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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE ARE SO THRILLED THAT
YOU HAVE JOINED US AGAIN.
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THERE ARE SO MANY OF YOU ACROSS
THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD
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THAT JOIN US FAITHFULLY
EVERY WEEK TO STUDY GOD'S WORD
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TOGETHER - IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT.
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IF YOU JUST HAPPEN TO BE TUNING
IN FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, WE
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KNOW THAT YOU WILL BE TRULY
BLESSED AND ENJOY YOUR STUDY
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WITH US TODAY. AS YOU
CAN SEE BEHIND ME, I HAVE
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A LOVELY GROUP OF YOUNG ADULTS.
THIS IS 'ECHOES OF MERCY' AND
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THEY ARE GOING TO BE SINGING FOR
US TODAY SO YOU CAN JUST RELAX
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AT HOME, RELAX RIGHT HERE
AND LISTEN TO PRAISES TO GOD.
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'ECHOES OF MERCY' IS A
SACRAMENTO-BASED GROUP OF YOUNG
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ADULTS THAT WANT TO SPREAD THE
NEWS OF SALVATION AND THE GOOD
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NEWS OF CHRIST'S COMING, THROUGH
THEIR MUSICAL TALENTS THAT GOD
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HAS GIVEN THEM.
THEY'VE BEEN SINGING TOGETHER
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FOR SIX MONTHS AND IF YOU WANT
TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THEIR
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MINISTRY, YOU CAN FIND OUT
MORE INFORMATION ON FACEBOOK.
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AND THEY HAVE A
FACEBOOK PAGE 'ECHOES OF MERCY'.
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THEY ALSO HAVE A DESIRE THAT,
AS YOU LISTEN TO THEM, THAT YOU
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WILL HEAR ECHOES OF THE ANGELS
SINGING PRAISES TO GOD THAT IS
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TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW AS WE
SPEAK AND VERY SOON WE WILL BE
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SINGING TOGETHER WITH THEM AND
THAT IS THEIR PRAYER ALSO, THAT
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WE WILL ALL BE SINGING PRAISES
TO GOD TOGETHER VERY SOON IN
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HEAVEN - TO OUR
MASTER AND OUR SAVIOR.
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THIS MORNING THEY WILL BE
SINGING FOR US 'THE MAJESTY AND
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GLORY OF YOUR NAME' AND
'THERE IS A HIGHER THRONE'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WHEN I GAZE INTO THE
NIGHT SKIES AND SEE THE WORK OF
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YOUR FINGERS; THE MOON
AND STARS SUSPENDED IN SPACE.
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O WHAT IS MAN THAT
YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM?
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YOU HAVE GIVEN MAN A CROWN
OF GLORY AND HONOR AND HAVE MADE
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HIM A LITTLE
LOWER THAN THE ANGELS.
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YOU HAVE PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF
ALL CREATION: THE BEASTS OF THE
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FIELD, THE BIRDS OF THE
AIR, THE FISH OF THE SEA.
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BUT WHAT IS MAN, O WHAT IS MAN,
THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM?
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O LORD, OUR GOD, THE MAJESTY AND
GLORY OF YOUR NAME TRANSCENDS
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THE EARTH AND FILLS THE HEAVENS.
O LORD, OUR GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN
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PRAISE YOU PERFECTLY, AND
SO WOULD WE. AND SO WOULD WE.
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ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, THE
MAJESTY AND GLORY OF YOUR NAME.
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ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, THE
MAJESTY AND GLORY OF YOUR NAME.
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ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA,
ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA,
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ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA,
ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA.
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>>THERE IS A HIGHER
THRONE THAN ALL THIS WORLD HAS
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KNOWN, WHERE FAITHFUL ONES FROM
EV'RY TONGUE WILL ONE DAY COME.
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BEFORE THE SON WE'LL STAND,
MADE FAULTLESS THROUGH THE LAMB;
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BELIEVING HEARTS FIND
PROMISED GRACE SALVATION COMES.
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HEAR HEAVEN'S VOICES SING; THEIR
THUND'ROUS ANTHEM RINGS, THROUGH
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EM'RALD COURTS AND SAPPHIRE
SKIES THEIR PRAISES RISE.
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ALL GLORY, WISDOM, POW'R,
STRENGTH, THANKS, AND HONOR ARE
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TO GOD OUR KING, WHO
REIGNS ON HIGH FOREVERMORE.
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AND THERE WE'LL FIND OUR HOME,
OUR LIFE BEFORE THE THRONE;
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WE'LL HONOR HIM IN
PERFECT SONG WHERE WE BELONG.
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HE'LL WIPE EACH TEAR-STAINED
EYE, AS THIRST AND HUNGER DIE.
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THE LAMB BECOMES OUR SHEPHERD
KING; WE'LL REIGN WITH HIM.
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HEAR HEAVENS VOICES SING; THEIR
THUND'ROUS ANTHEM RINGS, THROUGH
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EM'RALD COURTS AND SAPPHIRE
SKIES THEIR PRAISES RISE.
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ALL GLORY, WISDOM, POW'R,
STRENGTH, THANKS, AND HONOR ARE
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TO GOD OUR KING WHO
REIGNS ON HIGH FOREVERMORE.
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ALL GLORY TO GOD
OUR KING FOREVERMORE.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING
US THIS MORNING. LET'S PRAY.
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OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE HUMBLY
COME BEFORE YOU THIS MORNING AND
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WE JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR YOUR LOVE AND YOUR MERCY AND
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YOUR GRACE. WE'RE SO
UNWORTHY BUT YET, LORD
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YOU LOVE US AND YOU
SENT YOUR SON TO DIE FOR US.
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AND HELP US TO JUST REALLY TAKE
THAT INTO OUR HEART AND TO HAVE
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A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING, AS WE
STUDY YOUR WORD TODAY, OF HOW
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MUCH YOU LOVE US AND HOW
MUCH YOU WANT TO CHANGE US TO BE
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LIKE YOU. PLEASE OPEN OUR
HEARTS THROUGH YOUR HOLY SPIRIT.
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OPEN OUR EYES THAT WE SEE YOU
MORE CLEARLY, OUR EARS THAT WE
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HEAR YOU AND LORD, JUST
HELP US TO LOVE YOU MORE.
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THANK YOU THAT YOU'RE COMING
SOON AND HELP US TO DO OUR PART.
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PLEASE BE WITH PASTOR MIKE
TODAY AS HE BRINGS US YOUR WORD.
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LORD, WE JUST THANK YOU FOR HIS
MINISTRY AND PLEASE JUST HELP
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HIS WORDS TO BE YOUR WORDS.
WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR
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PRECIOUS NAME, AMEN. OUR
STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
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TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON,
WHO IS THE HEALTH AND VISITATION
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PASTOR HERE AT
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH
JOLYNE. I APPRECIATE THAT.
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AND 'ECHOES OF
MERCY' - DID YOU LOVE -
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DON'T YOU LOVE THAT SINGING?
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I WANT YOU TO KNOW,
OFFICIALLY - PUBLICLY -
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I'M THEIR NUMBER ONE
FAN. I KEEP TELLING THEM THAT.
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ANYWAY, IT'S GOOD TO SEE
YOU ALL HERE IN SABBATH SCHOOL.
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AS YOU KNOW, PASTOR DOUG HAS
OFFICIALLY LEFT AS OUR SENIOR
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PASTOR, BUT HE'S GOING TO BE
COMING BACK FOR A GOOD NUMBER OF
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WEEKS TO STILL DO
CENTRAL STUDY HOUR.
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NOW, HE'S SOMEWHERE ELSE TODAY,
SO I'M THE FILL-IN, BUT I'VE
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BEEN A FILL-IN FOR 15 YEARS SO
I'M JUST DOING WHAT I USUALLY DO
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SO - BUT HE'LL
BE BACK NEXT WEEK.
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SO WE HAVE AN OFFER THIS WEEK.
IT'S ACTUALLY A BOOK BY PASTOR
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DOUG AND IT'S CALLED 'THE TRUTH
ABOUT MARY MAGDALENE: THE WOMAN
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AT JESUS' FEET'
AND IT'S OFFER #801.
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IF YOU CONTACT AMAZING FACTS,
YOU CAN CALL 866-788-3966 OR
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866-STUDY-MORE AND
ASK FOR OFFER #801.
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IF YOU LIVE IN THE CONTINENTAL
UNITES STATES OF THE GOOD OLD
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THEY
WILL SEND THIS TO YOU ABSOLUTELY
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FREE. LOOK AT
THAT, IT'S ALL FREE SO
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IF YOU'VE NEVER GOTTEN THIS
BOOK, NOW'S THE CHANCE TO DO
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THAT. SO THAT'S IT. I WANT
TO MOVE ON INTO THE LESSON.
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WE'RE DEALING WITH DISCIPLESHIP
AND WE'RE ON LESSON #7 AND IT'S
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'JESUS AND THE SOCIAL OUTCASTS'.
AND AS I WAS SITTING DOWN THERE
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A FEW MOMENTS AGO AND LISTENING
TO - AS THE NUMBER ONE FAN OF
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'ECHOES OF MERCY' LISTENING
TO THAT BEAUTIFUL SONG.
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I TURNED TO THIS PASSAGE HERE
- I WAS JUST CHECKING SOMETHING
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UP. AND I WANT TO
READ IT BECAUSE IT
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IS EXACTLY IN LINE
WITH OUR LESSON TODAY.
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IT'S ABOUT JESUS, THE
GREAT FISHER OF MEN AND WOMEN.
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THE ONE WHO IS OUR EXAMPLE
IN DISCIPLING AND - THIS IS A
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PROPHECY IN ISAIAH 42. IT
WAS WRITTEN 700 YEARS BEFORE
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JESUS CAME, BUT IT EPITOMIZES
HIM AND WHAT HE CAME TO DO.
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I WANT TO READ IT - LOOKING AT
SEVEN VERSES, BUT I'M GOING TO
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READ THEM ALL.
MESSIANIC PROPHECY, WHICH WAS
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FULFILLED IN CHRIST AND WHICH
IS STILL BEING FULFILLED THROUGH
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HIS MINISTRY TOWARD
US AND EVERYBODY ELSE.
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"BEHOLD MY SERVANT, WHOM I
UPHOLD; MINE ELECT, IN WHOM MY
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SOUL DELIGHTETH;" - THIS IS GOD
SPEAKING - "I HAVE PUT MY SPIRIT
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UPON HIM: HE SHALL BRING
FORTH JUDGMENT TO THE GENTILES."
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- AND IN THE LESSON THIS WEEK
WE'VE GOT AT LEAST TWO EXAMPLES
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OF HOW JESUS WENT TO THE
GENTILES - HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO
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HAVE ANY BUSINESS WITH GENTILES
BUT HE WENT TO THEM - THE WOMAN
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AT THE WELL, FOR ONE. HE
WENT TO THEM BECAUSE, WHETHER
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THEY KNEW IT OR NOT,
THEY STILL BELONGED TO HIM.
