by the friends of the
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: Through the
sin of Adam we've all got big
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problems.
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We're tempted, we fall, we
sin, but through the sacrifice
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and the victory of Jesus
we can be born again, adopted
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into a new family that
has life instead of death.
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Doug: You know one of the most
popular websites and it's also
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become a billion dollar business
right now is ancestry.com.
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It's the world's largest online
collection of family history
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records and they got
three million subscribers.
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There's other knock offs that
do varying types of this where
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people can kind of
track their ancestry.
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You know, I don't know why
but as I've gotten a little
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older I've been a
little more interested in that.
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About a year ago, Karen
got me ancestry.com test.
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I was always interested because
my dad said, "Yeah, we're part
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Indian.
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We're part American-Indian."
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And I always told
everybody all my life.
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Yep, I even, you know, my
uncle lived with the Navajos.
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I lived on the reservation.
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I used to tell 'em, Yeah, I
tried to figure it out when he
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said it was a
grandma was a Cherokee.
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And so, Karen got
me this DNA tests.
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I couldn't wait to see
the results how much Indian I
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was and came back.
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Took six weeks after spitting
in a bottle to get the report
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back.
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And I have no Indian at all.
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And my father and his brothers,
they've told me all my life.
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I didn't make it up.
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You can ask Karen.
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She talked to my uncles.
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Yeah, yeah, Cherokee.
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'Cause everybody
says that, don't they?
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There's people in
government that say it.
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Good thing I'm not running
for public office, but because
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yeah, it came up zero.
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Now, it turns out I did
have a little Indian from India,
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but that's not what I thought.
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I'm a hodgepodge from Europe
and England, but mostly Jew.
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European Jew it said.
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Well, our message today
is about fruits and nuts
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and the family tree.
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And someone said once I shook
the family tree and several nuts
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fell out.
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And I think that we all know
that it seems like every family
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has an element of baggage,
little bit of dysfunction,
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varying degrees of challenges.
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Child asks their
mother, "How are people born?"
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So, the mother being a Christian
said, "Well, Adam got married
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to Eve and they had
babies and those babies grew
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up and they had babies.
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And eventually we came along."
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And the child then went
to the father and he was not
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a believer and he said, "Well,
years ago our ancestors were
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monkeys that went
through the jungle and gradually
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they evolved into
what we are today."
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Child ran back to the mom
and said, "Mom, you lied to me.
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Dad said we came from monkeys."
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She said, "No, I wasn't lying.
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He was talking about
his side of the family."
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Now, I know when I first started
reading through the Bible I
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sometimes struggled
going through the genealogies.
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I don't know how
you are but when you get
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to the genealogies you kinda
just mumble through the names.
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Some of 'em are hard to say.
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I used to say is this
part of the Bible inspired?
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Am I supposed
to understand this?
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And you find genealogies, you'll
find it you know in Genesis
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chapter 5.
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And you get Chronicles,
there's quite a bit of genealogy
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in Chronicles.
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You might be interested to
know that the the chronicles are
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written with a very specific
purpose and it's actually very
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valuable.
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First of all, if you look
in 1 Chronicles chapter 1, it's
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tracing the genealogy all
the way from Adam up to King
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David.
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It's the royal genealogy.
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It's the genealogy of the king.
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But then if you go to 1
Chronicles chapter 6, it's got
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a different genealogy, it goes
from Levi and it's the genealogy
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of the priests.
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I think it's interesting
they were careful to separate
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the king and the priest.
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The church and the state.
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They were separate genealogies.
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There was a civil calendar.
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There was a religious calendar.
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And you may know that one reason
God I think blessed America,
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we're that lamb with two horns,
because we had a separation
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of church and state.
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Doesn't mean that the state
is not informed by the church
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and the church is not informed
by the laws of the land, but we
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kept them two distinct things.
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Where you find
that in the Bible?
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But you also as you
read through the genealogies
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of the kings, you find
some interesting characters.
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Some were good, some were
not so good, some were terrible.
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And even among the priests, you
got Nadab, and Abihu, and--and
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Phinehas.
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So, the Bible gives a
very faithful record and even
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in those family trees
they had a few fruits and nuts.
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But if you look at the family
tree of Jesus, you're gonna find
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out he has an
interesting family tree.
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Some of you open up your
New Testament and you get bored
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right away.
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The book of the genealogy
of Jesus Christ, the son
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of David, the son of Abraham.
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Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac
begot Jacob, Jacob begot Judah.
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Now, right there I
haven't gone very far.
