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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE
OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING US HERE
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IN THE SANCTUARY
TO STUDY TOGETHER.
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE
OF YOU THAT HAVE EITHER TUNED IN
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FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME
OR YOU'RE A REGULAR STUDYING
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MEMBER WITH US EVERY WEEK,
WELCOME FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD. WE
KNOW IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT
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THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY
GOD'S WORD TOGETHER TO BECOME
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CLOSER TO HIM AND LEARN
MORE ABOUT HIS SOON COMING.
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WE ALWAYS BEGIN BY SINGING
A COUPLE OF HYMNS TOGETHER AND
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TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. SO
IF YOU ARE AT HOME AND YOU
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HAVE A HYMNAL NEARBY, I INVITE
YOU TO PULL THAT OUT AND WE ARE
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GOING TO SING TOGETHER HYMN #88
- 'I SING THE MIGHTY POWER OF
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GOD'. THIS COMES
AS A REQUEST FROM
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FRANK IN BARBADOS, NOVELETTE
IN JAPAN, OKETA IN THE SUDAN AND
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FAREN AND SOLOMON IN ENGLAND AND
ALSO MANY MORE REQUESTS FOR THIS
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SONG FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
HYMN #88 - WE WILL SING ALL
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THREE VERSES OF 'I SING
THE MIGHTY POWER OF GOD'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WHEN WE WERE
PRACTICING THAT SONG EARLIER,
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I WAS REMINDED THAT WHEN I WAS A
LITTLE GIRL WE USED TO SING THIS
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IN BODEN, NORTH DAKOTA AND
IT JUST REMINDS ME SO MUCH OF
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GROWING UP ON A FARM IN THE
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND YOU COULD
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SEE THE SKY AND YOU COULD HEAR
THE BIRDS AND YOU COULD WATCH
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THE THINGS GROWING AND THIS SONG
JUST TALKS ABOUT HOW GOD IS IN
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CHARGE OF EVERY SINGLE
THING. PRAISE THE LORD.
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OUR CREATOR AND
OUR SAVIOR, AMEN.
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IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL HYMN THAT
YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US
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ON A COMING STUDY, I
INVITE YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE.
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IT'S VERY SIMPLE:
'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND THERE YOU
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CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK
AND YOU CAN SING ANY HYMN IN THE
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HYMNAL WITH US ON A COMING STUDY
TOGETHER AND WE WILL TRY OUR
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BEST TO SING YOUR FAVORITE
WITH YOU. OUR NEXT HYMN -
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AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE LEARNING NEW
HYMNS - RIGHT ACROSS THE PAGE -
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HYMN #89 - 'LET ALL ON
EARTH THEIR VOICES RAISE'.
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AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE ANYBODY
ON THE PLANET KNOWS THIS SONG,
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BUT IT DOES REMIND US OF ALL
CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL SO IF
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YOU KIND OF KNOW THAT SONG,
YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW THIS ONE.
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HYMN #89 - WE'LL
SING ALL THREE VERSES.
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(MUSIC)
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>>LET'S PRAY. LORD, WHAT A
PRIVILEGE IT IS THIS MORNING TO
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PROCLAIM YOUR GRACE AND YOUR
MERCY AND YOUR LOVE TOWARDS US.
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AND PLEASE HELP US NOT TO BE
UNMINDFUL OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU
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HAVE DONE AND AS WE STUDY
TOGETHER AND WE LEARN MORE OF
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YOU, HELP US TO JUST TAKE THAT
TO HEART AND TO BE WILLING TO
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SHARE YOUR LOVE
WITH OTHERS AROUND US.
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LORD, THE WORLD IS
QUICKLY COMING TO A CLOSE.
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PLEASE HELP EACH ONE OF US THAT
LOVE YOU WITH ALL OF OUR HEARTS
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TO DO OUR PART TO HASTEN YOUR
COMING. PLEASE JUST BLESS US.
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BLESS PASTOR DOUG AND
LORD, JUST TAKE US HOME SOON.
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WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR
PRECIOUS AND HOLY NAME, AMEN.
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OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>MORNING. THANK YOU
JOLYNE AND OUR MUSICIANS.
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THAT SOUNDED BEAUTIFUL
LEARNING THESE NEW SONGS.
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HOW IS EVERYBODY? HAPPY SABBATH.
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I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS
WHO ARE WATCHING VIA TELEVISION
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OR SATELLITE, INTERNET - SOME
ARE, I KNOW, STILL LISTENING ON
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THE RADIO. I HAVE A
FRIEND WHO HAS A RADIO
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STATION IN EUROPE AND THEY TAKE
THE AUDIO OF THESE PROGRAMS AND
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THEY PLAY THEM ON A
NUMBER OF PLACES IN EUROPE.
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AND SO, I WANT TO WELCOME ALL
THOSE AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO
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ARE EXTENDED MEMBERS
OF SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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AND, BY THE WAY, YOU
KNOW I SHOULD PROBABLY SAY,
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I THINK MOST OF OUR
FRIENDS KNOW, BECAUSE
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THERE'S BEEN SOME COMMUNICATIONS
OUT THERE, I'M TECHNICALLY NOT
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THE PASTOR OF
SACRAMENTO ANYMORE.
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I WANT TO THANK CENTRAL CHURCH.
THEY'RE BEING VERY NICE IN
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LETTING ME COME AS A
GUEST TEACHER RIGHT NOW.
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WE'RE IN A LITTLE
BIT OF A TRANSITION.
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AS SOME OF YOU KNOW, I'M
NOW PASTORING THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH, WHICH IS A
SUBURB OF SACRAMENTO.
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CAN YOU CALL IT THAT? AND
WHEN I GET DONE HERE, I ZIP
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OVER THERE AND PREACH THE
SERMON THE LAST FEW WEEKS.
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AND SO I WANT TO
THANK CENTRAL CHURCH.
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WE HAVE NO ABILITY AT GRANITE
BAY FOR TAPING - CAN'T EVEN
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STREAM RIGHT NOW - THE
INTERNET'S SO SLOW OVER THERE.
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AND SO CENTRAL'S BEING VERY
NICE TO ALLOW ME TO BE A GUEST
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TEACHER WHILE THEY'RE DOING A
SEARCH HERE FOR A SENIOR PASTOR
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AND FIGURE OUT
WHAT THE NEXT STEP IS.
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WE TRUST WHEN THE DUST SETTLES
WE'LL END UP WITH ONE EXTRA
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CHURCH DOING MEDIA PROGRAMS SO
THAT YOU'LL HAVE EVEN MORE MEDIA
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CONTENT. AND SO THAT'S THE PLAN.
I HOPE YOU'LL PRAY ABOUT THAT.
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ANYWAY, THANK YOU AGAIN, CENTRAL
FAMILY, FOR LETTING ME BE A
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GUEST TEACHER
HERE. I APPRECIATE THAT.
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OUR LESSON IS ON DISCIPLESHIP.
WE'RE ON LESSON #10.
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OH YEAH, IN THE INTEREST
OF RUMOR CONTROL, WE'VE BEEN
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GETTING RUMORS AT AMAZING FACTS,
'WE'RE SO SORRY THAT PASTOR DOUG
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HAS RESIGNED.' NO, I DIDN'T
RESIGN FROM AMAZING FACTS.
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I'M STILL THERE, I JUST
MOVED CHURCHES. LESSON #10 -
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IT'S 'DISCIPLING THE NATIONS'
AND WE HAVE A FREE OFFER.
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WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT LIKE
IN OUR STUDY TODAY, JONAH, WHO
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WAS SENT TO OTHER NATIONS
BESIDES ISRAEL SO WE HAVE A BOOK
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CALLED 'THE SIGN OF JONAH' -
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE
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AND JUST ASK FOR OFFER #149.
IF YOU CALL THE NUMBER ON THE
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SCREEN THE NUMBER IS
866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S
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866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND THIS
TO YOU AND HOPEFULLY YOU'LL READ
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IT AND SHARE IT WITH
SOMEBODY ELSE - AND IT'S FREE.
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OUR LESSON TODAY IS REALLY
DEALING WITH THE THEME THAT IT'S
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ALWAYS BEEN GOD'S DESIRE THAT
THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION GOES TO
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THE WORLD - TO ALL NATIONS.
THERE'S A DANGER THAT WE
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SOMETIMES CAN THINK THAT IT
IS FOR A SELECT FEW FOR A SMALL
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GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE
PREDESTINED - THAT IT'S ONLY FOR
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ONE NATION OR FOR ONE
RACE AND THIS IS A MISTAKE.
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IF YOU - I'D LIKE TO BEGIN WITH
SOMETHING THAT'S NOT IN YOUR
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LESSON PER SE, BUT I THINK IT'S
VERY RELEVANT, ACTS CHAPTER 10.
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LET ME FIND OUT
WHERE OUR MICROPHONES ARE.
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WHO'S GOT THE MICROPHONES
FOR OUR SCRIPTURE? WE'VE GOT ONE
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THERE AND I DON'T KNOW
IF WE HAVE ONE ON THIS SIDE.
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SOMEONE - I'LL JUST GET
YOU READY - SOMEONE GOT VERSE -
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WE'VE GIVEN YOU VERSE - GENESIS
12:3 - WHO HAS THAT SLIP OF
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PAPER? GENESIS -
ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET YOU
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A MICROPHONE OVER
HERE FOR - JUST A MOMENT.
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THE NEXT PERSON
WILL BE HAGGAI 2:7.
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THAT'S YOU, OKAY. SO
JUST GET YOU PREPARED.
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BUT IN ACTS CHAPTER 10, HOW MANY
OF YOU REMEMBER THAT THE APOSTLE
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PETER, HE WAS PRAYING ON HIS
ROOF ONE DAY, WAITING AS THEY
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PREPARED DINNER DOWN BELOW AND
HE FELL INTO A TRANCE AND HAD A
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VISION AND IT WAS A VISION OF
THIS SHEET-LIKE STRUCTURE BEING
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LOWERED FROM HEAVEN - BY THE
FOUR CORNERS - AND IN THE SHEET
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WERE ALL MANNER OF FOUR-FOOTED
BEASTS AND THE WAY IT'S WORDED
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THERE IS 'UNCLEAN ANIMALS'.
AND THEN HE HEARS A VOICE FROM
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HEAVEN THAT SAYS,
'ARISE, KILL AND EAT'.
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PETER LOOKS AND HE SEES THAT
SHEET IS FULL OF THINGS THAT
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THEY HAD BEEN FORBIDDEN TO EAT.
HE SAID, 'NOT SO, LORD. I HAVE
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NEVER EATEN ANYTHING COMMON
OR UNCLEAN IN MY WHOLE LIFE.'
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AND GOD SAYS, 'DO NOT CALL
COMMON WHAT I HAVE CLEANSED'.
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WELL HE'S
WONDERING WHAT THIS MEANS.
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HE KNOWS HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO
LITERALLY TAKE SOMETHING OUT OF
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THE VISION AND COOK IT
FOR DINNER - HE KNOWS THEY'RE
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COOKING DINNER
DOWNSTAIRS. HE'S WONDERING,
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'WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?'
AND IT HAPPENS THREE TIMES AND
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EACH TIME HE
SAYS, 'NOT SO, LORD.
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I'VE NEVER EATEN ANYTHING
UNCLEAN.' HE'S WONDERING IF HE'S
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BEING TESTED LIKE DANIEL AND
HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT GOING TO EAT
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ANYTHING UNCLEAN.' AND WHILE
HE'S WONDERING, SOME PEOPLE
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KNOCK AT THE DOOR, THE VISION
GOES AWAY AND THERE ARE SOME
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MESSENGERS WHO HAVE COME FROM
A GENTILE SAYING, 'PLEASE COME,
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SPEAK WORDS TO US.' WELL, A
GENTILE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO GO -
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A JEW IS NOT SUPPOSED TO GO INTO
A GENTILE'S HOUSE BECAUSE THEY
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HAD THIS IDEA THAT BECAUSE GOD
HAD CHOSEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
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THEY WERE FAVORED, THEY WERE
PREDESTINED TO BE SAVED BUT THE
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OTHER NATIONS OUT
THERE, THEY WERE DOGS,
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THEY WERE
CURSED, THEY WERE LOST.
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AND I KNOW, IT'S HARD FOR US
TO GET OUR MINDS WRAPPED ABOUT
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THAT, BUT THIS
WAS THEIR MINDSET.
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SO IN ACTS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 28
PETER, RELATING THIS VISION, HE
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SAYS TO THEM, "YOU KNOW" - HE'S
TALKING TO CORNELIUS AND HIS
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FAMILY - "YOU KNOW HOW UNLAWFUL
IT IS FOR A JEWISH MAN TO KEEP
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COMPANY WITH OR GO TO
ONE OF ANOTHER NATION.
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BUT GOD HAS SHOWN ME THAT I
SHOULD NOT CALL ANY MAN COMMON
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OR UNCLEAN." THAT WAS A
BREAKTHROUGH FOR THEM. WHAT?
