>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:01:00.62\00:01:03.29 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:03.32\00:01:11.47 >>THE REASON THE DEVIL HATES THE LAW IS BECAUSE THE LAW SHOWS US 00:01:11.50\00:01:14.77 OUR SIN. SO IF YOU CAN GET RID OF THE LAW, YOU CAN GET RID OF 00:01:14.80\00:01:17.34 SIN; YOU GET RID OF SIN, WHO NEEDS A SAVIOR? 00:01:17.37\00:01:19.91 SEE WHAT THE PSYCHOLOGY IS? A SATANIC PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND IT. 00:01:19.94\00:01:25.58 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:01:25.61\00:01:29.02 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:01:29.05\00:01:31.75 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:01:31.79\00:01:35.46 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:01:35.49\00:01:37.96 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 00:01:37.99\00:01:47.00 >>I'LL TELL YOU A LITTLE AMAZING FACT - WE LIKE TO SPRINKLE 00:01:47.04\00:01:50.34 AMAZING FACTS - THERE'S LITTLE SHRIMP THAT ARE ALL THROUGHOUT 00:01:50.37\00:01:53.98 THE OCEANS AND THEY HAVE AN INTERESTING HABIT - EVERY NOW 00:01:54.01\00:01:57.85 AND THEN THEIR SKIN MOLTS AND THE WAY THEY KEEP FROM BEING 00:01:57.88\00:02:02.68 TOSSED AROUND IN THE WAVES WITHOUT KNOWING WHICH END IS UP 00:02:02.72\00:02:05.52 IS THEY GO TO THE BOTTOM WHEN THEY MOLT, THEY GRAB A GRAIN OF 00:02:05.55\00:02:10.13 SAND, WHICH IS LIKE A SMALL ROCK, AND THEY STICK IT IN A 00:02:10.16\00:02:13.63 CRACK THEY ALL HAVE IN THEIR HEADS. 00:02:13.66\00:02:15.73 AND THAT'S CALLED A STATUS STONE. 00:02:15.76\00:02:17.93 IT GIVES EQUILIBRIUM TO THE LITTLE SHRIMP. 00:02:17.97\00:02:21.20 AND SO, WHEN THEY'RE TOSSED AROUND IN THE WAVES, THEY 00:02:21.24\00:02:23.04 QUICKLY SWIM UPRIGHT BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT THIS STATUS STONE. 00:02:23.07\00:02:25.81 IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE STATUS STONE, THEY JUST - THEY'RE 00:02:25.84\00:02:28.14 FLOUNDERING - THEY DON'T KNOW WHICH END IS UP OR DOWN. 00:02:28.18\00:02:30.75 IT'S KIND OF LIKE A SURFER THAT'S BEEN KNOCKED UNDER BY A 00:02:30.78\00:02:32.78 BIG WAVE - HE CAN'T TELL WHICH END IS UP. 00:02:32.81\00:02:35.02 WELL, THERE'S A BIOLOGIST THAT HAD A BRIGHT IDEA, HE CAUGHT A 00:02:35.05\00:02:38.72 BUNCH OF THESE SHRIMP AND THEY WERE GETTING READY TO MOLT. 00:02:38.75\00:02:41.56 HE PUT THEM IN AN AQUARIUM AND, INSTEAD OF PIECES OF SAND IN THE 00:02:41.59\00:02:45.03 BOTTOM OF THE AQUARIUM, HE HAD SMALL PIECES OF IRON. 00:02:45.06\00:02:49.16 SO THE SHRIMP, AFTER THEY SHED THEIR SKIN, THEY WENT DOWN TO 00:02:49.20\00:02:51.63 THE BOTTOM, THEY GRABBED A LITTLE PIECE OF IRON, 00:02:51.67\00:02:54.24 AND THEY STUCK IT IN THEIR HEAD. 00:02:54.27\00:02:55.50 HE THEN PUT A POWERFUL ELECTRIC MAGNET ON TOP OF THE AQUARIUM 00:02:55.54\00:02:59.77 AND HE TURNED IT ON AND HE DIALED IT UP. 00:02:59.81\00:03:02.84 AND SURE ENOUGH, AS HE DIALED UP THE POWER, ALL THE SHRIMP TURNED 00:03:02.88\00:03:05.78 UPSIDE DOWN AND BEGAN TO SWIM UPSIDE DOWN. 00:03:05.81\00:03:08.78 THEN HE WONDERED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN - HE TOOK A SHRIMP FROM 00:03:08.82\00:03:11.05 ANOTHER AQUARIUM THAT HAD A REGULAR STONE IN HIS HEAD, AND 00:03:11.09\00:03:14.69 HE DROPPED IT IN WITH THE OTHER SHRIMP. 00:03:14.72\00:03:16.16 HE THOUGHT, WILL HE SWIM BASED ON THE STONE IN HIS HEAD OR WILL 00:03:16.19\00:03:18.63 HE SWIM BASED UPON ALL WHAT ALL THE OTHER SHRIMP ARE DOING? 00:03:18.66\00:03:21.46 THAT ONE SHRIMP GOT DROPPED IN THERE AND HE SWAM NORMALLY WHILE 00:03:21.50\00:03:25.60 ALL OF HIS FRIENDS WERE SWIMMING UPSIDE DOWN. 00:03:25.63\00:03:28.27 AND I'M ALMOST SURE THAT ALL THOSE OTHER SHRIMP THAT WERE 00:03:28.30\00:03:30.64 SWIMMING UPSIDE DOWN LOOKED AT HIM AND WONDERED WHAT WAS WRONG 00:03:30.67\00:03:32.57 WITH HIM. AND THAT'S WHAT THE CULTURE 00:03:32.61\00:03:36.78 TODAY IS DOING TO CHRISTIANS. CHRISTIANS AND THE 00:03:36.81\00:03:40.92 JUDEO-CHRISTIAN BELIEF IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - PEOPLE WHO 00:03:40.95\00:03:44.75 STILL BELIEVE THOSE THINGS ARE BEING MOCKED LIKE THERE'S 00:03:44.79\00:03:47.12 SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE IN THE MINORITY. 00:03:47.16\00:03:50.56 AND YOU LOOK IN THE WORLD AROUND US AND YOU CAN JUST SEE. 00:03:50.59\00:03:53.06 SO WE'RE GOING TO STUDY THIS SUBJECT IN THE LIGHT OF THE 00:03:53.09\00:03:55.30 BIBLE AND IN THE LIGHT OF PROPHECY AND I THINK YOU'LL SEE 00:03:55.33\00:03:57.40 WHY IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. 00:03:57.43\00:03:59.73 ALRIGHT, FIRST QUESTION - WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH A SERIES OF 00:03:59.77\00:04:02.07 QUESTIONS HERE - CAN GOD'S MORAL LAW - MORAL LAW IS ANOTHER WORD 00:04:02.10\00:04:05.84 FOR THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - BE AMENDED OR REPEALED? 00:04:05.87\00:04:09.68 >>NO. >>CAN IT BE CHANGED OR DONE AWAY 00:04:09.71\00:04:11.65 WITH? >>NO. 00:04:11.68\00:04:13.05 >>WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? 