(MUSIC)
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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT
YOU HAVE TUNED IN TO STUDY
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TOGETHER GOD'S WORD WITH US.
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AS WE DO EVERY WEEK WE ARE GOING
THROUGH STUDY AFTER STUDY OF
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GOD'S WORD, LEARNING MORE ABOUT
HIM AND HIS LOVE FOR US AND I
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WELCOME YOU AS YOU JOIN US TO
STUDY TOGETHER, WHETHER YOU ARE
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RIGHT HERE IN OUR SANCTUARY,
ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AROUND THE
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WORLD - WELCOME AND I KNOW
THAT YOU WILL TRULY BE BLESSED.
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BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY
I INVITE YOU TO PULL OUT YOUR
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HYMNALS HERE AND AT HOME
AND WE'RE GOING TO SING TOGETHER
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HYMN #426 - 'I SHALL SEE THE
KING' - AND I DON'T HAVE A LIST
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OF PEOPLE. I KNOW
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE OUT
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THERE THAT HAVE REQUESTED THIS.
IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF MY
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FAVORITES SO WE'RE
SINGING THAT TODAY.
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ALL THREE VERSES - 'I
SHALL SEE THE KING - HYMN #426.
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(MUSIC)
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>>I TRULY BELIEVE WITH
ALL MY HEART THAT WE ARE ABOUT
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TO SEE HIM BREAK THROUGH THOSE
CLOUDS AND I PRAY THAT EACH ONE
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OF YOU THAT IS WITHIN MY VOICE
THAT YOU CAN HEAR, THAT THAT IS
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THE BURDEN ON YOUR HEART AND THE
JOY AND THE HOPE OF YOUR DAILY
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LIFE. I JUST PRAY
THAT YOU KEEP HIM CLOSE.
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IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE HYMN THAT
YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US
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ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER, I
INVITE YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE
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AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND THERE
YOU JUST CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT
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US' LINK AND YOU CAN REQUEST ANY
HYMN IN OUR HYMNAL AND WE WILL
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SING THAT WITH YOU ON
A COMING STUDY TOGETHER.
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OUR NEW HYMN FOR TODAY IS #624 -
'I WANT JESUS TO WALK WITH ME'.
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THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM
A VERY SPECIAL AND DEAR FAMILY
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FRIEND FROM WHEN I WAS GROWING
UP, TED V. GLASSIER, JR.,
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AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO GREET
MY EXTENDED FAMILY FROM THE
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BOWDEN COUNTRY CHURCH IN BOWDEN,
NORTH DAKOTA WHERE I GREW
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UP AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE
MANY OF YOU THAT WATCH US AND SO
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THIS IS A REQUEST FROM TED AND
- HYMN #624 - 'I WANT JESUS TO
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WALK WITH ME' -
WE'LL DO ALL THREE VERSES.
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(MUSIC)
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>>LET'S PRAY. OUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE WANT TO
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WALK WITH YOU. PLEASE
JUST KEEP US FAITHFUL AND
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WE KNOW IN OUR HEART OF HEARTS
THAT YOU WILL BE WITH US THROUGH
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JOY AND SORROW AND PAIN
AND THAT YOU WILL TAKE US
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TO THE OTHER SIDE. AND
WE ARE SO GRATEFUL AND SO
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THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE
TO WORSHIP AT YOUR FEET.
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SO PLEASE BLESS PASTOR DOUG NOW
AS HE BRINGS US YOUR WORD, LORD.
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JUST OPEN OUR HEARTS AND OUR
MINDS TO RECEIVE YOU MORE FULLY
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THAT WE CAN CARRY THE GOOD NEWS
OF YOUR COMING AND YOUR LOVE AND
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YOUR MERCY AND YOUR
GRACE TO THOSE AROUND US.
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HELP US TO DO OUR PART
AND TO HASTEN YOUR COMING.
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LORD, WE JUST SO LOOK FORWARD
TO YOUR SOON COMING THROUGH THE
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CLOUDS OF GLORY AND I PRAY THAT
EACH PERSON LISTENING TO THIS
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PRESENTATION WILL BE READY TO
SEE YOU AND MEET YOU IN THE AIR.
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I PRAY THESE THINGS IN THE
PRECIOUS NAME - IN THE SAVING
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NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. OUR
STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
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TO US BY PASTOR DOUG
BATCHELOR, SENIOR PASTOR HERE
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AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOLYNE,
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AND I APPRECIATED THE WAY THEY
WERE SINGING THE ROUNDS IN THAT
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LAST SONG, AMEN?
THAT SOUNDED VERY NICE.
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WELCOME FRIENDS. FOR
THOSE WHO ARE A PART OF OUR
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REGULAR SABBATH SCHOOL
CLASS HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH,
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WE'RE GLAD TO SEE YOU.
WE ALWAYS HAVE VISITORS,
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ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF
YEAR DURING THE CHRISTMAS
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SEASON. WE KNOW
SOME FOLKS ARE OFF
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VISITING FAMILY AND SOME OF YOU
ARE HERE VISITING YOUR FAMILY
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AND WE'RE GLAD THAT
YOU'RE WORSHIPING WITH US.
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I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS
WHO ARE ALSO STUDYING VIA
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SATELLITE, TELEVISION OR THE
INTERNET FROM AROUND THE WORLD
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AND I WAS REMINDED OF THAT AGAIN
- SOME OF YOU KNOW I WAS GONE
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FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF
WEEKS AND - WENT TO ROMANIA.
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AMAZING FACTS - A TEAM
WENT THERE TO ROMANIA TO DO SOME
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TRAINING AND A BRIEF
EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM AND THAT
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WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY
EXCITING FOR ME, PERSONALLY,
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BECAUSE I'D NEVER BEEN THERE.
AND I, ACTUALLY, IF IT'S OKAY
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WITH YOU, YOU KNOW SOMETIMES
DURING SABBATH SCHOOL WE HAVE
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A LITTLE MISSION REPORT.
SO IF YOU'LL INDULGE ME I'LL
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GIVE YOU A LITTLE MISSION REPORT
OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT
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HAPPENED THERE. I
WON'T TAKE TOO LONG.
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NOW I WENT WITH - GOOD,
THEY'VE GOT SOME PICTURES UP.
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HEY THAT - A LITTLE
AMAZING FACT I'LL START WITH.
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIGGEST
BUILDING IN THE WORLD IS?
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THE PENTAGON. YOU KNOW
WHAT THE SECOND BIGGEST
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BUILDING IN THE
WORLD IS? THIS ONE.
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YEAH, THIS IS THE PALACE OF
THE PARLIAMENT AND I'M STANDING
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THERE IN FRONT OF IT.
NOW THAT PLACE IS GINORMOUS.
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IMAGINE THIS: ONE-QUARTER OF THE
ROMANIAN ECONOMY, FOR TEN YEARS,
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WAS PUT INTO THIS BUILDING.
CAN YOU IMAGINE, IN AMERICA, IF
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WE TOOK ONE-QUARTER OF OUR
ECONOMY AND PUT IT INTO ONE
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BUILDING? THE PEOPLE
DON'T KNOW QUITE WHAT
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TO DO WITH THAT BECAUSE IT WAS -
IT KIND OF DIDN'T MAKE THEM VERY
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- DIDN'T MAKE CEAUSESCU
- NICOLAE - VERY POPULAR.
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BUT NOW THE BUILDING - AND IT'S
ONLY - IT'S SO BIG, IT'S ONLY
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LIKE, I THINK, TWENTY PERCENT
OR THIRTY PERCENT IS BEING USED
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BECAUSE IT WAS JUST
SUCH A MASSIVE BUILDING.
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THEY TOOK US ON A TOUR AND
THAT'S FROM THE ROOF OF THE
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BUILDING OVERLOOKING BUCHAREST
- AND THEY WIPED OUT SIX PERCENT
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OF THE CITY TO MAKE ROOM FOR
THE BOULEVARDS AND THE STREETS -
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THEY JUST LEVELED THINGS -
CHURCHES, ANCIENT LANDMARKS -
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AND SO IT'S QUITE
A CONTROVERSIAL SPOT.
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WE'LL GO ON. SO WE
WENT TO ROMANIA AND WENT
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WITH THE AMAZING
FACTS EVANGELISM TRAINING.
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THIS IS CERNICA,
IT'S WHERE THE THEOLOGY
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INSTITUTE IS IN ROMANIA,
OUTSIDE OF BUCHAREST AND IN THE
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AUDITORIUM THERE WE
DID A SERIES OF MEETINGS.
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WE BEGAN WITH SOME AFCOE
TRAINING - THIS IS PASTOR ROSS,
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OUR PASTOR AT GRANITE
BAY, WITH HIS TRANSLATOR.
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WE'RE TEACHING YOUNG MEN AND
WOMEN AROUND EUROPE - BULGARIA -
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THEY CAME IN AND THESE PICTURES
WERE TAKEN, ACTUALLY, BY ONE OF
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OUR AFCOE GRADUATES, CHRISTIAN.
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THESE ARE THE STUDENTS AND THE
PASTORS THAT WERE GATHERING FOR
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THE AFCOE TRAINING THAT WE HAD
DURING THE PROGRAM AND THAT'S
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ONE OF OUR BIBLE
WORKERS, ROSE, IN BULGARIA.
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SHE TRANSLATED THE BULGARIAN
MESSAGES FOR US. THE MEETINGS
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THAT WE DID IN ROMANIA
WENT OUT IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES.
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CHUCK HOLTRY, ONE OF OUR AFCOE
TEACHERS, AND I WAS TEASING HIM.
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I SAID, 'YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
THE BIGGEST FISH YOU EVER CAUGHT
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IN THIS PICTURE.' THEN
I SAID, 'NOW I'M TALKING
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ABOUT THE BIGGEST FISH I
EVER CAUGHT, IN THAT PICTURE.'
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AND THE PASTOR'S TALKING ABOUT
THE BIGGEST FISH HE EVER CAUGHT,
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IN THAT PICTURE. THESE
ARE PASTORS THAT WE - WERE
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DOING THE TRAINING
WITH US AND WE CAN GO ON.
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THEN THE ACTUAL MEETINGS
BEGAN, WHICH WAS REALLY NEAT.
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THEY WERE UPLINKED ON HOPE
ESPERANZA TV, WHICH IS HOPE IN
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EUROPE AND ROMANIA.
THEY'VE GOT A GREAT FACILITY
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THERE SO THEY BROADCAST THIS
TO 300 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN
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ROMANIA PLUS DOZENS IN SPAIN
- DO YOU KNOW THERE ARE MORE
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SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS -
ROMANIAN SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS
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IN SPAIN THAN THERE ARE
SPANISH SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS?
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THERE ARE MORE ROMANIAN SEVENTH
DAY ADVENTISTS IN ITALY THAN
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THERE ARE ITALIAN
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.
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I THINK THIS IS
ALSO TRUE IN PORTUGAL.
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THE ROMANIANS
WENT ALL OVER EUROPE.
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ON SABBATH WE SCATTERED
THREE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
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I WENT AND SPOKE AT A HIGH
SCHOOL, WHERE SEVERAL CHURCHES
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GOT TOGETHER, IN
ALEXANDRIA OUTSIDE OF BUCHAREST.
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THAT'S MY TRANSLATOR, KRISTI.
HE'S ALSO THE EDITOR FOR THE
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ROMANIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE
AND HE DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB.
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AND BOY I ATE REALLY
GOOD WHILE I WAS OVER THERE.
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NEXT PICTURE - I GAINED WEIGHT.
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THIS IS IN FRONT OF
THE PUBLISHING HOUSE.
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NOW WHAT YOU SEE THERE IS
JUST THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
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IT GOES BACK THREE TIMES THAT
FAR. IT'S A VERY LONG BUILDING.
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THEY'VE GOT THEIR OWN PRINTING
PRESS, THEIR OWN BINDERY, AND A
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WHOLE TEAM OF WORKERS.
AND WE'RE HOLDING UP SOME
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AMAZING FACTS BOOKS THAT THEY
PUBLISH AND ONE THEY'RE GOING TO
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PUBLISH - OUR
'HIDDEN TRUTH' MAGAZINE.
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AND ON THE RIGHT THERE IS ELDER
COMPIAN - HE TOOK US AROUND.
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HE'S THE
SECRETARY FOR THE UNION.
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IT WAS FUN TO KNOW THEY
WATCH SABBATH SCHOOL SO THEY'RE
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WATCHING THIS NOW. MANY
OF THEM SPEAK ENGLISH AND
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THEY TEACH ENGLISH IN ALL THE
SCHOOLS THERE SO THEY TUNE IN
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FOR OUR SABBATH
SCHOOL PROGRAM. NEXT PICTURE.
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WHILE WE WERE THERE WE ALSO DID
VARIOUS AND SUNDRY RECORDINGS.
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WE DID SOME INTERVIEWS AND
TAPINGS. PEOPLE THERE HAVE BEEN
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WATCHING AMAZING FACTS
PROGRAMS IN ROMANIAN FOR YEARS.
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FOR INSTANCE, OUR 'FINAL EVENTS'
DVD IS IN ROMANIAN AND IT WENT
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ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
THE NEW PROGRAM WE DID ON
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REVELATION IS IN ROMANIAN AND
SO THEY'RE NOW SPREADING THAT.
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AND SO WE DID SOME INTERVIEWS
AND THAT'S JUST WHAT THESE
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THINGS ARE, WE'RE JUST PREPARING
FOR SOME TAPINGS THERE.
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BOY, THE MUSIC WAS OUTSTANDING.
