Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host,
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I wanna thank you
for joining us today.
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Today's study is
entitled "Where Sin Came From,
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and How We Can
Be Saved From It."
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This lesson is
number 16 out of 25 lessons
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contained in this study
guide by Brother Richard Bland
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of the United Prison Ministries.
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And this study guide is entitled
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"Sharing God's
Love Makes You Happier,
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What The Bible Says."
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We're excited to
partner with Brother Richard
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in turning his Bible
study into full one hour sermons
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with Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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Each study has
been a blessing thus far
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as I'm sure that
this one will be as well.
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It is a study that anyone
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who has ever been born
on this planet must face
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and that being the issue of sin.
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Again, we will be
studying where sin came from
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and how we can be saved from it.
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The truth of the matter is
that if we are not safe from it,
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we will die in it,
we will die in our sins.
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God has left us this information
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in His Word,
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His wonderful
Bible, the Word of God
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which He has so
graciously preserved
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for our salvation.
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From His Word today,
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we will find out who
committed the first sin
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and where this
act was first done.
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And just what exactly
is the definition of sin
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and what sin has cost?
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What we must do to be saved
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and finally, what awaits anyone
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who refuses the
plan of salvation
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as so freely given
and offered by our Savior.
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But before we join
Pastor Kenny Shelton
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for this all important study,
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let's visit 3ABN
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and listen to a song
that is entitled "Deep River"
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as performed by
Brother Kendol Bacchus.
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Blessings, we're glad
you joined us here once again
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at Behold the Lamb Ministries.
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And, you know, it's always nice,
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I think to take
a couple of seconds
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and then thank every one of you,
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those who are calling in,
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those who, you know,
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are just interested in the truth
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getting out to the world.
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We thank you for your prayers.
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We know many of
you are praying for us
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and we love that.
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Thank you for praying for us.
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And thank you for the support.
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Thank you for
sending Behold the Lamb
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that we may
continue to prosper and grow
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and reach the world
over and over and over
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that Jesus will come,
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and we can be ready to
meet Him in the clouds of glory.
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Again, we're glad you joined us
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and I want you to make
sure you get your Bible,
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pencil, and paper, sit down
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and be able to
jot some things down
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because we're gonna be
looking at subject today,
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"Where Did Sin Came From,
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and How Can We
Be Saved From It."
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What an
interesting sermon title.
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And we're gonna recover that
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based on the Word of
God in just a moment.
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But first we have a
quick prayer together.
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Would you pray with me?
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Merciful Father in
heaven, again, we come to Thee,
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we ask that Your Holy Spirit
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will take
possession of our hearts,
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our lives, and our minds.
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We asked for forgiveness of sin.
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We wanna be
covered by the blood.
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We wanna be able
to hear from heaven.
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We wanna relay the message
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that You have for
Your people today.
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We want the people
to able to hear it.
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Pray their ears
or eyes will be open,
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that they may understand
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that which You are speaking
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to the each one of us today.
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Thank you, Lord, for
hearing and answering prayer.
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May these questions be answered
and answer from the Word of God
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and we thank you in Jesus' name,
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amen.
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Again, where did sin come from?
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Well, that's
probably a simple question
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for many, many people,
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but it's not for others,
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so many have never
really hardly ever opened
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the Word of God.
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So they're not really
sure where sin came from.
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They just hear you talk about it
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when you go to church and so on.
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But most of all, we
know that sin developed.
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But now I wanna know
how we can be saved from it,
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from this issue
this thing called sin?
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If you have your Bibles,
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and you might wanna just
turn to this passage quickly,
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in James 1:14 and 15.
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Now, there are 11 questions
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that will be
asked on this study.
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You heard my wife talk
about it in the beginning,
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this is study, this
is gonna be study guides.
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If you don't have that
guide, you're gonna need it
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because more than likely
we'll never get through all 11.
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But if you have that guide,
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you can go ahead
and finish it on up.
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But I want you to turn with
me to James 1:14 and 15 first
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and listen to the Word of God
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speak to your
heart, speak to mind.
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James 1:14 and 15.
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The Word of God says,
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"But every man,"
every man is what?
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"He's tempted," notice,
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"when he is drawn away of
his own lust, and enticed."
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Verse 15,
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"Then when lust hath conceived,
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it bringeth forth
sin, sin when it is" what?
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"Finished,
bringeth forth death."
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Interesting when you look
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at the passage
of scripture here,
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every man when he's
tempted, it says here, huh.
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Every man is drawn
away of his own what?
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His lust, his desire,
this is what he's want,
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he's drawn away
from his own desire
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from his own, may
be his own longing,
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he's enticed.
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That means he's entrapped,
he's deceived by himself.
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The enemies come
down the temptation
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but what's happened?
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He's deceived,
he deceived himself.
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And so we need to
be very, very careful
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when that's all played out.
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What does the Bible say?
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When sin is
finished, notice this,
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it bringeth forth death.
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So we wanted to just
discuss that a little bit today.
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Would we agree,
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would be possible
that we would agree today,
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that sin is the basic
cause of all of our problems.
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Sin is what?
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Sin is the basic cause of
all of our problems in the world
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that we are having.
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We want to blame
Joe Blow over here,
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and this person and that
person and everybody else,
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but sin is the real
issue that we have to deal with
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that's causing all this mayhem
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that's going on
in the world today.
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Now I want you to think
about just as we think about it,
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it seemed like it ought
to be a little more settled.
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It seemed like
that sin shouldn't be
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as rampant as it is.
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If you look around and
I may just go a little far
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with this right
here, but it seems like
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there's a
church on every corner.
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You know, it seem
like wherever you go,
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there's churches
all over the place.
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Amen.
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Modern medicine,
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you think about modern science,
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countless hospitals,
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wherever you look,
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there's social
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and there's
governmental organizations
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but they're still what?
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There's still
sickness, there's still disease,
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and there's still death.
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I mean, all of these
thousands of institutions
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that are out there,
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there's still
suffering, there's still death,
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there's still fear,
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there's still crime,
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there's war,
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there's the killing, murder
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is going on every,
every just a few seconds.
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Someone's killed in this,
in the United States alone.
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There's fire, there's floods,
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we understand that storms,
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there's earthquakes,
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there's disaster on every hand.
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This is what the Bible said.
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All we have to do is
look it up in Luke Chapter 12.
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So few simple words, verse 25,
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maybe that's 21.
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Luke 21:25,
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the Word of God
is very, very clear.
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It says, "Upon the," what?
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"Earth distress of..."
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"Upon the earth
distress of nations," notice it,
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"with perplexity."
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So we live in a time
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when men's hearts
are failing them for fear
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of what's coming
up on this world.
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Again, we have the
churches, we have the hospital,
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we have the science, we
have all of these things,
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but there's
still some issue here.
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Could it be the sin issue?
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Sin and despair
grips millions of people.
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Remember,
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we realize there's a real McCoy
as it were, the worst things
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we're to be concerned about.
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There's other things
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that we realized in God's hands.
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And if we'd to believe
that we are in God's hands
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and He's gonna take
care of all of these issues
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that come our way,
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but He's gonna
do it in His time,
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not necessarily the way
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we would like
for Him to handle it.
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But it's gonna be
for our very best.
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We realize
there's, for instance,
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there's some people
that get so things happen,
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so many things happen to them,
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that it's very
difficult to bounce back.
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Please do not
ever get in this shape
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because God is there to help us.
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This is a story of a German man.
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He gave his testimony
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at the, right
after the fall of Hitler
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in World War II.
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So he'd been in Germany
all the mess that was going on,
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all the disaster.
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Here was this Christian man
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and here's what he said after
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it's all said and
done, he simply said this.
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He gave his testimony,
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he said, "Well, life
is horrible sometime."
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He said, "My son
was killed in the war.
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My daughter, I
can't even find her,
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she's missing.
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I lost my wife too.
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My house is gone.
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Everything that
I've ever worked for,
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all the property I own is gone.
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I have clothes on my back
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but they were given to me.
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They're not even mine.
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I've come to the point
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in my experience
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that I just can't even pray
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anymore.
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I can't even think
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anymore.
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I can't seem to go backwards
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and I can't seem to go forwards.
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I'm stuck.
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I'm stuck
because of all the things
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that I've experienced.
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It's just
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no longer possible
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for me to live the
life that I once lived."
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This man came to
the end of his rope.
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So many things that happened
in such a short period of time,
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it was too much,
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or is it too much for God?
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Was it too much for God?
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Was all these
things that happened to him
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really the result,
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in a nutshell, that sin
has laid out in this world?
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It was never to
meant to be like this.
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We were never
meant to lose loved ones.
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We're never meant to lose,
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you know, they say,
called by husbands, and wives,
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and daughters, and
homes, and property.
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It's not the way
God lined it out.
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My first question
then, somebody's responsible?
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Somebody's
responsible for this mess?
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So our first question,
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you know, as we
have in our study guides,
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and again, I
mentioned there's 11 of them,
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we'll go as far as we can.
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Simply the first question,
who committed the first sin?
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Who committed the first sin?
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Well, the Bible
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simply tells the
answer that you know
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I'm sure found in
the Book of 1 John 3:8.
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Now remember,
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we can always try
to blame it on this one
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and blame it on that one.
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But we go back
to the Word of God
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and let God's Word
speak to us and say,
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who committed the first sin?
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Who is the, you know,
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who's the one that
started this whole thing?
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Bible said, notice
this, in 1 John 3:8,
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"He that committeth
sin is of the," what?
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Now you notice, it didn't just
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limit it to the
devil in this first line.
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It said, "He
that commits," what?
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Sin,
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that could be any
of us, is that right?
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"He that committeth
sin is of the devil."
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Now the Bible
goes on and says, why?
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"For the devil
sinneth from the beginning."
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Did you get it?
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For the devil
sinneth from the beginning,
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so he would be the first sinner.
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Does that make sense?
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He's the first
sinner right here, notice,
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and it goes on and said,
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for this purpose the
Son of God was manifested,
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that He might destroy
the works of the devil.
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Aren't you glad
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there's just
another part to that?