00:04:13.08\00:04:14.28 JESUS SAID, 'IT IS EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS THAN 00:04:14.32\00:04:18.75 FOR ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL.' AGAIN, THE LORD SAYS, IN 00:04:18.79\00:04:22.79 PSALM 89, VERSE 34, "MY COVENANT WILL I NOT BREAK," - YOU KNOW 00:04:22.82\00:04:28.23 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS CALLED - HE SAID, 'I SPOKE UNTO THEM MY 00:04:28.26\00:04:31.40 COVENANT; EVEN TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT I GAVE THEM.' - "WILL I NOT 00:04:31.43\00:04:34.57 BREAK NOR ALTER THE THING THAT IS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS." 00:04:34.60\00:04:38.41 NOW, IN A LITTLE BIT WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 00:04:38.44\00:04:40.64 OLD COVENANT AND THE NEW COVENANT, SO STAY WITH ME. 00:04:40.68\00:04:43.55 PSALM 111, VERSES 7 AND 8. "... ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE." 00:04:43.58\00:04:49.18 - THAT MEANS STEADFAST - "THEY STAND FAST FOR EVER AND EVER..." 00:04:49.22\00:04:54.46 AND - NOW THERE ARE SOME CEREMONIAL LAWS THAT WE KNOW 00:04:54.49\00:04:58.63 WENT THROUGH A CHANGE, BUT IF THERE IS ANY LAW THAT DOESN'T 00:04:58.66\00:05:01.40 CHANGE, I WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE THE LAW THAT GOD WRITES WITH 00:05:01.43\00:05:04.80 HIS FINGER AND SPEAKS WITH HIS MOUTH AND HE DOES SO AUDIBLY AND 00:05:04.83\00:05:09.37 HE WRITES IT IN STONE. >>AMEN. 00:05:09.40\00:05:11.74 >>WHAT MORE COULD HE DO TO SHOW THE IMPORTANCE OF IT THAN WHAT 00:05:11.77\00:05:13.91 HE DID? AGAIN, HE SAYS IN MALACHI 3:6, 00:05:13.94\00:05:18.75 "FOR I AM THE LORD, I CHANGE NOT..." GOD IS A ROCK. 00:05:18.78\00:05:24.82 JESUS IS CALLED THE ROCK OF AGES. 00:05:24.85\00:05:26.65 YOU KNOW WHY GOD'S LAW CAN'T CHANGE? 00:05:26.69\00:05:29.29 BECAUSE THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW IS AN EXPRESSION OF WHO GOD IS. 00:05:29.32\00:05:34.10 HERE'S A LITTLE CHART TO ILLUSTRATE THIS - AND IT'S NOT 00:05:34.13\00:05:36.20 COMPREHENSIVE, IT'S JUST SOME ILLUSTRATIONS. 00:05:36.23\00:05:38.93 LOOK ON THE LEFT THERE, IT'LL SAY 'GOD IS' AND YOU'LL HAVE A 00:05:38.97\00:05:40.97 COLUMN. ON THE RIGHT IT WILL SAY, 'THE 00:05:41.00\00:05:43.04 LAW IS' AND THERE'S SCRIPTURES FOR BOTH. IT SAYS, 00:05:43.07\00:05:46.57 'GOD IS GOOD'. THE BIBLE SAYS THE LAW 00:05:46.61\00:05:49.88 IS GOOD - ROMANS 7:12. ISAIAH 5:16, "GOD IS HOLY." 00:05:49.91\00:05:53.21 ROMANS 7:12 ALSO SAYS THE LAW IS HOLY. 00:05:53.25\00:05:57.45 "GOD IS JUST" - ROMANS 7:12 SAYS THE LAW IS JUST. 00:05:57.49\00:06:02.02 IT SAYS GOD IS PERFECT; THE LAW IS PERFECT. 00:06:02.06\00:06:04.89 GOD IS LOVE; THE LAW IS LOVE. 00:06:04.93\00:06:07.93 AND IT GOES ON TO SAY GOD IS RIGHTEOUS; THE LAW IS RIGHTEOUS. 00:06:07.96\00:06:11.60 GOD IS TRUTH, GOD IS PURE, GOD IS SPIRITUAL, GOD IS 00:06:11.63\00:06:14.54 UNCHANGEABLE, GOD IS ETERNAL - AND YOU'LL FIND ALL THOSE TERMS 00:06:14.57\00:06:18.01 THAT DESCRIBE GOD, DESCRIBE HIS LAW. 00:06:18.04\00:06:20.98 SO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT TRYING TO THROW OUT THE LAW OF GOD, YOU 00:06:21.01\00:06:24.15 MIGHT FIND YOURSELF THROWING OUT GOD. 00:06:24.18\00:06:26.15 >>AMEN. >>ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, 00:06:26.18\00:06:28.55 WHAT IS SIN? YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN ROMANS CHAPTER 3, 00:06:28.58\00:06:32.39 VERSE 20, "...FOR BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN." 00:06:32.42\00:06:37.79 WE LEARN WHAT SIN IS BY THE LAW. NOW, DO WE NEED TO 00:06:37.83\00:06:41.90 KNOW WHAT SIN IS? >>YES. 00:06:41.93\00:06:43.77 >>WILL WE HAVE A NEED FOR A SAVIOR IF WE DON'T KNOW THAT 00:06:43.80\00:06:46.23 THERE'S SIN? THE REASON THE DEVIL HATES THE 00:06:46.27\00:06:49.04 LAW IS BECAUSE THE LAW SHOWS US OUR SIN. 00:06:49.07\00:06:52.07 SO, IF YOU CAN GET RID OF THE LAW, YOU GET RID OF SIN. 00:06:52.11\00:06:54.08 YOU GET RID OF SIN, WHO NEEDS A SAVIOR? 00:06:54.11\00:06:56.04 SEE WHAT THE PSYCHOLOGY IS? A SATANIC PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND IT. 00:06:56.08\00:06:59.88 AGAIN, AND THIS IS JUST LIKE A DICTIONARY DEFINITION - IT'S THE 00:06:59.91\00:07:03.79 MOST FAMOUS. 1 JOHN 3:4, "SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW." 00:07:03.82\00:07:10.19 AND YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING, 'WELL, THERE'S DIFFERENT LAWS. 00:07:10.23\00:07:12.49 WHAT LAW IS JOHN TALKING ABOUT THERE? 00:07:12.53\00:07:15.30 AND THAT'S OUR NEXT QUESTION IN 1 JOHN 3, VERSE 4. 00:07:15.33\00:07:18.70 IT SAYS, IF YOU LOOK IN ROMANS 7:7, "...I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN, 00:07:18.73\00:07:24.67 BUT BY THE LAW: FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST, EXCEPT THE LAW HAD 00:07:24.71\00:07:29.11 SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT COVET.'" NOW, WHAT IS PAUL SAYING THERE? 00:07:29.14\00:07:32.68 HE'S QUOTING RIGHT FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:07:32.71\00:07:35.08 JESUS DOES THIS IN HIS SERMON ON THE MOUNT. HE SAID, 'YOU'VE 00:07:35.12\00:07:38.45 HEARD IT SAID BY THEM OF OLD YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. 00:07:38.49\00:07:41.56 BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOEVER LOOKS ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER 00:07:41.59\00:07:45.03 HER IN HIS HEART IS GUILTY OF ADULTERY. 