Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021326
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:50 WE ARE COMING TO YOU FROM SACRAMENTO CENTRAL, RIGHT HERE 00:53 ON THE WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 00:56 AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY OF YOU - NOT JUST HERE IN THE 00:59 SANCTUARY - THAT ARE JOINING US FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND 01:03 AROUND THE WORLD. AND I AM SO EXCITED TO TELL YOU 01:06 A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT JOIN US EVERY WEEK. 01:10 THERE IS A PICTURE THAT WILL BE UP THERE THAT YOU CAN SEE. 01:15 IS IT UP? THERE IT IS. THERE IT IS. 01:16 THIS IS THE YORK SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN YORK, 01:20 ENGLAND AND THEY WERE ALSO JOINED BY MEMBERS OF THE HULL 01:24 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, WHICH IS ABOUT AN HOUR AWAY 01:26 FROM YORK. AND THIS IS WHERE MY PARENTS AND 01:28 I WERE LAST SABBATH AND WE WERE WORSHIPING WITH THEM. 01:32 THIS WAS A LOVELY GROUP OF PEOPLE AND I TELL YOU, THEY LOVE 01:35 TO SING AND THEY ARE AMAZING. OH, I COULD HAVE JUST SAT THERE 01:39 AND LISTENED TO THEM SING FOREVER. 01:41 WONDERFUL, WARM GROUP OF PEOPLE AND WE GOT TO WORSHIP WITH THEM 01:46 AND MY DAD WAS ABLE TO DO BAPTISM - TWO OF THE PEOPLE THAT 01:51 WERE ACTUALLY WANTING TO COME TO CENTRAL AND BE BAPTIZED BUT IT 01:55 NEVER WORKED OUT AND SO HE WAS ABLE TO BAPTIZE THEM IN THE SAME 01:58 TANK THAT HE WAS BAPTIZED IN 44 YEARS AGO. 02:02 AND THAT'S - THIS IS JOY, THE PASTOR IS HERE ON THE LEFT AND 02:06 THEN JOY IS MOM AND ANGELIE IS THE DAUGHTER AND THE HUSBAND 02:10 GEORGE - AND HE BAPTIZED THE DAUGHTER AND THE HUSBAND 02:13 LAST SABBATH. BEAUTIFUL FAMILY. 02:16 AND SO THE YORK AND THE HULL CHURCHES RECORDED A MESSAGE THAT 02:22 WE'RE GOING TO PLAY AS THEY SEND THEIR GREETINGS TO YOU HERE AT 02:25 CENTRAL. SO THEY WERE VERY EXCITED TO SEND THEIR GREETINGS. 02:38 AND ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL FAMILY THAT WE GOT TO MEET WAS 02:41 DIAMOND AND SANJAY AND SANJIA AND SIMRIN. 02:46 AND THIS WAS A LOVELY LITTLE FAMILY THAT WE MET IN MANCHESTER 02:49 WHO WATCH ONLINE AND SIMRIN, THE LITTLE GIRL IN THE YELLOW, SENDS 02:53 IN SONG REQUESTS AND THEY WATCH EVERY WEEK AND - BEAUTIFUL 02:57 FAMILY - SO WONDERFUL AND LOVING AND WARM AND WE HAD A HARD TIME 03:02 LEAVING. BUT IT WAS SO NICE MEETING SOME 03:04 OF OUR ONLINE FAMILY AND THEY ARE WATCHING, OF COURSE, SO 03:08 SPECIAL GREETINGS TO EVERYONE IN YORK AND HULL AND IN MANCHESTER. 03:15 AND, OF COURSE, THE SONG WE ARE GOING TO SING IS REQUESTED BY 03:18 THE GROUP AT THE YORK CHURCH AND THEY WOULD LIKE US TO SING #100 03:22 - 'GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS' - AND SO WE ARE GOING TO DO THAT. 03:25 A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD SENT IN THEIR 03:28 REQUESTS FOR THIS ONE AS WELL. WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE 03:31 STANZAS - 'GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS'. 03:34 (MUSIC) 07:21 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SONG. 07:25 IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON AN 07:27 UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 07:30 ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND 07:34 CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN SEND IN YOUR 07:37 FAVORITE HYMN. IF IT'S IN HERE WE WILL SING IT. 07:41 AND WE ARE LEARNING NEW SONGS AND WE'RE CONTINUING THAT TODAY 07:45 - #59 - 'GREAT OUR JOY AS NOW WE GATHER'. IT'S ALSO THE SAME TUNE 07:51 AS #5 SO IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ALONG WITH US AND YOU THINK, 07:54 'OH, THAT TUNE SOUNDS FAMILIAR' THAT IS WHY. IT'S THE SAME AS 07:57 #5. SO WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH STANZAS 08:02 - 'GREAT OUR JOY AS NOW WE GATHER'. 08:05 (MUSIC) 10:03 >>THAT WAS A REQUEST FROM KELVYN, MYRIAM, JANICE AND 10:06 AURELIE IN MAURITIUS. SO I'M GLAD THAT WE ARE LEARNING 10:10 THESE SONGS RIGHT ALONG WITH YOU AND KEEP ON SENDING THEM IN. 10:13 AT THIS TIME, LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 10:17 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING US HERE - HERE 10:22 IN THE SANCTUARY AND HERE TOGETHER AS A WORLD-WIDE FAMILY 10:25 WORSHIPING YOU. PLEASE FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT 10:29 TODAY. FILL OUR HEARTS WITH YOUR LOVE. 10:32 FORGIVE US OF OUR SINS AND CLEANSE US AND MAKE US READY SO 10:37 THAT WHEN YOU COME IN THOSE CLOUDS WE WILL BE READY TO SEE 10:41 YOU. FATHER, PLEASE HELP US NOT TO 10:45 LOSE SIGHT OF THE CHURCH'S MISSION TO SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS 10:50 OF YOUR SOON COMING TO THIS WORLD. 10:53 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR DOUG. 10:55 AS HE BRINGS US THE LESSON STUDY I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH HIM 10:58 AND GIVE HIM THE WORDS THAT WE NEED TO HEAR TODAY. 11:01 IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN. 11:05 AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR 11:07 SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 11:18 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO OUR MUSICIANS. 11:20 HAPPY SABBATH, FRIENDS. 11:22 AND I WANT TO THANK DEBBIE, JOLYNE AND JORDAN FOR - JORDAN 11:28 JUST GRADUATED THIS YEAR FROM SAA HIGH SCHOOL. 11:30 CONGRATULATIONS JORDAN. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR 11:36 JOINING US. IF WE HAVE ANY VISITORS HERE 11:37 TODAY, WE'RE VERY GLAD TO HAVE YOU. 11:40 TODAY I'M EXCITED AND SAD. WE'RE GOING TO SAY GOODBYE TO 11:44 THE MINOR PROPHETS BUT I'M EXCITED BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO 11:46 STUDY ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS IN THE MINOR PROPHETS, THE LAST 11:50 BOOK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - MALACHI. 11:53 AND MALACHI - THE NAME OF THE LESSON - IT'S LESSON #13 - IT'S 11:57 CALLED 'LEST WE FORGET' AND, OF COURSE, IF YOU WANT TO FIND THAT 12:00 BOOK JUST GO TO THE BOOK RIGHT BEFORE MATTHEW. 12:04 SOME OF YOU, IN YOUR BIBLES, YOU'VE GOT STUDIES THAT ARE IN 12:07 BETWEEN YOUR OLD TESTAMENT AND YOUR NEW TESTAMENT. 12:09 A LOT OF BIBLES HAVE SORT OF SOME INTERTESTAMENTAL STUDIES 12:13 THAT ARE THERE AND - BUT IF YOU GO TO THE BOOK PRIOR TO MATTHEW 12:17 YOU'LL FIND THE LAST BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT - MALACHI. 12:20 AND THE NAME MALACHI MEANS 'MESSENGER OF JEHOVAH' - BUT I 12:24 HAVEN'T READ OUR MEMORY VERSE YET, HAVE I? 12:27 I FORGOT A COUPLE THINGS - WE'VE GOT A FREE OFFER AND THE FREE 12:31 OFFER IS THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDE CALLED 'IN GOD WE TRUST' - 12:36 ASK FOR OFFER #135. THIS LESSON TALKS ABOUT TITHE 12:40 AND OFFERING - WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT IT. 12:42 IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY BECAUSE I MEET A LOT OF 12:44 CHRISTIANS - ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS FROM VARIOUS 12:48 EVANGELICAL CHURCHES THAT SAY 'THE PRINCIPLE OF TITHE IS AN 12:52 OLD COVENANT PRINCIPLE. WE DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT 12:54 TITHE ANYMORE.' WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT. 12:57 THIS LESSON DEALS WITH THAT. WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 13:00 ASK FOR OFFER #135 AND IF YOU WANT TO CALL IN, JUST DIAL 13:04 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S 866-788-3966. 13:10 WE'LL SEND YOU 'IN GOD WE TRUST'. 