- [Narrator #1] This
presentation is brought to you
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by the Friends of the
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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(gentle instrumental music)
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- Did you know,
most baby mammals,
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birds, and even some
fish instinctively identify
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and bond with their parents
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in the very early
stages of their lives?
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But if the
parents aren't available,
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well, some
strange things can happen.
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In the 1930s,
Austrian zoologist,
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Konrad Lorenz, conducted
some of the first experiments
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on the imprinting
of precocial birds,
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those that leave the
nest soon after hatching.
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When he presented
himself to a newly hatched group
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of mallard ducklings and
he quacked softly to them,
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they recognized
him as their mother,
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and consequently
followed him everywhere.
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Cross species imprinting
has been observed many times,
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even among some species
that are naturally enemies,
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like cats and squirrels,
or lions and antelope.
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Did you know that
in a spiritual sense,
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we humans can also be imprinted?
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We tend to become
like what we look at,
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and that's why it's so important
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that we fix our eyes on Jesus.
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So join me today as we
explore the Bible facts
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about how we can be
imprinted by our Heavenly Father
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and have a life-changing
experience with Jesus.
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(gentle instrumental music)
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We've come to learn that
prophecy in the Bible is more
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than just the books
of Zachariah, and Daniel,
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and Revelation, or Ezekiel.
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Prophecy encompasses
the message of the prophets
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and the message of
the prophets can be found
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all through the
Bible, a number of books.
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Our study tonight is dealing
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with the subject of
the king's ambassador.
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And I really could
say the king's ambassador
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is because he's calling all
of us to be ambassadors for him.
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We're thinking more
particularly of someone
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who was called by Jesus
the greatest of the prophets.
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You know who that is?
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John the Baptist.
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He said, "Among
those born among women
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there is no prophet
like John the Baptist."
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You know if you look in Matthew,
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you can read here in Matthew 3,
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it tells us
about John the Baptist.
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I'm going to read the
first few verses for you.
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"In those days John
the Baptist came preaching
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in the
wilderness of Judea, saying,
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repent for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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For this is he who was
spoken of by the prophet Isaiah
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saying, the voice of one
crying in the wilderness,
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prepare the way of the
Lord, make his path straight."
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Now often when kings
traveled in Bible times,
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they had a team
that would go before 'em.
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A very powerful, wealthy
king would have a big team.
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And when the king was traveling
they would inspect the road,
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not only for
spies and booby traps,
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but they would prepare the road.
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They would take the
rocks out of the road.
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If there were low spots and
potholes, they'd fill them in.
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If there were high
spots, they'd cut them down,
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and they'd smooth the path.
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And the Bible tells us in Isaiah
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that this was the
work of this messenger.
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He was going to cut
down the high places
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and fill in the low places.
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And someone said, you know,
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that's sort of
the work of a pastor,
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is that he is
supposed to comfort those
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who are humbling
themselves, that are unhappy,
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that are struggling,
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and he's supposed to take
those that are too comfortable
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and make them uncomfortable.
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And so John the Baptist went out
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and he would
prepare the way of the Lord.
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Now John himself
tells us that he lived
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a very holy austere life.
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"John himself was
clothed in camel's hair
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with a leather
belt around his waist.
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His food was
locusts and wild honey."
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And we're all
hoping that was carob pod.
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And "Then
Jerusalem, and all Judea,
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and all the region around
Jordan, they went out to him."
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Here's this man that
some would probably ascribe
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to be a maniac out
there in the wilderness
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by the Jordan
River, he's preaching that
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the Lord is coming,
that they needed a repent
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of their sins, they
needed to turn back to God.
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And the people were so
moved by the Holy Spirit
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that not one or two came,
but it seems like everybody
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came out to hear
this man preaching
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with eloquence and power.
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He didn't talk like a madman,
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he had great courage and
great force to his speech.
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"And they were
baptizing them in Jordan,
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confessing their sins."
