Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000058
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00:09 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:11 >> ANYTHING THAT YOU DO FOR ANY CREATURE, FOR ANY PERSON WHO 00:18 IS HURTING TO RELIEVE THEIR SUFFERING, YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING 00:21 TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD OF PAIN THAT GOD FEELS IN THIS WORLD. 00:30 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, "AMAZING FACTS" HAS BEEN 00:32 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:36 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:39 BROADCASTS. 00:41 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:44 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:48 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE 00:51 "SACRAMENTO CENTRAL STUDY HOUR" VIDEO SERIES. 00:58 >> TODAY'S LESSON IS LESSON NUMBER 12 IN OUR STUDY GUIDE 01:02 DEALING WITH MISSION IN COMMISSION. 01:05 THE MEMORY VERSE IS LUKE 24:46, LUKE 24:46. 01:10 AND I HOPE YOU'LL SAY THAT WITH ME, OKAY. 01:14 GIVE ME SOME BACK UP HERE. 01:15 READY: "THEN HE SAID TO THEM THUS IT IS WRITTEN AND THUS IT 01:20 WAS NECESSARY FOR THE CHRIST TO SUFFER AND TO RISE FROM THE DEAD 01:25 THE THIRD DAY." 01:27 NOW, THE CENTRAL THEME OF THE STUDY TODAY IS DEALING 01:32 WITH THIS. 01:34 WHAT PART DO WORKS OF CHARITY HAVE IN THE LIFE OF THOSE WHO 01:39 ARE DISCIPLES? 01:41 NOW, PROBABLY THE BEST STORY TO HELP ILLUSTRATE THIS IS IN 01:45 MATTHEW 25:31. 01:47 SO, TAKE YOUR BIBLES RIGHT NOW AND WHILE YOU'RE TURNING, 01:50 KEEP IN MIND MATTHEW 25 COMES AFTER MATTHEW 24. 01:56 WHAT IS THE THEME OF MATTHEW 24? 01:59 THIS IS THE GREAT DISCOURSE WHERE JESUS TALKS ABOUT 02:02 THE SIGNS AND THINGS THAT WERE TO PRECEDE HIS COMING. 02:05 IT'S IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SECOND COMING. 02:07 AND IF YOUR BIBLE IS RED LETTER EDITION, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT 02:10 YOU'VE GOT RED LETTER GOING ALL THE WAY FROM MATTHEW 24 INTO 02:14 MATTHEW 25, MEANING THERE'S NO NARRATION OR INTERRUPTION THAT 02:19 MATTHEW 25 IS PART OF CHRIST'S DISCOURSE ON THE SECOND COMING. 02:24 IT WAS ALL PART OF THE SAME DELIVERY. 02:27 KEEP THAT IN MIND JUST FOR CONTEXT OF WHAT WE'RE GONNA 02:29 LOOK AT. 02:30 SO, THE LAST THING JESUS SAYS IN HIS DISCOURSE OF MATTHEW 25-- 02:37 THE SECOND COMING, MATTHEW 24 AND 25 IS THIS 02:40 PARABLE WE'RE NOW GONNA LOOK AT. 02:42 SO, IT'S TELLING US ABOUT ONE OF THE LAST THINGS THE GREAT 02:44 JUDGMENT, IT'S SORT OF THE DIVIDING QUALIFIERS IN 02:51 THE GREAT JUDGMENT. 02:52 NOW, LET ME READ THIS TO YOU WITH THAT BACKGROUND. 02:55 "WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES IN HIS GLORY--" STILL TALKIN' 02:59 ABOUT HIS COMING. 03:01 "AND ALL THE HOLY ANGELS WITH HIM. 03:04 THEN HE WILL SIT ON THE THRONE OF HIS GLORY." 03:07 CHRIST IS NOW GLORIFIED, THIS IS HAPPENING AT THE END OF THE 03:10 1,000 YEARS, WHEN HE'S RECEIVED HIS KINGDOM. 03:14 YOU'VE GOT THE RIGHTEOUS IN THE CITY, THE WICKED OUTSIDE 03:17 THE CITY. 03:18 THERE'S A SEPARATION THAT TAKES PLACE HERE. 03:20 "AND ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE GATHERED BEFORE HIM." 03:24 ALL WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ARE GATHERED BEFORE HIM. 03:28 NOW, THEY ARE NOT SEPARATED BASED UPON ARE THEY JEWS 03:31 AND ARE THEY GENTILES? 03:33 ARE THEY CHURCH MEMBERS? 03:34 ARE THEY NON-CHURCH MEMBERS. 03:36 THAT'S A VERY INTERESTING, ALMOST TROUBLING PARABLE ABOUT 03:39 HOW HE DISCRIMINATES BETWEEN THESE TWO GROUPS. 03:44 "AND HE WILL SET THE SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT HAND, BUT THE GOATS 03:49 ON HIS LEFT HAND." 03:51 NOW, SHEEP AND GOATS HAVE SOME THINGS IN COMMON, THEY'RE 03:55 DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND WHEN THEY--SHEPHERDS SOMETIMES MIGHT 03:58 GRAZE THEM TOGETHER AND THEY WERE PREOCCUPIED WITH EATING 04:01 AND THEY'D GET ALONG. 