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BUT LOOK AT VERSE 2: IT SAYS,
"HE SHALL NOT CRY, NOR LIFT UP,
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NOR CAUSE HIS VOICE TO
BE HEARD IN THE STREET."
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- ESPECIALLY VERSE 3 - "A
BRUISED REED SHALL HE NOT BREAK,
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AND THE SMOKING FLAX SHALL HE
NOT QUENCH:" - YOU KNOW, JESUS
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HAD THE HEART OF A LION. HE
WAS BRAVE, HE WAS COURAGEOUS
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- AS WE'LL SEE AS WE
GO THROUGH THE LESSON.
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HE COULD FACE DEMONIACS -
EVERYBODY ELSE FLED, BUT HE
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STOOD HIS GROUND. HE WASN'T
AFRAID, HE WAS COURAGEOUS.
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GENTLEMEN, IF YOU EVER WANT A
MENTOR - WHAT IT IS TO BE A REAL
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MAN - TO BE BRAVE - YOU'VE
GOT JESUS. SO HE WAS STRONG,
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BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE
WAS SO INFINITELY GENTLE.
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AND THIS WAS DESCRIBED HERE, IT
SAYS IN VERSE 3, "A BRUISED REED
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SHALL HE NOT BREAK" - THERE WERE
MANY BRUISED REEDS THAT FOUND
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THEIR WAY INTO JESUS'
PRESENCE AND THERE WERE A LOT OF
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IMPOSTERS WHO CLAIMED TO
BE CHRIST AND THE PHARISEES,
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SADDUCEES, THE PRIESTS - THEY
CHOSE TO BE - OR THOUGHT THEY
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WERE THE TRUE REPRESENTATIVES OF
GOD AND WHEN BRUISED REEDS WERE
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BROUGHT TO THEM, THEY'D JUST
STOMP ALL OVER THEM AND TELL
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THEM, 'YOU DESERVE TO BE LIKE
THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE A SINNER.'
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JESUS WASN'T LIKE THAT.
EVERY BRUISED REED THAT CAME TO
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HIM, HE NEVER GOT
IT AND SNAPPED IT.
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HE SPOKE WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
AND KINDNESS AND COMPASSION AND
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MERCY. AND THEY WERE BRUISED FOR
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DIFFERENT REASONS, YOU KNOW?
THEY'D BEEN BEATEN AROUND -
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PHYSICALLY BRUISED -
HAD A BAD UPBRINGING.
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A LOT OF TIMES THEY WERE BRUISED
BECAUSE THE DEVIL HAD SLAPPED
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THEM AROUND AND LED THEM INTO
SIN AND THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE
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USELESS AND NO GOOD AND DEFILED
AND THEY CAME TO JESUS AS
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BRUISED REEDS AND
NEVER ONCE DID HE DO THAT.
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HE ALWAYS MADE
THEM FEEL WELCOME.
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HE LOVED THEM AND THEY
UNDERSTOOD - EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T
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UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHO HE WAS
AND WHERE HE CAME FROM - HERE'S
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SOMEBODY WHO'S DIFFERENT.
HERE'S SOMEBODY WHO I BELIEVE
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REALLY LOVES ME -
REALLY CARES FOR ME.
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AND THEY SURE GOT THAT RIGHT
BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT JESUS WAS
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LIKE. AND HE STILL IS.
"AND THE SMOKING FLAX" - YOU
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KNOW, SOMEBODY COMES ALONG AND
THE FLAME IS JUST ABOUT GONE.
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ALL THEY'D HAVE TO DO IS 'PFFT'
- AND THE PHARISEES WOULD DO
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THAT, BUT JESUS WOULD GENTLY FAN
THAT LITTLE LIGHT - BRING BACK
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LIGHT AND WARMTH INTO
THEIR LIFE. THAT'S WHAT YOUR
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BEST FRIEND IS ALL
ABOUT. THAT'S WHAT HE IS TO YOU.
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AND IF YOU'VE NEVER LET
HIM DO THAT, YOU SHOULD.
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MAKE A BIG
DIFFERENCE IN YOUR LIFE.
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AND SO IT GOES ON HERE - SO I'M
GOING TO MOVE ON HERE AND - BUT
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VERSE 6 - GOD CALLING - GIVING
THIS PREDICTION ABOUT HIS SON.
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IT SAYS, "I THE LORD HAVE CALLED
THEE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WILL
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HOLD THINE HAND, AND WILL
KEEP THEE, AND GIVE THEE FOR A
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COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE,
FOR A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES."
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NOT JUST TO THE FAMILY - THE
JEWS - BUT TO THE GENTILES - THE
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SAMARITANS - THE PEOPLE IN
DIFFERENT PLACES THAT THE JEWS
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HAD NOTHING WITH. JESUS
WAS DIFFERENT. HE MADE THEM.
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THEY BELONGED TO HIM AND
HE WANTED THEM TO KNOW THAT.
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AND FINALLY, VERSE 7, "TO OPEN
THE BLIND EYES, TO BRING OUT THE
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PRISONERS FROM THE PRISON, AND
THEM THAT SIT IN DARKNESS OUT OF
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THE PRISON HOUSE."
THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS ALL ABOUT.
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CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? ABSOLUTELY.
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AND SO, THIS MORNING, I
WANTED TO OPEN WITH THAT.
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AND OUR LESSON IS ACTUALLY IN
#7 - 'JESUS AND THE OUTCASTS'.
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AND THE MEMORY TEXT
IS FROM JOHN 4:28-30.
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IT'S ABOUT THE
WOMAN AT THE WELL.
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IT SAYS, "THE WOMAN THEN LEFT
HER WATER POT, AND WENT HER WAY
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INTO THE CITY, AND SAITH TO THE
MEN, 'COME,'" - I LOVE THE WAY
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THAT WOMAN SAID THAT -
YOU'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY TO YOU
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'COME HERE, PLEASE'?
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BUT FOR THIS WOMAN TO
SAY TO THESE PEOPLE, "'COME.
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COME, SEE A MAN, WHICH TOLD ME
ALL THINGS THAT I EVER DID:'" -
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'COME SEE SOMEBODY WHO
IS ABSOLUTELY DIFFERENT.
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TOLD ME EVERYTHING THAT I'D EVER
DONE.' AND, BY THE WAY, THIS
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WOMAN, WHEN SHE WAS TALKING
ABOUT THAT - IF TIME PERMITS
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WE'LL GET ONTO THE ACTUAL
ACCOUNT FURTHER ON IN THE LESSON
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- I THINK IT'S WEDNESDAY'S -
JESUS TOLD HER STUFF THAT REALLY
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WASN'T NICE TO BE BROUGHT OUT.
BUT, NONETHELESS, THIS WOMAN
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REALIZED THAT HERE WAS
SOMEBODY WHO WAS DIFFERENT.
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HE WAS A PROPHET.
HE WAS THE MESSIAH.
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AND FOR ALL HE BROUGHT OUT -
ALL THE DIRTY LAUNDRY OUT OF THE
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HAMPER - SHE REALIZED THAT IN
SPITE OF THAT, THAT HE KNEW HER
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LIFE. HE KNEW HER HEART.
SHE KNEW THAT SHE WAS A BRUISED
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REED THAT HE DIDN'T BROKE -
DIDN'T BREAK - BUT THROUGH HIS
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GRACE, PUT HER
BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.
00:22:18.20\00:22:21.00
AND THAT WOMAN'S
LIFE WAS CHANGED.
00:22:21.00\00:22:23.46
SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON HERE
TO SUNDAY, 'BOTTOM DWELLERS'.
00:22:23.46\00:22:29.33
NOW HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO
BE CALLED A BOTTOM DWELLER?
00:22:29.33\00:22:31.73
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
THE BOTTOM DWELLER - USUALLY WE
00:22:31.73\00:22:35.63
REFER TO THAT AS FISH, YOU KNOW,
STUFF THAT FEEDS ON THE BOTTOM
00:22:35.63\00:22:39.36
WHERE THE SEWER COMES OUT INTO
THE OCEAN - YOU GET THE CRABS
00:22:39.36\00:22:42.23
AND THE LOBSTER AND
ALL THIS - BOTTOM FEEDERS.
00:22:42.23\00:22:45.46
PRETTY GRAPHIC TITLE TO GIVE TO
PEOPLE BUT, YOU KNOW, IN GOD'S
00:22:45.46\00:22:48.50
EYES WE'RE BOTTOM
FEEDERS SOMETIMES.
00:22:48.50\00:22:53.36
BUT, NONETHELESS, HERE
IN SUNDAY'S SECTION 'BOTTOM
00:22:53.36\00:22:56.20
FEEDERS' - IN MATTHEW 21:31 -
JESUS WAS IN THE TEMPLE AND HE
00:22:56.20\00:23:01.80
WAS PREACHING AND TEACHING AND
THE PHARISEES CAME TO HIM AND
00:23:01.80\00:23:07.36
THEY WERE SAYING,
'WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
00:23:07.36\00:23:08.96
ON WHOSE AUTHORITY
ARE YOU DOING THIS?
00:23:08.96\00:23:10.66
WE DON'T KNOW YOU FROM ADAM.'
YOU KNOW, 'WHERE'S YOUR DEGREE?
00:23:10.66\00:23:13.60
WHERE'S YOUR DIPLOMA?
WERE YOU EVER ORDAINED?'
00:23:13.60\00:23:17.46
AND SO JESUS HAD AN ANSWER TO
THESE HARD-HEARTED MEN WHO CARED
00:23:17.46\00:23:21.06
LITTLE FOR THE BRUISED REEDS AND
LITTLE FLITTERING FLAXES THAT
00:23:21.06\00:23:25.43
ARE ABOUT TO BE SNUFFED
OUT. JESUS HAD A WORD FOR THEM.
00:23:25.43\00:23:29.93
"JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM,
'VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT THE
00:23:29.93\00:23:35.50
PUBLICANS AND THE HARLOTS'"
- THE BOTTOM FEEDERS, RIGHT?
00:23:35.50\00:23:41.26
- JESUS SAID, "'VERILY I
SAY UNTO YOU, THAT THE (BOTTOM
00:23:41.26\00:23:44.33
FEEDERS) GO INTO THE
KINGDOM OF GOD BEFORE YOU.'"
00:23:44.33\00:23:50.30
DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY LIKED THAT?
00:23:50.30\00:23:52.03
NO, THEY DIDN'T SEE THEMSELVES
AS BOTTOM FEEDERS, THEY SAW
00:23:52.03\00:23:55.26
THEMSELVES IN
THE HIGHER ECHELONS.
