>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:01:00.69\00:01:03.53 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:03.56\00:01:11.63 >>WHAT ARE YOU THINKING RIGHT NOW? WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT THE 00:01:11.67\00:01:13.64 LAW, DO YOU HAVE GOOD, WARM FEELINGS? OR DOES THE LAW - THE 00:01:13.67\00:01:17.37 WORD 'LAW' MAKE YOU NERVOUS? WHEN YOU THINK OF THE LAW, DO 00:01:17.41\00:01:21.44 YOU FEEL PEACE OR DO YOU FEEL GUILT? 00:01:21.48\00:01:26.48 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:01:26.51\00:01:29.55 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:01:29.58\00:01:32.12 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:01:32.15\00:01:35.76 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:01:35.79\00:01:38.39 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:01:38.43\00:01:46.90 >>SO TONIGHT WE HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT PROGRAM AND IT'S 00:01:46.94\00:01:48.97 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE LAW OF GOD. 00:01:49.00\00:01:52.14 NOW, THE TITLE OF THE SERIES IS THE LAW OF THE LAMB BECAUSE 00:01:52.17\00:01:55.04 JESUS IS GOD THE SON, AMEN? >>AMEN. 00:01:55.08\00:01:58.35 >>GOD PUT HIS WORD - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - ON TWO TABLES OF 00:01:58.38\00:02:02.98 STONE. THIS IS THE LAW OF THE LAMB. 00:02:03.02\00:02:05.79 IT IS WRITTEN BY THE LORD - BY HIS OWN FINGER. 00:02:05.82\00:02:08.52 NOW, WHERE DID THE TEN COMMANDMENTS COME FROM? 00:02:08.56\00:02:11.56 WE ALWAYS PICTURE, YOU KNOW, MOSES UP ON TOP IN THE MOUNTAINS 00:02:11.59\00:02:13.73 THERE. SOME HAVE GOT PICTURES OF MOSES 00:02:13.76\00:02:15.86 IN THE THEIR MIND - HE'S WRITING THE LAW - BUT YOU READ, IN THE 00:02:15.90\00:02:19.40 GOSPEL OF JOHN, 'ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE 00:02:19.43\00:02:22.14 BY HIM.' WHO IS THAT? >>JESUS. 00:02:22.17\00:02:25.84 >>IT'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS, AND HE'S THE ONE WHO'S RESPONSIBLE 00:02:25.87\00:02:29.71 FOR GIVING US THE LAW. SO SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT 00:02:29.74\00:02:33.15 THE LAW OF JESUS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE 00:02:33.18\00:02:36.12 LAW OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:02:36.15\00:02:38.89 IT'S THE SAME GOD THAT GAVE BOTH LAWS. 00:02:38.92\00:02:42.46 SO THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSION, EVEN AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY, 00:02:42.49\00:02:45.39 ABOUT 'WHAT LAW DO WE KEEP?' 'WHICH LAWS WERE 00:02:45.43\00:02:49.10 NAILED TO THE CROSS?' AND 'HOW DO CHRISTIANS RELATE 00:02:49.13\00:02:51.90 TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WITHOUT BEING LEGALISTS?' 00:02:51.93\00:02:55.50 AND THEN THERE'S THAT QUESTION: 'IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?' 00:02:55.54\00:03:00.41 INTERESTING QUESTION - SORT OF A RHETORICAL QUESTION. 00:03:00.44\00:03:03.24 HOW DOES THIS ALL RELATE TO REVELATION? FOLLOW ME. 00:03:03.28\00:03:06.38 IF YOU GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 14, VERSE 9, IT TELLS US THERE 00:03:06.41\00:03:10.45 THAT "THEN A THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A 00:03:10.49\00:03:12.82 LOUD VOICE, 'IF ANYONE WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND 00:03:12.85\00:03:17.69 RECEIVES HIS MARK ON HIS FOREHEAD OR ON HIS HAND, THE 00:03:17.73\00:03:21.33 SAME WILL DRINK THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS POURED 00:03:21.36\00:03:25.37 OUT FULL STRENGTH INTO THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION.'" HERE'S 00:03:25.40\00:03:29.44 ONE OF THE MOST FEARFUL CURSES AND PLAGUES PRONOUNCED IN THE 00:03:29.47\00:03:32.71 BIBLE - IT'S ACTUALLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - AND IT'S PRONOUNCED 00:03:32.74\00:03:36.44 AGAINST THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST. 00:03:36.48\00:03:39.18 AND YOU CAN READ ON, IT SAYS, "HE SHALL BE TORMENTED WITH FIRE 00:03:39.21\00:03:41.85 AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS AND IN THE 00:03:41.88\00:03:44.89 PRESENCE OF THE LAMB." GOING DOWN A LITTLE FURTHER 00:03:44.92\00:03:48.96 IN THAT SAME CHAPTER, IT WILL CONTRAST THE ONES WHO ARE NOT 00:03:48.99\00:03:54.13 WORSHIPING THE BEAST AND IT SAYS, "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF 00:03:54.20\00:03:57.43 THE SAINTS" - THIS IS VERSE 12 - REVELATION 14:12 - "HERE IS THE 00:03:57.47\00:04:01.04 PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS 00:04:01.07\00:04:04.64 OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS." NOTICE IT DOESN'T SAY 'FAITH 00:04:04.67\00:04:08.71 IN JESUS' - IT SAYS 'FAITH OF JESUS'. 00:04:08.74\00:04:12.55 NOW THAT'S A CHARACTERISTIC YOU FIND THROUGHOUT REVELATION - 00:04:12.58\00:04:15.45 THOSE WHO ARE WORSHIPING THE BEAST ARE BREAKING ONE OF THE 00:04:15.48\00:04:18.52 COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS YOU'RE ONLY TO WORSHIP GOD 00:04:18.55\00:04:21.49 AND YOU'RE NOT TO PRAY TO IDOLS. AND IT TALKS ABOUT MAKING 00:04:21.52\00:04:24.99 AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST. LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 00:04:25.03\00:04:27.50 REVELATION 13:15, "HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO GIVE BREATH 00:04:27.50\00:04:32.40 TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST. THAT THE IMAGE...SHOULD BOTH 00:04:32.43\00:04:35.47 SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF 00:04:35.50\00:04:39.51 THE BEAST TO BE KILLED." WELL, IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER IN 00:04:39.54\00:04:42.98 GOD AND YOU'RE COMMANDED TO DO IMAGE WORSHIP, WHAT DO YOU DO? 00:04:43.01\00:04:46.28 WHAT WOULD BE WRONG WITH IMAGE WORSHIP? 