>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:01:02.62\00:01:05.09 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:05.13\00:01:10.97 >>DID YOU KNOW IT'S AGAINST THE LAW TO DOZE OFF UNDER A HAIR 00:01:11.00\00:01:14.47 DRYER IN FLORIDA? TO PLAY HOPSCOTCH ON 00:01:14.50\00:01:17.21 SUNDAY IN MISSOURI? TO HUNT CAMELS IN ARIZONA? 00:01:17.24\00:01:21.54 TO INSERT A PENNY IN YOUR EAR IN HAWAII? 00:01:21.58\00:01:24.55 TO TIE A GIRAFFE TO A TELEPHONE POLE IN ATLANTA? 00:01:24.58\00:01:28.08 TO CATCH MICE WITHOUT A LICENSE IN CLEVELAND? 00:01:28.12\00:01:31.29 TO PUT A SKUNK IN YOUR BOSS' DESK IN MICHIGAN? 00:01:31.32\00:01:34.99 TO DETONATE A NUCLEAR WEAPON WITHIN CHICO, CALIFORNIA CITY 00:01:35.02\00:01:38.26 LIMITS, WHICH CARRIES A PUNISHMENT OF $500.00? 00:01:38.29\00:01:41.93 TO BATHE LESS THAN ONCE A YEAR IN KENTUCKY? 00:01:41.96\00:01:44.47 TO PAWN YOUR DENTURES IN LAS VEGAS? 00:01:44.50\00:01:47.97 YES, THERE ARE ABOUT TWO MILLION LAWS IN THE U.S. 00:01:48.00\00:01:51.74 AND IF A PERSON COULD REVIEW THEM AT A RATE OF ABOUT TWO A 00:01:51.77\00:01:54.54 DAY, YOU'D BE QUALIFIED TO ACT AS A LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN IN 00:01:54.58\00:01:58.35 ABOUT 6,000 YEARS. YET THE LORD WAS ABLE TO SUMMARIZE THE ENTIRE 00:01:58.38\00:02:03.62 DUTY OF MAN TO GOD IN JUST TEN SIMPLE PRECEPTS THAT CONTAIN 00:02:03.65\00:02:08.22 ABOUT 325 WORDS. JESUS SAID GOD'S LAW BOILS DOWN 00:02:08.26\00:02:13.06 TO TWO CRUCIAL PRINCIPLES: LOVE FOR GOD AND LOVE 00:02:13.09\00:02:16.77 FOR OUR FELLOW MAN. JOIN ME NOW, FRIENDS, AS WE 00:02:16.80\00:02:20.20 CONSIDER THE RELEVANCE OF GOD'S LAW IN OUR LIVES TODAY. 00:02:20.24\00:02:28.51 >>SO TONIGHT WE HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT PROGRAM AND IT'S 00:02:28.54\00:02:30.91 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE LAW OF GOD. 00:02:30.95\00:02:33.78 NOW, THE TITLE OF THE SERIES IS THE LAW OF THE LAMB BECAUSE 00:02:33.82\00:02:36.72 JESUS IS GOD THE SON, AMEN? >>AMEN. 00:02:36.75\00:02:40.02 >>GOD PUT HIS WORD - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - ON TWO TABLES OF 00:02:40.06\00:02:44.53 STONE. THIS IS THE LAW OF THE LAMB. 00:02:44.56\00:02:47.30 IT IS WRITTEN BY THE LORD - BY HIS OWN FINGER. 00:02:47.36\00:02:50.03 NOW, WHERE DID THE TEN COMMANDMENTS COME FROM? 00:02:50.07\00:02:53.07 WE ALWAYS PICTURE, YOU KNOW, MOSES UP ON TOP IN THE MOUNTAINS 00:02:53.10\00:02:55.24 THERE. SOME HAVE GOT PICTURES OF MOSES 00:02:55.27\00:02:57.41 IN THE THEIR MIND - HE'S WRITING THE LAW - BUT YOU READ, IN THE 00:02:57.44\00:03:01.01 GOSPEL OF JOHN, 'ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE 00:03:01.04\00:03:03.81 BY HIM.' WHO IS THAT? >>JESUS. 00:03:03.85\00:03:07.52 >>IT'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS, AND HE'S THE ONE WHO'S RESPONSIBLE 00:03:07.55\00:03:11.39 FOR GIVING US THE LAW. SO SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT 00:03:11.42\00:03:14.82 THE LAW OF JESUS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE 00:03:14.86\00:03:17.79 LAW OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:03:17.83\00:03:20.56 IT'S THE SAME GOD THAT GAVE BOTH LAWS. 00:03:20.60\00:03:24.10 SO THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSION, EVEN AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY, 00:03:24.13\00:03:27.04 ABOUT 'WHAT LAW DO WE KEEP?' 'WHICH LAWS WERE 00:03:27.07\00:03:30.77 NAILED TO THE CROSS?' AND 'HOW DO CHRISTIANS RELATE 00:03:30.81\00:03:33.58 TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WITHOUT BEING LEGALISTS?' 00:03:33.61\00:03:37.18 AND THEN THERE'S THAT QUESTION: 'IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?' 00:03:37.21\00:03:42.02 INTERESTING QUESTION - SORT OF A RHETORICAL QUESTION. 00:03:42.05\00:03:44.79 HOW DOES THIS ALL RELATE TO REVELATION? FOLLOW ME. 00:03:44.82\00:03:47.92 IF YOU GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 14, VERSE 9, IT TELLS US THERE 00:03:47.96\00:03:51.99 THAT "THEN A THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A 00:03:52.03\00:03:54.36 LOUD VOICE, 'IF ANYONE WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND 00:03:54.36\00:03:59.20 RECEIVES HIS MARK ON HIS FOREHEAD OR ON HIS HAND, THE 00:03:59.23\00:04:03.00 SAME WILL DRINK THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS POURED 00:04:03.04\00:04:07.04 OUT FULL STRENGTH INTO THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION.'" HERE'S 00:04:07.08\00:04:11.11 ONE OF THE MOST FEARFUL CURSES AND PLAGUES PRONOUNCED IN THE 00:04:11.15\00:04:14.38 BIBLE - IT'S ACTUALLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - AND IT'S PRONOUNCED 00:04:14.42\00:04:18.12 AGAINST THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST. 00:04:18.15\00:04:20.86 AND YOU CAN READ ON, IT SAYS, "HE SHALL BE TORMENTED WITH FIRE 00:04:20.89\00:04:23.53 AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS AND IN THE 00:04:23.56\00:04:26.56 PRESENCE OF THE LAMB." GOING DOWN A LITTLE FURTHER 00:04:26.59\00:04:30.60 IN THAT SAME CHAPTER, IT WILL CONTRAST THE ONES WHO ARE NOT 00:04:30.63\00:04:35.80 WORSHIPING THE BEAST AND IT SAYS, "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF 00:04:35.84\00:04:39.11 THE SAINTS" - THIS IS VERSE 12 - REVELATION 14:12 - "HERE IS THE 00:04:39.14\00:04:42.64 PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS 00:04:42.68\00:04:46.18 OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS." NOTICE IT DOESN'T SAY 'FAITH 00:04:46.21\00:04:50.25 IN JESUS' - IT SAYS 'FAITH OF JESUS'. 