Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021322
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:49 RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:52 WHEREVER YOU ARE JOINING US FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND 00:56 THE WORLD, A VERY BIG WELCOME. SOME OF YOU ARE LISTENING ON THE 00:59 RADIO, SOME LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND SOME ON 01:04 THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS. SO HOWEVER YOU ARE JOINING US, 01:07 WELCOME. AND WE ARE SO EXCITED THAT WE 01:09 GET TO SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK. 01:13 IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME TUNING IN, YOU GET TO SING WITH 01:16 US AND WE GET TO SING SONGS FROM REQUESTS THAT HAVE COME IN FROM 01:21 OUR VIEWERS ALL OVER THE PLACE AND, OF COURSE, THAT'S WHAT 01:24 WE'RE GOING TO DO RIGHT NOW. #468 IS OUR FIRST REQUEST AND I 01:28 WILL TELL YOU, WE HAVE DEFINITELY SOME SONGS THAT ARE 01:31 REALLY, REALLY POPULAR - 'AMAZING GRACE' BEING ONE OF 01:35 THEM - BUT 'A CHILD OF THE KING', I THINK, IS RIGHT UP 01:38 THERE WITH #2 AND WE HAD PROBABLY - I'M GOING TO SAY AT 01:41 LEAST 60 REQUESTS FOR THIS SONG - SO CLEARLY I'M NOT GOING TO BE 01:44 READING ALL OF THOSE NAMES. SO I JUST RANDOMLY PICKED SOME. 01:49 ALEXI AND MARTINA IN ARGENTINA, AARON, GLORIA, IRENE, LYNTON, 01:54 REANNA, AND RICHARD IN AUSTRALIA, DIEUWKE IN BELGIUM, 01:58 HEZRON AND RENATA IN BRAZIL, LUIS IN COSTA RICA, BETINA IN 02:04 DENMARK, ERISNELY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AUDREY, 02:08 GEORGIA, HYACINTH, KAYLIA, SHERACE, AND PAIGE IN ENGLAND, 02:11 DAVID AND GUERRIER IN FRANCE, DINAGAR AND RAMAY IN INDIA, 02:16 DIANA IN NICARAGUA, JOHAN IN NORWAY, ERNESTO IN PANAMA, PERLA 02:22 IN SAUDI ARABIA, FRANCIS IN SRI LANKA, AND JOHN AND PETER IN 02:27 VANUATU. SO THOSE ARE JUST A FEW. 02:30 THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ELSE THAT SENT IN YOUR FAVORITE SONG - YOU 02:33 KNOW WHO YOU ARE - AND WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST, THIRD, 02:36 AND FOURTH STANZAS. #468 - 'A CHILD OF THE KING'. 02:40 (MUSIC) 05:31 >>IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU LIVE IN ON THIS EARTH OR YOUR 05:34 CIRCUMSTANCES, BECAUSE IF YOU KEEP IN YOUR MIND THAT YOU ARE 05:38 A CHILD OF THE KING, YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO. 05:44 SOMETHING - YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE. 05:52 IT IS AN EXCITING THOUGHT. OUR NEXT SONG IS #57 AS WE ARE 06:01 WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL, SINGING THE SONGS THAT 06:05 WE DON'T KNOW. WE'RE GETTING MESSAGES COMING IN 06:09 FROM THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SINGING ALONG WITH US EVERY WEEK 06:12 AND YOU ACTUALLY ARE ENJOYING THIS WITH US SO WE'RE NOT HERE 06:15 ON OUR OWN SINGING SONGS THAT WE DON'T KNOW. 06:18 SO WE'RE ALL LEARNING THESE TOGETHER AND I THINK IT'S 06:20 EXCITING BECAUSE, FOR SEVERAL YEARS, I HAVE LOOKED THROUGH THE 06:23 HYMNAL AND I HAVE SEEN THIS SONG - 'NOW ALL THE WOODS ARE 06:26 SLEEPING' - AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, 'I WONDER WHAT THAT SONG 06:28 SOUNDS LIKE.' BUT I DON'T KNOW IT SO WE LEARNED IT THIS WEEK 06:33 AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO LEARN IT TOGETHER RIGHT NOW. 06:37 YOU'LL NOTICE WE'RE ALMOST DONE WITH 'EVENING WORSHIP'. 06:39 NEXT WEEK IS THE LAST SONG AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE SINGING 06:41 MORE HAPPY SONGS OF THE OPENING OF WORSHIP. 06:45 SO WE'RE - WE'RE GETTING ALONG HERE. # 57 - 06:49 THIS IS A REQUEST FROM IMMANUEL IN MALAYSIA AND I WILL 06:53 GIVE YOU A LITTLE HISTORY ON THIS SONG SO YOU CAN THINK ABOUT 06:56 IT WHILE YOU SING. THE MAN THAT WROTE THIS HAD A 07:00 VERY INTERESTING - ACTUALLY, I SHOULD SAY VERY SAD LIFE. 07:04 HE WAS BORN IN THE 1600S AND HE HAD FIVE CHILDREN - SIX CHILDREN 07:10 AND FIVE OF THEM - FOUR OF HIS FIVE CHILDREN DIED IN INFANCY 07:15 AND HIS WIFE DIED FOLLOWING A LONG ILLNESS AFTER ONLY 13 YEARS 07:18 OF MARRIAGE. AND HE WAS A PROLIFIC SONGWRITER 07:23 AND THIS IS A VERY POPULAR SONG IN GERMANY WHERE HE WAS FROM. 07:28 AND HE WROTE THIS WITH, ORIGINALLY, NINE STANZAS AND IT 07:31 WOULD PROBABLY TAKE 20 MINUTES TO SING ALL NINE STANZAS, BUT 07:34 THE ADVENTIST HYMNAL PUT IN THREE SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING 07:38 TO DO THIS MORNING - WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE STANZAS OF #57 07:42 - 'NOW ALL THE WOODS ARE SLEEPING'. 07:44 (MUSIC) 10:20 >>IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE SONG THAT YOU WANT TO SING WITH 10:22 US ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 10:25 YOU JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 10:29 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE HYMN 10:32 REQUEST AND WE WILL SING THAT FOR YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. 10:36 AT THIS TIME, THOUGH, LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. FATHER 10:41 IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT WE ARE A CHILD OF THE KING. 10:48 YOU ARE THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE. 10:51 YOU LOVE US AND YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MANY HAIRS ARE ON OUR HEADS. 10:57 YOU KNOW IF A SPARROW FALLS FROM THE TREE AND IF YOU KNOW THAT, 11:03 YOU DEFINITELY LOVE US AND KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING. 11:08 FATHER PLEASE COME AND LIVE IN OUR HEARTS AS WE OPEN UP YOUR 11:11 WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER RIGHT NOW. BE WITH OUR SPEAKER. 11:15 BE WITH OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD. 11:19 SOME ARE STRUGGLING, SOME ARE REJOICING, SOME ARE IN PAIN. 11:25 BUT FATHER, I JUST PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE WITH EACH ONE. 11:28 YOU KNOW INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. YOU KNOW US HERE AT SACRAMENTO 11:32 CENTRAL AND I PRAY THAT WE WILL EACH BE READY FOR THAT DAY WHEN 11:36 YOU COME IN THE CLOUDS. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 11:41 AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY 11:45 PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. HE IS OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT 11:49 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 11:55 >>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND OUR SINGERS. 11:58 APPRECIATE IT - MUSICIANS. 12:01 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'SING A NEW SONG UNTO THE LORD' AND I FOUND 12:04 WHENEVER YOU SING A NEW SONG THE FIRST TIME YOU SING A NEW SONG 12:08 IT TAKES A WHILE TO CATCH AND THEN YOU HEAR IT A COUPLE MORE 12:11 TIMES AND YOU SAY, 'OH YEAH, I LIKE THAT SONG NOW.' 12:15 WHEN YOU SING SOME OF THOSE OLD SONGS IN THE HYMNAL, IT ALMOST 12:17 TRANSPORTS YOU TO ANOTHER TIME WHEN THEY WERE USING THOSE 12:23 WORDS. YOU KNOW, OUR VOCABULARY'S CHANGED. 12:27 WELL, WELCOME FRIENDS. 12:28 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE JOINING US FOR SABBATH SCHOOL AT CENTRAL 12:31 CHURCH AND WE'RE GOING TO BE CONTINUING IN JUST A MOMENT WITH 12:34 OUR STUDY FROM THE BIG LESSONS FROM THE - 'MAJOR LESSONS', I 12:38 SHOULD SAY, 'FROM THE MINOR PROPHETS'. 12:41 AND, AS ALWAYS, WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER. 12:44 OUR LESSON TODAY IS PRIMARILY FROM THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH WHERE 12:48 IT TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE DAY OF THE LORD AND JUDGMENT COMING AND 12:52 WE HAVE A BOOK TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY AND IT'S 12:55 CALLED, 'PENDING: YOUR CASE IN COURT'. 