Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000124
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00:00 >> THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF
00:03 THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:11 >> IF YOU CAN SEE JESUS IN JONAH, IN SAMSON, IN DAVID, AND 00:16 SOME OF THESE OTHER INTERESTING CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE, THE 00:19 WORLD CAN SEE JESUS IN YOU, TOO. 00:22 CAN YOU REPRESENT JESUS IN SPITE OF YOUR FLAWS? 00:28 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS 00:30 HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD 00:32 THROUGH MEDIA. 00:33 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:36 BROADCASTS. 00:38 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:41 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:49 >> AS YOU READ THROUGH THE BIBLE, 00:51 YOU ARE SEEING DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE SON OF GOD THAT 00:56 REALLY ARE ALL ASSEMBLED IN CHRIST. 01:00 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU READ IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT HIGHLIGHTS THE 01:03 HEROES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND GIDEON IS ONE OF THEM. 01:06 THERE'S A NUMBER OF WAYS WHERE HE'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. 01:08 ALL OF THEIR NAMES ALSO TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. 01:12 GIDEON MEANS A CUTTER-DOWN OR A FELLER OF BIG TREES. 01:18 ONE OF THE THINGS GIDEON DOES IS AFTER HE'S CALLED BY THE 01:21 ANGEL--YOU CAN READ THIS IN JUDGES CHAPTER 6, VERSE 11, 01:24 "THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME AND SAT UNDER 01:26 THE TEREBINTH TREE WHICH WAS IN OPHRAH, WHICH BELONGED TO 01:29 JOASH THE ABIEZRITE, WHILE HIS SON GIDEON THRESHED WHEAT 01:33 IN A WINEPRESS." 01:35 WHEAT AND GRAPES. 01:38 ONE OF THE LAST THINGS JESUS DID IS HE PRESENTED WHEAT AND GRAPE 01:43 JUICE TO THE PEOPLE, THRESHING WHEAT IN A WINEPRESS. 01:47 WHAT WAS IT MELCHISEDECH DID? 01:49 ANOTHER TYPE OF CHRIST, HE BROUGHT FORTH BREAD AND WINE. 01:53 THAT'S A SYMBOL OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THE BLOOD OF 01:55 THE COVENANT. 01:57 AND SO HERE HE IS, EVERYONE ELSE IS AFRAID, BUT HE'S DOING 01:59 IT TO HIDE IT FROM THE MIDIANITES, AND HE ENDS UP 02:03 CONQUERING AN ARMY THAT WAS ALMOST NUMBERLESS WITH A VERY 02:07 SMALL FORCE THAT IS FILLED WITH GOD'S POWER. 02:11 THAT'S WHAT GIDEON DOES. 02:12 ISN'T THAT WHAT JESUS DID? 02:13 HE HAD THESE HANDFUL OF DISCIPLES AND APOSTLES AND THEY 02:16 BASICALLY TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN. 02:19 SMALL GROUP, MOST FORSOOK JESUS, DIDN'T THEY? 02:23 BUT A FEW REMAINED BEHIND. 02:25 WITH GIDEON, DID A LOT OF HIS ARMY FORSAKE HIM? 02:27 WHEN HE SAID, "IF YOU'RE AFRAID, YOU NEED TO TURN AWAY," THEY 02:29 WENT HOME, AND THEN THOSE WHO DIDN'T DRINK THE WATER 02:33 CAREFULLY, LOOKING AROUND, THEY WERE DISMISSED. 02:36 SO HE ENDS UP WITH NOT QUANTITY, BUT HE'S GOT QUALITY, AND THAT 02:39 QUALITY WAS ABLE TO CONQUER A MASSIVE FORCE. 02:43 JESUS SPENT 3 AND A HALF YEARS DISCIPLING PEOPLE FOR QUALITY. 02:47 THEY TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN. 02:50 IT ALSO TELLS US ABOUT GIDEON THAT HE IS A MEEK MAN. 02:55 HE WAS THE YOUNGEST IN HIS FATHER'S FAMILY. 02:58 BY THE WAY, YOU NOTICE HOW OFTEN GOD CHOSE THE WEAKEST 03:01 AND THE YOUNGEST? 03:02 JOSEPH, AMONG THE YOUNGEST, DAVID, THE YOUNGEST, MOSES, THE 03:05 YOUNGEST, GIDEON, THE YOUNGEST. 