00:04:50.29\00:04:54.09 NOW THAT'S A CHARACTERISTIC YOU FIND THROUGHOUT REVELATION - 00:04:54.12\00:04:56.99 THOSE WHO ARE WORSHIPING THE BEAST ARE BREAKING ONE OF THE 00:04:57.03\00:05:00.13 COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS YOU'RE ONLY TO WORSHIP GOD 00:05:00.16\00:05:03.13 AND YOU'RE NOT TO PRAY TO IDOLS. AND IT TALKS ABOUT MAKING 00:05:03.16\00:05:06.63 AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST. LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 00:05:06.67\00:05:09.14 REVELATION 13:15, "HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO GIVE BREATH 00:05:09.17\00:05:14.08 TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST. THAT THE IMAGE...SHOULD BOTH 00:05:14.11\00:05:17.15 SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF 00:05:17.18\00:05:21.18 THE BEAST TO BE KILLED." WELL, IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER IN 00:05:21.22\00:05:24.65 GOD AND YOU'RE COMMANDED TO DO IMAGE WORSHIP, WHAT DO YOU DO? 00:05:24.69\00:05:27.96 WHAT WOULD BE WRONG WITH IMAGE WORSHIP? 00:05:27.99\00:05:30.86 IS THERE A COMMAND THAT FORBIDS US FROM IMAGE WORSHIP? 00:05:30.89\00:05:34.73 IS THAT ONLY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 00:05:34.76\00:05:37.00 OR DOES JOHN, ALSO IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SAY, 'MY LITTLE 00:05:37.03\00:05:39.40 CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELF FROM IDOLS'? 00:05:39.43\00:05:42.54 AND SO, THIS IS A COMMANDMENT YOU FIND GOING ALL THE WAY 00:05:42.57\00:05:45.51 THROUGH THE BIBLE. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE 00:05:45.54\00:05:48.14 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SAVED CHRISTIAN AND THE LAW, IF WE'RE 00:05:48.18\00:05:52.91 GOING TO BE READY FOR THE LAST DAYS AND WHAT'S COMING. 00:05:52.95\00:05:54.98 >>AMEN. >>AND, AGAIN, IT GOES ON TO SAY 00:05:55.02\00:05:57.25 - REVELATION 13:15, THAT THOSE THAT DO NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE 00:05:57.29\00:06:01.46 OF THE BEAST WOULD BE KILLED. THEN YOU JUMP, NOW, 00:06:01.49\00:06:05.13 TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL. AND, IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL 3, 00:06:05.16\00:06:07.73 VERSE 10, SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT DANIEL HAD THREE FRIENDS 00:06:07.76\00:06:10.60 NAMED SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO - AND THEIR HEBREW 00:06:10.63\00:06:14.80 NAMES WERE HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AND AZARIAH - THEY REFUSED TO 00:06:14.84\00:06:19.11 BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE KING AND THE KING HAD 00:06:19.14\00:06:21.88 SAID WHOEVER DOES NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE WILL BE KILLED. 00:06:21.91\00:06:24.78 DO YOU NOTICE THE ECHO COMING FROM DANIEL INTO REVELATION? 00:06:24.81\00:06:29.05 VERY SIMILAR LANGUAGE. 'THOSE WHO DO NOT WORSHIP THE 00:06:29.08\00:06:31.65 IMAGE OF BABYLON WOULD BE KILLED. 00:06:31.69\00:06:34.39 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT BABYLON IN OUR NEXT 00:06:34.42\00:06:36.02 PRESENTATION. THEY SAID, 'WE CANNOT BOW DOWN 00:06:36.06\00:06:38.76 TO YOUR IMAGE, OUR LAW FORBIDS IT' - THE LAW OF GOD. 00:06:38.79\00:06:43.67 THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO KNOW FOR THE LAST DAYS. 00:06:43.70\00:06:46.50 "AND WHOEVER DOES NOT FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP SHALL BE CAST INTO 00:06:46.53\00:06:49.44 THE MIDST OF A BURNING FIERY FURNACE." 00:06:49.47\00:06:51.54 THEY FACED A TREMENDOUS TEST. WHAT HAPPENED? 00:06:51.57\00:06:53.94 DID GOD PRESERVE THEM? >>YES. 00:06:53.98\00:06:55.84 >>BECAUSE THEY PUT THE LAW OF GOD FIRST. 00:06:55.88\00:06:57.11 THEY STOOD UP FOR GOD AND HIS WORD AND GOD STOOD UP FOR THEM. 00:06:57.15\00:07:00.05 JESUS, HIMSELF, WENT INTO THAT FIERY FURNACE WITH THEM AND 00:07:00.08\00:07:03.65 AIR-CONDITIONED IT. HE PRESERVED THEM. 00:07:03.69\00:07:06.52 THE ONLY THING THAT WAS BURNED WERE THE ROPES THAT HAD BOUND 00:07:06.55\00:07:08.46 THEM. THEN YOU GO TO DANIEL CHAPTER 6 00:07:08.49\00:07:11.83 - REMEMBER, THERE'S A PARALLEL BETWEEN DANIEL AND REVELATION. 00:07:11.86\00:07:14.36 THE KING - KING DARIUS - MAKES A LAW AND HE MAKES "...A ROYAL 00:07:14.36\00:07:17.87 STATUTE AND [TO MAKE] A FIRM DECREE, THAT WHOEVER PETITIONS 00:07:17.90\00:07:20.87 ANY GOD OR MAN FOR THIRTY DAYS, EXCEPT YOU, O KING, SHALL BE 00:07:20.90\00:07:27.78 CAST INTO THE DEN OF LIONS." THERE - A FIRST COMMANDMENT 00:07:27.81\00:07:31.65 - WHAT DOES THAT SAY? - FIRST OF THE TEN? 00:07:31.68\00:07:33.78 'THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER GODS BEFORE ME' - RIGHT? 00:07:33.82\00:07:37.85 DANIEL SAID, 'I'M SORRY, GOD'S LAW FORBIDS ME FROM MAKING YOU 00:07:37.89\00:07:40.79 MY GOD, KING DARIUS. I'M PUTTING THE LAW OF GOD AHEAD 00:07:40.82\00:07:45.19 OF THE LAW OF MAN.' >>AMEN. 00:07:45.23\00:07:46.76 >>DOESN'T PETER SAY WE OUGHT TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN? 00:07:46.80\00:07:50.17 IS THE DAY COMING, IN THE FUTURE, ACCORDING TO PROPHECY, 00:07:50.20\00:07:53.17 WHEN THE BEAST POWER IS GOING TO BE COMPELLING PEOPLE TO WORSHIP 00:07:53.20\00:07:56.81 SOMETHING GOD FORBIDS? SO DO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE 00:07:56.84\00:08:00.21 RIGHT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LORD AND THE LAW, IF YOU'RE 00:08:00.24\00:08:03.55 GOING TO BE A BIBLE CHRISTIAN? BECAUSE IT SAYS A LOT HERE 00:08:03.58\00:08:07.32 ABOUT THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. SO LET'S DELVE INTO OUR LESSON 00:08:07.35\00:08:10.79 TO GET A RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW, WITHOUT TURNING INTO 00:08:10.82\00:08:14.16 LEGALISTS AS WE STUDY THESE THINGS IN THE LIGHT OF PROPHECY. 