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Now we've got it in our
heads, the devil is the culprit.
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He's the one that
did the first sin,
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he's the one decided he
was going to go against God.
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It says it.
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And it's always
perplexed me over the years
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because it says, he
sinned from the beginning
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and I know there
was eons of time,
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least the best I can do
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in looking at principle
was study the Word of God.
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There was eons of
times in the heavens
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that there was no sin.
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God never had to
give any mercy to anybody.
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Did we get that? Why?
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Because there was no sin.
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But from the beginning it says,
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here we have the old
devil begin to act up.
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That could certainly be in
a couple of different angles
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as we look at here
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from the beginning of human sin
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or from the
beginning of his sin.
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Did you get that?
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Beginning here in the Greek,
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it says, in
order, in this order,
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in time, and in place first,
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kind of interesting.
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He was first in
order, and time, and place
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to finally make the decision
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he was going to go against God.
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If we get no farther than
that, we need to realize today,
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you can't beat God.
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You might think
that you can out there.
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Somebody say,
"Well, I'll do my own thing
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and I'll have my own way."
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Oh, you'll get
your own way all right.
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That's not gonna be
something you're gonna want.
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We want to be on
the winning side.
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We want to be on God's side.
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He said because of sin issue,
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the world going down it says,
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you know, down the drain,
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that wonderful that
Jesus was willing to come,
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the purpose of Jesus' coming.
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The manifestation
of Him coming down here
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simply meant His incarnation,
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His willingness
to come down here.
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How awesome that is
that He might destroy what?
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The devil.
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I like that, destroy the devil.
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The works of the devil.
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Aren't you glad
that's gonna be destroyed.
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Destroyed here
means to be released from.
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We can be released
from the old devil.
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We can be, notice this,
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we can break
away from the devil.
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He came down here to
dissolve the sin issue.
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Jesus came down to dissolve,
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to break up this sin issue.
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And I'm so thankful for
that, I know in my own life.
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John shows us
quickly what God is doing.
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John is showing
us what we need to do
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as Christians
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in order to meet
the requirements of God
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and He does have requirements
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as much as we don't like it.
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Interesting in the world
everything has requirements.
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Are you there?
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Now, look, what you go
to do that has requirements.
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I don't care if
it's going to the store,
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if it's going here,
buying this, buying that,
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but there's requirements.
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And we don't have
a problem with that,
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but God has requirements.
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Man, I can see
more and more and more
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why God has requirements
00:17:56.24\00:17:58.24
before we enter
the kingdom of God
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because such a wonderful place,
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He's not going to let it go
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and get carried away once again.
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Not with sin,
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won't rise up
again the second time.
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1 John 4:8.
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1 John Chapter 4.
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No, 1 John 1:8.
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This is why you have a pencil,
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'cause with the
pencil you got an eraser
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and you can always
erase it and put down right
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once I get squared away.
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1 John 1:8, the Bible said,
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"If we say we have," what?
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"If we say we have no sin,"
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we're doing what to ourself?
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"We're deceiving ourselves,
and the truth is not in us."
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So if anybody's
going around saying what?
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Oh, oh, I have any,
I don't have any sin.
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Only Jesus can boast of that
and He doesn't boast about it.
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Only Jesus can be said,
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is the only one who
ever lived on this earth
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without what?
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Without sin.
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Some people don't get
it through their head.
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They think that Mary the
mother of Jesus was sinless.
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Well, she was not, she sinned
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because the Bible
said every person, right?
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"We've all sinned
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and come short of
the glory of God, "
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that will be in our study.
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Everybody, that's too including
the pope and the pastors,
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are you still there?
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"We've all
sinned and come short."
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So we don't wanna go
around and say we have no sin.
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Because, you know,
the sin issue to me
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is something
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that I need a
continual cleansing
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day by day.
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Are you still with me?
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We come to Jesus, we
ask for forgiveness of sin
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and then we just
get up and people say,
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I just go and live my
life the way I want to.
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You're making a mistake.
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You're making
mistake, we need a day by day
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continual cleansing
by the blood of the Lamb,
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the recognition that I'm sinner,
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and I need grace.
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Well, this is wonderful
news, and we will read it,
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Manuscript 27.
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It says here, 1886,
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time is just
flying by, notice this,
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Manuscript 27, in 1886 says,
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"There are those
who claim to be holy,
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yet are breaking
God's commandments.
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Their assertion that
they are sinless is false
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and should not be received."
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Kind of an
interesting thought and again,
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this condition is you say,
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who would even if they
had that life of sinless
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would go around
bragging about it.
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You wouldn't do that
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because the closer
you get to Jesus, what?
00:20:04.87\00:20:06.67
The more we see ourselves
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for what we are
is a dirty sinner.
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Is that okay to say that?
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Is a sinner in need of grace,
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in need of help,
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in need of encouragement?
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We need Jesus
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so we never want
to come to the point,
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there'll be a group,
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sure absolutely
before Jesus comes,
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that lives the
life of perfection
00:20:22.88\00:20:24.75
through the grace of Jesus.
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Jesus face shines through each,
every one of these individuals.
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Is Christ within
the hope of glory?
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It's no longer their
mind the mind of Christ,
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there will be a group
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but right now
we're looking and say,
00:20:35.26\00:20:36.60
I need You, Lord.
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Look at your own life now,
00:20:38.00\00:20:39.33
look in the mirror
and say my, my, my,
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am I what it's going to take,
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is this going to heaven?
00:20:42.60\00:20:44.94
Might take
another look and so my,
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we need some help.
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Now we've come,
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now we've named
the original sinner,
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that's right, the
Bible said, who is it?
00:20:52.28\00:20:54.65
The devil, he sinned
right from the beginning
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right here.
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Now let's name,
00:20:57.72\00:20:59.05
let's get down to the,
time of the original sin.
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I believe the
Bible kind of dictates
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to where it originated,
00:21:04.19\00:21:05.66
how it originated
and the timeframe of it.
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First of all,
in Revelation 12:9,
00:21:08.06\00:21:10.70
once again, lets us know.
00:21:10.73\00:21:12.50
It's referred to the,
remember the great dragon.
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Do you remember him?
00:21:15.04\00:21:16.37
That old serpent
called the devil and Satan.
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So we know Satan is the one
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that sin came by him
00:21:21.68\00:21:23.51
we understand
that, he made a choice.
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But then as we
look in Isaiah 14:2,
00:21:25.65\00:21:29.75
the Bible says in Isaiah 14:2,
00:21:29.78\00:21:32.69
he is called Lucifer here,
00:21:32.72\00:21:34.29
come on, we'll put in
the nutshell as we can,
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that means Son of the Morning.
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So we see the time of
his original sin was where?
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Is that in the beginning?
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In the beginning
and that could be what?
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Certainly near
the time of creation
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or from the time
right we talked about there
00:21:50.74\00:21:52.71
from the
beginning of the human sin,
00:21:52.74\00:21:54.54
it could be from the
beginning of his own decision,
00:21:54.58\00:21:58.21
you see, to go against God.
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So in the time of creation,
00:21:59.95\00:22:02.32
we have to realize that
Satan was a created what?
00:22:02.35\00:22:06.35
He was a created
being, interesting.
00:22:06.39\00:22:09.02
Question number two,
00:22:09.06\00:22:10.39
where was the
first sin committed then?
00:22:10.43\00:22:13.73
Right, we've
established, it must been,
00:22:13.76\00:22:15.20
it's from kind of
from the beginning.
00:22:15.23\00:22:16.90
Satan's the one that did it.
00:22:16.93\00:22:18.27
Now where was it when
the sin was committed?
00:22:18.30\00:22:20.64
Revelation 12:7, 8.
00:22:20.67\00:22:23.10
The Bible is very clear.
00:22:23.14\00:22:24.47
The Bible said
there was war in heaven.
00:22:24.51\00:22:27.28
"There was war in heaven."
00:22:27.31\00:22:29.21
Think about this.
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"Michael and his
angels," did something,
00:22:30.61\00:22:32.41
"they fought, " you notice this,
00:22:32.45\00:22:34.02
"against the dragon,
00:22:34.05\00:22:35.42
and the dragon and
his angels fought."
00:22:35.45\00:22:37.72
Did you notice that?
00:22:37.75\00:22:40.59
But notice I like verse 8
00:22:40.62\00:22:42.66
comes on Revelation 12:8 says,
00:22:42.69\00:22:45.49
"And prevailed not."
00:22:45.53\00:22:47.60
Did you notice that?
00:22:47.63\00:22:48.96
The angel, the dirty devil,
00:22:49.00\00:22:51.07
Revelation 12:7 and 8, it says,
00:22:51.10\00:22:53.60
"And he prevailed not,
00:22:53.64\00:22:54.97
neither was their place
found any more in heaven."
00:22:55.00\00:22:57.24
You notice that
because he failed.
00:22:57.27\00:22:59.91
Because of sin,
00:22:59.94\00:23:01.71
God said you can't stay here.
00:23:01.74\00:23:04.11
So is God gonna be
taking us to heaven
00:23:04.15\00:23:06.75
while we still have
unconfessed sin in our life?
00:23:06.78\00:23:09.08
No, He cannot, and He will not,
He cast out the enemy, right,
00:23:09.12\00:23:13.19
Lucifer because he had what?
00:23:13.22\00:23:15.29
He rebelled
against God's authority.
00:23:15.32\00:23:17.86
When you and I choose to
do our own thing knowing like,
00:23:17.89\00:23:20.86
right, we're putting
ourselves in the place of God.
00:23:20.90\00:23:23.73
That's called sin.
00:23:23.77\00:23:25.10
We have to be
very careful with that.
00:23:25.13\00:23:26.53
This is the
question, notice here,
00:23:26.57\00:23:28.14
Letter 162, 1906.
00:23:28.17\00:23:30.81
So we've established
there's war in heaven,
00:23:30.84\00:23:33.24
Satan, all that took
his side were cast out.