00:23:55.26\00:23:57.73
BUT JESUS BROUGHT THOSE MEN DOWN
LOWER THAN THE BOTTOM FEEDERS
00:23:57.73\00:24:02.90
BECAUSE HE LOOKS AT THE WORTH
OF THE SOUL AND HE DOESN'T SEE
00:24:02.90\00:24:08.00
SOMEBODY WHO MAY BE TRULY A
BOTTOM FEEDER - HE SEES IT BUT
00:24:08.00\00:24:12.20
HE DOESN'T DWELL UPON THAT.
HE SEES THEM HOW THEY WILL BE
00:24:12.20\00:24:17.16
WHEN TRANSFORMED BY HIS GRACE.
AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS THAT VIEW
00:24:17.16\00:24:23.60
THAT JESUS CONSTANTLY HAD
OF BOTTOM FEEDERS THAT GAVE HIM
00:24:23.60\00:24:27.23
HOPE AND COURAGE THAT HE WAS
GOING TO POUR HIMSELF OUT IN THE
00:24:27.23\00:24:30.36
MOST DREADFUL WAY AT
THE END OF HIS MINISTRY.
00:24:30.36\00:24:32.33
AND YET, EVEN IF THERE WAS ONE
BOTTOM FEEDER IN THE KINGDOM OF
00:24:32.33\00:24:34.96
HEAVEN AND THAT'S ALL HE
GOT, IT WOULD ALL BE WORTHWHILE.
00:24:34.96\00:24:40.13
SOME SAVIOR,
MICHAEL, SOME SAVIOR.
00:24:40.13\00:24:43.66
AND IF YOU'VE - AND SO
IT'S SATAN'S PURPOSE TO TAKE THE
00:24:43.66\00:24:47.60
HUMAN RACE, ONE BY ONE, AND
MAKE US ALL INTO BOTTOM FEEDERS.
00:24:47.60\00:24:54.30
GOD CREATED THE RACE
PURE, NOBLE, UPRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL,
00:24:54.30\00:24:58.33
LOVELY - AND IT'S THE DEVIL'S
PURPOSE TO JUST RIP OUT EVERY
00:24:58.33\00:25:02.80
VESTIGE OF THE PURE IMAGE OF
GOD THAT GOD ESTABLISHED IN THE
00:25:02.80\00:25:10.06
DEMEANOR AND THE FORM AND THE
LIFE OF ADAM AND EVE WHEN THEY
00:25:10.06\00:25:14.23
FIRST CAME FORTH FROM HIS HAND.
00:25:14.23\00:25:17.50
AND SO HE DELIGHTS TO DO THIS
AND TAKE EVERY HUMAN BEING THAT
00:25:17.50\00:25:20.90
HE CAN AND CAST THEM ONTO THE
- INTO THE GARBAGE - INTO THE
00:25:20.90\00:25:26.43
LANDFILL OF CORRUPTED
AND SQUANDERED HUMAN LIFE.
00:25:26.43\00:25:32.26
AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE NEVER
SEEN, FIRSTHAND, WHAT THE DEVIL
00:25:32.26\00:25:36.46
CAN DO TO PEOPLE, YOU JUST
GO DOWN TO THE JAIL ONE DAY.
00:25:36.46\00:25:42.00
THE COUNTY JAIL IS
JUST TEN MINUTES FROM HERE.
00:25:42.00\00:25:45.46
I GO VISIT
PEOPLE THERE SOMETIMES.
00:25:45.46\00:25:48.66
AND YOU'RE STANDING WAITING
THERE IN LINE AND YOU LOOK
00:25:48.66\00:25:51.16
AROUND AND YOU CAN ALMOST WEEP.
YOU VERY OFTEN SEE MOTHERS WITH
00:25:51.16\00:25:55.86
THEIR LITTLE KIDS -
CUTE LITTLE KIDS, YOU KNOW -
00:25:55.86\00:25:57.83
JUST THE CUTEST LITTLE KIDS.
I SAW A CUTE LITTLE BABY THE
00:25:57.83\00:26:00.70
OTHER DAY AND I'M
LOOKING AND THERE'S MOM.
00:26:00.70\00:26:04.13
AND YOU KNOW WHERE DADDY
IS, HE'S LOCKED UP INSIDE.
00:26:04.13\00:26:09.16
THAT'S WHAT
SATAN DOES TO PEOPLE.
00:26:09.16\00:26:12.93
I WAS DOWN THERE THE
OTHER - I DON'T WANT TO GET TOO
00:26:12.93\00:26:15.63
SIDETRACKED HERE, BUT I WAS DOWN
AT THE COURTHOUSE - THIS WAS,
00:26:15.63\00:26:19.73
I DON'T KNOW, SIX WEEKS AGO
- I WAS WAITING OUTSIDE - THE
00:26:19.73\00:26:25.43
COURTHOUSE THERE'S
A - SORRY, THE JAIL -
00:26:25.43\00:26:28.16
THERE'S A SMALL
COURTHOUSE DOWNSTAIRS.
00:26:28.16\00:26:30.03
THERE ARE ABOUT FOUR DEPARTMENTS
- THAT'S APART FROM THE MAIN
00:26:30.03\00:26:32.43
SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE - BUT I WAS
WAITING TO GO INTO THE - ONE OF
00:26:32.43\00:26:36.13
THE SMALLER COURTROOMS DOWN
THERE - I WENT FOR IT TO OPEN -
00:26:36.13\00:26:39.80
THERE WAS SOMEBODY
I HAD AN INTEREST IN.
00:26:39.80\00:26:42.90
AND I SAW THIS LADY COME
OUT. SHE WAS WITH HER ATTORNEY -
00:26:42.90\00:26:46.30
PUBLIC DEFENDER - YOU COULD TELL
SHE COULDN'T AFFORD A LAWYER -
00:26:46.30\00:26:49.70
AND I TOOK ONE LOOK AT THIS LADY
AND - SHE WASN'T OLD - SHE WAS
00:26:49.70\00:26:54.53
ABOUT MIDDLE AGE, BUT YOU COULD
SEE WHAT DRUGS HAD DONE TO HER.
00:26:54.53\00:26:58.56
AND THE PUBLIC DEFENDER WAS
LOOKING AT HER, YOU KNOW, TO HIM
00:26:58.56\00:27:02.40
IT'S A JOB - BUSINESS AS
USUAL - HE'S TELLING HER STUFF.
00:27:02.40\00:27:05.66
I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THIS POOR
WOMAN AND TEETH WERE - SHE'D
00:27:05.66\00:27:12.56
PROBABLY BEEN ON METH - TEETH
WERE GONE - AND I WATCHED HER
00:27:12.56\00:27:16.23
AND SHE WENT AND STOOD OVER IN
THE CORNER A MOMENT AND I LOOKED
00:27:16.23\00:27:18.40
AT THIS PITIFUL WOMAN AND
SHE JUST STOOD THERE CRYING.
00:27:18.40\00:27:22.13
AND I THOUGHT, YOU
KNOW, 'WHAT DOES JESUS THINK?
00:27:22.13\00:27:29.40
WHAT DOES JESUS THINK?' I
MEAN, HE SEES THIS EVERY DAY.
00:27:29.40\00:27:33.00
AND I WANTED TO HELP
THIS WOMAN SO BAD, YOU KNOW?
00:27:33.00\00:27:36.50
SO LO AND BEHOLD, I ALWAYS CARRY
A FEW KLEENEX IN MY POCKET.
00:27:36.50\00:27:40.23
THEY'RE A BIT CRUMPLED UP, BUT
THEY'RE WARM AND THEY'RE CLEAN,
00:27:40.23\00:27:43.10
YOU KNOW? I KEEP THEM
FOR SUCH TIMES AS THIS.
00:27:43.10\00:27:46.50
I WENT OVER TO THIS LITTLE LADY
AND I SAID, 'EXCUSE ME MA'AM.' I
00:27:46.50\00:27:51.83
SAID, 'I'M A PASTOR FROM DOWN
THE ROAD.' I SAID, 'I'M SORRY,
00:27:51.83\00:27:59.43
YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY HURT.' I SAID,
'I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT.' AND I
00:27:59.43\00:28:03.50
SAID, 'LOOK, IT'S KIND OF BEATEN
UP AND - BUT IT'S WARM AND IT'S
00:28:03.50\00:28:07.33
CLEAN.' SO I GAVE IT TO HER AND
SHE STARTED DABBING HER FACE -
00:28:07.33\00:28:11.06
HER NAME WAS ANGELA - AND SHE
TOLD ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT
00:28:11.06\00:28:15.73
WAS GOING ON AND I SAID, 'WOULD
YOU LIKE ME TO HAVE A LITTLE
00:28:15.73\00:28:19.30
PRAYER WITH YOU, ANGELA?'
AND SHE SAID, 'YES, PLEASE.' SO
00:28:19.30\00:28:23.50
I HELD ANGELA'S HANDS AND WE HAD
A LITTLE PRAYER AND - NEVER SAW
00:28:23.50\00:28:27.66
HER AGAIN AFTER THAT BUT, YOU
KNOW, PEOPLE LIKE THAT - THEY
00:28:27.66\00:28:33.73
COME AND THEY GO ALL THE TIME.
WE PASS THEM ON THE STREET -
00:28:33.73\00:28:36.86
WE PASS THEM IN THE SUPERMARKET
IF THEY CAN AFFORD TO GO IN.
00:28:36.86\00:28:41.36
BUT JESUS KNOWS WHO THEY ARE AND
HE LOVES THEM AND HE WANTS US TO
00:28:41.36\00:28:45.06
REACH OUT TO THESE PEOPLE
THAT WE SO OFTEN REFER TO AS,
00:28:45.06\00:28:48.16
MAYBE, OUTCASTS
OR BOTTOM FEEDERS.
00:28:48.16\00:28:53.06
THEY MAY NOT KNOW
HIM BUT HE KNOWS THEM.
00:28:53.06\00:28:56.16
THEY BELONG TO HIM
AND HE CARES FOR HIS OWN.
00:28:56.16\00:29:00.46
AND TONIGHT -
TODAY - HERE WE ARE.
00:29:00.46\00:29:02.90
YOU KNOW, PRAISE
GOD WE'RE CHRISTIANS.
00:29:02.90\00:29:05.00
HE'S CLEANED US UP AND WE CAN
SIT IN CHURCH THIS MORNING AND
00:29:05.00\00:29:08.50
BE THANKFUL AND GLAD.
LOOK WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR US.
00:29:08.50\00:29:12.80
BUT ALWAYS ASK HIM TO GIVE YOU A
HEART FOR OTHERS THAT DON'T HAVE
00:29:12.80\00:29:15.96
THE LIGHT - THE EXPERIENCE
THAT YOU HAVE AT PRESENT.
00:29:15.96\00:29:21.36
JESUS NEVER
CENSURED HUMAN WEAKNESS.
