Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021410
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00:50 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:54 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING US HERE 00:58 IN THE SANCTUARY TO STUDY TOGETHER. 01:00 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE EITHER TUNED IN 01:03 FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME OR YOU'RE A REGULAR STUDYING 01:06 MEMBER WITH US EVERY WEEK, WELCOME FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY 01:10 AND AROUND THE WORLD. WE KNOW IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT 01:13 THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER TO BECOME 01:17 CLOSER TO HIM AND LEARN MORE ABOUT HIS SOON COMING. 01:21 WE ALWAYS BEGIN BY SINGING A COUPLE OF HYMNS TOGETHER AND 01:25 TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. SO IF YOU ARE AT HOME AND YOU 01:28 HAVE A HYMNAL NEARBY, I INVITE YOU TO PULL THAT OUT AND WE ARE 01:31 GOING TO SING TOGETHER HYMN #88 - 'I SING THE MIGHTY POWER OF 01:36 GOD'. THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM 01:38 FRANK IN BARBADOS, NOVELETTE IN JAPAN, OKETA IN THE SUDAN AND 01:43 FAREN AND SOLOMON IN ENGLAND AND ALSO MANY MORE REQUESTS FOR THIS 01:49 SONG FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HYMN #88 - WE WILL SING ALL 01:53 THREE VERSES OF 'I SING THE MIGHTY POWER OF GOD'. 01:57 (MUSIC) 03:49 >>WHEN WE WERE PRACTICING THAT SONG EARLIER, 03:51 I WAS REMINDED THAT WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL WE USED TO SING THIS 03:55 IN BODEN, NORTH DAKOTA AND IT JUST REMINDS ME SO MUCH OF 04:00 GROWING UP ON A FARM IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND YOU COULD 04:03 SEE THE SKY AND YOU COULD HEAR THE BIRDS AND YOU COULD WATCH 04:06 THE THINGS GROWING AND THIS SONG JUST TALKS ABOUT HOW GOD IS IN 04:10 CHARGE OF EVERY SINGLE THING. PRAISE THE LORD. 04:13 OUR CREATOR AND OUR SAVIOR, AMEN. 04:17 IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL HYMN THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US 04:20 ON A COMING STUDY, I INVITE YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE. 04:23 IT'S VERY SIMPLE: 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND THERE YOU 04:26 CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN SING ANY HYMN IN THE 04:29 HYMNAL WITH US ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER AND WE WILL TRY OUR 04:35 BEST TO SING YOUR FAVORITE WITH YOU. OUR NEXT HYMN - 04:39 AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE LEARNING NEW HYMNS - RIGHT ACROSS THE PAGE - 04:43 HYMN #89 - 'LET ALL ON EARTH THEIR VOICES RAISE'. 04:47 AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE ANYBODY ON THE PLANET KNOWS THIS SONG, 04:51 BUT IT DOES REMIND US OF ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL SO IF 04:55 YOU KIND OF KNOW THAT SONG, YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW THIS ONE. 04:57 HYMN #89 - WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES. 05:01 (MUSIC) 06:59 >>LET'S PRAY. LORD, WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS THIS MORNING TO 07:03 PROCLAIM YOUR GRACE AND YOUR MERCY AND YOUR LOVE TOWARDS US. 07:07 AND PLEASE HELP US NOT TO BE UNMINDFUL OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU 07:10 HAVE DONE AND AS WE STUDY TOGETHER AND WE LEARN MORE OF 07:14 YOU, HELP US TO JUST TAKE THAT TO HEART AND TO BE WILLING TO 07:18 SHARE YOUR LOVE WITH OTHERS AROUND US. 07:21 LORD, THE WORLD IS QUICKLY COMING TO A CLOSE. 07:24 PLEASE HELP EACH ONE OF US THAT LOVE YOU WITH ALL OF OUR HEARTS 07:27 TO DO OUR PART TO HASTEN YOUR COMING. PLEASE JUST BLESS US. 07:31 BLESS PASTOR DOUG AND LORD, JUST TAKE US HOME SOON. 07:35 WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR PRECIOUS AND HOLY NAME, AMEN. 07:40 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 07:47 >>MORNING. THANK YOU JOLYNE AND OUR MUSICIANS. 07:51 THAT SOUNDED BEAUTIFUL LEARNING THESE NEW SONGS. 07:54 HOW IS EVERYBODY? HAPPY SABBATH. 07:58 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING VIA TELEVISION 08:02 OR SATELLITE, INTERNET - SOME ARE, I KNOW, STILL LISTENING ON 08:08 THE RADIO. I HAVE A FRIEND WHO HAS A RADIO 08:11 STATION IN EUROPE AND THEY TAKE THE AUDIO OF THESE PROGRAMS AND 08:15 THEY PLAY THEM ON A NUMBER OF PLACES IN EUROPE. 08:18 AND SO, I WANT TO WELCOME ALL THOSE AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO 08:21 ARE EXTENDED MEMBERS OF SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 08:24 AND, BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW I SHOULD PROBABLY SAY, 08:26 I THINK MOST OF OUR FRIENDS KNOW, BECAUSE 08:28 THERE'S BEEN SOME COMMUNICATIONS OUT THERE, I'M TECHNICALLY NOT 08:32 THE PASTOR OF SACRAMENTO ANYMORE. 08:34 I WANT TO THANK CENTRAL CHURCH. THEY'RE BEING VERY NICE IN 08:36 LETTING ME COME AS A GUEST TEACHER RIGHT NOW. 08:39 WE'RE IN A LITTLE BIT OF A TRANSITION. 08:41 AS SOME OF YOU KNOW, I'M NOW PASTORING THE GRANITE BAY 08:44 CHURCH, WHICH IS A SUBURB OF SACRAMENTO. 08:47 CAN YOU CALL IT THAT? AND WHEN I GET DONE HERE, I ZIP 08:51 OVER THERE AND PREACH THE SERMON THE LAST FEW WEEKS. 08:54 AND SO I WANT TO THANK CENTRAL CHURCH. 08:56 WE HAVE NO ABILITY AT GRANITE BAY FOR TAPING - CAN'T EVEN 08:59 STREAM RIGHT NOW - THE INTERNET'S SO SLOW OVER THERE. 