>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:00:02.26\00:00:04.63 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:04.73\00:00:07.14 >>DID YOU KNOW IT'S AGAINST THE LAW TO DOZE OFF UNDER A HAIR 00:00:10.87\00:00:14.34 DRYER IN FLORIDA? TO PLAY HOPSCOTCH ON 00:00:14.38\00:00:17.08 SUNDAY IN MISSOURI? TO HUNT CAMELS IN ARIZONA? 00:00:17.11\00:00:21.42 TO INSERT A PENNY IN YOUR EAR IN HAWAII? 00:00:21.45\00:00:24.42 TO TIE A GIRAFFE TO A TELEPHONE POLE IN ATLANTA? 00:00:24.45\00:00:27.96 TO CATCH MICE WITHOUT A LICENSE IN CLEVELAND? 00:00:27.99\00:00:31.16 TO PUT A SKUNK IN YOUR BOSS' DESK IN MICHIGAN? 00:00:31.19\00:00:34.83 TO DETONATE A NUCLEAR WEAPON WITHIN CHICO, CALIFORNIA CITY 00:00:34.86\00:00:38.10 LIMITS, WHICH CARRIES A PUNISHMENT OF $500.00? 00:00:38.13\00:00:41.80 TO BATHE LESS THAN ONCE A YEAR IN KENTUCKY? 00:00:41.84\00:00:44.34 TO PAWN YOUR DENTURES IN LAS VEGAS? 00:00:44.37\00:00:47.84 YES, THERE ARE ABOUT TWO MILLION LAWS IN THE U.S. 00:00:47.88\00:00:51.61 AND IF A PERSON COULD REVIEW THEM AT A RATE OF ABOUT TWO A 00:00:51.65\00:00:54.42 DAY, YOU'D BE QUALIFIED TO ACT AS A LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN IN 00:00:54.45\00:00:58.22 ABOUT 6,000 YEARS. YET THE LORD WAS ABLE TO SUMMARIZE THE ENTIRE 00:00:58.25\00:01:03.43 DUTY OF MAN TO GOD IN JUST TEN SIMPLE PRECEPTS THAT CONTAIN 00:01:03.46\00:01:08.00 ABOUT 325 WORDS. JESUS SAID GOD'S LAW BOILS DOWN 00:01:08.03\00:01:12.83 TO TWO CRUCIAL PRINCIPLES: LOVE FOR GOD AND LOVE 00:01:12.87\00:01:16.57 FOR OUR FELLOW MAN. JOIN ME NOW, FRIENDS, AS WE 00:01:16.60\00:01:20.01 CONSIDER THE RELEVANCE OF GOD'S LAW IN OUR LIVES TODAY. 00:01:20.04\00:01:28.32 >>SO TONIGHT WE HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT PROGRAM AND IT'S 00:01:28.35\00:01:30.72 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE LAW OF GOD. 00:01:30.75\00:01:33.59 NOW, THE TITLE OF THE SERIES IS THE LAW OF THE LAMB BECAUSE 00:01:33.62\00:01:36.52 JESUS IS GOD THE SON, AMEN? >>AMEN. 00:01:36.56\00:01:39.83 >>GOD PUT HIS WORD - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - ON TWO TABLES OF 00:01:39.86\00:01:44.30 STONE. THIS IS THE LAW OF THE LAMB. 00:01:44.33\00:01:47.10 IT IS WRITTEN BY THE LORD - BY HIS OWN FINGER. 00:01:47.14\00:01:49.84 NOW, WHERE DID THE TEN COMMANDMENTS COME FROM? 00:01:49.87\00:01:52.87 WE ALWAYS PICTURE, YOU KNOW, MOSES UP ON TOP IN THE MOUNTAINS 00:01:52.91\00:01:55.04 THERE. SOME HAVE GOT PICTURES OF MOSES 00:01:55.08\00:01:57.21 IN THE THEIR MIND - HE'S WRITING THE LAW - BUT YOU READ, IN THE 00:01:57.25\00:02:00.82 GOSPEL OF JOHN, 'ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE 00:02:00.85\00:02:03.55 BY HIM.' WHO IS THAT? >>JESUS. 00:02:03.59\00:02:07.26 >>IT'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS, AND HE'S THE ONE WHO'S RESPONSIBLE 00:02:07.29\00:02:11.13 FOR GIVING US THE LAW. SO SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT 00:02:11.16\00:02:14.56 THE LAW OF JESUS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE 00:02:14.56\00:02:17.50 LAW OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:02:17.53\00:02:20.27 IT'S THE SAME GOD THAT GAVE BOTH LAWS. 00:02:20.30\00:02:23.84 SO THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSION, EVEN AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY, 00:02:23.87\00:02:26.78 ABOUT 'WHAT LAW DO WE KEEP?' 'WHICH LAWS WERE 00:02:26.81\00:02:30.51 NAILED TO THE CROSS?' AND 'HOW DO CHRISTIANS RELATE 00:02:30.55\00:02:33.31 TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WITHOUT BEING LEGALISTS?' 00:02:33.35\00:02:36.92 AND THEN THERE'S THAT QUESTION: 'IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?' 00:02:36.95\00:02:41.76 INTERESTING QUESTION - SORT OF A RHETORICAL QUESTION. 00:02:41.79\00:02:44.53 HOW DOES THIS ALL RELATE TO REVELATION? FOLLOW ME. 00:02:44.56\00:02:47.66 IF YOU GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 14, VERSE 9, IT TELLS US THERE 00:02:47.66\00:02:51.70 THAT "THEN A THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A 00:02:51.73\00:02:54.07 LOUD VOICE, 'IF ANYONE WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND 00:02:54.10\00:02:58.94 RECEIVES HIS MARK ON HIS FOREHEAD OR ON HIS HAND, THE 00:02:58.97\00:03:02.68 SAME WILL DRINK THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS POURED 00:03:02.71\00:03:06.72 OUT FULL STRENGTH INTO THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION.'" HERE'S 00:03:06.75\00:03:10.79 ONE OF THE MOST FEARFUL CURSES AND PLAGUES PRONOUNCED IN THE 00:03:10.82\00:03:14.06 BIBLE - IT'S ACTUALLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - AND IT'S PRONOUNCED 00:03:14.09\00:03:17.79 AGAINST THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST. 00:03:17.83\00:03:20.53 AND YOU CAN READ ON, IT SAYS, "HE SHALL BE TORMENTED WITH FIRE 00:03:20.56\00:03:23.16 AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS AND IN THE 00:03:23.20\00:03:26.20 PRESENCE OF THE LAMB." GOING DOWN A LITTLE FURTHER 00:03:26.23\00:03:30.27 IN THAT SAME CHAPTER, IT WILL CONTRAST THE ONES WHO ARE NOT 00:03:30.31\00:03:35.48 WORSHIPING THE BEAST AND IT SAYS, "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF 00:03:35.51\00:03:38.78 THE SAINTS" - THIS IS VERSE 12 - REVELATION 14:12 - "HERE IS THE 00:03:38.81\00:03:42.32 PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS 00:03:42.35\00:03:45.85 OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS." NOTICE IT DOESN'T SAY 'FAITH 00:03:45.89\00:03:49.92 IN JESUS' - IT SAYS 'FAITH OF JESUS'. 