00:23:33.27\00:23:37.88
Letter 162
written in 1906 says this,
00:23:37.91\00:23:41.42
"This condition of things
00:23:41.45\00:23:43.22
had existed a
long period of time, "
00:23:43.25\00:23:45.79
you know notice it's
talking about that before,
00:23:45.82\00:23:47.72
" before Satan was unmasked
and the evil one expelled."
00:23:47.76\00:23:53.13
This condition did what?
00:23:53.16\00:23:55.53
He had it inside for
a long time, didn't he?
00:23:55.56\00:23:59.53
And then, what happened,
00:23:59.57\00:24:01.37
but he begin to get
little more bold with it.
00:24:01.40\00:24:03.81
That's what sin is.
00:24:03.84\00:24:05.17
That's how sin
works on us, isn't it?
00:24:05.21\00:24:06.68
Sometimes it
starts out kind of quiet
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.24
and not such a big deal
and just kind of in our mind,
00:24:08.28\00:24:10.58
and then it begins to
be worked out in our life
00:24:10.61\00:24:13.68
and some of we,
we're deceived by that.
00:24:13.72\00:24:16.18
So this was going on a long time
00:24:16.22\00:24:18.82
before God
decided to unmask him.
00:24:18.85\00:24:22.12
And let the other angel see,
00:24:22.16\00:24:23.73
let the world see for
us to read about it today.
00:24:23.76\00:24:26.90
Now remember, question
number three says this.
00:24:26.93\00:24:29.60
Was Satan sinful
00:24:29.63\00:24:31.23
when he was created?
00:24:31.27\00:24:33.37
We've established that
sin was committed where?
00:24:33.40\00:24:35.57
The first sin
was in heaven. Right?
00:24:35.60\00:24:37.94
The devil is the one
00:24:37.97\00:24:39.31
that started
this whole issue here.
00:24:39.34\00:24:41.08
Now we're
looking, was Satan sinful
00:24:41.11\00:24:42.51
when he was created?
00:24:42.54\00:24:44.01
People say, "Oh,
yeah, he must have been,
00:24:44.05\00:24:45.38
he had in him."
00:24:45.41\00:24:46.75
The Bible simply says this,
00:24:46.78\00:24:48.12
it takes faith, right?
00:24:48.15\00:24:49.48
It takes faith, doesn't it,
00:24:49.52\00:24:50.85
to read
Scripture and believe what
00:24:50.89\00:24:52.22
Scripture says.
00:24:52.25\00:24:53.59
Ezekiel 28:15
notice what it says,
00:24:53.62\00:24:57.06
this just finalizes for me.
00:24:57.09\00:25:00.36
I don't need anything else.
00:25:00.40\00:25:02.66
I don't need to
try to debate it.
00:25:02.70\00:25:04.07
I don't need to think my
mind's better than God's.
00:25:04.10\00:25:06.43
Or my ways are
better than God's,
00:25:06.47\00:25:08.44
because the Bible
starts out, Ezekiel 28:15.
00:25:08.47\00:25:11.27
Do we believe that
Ezekiel was a prophet of God?
00:25:11.31\00:25:13.84
Oh, absolutely, we do.
00:25:13.88\00:25:15.21
Do we believe the
Word of God is truth?
00:25:15.24\00:25:16.64
Yes, we do.
00:25:16.68\00:25:18.01
Then God write the Holy
Spirit working through Ezekiel
00:25:18.05\00:25:20.55
penned these words,
00:25:20.58\00:25:21.92
Ezekiel 28:15,
00:25:21.95\00:25:23.28
"Thou was
perfect." What was that?
00:25:23.32\00:25:26.35
"Thou was perfect."
00:25:26.39\00:25:28.12
Thou was without blemish.
00:25:28.16\00:25:30.49
Thou was sound.
00:25:30.53\00:25:32.46
Thou was without spot.
00:25:32.49\00:25:34.60
Thou was complete.
00:25:34.63\00:25:36.13
Thou was full.
00:25:36.16\00:25:37.53
Thou was perfect,
00:25:37.57\00:25:38.90
is what the Bible
said here in the day
00:25:38.93\00:25:40.74
that thou was created.
00:25:40.77\00:25:43.81
Did you get it?
00:25:43.84\00:25:45.17
He was created notice,
00:25:45.21\00:25:46.54
"until iniquity
was found in you."
00:25:46.57\00:25:49.28
Until he decided to go
against God's authority
00:25:49.31\00:25:52.68
and His Word.
00:25:52.71\00:25:54.05
See, we can do the
very same thing today.
00:25:54.08\00:25:55.58
I can read it in here
00:25:55.62\00:25:56.95
and I can decide
00:25:56.99\00:25:58.32
I want to go the
opposite direction.
00:25:58.35\00:25:59.69
Well, my fate is just like
00:25:59.72\00:26:01.06
that of the devil and the enemy,
00:26:01.09\00:26:02.42
do you get it?
00:26:02.46\00:26:03.79
We're not gonna make
it to heaven that way.
00:26:03.83\00:26:05.23
We cannot rebel
against the Word of God.
00:26:05.26\00:26:07.96
In fact, we need to what?
00:26:08.00\00:26:09.33
"Take in every
word that proceeds
00:26:09.36\00:26:10.83
out of the mouth of God,"
00:26:10.87\00:26:12.43
in Matthew 4:4,
you remember that?
00:26:12.47\00:26:14.60
This is what God
is talking about.
00:26:14.64\00:26:15.97
Every word is so
important in the Word of God
00:26:16.00\00:26:19.07
and not leave some out
00:26:19.11\00:26:20.44
because it
doesn't fit our lifestyle.
00:26:20.48\00:26:23.38
Lucifer then was what?
00:26:23.41\00:26:25.98
He was created in where,
00:26:26.01\00:26:27.92
he's created in
heaven, was he not?
00:26:27.95\00:26:30.02
It says until
iniquity was found in him.
00:26:30.05\00:26:33.12
That means before
iniquity came out.
00:26:33.15\00:26:36.49
That means before
iniquity came forth.
00:26:36.52\00:26:39.56
That means before
iniquity occurred.
00:26:39.59\00:26:42.46
Satan was in heaven.
00:26:42.50\00:26:44.23
And now he was
created in heaven.
00:26:44.27\00:26:46.43
Notice this.
00:26:46.47\00:26:48.27
This is where he lived.
00:26:48.30\00:26:50.07
This is where he worked.
00:26:50.11\00:26:51.94
It's okay to say that,
this is where he worked.
00:26:51.97\00:26:54.08
This is where he
served his Creator.
00:26:54.11\00:26:56.61
It's for a long period of time.
00:26:56.64\00:26:58.45
We don't know how long a period.
00:26:58.48\00:26:59.91
And it's not necessary I
guess that we understand that.
00:26:59.95\00:27:02.82
But just, when I
see this and understand
00:27:02.85\00:27:04.79
there's a long period of time
00:27:04.82\00:27:06.29
before God brought
it to the forefront
00:27:06.32\00:27:08.12
is saying how
merciful and how good God is.
00:27:08.16\00:27:11.69
Did you get it?
00:27:11.73\00:27:13.06
Because when we sin,
00:27:13.09\00:27:14.43
we're worthy of death
and He could put us out,
00:27:14.46\00:27:15.80
couldn't He?
00:27:15.83\00:27:17.17
But He gives us
grace period, doesn't He?
00:27:17.20\00:27:18.53
He gives us time to come
back before it's too late.
00:27:18.57\00:27:20.54
Lived in heaven,
00:27:23.57\00:27:25.54
until iniquity was found in him.
00:27:25.57\00:27:29.21
And then the Bible said
he was cast out of heaven,
00:27:29.24\00:27:32.68
woe unto the
inhabitants of the earth.
00:27:32.71\00:27:34.95
Now this is
proven, he was cast out.
00:27:34.98\00:27:36.99
This is proven
that he lived in heaven
00:27:37.02\00:27:38.65
because you know why?
00:27:38.69\00:27:40.02
Because Jesus said so.
00:27:40.06\00:27:41.39
You remember
reading that in Luke 10:18,
00:27:41.42\00:27:44.79
as Jesus said,
00:27:44.83\00:27:46.16
"I beheld Satan as
lightning fall from heaven."
00:27:46.19\00:27:50.00
What did Jesus, you
got to believe this, right?
00:27:50.03\00:27:51.63
I have to believe this.
00:27:51.67\00:27:53.00
Jesus said that I
beheld, I looked up,
00:27:53.03\00:27:54.80
and I saw Satan as he
were falling as lightning
00:27:54.84\00:27:57.27
out of heaven.
00:27:57.31\00:27:58.64
So, boy, that makes it clear.
00:27:58.67\00:28:00.94
So here's the issue
00:28:00.98\00:28:02.31
that Satan was in
the very presence of God
00:28:02.34\00:28:05.28
and Christ.
00:28:05.31\00:28:06.85
He was in the very
presence of God and Christ.
00:28:06.88\00:28:09.72
You see why this makes
it more binding as it were
00:28:09.75\00:28:14.59
or more difficult
00:28:14.62\00:28:15.96
as God looks at the enemy
00:28:15.99\00:28:17.53
because Satan you see,
00:28:17.56\00:28:19.16
he was in the presence of God.
00:28:19.19\00:28:20.93
He looks at, man he said,
you've not been in my presence.
00:28:20.96\00:28:23.20
You haven't seen,
00:28:23.23\00:28:24.57
I need to extend
more mercy to them.
00:28:24.60\00:28:26.53
But that's end of reason?
00:28:26.57\00:28:27.97
The enemy had a lot of
edge, did he, he had a edge,
00:28:28.00\00:28:30.81
did he not?
00:28:30.84\00:28:32.44
Because he was there,
in the presence of God.
00:28:32.47\00:28:35.08
The Bible is clear.
00:28:35.11\00:28:36.44
He saw God create.
00:28:36.48\00:28:37.88
He saw the majesty of God.
00:28:37.91\00:28:41.15
He trembled at the voice of God.
00:28:41.18\00:28:43.75
He knew what it was all about.
00:28:43.79\00:28:45.12
And yet he
decided to go his own way.