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Abraham who had an
affair with his wife's maid
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with the encouragement of
his wife, beget Isaac who played
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favorites with his two sons.
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Who beget Jacob who dressed
up like a sheep so he could
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deceive his father and work
with his mother as a conspirator
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to steal the birthright.
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And he then had Judah, who
slept with his daughter-in-law
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and ended up having twins
because he didn't want to give
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his sons to her.
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Now, I haven't gone very
far in Jesus's family tree,
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but something I'm noticing
right away is they had a little
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dysfunction going on
and yet these are the holy
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ancestors of Jesus.
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Now, they were godly people.
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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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But you read in their lives
and in spite of their commitment
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to God and loving the
Lord, they seem very human.
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And you can just keep on going
down and all you could talk
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about Rahab, who she had
a cottage business you might
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say.
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And then you've got David
and we've heard ad nauseam
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about David's lying,
and deception, and murder,
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and yet he's an
ancestor of Jesus.
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So, we're learning that God's
family is made up of imperfect
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people that God made perfect
through the plan of salvation.
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And it's not
just here in Matthew.
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When you look at the genealogy
of Jesus, you can see that
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there's something
very interesting happening.
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In Matthew, you've
got that genealogy.
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Matthew's genealogy is the line
of Jesus written for the Jews
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that leads to the father
that was very important, leads
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to Joseph the father.
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Luke a physician said, "Well,
technically Jesus was conceived
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of the Holy Spirit.
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So we got to trace the
bloodline through the mother."
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So, Luke's bloodline is written
for the Gentiles and it goes
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through the mother.
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And you know he
takes it all the way back.
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It doesn't just go to Abraham,
it says the son of Nathan,
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the son of David, the son
of Jesse, the son of Obed,
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the son of Boaz, the son of
Salmon, and you keep on going
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back as the son of
Enosh, the son of Seth, the son
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of Adam, the son of God.
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They follow the same geology
until you get to David and then
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Luke now follows from David
to Mary going through Mary's
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father-in-law, rather Joseph's
father-in-law, Mary's dad,
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and then Matthew was
following it from David
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to Joseph because that
would be the important lines.
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People have wondered why there
are two different genealogies.
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There was a reason for that
just like I showed you there was
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a genealogy for the
king and the priest.
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Luke is for the Gentiles,
Matthew's for the Jews.
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One is going through the father.
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One is going through the mother.
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But as you read through
the different characters
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not all of them are
mentioned, but as you read
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through the different
characters there are some really
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interesting stories about these
people that reminds us how human
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they are.
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And the Bible is pretty
clear we are all family.
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All of us are family.
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Now, we're family because we're
humans and in spite of some
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people to think we all descended
from monkeys, the Bible's pretty
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clear that's not
the way it happened.
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We are all
related to Adam and Eve.
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And then if you think we lost
track from that point, we're all
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related to Noah.
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Acts 17:26, we
all have common DNA.
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"He has made from one blood
every nation of men to dwell
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on all the face of the earth,
and He has determined their
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preappointed times and
the boundaries of their
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dwellings, so that they should
seek the Lord and hope that they
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might grope for Him and
find Him, though He is not far
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from every one of us."
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Through the Holy Spirit, we
all kind of get the DNA of Jesus
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transplanted, but we are
all related to each other.
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And if you have a car accident
and you need a blood transfusion
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the people in the hospital are
going to look at the blood type,
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and they're not going to look
and say, "Wow, I wonder are they
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Hispanic, or are they Anglo,
or they Chinese," and they don't
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care.
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They just want to know is it oh
by the way I know what Jesus's
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blood type was.
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Called B+.
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So, they're just going to want
to know are you O+ or whatever
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you are.
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Do you have the right blood type
because now if they give you
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lizard blood it'll kill you.
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It's gotta be human blood
because we're all related.
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Just as long as it's
the right blood type.
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Romans 5:12 problem is that
through one of our ancestors we
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acquired a disease.
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"Through one man's sin," Romans
5:12, "sin entered the world
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and death through sin, and thus
death spread to all men because
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all sinned."
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Now, that doesn't sound fair.
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I was doing a little research.
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Do you know there are certain
diseases that are particular
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to certain races.
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You've heard of
sickle cell anemia anemia.
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It is more prominent
among African Americans, though
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there are some Latin
Americans that get it.
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Cystic fibrosis is
more prominent among Jews.
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There are several diseases that
Jews principally get and you see
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around the world that there are
certain diseases that are more
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kind of isolated in certain
groups, partly because of their
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isolation.