00:03:49.96\00:03:53.76 NOW THAT'S A CHARACTERISTIC YOU FIND THROUGHOUT REVELATION - 00:03:53.80\00:03:56.63 THOSE WHO ARE WORSHIPING THE BEAST ARE BREAKING ONE OF THE 00:03:56.67\00:03:59.70 COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS YOU'RE ONLY TO WORSHIP GOD 00:03:59.73\00:04:02.74 AND YOU'RE NOT TO PRAY TO IDOLS. AND IT TALKS ABOUT MAKING 00:04:02.77\00:04:06.24 AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST. LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 00:04:06.27\00:04:08.74 REVELATION 13:15, "HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO GIVE BREATH 00:04:08.78\00:04:13.68 TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST. THAT THE IMAGE...SHOULD BOTH 00:04:13.72\00:04:16.75 SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF 00:04:16.79\00:04:20.79 THE BEAST TO BE KILLED." WELL, IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER IN 00:04:20.82\00:04:24.26 GOD AND YOU'RE COMMANDED TO DO IMAGE WORSHIP, WHAT DO YOU DO? 00:04:24.29\00:04:27.56 WHAT WOULD BE WRONG WITH IMAGE WORSHIP? 00:04:27.60\00:04:30.43 IS THERE A COMMAND THAT FORBIDS US FROM IMAGE WORSHIP? 00:04:30.47\00:04:34.34 IS THAT ONLY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 00:04:34.37\00:04:36.60 OR DOES JOHN, ALSO IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SAY, 'MY LITTLE 00:04:36.64\00:04:39.01 CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELF FROM IDOLS'? 00:04:39.04\00:04:42.14 AND SO, THIS IS A COMMANDMENT YOU FIND GOING ALL THE WAY 00:04:42.18\00:04:45.11 THROUGH THE BIBLE. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE 00:04:45.15\00:04:47.75 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SAVED CHRISTIAN AND THE LAW, IF WE'RE 00:04:47.78\00:04:52.52 GOING TO BE READY FOR THE LAST DAYS AND WHAT'S COMING. 00:04:52.55\00:04:54.59 >>AMEN. >>AND, AGAIN, IT GOES ON TO SAY 00:04:54.62\00:04:56.86 - REVELATION 13:15, THAT THOSE THAT DO NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE 00:04:56.89\00:05:00.96 OF THE BEAST WOULD BE KILLED. THEN YOU JUMP, NOW, 00:05:01.00\00:05:04.63 TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL. AND, IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL 3, 00:05:04.67\00:05:07.24 VERSE 10, SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT DANIEL HAD THREE FRIENDS 00:05:07.27\00:05:10.14 NAMED SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO - AND THEIR HEBREW 00:05:10.17\00:05:14.34 NAMES WERE HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AND AZARIAH - THEY REFUSED TO 00:05:14.38\00:05:18.65 BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE KING AND THE KING HAD 00:05:18.68\00:05:21.42 SAID WHOEVER DOES NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE WILL BE KILLED. 00:05:21.45\00:05:24.32 DO YOU NOTICE THE ECHO COMING FROM DANIEL INTO REVELATION? 00:05:24.35\00:05:28.59 VERY SIMILAR LANGUAGE. 'THOSE WHO DO NOT WORSHIP THE 00:05:28.62\00:05:31.19 IMAGE OF BABYLON WOULD BE KILLED. 00:05:31.23\00:05:33.93 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT BABYLON IN OUR NEXT 00:05:33.96\00:05:35.53 PRESENTATION. THEY SAID, 'WE CANNOT BOW DOWN 00:05:35.56\00:05:38.27 TO YOUR IMAGE, OUR LAW FORBIDS IT' - THE LAW OF GOD. 00:05:38.30\00:05:43.20 THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO KNOW FOR THE LAST DAYS. 00:05:43.24\00:05:46.04 "AND WHOEVER DOES NOT FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP SHALL BE CAST INTO 00:05:46.07\00:05:48.98 THE MIDST OF A BURNING FIERY FURNACE." 00:05:49.01\00:05:51.08 THEY FACED A TREMENDOUS TEST. WHAT HAPPENED? 00:05:51.11\00:05:53.48 DID GOD PRESERVE THEM? >>YES. 00:05:53.52\00:05:55.38 >>BECAUSE THEY PUT THE LAW OF GOD FIRST. 00:05:55.42\00:05:56.75 THEY STOOD UP FOR GOD AND HIS WORD AND GOD STOOD UP FOR THEM. 00:05:56.79\00:05:59.52 JESUS, HIMSELF, WENT INTO THAT FIERY FURNACE WITH THEM AND 00:05:59.55\00:06:03.12 AIR-CONDITIONED IT. HE PRESERVED THEM. 00:06:03.16\00:06:05.99 THE ONLY THING THAT WAS BURNED WERE THE ROPES THAT HAD BOUND 00:06:06.03\00:06:07.93 THEM. THEN YOU GO TO DANIEL CHAPTER 6 00:06:07.96\00:06:11.27 - REMEMBER, THERE'S A PARALLEL BETWEEN DANIEL AND REVELATION. 00:06:11.30\00:06:13.80 THE KING - KING DARIUS - MAKES A LAW AND HE MAKES "...A ROYAL 00:06:13.84\00:06:17.34 STATUTE AND [TO MAKE] A FIRM DECREE, THAT WHOEVER PETITIONS 00:06:17.37\00:06:20.34 ANY GOD OR MAN FOR THIRTY DAYS, EXCEPT YOU, O KING, SHALL BE 00:06:20.38\00:06:27.25 CAST INTO THE DEN OF LIONS." THERE - A FIRST COMMANDMENT 00:06:27.28\00:06:31.12 - WHAT DOES THAT SAY? - FIRST OF THE TEN? 00:06:31.15\00:06:33.25 'THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER GODS BEFORE ME' - RIGHT? 