We thank you so much
for tuning in tonight.
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Welcome once again.
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If you're joining us
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or around the world,
thank you for taking the time
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to join us for our Bible
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at the 3ABN Worship Center,
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also the Thompsonville
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Tonight, we're
going to finalize,
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I believe because we just
have three questions remaining.
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We're going to
finalize our topic
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The Truth about Jesus,
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and then we're going to
begin a practical series.
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Because, you know,
in some of the areas
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of practical living,
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we can
sometimes find difficulty.
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And we're going to begin tonight
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with the topic
entitled Dealing with Anger.
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Dealing with Anger.
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How do you deal with that?
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You know, the
Bible talks about anger
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or being angry over 150 times,
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and so therefore, it's
a very important topic.
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What happens when
Christians get angry?
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We're going to
talk about that tonight.
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But before we go any further,
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and I'll tell you how to
get a copy of the lesson,
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let's begin with
a word of prayer.
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Loving Father in heaven,
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thank You for the opportunity
of opening Your Word.
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Thank You for being
with us and guiding us.
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Strengthen our hearts
as we study Your Word.
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And also send Your Holy Spirit
to connect our minds and hearts
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over the airwaves.
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And strengthen us,
Lord, to walk in the path
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that You reveal to us.
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We pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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Now everybody should
have lesson 36 and 37
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because we're going to begin
with number 25 on lesson 36,
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and we'll begin
all fresh on number 37.
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Here's the website
to go to get a copy
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of the lesson tonight.
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Go to ASF.3ABN.org
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and download
lesson number 36 and 37.
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If you already have 36,
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we're just on the
last three questions,
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and then we're going to
begin on lesson number 37.
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That is ASF.3ABN.org.
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Also, at that website,
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you can get a copy
of the prior lessons,
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all the way from
one to the present,
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and then the past videos,
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and the past Bible
studies are also listed there.
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If there's
anything that we can do
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to enhance your Bible study,
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there's a link also
where you can send questions
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and also prayer requests.
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Well, before we go any
further, what do we do next?
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We sing our theme song.
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Let's sing our theme song
tonight, Victory in Jesus.
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I heard an old, old story
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How the Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sins
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And won the victory
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet day
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I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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Key change.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen.
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Tonight, our topic is,
let's say that together,
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The Truth about Jesus.
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The Truth about Jesus.
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We've been walking through
some of the major prophecies
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about the life, the ministry,
the death, the resurrection,
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and the work that Jesus is doing
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in the heavenly sanctuary.
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In the past, we did a topic
on the sanctuary altogether
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and His ministration there.
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But we've been
looking at these prophesies
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for one major reason,
to confirm His divinity.
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Who is Christ?
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Is He in fact the Christ?
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You know, there are
millions of people today among,
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I would say, in
the Jewish community
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that have denied the
very Messiahship of Christ.
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And they say they're
waiting for the Messiah.
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There are those that
have said Jesus has come
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but because of
their misunderstanding
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of His ministry,
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they're waiting for
the sacrificial system
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to begin all over again.
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And there are many that believe
that just before Jesus comes,
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they have to go to Jerusalem.
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Or in some case,
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among those who are
privy to the message of ISIS,
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they believe they
need to go to Syria,
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that's why Syria
is such a focal point
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waiting for the Messiah to come.
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But the truth about Jesus
is important to understand
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because when we
understand what was prophesized
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in the Old Testament
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and we see what was
fulfilled in the New Testament,
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then we can know that the past
and the present makes sense.
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Amen?
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So let's begin tonight,
we'll dive right into our topic
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on question number 25.
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Question number 25.
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And this is concerning
the betrayal of Jesus.
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Let's look at that together.
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"Concerning the betrayal of
Jesus, what was prophesied?"
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Let's go to Psalm 91.
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I'm using my new Bible,
the Remnant Study Bible.
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Psalm 41, sorry about that.
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Psalm 41.
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I looked right at
it and said Psalm 91.
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I was so in a hurry to say
I'm using my new Remnant Bible.
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I had a New King James Version
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but it was an old
New King James Version,
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and some of the
words were changed in that
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to bring it up to date.
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So now I'm up to date.
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Psalm 41.
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You know, very few
books in the Bible,
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like the Book of Psalms,
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really talk about
the life of Jesus.
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You find Psalm 41, 42, 43,
44 bring out amazing prophecies
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concerning the life of Jesus.
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Now this one, Psalm 41:9,
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talks about the
betrayal of Jesus.
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Now long before this
betrayal was actually occurred,
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the Bible talked about
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how that
betrayal will take place.
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Here it is,
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let's read the
first one together
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from the screen.
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Are you ready?
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Let's look at
the screen together.
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The Bible says, "Even my own..."
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Come on, let's
put some strength.
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"Even my own familiar
friend in whom I trusted,
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who ate my bread, has
lifted up his heel against me."
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Now we're reading that,
that's not the fulfillment,
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that's the prophecy.
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So David, the Psalmist,
long before Jesus arrived,
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hundreds of years
before Jesus arrived,
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it was prophesied
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exactly how Jesus
would be betrayed.
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Now let's go to Luke 22.
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Luke 22.
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And we're going to look
at verse 47 and verse 48.
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You find a lot,
the word fulfilled.
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Matter of fact,
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if you put the word
fulfilled in the Bible,
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you find 112 references
to the word fulfilled.
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And when you scroll down
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and you go to the New Testament,
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many of those
words that were fulfilled
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were fulfilled in
the life of Christ.
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So we're going now to...
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What book did I say?
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Luke 22:47-48.
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Wow, this Bible is brand new.
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I've got to mark
it up like my old one,
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got to transfer my notes.
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That's going to
be a fun thing to do.
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Here it is.
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And the pages are
so close together,
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which is not a bad thing.
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Okay, here we are,
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Luke 22:47-48.
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All right, here it is.
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And this is in fact entitled
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The Betrayal and
Arrest in Gethsemane.
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Okay, let's look at verse 47.
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It says,
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"And while He
was still speaking...
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a multitude,
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behold, a multitude,
and he who was called Judas,
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one of the
twelve, went before them
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and drew near to Jesus..."
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And did what?
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"To kiss Him."
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And then the
Bible says in verse 48.
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But Jesus said to him,
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"Judas, are you betraying
the Son of Man with a..."
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What?
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"With a kiss."
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Now what was the
purpose of this meeting?
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Instead of Judas saying,
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"You're the One
or He's the One",
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he wanted to make it look like
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he was meeting his
master with affection
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because the Bible says
they greeted each other.
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In the Middle
East, it's not unusual
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for men to kiss men.
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And in some cases,
you know, the Bible says,
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"Greet your
brethren with a holy kiss."
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But they kissed on the
lips in that generation.
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And we wouldn't think
about doing that in America.
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Amen?
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You guys are pretty quiet.
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I wouldn't kiss another
man on the lips, amen, Yanick?
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Amen.
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In South Africa,
in unusual places,
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they do that, it's cultural.
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So when the Bible says,
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"Greet the
brethren with a holy kiss,"
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that's exactly what they meant.
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But I would just
like to make it a record,
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not me.
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But Judas met Jesus and
he drew near to kiss Him.
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And then in that
kiss, he marked Him.
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He marked Him as the one
that he was going to betray.
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Now as you write
the answers down,
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let's go to Psalm...
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We went to Psalm 41 and Luke 22,
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so concerning the betrayal
of Jesus, what was prophesied?
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What two things can
you put in the Psalms 41?
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What can you put there?
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A familiar friend. A
familiar friend, exactly.
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Not only a familiar
friend, but what was Judas?
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He was a disciple,
he was the treasurer.
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He was the treasurer.
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And one of the
reasons why Luke 22 happened,
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Judas had witnessed Jesus
on many occasions get away
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when the mob came to arrest Him,
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when they tried to corner Him,
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when they tried to arrest
Him in His early ministry.
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There are instances in
the Bible where it says,
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"They sought to grab Him,
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and Jesus just
disappeared from their midst."
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The Father, the Holy
Spirit took Him away.
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And there were other
times that he sought to...
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They sought to betray
Him, but He said to them,
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"My hour has not yet come."
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So there was a determination
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as to when these
things were going to occur.
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But here, you see
clearly in Luke 22:47-48,
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what would you put there?
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He betrayed Him with a what?
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He betrayed Him with a kiss.
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Wow. Wow.
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Hidden messages in that.
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Okay, now let's
look at another aspect.
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You know, what amazes
me when I looked at these,
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and there are easily a
number of amazing prophecies
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as I look as a matter of fact.
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As I look in Matthew 2,
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you find all through Matthew,
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you find, wow, so many
times you find the word fulfill.
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Let's look at one very quickly.
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Go to Matthew 13. I
want you to see this.
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Matthew 13,
just to show you that
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this word fulfill was very much
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a part of the New Testament.
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What was talked about in the old
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was fulfilled in the new.
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Matthew 13, and
let's start with...
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I'll read from verse...
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Let me go down to verse 14,
so I'll start with verse 10.
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Matthew 13:10.
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It says, "And the disciples came
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and said to Him,
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'Why do You speak to them in..."
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What?
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"In parables?'
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And He answered
and said to them,
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'Because it has
been given to you
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to know the mysteries,
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or the secrets
of the hidden truths
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of the kingdom of heaven,
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but to them, it
has not been given.'"
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Now why do you
think that was wonderful?
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Because...
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Keep this in mind,
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if the betrayers of Jesus
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had known what
He was going to do,
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they would have
been able to make plans.
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So Jesus hid His
mission in parables.
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Parables and prophecies
are similar in that sense.
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Prophecies are symbolic,
parables are hidden messages.
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And a lot of times, the symbols
and the parables are explained
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like the Rich Man and Lazarus,
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like the parable of
the Wheat and the Tares,
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the parable of the Sower.
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They are all explained.