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THE GOSPEL - SEE, WHEN JESUS
SAID 'GO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN
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ALL NATIONS BEGINNING IN
JUDEA - SORRY, JERUSALEM, JUDEA,
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SAMARIA, THEN THE OUTERMOST
PARTS OF THE EARTH' - THEY
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THOUGHT THAT MEANT TO THE JEWS
WHO WERE IN JERUSALEM AND JUDEA
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AND SAMARIA BECAUSE THEY
WERE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.
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THEY CALLED IT 'THE DISPERSION'.
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THERE WERE JEWS ALL
OVER THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
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THEY WERE MERCHANTS IN EVERY
PART OF THE KNOWN WORLD BACK
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THEN AND THEY THOUGHT, 'WE'RE
SUPPOSED TO GO TELL THEM ABOUT
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JESUS.' YOU SEE, YOU CAN
UNDERSTAND PART OF THE REASON
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FOR THEIR MISUNDERSTANDING IS
JESUS, BEFORE HE WENT TO HEAVEN,
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HE SAID 'GO NOT INTO THE WAY OF
THE GENTILES, GO RATHER TO THE
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LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF
ISRAEL.' WELL, JESUS WAS SAYING,
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'UNTIL THE TIME OF THE JEWS IS
FULFILLED' - 34 AD, THE STONING
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OF STEPHEN - 'YOU ARE TO HAVE'
- THE MESSAGE FIRST WAS TO GO TO
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THE JEWS. EVEN PAUL SAID,
'TO THE JEW FIRST, THEN TO THE
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GREEK.' SO THERE WAS AN ORDER.
WHY? WHY TO THE JEW FIRST?
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WELL, BECAUSE GOD HAD GIVEN THEM
THE ORACLES OF TRUTH - LET ME
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EXPLAIN IT THIS WAY: WHEN I
DO EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS AND I
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SHARE THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE,
I FIND THE BEST GROUP FOR ME TO
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START WITH ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE
SOME BIBLICAL BACKGROUND BECAUSE
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I DON'T NEED TO
START FROM SCRATCH.
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I NEED TO TEACH THEM THE
RELEVANT PRACTICAL TRUTHS, FOR
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ONE THING, THAT THE SABBATH
IS STILL IN EXISTENCE, THE TRUTH
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ABOUT YOU DON'T DIE AND GO RIGHT
TO HEAVEN AND HELL BEFORE THE
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RESURRECTION, THE TRUTH THAT
YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE
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HOLY SPIRIT.
STARTING WITH PEOPLE THAT HAVE
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SOME BIBLICAL BACKGROUND OR SOME
CONFIDENCE IN THE BIBLE, IT IS A
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MUCH QUICKER WORK TO DO
- THEY'RE A QUICK STUDY.
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YOU TAKE SOMEONE FROM SOME PAGAN
COUNTRY OR AN ATHEIST COUNTRY
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THAT HAS NO BIBLE CONTEXT,
IT'S A LOT MORE WORK TO DO.
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SO IT MADE SENSE THAT JESUS
SAID, 'GO TEACH THE TRUTH ABOUT
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ME BEING THE MESSIAH.
START WITH THE LOST SHEEP OF THE
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HOUSE OF ISRAEL. THEY
ALREADY ARE LOOKING FOR THE
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MESSIAH. I DON'T
HAVE TO TALK TO THEM
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ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
I DON'T HAVE TO TALK TO THEM
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ABOUT THE
SACREDNESS OF THE SCRIPTURE.
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I DON'T HAVE TO TALK TO THEM
ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN ASPECTS
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OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
CLEANLINESS. THEY KNOW THAT.
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THEY DON'T KNOW I'M THE
MESSIAH.' SO THERE WAS A SPECIAL
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TRUTH. GO FIRST TO THEM.
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AND THEN, THEY PREACHED
EXCLUSIVELY TO THE JEWS.
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AT PENTECOST, WHEN THEY
WERE BAPTIZED, WHO WERE THEY?
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'THERE WERE DWELLING IN
JERUSALEM DEVOUT JEWS FROM OUT
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OF EVERY NATION UNDER
HEAVEN.' THEY WERE JEWS.
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SO THE LORD FINALLY, AFTER
STEPHEN WAS STONED AND AFTER
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THAT TIME WAS CUT OFF FOR THE
JEWISH NATION IN 34 AD, THAT WAS
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THE END OF THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY
OF DANIEL CHAPTER 9, THEY ARE
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NOW SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE GOSPEL
TO EVERYBODY AND IT TOOK A WHILE
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FOR THE LORD TO GET THAT THROUGH
TO THEM. AND THIS VISION TO
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PETER - PETER WAS ONE OF
THE FIRST - LATER TO PAUL.
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IT'S INTERESTING, PAUL, WHO
IS A WITNESS OF THE STONING OF
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STEPHEN - THAT ENDING POINT FOR
THAT PROPHECY, HE BECOMES THE
00:16:29.46\00:16:34.56
MOST PROFOUND APOSTLE
TO THE GENTILES OF ANY.
00:16:34.56\00:16:38.03
AND SO, THE GOSPEL IS NOT
SUPPOSED TO GO TO ONE SPECIFIC
00:16:38.03\00:16:42.33
PEOPLE, BUT IT'S
TO GO EVERYWHERE.
00:16:42.33\00:16:44.43
NOW I'LL SHOW YOU HOW THAT
APPEALS - OR HOW IT APPLIES TO
00:16:44.43\00:16:47.93
US AS CHRISTIANS TODAY.
ALRIGHT, WHO HAS GENESIS 12:3?
00:16:47.93\00:16:54.90
OVER HERE. GO AHEAD
AND READ THAT FOR US.
00:16:54.90\00:16:57.26
>>"I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS
YOU, AND I WILL CURSE HIM WHO
00:16:57.26\00:17:00.70
CURSES YOU; AND IN
YOU ALL THE FAMILIES OF
00:17:00.70\00:17:04.03
THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED."
00:17:04.03\00:17:06.60
>>ALRIGHT, EVEN THOUGH MANY
OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE THOUGHT 'WE
00:17:06.60\00:17:09.53
HAVE BEEN CHOSEN BECAUSE WE
ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, EVEN IN THE
00:17:09.53\00:17:13.50
PROMISE AND THE COVENANT THAT
GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM, HE MADE
00:17:13.50\00:17:16.23
IT CLEAR 'IT'S NOT JUST FOR YOUR
DESCENDENTS, BUT THROUGH YOUR
00:17:16.23\00:17:20.10
DESCENDENTS ALL NATIONS WOULD BE
BLESSED.' THE IDEA WAS NOT THAT
00:17:20.10\00:17:24.83
GOD JUST SAVES ONE RACE OF
PEOPLE, BUT THAT HE COMMITTED
00:17:24.83\00:17:28.10
HIS TRUTH TO ONE RACE AND
THROUGH THAT RACE, THE MESSIAH
00:17:28.10\00:17:31.86
WOULD COME AND THAT RACE WOULD
BE THE FIRST TO PROCLAIM HIM.
00:17:31.86\00:17:36.56
WHEN JESUS WAS INTRODUCED AND
PROCLAIMED, WHO WERE THE FIRST
00:17:36.56\00:17:40.13
ONES TO INTRODUCE HIM? IT
WAS THE APOSTLES - IT WAS JEWS.
00:17:40.13\00:17:43.93
GOD DIDN'T WANT THEM TO STOP,
BUT THE JEWISH NATION WAS TO BE
00:17:43.93\00:17:48.80
A NATION OF PRIESTS. NOW
WHAT GOOD IS IT IF YOU HAVE
00:17:48.80\00:17:53.63
ONLY PRIESTS IN A CHURCH?
IF EVERYBODY IN THE CHURCH IS A
00:17:53.63\00:17:58.40
PASTOR, WHO DO YOU PREACH
TO? KIND OF TOUGH, ISN'T IT?
00:17:58.40\00:18:03.43
IF EVERYBODY IS A
CHIEF, THEN WHO'S AN INDIAN?
00:18:03.43\00:18:06.23
YOU KNOW THAT OLD ONE?
CAN'T SAY THAT ANYMORE, IT'S NOT
00:18:06.23\00:18:08.16
POLITICALLY CORRECT, BUT HOW
MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT SAYING
00:18:08.16\00:18:10.46
BEFORE IT WAS RULED OUT?
AND SO, YET, THE PRIESTS HAD
00:18:10.46\00:18:14.96
SOMEONE - THEY NEEDED
PEOPLE TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR.
00:18:14.96\00:18:18.86
THEY WERE SUPPOSED
TO BE REACHING OUT.
00:18:18.86\00:18:20.26
AND SO IF ISRAEL WAS TO BE A
NATION - MATTER OF FACT, I NEED
00:18:20.26\00:18:23.96
TO READ THAT TO YOU.
EXODUS 19:6, "'AND YOU SHALL BE
00:18:23.96\00:18:28.86
TO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS
AND A HOLY NATION.'" - WHY?
00:18:28.86\00:18:33.20
BECAUSE THEY WERE TO REPRESENT
JESUS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD.
00:18:33.20\00:18:35.93
AND PETER REPEATS THIS. 1
PETER 2, VERSE 9, "BUT YOU ARE A
00:18:35.93\00:18:40.13
CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, HIS
00:18:40.13\00:18:43.13
OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE" -
AND SO THESE PEOPLE, THE
00:18:43.13\00:18:47.13
BELIEVERS, WERE TO
THEN MAKE ATONEMENT FOR
00:18:47.13\00:18:49.73
THE LOST AND
BRING THEM TO JESUS.
00:18:49.73\00:18:52.06
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD PLEASE,
READ FOR US HAGGAI 2, VERSE 7.
00:18:52.06\00:18:57.46
>>"'AND I WILL SHAKE ALL
NATIONS, AND THEY SHALL COME TO
00:18:57.46\00:19:00.50
THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS,
AND I WILL FILL THIS TEMPLE
00:19:00.50\00:19:04.03
WITH GLORY,' SAYS
THE LORD OF HOSTS."
00:19:04.03\00:19:06.83
>>NOW, MORE SPECIFICALLY, THAT
TEMPLE THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:19:06.83\00:19:09.36
WAS - HAGGAI LIVED DURING THE
TIME WHEN THEY BUILT THE THIRD
00:19:09.36\00:19:12.76
TEMPLE. YOU'VE GOT
THE TABERNACLE IN THE
00:19:12.76\00:19:15.46
WILDERNESS, YOU'VE SOLOMON'S
TEMPLE THAT WAS DESTROYED BY
00:19:15.46\00:19:18.20
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, THEN EZRA AND
NEHEMIAH CAME BACK AND HAGGAI
00:19:18.20\00:19:21.33
PROPHESIED WHILE THEY BUILT
THE THIRD TEMPLE AND THEY SAID,
00:19:21.33\00:19:24.23
'BOY, THIS THIRD
TEMPLE IS - WOW - IT'S SMALL.
00:19:24.23\00:19:27.86
I MEAN WE HAD FIRE COME DOWN
WHEN MOSES' TEMPLE WAS DEDICATED
00:19:27.86\00:19:30.73
AND FIRE CAME DOWN WHEN
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE WAS DEDICATED
00:19:30.73\00:19:33.40
AND IT WAS SO BIG AND GLORIOUS
AND THIS THIRD TEMPLE - IT'S
00:19:33.40\00:19:35.80
PRETTY SMALL AND THERE'S NO FIRE
- NO GLORY.' AND HAGGAI SAID,
00:19:35.80\00:19:39.40
'DON'T WORRY, THE GLORY'S
COMING BECAUSE THE MESSIAH WILL
00:19:39.40\00:19:42.03
COME INTO THIS TEMPLE.' AND THAT
WAS THE TEMPLE THAT JESUS TAUGHT
00:19:42.03\00:19:46.10
IN. AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, MY
FATHER'S HOUSE WILL BE A HOUSE
00:19:46.10\00:19:51.73
OF PRAYER' WHEN HE
WAS IN THAT TEMPLE.
00:19:51.73\00:19:53.40
SOME OF YOU HAVE READ
THE BOOK 'DESIRE OF AGES'.
00:19:53.40\00:19:56.16
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE READ
THAT BOOK? 'DESIRE OF AGES'?
00:19:56.16\00:19:58.26
OH, YOU ALL OUGHT
TO READ THAT BOOK.
00:19:58.26\00:19:59.80
HOW MANY OF YOU READ THE BOOK
BUT YOU DIDN'T JUST RAISE YOUR
00:19:59.80\00:20:01.10
HAND? I'M LOOKING
OUT THERE - I KNOW
00:20:01.10\00:20:04.10
SOME OF YOU READ THAT BOOK
AND YOU DIDN'T RAISE YOUR HAND.
00:20:04.10\00:20:05.83
AND IF YOU - YOU
NEED TO READ THAT BOOK.
00:20:05.83\00:20:07.90
THAT'S THE BEST BOOK ON THE LIFE
OF CHRIST THAT YOU'RE EVER GOING
00:20:07.90\00:20:10.23
TO RUN INTO. AND IT'S
CALLED THE 'DESIRE OF AGES'.
00:20:10.23\00:20:14.90
BASED ON THIS VERSE
SAYS THE 'DESIRE OF NATIONS'.
00:20:14.90\00:20:18.03
BUT ALL NATIONS WERE
TO COME TO THE TEMPLE.
00:20:18.03\00:20:21.33
IT WASN'T JUST FOR JEWS.