04:03 BUT THEY WOULD NOT PUT THEM IN THE FOLD TOGETHER, BECAUSE 04:06 THE GOATS HAD A TENDENCY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SHEEP 04:11 AND WERE A LITTLE MORE VIOLENT. 04:13 THEY WERE COMMINGLED FOR A WHILE, WHILE THEY WERE OUT 04:15 THERE IN THE FIELD, BUT THEN AT THE END OF THE DAY, 04:16 THEY'RE SEPARATED. 04:18 SO, THIS WAS AN ANALOGY THAT THE LISTENERS WERE 04:20 WELL FAMILIAR WITH. 04:22 THIS IS A TYPE OF THE GREAT JUDGMENT. 04:28 "AND THE KING WILL SAY TO THOSE ON THE RIGHT HAND." 04:30 NOW, IN THE BIBLE, WHAT DOES THE RIGHT HAND SYMBOLIZE? 04:33 FAVOR, APPROVAL, THE SON OF MY RIGHT HAND WOULD BE FAVOR, LEFT 04:39 HAND ALSO OFTEN REPRESENTED SOMETHING THAT WAS REJECTED. 04:45 USUALLY THE RIGHT HAND WAS YOUR HAND THAT YOU FAVORED FOR MOST 04:49 PEOPLE. 04:50 AND SO IT BECAME SYNONYMOUS WITH THE HAND THAT YOU FAVORED. 04:53 ALSO, IT WAS STRONGER. 04:55 MOST PEOPLE ARE RIGHT HANDED, IF YOU'RE RIGHT HANDED, YOUR RIGHT 04:57 ARM IS USUALLY STRONGER THAN YOUR LEFT ARM. 04:59 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO HANG FROM YOUR RIGHT ARM LONGER THAN YOU 05:01 CAN HANG FROM YOUR LEFT ARM. 05:03 AND SO THE RIGHT HAND REPRESENTED STRENGTH, 05:06 IT REPRESENTED FAVOR. 05:07 AND SO WHEN HE SEPARATES THE GOATS AND THE SHEEP, 05:11 SHEEP ARE ON THE RIGHT HAND, THE PLACE OF FAVOR. 05:13 I CAN'T PROVE IT, BUT IN MY MIND THE TWO THIEVES THAT WERE 05:16 CRUCIFIED, ONE ON THE RIGHT HAND, ONE ON THE LEFT WHEN 05:18 JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED. 05:20 ONE IS SAVED, ONE IS LOST. 05:21 IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO FIND OUT THE THIEF THAT REPENTED AND WAS 05:25 SAVED, I'D LIKE TO THINK HE WAS ON THE RIGHT HAND. 05:28 CAN'T PROVE IT, DOESN'T EVER SAY THAT, BUT THAT WOULD JUST 05:32 GIVE YOU THE PICTURE HERE. 05:33 BY THE WAY, IN THE GREAT JUDGMENT WE'RE TALKIN' ABOUT 05:36 HERE, AT THE END OF THE 1,000 YEARS, EVERYBODY HERE, EVERYBODY 05:41 WATCHING IS ALL PRESENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR, EVERYBODY 05:44 INVOLVED IN THE PLAN OF SALVATION. 05:46 ALL OF THE GOOD ANGELS ARE WITH CHRIST IN THE CITY, ALL OF 05:51 THE WICKED ANGELS, INCLUDING THE DEVIL ARE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY. 05:56 SATAN IS LOOSE FROM HIS PRISON AND ALL HIS ANGELS, BECAUSE NOW 05:59 THE WICKED ARE RESURRECTED AND THEY CAN TEMPT 06:01 AND MANIPULATE THEM. 06:03 ALL THE WICKED WHO'VE EVER LIVED ARE OUTSIDE THE CITY MEANING 06:05 EVERYBODY WHO'S EVER LIVED INVOLVED IN THE PLAN OF 06:07 SALVATION IS PRESENT AND THERE'S A GREAT SEPARATION 06:10 THAT HAPPENS. 06:11 NOT SO MUCH ON THE RIGHT OR LEFT HAND, BUT YOU GOT THE SAVED 06:13 IN THE CITY, THE LOST OUTSIDE THE CITY. 06:16 THIS IS THE CONTEXT OF THIS PARABLE. 06:19 "AND THE KING WILL SAY TO THOSE ON THE RIGHT HAND, 'COME YE 06:22 BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT.'" WHO INHERITS SOMETHING? 06:29 STRANGERS OR FAMILY? 06:31 THESE ARE THE CHILDREN. 06:33 IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET AN INHERITANCE, YOU'VE 06:35 GOTTA BE PART OF THE FAMILY. 06:37 "AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM HE GAVE POWER TO 06:39 BECOME SONS." 06:41 SO, BY RECEIVING HIM, HE ADOPTS US, WE BECOME CHILDREN, 06:45 WE INHERIT SOMETHING. 06:48 THE OTHERS ARE NOT RECEIVING THIS INHERITANCE. 06:53 "COME YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED 06:56 FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD." 06:59 IN REVELATION IT TALKS ABOUT THE LAMB SLAIN FROM 07:01 THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. 07:03 WHAT MAKES US QUALIFIED FOR THAT INHERITANCE? 