00:06:33.29\00:06:37.33 DANIEL SAID, 'I'M SORRY, GOD'S LAW FORBIDS ME FROM MAKING YOU 00:06:37.36\00:06:40.26 MY GOD, KING DARIUS. I'M PUTTING THE LAW OF GOD AHEAD 00:06:40.30\00:06:44.63 OF THE LAW OF MAN.' >>AMEN. 00:06:44.67\00:06:46.20 >>DOESN'T PETER SAY WE OUGHT TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN? 00:06:46.23\00:06:49.64 IS THE DAY COMING, IN THE FUTURE, ACCORDING TO PROPHECY, 00:06:49.67\00:06:52.64 WHEN THE BEAST POWER IS GOING TO BE COMPELLING PEOPLE TO WORSHIP 00:06:52.67\00:06:56.28 SOMETHING GOD FORBIDS? SO DO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE 00:06:56.31\00:06:59.61 RIGHT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LORD AND THE LAW, IF YOU'RE 00:06:59.65\00:07:02.95 GOING TO BE A BIBLE CHRISTIAN? BECAUSE IT SAYS A LOT HERE 00:07:02.98\00:07:06.72 ABOUT THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. SO LET'S DELVE INTO OUR LESSON 00:07:06.76\00:07:10.19 TO GET A RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW, WITHOUT TURNING INTO 00:07:10.23\00:07:13.56 LEGALISTS AS WE STUDY THESE THINGS IN THE LIGHT OF PROPHECY. 00:07:13.60\00:07:18.33 QUESTION #1: CAN GOD'S MORAL LAW BE AMENDED OR REPEALED? 00:07:18.37\00:07:24.74 NOW, I SHOULD PROBABLY TELL YOU, WHEN WE SAY 'MORAL LAW' - WE 00:07:24.77\00:07:27.14 DON'T HEAR THAT PHRASE MUCH ANYMORE, BUT IT WAS THE TERM 00:07:27.18\00:07:30.31 THAT WAS USED FOR MANY YEARS BY CHRISTIANS TO DESCRIBE THE TEN 00:07:30.35\00:07:33.42 COMMANDMENTS - BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY LAWS IN THE BIBLE - THERE'S 00:07:33.45\00:07:36.45 CIVIL LAWS IN THE BIBLE, THERE WERE GOVERNMENT LAWS, THERE WERE 00:07:36.48\00:07:40.66 HEALTH LAWS, THERE WERE CEREMONIAL LAWS, AND THEN THERE 00:07:40.69\00:07:44.53 WAS THE MORAL LAW, WHICH WAS THE LAW OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:07:44.56\00:07:48.73 AND I REMEMBER, GROWING UP, THAT ANY SCHOOLBOY USED TO KNOW MOST 00:07:48.76\00:07:52.77 OF THEM BECAUSE, IN PUBLIC SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA WE HAD THE 00:07:52.80\00:07:57.57 TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE WALL IN OUR SCHOOL. 00:07:57.61\00:08:00.24 DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THAT? I SEE A FEW HANDS. 00:08:00.28\00:08:03.14 I GUESS I'M GETTING OLD. I SEE - ANYWAY - SOME OF YOU REMEMBER 00:08:03.18\00:08:05.28 THAT? PUBLIC SCHOOL - TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE WALL. 00:08:05.31\00:08:08.65 AND YOU WONDER IF THE EPIDEMIC OF CRIME COULD BE CONNECTED WITH 00:08:08.68\00:08:11.49 OUR SAYING, 'OH, WE WOULDN'T WANT THE KIDS ACCIDENTALLY 00:08:11.52\00:08:14.72 KEEPING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE A BAD 00:08:14.76\00:08:17.49 INFLUENCE - RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE.' NO. 00:08:17.53\00:08:21.70 CAN GOD'S LAW BE CHANGED? PSALM 89, VERSE 34, "MY COVENANT 00:08:21.73\00:08:26.30 WILL I NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE THING THAT IS GONE 00:08:26.33\00:08:30.57 OUT OF MY LIPS." GOD MADE A COVENANT. 00:08:30.61\00:08:32.71 IT'S CALLED 'THE OLD COVENANT' BUT THE LAW HAS NOT BEEN 00:08:32.74\00:08:36.71 CHANGED. YOU'LL FIND OUT ABOUT 00:08:36.75\00:08:38.91 THAT A LITTLE LATER IN THE PRESENTATION. 00:08:38.95\00:08:41.35 YOU CAN ALSO READ IN PSALMS 111:7, HE SAYS, "ALL HIS 00:08:41.38\00:08:45.75 COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FAST FOREVER AND EVER." 00:08:45.79\00:08:50.66 IN FACT, IF YOU'VE NEVER DONE IT BEFORE, I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO 00:08:50.69\00:08:53.56 READ ONE LITTLE CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE, IT'S CALLED PSALM 119. 00:08:53.60\00:08:57.97 I'M TEASING - IT'S THE LONGEST CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE - THE WHOLE 00:08:58.00\00:09:02.20 CHAPTER IS 'HOW I LOVE YOUR LAW'. 00:09:02.24\00:09:05.61 IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVING THE LAW. PEOPLE DON'T USUALLY PUT LAW 00:09:05.64\00:09:08.04 AND LOVE TOGETHER, DO THEY? IT'S LIKE THEY'RE OPPOSITES. 00:09:08.08\00:09:13.38 BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU REALLY LOVE THE LORD, YOU LOVE HIS LAW. 00:09:13.42\00:09:16.75 ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FOREVER. 00:09:16.79\00:09:19.02 YOU CAN READ MALACHI, CHAPTER 3, VERSE 6 - GOD SAYS, "FOR I AM 00:09:19.05\00:09:22.29 THE LORD. I CHANGE NOT." 00:09:22.32\00:09:25.19 JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER. 00:09:25.23\00:09:28.73 AND SO, HIS LAW IS ETERNAL IN NATURE - THE MORAL LAW. 00:09:28.76\00:09:32.20 NO, THE REASON THAT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT GOD'S TEN 00:09:32.23\00:09:35.24 COMMANDMENT LAW CAN CHANGE IS BECAUSE THE BIBLE DEFINITIONS 00:09:35.27\00:09:38.91 FOR THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW ARE THE SAME DEFINITIONS THAT ARE 00:09:38.94\00:09:42.24 GIVEN FOR GOD HIMSELF. AND SO, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO DO 00:09:42.28\00:09:45.61 AWAY WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENT MORAL LAW, YOU'RE GOING TO START 00:09:45.65\00:09:49.55 FINDING YOURSELF TRYING TO DO AWAY WITH THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 00:09:49.58\00:09:53.12 LET ME ILLUSTRATE: THE BIBLE SAYS 'GOD IS GOOD' - YOU CAN 00:09:53.15\00:09:58.86 FIND THAT IN LUKE 18:19. WELL, THE BIBLE SAYS, 00:09:58.89\00:10:02.23 'THE LAW IS GOOD'. THE BIBLE SAYS 'GOD IS HOLY' - 00:10:02.26\00:10:07.14 THE BIBLE SAYS 'THE LAW IS HOLY' - ROMANS 7:12. 00:10:07.17\00:10:11.64 THE BIBLE SAYS, IN DEUTERONOMY 32, VERSE 4, 'GOD IS JUST'. 00:10:11.67\00:10:15.68 THE BIBLE SAYS 'THE LAW IS JUST' - ROMANS 7:12. 