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There's not enough outside genes
that come in and they can get
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genetic deficiencies.
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There are certain diseases
that certain breeds of dog get
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because through
inbreeding over years.
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They don't get the
genetic makeup that they should
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initially have.
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And so, we because we're related
to Adam, we've got a problem.
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See, Adam and Eve originally
were made in God's image
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but through sin, the DNA,
the gene somethin' was damaged.
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Before Adam was
motivated by love and after sin
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the compass needle flipped
around and now we're motivated
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by self.
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And every human that is
born, how many have sinned?
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We've all got this disease.
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We've got a problem.
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Through one man's sin sin
entered the world and all have
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sinned.
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Romans 5:14, "Nevertheless death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even
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over those who had not sinned.
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According to the likeness
of the transgression of Adam,
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who is a type of
Him who is to come."
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Death reigned.
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He's talkin' about even
through the that Old Testament
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time up to
Moses and beyond then.
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So, we've all got this
hereditary problem that has
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caused sin.
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And it affects us in our
relationships in our home.
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You know a lot of the biggest
disputes in the Bible, you know
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where they are?
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It's called friendly
fire alias family feuds.
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Doug: You'll see it in
the Bible, Cain killed Abel.
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David's son tried to kill him.
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His king tried to kill him.
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Jesus's brothers
didn't understand who he was.
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You can see that there's rivalry
that goes on between Jacob.
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Esau threatened to kill Jacob.
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Happens in the
families even in the Bible.
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Heard about a husband
and wife celebrating 60 years
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and the local paper came
by and they said, "That's
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commendable.
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To what do you attribute
your long and happy marriage?"
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And the husband said, "Well,
when we got married we made
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an agreement that I would
make all of the major decisions
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and she would make all
of the minor decisions.
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And wouldn't you know after 60
years of marriage, we've never
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had to make a major decision."
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So, that's how they got along.
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And something else that we've
noticed is that we have family
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resemblance.
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Whenever I see
families traveling I always look
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at the kids and then I look
at the parents and I try to just
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for my own entertainment
see who looks like who.
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Do we tend to bear things
similar to our parents, there's
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likenesses that happened there.
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Someone said the apple doesn't
fall very far from the tree.
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I remember hearing one time
about during World War II, you
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know they took children
out of the city 'cause bomb--
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London was being bombed
by the Nazis just relentless
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bombing.
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And so, many of the children
were taken out into the country
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and put in homes to try to
preserve the children because
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so many adults had
to work in the city.
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They were dying from the
daily bombings of the Nazis.
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And many of the children
were separated from the parents
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for years and some of
the parents died and they
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never got reunited.
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And there were large orphanages
and there's one family that had
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like five children in it.
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After the war was over they were
trying to find out if either
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their parents had survived.
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And they understood they had
lost their mother, but someone
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had gotten word that
the father was alive.
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So, the son went into London
to look for the father, found
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the father was in a hospital.
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He was recovering.
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Told the father the brothers
and sisters were all okay,
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and he was going to bring back
word, and he came back and he
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told his
siblings, "Father's alive."
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Some of these kids were young.
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They hadn't seen their father
in five years and they said,
00:15:43.27\00:15:46.31
"What's he like?"
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And the older brother, he smiled
and he said, "Well, they tell me
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he's the spitting image of me."
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When God sent
Jesus into the world part
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of the reason Christ came
was to show us what the Father's
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like.
00:16:03.19\00:16:04.49
Amen?
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So, He said, "If you've seen
Me, you've seen the Father."
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He wants us to know that
He is the image of the Father.
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Christ became one of us.
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The Bible says in Philippians
2:7, "But He made Himself of no
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reputation taking the form
of a bondservant and coming
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in the likeness of men."
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If God had come through Jesus
with all of His glory and His
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dazzling brightness and power
we couldn't have born it but He
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came so much like a man that
when He was walking among man
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they had no idea
that He was any different.
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Bible says, "There's no outward
form or comeliness that we
00:16:38.26\00:16:40.73
should desire Him."
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Hebrews 4:15, "We do not
have a High Priest who cannot
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sympathize with our weakness,
but He was in all points tempted
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as we are yet without sin."
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So, then we read on here.
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In Galatians chapter 3 now it
tells us that after Christ came
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He came to
provide adoption for us.
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The Bible says, "For you
are all children of God by faith
00:17:08.42\00:17:12.86
in Jesus."
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We become adopted
into this new family.
