4-80. On The Road Edition: "The State of Mankind"

On The Road - Beatty Club Lamb Clinic Message - The State of Mankind

In this episode, Josh Brockman shares his perspective on human nature, the nature of God, and the significance of Jesus Christ's life and sacrifice, offering a biblical foundation for understanding our purpose and salvation. He shares a compelling Christian message, exploring the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the importance of faith and repentance. He emphasizes the historical and spiritual significance of these events and encourages listeners to consider their own spiritual journey.

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SPEAKER_01 0:29

And uh we're glad to be within this week if we step back again out of our normal draw for our normal Bible study here in speed to four things to the gospel loop. Can we take up uh again another special edition of an on-the-road edition of the podcast? Uh it's on the road edition for uh or other draft about the and uh for climbing the gospel either at a uh show or at a clock or at our cap or uh uh lots of other different areas and so uh we're trying to record the quick terms here on the podcast. Uh both of the number of uh and so uh uh uh the different parts out of the country outside of the country uh the uh uh that listen to the podcast. So we thank you guys for listening. And uh we appreciate you being here again this week. And without any further ado, we'll jump into this on the road edition of the One Truth Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

I mean, uh we have such a we have such an impact that we don't even realize, you know. I tell all the kids who are working with even a 10-year-old, there's an eight-year-old that looks up to you. If you're if you're 12, there's an eight to a 10-year-old that looks up to you, it doesn't matter what you're doing this deal, the more successful you are, the more happy you have on you. So it means a lot to us to try to help you guys and get the people that we're setting up examples to go out into the world. And our goal is that when uh when others see us, that they see Christ through us. That's what these are about. So I want to introduce my crew and then I'll introduce our speaker for tonight. For those that don't know, I'm Greg Beatty. This is my wife Jamie. These are our full-time employees, Cal T and Max Mat. And this is Julian Jill.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

We'll move it. That's a good start. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

I think we're gonna get you a different mic to the project, a little bit better in the whole bar here. Also, even better. We've never been coming back. Um he also does the one group podcast with Dan Reed.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

Check. Check. There we go. Mike test, everybody get y'all good? Everybody can hear me? Sorry, I might get a little loud. Uh so uh like Greg said, my name is Josh Brockman. Um, I flew in uh with Aiden that's over here with the Brockman Farms uh that works for me, or is a college engineer for me. And so we flew out of uh Houston, I guess we left the farm. We left Montgomery at 4 30 this morning, got on an airplane at 6 30, went past Pittsburgh to come back. And anyways, glad to be here. I'm glad Greg uh invited me. So just a little bit about me, very briefly and very quickly. Uh like he said, I'm own and operate with my family, Brockman Farms. We raise um ratio pigs, it's what we do for a living. Uh we run about 100 to 150 salves, that's down from about 200. Uh, we've had the the grand at uh Houston, the reserve grand at Houston, the grand at San Antonio, and the reserve grand in San Antonio um just to tell you that uh we've uh we've seen the highest highs and the lowest lows in the livestock world, and uh it's been a lot of fun. But um some other things that we do, uh we operate two podcasts. Uh one's called Showfig Central. If anybody shows pigs out here, uh I don't know anything about sheep, so um but that uh that drops out every other week that me and my wife do together. Uh it's just uh everything's show pigs, it's kind of our theme. And then like Greg said, uh I have another podcast called the One Truth Podcast that uh is basically a weekly Bible study that's actually what uh indirectly got me invited to come here was that uh One Truth podcast. So um grateful to be here, grateful that the Lord has brought me here, and um it's always interesting for me when I prepare for something like this because I don't know one person sitting in the stands that I've seen yet. If I do know you, I haven't seen you yet, and I assume a lot of you have no idea who I am. So walking into a barn in a state that I've actually never been in, uh surrounded by sheep that I know nothing about, it's always interesting to try to prepare for an audience like that. Because some of you may be believers, some of you may follow the Lord Jesus Christ, some of you may think that the Bible's foolishness, some people may think that evolution happened and everything in between. My goal tonight, I have four of them, is to just give you my point of view. Four thoughts that we're gonna go through, and I'm gonna be as quick as I can, but