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THEY JUST - YOU KNOW, I WAS
MAKING FUN OF THEM AND SAID THAT
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I THINK ALL ROMANIAN PEOPLE
HAVE SOME KIND OF GENETIC DEFECT
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BECAUSE THEY COULD ALL SING
AND THEIR PITCH WAS PERFECT - AT
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LEAST WHAT I HEARD -
AND JUST INCREDIBLE MUSIC.
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I'D SIT THERE - THEY'D GET DONE
SINGING, IT'D BE TIME FOR ME TO
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PREACH AND I'D JUST BE
SO SPELL-BOUND I'D FORGET.
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ALSO, NOT ONLY SINGING BUT
WITH THE INSTRUMENTS AS WELL.
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THE MEETINGS WERE VERY WELL
ATTENDED. PEOPLE CAME IN BUSES.
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A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE CAME, NOT
JUST FROM THE COLLEGE ITSELF BUT
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FROM THE OTHER CHURCHES AND HAD
JUST A GREAT EXPERIENCE THERE.
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YEAH, PROGRAMS NOT ONLY WENT OUT
ON ESPERANZA TV, BUT THEY WENT
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OUT OVER THE INTERNET AND
I'M JUST CURIOUS, WERE ANY -
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SOME OF YOU HERE - DID
ANY OF YOU HERE SEE ANY OF
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THE MEETINGS ON THE
- YEAH? YEAH? UH HUH.
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I SEE MOST OF OUR ROMANIAN
MEMBERS GO...BECAUSE IT'S IN THE
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MIDDLE OF THE DAY HERE, OR IN
THE MORNING WHEN WE'D BE DOING
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THE MEETINGS THERE, SO WE
WERE GETTING E-MAIL FROM PEOPLE
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AROUND THE COUNTRY WHO WERE
WATCHING AND WE HEARD REALLY
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GOOD REPORTS. THEY
SAID THAT THEY BELIEVED
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THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
AT THE SITES - THE HUNDREDS OF
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LOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD -
THAT WERE MAKING DECISIONS FOR
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BAPTISM. WE LEFT
SHORTLY AFTER IT'S DONE.
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THEY THEN GET ALL THOSE - THAT
INFORMATION ALL CAME IN VIA THE
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INTERNET SITE AND THEY'RE GOING
TO GIVE US A FOLLOW-UP REPORT.
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THIS IS ONE OF THE LAST SABBATHS
- OH, HERE'S A NEAT STORY.
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SOMEONE E-MAILED THIS TO US.
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THIS IS A GIRL WHO IS TENDING AN
OUTDOOR FOOD STAND IN SPAIN AND
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SOMEONE WALKED BY AND THEY
RECOGNIZED WHAT SHE WAS WATCHING
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ON HER PHONE AND SOMEONE TOOK
A PICTURE OF HER WATCHING OUR
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PROGRAM ON THE INTERNET AND
THEY WERE THINKING - THEY PUT A
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LITTLE CAPTION ON THERE, 'I
WONDER IF HER BOSS KNOWS THAT
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SHE'S NOT PAYING
ATTENTION TO THE FOOD STAND.'
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BUT, YEAH, SO SHE WAS WATCHING
THE ESPERANZA - THAT WAS SENT TO
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US FROM SOMEONE IN
SPAIN THAT WAS WATCHING.
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WE DID HAVE SOME BAPTISMS AT THE
END - I THINK THERE WERE ABOUT
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10 OR 12 PEOPLE BAPTIZED,
BUT THE ROMANIAN PEOPLE ARE VERY
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CAREFUL - AND I APPRECIATE THIS
- THEY DON'T BAPTIZE SOMEONE
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RIGHT AT THE END OF THE MEETINGS
AFTER ONE DAY IN CHURCH.
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THEY MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE
GROUNDED AND WELL CLEARED AND
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WELL TRAINED. SO THESE
PEOPLE WHO ARE BAPTIZED
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HAVE BEEN GOING TO
CHURCH FOR SOME TIME.
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THE ONES WHO ARE MAKING
DECISIONS FROM OUR MEETINGS,
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THEY'LL BE GOING TO CHURCH
FOR AWHILE AND THEY GET THEM
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GROUNDED, THEY MAKE SURE THAT
THEY UNDERSTAND THE TEACHINGS
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AND THEN THEY HAVE THE BAPTISMS.
AND, YEAH, IT WAS A GREAT
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EXPERIENCE. WE HAD SOME FUN TOO.
OUR LAST NIGHT THERE - THERE WAS
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A NUMBER OF FUNNY THINGS
HAPPENED, BUT OUR LAST NIGHT
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THERE PASTOR ROSS AND I, WE
NEEDED TO FINISH THE PROGRAM AND
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THEN WE HAD TO FLY OUT
REALLY EARLY IN THE MORNING.
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I THINK PASTOR ROSS WAS
GETTING PICKED UP AT 5:00 IN THE
00:16:58.63\00:17:00.53
MORNING, WHICH MEANT THAT HE
HAD TO WAKE UP AT 4:00 IN THE
00:17:00.53\00:17:02.23
MORNING AND HE WANTED SO
MUCH TO GET BACK TO HIS ROOM.
00:17:02.23\00:17:05.03
AS WE PULLED UP TO OUR
HOTEL THERE'S A BUSLOAD OF WHAT,
00:17:05.03\00:17:09.36
EVIDENTLY, ARE DANCING GYPSIES
- BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL IN THESE
00:17:09.36\00:17:11.63
UNIFORMS - THESE GYPSY COSTUMES
- THAT ARE GETTING OFF AND GOING
00:17:11.63\00:17:14.73
INTO OUR HOTEL - AND THIS IS
LIKE 10:00 OR 11:00 AT NIGHT.
00:17:14.73\00:17:17.46
AND WE'VE ALREADY GOTTEN BACK
LATE - POOR PASTOR ROSS, HE GETS
00:17:17.46\00:17:21.13
TO HIS ROOM HIS
ELECTRICITY WON'T WORK.
00:17:21.13\00:17:24.66
HE'S ONLY HOPING TO GET FOUR
HOURS SLEEP - SO THEY HAVE TO
00:17:24.66\00:17:29.83
MOVE HIM TO ANOTHER ROOM THAT
NIGHT - JUST FOR HIS FOUR HOURS
00:17:29.83\00:17:32.60
OF SLEEP. SO HE FINALLY GETS
IN THE OTHER ROOM HE CALLS, HE
00:17:32.60\00:17:34.46
SAYS, 'DOUG, I'M JUST LETTING
YOU KNOW WHERE I'M AT IF YOU
00:17:34.46\00:17:36.56
NEED ME. I HAD TO
MOVE TO ANOTHER ROOM.'
00:17:36.56\00:17:38.70
AND THEN 2:00 IN THE MORNING I
WAKE UP AND THE GYPSIES DECIDED,
00:17:38.70\00:17:42.36
FOR WHATEVER REASON - I
DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAD HAD A
00:17:42.36\00:17:44.30
FEW DRINKS - THEY DECIDED
TO DANCE IN THE HALLS AND SO
00:17:44.30\00:17:48.00
THEY'RE DANCING UP AND DOWN
THE HALLS AND THEY'RE BANGING ON
00:17:48.00\00:17:49.86
ALL THE HOTEL DOORS.
00:17:49.86\00:17:51.26
IN DON'T KNOW IF THEY WANTED US
TO COME OUT AND DANCE WITH THEM
00:17:51.26\00:17:52.96
OR WHAT WAS GOING ON,
BUT I DIDN'T OPEN THE DOOR.
00:17:52.96\00:17:54.83
I KEPT SAYING,
'YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG ROOM.'
00:17:54.83\00:17:58.73
AND WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET A
COUPLE OF HOURS SLEEP SO WE CAN
00:17:58.73\00:18:01.90
WAKE UP REAL EARLY AND GO TO
THE AIRPORT AND CATCH OUR - SO
00:18:01.90\00:18:05.26
FINALLY, 4:45 IN THE MORNING
I CALL JEAN, BECAUSE I KNOW HE'S
00:18:05.26\00:18:08.23
ABOUT TO CATCH HIS PLANE, AND I
SAID, 'SO HOW DID YOU SLEEP LAST
00:18:08.23\00:18:10.56
NIGHT?' AND THEN THE OTHER THING
I FORGOT TO TELL YOU IS WHEN
00:18:10.56\00:18:16.03
CEAUSESCU - AM I
SAYING HIS NAME RIGHT?
00:18:16.03\00:18:19.80
CEAUSESCU, WHEN HE MOVED A
BUNCH OF THE PEOPLE INTO THESE
00:18:19.80\00:18:23.56
GOVERNMENT BLOCKS, HE MADE
THEM LEAVE THEIR FARMS AND THEY
00:18:23.56\00:18:27.53
ABANDONED ALL THEIR
DOGS. AND THERE ARE 70,000 DOGS
00:18:27.53\00:18:32.63
ROAMING AROUND THE STREETS OF
ROMANIA THAT DON'T HAVE OWNERS.
00:18:32.63\00:18:35.53
BUT THEY CAN'T DEAL WITH THEM
BECAUSE EVERY TIME THEY SAY,
00:18:35.53\00:18:37.66
'LOOK, WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING
ABOUT THESE DOGS' THEN ALL OF
00:18:37.66\00:18:40.30
THE ANIMAL RIGHTS PEOPLE, LIKE
BRIGITTE BARDOT - THEY COME TO
00:18:40.30\00:18:42.83
ROMANIA AND SAY, 'OH, PLEASE,
YOU'VE GOT TO JUST LOVE AND TAKE
00:18:42.83\00:18:45.06
CARE OF THE DOGS.' THE
DOGS DIDN'T BOTHER US BUT
00:18:45.06\00:18:49.10
THEY BARKED ALL NIGHT
LONG OUTSIDE OF OUR HOTEL ROOM.
00:18:49.10\00:18:54.16
AND SO BETWEEN THE BARKING
DOGS AND THE DANCING GYPSIES WE
00:18:54.16\00:18:57.43
DIDN'T GET MUCH
SLEEP OUR LAST NIGHT.
00:18:57.43\00:19:00.76
BUT IT WAS FUNNY. WE
WERE LAUGHING TOGETHER.
00:19:00.76\00:19:03.06
ANYWAY, THE LORD REALLY BLESSED
THE TRIP AND WE'RE ALREADY
00:19:03.06\00:19:05.26
LOOKING FORWARD TO - IT WAS
COLD. I WANT TO GO BACK IN THE
00:19:05.26\00:19:09.03
SPRINGTIME. WE WENT IN DECEMBER.
00:19:09.03\00:19:10.96
I HEAR IT'S JUST REALLY
BEAUTIFUL IN THE SPRING.
00:19:10.96\00:19:13.46
AND SO WE JUST
WANT TO PRAISE THE LORD.
00:19:13.46\00:19:14.73
THE WORD OF GOD HAS GONE
OUT. THEY'RE GOING TO USE THESE
00:19:14.73\00:19:16.43
PROGRAMS FOR YEARS TO
COME. OUR LESSON - NOW THIS IS
00:19:16.43\00:19:20.20
EXCITING FOR ME ALSO BECAUSE
WE'RE GOING THROUGH A NEW
00:19:20.20\00:19:23.70
QUARTER STUDY ON DISCIPLESHIP
BUT I'M JUST ENTERING INTO IT
00:19:23.70\00:19:27.86
NOW AND TODAY WE'RE
GOING TO BE STUDYING LESSON 2.
00:19:27.86\00:19:30.86
FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT BE VISITING
HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH, WE STUDY
00:19:30.86\00:19:34.33
THE LESSON THREE WEEKS IN
ADVANCE TO PROVIDE TIME TO
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RECORD, EDIT, PROVIDE SUBTITLES
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THE VARIOUS NETWORKS
THAT CARRY THE PROGRAM.
00:19:41.36\00:19:43.83
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00:19:52.13\00:19:55.83
JONAH - AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT
SOME OF THE METAPHORS IN THE
00:19:55.83\00:19:59.43
BIBLE AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE
ARE A NUMBER OF METAPHORS IN THE
00:19:59.43\00:20:02.63
STORY OF JONAH FOR JESUS.
JESUS SAID, 'NO SIGN'LL BE GIVEN
00:20:02.63\00:20:06.20
BUT THE SIGN OF JONAH.'
AND THERE'S A LOT OF TYPES OF
00:20:06.20\00:20:09.43
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WITH A FRIEND AFTER YOU DO THAT.
OUR LESSON TODAY IS 'DISCIPLING
00:20:30.90\00:20:36.40
THROUGH METAPHOR'. THE
STUDY GUIDE IS DEALING WITH
00:20:36.40\00:20:39.13
THE ISSUE OF DISCIPLESHIP.
AND IN THIS STUDY WE'RE GOING TO
00:20:39.13\00:20:44.26
LOOK AT A NUMBER OF WAYS THAT
GOD TEACHES THROUGH PARABLES AND
00:20:44.26\00:20:47.46
THAT'S REALLY WHAT
OUR MEMORY VERSE IS ABOUT.
00:20:47.46\00:20:49.76
SO IF YOU WANT TO SAY THE MEMORY
VERSE WITH ME, IT'S IN MATTHEW
00:20:49.76\00:20:52.73
13, VERSES 34 AND 35 AND I'M
GOING TO BE DOING IT FROM THE
00:20:52.73\00:20:59.00
NEW KING JAMES VERSION, IF
YOU'RE READY, MATTHEW 13:34 AND
00:20:59.00\00:21:03.36
35, "ALL THESE THINGS
JESUS SPOKE TO THE MULTITUDE IN
00:21:03.36\00:21:09.23
PARABLES; AND WITHOUT A PARABLE
HE DID NOT SPEAK TO THEM, THAT
00:21:09.23\00:21:13.96
IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS
SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET, SAYING:
00:21:13.96\00:21:17.83
'I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN
PARABLES; I WILL UTTER THINGS
00:21:17.83\00:21:21.83
KEPT SECRET FROM THE
FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.'"