00:07:45.06\00:07:47.00 SO WAS JESUS DOING AWAY WITH THE COMMANDMENT ABOUT ADULTERY OR 00:07:47.03\00:07:49.90 WAS HE EXPANDING IT? >>EXPANDING. 00:07:49.93\00:07:52.50 >>HE GAVE NOT ONLY THE LETTER OF THE LAW, HE GAVE THE SPIRIT OF 00:07:52.53\00:07:55.70 THE LAW. THE LETTER OF THE LAW SAYS 'YOU SHALL NOT MURDER.' 00:07:55.74\00:07:59.81 BUT JESUS SAID THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW IS IF YOU ARE ANGRY WITH 00:07:59.84\00:08:02.54 YOUR BROTHER WITHOUT A CAUSE, YOU'RE GUILTY OF MURDER. 00:08:02.58\00:08:05.85 SO IS IT OKAY TO PHYSICALLY MURDER NOW AS LONG AS WE DON'T 00:08:05.88\00:08:08.32 THINK ABOUT IT? THAT'S SILLY. 00:08:08.35\00:08:10.55 OF COURSE YOU'LL KEEP THE LETTER OF THE LAW. 00:08:10.59\00:08:11.99 'AS LONG AS I DON'T THINK ABOUT ADULTERY I CAN COMMIT ADULTERY.' 00:08:12.02\00:08:15.62 NO, OF COURSE IF YOU'RE COMMITTING IT, YOU'RE THINKING 00:08:15.66\00:08:18.16 ABOUT IT. >>AMEN. 00:08:18.19\00:08:19.59 >>SO PEOPLE THINK 'I'M SPIRITUAL. 00:08:19.63\00:08:21.20 I KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, I DON'T KEEP THE LETTER.' THAT'S 00:08:21.23\00:08:24.17 ABSURD WHEN YOU REALLY THINK THROUGH THAT. 00:08:24.20\00:08:26.27 EVERYBODY WHO'S REALLY KEEPING THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW WILL ALSO 00:08:26.30\00:08:28.90 KEEP THE LETTER BECAUSE THAT'S ELEMENTARY. 00:08:28.94\00:08:32.94 JESUS IS OUR EXAMPLE. WHAT DID HE DO? 00:08:32.97\00:08:35.78 DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:08:35.81\00:08:37.25 >>YES. >>A CHRISTIAN IS A 00:08:37.28\00:08:38.98 FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. JESUS SAYS, IN JOHN 15, VERSE 00:08:39.01\00:08:41.75 10, "...I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS..." 00:08:41.78\00:08:46.02 SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'OH NO, JESUS, HE DIDN'T KEEP THE LAW.' YEAH HE 00:08:46.05\00:08:50.19 DID. HE SAYS HE DID. SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 00:08:50.23\00:08:52.96 DID JESUS SIN? >>NO. 00:08:52.99\00:08:54.40 >>NO. AGAIN, YOU CAN READ WHERE IT 00:08:54.46\00:08:57.30 SAYS IN 1 PETER 2:22, "WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS DECEIT 00:08:57.33\00:09:03.10 FOUND IN HIS MOUTH." YOU KNOW, IT OCCURRED TO ME - I'M GOING ON 00:09:03.14\00:09:05.74 AND ON - IF YOU WERE TO SUM UP GOD WITH ONE WORD, WHAT WORD 00:09:05.77\00:09:10.25 WOULD YOU PICK? >>LOVE. 00:09:10.28\00:09:12.31 >>LOVE. THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS - >>LOVE. 00:09:12.35\00:09:15.25 >>LOVE. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE DIVIDED 00:09:15.28\00:09:18.49 IN TWO CATEGORIES: THE FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH OUR 00:09:18.52\00:09:22.12 LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS DEAL 00:09:22.16\00:09:26.16 WITH OUR LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER - LIKE THE CROSS - 00:09:26.19\00:09:29.46 LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART - LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. 00:09:29.50\00:09:32.97 IT'S THE VERTICAL AND THE HORIZONTAL LOVE RELATIONSHIP. 00:09:33.00\00:09:36.20 I'VE GOT TWO ARMS AND ON THESE TWO ARMS I'VE GOT TEN FINGERS 00:09:36.24\00:09:40.14 AND THE MIND IS TELLING THE ARMS AND THE FINGERS WHAT TO DO. 00:09:40.18\00:09:44.58 GOD IS LOVE. ALL OF THE LAWS REPRESENT LOVE 00:09:44.61\00:09:47.95 FOR GOD AND LOVE FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR. 00:09:47.98\00:09:50.55 AND SO WHEN IT SAYS ALL THE LAW IS SUMMARIZED IN THESE TWO 00:09:50.59\00:09:53.86 COMMANDMENTS, IT DOESN'T MEAN LOVING THE LORD AND LOVING YOUR 00:09:53.89\00:09:56.12 NEIGHBOR MEANS YOU DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 00:09:56.16\00:09:58.13 ANYMORE, IT SIMPLY MEANS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE SUMMARIZED IN 00:09:58.16\00:10:01.93 THAT. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? I'VE HEARD SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WE 00:10:01.96\00:10:05.73 DON'T NEED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE, WE ONLY HAVE TWO 00:10:05.77\00:10:07.44 COMMANDMENTS: LOVE THE LORD AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' OKAY, SO 00:10:07.47\00:10:11.71 AM I LOVING MY NEIGHBOR IF I'M STEALING HIS STUFF? 00:10:11.74\00:10:14.51 COVETING HIS STUFF? STEALING HIS WIFE? 00:10:14.54\00:10:17.45 WELL, NO - AND YOU'LL FIND THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE 00:10:17.48\00:10:19.61 SPECIFIC TEN COMMANDMENTS UNTIL YOU GET TO ONE IN PARTICULAR. 