Participants: Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000132
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01:00 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>YOU'LL FIND THAT EVERYTHING THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT GOD IT SAYS 01:14 ABOUT HIS LAW, BECAUSE THE LAW OF GOD IS THE PERFECT EXPRESSION 01:19 OF HIS WILL AND HIS CHARACTER. 01:25 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:28 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:31 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 01:34 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:37 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:45 >>WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD. 01:49 AND IN THIS NEW SERIES DEALING WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, I'VE 01:52 CALLED IT 'LAWS OF LOVE AND LIBERTY' AND I THINK YOU'LL 01:56 UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR THE TITLE A LITTLE LATER ON IN THE 01:59 SERIES. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS REPRESENT 02:03 THE VERY EPITOME OF THE WORD OF GOD. IT IS GOOD AND IT IS 02:09 APPROPRIATE FOR US TO DEDICATE TIME TO TALK ABOUT THESE 02:13 FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES THAT YOU FIND IN THE LAW OF GOD. 02:17 NOW IT'S SAD THAT WE'RE LIVING IN A TIME WHERE EVEN IN A 02:21 CHRISTIAN CHURCH, SOMEONE WHO'S A MINISTER MIGHT NEED TO SOUND 02:24 APOLOGETIC ABOUT TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD. 02:27 SOME PEOPLE WILL, NO DOUBT, SAY THAT WE'RE LEGALISTIC BECAUSE 02:31 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD. 02:33 BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT JESUS SAID. MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, VERSE 02:36 19, "...WHOSOEVER SHALL DO AND TEACH THEM (THESE COMMANDMENTS), 02:42 THE SAME SHALL BE CALLED GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." 02:45 OUR LIVES ARE REGULATED EVERY DAY BY LAW, BUT THAT LAW IS NOT 02:50 THERE TO RESTRICT OR TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOM. 02:53 YOU LOSE YOUR FREEDOM WHEN YOU HAVE NO LAW. 02:57 THE LAW IS THERE TO PROTECT YOUR LIBERTIES AND IT'S ALSO TRUE OF 03:02 THE LAW OF GOD. IT'S NOT DESIGNED TO TAKE AWAY 03:04 YOUR HAPPINESS, BUT TO GIVE YOU REAL PEACE AND HAPPINESS - COMES 03:09 FROM THE WORD OF GOD AND THE LAW OF GOD. 03:12 JESUS WARNED US IN THE LAST DAYS THAT THERE WOULD BE GREAT 03:16 LAWLESSNESS. MATTER OF FACT, CHRIST SAID, 03:19 'BECAUSE INIQUITY' - LAWLESSNESS - 'WILL ABOUND, THE LOVE OF MANY 03:23 WILL GROW COLD.' - MATTHEW CHAPTER 24. 03:26 PAUL SAID, IN 2 TIMOTHY 3:13, "BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS 03:31 WILL WAX WORSE AND WORSE..." 03:34 JESUS SAID JUST BEFORE HE COMES BACK IT WILL BE AS IT WAS IN THE 03:38 DAYS OF NOAH, AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT, AND THE BIBLE SAYS 03:43 THAT THERE WAS GREAT LAWLESSNESS. 03:46 WE ALL REMEMBER WHAT CONDITIONS WERE IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH. 03:49 THERE WAS A MOB MENTALITY AT THE DOOR OF LOT'S HOUSE. 03:53 IN THE TIME OF NOAH IT SAYS 'THE THOUGHTS OF MEN'S HEARTS WERE 03:56 ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY.' SO THERE WAS GREAT LAWLESSNESS THAT 04:02 SHOULD NOT EXIST AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE. 04:05 WE NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD. 04:07 ULTIMATELY, IF YOU WOULD BE SAVED, YOU MUST HAVE THE NEW 04:09 COVENANT, WHICH IS THE LAW OF GOD WRITTEN IN YOUR HEARTS, 04:12 AMEN? AND SO THIS IS A VERY RELEVANT 04:15 AND A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT. NOW, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DID 04:20 NOT BEGIN AT MOUNT SINAI. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HAVE 04:24 EXISTED THROUGH ETERNITY. THAT'S RIGHT. 04:28 THE PRINCIPLES OF GOD'S LAW HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE. 04:32 LET ME PROVE THAT TO YOU FROM THE BIBLE, QUICKLY. 04:34 GENESIS 26, VERSE 5 - ABRAHAM - DID HE LIVE BEFORE OR AFTER 04:38 MOSES? BEFORE MOSES. SO ABRAHAM LIVED BEFORE MOUNT 04:44 SINAI AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE CODIFIED, RIGHT? 