take the time that I want to because Greg told me I could talk as long as I wanted. Um first thought that I want to talk about uh as we work through this is who are we? Who are we as mankind? Who are we as people? What are we doing here on the earth? Another part to that is I want to know how do we find that answer? The second thing I want to talk about is who is God? And also how do we find that answer. The third thought that we'll get to is what did God do for his people and how did he accomplish it? And then the fourth and final thought we'll get to is what do we do with this information? So I'm gonna need a little bit of participation. Don't feel like you have to, but but if you can, I would love for you to. So to unfold this first thought of who are we as mankind? Who are we as people, as human beings, um, who are we as a person? I'm gonna ask you a few questions. Or I'm gonna give you a few options, rather. When you hear what you think is your view of mankind and how you view people, I want you to raise your hand if you're willing to. If not, that's fine. But when you hear, I'm gonna give you a few options here. When you hear your view of mankind, just raise your hand. So if you believe that man or that a person is totally perfect, completely good, nothing wrong with them, raise your hand. Perfect. My hand's certainly not up because I know myself. Okay, second, if you believe that man is mostly good, not perfect, but pretty much good, a little bit of bad, but mostly good, raise your hand. Okay. If you believe man's mostly bad, there's a little good there, but mostly bad. Raise your hand. Okay, got a few there. Okay, so mostly bad, but a little bit of good. Aiden, did you raise your hand? You did? Okay. Okay, one more option. Do you if you believe that man is totally evil, no good in them whatsoever, completely and utterly sinful, raise your hand. Okay. Alright, so we we got a few participants. Thank you for that. So we got totally perfect, mostly good with a little bit of bad, mostly bad with a little bit of good. We had the the majority on that of the people that raised their hand. And then totally evil. Okay, now I have another question. Even for you who didn't raise your hand, and that's perfectly fine. You probably thought in your mind as I went through those four options, which one you kind of, you know, that that's where I'm where I'm at. You've got something in your mind. Totally perfect, mostly good with a little bad, mostly bad with a little good, or totally evil. You're falling in one of those four, just in your own mind. My question for you is how did you formulate your response? What made you decide that man is either totally perfect, mostly evil, mostly good, or totally evil? Did you use your opinion? Did you use your personal experience? We've all got lots of those dealing with other people. Did you use other people's opinion when you saw some other hands go up participate in that? And those are all legitimate reasons to formulate a response, so just so don't think I'm not saying that. But what I want to give you tonight in this entire next however many, however long we sit here, is not my opinion. I don't want to give you my experiences. I don't want to give you anything like that. For one, because it's not worth very much, and if any of you do show pigs and are going to be at the pick show tomorrow, you'll get enough of my opinion then. But mainly because I've only I've walked the earth 38 years. I don't I don't have a whole lot to offer when it comes to answering the question of what is mankind. The position I'm gonna give you on the answer to that question, though, is based in the Bible. It's based on what I believe that I'm holding in my hand that's been given to me by my creator as the word of God spoken out through prophets over different times and different places. And I'm gonna give you a little bit of history of why I think evidentially that this is true. Number one, it's historically accurate. You can take the Bible and you can go back with the historians and you can see everything that has happened. It's historically true. You can see that it's a book that was written over 1,500 years. That's a very large span. This country celebrates 250 years. Think about the span of the USA. That's a long time. Back to our founders. The Bible spans, it was written over 1,500 years. Not with the internet, not with typewriters, handwritten accounts of God's prophets that are spoken out. It was written over 1,500 years. It was written in three different languages Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew. Okay? And it was written across three different continents that didn't have the internet. Yet somehow, from the oldest book to the last book, 1500 years spread, it seems together perfectly and tells one succinct story. And the reason that it does that is because it has one single author, multiple human authors that write it out, but one author in the Holy Spirit and what I believe is the God in heaven that's the creator of everything that we see. So I'm going to give you the answer to that question, not based on my opinion, but based on what I believe is the holy authoritative, infallible, and perfect word of a living God that gives me