YOU REMEMBER PAUL - WHY WAS PAUL
00:20:21.33\00:20:24.80
ARRESTED AND SENT TO ROME?
BECAUSE THEY ACCUSED HIM OF
00:20:24.80\00:20:28.10
BRINGING A GENTILE - WHICH
HE DIDN'T - INTO THE TEMPLE.
00:20:28.10\00:20:32.23
BUT WASN'T - THEY HAD ONE
PART OF THE TEMPLE CALLED 'THE
00:20:32.23\00:20:34.86
GENTILE'S COURT' - THERE WAS
A PLACE GENTILES COULD COME BUT
00:20:34.86\00:20:37.50
YOU COULDN'T GO ANY FARTHER
THAN THAT UNTIL YOU WERE A JEW.
00:20:37.50\00:20:41.73
BUT THROUGH CHRIST - HE SAID,
'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE THAT IS
00:20:41.73\00:20:44.56
MADE WITH HANDS - I'LL MAKE
A TEMPLE WITHOUT HANDS' - ALL
00:20:44.56\00:20:47.53
PEOPLE WERE
INVITED TO THAT TEMPLE.
00:20:47.53\00:20:49.56
THE BODY OF CHRIST
IS THE CHURCH, RIGHT?
00:20:49.56\00:20:52.63
AND SO EVERYBODY IS
SUPPOSED TO GET THIS MESSAGE.
00:20:52.63\00:20:55.20
ALRIGHT, LET ME READ TO YOU
ISAIAH - NOW THIS IS PART OF OUR
00:20:55.20\00:20:57.83
MEMORY VERSE BUT I'M
GOING TO READ THE WHOLE THING.
00:20:57.83\00:20:59.53
ISAIAH 56, VERSES 6 THROUGH 8,
"'ALSO THE SONS OF THE FOREIGNER
00:20:59.53\00:21:06.03
WHO JOIN THEMSELVES TO THE LORD,
TO SERVE HIM,'" - DID, EVEN IN
00:21:06.03\00:21:09.70
THE OLD TESTAMENT, DID
THEY HAVE A PROVISION WHERE EVEN
00:21:09.70\00:21:13.13
FOREIGNERS COULD
JOIN THE ISRAELITES?
00:21:13.13\00:21:15.70
SURE. 'THE
STRANGER WHO JOINS YOU.' IF
00:21:15.70\00:21:18.53
IT WAS A MAN, THEY'D
HAVE TO BE CIRCUMCISED.
00:21:18.53\00:21:21.20
THEY'D HAVE TO BE
WILLING TO OBEY THE LAWS.
00:21:21.20\00:21:22.86
THEY WOULD BE WELCOMED
TO BECOME PART OF ISRAEL.
00:21:22.86\00:21:25.76
YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO
ONLY BE JEWISH BY BLOOD.
00:21:25.76\00:21:28.73
COMING OUT OF EGYPT THERE WERE
A LOT OF OTHER SLAVES THAT LEFT
00:21:28.73\00:21:31.50
EGYPT WITH THE ISRAELITES
CALLED 'THE MIXED MULTITUDE'.
00:21:31.50\00:21:34.00
MANY OF THEM WERE INGRAINED
AND INTERMARRIED AND BECAME
00:21:34.00\00:21:36.76
PART OF ISRAEL. PEOPLE
LIKE URIAH THE HITTITE -
00:21:36.76\00:21:39.96
HITTITES WERE NOT JEWS,
BUT URIAH BECAME AN ISRAELITE.
00:21:39.96\00:21:43.10
HE WORSHIPED THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
00:21:43.10\00:21:45.00
THERE WERE MANY LIKE
THAT YOU SEE THROUGH HISTORY.
00:21:45.00\00:21:47.03
"'THE SONS OF THE FOREIGNER WHO
JOIN THEMSELVES TO THE LORD, TO
00:21:47.03\00:21:49.96
SERVE HIM, AND TO LOVE THE NAME
OF THE LORD, TO BE HIS SERVANTS
00:21:49.96\00:21:53.36
- EVERYONE WHO KEEPS FROM
DEFILING THE SABBATH, AND HOLDS
00:21:53.36\00:21:56.13
FAST MY COVENANT'" - THEY WERE
TO EMBRACE THE COVENANT - TO
00:21:56.13\00:21:59.10
KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS -
"'EVEN THEM I WILL BRING TO MY
00:21:59.10\00:22:02.93
HOLY MOUNTAIN, AND MAKE THEM
JOYFUL IN MY HOUSE OF PRAYER."
00:22:02.93\00:22:05.90
- THEY COULD THEN COME INTO THE
TEMPLE - "'THEIR BURNT OFFERINGS
00:22:05.90\00:22:09.53
AND THEIR SACRIFICES WILL
BE ACCEPTED ON MY ALTAR; FOR MY
00:22:09.53\00:22:12.83
HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE
OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS.'" -
00:22:12.83\00:22:16.00
DOESN'T JESUS QUOTE THAT? -
00:22:16.00\00:22:18.23
"THE LORD GOD, WHO GATHERS THE
OUTCASTS OF ISRAEL, SAYS, 'YET I
00:22:18.23\00:22:21.63
WILL GATHER TO HIM OTHERS
BESIDES THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED
00:22:21.63\00:22:24.60
TO HIM.'" SO IT WAS
ALWAYS GOD'S PLAN THAT ISRAEL BE
00:22:24.60\00:22:28.73
REPRESENTATIVES TO BRING
EVERYBODY TO GOD - THE WHOLE
00:22:28.73\00:22:32.76
NATION - WHOLE WORLD WAS
TO BE BROUGHT TO THE LORD.
00:22:32.76\00:22:36.00
MICAH 4:1 - SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR
ME ISAIAH 2 - I THINK I'VE GIVEN
00:22:36.00\00:22:41.20
THAT OUT TO YOU - ISAIAH
2:2 - WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
00:22:41.20\00:22:44.03
OKAY? WE'LL GET
YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:22:44.03\00:22:46.66
AND I'M GOING TO READ MICAH
4:1 AND 2. "NOW IT SHALL COME TO
00:22:46.66\00:22:53.63
PASS IN THE LATTER DAYS THAT
THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE
00:22:53.63\00:22:57.36
SHALL BE ESTABLISHED ON THE TOP
OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND SHALL BE
00:22:57.36\00:23:01.80
EXALTED ABOVE THE HILLS; AND
THE PEOPLES SHALL FLOW TO IT.
00:23:01.80\00:23:05.36
MANY NATIONS SHALL COME AND SAY,
'COME, AND LET US GO UP TO THE
00:23:05.36\00:23:09.26
MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD, TO THE
HOUSE OF THE GOD OF JACOB; HE
00:23:09.26\00:23:12.53
WILL TEACH US HIS WAYS, AND WE
SHALL WALK IN HIS PATHS' FOR OUT
00:23:12.53\00:23:17.20
OF ZION THE LAW SHALL GO FORTH,
AND THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM
00:23:17.20\00:23:20.56
JERUSALEM." NOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
WELL, IT HAS HAPPENED IN ONE
00:23:20.56\00:23:26.26
SENSE: AFTER JESUS, DID THE
GOSPEL THEN GO TO MANY NATIONS?
00:23:26.26\00:23:31.90
WHEN CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD
AND, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF YOU SAY,
00:23:31.90\00:23:39.06
'CHRISTIANS - THE BIGGER FAMILY
OF CHRISTIANS' - AS OPPOSED TO
00:23:39.06\00:23:41.80
THINKING OF EITHER PROTESTANT
OR CATHOLIC OR A SPECIFIC
00:23:41.80\00:23:44.16
DENOMINATION - CHRISTIANS AROUND
THE WORLD, WHAT BOOK ARE THEY
00:23:44.16\00:23:48.16
READING? AREN'T
THEY READING THE BOOK
00:23:48.16\00:23:50.26
WRITTEN BY MOSES, PETER,
JAMES AND JOHN - THE BIBLE?
00:23:50.26\00:23:54.60
ARE THEY WORSHIPING - ARE THEY
LEARNING THE WAYS OF THE LORD
00:23:54.60\00:23:58.26
FROM THE ISRAELITES? AND
SO, IN A SENSE, ALL NATIONS
00:23:58.26\00:24:02.53
FLOW - PEOPLE OUT OF EVERY
NATION HAVE TURNED TO CHRIST.
00:24:02.53\00:24:06.40
SO, PARTIALLY, THAT HAS
BEEN FULFILLED BUT IT'S NOT
00:24:06.40\00:24:09.00
COMPLETELY FULFILLED YET.
ALRIGHT, I THINK WE'VE GOT
00:24:09.00\00:24:11.53
SOMEONE - YOU'RE GOING TO
READ FOR US A SIMILAR VERSE -
00:24:11.53\00:24:15.60
ISAIAH 2:2. >>"NOW
IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN
00:24:15.60\00:24:19.33
THE LATTER DAYS THAT THE
MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE
00:24:19.33\00:24:21.96
SHALL BE ESTABLISHED ON THE TOP
OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND SHALL BE
00:24:21.96\00:24:24.80
EXALTED ABOVE THE HILLS; AND
ALL NATIONS SHALL FLOW TO IT."
00:24:24.80\00:24:29.20
>>YOU NOTICE HOW THAT IS
VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL TO THE
00:24:29.20\00:24:31.70
PROPHECY OF MICAH
THAT WE JUST READ?
00:24:31.70\00:24:35.46
IF YOU'RE WONDERING IF A
PROPHECY IS SURE - YOU THINK IF
00:24:35.46\00:24:39.56
TWO PROPHETS SAY IT - YOU'VE
GOT THE MOUTH OF TWO WITNESSES -
00:24:39.56\00:24:41.90
THAT'S A DEFINITE PROPHECY.
SO THIS IS WORD FOR WORD - MICAH
00:24:41.90\00:24:45.06
SAYS - MICAH IS BASICALLY
QUOTING THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH,
00:24:45.06\00:24:48.90
BECAUSE MICAH
COMES AFTER ISAIAH.
00:24:48.90\00:24:50.76
HUNDREDS OF YEARS HAD GONE
BY BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM.
00:24:50.76\00:24:53.36
HE'S SAYING, 'THIS WILL SURELY
HAPPEN.' WHY DOES MICAH REPEAT
00:24:53.36\00:24:56.86
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH?
ISAIAH LIVED DURING THE TIME OF
00:24:56.86\00:24:59.90
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
- IT WAS DESTROYED.
00:24:59.90\00:25:02.66
AND NOW THEY'RE WONDERING, 'OH,
THAT PROPHECY ABOUT THE TEMPLE
00:25:02.66\00:25:05.06
BEING BUILT AND ALL NATIONS
FLOWING INTO IT, I GUESS IT'S
00:25:05.06\00:25:07.93
NEVER GOING TO COME TRUE.' YOU
KNOW, WE'VE GOT SOME PROPHECIES
00:25:07.93\00:25:11.83
AND PEOPLE SAY, 'I DON'T SEE HOW
THAT'S EVER GOING TO COME TRUE.
00:25:11.83\00:25:14.76
HOW WILL YOU EVER HAVE A NATION
LIKE AMERICA WITH ALL OF OUR
00:25:14.76\00:25:18.96
COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM - PERSONAL
CHOICE - THAT WE COULD EVER BE
00:25:18.96\00:25:23.26
COMPELLING PEOPLE TO
WORSHIP A CERTAIN WAY.
00:25:23.26\00:25:26.10
THAT'LL NEVER HAPPEN
IN AMERICA.' BUT THEY WERE
00:25:26.10\00:25:30.26
THINKING, 'HOW WILL THE TEMPLE
EVER BE BUILT AGAIN AFTER IT'S
00:25:30.26\00:25:32.80
JUST RUINS?' MICAH
SAID, 'IT WILL BE BUILT
00:25:32.80\00:25:35.33
AGAIN AND NATIONS WILL FLOW TO
IT.' AND WAS IT REBUILT? IT WAS.
00:25:35.33\00:25:40.46
AND THEN IT WAS DESTROYED AFTER
THE TIME OF CHRIST AND THEY
00:25:40.46\00:25:43.10
THOUGHT, 'HOW IS IT EVER
GOING TO BE BUILT AGAIN?'
00:25:43.10\00:25:45.30
AND JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS
TEMPLE AND I WILL RAISE IT UP.'
00:25:45.30\00:25:48.33
AND THE CHURCH WAS RAISED UP.
AND IS THERE GOING TO BE A DAY
00:25:48.33\00:25:51.26
WHEN WE'LL ALL BE TOGETHER IN
THE NEW JERUSALEM AND ALL FLESH
00:25:51.26\00:25:54.06
WILL COME TO WORSHIP BEFORE
THE LORD FROM ONE NEW MOON TO
00:25:54.06\00:25:57.16
ANOTHER AND ONE
SABBATH TO ANOTHER?
00:25:57.16\00:25:58.63
SO WE WONDER 'HOW COULD THIS
PROPHECY EVER BE FULFILLED?'
00:25:58.63\00:26:01.56
WHEN GOD'S WORD SAYS IT - THE
WHOLE WORLD WILL CHANGE BUT HIS
00:26:01.56\00:26:04.50
WORD WON'T CHANGE. IT'LL HAPPEN.
