRMEST
173. 8:10AND POWERFUL IN ITS FACE.
174. 8:13NO, he's not worried
175. 8:16about what happens outside the church.
176. 8:19His concern
177. 8:21is the challenge that will come from
178. 8:24those INSIDE
179. 8:26WHO CLAIM THE NAME Christian but twist
180. 8:31and distort its message.
181. 8:35Perhaps it's because
182. 8:37they are more subtle that they are the
183. 8:39more dangerous.
184. 8:42That they consider themselves Christians
185. 8:46without any concern for whether they are
186. 8:50like Jesus Christ.
187. 8:52Now, it may be true that the danger of
188. 8:55false teaching is greater in our day
189. 8:58than it has ever been.
190. 9:01And I think that may be true because we
191. 9:03live in an ERA THAT HAS DECIDED THERE IS
192. 9:07NO absolute truth.
193. 9:11One commentator says our society has
194. 9:13embraced pluralism and tolerance as its
195. 9:17new gods. This new viewpoint is called
196. 9:20postmodernism and signals a shift from
197. 9:23the pursuit for truth to A PREOCCUPATION
198. 9:26WITH WHATEVER WORKS for you.
199. 9:28We live at a time when everything is
200. 9:30tolerated
201. 9:32except intolerance.
202. 9:34As a result, many Christians have
203. 9:36conceded the debate over truth and rely
204. 9:40on a defense more congenial to our age,
205. 9:43practicality.
206. 9:45Going to church has blessed my family.
207. 9:48My commitment to Christ has given me a
208. 9:50better self-image.
209. 9:52And as we do, we are less and less
210. 9:55concerned with truth. FEELING REPLACES
211. 9:59THINKING. AND SUCH A SITUATION provides
212. 10:02a golden opportunity for false teachers
213. 10:05to enter our ranks and prey on those who
214. 10:08simply don't know much about what they
215. 10:11believe and why they BELIEVE IT. WE
216. 10:15CANNOT FALL PREY TO THIS false
217. 10:18worldview.
218. 10:20WE ARE NOT PENTECOSTAL BECAUSE IT MAKES
219. 10:23OUR LIVES BETTER OR EASIER OR MORE
220. 10:27AFFLUENT. IT MAY OR IT MAY NOT, BUT
221. 10:31THAT'S NOT WHY WE BELIEVE IT. WE BELIEVE
222. 10:35THIS MESSAGE BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.
223. 10:37[screaming]
224. 10:38AND NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.
225. 10:41WE DON'T PREACH THIS GOSPEL AROUND THE
226. 10:44WORLD BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE THE WORLD A
227. 10:46BETTER PLACE IF EVERYBODY WERE
228. 10:48APOSTOLIC. IT CERTAINLY WOULD, BUT
229. 10:52THAT'S NOT OUR MOTIVE. WE PREACH IT
230. 10:55BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. IT IS THE WORD OF
231. 10:58[screaming] GOD AND IT IS FOREVER
232. 11:01SETTLED IN HEAVEN.
233. 11:04MY FRIENDS, JESUS IS NOT A WAY, HE IS
234. 11:08THE ONLY WAY. ACTS 2:38 IS NOT A PLAN OF
235. 11:13SALVATION, IT IS THE ONLY PLAN OF
236. 11:17SALVATION.
237. 11:19IT DOESN'T WORK IN SOME CULTURES AND NOT
238. 11:22IN OTHERS. IT DOESN'T [screaming] WORK
239. 11:25IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES AND NOT IN OTHERS.
240. 11:28IN SOME TOWNS, IN SOME CITIES, IN SOME
241. 11:32COMMUNITIES, IT WORKS IN EVERY LIFE, IN
242. 11:35EVERY HEART, ON EVERY STREET, IN EVERY
243. 11:39NEIGHBORHOOD, [screaming]
244. 11:40IN EVERY NATION. IT WORKS BECAUSE IT IS
245. 11:45TRUE. [screaming]
246. 11:50AND PETER SAYS HIS FINAL WORDS,
247. 11:53"I'm writing this so that you will
248. 11:56remember
249. 11:57the truth.
250. 12:00Remember
251. 12:02the truth."
252. 12:04HE SAID, "WHEN I'M DEAD, I DON'T WANT
253. 12:06YOU TO REMEMBER THE details of my life.
254. 12:09I DON'T WANT YOU TO REMEMBER WHAT I DID
255. 12:11OR WHAT I SAID. But when I'M GONE, I
256. 12:15WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THE TRUTH. I WANT
257. 12:18YOU TO REMEMBER ACTS 2:38, NOT BECAUSE I
258. 12:22SAID IT, BUT BECAUSE GOD [screaming]
259. 12:25SETTLED IT FOR ALL TIME."
260. 12:30HERE'S WHAT HE TELLS US. "I WANT YOU TO
261. 12:32REMEMBER THAT WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED
262. 12:35CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES."
263. 12:44I'll tell you what, I
264. 12:47I I really believe that everything I've
265. 12:49ever done in my ministry
266. 12:52was to prepare me for what I'm doing
267. 12:54now.
268. 12:55I'm touching
269. 12:58a generation I will never live to see.