00:10:19.65\00:10:23.05 >>THE SABBATH. >>THAT'S RIGHT - FOURTH 00:10:23.08\00:10:25.15 COMMANDMENT - THEN THEY SAY, 'NO, WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW. 00:10:25.19\00:10:27.29 WE'RE UNDER GRACE.' THEY'RE MISUNDERSTANDING THAT. 00:10:27.32\00:10:29.79 IT MEANS THAT WE'RE NOT UNDER THE PENALTY OF THE LAW THROUGH 00:10:29.82\00:10:32.26 JESUS, IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S NO OBLIGATION TO OBEY. 00:10:32.29\00:10:35.03 DO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS STILL APPLY TO NEW TESTAMENT 00:10:35.06\00:10:37.90 CHRISTIANS? >>YES. 00:10:37.93\00:10:39.70 >>JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU WILL ENTER INTO THE LIFE, KEEP THE 00:10:39.73\00:10:45.01 COMMANDMENTS.' IS THAT - IS THAT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND? 00:10:45.04\00:10:49.88 THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS. HE SAID, 'THINK NOT THAT I'VE 00:10:49.91\00:10:53.05 COME TO DESTROY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 00:10:53.08\00:10:55.98 I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL.' NOW SOME PEOPLE SAY, 00:10:56.02\00:10:59.55 'OH SEE, HE CAME TO FULFILL THE LAW. 00:10:59.59\00:11:01.19 THAT MEANS TO DO AWAY WITH IT.' WAIT A SECOND, JUST TAKE THAT 00:11:01.22\00:11:06.76 INTERPRETATION AND PLUG IT IN THERE AND LET ME SHOW YOU HOW 00:11:06.80\00:11:09.26 THAT SOUNDS: JESUS DIDN'T - 'WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE LAW 00:11:09.30\00:11:12.13 BECAUSE JESUS FULFILLED THE LAW AND THAT MEANS HE DID AWAY WITH 00:11:12.17\00:11:14.57 IT.' SO WHAT CHRIST IS SAYING IS 'THINK NOT THAT I'VE COME TO 00:11:14.60\00:11:17.84 DESTROY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS; I DID NOT COME TO 00:11:17.87\00:11:19.91 DESTROY BUT TO DO AWAY WITH.' THAT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. 00:11:19.94\00:11:24.88 WHEN JESUS CAME TO BE BAPTIZED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST, JOHN THE 00:11:24.91\00:11:28.28 BAPTIST SAID, 'LORD, YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME.' AND JESUS SAID TO 00:11:28.32\00:11:32.55 JOHN, 'SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW FOR THUS IT BECOMES US TO 00:11:32.59\00:11:35.32 FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' DOES THAT MEAN TO DO AWAY WITH ALL 00:11:35.36\00:11:39.33 RIGHTEOUSNESS, OR DOES THAT MEAN FILL FULL? 00:11:39.36\00:11:42.23 >>FILL FULL. >>SO WHEN CHRIST SAID, 'I'VE 00:11:42.26\00:11:43.37 COME TO FILL FULL THE LAW' - THE MESSIAH CAME, THE BIBLE 00:11:43.40\00:11:46.03 SAYS, TO MAGNIFY THE LAW. JESUS DIDN'T COME TO DIMINISH 00:11:46.07\00:11:49.77 THE LAW OR MAKE IT SMALLER, HE CAME TO EXPAND IT - TO HELP US 00:11:49.80\00:11:53.64 UNDERSTAND BETTER WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. "BLESSED ARE THOSE" - 00:11:53.68\00:11:57.88 REVELATION 22:14 - "THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS." 00:11:57.91\00:12:01.38 GOD WANTS YOU TO BE BLESSED. >>AMEN. 00:12:01.42\00:12:03.02 >>AND AGAIN, REVELATION 14:12, "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE 00:12:03.05\00:12:06.76 SAINTS. HERE ARE THOSE THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD" - JUST 00:12:06.79\00:12:10.79 DON'T TALK ABOUT THEM - "AND THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS." 00:12:10.83\00:12:14.30 NOW, YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF JAMES, 'FOR IF ANYONE IS A 00:12:14.36\00:12:17.87 HEARER OF THE WORD AND HE IS NOT A DOER, HE IS LIKE A MAN WHO 00:12:17.90\00:12:21.54 OBSERVES HIS NATURAL FACE IN A GLASS' - IN A MIRROR - 00:12:21.57\00:12:25.04 'AND HE OBSERVES HIMSELF AND HE GOES AWAY AND IMMEDIATELY HE 00:12:25.07\00:12:28.34 FORGETS WHAT KIND OF MAN HE WAS. 00:12:28.38\00:12:30.75 BUT WHOEVER LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AND 00:12:30.78\00:12:34.25 CONTINUES THEREIN, NOT BEING A FORGETFUL HEARER BUT A DOER OF 00:12:34.28\00:12:37.55 THE WORK, THIS ONE WILL BE BLESSED IN WHAT HE DOES. 00:12:37.59\00:12:41.32 LET ME SEE IF I CAN ILLUSTRATE THIS FOR YOU. 00:12:41.36\00:12:44.46 NOW, IF I GO ON AND TEACH THE REST OF THE LESSON LIKE THIS, 00:12:44.49\00:12:48.36 WOULD YOU FIND THAT DISTRACTING? >>YES. 00:12:48.40\00:12:50.80 >>THIS WOULD NOT BE NORMAL, RIGHT? 00:12:50.83\00:12:52.27 >>RIGHT. >>OKAY. 00:12:52.30\00:12:54.17 DO YOU REALIZE I DON'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG? 00:12:54.20\00:12:57.01 SO - BECAUSE I'M VERY CAREFUL IN MY PERSONAL HYGIENE BEFORE I 00:12:57.04\00:13:01.21 COME AND I DON'T SEE A PROBLEM. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CONVINCE 00:13:01.24\00:13:05.21 ME THERE'S A PROBLEM? >>BY SHOWING YOU A MIRROR. 00:13:05.25\00:13:08.25 >>A MIRROR. THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. 00:13:08.28\00:13:10.19 JUST SO HAPPENS I'VE GOT A FAMOUS GAME SHOW HOST WITH ME - 00:13:10.22\00:13:15.09 MRS. BATCHELOR - AND SO, THERE'S A MIRROR - OH, LOOK AT THAT. 00:13:15.12\00:13:25.60 THAT DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT, DOES IT? 00:13:25.63\00:13:27.20 SO SINCE THE MIRROR SHOWED ME THAT I'VE GOT A PROBLEM, THE 00:13:27.24\00:13:30.74 MIRROR, OBVIOUSLY, SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THE PROBLEM. 00:13:30.77\00:13:33.94 I FELT GOOD UNTIL I LOOKED IN HERE AND SO THE KEY WOULD BE: 00:13:33.98\00:13:37.65 THROW THIS AWAY AND MY PROBLEM'S SOLVED. 00:13:37.68\00:13:39.25 (LAUGHTER) THAT'S THE ATTITUDE OF SOME PEOPLE. 00:13:39.28\00:13:41.72 WHAT DOES THIS REPRESENT? >>THE LAW. 00:13:41.75\00:13:43.35 >>THE LAW, RIGHT? SO THROWING AWAY THE LAW ISN'T 00:13:43.39\00:13:47.82 GOING TO HELP MY PROBLEM; I'VE STILL GOT A PROBLEM. 00:13:47.86\00:13:50.26 SO SINCE IT SHOWED ME THE PROBLEM, MAYBE WHAT I NEED TO DO 00:13:50.29\00:13:53.16 IS USE THIS TO TRY AND TAKE IT OFF. 00:13:53.19\00:13:57.73 IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY. IT'S NOT WHAT IT'S MADE FOR. 00:13:57.77\00:14:02.04 WHAT DO I NEED IF I'VE - THE LAW SHOWS ME SIN. 00:14:02.07\00:14:04.94 DOES THE LAW TAKE AWAY THE SIN? >>NO. 00:14:04.97\00:14:06.94 >>WHAT WASHES AWAY MY SIN? >>THE BLOOD OF JESUS. 