>> COMING UP NEXT ON "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:08.60\00:00:11.86 >> NOW THE IDEA THAT THESE MORTAL KINGS, LIKE DARIUS 00:00:11.86\00:00:16.23 AND OTHERS, COULD NOT CHANGE THEIR LAW AND YET THE GOD 00:00:16.23\00:00:19.00 OF THE UNIVERSE IS GONNA CHANGE HIS LAW IS ABSURD. 00:00:19.00\00:00:23.93 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED 00:00:26.93\00:00:30.00 TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:30.00\00:00:32.86 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR 00:00:32.86\00:00:35.53 BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:00:35.53\00:00:38.76 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:00:38.76\00:00:41.66 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:41.66\00:00:45.26 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE MILLENIUM 00:00:45.26\00:00:47.80 OF PROPHECY VIDEO SERIES. 00:00:47.80\00:00:51.80 >> IT'S A SERIOUS LESSON TONIGHT. 00:00:54.76\00:00:58.00 WHAT'S THE MATTER? 00:00:58.00\00:01:03.80 OH, NO. 00:01:03.80\00:01:04.90 WHAT DID I DO? 00:01:04.90\00:01:09.96 SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT I HAVE SOMETHING ON MY FOREHEAD? 00:01:09.96\00:01:14.43 OH. 00:01:14.43\00:01:15.63 I DON'T SEE ANYTHING ON MY FOREHEAD. 00:01:15.63\00:01:19.23 WILL IT DISTRACT YOU IF I GO ON AND TEACH THE LESSON LIKE THIS? 00:01:19.23\00:01:23.70 SOME OF YOU SAY, "OH, IT DOESN'T BOTHER ME." 00:01:23.70\00:01:27.66 HOW ARE YOU GONNA PROVE I HAVE SOMETHING ON MY FOREHEAD? 00:01:27.66\00:01:32.26 I NEED A WHAT? 00:01:32.26\00:01:34.06 WHERE AM I GONNA FIND A MIRROR? 00:01:34.06\00:01:36.13 IN THE BIBLE? 00:01:36.13\00:01:40.30 I NEED A MIRROR. 00:01:40.30\00:01:42.46 LET ME SEE IF I COULD--WHAT DO YOU KNOW, BROTHER JOHN JUST SO 00:01:42.46\00:01:46.86 WHAT HAPPENS TO HAVE A MIRROR AND A MICROPHONE. 00:01:46.86\00:01:51.50 NOW TAKE THE MICROPHONE AWAY FROM HIM. 00:01:51.50\00:01:54.86 OKAY, LET'S SEE NOW. 00:01:54.86\00:01:56.76 I'VE GOT VERY CAREFUL PERSONAL HYGIENE HABITS, AND I WASHED MY 00:01:56.76\00:02:03.83 FACE AND TOOK CARE OF THINGS BEFORE I CAME TODAY AND YOU'RE 00:02:03.83\00:02:06.30 TELLING ME THAT I'VE GOT A MARK ON MY FACE. 00:02:06.30\00:02:08.33 I DON'T SEE A MARK ON MY FACE. 00:02:08.33\00:02:13.80 STILL DON'T SEE A MARK ON MY FACE. 00:02:13.80\00:02:16.90 BUT YOU CAN SEE IF YOU'VE GOT ONE ON YOURS, RIGHT? 00:02:16.90\00:02:21.36 OH. 00:02:21.36\00:02:23.43 HEY, YOU KNOW I FELT RATHER COMFORTABLE UNTIL I LOOKED 00:02:23.43\00:02:28.76 IN THIS MIRROR SO OBVIOUSLY, IF I FELT OKAY UNTIL I LOOKED 00:02:28.76\00:02:33.26 IN THE MIRROR, THE PROBLEM IS I NEED TO GET RID OF THE MIRROR, 00:02:33.26\00:02:36.13 IS THAT RIGHT? 00:02:36.13\00:02:37.70 NO. 00:02:37.70\00:02:39.10 WELL, LET'S SEE HERE, LET'S USE SOME LOGIC. 00:02:39.10\00:02:43.16 IF THE MIRROR COULD SHOW ME THAT THERE'S A SPOT ON MY FACE, 00:02:43.16\00:02:46.63 IT WOULD STAND TO REASON THAT THE MIRROR COULD TAKE IT AWAY. 00:02:46.63\00:02:51.56 WAIT A SECOND. 00:02:51.56\00:02:52.50 YOU MEAN IT'S GONNA MAKE ME FEEL BAD AND SHOW ME THERE'S 00:02:52.50\00:02:54.56 SOMETHING WRONG AND NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT? 00:02:54.56\00:02:57.43 A PERSON COULD COME TO THE PLACE WHERE THEY COULD 00:02:57.43\00:02:59.50 REALLY DISLIKE MIRRORS AND INCIDENTALLY THERE ARE 00:02:59.50\00:03:01.83 SOME WHO DO. 00:03:01.83\00:03:03.93 SO WHAT AM I GONNA DO? 00:03:03.93\00:03:08.26 NOW EVERYTHING'S WORSE? 00:03:08.26\00:03:11.33 WHAT DO I DO? 00:03:11.33\00:03:13.13 WHAT DO I NEED? 00:03:13.13\00:03:14.56 WASH CLOTH. 00:03:14.56\00:03:15.23 WHERE AM I GONNA FIND A WASH CLOTH? 00:03:15.23\00:03:22.00 JOHN, YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO STAY 300 YARDS AWAY. 00:03:22.00\00:03:27.26 >> I HAVE A WASH CLOTH. 00:03:27.26\00:03:28.53 I JUST SO HAPPEN TO HAVE ONE WITH ME. 00:03:28.53\00:03:30.80 JUST SO HAPPEN TO HAVE ONE. 00:03:30.80\00:03:37.56 A RED CLOTH TO TAKE A BLACK SPOT OFF OF A WHITE FACE. 00:03:37.56\00:03:42.86 LET'S WATCH THIS. 00:03:42.86\00:03:45.93 >> I KNEW HE'D WANT TO SAY SOMETHING. 00:03:45.93\00:03:48.90 YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE SCIENTIFIC PREPARATION THAT WENT INVOLVED 00:03:48.90\00:03:53.20 IN DOING THIS. 00:03:53.20\00:03:56.40 HEY, ONE TIME I MADE THE MISTAKE OF DOING THIS 00:03:56.40\00:03:58.76 ILLUSTRATION WITH PERMANENT MARKER. 00:03:58.76\00:04:07.46 NOT BAD, HEY? 00:04:11.10\00:04:14.00 NOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE ILLUSTRATION--NOW I GOT 00:04:14.00\00:04:16.13 A RED MARK ON MY HEAD. 00:04:16.13\00:04:18.00 YOU KNOW WHAT HIS ILLUSTRATES? 00:04:18.00\00:04:19.40 WHAT DOES THIS REPRESENT? 00:04:19.40\00:04:21.10 THE LAW OF GOD. 00:04:21.10\00:04:23.03 THIS IS THE BLOOD OF JESUS AND THIS WAS? 00:04:23.03\00:04:26.93 THE MARK WAS SIN. 00:04:26.93\00:04:28.73 THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW IS SIMPLY TO SHOW US OUR SIN SO WE 00:04:28.73\00:04:32.60 GO TO JESUS FOR CLEANSING. 