12:57 THE BIBLE HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE JUDGMENT. 12:59 IF YOU'D LIKE A FREE COPY OF THIS THEN YOU JUST CALL THE 13:01 NUMBER ON THE SCREEN. ASK FOR OFFER #192 AND THAT 13:06 NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE - 866-788-3966. 13:12 I HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE ARE HEARING THIS 13:15 PROGRAM. THEY'RE NOT WATCHING IT ON TV, 13:16 BUT SOME CAPTURE THE AUDIO AND THEY BROADCAST IT FOR FREE - 13:20 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY - ON RADIO AND SO I HAVE TO SAY 13:23 THE PHONE NUMBER. ONE MORE TIME, ASK FOR OFFER 13:25 #192 AND THE PHONE NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE, 13:29 THAT'S 866-788-3966. TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #9 IN THE 13:36 BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH AND NOT ONLY REALLY ZEPHANIAH, BUT WE'RE 13:41 ALSO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE MINOR PROPHETS. 13:44 SOME OF THESE LESSONS YOU TAKE TWO LESSONS FOR ONE MINOR 13:47 PROPHET AND SOME OF THE MINOR PROPHETS ARE SMALL AND SO YOU'RE 13:51 TAKING TWO PROPHETS FOR ONE LESSON AND TODAY'S A CASE OF 13:54 THAT. AND SO I HOPE I CAN ALSO GET TO THE BOOK OF NAHUM. 13:58 AND SO WE'RE DOING ZEPHANIAH, PRIMARILY, AND THEN THE LAST DAY 14:01 WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND COVER THE BOOK OF NAHUM. 14:03 THERE'S BOTH - BOTH BOOKS HAVE THREE CHAPTERS, BUT THE CHAPTERS 14:06 ARE LONGER IN ZEPHANIAH. AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. 14:11 MEMORY VERSE IS FROM ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11 AND IT'S THE 14:15 NEW KING JAMES VERSION IF YOU HAVE THAT. 14:18 I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF YOU CAN SAY IT ALONG WITH ME. 14:21 ARE YOU READY? ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11. 14:24 "THE LORD WILL BE AWESOME TO THEM, FOR HE WILL REDUCE TO 14:28 NOTHING ALL THE GODS OF THE EARTH; PEOPLE SHALL WORSHIP HIM, 14:33 EACH ONE FROM HIS PLACE, INDEED ALL THE SHORES OF THE NATIONS. 14:39 NOW ZEPHANIAH IS A VERY IMPORTANT PROPHET. 14:42 IF YOU WERE TO PUT THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH CHRONOLOGICALLY WHERE 14:45 IT WOULD GO, HE WOULD FALL BETWEEN ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH. 14:51 ZEPHANIAH WAS THE PROPHET WHO REALLY PROPHESIED JUST BEFORE 14:56 THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY AND HE DEALT WITH WHAT HAD HAPPENED 15:02 BECAUSE OF THE EVIL REIGN OF KING MANASSEH. 15:06 IF YOU - YOU LOOK IN YOUR BIBLES, YOU CAN SEE THAT EVEN 15:11 THOUGH MANASSEH REPENTED AND GOD FORGAVE HIM, THE BIBLE TELLS US 15:15 THAT HE KIND OF WENT A LITTLE TOO FAR. LOOK IN 2 KINGS - 15:18 YOU GOT YOUR BIBLES THERE? JUST TO GET THE BACKGROUND. 15:21 2 KINGS CHAPTER 24, VERSE 3 AND THIS IS AFTER THE BOOK TELLS US 15:29 THAT BABYLONIA - THE KING OF BABYLON WAS COMING TO DESTROY 15:33 JERUSALEM BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS. IT SAYS, "SURELY AT THE 15:37 COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD THIS CAME UPON JUDAH," - WHEN 15:40 NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME TO DESTROY THE CITY - "TO REMOVE THEM FROM 15:43 HIS SIGHT BECAUSE OF THE SINS OF MANASSEH," - NOW, WHEN 15:48 NEBUCHADNEZZAR COMES, MANASSEH WAS LONG GONE. 15:52 YOU HAD HAD MANASSEH, AND THEN AFTER YOU HAD MANASSEH YOU HAD 15:55 AMMON, YOU HAD JOSIAH, AND THERE WERE THREE DIFFERENT SONS OF 15:59 JOSIAH AND THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME. 16:02 BUT IT'S LIKE GOD SAID, 'I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN THE SINS OF 16:04 MANASSEH BECAUSE HE WAS KING FOR 52 YEARS. 16:09 HE OFFERED HIS CHILDREN IN THE FIRE. 16:11 HE SET UP PAGAN GODS IN THE TEMPLE. 16:14 I MEAN, HE JUST FILLED JERUSALEM WITH INNOCENT BLOOD, KILLED 16:16 ISAIAH THE PROPHET - MANASSEH DID A LOT OF WICKED THINGS. 16:19 AND EVEN THOUGH HE REPENTED - GOD SAID, 'I'LL FORGIVE YOU BUT 16:23 YOU HAVE SHED SO MUCH INNOCENT BLOOD THAT THERE IS A SWORD 16:28 HANGING ABOVE THE CITY AND JUDGMENT IS GOING TO COME. 16:31 SOMETIMES GOD'S PATIENT AND JUDGMENT WILL COME YEARS AFTER 16:35 THE ACTUAL OFFENSE AND SO THIS WAS A CASE OF THAT. 16:40 AND OH, BY THE WAY, I DIDN'T FINISH READING THAT VERSE. 16:42 "SURELY AT THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD THIS CAME UPON JUDAH, 16:46 TO REMOVE THEM FROM HIS SIGHT BECAUSE OF THE SINS OF MANASSEH, 16:51 ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HE HAD DONE, AND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE 16:53 INNOCENT BLOOD THAT HE HAD SHED; FOR HE HAD FILLED JERUSALEM WITH 16:56 INNOCENT BLOOD, WHICH THE LORD WOULD NOT PARDON." 17:01 NOW HOW OFTEN DO YOU FIND THAT IN THE BIBLE? 17:03 NOT TOO OFTEN WHERE IT SAYS, 'GOD WILL NOT PARDON.' 17:07 THERE IS CERTAIN CAUSE AND EFFECT AND THERE WAS A JUDGMENT 17:12 THAT WAS COMING ON THE NATION. NOW, THIS IS WHY THE BOOK OF 17:17 ZEPHANIAH IS VERY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS 17:20 OF ZEPHANIAH TALK ABOUT THE DAY OF THE LORD AND THE JUDGMENT IS 17:24 PRONOUNCED ON THE VARIOUS CITIES - PRIMARILY JERUSALEM. 17:28 THE LAST CHAPTER TALKS ABOUT GOD'S PROMISE AND PROTECTION AND 17:33 IT'S VERY RELEVANT FOR US BECAUSE - DO WE KNOW A DAY OF 17:37 THE LORD IS COMING? EVEN IF WE ALL REPENT AS A 17:41 CHURCH, IS THE DAY OF THE LORD COMING? 17:44 SO WE WANT TO KNOW 'HOW DO WE SURVIVE THAT DAY?' 17:49 AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM WITH THE FALL OF 17:52 JERUSALEM AND THE DESTRUCTION THAT CAME AND BEING CARRIED OFF 17:54 TO BABYLON. THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL IS GOING 17:57 TO BE REPEATED. NOT ONLY IS IT REPEATED FROM THE 18:00 TIME OF ZEPHANIAH WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, 18:03 JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED AGAIN DURING THE TIME - OR FOLLOWING 18:07 THE TIME OF CHRIST IN AD 70 AND JESUS SAID - JESUS IS SIMILAR TO 18:11 ZEPHANIAH IN THAT HE MADE A PARALLEL BETWEEN THE DESTRUCTION 18:15 OF JERUSALEM AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AT THE END OF THE WORLD. 18:18 WHEN JESUS DESCRIBED THE END OF THE WORLD IN MATTHEW 24, HE WAS 18:22 TALKING ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD COMING FOR THE NATION OF 18:25 ISRAEL AND WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO THEM, AND THAT WAS GOING TO BE 18:28 AN ECHO OR A PARALLEL OR A SHADOW OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO 18:32 THE WORLD AT THE END OF TIME. ZEPHANIAH WAS SAYING THE SAME 18:35 THING. HE WAS SAYING THE DESTRUCTION 18:37 THAT WAS GOING TO COME ON JERUSALEM WAS SORT OF A 18:40 HARBINGER OF WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN ON THE WHOLE WORLD AND SO 18:43 THERE'S SOME PARALLELS HERE AS WELL. 18:45 AND THAT'S WHY HIS NAME IS IMPORTANT. 18:47 NOW IT'S IN YOUR LESSON - WHAT DOES THE NAME ZEPHANIAH MEAN? 18:50 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME PSALM 27:5. 18:54 I GAVE THAT TO SOMEBODY OR OUR ATTENDANTS - WHO HAD THAT ONE? 18:57 DID OUR SCRIPTURES GO OUT? PSALM 27:5 - IF YOU'VE GOT THAT, 19:01 HOLD YOUR HAND UP. OKAY. AND WE'LL GET READY FOR THAT. 19:06 NOW I'M GOING BACK TO MY QUESTION, 'WHAT DOES THE NAME 19:08 ZEPHANIAH MEAN?' ZEPHANIAH MEANS 'HIDDEN BY' - 19:13 YOU HEARD OF A ZEPHYR? 'HIDDEN BY YAH' - JEHOVAH. 19:20 ZEPHANIAH - 'HIDDEN BY YAHWEH' OR JEHOVAH. 