00:26:04.50\00:26:06.36
DON'T ASK ME HOW IT ALL FITS
TOGETHER BUT IT WILL HAPPEN.
00:26:06.36\00:26:08.93
NONE OF GOD'S
WORDS FALL ON THE GROUND.
00:26:08.93\00:26:11.43
ALRIGHT, THEN - I LIKE ALSO THAT
JONAH IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE
00:26:11.43\00:26:16.50
PROPHECIES ABOUT THE GOSPEL
GOING TO THE NATIONS BECAUSE
00:26:16.50\00:26:22.06
JONAH - WHEN GOD SAYS 'ARISE
AND GO TO NINEVEH AND PREACH TO
00:26:22.06\00:26:25.50
THEM' - 'NINEVEH? THE
ASSYRIANS ARE OUR ENEMIES.
00:26:25.50\00:26:30.46
YOU WANT ME TO PREACH THAT
YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY THEM IN
00:26:30.46\00:26:33.16
FORTY DAYS.
THEY'VE GOT TO REPENT?
00:26:33.16\00:26:34.90
WELL, LET'S JUST SKIP
WARNING THEM. JUST DESTROY THEM.
00:26:34.90\00:26:38.06
THEY'RE HEATHEN, THEY'RE DOGS,
THEY'RE LOST.' GOD SAID, 'NO, I
00:26:38.06\00:26:41.93
WANT YOU TO GO EAST AND TALK TO
THEM.' AND JONAH SAID, 'NO, I'M
00:26:41.93\00:26:44.16
GOING WEST.' HE
DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT.
00:26:44.16\00:26:46.96
AND GOD FINALLY HAD
TO GET HIS ATTENTION.
00:26:46.96\00:26:49.13
NOW YOU KNOW WHY JONAH'S AN
INTERESTING STORY, JONAH IS THE
00:26:49.13\00:26:53.96
ONLY JEW IN THE STORY.
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE IN THE
00:26:53.96\00:26:57.40
STORY BUT JONAH'S THE ONLY JEW.
YOU'VE GOT THE CAPTAIN, YOU'VE
00:26:57.40\00:27:01.63
GOT THE SAILORS, YOU'VE GOT THE
NINEVITES. YOU'VE GOT - IT TALKS
00:27:01.63\00:27:05.43
ABOUT CHILDREN, IT TALKS ABOUT
ANIMALS, IT TALKS ABOUT WORMS,
00:27:05.43\00:27:07.76
IT TALKS ABOUT
WHALES, IT TALKS ABOUT PLANTS.
00:27:07.76\00:27:10.23
THE BOOK OF JONAH IS A VERY,
VERY INTERESTING, INSPIRED BOOK.
00:27:10.23\00:27:14.50
IT TALKS ABOUT THE
WEATHER. IT TALKS ABOUT ZOOLOGY.
00:27:14.50\00:27:19.53
IT TALKS ABOUT THE PEOPLE
REPENTING, THE ANIMALS REPENTING
00:27:19.53\00:27:22.03
- I MEAN, JONAH COVERS
EVERYTHING AND THE ONLY JEW
00:27:22.03\00:27:24.40
IN THE BOOK IS JONAH AND THE
ONLY ONE WHO DOES NOT WANT TO
00:27:24.40\00:27:27.60
TELL ABOUT GOD IN
THE BOOK IS JONAH.
00:27:27.60\00:27:30.16
EVERYBODY IN THE BOOK LISTENS
TO THE MESSAGE OF GOD: THE WIND
00:27:30.16\00:27:34.26
LISTENS, THE WHALE LISTENS, THE
WORM LISTENS, THE PLANT LISTENS,
00:27:34.26\00:27:37.93
THE SAILOR LISTENS, THE CAPTAIN
LISTENS, THE KING LISTENS, THE
00:27:37.93\00:27:40.76
ANIMALS LISTEN,
THE CHILDREN LISTEN.
00:27:40.76\00:27:43.16
THE ONLY ONE WHO
DOESN'T LISTEN IS JONAH.
00:27:43.16\00:27:46.30
THE ONLY ONE IN THE STORY WHO
KNOWS THE WORD OF GOD IS JONAH.
00:27:46.30\00:27:50.20
HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T
WANT TO TELL THE WORD OF GOD.
00:27:50.20\00:27:53.26
NOW, DO YOU THINK THERE COULD BE
A MESSAGE IN THERE FOR US THAT
00:27:53.26\00:27:58.73
SOMETIMES THE PEOPLE OF GOD
ARE THE ONES THAT ARE THE MOST
00:27:58.73\00:28:01.43
RELUCTANT TO SHARE THE MESSAGE
OF GOD AND WE THINK NOBODY
00:28:01.43\00:28:04.96
REALLY WANTS IT. NO
ONE WILL REALLY LISTEN?
00:28:04.96\00:28:07.50
WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
'THE LABORERS ARE MANY, THE
00:28:07.50\00:28:11.40
HARVEST IS FEW'? NO, HE
SAID 'THE HARVEST IS GREAT.
00:28:11.40\00:28:16.23
PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE HUNGRY.
THEY WANT TO HEAR THE WORD OF
00:28:16.23\00:28:18.46
TRUTH. THEY'RE PERISHING.
THEY'RE COMING TO THE CHURCH AND
00:28:18.46\00:28:21.43
WAKING US UP AND SAYING,
'WHAT MEANEST THOU O SLEEPER?
00:28:21.43\00:28:24.70
WHY DON'T YOU
CALL UPON YOUR GOD?
00:28:24.70\00:28:26.26
WE'RE PERISH - THE WORLD'S
ENDING, HOW COME YOU DON'T TELL
00:28:26.26\00:28:28.13
US WHAT THE TRUTH IS?'
THAT'S THE WORLD WONDERING
00:28:28.13\00:28:30.46
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE CHURCH.
'YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE THAT THE
00:28:30.46\00:28:32.50
WORLD'S ENDING. YOU
BELIEVE JESUS IS COMING.
00:28:32.50\00:28:34.43
YOU DON'T ACT LIKE YOU BELIEVE
IT.' BUT THIS IS A MESSAGE
00:28:34.43\00:28:38.16
THAT'S SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE
WORLD AND WE DON'T TAKE IT NEXT
00:28:38.16\00:28:40.93
DOOR. HUH? THAT'S
THE MESSAGE OF JONAH.
00:28:40.93\00:28:47.30
AND FINALLY JONAH LISTENS TO
THE LORD - WELL, WHEN HE FINALLY
00:28:47.30\00:28:51.60
REPENTS HE TELLS THE SAILORS,
THEY REPENT, THEY TURN TO GOD.
00:28:51.60\00:28:55.50
HE GOES TO NINEVEH, THEY
REPENT AND THEY TURN TO GOD.
00:28:55.50\00:28:58.26
BIGGEST REVIVAL IN THE
BIBLE IS IN THE STORY OF JONAH.
00:28:58.26\00:29:01.63
WHEN A WHOLE NATION - A WHOLE
COUNTRY REPENTS BECAUSE OF THE
00:29:01.63\00:29:05.16
PREACHING OF ONE
PERSON - THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD
00:29:05.16\00:29:06.90
EVANGELISTIC MEETING.
00:29:06.90\00:29:09.80
THE WORST EVANGELISTIC MEETING
IN THE BIBLE IS PROBABLY NOAH.
00:29:09.80\00:29:12.46
PREACHES 120 YEARS - YOU KNOW,
WE HAVE A SIX-WEEK MEETING HERE
00:29:12.46\00:29:16.63
AND YOU FOLKS THING, 'MAN!'
NOAH HAD 120-YEAR EVANGELISTIC
00:29:16.63\00:29:20.10
MEETING AND HE COULD ONLY
GET HIS FAMILY TO ATTEND, RIGHT?
00:29:20.10\00:29:26.90
NINEVEH IS THE BEST EVANGELISTIC
MEETING IN THE BIBLE.
00:29:26.90\00:29:31.36
AND FINALLY, WHEN HE GOES TO THE
OTHER NATIONS, THEY'RE HUNGRY.
00:29:31.36\00:29:36.10
WHY DID THEY WANT TO STONE JESUS
WHEN HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY?
00:29:36.10\00:29:40.53
YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST
TIME THEY TRIED TO STONE JESUS?
00:29:40.53\00:29:42.60
HE WENT TO NINEVEH - NO,
NAZARETH, SORRY - HE WENT TO
00:29:42.60\00:29:45.63
NAZARETH AND HE STOOD UP TO
PREACH AND HE SAID, 'THERE WERE
00:29:45.63\00:29:49.70
MANY LEPERS' - I'M PARAPHRASING
- 'THERE WERE MANY LEPERS IN THE
00:29:49.70\00:29:52.56
LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE DAYS OF
NAAMAN, BUT UNTO NONE OF THEM -
00:29:52.56\00:29:57.03
NONE OF THEM WAS CLEANSED - I'M
SORRY - 'THERE WERE MANY LEPERS
00:29:57.03\00:30:00.93
IN THE LAND' - THAT'S WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN YOU PARAPHRASE -
00:30:00.93\00:30:03.20
'THERE WERE MANY LEPERS IN THE
LAND IN THE DAYS OF ELISHA; NONE
00:30:03.20\00:30:05.63
OF THEM WAS CLEANSED
EXCEPT NAAMAN THE SYRIAN.
00:30:05.63\00:30:09.10
AND THERE WERE MANY WIDOWS IN
THE LAND IN THE DAYS OF ELIJAH
00:30:09.10\00:30:13.30
BUT ELIJAH WASN'T SENT TO ANY
HEBREW WIDOW, HE WAS SENT TO A
00:30:13.30\00:30:16.73
CANAANITE WOMAN.' AND JESUS
TELLS US 'MANY WILL COME FROM
00:30:16.73\00:30:22.33
THE EAST AND THE WEST AND
SIT DOWN IN THE KINGDOM WITH
00:30:22.33\00:30:24.70
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB AND
THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM' -
00:30:24.70\00:30:27.33
THE NATURAL ONES - 'WILL BE IN
OUTER DARKNESS.' THEY BECAME SO
00:30:27.33\00:30:31.06
UPSET THEY THRUST HIM OUT OF THE
SYNAGOGUE, THEY TOOK HIM TO A
00:30:31.06\00:30:35.56
STEEP BLUFF ON THE HILLS NEAR
NAZARETH AND THEY WERE GOING TO
00:30:35.56\00:30:39.60
TOSS HIM OFF A CLIFF BUT HE
SOMEHOW GOT OUT OF THEIR HANDS
00:30:39.60\00:30:42.16
AND WALKED THROUGH
THE CROWD AND ESCAPED.
00:30:42.16\00:30:44.26
WHY WERE THEY SO OUTRAGED THAT
HE WOULD SAY THAT THE MESSAGE OF
00:30:44.26\00:30:48.20
TRUTH IS TO GO TO THE GENTILES?
THEY WERE OCCUPIED, AT THAT
00:30:48.20\00:30:52.56
TIME, BY THE ROMANS AND THEY
WERE JUST - THEY FOUND GREAT
00:30:52.56\00:30:55.93
SATISFACTION IN THINKING
THESE ARE - THEY'RE ALL LOST -
00:30:55.93\00:30:59.03
THEY'RE ALL DOGS. WE'VE
GOT THE TRUTH. THEY DON'T.
00:30:59.03\00:31:02.03
WE'RE GOING TO KEEP TO OURSELVES
SO THAT THEY'RE LOST.' AND THEY
00:31:02.03\00:31:04.40
KIND OF CLOISTERED THEMSELVES
AND THEY SEQUESTERED THEMSELVES.
00:31:04.40\00:31:08.73
THEY SAID, 'WE ARE THE FROZEN
CHOSEN.' NOW WE WOULDN'T DO
00:31:08.73\00:31:12.93
THAT, RIGHT? I WANT
TO SHOW YOU A STORY IN
00:31:12.93\00:31:16.16
THE BIBLE. TURN WITH ME TO LUKE
16. THE GOSPEL IS SUPPOSED TO
00:31:16.16\00:31:21.40
GO TO THE NATIONS. IN
LUKE 16 WE'VE GOT THE PARABLE
00:31:21.40\00:31:28.50
- IT'S ONLY FOUND IN LUKE 16 -
OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS AND
00:31:28.50\00:31:33.83
WE'LL START WITH
VERSE 11 - NO, 19 - SORRY.
00:31:33.83\00:31:40.66
"THERE WAS A CERTAIN RICH MAN
WHO WAS CLOTHED IN PURPLE AND
00:31:40.66\00:31:44.06
FINE LINEN AND FARED" -
OR FEASTED - "SUMPTUOUSLY" -
00:31:44.06\00:31:46.83
LAVISHLY - "EVERY DAY.
00:31:46.83\00:31:48.90
BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR
NAMED LAZARUS, FULL OF SORES,
00:31:48.90\00:31:51.40
WHO WAS LAID AT HIS GATE,
DESIRING TO BE FED WITH THE
00:31:51.40\00:31:54.33
CRUMBS WHICH FELL
FROM THE RICH MAN'S TABLE.
00:31:54.33\00:31:56.86
MOREOVER THE DOGS
CAME AND LICKED HIS SORES.
