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Doug Batchelor : Hi
friends, welcome back to
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"Prophecy Odyssey."
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In our last episode, we learned
that the 10 Commandments have an
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important role.
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They reveal our sinfulness
and our need of a savior.
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Today, we're going to continue
our eye opening study of
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God's law.
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We're going to look at an often
misunderstood topic, "The Old
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and The New Covenants," and
we'll learn why God's law still
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matters today, even
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Doug: So, if you look in the
mirror and you see that there's
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something wrong.
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If you got dirt on
your face, what do you do?
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You put your face against
the mirror and rub your face?
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No, what do you do?
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You need to wash.
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Well I need
something to wash with.
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How convenient.
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So, what is this?
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What does it represent?
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The law of God.
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Is it meant to cleanse the sin?
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Or it shows us our
need for cleansing.
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What does this
red rag represent?
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The blood of Jesus Christ, it's
a washcloth, but it's a symbol
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of the blood of Christ.
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So, I look here and I see I have
a problem, but this is not meant
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to help me with my problem.
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It is powerless.
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But this can
take away the problem.
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And now, you know,
now I look pretty good.
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It doesn't bother me.
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Matter of fact, you know--.
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So, I--is it--well once this has
happened and I've gone through
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an embarrassing experience like
this, every now and then, I'm
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going to reference the mirror.
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How many will admit?
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Show of hands, get
an audience shot ready.
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How many will admit they
have looked in the mirror today?
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Hands up.
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Honest group, praise God.
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Now it's important to look in
the mirror, but you don't want
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to look in the mirror too much.
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How many of you know someone
that looks in the mirror a
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little too much?
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I saw some of you
point to one another.
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But you want--how many of
you know people that look like
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they've never
looked in the mirror?
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That's another problem, right?
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So, we need this, don't we?
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Do we need the law?
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Not to save us.
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We need the law to
show us we need salvation.
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The devil wants to get rid of
this because if you don't have
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this, you don't
need the blood of Christ.
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And so, even in some churches
they are preaching doctrines of
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devils that we don't need
Jesus and the blood of Christ.
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Well we've gotta hasten
along, but I think that's a very
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important point for
us to remember, amen?
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James 1:23, bears out the
same thing, "For if anyone is a
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hearer of the word and not a
doer, he's like a man observing
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his natural face in a mirror;
for he observes himself, and
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goes away, and immediately
forgets what kind of man he was.
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But whoever looks into the
perfect law of liberty," what
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does God call
the 10 Commandments?
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A burdensome
law, law of liberty.
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You know, it says in Psalm
119:45, "So I will keep Your
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commandments forever and
ever and I will walk at liberty
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because I keep Your precepts."
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Most of you are not here tonight
with ankle bracelets, I'm
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assuming, meaning from the
government because you keep the
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law, you're free, right?
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That law that's supposed
to put the criminals in jail.
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You know, I witnessed a
burglary today, not kidding.
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I came home.
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I told Karen I was standing in
the store getting ready to check
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out with the salad I bought.
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I'm in line with other people.
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Some guy just
marched in off the street.
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A girl was
putting her money down.
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He had been
watching through the window.
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He went to grab the money and
the attendant tried to grab it
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back out of his hand, and he got
out of the store with a $1 or $2
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and they went out and chased him
down and got their dollar back.
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Praise the Lord, but
what kind of world is it, huh?
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We're living in.
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So, I'm glad for
the laws, aren't you?
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I want them enforced.
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Otherwise you got
chaos in your culture.
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Blessed are those who keep the
law who are doers of the Word.
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Now I want to illustrate--I'm
going put the 10 Commandments up
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here on the stage here
for a minute because I want to
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illustrate why this is so
important and how it fits in
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with the theme
of Bible prophecy.
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So, here you got the
10 Commandments and the 10
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Commandments are on
how many tables of stone?
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Two, the Word of God
is dual in its nature.
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The Bible tells us it's
the law and the prophets.
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In Revelation you've got two
witnesses, and it's like Moses
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and Elijah.
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Moses is the great law
giver, Elijah the great prophet.
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Two scriptures at the end of the
Old Testament, "Remember the law
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of Moses, My servant.
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Remember I send you Elijah
the prophet before the great and
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dreadful day of the Lord."
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The first table of commandments
deals with our responsibility
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to God.
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And for those out there
that might question, this is a
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summary, it's not that, you
know, we couldn't fit every word
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on the just to give you an idea.
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First four commandments,
deal with worshiping only God.