00:04:32.60\00:04:34.73 YET THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE, EVEN IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD 00:04:34.73\00:04:37.70 TODAY, WHO ARE TELLING US THAT JESUS DIED TO TAKE AWAY THE LAW 00:04:37.70\00:04:42.00 FROM US WHEN IN REALITY THE LAW IS NECESSARY TO SEND US TO 00:04:42.00\00:04:46.46 CHRIST FOR CLEANSING. 00:04:46.46\00:04:48.63 THE DEVIL HATES THE LAW OF GOD AND WE'RE GOING TO EXPLAIN 00:04:48.63\00:04:51.50 A LOT OF YOUR QUESTIONS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LAW, 00:04:51.50\00:04:54.06 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE LAWS THAT ARE DONE AWAY WITH. 00:04:54.06\00:04:57.00 YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND PROPHECY. 00:04:57.00\00:05:00.76 HEY, WAIT, I WANT TO START WITH AN AMAZING FACT. 00:05:00.76\00:05:03.16 THEFT--THE U.S. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT HAS RELEASED 00:05:03.16\00:05:06.33 SOME SHOCKING FIGURES. 00:05:06.33\00:05:07.86 I'LL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 00:05:07.86\00:05:10.16 ARE IMPORTANT. 00:05:10.16\00:05:11.46 ABOUT 4 MILLION PEOPLE ARE CAUGHT SHOPLIFTING EACH YEAR, 00:05:11.46\00:05:15.36 BUT FOR EVERY PERSON CAUGHT IT'S ESTIMATED 35 GO UNDETECTED. 00:05:15.36\00:05:20.00 IF THE ESTIMATES ARE ACCURATE, IT MEANS THAT 140 MILLION 00:05:20.00\00:05:23.80 SHOPLIFTING INCIDENTS OCCUR EACH YEAR IN A NATION OF 00:05:23.80\00:05:27.13 260 MILLION. 00:05:27.13\00:05:28.33 THIS IS JUST NORTH AMERICA. 00:05:28.33\00:05:29.93 ACCORDING TO A STUDY IN WASHINGTON, FEW SHOPLIFTERS 00:05:29.93\00:05:33.03 STEAL OUT OF NEED, 70% OF SHOPLIFTERS ARE IN THE MIDDLE 00:05:33.03\00:05:37.46 INCOME BRACKET, 20% HAVE HIGH INCOME, ONLY 10% WOULD BE 00:05:37.46\00:05:42.80 CONSIDERED POOR. 00:05:42.80\00:05:44.63 NOW I'LL SHARE MORE ABOUT MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY, 00:05:44.63\00:05:46.90 BUT MY MOTHER WAS LEAST MIDDLE CHANCE AND I REMEMBER HER TAKING 00:05:46.90\00:05:50.13 ME TO MACY'S AND BLOOMINGDALE'S AND SHOWING ME HOW TO SHOPLIFT. 00:05:50.13\00:05:55.80 STICK AROUND. 00:05:55.80\00:05:58.76 FURTHERMORE, ACCORDING TO THE INSURANCE STATISTICS, 30% OF 00:05:58.76\00:06:02.50 ALL BUSINESS FAILURES EACH YEAR ARE A DIRECT RESULT OF INTERNAL 00:06:02.50\00:06:06.36 THEFT. 00:06:06.36\00:06:08.06 SECURITY OFFICIALS ESTIMATE THAT 9% OF ALL EMPLOYEES STEAL 00:06:08.06\00:06:11.16 ON A REGULAR BASIS, 75% OF ALL EMPLOYEES IN RETAIL 00:06:11.16\00:06:15.56 ESTABLISHMENT STEAL TO SOME DEGREE TAKING THREE TIMES AS 00:06:15.56\00:06:18.93 MUCH AS SHOPLIFTERS. 00:06:18.93\00:06:20.60 HOTEL MANAGERS DOES COUNT ON IT THAT ONE OUT OF THREE GUESTS IS 00:06:20.60\00:06:24.36 GOING TO STEAL SOMETHING FROM THEIR ROOM. 00:06:24.36\00:06:27.56 IT'S BUILT INTO THE BUDGET. 00:06:27.56\00:06:30.20 THE RESULT OF THIS PLUNDERING PUBLIC IS THAT PRICES 00:06:30.20\00:06:33.40 EVERYWHERE SKYROCKET UP BECAUSE OF PROFIT LOSSES AND INCREASED 00:06:33.40\00:06:37.40 SECURITY OVERHEAD. 00:06:37.40\00:06:38.90 THE MOST ASTOUNDING FACT IS THAT THERE ARE SOME PASTORS 00:06:38.90\00:06:42.66 WHO ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THIS EPIDEMIC OF SHOPLIFTING 00:06:42.66\00:06:46.26 AND CRIME. 00:06:46.26\00:06:47.23 YOU'LL UNDERSTAND THAT MORE AS WE PROCEED A LITTLE FURTHER 00:06:47.23\00:06:50.43 WITH OUR LESSON. 00:06:50.43\00:06:52.06 QUESTION NUMBER ONE, "CAN THE MORAL LAW," 00:06:52.06\00:06:55.10 THAT'S ANOTHER WORD FOR THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, 00:06:55.10\00:06:57.13 "BE AMENDED OR REPEALED?" 00:06:57.13\00:06:59.10 SOME PEOPLE SAY THE LAW OF GOD, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, 00:06:59.10\00:07:01.56 WERE ABOLISHED WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS. 00:07:01.56\00:07:03.76 LET'S FIND OUT IF THAT'S TRUE. 00:07:03.76\00:07:05.26 LUKE 16:17. 00:07:05.26\00:07:06.96 SAY THE ANSWERS OUT LOUD WITH ME HERE IN MANHATTAN. 00:07:06.96\00:07:09.50 "AND IT'S EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS, THAN FOR ONE 00:07:09.50\00:07:13.50 TITTLE," THAT'S LIKE A LITTLE DOT OF "I," OF THE LAW TO 00:07:13.50\00:07:17.26 FAIL." 00:07:17.26\00:07:18.30 PSALMS 89:34, "MY COVENANT WILL I NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER 00:07:18.30\00:07:25.10 THE THING THAT HAS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS." 00:07:25.10\00:07:27.26 THIS WAS PART OF THE COVENANT. 00:07:27.26\00:07:29.16 PSALMS 111:7-8, "ALL OF HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE. 00:07:29.16\00:07:34.53 THEY STAND FAST FOREVER AND EVER." 00:07:34.53\00:07:39.76 IS IT SOUNDING ETERNAL TO YOU? 00:07:39.76\00:07:41.76 KEEP READING HERE. 00:07:41.76\00:07:42.90 MALACHI 3:6, ONE OF MY FAVORITES. 00:07:42.90\00:07:45.36 JESUS IS TELLING US IN HIS WORD, "I AM THE LORD, 00:07:45.36\00:07:48.66 I CHANGE NOT." 00:07:48.66\00:07:51.96 HEBREWS TELLS US JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, 00:07:51.96\00:07:55.23 TODAY AND FOREVER. 00:07:55.23\00:07:57.33 CHRIST SAID, "HE THAT HEARS THESE WORDS OF MINE IS LIKE A 00:07:57.33\00:07:59.76 WISE MAN WHO BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON ROCK." 00:07:59.76\00:08:03.16 WHAT WAS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON? 00:08:03.16\00:08:05.33 ROCK. 00:08:05.33\00:08:06.33 IT'S AN ETERNAL NATION. 