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And so there was this
great revival that was caused
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by the preaching of John,
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and he was giving
specific information
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about how to repent and how
to live holy lives to everybody.
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Even the soldiers came to him
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and they said, what shall we do?
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And he said, do
violence to no man.
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And what he meant by that,
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he didn't say you
couldn't be a soldier,
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he meant, sometimes
they would rough people up
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and take their property.
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But he was telling everybody
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what they needed
to do to follow God.
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Now I'm going to have you
jump with me to Revelation.
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This is a message
that goes to the world
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just before Jesus comes.
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We talked about the 144,000.
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This is a group
that has the seal of God
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and we know they're preparing
others who receive that seal.
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"Then I looked, and behold,
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a lamb
standing," Revelation 14:1,
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"On Mount Zion,
and with him 144,000,
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having his Father's name
written on their foreheads.
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And I heard a voice
like the voice of many waters
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and the voice of a loud thunder.
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And I heard the sound of
harpists playing their harps,
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and they sang as it was a
new song before the throne
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and before the four
living creatures and the elders.
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And no one could learn
that song except the 144,000
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who were
redeemed from the earth."
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But listen how
it describes them.
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"These are the ones who
are not defiled with women,
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for they are virgins."
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What does that mean?
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I've heard some people preach
that and say in the last days,
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all people saved need
to practice virginity.
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Now, you read in Revelation,
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that's telling us
that you get two women.
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One of them is a mother of
harlots, the other one is pure.
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And it's saying they
are not defiled with women,
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talking about
Babylon and her daughters,
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they're not defiled
with the false teachings
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for they are pure.
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That's what it's
dealing with there.
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It says, "They follow
the lamb wherever he goes."
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How many of you want to
follow the lamb in heaven?
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Do you know, if you want
to follow him there then,
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you need to follow
him here now first.
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"They follow the
lamb wherever he goes.
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These were
redeemed from among men,
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being the first
fruits to God and the lamb."
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They're not the only ones,
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but it's a special
group in the last days.
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"And in their mouth
was found no guile",
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no deceit, "For
they're without fault
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before the throne of God."
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So I think you're getting the
message that John the Baptist,
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who came in the
spirit and power of Elijah,
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the 144,000, and
people that are preparing
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for Christ's first
coming or second coming,
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he's calling them to lives
of dedication and holiness.
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You know, we're
living in a day and an age
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where it's really hard to
tell Christians from apart
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from everyone else in the world.
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And I believe that people
should know there's a difference
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in the way that
we conduct ourselves.
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I was in a
restaurant with a friend,
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and the young lady
that was serving our table,
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as she walked away,
I said to my friend,
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she's a Christian.
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He said, how do you know?
I don't know, just her smile.
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There's something
about her appearance,
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there's a
simplicity, there's a peace.
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She came back to
the table, I said,
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now, I don't
want to embarrass you,
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but are you a Christian?
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And she blushed a
little bit and she said,
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well, yes I am,
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I go to church, and she
was clearly from her answer,
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a practicing Christian.
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And I don't know about you,
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but I've been able
to spot that before.
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I think that you can
sometimes see a difference.
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People have this inner joy,
they've got this competence,
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they've got this peace.
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And it's almost like, you
know, once you are a Christian,
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you've got this
Holy Spirit radar
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where you can spot each other.
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But it shouldn't
just be with Christians,
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I think the world ought to
see that there's a difference.
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We're going to find
out what the Bible says.
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Was there something different
about John the Baptist?
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Clearly there was.
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What was one secret
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to John the
Baptist's Spirit filled life?
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If you look in Luke
3:16, "John answered and said,
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I baptize you with water, but
one mightier than I is coming
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who's sandal strap I
am not worthy to lose."
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And of course here
he's talking about Jesus.
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One secret of his life
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was you notice
that he's self defacing,
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there is a
humility there in his life.