00:28:45.15\00:28:47.49
And God looked at him and
looks at mankind and said,
00:28:47.52\00:28:49.42
oh, they need some special help.
00:28:49.46\00:28:51.03
Why? Because
they haven't seen me.
00:28:51.06\00:28:53.86
They're gonna learn
from me from the Word of God.
00:28:53.90\00:28:56.73
They're gonna learn about me.
00:28:56.77\00:28:59.23
God is so fair,
so just, and so good.
00:28:59.27\00:29:02.67
Huh.
00:29:02.70\00:29:04.04
So Satan was in the
presence of God and of Christ
00:29:04.07\00:29:07.18
and I might say, the Holy Spirit
00:29:07.21\00:29:08.54
if you let me go.
00:29:08.58\00:29:11.95
Say, Satan want to
be part of the what?
00:29:11.98\00:29:14.48
Of the Godhead.
00:29:14.52\00:29:16.79
But, you know,
and as you look at it,
00:29:16.82\00:29:18.39
we always say, well,
he was the fourth in,
00:29:18.42\00:29:20.09
you know, in power.
00:29:20.12\00:29:22.56
We'll never understand this life
00:29:22.59\00:29:23.96
till we get to glory,
00:29:23.99\00:29:25.33
we might
understand of all the power
00:29:25.36\00:29:26.70
that he had.
00:29:26.73\00:29:28.06
I could say then simply
put that he was next in line,
00:29:28.10\00:29:31.77
even though he was created.
00:29:31.80\00:29:33.23
He's not part of the Godhead.
00:29:33.27\00:29:34.80
Absolutely not.
00:29:34.84\00:29:36.17
He couldn't
because he was created,
00:29:36.20\00:29:38.81
but he wanted to be.
00:29:38.84\00:29:40.61
Bible says in Ezekiel 28:14,
00:29:40.64\00:29:44.68
it just tells us the closeness
00:29:44.71\00:29:46.82
that existed between
God and Lucifer before sin.
00:29:46.85\00:29:51.35
There was a closeness there.
00:29:51.39\00:29:53.29
Interesting.
00:29:53.32\00:29:54.66
Notice how the Bible reads here.
00:29:54.69\00:29:57.53
God said to Lucifer,
00:29:57.56\00:30:00.46
He said,
00:30:00.50\00:30:01.83
"Thou wast upon the
holy mountain of God."
00:30:01.86\00:30:04.80
Did you get it?
00:30:04.83\00:30:06.17
Ezekiel 28:14,
00:30:06.20\00:30:08.07
"Thou hast walked up and down
00:30:08.10\00:30:09.64
and in the midst of
the stones of fire."
00:30:09.67\00:30:13.24
Other words he walked around,
he was around God's throne.
00:30:13.27\00:30:17.48
Wow!
00:30:17.51\00:30:19.31
Daniel testifies
to this in Daniel 7:9,
00:30:19.35\00:30:24.29
he says, "His throne
was like fiery flames,
00:30:24.32\00:30:27.66
and his wheels as burning fire."
00:30:27.69\00:30:31.53
And then if that
doesn't quite convince you,
00:30:31.56\00:30:34.20
the John the Revelator
had something to say about it
00:30:34.23\00:30:37.20
in Revelation 1:13-15,
00:30:37.23\00:30:40.77
I'll kind of paraphrase a
little bit, you read it on.
00:30:40.80\00:30:43.24
Notice it says right here,
00:30:43.27\00:30:44.61
"He saw the Son of man, "
00:30:44.64\00:30:45.97
notice this, "his
eyes were like," what?
00:30:46.01\00:30:49.24
"Flame of fire."
00:30:49.28\00:30:50.61
Oh, boy, "His
feet unto fine brass,
00:30:50.65\00:30:53.85
as if they were
burned in a furnace."
00:30:53.88\00:30:57.45
Lucifer the Bible
said full of wisdom
00:30:57.49\00:30:59.69
knows perfect in character,
00:30:59.72\00:31:01.79
perfect in beauty at one time.
00:31:01.82\00:31:03.83
He was the
anointed covering cherub.
00:31:03.86\00:31:07.26
What a position to hold.
00:31:07.30\00:31:09.66
You ever think about
this covering cherub.
00:31:09.70\00:31:12.00
What does that really mean here?
00:31:12.03\00:31:14.87
You remember over the
ark in the earthly sanctuary,
00:31:14.90\00:31:18.64
the ark, there was a
lid, there was a cover,
00:31:18.67\00:31:22.81
that covered the mercy seat,
00:31:22.84\00:31:24.51
Exodus Chapter 25.
00:31:24.55\00:31:26.58
Think along this that
he was the covering cherub
00:31:26.61\00:31:30.75
of what?
00:31:30.79\00:31:32.12
Of the law of God,
00:31:32.15\00:31:34.16
and his job as
it were to oversee
00:31:34.19\00:31:35.62
the holiness of God's law.
00:31:35.66\00:31:38.86
So he must have known it.
00:31:38.89\00:31:41.60
He knew where it came from.
00:31:41.63\00:31:43.26
He knew the holiness of it.
00:31:43.30\00:31:46.47
The law of God is
divine basic principles
00:31:46.50\00:31:49.14
of God's government.
00:31:49.17\00:31:51.57
See, Lucifer
understood all of this.
00:31:51.61\00:31:54.44
He understood that
justice and the mercy of God.
00:31:54.48\00:31:57.98
Again, we're talking
about the sin issue here,
00:31:58.01\00:32:00.15
but we have to look at
and identify the first one
00:32:00.18\00:32:02.62
who sinned.
00:32:02.65\00:32:04.69
And what maybe was
going through his mind,
00:32:04.72\00:32:06.59
why did he give his allegiance
to himself as it were,
00:32:06.62\00:32:10.13
rather than into
the God of the universe?
00:32:10.16\00:32:13.03
When all these
things was revealed to him,
00:32:13.06\00:32:15.73
his allegiance to begin with,
00:32:15.76\00:32:17.17
what we say for eons
of time was with God.
00:32:17.20\00:32:20.74
His allegiance was with Christ.
00:32:20.77\00:32:23.30
You remember
what Satan want to do,
00:32:23.34\00:32:24.67
he didn't as it were
want to take God's place.
00:32:24.71\00:32:26.74
Whose place did he want?
00:32:26.78\00:32:28.34
He wanted Jesus Christ place.
00:32:28.38\00:32:30.08
He gave his allegiance to God.
00:32:33.95\00:32:35.92
He gave his
allegiance before sin.
00:32:35.95\00:32:39.29
He gave his
allegiance to the Holy Spirit.
00:32:39.32\00:32:41.79
He gave his
allegiance to the law of God.
00:32:41.82\00:32:44.23
He was the protector of it,
00:32:44.26\00:32:46.33
of the holiness and
the reverence of it.
00:32:46.36\00:32:50.10
And then, certainly,
00:32:50.13\00:32:51.97
his allegiance was to
the government of God.
00:32:52.00\00:32:55.37
But something happened.
00:32:55.40\00:32:58.24
Because I realized
that I read the Word of God
00:32:58.27\00:33:00.34
that the law was
designed to bring happiness.
00:33:00.38\00:33:03.38
Did you get it?
00:33:03.41\00:33:04.75
And freedom.
00:33:04.78\00:33:07.35
Not, oh, no, I can't do.
00:33:07.38\00:33:10.59
Oh, no.
00:33:10.62\00:33:12.15
God designed the
law to bring happiness
00:33:12.19\00:33:14.76
to the universe.
00:33:14.79\00:33:16.32
One good test certainly would be
00:33:16.36\00:33:18.09
when it is in the
world, other worlds of today.
00:33:18.13\00:33:21.46
It's all
happiness and joy and peace
00:33:21.50\00:33:23.20
because they never
transgressed God's law.
00:33:23.23\00:33:27.10
This is the only planet
that has and look at it,
00:33:27.14\00:33:30.01
and look at it.
00:33:30.04\00:33:31.51
So it was
designed to bring what?
00:33:31.54\00:33:33.31
Peace and happiness.
00:33:33.34\00:33:36.61
So any transgression
against God's law would be sin.
00:33:36.64\00:33:41.85
And it would bring unhappiness.
00:33:41.88\00:33:43.92
Sin brings
unhappiness, as the end result.
00:33:43.95\00:33:47.42
Might think you're happy,
00:33:47.46\00:33:48.79
might think things
are all going wonderful
00:33:48.82\00:33:50.43
and great and
God's overlooked in it,
00:33:50.46\00:33:52.56
but God does not do that.
00:33:52.59\00:33:55.13
He's faithful.
00:33:55.16\00:33:58.70
Before we talked
about this transgression
00:33:58.73\00:34:03.64
there was, we
talked about eons of time.
00:34:03.67\00:34:07.71
Where there was no sin
and I think back to that,
00:34:07.74\00:34:09.91
I'll think how wonderful
time that must have been.
00:34:09.94\00:34:12.38
No one knows how many,
00:34:12.41\00:34:14.68
tens of
thousands, hundred thousand.
00:34:14.72\00:34:16.55
We don't just, we don't know,
00:34:16.58\00:34:19.05
that there was just
perfect, perfect peace
00:34:19.09\00:34:21.16
in the whole universe
in which there is no in.
00:34:21.19\00:34:25.79
Question number
four, so what is sin?
00:34:25.83\00:34:27.93
We're looking at
here, it makes you unhappy.
00:34:27.96\00:34:31.97
You have to give your
allegiance to somebody else.
00:34:32.00\00:34:33.77
The Bible says in 1 John 3:4,
00:34:33.80\00:34:36.20
then our questions that we have,
00:34:36.24\00:34:37.81
what is sin?
00:34:37.84\00:34:39.47
The biblical definition
and the only definition
00:34:39.51\00:34:42.64
that's given that's
in Scripture is what?
00:34:42.68\00:34:44.71
Sin is the
transgression of God's law.
00:34:44.75\00:34:49.55
Interesting, sin's a
transgression of God's law.
