Hello and welcome once again
to Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host,
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I'm so thankful
that you have tuned in
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and are ready to join us today.
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Our message for
today is entitled,
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God spoke out of the fire.
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What was so very important that
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God would call
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all of His people
together in Horeb,
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near the mountain
as it burned with fire
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in the midst of heaven?
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The Bible tells us in the
Book of Deuteronomy 4:12-13,
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"That God spoke to His people
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from the midst of the
fire and declared his covenant,
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even the Ten Commandments
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that He wrote upon
two tables of stone."
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How amazing to
mentally visualize
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that God Himself
spoke in such a spectacular,
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supernatural
manner to His children
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to get their full attention.
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What He had to say,
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He trusted with no human
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to be His
mouthpiece at that time,
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nor did He allow any human being
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to dictate all that is contained
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within His Ten Commandment law.
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We must as truth seekers ask,
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why was giving this
covenant so very important that
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God Himself spoke through
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the midst of the fire and
wrote out His law on stone
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with his Own finger?
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Will the answer
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to these important questions
only pertain to the Israelites
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who were alive at the
time to witness these events?
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Or are they so important that
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they are still binding
upon God's people today?
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Please stay tuned with us
as we join Pastor Kenny Shelton
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for the answers
to these questions
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as we discover why
God spoke out of the fire.
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But first, let's visit 3ABN,
and listen to a song entitled,
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Then They Will Know,
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as sung by Sister Naomi Jackson
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I will speak
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I will wait
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I will send prophets among them
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That they might hear
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That they might see
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And understand how much
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I love them
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Then they will know that
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I am Father
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And they will know
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I am Lord
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They'll walk with
me and be my people
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I'll walk with them as their God
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As their God
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I will strike I will scourge
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And carry out
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Vengeance upon them
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But I will heal
the wounds I make
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And tenderly take them
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Back to me
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Then they will know that
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I am Father
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And they will know
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I am Lord
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They'll walk with me
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And be my people
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I'll walk with them
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As their God
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This is heaven
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This is salvation
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This is their
great hope and mine
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He will come
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My own Son
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A Word faithful hearts
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Can't help hearing
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And by His death
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With His last breath
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A Father's forgiveness
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Comes flowing
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Then they will know
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That I am Savior
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I am Redeemer and Friend
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Immanuel the God
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Who is with them
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The God who gives all
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He can
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He is salvation
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He is the kingdom
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To know Him is paradise
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Then they will know that
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I am Father
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Then they will know
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I am Lord
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I am Lord
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Thank you for
joining us once again
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here at Behold
the Lamb Ministries.
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We look forward to always being
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able to come into
your home to study
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the Word of God with you.
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It is a delight,
it is a privilege
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and I count it an honor
and blessed of God the day
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that I can spend
this time with you.
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You can spend it
in the Word of God
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with all the angels of heaven
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with the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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We're going to be
looking at a subject today
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that I believe
will bless your heart
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as it blessed mine
as I studied for it.
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God spoke out of the
fire, God spoke out of the fire.
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If there was ever a
time in this earth's history
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that we need God
to speak words of fire
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as it were, it's right now.
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Amen
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It's going to take
something that's going to burn
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through some of us
Laodicea Christians
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here in this last days
and we'll see how God again,
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we're going to be
looking at this subject
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which is a message that God
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was reinforcing to
the children of Israel
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before they
reach the Canaan land.
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I believe it's
the same message today
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just before Jesus
comes and I believe
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we're in that hour right now.
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I want to get
into the Word of God,
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but I can't do
it without praying,
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so I'm going to invite
you to pray along with me.
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Would you do that please?
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Let's pray.
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Loving Father in heaven
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and we thank You again
for the privilege of prayer.
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Thank You that we
can call You our Father.
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Oh Lord, for a
clear heart, clear mind.
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Oh, to have heaven to speak,
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we pray through
Your servant today,
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through it,
through your children.
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Ears to hear, eyes that would
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behold the wondrous things
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out of this book
called The Bible.
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Bless us, we
pray with Holy Spirit,
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power, strength and might.
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And not only to hear, Lord,
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but to say, Lord, we
want to do those things
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written there and
in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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I believe this
with all my heart,
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that the same message,
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the same message that God had,
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that Moses gave under
the direction of heaven
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through the power
of the Holy Spirit
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must be given again,
just before Jesus comes.
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I'm a believer.
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I live today, I may
not be here tomorrow,
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so it may be a shorter for
me than it might be for you.
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You know, you never know
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because I know
we have friend this,
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in fact, this week.
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Was a good friend
that's kind of bothered us,
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he was shot by the
police in Carterville this year,
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I think three
times in the heart.
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We never
expected, he's 52 years old.
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And so you never know
when your time may be up,
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we need to be
ready under the unction
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of the Holy Spirit
that we're going to study.
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I'm going to, if
it's all right with you,
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I'm going to read
from the Word of God,
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is that all right?
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Going to read some words
here and I know it's a lot.
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I didn't bring my glasses
that I really need today,
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I'm going to do best I can.
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I see an awful lot of things
in here in the Word of God
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and sometimes they look like
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they're more than what's there,
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so you just bear with
me, if you will, please.
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Deuteronomy Chapter 5.
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Deuteronomy Chapter 5,
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I'm going to read
verses 22 through 28.
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Deuteronomy Chapter what?
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5:22-28.
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Now, you know,
usually I don't want to read
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that many verses in row.
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But I think those who are
here and those who are watching,
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you know and you're
going to pay attention
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and you're going to
put it in your heart
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and you're going to
put it in your mind.
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Listen to the words
because we're going to play
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through these words
through this study today
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and see if you
still feel the same way
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about what God's
message for the last days.
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Verse 22, "These words the Lord
spake unto all your assembly
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in at mount out of
the midst of fire."
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Sermon title is what?
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God spoke out of the?
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Fire Fire. Good.
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Notice this, "The midst
of the fire of the cloud
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and thick darkness,
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with a great voice
and he added no more.
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He wrote them in two tables
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of stone delivered them," where?
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"Unto me.
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It came to pass
when he heard the voice
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out of the
midst of the darkness,
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for the mountain
did burn," with what?
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"Did burn with fire."
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Many people who
write even about you know,
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before the mount, you know,
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where the law was given,
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it's all black up on
top because it shows,
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it's been burnt
with tremendous heat,
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well, from the presence of God.
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The Bible says right here,
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"The mountain
did burn," with what?
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Fire. With Fire.
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"That ye came near unto me,
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even all the
heads of your tribes
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and your elders."
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Verse 24, "And ye said, Behold,
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the Lord our God has
showed us," His what?
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"His glory and His greatness.
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We have heard His
voice midst of the fire.
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We've seen this
day that God doth talk
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with man and he liveth.
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Now, therefore,
why should we die?
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For this great
fire will consume us
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if we hear the voice of
our Lord our God anymore,"
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notice, "then we shall die."
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Verse 26, "For who is
there of all flesh that
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hath heard the
voice of the living God,
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speaking out of
the midst of the fire
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as we have and lived?
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Go thou near, and
hear all the Lord God
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shall say: speak
thou unto us all that
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the Lord our God
shall speak unto thee,
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and we will," what?
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"We will hear."
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You see the
conversations going on here.
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"And we will hear it,"
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and then we're going to do what?
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See remember, I
was talked about,
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meant that we have a lot of one
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who liked to hear of the word,
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but they don't want to do it.
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This is going to
separate the obedient
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and the disobedient today.
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Notice, verse 28, says,
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"And the Lord heard
the voice of your words,
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when you spake unto me.
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The Lord said unto me,
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I have heard the voice
of the words of," what?
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"This people, which
they have spoken unto thee:
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and they have well said
all that they have spoken."
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God then approved of
what they had just said.
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We're going to hear
these words and we're going to,
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by God's grace, we're
going to do these things
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because they
say we have a voice,
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a great voice that
spoke out of the fire.
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I don't know how
you would respond today.
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How would I respond today?
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We're not talking
about an ordinary voice,
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we're not talking about
big box speakers somewhere.
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We're talking about
the voice of God spoke that
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probably shook the world.
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Think about it.
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Such a voice that came
out of there that's just like,
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"Whoa, who is this speaking?"
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God spoke to them,
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notice in the midst
of the cloud and fire
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and He delivered something.
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You notice this, and
then while He was doing that,
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it says He wrote
something with His fingers.
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What was that?
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It was God's Ten Commandment law
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as we well know.
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God wrote them with His finger
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and I'd be very
careful if I were you.
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And I'd be careful, I
certainly with me that
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I would say when
it's no longer binding,
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we don't have to
worry about it anymore.
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God spoke the law first
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and then He wrote it down
and then He took the two tables
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and then He gave them to Moses,
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said go down and teach
My children these precepts.
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Interesting. Man,
that's pretty heavy duty.
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And yet we have the, may
I say the audacity today.
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Many, "We don't
have to worry about
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that old stuff anymore as
we don't do that anymore."
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Is that right?
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Remember the same message here,
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under the direction of
the power of the Holy Spirit
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was given to,
notice this, to Israel,
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just before they
entered into the land of milk
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and honey, remember?
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Of Canaan land.
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Now, realize the law was already
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given on the mount, right?
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It was already there.
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But now we've had to
look at the reasons why.
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Why would God
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just before they
entered into the new land,
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land of milk and
honey, the Promised Land,
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remember relate this to heaven,
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these things we're
talking about here.
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Jesus is soon to come,
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we need to get
that in our hearts,
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we need to get in our minds.
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We're soon to enter Canaan land.
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Yes. And notice what happened.
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God said before they
entered into Canaan land,
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I want you to go over
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with the children
of Israel, My law.
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I want it.
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And now why would
you say God will...
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Well, I'll give
you just one reason.
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Remember the majority, all?
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How many went into the
Promised Land by the way?
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Adults? Two.
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All the rest of them
died in the wilderness,
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those who had seen and heard
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what God had done
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when He first
delivered the Ten Commandments.
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So the rest of them
were very young people,
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they had forgotten.
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They weren't sure of
what God was talking,
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you know, God was saying
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and they'd
forgotten the experience.
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And so God said, I want
you to experience this again,
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I want you to hear it,
it's how you will enter in
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or how you won't enter in.
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Obedient or disobedient.
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So very few in
that congregation,
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we could say,
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were old enough to
comprehend the solemn occasion
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of the first
time God gave the law.
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Now, they're soon getting ready
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to cross over
Jordan and God wanted to
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present these things to them.
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And He was telling them,
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you enter in on
condition, did you get it?
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You enter into
the Promised Land,
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you make it into heaven,
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there's a condition of
your prosperity in this life
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and the life to come and
that simply is obedience.