00:08:06.33\00:08:07.83 CHRIST IS CALLED THE ROCK OF AGES. 00:08:07.83\00:08:10.36 NOW THE IDEA THAT THESE MORTAL KINGS, LIKE DARIUS AND OTHERS, 00:08:10.36\00:08:15.20 COULD NOT CHANGE THEIR LAW AND YET THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE IS 00:08:15.20\00:08:18.06 GONNA CHANGE HIS LAW IS ABSURD. 00:08:18.06\00:08:20.80 KING HEROD MADE A LAW. 00:08:20.80\00:08:23.00 HE TOLD SALOME, "IF YOU DANCE FOR ME, I'LL GIVE YOU WHATEVER 00:08:23.00\00:08:25.63 YOU WANT, UP TO HALF MY KINGDOM." 00:08:25.63\00:08:27.56 SHE SAID, "I WANT THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST." 00:08:27.56\00:08:29.73 HEROD DIDN'T WANT TO DO THAT, BUT THE KING'S WORD WAS LAW AND 00:08:29.73\00:08:33.20 SO JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD TO DIE. 00:08:33.20\00:08:35.36 YOU'VE HEARD OF KING AHASUERUS MARRIED TO ESTHER, HE SIGNED 00:08:35.36\00:08:39.26 A LAW THAT ALL THE JEWS SHOULD BE EXTERMINATED AND ATTACKED ON 00:08:39.26\00:08:42.60 A CERTAIN DAY, THEN HIS WIFE LET HIM KNOW THAT SHE WAS A JEW. 00:08:42.60\00:08:46.76 HE COULD NOT CHANGE HIS LAW. 00:08:46.76\00:08:48.36 ALL HE COULD DO WAS WRITE ANOTHER LAW THAT GAVE THEM 00:08:48.36\00:08:50.96 THE RIGHT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES. 00:08:50.96\00:08:52.90 A KING'S WORD WAS LAW AND THE LAW COULD NOT CHANGE. 00:08:52.90\00:08:56.00 IF THESE EARTHLY, VACILLATING MONARCHS COULD NOT CHANGE THEIR 00:08:56.00\00:08:59.13 LAW, WHERE IN THE WORLD DO PEOPLE GET THE IDEA THAT THE 00:08:59.13\00:09:01.83 ALMIGHTY WHO WROTE HIS LAW WITH HIS FINGER AND SPOKE IT 00:09:01.83\00:09:04.60 WITH HIS VOICE WOULD CHANGE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:09:04.60\00:09:08.16 THEY'RE ETERNAL FOR ALL PEOPLE. 00:09:08.16\00:09:09.90 SOME PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE JUST FOR THE JEWS AND THAT'S ALSO 00:09:09.90\00:09:12.10 EQUALLY ABSURD. 00:09:12.10\00:09:14.46 I'VE GOT A LOT TO SAY, I BETTER GO ON. 00:09:14.46\00:09:16.43 LET ME TELL YOU WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND WHY 00:09:16.43\00:09:18.63 GOD'S LAW IS STILL IN AFFECT. 00:09:18.63\00:09:21.03 THE DEVIL HATES THE LAW BECAUSE BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE 00:09:21.03\00:09:23.73 OF SIN. 00:09:23.73\00:09:24.96 WHEN WE SEE OUR SIN, WE THEN GO TO JESUS FOR CLEANSING. 00:09:24.96\00:09:28.30 IF THE DEVIL CAN GET RID OF THE LAW, WE ARE NOT AWARE OF OUR 00:09:28.30\00:09:31.13 SIN, WE DON'T NEED CHRIST. 00:09:31.13\00:09:33.00 DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE LOGIC? 00:09:33.00\00:09:34.93 WE NEED THE LAW, BUT THE MIRROR CANNOT WASH AWAY OUR SIN. 00:09:34.93\00:09:37.96 IT'S THE BLOOD OF CHRIST THAT WE NEED. 00:09:37.96\00:09:40.03 NOW I'VE GOT A SLIDE HERE OR TWO THAT WILL SHOW YOU 00:09:40.03\00:09:42.43 A CORRELATION HERE BETWEEN THE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF GOD 00:09:42.43\00:09:46.40 AND HIS LAW. 00:09:46.40\00:09:47.43 LOOK AT THE SIMILARITIES. 00:09:47.43\00:09:49.20 GOD IS GOOD, LUKE 18:19. 00:09:49.20\00:09:51.86 THE BIBLE SAYS IN ROMANS 7:12, THE LAW IS GOOD. 00:09:51.86\00:09:55.36 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD IS HOLY. 00:09:55.36\00:09:57.56 IT SAYS IN ROMANS 7:12 HIS LAW IS HOLY. 00:09:57.56\00:10:00.40 GOD IS JUST. 00:10:00.40\00:10:01.66 DEUTERONOMY 32:4, IT TELLS US HIS LAW IS JUST. 00:10:01.66\00:10:05.73 AND I'M GONNA HASTEN ALONG HERE. 00:10:05.73\00:10:07.66 GOD IS PERFECT. 00:10:07.66\00:10:08.66 HE IS LOVE. 00:10:08.66\00:10:09.66 HE IS RIGHTEOUS. 00:10:09.66\00:10:10.66 HE IS TRUTH. 00:10:10.66\00:10:11.66 HE IS PURE. 00:10:11.66\00:10:12.63 HE IS SPIRITUAL. 00:10:12.63\00:10:13.60 HE'S UNCHANGEABLE. 00:10:13.60\00:10:14.86 HE'S ETERNAL AND IT ALSO SAYS HIS LAW IS THE SAME THING, 00:10:14.86\00:10:19.83 LOVE, RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH, PURE AND SPIRITUAL, 00:10:19.83\00:10:22.43 UNCHANGEABLE, ETERNAL. 00:10:22.43\00:10:23.73 ARE YOU GETTING THE PICTURE? 00:10:23.73\00:10:25.40 THE LAW OF GOD IS AN EXPRESSION OF WHO HE IS. 00:10:25.40\00:10:29.63 IT'S AN EXPRESSION OF HIS WILL AND HIS CHARACTER. 00:10:29.63\00:10:31.96 ANY ATTACK ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS, 00:10:31.96\00:10:34.16 IN REALITY, AN ATTACK ON THE PERSON OF GOD. 00:10:34.16\00:10:36.73 JESUS SAID YOU'LL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL 00:10:36.73\00:10:38.66 SET YOU FREE. 00:10:38.66\00:10:39.60 AND THEN CHRIST SAID, "I AM THE TRUTH." 00:10:39.60\00:10:41.53 ANY DEGREE THAT WE EMBRACE OR REJECT THE TRUTH TO SOME EXTENT, 00:10:41.53\00:10:47.23 WE ARE EMBRACING OR PUSHING AWAY GOD HIMSELF. 00:10:47.23\00:10:51.33 THAT'S WHY THESE ISSUES ARE SO IMPORTANT AND THEY'RE GONNA 00:10:51.33\00:10:53.70 PLAY IN A VERY PROMINENT WAY IN PROPHECY. 00:10:53.70\00:10:56.40 NUMBER TWO, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN? 00:10:56.40\00:11:01.53 ANSWER 1 JOHN 3:4, "SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW." 00:11:01.53\00:11:07.86 AND THEN AGAIN, ROMANS 3:20, "BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE 00:11:07.86\00:11:13.23 OF SIN." 00:11:13.23\00:11:14.96 DO WE STILL NEED TO KNOW WHAT SIN IS? 00:11:14.96\00:11:17.40 ABSOLUTELY. 