00:14:06.98\00:14:09.84 >>YOU KNOW THE SONG? NOTHING BUT - >>THE BLOOD. 00:14:09.88\00:14:12.48 >>YOU'VE PROBABLY ALREADY FIGURED OUT WHAT THIS IS. 00:14:12.51\00:14:15.15 THIS IS ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY-EIGHT CENTS AT WALMART. 00:14:15.18\00:14:17.62 (LAUGHTER) SO YOU - >>AMEN. 00:14:17.65\00:14:23.99 >>THE LAW DOESN'T TAKE AWAY OUR SIN. 00:14:24.03\00:14:25.56 IT NEVER WAS INTENDED TO TAKE AWAY OUR SIN. 00:14:25.59\00:14:27.40 THE LAW IS THERE TO SHOW US OUR SIN SO WE GO TO JESUS FOR 00:14:27.40\00:14:32.67 CLEANSING FROM SIN. >>AMEN. 00:14:32.70\00:14:34.27 >>SO THE QUESTION NOW IS: IS THIS MY FRIEND OR MY ENEMY? 00:14:34.30\00:14:39.07 >>IT'S YOUR FRIEND. >>IT'S MY FRIEND BECAUSE IT 00:14:39.11\00:14:41.24 SHOWED ME A PROBLEM THAT MADE ME GO TO JESUS FOR CLEANSING AND 00:14:41.28\00:14:43.95 NOW I LOOK IN HERE AND GO, 'ISN'T HE HANDSOME?' 00:14:43.98\00:14:46.08 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) SEE? I FEEL MUCH BETTER. 00:14:46.11\00:14:51.25 SO PEOPLE GO - THEY TRY TO GET RID OF THE LAW, BUT THE LAW 00:14:51.29\00:14:54.92 BRINGS PEOPLE TO JESUS BECAUSE WHEN I PREACH THE LAW AND PEOPLE 00:14:54.96\00:14:58.33 ARE CONVICTED, THEY TURN TO CHRIST AND THEY REPENT AND THEY 00:14:58.36\00:15:01.20 COME TO HIM. >>AMEN. 00:15:01.23\00:15:03.30 >>WHEN YOU STOP PREACHING THE LAW, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A 00:15:03.33\00:15:05.57 CHURCH FULL OF PEOPLE THAT JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT IN THE WORLD IS 00:15:05.60\00:15:07.84 GOING ON. >>AMEN. 00:15:07.87\00:15:09.40 >>JESUS CAME TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS, NOT IN OUR SINS. 00:15:09.44\00:15:13.01 SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. WHAT LAW? 00:15:13.04\00:15:15.91 WELL, LET'S START, AT LEAST, WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:15:15.94\00:15:19.11 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS? 00:15:19.15\00:15:22.28 NOW THIS IS WHERE YOU AND I SOMETIMES GET SERIOUS. 00:15:22.32\00:15:24.82 'OH, PASTOR DOUG, I FALL OVER AND OVER.' BUT, YOU KNOW, 00:15:24.85\00:15:28.59 THROUGH CHRIST, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. ROMANS 8:3 AND 4, 00:15:28.62\00:15:33.19 "...GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON... CONDEMNED SIN IN THE 00:15:33.23\00:15:37.40 FLESH: THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN 00:15:37.43\00:15:41.14 US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT." 00:15:41.17\00:15:45.44 AGAIN, IT SAYS, "HE THAT HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL 00:15:45.47\00:15:48.18 PERFORM IT UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST." 00:15:48.21\00:15:50.88 AND THAT'S IN PHILIPPIANS 1:6. HE'S STARTED SOMETHING IN YOU. 00:15:50.91\00:15:54.22 DON'T GET DISCOURAGED, FRIENDS. I DON'T HAVE TIME, DURING THIS 00:15:54.25\00:15:56.72 SERIES, TO TELL YOU MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY. 00:15:56.75\00:15:58.89 I THINK LAST NIGHT - WE MAY HAVE HAD SOME BOOKS OUT THERE, BUT I 00:15:58.92\00:16:01.82 DRANK AND I SMOKED AND I STOLE AND I WAS IN AND OUT OF JAIL 00:16:01.86\00:16:05.56 AND, I MEAN, I JUST - I WAS A MESS. 00:16:05.59\00:16:08.13 AND I CAME TO JESUS AND HE HELPED ME GIVE UP THE DRUGS AND 00:16:08.16\00:16:10.73 THE STEALING AND THE DRINKING AND THE CIGARETTES AND - SO 00:16:10.77\00:16:14.87 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO CONVINCE ME THAT HE CAN'T CHANGE US. 00:16:14.90\00:16:16.87 >>AMEN! >>NOW, THE CLOSER I COME TO THE 00:16:16.91\00:16:19.01 LORD, THE MORE PROBLEMS I SEE - AND I'LL CONFESS AND THE LORD 00:16:19.04\00:16:24.48 WORKS ON ME AND HE'S CONSTANTLY CHANGING ME BECAUSE HE'S THE 00:16:24.51\00:16:28.32 AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF OUR FAITH. 00:16:28.35\00:16:31.45 AND HE THAT HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL PERFORM IT. 00:16:31.49\00:16:34.56 AND I AM NOT YET WHAT I WANT TO BE, BUT I THANK GOD I'M NOT WHAT 00:16:34.59\00:16:37.66 I USED TO BE. >>AMEN! 00:16:37.69\00:16:39.29 >>AND I SEE THAT THERE'S PROGRESS EVERY DAY. 00:16:39.33\00:16:41.63 >>AMEN. >>AND SO, DON'T BE DISCOURAGED. 00:16:41.66\00:16:44.17 KEEP YOUR EYES FIXED ON JESUS. LAY ASIDE THE SIN AND THE WEIGHT 00:16:44.20\00:16:47.37 THAT DOES SO EASILY BESET US. BUT IT'S HEALTHY FOR YOUR SOUL 00:16:47.40\00:16:51.84 TO HEAR ABOUT THE LAW EVERY NOW AND THEN BECAUSE IT'LL DRIVE YOU 00:16:51.87\00:16:54.28 TO JESUS, YOU'LL REPENT OF YOUR SINS, AND YOU'LL GROW IN GRACE. 00:16:54.31\00:16:57.75 >>AMEN. >>WHAT IS THE OLD COVENANT AND 00:16:57.78\00:17:00.38 WHY DID IT FAIL? NOW THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE SAY, 00:17:00.42\00:17:03.42 'WELL, PASTOR DOUG, TEN COMMANDMENTS - THAT'S THE OLD 00:17:03.45\00:17:05.22 COVENANT.' LET'S READ THIS FROM 00:17:05.25\00:17:06.69 THE BIBLE. I THINK YOU'LL BE SURPRISED. 00:17:06.72\00:17:08.69 IT TELLS YOU WHAT THE OLD COVENANT WAS - DEUTERONOMY 4:13 00:17:08.72\00:17:11.79 IS VERY CLEAR: "AND HE DECLARED UNTO YOU HIS COVENANT, WHICH HE 00:17:11.83\00:17:15.20 COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, EVEN TEN COMMANDMENTS; 00:17:15.23\00:17:19.23 AND HE WROTE THEM UPON TWO TABLES OF STONE." 