00:08:14.19\00:08:18.96 QUESTION #1: CAN GOD'S MORAL LAW BE AMENDED OR REPEALED? 00:08:18.99\00:08:25.33 NOW, I SHOULD PROBABLY TELL YOU, WHEN WE SAY 'MORAL LAW' - WE 00:08:25.37\00:08:27.74 DON'T HEAR THAT PHRASE MUCH ANYMORE, BUT IT WAS THE TERM 00:08:27.77\00:08:30.91 THAT WAS USED FOR MANY YEARS BY CHRISTIANS TO DESCRIBE THE TEN 00:08:30.94\00:08:34.01 COMMANDMENTS - BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY LAWS IN THE BIBLE - THERE'S 00:08:34.04\00:08:37.05 CIVIL LAWS IN THE BIBLE, THERE WERE GOVERNMENT LAWS, THERE WERE 00:08:37.08\00:08:41.25 HEALTH LAWS, THERE WERE CEREMONIAL LAWS, AND THEN THERE 00:08:41.28\00:08:45.12 WAS THE MORAL LAW, WHICH WAS THE LAW OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:08:45.15\00:08:49.36 AND I REMEMBER, GROWING UP, THAT ANY SCHOOLBOY USED TO KNOW MOST 00:08:49.39\00:08:53.40 OF THEM BECAUSE, IN PUBLIC SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA WE HAD THE 00:08:53.43\00:08:58.17 TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE WALL IN OUR SCHOOL. 00:08:58.20\00:09:00.84 DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THAT? I SEE A FEW HANDS. 00:09:00.87\00:09:03.81 I GUESS I'M GETTING OLD. I SEE - ANYWAY - SOME OF YOU REMEMBER 00:09:03.84\00:09:05.94 THAT? PUBLIC SCHOOL - TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE WALL. 00:09:05.97\00:09:09.31 AND YOU WONDER IF THE EPIDEMIC OF CRIME COULD BE CONNECTED WITH 00:09:09.34\00:09:12.15 OUR SAYING, 'OH, WE WOULDN'T WANT THE KIDS ACCIDENTALLY 00:09:12.18\00:09:15.38 KEEPING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE A BAD 00:09:15.42\00:09:18.15 INFLUENCE - RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE.' NO. 00:09:18.19\00:09:22.39 CAN GOD'S LAW BE CHANGED? PSALM 89, VERSE 34, "MY COVENANT 00:09:22.42\00:09:27.00 WILL I NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE THING THAT IS GONE 00:09:27.03\00:09:31.23 OUT OF MY LIPS." GOD MADE A COVENANT. 00:09:31.27\00:09:33.37 IT'S CALLED 'THE OLD COVENANT' BUT THE LAW HAS NOT BEEN 00:09:33.40\00:09:37.37 CHANGED. YOU'LL FIND OUT ABOUT 00:09:37.41\00:09:39.57 THAT A LITTLE LATER IN THE PRESENTATION. 00:09:39.61\00:09:42.01 YOU CAN ALSO READ IN PSALMS 111:7, HE SAYS, "ALL HIS 00:09:42.04\00:09:46.41 COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FAST FOREVER AND EVER." 00:09:46.45\00:09:51.32 IN FACT, IF YOU'VE NEVER DONE IT BEFORE, I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO 00:09:51.35\00:09:54.22 READ ONE LITTLE CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE, IT'S CALLED PSALM 119. 00:09:54.26\00:09:58.66 I'M TEASING - IT'S THE LONGEST CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE - THE WHOLE 00:09:58.69\00:10:02.80 CHAPTER IS 'HOW I LOVE YOUR LAW'. 00:10:02.83\00:10:06.20 IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVING THE LAW. PEOPLE DON'T USUALLY PUT LAW 00:10:06.23\00:10:08.64 AND LOVE TOGETHER, DO THEY? IT'S LIKE THEY'RE OPPOSITES. 00:10:08.67\00:10:13.98 BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU REALLY LOVE THE LORD, YOU LOVE HIS LAW. 00:10:14.01\00:10:17.35 ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FOREVER. 00:10:17.38\00:10:19.61 YOU CAN READ MALACHI, CHAPTER 3, VERSE 6 - GOD SAYS, "FOR I AM 00:10:19.65\00:10:22.88 THE LORD. I CHANGE NOT." 00:10:22.92\00:10:25.79 JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER. 00:10:25.82\00:10:29.36 AND SO, HIS LAW IS ETERNAL IN NATURE - THE MORAL LAW. 00:10:29.39\00:10:32.83 NO, THE REASON THAT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT GOD'S TEN 00:10:32.86\00:10:35.83 COMMANDMENT LAW CAN CHANGE IS BECAUSE THE BIBLE DEFINITIONS 00:10:35.86\00:10:39.50 FOR THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW ARE THE SAME DEFINITIONS THAT ARE 00:10:39.53\00:10:42.84 GIVEN FOR GOD HIMSELF. AND SO, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO DO 00:10:42.87\00:10:46.21 AWAY WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENT MORAL LAW, YOU'RE GOING TO START 00:10:46.24\00:10:50.15 FINDING YOURSELF TRYING TO DO AWAY WITH THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 00:10:50.18\00:10:53.72 LET ME ILLUSTRATE: THE BIBLE SAYS 'GOD IS GOOD' - YOU CAN 00:10:53.75\00:10:59.45 FIND THAT IN LUKE 18:19. WELL, THE BIBLE SAYS, 00:10:59.49\00:11:02.99 'THE LAW IS GOOD'. THE BIBLE SAYS 'GOD IS HOLY' - 00:11:03.02\00:11:07.86 THE BIBLE SAYS 'THE LAW IS HOLY' - ROMANS 7:12. 00:11:07.93\00:11:12.37 THE BIBLE SAYS, IN DEUTERONOMY 32, VERSE 4, 'GOD IS JUST'. 00:11:12.40\00:11:16.40 THE BIBLE SAYS 'THE LAW IS JUST' - ROMANS 7:12. 