00:04:46.31\00:04:49.18 IS THERE A COMMAND THAT FORBIDS US FROM IMAGE WORSHIP? 00:04:49.22\00:04:53.09 IS THAT ONLY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 00:04:53.12\00:04:55.36 OR DOES JOHN, ALSO IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SAY, 'MY LITTLE 00:04:55.39\00:04:57.76 CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELF FROM IDOLS'? 00:04:57.79\00:05:00.96 AND SO, THIS IS A COMMANDMENT YOU FIND GOING ALL THE WAY 00:05:00.96\00:05:03.97 THROUGH THE BIBLE. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE 00:05:04.00\00:05:06.60 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SAVED CHRISTIAN AND THE LAW, IF WE'RE 00:05:06.63\00:05:11.37 GOING TO BE READY FOR THE LAST DAYS AND WHAT'S COMING. 00:05:11.41\00:05:13.44 >>AMEN. >>AND, AGAIN, IT GOES ON TO SAY 00:05:13.48\00:05:15.71 - REVELATION 13:15, THAT THOSE THAT DO NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE 00:05:15.74\00:05:19.78 OF THE BEAST WOULD BE KILLED. THEN YOU JUMP, NOW, 00:05:19.81\00:05:23.45 TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL. AND, IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL 3, 00:05:23.49\00:05:26.05 VERSE 10, SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT DANIEL HAD THREE FRIENDS 00:05:26.09\00:05:28.96 NAMED SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO - AND THEIR HEBREW 00:05:28.99\00:05:33.16 NAMES WERE HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AND AZARIAH - THEY REFUSED TO 00:05:33.19\00:05:37.43 BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE KING AND THE KING HAD 00:05:37.47\00:05:40.20 SAID WHOEVER DOES NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE WILL BE KILLED. 00:05:40.24\00:05:43.10 DO YOU NOTICE THE ECHO COMING FROM DANIEL INTO REVELATION? 00:05:43.14\00:05:47.38 VERY SIMILAR LANGUAGE. 'THOSE WHO DO NOT WORSHIP THE 00:05:47.41\00:05:49.98 IMAGE OF BABYLON WOULD BE KILLED. 00:05:50.01\00:05:52.71 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT BABYLON IN OUR NEXT 00:05:52.75\00:05:54.35 PRESENTATION. THEY SAID, 'WE CANNOT BOW DOWN 00:05:54.38\00:05:57.09 TO YOUR IMAGE, OUR LAW FORBIDS IT' - THE LAW OF GOD. 00:05:57.12\00:06:02.16 THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO KNOW FOR THE LAST DAYS. 00:06:02.19\00:06:04.99 "AND WHOEVER DOES NOT FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP SHALL BE CAST INTO 00:06:05.03\00:06:07.93 THE MIDST OF A BURNING FIERY FURNACE." 00:06:07.96\00:06:10.00 THEY FACED A TREMENDOUS TEST. WHAT HAPPENED? 00:06:10.03\00:06:12.40 DID GOD PRESERVE THEM? >>YES. 00:06:12.43\00:06:14.30 >>BECAUSE THEY PUT THE LAW OF GOD FIRST. 00:06:14.34\00:06:15.57 THEY STOOD UP FOR GOD AND HIS WORD AND GOD STOOD UP FOR THEM. 00:06:15.60\00:06:18.44 JESUS, HIMSELF, WENT INTO THAT FIERY FURNACE WITH THEM AND 00:06:18.47\00:06:21.98 AIR-CONDITIONED IT. HE PRESERVED THEM. 00:06:22.01\00:06:24.85 THE ONLY THING THAT WAS BURNED WERE THE ROPES THAT HAD BOUND 00:06:24.88\00:06:26.78 THEM. THEN YOU GO TO DANIEL CHAPTER 6 00:06:26.82\00:06:30.15 - REMEMBER, THERE'S A PARALLEL BETWEEN DANIEL AND REVELATION. 00:06:30.19\00:06:32.69 THE KING - KING DARIUS - MAKES A LAW AND HE MAKES "...A ROYAL 00:06:32.72\00:06:36.22 STATUTE AND [TO MAKE] A FIRM DECREE, THAT WHOEVER PETITIONS 00:06:36.26\00:06:39.23 ANY GOD OR MAN FOR THIRTY DAYS, EXCEPT YOU, O KING, SHALL BE 00:06:39.26\00:06:46.10 CAST INTO THE DEN OF LIONS." THERE - A FIRST COMMANDMENT 00:06:46.13\00:06:49.97 - WHAT DOES THAT SAY? - FIRST OF THE TEN? 00:06:50.01\00:06:52.11 'THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER GODS BEFORE ME' - RIGHT? 00:06:52.14\00:06:56.18 DANIEL SAID, 'I'M SORRY, GOD'S LAW FORBIDS ME FROM MAKING YOU 00:06:56.21\00:06:59.11 MY GOD, KING DARIUS. I'M PUTTING THE LAW OF GOD AHEAD 00:06:59.15\00:07:03.65 OF THE LAW OF MAN.' >>AMEN. 00:07:03.69\00:07:05.22 >>DOESN'T PETER SAY WE OUGHT TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN? 00:07:05.25\00:07:08.66 IS THE DAY COMING, IN THE FUTURE, ACCORDING TO PROPHECY, 00:07:08.69\00:07:11.66 WHEN THE BEAST POWER IS GOING TO BE COMPELLING PEOPLE TO WORSHIP 00:07:11.69\00:07:15.26 SOMETHING GOD FORBIDS? SO DO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE 00:07:15.30\00:07:18.60 RIGHT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LORD AND THE LAW, IF YOU'RE 00:07:18.63\00:07:21.87 GOING TO BE A BIBLE CHRISTIAN? BECAUSE IT SAYS A LOT HERE 00:07:21.90\00:07:25.64 ABOUT THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. SO LET'S DELVE INTO OUR LESSON 00:07:25.67\00:07:29.11 TO GET A RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW, WITHOUT TURNING INTO 00:07:29.14\00:07:32.48 LEGALISTS AS WE STUDY THESE THINGS IN THE LIGHT OF PROPHECY. 00:07:32.51\00:07:37.29 QUESTION #1: CAN GOD'S MORAL LAW BE AMENDED OR REPEALED? 