>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:00:01.33\00:00:02.63 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:02.66\00:00:11.54 >>IF THERE ARE ANY WORDS IMPORTANT, IT WOULD BE THE WORDS 00:00:11.57\00:00:13.07 OF GOD ENGRAVEN IN STONE. CHRIST WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE WORD. 00:00:13.11\00:00:17.95 HIS LIFE WAS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD. 00:00:17.98\00:00:24.59 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:00:24.62\00:00:26.99 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:27.02\00:00:29.82 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:00:29.86\00:00:33.33 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:00:33.36\00:00:36.16 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 00:00:36.20\00:00:45.07 >>WELCOME ONCE AGAIN TO LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY. 00:00:45.11\00:00:48.41 WE'RE SO THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE HERE. AND TONIGHT WE'RE 00:00:48.44\00:00:51.05 CONTINUING OUR SERIES WITH A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY. 00:00:51.08\00:00:53.25 IT'S THE TOPIC OF THE UNCHANGEABLE LAW . 00:00:53.28\00:00:57.42 WELL, AS WE ALWAYS DO, WE'RE GOING TO USE A BIBLE STORY SORT 00:00:57.45\00:01:00.66 OF AS A SPRINGBOARD INTO THIS SUBJECT. 00:01:00.69\00:01:03.49 IF YOU LOOK INTO YOUR BIBLE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 6, YOU'LL 00:01:03.53\00:01:06.66 RECOGNIZE THE STORY THERE. IT'S ABOUT DANIEL. 00:01:06.70\00:01:09.56 ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES WE OFTEN SAVE FOR THE CHILDREN, 00:01:09.60\00:01:12.70 DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN. 00:01:12.73\00:01:14.47 YOU SEE, AFTER THE BABYLONIAN KINGDOM FELL TO THE PERSIANS, 00:01:14.50\00:01:17.87 THE NEW PERSIAN KING, DARIUS, WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH DANIEL'S 00:01:17.91\00:01:22.24 ABILITY AND HIS WONDERFUL SPIRIT HE HAD, THAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT 00:01:22.28\00:01:26.88 MAKING HIM THE PRIME MINISTER OF HIS NEW KINGDOM. WELL, YOU CAN 00:01:26.92\00:01:32.19 IMAGINE THAT DIDN'T GO OVER VERY WELL WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF 00:01:32.22\00:01:35.76 DARIUS' CABINET BECAUSE DANIEL WAS A FORMER SERVANT OF 00:01:35.79\00:01:39.13 NEBUCHADNEZZAR. THAT WAS THE ENEMY. 00:01:39.16\00:01:41.40 DANIEL WAS A FORMER CAPTIVE FROM AMONG THE ISRAELITES. 00:01:41.43\00:01:45.20 WHY WOULD THE KING WANT TO PROMOTE SOMEBODY WHO WAS BOTH A 00:01:45.23\00:01:48.47 FOREIGNER AND A MEMBER OF THE FORMER KINGDOM TO BE THE NEW 00:01:48.50\00:01:51.77 PRIME MINISTER? SO THEY CAME UP WITH A PLOT. 00:01:51.81\00:01:55.21 THEY WENT TO KING DARIUS AND THEY SAID, 'YOUR HIGHNESS, 00:01:55.24\00:01:58.75 IT'S A NEW KINGDOM. WE'VE CONQUERED SEVERAL OTHER 00:01:58.78\00:02:01.05 EMPIRES; IN ORDER TO GET EVERYONE TOGETHER - THE BEST WAY 00:02:01.08\00:02:03.05 TO DO THAT IS THROUGH COMMON WORSHIP.' THAT'S TRUE, THE DEVIL 00:02:03.08\00:02:07.79 OFTEN DOES THAT. WHEN YOU CAN'T GET PEOPLE TO 00:02:07.82\00:02:10.76 JOIN TOGETHER BECAUSE OF COMMON LANGUAGE OR COMMON CULTURE, 00:02:10.79\00:02:15.66 COMMON RELIGION IS OFTEN THE BEST WAY TO DO IT. 00:02:15.70\00:02:19.87 AND SO, THEY SAID, 'IF YOU MAKE A LAW - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LAST 00:02:19.90\00:02:24.07 LONG, JUST 30 DAYS - THAT NOBODY WORSHIPS ANY GOD EXCEPT FOR YOU, 00:02:24.11\00:02:29.11 THAT'LL SOLIDIFY THE KINGDOM.' YOU CAN READ IN DANIEL 6:8, HE 00:02:29.14\00:02:34.15 SIGNED THE DECREE - YOU CAN'T PRAY TO ANY GOD OR MAN FOR 30 00:02:34.18\00:02:37.82 DAYS AND, BY THE WAY, THERE'S A PENALTY IF YOU BREAK IT: YOU GO 00:02:37.85\00:02:40.96 TO THE LION'S DEN.' BUT THE KING NEVER DREAMED ANYBODY WOULD 00:02:40.99\00:02:44.16 BREAK IT AND HE DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT THEY WERE UP TO, SO HE 00:02:44.19\00:02:46.39 SIGNED IT. AND IT SAYS, 'ACCORDING TO THE 00:02:46.43\00:02:49.06 LAW OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS WHICH DOES NOT ALTER.' 00:02:49.10\00:02:53.20 ONCE YOU SIGN THE KING'S LAW, YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT. 00:02:53.23\00:02:56.97 SO, THE BIBLE - HERE'S ONE OF THE GREAT VERSES IN THE BIBLE: 00:02:57.01\00:03:01.98 DANIEL 6, VERSE 10, "NOW WHEN DANIEL KNEW THAT THE WRITING WAS 00:03:02.01\00:03:05.08 SIGNED, HE WENT INTO HIS HOUSE; AND HIS WINDOWS BEING OPEN IN 00:03:05.11\00:03:08.25 HIS CHAMBER TOWARD JERUSALEM, HE KNEELED UPON HIS KNEES THREE 00:03:08.28\00:03:13.76 TIMES A DAY, AND PRAYED, AND GAVE THANKS BEFORE HIS GOD," - 00:03:13.79\00:03:19.29 DID DANIEL KNOW WHAT THE PENALTY WAS FOR THIS LAW? 00:03:19.33\00:03:21.26 IT SAYS HE KNEW ABOUT IT AND HE'S STILL THANKING GOD. 00:03:21.30\00:03:23.67 HE DID NOTHING TO HIDE HIS LIGHT UNDER A BUSH. 00:03:23.70\00:03:27.17 BUT HE THOUGHT, 'I'M NOT GOING TO HIDE MY FAITH FROM ANYBODY.' 