13:13 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE FOR OUR LESSON, 13:16 IT COMES TO US FROM MALACHI 1, VERSE 11 - MALACHI 1, VERSE 11. 13:21 IF YOU FOUND THAT AND YOU WANT TO SAY IT WITH US, I'LL BE 13:24 READING IT FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. ARE YOU READY? 13:29 "'FOR FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN, EVEN TO ITS GOING DOWN, MY 13:34 NAME SHALL BE GREAT AMONG THE GENTILES; IN EVERY PLACE INCENSE 13:39 SHALL BE OFFERED TO MY NAME, AND A PURE OFFERING; FOR MY NAME 13:43 SHALL BE GREAT AMONG THE NATIONS,' 13:45 SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 13:47 ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT IN THE LAST BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, 13:52 BEFORE YOU TURN TO THE NEW TESTAMENT WHERE THE GOSPEL SORT 13:54 OF THEN SPREADS AMONG THE GENTILES, IS THIS PROPHECY AND 13:58 THIS PROMISE - 'MY NAME WILL BE GREAT AMONG THE GENTILES'? 14:01 AND THAT'S CERTAINLY WHAT HAPPENED IS AS YOU GO FROM THE 14:04 OLD TESTAMENT TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, WE SEE CHRIST COMES 14:07 AND IT'S THROUGH CHRIST THAT AN EXPLOSION TAKES PLACE WITH THE 14:11 GOSPEL GOING EVERYWHERE. AND IN ONE GENERATION THERE WERE 14:16 MORE GENTILE BELIEVERS IN JEHOVAH THAN JEWISH. 14:20 DID YOU KNOW THAT? ONE GENERATION AFTER PENTECOST 14:23 THINGS RADICALLY CHANGED. AND SO I THINK IT'S INTERESTING 14:26 THAT YOU FIND THAT PROPHECY IN THE BOOK OF MALACHI. 14:29 NOW MALACHI IS AN INTERESTING PROPHET. 14:31 YOU KNOW, YOU START OUT READING ABOUT ISAIAH, THE SON OF AMOS, 14:35 OR YOU READ ABOUT JONAH THE SON OF AMITTAI AND THE VARIOUS 14:38 PROPHETS YOU'RE GOING TO SAY 'THE SON OF'. 14:41 MALACHI DOESN'T TELL YOU WHAT HIS PEDIGREE IS. 14:44 HE JUST - HIS PEDIGREE IS 'I'VE GOT A MESSAGE FROM GOD.' 14:48 AND HE JUST KIND OF COMES OUT SWINGING, SO TO SPEAK, AND 14:53 NOBODY - YOU READ THE COMMENTATORS - NO ONE REALLY 14:56 QUESTIONS THAT HE WAS A PROPHET. HE'S RECOGNIZED AS A PROPHET. 15:00 HE'S QUOTED BY THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS AS A PROPHET, BUT 15:04 THERE'S SILENCE FROM THE TIME OF MALACHI. 15:06 WE REALLY NEED HIM BECAUSE HE IS THE LAST BOUY THAT YOU SEE OUT 15:11 THERE IN THE OCEAN FOR 400 YEARS - FROM HIS TIME UNTIL YOU GET TO 15:16 JOHN THE BAPTIST. 15:18 MALACHI SAYS THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A VOICE CRYING IN THE 15:22 WILDERNESS, SO HE'S THE PROPHET WHO TELLS US JOHN IS COMING THEN 15:26 THERE'S SILENCE UNTIL JOHN COMES. 15:28 400 YEARS GO BY OF NO PROPHET THAT WE KNOW OF - I MEAN, THERE 15:32 MAY HAVE BEEN SOME BUT THEY WEREN'T RECORDED OR WRITTEN AS 15:35 PROPHETS AND SO THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK FOR US. 15:39 HE TALKS, IN THE FIRST VERSES - IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLE AND YOU 15:42 TURN TO MALACHI CHAPTER 1, "THE BURDEN OF THE WORD OF THE LORD" 15:47 - NOW YOU FIND THAT PHRASE MENTIONED BY SEVERAL PROPHETS. 15:50 'THE BURDEN' - ISAIAH 13:1 TALKS ABOUT 'THE BURDEN OF THE LORD'. 15:54 HABAKKUK 1:1 'THE BURDEN OF THE LORD'. ZECHARIAH 9:1, 15:57 ZECHARIAH 12:1, HAGGAI 1:1 AND THEN MALACHI 1. WHAT? 16:03 WHY DO THESE PROPHETS - HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE THE JOB 16:04 OF A PROPHET AND THE FIRST THING YOU SAY IS 'THE BURDEN'? WELL, 16:08 THAT WORD BURDEN DOESN'T MEAN EXACTLY WHAT WE MIGHT THINK. 16:13 IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE LORD HAS SUDDENLY PUT A 50 LB WEIGHT 16:16 ON THEM, THOUGH IT IS A WEIGHTY RESPONSIBILITY TO BE A PROPHET, 16:21 IT MEANT A MESSAGE THAT YOU WERE TO CARRY AND SO THE WORD 16:27 'BURDEN' SORT OF TOOK ON A DIFFERENT MEANING THERE. 16:29 IT MEANT 'THE PROPHECY' - YOU'VE GOT A MESSAGE ABOUT THE FUTURE 16:34 AND IT'S THE PREDICTION. YOU'LL OFTEN FIND, WHEN THEY 16:38 BEGIN BY SAYING 'THE BURDEN', A PROPHECY FOLLOWS. AND SO, I JUST 16:44 WANTED TO CLEAR THAT UP A LITTLE BIT AT THE BEGINNING. 16:47 AND THEN HE STARTS OUT - NOTICE, IN THE FIRST FEW VERSES - 'THE 16:50 BURDEN BY THE WORD OF THE LORD TO ISRAEL BY MALACHI' - AND 16:55 AGAIN, WHAT DOES MALACHI MEAN? MESSENGER OF JEHOVAH. 16:59 LAST OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS, HE LIVES AFTER 17:02 ZECHARIAH AND HAGGAI, BUT HE'S A CONTEMPORARY, NOT TOO LONG 17:06 AFTER. THEY LIVED DURING THE TIME WHEN 17:08 THEY WERE TRYING TO GET THE TEMPLE BUILT. 17:10 MALACHI LIVES AFTER THE TEMPLE HAD BEEN RESTORED BECAUSE HE'S 17:14 THEN TELLING PEOPLE TO BRING ALL THE TITHES AND OFFERINGS INTO 17:17 THE TEMPLE SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN BUILT BY THE TIME OF MALACHI. 17:21 AND YOU READ IN THE FIRST VERSES, 'THE BURDEN OF THE WORD 17:25 OF THE LORD TO ISRAEL BY MALACHI' - HE'S NOT JUST TALKING 17:28 TO JUDEA, HE'S TALKING TO GOD'S PEOPLE UNIVERSALLY - "'I HAVE 17:33 LOVED YOU,' SAYS THE LORD. 'YET YOU SAY, 'IN WHAT WAY HAVE 17:36 YOU LOVED US?' WAS NOT ESAU JACOB'S BROTHER?' 17:39 SAYS THE LORD. 'YET JACOB I HAVE LOVED; BUT 17:42 ESAU I HAVE HATED, AND LAID WASTE HIS MOUNTAINS AND HIS 17:45 HERITAGE FOR THE JACKALS OF THE WILDERNESS.'" FIRST THING I WANT 17:49 YOU TO KNOW - AND THEN I'M GOING TO TALK 17:51 ABOUT THIS VERY DIFFICULT VERSE - I LOVED ISRAEL, HATED ESAU. 17:56 PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU MEAN GOD JUST IS UP THERE IN THE SKY GOING, 17:59 'HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT, HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT. 18:04 EENEY MEENEY MINEY MO, I LOVE YOU AND I HATE YOU.' 18:08 IS GOD ARBITRARY? 'I THINK I'LL SAVE YOU BUT 18:11 YOU'RE GOING TO BURN FOREVER. AND YOU AND YOU AND YOU SINCE 18:13 THE MAJORITY ARE GOING TO BURN FOREVER, BUT I'LL SAVE YOU.' 18:16 IS THAT HOW GOD OPERATES? BUT A LOT OF CHURCHES BELIEVE - 18:20 THEY CALL THIS PREDESTINATION - THEY TALK ABOUT THE SOVEREIGNTY 18:23 OF GOD AND GOD HAS HIS ELECT AND HE JUST ELECTS SOME PEOPLE AND 18:26 HE DOESN'T ELECT THE OTHERS AND THEY'RE LOST. 18:28 HE CREATED THEM TO BE LOST. IT'S A REALLY STRANGE TEACHING 18:32 BUT I'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A SECOND. 18:34 FIRST THING I WANT YOU TO NOTICE IN THIS BOOK - AND THIS, TO ME, 18:37 IF YOU'LL ALLOW ME TO GENTLY REMONSTRANCE WITH THE AUTHOR OF 18:42 THE LESSON, I WOULD RETITLE THIS LESSON. 18:45 INSTEAD OF 'LEST WE FORGET', I WOULD TITLE THIS LESSON 'I LOVE 18:49 YOU' BECAUSE HE STARTS OUT BY SAYING, 'I'VE SHOWN YOU THAT I 18:54 LOVE YOU' AND THEN THROUGH THE REST OF THE BOOK HE SAID, 'WHY 18:57 DON'T YOU LOVE ME?' OR 'WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME BETTER?' 19:01 AND HE BEGINS BY SAYING IN MANY OF THE PASSAGES, 'LOOK HOW I'VE 19:06 SHOWN MY LOVE FOR YOU. AND BECAUSE I'VE SHOWN THIS LOVE 19:08 FOR YOU AND I'VE BROUGHT YOU BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND - YOU 19:11 WERE OFF IN EGYPT, I BROUGHT YOU BACK. 19:13 YOU WERE OFF IN BABYLON, I BROUGHT YOU BACK. 19:14 I'VE SAVE YOU SO MANY TIMES, THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS IF 19:18 YOU LOVE ME?' AND SO REALLY, THE MESSAGE OF 19:21 THE BOOK IS - AND THIS IS A VERY GREAT MESSAGE TO END THE OLD 19:26 TESTAMENT WITH - 'LOOK AT YOUR HISTORY. 19:28 LOOK HOW I'VE SHOWN YOU HOW I LOVE YOU. 19:30 THEN WHY ARE YOU BEHAVING THIS WAY?' 19:33 AND HE ITEMIZED A NUMBER OF AREAS - MALACHI'S A GREAT BOOK 19:36 FOR AN EVANGELIST. I MEAN, IN MALACHI HE TALKS 19:39 ABOUT - YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DEAD AND HELL? 19:42 GO TO MALACHI CHAPTER 4 - THE DAY THAT BURNS AS AN OVEN. 19:44 YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT TITHES AND OFFERINGS? 