07:05 THE SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD; 07:08 THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. 07:09 AMEN. 07:10 FOUR, AND HERE HE GOES ON AND SAYS SOMETHING. 07:13 "I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME FOOD, I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE 07:20 ME DRINK, I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN, I WAS NAKED 07:26 AND YOU CLOTHED ME, I WAS SICK AND YOU VISITED ME, I WAS IN 07:31 PRISON AND YOU CAME TO ME. 07:33 THEN THE RIGHTEOUS WILL ANSWER HIM SAYING, 'LORD, WHEN DID WE 07:37 SEE YOU, HUNGRY AND FEED YOU OR THIRSTY AND GIVE YOU DRINK? 07:41 WHEN DID WE SEE YOU AS STRANGER AND TAKE YOU IN OR NAKED 07:43 AND CLOTHE YOU? 07:44 OR WHEN DID WE SEE YOU SICK OR IN PRISON AND COME TO YOU?'" 07:47 AND HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE OF THIS PASSAGE, "AND A KING WILL 07:52 ANSWER AND SAY TO THEM, 'ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, IN AS 07:55 MUCH AS YOU DID IT TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, 07:59 YOU DID IT TO ME.'" NOW, HERE YOU'VE GOT A CENTRAL 08:03 TEACHING OF DISCIPLESHIP. 08:05 CHRIST IS SAYING, WE DEMONSTRATE GENUINE DISCIPLESHIP IN HOW 08:10 WE TREAT EACH OTHER. 08:11 AND THEY ARE BEING JUDGED BY WHAT? 08:14 HOW DO YOU TREAT YOUR BROTHER? 08:16 HOW DO YOU TREAT YOUR SISTER? 08:18 DO YOU LOVE, DO YOU CARE FOR OTHERS? 08:21 NOW, I'VE GOT A FEW VERSES THAT I'D LIKE YOU TO READ THAT 08:23 HELP US RECOGNIZE THIS. 08:25 ACTS 9, THE BOOK OF ACTS 9:4-5, I THINK WE MAY HAVE DISTRIBUTED 08:29 THAT TO SOMEBODY. 08:31 >> "AND HE FELL TO THE EARTH AND HEARD A VOICE SAYING UNTO HIM, 08:33 'SAUL, SAUL, WHY PERSECUTE THOU ME?' 08:37 AND HE SAID, 'WHO ART THOU, LORD?' 08:40 AND THE LORD SAID, 'I AM JESUS WHOM THOU PERSECUTEST.' 08:44 IT IS HARD FOR THEE TO KICK AGAINST THE PRICKS." 08:47 >> ALL RIGHT, THIS TAKES PLACE AFTER SAUL HAS BEEN AN ACCESSORY 08:52 TO THE STONING OF STEVEN AND HE IS NOW ON HIS WAY TO 08:56 ARREST THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS. 08:58 JESUS APPEARS, WAS SAUL ARRESTING JESUS OR HIS 09:01 FOLLOWERS? 09:03 IT WASN'T JESUS PHYSICALLY. 09:07 WAS HE PERSECUTING JESUS OR HIS FOLLOWERS? 09:09 WELL, TECHNICALLY HIS FOLLOWERS, BUT HOW DOES CHRIST VIEW IT? 09:13 HE SAYS, "I AM JESUS WHO YOU ARE PERSECUTING, IN DOING THIS 09:18 TO THEM, YOU'RE DOING IT TO ME." 09:23 SO, THAT ESTABLISHES A PRINCIPLE THAT'S VERY REAL. 09:25 WHAT WE DO TO ONE ANOTHER, WE DIRECTLY DO TO CHRIST. 09:32 I WAS GONNA SAY, INDIRECTLY, BUT NOT REALLY. 09:34 BECAUSE THE CHURCH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST. 09:37 AND WE SHOW OUR LOVE FOR CHRIST IN HOW WE TREAT THE LOST. 09:42 AND SO WHAT WE'RE DOING TO OUR FELLOW MAN MADE IN THE IMAGE OF 09:46 GOD, WE ARE DOING TO THE CREATOR OF OUR FELLOW MAN. 09:51 IT'S VERY REAL. 09:53 NOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HIS PASSAGE TO THE RIGHTEOUS, NOW GO 09:57 TO VERSE 41, THEN HE WILL SAY TO THOSE ON THE LEFT HAND, 10:02 "DEPART FROM ME YE CURSED INTO EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR 10:06 THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS." 10:08 THIS IS THAT FIRE SPOKEN OF IN REVELATION 20, THE DEVIL AND HIS 10:12 ANGELS ARE CAST INTO THIS LAKE OF FIRE, WHICH IS THE SECOND 10:15 DEATH. 10:16 THE RESULTS OF THIS FIRE ARE EVERLASTING, THERE IS NO 10:19 RESURRECTION, THERE'S NO SECOND CHANCE FROM THIS FIRE. 10:24 "DEPART FROM ME, YOU CURSED INTO THE EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED 10:28 FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. 