04:47 IT SAYS, "BECAUSE THAT ABRAHAM OBEYED MY VOICE, AND KEPT MY 04:50 CHARGE, MY COMMANDMENTS, MY STATUTES, AND MY LAWS." 04:55 BEFORE MOSES EVER CAME ALONG, GOD HAD COMMANDMENTS AND 04:58 STATUTES AND LAWS. HE MUST HAVE GIVEN SOME OF THESE 05:01 THINGS, AT LEAST ORALLY, TO ADAM AND EVE. 05:04 GENESIS 39, VERSE 9 - WHEN JOSEPH WAS TEMPTED BY THE WIFE 05:09 OF POTIPHAR, HIS MASTER, JOSEPH KNEW ADULTERY WAS WRONG AND HE 05:14 SAID, "THERE IS NO ONE GREATER IN THIS HOUSE THAN I, NOR HAS HE 05:17 KEPT BACK ANYTHING FROM ME BUT YOU, BECAUSE YOU ARE HIS WIFE." 05:21 - YOU KNOW, THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT - "HOW THEN CAN I DO 05:24 THIS GREAT WICKEDNESS, AND SIN AGAINST GOD?" 05:28 DID JOSEPH KNOW BACK THEN THAT ADULTERY WAS A SIN? 05:31 WHAT? BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? I MEAN, CAN YOU 05:34 REALLY IMAGINE PEOPLE LIVING BACK THEN SAYING, 'OH' - GOD 05:39 GIVES THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THERE AT MOUNT SINAI AND 05:41 THEY SAY - THEY ELBOW EACH OTHER - 'YOU MEAN WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED 05:43 TO BE COMMITTING ADULTERY? OH, WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO STEAL? 05:46 WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO MURDER?' DON'T YOU THINK SOME OF THOSE 05:48 WERE SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS? GOD WAS PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER 05:53 AND SUMMARIZING IT FOR THEM. PSALM 111, VERSE 7, "...ALL HIS 05:58 COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FAST FOR EVER AND 06:03 EVER." GOD'S LAW IS FOR EVER AND EVER. 06:06 AND EVEN THERE IN THE VERY BEGINNING WHEN CAIN ENDED UP 06:10 KILLING HIS BROTHER ABEL, WHAT DID GOD SAY? 06:13 "IF YOU DO WELL, WILL YOU NOT BE ACCEPTED?" 06:16 - GENESIS 4:7 - "AND IF YOU DO NOT DO WELL, SIN LIES AT THE 06:21 DOOR." AND SO GOD WAS DESCRIBING THAT 06:24 IT WAS A SIN TO MURDER, WAY BACK THERE IN THE BEGINNING. 06:27 SO GOD'S LAW HAS ETERNAL PRINCIPLES. 06:31 DO YOU KNOW WHY GOD CANNOT CHANGE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 06:35 BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE TO CHANGE HIMSELF. 06:38 JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER. 06:42 'I AM THE LORD, I DO NOT CHANGE.' THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 06:45 ARE A PERFECT EXPRESSION OF GOD'S CHARACTER. 06:51 THAT'S MY SECOND POINT. ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS 06:54 SIN? NOW, THE MOST CLINICAL DEFINITION YOU FIND IN 1 JOHN 3, 07:00 VERSE 4, "...SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW." 07:06 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? SO THE DEVIL DOESN'T WANT US 07:10 TALKING ABOUT SIN. YOU KNOW WHY? 07:12 WHEN YOU PREACH AND YOU TALK ABOUT SIN, PEOPLE BECOME 07:14 PAINFULLY AWARE THAT THEY HAVE PROBLEMS - THAT THEY ARE SINNERS 07:19 - AND WHEN THEY BECOME AWARE THEY ARE SINNERS, THEN THEY 07:22 START FEELING THE NEED FOR A SAVIOR. 07:25 SO IF YOU CAN JUST QUIET THE CHURCH DOWN WHERE THEY DON'T 07:28 TALK ABOUT THE LAW, PEOPLE WILL NOT FEEL A CONVICTION FOR SIN, 07:31 THEY WILL NOT SENSE THEIR NEED OF JESUS OR REPENTANCE, AND 07:35 WON'T FIND SALVATION. THE LAW LEADS TO SALVATION. 07:40 WHILE WE ARE NOT SAVED BY THE LAW, YOU CANNOT BE CONVICTED OF 07:45 YOUR SIN WITHOUT KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAW. 07:49 AND SO, IT TELLS US THAT SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S LAW. 07:53 THAT'S WHY GOD SAID TO CAIN, 'SIN LIES AT THE DOOR.' HE WAS 07:57 GETTING READY TO MURDER HIS BROTHER. 07:59 ROMANS 3:20, "...BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN." 08:03 GET RID OF THE LAW, YOU GET RID OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. 08:06 GET RID OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN, NOBODY NEEDS A SAVIOR FROM SIN. 08:10 CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THE DEVIL'S STRATEGY? 08:13 HE'S ATTACKING THE LAW. 08:14 HE'S TRYING TO ECLIPSE, OBSCURE, HIDE THE LAW OF GOD, DOWNPLAY 08:18 THE LAW OF GOD, BECAUSE THEN PEOPLE WON'T KNOW THEY'RE 08:20 SINNERS AND THEY WON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THEY NEED JESUS. 08:23 THEY WON'T BE SAVED AND FORGIVEN OF THEIR SINS AND THEY WON'T 08:26 HAVE THE PEACE THAT COMES FROM THAT EXPERIENCE. 