19:25 THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THERE'S A JUDGMENT COMING BUT WE 19:29 CAN BE HIDDEN IN THE DAY OF GOD'S WRATH. 19:33 YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE LORD SAID TO MOSES - HE SAID, 'NO MAN CAN 19:36 SEE MY FACE AND LIVE BUT I WILL LET YOU SEE ME - I'LL LET YOU 19:40 SEE MY HIND PARTS. I'M GOING TO PUT YOU IN THE 19:42 CLEFT OF THE ROCK AND THEN I'LL COVER YOU WITH MY HAND SO YOU 19:45 ARE HIDDEN.' HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER SINGING 19:47 THAT SONG, 'HIDING IN THEE' - 'HIDING IN THEE'? 19:50 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD. READ THIS - READ THAT VERSE FOR US. 19:54 >>"FOR IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE HE SHALL HIDE ME IN HIS PAVILION; 19:58 IN THE SECRET PLACE OF HIS TABERNACLE HE SHALL HIDE ME; HE 20:01 SHALL SET ME HIGH UPON A ROCK." >>ALRIGHT, SO THIS IS THE 20:05 CENTRAL MESSAGE IN THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH IS THERE IS AN 20:09 IMPENDING JUDGMENT - THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING. 20:12 GOOD NEWS IS IF WE HUMBLE OURSELVES, IF WE SUBMIT TO GOD, 20:16 WHEN THAT TIME COMES WE CAN SURVIVE IT. 20:19 HAVE YOU READ PSALM 91? A THOUSAND MAY FALL AT THY SIDE, 20:24 TEN THOUSAND AT THY RIGHT HAND, BUT ONLY WITH YOUR EYES WILL YOU 20:27 SEE AND BEHOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED. 20:29 NO PLAGUE WILL COME NIGH YOUR DWELLING.' 20:32 AND SO THINGS COULD BE JUST IMPLODING ALL AROUND YOU, LIKE 20:37 WHEN THE WALLS OF JERICHO FELL AND SOMEHOW RAHAB SURVIVED AND 20:42 THAT'S WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE IN THE LAST DAYS. 20:44 WE WANT TO BE HIDING IN THE LORD AT THAT TIME AND SO ZEPHANIAH IS 20:49 TALKING ABOUT THAT. FRIGHTENING JUDGMENT AT THE 20:51 BEGINNING BUT PROMISE IN THE LAST CHAPTER THERE. 20:55 MATTER OF FACT, YOU KNOW WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO? 20:59 LAST NIGHT I JUST READ THROUGH - AND I'VE DONE IT MANY TIMES 21:02 BEFORE BUT I JUST WANTED TO READ THROUGH IT AGAIN - THE BOOK OF 21:04 ZEPHANIAH AND I ALSO READ THROUGH THE BOOK OF NAHUM AND - 21:08 WHY DON'T YOU TURN TO THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH WITH ME AND LET'S 21:14 READ A FEW VERSES AND TALK ABOUT IT. 21:17 I LIKE THIS KIND OF JUST VERSE-BY-VERSE BIBLE STUDY. 21:21 "THE WORD OF THE LORD" - I'M IN VERSE 1 OF ZEPHANIAH - "THE WORD 21:27 OF THE LORD WHICH CAME TO ZEPHANIAH THE SON OF CUSHI, THE 21:30 SON OF GEDALIAH, THE SON OF AMARIAH, THE SON OF HEZEKIAH," - 21:33 I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING RIGHT THERE, HE HAS THE LONGEST 21:37 GENEALOGY OF ANY BIBLE PROPHET. IT GIVES MORE GENEALOGY OF HIM. 21:42 AND ONE REASON THEY BELIEVE THAT IS MANASSEH REIGNED LONGER AND 21:46 IT'S JUST TELLING YOU THAT HE CAN TRACK ALL THE WAY BACK TO 21:50 THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH, WHO WAS A GOOD KING AND THE FATHER OF 21:55 MANASSEH - ISN'T THAT RIGHT? YOU REMEMBER WHEN KING HEZEKIAH 21:58 GOT SICK AND HE WAS GOING TO DIE? 22:01 AND HE PRAYED AND GOD HEARD HIS PRAYER AND HE HEALED HIM AND HE 22:04 SAID, 'I'M GIVING YOU 15 MORE YEARS.' 22:06 ACTUALLY, YOU COULD SAY HEZEKIAH WAS STILL TERMINAL BUT THE 22:09 DOCTOR SAID YOU'RE GOING TO LAST 15 YEARS. 22:12 AND DURING THAT 15 YEARS YOU KIND OF WONDER WHETHER HE SHOULD 22:15 HAVE LIVED BECAUSE HE HAD A BOY - BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS 22:19 MANASSEH WAS 12 YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, WHICH MEANS 22:22 THREE YEARS INTO - OR TWO AND A HALF YEARS INTO HEZEKIAH'S LAST 22:27 15 YEARS HE HAD THE SON THAT WOULD FOLLOW HIM. 22:30 AND HE DIDN'T TURN OUT TO BE A VERY GOOD KING. 22:33 AND SO HE'S TRACKING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE GOOD TIME OF 22:38 HEZEKIAH AND ZEPHANIAH IS ALSO PROPHESYING DURING THE TIME OF A 22:43 GOOD KING OR A BAD KING? WHAT'S IT SAY HERE? 22:48 JOSIAH. GOOD KING? BAD KING? GOOD KING. 22:54 HE'S TRACKING FROM HEZEKIAH - GOOD KING - TO THE LAST GOOD 22:57 KING OF JUDAH. MATTER OF FACT, JOSIAH WAS AMONG 23:02 THE VERY BEST OF THE KINGS, RIGHT UP THERE WITH DAVID. 23:06 GOOD KING. GODLY KING. 23:08 BUT EVEN DURING THE TIMES OF A GOOD KING, THE PEOPLE MIGHT GO 23:12 THROUGH A COUNTERFEIT REVIVAL AND HE TALKS ABOUT THAT. 23:14 HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE PRAYING TO THE LORD BUT YOU'RE ALSO GOING UP ON 23:18 YOUR ROOF AT NIGHT AND PRAYING TO THE MOON AND THE SUN AND THE 23:20 STARS.' HE SAYS, 'THERE'S HYPOCRISY.' 23:23 AND SO EVEN DURING THE TIME OF A GOOD KING IT DIDN'T ALWAYS 23:27 GUARANTEE THAT HE COULD TURN EVERYBODY'S HEARTS AROUND. 23:31 "HEZEKIAH, IN THE DAYS OF JOSIAH, THE SON OF AMMON, 23:36 KING OF JUDAH. 'I WILL UTTERLY CONSUME 23:38 EVERYTHING FROM THE FACE OF THE LAND,' SAYS THE LORD, 'I WILL 23:42 CONSUME MAN AND BEAST; I WILL CONSUME THE BIRDS OF THE 23:45 HEAVENS, THE FISH OF THE SEA,'" - 23:48 NOW WAIT A SECOND, IS HE TALKING ABOUT WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS 23:51 ABOUT TO COME AND DESTROY JUDEA OR IS HE GOING BEYOND THAT? 23:55 WHEN ALL THE FISH OF THE SEA ARE GONE - YEAH, HE'S TALKING ABOUT 23:59 THE ULTIMATE DAY OF THE LORD HERE, ISN'T HE? "I WILL CONSUME 24:04 ALL THINGS" - WHERE DOES IT SAY ALL THINGS ARE CONSUMED? 24:07 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10, "BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL 24:12 COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN WHICH THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY 24:15 WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH FERVENT 24:18 HEAT; BOTH THE EARTH AND THE WORKS THAT ARE IN IT WILL BE 24:21 BURNED UP." MALACHI CHAPTER 4, 'BEHOLD THE DAY COMES THAT WILL 24:25 BURN AS AN OVEN AND ALL THE PROUD AND ALL THAT DO WICKEDLY 24:27 WILL BE STUBBLE. THE DAY THAT COMES WILL BURN 24:29 THEM UP.' IS THERE FIRE COMING WHEN THE 24:32 LORD COMES? SOME OF YOU - ANY OF YOU MY 24:36 FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK? I WROTE A - YOU'RE NOT MY 24:40 FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK? WELL, YOU'RE ALL EXCOMMUNICATED. 24:43 NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BUSINESS 24:49 MEETING. BUT I POSTED SOMETHING ON 24:52 FACEBOOK AND I PUT OUT A SCENARIO - I DID A LITTLE SURVEY 24:57 AND I SAID, 'ALRIGHT, YOU'RE AT WORK AND YOU HEAR OVER THE RADIO 25:02 THAT A FIRE'S COMING - NOW WE'VE ENTERED FIRE SEASON HERE NOW IN 25:07 CALIFORNIA, WHICH IS ALWAYS A LITTLE UNNERVING, AND A FIRE IS 25:11 COMING AND IT'S HEADING TOWARDS YOUR SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD 25:14 THAT'S ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AND YOU GET PERMISSION, YOU 25:19 LEAVE WORK, YOU RACE HOME, AND BEFORE YOU GET TO YOUR 25:21 NEIGHBORHOOD YOU RUN INTO A BLOCKADE OF EMERGENCY VEHICLES 25:25 AND YOU TALK TO ONE OF THE POLICEMEN AND HE SAID, 'LOOK, 25:28 ALRIGHT IF YOU LIVE HERE THE FIRE'S GOING TO BE IN THIS 25:32 NEIGHBORHOOD IN A HALF HOUR - 45 MINUTES. 25:33 YOU HAVE 20 MINUTES TO GO TO YOUR HOUSE AND GET WHATEVER YOU 25:36 WANT, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO GET OUT IN 20 MINUTES - THAT'S IT.' 25:41 SO YOU PULL UP TO YOUR HOUSE AND YOU CAN SEE THE SKY IS BLACK 25:43 WITH CLOUDS AND YOU CAN HEAR THE WAIL OF THE SIRENS EVERYWHERE 25:46 AROUND AND ALL YOUR OTHER NEIGHBORS ARE SCURRYING IN AND 25:49 OUT OF THEIR HOUSES AND EVERYTHING'S FRANTIC AND YOU'VE 25:53 GOT TO THINK WHAT DO I GET OUT OF MY HOUSE IN 20 MINUTES? 