00:03:27.20\00:03:30.44 AND SO HE OPENED HIS WINDOWS. 00:03:30.47\00:03:32.91 WELL, SOON THESE ENEMIES, THEY WENT TO THE KING AND THEY SAID, 00:03:32.94\00:03:37.31 'YOU KNOW THAT LAW THAT YOU SIGNED?' 00:03:37.35\00:03:39.41 THE KING SAID, 'YEP, LAW OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS - IT 00:03:39.45\00:03:41.48 CANNOT CHANGE.' THEY SAID, 'WELL, THERE'S SOMEONE IN YOUR 00:03:41.52\00:03:43.59 KINGDOM THAT JUST DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LAW, IT'S DANIEL. 00:03:43.62\00:03:46.42 HE'S PRAYING THREE TIMES A DAY.' KING DARIUS SAID, 'OH NO!' 00:03:46.45\00:03:52.99 THE BIBLE SAYS HE LABORED TIL THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN TO 00:03:53.03\00:03:55.90 DELIVER DANIEL BUT HE COULDN'T BECAUSE HE COULDN'T CHANGE HIS 00:03:55.93\00:03:59.30 OWN LAW. SO RIGHT ABOUT THE GOING DOWN OF 00:03:59.33\00:04:02.80 THE SUN, HE HAD DANIEL BROUGHT TO THE LION'S DEN. DANIEL SAID 00:04:02.84\00:04:07.78 - THE KING SPOKE TO DANIEL AND HE PUT HIM IN THE LION'S 00:04:07.81\00:04:10.11 DEN AND HE SAID, 'I KNOW THAT YOUR GOD THAT YOU SERVE 00:04:10.15\00:04:12.28 CONTINUALLY, HE WILL DELIVER YOU.' AND THEY PUT A STONE OVER 00:04:12.31\00:04:17.09 THE LION'S DEN AND THEY SEALED IT WITH A GOVERNMENT SEAL. 00:04:17.12\00:04:21.09 AND THEN THE NEXT DAY IT TELLS US THAT EARLY IN THE MORNING, 00:04:21.12\00:04:25.63 THE KING CAME TO THE TOMB AND HE SAID - THEY ROLLED AWAY THE 00:04:25.66\00:04:31.70 STONE - 'DANIEL, HAS YOUR GOD THAT YOU SERVE CONTINUALLY BEEN 00:04:31.73\00:04:33.70 ABLE TO DELIVER YOU FROM THE LIONS?' 00:04:33.74\00:04:35.97 AND DANIEL SAID, 'MY GOD HAS SENT HIS ANGEL AND SHUT THE 00:04:36.00\00:04:38.94 LIONS' MOUTHS.' AND NO FORM OF HARM OR HURT WAS ON DANIEL, THE 00:04:38.97\00:04:43.41 BIBLE SAYS, BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN HIS GOD. 00:04:43.45\00:04:46.11 WELL, HE HAD AN INTERESTING WAY OF BELIEVING - HE SHOWED HIS 00:04:46.15\00:04:49.58 BELIEF, DIDN'T HE? THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS - HE BELIEVED IN GOD. 00:04:49.62\00:04:51.95 NOW THIS STORY TELLS US THAT DANIEL SAID THERE ARE TEN 00:04:51.99\00:04:56.26 COMMANDMENTS AND ONE COMMANDMENT SAYS, 'THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER 00:04:56.29\00:04:59.76 GODS BEFORE ME' - NOT EVEN KING DARIUS. NOT EVEN FOR 30 DAYS. 00:04:59.79\00:05:04.47 AND HE WAS WILLING TO DIE RATHER THAN DISOBEY. WHAT KIND OF FAITH 00:05:04.50\00:05:11.61 AND DETERMINATION DO GOD'S PEOPLE NEED IN THE LAST DAYS? 00:05:11.64\00:05:14.04 IS THERE GOING TO BE A LAW THAT SAYS 'HE WHO DOES NOT WORSHIP 00:05:14.08\00:05:17.35 THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE SHOULD BE KILLED? FIRST THEY CAN'T 00:05:17.38\00:05:20.62 BUY OR SELL, BUT ULTIMATELY IT SAYS THEY SHOULD BE KILLED. 00:05:20.65\00:05:22.92 AND WORSHIPING THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE IS GOING TO REQUIRE 00:05:22.95\00:05:26.02 BREAKING ONE OF GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. 00:05:26.05\00:05:28.09 DO YOU LOVE THE LORD AND HIS WORD SO MUCH THAT YOU WOULD 00:05:28.12\00:05:30.83 RATHER DIE - RATHER GO HUNGRY - THAN DISOBEY? 00:05:30.86\00:05:35.83 THIS IS A TEST THAT WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 00:05:35.86\00:05:40.20 ARE NOT MULTIPLE CHOICE AND THAT'S OUR SUBJECT. 00:05:40.24\00:05:44.74 NUMBER 1: CAN GOD'S MORAL LAW BE AMENDED OR REPEALED? 00:05:44.77\00:05:50.38 ANSWER: JESUS TELLS US IN LUKE 16, VERSE 17 - HE SAYS, "IT IS 00:05:50.41\00:05:55.92 EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO" - WHAT? 00:05:55.95\00:05:59.12 >>PASS AWAY. 00:05:59.15\00:06:00.22 >>"PASS AWAY THAN FOR ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL." 00:06:00.26\00:06:03.86 THAT'S A HEBREW TERM - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE LITTLE 00:06:03.89\00:06:06.63 CROSSING OF A 'T' - IT'S EVEN SMALLER THAN THE CROSSING OF A 00:06:06.66\00:06:08.80 'T' - EVEN THE SLIGHTEST THING - A JOT OR A TITTLE IS LIKE A 00:06:08.83\00:06:11.97 LITTLE PERIOD OR A LITTLE CROSSING OF A 'T' - IT SAYS 00:06:12.00\00:06:14.60 HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY BEFORE EVEN THAT MUCH OF THE LAW 00:06:14.64\00:06:17.67 PASSES AWAY. YOU CAN ALSO READ IN PSALM 89, 00:06:17.71\00:06:22.88 VERSE 34, GOD SAYS, "MY COVENANT I WILL NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE 00:06:22.91\00:06:31.19 WORD THAT HAS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS." GOD IS NOT GOING TO 00:06:31.22\00:06:35.19 BREAK HIS COVENANT. IT'S FOREVER AND EVER. 00:06:35.22\00:06:38.46 AND THEN YOU HAVE ONE MORE IN PSALM 111, VERSES 7 AND 8, 00:06:38.49\00:06:43.90 "ALL HIS PRECEPTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FAST FOREVER AND EVER." 00:06:43.93\00:06:51.51 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DID NOT SUDDENLY APPEAR IN EXODUS. 