09:01 AND SO CENTRAL'S BEING VERY NICE TO ALLOW ME TO BE A GUEST 09:05 TEACHER WHILE THEY'RE DOING A SEARCH HERE FOR A SENIOR PASTOR 09:09 AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THE NEXT STEP IS. 09:12 WE TRUST WHEN THE DUST SETTLES WE'LL END UP WITH ONE EXTRA 09:14 CHURCH DOING MEDIA PROGRAMS SO THAT YOU'LL HAVE EVEN MORE MEDIA 09:19 CONTENT. AND SO THAT'S THE PLAN. I HOPE YOU'LL PRAY ABOUT THAT. 09:23 ANYWAY, THANK YOU AGAIN, CENTRAL FAMILY, FOR LETTING ME BE A 09:26 GUEST TEACHER HERE. I APPRECIATE THAT. 09:28 OUR LESSON IS ON DISCIPLESHIP. WE'RE ON LESSON #10. 09:32 OH YEAH, IN THE INTEREST OF RUMOR CONTROL, WE'VE BEEN 09:36 GETTING RUMORS AT AMAZING FACTS, 'WE'RE SO SORRY THAT PASTOR DOUG 09:38 HAS RESIGNED.' NO, I DIDN'T RESIGN FROM AMAZING FACTS. 09:42 I'M STILL THERE, I JUST MOVED CHURCHES. LESSON #10 - 09:46 IT'S 'DISCIPLING THE NATIONS' AND WE HAVE A FREE OFFER. 09:51 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT LIKE IN OUR STUDY TODAY, JONAH, WHO 09:55 WAS SENT TO OTHER NATIONS BESIDES ISRAEL SO WE HAVE A BOOK 09:59 CALLED 'THE SIGN OF JONAH' - WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE 10:02 AND JUST ASK FOR OFFER #149. IF YOU CALL THE NUMBER ON THE 10:07 SCREEN THE NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S 10:12 866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO YOU AND HOPEFULLY YOU'LL READ 10:18 IT AND SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE - AND IT'S FREE. 10:23 OUR LESSON TODAY IS REALLY DEALING WITH THE THEME THAT IT'S 10:26 ALWAYS BEEN GOD'S DESIRE THAT THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION GOES TO 10:32 THE WORLD - TO ALL NATIONS. THERE'S A DANGER THAT WE 10:35 SOMETIMES CAN THINK THAT IT IS FOR A SELECT FEW FOR A SMALL 10:41 GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE PREDESTINED - THAT IT'S ONLY FOR 10:44 ONE NATION OR FOR ONE RACE AND THIS IS A MISTAKE. 10:49 IF YOU - I'D LIKE TO BEGIN WITH SOMETHING THAT'S NOT IN YOUR 10:52 LESSON PER SE, BUT I THINK IT'S VERY RELEVANT, ACTS CHAPTER 10. 10:57 LET ME FIND OUT WHERE OUR MICROPHONES ARE. 11:00 WHO'S GOT THE MICROPHONES FOR OUR SCRIPTURE? WE'VE GOT ONE 11:03 THERE AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE ONE ON THIS SIDE. 11:05 SOMEONE - I'LL JUST GET YOU READY - SOMEONE GOT VERSE - 11:07 WE'VE GIVEN YOU VERSE - GENESIS 12:3 - WHO HAS THAT SLIP OF 11:11 PAPER? GENESIS - ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET YOU 11:13 A MICROPHONE OVER HERE FOR - JUST A MOMENT. 11:15 THE NEXT PERSON WILL BE HAGGAI 2:7. 11:18 THAT'S YOU, OKAY. SO JUST GET YOU PREPARED. 11:22 BUT IN ACTS CHAPTER 10, HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT THE APOSTLE 11:26 PETER, HE WAS PRAYING ON HIS ROOF ONE DAY, WAITING AS THEY 11:29 PREPARED DINNER DOWN BELOW AND HE FELL INTO A TRANCE AND HAD A 11:33 VISION AND IT WAS A VISION OF THIS SHEET-LIKE STRUCTURE BEING 11:38 LOWERED FROM HEAVEN - BY THE FOUR CORNERS - AND IN THE SHEET 11:43 WERE ALL MANNER OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS AND THE WAY IT'S WORDED 11:46 THERE IS 'UNCLEAN ANIMALS'. AND THEN HE HEARS A VOICE FROM 11:50 HEAVEN THAT SAYS, 'ARISE, KILL AND EAT'. 11:54 PETER LOOKS AND HE SEES THAT SHEET IS FULL OF THINGS THAT 11:56 THEY HAD BEEN FORBIDDEN TO EAT. HE SAID, 'NOT SO, LORD. I HAVE 12:00 NEVER EATEN ANYTHING COMMON OR UNCLEAN IN MY WHOLE LIFE.' 12:03 AND GOD SAYS, 'DO NOT CALL COMMON WHAT I HAVE CLEANSED'. 12:08 WELL HE'S WONDERING WHAT THIS MEANS. 12:10 HE KNOWS HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO LITERALLY TAKE SOMETHING OUT OF 12:12 THE VISION AND COOK IT FOR DINNER - HE KNOWS THEY'RE 12:15 COOKING DINNER DOWNSTAIRS. HE'S WONDERING, 12:18 'WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?' AND IT HAPPENS THREE TIMES AND 12:22 EACH TIME HE SAYS, 'NOT SO, LORD. 12:23 I'VE NEVER EATEN ANYTHING UNCLEAN.' HE'S WONDERING IF HE'S 12:25 BEING TESTED LIKE DANIEL AND HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT GOING TO EAT 12:28 ANYTHING UNCLEAN.' AND WHILE HE'S WONDERING, SOME PEOPLE 12:32 KNOCK AT THE DOOR, THE VISION GOES AWAY AND THERE ARE SOME 12:35 MESSENGERS WHO HAVE COME FROM A GENTILE SAYING, 'PLEASE COME, 12:39 SPEAK WORDS TO US.' WELL, A GENTILE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO GO - 12:44 A JEW IS NOT SUPPOSED TO GO INTO A GENTILE'S HOUSE BECAUSE THEY 12:47 HAD THIS IDEA THAT BECAUSE GOD HAD CHOSEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE, 12:51 THEY WERE FAVORED, THEY WERE PREDESTINED TO BE SAVED BUT THE 12:54 OTHER NATIONS OUT THERE, THEY WERE DOGS, 12:56 THEY WERE CURSED, THEY WERE LOST. 12:58 AND I KNOW, IT'S HARD FOR US TO GET OUR MINDS WRAPPED ABOUT 13:00 THAT, BUT THIS WAS THEIR MINDSET. 13:03 SO IN ACTS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 28 PETER, RELATING THIS VISION, HE 13:07 SAYS TO THEM, "YOU KNOW" - HE'S TALKING TO CORNELIUS AND HIS 13:10 FAMILY - "YOU KNOW HOW UNLAWFUL IT IS FOR A JEWISH MAN TO KEEP 13:15 COMPANY WITH OR GO TO ONE OF ANOTHER NATION. 13:19 BUT GOD HAS SHOWN ME THAT I SHOULD NOT CALL ANY MAN COMMON 13:23 OR UNCLEAN." THAT WAS A BREAKTHROUGH FOR THEM. WHAT? 13:29 THE GOSPEL - SEE, WHEN JESUS SAID 'GO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN 13:32 ALL NATIONS BEGINNING IN JUDEA - SORRY, JERUSALEM, JUDEA, 13:38 SAMARIA, THEN THE OUTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH' - THEY 13:41 THOUGHT THAT MEANT TO THE JEWS WHO WERE IN JERUSALEM AND JUDEA 13:47 AND SAMARIA BECAUSE THEY WERE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE. 13:50 THEY CALLED IT 'THE DISPERSION'. 