25:55 YOUR WHOLE LIFE'S IN THE HOUSE, WHAT DO YOU GET? 25:58 WELL, I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT SOME OF YOU SAID FAMILY FIRST BECAUSE 26:02 I NEVER DID SAY WHETHER YOU HAD ANY FAMILY - BUT I'M GLAD YOU 26:04 THOUGHT ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU WOULDN'T 26:06 PULL OUT OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEN THINK, 'HOW COME THE 26:10 CAR SEAT'S EMPTY?' THAT'D BE PRETTY SAD. 26:15 SO LET'S ASSUME YOU GET YOUR FAMILY. THEN WHAT DO YOU GET? 26:20 I WAS SURPRISED HOW MANY PEOPLE SAID THEIR BIBLES. 26:23 YOU KNOW, I DID THIS SURVEY AND WE HAD LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, 400 26:25 PEOPLE RESPONDED AND A LOT OF THEM SAID, 'MY BIBLE.' 26:28 AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, I DIDN'T THINK THAT. 26:31 AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE I DON'T LOVE MY BIBLE, IT'S BECAUSE I'VE 26:34 GOT A LOT OF BIBLES AND MOST OF MY BIBLE STUDY INFORMATION IS ON 26:37 MY HARD DRIVE. AND THIS IS A PRECIOUS BIBLE. I'VE HAD THIS 26:41 SINCE I CAME - 20 YEARS NOW AT CENTRAL CHURCH I'VE USED THIS 26:44 BIBLE, BUT I JUST WENT TO THE PHILIPPINES AND USED A 26:47 DIFFERENT BIBLE. IT WAS A LITTLE AWKWARD BECAUSE 26:48 IT'S HARD TO FIND YOUR WAY AROUND - AND I'VE GOT A LOT OF 26:50 PRECIOUS NOTES IN HERE THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT, BUT A LOT OF 26:54 THEM ARE ON MY COMPUTER. SO I THOUGHT HARD DRIVE - I'D BE 26:59 IN TROUBLE IF I DIDN'T HAVE - BOY, I'VE GOT A LOT OF STUDIES 27:03 AND MATERIAL - YEARS OF WORK - ON THE HARD DRIVE. 27:06 AND OTHERS SAID IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS. 27:09 SOME PEOPLE SAID MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 27:12 A LOT OF PEOPLE - YOU KNOW WHAT WAS #2 ON THE LIST? PETS. PETS. 27:18 YEAH, AMERICANS SPEND MORE ON DOG FOOD THAN A LOT OF NATIONS 27:22 SPEND ON THEIR PEOPLE - AND THEIR CAT FOOD. 27:26 AND SO - OH, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE SAID CLOTHES AND OTHER 27:32 PEOPLE SAID, YOU KNOW, VALUABLE PAINTINGS. 27:34 BASICALLY, IT WAS THOSE THINGS THAT ARE IRREPLACEABLE, RIGHT? 27:38 YOU GET THE THINGS - I MEAN, WHO'S GOING TO SAY, 'I GOT MY 27:42 LAUNDRY DETERGENT?' YOU JUST GET MORE, YOU KNOW. 27:47 YOU GO TO THE STORE - YOU DON'T NEED THOSE THINGS, YOU CAN JUST 27:49 BUY MORE, RIGHT? YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAUL YOUR 27:51 BED OUT OF THE HOUSE OR THINGS LIKE THAT. 27:54 YOU'RE GOING TO GET THE STUFF THAT'S PRECIOUS AND 27:55 IRREPLACEABLE. WELL, THE WHOLE MORAL OF THE STORY IS, 27:59 'IS THERE A FIRE COMING?' YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PICTURE OF 28:04 A FIRE THAT WAS APPROACHING THE SAN DIEGO NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE YOU 28:09 CAN SEE THIS TERRIBLE BRUSH FIRE AND YOU REMEMBER ALL THOSE HOMES 28:12 BURNED DOWN IN SAN DIEGO? I FORGET HOW MANY, BUT IT WAS 28:14 ONE OF THE WORST FIRES AS FAR AS THE LOSS OF HOMES. 28:19 AND THEN THERE WAS THE ONE IN SAN FRANCISCO - MARIN COUNTY - 28:21 IN OAKLAND. THAT FIRE SWEPT THROUGH AND TOOK 28:23 OUT A HILLSIDE OF HOMES AND IT DOES HAPPEN. 28:28 AND IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO EVERYBODY. 28:32 THE DAY IS GOING TO COME THAT WILL BURN AS AN OVEN. 28:34 SO WHAT CAN YOU ESCAPE WITH? WHAT CAN WE TAKE OUT OF THIS 28:37 WORLD? WHAT DO YOU GET TO KEEP? 28:41 THERE ARE JUST TWO THINGS: YOUR CHARACTER AND OTHER PEOPLE THAT 28:45 ARE INFLUENCED BY YOUR LIFE TO COME TO JESUS. 28:48 THAT'S YOUR TREASURE IN HEAVEN. NOTHING ELSE. 28:51 YOU CAN'T TAKE YOUR PAINTINGS, YOU CAN'T TAKE YOUR HARD DRIVE. 28:54 THIS IS THE ONLY HARD DRIVE YOU CAN TAKE. THAT'S RIGHT. 28:58 IT'S CHARACTERS AND SO THAT DAY IS COMING. 29:00 AND SO ZEPHANIAH IS REALLY TALKING ABOUT GETTING THEIR 29:03 PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.' I'LL CONSUME ALL THINGS FROM 29:06 THE LAND, MAN AND BEAST, BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS, FISH OF THE 29:09 SEA.' NOW, YOU NOTICE, HE'S TALKING ABOUT 29:12 CREATION IN REVERSE. HAVE YOU READ THE DAYS OF 29:14 CREATION? HE MADE THE BIRDS, HE MADE THE 29:16 FISH, HE MADE THE MAN - AND HERE HE'S TALKING ABOUT UNDOING 29:19 CREATION. YOU SEE THAT? "'I WILL CUT OFF MAN FROM THE 29:23 FACE OF THE LAND,' SAYS THE LORD. 29:25 'I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND AGAINST JUDAH, AND AGAINST ALL 29:29 THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM.'" - THE CAPITAL OF JUDAH. 29:31 THIS IS THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM. NOW, WHEN HE'S PROPHESYING, WHAT 29:35 HAD HAPPENED TO THE NORTHERN KINGDOM? THEY WERE CARRIED OFF - 29:38 THE TEN TRIBES HAD BEEN CARRIED OFF BY THE ASSYRIANS AND THE 29:42 ASSYRIANS - THEIR CAPITAL WAS WHAT CITY? NINEVEH. 29:47 AND SO WHEN YOU GET TO THE END OF ZEPHANIAH AND WHEN YOU GET TO 29:50 THE PROPHECIES OF NAHUM HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE JUDGMENTS ON 29:53 ASSYRIA - THE ONES WHO CARRIED AWAY THE OTHER TRIBES - THEIR 29:56 BRETHREN, SO TO SPEAK. "'I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND AGAINST 30:00 JUDAH, AND AGAINST ALL THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM. I WILL 30:03 CUT OFF EVERY TRACE OF BAAL FROM THIS PLACE,'" - MOST OF BAAL HAD 30:07 BEEN ELIMINATED, BUT NOT EVERY TRACE. MOST OF BAAL HAD BEEN 30:10 ELIMINATED DURING THE TIME OF KING JEHU, BUT NOT COMPLETELY. - 30:16 "'THE NAMES OF THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS WITH THE PAGAN PRIESTS - 30:19 THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE HOST OF HEAVEN ON THE HOUSETOPS; THOSE 30:22 WHO WORSHIP AND SWEAR OATHS BY THE LORD, BUT WHO ALSO SWEAR BY 30:26 MILCOM;'' - NOW NOTICE, IT TALKS ABOUT THEM - THEY'RE WORSHIPING 30:28 THE STARS AND THE SUN AND MOON ON THEIR HOUSETOPS. 30:31 THEY'RE ALSO VOWING BY THE LORD - THE WORD 'LORD' THERE IS 30:34 TALKING ABOUT OUR LORD - BUT THEN IT GOES ON, IT SAYS, "'WHO 30:37 ALSO SWEAR BY MILCOM;'" - MILCOM WAS THE GOD OF THE AMMONITES. 30:41 BY THE WAY, YOU REMEMBER WHEN SOLOMON MARRIED ONE OF THE 30:43 DAUGHTERS OF AMMON? SHE TALKED HIM INTO, 30:46 'I MISS MY GOD FROM MY HOME.' 30:48 AND HE BROUGHT AN IDOL OF MILCOM INTO THE TEMPLE AND SO HE 30:55 INTRODUCED - SOLOMON IN HIS OLD AGE, WHEN HIS SCRUPLES LOWERED 31:00 BECAUSE OF HIS STRANGE WIVES - INTRODUCED THE WORSHIP OF MILCOM 31:03 AND IT NEVER COMPLETELY LEFT BECAUSE HERE YOU ARE, HUNDREDS 31:06 OF YEARS LATER AND THEY'RE STILL DOING IT. 31:09 "'AND HAVE NOT SOUGHT THE LORD, NOR INQUIRED OF HIM.' 31:12 BE SILENT IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD GOD; FOR THE DAY OF THE 31:15 LORD IS AT HAND, FOR THE LORD HAS PREPARED A SACRIFICE; HE HAS 31:18 INVITED HIS GUESTS. 'AND IT SHALL BE, IN THE DAY OF 31:21 THE LORD'S SACRIFICE, THAT I WILL PUNISH THE PRINCES AND THE 31:24 KING'S CHILDREN,'" - WHO ARE THE GUESTS AT THE LORD'S SACRIFICE? 31:29 HAVE YOU READ ABOUT THE FEAST IN REVELATION OF THE BIRDS? 31:34 I KNOW THAT SOUNDS PRETTY OMINOUS, BUT IT TALKS ABOUT THE 31:36 ANIMALS OF CARRION THAT COME TO THE FEAST OF THE LORD. 31:39 SO WHEN GOD TALKS ABOUT, 'I'VE PREPARED A SACRIFICE AND THERE'S 31:41 GREAT JUDGMENT COMING ON THE LAND.' 31:44 WELL, THEY USED TO HAVE A SACRIFICE FOR THE PEOPLE AND 31:47 WERE EATING THE ANIMALS. THIS IS A SACRIFICE WHERE THE 31:51 ANIMALS ARE EATING THE PEOPLE. IT'S A TERRIBLE JUDGMENT. 31:56 AND WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR GOT DONE WITH JERUSALEM - HAVE YOU READ 32:01 WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 'THE SLAIN OF THE LORD IN THAT DAY WILL BE 32:03 FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH TO THE OTHER AND THERE WILL BE NO ONE 32:07 TO MOURN OR TO BURY OR LAMENT FOR THEM'? 