00:07:37.32\00:07:43.69 NOW, I SHOULD PROBABLY TELL YOU, WHEN WE SAY 'MORAL LAW' - WE 00:07:43.73\00:07:46.09 DON'T HEAR THAT PHRASE MUCH ANYMORE, BUT IT WAS THE TERM 00:07:46.13\00:07:49.23 THAT WAS USED FOR MANY YEARS BY CHRISTIANS TO DESCRIBE THE TEN 00:07:49.26\00:07:52.33 COMMANDMENTS - BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY LAWS IN THE BIBLE - THERE'S 00:07:52.37\00:07:55.37 CIVIL LAWS IN THE BIBLE, THERE WERE GOVERNMENT LAWS, THERE WERE 00:07:55.40\00:07:59.57 HEALTH LAWS, THERE WERE CEREMONIAL LAWS, AND THEN THERE 00:07:59.61\00:08:03.58 WAS THE MORAL LAW, WHICH WAS THE LAW OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:08:03.61\00:08:07.82 AND I REMEMBER, GROWING UP, THAT ANY SCHOOLBOY USED TO KNOW MOST 00:08:07.85\00:08:11.85 OF THEM BECAUSE, IN PUBLIC SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA WE HAD THE 00:08:11.89\00:08:16.66 TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE WALL IN OUR SCHOOL. 00:08:16.69\00:08:19.26 DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THAT? I SEE A FEW HANDS. 00:08:19.29\00:08:22.13 I GUESS I'M GETTING OLD. I SEE - ANYWAY - SOME OF YOU REMEMBER 00:08:22.16\00:08:24.27 THAT? PUBLIC SCHOOL - TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE WALL. 00:08:24.30\00:08:27.64 AND YOU WONDER IF THE EPIDEMIC OF CRIME COULD BE CONNECTED WITH 00:08:27.67\00:08:30.47 OUR SAYING, 'OH, WE WOULDN'T WANT THE KIDS ACCIDENTALLY 00:08:30.51\00:08:33.71 KEEPING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE A BAD 00:08:33.74\00:08:36.48 INFLUENCE - RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE.' NO. 00:08:36.51\00:08:40.72 CAN GOD'S LAW BE CHANGED? PSALM 89, VERSE 34, "MY COVENANT 00:08:40.75\00:08:45.32 WILL I NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE THING THAT IS GONE 00:08:45.35\00:08:49.59 OUT OF MY LIPS." GOD MADE A COVENANT. 00:08:49.62\00:08:51.73 IT'S CALLED 'THE OLD COVENANT' BUT THE LAW HAS NOT BEEN 00:08:51.76\00:08:55.70 CHANGED. YOU'LL FIND OUT ABOUT 00:08:55.73\00:08:57.90 THAT A LITTLE LATER IN THE PRESENTATION. 00:08:57.93\00:09:00.40 YOU CAN ALSO READ IN PSALMS 111:7, HE SAYS, "ALL HIS 00:09:00.44\00:09:04.87 COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FAST FOREVER AND EVER." 00:09:04.91\00:09:09.78 IN FACT, IF YOU'VE NEVER DONE IT BEFORE, I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO 00:09:09.81\00:09:12.68 READ ONE LITTLE CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE, IT'S CALLED PSALM 119. 00:09:12.71\00:09:17.12 I'M TEASING - IT'S THE LONGEST CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE - THE WHOLE 00:09:17.15\00:09:21.29 CHAPTER IS 'HOW I LOVE YOUR LAW'. 00:09:21.32\00:09:24.69 IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVING THE LAW. PEOPLE DON'T USUALLY PUT LAW 00:09:24.73\00:09:27.13 AND LOVE TOGETHER, DO THEY? IT'S LIKE THEY'RE OPPOSITES. 00:09:27.13\00:09:32.43 BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU REALLY LOVE THE LORD, YOU LOVE HIS LAW. 00:09:32.47\00:09:35.80 ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FOREVER. 00:09:35.84\00:09:38.07 YOU CAN READ MALACHI, CHAPTER 3, VERSE 6 - GOD SAYS, "FOR I AM 00:09:38.11\00:09:41.34 THE LORD. I CHANGE NOT." 00:09:41.38\00:09:44.25 JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER. 00:09:44.28\00:09:47.82 AND SO, HIS LAW IS ETERNAL IN NATURE - THE MORAL LAW. 00:09:47.85\00:09:51.29 NO, THE REASON THAT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT GOD'S TEN 00:09:51.32\00:09:54.32 COMMANDMENT LAW CAN CHANGE IS BECAUSE THE BIBLE DEFINITIONS 00:09:54.36\00:09:57.99 FOR THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW ARE THE SAME DEFINITIONS THAT ARE 00:09:58.03\00:10:01.30 GIVEN FOR GOD HIMSELF. AND SO, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO DO 00:10:01.33\00:10:04.67 AWAY WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENT MORAL LAW, YOU'RE GOING TO START 00:10:04.70\00:10:08.60 FINDING YOURSELF TRYING TO DO AWAY WITH THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 00:10:08.64\00:10:12.17 LET ME ILLUSTRATE: THE BIBLE SAYS 'GOD IS GOOD' - YOU CAN 00:10:12.21\00:10:17.91 FIND THAT IN LUKE 18:19. WELL, THE BIBLE SAYS, 00:10:17.95\00:10:21.32 'THE LAW IS GOOD'. THE BIBLE SAYS 'GOD IS HOLY' - 00:10:21.35\00:10:26.22 THE BIBLE SAYS 'THE LAW IS HOLY' - ROMANS 7:12. 00:10:26.25\00:10:30.73 THE BIBLE SAYS, IN DEUTERONOMY 32, VERSE 4, 'GOD IS JUST'. 00:10:30.76\00:10:34.73 THE BIBLE SAYS 'THE LAW IS JUST' - ROMANS 7:12. 00:10:34.76\00:10:38.53 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD IS PERFECT, GOD IS LOVE - THE BIBLE 00:10:38.57\00:10:42.80 SAYS THAT THE LAW IS PERFECT, THE LAW IS LOVE. IT SAYS THAT 00:10:42.84\00:10:47.54 GOD IS RIGHTEOUS - AND I'M NOT GOING TO READ ALL OF THESE 00:10:47.58\00:10:50.48 VERSES TO YOU - HE IS TRUTH, HE IS PURE, HE IS SPIRITUAL, HE IS 00:10:50.51\00:10:54.18 UNCHANGEABLE, HE IS ETERNAL - EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE THINGS 00:10:54.22\00:10:57.22 THAT DESCRIBES GOD, IT ALSO IS USING TO DESCRIBE THE LAW. 00:10:57.25\00:11:01.52 NOW, THAT SHOULD NOT SURPRISE YOU IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN 00:11:01.56\00:11:03.93 BECAUSE ONE OF THE NAMES FOR JESUS IS 'THE WORD'. 00:11:03.96\00:11:08.36 AND ONE OF THE NAMES FOR THE LAW IS 'THE WORD'. 