13:52 THERE WERE JEWS ALL OVER THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 13:54 THEY WERE MERCHANTS IN EVERY PART OF THE KNOWN WORLD BACK 13:57 THEN AND THEY THOUGHT, 'WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO TELL THEM ABOUT 14:00 JESUS.' YOU SEE, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND PART OF THE REASON 14:04 FOR THEIR MISUNDERSTANDING IS JESUS, BEFORE HE WENT TO HEAVEN, 14:07 HE SAID 'GO NOT INTO THE WAY OF THE GENTILES, GO RATHER TO THE 14:13 LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.' WELL, JESUS WAS SAYING, 14:17 'UNTIL THE TIME OF THE JEWS IS FULFILLED' - 34 AD, THE STONING 14:22 OF STEPHEN - 'YOU ARE TO HAVE' - THE MESSAGE FIRST WAS TO GO TO 14:25 THE JEWS. EVEN PAUL SAID, 'TO THE JEW FIRST, THEN TO THE 14:28 GREEK.' SO THERE WAS AN ORDER. WHY? WHY TO THE JEW FIRST? 14:32 WELL, BECAUSE GOD HAD GIVEN THEM THE ORACLES OF TRUTH - LET ME 14:36 EXPLAIN IT THIS WAY: WHEN I DO EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS AND I 14:42 SHARE THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE, I FIND THE BEST GROUP FOR ME TO 14:46 START WITH ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SOME BIBLICAL BACKGROUND BECAUSE 14:50 I DON'T NEED TO START FROM SCRATCH. 14:52 I NEED TO TEACH THEM THE RELEVANT PRACTICAL TRUTHS, FOR 14:56 ONE THING, THAT THE SABBATH IS STILL IN EXISTENCE, THE TRUTH 15:00 ABOUT YOU DON'T DIE AND GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN AND HELL BEFORE THE 15:02 RESURRECTION, THE TRUTH THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE 15:05 HOLY SPIRIT. STARTING WITH PEOPLE THAT HAVE 15:08 SOME BIBLICAL BACKGROUND OR SOME CONFIDENCE IN THE BIBLE, IT IS A 15:12 MUCH QUICKER WORK TO DO - THEY'RE A QUICK STUDY. 15:17 YOU TAKE SOMEONE FROM SOME PAGAN COUNTRY OR AN ATHEIST COUNTRY 15:21 THAT HAS NO BIBLE CONTEXT, IT'S A LOT MORE WORK TO DO. 15:25 SO IT MADE SENSE THAT JESUS SAID, 'GO TEACH THE TRUTH ABOUT 15:28 ME BEING THE MESSIAH. START WITH THE LOST SHEEP OF THE 15:32 HOUSE OF ISRAEL. THEY ALREADY ARE LOOKING FOR THE 15:34 MESSIAH. I DON'T HAVE TO TALK TO THEM 15:36 ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. I DON'T HAVE TO TALK TO THEM 15:38 ABOUT THE SACREDNESS OF THE SCRIPTURE. 15:40 I DON'T HAVE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN ASPECTS 15:42 OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND CLEANLINESS. THEY KNOW THAT. 15:45 THEY DON'T KNOW I'M THE MESSIAH.' SO THERE WAS A SPECIAL 15:48 TRUTH. GO FIRST TO THEM. 15:50 AND THEN, THEY PREACHED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE JEWS. 15:53 AT PENTECOST, WHEN THEY WERE BAPTIZED, WHO WERE THEY? 15:56 'THERE WERE DWELLING IN JERUSALEM DEVOUT JEWS FROM OUT 16:00 OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.' THEY WERE JEWS. 16:02 SO THE LORD FINALLY, AFTER STEPHEN WAS STONED AND AFTER 16:06 THAT TIME WAS CUT OFF FOR THE JEWISH NATION IN 34 AD, THAT WAS 16:11 THE END OF THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY OF DANIEL CHAPTER 9, THEY ARE 16:14 NOW SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO EVERYBODY AND IT TOOK A WHILE 16:19 FOR THE LORD TO GET THAT THROUGH TO THEM. AND THIS VISION TO 16:22 PETER - PETER WAS ONE OF THE FIRST - LATER TO PAUL. 16:26 IT'S INTERESTING, PAUL, WHO IS A WITNESS OF THE STONING OF 16:29 STEPHEN - THAT ENDING POINT FOR THAT PROPHECY, HE BECOMES THE 16:34 MOST PROFOUND APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES OF ANY. 16:38 AND SO, THE GOSPEL IS NOT SUPPOSED TO GO TO ONE SPECIFIC 16:42 PEOPLE, BUT IT'S TO GO EVERYWHERE. 16:44 NOW I'LL SHOW YOU HOW THAT APPEALS - OR HOW IT APPLIES TO 16:47 US AS CHRISTIANS TODAY. ALRIGHT, WHO HAS GENESIS 12:3? 16:54 OVER HERE. GO AHEAD AND READ THAT FOR US. 16:57 >>"I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU, AND I WILL CURSE HIM WHO 17:00 CURSES YOU; AND IN YOU ALL THE FAMILIES OF 17:04 THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED." 17:06 >>ALRIGHT, EVEN THOUGH MANY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE THOUGHT 'WE 17:09 HAVE BEEN CHOSEN BECAUSE WE ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, EVEN IN THE 17:13 PROMISE AND THE COVENANT THAT GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM, HE MADE 17:16 IT CLEAR 'IT'S NOT JUST FOR YOUR DESCENDENTS, BUT THROUGH YOUR 17:20 DESCENDENTS ALL NATIONS WOULD BE BLESSED.' THE IDEA WAS NOT THAT 17:24 GOD JUST SAVES ONE RACE OF PEOPLE, BUT THAT HE COMMITTED 17:28 HIS TRUTH TO ONE RACE AND THROUGH THAT RACE, THE MESSIAH 17:31 WOULD COME AND THAT RACE WOULD BE THE FIRST TO PROCLAIM HIM. 17:36 WHEN JESUS WAS INTRODUCED AND PROCLAIMED, WHO WERE THE FIRST 17:40 ONES TO INTRODUCE HIM? IT WAS THE APOSTLES - IT WAS JEWS. 17:43 GOD DIDN'T WANT THEM TO STOP, BUT THE JEWISH NATION WAS TO BE 17:48 A NATION OF PRIESTS. NOW WHAT GOOD IS IT IF YOU HAVE 17:53 ONLY PRIESTS IN A CHURCH? IF EVERYBODY IN THE CHURCH IS A 17:58 PASTOR, WHO DO YOU PREACH TO? KIND OF TOUGH, ISN'T IT? 18:03 IF EVERYBODY IS A CHIEF, THEN WHO'S AN INDIAN? 