19:46 GO TO MALACHI CHAPTER 3. YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT DIVORCE? 19:48 YOU GO TO MALACHI. MALACHI - SHORT BOOK - 4 CHAPTERS. 19:52 TALK ABOUT THE COMING OF ELIJAH AND JESUS - MALACHI. 19:56 IT'S A GREAT, GREAT PROPHETIC BOOK, BUT HE'S REALLY SAYING 20:00 THESE THINGS BECAUSE HE'S TALKING ABOUT LOVE. 20:02 ALRIGHT, WELL NOW LET'S GET TO THAT DIFFICULT PART. 20:05 SOMEONE READ FOR ME ROMANS 9:13. AND THIS HAS OFTEN BEEN QUOTED 20:11 IN SUPPORT - DO WE HAVE A HAND OVER HERE? 20:14 OKAY, ELIZABETH YOU'RE GOING TO READ THAT FOR US. 20:16 AND IN ROMANS CHAPTER 9 VERSE 13 - ARE WE READY FOR THAT? 20:24 YEAH, WE ARE READY. YOU GO AHEAD. 20:26 >>"AS IT IS WRITTEN, 'JACOB I HAVE LOVED, BUT ESAU I HAVE 20:30 HATED.'" >>NOW SO MANY PEOPLE, WHEN 20:33 THEY READ THAT, THEY GO BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT TO GENESIS 20:37 WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT ISAAC AND REBECCA HAD TWO SONS, JACOB AND 20:40 ESAU, AND THEY'RE VERY DIFFERENT. 20:43 ONE IS A MORE SMOOTH SKINNED - OR LESS HAIRY SKINNED BOY WHO 20:49 LIKES TAKING CARE OF SHEEP AND GOD SAYS HE WAS GOING TO GIVE 20:53 THE INHERITANCE TO THE YOUNGER AS OPPOSED TO THE OLDER. 20:57 AND ONE IS A SHEPHERD AND ONE IS A HUNTER. 21:02 ONE HAS THE SHEEP FOLLOWING THEM, THE OTHER IS FOLLOWING 21:07 AFTER THE DEER AND FIRING AT THEM. 21:09 THEY'RE VERY DIFFERENT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE TEMPERMENTS OF 21:12 THESE TWO BOYS. BUT WHEN WE READ HERE - PAUL SAYS, 'I HAVE LOVED 21:18 JACOB AND I HATE ESAU' DOESN'T THAT SOUND PLAIN ENOUGH? NO. 21:25 WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT IS THEIR OFFSPRING - THE NATIONS. 21:30 SO WHEN YOU GO BACK TO MALACHI AND HE SAYS, 'I LOVED JACOB AND 21:36 I HATED ESAU AND LAID HIS MOUNTAINS AND HIS HERITAGE WASTE 21:41 FOR THE JACKALS OF THE WILDERNESS.' 21:44 IF YOU LOOK IN EZEKIEL 35 - READ JUST LIKE 1 THROUGH 3 - IT TALKS 21:48 ABOUT THE JUDGMENT AGAINST MOUNT SEIR. MT. SEIR WAS THE LAND 21:53 WHERE THE CHILDREN OF ESAU - THE EDOMITES - LIVED AND THERE WAS A 21:58 VERY HIGH TERRITORY - A LOT OF RUGGED TALL MOUNTAINS WITH SOME 22:02 VALLEYS BETWEEN. THAT'S WHERE THE DESCENDENTS OF 22:04 ESAU LIVED AND GOD SAID, 'I'VE SHOWN MY LOVE TO YOU BECAUSE I 22:09 BROUGHT YOU BACK FROM BABYLON - I PRESERVED YOU - BUT WHEN ESAU 22:14 WAS OVERTHROWN THEY NEVER RECOVERED. 22:16 ANY OF YOU MEET ANY EDOMITES LATELY? 22:19 THEY'RE EXTINCT AREN'T THEY? BUT HAVE YOU MET JEWS? 22:23 SO WHAT GOD IS SAYING IS, 'LOOK, BECAUSE OF WHAT ESAU AND HIS 22:27 DESCENDENTS DID - I HATED WHAT THEY DID.' YOU REMEMBER WHEN 22:32 ESAU SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT FOR A POT OF BEANS? HE BASICALLY WAS 22:36 SAYING, 'I'M MORE INTERESTED IN THE FLESH THAN THE SPIRIT. 22:39 I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL BLESSING, I'M HUNGRY NOW.' 22:42 AND SO HE WAS MORE INTERESTED IN SATISFYING HIS FLESHLY DESIRES 22:46 NOW THAN THINKING ABOUT THE SPIRIT AND THE FUTURE. 22:49 JACOB SAID, 'I WANT THAT FUTURE. I'M THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE. 22:52 I WANT THE BIRTHRIGHT.' AND GOD SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I LOVE 22:54 THAT ABOUT JACOB.' HE WANTED THAT SPIRITUAL BIRTHRIGHT. 22:57 ESAU THOUGHT, 'HE JUST WANTED THE PHYSICAL ASSETS OF MY 23:01 FATHER.' AND SO TO PROVE THAT WASN'T 23:04 TRUE, WHEN JACOB CAME BACK FROM WANDERING IN THE LAND OF HERON 23:07 WHEN HE WAS WITH LABAN AND HE GOT HIS TWO WIVES AND ABOUT 23:10 ELEVEN - TEN OF HIS BOYS WERE BORN - MAYBE ELEVEN. 23:13 I THINK BENJAMIN WAS THE ONLY ONE BORN IN THE PROMISED LAND. 23:18 WHEN HE CAME BACK, FIRST THING HE DID WAS HE GAVE A BUNCH OF 23:21 MONEY TO ESAU. HE GAVE A VERY LAVISH GIFT OF 23:27 GOATS AND CAMELS AND SHEEP AND SERVANTS TO HIS BROTHER - FOR A 23:31 COUPLE REASONS. ONE, JACOB HAD MADE A VOW, HE 23:34 SAID, 'OF ALL YOU GIVE ME I WILL PAY A TENTH TO YOU IF YOU BRING 23:37 ME BACK.' WELL, THEY WERE THE ONLY PRIESTS 23:39 IN THE AREA - THE FAMILY LEADERS WERE THE PRIESTS. 23:42 ABRAHAM WAS THE PRIEST FOR HIS FAMILY, JOB WAS THE PRIEST FOR 23:44 HIS FAMILY, ESAU WAS THE PRIEST FOR HIS FAMILY. 23:47 ESAU, WITH ALL HIS PROBLEMS, STILL DID WORSHIP JEHOVAH. 23:50 SO JACOB, HE PAID A TITHE TO HIS BROTHER. HE WAS ALSO SHOWING 23:55 HIS BROTHER, 'I'M NOT COMING BACK FOR DAD'S INHERITANCE. 23:59 IF THAT WAS TRUE, WHY WOULD I GIVE YOU ALL THIS? 24:02 HE WANTED THE SPIRITUAL INHERITANCE OF HIS FATHER. 24:06 AS FAR AS WE KNOW, ESAU ENDED UP GETTING THE OTHER INHERITANCE - 24:10 WHATEVER WAS IN THE BANK OF ISAAC WHEN HE DIED. 24:14 BUT SO ONE WAS SPIRITUAL, ONE WAS CARNAL. 24:19 THAT'S WHY GOD SAID, 'I LOVED JACOB AND I HATED ESAU' - THE 24:22 JUDGMENT CAME ON THEIR DESCENDENTS - IT HAD NOTHING TO 24:25 DO WITH THEM. IT WASN'T SOMETHING THAT GOD DID 24:27 BEFORE THEY WERE BORN. IT WAS SOMETHING - A JUDGMENT 24:30 THAT CAME LATER BECAUSE OF BEHAVIOR. 24:33 YOU SEE THAT? THAT'S WHAT GOD HATED. SO THAT'S OFTEN MISUSED. 24:36 DOES GOD WANT EVERYONE TO BE SAVED? 24:40 1 TIMOTHY 2, VERSES 3 AND 4, "FOR THIS IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE 24:44 IN THE SIGHT OF GOD OUR SAVIOR, WHO DESIRES ALL MEN TO BE SAVED 24:48 AND TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH." 24:50 IT TELLS US IN 2 PETER, 'GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD 24:53 PERISH' AND 'WHOSOEVER WILL, LET HIM TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE 24:59 FREELY.' HOW MANY DOES GOD WANT TO BE 25:00 SAVED? 'WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM MIGHT NOT PERISH.' 25:04 WHOSOEVER. EVERYBODY HAS A FREE WILL. 25:07 GOD HAS NOT ARBITRARILY DECIDED SOME SHOULD BE SAVED AND SOME 25:10 SHOULD BE LOST FROM THE TIME THEY'RE BORN WITH THEM HAVING NO 25:12 CHOICE. WHAT ABOUT WHEN HE HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART? 25:15 DOESN'T IT SAY HE HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART? IT DOES. 25:18 BUT YOU KEEP READING IN EXODUS, YOU'LL ALSO FIND WHERE IT SAYS, 25:20 'PHARAOH HARDENED HIS OWN HEART.' 25:23 WHAT HAPPENED IS THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT GOD SENT, THE 25:27 WAY THAT PHARAOH RESPONDED TO THOSE, HE HARDENED HIS HEART. 25:31 GOD KNEW, 'I'M GOING TO SEND SOME CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WILL END 25:33 UP HARDENING PHARAOH'S PROUD HEART. 25:36 BUT PHARAOH MADE HIS OWN DECISION - IS THAT CLEAR? 25:39 EVERYBODY - THAT'S A EVERY IMPORTANT POINT. 25:41 ALRIGHT, NOW UNDER THE SECTION - FIRST SECTION - 'GREAT IS THE 25:44 LORD' - AND THIS IS BASED ON MALACHI 1:8. 25:48 WHO HAS LEVITICUS 1:3? SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ THAT 25:50 FOR US. KEITH HAS THAT. 25:52 WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND. 25:53 FIRST I'M GOING TO READ MALACHI 1:8. 25:57 "'AND WHEN YOU OFFER THE BLIND AS A SACRIFICE, IS IT NOT EVIL? 26:02 AND WHEN YOU OFFER THE LAME AND SICK, IS IT NOT EVIL? 26:06 OFFER IT THEN TO YOUR GOVERNOR! WOULD HE BE PLEASED WITH YOU? 26:09 WOULD HE ACCEPT YOU FAVORABLY?' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 26:12 WHAT IS THE PROPHET TALKING ABOUT HERE? WHEN THEY BROUGHT AN 26:16 OFFERING TO THE LORD THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING OF THEIR BEST. 26:19 BUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING WAS THEY WERE KIND OF GOING THROUGH THEIR 26:22 FLOCKS AND THEY'D SAY, 'OH, YOU KNOW, I GOT THAT LAMB THERE - 26:25 HE'S, YOU KNOW, GOT SOME BIRTH DEFECT AND HE'S BLIND OR HE'S 26:30 MAIMED OR THAT ONE GOT STOMPED ON, HE'S READY TO DIE. 26:33 I'VE GOT TO MAKE AN OFFERING - WELL, MAY AS WELL OFFER THAT 26:35 ONE, IT'S NO GOOD ANYWAY.' AND MALACHI IS SAYING, 'IF YOU 26:41 WERE INVITED TO VISIT THE GOVERNOR, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU 26:45 WENT AND SAW A KING OR A GOVERNOR OR A PERSON IN 26:47 LEADERSHIP - ESPECIALLY IF THERE WAS A FEAST - YOU GO TO 26:49 SOMEONE'S HOUSE, YOU BRING SOMETHING. 