03:08 GOD'S TRYING TO TELL US THAT HE TAKES THOSE THINGS THAT ARE 03:11 OFTEN OVERLOOKED AND DESPISED AND HE DOES GREAT THINGS THROUGH 03:15 THEM. 03:16 AND IT SAYS HERE IN JUDGES 6:15, HE SAID, "O MY LORD, HOW CAN I 03:22 SAVE ISRAEL? 03:23 INDEED MY CLAN IS THE WEAKEST IN MANASSEH, AND I AM LEAST IN MY 03:27 FATHER'S HOUSE." 03:29 YOU KNOW, WHEN OUR COUNTRY WAS FIRST FOUNDED AND 03:33 GEORGE WASHINGTON FINALLY WAS VICTORIOUS OVER THE BRITISH, 03:38 THEY WANTED TO MAKE HIM A KING. 03:40 I MEAN, A LOT OF THEM HAD COME OUT OF ENGLAND. 03:42 THEY STILL THOUGHT LIKE THAT, AND THEY SAID, "I KNOW WE'RE 03:44 GONNA BE A FREE COUNTRY AND WE'LL DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY, BUT 03:47 WE NEED A KING." 03:48 AND THEY WANTED TO MAKE WASHINGTON KING, AND HE SAID NO. 03:50 HE RETIRED. 03:52 THEY WANTED TO KEEP MAKING HIM PRESIDENT, BUT HE KNEW THAT THEY 03:54 NEEDED TO ELECT A PRESIDENT, IT NEEDED TO BE A NATION CHOSEN BY 03:58 THE PEOPLE, AND BECAUSE OF HIS HUMILITY IN THAT AREA, IT SET 04:03 THE PRECEDENT FOR ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS TO SAY, 04:06 "I HAVE A LIMITED TERM. 04:08 WE DON'T HAVE A KING. 04:10 WE DON'T HAVE A MONARCHY." 04:11 THAT'S WHY HE SAID, "NOT ONLY WILL I NOT REIGN, 04:14 MY SON WILL NOT REIGN." 04:15 A FEW YEARS LATER, THEY SAID, "GIVE US A KING LIKE THE OTHER 04:17 NATIONS," AND THINGS STARTED GOING DOWNHILL. 04:20 SOMETHING ELSE THAT YOU FIND IN THE STORY OF GIDEON, HIS FUTURE 04:25 IS GUIDED BY THE WAY GOD USES A FLEECE. 04:30 YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION, "THROW A FLEECE BEFORE 04:32 THE LORD"? 04:33 WHAT IS A FLEECE? 04:34 IT'S A SHEEPSKIN. 04:36 AND WHAT DOES THE LAMB REPRESENT IN THE BIBLE? 04:42 WHAT DID GOD USE TO COVER THE NAKEDNESS OF ADAM AND EVE? 04:45 FLEECE, SHEEPSKIN. 04:49 IT REPRESENTS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST, 04:52 AND THAT WAS THE GUIDE FOR HOW HE WAS TO PROCEED. 04:55 ANOTHER WAY IN WHICH GIDEON IS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 04:59 SOMETHING ELSE YOU SEE IS YOU LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT SYMBOLS. 05:02 IF YOU GO, FOR INSTANCE, TO THE STORY OF GIDEON, IT TELLS ABOUT 05:07 THERE'S A DREAM ABOUT A LOAF OF BREAD THAT KNOCKS OVER 05:13 THE ENEMY. 05:15 ONE LITTLE LOAF HITS THE TENTS OF THE MIDIANITES AND IT 05:20 DESTROYS THEM. 05:21 WELL, WHAT DOES BREAD REPRESENT? 05:24 "MAN DOESN'T LIVE BY BREAD BUT BY EVERY WORD OF GOD. 05:27 CHRIST IS THE WORD MADE FLESH," AND SO IT WAS THE BREAD OF GOD, 05:31 THE WORD OF GOD THAT DESTROYED THE ENEMY, JESUS, WORD, 05:35 CONQUERS THEM. 05:36 AND ALL THROUGH THE SYMBOLS OF GIDEON, IT SAYS IT WAS 05:38 A TRUMPET, A SWORD, LAMPS, AND BREAD. 05:45 "LIFT UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET," A SYMBOL FOR THE WORD 05:48 OF GOD. 05:49 "THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY 05:52 TWO-EDGED SWORD," SWORD, THE WORD OF GOD. 05:54 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6, "THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT WHICH IS THE WORD 05:57 OF GOD." 05:58 AND THEN IT TELLS US THAT THERE'S A LAMP, "THY WORD IS 06:02 A LAMP UNTO MY FEET." 06:03 AND WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE BREAD, THE WORD OF GOD. 06:05 SO WHAT IS IT THAT GIDEON USES TO OVERCOME THE ENEMY? 06:09 ALL THESE THINGS ARE SYMBOL OF THE WORD. 06:11 HOW DID CHRIST CONQUER SATAN'S DOMAIN? 06:16 IT WAS THE POWER OF THE WORD THAT DID IT, AND THEN HE ALSO 06:19 WAS AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS. 06:21 YOU CAN READ WHEN HE LED THEM INTO BATTLE, JUDGES 7:17. 06:25 KEEP IN MIND, FRIENDS, WE'RE DOING A QUICK FLY-OVER IN THESE 06:28 STORIES. 