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And look at verse 12.
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It says, "For whosoever have,
to him, more will be given,
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and he will have abundance.
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But whoever does not have,
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even what he has will
be taken away from him."
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Now you might
read that and think,
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"Is Jesus
talking about taking away
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material possessions?"
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Absolutely not.
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He was talking
about the knowledge
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that the people of His day had.
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And let me give you an example.
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The Jews had a lot of knowledge.
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They had knowledge of
Jesus for over 1,000 years,
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almost 2,000
years, they had knowledge.
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But because they rejected
the Messiah, this is powerful,
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because they
rejected the Messiah,
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there would be no
further revelation to them.
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So what they had
will start disappearing.
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The understanding
they had met a wall
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when they rejected Jesus.
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But for those who
did not reject Jesus,
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like the disciples accepted Him,
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now all of a sudden,
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what they had
started increasing.
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So to him who had much,
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more will be given
because they accepted Him,
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He was the open door.
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The Jews shut the
door on themselves.
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He said, "I came to my
own, and My own did not..."
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What?
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Did not what?
"Didn't receive Me."
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So the knowledge
they had, He shut it off.
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So they had a lot,
and all of a sudden,
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their knowledge
just began to dissipate.
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And they
thought, "Wait a minute."
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So when they
rejected the Messiah,
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everything that He
would have revealed to them,
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started being
revealed to the disciples.
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That's what it talked about.
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So look at that again.
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"For whoever has, to
him, more will be given,
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and he will have abundance.
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But whoever does not have,
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even what he has will
be taken away from him."
00:16:06.80\00:16:09.73
And look at verse 13, it says,
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"Therefore, I
speak to them in..."
00:16:11.87\00:16:13.77
What?
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"Parables because
seeing they do not see,
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and hearing they do not..."
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What?
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"Hear, nor do they understand."
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And this is the
part that's significant
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about the word fulfilled.
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In verse 14, "And in them,
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the prophecy of Isaiah
is fulfilled, which says..."
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Speaking of His own people.
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"Hearing, you will hear
and shall not understand,
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and seeing, you will
see and not perceive."
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Why?
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"For the hearts of
His people have grown..."
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What? "Dull."
00:16:50.37\00:16:51.71
He's talking
about His own people.
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"Their ears are
hard of hearing."
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And look at this.
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"And their eyes,
they have closed."
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He didn't close their eyes.
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The Messiah was
standing right there,
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and they refused to accept Him.
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He said to them,
"You spend a lot of time
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searching the Bible,"
00:17:08.56\00:17:09.89
but the Bible
points to me, John 5:39.
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Finishing the text, it says,
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"Lest they should
see with their eyes,
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and hear with their ears,
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lest they should
understand with their heart
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and turn so that
I should heal them."
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So you find over and over,
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there are so
many other instances
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in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
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that the word fulfilled is used
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because the Bible talks about...
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These things were
mentioned in the Old Testament.
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You know what amazes me
as we read that passage,
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Isaiah the prophet, prophesied
00:17:39.95\00:17:42.89
that the people of Jesus
would reject Him when He came.
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That's amazing to me.
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Now if you have on...
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Let's put on our theology hats.
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You ready?
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Get your hats on.
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Get your hat on, Norick,
put your theology hat on,
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Caperna.
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There was a particular prophecy
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in the Bible
called the 70 weeks.
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How many years was that?
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Four hundred and ninety years.
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Now the reason why
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Jesus was still
speaking to the large,
00:18:11.72\00:18:15.29
to the multitudes at large
00:18:15.32\00:18:16.93
is because He was
still giving them time
00:18:16.96\00:18:18.99
to reverse their blindness.
00:18:19.03\00:18:21.10
He spoke to the Jews in
John 8, and He said to them,
00:18:21.13\00:18:26.00
"Are you a slave?"
00:18:26.03\00:18:27.37
He said, "We've
never been a slave."
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He said, "If you're a
sinner, you are a slave."
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Then He said...
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They talked about the
bread that Moses gave them
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in the wilderness.
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And here is Jesus, He said,
00:18:38.85\00:18:40.25
"I am the bread that
came down from heaven."
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They're looking right at them,
00:18:42.48\00:18:43.82
"Seeing, they will
see and not perceive,
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hearing, they will hear
00:18:47.32\00:18:48.79
and they won't even understand."
00:18:48.82\00:18:50.26
So He gave them a message
over, and over, and over again.
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And even after He
finished His ministry
00:18:52.93\00:18:54.46
and went to heaven,
He said to the disciples,
00:18:54.50\00:18:57.00
"Go first to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel."
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Go to them, get...
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They have a little
bit more time left.
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They got three and a
half years left out of 490.
00:19:04.67\00:19:08.98
They've got this much time left.
00:19:09.01\00:19:10.45
"Go to them first."
00:19:10.48\00:19:11.81
He didn't want to reject them.
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They rejected Him.
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And what happened as a
result of the rejection,
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the gospel went
on to the gentiles.
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And who are we?
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The gentiles.
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I said this on a program once
and somebody wrote me a letter
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and said, "You are not Israel."
00:19:26.93\00:19:29.23
I am not Israel.
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We are spiritual Israel.
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Say that together, we are what?
00:19:32.50\00:19:33.84
Spiritual Israel.
00:19:33.87\00:19:35.57
Because one of the dangers
they had was they thought
00:19:35.60\00:19:37.81
because they
were born in as a Jew
00:19:37.84\00:19:41.34
that they were
automatically saved.
00:19:41.38\00:19:42.74
They kept boasting,
00:19:42.78\00:19:44.11
that's why the parable
of the Rich Man and Lazarus
00:19:44.15\00:19:46.15
was given to these rich men.
00:19:46.18\00:19:48.25
Why were they rich?
00:19:48.28\00:19:49.62
They had rich food,
that is the Word of God,
00:19:49.65\00:19:52.15
they had the understanding,
but they rejected that.
00:19:52.19\00:19:54.82
They boasted of their
diet, their feast days,
00:19:54.86\00:19:58.19
all the Sabbath stuff they kept,
00:19:58.23\00:19:59.89
all the knowledge they
had that God had given them
00:19:59.93\00:20:01.96
throughout the centuries,
but they wouldn't share it,
00:20:02.00\00:20:05.80
and the door closed on them.
00:20:05.83\00:20:07.47
Seeing they didn't see,
00:20:07.50\00:20:09.50
hearing they did not understand.
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Wow.
00:20:11.74\00:20:13.17
Let's look at
question number 26.
00:20:13.21\00:20:16.91
Wow.
00:20:16.95\00:20:18.65
Question number 26.
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Here it is.
00:20:22.35\00:20:24.19
"The Bible predicted the
price of the betrayal of Jesus?
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The Bible predicted the
price of the betrayal of Jesus?"
00:20:28.56\00:20:33.03
All right, let's
look at that together.
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Matthew, matter of fact,
let's go to Zachariah first.
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Let's go to Zachariah first.
00:20:39.37\00:20:41.14
I don't believe I
gave this slide to the guys
00:20:41.17\00:20:43.24
that are at the graphics,
but let's go to Zachariah.
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Zachariah 11, okay?
00:20:46.68\00:20:50.85
Let our Bibles speak for us.
00:20:50.88\00:20:52.21
Here we are.
00:20:52.25\00:20:53.58
Okay. Okay.
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Zachariah 11:12.
00:20:57.32\00:21:01.32
Wow. Okay.
00:21:06.06\00:21:07.73
And it reads thus
far, "Then I said to them,
00:21:12.00\00:21:17.64
'If it is agreeable to you,
00:21:17.67\00:21:20.71
give me my wages,
and if not, refrain.'
00:21:20.74\00:21:25.91
So they weighed
out for my wages..."
00:21:25.95\00:21:28.18
Let's say those together.
00:21:28.22\00:21:29.65
"Thirty pieces of silver."
00:21:29.68\00:21:33.42
Thirty pieces of
silver, they weighed it out.
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Wow. So let's write that down.
00:21:38.53\00:21:40.43
What did Zachariah
referred to these wages as?
00:21:44.70\00:21:47.77
I gave you the answer.
00:21:50.97\00:21:54.11
My question should have been,
00:21:54.14\00:21:55.48
"What did Zachariah call
these thirty pieces of silver?"
00:21:55.51\00:21:58.18
He called them what?
00:21:58.21\00:21:59.55
Wages. Wages.
00:21:59.58\00:22:01.68
Let's say it together, wages.
00:22:01.72\00:22:04.59
The wages of sin is what?
00:22:04.62\00:22:06.19
Death. Wow.
00:22:06.22\00:22:07.96
So let's put that down.
00:22:07.99\00:22:09.32
Zechariah 11:12, "Wages", wages.
00:22:09.36\00:22:13.63
Now let's go to Matthew
26 to see the fulfillment.
00:22:13.66\00:22:20.34
Zachariah was long dead and gone
00:22:20.37\00:22:23.61
by the time this was fulfilled.
00:22:23.64\00:22:26.61
Okay. Okay.
00:22:26.64\00:22:29.48
Matthew 26.
00:22:29.51\00:22:32.48
Wow, this Bible has a
really nice feel to it.
00:22:32.51\00:22:35.48
I'm going to make
this my new Bible.
00:22:35.52\00:22:38.09
Well, it is my new Bible.
00:22:38.12\00:22:40.16
I got so many Bibles.
00:22:40.19\00:22:43.66
Okay, Matthew 26,
00:22:43.69\00:22:45.96
we're going to look
at verses 14 and 15.
00:22:45.99\00:22:50.03
I got to come up
with a new marking plan
00:22:50.07\00:22:52.87
so that my colors
can mean something.
00:22:52.90\00:22:55.44
Have you ever taken your
pen and just underlined stuff in
00:22:55.47\00:22:57.44
any color, didn't really matter?