18:06 YOU KNOW THAT OLD ONE? CAN'T SAY THAT ANYMORE, IT'S NOT 18:08 POLITICALLY CORRECT, BUT HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT SAYING 18:10 BEFORE IT WAS RULED OUT? AND SO, YET, THE PRIESTS HAD 18:14 SOMEONE - THEY NEEDED PEOPLE TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR. 18:18 THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE REACHING OUT. 18:20 AND SO IF ISRAEL WAS TO BE A NATION - MATTER OF FACT, I NEED 18:23 TO READ THAT TO YOU. EXODUS 19:6, "'AND YOU SHALL BE 18:28 TO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND A HOLY NATION.'" - WHY? 18:33 BECAUSE THEY WERE TO REPRESENT JESUS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. 18:35 AND PETER REPEATS THIS. 1 PETER 2, VERSE 9, "BUT YOU ARE A 18:40 CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, HIS 18:43 OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE" - AND SO THESE PEOPLE, THE 18:47 BELIEVERS, WERE TO THEN MAKE ATONEMENT FOR 18:49 THE LOST AND BRING THEM TO JESUS. 18:52 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD PLEASE, READ FOR US HAGGAI 2, VERSE 7. 18:57 >>"'AND I WILL SHAKE ALL NATIONS, AND THEY SHALL COME TO 19:00 THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS, AND I WILL FILL THIS TEMPLE 19:04 WITH GLORY,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 19:06 >>NOW, MORE SPECIFICALLY, THAT TEMPLE THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT 19:09 WAS - HAGGAI LIVED DURING THE TIME WHEN THEY BUILT THE THIRD 19:12 TEMPLE. YOU'VE GOT THE TABERNACLE IN THE 19:15 WILDERNESS, YOU'VE SOLOMON'S TEMPLE THAT WAS DESTROYED BY 19:18 NEBUCHADNEZZAR, THEN EZRA AND NEHEMIAH CAME BACK AND HAGGAI 19:21 PROPHESIED WHILE THEY BUILT THE THIRD TEMPLE AND THEY SAID, 19:24 'BOY, THIS THIRD TEMPLE IS - WOW - IT'S SMALL. 19:27 I MEAN WE HAD FIRE COME DOWN WHEN MOSES' TEMPLE WAS DEDICATED 19:30 AND FIRE CAME DOWN WHEN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE WAS DEDICATED 19:33 AND IT WAS SO BIG AND GLORIOUS AND THIS THIRD TEMPLE - IT'S 19:35 PRETTY SMALL AND THERE'S NO FIRE - NO GLORY.' AND HAGGAI SAID, 19:39 'DON'T WORRY, THE GLORY'S COMING BECAUSE THE MESSIAH WILL 19:42 COME INTO THIS TEMPLE.' AND THAT WAS THE TEMPLE THAT JESUS TAUGHT 19:46 IN. AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, MY FATHER'S HOUSE WILL BE A HOUSE 19:51 OF PRAYER' WHEN HE WAS IN THAT TEMPLE. 19:53 SOME OF YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK 'DESIRE OF AGES'. 19:56 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE READ THAT BOOK? 'DESIRE OF AGES'? 19:58 OH, YOU ALL OUGHT TO READ THAT BOOK. 19:59 HOW MANY OF YOU READ THE BOOK BUT YOU DIDN'T JUST RAISE YOUR 20:01 HAND? I'M LOOKING OUT THERE - I KNOW 20:04 SOME OF YOU READ THAT BOOK AND YOU DIDN'T RAISE YOUR HAND. 20:05 AND IF YOU - YOU NEED TO READ THAT BOOK. 20:07 THAT'S THE BEST BOOK ON THE LIFE OF CHRIST THAT YOU'RE EVER GOING 20:10 TO RUN INTO. AND IT'S CALLED THE 'DESIRE OF AGES'. 20:14 BASED ON THIS VERSE SAYS THE 'DESIRE OF NATIONS'. 20:18 BUT ALL NATIONS WERE TO COME TO THE TEMPLE. 20:21 IT WASN'T JUST FOR JEWS. YOU REMEMBER PAUL - WHY WAS PAUL 20:24 ARRESTED AND SENT TO ROME? BECAUSE THEY ACCUSED HIM OF 20:28 BRINGING A GENTILE - WHICH HE DIDN'T - INTO THE TEMPLE. 20:32 BUT WASN'T - THEY HAD ONE PART OF THE TEMPLE CALLED 'THE 20:34 GENTILE'S COURT' - THERE WAS A PLACE GENTILES COULD COME BUT 20:37 YOU COULDN'T GO ANY FARTHER THAN THAT UNTIL YOU WERE A JEW. 20:41 BUT THROUGH CHRIST - HE SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE THAT IS 20:44 MADE WITH HANDS - I'LL MAKE A TEMPLE WITHOUT HANDS' - ALL 20:47 PEOPLE WERE INVITED TO THAT TEMPLE. 20:49 THE BODY OF CHRIST IS THE CHURCH, RIGHT? 20:52 AND SO EVERYBODY IS SUPPOSED TO GET THIS MESSAGE. 20:55 ALRIGHT, LET ME READ TO YOU ISAIAH - NOW THIS IS PART OF OUR 20:57 MEMORY VERSE BUT I'M GOING TO READ THE WHOLE THING. 20:59 ISAIAH 56, VERSES 6 THROUGH 8, "'ALSO THE SONS OF THE FOREIGNER 21:06 WHO JOIN THEMSELVES TO THE LORD, TO SERVE HIM,'" - DID, EVEN IN 21:09 THE OLD TESTAMENT, DID THEY HAVE A PROVISION WHERE EVEN 21:13 FOREIGNERS COULD JOIN THE ISRAELITES? 21:15 SURE. 'THE STRANGER WHO JOINS YOU.' IF 21:18 IT WAS A MAN, THEY'D HAVE TO BE CIRCUMCISED. 21:21 THEY'D HAVE TO BE WILLING TO OBEY THE LAWS. 21:22 THEY WOULD BE WELCOMED TO BECOME PART OF ISRAEL. 21:25 YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO ONLY BE JEWISH BY BLOOD. 21:28 COMING OUT OF EGYPT THERE WERE A LOT OF OTHER SLAVES THAT LEFT 21:31 EGYPT WITH THE ISRAELITES CALLED 'THE MIXED MULTITUDE'. 21:34 MANY OF THEM WERE INGRAINED AND INTERMARRIED AND BECAME 21:36 PART OF ISRAEL. PEOPLE LIKE URIAH THE HITTITE - 21:39 HITTITES WERE NOT JEWS, BUT URIAH BECAME AN ISRAELITE. 21:43 HE WORSHIPED THE GOD OF ISRAEL. 21:45 THERE WERE MANY LIKE THAT YOU SEE THROUGH HISTORY. 21:47 "'THE SONS OF THE FOREIGNER WHO JOIN THEMSELVES TO THE LORD, TO 21:49 SERVE HIM, AND TO LOVE THE NAME OF THE LORD, TO BE HIS SERVANTS 21:53 - EVERYONE WHO KEEPS FROM DEFILING THE SABBATH, AND HOLDS 21:56 FAST MY COVENANT'" - THEY WERE TO EMBRACE THE COVENANT - TO 21:59 KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - "'EVEN THEM I WILL BRING TO MY 22:02 HOLY MOUNTAIN, AND MAKE THEM JOYFUL IN MY HOUSE OF PRAYER." 