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>> FROM ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
THE CARTER REPORT PRESENTS
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"THE LIVING WORD
AROUND THE WORLD."
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>> HELLO, FRIEND.
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I'M JOHN CARTER WITH A VERY
SPECIAL MESSAGE JUST FOR YOU.
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I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS CALLED
YOU AND ME TO TELL THE WORLD
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ABOUT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
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YOU KNOW, FRIEND, WHEN I TURN
IN MY BIBLE TO REVELATION 14,
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I READ THERE OF A WORLDWIDE
PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL
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IN THE SETTING OF
SOME VERY AMAZING TRUTHS.
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AND THAT IS WHY THE
CARTER REPORT RIGHT NOW
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IS WORKING IN CHINA.
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ISN'T THAT AMAZING?
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ALSO IN INDIA.
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WE'RE TELECASTING IN INDIA.
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AND VERY SHORTLY,
WE'RE GOING TO AFRICA.
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AND WHEN WE GO TO AFRICA,
THE MESSAGE OF CHRIST IS GOING
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TO BE TELECAST RIGHT ACROSS THAT
GREAT CONTINENT AND MILLIONS
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OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO
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THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST.
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I'M ASKING TODAY FOR YOUR
HELP AND YOUR PARTNERSHIP.
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I WANT YOU TO
WRITE TO ME, PLEASE.
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AND I WANT YOU TO SUPPORT US
IN THIS WORLDWIDE EVANGELISM.
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AND WHEN YOU DO SO, I
WANT TO SEND YOU TWO DVDs.
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TWO DVDs.
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ONE IS ABOUT HOW TO SURVIVE
THE COMING FINANCIAL MELTDOWN,
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AND THE SECOND ONE IS ABOUT
THE HEALTH CRISIS THAT IS JUST
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ABOUT BLOWING AMERICA APART,
BUT IT CONCERNS MY FRIENDS
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ALSO IN AUSTRALIA.
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SO PLEASE SUPPORT US IN
THIS GREAT WORK, AND WHEN YOU
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SUPPORT US, I'LL
SEND YOU THESE TWO DVDs.
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WRITE TO ME, JOHN
CARTER, POST OFFICE BOX 1900,
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THOUSAND OAKS,
CALIFORNIA, 91358.
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IN AUSTRALIA,
WRITE TO ME AT TERRIGAL.
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SUPPORT US IN THIS
GREAT OUTREACH TO THE WORLD.
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LET CHRIST BE KNOWN AND
MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU.
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WRITE TO ME PLEASE, TODAY.
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>> I'D LIKE TO SAY IT'S A
PLEASURE TO BE HERE WITH YOU
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AND SEE MY FRIENDS, AND
TO WELCOME THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
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WATCHING ON 3ABN.
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AND JUST BEFORE I BEGIN MY
MESSAGE, I'D LIKE TO JUST PAY
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A LITTLE TRIBUTE TO JOHN.
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HE'S BEEN A PERSONAL FRIEND
OF MINE FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS.
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IF I TELL YOU HOW LONG,
YOU'LL KNOW HOW OLD WE ARE.
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IT GOES BACK TO AVONDALE
DAYS, BUT PARTICULARLY WHEN
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THE DIFFICULT TIMES
CAME IN MID-MINISTRY.
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NOW MANY PEOPLE DON'T
APPRECIATE HOW DIFFICULT IT IS
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TO BE AN EVANGELIST.
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IT IS VERY DIFFICULT.
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I HAD AN ADMINISTRATOR WHO HAD
BEEN A UNION PRESIDENT AND ALSO
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A UNION EVANGELIST BEFORE
THAT, AND HE SAID TO ME HOW
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THE STRAIN OF BEING AN
ADMINISTRATOR WAS NOTHING
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TO THE STRESSES AND
STRAINS OF BEING AN EVANGELIST.
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AND UNLESS YOU'VE STOOD BEFORE
AN AUDIENCE OF THOUSANDS, YOU
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DON'T REALIZE JUST WHAT GOES
THROUGH AN EVANGELIST BEFORE
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THE PROGRAM STARTS.
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WILL THE PEOPLE COME?
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WILL I DELIVER A GOOD MESSAGE?
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YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IN
CHURCH SERVICES, YOU MAY PREACH
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A WEAK MESSAGE.
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THAT CAN HAPPEN.
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I'VE DONE SOME TERRIBLE SERMONS
I'D NEVER PREACH AGAIN, BUT THE
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PEOPLE COME BACK
NEXT SABBATH, DON'T THEY?
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BUT IN AN EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM,
THERE'S A SORT OF PRESSURE
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UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN AN
EVANGELIST YOU WOULD NEVER
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APPRECIATE.
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YOU PREACH A WEAK MESSAGE
AND THE NEXT MEETING THE PEOPLE
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ARE NOT THERE.
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AND SO IF YOU SEE PASTOR CARTER
GOING UP AND DOWN LIKE A TIGER
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BEFORE THE MEETINGS, YOU WON'T
APPRECIATE, PROBABLY LIKE I DO,
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THE PRESSURES HE'S GONE THROUGH.
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AND YET, HE HAS BEEN ABLE
TO GO THROUGH THAT BECAUSE
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HE HAS A VERY GOOD
WIFE IN BEVERLEY CARTER,
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WHO HAS SUCH STRONGLY
SUPPORTED HIS WORK AND HIS
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MINISTRY.
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AND I'D LIKE TO
PAY TRIBUTE TO HER TOO.
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HE COULD NEVER HAVE DONE
THE WORK HE'S DONE WITHOUT THE
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BACKING OF HIS WIFE, BEVERLEY.
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AND ALSO I'D LIKE TO PAY A
TRIBUTE TO THIS CHURCH, TOO,
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BECAUSE HE HAS A BASE TO
OPERATE FROM HERE AS WELL.
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AND TO KNOW HE CAN COME HOME
AND HE AND I WILL BE CROSSING
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IN MID-AIR, HOPEFULLY
NOT THAT WAY, BUT THAT WAY.
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AND WHEN WE CROSS, HE WILL COME
BACK TO PEOPLE WHO ARE BACKING
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HIM AND SUPPORTING
HIM IN SO MANY WAYS.
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AND I KNOW HE'S TOLD ME WHAT
A DIFFERENCE IT MAKES TO HAVE
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FAITHFUL FOLK HERE AS A
BACKBONE OF HIS MINISTRY.
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AND I'D LIKE TO THANK THE
PEOPLE ON 3ABN WHO ALSO GIVE
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AND HELP TO MAKE THAT
POSSIBLE FOR PROGRAMS IN RUSSIA
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AND CHINA AND
SOUTH AFRICA COMING UP.
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THAT'S EXCITING, ISN'T IT?
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AND I THINK THAT TOGETHER
WE CAN SEE SOME FRUITAGE OF
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A HARVEST OF SOULS IN
CHURCHES FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD,
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AND I THANK GOD AND
PRAISE GOD FOR THAT.
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AND TO ME IT'S A PRIVILEGE
TO BE HERE AND TO OCCUPY
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THIS PULPIT THAT
JOHN NORMALLY OCCUPIES.
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YOU KNOW, THIS SERMON TITLE
THIS MORNING, "BEHOLD THE LION,
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SEE THE LAMB," TO ME HAS
SOMETHING VERY, VERY SPECIAL
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TO SAY FOR US.
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REMEMBER, THE MESSAGE WAS FIRST
GIVEN TO SEVEN CHURCHES THERE
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IN ASIA MINOR IN
THE FIRST CENTURY.
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AND THAT CHURCH WAS
ABOUT TO GO THROUGH SOME VERY
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DIFFICULT TIMES.
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UP TILL NOW, THE CHURCH HAD
NOT BEEN NOTICED SO MUCH BY THE
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ROMANS BECAUSE THEY
WERE SEEN AS PART OF JUDAISM.
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AND WHILE THE CHURCH IS NOT SO
BIG THAT IT'S NOTICED, IT SEEMS
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TO EXIST BUT IN A
FAIRLY REASONABLE WAY.
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BUT AS IT BEGINS TO GROW
AND MAKE CONVERTS, AND SOME JEWS
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BECOME CHRISTIANS AND GENTILES
BEGIN TO JOIN THE CHURCH,
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THEN THEY COME
UNDER A LOT MORE NOTICE.
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AND NOW THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IS
ABOUT TO GET INTO REAL TROUBLE.
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YOU KNOW, IT'S EVANGELISM
THAT CAUSES A STIR, ISN'T IT?
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WHEN A CHURCH BEGINS TO
EVANGELIZE AND GROW, WATCH HOW
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THE DEVIL WILL ROAR AND
TRY TO INTIMIDATE AND BREAK UP
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AND DIVIDE AND DISCOURAGE.
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CHRISTIANS WERE
TREATED WITH SUSPICION.
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THEY WERE TREATED WITH
SUSPICION BECAUSE THEY HAD
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NO IMAGE OF THEIR GOD.
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THEY WERE LOOKED
UPON AS ATHEISTS.
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IT WAS ALSO CLAIMED THAT
THE CHRISTIANS WERE CANNIBALS,
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WHERE THEY ACTUALLY ATE THEIR
GOD IN THE COMMUNION SERVICE,
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WHICH THE PAGANS
NEVER UNDERSTOOD.
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AND BECAUSE THEY REFUSED
TO WORSHIP CAESAR AS A GOD,
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THIS ALSO WAS A VERY BIG ISSUE,
WHICH WAS BEGINNING TO LOOM
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AND BECAME EVEN BIGGER.
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TO GIVE AN OFFERING, TO PINCH
THE SALT IF MAY BE TO CAESAR,
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WAS SEEN AS POLITICAL LOYALTY.
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YOU COULD GO AWAY AND
WORSHIP ANY OTHER GOD YOU LIKED,
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SO LONG AS YOU
ALSO INCLUDED CAESAR.
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EMPEROR WORSHIP.
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AND YOU DID THIS, OF
COURSE, IN THE TEMPLE.
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AND IN THESE CITIES THAT
WE'RE LOOKING AT IN THE BOOK OF
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REVELATION, YOU HAVE THE
CENTER OF EVERYTHING IN THE CITY
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IS THE TEMPLE.
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HERE'S WHERE THE
EMPEROR WORSHIP TOOK PLACE.
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THIS IS WHERE ALL THE SOCIAL,
ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL LIFE
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TOOK PLACE.
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THERE WERE TRADE GUILDS
AND THERE WAS LIKE A BANK
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THAT GAVE OUT LOANS.
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AND IT WAS ALSO THE CENTER
OF THIS PAGAN WORSHIP, WHICH WAS
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INCLUDED SACRED PROSTITUTION
OF BOTH MALE AND FEMALE.
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AND IF YOU WERE NOT CAUGHT
UP IN THIS AND DOING THIS,
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YOU WERE SEEN TO BE DISLOYAL
TO THE CITY, BECAUSE THIS WAS
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NECESSARY TO HARVEST THE
CROPS AND BRING THE GOOD SEASONS
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AND THE RAIN.
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AND SO IT WAS
AWKWARD FOR CHRISTIANS.
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YOU KNOW, INTERESTING
IN ASIA MINOR AT THAT TIME,
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THERE WERE NO ROMAN LEGIONS.
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THERE WERE PLENTY OF
ROMAN LEGIONS THERE IN PALESTINE
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BECAUSE THE JEWS WERE ALWAYS
WANTING TO REVOLT, BUT IN ASIA
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MINOR THE ROMANS DIDN'T
HAVE TO HAVE LEGIONS BECAUSE
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THE CITIES WERE VERY PRO-ROMAN.
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THEY LIKED THE EMPEROR.
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THEY LIKED THE PEACE
AND THE PROSPERITY THAT CAME
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THROUGH ROME.
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AND SO THESE CITIES WERE
INCLINED TO HAVE CHRISTIANS,
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WHICH WOULD
COMPROMISE THEIR FAITH.
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YOU SEE, THESE PEOPLE IN THESE
CITIES ARE NOT ALL THE SAME.
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THESE CITIES OF EPHESUS
AND SMYRNA, THE SEVEN CHURCHES
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TO WHOM THE BOOK OF
REVELATION WAS FIRST WRITTEN.
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YOU KNOW, SOME WERE
RICH AND INCREASED WITH GOODS
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AND FELT NEED OF NOTHING.
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SOME WERE
WATERING DOWN THEIR FAITH.
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SOME WERE COMPROMISING.
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SOME WERE REMAINING LOYAL.
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THEY'RE--IT WAS
REALLY A VERY MIXED MESS.
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AND I'D SAY MESS IN SOME
RESPECTS BECAUSE CHURCHES ARE
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MESSY PLACES, AREN'T THEY?
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ARE MESSY PLACES.
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THEY'RE WHERE SINNERS
ARE, WITH A VARIETY OF PEOPLE.
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YOU KNOW, I OFTEN LIKEN
THE CHURCH TO MY HOUSE WHEN
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MY GRANDCHILDREN COME.
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IF YOU HAVE GRANDCHILDREN,
YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN.
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DEALING WITH THEM ONE BY
ONE IN THEIR HOUSE IS DIFFERENT
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TO HAVING FOUR OF THEM IN
YOUR HOME AT THE SAME TIME.
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AND THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO
COME INTO THAT HOUSE AND JUST
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IN A FEW MOMENTS THEY
TRANSFORM THE WHOLE PLACE.
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THE PLACE JUST LOOKS, DARE I
SAY IT, I HATE TO OFFEND THEM,
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BUT IT LOOKS A MESS.
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BUT WE LOVE TO HAVE IT
BECAUSE THEY'RE OUR GRANDKIDS.
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BUT CHURCHES ARE MESSY TOO.