00:22:57.47\00:22:59.27
I got to put a good one together
00:22:59.31\00:23:00.64
for my new Bible.
00:23:00.68\00:23:02.01
Here it is. Matthew 26:14-15.
00:23:02.04\00:23:05.65
Here it is.
00:23:05.68\00:23:07.32
"Then one of the
twelve called Judas Iscariot,
00:23:07.35\00:23:12.39
went to the
chief priests and said,
00:23:12.42\00:23:16.26
'What are you willing to give me
00:23:16.29\00:23:18.39
if I deliver Him to you?'"
00:23:18.43\00:23:20.33
Very quickly, how did
he deliver Him to him?
00:23:20.36\00:23:23.83
With a kiss.
00:23:23.87\00:23:25.30
"And they counted out to him..."
00:23:25.33\00:23:26.90
What?
00:23:26.94\00:23:28.27
Together, "Thirty
pieces of silver."
00:23:28.30\00:23:32.81
That's the fulfillment,
and that's the prophecy.
00:23:32.84\00:23:35.21
So put that together...
00:23:35.24\00:23:37.38
Put that together,
and you'll clearly see
00:23:37.41\00:23:40.15
what Zachariah prophesied.
00:23:40.18\00:23:42.58
Now you've got to really...
00:23:42.62\00:23:45.02
For that to happen, for
the exact amount to happen,
00:23:45.05\00:23:48.36
somebody might say $29.95,
$35, $40, the generalization,
00:23:48.39\00:23:53.63
but see how
accurate prophecy is.
00:23:53.66\00:23:55.60
Zachariah was
inspired by the Holy Spirit
00:23:55.63\00:23:58.17
who told them what
would happen at the time.
00:23:58.20\00:24:00.40
And when you think about it,
00:24:00.44\00:24:01.94
one of the disciples
betrayed His own Lord.
00:24:01.97\00:24:05.04
So it's possible that
those who followed the Lord
00:24:05.07\00:24:08.58
are not necessarily
walking with the Lord.
00:24:08.61\00:24:12.01
That's exactly what the
case was when it came to Judas.
00:24:12.05\00:24:15.02
Judas was there
for financial reasons.
00:24:15.05\00:24:17.75
And he betrayed the Lord.
00:24:17.79\00:24:20.39
I don't know if I had said this,
00:24:20.42\00:24:21.76
but Judas had seen the Lord
00:24:21.79\00:24:24.33
free Himself from
so many prior examples,
00:24:24.36\00:24:26.59
of prior attempts to
arrest Him that he thought,
00:24:26.63\00:24:31.03
"This is a great
opportunity to make some money."
00:24:31.07\00:24:33.47
He's going to get away
anyway, and if He gets away,
00:24:33.50\00:24:35.47
I'll have 30 pieces of silver.
00:24:35.50\00:24:38.04
And what happened is this
time, He did not get away.
00:24:38.07\00:24:43.55
This time it ended
up being his betrayal.
00:24:43.58\00:24:46.25
And you know what
happened afterward?
00:24:46.28\00:24:47.95
What did Judas
do with that money?
00:24:47.98\00:24:49.38
Do you remember?
00:24:49.42\00:24:53.02
He threw it away, he dumped it.
00:24:53.05\00:24:55.79
In an attempt to say,
00:24:55.82\00:24:58.49
"It wasn't
supposed to go this way.
00:24:58.53\00:25:00.63
I was supposed to get my money,
00:25:00.66\00:25:02.00
but He was
supposed to get away."
00:25:02.03\00:25:04.10
See, so here's the point,
you can play with the Lord
00:25:04.13\00:25:06.80
so often until one
day it's irreversible.
00:25:06.84\00:25:10.91
Wow, wow, that's scary.
00:25:10.94\00:25:14.14
The wages that he...
00:25:14.18\00:25:16.88
He was going after money,
00:25:16.91\00:25:20.12
and he betrayed the
Lord for 30 pieces of silver.
00:25:20.15\00:25:24.19
You know, even if it was gold,
00:25:24.22\00:25:26.19
there was no price
that we should even try
00:25:26.22\00:25:28.99
to sell the Lord for.
00:25:29.02\00:25:32.03
Yeah, you can't...
00:25:32.06\00:25:33.46
Because the
wages of sin is what?
00:25:33.50\00:25:34.83
Death.
00:25:34.86\00:25:36.20
And what did
Judas eventually do?
00:25:36.23\00:25:38.30
He hung himself.
00:25:38.33\00:25:40.20
The shame of betraying
his Lord, boy, I tell you,
00:25:40.24\00:25:46.37
Bible says, "Woe to the man
by whom the Lord has betrayed,
00:25:46.41\00:25:50.65
it was better that
he had not been born."
00:25:50.68\00:25:53.55
Wow, and Judas knew that.
00:25:53.58\00:25:56.35
He knew that,
but he didn't think
00:25:56.38\00:25:57.72
he would be the one.
00:25:57.75\00:25:59.09
But, you know, there was a point
00:25:59.12\00:26:00.76
at which he could have
repented it not going forth
00:26:00.79\00:26:03.53
when they were
having the last supper.
00:26:03.56\00:26:07.03
And he said, "The one
who dips his hand with Me,
00:26:07.06\00:26:09.90
he's the one who's
going to betray Me."
00:26:09.93\00:26:12.53
And the question
started to come in, "Is it I?
00:26:12.57\00:26:14.40
Is it I?"
00:26:14.44\00:26:15.77
They start looking around
the room, and Judas was like,
00:26:15.80\00:26:19.17
"I'm not going to
ask that question."
00:26:19.21\00:26:21.14
Because he knew it was him.
00:26:21.18\00:26:22.91
And then He set His
eyes on him, He said,
00:26:22.94\00:26:25.25
"What thou doest..."
00:26:25.28\00:26:26.68
What? "Do quickly."
00:26:26.72\00:26:28.48
And Judas got up and left.
00:26:28.52\00:26:30.05
That was that pivotal moment
where Judas could have said,
00:26:30.09\00:26:33.19
"I'm not going to do it."
00:26:33.22\00:26:35.82
Wow.
00:26:35.86\00:26:37.43
The point of no return.
00:26:37.46\00:26:39.59
Wow! That's amazing.
00:26:39.63\00:26:40.96
That is amazing.
00:26:41.00\00:26:42.33
Let's go to 27.
So write these down.
00:26:42.36\00:26:45.40
Zachariah, the wages,
and then Matthew 26:14-15,
00:26:45.43\00:26:49.84
thirty pieces of silver,
00:26:49.87\00:26:52.07
betrayed for the price
00:26:52.11\00:26:57.05
and a life.
00:26:57.08\00:26:59.38
And now number 27, number 27.
00:26:59.41\00:27:03.79
Okay, "How does the Bible
00:27:03.82\00:27:06.92
confirm the
Lamb-like nature of Jesus?"
00:27:06.96\00:27:11.89
How does the Bible confirm
the Lamb-like nature of Jesus?
00:27:11.93\00:27:17.13
And I say Lamb-like,
He's the lamb, right?
00:27:17.17\00:27:21.10
But being called the Lamb
as the Bible prefigured Him
00:27:21.14\00:27:26.01
in the sacrifices of
the temple services...
00:27:26.04\00:27:31.31
To be called a lamb and
not have a lamb-like nature
00:27:31.35\00:27:36.28
wouldn't really
identify you as a lamb.
00:27:36.32\00:27:38.42
So to be called a Christian
and not have a Christian nature
00:27:38.45\00:27:42.02
is to not identify
you as a Christian.
00:27:42.06\00:27:43.93
So not only is he called
the Messiah or called the lamb,
00:27:43.96\00:27:47.66
but he should have a
lamb-like character, right?
00:27:47.70\00:27:51.53
Would a lamb bite you?
00:27:51.57\00:27:55.90
I've never heard of it.
00:27:55.94\00:27:57.57
Would a lamb growl?
00:27:57.61\00:28:00.68
Would a lamb chase you?
00:28:00.71\00:28:02.98
I don't know too
much about lambs,
00:28:03.01\00:28:04.78
so I won't answer that one.
00:28:04.81\00:28:07.32
But I know a goat would.
00:28:07.35\00:28:10.29
Would a lamb butt you or a goat?
00:28:10.32\00:28:14.06
A goat will butt
you and knock you out.
00:28:14.09\00:28:16.32
I have a story that
goes along with that.
00:28:16.36\00:28:18.69
Good friend of
ours in California,
00:28:18.73\00:28:21.43
they had a tall goat.
00:28:21.46\00:28:22.93
I've seen goats
in different sizes.
00:28:22.96\00:28:25.17
And this was a tall goat.
00:28:25.20\00:28:27.20
And they tied him in
the center of their yard.
00:28:27.24\00:28:29.90
He was their natural lawnmower.
00:28:29.94\00:28:33.61
He ate the lawn
00:28:33.64\00:28:35.78
wherever his
rope could carry him.
00:28:35.81\00:28:37.91
And when I went to visit
them, they had a perfect circle
00:28:37.95\00:28:42.18
because the goat was...
00:28:42.22\00:28:43.55
They put the pole in
the center of the lawn,
00:28:43.59\00:28:47.26
and they put the
chain on the goat,
00:28:47.29\00:28:48.62
and he could cut...
00:28:48.66\00:28:49.99
I saw him eating,
00:28:50.03\00:28:51.36
and he was stretching his
head to get to the end of that.
00:28:51.39\00:28:54.56
There was more
grass beyond that,
00:28:54.60\00:28:55.93
but he couldn't get any further.
00:28:55.96\00:28:57.30
So they had this perfect circle.
00:28:57.33\00:28:59.97
Well, the owner
went out there one day,
00:29:00.00\00:29:03.44
and he made a mistake,
00:29:03.47\00:29:06.91
and bent over to pick
up something on the grass.