270. 13:02I am helping train tomorrow's apostolic
271. 13:06leaders,
272. 13:07pastors, preachers, missionaries,
273. 13:11evangelists, church planters. No, no, I
274. 13:15I'm not I'm not BUILDING THIS UP IN MY
275. 13:17HEAD, but I'm telling you our future
276. 13:19lies in the young men and women who HAVE
277. 13:22A CALL OF GOD ON THEIR LIFE, THAT ARE
278. 13:24NOT ASHAMED TO BE CALLED APOSTOLIC
279. 13:27PREACHERS, NOT ASHAMED [screaming] TO
280. 13:29PREACH THIS GOSPEL WITH POWER AND WITH
281. 13:32FERVOR AND WITH PASSION, THAT STILL
282. 13:35BELIEVE [screaming] IN AISLE RUNNING AND
283. 13:37HAND CLAPPING AND LEAPING AND DANCING
284. 13:39AND STILL BELIEVE IN PREACHING AND
285. 13:42GETTING WHAT [screaming] PAUL GOT WHEN
286. 13:44FELIX SAID, "YOU ARE BESIDE YOURSELF." I
287. 13:48THINK OUR FUTURE RELIES [screaming] ON
288. 13:51THOSE WHO ARE NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL
289. 13:55OF JESUS CHRIST. FOR IT IS THE POWER OF
290. 13:59GOD UNTO SALVATION. SO, I AM SO THRILLED
291. 14:05AT WHAT GOD IS allowing me to do right
292. 14:07now. But, let me tell you, I get so mad.
293. 14:12I have to read junk that people write
294. 14:14about the word of God
295. 14:16that don't have the foggiest idea what
296. 14:18they're talking about.
297. 14:20They're applauded around the world as
298. 14:22great Bible commentators and great Bible
299. 14:25scholars. Don't you kid yourself THAT
300. 14:27BECAUSE HE'S GOT SOME DEGREE BEHIND HIS
301. 14:30NAME AND BECAUSE HE'S APPLAUDED AS SOME
302. 14:32GREAT BIBLE SCHOLAR, I THINK MOST OF
303. 14:35THEM DON'T EVEN BELIEVE THERE IS A GOD.
304. 14:39THEY CAN WRITE SOME OF THE stupidest
305. 14:41stuff.
306. 14:43Some of the dumbest, MOST IGNORANT
307. 14:46STUFF. THE MOST IGNORANT IS WHEN YOU
308. 14:49READ a
309. 14:51a person who has dedicated their LIVES
310. 14:54TO THE STUDY OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THEY
311. 14:56BELIEVE IT'S A COLLECTION OF MYTHS
312. 15:00AND FABLES.
313. 15:05THAT IT WASN'T WRITTEN BY A MAN NAMED
314. 15:08PAUL THAT MET JESUS CHRIST ON THE ROAD
315. 15:11TO DAMASCUS. IT WASN'T WRITTEN BY PETER,
316. 15:14THE THE THE THE BROTHER OF ANDREW, THE
317. 15:17FISHERMAN CALLED OF GOD TO WALK WITH HIM
318. 15:21ON THE DUSTY ROADS OF THE GALILEE. NO,
319. 15:23IT WASN'T WRITTEN BY THOSE GUYS. THEY
320. 15:25WERE ALL LONG DEAD. IT WAS DREAMED UP BY
321. 15:28A LATER GENERATION. AND THAT'S ALL
322. 15:31[screaming] BALONEY. DON'T YOU BELIEVE
323. 15:33THAT JUNK. WE PREACH THE WORD OF GOD
324. 15:36[screaming] THAT WILL RAISE GOD'S
325. 15:39PRESENCE AND GOD'S [screaming] PLAN AND
326. 15:42GOD'S PURPOSE. IT WAS DIVINELY INSPIRED.
327. 15:47IT IS INFALLIBLE. [screaming]
328. 15:49IT IS TRUE. IT IS GOD'S [screaming]
329. 15:53REVEALED WORD.
330. 15:58>> [cheering and applause]
331. 16:00>> I I don't mean to get in a history
332. 16:03lesson or even a Bible lesson here. But
333. 16:05let me tell you, here's what Peter said.
334. 16:08IT MUST HAVE BEEN A PROBLEM OR
335. 16:10PROPHETICALLY HE SAW IT COMING. HE SAYS,
336. 16:14"WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED
337. 16:20FABLES."
338. 16:25THIS WASN'T DREAMED UP. THIS WASN'T JUST
339. 16:28CONSIDERED AS PERHAPS SO. WE SAW IT WITH
340. 16:33OUR OWN EYES. WE WATCHED HIM. WE HANDLED
341. 16:38HIM, JOHN WOULD WRITE. WE HEARD HIM. WE
342. 16:42KNEW WHO HE WAS. WE RECOGNIZED HIS
343. 16:46PRESENCE. AND PETER SAID, "WHEN THEY
344. 16:49COME AND TELL YOU IT WASN'T TRUE, YOU
345. 16:52TELL THEM THEY SAW HIM. THEY LEFT US
346. 16:56THEIR TESTIMONY. THEY WATCHED HIM DIE
347. 17:00AND THEY MET HIM ALIVE [screaming]
348. 17:03AGAIN. THEY KNEW HIM."
349. 17:07WE WERE EYEWITNESSES
350. 17:10OF HIS MAJESTY.
351. 17:14But there will be, he said,
352. 17:16false teachers
353. 17:18and they will deceive many.