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Continuing with Romans chapter
5, verse 18, "Therefore as
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through one man's offense,"
Adam, "judgment came on all men,
00:17:22.74\00:17:26.98
resulting in condemnation."
00:17:27.01\00:17:28.61
'Cause we all sinned, "Even
so through one man's righteous
00:17:28.64\00:17:33.75
act," Jesus coming, his dying
on the cross, "The free gift,
00:17:33.78\00:17:38.49
the cure came to all men,
resulting in justification
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of life."
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The sin of Adam
resulted in death.
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The sacrifice of
Jesus offers us life.
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Now, I just want to pause right
here and emphasize a point.
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How many of you believe that
because of the fall of Adam that
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you're having problems today?
00:17:56.24\00:17:58.07
Is that real to you?
00:17:58.11\00:17:59.44
Do you struggle with sin?
00:17:59.47\00:18:01.11
I don't see too many hands going
up and I see your heads nodding.
00:18:01.14\00:18:03.08
You're just-- is it real?
00:18:03.11\00:18:05.51
You really know that because
of what happened to Adam it
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affects my life today.
00:18:08.02\00:18:09.35
I know it.
00:18:09.38\00:18:10.69
Yeah.
00:18:10.72\00:18:12.02
It's like Paul said, we struggle
with this nature inside.
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The sacrifice of Jesus
liberating you from that disease
00:18:16.96\00:18:22.50
is just as real through faith.
00:18:22.53\00:18:26.30
This is what Paul is
saying and when you catch this,
00:18:26.33\00:18:28.07
friends, this is the message
of righteousness by faith.
00:18:28.10\00:18:31.57
Through the sin of Adam
we've all got big problems.
00:18:31.61\00:18:35.04
We're tempted, we fall, we sin,
sin brings all kinds of misery
00:18:35.08\00:18:38.08
in its wake, but
through the sacrifice
00:18:38.11\00:18:41.42
and the victory of Jesus,
we can be born again, adopted
00:18:41.45\00:18:46.55
into a new family that
has life instead of death.
00:18:46.59\00:18:51.36
Through Adam there's a death
penalty, through life there--
00:18:51.39\00:18:55.86
through Jesus
there is life that comes.
00:18:55.90\00:18:58.00
That's good news.
00:18:58.03\00:18:59.37
You know this is
the story of the gospel.
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It says in Romans 8:14, "For as
many as are led by the Spirit,
00:19:01.00\00:19:05.51
these are the sons of God.
00:19:05.54\00:19:07.78
For you did not receive
the spirit of bondage again
00:19:07.81\00:19:10.31
to fear, but you received
the Spirit of adoption by whom
00:19:10.35\00:19:15.85
we cry out, 'Abba, Father.'
00:19:15.88\00:19:18.99
The Spirit Himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are
00:19:19.02\00:19:22.46
children of God."
00:19:22.49\00:19:23.79
And I know you might think well,
aren't we all children of God?
00:19:23.83\00:19:25.56
No, Jesus said to some
of the religious leaders,
00:19:25.59\00:19:28.30
"You're of your
father the devil."
00:19:28.33\00:19:31.67
Not everyone is a child of God.
00:19:31.70\00:19:33.34
I mean, we're all
children of God in that He loves
00:19:33.37\00:19:35.47
everybody, but you're not
adopted into the family unless
00:19:35.50\00:19:39.11
you're born again in the family.
00:19:39.14\00:19:42.44
It says, "By which we
cry, 'Abba, Father,' the Spirit
00:19:42.48\00:19:44.81
Himself bears witness with
our spirit that we are children
00:19:44.85\00:19:47.42
of God and if children, then
heirs, heirs of God and joint
00:19:47.45\00:19:51.69
heirs with Christ."
00:19:51.72\00:19:53.02
What is an heir?
00:19:53.05\00:19:54.56
An heir is
someone that inherits.
00:19:54.59\00:19:58.86
You know, I remember reading
about a couple of boys that were
00:19:58.89\00:20:02.90
registering at a
new school one day.
00:20:02.93\00:20:04.97
They were about seven years
old and the teacher was writing
00:20:05.00\00:20:06.84
down their names.
00:20:06.87\00:20:08.17
They were brothers and
she asked their birthdays.
00:20:08.20\00:20:09.54
One said, "I was born April 7."
00:20:09.57\00:20:10.87
The other one said,
"I'm born April 21."
00:20:10.91\00:20:12.44
He said, "Wait a second.