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THEY'RE NOT DISPLAY
HOMES, WHICH ALWAYS LOOK NEAT
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AND NIGHT--NICE AND TIDY.
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BUT JOHN TAKES UP HIS PEN.
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JESUS APPEARS TO HIM
AND GIVES HIM A MESSAGE.
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AND THIS MESSAGE THAT COMES
FROM JESUS IS THE REASON WE
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SHOULD TAKE THIS BOOK
OF REVELATION SO SERIOUSLY.
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HE SEES HIM HERE IN
REVELATION 1, AND THE SECOND
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HALF OF THE CHAPTER DEALS
WITH THIS VISION OF JESUS,
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BUT REMEMBER REVELATION IS
A BOOK THAT COMES FROM JESUS.
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THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO
SAY THAT, WELL, SHOULD WE WORRY
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ABOUT REVELATION?
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SOME PEOPLE SORT OF THINK,
WELL, IT'S AN OPTION YOU CAN
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TAKE OR LEAVE.
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BUT REMEMBER,
REVELATION COMES FROM JESUS.
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HE'S RIGHT THERE IN THE FIRST
CHAPTER, AND IN REVELATION 1,
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AND READING HERE IN VERSE
3 THERE'S A SPECIAL BLESSING
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WHICH IS GIVEN TO
THOSE WHO READ THIS BOOK.
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REVELATION 1, AND
READING HERE IN VERSE 3.
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"BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO READS
THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY, AND
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BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR
IT AND TAKE TO HEART WHAT IS
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WRITTEN IN IT,
BECAUSE THE TIME IS NEAR."
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WHAT A BEAUTIFUL
WAY TO START OFF A BOOK.
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IF YOU READ THIS BOOK, IF YOU
HEAR IT--REMEMBER, MOST PEOPLE
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WHO GOT IT IN THE FIRST
PLACE IN THE FIRST CENTURY
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WERE HEARERS.
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AND IF WE WERE DOING WHAT
THE BOOK WAS MEANT TO DO, THIS
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MORNING I WOULD TAKE THIS BOOK
AND READ IT THROUGH IN ONE GO.
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AND I WOULD SUGGEST YOU
OUGHT TO DO THAT SOMETIME.
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TAKE THE BOOK, FIND
A TRANSLATION YOU FEEL
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COMFORTABLE WITH,
AND JUST READ IT THROUGH.
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YOU MAY NOT UNDERSTAND ALL
OF IT, BUT THE BOOK WILL MAKE
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AN IMPACT UPON YOU.
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IT WILL MAKE A VERY BIG IMPACT.
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AND WE WOULD SAY THAT
THIS BOOK HAS A MESSAGE FOR ALL
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CHRISTIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
WHO HAVE FELT THIS BOOK COME
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TO THEM IN A
VERY, VERY SPECIAL WAY.
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AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU READ
THIS BOOK, THERE ARE ALL THESE
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TYPES OF VISUAL IMAGES THAT
COME ON THROUGH AS YOU BEGIN
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TO READ.
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AND YOU'LL SEE THE IMAGES
OF HORSEMEN RIDING, HORSE--
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THESE FOUR HORSEMEN.
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AND IT TAKES ME BACK TO MY DAYS
WHEN BEFORE WE HAD TELEVISION.
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NOW, I'M GOING TO
ASK YOU FOR A CONFESSION.
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THIS'LL SAY--TELL
ME HOW OLD YOU ARE.
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HOW MANY CAN REMEMBER
THE DAYS BEFORE TELEVISION?
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OKAY.
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WE SAT BY THE RADIO, DIDN'T WE?
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AND WE LISTENED TO
THE RADIO PROGRAMS.
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AND WE PROBABLY HAD
DIFFERENT PROGRAMS TO YOU.
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MY MOTHER USED TO LIKE TO
LISTEN TO "WHEN A GIRL MARRIES"
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AND ALL THOSE SORT OF ROMANTIC
SORT OF STORIES, AND I USED
00:11:43.63\00:11:47.56
TO LIKE TO LISTEN TO SUPERMAN.
00:11:47.56\00:11:49.40
SUPERMAN WAS MY HERO WHEN I WAS
A LITTLE BOY BECAUSE HE ALWAYS
00:11:49.40\00:11:53.03
PUT THING RIGHT, BUT WE
WERE LISTENING TO THE RADIO
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AND WE SAW IT IN OUR MINDS.
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WE HAD THE ABILITY, WHICH I
THINK TO SOME DEGREE WE HAVE
00:11:59.70\00:12:02.30
LOST TODAY, THE ABILITY
TO SEE THINGS IN OUR MINDS.
00:12:02.30\00:12:07.26
WELL, I GOT DISILLUSIONED
ONE DAY WHEN I WENT TO A RADIO
00:12:07.26\00:12:11.03
PROGRAM WHERE THEY
ACTUALLY HAD A RADIO PROGRAM
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BEING BROADCAST.
00:12:13.46\00:12:14.80
AND I SAW THEM ALL STANDING
AROUND CLASHING CYMBALS,
00:12:14.80\00:12:17.36
BANGING THINGS, AND
CAUSING THINGS TO HAPPEN.
00:12:17.36\00:12:19.50
AND THEY WERE
JUST READING SCRIPTS.
00:12:19.50\00:12:21.73
AND, WELL, THAT WASN'T THE
MENTAL IMAGE I HAD, BUT WE NEED
00:12:21.73\00:12:26.06
TO DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO
SEE IMAGES AND IN REVELATION
00:12:26.06\00:12:29.23
WE HAVE THESE
IMAGES COMING THROUGH.
00:12:29.23\00:12:31.66
WE HAVE THIS--THE FOUR HORSEMEN
COMING OUT AND WE HAVE THESE
00:12:31.66\00:12:34.50
OTHER IMAGES, WHICH
WE'LL BRING ON QUICKLY.
00:12:34.50\00:12:37.26
JUST THE IMAGES OF DEMONIC
FORCES AND ALL TYPES OF IMAGES
00:12:37.26\00:12:41.90
COMING THROUGH.
00:12:41.90\00:12:43.10
AND THESE, NO DOUBT,
MADE A POWERFUL IMPACT UPON
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THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE
IN THE VERY FIRST CENTURY.
00:12:46.83\00:12:49.76
A WOMAN STANDING ON THE
MOON, CLOTHED IN THE SUN.
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THE GREAT, RED DRAGON.
00:12:52.20\00:12:53.56
HERE WE HAVE THE BINDING
OF SATAN FOR 1,000 YEARS.
00:12:53.56\00:12:56.83
WE HAVE THESE ALL IN
OUR SEMINAR, WHICH I'VE BEEN
00:12:56.83\00:12:59.33
WORKING ON NOW WITH JON PAULIEN
AND OUR BIBLICAL RESEARCH
00:12:59.33\00:13:02.56
COMMITTEE FOR 5 YEARS.
00:13:02.56\00:13:04.00
AND YOU ARE PROBABLY THE ONES
NOW ABOUT TO LAUNCH OUT TO IT
00:13:04.00\00:13:07.73
IN THIS CHURCH.
00:13:07.73\00:13:08.76
AND I'M GLAD.
00:13:08.76\00:13:10.10
WE WANT PEOPLE TO HAVE
CONFIDENCE IN THE PROPHECIES
00:13:10.10\00:13:13.00
OF REVELATION.
00:13:13.00\00:13:14.80
SO THESE IMAGES COME
ON AND THEY ARE WRITTEN
00:13:14.80\00:13:17.36
TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES.
00:13:17.36\00:13:18.90
THE TIME IS NEAR, SAYS
JOHN, AND THE BOOK FINISHES
00:13:18.90\00:13:22.56
THE SAME WAY.
00:13:22.56\00:13:23.80
IT--DO NOT SEAL UP THE
VISION BECAUSE THE TIME IS NEAR.
00:13:23.80\00:13:28.20
BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT REVELATION,
REVELATION ALSO HAS A STATEMENT
00:13:28.20\00:13:32.56
IN CHAPTER 1 VERSE
7, WHICH LINKS UP WITH
00:13:32.56\00:13:36.20
MATTHEW 24:30-31.
00:13:36.20\00:13:39.86
AND SOME OF YOU MAY
LIKE TO OPEN YOUR BIBLE
00:13:39.86\00:13:42.03
TO REVELATION 1:7,
OTHERS TO MATTHEW 24:30-31
00:13:42.03\00:13:47.23
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN JOHN
WRITES THE REVELATION, THE BOOK
00:13:47.23\00:13:50.86
OF REVELATION, INSPIRED BY THE
HOLY SPIRIT COMING FROM JESUS,
00:13:50.86\00:13:55.73
JOHN DOESN'T WRITE UP IN
HIS GOSPEL THE STORY THAT JESUS
00:13:55.73\00:14:01.23
GAVE FROM THE MOUNT OF
OLIVES ON THE END OF THE WORLD.
00:14:01.23\00:14:04.33
NOW MATTHEW, MARK,
AND LUKE HAVE GOT IT.
00:14:04.33\00:14:06.60
BUT YOU LOOK FOR THAT FAMOUS
SERMON THAT JESUS GAVE ON THE
00:14:06.60\00:14:09.26
END OF THE WORLD, AND YOU
DON'T FIND IT IN JOHN'S GOSPEL.
00:14:09.26\00:14:12.70
THE REASON THIS IS THE
CASE IS PROBABLY HE CONSIDERED
00:14:12.70\00:14:16.53
THAT HE HAD DEALT
WITH IT IN REVELATION.
00:14:16.53\00:14:20.83
AND IN REVELATION, WE HAVE
A VERY CONNECTING LINK WITH
00:14:20.83\00:14:25.16
THE SERMON THAT JESUS
GAVE ON THE END OF THE WORLD.
00:14:25.16\00:14:28.16
AND IF THIS LINK IS CORRECT,
AND I BELIEVE IT IS TRUE, THEN
00:14:28.16\00:14:31.96
WE ARE RIGHT AND WE UNDERSTAND
THAT REVELATION IS AN UNFOLDING
00:14:31.96\00:14:36.30
OF PROPHECIES ALL THROUGH THE
CENTURY TO REACH A FINAL CLIMAX
00:14:36.30\00:14:39.96
WITH WHAT WE SPOKE OF LAST
WEEK, THE BEAST, THE IMAGE,
00:14:39.96\00:14:42.83
AND THE MARK OF THE END OF TIME.
00:14:42.83\00:14:45.16
WE BELIEVE THAT THOSE WHO
RESTRICT REVELATION TO THE VERY
00:14:45.16\00:14:48.60
FIRST CENTURY ONLY ARE WRONG.
00:14:48.60\00:14:52.33
THOSE WHO SAY REVELATION'S
PROPHECIES BEGIN TO HAPPEN FROM
00:14:52.33\00:14:55.60
CHAPTER FOUR ONWARDS AFTER THE
SECRET RAPTURE WE BELIEVE HAVE
00:14:55.60\00:15:01.16
MISSED THE MESSAGE OF THE BOOK.
00:15:01.16\00:15:03.30
THIS MESSAGE OF REVELATION
GIVES HOPE, MEANING, PURPOSE
00:15:03.30\00:15:07.86
TO ALL CHRISTIANS THROUGHOUT
THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN ERA.
00:15:07.86\00:15:11.46
GOD DOES NOT TURN OFF THE
LIGHT OF PROPHECY AND LEAVE
00:15:11.46\00:15:14.80
HIS CHURCH IN DARKNESS.
00:15:14.80\00:15:16.30
NOW, AS YOU LOOK AT THESE
TEXTS AND YOU COMPARE THEM,
00:15:16.30\00:15:19.06
YOU CAN SEE A CONNECTING LINK.
00:15:19.06\00:15:20.83
REVELATION 1:7.
00:15:20.83\00:15:22.33
"LOOK, HE'S COMING WITH CLOUDS.
00:15:22.33\00:15:23.66
EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM,
EVEN THOSE WHO PIERCED HIM.
00:15:23.66\00:15:27.53
ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH
WILL MOURN BECAUSE OF HIM."
00:15:27.53\00:15:30.80
YOU WOULD ALMOST THINK THAT
JOHN HAD THE TEXT OF MATTHEW
00:15:30.80\00:15:35.03
OPEN BEFORE HIM.
00:15:35.03\00:15:36.43
HE IS COMING WITH
CLOUDS, THERE'S A MOURNING.
00:15:36.43\00:15:39.63
YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL THERE
AND JOHN REALLY IS REALLY TAKING
00:15:39.63\00:15:44.40
THIS SERMON THAT JESUS
GAVE ON THE END OF THE WORLD AND
00:15:44.40\00:15:47.16
DEVELOPING IT IN A MEANINGFUL
WAY THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
00:15:47.16\00:15:50.76
YOU MAY LIKE TO DO AN
EXERCISE YOURSELF SOMETIME.
00:15:50.76\00:15:53.73
AND IT'S GOOD TO
THINK YOURSELF, AND TO LEARN
00:15:53.73\00:15:55.80
AND TO GROW AND DISCOVER.
00:15:55.80\00:15:57.06
AS WE LEARN AND GROW IN
GOD'S WORD, IT'S THRILLING.
00:15:57.06\00:16:00.06
IT REALLY IS.
00:16:00.06\00:16:01.53
BRINGS VITALITY AND
STRENGTH TO OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE
00:16:01.53\00:16:04.06
AND CONVICTIONS.
00:16:04.06\00:16:05.30
BUT SOMETIME, TAKE A LOOK
AT THAT LIST OF MATTHEW 24.
00:16:05.30\00:16:08.36
LET'S OPEN OUR BIBLES TO IT.
00:16:08.36\00:16:11.13
MATTHEW 24.