00:11:08.40\00:11:11.53 THE LAW IS, OF COURSE, THE WORD OF GOD WRITTEN BY GOD'S OWN 00:11:11.57\00:11:14.07 FINGER. IT'S ETERNAL IN NATURE. 00:11:14.10\00:11:18.24 NOW WHAT ARE YOU THINKING RIGHT NOW? 00:11:18.27\00:11:21.24 WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT THE LAW, DO YOU HAVE GOOD, WARM FEELINGS? 00:11:21.28\00:11:24.31 OR DOES THE WORD 'LAW' MAKE YOU NERVOUS? 00:11:24.35\00:11:27.82 WHEN YOU THINK OF THE LAW, DO YOU FEEL PEACE OR DO YOU FEEL 00:11:27.85\00:11:31.39 GUILT? >>PEACE. 00:11:31.42\00:11:33.25 >>THINK ABOUT THAT. I'M NOT GOING TO SAY ANYMORE. 00:11:33.29\00:11:36.19 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN? 00:11:36.22\00:11:39.96 THERE'S A FEW DEFINITIONS FOR THE SIN. 00:11:40.00\00:11:41.90 THE BIBLE SAYS ANYTHING NOT OF FAITH IS SIN, ALL 00:11:41.93\00:11:43.70 UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IS SIN - YOU CAN READ IN ROMANS 3:20, "BY THE LAW 00:11:43.73\00:11:48.77 IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN." SO WE LEARN ABOUT 00:11:48.80\00:11:52.04 SIN BY THE LAW. WELL, THAT WOULD MAKE YOU THINK 00:11:52.07\00:11:53.88 THAT 'I DON'T WANT THE - 'I DON'T WANT THE LAW BECAUSE IT'S 00:11:53.91\00:11:55.98 GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT SIN. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MY 00:11:56.01\00:11:58.58 SIN; I ALREADY FEEL GUILTY ENOUGH, SO IF I LOOK AT THE LAW, 00:11:58.61\00:12:01.32 I'M GOING TO FEEL BAD.' NO, IT'S NOT YOUR ENEMY. 00:12:01.35\00:12:04.75 ANOTHER DEFINITION - A REALLY GOOD DEFINITION THAT YOU'RE 00:12:04.79\00:12:07.32 GOING TO FIND HERE IN THE BIBLE - 1 JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSE 4, IT 00:12:07.36\00:12:11.09 SAYS - AND THIS IS ALMOST LIKE IT'S RIGHT OUT OF A DICTIONARY, 00:12:11.13\00:12:13.96 'SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.' AND SO, DO WE STILL HAVE 00:12:14.00\00:12:19.63 SIN IN THE WORLD TODAY? IT MUST STILL HAVE LAW. 00:12:19.67\00:12:24.27 SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW - WHAT LAW? 00:12:24.31\00:12:26.98 AND THAT'S THE NEXT QUESTION, TO WHAT LAW DOES 1 JOHN 3:4 REFER? 00:12:27.01\00:12:32.55 WELL, YOU CAN READ - THE ANSWER TO THAT YOU CAN REALLY GET FROM 00:12:32.58\00:12:34.95 ROMANS 7:7 - I KNOW I'M GIVING YOU A LOT OF SCRIPTURE, BUT I 00:12:34.98\00:12:37.92 WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT 00:12:37.95\00:12:40.62 IS REALLY ROOTED IN THE WORD. HE SAID, 'I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN 00:12:40.66\00:12:45.16 BUT BY THE LAW, FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST EXCEPT THE LAW HAD 00:12:45.19\00:12:48.80 SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT COVET.' NOW, WHEN PAUL SAYS 'YOU SHALL 00:12:48.83\00:12:53.00 NOT COVET,' WHERE DO YOU FIND THAT? WHICH COMMANDMENT IS THAT? 00:12:53.03\00:12:59.11 COMMANDMENT #10 - IT SAYS, 'THOU SHALL NOT COVET' - SO PAUL IS 00:12:59.14\00:13:02.58 SAYING, 'I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ABOUT SIN IF IT WASN'T FOR THE 00:13:02.61\00:13:05.01 LAW.' AND THEN HE'S REFERRING, OF COURSE, TO THE MORAL LAW - 00:13:05.05\00:13:07.52 THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW. AND DO WE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LAW 00:13:07.55\00:13:12.22 KEEPING IN THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD TODAY? 00:13:12.25\00:13:14.22 >>YES. >>OH, IT'S PRETTY SERIOUS. 00:13:14.26\00:13:16.39 I THINK I QUOTED THIS, ACTUALLY, SAME QUOTE TO YOU IN AN EARLIER 00:13:16.42\00:13:20.20 PRESENTATION - THAT "EVERY HUNDRED HOURS, MORE YOUTH DIE IN 00:13:20.23\00:13:22.80 U.S. STREETS THAN WERE KILLED IN THE PERSIAN GULF WARFARE" - 00:13:22.83\00:13:25.90 U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT . 00:13:25.93\00:13:28.34 ANOTHER REPORT TELLS US THAT THE AVERAGE 18 YEAR OLD HAS 00:13:28.37\00:13:32.64 WITNESSED 200,000 VIOLENT ACTS ON TELEVISION, INCLUDING 40,000 00:13:32.67\00:13:39.38 MURDERS - BY THE TIME HE'S 18 YEARS OLD - A YOUNG PERSON. 00:13:39.41\00:13:43.62 SO, IF WE ARE CHANGED BY BEHOLDING AND, IF PEOPLE ARE 00:13:43.65\00:13:48.46 SPENDING ALL THIS TIME BEHOLDING EVIL, THEN IS THAT GOING TO HAVE 00:13:48.49\00:13:51.89 AN IMPACT ON US? AND IT'S ALSO AFFECTING THE MORALS. 00:13:51.93\00:13:56.63 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT - IT'S JUST GONE EPIDEMIC NOW - 00:13:56.67\00:13:59.90 SOME OF YOU PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT 2015, THERE WAS A WEBSITE 00:13:59.93\00:14:03.34 CALLED ASHLEY MADISON AND SOME PEOPLE THAT WERE REALLY UPSET 00:14:03.37\00:14:06.94 WITH WHAT THE GOAL OF THIS WEBSITE WAS: TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE 00:14:06.98\00:14:10.45 TO HAVE AFFAIRS. THEIR MOTTO WAS, 'LIFE IS SHORT. 