00:11:17.40\00:11:18.66 YOU KNOW WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY WHERE WE'RE ALL BEING 00:11:18.66\00:11:21.46 TOLD, "DON'T FEEL GUILTY. 00:11:21.46\00:11:22.90 GUILT IS BAD. 00:11:22.90\00:11:23.93 NOBODY SHOULD FEEL GUILTY. 00:11:23.93\00:11:24.93 NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE DOING, DON'T FEEL BAD ABOUT IT 00:11:24.93\00:11:27.06 BECAUSE GUILT IS BAD." 00:11:27.06\00:11:28.76 WELL, GUILT IS BAD. 00:11:28.76\00:11:30.33 JESUS CAME TO TAKE AWAY YOUR GUILT BUT HERE'S PART THAT 00:11:30.33\00:11:33.30 PEOPLE MISS, YOU SHOULD FEEL GUILTY UNTIL YOU HAVE HAD YOUR 00:11:33.30\00:11:37.60 SINS WASHED AWAY. 00:11:37.60\00:11:39.40 NOTHING IS MORE DANGEROUS FOR A PERSON TO WALK AWAY FROM 00:11:39.40\00:11:42.30 THE EMERGENCY ROOM IN TERMINAL CONDITION THINKING THAT THEY'RE 00:11:42.30\00:11:46.00 JUST FINE WHEN TREATMENT IS AVAILABLE. 00:11:46.00\00:11:49.16 YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 00:11:49.16\00:11:50.36 AND SO FOR THE DOCTOR TO SAY, "IT LOOKS LIKE POISON IVY TO 00:11:50.36\00:11:53.40 ME" WHEN IT'S REALLY CANCER, HE'S NOT DOING YOU A FAVOR. 00:11:53.40\00:11:57.20 BUT I DON'T WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL BAD. 00:11:57.20\00:12:00.33 YOU'VE GOTTA BE HONEST ABOUT WHAT YOUR CONDITION IS, RIGHT? 00:12:00.33\00:12:02.90 AND IF WE ARE SINFUL AND IF WE ARE GUILTY, YOU NEED TO KNOW 00:12:02.90\00:12:06.33 THAT AND THEN YOU GO TO GOD AND HE TAKES YOUR GUILT AWAY. 00:12:06.33\00:12:09.53 SEE, I DON'T LIVE UNDER A BURDEN OF GUILT FROM ALL 00:12:09.53\00:12:11.66 THE TERRIBLE THINGS I'VE DONE 'CAUSE I BELIEVE THAT HE'S 00:12:11.66\00:12:14.13 FORGIVEN ME. 00:12:14.13\00:12:15.10 I COULD NEVER STAND BEFORE YOU OTHERWISE. 00:12:15.10\00:12:17.90 BUT IF YOU ARE GUILTY, YOU SHOULD FEEL GUILTY 00:12:17.90\00:12:20.06 UNTIL YOU ARE FORGIVEN. 00:12:20.06\00:12:21.60 YOU GOT THAT? 00:12:21.60\00:12:22.53 AND THE LAW MIGHT MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY, BUT THAT'S HEALTHY. 00:12:22.53\00:12:26.36 NUMBER THREE, "TO WHAT LAW DOES 1 JOHN 3:4 REFER?" 00:12:26.36\00:12:29.96 WHAT LAW IS IT TALKING ABOUT? 00:12:29.96\00:12:31.60 IS IT THE MORAL LAW, CEREMONIAL LAW? 00:12:31.60\00:12:33.83 TELL US ROMANS 7:7, "I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN, BUT BY THE LAW: 00:12:33.83\00:12:38.53 FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST, EXCEPT THE LAW HAD SAID, 00:12:38.53\00:12:43.36 THOU SHALT NOT COVET." 00:12:43.36\00:12:46.43 THERE IS A LOT OF LAW BREAKING IN THE WORLD TODAY. 00:12:46.43\00:12:50.03 WELL, INCIDENTALLY THAT VERSE IS TELLING US CLEARLY ABOUT 00:12:50.03\00:12:54.13 THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:12:54.13\00:12:57.70 WE CAN SEE THERE'S A LOT OF DISHONESTY, A LOT OF MONEY 00:12:57.70\00:13:01.60 CHANGES HANDS UNDER THE TABLE, A LOT OF IMMORALITY. 00:13:01.60\00:13:04.16 YOU'VE HEARD SOME OF THE INTERVIEWS ON THE STREETS. 00:13:04.16\00:13:06.06 WE WISH WE HAD MORE TIME TO PLAY MORE. 00:13:06.06\00:13:08.20 PEOPLE HAVE THESE REALLY DISTORTED CONCEPTS OF WHAT'S 00:13:08.20\00:13:10.46 RIGHT AND WRONG BECAUSE THERE ARE NO MORAL ABSOLUTES. 00:13:10.46\00:13:13.33 A LITTLE WHILE AGO "TIME MAGAZINE" HAD AN ISSUE, 00:13:13.33\00:13:16.10 "INFIDELITY," ANOTHER WORD FOR MARITAL ADULTERY YOU KNOW, 00:13:16.10\00:13:20.26 "IT MIGHT BE IN OUR GENES." 00:13:20.26\00:13:21.36 IN OTHER WORDS WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE. 00:13:21.36\00:13:23.40 AND THE ARTICLE BASICALLY SAYS, "BECAUSE OF OUR ANCESTRY TO 00:13:23.40\00:13:25.83 THE APES AND BECAUSE APES AND CHIMPANZEES ARE NOT ALWAYS 00:13:25.83\00:13:29.26 MONOGAMOUS, WE CAN'T HELP WHEN WE KIND OF FOOL AROUND AND, 00:13:29.26\00:13:32.56 YOU KNOW, CHEAT ON OUR SPOUSES BECAUSE IT'S IN OUR GENES, 00:13:32.56\00:13:35.36 WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE." 00:13:35.36\00:13:37.73 THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE POLITICALLY CORRECT ANSWER. 00:13:37.73\00:13:41.00 BUT YOU KNOW THE MEDIA IS TRYING TO TELL US THAT IT 00:13:41.00\00:13:43.63 JUST DOESN'T MATTER, WHATEVER FEELS GOOD, DO IT. 00:13:43.63\00:13:46.16 LOOK AT THESE INTERESTING STATISTICS, HIGH SCHOOL 00:13:46.16\00:13:48.83 PROBLEMS THAT WERE NOTED BACK IN 1940. 00:13:48.83\00:13:51.13 TEACHERS SAID WITH THINGS LIKE TALKING OUT OF TURN, CHEWING 00:13:51.13\00:13:54.60 GUM, THESE WERE THE PRIMARY THINGS THAT THEY OBJECTED TO. 00:13:54.60\00:13:57.83 MAKING NOISE IN CLASS, RUNNING IN THE HALL, CUTTING LINE, 00:13:57.83\00:14:02.30 DRESS CODE INFRACTIONS, LITTERING. 00:14:02.30\00:14:04.93 BY 1990 THESE WERE THE MAJOR CONCERNS AMONG TEACHERS, DRUG 00:14:04.93\00:14:08.63 USE, ALCOHOL ABUSE, PREGNANCY, SUICIDE, RAPE, ROBBERY, 00:14:08.63\00:14:13.53 ASSAULT. 