32:09 THAT'S TALKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AROUND JERUSALEM AFTER 32:12 NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD 32:14 IN THE LAST DAYS. IT WAS A PARALLEL FOR THAT WHERE 32:17 THERE WILL BE NOBODY TO MOURN. SO THIS IS A PRETTY FIERCE 32:20 PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT. YOU PROBABLY WANT ME TO SKIP 32:24 THIS AND JUST GO TO TALKING ABOUT HEAVEN AND THINGS LIKE 32:28 THAT, BUT BEFORE YOU GET TO HEAVEN THERE'S A TIME OF 32:31 JUDGMENT COMING AND IT'S IN THE PROPHECIES, FRIENDS. 32:34 "'AND IT WILL BE SAYS THE LORD, 'I'LL PUNISH THE PRINCES AND THE 32:39 KING'S CHILDREN, AND ALL SUCH AS ARE CLOTHED WITH FOREIGN 32:43 APPAREL.'" - THOSE THAT HAD THE DESIGNER 32:46 CLOTHES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES - "'IN THE SAME DAY I WILL PUNISH 32:49 ALL THOSE WHO LEAP OVER THE THRESHOLD, WHO FILL THEIR 32:52 MASTERS' HOUSES WITH VIOLENCE AND DECEIT.'" 32:55 YOU REMEMBER IN THE STORY OF - WHAT WAS IT? 32:59 1 SAMUEL, YES - WHEN THEY CAPTURED THE ARK OF GOD AND IT 33:03 TALKED ABOUT HOW THE GOD DAGON FELL DOWN AND HIS HANDS AND HIS 33:06 HEAD BROKE OFF. INTERESTING, MARK IN THE HEAD 33:09 AND IN THE HANDS. THE HANDS AND THE HEAD OF DAGON 33:12 FELL DOWN - THEY BROKE OFF THERE BY THE THRESHOLD OF DAGON IN THE 33:17 TEMPLE OF DAGON AND FROM THAT DAY ON THE PRIESTS NEVER STEPPED 33:20 ON THE THRESHOLD WHEN THEY ENTERED THE TEMPLE. 33:22 IT BECAME A CUSTOM THEN TO LEAP OVER THE THRESHOLD WHEN YOU WENT 33:26 TO WORSHIP DAGON. 33:28 NOW YOU'LL NOTICE IN ZEPHANIAH IT TALKS ABOUT JUDGMENT AGAINST 33:30 THE PHILISTINES AND THE CITIES OF THE PHILISTINES. 33:33 THEY WERE WORSHIPING THE GOD OF THE PHILISTINES. 33:35 THAT'S WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT LEAPING OVER THE THRESHOLD AND - 33:39 YOU KNOW, EVEN IN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES SOMETIMES YOU FIND 33:43 THEY MIX UP GOOD - YOU EVER SEE A CHRISTIAN THROWING A PINCH OF 33:48 SALT OVER THEIR SHOULDER WHEN THEY KNOCK OVER THE SALT? 33:52 OR STEPPING OUT OF THE WAY WHEN THEY SEE A BLACK CAT AND YOU 33:55 WONDER, 'WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?' WE'VE GOT THESE PAGAN 33:57 SUPERSTITIONS. WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE A CHURCH 34:01 FUNCTION ON FRIDAY THE 13TH. IT'S PAGANISM. 34:07 WE DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THAT STUFF, RIGHT? 34:13 "THEY LEAP OVER THE THRESHOLD, WHO FILL THEIR MASTERS' HOUSES 34:15 WITH VIOLENCE AND DECEIT. 'AND'" - YOU KNOW, IT TALKS 34:19 ABOUT THE JUDGMENT COMING ON THE PRINCES? 34:21 THEY COULDN'T HIRE THE BEST ATTORNEYS TO GET THEM OUT OF 34:23 THIS ONE. SOMETIMES IT SEEMS THE RICH 34:24 ESCAPE BECAUSE THEY ARE ABLE TO PAY THEIR WAY OUT. 34:29 GOD SAYS, 'THIS JUDGMENT IS GOING TO BE INDISCRIMINATE.' 34:32 BY THE WAY, IT WENT ALL THE WAY FROM THE KING, ZEDEKIAH, ALL THE 34:38 WAY DOWN TO THE POOREST OF THE PEOPLE. MATTER OF FACT, 34:40 THE POOREST OF THE PEOPLE DID BETTER WHEN THIS JUDGMENT CAME. 34:43 NEBUCHADNEZZAR LEFT MANY OF THE POOREST AND THE UNEDUCATED OF 34:48 THE LAND - HE TOOK THE EDUCATED WITH HIM IN HIS FIRST ATTACK 34:51 - THAT'S WHEN DANIEL WENT BACK TO BABYLON. 34:53 HE CAME BACK THE SECOND TIME, HE LEFT SOME OF THE POOREST AND THE 34:56 ILLITERATE IN THE LAND TO MAKE SURE SOMEONE WAS THERE TO TAKE 34:59 CARE OF THE VINEYARDS AND THE OLIVE GROVES AND STUFF - TO JUST 35:02 KEEP THE WILD BEASTS OUT. THE POOR WERE SPARED. 35:06 IT WAS JESUS WHO SAID, 'IT'S THE POOR AND THE MEEK WHO ARE GOING 35:10 TO SURVIVE IN THE LAST DAYS. "AND THERE SHALL BE" - VERSE 10 35:15 - "AND THERE SHALL BE ON THAT DAY" - I'M STILL IN ZEPHANIAH 35:18 CHAPTER 1, VERSE 10 - "SAYS THE LORD, 'THE SOUND OF A MOURNFUL 35:21 CRY FROM THE FISH GATE, A WAILING FROM THE SECOND QUARTER, 35:25 AND A LOUD CRASHING FROM THE HILLS.'" HE'S SAYING, 'IN THE 35:28 BEST PART OF THE CITY, IN THE POOR PART OF THE CITY, AND IN 35:30 THE SUBURBS' - "'WAIL YOU INHABITANTS OF MAKTESH! 35:34 FOR ALL THE MERCHANT PEOPLE ARE CUT DOWN'" - THE ECONOMIC OR THE 35:38 BUSINESS PEOPLE - "'ALL THOSE WHO HANDLE MONEY ARE CUT OFF. 35:42 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS AT THAT TIME THAT I WILL SEARCH 35:44 JERUSALEM WITH LAMPS, AND PUNISH THE MEN WHO ARE SETTLED IN 35:48 COMPLACENCY, WHO SAY IN THEIR HEART, 'THE LORD WILL NOT DO 35:51 GOOD, NOR WILL HE DO EVIL.''" - 'ALL THINGS CONTINUE AS 35:54 THEY WERE FROM THE BEGINNING. 35:55 WE HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT, GOD'S NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING' 35:58 - "'THEREFORE THEIR GOODS SHALL BECOME BOOTY,'" THEY'LL BE 36:00 CARRIED OFF BY THE ENEMY - "'AND THEIR HOUSES A DESOLATION; THEY 36:05 SHALL BUILD HOUSES, BUT NOT INHABIT THEM; THEY SHALL PLANT 36:08 VINEYARDS, BUT NOT DRINK THEIR WINE.'" - DEUTERONOMY 28, 36:12 VERSE 29, "AND YOU SHALL GROPE AT NOONDAY, AS A BLIND MAN 36:16 GROPES IN DARKNESS; YOU SHALL NOT PROSPER IN YOUR WAYS; 36:19 YOU SHALL BE ONLY OPPRESSED AND PLUNDERED CONTINUALLY, AND 36:23 NO ONE SHALL SAVE YOU." YOU KNOW, ALL THESE BLESSINGS 36:26 WERE PROMISED IF THEY FOLLOWED GOD. HE SAID, 'YOU'LL BE BLESSED 36:29 WHEN YOU GO OUT, YOU'LL BE BLESSED WHEN YOU COME IN. 36:31 YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN THE FIELD, YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN THE CITY. 36:33 YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN YOUR HOUSE, YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN YOUR WOMB. 36:36 YOU'LL BE - EVERYTHING'LL BE BLESSED BUT, IF YOU TURN FROM ME 36:39 AND YOU REFUSE TO OBEY, THESE CURSES WILL CATCH UP WITH YOU. 36:44 AND SO NOW ZEPHANIAH IS SAYING, 'THE CURSE HAS CAUGHT UP WITH 36:47 THE TEN TRIBES IN THE NORTH, NOW THESE CURSES ARE GOING TO CATCH 36:50 UP WITH JERUSALEM AND JUDEA.' AND HE BEGINS TO QUOTE FROM 36:55 MOSES. YOU SEE WHAT HE'S DOING HERE? 36:57 EXACTLY WHAT MOSES SAID WOULD HAPPEN. 36:59 AND WE JUST READ - MOSES TALKED ABOUT DARKNESS. 37:02 YOU CAN LOOK IN ZEPHANIAH 1:14, "THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD IS 37:06 NEAR;" - TELL YOU WHAT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME - JUST GET YOU 37:09 READY - AMOS 5:18. WHO'S GOT THAT? 37:12 WE GAVE - YEAH, I THINK WE GAVE THAT OUT TO SOMEONE. 37:14 AMOS - YOU GOT IT OVER HERE? HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO WE CAN GET 37:17 YOU A MICROPHONE. AMOS 5:18 AND LET ME READ 37:19 ZEPHANIAH 1:14, "THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR; IT IS NEAR 37:24 AND HASTENS QUICKLY. THE NOISE OF THE DAY OF THE LORD 37:27 IS BITTER; THERE THE MIGHTY MEN SHALL CRY OUT. 37:31 THAT DAY IS A DAY OF WRATH, A DAY OF TROUBLE AND DISTRESS, A 37:34 DAY OF DEVASTATION AND DESOLATION," - HAVE YOU HEARD 37:37 ABOUT THE ABOMINATION OF WHAT? DESOLATION. 37:41 "A DAY OF DARKNESS AND GLOOMINESS" - MOSES JUST TALKED 37:45 ABOUT YOU'D BE GROPING LIKE IN THE DARK. 37:48 WHAT WAS ONE OF THE PLAGUES THAT CAME ON THE EGYPTIANS BECAUSE OF 37:50 THEIR SIN? DARKNESS. 37:53 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US AMOS 5;18. 37:57 >>"WOE TO YOU WHO DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD! 37:59 FOR WHAT GOOD IS THE DAY OF THE LORD TO YOU? 38:03 IT WILL BE DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT." 38:06 >>YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN - WE'RE LIVING IN A TIME RIGHT NOW WHEN 38:11 THERE IS MORE ARTIFICIAL LIGHT THAN ANY OTHER TIME IN HISTORY. 