00:10:15.71\00:10:19.48 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD IS PERFECT, GOD IS LOVE - THE BIBLE 00:10:19.51\00:10:23.75 SAYS THAT THE LAW IS PERFECT, THE LAW IS LOVE. IT SAYS THAT 00:10:23.79\00:10:28.49 GOD IS RIGHTEOUS - AND I'M NOT GOING TO READ ALL OF THESE 00:10:28.52\00:10:31.43 VERSES TO YOU - HE IS TRUTH, HE IS PURE, HE IS SPIRITUAL, HE IS 00:10:31.46\00:10:35.10 UNCHANGEABLE, HE IS ETERNAL - EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE THINGS 00:10:35.13\00:10:38.13 THAT DESCRIBES GOD, IT ALSO IS USING TO DESCRIBE THE LAW. 00:10:38.17\00:10:42.37 NOW, THAT SHOULD NOT SURPRISE YOU IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN 00:10:42.40\00:10:44.71 BECAUSE ONE OF THE NAMES FOR JESUS IS 'THE WORD'. 00:10:44.74\00:10:49.18 AND ONE OF THE NAMES FOR THE LAW IS 'THE WORD'. 00:10:49.21\00:10:52.35 THE LAW IS, OF COURSE, THE WORD OF GOD WRITTEN BY GOD'S OWN 00:10:52.38\00:10:54.88 FINGER. IT'S ETERNAL IN NATURE. 00:10:54.92\00:10:59.05 NOW WHAT ARE YOU THINKING RIGHT NOW? 00:10:59.09\00:11:02.12 WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT THE LAW, DO YOU HAVE GOOD, WARM FEELINGS? 00:11:02.16\00:11:05.19 OR DOES THE WORD 'LAW' MAKE YOU NERVOUS? 00:11:05.23\00:11:08.66 WHEN YOU THINK OF THE LAW, DO YOU FEEL PEACE OR DO YOU FEEL 00:11:08.70\00:11:12.23 GUILT? >>PEACE. 00:11:12.27\00:11:14.10 >>THINK ABOUT THAT. I'M NOT GOING TO SAY ANYMORE. 00:11:14.14\00:11:17.04 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN? 00:11:17.07\00:11:20.81 THERE'S A FEW DEFINITIONS FOR THE SIN. 00:11:20.84\00:11:22.78 THE BIBLE SAYS ANYTHING NOT OF FAITH IS SIN, ALL 00:11:22.81\00:11:24.58 UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IS SIN - YOU CAN READ IN ROMANS 3:20, "BY THE LAW 00:11:24.61\00:11:29.65 IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN." SO WE LEARN ABOUT 00:11:29.68\00:11:32.92 SIN BY THE LAW. WELL, THAT WOULD MAKE YOU THINK 00:11:32.95\00:11:34.76 THAT 'I DON'T WANT THE - 'I DON'T WANT THE LAW BECAUSE IT'S 00:11:34.79\00:11:36.86 GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT SIN. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MY 00:11:36.89\00:11:39.46 SIN; I ALREADY FEEL GUILTY ENOUGH, SO IF I LOOK AT THE LAW, 00:11:39.49\00:11:42.10 I'M GOING TO FEEL BAD.' NO, IT'S NOT YOUR ENEMY. 00:11:42.13\00:11:45.47 ANOTHER DEFINITION - A REALLY GOOD DEFINITION THAT YOU'RE 00:11:45.50\00:11:48.04 GOING TO FIND HERE IN THE BIBLE - 1 JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSE 4, IT 00:11:48.07\00:11:51.81 SAYS - AND THIS IS ALMOST LIKE IT'S RIGHT OUT OF A DICTIONARY, 00:11:51.84\00:11:54.68 'SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.' AND SO, DO WE STILL HAVE 00:11:54.71\00:12:00.45 SIN IN THE WORLD TODAY? IT MUST STILL HAVE LAW. 00:12:00.48\00:12:05.09 SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW - WHAT LAW? 00:12:05.12\00:12:07.79 AND THAT'S THE NEXT QUESTION, TO WHAT LAW DOES 1 JOHN 3:4 REFER? 00:12:07.82\00:12:13.36 WELL, YOU CAN READ - THE ANSWER TO THAT YOU CAN REALLY GET FROM 00:12:13.40\00:12:15.73 ROMANS 7:7 - I KNOW I'M GIVING YOU A LOT OF SCRIPTURE, BUT I 00:12:15.76\00:12:18.70 WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT 00:12:18.73\00:12:21.40 IS REALLY ROOTED IN THE WORD. HE SAID, 'I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN 00:12:21.44\00:12:25.94 BUT BY THE LAW, FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST EXCEPT THE LAW HAD 00:12:25.97\00:12:29.61 SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT COVET.' NOW, WHEN PAUL SAYS 'YOU SHALL 00:12:29.64\00:12:33.82 NOT COVET,' WHERE DO YOU FIND THAT? WHICH COMMANDMENT IS THAT? 00:12:33.85\00:12:39.92 COMMANDMENT #10 - IT SAYS, 'THOU SHALL NOT COVET' - SO PAUL IS 00:12:39.95\00:12:43.26 SAYING, 'I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ABOUT SIN IF IT WASN'T FOR THE 00:12:43.29\00:12:45.69 LAW.' AND THEN HE'S REFERRING, OF COURSE, TO THE MORAL LAW - 00:12:45.73\00:12:48.16 THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW. AND DO WE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LAW 00:12:48.20\00:12:52.87 KEEPING IN THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD TODAY? 00:12:52.90\00:12:54.87 >>YES. >>OH, IT'S PRETTY SERIOUS. 00:12:54.90\00:12:57.04 I THINK I QUOTED THIS, ACTUALLY, SAME QUOTE TO YOU IN AN EARLIER 00:12:57.07\00:13:00.91 PRESENTATION - THAT "EVERY HUNDRED HOURS, MORE YOUTH DIE IN 00:13:00.94\00:13:03.55 U.S. STREETS THAN WERE KILLED IN THE PERSIAN GULF WARFARE" - 00:13:03.58\00:13:06.65 U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT . 00:13:06.68\00:13:09.08 ANOTHER REPORT TELLS US THAT THE AVERAGE 18 YEAR OLD HAS 00:13:09.12\00:13:13.39 WITNESSED 200,000 VIOLENT ACTS ON TELEVISION, INCLUDING 40,000 00:13:13.42\00:13:20.13 MURDERS - BY THE TIME HE'S 18 YEARS OLD - A YOUNG PERSON. 00:13:20.16\00:13:24.33 SO, IF WE ARE CHANGED BY BEHOLDING AND, IF PEOPLE ARE 00:13:24.37\00:13:29.17 SPENDING ALL THIS TIME BEHOLDING EVIL, THEN IS THAT GOING TO HAVE 00:13:29.20\00:13:32.61 AN IMPACT ON US? AND IT'S ALSO AFFECTING THE MORALS. 00:13:32.64\00:13:37.38 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT - IT'S JUST GONE EPIDEMIC NOW - 00:13:37.41\00:13:40.65 SOME OF YOU PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT 2015, THERE WAS A WEBSITE 00:13:40.68\00:13:43.95 CALLED ASHLEY MADISON AND SOME PEOPLE THAT WERE REALLY UPSET 00:13:43.99\00:13:47.56 WITH WHAT THE GOAL OF THIS WEBSITE WAS: TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE 00:13:47.59\00:13:51.06 TO HAVE AFFAIRS. THEIR MOTTO WAS, 'LIFE IS SHORT. 