06:29 IT'S SEVERAL CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES YOU'LL 06:31 NEED TO READ. 06:33 JUDGES CHAPTER 7:17, HE SAID, "LOOK AT ME AND DO 06:37 LIKEWISE; WATCH, AND WHEN I COME TO THE EDGE OF THE CAMP YOU 06:41 SHALL DO AS I DO." 06:44 ISN'T THIS WHAT CHRIST SAID? 06:45 "I'VE COME TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE." 06:47 WE'RE TO FOLLOW HIM. 06:48 EVEN PAUL SAID, "BE FOLLOWERS OF ME AS I AM OF CHRIST." 06:51 ULTIMATELY, WE ARE TO FOLLOW CHRIST. 06:54 AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LIFE OF GIDEON, HE REALLY WAS A GREAT 06:57 EXAMPLE OF CHRIST IN MANY WAYS. 06:58 I DID A TWO OR THREE PART SERIES ON GIDEON AND I CAN'T 07:01 CONDENSE THAT ALL INTO THIS SHORT SEGMENT. 07:05 JONAH, YOU REMEMBER IN THE SCRIPTURE READING, JESUS SAID, 07:09 "THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH WILL STAND UP IN JUDGMENT WITH THIS 07:13 GENERATION BECAUSE THEY REPENTED AT THE PREACHING OF JONAH AND 07:17 A GREATER THAN JONAH IS HERE." 07:20 IS JONAH A TYPE OF CHRIST? 07:22 JESUS SEEMS TO TELL US HE IS, BUT HOW CAN THESE CHARACTERS 07:25 WITH ALL THEIR FLAWS AND WARTS BE TYPES OF JESUS? 07:28 DAVID, LOOK WHAT HE DID. 07:29 SAMSON, LOOK WHAT HE DID. 07:31 JONAH, HE TURNED AND HE RAN. 07:33 HOW CAN HE BE A TYPE OF CHRIST? 07:35 WELL, THEY'RE ALL IMPERFECT TYPES OF CHRIST, BUT THERE'S 07:37 THINGS IN THEIR LIVES THAT ARE GIVING US GLIMMERS THAT YOU 07:41 CAN'T MISS, AND THAT OUGHT TO GIVE YOU COURAGE. 07:45 CAN YOU REPRESENT JESUS IN SPITE OF YOUR FLAWS? 07:47 IF YOU CAN SEE JESUS IN JONAH, IN SAMSON, IN DAVID, AND SOME OF 07:52 THESE OTHER INTERESTING CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE, THE 07:56 WORLD CAN SEE JESUS IN YOU, TOO. 08:00 JONAH, WRONG-WAY JONAH, HE ENDED UP GOING THE RIGHT WAY, BUT IT 08:05 WAS WITH SOME RESISTANCE, AND SOMETIMES GOD HAS TO SEND 08:07 A STORM TO TURN US AROUND, TOO, DOESN'T HE? 08:10 BUT HOW IS JONAH LIKE JESUS? 08:12 WELL, YOU CAN'T MISS THE POINT THAT HERE YOU'VE GOT A PROPHET 08:16 OF GOD WHO IS SLEEPING IN THE BOTTOM OF A BOAT DURING A STORM. 08:22 THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN THAT OFTEN IN THE BIBLE, AND HE HAS TO BE 08:24 WOKE UP, BEING TOLD THEY'RE ABOUT TO PERISH. 08:29 READ THIS, JONAH 1, VERSE 6. 08:31 IT SAYS, "ARISE," THE CAPTAIN SAID TO JONAH, "AND CALL ON GOD, 08:36 IF SO BE THAT GOD WILL THINK ON US, THAT WE PERISH NOT." 08:40 DURING THE STORM ON THE SEA OF GALILEE, 08:42 THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS AND THEY SAID IN 08:44 MARK 4:38, "HE WAS IN THE STERN," 08:48 THAT'S THE BOTTOM, JUST LIKE JONAH, "ASLEEP ON A PILLOW. 08:50 AND THEY WOKE HIM UP AND THEY SAID, TEACHER, DO YOU NOT CARE 08:53 THAT WE ARE PERISHING?" 08:55 WHAT A THING TO ASK JESUS, "DO YOU NOT CARE THAT WE'RE 08:59 PERISHING." 08:59 DOES HE CARE? 09:01 HE CAME SO THAT WE WOULD NOT PERISH. 09:04 SOMETHING ELSE YOU FIND ABOUT JONAH IS THAT HE'S NOT ONLY 09:08 ASLEEP IN A BOAT DURING A STORM, BUT THEY HAD TO SACRIFICE JONAH 09:14 IN ORDER TO GET PEACE. 09:17 THEY KIND OF FIGURE OUT, "WHY HAS THIS STORM COME UPON US?" 09:22 JONAH SAID, "WELL, IT'S BECAUSE OF ME." 09:24 YOU KNOW WHY THERE'S SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THIS WORLD TODAY? 09:26 IT'S JESUS' FAULT. 09:31 IT'S BECAUSE THE DEVIL HATES HIM. 09:33 I WANTED TO GET YOUR ATTENTION. 09:35 IT'S BECAUSE THE DEVIL HATES JESUS, HE TAKES IT OUT ON YOU. 09:39 IT'S BECAUSE THE DEVIL WANTS JESUS' POSITION THAT YOU'VE GOT 09:43 THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY GOING ON. 09:45 SO THEY CAST LOTS. 09:48 THE LOT FELL ON JONAH. 