10:29 FOR I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME NO FOOD, I WAS THIRSTY 10:33 AND YOU GAVE ME NO DRINK, I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU DID NOT TAKE 10:37 ME IN, I WAS NAKED AND YOU DID NOT CLOTHE ME, I WAS SICK 10:41 AND IN PRISON AND YOU DID NOT VISIT ME." 10:45 THEN THEY WILL ANSWER HIM AND SAY, "LORD, WHEN DID WE SEE YOU 10:47 HUNGRY OR THIRSTY OR STRANGER OR NAKED OR SICK OR IN PRISON 10:50 AND NOT MINISTER TO YOU?" 10:52 HE ANSWERED AND SAYS TO THEM, "ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, 10:56 INASMUCH AS YOU DID NOT DO IT TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, 10:59 YOU DID NOT DO IT TO ME. 11:02 AND THESE WILL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT. 11:05 BUT THE RIGHTEOUS INTO ETERNAL LIFE." 11:08 WOW, THAT'S HEAVY. 11:11 LET ME TELL YOU WHY. 11:12 WHAT IS THE CRITERIA THAT IS BEING USED IN THIS JUDGMENT? 11:17 IS IT THE SINNERS GO INTO ETERNAL LIFE OR ETERNAL JUDGMENT 11:23 AND THE RIGHTEOUS INTO ETERNAL LIFE? 11:25 OR IS IT THOSE WHO HAVE NEGLECTED TO LOVE THEIR 11:31 FELLOW MAN. 11:32 LET ME MAKE THAT MORE CLEAR, YOU'VE GOT TWO KINDS OF SIN. 11:36 REALLY, YOU'VE GOT THE SINS OF NEGLECT, THEY'RE CALLED SINS 11:41 OF OMISSION. 11:43 THEN YOU HAVE SINS OF COMMISSION. 11:46 WHEN THE MAN FELL AMONG THIEVES ON THE ROAD FROM JERUSALEM TO 11:50 JERICHO AND THE LEVITE AND THE PRIEST WALKED BY HIM, THEY DID 11:54 NOT BEAT UP THE MAN OR STEAL FROM HIM, THEY DID NOT ROB HIM 11:58 AND WOUND HIM, THEY JUST WALKED BY. 12:01 THEY DIDN'T LAY A HAND ON HIM, DOESN'T SAY THEY SAID ANYTHING 12:05 TO HIM, BUT DID THEY SIN? 12:08 WHAT WAS THEIR SIN, A SIN OF COMMISSION OR A SIN OF OMISSION? 12:13 IT WAS A GOOD DUTY THEY NEGLECTED TO DO. 12:18 WHEN WE THINK OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IT SAYS, 12:20 "THOU SHALL NOT KILL, THOU SHALL NOT STEAL, 12:22 THOU SHALL NOT--" AND AS WE GO THROUGH THE TEN 12:24 COMMANDMENTS, WE THINK, AS LONG AS I DON'T COMMIT THESE SINS 12:26 THEN I'M HOLY. 12:28 THIS PARABLE IS TELLING US, IT'S NOT JUST AN ACTION, 12:31 IT'S AN ATTITUDE. 12:33 IT'S NOT JUST, I WON'T SIN BECAUSE OF WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME; 12:37 IT'S AN ATTITUDE OF AM I LIVING A CHRISTIAN LIFE BECAUSE I LOVE 12:40 MY FELLOW MAN? 12:42 THE BOTTOM LINE IN THE JUDGMENT IS NOT SINS OF COMMISSION, 12:47 IT'S ACTIONS OF LOVE OR NEGLECT OF LOVE. 12:52 THAT'S REALLY HEAVY, BECAUSE SO OFTEN WE THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 12:56 IT'S BASED UPON, AM I DOING THE RIGHT THING OR AM I DOING 12:58 THE WRONG THING? 12:59 HAVE I COMMITTED ANY SINS? 13:01 BUT HERE, IT'S NOT THE SINS THAT THEY COMMIT, IT'S THE GOOD DEEDS 13:05 THEY NEGLECT. 13:07 I MEAN, SOME OF US AT THE END OF THE DAY WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO 13:11 COUNT, YOU KNOW, DID I DO THIS WRONG OR DID I DO THAT WRONG? 13:15 OH, WE GOT THE LIST OF, OH, I LOST MY TEMPER HERE, I SAID 13:17 SOMETHING I SHOULDN'T, I BROKE THIS COMMANDMENT, 13:19 THIS COMMANDMENT. 13:20 BUT HAVE YOU OFTEN THOUGHT ABOUT NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES 13:24 TO SERVE AND TO LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN TO GLORIFY GOD. 13:27 THIS IS WHAT HE'S USING. 13:29 HE DOES NOT SAY, THOSE WHO ARE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM ENTER INTO 13:33 ETERNAL LIFE BECAUSE OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP, BECAUSE OF YOUR 13:36 RACE, BECAUSE OF YOUR CREED. 13:38 THOSE WHO ARE NOT, YOU DIDN'T JOIN AND SO YOU'RE LOST. 13:42 THIS JUDGMENT COMPLETELY THROWS OUT YOUR MEMBERSHIP. 13:49 IT--NO, I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT CHRISTIANS, THOSE WHO 13:54 HAVE CHRIST INSIDE, WOULD BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF ACTS OF MERCY. 13:58 BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE IN THIS PARABLE, IS IT? 14:01 LET ME EXPAND THIS A LITTLE BIT AND GIVE YOU SOMETHING ELSE TO 14:05 THINK OF. 14:06 THERE ARE SIX THINGS. 