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Did you get it?
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How's that we can proclaim
and talk about obedience
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and then say there is no law?
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We don't have to be obedient.
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Let's just think about
some of these things as we go.
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The script's reading was
found in Deuteronomy 4:11-13.
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We won't read that
right now, but keep that down.
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Deuteronomy 4:11-13.
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We're looking at the Book
of Deuteronomy quickly today.
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The Book of Deuteronomy
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is the fifth book of Moses.
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The fifth book that
Moses wrote is called what?
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Deuteronomy.
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The English word for
Deuteronomy here means,
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and listen
carefully, it means second.
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It means second, or
listen, repeated legislation.
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Deuteronomy means what?
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Repeated legislation,
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because you will find
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that the Book of
Deuteronomy that Moses,
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he met with the
people over four times
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and all he basically did,
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they covered all of Deuteronomy,
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was what it's going to take
to enter into the Promised Land.
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And it's talking about
keeping the commandments of God.
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Kind of interesting.
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And then if you look
at the Book of Exodus,
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Exodus, a lot of
times is referred
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to as the first legislation.
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That makes sense?
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The first legislation
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and then comes
along Deuteronomy,
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they're getting ready to
enter into the Promised Land,
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we're getting ready to enter
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into that, you
know, the heavenly.
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And we need to be ready,
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and listen, the same principles,
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and I'll say it
over and over today,
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the same
principles apply for us today
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as it did for ancient Israel.
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Principles don't change.
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God's the same
yesterday, today and forever.
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We need to be careful
about this has changed
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and that has changed.
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By whose authority has
the Word of God changed?
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That's what we
have to ask ourselves.
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Here we find ourselves
in the Book of Deuteronomy,
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it's on the first
day of the 11th month
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in the 40th year
of their wanderings.
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Now remember, God didn't want it
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to be 40 years, did He?
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He said, right
now get ready and go,
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go straight on in
a few days journey.
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But because of their
murmuring and their unbelief,
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it took 40 years and then what?
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Only two adults made it.
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Come on somebody.
And you know what?
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And I'm going to
throw this out to you.
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The same reasons that God,
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Jesus has not come right now
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for His last day people,
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it's because we're
following in the same footsteps.
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We're dealing with
the same sin issues
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that they dealt with then,
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that's why He's
not already come back.
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I'm convinced He
wants to come back.
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I'm convinced He
wants to take us home,
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but He cannot do it.
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He wanted to take all of Israel
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into that Promised Land.
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How sad that must have been for,
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you think about
God, Jesus out there,
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40, right, 40
years, leading people,
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leading and guiding and
working miracle after miracle,
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talking to them,
appearing to them,
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taking care of them,
fighting battles for them.
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And then as the end
result of 40 years of labor,
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there's only two.
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How would you feel
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if you were an
evangelists or pastor
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and you work for 40 years,
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and, you know, I mean,
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one soul we realize is valuable
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and Jesus would have done
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what He would have done for one.
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Amen.
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But in our humanness,
let's get the big crowd.
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There's got to be a
lot of decisions made,
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I can't waste my
time on, you know.
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God doesn't look at it that way.
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Israel was camping.
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They camped for two months
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just before they
went over for this land.
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They were just east of Jordan
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and now for those
two months preparation
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was being made so
that they could cross over.
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And what did Moses do?
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He gathered the people. Yeah.
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And he began to speak the words
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that contain almost the
whole Book of Deuteronomy.
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Moses covered
again, with the people.
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Remember, Moses
was not going to be
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able to get in,
he said, Oh, God,
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if I can, you know, can I go in?
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He's wanting to
ask again, you know,
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paraphrasing and God
said, no, you can't go in.
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He said, but I'll
tell what you can do,
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you can get up
here on the mountain,
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you can look the East, the West,
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the North and the South
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and that's as close
as you're going to get.
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You can look and
see the Promised Land,
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but you're not
going to enter into it,
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you're going to die.
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And Moses said no
more, he was content.
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How maybe we might complain,
00:20:00.23\00:20:02.23
say, "Lord, I put up 40
years of these characters.
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I put up with everything
you possibly could think of,
00:20:06.57\00:20:08.50
of what they
said and what they did
00:20:08.54\00:20:09.94
and how they connived
and how they was backbiting.
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How they had no belief,
00:20:13.74\00:20:15.08
murmured and
complain and tried to kill."
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He never said anything.
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What a test for
a Christian today.
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Obedience means live,
disobedience means death,
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there's no doubt about it.
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And as the name
implies, Deuteronomy we see,
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note it, Deuteronomy then is
a, listen carefully, is a recap.
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Book of Deuteronomy
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is a recap of the various laws
00:20:38.67\00:20:42.00
given to Israel at Sinai.
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So what was going to happen?
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God said, I'm going to
recap all of these things
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just before you enter in,
00:20:49.98\00:20:51.41
so that you know
when you make it into,
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this is how you're
going to stay in there.
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You know, because they made it
00:20:57.52\00:20:58.85
to the land of Canaan
didn't mean also they do
00:20:58.89\00:21:00.42
anything they wanted to do.
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There would still be rules
00:21:03.06\00:21:04.66
and regulations that people
don't want to talk about today.
00:21:04.69\00:21:08.76
So Moses then simply
wanted to impress the people
00:21:08.80\00:21:12.43
about their observer.
00:21:12.47\00:21:13.80
Observe faithfully.
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Remember, he said,
00:21:15.20\00:21:16.54
I want you to observe faithfully
00:21:16.57\00:21:17.91
all that the Lord has said.
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It's interesting,
00:21:19.37\00:21:20.71
you can take the
Word of God right now
00:21:20.74\00:21:22.08
and maybe people
in here, I don't know.
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Here's what the Lord has said
and some will read it and say,
00:21:25.08\00:21:27.98
"Yeah, I know, but..."
00:21:28.02\00:21:29.82
But. Where's the but coming at?
00:21:29.85\00:21:34.26
Other words, here
what I'm saying is,
00:21:34.29\00:21:35.86
I know what it says
here, but or this my opinion.
00:21:35.89\00:21:40.70
God never asked
you for your opinion,
00:21:40.73\00:21:42.20
He never asked me for mine.
00:21:42.23\00:21:43.57
But He asked me for
the weight of evidence
00:21:43.60\00:21:45.93
that I make a decision upon,
00:21:45.97\00:21:47.30
that's what we need,
is weight of evidence.
00:21:47.34\00:21:48.67
We need some things here.
00:21:48.70\00:21:50.04
That's what you do as a lawyer
00:21:50.07\00:21:51.54
or that's what you
do as a child of God.
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Observe faithfully all
that the Lord has said to do.
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And then He said,
victory will be certain.
00:21:58.75\00:22:01.82
Victory will be certain
00:22:01.85\00:22:03.52
for Israel of today
as it was back then,
00:22:03.55\00:22:06.45
just as certain we realize,
00:22:06.49\00:22:08.46
as God had freed them
from the bondage, you know,
00:22:08.49\00:22:11.49
of slavery of bondage in Egypt.
00:22:11.53\00:22:15.20
That's how sure God
said. So now we're challenged.
00:22:15.23\00:22:20.24
We're challenged
because God said it's possible.
00:22:20.27\00:22:24.01
He said, who you
yield yourself to,
00:22:24.04\00:22:26.01
you remember that
in Romans 6:16-18?
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"Know ye not", listen carefully,
00:22:30.21\00:22:31.71
this is plain to you and me,
00:22:31.75\00:22:33.88
"That to whom you yield
yourselves servants to obey,
00:22:33.92\00:22:37.29
his servants are whom ye," what?
00:22:37.32\00:22:39.75
Obey, whether of sin unto death,
00:22:39.79\00:22:43.06
or obedience
unto righteousness?"
00:22:43.09\00:22:44.69
Now, did anybody
have a problem with that?
00:22:44.73\00:22:47.86
Whoever you choose.
00:22:47.90\00:22:49.30
If you're not choosing
00:22:49.33\00:22:50.67
what is truth
written in the Word of God,
00:22:50.70\00:22:52.13
then you're
choosing the devil's lies.
00:22:52.17\00:22:54.94
There's no middle ground.
00:22:54.97\00:22:56.64
I mean, heck, come on.
00:22:56.67\00:22:58.01
How many ways can
you tell the truth?
00:22:58.04\00:23:01.08
Really?
00:23:01.11\00:23:02.54
You can only tell
the truth one way,
00:23:02.58\00:23:04.61
but everybody with all the,
00:23:04.65\00:23:06.11
whatever, 13, 15, 18,
2000 different denominations,
00:23:06.15\00:23:09.58
everybody's got the truth.
00:23:09.62\00:23:12.25
Is that okay to do that?
00:23:12.29\00:23:14.32
Everybody got the
truth, everybody got the truth.
00:23:14.36\00:23:17.43
Maybe in certain errors,
00:23:17.46\00:23:18.79
we realize it,
but everybody can't.
00:23:18.83\00:23:20.66
You can't talk about
what happens when you die
00:23:20.70\00:23:22.86
and you got 25 different people
saying it's all different.
00:23:22.90\00:23:25.27
Right.
00:23:25.30\00:23:26.63
There's only one
way that it's the truth.
00:23:26.67\00:23:29.10
Amen. It's what
the Bible teaches.
00:23:29.14\00:23:30.47
We've got to come
off of the high horse
00:23:30.51\00:23:33.84
and I'm talking
about ourselves here today.
00:23:33.88\00:23:35.41
I'm looking for
the weight of evidence
00:23:35.44\00:23:36.78
from the God's Word.
00:23:36.81\00:23:38.15
Yes.
00:23:38.18\00:23:39.51
I'll not base a belief
upon one passage of scripture
00:23:39.55\00:23:41.62
like many
pastors and teachers do.
00:23:41.65\00:23:43.95
They get up front and
have the audacity to read
00:23:43.99\00:23:46.02
one verse in the Bible
and they make an hour sermon
00:23:46.05\00:23:49.22
on that one verse.
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My Bible says, Kenny,
you want to know what truth
00:23:50.66\00:23:52.59
is line upon line,
precept upon precept,
00:23:52.63\00:23:55.30
here a little
and there a little,
00:23:55.33\00:23:56.67
and then you're
going to find out
00:23:56.70\00:23:58.03
what truth is?
00:23:58.07\00:23:59.40
What did Jeremiah
say about it? Right?
00:23:59.43\00:24:00.77
What did John say about
it? What did Luke say about it?
00:24:00.80\00:24:04.01
What did John the
Revelator say about it?
00:24:04.04\00:24:06.11
What did Ezekiel say about it?