00:21:21.83\00:21:25.13
NOW HERE HE'S ACTUALLY QUOTING
FROM PSALM 78, WHERE THE BIBLE
00:21:25.13\00:21:28.03
SAID THAT THE MESSIAH, WHEN
HE CAME, WOULD BE TEACHING WITH
00:21:28.03\00:21:31.90
PARABLES. WHY DID
JESUS TEACH THROUGH
00:21:31.90\00:21:35.86
ANALOGIES AND
METAPHORS AND PARABLES?
00:21:35.86\00:21:40.16
AND WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT FOR US
TO UNDERSTAND IN THE CONTEXT OF
00:21:40.16\00:21:44.03
DISCIPLING? WELL,
YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S
00:21:44.03\00:21:47.70
BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A WONDERFUL
WAY TO TEACH THEOLOGY WITH
00:21:47.70\00:21:52.96
PICTURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN
A WAY THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER IT.
00:21:52.96\00:21:57.43
AND THAT SOUNDS VERY SIMPLISTIC,
BUT JESUS KNEW FOR US TO BE ABLE
00:21:57.43\00:22:01.53
TO NOT ONLY REMEMBER BUT TO
UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLES OF
00:22:01.53\00:22:06.06
THEOLOGY, TEACHING IN PARABLES
REALLY EMBEDS THEM IN OUR MINDS.
00:22:06.06\00:22:12.23
AND SO THIS WAS A FAVORITE
METHOD OF JESUS AND IT'S
00:22:12.23\00:22:15.20
SOMETHING FOR US TO REMEMBER IN
TEACHING AND DISCIPLING OTHERS -
00:22:15.20\00:22:18.60
THE USE OF ILLUSTRATIONS,
METAPHORS AND ANALOGIES.
00:22:18.60\00:22:22.60
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO
START OUT WITH SOME OF THE OLD
00:22:22.60\00:22:24.43
TESTAMENT EXAMPLES OF
THESE METAPHORS AND ANALOGIES.
00:22:24.43\00:22:28.56
FOR INSTANCE, YOU GO TO PSALM 23
AND DAVID WAS A MASTER AT THIS.
00:22:28.56\00:22:34.70
THERE'S QUITE A FEW - MOSES USED
METAPHORS AND ANALOGIES, THE
00:22:34.70\00:22:41.33
JUDGES DID, KING
DAVID DID - AND HERE WE GO.
00:22:41.33\00:22:48.03
PEOPLE ALWAYS SAVE THIS PSALM
FOR FUNERALS AND IT'S REALLY NOT
00:22:48.03\00:22:52.43
A - IT SHOULDN'T JUST
BE RELEGATED TO FUNERALS.
00:22:52.43\00:22:55.53
IT'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT OUR
ONGOING DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH
00:22:55.53\00:22:58.33
JESUS. "THE LORD IS MY
SHEPHERD; I SHALL NOT WANT." -
00:22:58.33\00:23:02.13
WANT MEANS 'BE IN NEED' - "HE
MAKES ME TO LIE DOWN IN GREEN
00:23:02.13\00:23:06.30
PASTURES;" - NOW
WHAT DO YOU SEE THERE?
00:23:06.30\00:23:09.43
DON'T YOU SEE LIKE A BEAUTIFUL
SPRING DAY, NO WIND, FLOWERS IN
00:23:09.43\00:23:13.13
A FIELD OF CLOVER AND THE
SHEPHERD STANDING BY GUARDING
00:23:13.13\00:23:16.10
THE SHEEP AND THEY COMFORTABLY
SIT DOWN THERE, CLOSE THEIR EYES
00:23:16.10\00:23:20.13
AND CHEW THE CUD
PERFECTLY CONTENT AND RELAXED?
00:23:20.13\00:23:24.20
- "HE MAKES ME TO LIE DOWN
IN GREEN PASTURES; HE LEADS ME
00:23:24.20\00:23:27.60
BESIDE THE STILL WATERS."
- GENTLY RUNNING - IT'S NOT A
00:23:27.60\00:23:31.16
FLOOD - THERE'S NO DANGER THERE
- "HE RESTORES MY SOUL;" - IT'S
00:23:31.16\00:23:35.73
JUST DAILY REFRESHING AND
HEALING - "HE LEADS ME IN THE
00:23:35.73\00:23:38.96
PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE." -
00:23:38.96\00:23:42.06
YOU KNOW, A SHEPHERD GOES
BEFORE HIS SHEEP - SOMEONE ONCE
00:23:42.06\00:23:46.93
WAS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THEY
SAW THAT THIS MAN WAS DRIVING
00:23:46.93\00:23:53.10
THE SHEEP AND THEY WERE ON
A TOUR AND THEY SAID TO THEIR
00:23:53.10\00:23:55.23
GUIDE, THEY SAID, 'I THOUGHT
THAT IT SAYS THAT THE SHEPHERD
00:23:55.23\00:23:57.90
LEADS THE SHEEP. IT
LOOKS TO ME LIKE THAT MAN IS
00:23:57.90\00:23:59.56
DRIVING THE SHEEP.' HE
SAID, 'YEAH, WELL HE'S NOT THE
00:23:59.56\00:24:01.86
SHEPHERD, HE'S THE BUTCHER.'
AND, YOU KNOW, THE BUTCHER
00:24:01.86\00:24:05.76
DRIVES THEM INTO THE PEN TO
BE SLAUGHTERED BUT THE SHEPHERD
00:24:05.76\00:24:10.03
LEADS THE SHEEP. AND,
YOU KNOW, JUST IN ROMANIA
00:24:10.03\00:24:11.90
THEY'VE GOT A
LOT OF SHEEP THERE.
00:24:11.90\00:24:13.53
I WAS - SAW ANOTHER
EXAMPLE OF A SHEPHERD.
00:24:13.53\00:24:16.23
HE WAS WALKING, ACTUALLY, ALONG
A RAILROAD TRACK - A PATH BY A
00:24:16.23\00:24:18.96
RAILROAD TRACK - AND ALL
THE SHEEP WERE THERE IN A LINE
00:24:18.96\00:24:22.16
BEHIND HIM - JUST
HERDING BEHIND HIM.
00:24:22.16\00:24:24.63
HE PROBABLY HAD HIS HEAD
SHEEP THAT WAS TRAINED. -
00:24:24.63\00:24:27.66
"HE LEADS ME IN THE PATHS
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" - WHERE DOES
00:24:27.66\00:24:30.50
JESUS LEAD US? -
"FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE.
00:24:30.50\00:24:33.13
YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE
VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH,"
00:24:33.13\00:24:36.86
- THERE WERE SAFE PLACES
AND THERE WERE VALLEYS THAT A
00:24:36.86\00:24:40.30
SHEPHERD MIGHT LEAD HIS SHEEP
THAT HAD A LOT OF CAVERNS AND
00:24:40.30\00:24:42.90
HOLES WHERE JACKALS COULD COME
OUT AND SPRING UPON THE SHEEP.
00:24:42.90\00:24:46.36
BUT IF THE SHEPHERD WAS WITH
THE SHEEP AND HE HAD HIS STAFF
00:24:46.36\00:24:49.03
THERE, WHICH HE WOULD USE TO
CLUB OFF THE VARMINTS, THE SHEEP
00:24:49.03\00:24:54.13
DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND. -
"THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE
00:24:54.13\00:24:57.10
VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH,"
- YOU MEAN THE SHEPHERD WOULD
00:24:57.10\00:25:00.06
ACTUALLY SOMETIMES LEAD THE
SHEEP THROUGH DANGEROUS PLACES?
00:25:00.06\00:25:03.83
DOES THE LORD SOMETIMES ALLOW
US TO GO THROUGH TRIALS AND
00:25:03.83\00:25:06.96
TRIBULATIONS? DID
PAUL SAY THAT WE MUST,
00:25:06.96\00:25:10.83
THROUGH TRIBULATION,
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD?
00:25:10.83\00:25:14.00
BUT WE DON'T WORRY BECAUSE IT
SAYS, "FOR YOU ARE WITH ME;" -
00:25:14.00\00:25:17.66
WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
'I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS.' -
00:25:17.66\00:25:20.43
"YOUR ROD AND YOUR STAFF, THEY
COMFORT ME." - WHY WOULD YOU BE
00:25:20.43\00:25:23.20
COMFORTED BY THE LORD'S ROD
AND STAFF? BECAUSE HE'S ARMED
00:25:23.20\00:25:28.66
AGAINST THE ENEMIES THAT
MIGHT COME AGAINST YOU. -
00:25:28.66\00:25:32.50
"YOU PREPARE A TABLE BEFORE ME
IN THE PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES;"
00:25:32.50\00:25:36.90
- YOU SEE A SHEPHERD LEADING THE
SHEEP DOWN INTO DEEP DARK GREEN
00:25:36.90\00:25:41.56
MEADOW AND THERE MIGHT BE WOODS
AND CAVES AND HILLS AROUND THAT
00:25:41.56\00:25:47.16
HAVE SOME DANGERS BUT THEY FOUND
A SAFE PLACE IN THE MIDST OF
00:25:47.16\00:25:51.26
THAT. AND THE LORD, EVEN IN THIS
WORLD WITH SIN AND THE DEVIL AND
00:25:51.26\00:25:54.13
ALL THE PROBLEMS, HE CAN LEAD US
INTO GREEN PASTURES RIGHT BEFORE
00:25:54.13\00:25:58.23
OUR ENEMIES. - "YOU
ANOINT MY HEAD WITH OIL;" -
00:25:58.23\00:26:01.86
SOMETIMES SHEEP GOT HURT OR
WOUNDED AND THEY'D BE ANOINTED.
00:26:01.86\00:26:06.36
THERE'S HEALING THAT HAPPENS
HERE - "MY CUP RUNS OVER.
00:26:06.36\00:26:10.06
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL
FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY
00:26:10.06\00:26:13.20
LIFE; AND I WILL DWELL IN
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER."
00:26:13.20\00:26:17.53
YOU DON'T NEED MERCY ONCE WHEN
YOU COME TO CHRIST, YOU NEED
00:26:17.53\00:26:20.00
MERCY ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE,
DON'T YOU? AND THE GOOD NEWS:
00:26:20.00\00:26:23.80
IT SAYS, 'I'LL DWELL IN
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER'.
00:26:23.80\00:26:26.86
IT ENDS BY TALKING ABOUT ETERNAL
LIFE. WHO BETTER THAN DAVID -
00:26:26.86\00:26:30.83
AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING
THAT GOD USED DAVID TO SHARE
00:26:30.83\00:26:34.43
THIS BECAUSE SHEPHERDS
WERE REALLY SEEN AS JUST
00:26:34.43\00:26:39.36
THE LOWEST OF THE LOW. THE
SOCIETY BACK IN THE TIME OF
00:26:39.36\00:26:43.03
EVEN DAVID - TO SAY YOU ARE A
SHEPHERD - DO YOU REMEMBER HOW
00:26:43.03\00:26:46.10
THE EGYPTIANS REACTED
WHEN JACOB'S FAMILY WENT TO THE
00:26:46.10\00:26:49.33
PHARAOH AND THEY
SAID 'WE'RE SHEPHERDS'?
00:26:49.33\00:26:50.70
THEY SAID, 'SHEPHERDS ARE AN
ABOMINATION TO THE EGYPTIANS.'
00:26:50.70\00:26:53.60
IT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, JUST A
CASTE OF VERY LOW, DIRTY - THEY
00:26:53.60\00:26:58.56
LIVED OUT THERE WITH THESE
ANIMALS, THEY SMELLED FUNNY -
00:26:58.56\00:27:01.96
AND TO SAY 'THE LORD IS MY
SHEPHERD' WAS A VERY UNUSUAL
00:27:01.96\00:27:04.96
ANALOGY, BUT IT TALKED
ABOUT THE LOVE FOR THE SHEEP.
00:27:04.96\00:27:08.40
NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, AND
KNOWING HOW DAVID LOVED SHEEP -
00:27:08.40\00:27:13.10
YOU REMEMBER WHEN DAVID WENT
TO SAUL AND KING SAUL SAID, 'HOW
00:27:13.10\00:27:16.73
DARE YOU THINK YOU CAN
GO FIGHT AGAINST GOLIATH?
00:27:16.73\00:27:18.90
HE'S A MAN OF WAR.' AND
DAVID SAID, 'OH, YOU KNOW,
00:27:18.90\00:27:21.10
WHEN I WAS YOUNG A LION CAME
AND TOOK ONE OF THE LAMBS AND
00:27:21.10\00:27:24.10
I RISKED MY LIFE
TO SAVE ONE LAMB.
00:27:24.10\00:27:27.73
AND THEN A BEAR CAME TO TAKE
ANOTHER ONE AND I RISKED MY LIFE
00:27:27.73\00:27:30.26
TO SAVE THE LAMB FROM THE BEAR
AND FROM THE LION AND SO I THINK
00:27:30.26\00:27:33.86
I CAN FIGHT THE GIANT.' THE
POINT IS: DAVID WOULD RISK HIS
00:27:33.86\00:27:37.66
LIFE FOR ONE - YOU KNOW, IF I
HAD A HUNDRED SHEEP AND A BEAR
00:27:37.66\00:27:41.63
CAME, I'D SAY, 'FAIR ENOUGH.'