14:07 I HELD UP FOUR FINGERS AND I SAID SIX. 14:10 THERE ARE SIX THINGS THAT JESUS MENTIONS HERE, NOTICE, HUNGER, 14:15 THIRST, STRANGER, NAKED, SICK, PRISON. 14:22 HE SPECIFICALLY MENTIONS THESE THINGS LIKE 3 TIMES IN THE ONE 14:25 PARABLE AND HE DOESN'T DEVIATE. 14:29 BECAUSE THEY HAVE A SPIRITUAL AND A PHYSICAL ANALOGY. 14:34 NOW, FIRST OF ALL I THINK EVERYBODY HERE AGREES THAT GOOD 14:37 DISCIPLES DO CARE ABOUT THE PRACTICAL NEEDS OF OUR 14:40 FELLOW MAN. 14:41 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 14:42 BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. 14:44 LOOK AT THOSE SIX THINGS THAT WE MENTIONED. 14:47 ARE CHRISTIANS SUPPOSED TO GIVE FOOD TO THE HUNGRY? 14:51 HOW ABOUT THE BREAD OF LIFE? 14:53 SO, IT'S BOTH. 14:56 ARE CHRISTIANS SUPPOSED TO GIVE WATER TO THE THIRSTY? 14:59 DOESN'T JESUS SAY, "IF YOU GIVE A CUP OF WATER TO ONE OF 15:01 THE LEAST OF THESE, YOU'LL NOT LOSE YOUR REWARD"? 15:04 BUT ARE WE TO GIVE THE LIVING WATER? 15:07 IS THERE A SPIRITUAL ANALOGY FOR THAT? 15:09 ARE WE TO HAVE COMPASSION ON THE STRANGER, PEOPLE WHO 15:13 ARE ALONE? 15:14 YEAH. 15:16 BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE ALIENATED FROM GOD, 15:19 THEY'RE STRANGERS TO GOD? 15:20 WE ARE A NATION OF PRIESTS, WE ARE TO MAKE ATONEMENT, WE'RE 15:22 TO BRING THEM TO GOD, RIGHT? 15:25 WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE NAKED? 15:27 SHOULD WE CLOTHE NAKED AND PEOPLE WHO ARE COLD 15:28 AND DESTITUTE? 15:30 BUT WHAT ABOUT PROVIDING ROBES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS OF 15:35 CHRIST? 15:37 ISN'T THAT PART OF IT, THAT KIND OF CLOTHING? 15:40 WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE SICK PHYSICALLY? 15:42 OF COURSE, WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT THEM. 15:43 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SICKNESS OF SIN? 15:45 IT SAYS FROM THE CROWN OF THE HEAD TO THE SOLE OF THE FOOT, 15:48 IT'S A DISEASE AND WOUNDS AND BRUISES AND WE SHOULD CARE 15:51 ABOUT BINDING UP THOSE WOUNDS. 15:53 AND THE SIXTH ONE IS, I WAS IN PRISON. 15:55 DOES EVERYONE HERE KNOW THAT THAT'S AN ANALOGY FOR BEING IN 15:58 PRISON BY THE DEVIL AND HABITS AND ADDICTIONS AND HELPING 16:01 THEM FIND LIBERTY? 16:03 JESUS CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE. 16:04 THIS IS THE WHOLE PLAN OF SALVATION AND THE EXODUS, 16:06 HE CAME TO SET A NATION FREE FROM SLAVERY, WE SHOULD BE 16:10 PART OF THAT. 16:10 SO, ALL OF THESE THINGS AND DISCIPLESHIP, THEY HAVE 16:14 A SPIRITUAL ANALOGY. 16:16 HUNGRY, FOOD, THE BREAD OF LIFE; THIRSTY, THE LIVING WATER; 16:20 STRANGER, INTRODUCE THEM TO CHRIST, THEY'RE SEPARATED BY 16:23 THEIR SINS; NAKED, ROBED WITH CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS; SICK 16:27 WITH SIN, HELP THEM FIND HEALING WITH THE BALM FROM GILEAD; 16:32 IMPRISONED BY THE DEVIL, FIND LIBERTY AND FREEDOM THROUGH 16:35 CHRIST. 16:36 JESUS OPENED PRISON DOORS, RIGHT? 16:38 SO, THERE'S THE SPIRITUAL ANALOGIES. 16:41 BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. 16:43 THIS IS A GREAT PARABLE. 16:45 KEEP IN MIND, THIS IS THE CLOSING WORDS OF CHRIST IN 16:48 MATTHEW 24 DEALING WITH THE SECOND COMING. 16:50 HE'S SAYING, "THIS IS WHAT THE ESSENCE IS IN THE BIG 16:52 JUDGMENT. 16:53 DO YOU REALLY LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR? 16:55 IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME, PROVE IT. 16:57 DON'T LIVE FOR YOURSELF, LIVE FOR OTHERS." 17:01 HE THAT SEEKS TO SAVE HIS LIFE WILL LOSE IT. 17:04 JESUS SAID, "INASMUCH AS YOU DO IT TO THE LEAST OF THESE, 17:07 YOU DO IT TO ME." 17:08 I'D VENTURE TO SAY THAT A LOT OF US PASS BY JESUS EVERY DAY 17:11 AND WE NEGLECT TO SHOW THE LOVE OF GOD FOR JESUS IN 17:17 THE SUFFERING WE SEE IN OUR FELLOW MAN. 17:19 NOW, I USED TO THINK THAT THIS WAS SORT OF A METAPHOR, 17:25 JESUS REALLY MEANT THIS. 17:27 LET ME EXPLAIN. 