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Not worshiping idols.
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Do not take His name in vain.
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Remember our time for God.
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It's our relationship with God.
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So, the first four deal
with this vertical relationship.
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Then you get over here and
you come to the last six of the
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commandments, and it deals with
our relationship with our fellow
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man, beginning with honor your
father and mother, going down to
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you shall not covet
your neighbor and his goods.
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What is the--if you could define
God in one word, what is that
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one word?
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God is, say it
with me, "God is love."
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The 10 Commandments are
love for God and love for your
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fellow man.
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The 10 Commandments are not bad.
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Paul said all of the
commandments are summarizing
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this, love the Lord with
all your heart and love your
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neighbor as yourself.
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And if you are loving the Lord
with all your heart, you'll be
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keeping the first
four commandments, right?
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If you love God, are you
going to worship other gods?
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No.
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If you love God, you're not
going to misrepresent Him by,
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you know, worshiping idols.
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You're not going to
use His name in vain.
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You're going to
want your time with God.
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And if you love your fellow
man, you're not going to rob,
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take his wife, kill
him, lie, covet, honor your
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parents, correct?
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And so, love is the
fulfilling of the law.
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The law is good.
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It is just and holy and good.
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So, God gave His law in
the most majestic way He could.
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What could God do that He left
out to show us the importance of
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the law?
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Spoke it with His own voice
from a mountain, thunder and
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lightning, smoke and fire, wrote
it with His finger, wrote it in
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stone to show it as unchanging.
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And yet there are even
Christians now say, "I don't
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need to worry about the 10
Commandments because Jesus died
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for our sins,
we can break them."
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That's blasphemous.
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That's not what
the Bible teaches.
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I mean, you know, my problem
before I came to Christ was
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sin, lawlessness.
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I don't want to tell you
too much too soon or you may not
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come back, but I
used to be a thief.
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Yeah, and I was that guy who
would go in the store and take
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something and not pay for it or
break into homes or steal cars,
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and all the other commandments.
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So, Jesus saved me.
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I stopped doing that.
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Aren't you glad?
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So, this is what the purpose
is to save us from our sins.
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The Bible says, "Blessed,"
how many want to be blessed?
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"Blessed are those
who do His commandments."
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Jesus said, "If you know these
things, happy are you if you
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do them.
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Not hearers only, but doers."
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Number eight, what's the
difference between the new and
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the old covenant?
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This is important to understand.
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Some people say, "Well Pastor
Doug, we are now under the
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new covenant.
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We--the 10 Commandments
are part of the old covenant."
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Well 10 Commandments are
part of the old covenant.
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You can read about that in
Exodus chapter 20, and you can
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read about it in Deuteronomy
5, and you can read about it in
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Deuteronomy 4, which says God
declared unto them His covenant,
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even 10 commandments which
He commanded them to perform.
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And when God spoke the 10
Commandments, the people made an
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agreement, that's a
covenant, an agreement.
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They made an agreement that
said, "All the Lord has said we
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will do."
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Before 40 days went by,
they made a golden calf and they
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broke the covenant.
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So, the old covenant, the Old
Testament, Old Testament, Old
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Covenant, same words, was
broken in the Old Testament.
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Where do you think
you find the new covenant?
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In the Old Testament.
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The first place you find the new
covenant is, you'll find it in
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Jeremiah chapter 33.
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He says, "A new covenant I'll
make with the house of Israel
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after those days.
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I'll write My
law on their hearts."
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He'll put his law within us.
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This is what it says in Ezekiel,
"He gives us hearts of flesh.
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He takes a stony heart."
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Even Moses said, "I command
you this day to love the Lord
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your God."
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The new covenant, we're all
saved under the new covenant.
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It's the new heart.
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So, the difference between
the old covenant and the new
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covenant is not the
law, it's where it's written.
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"I will write My
law," new covenant.
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"I will write My
law in their hearts."
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You also find it in the New
Covenant in Hebrews chapter 8
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and other places.
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So, the new covenant is, "My
law that doesn't change is now
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written not on stone,
but on the fleshly tablets of
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their hearts."
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How much easier it is to
obey God when you love Him.
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Let me give you an example.
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Are you aware there's a law
that says you're not supposed to
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murder your children?
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How many know there's a law?
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How many of you have children?
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How many don't murder your
children because of the law?
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I saw a couple of hands go.
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Most of you don't murder your
children because you love them.
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Do you go home, "Man, I'd sure
like to murder them, but I'll be
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in jail.