08:29 IT ALSO TELLS US - ROMANS 7:7 - "I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN, BUT BY THE 08:35 LAW; FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST, EXCEPT THE LAW HAD SAID, 'THOU 08:39 SHALT NOT COVET.'" - NOTICE THAT PAUL IS QUOTING FROM ONE OF THE 08:41 TEN COMMANDMENTS. SO RIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD IT'S 08:45 REVEALING WHAT SIN IS AND THEREBY HELPING US KNOW OUR NEED 08:49 FOR A SAVIOR. NOW, A CHRISTIAN IS ULTIMATELY A FOLLOWER OF 08:53 CHRIST. HOW DID JESUS FEEL ABOUT THE LAW? DID HE UPHOLD IT? 08:59 JOHN 15, VERSE 10 - DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 09:03 THAT'S THE BIG QUESTION. HE SAID - IF YOU BELIEVE JESUS - 09:07 "...I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS..." 09:10 SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT JESUS CAME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW. 09:14 CHRIST SAID, 'DO NOT THINK' - IN MATTHEW - 'THINK NOT THAT I HAVE 09:17 COME TO DESTROY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS, I DID NOT COME TO 09:20 DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL.' AND THE WORD 'FULFILL' THERE MEANS 09:24 'TO FILL FULL'. JESUS CAME TO FILL UP THE LAW - 09:28 KEEP IT IN HIS LIFE. SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, HE CAME 09:30 TO KEEP IT SO WE DON'T HAVE TO. NO, HE CAME TO KEEP IT AS AN 09:33 EXAMPLE ON HOW WE CAN. A CHRISTIAN IS A FOLLOWER OF 09:38 CHRIST. WE DON'T NEED EXCUSES TO 09:39 DISOBEY, WE'RE ALREADY REALLY GOOD AT THAT. 09:42 WE NEED - WE NEED AN EXAMPLE TO SHOW US HOW DO WE OVERCOME. 09:47 AND JESUS, THERE IN REVELATION, HE SAYS SEVEN TIMES IN HIS 09:50 MESSAGE TO THE CHURCHES, 'TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES, TO HIM THAT 09:53 OVERCOMES, TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES' - EACH TIME IT'S 09:56 ACCOMPANIED WITH GREAT PROMISES OF GOOD. 09:59 THE DEVIL WANTS US TO THINK THAT WE CAN ALL SIN BUT WE CAN'T 10:03 OBEY. AND REALLY, WHAT THAT MEANS IS 10:07 WE HAVE MORE FAITH IN THE DEVIL'S ABILITY TO TEMPT US THAN 10:10 JESUS' ABILITY TO KEEP US FROM FALLING. 10:14 SO WHAT'S BIGGER, YOUR GOD OR YOUR DEVIL? 10:17 IF YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS CAN TRANSFORM YOU - CAN THE LORD 10:20 HELP YOU WITH ANY SIN? HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER EXPERIENCED 10:23 GOD GIVING YOU VICTORY OVER ANY SIN IN YOUR LIFE? 10:28 WELL, IF HE CAN HELP YOU WITH ANYTHING, THEN HE CAN HELP YOU 10:31 WITH EVERYTHING BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ALL THINGS ARE 10:34 POSSIBLE WITH GOD, RIGHT? AND THE SAME WAY THAT HE GAVE 10:38 YOU VICTORY IN WHATEVER THAT AREA MIGHT BE, HE CAN GIVE YOU 10:41 VICTORY IN THE AREAS WHERE YOU MAY STILL BE STRUGGLING. 10:43 BUT DON'T FALL FOR THE DEVIL'S MARKETING PLAN THAT 'OH, WELL, 10:49 JESUS CAME AND OBEYED BECAUSE WE CAN'T.' NO, HE CAME AND OBEYED 10:54 TO SHOW US HOW WE CAN. BECAUSE WE - HE HAS GIVEN US AN 10:58 EXAMPLE, THE BIBLE SAYS, THAT WE SHOULD WALK EVEN AS HE WALKED. 11:02 >>SO IF GOD GOES TO THE TROUBLE TO SPEAK AUDIBLY BEFORE A WHOLE 11:06 NATION, AND IF HE TAKES THE TIME TO WRITE IN GRANITE WITH HIS OWN 11:10 FINGER, HIS LAW, THEN IS THAT SOMETHING CHRISTIANS SHOULD 11:14 STILL THINK ABOUT TODAY? WHAT ABOUT THE VERSES IN THE 11:18 BIBLE, LIKE ROMANS 6:14, "WE'RE NO LONGER UNDER THE 11:20 LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE"? DOES THAT MEAN THAT CHRISTIANS 11:23 NO LONGER HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 11:27 WHAT IS THE RIGHT BIBLICAL RELATIONSHIP FOR THE CHRISTIAN 11:30 BETWEEN SALVATION AND THE LAW OF GOD? 11:34 HOW DOES IT ALL FIT IN, FRIENDS? WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND 11:36 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE REALLY TEACH ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND 11:40 HOW TO APPLY THEM FOR A NEW TESTMENT CHRISTIAN? 11:43 ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED IN A FREE STUDY GUIDE 11:47 AND IT'S CALLED WRITTEN IN STONE . 