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One of the keys for Christian
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is there's going to be humility.
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I think it was a C.S.
Lewis that wrote in his book,
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"Mere Christianity", a
chapter called the great sin.
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And he talks about the
devil, the great sin of Lucifer
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was putting himself
in the position of God.
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And pride is the
mother of all sins.
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Pride is a handle
that fits every other sin.
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And John the
Baptist had humility,
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even though he was
brave, and he was bold,
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and audacious for God.
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He also said in
John 3:30, he said,
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"He", speaking of Jesus,
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"He must increase,
but I must decrease."
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As John
introduced Jesus and he said,
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this is the Lamb of God.
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People began to follow Jesus
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and soon Jesus had
more disciples than John.
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And John's disciples
began to resent that,
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you know, there's a
spirit of competition.
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Hey, you know,
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he's getting more disciples
than you, and what's with that?
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You know, you're
the great prophet.
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And John said, well,
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this is the way
it's supposed to be.
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He must increase,
but I must decrease.
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You know, that's
something that all of us
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should really be saying
in our hearts every day.
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When it comes to who is
on the throne in your life,
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he must increase,
but I must decrease.
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Would you like
to say that with me?
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- [Together] He must
increase, but I must decrease.
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- And every day
that you walk with Jesus,
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you're going to find out that
it's more and more about him,
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and that's where
your joy comes from.
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Christ said, he that seeks
to save his life will lose it,
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but he's willing to
lose his life for my sake,
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he will find it.
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We take up our
cross, we lose our lives,
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that's when we
really find our lives,
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when we give it all to him.
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Number two, did John the
Baptist read the scriptures?
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This is another example in
the life of John that I think
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that every believer
should emulate, did he?
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How do we know?
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When they said,
John, who are you?
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This is Gospel John 1:23.
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"He said, I am the voice of
one crying in the wilderness,
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make straight
the way of the Lord,
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as the prophet Isaiah said."
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Does it become
clear that John read
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what the prophet Isaiah said?
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So just because he's living
out there in the wilderness
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in the desert doesn't mean
he did not read the scriptures.
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In fact, if you go visit Israel,
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you'll find that
there was a whole group
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of very dedicated
Jews called Essenes
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that lived in the Dead Sea area,
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and their whole
job was writing out
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and copying the scriptures.
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Later when the Romans
were coming to invade,
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they hid a lot of them in caves.
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They were discovered
then as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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So there was a whole community
of people that were dedicated
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to the scriptures,
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living just down the
river from John the Baptist.
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He knew his
Bible, he read his Bible,
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he prayed.
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There are three disciplines
in the Christian life
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that are the
keys to your success.
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Now, what I'm about
to say is so simple,
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but it is so true.
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You do these things
and you will not backslide.
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Read your Bible every day,
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and even if you read
your Bible just 15 minutes,
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read your Bible 15
minutes, pray for 15 minutes,
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and it might be seven
minutes in the morning
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and seven minutes at night,
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and spend 15 minutes talking
to someone else about God.
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Read the Bible,
talk to the Lord,
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share your faith.
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Number three, was
John the Baptist willing
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to witness for Jesus?
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When he saw Jesus come to
the water, he boldly said,
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"Next day", John 1:29,
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"Behold, the Lamb of God,
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that takes away
the sin of the world."
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He pointed people to Christ.
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If you believe in Christ, do
not be ashamed of your faith.
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Be bold in your faith.
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John was so bold
and he was so courageous
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that he would not only rebuke
the Pharisees for their sins,
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he talked to the Roman soldiers,
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he told king Herod
that you shouldn't be living
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with your brother's wife.
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I mean, he called sin
out wherever he saw it,
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and he was not very popular,
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it ultimately cost him his life.
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Now the reason we're talking
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about this message of
the king's ambassadors.