354. 17:22Now Now notice in this in this book in
355. 17:25CHAPTER TWO, FOR IF AFTER THEY HAVE
356. 17:28ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS
357. 17:31OF THE WORLD
358. 17:33THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND
359. 17:35SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST
360. 17:38THEY ARE AGAIN [screaming]
361. 17:41ENTANGLED THEREIN
362. 17:43AND OVERCOME.
363. 17:46DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE BIG CHURCHES THEY
364. 17:49BUILD, BY THE BOOKS THEY WRITE, BY THE
365. 17:53PODCASTS THEY RECORD. DON'T YOU BE
366. 17:57FOOLED BY THEIR CLAIMS OF SUCCESS. THE
367. 18:01LATTER [screaming]
368. 18:02END IS WORSE WITH THEM THAN THE
369. 18:06BEGINNING. [screaming]
370. 18:08FOR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR THEM
371. 18:11NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY OF
372. 18:13RIGHTEOUSNESS THAN AFTER THEY HAD KNOWN
373. 18:16IT TO TURN FROM THE HOLY COMMANDMENT
374. 18:19DELIVERED UNTO THEM. NOW I WANT YOU TO
375. 18:22NOTICE THIS. THIS IS NOT WHAT MY
376. 18:23SERMON'S ABOUT, BUT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
377. 18:26THIS. THE FALSE TEACHING BEGAN
378. 18:30WITH THE ABANDONMENT
379. 18:33OF HOLINESS.
380. 18:40>> [snorts]
381. 18:42>> For if after they ESCAPED
382. 18:46THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD
383. 18:49BY THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST
384. 18:52THEY BECOME ENTANGLED
385. 18:55THEREIN
386. 18:56AND ARE OVERCOME.
387. 18:59I WANT TO warn you. If you're thinking
388. 19:02ABOUT THIS, I'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN ALL OF
389. 19:06MY MINISTRY. I'VE WATCHED [screaming]
390. 19:08THEM GET TOO SMART FOR US AND TOO
391. 19:11TALENTED FOR US AND TOO BIG FOR US AND
392. 19:16THEY HAD TO GO OUT THERE ABANDON
393. 19:19[screaming]
394. 19:20THEIR HOLINESS ABANDON THEIR
395. 19:22RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HAVE A BETTER GOSPEL A
396. 19:26BETTER WAY AND I'VE WATCHED THEM TURN
397. 19:29AND BECOME RE ENTANGLED WITH THE WORLD
398. 19:34AND YOU WILL NOT KEEP THE BACKSLIDING
399. 19:37[screaming]
400. 19:39OUT OF YOUR DOCTRINE IF YOU LOSE YOUR
401. 19:42[screaming] HOLINESS YOU WILL LOSE THE
402. 19:45TRUTH.
403. 19:50>> [applause]
404. 19:52>> I'M GOING TO TELL YOU I'VE HAD IT CLOSE
405. 19:54TO ME SOMEONE I LOVE DEARLY I WATCHED
406. 19:58HIM DRIFT AWAY I WATCHED HIM BROTHER
407. 20:00CORNWELL GET BITTER OVER HOW HE FELT HE
408. 20:03WAS MISTREATED AND I WATCHED HIM WALK
409. 20:06AWAY FROM TRUTH I WATCHED HIM SAY I
410. 20:09WON'T BE UPC ANYMORE BUT I'M GOING TO
411. 20:12PREACH THE SAME TRUTH THEN I WATCHED HIS
412. 20:14WIFE CHANGE HOW SHE LOOKED I WATCHED
413. 20:17THEIR WHOLE LIFE CHANGE FROM THAT OF
414. 20:19HOLINESS I WATCHED [screaming] HIM LEAD
415. 20:22A GROUP OF PEOPLE AWAY FROM
416. 20:24RIGHTEOUSNESS AND INTO WORLDLINESS I
417. 20:27WATCHED IT FALL APART AND [screaming]
418. 20:29DISSOLVE AND I'VE WATCHED WHAT HAS
419. 20:31HAPPENED TO HIS LIFE YOU WON'T HOLD ON
420. 20:34TO TRUTH IF YOU ABANDON SEPARATION FROM
421. 20:38THE WORLD I REMEMBER THE DAY HE TOLD ME
422. 20:41I DON'T THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HELL
423. 20:44JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN BAPTIZED
424. 20:46IN JESUS NAME I'M BEGGING YOU TODAY
425. 20:50DON'T WALK THAT WELL WORN ROAD IT IS THE
426. 20:54WAY OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
427. 20:57AND IT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION.
428. 21:07False prophets
429. 21:10Peter warns us in his final words.
430. 21:13They start by abandoning separation
431. 21:17and holiness.
432. 21:19Just doesn't matter much
433. 21:21anymore.
434. 21:23>> [snorts]
435. 21:27>> I I know there's not just preachers
436. 21:30preachers families in here.
437. 21:32Let me Let me say something.
438. 21:37How many of you have ever heard
439. 21:39you get what you preach?
440. 21:43How many of you found that to be true in
441. 21:44your ministry?
442. 21:46You get what you preach.
443. 21:49Did you know the opposite's true?
444. 21:52If you don't preach it
445. 21:54you'll lose it.
446. 22:00I know many preachers saw
447. 22:05a a newsletter sent by our great general
448. 22:09superintendent.
449. 22:11And in it he mentioned
450. 22:14a poll done
451. 22:16by the new cultural research center.