00:20:12.47\00:20:13.94
I've heard of twins that
were born on different days, you
00:20:13.98\00:20:16.21
know, within a few hours,
but you guys can't be twins.
00:20:16.24\00:20:18.38
You don't look like twins."
00:20:18.41\00:20:20.22
And she said, "How can this be?"
00:20:20.25\00:20:21.58
And they said, "We're adopted."
00:20:21.62\00:20:23.85
And the teacher without thinking
she said, "Just curious, which
00:20:23.89\00:20:26.42
one?"
00:20:26.45\00:20:27.79
And they said, "We don't know.
00:20:27.82\00:20:31.19
Dad says he loves us
both and he can't remember."
00:20:31.23\00:20:35.86
So, when we're adopted
into the family, God looks
00:20:35.90\00:20:39.93
upon us with the
same love as His Son.
00:20:39.97\00:20:43.57
What he said to Jesus at His
baptism, "This is My beloved Son
00:20:43.61\00:20:47.41
in whom I'm well pleased."
00:20:47.44\00:20:48.74
He says that to us.
00:20:48.78\00:20:51.45
"To Timothy, my own
son in the faith," what's
00:20:51.48\00:20:54.25
the language of the apostles?
00:20:54.28\00:20:56.35
It's the language of a family.
00:20:56.38\00:20:58.55
Matthew 12:46 through
50, while Christ was talking
00:20:58.59\00:21:02.12
to the multitudes His mother
and His brothers stood outside
00:21:02.16\00:21:05.39
seeking to speak with Him.
00:21:05.43\00:21:06.73
And they said, "Look,
you know, we're family.
00:21:06.76\00:21:08.06
We have priority.
00:21:08.10\00:21:09.40
Tell these people
we want to talk to You.
00:21:09.43\00:21:10.77
Get over here right now."
00:21:10.80\00:21:12.03
"And Jesus said to him the one
who beckoned Him, 'Look, your
00:21:12.07\00:21:16.37
mother and your brother,' they
said, 'are standing outside.'
00:21:16.40\00:21:19.27
He answered and said, 'Who is My
mother and who are My brothers?'
00:21:19.31\00:21:23.58
He stretched out His
hand towards His disciples.
00:21:23.61\00:21:26.72
He said, 'For whoever does
the will of My Father in heaven
00:21:26.75\00:21:31.39
they are My brother and My
sister and My mother.'" When
00:21:31.42\00:21:35.66
you're adopted into his family
it's because we obey a different
00:21:35.69\00:21:41.16
constitution.
00:21:41.20\00:21:42.50
We want to follow His Word.
00:21:42.53\00:21:44.87
Now, what do we get?
00:21:44.90\00:21:46.20
Are there any benefits of being
adopted and being part of His
00:21:46.23\00:21:48.74
family?
00:21:48.77\00:21:50.07
Peter asked what we all think.
00:21:50.11\00:21:51.97
Peter began to say, "Lord, we've
left everything to follow you,
00:21:52.01\00:21:54.54
what will we have?"
00:21:54.58\00:21:57.35
And Jesus answered and said,
"Assuredly, I say to you there
00:21:57.38\00:22:00.78
is no one who has left
house, or brothers, or sisters,
00:22:00.82\00:22:04.59
or father, or mother, or
wife, or children, or lands."
00:22:04.62\00:22:09.92
Sometimes when a person made
a decision to be a Christian,
00:22:09.96\00:22:13.29
they were
alienated from their family.
00:22:13.33\00:22:15.93
They were shunned.
00:22:15.96\00:22:17.70
And if you are a Jew and you
accepted Christ after that great
00:22:17.73\00:22:20.40
persecution arose you
could lose your property.
00:22:20.44\00:22:23.47
You realize one reason the
genealogies are in the Bible
00:22:23.51\00:22:25.97
is because property
was held by families.
00:22:26.01\00:22:28.98
You were not supposed to take
your your inheritance of your
00:22:29.01\00:22:32.28
land sell it to another tribe.
00:22:32.31\00:22:33.62
You read the story of Naboth's
vineyard, the King Ahab said
00:22:33.65\00:22:37.99
to Naboth, "I'd like
to have your property."
00:22:38.02\00:22:39.85
Says, "I can't the law
says it's my family's."
00:22:39.89\00:22:43.16
You couldn't lose
your family inheritance.
00:22:43.19\00:22:44.53
So, the genealogy really
was a deed and your genealogy
00:22:44.56\00:22:48.80
in Christ gives you an
inheritance to a land doesn't
00:22:48.83\00:22:51.83
it?