09:49 BY THE WAY, WHAT DOES JONAH'S NAME MEAN? 09:51 DOVE. 09:52 DID CHRIST SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT AS A TYPE OF A DOVE? 09:55 SO HE SAYS, "IF YOU WANT PEACE, YOU'VE GOTTA CAST ME INTO THE 09:58 SEA," AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "IF THEY'RE NOT GONNA 10:01 HAVE PEACE UNLESS HE'S IN THE WATER, WHY DIDN'T HE JUST 10:03 JUMP OVERBOARD?" 10:05 BUT HE SAID, "NO, YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR 10:09 THROWING ME IN." 10:11 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO DO THAT. 10:12 THEY TRIED TO SAVE THEMSELVES. 10:13 HE SAID, "THE ONLY WAY IS YOU'VE GOT TO SACRIFICE ME." 10:17 THEY TRIED TO ROW, BUT THE SEA GOT MORE TEMPESTUOUS. 10:20 FINALLY, THEY SAID, "LORD, DO NOT LAY INNOCENT BLOOD 10:23 TO OUR CHARGE." 10:25 YOU KNOW, WHEN CHRIST WAS BETRAYED, THEY CALLED IT 10:27 INNOCENT BLOOD. 10:28 JUDAS SAID, "I AM GUILTY OF INNOCENT BLOOD." 10:32 SO THEY TOOK UP JONAH, SAID, "ONE, TWO, THREE," AND THEY 10:35 HEAVED HIM OVERBOARD, AND THEY HAD INSTANT PEACE. 10:37 WHEN CHRIST SPOKE, WAS THERE PEACE DURING THE STORM? 10:40 A SUPERNATURAL PEACE COMES INTO OUR LIVES WHEN WE ACCEPT JESUS 10:44 AS OUR SACRIFICE. 10:46 AND SO WE'RE NOT DONE. 10:49 THEN IT SAYS HE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE NINEVITES. 10:51 NINEVEH WAS AN EXCEEDING GREAT CITY OF 3 DAYS' JOURNEY, AND IT 10:57 SAYS HE MADE THIS TRIP. 11:01 WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE FISH BURPED HIM OUT, BUT IT WAS 11:04 SOMEWHERE PROBABLY FURTHER NORTH, BECAUSE THEY WERE ON 11:06 THEIR WAY TO TARSHISH AND THE STORM BLEW THEM NORTH. 11:09 AND FROM WHEREVER THE SHORE HE WAS, HE WENT 3 DAYS TO NINEVEH, 11:13 THEN HE ENTERS THE CITY A DAY'S JOURNEY, WHICH MEANS 12 HOURS, 11:17 AND HE BEGINS TO PREACH. 11:19 AFTER THREE-AND-A-HALF DAY JOURNEY, HE THEN 11:24 PREACHES--BY THE WAY, HE CAME FROM THE WATER, 11:27 THREE AND A HALF DAYS LATER HE'S PREACHING, 11:30 AND 40 DAYS IT'LL BE DESTROYED. 11:32 JESUS COMES FROM BAPTISM, HE PREACHES 3 AND A HALF YEARS, 11:36 AND SAYS IN A GENERATION THAT JERUSALEM WOULD BE DESTROYED, 11:40 40 YEARS. 11:41 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, "JONAH IS A SIGN TO YOU," SPEAKING TO THE 11:46 JEWS, THIS GENERATION, "EXCEPT THEY REPENTED THE PREACHING OF 11:49 JONAH AND A GREATER THAN JONAH IS HERE." 11:52 YOUR MESSIAH IS HERE, AND YOU'RE NOT REPENTING. 11:54 NINEVEH WAS NOT DESTROYED AFTER 40 DAYS 'CAUSE THEY REPENTED. 11:56 JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED AFTER 40 YEARS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT 12:00 REPENT. 12:01 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 12:03 IT WAS A SIGN. 12:05 AND SO JONAH, THERE'S ANOTHER GREAT SIGN. 12:08 WHAT WAS THE FIRST MESSAGE THAT JESUS GAVE AFTER HE BEGAN 12:10 PREACHING? 12:11 REPENT. 12:13 WHAT DID JONAH SAY AS HE MARCHED UP AND DOWN THE STREETS OF 12:15 NINEVEH? 12:17 IT WAS A MESSAGE OF REPENTANCE ALSO. 12:19 GO WITH ME TO THE STORY OF ESTHER. 12:23 IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER, AND AGAIN, I THINK I'VE GOT A THREE- 12:26 OR FOUR-PART SERIES ON ESTHER. 12:28 I DON'T HAVE TIME TO COVER IT ALL, BUT THERE'S SO MANY TYPES 12:30 OF NOT ONLY JESUS IN HERE, BUT THE CHURCH, BECAUSE ESTHER IS 12:36 NOT REALLY A TYPE OF CHRIST. 12:38 ESTHER IS A TYPE OF THE CHURCH, BUT MORDECAI IS A TYPE OF JESUS. 12:44 FOR INSTANCE, THEY'RE SEPARATED. 12:49 MORDECAI SAID, "LOOK, I CAN'T GET INSIDE THAT PAGAN COMPOUND 12:53 CALLED THE PALACE, BUT ESTHER, YOU CAN. 12:56 YOU WILL BE THE REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUR PEOPLE IN THERE. 