00:14:10.48\00:14:13.75 HAVE AN AFFAIR.' AND PEOPLE COULD GO AND REGISTER THERE - 00:14:13.78\00:14:17.32 AND A LOT OF MARRIAGES WERE BREAKING UP BECAUSE OF THIS 00:14:17.35\00:14:19.59 WEBSITE. THEY ACTUALLY HAD A 37 MILLION-PEOPLE REGISTER - 00:14:19.62\00:14:25.46 >>WOW. >>5.5 OF THEM HAD REGISTERED 00:14:25.49\00:14:28.03 AS WOMEN, SO IT WAS NOT JUST A PROBLEM OF THE MEN BUT, 00:14:28.06\00:14:31.33 PREDOMINANTLY, IT WAS THE MEN. AND THE GROUP SAID, 'IF YOU 00:14:31.37\00:14:35.37 DON'T TAKE DOWN YOUR WEBSITE, WE'VE HACKED ALL YOUR 00:14:35.40\00:14:37.41 INFORMATION, WE'RE MAKING IT PUBLIC.' WELL THEY DIDN'T TAKE 00:14:37.44\00:14:40.54 IT DOWN AND THESE PEOPLE WERE NOT JUST THREATENING, THEY DID 00:14:40.58\00:14:43.95 MAKE PUBLIC 25 GIGABYTES OF COMPANY DATA - THE PERSONAL 00:14:43.98\00:14:49.32 INFORMATION AND NAMES OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAD BEEN 00:14:49.35\00:14:52.12 USING THAT WEBSITE. >>WOW. 00:14:52.15\00:14:55.92 >>BUT THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE. THERE'S ONLY 300 MILLION IN 00:14:55.96\00:14:58.73 NORTH AMERICA - A LOT OF THEM ARE KIDS - 37 MILLION PEOPLE - 00:14:58.76\00:15:02.33 >>WOO! >>WOW. 00:15:02.36\00:15:04.13 >>INVESTIGATING HOW TO HAVE AN AFFAIR. 00:15:04.17\00:15:08.57 DO YOU THINK WE HAVE TOO MUCH LAW IN THE CHURCH? 00:15:08.60\00:15:11.17 OR MAYBE PEOPLE AREN'T HEARING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD? 00:15:11.21\00:15:14.04 OH, BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT - 'THOU 00:15:14.08\00:15:15.71 SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY'. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ADULTERERS 00:15:15.74\00:15:20.95 WILL NOT BE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 00:15:20.98\00:15:24.72 >>SO, IF GOD GOES TO THE TROUBLE TO SPEAK AUDIBLY BEFORE A WHOLE 00:15:24.75\00:15:28.49 NATION, AND IF HE TAKES THE TIME TO WRITE IN GRANITE WITH HIS OWN 00:15:28.52\00:15:33.19 FINGER, HIS LAW, THEN IS THAT SOMETHING CHRISTIANS SHOULD 00:15:33.23\00:15:37.13 STILL THINK ABOUT TODAY? WHAT ABOUT THE VERSES IN 00:15:37.17\00:15:40.10 THE BIBLE LIKE ROMANS 6:14? "WE'RE NO LONGER UNDER 00:15:40.14\00:15:42.80 THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE." DOES THAT MEAN THAT CHRISTIANS 00:15:42.84\00:15:46.17 NO LONGER HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:15:46.21\00:15:49.21 WHAT IS THE RIGHT BIBLICAL RELATIONSHIP FOR THE CHRISTIAN 00:15:49.24\00:15:52.75 BETWEEN SALVATION AND THE LAW OF GOD? 00:15:52.78\00:15:56.45 HOW DOES IT ALL FIT IN, FRIENDS? WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND 00:15:56.48\00:15:59.29 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE REALLY TEACH ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND 00:15:59.32\00:16:02.62 HOW TO APPLY THEM FOR A NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN? 00:16:02.66\00:16:05.66 ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED IN A FREE STUDY GUIDE 00:16:05.69\00:16:09.30 AND IT'S CALLED WRITTEN IN STONE . 00:16:09.33\00:16:11.40 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. JUST SIMPLY GO TO OUR WEBSITE - 00:16:11.43\00:16:14.94 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - OR CALL THE PHONE NUMBER AND 00:16:14.97\00:16:18.31 REQUEST OFFER #111. I CAN PROMISE YOU, YOU'LL NEVER 00:16:18.34\00:16:22.18 BE THE SAME AND YOU WILL BE ENCOURAGED AND 00:16:22.21\00:16:24.28 COMFORTED BY THIS STUDY. AND THAT'S WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO 00:16:24.31\00:16:27.68 HERE AT AMAZING FACTS, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 00:16:27.72\00:16:32.79 >>GOD WANTS US TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 00:16:32.82\00:16:34.66 HE'S PRETTY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. NOW, THE BOTTOM LINE IS 00:16:34.69\00:16:36.59 A CHRISTIAN FOLLOWS WHO? WHAT DOES THE WORD 00:16:36.62\00:16:38.53 'CHRISTIAN' MEAN? A CHRISTIAN IS SUPPOSED 00:16:38.56\00:16:40.93 TO BE A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. WHAT DID JESUS DO? 00:16:40.96\00:16:44.27 DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:16:44.30\00:16:45.83 >>YES. >>HE SAID SO. 00:16:45.87\00:16:48.37 HE SAID IN JOHN 15:10, "I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS." 00:16:48.40\00:16:52.44 THAT WOULD CERTAINLY INCLUDE THE TEN, RIGHT? 00:16:52.47\00:16:55.24 SOME ARE SAYING, 'WELL, JESUS ONLY KEPT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 00:16:55.28\00:16:57.25 BECAUSE HE'S A JEW. WE'RE CHRISTIANS NOW. 00:16:57.28\00:16:59.15 HE SAVED US FROM THE LAW.' HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT BEFORE? 00:16:59.18\00:17:04.05 YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST STARTED READING THE BIBLE AND - YOU 00:17:04.09\00:17:09.66 KNOW, MY MOTHER WAS AN ACTRESS. SHE WAS ACTUALLY IN THE 00:17:09.69\00:17:11.49 MOVIE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS . AND I EVEN - BEFORE I WAS A 00:17:11.53\00:17:14.50 CHRISTIAN I REMEMBER SEEING THAT CHARLTON HESTON MOVIE. 00:17:14.56\00:17:17.13 SHE HAD A VERY LITTLE PART - I DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK SHE WAS 00:17:17.17\00:17:19.53 A, YOU KNOW, FAMOUS ACTRESS. 00:17:19.57\00:17:20.70 WHENEVER MY KIDS AND I WATCH IT I SAY, 'THERE'S GRANDMA! 00:17:20.74\00:17:22.90 THERE SHE GOES.' (LAUGHTER) IT'S A REALLY SHORT SCENE, BUT I GET 00:17:22.94\00:17:26.17 TO SAY SHE WAS IN THE MOVIE, AND THAT MAKES ME FEEL PRETTY GOOD. 00:17:26.21\00:17:29.24 SO, I KNEW, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE, BUT I WAS 00:17:29.28\00:17:38.19 SURPRISED, AFTER BECOMING A CHRISTIAN, TO HEAR CHRISTIANS 00:17:38.22\00:17:41.49 TELLING ME, 'OH, BUT WE'RE SAVED BECAUSE OF JESUS. 