38:16 YOU KNOW WHEN THOMAS EDISON FINALLY INVENTED - WELL, HE 38:19 DIDN'T TOTALLY INVENT THE LIGHT BULB, BUT HE INVENTED THE 38:21 VACUUM BULB WITH THE CARBON ELEMENT THAT MADE IT BURN A LONG 38:28 TIME AND MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE - PEOPLE USED TO GO TO 38:31 BED WITH THE CHICKENS. AND WITH ARTIFICIAL LIGHT, YOU 38:34 KNOW, AND THEN THEY'D BURN WHALE OIL, WHICH WAS REALLY EXPENSIVE, 38:37 AND CANDLES AND IT WAS DANGEROUS AND THEY HAD A LOT OF FIRES BACK 38:41 THEN. THE LIGHT BULB CHANGED EVERYTHING. 38:45 PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO STAY UP AND IT KIND OF CREATED ARTIFICIAL 38:48 LIGHT. WE HAVE MORE ARTIFICIAL LIGHT - 38:50 HERE IT IS DAYTIME AND WE'VE GOT ARTIFICIAL LIGHT. 38:52 THAT WAS UNHEARD OF A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. 38:53 WHY WOULD YOU HAVE LIGHT ON DURING THE DAY? 38:56 THEY JUST HAD BIG WINDOWS. BUT WE'RE USED TO IT. 39:01 WE HAVE MORE ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AND WE HAVE MORE DARKNESS, 39:04 SPIRITUALLY, NOW. PEOPLE SOMEHOW THINK THAT IF 39:07 YOU'VE GOT ARTIFICIAL LIGHT IT COMPENSATES AND YOU DON'T NEED 39:10 SPIRITUAL LIGHT. THE TIME OF THE GREATEST 39:12 SPIRITUAL DARKNESS. JOEL - ANOTHER MINOR PROPHET. 39:15 WE'VE ALREADY HAD A LESSON ON JOEL, BUT LET ME JUST REVIEW 39:18 THIS: JOEL 2, VERSE 1, "BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION, AND SOUND AN 39:22 ALARM IN MY HOLY MOUNTAIN! LET ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE 39:25 LAND TREMBLE; FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING, FOR IT IS AT 39:28 HAND: A DAY OF DARKNESS AND GLOOMINESS," - THAT'S WHAT WE 39:33 JUST READ IN AMOS - "A DAY OF CLOUDS AND THICK DARKNESS." 39:37 'DARKNESS COVERS THE LAND AND GROSS DARKNESS THE PEOPLE' AND 39:41 THIS IS ONE OF THE SIGNS. I - LET ME SEE HERE, 2 PETER 2 - 39:50 JUST GOING TO TALK ABOUT DARKNESS FOR A SECOND - 2 PETER 39:52 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 17, SPEAKING OF THE LOST IT SAYS, "THESE ARE 39:56 WELLS WITHOUT WATER, CLOUDS CARRIED BY A TEMPEST, FOR WHOM 40:00 IS RESERVED THE BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS FOREVER." 40:04 JUDE 1:13 - JUDE IS QUOTING PETER - "RAGING WAVES OF THE 40:09 SEA, FOAMING UP THEIR OWN SHAME; WANDERING STARS FOR WHO IS 40:13 RESERVED THE BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS FOREVER." 40:17 AND WHERE ARE THE FALLEN ANGELS KEPT? 40:20 EVERLASTING CHAINS OF DARKNESS. AND SO DARKNESS - YOU KNOW JESUS 40:26 SAID WE'RE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 40:29 IT'S THE OPPOSITE OF SPIRITUAL LIGHT. YOU KNOW, I - 40:33 I THINK I SHARED THIS WITH YOU BEFORE - THAT THE LONGEST 40:36 BURNING BULB IN THE WORLD IS IN CALIFORNIA HANGING IN A 40:40 FIREHOUSE IN LIVERMORE AND IT'S STILL THERE TODAY AS FAR AS 40:43 I KNOW. FROM A SINGLE ELECTRICAL WIRE IS A LIGHT BULB. 40:48 IT'S SUPPLIED BY 120 VOLTS. IT ONLY PUTS OUT FOUR WATTS OF 40:53 KIND OF AMBER LIGHT AND IT WAS BURNING WHEN THE WRIGHT BROTHERS 40:58 MADE THEIR HISTORIC FLIGHT IN 1903. 41:02 THIS LIGHT BULB HAS CONTINUED TO CONSISTENTLY BURN THROUGH WORLD 41:05 WAR I, THE CRASH OF THE STOCK MARKET IN 1929, IT'S BURNED ALL 41:09 THE WAY THROUGH WORLD WAR II, AND IT'S STILL HANGING IN THE 41:12 LIVERMORE FIREHOUSE, BURNING TODAY. 41:16 IT WAS MADE, ORIGINALLY, BY THE SHELBY ELECTRIC COMPANY IN 41:19 OHIO. IT HAD A LEGENDARY REPUTATION 41:22 FOR MAKING LONG-LASTING BULBS BUT THEY EVENTUALLY WENT OUT OF 41:25 BUSINESS BECAUSE THEY JUST WEREN'T VERY BRIGHT. 41:28 BUT BOY DID THEIR BULBS LAST! ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? 41:33 IT'S BEEN DECLARED BY THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS 41:36 AS THE OLDEST KNOWN WORKING LIGHT BULB IN THE WORLD. 41:41 BUT GOD'S GOT A LIGHT THAT'S NEVER SUPPOSED TO - YOU KNOW 41:44 THEY KEPT A LIGHT BURNING IN THE TEMPLE HOW OFTEN? 41:48 THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO LET THAT - ONE OF THE JOBS OF THE 41:51 PRIEST WAS - YOU KNOW, WE SORT OF - WE MOCK - I SHOULDN'T SAY 41:55 'MOCK' - WE IMITATE THAT BY HAVING ETERNAL FLAMES AT VARIOUS 42:00 CEMETERIES. THEY'RE USUALLY GAS SUPPLIED AND 42:04 WE CALL IT THE ETERNAL FLAME. THE WHOLE IDEA OF AN ETERNAL 42:07 FLAME DATES BACK ORIGINALLY TO THE TEMPLE OF GOD WHERE THEY 42:10 WERE TO CONTINUALLY KEEP THE OIL IN THOSE LAMPS AND NEVER LET IT 42:14 GO OUT AND FROM - IT'S BELIEVED THAT FROM THE TIME OF SOLOMON, 42:18 WHEN THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THAT TEMPLE, UNTIL THE 42:21 TIME OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR THEY HAD NEVER LET THAT LAMP GO OUT. 42:24 FOR ABOUT 300 YEARS THAT LIGHT KEPT BURNING. 42:27 THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE. YOU KNOW, THE DANGER WITH 42:32 DARKNESS IS YOU CAN GET USED TO IT. YOU CAN GET ADJUSTED TO 42:41 THE DARK. IN FACT, YOU EVER BEEN ASLEEP IN A DARK 42:48 ROOM AND SOMEONE COMES IN AND TURNS ON THE LIGHT AND IT HURTS? 42:51 YOU CAN GET SO USED TO THE DARK THAT WHEN SOMEONE FINALLY DOES 42:54 TURN ON A LIGHT IT'S PAINFUL. TRUTH CAN BE PAINFUL WHEN IT'S 42:59 FIRST REVEALED TO YOU. AND ONE OF TWO THINGS HAPPEN 43:03 WHEN PEOPLE LEARN TRUTH. THEY EITHER ADJUST TO THE LIGHT 43:09 AND START TO WALK IN THE LIGHT OR THEY TURN AWAY AND GO BACK 43:11 TO DARKNESS. WHEN YOU TURN ON A LIGHT 43:16 COCKROACHES WILL RUN, MOTHS WILL COME. 43:19 AND THAT'S HOW IT WILL BE WHEN JESUS COMES. 43:23 THOSE THAT LOVE THE LORD ARE GOING TO TURN TOWARDS HIM AND 43:26 THE LOST, LIKE COCKROACHES, ARE GOING TO SCURRY AND CALL FOR THE 43:29 ROCKS AND THE MOUNTAINS TO FALL ON THEM AND HIDE THEM FROM THE 43:31 FACE. ALEXANDER POPE WROTE A POEM YEARS AGO - 43:39 HE'S NO RELATION TO THE POPE THAT I KNOW OF - "VICE IS A 43:42 MONSTER OF SO FRIGHTFUL MIEN, AS TO BE HATED NEEDS BUT TO BE 43:46 SEEN; YET SEEN TOO OFT, FAMILIAR 43:49 WITH HER FACE, WE FIRST ENDURE, THEN PITY, THEN EMBRACE." 43:55 VICE - FIRST ENDURED, THEN PITIED, THEN EMBRACED. 44:00 COULD I SUGGEST TO YOU THAT THE THINGS THAT USED TO MAKE 44:04 CHRISTIANS BLUSH 50 YEARS AGO DON'T MAKE US BLUSH ANYMORE. 44:10 THE DARKNESS OF THE WORLD THAT USED TO - PEOPLE WOULD CHANGE 44:14 THE CHANNELS WHEN THEY SAW THINGS - DOESN'T EVEN GET A 44:18 RIPPLE OF CONSCIENCE ANYMORE BECAUSE IT WAS TOLERATED AND 44:21 THEN ENDURED AND THEN EMBRACED. 44:24 AND YOU'VE MAYBE HEARD ME TELL THE STORY ABOUT WHEN I FIRST WAS 44:29 LIVING ON THE STREETS AND I WOULD EAT - I HAD FRIENDS THAT 44:32 WERE EATING OUT OF THE DUMPSTER AND WHEN I FIRST SAW MY FRIENDS 44:35 DOING THAT I JUST THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS THE GROSSEST THING THAT 44:38 I HAD EVER SEEN - THAT PEOPLE WOULD CLIMB INTO THESE - NOW, 44:41 YOU KNOW, THEY PROTECT THEM AND THEY CLOSE THEM AND THEY LOCK 44:43 THEM, BUT BACK THEN THEY WERE OPEN AND YOU - WE CALLED IT 44:46 DUMPSTER DIVING AND PEOPLE WOULD GO FIND DAY-OLD FOOD AND STUFF 44:50 OUT OF THE SUPERMARKET IN THE DUMPSTER - AND WHEN I FIRST SAW 44:56 IT - I GREW UP, YOU KNOW, MY MOM WAS AT LEAST MIDDLE CLASS, 44:59 MY DAD WAS ABOVE THAT. I WENT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN 45:01 THE TWO, BUT I NEVER ATE OUT OF THE GARBAGE CAN. 45:04 AND, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS VILE - AND ESPECIALLY IN NEW YORK CITY. 45:08 IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE APARTMENT BUILDINGS, WHEN YOU 45:11 DEALT WITH YOUR TRASH, YOU WALKED TO YOUR LANDING - YOUR 45:13 BACK DOOR THAT WENT DOWN THE EMERGENCY STAIRS AND THERE WAS A 45:15 CHUTE AND YOU'D OPEN UP THIS CHUTE AND YOU JUST DUMPED YOUR 45:19 GARBAGE DOWN AND IT WENT TO AN INCINERATOR IN THE BASEMENT. 