452. 22:19I think Barna is involved with that.
453. 22:22And this poll
454. 22:24of evangelical Christians
455. 22:28showed that only one out of four
456. 22:32believe in the Trinity anymore.
457. 22:35Only 24%
458. 22:39of evangelical Christians believe in the
459. 22:42Trinity.
460. 22:43And all us oneness folks
461. 22:47we clap our hands.
462. 22:50Since it is to quote Brother Bernard not
463. 22:52a significant uh barrier to evangelism
464. 22:56anymore. We're not as WEIRD AS WE THINK
465. 22:59WE ARE.
466. 23:03But there's a deeper lesson here.
467. 23:06How has this happened?
468. 23:09The litmus test,
469. 23:11the very anchor of orthodoxy,
470. 23:15reaching back to the fourth century,
471. 23:18THIS BELIEF IN SEPARATE, COEQUAL,
472. 23:22COETERNAL PERSONS IN THE GODHEAD, AND
473. 23:25MODERN, EVEN WHAT MANY WOULD CALL
474. 23:28CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANITIES HAVE A HAVE
475. 23:32ABANDONED THIS CARDINAL TEACHING. WHY?
476. 23:36HOW COULD IT BE THAT MANY YEARS AGO
477. 23:40TRINITARIAN PREACHERS DECIDED THAT
478. 23:42DOCTRINE DOESN'T MATTER. PEOPLE DON'T
479. 23:45WANT TO HEAR SERMONS ON COLD [screaming]
480. 23:48BIBLICAL DOCTRINES ANYMORE. EVEN WORSE,
481. 23:53DOCTRINE DIVIDES. IT WILL KEEP US FROM
482. 23:56ACHIEVING ECUMENICAL UNITY. SO, LET'S
483. 24:00STOP PREACHING IT. LET'S STOP TEACHING
484. 24:03IT. AND NOW, 50 YEARS LATER, ONLY ONE
485. 24:06OUT OF FOUR BELIEVE IT ANYMORE. COULD IT
486. 24:10BE THAT IF WE DON'T PREACH THE ONENESS
487. 24:13OF GOD, THE MIGHTY GOD IN CHRIST JESUS,
488. 24:17THE ABSOLUTE ESSENTIALITY OF BAPTISM IN
489. 24:21THE ONLY SAVING NAME, THE NAME OF JESUS
490. 24:25CHRIST, THAT IN HIM DWELLETH ALL
491. 24:29[screaming]
492. 24:29THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY, AND
493. 24:33YE ARE COMPLETE IN HIM, IF WE QUIT
494. 24:36PREACHING IT [screaming] AND TEACHING
495. 24:38IT, OUR SAINTS WILL STOP BELIEVING IT.
496. 24:43PETER SAYS, "I WANT [screaming] YOU TO
497. 24:45REMEMBER THE TRUTH. I WANT YOU TO PREACH
498. 24:49IT AFTER I'M [screaming] GONE. WITHOUT
499. 24:52THE TRUTH, WE HAVE NOTHING."
500. 24:58I rejoice to think that people are
501. 25:01abandoning the ridiculous DOCTRINE OF
502. 25:03THE TRINITY, BUT I WANT THEM TO KNOW THE
503. 25:09TRUTH. THAT HE IS GOD AND THE
504. 25:13[screaming] ONLY GOD. AND WHEN WE PRAY
505. 25:16TO JESUS, WHEN WE LIFT UP [screaming]
506. 25:19JESUS, WHEN WE WORSHIP JESUS, WE ARE
507. 25:23LIFTING JEHOVAH AND YAHWEH AND EVERY
508. 25:27OTHER MANIFESTATION
509. 25:30OF THE ONE TRUE GOD.
510. 25:34>> [cheering]
511. 25:35[applause]
512. 25:42>> LET'S LOOK AT Hebrews
513. 25:442:1. Therefore,
514. 25:46we ought to give the more earnest heed
515. 25:51to the things
516. 25:53WHICH WE HAVE HEARD.
517. 25:56LEST THAT ANYTIME
518. 25:59we should let
519. 26:01them
520. 26:02slip.
521. 26:04It's an interesting expression.
522. 26:07Let
523. 26:09them slip.
524. 26:11You know, usually
525. 26:14the word slip
526. 26:16implies an accident.
527. 26:19We slip on the ice.
528. 26:23Maybe y'all don't so much in Texas, we
529. 26:25do in Missouri.
530. 26:28But we don't plan on it.
531. 26:31We certainly don't
532. 26:33allow it.
533. 26:36It's an accident.
534. 26:39That dish slipped out of my hand.
535. 26:41Shattered on the floor.
536. 26:44>> [snorts]
537. 26:45>> My wife better not think I did that on
538. 26:47purpose.
539. 26:49It's an accident.
540. 26:53We never plan a slip.
541. 26:55We don't allow a slip.
542. 26:58A SLIP AND A FALL IS AN ACCIDENT, but
543. 27:01here the Hebrew preacher says, "WE NEED
544. 27:05TO REMEMBER WHAT WE'VE BEEN TAUGHT.
545. 27:08REMEMBER WHAT THE OLD PREACHERS
546. 27:10PREACHED. REMEMBER PENTECOST AS IT WAS
547. 27:14WHEN WE FOUND IT OR WE COULD LET
548. 27:17[screaming]
549. 27:18IT SLIP."