I'VE GOT NINETY-NINE LEFT, YOU
00:27:41.63\00:27:44.30
KNOW? BUT DAVID, HE WAS WILLING
TO LAY HIS LIFE DOWN FOR ONE.
00:27:44.30\00:27:50.30
KEEP THAT IN MIND AS I READ THE
NEXT PARABLE AND METAPHOR FROM
00:27:50.30\00:27:54.46
THE OLD TESTAMENT. AFTER
DAVID SINNED WITH BATHSHEBA -
00:27:54.46\00:27:59.20
GOD IS VERY MERCIFUL
AND HE'S VERY PATIENT AND HE
00:27:59.20\00:28:03.90
GAVE DAVID PLENTY OF TIME
TO REPENT - MONTHS WENT BY.
00:28:03.90\00:28:07.46
BATHSHEBA, OF COURSE, WAS
PREGNANT AND HAD THE BABY.
00:28:07.46\00:28:10.46
THE BABY WAS BORN SO YOU KNOW AT
LEAST 8, 10 MONTHS, A YEAR WENT
00:28:10.46\00:28:13.46
BY AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT,
IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT THIS
00:28:13.46\00:28:18.26
KING THAT HAD BEEN SO
SPIRIT-FILLED, THROUGH WHOM GOD
00:28:18.26\00:28:22.13
HAD WRITTEN INSPIRATIONAL
MATERIAL THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR
00:28:22.13\00:28:24.93
BIBLE, LIKE THE PSALM WE JUST
READ, COULD DAY AFTER DAY GET UP
00:28:24.93\00:28:29.23
AND DO HIS WORK AND GO
ABOUT HIS BUSINESS, STIFLING HIS
00:28:29.23\00:28:33.60
CONSCIENCE TO JUST IGNORE
THE FACT THAT HE HAD COMMITTED
00:28:33.60\00:28:39.16
ADULTERY IN A MAJOR WAY AND
MURDERED A LOYAL FRIEND AT THE
00:28:39.16\00:28:44.16
HANDS OF HIS ENEMIES.
CAN - IF DAVID CAN BE THAT
00:28:44.16\00:28:49.33
SELF-DECEIVED - AND HERE HE WAS
OPERATING - A CHURCH MEMBER IN
00:28:49.33\00:28:54.83
GOOD STANDING, YOU WONDER, ARE
WE CAPABLE - IS THE HUMAN HEART
00:28:54.83\00:28:59.66
CAPABLE OF US FORGETTING ABOUT
WHAT WE'VE DONE TO GOD AND NOT
00:28:59.66\00:29:02.40
DEALING WITH IT,
NOT REPENTING OF IT?
00:29:02.40\00:29:04.86
SO, BECAUSE GOD LOVED DAVID HE
SAID, 'LOOK, I NEED TO GET YOUR
00:29:04.86\00:29:08.73
ATTENTION. YOU
CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS.
00:29:08.73\00:29:10.60
YOU NEED TO DEAL
WITH WHAT'S HAPPENED.'
00:29:10.60\00:29:12.46
SO NATHAN THE PROPHET COMES
TO HIM - ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF
00:29:12.46\00:29:14.56
DISCIPLING THROUGH METAPHOR.
SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE WORKING
00:29:14.56\00:29:17.73
WITH OTHER PEOPLE AND YOU WANT
TO REACH THEM IT'S HARD TO JUST
00:29:17.73\00:29:20.70
COME RIGHT OUT AND SAY, 'WHAT
IN THE WORLD'S WRONG WITH YOU?
00:29:20.70\00:29:23.06
DON'T YOU SEE HOW
MUCH YOU'RE SINNING?
00:29:23.06\00:29:25.00
DON'T YOU SEE WHAT A TERRIBLE
THING THIS IS THAT YOU'VE DONE?'
00:29:25.00\00:29:28.13
NATHAN CHOSE TO USE AN
ILLUSTRATION SO DAVID WOULD SEE
00:29:28.13\00:29:33.00
HIMSELF THROUGH THE STORY AND IT
WOULD REALLY BE - YOU'VE GOT TO
00:29:33.00\00:29:36.90
CONDEMN YOURSELF. AND
SO LISTEN TO THE STORY.
00:29:36.90\00:29:40.46
"THEN THE LORD SENT NATHAN TO
DAVID AND HE CAME TO HIM AND HE
00:29:40.46\00:29:43.70
SAID - DAVID IS
SITTING IN JUDGMENT.
00:29:43.70\00:29:45.86
HE IS LISTENING
TO DIFFERENT CASES.
00:29:45.86\00:29:47.83
NATHAN THE PROPHET COMES AND
SAYS, 'I'VE GOT A SPECIAL CASE I
00:29:47.83\00:29:49.66
NEED YOU TO WEIGH IN ON.'
HE SAID, 'THERE WERE TWO MEN IN
00:29:49.66\00:29:54.23
ONE CITY. ONE WAS
RICH, THE OTHER POOR.
00:29:54.23\00:29:57.60
THE RICH MAN HAD EXCEEDING MANY
FLOCKS AND HERDS BUT THE POOR
00:29:57.60\00:30:01.70
MAN HAD NOTHING
EXCEPT ONE LITTLE EWE LAMB.'
00:30:01.70\00:30:05.63
- WASN'T EVEN FULL GROWN -
'WHICH HE HAD BROUGHT UP AND
00:30:05.63\00:30:08.90
NOURISHED AND IT GREW UP
TOGETHER WITH HIM AND HIS
00:30:08.90\00:30:11.50
CHILDREN. IT ATE OF
HIS OWN FOOD AND DRANK
00:30:11.50\00:30:14.30
FROM HIS OWN CUP
AND IT LAY IN HIS BOSOM.
00:30:14.30\00:30:18.36
IT WAS LIKE A DAUGHTER TO HIM.'
- NOW, I KNOW YOU MIGHT THINK
00:30:18.36\00:30:21.20
THAT'S STRANGE, BUT I'VE SEEN
FAMILIES THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY
00:30:21.20\00:30:26.23
HAVE A FAMILY FARM AND THEY -
SUMMERTIME THE DOOR'S OPEN AND
00:30:26.23\00:30:29.26
THE SHEEP KIND OF COMES IN AND
OUT OF THE HOUSE AND - I DON'T
00:30:29.26\00:30:32.36
KNOW WHAT YOU'LL THINK OF ME,
BUT I TOLD YOU YEARS AGO WE HAD
00:30:32.36\00:30:34.86
GOATS THAT WE MILKED AND WE
LIVED IN A PRETTY ROUGH CABIN
00:30:34.86\00:30:38.96
AND WE MILKED THE
GOAT IN THE HOUSE.
00:30:38.96\00:30:44.00
KEPT THE HOUSE CLEAN SO DON'T
WORRY ABOUT THAT, BUT IT WAS
00:30:44.00\00:30:45.80
LIKE A FAMILY PET. I
WON'T ASK HOW MANY OF YOU KEEP
00:30:45.80\00:30:49.70
DOGS IN YOUR
HOUSE. NO, I WILL ASK.
00:30:49.70\00:30:52.33
HOW MANY OF YOU
KEEP DOGS IN YOUR HOUSE?
00:30:52.33\00:30:54.36
COME ON, 'FESS UP.
BIBLICALLY, GOATS ARE CLEAN,
00:30:54.36\00:30:58.20
DOGS ARE NOT SO THERE, WE
SETTLED THAT. OKAY - 'AND IT LAY
00:30:58.20\00:31:05.46
IN HIS BOSOM LIKE A DAUGHTER TO
HIM. AND A TRAVELER CAME TO THE
00:31:05.46\00:31:08.80
RICH MAN' - HIS RICH NEIGHBOR
- HAD A BIG RANCH NEXT DOOR AND,
00:31:08.80\00:31:12.70
YOU KNOW, YOU OFTEN
PREPARE FOR A TRAVELER.
00:31:12.70\00:31:14.80
REMEMBER, WHEN ABRAHAM HAD -
THOSE TRAVELERS CAME - HE KILLED
00:31:14.80\00:31:17.06
THE FATTED CALF TO
PREPARE A FEAST FOR THEM.
00:31:17.06\00:31:20.03
- 'AND A TRAVELER CAME BUT
HE REFUSED TO TAKE FROM HIS OWN
00:31:20.03\00:31:23.06
FLOCK AND FROM HIS OWN HERD
TO PREPARE FOR THE WAYFARING MAN
00:31:23.06\00:31:27.33
WHO HAD COME TO HIM, BUT HE
TOOK THE POOR MAN'S LAMB AND HE
00:31:27.33\00:31:31.40
PREPARED IT.' HE
BUTCHERED THIS ONE FAMILY'S
00:31:31.40\00:31:33.46
PET AND HE FED
IT TO A STRANGER.'
00:31:33.46\00:31:38.46
- AND DAVID HEARS THIS STORY AND
HE IS OUTRAGED AND YOU CAN JUST
00:31:38.46\00:31:42.23
SEE THE RAGE IN HIS EYE
AND HIS VEINS ARE STANDING OUT.
00:31:42.23\00:31:45.60
- 'AND DAVID IS GREATLY AROUSED
AGAINST THIS MAN' - I MEAN HERE
00:31:45.60\00:31:49.00
NATHAN SHOT RIGHT TO THE
HEART WITH THIS METAPHOR TO THE
00:31:49.00\00:31:52.13
SHEPHERD WHO WOULD DIE
FOR HIS SHEEP. AND HE SAYS,
00:31:52.13\00:31:54.96
'AS THE LORD LIVES, THE
MAN WHO HAS DONE THIS WILL DIE!
00:31:54.96\00:31:58.33
HE'S GOING TO PAY BACK FOUR-FOLD
FOR THE LAMB BECAUSE HE DID THIS
00:31:58.33\00:32:01.06
THING AND HAD NO PITY.'
NATHAN SAYS, 'YOU'RE THE MAN.'
00:32:01.06\00:32:08.06
WOW, TALK ABOUT A ZINGER, NATHAN
- DAVID PROBABLY COLLAPSED ON
00:32:08.06\00:32:14.06
HIS THRONE,
SHOCKED BY THE TRUTH.
00:32:14.06\00:32:16.60
IT HIT HIM LIKE A TON OF BRICKS
AND THEN HE, YOU KNOW, REPENTED.
00:32:16.60\00:32:20.53
YOU READ PSALM 51
AND - IS IT PSALM 32?
00:32:20.53\00:32:27.16
THERE'S A COUPLE OF PSALMS OF
REPENTANCE - AND YOU'LL SEE HOW
00:32:27.16\00:32:29.43
HE POURED OUT HIS HEART AND HE
WENT THROUGH GREAT REPENTANCE.
00:32:29.43\00:32:32.60
BUT WHAT DID IT TAKE FOR
NATHAN TO TEACH DAVID ABOUT HIS
00:32:32.60\00:32:38.56
STANDING BEFORE GOD? IT
TOOK A STORY THAT HE WOULD
00:32:38.56\00:32:42.40
RELATE TO. AND SO
THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID.
00:32:42.40\00:32:45.80
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT TAKES
A LITTLE BIT OF CREATIVITY AND
00:32:45.80\00:32:49.56
PRAYER TO DEVELOP ANALOGIES TO
TEACH, BUT GOOD TEACHERS, GOOD
00:32:49.56\00:32:53.36
PREACHERS, AND GOOD BIBLE
TEACHERS - YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE
00:32:53.36\00:32:56.40
A PROFESSIONAL - YOU LEARN
HOW TO SOMETIMES HELP PEOPLE.
00:32:56.40\00:33:00.76
I USED TO STRUGGLE WITH FOLKS
THAT, YOU KNOW, I'D BE STUDYING
00:33:00.76\00:33:04.06
WITH PEOPLE THAT WERE TRYING
TO QUIT SMOKING AND THEY'D SAY,
00:33:04.06\00:33:08.13
'PASTOR DOUG, YOU KNOW, GOD
KNOWS I LOVE HIM AND I'LL GET -
00:33:08.13\00:33:11.30
I'LL BE DONE
SMOKING ONE OF THESE DAYS.
00:33:11.30\00:33:13.10
I'M GOING TO GIVE IT
UP. I'M WORKING ON IT.
00:33:13.10\00:33:14.50
CAN'T I GO AHEAD AND GET
BAPTIZED NOW AND I'LL GIVE UP
00:33:14.50\00:33:18.83
THE SMOKING LATER?' I'D
SAY, 'WELL, LET'S TALK ABOUT
00:33:18.83\00:33:21.06
THAT.' YOU DON'T
WANT TO DISCOURAGE THEM.
00:33:21.06\00:33:24.00
BUT I'D SAY, 'WHEN YOU'RE
BAPTIZED YOU'RE BORN AGAIN.
00:33:24.00\00:33:26.03
YOU'RE LIKE AN INNOCENT NEW
BABY. AND I'D SAY, 'NOW, WHAT
00:33:26.03\00:33:29.93
WOULD YOU THINK IF YOU WERE
WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND YOU
00:33:29.93\00:33:32.63
SAW A LADY'S GOT ONE OF THOSE
STROLLERS THAT PUSHES TWINS BUT
00:33:32.63\00:33:36.80
IT'S GOT THE HOOD UP SO
YOU CAN'T SEE THE BABIES.
00:33:36.80\00:33:38.80
SO YOU THOUGHT, 'OH, I'D
LIKE TO PEEK AT THOSE TWINS.'