breath in my lungs right now. And so when I look and I ask the question to the Bible and I ask the question of God, who are mankind and what is mankind? Totally perfect to totally evil, or somewhere in between. When I open to the first book of the Bible in Genesis, in Genesis 6.5, it says, The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Now, if you know anything about the Bible, you'll know that Genesis 6.5 precedes a very large judgment of God when he flooded the entire earth. We see mountains, we see all kinds of continents shifted out, we see lots of things that prove that to be true. So at this point, God says, he looks down upon the earth and he says, I see that man's heart is only evil continually. And then he finds a righteous man named Noah, protects him and his family, tells him exactly how to prepare an ark, how to go through the flood of this judgment that's coming. Noah in faith responds and believes God and does what he tells him to do. He preaches repentance and righteousness to people and tells them that a judgment's coming for 120 years. None of them listened, none of them cared. He built the ark, he got on it when God told him to. The rain came from the sky that had never happened prior to that. The waters came up from the deep, and the earth was flooded. Washes away mankind with the exception of eight people. After that, Noah and his family is brought through because of their faith in a living God. After that, in Genesis 8, so now we're back post-flood. It says, when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma that they were offering sacrifices up to him, it says the Lord said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man. That's good news for us. But then he says, For the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Okay, now there's undoubtedly someone setting here, or many of you, that are saying, I have lost my mind. Man is mostly bad, many said, and a little bit of good, not totally evil. The Bible's not true, that's silliness. Now, I've got a way I want I want to prove this to you. Who in here has ever told a lie? If you're not raising your hand, that's also lying about lying. Okay. I'll give you some other. Who in here's been prideful, jealous, envious? I'm raising my hand too. Especially if you show sheep or pigs or anything else. That like comes with the territory because it's a very hard thing to overcome. Okay. We all knew that probably before you walked in the barn. Who taught you how to lie? Who taught you how to be prideful? Who taught you how to be envious of somebody else winning the show? The answer is it just comes natural, right? It comes natural to all of us. We have that, that we're built into that. That's part of our nature, that's part of the curse that comes when Adam first sinned. It just comes natural. You stump your toe on the way out of the barn, you let out whatever profane word comes out of your mouth because it just feels good to let it out and let it go, right? It's wrong, you know it's wrong. Whether you believe in God or not, you know it's wrong because you worry about it if your mom's listening. But you do it and you let it out, and it feels good because it's natural. We're naturally sinful. Nobody taught us how to be sinful. We're naturally sinful. In that, that's enough for me to look and say, okay, yeah, God's right. Genesis 6, 5. The only thought of my heart's naturally evil. It's a fact. Okay, so why does it matter? Everybody sins, right? Everybody has issues, everybody has problems. So what's the big deal? Our problem there is we're comparing ourselves to one another. The Bible says that when we sin, we are dead in sin. Ephesians 2 speaks of that that uh uh that the person that walks in the course and the desires of their flesh, stumping your toe and letting out a profane word, being envious of your neighbor winning the sheep show. These things come because we're children of wrath naturally, carrying out the desires of our flesh, and the Bible tells us that in that state we are dead in sin. Think of a dead tree laid out here in the forest. It's laid out, rotting, nothing it can do. It cannot pick itself up, it cannot do anything to make itself back to be a live green tree, it's dead. So that brings us to the question, part two. We'll circle back to part one, of who is God? A guy I like to listen to, uh, he's departed to be with the Lord in 2017, but he actually grew up in Pittsburgh, so it's kind of neat. I didn't know that until last week. Um, but he grew up in Pittsburgh. His name's R.C. Sprohl. Like I say, he died in 2017. But he had a saying, it's very short and very simple: God is holy, and we are not. So when we look and we say, you know, I know that Aiden sins. Aiden knows that I sin. He works with me every day, and I'm far from perfect. But we're comparing ourselves to each other. We're not comparing ourselves to a perfect, holy God, as we are perfectly unholy, sinful people. Sorry, I'm trying to get over some allergies or something. I've taken enough stuff to dry my throat out so I can speak. So we've got a holy God. A perfect, righteous, just, merciful, loving, holy God. Isaiah 6.3 says three words. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. In ancient writings, when something's repeated multiple times, it's they didn't have exclamation points in Hebrew or Aramaic. When it says holy, holy, holy three times, that's that's the most expletive, or not expletive, superative way of saying something is the most of anything possible. God is holy, holy, holy. Like I said, we are not. In one of his books, there's a guy named Rudolf Otto that I don't know, but I thought this was a really good uh point that I read this morning. Um he says uh in this book, the idea of the holy, he says, we use the term holy a lot to relate to moral perfection. And that's that's not wrong, that's right. If you're morally perfect, you're holy. But the common use and the common thought that we have of that's really not accurate because again, God's not just holy. And the best way we can come across it in the English is to say it that He is holy, holy, holy. You think of being, you know, walking five minutes in perfection and but maximizing that, and you can look around at a creation of his glory. The next thing that's interesting to me is just that. And it was neat for me and Aiden to fly in today, and we got to see a New York skyline, which was kind of neat. Um, but then we got off the plane in Pittsburgh, we got in the rental car, and we drove out of the airport. And and y'all live around here, so I'm sure you've done this. But when you come out of the airport, you go into what was it, Fort Pitt? Was that the first tunnel? That tunnel's pretty pretty long. I don't know if it's a mile or what, it felt like it was a ways. But, anyways, you go into that tunnel, it was the mountain, and I've never been to Pennsylvania, so I didn't know what it looked like. And I thought, man, this is a pretty good-looking state. Kind of looked like out this door right here before we went into that tunnel. It's I mean, there's the river there, and it's pretty. We go through that tunnel and we come out, and there's the beautiful cityscape. I guess that's downtown Pittsburgh. I think the river was still running. And then from there to here, if you haven't ever driven to Pittsburgh, I'm sure all of you have, but like it is beautiful. I mean, I I it might be the prettiest drive I've ever made. The little hour and a half or hour and forty-five minutes it is from the airport to here. And in Psalm 19, the psalmist writes, The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky proclaims his handiwork. I can look to here, and that's that's a beautiful picture. That drive from here to Pittsburgh, as I look out across, all I see is God's beauty. As I stop, this is this is me on a normal day at the farm when I am completely drained and over it because my pigs wouldn't eat, or a boar semen was bad, or whatever. Aiden makes me mad because he does something stupid that morning. I stop and I look up to the sky. I look at the clouds. And if you've never done that, I would encourage you when we get done, the sun's still gonna be out. Walk out and just just gaze upon the glory that's around us. If you don't believe that there's a designer and a creator to all of this, I'm gonna try to prove you wrong as we continue to go, but it it's so beyond like anything that I could ever fathom of creating of being, and in it I see the glory of a living God. I see the holiness of a living God. When you look and you think and you just sit back, and I'm no scientist, but how many things work perfectly hand in hand in the world that we live in without one human doing anything? An ecosystem, we were at the at the at the beach on vacation last week in Florida, and the way the tide moves in and moves out and filters itself, and and I'm not going to speak educationally from any of that, but the way the water cycle affects air quality and the way everything ties together seamlessly implies a designer. We saw the New York City skyline, there's somebody that built those buildings. We look out into the forest or into the sky, there's somebody that designed this planet that we live on. There's somebody that designed us. I'm getting a little older, I'm 38 now, so I've had to start going to the doctor a little bit. I haven't been to the doctor in 28 years. However long. Everything seems good, but I'm starting to pay attention more to how my body functions. And the more that I do that, the more in awe I am of everything from the human eye. To how everything just processes and goes and functions seamlessly without me doing anything. I can eat bad, make myself do some things, that kind of deal. But it all again implies a designer. A perfect, holy, holy, holy designer. So we've got this gap between us and God. He's perfect, righteous. I get up in the morning and sin in the first five minutes, most of the time, one way or another, whether it's an evil thought, something I say, again, envious, lie, go on down the list. So our next thought as we went through who are we, who is God, how do we answer those questions? Is what did God do for his people? Graciously, again, basing everything that I'm going to tell you on scripture, is not what can we do for ourselves, but what did God do for us. My pastor back at home's name is Nolan Williamson, and he preached on Psalm 14 just a couple of weeks ago. And I'm not going to read