45:22 AND THAT WAS BACK WHEN WE HAD INCINERATORS AND ALL OF THE 45:24 APARTMENT BUILDINGS HAD BLACK SMOKE COMING OUT. 45:27 OF COURSE THEY'VE OUTLAWED THAT NOW, BUT THAT'S - ANY OF YOU 45:29 REMEMBER THOSE DAYS IN NEW YORK CITY? 45:32 YOU JUST DUMPED IT IN THE INCINERATOR. 45:34 I'M SURE WE DUMPED STUFF IN THERE WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE 45:36 DUMPED IN THERE. BUT THEY - YOU OPEN UP THAT 45:39 THING AND OH, IT WAS AN AWFUL STENCH. 45:41 IT WAS LIKE THE LAKE OF FIRE COMING UP THAT CHIMNEY. 45:45 SO I DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD IDEA ABOUT GARBAGE AND WHEN I SAW 45:47 THESE PEOPLE CLIMBING OVER THE EDGE OF THE DUMPSTER AND GETTING 45:50 FOOD OUT I THOUGHT, 'OH, THAT'S GROSS.' 45:55 BUT THEY WERE MY FRIENDS AND SO I WOULD STAND AT A DISTANCE AT 46:00 FIRST, BUT I GOT WHERE I GOT CLOSER AND CLOSER. I THOUGHT, 46:05 'WELL, THEY'RE SURVIVING. SOMEHOW IT'S NOT KILLING THEM.' 46:08 SO I GOT CLOSER AND CLOSER AND THEN WHEN THEY'D GO DUMPSTER 46:10 DIVING I STARTED TO LOOK OVER THE EDGE AND THEN ULTIMATELY I'D 46:13 GET RIGHT UP TO THE EDGE AND I'D POINT AND SAY 46:15 'GRAB THAT CAN FOR ME. IT'S JUST GOT A DENT IN IT.' 46:18 OR SOMETHING - OR 'OH IT LOOKS LIKE THAT BREAD'S STILL GOT A 46:21 GOOD WRAPPER ON IT - THOSE OUTSIDE SLICES HAVE A LITTLE 46:24 MOLD BUT THE INSIDE LOOKS GOOD.' COME ON. YOU EVER 46:27 DONE THAT BEFORE? 'JUST THE OUTSIDE SLICE HAS MOLD ON IT.' 46:32 AND THEN I GOT WHERE I WAS REACHING OVER THE EDGE AND, YOU 46:36 KNOW, I STARTED IN AN ADVISORY CAPACITY AND THEN PRETTY SOON I 46:40 WAS IN THERE WITH THE REST OF THEM AND IT HAPPENED IN DEGREES. 46:43 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WITH SIN AND YOU CAN GET WHERE IT JUST 46:46 DOESN'T BOTHER YOU ANYMORE. AND SOMEONE ON THE OUTSIDE OF 46:50 THE DUMPSTER WILL SAY, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING?' 46:52 AND YOU'LL GO 'WHAT? WHO ME? I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG.' 46:54 AND YOU'RE IN THE GARBAGE. AND THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH 46:57 DARKNESS. PEOPLE CAN GET SO USED TO THE DARKNESS THAT THEY DON'T 47:04 THINK THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT. ALRIGHT, BACK TO 47:06 ZEPHANIAH - I'VE SORT OF TAKEN A SIDE ROAD HERE. 47:09 IT TALKS ABOUT THE HUMBLE OF THE LORD IN CHAPTER 2, "GATHER 47:13 YOURSELVES TOGETHER, YES," - THIS IS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1 - 47:17 "YES, GATHER TOGETHER, O UNDESIRABLE NATION, BEFORE THE 47:20 DEGREE IS ISSUED, OR THE DAY PASSES LIKE CHAFF, BEFORE THE 47:24 LORD'S FIERCE ANGER COMES UPON YOU, BEFORE THE DAY OF THE 47:27 LORD'S ANGER COMES UPON YOU! SEEK THE LORD, ALL YOU MEEK OF 47:30 THE EARTH, WHO HAVE UPHELD HIS JUSTICE. 47:33 SEEK RIGHTEOUSNESS, SEEK HUMILITY. 47:35 IT MAY BE THAT YOU WILL BE HIDDEN." - 47:38 WHAT DOES ZEPHANIAH MEAN? HIDDEN BY YAHWEH. 47:42 AND SO HERE YOU FIND, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK, A PLAY ON 47:44 HIS OWN NAME WHERE HE'S SAYING, 'I'M TELLING YOU ABOUT THE 47:48 TERRIBLE DAY OF JUDGMENT." AND IT'S LIKE, WHEN PETER GOT 47:50 DONE PREACHING, AT PENTECOST, HE PREACHED A PRETTY HEAVY SERMON. 47:54 HE SAID, 'YOU'VE CRUCIFIED THE MESSIAH.' 47:57 AND HE PUT THE FEAR IN THEM. AND AFTER HE PUT THE FEAR IN 47:59 THEM THEY SAID, 'MEN AND BRETHREN, WHAT SHALL WE DO?' 48:02 HE SAID, 'I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. THERE IS HOPE.' 48:04 SO ZEPHANIAH NOW, DO YOU SEE HE'S OFFERING HOPE? HE'S SAYING, 48:07 'SEEK THE LORD. YOU MAY BE HIDDEN.' THE JUDGMENT'S COMING. 48:11 NO ESCAPE. THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME. 48:15 BABYLON WAS GOING TO COME AND DESTROY JERUSALEM BECAUSE THEY 48:17 HAD LOST - EVEN DURING THE TIME OF JEREMIAH, THE KING HAD 48:21 SEVERAL CHANCES TO GO OUT AND TO SURRENDER AND THEY WOULD HAVE 48:24 BEEN SPARED. BUT FINALLY THEY REACHED A POINT OF NO RETURN 48:28 AND LIKE THE UNPARDONABLE SIN, IS PROBATION GOING TO CLOSE 48:31 FOR PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS? 48:33 THERE WAS A CLOSE OF PROBATION FOR THE CITY. 48:37 PROBATION HAD CLOSED AND HE SAID, 'BUT, THERE'S HOPE FOR YOU 48:43 IF YOU'LL REPENT.' PROBATION HAD CLOSED FOR THE 48:45 CITY - FOR THE NATION - BUT THERE WAS HOPE FOR YOU. 48:48 WELL, EVEN THE NATION STILL HAD HOPE BEYOND THAT, BUT THE 48:50 JUDGMENT OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS COMING. 48:53 AND WHO DOES HE SAY WILL HAVE HOPE? 48:56 IT SAYS, 'THE MEEK, THE HUMBLE.' YEAH. 49:02 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME PSALM 37:11 - WHO HAS THAT? 49:06 YOU MIGHT HAVE TO CHECK. OKAY, BACK HERE - WE'LL GET TO 49:10 YOU IN JUST A SECOND. OF COURSE, DO WE KNOW MATTHEW 5:5? 49:15 WHAT DOES THAT SAY? IN THE BEATITUDES? 49:17 "BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH." 49:22 HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT THERE'S A LOT OF SCRIPTURES IN THE BIBLE 49:25 THAT TELL US THAT IF WE HUMBLE OURSELVES - THE HUMBLE FIND 49:28 MERCY. GOD IS PATIENT WITH THE HUMBLE. 49:31 HE'S FORGIVING WITH THE HUMBLE. EVEN WICKED KINGS - WHEN AHAB 49:35 HUMBLED HIMSELF GOD SHOWED HIM MERCY. 49:38 AND SO, WHEN WE'RE MEEK AND WHEN WE'RE HUMBLE GOD IS OFTEN VERY 49:41 PATIENT AND HE LIGHTENS THE JUDGEMENT AND HE'LL PROTECT. 49:44 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US PSALM 37:11. 49:49 >>"BUT THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH, AND SHALL DELIGHT 49:51 THEMSELVES IN THE ABUNDANCE OF PEACE." 49:54 >>SO WAS THERE HOPE FOR THOSE WHO WOULD HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND 49:57 BE MEEK? WHAT'S THE OPPOSITE OF MEEK? 50:04 DO YOU KNOW WHAT ONE OF THE BIG SINS WAS DURING THE TIME OF 50:07 ZEDEKIAH, BEFORE THE CITY WAS DESTROYED? HE SAID, 50:13 'NEBUCHADNEZZAR - HE WON'T COME HERE. 50:16 WE CAN TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES. WE DON'T NEED THE LORD.' 50:19 AND THEY WERE JUST TRUSTING IN THEMSELVES AND GOD SAID, 50:22 'ALRIGHT, LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO.' AND BECAUSE OF THEIR PRIDE 50:25 THEY WERE JUDGED AMONG OTHER THINGS. MATTHEW 11:28, 50:30 CHRIST SAID - YOU KNOW THIS ONE - THIS IS CALLED 50:33 'THE GREAT INVITATION'. THERE'S TWO GREAT GREATS - 50:37 TWO GREAT GREATS IN MATTHEW. ONE IS THE GREAT INVITATION - 50:40 YOU COME TO JESUS AND THE OTHER IS THE GREAT COMMISSION - 50:43 YOU GO FOR JESUS. ONE IS MATTHEW 18 - OR MATTHEW 28:18 AND 19 50:48 AND THE OTHER IS MATTHEW 11:28 AND 29. SO IT MAKES IT EASY FOR 50:51 - ONE IS YOU COME TO GOD THE OTHER IS YOU GO FOR GOD. 50:54 IT'S LIKE THE CROSS. YOU COME TO GOD AND YOU GO FOR GOD. 50:58 LOVE THE LORD. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. 51:00 SO YOU'VE GOT THE GREAT INVITATION AND THE GREAT 51:02 COMMISSION IN MATTHEW. SO THIS IS THE GREAT INVITATION. 51:06 "COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND 51:08 I WILL GIVE YOU REST. 51:10 TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY 51:15 IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS." 51:18 SO BEING CHRIST-LIKE - BEING MEEK IS ONE OF THE WAYS TO FIND 51:22 PROTECTION IN THAT DAY OF JUDGMENT THAT'S COMING. 51:25 WHAT ARE THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT? 