00:24:06.14\00:24:07.48
What does Isaiah
say about this subject?
00:24:07.51\00:24:09.38
If you get all of those
guys to agree, you found truth.
00:24:09.41\00:24:13.08
But he goes on with Romans 6:17,
00:24:13.11\00:24:16.38
"But God be thanked,
00:24:16.42\00:24:18.05
that ye were
the servants of sin,
00:24:18.09\00:24:20.26
but ye have
obeyed from the heart."
00:24:20.29\00:24:23.12
Remember? You were.
00:24:23.16\00:24:24.53
How many today?
00:24:24.56\00:24:25.89
We want to say
each one of us here,
00:24:25.93\00:24:27.26
we were servants of sin.
00:24:27.30\00:24:29.03
But because of
Jesus Christ, we are not.
00:24:29.06\00:24:31.30
But we obeyed from the
heart, the form of doctrine,
00:24:31.33\00:24:36.30
which was believed of you.
00:24:36.34\00:24:38.11
Now notice this, verse 18,
"Being made then free from sin,
00:24:38.14\00:24:44.08
you became the
servants of righteousness."
00:24:44.11\00:24:46.51
What does it say?
00:24:46.55\00:24:47.88
People can read that
00:24:47.92\00:24:49.25
and just come up
with all kinds of stuff.
00:24:49.28\00:24:53.96
The Bible said being made,
00:24:53.99\00:24:55.69
then made free from sin,
00:24:55.72\00:24:58.93
you became the
servants of righteousness.
00:24:58.96\00:25:02.33
Now, is that true
or is that not true?
00:25:02.36\00:25:04.87
True. Thank you. Yeah.
00:25:04.90\00:25:06.53
I mean, to me,
that's just easy to say.
00:25:06.57\00:25:07.90
Now, whether we match up to it,
00:25:07.94\00:25:09.57
whether we're
still struggling with it,
00:25:09.60\00:25:10.94
that's not what I'm asking.
00:25:10.97\00:25:12.31
I'm saying, is that true?
00:25:12.34\00:25:13.68
We are free, the Bible said,
00:25:13.71\00:25:15.51
but yeah, most of
us look in our life
00:25:15.54\00:25:17.15
and we look in the
mirror and we say, boo-boo.
00:25:17.18\00:25:19.28
That means we have things
to work out, isn't that right?
00:25:19.31\00:25:22.72
But these verses
should cause rejoicing.
00:25:22.75\00:25:25.72
We've got a God that
speaks through the fire.
00:25:25.75\00:25:28.32
We've got a God that comes to us
00:25:28.36\00:25:29.89
and when He does,
He shakes the world.
00:25:29.92\00:25:31.79
Amen.
00:25:31.83\00:25:33.16
He's capable of
it, he will do it
00:25:33.19\00:25:34.80
because he says he will do it.
00:25:34.83\00:25:37.67
This message should
00:25:37.70\00:25:39.03
just excite the
socks right off of us.
00:25:39.07\00:25:42.64
Give us some, you know,
00:25:42.67\00:25:44.21
some time to
rejoice over this thing
00:25:44.24\00:25:46.24
when you talk about a soul.
00:25:46.27\00:25:49.04
If we ever come to the point,
00:25:49.08\00:25:53.42
we understand
the value of a soul.
00:25:53.45\00:25:57.59
If we ever understand
00:25:57.62\00:25:58.95
the value of a soul
the way heaven does,
00:25:58.99\00:26:00.86
there's going to be
more rejoicing in the church.
00:26:00.89\00:26:03.43
In fact, we're
going to have to have
00:26:03.46\00:26:04.79
two or three services,
not look around and say,
00:26:04.83\00:26:06.96
"Man, we got a
lot of empty seats."
00:26:07.00\00:26:08.33
Well, that's sad.
00:26:08.36\00:26:12.17
I can tell you in advance
like I told you in advance,
00:26:12.20\00:26:14.24
the first week I began to study
00:26:14.27\00:26:15.94
the law of God
and the importance
00:26:15.97\00:26:17.74
of keeping God's law
00:26:17.77\00:26:19.14
because He is
God because He spoke,
00:26:19.17\00:26:21.84
because He wrote it.
00:26:21.88\00:26:23.61
If there's nothing else God did,
00:26:23.65\00:26:24.98
who are you?
00:26:25.01\00:26:26.35
Who am I big enough to say,
00:26:26.38\00:26:27.72
I know He spoke it and I know
00:26:27.75\00:26:29.08
it's a grand special occasion
00:26:29.12\00:26:30.45
and the witnesses
and everything to it
00:26:30.49\00:26:32.45
and He smoked it on
the rock as you know
00:26:32.49\00:26:34.72
what I'm talking
about with His finger.
00:26:34.76\00:26:36.32
And then He brought it down
00:26:36.36\00:26:37.69
and said teach it to the people
to do it and the only ones
00:26:37.73\00:26:39.96
who will enter
into the Promised Land
00:26:40.00\00:26:41.33
are those who are
willing to be obedient
00:26:41.36\00:26:43.03
because look at
all the other ones
00:26:43.06\00:26:44.40
that died in the wilderness,
they were not obedient.
00:26:44.43\00:26:47.34
Man, we don't need
any more than that.
00:26:47.37\00:26:49.57
Now, the devil comes along say,
well, things have changed now.
00:26:49.60\00:26:52.44
I'll use a French word, baloney.
00:26:52.47\00:26:54.58
Is that okay? I think
somebody told me that.
00:26:54.61\00:26:59.11
The worth of a soul,
do you remember Jesus
00:26:59.15\00:27:01.22
talked a little bit
about that in Matthew 18:13.
00:27:01.25\00:27:04.09
We don't have time to
look through everything,
00:27:04.12\00:27:05.45
but just Matthew 18:13.
00:27:05.49\00:27:07.69
It says, "If he goes
out and verily he finds it,
00:27:07.72\00:27:10.73
I say unto you, he
rejoices over," that what?
00:27:10.76\00:27:14.20
That one, that sheep.
00:27:14.23\00:27:15.56
Matthew 18:13,
"Over then the 90 and 9,
00:27:15.60\00:27:19.50
which went not astray."
00:27:19.53\00:27:21.87
Listen, those who are
well need not a physician.
00:27:21.90\00:27:25.61
People say all the time, "Well,
you need to do more visiting."
00:27:25.64\00:27:27.31
And absolutely, you can do more
00:27:27.34\00:27:28.68
in visitation
than you can from doing
00:27:28.71\00:27:30.05
what I'm doing up here.
00:27:30.08\00:27:31.65
But try to balance it
all out, Lord only knows,
00:27:31.68\00:27:34.18
I'm not sure I'm capable.
00:27:34.22\00:27:36.45
But I know it's
important to do that,
00:27:36.48\00:27:38.25
but I've also been
under the impression
00:27:38.29\00:27:39.65
is those who are
well need not a physician,
00:27:39.69\00:27:42.76
those who are
studying, those who are praying,
00:27:42.79\00:27:44.26
those who are witnessing,
00:27:44.29\00:27:45.63
those are letting
their light shine,
00:27:45.66\00:27:47.00
those who are
inviting people to church
00:27:47.03\00:27:48.36
and bringing people to church
00:27:48.40\00:27:49.73
and busy in the
church all the time,
00:27:49.76\00:27:51.10
they're not home for
me to go visit anyway.
00:27:51.13\00:27:54.10
Is that all right?
00:27:54.14\00:27:55.94
They're doing something
for the cause of Christ.
00:27:55.97\00:27:58.24
Yeah, we all
need a visit sometime,
00:27:58.27\00:27:59.64
I understand that.
00:27:59.67\00:28:02.24
We rejoice because of
the power that God gives us,
00:28:02.28\00:28:05.25
that he can boldly say,
00:28:05.28\00:28:07.18
and offer us He's,
Kenny, you can be free from sin.
00:28:07.22\00:28:11.49
I'll give you that
power in your life.
00:28:11.52\00:28:14.76
So before we maybe
continue on with this study,
00:28:14.79\00:28:17.09
I want to make
something very, very clear.
00:28:17.13\00:28:19.26
The Bible and the
Spirit of Prophecy,
00:28:19.29\00:28:20.90
I'm a believer in both,
00:28:20.93\00:28:23.20
clearly teaches victory over sin
00:28:23.23\00:28:25.87
is possible in this life.
00:28:25.90\00:28:28.14
Let me give you a
couple of reasons.
00:28:28.17\00:28:29.50
Victory over sin is what?
00:28:29.54\00:28:31.04
Now if you don't,
you're teaching something
00:28:31.07\00:28:33.58
and you're believing something
that is a lie of the devil.
00:28:33.61\00:28:36.58
I might as well just say that
00:28:36.61\00:28:37.95
and then you can
get mad if you want to.
00:28:37.98\00:28:39.41
But then we'll go
to the Word of God
00:28:39.45\00:28:40.78
and we'll just see
00:28:40.82\00:28:42.15
what the Bible
has to say about it.
00:28:42.18\00:28:44.49
One of the main reasons,
listen, one of the main reasons
00:28:44.52\00:28:47.36
that Jesus came to this
earth was to number one, prove.
00:28:47.39\00:28:52.43
He came to this earth to prove
00:28:52.46\00:28:54.13
or to give a
living demonstration
00:28:54.16\00:28:58.33
that it's possible
for the human being.
00:28:58.37\00:29:01.40
Notice this, by
the grace of God,
00:29:01.44\00:29:04.24
did you get it?
00:29:04.27\00:29:05.71
You can't do it on your
own, by the grace of God be
00:29:05.74\00:29:08.38
and be a
partaker of divine nature
00:29:08.41\00:29:11.65
to live without sinning.
00:29:11.68\00:29:13.58
Lord, have mercy on my soul.
00:29:13.62\00:29:16.72
Nobody's saying
we've reached that here
00:29:16.75\00:29:18.09
and I'm throwing out
00:29:18.12\00:29:19.45
what the Bible has
to say, did you notice?
00:29:19.49\00:29:21.86
We can live by the
grace of God without sinning.
00:29:21.89\00:29:25.26
Now, who am I dealing with here?
00:29:25.29\00:29:28.13
I'm dealing with Jesus who
is my example in all thing.
00:29:28.16\00:29:30.83
I'm dealing with
my Lord and Savior
00:29:30.87\00:29:32.27
who came to this earth, right?
00:29:32.30\00:29:33.67
Clothe His divinity, right?
00:29:33.70\00:29:35.77
With humanity, subject to
all things just like we are.
00:29:35.80\00:29:40.14
He didn't go and
helped for Himself
00:29:40.18\00:29:42.58
that we cannot have.