00:11:16.44\00:11:20.21 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD IS PERFECT, GOD IS LOVE - THE BIBLE 00:11:20.24\00:11:24.48 SAYS THAT THE LAW IS PERFECT, THE LAW IS LOVE. IT SAYS THAT 00:11:24.51\00:11:29.22 GOD IS RIGHTEOUS - AND I'M NOT GOING TO READ ALL OF THESE 00:11:29.25\00:11:32.15 VERSES TO YOU - HE IS TRUTH, HE IS PURE, HE IS SPIRITUAL, HE IS 00:11:32.19\00:11:35.86 UNCHANGEABLE, HE IS ETERNAL - EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE THINGS 00:11:35.89\00:11:38.89 THAT DESCRIBES GOD, IT ALSO IS USING TO DESCRIBE THE LAW. 00:11:38.93\00:11:43.10 NOW, THAT SHOULD NOT SURPRISE YOU IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN 00:11:43.13\00:11:45.43 BECAUSE ONE OF THE NAMES FOR JESUS IS 'THE WORD'. 00:11:45.47\00:11:49.90 AND ONE OF THE NAMES FOR THE LAW IS 'THE WORD'. 00:11:49.94\00:11:53.07 THE LAW IS, OF COURSE, THE WORD OF GOD WRITTEN BY GOD'S OWN 00:11:53.11\00:11:55.61 FINGER. IT'S ETERNAL IN NATURE. 00:11:55.64\00:11:59.78 NOW WHAT ARE YOU THINKING RIGHT NOW? 00:11:59.81\00:12:02.92 WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT THE LAW, DO YOU HAVE GOOD, WARM FEELINGS? 00:12:02.95\00:12:05.99 OR DOES THE WORD 'LAW' MAKE YOU NERVOUS? 00:12:06.02\00:12:09.49 WHEN YOU THINK OF THE LAW, DO YOU FEEL PEACE OR DO YOU FEEL 00:12:09.52\00:12:13.06 GUILT? >>PEACE. 00:12:13.09\00:12:14.93 >>THINK ABOUT THAT. I'M NOT GOING TO SAY ANYMORE. 00:12:14.93\00:12:17.83 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN? 00:12:17.87\00:12:21.60 THERE'S A FEW DEFINITIONS FOR THE SIN. 00:12:21.64\00:12:23.57 THE BIBLE SAYS ANYTHING NOT OF FAITH IS SIN, ALL 00:12:23.61\00:12:25.37 UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IS SIN - YOU CAN READ IN ROMANS 3:20, "BY THE LAW 00:12:25.41\00:12:30.45 IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN." SO WE LEARN ABOUT 00:12:30.48\00:12:33.72 SIN BY THE LAW. WELL, THAT WOULD MAKE YOU THINK 00:12:33.75\00:12:35.55 THAT 'I DON'T WANT THE - 'I DON'T WANT THE LAW BECAUSE IT'S 00:12:35.58\00:12:37.65 GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT SIN. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MY 00:12:37.69\00:12:40.26 SIN; I ALREADY FEEL GUILTY ENOUGH, SO IF I LOOK AT THE LAW, 00:12:40.29\00:12:42.92 I'M GOING TO FEEL BAD.' NO, IT'S NOT YOUR ENEMY. 00:12:42.96\00:12:46.29 ANOTHER DEFINITION - A REALLY GOOD DEFINITION THAT YOU'RE 00:12:46.33\00:12:48.83 GOING TO FIND HERE IN THE BIBLE - 1 JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSE 4, IT 00:12:48.86\00:12:52.60 SAYS - AND THIS IS ALMOST LIKE IT'S RIGHT OUT OF A DICTIONARY, 00:12:52.63\00:12:55.47 'SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.' AND SO, DO WE STILL HAVE 00:12:55.50\00:13:01.24 SIN IN THE WORLD TODAY? IT MUST STILL HAVE LAW. 00:13:01.28\00:13:05.95 SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW - WHAT LAW? 00:13:05.98\00:13:08.65 AND THAT'S THE NEXT QUESTION, TO WHAT LAW DOES 1 JOHN 3:4 REFER? 00:13:08.68\00:13:14.22 WELL, YOU CAN READ - THE ANSWER TO THAT YOU CAN REALLY GET FROM 00:13:14.26\00:13:16.62 ROMANS 7:7 - I KNOW I'M GIVING YOU A LOT OF SCRIPTURE, BUT I 00:13:16.66\00:13:19.59 WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT 00:13:19.63\00:13:22.26 IS REALLY ROOTED IN THE WORD. HE SAID, 'I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN 00:13:22.30\00:13:26.80 BUT BY THE LAW, FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST EXCEPT THE LAW HAD 00:13:26.84\00:13:30.47 SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT COVET.' NOW, WHEN PAUL SAYS 'YOU SHALL 00:13:30.51\00:13:34.68 NOT COVET,' WHERE DO YOU FIND THAT? WHICH COMMANDMENT IS THAT? 00:13:34.71\00:13:40.78 COMMANDMENT #10 - IT SAYS, 'THOU SHALL NOT COVET' - SO PAUL IS 00:13:40.82\00:13:44.12 SAYING, 'I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ABOUT SIN IF IT WASN'T FOR THE 00:13:44.15\00:13:46.55 LAW.' AND THEN HE'S REFERRING, OF COURSE, TO THE MORAL LAW - 00:13:46.59\00:13:49.06 THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW. AND DO WE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LAW 00:13:49.09\00:13:53.76 KEEPING IN THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD TODAY? 00:13:53.80\00:13:55.73 >>YES. >>OH, IT'S PRETTY SERIOUS. 00:13:55.76\00:13:57.90 I THINK I QUOTED THIS, ACTUALLY, SAME QUOTE TO YOU IN AN EARLIER 00:13:57.93\00:14:01.77 PRESENTATION - THAT "EVERY HUNDRED HOURS, MORE YOUTH DIE IN 00:14:01.80\00:14:04.47 U.S. STREETS THAN WERE KILLED IN THE PERSIAN GULF WARFARE" - 00:14:04.51\00:14:07.58 U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT . 00:14:07.61\00:14:10.01 ANOTHER REPORT TELLS US THAT THE AVERAGE 18 YEAR OLD HAS 00:14:10.05\00:14:14.32 WITNESSED 200,000 VIOLENT ACTS ON TELEVISION, INCLUDING 40,000 00:14:14.35\00:14:21.06 MURDERS - BY THE TIME HE'S 18 YEARS OLD - A YOUNG PERSON. 00:14:21.09\00:14:25.29 SO, IF WE ARE CHANGED BY BEHOLDING AND, IF PEOPLE ARE 00:14:25.33\00:14:30.10 SPENDING ALL THIS TIME BEHOLDING EVIL, THEN IS THAT GOING TO HAVE 00:14:30.13\00:14:33.54 AN IMPACT ON US? AND IT'S ALSO AFFECTING THE MORALS. 00:14:33.57\00:14:38.31 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT - IT'S JUST GONE EPIDEMIC NOW - 00:14:38.34\00:14:41.58 SOME OF YOU PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT 2015, THERE WAS A WEBSITE 00:14:41.61\00:14:44.88 CALLED ASHLEY MADISON AND SOME PEOPLE THAT WERE REALLY UPSET 00:14:44.91\00:14:48.48 WITH WHAT THE GOAL OF THIS WEBSITE WAS: TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE 00:14:48.52\00:14:51.99 TO HAVE AFFAIRS. THEIR MOTTO WAS, 'LIFE IS SHORT. 