Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000144A
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00:01 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:02 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:11 >>IF THERE ARE ANY WORDS IMPORTANT, IT WOULD BE THE WORDS 00:13 OF GOD ENGRAVEN IN STONE. CHRIST WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE WORD. 00:17 HIS LIFE WAS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD. 00:24 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:27 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:29 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:33 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:36 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 00:45 >>WELCOME ONCE AGAIN TO LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY. 00:48 WE'RE SO THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE HERE. AND TONIGHT WE'RE 00:51 CONTINUING OUR SERIES WITH A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY. 00:53 IT'S THE TOPIC OF THE UNCHANGEABLE LAW . 00:57 WELL, AS WE ALWAYS DO, WE'RE GOING TO USE A BIBLE STORY SORT 01:00 OF AS A SPRINGBOARD INTO THIS SUBJECT. 01:03 IF YOU LOOK INTO YOUR BIBLE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 6, YOU'LL 01:06 RECOGNIZE THE STORY THERE. IT'S ABOUT DANIEL. 01:09 ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES WE OFTEN SAVE FOR THE CHILDREN, 01:12 DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN. 01:14 YOU SEE, AFTER THE BABYLONIAN KINGDOM FELL TO THE PERSIANS, 01:17 THE NEW PERSIAN KING, DARIUS, WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH DANIEL'S 01:22 ABILITY AND HIS WONDERFUL SPIRIT HE HAD, THAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT 01:26 MAKING HIM THE PRIME MINISTER OF HIS NEW KINGDOM. WELL, YOU CAN 01:32 IMAGINE THAT DIDN'T GO OVER VERY WELL WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF 01:35 DARIUS' CABINET BECAUSE DANIEL WAS A FORMER SERVANT OF 01:39 NEBUCHADNEZZAR. THAT WAS THE ENEMY. 01:41 DANIEL WAS A FORMER CAPTIVE FROM AMONG THE ISRAELITES. 01:45 WHY WOULD THE KING WANT TO PROMOTE SOMEBODY WHO WAS BOTH A 01:48 FOREIGNER AND A MEMBER OF THE FORMER KINGDOM TO BE THE NEW 01:51 PRIME MINISTER? SO THEY CAME UP WITH A PLOT. 01:55 THEY WENT TO KING DARIUS AND THEY SAID, 'YOUR HIGHNESS, 01:58 IT'S A NEW KINGDOM. WE'VE CONQUERED SEVERAL OTHER 02:01 EMPIRES; IN ORDER TO GET EVERYONE TOGETHER - THE BEST WAY 02:03 TO DO THAT IS THROUGH COMMON WORSHIP.' THAT'S TRUE, THE DEVIL 02:07 OFTEN DOES THAT. WHEN YOU CAN'T GET PEOPLE TO 02:10 JOIN TOGETHER BECAUSE OF COMMON LANGUAGE OR COMMON CULTURE, 02:15 COMMON RELIGION IS OFTEN THE BEST WAY TO DO IT. 02:19 AND SO, THEY SAID, 'IF YOU MAKE A LAW - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LAST 02:24 LONG, JUST 30 DAYS - THAT NOBODY WORSHIPS ANY GOD EXCEPT FOR YOU, 02:29 THAT'LL SOLIDIFY THE KINGDOM.' YOU CAN READ IN DANIEL 6:8, HE 02:34 SIGNED THE DECREE - YOU CAN'T PRAY TO ANY GOD OR MAN FOR 30 02:37 DAYS AND, BY THE WAY, THERE'S A PENALTY IF YOU BREAK IT: YOU GO 02:40 TO THE LION'S DEN.' BUT THE KING NEVER DREAMED ANYBODY WOULD 02:44 BREAK IT AND HE DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT THEY WERE UP TO, SO HE 02:46 SIGNED IT. AND IT SAYS, 'ACCORDING TO THE 02:49 LAW OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS WHICH DOES NOT ALTER.' 02:53 ONCE YOU SIGN THE KING'S LAW, YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT. 02:57 SO, THE BIBLE - HERE'S ONE OF THE GREAT VERSES IN THE BIBLE: 03:02 DANIEL 6, VERSE 10, "NOW WHEN DANIEL KNEW THAT THE WRITING WAS 03:05 SIGNED, HE WENT INTO HIS HOUSE; AND HIS WINDOWS BEING OPEN IN 03:08 HIS CHAMBER TOWARD JERUSALEM, HE KNEELED UPON HIS KNEES THREE 03:13 TIMES A DAY, AND PRAYED, AND GAVE THANKS BEFORE HIS GOD," - 03:19 DID DANIEL KNOW WHAT THE PENALTY WAS FOR THIS LAW? 03:21 IT SAYS HE KNEW ABOUT IT AND HE'S STILL THANKING GOD. 03:23 HE DID NOTHING TO HIDE HIS LIGHT UNDER A BUSH. 03:27 BUT HE THOUGHT, 'I'M NOT GOING TO HIDE MY FAITH FROM ANYBODY.' 