00:06:51.54\00:06:55.61 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED BECAUSE THEY ARE A 00:06:55.64\00:06:59.25 REFLECTION OF GOD'S NATURE. HOW DO I KNOW THAT? WHEN THE WOMAN - 00:06:59.28\00:07:04.49 POTIPHAR'S WIFE - TEMPTED JOSEPH TO COMMIT ADULTERY IN THE 00:07:04.52\00:07:08.69 BOOK OF GENESIS, JOSEPH SAID, 'I CAN'T DO THAT. IT'S A SIN.' 00:07:08.72\00:07:13.33 DID THEY KNOW, EVEN IN GENESIS, THAT ADULTERY WAS A SIN? 00:07:13.36\00:07:16.43 WHEN CAIN KILLED ABEL, GOD TOLD HIM, 'SIN LIES AT YOUR DOOR.' 00:07:16.46\00:07:24.14 AND SIN IS THE BREAKING OF GOD'S LAW. 00:07:24.17\00:07:25.81 WAS MURDER A SIN EVEN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? 00:07:25.84\00:07:28.74 OR DID MURDER - MURDER WASN'T A SIN UNTIL GOD WROTE IT DOWN AT 00:07:28.78\00:07:32.08 MOUNT SINAI? OF COURSE IT WAS. 00:07:32.11\00:07:34.78 WAS IT WRONG TO LIE ALL THE WAY FROM THE BEGINNING? 00:07:34.82\00:07:37.49 AND SO, SEE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS GO ALL THE WAY BACK. 00:07:37.52\00:07:40.32 GOD SIMPLY CODIFIED IT SO THAT THEY WOULD ALL KNOW - VERY 00:07:40.36\00:07:42.76 CLEAR, NO MISUNDERSTANDING, APPROXIMATELY 300 WORDS - 00:07:42.79\00:07:46.80 THIS IS MY PERFECT WILL. THAT LAW IS COMPREHENSIVE FOR 00:07:46.83\00:07:50.53 ALL MAN - IT'S NOT FOR ONE NATION, IT'S FOR PEOPLE 00:07:50.57\00:07:53.64 EVERYWHERE. WHEN YOU DO AWAY WITH THE LAW OF 00:07:53.67\00:07:56.40 GOD, YOU'RE DOING AWAY WITH THE NATURE OF GOD. 00:07:56.44\00:07:59.37 NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR LESSON YOU'LL SEE, FOR INSTANCE, THE 00:07:59.41\00:08:01.98 BIBLE SAYS, 'GOD IS GOOD.' DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS ALSO, 00:08:02.01\00:08:07.72 'THE LAW IS GOOD'? THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD IS HOLY. 00:08:07.75\00:08:11.92 THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS THAT THE LAW IS HOLY. 00:08:11.95\00:08:15.96 YOU CAN READ WHERE IT SAYS GOD IS RIGHTEOUS, GOD IS TRUTH, GOD 00:08:15.99\00:08:19.36 IS PURE, GOD IS SPIRITUAL, GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE, GOD IS ETERNAL. 00:08:19.39\00:08:22.93 THESE ARE ALSO ALL THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LAW SO 00:08:22.96\00:08:27.14 WE'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT TRYING TO DO AWAY WITH THE 00:08:27.17\00:08:29.90 LAW BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS THE VERY NATURE OF GOD. 00:08:29.94\00:08:34.34 JESUS WAS THE WORD BECAME FLESH. CHRIST SAID, 'HE THAT HEARS 00:08:34.38\00:08:39.78 THESE WORDS OF MINE IS BUILDING ON A' - WHAT? 00:08:39.81\00:08:42.45 - WISE MAN BUILDING ON... >>THE ROCK. 00:08:42.48\00:08:44.72 >>THE ROCK. WHAT WERE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 00:08:44.75\00:08:46.55 WRITTEN ON? IF THERE ARE ANY WORDS 00:08:46.59\00:08:48.46 IMPORTANT, IT WOULD BE THE WORDS OF GOD ENGRAVEN IN STONE. 00:08:48.49\00:08:52.06 CHRIST WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE WORD. 00:08:52.09\00:08:53.96 HIS LIFE WAS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD. 00:08:54.00\00:08:58.93 AND THEN, AS CHRISTIANS, HE SAYS, 'FOLLOW ME.' NOW, 00:08:58.97\00:09:02.74 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN? 00:09:02.77\00:09:06.51 I MEAN, JESUS CAME TO SAVE US FROM SIN. 00:09:06.54\00:09:09.34 WHAT IS IT THAT HE'S SAVING US FROM? 00:09:09.38\00:09:11.45 1 JOHN 3, VERSE 4 - THE BIBLE SAYS, "SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION 00:09:11.48\00:09:18.92 OF" - WHAT? OF THE LAW. SIN IS - IT'S LIKE A DICTIONARY 00:09:18.95\00:09:21.62 DEFINITION: 'SIN IS THE BREAKING OF - OR THE TRANSGRESSION OF - 00:09:21.66\00:09:25.39 THE LAW.' ROMANS 3:20 SAID, "BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF 00:09:25.43\00:09:31.73 SIN." WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT SIN IS 00:09:31.77\00:09:34.27 EXCEPT BY THE LAW. GOD'S LAW REVEALS WHAT SIN IS. 00:09:34.30\00:09:37.41 NOW, THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW, THOUGH, AND THIS IS A VERY 00:09:37.44\00:09:41.61 IMPORTANT POINT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, IS NOT TO SAVE US. 00:09:41.64\00:09:44.18 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW IS TO SIMPLY SHOW US 00:09:44.21\00:09:47.98 OUR NEED OF SALVATION. NOW I'M GOING TO JUST ILLUSTRATE THIS. 00:09:48.02\00:09:51.45 NOW I JUST DID SOMETHING TO CHANGE MY APPEARANCE. 