00:34:49.58\00:34:53.59
When God created
00:34:53.62\00:34:56.42
angels and man,
00:34:56.46\00:34:58.53
He gave us the power of choice.
00:34:58.56\00:35:01.20
Isn't that wonderful?
00:35:01.23\00:35:02.93
Knowing the results,
00:35:02.96\00:35:04.93
see that's still beyond my mind.
00:35:04.97\00:35:06.30
So I know he's
tried to figure it out.
00:35:06.33\00:35:08.24
He knew what
was going to happen.
00:35:08.27\00:35:11.51
But he realized the importance
of giving the individual
00:35:11.54\00:35:14.64
when you give them the
ability to weigh evidence out,
00:35:14.68\00:35:19.71
that they're
gonna be accountable
00:35:19.75\00:35:21.08
for their choice.
00:35:21.12\00:35:22.45
He knew what Lucifer would do.
00:35:22.48\00:35:23.82
That's the way
He must have created
00:35:23.85\00:35:25.19
the angels of
heaven, isn't that right?
00:35:25.22\00:35:26.76
The power of choice.
00:35:26.79\00:35:30.99
Bible religion is based
on many numerous things,
00:35:31.03\00:35:35.36
but let me give you
three of them quickly.
00:35:35.40\00:35:37.60
Bible religion is
based upon three things
00:35:37.63\00:35:40.07
I'm just gonna use.
00:35:40.10\00:35:41.44
Number one, persuasion.
00:35:41.47\00:35:43.41
If you read the Word of God,
00:35:43.44\00:35:44.77
you're gonna be persuaded
00:35:44.81\00:35:46.14
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:35:46.17\00:35:47.51
Are you still with me today now?
00:35:47.54\00:35:50.51
Real Bible religion
is based upon evidence.
00:35:50.55\00:35:54.68
There's evidence not
only in the Word of God,
00:35:54.72\00:35:56.58
right left, but
evidences in the world.
00:35:56.62\00:35:59.09
The digging, the things
they've dug up from the earth.
00:35:59.12\00:36:01.29
There's evidence
says that God exists.
00:36:01.32\00:36:03.63
There's evidence says
that God's on the throne.
00:36:03.66\00:36:06.23
There's evidence
that He's coming back.
00:36:06.26\00:36:08.43
There's evidence
that the rise of nations
00:36:08.46\00:36:10.53
and the fall of nations is there
00:36:10.57\00:36:12.17
can be no excuse for us today.
00:36:12.20\00:36:15.34
And also number three,
00:36:15.37\00:36:17.31
there that we're
talking about Bible religion
00:36:17.34\00:36:19.21
is based upon choice.
00:36:19.24\00:36:21.64
So we have the choice.
00:36:21.68\00:36:23.01
So we're gonna have
persuasion, evidence and choice.
00:36:23.04\00:36:27.22
God gives us, we can choose
00:36:27.25\00:36:29.55
not force, never force.
00:36:29.58\00:36:32.99
If you're trying to
be forced into something,
00:36:33.02\00:36:34.86
that's the devil's tactics.
00:36:34.89\00:36:36.99
God does not operate that way.
00:36:37.03\00:36:39.33
John, just a
quick one, John 7:17,
00:36:39.36\00:36:42.13
the Bible said, "If
any man will do his will,"
00:36:42.16\00:36:46.17
he's gonna know.
00:36:46.20\00:36:47.54
Did you get that?
00:36:47.57\00:36:48.90
If any man will
do the will of God?
00:36:48.94\00:36:50.27
This, sister, what did I say?
00:36:50.31\00:36:52.91
I'm throwing this out to you.
00:36:52.94\00:36:54.28
You decide what you want to
do, is that make sense somebody?
00:36:54.31\00:36:57.25
I'm throwing it out to you.
00:36:57.28\00:36:58.61
If any man, if any man
will do the will of God,
00:36:58.65\00:37:00.92
that's what he says.
00:37:00.95\00:37:02.52
Revelation 22:17,
00:37:02.55\00:37:06.45
the Bible said,
"Whosoever will."
00:37:06.49\00:37:09.09
We could read all the verses,
00:37:09.12\00:37:10.46
but we can't
because of our time,
00:37:10.49\00:37:11.83
"Whosoever will."
00:37:11.86\00:37:13.19
Sounds like a choice to me.
00:37:13.23\00:37:14.56
Brother Levi, it's
got to be a choice now.
00:37:14.60\00:37:17.47
And certainly,
00:37:17.50\00:37:19.07
the one the standby always is,
00:37:19.10\00:37:20.87
it's found in the
Book of Joshua 24:15.
00:37:20.90\00:37:24.81
It says, "Choose you
this day, whom you" what?
00:37:24.84\00:37:28.21
"Whom you will serve."
00:37:28.24\00:37:29.58
The choice is yours.
00:37:29.61\00:37:30.95
The choice is mine.
00:37:30.98\00:37:32.31
What kind of choice
are you making today?
00:37:32.35\00:37:34.02
What kind of a
choice am I making today?
00:37:34.05\00:37:36.72
May I make this statement?
00:37:36.75\00:37:38.19
Sin was not necessary.
00:37:38.22\00:37:43.36
Man, that's heavy duty.
00:37:43.39\00:37:45.06
Sin was not necessary,
00:37:45.09\00:37:48.06
but it was possible.
00:37:48.10\00:37:52.00
And at the beginning it wasn't,
00:37:52.03\00:37:53.80
for a long time it wasn't.
00:37:53.84\00:37:57.11
But it was possible.
00:37:57.14\00:38:00.81
Man may choose to do good
or he may choose to do evil.
00:38:00.84\00:38:05.31
But you know what?
00:38:05.35\00:38:06.68
Angels have to choose
between good and evil.
00:38:06.72\00:38:10.39
Same thing, did you get that?
00:38:10.42\00:38:11.79
Angels have to choose every day,
00:38:11.82\00:38:14.02
interesting thought.
00:38:14.06\00:38:16.46
This has been very true
00:38:16.49\00:38:17.83
from the very beginning of time.
00:38:17.86\00:38:20.30
And it's gonna be what?
00:38:20.33\00:38:21.66
Be true from the very
creation of the first angel.
00:38:21.70\00:38:24.30
And God was prepared
to meet this sin issue
00:38:27.34\00:38:31.11
we know that before it happened.
00:38:31.14\00:38:33.98
My Matthew Chapter 25,
00:38:34.01\00:38:35.61
which we go through
all and read and we can't,
00:38:35.64\00:38:37.15
Matthew Chapter 25.
00:38:37.18\00:38:38.71
Ephesians 1:4,
00:38:38.75\00:38:40.98
we find in Hebrews 4:3,
00:38:41.02\00:38:44.29
I think it is,
00:38:44.32\00:38:45.65
there's another
passage there, 1 Peter 1:20,
00:38:45.69\00:38:48.56
he's talking about, "He knew
00:38:48.59\00:38:49.92
before the
foundation of the world."
00:38:49.96\00:38:51.29
God knew all of
these things would exist.
00:38:51.33\00:38:53.29
But you know
what? He had a plan.
00:38:53.33\00:38:55.16
I'm glad He had a plan,
if not we'd be down the tomb.
00:38:55.20\00:38:59.43
You need to plan
and I need to plan.
00:38:59.47\00:39:03.81
We cannot be
defeated by the devil
00:39:03.84\00:39:06.01
unless you want to
be defeated by him.
00:39:06.04\00:39:08.38
You want defeat today and
you want to live in defeat,
00:39:08.41\00:39:10.81
that's your choice.
00:39:10.85\00:39:12.18
I choose not to be
defeated by the devil.
00:39:12.21\00:39:14.22
I choose by the grace of
God to rise up and fight.
00:39:14.25\00:39:16.85
I choose by the grace of
God to put forth an effort.
00:39:16.89\00:39:19.45
I choose by the
grace of God right to fight
00:39:19.49\00:39:21.36
the good fight of faith.
00:39:21.39\00:39:22.72
Because what are the
choices are left for?
00:39:22.76\00:39:25.13
Can I say for Pete's
sake what else is left?
00:39:25.16\00:39:28.20
But the doom and
gloom of the old devil,
00:39:28.23\00:39:29.90
and I refuse to live in
that by the grace of God.
00:39:29.93\00:39:33.07
This is what we're
looking at here in this time
00:39:33.10\00:39:34.94
because sin and what it cost
00:39:34.97\00:39:36.77
and what it's doing to
millions and countless of people
00:39:36.81\00:39:38.87
in the world today.
00:39:38.91\00:39:40.24
This is simply the
risk that God took,
00:39:44.18\00:39:48.98
when He made man with
the power, intelligence,
00:39:49.02\00:39:52.25
and the power of choice.
00:39:52.29\00:39:56.69
You know, other worlds
have to choose, you know.
00:39:56.73\00:40:01.00
You read that in
Spirit of Prophecy.
00:40:01.03\00:40:02.93
I know there's other worlds
00:40:02.96\00:40:04.53
and I'm not
talking about Martians
00:40:04.57\00:40:06.94
and freaky things
going on, somebody with me.
00:40:06.97\00:40:11.71
Yeah, aliens or
whatever you want to call them.
00:40:11.74\00:40:14.24
I'm talking about other angels,
00:40:14.28\00:40:16.58
other worlds,
00:40:16.61\00:40:17.95
or maybe
millions, and trillions.
00:40:17.98\00:40:19.31
I don't know.
00:40:19.35\00:40:20.68
But there's no
end to the universe
00:40:20.72\00:40:22.05
and God is not limited.
00:40:22.08\00:40:25.19
None of them have ever sinned.
00:40:25.22\00:40:27.42
None of them,
00:40:27.46\00:40:28.79
let me just read you
something here is true.
00:40:28.82\00:40:30.23
Do you believe
that they have a tree?
00:40:33.63\00:40:37.03
Do you believe they
have a tree of life,
00:40:37.07\00:40:38.77
when they're home?
00:40:38.80\00:40:40.14
Do you believe they
have the tree of knowledge
00:40:40.17\00:40:41.50
of good and evil?