00:17:19.27\00:17:22.00 NOTICE WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS WITH THE FIRST COVENANT: TEN 00:17:22.04\00:17:24.44 COMMANDMENTS - WAS IT A PROBLEM WITH THE LAW? 00:17:24.47\00:17:27.34 GOD - IT'S GOD'S LAW - HOW COULD THERE BE A PROBLEM WITH THE LAW? 00:17:27.38\00:17:31.61 A COVENANT IS AN AGREEMENT - AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO PARTIES. 00:17:31.65\00:17:35.15 THE PROBLEM WITH THE FIRST COVENANT WAS NOT THE LAW OR WITH 00:17:35.18\00:17:37.92 GOD, IT WAS WITH THE OTHER PARTY. THEY BROKE THE COVENANT. 00:17:37.95\00:17:43.02 AND IT SAYS IN HEBREWS 8 - THIS IS NEW TESTAMENT - 'FINDING 00:17:43.06\00:17:45.93 FAULT WITH THEM' - WHO'S THE 'THEM'? 00:17:45.96\00:17:47.76 RIGHT AFTER GOD GIVES THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TO THE CHILDREN OF 00:17:47.76\00:17:50.03 ISRAEL, THEY SAID, 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO. 00:17:50.07\00:17:52.77 WE AGREE TO THE COVENANT.' MOSES GOES UP THE MOUNTAIN, HE GETS 00:17:52.80\00:17:56.07 THE WRITTEN TRANSCRIPT, HE COMES DOWN, THEY'VE GOT A GOLDEN CALF. 00:17:56.10\00:17:58.74 THEY'RE BREAKING ALL TEN COMMANDMENTS - HAVING A WILD 00:17:58.77\00:18:01.48 PARTY - THEY BROKE THE COVENANT. FINDING FAULT WITH THEM. 00:18:01.51\00:18:06.18 FAULT IS NOT WITH THE LAW SO GOD SAID, 'LOOK, I'M GOING TO MAKE A 00:18:06.21\00:18:09.58 NEW COVENANT. UPON WHAT LAW IS THE NEW COVENANT BASED? 00:18:09.62\00:18:15.16 IT SAYS, "'FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE,' SAYS 00:18:15.19\00:18:17.63 THE LORD, 'I WILL PUT MY LAW" - WHAT LAW? 00:18:17.66\00:18:20.63 TEN COMMANDMENT LAW - "I'LL PUT IT IN THEIR HEARTS." 00:18:20.66\00:18:23.50 - NOT A DIFFERENT LAW, A DIFFERENT PLACE. 00:18:23.53\00:18:26.70 WHY WOULD GOD SAY, 'YOU KNOW, MY FIRST LAW - I MADE SOME 00:18:26.74\00:18:28.70 MISTAKES. I'M GOING TO CHANGE IT. 00:18:28.74\00:18:29.90 I'LL PUT A DIFFERENT LAW IN YOUR HEART.' GOD DIDN'T MAKE A 00:18:29.94\00:18:32.44 MISTAKE WHEN HE WROTE AND SPOKE THAT LAW. 00:18:32.47\00:18:35.08 THAT'S HIS LAW. YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT. 00:18:35.11\00:18:37.45 SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, HE DIDN'T HAVE THAT LAW UNTIL THE 00:18:37.48\00:18:39.65 TEN COMMANDMENTS.' OH REALLY? 00:18:39.68\00:18:41.62 WHEN JOSEPH TOLD POTIPHAR'S WIFE, 'I CAN'T COMMIT ADULTERY 00:18:41.65\00:18:46.42 WITH YOU BECAUSE IT'S A SIN.' DID JOSEPH LIVE BEFORE MOSES? 00:18:46.45\00:18:50.06 >>NO. >>YEAH. 00:18:50.09\00:18:52.09 >>YEAH HE DID. >>YEAH, THAT WAS - ADULTERY WAS 00:18:52.13\00:18:53.60 A SIN WAY BACK IN JOSEPH'S DAY. YOU DIDN'T TAKE YOUR 00:18:53.63\00:18:55.50 NEIGHBOR'S WIFE. MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO BACK 00:18:55.53\00:18:57.77 TO THE VERY BEGINNING, GOD SAID TO CAIN, 'YOU KNOW, MURDERING 00:18:57.80\00:19:01.10 YOUR BROTHER IS A SIN.' SO YOU GO TO THE BEGINNING 00:19:01.14\00:19:04.51 - MURDER WAS WRONG. ADULTERY WAS WRONG. 00:19:04.54\00:19:06.51 THE LAW EXISTED ALL THE WAY FROM THE BEGINNING. 00:19:06.54\00:19:08.84 AND, BY THE WAY, INCLUDING THE SABBATH ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF 00:19:08.88\00:19:11.01 CREATION. AND SO THE LAW IS PART OF GOD'S NATURE. 00:19:11.05\00:19:15.28 THE NEW COVENANT IS THE LAW OF GOD WRITTEN IN A NEW PLACE. 00:19:15.32\00:19:19.62 DOES LIVING UNDER GRACE MAKE KEEPING THE LAW NON-ESSENTIAL? 00:19:19.65\00:19:25.16 NOW SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'I'M NOT SAVED BY WORKS, I'M SAVED BY 00:19:25.19\00:19:28.63 GRACE.' WELL, I BELIEVE I'M SAVED BY GRACE. 00:19:28.66\00:19:31.07 DO WE KEEP THE LAW TO BE SAVED OR BECAUSE WE ARE SAVED? 00:19:31.10\00:19:34.00 >>BECAUSE WE ARE SAVED. >>DID GOD TELL THE CHILDREN OF 00:19:34.04\00:19:36.81 ISRAEL, 'IF YOU KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, I'LL 00:19:36.84\00:19:38.67 SAVE YOU FROM EGYPT'? OR DID HE TELL THEM, 'YOU NEED 00:19:38.71\00:19:41.34 TO OFFER A LAMB AND I'LL SAVE YOU FROM EGYPT. 00:19:41.38\00:19:44.45 THEY WEREN'T SAVED BY THE LAW, THEY WERE SAVED BY THE LAMB. 00:19:44.48\00:19:47.72 AFTER HE SAVED THEM HE BROUGHT THEM TO MOUNT SINAI AND SAID, 00:19:47.75\00:19:51.09 'LOOK, I - YOU'VE BEEN SAVED BY THE LAMB. NOW, IF YOU LOVE ME, 00:19:51.12\00:19:53.49 KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' SEE HOW IT WORKED? 00:19:53.52\00:19:56.16 THEY WERE NOT SAVED BECAUSE THEY KEPT THE LAW, BUT THEY COULD NOT 00:19:56.19\00:20:00.10 GO TO THE PROMISED LAND, DELIBERATELY BREAKING IT. 00:20:00.13\00:20:03.90 DID YOU CATCH THAT? >>UH HUH. 00:20:03.93\00:20:05.87 >>DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE? 00:20:05.90\00:20:08.67 REVELATION SAYS WE'RE REWARDED BY OUR WORKS. 00:20:08.70\00:20:12.27 JESUS SAID, 'NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS UNTO ME, 'LORD, LORD' WILL 00:20:12.31\00:20:14.74 ENTER THE KINGDOM, BUT HE THAT DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER IN 00:20:14.78\00:20:18.81 HEAVEN.' WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD? 00:20:18.85\00:20:21.32 YOU CAN READ IN PSALMS 40, VERSE 8, "YEA, I LOVE TO DO THY WILL. 00:20:21.35\00:20:24.52 THY LAW IS WITHIN MY HEART.' THE LAW OF GOD IS THE WILL OF GOD. 00:20:24.55\00:20:30.49 YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT. YOU KNEW IT'S NOT GOD'S WILL 00:20:30.53\00:20:32.73 FOR YOU TO STEAL, RIGHT? >>AMEN. 00:20:32.76\00:20:35.50 >>OR TO CURSE OR TO WORSHIP IDOLS OR THOSE OTHER THINGS. 