11:49 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE, JUST SIMPLY GO TO OUR WEBSITE, 11:52 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG , OR CALL THE PHONE NUMBER AND REQUEST OFFER 11:56 #111. I CAN PROMISE YOU, YOU'LL NEVER 12:00 BE THE SAME AND YOU WILL BE ENCOURAGED AND 12:02 COMFORTED BY THIS STUDY. AND THAT'S WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO 12:05 HERE AT AMAZING FACTS, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 12:10 SHOULD CHRISTIANS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? NO, NO, I MEAN 12:14 NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS. SHOULD WE KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 12:18 MATTHEW 19:17 - JESUS SAID, "BUT IF YOU WANT TO ENTER INTO LIFE, 12:21 KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." IS THAT PLAIN? 12:24 SAY 'AMEN' IF THAT'S PLAIN. 12:25 YOUR BIBLE HAS THAT IN RED LETTERS. 12:27 LET ME TELL YOU ONE MORE TIME, IT'S MATTHEW 19:17. 12:29 YOU'LL ALSO FIND THIS IN MARK CHAPTER 10 WHEN THE RICH YOUNG 12:32 RULER CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, 'GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THINGS 12:35 SHALL I DO THAT I MIGHT INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE?' 12:37 JESUS SAID, 'THOU KNOWEST THE COMMANDMENTS.' AND JESUS THEN 12:40 QUOTED, NOT FROM CEREMONIAL LAWS, NOT FROM VARIOUS HEALTH 12:44 STATUTES, HE QUOTED FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. NOW, WE DON'T 12:48 KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TO BE SAVED, BUT IF WE HAVE ACCEPTED 12:52 HIS SALVATION, WE WILL KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 12:56 YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW, BUT YOU WILL DEFINITELY BE 12:59 LOST BY DELIBERATELY DISOBEYING IT. 13:02 IF WE CONTINUE TO SIN WILFULLY - HEBREWS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 26 - 13:07 'AFTER WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE 13:10 REMAINS NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SIN, BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL 13:13 LOOKING FORWARD TO OF JUDGMENT.' AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT 13:16 THOSE THAT REFUSE MOSES' LAW, THEY SUFFERED UNDER THAT WRATH 13:20 AND IT WILL ALSO BE TRUE OF THOSE WHO DELIBERATELY, WILFULLY 13:23 DISOBEY GOD'S LAW. SHOULD A CHRISTIAN KEEP 13:28 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? REVELATION 14:12 - SPEAKING OF 13:32 GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS: "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE 13:35 SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD..." 13:40 AND AGAIN, REVELATION 22:14, "BLESSED" - THIS IS THE LAST 13:45 CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE, FRIENDS. I MEAN, IF THINGS WERE GOING TO 13:47 CHANGE HE WOULD HAVE CHANGED IT BY THEN. 13:49 BUT WHAT DOES IT SAY THERE? "BLESSED" - IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? 13:54 - "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MAY HAVE 13:58 THE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER THROUGH THE GATES 14:01 INTO THE CITY." IF YOU WANT TO EAT FROM THE TREE 14:03 OF LIFE AND ENTER IN THROUGH THE GATES OF THE CITY, THEN YOU NEED 14:06 TO BE ONE OF THOSE BLESSED PEOPLE THAT KEEPS HIS 14:09 COMMANDMENTS, AMEN? BUT ISN'T HE ASKING US TO DO 14:13 SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE - IT'S ONE 14:17 THING TO SAY WE SHOULD DO IT, THAT'S CLEAR, BUT HOW IS IT 14:20 POSSIBLE TO KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. 14:23 THE ANSWERS ARE GIVEN - PHILIPPIANS 4:13 - "I CAN DO ALL 14:27 THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME." 14:31 JESUS WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH. HE NEVER SAYS IT'S EASY. 14:34 IT'S TOUGH SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE TEMPTED. 14:37 JESUS WENT THROUGH SOME TOUGH TEMPTATIONS IN THE WILDERNESS 14:40 WHEN HE WAS FASTING 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, BUT HE WILL GIVE YOU 14:43 STRENGTH TO DO WHAT HE ASKS YOU TO DO. 14:46 NOW THERE'S THE POINT. INHERENT IN EVERY COMMAND OF GOD 14:51 IT'S PRE-PACKAGED WITH THE POWER TO OBEY. 14:57 WOULDN'T IT BE CRUEL FOR THE LORD TO PUNISH HIS CHILDREN FOR 15:01 NOT OBEYING A COMMAND THEY CANNOT OBEY? 15:05 ARE SINNERS GOING TO BE PUNISHED? 