26:50 SOMETIMES YOU BRING SOMETHING - YOU GO TO A HOUSE FOR DINNER, 26:52 YOU BRING SOMETHING. SO IF YOU GO INTO - A GOVERNOR'S 26:54 INVITED YOU TO A FEAST YOU MIGHT BRING A LAMB OR GOAT AND THEY 26:57 WOULD PREP IT AND IT WOULD BE PART OF THE FEAST. 26:59 THEY USED TO DO THAT REALLY QUICK BACK THEN. 27:02 REMEMBER WHEN ABRAHAM HAD SOME GUESTS COME? MAN, HE SLEW 27:04 A FATTED CALF AND HAD A FEAST BEFORE YOU KNEW WHAT HAPPENED. 27:07 I MEAN THEY USED TO DRESS THOSE THINGS OUT IN A HURRY. 27:10 BUT SO THEY WOULD BRING - WOULD YOU BRING - YOU'D SAY, 'HI, 27:14 THANKS FOR INVITING ME, GOVERNOR, TO THE FEAST. 27:16 I KNOW I'VE GOT THIS ONE IT'S GOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S MISSING ITS 27:18 BACK LEG AND IT'S GOT A LITTLE BIT OF MANGE AND IT'S MISSING AN 27:20 EYE - IT'S BLIND - BUT WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT GOOD FOR ANYTHING 27:24 ANYWAY SO I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.' AND WHAT WOULD BE THE RESPONSE? 27:28 WOULD YOU - THEY'D SAY - YOU WOULD NEVER DO THAT. 27:30 YOU KNOW, YOU GO TO THE PRESIDENT AND YOU BRING A GIFT - 27:34 YOU'RE INVITED TO A WHITE HOUSE DINNER AND YOU BRING YOUR OLD 27:36 ROTTEN APPLES BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T GOING TO EAT THEM. 27:39 LET THE OTHER PEOPLE EAT THEM, RIGHT? IS THAT THE ATTITUDE? 27:44 GOD IS SAYING, 'IF YOU WOULD DO THAT - YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT TO 27:46 AN EARTHLY LEADER BUT YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE ME THAT? 27:51 OKAY, GO AHEAD AND READ THAT FOR US KEITH. 27:54 >>LEVITICUS 1:3, "IF HIS OFFERING IS A BURNT SACRIFICE OF 27:57 THE HERD, LET HIM OFFER A MALE WITHOUT BLEMISH; HE SHALL OFFER 28:03 IT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL AT THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE OF 28:05 MEETING BEFORE THE LORD." >>A MALE WITHOUT WHAT? 28:08 WITHOUT BLEMISH. NUMBERS 29, VERSE 8, "YOU SHALL 28:13 PRESENT A BURNT OFFERING TO THE LORD AS A SWEET AROMA: ONE YOUNG 28:16 BULL, ONE RAM, AND SEVEN LAMBS IN THEIR FIRST YEAR. BE SURE" - 28:21 THAT MEANS INSPECT THEM - "THEY ARE WITHOUT BLEMISH." 28:24 YOU EVER SEEN WHEN PEOPLE TAKE THEIR ANIMALS TO THESE 4-H OR 28:30 COUNTY FAIRS TO BE INSPECTED FOR, YOU KNOW, WHICH IS THE BEST 28:34 COW OR GOAT OR PIG OR WHATEVER IT HAPPENS TO BE? 28:38 OR YOU EVER SEEN PEOPLE WHEN THEY GO OVER A DOG AT A 28:40 DOG SHOW? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THAT? 28:42 YOU KNOW, THEY PRANCE THEM AROUND AND THEN THEY PUT THEM UP 28:44 ON A TABLE AND THEN SOME INSPECTOR GOES UP AND HE RUNS 28:46 HIS FINGER THROUGH THEIR HAIR AND HE OPENS UP THEIR MOUTH AND 28:49 HE LOOKS AT THEIR TEETH AND HE POKES IN THEIR EARS. 28:51 I MEAN THAT'S WHAT THEY DO FOR A DOG RIBBON AND WHEN YOU WERE 28:56 GOING TO BRING SOMETHING TO THE LORD, THAT WAS MORE IMPORTANT 29:00 THAN HIM GETTING A RIBBON FROM A COUNTY FAIR OR A DOG SHOW. 29:03 THEY WERE TO GIVE THEIR BEST BECAUSE THIS WAS FOR GOD. 29:07 BUT YET THE OPPOSITE ATTITUDE - IT'S LIKE THEY WERE - YOU KNOW 29:10 SOME OF US GO THROUGH THE GARAGE FOR GARAGE SALES AND WE SAY, 29:13 'OH, I'LL NEVER USE THAT.' OR FOR THE THRIFT STORE - YOU 29:16 KNOW OUR CHURCH HAS A THRIFT STORE AND SOMETIMES THE TRUCK 29:22 COMES TO PICK THINGS UP FOR THE THRIFT STORE AND QUITE HONESTLY 29:24 WE'RE JUST ASKING THEM TO HAUL AWAY OUR JUNK. 29:27 PLEASE DON'T GIVE THINGS TO THE THRIFT STORE THAT YOU SHOULD 29:29 PROBABLY JUST TAKE TO THE GARBAGE. 29:33 SO - BUT IF IT'S TO THE LORD - I MEAN, YOU WANT THE BEST. WHY? 29:40 WHO DID THAT LAMB REPRESENT? DID JESUS EVER SIN? 29:46 AND SO ONE OF THE REASONS IT WAS TO BE A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH IS 29:49 BECAUSE CHRIST LIVED AN UNBLEMISHED LIFE. 29:54 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? YOU CAN READ HERE, FOR EXAMPLE, 29:58 IN 1 PETER 1:18 - 1 PETER 1:18 AND 19, "KNOW THAT YOU WERE NOT 30:05 REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, LIKE SILVER OR GOLD, 30:09 FROM YOUR AIMLESS CONDUCT RECEIVED BY TRADITION FROM YOUR 30:12 FATHERS, BUT" - HERE'S WHAT YOU'RE REDEEMED WITH - "WITH THE 30:15 PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND 30:20 WITHOUT SPOT." NOW THAT'S ALSO SIGNIFICANT 30:24 BECAUSE WE ARE FOLLOWING A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH. 30:28 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION? 30:32 TO RESTORE US TO THE IMAGE OF GOD AND THAT WE SHOULD BE A 30:35 BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE. ISN'T THAT WHAT IT SAYS? 30:39 AND SOMEONE LOOK FOR ME IN GENESIS 2:24 - OKAY, JOLYNE'S 30:46 GOT THAT AND WE'LL BE READY IN JUST A MOMENT. 30:48 I'M GOING TO READ MALACHI - WE'RE STILL IN MALACHI. 30:51 YOU KNOW, I WAS TEMPTED JUST TO READ THROUGH THE BOOK OF MALACHI 30:53 WITH YOU BECAUSE WE COULD EASILY DO IT IN OUR CLASS, BUT I WANTED 30:58 TO BE ABLE TO HAVE SOME TIME TO DO COMMENTARY. 31:02 BUT I'M GOING TO READ MALACHI 2:14 THROUGH 16, "YET YOU SAY, 31:07 'FOR WHAT REASON?'" - WHY DO YOU SAY THAT THE LORD 31:11 IS DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE OF OUR TREACHERY? 31:14 - "BECAUSE THE LORD HAS BEEN WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND THE WIFE 31:16 OF YOUR YOUTH, WITH WHOM YOU HAVE DEALT TREACHEROUSLY;" - 31:20 WHAT DOES THE WORD 'TREACHEROUSLY' MEAN? 31:24 TREACHERY IS NOT JUST WHEN SOMEONE ON THE STREET COMES UP 31:28 TO YOU AND STEALS YOUR WALLET - THAT'S NOT TREACHERY. 31:31 TREACHERY IS WHEN A FRIEND STEALS YOUR WALLET. 31:35 TREACHERY IS NOT WHEN SOMEBODY YOU DON'T KNOW SAYS, 'OH, I 31:40 THINK YOU'RE UGLY.' OR THEY SAY SOMETHING NASTY ABOUT YOU. 31:44 TREACHERY IS WHEN SOMEBODY WHO YOU THOUGHT WAS YOUR FRIEND, 31:48 WHO YOU THOUGHT WAS ON YOUR SIDE, WHO YOU THOUGHT LOVED YOU, 31:51 SUDDENLY BETRAYS YOU. THAT'S TREACHERY. 31:55 IT'S RELATED TO THE WORD 'TREASON'. 31:58 IT MEANS SOMEONE WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE LOYAL - IF YOU'RE AN 32:01 AMERICAN AND YOU BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO 32:04 LOVE, IT'S CALLED 'TREASON'. IT'S TREACHEROUS. 32:07 AND WHAT JUDAS DID TO JESUS WAS TREACHERY. 32:13 AND THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN YOU'VE GOT A SPOUSE AND YOU LOVE THEM 32:16 AND YOU DEAL WITH THEM TREACHEROUSLY BECAUSE YOU FIND 32:19 SOMEONE ELSE AND YOU CAST THEM OFF IN PLACE FOR THAT, 32:23 GOD SEES THAT. IT SAYS, "YET SHE IS YOUR 32:26 COMPANION AND YOUR WIFE BY COVENANT. 32:30 BUT DID HE NOT MAKE THEM ONE, HAVING A REMNANT OF THE SPIRIT? 32:37 AND WHY ONE? HE SEEKS GODLY OFFSPRING. 32:42 THEREFORE TAKE HEED TO YOUR SPIRIT, AND LET NONE DEAL 32:46 TREACHEROUSLY WITH THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH. 32:49 FOR THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL SAYS THAT HE HATES DIVORCE," - NOW IF 32:53 YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW GOD FEELS ABOUT DIVORCE YOU MIGHT JUST 32:55 CIRCLE THAT RIGHT THERE. CAN THAT BE MISUNDERSTOOD? 32:59 THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO SAY, 'WELL THAT MEANS HE'S JUST NOT 33:02 REALLY FOND OF IT. THAT'S NOT WHAT IT SAYS. 33:06 IT SAYS HE HATES IT. NOW, ARE THERE TIMES WHEN IT'S 33:09 APPROPRIATE? YES. DOES THAT MEAN HE LIKES IT? 33:13 NO, HE STILL HATES IT BECAUSE WHENEVER IT HAPPENS IT'S BAD. 33:18 DID GOD TELL ABRAHAM HE NEEDED TO DIVORCE HAGAR? 