Psalm 14 to you, but Nolan's making a point during this sermon of how man's fallen, how man's sinful, how man's foolish is what the psalmist says in Psalm 14, because we look again just to ourselves. We make poor decisions, we sin. And in that, he's he pauses and he says, What does God do as a solution for man's fallenness and man's problem? And no one, and only way that he could, he says, he puts a man on the earth. A man that is perfect, a man that is fully God and fully man, a man that is tempted in every way that I've been tempted, tempted in every way that you've been tempted, but yet without sin. This man's name was Christ Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth. He walked the earth for 33 years on the other side of the planet, I say the other side, in Israel. He was born to a virgin. And it's one of those things that, again, I don't know any of you, I don't know your story. Maybe you heard heard the story of Jesus, maybe you've never heard it, maybe it's the first time you've ever heard in your life. But he was truly man and truly God. And that's really hard for me to comprehend. I don't think I can fully comprehend it. But what I can comprehend is what I see in the scripture is that he came and dwelt among us, and he walked with everything that I am troubled with, he walked in. And where I fall to temptation and lean into myself, he leaned into the Spirit and followed his Father in heaven. And didn't where I trip up and fail, he did not. The way the Bible puts that is that he came and fulfilled the law and fulfilled perfect righteousness on my behalf. In John 1, 1 through 5, the way the Bible puts this is that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things that were made were made through him, and without him, not anything that was made was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. And I've been talking a lot about the darkness of sin and the darkness of mankind and the darkness of people. John 1 5 says, the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it. What that means is that God took a man. He took himself and dwelt in flesh and walked among the people of the earth 2,000 years ago, 2,026 years ago in Israel. He fulfilled every jot and titled the law. The other neat thing about this book is it's the only book that's ever predicted that a person was going to walk the earth that actually showed up after the fact. Jesus, a man who's historically, completely historically accurate outside of Scripture, that he was a person that walked the earth, said of himself that all of those things in the Old Testament that were written before him were written about him. And he came and he did everything that was written about him in the Old Testament, he walked it out perfectly. So he's the light that came to overcome the darkness. What was God's solution to man's fallness? He put a man on the earth that could overcome it. If you're wondering why a Christian can say that I am perfect and righteous, and be the only person that can say that and not be gloating in himself, is because a true Christian knows that there's nothing he can do in his fallen sin nature to be perfect and righteous. The first thing a true Christian does is he admits that he is fallen. You hear the term hypocrite a lot, Christians are hypocrites, this, that, and the other. A true Christian is completely the opposite. We may speak the perfect message and live sometimes, and we fall, I fail. But the true Christian realizes that there's nothing they can do for themselves, but thankfully they have a God and a loving Savior that did it for them. And that's the gospel message. Christ came to make dead men alive. We talked about Ephesians 2. If you're in sin, you're dead, laid out in the forest, a tree that can't be revived. He came to make dead men alive. He came by providing righteousness to the lost person of the world, by providing the perfect sacrifice for our sin, because he had no sin. The other neat thing about God is though he's holy, he's perfectly just and perfectly righteous. That means there's sin and there's debt and it has to be paid for. And what did he do but put a man on the earth that walked perfectly as a man to be the perfect sacrifice to pay for that sin? So again, he came to be good news, the gospel, to the captive, to the slave of sin. So who is this Jesus? Colossians 1 says he's the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, because he always was. And in him all things hold together. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. In this last line I bolded my notes, for in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. See, for the Christian today that walks, they have the Spirit indwelling in them. They have that through Christ, through this man that came and bridged the gap between God's perfectness and my fallness. But when I put my faith and my trust in him, the Bible says that when you repent and believe and trust in Christ, that you will be given the Holy Spirit that will indwell in you, and you can walk in holiness with God. You can walk in perfect righteousness, not of your own, but of Christ. The beauty of the gospel message is not do better, try harder, earn it. It's realize that you can't, and that God put a person on the earth so that you could in him. If you'll read the last few chapters of the gospel, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you'll see that Jesus was crucified, just as the scriptures and the Old Testament proclaimed that he would be. One of the neatest things, I didn't write the Psalm down, and I can't think of exactly which one it is, but several hundred years before Christ walked the earth, his crucifixion was described. He was crucified by Roman soldiers. Again, 2,000 ish years ago. When that was written in the Psalms about him, crucifixion hadn't even been invented yet. It'd be like hundreds of years ago writing about the internet, and then it showed up. There's no way that a man on his own would have been able to predict that to happen. So if you'll read the last few chapters of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you'll discover that there was a perfect person that walked the earth that was crucified. You know, we don't even know how they have the death penalty anymore. But do we do anything? Well, we don't see any perfect people, but what's neat to me is there's a Roman named Pontius Pilate, Roman governor, and he was the one that carried this out, and it's recorded in the scripture that he told the people who were asking for Jesus to be crucified that he found no guilt in this man. And so as you read the Gospels and you see this historically accurate story unfold, you see that a perfectly righteous man that had no sin, that had done nothing wrong, still, through God's providence, was carried, put on a cross, crucified in the most cruel way possible, and then buried. He was crucified as the payment for my sin and for your sin if you're a follower of Christ. If you're not a follower of Christ Jesus, if you think you've never heard this message, you can be by repenting and believing in him. And then that sin and that burden that you walk around and carry all day long, it's lifted. Not because of anything you did, but because of everything that he did. As you continue to read in the last part of the Gospels, you'll see that he truly physically died. He was put in a tomb and buried. He was there for three days. Now, another neat fact to me, and I'm almost done. So, another neat fact to me is this that I'm standing in Somerset, Pennsylvania. I couldn't think of the town, sorry, talking to you about what I believe to be evidentially true, God's word, rationally thought out, about a man that walked in Israel 2,000 years ago, of all of these things. And what came out of that was twelve guys that he called his apostles, that he then sent out, first right there in Jerusalem where it happened, and then it kept expanding out under the most severe persecution you can imagine. We can read in Acts 6 the first martyr that was stoned to death for believing in the Christian faith and not renouncing it. You can read, according to tradition, that all of these twelve men were all but one killed because they would not renounce this man, Jesus Christ, being the king of the world, and that he had risen from the dead. One of the neatest things to me is that under that amount of persecution, they never recanted. Why? There's people today that are being beheaded for their faith in this man named Jesus Christ because they believe he's God and they don't recant. Why? But these first twelve guys, I believe, is because they walked with him for three years during his ministry. They saw him die, they saw him get put in the tomb, they ran and hid like any of us would. And three days later, they saw him again alive. That's what I believe. That's what the scripture teaches. And why else, under the most severe persecution of any religion, of anything possible, am I standing here 2,000 years later, in a state I've never been in on the other side of the world, from where that happened, from those 12 guys to now, it's never been able to be stamped out. It's because I believe it's true. It's because I believe that it's a perfect sovereign God that's put it all together and woven in redemptive history exactly how he was going to save his people. He was going to show them their sin. That's what I've tried to do here tonight. And he was going to show them their way to salvation. And by faith in that person, they would have the option to have eternal life with him. I think it's a blessing to you to be able to hear that tonight. Maybe you've heard it a million times, maybe you've never heard it before. Right now, I'm going to tell you, if this is, maybe you've heard it a million times, maybe you've heard it right now. If you don't believe in the one Jesus of Nazareth, that is the King of the earth, that's reigning right now at the right hand of the Father, that is God that came in flesh, that walked perfectly righteous, that was crucified, died, and resurrected. Now is the time to do that. And I'll tell you why. Because in Acts 17.30, Paul writes, and so in Acts 17.30, Paul's, he's speaking to the most intelligent people in Athens. And he's telling them the same story that I just got through telling you. Some of them are listening intently, as I hope some of you are. Some of them are blowing him off, as some of you may be. And he looks at them and he says, The