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The Bible tells us, last
prophecy in the Old Testament,
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Malachi 4, "Behold",
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well first he says,
this is Malachi 4:4,
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"Remember the law
of Moses, my servant,
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which I gave unto
him for all Israel
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with its
statutes and judgements.
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Behold I send you
Elijah the prophet
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before the great and
terrible day of the Lord."
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Now the great and
terrible day of the Lord
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was not Jesus first coming.
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That's the day of the Lord
when he comes the second time.
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"I will send you
Elijah the prophet
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before the great and
terrible day of the Lord.
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And he will turn the hearts
of the fathers to the children,
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and the hearts of the
children to the fathers,
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lest I come and smite
the earth with a curse."
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Now this is not just talking
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about there being
family reconciliation.
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The fathers is talking about
the teachings of the fathers.
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A lot of the young
generation have rejected
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the teachings of the fathers,
but before Christ comes back,
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there's going to
be people turning back
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to the sensible
teachings of the fathers,
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and the fathers will begin
to make sense to the children,
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and there's going to be a
revival as a result of that.
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(gentle instrumental music)
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Don't go anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment,
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we'll continue with the
rest of today's presentation.
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Have you ever thought
that life sometimes seems
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to be a relentless
battle just to stay ahead?
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You wash the car,
and then it rains,
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you have to wash it again.
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You weed the
garden, and two weeks later
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there's a whole
new crop of weeds.
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Well, it's the same
way in a Christian's life.
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Sometimes it seems like
when you successfully resist
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one temptation, then
another one surprises you
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from left field.
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So you might be wondering,
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how do you stay ahead in
the battle with temptation?
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Does God really expect us to
experience consistent victory?
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Absolutely, yes.
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Well now, let's get back to
the rest of today's presentation
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and learn some more amazing
facts from the Word of God.
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(gentle instrumental music)
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So how did Elijah come?
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Well, when they came to
John the Baptist and they said,
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are you Elijah who is to come?
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John the Baptist said, no.
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Why did John say,
no, I'm not Elijah.
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And Jesus said, yes, he is.
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When the Jews were
asking John, are you Elijah,
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they were wondering,
are you Elijah reincarnated?
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God does not
teach reincarnation.
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He said no.
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They were asking a
different question,
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you see what I'm saying?
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Jesus said, is he coming in
the spirit and power of Elijah?
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Yes, he did come in the
spirit and power of Elijah.
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That's what the
angel told his father,
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that he would come in the
spirit and the power of Elijah,
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just like Elisha got the
spirit and the power of Elijah.
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But Jesus said,
if you can bear it,
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Elijah has come.
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This is after John was
put in prison and beheaded,
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and they did unto
him whatever they wanted,
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and Elijah will come.
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Christ was looking
down to the end of time
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when there's going to
be a great revival movement
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and people are going to
return to the word of God
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the way that John the Baptist
brought a revival movement.
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There are going to
be some last day Elijahs
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before Jesus comes back
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that are going to be
sharing this message of holiness
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and living godly lives.
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Number four, was
the straight preaching
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of John popular among the
political and religious leaders?
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No, and Bible
tells us the Pharisees
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and lawyers rejected the
will of God for themselves,
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not having been baptized by him.
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It kinda makes you
shudder to think, you know,
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here God was calling
them to repent of their sins.
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They could keep their jobs,
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but they needed to
repent and be washed,
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and baptism was part of that.
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When they were rejected that,
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they were rejecting the counsel
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and the will of
God for themselves.
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And there are some
of you who are listening
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to the sound of my
voice, you could be here,
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you could be listening through
00:16:42.30\00:16:44.70
some electronic media right
now, and maybe he's calling you,
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if you've not given
your heart to Jesus,
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to repent of your sins, to
be baptized and to follow him.
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Listen, today if
you hear his voice,
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do not harden your
heart, you want to follow that.
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And repent of your sins,
he'll give you a revival.