00:14:13.53\00:14:15.53 YOU CAN ALSO LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENED WITH THE DIVORCE 00:14:15.53\00:14:18.13 STATISTICS 1870, THERE WAS 1 DIVORCE 00:14:18.13\00:14:21.63 FOR EVERY 34 MARRIAGES; 1900: 1 IN 12; 00:14:21.63\00:14:25.70 1930: 1 DIVORCE FOR EVERY 6 MARRIAGES; 00:14:25.70\00:14:28.73 1978 TO 1998: 1 IN 2. 00:14:28.73\00:14:31.33 ACTUALLY THAT'S NOT AN ACCURATE FIGURE BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE 00:14:31.33\00:14:34.30 NOW JUST SORT OF SHACK UP AND NEVER GET MARRIED AND THEY HAVE 00:14:34.30\00:14:36.63 NO WAY OF TRACKING THAT, RIGHT? 00:14:36.63\00:14:38.76 WE'RE IN A SOCIETY WHERE WE'RE JUST ACTING LIKE ANIMALS. 00:14:38.76\00:14:41.73 IT'S THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE IS EVAPORATING AND THE BIBLE 00:14:41.73\00:14:44.90 TELLS US THAT THAT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:14:44.90\00:14:47.70 DURING THAT TIME PERIOD BETWEEN 1940 AND 1980, 00:14:47.70\00:14:52.66 VIOLENT CRIME HAS GONE UP 560%. 00:14:52.66\00:14:55.63 ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS HAVE GONE UP 400%. 00:14:55.63\00:14:58.86 DIVORCE 400%. 00:14:58.86\00:15:00.06 SINGLE-PARENT HOMES 300%. 00:15:00.06\00:15:02.16 TEENAGE SUICIDE. 00:15:02.16\00:15:03.66 NOW HERE'S MY POINT, WHEN I WENT TO PUBLIC SCHOOL 00:15:03.66\00:15:07.40 IN CALIFORNIA WAS THE LAST TIME I REMEMBER. 00:15:07.40\00:15:09.80 I WAS BORN IN BURBANK, BUT I ENDED UP GROWING UP 00:15:09.80\00:15:12.46 IN MANHATTAN. 00:15:12.46\00:15:13.66 BUT I WAS IN FIRST, SECOND GRADE IN CALIFORNIA. 00:15:13.66\00:15:16.56 THEY HAD THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE WALL IN PUBLIC SCHOOL. 00:15:16.56\00:15:20.36 DOES ANYBODY ELSE REMEMBER THAT, OR AM I THAT OLD? 00:15:20.36\00:15:24.86 NOW THAT'S, "OH, NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT. 00:15:24.86\00:15:27.53 THAT'S RELIGION AND POLITICS." 00:15:27.53\00:15:30.43 BUT SINCE THERE'S BEEN THIS ATTACK ON THE LAW OF GOD BOTH 00:15:30.43\00:15:33.43 FROM POLITICIANS AND FROM THE POLITICALLY CORRECT AND FROM 00:15:33.43\00:15:36.66 EVEN SOME RELIGIOUS GROUPS, CAN YOU SEE A DETERIORATION 00:15:36.66\00:15:39.83 IN OUR SOCIETY? 00:15:39.83\00:15:41.00 THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES ANYMORE. 00:15:41.00\00:15:42.70 NOTHING IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT OR WRONG. 00:15:42.70\00:15:44.66 EVERYTHING IS SITUATION ETHICS, WHATEVER FEELS GOOD. 00:15:44.66\00:15:46.90 IT'S LIKE SOME OF OUR INTERVIEWEES WERE CLAIMING. 00:15:46.90\00:15:50.63 AMERICA THE VIOLENT. 00:15:50.63\00:15:52.43 I HEARD JUST RECENTLY THAT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 00:15:52.43\00:15:55.16 THERE WERE ABOUT 503 MURDERS IN NEW YORK LAST YEAR. 00:15:55.16\00:15:58.90 THIS YEAR THERE WERE 540. 00:15:58.90\00:16:00.73 IT'S GONE UP ABOUT 38%. 00:16:00.73\00:16:02.36 IT'S MUCH BETTER THAN IT USED TO BE 6 YEARS AGO. 00:16:02.36\00:16:05.30 THEY WERE UP TO 2,000, SO I'M GLAD FOR THE IMPROVEMENT, 00:16:05.30\00:16:10.23 BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S ON THE RISE AGAIN. 00:16:10.23\00:16:12.33 THAT'S DISCONCERTING. 00:16:12.33\00:16:14.20 IT'S A VIOLENT COUNTRY. 00:16:14.20\00:16:15.26 YOU'VE SEEN ALL THE THINGS ABOUT THE GUNS AND THE KIDS 00:16:15.26\00:16:17.80 AND THE SCHOOLS AND EVERYBODY'S WANTING TO THINK THAT 00:16:17.80\00:16:19.63 THE PROBLEM IS THERE'S TOO MANY GUNS. 00:16:19.63\00:16:21.80 I DON'T WANT TO ENTER INTO THAT DEBATE, FRIENDS, BUT I STILL 00:16:21.80\00:16:24.03 THINK THAT'S A CRAZY DIVERSIONARY TACTIC. 00:16:24.03\00:16:26.93 YOU CAN KILL PEOPLE WITH KNIVES. 00:16:26.93\00:16:30.33 I'M A PILOT. 00:16:30.33\00:16:31.93 I REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO, SOMEONE TRIED TO KILL 00:16:31.93\00:16:33.80 THE PRESIDENT WITH AN AIRPLANE. 00:16:33.80\00:16:34.93 ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT? 00:16:34.93\00:16:36.50 OH MAN, THERE'S GONNA BE A 10-DAY WAITING PERIOD BEFORE 00:16:36.50\00:16:40.06 I CAN FLY MY PLANE. 00:16:40.06\00:16:42.56 EVERYBODY WANTS TO, AND AFTER THE WHOLE EPISODE 00:16:42.56\00:16:45.36 WITH O.J. SIMPSON, I THOUGHT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO REGISTER 00:16:45.36\00:16:47.63 YOUR KITCHEN KNIVES. 00:16:47.63\00:16:48.66 DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M GETTING AT? 00:16:48.66\00:16:50.20 IS THE PROBLEM REALLY THERE ARE TOO MANY WEAPONS OR IS IT THAT 00:16:50.20\00:16:53.06 THERE'S NO SELF-CONTROL? 00:16:53.06\00:16:55.93 THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH SELF-CONTROL. 00:16:55.93\00:16:57.83 I'M NOT SAYING THERE ISN'T A PROBLEM WITH PROLIFERATION 00:16:57.83\00:17:00.80 OF GUNS, I THINK THERE IS. 00:17:00.80\00:17:02.66 THE AVERAGE TEENAGER ALSO IN WHAT WE SEE THAT'S HAPPENING 00:17:02.66\00:17:05.46 IN OUR MINDS. 00:17:05.46\00:17:06.53 THIS AVERAGE TEENAGER, 18 YEARS OLD, HAS WITNESSED 00:17:06.53\00:17:09.20 200,000 VIOLENT ACTS ON TELEVISION INCLUDING 00:17:09.20\00:17:13.73 40,000 MURDERS BY THE TIME THEY REACH 18. 00:17:13.73\00:17:16.63 IS IT ANY WONDER THAT THEY'RE CALLOUS AND INDIFFERENT TO THE 00:17:16.63\00:17:19.00 DEATH AND SUFFERING OF OTHERS? 00:17:19.00\00:17:20.73 THE BIBLE SAYS YOU ARE CHANGED BY BEHOLDING. 