15:08 DID JESUS TAKE A PUNISHMENT FOR SIN? 15:11 HOW - WHAT RIGHT - HOW JUST WOULD IT BE IF GOD WOULD PUNISH 15:17 HIS CHILDREN - EVEN HIS OWN SON - FOR PEOPLE BREAKING LAWS THAT 15:21 IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP. YOU SEE WHAT THE DEVIL IS 15:25 ACCUSING PEOPLE OF? AND I HEAR PASTORS SAY IT - 15:29 OH, IT'S A DOCTRINE OF DEVILS. I HEAR PASTORS SAY, 'WELL, 15:32 NOBODY CAN KEEP THE LAW. THAT'S WHY JESUS HAD TO DIE.' 15:37 WELL, IT'S TRUE NO ONE CAN KEEP IT WITHOUT HIS POWER, BUT I 15:40 BELIEVE, THROUGH CHRIST, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. 15:44 AND IF GOD IS GOING TO PUNISH SINNERS FOR SINNING WHEN THEY 15:47 CAN'T OBEY BECAUSE HE'S ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE OF THEM, WELL 15:51 THAT MAKES GOD A CRUEL TYRANT. BUT WITH HIS SPIRIT AND WITH HIS 15:56 POWER, YOU CAN BE DIFFERENT. YOU CAN OBEY. 16:00 HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CHANGE SOCIETY BY TELLING THE 16:03 ALCOHOLIC, 'WELL, NOBODY CAN REALLY OBEY. 16:06 WE'RE JUST GOING TO, YOU KNOW, WE'LL SUBSIDIZE YOUR DRINKING. 16:10 WE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO CHANGE AND GIVE IT UP AND STOP BEATING 16:12 YOUR WIFE AND LOSING YOUR JOBS.' OR THE PERSON WHO'S ADDICTED TO 16:17 HEROIN OR CIGARETTES - I DON'T KNOW WHICH IS HARDER. 16:21 WHAT GOOD ARE YOU GOING TO DO IN THE WORLD IF WE DON'T TELL 16:24 SINNERS THAT THEY CAN GET THE VICTORY? 16:27 CAN THEY - CAN PEOPLE WHO DRINK GET THE VICTORY? 16:30 DO YOU ALL KNOW SOME THAT HAVE? CAN PEOPLE WHO SMOKE AND USE 16:34 DRUGS AND YOU JUST NAME YOUR FAVORITE SINFUL ADDICTION? 16:38 DO WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE CAN CHANGE? 16:41 THAT'S WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS TO HEAR YOU CAN OBEY. 16:44 YOU CAN GET THE VICTORY AND IT BREAKS MY HEART WHEN I HEAR 16:46 PASTORS SAYING, 'WELL, NOBODY CAN REALLY OBEY.' AND WE MAKE 16:50 ALL THESE EXCUSES FOR SIN. YES YOU CAN. YOU CAN BE DIFFERENT. 16:54 YOU CAN LIVE A NEW KIND OF LIFE. YOU CAN CHANGE. 16:57 IS IT A STRUGGLE? YES. DOES IT TAKE TIME? 16:59 SOMETIMES SANCTIFICATION - IT TAKES TIME. 17:02 BUT DON'T - DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF GOD. 17:06 DON'T GIVE THE CREDIT TO THE DEVIL FOR ALL - REMAINING 17:10 SLAVES. THEN YOU'RE LIKE THOSE SPIES 17:13 THAT CAME BACK. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO GIVE A 17:15 GLORIOUS REPORT OF THE PROMISED LAND AND THEY CAME BACK AND THEY 17:18 SAID, 'OH, THE GIANTS ARE TOO BIG. 17:21 THE WALLS ARE TOO BIG. OBSTACLES TOO BIG. 17:25 WE CAN'T CONQUER THE PROMISED LAND. 17:28 AND GOD SAID, 'IF YOU DON'T THINK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE 17:30 IT TO THE PROMISED LAND THEN YOU'RE GOING TO DIE IN THE 17:31 WILDERNESS. JOSHUA AND CALEB SAID, 'WE ARE ABLE. 17:34 WE BELIEVE WITH GOD'S HELP WE CAN CONQUER THEM.' AND I'M GLAD 17:38 DAVID DIDN'T HAVE THAT ATTITUDE, 'OH, GOLIATH'S TOO BIG. 17:40 I'M GOING HOME.' YEAH, YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME SIN IN YOUR LIFE THAT 17:45 SEEMS LIKE A BIG, UGLY GIANT, BUT THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD'S 17:50 WORD, YOU CAN OVERCOME. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 17:53 GOD, AMEN? HE THAT HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN 17:57 YOU WILL PERFORM IT UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST. 18:00 IF YOU FALL, DON'T GIVE UP. HE HAS BEGUN A WORK IN YOU. 18:03 HE'S THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF YOUR FAITH. 18:05 YES YOU CAN BE AN OBEYER OF GOD'S LAW. NOT A HEARER ONLY, 18:09 BUT A DOER. MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S OUR NEXT VERSE. 18:14 ARE PEOPLE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? 18:19 YOU WON'T BE SAVED DELIBERATELY BREAKING IT, BUT NO ONE IS SAVED 18:21 BY KEEPING IT. WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE. 18:23 AND THAT'S EPHESIANS 2, VERSES 8 AND 9, "FOR BY GRACE YOU HAVE 18:26 BEEN SAVED THROUGH FAITH, AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS 18:29 THE GIFT OF GOD, NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST." 18:33 AND I PROBABLY WOULD BE FIRST IN LINE BOASTING IF I THOUGHT I 18:35 COULD SAVE MYSELF. YOU'D BE SECOND IN LINE. 18:39 WE'D ALL FIND A WAY TO TAKE CREDIT FOR IT, RIGHT? 