00:29:42.61\00:29:44.41
He set the
example, He's the only one
00:29:44.45\00:29:46.51
in the history of this world
00:29:46.55\00:29:47.88
that defeated the devil,
all the rest of us are losers.
00:29:47.92\00:29:51.72
Amen. Is that okay?
00:29:51.75\00:29:54.96
It's the truth.
Loser is a sinner.
00:29:54.99\00:29:57.93
We've all sinned and come
short of the glory of God.
00:29:57.96\00:30:00.20
Every person who's ever come
on this earth lost the battle,
00:30:00.23\00:30:04.63
except for one, that was Jesus,
00:30:04.67\00:30:06.20
the most important one
and He offers that to me
00:30:06.23\00:30:08.47
because I'm a failure.
00:30:08.50\00:30:10.71
Man, that's good news.
He speaks through the fire.
00:30:10.74\00:30:13.88
Amen.
00:30:13.91\00:30:15.24
He burns back the bushes
00:30:15.28\00:30:16.61
and the messes in our life
and reveals His face to us,
00:30:16.64\00:30:20.45
His wisdom to us.
00:30:20.48\00:30:23.35
Oh, I mean, what was
the great issue all along?
00:30:23.39\00:30:27.96
What's been the
great issue all the time
00:30:27.99\00:30:29.96
in earth's history?
00:30:29.99\00:30:31.69
And the great controversy,
00:30:31.73\00:30:33.06
the great issue between God
and Lucifer, Satan was what?
00:30:33.09\00:30:36.77
Somebody say the law of God.
00:30:36.80\00:30:38.63
The law of God, the debate
started up there and my we say,
00:30:38.67\00:30:41.97
6000 years later, we're still
debating it in the world today.
00:30:42.00\00:30:45.57
How sad that is.
00:30:45.61\00:30:46.98
The devil is not
going to let it go.
00:30:47.01\00:30:49.04
You have to let it
go, I have to let it go
00:30:49.08\00:30:50.78
because the Word of
God becomes very clear.
00:30:50.81\00:30:53.42
It's whether or not we
can obey the law of God,
00:30:53.45\00:30:56.05
please, if
you've done it before,
00:30:56.08\00:30:58.05
I've done it maybe for
years in the past and so on.
00:30:58.09\00:31:00.16
But being
raised in the movement,
00:31:00.19\00:31:01.52
you're kind of
taught from a child,
00:31:01.56\00:31:03.59
but then you have
to get into the Word
00:31:03.63\00:31:05.16
and study to show
yourself approved unto God.
00:31:05.19\00:31:07.86
It wasn't what
the preacher said,
00:31:07.90\00:31:09.23
it's not what
the evangelist says,
00:31:09.26\00:31:11.03
it's not what
somebody that you have respect
00:31:11.07\00:31:12.40
for has said.
00:31:12.43\00:31:13.77
I've went to the Word of
God, I have respect for Christ.
00:31:13.80\00:31:15.67
I have respect for His
Word and I know you do too.
00:31:15.70\00:31:18.47
Whether or not the law
of God could be obeyed.
00:31:18.51\00:31:20.68
Let me read some,
00:31:20.71\00:31:22.04
I love Desire of Ages, do
you have that little book?
00:31:22.08\00:31:24.25
Oh, I hope you have
the Desire of Ages, 761.
00:31:24.28\00:31:27.25
Now remember, I don't read
00:31:27.28\00:31:28.62
anything from the
Spirit of Prophecy
00:31:28.65\00:31:30.59
that I cannot prove
from the Word of God.
00:31:30.62\00:31:32.95
Amen. You cannot do it.
00:31:32.99\00:31:34.32
The principles will be
there, always will be there
00:31:34.36\00:31:37.96
because we have to
be able to detect that
00:31:37.99\00:31:39.89
or we're trying to project
00:31:39.93\00:31:41.26
something that is not in
scripture and that's wrong.
00:31:41.30\00:31:43.60
It was in scripture first,
00:31:43.63\00:31:45.27
the great light
and our lesser light
00:31:45.30\00:31:47.24
is to the greater.
00:31:47.27\00:31:48.70
Desire of Ages,
761 says, notice this,
00:31:48.74\00:31:51.11
see if it makes sense.
00:31:51.14\00:31:52.64
"When men broke the law of God,
00:31:52.67\00:31:55.28
defiled His
will, Satan exalted."
00:31:55.31\00:31:58.81
You look up that
word, you know what it says?
00:31:58.85\00:32:00.58
When man sin, it
said Satan leaped for joy.
00:32:00.62\00:32:04.75
He leaped for joy, oh boy.
00:32:04.79\00:32:07.02
He said, oh boy it's proof now.
00:32:07.06\00:32:09.29
He declared that the
law could not be obeyed.
00:32:09.32\00:32:12.73
Remember, in
heaven, what did he say?
00:32:12.76\00:32:14.23
The law of God
could not be obeyed.
00:32:14.26\00:32:16.30
Well, is people saying in
the Christian world today?
00:32:16.33\00:32:18.07
The law can't be obeyed.
00:32:18.10\00:32:19.90
Who told it
first? The Devil told it?
00:32:19.93\00:32:22.47
The law can't
be, he said Oh boy,
00:32:22.50\00:32:23.84
oh, it can't be.
00:32:23.87\00:32:25.21
See, I told you
that couldn't be.
00:32:25.24\00:32:27.21
Now, he said this is good news
00:32:27.24\00:32:28.64
because man
cannot have forgiveness.
00:32:28.68\00:32:33.52
And what was he speaking from?
00:32:33.55\00:32:34.88
He said, I'm speaking
from my own experience
00:32:34.92\00:32:36.52
because when I rebelled
in heaven, what happened?
00:32:36.55\00:32:39.62
I was banished from heaven.
00:32:39.65\00:32:41.32
I was banished from heaven.
00:32:41.36\00:32:44.29
And so Satan
said now, telling God,
00:32:44.33\00:32:46.83
listen now, I was
banished from the human race,
00:32:46.86\00:32:48.86
I was banished from there, now,
00:32:48.90\00:32:50.23
the human race is forever
00:32:50.27\00:32:52.43
now shut out from your presence.
00:32:52.47\00:32:54.70
That means if they were shut out
00:32:54.74\00:32:56.07
from God's presence
and no way to get back
00:32:56.10\00:32:57.77
that he had them all.
00:32:57.81\00:33:00.21
And he's going to
really rule the world,
00:33:00.24\00:33:02.21
the world could
not be taken back,
00:33:02.24\00:33:04.48
if that was a fact.
00:33:04.51\00:33:08.02
He said, God cannot be just
00:33:08.05\00:33:11.92
and he urged
00:33:11.95\00:33:13.29
and still yet show
mercy to the sinner.
00:33:13.32\00:33:16.93
Remember, the
wages of sin is what?
00:33:16.96\00:33:18.79
Death. Is death.
00:33:18.83\00:33:20.43
So he said, they've all sinned
and come short of the glory,
00:33:20.46\00:33:22.56
they're worthy of death.
00:33:22.60\00:33:23.93
No, you can't,
00:33:23.97\00:33:25.30
no we can't
show them many mercy.
00:33:25.33\00:33:26.80
Notice how clear this
become, Desire of Ages, 762,
00:33:26.84\00:33:30.74
this, see if this
is not scriptural.
00:33:30.77\00:33:33.98
It all changed because
through, notice this, Jesus.
00:33:34.01\00:33:39.18
Through what? Jesus.
00:33:39.21\00:33:41.88
God's mercy was
manifested to men.
00:33:41.92\00:33:45.42
Notice, mercy does
never sets aside justice.
00:33:45.45\00:33:50.13
Get it? Mercy never sets aside.
00:33:50.16\00:33:52.76
We have mercy sometime
00:33:52.79\00:33:54.13
and we don't follow
through with what we should
00:33:54.16\00:33:55.73
we're even correcting the kids
00:33:55.76\00:33:57.10
and different things
sometime, but you notice what?
00:33:57.13\00:33:59.10
Mercy does not
set aside justice.
00:33:59.13\00:34:02.64
The law reveals
the attributes of what?
00:34:02.67\00:34:06.57
Does any of us big enough
00:34:06.61\00:34:07.94
to try to get rid of
the attributes of God?
00:34:07.98\00:34:09.84
I don't think you
want to challenge God.
00:34:09.88\00:34:12.35
The attributes
of God's character.
00:34:12.38\00:34:15.12
And the Bible said not one jot
00:34:15.15\00:34:16.95
or tittle will no
wise pass from what?
00:34:16.99\00:34:20.56
The law. The law
until all be what?
00:34:20.59\00:34:22.66
I'm going to read that to you,
00:34:22.69\00:34:24.03
some of you is
not going to get that,
00:34:24.06\00:34:25.39
you're going to fight me on it.
00:34:25.43\00:34:26.76
Fight the Word of
God, this is plain as day.
00:34:26.80\00:34:31.17
Almost as plain as I see you.
00:34:31.20\00:34:32.53
I don't see you too
plain, but I'm telling you.
00:34:32.57\00:34:36.30
Matthew Chapter 5.
00:34:36.34\00:34:37.91
The Bible says,
Matthew Chapter 5,
00:34:37.94\00:34:40.38
starting with verse 17.
00:34:40.41\00:34:42.11
Here's what the Bible says,
00:34:42.14\00:34:43.48
I love it when
you talk about this.
00:34:43.51\00:34:44.85
Well, this is
what God's Word says.
00:34:44.88\00:34:47.08
Now notice, people say what?
00:34:47.12\00:34:48.45
"No, no God's law
is done away with.
00:34:48.48\00:34:49.82
New Testament we no
longer have to keep God's law."
00:34:49.85\00:34:51.55
You'd better be careful that
becomes a commandment breaker.
00:34:51.59\00:34:55.62
And notice the
life of Jesus Christ.
00:34:55.66\00:34:57.19
Well, I follow the
life of Jesus Christ,
00:34:57.23\00:34:58.59
I follow Jesus Christ.
00:34:58.63\00:34:59.96
If you do, then you
will want to keep the law.
00:35:00.00\00:35:02.26
I just point that
out and then come back
00:35:02.30\00:35:03.63
and do some
proving as we go along.
00:35:03.67\00:35:05.03
Verse 17, Jesus said
Himself when He was challenged,
00:35:05.07\00:35:09.07
Jesus said Himself,
He was challenged about
00:35:09.10\00:35:11.04
keeping the law
and so on and so forth.
00:35:11.07\00:35:12.87
And what did He say?
00:35:12.91\00:35:14.81
"Think not that I am
come to destroy the..."