00:14:52.02\00:14:55.29 HAVE AN AFFAIR.' AND PEOPLE COULD GO AND REGISTER THERE - 00:14:55.32\00:14:58.86 AND A LOT OF MARRIAGES WERE BREAKING UP BECAUSE OF THIS 00:14:58.89\00:15:01.16 WEBSITE. THEY ACTUALLY HAD A 37 MILLION-PEOPLE REGISTER - 00:15:01.20\00:15:07.10 >>WOW. >>5.5 OF THEM HAD REGISTERED 00:15:07.14\00:15:09.70 AS WOMEN, SO IT WAS NOT JUST A PROBLEM OF THE MEN BUT, 00:15:09.74\00:15:13.01 PREDOMINANTLY, IT WAS THE MEN. AND THE GROUP SAID, 'IF YOU 00:15:13.04\00:15:17.05 DON'T TAKE DOWN YOUR WEBSITE, WE'VE HACKED ALL YOUR 00:15:17.08\00:15:19.08 INFORMATION, WE'RE MAKING IT PUBLIC.' WELL THEY DIDN'T TAKE 00:15:19.11\00:15:22.22 IT DOWN AND THESE PEOPLE WERE NOT JUST THREATENING, THEY DID 00:15:22.25\00:15:25.62 MAKE PUBLIC 25 GIGABYTES OF COMPANY DATA - THE PERSONAL 00:15:25.65\00:15:30.99 INFORMATION AND NAMES OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAD BEEN 00:15:31.03\00:15:33.80 USING THAT WEBSITE. >>WOW. 00:15:33.83\00:15:37.57 >>BUT THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE. THERE'S ONLY 300 MILLION IN 00:15:37.60\00:15:40.37 NORTH AMERICA - A LOT OF THEM ARE KIDS - 37 MILLION PEOPLE - 00:15:40.40\00:15:43.87 >>WOO! >>WOW. 00:15:43.91\00:15:45.67 >>INVESTIGATING HOW TO HAVE AN AFFAIR. 00:15:45.71\00:15:50.11 DO YOU THINK WE HAVE TOO MUCH LAW IN THE CHURCH? 00:15:50.15\00:15:52.71 OR MAYBE PEOPLE AREN'T HEARING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD? 00:15:52.75\00:15:55.58 OH, BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT - 'THOU 00:15:55.62\00:15:57.25 SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY'. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ADULTERERS 00:15:57.29\00:16:02.62 WILL NOT BE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 00:16:02.66\00:16:06.29 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS. IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS WE'LL 00:16:06.33\00:16:08.23 RETURN AND COMPLETE THIS PRESENTATION. 00:16:08.26\00:16:10.77 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BIG DEBATES IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TODAY HAS 00:16:10.80\00:16:13.74 TO DO WITH 'HOW DOES A CHRISTIAN RELATE TO THE LAW OF GOD?' 00:16:13.77\00:16:18.04 NOW, CLEARLY, SOME THINGS WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS AND A 00:16:18.07\00:16:20.48 CHRISTIAN DOES NOT NEED TO KEEP THE OLD COVENANT. 00:16:20.51\00:16:23.38 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:16:23.41\00:16:25.45 AFTER ALL, THEY'RE NOT CALLED 'THE TEN RECOMMENDATIONS' OR 00:16:25.48\00:16:28.35 'THE TEN SUGGESTIONS' OR 'GOD'S TEN GOOD IDEAS.' WE HAVE A 00:16:28.38\00:16:32.49 SPECIAL LESSON WE'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU AND IT'S CALLED 00:16:32.52\00:16:35.32 WRITTEN IN STONE . EVEN IN THE TITLE YOU CAN 00:16:35.36\00:16:37.79 UNDERSTAND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF 00:16:37.83\00:16:40.66 GOD IN STONE SO, OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS IMPORTANT. 00:16:40.70\00:16:44.03 IF YOU'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT AND MUCH MORE RELATED TO 00:16:44.07\00:16:46.60 IT, THEN MAKE SURE AND SEND FOR THIS FREE OFFER AND YOU'LL BE 00:16:46.63\00:16:50.04 BLESSED. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR 00:16:50.07\00:16:53.21 SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #111. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS 00:16:53.24\00:16:57.58 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 00:16:57.61\00:17:00.38 LET'S GET BACK NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 00:17:00.42\00:17:03.85 AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 00:17:03.89\00:17:07.46 >>GOD WANTS US TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 00:17:07.49\00:17:09.32 HE'S PRETTY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. NOW, THE BOTTOM LINE IS 00:17:09.36\00:17:11.26 A CHRISTIAN FOLLOWS WHO? WHAT DOES THE WORD 00:17:11.29\00:17:13.19 'CHRISTIAN' MEAN? A CHRISTIAN IS SUPPOSED 00:17:13.23\00:17:15.56 TO BE A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. WHAT DID JESUS DO? 00:17:15.60\00:17:18.93 DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:17:18.97\00:17:20.50 >>YES. >>HE SAID SO. 00:17:20.54\00:17:23.04 HE SAID IN JOHN 15:10, "I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS." 00:17:23.07\00:17:27.11 THAT WOULD CERTAINLY INCLUDE THE TEN, RIGHT? 00:17:27.14\00:17:29.91 SOME ARE SAYING, 'WELL, JESUS ONLY KEPT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 00:17:29.94\00:17:31.91 BECAUSE HE'S A JEW. WE'RE CHRISTIANS NOW. 00:17:31.95\00:17:33.82 HE SAVED US FROM THE LAW.' HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT BEFORE? 00:17:33.85\00:17:38.59 YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST STARTED READING THE BIBLE AND - YOU 00:17:38.62\00:17:44.19 KNOW, MY MOTHER WAS AN ACTRESS. SHE WAS ACTUALLY IN THE 00:17:44.23\00:17:46.03 MOVIE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS . AND I EVEN - BEFORE I WAS A 00:17:46.06\00:17:49.03 CHRISTIAN I REMEMBER SEEING THAT CHARLTON HESTON MOVIE. 00:17:49.06\00:17:51.67 SHE HAD A VERY LITTLE PART - I DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK SHE WAS 00:17:51.70\00:17:54.07 A, YOU KNOW, FAMOUS ACTRESS. 00:17:54.10\00:17:55.24 WHENEVER MY KIDS AND I WATCH IT I SAY, 'THERE'S GRANDMA! 