00:20:35.53\00:20:39.37 PAUL SAYS, ROMANS 6:15, "WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN, BECAUSE WE 00:20:39.40\00:20:44.64 ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID." 00:20:44.67\00:20:48.58 THE IDEA WE SHOULD KEEP BREAKING THE LAW - AND AGAIN, ROMANS 3 - 00:20:48.61\00:20:51.98 I SORT OF GOT ROMANS 6 BEFORE ROMANS 3, BUT SAME PRINCIPLE. 00:20:52.01\00:20:55.72 "DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? 00:20:55.75\00:20:58.05 GOD FORBID! WE ESTABLISH THE LAW THROUGH FAITH." 00:20:58.09\00:21:01.02 JAMES SAYS, 'YOU SHOW ME YOUR FAITH WITHOUT YOUR WORKS; I'LL 00:21:01.06\00:21:03.06 SHOW YOU MY FAITH BY MY WORKS.' 00:21:03.09\00:21:05.26 CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO BE DIFFERENT. 00:21:05.29\00:21:07.40 >>AMEN. >>AMEN? 00:21:07.40\00:21:08.93 I MEAN, IF YOU'VE GOT A NEXT-DOOR-NEIGHBOR AND HE SAYS 00:21:08.96\00:21:10.33 HE'S YOUR - HE'S A FRIEND - HE'S A CHRISTIAN - HE BORROWED YOUR 00:21:10.37\00:21:12.73 RAKE THREE YEARS AGO AND HASN'T BROUGHT IT BACK YET BECAUSE HE'S 00:21:12.77\00:21:15.24 UNDER GRACE. (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) YOU DON'T LIKE THAT KIND OF 00:21:15.27\00:21:19.31 RELIGION, DO YOU? >>NO! (LAUGHTER) 00:21:19.34\00:21:22.81 >>'IT'S EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS, JESUS 00:21:22.84\00:21:25.55 SAID, THAN FOR ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL.' 'JESUS CHRIST IS 00:21:25.58\00:21:29.48 THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND' - FOR HOW LONG? 00:21:29.52\00:21:32.42 - 'FOREVER.' HE IS THE ROCK. BY THE WAY, WHAT WAS 00:21:32.45\00:21:35.72 THE LAW WRITTEN ON? >>STONE. 00:21:35.76\00:21:37.59 >>JESUS SAID, 'THE WISE MAN BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON THE ROCK AND 00:21:37.63\00:21:40.43 WHEN THE STORM COMES IT DOES NOT FALL. 00:21:40.46\00:21:44.20 GOD WROTE HIS LAW ON A ROCK. JESUS IS THE ROCK. 00:21:44.23\00:21:49.04 DAVID KILLED GOLIATH WITH A ROCK. 00:21:49.07\00:21:51.07 IT'S A ROCK THAT DOESN'T CHANGE. IT'S A FIRM FOUNDATION. 00:21:51.11\00:21:54.38 IT'S A SHADOW OF A MIGHTY ROCK IN A WEARY LAND. 00:21:54.41\00:22:00.32 THOSE THAT ARE BEING SCORCHED UNDER THE SUN. 00:22:00.35\00:22:02.85 ARE PEOPLE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? 00:22:02.88\00:22:05.12 >>NO. >>NO. 00:22:05.15\00:22:07.39 'FOR BY GRACE ARE YOU SAVED THROUGH FAITH, NOT OF 00:22:07.42\00:22:10.49 YOURSELVES, IT'S A GIFT OF GOD, NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN 00:22:10.53\00:22:14.63 SHOULD BOAST.' I GOT PULLED OVER ONE TIME AND I WAS SPEEDING. 00:22:14.66\00:22:22.00 I'VE HAD SO MANY SPEEDING TICKETS I COULD PROBABLY TEACH 00:22:22.04\00:22:24.07 TRAFFIC SAFETY SCHOOL. (LAUGHTER) 00:22:24.11\00:22:26.81 AND I'VE BEEN GOOD THE LAST FEW YEARS. 00:22:26.84\00:22:29.41 SO I GOT PULLED OVER AND - AND THE POLICEMAN CAME UP AND I 00:22:29.44\00:22:36.22 SAID, 'OH, OFFICER, I - COULD YOU PLEASE HAVE MERCY?' 00:22:36.25\00:22:38.79 (LAUGHTER) I DID. I DIDN'T WANT LAW, BECAUSE I WAS GUILTY. 00:22:38.82\00:22:43.39 I WANTED MERCY. (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) AND, YOU 00:22:43.43\00:22:46.83 KNOW, SOMETIMES WHAT THE LADIES DO IS THEY'LL CRY. 00:22:46.86\00:22:50.80 I TRIED THAT ONCE AND SHE DID NOT GIVE ME A TICKET. 00:22:50.83\00:22:53.27 (LAUGHTER) SO THIS - ANYWAY, THIS POLICEMAN, HE - HE SAID, 00:22:53.30\00:22:57.47 'ALRIGHT.' AND SO HE SAID, 'I'M JUST GOING TO WRITE YOU A 00:22:57.51\00:23:00.11 WARNING. SLOW DOWN.' WELL, WHEN HE PULLED ME OVER I WAS 00:23:00.14\00:23:03.81 UNDER THE LAW BECAUSE I WAS SPEEDING. 00:23:03.85\00:23:06.72 AS SOON AS I SAW HIM - WHAT DO YOU DO? 00:23:06.75\00:23:07.95 YOU LOOK AT YOUR SPEEDOMETER IMMEDIATELY. 00:23:07.98\00:23:09.88 I SAID, 'OOPS.' AND AFTER HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO LET YOU GO. 00:23:09.92\00:23:15.89 YOU'RE FORGIVEN. YOU'RE NO LONGER UNDER THE LAW. 00:23:15.92\00:23:19.16 YOU DESERVE A TICKET BUT I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU MERCY. 00:23:19.19\00:23:21.13 YOU'RE NOW UNDER GRACE.' I SAID, 'PRAISE THE LORD, I'M UNDER 00:23:21.16\00:23:24.17 GRACE.' I REVVED MY ENGINE. 00:23:24.20\00:23:26.60 THE POLICEMAN'S STILL, YOU KNOW, DOING HIS PAPERWORK. 00:23:26.63\00:23:28.74 I REVVED MY ENGINE AND I POPPED THE CLUTCH AND I PEELED AWAY - 00:23:28.77\00:23:31.27 SPRAYED GRAVEL ALL OVER THE FRONT OF HIS CAR AND TOOK OFF. 00:23:31.31\00:23:34.08 BECAUSE I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE LAW ANYMORE, I'M UNDER GRACE. 00:23:34.11\00:23:36.51 (LAUGHTER) IS THAT WHAT I DID? >>NO. 00:23:36.54\00:23:39.05 >>OH NO. I PUT ON MY BLINKER. I CLEANED OFF MY MIRROR. 