00:16:11.13\00:16:15.23
AND HERE WE HAVE THIS SERMON
THAT JESUS GAVE ON THE END
00:16:15.23\00:16:18.26
OF THE WORLD.
00:16:18.26\00:16:19.80
AND REMEMBER, HE LINKS THE
DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM WITH
00:16:19.80\00:16:22.60
THE END OF THE WORLD BECAUSE
WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE JERUSALEM
00:16:22.60\00:16:26.20
IS DESTROYED IS LIKE A
LITTLE MINIATURE, WHICH DEVELOPS
00:16:26.20\00:16:30.23
THROUGH HISTORY AND IS CLIMAXED
IN A WORLDWIDE EVENT AT THE END
00:16:30.23\00:16:35.20
OF TIME, LEADING UP
TO THE COMING OF CHRIST.
00:16:35.20\00:16:37.83
AND YOU MAY LIKE A LOOK AT
THAT LIST IN MATTHEW 24:6-8.
00:16:37.83\00:16:42.96
AND IT SAYS HERE OF
WHAT HISTORY WILL BE LIKE.
00:16:42.96\00:16:47.30
"YOU WILL HEAR OF WARS
AND RUMORS OF WARS, BUT SEE
00:16:47.30\00:16:49.76
TO IT YOU ARE NOT ALARMED.
00:16:49.76\00:16:52.16
SUCH THINGS MUST HAPPEN,
BUT THE END IS STILL TO COME.
00:16:52.16\00:16:55.30
NATION WILL RISE AGAINST NATION,
AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM.
00:16:55.30\00:16:58.16
THERE WILL BE FAMINES AND
EARTHQUAKES IN VARIOUS PLACES.
00:16:58.16\00:17:01.60
ALL THESE ARE THE
BEGINNING OF BIRTH PAINS."
00:17:01.60\00:17:05.40
NOW, IT'S INTERESTING TO
NOTICE THAT--HOW HE LIKENS THIS.
00:17:05.40\00:17:10.13
WARS, FAMINES, EARTHQUAKES,
AND LUKE ADDS PESTILENCES TO
00:17:10.13\00:17:14.03
THE LIST IN HIS ACCOUNT OF IT.
00:17:14.03\00:17:16.40
FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE
PROPHETS ARE LIKE BIRTH PAINS.
00:17:16.40\00:17:19.73
NOW, LET ME FINISH
WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY.
00:17:19.73\00:17:23.23
THIS MIGHT STARTLE YOU.
00:17:23.23\00:17:25.36
I'M SO GLAD AND
RELIEVED I'M NOT A WOMAN.
00:17:25.36\00:17:28.83
NOW, LET ME FINISH.
00:17:28.83\00:17:30.36
LET ME FINISH.
00:17:30.36\00:17:32.56
I'M TOO MUCH OF A COWARD.
00:17:32.56\00:17:35.43
I HAVE SEEN MY WIFE DELIVER
A CHILD AND I'D SAY TO MYSELF,
00:17:35.43\00:17:40.26
"A WOMAN MUST BADLY WANT TO HAVE
A CHILD TO GO THROUGH THAT."
00:17:40.26\00:17:44.60
IT IS.
00:17:44.60\00:17:45.70
IT IS.
00:17:45.70\00:17:46.73
THEY--SOME WOMEN DO DIE.
00:17:46.73\00:17:48.03
AND THEY DO COME
CLOSE TO DEATH, OTHERS.
00:17:48.03\00:17:51.80
BUT, YOU KNOW, BIRTH
PAINS, FROM WHAT I AM TOLD, ARE
00:17:51.80\00:17:58.30
GENTLE, BECOME MORE FREQUENT,
MORE AND MORE FREQUENT,
00:17:58.30\00:18:02.43
MORE AND MORE INTENSE
UNTIL THE BABY JUST POPS OUT.
00:18:02.43\00:18:05.93
IS THAT RIGHT?
00:18:05.93\00:18:07.30
NO, YOU'VE--SOMETIMES YOU'VE
GOT TO HELP IT A LITTLE BIT.
00:18:07.30\00:18:10.73
BUT BIRTH PAINS ARE GENTLE
AT FIRST, BECOME MORE AND MORE
00:18:10.73\00:18:14.46
FREQUENT, AND MORE AND MORE
INTENSE AS THE BABY IS COMING.
00:18:14.46\00:18:18.46
SO JESUS SAID, "THIS IS HOW
HISTORY WILL BE TILL I RETURN."
00:18:18.46\00:18:24.20
DO WE SEE THROUGH HISTORY
WARS, FAMINES, EARTHQUAKES,
00:18:24.20\00:18:27.80
PESTILENCES, FALSE
CHRISTS, FALSE PROPHETS?
00:18:27.80\00:18:30.26
THIS IS TRUE OF THE
WHOLE CHRISTIAN AGE.
00:18:30.26\00:18:32.96
AND ALL THROUGH THE CENTURIES,
CHRISTIANS HAVE SAID THEY'VE
00:18:32.96\00:18:35.83
TAKEN COURAGE, THEY SAID,
"YEAH, THE WORLD'S IN A MESS,
00:18:35.83\00:18:38.73
BUT JESUS SAID IT
WOULD BE LIKE THIS."
00:18:38.73\00:18:41.53
AND JESUS SAID IT'S GONNA GET
WORSE, BUT THANKFULLY HE WILL
00:18:41.53\00:18:45.46
COME AND TAKE THESE PEOPLE HOME.
00:18:45.46\00:18:48.63
AND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT,
DOESN'T IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
00:18:48.63\00:18:51.20
HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE?
00:18:51.20\00:18:52.90
YOU HAVE HOPE,
MEANING, PURPOSE IN LIFE.
00:18:52.90\00:18:55.23
YOU CAN PUT UP A LOT MORE
IF YOU CAN SEE LIGHT AT THE END
00:18:55.23\00:18:58.03
OF THE TUNNEL.
00:18:58.03\00:18:59.30
AND IF YOU KNOW THAT GOD LOVES
YOU AND ACCEPTS YOU BECAUSE
00:18:59.30\00:19:01.66
OF CHRIST AND IF YOU HAVE
ASSURANCE OF SALVATION, YOU'RE
00:19:01.66\00:19:05.36
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE COMING
OF JESUS TO SOMETHING BETTER
00:19:05.36\00:19:08.10
THAN WHAT WE HAVE NOW.
00:19:08.10\00:19:09.80
AND SO, WARS, FAMINES,
EARTHQUAKES, YES, HAVE ALWAYS
00:19:09.80\00:19:12.40
BEEN THERE, BUT
THEY'RE LIKE BIRTH PAINS.
00:19:12.40\00:19:14.80
I GUESS THE LADIES ARE
THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN ANSWER
00:19:14.80\00:19:16.90
THIS QUESTION.
00:19:16.90\00:19:18.46
JUST BEFORE THE BABY COMES,
ARE THE BIRTH PAINS RELEVANT
00:19:18.46\00:19:21.23
TO YOU?
00:19:21.23\00:19:23.23
THEY BECOME MORE
RELEVANT, DON'T THEY?
00:19:23.23\00:19:25.30
SO IT SHOULD BE TODAY.
00:19:25.30\00:19:27.53
THIS YEAR, WE SHOULD BE SEEING
THINGS EVEN MORE SO THAN PEOPLE
00:19:27.53\00:19:33.46
SAW 100 YEARS AGO AS THERE
WAS A DEVELOPING OF ALL THESE
00:19:33.46\00:19:37.00
THINGS TELLING US THAT
SOON JESUS IS GOING TO COME IN
00:19:37.00\00:19:40.76
THE CLOUDS OF
HEAVEN AND TAKE US HOME.
00:19:40.76\00:19:43.13
AND SO AS THE WORLD
DETERIORATES AND THINGS
00:19:43.13\00:19:45.36
GET WORSE, WE'RE
LONGING FOR JESUS TO COME.
00:19:45.36\00:19:49.13
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING,
LEARNING MORE AND MORE ABOUT
00:19:49.13\00:19:51.83
GOD'S WORD, PARTICULARLY
THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
00:19:51.83\00:19:54.66
ONE OF THE THRILLS OF BEING A
CHRISTIAN IS TO LEARN TO GROW.
00:19:54.66\00:19:58.90
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE MANY
SCHOLARS AT ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
00:19:58.90\00:20:01.90
WHO ARE DOING PHDs IN
DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE BOOK
00:20:01.90\00:20:05.76
OF REVELATION.
00:20:05.76\00:20:07.06
THESE WE HAVE TRIED TO
INCORPORATE INTO OUR NEW
00:20:07.06\00:20:10.16
SERIES, OUR NEW SERIES
THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE WORKING
00:20:10.16\00:20:12.46
WITH, "REVELATION,
HOPE, MEANING, PURPOSE."
00:20:12.46\00:20:16.00
AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW
MORE ABOUT IT, YOU GO TO OUR
00:20:16.00\00:20:18.23
WEBSITE, REVELATIONHOPE.COM.
00:20:18.23\00:20:21.23
THE SOUTH PACIFIC DIVISION HAVE
MADE IT AVAILABLE FOR THE WHOLE
00:20:21.23\00:20:24.00
WORLD FIELD, AND YOU CAN
HEAR MORE ABOUT IT AND SEE HOW
00:20:24.00\00:20:26.83
YOU CAN RELATE TO IT.
00:20:26.83\00:20:28.53
BUT ON THAT SERIES, YOU WILL
SEE A YOUNG LADY FROM PEOPLE'S
00:20:28.53\00:20:32.30
REPUBLIC OF CHINA, REBECCA LIU.
00:20:32.30\00:20:35.03
SHE'S DOING A PHD AT ANDREWS
UNDER JON PAULIEN'S TUTORSHIP
00:20:35.03\00:20:39.13
AND SHE WILL EXPLAIN TO
YOU WHAT IT MEANT IN THE FIRST
00:20:39.13\00:20:41.53
CENTURY WHEN THEY BREATHED LIFE
INTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST.
00:20:41.53\00:20:45.20
THE PAGANS WOULD DO
THIS, AND THEN IT WOULD BEGIN
00:20:45.20\00:20:47.80
TO WORK MIRACLES.
00:20:47.80\00:20:48.86
THE MORE WE LEARN ABOUT WHAT IT
MEANT TO THE PEOPLE TO WHOM IT
00:20:48.86\00:20:51.66
WAS WRITTEN--THE MORE WE
UNDERSTAND THAT, THE BETTER WE
00:20:51.66\00:20:54.83
UNDERSTAND WHAT IT
MEANS FOR US TODAY.
00:20:54.83\00:20:57.93
AND SO IT'S EXCITING
TO LEARN AND TO GROW.
00:20:57.93\00:21:00.50
AND THE TRUTHS OF THE BIBLE,
THE TRUTHS OF THE GOSPEL WILL
00:21:00.50\00:21:03.23
COME OUT EVEN CLEARER STILL.
00:21:03.23\00:21:04.50
REVELATION.
00:21:04.50\00:21:06.70
REVELATION WAS
GIVEN TO ALL CHRISTIANS.
00:21:06.70\00:21:09.30
GOD HAS NEVER, EVER
TURNED THE LIGHT OUT OF PROPHECY
00:21:09.30\00:21:13.53
AND LEFT HIS CHURCH IN DARKNESS.
00:21:13.53\00:21:16.16
WELL, THIS BOOK COMES
ALIVE WHEN TOUGH TIMES COME.
00:21:16.16\00:21:21.46
AND PEOPLE DO HAVE
TOUGH TIMES IN THEIR LIFE.
00:21:21.46\00:21:24.70
YOU CAN LOOK BACK THROUGH
THE HISTORY AND YOU CAN SEE
00:21:24.70\00:21:27.30
HOW DIFFERENT CHRISTIANS
HAVE RELATED TO THE BOOK
00:21:27.30\00:21:29.56
OF REVELATION.
00:21:29.56\00:21:30.76
NOW, OFTEN WHAT
THEY HAVE SAID IS WRONG.
00:21:30.76\00:21:33.63
OFTEN THEY HAVE BEEN WRONG.
00:21:33.63\00:21:35.00
THAT'S BEEN THE CASE, BUT THERE
IS ENOUGH IN IT WHERE YOU CAN
00:21:35.00\00:21:39.06
JUST GET IT SO SIMPLY AND
CLEARLY THAT IT GIVES YOU--
00:21:39.06\00:21:42.00
STILL GIVES YOU ENCOURAGEMENT.
00:21:42.00\00:21:43.60
THIS BOOK ALTERNATES BETWEEN
HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND IT SAYS
00:21:43.60\00:21:47.63
ON EARTH, THINGS ARE
GOING TO BE LIKE THIS, BUT DON'T
00:21:47.63\00:21:50.50
BE DISCOURAGED.
00:21:50.50\00:21:51.66
GOD IS THERE AND
HE'S ON HIS THRONE.
00:21:51.66\00:21:54.16
AND IN THE END IT WILL BE OKAY.
00:21:54.16\00:21:56.70
YOU KNOW, THE FAVORITE BOOK
OF PEOPLE IN PRISON IS THE BOOK
00:21:56.70\00:22:00.46
OF REVELATION.
00:22:00.46\00:22:02.20
INTERESTING, ISN'T IT?
00:22:02.20\00:22:03.46
WHEN TOUGH TIMES COME, THIS
IS A BOOK TO GIVE HOPE, MEANING,
00:22:03.46\00:22:08.26
AND PURPOSE TO THE
FOLLOWERS OF JESUS.
00:22:08.26\00:22:11.23
AND IT'S A BOOK--
IT'S NOT AN OPTION.
00:22:11.23\00:22:13.36
IT'S A BOOK WHICH WE NEED
TO REALLY GRIP--COME TO GRIPS
00:22:13.36\00:22:15.70
WITH AND UNDERSTAND.