00:17:55.27\00:17:57.44 THERE SHE GOES.' (LAUGHTER) IT'S A REALLY SHORT SCENE, BUT I GET 00:17:57.47\00:18:00.78 TO SAY SHE WAS IN THE MOVIE, AND THAT MAKES ME FEEL PRETTY GOOD. 00:18:00.81\00:18:03.91 SO, I KNEW, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE, BUT I WAS 00:18:03.95\00:18:12.85 SURPRISED, AFTER BECOMING A CHRISTIAN, TO HEAR CHRISTIANS 00:18:12.89\00:18:16.16 TELLING ME, 'OH, BUT WE'RE SAVED BECAUSE OF JESUS. 00:18:16.19\00:18:19.13 JESUS KEPT THE LAW SO WE DON'T HAVE TO.' AND I THOUGHT, 00:18:19.16\00:18:20.90 'REALLY? YOU MEAN HE DIED AND TOOK OUR 00:18:20.93\00:18:26.07 PENALTY TO GIVE US A LICENSE TO SIN?' 00:18:26.10\00:18:29.24 I THOUGHT HE DIED - DIDN'T THE ANGEL TELL MARY TO SAVE US FROM 00:18:29.27\00:18:31.94 OUR SINS, NOT IN OUR SINS? SIN IS MY PROBLEM. 00:18:31.97\00:18:37.38 I WANT TO BE SAVED FROM MY SIN. I DON'T WANT TO BE SAVED TO 00:18:37.41\00:18:39.65 CONTINUE WITH THESE THINGS THAT CAUSE ALL THESE 00:18:39.68\00:18:41.62 PROBLEMS IN MY LIFE. I WANT TO BE DELIVERED 00:18:41.65\00:18:43.89 FROM THESE THINGS. BY THE WAY, IN THE BOOK OF 00:18:43.92\00:18:46.12 REVELATION, IT'S ALL A BOOK ABOUT VICTORY. 00:18:46.15\00:18:48.76 IF YOU READ THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS GIVES TO EACH OF THE 00:18:48.79\00:18:51.23 CHURCHES - REVELATION CHAPTER 2 AND 3 - SEVEN MESSAGES, SEVEN 00:18:51.26\00:18:53.96 CHURCHES - DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS TO EVERY CHURCH IN EVERY 00:18:54.00\00:18:55.70 AGE? 'TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES, TO HIM 00:18:55.73\00:18:58.47 THAT OVERCOMES, TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES - DO YOU THINK JESUS 00:18:58.50\00:19:01.30 WOULD SAY THAT SEVEN TIMES AND THEN SAY, 'IT'S NOT REALLY 00:19:01.34\00:19:04.54 POSSIBLE.' OF COURSE HE WANTS US TO BE OBEDIENT. 00:19:04.57\00:19:08.81 WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE? JESUS WOULD HEAL SOMEBODY; HE'D 00:19:08.84\00:19:12.15 SAY, 'GO AND SIN NO MORE OR LEST A WORSE THING COME 00:19:12.18\00:19:14.02 UPON YOU.' WHAT IS SIN? TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 00:19:14.05\00:19:16.85 SO, WHEN HE SAID TO MARY MAGDALENE, 'GO AND SIN NO MORE.' 00:19:16.89\00:19:19.45 OR HE SAID TO THAT PARALYTIC THAT HE HEALED, 'GO AND SIN NO 00:19:19.49\00:19:21.76 MORE LEST A WORSE THING COME UPON YOU.' HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, 00:19:21.79\00:19:24.53 YOU KNOW, MARY ALMOST GOT STONED - ASSUMING SHE WAS THE WOMAN 00:19:24.56\00:19:27.86 CAUGHT IN ADULTERY. WE'RE NOT SURE OF THAT - 00:19:27.86\00:19:30.13 BUT HE SAID, 'DON'T DO THAT. IT COULD KILL YOU. 00:19:30.17\00:19:34.54 DON'T - SIN IS BAD. IT HURTS YOU.' JESUS SAID, 'I'VE 00:19:34.57\00:19:38.41 KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS. YOU CAN READ IN 1 PETER 2:22 - 00:19:38.44\00:19:41.78 IT SAYS JESUS "WHO COMMITTED NO SIN. 00:19:41.81\00:19:45.08 NOR WAS DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH." 00:19:45.11\00:19:47.15 SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 00:19:47.18\00:19:49.35 JESUS COMMITTED WHAT? NO SIN. 00:19:49.38\00:19:52.25 JESUS PERFECTLY KEPT THE FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS. 00:19:52.29\00:19:55.06 NOW, WE HAVEN'T. ALL OF US HAVE SINNED. 00:19:55.09\00:19:59.03 WE ALL STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION AND SIN EVERY DAY, AMEN? 00:19:59.06\00:20:01.76 >>AMEN. >>IT'S A CHALLENGE. 00:20:01.80\00:20:03.67 BUT BECAUSE WE ALL STRUGGLE AND WE OFTEN FALL, DOES THAT MEAN WE 00:20:03.70\00:20:07.14 SHOULDN'T MAKE EVERY EFFORT, BY GOD'S GRACE, TO DO HIS WILL? 00:20:07.17\00:20:11.57 AND WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD? NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS, 'LORD, 00:20:11.61\00:20:16.18 LORD' WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT THEY THAT DO THE 00:20:16.21\00:20:19.98 WILL OF MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.' WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD? 00:20:20.02\00:20:23.39 'LORD, I LOVE TO KEEP YOUR LAW - I LOVE TO KEEP YOUR 00:20:23.42\00:20:26.35 COMMANDMENTS. YOUR LAW IS WRITTEN IN MY 00:20:26.39\00:20:29.22 HEART.' PSALM 119 - I THINK THAT'S VERSE 45. 00:20:29.26\00:20:33.26 THE LAW OF GOD - HE SAYS, 'I LOVE TO DO YOUR WILL. 00:20:33.29\00:20:35.93 YOUR LAW IS IN MY HEART.' THE WILL OF GOD IS THE LAW OF GOD. 00:20:35.96\00:20:40.27 THE LAW OF GOD IS THE WILL OF GOD. 00:20:40.30\00:20:41.40 IT'S GOD'S WILL THAT YOU DON'T KILL EACH OTHER. 00:20:41.44\00:20:45.27 IT'S GOD'S WILL THAT YOU DON'T COVET - THAT YOU DON'T COMMIT 00:20:45.31\00:20:48.58 ADULTERY, RIGHT? AND SO, IF YOU LOVE HIM. 00:20:48.61\00:20:54.02 SO HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE SINNED? >>ALL. 00:20:54.05\00:20:56.89 >>WE JUST SORT OF ALLUDED TO THIS - YOU CAN READ, OF COURSE, 00:20:56.92\00:20:59.02 IN ROMANS 3:23, "FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE 00:20:59.05\00:21:02.92 GLORY OF GOD." WE'VE ALL BROKEN GOD'S LAW. 00:21:02.96\00:21:06.49 AND THE PENALTY FOR SIN, OF COURSE, IS VERY SERIOUS. 00:21:06.53\00:21:09.26 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY; WE HAVE 00:21:09.30\00:21:12.13 TURNED, EVERY ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY. 00:21:12.17\00:21:14.70 AND THE LORD LAID UPON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL.' SO ALL OF 00:21:14.74\00:21:19.11 US HAVE SINNED. NONE IS RIGHTEOUS, NO, NOT ONE. 00:21:19.14\00:21:23.48 WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR LIVING A LIFE OF SIN? 00:21:23.51\00:21:27.78 YOU CAN READ THERE, IN ROMANS CHAPTER 6:23, "THE WAGES OF SIN 00:21:27.82\00:21:32.92 IS DEATH." HOW COME WE'RE NOT DEAD YET? 00:21:32.95\00:21:37.03 IT'S BECAUSE JESUS, BY HIS DEATH, HE'S BOUGHT US TIME TO 00:21:37.06\00:21:40.43 MAKE A DECISION AND HE BOUGHT ETERNAL LIFE FOR THOSE THAT WILL 00:21:40.46\00:21:43.10 ACCEPT HIS SACRIFICE IN THEIR PLACE. 