17:28 DOES GOD KNOW HOW YOU FEEL? 17:33 AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, IS GOD AWARE OF THE FEELING OF 17:37 EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM? 17:39 EVEN WHEN YOU FORGET ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL, DOES HE KNOW HOW 17:43 YOU FEEL? 17:44 EVEN WHEN YOU'RE NOT FOCUSING ON HOW YOU FEEL, HE KNOWS HOW YOU 17:46 FEEL. 17:48 DOES GOD FEEL WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY? 17:50 HE KNOWS HOW HUNGRY YOU REALLY ARE. 17:53 NOW, DID JESUS COME TO EARTH SO HE'D KNOW HOW HUMANS FEEL 17:56 OR DID HE ALREADY KNOW? 17:58 THE BIBLE SAYS, "WE HAVE A FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST THAT WAS 18:01 TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS LIKE WE ARE, YET WITHOUT SIN." 18:03 BUT THAT'S MORE FOR OUR BENEFIT THAN HIS. 18:06 HE WANTS US TO KNOW THAT HE KNOWS HOW WE FEEL. 18:09 HE ALREADY KNEW, 'CAUSE HE'S GOD. 18:13 DOES GOD SENSE EVERY SENSATION IN THE WORLD ALL AT THE SAME 18:18 TIME? 18:20 THINK ABOUT THIS, THIS IS HEAVY. 18:21 BY THE WAY, I'M NOT TEACHING PANTHEISM, THIS IS CLEAN 18:24 CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY. 18:26 BUT IT'S, THINK ABOUT IT, BECAUSE GOD'S ALL KNOWING, 18:27 HE'S ALL FEELING. 18:29 SO, HOW MUCH SUFFERING IS THERE IN THE WORLD TODAY? 18:34 YOU TAKE ALL THE COLLECTIVE SUFFERING OF EVERYBODY IN THIS 18:37 ROOM AND ALL THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING RIGHT NOW, ALL THE 18:39 SUFFERING, THE WAR IN THE WORLD, THE PAIN IN THE HOSPITALS, 18:43 THE HUNGER IN THE WORLD, THE SICKNESS IN THE WORLD, 18:45 THE SHAME, THE LONELINESS, TAKE ALL OF THAT AND HOW 18:50 MUCH SUFFERING IS THAT? 18:52 THAT'S A LOT OF HURT. 18:55 AND YOU AND I CAN'T COMPREHEND THAT. 18:58 ANYTHING THAT YOU DO FOR ANY CREATURE, FOR ANY PERSON WHO IS 19:06 HURTING, TO RELIEVE THEIR SUFFERING, YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING 19:08 TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD OF PAIN THAT GOD FEELS IN THIS WORLD. 19:14 ISN'T THAT TRUE? 19:14 DOES THE LORD KNOW WHEN SOMEONE STARTS FEELING BETTER? 19:18 AND ANYTHING YOU DO TO MAKE A PERSON FEEL BETTER, GOD 19:23 SENSES THAT BECAUSE HE FEELS EVERYTHING. 19:28 IS THIS STRAIGHT SO FAR? 19:30 NOW, THIS IS WHERE I THINK I'M TAKIN' IT DOWN TO WHAT I THINK 19:34 IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PASSAGE. 19:37 WHY DID JESUS DIE? 19:40 DIDN'T HE DIE FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD? 19:43 TO TAKE THE PENALTY OF SIN. 19:45 DID JESUS JUST DIE OR DID HE SUFFER FIRST? 19:51 CHRIST IN THESE SIX POINTS, IDENTIFIED WHAT HE WENT THROUGH 19:55 ON THE CROSS, HOW HE TOOK THE SUFFERING OF THE WHOLE 19:58 HUMAN RACE AND THE SIN AND THE LONELINESS AND THE SICKNESS 20:00 AND THE HUNGER AND THE THIRST, HE TOOK IT ALL ON THE CROSS. 20:03 SO, IF YOU LOVE JESUS BECAUSE HE TOOK ALL YOUR PAIN, IF YOU'RE A 20:07 REAL DISCIPLE OF JESUS, ANYTHING YOU DO FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN TO 20:13 BRING THEM THE BREAD OF LIFE OR LITERAL BREAD, TO GIVE THEM THE 20:16 LIVING WATER OR LITERAL WATER, TO CLOTHE THEM WITH THE 20:21 RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST OR TO CLOTHE THEIR BODIES; THEY MAY 20:25 NOT BE CONVERTED. 20:26 ANYTHING YOU DO TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF MAN, THAT'S WHAT 20:28 REAL DISCIPLESHIP IS. 20:29 BECAUSE YOU IN YOUR HEART SEE THAT GOD SENSES THAT. 20:33 AND THAT'S WHY CHRIST SAYS, "INASMUCH AS YOU'VE DONE IT TO 20:35 THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YOU'VE DONE IT TO ME." 20:40 THAT'S SUCH AN IMPORTANT TEACHING. 20:42 SO, AS WE GO FROM THIS PLACE, TODAY, HOW ARE WE REALLY 20:46 DISCIPLES? 