00:22:51.87\00:22:53.20
"You'll receive hundredfold
more, a hundred times more now
00:22:53.23\00:22:57.71
in this time-- houses,
and brothers, and sisters,
00:22:57.74\00:23:01.31
and mothers, and children,
and lands with persecutions," he
00:23:01.34\00:23:05.11
puts in, "and in the
age to come eternal life."
00:23:05.15\00:23:10.05
And God promises to pull His
family together near the end.
00:23:10.09\00:23:12.75
Some of you are
praying for loved ones.
00:23:12.79\00:23:15.66
Some of us got kids and they
do, and all of us are very proud
00:23:15.69\00:23:21.66
of our kids until they
act foolish and then we don't
00:23:21.90\00:23:24.47
believe in heredity anymore.
00:23:24.50\00:23:28.30
But we all have
kids we're praying for.
00:23:28.34\00:23:30.91
The Bible says, "I will
say to the north," Isaiah 43:6,
00:23:30.94\00:23:34.44
"'Give them up' and to
the south, 'Do not keep
00:23:34.48\00:23:37.25
them back.
00:23:37.28\00:23:38.61
Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the ends
00:23:38.65\00:23:42.02
of the earth.
00:23:42.05\00:23:43.39
Everyone who is called by My
name who I have created for My
00:23:43.42\00:23:46.45
glory.'" God says that
He will save thy children.
00:23:46.49\00:23:52.49
You know, in Christ, we are all
blessed with the blessings that
00:23:53.26\00:23:56.46
God gave Abraham.
00:23:56.50\00:23:57.83
You know God told Abraham
in Genesis 12, I will bless
00:23:57.87\00:24:01.27
those who bless you and I
will curse him, who curses you.
00:24:01.30\00:24:04.14
And in you, in your seed,
in your families, all the Earth
00:24:04.17\00:24:07.94
will be blessed and then
you jump to the New Testament.
00:24:07.98\00:24:10.48
That's Genesis, Old Testament,
go to the G in the New
00:24:10.51\00:24:13.08
Testament.
00:24:13.11\00:24:14.42
That's Galatians.
00:24:14.45\00:24:15.78
It says, If you are Christ's
then you are Abraham's seed
00:24:15.82\00:24:17.72
and heirs.
00:24:17.75\00:24:19.39
You are adopted into the family
and you are an heir, what's
00:24:19.42\00:24:21.82
an heir get?
00:24:21.86\00:24:23.19
An inheritance and you are
heirs according to the promise.
00:24:23.22\00:24:26.76
All the blessings that God made
and promised to Abraham belong
00:24:26.80\00:24:30.43
to you.
00:24:30.47\00:24:32.20
He promised him a city not made
with man's hands, didn't he?
00:24:32.23\00:24:36.20
He promised them a
place in the Promised Land.
00:24:36.24\00:24:39.27
"Though your sins be as scarlet,
They will be white as snow;
00:24:39.31\00:24:42.38
Though they be red like crimson,
They will be like wool."
00:24:42.41\00:24:47.25
Who was it Billy Graham, or it
was Billy Sunday used to say, "I
00:24:47.28\00:24:50.65
don't know, how a black cow
eats green grass and make yellow
00:24:50.69\00:24:54.22
butter and white
milk, but I believe it."
00:24:54.26\00:24:58.89
And Jesus is telling us that
He's offering us the antidote.
00:24:58.93\00:25:02.06
Now, when we come to Christ
through faith, and we believe
00:25:02.10\00:25:05.67
in His sacrifice, the Bible
says that you can be born again.
00:25:05.70\00:25:09.80
You are adopted.
00:25:09.84\00:25:11.37
You are washed in the blood
and you are part of the family
00:25:11.41\00:25:14.94
in heaven.
00:25:14.98\00:25:16.41
And I'm so glad that we have
a family here and you know even
00:25:16.44\00:25:19.35
in our family, we know
we've got some fruits and nuts
00:25:19.38\00:25:22.15
in the family tree, amen?
00:25:22.18\00:25:23.95
But we're family.
00:25:23.99\00:25:25.89
Did the disciples sometimes
argue among themselves who was
00:25:25.92\00:25:28.36
the greatest but when they
put aside their differences God
00:25:28.39\00:25:31.66
poured out the spirit
and they changed the world.
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Amazing Facts has spawned new
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study guides, and
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in each region for
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Armed with
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gospel workers are empowered
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on every path they travel.
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Please visit,
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That website again is
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Thank you for your support.
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