00:23:39.08\00:23:44.15 (LAUGHTER) I LOOKED A THOUSAND YARDS EVERY WAY AND ALL STREETS 00:23:44.19\00:23:48.36 AND - (LAUGHTER) - SLOWLY CREPT OUT AND WENT FORTY-EIGHT AND A 00:23:48.39\00:23:51.53 HALF MILES AN HOUR. (LAUGHTER) I WAS MORE CAREFUL THAN EVER. 00:23:51.56\00:23:55.13 WHY? BECAUSE I'M UNDER GRACE NOW. I'M NOT UNDER THE LAW. 00:23:55.16\00:23:59.63 BECAUSE HE SHOWED ME MERCY, AND I'M GRATEFUL, I RESPECTED THAT 00:23:59.67\00:24:03.74 MERCY AND I WAS CAREFUL. CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO BE THE MOST 00:24:03.77\00:24:06.98 CAREFUL AND OBEDIENT PEOPLE BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT OUR 00:24:07.01\00:24:09.78 LAWLESSNESS HAS COST. >>AMEN. 00:24:09.81\00:24:12.25 >>IT COST THE LIFE OF GOD'S SON. >>AMEN. 00:24:12.28\00:24:14.48 >>AMEN. >>SO THE IDEA THAT IT DOESN'T 00:24:14.52\00:24:16.45 MATTER - AND, YOU KNOW, THIS USED TO BE WHAT OTHER 00:24:16.48\00:24:18.32 PREACHERS WOULD TEACH. HERE'S A QUOTE FROM A BOOK BY 00:24:18.35\00:24:20.96 DWIGHT MOODY - GREAT MAN - GREAT EVANGELIST. 00:24:20.99\00:24:23.26 "THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, GIVEN TO MOSES IN MOUNT HOREB ARE AS 00:24:23.29\00:24:26.86 BINDING TODAY AS THEY EVER HAVE BEEN SINCE THE TIME WHEN THEY 00:24:26.90\00:24:30.13 WERE PROCLAIMED WITHIN THE HEARING OF THE PEOPLE." 00:24:30.17\00:24:33.10 NOT TOO FAR FROM HERE IS THE BILLY GRAHAM MUSEUM. 00:24:33.13\00:24:36.14 KAREN WENT WITH HER FRIEND. SHE SAYS, 'YOU'VE GOT TO GO 00:24:36.17\00:24:38.01 OVER THERE.' >>IT'S BEAUTIFUL. 00:24:38.04\00:24:39.27 >>AT THE TIME OF THIS RECORDING DR. GRAHAM IS STILL ALIVE AND 00:24:39.31\00:24:41.28 WELL AND WE NEED TO PRAY FOR HIM. 00:24:41.31\00:24:43.65 HE USED TO ALWAYS DO THIS ARTICLE WHERE HE ASKED QUESTIONS 00:24:43.68\00:24:46.98 - PEOPLE WOULD WRITE IN QUESTIONS AND HE WOULD ANSWER 00:24:47.02\00:24:48.65 THEM. IT WAS CALLED 'MY ANSWER'. 00:24:48.68\00:24:50.55 QUESTION: DOES GOD STILL EXPECT US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:24:50.59\00:24:54.56 IS THAT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? 00:24:54.59\00:24:56.93 I APPRECIATE DR. GRAHAM'S ANSWER: "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 00:24:56.96\00:24:59.86 ARE JUST AS VALID TODAY AS WHEN GOD GAVE THEM TO MOSES OVER 00:24:59.89\00:25:03.50 3,000 YEARS AGO. JESUS SAID, 'I TELL YOU THE TRUTH THAT UNTIL 00:25:03.53\00:25:07.60 HEAVEN AND EARTH DISAPPEAR, NOT THE SMALLEST LETTER OR THE LEAST 00:25:07.64\00:25:11.37 STROKE OF A PEN WILL BY ANY MEANS DISAPPEAR FROM THE LAW.' 00:25:11.41\00:25:14.64 >>AMEN. >>I AGREE. 00:25:14.68\00:25:15.81 THAT'S WHAT ALL THE PREACHERS USED TO SAY. 00:25:15.84\00:25:17.81 BUT THERE'S A TREND - IT'S CHANGING. 00:25:17.85\00:25:20.02 WHAT MOTIVATES A PERSON TO KEEP THE LAW - TO OBEY GOD'S LAW? 00:25:20.05\00:25:24.69 WHY SHOULD WE DO IT? 'THEREFORE, LOVE IS THE 00:25:24.72\00:25:29.86 FULFILLING OF THE LAW.' WHEN WE LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR - WHEN WE LOVE 00:25:29.89\00:25:33.93 GOD, WE'RE GOING TO WANT TO HAVE OUR TIME WITH GOD. 00:25:33.96\00:25:37.17 WE'RE GOING TO WANT TO REVERE HIS NAME. IT'S ALL LOVE. 00:25:37.20\00:25:41.00 "THOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD THY GOD" - JESUS SAID - "WITH ALL 00:25:41.04\00:25:43.94 THY HEART, WITH ALL THY SOUL, WITH ALL OF THY MIND." 00:25:43.97\00:25:46.98 - THAT'S MATTHEW 22:37 - "FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD THAT WE 00:25:47.01\00:25:51.31 KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS." AND JOHN SAID HIS COMMANDMENTS 00:25:51.35\00:25:54.15 ARE NOT A BURDEN, THEY'RE A BLESSING.' 00:25:54.18\00:25:57.09 >>AMEN. >>THE BIBLE IS TELLING US THAT 00:25:57.12\00:25:59.22 IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT JESUS, FRIENDS. SO WHOM DOES THE DEVIL 00:25:59.25\00:26:03.19 ESPECIALLY HATE IN THESE LAST DAYS? 00:26:03.22\00:26:06.76 THE DRAGON IS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN AND HE GOES TO MAKE WAR 00:26:06.80\00:26:10.17 WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED THAT KEEPS THE COMMANDMENTS OF 00:26:10.20\00:26:13.23 GOD AND HAS THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS. 00:26:13.27\00:26:20.51 >>SO IF GOD GOES TO THE TROUBLE TO SPEAK AUDIBLY BEFORE A WHOLE 00:26:20.54\00:26:24.25 NATION AND IF HE TAKES THE TIME TO WRITE IN GRANITE WITH HIS OWN 00:26:24.28\00:26:28.88 FINGER, HIS LAW, THEN IS THAT SOMETHING CHRISTIANS SHOULD 00:26:28.92\00:26:32.95 STILL THINK ABOUT TODAY? WHAT ABOUT THE VERSES IN THE 00:26:32.99\00:26:36.12 BIBLE LIKE ROMANS 6:14 - "WE'RE NO LONGER UNDER THE 00:26:36.16\00:26:38.79 LAW BUT UNDER GRACE." DOES THAT MEAN THAT CHRISTIANS 00:26:38.83\00:26:41.93 NO LONGER HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:26:41.96\00:26:44.97 WHAT IS THE RIGHT BIBLICAL RELATIONSHIP FOR THE CHRISTIAN 00:26:45.00\00:26:48.07 BETWEEN SALVATION AND THE LAW OF GOD? 00:26:48.10\00:26:52.24 HOW DOES IT ALL FIT IN, FRIENDS? WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND? 00:26:52.27\00:26:55.31 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE REALLY TEACH ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND 00:26:55.34\00:26:58.21 HOW TO APPLY THEM FOR A NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN? 00:26:58.25\00:27:01.35 ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED IN A FREE STUDY GUIDE 00:27:01.38\00:27:04.95 AND IT'S CALLED WRITTEN IN STONE . 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