550. 27:21HERE, THAT SLIP is allowed to happen.
551. 27:25In the Greek, it's even more
552. 27:27interesting.
553. 27:29Let them slip is not three words in the
554. 27:31Greek, it's only one.
555. 27:33AND IT IS SUCH AN UNUSUAL WORD THAT THIS
556. 27:37IS THE ONLY TIME THAT IT IS USED in the
557. 27:39entire New Testament. It is a compound
558. 27:42word, pararreó. PARA MEANS BESIDE OR
559. 27:46CLOSE BY. RREO MEANS TO FLOW OR TO
560. 27:51DRIFT. WHAT IT'S PICTURING IS THIS
561. 27:55GOSPEL, THIS LIFESTYLE, THIS TRUTH THAT
562. 27:59WE TREASURE, IT'S RIGHT BESIDE US, IT'S
563. 28:02NEAR US, BUT IF WE DON'T GET A HOLD OF
564. 28:05IT, IF WE DON'T HANG ON TO IT, IT WILL
565. 28:09SIMPLY DRIFT AWAY FROM US. I NOTICE SOME
566. 28:15TRANSLATIONS REWRITE THIS TO SAY THAT IT
567. 28:19IS US [screaming]
568. 28:20THAT DRIFTS AWAY, NOT THESE TRUTHS. I
569. 28:25DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S A PROPER
570. 28:26TRANSLATION, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER
571. 28:29WHETHER I LET MYSELF DRIFT AWAY OR
572. 28:32WHETHER I LET THE TRUTH DRIFT AWAY FROM
573. 28:35ME, THE END RESULT IS THE SAME. I WANT
574. 28:39TO GET A HOLD OF WHAT MY OLD PASTOR
575. 28:41PREACHED. I WANT TO GET A HOLD OF WHAT
576. 28:44MY GREAT GRANDDADDY PREACHED. I WANT TO
577. 28:47GET [screaming] A HOLD OF THIS TRUTH AND
578. 28:49I WANT TO PREACH IT. I WANT TO LIVE IT.
579. 28:52I WANT TO TEACH IT EVERYWHERE I GO. I
580. 28:56DON'T [screaming] WANT TO LOSE IT.
581. 29:01How can we
582. 29:03the people of truth
583. 29:05the spiritual heirs of those
584. 29:08who withstood being laughed at, made fun
585. 29:11of, being called hicks and hillbillies,
586. 29:14ignorant and heretics and EVEN WORSE AND
587. 29:17YET CLUNG TO THIS TRUTH WITH ALL THEIR
588. 29:19MIGHT?
589. 29:23I I I I've been rereading
590. 29:26Frank Ewart's book.
591. 29:28What hath God wrought?
592. 29:30And I'd forgotten an incident. There was
593. 29:33a Baptist preacher who went to Azusa
594. 29:35Street and got the Holy Ghost.
595. 29:38He went back home to his church in
596. 29:41on the north side of Chicago.
597. 29:43>> [snorts]
598. 29:44>> And he he preached this message and
599. 29:46turned that from a holiness congregation
600. 29:49into a He was Baptist, but it was a
601. 29:51holiness congregation and turned it into
602. 29:54a Pentecostal church.
603. 29:57His name was William Durham.
604. 30:00He was a young preacher.
605. 30:01But he had such a fire, such a passion.
606. 30:05There was PROBABLY AT THE TIME ONE OF
607. 30:07THE BEST KNOWN preachers in the United
608. 30:09States, a Baptist preacher named A.C.
609. 30:11Dixon.
610. 30:13Dixon at this time when Brother DURHAM
611. 30:15GOT THE HOLY Ghost around 198
612. 30:18199, DIXON WAS PASTORING THE Moody Bible
613. 30:22Church in Chicago. In a few years, he
614. 30:25would be invited and would pastor
615. 30:28Charles Spurgeon's Church, Metropolitan
616. 30:30Tabernacle in London, England. He was
617. 30:33ONE OF THE BIGGEST PREACHERS in the
618. 30:36United States. I love this story. I'm
619. 30:39sorry, it doesn't fit my sermon very
620. 30:40well, but I'm going to tell it anyway.
621. 30:43AND BROTHER DURHAM ASKED FOR AN
622. 30:44APPOINTMENT
623. 30:46WITH A.C. DIXON, Pastor Dixon, Moody
624. 30:48Bible Church.
625. 30:50AND DIXON GRANTS him an appointment, and
626. 30:52he goes. And for some reason, the story
627. 30:55is THAT DIXON HAD SEVERAL NATIONALLY
628. 30:58KNOWN PREACHERS MEETING WITH HIM IN HIS
629. 31:00OFFICE, AND INVITED BROTHER DURHAM TO
630. 31:02COME IN, AND DURHAM WENT IN AND SAT
631. 31:04DOWN. AND BROTHER DURHAM BEGAN TO TELL
632. 31:06THEM ABOUT RECEIVING THE HOLY GHOST AND
633. 31:09TALKING IN OTHER TONGUES AS THE SPIRIT
634. 31:12OF GOD CAME IN HIS LIFE.
635. 31:14HE'S A FORMER BAPTIST. Dixon's the
636. 31:16leading Baptist preacher in the United
637. 31:18States, EVEN WORLDWIDE.
638. 31:21AND HE SHARES HIS TESTIMONY.