00:17:20.73\00:17:24.23 QUESTION NUMBER FOUR, "DID JESUS KEEP 00:17:24.23\00:17:26.80 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?" 00:17:26.80\00:17:27.76 WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? 00:17:27.76\00:17:29.40 HE'S A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. 00:17:29.40\00:17:31.56 DID JESUS KEEP THEM? 00:17:31.56\00:17:32.63 ANSWER JOHN 15:10, "I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS." 00:17:32.63\00:17:39.46 IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW THAT IF WE FOLLOW HIM, 00:17:39.46\00:17:41.80 WE WILL DO THE SAME. 00:17:41.80\00:17:42.80 NUMBER FIVE, "HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE SINNED?" 00:17:42.80\00:17:46.56 ROMANS 3:23-4, ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF 00:17:46.56\00:17:51.10 GOD WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE BEING THAT CAME TO THIS EARTH. 00:17:51.10\00:17:54.20 WHO IS THAT? 00:17:54.20\00:17:55.50 GOD BECAME A MAN, HIS NAME WAS JESUS, YESHUA. 00:17:55.50\00:17:58.66 HE CAME TO EARTH. 00:17:58.66\00:17:59.70 HE LIVED A SINLESS LIFE. 00:17:59.70\00:18:01.90 SOME PEOPLE SAY HE LIVED A SINLESS LIFE SO WE COULD 00:18:01.90\00:18:04.26 GO ON SINNING. 00:18:04.26\00:18:05.66 NO, THAT'S NOT WHY HE DID IT. 00:18:05.66\00:18:06.83 HE DID IT AS AN EXAMPLE ON HOW WE CAN OVERCOME. 00:18:06.83\00:18:10.00 HAVE YOU READ REVELATION 7? 00:18:10.00\00:18:12.46 I'M SORRY, REVELATION 2:3. 00:18:12.46\00:18:14.50 SEVEN TIMES IT SAYS, "TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES, 00:18:14.50\00:18:16.93 TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES, TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES." 00:18:16.93\00:18:18.90 YOU'LL NEVER CONVINCE ME, FRIENDS. 00:18:18.90\00:18:21.03 GOD GAVE ME THE VICTORY OVER SMOKING AND DRINKING AND LYING 00:18:21.03\00:18:24.30 AND STEALING AND I'VE STILL GOT A WAYS TO GO, BUT I BELIEVE GOD 00:18:24.30\00:18:27.20 CAN REALLY CHANGE YOU. 00:18:27.20\00:18:29.30 HE CAN HELP YOU BE DIFFERENT, OTHERWISE WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? 00:18:29.30\00:18:32.40 IT'S A CLUB? 00:18:32.40\00:18:34.56 IT'S LIKE YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT INSURANCE THAT'S OUT THERE 00:18:34.56\00:18:36.83 SOMEWHERE BUT YOU KEEP ON LIVING THE SAME LIFE? 00:18:36.83\00:18:39.16 NO, IT'S MORE THAN THAT, MUCH MORE. 00:18:39.16\00:18:41.03 NUMBER SIX, "WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR LIVING 00:18:41.03\00:18:44.03 A LIFE OF SIN?" 00:18:44.03\00:18:45.46 VERY SERIOUS, THE PENALTY IS DEATH. 00:18:45.46\00:18:48.86 THOSE WHO ARE NOT SAVED FROM THEIR SINS, NOW THERE'S 00:18:48.86\00:18:51.83 TWO ASPECTS OF BEING FORGIVEN. 00:18:51.83\00:18:53.60 WHEN YOU COME TO THE LORD AND YOU ASK FOR MERCY, NO MATTER 00:18:53.60\00:18:56.66 HOW BLEAK OR TERRIBLE YOUR PAST IS, DOESN'T MATTER WHAT KIND OF 00:18:56.66\00:19:01.10 SCOUNDREL YOU WERE, YOU COME TO THE LORD IN FAITH AND YOU 00:19:01.10\00:19:04.60 REPENT AND YOU CONFESS, HE WILL FORGIVE YOU RIGHT THEN 00:19:04.60\00:19:07.10 AND THERE JUST LIKE YOU ARE. 00:19:07.10\00:19:09.40 JUST LIKE YOU ARE IS CALLED JUSTIFICATION. 00:19:09.40\00:19:12.46 BUT THEN AFTER YOU'VE ACCEPTED THIS FORGIVENESS, YOU'RE SO 00:19:12.46\00:19:14.76 GRATEFUL THAT HE'S MADE YOU RIGHTEOUS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, 00:19:14.76\00:19:17.66 YOU NOW LOVE HIM AND YOU WANT TO LIVE A DIFFERENT LIFE. 00:19:17.66\00:19:20.63 YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO BE GOOD TO BE SAVED. 00:19:20.63\00:19:22.76 HE SAVES YOU JUST LIKE YOU ARE BUT THEN WHEN YOU ARE SAVED, 00:19:22.76\00:19:25.23 YOU WANT TO BE DIFFERENT AND YOU WANT TO OBEY HIM AND DO 00:19:25.23\00:19:27.96 THOSE THINGS THAT PLEASE HIM? 00:19:27.96\00:19:29.43 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 00:19:29.43\00:19:30.66 YEAH, THAT SHOULD BE THE MOTIVE. 00:19:30.66\00:19:32.70 NUMBER SEVEN, "SOME SAY THE TEN COMMANDMENT ARE NOT BINDING 00:19:32.70\00:19:36.60 FOR NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS. 00:19:36.60\00:19:38.43 WHAT DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THIS?" 00:19:38.43\00:19:40.53 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE? 00:19:40.53\00:19:42.43 NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW. 00:19:42.43\00:19:44.80 I'M GONNA EXPLAIN WHAT UNDER THE LAW MEANS AND WHAT IT 00:19:44.80\00:19:46.90 DOESN'T MEAN. 00:19:46.90\00:19:47.93 SAY THE ANSWERS WITH ME. 00:19:47.93\00:19:49.23 MATTHEW 19:17, "IF THOU WILT ENTER INTO LIFE, 00:19:49.23\00:19:53.43 KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." 00:19:53.43\00:19:56.90 YOU CAN READ JOHN 14:15. 00:19:56.90\00:19:59.00 HE SAYS, "IF YOU LOVE ME," WHAT NEEDS TO BE THE MOTIVE? 