00:35:14.84\00:35:19.21
Ooh, think not that I
have come to, oh, oh my.
00:35:19.25\00:35:24.05
Think not that I'm
come to destroy the law
00:35:24.09\00:35:26.55
or the prophets.
00:35:26.59\00:35:28.62
I am not come
to destroy, but to?
00:35:28.66\00:35:31.03
Fulfill. The surface reader.
00:35:31.06\00:35:34.73
I'm going to land
on the surface reader,
00:35:34.76\00:35:36.20
is that okay to do that?
00:35:36.23\00:35:37.60
Surface reader will say,
00:35:37.63\00:35:38.97
that right there,
that's what I said,
00:35:39.00\00:35:40.67
he came to fulfill
it, it's all fulfilled.
00:35:40.70\00:35:42.87
My lands, just
get out the Greek.
00:35:42.90\00:35:45.44
Just get out the
original writings,
00:35:45.47\00:35:47.24
know what that word means there.
00:35:47.28\00:35:48.91
To fulfill
means to fill it full.
00:35:48.94\00:35:51.65
God came to show His
law and to fill it full.
00:35:51.68\00:35:55.68
Play-ro'-o is the
Greek and it simply means,
00:35:55.72\00:35:59.49
notice this, not to destroy.
00:35:59.52\00:36:03.02
Jesus said I
didn't come to destroy it.
00:36:03.06\00:36:04.76
That's exactly
what He said beforehand,
00:36:04.79\00:36:06.73
but we take the
little word fulfill
00:36:06.76\00:36:08.33
and the devil is fooled millions
00:36:08.36\00:36:09.96
in the world today.
00:36:10.00\00:36:11.33
He said, I came to show
you what it's all about.
00:36:11.37\00:36:13.90
This is what
it's filled up with.
00:36:13.94\00:36:16.30
The love given
gave the true meaning
00:36:16.34\00:36:19.27
of the precepts
here that we're reading.
00:36:19.31\00:36:22.11
The law giver, listen carefully,
00:36:22.14\00:36:23.85
the law giver Himself.
00:36:23.88\00:36:26.78
Would that be Jesus? Yes.
00:36:26.82\00:36:28.15
Absolutely, who's on the mount.
00:36:28.18\00:36:31.15
The law giver
Himself, notice this,
00:36:31.19\00:36:33.56
reaffirms what He said
on Mount Sinai right here.
00:36:33.59\00:36:37.16
He's reaffirming for me
00:36:37.19\00:36:38.83
what He said in
the Old Testament,
00:36:38.86\00:36:40.20
He's reaffirming it
here in the New Testament.
00:36:40.23\00:36:42.80
They said,
"Now, this is binding,
00:36:42.83\00:36:46.13
My law is
binding on all subjects
00:36:46.17\00:36:49.40
that's going to be in heaven."
00:36:49.44\00:36:51.67
Oh, God think,
it's going to be on
00:36:51.71\00:36:54.04
those who are My
subjects and listen.
00:36:54.08\00:36:55.81
And then He says,
00:36:55.84\00:36:57.18
if anyone teaches
anything different,
00:36:57.21\00:37:00.25
anyone tries to annul it,
somebody tries to change it,
00:37:00.28\00:37:03.39
you're not going to be there.
00:37:03.42\00:37:05.52
Now, who has the audacity?
00:37:05.55\00:37:09.29
Praise God, He's standing up
00:37:09.32\00:37:10.66
for what is right, Jesus
is standing for what is right.
00:37:10.69\00:37:12.59
But man is trying to stand
up and be in the place of God
00:37:12.63\00:37:15.36
and say, Oh, that's
different, that is fulfilled.
00:37:15.40\00:37:17.93
If it came to an end,
00:37:17.97\00:37:19.30
that means that there
will be no sin in the world,
00:37:19.33\00:37:21.17
you can do
anything you want to do,
00:37:21.20\00:37:22.54
anytime you wanted to do it.
00:37:22.57\00:37:23.91
Romans 3 says,
"Where, there is no law,
00:37:23.94\00:37:25.27
there is no sin."
00:37:25.31\00:37:27.58
But notice what he said,
00:37:27.61\00:37:28.94
here's this, if
you're saying today,
00:37:28.98\00:37:30.31
we don't worry about it,
00:37:30.35\00:37:31.68
it's all been fulfilled,
we're just under Grace.
00:37:31.71\00:37:33.05
Praise God for grace.
Man, I can't say it enough.
00:37:33.08\00:37:36.48
I know what
Ephesians 2:8-9 talks about,
00:37:36.52\00:37:38.59
"By grace are you
saved through faith,
00:37:38.62\00:37:40.49
it is a gift."
00:37:40.52\00:37:41.92
I understand
that, it's not by works,
00:37:41.96\00:37:43.83
I hope we have time
to get into some of that.
00:37:43.86\00:37:45.26
Not by works at all.
00:37:45.29\00:37:47.33
People can accuse
Adventists all they want
00:37:47.36\00:37:48.86
and some of them
are works orientated.
00:37:48.90\00:37:50.87
Some of them almost, I
almost said makes me sick.
00:37:50.90\00:37:53.50
I don't think I
can say that, can I?
00:37:53.54\00:37:56.34
Because it turns
people off the way
00:37:56.37\00:37:58.07
in which they do it.
00:37:58.11\00:37:59.44
Rather than simply
say it's not by works,
00:37:59.47\00:38:02.58
lest a man should boast.
00:38:02.61\00:38:05.01
It's by grace, but that
again, grace and justice, mercy,
00:38:05.05\00:38:08.78
doesn't it?
00:38:08.82\00:38:10.15
Let me just keep going.
00:38:10.19\00:38:11.55
Here's what Jesus said anyway,
you talk to Jesus about it.
00:38:11.59\00:38:14.72
Surely nobody
here but there'll be
00:38:14.76\00:38:16.09
many at sound of my voice,
"Whosoever there shall break
00:38:16.12\00:38:19.36
one of these
least commandments."
00:38:19.39\00:38:21.73
If you break how many? One.
00:38:21.76\00:38:23.57
Just one of the
least of these commandment
00:38:23.60\00:38:25.77
and then you teach other men so,
00:38:25.80\00:38:27.70
he shall be called
the least in the kingdom.
00:38:27.74\00:38:29.94
Here we go again,
the dirty lying Devil.
00:38:29.97\00:38:33.01
He goes and says to the people
and I've had people say it,
00:38:33.04\00:38:35.64
"Oh, well, I know what it says.
00:38:35.68\00:38:37.15
Well, I'm going to
be there because well,
00:38:37.18\00:38:39.51
I'm going to be
called the least,
00:38:39.55\00:38:40.88
but I'm going to be there."
00:38:40.92\00:38:42.25
No, it means you're
call least in heaven,
00:38:42.28\00:38:43.62
and you ain't going to be there.
00:38:43.65\00:38:45.02
That's right. Is that okay?
00:38:45.05\00:38:46.39
Did you get it?
00:38:46.42\00:38:47.76
Don't let someone tell you,
00:38:47.79\00:38:49.12
"Well, I can go
ahead and be there,
00:38:49.16\00:38:50.49
I'll just be called the least."
00:38:50.53\00:38:51.86
That's not what
it's saying at all.
00:38:51.89\00:38:53.23
If heaven calls you
the least as it were,
00:38:53.26\00:38:54.70
you're not going to be there
00:38:54.73\00:38:56.06
and then it gets
even clearer as we go.
00:38:56.10\00:38:58.37
Notice what it says,
00:38:58.40\00:38:59.73
"For I say unto
you," who's talking?
00:38:59.77\00:39:01.50
Jesus is talking.
00:39:01.54\00:39:02.87
Listen, "That
except your righteousness
00:39:02.90\00:39:05.24
exceed the
righteousness of the," what?
00:39:05.27\00:39:07.28
"Scribes and the Pharisees,
00:39:07.31\00:39:08.94
ye shall in no case
enter the kingdom of heaven."
00:39:08.98\00:39:13.42
That's clear.
00:39:13.45\00:39:14.78
Ye shall not,
anybody that's trying to say,
00:39:14.82\00:39:16.42
"Oh well, we can break
the least of these command,
00:39:16.45\00:39:18.49
well, we don't
have to worry about it.
00:39:18.52\00:39:19.85
We're teaching other men
that the law is done away with."
00:39:19.89\00:39:21.99
You better be careful
00:39:22.02\00:39:23.49
because Jesus is
speaking to you here.
00:39:23.53\00:39:25.66
Because it either is
all is or it's all not.
00:39:25.69\00:39:29.06
That's what it boils
down to as we study on, like,
00:39:29.10\00:39:31.73
we'll see that
a little bit more.
00:39:31.77\00:39:33.27
Thank God for Jesus.
00:39:33.30\00:39:36.04
Jesus said, "I came to meet
man in his fallen condition."
00:39:36.07\00:39:41.01
Isn't He wonderful?
00:39:41.04\00:39:42.38
He came to meet you where?
00:39:42.41\00:39:44.18
In your fallen condition
00:39:44.21\00:39:45.55
because you fell
flat on your nose
00:39:45.58\00:39:46.92
just like the
rest of everybody has.
00:39:46.95\00:39:49.52
There's no help, we're
under the death penalty.
00:39:49.55\00:39:52.89
There's no way we could get out
00:39:52.92\00:39:54.39
except for
Jesus willing to come.
00:39:54.42\00:39:56.22
That should bless your heart.
00:39:56.26\00:39:57.59
He's speaking through
the fire here for us today.
00:39:57.63\00:40:01.60
I'm going to meet man
in his fallen condition.
00:40:01.63\00:40:05.23
Now notice, to meet man
in his fallen condition,
00:40:05.27\00:40:08.27
notice this, God
did not change His law.
00:40:08.30\00:40:13.24
Remember?
00:40:13.27\00:40:14.61
They said, "Well, the
law has been changed now
00:40:14.64\00:40:16.24
and the cross proves it."
00:40:16.28\00:40:17.61
He did not change His law.
00:40:17.65\00:40:19.58
But notice this,
God, come on church,
00:40:19.61\00:40:22.62
God sacrificed Himself in
Christ for man's redemption.
00:40:22.65\00:40:27.79
Amen. This is heavy duty.
00:40:27.82\00:40:30.49
It'd been easy to
say the law's done,
00:40:30.53\00:40:31.99
well, we broke the law here.
00:40:32.03\00:40:33.76
Why crucify Jesus?
Why go through this mess?
00:40:33.80\00:40:36.50
Let's just change
things a little bit.
00:40:36.53\00:40:37.90
Right.
00:40:37.93\00:40:39.27
It could not be changed,
00:40:39.30\00:40:40.64
it's as eternal
as God's throne is.