12:59 YOU WILL SHOW YOUR BEAUTY THERE IN THAT PALACE." 13:02 CHRIST'S CHURCH, JESUS IS NOT IN THE WORLD NOW. 13:06 HE SAID, "I SENT YOU INTO THE WORLD." 13:08 WE ARE TO REPRESENT JESUS IN THIS PAGAN WORLD, AREN'T WE? 13:10 IN THIS LOST WORLD. 13:12 AND SO THERE'S A LAW MADE, BECAUSE MORDECAI WILL NOT BOW 13:18 DOWN, OR HE WILL NOT BREAK THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 13:21 HE WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO HAMAN, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, HAMAN WANTS 13:26 TO EXTERMINATE ALL OF MORDECAI'S PEOPLE, THE JEWS. 13:31 DIDN'T THE DEVIL WANT JESUS TO BOW DOWN TO HIM? 13:35 AND BECAUSE JESUS WOULDN'T BOW DOWN TO HIM, DOES THE DEVIL TAKE 13:37 OUT HIS WRATH ON THE CHURCH, ON ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE? 13:41 WILL ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE BE MIRACULOUSLY DELIVERED 13:43 IN THE END? 13:45 IN THE LAST DAYS, IS THERE GOING TO BE A DEATH DECREE TO 13:47 ANNIHILATE GOD'S PEOPLE BECAUSE WE DON'T BREAK HIS COMMANDMENTS, 13:51 BECAUSE WE WON'T COMPROMISE? 13:52 AND BY THE WAY, WHAT WAS IT THAT HAMAN DID? 13:55 WHAT WERE HIS PLANS FOR MORDECAI? 13:58 HE BUILT A BIG GALLOWS BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO HANG HIM BETWEEN 14:00 HEAVEN AND EARTH. 14:01 WHAT WAS THE DEVIL'S PLAN FOR JESUS? 14:04 WASN'T IT TO HANG HIM BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH? 14:06 ALL THROUGH THIS, YOU SEE THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL, 14:09 AND JESUS IS REVEALED. 14:11 BUT BACK MORE SPECIFICALLY TO MORDECAI. 14:14 AT ONE POINT, YOU SEE HIM WITH HIS CLOTHES TORN, AND HE'S IN 14:18 THE GATE, AND HE'S PRAYING. 14:20 THERE IS A PERIOD OF PRAYING AND FASTING FOR THREE DAYS HERE. 14:24 YOU KNOW WHAT'S INTERESTING WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK OF ESTHER? 14:27 YOU DO NOT HEAR THE WORD "PRAY" IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER. 14:31 YOU DO NOT HEAR THE WORD "GOD." 14:33 IT TALKS ABOUT THEM FASTING, BUT IT DOESN'T MENTION PRAYER. 14:37 IT TALKS ALL ABOUT THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD, THE 14:39 DELIVERANCE OF GOD, BUT YOU DO NOT FIND THE NAME OF GOD 14:42 IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER. 14:44 DO YOU KNOW WHY? 14:44 IT WAS WRITTEN WHILE THEY WERE SLAVES AND CAPTIVES IN THE 14:47 PERSIAN LAND, AND IF THEY HAD INCLUDED THE NAME OF GOD OR 14:50 PRAYING TO THEIR GOD IN THIS BOOK--REMEMBER DARIUS? 14:53 NOBODY PRAYED TO ANYONE BUT THE KING. 14:56 THE BOOK MIGHT HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, SO THE BOOK IS VERY 14:58 CAREFULLY WRITTEN TO SHOW THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD AND HOW GOD 15:02 ANSWERS PRAYER. 15:04 THEY TALK ABOUT FASTING. 15:05 THEY DON'T USE THE WORD "PRAY." 15:06 TALK ABOUT THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD, THE DELIVERANCE OF GOD, BUT 15:09 THEY DON'T SAY GOD'S NAME. 15:10 IT'S A VERY INTERESTING BOOK. 15:12 ONLY BOOK THAT WAS NOT FOUND AMONG THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS IN 15:15 PART OR WHOLE WAS THE BOOK OF ESTHER, AND SOME BELIEVE IT'S 15:19 BECAUSE THE EARLIEST-SEEN JEWS, THOSE VERY DEVOUT RABBIS, THEY 15:26 SAID, "THE NAME OF GOD DOESN'T APPEAR IN HERE, SO CAN WE STORE 15:29 IT WITH THE OTHER BOOKS?" 15:31 AND SO, BUT I'M SURE GLAD IT'S IN THE BIBLE. 15:34 I BELIEVE IT'S AN INSPIRED BOOK. 15:35 ANYWAY, THEN YOU READ HOW THERE'S A GREAT REVERSAL OF 15:38 FORTUNE. 15:39 HAMAN ENDS UP GETTING DESTROYED ON THE GALLOWS HE BUILT FOR 15:41 MORDECAI. 