00:09:51.49\00:09:55.16 I DON'T SEE ANYTHING DIFFERENT. YOU SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 00:09:55.19\00:10:02.23 WOULD IT DISTRACT YOU IF I WENT THROUGH THE REST OF THE PROGRAM 00:10:02.26\00:10:04.90 LIKE THIS? IT WOULD. SO WHAT DO I NEED? 00:10:04.93\00:10:09.17 AH, HOW CONVENIENT. SO I FEEL FINE. 00:10:09.20\00:10:15.31 I DON'T SEE THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM. 00:10:15.34\00:10:16.98 I LOOK IN THIS DEVICE AND I GO, 'EW!' 00:10:17.01\00:10:19.08 IT REALLY IS THE FIRST TIME I LOOKED. 00:10:19.11\00:10:20.68 THAT'S KIND OF EMBARRASSING. 00:10:20.72\00:10:22.78 SO SINCE THE MIRROR SHOWED ME I'VE GOT A PROBLEM, IT OBVIOUSLY 00:10:22.82\00:10:27.49 SHOULD BE THE MEANS OF REMOVING THE PROBLEM, RIGHT? 00:10:27.52\00:10:30.49 SO IF I JUST WHACK MYSELF IN THE HEAD WITH THE MIRROR IT'LL ALL 00:10:30.53\00:10:33.80 GO AWAY. WOULD THAT FIX IT? IF I RUB THE MIRROR ON THE MARK 00:10:33.83\00:10:37.63 OR THE TAPE, WILL THAT TAKE IT AWAY? 00:10:37.67\00:10:40.40 THIS SHOWS US THE PROBLEM, BUT IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE 00:10:40.44\00:10:43.97 PROBLEM AWAY. YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING THE 00:10:44.01\00:10:46.17 LAW, THE LAW DOESN'T SAVE YOU FROM ANYTHING. 00:10:46.21\00:10:47.98 THE LAW IS THERE TO SHOW US OUR NEED OF SALVATION. BUT THEN, 00:10:48.01\00:10:51.51 IF I TAKE THIS AND USE THE BLOOD, IT TAKES AWAY THE SIN. 00:10:51.55\00:10:55.75 NOW THE REASON I MENTION THIS - IT SAYS IN THE BOOK OF JAMES, 00:10:55.78\00:10:59.19 'WHOEVER LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW THAT GIVES LIBERTY AND 00:10:59.22\00:11:02.92 CONTINUES THEREIN, BEING NOT JUST A HEARER BUT A DOER OF THE 00:11:02.96\00:11:06.49 WORD, THIS MAN WILL BE BLESSED.' THE LAW OF GOD IS COMPARED TO A 00:11:06.53\00:11:09.50 MIRROR. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE AWAY 00:11:09.53\00:11:13.34 OUR SIN, IT'S SUPPOSED TO SHOW US OUR NEED. 00:11:13.37\00:11:15.34 THEN YOU GO TO JESUS FOR CLEANSING. 00:11:15.37\00:11:17.01 BUT, IF IT'S NOT A SIN TO BREAK THE LAW - IF THERE'S NO LAW, 00:11:17.04\00:11:23.75 THERE'S NO SIN, RIGHT? THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHERE THERE IS 00:11:23.78\00:11:26.65 NO LAW THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION.' THAT'S WHAT PAUL 00:11:26.68\00:11:29.15 SAID, 'WHERE THERE IS NO LAW, THERE'S NO TRANSGRESSION.' SO IF 00:11:29.18\00:11:32.05 THERE IS NO LAW THERE'S NO TRANSGRESSION. 00:11:32.09\00:11:34.59 IF THERE'S NO SIN, THEN WHO NEEDS A SAVIOR? 00:11:34.62\00:11:37.83 CAN YOU SEE WHY THE DEVIL WOULD BE ATTACKING THE LAW? 00:11:37.86\00:11:41.96 BECAUSE IF THERE'S NO LAW THEN THERE'S NO SIN. 00:11:42.00\00:11:44.20 IF THERE'S NO SIN YOU DON'T NEED JESUS. 00:11:44.23\00:11:45.90 AND SO, THAT'S THE LOGIC BEHIND IT. 00:11:45.93\00:11:48.67 NUMBER 3: TO WHAT LAW IS JOHN REFERRING? 00:11:48.70\00:11:52.17 PAUL TELLS US IN ROMANS CHAPTER 7, VERSE 7 - HE SAID, 'I HAD NOT 00:11:52.21\00:11:57.18 KNOWN SIN BUT BY THE LAW. FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST EXCEPT 00:11:57.21\00:12:03.05 THE LAW HAD SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT COVET.' HERE HE IS QUOTING 00:12:03.08\00:12:07.06 FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, ISN'T HE? 00:12:07.09\00:12:08.99 HE'S SAYING, 'I BECOME AWARE OF WHAT MY SIN IS BY LOOKING AT THE 00:12:09.02\00:12:13.16 LAW.' DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:12:13.19\00:12:16.87 JOHN 15, VERSE 10 HE SAID, "I HAVE" - WHAT? - "I HAVE KEPT 00:12:16.90\00:12:22.64 MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND ABIDE IN HIS LOVE." 00:12:22.67\00:12:26.74 WE'VE GOT TO HAVE - 'THY WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART THAT I 00:12:26.78\00:12:31.55 MIGHT NOT SIN.' WE NEED TO HAVE THE LAW OF GOD 00:12:31.58\00:12:34.22 IN OUR HEADS AND IN OUR HEARTS OR WE'RE GOING TO GET MIXED UP 00:12:34.25\00:12:36.38 IN THIS CULTURE, AMEN? >>AMEN. 00:12:36.42\00:12:38.22 >>NUMBER 5: WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR LIVING A LIFE OF 00:12:38.25\00:12:41.72 SIN? ROMANS 6:23, "FOR THE WAGES OF 00:12:41.76\00:12:45.06 SIN IS DEATH." PRETTY SERIOUS. 00:12:45.09\00:12:48.33 SIN IS A DEADLY, CONTAGIOUS DISEASE AND GOD HAS TO USE 00:12:48.36\00:12:51.33 DRASTIC MEASURES. WE'VE SEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY 00:12:51.37\00:12:54.87 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SOMEONE EVEN THOUGHT SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT HAVE 00:12:54.90\00:12:58.21 EBOLA BECAUSE IT'S A DEADLY DISEASE - ROUGHLY 50 TO 60 00:12:58.24\00:13:02.11 PERCENT, DEPENDING ON WHAT COUNTRY YOU'RE IN WHEN YOU GET 00:13:02.14\00:13:04.61 IT - THAT THEY QUICKLY QUARANTINE PEOPLE. 