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And then you
read on the Luke 3:19,
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"But Herod the
tetrarch, being rebuked by him",
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by John the Baptist,
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"For all of his
evils that Herod had done,
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he shut up John in prison."
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Later, because of the the
intrigue of his illicit wife,
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Herodias, John the
Baptist was beheaded.
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And Jesus said, here he is
the greatest of the prophets,
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but he did not go to
heaven in a fiery chariot.
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You know, Jesus said,
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if you're
persecuted for Christ's sake,
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you should rejoice.
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John actually had
the privilege of dying
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for the sake of Christ
and for the sake of the truth,
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and he's going to be
greatly exalted in the kingdom.
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Do you believe that?
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Was there a connection
between John's spiritual life
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and his simple diet?
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You can read in
Luke 1:15, "For he",
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John the Baptist,
"Shall drink neither wine
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nor strong drink,
but he will be filled
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with the Holy Spirit."
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You see there's a distinction
between being filled with wine
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and being filled
with the Holy Spirit.
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You've probably
driven down the street
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and you've seen these stores,
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it says liquor,
beer, and spirits.
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What do they mean, spirits?
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What kind of spirits?
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If you drink the
liquor, and the beer,
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and the wine, you get
spirits that come with it.
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Have you noticed that before?
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Yeah, and you know I'm speaking
from firsthand experience,
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friends, I used to drink,
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I know what happens.
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Says, you'll say
things that you regret,
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your eyes will
behold strange women.
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I don't know how many
people have said, you know,,
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I was at a party,
and I had one too many,
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I'm so sorry, I
violated our marriage,
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I wasn't thinking,
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it wasn't me,
it was the alcohol.
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Well, you chose
to drink the alcohol.
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And people do, and utter,
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and behave in
ways that, you know,
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it just takes you
away from being spirit led.
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John the Baptist would not
drink wine or strong drink, why?
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Because he wanted to be
filled with a Holy Spirit.
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So which spirit do you
want to be filled with?
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You want to be filled
with the spirit of vodka,
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and whiskey, and
gin, wine and beer,
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or do you want to be
filled with the spirit of Jesus?
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Why is God concerned about
what we eat and what we drink?
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Judges 13:7, so the angel
meets with Manoah and his wife,
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and he gives clear
instructions on this child
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they're going to have
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that's going to be
filled with the spirit of God.
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Why would it
matter what a mother
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before the child is
born eats and drinks?
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Well you know, now they
know that the mother's care
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for her body
while she's pregnant,
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does have an
impact on the child.
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"Behold, you shall
conceive and bear a son."
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"Now drink no wine or
similar," in the word there,
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strong drink, "Or
eat anything unclean
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for the child shall be a
Nazarite to God from his womb
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to the day of his death."
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Through his whole life he
was to be dedicated to God.
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Now, as we near the last days,
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if we're wanting
our minds to be clear,
00:20:03.77\00:20:05.53
especially when Satan has
come down with great wrath
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and the world is just filled
00:20:07.94\00:20:09.27
with his
proliferation of deceptions,
00:20:09.30\00:20:12.47
why would we want
our brains to be fuzzy
00:20:12.51\00:20:14.81
so that we can't distinguish
between what's right and wrong?
00:20:14.84\00:20:17.58
Why would we want to
weaken our perceptions
00:20:17.61\00:20:20.18
so that we are
not able to discern
00:20:20.22\00:20:22.22
what is good and what is evil?
00:20:22.25\00:20:23.92
The real prayer of
Solomon, when God said,
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what do you want from me?
00:20:25.92\00:20:27.22
He said, I want wisdom,
00:20:27.26\00:20:28.86
that I might have
an understanding heart
00:20:28.89\00:20:30.53
to know the difference
between good and evil.
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What does the Bible
say about worldly behavior?
00:20:33.73\00:20:36.73
James 4:4,
"Whoever therefore wants
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to be a friend of the world
makes himself an enemy of God."