22:05 - THEY COULD THEN COME INTO THE TEMPLE - "'THEIR BURNT OFFERINGS 22:09 AND THEIR SACRIFICES WILL BE ACCEPTED ON MY ALTAR; FOR MY 22:12 HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS.'" - 22:16 DOESN'T JESUS QUOTE THAT? - 22:18 "THE LORD GOD, WHO GATHERS THE OUTCASTS OF ISRAEL, SAYS, 'YET I 22:21 WILL GATHER TO HIM OTHERS BESIDES THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED 22:24 TO HIM.'" SO IT WAS ALWAYS GOD'S PLAN THAT ISRAEL BE 22:28 REPRESENTATIVES TO BRING EVERYBODY TO GOD - THE WHOLE 22:32 NATION - WHOLE WORLD WAS TO BE BROUGHT TO THE LORD. 22:36 MICAH 4:1 - SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME ISAIAH 2 - I THINK I'VE GIVEN 22:41 THAT OUT TO YOU - ISAIAH 2:2 - WHO HAS THAT VERSE? 22:44 OKAY? WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 22:46 AND I'M GOING TO READ MICAH 4:1 AND 2. "NOW IT SHALL COME TO 22:53 PASS IN THE LATTER DAYS THAT THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE 22:57 SHALL BE ESTABLISHED ON THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND SHALL BE 23:01 EXALTED ABOVE THE HILLS; AND THE PEOPLES SHALL FLOW TO IT. 23:05 MANY NATIONS SHALL COME AND SAY, 'COME, AND LET US GO UP TO THE 23:09 MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD, TO THE HOUSE OF THE GOD OF JACOB; HE 23:12 WILL TEACH US HIS WAYS, AND WE SHALL WALK IN HIS PATHS' FOR OUT 23:17 OF ZION THE LAW SHALL GO FORTH, AND THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM 23:20 JERUSALEM." NOW DID THAT HAPPEN? WELL, IT HAS HAPPENED IN ONE 23:26 SENSE: AFTER JESUS, DID THE GOSPEL THEN GO TO MANY NATIONS? 23:31 WHEN CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD AND, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF YOU SAY, 23:39 'CHRISTIANS - THE BIGGER FAMILY OF CHRISTIANS' - AS OPPOSED TO 23:41 THINKING OF EITHER PROTESTANT OR CATHOLIC OR A SPECIFIC 23:44 DENOMINATION - CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD, WHAT BOOK ARE THEY 23:48 READING? AREN'T THEY READING THE BOOK 23:50 WRITTEN BY MOSES, PETER, JAMES AND JOHN - THE BIBLE? 23:54 ARE THEY WORSHIPING - ARE THEY LEARNING THE WAYS OF THE LORD 23:58 FROM THE ISRAELITES? AND SO, IN A SENSE, ALL NATIONS 24:02 FLOW - PEOPLE OUT OF EVERY NATION HAVE TURNED TO CHRIST. 24:06 SO, PARTIALLY, THAT HAS BEEN FULFILLED BUT IT'S NOT 24:09 COMPLETELY FULFILLED YET. ALRIGHT, I THINK WE'VE GOT 24:11 SOMEONE - YOU'RE GOING TO READ FOR US A SIMILAR VERSE - 24:15 ISAIAH 2:2. >>"NOW IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN 24:19 THE LATTER DAYS THAT THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE 24:21 SHALL BE ESTABLISHED ON THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND SHALL BE 24:24 EXALTED ABOVE THE HILLS; AND ALL NATIONS SHALL FLOW TO IT." 24:29 >>YOU NOTICE HOW THAT IS VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL TO THE 24:31 PROPHECY OF MICAH THAT WE JUST READ? 24:35 IF YOU'RE WONDERING IF A PROPHECY IS SURE - YOU THINK IF 24:39 TWO PROPHETS SAY IT - YOU'VE GOT THE MOUTH OF TWO WITNESSES - 24:41 THAT'S A DEFINITE PROPHECY. SO THIS IS WORD FOR WORD - MICAH 24:45 SAYS - MICAH IS BASICALLY QUOTING THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH, 24:48 BECAUSE MICAH COMES AFTER ISAIAH. 24:50 HUNDREDS OF YEARS HAD GONE BY BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM. 24:53 HE'S SAYING, 'THIS WILL SURELY HAPPEN.' WHY DOES MICAH REPEAT 24:56 THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH? ISAIAH LIVED DURING THE TIME OF 24:59 SOLOMON'S TEMPLE - IT WAS DESTROYED. 25:02 AND NOW THEY'RE WONDERING, 'OH, THAT PROPHECY ABOUT THE TEMPLE 25:05 BEING BUILT AND ALL NATIONS FLOWING INTO IT, I GUESS IT'S 25:07 NEVER GOING TO COME TRUE.' YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT SOME PROPHECIES 25:11 AND PEOPLE SAY, 'I DON'T SEE HOW THAT'S EVER GOING TO COME TRUE. 25:14 HOW WILL YOU EVER HAVE A NATION LIKE AMERICA WITH ALL OF OUR 25:18 COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM - PERSONAL CHOICE - THAT WE COULD EVER BE 25:23 COMPELLING PEOPLE TO WORSHIP A CERTAIN WAY. 25:26 THAT'LL NEVER HAPPEN IN AMERICA.' BUT THEY WERE 25:30 THINKING, 'HOW WILL THE TEMPLE EVER BE BUILT AGAIN AFTER IT'S 25:32 JUST RUINS?' MICAH SAID, 'IT WILL BE BUILT 25:35 AGAIN AND NATIONS WILL FLOW TO IT.' AND WAS IT REBUILT? IT WAS. 25:40 AND THEN IT WAS DESTROYED AFTER THE TIME OF CHRIST AND THEY 25:43 THOUGHT, 'HOW IS IT EVER GOING TO BE BUILT AGAIN?' 25:45 AND JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE AND I WILL RAISE IT UP.' 25:48 AND THE CHURCH WAS RAISED UP. AND IS THERE GOING TO BE A DAY 25:51 WHEN WE'LL ALL BE TOGETHER IN THE NEW JERUSALEM AND ALL FLESH 25:54 WILL COME TO WORSHIP BEFORE THE LORD FROM ONE NEW MOON TO 25:57 ANOTHER AND ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER? 25:58 SO WE WONDER 'HOW COULD THIS PROPHECY EVER BE FULFILLED?' 26:01 WHEN GOD'S WORD SAYS IT - THE WHOLE WORLD WILL CHANGE BUT HIS 26:04 WORD WON'T CHANGE. IT'LL HAPPEN. 26:06 DON'T ASK ME HOW IT ALL FITS TOGETHER BUT IT WILL HAPPEN. 26:08 NONE OF GOD'S WORDS FALL ON THE GROUND. 26:11 ALRIGHT, THEN - I LIKE ALSO THAT JONAH IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE 26:16 PROPHECIES ABOUT THE GOSPEL GOING TO THE NATIONS BECAUSE 26:22 JONAH - WHEN GOD SAYS 'ARISE AND GO TO NINEVEH AND PREACH TO 26:25 THEM' - 'NINEVEH? THE ASSYRIANS ARE OUR ENEMIES. 26:30 YOU WANT ME TO PREACH THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY THEM IN 26:33 FORTY DAYS. THEY'VE GOT TO REPENT? 26:34 WELL, LET'S JUST SKIP WARNING THEM. JUST DESTROY THEM. 26:38 THEY'RE HEATHEN, THEY'RE DOGS, THEY'RE LOST.' GOD SAID, 'NO, I 26:41 WANT YOU TO GO EAST AND TALK TO THEM.' AND JONAH SAID, 'NO, I'M 26:44 GOING WEST.' HE DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT. 26:46 AND GOD FINALLY HAD TO GET HIS ATTENTION. 