33:21 YEAH, HE ACTUALLY USED THE SAME WORD - HE SAID, 33:24 'PUT AWAY HAGAR'. WHY? YOU ALREADY HAD A WIFE, YOU'RE 33:27 NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE. 33:30 SO THERE ARE TIMES - AND THEN JESUS TELLS WHAT THOSE EXCEPTION 33:34 ARE - IN CASES OF UNFAITHFULNESS - BUT GOD HATES IT. 33:39 I MEAN, WHAT DOES IT DO? YOU KNOW, HE SAID - GOD WANTS 33:42 GODLY OFFSPRING. DID YOU CATCH THAT 33:44 IN THAT PASSAGE? YOU NOTICE HE MAKES A CONNECTION 33:48 BETWEEN DIVORCE AND OFFSPRING? ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS A 33:55 PLAGUE IN OUR CULTURE RIGHT NOW IS CHILDREN GROWING UP WITH ONE 34:00 PARENT - AND I KNOW SOMETIMES THERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES - 34:02 SOMETIMES THERE'S A DEATH AND THERE'S LOTS OF DIFFERENT 34:04 REASONS - THERE'S ABANDONMENT AND I'M NOT EVEN 34:06 GOING INTO WHAT THE REASONS ARE, BUT I THINK WE ALL KNOW THERE'S 34:09 A LOT OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES. AND A LOT OF HOMES ARE GROWING 34:13 UP WHERE MAYBE THE PARENTS REMARRY - THEY DIVORCE 34:16 AND THEY REMARRY. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS? 34:18 THOSE KIDS ARE ALWAYS AFFECTED BY THAT - ALWAYS - TO VARYING 34:21 DEGREES BUT THEY ARE ALWAYS IMPACTED BY IT. 34:24 IT AFFECTS THEIR TRUST. IT MIGHT AFFECT THEIR TRUST OF GOD. 34:28 IT MIGHT SAY SOMETHING TO THEM ABOUT COVENANTS BETWEEN PEOPLE 34:31 THAT ARE JUST OPTIONAL. IT SENDS A MESSAGE AND THE 34:36 OFFSPRING MAY NOT BE GODLY BECAUSE OF THAT. THE LORD WANTS 34:41 GODLY OFFSPRING AND THE BEST ENVIRONMENT FOR GODLY OFFSPRING 34:47 IS A MAN - IT'S THE IDEAL - I KNOW NOT EVERYBODY IS CALLED TO 34:50 MARRIAGE, THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE CALLED TO SINGLENESS, 34:53 BUT IT IS THE IDEAL FOR PROCREATION IN THE BIBLE, RIGHT? 34:57 IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE CHILDREN GOD WANTS YOU MARRIED AND HE 34:59 WANTS THE PART OF THE FATHER, THE PART OF THE MOTHER TO BRING 35:02 UP THESE CHILDREN AND TO MODEL GOD BETWEEN THE MOTHER AND THE 35:05 FATHER - NOT THE FATHER AND THE FATHER OR THE MOTHER AND THE 35:09 MOTHER BUT SOMETHING ABOUT A MAN AND A WOMAN IS THE BEST STEREO 35:14 MODEL FOR WHAT GOD IS LIKE TO BRING UP GODLY OFFSPRING. 35:19 DIVORCE TEARS THAT APART AND SO THAT'S ONE REASON THAT THE LORD 35:25 SAID THAT HE HATES IT. NOW, READ FOR US PLEASE GENESIS 2:24. 35:32 >>"THEREFORE A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE 35:37 JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THEY SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." 35:41 >>THAT WORD 'JOINED' THERE IS THE WORD 'GLUED' AND YOU EVER 35:48 SEEN A CARPENTER WHERE HE TAKES TWO PIECES OF WOOD AND HE PAINTS 35:51 SOME GLUE AND THEN HE CLAMPS THEM TOGETHER AND THAT'S THE 35:55 WORD, REALLY, IN HEBREW - THEY HAD GLUE WAY BACK THEN. THEY 35:57 USED TO MAKE IT OUT OF THE HOOVES OF THE HORSES AND THE 35:59 SHEEP. THEY'D MELT IT DOWN AND THAT WAS A PRIMITIVE GLUE. 36:02 AND SOME OF IT ACTUALLY HELD UP - ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND SOME 36:06 OF THAT ANCIENT GLUE THAT THEY USED MADE FROM HORSE HOOVES 36:09 THAT STILL HELD AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS. 36:12 SO THEY KNEW WHAT GLUE WAS. SOMETIMES THEY'D USE SAP AND 36:16 DIFFERENT THINGS AND THEY SAID WHEN A MAN AND A WOMAN GET 36:18 MARRIED THEY ARE TO BE GLUED TOGETHER - SUPER GLUED TOGETHER. 36:23 NOW JESUS, HE GETS ASKED A QUESTION. 36:30 THEY SAID, 'IF YOU SAY DIVORCE IS NOT RIGHT, THEN WHY DID MOSES 36:32 SAY IT'S OKAY?' NOW LET'S SHOW YOU WHERE IT SAYS THAT. 36:36 DEUTERONOMY 24, VERSE 1, "WHEN A MAN TAKES A WIFE AND MARRIES 36:41 HER, AND IT HAPPENS THAT SHE FINDS NO FAVOR IN HIS EYES 36:45 BECAUSE HE HAS FOUND SOME UNCLEANNESS IN HER," - NOW THAT 36:49 UNCLEANNESS WAS SUPPOSED TO MEAN SOME UNFAITHFULNESS. 36:52 IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT SHE DIDN'T CLEAN THE CORNER OR SHE GOT 36:54 CLUTTER IN THE CLOSET - "AND HE HAS FOUND SOME UNCLEANNESS IN 36:58 HER AND HE WRITES HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE, PUTS IT 37:01 IN HER HAND, AND SENDS HER OUT OF HIS HOUSE, WHEN SHE HAS 37:04 DEPARTED FROM HIS HOUSE, AND GOES AND BECOMES ANOTHER MAN'S 37:07 WIFE, IF THE LATTER HUSBAND DETESTS HER AND WRITES HER A 37:10 CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE, PUTS IT IN HER HANDS, AND SENDS HER OUT 37:13 OF HIS HOUSE, OR IF THE LATTER HUSBAND DIES WHO TOOK HER AS HIS 37:16 WIFE, THEN HER FORMER HUSBAND WHO DIVORCED HER MUST NOT TAKE 37:18 HER BACK" AGAIN. NOW, JUST A SHOW OF HANDS, HOW 37:23 MANY OF YOU HAVE KNOWN SOMEBODY OR A COUPLE WHERE THERE WAS A 37:26 DIVORCE AND THEY ENDED UP GETTING BACK TOGETHER? 37:33 THERE MAY BE EXCEPTIONS WHERE THAT'S WORKED OUT BUT 37:36 BIBLICALLY, GOD SAID THAT YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DIVORCE - NOW 37:40 SOME - I'VE KNOWN COUPLES THAT DIVORCED AND GOT MARRIED AGAIN, 37:42 BUT THEY DIDN'T MARRY ANYONE ELSE IN THE INTERVAL. 37:45 BUT WHAT HAPPENS TO A CULTURE - AND THIS IS WHY GOD HAD TO MAKE 37:48 THAT LAW. WHAT HAPPENED TO A CULTURE IF 37:50 GOD SAID, 'LOOK, MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE TO DIVORCE THE PERSON 37:54 YOU'RE MARRIED TO AND TRY SOMEONE ELSE ON LOANER 37:57 FOR A WHILE. I HEARD THEY HAD A TELEVISION 38:00 PROGRAM WHERE THEY WERE DOING THAT. 38:02 THEY WERE - I GUESS THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE INTIMATE WITH 38:04 EACH OTHER BUT FAMILIES WERE SWAPPING PARENTS AND WIVES TO 38:08 SEE HOW THEY GOT ALONG IN DIFFERENT FAMILIES. 38:09 AM I MISTAKEN OR DID THEY HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT? 38:12 WELL, THERE YOU GO. A SIGN OF THE TIMES. 38:16 WHAT DO YOU? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO A CULTURE 38:18 IF GOD WAS TO ENDORSE - 'WELL, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE WOULD BE 38:22 BETTER WITH SOMEONE ELSE - LET'S TRY IT FOR AWHILE. 38:24 IF IT DOESN'T WORK WE'LL GET BACK TOGETHER.' 38:26 GOD SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU'RE GOING TO DIVORCE THERE'S NO GOING 38:28 BACK.' AND SO THE LORD DID EVERYTHING 38:31 THROUGH HIS WORD TO SAY, 'STAY WITH THE ONE YOU'VE MADE THAT 38:35 COVENANT WITH.' AND SO, THEY ASKED JESUS - OR 38:41 JESUS SAYS IN MATTHEW 5:31, "FURTHERMORE IT HAS BEEN SAID, 38:45 'WHOEVER DIVORCES HIS WIFE, LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF 38:48 DIVORCE.' BUT I SAY TO YOU THAT WHOEVER 38:51 DIVORCES HIS WIFE FOR ANY REASON EXCEPT SEXUAL IMMORALITY CAUSES 38:55 HER TO COMMIT ADULTERY; AND WHOEVER MARRIES A WOMAN WHO IS 38:58 DIVORCED" - HE'S TALKING AGAIN ABOUT THAT WIFE-SWAPPING 39:01 BUSINESS - "COMMITS ADULTERY." NOW, IF A PERSON MARRIES SOMEONE 39:07 WHO HAS BIBLICAL GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE, THAT'S DIFFERENT. 39:10 JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE BIBLICAL GROUNDS FOR 39:13 DIVORCE, OKAY. MATTHEW 19 - SAME BOOK, 39:16 DIFFERENT CHAPTER - HE REPEATS THE SAME PRINCIPAL. 39:19 "THEY SAID TO HIM, 'WHY THEN DID MOSES COMMAND TO GIVE A 39:22 CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE, AND TO PUT HER AWAY?'" - 39:24 VERY IMPORTANT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THIS BECAUSE IS THE 39:28 OLD TESTAMENT CONTRADICTING THE NEW TESTAMENT? 39:30 IS JESUS SAYING, DON'T GO BY MOSES BECAUSE MOSES HAS BEEN 39:33 DONE AWAY WITH? HE'S NOT SAYING EITHER. 