00:40:40.67\00:40:42.87
It's God's
Word, we cannot do it.
00:40:42.90\00:40:45.07
So he didn't attempt to change,
00:40:45.11\00:40:46.44
God didn't, the
devil tried to change it.
00:40:46.47\00:40:48.51
Daniel 7:25, "He shall
think to change times and laws."
00:40:48.54\00:40:52.88
But God was so involved
in the plan of salvation,
00:40:52.91\00:40:55.88
we talk about
Jesus all the time.
00:40:55.92\00:40:57.82
Let me just read
you one passage, please.
00:40:57.85\00:40:59.22
2 Corinthians 5:19.
00:40:59.25\00:41:01.72
2 Corinthians 5:19,
just a quick line or two,
00:41:01.76\00:41:04.83
notice what it says.
00:41:04.86\00:41:06.26
Now what did God do?
00:41:06.29\00:41:08.66
He sacrificed Himself in who?
00:41:08.70\00:41:11.43
In Christ Jesus
for man's redemption.
00:41:11.47\00:41:14.54
This tells us in 2
Corinthians 5:19 tells us,
00:41:14.57\00:41:17.87
"God was in Christ," come on,
00:41:17.91\00:41:21.24
"reconciling the
world to Himself."
00:41:21.28\00:41:23.98
Bring us back
because we were lost,
00:41:24.01\00:41:26.75
we were
separated, we were alienated,
00:41:26.78\00:41:29.58
there's no way we
could get back to Him.
00:41:29.62\00:41:32.15
God put Himself
out there as it were,
00:41:32.19\00:41:34.22
through His Son, Jesus Christ.
00:41:34.26\00:41:36.59
Bring the world back.
00:41:36.62\00:41:37.96
I mean, Romans 3:26,
00:41:37.99\00:41:39.33
just jot it down and
read it when you can.
00:41:39.36\00:41:41.13
Why?
00:41:41.16\00:41:42.50
Because God, notice
this, "God can be just,
00:41:42.53\00:41:45.90
and the justifier of him
00:41:45.93\00:41:48.44
which believeth
in Jesus Christ."
00:41:48.47\00:41:50.71
He's, what is He?
00:41:50.74\00:41:52.97
Can be just and the justifier
00:41:53.01\00:41:56.24
because of the great sacrifice.
00:41:56.28\00:41:59.45
My brothers and sisters,
00:41:59.48\00:42:00.82
it's by His life,
it's by His death.
00:42:00.85\00:42:05.45
Jesus proved God's justice,
00:42:05.49\00:42:08.96
notice, did not
destroy His mercy.
00:42:08.99\00:42:13.40
But that sin, praise
God, listen, where we shout,
00:42:13.43\00:42:15.76
where sin could be forgiven.
00:42:15.80\00:42:18.73
And the law of the
Bible said is righteous.
00:42:18.77\00:42:22.97
In Psalms 19:7,
00:42:23.00\00:42:24.57
the Bible said
the law is perfect.
00:42:24.61\00:42:27.68
Now, you may not
be able to stand that,
00:42:27.71\00:42:29.04
but that's too bad.
00:42:29.08\00:42:30.41
Psalm 19:7, the law is
perfect and what does it do?
00:42:30.45\00:42:33.21
It converts the soul.
00:42:33.25\00:42:35.05
What does the law do now?
00:42:35.08\00:42:36.42
Turn around, oh, the
law is done away with.
00:42:36.45\00:42:37.79
No, my Bible just said
that the law is perfect,
00:42:37.82\00:42:39.89
it converts the soul.
00:42:39.92\00:42:41.92
The Bible says
that law is righteous.
00:42:41.96\00:42:44.19
Amen.
00:42:44.23\00:42:45.99
Psalms 1:11:7 says,
00:42:46.03\00:42:49.20
"His words are
sure, they're steadfast."
00:42:49.23\00:42:52.57
Isn't that wonderful?
00:42:52.60\00:42:54.30
Verse 8, says, notice
this, "They stand fast forever."
00:42:54.34\00:42:58.61
Amen.
00:42:58.64\00:42:59.97
If you really look at the Bible,
00:43:00.01\00:43:01.34
you'll say, my, Romans 7:12,
00:43:01.38\00:43:02.91
"Therefore the law is holy
00:43:02.94\00:43:04.31
and it's just and it's good."
00:43:04.35\00:43:06.25
If it's holy and it's
just and it's good and my,
00:43:06.28\00:43:09.32
it's just so wonderful that
00:43:09.35\00:43:11.85
God was willing to lay this out
00:43:11.89\00:43:13.32
so clear for us,
we should be shouting.
00:43:13.36\00:43:15.22
Amen.
00:43:15.26\00:43:16.59
The law is holy,
it's just and it's good.
00:43:16.62\00:43:19.63
Which man, which
woman who has the audacity
00:43:19.66\00:43:22.36
to stand up
00:43:22.40\00:43:23.73
and say that's
not what it means?
00:43:23.77\00:43:25.23
Oh, none of us
would do that surely.
00:43:25.27\00:43:26.97
Or there's going to
be some in the world,
00:43:27.00\00:43:28.34
I know if you understand that,
00:43:28.37\00:43:30.41
but the Bible says,
that' what we look at.
00:43:30.44\00:43:33.98
Oh, you'll say, "Well,
yeah, but the law, you know it."
00:43:34.01\00:43:36.18
Why is it that people get
upset when you mention law?
00:43:36.21\00:43:39.88
Everybody don't get upset.
00:43:39.91\00:43:41.25
Nowadays they're
getting upset now
00:43:41.28\00:43:42.88
'cause you mentioned
the law and they say,
00:43:42.92\00:43:44.25
"Well, we don't
want police anymore.
00:43:44.29\00:43:45.89
We don't want rules, we
don't want regulations."
00:43:45.92\00:43:47.99
They're doing that
morally too, you realize it.
00:43:48.02\00:43:50.36
But listen, the law that
I'm talking about is spiritual.
00:43:50.39\00:43:54.13
How do I know that?
00:43:54.16\00:43:55.63
Now, if it's spiritual,
you don't want to change it,
00:43:55.66\00:43:57.77
you don't want to dab with it,
you don't want to mess with it
00:43:57.80\00:44:00.60
because the Book of
Romans Chapter, what is it?
00:44:00.64\00:44:02.64
7:14.
00:44:02.67\00:44:06.27
The Bible says,
"The law is spiritual."
00:44:06.31\00:44:09.71
That just puts an end
00:44:09.74\00:44:11.08
to it right
there, it's spiritual.
00:44:11.11\00:44:13.08
That's way beyond us, is it not?
00:44:13.11\00:44:15.22
And the Devil would have me
00:44:15.25\00:44:16.58
and you to have the
audacity to say, "Yeah, but."
00:44:16.62\00:44:19.39
No one wants to do that.
00:44:19.42\00:44:21.92
God spoke, God
wrote, God revealed it,
00:44:21.96\00:44:27.40
He prepared the hearts
00:44:27.43\00:44:28.76
and the minds of the
people to receive it.
00:44:28.80\00:44:31.87
Now, let me just remember,
00:44:31.90\00:44:33.60
if you say that the
law has been changed?
00:44:33.64\00:44:37.11
If you say maybe it's
been annulled or abolished.
00:44:37.14\00:44:41.91
Let me put this out to you,
00:44:41.94\00:44:43.28
Christ would not
have needed to die.
00:44:43.31\00:44:46.51
Is that true?
It's simple, all right?
00:44:46.55\00:44:48.62
Listen, if it
could have been changed,
00:44:48.65\00:44:50.12
annulled, done away with,
00:44:50.15\00:44:51.49
Christ would
not have had to die.
00:44:51.52\00:44:52.85
Why would He go
through what He went through?
00:44:52.89\00:44:54.22
It's because it could not be.
00:44:54.26\00:44:55.79
The greatest
argument in the world for the,
00:44:55.82\00:44:58.16
you know, the law being
valid is the cross of Calvary
00:44:58.19\00:45:02.06
and the Devil
turned right around
00:45:02.10\00:45:03.60
and used that same
argument to say it's not valid
00:45:03.63\00:45:06.94
because since He
died then we're free.
00:45:06.97\00:45:09.17
Right.
00:45:09.20\00:45:10.54
See how the enemy
will use even truth,
00:45:10.57\00:45:11.91
but try to reverse it
00:45:11.94\00:45:13.27
and most people
love to hear that anyway.
00:45:13.31\00:45:16.75
Remember, if the law of God,
let me throw this out to you,
00:45:16.78\00:45:19.91
throw it back if you want to.
00:45:19.95\00:45:21.28
Don't throw it on
shoes, don't get all excited.
00:45:21.32\00:45:24.72
If the law could
have been changed,
00:45:24.75\00:45:26.29
if, and it could now be,
00:45:26.32\00:45:28.92
could have been
changed or abolished,
00:45:28.96\00:45:31.53
this world would have forever
00:45:31.56\00:45:35.40
been under Satan's control.
00:45:35.43\00:45:37.80
Amen. Did anybody get it?
00:45:37.83\00:45:40.04
If it could have been
changed or annulled, that law,
00:45:40.07\00:45:42.37
see that's why
God was standing firm
00:45:42.40\00:45:44.04
and Jesus went and
come and die for it
00:45:44.07\00:45:46.24
because He was not going to
00:45:46.27\00:45:47.61
have the Devil
to rule this world.
00:45:47.64\00:45:49.54
He said man lost it,
00:45:49.58\00:45:51.38
I gave them
everything and they lost it,
00:45:51.41\00:45:53.11
but I'm going to come back,
00:45:53.15\00:45:54.48
you know, I'm
going to win it back.
00:45:54.52\00:45:55.88
Praise God, He said,
I'm going to win it back.
00:45:55.92\00:45:57.75
Amen.
00:45:57.79\00:45:59.29
So to me, it was
00:45:59.32\00:46:00.66
because the law of
God was changeless.
00:46:00.69\00:46:05.46
It's only through the
obedience to the precepts
00:46:05.49\00:46:08.96
that Jesus was
lifted up on the cross.
00:46:09.00\00:46:12.27
That's Calvary because
it couldn't be changed,
00:46:12.30\00:46:15.70
He had to go to the cross.
00:46:15.74\00:46:19.47
Man, that's pretty heavy duty.
00:46:19.51\00:46:21.74
It's something we
need to think about
00:46:21.78\00:46:23.11
and we need to be
working by the grace of God.
00:46:23.14\00:46:26.92
I mean, who
would say here today,
00:46:26.95\00:46:30.59
who would argue with
00:46:30.62\00:46:31.95
what the Bible talks about here?