00:13:04.65\00:13:06.65 WELL, SIN IS EVEN MORE DEADLY THAN EBOLA. 00:13:06.68\00:13:08.65 AND SO GOD SAYS, 'WE CAN'T ALLOW IT TO SPREAD THROUGH THE 00:13:08.68\00:13:11.52 UNIVERSE. THE PENALTY IS DEATH. UNLESS WE GET A TRANSFUSION OF 00:13:11.55\00:13:14.89 THE BLOOD OF JESUS, WE'RE IN TROUBLE. 00:13:14.92\00:13:17.69 SOME SAY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT BINDING FOR NEW 00:13:17.73\00:13:21.06 TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS. WHAT DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THIS? 00:13:21.10\00:13:24.50 MATTHEW 19, VERSE 17 - HE SAID, "BUT IF YOU WILL ENTER INTO 00:13:24.53\00:13:29.80 LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." WELL OBVIOUSLY, FOR A STARTING 00:13:29.84\00:13:35.11 POINT, HE WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:13:35.14\00:13:38.78 YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 14, VERSE 15, JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME 00:13:38.81\00:13:44.35 KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." A LOT OF PASTORS SAY TODAY, 'WE 00:13:44.39\00:13:49.92 DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE BECAUSE 00:13:49.96\00:13:52.09 JESUS FULFILLED THE LAW.' WELL, WHAT DOES 'FULFILL' MEAN? 00:13:52.13\00:13:55.93 WHEN CHRIST CAME TO JOHN THE BAPTIST TO BE BAPTIZED, JOHN 00:13:55.96\00:13:58.97 SAID TO JESUS, 'NO, YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME BECAUSE YOU'RE THE 00:13:59.00\00:14:04.57 MESSIAH.' JESUS SAID, 'NO, JOHN, ALLOW IT TO BE THIS WAY NOW FOR 00:14:04.61\00:14:08.38 THUS IT BECOMES US TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' SO WHEN 00:14:08.41\00:14:13.58 JESUS SAID, 'FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS,' 00:14:13.62\00:14:15.22 DOES THAT MEAN DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS? 00:14:15.25\00:14:17.59 SOME PEOPLE READ THAT VERSE: 'THINK NOT THAT I'VE COME TO 00:14:17.62\00:14:20.92 DESTROY THE LAW.' THEY CHANGE IT WHERE JESUS SAYS 'THINK NOT THAT 00:14:20.96\00:14:24.66 I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE LAW, I'VE ACTUALLY COME TO DO AWAY 00:14:24.69\00:14:26.93 WITH IT.' THAT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. 00:14:26.96\00:14:29.23 HE OBVIOUSLY WANTS US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:14:29.26\00:14:32.67 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS? 00:14:32.70\00:14:35.34 NOW, SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 00:14:35.37\00:14:38.91 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I AM TEMPTED EVERY DAY. 00:14:38.94\00:14:41.88 AM I ALONE? EVERY DAY I HAVE OPPORTUNITIES 00:14:41.91\00:14:45.48 TO DO THE WRONG THING. AND EVERY DAY I HAVE 00:14:45.51\00:14:48.38 OPPORTUNITIES TO FOLLOW JESUS AND MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS. 00:14:48.42\00:14:51.25 IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO DO WHAT GOD ASKS US TO DO? 00:14:51.29\00:14:55.49 ROMANS 8, VERSE 3 - GOD, SENDING HIS OWN SON, IN THE LIKENESS OF 00:14:55.52\00:15:03.16 SINFUL FLESH, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS 00:15:03.20\00:15:07.64 OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US WHICH WALK NOT AFTER THE 00:15:07.67\00:15:12.81 FLESH BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. IT IS POSSIBLE. 00:15:12.84\00:15:15.88 PHILIPPIANS 1, VERSE 6, "HE WHO HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU 00:15:15.91\00:15:20.75 WILL COMPLETE IT UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST." YOU KNOW, A 00:15:20.78\00:15:26.02 FEW YEARS AGO, MATTER OF FACT, JOHN LOMACANG WAS WITH ME. 00:15:26.05\00:15:30.33 WE WERE DOING A DEBATE - A FRIENDLY DEBATE ON TELEVISION 00:15:30.36\00:15:33.56 WITH JOHN AND I AND TWO OTHER MINISTERS AND THE SUBJECT OF THE 00:15:33.60\00:15:37.07 DEBATE WAS THE LAW OF GOD AND THE MINISTERS WERE SAYING THAT 00:15:37.10\00:15:41.57 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WAS PART OF THE OLD COVENANT AND NOBODY 00:15:41.60\00:15:44.67 COULD REALLY KEEP THE LAW AND GOD DIDN'T EXPECT US TO. 00:15:44.71\00:15:48.68 AND SO I ASKED, 'CAN THE DEVIL TEMPT US TO SIN?' 00:15:48.71\00:15:55.28 THEY SAID, 'WELL, OF COURSE.' AND I SAID, 'SO YOU BELIEVE THE 00:15:55.32\00:15:58.45 DEVIL HAS THE POWER TO GET US TO SIN, BUT YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT 00:15:58.49\00:16:02.26 GOD HAS THE POWER TO KEEP US FROM SIN? 00:16:02.29\00:16:04.53 SO IN EFFECT, YOU'RE SAYING YOUR DEVIL'S MORE POWERFUL THAN YOUR 00:16:04.56\00:16:07.66 GOD.' ISN'T THAT WHAT - I MEAN, THAT'S WHERE THAT GOES. 00:16:07.73\00:16:11.17 HOW MUCH CAN I DO THROUGH CHRIST? 