00:17:41.52\00:17:44.46 JESUS KEPT THE LAW SO WE DON'T HAVE TO.' AND I THOUGHT, 00:17:44.49\00:17:46.23 'REALLY? YOU MEAN HE DIED AND TOOK OUR 00:17:46.26\00:17:51.40 PENALTY TO GIVE US A LICENSE TO SIN?' 00:17:51.43\00:17:54.57 I THOUGHT HE DIED - DIDN'T THE ANGEL TELL MARY TO SAVE US FROM 00:17:54.60\00:17:57.27 OUR SINS, NOT IN OUR SINS? SIN IS MY PROBLEM. 00:17:57.31\00:18:02.84 I WANT TO BE SAVED FROM MY SIN. I DON'T WANT TO BE SAVED TO 00:18:02.88\00:18:05.11 CONTINUE WITH THESE THINGS THAT CAUSE ALL THESE 00:18:05.15\00:18:07.08 PROBLEMS IN MY LIFE. I WANT TO BE DELIVERED 00:18:07.12\00:18:09.35 FROM THESE THINGS. BY THE WAY, IN THE BOOK OF 00:18:09.38\00:18:11.59 REVELATION, IT'S ALL A BOOK ABOUT VICTORY. 00:18:11.62\00:18:14.22 IF YOU READ THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS GIVES TO EACH OF THE 00:18:14.26\00:18:16.69 CHURCHES - REVELATION CHAPTER 2 AND 3 - SEVEN MESSAGES, SEVEN 00:18:16.73\00:18:19.43 CHURCHES - DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS TO EVERY CHURCH IN EVERY 00:18:19.46\00:18:21.16 AGE? 'TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES, TO HIM 00:18:21.20\00:18:23.93 THAT OVERCOMES, TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES - DO YOU THINK JESUS 00:18:23.97\00:18:26.70 WOULD SAY THAT SEVEN TIMES AND THEN SAY, 'IT'S NOT REALLY 00:18:26.74\00:18:29.87 POSSIBLE.' OF COURSE HE WANTS US TO BE OBEDIENT. 00:18:29.90\00:18:34.14 WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE? JESUS WOULD HEAL SOMEBODY; HE'D 00:18:34.18\00:18:37.48 SAY, 'GO AND SIN NO MORE OR LEST A WORSE THING COME 00:18:37.51\00:18:39.35 UPON YOU.' WHAT IS SIN? TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 00:18:39.38\00:18:42.18 SO, WHEN HE SAID TO MARY MAGDALENE, 'GO AND SIN NO MORE.' 00:18:42.22\00:18:44.79 OR HE SAID TO THAT PARALYTIC THAT HE HEALED, 'GO AND SIN NO 00:18:44.82\00:18:47.09 MORE LEST A WORSE THING COME UPON YOU.' HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, 00:18:47.12\00:18:49.86 YOU KNOW, MARY ALMOST GOT STONED - ASSUMING SHE WAS THE WOMAN 00:18:49.89\00:18:53.19 CAUGHT IN ADULTERY. WE'RE NOT SURE OF THAT - 00:18:53.23\00:18:55.46 BUT HE SAID, 'DON'T DO THAT. IT COULD KILL YOU. 00:18:55.50\00:18:59.87 DON'T - SIN IS BAD. IT HURTS YOU.' JESUS SAID, 'I'VE 00:18:59.90\00:19:03.87 KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS. YOU CAN READ IN 1 PETER 2:22 - 00:19:03.91\00:19:07.24 IT SAYS JESUS "WHO COMMITTED NO SIN. 00:19:07.28\00:19:10.55 NOR WAS DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH." 00:19:10.58\00:19:12.61 SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 00:19:12.65\00:19:14.82 JESUS COMMITTED WHAT? NO SIN. 00:19:14.85\00:19:17.72 JESUS PERFECTLY KEPT THE FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS. 00:19:17.75\00:19:20.52 NOW, WE HAVEN'T. ALL OF US HAVE SINNED. 00:19:20.56\00:19:24.49 WE ALL STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION AND SIN EVERY DAY, AMEN? 00:19:24.53\00:19:27.23 >>AMEN. >>IT'S A CHALLENGE. 00:19:27.30\00:19:29.13 BUT BECAUSE WE ALL STRUGGLE AND WE OFTEN FALL, DOES THAT MEAN WE 00:19:29.16\00:19:32.60 SHOULDN'T MAKE EVERY EFFORT, BY GOD'S GRACE, TO DO HIS WILL? 00:19:32.63\00:19:37.04 AND WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD? NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS, 'LORD, 00:19:37.07\00:19:41.64 LORD' WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT THEY THAT DO THE 00:19:41.68\00:19:45.45 WILL OF MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.' WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD? 00:19:45.48\00:19:48.85 'LORD, I LOVE TO KEEP YOUR LAW - I LOVE TO KEEP YOUR 00:19:48.88\00:19:51.82 COMMANDMENTS. YOUR LAW IS WRITTEN IN MY 00:19:51.85\00:19:54.69 HEART.' PSALM 119 - I THINK THAT'S VERSE 45. 00:19:54.72\00:19:58.73 THE LAW OF GOD - HE SAYS, 'I LOVE TO DO YOUR WILL. 00:19:58.76\00:20:01.40 YOUR LAW IS IN MY HEART.' THE WILL OF GOD IS THE LAW OF GOD. 00:20:01.43\00:20:05.73 THE LAW OF GOD IS THE WILL OF GOD. 00:20:05.77\00:20:06.87 IT'S GOD'S WILL THAT YOU DON'T KILL EACH OTHER. 00:20:06.90\00:20:10.74 IT'S GOD'S WILL THAT YOU DON'T COVET - THAT YOU DON'T COMMIT 00:20:10.77\00:20:14.04 ADULTERY, RIGHT? AND SO, IF YOU LOVE HIM. 00:20:14.08\00:20:19.48 SO HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE SINNED? >>ALL. 00:20:19.51\00:20:22.35 >>WE JUST SORT OF ALLUDED TO THIS - YOU CAN READ, OF COURSE, 00:20:22.38\00:20:24.49 IN ROMANS 3:23, "FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE 00:20:24.52\00:20:28.26 GLORY OF GOD." WE'VE ALL BROKEN GOD'S LAW. 00:20:28.29\00:20:31.83 AND THE PENALTY FOR SIN, OF COURSE, IS VERY SERIOUS. 00:20:31.86\00:20:34.60 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY; WE HAVE 00:20:34.63\00:20:37.47 TURNED, EVERY ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY. 00:20:37.50\00:20:40.04 AND THE LORD LAID UPON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL.' SO ALL OF 00:20:40.07\00:20:44.44 US HAVE SINNED. NONE IS RIGHTEOUS, NO, NOT ONE. 00:20:44.47\00:20:48.81 WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR LIVING A LIFE OF SIN? 00:20:48.84\00:20:53.11 YOU CAN READ THERE, IN ROMANS CHAPTER 6:23, "THE WAGES OF SIN 00:20:53.15\00:20:58.25 IS DEATH." HOW COME WE'RE NOT DEAD YET? 00:20:58.29\00:21:02.49 IT'S BECAUSE JESUS, BY HIS DEATH, HE'S BOUGHT US TIME TO 00:21:02.52\00:21:05.89 MAKE A DECISION AND HE BOUGHT ETERNAL LIFE FOR THOSE THAT WILL 00:21:05.93\00:21:08.56 ACCEPT HIS SACRIFICE IN THEIR PLACE. 