00:40:41.54\00:40:42.87
And if they take of
that and eat, they will fall?
00:40:42.90\00:40:44.47
Absolutely, will be.
00:40:44.51\00:40:45.84
Why?
00:40:45.87\00:40:47.21
Because it's
still an ongoing test
00:40:47.24\00:40:48.58
even in other worlds.
00:40:48.61\00:40:49.94
This is the miserable place
in the universe is right here,
00:40:49.98\00:40:53.08
this old World.
00:40:53.11\00:40:55.65
Let me read you something
00:40:55.68\00:40:57.02
if you haven't
read it in a while,
00:40:57.05\00:40:58.39
Early Writings, page 39 and 40.
00:40:58.42\00:41:02.49
It says, "The Lord has given
me a view of other worlds."
00:41:02.52\00:41:06.70
Whoo, somebody needs
to pick up on that one.
00:41:06.73\00:41:09.23
Yeah, just in my
mind's view, my eye view,
00:41:09.26\00:41:11.97
you know, I'm thinking
about these other worlds
00:41:12.00\00:41:13.97
and the sinlessness
and the kind of people
00:41:14.00\00:41:16.27
that live up there,
and how happy they are,
00:41:16.30\00:41:20.24
and what they even look like.
00:41:20.28\00:41:22.64
She was given, notice,
a view of other worlds,
00:41:22.68\00:41:25.61
"The inhabitants," notice
this, "the inhabitants bore,
00:41:25.65\00:41:30.19
they bore the
express image of Jesus."
00:41:30.22\00:41:35.16
Someone may jump
over a pew if you want to.
00:41:35.19\00:41:39.66
The people who
lived in the other world,
00:41:39.69\00:41:42.00
they bore and
expressed image of Jesus.
00:41:42.03\00:41:45.43
Why?
00:41:45.47\00:41:46.80
Because that's all
they were ever beheld.
00:41:46.84\00:41:48.17
They just behold
Jesus like we did,
00:41:48.20\00:41:49.94
we become like him. Notice this.
00:41:49.97\00:41:52.97
We live. Notice this.
00:41:53.01\00:41:55.18
She asked, asked
the angel the question,
00:41:55.21\00:41:58.15
what is it,
what's going on here?
00:41:58.18\00:42:00.12
How come you don't
look like the world
00:42:00.15\00:42:01.48
that I came from?
00:42:01.52\00:42:02.85
The angel said to her, notice,
00:42:02.88\00:42:04.72
"We live in strict obedience
00:42:04.75\00:42:06.65
to the commandments of
God, and have not fallen.
00:42:06.69\00:42:10.69
Then I saw two trees, yes,
00:42:10.73\00:42:13.53
looked much
like the tree of life
00:42:13.56\00:42:15.86
but one of them
they could not eat.
00:42:15.90\00:42:18.70
They had power to eat both,
00:42:18.73\00:42:21.77
but were
forbidden to eat of one,
00:42:21.80\00:42:23.91
if they would
eat, they would fall."
00:42:23.94\00:42:27.81
I mean, to me that's
just very interesting.
00:42:27.84\00:42:31.05
So god is fair,
just and good, is He not?
00:42:31.08\00:42:33.85
They make it fair for everybody,
00:42:33.88\00:42:35.22
He put in the Garden of
Eden, He put the tree, right?
00:42:35.25\00:42:38.05
There's one little
thing just don't eat that,
00:42:38.09\00:42:39.65
you're gonna be okay.
00:42:39.69\00:42:41.02
The man began to think
he was smarter than God,
00:42:44.33\00:42:46.26
that God was
withholding something.
00:42:46.29\00:42:49.53
Question five.
00:42:49.56\00:42:50.90
What does the reward? Huh?
00:42:50.93\00:42:53.07
What is the reward of sin?
00:42:53.10\00:42:54.74
You know, what it is,
in Romans 6:23 says what?
00:42:54.77\00:42:58.27
"For the wages of
sin is good is death."
00:42:58.31\00:43:01.14
I like the last part of what?
00:43:01.18\00:43:02.78
"But the gift of
God is eternal life
00:43:02.81\00:43:05.48
through Jesus Christ our Lord."
00:43:05.51\00:43:07.22
The wages of sin is death.
00:43:07.25\00:43:09.68
Sin is the
transgression of God's law.
00:43:09.72\00:43:11.79
You've got the 10
of them right there.
00:43:11.82\00:43:13.82
It doesn't take
very smart person.
00:43:13.86\00:43:15.19
There's 10 right there.
00:43:15.22\00:43:16.56
If I transgress just one.
00:43:16.59\00:43:18.16
James 2:10 "If you
offend in one point,
00:43:18.19\00:43:20.10
you're guilty of all."
00:43:20.13\00:43:21.66
People walk
around proud as peacocks
00:43:21.70\00:43:23.73
today running about,
I keep the law of God.
00:43:23.77\00:43:25.40
Well, we don't keep
the fourth commandment,
00:43:25.43\00:43:27.14
I'm just going to lay
it out as the way it is.
00:43:27.17\00:43:29.27
The fourth one, but
remember the Sabbath day
00:43:29.30\00:43:30.97
to keep it holy.
00:43:31.01\00:43:32.34
We just crossed that out
and say we don't have to.
00:43:32.37\00:43:34.01
That's right in the
middle of the law of God,
00:43:34.04\00:43:36.14
we must, that's
just as important
00:43:36.18\00:43:37.51
and more than
all the other ones.
00:43:37.55\00:43:38.88
Are you with me?
00:43:38.91\00:43:40.42
That's what the Bible says.
00:43:40.45\00:43:43.49
And we live in an hour,
00:43:43.52\00:43:44.85
which that's our job is
to give this to the world.
00:43:44.89\00:43:47.79
They're not gonna like you for,
00:43:47.82\00:43:50.63
they're not
going to appreciate it.
00:43:50.66\00:43:52.43
But God has
commissioned us to give, why?
00:43:52.46\00:43:53.96
Because He loves them and
we should love them enough.
00:43:54.00\00:43:56.60
We tell them way that
it is, you can't just say,
00:43:56.63\00:43:59.37
I keep nine, and I'm
going to make it to heaven.
00:43:59.40\00:44:01.04
No, by the grace of
God we can't keep any,
00:44:01.07\00:44:03.57
by the grace of God
we can keep them all.
00:44:03.61\00:44:06.57
Bible is clear
being free from sin.
00:44:06.61\00:44:10.35
Yeah, isn't that wonderful?
00:44:10.38\00:44:11.75
This passage after passage,
00:44:11.78\00:44:14.28
that just realize, but again,
00:44:14.32\00:44:15.82
we're looking at
ourselves all the time,
00:44:15.85\00:44:17.32
and we're just going
to be more than failures.
00:44:17.35\00:44:19.45
And so I says look to Jesus,
00:44:19.49\00:44:20.82
the author and
finisher of our faith.
00:44:20.86\00:44:22.39
Trust in Him on what He
says from His Word, Letter 22.
00:44:22.42\00:44:25.66
I'm quickly hurrying on.
00:44:25.69\00:44:27.03
Notice 1900 says this,
00:44:27.06\00:44:29.80
"When transgression
came, when sin came."
00:44:29.83\00:44:31.50
notice this,
00:44:31.53\00:44:32.87
"It placed the
whole world in jeopardy
00:44:32.90\00:44:34.84
but under the death sentence."
00:44:34.87\00:44:36.20
Oh! "But in heaven,
there was somebody shout,
00:44:36.24\00:44:39.44
there was heard a voice
saying, 'I found a ransom.' "
00:44:39.47\00:44:44.05
How exciting, the whole
world was under death decree.
00:44:44.08\00:44:47.02
There was no hope for mankind.
00:44:47.05\00:44:49.05
But that voice
loud in heaven said,
00:44:49.08\00:44:51.15
God said, "I found a ransom."
00:44:51.19\00:44:53.79
See, that's exciting to
me. It gives me goose bumps.
00:44:53.82\00:44:56.09
I found a ransom.
00:44:56.12\00:44:57.96
Who was that ransom?
00:44:57.99\00:44:59.79
Oh, had to be the Lamb.
00:44:59.83\00:45:01.46
Revelation 5:12.
00:45:01.50\00:45:04.40
It says, "With by
the blood what it worthy
00:45:04.43\00:45:06.74
is the Lamb that was slain."
00:45:06.77\00:45:09.60
In this verse,
worthy is the Lamb,
00:45:09.64\00:45:11.61
the voice was
heard, it was the Lamb.
00:45:11.64\00:45:13.51
He was the only
one that was worthy.
00:45:13.54\00:45:15.81
He's the only
one that could stand.
00:45:15.84\00:45:18.51
He's the only one
that could give His life.
00:45:18.55\00:45:21.05
Not even the
sinless angels could do it.
00:45:21.08\00:45:22.88
Only Jesus could do it.
00:45:22.92\00:45:25.05
And he was willing to do that.
00:45:25.09\00:45:27.06
Hallelujah. I found the ransom.
00:45:27.09\00:45:29.32
You know, today I say
my, brothers and sisters,
00:45:29.36\00:45:30.86
you found, I pray
you found a ransom.
00:45:30.89\00:45:33.56
I found that ransom and
I know his name is Jesus.
00:45:33.60\00:45:36.83
This is what it's all about.
00:45:36.87\00:45:38.20
I found that ransom.
00:45:38.23\00:45:39.57
There's only one
ransom. You may have this.
00:45:39.60\00:45:41.54
You may have that and
all the stuff of the world
00:45:41.57\00:45:43.57
that's not going to help you.
00:45:43.61\00:45:44.94
You have to have Jesus,
00:45:44.97\00:45:46.31
you have to have
Him deep in your heart.
00:45:46.34\00:45:47.84
You have to have
Him deep in your mind.
00:45:47.88\00:45:49.31
You have to be
willing to put Him first.
00:45:49.34\00:45:51.11
Be willing to go
whatever it takes
00:45:51.15\00:45:52.55
to make it to heaven.
00:45:52.58\00:45:53.92
This is what it's all about.