00:16:11.20\00:16:13.84 WITHOUT HIM HOW MUCH CAN WE DO? NOTHING. 00:16:13.87\00:16:17.01 THROUGH CHRIST, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. 00:16:17.04\00:16:18.77 WHAT IS THE OLD COVENANT AND WHY DID IT FAIL? 00:16:18.81\00:16:22.28 ALRIGHT, FIRST LET'S LOOK AND FIND OUT WHAT THAT WAS. 00:16:22.31\00:16:24.51 YOU GO TO DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4, VERSE 13 AND YOU'LL FIND THE OLD 00:16:24.55\00:16:28.42 COVENANT MENTIONED THERE. "SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS 00:16:28.45\00:16:32.05 COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, EVEN" - HOW MANY? 00:16:32.09\00:16:37.69 >>TEN. >>"TEN COMMANDMENTS; AND HE 00:16:37.73\00:16:39.96 WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE." 00:16:40.00\00:16:42.26 AND SO IT TELLS US THAT THE OLD COVENANT WAS THE TEN 00:16:42.30\00:16:45.23 COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON THESE TWO TABLES OF STONE - 00:16:45.27\00:16:48.27 WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF GOD. 00:16:48.30\00:16:49.77 NOW, RIGHT AFTER THE LORD MADE THE COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE - 00:16:49.80\00:16:53.61 YOU KNOW WHAT A COVENANT IS - IT'S AN AGREEMENT. 00:16:53.64\00:16:55.41 GOD SPOKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THERE IN EXODUS 20. 00:16:55.44\00:16:58.18 MOSES LATER BRINGS DOWN THE WRITTEN COPY, BUT WHILE HE'S UP 00:16:58.21\00:17:01.68 ON THE HILL GETTING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHAT DO THE 00:17:01.72\00:17:04.15 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO? AND SO THE BIBLE SAYS IN HEBREWS 00:17:04.19\00:17:07.66 8, VERSE 8, "BECAUSE FINDING FAULT WITH THEM." 00:17:07.69\00:17:13.56 NOW WAS THE FAULT OF THE OLD COVENANT WITH THE COVENANT AND 00:17:13.60\00:17:16.06 THE LAW OR WAS IT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MADE A PROMISE? 00:17:16.10\00:17:19.13 YOU SEE, THE NEW COVENANT IS BASED ON BETTER PROMISES. 00:17:19.17\00:17:22.74 THE OLD COVENANT WAS BASED ON THE PROMISE OF THE PEOPLE. 00:17:22.77\00:17:25.91 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO IT.' THE NEW COVENANT IS 00:17:25.94\00:17:29.24 BASED ON THE PROMISE OF THE LORD. 00:17:29.28\00:17:31.35 IT SAYS, IN HEBREWS 8, VERSE 10, "FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I 00:17:31.38\00:17:36.89 WILL MAKE WITH (THEM) SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN 00:17:36.92\00:17:42.19 THEIR MIND AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS." AND SO GOD SAYS 00:17:42.22\00:17:47.50 HE'S GOING TO PUT THE LAW WHERE? IN THE HEART. HE SAYS, 'I'M 00:17:47.50\00:17:50.90 GOING TO WRITE A DIFFERENT LAW ON THEIR HEART. IT'S NOT A 00:17:50.93\00:17:53.74 DIFFERENT LAW - SAME LAW, DIFFERENT PLACE - SAME LAW, NOT 00:17:53.77\00:17:58.44 THEIR PROMISES, HIS PROMISE. WHO SPOKE THE FIRST LAW? GOD DID. 00:17:58.47\00:18:05.05 WAS THE PROBLEM WITH THE LAW OR WITH THE PEOPLE? 00:18:05.08\00:18:07.98 DOES GOD EVER COMMAND ANYBODY TO DO SOMETHING WITHOUT GIVING THEM 00:18:08.02\00:18:11.65 THE POWER TO DO WHAT HE'S ASKED THEM TO DO? 00:18:11.69\00:18:14.02 INHERENT IN EVERY COMMAND OF GOD IS BUILT THE POWER TO PERFORM 00:18:14.06\00:18:19.09 WHAT HE'S ASKING. THAT IS A SIMPLE - IF GOD SAYS, 00:18:19.13\00:18:22.66 'I WANT YOU TO WALK ACROSS THAT OCEAN THERE.' DON'T ARGUE. 00:18:22.70\00:18:25.53 YOU'LL EITHER WALK ON WATER LIKE PETER OR HE'LL PART THE OCEAN. 00:18:25.57\00:18:28.84 I MEAN, WHEN GOD ASKS YOU TO DO SOMETHING, YOU DO IT. 00:18:28.87\00:18:31.77 AND THAT'S CALLED OBEDIENCE AND WE'RE LIVING IN AN AGE WHERE, 00:18:31.81\00:18:36.54 EVEN IN SOME CHURCHES, THEY'RE ACTING LIKE OBEDIENCE IS 00:18:36.58\00:18:39.28 LEGALISM. OBEDIENCE IS NOT LEGALISM. THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO 00:18:39.31\00:18:43.85 INTIMIDATE CHRISTIANS. AS SOON AS YOU TALK ABOUT THE 00:18:43.89\00:18:46.09 LAW, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET CALLED? 00:18:46.12\00:18:48.06 A DIRTY WORD AMONG CHRISTIANS - LEGALIST, PHARISEE - AND SO WHAT 00:18:48.09\00:18:52.76 HAPPENED IS PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH HAVE BEEN SO INTIMIDATED BY 00:18:52.79\00:18:55.10 THOSE TERMS, THE PENDULUM HAS SWUNG TO THE OTHER SIDE AND NOW 00:18:55.13\00:18:57.50 EVERYBODY IS SO AFRAID TO BE ACCUSED OF BEING A PHARISEE OR 00:18:57.53\00:19:00.77 LEGALIST, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE LAW. JESUS DID. 00:19:00.80\00:19:05.01 DOESN'T LIVING UNDER GRACE BY FAITH MAKE KEEPING GOD'S LAW 00:19:05.04\00:19:08.98 NON-ESSENTIAL? ROMANS 6:15, "WHAT THEN? 00:19:09.01\00:19:13.08 SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE?" 00:19:13.11\00:19:16.22 - WHAT DOES HE SAY? >>CERTAINLY NOT! 00:19:16.25\00:19:17.82 >>"GOD FORBID!" AND AGAIN, IN ROMANS 3, VERSE 00:19:17.85\00:19:21.12 31, "DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH?" 00:19:21.16\00:19:24.63 - AGAIN, HE USES THAT PHRASE - "GOD FORBID! 