18:42 BUT IT'S ONLY BY GOD'S GRACE THAT ANY OF US ARE SAVED BECAUSE 18:45 IF GOD'S GOING TO GIVE US WHAT WE DESERVE, WHAT'S THE PENALTY 18:48 FOR SIN? YOU WOULDN'T EVEN SURVIVE YOUR PROBATION. 18:52 AS SOON AS YOU SINNED, YOU'D DIE. IT'S BECAUSE IT'S A GIFT. 18:57 NOW, SOME ARE SAYING TODAY THAT, WELL, BECAUSE WE'RE SAVED BY 19:00 GRACE, GOD'S GRACE NULLIFIES OR ABOLISHES THE LAW. 19:05 DOES THE GRACE OF GOD ABOLISH THE LAW? 19:09 ROMANS 6 - LET'S HEAR WHAT PAUL SAYS ABOUT THAT. 19:11 I'M JUST GOING TO READ PAUL BECAUSE PAUL IS THE ONE THEY 19:13 ALWAYS QUOTE TO TRY AND SAY THAT. ROMANS 6:15, "WHAT THEN? 19:17 SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE? 19:20 GOD FORBID!" MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO 19:24 PAUSE HERE FOR JUST A SECOND BEFORE I READ MY NEXT VERSE. 19:26 'UNDER THE LAW' - ARE WE CURRENTLY UNDER THE LAW? 19:31 IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT. 19:34 WHEN PAUL TALKS ABOUT BEING UNDER THE LAW, HE'S TALKING 19:36 ABOUT BEING UNDER THE CURSE OR THE PENALTY OF THE LAW. 19:39 WHEN YOU BREAK A LAW, ANY GOOD LAW'S GOT A PENALTY. YOU FIND 19:43 LAWS IN OUR CULTURE THAT EXIST AND THERE'S NO CONSEQUENCE, 19:47 THERE'S A LAW THAT'S BEING BROKEN. RIGHT? MATTER OF FACT, 19:52 MOST LAWS EXIST TODAY BECAUSE SOMEBODY BROKE THE LAW. 19:57 DO YOU KNOW WE HAVE MORE LAWS NOW, IN OUR CULTURE, THAN ANY 19:59 OTHER TIME IN HISTORY? HAS IT MADE US A MORE LAWFUL PEOPLE? 20:05 SO, PAUL IS ASKING, 'DOES GRACE ABOLISH THE LAW?' 20:10 HE SAID, 'GOD FORBID.' ROMANS 3:31, "DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE 20:15 LAW THROUGH FAITH? GOD FORBID: YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW." 20:19 WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'I'VE GOT FAITH, I DON'T NEED THE LAW.' 20:21 WHO ARE YOU KIDDING? IF YOU'VE GOT REAL FAITH, 20:23 YOU KEEP THE LAW. AND AGAIN, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE 20:27 THOSE TWO, HOW ABOUT ROMANS 2:13 - THIS IS PAUL - NOTICE THIS IS 20:31 PAUL - CAN'T BE ANY MORE CLEAR THAN THAT. 20:33 "FOR THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST IN THE SIGHT OF GOD," - NO, 20:38 NO, I SAID THAT WRONG - "FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST 20:42 IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW WILL BE 20:46 JUSTIFIED." WHAT? THE DOERS OF THE LAW WILL BE JUSTIFIED? 20:50 I THOUGHT WE WERE JUST THROUGH FAITH. 20:51 YES, AND IF YOU ARE JUST THROUGH FAITH, YOU WILL BE DOING 20:54 THE LAW. SEE HOW THAT WORKS? NOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE THE MOTIVE 20:58 FOR OBEYING GOD'S LAW? LOVE IS THE MOTIVE. 21:04 ROMANS 13:10, "THEREFORE LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW." 21:10 WHEN WE LOVE GOD, WE'LL WANT TO OBEY. 21:13 WE'LL LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR. WE'LL NATURALLY KEEP THESE LAWS. 21:16 MATTHEW 22, VERSE 37, JESUS SAID, "'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD 21:21 YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH 21:23 ALL YOUR MIND.' THIS IS THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT. 21:26 AND THE SECOND IS LIKE UNTO IT: 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR 21:28 AS YOURSELF.' ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG 21:32 ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS." 21:35 AND I HEARD OF A PREACHER ONE DAY, HE QUOTED THAT VERSE - HE 21:37 SAID, 'SEE, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HAVE BEEN HUNG. 21:40 THEY'RE HUNG AND ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO NOW - IT'S LIKE THEY'VE 21:43 BEEN STRANGLED - ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO NOW IS KEEP THOSE TWO 21:46 COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE.' OH WHEN IT SAYS - JESUS SAID, 'ON THESE 21:50 TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG' - IT MEANS ALL THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 21:54 ARE SUMMARIZED - THEY'RE SUPPORTED BY LOVING THE LORD AND 21:57 LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR. MATTER OF FACT, YOU COULD 21:59 SUMMARIZE THOSE TWO IN ONE PHRASE, 'GOD IS LOVE'. 