00:22:15.70\00:22:17.10
BUT IF IT IS LINKED WITH
THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS, THE
00:22:17.10\00:22:20.13
SECOND ADVENT, IF IT'S LINKED
WITH THE SERMON ON THE END
00:22:20.13\00:22:24.23
OF THE WORLD IN MATTHEW 24,
NO ONE DOUBTS THAT IT COMMENCES
00:22:24.23\00:22:28.13
IN THE FIRST CENTURY,
THE SERMON JESUS GAVE.
00:22:28.13\00:22:32.06
AND IT UNFOLDS THROUGH HISTORY
TILL JESUS COMES IN THE CLOUDS
00:22:32.06\00:22:35.53
OF HEAVEN.
00:22:35.53\00:22:36.46
THAT SERMON HE GAVE
SPANS ALL THE CENTURIES.
00:22:36.46\00:22:39.76
AND IF WE ARE RIGHT IN LINKING
THAT SERMON WITH THE BOOK OF
00:22:39.76\00:22:43.30
REVELATION, THEN WE HAVE SOLID
GROUND FOR SAYING THE BIBLE
00:22:43.30\00:22:47.20
REVELATION GIVES HOPE, MEANING,
AND PURPOSE THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
00:22:47.20\00:22:50.96
ALRIGHT, IS IT TRUE
TODAY WE CAN SEE WARS?
00:22:50.96\00:22:54.40
HAVE WARS COME TO AN END?
00:22:54.40\00:22:56.53
NO, THEY'RE JUST
LIKE JESUS SAID, WARS.
00:22:56.53\00:23:00.40
WILL TERRORISTS GET
AHOLD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
00:23:00.40\00:23:03.40
CHEMICAL WARFARE, WHERE THEY
COULD TARGET A TYPE OF PEOPLE,
00:23:03.40\00:23:07.90
A DNA TYPE OF PEOPLE AND WIPE
THEM OUT NOW AND THEN JUST GO
00:23:07.90\00:23:11.06
AND TAKE OVER THEIR
CITIES WITHOUT ALL THE MESS
00:23:11.06\00:23:13.63
OF OTHER WARFARE.
00:23:13.63\00:23:15.06
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO SAY
THAT WORLD WAR III HAS ALREADY
00:23:15.06\00:23:17.86
BEGUN, FOR OUR COMPUTERS BEING
HACKED INTO AND YOU CAN TAKE
00:23:17.86\00:23:22.43
OVER THE COMPUTERS, YOU CAN
SHUT THEM DOWN, YOU CAN SHUT
00:23:22.43\00:23:24.86
OFF THE DEFENSES AND THE
WATER AND THE ELECTRICITY.
00:23:24.86\00:23:27.63
DO WE SEE
EARTHQUAKES IN THE WORLD TODAY?
00:23:27.63\00:23:30.80
SOME PEOPLE SAY SOMETHING'S
GOING TO HAPPEN HERE SOON.
00:23:30.80\00:23:34.10
THERE'S A FEELING, AN
INTENSENESS OF EARTHQUAKES
00:23:34.10\00:23:36.86
HAPPENING IN
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD.
00:23:36.86\00:23:39.03
DO WE SEE PESTILENCES?
00:23:39.03\00:23:41.23
WE SEE ALL SORTS OF DISEASES
COMING FORTH TO WHICH THERE
00:23:41.23\00:23:45.13
IS MUTATIONS TAKING PLACE.
00:23:45.13\00:23:47.13
DO WE SEE FALSE CHRISTS?
00:23:47.13\00:23:49.23
SOME PEOPLE SAID THAT THIS
IS AN AGE OF MESSIANIC CULTS.
00:23:49.23\00:23:52.73
MESSIAH MEANS--
CHRIST MEANS MESSIAH.
00:23:52.73\00:23:55.33
MESSIANIC CULTS ARE
FLOURISHING AROUND THE WORLD.
00:23:55.33\00:23:58.76
DO WE SEE FALSE
PROPHETS LIKE JESUS SAID?
00:23:58.76\00:24:01.46
YES, WE DO.
00:24:01.46\00:24:02.86
THE CUTTING EDGE.
00:24:02.86\00:24:04.23
WHAT DIVIDING THE CHRISTIAN
WORLD AT THIS PRESENT TIME
00:24:04.23\00:24:07.20
IS HOW DOES THE
GIFT OF PROPHECY WORK?
00:24:07.20\00:24:09.63
IS THE BIBLE SUFFICIENT
TO GUIDE ME AS I'M GUIDED
00:24:09.63\00:24:12.90
BY THE SPIRIT?
00:24:12.90\00:24:14.20
OR IS MY OWN PERSONAL
REVELATION, SUPERCEDING
00:24:14.20\00:24:18.23
WHAT GOD SAYS IN THE WORD.
00:24:18.23\00:24:20.70
THIS IS A BIG ISSUE IN
MUCH OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD,
00:24:20.70\00:24:23.56
WHERE MANY PASTORS ARE
SAYING, PARTICULARLY IN
00:24:23.56\00:24:26.23
THE DEVELOPING WORLD,
WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE ACCESS
00:24:26.23\00:24:28.20
TO THE BIBLE OFTEN IN
THE WAY THAT YOU AND I HAVE.
00:24:28.20\00:24:31.26
BUT MY--GOD GIVES ME THE GIFT
OF PROPHECY AND TELLS ME HIS
00:24:31.26\00:24:34.06
WILL, AND THEN I HAVE THE SAME
GIFT AS I SHARE IT WITH PEOPLE.
00:24:34.06\00:24:38.23
AND THIS HAS BECOME A VERY BIG
ISSUE IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.
00:24:38.23\00:24:41.70
MY PERSONAL REVELATION.
00:24:41.70\00:24:43.70
SO THE WORLD IS REALLY,
REALLY--YOU KNOW, IF I DIDN'T
00:24:43.70\00:24:46.93
HAVE THE BOOK OF REVELATION,
IF I DIDN'T HAVE GOD'S WORD,
00:24:46.93\00:24:49.96
I'D BE IN DESPAIR.
00:24:49.96\00:24:52.63
I'D BE REALLY
TREMBLING WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS.
00:24:52.63\00:24:56.13
YOU KNOW, I WAS
WATCHING A FOOTBALL MATCH,
00:24:56.13\00:24:58.40
AUSTRALIAN RULES.
00:24:58.40\00:24:59.66
I THINK I SAID ON THE DVDs
THAT WE'RE THE BEST IN THE WORLD
00:24:59.66\00:25:02.16
AT AUSTRALIAN RULES.
00:25:02.16\00:25:05.90
AND JON PAULIEN SAYS, "YOU'RE
THE ONLY ONES THAT PLAY IT."
00:25:05.90\00:25:09.20
WELL, IT'S ALRIGHT, BUT I WAS
WATCHING MY TEAM BEING BEATEN
00:25:09.20\00:25:13.73
AND MY LITTLE
GRANDDAUGHTER WAS THERE.
00:25:13.73\00:25:15.90
AND SHE WAS ONLY 2 OR 3,
A 3 YEAR OLD AT THE TIME.
00:25:15.90\00:25:18.26
AND SHE'S PLAYING WITH HER
DOLL AND MY TEAM, THE GOALS ARE
00:25:18.26\00:25:22.16
BEING KICKED AGAINST MY
TEAM, AND I'M SAYING, "NO! NO!
00:25:22.16\00:25:26.73
OH, NO!"
00:25:26.73\00:25:28.40
AND THIS LITTLE GIRL IS
PLAYING WITH HER LITTLE DOLL
00:25:28.40\00:25:30.36
AND SHE DOESN'T EVEN LOOK UP.
00:25:30.36\00:25:31.53
AND THIS LITTLE VOICE FLOATS
OUT TO ME, "WOULD YOU LIKE
00:25:31.53\00:25:36.43
TO SIT DOWN AND
TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT?"
00:25:36.43\00:25:38.80
[LAUGHING] SHE'S
REHEARSING WHAT HER
00:25:38.80\00:25:43.63
MOTHER HAD SAID TO HER.
00:25:43.63\00:25:47.43
WELL, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE
IN OUR WORLD TODAY WHO WOULD
00:25:47.43\00:25:50.76
LOVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY
SIT DOWN AND JUST LISTEN.
00:25:50.76\00:25:55.10
JUST LISTEN TO THEM BECAUSE
THE WORLD CAN BE A MESSY PLACE
00:25:55.10\00:25:58.73
IN DESPAIR.
00:25:58.73\00:26:00.10
WELL, YOU KNOW, I THINK
WE OUGHT TO DO A JOURNEY.
00:26:00.10\00:26:05.00
WE OUGHT TO LEAVE THIS
WORLD AND WE OUGHT TO GO AND SEE
00:26:05.00\00:26:07.56
SOMETHING BETTER.
00:26:07.56\00:26:08.76
ANOTHER--PASTOR CARTER ONCE
SAID, "GRAEME'S ALWAYS TALKING
00:26:08.76\00:26:11.80
ABOUT HIS GRANDKIDS."
00:26:11.80\00:26:12.83
AND I AM TOO.
00:26:12.83\00:26:13.93
THEY'RE SUCH FUN.
00:26:13.93\00:26:16.30
YOU CAN ENJOY THEM
AND HAND THEM BACK.
00:26:16.30\00:26:18.73
WE KNOW THAT, DON'T WE?
00:26:18.73\00:26:20.43
TAKE THE BEST AND FUN.
00:26:20.43\00:26:21.63
I TOOK THEM WHALE WATCHING,
SOMETHING I DON'T THINK
00:26:21.63\00:26:24.23
I'LL EVER DO AGAIN.
00:26:24.23\00:26:26.76
WE WENT WHALE WATCHING AND MY
WIFE GOT SEASICK CARING FOR ONE
00:26:26.76\00:26:31.13
OF THEM, AND SHE--I DON'T
THINK SHE'LL WANT TO GO AGAIN.
00:26:31.13\00:26:34.30
YOU KNOW WHERE WHALES
SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME?
00:26:34.30\00:26:37.10
DOWN THERE.
00:26:37.10\00:26:38.60
AND YOU PAY A LOT OF
MONEY TO GO AND SEE A WHALE,
00:26:38.60\00:26:41.73
AND YOU'RE SITTING OUT
THERE, "WHERE ARE THEY?"
00:26:41.73\00:26:44.56
AND THE GUIDE IS
SAYING, "THIS IS UNUSUAL."
00:26:44.56\00:26:47.23
[LAUGHING] AND THEN
SUDDENLY THEY SEE ONE
00:26:47.23\00:26:50.40
IN THE DISTANCE AND
THEY GO TRY TO SEE IT.
00:26:50.40\00:26:52.93
ALL IT DOES IS TAKE A BREATH
AND THEN YOU WAIT ANOTHER,
00:26:52.93\00:26:56.83
WHAT, 20 MINUTES, WHEREVER IT
IS, AND YOU'RE LOOKING AROUND.
00:26:56.83\00:26:59.83
WELL, ANYWAY.
00:26:59.83\00:27:01.93
WE'RE A LITTLE
BIT LIKE THOSE WHALES.
00:27:01.93\00:27:04.30
WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME DOWN
HERE WITH OUR WORRIES AND OUR
00:27:04.30\00:27:08.10
CONCERNS AND THE CARES OF THIS
WORLD CRUSHING OUT OUR LIFE.
00:27:08.10\00:27:12.76
BUT WE NEED TO BREATHE
THE ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN.
00:27:12.76\00:27:15.96
AND THIS IS
WHAT REVELATION DOES.
00:27:15.96\00:27:18.56
IT ALTERNATES
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.
00:27:18.56\00:27:20.76
LET'S GO TO HEAVEN AND HAVE
A LOOK AT GOD'S THRONE ROOM.
00:27:20.76\00:27:23.36
REVELATION 4.
00:27:23.36\00:27:25.23
IN REVELATION 4, LET'S BREATHE
THE ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN, AND I
00:27:25.23\00:27:29.70
INVITE YOU TO JOIN WITH ME
THE JOURNEY AND LET'S LEAVE
00:27:29.70\00:27:33.13
BEHIND THE CARES OF THIS WORLD.
00:27:33.13\00:27:35.33
IT IS TRUE LIFE IS ROUGH HERE.
00:27:35.33\00:27:37.46
IT IS TRUE THINGS DON'T
ALWAYS WORK OUT LIKE WE WANT.
00:27:37.46\00:27:40.30
AND IT CAN BE DISAPPOINTING,
BUT LOOK AT THIS SCENE.
00:27:40.30\00:27:43.40
AND JOHN INVITES US
IN CHAPTER 4 AND VERSE 1.
00:27:43.40\00:27:46.50
"AFTER THIS, I LOOKED AND
THERE BEFORE ME WEREHE DOORS
00:27:46.50\00:27:50.50
STANDING OPEN IN HEAVEN.
00:27:50.50\00:27:52.46
AND THE VOICE I HAD FIRST HEARD
SPEAKING TO ME LIKE A TRUMPET
00:27:52.46\00:27:55.63
SAID, 'COME UP HERE AND I WILL
SHOW YOU WHAT MUST TAKE PLACE
00:27:55.63\00:28:01.20
AFTER THIS.' AT
ONCE, I WAS IN THE SPIRIT,
00:28:01.20\00:28:04.20
AND THERE BEFORE ME
WAS A THRONE IN HEAVEN WITH
00:28:04.20\00:28:06.60
SOMEONE SITTING ON IT."
00:28:06.60\00:28:08.40
AND YOU MAY WANT TO READ
THROUGH THE REST OF THE VERSES
00:28:08.40\00:28:10.53
YOURSELF RIGHT
THROUGH TO VERSE 6, JUST CAST
00:28:10.53\00:28:13.00
YOUR EYE THROUGH.