00:33:38.80\00:33:40.46
AND YOU WALK AROUND AND YOU LOOK
IN ON THE TWINS AND THERE THEY
00:33:40.46\00:33:44.16
ARE AND ONE'S GOT A CIGAR IN
ITS MOUTH AND THE OTHER ONE'S
00:33:44.16\00:33:46.56
SPITTING TOBACCO.' I
SAID, 'WOULD THAT LOOK WRONG?'
00:33:46.56\00:33:50.60
AND THEY WENT, 'OH!' AND
I SAID, 'SO DOES GOD WANT
00:33:50.60\00:33:52.70
HIS BABIES BLOWING SMOKE
RINGS?' 'YEAH, I GUESS NOT.'
00:33:52.70\00:33:57.73
I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, IT REPRESENTS
BEING FREE WHEN YOU'RE BORN
00:33:57.73\00:34:00.83
AGAIN.' I SAID,
'WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO
00:34:00.83\00:34:02.16
GO INTO THE WATERS OF BAPTISM
AND COME UP AND, YOU KNOW, BURP
00:34:02.16\00:34:05.26
SMOKE?' I SAID, 'IT DOESN'T...'
00:34:05.26\00:34:07.60
AND THROUGH THE
ANALOGY THEY WENT, 'YEAH.'
00:34:07.60\00:34:11.43
SO SOMETIMES PEOPLE NEED TO
SEE A PICTURE THAT HELPS THEM
00:34:11.43\00:34:14.36
UNDERSTAND A TRUTH AND THERE'S
A LOT OF THIS IN THE BIBLE.
00:34:14.36\00:34:16.73
THAT'S WHY I LIKE READING
THE BIBLE, IT'S FULL OF STORIES.
00:34:16.73\00:34:18.86
OKAY, LET'S GO TO SOME
OTHER OLD TESTAMENT SYMBOLS.
00:34:18.86\00:34:22.23
YOU'VE GOT THE
SYMBOLISM OF THE WINE BOTTLES.
00:34:22.23\00:34:24.23
YOU FIND THIS - AND THIS IS
IN YOUR LESSON - IN JEREMIAH 13,
00:34:24.23\00:34:28.40
VERSES 12 AND 13. NOW,
I DIDN'T - HAVEN'T GIVEN
00:34:28.40\00:34:31.30
OUT ANY SCRIPTURES
YET. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:34:31.30\00:34:33.96
REVELATION 16:19.
DID WE GIVE THAT OUT?
00:34:33.96\00:34:37.60
YOU'VE GOT THAT?
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:34:37.60\00:34:39.33
AND THEN SOMEBODY
SHOULD HAVE ROMANS 9:22.
00:34:39.33\00:34:43.73
I DON'T KNOW WHO HAS
THAT. OH YOU - ALRIGHT,
00:34:43.73\00:34:45.70
YOU'LL BE NEXT EDDIE. SO
FIRST WE'LL DO REVELATION
00:34:45.70\00:34:48.70
16:19 - IN JUST A MOMENT.
LET ME FIRST READ JEREMIAH AND
00:34:48.70\00:34:51.16
THIS SETS UP THE CONTEXT
OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
00:34:51.16\00:34:54.66
"THEREFORE YOU SHALL SPEAK
TO THEM THIS WORD:" - GOD IS
00:34:54.66\00:34:57.76
SPEAKING TO JEREMIAH - "'THUS
SAYS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL:
00:34:57.76\00:35:00.96
'EVERY BOTTLE SHALL BE FILLED
WITH WINE.''" - WELL, YOU MIGHT
00:35:00.96\00:35:04.03
THINK, WELL, THAT'S A GOOD
THING. THAT'S LIKE WHEN JESUS
00:35:04.03\00:35:06.60
TURNED THE WATER TO
WINE. NO, KEEP READING. -
00:35:06.60\00:35:09.60
"AND THEY WILL SAY TO YOU, 'DO
WE NOT CERTAINLY KNOW THAT EVERY
00:35:09.60\00:35:12.90
BOTTLE WILL BE
FILLED WITH WINE?'"
00:35:12.90\00:35:14.13
- OF COURSE A
BOTTLE'S FILLED WITH WINE.
00:35:14.13\00:35:15.80
IN OTHER WORDS, JEREMIAH'S
SAYING, 'EVERY WINESKIN WILL BE
00:35:15.80\00:35:18.83
FILLED WITH WINE.'
THEY'RE GOING, 'YEAH, WELL,
00:35:18.83\00:35:21.26
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?' -
"THEN YOU SHALL SAY TO THEM,
00:35:21.26\00:35:24.23
'THUS SAYS THE LORD: 'BEHOLD, I
WILL FILL ALL THE INHABITANTS OF
00:35:24.23\00:35:27.13
THIS LAND - EVEN THE KINGS
WHO SIT ON DAVID'S THRONE, THE
00:35:27.13\00:35:29.56
PRIESTS, THE PROPHETS, AND ALL
THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM -
00:35:29.56\00:35:32.36
WITH DRUNKENNESS! AND I WILL
DASH THEM ONE AGAINST ANOTHER,
00:35:32.36\00:35:35.53
EVEN THE FATHERS AND THE
SONS TOGETHER,' SAYS THE LORD.
00:35:35.53\00:35:38.30
'I WILL NOT PITY NOR SPARE
NOR HAVE MERCY, BUT WILL DESTROY
00:35:38.30\00:35:41.33
THEM.''" AND SO HERE HE'S
TALKING ABOUT THAT THERE'S GOING
00:35:41.33\00:35:44.23
TO BE A LOT OF BLOODSHED
AND THIS REPRESENTS JUDGMENT AND
00:35:44.23\00:35:48.26
WRATH. FOR
EXAMPLE, WHEN YOU GET TO
00:35:48.26\00:35:51.40
REVELATION, THE WRITERS
IN REVELATION DRAW UPON THIS.
00:35:51.40\00:35:55.20
REVELATION 14:8, "AND ANOTHER
ANGEL FOLLOWED, SAYING, 'BABYLON
00:35:55.20\00:35:59.96
IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, THAT GREAT
CITY, BECAUSE SHE HAS MADE ALL
00:35:59.96\00:36:04.30
NATIONS DRINK OF THE'" -
WHAT'S THE REST OF THAT? -
00:36:04.30\00:36:07.93
"'WINE OF THE WRATH'" -
YOU USUALLY DON'T THINK OF WINE
00:36:07.93\00:36:12.10
CONNECTED WITH WRATH.
IT'S NOT WINE CONNECTED WITH
00:36:12.10\00:36:14.23
WRATH AT THE LAST SUPPER.
IT'S NOT WINE CONNECTED WITH
00:36:14.23\00:36:17.06
WRATH IN, YOU KNOW,
JESUS - THE WEDDING FEAST.
00:36:17.06\00:36:21.06
BUT IN THIS PARABLE IT'S TALKING
ABOUT THE WINE OF THE WRATH.
00:36:21.06\00:36:24.16
JUMP DOWN TO VERSE 10, "...HE
HIMSELF SHALL ALSO DRINK OF THE
00:36:24.16\00:36:27.33
WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH
IS POURED OUT FULL STRENGTH INTO
00:36:27.33\00:36:30.03
THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION.
HE SHALL BE TORMENTED WITH FIRE
00:36:30.03\00:36:33.30
AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE
OF THE HOLY ANGELS AND IN THE
00:36:33.30\00:36:35.66
PRESENCE OF THE LAMB."
SO HERE IT'S TALKING ABOUT A
00:36:35.66\00:36:37.43
WINE OF JUDGMENT. NOW
GO AHEAD, READ YOURS, MIKE.
00:36:37.43\00:36:41.63
>>REVELATION 16:19, "NOW
THE GREAT CITY WAS DIVIDED INTO
00:36:41.63\00:36:45.53
THREE PARTS, AND THE
CITIES OF THE NATIONS FELL.
00:36:45.53\00:36:49.43
AND GREAT BABYLON WAS REMEMBERED
BEFORE GOD, TO GIVE HER THE CUP
00:36:49.43\00:36:53.36
OF THE WINE OF THE
FIERCENESS OF HIS WRATH."
00:36:53.36\00:36:56.76
>>ALRIGHT, YOU KNOW
WHAT WOULD SOMETIMES HAPPEN?
00:36:56.76\00:36:59.50
WHEN PEOPLE DRANK FERMENTED WINE
- NOW KEEP IN MIND IT'S - IN
00:36:59.50\00:37:05.20
JEREMIAH IT USES THE WORD DRUNK.
IN REVELATION 17 IT USES THE
00:37:05.20\00:37:09.90
WORD DRUNK. JESUS -
WHAT KIND OF WINE DID HE
00:37:09.90\00:37:12.73
MAKE FOR THE
WEDDING FEAST? NEW WINE.
00:37:12.73\00:37:15.93
WHAT KIND OF WINE WAS AT
THE LAST SUPPER? NEW WINE.
00:37:15.93\00:37:19.63
SO THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A HOUSE
00:37:19.63\00:37:22.43
THAT WAS FULL OF PEOPLE
DRINKING THE OTHER KIND OF WINE?
00:37:22.43\00:37:25.93
DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S THE NUMBER
ONE CAUSE OF VIOLENCE IN NORTH
00:37:25.93\00:37:29.03
AMERICA? ALCOHOL
RELATED - IT'S ALCOHOL RELATED.
00:37:29.03\00:37:35.23
AND SO PEOPLE KNEW THAT WHEN
THEY SMELLED THAT TWANG OF THE
00:37:35.23\00:37:38.46
ALCOHOL IN THE WINE, THEN PEOPLE
THAT WERE FULL OF THAT - OFTEN
00:37:38.46\00:37:43.36
THERE WAS VIOLENCE AND WRATH AND
HE'S JUST SAYING IT'S GOING TO
00:37:43.36\00:37:46.96
LOOK LIKE THIS -
A DRUNKEN BEDLAM.
00:37:46.96\00:37:51.93
GO AHEAD READ - I THINK
NOW WE'VE GOT ROMANS 9:22.
00:37:51.93\00:37:56.76
>>"WHAT IF GOD, WANTING TO SHOW
HIS WRATH AND TO MAKE HIS POWER
00:37:56.76\00:38:00.90
KNOWN, ENDURED WITH MUCH
LONGSUFFERING THE VESSELS OF
00:38:00.90\00:38:04.60
WRATH PREPARED FOR DESTRUCTION?"
00:38:04.60\00:38:07.43
>>SO AGAIN, YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER
ANALOGY. THE BIBLE SAYS, 'GOD IS
00:38:07.43\00:38:10.50
THE POTTER, WE ARE THE CLAY.'
THERE ARE VESSELS, THE BIBLE
00:38:10.50\00:38:13.46
TELLS US, THAT ARE FULL OF
TREASURE AND GOOD THINGS AND
00:38:13.46\00:38:15.90
THEN THERE ARE VESSELS
THAT ARE GOING TO BE SMASHED.
00:38:15.90\00:38:18.83
JESUS IS PICTURED IN REVELATION
AS COMING WITH A - AS A SCEPTER
00:38:18.83\00:38:23.33
- AN IRON SCEPTER - TO
SMASH THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD.
00:38:23.33\00:38:26.20
AND SO, HERE IT'S TALKING ABOUT
JUDGMENT ON THE DRUNK AND THEN
00:38:26.20\00:38:30.60
THERE ARE VESSELS THAT
ARE SAVED AND PRESERVED.
00:38:30.60\00:38:32.80
AND SO WHAT'S IN YOUR VESSEL?
ANOTHER ANALOGY IN THE BIBLE.
00:38:32.80\00:38:37.73
ALRIGHT, LET'S TALK HERE
ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL WISDOM.
00:38:37.73\00:38:41.16
ARCHITECTURAL
ANALOGIES THAT YOU MIGHT FIND.
00:38:41.16\00:38:43.33
WHY DON'T WE START OUT BY GOING
TO THE PARABLE OF TWO BUILDERS
00:38:43.33\00:38:46.60
IN MATTHEW 7. SOMEBODY
LOOK UP FOR ME PSALM 11:3.
00:38:46.60\00:38:50.43
WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
DID WE GIVE THAT OUT?
00:38:50.43\00:38:54.40
PSALM 11, VERSE 3?
ALRIGHT, WE'LL GIVE YOU A
00:38:54.40\00:38:58.83
MICROPHONE. LET'S GET YOU A
MICROPHONE. YEAH, WHEN WE'RE
00:38:58.83\00:39:01.26
READY. JUST HANG ON A SECOND.
AND IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING
00:39:01.26\00:39:04.83
TO READ MATTHEW 7, VERSE 24,
"THEREFORE WHOEVER HEARS THESE
00:39:04.83\00:39:10.66
SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOES THEM,
I WILL LIKEN HIM TO A WISE MAN
00:39:10.66\00:39:14.40
WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON THE ROCK:
AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, THE
00:39:14.40\00:39:17.70
FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW
AND BEAT ON THAT HOUSE; AND IT
00:39:17.70\00:39:21.40
DID NOT FALL, FOR IT
WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK.
00:39:21.40\00:39:24.30
BUT EVERYONE WHO HEARS THESE
SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOES NOT DO
00:39:24.30\00:39:27.43
THEM, WILL BE LIKE A FOOLISH MAN
WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON THE SAND:
00:39:27.43\00:39:31.93
AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, THE
FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW
00:39:31.93\00:39:35.30
AND BEAT ON THAT HOUSE...AND
GREAT WAS ITS FALL.'"