26:49 NOW YOU KNOW WHY JONAH'S AN INTERESTING STORY, JONAH IS THE 26:53 ONLY JEW IN THE STORY. THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE IN THE 26:57 STORY BUT JONAH'S THE ONLY JEW. YOU'VE GOT THE CAPTAIN, YOU'VE 27:01 GOT THE SAILORS, YOU'VE GOT THE NINEVITES. YOU'VE GOT - IT TALKS 27:05 ABOUT CHILDREN, IT TALKS ABOUT ANIMALS, IT TALKS ABOUT WORMS, 27:07 IT TALKS ABOUT WHALES, IT TALKS ABOUT PLANTS. 27:10 THE BOOK OF JONAH IS A VERY, VERY INTERESTING, INSPIRED BOOK. 27:14 IT TALKS ABOUT THE WEATHER. IT TALKS ABOUT ZOOLOGY. 27:19 IT TALKS ABOUT THE PEOPLE REPENTING, THE ANIMALS REPENTING 27:22 - I MEAN, JONAH COVERS EVERYTHING AND THE ONLY JEW 27:24 IN THE BOOK IS JONAH AND THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES NOT WANT TO 27:27 TELL ABOUT GOD IN THE BOOK IS JONAH. 27:30 EVERYBODY IN THE BOOK LISTENS TO THE MESSAGE OF GOD: THE WIND 27:34 LISTENS, THE WHALE LISTENS, THE WORM LISTENS, THE PLANT LISTENS, 27:37 THE SAILOR LISTENS, THE CAPTAIN LISTENS, THE KING LISTENS, THE 27:40 ANIMALS LISTEN, THE CHILDREN LISTEN. 27:43 THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T LISTEN IS JONAH. 27:46 THE ONLY ONE IN THE STORY WHO KNOWS THE WORD OF GOD IS JONAH. 27:50 HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T WANT TO TELL THE WORD OF GOD. 27:53 NOW, DO YOU THINK THERE COULD BE A MESSAGE IN THERE FOR US THAT 27:58 SOMETIMES THE PEOPLE OF GOD ARE THE ONES THAT ARE THE MOST 28:01 RELUCTANT TO SHARE THE MESSAGE OF GOD AND WE THINK NOBODY 28:04 REALLY WANTS IT. NO ONE WILL REALLY LISTEN? 28:07 WHAT DID JESUS SAY? 'THE LABORERS ARE MANY, THE 28:11 HARVEST IS FEW'? NO, HE SAID 'THE HARVEST IS GREAT. 28:16 PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE HUNGRY. THEY WANT TO HEAR THE WORD OF 28:18 TRUTH. THEY'RE PERISHING. THEY'RE COMING TO THE CHURCH AND 28:21 WAKING US UP AND SAYING, 'WHAT MEANEST THOU O SLEEPER? 28:24 WHY DON'T YOU CALL UPON YOUR GOD? 28:26 WE'RE PERISH - THE WORLD'S ENDING, HOW COME YOU DON'T TELL 28:28 US WHAT THE TRUTH IS?' THAT'S THE WORLD WONDERING 28:30 WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE CHURCH. 'YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE THAT THE 28:32 WORLD'S ENDING. YOU BELIEVE JESUS IS COMING. 28:34 YOU DON'T ACT LIKE YOU BELIEVE IT.' BUT THIS IS A MESSAGE 28:38 THAT'S SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE WORLD AND WE DON'T TAKE IT NEXT 28:40 DOOR. HUH? THAT'S THE MESSAGE OF JONAH. 28:47 AND FINALLY JONAH LISTENS TO THE LORD - WELL, WHEN HE FINALLY 28:51 REPENTS HE TELLS THE SAILORS, THEY REPENT, THEY TURN TO GOD. 28:55 HE GOES TO NINEVEH, THEY REPENT AND THEY TURN TO GOD. 28:58 BIGGEST REVIVAL IN THE BIBLE IS IN THE STORY OF JONAH. 29:01 WHEN A WHOLE NATION - A WHOLE COUNTRY REPENTS BECAUSE OF THE 29:05 PREACHING OF ONE PERSON - THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD 29:06 EVANGELISTIC MEETING. 29:09 THE WORST EVANGELISTIC MEETING IN THE BIBLE IS PROBABLY NOAH. 29:12 PREACHES 120 YEARS - YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A SIX-WEEK MEETING HERE 29:16 AND YOU FOLKS THING, 'MAN!' NOAH HAD 120-YEAR EVANGELISTIC 29:20 MEETING AND HE COULD ONLY GET HIS FAMILY TO ATTEND, RIGHT? 29:26 NINEVEH IS THE BEST EVANGELISTIC MEETING IN THE BIBLE. 29:31 AND FINALLY, WHEN HE GOES TO THE OTHER NATIONS, THEY'RE HUNGRY. 29:36 WHY DID THEY WANT TO STONE JESUS WHEN HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY? 29:40 YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME THEY TRIED TO STONE JESUS? 29:42 HE WENT TO NINEVEH - NO, NAZARETH, SORRY - HE WENT TO 29:45 NAZARETH AND HE STOOD UP TO PREACH AND HE SAID, 'THERE WERE 29:49 MANY LEPERS' - I'M PARAPHRASING - 'THERE WERE MANY LEPERS IN THE 29:52 LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE DAYS OF NAAMAN, BUT UNTO NONE OF THEM - 29:57 NONE OF THEM WAS CLEANSED - I'M SORRY - 'THERE WERE MANY LEPERS 30:00 IN THE LAND' - THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PARAPHRASE - 30:03 'THERE WERE MANY LEPERS IN THE LAND IN THE DAYS OF ELISHA; NONE 30:05 OF THEM WAS CLEANSED EXCEPT NAAMAN THE SYRIAN. 30:09 AND THERE WERE MANY WIDOWS IN THE LAND IN THE DAYS OF ELIJAH 30:13 BUT ELIJAH WASN'T SENT TO ANY HEBREW WIDOW, HE WAS SENT TO A 30:16 CANAANITE WOMAN.' AND JESUS TELLS US 'MANY WILL COME FROM 30:22 THE EAST AND THE WEST AND SIT DOWN IN THE KINGDOM WITH 30:24 ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB AND THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM' - 30:27 THE NATURAL ONES - 'WILL BE IN OUTER DARKNESS.' THEY BECAME SO 30:31 UPSET THEY THRUST HIM OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE, THEY TOOK HIM TO A 30:35 STEEP BLUFF ON THE HILLS NEAR NAZARETH AND THEY WERE GOING TO 30:39 TOSS HIM OFF A CLIFF BUT HE SOMEHOW GOT OUT OF THEIR HANDS 30:42 AND WALKED THROUGH THE CROWD AND ESCAPED. 30:44 WHY WERE THEY SO OUTRAGED THAT HE WOULD SAY THAT THE MESSAGE OF 30:48 TRUTH IS TO GO TO THE GENTILES? THEY WERE OCCUPIED, AT THAT 30:52 TIME, BY THE ROMANS AND THEY WERE JUST - THEY FOUND GREAT 30:55 SATISFACTION IN THINKING THESE ARE - THEY'RE ALL LOST - 30:59 THEY'RE ALL DOGS. WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH. THEY DON'T. 31:02 WE'RE GOING TO KEEP TO OURSELVES SO THAT THEY'RE LOST.' AND THEY 31:04 KIND OF CLOISTERED THEMSELVES AND THEY SEQUESTERED THEMSELVES. 