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Now, Pastor Doug,
00:20:43.84\00:20:45.24
I thought the Bible
said God so loved the world.
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Here it says you're
supposed to love the world,
00:20:47.31\00:20:48.84
and then the Bible says,
friendship with the world
00:20:48.88\00:20:51.18
is enmity with God.
00:20:51.21\00:20:52.51
Which is it, love the
world or hate the world?
00:20:52.55\00:20:53.85
Well, God loves the
people in the world,
00:20:53.88\00:20:55.68
and we should love
the people in the world,
00:20:55.72\00:20:57.35
but worldliness is what
he's saying that we should shun.
00:20:57.39\00:21:01.76
And I think we all
know what that means.
00:21:01.79\00:21:03.93
Just all the distractions
with the here and now.
00:21:03.96\00:21:06.09
If you're a Christian,
you're thinking about eternity,
00:21:06.13\00:21:08.13
you're thinking
about another world,
00:21:08.16\00:21:09.46
you're passing
through this world.
00:21:09.50\00:21:11.47
Someone once
said that a Christian
00:21:11.50\00:21:13.50
is something like
a ship in the water.
00:21:13.54\00:21:17.37
A Christian has to
learn how to be in the world
00:21:17.41\00:21:19.24
without the world being in us.
00:21:19.27\00:21:21.41
A ship belongs in the water,
00:21:22.28\00:21:24.08
but as soon as the
water gets in the ship,
00:21:24.11\00:21:25.55
you've got
serious problems, right?
00:21:25.58\00:21:27.32
"Come out from among
them", the Bible says,
00:21:28.95\00:21:31.05
2 Corinthians
6:17, "Be separate,
00:21:31.09\00:21:33.62
says the Lord, do not
touch what is unclean."
00:21:33.66\00:21:36.19
This is the New Testament,
00:21:36.22\00:21:37.53
it's not some Old
Testament Levitical law.
00:21:37.56\00:21:39.69
He says, "Do not
touch what is unclean
00:21:39.73\00:21:41.66
and I will receive you."
00:21:41.70\00:21:43.00
Come out, be separate,
00:21:43.03\00:21:44.33
we're to be
different from the world?
00:21:44.37\00:21:45.67
We're calling people to a high
00:21:45.70\00:21:47.00
and a holy
standard of following Jesus.
00:21:47.04\00:21:49.00
How can we tell them to do that
00:21:49.04\00:21:50.54
when we're living
like everybody else
00:21:50.57\00:21:51.87
and nobody can
tell the difference.
00:21:51.91\00:21:53.64
If anyone loves
the world, Bible says,
00:21:55.04\00:21:57.55
1 John 2, "Love not the world,
00:21:57.58\00:22:00.05
neither the things
that are in the world,
00:22:00.08\00:22:01.58
for if any man loves the world,
00:22:01.62\00:22:02.95
the love of the
Father is not in him.
00:22:02.98\00:22:05.19
For all that's in the
world, the lust of the flesh,
00:22:05.22\00:22:07.32
and the lust of the
eyes, and the pride of life
00:22:07.36\00:22:09.72
is not of the
Father, but the world.
00:22:09.76\00:22:11.56
And the world is passing
away with the lust thereof.
00:22:11.59\00:22:14.36
But he that does the will
of God will abide forever."
00:22:14.36\00:22:17.60
Can you say amen?
00:22:17.63\00:22:19.27
If you love the world, the love
of the Father is not in him.
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"Do not be
conformed to this world,
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but rather be transformed
by the renewing of your mind,
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that you might prove what
is that good, and acceptable,
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and perfect will of God."
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Don't become like the world,
don't let the world shape you.
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Be shaped by the
word, not the world.
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The word ought to
be shaping our lives.
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And the renewing of your mind.
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Now with that in mind,
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what should a
Christian choose to think about?
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"Whatever things are true",
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these are the
things to think about.