00:21:43.13\00:21:45.90 BUT WHY DID HE DIE? FOR SIN. WHAT IS SIN? BREAKING THE LAW. 00:21:45.93\00:21:52.27 WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THE THING THAT HURT JESUS SO MUCH? 00:21:52.31\00:21:57.55 YEAH, SIN IS WHAT KILLED HIM - SIN IS WHAT HURT HIM. 00:21:57.58\00:22:01.22 WHEN GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE, IF YOU EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT, "IN 00:22:01.25\00:22:05.42 THE DAY THAT YOU EAT OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE." 00:22:05.45\00:22:09.39 THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 00:22:09.42\00:22:11.23 FOR US TO CONTINUE, WILLINGLY LIVING LIVES OF SIN - YOU READ 00:22:11.26\00:22:15.23 IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 10:26, IT SAYS, IF WE CONTINUE TO SIN 00:22:15.26\00:22:19.80 WILFULLY, AFTER WE'VE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH - SO 00:22:19.83\00:22:23.17 PEOPLE STUMBLE AND FALL, AND THAT'S ONE THING, BUT TO 00:22:23.20\00:22:25.91 CONTINUE IN KNOWN, WILLING SIN AFTER YOU KNOW GOD'S WILL, IT 00:22:25.94\00:22:30.08 SAYS THERE'S NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, BUT ONLY A CERTAIN 00:22:30.11\00:22:32.48 FEARFUL LOOKING FORWARD TO OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION 00:22:32.51\00:22:36.08 THAT WILL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES. 00:22:36.12\00:22:37.65 IT'S A DANGEROUS THING TO TAMPER AND PLAY WITH SIN. 00:22:37.69\00:22:41.42 WOULD YOU LET YOUR KIDS PLAY IN THE STREET? 00:22:41.46\00:22:43.63 WHY, BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO HAVE ANY FUN? 00:22:43.66\00:22:46.33 OR BECAUSE YOU LOVE THEM? SO WILL GOD WITHHOLD ANYTHING 00:22:46.36\00:22:49.86 GOOD FROM HIS PEOPLE, OR IS HE ONLY WANTING US TO STAY 00:22:49.90\00:22:52.73 AWAY FROM WHAT HURTS US? SIN IS DEADLY. 00:22:52.77\00:22:55.24 IT'S POISON. NUMBER 7: DO THE TEN 00:22:55.27\00:22:59.34 COMMANDMENTS STILL APPLY TO NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS? 00:22:59.37\00:23:02.98 THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS I WANT TO MAKE 00:23:03.01\00:23:04.95 CLEAR IN THIS PRESENTATION. ABSOLUTELY. 00:23:04.98\00:23:08.95 MATTHEW 19, VERSE 17, HE SAID, "IF THOU WILL ENTER INTO THE 00:23:08.98\00:23:12.39 LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." AND THE RICH YOUNG RULER 00:23:12.42\00:23:16.69 SAID TO JESUS, 'WHICH?' AND JESUS BEGAN TO RECITE 00:23:16.73\00:23:20.26 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. IS THAT PRETTY CLEAR? 00:23:20.30\00:23:22.90 I MEAN, IT'S RIGHT FROM THE MOUTH OF JESUS. 00:23:22.93\00:23:24.93 AND CHRIST SAID, 'DO NOT THINK THAT I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE 00:23:24.97\00:23:27.97 LAW AND PROPHETS. I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL.' 00:23:28.00\00:23:31.61 AND SOME THINK THAT MEANS, WELL, THAT MEANS 'DO AWAY WITH'. 00:23:31.64\00:23:33.74 NO, FULFILL MEANS TO FILL FULL. MATTER OF FACT, A LITTLE LATER - 00:23:33.78\00:23:39.68 OR EARLIER, ACTUALLY, IN THE SAME BOOK, WHEN JESUS CAME TO 00:23:39.71\00:23:43.25 JOHN THE BAPTIST TO BE BAPTIZED, JOHN SAID, 'OH, YOU'RE THE 00:23:43.28\00:23:46.25 MESSIAH. YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME.' AND 00:23:46.29\00:23:48.76 JESUS SAID, 'SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW, FOR THUS IT BECOMES US TO 00:23:48.79\00:23:51.53 FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' NOW, DOES THE WORD 'FULFILL' 00:23:51.56\00:23:55.60 MEAN 'DO AWAY WITH'? WOULD JESUS HAVE SAID TO JOHN, 00:23:55.63\00:24:00.87 'YOU NEED TO DO THIS TO DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS'? 00:24:00.90\00:24:03.77 NO, IT MEANS 'TO COMPLETE; TO FULFILL' ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:24:03.81\00:24:06.91 CHRIST - JESUS SAID, 'DON'T THINK I'VE COME TO DESTROY LAW 00:24:06.94\00:24:10.95 AND PROPHETS, WHOSOEVER THEREFORE SHALL BREAK ONE OF THE 00:24:10.98\00:24:13.58 LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS AND TEACH MEN SO, HE WILL BE SPOKEN 00:24:13.62\00:24:16.58 OF AS LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 00:24:16.62\00:24:18.62 BUT WHOEVER WILL DO AND TEACH THEM, HE WILL BE CALLED GREAT IN 00:24:18.65\00:24:21.82 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' AND SO, CHRIST WAS VERY CLEAR ABOUT THE 00:24:21.86\00:24:25.96 LAW. HE SAID, 'DO NOT THINK THAT I'VE 00:24:25.99\00:24:28.06 COME TO GET RID OF IT.' I'VE GOT MORE VERSES ON THAT IN A MINUTE. 00:24:28.10\00:24:32.33 HE SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE ME' - DO WHAT? 00:24:32.37\00:24:36.71 'KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' >>AMEN. 00:24:36.74\00:24:38.67 >>AGAIN, REVELATION 22 - THIS IS A REVELATION SUBJECT - "BLESSED 00:24:38.71\00:24:43.04 ARE THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS." 00:24:43.08\00:24:45.55 IS IT A CURSING OR A BLESSING? >>BLESSING. 