00:19:59.00\00:20:02.13 "KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS IF YOU LOVE ME." 00:20:02.13\00:20:05.13 JOHN, I'M SORRY, REVELATION 22:14, "BLESSED--" 00:20:05.13\00:20:07.86 THAT MEANS HAPPY-- "ARE THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS." 00:20:07.86\00:20:11.93 THEY MIGHT HAVE A RIGHT TO ENTER THROUGH THE GATES 00:20:11.93\00:20:14.23 AND EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE. 00:20:14.23\00:20:15.50 REVELATION 14:12, "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: 00:20:15.50\00:20:18.93 HERE ARE THEY THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD." 00:20:18.93\00:20:22.40 ALL THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT IT'S VERY CLEAR, GOD WANTS US 00:20:22.40\00:20:24.86 TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 00:20:24.86\00:20:26.93 SOME ARE SAYING, "NOW WAIT, DOUG, THOSE ARE THE NEW 00:20:26.93\00:20:29.60 COMMANDMENTS. 00:20:29.60\00:20:30.76 THE NEW COMMANDMENTS ARE LOVE THE LORD AND LOVE YOUR 00:20:30.76\00:20:33.13 NEIGHBOR." 00:20:33.13\00:20:34.56 THOSE TWO NEW COMMANDMENTS ARE A SUMMARY OF THE TEN. 00:20:34.56\00:20:38.50 BUT WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, "I DON'T WORRY ABOUT 00:20:38.50\00:20:40.60 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE 'CAUSE I LOVE MY NEIGHBOR. 00:20:40.60\00:20:42.76 YEAH, I KNOW I KILL AND I STEAL FROM HIM, BUT I LOVE HIM." 00:20:42.76\00:20:46.46 WELL, NO IF YOU LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR YOU'RE GONNA KEEP 00:20:46.46\00:20:48.60 THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS AND IF YOU LOVE THE LORD, 00:20:48.60\00:20:51.06 YOU WANT TO KEEP THE FIRST FOUR. 00:20:51.06\00:20:52.33 LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW. 00:20:52.33\00:20:54.50 WHEN YOU REALLY LOVE THE LORD, YOU NATURALLY WANT TO OBEY. 00:20:54.50\00:20:57.80 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE CHILDREN? 00:20:57.80\00:21:00.16 YOU KNOW THE LAW SAYS YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO MURDER YOUR 00:21:00.16\00:21:02.50 CHILDREN AND THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT'S KEEPING YOU FROM 00:21:02.50\00:21:06.33 MURDERING YOUR CHILDREN, RIGHT? 00:21:06.33\00:21:09.00 YOU THINK ABOUT IT EVERY DAY BUT YOU SAY, "I DON'T WANT 00:21:09.00\00:21:11.10 TO GO TO JAIL FOR LIFE. 00:21:11.10\00:21:13.10 BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW, I BETTER NOT KILL 'EM." 00:21:13.10\00:21:16.16 YOU DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THE LAW BECAUSE YOU LOVE 'EM. 00:21:16.16\00:21:18.30 AM I RIGHT? 00:21:18.30\00:21:19.60 YOU SEE HOW IT WORKS WITH GOD? 00:21:19.60\00:21:20.76 WHEN YOU REALLY FALL IN LOVE WITH GOD, THE LAW'S NOT 00:21:20.76\00:21:22.83 A BURDEN. 00:21:22.83\00:21:23.70 YOU DON'T THINK--YOU WANT TO PLEASE HIM BECAUSE 00:21:23.70\00:21:25.56 YOU LOVE HIM. 00:21:25.56\00:21:26.70 ALL RIGHT, NUMBER EIGHT, IS THAT WHERE WE ARE NOW? 00:21:26.70\00:21:29.83 "HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS?" 00:21:29.83\00:21:32.13 IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE TO OBEY GOD? 00:21:32.13\00:21:34.36 ROMANS 8:3-4, "GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON... 00:21:34.36\00:21:38.90 CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH: THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE 00:21:38.90\00:21:41.80 LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US." 00:21:41.80\00:21:45.46 HE FULFILLS IT IN US. 00:21:45.46\00:21:46.83 PHILIPPIANS 1:6, "HE WHICH HATH BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL 00:21:46.83\00:21:52.73 PERFORM IT TILL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST." 00:21:52.73\00:21:55.43 AND THEN YOU GO TO PHILIPPIANS 4:13, "I CAN DO 00:21:55.43\00:21:58.16 ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENS ME." 00:21:58.16\00:22:02.36 I REMEMBER DOING A TELEVISION DEBATE WITH A COUPLE OF 00:22:02.36\00:22:05.00 MINISTERS WHO DISAGREED WITH ME AND THEY SAID, "WE DON'T NEED 00:22:05.00\00:22:09.53 TO KEEP THE LAW. 00:22:09.53\00:22:10.46 WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW. 00:22:10.46\00:22:11.36 NOBODY CAN KEEP THE LAW." 00:22:11.36\00:22:13.03 I SAID, SO YOU MEAN WHEN GOD ASKS US TO KEEP 00:22:13.03\00:22:15.06 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, HE'S ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE? 00:22:15.06\00:22:17.53 "WELL, YES." 00:22:17.53\00:22:18.53 I SAID, NOW WAIT A SECOND. 00:22:18.53\00:22:20.00 DO YOU BELIEVE THE DEVIL CAN TEMPT US TO SIN? 00:22:20.00\00:22:22.80 AND THESE PREACHERS SAID, YEAH. 00:22:22.80\00:22:24.16 I SAID, DO YOU THINK GOD CAN KEEP YOU FROM SIN? 00:22:24.16\00:22:31.10 THEY SAW WHERE THEIR LOGIC WAS GOING. 00:22:31.10\00:22:33.06 THEY WERE BASICALLY SAYING THE DEVIL'S BIG ENOUGH TO GET US 00:22:33.06\00:22:35.43 TO BREAK GOD'S LAW, BUT CHRIST ISN'T BIG ENOUGH TO KEEP US 00:22:35.43\00:22:38.83 FROM BREAKING IT. 00:22:38.83\00:22:40.83 MY BIBLE TELLS ME GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS 00:22:40.83\00:22:44.40 IN THE WORLD. 00:22:44.40\00:22:45.30 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT HAVE MORE FAITH 00:22:45.30\00:22:47.40 IN THEIR DEVIL THAN THEIR GOD AND THEY KEEP WANTING TO KIND 00:22:47.40\00:22:50.16 EXCUSES FOR SIN. 00:22:50.16\00:22:51.33 NOW DON'T GET DISCOURAGED. 