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I can't, you know, I'm
going to get arrested."
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Otherwise, they just--you
don't think about it because you
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love them.
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I love my wife.
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I've never cheated on my wife.
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I don't think about
it because I love her.
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Love is the
fulfilling of the law.
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And so, the new covenant is
we learn to love God, you don't
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want to do
anything that will hurt Him.
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And because you love God, you
don't want to do anything that
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will hurt your
brothers and sisters.
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This is what it means to have
the new birth, to be born again.
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So, that's--I think you
understand the difference there
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between the old
and the new covenant.
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"He declared unto you His
covenant that He commanded you
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to perform ten commandments;
wrote them on tables of stone."
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And then it says, "Finding fault
with them," what was the fault
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in the old covenant?
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The law or the people?
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He says, "I'll make a new
covenant with the house of
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Israel and the house of Judah."
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By the way, nowhere in the
Bible does God ever make a new
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covenant with Gentiles.
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You notice that?
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Both in the Old and the New
Testament it says, "I'll make a
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new covenant with
the house of Israel."
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If you're a Christian, you
become grafted into the stock
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of Israel.
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The Bible says, "If you are
Christ, you are Abraham's seed."
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We get to partake of that
covenant, and we're all saved.
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We become spiritual
Israel, if you will.
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Number nine, what is it called
when we're converted and given a
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new heart?
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Well I just touched on this.
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It's that wonderful spiritual
metamorphosis where we go from
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being a worm to a butterfly.
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You're born again.
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You must be what?
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Born again.
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A new birth, it's something--the
old things pass away and all
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things are made new.
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Number ten, what must I do to be
forgiven and cleansed from sin?
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Now this is very
important for us to understand.
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There's--Jesus died for
the sins of the whole world.
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Will the whole world be saved?
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No.
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Unfortunately, Jesus said,
"Straight is the gate and narrow
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is the way that leads to life,
and few there be that find it,"
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because you are looking.
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You notice in our theme song it
says, "Seek with all our hearts,
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search with all our soul."
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God says, "You will search
for me and you will find me,"
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Jeremiah 29:13, "when you search
for Me with all your heart."
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You've got to want Him.
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You need to seek.
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Jesus said,
"Seek and you'll find."
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He's died for everybody, but we
need to become aware of our sin
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and then repent of our sins.
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Acts chapter 3, verse
19, "Repent therefore and be
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converted, that your
sins might be blotted out."
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if you
could start over again and have
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all your sins washed away.
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You can.
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Tell God you're sorry.
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And you said, "Well Pastor
Doug, I still am tempted."
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Everybody's tempted.
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Jesus was tempted, but you tell
God, "I'm sorry for my sins,
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change my heart," and then you
spent your whole life learning
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how to do wrong.
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He teaches you
then how to do right.
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It says in Isaiah, "When
we learn to do good, you start
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following the Lord
and you look at Jesus."
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This is called sanctification.
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And you learn a
new way of thinking.
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You read the Bible, you keep
your eyes on Christ, you start
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becoming like Him, you change.
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There's a conversion.
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You repent.
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You confess.
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Part of repentance is
confessing your sins to God.
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And you might be thinking,
"Doesn't God know everything
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Pastor Doug?"
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Well yeah.
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You're not telling
Him so you can inform Him.
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First time I read this, I
thought, "Okay, Lord, You better
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sit down.
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We have got to talk."
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I mean, He already
knows everything, right?
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If you walking out of the
auditorium tonight, accidentally
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step on somebody's foot,
you're going to say, "I'm
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sorry," right?
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Do they know you
stepped on their foot?
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Yeah, but you
still say you're sorry.
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That's appropriate.
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Now if you stomp on their foot,
and you really hurt them and
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they start to--you say, "I am
very sorry," because you really
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hurt them, right?
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If you knock them down by
accident, then you help them up
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and you say, "I am so sorry,
don't call the lawyer," right?
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So, notice this, the degree
of harm dictates the degree of
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apology, all right?
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How much have we hurt God?
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Look at the cross,
the sufferings of Christ.
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He took what you deserve.
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So, get on your knees
when you're by yourself.
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A lot of preachers, they
only give part of the answer.
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They say, "Come forward, say
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this little
prayer, you're now saved."
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Now there's a lot of people
going to be saved from that
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because that's all they knew and
that's all they got, but that's
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not all the Bible teaching.
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The Bible says, "Repent.
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Be sorry for your sins,
confess your sins to God."
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He said, "Well I don't remember
all my sins, Pastor Doug."