20:47 WE SAY, WE'RE MEMBERS OF A SPECIFIC CHURCH, THAT MEANS 20:52 I'M A DISCIPLE. 20:54 IS THAT WITH JESUS IS GONNA USE? 20:56 YOU MIGHT BE A GOAT, YOU COULD BE A MEMBER OF A CHURCH 21:00 AND JUST BE A PLAIN OL' GOAT. 21:02 AND LET'S ALL FACE IT, SOME PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY'RE 21:05 CHRISTIANS ARE GOATS, THEY'RE JUST ORNERY AND STUBBORN AND 21:10 OPINIONATED AND THEY DO NOTHING TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF 21:13 THE WORLD AROUND THEM. 21:15 ALL RIGHT, JAMES 2:15, "IF A BROTHER OR SISTER IS NAKED 21:19 AND DESTITUTE OF DAILY FOOD AND ONE OF YOU SAYS TO THEM, 21:23 'DEPART IN PEACE, BE YE WARMED AND FILLED.' 21:26 BUT YOU DON'T GIVE THEM THE THINGS THAT ARE NEEDED FOR 21:28 THE BODY, WHAT DOES IT PROFIT? 21:30 THUS ALSO FAITH ITSELF THAT DOES NOT HAVE WORKS IS DEAD." 21:34 A LOT OF US SAY, WE GO TO CHURCH AND WE BELIEVE AND WE 21:35 PRAY, BUT WE WALK BY AND WE WALK AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE BASIC 21:40 NEEDS AND WE JUST DON'T SEEM TO CARE. 21:42 LET ME READ THIS FOR YOU, CLOSING WORDS OF JESUS IN 21:45 MARK 16:14, "LATER HE APPEARED TO THE 11 AS THEY SAT AT 21:51 THE TABLE AND HE REBUKED THEIR UNBELIEF AND HARDNESS OF HEART, 21:55 BECAUSE THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THOSE WHO HAD SEEN HIM AFTER 21:58 HE HAD RISEN. 22:00 AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH 22:04 THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.'" THAT'S SORT OF A BROAD TERM. 22:08 HE DOESN'T JUST SAY EVERY PERSON, HE SAYS EVERY CREATURE. 22:12 YOU KNOW, THE ONLY WAY WE CAN PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY 22:14 CREATURE IS BY SHOWING THE LOVE OF CHRIST TO EVERY LIVING BEING. 22:20 WHAT KIND OF WITNESS ARE YOU TO YOUR BIRD? 22:23 I'M SORRY. 22:24 NO, REALLY, CHRISTIANS SHOULD--WE SHOULD SHOW OUR 22:26 RELIGION EVEN TO THE CREATURES. 22:28 THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS, "PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE." 22:30 NOW, YOU KNOW ANOTHER REASON I THINK THAT THE WORD CREATURE 22:34 WAS USED THERE? 22:35 BECAUSE THE JEWS ACTUALLY BELIEVED THAT GENTILES WERE 22:38 DOGS. 22:40 AND HERE NOBODY COULD MISUNDERSTAND THE WORDS 22:43 OF JESUS. 22:43 PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE, HE WHO BELIEVES 22:46 AND IS BAPTIZED WILL BE SAVED. 22:48 THROUGH YOUR PREACHING, MANY WILL BELIEVE; NOT ALL. 22:53 THAT'S WHY HE SAYS, "WHOEVER BELIEVES." 22:55 AND THEN OF COURSE, BELIEVING WAS CONNECTED WITH BAPTISM, 22:58 THEY'LL BE SAVED. 23:00 THAT MEANS THAT GOD DELIVERS THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM TO YOU, 23:05 NOT THAT YOU DECIDE WHO'S SAVED AND LOST, EXCEPT AS YOU PREACH 23:08 THE GOSPEL. 23:09 THROUGH YOUR PREACHING THE GOSPEL--AND HOW DO YOU 23:11 PREACH THE GOSPEL? 23:12 AND HOW MANY PREACHERS DO WE HAVE HERE? 23:14 EVERY DISCIPLE SHOULD HAVE RAISED THEIR HANDS. 23:17 YOU HEAR THAT? 23:18 PREACH CHRIST AND IF NECESSARY USE WORDS. 23:21 EVERYBODY SHOULD PREACH CHRIST BY OUR LIVES THAT WE LIVE, 23:25 RIGHT? 23:25 SO, EVERYBODY HERE, YOU'RE PREACHING WHETHER YOU KNOW IT 23:28 OR NOT. 23:29 PEOPLE ARE WATCHING TOO, WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT. 23:36 WHERE WAS I? 23:39 OH, AND HE SAYS, "WHOEVER BELIEVES IS BAPTIZED WILL BE 23:41 SAVED, HE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED." 23:44 SO, WHAT WAS IT THIS DISQUALIFIED THEM? 23:46 NOT BEING BAPTIZED OR NOT BELIEVING? 23:50 THE BELIEF WAS THE EMPHASIS HERE. 23:51 JOHN 3:14, "AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS, 23:56 EVEN SO MUST THE SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP. 24:00 THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE 24:03 EVERLASTING LIFE. 24:04 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON 24:08 THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE 24:11 EVERLASTING LIFE." 24:12 SAYS IT ALMOST IDENTICALLY AGAIN. 