22:03 1 JOHN 2, VERSES 3 AND 4, "AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW" - NOW THIS 22:06 ONE IS A SLAM-DUNK. THIS PUTS TO SILENCE ALL OF THE 22:09 HYPOCRITES OUT THERE - "AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW 22:12 HIM, IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 22:14 HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM, AND KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IS 22:17 A LIAR, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM." THAT'S NEW TESTAMENT. 22:21 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS UNTO ME, 22:23 'LORD, LORD' IS GOING TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD, BUT THEY 22:26 THAT DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.' 22:30 WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD? 22:32 PSALM 40 TELLS US, 'I LOVE TO DO YOUR WILL. 22:36 YOUR LAW IS WITHIN MY HEART.' THE LAW OF GOD IS A PERFECT 22:42 EXPRESSION OF HIS CHARACTER AND HIS WILL AND JESUS WILL DECLARE 22:46 TO EVERYONE ELSE, 'I DON'T KNOW YOU.' SO IF SOMEONE SAYS, 'I 22:50 LOVE THE LORD. I'M FOLLOWING THE LORD. I KNOW THE LORD. 22:53 NO, I DON'T KEEP THE LAW BECAUSE I'M UNDER GRACE.' JOHN SAYS, 22:55 'YOU'RE A LIAR.' YOU SAY, 'LORD, LORD, I LOVE YOU LORD.' 23:00 CHRIST'LL DECLARE TO THOSE PEOPLE, 'DEPART FROM ME YE 23:03 WORKERS OF INIQUITY.' AND THAT WORD IS 'LAWLESSNESS'. 23:07 PEOPLE WITHOUT LAW. SO IF - IT DOES MATTER, FRIENDS. THIS IS 23:11 IMPORTANT BASIC FOUNDATIONAL CHRISTIAN TEACHING. WHAT ARE THE 23:16 REWARDS FOR KEEPING GOD'S LAW? THIS IS THE GOOD PART. 23:21 JOHN 15:11, "THESE THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU, THAT... 23:25 YOUR JOY MIGHT BE FULL." HE WANTS US TO HAVE JOY AND IT 23:30 COMES IN OBEYING GOD. PROVERBS 29:18, "BUT HE THAT 23:34 KEEPETH THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE." DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? 23:39 JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU KNOW THESE THINGS, HAPPY ARE YE IF YOU DO 23:42 THEM.' HE WANTS US TO HAVE JOY AND HAPPINESS. 23:45 NOT ONLY JOY AND HAPPINESS, HE WANTS US TO HAVE PEACE. 23:48 PSALM 119:165, "GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY WHICH LOVE THY LAW: 23:55 AND NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM." I NOT ONLY WANT PEACE, I WANT 23:57 GREAT PEACE, DON'T YOU? WHEN WE SUBMIT OUR LIVES INTO 24:01 GOD'S HANDS AND ARE SAYING, 'LORD, WE'RE WILLING TO BE DOERS 24:04 OF YOUR WORD' - YOU'LL HAVE A GREAT PEACE. 24:07 AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU KNOW THERE'S SOME AREA IN YOUR LIFE 24:12 WHERE YOU ARE DIVERGING FROM THE WILL OF GOD AND THE LAW OF GOD, 24:15 YOU SHOULD BE TROUBLED. 24:18 DON'T GET COMFORTABLE IN DISOBEDIENCE, THAT'S DANGEROUS. 24:21 THAT'S WHERE YOU GET TO WHERE YOU SEAR YOUR CONSCIENCE AND, 24:24 ULTIMATELY, YOU CAN COME TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU COMMIT THE 24:26 UNPARDONABLE SIN BECAUSE YOU DON'T HEAR GOD'S VOICE ANYMORE. 24:30 IF YOU CAN CONVINCE YOURSELF THAT IT'S OKAY TO LIVE IN 24:33 DISOBEDIENCE TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS KNOWINGLY AND THAT 24:37 EVERYTHING'S GOING TO SOMEHOW BE OKAY, THAT IS A DEADLY PLACE TO 24:40 BE IN. THAT'S LIKE LEPROSY - SPIRITUAL LEPROSY. 24:45 BUT THERE'S GREAT PEACE. 24:47 ISAIAH 48:18, "OH, THAT YOU HAD HEEDED MY COMMANDMENTS! 24:51 THEN YOUR PEACE WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE A RIVER." 24:53 YOU KNOW THAT SONG WE SING, 'I'VE GOT PEACE LIKE A RIVER'? 24:56 IT'S BASED ON THIS VERSE. WHERE DOES IT COME FROM? 24:58 'O THAT WE HAD HEEDED HIS COMMANDMENTS! 25:00 THEN - THEN YOU WOULD HAVE PEACE LIKE A RIVER'. 25:03 DO YOU WANT PEACE AND JOY AND BLESSEDNESS AND HAPPINESS? 25:07 IT COMES FROM OBEDIENCE. IF YOU'RE OBEYING GOD IT'S LIKE 25:11 SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO SAID, 'WE MIGHT GO TO A FIERY 25:14 FURNACE, BUT WE KNOW WE'RE OBEYING GOD. 25:16 WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR.' JESUS SAID, 'DON'T FEAR HIM WHO CAN 25:20 DESTROY YOUR BODY BUT HE CAN'T TOUCH YOUR SOUL. 25:22 RATHER FEAR HIM WHO CAN DESTROY SOUL AND BODY IN HELL. 25:26 WHEN WE ARE HEARERS AND DOERS OF GOD'S LAW, WE HAVE LIBERTY. 25:31 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT LIBERTY IN CHRIST. 