00:31:56.86\00:31:59.80
SO IT WAS THAT THE BEGGAR DIED,
AND WAS CARRIED BY THE ANGELS TO
00:31:59.80\00:32:03.00
ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. THE RICH
MAN ALSO DIED AND WAS BURIED.
00:32:03.00\00:32:06.60
AND BEING IN TORMENTS IN HADES,
HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND SAW
00:32:06.60\00:32:09.93
ABRAHAM AFAR OFF,
AND LAZARUS IN HIS BOSOM.
00:32:09.93\00:32:15.10
THEN HE CRIED AND SAID, 'FATHER
ABRAHAM, HAVE MERCY ON ME, AND
00:32:15.10\00:32:18.36
SEND LAZARUS THAT HE MAY DIP THE
TIP OF HIS FINGER IN WATER AND
00:32:18.36\00:32:22.03
COOL MY TONGUE; FOR I AM
TORMENTED IN THIS FLAME.' BUT
00:32:22.03\00:32:25.73
ABRAHAM SAID, 'SON, REMEMBER
THAT IN YOUR LIFETIME YOU
00:32:25.73\00:32:28.93
RECEIVED YOUR GOOD THINGS, AND
LIKEWISE LAZARUS EVIL THINGS;
00:32:28.93\00:32:31.66
BUT NOW HE IS
COMFORTED AND YOU ARE TORMENTED.
00:32:31.66\00:32:33.86
AND BESIDES ALL THIS, BETWEEN
US AND YOU THERE IS A GREAT GULF
00:32:33.86\00:32:36.70
FIXED, SO THAT THOSE WHO WANT
TO PASS FROM HERE TO YOU CANNOT,
00:32:36.70\00:32:41.30
NOR CAN THOSE FROM THERE PASS
TO US.' THEN HE SAID, 'I BEG YOU
00:32:41.30\00:32:44.76
THEREFORE, FATHER, THAT YOU
WOULD SEND HIM TO MY FATHER'S
00:32:44.76\00:32:47.33
HOUSE, FOR I HAVE FIVE BROTHERS,
THAT HE MAY TESTIFY TO THEM,
00:32:47.33\00:32:51.00
LEST THEY ALSO COME TO THIS
PLACE OF TORMENT.' ABRAHAM SAID
00:32:51.00\00:32:54.93
TO HIM, 'THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE
PROPHETS; LET THEM HEAR THEM.'
00:32:54.93\00:32:58.33
AND HE SAID, 'NO, FATHER
ABRAHAM; BUT IF ONE GOES TO THEM
00:32:58.33\00:33:00.70
FROM THE DEAD, THEY WILL
REPENT.' BUT HE SAID TO HIM, 'IF
00:33:00.70\00:33:03.33
THEY DO NOT HEAR MOSES AND THE
PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY BE
00:33:03.33\00:33:05.73
PERSUADED THOUGH ONE RISE FROM
THE DEAD.'" ALRIGHT, TYPICALLY
00:33:05.73\00:33:09.10
WHEN WE READ THIS PARABLE
OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS, WE
00:33:09.10\00:33:12.70
INSTANTLY DRIFT OFF INTO A
DISCUSSION OF THE STATE OF MAN
00:33:12.70\00:33:17.90
AND DEATH. DO PEOPLE
GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN AND
00:33:17.90\00:33:20.56
HELL AS SOON AS THEY DIE?
AND A LOT OF FOLKS POINT TO THIS
00:33:20.56\00:33:23.30
PARABLE - OF COURSE THIS PARABLE
HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO
00:33:23.30\00:33:26.30
WITH THAT. FIRST OF
ALL, IT'S A PARABLE,
00:33:26.30\00:33:29.03
WHICH IS PRETTY CLEAR FROM THE
VERY STRONG SYMBOLISM THAT'S IN
00:33:29.03\00:33:33.46
THERE; THE IDEA THAT EVERYBODY
THAT DIES SOMEHOW FITS INTO
00:33:33.46\00:33:35.90
ABRAHAM'S BOSOM WOULD GIVE
ABRAHAM A PRETTY BIG BOSOM.
00:33:35.90\00:33:39.86
THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE IN HEAVEN
AND HELL CAN TALK TO EACH OTHER
00:33:39.86\00:33:43.40
IS ALSO A PRETTY HORRIFIC
THOUGHT AND THE IDEA THAT ONE
00:33:43.40\00:33:49.23
DROP OF WATER WOULD COOL A
PERSON'S TONGUE WHO IS BURNING
00:33:49.23\00:33:52.16
IN HELL - IT'S FULL OF
SYMBOLISM IN THE STORY.
00:33:52.16\00:33:55.63
IT'S VERY INTERESTING: ALL
THE JEWS - THEY SAID, 'WE'LL BE
00:33:55.63\00:33:59.60
SAVED BECAUSE WE'RE
ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN.'
00:33:59.60\00:34:01.36
THEY EXPECTED TO GO
AND BE CLOSE TO ABRAHAM.
00:34:01.36\00:34:04.46
THE GENTILES, THEY BELIEVED
IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY - THAT WHEN
00:34:04.46\00:34:07.36
YOU'RE LOST YOU GO TO HADES,
RULED BY A GOD CALLED PLUTO.
00:34:07.36\00:34:11.56
JESUS USED GREAT IRONY HERE
- IT'S A PARADOX - HE HAS THE
00:34:11.56\00:34:16.36
GENTILE GOING TO THE JEWISH
PLACE OF BLISS AND HE'S GOT THE
00:34:16.36\00:34:20.66
JEW, THE RICH MAN, GOING TO
THE HEATHEN PLACE OF TORMENT.
00:34:20.66\00:34:25.56
SO EVERYBODY LISTENING
BACK THEN KNEW THAT THIS WAS AN
00:34:25.56\00:34:29.03
ILLUSTRATION. THEY
ALSO KNEW THAT IT HAD
00:34:29.03\00:34:31.80
NOTHING TO DO WITH
THE STATE OF THE DEAD.
00:34:31.80\00:34:33.03
WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING - THE
JEWS THOUGHT THEY WERE RICH AND
00:34:33.03\00:34:35.06
INCREASED WITH GOODS BECAUSE
THEY HAD THE TRUTH - THEY HAD
00:34:35.06\00:34:37.40
MOSES AND THE PROPHETS - THEY
HAD THE WORD OF GOD, WHILE THE
00:34:37.40\00:34:41.06
GENTILES AROUND THEM, LIKE
BEGGARS, THEY CALLED THEM DOGS.
00:34:41.06\00:34:44.90
REMEMBER LAZARUS, THE ONLY THING
HE GETS IS THE DOGS LICKING HIS
00:34:44.90\00:34:46.96
SORES. AND SOME
PEOPLE SAY, 'THIS MUST
00:34:46.96\00:34:49.10
BE A TRUE STORY BECAUSE
JESUS USED AN ACTUAL NAME IN THE
00:34:49.10\00:34:51.60
PARABLE.' LAZARUS WAS ABOUT THE
MOST COMMON NAME THAT YOU COULD
00:34:51.60\00:34:56.30
HAVE BACK THEN.
IT'S RELATED TO THE NAME
00:34:56.30\00:34:58.56
'ELIEZER' - IT'S A
GREEK VERSION OF IT - LAZARUS.
00:34:58.56\00:35:01.83
AND IT IS INTERESTING THAT JESUS
RAISED SOMEONE FROM THE DEAD BY
00:35:01.83\00:35:05.26
THE NAME OF LAZARUS AND
THEY STILL DIDN'T BELIEVE.
00:35:05.26\00:35:07.73
SO HE MIGHT HAVE USED THE
NAME TO ILLUSTRATE 'I'M GOING TO
00:35:07.73\00:35:10.33
RAISE SOMEONE BY THAT VERY NAME
AND YOU STILL WILL NOT BELIEVE.
00:35:10.33\00:35:13.73
BUT DON'T PUT
ANYTHING INTO THE NAME.
00:35:13.73\00:35:16.10
I MEAN, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU
HEARD SOMEONE USE A STORY AND
00:35:16.10\00:35:18.40
THEY SAY, 'ONE DAY, JOHN DOE
WAS DOING THIS OR THAT.' AND YOU
00:35:18.40\00:35:22.30
KNOW JOHN DOE IS JUST A -
IT'S A LABEL - IT'S FILLING IN.
00:35:22.30\00:35:26.80
SO HE JUST PLUGS IN ONE OF THE
MOST COMMON NAMES - IT WAS LIKE
00:35:26.80\00:35:29.70
BOB OR GEORGE OR FRANK OR ED
OR JOHN AND - BUT WHAT DOES IT
00:35:29.70\00:35:35.30
REALLY SAY? THE
JEWS BELIEVED 'BECAUSE WE
00:35:35.30\00:35:38.66
HAVE THE TRUTH AND BECAUSE WE'RE
ABRAHAM'S SEED AND BECAUSE WE
00:35:38.66\00:35:42.73
HAVE MOSES AND THE
PROPHETS, WE ARE SAVED.
00:35:42.73\00:35:45.76
WE ARE RICH.' BUT THE REASON GOD
GAVE THEM RICHES WAS TO FEED THE
00:35:45.76\00:35:49.66
STARVING AROUND THEM
THAT THEY CALLED DOGS.
00:35:49.66\00:35:53.70
THEY THOUGHT, 'THEY'RE UNCLEAN.'
THAT'S WHY IT EVEN SAYS IN
00:35:53.70\00:35:57.33
REVELATION, 'FOR OUTSIDE
ARE DOGS.' REMEMBER A WOMAN - A
00:35:57.33\00:36:00.10
GENTILE WOMAN, DON'T FORGET,
CAME TO JESUS PLEADING AND SAID,
00:36:00.10\00:36:03.03
'PLEASE HEAL MY DAUGHTER.' THIS
IS ONE OF THE ONLY TIMES CHRIST
00:36:03.03\00:36:05.93
WENT UP TO WHERE ELIJAH
WENT, NEAR TYRE, AND THERE WAS A
00:36:05.93\00:36:09.53
SYROPHOENICIAN WOMAN - A
CANAANITE WOMAN - AND HE SAID,
00:36:09.53\00:36:13.56
'IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE TO TAKE
THE CHILDREN'S FOOD AND GIVE IT
00:36:13.56\00:36:15.46
TO THE DOGS.' JESUS USED
THE LANGUAGE THE APOSTLES WERE
00:36:15.46\00:36:19.23
EXPECTING FROM THE OTHER PRIESTS
TO SHOW THEM HOW WRONG THAT WAS.
00:36:19.23\00:36:23.10
AND SHE SAID, 'YES MASTER, BUT
EVEN THE DOGS GET THE CRUMBS.'
00:36:23.10\00:36:26.50
HERE, SAME STORY, YOU'VE
GOT DOGS AND CRUMBS, DON'T YOU?
00:36:26.50\00:36:30.03
IN LAZARUS YOU'VE GOT DOGS
AND CRUMBS - AND HE HEALED HER
00:36:30.03\00:36:32.36
DAUGHTER BY THE WAY. AND
SO THEY SAID, 'WE'RE GOING
00:36:32.36\00:36:36.40
TO - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE
TO STAY AT OUR GATES ON THE
00:36:36.40\00:36:38.23
OUTSIDE.' AND SO, WOW, THEY
BOTH DIE. AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW,
00:36:38.23\00:36:44.53
THEY CHANGE PLACES - THE
ULTIMATE TRADING OF PLACES.
00:36:44.53\00:36:47.26
THE RICH MAN GOES TO THE GENTILE
PLACE OF TORMENT AND THE GENTILE
00:36:47.26\00:36:51.83
GOES TO THE
JEWISH PLACE OF REWARD.
00:36:51.83\00:36:54.96
AND THEY
UNDERSTOOD WHAT THAT MEANT.
00:36:54.96\00:36:57.60
AND THEN HE SAYS, 'FATHER
ABRAHAM' - REMEMBER, THE RICH
00:36:57.60\00:37:00.16
MAN HE'S IN HADES BUT HE'S
SAYING, 'FATHER ABRAHAM, SEND
00:37:00.16\00:37:03.76
HIM TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE
FOR I'VE GOT FIVE BRETHREN.' YOU
00:37:03.76\00:37:07.10
KNOW, ALL THE JEWS, THERE WERE
DIFFERENT GROUPS OF THE JEWS -
00:37:07.10\00:37:10.90
YOU HAD THE SADDUCEES AND THE
PHARISEES - SOME DIDN'T BELIEVE
00:37:10.90\00:37:14.06
IN CERTAIN BOOKS AND OTHERS
DID AND THE SAMARITANS DIDN'T
00:37:14.06\00:37:16.63
BELIEVE ANYTHING, BUT THE FIVE
BOOKS OF MOSES THEY ALL AGREED
00:37:16.63\00:37:20.30
ON - FIVE WAS A
NUMBER FOR THE WORD OF GOD.