00:19:24.66\00:19:27.30 YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW." 00:19:27.30\00:19:29.23 PAUL SAYS, IN ROMANS CHAPTER 2:13 - "IT'S NOT THE HEARERS OF 00:19:29.26\00:19:33.10 THE LAW THAT WILL BE JUST BEFORE GOD, BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW 00:19:33.13\00:19:35.47 WILL BE JUSTIFIED." THAT'S WHAT PAUL SAID. 00:19:35.50\00:19:38.24 ARE PEOPLE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? REMEMBER MY ILLUSTRATION? 00:19:38.27\00:19:42.61 IS ANYONE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? NO. 00:19:42.64\00:19:44.85 EPHESIANS 2, VERSES 8 AND 9, IT SAYS VERY CLEARLY, "FOR BY GRACE 00:19:44.88\00:19:50.22 ARE WE SAVED THROUGH FAITH AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS 00:19:50.25\00:19:54.29 THE GIFT OF GOD, NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST." 00:19:54.32\00:19:59.29 WE'RE NOT SAVED BY OUR OBEDIENCE, BUT IF WE LOVE THE 00:19:59.33\00:20:02.33 LORD WE'LL WANT TO OBEY HIM. YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO TO THE BILLY 00:20:02.36\00:20:05.70 GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION WEBSITE, HE ANSWERS QUESTIONS 00:20:05.73\00:20:08.14 THERE. I JUST COPIED THIS OFF THE 00:20:08.17\00:20:11.01 WEBSITE BECAUSE DR. GRAHAM STILL HAS THIS RIGHT. 00:20:11.04\00:20:13.54 QUESTION: DOES GOD EXPECT US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:20:13.58\00:20:17.81 ANSWER: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE JUST AS VALID TODAY AS WHEN GOD 00:20:17.85\00:20:22.95 GAVE THEM TO MOSES OVER THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO. 00:20:22.98\00:20:25.69 JESUS SAID, 'I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, UNTIL HEAVEN AND EARTH 00:20:25.72\00:20:28.86 DISAPPEAR, NOT THE SMALLEST LETTER, NOT THE LEAST STROKE OF 00:20:28.89\00:20:31.69 THE PEN, WILL BY ANY MEANS DISAPPEAR FROM THE LAW." 00:20:31.73\00:20:34.93 AND HE'S GOT A NUMBER OF OTHER STATEMENTS LIKE THAT. 00:20:34.93\00:20:38.57 THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PREACHERS THAT ARE STILL SAYING THAT. 00:20:38.60\00:20:41.24 THEY'RE ALL SAYING, 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW.' AND THAT IS A 00:20:41.27\00:20:44.17 REALLY STRANGE THING BECAUSE IT MAKES IT SOUND LIKE SIN IS BEING 00:20:44.21\00:20:47.64 ENDORSED. ARE THERE SOME OLD TESTAMENT 00:20:47.68\00:20:50.88 LAWS NO LONGER BINDING UPON NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS? 00:20:50.91\00:20:54.22 YES. AND IT TELLS YOU WHICH ONES THEY ARE. 00:20:54.25\00:20:57.05 YOU CAN READ IN EPHESIANS 2:15, "HAVING ABOLISHED...THE LAW OF 00:20:57.09\00:21:01.09 COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES." 00:21:01.12\00:21:04.79 AND IT EXPLAINS WHAT THESE THINGS ARE. 00:21:04.83\00:21:07.60 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT YOUR, LIKE, YOUR YEARLY SABBATHS, MEAT 00:21:07.60\00:21:11.07 OFFERINGS, DRINK OFFERINGS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE 00:21:11.10\00:21:14.60 THE PASSOVER CEREMONY, CIRCUMCISION - THESE ARE ALL 00:21:14.64\00:21:18.07 CEREMONIAL LAWS. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE OF AN 00:21:18.11\00:21:20.91 ETERNAL NATURE. NOW DON'T FORGET THIS: 00:21:20.94\00:21:22.94 TEN COMMANDMENTS, WRITTEN BY GOD'S FINGER. 00:21:22.98\00:21:25.55 CEREMONIAL LAW, WRITTEN BY MOSES. 00:21:25.58\00:21:28.18 TEN COMMANDMENTS, SPOKEN BY GOD'S VOICE. 00:21:28.22\00:21:30.75 CEREMONIAL LAW, SPOKEN BY MOSES OR THE VOICE OF OTHER JUDGES. 00:21:30.79\00:21:34.76 THEY ARE TWO COMPLETELY DISTINCT - OR SEPARATE - LAWS. 00:21:34.79\00:21:38.49 AND SO THE LAWS THAT WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS WERE THE 00:21:38.53\00:21:40.93 CEREMONIAL LAWS, NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:21:40.96\00:21:43.77 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE GLORIOUS REWARDS OF KEEPING GOD'S LAW? 00:21:43.80\00:21:48.14 PROVERBS 29, VERSE 18 - THIS IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS. 00:21:48.17\00:21:53.38 HOW CAN YOU MISUNDERSTAND THIS ONE? 00:21:53.41\00:21:55.18 HE THAT KEEPS THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE." 00:21:55.21\00:22:00.05 ANYONE HERE WANT TO BE HAPPY? >>AMEN. 00:22:00.08\00:22:01.75 >>THE BIBLE SAYS THERE'S JOY, THERE'S BLESSING, THERE'S 00:22:01.78\00:22:05.15 HAPPINESS, THERE'S ABUNDANCE. THIS DOESN'T COME FROM 00:22:05.19\00:22:08.26 DISOBEDIENCE, IT COMES FROM TRUSTING THE LORD AND OBEYING 00:22:08.29\00:22:11.36 HIM. AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO DO. 00:22:11.39\00:22:14.76 THAT'S WHERE I WANT TO BE. FURTHERMORE, PSALM 119, VERSE 00:22:14.83\00:22:18.10 165, NOT ANY KIND OF PEACE, BUT WHAT KIND OF PEACE? 