15:43 HAMAN WHO WANTED TO BE KING, HE HAS TO MARCH MORDECAI THROUGH 15:48 THE STREETS. 15:49 THIS IS A GREAT STORY. 15:51 YOU REMEMBER THAT? 15:51 HE GOES TO THE KING AND HE SAYS--HE'S COMING TO GET THE 15:54 EXECUTION OF MORDECAI, AND THE KING, MEANWHILE, HE CAN'T SLEEP, 15:59 AND HE'S UP AT NIGHT. 16:01 AND HE SAYS, "YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY BORING WHEN THEY READ 16:03 THE CHRONICLES TO ME." 16:04 HE SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU READ THE CHRONICLES TO ME AND MAYBE IT'LL 16:06 PUT ME TO SLEEP?" 16:07 SO THEY'RE READING THE CHRONICLES AND IT SAID, "THERE 16:09 WAS AN ASSASSINATION PLOT," AND THE KING OPENED ONE EYE, "TO 16:11 KILL KING AHASUERUS AND MORDECAI REVEALED THE PLOT AND SAVED 16:16 THE KING." 16:17 AND HE GOES, "WOW, THAT WAS A CLOSE CALL. 16:19 DID WE EVER DO ANYTHING FOR THAT GUY MORDECAI?" 16:22 "LET'S CHECK THE FOOTNOTES HERE. 16:23 NO, KING, NEVER, NO REWARD, NO THANK YOU, NO NOTHING." 16:27 "WOW, THAT'S NOT VERY KINGLY." 16:30 HE SAID, "I GOTTA DO SOMETHING. 16:31 I DON'T KNOW, WHAT SHALL I DO FOR HIM?" 16:33 WHILE HE'S THINKING, "WHAT DO I DO FOR MORDECAI," WHO REVEALED 16:36 THESE EUNUCHS THAT WERE GOING TO KILL THE KING, ASSASSINATION, IN 16:40 WALKS HAMAN TO ASK FOR THE DEATH DECREE FOR NONE OTHER THAN 16:45 MORDECAI. 16:47 AND SO THE KING SAYS, "HEY, I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE, HAMAN. 16:51 I NEED TO ASK YOU A QUESTION. 16:52 WHAT SHOULD I DO FOR THE ONE I WANT TO HONOR?" 16:55 AND HAMAN IS SO SELF-CENTERED, HE THINKS, "WELL, WHO WOULD THE 17:00 KING WANT TO HONOR MORE THAN ME, ME, ME?" 17:04 AND HE SAYS, "WELL, GET THE KING'S HORSE, THAT BEAUTIFUL 17:09 WHITE HORSE, THAT MAJESTIC STALLION. 17:11 PUT THE KING'S SADDLE ON IT AND THEN PUT THE KING'S ROBE ON HIM. 17:14 PUT THE KING'S CROWN ON HIS HEAD. 17:16 GET THE KING'S EXALTED SERVANTS TO WALK IN FRONT OF HIM AND SAY, 17:19 THUS SHALL IT BE DONE FOR THE ONE WHOM THE KING WANTS TO 17:21 HONOR, AND PARADE HIM UP AND DOWN THE STREET SHOUTING WITH 17:23 FANFARE LIKE THE KING." 17:26 WHAT DID HAMAN WANT? 17:29 OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE MOUTH, THE HEART SPEAKS. 17:31 HE WANTED TO BE KING. 17:33 TIME, IF HE HAD GONE ON MUCH LONGER, HE WOULD HAVE PROBABLY 17:36 TRIED TO ASSASSINATE THE KING. 17:38 WHAT DOES THE DEVIL WANT? 17:39 "I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH," AND SO CAN YOU IMAGINE THE LOOK? 17:42 I WISH I HAD A PHOTOGRAPH OF HAMAN'S FACE WHEN THE KING SAYS 17:47 TO HIM, "THAT SOUNDS GOOD ENOUGH TO ME. 17:50 TELL YOU WHAT, I WANT YOU TO DO EVERYTHING THAT YOU JUST SAID 17:53 THERE," AND HE'S PROBABLY SMILING, "YES, YES?" 17:55 "TO MORDECAI." 17:58 TALK ABOUT THE REVERSAL. 18:01 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS, "HE WHO EXALTS HIMSELF WILL BE 18:04 HUMBLED, AND HE WHO HUMBLES HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED." 18:06 JESUS HUMBLED HIMSELF. 18:07 HE'LL BE EXALTED. 18:08 THE DEVIL WHO EXALTED HIMSELF WILL BE HUMBLED. 18:10 AND THEN IN THE END, YOU CAN SEE THIS GREAT EXALTATION OF 18:14 MORDECAI, ALL THE ENEMIES OF GOD ARE KILLED. 18:18 THE PEOPLE OF GOD ARE DELIVERED, JUST LIKE WHEN JESUS COMES AT 18:20 THE LAST DAY, WHEN THERE'S TO BE AN ANNIHILATION OF THE CHURCH, 18:23 AND YOU READ HERE IN ESTHER 8, VERSE 15, "SO MORDECAI WENT OUT 18:28 FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE KING IN ROYAL APPAREL IN BLUE AND WHITE, 18:33 WITH A GREAT CROWN OF GOLD AND A GARMENT OF FINE LINEN AND 18:36 PURPLE; AND THE CITY OF SHUSHAN REJOICED AND WAS GLAD." 18:40 WHEN CHRIST IS GLORIFIED, THERE'LL BE GLADNESS. 