00:29:21.36\00:29:24.73
THERE'S A STATEMENT LIKE THAT IN
'DESIRE OF AGES' - COULDN'T FIND
00:29:24.73\00:29:26.83
THE PAGE BUT IT'S TRUE.
JESUS NEVER CENSURED HUMAN WEAK
00:29:26.83\00:29:30.66
- THESE BROKEN REEDS THAT WOULD
COME OR THESE SMOKING LITTLE
00:29:30.66\00:29:34.60
FLAXES. HE NEVER CENSURED HUMAN
00:29:34.60\00:29:37.06
WEAKNESS, THAT'S WHY PEOPLE
FELT THEY COULD APPROACH HIM.
00:29:37.06\00:29:40.70
NOW IT DOESN'T MEAN HE EVER
CONDONED OR EXCUSED SIN, BUT AS
00:29:40.70\00:29:45.60
ONE WHO, HIMSELF, BORE
INFIRMITIES IN OUR FLESH, HE
00:29:45.60\00:29:51.36
PITIED PEOPLE AND HE KNEW
HE WOULD NEVER WIN THEM BY
00:29:51.36\00:29:55.50
CRITICIZING THEM BECAUSE THEY
WERE WEAK, FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS.
00:29:55.50\00:30:01.83
BUT HE SOUGHT TO DRAW THEM
BY HIS LOVE AND ENCOURAGE THEM.
00:30:01.83\00:30:07.10
AND REALIZED HE COULD FORGIVE
THEM, WHICH HE DID, AND CHANGE
00:30:07.10\00:30:11.60
THEIR VERY LIVES. SO
LET'S BE GLAD FOR JESUS,
00:30:11.60\00:30:16.26
WHAT DO YOU SAY? WE
SEE THIS, ACTUALLY, IN LUKE
00:30:16.26\00:30:21.96
15:6 - SORRY, LUKE 15
- LET'S GO TO LUKE 15.
00:30:21.96\00:30:26.53
WHEN A BOTTOM FEEDER IS FOUND OR
SOMEBODY WHO'S BEEN A CHRISTIAN
00:30:26.53\00:30:32.03
AND WANDERED AWAY FROM THE FOLD
AND THE CHURCH FAMILY MIGHT SAY,
00:30:32.03\00:30:37.30
'WELL, SERVES
HIM RIGHT, YOU KNOW.
00:30:37.30\00:30:39.63
WE GAVE HIM SO MANY WARNINGS.'
YOU MAY STAY IN BED AT NIGHT,
00:30:39.63\00:30:43.70
BUT JESUS DOESN'T. HE'S
A SHEPHERD, HE'S OUT IN THE
00:30:43.70\00:30:46.56
DARK AND HE'S LOOKING FOR THEM.
WHEN HE FINDS THEM HE REJOICES.
00:30:46.56\00:30:49.73
LUKE 15, VERSE 6 - IT SAYS, "AND
WHEN HE HATH" - VERSE 5 - "AND
00:30:49.73\00:30:58.03
WHEN HE HATH FOUNT IT, HE LAYETH
IT ON HIS SHOULDERS, REJOICING."
00:30:58.03\00:31:01.53
- GOT HIS LOST SHEEP - VERSE
6 - "AND WHEN HE COMETH HOME, HE
00:31:01.53\00:31:05.13
CALLETH TOGETHER HIS FRIENDS AND
NEIGHBOURS, SAYING UNTO THEM,
00:31:05.13\00:31:08.66
'REJOICE WITH ME; FOR I HAVE
FOUND MY SHEEP WHICH WAS LOST.
00:31:08.66\00:31:15.80
I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT LIKEWISE
JOY SHALL BE IN HEAVEN OVER ONE
00:31:15.80\00:31:21.43
SINNER THAT REPENTETH, MORE
THAN OVER NINETY AND NINE JUST
00:31:21.43\00:31:25.56
PERSONS, WHICH
NEED NO REPENTANCE."
00:31:25.56\00:31:29.20
AND THEN IN LUKE 15, VERSE 10 -
ANOTHER STORY - THE LOST COIN -
00:31:29.20\00:31:34.26
"LIKEWISE, I SAY UNTO YOU, THERE
IS JOY IN THE PRESENCE OF THE
00:31:34.26\00:31:37.30
ANGELS OF GOD OVER ONE
SINNER THAT REPENTETH."
00:31:37.30\00:31:42.33
AND, OF COURSE, IN THIS
SAME STORY, OF COURSE, IN LUKE
00:31:42.33\00:31:46.30
CHAPTER 15 - YOU'VE GOT THE
PRODIGAL SON THAT KIND OF CAPS
00:31:46.30\00:31:51.90
IT ALL OFF. I WON'T
GO THERE BECAUSE I'LL
00:31:51.90\00:31:53.76
TALK ABOUT IT FOR TOO LONG.
IT'S JUST PREGNANT WITH MEANING.
00:31:53.76\00:31:57.16
BUT THE PRODIGAL SON OR THE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER - IT'S JUST SO
00:31:57.16\00:32:00.33
WONDERFUL. SO -
WELL, PRODIGAL SON OR
00:32:00.33\00:32:04.13
PRODIGAL - THEY
LEFT HOME, RIGHT?
00:32:04.13\00:32:05.90
THEY CAME FROM A HIGH POSITION.
00:32:05.90\00:32:07.10
THEY FINISHED UP AS BOTTOM
FEEDERS - BOTTOM DWELLERS - JUST
00:32:07.10\00:32:10.93
LIVING ON THE HUSKS - EATING THE
FRUITS OF WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN.
00:32:10.93\00:32:15.46
AND THERE IS THIS
JEWISH BOY FEEDING PIGS.
00:32:15.46\00:32:18.66
HOW MUCH OF A BOTTOM
FEEDER COULD YOU BE AS A JEW?
00:32:18.66\00:32:21.10
HE'S FEEDING PIGS AND HE'S THERE
AND SUDDENLY HE COMES TO HIMSELF
00:32:21.10\00:32:23.60
AND HE REALIZES, 'YOU KNOW,
IT WASN'T THAT BAD IN MY DAD'S
00:32:23.60\00:32:28.00
HOUSE. I THINK I'LL GO
HOME. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:32:28.00\00:32:31.43
HE'LL PROBABLY MAKE ME BEG AT
THE DOOR.' AND SO HE GETS THIS -
00:32:31.43\00:32:34.93
THIS SPEECH PREPARED AND WHAT
DID JESUS SAY IN THE PARABLE?
00:32:34.93\00:32:40.30
HE SAYS, 'AND WHEN HE
WAS YET A LONG WAY OFF,
00:32:40.30\00:32:42.23
HIS FATHER SAW HIM' - WHY?
00:32:42.23\00:32:43.73
BECAUSE HE STOOD ON THE
DOORSTEP LOOKING FOR HIS BOY.
00:32:43.73\00:32:47.53
AND HE WAS A LONG WAY OFF
AND - 'PFFT' - NO BEGGING, NO
00:32:47.53\00:32:51.33
GROVELING - 'SON, WELCOME HOME.
COME HERE.' HE PUTS HIS ROBE
00:32:51.33\00:32:56.23
AROUND HIM AND
TAKES HIM IN THE HOUSE.
00:32:56.23\00:32:57.90
HE SAID, 'I'LL BE YOUR SERVANT,
DAD.' 'YOU'LL BE NO SUCH THING.
00:32:57.90\00:33:01.96
YOU'RE MY SON. YOU
BELONG TO ME.' PRAISE GOD.
00:33:01.96\00:33:05.63
FOR WHERE SIN ABOUNDS GOD'S
GRACE DOES MUCH MORE ABOUND.
00:33:05.63\00:33:10.40
THERE'S A STATEMENT IN THE
WRITINGS OF ELLEN WHITE AND I'VE
00:33:10.40\00:33:12.86
GOT 'HP' AND I CANNOT, FOR THE
LIFE OF ME, REMEMBER WHAT THAT
00:33:12.86\00:33:16.26
ABBREVIATION IS. IF ANYBODY
CAN HELP ME OUT WITH THIS.
00:33:16.26\00:33:19.50
I THINK IT'S HP. OH
THANK YOU VERY MUCH -
00:33:19.50\00:33:23.13
THAT'S RIGHT. THANK YOU.
00:33:23.13\00:33:25.00
'HEAVENLY - HEAVENLY -
SEE, I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING.
00:33:25.00\00:33:30.80
'HEAVENLY PLACES'
PAGE 181 - THANK YOU.
00:33:30.80\00:33:33.53
OF COURSE, 'HEAVENLY PLACES'
- THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS, SPEAKING
00:33:33.53\00:33:36.10
ABOUT JESUS, "THOSE WHO" -
AND I'M GOING TO PUT IT IN THE
00:33:36.10\00:33:39.23
CONTEXT OF BOTTOM
FEEDERS OR BOTTOM DWELLERS.
00:33:39.23\00:33:43.93
IT SAYS "THOSE WHO COME TO HIM"
- YOU KNOW, THE BRUISED REED AND
00:33:43.93\00:33:49.13
THE SMOKING FLAX - JUST COVERED
IN FILTH - HE FORGIVES THEM.
00:33:49.13\00:33:53.93
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT
IT DOES IN RETURN?
00:33:53.93\00:33:55.40
AND THIS IS ONE OF THE IMPORTANT
THINGS ABOUT JESUS - HOW HE
00:33:55.40\00:33:59.70
SETS, AS AN EXAMPLE OF
DISCIPLESHIP AND HELPING PEOPLE.
00:33:59.70\00:34:04.63
YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID IN RETURN?
00:34:04.63\00:34:07.76
HE SOUGHT TO
INSPIRE THEM WITH HOPE.
00:34:07.76\00:34:11.20
"HE SOUGHT TO INSPIRE WITH HOPE
THE MOST ROUGH AND UNPROMISING
00:34:11.20\00:34:18.40
AND WHAT HE WOULD DO HE WOULD
THEN EXPRESS CONFIDENCE IN THEM
00:34:18.40\00:34:25.00
AND GIVE THEM RESPONSIBILITIES
AND SAY, 'HERE, YOU'RE NOT A
00:34:25.00\00:34:30.16
BOTTOM FEEDER,
YOU'RE PART OF MY TEAM.
00:34:30.16\00:34:33.83
HERE'S SOMETHING I WANT YOU
TO DO.' YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DID?
00:34:33.83\00:34:36.80
THAT WAS TREMENDOUS
PSYCHOLOGY APART FROM IT BEING A
00:34:36.80\00:34:39.63
DEMONSTRATION OF GRACE. IT
SAYS THIS: "AND MEN LONGED TO
00:34:39.63\00:34:44.73
BECOME WORTHY
OF HIS CONFIDENCE."