03:30 AND SO HE OPENED HIS WINDOWS. 03:32 WELL, SOON THESE ENEMIES, THEY WENT TO THE KING AND THEY SAID, 03:37 'YOU KNOW THAT LAW THAT YOU SIGNED?' 03:39 THE KING SAID, 'YEP, LAW OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS - IT 03:41 CANNOT CHANGE.' THEY SAID, 'WELL, THERE'S SOMEONE IN YOUR 03:43 KINGDOM THAT JUST DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LAW, IT'S DANIEL. 03:46 HE'S PRAYING THREE TIMES A DAY.' KING DARIUS SAID, 'OH NO!' 03:53 THE BIBLE SAYS HE LABORED TIL THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN TO 03:55 DELIVER DANIEL BUT HE COULDN'T BECAUSE HE COULDN'T CHANGE HIS 03:59 OWN LAW. SO RIGHT ABOUT THE GOING DOWN OF 04:02 THE SUN, HE HAD DANIEL BROUGHT TO THE LION'S DEN. DANIEL SAID 04:07 - THE KING SPOKE TO DANIEL AND HE PUT HIM IN THE LION'S 04:10 DEN AND HE SAID, 'I KNOW THAT YOUR GOD THAT YOU SERVE 04:12 CONTINUALLY, HE WILL DELIVER YOU.' AND THEY PUT A STONE OVER 04:17 THE LION'S DEN AND THEY SEALED IT WITH A GOVERNMENT SEAL. 04:21 AND THEN THE NEXT DAY IT TELLS US THAT EARLY IN THE MORNING, 04:25 THE KING CAME TO THE TOMB AND HE SAID - THEY ROLLED AWAY THE 04:31 STONE - 'DANIEL, HAS YOUR GOD THAT YOU SERVE CONTINUALLY BEEN 04:33 ABLE TO DELIVER YOU FROM THE LIONS?' 04:36 AND DANIEL SAID, 'MY GOD HAS SENT HIS ANGEL AND SHUT THE 04:38 LIONS' MOUTHS.' AND NO FORM OF HARM OR HURT WAS ON DANIEL, THE 04:43 BIBLE SAYS, BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN HIS GOD. 04:46 WELL, HE HAD AN INTERESTING WAY OF BELIEVING - HE SHOWED HIS 04:49 BELIEF, DIDN'T HE? THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS - HE BELIEVED IN GOD. 04:51 NOW THIS STORY TELLS US THAT DANIEL SAID THERE ARE TEN 04:56 COMMANDMENTS AND ONE COMMANDMENT SAYS, 'THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER 04:59 GODS BEFORE ME' - NOT EVEN KING DARIUS. NOT EVEN FOR 30 DAYS. 05:04 AND HE WAS WILLING TO DIE RATHER THAN DISOBEY. WHAT KIND OF FAITH 05:11 AND DETERMINATION DO GOD'S PEOPLE NEED IN THE LAST DAYS? 05:14 IS THERE GOING TO BE A LAW THAT SAYS 'HE WHO DOES NOT WORSHIP 05:17 THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE SHOULD BE KILLED? FIRST THEY CAN'T 05:20 BUY OR SELL, BUT ULTIMATELY IT SAYS THEY SHOULD BE KILLED. 05:22 AND WORSHIPING THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE IS GOING TO REQUIRE 05:26 BREAKING ONE OF GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. 05:28 DO YOU LOVE THE LORD AND HIS WORD SO MUCH THAT YOU WOULD 05:30 RATHER DIE - RATHER GO HUNGRY - THAN DISOBEY? 05:35 THIS IS A TEST THAT WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 05:40 ARE NOT MULTIPLE CHOICE AND THAT'S OUR SUBJECT. 05:44 NUMBER 1: CAN GOD'S MORAL LAW BE AMENDED OR REPEALED? 05:50 ANSWER: JESUS TELLS US IN LUKE 16, VERSE 17 - HE SAYS, "IT IS 05:55 EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO" - WHAT? 05:59 >>PASS AWAY. 06:00 >>"PASS AWAY THAN FOR ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL." 06:03 THAT'S A HEBREW TERM - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE LITTLE 06:06 CROSSING OF A 'T' - IT'S EVEN SMALLER THAN THE CROSSING OF A 06:08 'T' - EVEN THE SLIGHTEST THING - A JOT OR A TITTLE IS LIKE A 06:12 LITTLE PERIOD OR A LITTLE CROSSING OF A 'T' - IT SAYS 06:14 HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY BEFORE EVEN THAT MUCH OF THE LAW 06:17 PASSES AWAY. YOU CAN ALSO READ IN PSALM 89, 06:22 VERSE 34, GOD SAYS, "MY COVENANT I WILL NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE 06:31 WORD THAT HAS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS." GOD IS NOT GOING TO 06:35 BREAK HIS COVENANT. IT'S FOREVER AND EVER. 06:38 AND THEN YOU HAVE ONE MORE IN PSALM 111, VERSES 7 AND 8, 06:43 "ALL HIS PRECEPTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FAST FOREVER AND EVER." 06:51 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DID NOT SUDDENLY APPEAR IN EXODUS. 