39:36 HE'S SAYING THERE ARE CERTAIN LAWS THAT ARE MADE BECAUSE THE 39:39 PEOPLE JUST COULDN'T HANDLE IT BACK THEN. 39:42 AND HE GOES ON - AND THIS IS A VERY, VERY - I WANT YOU TO 39:46 LISTEN BECAUSE THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE. 39:49 IT RUNS INTO A LOT OF THINGS. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT 39:52 PRINCIPLE. "'BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF 39:55 YOUR HEARTS, PERMITTED YOU TO DIVORCE YOUR WIVES, BUT FROM THE 39:59 BEGINNING IT WAS NOT SO.'" FROM THE BEGINNING IT WAS WHAT 40:02 JOLYNE READ - CLEAVE TO ONE ANOTHER. 40:05 BUT BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF PEOPLE'S HEARTS GOD WINKED AT 40:08 CERTAIN IGNORANCE, ACT 17, VERSE 30. 40:12 WAS IT GOD'S WILL FOR US TO KILL AND EAT ANIMALS FROM THE 40:15 BEGINNING? FROM THE BEGINNING IT WAS NOT SO 40:18 BUT BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF OUR ARTERIES GOD MADE A 40:23 PROVISION - WAS MULTIPLE WIVES PART OF 40:26 GOD'S LAW? DOESN'T HE HAVE LAWS ABOUT HOW 40:28 TO TREAT YOUR EXTRA WIVES? HE DOES. 40:30 WAS THAT HIS WILL? NO, BUT BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS 40:33 OF OUR HEARTS HE MADE CERTAIN LAWS. 40:36 WAS SLAVERY GOD'S PLAN? NO, ARE THERE LAWS IN THE BIBLE 40:39 ABOUT HOW TO TREAT YOUR SERVANTS? YES. 40:42 BECAUSE IT WAS HIS WILL? NO. 40:44 BUT BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF PEOPLE'S HEARTS. 40:46 HE KNEW WHAT PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DO AND HE MADE LAWS TO 40:52 PROTECT FOLKS - TO DEAL WITH THAT BEHAVIOR AND THE 40:57 SELFISHNESS OF MAN. AND YOU CAN APPLY THAT PRINCIPLE 40:59 TO SEVERAL THINGS IN THE BIBLE. IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY WERE HIS 41:02 IDEAL. YOU WANT HIS IDEAL, GO BACK TO 41:05 GENESIS. BUT WITH SIN, ALL KINDS OF BAD 41:08 THINGS HAPPEN. WAS IT GOD'S WILL THAT THE 41:10 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE A KING? NO. 41:13 GOD SAID, 'I'M YOUR KING.' THEY SAID, 'GIVE US A KING LIKE 41:15 THE OTHER NATIONS.' HE SAID, 'OKAY. 41:17 BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF YOUR HEARTS I'LL GIVE YOU A KING AND 41:18 HERE'S THE LAWS REGARDING HOW THE KING WILL OPERATE. 41:21 HE MADE LAWS REGARDING HOW THE KING WILL OPERATE NOT BECAUSE IT 41:24 WAS HIS PLAN. IT WAS THEIR PLAN AND THEY 41:27 NEEDED LAWS TO GOVERN IT, BUT IT WAS THE HARDNESS AND SELFISHNESS 41:30 AND STUBBORNNESS OF THEIR HEARTS, SEE? 41:34 AND THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS WITH DIVORCE TOO. 41:35 IT'S NOT THAT THE BIBLE IS CONTRADICTING ITSELF. 41:38 I OFTEN HEAR PEOPLE QUOTE THESE THINGS. 41:40 GOD MADE PROVISIONS BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF PEOPLE'S HEARTS. 41:44 THAT'S WHAT JESUS MAKES PRETTY CLEAR IN THAT VERSE. 41:46 ALRIGHT, THAT WAS A LITTLE SIDE TRAIL BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS 41:49 IMPORTANT. GETTING BACK TO MALACHI - THEN 41:53 HE SAYS, IN MALACHI CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1, "'BEHOLD, I SEND MY 42:00 MESSENGER, AND HE WILL PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE ME. 42:04 AND THE LORD, WHOM YOU SEEK, WILL SUDDENLY COME TO HIS 42:07 TEMPLE, EVEN THE MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT, IN WHOM YOU 42:11 DELIGHT. BEHOLD, HE IS COMING,' SAYS THE 42:14 LORD OF HOSTS." AND THEN JOHN THE BAPTIST, WHEN 42:16 HE BEGINS HIS MINISTRY AND THEY SAY, 'WHO ARE YOU? ARE YOU THAT 42:20 PROPHET? ARE YOU ELIJAH?' WELL, HE WAS COMING IN THE 42:23 SPIRIT AND POWER OF ELIJAH, BUT THEY WERE ASKING JOHN, 'ARE YOU 42:26 ELIJAH REINCARNATED?' HE SAID, 'NO.' 42:28 LATER, JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT, THIS IS ELIJAH 42:32 WHO WAS TO COME.' BECAUSE HE CAME IN THE SPIRIT 42:34 AND POWER OF ELIJAH TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR CHRIST'S COMING. 42:39 NOW EVEN THOUGH THIS IS MALACHI CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1, YOU ALSO 42:43 NEED TO JUMP TO MALACHI CHAPTER 4 AND IF YOU LOOK - ONE OF THE 42:49 LAST PROPHECIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - MATTER OF FACT, I'M 42:53 GOING TO READ STARTING AT VERSE 4. 42:57 I'VE ACTUALLY MEMORIZED THIS BECAUSE I'VE READ IT SO MUCH. 43:00 "REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES, MY SERVANT, WHICH I COMMANDED HIM 43:04 IN HOREB FOR ALL ISRAEL, WITH THE STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS. 43:08 BEHOLD, I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET BEFORE THE COMING OF 43:11 THE GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD. 43:13 AND HE WILL TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN, AND 43:16 THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO THEIR FATHERS, LEST I COME AND 43:19 STRIKE THE EARTH WITH A CURSE." OH, THIS IS IMPORTANT ON SO MANY 43:24 DIFFERENT LEVELS. FIRST OF ALL, ONE OF THE LAST 43:27 THINGS IT SAYS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IS 'REMEMBER THE LAW 43:31 OF MOSES...BEHOLD I SEND YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET.' 43:36 THIS REPRESENTS THE TWO WITNESSES OF THE WORD OF GOD - 43:40 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. IF YOU WANT TO SPLIT IT UP AND 43:42 CALL IT THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENT, IT'S THE WORD OF GOD. 43:45 THE WORD OF GOD IS GIVEN IN A DUAL NATURE IN THE BIBLE. 43:48 IT IS A SWORD WITH HOW MANY EDGES? TWO EDGES. 43:52 REVELATION YOU'VE GOT TWO OLIVE TREES AS YOU DO WITH ZECHARIAH. 43:57 YOU'VE GOT THE TWO LAMPSTANDS. YOU'VE GOT THE TWO WITNESSES. 44:00 WHO APPEARS TO JESUS ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION? 44:04 MARK CHAPTER 9 - MOSES AND ELIJAH - THE LAST THING THE OLD 44:08 TESTAMENT - MALACHI - SAID? REMEMBER THE LAW OF 44:10 MOSES...BEHOLD I SEND YOU ELIJAH. 44:13 HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY GOD'S CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS? 44:16 REVELATION 12:17, "THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN, AND HE 44:21 WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED, WHICH KEEP 44:25 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD," - YOU'VE GOT THE LAW OF MOSES - 44:28 "AND HAD THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS" - AND WHAT IS THE TESTIMONY? 44:31 THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS, RIGHT? 44:36 TWO CHARACTERISTICS - GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS HAVE THE 44:38 WORD OF GOD AND THEY BELIEVE NOT JUST ONE TESTAMENT, THEY BELIEVE 44:42 THE WHOLE THING - BOTH THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENTS. 44:46 THEY BELIEVE NOT JUST THE LAW BUT THEY BELIEVE THE PROPHETS 44:48 AND SO IT'S JUST A - SUCH A FASCINATING INSPIRED STATEMENT 44:54 HERE AT THE END OF THE BIBLE. AND THEN YOU TURN THE BIBLE AND 44:57 MOSES AND ELIJAH APPEAR TO JESUS IN MATTHEW. 45:01 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? SO THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. 45:04 BUT IT SAYS, 'I SEND YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET.' 45:06 WHAT DID THAT MEAN? DID ELIJAH LITERALLY COME? 45:11 HE DID APPEAR TO JESUS ON THAT MOUNTAIN, BUT WAS THAT THE 45:15 FULFILLMENT OR DID JESUS SAY IN MATTHEW 11, 'IF YOU CAN HANDLE 45:19 IT, JOHN THE BAPTIST,' HE SAID, 'IS ELIJAH WHO WAS TO COME.' 45:25 BUT THEN HE SAID SOMETHING ELSE - HE SAID, 'BEHOLD, ELIJAH IS 45:29 COMING AND ELIJAH HAS COME.' SO CHRIST IS TELLING US THIS 45:36 PROPHECY IS A DUAL PROPHECY. 