25:33 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO ABUSE WHAT THAT LIBERTY 25:35 REALLY LOOKS LIKE. WHAT THEY WANT IS LIBERTY TO SIN. 25:39 LIBERTY IN CHRIST IS A LIBERTY THAT COMES FROM SURRENDERING AND 25:42 BEING WILLING TO OBEY. YOU HAVE GREAT FREEDOM IN THE LORD. 25:47 PSALM 119:44-45, "SO SHALL I KEEP YOUR LAW CONTINUALLY, 25:52 FOREVER AND EVER. 25:53 AND I WILL WALK AT LIBERTY, FOR I SEEK YOUR PRECEPTS." 25:59 DO YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT FREEDOM? 26:00 DO YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT LIBERTY? 26:02 IF YOU LOOK IN JAMES 1, VERSE 22, "BUT BE DOERS OF THE WORD, 26:09 AND NOT HEARERS ONLY, DECEIVING YOURSELVES. 26:12 FOR IF ANYONE IS A HEARER OF THE WORD AND NOT A DOER, HE IS LIKE 26:15 A MAN OBSERVING HIS NATURAL FACE IN A MIRROR; FOR HE OBSERVES 26:19 HIMSELF, GOES AWAY, AND IMMEDIATELY FORGETS 26:22 WHAT KIND OF MAN HE WAS. 26:24 BUT HE WHO LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AND 26:28 CONTINUES IN IT, AND IS NOT A FORGETFUL HEARER BUT A DOER OF 26:33 THE WORK, THIS ONE WILL BE BLESSED..." BLESSED. 26:37 WE'RE REALLY DEALING WITH A BOTTOM-LINE ISSUE HERE. 26:41 THE WISEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED, HE SAID, LET US HEAR THE 26:44 CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER - ECCLESIASTES, CHAPTER 12, 'FEAR 26:48 GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF 26:51 MAN. FOR GOD WILL BRING EVERY THING 26:54 INTO JUDGMENT WITH EVERY SECRET WORK. 26:56 WHETHER IT BE GOOD OR EVIL.' AND I HOPE YOU'LL PRAY THAT WE WILL 26:59 BE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THAT PEACE, THAT JOY, THAT LIBERTY IN 27:02 CHRIST, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO BE HEARERS OF THE WORD, 27:06 WE'RE GOING TO BE DOERS ALSO. 27:10 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 27:12 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH- 27:15 FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY 27:19 AT 'AFTV.ORG'. AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO 27:26 PRESENTATIONS AS WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 27:30 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR 27:34 MOBILE DEVICE. VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. 27:39 >>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING WHERE I AM TODAY - 27:42 I FELT GOOD ABOUT THAT. I DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED. 27:45 >>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE AND - 27:47 >>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - 27:49 >>I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 27:51 >>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. >>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME. 27:53 >>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. 27:55 >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST WHEREVER HE GOES. 27:57 >>AMAZING FACTS. MORE THAN 45 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING 28:01 GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 28:04 >>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 28:08 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS 28:10 WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE 28:13 I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE 28:17 NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK 28:19 THROUGH AND FIND THIS. THEN I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 28:22 >>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF 28:25 THESE GUYS STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF. 28:28 >>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' 28:32 THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS 28:35 A FATHER. >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS 28:39 WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE. 28:42 >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. 28:46 THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT, 28:50 'THIS IS REAL. THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 28:55 (MUSIC) 29:25 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 29:28 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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