06:55 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED BECAUSE THEY ARE A 06:59 REFLECTION OF GOD'S NATURE. HOW DO I KNOW THAT? WHEN THE WOMAN - 07:04 POTIPHAR'S WIFE - TEMPTED JOSEPH TO COMMIT ADULTERY IN THE 07:08 BOOK OF GENESIS, JOSEPH SAID, 'I CAN'T DO THAT. IT'S A SIN.' 07:13 DID THEY KNOW, EVEN IN GENESIS, THAT ADULTERY WAS A SIN? 07:16 WHEN CAIN KILLED ABEL, GOD TOLD HIM, 'SIN LIES AT YOUR DOOR.' 07:24 AND SIN IS THE BREAKING OF GOD'S LAW. 07:25 WAS MURDER A SIN EVEN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? 07:28 OR DID MURDER - MURDER WASN'T A SIN UNTIL GOD WROTE IT DOWN AT 07:32 MOUNT SINAI? OF COURSE IT WAS. 07:34 WAS IT WRONG TO LIE ALL THE WAY FROM THE BEGINNING? 07:37 AND SO, SEE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS GO ALL THE WAY BACK. 07:40 GOD SIMPLY CODIFIED IT SO THAT THEY WOULD ALL KNOW - VERY 07:42 CLEAR, NO MISUNDERSTANDING, APPROXIMATELY 300 WORDS - 07:46 THIS IS MY PERFECT WILL. THAT LAW IS COMPREHENSIVE FOR 07:50 ALL MAN - IT'S NOT FOR ONE NATION, IT'S FOR PEOPLE 07:53 EVERYWHERE. WHEN YOU DO AWAY WITH THE LAW OF 07:56 GOD, YOU'RE DOING AWAY WITH THE NATURE OF GOD. 07:59 NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR LESSON YOU'LL SEE, FOR INSTANCE, THE 08:02 BIBLE SAYS, 'GOD IS GOOD.' DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS ALSO, 08:07 'THE LAW IS GOOD'? THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD IS HOLY. 08:11 THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS THAT THE LAW IS HOLY. 08:15 YOU CAN READ WHERE IT SAYS GOD IS RIGHTEOUS, GOD IS TRUTH, GOD 08:19 IS PURE, GOD IS SPIRITUAL, GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE, GOD IS ETERNAL. 08:22 THESE ARE ALSO ALL THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LAW SO 08:27 WE'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT TRYING TO DO AWAY WITH THE 08:29 LAW BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS THE VERY NATURE OF GOD. 08:34 JESUS WAS THE WORD BECAME FLESH. CHRIST SAID, 'HE THAT HEARS 08:39 THESE WORDS OF MINE IS BUILDING ON A' - WHAT? 08:42 - WISE MAN BUILDING ON... >>THE ROCK. 08:44 >>THE ROCK. WHAT WERE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 08:46 WRITTEN ON? IF THERE ARE ANY WORDS 08:48 IMPORTANT, IT WOULD BE THE WORDS OF GOD ENGRAVEN IN STONE. 08:52 CHRIST WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE WORD. 08:54 HIS LIFE WAS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD. 08:58 AND THEN, AS CHRISTIANS, HE SAYS, 'FOLLOW ME.' NOW, 09:02 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN? 09:06 I MEAN, JESUS CAME TO SAVE US FROM SIN. 09:09 WHAT IS IT THAT HE'S SAVING US FROM? 09:11 1 JOHN 3, VERSE 4 - THE BIBLE SAYS, "SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION 09:18 OF" - WHAT? OF THE LAW. SIN IS - IT'S LIKE A DICTIONARY 09:21 DEFINITION: 'SIN IS THE BREAKING OF - OR THE TRANSGRESSION OF - 09:25 THE LAW.' ROMANS 3:20 SAID, "BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF 09:31 SIN." WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT SIN IS 09:34 EXCEPT BY THE LAW. GOD'S LAW REVEALS WHAT SIN IS. 09:37 NOW, THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW, THOUGH, AND THIS IS A VERY 09:41 IMPORTANT POINT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, IS NOT TO SAVE US. 09:44 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW IS TO SIMPLY SHOW US 09:48 OUR NEED OF SALVATION. NOW I'M GOING TO JUST ILLUSTRATE THIS. 09:51 NOW I JUST DID SOMETHING TO CHANGE MY APPEARANCE. 