00:29:06.94\00:29:09.24
And the goat thought,
"Oh, you want to play?"
00:29:09.28\00:29:13.52
And he knocked his owner out.
00:29:13.55\00:29:16.22
He rammed him with his
horns, knocked him out.
00:29:16.25\00:29:19.92
He thought he was playing.
00:29:19.95\00:29:21.29
He woke up to the goat
licking him on his face like,
00:29:21.32\00:29:24.03
"Did I hurt you?"
00:29:24.06\00:29:26.13
So a goat would do
that but not a lamb.
00:29:26.16\00:29:30.40
The nature of
Jesus is not fierce,
00:29:30.43\00:29:34.10
not combative, not vicious,
00:29:34.14\00:29:39.51
but in every
way, just like a lamb.
00:29:39.54\00:29:42.38
Look at the
prophecy of that, Isaiah 53.
00:29:42.41\00:29:45.61
Isaiah 53.
That's why it's amazing.
00:29:45.65\00:29:50.12
When Jesus comes back,
you find Him in Revelation 6.
00:29:50.15\00:29:55.26
The people that
are not His are saints,
00:29:55.29\00:29:59.76
they're going to
be running from Him,
00:29:59.79\00:30:01.40
and they're going to...
00:30:01.43\00:30:02.76
Well, I won't tell
you, let's read this first.
00:30:02.80\00:30:04.60
Okay, here I am.
00:30:04.63\00:30:07.40
Isaiah 53, there I am.
00:30:07.44\00:30:13.61
And I'm going turn to that,
going to loosen up these pages.
00:30:13.64\00:30:16.41
Isaiah 53:7, here it is.
00:30:16.44\00:30:21.15
The Bible says, "He was..."
00:30:21.18\00:30:22.52
What?
00:30:22.55\00:30:23.89
"Oppressed, and
He was afflicted.
00:30:23.92\00:30:25.59
Yet He..."
00:30:25.62\00:30:26.96
Did what?
00:30:26.99\00:30:28.32
"Opened not His mouth,
00:30:28.36\00:30:30.06
He was led as a
lamb to the slaughter
00:30:30.09\00:30:34.90
and as a sheep before
its shearers is silent.
00:30:34.93\00:30:39.73
So He opened not His mouth."
00:30:39.77\00:30:43.30
You know, I heard looking
into a little bit about a lamb,
00:30:43.34\00:30:47.18
one of the reasons why
it's easy to shear a lamb,
00:30:47.21\00:30:49.28
you know what a shearing is?
00:30:49.31\00:30:50.75
Take that
scissors, and they just...
00:30:50.78\00:30:52.88
Can you imagine
trying to shear a goat?
00:30:52.91\00:30:54.58
You better be really
good to shear a goat.
00:30:59.72\00:31:02.82
Try to cut your dogs hair?
00:31:02.86\00:31:04.96
It's a difficult thing.
00:31:04.99\00:31:06.66
Lest, of course, you
have a great relationship.
00:31:06.70\00:31:09.56
But a lamb, there's
something about a lamb
00:31:09.60\00:31:12.13
when he's laid on his back
00:31:12.17\00:31:14.44
that he just
completely surrenders.
00:31:14.47\00:31:18.04
So all they do is they
lay the lamb on his back,
00:31:18.07\00:31:21.11
and he lays there
like, "This is it."
00:31:21.14\00:31:25.11
And they just
shave his hair off.
00:31:25.15\00:31:28.02
They do it...
00:31:28.05\00:31:29.38
I mean, you should...
00:31:29.42\00:31:30.75
I'm not telling you to
do this, but on YouTube
00:31:30.79\00:31:32.12
they show how easy it is.
00:31:32.15\00:31:33.49
They just take a nice shaver...
00:31:33.52\00:31:34.86
And today, I
mean, back in the day,
00:31:34.89\00:31:36.49
it was a shearer.
00:31:36.52\00:31:38.83
It wasn't a shaver, electricity.
00:31:38.86\00:31:40.76
So they would take
that, they cut close,
00:31:40.80\00:31:42.86
and it would be like
they just peel this wool off.
00:31:42.90\00:31:45.40
And then he'd run
out and go eat more grass
00:31:45.43\00:31:47.44
and go eat whatever
until it grows back again.
00:31:47.47\00:31:49.94
But when they
laid him on his back,
00:31:49.97\00:31:51.67
he just kind of gave in.
00:31:51.71\00:31:54.94
And it says, they
don't start yelling
00:31:54.98\00:31:56.95
and trying to scratch you.
00:31:56.98\00:31:58.75
It says, "He did..."
00:31:58.78\00:32:00.12
What about His mouth?
00:32:00.15\00:32:01.52
"Didn't even open His mouth."
00:32:01.55\00:32:02.88
Didn't say,
00:32:02.92\00:32:04.25
"This is not
supposed to be this way."
00:32:04.29\00:32:05.69
If lambs fought really hard,
00:32:05.72\00:32:08.42
we really wouldn't
have as much wool today
00:32:08.46\00:32:10.99
as we do have.
00:32:11.03\00:32:12.36
We were in New
Zealand, and we were there...
00:32:12.39\00:32:15.60
We went a few times,
but the first time we went
00:32:15.63\00:32:17.43
to New Zealand,
they had 3 million people
00:32:17.47\00:32:22.20
and 90 million sheep.
00:32:22.24\00:32:27.14
Can you imagine that?
00:32:27.18\00:32:28.78
So we went to a sheep farm,
00:32:28.81\00:32:31.21
I guess that's
what they call it,
00:32:31.25\00:32:32.81
a sheep farm.
00:32:32.85\00:32:35.05
Man, it was...
00:32:35.08\00:32:38.35
If those were
wolves, we'd be in trouble.
00:32:38.39\00:32:41.52
But you could just walk
right in the middle of them,
00:32:41.56\00:32:43.16
and they just.
00:32:43.19\00:32:45.93
So you could touch
them, you could feed them,
00:32:45.96\00:32:48.96
they're just so peaceful.
00:32:49.00\00:32:50.50
That's how Jesus is,
peaceful, not combative.
00:32:50.53\00:32:54.20
He came to show the
nature of the Father.
00:32:54.24\00:32:57.87
There was a song years ago.
00:32:57.91\00:33:01.91
They used to call it
"Jesus, Meek and Mild".
00:33:01.94\00:33:03.38
I forgot the
earlier lyrics to that.
00:33:03.41\00:33:05.51
But gentle, gentle
Jesus meek and mild,
00:33:05.55\00:33:09.28
little poem about Jesus.
00:33:09.32\00:33:10.65
Yes, He is,
praise the Lord for that.
00:33:10.69\00:33:12.72
So the Bible, Isaiah 53,
00:33:12.75\00:33:14.56
what are the two
things that identify
00:33:14.59\00:33:16.19
with the
lamb-like nature of Jesus?
00:33:16.22\00:33:18.03
Write those down.
00:33:18.06\00:33:20.06
What are the two things
that this text brings out?
00:33:20.10\00:33:25.33
He opened not His mouth,
00:33:25.37\00:33:27.37
and He was silent
before His shearers.
00:33:27.40\00:33:31.97
Wow!
00:33:32.01\00:33:33.34
This is interesting.
00:33:33.38\00:33:34.71
Now let's go to Matthew 15.
00:33:34.74\00:33:40.02
Mark 15:4-5,
00:33:40.05\00:33:45.89
the nature of Jesus.
00:33:45.92\00:33:49.22
Mark 15:4-5,
for the fulfillment.
00:33:49.26\00:33:53.93
Okay, here we are.
00:34:08.21\00:34:09.54
This is Jesus in
the presence of Pilate.
00:34:15.18\00:34:21.96
"Then Pilate asked Him again..."
00:34:21.99\00:34:25.76
Matter of fact, I
want to read verse 1,
00:34:25.79\00:34:28.43
and when I get to verse
4, bring it up on the screen.
00:34:28.46\00:34:31.03
I got to go and just...
00:34:31.07\00:34:32.40
I want to put
the context together.
00:34:32.43\00:34:34.37
Mark 15:1,
"Immediately in the morning,
00:34:34.40\00:34:38.77
the chief priests
held a consultation
00:34:38.81\00:34:40.81
with the elders and
scribes and the whole council.
00:34:40.84\00:34:44.88
And they found,
and they bound Jesus,
00:34:44.91\00:34:47.98
led Him away and
delivered Him to Pilate."
00:34:48.02\00:34:51.45
Now if Jesus
didn't want to be bound,
00:34:51.49\00:34:53.99
could He have stopped them?
00:34:54.02\00:34:57.79
He could have stopped
them with the thought.
00:34:57.83\00:34:59.39
The ropes could have gotten
off of Him and bound them,
00:34:59.43\00:35:02.76
but He didn't use
any of His divinity.
00:35:02.80\00:35:05.33
He was led as a lamb...
00:35:05.37\00:35:06.70
Notice, this is the leading
as a lamb to the slaughter.
00:35:06.74\00:35:09.50
They led Him, He
let them bind Him.
00:35:09.54\00:35:13.54
Then verse 2, "Then
Pilate and ask him,"
00:35:13.58\00:35:17.65
in verse 2,
00:35:17.68\00:35:19.01
"'Are you the king of the Jews?'
00:35:19.05\00:35:21.32
He answered and said to
him, 'It is as you say.'
00:35:21.35\00:35:25.49
And the chief priest
accused Him of many things,
00:35:25.52\00:35:30.79
but He answered nothing.'"
00:35:30.83\00:35:32.56
You know how hard that is?
00:35:32.59\00:35:35.40
You know how hard
that is to be accused
00:35:35.43\00:35:37.27
and say nothing?
00:35:37.30\00:35:40.17
Lord, help me to get there.
00:35:40.20\00:35:42.94
Amen? Amen.
00:35:42.97\00:35:44.94
That's some growth
we still have to do.