639. 31:24I went to that little church, that
640. 31:27abandoned church that the the Holy
641. 31:29Rollers rented on Azusa STREET, AND IT
642. 31:32CHANGED MY LIFE. AND A.C. DIXON ASKED
643. 31:35HIM, SAID, "WHAT ILLUMINATION HAS COME
644. 31:39TO YOUR LIFE SINCE YOU'VE RECEIVED THIS
645. 31:42EXPERIENCE?"
646. 31:44AND BROTHER DURHAM SAID, "I HAVE
647. 31:46DISCOVERED THAT THE ONLY PROOF,
648. 31:50BIBLICALLY, OF RECEIVING THE BAPTISM OF
649. 31:54THE HOLY GHOST IS SPEAKING IN OTHER
650. 31:57TONGUES."
651. 32:00DIXON GETS A LITTLE WORKED UP. THE STORY
652. 32:03IS HE SHOUTED IT OUT. HE SAID, "BROTHER,
653. 32:06THAT IS A THAT IS NONSENSE. TO PREACH
654. 32:10THAT IS TO INDICT [screaming]
655. 32:12ALL OF CHRISTENDOM."
656. 32:16FANCY WORDS.
657. 32:19Brother Durham said, "Sir,
658. 32:21they deserve to be indicted."
659. 32:26We are the HEIRS
660. 32:28OF PEOPLE THAT GOT KICKED OUT OF
661. 32:30ORGANIZATIONS, THAT GOT KICKED OUT OF
662. 32:32PULPITS, PEOPLE THAT GOT SHOVED DOWN,
663. 32:35PUSHED DOWN, MADE FUN [screaming] OF,
664. 32:38LAUGHED AT, KICKED OUT, ROBBED OF THEIR
665. 32:41INCOME. WE HAVE PREACHERS THAT LAID DOWN
666. 32:44THEIR LIVES FOR THIS PRECIOUS TRUTH. HOW
667. 32:47CAN WE, IN THIS THE MOST VITAL DAY IN
668. 32:51THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, LET IT SLIP
669. 32:56AWAY? I AM A ONE GOD, JESUS NAME,
670. 33:01APOSTOLIC,
671. 33:03TONGUE-TALKING,
672. 33:05BORN AGAIN, HOLY ROLLING, HAND-CLAPPING,
673. 33:09FOOT-STOMPING,
674. 33:11>> [screaming]
675. 33:12>> AISLE-RUNNING, APOSTOLIC PREACHER, AND I
676. 33:15WANT TO DIE IN THIS GOSPEL. I DON'T
677. 33:20[screaming] WANT TO LET IT GO.
678. 33:24>> [cheering]
679. 33:26>> OH, we ought to praise him just a moment
680. 33:28for the incredible PRIVILEGE OF WHO WE
681. 33:31ARE AND WHAT WE HAVE RECEIVED AND WHAT
682. 33:34[screaming] GOD HAS DONE
683. 33:38IN OUR LIFE.
684. 33:40>> [cheering]
685. 33:41[applause]
686. 33:42>> How can it happen?
687. 33:44How can we
688. 33:45who knew some OF THE GIANTS
689. 33:48OF PENTECOST
690. 33:50WHO IN OUR LIFETIME
691. 33:52WATCHED THE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
692. 33:54GROW FROM A SIDELINE, ALMOST FORGOTTEN
693. 33:59ASPECT OF THE PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT INTO
694. 34:02THE ENGINE OF LIFE-CHANGING REVIVAL IN
695. 34:06OUR DAY?
696. 34:09HOW
697. 34:10COULD WE LET IT
698. 34:13slip away?
699. 34:15Look at verse three.
700. 34:17How shall we escape
701. 34:20if we
702. 34:21neglect
703. 34:24not preach against it,
704. 34:26not declare it not true.
705. 34:29That's for those who abandon their
706. 34:31holiness and then lose their doctrine.
707. 34:35But we can lose it
708. 34:38if we neglect it.
709. 34:42How long since you heard
710. 34:44a message on the oneness of God?
711. 34:47How long since you heard
712. 34:49a message on hell?
713. 34:53How long since you heard a message
714. 34:56on the imminent return of Jesus Christ
715. 34:59to this world?
716. 35:01If we don't preach it,
717. 35:04we will lose it.
718. 35:12To neglect is to be careless of,
719. 35:15not to be negative about, TO JUST BE
720. 35:17CARELESS OF.
721. 35:19IT CAN ALSO MEAN TO MAKE light of, to
722. 35:21not regard.
723. 35:24I'm going to tell you something here.
724. 35:26Everybody's told us to buckle our seat
725. 35:28belts.
726. 35:29Might want to buckle them again.
727. 35:31But you listen to me.
728. 35:33If you hang out either around a table,
729. 35:36on the phone, or on the internet with
730. 35:40preachers who make catty remarks about
731. 35:42holiness,
732. 35:43OR ARE OFFENDED WHEN A PREACHER PREACHES
733. 35:46THAT THE HOLY GHOST SPEAKING IN TONGUES
734. 35:49IS THE ONLY WAY YOU'RE GOING TO GET TO
735. 35:51HEAVEN, YOU NEED NEW FRIENDS.