00:22:51.33\00:22:52.43 I'M NOT PREACHING THAT YOU MUST BE PERFECT BUT I'M SAYING THAT 00:22:52.43\00:22:55.30 IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE A CHRISTIAN, THERE SHOULD BE 00:22:55.30\00:22:57.43 A CONSISTENCY OF OBEDIENCE. 00:22:57.43\00:22:59.03 INSTEAD OF MAKING EXCUSES FOR YOUR SIN, WHENEVER YOU SIN, 00:22:59.03\00:23:02.16 YOU SHOULD BE GRIEVED THAT YOU CRUCIFIED THE SON OF GOD 00:23:02.16\00:23:04.36 AFRESH. 00:23:04.36\00:23:05.96 WE'RE MAKING SO MANY EXCUSES FOR WHAT WE'RE ALREADY VERY 00:23:05.96\00:23:08.43 GOOD AT THAT IT'S A DANGEROUS ATTITUDE FOR CHRISTIANS 00:23:08.43\00:23:11.76 RELATING TO THE LAW OF GOD. 00:23:11.76\00:23:13.63 NUMBER NINE, "WHAT WAS THE OLD COVENANT, AND WHY DID IT FAIL?" 00:23:13.63\00:23:22.10 DEUTERONOMY 4:13, "AND HE DECLARED UNTO YOU HIS COVENANT, 00:23:22.10\00:23:26.03 WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, 00:23:26.03\00:23:27.90 EVEN TEN COMMANDMENTS--" ARE YOU THERE YET? 00:23:27.90\00:23:32.46 REMEMBER WHEN MOSES WENT UP THE MOUNTAIN, 00:23:32.46\00:23:34.50 HE GOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:23:34.50\00:23:35.56 HOW MANY OF THEM WERE THERE? 00:23:35.56\00:23:37.43 THE OLD COVENANT WAS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON STONE 00:23:37.43\00:23:40.76 BY THE FINGER OF GOD AND SPOKEN BY GOD'S VOICE. 00:23:40.76\00:23:43.76 NOW THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE OLD COVENANT. 00:23:43.76\00:23:46.90 YOU REMEMBER AFTER MOSES CAME BACK DOWN THE MOUNTAIN, THEY 00:23:46.90\00:23:50.53 HAD BUILT A GOLDEN CALF AND THEY'D BROKEN ALL TEN OF THEM. 00:23:50.53\00:23:54.33 AND IT SAYS IN HEBREWS 8:8, "FOR FINDING FAULT WITH THEM, 00:23:54.33\00:24:00.80 HE SAITH...I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE 00:24:00.80\00:24:03.83 OF ISRAEL, WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH." 00:24:03.83\00:24:06.56 NOW GET THIS, WAS THE FAULT WITH THE OLD COVENANT WITH 00:24:06.56\00:24:09.70 THE LAW OR WITH THEM? 00:24:09.70\00:24:12.83 REMEMBER WHEN GOD GAVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE CHILDREN OF 00:24:12.83\00:24:15.40 ISRAEL SAID, "ALL THE LORD HAS SAID WE WILL DO, WE WILL DO." 00:24:15.40\00:24:20.70 AND THEY DID NOT KEEP THEIR WORD. 00:24:20.70\00:24:24.23 THE NEW COVENANT IS "I WILL WRITE MY LAW IN THEIR HEARTS." 00:24:24.23\00:24:28.80 THE OLD COVENANT IS "WE WILL." 00:24:28.80\00:24:31.03 THE NEW COVENANT IS "I WILL," GOD SAYS. 00:24:31.03\00:24:34.16 THE OLD COVENANT IS WRITTEN ON STONE. 00:24:34.16\00:24:36.23 THE NEW COVENANT IS THE SAME LAW, BUT IT'S WRITTEN WHERE? 00:24:36.23\00:24:39.76 IN THE HEART. 00:24:39.76\00:24:40.96 SEE, THE PROBLEM WAS NEVER WITH THE LAW. 00:24:40.96\00:24:43.26 AND THESE WHO SAY WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, THEY DON'T 00:24:43.26\00:24:45.63 REALLY MEAN THAT 'CAUSE YOU SAY, IS IT OKAY NOW TO USE 00:24:45.63\00:24:47.90 GOD'S NAME IN VAIN? 00:24:47.90\00:24:48.83 NO. 00:24:48.83\00:24:49.76 IS IT OKAY TO STEAL? 00:24:49.76\00:24:50.66 NO. 00:24:50.66\00:24:51.50 IS IT OKAY TO LIE? 00:24:51.50\00:24:52.36 NO, OF COURSE NOT. 00:24:52.36\00:24:53.26 BUT NOW IT MUST BE DONE FROM LOVE. 00:24:53.26\00:24:54.90 WE'RE NOT DOING IT TO BE SAVED. 00:24:54.90\00:24:55.80 WE'RE DOING BECAUSE WE ARE SAVED. 00:24:55.80\00:24:58.86 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 00:24:58.86\00:25:01.96 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 00:25:01.96\00:25:05.03 >> HEBREWS TELL USES JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, 00:25:05.03\00:25:08.23 TODAY AND FOREVER. 00:25:08.23\00:25:10.60 CHRIST SAID HE THAT HEARS THESE WORDS OF MINE IS LIKE A WISE 00:25:10.60\00:25:12.93 MAN WHO BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON A ROCK. 00:25:12.93\00:25:16.10 WHAT WAS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON? 00:25:16.10\00:25:18.16 ROCK. 00:25:18.16\00:25:19.13 IT'S AN ETERNAL NATURE. 00:25:19.13\00:25:20.63 CHRIST IS CALLED THE ROCK OF AGES. 00:25:20.63\00:25:23.30 NOW THE IDEA THAT THESE MORTAL KINGS, LIKE DARIUS AND OTHERS, 00:25:23.30\00:25:28.10 COULD NOT CHANGE THEIR LAW AND YET THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE IS 00:25:28.10\00:25:31.10 GONNA CHANGE HIS LAW IS ABSURD. 00:25:31.10\00:25:34.33 >> JOURNEY BACK THROUGH TIME TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE. 00:25:39.80\00:25:44.50 DISCOVER HOW A PERFECT ANGEL TRANSFORMED INTO SATAN, 00:25:44.50\00:25:48.86 THE ARCH VILLAIN. 00:25:48.86\00:25:50.83 THE BIRTH OF EVIL, A REBELLION IN HEAVEN, A MUTINY THAT MOVED 00:25:50.83\00:25:56.63 TO EARTH. 00:25:56.63\00:25:59.00 BEHOLD THE CREATION OF A BEAUTIFUL NEW PLANET 00:25:59.00\00:26:02.40 AND THE FIRST HUMANS. 00:26:02.40\00:26:04.46 WITNESS THE TEMPTATION OF EDEN. 00:26:04.46\00:26:07.50 DISCOVER GOD'S AMAZING PLAN TO SAVE HIS CHILDREN. 00:26:07.50\00:26:11.83 THIS IS A STORY THAT INVOLVES EVERY LIFE ON EARTH, 00:26:11.83\00:26:16.20 EVERY LIFE. 00:26:16.20\00:26:19.16 "THE COSMIC CONFLICT," IF GOD IS GOOD, 00:26:19.16\00:26:22.60 IF GOD IS ALL POWERFUL, IF GOD IS LOVE, 00:26:22.60\00:26:25.93 THEN WHAT WENT WRONG? 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