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"Whatever things are noble,
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whatever things are
just, whatever things are pure,
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whatever things are lovely,
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whatever things
are of good report,
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if there's any virtue and if
there's anything praiseworthy,
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meditate on these things."
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Think about those
things that are good.
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Bible tells us in Psalm 101:3,
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"I will set nothing
wicked before my eyes."
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Now, based on that standard,
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what should a Christian watch?
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If we believe murder is a sin,
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why would we be entertained
watching other people murder?
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If we believe adultery is a sin,
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why would we be entertained
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watching other
people commit adultery?
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It's almost like we're
enjoying the sin vicariously.
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You say, no, I'd never kill,
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I'd never lie, but I like
this program where they lie.
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I'm going to watch this,
you know, "Daytime As My Stomach
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Turns", whatever
it's called, you know,
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and they got all this
intrigue, all this line,
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and all this
adultery, and this espionage,
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and this murder, and I'm going,
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wow, I wonder what's
going to happen next.
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I'd never do that,
'cause I'm a Christian,
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but I sure enjoy
watching them do it.
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And it's like we're
sinning vicariously.
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You know, the Bible tells us,
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let me see, I
think I've got that,
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maybe in the lesson,
I just don't remember.
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Romans 1:32, "Who,
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knowing the judgment of God,
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that they that commit such
things are worthy of death",
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the penalty for sin is death.
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"They not only do the same,
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but they have
pleasure in them that do them."
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Do we have pleasure
in watching other things?
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Watching other people's sin?
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Being entertained by the world?
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That makes you who you
are, it shapes your thinking.
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The Lord wants us
to think pure thoughts,
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but it's hard to
think pure thoughts
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if we're filling our minds
with typical American media.
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I mean, I know
there are occasionally
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good things that
are on television,
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there may even be
the occasional movie
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that has something
historic or edifying.
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It is a very rare exception,
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most of these
things are rated R,
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they use God's name in
vain, they're full of violence.
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You've got all these
warnings before it comes on,
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drugs, violence, sexual content,
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profanity, nudity,
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and you get all
this and you're thinking,
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okay, Lord, hope
you can bless all this,
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I'm going to watch this
now for the next two hours,
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but I'm going to
worship you 10 minutes later.
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It affects you.
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What type of music
will a true Christian enjoy?
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Oh, this is a difficult one.
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Well, let's look at
what the Bible says.
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Psalm 40:3, "He's put
a new song in my heart,
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praised to our God."
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The music ought to be
music that praises God.
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You know the story in
the Bible where king Saul,
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he had evil spirits
that would trouble him,
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and David came in, of course,
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David was a great
musician and a songwriter,
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wrote about 70 of the Psalms,
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150 Psalms that
are in the Bible.
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"And it was so, whenever the
spirit from God was upon Saul,
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that day would take a
heart and play with his hand.
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And then Saul would
be refreshed and well,
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and the distressing spirit,"
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there would be an evil
spirit was tormenting Saul,
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"Would depart from him."
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So if good music can
drive an evil spirit away,
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would it make a
sense the devil's got music
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that would invite
the evil spirits in?
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Now everyone, we
all agree to this point.
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I mean, how many of you will
raise your hands now and say,
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we agree that there's some music
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that is
inappropriate for Christians?
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And we all agree.
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How many of you agree
that your music is good?
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See, everyone said,
yeah, God hates bad music,
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but I like only the good stuff.
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Everyone draws the line though
in a little different place.
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There are Bible principles
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that need to guide
us in these things.
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What should be the
aim of God's people today?
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Very simple friends,
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"We keep his
commandments and do those things
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that are pleasing in his sight.
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For this is the love of God,
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that we keep his commandments."
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And notice, "His commandments
are not burdensome."
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When you love somebody,
you are happy to serve them.
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You're happy to make
changes to please them,
00:26:54.91\00:26:57.15
because you love them.
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