00:35:44.97\00:35:47.54
Now verse 4 and
5, bring this up.
00:35:47.58\00:35:50.45
"Then Pilate
asked Him again saying,
00:35:50.48\00:35:54.82
'Do you answer nothing?
00:35:54.85\00:35:57.65
See how many things
they testify against You!'
00:35:57.69\00:36:01.32
But Jesus..."
00:36:01.36\00:36:02.69
What?
00:36:02.72\00:36:04.06
"Still answered nothing,
so that Pilate marveled."
00:36:04.09\00:36:09.46
He said, "Wow, who's this guy?"
00:36:09.50\00:36:12.63
And, you know, when Pilate...
00:36:12.67\00:36:15.70
What did Pilate
eventually try to do?
00:36:15.74\00:36:17.71
He tried to wash His hands
00:36:21.68\00:36:23.55
when he had the
power to release Jesus.
00:36:23.58\00:36:25.91
He looked at Him,
00:36:25.95\00:36:27.28
he was hoping that they would...
00:36:27.32\00:36:28.65
That Jesus would
give him some indication
00:36:28.68\00:36:30.55
that he was either
innocent of these things
00:36:30.59\00:36:33.02
or guilty of these things,
00:36:33.05\00:36:34.82
but He was so peaceful in
the midst of this tribunal.
00:36:34.86\00:36:38.09
He was so peaceful
in the midst of those
00:36:38.13\00:36:39.79
that were persecuting Him,
00:36:39.83\00:36:41.16
accusing Him of
all kinds of things,
00:36:41.20\00:36:43.16
and just human nature
alone would have been,
00:36:43.20\00:36:46.17
you know, some of us
would have said nothing
00:36:46.20\00:36:47.54
but would have
been visibly shaken.
00:36:47.57\00:36:49.50
But I could guarantee you,
Jesus wasn't visibly angry.
00:36:49.54\00:36:52.11
He didn't stand there
with His anger seething.
00:36:52.14\00:36:54.98
He didn't have an
angry face, He was as a lamb.
00:36:55.01\00:36:58.65
He had to have
that kind of disposition
00:36:58.68\00:37:00.78
in order for Him to be Jesus
00:37:00.82\00:37:04.65
meek and mild, lowly Jesus.
00:37:04.69\00:37:07.36
So the answer is there.
00:37:07.39\00:37:08.72
So as we look at this,
00:37:08.76\00:37:10.09
we're going to wind up
on this particular point.
00:37:10.13\00:37:11.49
We looked through a
number of prophecies.
00:37:11.53\00:37:14.20
To be particular,
00:37:14.23\00:37:16.00
we looked at about maybe
20 of them or 15 of them.
00:37:16.03\00:37:18.90
If you missed the earlier
parts of lesson number 36,
00:37:18.93\00:37:22.44
I recommend that you get that
and look at the prior videos
00:37:22.47\00:37:26.47
about this particular
topic on the truth about Jesus.
00:37:26.51\00:37:30.25
We covered many things,
00:37:30.28\00:37:31.61
not just the
prophecies of Jesus,
00:37:31.65\00:37:33.52
but His work, His
ministry, His life,
00:37:33.55\00:37:36.92
all those that identified
the truth about Jesus.
00:37:36.95\00:37:40.46
I hope you really enjoy that.
00:37:40.49\00:37:42.12
We serve the Lamb.
00:37:42.16\00:37:44.33
Matter of fact, I
want to end with this text.
00:37:44.36\00:37:45.69
Go to Revelation 6,
00:37:45.73\00:37:47.66
since we're talking
about the lamb, okay?
00:37:47.70\00:37:53.27
Let's go to Revelation.
00:37:53.30\00:37:54.64
And when I say end, the
program is not done yet,
00:37:54.67\00:37:56.30
so don't rush,
don't get off your couch,
00:37:56.34\00:37:58.74
don't close your Bible.
00:37:58.77\00:38:00.78
Okay.
00:38:00.81\00:38:02.14
Revelation 6, and we're
going to look at verse 16.
00:38:05.05\00:38:08.15
Actually,
00:38:08.18\00:38:10.75
since this is the second coming,
00:38:10.79\00:38:12.75
let's look at
verse 14 down to 16.
00:38:12.79\00:38:14.69
The Bible says in verse 14,
00:38:20.33\00:38:22.16
"Then the sky
receded or split apart
00:38:22.20\00:38:26.43
as a scroll
when it is rolled up,
00:38:26.47\00:38:29.00
and every
mountain and island was..."
00:38:29.04\00:38:30.81
What? "Moved out of its place.
00:38:30.84\00:38:34.21
And the kings of the earth,
the great men, the rich men,
00:38:34.24\00:38:38.18
the commanders, the mighty men,
00:38:38.21\00:38:40.98
every slave and every free man,
00:38:41.02\00:38:45.65
hid themselves in the caves
00:38:45.69\00:38:47.69
and in the rocks
of the mountains."
00:38:47.72\00:38:49.59
Just to pause on
the phrase "slave".
00:38:49.62\00:38:51.39
You know, we're living in
2016, these are modern times.
00:38:51.43\00:38:54.86
But I was surprised at the news,
00:38:54.90\00:38:57.43
I was watching maybe last week
or the week before, they said,
00:38:57.47\00:38:59.43
"Do you know that
there are more slaves today?"
00:38:59.47\00:39:02.34
There are more slaves today.
00:39:02.37\00:39:04.97
In various areas,
00:39:05.01\00:39:06.81
there are people
that are held as slaves
00:39:06.84\00:39:08.38
to produce garments in
some foreign countries,
00:39:08.41\00:39:11.31
slaves in factories,
00:39:11.35\00:39:12.91
there are people
sold into the sex trade.
00:39:12.95\00:39:15.65
There are people that are...
00:39:15.68\00:39:17.45
That's why I believe it's India.
00:39:17.49\00:39:20.09
They're making
it almost impossible
00:39:20.12\00:39:21.72
to adopt a child
00:39:21.76\00:39:23.26
because many of the children
that were adopted in India,
00:39:23.29\00:39:25.93
and many of these
foreign countries,
00:39:25.96\00:39:27.43
they were taken
with the intention...
00:39:27.46\00:39:29.50
The people said, "Well,
we're going to give them
00:39:29.53\00:39:30.93
a new home or wonderful life.
00:39:30.97\00:39:34.47
When they traced
it, it was a sad story.
00:39:34.50\00:39:37.31
It was quite a dark place
that these children ended up.
00:39:37.34\00:39:40.38
There are more slaves today
than in the time of slavery,
00:39:40.41\00:39:44.71
you know, 70, 80 years ago.
00:39:44.75\00:39:46.88
And I'll tell you, it's global.
00:39:46.92\00:39:49.22
It's global.
00:39:49.25\00:39:50.59
So when you see
the text, it says,
00:39:50.62\00:39:51.95
"Every slave
and every free man."
00:39:51.99\00:39:53.32
When Jesus comes back,
00:39:53.36\00:39:54.69
they're going to
be slaves of all kind,
00:39:54.72\00:39:57.23
all nationalities,
00:39:57.26\00:39:58.79
but look at the verse
that we're going to point at.
00:39:58.83\00:40:01.00
And it says in verse 15,
00:40:01.03\00:40:02.50
"And they hid
themselves in the caves
00:40:02.53\00:40:04.07
and in the rocks
of the mountains."
00:40:04.10\00:40:05.97
And notice this.
00:40:06.00\00:40:07.37
"And said to the mountains
and the rocks, 'Fall on us,
00:40:07.40\00:40:11.14
hide us from the face of
Him who sits on the throne
00:40:11.17\00:40:14.44
and from the wrath of the Lamb!
00:40:14.48\00:40:17.85
For the great day
of His wrath has come
00:40:17.88\00:40:21.18
and who is able to stand?'"
00:40:21.22\00:40:23.72
So the Lamb
00:40:23.75\00:40:25.79
slain from the
foundation of the world,
00:40:25.82\00:40:27.79
Revelation 13,
00:40:27.82\00:40:29.29
the Lamb who was
led to His persecution
00:40:29.32\00:40:34.00
and to His death, and
didn't open His mouth,
00:40:34.03\00:40:36.06
didn't fight to free Himself.
00:40:36.10\00:40:38.20
The Lamb will come back one day.
00:40:38.23\00:40:40.44
Let me encourage
you not to just learn
00:40:40.47\00:40:42.50
about the prophecies of the Lamb
00:40:42.54\00:40:44.24
but to accept the
Lamb as your Savior.
00:40:44.27\00:40:46.31
Amen?
00:40:46.34\00:40:47.68
So that when He comes, we
will be in the right group.
00:40:47.71\00:40:50.25
We'll be coming...
00:40:50.28\00:40:51.61
If we're in the
mountains, we'll be coming out,
00:40:51.65\00:40:53.21
we're not running in.
00:40:53.25\00:40:54.58
Praise God for that.
00:40:54.62\00:40:56.35
Let's go to the next slide.
This is very interesting slide.
00:40:56.38\00:40:58.39
I want to emphasize this point.
00:40:58.42\00:40:59.75
Our next topic
we're dealing with
00:40:59.79\00:41:01.62
is lesson number
37 and notice this.
00:41:01.66\00:41:03.76
Let's bring the slide up.
00:41:03.79\00:41:05.13
We're talking
about dealing with what?
00:41:05.16\00:41:07.50
Dealing with anger.
00:41:07.53\00:41:09.03
Now what prompted me
to cover this topic is...
00:41:09.06\00:41:12.63
That's a pretty
interesting picture there.
00:41:12.67\00:41:15.37
Man, I'll tell you,
00:41:15.40\00:41:16.74
there's amazing stories
about things that happen
00:41:16.77\00:41:18.54
when people get angry.