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Nobody does.
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Start with the ten Commandments.
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Have you ever lied?
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You ever steal?
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You ever think
in impure thoughts?
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Jesus said, "Sin is not just
the action, it's the attitude."
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If a man or woman looks on the
opposite sex and lusts in their
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heart, well today you've got
to say looks on any sex because
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it's--you're all mixed up.
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But if you look and you lust,
you can commit adultery in your
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heart, right?
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Do you know you can
murder in your heart?
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Jesus said, "If you're angry
with your brother without a
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cause, you're guilty of murder."
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"If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us
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our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness."
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Isn't that good news, friends?
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He wants us to be forgiven.
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He wants us to have peace.
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He wants us in
His kingdom with Him.
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Who enters the heart of a
born-again Christian and what
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does He do?
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The Bible says John 14:17, "The
Spirit," God, the Spirit, "comes
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into your life."
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Something
happens. He will activate.
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You're giving Him permission,
saying, "Lord, I can't do it
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without You
coming into my heart."
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He'll speak to
you. He'll guide you.
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Jesus came out of the water at
His baptism and the Holy Spirit
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came down.
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You commit your life to the
Lord and God will give you His
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Spirit, and He can give you
a baptism of the spirit at your
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baptism as well.
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Again, "Both to will and to
do," He will help you to do His
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good pleasure.
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We can't live the Christian life
without God's help, friends.
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You know that God will never
ask you to do something you
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can't do?
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Is that reasonable?
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Anything God asks you to do, as
hard as you might think it is,
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He will help you do it.
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There are people who are
thinking, "Pastor Doug, I've
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been struggling to
quit smoking for years.
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I've been trying to quit
drinking and it's not just
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smoking, it's the vaping."
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Drugs.
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Some are
addicted to pornography.
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Some are addicted to
credit cards and shopping.
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There's all kinds of addictions.
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As a matter of fact, everybody
out there, if you don't have
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Jesus, you are a sinaholic.
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The question is,
what is your addiction?
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Whatever it is, He
can break the chains.
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I've talked to people,
they struggled for years with
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drinking and smoking and
pornographic addictions and
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shopping addictions
and whatever it might be.
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Some are workaholics
and He can change you.
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Jesus can--He'll never ask you
to do something without giving
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you the power to do it.
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You say, "Oh Lord, I
can't cross the ocean.
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I can't swim."
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He'll part the sea.
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He'll give you scuba gear.
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He'll do something, but He will
find a way to get you across.
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Anything He asks you, God can
move mountains, friends, believe
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it, amen.
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Why did God make such a
fantastic sacrifice for you
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and me?
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The Bible tells us in John 3:16,
"For God so loved the world that
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He gave His only begotten Son."
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Now it is so hard, friends, for
those of you out there that know
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what I'm talking about
that I've lost a child.
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We lost a son.
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Doing evangelistic meetings
in the Philippines, got a phone
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call that no
parent ever wants to get.
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Our tall, handsome,
strong, kind son died in a
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construction accident.
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Had to drop what
we're doing and go home.
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And you know you cannot describe
the pain of when you lose
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a child.
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I don't know why did God wire
us to love our children so much.
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It's just
something I can't explain.
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But I don't read that
verse anymore the same way.
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When I think that God so loved
me that He gave His Son, and you
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know, it occurred to me, God
loves His son much more than I
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love my son.
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And He must really love you
that He would give His Son to
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save you.
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Wouldn't you want to
love a God like that?
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The Bible says, what do we do?
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It says, "Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ, and you'll
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be saved."
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Now the word believe doesn't
just mean believe that He died
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for your sin because
the devil believes that.
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The word believe means be live.
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When Jesus says something,
you say, "I be-live in Him.
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I'm going to
live what He told me."
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That's what it means.
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It's not just a cheap kind of
grace and yeah, I believe it and
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you keep going on your way.
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You don't really
believe it if you act like that.
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It means believe what He
says and do what He says.
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Follow Him.
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"As many as received Him, to
them He gives the right," the
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power, "to
become children of God."
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He adopts you into His family
and He loves you as a child, and
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He will not forsake you.
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If you make a mistake,
He'll pick you back up again.
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Don't get discouraged.
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If you come to Christ, the devil
will try to discourage you and
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make you give up.
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Don't give up.
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There are people watching now.
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And you stopped going to church
years ago because someone in
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church hurt your feelings.
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Don't do that.
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The devil wants to
chase you out of church.
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Even Jesus had a
Judas in His church, right?