18:43 ESTHER 9, VERSE 4, "FOR MORDECAI WAS GREAT IN THE KING'S PALACE 18:47 AND HIS FAME SPREAD THROUGHOUT ALL PROVINCES; FOR THIS MAN 18:50 MORDECAI BECAME INCREASINGLY PROMINENT." 18:53 NONE WAS GREATER IN THE PALACE BESIDES THE KING THAN MORDECAI. 18:57 YOU NOTICE ALL THESE TYPES OF CHRIST IN THE BIBLE BECOME, 18:59 LIKE, SECOND TO THE KING? 19:00 CHRIST IS SECOND ONLY IN THE AUTHORITY TO THE FATHER. 19:03 JOSEPH, SECOND TO THE KING. 19:05 DANIEL, SECOND TO THE KING. 19:06 AND THEY OFTEN GO FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE. 19:08 MORDECAI, HE'S IN RAGS AT THE KING'S GATES, AND THEN 19:11 HE'S IN ROBES IN THE PALACE. 19:14 IT'S CHRIST, WENT FROM THE RAGS OF THIS WORLD TO THE RIGHT HAND 19:17 OF THE FATHER, DIDN'T HE? 19:18 IT'S ALL TELLING US ABOUT JESUS. 19:21 I'M GONNA JUMP FOR THE FIRST TIME, NOT RIGHT HERE, I'M GOING 19:27 TO JUMP TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU EVEN 19:30 IN NEW TESTAMENT STORIES, YOU FIND A LOT OF TYPES FOR JESUS. 19:35 ONE OF SEVERAL I COULD POINT TO--I MEAN, I COULD TALK TO YOU 19:38 ABOUT PHILEMON AND HOW HE'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A MERCIFUL 19:43 MASTER. 19:44 YOU COULD TALK ABOUT TITUS AND YOU COULD TALK ABOUT ROMANS. 19:48 THERE'S SO MANY PLACES IN THE BIBLE YOU CAN FIND TYPES OF 19:50 CHRIST, BUT I WANT TO GO TO STEPHEN. 19:53 HE WAS ALWAYS ONE OF OUR HEROES IN THE BIBLE, SPIRIT-FILLED MAN. 19:58 IT'S ONE REASON WE PICKED THAT NAME FOR SON NUMBER THREE IS 20:03 BECAUSE WE WERE INSPIRED BY THE EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE OF THIS 20:06 SPIRIT-FILLED DEACON WHO WAS OUT PREACHING AND HE WAS WILLING TO 20:08 LAY DOWN HIS LIFE. 20:10 AND YOU LOOK, AFTER THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS 20:13 OF MINISTRY, JESUS IS BROUGHT BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN, 20:17 WHERE HE TELLS THEM WHO HE IS. 20:21 THEY HAVE A MOCKERY OF A TRIAL. 20:23 THEY CONDEMN HIM. 20:25 THEY TAKE HIM OUTSIDE THE CITY. 20:28 THEY EXECUTE JESUS WHILE HE PRAYS FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS. 20:33 STEPHEN PREACHES. 20:36 THE CHURCH GROWS. 20:38 HIS ENEMIES ARE THREATENED. 20:40 THEY BRING HIM TO THE SANHEDRIN THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS 20:43 AFTER CHRIST. 20:45 OH, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW EVEN KNOW IF I TOLD YOU. 20:47 DO YOU MIND IF WE PAUSE AND WE BACKTRACK JUST A LITTLE? 20:49 IN THE STORY OF ESTHER, THERE'S ANOTHER THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS. 20:52 IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF AHASUERUS, HE HAS A FEAST 20:55 LASTING 180 DAYS, AND THAT'S HOW THE BOOK OF ESTHER BEGINS, AFTER 20:59 A THREE-AND-A-HALF YEAR PERIOD. 21:02 AFTER THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS, STEPHEN, HE'S PREACHING. 21:06 BECAUSE OF HIS PREACHING, HE'S ARRESTED. 21:12 HE'S BROUGHT TO THE SANHEDRIN, THE SAME ONES WHO HAD ACCUSED 21:14 JESUS. 21:16 HE TELLS WHO JESUS IS IN ONE OF MOST INCREDIBLE SERMONS 21:19 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 21:21 GOING THROUGH THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH NATION, HE PROVES THAT 21:23 JESUS IS THE CHRIST, LOOKING AT A LOT OF THE SAME STORIES THAT I 21:27 HAVE BEEN TALKING TO YOU ABOUT, AND THE SAME CHARACTERS, 21:30 TOO, SHOWING THEY ALL REPRESENT JESUS. 21:32 AND THEY ARE SO OUTRAGED, REALIZING THAT THEY HAVE 21:36 CRUCIFIED THEIR MESSIAH. 