00:41:18.57\00:41:20.18
I remember the
story about the guy
00:41:20.21\00:41:21.54
who woke up in
the morning and some
00:41:21.58\00:41:22.91
unusual incident
happened in his home,
00:41:22.94\00:41:24.71
kicked the dog, and it
just went downhill from there.
00:41:24.75\00:41:28.08
And so many programs on
television talk about anger.
00:41:28.12\00:41:32.45
What do they suggest
00:41:32.49\00:41:33.82
when you can't
control your anger?
00:41:33.86\00:41:35.19
What do they call it?
00:41:35.22\00:41:36.69
Anger management.
00:41:36.73\00:41:38.99
There are many
people that don't know
00:41:39.03\00:41:40.36
what to do with their anger.
00:41:40.40\00:41:41.73
And as I mentioned to
you just a moment ago,
00:41:41.76\00:41:44.20
when the Bible talks
about anger or being angry,
00:41:44.23\00:41:46.74
it mentions that over 130 times
00:41:46.77\00:41:49.57
about anger in
the Old Testament.
00:41:49.60\00:41:51.47
As a matter of fact,
trivia, are you ready?
00:41:51.51\00:41:55.54
Who was the
first one in the Bible
00:41:55.58\00:41:58.25
that allowed his
anger to lead him to murder?
00:41:58.28\00:42:02.02
Cain! Cain.
00:42:02.05\00:42:04.55
And the Lord looked at him,
He says, "Why are you angry?"
00:42:04.59\00:42:10.03
Just a brother.
00:42:10.06\00:42:11.39
He just had a brother,
00:42:11.43\00:42:12.76
a mother, and a father, he said,
00:42:12.79\00:42:14.76
"Why is your
countenance downcast?
00:42:14.80\00:42:17.53
What's your...
00:42:17.57\00:42:18.90
What's wrong with you?"
00:42:18.93\00:42:20.40
And then we read about...
00:42:20.44\00:42:21.77
The Bible says,
00:42:21.80\00:42:23.14
"The blood of your
brother crieth to me
00:42:23.17\00:42:25.07
from the ground."
00:42:25.11\00:42:27.34
Did the Lord know what happened?
00:42:27.38\00:42:29.94
And also, you read
the story of Jonah,
00:42:29.98\00:42:31.48
we're going to just
bring out a couple of examples.
00:42:31.51\00:42:33.52
Jonah, we call him
the reluctant evangelist.
00:42:33.55\00:42:37.79
The Lord said go to
Tarshish, go to Nineveh,
00:42:37.82\00:42:41.32
he went to Tarshish instead.
00:42:41.36\00:42:43.56
Nineveh was in one direction,
Tarshish, try to say that,
00:42:43.59\00:42:47.73
was in a completely
different direction.
00:42:47.76\00:42:49.86
He went down to the sea coast,
00:42:49.90\00:42:53.90
went down to the port and paid,
00:42:53.94\00:42:56.47
for the fear went
down into the ship.
00:42:56.50\00:42:58.64
What happens when
you're running from Jesus?
00:42:58.67\00:43:00.04
Your life goes down, down, down.
00:43:00.08\00:43:03.75
And then a great
storm hit the boat,
00:43:03.78\00:43:06.55
and they were wondering,
00:43:06.58\00:43:07.92
"What's the
storm was all about?"
00:43:07.95\00:43:09.28
These mariners, these
fishermen, these sailors,
00:43:09.32\00:43:12.75
these mariners,
00:43:12.79\00:43:14.12
they had thought we've
never been in a storm this way,
00:43:14.16\00:43:16.06
and finally Jonah
said, "I'm the reason."
00:43:16.09\00:43:18.56
They throw him overboard,
he gets swallowed by a fish,
00:43:18.59\00:43:21.76
ends up at
Nineveh, preaches a sermon,
00:43:21.80\00:43:25.00
and the city
repents, 120,000 people.
00:43:25.03\00:43:28.14
And he sits there says,
00:43:28.17\00:43:30.97
if I had 120, 000
converts with one sermon,
00:43:31.01\00:43:34.11
would you be happy?
00:43:34.14\00:43:36.18
He hated Nineveh so much,
00:43:36.21\00:43:37.55
he wanted to see
Nineveh destroyed.
00:43:37.58\00:43:39.31
And the Lord...
00:43:39.35\00:43:40.68
So he sat under a
tree, and the sun rose up,
00:43:40.72\00:43:44.79
and the tree dried up.
00:43:44.82\00:43:46.52
And there was Jonah
sitting in the hot sun
00:43:46.55\00:43:48.96
angry at the tree.
00:43:48.99\00:43:50.46
And the Lord says,
"Jonah, what's your problem?"
00:43:50.49\00:43:53.19
He's angry at the tree.
00:43:53.23\00:43:56.56
He's angry at the
people that repented.
00:43:56.60\00:43:59.63
And the story of Jonah,
00:43:59.67\00:44:02.04
only four verses,
only four chapters, sorry,
00:44:02.07\00:44:04.47
only four chapters deal
with the story of Jonah.
00:44:04.51\00:44:07.11
But Jonah's major downfall
was disobedience and anger.
00:44:07.14\00:44:11.88
Didn't want to do God's
will, reluctantly did it,
00:44:11.91\00:44:14.88
God converted that city.
00:44:14.92\00:44:18.22
And the last thing we hear
about Jonah was he was angry.
00:44:18.25\00:44:21.16
Story kind of ends
after Jonah's anger.
00:44:21.19\00:44:23.26
So let's talk
about dealing with anger,
00:44:23.29\00:44:25.76
this topic of anger
00:44:25.79\00:44:27.30
because Christians do get angry.
00:44:27.33\00:44:29.63
Do we get angry?
00:44:29.66\00:44:31.67
Okay, we get angry.
00:44:31.70\00:44:33.47
Sometimes we get
angry during the week,
00:44:33.50\00:44:36.81
very few Christians get
angry on Sabbath morning.
00:44:36.84\00:44:40.61
Exactly.
00:44:40.64\00:44:44.18
Do we get angry
with our relatives?
00:44:44.21\00:44:47.58
With our friends?
00:44:47.62\00:44:50.69
Our spouses?
00:44:50.72\00:44:54.52
Yes.
00:44:54.56\00:44:55.89
Anger is a natural reaction.
00:44:55.92\00:44:59.23
Let me tell you
why it's natural.
00:44:59.26\00:45:01.16
If the Lord didn't
want us to get angry,
00:45:01.20\00:45:02.90
He wouldn't even create
00:45:02.93\00:45:04.57
the ability to get angry, right?
00:45:04.60\00:45:07.34
So we have that
ability to get angry.
00:45:07.37\00:45:09.87
Let's look at
some of these things.
00:45:09.90\00:45:11.91
Question number one,
00:45:11.94\00:45:13.71
question number
one, and here it is.
00:45:13.74\00:45:17.85
"What does the Bible
reveal about God's anger?"
00:45:17.88\00:45:22.25
Ooh, God's anger?
00:45:22.28\00:45:25.72
Let's go to Psalm 103,
00:45:25.75\00:45:27.76
and we're going to
look at verse 8 and 9.
00:45:27.79\00:45:31.29
God's anger,
00:45:31.33\00:45:33.66
Psalm 103:8 and 9.
00:45:33.70\00:45:39.47
Hmm, this is a
beautiful passage by the way.
00:45:39.50\00:45:44.47
Okay, let's look
at verse 8 and 9.
00:45:44.51\00:45:46.61
Here it is.
00:45:46.64\00:45:50.28
Verse 8 reads as follows.
00:45:50.31\00:45:53.01
It says, "The Lord is..."
00:45:53.05\00:45:56.45
What?
00:45:56.48\00:45:57.82
"Merciful and..."
00:45:57.85\00:45:59.19
What else?
00:45:59.22\00:46:00.56
"Gracious."
What's the next word?
00:46:00.59\00:46:02.92
"Slow to anger
and abounding in..."
00:46:02.96\00:46:06.73
What? "In mercy.
00:46:06.76\00:46:09.16
He will not
always strive with us
00:46:09.20\00:46:12.53
nor will He keep His anger..."
00:46:12.57\00:46:14.40
For how long? "Forever."
00:46:14.44\00:46:16.27
So does He get angry? Yeah.
00:46:16.30\00:46:19.21
How many people keep their anger
00:46:19.24\00:46:20.98
for a long time?
00:46:21.01\00:46:24.15
What's your...
00:46:24.18\00:46:25.51
You still...
00:46:25.55\00:46:27.02
"Yanick, you
still upset about that?
00:46:27.05\00:46:28.92
When did it happen?"
00:46:28.95\00:46:30.29
I've had some
people say, "I'm angry."
00:46:30.32\00:46:32.65
And they tell me
their story, and I say,
00:46:32.69\00:46:34.02
"When did that happen?"
00:46:34.06\00:46:35.82
And they mentioned it to me,
and I said, "Are you serious?
00:46:35.86\00:46:39.06
How many years was that?"
00:46:39.09\00:46:40.96
There were some
people, we met a few days ago,
00:46:41.00\00:46:42.86
we were down in Tennessee,
00:46:42.90\00:46:44.93
and we met a security guard
at one of the plants there.
00:46:44.97\00:46:50.41
I want to be
very general about it.
00:46:50.44\00:46:52.87
And it was...
00:46:52.91\00:46:55.94
We identified ourselves,
I left my business card,
00:46:55.98\00:46:57.81
they said, "Who are you?"
00:46:57.85\00:46:59.18
And I said "Well, I'm a pastor.
00:46:59.21\00:47:00.55
Here's my card."
00:47:00.58\00:47:01.92
"Oh, you're an
Adventist pastor."
00:47:01.95\00:47:03.28
He said, "I used to go
to the Adventist church."
00:47:03.32\00:47:06.89
"Used to?"