00:13:51.09\00:13:54.36 HAVE AN AFFAIR.' AND PEOPLE COULD GO AND REGISTER THERE - 00:13:54.36\00:13:57.90 AND A LOT OF MARRIAGES WERE BREAKING UP BECAUSE OF THIS 00:13:57.93\00:14:00.24 WEBSITE. THEY ACTUALLY HAD A 37 MILLION-PEOPLE REGISTER - 00:14:00.27\00:14:06.11 >>WOW. >>5.5 OF THEM HAD REGISTERED 00:14:06.14\00:14:08.71 AS WOMEN, SO IT WAS NOT JUST A PROBLEM OF THE MEN BUT, 00:14:08.74\00:14:12.01 PREDOMINANTLY, IT WAS THE MEN. AND THE GROUP SAID, 'IF YOU 00:14:12.05\00:14:16.05 DON'T TAKE DOWN YOUR WEBSITE, WE'VE HACKED ALL YOUR 00:14:16.08\00:14:18.09 INFORMATION, WE'RE MAKING IT PUBLIC.' WELL THEY DIDN'T TAKE 00:14:18.12\00:14:21.22 IT DOWN AND THESE PEOPLE WERE NOT JUST THREATENING, THEY DID 00:14:21.26\00:14:24.63 MAKE PUBLIC 25 GIGABYTES OF COMPANY DATA - THE PERSONAL 00:14:24.66\00:14:29.96 INFORMATION AND NAMES OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAD BEEN 00:14:30.00\00:14:32.77 USING THAT WEBSITE. >>WOW. 00:14:32.80\00:14:36.57 >>BUT THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE. THERE'S ONLY 300 MILLION IN 00:14:36.60\00:14:39.37 NORTH AMERICA - A LOT OF THEM ARE KIDS - 37 MILLION PEOPLE - 00:14:39.41\00:14:42.88 >>WOO! >>WOW. 00:14:42.91\00:14:44.68 >>INVESTIGATING HOW TO HAVE AN AFFAIR. 00:14:44.71\00:14:49.12 DO YOU THINK WE HAVE TOO MUCH LAW IN THE CHURCH? 00:14:49.15\00:14:51.72 OR MAYBE PEOPLE AREN'T HEARING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD? 00:14:51.75\00:14:54.59 OH, BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT - 'THOU 00:14:54.62\00:14:56.26 SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY'. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ADULTERERS 00:14:56.29\00:15:02.23 WILL NOT BE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 00:15:02.26\00:15:04.20 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS. IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS WE'LL 00:15:05.00\00:15:07.44 RETURN AND COMPLETE THIS PRESENTATION. 00:15:07.47\00:15:09.77 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BIG DEBATES IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TODAY HAS 00:15:09.80\00:15:12.67 TO DO WITH 'HOW DOES A CHRISTIAN RELATE TO THE LAW OF GOD?' 00:15:12.71\00:15:16.88 NOW, CLEARLY, SOME THINGS WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS AND A 00:15:16.91\00:15:19.41 CHRISTIAN DOES NOT NEED TO KEEP THE OLD COVENANT. 00:15:19.45\00:15:22.32 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:15:22.35\00:15:24.39 AFTER ALL, THEY'RE NOT CALLED 'THE TEN RECOMMENDATIONS' OR 00:15:24.42\00:15:27.29 'THE TEN SUGGESTIONS' OR 'GOD'S TEN GOOD IDEAS.' WE HAVE A 00:15:27.32\00:15:31.43 SPECIAL LESSON WE'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU AND IT'S CALLED 00:15:31.46\00:15:34.23 WRITTEN IN STONE . EVEN IN THE TITLE YOU CAN 00:15:34.30\00:15:36.70 UNDERSTAND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF 00:15:36.73\00:15:39.57 GOD IN STONE SO, OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS IMPORTANT. 00:15:39.60\00:15:42.97 IF YOU'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT AND MUCH MORE RELATED TO 00:15:43.00\00:15:45.54 IT, THEN MAKE SURE AND SEND FOR THIS FREE OFFER AND YOU'LL BE 00:15:45.57\00:15:48.98 BLESSED. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR 00:15:49.01\00:15:52.15 SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #111. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS 00:15:52.18\00:15:56.52 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 00:15:56.55\00:15:59.25 LET'S GET BACK NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 00:15:59.29\00:16:02.72 AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 00:16:02.76\00:16:06.33 >>GOD WANTS US TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 00:16:06.36\00:16:08.16 HE'S PRETTY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. NOW, THE BOTTOM LINE IS 00:16:08.20\00:16:10.10 A CHRISTIAN FOLLOWS WHO? WHAT DOES THE WORD 00:16:10.13\00:16:12.03 'CHRISTIAN' MEAN? A CHRISTIAN IS SUPPOSED 00:16:12.07\00:16:14.44 TO BE A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. WHAT DID JESUS DO? 00:16:14.47\00:16:18.01 DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:16:18.04\00:16:19.57 >>YES. >>HE SAID SO. 00:16:19.61\00:16:22.11 HE SAID IN JOHN 15:10, "I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS." 00:16:22.14\00:16:26.18 THAT WOULD CERTAINLY INCLUDE THE TEN, RIGHT? 00:16:26.21\00:16:28.98 SOME ARE SAYING, 'WELL, JESUS ONLY KEPT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 00:16:29.02\00:16:30.99 BECAUSE HE'S A JEW. WE'RE CHRISTIANS NOW. 00:16:31.02\00:16:32.89 HE SAVED US FROM THE LAW.' HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT BEFORE? 00:16:32.92\00:16:37.66 YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST STARTED READING THE BIBLE AND - YOU 00:16:37.69\00:16:43.23 KNOW, MY MOTHER WAS AN ACTRESS. SHE WAS ACTUALLY IN THE 00:16:43.26\00:16:45.07 MOVIE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS . AND I EVEN - BEFORE I WAS A 00:16:45.10\00:16:48.10 CHRISTIAN I REMEMBER SEEING THAT CHARLTON HESTON MOVIE. 00:16:48.14\00:16:50.74 SHE HAD A VERY LITTLE PART - I DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK SHE WAS 00:16:50.77\00:16:53.14 A, YOU KNOW, FAMOUS ACTRESS. 00:16:53.17\00:16:54.48 WHENEVER MY KIDS AND I WATCH IT I SAY, 'THERE'S GRANDMA! 