00:37:20.30\00:37:22.86
HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT FIVE BROTHERS
IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE' - IT'S
00:37:22.86\00:37:26.10
LIKE THE TEMPLE. AND
SO THIS WAS ALL - THE JEWS
00:37:26.10\00:37:28.80
UNDERSTOOD THIS WAS ALL A
CONTEXT TALKING ABOUT THE JEWISH
00:37:28.80\00:37:31.20
FAITH. 'OH, IF
LAZARUS WOULD GO BACK
00:37:31.20\00:37:34.70
AND TELL THEM BECAUSE THEY DON'T
REALIZE THAT THEY MIGHT BE LOST.
00:37:34.70\00:37:37.83
THEY CAN'T BE SAVED
JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE JEWS.
00:37:37.83\00:37:40.63
AND HE - JESUS SAID, 'THEY HAVE
MOSES AND THE PROPHETS.' 'OH,
00:37:40.63\00:37:44.83
BUT IF SOMEONE WENT TO THEM FROM
THE DEAD THEN THEY'D BELIEVE.'
00:37:44.83\00:37:46.93
JESUS SAID, 'OH, YOU THINK SO?
00:37:46.93\00:37:48.83
THEY WON'T BELIEVE EVEN THOUGH
SOMEONE RISES FROM THE DEAD.'
00:37:48.83\00:37:51.50
NOT ONLY DID LAZARUS RISE, BUT
JESUS ROSE AND DID THEY BELIEVE?
00:37:51.50\00:37:54.96
OR DID THEY TRY TO KILL LAZARUS
AND PAY OFF THE ROMAN SOLDIERS
00:37:54.96\00:37:58.23
TO SAY IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, RIGHT?
SIGNS AND WONDERS WON'T DO IT.
00:37:58.23\00:38:02.83
IF THE WORD OF GOD DOESN'T
DO IT, NOTHING WILL DO IT.
00:38:02.83\00:38:05.06
BUT THE CRUX OF THIS STORY IS:
WHAT THE JEWISH NATION WAS DOING
00:38:05.06\00:38:10.13
BACK THEN IN SAYING, 'WE
HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS.
00:38:10.13\00:38:14.80
WE'VE GOT THE
TRUTH. WE ARE CHOSEN.
00:38:14.80\00:38:18.03
WE ARE PREDESTINED AND YOU'RE
ALL LOST.' NOT CARING ABOUT
00:38:18.03\00:38:21.86
OTHERS - JESUS SAID, 'YOU ARE
GOING TO HAVE A RUDE AWAKENING
00:38:21.86\00:38:25.80
IN THE JUDGMENT WHEN YOU FIND
OUT THAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE -
00:38:25.80\00:38:29.53
THE POOR THAT WERE APPRECIATING
THE CRUMBS OF TRUTH THEY HAD,
00:38:29.53\00:38:34.20
THEY'LL BE IN THE KINGDOM.
AND YOU, WHO WERE FEASTING ON
00:38:34.20\00:38:37.16
THE TRUTH BUT YOU WEREN'T
SHARING IT, YOU'LL BE IN OUTER
00:38:37.16\00:38:39.60
DARKNESS.' SEE WHAT
THE CENTRAL MESSAGE IS?
00:38:39.60\00:38:42.83
SO IF WE - AND NOW, THAT
APPLIES TO CHURCHES TODAY.
00:38:42.83\00:38:46.03
IT'S NOT JUST A MESSAGE
FOR JEWS, IT APPLIES TO EVERY
00:38:46.03\00:38:48.06
BELIEVER IN EVERY AGE.
IF WE THINK WE'RE SAVED JUST
00:38:48.06\00:38:50.43
BECAUSE WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH -
DOES THE DEVIL KNOW THE TRUTH?
00:38:50.43\00:38:54.40
DOES THE DEVIL KNOW THE
BIBLE BETTER THAN MOST OF US?
00:38:54.40\00:38:57.46
IS THAT GOING TO SAVE HIM?
DID THE PEOPLE WHO CRUCIFIED
00:38:57.46\00:39:00.46
JESUS HAVE THE SCRIPTURES?
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:39:00.46\00:39:05.83
SO THE GOSPEL IS
SUPPOSED TO GO OUT.
00:39:05.83\00:39:09.90
THE GOSPEL IS SOMETHING YOU
DON'T GET TO KEEP UNLESS YOU
00:39:09.90\00:39:12.76
GIVE IT AWAY. THE
GOSPEL IS SOMETHING YOU
00:39:12.76\00:39:16.33
DON'T GET TO KEEP
UNLESS YOU GIVE IT AWAY.
00:39:16.33\00:39:18.20
IT'S LIKE A MUSCLE - YOU
LOSE IT IF YOU DON'T USE IT.
00:39:18.20\00:39:21.06
IF YOU DON'T
SHARE IT, IT EVAPORATES.
00:39:21.06\00:39:24.03
IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT MOIST,
YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT OR IT DRIES
00:39:24.03\00:39:28.50
UP. SO, IF - AND YOU CAN
LOOK HERE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 12,
00:39:28.50\00:39:36.56
VERSE 39 - SOMEBODY, LET
ME SEE, YEAH, SOMEONE LOOK UP
00:39:36.56\00:39:42.46
JOHN 10:16 - WHO GOT THAT?
WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE HERE.
00:39:42.46\00:39:46.50
WE'LL GET TO YOU
IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:39:46.50\00:39:49.40
MATTHEW 12:39, JESUS SAID
"IT'S AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS
00:39:49.40\00:39:53.80
GENERATION THAT SEEKS AFTER A
SIGN, AND NO SIGN WILL BE GIVEN
00:39:53.80\00:39:57.50
TO IT EXCEPT THE
SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH.
00:39:57.50\00:40:00.76
FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND
THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE
00:40:00.76\00:40:02.80
GREAT FISH, SO WILL THE SON
OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE
00:40:02.80\00:40:06.03
NIGHTS IN THE
HEART OF THE EARTH."
00:40:06.03\00:40:07.36
NOW WHAT HAPPENED AFTER
JONAH WAS IN THE GREAT FISH?
00:40:07.36\00:40:10.90
WHERE DID JONAH GO FROM
THE FISH? TO THE GENTILES.
00:40:10.90\00:40:16.56
WHERE DID THE GOSPEL GO
AFTER JESUS CAME FROM THE TOMB?
00:40:16.56\00:40:20.46
THE GOSPEL THEN WENT TO
THE GENTILES, DIDN'T IT?
00:40:20.46\00:40:23.90
SO THAT'S JUST ONE OF
MANY SIMILARITIES THERE.
00:40:23.90\00:40:25.76
AND THEN HE SAYS, "THE QUEEN
OF THE SOUTH WILL RISE UP IN THE
00:40:25.76\00:40:29.40
JUDGMENT WITH THIS GENERATION
AND CONDEMN IT, FOR SHE CAME
00:40:29.40\00:40:33.56
FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH TO
HEAR THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON; AND
00:40:33.56\00:40:36.73
INDEED A GREATER
THAN SOLOMON IS HERE."
00:40:36.73\00:40:38.20
WHO IS THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH?
00:40:38.20\00:40:42.16
WHO CAME TO HEAR
SOLOMON'S WISDOM?
00:40:42.16\00:40:44.50
QUEEN OF SHEBA -
THAT'S THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH.
00:40:44.50\00:40:46.93
SO THE GENTILES CAME TO HEAR THE
WISDOM OF SOLOMON AND SHE TOOK
00:40:46.93\00:40:51.20
THE TRUTH BACK TO HER COUNTRY.
00:40:51.20\00:40:53.60
JESUS SAID 'A
GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE.
00:40:53.60\00:40:55.26
I WANT THE GENTILES TO
COME AND HEAR THIS TRUTH.
00:40:55.26\00:40:58.06
I WANT IT TO SPREAD EVERYWHERE.'
SO, WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL THAT
00:40:58.06\00:41:03.33
WE DON'T MAKE THE SAME
MISTAKE THAT SOME OF THE JEWS -
00:41:03.33\00:41:06.23
OBVIOUSLY ALL OF THE JEWS DIDN'T
MAKE THIS MISTAKE OR THERE'D BE
00:41:06.23\00:41:08.43
NO CHURCH TODAY. THE
EARLY CHURCH WAS ALL JEWISH.
00:41:08.43\00:41:11.53
BUT MANY OF THE LEADERS DID MAKE
THIS MISTAKE OF REJECTING THE
00:41:11.53\00:41:15.73
MESSAGE. SO I
ALWAYS SAY THAT IF YOU WANT
00:41:15.73\00:41:20.56
TO BE SAVED YOU HAVE TO BE
A SPIRITUAL JEW, AT THE VERY
00:41:20.56\00:41:22.86
LEAST. I THINK
THAT'S WHAT PAUL SAYS.
00:41:22.86\00:41:25.60
ROMANS 2:28, "FOR HE IS NOT A
JEW WHO IS ONE OUTWARDLY, NOR IS
00:41:25.60\00:41:30.13
CIRCUMCISION THAT WHICH IS
OUTWARD IN THE FLESH; BUT HE IS
00:41:30.13\00:41:33.06
A JEW WHO IS ONE INWARDLY;
AND CIRCUMCISION IS THAT OF THE
00:41:33.06\00:41:36.33
HEART," - WE ALL MUST BE
SPIRITUAL JEWS. ROMANS 9:6
00:41:36.33\00:41:41.00
AND 7, "BUT IT IS NOT THAT THE
WORD OF GOD HAS TAKEN NO EFFECT.
00:41:41.00\00:41:46.36
FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL WHO
ARE OF ISRAEL, NOR ARE THEY ALL
00:41:46.36\00:41:51.10
CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY ARE THE
SEED OF ABRAHAM; BUT, 'IN ISAAC
00:41:51.10\00:41:54.76
YOUR SEED SHALL BE CALLED.'"
ABRAHAM HAD SEVERAL OTHER
00:41:54.76\00:41:57.50
CHILDREN BESIDES ISAAC, BUT
THE MESSIAH WAS TO COME THROUGH
00:41:57.50\00:42:01.13
ISAAC - BUT - SO THERE ARE OTHER
DESCENDENTS OF ABRAHAM OUT THERE
00:42:01.13\00:42:05.53
THAT MIGHT NOT BE FROM THE
SEED OF ISAAC. GALATIANS 3:7,
00:42:05.53\00:42:10.30
"THEREFORE KNOW THAT
ONLY THOSE WHO ARE OF FAITH
00:42:10.30\00:42:13.93
ARE THE SONS OF ABRAHAM."
"ONLY THOSE WHO ARE OF FAITH ARE
00:42:13.93\00:42:18.13
THE SONS OF ABRAHAM." SO,
MANY WILL COME FROM THE EAST
00:42:18.13\00:42:21.73
AND THE WEST. THE
144,000 THAT YOU READ ABOUT
00:42:21.73\00:42:25.40
IN THE LAST DAYS, IS THAT 12,000
OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL
00:42:25.40\00:42:30.83
ALL LITERAL JEWS? THINK
ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE.
00:42:30.83\00:42:34.80
WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO GET
12,000 LITERAL PEOPLE FROM THE
00:42:34.80\00:42:37.16
TRIBE OF MANASSEH AND
ISSACHAR AND ZEBULON TODAY?
00:42:37.16\00:42:41.26
DO YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLE HISTORY?
THOSE TRIBES WERE CONQUERED
00:42:41.26\00:42:44.46
HUNDREDS OF YEARS
BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN.
00:42:44.46\00:42:46.96
THEY WERE SCATTERED TO ASSYRIA,
THEY INTERMARRIED - THERE ARE,
00:42:46.96\00:42:49.56
TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THERE ARE
PROBABLY NO PUREBRED MEMBERS OF
00:42:49.56\00:42:52.53
THOSE TRIBES. YOU STILL HAVE
A HARD TIME. THERE ARE PROBABLY
00:42:52.53\00:42:55.90
STILL JEWS - A JEW IS FROM THE
TRIBE OF JUDAH - BUT ISRAELITES
00:42:55.90\00:43:00.43
FROM THE TWELVE TRIBES? I
THINK IT MUST BE TALKING ABOUT
00:43:00.43\00:43:02.60
SPIRITUAL ISRAELITES THERE
AND YET, A LOT OF MY EVANGELICAL
00:43:02.60\00:43:06.63
FRIENDS THINK THE
144,000 HAVE TO BE LITERAL JEWS.
00:43:06.63\00:43:10.03
IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO GET
LITERAL 12,000 FROM THESE PEOPLE
00:43:10.03\00:43:14.06
THAT ARE PUREBREDS BECAUSE
THEY'RE LARGELY INTERMARRIED.
00:43:14.06\00:43:18.16
SO ANYWAY, JUST WHILE WE'RE
ON THAT SUBJECT, JESUS SAID -
00:43:18.16\00:43:24.00
MATTHEW - ACTUALLY IT'S JOHN THE
BAPTIST THAT SAID, 'SO DO NOT
00:43:24.00\00:43:28.40
SAY TO YOURSELVES 'WE HAVE
ABRAHAM AS OUR FATHER' FOR GOD
00:43:28.40\00:43:31.26
IS ABLE TO RAISE UP CHILDREN TO
ABRAHAM FROM THESE STONES.' DO
00:43:31.26\00:43:35.93
NOT SAY 'MY MOTHER WAS IN THE
CHURCH - MY GRANDFATHER WAS A
00:43:35.93\00:43:38.36
PASTOR - I'VE BEEN IN THE
CHURCH FOR FOUR GENERATIONS'.