00:28:13.00\00:28:15.33
BUT AS YOU SEE THIS SCENE,
YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THERE ARE--
00:28:15.33\00:28:18.70
THE THRONE ROOM SCENE.
00:28:18.70\00:28:20.56
AND AROUND THE THRONE,
YOU HAVE 24 ELDERS AND YOU
00:28:20.56\00:28:24.80
HAVE 4 LIVING CREATURES
AND IT'S A MAJESTIC SCENE.
00:28:24.80\00:28:29.36
IT REALLY IS A MAJESTIC SCENE.
00:28:29.36\00:28:30.83
THESE 24 ELDERS ARE CLOTHED
IN WHITE, WHICH IS THE--WHITE IS
00:28:30.83\00:28:35.13
THE GARB OF THE
PEOPLE OF GOD IN REVELATION.
00:28:35.13\00:28:39.06
AND CROWNS--THESE
ARE VICTORY CROWNS.
00:28:39.06\00:28:42.30
VICTORY FROM BATTLE.
00:28:42.30\00:28:44.36
THESE--THIS IS
THE GARB OF A PRIEST.
00:28:44.36\00:28:46.80
TWENTY-FOUR COURSES OF PRIESTS
IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES, AND
00:28:46.80\00:28:50.43
PROBABLY THESE PEOPLE COULD
HAVE BEEN THERE, AND WE MUSTN'T
00:28:50.43\00:28:53.26
GET HUNG UP IN THE DETAILS
OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN AND MISS
00:28:53.26\00:28:56.03
THE BIG PICTURE.
00:28:56.03\00:28:57.23
BUT HOW DID
THESE PEOPLE GET THERE?
00:28:57.23\00:28:59.30
IT COULD BE THAT JESUS, WHEN HE
ROSE FROM THE READ, TOOK THESE
00:28:59.30\00:29:02.36
PEOPLE BACK WITH HIM AS
A SAMPLE HARVEST OF WHAT
00:29:02.36\00:29:05.46
WAS YET TO COME.
00:29:05.46\00:29:06.90
THAT'S A POSSIBILITY.
00:29:06.90\00:29:08.30
WE HAVE THESE FOUR
LIVING CREATURES, WHICH ARE LIKE
00:29:08.30\00:29:11.50
A LION, OX, MAN, AND EAGLE,
AND THEY'RE AROUND THE THRONE.
00:29:11.50\00:29:15.00
AND THAT LINKS UP CLOSELY WITH
EZEKIEL 3, WHERE WE HAVE THIS
00:29:15.00\00:29:21.00
VISION OF THE THRONE OF GOD AND
THERE WE ARE TOLD THEY ACTUALLY
00:29:21.00\00:29:24.16
ARE--IN THE BOOK OF
EZEKIEL, THEY ARE CHERUBIM.
00:29:24.16\00:29:27.53
SO THIS IS PROBABLY AROUND
THE THRONE ROOM OF GOD WITNESSES
00:29:27.53\00:29:31.60
FOR THE HUMAN RACE ON WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN THE THRONE OF GOD,
00:29:31.60\00:29:35.30
AND MAYBE THE CHERUBIM ARE
WITNESSING WHAT IS HAPPENING
00:29:35.30\00:29:38.36
ON EARTH AND THERE'S
A TWO-WAY WAY ABOUT IT.
00:29:38.36\00:29:42.33
BUT WITNESSING TO THE JUSTICE
OF GOD BECAUSE WE FIND THE
00:29:42.33\00:29:45.56
HYMNS THAT BREAK OUT DEAL WITH
THE GOODNESS AND THE WITNESS
00:29:45.56\00:29:49.33
OF GOD AS CREATOR.
00:29:49.33\00:29:51.66
AND AS YOU LOOK AT THAT
SCENE, AND I WANT YOU TO SEE IT
00:29:51.66\00:29:55.03
IN YOUR MIND TOO.
00:29:55.03\00:29:56.43
AS YOU LOOK AT THAT SCENE,
THERE'S THUNDER AND LIGHTNING,
00:29:56.43\00:29:59.00
A STORM, A RAINBOW AROUND THE
THRONE, AND THIS IS A MAJESTIC
00:29:59.00\00:30:04.36
SEA OF GLASS.
00:30:04.36\00:30:05.56
IT'S ALL REFLECTED
IN THE SEA OF GLASS.
00:30:05.56\00:30:07.46
AND WE'RE MEANT TO
SEE IT IN OUR MIND.
00:30:07.46\00:30:10.33
HAVE A LOOK AT REVELATION 4:8.
00:30:10.33\00:30:14.56
IN REVELATION 4:8, "EACH
OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES
00:30:14.56\00:30:18.66
HAD SIX WINGS AND WAS
COVERED WITH EYES ALL AROUND,
00:30:18.66\00:30:21.56
EVEN UNDER HIS WINGS.
00:30:21.56\00:30:22.86
DAY AND NIGHT THEY NEVER STOP
SAYING, 'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS
00:30:22.86\00:30:27.50
THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO
WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME.'"
00:30:27.50\00:30:32.26
AND LOOK IN VERSE 9.
00:30:32.26\00:30:33.93
"WHENEVER THE LIVING CREATURES
GIVE GLORY, HONOR, AND THANKS
00:30:33.93\00:30:37.96
TO HIM WHO SITS ON THE THRONE,"
WHAT VERSE 9 IS ACTUALLY
00:30:37.96\00:30:41.33
DOING IS SAYING
THIS IS AN ONGOING SCENE.
00:30:41.33\00:30:44.63
THIS IS WHENEVER.
00:30:44.63\00:30:46.20
THIS IS SOMETHING
THAT'S HAPPENING IN HEAVEN.
00:30:46.20\00:30:48.20
PRAISE TO GOD.
00:30:48.20\00:30:49.60
YOU KNOW, PRAISE TO GOD
IS THE LANGUAGE OF HEAVEN.
00:30:49.60\00:30:52.43
YOU AND I WERE
MADE TO WORSHIP GOD.
00:30:52.43\00:30:55.53
THIS IS WHAT WE WERE MADE FOR.
00:30:55.53\00:30:57.20
IT'S PART OF OUR CREATION,
PART OF OUR BEING TO--THE OLD
00:30:57.20\00:31:00.76
CATECHISMS SAY WE WERE--WE WERE
IDEAL FOR WHAT WE WERE CREATED
00:31:00.76\00:31:05.26
FOR IS TO WORSHIP GOD
AND TO ENJOY HIM FOREVER.
00:31:05.26\00:31:09.70
WOULD WE ENJOY GOD IN HEAVEN?
00:31:09.70\00:31:12.03
I THINK GOD HIMSELF IS GOING
TO BE A GREAT FRIEND IN HEAVEN.
00:31:12.03\00:31:14.93
AND ALL THIS IS GOING ON AND
THEN SUDDENLY THERE'S A CRISIS.
00:31:14.93\00:31:18.33
IN CHAPTER FIVE, WE FIND THAT
IT IS ALMOST AS IF THE HEAVENLY
00:31:18.33\00:31:22.23
CHOIRS STOP AND THERE'S
SOME--AND CHAPTER FIVE IS
00:31:22.23\00:31:26.86
DEALING NOW WITH A MOMENT
IN TIME, A CRISIS WHICH CAUSES
00:31:26.86\00:31:32.60
THE HEAVENLY CHOIRS TO
STOP AND THERE'S A GREAT CRISIS
00:31:32.60\00:31:37.26
TAKING PLACE HERE.
00:31:37.26\00:31:39.03
IN CHAPTER FIVE, WE HAVE HERE
IN VERSE ONE, THE ONE SITTING
00:31:39.03\00:31:42.50
ON THE THRONE AND WE HAVE
A BOOK, A SCROLL IN HIS HAND.
00:31:42.50\00:31:47.80
AND WHATEVER THIS SCROLL
IS, IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH
00:31:47.80\00:31:51.03
THE CURSES OF THE
COVENANT BECAUSE THIS IS RELATED
00:31:51.03\00:31:54.80
TO THE HORSEMEN WHO
COME OUT IN THE NEXT CHAPTER.
00:31:54.80\00:31:57.33
THE BLESSINGS AND CURSES OF THE
COVENANT ARE VERY MUCH PART OF
00:31:57.33\00:31:59.93
THIS SEALING, THESE
SEALS THAT ARE LOOSED.
00:31:59.93\00:32:04.20
AND THERE IS A CRISIS BECAUSE
NO ONE IS ABLE TO--FOUND WORTHY
00:32:04.20\00:32:08.40
TO OPEN THIS BOOK.
00:32:08.40\00:32:10.06
NOW, IN CHAPTER FIVE WE
HAVE HERE THIS STATEMENT.
00:32:10.06\00:32:14.66
AND JOHN WEEPS IN VERSE FOUR.
00:32:14.66\00:32:16.66
"I WEPT BECAUSE NO ONE WAS
FOUND WORTHY TO OPEN THE SCROLL
00:32:16.66\00:32:20.83
OR LOOK INSIDE."
00:32:20.83\00:32:22.76
NOW, RANKO STEFANOVIC, WHO
HAS THIS IN HIS COMMENTARY WHEN
00:32:22.76\00:32:26.73
HE'S DOING HIS DOCTORAL
STUDIES, REALIZED THAT THIS WAS
00:32:26.73\00:32:30.30
CONNECTING UP WITH THE
CORONATION OF AN ISRAELITE KING
00:32:30.30\00:32:34.26
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:32:34.26\00:32:35.80
BOOK OF REVELATION IS
STEEPED IN THE LANGUAGE
00:32:35.80\00:32:38.20
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:32:38.20\00:32:39.73
AND RANKO STEFANOVIC REALIZED
THAT THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT
00:32:39.73\00:32:43.06
LINK.
00:32:43.06\00:32:44.43
WHAT WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING
HERE IS A CORONATION OF CHRIST
00:32:44.43\00:32:49.60
UPON HIS ASCENSION TO THE
HEAVENLY SANCTUARY TO COMMENCE
00:32:49.60\00:32:53.26
HIS MINISTRY ON OUR BEHALF.
00:32:53.26\00:32:55.73
IT IS GIVEN IN THE
LANGUAGE OF THE CORONATION
00:32:55.73\00:32:59.33
OF AN ISRAELITE KING.
00:32:59.33\00:33:01.46
AND LET'S HAVE A LOOK AT
OUR ISRAELITE KING BECAUSE THIS
00:33:01.46\00:33:03.96
GIVES US AN IDEA OF WHAT
IS ACTUALLY TAKING PLACE.
00:33:03.96\00:33:06.93
WHEN THIS KING CAME TO THE
THRONE, WHEN THIS KING CAME TO
00:33:06.93\00:33:10.36
THE THRONE, HE WOULD ACTUALLY
BE GIVEN A COPY OF THE BOOK OF
00:33:10.36\00:33:15.26
THE COVENANT, AND HE
HAD TO MAKE A COPY OF IT.
00:33:15.26\00:33:19.26
AND HE WAS TO BE
OBEDIENT TO THE COVENANT.
00:33:19.26\00:33:22.20
AND WHILE HE WAS OBEDIENT TO
THE COVENANT, THEN IT WAS SAID
00:33:22.20\00:33:26.40
THAT THE BOOK WAS OPEN.
00:33:26.40\00:33:28.50
BUT WHEN HE FAILED TO OBEY THE
COVENANT, AS MOST OF THEM DID,
00:33:28.50\00:33:32.56
THE BOOK WAS SAID TO BE SEALED.
00:33:32.56\00:33:34.96
THAT'S OLD TESTAMENT LANGUAGE.
00:33:34.96\00:33:37.36
AND SO THIS IS
SOMETHING THAT RELATES BACK TO
00:33:37.36\00:33:40.30
THE OLD TESTAMENT, WHICH
HELPS US TO REALIZE WHAT IS
00:33:40.30\00:33:42.96
ACTUALLY GOING ON HERE.
00:33:42.96\00:33:44.90
BUT WHILE HE IS DOING THIS,
WHILE JOHN IS WATCHING, JOHN IS
00:33:44.90\00:33:48.76
WATCHING, IT SAYS, "AND HE
WEPT BECAUSE NO ONE WAS FOUND
00:33:48.76\00:33:51.36
WORTHY" BECAUSE KING AFTER KING
AFTER KING OF ISRAEL FAILED,
00:33:51.36\00:33:55.13
FAILED, FAILED.
00:33:55.13\00:33:56.50
BUT NOW HE'S POINTED IN THE
DIRECTION OF SOMEONE WHO WAS
00:33:56.50\00:34:00.60
FAITHFUL TO THE COVENANT.
00:34:00.60\00:34:02.50
SOMEONE FROM THE LINE OF DAVID
WHO WAS LOYAL AND FAITHFUL.
00:34:02.50\00:34:07.10
SO WE LOOK HERE NOW IN
REVELATION 5 AND IT SAYS HERE
00:34:07.10\00:34:12.10
IN REVELATION 5:5, "THEN ONE OF
THE ELDERS SAID TO ME, 'DO NOT
00:34:12.10\00:34:18.26
WEEP.
00:34:18.26\00:34:19.63
SEE THE LION OF THE TRIBE
OF JUDAH, THE ROOT OF DAVID,
00:34:19.63\00:34:23.33
HAS TRIUMPHED.
00:34:23.33\00:34:24.70
HE IS ABLE TO OPEN THE
SCROLL AND ITS SEVEN SEALS.'
00:34:24.70\00:34:30.13
THEN I SAW A LAMB, LOOKING
AS IT HAD BEEN SLAIN, STANDING
00:34:30.13\00:34:34.46
IN THE CENTER OF THE THRONE."