00:16:54.51\00:16:56.51 THERE SHE GOES.' (LAUGHTER) IT'S A REALLY SHORT SCENE, BUT I GET 00:16:56.54\00:16:59.78 TO SAY SHE WAS IN THE MOVIE, AND THAT MAKES ME FEEL PRETTY GOOD. 00:16:59.81\00:17:02.92 SO, I KNEW, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE, BUT I WAS 00:17:02.95\00:17:11.86 SURPRISED, AFTER BECOMING A CHRISTIAN, TO HEAR CHRISTIANS 00:17:11.89\00:17:15.13 TELLING ME, 'OH, BUT WE'RE SAVED BECAUSE OF JESUS. 00:17:15.16\00:17:18.10 JESUS KEPT THE LAW SO WE DON'T HAVE TO.' AND I THOUGHT, 00:17:18.13\00:17:19.87 'REALLY? YOU MEAN HE DIED AND TOOK OUR 00:17:19.90\00:17:25.07 PENALTY TO GIVE US A LICENSE TO SIN?' 00:17:25.11\00:17:28.24 I THOUGHT HE DIED - DIDN'T THE ANGEL TELL MARY TO SAVE US FROM 00:17:28.28\00:17:30.95 OUR SINS, NOT IN OUR SINS? SIN IS MY PROBLEM. 00:17:30.98\00:17:36.38 I WANT TO BE SAVED FROM MY SIN. I DON'T WANT TO BE SAVED TO 00:17:36.42\00:17:38.65 CONTINUE WITH THESE THINGS THAT CAUSE ALL THESE 00:17:38.69\00:17:40.62 PROBLEMS IN MY LIFE. I WANT TO BE DELIVERED 00:17:40.66\00:17:42.89 FROM THESE THINGS. BY THE WAY, IN THE BOOK OF 00:17:42.92\00:17:45.13 REVELATION, IT'S ALL A BOOK ABOUT VICTORY. 00:17:45.16\00:17:47.76 IF YOU READ THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS GIVES TO EACH OF THE 00:17:47.76\00:17:50.20 CHURCHES - REVELATION CHAPTER 2 AND 3 - SEVEN MESSAGES, SEVEN 00:17:50.23\00:17:52.93 CHURCHES - DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS TO EVERY CHURCH IN EVERY 00:17:52.97\00:17:54.70 AGE? 'TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES, TO HIM 00:17:54.74\00:17:57.47 THAT OVERCOMES, TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES - DO YOU THINK JESUS 00:17:57.51\00:18:00.31 WOULD SAY THAT SEVEN TIMES AND THEN SAY, 'IT'S NOT REALLY 00:18:00.34\00:18:03.48 POSSIBLE.' OF COURSE HE WANTS US TO BE OBEDIENT. 00:18:03.51\00:18:07.75 WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE? JESUS WOULD HEAL SOMEBODY; HE'D 00:18:07.78\00:18:11.09 SAY, 'GO AND SIN NO MORE OR LEST A WORSE THING COME 00:18:11.12\00:18:12.95 UPON YOU.' WHAT IS SIN? TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 00:18:12.99\00:18:15.79 SO, WHEN HE SAID TO MARY MAGDALENE, 'GO AND SIN NO MORE.' 00:18:15.82\00:18:18.39 OR HE SAID TO THAT PARALYTIC THAT HE HEALED, 'GO AND SIN NO 00:18:18.43\00:18:20.70 MORE LEST A WORSE THING COME UPON YOU.' HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, 00:18:20.73\00:18:23.43 YOU KNOW, MARY ALMOST GOT STONED - ASSUMING SHE WAS THE WOMAN 00:18:23.47\00:18:26.77 CAUGHT IN ADULTERY. WE'RE NOT SURE OF THAT - 00:18:26.80\00:18:29.07 BUT HE SAID, 'DON'T DO THAT. IT COULD KILL YOU. 00:18:29.10\00:18:33.48 DON'T - SIN IS BAD. IT HURTS YOU.' JESUS SAID, 'I'VE 00:18:33.51\00:18:37.35 KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS. YOU CAN READ IN 1 PETER 2:22 - 00:18:37.38\00:18:40.72 IT SAYS JESUS "WHO COMMITTED NO SIN. 00:18:40.75\00:18:44.02 NOR WAS DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH." 00:18:44.05\00:18:46.09 SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 00:18:46.12\00:18:48.29 JESUS COMMITTED WHAT? NO SIN. 00:18:48.32\00:18:51.19 JESUS PERFECTLY KEPT THE FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS. 00:18:51.23\00:18:54.00 NOW, WE HAVEN'T. ALL OF US HAVE SINNED. 00:18:54.00\00:18:57.93 WE ALL STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION AND SIN EVERY DAY, AMEN? 00:18:57.97\00:19:00.77 >>AMEN. >>IT'S A CHALLENGE. 00:19:00.80\00:19:02.67 BUT BECAUSE WE ALL STRUGGLE AND WE OFTEN FALL, DOES THAT MEAN WE 00:19:02.70\00:19:06.14 SHOULDN'T MAKE EVERY EFFORT, BY GOD'S GRACE, TO DO HIS WILL? 00:19:06.17\00:19:10.58 AND WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD? NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS, 'LORD, 00:19:10.61\00:19:15.18 LORD' WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT THEY THAT DO THE 00:19:15.22\00:19:18.99 WILL OF MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.' WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD? 00:19:19.02\00:19:22.39 'LORD, I LOVE TO KEEP YOUR LAW - I LOVE TO KEEP YOUR 00:19:22.42\00:19:25.36 COMMANDMENTS. YOUR LAW IS WRITTEN IN MY 00:19:25.39\00:19:28.20 HEART.' PSALM 119 - I THINK THAT'S VERSE 45. 00:19:28.23\00:19:32.23 THE LAW OF GOD - HE SAYS, 'I LOVE TO DO YOUR WILL. 00:19:32.27\00:19:34.94 YOUR LAW IS IN MY HEART.' THE WILL OF GOD IS THE LAW OF GOD. 00:19:34.97\00:19:39.27 THE LAW OF GOD IS THE WILL OF GOD. 00:19:39.31\00:19:40.61 IT'S GOD'S WILL THAT YOU DON'T KILL EACH OTHER. 00:19:40.64\00:19:44.28 IT'S GOD'S WILL THAT YOU DON'T COVET - THAT YOU DON'T COMMIT 00:19:44.31\00:19:47.58 ADULTERY, RIGHT? AND SO, IF YOU LOVE HIM. 00:19:47.62\00:19:53.02 SO HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE SINNED? >>ALL. 00:19:53.05\00:19:55.89 >>WE JUST SORT OF ALLUDED TO THIS - YOU CAN READ, OF COURSE, 00:19:55.92\00:19:58.03 IN ROMANS 3:23, "FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE 00:19:58.06\00:20:01.76 GLORY OF GOD." WE'VE ALL BROKEN GOD'S LAW. 00:20:01.80\00:20:05.33 AND THE PENALTY FOR SIN, OF COURSE, IS VERY SERIOUS. 