736. 35:54IF YOU'RE HANGING OUT WITH PEOPLE THAT
737. 35:57BELIEVE IN STEALTH EVANGELISM, THAT WE
738. 36:00HAVE TO HIDE WHO WE ARE AND HIDE WHAT WE
739. 36:03BELIEVE, YOU NEED TO HANG OUT WITH
740. 36:06SOMEBODY ELSE. OUR FOREFATHERS DID NOT
741. 36:09TUCK THEIR HEADS AND LOWER [screaming]
742. 36:11THEIR VOICES WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT
743. 36:13TALKING IN TONGUES, AND TALKED ABOUT
744. 36:16JESUS NAME BAPTISM, AND TALKED ABOUT
745. 36:19HOLINESS LIVING. THEY DID IT BOLDLY.
746. 36:22THEY DID IT WITH CONVICTION, AND WE MUST
747. 36:25DO IT OR WE WILL
748. 36:28LOSE IT.
749. 36:33NOW, just another little part. They They
750. 36:35can come and get ready. I'm going to try
751. 36:37to hush.
752. 36:38>> [snorts]
753. 36:40>> How long since you preached or taught
754. 36:41since it's about the essentiality of the
755. 36:43Holy Ghost?
756. 36:45That you're not going to heaven if you
757. 36:47don't have the Holy Ghost.
758. 36:49And you don't have the Holy Ghost if
759. 36:50you've never spoken in tongues.
760. 36:53How long?
761. 36:56How long?
762. 37:08You want the gifts of the Spirit
763. 37:09operating in your church.
764. 37:11I thank God for the emphasis
765. 37:14>> [snorts]
766. 37:14>> that we see in our organization on
767. 37:16something that was just part of
768. 37:18apostolic life.
769. 37:20When I was a boy coming into this
770. 37:22church.
771. 37:24>> [snorts]
772. 37:25>> Let me tell you how to have the
773. 37:26operation of the gifts of the Spirit.
774. 37:29Preach it.
775. 37:32And teach it.
776. 37:34And then operate in it.
777. 37:38How many of you want healings in your
778. 37:39church?
779. 37:45>> [snorts]
780. 37:46>> Bro- Bro- Brother Foster told us that he
781. 37:48was told you got to have signs,
782. 37:50miracles, and wonders. I want people to
783. 37:52walk in the church. I want them to come
784. 37:54in on crutches and walk out on their own
785. 37:56two feet. I want them wheeled in in
786. 37:58wheelchairs and WHEEL THE WHEELCHAIR OUT
787. 38:01THEMSELVES. I WANT CANCERS HEALED. I
788. 38:04WANT BLIND EYES OPEN. I WANT DEAF EARS
789. 38:08UNSTOPPED. I WILL NEVER FORGET PREACHING
790. 38:11A CAMP MEETING IN A SMALL DISTRICT.
791. 38:13WASN'T A TON OF PEOPLE THERE, BUT I
792. 38:15REMEMBER I WAS PREACHING AS HARD AS I
793. 38:17COULD PREACH AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS A
794. 38:19BIG COMMOTION OVER HERE. AND I DIDN'T
795. 38:21KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON UNTIL LATER AFTER
796. 38:24I WAS preaching I went down there and
797. 38:26THERE WAS A LADY THERE THAT HAD BEEN
798. 38:28ESSENTIALLY DEAF SINCE SHE was born. SHE
799. 38:32WORE SOME KIND OF I'VE NEVER SEEN a
800. 38:33contraption QUITE LIKE IT. IT WASN'T
801. 38:36HEARING AIDS IT HAD SOME KIND OF DEAL
802. 38:38AND connected to a big box that she had
803. 38:40on her side and she came in there and
804. 38:42sat down. She got UP THEY HAD HER
805. 38:45TESTIFY AT THE END and she said I WAS
806. 38:47HOPING SHE'D SAY MAN THAT PREACHER WAS
807. 38:50PREACHING.
808. 38:52And when HE WAS PREACHING GOD DID SHE
809. 38:54DIDN'T SAY THAT AT ALL. SHE SAID I
810. 38:56COULDN'T understand a word he was
811. 38:57saying.
812. 38:59HE WAS TALKING SO FAST AND SCREAMING SO
813. 39:01LOUD BUT I FELT SOMETHING touch me AND
814. 39:06SHE SAID ALL OF A SUDDEN I COULD HEAR
815. 39:09EVERY WORD. SHE SAID THAT THING HAD
816. 39:11FALLEN OFF MY EARS AND I WAS HEARING FOR
817. 39:16THE FIRST TIME WITHOUT THAT ELECTRONIC I
818. 39:20WANT THAT TO HAPPEN IN EVERY church in
819. 39:24Pentecost.
820. 39:26>> [music]
821. 39:31>> I saw something I hadn't seen in a while
822. 39:34and I I have to confess I'm embarrassed
823. 39:35[music] by this but I was
824. 39:38when when I'm in town we
825. 39:40when we're in town we go to the church I
826. 39:42once had the privilege of pastoring in
827. 39:44Bridgeton, Missouri. New Life there
828. 39:46brother Bachelor's the pastor now and
829. 39:48and we were there couple of Sundays ago
830. 39:51and they were baptizing a young lady.
831. 39:53You didn't you didn't have to be very
832. 39:55smart to know that she was brand new.
833. 39:57She knew nothing about this. The tattoos
834. 40:00would tell you if nothing else.
835. 40:02BUT I WATCHED HER in the baptismal tank.
836. 40:05She was standing there getting ready to
837. 40:07be baptized and all of a sudden she
838. 40:09threw her hands up and you know what?