00:34:34.46\00:34:37.53
SO BEHOLD THE
LION, BUT SEE THE LAMB.
00:34:37.53\00:34:42.53
WHAT AN INTERESTING
CONTRAST HERE, ISN'T IT?
00:34:42.53\00:34:45.03
YOU KNOW, DREAMS
ARE FUNNY THINGS.
00:34:45.03\00:34:47.13
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU
GO WHEN YOU HAVE DREAMS.
00:34:47.13\00:34:50.80
I CLAIM THAT I HAVE THE ABILITY
WHEN A DREAM DOESN'T FINISH
00:34:50.80\00:34:53.76
RIGHT TO PUT MYSELF
BACK TO SLEEP AND FINISH IT
00:34:53.76\00:34:57.10
THE RIGHT WAY.
00:34:57.10\00:34:58.10
ANYONE ELSE DO THAT?
00:34:58.10\00:35:01.43
I TRIED IT LAST WEEK AND I
HAD A BAD DREAM AND I COULDN'T,
00:35:01.43\00:35:03.93
BUT IT WAS BAD--DISAPPOINTING.
00:35:03.93\00:35:05.10
BUT DREAMS ARE SO REAL.
00:35:05.10\00:35:06.73
AND JOHN IS NOW ACTUALLY IN
A VISION GIVEN TO HIM BY GOD
00:35:06.73\00:35:09.96
THOUGH THE SPIRIT, AND
HE'S TOLD BEHOLD THE LION,
00:35:09.96\00:35:13.63
BUT SEE THE LAMB.
00:35:13.63\00:35:15.00
NOW, THIS HAPPENS OFTEN
IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION,
00:35:15.00\00:35:17.60
LIKE I SAID LAST WEEK.
00:35:17.60\00:35:19.53
YOU KNOW, JOHN WILL TALK
ABOUT BEHOLD SOMETHING, AND THEN
00:35:19.53\00:35:24.46
HE TURNS AND HE SEES THE SAME,
BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT IMAGE.
00:35:24.46\00:35:29.13
AND JESUS IS BOTH
LION AND BOTH LAMB.
00:35:29.13\00:35:33.06
BUT THIS LION, WHAT COMES
TO YOUR MIND WHEN YOU THINK
00:35:33.06\00:35:35.43
OF A LION?
00:35:35.43\00:35:36.90
YOU THINK OF A
POWERFUL CREATURE, THE KING OF
00:35:36.90\00:35:39.33
THE JUNGLE WHO TERRIFIES.
00:35:39.33\00:35:41.70
CREATURES FLEE THE CONCEPT OF A
WARRIOR COMING OUT OF A BATTLE,
00:35:41.70\00:35:46.60
FRESH WITH HIS
SWORD DIPPED IN BLOOD.
00:35:46.60\00:35:49.20
BUT WHEN YOU THINK OF A LAMB,
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF A LAMB?
00:35:49.20\00:35:53.03
YOU THINK OF A LAMB--LITERALLY
THE GREEK IS LAMBKIN.
00:35:53.03\00:35:57.90
IT'S A LITTLE LAMB, A LITTLE
LAMB WHICH HAS JUST HAD ITS
00:35:57.90\00:36:02.70
THROAT CUT.
00:36:02.70\00:36:04.26
IT'S STANDING BEFORE THE THRONE.
00:36:04.26\00:36:06.43
IT'S BEEN OFFERED IN
SACRIFICE AND IT'S DYING.
00:36:06.43\00:36:10.80
IT'S STANDING
THERE, BUT IT'S DYING.
00:36:10.80\00:36:13.86
AND IT PUZZLES US, HOW
COULD JESUS BOTH BE LION AND HOW
00:36:13.86\00:36:17.73
COULD HE BOTH BE A
LAMB AT THE SAME TIME?
00:36:17.73\00:36:20.93
YOU KNOW, THE JEWS FROM
THE FIRST CENTURY WHO WERE LED
00:36:20.93\00:36:23.66
ASTRAY BY THEIR LEADERS HAD NO
TROUBLE SEEING JESUS AS A LION.
00:36:23.66\00:36:29.46
IF HE HAD COME AS A LION, THEY
WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN
00:36:29.46\00:36:31.76
THE MESSIAH COME AS A LION.
00:36:31.76\00:36:33.46
AND YOU AND I MUST BE CAREFUL
WE DON'T UNDULY BLAME THEM
00:36:33.46\00:36:36.43
BECAUSE IF WE HAD
LIVED UNDER THE HEEL OF ROME,
00:36:36.43\00:36:40.93
THE OPPRESSION OF ROME, IF
WE HAD LOST OUR FREEDOM LIKE
00:36:40.93\00:36:43.86
THEY HAD FROM PAGAN ROME, I
GUESS WE WOULD LIKED TO HAVE
00:36:43.86\00:36:48.26
HAD A MESSIAH TO COME AND
DELIVER US THE SAME WAY TOO.
00:36:48.26\00:36:51.40
BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S
ALSO TRUE FOR US TODAY.
00:36:51.40\00:36:56.30
WE LIVE IN A TROUBLED
WORLD OF WARS, FAMINES,
00:36:56.30\00:36:59.40
EARTHQUAKES, TERRORISM.
00:36:59.40\00:37:01.16
YOU KNOW, THE WORLD REALLY IS
HEADING--IF JESUS DOESN'T COME
00:37:01.16\00:37:05.13
SOON, YOU WONDER HOW
LONG THE WORLD WILL CARRY ON
00:37:05.13\00:37:07.70
THE MESS IT IS IN.
00:37:07.70\00:37:09.10
THE POTENTIAL TO DESTROY
OURSELVES, FOR ONE PERSON
00:37:09.10\00:37:12.33
TO DESTROY MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE, WE'VE NEVER FACED THIS
00:37:12.33\00:37:15.30
IN HUMAN HISTORY BEFORE.
00:37:15.30\00:37:17.80
YOU KNOW, I GUESS WE WOULD
LOVE TO SEE A GOD WHO ACTS LIKE
00:37:17.80\00:37:22.06
A LION.
00:37:22.06\00:37:23.53
WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE A MESSIAH
WHO COMES AND DELIVERS US.
00:37:23.53\00:37:27.13
AND AS I SAID, AS A
LITTLE BOY I USED TO LOVE
00:37:27.13\00:37:30.16
THE SUPERMAN FILMS.
00:37:30.16\00:37:31.26
WHY?
00:37:31.26\00:37:32.36
BECAUSE EVERY TIME LOIS
LANE FELL OUT OF A BUILDING,
00:37:32.36\00:37:34.86
WHAT HAPPENED?
00:37:34.86\00:37:36.10
HE WAS THERE.
00:37:36.10\00:37:37.60
A PLANE IS ABOUT TO CRASH.
00:37:37.60\00:37:39.76
HE TAKES IT SAFELY TO LAND.
00:37:39.76\00:37:42.20
THEY SEND A
ROCKET SHIP OR SOMETHING.
00:37:42.20\00:37:44.76
THEY SEND A MISSILE TO A DAM.
00:37:44.76\00:37:47.63
WHAT DOES HE DO?
00:37:47.63\00:37:49.10
HE TAKES IT OUT TO
OUTER SPACE, YOU KNOW?
00:37:49.10\00:37:51.70
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO
WORSHIP A GOD LIKE THAT?
00:37:51.70\00:37:54.40
IN OUR HEARTS, WE LONG FOR
GOD TO DO THE THINGS THAT A LION
00:37:54.40\00:37:58.53
DOES AND STEP IN
AND FIX THESE PEOPLE.
00:37:58.53\00:38:01.90
BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK
THE WORLD IS HEADING TOWARDS
00:38:01.90\00:38:07.76
THE STAGE WHERE IT WILL LOOK
FOR A STRONG LEADER WHO WILL DO
00:38:07.76\00:38:10.30
THAT SORT OF THING.
00:38:10.30\00:38:11.36
AND MAYBE BE PREPARED
TO SURRENDER SOME OF THEIR
00:38:11.36\00:38:13.56
LIBERTIES IN
ORDER JUST TO SURVIVE.
00:38:13.56\00:38:17.03
THE WORLD IS HEADING
TOWARD SOME GREAT CRISIS.
00:38:17.03\00:38:19.10
YOU JUST SORT OF
FEEL IT, DON'T YOU?
00:38:19.10\00:38:21.13
BUT, YOU KNOW, THE JEWS NEVER
SEEM TO TAKE ENOUGH NOTICE OF
00:38:21.13\00:38:23.86
ISAIAH 53, AND MAYBE THERE'S
THINGS IN GOD'S WORD THAT WE
00:38:23.86\00:38:27.40
DON'T RECOGNIZE YET THAT WE
SHOULD BE TAKING NOTICE OF TOO.
00:38:27.40\00:38:31.56
BUT ISAIAH 53 WAS A VERY CLEAR
MESSAGE AS TO HOW THIS MESSIAH
00:38:31.56\00:38:36.70
WOULD ACTUALLY BE WHEN HE CAME.
00:38:36.70\00:38:39.13
ISAIAH 53:4-7 IS A VERY MOVING
STORY OF WHAT THE MESSIAH WOULD
00:38:39.13\00:38:45.13
BE LIKE, THE SUFFERING SERVANT.
00:38:45.13\00:38:47.80
"SURELY HE TOOK UP OUR
INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED OUR
00:38:47.80\00:38:50.26
SORROWS, YET WE CONSIDERED
HIM STRICKEN BY GOD, SMITTEN BY
00:38:50.26\00:38:54.70
HIM, AND AFFLICTED.
00:38:54.70\00:38:56.63
BUT HE WAS PIERCED FOR OUR
TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS CRUSHED
00:38:56.63\00:39:00.76
FOR OUR INIQUITIES, THE
PUNISHMENT THAT BROUGHT US
00:39:00.76\00:39:04.30
PEACE WAS UPON HIM, AND
BY HIS WOUNDS WE ARE HEALED.
00:39:04.30\00:39:08.26
ALL WE, LIKE SHEEP, HAVE
GONE ASTRAY, EACH ONE OF US HAS
00:39:08.26\00:39:12.23
TURNED TO HIS OWN WAY;
AND THE LORD HAS LAID ON HIM
00:39:12.23\00:39:16.96
THE INIQUITY OF US ALL."
00:39:16.96\00:39:19.20
IT'S A VERY
MOVING PIECE, ISN'T IT?
00:39:19.20\00:39:21.83
ALL THAT WE HAVE DONE
WRONG, ALL OUR SINS, THE SINS OF
00:39:21.83\00:39:25.76
THE WHOLE WORLD WERE LAID
UPON THE INNOCENT LAMB OF GOD.
00:39:25.76\00:39:30.00
YOU KNOW, WE LONGED TO SEE
THE MESSIAH COME, AND I BELIEVE
00:39:30.00\00:39:33.63
HE WILL COME ONE DAY AS
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS,
00:39:33.63\00:39:36.53
AND HE WILL ROAR LIKE A LION.
00:39:36.53\00:39:40.16
SURE HE WILL.
00:39:40.16\00:39:42.06
AND THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE
IN FEAR AND SUDDENLY THERE
00:39:42.06\00:39:45.63
WILL NOT BE AN
ATHEIST LEFT IN THE WORLD.
00:39:45.63\00:39:48.10
THEY'LL BE THE EXTINCT.
00:39:48.10\00:39:49.70
BUT WE HAVE TO LIVE OUR LIVES;
MEANWHILE, WE HAVE TO LIVE OUR
00:39:49.70\00:39:53.73
LIVES FOR A PERIOD
LIKE MESSIAH IS LIKE A LAMB.
00:39:53.73\00:39:59.03
AND GOD DOESN'T ALWAYS
STEP IN AND DO THE THINGS
00:39:59.03\00:40:02.26
THAT WE WANT HIM TO DO.
00:40:02.26\00:40:04.10
AND WE PLEAD WITH HIM,
"LORD, THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
00:40:04.10\00:40:06.80
WHY AM I SUFFERING
FOR BEING A CHRISTIAN?
00:40:06.80\00:40:10.13
WHY ARE THESE UNJUST PEOPLE
DOING THESE THINGS TO ME?"
00:40:10.13\00:40:13.93
YOU KNOW, IT'S OUR PRIVILEGE
TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS
00:40:13.93\00:40:16.90
OF JESUS.
00:40:16.90\00:40:18.63
IT'S OUR PRIVILEGE TO
FOLLOW HIM STEP BY STEP.
00:40:18.63\00:40:21.26
AND THE END TIME IS WRITTEN
IN REVELATION, IN THE LANGUAGE
00:40:21.26\00:40:24.30
WHERE THE FOLLOWERS OF
JESUS ARE TRULY FOLLOWING JESUS.
00:40:24.30\00:40:29.06
BUT SEE HOW HE WINS
HIS BATTLE AS A LAMB.
00:40:29.06\00:40:32.30
SEE HOW HE WINS HIS BATTLE.
00:40:32.30\00:40:34.80
HE DOESN'T TAKE HIS
SWORD AND GO OUT AND CONQUER
00:40:34.80\00:40:37.40
AND DESTROY AT THIS MOMENT.
00:40:37.40\00:40:39.96
HE ALLOWS HIMSELF TO BE NAILED
TO THE CROSS, HE BOWS HIS HEAD,
00:40:39.96\00:40:45.06
HE FEELS FORSAKEN BY GOD, AND
HE CRIES OUT, "MY GOD, MY GOD,
00:40:45.06\00:40:51.76
WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"
00:40:51.76\00:40:54.56
AND THAT'S HOW HE
CONQUERS AND WINS HIS BATTLE.
00:40:54.56\00:40:58.20
GLORY TO THE LAMB THAT
WAS SLAIN, THE ONE WHO BORE
00:40:58.20\00:41:02.76
OUR SINS ON CALVARY.