09:55 I DON'T SEE ANYTHING DIFFERENT. YOU SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 10:02 WOULD IT DISTRACT YOU IF I WENT THROUGH THE REST OF THE PROGRAM 10:04 LIKE THIS? IT WOULD. SO WHAT DO I NEED? 10:09 AH, HOW CONVENIENT. SO I FEEL FINE. 10:15 I DON'T SEE THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM. 10:17 I LOOK IN THIS DEVICE AND I GO, 'EW!' 10:19 IT REALLY IS THE FIRST TIME I LOOKED. 10:20 THAT'S KIND OF EMBARRASSING. 10:22 SO SINCE THE MIRROR SHOWED ME I'VE GOT A PROBLEM, IT OBVIOUSLY 10:27 SHOULD BE THE MEANS OF REMOVING THE PROBLEM, RIGHT? 10:30 SO IF I JUST WHACK MYSELF IN THE HEAD WITH THE MIRROR IT'LL ALL 10:33 GO AWAY. WOULD THAT FIX IT? IF I RUB THE MIRROR ON THE MARK 10:37 OR THE TAPE, WILL THAT TAKE IT AWAY? 10:40 THIS SHOWS US THE PROBLEM, BUT IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE 10:44 PROBLEM AWAY. YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING THE 10:46 LAW, THE LAW DOESN'T SAVE YOU FROM ANYTHING. 10:48 THE LAW IS THERE TO SHOW US OUR NEED OF SALVATION. BUT THEN, 10:51 IF I TAKE THIS AND USE THE BLOOD, IT TAKES AWAY THE SIN. 10:55 NOW THE REASON I MENTION THIS - IT SAYS IN THE BOOK OF JAMES, 10:59 'WHOEVER LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW THAT GIVES LIBERTY AND 11:02 CONTINUES THEREIN, BEING NOT JUST A HEARER BUT A DOER OF THE 11:06 WORD, THIS MAN WILL BE BLESSED.' THE LAW OF GOD IS COMPARED TO A 11:09 MIRROR. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE AWAY 11:13 OUR SIN, IT'S SUPPOSED TO SHOW US OUR NEED. 11:15 THEN YOU GO TO JESUS FOR CLEANSING. 11:17 BUT, IF IT'S NOT A SIN TO BREAK THE LAW - IF THERE'S NO LAW, 11:23 THERE'S NO SIN, RIGHT? THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHERE THERE IS 11:26 NO LAW THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION.' THAT'S WHAT PAUL 11:29 SAID, 'WHERE THERE IS NO LAW, THERE'S NO TRANSGRESSION.' SO IF 11:32 THERE IS NO LAW THERE'S NO TRANSGRESSION. 11:34 IF THERE'S NO SIN, THEN WHO NEEDS A SAVIOR? 11:37 CAN YOU SEE WHY THE DEVIL WOULD BE ATTACKING THE LAW? 11:42 BECAUSE IF THERE'S NO LAW THEN THERE'S NO SIN. 11:44 IF THERE'S NO SIN YOU DON'T NEED JESUS. 11:45 AND SO, THAT'S THE LOGIC BEHIND IT. 11:48 NUMBER 3: TO WHAT LAW IS JOHN REFERRING? 11:52 PAUL TELLS US IN ROMANS CHAPTER 7, VERSE 7 - HE SAID, 'I HAD NOT 11:57 KNOWN SIN BUT BY THE LAW. FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST EXCEPT 12:03 THE LAW HAD SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT COVET.' HERE HE IS QUOTING 12:07 FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, ISN'T HE? 12:09 HE'S SAYING, 'I BECOME AWARE OF WHAT MY SIN IS BY LOOKING AT THE 12:13 LAW.' DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 12:16 JOHN 15, VERSE 10 HE SAID, "I HAVE" - WHAT? - "I HAVE KEPT 12:22 MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND ABIDE IN HIS LOVE." 12:26 WE'VE GOT TO HAVE - 'THY WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART THAT I 12:31 MIGHT NOT SIN.' WE NEED TO HAVE THE LAW OF GOD 12:34 IN OUR HEADS AND IN OUR HEARTS OR WE'RE GOING TO GET MIXED UP 12:36 IN THIS CULTURE, AMEN? >>AMEN. 12:38 >>NUMBER 5: WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR LIVING A LIFE OF 12:41 SIN? ROMANS 6:23, "FOR THE WAGES OF 12:45 SIN IS DEATH." PRETTY SERIOUS. 12:48 SIN IS A DEADLY, CONTAGIOUS DISEASE AND GOD HAS TO USE 12:51 DRASTIC MEASURES. WE'VE SEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY 12:54 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SOMEONE EVEN THOUGHT SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT HAVE 12:58 EBOLA BECAUSE IT'S A DEADLY DISEASE - ROUGHLY 50 TO 60 13:02 PERCENT, DEPENDING ON WHAT COUNTRY YOU'RE IN WHEN YOU GET 13:04 IT - THAT THEY QUICKLY QUARANTINE PEOPLE. 