00:39:35.30\00:39:38.60
ALRIGHT, FIRST I'M GOING TO
ASK YOU, WHAT IS THE SAME ABOUT
00:39:38.60\00:39:43.96
THE WISE MAN AND THE
FOOLISH MAN? WHAT'S THE SAME?
00:39:43.96\00:39:48.60
THEY'RE BOTH BUILDING. THE
STORM COMES TO BOTH, RIGHT?
00:39:48.60\00:39:57.53
THEY MAY BOTH BE INDUSTRIOUS.
THEY MAY BOTH BUILD GOOD HOUSES.
00:39:57.53\00:40:02.96
WHAT'S THE ONE
DIFFERENCE IN THE STORY?
00:40:02.96\00:40:06.40
THE FOUNDATION -
WHAT THEY'RE BUILDING ON.
00:40:06.40\00:40:09.06
ONE IS BUILDING ON ROCK - MATTER
OF FACT, IF YOU READ THIS SAME
00:40:09.06\00:40:13.36
PARABLE IN LUKE, IT SAYS THE
WISE MAN DIGS DEEP AND LAYS THE
00:40:13.36\00:40:17.06
FOUNDATION ON THE ROCK.
THAT IS, HE GETS DOWN THROUGH
00:40:17.06\00:40:19.70
THE TOPSOIL AND
SETS IT ON THE ROCK.
00:40:19.70\00:40:21.76
YOU KNOW, WE WERE DOING NET
99 IN NEW YORK CITY AND WHILE WE
00:40:21.76\00:40:26.76
WERE DOING IT, THEY WERE
ACTUALLY BUILDING A SKYSCRAPER
00:40:26.76\00:40:29.16
ACROSS THE STREET.
00:40:29.16\00:40:30.36
THEY WERE DOING JUST THE
FOUNDATION WORK AND DURING THE
00:40:30.36\00:40:33.03
DAY - FORTUNATELY THEY STOPPED
BEFORE OUR MEETING BEGAN - BUT
00:40:33.03\00:40:36.10
DURING THE DAY, ALL DAY LONG
WHILE WE WERE EDITING, THEY WERE
00:40:36.10\00:40:38.93
BLASTING WITH DYNAMITE IN THE
ROCK IN NEW YORK CITY AND THEY
00:40:38.93\00:40:42.73
HAD ALL THESE CABLES AND CHAINS
LAYING OVER THIS STUFF AND YOU
00:40:42.73\00:40:45.76
COULD LOOK OUT THE WINDOW AND
SEE - EVERYTHING WOULD GET REAL
00:40:45.76\00:40:48.56
QUIET, EVERYBODY WOULD
LEAVE THIS PIT AND IT WOULD GO
00:40:48.56\00:40:51.03
'KABOOM!' AND THE CHAINS AND ALL
THE STUFF THAT WOULD HOLD IN THE
00:40:51.03\00:40:54.00
BLAST WOULD GO LIKE
THAT. THEY'D MOVE IT AWAY.
00:40:54.00\00:40:55.86
THEY'D CARRY OFF THE ROCK
BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING DOWN
00:40:55.86\00:40:58.10
INTO THE BEDROCK IN
ORDER TO BUILD REALLY HIGH.
00:40:58.10\00:41:02.23
IF YOU WANT TO GO REALLY
HIGH YOU NEED A GOOD FOUNDATION.
00:41:02.23\00:41:04.10
ALRIGHT, READ FOR US PSALM 11:3.
>>PSALM 11, VERSE 3, "IF THE
00:41:04.10\00:41:09.90
FOUNDATION BE DESTROYED,
WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS DO?"
00:41:09.90\00:41:14.46
>>BOY, I CAN'T
SAY ENOUGH ABOUT THAT.
00:41:14.46\00:41:16.90
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO US IF
THE FOUNDATION - WHAT'S THE
00:41:16.90\00:41:19.56
FOUNDATION FOR
THE CHRISTIAN FAITH?
00:41:19.56\00:41:23.23
'HE THAT HEARS THESE WORDS
OF MINE AND DOES THEM', RIGHT?
00:41:23.23\00:41:28.03
WHAT'S THE FOUNDATION FOR THE
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH?
00:41:28.03\00:41:30.93
HOPEFULLY IT'S THE SAME THING.
ARE THERE SOME PEOPLE WHO MIX
00:41:30.93\00:41:35.73
CULTURAL RELEVANCE IN
WITH THE BIBLE? OR TRADITION?
00:41:35.73\00:41:40.86
THEY SAY, 'OH, WE BELIEVE.
WE BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE BUT YOU
00:41:40.86\00:41:43.30
NEED TO ALSO BALANCE THINGS OUT
WITH WHATEVER YOUR TRADITIONS
00:41:43.30\00:41:45.80
ARE AND YOU'VE GOT TO KIND OF
WEAVE IN WHATEVER'S GOING ON IN
00:41:45.80\00:41:48.73
THE CULTURE AND JUST SEE
IF YOU CAN FIT THE BIBLE IN.'
00:41:48.73\00:41:51.66
IT'S NOT JUST HAVING THE BIBLE,
IT'S HOW YOU APPLY THE BIBLE.
00:41:51.66\00:41:56.76
IT'S THE HERMENEUTICS
OF HOW YOU STUDY THE BIBLE.
00:41:56.76\00:41:59.90
YOU CAN HAVE A BIBLE AND SOME
PEOPLE STUDY THE BIBLE WITH JUST
00:41:59.90\00:42:03.03
SOME VERY SUPERSTITIOUS METHODS
AND THAT, ACTUALLY, CRACKS YOUR
00:42:03.03\00:42:09.13
FOUNDATION. IT CAUSES
ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS.
00:42:09.13\00:42:11.13
YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO STUDY THE
BIBLE AND SAY, 'WHAT DOES THE
00:42:11.13\00:42:13.20
WORD SAY?' AND AS
YOU COMPARE SCRIPTURE
00:42:13.20\00:42:15.86
WITH SCRIPTURE YOU WANT TO
HAVE A ROCK-SOLID FOUNDATION.
00:42:15.86\00:42:18.80
IF THE FOUNDATIONS ARE
DESTROYED, WHAT SHALL THE
00:42:18.80\00:42:21.06
RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT'S THE
FOUNDATION FOR ANY CULTURE?
00:42:21.06\00:42:25.30
THE FAMILY. WHEN THE
DEVIL WANTS TO DESTROY
00:42:25.30\00:42:28.46
A NATION, HE DOESN'T HAVE TO
GO TO THE POLITICIANS TO BEGIN.
00:42:28.46\00:42:32.06
HE CAN GO RIGHT TO THE FAMILIES
BECAUSE EVERY COMMUNITY IS MADE
00:42:32.06\00:42:36.30
UP OF FAMILIES AND IF THE
FAMILIES START TO DISINTEGRATE,
00:42:36.30\00:42:40.40
THE COMMUNITIES AND THE
NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE STATES AND
00:42:40.40\00:42:43.53
THE COUNTIES AND IT JUST WORKS
ITS WAY UP AND IT ALL GOES DOWN
00:42:43.53\00:42:46.60
TO THE FOUNDATION OF WHAT'S
HAPPENING IN THE FAMILIES.
00:42:46.60\00:42:48.56
AND, OF COURSE, THE BEST
FOUNDATION FOR THE FAMILIES IS
00:42:48.56\00:42:51.20
GOD AND HIS WORD.
SOMEONE READ PSALM 118, VERSES
00:42:51.20\00:42:56.56
22 AND 23 - I THINK WE GAVE THAT
- WE'VE GOT A HAND RIGHT BACK
00:42:56.56\00:42:59.73
HERE - LET'S GET YOU
THE MIC. THANK YOU, AL.
00:42:59.73\00:43:02.43
AND IN THE MEANTIME I'M
GOING TO READ JOB 38, VERSE 6.
00:43:02.43\00:43:09.10
SPEAKING OF THE MAKING OF THE
WORLD, JOB ASKS THIS QUESTION:
00:43:09.10\00:43:13.13
"TO WHAT WERE ITS
FOUNDATIONS FASTENED?
00:43:13.13\00:43:16.13
OR WHO LAID ITS CORNERSTONE?"
THAT'S INTERESTING, JOB IS
00:43:16.13\00:43:19.13
TALKING ABOUT A CORNERSTONE
BECAUSE THAT COMES UP SEVERAL
00:43:19.13\00:43:22.20
TIMES LATER IN THE BIBLE.
AND WHEN THE WORLD WAS MADE,
00:43:22.20\00:43:25.50
WHAT WAS THE FOUNDATION FOR OUR
PLANET? UPON WHAT WAS IT PLACED?
00:43:25.50\00:43:30.70
YOU KNOW THE FOUNDATION OF OUR
WORLD IS THE WORD OF GOD TOO.
00:43:30.70\00:43:34.56
"AND GOD SAID" - BROUGHT
EVERYTHING INTO EXISTENCE.
00:43:34.56\00:43:37.93
ALRIGHT, WE'RE
READY. PSALM 118, I THINK.
00:43:37.93\00:43:41.30
>>"THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS
REFUSED IS BECOME THE HEAD STONE
00:43:41.30\00:43:44.96
OF THE CORNER. THIS
IS THE LORD'S DOING;
00:43:44.96\00:43:48.00
IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES."
00:43:48.00\00:43:50.36
>>NOW THERE ARE SEVERAL
REFERENCES TO THIS VERSE FROM
00:43:50.36\00:43:53.90
PSALM 118 THAT YOU'RE GOING TO
FIND - AND THAT'S, BY THE WAY,
00:43:53.90\00:43:56.83
VERSES 22 AND 23 - YOU'LL
FIND THAT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:43:56.83\00:44:01.03
JESUS REFERS TO THE
STONE THAT WAS REJECTED.
00:44:01.03\00:44:03.73
PAUL REFERS TO THE
STONE THAT WAS REJECTED.
00:44:03.73\00:44:06.33
PETER REFERS TO THE
STONE THAT WAS REJECTED.
00:44:06.33\00:44:09.00
IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THIS, YOU
NEED TO KNOW - THERE'S A BIBLE
00:44:09.00\00:44:12.20
STORY THAT'S IN JEWISH - IT'S IN
JEWISH LITERATURE BUT IT'S NOT
00:44:12.20\00:44:16.20
IN THE BIBLE - IN OTHER
WORDS, IT'S IN BIBLE HISTORY.
00:44:16.20\00:44:19.23
YOU REMEMBER WHEN SOLOMON WAS
BUILDING HIS TEMPLE - READING
00:44:19.23\00:44:22.63
ABOUT THAT? HE
CONSTRUCTED THE TEMPLE WHERE
00:44:22.63\00:44:25.50
ALL THE STONES WERE PREPARED
AT THE QUARRY IN ADVANCE SO THEY
00:44:25.50\00:44:28.33
WOULD NOT HEAR CONSTANT BANGING
OF CHISELS OUTSIDE THE KING'S
00:44:28.33\00:44:31.56
PALACE AND ALSO IT
WAS A SACRED PLACE.
00:44:31.56\00:44:34.73
SO ALL THE STONES WERE PREPARED
- CUT TO THEIR DIMENSIONS - CUT
00:44:34.73\00:44:38.53
VERY SQUARE, SMOOTH, EXACT AND
THEN THEY WERE TRANSPORTED TO
00:44:38.53\00:44:42.96
THE BUILDING SITE AND AFTER
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE TEMPLE ON
00:44:42.96\00:44:46.50
MOUNT MORIAH WAS PREPARED -
BECAUSE PART OF IT DROPPED OFF A
00:44:46.50\00:44:49.53
LITTLE BIT - THERE WAS
THIS ONE UNIQUE CORNERSTONE.
00:44:49.53\00:44:52.20
NOW, IF ANY OF YOU HAVE DONE ANY
MASONRY BEFORE, YOU KNOW THAT IN
00:44:52.20\00:44:55.40
ORDER TO HAVE A GOOD BUILDING -
A GOOD RUN - YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE
00:44:55.40\00:44:59.66
YOUR CORNERS STRAIGHT.
YOU'VE GOT A CORNER - IF YOU'RE
00:44:59.66\00:45:02.16
CORNER IS NOT PERFECTLY LEVEL
ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, THE WALLS
00:45:02.16\00:45:04.70
START TO GET TILLYWONKERED
AND EVERYTHING ELSE GOES WRONG.
00:45:04.70\00:45:08.30
THE CORNERSTONE SETS THE TREND
FOR THE REST OF THE BUILDING.
00:45:08.30\00:45:12.03
SO HAVING THIS RIGHT STONE -
ALSO, BECAUSE THIS STONE WAS AT
00:45:12.03\00:45:14.96
A LOWER
POSITION, IT BORE WEIGHT.
00:45:14.96\00:45:18.36
AND SO, IT NEEDED
TO BE PERFECTLY CUT.
00:45:18.36\00:45:21.06
WELL, THEY BROUGHT THIS STONE
- THE BOTTOM WHERE THE STONE SET
00:45:21.06\00:45:23.83
ON THE MOUNTAIN WAS AN ODD SHAPE
BECAUSE IT WAS RESTING ON ROCK
00:45:23.83\00:45:27.76
AND SO THEY BROUGHT THIS STONE
TO THE LOCATION - THIS BIG ODD
00:45:27.76\00:45:31.16
SHAPED ROCK - AND THEY
PUT IT THERE ALMOST FIRST.
00:45:31.16\00:45:35.33
AND AS THE SITE WAS
BEING PREPARED THE WORKMEN KEPT
00:45:35.33\00:45:38.20
RUNNING INTO THIS STONE.