00:41:02.76\00:41:04.40
THIS IS SO CONTRARY TO
HUMAN THINKING, ISN'T IT?
00:41:04.40\00:41:07.73
THE HUMAN MIND SAYS
CRUSH YOUR ENEMY, DESTROY THEM.
00:41:07.73\00:41:11.93
BUT JESUS COMES AND HE
TAKES THE ENEMY'S SINS UPON HIM.
00:41:11.93\00:41:17.53
YOU KNOW, CALVARY WAS
LIKE THE LIGHTNING AND ALL ELSE
00:41:17.53\00:41:20.40
THAT COMES THEREAFTER IS
THE THUNDER, THE MOPPING UP
00:41:20.40\00:41:22.96
OPERATIONS.
00:41:22.96\00:41:24.50
AND ONE DAY HE WILL
COME AS KING OF KINGS
00:41:24.50\00:41:26.30
AND LORD OF LORDS.
00:41:26.30\00:41:27.93
BUT WE'RE LIVING THROUGH
A LAMB-LIKE EXPERIENCE AS WE
00:41:27.93\00:41:30.80
FOLLOW IN THE
FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS.
00:41:30.80\00:41:33.30
IF YOU AND I HAD LIVED
IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES,
00:41:33.30\00:41:36.23
SIN WOULD HAVE MADE A
TREMENDOUS IMPRESSION UPON US.
00:41:36.23\00:41:39.53
IT WOULD HAVE MEANT WE WOULD
HAVE HAD TO GO TO THE TEMPLE,
00:41:39.53\00:41:42.30
AND WE WOULD HAVE TAKEN A
LIFE AND WE WOULD HAVE CUT
00:41:42.30\00:41:45.23
THAT LITTLE LAMB'S THROAT.
00:41:45.23\00:41:47.73
YOU'D SAY, "WHY IS
THAT LITTLE CREATURE DYING?"
00:41:47.73\00:41:50.73
THAT LITTLE CREATURE IS DYING
BECAUSE OF WHAT I HAVE DONE.
00:41:50.73\00:41:55.26
YOU WOULD LEARN TO
HATE SIN, WOULDN'T YOU?
00:41:55.26\00:41:58.20
HATE SIN FOR WHAT IT'S
DONE TO THAT LITTLE LAMB.
00:41:58.20\00:42:01.76
AND GOD WANTS US TO
THINK OF HIS SON AS LIKE
00:42:01.76\00:42:04.50
A LITTLE CREATURE.
00:42:04.50\00:42:06.10
YOU KNOW, I HAD A FARMER FRIEND
YEARS AGO IN NEW ZEALAND WHO
00:42:06.10\00:42:08.16
EVERY SPRING HAD TO GO
AROUND AND CUT THE THROATS OF
00:42:08.16\00:42:10.26
THE LAMBS THEY DIDN'T WANT.
00:42:10.26\00:42:11.63
HE SAID THOSE TINY LITTLE
CREATURES COULD HARDLY STAND
00:42:11.63\00:42:13.93
ON THEIR FEET.
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.06
HE SAID, "IT'S A JOB I DETESTED
EVERY YEAR, TO TAKE THE KNIFE
00:42:15.06\00:42:19.36
AND DRAW IT THROUGH THE THROAT
AND TO SEE THE LITTLE THING
00:42:19.36\00:42:22.56
STAGGER, STAGGER, DYING."
00:42:22.56\00:42:26.33
WHEN GOD WANTS YOU AND I
TO HAVE AN IMAGE OF HIS SON,
00:42:26.33\00:42:30.16
AT THIS TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY HE
WANTS US TO SEE HIM AS A LAMB.
00:42:30.16\00:42:35.33
ONE DAY HE'LL BE
LIKE THE LION, SURE.
00:42:35.33\00:42:37.93
BUT THERE IS A
LAMB-LIKE EXISTENCE.
00:42:37.93\00:42:39.86
THIS IDEA OF HEALTH AND
WEALTH GOSPEL IS NOT REALISTIC.
00:42:39.86\00:42:44.06
CHRISTIANS DO SUFFER.
00:42:44.06\00:42:45.90
CHRISTIANS DO GET SICK.
00:42:45.90\00:42:47.66
CHRISTIANS DO HAVE
THEIR HOMES BROKEN INTO.
00:42:47.66\00:42:50.33
CHRISTIANS DO LOSE THEIR JOB
BECAUSE THEY STAND FOR JESUS.
00:42:50.33\00:42:54.80
BOOK OF REVELATION WAS WRITTEN
TO A PEOPLE WHO WERE STRUGGLING
00:42:54.80\00:42:57.43
TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHY
IS THE WORLD IN SUCH A MESS
00:42:57.43\00:43:02.40
WHEN JESUS IS IN HEAVEN.
00:43:02.40\00:43:05.53
THE BOOK OF REVELATION WAS
WRITTEN TO GIVE US A REALISTIC
00:43:05.53\00:43:08.86
VIEW OF LIFE, THE
LION-LAMB TENSION IN THIS BOOK.
00:43:08.86\00:43:13.23
AND DO YOU EVER
IDENTIFY WITH IT?
00:43:13.23\00:43:15.50
DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE
CRYING OUT, "LORD, HOW LONG?
00:43:15.50\00:43:19.36
HOW LONG, LORD, BEFORE YOU
STEP IN AND PUT AN END TO THIS
00:43:19.36\00:43:23.70
AND TAKE US HOME?"
00:43:23.70\00:43:25.50
WE FIND THAT THE TENSE PAIN
OF SOME PEOPLE IS SO UNJUST.
00:43:25.50\00:43:30.13
BUT JESUS WAS SLAUGHTERED
LIKE A LITTLE LAMB, AND OUR
00:43:30.13\00:43:33.40
LAMB-LIKE EXPERIENCES,
IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL,
00:43:33.40\00:43:36.33
CAN ACTUALLY OVERWHELM US.
00:43:36.33\00:43:38.83
MOST PEOPLE WHO START THE
CHRISTIAN LIFE DON'T FINISH.
00:43:38.83\00:43:43.00
SAD COMMENTARY ON
CHRISTIANITY, BUT IT'S TRUE.
00:43:43.00\00:43:45.93
GOD IS DEALING
WITH HUMAN BEINGS.
00:43:45.93\00:43:48.20
WIDE IS THE GATE, BROAD IS THE
WAY THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION.
00:43:48.20\00:43:51.73
MOST PEOPLE GO THAT WAY.
00:43:51.73\00:43:53.03
STRAIGHT IS THE GATE, NARROW
IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO LIFE,
00:43:53.03\00:43:55.83
FEW THEY BE THAT FIND IT.
00:43:55.83\00:43:57.50
YOU AND I HAVE TO MAINTAIN
OUR FAITH AND LIVE BY FAITH,
00:43:57.50\00:44:03.40
EVEN WHEN LIFE FALLS APART.
00:44:03.40\00:44:05.50
EVEN WHEN WE ARE BETRAYED
BY FRIEND AND OTHER CHRISTIANS
00:44:05.50\00:44:08.56
AND LET DOWN, WE HAVE TO
KEEP OUR EYES ON THE LAMB.
00:44:08.56\00:44:13.70
WE TAKE OUR EYES
ANYWHERE ELSE, IT IS NOT SAFE.
00:44:13.70\00:44:17.90
NO ONE CAN PLUCK US
OUT OF HIS HAND, HE SAYS.
00:44:17.90\00:44:20.73
WE HAVE ASSURANCE
OF SALVATION IN HIM.
00:44:20.73\00:44:22.96
SURE, BUT WE CAN TAKE
OUR EYES OFF HIM AND THROUGH
00:44:22.96\00:44:27.06
CARELESSNESS AND
NEGLECT WE CAN LOSE IT.
00:44:27.06\00:44:31.73
YOU CANNOT DRAW A LINE IN
THIS WORLD BETWEEN BELIEVERS AND
00:44:31.73\00:44:34.50
UNBELIEVERS AND SAY, "OKAY,
ON THIS SIDE ARE ALL THOSE WHO
00:44:34.50\00:44:38.66
ARE CHRISTIANS AND THEY
DON'T GET THEIR HOUSES ROBBED.
00:44:38.66\00:44:42.50
THEY LIVE LONGER AND THEY'VE
ALWAYS GOT A JOB AND THEY
00:44:42.50\00:44:45.70
ALWAYS HAVE THEIR
FRIENDS AND FAMILY."
00:44:45.70\00:44:48.00
AND ON THE OTHER SIDE,
THOSE WHO ARE NOT CHRISTIANS,
00:44:48.00\00:44:50.36
AND THEY DIE EARLY, THEY
GET CANCER, THEY LOSE THEIR JOB.
00:44:50.36\00:44:54.06
THE WORLD IS NOT
LIKE THAT, IS IT?
00:44:54.06\00:44:56.73
IF THAT WERE THE CASE,
WE WOULD TEND TO SERVE GOD
00:44:56.73\00:44:59.76
FOR THE WRONG REASONS.
00:44:59.76\00:45:01.16
WE'VE BECOME BREAD
AND BUTTER CHRISTIANS.
00:45:01.16\00:45:03.33
TRUE FAITH.
00:45:03.33\00:45:04.66
GOD GIVES SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
TO BELIEVE, BUT NEVER REMOVES
00:45:04.66\00:45:07.86
ALL CAUSE FOR DOUBT.
00:45:07.86\00:45:11.33
WE HAVE THE WITNESS OF
THE SPIRIT IN OUR LIFE.
00:45:11.33\00:45:13.46
WE HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF
THE WORD OF GOD, BUT THERE ARE
00:45:13.46\00:45:16.20
ALWAYS GOING TO BE
THINGS THAT DON'T MAKE SENSE
00:45:16.20\00:45:18.76
AND SEEM UNFAIR.
00:45:18.76\00:45:21.03
AND WHEN THAT TIME
COMES, WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR EYES
00:45:21.03\00:45:24.90
ON THE LAMB.
00:45:24.90\00:45:26.10
BE FAITHFUL TO CHRIST.
00:45:26.10\00:45:27.80
THERE ARE MOTHERS LEFT
ALL ALONE IN THIS WORLD
00:45:27.80\00:45:30.10
TO BRING UP THEIR
CHILDREN ALL BY THEMSELVES.
00:45:30.10\00:45:32.46
THERE ARE PARENTS WHO HAVE LOST
A SON OR A DAUGHTER IN A CAR
00:45:32.46\00:45:34.86
ACCIDENT, AND IT WASN'T FAIR.
00:45:34.86\00:45:37.76
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE
FAITHFUL TO CHRIST, YET THEY
00:45:37.76\00:45:40.00
GET SICK, ROBBED,
MURDERED, LOST THEIR JOBS.
00:45:40.00\00:45:42.50
IT CAN BE A ROUGH WORLD, AND
WHEN THIS HAPPENS, THE SKEPTICS
00:45:42.50\00:45:44.96
SAY, "WELL, WHERE IS YOUR GOD?
00:45:44.96\00:45:46.70
YOU'VE TRIED TO
BE FAITHFUL TO HIM.
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WHY ISN'T HE LOOKING
AFTER YOU AT THIS TIME?"
00:45:48.76\00:45:52.83
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT
THEY SAID TO JESUS, ISN'T IT?
00:45:52.83\00:45:56.10
"WHERE'S YOUR GOD?
00:45:56.10\00:45:57.50
WHY DON'T YOU COME DOWN
AND THEN WE'LL BELIEVE YOU?"
00:45:57.50\00:46:00.53
AND THEY TAUNTED HIM AND
TEASED HIM, BUT YOU KNOW,
00:46:00.53\00:46:03.06
HE WOULDN'T COME DOWN.
00:46:03.06\00:46:05.80
IF HE HAD, YOU
AND I WOULD BE LOST.
00:46:05.80\00:46:09.13
HE SAW THERE WOULD BE PEOPLE
LIKE YOU AND I WHO WOULD TRUST
00:46:09.13\00:46:12.03
IN HIM AND HE
HUNG THERE, DIDN'T HE?
00:46:12.03\00:46:15.66
UNTIL HE CRIED
OUT, "IT IS FINISHED."
00:46:15.66\00:46:18.83
HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.
00:46:18.83\00:46:20.93
OH, YES, ONE DAY SOON HE'LL
COME AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD
00:46:20.93\00:46:23.63
OF LORDS.
00:46:23.63\00:46:24.73
WHAT A MIGHTY SCENE IT WILL BE.
00:46:24.73\00:46:26.43
ALL THE POWERS ON
HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL TREMBLE.
00:46:26.43\00:46:29.90
THEY'LL FLEE.
00:46:29.90\00:46:31.33
THE MOUNTAIN
CHAINS WILL RISE AND FALL.
00:46:31.33\00:46:34.43
BOOK OF REVELATION PICTURES
IT WHEN JESUS COMES AS KING OF
00:46:34.43\00:46:37.33
KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS,
WITH ALL HIS ANGELS WITH HIM,
00:46:37.33\00:46:40.76
AND HE'LL ROAR LIKE A LION.
00:46:40.76\00:46:43.80
BUT MEANWHILE, WE HAVE TO
SEEM LIKE A LAMB AND SUFFER
00:46:43.80\00:46:49.63
AS HE SUFFERED.
00:46:49.63\00:46:51.53
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE ARE
KINGS AND PRIESTS AND WE WILL
00:46:51.53\00:46:54.40
LIVE AND REIGN WITH
CHRIST FOR ETERNITY.
00:46:54.40\00:46:57.10
YOU KNOW, WE DON'T EVEN
UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS,
00:46:57.10\00:46:59.33
REALLY, TO BE A
KING AND A PRIEST.