00:24:45.58\00:24:48.05 >>IT'S A BLESSING. GOD - I'M TALKING ABOUT A 00:24:48.08\00:24:50.05 BLESSING TONIGHT, FRIENDS. YOU GET THIS SUBJECT, 00:24:50.09\00:24:52.85 YOU'LL BE BLESSED. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO 00:24:52.89\00:24:55.26 KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS? THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 00:24:55.29\00:24:58.69 ROMANS 8:3 AND 4, "GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON...CONDEMNED SIN IN 00:24:58.73\00:25:05.13 THE FLESH: THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT 00:25:05.17\00:25:08.47 BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH BUT AFTER THE 00:25:08.50\00:25:12.91 SPIRIT." ALL OF US KIND OF FEEL THE WAR 00:25:12.94\00:25:15.38 BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH WITHIN AND, THROUGH THE POWER 00:25:15.41\00:25:18.35 OF CHRIST, WE DON'T HAVE TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH. 00:25:18.38\00:25:21.42 BUT YOU CAN BE BORN AGAIN. GOD GIVES YOU A NEW HEART 00:25:21.45\00:25:23.82 - THAT'S THE NEW COVENANT. PHILIPPIANS 4:13, "I 00:25:23.85\00:25:27.12 CAN DO" - HOW MUCH? >>ALL. 00:25:27.16\00:25:28.39 >>"I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENETH ME." 00:25:28.42\00:25:33.03 HE WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH THROUGH HIS WORD AND THROUGH HIS 00:25:33.06\00:25:35.70 SPIRIT, TO RESIST TEMPTATION, TO GET VICTORY, TO BE OVERCOMERS, 00:25:35.73\00:25:39.30 TO LIVE A NEW LIFE. >>AMEN. 00:25:39.33\00:25:41.74 >>I WAS DOING A TV PROGRAM - IT WAS ACTUALLY A CHRISTIAN STATION 00:25:41.77\00:25:45.51 WHERE I WAS DEBATING SOME OTHER MINISTERS ON THIS SUBJECT. 00:25:45.54\00:25:50.05 AND ONE OF THEM SAID, 'NOBODY CAN KEEP THE LAW.' AND I SAID, 00:25:50.08\00:25:55.22 'I'LL AGREE THAT WE'VE ALL SINNED, BUT I DON'T AGREE THAT 00:25:55.25\00:25:57.45 NOBODY CAN KEEP THE LAW.' I ASKED HIM, I SAID, 'DO YOU 00:25:57.49\00:26:00.52 BELIEVE THAT THE DEVIL CAN TEMPT US TO SIN?' 00:26:00.56\00:26:02.66 HE SAID, 'YES.' I SAID, 'DO YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS CAN KEEP US 00:26:02.69\00:26:05.56 FROM SIN?' THE PASTOR SAID, 'NO.' I SAID, 00:26:05.59\00:26:09.93 'SO YOUR DEVIL'S BIGGER THAN YOUR SAVIOR?' 00:26:09.96\00:26:13.20 I READ, 'GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE 00:26:13.23\00:26:17.21 WORLD.' AND THAT 'I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST.' AND 00:26:17.24\00:26:20.94 'JESUS CHRIST IS THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF OUR FAITH.' AND 00:26:20.98\00:26:24.91 SO THERE'S - IT BREAKS MY HEART, YOU KNOW? 00:26:24.95\00:26:27.78 IT'S DOCTRINES OF DEVILS WHEN EVEN PASTORS ARE TELLING PEOPLE 00:26:27.82\00:26:30.99 - I HEAR IT ON THE RADIO AND, IF YOU WERE DRIVING WITH ME IN THE 00:26:31.02\00:26:33.15 CAR YOU'D REALLY PROBABLY BE ENTERTAINED BECAUSE I GET - I 00:26:33.19\00:26:35.72 START TALKING TO THE RADIO - I'LL HEAR - I LISTEN TO 00:26:35.76\00:26:38.63 CHRISTIAN STATIONS AND I'LL HEAR PASTORS - PEOPLE CALL THEM WITH 00:26:38.66\00:26:41.23 A BIBLE QUESTION: 'PASTOR IS IT NECESSARY TO KEEP THE LAW?' 00:26:41.26\00:26:44.13 HE'LL SAY, 'NO, WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, WE'RE UNDER GRACE NOW. 00:26:44.17\00:26:46.63 WE ONLY NEED TO KEEP TWO COMMANDMENTS: LOVE THE LORD AND 00:26:46.67\00:26:49.20 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' (LAUGHTER) 'BECAUSE JESUS GAVE US A NEW 00:26:49.24\00:26:53.14 COMMANDMENT.' AND JESUS SAYS, 'A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU' 00:26:53.17\00:26:57.55 AND THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY, 'LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR 00:26:57.58\00:26:59.85 HEART AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' WHAT WAS JESUS DOING 00:26:59.88\00:27:03.35 WHEN HE SAID THAT? QUOTING MOSES. 00:27:03.39\00:27:07.96 IT'S IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6 AND IT'S IN LEVITICUS 19:18. 00:27:07.99\00:27:11.79 JESUS IS SAYING, 'A NEW COMMANDMENT' AND THEN HE'S 00:27:11.83\00:27:13.90 QUOTING MOSES. THE IDEA OF LOVING THE LORD AND 00:27:13.93\00:27:16.83 LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR IS THE ESSENCE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:27:16.87\00:27:20.34 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ALL ABOUT LOVE. 00:27:20.37\00:27:21.80 GOD IS LOVE. IT'S AN EXPRESSION OF HIS LOVE. 00:27:21.84\00:27:23.57 FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH LOVE FOR GOD; LAST SIX 00:27:23.61\00:27:26.41 COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH LOVE FOR YOUR FELLOW MEN. 00:27:26.44\00:27:28.44 THE WHOLE LAW IS SUMMARIZED IN LOVE. 00:27:28.48\00:27:30.65 IF YOU LOVE GOD, YOU WON'T BREAK THE FIRST FOUR. 00:27:30.68\00:27:33.11 IF YOU LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN YOU'RE NOT GOING TO KILL HIM. 00:27:33.15\00:27:34.98 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT HIM. 00:27:35.02\00:27:36.08 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIE ABOUT HIM. 00:27:36.12\00:27:36.85 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STEAL FROM HIM. 00:27:36.89\00:27:38.55 'LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW' PAUL SAYS. AMEN? 00:27:38.59\00:27:46.73 >>WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR BROKEN WORLD, AS 00:27:46.76\00:27:49.76 REVEALED IN BIBLE PROPHECY? 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