times of ignorance God overlooked. So I'm saying the same thing Paul said to them. I'm going to say to you now, if you're not a follower of Christ, your time of ignorance, not ignorance in a way of stupid, but an ignorance in a way of looking away from the truth. That time has been overlooked to this point because you're still standing here with breath in your lungs. But now he, God, commands all people everywhere to repent. Repent of their sin. Because he's fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he's appointed, and he's given us this assurance by raising him from the dead. Again, the other thing that those apostles know when they saw Jesus walk again, the only person that ever came back from the dead indefinitely and didn't die again. They knew when that happened that God's payment of sin, and we can know that God's payment of sin was received because he then raised his son from the dead, just as he said he would. I'll leave you with these three things, or these last two things. I'm going to say to you the same thing that Peter said to those that crucified Jesus in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. He looked at the crowd. Again, they'd heard the same, well, they didn't have to hear the story they saw happening in action. And he said, Repent. You don't know what repent means. That means doesn't mean just feel sorry for your sin. It means say the same thing about your sin that God does, and then turn from it. You're not going to do it perfectly. I don't do it perfectly. But turn away from your flesh and towards a living God. Repent, he said, and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, for the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off. Everyone whom the Lord God calls to Himself. Again, I firmly believe it's a blessing that you get to hear the Word of God tonight. I don't know any of you. If I'm stepping on your toes, it's not me. I didn't know you were going to be here. I promise. Last thing. If you're sitting here and you're a believer, maybe you're a believer in the last 35 seconds. Maybe you're a believer for the last 35 years. Take comfort in this. Maybe you're going to be a believer. Romans 8.1 says there's no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. None. No condemnation. That is the most peaceful thing. That is one of my top three favorite verses in the whole Bible. Because the Bible says in Hebrews 9.27 that everyone's going to die. We all have an appointment with death. It's coming for all of us. There's no debating that. Death rate's one for one. It's 100%. And the Bible says in Hebrews 9 that after death comes a judgment. Paul told these guys in Athens 2,000 years ago, and I told you, God has appointed a man to judge the living and the dead. That man is Christ Jesus. But for those who put on Christ, who don't take for their own good works, but for his perfect good work, there is no judgment. There is no condemnation. Because when God looks down upon me, he sees Christ. When he looked upon Christ on that cross 2,000 years ago, he saw all of my sin. That's the glory of a believer. That's the glory. That's the gospel message of Christianity. If you've heard something different than this, somebody lied to you and told you it was Christianity. And I'd be happy to sit here and debate that with anybody because when you dig into this, and you again, 1,500 years, multiple, 40 authors, one succinct author, one succinct message, it all ties together and says exactly what I've spent the last however many minutes. I was going to look at the clock when I started telling you. So thank you for bearing with me. I probably went longer than I was planning. Like I said, uh thanks to Greg for having me up. We have that podcast that drops every week. If you're a podcast listening person, it's called The One Truth Podcast. If you put my name, Josh Brockman, with it, it most definitely will come up. And so it's a weekly drop. It usually drops on Mondays. That's why I have this mic on to record this because this will be part of it. But if you have any questions at all about anything that I just said, I'll be here for a little while. I don't know what, or we don't really have anything to do. So I'll be here tomorrow for a little bit, judging. I'd be happy to speak with you, talk to you, answer any questions, comments, disagreements. I'm all about it. I'm sure Greg would be. I think that the shirts are awesome, hats are cool. Again, seek first the kingdom. That that's neat. So thank you all for bearing with me. If you don't mind, I'd like to end in prayer, and uh I'll hand the mic back over to whoever. So, Father, we just uh we bow before you and just thank you for the time that we get to sit here tonight in a uh in a sheep barn in Somerset, Pennsylvania, and just see your glory put on display in your word, in your truth, and most importantly in the gospel that is the good news for sinners like all of us sitting here. It's not a do better, be better message. It's a it's done. Repent, believe, and put your faith in Jesus Christ's message. Thank you for that. I thank you for all those that you brought here tonight in your sovereign perfect will. That's in Jesus' name that we lift all of this up to you. Thank you.