00:45:53.95\00:45:55.78
Has everyone sinned...
00:45:55.82\00:45:57.15
Question number
six, has everyone sinned.
00:45:57.19\00:46:00.29
We just read their
advice on the death penalty.
00:46:00.32\00:46:02.16
Romans 3:23 says,
00:46:02.19\00:46:03.73
"We've all sinned and
come short of, " what?
00:46:03.76\00:46:06.76
"Short of the glory of God."
00:46:06.80\00:46:08.83
Patriarchs and
Prophets says 338 says,
00:46:08.86\00:46:13.07
"Through Satan's temptations,
00:46:13.10\00:46:15.04
the whole human race
00:46:15.07\00:46:16.60
has become
transgressors of God's," what?
00:46:16.64\00:46:19.41
"His law."
00:46:19.44\00:46:21.01
But notice this,
00:46:21.04\00:46:22.38
the most dangerous
falsehoods are those
00:46:22.41\00:46:24.91
that are mingled with truth.
00:46:24.95\00:46:27.02
There it is.
00:46:27.05\00:46:28.38
The most dangerous
00:46:28.42\00:46:31.22
thing that the enemy have is,
00:46:31.25\00:46:32.65
is taking a mingling.
00:46:32.69\00:46:34.79
See, he loves error,
00:46:34.82\00:46:36.19
but he takes a
little bit of truth
00:46:36.22\00:46:37.56
and he gets it because people
who don't know the word of God,
00:46:37.59\00:46:39.66
they're gonna be suckered in.
00:46:39.69\00:46:42.23
Well, I know what
it says but never...
00:46:42.26\00:46:44.77
There's no buts in
the cause of Christ,
00:46:44.80\00:46:46.43
there's no buts in
the Word of God here.
00:46:46.47\00:46:49.54
Exceptions to the rule
God lays it out clear for us.
00:46:49.57\00:46:52.37
We need His help.
00:46:52.41\00:46:54.08
All have sinned. Question seven.
00:46:54.11\00:46:55.84
Why did Jesus
come to this earth?
00:46:55.88\00:46:57.88
We've got to cover
this in about eight minutes
00:46:57.91\00:46:59.45
or so left, so please stay with.
00:46:59.48\00:47:01.52
Why did Jesus
come to this earth?
00:47:01.55\00:47:03.08
Was there a reason He came?
00:47:03.12\00:47:04.82
Absolutely there,
1 Timothy 1:15 says,
00:47:04.85\00:47:08.19
"Christ Jesus came to
the world to save sinners."
00:47:08.22\00:47:12.13
Notice this.
00:47:12.16\00:47:13.50
Paul said of, "Whom I'm chief."
00:47:13.53\00:47:16.60
Most people don't want
to talk about that today,
00:47:16.63\00:47:19.27
oh, I'm the chief
sinner, oh, I'm worse than you.
00:47:19.30\00:47:21.20
We always say, well,
I'm better than he is,
00:47:21.24\00:47:22.57
I'm better than she is...
00:47:22.60\00:47:24.14
No, Paul, a man
of God wasn't he?
00:47:24.17\00:47:28.08
There's no doubt
about a man of God.
00:47:28.11\00:47:30.31
Jesus chose him
personally to do a work,
00:47:30.35\00:47:34.68
the faith that
the man had awesome,
00:47:34.72\00:47:37.85
but he get that faith
by hearing the Word of God
00:47:37.89\00:47:41.09
and close
communion with Jesus Christ.
00:47:41.12\00:47:43.36
He had that faith.
00:47:43.39\00:47:44.73
He said, I look in the
sinners, oh, I'm the chief,
00:47:44.76\00:47:47.76
I'm the world's worst.
00:47:47.80\00:47:49.46
Somebody says, you
are low down culprit.
00:47:49.50\00:47:51.97
Yeah, that I am.
00:47:52.00\00:47:54.14
You realize there
would be very little argument
00:47:54.17\00:47:55.50
if nobody getting mad...
00:47:55.54\00:47:57.07
I will, you dirty
thief. Yeah, that's exactly.
00:47:57.11\00:48:00.11
The one time or the
other we might have stole some,
00:48:00.14\00:48:01.74
we might have, blah,
blah, blah, you know.
00:48:01.78\00:48:03.35
If not, we may be stealing time,
00:48:03.38\00:48:04.81
we may be
stealing a lot of things
00:48:04.85\00:48:06.18
we don't even
count as money and...
00:48:06.21\00:48:07.55
Are you still there?
00:48:07.58\00:48:08.92
Yeah.
00:48:08.95\00:48:10.29
Paul had...
00:48:13.32\00:48:14.66
Lord, help us to have the
humble opinion of ourselves
00:48:14.69\00:48:17.66
the way Paul had of himself.
00:48:17.69\00:48:20.43
He was highly honored of God.
00:48:20.46\00:48:23.26
Yeah.
00:48:23.30\00:48:24.63
I tell you, he was
not a boastful man at all
00:48:24.67\00:48:26.63
when it came to
himself at all, wasn't?
00:48:26.67\00:48:28.07
No, he wasn't
even self confident.
00:48:28.10\00:48:33.44
We don't need to
be self confident.
00:48:33.48\00:48:35.18
We don't need any kind of self.
00:48:35.21\00:48:38.15
We need more of Jesus.
00:48:38.18\00:48:41.12
He saw himself of
the worst of the worst.
00:48:41.15\00:48:44.72
However bad that can
get, the worst of the worst.
00:48:44.75\00:48:47.72
He said that's what I
am and he was not a liar.
00:48:47.76\00:48:50.23
I believe he meant it
from the bottom of his heart.
00:48:50.26\00:48:52.06
It's easy for me to say,
00:48:52.09\00:48:53.43
I'm the dirtiest of the dirt
00:48:53.46\00:48:54.96
and then not
really believe that I am.
00:48:55.00\00:48:59.17
But you really
look at your life,
00:48:59.20\00:49:00.54
there's nobody more
filthy, look how we had...
00:49:00.57\00:49:02.47
You know,
broken the laws of God,
00:49:02.50\00:49:04.21
time and time again,
00:49:04.24\00:49:05.67
how we've done wrong,
00:49:05.71\00:49:07.04
we knew better
that only by God's grace
00:49:07.08\00:49:08.81
and His mercy.
00:49:08.84\00:49:10.18
But note,
regardless of how Paul's life,
00:49:10.21\00:49:12.25
he preached Jesus
and Him crucified.
00:49:12.28\00:49:15.12
This is where the victories
at, we're talking about sin
00:49:15.15\00:49:18.29
and be able to what?
00:49:18.32\00:49:19.95
The originator of sin and how?
00:49:19.99\00:49:21.82
By the grace of
God we overcome sin
00:49:21.86\00:49:24.23
through Jesus Christ.
00:49:24.26\00:49:25.76
Can any other person save us?
00:49:25.79\00:49:27.46
Can any other being
save us in this world?
00:49:27.50\00:49:29.40
Question eight.
00:49:29.43\00:49:31.70
No, there's no other name,
00:49:31.73\00:49:33.07
Acts 4:12.
00:49:33.10\00:49:34.44
The Bible is so clear,
00:49:34.47\00:49:35.80
"Neither is there
salvation in" what?
00:49:35.84\00:49:37.74
"In any other for
there is none other name
00:49:37.77\00:49:40.14
under heaven,
00:49:40.18\00:49:41.51
given among men
whereby we," what?
00:49:41.54\00:49:43.55
"Must be saved."
00:49:43.58\00:49:44.91
What does that say?
00:49:44.95\00:49:46.28
There's no other way
that you can be saved
00:49:46.31\00:49:47.65
or I can be saved,
00:49:47.68\00:49:49.02
other than accepting
Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
00:49:49.05\00:49:51.85
And don't cross hairs with it.
00:49:51.89\00:49:53.99
You need to do today.
00:49:54.02\00:49:55.36
Well, I know who He is,
and I kind of love Jesus.
00:49:55.39\00:49:57.56
We're either in or we're out.
00:49:57.59\00:49:59.39
It's either 100% or it's not.
00:49:59.43\00:50:01.40
Matthew 12:30,
00:50:01.43\00:50:02.76
"He who is not
with me is against me."
00:50:02.80\00:50:04.43
There's none of us
brooding around and saying,
00:50:04.47\00:50:05.93
"Well, no, I'll tell
you, it's not going to be."
00:50:05.97\00:50:07.60
It either is or it isn't,
you either get in or get out.
00:50:07.64\00:50:10.61
This is where we're
at in earth's history.
00:50:10.64\00:50:12.51
Time's telling us
right now we've got to do it.
00:50:12.54\00:50:13.94
Why?
00:50:13.98\00:50:15.31
Because God wants to use you do
something great in this world.
00:50:15.34\00:50:17.91
He wants to use you,
00:50:17.95\00:50:19.28
let's not get on the edges
and never make that decision
00:50:19.31\00:50:21.52
and choice for Him.
00:50:21.55\00:50:23.15
Man, I tell you,
remember the arrest of...
00:50:23.18\00:50:26.02
Was it Peter and John.
00:50:26.05\00:50:28.92
You know, they were questioned
by the religious leaders.
00:50:28.96\00:50:31.86
They asked them, by what power,
00:50:31.89\00:50:35.10
what name, had they
been able to do good
00:50:35.13\00:50:37.23
to this impotent man?
00:50:37.27\00:50:38.60
Do you remember?
Oh, they laid it not.
00:50:38.63\00:50:40.07
How could this
miracle work right here,
00:50:40.10\00:50:41.60
how could they do this?
00:50:41.64\00:50:43.04
How could it be done?
00:50:43.07\00:50:45.84
And what did they do?
00:50:45.87\00:50:47.21
The men of God's
that they boldly proclaim.
00:50:47.24\00:50:49.41
It was done in
the name of Jesus.
00:50:49.44\00:50:52.05
This is what it's all about.
00:50:52.08\00:50:54.35
There's no other name
given among mine, it's a name.
00:50:54.38\00:50:56.69
It's given to me,
his name of Jesus.