00:43:38.36\00:43:40.70
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ANYONE
TALK ABOUT HOW MANY GENERATIONS
00:43:40.70\00:43:42.56
THEY'VE BEEN IN THE CHURCH?
IS IT - DOES GOD HAVE ANY
00:43:42.56\00:43:46.66
GRANDCHILDREN? GOD
HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN. YOU
00:43:46.66\00:43:51.06
ALL MUST BE BORN AGAIN.
IF YOU'RE ONLY BORN ONCE, YOU
00:43:51.06\00:43:54.26
WILL DIE TWICE - SECOND DEATH.
IF YOU WANT TO ONLY DIE ONCE YOU
00:43:54.26\00:43:58.73
NEED TO BE BORN TWICE - PHYSICAL
BIRTH, SPIRITUAL BIRTH - RIGHT?
00:43:58.73\00:44:02.80
SO THERE IS NO VIRTUE - I MEAN,
IT'S NICE TO HAVE HERITAGE, BUT
00:44:02.80\00:44:07.26
YOU HAVE NO SANCTIFYING VALUE IN
SAYING, 'I'VE GOT THREE OR FOUR
00:44:07.26\00:44:10.90
GENERATIONS IN THE CHURCH' - YOU
DON'T HAVE ANY MORE OWNERSHIP OF
00:44:10.90\00:44:13.43
CHRIST BY THAT. 'WE
FALL INTO THE MINDSET OF SOME
00:44:13.43\00:44:16.90
OF THE JEWS BACK THEN IN
THINKING THAT WE'VE GOT THIS
00:44:16.90\00:44:19.13
HERITAGE - 'WE MUST BE SAVED,
LOOK AT THE GREAT HERITAGE WE'VE
00:44:19.13\00:44:21.40
GOT.' I REALLY APPRECIATE MY
MORMON BROTHERS AND SISTERS FOR
00:44:21.40\00:44:25.50
THE WONDERFUL
GENEALOGY WORK THEY'VE DONE.
00:44:25.50\00:44:27.96
BY THE WAY, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE
'ANCESTORS.COM' IF IT WASN'T FOR
00:44:27.96\00:44:30.43
THEM. THAT'S HOW
THAT ALL ORIGINATED.
00:44:30.43\00:44:33.53
AND SO - ANY OF YOU EVER LOG
ON TO 'ANCESTORS.COM' TO TRY AND
00:44:33.53\00:44:36.20
FIND OUT WHO SOME OF YOUR
IN-LAWS AND OUT-LAWS ARE OUT
00:44:36.20\00:44:39.63
THERE? IT'S INTERESTING -
IT IS KIND OF INTERESTING.
00:44:39.63\00:44:43.70
IT KIND OF GIVES YOU ROOTS,
BUT YOU DON'T GET ANY SALVATION
00:44:43.70\00:44:47.23
VIRTUE THROUGH
YOUR ANCESTORS' BLOOD.
00:44:47.23\00:44:50.96
WE ALL MUST COME TO CHRIST
ORIGINALLY TO BE SAVED. AMEN?
00:44:50.96\00:44:55.76
NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, WHEN
PAUL SAYS - AND THIS IS JUST
00:44:55.76\00:45:00.73
EXTRA, IT'S NOT REALLY IN
THE LESSON - WHEN PAUL SAYS IN
00:45:00.73\00:45:05.00
ROMANS 11:26, "AND SO ALL ISRAEL
WILL BE SAVED," - ALL ISRAEL
00:45:05.00\00:45:12.80
WILL BE SAVED - I'VE HAD FRIENDS
FROM OTHER CHURCHES THAT HAVE
00:45:12.80\00:45:16.66
READ THAT VERSE THAT THINK THERE
WILL BE SOME REVIVAL THAT'S
00:45:16.66\00:45:19.50
GOING TO GO THROUGH ISRAEL AND
EVERY SINGLE JEW IS GOING TO BE
00:45:19.50\00:45:21.80
SAVED BECAUSE THEY'RE A JEW.
PAUL MAKES THIS STATEMENT IN
00:45:21.80\00:45:25.33
ROMANS ABOUT ALL ISRAEL
BEING SAVED BECAUSE IF IT'S ALSO
00:45:25.33\00:45:28.16
SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, THEN IT IS
TRUE ALL OF THE REAL CHILDREN OF
00:45:28.16\00:45:32.96
ABRAHAM WILL BE SAVED - IF
YOU'RE A REAL SPIRITUAL JEW.
00:45:32.96\00:45:36.50
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE THEN?
IF NOT, THEN IT SOUNDS LIKE
00:45:36.50\00:45:39.30
GOD'S GOING TO SAVE
PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR GENETICS.
00:45:39.30\00:45:43.26
DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY GOD
IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS?
00:45:43.26\00:45:47.40
THAT PEOPLE FROM EVERY NATION
WHO BELIEVE IN HIM WILL BE
00:45:47.40\00:45:49.56
ACCEPTED? GOD HAS MADE
OF ONE BLOOD ALL PEOPLE?
00:45:49.56\00:45:53.43
SO PEOPLE FROM ALL DIFFERENT
NATIONS WILL ACCEPT HIM AND
00:45:53.43\00:45:56.83
PEOPLE FROM ALL DIFFERENT
NATIONS WILL REJECT HIM.
00:45:56.83\00:46:00.93
THEN ALL THE TRIBES OF THE
EARTH WILL MOURN FOR THEY WILL
00:46:00.93\00:46:04.40
SEE HIM COMING IN THE CLOUDS
OF HEAVEN AND PEOPLE FROM EVERY
00:46:04.40\00:46:06.56
NATION ARE GOING TO REJECT HIM.
MORE WILL REJECT HIM THAN ACCEPT
00:46:06.56\00:46:09.73
HIM. BUT HE HAS HIS
CHILDREN IN EVERY NATION.
00:46:09.73\00:46:13.23
OKAY, I HAVEN'T
FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU.
00:46:13.23\00:46:14.50
WHO'S GOT JOHN 10:16?
LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ THAT.
00:46:14.50\00:46:20.26
>>JOHN 10:16 "AND OTHER SHEEP
I HAVE, WHICH ARE NOT OF THIS
00:46:20.26\00:46:24.16
FOLD: THEM ALSO I MUST BRING,
AND THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE; AND
00:46:24.16\00:46:29.70
THERE WILL BE ONE
FLOCK, AND ONE SHEPHERD."
00:46:29.70\00:46:32.70
>>ALRIGHT, SO RIGHT THERE JESUS
- HE MADE IT CLEAR IT'S NOT JUST
00:46:32.70\00:46:36.40
THE LOST SHEEP OF
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
00:46:36.40\00:46:39.76
HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT OTHER SHEEP'.
SO IF HE'S NOT JUST TALKING
00:46:39.76\00:46:42.50
ABOUT THE LOST SHEEP OF THE
HOUSE OF ISRAEL, WHO ARE THE
00:46:42.50\00:46:44.33
OTHER SHEEP? THE
GENTILES - PEOPLE - A
00:46:44.33\00:46:47.70
GENTILE IS JUST A NON-JEW.
IT MEANS EVERYBODY ELSE.
00:46:47.70\00:46:50.83
AND SO ALL THESE PEOPLE FROM
AROUND THE WORLD - YOU KNOW, I
00:46:50.83\00:46:53.70
LOVE THIS VERSE THAT YOU FIND
IN JOHN 12:20, "NOW THERE WERE
00:46:53.70\00:46:59.80
CERTAIN GREEKS AMONG THOSE WHO
CAME UP TO WORSHIP AT THE FEAST.
00:46:59.80\00:47:03.96
THEN THEY CAME TO PHILIP, WHO
WAS FROM BETHSAIDA OF GALILEE,
00:47:03.96\00:47:07.46
AND ASKED HIM," - HE WAS ONE OF
THE APOSTLES - "SAYING, 'SIR, WE
00:47:07.46\00:47:10.76
WISH TO SEE JESUS.'" AREN'T
THERE PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE
00:47:10.76\00:47:15.33
WORLD OUT THERE
WHO WANT TO SEE JESUS?
00:47:15.33\00:47:19.46
DO THEY WANT TO SEE
JESUS? ARE THEY GOING TO SEE HIM
00:47:19.46\00:47:22.76
PHYSICALLY OR MAYBE THEY
SEE JESUS THROUGH US NOW.
00:47:22.76\00:47:26.80
YOU NOTICE BEFORE THEY SAW
JESUS THEY HAD TO GO TO JESUS'
00:47:26.80\00:47:28.76
FOLLOWERS AND THEY APPROACHED
PHILIP AND ANDREW AND SAID, 'WE
00:47:28.76\00:47:32.20
WOULD SEE JESUS.' PEOPLE ARE
GOING TO COME TO US AND SAY, 'WE
00:47:32.20\00:47:35.06
WOULD SEE JESUS.' SO HOW
ARE THEY GOING TO SEE JESUS?
00:47:35.06\00:47:37.63
HOW DO WE LEAD THEM TO JESUS
TODAY LIKE THE APOSTLES DID BACK
00:47:37.63\00:47:41.20
THEN? ONE THING IS OUR EXAMPLE.
00:47:41.20\00:47:44.16
WE CAN LEAD THEM THROUGH THE
WORD BECAUSE THE WORD WAS MADE
00:47:44.16\00:47:47.80
FLESH. THAT IS CHRIST, RIGHT?
00:47:47.80\00:47:50.46
PEOPLE ARE
WANTING TO SEE CHRIST.
00:47:50.46\00:47:53.03
IN - LET'S GO TO JOHN 7:35 -
JOHN 7:35, "THEN THE JEWS SAID
00:47:53.03\00:48:04.53
AMONG THEMSELVES, WHERE DOES
HE INTEND TO GO THAT WE WILL NOT
00:48:04.53\00:48:08.96
FIND HIM? DOES HE
INTEND TO GO TO THE
00:48:08.96\00:48:11.46
DISPERSION AMONG THE
GREEKS AND TEACH THE GREEKS?"
00:48:11.46\00:48:14.53
NOW, I'VE JUST GOT TO TAKE A
MOMENT AND GIVE YOU A PICTURE.
00:48:14.53\00:48:17.60
THEY USED THE WORDS 'GREEK'
AND 'GENTILE' INTERCHANGEABLY
00:48:17.60\00:48:21.73
BECAUSE JESUS SAID, 'SALVATION
IS TO THE JEW FIRST, THEN THE
00:48:21.73\00:48:25.26
GREEK.' HE DIDN'T MEAN
JUST PEOPLE FROM GREECE.
00:48:25.26\00:48:28.83
THE GREEKS - ALEXANDER THE
GREAT HAD TAKEN HIS HELLENISTIC
00:48:28.83\00:48:34.16
TEACHINGS AND PHILOSOPHY AND
LANGUAGE ALL AROUND THE ROMAN
00:48:34.16\00:48:40.53
EMPIRE. THAT'S WHY
THEY SOMETIMES CALL
00:48:40.53\00:48:42.26
IT THE 'GRECO-ROMAN EMPIRE'
BECAUSE EVEN THE ROMANS ADOPTED
00:48:42.26\00:48:45.36
A LOT OF THE GREEK ARCHITECTURE
AND THE GREEK GODS AND THE GREEK
00:48:45.36\00:48:47.96
WAYS. SO THE
GREEKS WERE - IT WAS A
00:48:47.96\00:48:50.90
WORD THAT WAS USED TO
DESCRIBE EVERYBODY ELSE.
00:48:50.90\00:48:53.20
YOU EVER SOMEBODY
SAY, 'IT'S GREEK TO ME'?
00:48:53.20\00:48:55.30
THEY DON'T MEAN THAT YOU'RE
SOUNDING GREEK, IT MEANS 'IT'S A
00:48:55.30\00:48:58.03
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO ME.' SO
THAT WORD GREEK WAS USED TO SAY
00:48:58.03\00:49:02.10
ANYBODY WHO WAS NOT A JEW
- THE GENTILES THROUGHOUT THE
00:49:02.10\00:49:04.80
ROMAN EMPIRE.
00:49:04.80\00:49:06.66
AND SO, SCATTERED AMONG THE
CITIES OF ASIA, WHICH ALEXANDER
00:49:06.66\00:49:12.76
THE GREAT HAD CONQUERED,
AND ROME, WHICH ALEXANDER HAD
00:49:12.76\00:49:15.46
CONQUERED, AND PERSIA, WHICH
ALEXANDER HAD CONQUERED, AND
00:49:15.46\00:49:19.20
INDIA, WHICH ALEXANDER
HAD ENTERED, AND EGYPT, WHICH
00:49:19.20\00:49:22.03
ALEXANDER HAD CONQUERED,
THERE WAS A GREEK INFLUENCE.
00:49:22.03\00:49:25.76
THE JEWS HAD BEEN
SCATTERED THROUGH ALL OF THAT.
00:49:25.76\00:49:29.06
AND SO WHEN IT SAYS
'TAKE THE GOSPEL AMONG' -
00:49:29.06\00:49:31.33
WHERE'S IT GOING TO GO? IS
HE GOING TO GO TO THE GREEKS
00:49:31.33\00:49:33.43
AND TEACH THE GREEKS
- MEANING THE GENTILES?