00:20:05.37\00:20:08.14 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY; WE HAVE 00:20:08.17\00:20:11.01 TURNED, EVERY ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY. 00:20:11.04\00:20:13.58 AND THE LORD LAID UPON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL.' SO ALL OF 00:20:13.61\00:20:17.98 US HAVE SINNED. NONE IS RIGHTEOUS, NO, NOT ONE. 00:20:18.01\00:20:22.35 WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR LIVING A LIFE OF SIN? 00:20:22.38\00:20:26.65 YOU CAN READ THERE, IN ROMANS CHAPTER 6:23, "THE WAGES OF SIN 00:20:26.69\00:20:31.79 IS DEATH." HOW COME WE'RE NOT DEAD YET? 00:20:31.83\00:20:35.86 IT'S BECAUSE JESUS, BY HIS DEATH, HE'S BOUGHT US TIME TO 00:20:35.90\00:20:39.27 MAKE A DECISION AND HE BOUGHT ETERNAL LIFE FOR THOSE THAT WILL 00:20:39.30\00:20:41.97 ACCEPT HIS SACRIFICE IN THEIR PLACE. 00:20:42.00\00:20:44.77 BUT WHY DID HE DIE? FOR SIN. WHAT IS SIN? BREAKING THE LAW. 00:20:44.81\00:20:51.15 WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THE THING THAT HURT JESUS SO MUCH? 00:20:51.18\00:20:56.42 YEAH, SIN IS WHAT KILLED HIM - SIN IS WHAT HURT HIM. 00:20:56.45\00:21:00.09 WHEN GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE, IF YOU EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT, "IN 00:21:00.12\00:21:04.23 THE DAY THAT YOU EAT OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE." 00:21:04.26\00:21:08.16 THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 00:21:08.20\00:21:10.00 FOR US TO CONTINUE, WILLINGLY LIVING LIVES OF SIN - YOU READ 00:21:10.03\00:21:14.04 IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 10:26, IT SAYS, IF WE CONTINUE TO SIN 00:21:14.07\00:21:18.61 WILLFULLY, AFTER WE'VE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH - SO 00:21:18.64\00:21:21.98 PEOPLE STUMBLE AND FALL, AND THAT'S ONE THING, BUT TO 00:21:22.01\00:21:24.71 CONTINUE IN KNOWN, WILLING SIN AFTER YOU KNOW GOD'S WILL, IT 00:21:24.75\00:21:28.88 SAYS THERE'S NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, BUT ONLY A CERTAIN 00:21:28.92\00:21:31.29 FEARFUL LOOKING FORWARD TO OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION 00:21:31.32\00:21:34.89 THAT WILL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES. 00:21:34.92\00:21:36.46 IT'S A DANGEROUS THING TO TAMPER AND PLAY WITH SIN. 00:21:36.49\00:21:40.23 WOULD YOU LET YOUR KIDS PLAY IN THE STREET? 00:21:40.26\00:21:42.40 WHY, BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO HAVE ANY FUN? 00:21:42.43\00:21:45.10 OR BECAUSE YOU LOVE THEM? SO WILL GOD WITHHOLD ANYTHING 00:21:45.13\00:21:48.67 GOOD FROM HIS PEOPLE, OR IS HE ONLY WANTING US TO STAY 00:21:48.70\00:21:51.54 AWAY FROM WHAT HURTS US? SIN IS DEADLY. 00:21:51.57\00:21:54.04 IT'S POISON. NUMBER 7: DO THE TEN 00:21:54.08\00:21:58.15 COMMANDMENTS STILL APPLY TO NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS? 00:21:58.18\00:22:01.72 THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS I WANT TO MAKE 00:22:01.75\00:22:03.69 CLEAR IN THIS PRESENTATION. ABSOLUTELY. 00:22:03.72\00:22:07.69 MATTHEW 19, VERSE 17, HE SAID, "IF THOU WILL ENTER INTO THE 00:22:07.72\00:22:11.13 LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." AND THE RICH YOUNG RULER 00:22:11.16\00:22:15.40 SAID TO JESUS, 'WHICH?' AND JESUS BEGAN TO RECITE 00:22:15.43\00:22:18.97 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. IS THAT PRETTY CLEAR? 00:22:19.00\00:22:21.64 I MEAN, IT'S RIGHT FROM THE MOUTH OF JESUS. 00:22:21.67\00:22:23.67 AND CHRIST SAID, 'DO NOT THINK THAT I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE 00:22:23.71\00:22:26.71 LAW AND PROPHETS. I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL.' 00:22:26.74\00:22:30.35 AND SOME THINK THAT MEANS, WELL, THAT MEANS 'DO AWAY WITH'. 00:22:30.38\00:22:32.48 NO, FULFILL MEANS TO FILL FULL. MATTER OF FACT, A LITTLE LATER - 00:22:32.51\00:22:38.42 OR EARLIER, ACTUALLY, IN THE SAME BOOK, WHEN JESUS CAME TO 00:22:38.45\00:22:41.99 JOHN THE BAPTIST TO BE BAPTIZED, JOHN SAID, 'OH, YOU'RE THE 00:22:42.02\00:22:44.99 MESSIAH. YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME.' AND 00:22:45.03\00:22:47.50 JESUS SAID, 'SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW, FOR THUS IT BECOMES US TO 00:22:47.50\00:22:50.23 FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' NOW, DOES THE WORD 'FULFILL' 00:22:50.27\00:22:54.34 MEAN 'DO AWAY WITH'? WOULD JESUS HAVE SAID TO JOHN, 00:22:54.37\00:22:59.54 'YOU NEED TO DO THIS TO DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS'? 00:22:59.57\00:23:02.44 NO, IT MEANS 'TO COMPLETE; TO FULFILL' ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:23:02.48\00:23:05.58 CHRIST - JESUS SAID, 'DON'T THINK I'VE COME TO DESTROY LAW 00:23:05.61\00:23:09.62 AND PROPHETS, WHOSOEVER THEREFORE SHALL BREAK ONE OF THE 00:23:09.65\00:23:12.25 LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS AND TEACH MEN SO, HE WILL BE SPOKEN 00:23:12.29\00:23:15.26 OF AS LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 00:23:15.29\00:23:17.29 BUT WHOEVER WILL DO AND TEACH THEM, HE WILL BE CALLED GREAT IN 00:23:17.33\00:23:20.50 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' AND SO, CHRIST WAS VERY CLEAR ABOUT THE 00:23:20.53\00:23:24.60 LAW. HE SAID, 'DO NOT THINK THAT I'VE 00:23:24.63\00:23:26.74 COME TO GET RID OF IT.' I'VE GOT MORE VERSES ON THAT IN A MINUTE. 00:23:26.77\00:23:31.01 HE SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE ME' - DO WHAT? 00:23:31.04\00:23:35.38 'KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' >>AMEN. 00:23:35.41\00:23:37.35 >>AGAIN, REVELATION 22 - THIS IS A REVELATION SUBJECT - "BLESSED 00:23:37.38\00:23:41.72 ARE THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS." 00:23:41.75\00:23:44.22 IS IT A CURSING OR A BLESSING? >>BLESSING. 