839. 40:12She got an old fashioned BAPTISM IN THE
840. 40:17HOLY GHOST. SHE STARTED LIKE MY GRANDMA
841. 40:20WOULD HAVE SAID, SHE STARTED TALKING IN
842. 40:23TONGUES LIKE A GOD GOT A HOLD
843. 40:26OF THAT TEENAGE GIRL'S LIFE AND A HEART.
844. 40:30I WATCHED THE TEARS FLOW. I SAW THE BIG
845. 40:33SMILE COME. I SAW HER ELEVATED HANDS AND
846. 40:37HER EYES AS GOD FILLED HER IN THE
847. 40:40BAPTISMAL TANK. I WANT TO SEE THAT OVER
848. 40:44AND OVER AGAIN.
849. 40:48HOW DO WE DO IT?
850. 40:50PREACH ABOUT IT.
851. 40:52TEACH ABOUT IT.
852. 40:55THEN HAVE A HOLY GHOST RALLY.
853. 41:01IN YOUR CHURCH.
854. 41:04HAVE A HOLY GHOST RALLY.
855. 41:06SOMEBODY SAID, "WELL, WHAT IF I DO AND
856. 41:07NOBODY GETS THE HOLY GHOST?"
857. 41:09YOU PREACH IT AGAIN.
858. 41:12AND YOU TEACH IT AGAIN. YOU GET WHAT YOU
859. 41:16PREACH. AND THIS TRUTH HAS NEVER
860. 41:19[screaming]
861. 41:20LOST ITS POWER. PREACH IT. TELL IT.
862. 41:25SHARE IT. REACH FOR YOUR NEIGHBORS.
863. 41:28BRING THEM TO THE HOUSE OF GOD AND
864. 41:31BELIEVE THAT WE ARE THE CHURCH THAT
865. 41:34PETER THE PREACHED ABOUT AND TALKED
866. 41:38ABOUT AND WROTE ABOUT.
867. 41:42We must
868. 41:44not
869. 41:46neglect it.
870. 41:52The largest Pentecostal
871. 41:55organization in the world
872. 41:57>> [snorts]
873. 42:00>> is the Assemblies of God.
874. 42:03In the United States, it's the Church of
875. 42:05God in Christ, but in the world, it's
876. 42:08the Assemblies [music] of God.
877. 42:10>> [snorts]
878. 42:11>> Only one out of four of their saints
879. 42:13have ever [music] spoken in tongues.
880. 42:17Recent revelation
881. 42:19has been shared with the world that only
882. 42:21half
883. 42:23half
884. 42:25of their preachers
885. 42:27have ever spoken in tongues.
886. 42:29>> [music]
887. 42:31>> If we ever decide it's not essential,
888. 42:33we'll lose it.
889. 42:35If we ever quit preaching it and
890. 42:37teaching it, we'll lose it.
891. 42:40That cannot happen
892. 42:43to us.
893. 42:45>> [snorts]
894. 42:48>> Then said Jesus to those Jews [music]
895. 42:50which believed on him,
896. 42:54"If
897. 42:57you continue in my word,
898. 43:01THEN ARE you my disciples indeed."
899. 43:07And this is not a new thought. IT GOES
900. 43:08BACK TO "IF you continue in my word, AND
901. 43:13YOU SHALL KNOW [screaming] THE TRUTH."
902. 43:19AND NOT BUSINESS THEORY,
903. 43:22and not influencers,
904. 43:24AND NOT THE INTERNET,
905. 43:27AND NOT
906. 43:28FRESH SOCIOLOGICAL
907. 43:31THEORY,
908. 43:34BUT THE TRUTH
909. 43:36>> [music]
910. 43:37>> SHALL MAKE
911. 43:39YOU
912. 43:40FREE.
913. 43:44No wonder the old preacher counseled,
914. 43:47"Buy the truth.
915. 43:50No matter what it cost,
916. 43:52you buy the truth.
917. 43:55NO MATTER WHERE THE MARKET IS,
918. 43:57YOU BUY THE TRUTH.
919. 43:59AND DON'T YOU EVER sell it.
920. 44:02Don't you trade it in for some fake
921. 44:04growth OR SOME FAKE
922. 44:07reputation in this world. DON'T YOU
923. 44:10TRADE IT IN FOR SOMETHING THAT HAS NO
924. 44:13ETERNAL VALUE. YOU BUY IT AND YOU NEVER
925. 44:18EVER SELL IT. You preach it. YOU TEACH
926. 44:22IT. YOU LOVE IT. YOU LIVE IT.
927. 44:25SIMON PETER LEFT US HIS LAST WORDS. I
928. 44:30WANT YOU TO REMEMBER
929. 44:32the truth.
930. 44:34Only
931. 44:36the truth
932. 44:38matters.
933. 44:40We have a few minutes.
934. 44:42I would love for those
935. 44:44who will make a commitment today.
936. 44:48I love this truth.
937. 44:51I will preach it. I will teach it.
938. 44:54I will love it.
939. 44:56>> [music]
940. 44:56>> I will not abandon it for whatever I'm
941. 44:59offered.
942. 45:00The kingdoms of the world, the applause
943. 45:03[music] of humanity,
944. 45:05a reputation on Facebook,
945. 45:08I will sell it for nothing
946. 45:10because [singing] only
947. 45:12the truth
948. 45:14matters.