00:22:18.13\00:22:21.24 >>GREAT. >>"GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY THAT 00:22:21.27\00:22:24.27 LOVE THY LAW. NOTHING WILL OFFEND THEM." 00:22:24.31\00:22:27.54 DON'T YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT KIND OF PEACE? 00:22:27.58\00:22:29.84 WHEN YOU SAY - AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING, AS WE ALL DO, 00:22:29.88\00:22:32.38 YOU JUST TELL THE LORD, 'LORD, I WANT TO OBEY YOU. 00:22:32.41\00:22:36.48 I WANT TO BE YOUR CHILD. I WANT TO BE WILLING TO DO YOUR WILL. 00:22:36.52\00:22:39.05 YOU KNOW, GOD SENDS THIS MESSAGE TO US BECAUSE HE WANTS TO SAVE 00:22:39.09\00:22:43.56 US, BUT HE CAN'T FORCE US. BACK IN 1995, A YOUNG MAN DID 00:22:43.59\00:22:49.93 SOMETHING AWFUL - JUST IMMATURE JEALOUSY. 00:22:49.96\00:22:54.60 THERE WERE A COUPLE THAT WERE PARKED OUT IN AN ISOLATED SPOT 00:22:54.64\00:22:58.01 IN A CAR AND, I GUESS, THIS YOUNG MAN, ALLEN - ANDREW ALLEN 00:22:58.04\00:23:05.55 COOK - FELT JILTED BUT HE SHOT TO DEATH THESE YOUNG COLLEGE 00:23:05.58\00:23:11.45 STUDENTS AND - THE GIRL - AND NOBODY KNEW WHAT HAPPENED. 00:23:11.49\00:23:15.59 IT WAS A MYSTERY. THE FBI GOT INVOLVED. 00:23:15.62\00:23:17.69 THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHO DID IT OR WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE. 00:23:17.73\00:23:20.10 BUT AT ONE POINT, THE BUREAU - THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION IN 00:23:20.13\00:23:26.10 GEORGIA - BEGAN TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS AND THEY CALLED A GUY 00:23:26.13\00:23:30.34 NAMED JOHN COOK AND THEY SAID, 'COULD YOU HAVE YOUR SON ANDREW 00:23:30.37\00:23:33.01 GIVE US A CALL? WE WANT TO ASK HIM SOME 00:23:33.04\00:23:35.21 QUESTIONS AND SEE IF HE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THAT MURDER THAT 00:23:35.24\00:23:37.51 TOOK PLACE.' AND SO JOHN CALLED HIS SON. 00:23:37.55\00:23:40.58 HE SAID, 'ANDREW,' HE SAYS, 'THEY'RE - THE BUREAU OF 00:23:40.62\00:23:42.92 INVESTIGATION IN GEORGIA IS WANTING TO ASK YOU SOME 00:23:42.95\00:23:45.69 QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT MURDER AND' - HE SAID, 'YEAH, DAD, I DID 00:23:45.72\00:23:50.49 IT.' NOW I DIDN'T TELL YOU THAT HIS FATHER WAS AN FBI AGENT. 00:23:50.53\00:23:55.66 THEY HAD NO EVIDENCE ON HIM. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES. 00:23:55.70\00:24:03.57 THE ONLY ONE WHO KNEW WAS THE FATHER. THE FATHER WAS A 00:24:03.61\00:24:08.28 CHRISTIAN - LOVED HIS SON - HE HAD TO MAKE A DECISION. 00:24:08.31\00:24:11.68 HE KNEW HE'D GET THE DEATH PENALTY. 00:24:11.71\00:24:14.08 AND HE SAID, 'DO I PUT THE LAW ABOVE THE LOVE FOR MY SON?' 00:24:14.12\00:24:21.99 AND HE REALIZED THERE IS NO LOVE IF THERE ISN'T LAW. 00:24:22.02\00:24:26.33 AND WHAT ABOUT THE PARENTS THAT LOST THEIR CHILDREN? 00:24:26.36\00:24:29.43 AND HE SAID, 'SON, YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE TO DO.' THE PRIMARY 00:24:29.46\00:24:33.57 WITNESS DURING THAT TRIAL WAS JOHN COOK, WITNESSING AGAINST 00:24:33.60\00:24:38.77 HIS SON THAT HE DESPERATELY LOVED. AND - 2013 - ANDREW WAS 00:24:38.81\00:24:44.41 EXECUTED FOR HIS MURDERS. GOD WANTS TO SAVE YOU. 00:24:44.45\00:24:50.09 HE'S DESPERATE TO SAVE YOU, BUT HE ALSO IS A JUST GOD AND HE 00:24:50.12\00:24:54.62 CANNOT SAVE YOU IF YOU WILL NOT COME TO HIM AND ASK HIM TO SAVE 00:24:54.66\00:24:58.43 YOU FROM YOUR SINS. >>STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL 00:24:58.46\00:25:02.73 BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 00:25:02.76\00:25:07.34 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 00:25:07.37\00:25:10.34 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 00:25:10.37\00:25:14.78 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 00:25:14.81\00:25:17.55 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 00:25:17.58\00:25:21.32 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 00:25:21.35\00:25:23.72 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 00:25:23.75\00:25:26.65 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 00:25:26.69\00:25:30.19 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. 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