00:46:31.99\00:46:35.16
When you talk about His voice
00:46:35.19\00:46:37.13
and His finger and He wrote
and He gave and He told Moses,
00:46:37.16\00:46:39.43
take all of this now
00:46:39.46\00:46:40.80
and bring it to
the people's attention
00:46:40.83\00:46:42.40
and tell them
again before then because
00:46:42.43\00:46:44.00
all the others
died in the wilderness
00:46:44.03\00:46:45.37
because they didn't obey My laws
00:46:45.40\00:46:47.00
and My saying and
what I ask them to do.
00:46:47.04\00:46:48.54
They didn't want to be obedient,
00:46:48.57\00:46:49.90
they didn't make it,
they're all dead out there now
00:46:49.94\00:46:51.67
and I don't want this
other group to be like that.
00:46:51.71\00:46:53.64
Please go back and
rehearse it over them again.
00:46:53.68\00:46:56.34
Who has the audacity to say,
00:46:56.38\00:46:57.91
"Well, the Ten
Commandment law is faulty?"
00:46:57.95\00:47:01.28
Faulty? Who wrote it?
00:47:01.32\00:47:05.72
We may not say it,
00:47:05.75\00:47:07.09
but we're saying
it when we say that
00:47:07.12\00:47:08.46
it's done away with.
00:47:08.49\00:47:10.76
Who has the audacity to
say it needs to be changed?
00:47:10.79\00:47:13.70
I don't think
anybody needs to say, why?
00:47:13.73\00:47:15.10
Because God did,
everything He does is perfect,
00:47:15.13\00:47:16.83
we understand they
need to be changed.
00:47:16.87\00:47:20.20
Who would have the
audacity to say to say that
00:47:20.24\00:47:21.57
we don't need it anymore?
00:47:21.60\00:47:23.64
Listen, that's exactly
00:47:23.67\00:47:25.01
what the world is
saying out there today.
00:47:25.04\00:47:27.08
Basically, we
don't need any law,
00:47:27.11\00:47:29.68
we don't need anyone
and look what's happening?
00:47:29.71\00:47:32.78
More killings, more
shooting, more drive-by,
00:47:32.81\00:47:34.48
the world's getting
worse and worse and worse
00:47:34.52\00:47:35.85
because they want it, right?
00:47:35.88\00:47:37.85
They don't want any
laws, they govern themselves.
00:47:37.89\00:47:39.89
They want to govern themselves.
00:47:39.92\00:47:42.62
I mean, didn't God...
00:47:42.66\00:47:44.89
I heard somebody last
night, he was a professor
00:47:44.93\00:47:49.86
and that's okay, but
listen on what he said.
00:47:49.90\00:47:53.03
I don't care what
kind of credentials
00:47:53.07\00:47:55.34
he has, is it
okay to be that way?
00:47:55.37\00:47:57.67
The credentials
don't make you something.
00:47:57.71\00:48:00.01
Before his name, after
his name or whatever it is,
00:48:00.04\00:48:01.88
it really doesn't.
00:48:01.91\00:48:03.24
But basically,
brought into the point
00:48:03.28\00:48:04.68
there that God did allow things
00:48:04.71\00:48:07.25
because He basically
didn't realize all the changes
00:48:07.28\00:48:09.72
that would take
place in this world.
00:48:09.75\00:48:12.15
And He's still
teaching in some schools,
00:48:12.19\00:48:13.59
oh, my lands of love.
00:48:13.62\00:48:15.36
I told Chris,
"Get him off of there,
00:48:15.39\00:48:16.93
I can't stand no more."
00:48:16.96\00:48:18.29
Is that okay?
00:48:18.33\00:48:19.66
I can't stand no
more of those lies.
00:48:19.69\00:48:21.13
You'll never, you
can take God by surprise,
00:48:21.16\00:48:24.03
everything is all mapped out.
00:48:24.07\00:48:26.74
God knew the Old Testament,
God knew the New Testament.
00:48:26.77\00:48:30.47
He knew the old covenant
and knew the new covenant
00:48:30.51\00:48:32.67
and the old covenant and what?
00:48:32.71\00:48:34.04
The new covenant is virtually
the same as the old covenant,
00:48:34.08\00:48:35.98
I'm going to put My law,
00:48:36.01\00:48:37.35
you had them on
the tables of stone.
00:48:37.38\00:48:38.71
Now, on the new covenant,
00:48:38.75\00:48:40.08
I want you to put them
in your heart and your mind
00:48:40.12\00:48:41.45
so that when temptation
comes, you're going to say,
00:48:41.48\00:48:42.82
thou shall not
kill, okay, I got it.
00:48:42.85\00:48:45.15
Come on, it's so simple.
00:48:45.19\00:48:46.62
Don't make a big deal of it
00:48:46.65\00:48:47.99
like some people
try to make a deal.
00:48:48.02\00:48:49.39
Amen.
00:48:49.42\00:48:50.76
Remember, it just
takes one precept.
00:48:50.79\00:48:53.13
Oh, the Ten Commandments
00:48:53.16\00:48:55.83
is done away with and
you say, "Oh, really?"
00:48:55.86\00:48:57.30
Can you kill? No.
00:48:57.33\00:48:58.67
Can you steal? Can
you murder? No, no, no.
00:48:58.70\00:49:01.40
It always boils down to
only the fourth Commandment,
00:49:01.44\00:49:03.44
the seventh day Sabbath.
00:49:03.47\00:49:04.97
Amen. It always
boils down to that.
00:49:05.01\00:49:08.41
And my Bible talks about here,
00:49:08.44\00:49:10.21
if we disregard
in just one point,
00:49:10.25\00:49:13.62
we've lost the battle.
00:49:13.65\00:49:15.35
Remember, the Devil said,
the Devil's smarter than that,
00:49:15.38\00:49:17.29
he said, I don't need to
get Kenny on all 10, man,
00:49:17.32\00:49:19.22
just get him on one.
00:49:19.25\00:49:20.59
I see he's weak over here,
00:49:20.62\00:49:21.96
look at him, I see his
eyes, I see what he's up to.
00:49:21.99\00:49:25.36
He does you that way,
00:49:25.39\00:49:26.73
at least they're on
our cases all the time.
00:49:26.76\00:49:29.83
But James 2:10, you know,
00:49:29.86\00:49:31.60
this is just one precept,
00:49:31.63\00:49:36.07
one point that
you foul up on, right?
00:49:36.10\00:49:38.14
How many does Satan, you know?
00:49:38.17\00:49:40.44
How many did Adam and Eve?
00:49:40.48\00:49:41.81
One. One mistake.
00:49:41.84\00:49:43.95
Moses? One.
00:49:43.98\00:49:45.55
Disobey. One.
00:49:45.58\00:49:47.25
He was out.
00:49:47.28\00:49:48.72
And don't tell me
God doesn't love them
00:49:48.75\00:49:50.09
as much He loves me or you.
00:49:50.12\00:49:52.02
Absolutely, He does.
00:49:52.05\00:49:53.39
He's the same God,
yesterday, today and forever,
00:49:53.42\00:49:55.39
please remember that.
00:49:55.42\00:49:56.76
James 2:10 says, notice
this, well, we keep all nine,
00:49:56.79\00:50:00.16
but we don't keep
the fourth one, really?
00:50:00.20\00:50:02.23
My Bible said, James 2:10,
00:50:02.26\00:50:03.80
"Whosoever shall
keep the whole law,
00:50:03.83\00:50:05.67
and yet offend in one
point, he's guilty of all."
00:50:05.70\00:50:10.11
He's guilty of all.
Who's going to fight that?
00:50:10.14\00:50:12.77
You can't.
00:50:12.81\00:50:14.34
So if a man consents
to break one precept,
00:50:14.38\00:50:18.11
he is brought under
the bondage of the enemy.
00:50:18.15\00:50:21.52
You've changed
leaders, that's what Israel did,
00:50:21.55\00:50:24.42
that what did all
through the wilderness,
00:50:24.45\00:50:26.22
they chose another leader.
00:50:26.25\00:50:27.72
You're choosing it and I am too
00:50:27.76\00:50:29.72
if we choose the enemy.
00:50:29.76\00:50:32.19
Satan is going to seek
to control the whole world
00:50:32.23\00:50:36.83
by substituting human laws
for the law of God, is he not?
00:50:36.87\00:50:42.27
Absolutely, he is.
00:50:42.30\00:50:43.81
We see it all
happening right now
00:50:43.84\00:50:45.17
against the Word of God.
00:50:45.21\00:50:48.44
When a person
chooses a life of sin,
00:50:48.48\00:50:51.95
he cuts himself off.
00:50:51.98\00:50:53.31
If you choose the life of sin,
00:50:53.35\00:50:54.68
you cut yourself
off from eternal life.
00:50:54.72\00:50:57.05
God doesn't have to cut you off,
00:50:57.09\00:50:58.42
you cut yourself off.
00:50:58.45\00:51:02.19
Ephesians 4:8,
the Bible says this,
00:51:02.22\00:51:05.23
notice what man has
done who would rather sin.
00:51:05.26\00:51:08.10
Notice this, "He is
alienated from the life of God."
00:51:08.13\00:51:12.17
Did you get it?
00:51:12.20\00:51:13.54
Sin alienates us
from the life of God.
00:51:13.57\00:51:16.60
Proverbs 8:36, "All they
that hate me love death."
00:51:16.64\00:51:22.34
Jesus said those
who hate Him love death
00:51:22.38\00:51:25.41
because that's
what it's going to be
00:51:25.45\00:51:27.38
if we don't choose.
00:51:27.42\00:51:28.75
You can say I
choose Jesus all you want
00:51:28.78\00:51:30.39
and then say we
don't have to be obedient,
00:51:30.42\00:51:32.55
we kind of live
the way we want to live
00:51:32.59\00:51:34.22
and do what we want to
do, keep what we want to.
00:51:34.26\00:51:36.02
It's not going to work,
the world needs to hear it.
00:51:36.06\00:51:38.43
That's right.
00:51:38.46\00:51:39.79
Keep this in mind, no
one needs to be deceived.
00:51:39.83\00:51:43.80
I've said this before,
00:51:43.83\00:51:45.17
God's law is as
sacred as His throne.
00:51:45.20\00:51:47.47
Amen.
00:51:47.50\00:51:48.84
By every man that has come
00:51:48.87\00:51:50.51
into this world is
going to be judged by it.
00:51:50.54\00:51:53.84
How are we going
to be judged by it
00:51:53.88\00:51:55.28
if it's no longer binding?
00:51:55.31\00:51:57.31
If it's no longer in the world,
00:51:57.35\00:51:58.68
isn't that what
we're talking about?