00:34:44.73\00:34:49.16
ISN'T THAT A WAY TO
WIN PEOPLE TO JESUS?
00:34:49.16\00:34:52.63
YOU DO THAT WITH
YOUR KIDS, RIGHT?
00:34:52.63\00:34:54.66
WHEN THEY DESERVE A SCOLDING
- WELL, YOU SHOULD NEVER SCOLD
00:34:54.66\00:34:57.76
YOUR KIDS - I'M OLD SCHOOL,
I THINK IF THEY NEED A SPANKING
00:34:57.76\00:35:00.63
YOU SHOULD SPANK THEM.
BUT NOT FOR EVERYTHING.
00:35:00.63\00:35:04.73
I THINK THERE'S A PLACE FOR IT.
00:35:04.73\00:35:06.43
BUT IF YOU DO IT, YOU JUST HUG
THEM TO DEATH AS SOON AS YOU'RE
00:35:06.43\00:35:09.76
DONE - AND EVEN
BEFORE YOU DO IT.
00:35:09.76\00:35:11.60
BUT YOU LET THEM KNOW THAT,
'YES, YOU'VE FALLEN, BUT YOU'RE
00:35:11.60\00:35:15.93
FORGIVEN AND NOW I EXPRESS
CONFIDENCE IN YOU THAT YOU CAN
00:35:15.93\00:35:21.26
DO IT RIGHT.' AND WHAT
DOES THAT DO TO A CHILD?
00:35:21.26\00:35:24.73
THEY WANT TO SHOW TO THEIR
PARENTS THAT 'YEAH, I CAN DO
00:35:24.73\00:35:27.06
IT.' AND THAT'S JUST HOW JESUS
DEALT WITH PEOPLE WHEN IT COMES
00:35:27.06\00:35:32.26
TO THIS ISSUE OF DISCIPLESHIP.
00:35:32.26\00:35:35.06
AND, AGAIN, LET ME SAY IT'S
ALWAYS SATAN'S PURPOSE TO LEAD
00:35:35.06\00:35:38.80
FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS DEEPER
AND DEEPER INTO SIN UNTIL,
00:35:38.80\00:35:42.86
ULTIMATELY, IT SEEMS THAT THEY
REACH THE POINT WHERE THERE CAN
00:35:42.86\00:35:48.46
BE NO U-TURN
EVEN IF THEY WANT ONE.
00:35:48.46\00:35:52.16
SO HE GETS THEM TO
THIS POINT AND THEY THINK.
00:35:52.16\00:35:54.70
'I CAN'T EVEN TURN AROUND
NOW, IT'S SO BAD.' SO THEY'RE
00:35:54.70\00:35:57.53
TRAPPED, IT SEEMS, AND THEN HE
TAKES THINGS FROM BAD TO WORSE
00:35:57.53\00:36:03.06
BECAUSE WHAT - ACTUALLY
NOW, WE'RE ON MONDAY'S SECTION.
00:36:03.06\00:36:05.80
THIS IS THE - THIS IS THE WOMAN
TAKEN IN ADULTERY - WE'RE IN
00:36:05.80\00:36:09.96
MONDAY'S SECTION
- IN THE VERY ACT.
00:36:09.96\00:36:12.30
SO THIS IS THE CONTEXT HERE.
SO IF YOU'VE GOT THIS WOMAN -
00:36:12.30\00:36:15.10
YOU KNOW THE STORY - SO WHAT
THE DEVIL DOES - HE LEADS THEM
00:36:15.10\00:36:17.43
DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO SIN UNTIL
IT SEEMS THERE'S NO WAY OUT.
00:36:17.43\00:36:20.53
THEY WOULD LOOK FOR A U-TURN -
THEY'D LONG FOR A U-TURN, BUT IT
00:36:20.53\00:36:23.00
SEEMS THEY CAN'T DO IT.
AND TO MAKE THINGS WORSE, THE
00:36:23.00\00:36:25.53
DEVIL COMES ALONG
AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
00:36:25.53\00:36:28.90
HE EXPOSES THEM PUBLICLY -
BEFORE EVERYBODY ELSE - BEFORE
00:36:28.90\00:36:35.60
SOCIETY - BEFORE THEIR OWN
FAMILY - EXPOSING THEIR EVILS,
00:36:35.60\00:36:41.46
BRINGING THEM UNDER
CONDEMNATION, HUMILIATING THEM,
00:36:41.46\00:36:45.23
AND CRUSHING THEM AND
DRIVING THEM TO DESPAIR.
00:36:45.23\00:36:51.26
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE BEEN THERE.
00:36:51.26\00:36:53.26
I'M SURE SOME OF YOU
HEARD OF THINGS LIKE THAT.
00:36:53.26\00:36:56.46
NOW, I'M NOT SAYING THAT IF
YOU'RE A SERIAL MURDERER AND
00:36:56.46\00:36:59.23
IT'S DISCOVERED, THAT IT
SHOULD BE KEPT UNDER WRAPS.
00:36:59.23\00:37:02.06
YOU KNOW, THINGS NEED TO
BE, YOU KNOW, TAKEN CARE OF.
00:37:02.06\00:37:05.66
BUT, YOU KNOW, EVEN THEN THERE
MAY BE SOMEBODY WHO LOST A CHILD
00:37:05.66\00:37:09.70
AT THE HANDS OF A MURDERER SO I
WANT TO SPEAK SENSITIVELY HERE.
00:37:09.70\00:37:13.20
I'M SURE IT'S HARD TO FORGIVE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WHO WILL FORGIVE
00:37:13.20\00:37:18.33
IS JESUS. WHEN IT
ALL COMES OUT AND YOU'RE
00:37:18.33\00:37:22.06
JUST - AND ALL THE MEDIA'S
ON YOU AND EVERYBODY'S TALKING
00:37:22.06\00:37:26.53
ABOUT YOU AND
YOU'RE SITTING IN A CELL.
00:37:26.53\00:37:29.43
THERE'S PEOPLE
LIKE THAT RIGHT NOW.
00:37:29.43\00:37:32.00
THERE'S ONE PERSON WHO IS BESIDE
THEM, WANTING THEM SO MUCH TO
00:37:32.00\00:37:37.16
TURN TO HIM BECAUSE, IN SPITE
OF WHAT THEY'VE DONE, HE CAN
00:37:37.16\00:37:41.90
FORGIVE THEM AND
HELP TO HEAL THEM.
00:37:41.90\00:37:45.36
AND THIS WOMAN HERE, THE WOMAN
AT THE WELL - AND SUCH WAS THE
00:37:45.36\00:37:49.76
STRATEGY WHEN SHE WAS DISCOVERED
THAT IT WAS SATAN'S STRATEGY NOT
00:37:49.76\00:37:56.40
JUST TO EXPOSE HER AND MAKE HER
FEEL ROTTEN AND JUST DRIVE HER
00:37:56.40\00:38:00.33
TO DESPAIR, BUT HE HOPED - SATAN
HOPED THAT HE COULD BRING ABOUT
00:38:00.33\00:38:06.30
TWO STONINGS INSTEAD OF ONE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT
00:38:06.30\00:38:12.26
HERE. I WANT TO - ACTUALLY,
LET'S GO READ JOHN CHAPTER 8,
00:38:12.26\00:38:16.00
VERSES 1 THROUGH 11
- JOHN 8, 1 THROUGH 11.
00:38:16.00\00:38:22.70
YOU GOT THIS WOMAN TAKEN HERE
AND IT WAS NOT A GOOD SITUATION.
00:38:22.70\00:38:28.23
JOHN 8, 1 THROUGH 11, "JESUS
WENT UNTO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
00:38:28.23\00:38:32.73
AND EARLY IN THE MORNING HE CAME
AGAIN INTO THE TEMPLE, AND ALL
00:38:32.73\00:38:35.33
THE PEOPLE CAME UNTO HIM; AND
HE SAT DOWN, AND TAUGHT THEM."
00:38:35.33\00:38:38.36
- VERSE 3 - "AND THE SCRIBES
AND PHARISEES BROUGHT UNTO HIM A
00:38:38.36\00:38:41.40
WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY;
AND WHEN THEY HAD SET HER IN THE
00:38:41.40\00:38:45.00
MIDST, THEY SAY UNTO HIM,
MASTER," - OH, THEY THOUGHT THEY
00:38:45.00\00:38:48.80
HAD HIM NOW. THEY
THOUGHT THEY HAD THE WOMAN
00:38:48.80\00:38:50.76
AND THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD JESUS
- "THEY SAY UNTO HIM, 'MASTER,
00:38:50.76\00:38:54.56
THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN IN
ADULTERY, IN THE VERY ACT.
00:38:54.56\00:38:58.80
NOW MOSES IN THE LAW COMMANDED
US, THAT SUCH SHOULD BE STONED:
00:38:58.80\00:39:03.60
BUT WHAT SAYEST THOU?'
THIS THEY SAID, TEMPTING HIM,
00:39:03.60\00:39:08.66
THAT THEY MIGHT
HAVE TO ACCUSE HIM."
00:39:08.66\00:39:13.46
- WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THERE IS,
YOU KNOW, THE POSITION HERE -
00:39:13.46\00:39:15.53
THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD JESUS - IF
HE SAID, 'YEAH, STONE THE WOMAN'
00:39:15.53\00:39:19.00
THEN THEY'D GO TELL
THE ROMANS, YOU SEE?
00:39:19.00\00:39:21.76
BECAUSE THE JEWS WERE
NOT ALLOWED, UNDER ROMAN
00:39:21.76\00:39:24.50
JURISDICTION, TO PASS THE DEATH
SENTENCE OR TO EXECUTE THE DEATH
00:39:24.50\00:39:28.86
SENTENCE. THAT WAS
THE PREROGATIVE OF ROME.
00:39:28.86\00:39:31.66
THAT'S WHY, WHEN THE PEOPLE
WANTED TO CRUCIFY CHRIST, THEY
00:39:31.66\00:39:33.80
HAD TO GET
PERMISSION FROM PILATE.
00:39:33.80\00:39:35.83
SO IF JESUS
SAID, 'YEAH, STONE HER.
00:39:35.83\00:39:37.30
THAT'S WHAT THE LAW OF
MOSES - LET HER HAVE IT.
00:39:37.30\00:39:39.73
I'LL BE THE FIRST
ONE TO THROW THE ROCK!'
00:39:39.73\00:39:42.33
THEY WOULD HAVE GONE
STRAIGHT TO THE ROMANS,
00:39:42.33\00:39:43.60
'YOU KNOW THIS GUY OVER HERE?
00:39:43.60\00:39:45.13
YOU KNOW HE'S USURPING THE
AUTHORITY OF CAESAR OR PILATE?'