00:50:56.72\00:50:59.35
Jesus is the answer.
00:50:59.39\00:51:01.09
Did you notice that?
00:51:01.12\00:51:03.43
They proclaimed loudly,
00:51:03.46\00:51:08.50
Acts 4:7-9, it says,
00:51:08.53\00:51:11.33
"They boldly proclaimed
00:51:11.37\00:51:13.13
it was done in
the name of," what?
00:51:13.17\00:51:14.90
"Of Jesus."
00:51:14.94\00:51:17.11
But you know what?
They didn't quit there.
00:51:17.14\00:51:19.67
They said, it's
done in name of Jesus
00:51:19.71\00:51:21.31
whom you crucified.
00:51:21.34\00:51:22.98
Man, they weren't
afraid of the enemy.
00:51:23.01\00:51:25.15
To whom you crucified.
00:51:25.18\00:51:27.12
Wow.
00:51:27.15\00:51:29.65
And he's the one
that were proclaiming
00:51:29.68\00:51:31.05
that God raised
him from the dead.
00:51:31.09\00:51:33.19
You notice this.
00:51:33.22\00:51:36.06
This miracle was
done in the name of Jesus,
00:51:36.09\00:51:38.69
and there is no salvation
outside of Jesus Christ.
00:51:38.73\00:51:42.43
And the Bible said all
the people standing around,
00:51:42.46\00:51:44.47
all of them were
listening to him.
00:51:44.50\00:51:46.17
They knew that the
disciples had been with Christ.
00:51:46.20\00:51:49.80
How's it in your
life and my life?
00:51:49.84\00:51:51.17
Your neighbors and
your friend know that
00:51:51.21\00:51:52.61
you've been with Jesus.
00:51:52.64\00:51:54.11
This is the way it was
00:51:54.14\00:51:55.48
when Jesus was really
living in their heart.
00:51:55.51\00:51:57.68
Are they looking at your face
or my face today and my doings
00:51:57.71\00:52:00.52
and whatever and they're saying
00:52:00.55\00:52:01.88
that Christ's can't live within,
00:52:01.92\00:52:03.25
they don't know Jesus.
00:52:03.28\00:52:04.62
See how important it is that
we lift up the name of Jesus,
00:52:04.65\00:52:06.59
Acts of the
Apostle, page 594 says,
00:52:06.62\00:52:10.89
"As the disciples proclaim
the completeness of Christ,
00:52:10.93\00:52:14.16
the risen Savior,"
00:52:14.20\00:52:15.76
notice, "Their
words moved hearts,
00:52:15.80\00:52:19.13
men and women were
won to the gospel."
00:52:19.17\00:52:22.64
Why?
00:52:22.67\00:52:24.01
Because they
had been with Jesus.
00:52:24.04\00:52:25.87
You see, and the Holy
Spirit begins to work,
00:52:25.91\00:52:28.48
people make decisions.
00:52:28.51\00:52:31.41
See, there could
be something wrong
00:52:31.45\00:52:32.78
in our own hearts and our life,
00:52:32.81\00:52:34.15
say God, I want to
get straightened out today
00:52:34.18\00:52:35.52
because I want
to be a soul winner.
00:52:35.55\00:52:37.95
The place should be filled up,
00:52:37.99\00:52:39.85
should be
standing with Him only,
00:52:39.89\00:52:41.66
should be out
building another building.
00:52:41.69\00:52:44.99
This what we
must do to be saved.
00:52:45.03\00:52:46.63
Only two minutes I can
do, there's four points
00:52:46.66\00:52:48.60
and I'm gonna go
just quickly as I can.
00:52:48.63\00:52:50.60
What must we do to be
saved from the sin issue?
00:52:50.63\00:52:52.97
Four, Hebrews 11:6,
00:52:53.00\00:52:56.71
"Without faith," what is it,
00:52:56.74\00:52:58.07
I can't go in, go to all the...
00:52:58.11\00:52:59.57
"Without faith is," what?
00:52:59.61\00:53:00.94
"It's impossible to please God,
00:53:00.98\00:53:02.81
'cause we must
believe that He is."
00:53:02.84\00:53:05.75
Number two, 1 John
1:9 we must do, what?
00:53:05.78\00:53:09.68
"If we confess our sins,
00:53:09.72\00:53:11.05
He is faithful and just
to forgive us of our sin."
00:53:11.09\00:53:13.12
So we have to by
faith believe that He is.
00:53:13.15\00:53:15.79
We have to confess our sins.
00:53:15.82\00:53:17.89
And then number
3, Isaiah 1:18-19.
00:53:17.93\00:53:21.93
He said, notice "Come now
and let us reason together,
00:53:21.96\00:53:24.37
saith the Lord: though
your sins be as," what?
00:53:24.40\00:53:27.20
"Scarlet, oh, they
shall be white like snow,
00:53:27.24\00:53:30.37
though they be red like crimson,
00:53:30.41\00:53:33.31
they shall be as wool."
00:53:33.34\00:53:36.21
But then that
verse goes on and said,
00:53:36.24\00:53:37.58
what do you mean three,
00:53:37.61\00:53:39.21
"If ye be willing, and obedient,
00:53:39.25\00:53:41.65
ye shall eat the
good of the land."
00:53:41.68\00:53:44.12
Become right,
have faith to believe.
00:53:44.15\00:53:48.52
Faith to believe in
Jesus, we confess our sins.
00:53:48.56\00:53:52.16
They lay them out
before Him and he said,
00:53:52.19\00:53:53.70
"I'm going to clean you up,
00:53:53.73\00:53:55.06
but you have to be
willing and obedient."
00:53:55.10\00:53:58.13
And number
four, Acts 16:31 says,
00:53:58.17\00:54:01.97
"Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ,
00:54:02.00\00:54:03.91
and thou shalt be saved."
00:54:03.94\00:54:05.27
You noticed that.
"And all thy house."
00:54:05.31\00:54:08.08
Man, how wonderful that
is today, think about it.
00:54:08.11\00:54:13.08
That as we
close, we close the day
00:54:13.11\00:54:14.58
what we should be crying out.
00:54:14.62\00:54:16.79
Lord, what must, I
must I do to be saved?
00:54:16.82\00:54:19.79
Sin issue is a horrible thing.
00:54:19.82\00:54:22.99
The enemy sinned
from the beginning,
00:54:23.02\00:54:25.39
he started this whole mess.
00:54:25.43\00:54:27.40
But you came to seek and
save that which was lost.
00:54:27.43\00:54:29.40
That was me.
00:54:29.43\00:54:31.03
I'm the vilest of the vile.
00:54:31.07\00:54:32.93
We need to be able to say
that from the grace of God,
00:54:32.97\00:54:34.77
but because of Jesus,
00:54:34.80\00:54:36.44
He's going to clean
me up whiter than snow.
00:54:36.47\00:54:40.24
My life does
need to stay the same
00:54:40.28\00:54:41.84
as it's always been.
00:54:41.88\00:54:43.21
It can be new in him today.
00:54:43.24\00:54:46.18
Today is the day
of salvation we choose
00:54:46.21\00:54:48.85
by the weight of evidence.
00:54:48.88\00:54:50.25
The evidence is
here, Jesus coming,
00:54:50.29\00:54:52.45
evidence is He's come to
put, get rid of sin or sinners.
00:54:52.49\00:54:56.42
So I want to turn
that sin over to Him.
00:54:56.46\00:54:58.69
So He can take me to
heaven. How about you today?
00:54:58.73\00:55:01.16
Anyone would like to decide
00:55:01.20\00:55:02.53
before we have
closing prayer together.
00:55:02.56\00:55:03.90
I want to be taken to heaven.
I want sin to go from my life.
00:55:03.93\00:55:06.33
Oh, God help me to do
that. Let's pray quickly.
00:55:06.37\00:55:08.70
Last 15 seconds we have.
00:55:08.74\00:55:10.07
Father in heaven,
00:55:10.11\00:55:11.67
thank You for Your
precious, precious,
00:55:11.71\00:55:13.58
precious
promises You've given us.
00:55:13.61\00:55:14.94
Thank You, You
said, I will come again.
00:55:14.98\00:55:16.81
We cast our care on
you, for You care for us,
00:55:16.85\00:55:18.78
in Jesus' name.
00:55:18.81\00:55:20.15
Amen. God bless you.
00:55:20.18\00:55:21.98
We look forward to
seeing you next time.
00:55:22.02\00:55:26.15
Hello and welcome back.
00:55:26.19\00:55:27.76
How good is our God,
00:55:27.79\00:55:29.72
He has left
absolutely no stone unturned.
00:55:29.76\00:55:33.83
He instrumented
the very first GPS,
00:55:33.86\00:55:36.56
global positioning system
through His Word, the Bible.
00:55:36.60\00:55:40.44
He's laid out the
path of sin from its roots
00:55:40.47\00:55:44.21
and how it
affects which path of life
00:55:44.24\00:55:46.51
that we choose to travel
down in our final destination
00:55:46.54\00:55:50.61
unless we choose to make a
turn and to take that straight,
00:55:50.65\00:55:54.45
that straight and narrow
road that leads to eternal life.
00:55:54.48\00:55:58.92
All of heaven was emptied
in the gift of Jesus Christ
00:55:58.95\00:56:03.36
coming as a Lamb of
God to make propitiation
00:56:03.39\00:56:06.36
for our sins.
00:56:06.39\00:56:07.76
Without this
ultimate sacrifice of love,
00:56:07.80\00:56:10.93
there would be
absolutely no hope of salvation
00:56:10.97\00:56:14.90
for any one of us.
00:56:14.94\00:56:16.57
What a solemn thought?
00:56:16.60\00:56:18.41
The King of the universe
lay down His life for you
00:56:18.44\00:56:23.14
and for me,
00:56:23.18\00:56:24.51
in order that we
may someday have a home
00:56:24.55\00:56:27.32
and eternal life
with Him in heaven.
00:56:27.35\00:56:30.02
Today's message
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00:56:30.05\00:56:32.89
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00:56:32.92\00:56:34.49
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