00:49:33.43\00:49:36.46
SO THEY THOUGHT,
'IS HE GOING TO DO THIS?
00:49:36.46\00:49:39.36
HE'S NOT GOING TO TAKE
THE MESSAGE TO THEM, IS HE?'
00:49:39.36\00:49:41.90
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT
IMPLIES? THEY WEREN'T DOING IT.
00:49:41.90\00:49:44.86
WOULD JESUS DO IT? THEY
HAD KIND OF WRITTEN THEM
00:49:44.86\00:49:47.80
OFF AS LOST. NOW
WHERE'S THE GREAT COMMISSION
00:49:47.80\00:49:51.46
TO GO? THESE ARE
OUR LAST VERSES WE'RE
00:49:51.46\00:49:53.36
GOING TO CONSIDER.
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:49:53.36\00:49:56.96
ROMANS 15:12.
WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
00:49:56.96\00:49:59.60
WE'VE GOT A HAND OVER HERE.
LET'S PASS YOU THE MICROPHONE.
00:49:59.60\00:50:02.40
SEEMS LIKE WE'VE BEEN A LITTLE
BIASED TO MY RIGHT HAND SIDE OF
00:50:02.40\00:50:05.30
THE CHURCH
TODAY, WITH THE VERSES.
00:50:05.30\00:50:09.06
AND WE'LL GET TO
YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:50:09.06\00:50:12.10
MATTHEW 28:19 - HOW MANY OF
YOU KNOW THE GREAT COMMISSION BY
00:50:12.10\00:50:15.40
HEART? WE SHOULD
KNOW THAT, RIGHT?
00:50:15.40\00:50:20.46
'GO YE THEREFORE, MAKE DISCIPLES
OF ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING THEM IN
00:50:20.46\00:50:25.83
THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND THE
SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT TEACHING
00:50:25.83\00:50:28.90
THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS
WHATSOEVER I'VE COMMANDED YOU.
00:50:28.90\00:50:32.23
LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS,
EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE AGE.' -
00:50:32.23\00:50:34.96
OR THE END OF THE WORLD.
AND SO, DID JESUS MAKE IT CLEAR
00:50:34.96\00:50:39.23
THE GOSPEL IS TO GO EVERYWHERE?
GO EVERYWHERE AND TEACH THE
00:50:39.23\00:50:43.26
GOSPEL. ALRIGHT,
I THINK WE'RE READY.
00:50:43.26\00:50:45.43
GO AHEAD AND READ FOR
US ROMANS 15:12, PLEASE.
00:50:45.43\00:50:48.93
>>ROMANS 15:12, "AND AGAIN,
ISAIAH SAYS: 'THERE SHALL BE A
00:50:48.93\00:50:53.63
ROOT OF JESSE; AND HE WHO SHALL
RISE TO REIGN OVER THE GENTILES,
00:50:53.63\00:51:00.30
IN HIM THE
GENTILES SHALL HOPE.'"
00:51:00.30\00:51:03.10
>>NOW THIS IS A NEW TESTAMENT
QUOTE OF AN OLD TESTAMENT
00:51:03.10\00:51:05.76
PROPHECY THAT WOULD BE FULFILLED
AFTER THE QUOTE WAS MADE.
00:51:05.76\00:51:09.93
PAUL IS SAYING, 'THE GOSPEL IS
TO GO EVERYWHERE.' AND WHEN PAUL
00:51:09.93\00:51:13.16
WENT TO A TOWN HE WOULD
START OUT, YOU NOTICE, IN THE
00:51:13.16\00:51:16.26
SYNAGOGUE AND IF
THEY LISTENED, GREAT.
00:51:16.26\00:51:19.43
BUT IF THEY DIDN'T LISTEN,
HE WOULD SHAKE THE DUST OFF HIS
00:51:19.43\00:51:22.06
FEET AND SAY, 'LO, SEEING THAT
YOU PROVE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY OF
00:51:22.06\00:51:26.00
THE KINGDOM OF GOD, WE
ARE TURNING TO THE GENTILES.
00:51:26.00\00:51:28.76
BUT HE'D GO FIRST TO THEM
BECAUSE THEY HAD THE BACKGROUND.
00:51:28.76\00:51:31.40
AND SOME OF THE JEWISH
SYNAGOGUES, WHEN THEY HEARD IT -
00:51:31.40\00:51:33.93
LIKE THE BEREANS - THEY SEARCHED
THE SCRIPTURES DAILY WHETHER
00:51:33.93\00:51:37.43
THOSE THINGS WERE SO.' THEY
EMBRACED THE GOSPEL WITH ALL
00:51:37.43\00:51:39.63
THEIR HEART AND SOUL.
DIFFERENT TOWNS - SOME OF THEM
00:51:39.63\00:51:42.00
ACCEPTED IT. SOME
OF THEM THEY STIRRED UP
00:51:42.00\00:51:44.66
MOBS AGAINST THE APOSTLES
AND CHASED THEM OUT OF TOWN.
00:51:44.66\00:51:48.03
YOU KNOW WHO SOMETIMES - IF
I GO INTO A CITY AND I DO AN
00:51:48.03\00:51:53.80
EVANGELISTIC MEETING,
YOU KNOW WHERE THE OPPOSITION
00:51:53.80\00:51:57.03
TYPICALLY COMES FROM?
00:51:57.03\00:51:59.40
IT'S NOT FROM ATHEISTS AND
AGNOSTICS IN THAT CITY, IT'S
00:51:59.40\00:52:04.00
FROM OTHER CHRISTIANS AND
SOMETIMES WE'VE HAD PASTORS THAT
00:52:04.00\00:52:09.63
WILL STAND UP IN THE CHURCHES
AND SAY, 'WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T
00:52:09.63\00:52:12.00
GO TO THIS PROPHECY SEMINAR.'
OR THEY TRY TO CLOSE DOWN THE
00:52:12.00\00:52:17.16
PUBLIC SCHOOL WHERE WE'RE
MEETING - THEY'LL GO TO THEIR
00:52:17.16\00:52:19.13
FRIEND WHO IS ON THE SCHOOL
BOARD AND SAY, 'DON'T RENT IT TO
00:52:19.13\00:52:21.00
THEM.' 'BUT WE'VE GOT A
CONTRACT.' 'BREAK THE CONTRACT.
00:52:21.00\00:52:23.33
DON'T RENT IT TO THEM, THEY'RE
A CULT.' AND YOU - IT'S AMAZING,
00:52:23.33\00:52:28.43
YOU GET THIS OPPOSITION FROM,
OSTENSIBLY, OTHER BELIEVERS AND
00:52:28.43\00:52:33.60
THAT'S WHAT THE
APOSTLES RAN INTO.
00:52:33.60\00:52:35.50
THEY'D GO FROM TOWN TO
TOWN AND THEY'D START PREACHING.
00:52:35.50\00:52:37.53
AND YOU KNOW WHO'D TRY TO TURN
THE GENTILES AWAY? THE JEWS.
00:52:37.53\00:52:42.06
AND THEY'D TRY TO GET A
MOB AND CHASE THEM OUT OF TOWN.
00:52:42.06\00:52:46.63
AND SO THINGS
HAVEN'T CHANGED VERY MUCH.
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GREAT COMMISSION - MARK 16:15
- JESUS, AGAIN HE SAID, 'GO INTO
00:52:48.76\00:52:54.20
ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH
THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.
00:52:54.20\00:52:57.33
HE THAT BELIEVES AND
IS BAPTIZED WILL BE SAVED.
00:52:57.33\00:52:59.93
ACTS 1:7 AND 8 - JESUS SAID
- WHEN THEY SAID 'WHEN ARE YOU
00:52:59.93\00:53:05.40
GOING TO ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM?'
CHRIST SAID, "IT IS NOT FOR YOU
00:53:05.40\00:53:08.06
TO KNOW THE TIMES OR
SEASONS WHICH THE FATHER HAS
00:53:08.06\00:53:10.30
PUT IN HIS OWN AUTHORITY.
00:53:10.30\00:53:11.93
BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN
THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON
00:53:11.93\00:53:14.60
YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES
TO ME IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL
00:53:14.60\00:53:18.73
JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND
TO THE END OF THE EARTH."
00:53:18.73\00:53:22.33
NOW DO YOU KNOW, THAT'S
EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENED.
00:53:22.33\00:53:24.53
THEY STARTED - THE HOLY SPIRIT
WAS POURED OUT IN JERUSALEM AND
00:53:24.53\00:53:26.40
THEN THEY WENT OUT PREACHING IN
JUDEA AND THEN THEY WENT OUT TO
00:53:26.40\00:53:28.80
SAMARIA AND THEN THEY SCATTERED
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
00:53:28.80\00:53:32.40
THOMAS WENT TO INDIA AND OTHERS
THEY SCATTERED TO THE NORTH AND
00:53:32.40\00:53:35.33
INTO ASIA AND THE
GOSPEL WENT EVERYWHERE.
00:53:35.33\00:53:39.53
WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING AT
THAT AND I SEE OUR TIME IS UP.
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I'D LIKE TO, BEFORE WE CLOSE,
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TOGETHER. GOD BLESS YOU,
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THE WORD OF GOD
TOGETHER NEXT WEEK.
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>>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
00:54:22.20\00:54:31.40
>>NOBODY WAS THERE TO DEFEND ME.
NOBODY WAS THERE TO PROTECT ME.
00:54:31.40\00:54:36.13
MY QUESTION WAS: 'WHY
DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME GOD?
00:54:36.13\00:54:39.30
WHY DIDN'T YOU INTERVENE?'
ONCE I HIT MY TEENAGE YEARS,
00:54:39.30\00:54:45.00
EVERYTHING JUST
STARTED COMING OUT.
00:54:45.00\00:54:47.73
I FELT EMBARRASSED ABOUT WHAT
HAD HAPPENED BECAUSE FOR SO LONG
00:54:47.73\00:54:51.80
I FELT IT WAS MY FAULT.
THERE WERE TIMES THAT I PRAYED
00:54:51.80\00:54:55.90
BUT IT WAS PRAYERS OF RESENTMENT
AND ANGER AND JUST YELLING AT
00:54:55.90\00:55:00.50
GOD. I WAS SO
CONFUSED, SO DEPRESSED
00:55:00.50\00:55:05.30
AND I COULD NOT BEAR
ANY MORE OF THE PAIN.
00:55:05.30\00:55:08.73
YOU KNOW, WHAT'S
THE POINT OF LIVING?
00:55:08.73\00:55:10.43
IT'S MIGHT AS WELL JUST DIE.
I STARTED CUTTING MYSELF BUT I
00:55:10.43\00:55:17.66
HEARD A SMALL, STILL
VOICE AND IT SAID, 'STOP!
00:55:17.66\00:55:24.10
GIVE ME A SECOND CHANCE.'
AND RIGHT THERE I JUST FELT
00:55:24.10\00:55:29.06
SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
00:55:29.06\00:55:31.33
I FELT A PRESENCE THERE AND I
PUT EVERYTHING DOWN AND I WENT
00:55:31.33\00:55:36.00
TO MY ROOM AND I
JUST STARTED CRYING.
00:55:36.00\00:55:39.36
I REALIZED THAT ME AND
GOD CONNECTED SO WELL AND I NO
00:55:39.36\00:55:42.90
LONGER SAW HIM AS JUST A
GOD THAT NO LONGER CARED, BUT I
00:55:42.90\00:55:47.06
ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A
FATHER AND I CONTINUED PRAYING.
00:55:47.06\00:55:51.43
ONE DAY I WAS SLEEPING. MY
MOM CAME TO THE BED AND SHE
00:55:51.43\00:55:56.03
SAID, 'CONNIE, HE'S
HERE. HE'S IN TOWN AND THE LORD
00:55:56.03\00:56:00.63
IMPRESSED ME THAT YOU
NEED TO FACE THE SITUATION.
00:56:00.63\00:56:04.80
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO FORGIVE.'
WHEN SOMETHING SO DRASTIC AND SO
00:56:04.80\00:56:11.33
PAINFUL HAS HAPPENED,
FORGIVENESS IS VERY HARD BECAUSE
00:56:11.33\00:56:16.86
YOU'RE VULNERABLE. YOU
LET GO OF THAT EGO - THAT
00:56:16.86\00:56:19.93
PRIDE - THAT HAS TAKEN
OVER YOU FOR SO MANY YEARS.
00:56:19.93\00:56:24.40
I PRAYED AND WHEN WE CONFRONTED
THE SITUATION IT WAS THE MOST
00:56:24.40\00:56:29.06
AMAZING MOMENT WHERE WE
COULD PRAY, WE COULD CRY,
00:56:29.06\00:56:33.00
AND WE COULD FORGIVE.
00:56:33.00\00:56:34.80
AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I'M ABLE TO
HELP OTHERS AND TELL OTHERS THAT
00:56:34.80\00:56:38.63
THERE IS HOPE AND THERE
IS SOMEONE THAT DOES CARE.
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>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
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BEFORE. THANK
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:57:07.13\00:57:10.66
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK MILLIONS OF
00:57:10.66\00:57:13.63
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:13.63\00:57:17.36
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:17.36\00:57:19.70
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
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