13:06 WELL, SIN IS EVEN MORE DEADLY THAN EBOLA. 13:08 AND SO GOD SAYS, 'WE CAN'T ALLOW IT TO SPREAD THROUGH THE 13:11 UNIVERSE. THE PENALTY IS DEATH. UNLESS WE GET A TRANSFUSION OF 13:14 THE BLOOD OF JESUS, WE'RE IN TROUBLE. 13:17 SOME SAY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT BINDING FOR NEW 13:21 TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS. WHAT DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THIS? 13:24 MATTHEW 19, VERSE 17 - HE SAID, "BUT IF YOU WILL ENTER INTO 13:29 LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." WELL OBVIOUSLY, FOR A STARTING 13:35 POINT, HE WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 13:38 YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 14, VERSE 15, JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME 13:44 KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." A LOT OF PASTORS SAY TODAY, 'WE 13:49 DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE BECAUSE 13:52 JESUS FULFILLED THE LAW.' WELL, WHAT DOES 'FULFILL' MEAN? 13:55 WHEN CHRIST CAME TO JOHN THE BAPTIST TO BE BAPTIZED, JOHN 13:59 SAID TO JESUS, 'NO, YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME BECAUSE YOU'RE THE 14:04 MESSIAH.' JESUS SAID, 'NO, JOHN, ALLOW IT TO BE THIS WAY NOW FOR 14:08 THUS IT BECOMES US TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' SO WHEN 14:13 JESUS SAID, 'FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS,' 14:15 DOES THAT MEAN DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS? 14:17 SOME PEOPLE READ THAT VERSE: 'THINK NOT THAT I'VE COME TO 14:20 DESTROY THE LAW.' THEY CHANGE IT WHERE JESUS SAYS 'THINK NOT THAT 14:24 I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE LAW, I'VE ACTUALLY COME TO DO AWAY 14:26 WITH IT.' THAT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. 14:29 HE OBVIOUSLY WANTS US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 14:32 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS? 14:35 NOW, SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 14:38 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I AM TEMPTED EVERY DAY. 14:41 AM I ALONE? EVERY DAY I HAVE OPPORTUNITIES 14:45 TO DO THE WRONG THING. AND EVERY DAY I HAVE 14:48 OPPORTUNITIES TO FOLLOW JESUS AND MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS. 14:51 IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO DO WHAT GOD ASKS US TO DO? 14:55 ROMANS 8, VERSE 3 - GOD, SENDING HIS OWN SON, IN THE LIKENESS OF 15:03 SINFUL FLESH, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS 15:07 OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US WHICH WALK NOT AFTER THE 15:12 FLESH BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. IT IS POSSIBLE. 15:15 PHILIPPIANS 1, VERSE 6, "HE WHO HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU 15:20 WILL COMPLETE IT UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST." YOU KNOW, A 15:26 FEW YEARS AGO, MATTER OF FACT, JOHN LOMACANG WAS WITH ME. 15:30 WE WERE DOING A DEBATE - A FRIENDLY DEBATE ON TELEVISION 15:33 WITH JOHN AND I AND TWO OTHER MINISTERS AND THE SUBJECT OF THE 15:37 DEBATE WAS THE LAW OF GOD AND THE MINISTERS WERE SAYING THAT 15:41 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WAS PART OF THE OLD COVENANT AND NOBODY 15:44 COULD REALLY KEEP THE LAW AND GOD DIDN'T EXPECT US TO. 15:48 AND SO I ASKED, 'CAN THE DEVIL TEMPT US TO SIN?' 15:55 THEY SAID, 'WELL, OF COURSE.' AND I SAID, 'SO YOU BELIEVE THE 15:58 DEVIL HAS THE POWER TO GET US TO SIN, BUT YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT 16:02 GOD HAS THE POWER TO KEEP US FROM SIN? 16:04 SO IN EFFECT, YOU'RE SAYING YOUR DEVIL'S MORE POWERFUL THAN YOUR 16:07 GOD.' ISN'T THAT WHAT - I MEAN, THAT'S WHERE THAT GOES. 16:11 HOW MUCH CAN I DO THROUGH CHRIST? 16:13 WITHOUT HIM HOW MUCH CAN WE DO? NOTHING. 