00:21:08.60\00:21:11.37 BUT WHY DID HE DIE? FOR SIN. WHAT IS SIN? BREAKING THE LAW. 00:21:11.40\00:21:17.74 WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THE THING THAT HURT JESUS SO MUCH? 00:21:17.77\00:21:23.01 YEAH, SIN IS WHAT KILLED HIM - SIN IS WHAT HURT HIM. 00:21:23.04\00:21:26.61 WHEN GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE, IF YOU EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT, "IN 00:21:26.65\00:21:30.75 THE DAY THAT YOU EAT OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE." 00:21:30.79\00:21:34.72 THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 00:21:34.76\00:21:36.56 FOR US TO CONTINUE, WILLINGLY LIVING LIVES OF SIN - YOU READ 00:21:36.59\00:21:40.60 IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 10:26, IT SAYS, IF WE CONTINUE TO SIN 00:21:40.63\00:21:45.13 WILFULLY, AFTER WE'VE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH - SO 00:21:45.17\00:21:48.50 PEOPLE STUMBLE AND FALL, AND THAT'S ONE THING, BUT TO 00:21:48.54\00:21:51.24 CONTINUE IN KNOWN, WILLING SIN AFTER YOU KNOW GOD'S WILL, IT 00:21:51.27\00:21:55.41 SAYS THERE'S NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, BUT ONLY A CERTAIN 00:21:55.44\00:21:57.81 FEARFUL LOOKING FORWARD TO OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION 00:21:57.85\00:22:01.48 THAT WILL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES. 00:22:01.52\00:22:03.12 IT'S A DANGEROUS THING TO TAMPER AND PLAY WITH SIN. 00:22:03.15\00:22:06.89 WOULD YOU LET YOUR KIDS PLAY IN THE STREET? 00:22:06.92\00:22:09.09 WHY, BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO HAVE ANY FUN? 00:22:09.12\00:22:11.79 OR BECAUSE YOU LOVE THEM? SO WILL GOD WITHHOLD ANYTHING 00:22:11.83\00:22:15.33 GOOD FROM HIS PEOPLE, OR IS HE ONLY WANTING US TO STAY 00:22:15.36\00:22:18.20 AWAY FROM WHAT HURTS US? SIN IS DEADLY. 00:22:18.23\00:22:20.70 IT'S POISON. NUMBER 7: DO THE TEN 00:22:20.74\00:22:24.81 COMMANDMENTS STILL APPLY TO NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS? 00:22:24.84\00:22:28.31 THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS I WANT TO MAKE 00:22:28.34\00:22:30.28 CLEAR IN THIS PRESENTATION. ABSOLUTELY. 00:22:30.31\00:22:34.28 MATTHEW 19, VERSE 17, HE SAID, "IF THOU WILL ENTER INTO THE 00:22:34.32\00:22:37.72 LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." AND THE RICH YOUNG RULER 00:22:37.75\00:22:42.02 SAID TO JESUS, 'WHICH?' AND JESUS BEGAN TO RECITE 00:22:42.06\00:22:45.59 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. IS THAT PRETTY CLEAR? 00:22:45.63\00:22:48.23 I MEAN, IT'S RIGHT FROM THE MOUTH OF JESUS. 00:22:48.26\00:22:50.27 AND CHRIST SAID, 'DO NOT THINK THAT I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE 00:22:50.30\00:22:53.30 LAW AND PROPHETS. I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL.' 00:22:53.34\00:22:56.94 AND SOME THINK THAT MEANS, WELL, THAT MEANS 'DO AWAY WITH'. 00:22:56.97\00:22:59.07 NO, FULFILL MEANS TO FILL FULL. MATTER OF FACT, A LITTLE LATER - 00:22:59.11\00:23:05.15 OR EARLIER, ACTUALLY, IN THE SAME BOOK, WHEN JESUS CAME TO 00:23:05.18\00:23:08.72 JOHN THE BAPTIST TO BE BAPTIZED, JOHN SAID, 'OH, YOU'RE THE 00:23:08.75\00:23:11.72 MESSIAH. YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME.' AND 00:23:11.75\00:23:14.22 JESUS SAID, 'SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW, FOR THUS IT BECOMES US TO 00:23:14.26\00:23:16.99 FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' NOW, DOES THE WORD 'FULFILL' 00:23:17.03\00:23:21.06 MEAN 'DO AWAY WITH'? WOULD JESUS HAVE SAID TO JOHN, 00:23:21.10\00:23:26.27 'YOU NEED TO DO THIS TO DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS'? 00:23:26.30\00:23:29.10 NO, IT MEANS 'TO COMPLETE; TO FULFILL' ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:23:29.14\00:23:32.24 CHRIST - JESUS SAID, 'DON'T THINK I'VE COME TO DESTROY LAW 00:23:32.27\00:23:36.28 AND PROPHETS, WHOSOEVER THEREFORE SHALL BREAK ONE OF THE 00:23:36.31\00:23:38.91 LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS AND TEACH MEN SO, HE WILL BE SPOKEN 00:23:38.95\00:23:41.92 OF AS LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 00:23:41.95\00:23:43.95 BUT WHOEVER WILL DO AND TEACH THEM, HE WILL BE CALLED GREAT IN 00:23:43.99\00:23:47.16 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' AND SO, CHRIST WAS VERY CLEAR ABOUT THE 00:23:47.19\00:23:51.29 LAW. HE SAID, 'DO NOT THINK THAT I'VE 00:23:51.33\00:23:53.43 COME TO GET RID OF IT.' I'VE GOT MORE VERSES ON THAT IN A MINUTE. 00:23:53.46\00:23:57.67 HE SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE ME' - DO WHAT? 00:23:57.70\00:24:02.10 'KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' >>AMEN. 00:24:02.14\00:24:04.14 >>AGAIN, REVELATION 22 - THIS IS A REVELATION SUBJECT - "BLESSED 00:24:04.17\00:24:08.51 ARE THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS." 00:24:08.54\00:24:11.01 IS IT A CURSING OR A BLESSING? >>BLESSING. 00:24:11.05\00:24:13.52 >>IT'S A BLESSING. GOD - I'M TALKING ABOUT A 00:24:13.55\00:24:15.52 BLESSING TONIGHT, FRIENDS. YOU GET THIS SUBJECT, 00:24:15.55\00:24:18.32 YOU'LL BE BLESSED. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO 00:24:18.35\00:24:20.72 KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS? THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 00:24:20.76\00:24:24.16 ROMANS 8:3 AND 4, "GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON...CONDEMNED SIN IN 00:24:24.19\00:24:30.47 THE FLESH: THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT 00:24:30.50\00:24:33.80 BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH BUT AFTER THE 00:24:33.84\00:24:38.24 SPIRIT." ALL OF US KIND OF FEEL THE WAR 00:24:38.27\00:24:40.71 BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH WITHIN AND, THROUGH THE POWER 00:24:40.74\00:24:43.68 OF CHRIST, WE DON'T HAVE TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH. 00:24:43.71\00:24:46.75 BUT YOU CAN BE BORN AGAIN. GOD GIVES YOU A NEW HEART 00:24:46.78\00:24:49.15 - THAT'S THE NEW COVENANT. PHILIPPIANS 4:13, "I 00:24:49.18\00:24:52.45 CAN DO" - HOW MUCH? >>ALL. 00:24:52.49\00:24:53.72 >>"I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENETH ME." 00:24:53.76\00:24:58.36 HE WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH THROUGH HIS WORD AND THROUGH HIS 00:24:58.39\00:25:01.10 SPIRIT, TO RESIST TEMPTATION, TO GET VICTORY, TO BE OVERCOMERS, 00:25:01.13\00:25:04.77 TO LIVE A NEW LIFE. >>AMEN. 00:25:04.80\00:25:07.20 >>I WAS DOING A TV PROGRAM - IT WAS ACTUALLY A CHRISTIAN STATION 00:25:07.24\00:25:10.97 WHERE I WAS DEBATING SOME OTHER MINISTERS ON THIS SUBJECT. 00:25:11.01\00:25:15.51 AND ONE OF THEM SAID, 'NOBODY CAN KEEP THE LAW.' AND I SAID, 00:25:15.54\00:25:20.68 'I'LL AGREE THAT WE'VE ALL SINNED, BUT I DON'T AGREE THAT 00:25:20.72\00:25:22.92 NOBODY CAN KEEP THE LAW.' I ASKED HIM, I SAID, 'DO YOU 00:25:22.95\00:25:25.92 BELIEVE THAT THE DEVIL CAN TEMPT US TO SIN?' 00:25:25.95\00:25:28.06 HE SAID, 'YES.' I SAID, 'DO YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS CAN KEEP US 00:25:28.09\00:25:30.89 FROM SIN?' THE PASTOR SAID, 'NO.' I SAID, 00:25:30.93\00:25:35.26 'SO YOUR DEVIL'S BIGGER THAN YOUR SAVIOR?' 00:25:35.30\00:25:38.53 I READ, 'GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE 00:25:38.57\00:25:42.54 WORLD.' AND THAT 'I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST.' AND 00:25:42.57\00:25:46.27 'JESUS CHRIST IS THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF OUR FAITH.' AND 00:25:46.31\00:25:50.25 SO THERE'S - IT BREAKS MY HEART, YOU KNOW? 00:25:50.28\00:25:53.11 IT'S DOCTRINES OF DEVILS WHEN EVEN PASTORS ARE TELLING PEOPLE 00:25:53.15\00:25:56.32 - I HEAR IT ON THE RADIO AND, IF YOU WERE DRIVING WITH ME IN THE 00:25:56.35\00:25:58.49 CAR YOU'D REALLY PROBABLY BE ENTERTAINED BECAUSE I GET - I 00:25:58.52\00:26:01.12 START TALKING TO THE RADIO - I'LL HEAR - I LISTEN TO 00:26:01.16\00:26:04.09 CHRISTIAN STATIONS AND I'LL HEAR PASTORS - PEOPLE CALL THEM WITH 00:26:04.13\00:26:06.73 A BIBLE QUESTION: 'PASTOR IS IT NECESSARY TO KEEP THE LAW?' 00:26:06.76\00:26:09.60 HE'LL SAY, 'NO, WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, WE'RE UNDER GRACE NOW. 00:26:09.63\00:26:12.10 WE ONLY NEED TO KEEP TWO COMMANDMENTS: LOVE THE LORD AND 00:26:12.13\00:26:14.67 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' (LAUGHTER) 'BECAUSE JESUS GAVE US A NEW 00:26:14.70\00:26:18.61 COMMANDMENT.' AND JESUS SAYS, 'A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU' 00:26:18.64\00:26:23.01 AND THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY, 'LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR 00:26:23.04\00:26:25.31 HEART AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' WHAT WAS JESUS DOING 00:26:25.35\00:26:28.68 WHEN HE SAID THAT? QUOTING MOSES. 00:26:28.72\00:26:33.29 IT'S IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6 AND IT'S IN LEVITICUS 19:18. 00:26:33.32\00:26:37.13 JESUS IS SAYING, 'A NEW COMMANDMENT' AND THEN HE'S 00:26:37.16\00:26:39.23 QUOTING MOSES. THE IDEA OF LOVING THE LORD AND 00:26:39.26\00:26:42.16 LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR IS THE ESSENCE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:26:42.20\00:26:45.67 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ALL ABOUT LOVE. 00:26:45.70\00:26:47.14 GOD IS LOVE. IT'S AN EXPRESSION OF HIS LOVE. 00:26:47.17\00:26:48.90 FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH LOVE FOR GOD; LAST SIX 00:26:48.94\00:26:51.74 COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH LOVE FOR YOUR FELLOW MEN. 00:26:51.77\00:26:53.78 THE WHOLE LAW IS SUMMARIZED IN LOVE. 00:26:53.81\00:26:55.98 IF YOU LOVE GOD, YOU WON'T BREAK THE FIRST FOUR. 00:26:56.01\00:26:58.45 IF YOU LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN YOU'RE NOT GOING TO KILL HIM. 00:26:58.48\00:27:00.38 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT HIM. 00:27:00.42\00:27:01.48 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIE ABOUT HIM. 00:27:01.52\00:27:02.25 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STEAL FROM HIM. 00:27:02.28\00:27:04.02 'LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW' PAUL SAYS. 00:27:04.05\00:27:06.49 AMEN? >>LIFE'S A CURIOUS THING. 00:27:06.52\00:27:09.62 I MEAN, JUST WHEN THINGS SEEM UNDER CONTROL, WHAM! 00:27:09.66\00:27:13.09 YOU'RE HIT WITH SOMETHING NEW. 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