00:47:06.92\00:47:08.26
"Yeah, I used to, but
I had a bad experience.
00:47:08.29\00:47:10.59
Made me really
angry. I don't go anymore."
00:47:10.63\00:47:13.96
"How long has it been?"
00:47:14.00\00:47:15.33
"Oh, it's been about..."
00:47:15.36\00:47:19.97
And he tried to come up with it.
00:47:20.00\00:47:22.27
But I was so glad when
I said, "Are you serious?
00:47:22.30\00:47:24.07
You haven't been that long."
00:47:24.11\00:47:25.44
He said, "No, no, really,
00:47:25.47\00:47:26.81
I don't go to that
one anymore, but I do go."
00:47:26.84\00:47:28.94
I said, "Ah!
00:47:28.98\00:47:30.45
I feel better."
00:47:30.48\00:47:31.81
You know, he said,
00:47:31.85\00:47:33.18
"I don't go to that one anymore,
00:47:33.21\00:47:34.55
but I still go."
00:47:34.58\00:47:35.92
I said, "Okay"
'Cause I said now...
00:47:35.95\00:47:37.35
I said, "Who we're looking
for may not be here today,
00:47:37.39\00:47:39.59
but we may have come
00:47:39.62\00:47:40.96
just to tell you
need get back in church."
00:47:40.99\00:47:43.26
And he was kind
of sheepish about it.
00:47:43.29\00:47:46.03
And we've traveled,
and we've heard people.
00:47:46.06\00:47:47.76
We were in South
Dakota many years ago,
00:47:47.80\00:47:50.17
is that where the four
heads of the presidents are?
00:47:50.20\00:47:51.93
South Dakota.
00:47:51.97\00:47:53.30
We were there for
their 50th inauguration...
00:47:53.34\00:47:55.57
For the inauguration that
never happened after 50 years,
00:47:55.60\00:47:57.91
and I was invited to sing,
00:47:57.94\00:47:59.44
and President
Daddy Bush was there,
00:47:59.47\00:48:01.64
and we went there
and didn't know why.
00:48:01.68\00:48:04.15
It was an
interdenominational group,
00:48:04.18\00:48:05.71
and I was singing a
song "God Bless USA".
00:48:05.75\00:48:08.52
And they said, "When
you sing, just look forward,
00:48:08.55\00:48:10.39
don't look up, the
jets are going to fly over,
00:48:10.42\00:48:13.09
the Red Baron's
going to fly over,
00:48:13.12\00:48:14.79
the F-18s and the B-1 bomber.
00:48:14.82\00:48:17.16
And I want to look so badly,
00:48:17.19\00:48:18.89
but he said, "Don't look up
00:48:18.93\00:48:20.26
because the president's
going to be watching you,
00:48:20.30\00:48:21.76
all the color guards are there.
00:48:21.80\00:48:23.13
But the days before in practice,
00:48:23.16\00:48:25.13
we met four Adventists
that had left the church.
00:48:25.17\00:48:30.04
And we said, "Now we
know why we're here."
00:48:30.07\00:48:33.74
And when we heard their reasons.
00:48:33.78\00:48:35.11
One left because the
pastor got him upset,
00:48:35.14\00:48:36.81
and she played the organ.
00:48:36.85\00:48:38.18
She hadn't been
back for nine years.
00:48:38.21\00:48:40.08
And since he's...
00:48:40.12\00:48:41.82
Oh, these are serious things.
00:48:41.85\00:48:43.18
And since she's married,
her husband didn't go back.
00:48:43.22\00:48:46.29
And then the other one
was a Sabbath school teacher
00:48:46.32\00:48:47.66
at the same church.
00:48:47.69\00:48:49.02
And she got offended
by something that was said
00:48:49.06\00:48:50.39
to somebody else
about her, she left.
00:48:50.43\00:48:52.99
And I thought...
00:48:53.03\00:48:54.36
And so we visited
them at their house
00:48:54.40\00:48:56.77
and got to know them better,
and they told us their story.
00:48:56.80\00:48:59.90
And as they were
telling the story,
00:48:59.93\00:49:04.64
you could almost see their faces
00:49:04.67\00:49:06.31
kind of like saying, "Really?
00:49:06.34\00:49:08.84
Is that it?"
00:49:08.88\00:49:10.31
And they had
that look, and I said,
00:49:10.35\00:49:11.68
"Honestly, it's
been a long time.
00:49:11.71\00:49:14.15
It's time for you to go back."
00:49:14.18\00:49:15.52
And I still have the letters
in my file to this very day.
00:49:15.55\00:49:19.05
All three of them, it
was a number of months later
00:49:19.09\00:49:21.06
they wrote us back.
00:49:21.09\00:49:22.42
And they said,
"We're back in the church."
00:49:22.46\00:49:24.19
And the one that was
playing the organ, she said,
00:49:24.23\00:49:25.56
"I'm playing the organ again."
00:49:25.59\00:49:27.40
But they dealt with their anger.
00:49:27.43\00:49:29.20
See anger is a
self-destroying attitude.
00:49:29.23\00:49:35.40
Anger destroys the person
00:49:35.44\00:49:37.24
who is angry more than
the person we're angry with.
00:49:37.27\00:49:41.38
That's why I look at this slide.
00:49:41.41\00:49:42.74
I've of kind of done
something little different,
00:49:42.78\00:49:44.31
look at the slide.
00:49:44.35\00:49:45.68
So you might write this down.
00:49:45.71\00:49:47.75
Write this down
under point number one.
00:49:47.78\00:49:49.12
Here it is, bring it
up, bring the slide up.
00:49:49.15\00:49:51.49
Be slow, bring
up my slide for me.
00:49:51.52\00:49:54.42
Be slow to anger.
00:49:54.46\00:49:57.79
Be what?
00:49:57.83\00:49:59.16
Slow to anger.
00:49:59.19\00:50:01.80
Be slow because that's
what Jesus is, slow to anger.
00:50:01.83\00:50:07.04
And don't keep
your anger forever.
00:50:07.07\00:50:09.40
That's why that
picture was significant.
00:50:09.44\00:50:11.24
He has a piece of
tape over his mouth
00:50:11.27\00:50:12.61
because you know what,
00:50:12.64\00:50:13.98
people that are angry
00:50:14.01\00:50:15.38
shouldn't speak
when they're angry
00:50:15.41\00:50:17.88
because the worst words
come out when you're angry,
00:50:17.91\00:50:21.18
because the worst thoughts...
00:50:21.22\00:50:22.78
Or like, the
thoughts are like the engine
00:50:22.82\00:50:24.89
that's revving in the background
00:50:24.92\00:50:26.69
and if you just
release the brake
00:50:26.72\00:50:29.02
and put that thought in gear,
00:50:29.06\00:50:31.43
you'd run
somebody over emotionally.
00:50:31.46\00:50:34.93
And emotionally,
sometimes people say...
00:50:34.96\00:50:37.07
Have you heard
that phrase years ago,
00:50:37.10\00:50:38.67
"Sticks and stones
may break my bones..."
00:50:38.70\00:50:40.90
What?
00:50:40.94\00:50:42.27
"Words will never harm me."
00:50:42.30\00:50:43.97
That's not true.
00:50:44.01\00:50:45.47
Words are so damaging, today,
00:50:45.51\00:50:46.84
they have an
anti-bullying law which...
00:50:46.88\00:50:50.51
When I was growing up,
when we were growing up,
00:50:50.55\00:50:52.21
kids were ruthless,
00:50:52.25\00:50:53.88
but we didn't have
an anti-bullying law.
00:50:53.92\00:50:55.98
So let's
exemplify the character.
00:50:56.02\00:50:58.42
So what does the Bible
reveal about God's anger?
00:50:58.45\00:51:00.62
What did you write down?
00:51:00.66\00:51:02.26
He's slow to
anger, He's merciful,
00:51:02.29\00:51:04.93
He will not keep
His anger forever.
00:51:04.96\00:51:07.00
Let me encourage you,
00:51:07.03\00:51:08.36
if you're angry about something,
00:51:08.40\00:51:09.73
learn how to
deal with that anger.
00:51:09.76\00:51:11.73
If you're a person that
tends to lose your temper,
00:51:11.77\00:51:15.67
pray for God to get
that temper under control
00:51:15.70\00:51:18.57
because we fly off our handle.
00:51:18.61\00:51:20.44
You know, sometimes
I'm talking to people...
00:51:20.48\00:51:24.81
Let me not talk
about other people,
00:51:24.85\00:51:26.18
let me just say myself.
00:51:26.21\00:51:27.55
Confession is good for the soul,
00:51:30.79\00:51:32.12
heart and the repute.
00:51:32.15\00:51:33.49
I've been in positions before
where I was so internally upset
00:51:33.52\00:51:36.79
that while the
person is speaking,
00:51:36.83\00:51:38.69
my kettle is boiling.
00:51:38.73\00:51:41.53
Have we been there? Oh, yes.
00:51:41.56\00:51:43.06
And you can't wait
till they take a breath
00:51:43.10\00:51:45.63
so you can insert
00:51:45.67\00:51:47.34
into that
quarter of a second space
00:51:47.37\00:51:50.64
exactly what you want to say.
00:51:50.67\00:51:52.24
You're waiting for that breath.
00:51:52.27\00:51:54.51
And that's why some
people when they're angry,
00:51:54.54\00:51:55.98
they don't take a
breath because they know that
00:51:56.01\00:51:58.41
when you insert into
there, it's going to go on.
00:51:58.45\00:52:01.28
Have you ever been so
angry that you go home
00:52:01.32\00:52:02.82
and you think about
what you didn't say?
00:52:02.85\00:52:05.35
If I see them again...
00:52:05.39\00:52:07.49
And you have another fight.
00:52:07.52\00:52:09.42
These are afflictions
that even Christians deal with.
00:52:09.46\00:52:12.19
You got to be like Jesus.