31:08 THEY SAID, 'WE ARE THE FROZEN CHOSEN.' NOW WE WOULDN'T DO 31:12 THAT, RIGHT? I WANT TO SHOW YOU A STORY IN 31:16 THE BIBLE. TURN WITH ME TO LUKE 16. THE GOSPEL IS SUPPOSED TO 31:21 GO TO THE NATIONS. IN LUKE 16 WE'VE GOT THE PARABLE 31:28 - IT'S ONLY FOUND IN LUKE 16 - OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS AND 31:33 WE'LL START WITH VERSE 11 - NO, 19 - SORRY. 31:40 "THERE WAS A CERTAIN RICH MAN WHO WAS CLOTHED IN PURPLE AND 31:44 FINE LINEN AND FARED" - OR FEASTED - "SUMPTUOUSLY" - 31:46 LAVISHLY - "EVERY DAY. 31:48 BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS, FULL OF SORES, 31:51 WHO WAS LAID AT HIS GATE, DESIRING TO BE FED WITH THE 31:54 CRUMBS WHICH FELL FROM THE RICH MAN'S TABLE. 31:56 MOREOVER THE DOGS CAME AND LICKED HIS SORES. 31:59 SO IT WAS THAT THE BEGGAR DIED, AND WAS CARRIED BY THE ANGELS TO 32:03 ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. THE RICH MAN ALSO DIED AND WAS BURIED. 32:06 AND BEING IN TORMENTS IN HADES, HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND SAW 32:09 ABRAHAM AFAR OFF, AND LAZARUS IN HIS BOSOM. 32:15 THEN HE CRIED AND SAID, 'FATHER ABRAHAM, HAVE MERCY ON ME, AND 32:18 SEND LAZARUS THAT HE MAY DIP THE TIP OF HIS FINGER IN WATER AND 32:22 COOL MY TONGUE; FOR I AM TORMENTED IN THIS FLAME.' BUT 32:25 ABRAHAM SAID, 'SON, REMEMBER THAT IN YOUR LIFETIME YOU 32:28 RECEIVED YOUR GOOD THINGS, AND LIKEWISE LAZARUS EVIL THINGS; 32:31 BUT NOW HE IS COMFORTED AND YOU ARE TORMENTED. 32:33 AND BESIDES ALL THIS, BETWEEN US AND YOU THERE IS A GREAT GULF 32:36 FIXED, SO THAT THOSE WHO WANT TO PASS FROM HERE TO YOU CANNOT, 32:41 NOR CAN THOSE FROM THERE PASS TO US.' THEN HE SAID, 'I BEG YOU 32:44 THEREFORE, FATHER, THAT YOU WOULD SEND HIM TO MY FATHER'S 32:47 HOUSE, FOR I HAVE FIVE BROTHERS, THAT HE MAY TESTIFY TO THEM, 32:51 LEST THEY ALSO COME TO THIS PLACE OF TORMENT.' ABRAHAM SAID 32:54 TO HIM, 'THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS; LET THEM HEAR THEM.' 32:58 AND HE SAID, 'NO, FATHER ABRAHAM; BUT IF ONE GOES TO THEM 33:00 FROM THE DEAD, THEY WILL REPENT.' BUT HE SAID TO HIM, 'IF 33:03 THEY DO NOT HEAR MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY BE 33:05 PERSUADED THOUGH ONE RISE FROM THE DEAD.'" ALRIGHT, TYPICALLY 33:09 WHEN WE READ THIS PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS, WE 33:12 INSTANTLY DRIFT OFF INTO A DISCUSSION OF THE STATE OF MAN 33:17 AND DEATH. DO PEOPLE GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN AND 33:20 HELL AS SOON AS THEY DIE? AND A LOT OF FOLKS POINT TO THIS 33:23 PARABLE - OF COURSE THIS PARABLE HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO 33:26 WITH THAT. FIRST OF ALL, IT'S A PARABLE, 33:29 WHICH IS PRETTY CLEAR FROM THE VERY STRONG SYMBOLISM THAT'S IN 33:33 THERE; THE IDEA THAT EVERYBODY THAT DIES SOMEHOW FITS INTO 33:35 ABRAHAM'S BOSOM WOULD GIVE ABRAHAM A PRETTY BIG BOSOM. 33:39 THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE IN HEAVEN AND HELL CAN TALK TO EACH OTHER 33:43 IS ALSO A PRETTY HORRIFIC THOUGHT AND THE IDEA THAT ONE 33:49 DROP OF WATER WOULD COOL A PERSON'S TONGUE WHO IS BURNING 33:52 IN HELL - IT'S FULL OF SYMBOLISM IN THE STORY. 33:55 IT'S VERY INTERESTING: ALL THE JEWS - THEY SAID, 'WE'LL BE 33:59 SAVED BECAUSE WE'RE ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN.' 34:01 THEY EXPECTED TO GO AND BE CLOSE TO ABRAHAM. 34:04 THE GENTILES, THEY BELIEVED IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY - THAT WHEN 34:07 YOU'RE LOST YOU GO TO HADES, RULED BY A GOD CALLED PLUTO. 34:11 JESUS USED GREAT IRONY HERE - IT'S A PARADOX - HE HAS THE 34:16 GENTILE GOING TO THE JEWISH PLACE OF BLISS AND HE'S GOT THE 34:20 JEW, THE RICH MAN, GOING TO THE HEATHEN PLACE OF TORMENT. 34:25 SO EVERYBODY LISTENING BACK THEN KNEW THAT THIS WAS AN 34:29 ILLUSTRATION. THEY ALSO KNEW THAT IT HAD 34:31 NOTHING TO DO WITH THE STATE OF THE DEAD. 34:33 WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING - THE JEWS THOUGHT THEY WERE RICH AND 34:35 INCREASED WITH GOODS BECAUSE THEY HAD THE TRUTH - THEY HAD 34:37 MOSES AND THE PROPHETS - THEY HAD THE WORD OF GOD, WHILE THE 34:41 GENTILES AROUND THEM, LIKE BEGGARS, THEY CALLED THEM DOGS. 34:44 REMEMBER LAZARUS, THE ONLY THING HE GETS IS THE DOGS LICKING HIS 34:46 SORES. AND SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'THIS MUST 34:49 BE A TRUE STORY BECAUSE JESUS USED AN ACTUAL NAME IN THE 34:51 PARABLE.' LAZARUS WAS ABOUT THE MOST COMMON NAME THAT YOU COULD 34:56 HAVE BACK THEN. IT'S RELATED TO THE NAME 34:58 'ELIEZER' - IT'S A GREEK VERSION OF IT - LAZARUS. 35:01 AND IT IS INTERESTING THAT JESUS RAISED SOMEONE FROM THE DEAD BY 35:05 THE NAME OF LAZARUS AND THEY STILL DIDN'T BELIEVE. 35:07 SO HE MIGHT HAVE USED THE NAME TO ILLUSTRATE 'I'M GOING TO 35:10 RAISE SOMEONE BY THAT VERY NAME AND YOU STILL WILL NOT BELIEVE. 35:13 BUT DON'T PUT ANYTHING INTO THE NAME. 35:16 I MEAN, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD SOMEONE USE A STORY AND 35:18 THEY SAY, 'ONE DAY, JOHN DOE WAS DOING THIS OR THAT.' AND YOU 35:22 KNOW JOHN DOE IS JUST A - IT'S A LABEL - IT'S FILLING IN. 35:26 SO HE JUST PLUGS IN ONE OF THE MOST COMMON NAMES - IT WAS LIKE 35:29 BOB OR GEORGE OR FRANK OR ED OR JOHN AND - BUT WHAT DOES IT 35:35 REALLY SAY? THE JEWS BELIEVED 'BECAUSE WE 35:38 HAVE THE TRUTH AND BECAUSE WE'RE ABRAHAM'S SEED AND BECAUSE WE 35:42 HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, WE ARE SAVED. 