'LOVE, JOY, PEACE, 51:30 LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH, MEEKNESS' - WE 51:35 TALKED ABOUT THIS 'DO JUSTLY, LOVE MERCY, WALK HUMBLY WITH 51:40 YOUR GOD' WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT MICAH. 'MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE, 51:44 AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW. BUT THE UNGODLY ARE NOT SO, BUT 51:48 LIKE THE CHAFF OF THE WIND THAT DRIVES THEM AWAY.' ZEPHANIAH 51:51 WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CHAFF THAT WOULD DRIVE THEM AWAY. 51:54 AND IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 3 - CHAPTER 3 OF ZEPHANIAH, VERSE 1. 52:02 IT SAYS, "WOE TO HER WHO IS REBELLIOUS AND POLLUTED, TO THE 52:07 OPPRESSING CITY! SHE HAS NOT OBEYED HIS VOICE, 52:11 SHE HAS NOT RECEIVED CORRECTION; SHE HAS NOT TRUSTED IN THE LORD, 52:15 SHE HAS NOT DRAWN NEAR TO HER GOD." 52:19 BECAUSE SHE'S NOT DOING THESE THINGS - NOW, IN THE PREVIOUS 52:21 VERSE IT SAYS, 'SEEK, SEEK, SEEK.' 52:25 IN ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1 THROUGH 3 - THREE TIMES IT SAYS 52:29 'SEEK, SEEK, SEEK.' WHAT DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THOSE 52:31 WHO SEEK? THEY WILL FIND. 52:34 THE LORD SAYS IN JEREMIAH 29:13, "YOU WILL SEARCH FOR ME AND 52:37 YOU'LL FIND ME WHEN YOU SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART." 52:40 HERE IN ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 3 IT SAYS, JUDGMENT IS COMING BECAUSE 52:43 THEY DID NOT RECEIVE CORRECTION. THEY WOULD NOT SEARCH WHEN THEY 52:49 HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEARCH. SHE'S NOT DRAWN NEAR. 52:52 BUT THEN, FINALLY, IT TELLS US THAT THERE'S HOPE. 52:56 AND GOING BACK TO ZEPHANIAH, IF WE LOOK IN CHAPTER 3 THERE'S A 53:02 LOT OF PROMISES THERE. "SING O DAUGHTER" - O LET ME SEE 53:06 HERE - YOU CAN GO TO CHAPTER 3, VERSE - OH, VERSE 9. 53:10 I'M GOING TO END UP READING THE WHOLE CHAPTER. 53:12 VERSE 9, "FOR THEN I WILL RESTORE TO THE PEOPLES A PURE 53:14 LANGUAGE, THAT THEY ALL MAY CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD, TO 53:19 SERVE HIM WITH ONE ACCORD. FROM BEYOND THE RIVERS OF 53:21 ETHIOPIA MY WORSHIPERS, THE DAUGHTER OF MY DISPERSED ONES," 53:26 - SO IT SAYS THEY'D BE DISPERSED - "SHALL BRING MY OFFERING. 53:29 IN THAT DAY YOU SHALL NOT BE SHAMED FOR ANY OF YOUR DEEDS" - 53:32 WON'T THAT BE NICE TO NOT FEEL GUILTY AND NOT TO BE SHAMED 53:35 BECAUSE THEY'RE FORGIVEN? 53:36 - "IN WHICH YOU TRANSGRESS AGAINST ME; FOR THEN I WILL TAKE 53:38 AWAY FROM YOUR MIDST THOSE WHO REJOICE IN YOUR PRIDE, AND YOU 53:46 SHALL NO LONGER BE HAUGHTY IN MY HOLY MOUNTAIN." 53:49 - HOLY MOUNTAIN IS TALKING ABOUT, ULTIMATELY, THE KINGDOM - 53:51 "I WILL LEAVE IN YOUR MIDST A MEEK AND HUMBLE PEOPLE, AND THEY 53:56 SHALL TRUST IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. THE REMNANT" 53:59 - THERE YOU'VE GOT THE REMNANT AGAIN - "THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL 54:02 SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND SPEAK" - VERY FEW LIES? - 54:08 "NO LIES, NOR SHALL A DECEITFUL TONGUE BE FOUND IN 54:12 THEIR MOUTH; FOR THEY SHALL FEED THEIR FLOCKS AND LIE DOWN, AND 54:15 NO ONE SHALL MAKE THEM AFRAID." ULTIMATELY, WHAT IS HE TALKING 54:18 ABOUT? WHEN HE SAYS, 'THEY'LL LIE DOWN, 54:20 THEY'LL FEED THEIR FLOCK, NO ONE WILL MAKE THEM AFRAID'? 54:22 HE'S TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE SAME PROPHECIES IN ISAIAH WHERE 54:26 HE SAYS, 'WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR WHEN WE'RE IN HEAVEN.' 54:30 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE ULTIMATE PROMISED LAND AFTER THAT DAY OF 54:33 JUDGMENT THAT'S COMING IN THE FUTURE FOR US. 54:36 ALRIGHT, GOT TO THE BOOK OF NAHUM. I'VE GOT A MINUTE. 54:40 IN NAHUM CHAPTER 1 IT SAYS, "THE BURDEN AGAINST NINEVEH. 54:45 THE BOOK OF THE VISION OF NAHUM THE ELKOSHITE." NOW, THIS VISION 54:51 AGAINST NINEVEH WAS ALSO GREATLY JUDGED AND THEY WERE DESTROYED. 54:57 YOU CAN READ IN OH, VERSE 5 FOR INSTANCE, "THE MOUNTAINS QUAKE 55:03 BEFORE HIM, THE HILLS MELT, AND THE EARTH HEAVES AT HIS 55:06 PRESENCE, YES, THE WORLD AND ALL WHO DWELL IN IT." 55:10 OH, WE'VE GOT TIME. SOMEBODY LOOK UP PSALM 97, 55:12 VERSES 3 TO 5. DID SOMEBODY GET THAT VERSE? 55:15 RIGHT UP FRONT HERE. HOLD YOUR HAND UP. 55:17 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. WHERE'S THE MICROPHONE? OKAY. 55:24 IT TALKS ABOUT THE JUDGMENT THAT WAS GOING TO COME. 55:28 YOU KNOW THERE'S AN INTERESTING VERSE IN NAHUM - HAVE YOU READ 55:31 THAT ONE? IT SAYS THAT 'THEIR CHARIOTS 55:33 RAGE IN THE STREET LIKE LIGHTNING. 55:35 THEIR TORCHES BLAZING.' AND I REMEMBER WHEN SOMEONE 55:37 FIRST SHOWED ME THAT THEY SAID, 'THAT'S A PROPHECY OF 55:39 AUTOMOBILES.' HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THAT? 55:43 IT KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE THAT WHEN YOU FIRST READ IT. IT'S NOT. 55:46 IT'S JUST TALKING ABOUT WHEN THERE WAS A WAR RAGING THAT WENT 55:49 ON INTO THE NIGHT WHEN NINEVEH WAS DESTROYED AND - ALRIGHT, I 55:54 THINK WE'RE READY FOR THAT. LET'S GO AHEAD AND LET'S READ 55:56 PSALM 97, VERSE 3. >>"A FIRE GOES BEFORE HIM, AND 56:01 BURNS UP HIS ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT. 56:04 HIS LIGHTNINGS LIGHT THE WORLD; THE EARTH SEES AND TREMBLES. 56:09 THE MOUNTAINS MELT LIKE WAX AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AT THE 56:14 PRESENCE OF THE LORD OF THE WHOLE EARTH." >>THANK YOU. 56:19 YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A COUPLE OF PROPHECIES AND MINOR 56:21 PROPHETS THAT TALK ABOUT DAYS OF JUDGMENT COMING. 56:24 NOW, ONE WAS JUDAH AND JERUSALEM THROUGH NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND THE 56:28 BABYLONIANS, THE OTHER ONE WAS ON ASSYRIA BECAUSE THEY HAD 56:31 CARRIED AWAY - THEY HAD EXECUTED JUDGMENT ON THE TEN TRIBES. 56:36 THE THING THAT I LIKE IN BOTH BOOKS IS THAT YOU FIND HOPE. 56:40 IT SAYS THERE'S A JUDGMENT COMING BUT GOD IS GOING TO HAVE 56:42 A PEOPLE THAT WILL TRUST HIM. THEY'LL DO NO LIES, THEY'RE MEEK 56:45 AND HUMBLE IN THEIR HEARTS, THEY FOLLOW THE LORD AND HE CAN HIDE 56:48 THEM IN THE CLEFT OF THE ROCK, IF YOU WILL, DURING THAT TIME OF 56:53 JUDGMENT SO WE DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID. 56:55 BUT WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHAT'S COMING. 56:58 DID THOSE JUDGMENTS COME UPON ASSYRIA? 57:00 DID THEY COME ON JERUSALEM? YEAH. 57:03 IS THE JUDGMENT COMING ON THE WORLD THAT JESUS SPOKE OF? 57:07 WE NEED TO BE HIDDEN IN CHRIST. THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE TO HIDE. 57:10 HE'S OUR ZEPHANIAH, AMEN? ALRIGHT, WE'RE OUT OF TIME BUT I 57:13 WANT TO REMIND YOU WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER AND IT'S 57:16 'PENDING: YOUR CASE IN COURT'. JUST CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR 57:19 SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #192. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND IT TO 57:22 YOU. AND, GOD WILLING, WE LOOK 57:24 FORWARD TO STUDYING TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 57:28 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 57:32 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD 57:35 ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 57:39 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 57:43 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 57:45 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 57:48 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 57:51 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. 57:55 (MUSIC) |
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