00:51:58.71\00:52:00.15
Every man will be
judged by it. Why?
00:52:00.18\00:52:02.72
Because God's
law is the standard
00:52:02.75\00:52:05.65
by which every
character is to be measured.
00:52:05.69\00:52:09.66
See they have too many people
00:52:09.69\00:52:11.03
with too many different
measuring sticks out there.
00:52:11.06\00:52:12.93
We may... It's not at all.
00:52:12.96\00:52:18.10
James 2:12, the Bible
said, "So speak ye, and so do,
00:52:18.13\00:52:23.20
as they that shall be
judged by the law of liberty."
00:52:23.24\00:52:27.84
Oh, that old
binding law, oh my law.
00:52:27.88\00:52:30.98
My Bible calls
this the law of liberty.
00:52:31.01\00:52:33.42
You lay your head down at
night and you can go to sleep
00:52:33.45\00:52:35.68
because you know you
haven't willfully broken
00:52:35.72\00:52:37.72
any of God's commandments.
00:52:37.75\00:52:39.09
You see?
00:52:39.12\00:52:40.46
Instead of this, oh,
that's old bondage business.
00:52:40.49\00:52:42.69
Somebody needs to wake up
00:52:42.72\00:52:44.06
and start
studying the Word of God.
00:52:44.09\00:52:45.73
Now, I want to
be honest with you,
00:52:45.76\00:52:47.10
I want to be open with you
and we're near not enough time,
00:52:47.13\00:52:49.06
my land, somebody pray.
00:52:49.10\00:52:50.80
Law of liberty.
00:52:50.83\00:52:53.13
And the Bible's very clear,
Isaiah 8:20, if they what?
00:52:53.17\00:52:56.27
If they speak not what?
00:52:56.30\00:52:58.01
"Speak not
according to this word,
00:52:58.04\00:52:59.41
it's because
there is no light in,
00:52:59.44\00:53:01.58
to the law and to the testimony.
00:53:01.61\00:53:04.05
To the law and to the testimony.
00:53:04.08\00:53:07.32
Testimony of Jesus Christ.
00:53:07.35\00:53:08.68
Jesus kept the law,
00:53:08.72\00:53:10.05
Jesus went to church on Sabbath,
00:53:10.09\00:53:11.42
well, He was a Jew.
00:53:11.45\00:53:12.79
Oh, such a sad argument.
00:53:12.82\00:53:14.39
Everything He did
in the Word of God
00:53:14.42\00:53:17.03
when they were doing wrong,
00:53:17.06\00:53:18.39
He straightened
it out, did He not?
00:53:18.43\00:53:19.76
It cost Him His
life, absolutely.
00:53:19.79\00:53:21.30
He always straightened it out
00:53:21.33\00:53:23.20
and He never
straightened this issue out.
00:53:23.23\00:53:24.83
He prophesized what?
00:53:24.87\00:53:26.57
Almost 40 years in the future,
the destruction of Jerusalem.
00:53:26.60\00:53:31.17
He said, "Pray that your
flight be not on the winter
00:53:31.21\00:53:34.81
or the Sabbath day."
00:53:34.84\00:53:36.64
Interesting.
00:53:36.68\00:53:38.01
He was telling it
right on the Sabbath day,
00:53:38.05\00:53:39.38
He was still
calling to Sabbath day,
00:53:39.41\00:53:40.85
He was still calling it His day.
00:53:40.88\00:53:42.38
"I have kept my
Father's Commandments."
00:53:42.42\00:53:44.19
Man, how wonderful that is?
00:53:44.22\00:53:46.39
It's straight, the message
is straight and to the point.
00:53:46.42\00:53:49.49
The watchmen on the
walls of Zion need to be
00:53:49.52\00:53:51.16
what God would
have them to do today.
00:53:51.19\00:53:53.29
We're not to be joining
00:53:53.33\00:53:54.66
with all those who
are making a non effect,
00:53:54.70\00:53:57.27
you know, the
truth as it is in Jesus.
00:53:57.30\00:53:59.10
We mingle around too much,
we're mingling with infidelity,
00:53:59.13\00:54:02.27
we're mingling with popery,
00:54:02.30\00:54:03.77
we're mingling
around with Protestantism,
00:54:03.81\00:54:06.54
we're exalting
tradition above the laws of God.
00:54:06.57\00:54:09.84
That's exactly what you,
00:54:09.88\00:54:11.31
when you substitute
Sabbath for any other day,
00:54:11.35\00:54:13.82
especially Sunday,
let's be honest about it.
00:54:13.85\00:54:16.79
Saturday is the day
that's holy blessed by God,
00:54:16.82\00:54:19.42
isn't that right
in the very beginning?
00:54:19.45\00:54:22.12
Man's come along and said, no,
but now it's changed right now.
00:54:22.16\00:54:25.03
We have to come to grips,
00:54:25.06\00:54:26.39
whether we've done
it all of our lives
00:54:26.43\00:54:27.76
or whether we haven't
done it all of our life.
00:54:27.80\00:54:30.33
We've got to
come to grips with it.
00:54:30.37\00:54:31.70
What will we do
when God makes it?
00:54:31.73\00:54:34.54
Because we're
putting human revelation
00:54:34.57\00:54:36.57
above the law of God.
00:54:36.60\00:54:39.47
Influence, we're
losing vital godliness,
00:54:39.51\00:54:42.01
God of the Sabbath.
00:54:42.04\00:54:45.71
If anybody's tightening up
a little bit, well, untighten.
00:54:45.75\00:54:47.88
Amen.
00:54:47.92\00:54:50.49
Because we need, if
you think I'm saying
00:54:50.52\00:54:54.06
works, works, works,
00:54:54.09\00:54:55.42
that's what you're
going to weigh into heaven.
00:54:55.46\00:54:56.93
No, it's not at all.
00:54:56.96\00:54:58.36
You missed the whole point,
00:54:58.39\00:54:59.83
I know it's by grace
always that we're saved.
00:54:59.86\00:55:03.03
And I want to
encourage you as we close out,
00:55:03.06\00:55:06.03
we need to keep
our eyes on Jesus,
00:55:06.07\00:55:07.44
God is speaking
through the fire.
00:55:07.47\00:55:09.74
He's speaking to His people,
He's doing it in such a way
00:55:09.77\00:55:11.84
that He's
shaking us up right now.
00:55:11.87\00:55:14.68
Won't you listen to His voice?
00:55:14.71\00:55:16.54
Remember, you're challenged
00:55:16.58\00:55:18.01
when you might come
up against something that
00:55:18.05\00:55:20.05
may be never been in
your mind like that before.
00:55:20.08\00:55:23.69
And so you're challenged
by weight of evidence.
00:55:23.72\00:55:25.59
We just
scratched the surface here.
00:55:25.62\00:55:30.23
So I'm praying
by the grace of God
00:55:30.26\00:55:31.59
that you will accept and say,
00:55:31.63\00:55:32.96
God if this is
true and this is right,
00:55:32.99\00:55:34.93
I'm going to study
and show myself approved
00:55:34.96\00:55:36.67
and I'm going to accept it.
00:55:36.70\00:55:38.10
Amen.
00:55:38.13\00:55:39.47
I'm going to accept it
because You set the example.
00:55:39.50\00:55:41.90
Amen.
00:55:41.94\00:55:43.27
You're the God
that I'm to follow
00:55:43.30\00:55:45.27
and to walk as He walked.
00:55:45.31\00:55:47.04
Let's pray, shall we?
00:55:47.08\00:55:50.58
Loving Father in heaven,
00:55:50.61\00:55:51.95
we thank You for
Your love and Your mercy.
00:55:51.98\00:55:53.42
We thank You.
00:55:53.45\00:55:55.02
Thank You so much,
Your Word is so clear.
00:55:55.05\00:55:57.85
The enemy is coming,
00:55:57.89\00:55:59.22
he's deceived us
in so, so many ways.
00:55:59.25\00:56:02.26
To be able to go
every vital point
00:56:02.29\00:56:04.79
that the enemy has thrown out,
00:56:04.83\00:56:06.80
he just throws them
out and throws them out
00:56:06.83\00:56:08.30
and throws them, but
people become more confused
00:56:08.33\00:56:10.57
because they simply won't
go to the Word of God and say,
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"Well, Jesus is my example,
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this is what He
did, what He taught."
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He didn't just do what He did
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because He was
born in a Jewish race.
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He came in here,
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He emptied Himself of self
and was filled with the Father.
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So thankful that
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He showed the
way, thankful, Lord,
00:56:27.05\00:56:28.38
that You loved us enough
that You went to Calvary,
00:56:28.42\00:56:29.92
You'd rather die
than knowing we sin.
00:56:29.95\00:56:32.89
You said Your law
could not be changed
00:56:32.92\00:56:34.32
and the wages of sin is death.
00:56:34.36\00:56:35.69
You went to the cross
00:56:35.72\00:56:37.06
and You died for someone like me
00:56:37.09\00:56:39.09
and for the whole world
if they would receive it.
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Help us to be
open Lord to Your Word
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and as the weight
of evidence is given,
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may we not do anything
but just praise You for it.
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In Jesus' name we thank You.
00:56:48.60\00:56:50.67
Amen.
00:56:50.71\00:56:52.47
Hello and welcome back.
00:56:52.51\00:56:53.98
It's always amazing to
discover how far reaching God
00:56:54.01\00:56:57.71
is with what He has
left us in His Word.
00:56:57.75\00:57:00.88
Today's message was entitled,
God spoke out of the fire.
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And I'm sure that you
will never read about this
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miraculous incident in
the same manner ever again.
00:57:09.22\00:57:12.89
In fact, I
certainly hope that you don't.
00:57:12.93\00:57:16.40
I hope that you now
see yourself in this story
00:57:16.43\00:57:20.14
and why
understanding what God has left
00:57:20.17\00:57:22.84
in His Word
about it applies to you
00:57:22.87\00:57:25.77
as well as the Israelite nation
00:57:25.81\00:57:27.94
who were physically
present when God spoke.
00:57:27.98\00:57:31.41
I hope you heard Him speaking
00:57:31.45\00:57:33.31
to your heart
during this message
00:57:33.35\00:57:35.42
as it was being presented.
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If you did, please,
please don't turn a deaf ear,
00:57:37.29\00:57:41.12
rather plant the
Word deep into your heart
00:57:41.16\00:57:44.96
so that you will no longer sin
00:57:44.99\00:57:47.46
against the one who loves you
with such an everlasting love.
00:57:47.50\00:57:52.33
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00:57:52.37\00:57:55.77
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00:57:55.80\00:57:57.64
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