45:38 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY A DUAL PROPHECY? 45:40 SOME OF THE PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE HAD A PARTIAL FULFILLMENT 45:43 IN THE TIME OF ISRAEL AND THEN IT HAD ANOTHER FULFILLMENT IN 45:47 THE TIME OF SPIRITUAL ISRAEL IN THE LAST DAYS. 45:50 WHEN CHRIST TALKS ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND HE 45:55 SAID, 'ALL THESE THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN. 45:58 THERE WON'T BE ONE STONE LEFT UPON ANOTHER.' 46:00 HE ALSO GAVE PROPHECIES ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING. 46:03 A GREAT TRIBULATION THAT WOULD COME CAME TO ISRAEL AND A GREAT 46:06 TRIBULATION CAME DURING THE DARK AGES - GREAT PERSECUTION - AND 46:10 THERE'S ANOTHER GREAT TRIBULATION JUST BEFORE - WHEN 46:12 THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES FALL, RIGHT? 46:14 SO THERE, THAT IS NOT JUST A DUAL PROPHECY, THAT'S KIND OF A 46:17 TRI-PROPHECY THERE. SO SOME OF THESE PROPHECIES HAD 46:20 MORE THAN ONE FULFILLMENT. ELIJAH COMING WAS FULFILLED IN 46:24 THAT LITERALLY ELIJAH CAME - HE APPEARED TO JESUS. 46:28 SECONDLY, JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF ELIJAH. 46:31 YOU REMEMBER WHEN ELISHA GOT THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF ELIJAH? 46:34 THAT SHOULD TELL YOU IT DIDN'T MEAN REINCARNATION. 46:37 IT MEANS THAT ELISHA HAD A SIMILAR WORK TO ELIJAH - THE 46:40 SAME SPIRIT AND POWER. JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD A SIMILAR 46:43 WORK TO ELIJAH. WILL THERE BE - AND YET JESUS 46:46 SAID, 'AND ELIJAH SURELY WILL COME.' EVEN AFTER JOHN 46:49 THE BAPTIST, JESUS SAID ELIJAH WILL COME. WHY? 46:53 IS THERE GOING TO BE ANOTHER ELIJAH MESSAGE TO PREPARE THE 46:57 WORLD FOR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS? 46:59 IF JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME TO PREPARE THE WORLD FOR THE FIRST 47:02 COMING OF JESUS WITH A SPECIAL MESSAGE OF REVIVAL, THEN WILL 47:05 THERE BE ANOTHER ELIJAH MESSAGE THAT WILL PREPARE THE WORLD FOR 47:10 THE SECOND COMING? I THINK SO. 47:12 IF JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS SUPPOSED TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE KING 47:15 WHEN HE CAME LIKE A LAMB, THEN WILL THERE BE AN ELIJAH MESSAGE 47:19 THAT WILL PREPARE WHEN THE KING COMES LIKE A LION? 47:23 SO YEAH, I THINK THAT WE'RE DUE. WE'RE OVERDUE AND THAT MESSAGE 47:29 IS GOING TO BE A VERY BOLD MESSAGE OF REPENTANCE AND 47:33 REVIVAL THAT WILL BE A MESSAGE LIKE JOHN THE BAPTIST WHERE HE 47:35 IS FEARLESS. HE WILL STAND OUT IN A CROWD. 47:39 THERE MIGHT BE MORE THAN ONE OF THEM AND - THAT'S GOING TO BE 47:41 CALLING THE WORLD TO REPENTANCE AND BACK TO THE WORD OF GOD AND 47:46 THE CHURCH AND THERE'LL BE REBUKE AND POWER AS THERE WAS 47:51 WITH JOHN. IT SAYS, 'ALL OF JUDEA AND 47:54 JERUSALEM WENT OUT TO HEAR HIM PREACH.' 47:56 SO I JUMPED TO CHAPTER 4 BECAUSE IT WAS RELATED TO CHAPTER 3 48:01 WHERE IT TALKED ABOUT THE MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT 48:02 IS COMING. NOW DID JESUS COME TO HIS 48:05 TEMPLE? JOHN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 14, "AND 48:11 HE FOUND IN THE TEMPLE THOSE WHO SOLD OXEN AND SHEEP AND DOVES, 48:15 AND THE MONEY CHANGERS DOING BUSINESS. 48:17 AND WHEN HE HAD MADE A WHIP OF CORDS, HE DROVE THEM ALL OUT OF 48:20 THE TEMPLE WITH THE SHEEP AND THE OXEN, AND POURED OUT THE 48:22 CHANGERS' MONEY AND OVERTURNED THE TABLES. 48:26 AND HE SAID TO THOSE WHO SOLD DOVES, 'TAKE THESE THINGS AWAY! 48:30 DO NOT MAKE MY FATHER'S HOUSE A HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE!'" 48:34 JESUS, WITH POWER, CAME TO THAT TEMPLE THAT EXISTED DURING 48:37 THE TIME OF MALACHI - THAT WAS THE SAME TEMPLE. 48:39 IT HAD BEEN REFURBISHED BY HEROD. 48:42 THAT'S WHY SOMEONE SAID, 'THIS TEMPLE WAS 42 YEARS IN BUILDING. 48:46 ARE YOU GOING TO DESTROY IT AND REBUILD IT IN THREE DAYS? 48:49 WHEN HEROD BECAME KING HE TOOK THE TEMPLE THAT EZRA, NEHEMIAH, 48:52 AND JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST AND ZERUBBABEL HAD BUILT AND HE 48:57 REFURBISHED IT, BUT IT WAS THE SAME ONE. 48:59 IT WAS A REMODEL, YOU MIGHT SAY. AND JESUS CAME TO THAT TEMPLE 49:04 THAT THEY HAD BUILT. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS SO SMALL 49:07 COMPARED TO SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. BUT MALACHI SAID, 'DON'T WORRY, 49:10 THE LORD IS GOING TO SUDDENLY COME TO HIS TEMPLE.' 49:12 AND HE CAME IN WITH HIS WHIP. HE CLEANED IT OUT. 49:15 NOT ONLY DID IT REPRESENT THAT, BUT DID JESUS COME TO THE OTHER 49:19 TEMPLE - HIS CHURCH AND CAUSE A REVIVAL AND CLEAN IT OUT? 49:23 YEAH, CHRIST NOT ONLY CLEANSED THE TEMPLE PHYSICALLY, HE 49:28 CLEANSED THE TEMPLE SPIRITUALLY AND IS JESUS CLEANSING THE 49:30 TEMPLE IN HEAVEN RIGHT NOW? AND WILL HE COME BACK WHEN THAT IS 49:34 COMPLETE? SO YOU'VE GOT ALL THAT HAPPENING 49:37 IN THAT PROPHECY. NOW, IN MALACHI CHAPTER 3 IT 49:39 TALKS ABOUT TITHE IN THE STOREHOUSE. 49:42 TITHE IN THE STOREHOUSE - SOMEBODY READ FOR ME 49:45 LEVITICUS 27:30. WHO HAS THAT? RIGHT OVER HERE? 49:48 LET'S GET A HAND - HOLD YOUR HAND UP. 49:51 AND WHILE WE'RE GETTING THERE CAN I JUST READ MALACHI 3? 49:54 YOU'VE HEARD SO MANY PASTORS READ THIS. 49:56 YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING TO ME, I RUN INTO A LOT OF 50:00 EVANGELICAL FRIENDS AND THEY SAY, 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE OLD 50:03 COVENANT, WE'RE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT.' 50:05 AND THEY HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN YOU START QUOTING FROM THE OLD 50:09 TESTAMENT. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO TITHE THEY 50:11 USUALLY DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM GOING TO THIS VERSE BECAUSE THEY 50:13 CAN'T FIND A BETTER VERSE. MALACHI CHAPTER 3, VERSE 8, 50:19 "WILL A MAN ROB GOD?" - MY SERMON THIS MORNING - YOU 50:23 KNOW WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - YOU CAN SEE IT 50:25 BEHIND US - IT'S SORT OF A PROP FOR OUR SERIES RIGHT NOW. 50:28 TODAY IS DEALING WITH STEALING AND I'M GOING TO BE TALKING 50:30 ABOUT THIS. YOU'LL HEAR SOME OF THIS TWICE. 50:34 - "WILL A MAN ROB GOD? YET YOU HAVE ROBBED ME! 50:37 BUT YOU SAY, 'IN WHAT WAY HAVE WE ROBBED YOU?' 50:40 IN TITHES AND OFFERINGS." - NOW IT'S NOT JUST TITHE. CAN WE 50:44 ROB GOD ALSO IN OFFERINGS? - "YOU ARE CURSED WITH 50:47 A CURSE, FOR YOU HAVE ROBBED ME, EVEN THIS WHOLE NATION. 50:50 BRING ALL THE TITHES INTO THE STOREHOUSE, THAT THERE MAY BE 50:53 FOOD IN MY HOUSE, AND TRY ME NOW IN THIS." 50:56 - TEST ME NOW - THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD IS 50:59 BASICALLY SAYING - WHEN IT COMES TO OFFERINGS - TEST ME, AND SEE 51:04 - "SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS 'IF I WILL NOT OPEN FOR YOU THE 51:07 WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POUR OUT FOR YOU SUCH A BLESSING'" - SUCH 51:14 A BLESSING - "'THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE 51:17 IT.'" MORE - PRESSED DOWN, RUNNING OVER, SHAKEN TOGETHER - 51:23 THAT YOU WON'T EVEN HAVE ROOM ENOUGH FOR IT. 51:26 AND NOT ONLY WILL I INCREASE WHAT YOU DO HAVE, I'LL PROTECT 51:31 WHAT YOU HAVE LEFT. "I'LL REBUKE THE DEVOURER" - NOW 51:35 THAT, BACK THEN, COULD MEAN MOTHS OR BUGS OR LOCUSTS THAT 51:38 EAT THE CROPS. HAVE YOU EVER HAD THINGS THAT 51:40 DEVOUR YOUR PAYCHECK BEFORE IT GETS TO THE BANK? 51:44 ALL THESE EXPENSES THAT JUST START CROPPING UP. 51:46 GOD'LL BLESS - YOU KNOW WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO IS WOULD YOU 51:51 RATHER HAVE 90% THAT IS BLESSED OR 100% THAT'S CURSED? 