00:52:12.23\00:52:13.63
You've got to
be like who? Jesus.
00:52:13.66\00:52:15.50
Anger could
destroy congregations.
00:52:15.53\00:52:20.27
Oh, man, anger.
00:52:20.30\00:52:23.34
And the Bible
says in the last days,
00:52:23.37\00:52:25.07
"One of the
signs of the last days,
00:52:25.11\00:52:26.78
the nations are angry."
00:52:26.81\00:52:29.71
Is our world angry?
00:52:29.74\00:52:31.85
Are the nations angry?
00:52:31.88\00:52:34.08
Is America angry?
00:52:34.12\00:52:36.35
Let me leave it there.
00:52:36.38\00:52:39.42
I choose not to
date this program.
00:52:39.45\00:52:43.22
Okay, let's go to the next one.
00:52:43.26\00:52:46.43
Pray for God to help
you deal with your anger
00:52:46.46\00:52:49.23
because it could
destroy families terribly.
00:52:49.26\00:52:52.13
People slam
doors and break stuff
00:52:52.17\00:52:53.94
that they can't
put back together,
00:52:53.97\00:52:56.04
you know, throwing
stuff out the window,
00:52:56.07\00:52:58.51
smashed the television,
00:52:58.54\00:52:59.87
kick their foot
through the door.
00:52:59.91\00:53:01.34
I made my
comment, do I keep going?
00:53:01.38\00:53:03.28
Rip up stuff that they
can't put back together.
00:53:03.31\00:53:05.81
Anger, I'm thinking
of all these instances,
00:53:05.85\00:53:07.62
wow, anger is terrible.
00:53:07.65\00:53:10.12
Let's go to the next
one, number two, number two.
00:53:10.15\00:53:14.72
"What kind of
emotional disposition
00:53:14.76\00:53:17.09
should we have towards anger?"
00:53:17.13\00:53:20.40
What kind of
emotional disposition
00:53:20.43\00:53:22.70
should we have towards anger?
00:53:22.73\00:53:26.50
Psalm 145:8.
00:53:26.53\00:53:29.24
Since we're in
Psalm, let's look at that.
00:53:29.27\00:53:33.58
Psalm 145:8.
00:53:33.61\00:53:36.58
Okay, here it is.
00:53:40.82\00:53:43.75
This is kind of reiteration,
but we're going to cover
00:53:43.79\00:53:45.45
a couple of other
things in this area.
00:53:45.49\00:53:47.79
The Bible says, "The Lord is..."
00:53:47.82\00:53:49.72
What?
00:53:49.76\00:53:51.09
"Gracious and
full of compassion."
00:53:51.13\00:53:54.33
Next three words,
"Slow to anger..."
00:53:54.36\00:53:57.17
And what else?
00:53:57.20\00:53:58.53
"Great in..."
00:53:58.57\00:53:59.90
What? "Mercy."
00:53:59.93\00:54:01.27
Now let me point out something,
00:54:01.30\00:54:02.64
you don't really
know why people get angry.
00:54:02.67\00:54:05.24
I've had people
get angry with me
00:54:05.27\00:54:06.64
in a position as a pastor.
00:54:06.68\00:54:08.41
I always say,
and I've learned...
00:54:08.44\00:54:10.31
I mean, I've grown,
00:54:10.35\00:54:12.01
I have come to the
place where I have said,
00:54:12.05\00:54:14.35
and in many
cases, I've been right,
00:54:14.38\00:54:16.22
but in some cases,
00:54:16.25\00:54:18.02
in some cases
and very rare cases,
00:54:18.05\00:54:20.36
it's been like, "Really?
00:54:20.39\00:54:22.09
Did you get angry over that?
00:54:22.12\00:54:24.56
You must have missed
what I said before that."
00:54:24.59\00:54:26.80
Sometimes people
will hear a sermon,
00:54:26.83\00:54:28.16
I'd say something in the sermon,
00:54:28.20\00:54:29.70
and that's all they will hear,
00:54:29.73\00:54:31.97
and they won't
come back to church.
00:54:32.00\00:54:33.80
And they'll come up
with this crazy concept
00:54:33.84\00:54:37.14
that I don't like a
certain kind of vehicle
00:54:37.17\00:54:39.37
because I
mentioned it in my sermon.
00:54:39.41\00:54:40.88
My whole point was, "You
can't drive to heaven no matter
00:54:40.91\00:54:42.81
what kind of vehicle you have."
00:54:42.84\00:54:44.68
But slow to anger,
gracious, full of compassion,
00:54:44.71\00:54:47.98
so let's write that down.
00:54:48.02\00:54:49.78
What kind of disposition
should we have towards anger?
00:54:49.82\00:54:53.56
We put down slow but
be full of compassion,
00:54:53.59\00:54:56.52
be great in mercy
00:54:56.56\00:54:58.23
because angry
people hurt people.
00:54:58.26\00:55:04.37
Hurting people hurt people.
00:55:04.40\00:55:07.67
Angry people
sometimes build their own jail,
00:55:07.70\00:55:10.74
and they lock themselves
in, and they refuse to get out.
00:55:10.77\00:55:14.88
And I think sometimes it is
00:55:14.91\00:55:16.31
because pride
keeps some people angry
00:55:16.34\00:55:20.28
until they feel justified.
00:55:20.32\00:55:25.39
You know, angry people sometimes
00:55:25.42\00:55:26.76
want to be vindicated.
00:55:26.79\00:55:28.12
They want somebody to say,
"You're angry for good reason."
00:55:28.16\00:55:31.86
Not always the case.
00:55:31.89\00:55:33.23
You don't always have
the right reason to be angry.
00:55:33.26\00:55:34.96
Sometimes you could be
angry for the wrong reason.
00:55:35.00\00:55:36.97
But because you came up
with the idea to be angry,
00:55:37.00\00:55:39.57
then all of a sudden,
you want people to vindicate,
00:55:39.60\00:55:41.24
"Yes, Yanick, you
are good at being angry."
00:55:41.27\00:55:43.61
No, be full of
compassion, be gracious,
00:55:43.64\00:55:46.88
put yourself in the other
person's position and realize.
00:55:46.91\00:55:49.88
So here's my point,
look at the next slide.
00:55:49.91\00:55:52.88
Don't let anger
become your first reaction.
00:55:52.91\00:55:57.09
Look at that slide.
00:55:57.12\00:55:58.45
Don't let anger
become your first reaction.
00:55:58.49\00:56:02.62
Can you bring my
slide up for me there?
00:56:02.66\00:56:05.03
Don't let anger
become your first reaction.
00:56:05.06\00:56:08.86
Because when anger is
your first reaction...
00:56:08.90\00:56:11.93
Don't let anger
become your first reaction.
00:56:11.97\00:56:14.57
When anger is
your first reaction,
00:56:14.60\00:56:16.30
sometimes, to some people,
that's your last reaction.
00:56:16.34\00:56:20.44
Because I tell you sometimes
we could blow up on people,
00:56:20.48\00:56:23.71
and while we're exploding,
00:56:23.75\00:56:27.65
they just turn
around and just walk away,
00:56:27.68\00:56:30.42
don't want to
talk to us anymore.
00:56:30.45\00:56:32.92
And I also found
this out, as a pastor,
00:56:32.95\00:56:36.09
I was talking about this
00:56:36.12\00:56:37.46
at Southern
University just a few days ago.
00:56:37.49\00:56:40.90
And I said to
one of the students.
00:56:40.93\00:56:43.37
We were talking about...
00:56:43.40\00:56:44.73
I forgot what the
topic was, but we're saying.
00:56:44.77\00:56:47.90
You know, I said, "As student,
you guys could lose your temper
00:56:47.94\00:56:51.64
in this cafeteria and
get into a yelling match,
00:56:51.67\00:56:54.98
and you could
apologize tomorrow,
00:56:55.01\00:56:56.95
and people will forgive you.
00:56:56.98\00:56:58.48
But if I got angry
00:56:58.51\00:57:00.65
and blew my
temper in your cafeteria,
00:57:00.68\00:57:03.18
you know, they'll say,
'Isn't that guy from 3ABN?
00:57:03.22\00:57:06.15
Isn't that Pastor Lomacang?
00:57:06.19\00:57:08.86
Oh, I'm not watching
00:57:08.89\00:57:10.23
that network ever again.'"
00:57:10.26\00:57:14.23
You know, certain people
can't afford to get angry.
00:57:14.26\00:57:17.37
So, you know, what
happens when we're angry,
00:57:17.40\00:57:19.07
we go home and say, "Lord,
I'm angry, help me with it."
00:57:19.10\00:57:22.64
Because we all, at
one point or another,
00:57:22.67\00:57:24.67
get angry, isn't that right?
00:57:24.71\00:57:26.61
But don't let anger
become your first reaction.
00:57:26.64\00:57:29.78
Analyze the situation,
00:57:29.81\00:57:32.15
find out where that
anger is coming from,
00:57:32.18\00:57:33.95
find out what the
purpose of your anger is,
00:57:33.98\00:57:36.69
and don't let it
become the master over you.
00:57:36.72\00:57:39.05
So write that third point down
00:57:39.09\00:57:40.96
under number
two or second point.
00:57:40.99\00:57:43.02
Don't let anger
become your first reaction.
00:57:43.06\00:57:46.03
Friends, we're going to continue
00:57:46.06\00:57:47.40
in this very practical topic,
00:57:47.43\00:57:49.13
invite your
friends to be a part of it
00:57:49.16\00:57:50.70
because we know
00:57:50.73\00:57:52.07
that if it doesn't
make sense right now,
00:57:52.10\00:57:53.44
just keep studying God's Word,
00:57:53.47\00:57:54.80
one day, it will
come into A Sharper Focus.
00:57:54.84\00:57:58.17
God bless you.
00:57:58.21\00:57:59.61