16:17 THROUGH CHRIST, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. 16:18 WHAT IS THE OLD COVENANT AND WHY DID IT FAIL? 16:22 ALRIGHT, FIRST LET'S LOOK AND FIND OUT WHAT THAT WAS. 16:24 YOU GO TO DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4, VERSE 13 AND YOU'LL FIND THE OLD 16:28 COVENANT MENTIONED THERE. "SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS 16:32 COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, EVEN" - HOW MANY? 16:37 >>TEN. >>"TEN COMMANDMENTS; AND HE 16:40 WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE." 16:42 AND SO IT TELLS US THAT THE OLD COVENANT WAS THE TEN 16:45 COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON THESE TWO TABLES OF STONE - 16:48 WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF GOD. 16:49 NOW, RIGHT AFTER THE LORD MADE THE COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE - 16:53 YOU KNOW WHAT A COVENANT IS - IT'S AN AGREEMENT. 16:55 GOD SPOKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THERE IN EXODUS 20. 16:58 MOSES LATER BRINGS DOWN THE WRITTEN COPY, BUT WHILE HE'S UP 17:01 ON THE HILL GETTING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHAT DO THE 17:04 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO? AND SO THE BIBLE SAYS IN HEBREWS 17:07 8, VERSE 8, "BECAUSE FINDING FAULT WITH THEM." 17:13 NOW WAS THE FAULT OF THE OLD COVENANT WITH THE COVENANT AND 17:16 THE LAW OR WAS IT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MADE A PROMISE? 17:19 YOU SEE, THE NEW COVENANT IS BASED ON BETTER PROMISES. 17:22 THE OLD COVENANT WAS BASED ON THE PROMISE OF THE PEOPLE. 17:25 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO IT.' THE NEW COVENANT IS 17:29 BASED ON THE PROMISE OF THE LORD. 17:31 IT SAYS, IN HEBREWS 8, VERSE 10, "FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I 17:36 WILL MAKE WITH (THEM) SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN 17:42 THEIR MIND AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS." AND SO GOD SAYS 17:47 HE'S GOING TO PUT THE LAW WHERE? IN THE HEART. HE SAYS, 'I'M 17:50 GOING TO WRITE A DIFFERENT LAW ON THEIR HEART. IT'S NOT A 17:53 DIFFERENT LAW - SAME LAW, DIFFERENT PLACE - SAME LAW, NOT 17:58 THEIR PROMISES, HIS PROMISE. WHO SPOKE THE FIRST LAW? GOD DID. 18:05 WAS THE PROBLEM WITH THE LAW OR WITH THE PEOPLE? 18:08 DOES GOD EVER COMMAND ANYBODY TO DO SOMETHING WITHOUT GIVING THEM 18:11 THE POWER TO DO WHAT HE'S ASKED THEM TO DO? 18:14 INHERENT IN EVERY COMMAND OF GOD IS BUILT THE POWER TO PERFORM 18:19 WHAT HE'S ASKING. THAT IS A SIMPLE - IF GOD SAYS, 18:22 'I WANT YOU TO WALK ACROSS THAT OCEAN THERE.' DON'T ARGUE. 18:25 YOU'LL EITHER WALK ON WATER LIKE PETER OR HE'LL PART THE OCEAN. 18:28 I MEAN, WHEN GOD ASKS YOU TO DO SOMETHING, YOU DO IT. 18:31 AND THAT'S CALLED OBEDIENCE AND WE'RE LIVING IN AN AGE WHERE, 18:36 EVEN IN SOME CHURCHES, THEY'RE ACTING LIKE OBEDIENCE IS 18:39 LEGALISM. OBEDIENCE IS NOT LEGALISM. THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO 18:43 INTIMIDATE CHRISTIANS. AS SOON AS YOU TALK ABOUT THE 18:46 LAW, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET CALLED? 18:48 A DIRTY WORD AMONG CHRISTIANS - LEGALIST, PHARISEE - AND SO WHAT 18:52 HAPPENED IS PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH HAVE BEEN SO INTIMIDATED BY 18:55 THOSE TERMS, THE PENDULUM HAS SWUNG TO THE OTHER SIDE AND NOW 18:57 EVERYBODY IS SO AFRAID TO BE ACCUSED OF BEING A PHARISEE OR 19:00 LEGALIST, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE LAW. JESUS DID. 19:05 DOESN'T LIVING UNDER GRACE BY FAITH MAKE KEEPING GOD'S LAW 19:09 NON-ESSENTIAL? ROMANS 6:15, "WHAT THEN? 19:13 SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE?" 19:16 - WHAT DOES HE SAY? >>CERTAINLY NOT! 19:17 >>"GOD FORBID!" AND AGAIN, IN ROMANS 3, VERSE 19:21 31, "DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH?" 19:24 - AGAIN, HE USES THAT PHRASE - "GOD FORBID! 