WELL, THEY DIDN'T HAVE GOOD
00:45:38.20\00:45:40.46
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE QUARRY
AND THE WORK SITE AND THEY SAID,
00:45:40.46\00:45:44.06
'THIS THING IS JUST - WE KEEP
BUMPING INTO IT AND SKINNING OUR
00:45:44.06\00:45:46.86
KNEES ON IT AND BACKING INTO IT
AND HURTING OURSELVES AND IT'S
00:45:46.86\00:45:50.26
JUST A NUISANCE
AND IT'S ODD LOOKING.
00:45:50.26\00:45:52.00
WHAT IN THE WORLD
IS IT DOING HERE?'
00:45:52.00\00:45:53.33
AND THEY SAID, 'LET'S GET THIS
OUT OF THE WAY SO WE CAN WORK.'
00:45:53.33\00:45:55.96
NOW THESE ARE THE FOUNDATION
PREP WORKERS - SO THEY TAKE THIS
00:45:55.96\00:46:00.16
BIG STONE AND THEY ROLL IT
OFF DOWN TO THE KIDRON VALLEY.
00:46:00.16\00:46:03.30
WELL, A FEW MONTHS GO BY AND
THEY SAY, 'OKAY, TIME FOR THE
00:46:03.30\00:46:05.76
CORNERSTONE.' SO THEY
TAKE SOME OF THE STONES
00:46:05.76\00:46:07.80
THAT HAVE COME FROM THE QUARRY
AND THEY PUT THEM DOWN AND THEY
00:46:07.80\00:46:10.53
SAY, 'THIS ISN'T
RIGHT. THAT DOESN'T FIT.
00:46:10.53\00:46:11.83
THIS ONE DOESN'T FIT.' AND
THEY JUST THOUGHT 'NOTHING'S
00:46:11.83\00:46:14.40
MARKED RIGHT.' THEY FOUND
ANOTHER STONE, THEY STARTED
00:46:14.40\00:46:17.16
BUILDING, AND IT CRACKED BECAUSE
IT WASN'T THE RIGHT STONE.
00:46:17.16\00:46:19.76
IT DIDN'T STAND
THE TEST OF PRESSURE.
00:46:19.76\00:46:21.36
AND FINALLY THEY THOUGHT TO
ASK THE QUARRY, 'WHERE IS THAT
00:46:21.36\00:46:24.53
ORIGINAL CORNERSTONE?'
THEY SAID, 'THAT WAS THE FIRST
00:46:24.53\00:46:26.30
ONE WE SENT TO YOU.' AND
THEY SAID, 'WAS THAT THE BIG
00:46:26.30\00:46:30.80
OLD MONSTROUS STONE THAT WAS
IN OUR WAY ALL THE TIME THAT WE
00:46:30.80\00:46:33.46
ROLLED OFF IN THE VALLEY?'
AND SURE ENOUGH, THEY DUG IT OUT
00:46:33.46\00:46:36.33
OF THE VALLEY. IT WAS
SUCH A GOOD QUALITY STONE
00:46:36.33\00:46:38.40
IT HADN'T BEEN DAMAGED AND
THEY PUT IT UP - IT BECAME THE
00:46:38.40\00:46:41.06
CORNERSTONE. THAT
STORY ABOUT THE CORNERSTONE
00:46:41.06\00:46:45.63
THAT WAS REJECTED IS SEEN
NOW THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:46:45.63\00:46:48.26
LITERATURE - BUT THE STORY
ITSELF IS NOT IN THE BIBLE.
00:46:48.26\00:46:52.20
SO YOU NEEDED TO KNOW
THE BACKGROUND OF THAT.
00:46:52.20\00:46:55.93
BY THE WAY, YOU DO FIND THAT
MENTIONED IN 'DESIRE OF AGES'.
00:46:55.93\00:46:59.66
IT TALKS ABOUT THE
CORNERSTONE THAT WAS REJECTED.
00:46:59.66\00:47:02.33
SO WITH THAT IN MIND,
JESUS IS THE CORNERSTONE.
00:47:02.33\00:47:06.60
THIS IS A METAPHOR THAT'S USED.
00:47:06.60\00:47:08.03
EPHESIANS - GO HERE, FOR EXAMPLE
- EPHESIANS 2:19, IT SAYS, "NOW,
00:47:08.03\00:47:14.46
THEREFORE, YOU ARE NO LONGER
STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, BUT
00:47:14.46\00:47:17.70
FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS
AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF
00:47:17.70\00:47:20.80
GOD, HAVING BEEN BUILT ON THE
FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND
00:47:20.80\00:47:24.50
PROPHETS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF
BEING THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE, IN
00:47:24.50\00:47:29.33
WHOM THE WHOLE BUILDING, BEING
FITTED TOGETHER, GROWS INTO A
00:47:29.33\00:47:33.93
HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD, IN
WHOM YOU ALSO ARE BEING BUILT
00:47:33.93\00:47:38.10
TOGETHER FOR A DWELLING
PLACE OF GOD IN THE SPIRIT."
00:47:38.10\00:47:41.73
SO THE METAPHOR THAT GOD USES
HERE IS: THE BODY OF CHRIST IS
00:47:41.73\00:47:45.93
LIKE A TEMPLE. AND
NOT ONLY IS IT TRUE THAT
00:47:45.93\00:47:49.63
YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT - THERE'S A METAPHOR
00:47:49.63\00:47:53.96
- BUT YOU, COLLECTIVELY BECOME
THE BODY OF CHRIST - NOT JUST
00:47:53.96\00:47:58.96
ONE OF YOU, BUT ALTOGETHER.
HE WANTS TO INHABIT THE CHURCH
00:47:58.96\00:48:02.43
AS A PEOPLE. WE BECOME A TEMPLE.
YOU CAN GO AND LOOK WHERE JESUS
00:48:02.43\00:48:07.80
SAID, IN JOHN 2:19, AND HE SAID,
"...'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, AND IN
00:48:07.80\00:48:14.56
THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE IT
UP.' THEN THE JEWS SAID, 'IT HAS
00:48:14.56\00:48:18.16
TAKEN FORTY-SIX YEARS TO BUILD
THIS TEMPLE, AND WILL YOU RAISE
00:48:18.16\00:48:21.03
IT UP IN THREE DAYS?'"
BUT WHAT WAS HE TALKING ABOUT?
00:48:21.03\00:48:24.50
HE WAS TALKING ABOUT
THE TEMPLE OF HIS BODY.
00:48:24.50\00:48:26.40
SO, AGAIN, JESUS IS SPEAKING IN
A METAPHOR THAT HIS BODY WAS A
00:48:26.40\00:48:29.66
TYPE OF HIS CHURCH.
ALRIGHT - AND THERE'S PROBABLY
00:48:29.66\00:48:32.40
MANY OTHERS THAT
YOU CAN THINK ABOUT.
00:48:32.40\00:48:34.06
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY
WHERE JESUS SAID, IN LUKE -
00:48:34.06\00:48:36.63
WHAT IS THIS - CHAPTER 14?
00:48:36.63\00:48:39.06
ANYONE WHO IS BUILDING A TOWER,
IF HE DOESN'T SIT DOWN FIRST AND
00:48:39.06\00:48:42.36
COUNT THE COST, HE'LL BEGIN
TO BUILD AND NOT FINISH AND THEN
00:48:42.36\00:48:45.90
EVERYONE'LL DRIVE BY AND THEY'LL
SEE THIS HALF-FINISHED BUILDING
00:48:45.90\00:48:48.53
AND THEY MOCK FOREVER AND SAY,
'HE THOUGHT HE COULD BUILD A
00:48:48.53\00:48:51.36
TOWER AND HE ONLY
GOT HALFWAY DONE.'
00:48:51.36\00:48:53.40
AND SO THERE'S AN ILLUSTRATION
THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO START
00:48:53.40\00:48:56.36
SOMETHING, MAKE
SURE YOU CAN FINISH IT.
00:48:56.36\00:48:59.20
YOU KNOW WHEN I
USE THAT METAPHOR?
00:48:59.20\00:49:02.16
FAMILIES'LL SOMETIMES COME TO ME
AND THEY'LL SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG,
00:49:02.16\00:49:06.33
THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT
WE SHOULD BE FRUITFUL AND
00:49:06.33\00:49:08.60
MULTIPLY.' - YOUNG
COUPLES, YOU KNOW - 'SO
00:49:08.60\00:49:13.00
SHOULD WE JUST HAVE AN
INDEFINITE NUMBER OF CHILDREN?
00:49:13.00\00:49:15.96
IS IT INAPPROPRIATE FOR US TO
PLAN HOW MANY CHILDREN WE HAVE?'
00:49:15.96\00:49:19.50
AND I SAY, WELL, LET
ME GIVE YOU A PARABLE.
00:49:19.50\00:49:22.26
ANY MAN WHO'S GOING TO BUILD
A TOWER, MAKE SURE THAT HE CAN
00:49:22.26\00:49:25.23
COUNT THE COST.' I
SAID, 'YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE
00:49:25.23\00:49:27.60
MORE CHILDREN THAN YOU CAN
ADEQUATELY PROVIDE FOR, THAT
00:49:27.60\00:49:30.46
YOU'LL HAVE TIME FOR, AND
THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO RIGHTLY
00:49:30.46\00:49:32.90
RAISE.' I SAID, 'YOU
NEED TO, YOU KNOW, PLAN.
00:49:32.90\00:49:35.93
SOME OF YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE
DISPOSITION AND THE NERVES FOR
00:49:35.93\00:49:38.83
TWENTY KIDS AND SO
YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT.
00:49:38.83\00:49:41.90
COUNT THE COST.' AND
SO, YOU KNOW, JESUS GAVE US
00:49:41.90\00:49:44.93
THOSE PARABLES ABOUT TOWERS, NOT
JUST FOR BUILDING TOWERS - THAT
00:49:44.93\00:49:48.70
PRINCIPLE CAN BE APPLIED TO A
LOT OF DIFFERENT AREAS IN LIFE.
00:49:48.70\00:49:52.46
OKAY, AGRICULTURAL ANALOGIES.
NOW, WHERE'S THE FIRST PLACE WE
00:49:52.46\00:49:56.33
GO WHEN WE THINK
ABOUT THE FARMING ANALOGIES?
00:49:56.33\00:49:59.50
GO WITH ME TO
MATTHEW CHAPTER 13.
00:49:59.50\00:50:03.46
AND I THINK WE ALL KNOW THIS
PARABLE VERY WELL, WHERE JESUS
00:50:03.46\00:50:10.06
IS TALKING TO US ABOUT
THE PARABLE OF THE SOILS.
00:50:10.06\00:50:14.66
VERSE 3, "AND HE SPOKE
MANY THINGS TO THEM IN PARABLES,
00:50:14.66\00:50:20.83
SAYING, 'BEHOLD, A SOWER WENT
FORTH TO SOW; AND AS HE SOWED,
00:50:20.83\00:50:24.46
SOME SEED FELL BY THE WAYSIDE;
AND THE BIRDS CAME AND DEVOURED
00:50:24.46\00:50:28.43
THEM. SOME FELL ON
STONY PLACES, WHERE
00:50:28.43\00:50:31.10
THEY HAD NOT MUCH EARTH;
AND THEY IMMEDIATELY SPRANG UP
00:50:31.10\00:50:34.06
BECAUSE THEY HAD
NO DEPTH OF EARTH.
00:50:34.06\00:50:36.03
BUT WHEN THE SUN WAS UP THEY
WERE SCORCHED, AND BECAUSE THEY
00:50:36.03\00:50:38.36
HAD NO ROOT THEY WITHERED AWAY.
AND SOME FELL AMONG THE THORNS,
00:50:38.36\00:50:42.60
AND THE THORNS
SPRANG UP AND CHOKED THEM.
00:50:42.60\00:50:44.53
BUT OTHERS FELL ON GOOD GROUND
AND YIELDED A CROP: SOME A
00:50:44.53\00:50:48.36
HUNDREDFOLD, SOME
SIXTY, SOME THIRTY.
00:50:48.36\00:50:50.53
HE WHO HAS EARS TO
HEAR, LET HIM HEAR!'"
00:50:50.53\00:50:53.33
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE
DISCIPLES COME AND THEY SAY,
00:50:53.33\00:50:56.03
'WHAT DOES THIS PARABLE MEAN?'
SOME OF THE PARABLES OF CHRIST -
00:50:56.03\00:50:59.40
SOME OF THE ANALOGIES -
NEEDED SOME EXPLANATION.
00:50:59.40\00:51:02.96
NOW, FIRST OF ALL, HAVE
YOU NOTICED THAT JESUS WAS VERY
00:51:02.96\00:51:06.43
APPROPRIATE IN THAT HE
USED METAPHORS THAT PEOPLE COULD
00:51:06.43\00:51:11.36
UNDERSTAND? FOR
EXAMPLE, WHEN HE TEACHES THE
00:51:11.36\00:51:12.93
PARABLE OF THE SOILS, HE'S
PROBABLY WALKING DOWN THE ROAD
00:51:12.93\00:51:16.16
WITH THE DISCIPLES. DO
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THEY WERE
00:51:16.16\00:51:18.30
WALKING DOWN THE ROAD ONE
SABBATH AND THE DISCIPLES WERE
00:51:18.30\00:51:20.53
RUBBING THE
GRAIN IN THEIR HANDS?
00:51:20.53\00:51:22.13
THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY
IN FARM COUNTRY, RIGHT?
00:51:22.13\00:51:24.56
AND THEY WERE
EATING SOME OF THE KERNELS.