00:23:44.25\00:23:46.72 >>IT'S A BLESSING. GOD - I'M TALKING ABOUT A 00:23:46.76\00:23:48.72 BLESSING TONIGHT, FRIENDS. YOU GET THIS SUBJECT, 00:23:48.76\00:23:51.53 YOU'LL BE BLESSED. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO 00:23:51.56\00:23:53.93 KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS? THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 00:23:53.96\00:23:57.33 ROMANS 8:3 AND 4, "GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON...CONDEMNED SIN IN 00:23:57.37\00:24:03.74 THE FLESH: THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT 00:24:03.77\00:24:07.08 BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH BUT AFTER THE 00:24:07.11\00:24:11.51 SPIRIT." ALL OF US KIND OF FEEL THE WAR 00:24:11.55\00:24:13.98 BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH WITHIN AND, THROUGH THE POWER 00:24:14.02\00:24:16.95 OF CHRIST, WE DON'T HAVE TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH. 00:24:16.99\00:24:20.02 BUT YOU CAN BE BORN AGAIN. GOD GIVES YOU A NEW HEART 00:24:20.06\00:24:22.42 - THAT'S THE NEW COVENANT. PHILIPPIANS 4:13, "I 00:24:22.46\00:24:25.73 CAN DO" - HOW MUCH? >>ALL. 00:24:25.76\00:24:27.13 >>"I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENETH ME." 00:24:27.13\00:24:31.60 HE WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH THROUGH HIS WORD AND THROUGH HIS 00:24:31.63\00:24:34.30 SPIRIT, TO RESIST TEMPTATION, TO GET VICTORY, TO BE OVERCOMERS, 00:24:34.34\00:24:37.91 TO LIVE A NEW LIFE. >>AMEN. 00:24:37.94\00:24:40.34 >>I WAS DOING A TV PROGRAM - IT WAS ACTUALLY A CHRISTIAN STATION 00:24:40.38\00:24:44.11 WHERE I WAS DEBATING SOME OTHER MINISTERS ON THIS SUBJECT. 00:24:44.15\00:24:48.65 AND ONE OF THEM SAID, 'NOBODY CAN KEEP THE LAW.' AND I SAID, 00:24:48.68\00:24:53.82 'I'LL AGREE THAT WE'VE ALL SINNED, BUT I DON'T AGREE THAT 00:24:53.86\00:24:56.06 NOBODY CAN KEEP THE LAW.' I ASKED HIM, I SAID, 'DO YOU 00:24:56.09\00:24:59.06 BELIEVE THAT THE DEVIL CAN TEMPT US TO SIN?' 00:24:59.09\00:25:01.23 HE SAID, 'YES.' I SAID, 'DO YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS CAN KEEP US 00:25:01.26\00:25:04.07 FROM SIN?' THE PASTOR SAID, 'NO.' I SAID, 00:25:04.10\00:25:08.47 'SO YOUR DEVIL'S BIGGER THAN YOUR SAVIOR?' 00:25:08.50\00:25:11.74 I READ, 'GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE 00:25:11.77\00:25:15.74 WORLD.' AND THAT 'I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST.' AND 00:25:15.78\00:25:19.48 'JESUS CHRIST IS THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF OUR FAITH.' AND 00:25:19.51\00:25:23.45 SO THERE'S - IT BREAKS MY HEART, YOU KNOW? 00:25:23.49\00:25:26.32 IT'S DOCTRINES OF DEVILS WHEN EVEN PASTORS ARE TELLING PEOPLE 00:25:26.35\00:25:29.52 - I HEAR IT ON THE RADIO AND, IF YOU WERE DRIVING WITH ME IN THE 00:25:29.56\00:25:31.69 CAR YOU'D REALLY PROBABLY BE ENTERTAINED BECAUSE I GET - I 00:25:31.73\00:25:34.23 START TALKING TO THE RADIO - I'LL HEAR - I LISTEN TO 00:25:34.30\00:25:37.13 CHRISTIAN STATIONS AND I'LL HEAR PASTORS - PEOPLE CALL THEM WITH 00:25:37.17\00:25:39.77 A BIBLE QUESTION: 'PASTOR IS IT NECESSARY TO KEEP THE LAW?' 00:25:39.80\00:25:42.67 HE'LL SAY, 'NO, WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, WE'RE UNDER GRACE NOW. 00:25:42.70\00:25:45.17 WE ONLY NEED TO KEEP TWO COMMANDMENTS: LOVE THE LORD AND 00:25:45.21\00:25:47.74 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' (LAUGHTER) 'BECAUSE JESUS GAVE US A NEW 00:25:47.78\00:25:51.68 COMMANDMENT.' AND JESUS SAYS, 'A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU' 00:25:51.71\00:25:56.08 AND THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY, 'LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR 00:25:56.12\00:25:58.39 HEART AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' WHAT WAS JESUS DOING 00:25:58.42\00:26:01.82 WHEN HE SAID THAT? QUOTING MOSES. 00:26:01.86\00:26:06.43 IT'S IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6 AND IT'S IN LEVITICUS 19:18. 00:26:06.46\00:26:10.23 JESUS IS SAYING, 'A NEW COMMANDMENT' AND THEN HE'S 00:26:10.27\00:26:12.33 QUOTING MOSES. THE IDEA OF LOVING THE LORD AND 00:26:12.37\00:26:15.30 LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR IS THE ESSENCE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:26:15.34\00:26:18.81 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ALL ABOUT LOVE. 00:26:18.84\00:26:20.28 GOD IS LOVE. IT'S AN EXPRESSION OF HIS LOVE. 00:26:20.31\00:26:22.04 FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH LOVE FOR GOD; LAST SIX 00:26:22.08\00:26:24.88 COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH LOVE FOR YOUR FELLOW MEN. 00:26:24.91\00:26:26.92 THE WHOLE LAW IS SUMMARIZED IN LOVE. 00:26:26.95\00:26:28.88 IF YOU LOVE GOD, YOU WON'T BREAK THE FIRST FOUR. 00:26:28.92\00:26:31.49 IF YOU LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN YOU'RE NOT GOING TO KILL HIM. 00:26:31.52\00:26:33.46 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT HIM. 00:26:33.49\00:26:34.79 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIE ABOUT HIM. 00:26:34.82\00:26:36.12 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STEAL FROM HIM. 00:26:36.16\00:26:37.46 'LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW' PAUL SAYS. 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