51:57 90% OF WHAT YOU HAVE, WITH GOD'S BLESSING, WILL GO MUCH MUCH 52:01 FARTHER THAT 100% WHERE IT'S CURSED. 52:05 YOU WILL BE PUTTING YOUR RESOURCES INTO A BAG WITH HOLES 52:09 AND THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE FAITHFUL IN OUR 52:12 TITHES AND OUR OFFERINGS. "I WILL REBUKE THE DEVOURER FOR 52:15 YOUR SAKES, SO THAT HE WILL NOT DESTROY THE FRUIT OF YOUR 52:17 GROUND, NOR SHALL THE VINE FAIL TO BEAR FRUIT FOR YOU IN THE 52:20 FIELD." IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU'VE GOT 52:21 90% THAT'S BLESSED, IT'LL BE A BUMPER CROP. 52:26 "'NOR SHALL THE VINE FAIL TO BEAR FRUIT FOR YOU IN THE 52:29 FIELD.' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS; 'AND ALL 52:31 NATIONS WILL CALL YOU BLESSED," - EVEN OTHERS WILL SAY, 'BOY, 52:35 LOOK AT HOW BLESSED THEY ARE.' - "'FOR YOU WILL BE A DELIGHTFUL 52:37 LAND,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." AND SO ONE OF THE WAYS THAT 52:41 MALACHI GIVES THIS MESSAGE IS HE SAYS THAT WE NEED TO BE FAITHFUL 52:46 IN WHAT WE HAVE. HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED THAT 52:50 BLESSING IN YOUR LIVES? OH I - DID I GIVE OUT A VERSE 52:54 THAT WE HAVEN'T READ YET? YEAH, GO AHEAD. 52:56 AND WHAT WAS THAT VERSE AGAIN? >>LEVITICUS 27:30, "AND ALL THE 53:02 TITHE OF THE LAND, WHETHER OF THE SEED OF THE LAND OR OF THE 53:07 FRUIT OF THE TREE, IS THE LORD'S. IT IS HOLY TO THE LORD." 53:14 >>NOW WHEN SOMETHING'S HOLY, THAT MEANS IT'S SET ASIDE. 53:18 IF YOU'RE AT A CHURCH PICNIC AND A GUY SEES A GAL THAT KIND OF 53:25 TAKES HIS EYE AND HE'S SINGLE AND HE WALKS OVER AND HE GETS TO 53:27 TALK TO HER A LITTLE BIT AND IN THE CONVERSATION SHE MENTIONS 53:31 HER HUSBAND, DOES THAT CHANGE THE CONVERSATION? BECAUSE THAT 53:36 MEANS, 'OH, MARRIAGE IS HOLY.' FEW THINGS ARE CALLED HOLY. 53:40 SHE IS SET ASIDE FOR SOMEBODY ELSE, RIGHT NOW, I'VE GOT TO 53:44 STOP MEDDLING. IT'S INAPPROPRIATE. 53:47 THAT FIRST TENTH OF WHAT YOU HAVE WITH YOUR INCOME - DON'T 53:51 SAY, 'I'LL PAY TITHE IF I HAVE ANYTHING LEFT.' 53:54 FOR ONE THING, CHANCES ARE YOU WON'T HAVE ANYTHING LEFT IF YOU 53:57 PUT TITHE TO LAST. IF YOU WANT GOD TO BLESS WHAT'S 54:00 LEFT THEN YOU TAKE TITHE OFF THE TOP BECAUSE EVERYTHING BELONGS 54:04 TO GOD ANYWAY, RIGHT? DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT? 54:09 SO IF I ASK YOU TO HOLD TEN DOLLARS FOR ME AND A FEW MINUTES 54:13 LATER I SAY, 'CAN I HAVE ONE OF THOSE TEN?' 54:16 YOU HAVE NO PROBLEM GIVING IT TO ME BECAUSE I JUST GAVE IT ALL TO 54:18 YOU ANYWAY - YOU BELIEVE IT'S MINE. 54:21 SOMETIMES WE REALLY WONDER IF IT'S GOD'S. WE SAY IT'S OURS. 54:25 AND EVEN IN THE VERY PHRASING - YOU CAN HEAR PEOPLE SAY, 'WHEN I 54:27 PAY MY TITHE.' YOUR TITHE? 54:31 OR ARE YOU JUST RETURNING HIS TITHE? YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 54:35 IT'S A LOT EASIER - THEN HE CAN BLESS THAT OTHER 90%. 54:38 DON'T YOU WANT TO GIVE MORE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE FAITHFUL WITH 54:42 WHAT THEY DO HAVE? THAT'S JUST A PRINCIPLE OF LIFE. 54:45 IF YOU KNOW SOMEBODY THAT IS FAITHFUL WITH WHAT THEY DO HAVE, 54:48 YOU'RE INCLINED TO GIVE THEM MORE. 54:50 YOU WANT TO GET SOMETHING DONE, GIVE IT TO A BUSY PERSON, RIGHT? 54:53 AND THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH TITHE. IF YOU WANT GOD TO BLESS YOU 54:56 WITH MORE, BE FAITHFUL. HE'S ULTIMATELY THE ONE WHO 55:00 GIVES US THE POWER TO GET WEALTH. 55:01 BE FAITHFUL WITH WHAT YOU DO HAVE. 55:03 AND I'M NOT CHASTISING CENTRAL, BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY FAITHFUL 55:06 CHURCH WITH TITHE. MOST OF YOU. 55:09 WE ARE VERY BLESSED IN THAT WAY. ALRIGHT, NOW WE'VE GOT THE LAST 55:14 SECTION HERE - I'VE GOT ONE MINUTE. 55:16 'THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL ARISE WITH HEALING IN HIS 55:19 WINGS.' WHO'S GOT REVELATION 1:16? 55:22 OVER HERE. HOLD YOUR HAND UP. 55:24 THIS VERSE CAUSES SOME PEOPLE A LITTLE TROUBLE BECAUSE IT SAYS 55:29 THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL ARISE WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS 55:32 - IT DOESN'T SAY S-O-N, IT'S S-U-N. 55:34 PEOPLE SAY, 'IS THIS A TYPE OF CHRIST? 55:36 WHOA WHOA, HOW CAN WE HAVE JESUS BE LIKENED TO THE SUN BECAUSE 55:41 ISN'T THAT SORT OF TEMPTING PEOPLE TO SUN WORSHIP? 55:45 AND SO SOME PEOPLE ARE WONDERING ABOUT THAT. 55:48 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US - WHY DOES IT USE THE ANALOGY OF THE SUN 55:51 FOR JESUS? READ FOR US REVELATION 1:16. 55:56 >>"HE HAD IN HIS RIGHT HAND SEVEN STARS, OUT OF HIS MOUTH 56:00 WENT A SHARP TWO-EDGED SWORD, AND HIS COUNTENANCE WAS LIKE THE 56:04 SUN SHINING IN ITS STRENGTH." >>HOW CAN YOU AVOID COMPARING 56:10 JESUS TO THE SUN WHEN THE BRIGHTEST OBJECT THAT WE KNOW OF 56:15 - AT LEAST, YOU KNOW, ANCIENT MAN - WAS THE SUN? 56:18 NO, WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO WORSHIP THE SUN BUT WHEN YOU 56:22 THINK ABOUT THE BRIGHTEST THING THERE IS - SEVERAL TIMES IN THE 56:24 BIBLE IT COMPARES JESUS TO THE SUN. 56:27 WHEN JESUS APPEARED TO PAUL - ACTS 26 - HE SAID, 'ON THE ROAD 56:31 I SAW A LIGHT FROM HEAVEN BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN.' 56:35 WHAT ELSE COULD HE COMPARE IT TO? 56:36 BRIGHTER THAN SOMETHING BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN THAT I CAN'T THINK 56:39 OF.' YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 56:41 SO DON'T GET WORRIED IF JESUS IS CALLED THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 56:45 ARISING WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS. 56:47 HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THANKFUL WHEN THE SUN RISES AND TAKES AWAY THE 56:50 DARKNESS AND WARMS THE EARTH AND BRIGHTENS YOUR LIFE? 56:53 AND SO THAT'S ALL THAT'S - IT'S NOT ENCOURAGING SUN WORSHIP. 56:56 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A - I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S STILL IN OUR HYMNAL 56:59 - THERE WAS A SONG IN ONE OF THE HYMNALS THAT 'WHEN I - I WILL - 57:03 LET'S BREAK BREAD TOGETHER ON OUR KNEES. 57:05 WE PRAY ON OUR KNEES WITH OUR FACE TO THE RISING SUN.' 57:08 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 57:09 THAT SONG? BOY, SOME FOLKS ARE REALLY 57:10 TROUBLED ABOUT THAT. THEY SAY IT'S TALKING ABOUT 57:13 SUN WORSHIP. I THINK THAT WHOEVER WROTE IT 57:16 WAS REALLY THINKING ABOUT WHEN JESUS COMES FROM THE EAST. 57:20 THE BIBLE SAYS A SMALL - I DON'T KNOW, WHO KNOWS? 57:22 YOU CAN PUT WHATEVER YOU WANT IN THERE BUT NO THE BIBLE DOES NOT 57:25 ENDORSE SUN WORSHIP BUT JESUS IS THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHO 57:29 ARISES WITH - DON'T MISS THE PART - HEALING IN HIS WINGS. 57:33 HE WANTS TO BRING HEALING INTO OUR LIVES. 57:35 WE'RE OUT OF TIME BUT WE'VE GOTTEN THROUGH THE MINOR 57:37 PROPHETS. I'VE LEARNED A LOT - DID YOU? 57:39 THIS HAS BEEN A BLESSING. I'VE LEARNED A LOT IN STUDYING 57:42 THIS AND HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY IT. 57:44 AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR NEXT STUDY, WHICH IS GOING TO BE 57:47 DEALING WITH REVIVAL AND REFORMATION. 57:48 AND DON'T FORGET WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR 57:51 LESSON ON MALACHI AND IT'S 'IN GOD WE TRUST'. 57:55 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. 57:56 ASK FOR OFFER #135 WHEN YOU CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. 58:00 GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 58:03 (MUSIC) |
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