00:46:59.33\00:47:01.66
JESUS SAYS IN REVELATION,
"TO THOSE WHO OVERCOME, I WILL
00:47:01.66\00:47:06.33
SHARE MY THRONE WITH YOU."
00:47:06.33\00:47:08.56
JESUS, REMEMBER, HAS
INHERITED ALL THINGS.
00:47:08.56\00:47:11.20
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO
SHARE THE THRONE WITH JESUS?
00:47:11.20\00:47:14.26
I DON'T THINK WE'VE GOT ANY
IDEA OF THE GLORIES THAT WILL
00:47:14.26\00:47:18.20
BE IN THE NEXT LIFE
WHEN JESUS TAKES US HOME
00:47:18.20\00:47:21.16
TO SOMEWHERE BETTER.
00:47:21.16\00:47:22.70
BUT MEANWHILE, WE
HAVE A LAMB-LIKE EXISTENCE.
00:47:22.70\00:47:26.40
YOU KNOW, WE MUST LOOK AWAY
FROM THIS WORLD AND SEE THIS
00:47:26.40\00:47:29.33
SCENE BEFORE US, THIS THRONE.
00:47:29.33\00:47:31.33
THE THRONE IN HEAVEN.
00:47:31.33\00:47:32.93
WELL COME BACK TO REVELATION
4 AND 5 IN OUR THINKING BECAUSE
00:47:32.93\00:47:36.86
IT'S A GREAT SCENE, ISN'T IT?
00:47:36.86\00:47:39.33
IN REVELATION 4, WE WANT TO SEE
THAT THRONE ROOM SCENE, WHERE
00:47:39.33\00:47:45.36
ALL AROUND WE HAVE THE
CHOIR OF HEAVEN, THE 24 ELDERS,
00:47:45.36\00:47:51.33
THE 4 LIVING
CREATURES, AN ANGELIC CHOIR.
00:47:51.33\00:47:54.86
AND AS WE LOOK AT REVELATION
4 IN OUR MIND AND OUR THINKING,
00:47:54.86\00:48:00.20
WE LOOK AT THAT SCENE.
00:48:00.20\00:48:02.73
IT'S A MAJESTIC SCENE.
00:48:02.73\00:48:05.40
YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW MUCH TO
KNOW THAT GOD IS ON THE THRONE
00:48:05.40\00:48:09.60
AND HE IS IN CONTROL, BECAUSE
THE LAMB CAME AND TOOK THAT
00:48:09.60\00:48:14.40
BOOK AND HE'S UNSEALING IT.
00:48:14.40\00:48:17.16
AND THIS BOOK HOLDS THE DESTINY
OF THE HUMAN RACE AS HISTORY
00:48:17.16\00:48:21.43
BEGINS TO UNFOLD.
00:48:21.43\00:48:23.33
BUT WE MUST NEVER
TAKE OUR EYES OFF THE LAMB.
00:48:23.33\00:48:26.26
YOU KNOW, THIS SCENE OF
REVELATION 4 AND 5 HAS INSPIRED
00:48:26.26\00:48:30.26
MUCH MUSIC.
00:48:30.26\00:48:32.03
AND HANDEL WROTE SOMETHING.
00:48:32.03\00:48:34.50
THIS IS THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST.
00:48:34.50\00:48:37.00
THIS IS WHERE CHRIST ASCENDS
TO HEAVEN AFTER HIS DEATH AND
00:48:37.00\00:48:40.06
RESURRECTION, AND THIS IS THE
PRAISE OF THE HEAVENLY CHOIRS.
00:48:40.06\00:48:44.33
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
00:48:44.33\00:48:47.63
AND HE WILL REIGN FOREVER.
00:48:47.63\00:48:49.76
THIS IS A TRIUMPHANT
ASCENSION OF CHRIST TO HEAVEN.
00:48:49.76\00:48:53.33
AND BECAUSE HE
LIVES, WE WILL LIVE TOO.
00:48:53.33\00:48:56.03
LISTEN TO IT.
00:48:56.03\00:48:57.26
LISTEN TO THE HEAVENLY CHOIRS.
00:48:57.26\00:48:59.70
? OMNIPOTENT
REIGNETH ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:48:59.70\00:49:04.70
? HALLELUJAH! ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:49:04.70\00:49:06.63
? HALLELUJAH! ? ?
FOR THE LORD GOD ?
00:49:06.63\00:49:10.93
? OMNIPOTENT
REIGNETH ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:49:10.93\00:49:14.76
? HALLELUJAH! ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:49:14.76\00:49:16.66
? HALLELUJAH! ? ?
FOR THE LORD GOD ?
00:49:16.66\00:49:20.46
? OMNIPOTENT REIGNETH
? ? FOR THE LORD GOD ?
00:49:20.46\00:49:26.36
? OMNIPOTENT
REIGNETH ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:49:26.36\00:49:30.80
? HALLELUJAH! ? ?
FOR THE LORD GOD ?
00:49:30.80\00:49:34.36
? OMNIPOTENT
REIGNETH ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:49:34.36\00:49:41.66
? THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD
? ? IS BECOME THE KINGDOM ?
00:49:41.66\00:49:51.93
? OF OUR LORD ? ?
AND OF HIS CHRIST ?
00:49:51.93\00:49:55.43
? AND OF HIS CHRIST;
? ? AND HE SHALL REIGN ?
00:49:55.43\00:49:59.23
? FOR EVER AND EVER ?
? AND HE SHALL REIGN ?
00:49:59.23\00:50:04.56
? FOR EVER AND EVER ?
? AND HE SHALL REIGN ?
00:50:04.56\00:50:09.50
? FOR EVER AND EVER
? ? FOR EVER AND EVER ?
00:50:09.50\00:50:15.10
? FOREVER AND EVER
? ? KING OF KINGS ?
00:50:15.10\00:50:20.13
? FOR EVER AND
EVER ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:50:20.13\00:50:23.06
? HALLELUJAH! ? ?
AND LORD OF LORDS ?
00:50:23.06\00:50:26.06
? FOR EVER AND
EVER ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:50:26.06\00:50:29.06
? HALLELUJAH! ?
? KING OF KINGS ?
00:50:29.06\00:50:32.20
? FOR EVER AND
EVER ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:50:32.20\00:50:35.16
? HALLELUJAH! ? ?
AND LORD OF LORDS ?
00:50:35.16\00:50:38.20
? FOR EVER AND
EVER ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:50:38.20\00:50:41.23
? HALLELUJAH! ?
? KING OF KINGS ?
00:50:41.23\00:50:44.30
? FOR EVER AND
EVER ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:50:44.30\00:50:47.33
? HALLELUJAH! ? ?
AND LORD OF LORDS ?
00:50:47.33\00:50:51.23
? KING OF KINGS ?
? AND LORD OF LORDS ?
00:50:51.23\00:50:55.20
? AND HE SHALL REIGN
? ? FOREVER AND EVER ?
00:50:55.20\00:51:00.36
? AND HE SHALL REIGN
? ? FOREVER AND EVER ?
00:51:00.36\00:51:05.06
? KING OF KINGS ?
? FOREVER AND EVER ?
00:51:05.06\00:51:09.30
? AND LORD OF
LORDS ? ? HALLELUJAH! ?
00:51:09.30\00:51:12.03
? HALLELUJAH! ? ?
AND HE SHALL REIGN ?
00:51:12.03\00:51:14.76
? FOR EVER AND EVER ??
00:51:14.76\00:51:17.76
>> ONE DAY WE'LL
JOIN THAT CHOIR IN HEAVEN.
00:51:20.83\00:51:24.73
WE'LL BE AROUND
THE THRONE OF GOD.
00:51:24.73\00:51:27.36
HE IS KING OF KINGS
AND HE IS LORD OF LORDS.
00:51:27.36\00:51:30.80
AND WE WILL SHARE
THE THRONE FOREVER.
00:51:30.80\00:51:33.76
BUT MEANWHILE, WE HAVE TO
LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE WE HAVE
00:51:33.76\00:51:37.90
TO KEEP OUR EYES
FIXED UPON THE LAMB.
00:51:37.90\00:51:41.06
I WANT TO
CHALLENGE YOU AT THIS TIME.
00:51:41.06\00:51:43.56
NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, NO
MATTER WHAT PEOPLE SAY OR DO
00:51:43.56\00:51:47.60
TO YOU, NEVER TAKE
YOUR EYE OFF THE LAMB.
00:51:47.60\00:51:54.50
SURE, THE LION WILL COME
THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF
00:51:54.50\00:51:58.13
LORDS, AND WE WILL REIGN
FOREVER WITH HIM, BUT HE'S
00:51:58.13\00:52:01.03
THE LAMB.
00:52:01.03\00:52:03.30
THINK OF THAT LITTLE LAMB.
00:52:03.30\00:52:05.60
ITS THROAT IS CUT.
00:52:05.60\00:52:07.03
IT'S BLEEDING.
00:52:07.03\00:52:09.03
THINK OF WHAT HE DID FOR YOU.
00:52:09.03\00:52:11.80
WHAT SHOULD WE NOT DO FOR HIM?
00:52:11.80\00:52:14.70
LET'S JUST BOW OUR HEADS.
00:52:14.70\00:52:18.00
OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
WHAT A WONDERFUL GOD WE SERVE.
00:52:18.00\00:52:23.06
WE SERVE A CREATOR WHO CAME AND
WON THIS BATTLE BY SUBMITTING
00:52:23.06\00:52:29.10
TO THE DEATH OF CALVARY.
00:52:29.10\00:52:31.90
HE WAS LIKE THAT
HELPLESS LITTLE LAMB.
00:52:31.90\00:52:34.20
HE ALLOWED HIMSELF
TO BECOME HELPLESS.
00:52:34.20\00:52:37.10
HIS LIFEBLOOD WAS SHED THAT WE
MIGHT BE FORGIVEN AND WE MIGHT
00:52:37.10\00:52:41.00
LIVE FOREVER AND WE
MIGHT SHARE HIS THRONE.
00:52:41.00\00:52:45.13
OH, WHAT A WONDERFUL GIFT.
00:52:45.13\00:52:47.36
THE FAIREST IN HEAVEN CAME DOWN
TO LIVE IN OUR WORLD, TO SUFFER
00:52:47.36\00:52:53.03
AS WE SUFFER, AND EVEN
MORE SO DIED FOR OUR SINS.
00:52:53.03\00:52:57.00
WELL, LORD, BLESS
US AND ENCOURAGE US.
00:52:57.00\00:52:59.53
WE SERVE JESUS.
00:52:59.53\00:53:01.26
OUR EYES ARE FIXED UPON HIM
AND WE PLEDGE OURSELVES AT THIS
00:53:01.26\00:53:05.00
TIME, LORD, TO KEEP OUR
EYES ON THE LAMB AND NEVER,
00:53:05.00\00:53:10.06
EVER TAKE OUR EYES OFF.
00:53:10.06\00:53:12.13
ENCOURAGE US TO KEEP
LOOKING, KEEP TRUSTING.
00:53:12.13\00:53:16.13
WE PRAY IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:53:16.13\00:53:19.80
[MUSIC] ? TO WRITE THE LOVE ?
00:53:22.40\00:53:27.10
? OF GOD ABOVE ? ?
WOULD DRAIN THE OCEANS DRY. ?
00:53:27.10\00:53:39.46
? NOR COULD THE SCROLL
? ? CONTAIN THE WHOLE, ?
00:53:40.83\00:53:50.40
? THOUGH STRETCHED
? ? FROM SKY TO SKY. ?
00:53:50.40\00:54:00.06
? OH HALLELUJAH,
JESUS. ? ? HALLELUJAH. ?
00:54:00.06\00:54:11.20
? HIGHER THAN ? ?
THE HIGHEST HEAVEN. ?
00:54:14.36\00:54:23.73
? DEEPER THAN THE DEEPEST
SEA. ? ? WIDER THAN COULD ?
00:54:23.73\00:54:37.43
? EVER IMAGINE. ? ?
YOUR GREAT LOVE FOR ME. ?
00:54:37.43\00:54:51.20
? YOUR GREAT LOVE FOR ME. ?
00:54:51.20\00:55:00.93
? YOUR LOVE IS HIGHER
THAN ? ? THE HIGHEST HEAVEN. ?
00:55:03.80\00:55:13.56
? IT'S DEEPER THAN
? ? THE DEEPEST SEA. ?
00:55:13.56\00:55:21.70
? YOUR LOVE IS WIDER THAN
? ? I COULD EVER IMAGINE. ?
00:55:21.70\00:55:32.66
? YOUR GREAT LOVE FOR ME.
? ? YOUR GREAT LOVE FOR ME. ?
00:55:32.66\00:55:48.03
? OH, LOVE OF GOD, ?
? HOW RICH AND PURE. ?
00:55:48.03\00:55:57.03
? HOW MEASURELESS AND
STRONG. ? ? IT SHALL FOREVER, ?
00:55:57.03\00:56:10.33
? EVERMORE
ENDURE. ? ? THE SAINTS' ?
00:56:10.33\00:56:16.43
? AND ANGELS' SONG. ?
00:56:16.43\00:56:25.83
? HALLELUJAH JESUS. ?
00:56:27.83\00:56:32.66
? HOLY. ? ? HOLY ?
00:56:53.56\00:57:02.36
? HOLY ? ? HOLY ?
00:57:02.36\00:57:10.93
? HOLY ? ? THAT'S WHAT YOU A ?
00:57:11.26\00:57:19.30
? THAT'S WHAT YOU
WANT FROM ME ? ? HOLY ?
00:57:19.30\00:57:29.30
? HOLY ??
00:57:29.30\00:57:37.30
[APPLAUDING]
00:57:56.03\00:57:59.03