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So, don't be discouraged.
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The strongest earthly tie is a
tie of a parent for a child, and
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that's how much God loves us.
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Number 13, is anyone
saved by keeping the law?
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Answer?
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No.
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"For by," what?
00:21:51.44\00:21:52.74
"For by grace you have
been saved through faith, not of
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yourselves; it's a gift of
God, not of works, lest any man
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should boast."
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We are not saved
because we've earned it.
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For example, I'm driving too
fast and I see those blue and
00:22:04.42\00:22:11.26
red lights behind me.
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How many of you when you're
driving, if you see a police
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car, you automatically take your
foot off of the accelerator?
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And even if you're under the
speed limit, it's like a reflex.
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So, this has
happened to me more than once.
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I didn't want to pull over, but
when I saw those blue and red
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lights, I don't have a choice.
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I've broken the
law, I am under the law.
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And I say, "Could you
please have mercy on me?
00:22:39.35\00:22:43.26
My insurance is going to go
up, my wife's going to give me a
00:22:43.29\00:22:45.73
hard time because the
insurance has gone up.
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It's my points and
I'm sorry, I was--."
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And then, you know, someone told
me once if you cry, it helps.
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So, I did that.
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And she didn't give me a ticket.
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And she said, "I'll tell you
what, I'm going to have mercy on
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this time.
00:23:06.61\00:23:07.92
I'm going to
write you a warning."
00:23:07.95\00:23:10.05
As soon as she says, "I'm going
to have mercy," I said, "Praise
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the Lord."
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I'm now under grace.
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I didn't deserve it.
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Isn't it true?
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Once we are saved by grace,
it's no longer necessary to keep
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the law?
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"Do we then make void
the law through faith?
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Certainly not!"
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King James says, "God forbid."
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"On the contrary,
we establish the law."
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Saved people are more careful
to obey than anybody because we
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love the Lord.
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We don't wan to
break His law, amen?
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Jesus said, "If any man says,
'I love Him' and keeps not his
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commandments, he is a liar
and the truth is not in him."
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"Shall we sin because we're not
under the law but under grace?
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Certainly not!"
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Can I be a true
Christian without keeping
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His commandments?
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What does the Bible say?
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"By this we know that
we know Him, if we keep
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His commandments.
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He who says, 'I know Him,' and
keeps his not His commandments
00:24:06.54\00:24:09.61
is a liar," as I mentioned.
00:24:09.64\00:24:12.35
"Not everyone who says to
Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the
00:24:12.38\00:24:15.32
kingdom of heaven, but he
that does the will of My Father
00:24:15.35\00:24:20.12
in heaven."
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Number 16, who does a
devil especially hate in these
00:24:21.52\00:24:24.89
last days?
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Answer, "The dragon is wroth,
infuriated with the woman,"
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that's the church, God's people.
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"And he goes to make war with
the remnant, the remainder of
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her offspring
that keep the," what?
00:24:37.44\00:24:41.28
Who is the devil fighting
against in the last days?
00:24:41.31\00:24:44.95
Those that keep the
commandments, and it's not just
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those that break the
commandments out in the world.
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He's trying to get the people in
the church to disregard the law
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of God.
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Satan hates the law because it
points us to Jesus and it helps
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people find their sin
and then their Savior.
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What motivates a
person to obey God's law?
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Answer?
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"Therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law."
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And again, you see here where
it says in Matthew 22, verse 37,
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"You shall love the Lord your
God with all of your," what?
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"Heart, with all of your
soul, with all of your mind.
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This is the first
and great commandment.
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And the second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor
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as yourself."
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And again, 1 John 5:3,
"For this is the," what?
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"The love of God," say
it with me, "that we keep
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His commandments.
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And his commandments are not
burdensome," not when you love.
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When you love somebody,
it's not a burden to keep
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their commandments.
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What are some of the glorious
rewards of accepting Christ and
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keeping His law?
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Look at the positive
friends, it's not a burden, it's
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a blessing.
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"These things I've spoken to
you, that your joy may be full
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and your," what?
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"Your joy may be in
you, your joy may be full."
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Again, "But happy is
he who keeps the law."
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This is the
Word of God, friends.
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And again, you can read here in
Psalm 119:165, "Great peace have
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those who love His law,
and nothing will offend Him."
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Doug: Friends, I hope you've
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but really the reason we do
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You know, information
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It's a relationship with Jesus,
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for your sins.
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You must personally accept Him,
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His arms are open wide.
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Just come to Him as
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