00:39:45.13\00:39:48.50
SO THEY THOUGHT, 'WE'VE GOT HIM
NOW.' AND AT THE SAME TIME, IF
00:39:48.50\00:39:51.96
JESUS SAID, 'NO, DON'T STONE
HER.' THEY'D GO TO THE REST OF
00:39:51.96\00:39:54.43
THE JEWS, 'DID YOU SEE THIS
MAN? HE JUST DEFIED THE LAW.
00:39:54.43\00:39:58.70
THIS WOMAN SHOULD BE
STONED AND HE SAID WE SHOULDN'T.
00:39:58.70\00:40:00.76
HE'S THROWING OUT THE LAW, THE
PROPHETS, EVERYTHING.' SO THEY
00:40:00.76\00:40:02.86
THOUGHT THEY HAD
HIM NAILED, RIGHT?
00:40:02.86\00:40:06.20
LET'S CARRY ON
HERE. A LOT HAPPENED.
00:40:06.20\00:40:10.50
HALFWAY THROUGH VERSE 6, "BUT
JESUS STOOPED DOWN, AND WITH HIS
00:40:10.50\00:40:17.56
FINGER WROTE ON THE GROUND,
AS THOUGH HE HAD HEARD THEM NOT.
00:40:17.56\00:40:24.76
SO WHEN THEY CONTINUED ASKING
HIM, HE LIFTED UP HIMSELF, AND
00:40:24.76\00:40:29.76
SAID UNTO THEM, HE THAT IS
WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU, LET HIM
00:40:29.76\00:40:34.20
FIRST CAST A STONE AT HER.' AND
AGAIN HE STOOPED DOWN AND WROTE
00:40:34.20\00:40:41.90
ON THE GROUND."
NOW, I LIKE THE WAY IT'S
00:40:41.90\00:40:45.83
DESCRIBED IN 'DESIRE OF AGES' -
WITH TWO STROKES OF BRILLIANCE,
00:40:45.83\00:40:50.53
IF YOU LIKE. WITH TWO
STROKES OF BRILLIANCE,
00:40:50.53\00:40:53.86
JESUS SILENCES THE PHARISEES,
ZIPS THEM UP, SENDS THEM OFF.
00:40:53.86\00:40:59.96
THAT WAS A STROKE OF JUSTICE AND
IT WAS JUST - I'LL GET BACK TO
00:40:59.96\00:41:05.13
IT IN JUST A MOMENT - EXPLAIN
IT - AND ALSO WITH A STROKE OF
00:41:05.13\00:41:08.76
MERCY, THIS WOMAN IS
PARDONED AND SET FREE.
00:41:08.76\00:41:13.86
JUST LIKE THAT - PFFT -
PFFT. HOW DID HE DO THAT?
00:41:13.86\00:41:18.83
THE STROKE OF JUSTICE - IT SAYS
HE WAS WRITING ON THE GROUND
00:41:18.83\00:41:21.73
HERE AND THESE MEN ARE
SAYING, 'WHAT SAYEST THOU?
00:41:21.73\00:41:24.60
THIS WOMAN SHOULD BE STONED.'
SO HE GETS DOWN ON THE GROUND.
00:41:24.60\00:41:27.00
YOU KNOW WHAT
HE STARTS TO WRITE.
00:41:27.00\00:41:28.36
YOU KNOW WHAT
HE STARTS TO WRITE.
00:41:28.36\00:41:29.50
HE'S WRITING OUT THEIR
SINS AND HE KNEW THEIR NAMES.
00:41:29.50\00:41:32.36
SUPPOSE ONE OF THEM HERE IS
CALLED JACOB - NEVER MET HIM
00:41:32.36\00:41:36.20
BEFORE BUT HE JUST LOOKS
- 'SEE, I KNOW YOUR NAME.
00:41:36.20\00:41:39.73
THERE'S JACOB.'
SO JACOB'S LOOKING.
00:41:39.73\00:41:43.40
JACOB SEES HIS NAME ON THE -
HE'S JUST WRITING OUT JACOB'S
00:41:43.40\00:41:47.43
STUFF. 'WELL
JACOB, YOU GOT ANYTHING
00:41:47.43\00:41:49.50
ELSE YOU WANT TO SAY?'
JACOB SEES THAT AND SAYS, 'WELL,
00:41:49.50\00:41:52.20
YOU KNOW, I THINK I'D BETTER
GO HOME.' THEN HE WRITES OUT THE
00:41:52.20\00:41:58.63
NEXT GUY'S NAME. HE'S LOOKING.
'OH, YOU KNOW WHAT? UM...I'VE
00:41:58.63\00:42:05.20
GOT TO GO.' SO FINALLY - FINALLY
- FINALLY THEY'RE GONE. WHY?
00:42:05.20\00:42:10.36
BECAUSE IN JUSTICE JESUS
WROTE DOWN THEIR SINS AND THEY
00:42:10.36\00:42:16.20
REALIZED - THIS IS WHY HE SAID,
'WHOEVER IS WITHOUT SIN, LET HIM
00:42:16.20\00:42:20.03
CAST THE FIRST
STONE.' THEY WERE GONE.
00:42:20.03\00:42:22.83
AND THEN THE WOMAN, SHE'S STILL
COWERING DOWN HERE, AND HAS
00:42:22.83\00:42:26.73
HEARD JESUS SAY, 'WHOEVER IS
WITHOUT SIN, LET HIM CAST THE
00:42:26.73\00:42:30.33
FIRST STONE.' NOW SHE'S BEEN
TAUGHT THAT THE PHARISEES AND
00:42:30.33\00:42:33.26
THE SCRIBES AND THE
SADDUCEES - THEY'RE HOLY MEN -
00:42:33.26\00:42:35.23
THEY DON'T HAVE SIN. SO
FOR SURE NOW THEY'RE GOING TO
00:42:35.23\00:42:37.83
THROW THESE ROCKS AT
HER AND SHE'S WAITING THERE.
00:42:37.83\00:42:42.60
WHAT DOES IT SAY? LET'S
GET BACK TO WHERE WE WERE.
00:42:42.60\00:42:45.90
WHERE WERE WE?
00:42:45.90\00:42:49.06
AND - VERSE 9 - "AND THEY WHICH
HEARD IT, BEING CONVICTED BY
00:42:49.06\00:42:54.40
THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE, WENT
OUT ONE BY ONE, BEGINNING AT THE
00:42:54.40\00:42:59.93
ELDEST," - SO HE GOT THE
DIRTY OLD MEN FIRST, RIGHT?
00:42:59.93\00:43:06.66
BY THE WAY, ANY YOUNG MEN
LISTENING, LET ME TELL YOU THIS:
00:43:06.66\00:43:11.46
THE REASON WHY DIRTY OLD MEN
BECOME DIRTY OLD MEN IS BECAUSE
00:43:11.46\00:43:17.23
THEY BEGIN AS DIRTY
YOUNG MEN. NEVER FORGET THAT.
00:43:17.23\00:43:22.53
AGE WON'T
CHANGE YOU, JESUS WILL.
00:43:22.53\00:43:26.93
SO REMEMBER, HE
STARTED WITH THE OLD MEN.
00:43:26.93\00:43:30.13
"BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST, EVEN
UNTO THE LAST: AND JESUS WAS
00:43:30.13\00:43:35.73
LEFT ALONE, AND THE
WOMAN STANDING IN THE MIDST.
00:43:35.73\00:43:39.26
WHEN JESUS HAD LIFTED UP
HIMSELF, AND SAW NONE BUT THE
00:43:39.26\00:43:43.16
WOMAN, HE SAID UNTO TO HER,"
- I'D LOVED TO HAVE HEARD HIS
00:43:43.16\00:43:46.70
VOICE. YOU KNOW,
THAT VOICE OF ONE WHO
00:43:46.70\00:43:48.50
WON'T BREAK A BRUISED REED
OR SNUFF OUT A LITTLE WISP OF
00:43:48.50\00:43:55.06
SMOKING FLAX - HE SAID, "'WOMAN,
WHERE ARE THOSE THINE ACCUSERS?
00:43:55.06\00:44:02.50
HATH NO MAN CONDEMNED THEE?'
SHE SAID, 'NO MAN, LORD.' AND
00:44:02.50\00:44:10.60
JESUS SAID UNTO HER" - OH
TO HAVE HEARD THAT VOICE - WHAT
00:44:10.60\00:44:13.50
THIS VOICE WOULD HAVE BEEN -
MUST HAVE BEEN TO THIS WOMAN -
00:44:13.50\00:44:16.70
HE SAID, "NEITHER DO I CONDEMN
THEE: GO, AND SIN NO MORE.'"
00:44:16.70\00:44:26.50
DID HE EXCUSE HER
SIN? NOT FOR A SECOND.
00:44:26.50\00:44:31.46
DID SHE DESERVE TO
BE STONED? ABSOLUTELY.
00:44:31.46\00:44:39.66
BUT THERE BEFORE HER WAS
THE LAWGIVER - OF ALL PEOPLE -
00:44:39.66\00:44:46.00
DETERMINED TO UPHOLD HIS LAW.
BUT IT WASN'T JUST THE LETTER OF
00:44:46.00\00:44:49.83
THE LAW, THAT LAW CAME FROM A
HEART THAT IS REALLY A HEART OF
00:44:49.83\00:44:53.70
LOVE. AND WHILE
THERE'S JUSTICE ON ONE
00:44:53.70\00:44:56.46
HAND, THERE'S MERCY ON THE
OTHER FOR THOSE WHO DESIRE IT.
00:44:56.46\00:45:01.10
AND SO HE LOOKS AT THIS
WOMAN AND HE SAYS, 'NEITHER DO I
00:45:01.10\00:45:03.26
CONDEMN THEE: GO, JUST DON'T
DO IT AGAIN.' AND OFF SHE GOES.
00:45:03.26\00:45:12.53
YOU'LL FIND SOME OF THAT IN
PASTOR DOUG'S BOOK, I'M SURE.
00:45:12.53\00:45:15.76
YOU KNOW, JESUS DID THAT TYPE
- IN JOHN IT SAYS IF EVERYTHING
00:45:15.76\00:45:19.30
WAS WRITTEN ABOUT JESUS,
IT SAID, THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH
00:45:19.30\00:45:21.36
BOOKS IN THE WORLD,
RIGHT? THERE WOULDN'T.
00:45:21.36\00:45:23.13
I MEAN, YOU'D HAVE A
LIBRARY - WHO KNOWS WHAT.
00:45:23.13\00:45:24.93
SO WHAT WE SEE WHEN WE READ THIS
THING IS IT'S JUST THE TIP OF
00:45:24.93\00:45:27.30
THE ICEBERG. SO MANY,
MANY, MANY ACCOUNTS WHERE
00:45:27.30\00:45:31.03
JESUS HAD EPISODES LIKE
THIS WHERE HE SHOWED HE NEVER
00:45:31.03\00:45:36.23
PALLIATED SIN BUT HE FORGAVE.
AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO SOCIETY
00:45:36.23\00:45:41.80
CAST OFF AS WORTHLESS.
WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOR - TRULY.
00:45:41.80\00:45:47.36
NOW, I WANT TO MOVE
DOWN HERE A LITTLE BIT HERE.
00:45:47.36\00:45:52.23
I GOT A BIT AHEAD OF MYSELF.
00:45:52.23\00:45:56.33
JESUS - YEAH, YOU
KNOW, I BETTER MOVE ON.
00:45:56.33\00:45:59.63
NO, THIS IS WHAT I
WANT TO TALK ABOUT.
00:45:59.63\00:46:03.50
IN THE JUDGMENT - ALL OUR
CHARACTERS ARE GOING TO COME UP
00:46:03.50\00:46:07.16
IN THE JUDGMENT SO IF
YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT YOUR
00:46:07.16\00:46:11.16
CHARACTER'S LIKE, BECAUSE IT'S
GOING TO COME UP THERE, AND IF
00:46:11.16\00:46:15.20
YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT IT, THEN
YOU'D BETTER PUT IT RIGHT, OKAY?
00:46:15.20\00:46:19.46
GO TO JESUS. SAY, 'LORD, I'M
THIS. I'M THAT. I'M THE OTHER.
00:46:19.46\00:46:22.96
LORD, I HAVE TO CONFESS,
I'VE BEEN A BOTTOM DWELLER.' AND
00:46:22.96\00:46:27.13
HE'LL SAY, 'IT'S ALRIGHT, I
ALREADY KNEW ABOUT IT, BUT IT'S
00:46:27.13\00:46:29.90
GOOD FOR YOU TO RECOGNIZE
YOURSELF, JUST WHERE YOU'RE AT.'
00:46:29.90\00:46:33.70
YOU CAN'T TELL HIM ANYTHING,
BUT IT'S GOOD FOR US TO OPEN OUR
00:46:33.70\00:46:36.36
HEARTS BECAUSE IF WE DON'T THINK
AND SEARCH OUR HEARTS, WE WON'T
00:46:36.36\00:46:40.83
KNOW WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED
TO CONFESS AND PUT IT RIGHT.
00:46:40.83\00:46:44.86
AND HE WON'T COME IN AND TAKE IT
OUT OF OUR HEARTS THAT WHICH WE
00:46:44.86\00:46:47.33
DON'T WANT HIM TO TAKE.
SO YOU NEED TO COME TO JESUS
00:46:47.33\00:46:50.53
JUST AS YOU ARE. BUT
THE WONDERFUL THING IS -
00:46:50.53\00:46:55.46
MIKE, COULD YOU GIVE ME
'GREAT CONTROVERSY', PLEASE?
00:46:55.46\00:46:58.20
THANK YOU MICHAEL. AS
SATAN SOUGHT TO GET THIS
00:46:58.20\00:47:04.16
WOMAN CONDEMNED, THE ONE - THE
WOMAN WHO WAS TAKEN IN ADULTERY
00:47:04.16\00:47:12.00
- AND ALSO TRIED TO GET JESUS
STONED AT THE SAME TIME - IN THE
00:47:12.00\00:47:17.40
JUDGMENT, SATAN IS GOING TO
SEEK TO SECURE OUR CONDEMNATION.
00:47:17.40\00:47:23.53
AND IN THE BOOK 'GREAT
CONTROVERSY 4:84 - IT'S TWO
00:47:23.53\00:47:29.93
PARAGRAPHS - I HOPE YOU DON'T
MIND BUT I'M GOING TO READ THEM
00:47:29.93\00:47:32.13
BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY, REALLY
GOOD AND IT'S BASED ON - IN THE
00:47:32.13\00:47:36.33
BOOK ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 6 - YOU
KNOW, I NEVER REMEMBER IF IT'S 3
00:47:36.33\00:47:43.06
OR 6 - FORGIVE ME,
ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 3.
00:47:43.06\00:47:45.63
IT SHOWS YOU JOSHUA, THE HIGH
PRIEST, STANDING BEFORE GOD AND
00:47:45.63\00:47:49.20
THE DEVIL'S THERE TO ACCUSE HIM.
HE'S COVERED IN FILTH BECAUSE
00:47:49.20\00:47:52.73
HE'S REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE AND
HIS ROBES ARE COVERED WITH THE
00:47:52.73\00:47:55.26
FILTH OF THE PEOPLE'S SINS.
AS HIGH PRIEST HE CARRIES THEM.
00:47:55.26\00:47:58.66
AND SATAN - YOU CAN READ IT IN
ZECHARIAH 3 - AND HE TRYING TO -
00:47:58.66\00:48:02.13
SATAN'S THERE TRYING TO SECURE
THE CONDEMNATION OF JOSHUA AND
00:48:02.13\00:48:06.23
ALSO THE PEOPLE. BUT
ELLEN WHITE APPLIES THIS
00:48:06.23\00:48:10.43
HERE IN 'GREAT CONTROVERSY'
P. 484, "WHILE JESUS IS PLEADING
00:48:10.43\00:48:16.10
FOR THE SUBJECTS OF HIS GRACE"
- MANY OF WHOM HAVE BEEN BOTTOM
00:48:16.10\00:48:20.73
FEEDERS - "SATAN ACCUSES THEM
BEFORE GOD AS TRANSGRESSORS.
00:48:20.73\00:48:27.36
THE GREAT DECEIVER HAS SOUGHT
TO LEAD THEM INTO SKEPTICISM, TO
00:48:27.36\00:48:31.53
CAUSE THEM TO LOSE CONFIDENCE IN
GOD, TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM
00:48:31.53\00:48:35.43
HIS LOVE AND TO BREAK HIS LAW.
NOW HE POINTS TO THE RECORD OF
00:48:35.43\00:48:39.76
THEIR LIVES, TO THE DEFECTS
OF CHARACTER, THE UNLIKENESS OF
00:48:39.76\00:48:43.06
CHRIST, WHICH HAS
DISHONORED THEIR REDEEMER.
00:48:43.06\00:48:45.50
TO ALL THE SINS THAT HE
HAS TEMPTED THEM TO COMMIT AND,
00:48:45.50\00:48:49.16
BECAUSE OF THESE, HE
CLAIMS THEM AS HIS SUBJECTS."
00:48:49.16\00:48:52.93
- YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL
IS A LIAR. YOU KNOW THAT?
00:48:52.93\00:48:56.26
BUT WE'LL HAVE
TO GIVE HIM CREDIT.
00:48:56.26\00:48:58.30
HE DOES EXAGGERATE SOME THINGS,
BUT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS HE
00:48:58.30\00:49:01.60
KNOWS ABOUT THAT HE CAN TELL
GOD, WHICH ARE ABSOLUTELY TRUE,
00:49:01.60\00:49:04.50
RIGHT? SO SOMETIMES HE DOES
SPEAK THE TRUTH TO SECURE OUR
00:49:04.50\00:49:09.16
CONDEMNATION. SO HERE HE IS.
00:49:09.16\00:49:12.40
AND IT SAYS IN THE NEXT
SENTENCE, "JESUS DOES NOT EXCUSE
00:49:12.40\00:49:17.20
THEIR SINS" - HE DIDN'T EXCUSE
THE SIN OF THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN
00:49:17.20\00:49:20.70
ADULTERY - HE NEVER DOES - "BUT
SHOWS THEIR PENITENCE AND FAITH.
00:49:20.70\00:49:27.16
IN CLAIMING FOR THEM
FORGIVENESS, HE LIFTS HIS
00:49:27.16\00:49:30.96
WOUNDED HANDS BEFORE THE FATHER
AND THE HOLY ANGELS SAYING,
00:49:30.96\00:49:35.26
'I KNOW THEM BY NAME'."
00:49:35.26\00:49:39.53
IF THERE'S ANY BOTTOM FEEDER OUT
THERE LOOKING AT THAT CAMERA -
00:49:39.53\00:49:42.03
WHICHEVER CAMERA - YOU
MAY HAVE DONE YOUR WORST.
00:49:42.03\00:49:45.56
YOU MAY FEEL UNDER
TERRIBLE CONDEMNATION.
00:49:45.56\00:49:48.10
THE DEVIL MAY BE COMING
AND TELLING YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT
00:49:48.10\00:49:50.00
YOURSELF BUT, YOU
KNOW WHAT? JESUS KNOWS YOU.
00:49:50.00\00:49:54.46
HE KNOWS YOU BY NAME -
BUT JESUS KNOWS THEM BY NAME.
00:49:54.46\00:49:59.60
"I HAVE GRAVEN THEM
ON THE PALMS OF MY HANDS.
00:49:59.60\00:50:03.86
THE SACRIFICES OF GOD ARE A
BROKEN SPIRIT, A BROKEN AND A
00:50:03.86\00:50:10.06
CONTRITE HEART, O GOD, THAT WILT
NOT DESPISE AND TO THE ACCUSER
00:50:10.06\00:50:15.33
OF HIS PEOPLE HE DECLARES, 'THE
LORD REBUKE THEE, O SATAN, EVEN
00:50:15.33\00:50:21.00
A LORD THAT HATH
CHOSEN JERUSALEM REBUKE THEE.
00:50:21.00\00:50:24.56
IS NOT THIS A BRAND
PLUCKED OUT OF THE FIRE?'" -
00:50:24.56\00:50:28.13
SO THE DEVIL - JESUS TURNED
AROUND TO THE ACCUSER AND SAID,
00:50:28.13\00:50:30.93
'I KNOW ABOUT THESE THINGS BUT
THEY - SEE, THEY'RE PENITENT -
00:50:30.93\00:50:34.26
THEY'VE REPENTED - THEY
BROUGHT BEFORE ME NOT SACRIFICES
00:50:34.26\00:50:37.76
CONSISTING OF MONEY OR GOOD
WORKS, BUT THE SACRIFICE OF A
00:50:37.76\00:50:41.56
BROKEN AND A CONTRITE SPIRIT.
THAT IS WHAT JESUS LOOKS FOR.
00:50:41.56\00:50:47.43
PRAISE GOD YOU DON'T
HAVE TO PERFORM PENANCE.
00:50:47.43\00:50:49.86
YOU DON'T NEED ANY INDULGENCES.
THE ONLY SACRIFICE YOU NEED TO
00:50:49.86\00:50:54.03
BRING IS A BROKEN AND A CONTRITE
HEART. HE WILL NOT DESPISE THAT.