21:38 I'VE THOUGHT ALONG THE WAY, THIS SERIES ON JESUS WOULD BE GOOD 21:42 FOR JEWS. 21:43 I HOPE THEY WON'T BE OFFENDED BY IT. 21:45 I'M HALF JEWISH, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW ANYONE COULD READ ABOUT 21:48 ALL THESE CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE, ALL THESE JEWISH HEROES 21:50 THAT ARE TYPES OF CHRIST AND THEY'RE LOOKING IN 21:54 THE NEW TESTAMENT AND SAY, "NO, THAT HAS 21:56 NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS." 21:58 I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY CAN GET PAST THAT. 22:01 AND SO WHEN THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS HEARD STEPHEN'S 22:03 TESTIMONY, THEY GRIT THEIR TEETH. 22:07 THEY PLUG THEIR EARS. 22:08 THEY TAKE HIM OUT OF THE CITY. 22:10 HE'S FALSELY CONDEMNED. 22:14 THEY DON'T EVEN WAIT FOR THE ROMANS TO GET INVOLVED. 22:16 THEY STONE HIM TO DEATH. 22:18 THEY LAY DOWN THEIR GARMENTS. 22:21 THERE WERE GARMENTS AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS. 22:23 THERE WERE GARMENTS AT THE FEET OF SAUL. 22:25 THEY LAY DOWN THEIR GARMENTS AT THE FEET OF SAUL, WHO LATER 22:28 BECOMES PAUL. 22:28 BOY, WASN'T THAT INTERESTING. 22:30 AND HE ASKS FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF THE ONES WHO WERE EXECUTING 22:34 HIM, JUST LIKE JESUS. 22:36 THEN HE'S CARRIED OFF BY FRIENDS AND BURIED. 22:41 YOU CAN SEE TYPES OF CHRIST NOT ONLY BEFORE CHRIST, YOU CAN SEE 22:43 TYPES OF CHRIST AFTER CHRIST, WHICH IS WHY I DID THIS SERIES. 22:47 YOU CAN SEE TYPES OF CHRIST EVEN A.D., AFTER CHRIST, WHICH WOULD 22:53 MEAN YOU CAN REFLECT THE LIFE OF JESUS. 22:58 ALL OF THESE CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE, 23:00 ONCE THEY SURRENDERED THEMSELVES TO CHRIST, THEIR 23:02 LIVES BEGAN TO REFLECT DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF CHRIST'S CHARACTER. 23:06 THE PURPOSE FOR THE PLAN OF SALVATION IS THAT WE MIGHT BE 23:09 RESTORED TO THE IMAGE OF GOD, THAT JESUS MIGHT REPRODUCE 23:12 HIS IMAGE IN US. 23:15 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN MINERS AROUND SACRAMENTO, GOLD 23:19 RUSH--WE'RE SITTING RIGHT HERE IN THE HEART OF THE GOLD RUSH 23:22 STORY AREN'T WE? 23:23 RIGHT HERE BETWEEN SUTTER'S FORT AND PLACERVILLE AND HERE'S WHAT 23:27 IT ALL HAPPENED. 23:29 AND YOU KNOW HOW THEY'D FIND THE GOLD, THE REAL GOLD, IS THEY'D 23:33 BE PANNING AROUND IN A RIVER, AND FIRST THEY'D FIND SOME 23:36 LITTLE SPECKS OF COLOR. 23:38 AND THEY KNEW WHERE IF THEY FOUND COLOR, THEY DIDN'T GET 23:41 EXCITED AND WALK AWAY, THEY KEPT PANNING, BECAUSE WHAT ARE THEY 23:43 LOOKING FOR? 23:44 THEY'RE THEN LOOKING FOR THE DUST. 23:46 AND THE CLOSER YOU GET TO THE DUST, THEN YOU MIGHT FIND SOME 23:49 NUGGETS THAT HAVE ROLLED DOWN THE HILL THAT HAVEN'T BEEN 23:52 POUNDED INTO DUST OR COLOR YET, BECAUSE THEY ROLL DOWN FROM 23:56 A VEIN THAT LEADS TO THE MOTHER LODE. 24:00 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 24:01 ISN'T THAT HOW IT WORKS WITH GOLD? 24:03 WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE THE DUST OR THE MOTHER LODE? 24:06 ALL THROUGH THESE CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE, WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT 24:09 THE NUGGETS AND THE DUST AND THE COLOR, AND IT IS ALL POINTING US 24:12 TO JESUS, WHO IS THE MOTHER LODE. 24:16 HE IS THE TREASURE, AND I HOPE THAT HE'S THAT PEARL OF GREAT 24:20 PRICE FOR YOU. 24:21 THAT HE'S THE TREASURE, AND YOU'RE WILLING TO LAY DOWN 24:24 EVERYTHING. 24:25 I HOPE YOUR PRAYER WILL BE, "LORD, ALL THAT I HAVE, ALL THAT 24:28 I AM, IT'S YOURS. 24:29 I WANT TO BE LIKE JESUS." 24:31 DON'T YOU, FRIENDS? 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