24:14 "FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN 24:17 THE WORLD, BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH HIM MIGHT BE SAVED. 24:20 HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED. 24:23 HE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, BECAUSE HE 24:26 IS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD." 24:29 LOOK AT THAT, BELIEVE, BELIEVE, BELIEVE, BELIEVE, BELIEVE. 24:35 WHAT'S THE EMPHASIS OF THIS PASSAGE? 24:39 HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY TRUE DISCIPLES? 24:42 WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE? 24:44 BUT IS THAT BELIEF VERBAL OR DID WE LEARN FROM MATTHEW 25 24:49 IT'S MORE THAN JUST SAYING, "I BELIEVE, COUNT ON ME, 24:52 VOTE ME AS ONE BELIEVER." 24:55 HOW DO YOU DEMONSTRATE REAL BELIEF? 24:58 REMEMBER, THE WORD BELIEVE MEANS TO BE LIVE. 25:03 THE WORD BELIEVE HAS LIVE IN IT, IT MEANS WE'RE LIFTING HIM UP 25:06 IN OUR LIVES, THAT'S WHAT TRUE BELIEF IS. 25:10 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 25:12 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 25:20 >> DO YOU LOVE THE LORD SO MUCH THAT IF EVERYBODY IN THIS CHURCH 25:22 WAS TO GIVE UP THEIR FAITH, WOULD YOU STILL KEEP IT? 25:30 DO I LOVE THE LORD SO MUCH I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN DISOBEY 25:34 HIM? 25:39 IT'S THOSE WHO ARE STUDYING NOW FOR THE LITTLE QUIZZES THAT 25:43 WILL PASS THE FINAL. 25:47 >> WORLD EVENTS HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE UNSTABLE THAN TODAY. 25:49 TERRORISM, DISASTERS, BIZARRE WEATHER, WHAT DOES THE BIBLE 25:53 REVEAL ABOUT FUTURE EVENTS? 25:55 LEARN THE AMAZING ANSWER IN THIS STUNNING DOCUMENTARY 25:58 ENTITLED "THE FINAL EVENTS OF BIBLE PROPHECY." 26:01 DURING THIS SPECIAL BROADCAST, YOU CAN GET YOUR VERY OWN COPY 26:04 OF THIS GRIPPING DVD, YOU PAY ONLY $15.99 FOR SHIPPING 26:08 AND HANDLING. 26:09 GO TO THE PHONE AND CALL THE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN. 26:11 DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS SPECIAL OFFER. 26:17 >> IF YOU'VE BEEN ENCOURAGED BY TODAY'S MESSAGE AND WOULD LIKE 26:19 TO KNOW MORE OF WHAT GOD'S WORD SAYS TO YOU TODAY, 26:22 "AMAZING FACTS" INVITES YOU TO VISIT OUR 26:24 EDUCATIONAL WEBSITE AT WWW.BIBLEUNIVERSE.COM. 26:29 AT BIBLE UNIVERSE, YOU'LL DISCOVER EXCITING TRUTHS THAT 26:32 WILL FILL YOU WITH PEACE AND PURPOSE. 26:36 THE MYSTERIES OF THE BIBLE WILL UNFOLD FOR YOU AT YOUR OWN PACE. 26:39 VISIT WWW.BIBLEUNIVERSE.COM TODAY. 26:43 EXPAND YOUR UNIVERSE. 26:51 >> FRIENDS, ONE OF THE GREATEST TASKS FOR A CHRISTIAN IS TO 26:55 SHARE HIS OR HER FAITH. 26:57 UNFORTUNATELY TODAY WITH ALL THE DISTRACTIONS IN THE WORLD, 27:00 IT'S BECOMING LESS COMMON FOR CHRISTIANS TO DO ANY REAL 27:03 WITNESSING. 27:04 MAYBE YOU FALL IN THIS CATEGORY OR MAYBE YOU'VE BEEN EXCITED, 27:07 BUT YOU'RE NOT SURE HOW TO SHARE YOUR FAITH. 27:10 WE KNOW THERE ARE CHRISTIANS TODAY THAT LIVE IN A HOSTILE 27:12 ENVIRONMENT WHERE IT'S BECOMING LESS ACCEPTABLE TO BE 27:15 A WITNESS. 27:16 THAT'S WHY WE'RE OFFERING YOU, RIGHT NOW, A SPECIAL BOOK 27:19 ENTITLED "CHRIST'S WAY OF MAKING DISCIPLES." 27:22 THIS BOOK EXPLORES THE PROGRESSIVE STEPS TAKEN BY 27:25 JESUS SO MANY YEARS AGO THAT REVOLUTIONIZED THE WORLD. 27:29 PLEASE CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER AND ASK RIGHT NOW FOR OFFER 27:32 NUMBER 286. 27:33 OR IF YOU PREFER, VISIT THE WEBSITE AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 27:39 YOU CAN ALSO STILL WRITE US AT AMAZING FACTS, 27:41 ASK FOR OFFER NUMBER 286 P.O. 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