19:27 YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW." 19:29 PAUL SAYS, IN ROMANS CHAPTER 2:13 - "IT'S NOT THE HEARERS OF 19:33 THE LAW THAT WILL BE JUST BEFORE GOD, BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW 19:35 WILL BE JUSTIFIED." THAT'S WHAT PAUL SAID. 19:38 ARE PEOPLE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? REMEMBER MY ILLUSTRATION? 19:42 IS ANYONE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? NO. 19:44 EPHESIANS 2, VERSES 8 AND 9, IT SAYS VERY CLEARLY, "FOR BY GRACE 19:50 ARE WE SAVED THROUGH FAITH AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS 19:54 THE GIFT OF GOD, NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST." 19:59 WE'RE NOT SAVED BY OUR OBEDIENCE, BUT IF WE LOVE THE 20:02 LORD WE'LL WANT TO OBEY HIM. YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO TO THE BILLY 20:05 GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION WEBSITE, HE ANSWERS QUESTIONS 20:08 THERE. I JUST COPIED THIS OFF THE 20:11 WEBSITE BECAUSE DR. GRAHAM STILL HAS THIS RIGHT. 20:13 QUESTION: DOES GOD EXPECT US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 20:17 ANSWER: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE JUST AS VALID TODAY AS WHEN GOD 20:22 GAVE THEM TO MOSES OVER THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO. 20:25 JESUS SAID, 'I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, UNTIL HEAVEN AND EARTH 20:28 DISAPPEAR, NOT THE SMALLEST LETTER, NOT THE LEAST STROKE OF 20:31 THE PEN, WILL BY ANY MEANS DISAPPEAR FROM THE LAW." 20:34 AND HE'S GOT A NUMBER OF OTHER STATEMENTS LIKE THAT. 20:38 THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PREACHERS THAT ARE STILL SAYING THAT. 20:41 THEY'RE ALL SAYING, 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW.' AND THAT IS A 20:44 REALLY STRANGE THING BECAUSE IT MAKES IT SOUND LIKE SIN IS BEING 20:47 ENDORSED. ARE THERE SOME OLD TESTAMENT 20:50 LAWS NO LONGER BINDING UPON NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS? 20:54 YES. AND IT TELLS YOU WHICH ONES THEY ARE. 20:57 YOU CAN READ IN EPHESIANS 2:15, "HAVING ABOLISHED...THE LAW OF 21:01 COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES." 21:04 AND IT EXPLAINS WHAT THESE THINGS ARE. 21:07 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT YOUR, LIKE, YOUR YEARLY SABBATHS, MEAT 21:11 OFFERINGS, DRINK OFFERINGS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE 21:14 THE PASSOVER CEREMONY, CIRCUMCISION - THESE ARE ALL 21:18 CEREMONIAL LAWS. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE OF AN 21:20 ETERNAL NATURE. NOW DON'T FORGET THIS: 21:22 TEN COMMANDMENTS, WRITTEN BY GOD'S FINGER. 21:25 CEREMONIAL LAW, WRITTEN BY MOSES. 21:28 TEN COMMANDMENTS, SPOKEN BY GOD'S VOICE. 21:30 CEREMONIAL LAW, SPOKEN BY MOSES OR THE VOICE OF OTHER JUDGES. 21:34 THEY ARE TWO COMPLETELY DISTINCT - OR SEPARATE - LAWS. 21:38 AND SO THE LAWS THAT WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS WERE THE 21:40 CEREMONIAL LAWS, NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 21:43 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE GLORIOUS REWARDS OF KEEPING GOD'S LAW? 21:48 PROVERBS 29, VERSE 18 - THIS IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS. 21:53 HOW CAN YOU MISUNDERSTAND THIS ONE? 21:55 HE THAT KEEPS THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE." 22:00 ANYONE HERE WANT TO BE HAPPY? >>AMEN. 22:01 >>THE BIBLE SAYS THERE'S JOY, THERE'S BLESSING, THERE'S 22:05 HAPPINESS, THERE'S ABUNDANCE. THIS DOESN'T COME FROM 22:08 DISOBEDIENCE, IT COMES FROM TRUSTING THE LORD AND OBEYING 22:11 HIM. AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO DO. 22:14 THAT'S WHERE I WANT TO BE. FURTHERMORE, PSALM 119, VERSE 22:18 165, NOT ANY KIND OF PEACE, BUT WHAT KIND OF PEACE? 