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THEY WERE WALKING DOWN THE ROAD
ONE OF THESE DAYS AND THEY COULD
00:51:26.20\00:51:28.53
LOOK OUT THERE AND THEY COULD
SEE A SOWER WAS SOWING SEED.
00:51:28.53\00:51:32.13
JESUS SEES THAT AND HE
SAYS, 'GOOD TIME FOR A LESSON.'
00:51:32.13\00:51:35.56
THEY COULD ALL RELATE TO IT.
SOME OF THE SEED WAS FALLING ON
00:51:35.56\00:51:38.13
THE PATH AND THE BIRDS WERE
COMING DOWN SNATCHING IT UP AND
00:51:38.13\00:51:40.83
SOME WAS FALLING IN THE SHALLOW
GROUND, THERE WAS SOME ROCKY
00:51:40.83\00:51:44.06
GROUND AND THEY COULD QUICKLY
VISUALIZE WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING.
00:51:44.06\00:51:49.40
WHEN JESUS WAS TELLING THE
PARABLE OF 'FOLLOW ME AND YOU'LL
00:51:49.40\00:51:54.56
BE FISHERS OF MEN' WHO WAS
HE TALKING TO? FISHERMEN, RIGHT?
00:51:54.56\00:52:00.13
WHEN JESUS SAID, 'IF A MAN HAD
NINETY-NINE SHEEP AND HE LOSES
00:52:00.13\00:52:03.50
ONE, AND WON'T HE
LEAVE THE NINETY-NINE SAFE?'
00:52:03.50\00:52:06.06
WHO DO YOU THINK WAS IN
THE CROWD THAT DAY? SHEPHERDS.
00:52:06.06\00:52:09.10
AND MAYBE IF THEY
WEREN'T SHEPHERDS THEY ALL
00:52:09.10\00:52:10.33
UNDERSTOOD
SHEPHERDS IN THEIR CULTURE.
00:52:10.33\00:52:12.66
THEY WOULD SEE THESE - SOME
OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN KING SAUL
00:52:12.66\00:52:16.73
BECAME KING - WHEN SAMUEL FIRST
ANOINTED HIM, WHO REMEMBERS WHAT
00:52:16.73\00:52:21.90
KING SAUL WAS DOING
WHEN SAMUEL MET HIM?
00:52:21.90\00:52:24.93
HE HAD SPENT THREE DAYS
LOOKING FOR LOST DONKEYS.
00:52:24.93\00:52:29.13
AND SO, IT WASN'T UNCOMMON -
BACK THEN, IT'S AS IF YOU SEE
00:52:29.13\00:52:33.23
YOUR NEIGHBOR'S OX OR HIS DONKEY
THAT'S WANDERED AWAY, BRING IT
00:52:33.23\00:52:36.56
BACK TO THEM. IT
WASN'T UNCOMMON IN BIBLE
00:52:36.56\00:52:39.06
TIMES TO HAVE SOMEONE SAY, 'YOU
KNOW, MY BILLY GOAT GOT AWAY.
00:52:39.06\00:52:42.46
HAVE YOU GUYS
SEEN A BILLY GOAT?'
00:52:42.46\00:52:43.73
AND TO BE ROAMING THE HILLS
LOOKING FOR THEIR LIVESTOCK THAT
00:52:43.73\00:52:47.10
HAD SOMEHOW UNTIED THEMSELVES
AND GOTTEN AWAY - SO THEY COULD
00:52:47.10\00:52:49.93
ALL RELATE TO THESE ANALOGIES
BECAUSE IT WAS PART OF THEIR
00:52:49.93\00:52:52.20
EVERYDAY LIFE. IN
DISCIPLING TODAY, IN THE 21ST
00:52:52.20\00:52:55.23
CENTURY, IS IT A
LITTLE HARDER, MAYBE, FOR US?
00:52:55.23\00:52:59.26
YOU KNOW, IN THIS GENERATION
THAT YOU'RE LIVING IN NOW, IT'S
00:52:59.26\00:53:02.60
THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF
AT LEAST NORTH AMERICA THAT NOW
00:53:02.60\00:53:06.06
THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DO NOT
LIVE IN RURAL AREAS AND FARMS?
00:53:06.06\00:53:10.93
THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE
LEAVE IN CITIES AND SUBURBS.
00:53:10.93\00:53:14.20
SO WHEN I SAY, 'A SOWER
WENT FORTH TO SOW' IT'S A LITTLE
00:53:14.20\00:53:18.76
HARDER FOR OUR CULTURE
TODAY TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
00:53:18.76\00:53:21.96
YOU ALMOST NEED TO SAY, 'THEY
WERE SURFING THE INTERNET AND A
00:53:21.96\00:53:28.30
POP-UP CAME UP' AND JUST TRY
TO RELATE TO SPIRITUAL TRUTH FOR
00:53:28.30\00:53:33.93
PEOPLE TODAY. OR, 'I WAS DRIVING
DOWN THE ROAD AND I SUDDENLY GOT
00:53:33.93\00:53:37.10
CUT OFF AND FOUR CARS
WERE GOING DOWN THE ROAD.
00:53:37.10\00:53:42.00
ONE WAS AN ECONOMY CAR - A PRIUS
- AND ONE WAS A GAS GUZZLER AND
00:53:42.00\00:53:47.66
ONE WAS' - YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:53:47.66\00:53:49.63
AND SO, IF YOU'RE GOING TO
DISCIPLE TODAY YOU'VE GOT TO BE
00:53:49.63\00:53:51.36
CREATIVE AND SAY, YOU KNOW, I
NEED TO TELL THESE STORIES AND
00:53:51.36\00:53:54.30
THINGS. AND PEOPLE GO
'AHA! I UNDERSTAND THAT.'
00:53:54.30\00:53:58.00
AND SO, USING RELEVANT
METAPHORS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:53:58.00\00:54:03.73
I DID EVANGELISM IN THE SOUTH
PACIFIC AND I WAS ON A SMALL
00:54:03.73\00:54:08.76
ISLAND THAT DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF
EXPOSURE TO WORLD EVENTS AND I
00:54:08.76\00:54:12.40
STARTED TRYING TO TEACH THEM
ABOUT THE VISIONS OF THE ROMAN
00:54:12.40\00:54:17.96
EMPIRE AND ALL THESE KINGDOMS
THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION AND
00:54:17.96\00:54:21.50
THEY'RE GOING (SHRUGS) AND I
JUST SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I'M GOING
00:54:21.50\00:54:26.26
TO HAVE TO FOCUS ON
SOMETHING ELSE OUT HERE.'
00:54:26.26\00:54:29.23
AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO BE
RELEVANT FOR YOUR AUDIENCE.
00:54:29.23\00:54:31.63
AND JESUS, HE
WAS A MASTER OF THAT.
00:54:31.63\00:54:34.70
SO HE USED AGRICULTURAL
ILLUSTRATIONS AND THERE'S
00:54:34.70\00:54:38.00
ANOTHER ONE - NOT ONLY DO
YOU FIND THESE AGRICULTURAL
00:54:38.00\00:54:40.23
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT, THERE'S ONE IN
00:54:40.23\00:54:42.63
ISAIAH 28. HERE'S ONE
FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:54:42.63\00:54:46.06
"DOES THE PLOWMAN KEEP
PLOWING ALL DAY TO SOW?"
00:54:46.06\00:54:50.43
- NOW THERE'S A RHETORICAL
SERIES OF QUESTIONS THAT GOD
00:54:50.43\00:54:52.36
ASKS - "DOES HE KEEP TURNING HIS
SOIL AND BREAKING THE CLODS?"
00:54:52.36\00:54:58.83
HE DOESN'T DO IT FOREVER,
HE DOES IT FOR THE PURPOSE OF
00:54:58.83\00:55:00.46
PLANTING SEED - "WHEN HE HAS
LEVELED ITS SURFACE, DOES HE NOT
00:55:00.46\00:55:04.13
SOW THE BLACK CUMMIN AND SCATTER
THE CUMMIN, PLANT THE WHEAT IN
00:55:04.13\00:55:07.70
ROWS, THE BARLEY IN THE
APPOINTED PLACE, AND THE SPELT
00:55:07.70\00:55:10.43
IN ITS PLACE?" - NOW
ONE OF THE THINGS ISAIAH
00:55:10.43\00:55:12.76
IS SAYING IS EVERY FARMER BACK
THEN KNEW YOU TAKE THE PRIME
00:55:12.76\00:55:16.53
GROUND, YOU PUT
YOUR WHEAT THERE.
00:55:16.53\00:55:18.83
WHEAT WAS THE CROP FOR
THE PEOPLE - THE BEST FOOD.
00:55:18.83\00:55:21.63
YOU PUT THE BEST
SEED IN THE BEST GROUND.
00:55:21.63\00:55:24.16
THEN YOU PUT - THE BARLEY WAS A
LITTLE MORE DURABLE - YOU COULD
00:55:24.16\00:55:27.30
PUT IT IN A LITTLE ROCKIER
GROUND, BUT YOU FED THE BARLEY
00:55:27.30\00:55:29.93
TO THE DONKEYS.
DURING THE TIME OF RUTH THERE
00:55:29.93\00:55:33.43
WAS A TIME OF FAMINE.
WHAT WAS IT THAT THEY WERE
00:55:33.43\00:55:36.13
HARVESTING? BARLEY.
00:55:36.13\00:55:39.40
AND YOU READ IN REVELATION ABOUT
BARLEY AND WHEAT AND IT TALKS
00:55:39.40\00:55:43.06
ABOUT FAMINE IN
THAT PARABLE THERE.
00:55:43.06\00:55:46.16
AND THEN HE SAYS - YOU KNOW,
YOU'VE GOT THE SPELT AND YOU'VE
00:55:46.16\00:55:48.13
GOT THE CUMMIN AND THEY - YOU
PUT THEM ALL IN DIFFERENT SOILS
00:55:48.13\00:55:50.70
AND THE FARMER KNOWS THAT.
00:55:50.70\00:55:54.33
AND HE SAYS, VERSE 26 - I'M
IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 28, "FOR HE
00:55:54.33\00:56:00.43
INSTRUCTS HIM IN RIGHT
JUDGMENT, HIS GOD TEACHES HIM.
00:56:00.43\00:56:03.53
FOR THE BLACK CUMMIN IS
NOT THRESHED WITH A THRESHING
00:56:03.53\00:56:06.00
SLEDGE," - THE SEEDS FALL
OUT VERY EASILY - "NOR IS A
00:56:06.00\00:56:09.20
CARTWHEEL ROLLED OVER THE
CUMMIN; BUT THE BLACK CUMMIN IS
00:56:09.20\00:56:12.60
BEATEN WITH A STICK
AND THE CUMMIN WITH A ROD.
00:56:12.60\00:56:15.20
BREAD FOR FLOUR MUST BE GROUND;
THEREFORE HE DOES NOT THRESH IT
00:56:15.20\00:56:18.03
FOREVER, BREAK IT WITH HIS
CARTWHEEL, OR CRUSH IT WITH HIS
00:56:18.03\00:56:20.83
HORSEMEN." NOW, AS
YOU READ ON IN THIS
00:56:20.83\00:56:23.83
PARABLE HERE, ISAIAH IS TALKING
ABOUT HOW GOD IS FAIR AND IN THE
00:56:23.83\00:56:29.03
JUDGMENTS THAT WERE COMING -
GOD USES GOOD JUDGMENT AND HE
00:56:29.03\00:56:33.16
APPOINTS TO EVERYBODY,
REALLY, WHAT THEY DESERVE.
00:56:33.16\00:56:36.56
AND SO YOU HAVE TO READ THE
WHOLE CHAPTER TO GET IT, BUT
00:56:36.56\00:56:38.56
HERE HE'S USING AN ILLUSTRATION
THEY COULD ALL UNDERSTAND - THAT
00:56:38.56\00:56:42.50
ANY FARMER KNEW.
THESE ARE BASICS - THAT YOU
00:56:42.50\00:56:45.30
DON'T HARVEST ALL THESE
DIFFERENT THINGS THE SAME WAY.
00:56:45.30\00:56:48.63
EVEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT PAUL
TELLS US ABOUT HOW TO USE THESE
00:56:48.63\00:56:53.00
ANALOGIES. PAUL
TALKS IN FIRST CORINTHIANS
00:56:53.00\00:56:55.80
10, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
WENT THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, THE
00:56:55.80\00:56:58.80
RED SEA, HE SAYS,
IS A TYPE OF BAPTISM.
00:56:58.80\00:57:01.90
THAT THE ROCK THAT WAS
STRUCK IS A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:57:01.90\00:57:05.80
THAT THE PILLAR OF FIRE
IS A TYPE OF THE SPIRIT.
00:57:05.80\00:57:11.56
THAT THE BREAD THAT CAME
DOWN FROM HEAVEN IS A TYPE OR
00:57:11.56\00:57:14.06
METAPHOR OF JESUS - THAT BREAD.
EVEN CHRIST USED THAT METAPHOR.
00:57:14.06\00:57:18.23
JAMES, TALKING ABOUT THE TONGUE,
HE SAID, 'LOOK AT THE SHIPS,
00:57:18.23\00:57:22.10
THEY'RE TURNED WITH
A LITTLE BITTY TILLER.
00:57:22.10\00:57:25.60
AND LOOK HOW POWERFUL WORDS ARE
AND HOW THEY CAN CHANGE THINGS.'
00:57:25.60\00:57:28.93
AND SO YOU SEE THE DISCIPLES -
AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - THEY
00:57:28.93\00:57:33.70
FOLLOWED THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS
AND THEY USED A LOT OF THESE
00:57:33.70\00:57:36.53
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