00:50:54.03\00:50:58.56
AND IF YOU WANT TO FEEL CONTRITE
AND YOU CAN'T BECAUSE YOU'RE SO
00:50:58.56\00:51:01.33
HARD. YOU KNOW WHAT? IF YOU ASK
HIM, HE'LL GIVE YOU THE ABILITY
00:51:01.33\00:51:04.40
TO REPENT. HIS
GRACE IS SUCH THAT HE CAN
00:51:04.40\00:51:08.33
GIVE YOU A HEART THAT
IS TRULY, SINCERELY BROKEN.
00:51:08.33\00:51:12.13
AND SO HE POINTS AND HE SAYS,
'OKAY, I HEAR YOUR ACCUSATIONS,
00:51:12.13\00:51:16.20
BUT THEY'VE REPENTED. I
HAVE A RIGHT TO FORGIVE THEM
00:51:16.20\00:51:21.33
AND ATONE FOR THEIR SINS BECAUSE
THOSE SINS THEY'VE REPENTED FOR,
00:51:21.33\00:51:24.83
I HAVE BORE THEM UPON
MYSELF UPON THE CROSS.
00:51:24.83\00:51:27.80
SO, IN OTHER WORDS SATAN, ZIP
UP.' AND THIS IS WHAT WE READ:
00:51:27.80\00:51:35.56
"CHRIST WILL CLOTHE HIS FAITHFUL
ONES WITH HIS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:51:35.56\00:51:40.03
THAT HE MAY PRESENT THEM TO
HIS FATHER A GLORIOUS CHURCH NOT
00:51:40.03\00:51:44.40
HAVING SPOT OR
WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING.
00:51:44.40\00:51:48.93
THEIR NAMES STAND ENROLLED IN
THE BOOK OF LIFE AND CONCERNING
00:51:48.93\00:51:52.66
THEM IT IS WRITTEN, 'THEY SHALL
WALK WITH ME IN WHITE FOR THEY
00:51:52.66\00:51:57.46
ARE WORTHY." PRAISE THE LORD.
00:51:57.46\00:52:01.30
I'LL GIVE IT BACK TO YOU,
MIKE, FOR AWHILE, THANK YOU.
00:52:01.30\00:52:03.66
I APPRECIATE YOUR HELP.
OKAY, LET'S GO ON TO TUESDAY,
00:52:03.66\00:52:07.93
'THE LOWEST OF THE LOW' - OKAY,
WE'VE HAD - WHAT HAVE WE HAD?
00:52:07.93\00:52:10.43
'BOTTOM DWELLERS' AND
NOW THE 'LOWEST OF THE LOW'.
00:52:10.43\00:52:13.83
WE'VE HAD THE - OKAY - WE'RE
GOING LOWER, LOWER, LOWER DOWN
00:52:13.83\00:52:16.43
ON THE - ON THE TOTEM
POLE HERE - DOWN TO THE BOTTOM.
00:52:16.43\00:52:24.60
OKAY, WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS MAN
WHO - TERRIBLE - THE DEMONIAC -
00:52:24.60\00:52:32.26
IN MATTHEW 8 - YOU GET THE SAME
STORY IN MATTHEW 8 IT'S TWO MEN
00:52:32.26\00:52:36.20
- IN MARK IT'S ONE
MAN. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE.
00:52:36.20\00:52:41.26
IT'S JUST TWO DIFFERENT BIBLE
WRITERS - ONE REMEMBERS THERE'S
00:52:41.26\00:52:44.53
TWO - ONE IT'S ONE - THE
MAIN THING IS THE STORY - THE
00:52:44.53\00:52:48.20
CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH
THIS DEMONIAC WAS AND HOW JESUS
00:52:48.20\00:52:53.93
CONFRONTED THE EVIL THAT HAD
POSSESSED HIM - OR THEM - AND
00:52:53.93\00:52:59.00
HOW HE DEALT WITH IT. SO
I WANT TO READ - LET'S GO TO
00:52:59.00\00:53:06.26
MARK CHAPTER 5 - MARK CHAPTER
5 AND VERSES 1 THROUGH 5.
00:53:06.26\00:53:19.43
NOW, THE CONTEXT HERE, JESUS HAS
JUST COME OVER THE SEA AND HE'S
00:53:19.43\00:53:23.53
JUST GOT THROUGH
THE STORM, RIGHT?
00:53:23.53\00:53:25.10
THE TERRIBLE STORM AND HE SAYS,
'PEACE BE STILL' AND THE WIND
00:53:25.10\00:53:29.06
WENT AWAY, THE WAVES WENT AWAY,
AND THE MOON CAME OUT AND - BUT
00:53:29.06\00:53:34.93
HERE, IT'S - THEY GET OVER TO
THE OTHER SIDE, VERSE 1 - MARK
00:53:34.93\00:53:38.73
CHAPTER 5, "AND THEY CAME OVER
UNTO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEA,
00:53:38.73\00:53:42.36
INTO THE COUNTRY
OF THE GADARENES.
00:53:42.36\00:53:44.83
AND WHEN HE WAS COME OUT OF THE
SHIP, IMMEDIATELY THERE MET HIM
00:53:44.83\00:53:48.73
OUT OF THE TOMBS A MAN WITH
AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, WHO HAD HIS
00:53:48.73\00:53:53.40
DWELLING AMONG THE TOMBS; AND NO
MAN COULD BIND HIM, NO, NOT WITH
00:53:53.40\00:53:57.56
CHAINS: BECAUSE THAT HE HAD BEEN
OFTEN BOUND WITH FETTERS AND
00:53:57.56\00:54:01.83
CHAINS, AND THE CHAINS HAD BEEN
PLUCKED ASUNDER BY HIM, AND THE
00:54:01.83\00:54:05.53
FETTERS BROKEN IN PIECES:
NEITHER COULD ANY MAN TAME HIM.
00:54:05.53\00:54:09.86
AND ALWAYS, NIGHT AND DAY, HE
WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS, AND IN THE
00:54:09.86\00:54:12.80
TOMBS, CRYING, AND
CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES."
00:54:12.80\00:54:17.36
NOW, YOU CAN BE SURE AS JESUS
GETS OUT WITH THE DISCIPLES -
00:54:17.36\00:54:21.10
WHAT DO THE DISCIPLES
DO? THEY GET OUT OF THERE.
00:54:21.10\00:54:23.60
THEY RUN AWAY. THIS
MAN MUST HAVE BEEN A
00:54:23.60\00:54:24.70
TERRIBLE SIGHT - JUST
TOTALLY POSSESSED BY EVIL.
00:54:24.70\00:54:32.43
HE STOOD THERE WITH THE POWER
THAT HE POSSESSED AS A HUMAN
00:54:32.43\00:54:35.86
BEING THAT RECEIVED THAT FAITH
AND THAT TRUST FROM HIS HEAVENLY
00:54:35.86\00:54:39.23
FATHER THAT MADE HIM REALIZE
HE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF
00:54:39.23\00:54:42.80
ANYTHING. SO HE
STOOD HIS GROUND AND HE
00:54:42.80\00:54:45.70
RAISES HIS HAND TO THIS MAN AND
THIS DEMONIAC STOPS RIGHT THERE.
00:54:45.70\00:54:50.83
AND, OF COURSE, AS YOU READ THE
STORY, YOU FIND OUT THAT THIS
00:54:50.83\00:54:53.13
MAN IS POSSESSED NOT WITH
ONE DEMON, BUT WITH A LEGION.
00:54:53.13\00:54:57.70
AND IN A ROMAN LEGION THERE
WERE THREE TO FIVE THOUSAND MEN.
00:54:57.70\00:55:02.46
SO THIS MAN HERE IS POSSESSED
BY A MINIMUM OF THREE THOUSAND
00:55:02.46\00:55:07.23
DEMONS. JESUS CAN
SEE - HE'S PROBABLY
00:55:07.23\00:55:09.83
SEEN THEM ALL. HE STANDS THERE.
00:55:09.83\00:55:13.96
THEY DON'T COME ANY FURTHER AND
HE REBUKES THEM AND THEY COME
00:55:13.96\00:55:19.40
OUT. AND I WISH I
COULD TELL YOU THE
00:55:19.40\00:55:22.36
REST OF THE STORY
BUT OUR TIME'S GONE.
00:55:22.36\00:55:26.33
>>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION!
00:55:26.33\00:55:30.70
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
00:55:30.70\00:55:38.80
>>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN
FROM THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS
00:55:38.80\00:55:44.30
AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE
CHURCH UP UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE
00:55:44.30\00:55:48.00
SECOND COMING OF JESUS. IT
SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT
00:55:48.00\00:55:53.80
CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND THEN,
ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL
00:55:53.80\00:55:57.83
THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION.
THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE.
00:55:57.83\00:56:04.10
IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT IS
HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A
00:56:04.10\00:56:08.43
PROPHET. THOSE THINGS ARE
PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY.
00:56:08.43\00:56:12.53
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
00:56:12.53\00:56:22.73
>>THIS SCENE THAT WE'RE ABOUT
TO SHOOT IS 'THE MASSACRE OF
00:56:22.73\00:56:25.60
THE INNOCENTS'. IT IS
A BETHLEHEM LOCATION AND,
00:56:25.60\00:56:29.63
AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME, WE
HAVE THE FAUX WALLS THAT ARE UP.
00:56:29.63\00:56:33.70
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME GREEN
SCREEN THAT GIVES THE EXTENSION
00:56:33.70\00:56:36.26
OR THE ILLUSION THAT BETHLEHEM
GOES ON FOR A GOOD DISTANCE, SO
00:56:36.26\00:56:40.76
IT'S A BIGGER CITY
THAN WHAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME.
00:56:40.76\00:56:42.63
THIS HISTORIC EVENT IS CALLED
'THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS'
00:56:42.63\00:56:45.00
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SHOOTING
TONIGHT AND SO WE'RE HOPING THAT
00:56:45.00\00:56:47.26
WE'RE ABLE TO PULL IT OFF
IN A WAY THAT BRINGS TO LIFE
00:56:47.26\00:56:50.56
THE EVENT BUT ALSO DOES IT IN A
TASTEFUL WAY BECAUSE THAT EVENT,
00:56:50.56\00:56:53.90
OBVIOUSLY, WAS - IT WAS PRETTY
GRUESOME AND WE'RE HOPING TO
00:56:53.90\00:56:57.03
KEEP THAT OUT OF THE SHOT
BUT, AT THE SAME TIME, GIVE THE
00:56:57.03\00:57:01.36
ILLUSION THAT WE'RE HERE IN
BETHLEHEM AND WE ARE AT THIS
00:57:01.36\00:57:05.16
HORRIFIC EVENT.
00:57:05.16\00:57:17.70
>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
00:57:17.70\00:57:22.10
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:57:22.10\00:57:25.56
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK MILLIONS OF
00:57:25.56\00:57:28.63
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:28.63\00:57:32.36
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:32.36\00:57:34.73
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:34.73\00:57:37.56
WHO IS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S
00:57:37.56\00:57:40.90
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