22:21 >>GREAT. >>"GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY THAT 22:24 LOVE THY LAW. NOTHING WILL OFFEND THEM." 22:27 DON'T YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT KIND OF PEACE? 22:29 WHEN YOU SAY - AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING, AS WE ALL DO, 22:32 YOU JUST TELL THE LORD, 'LORD, I WANT TO OBEY YOU. 22:36 I WANT TO BE YOUR CHILD. I WANT TO BE WILLING TO DO YOUR WILL. 22:39 YOU KNOW, GOD SENDS THIS MESSAGE TO US BECAUSE HE WANTS TO SAVE 22:43 US, BUT HE CAN'T FORCE US. BACK IN 1995, A YOUNG MAN DID 22:49 SOMETHING AWFUL - JUST IMMATURE JEALOUSY. 22:54 THERE WERE A COUPLE THAT WERE PARKED OUT IN AN ISOLATED SPOT 22:58 IN A CAR AND, I GUESS, THIS YOUNG MAN, ALLEN - ANDREW ALLEN 23:05 COOK - FELT JILTED BUT HE SHOT TO DEATH THESE YOUNG COLLEGE 23:11 STUDENTS AND - THE GIRL - AND NOBODY KNEW WHAT HAPPENED. 23:15 IT WAS A MYSTERY. THE FBI GOT INVOLVED. 23:17 THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHO DID IT OR WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE. 23:20 BUT AT ONE POINT, THE BUREAU - THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION IN 23:26 GEORGIA - BEGAN TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS AND THEY CALLED A GUY 23:30 NAMED JOHN COOK AND THEY SAID, 'COULD YOU HAVE YOUR SON ANDREW 23:33 GIVE US A CALL? WE WANT TO ASK HIM SOME 23:35 QUESTIONS AND SEE IF HE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THAT MURDER THAT 23:37 TOOK PLACE.' AND SO JOHN CALLED HIS SON. 23:40 HE SAID, 'ANDREW,' HE SAYS, 'THEY'RE - THE BUREAU OF 23:42 INVESTIGATION IN GEORGIA IS WANTING TO ASK YOU SOME 23:45 QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT MURDER AND' - HE SAID, 'YEAH, DAD, I DID 23:50 IT.' NOW I DIDN'T TELL YOU THAT HIS FATHER WAS AN FBI AGENT. 23:55 THEY HAD NO EVIDENCE ON HIM. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES. 24:03 THE ONLY ONE WHO KNEW WAS THE FATHER. THE FATHER WAS A 24:08 CHRISTIAN - LOVED HIS SON - HE HAD TO MAKE A DECISION. 24:11 HE KNEW HE'D GET THE DEATH PENALTY. 24:14 AND HE SAID, 'DO I PUT THE LAW ABOVE THE LOVE FOR MY SON?' 24:22 AND HE REALIZED THERE IS NO LOVE IF THERE ISN'T LAW. 24:26 AND WHAT ABOUT THE PARENTS THAT LOST THEIR CHILDREN? 24:29 AND HE SAID, 'SON, YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE TO DO.' THE PRIMARY 24:33 WITNESS DURING THAT TRIAL WAS JOHN COOK, WITNESSING AGAINST 24:38 HIS SON THAT HE DESPERATELY LOVED. AND - 2013 - ANDREW WAS 24:44 EXECUTED FOR HIS MURDERS. GOD WANTS TO SAVE YOU. 24:50 HE'S DESPERATE TO SAVE YOU, BUT HE ALSO IS A JUST GOD AND HE 24:54 CANNOT SAVE YOU IF YOU WILL NOT COME TO HIM AND ASK HIM TO SAVE 24:58 YOU FROM YOUR SINS. >>STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL 25:02 BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 25:07 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 25:10 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 25:14 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 25:17 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 25:21 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 25:23 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 25:26 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 25:30 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. VISIT 'SABBATHTRUTH.COM'. 25:40 >>WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF GOD AND SPOKEN WITH HIS VOICE - SOME 25:47 WORDS WILL NEVER FADE. 25:59 >>GET PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR'S 12-PART SERMON SERIES ON THE TEN 26:01 COMMANDMENTS BY CALLING 800-538-7275 OR VISIT 26:06 'AFBOOKSTORE.COM'. 26:09 >>I REALLY WANTED TO START A NEW DEVOTIONAL HABIT BUT LIFE GOT IN 26:11 THE WAY. 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