35:45 WE ARE RICH.' BUT THE REASON GOD GAVE THEM RICHES WAS TO FEED THE 35:49 STARVING AROUND THEM THAT THEY CALLED DOGS. 35:53 THEY THOUGHT, 'THEY'RE UNCLEAN.' THAT'S WHY IT EVEN SAYS IN 35:57 REVELATION, 'FOR OUTSIDE ARE DOGS.' REMEMBER A WOMAN - A 36:00 GENTILE WOMAN, DON'T FORGET, CAME TO JESUS PLEADING AND SAID, 36:03 'PLEASE HEAL MY DAUGHTER.' THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY TIMES CHRIST 36:05 WENT UP TO WHERE ELIJAH WENT, NEAR TYRE, AND THERE WAS A 36:09 SYROPHOENICIAN WOMAN - A CANAANITE WOMAN - AND HE SAID, 36:13 'IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S FOOD AND GIVE IT 36:15 TO THE DOGS.' JESUS USED THE LANGUAGE THE APOSTLES WERE 36:19 EXPECTING FROM THE OTHER PRIESTS TO SHOW THEM HOW WRONG THAT WAS. 36:23 AND SHE SAID, 'YES MASTER, BUT EVEN THE DOGS GET THE CRUMBS.' 36:26 HERE, SAME STORY, YOU'VE GOT DOGS AND CRUMBS, DON'T YOU? 36:30 IN LAZARUS YOU'VE GOT DOGS AND CRUMBS - AND HE HEALED HER 36:32 DAUGHTER BY THE WAY. AND SO THEY SAID, 'WE'RE GOING 36:36 TO - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO STAY AT OUR GATES ON THE 36:38 OUTSIDE.' AND SO, WOW, THEY BOTH DIE. AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW, 36:44 THEY CHANGE PLACES - THE ULTIMATE TRADING OF PLACES. 36:47 THE RICH MAN GOES TO THE GENTILE PLACE OF TORMENT AND THE GENTILE 36:51 GOES TO THE JEWISH PLACE OF REWARD. 36:54 AND THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT THAT MEANT. 36:57 AND THEN HE SAYS, 'FATHER ABRAHAM' - REMEMBER, THE RICH 37:00 MAN HE'S IN HADES BUT HE'S SAYING, 'FATHER ABRAHAM, SEND 37:03 HIM TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE FOR I'VE GOT FIVE BRETHREN.' YOU 37:07 KNOW, ALL THE JEWS, THERE WERE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF THE JEWS - 37:10 YOU HAD THE SADDUCEES AND THE PHARISEES - SOME DIDN'T BELIEVE 37:14 IN CERTAIN BOOKS AND OTHERS DID AND THE SAMARITANS DIDN'T 37:16 BELIEVE ANYTHING, BUT THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES THEY ALL AGREED 37:20 ON - FIVE WAS A NUMBER FOR THE WORD OF GOD. 37:22 HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT FIVE BROTHERS IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE' - IT'S 37:26 LIKE THE TEMPLE. AND SO THIS WAS ALL - THE JEWS 37:28 UNDERSTOOD THIS WAS ALL A CONTEXT TALKING ABOUT THE JEWISH 37:31 FAITH. 'OH, IF LAZARUS WOULD GO BACK 37:34 AND TELL THEM BECAUSE THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT THEY MIGHT BE LOST. 37:37 THEY CAN'T BE SAVED JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE JEWS. 37:40 AND HE - JESUS SAID, 'THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS.' 'OH, 37:44 BUT IF SOMEONE WENT TO THEM FROM THE DEAD THEN THEY'D BELIEVE.' 37:46 JESUS SAID, 'OH, YOU THINK SO? 37:48 THEY WON'T BELIEVE EVEN THOUGH SOMEONE RISES FROM THE DEAD.' 37:51 NOT ONLY DID LAZARUS RISE, BUT JESUS ROSE AND DID THEY BELIEVE? 37:54 OR DID THEY TRY TO KILL LAZARUS AND PAY OFF THE ROMAN SOLDIERS 37:58 TO SAY IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, RIGHT? SIGNS AND WONDERS WON'T DO IT. 38:02 IF THE WORD OF GOD DOESN'T DO IT, NOTHING WILL DO IT. 38:05 BUT THE CRUX OF THIS STORY IS: WHAT THE JEWISH NATION WAS DOING 38:10 BACK THEN IN SAYING, 'WE HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS. 38:14 WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH. WE ARE CHOSEN. 38:18 WE ARE PREDESTINED AND YOU'RE ALL LOST.' NOT CARING ABOUT 38:21 OTHERS - JESUS SAID, 'YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A RUDE AWAKENING 38:25 IN THE JUDGMENT WHEN YOU FIND OUT THAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE - 38:29 THE POOR THAT WERE APPRECIATING THE CRUMBS OF TRUTH THEY HAD, 38:34 THEY'LL BE IN THE KINGDOM. AND YOU, WHO WERE FEASTING ON 38:37 THE TRUTH BUT YOU WEREN'T SHARING IT, YOU'LL BE IN OUTER 38:39 DARKNESS.' SEE WHAT THE CENTRAL MESSAGE IS? 38:42 SO IF WE - AND NOW, THAT APPLIES TO CHURCHES TODAY. 38:46 IT'S NOT JUST A MESSAGE FOR JEWS, IT APPLIES TO EVERY 38:48 BELIEVER IN EVERY AGE. IF WE THINK WE'RE SAVED JUST 38:50 BECAUSE WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH - DOES THE DEVIL KNOW THE TRUTH? 38:54 DOES THE DEVIL KNOW THE BIBLE BETTER THAN MOST OF US? 38:57 IS THAT GOING TO SAVE HIM? DID THE PEOPLE WHO CRUCIFIED 39:00 JESUS HAVE THE SCRIPTURES? YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 39:05 SO THE GOSPEL IS SUPPOSED TO GO OUT. 39:09 THE GOSPEL IS SOMETHING YOU DON'T GET TO KEEP UNLESS YOU 39:12 GIVE IT AWAY. THE GOSPEL IS SOMETHING YOU 39:16 DON'T GET TO KEEP UNLESS YOU GIVE IT AWAY. 39:18 IT'S LIKE A MUSCLE - YOU LOSE IT IF YOU DON'T USE IT. 39:21 IF YOU DON'T SHARE IT, IT EVAPORATES. 39:24 IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT MOIST, YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT OR IT DRIES 39:28 UP. SO, IF - AND YOU CAN LOOK HERE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 12, 39:36 VERSE 39 - SOMEBODY, LET ME SEE, YEAH, SOMEONE LOOK UP 39:42 JOHN 10:16 - WHO GOT THAT? WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE HERE. 39:46 WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MINUTE. 39:49 MATTHEW 12:39, JESUS SAID "IT'S AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS 39:53 GENERATION THAT SEEKS AFTER A SIGN, AND NO SIGN WILL BE GIVEN 39:57 TO IT EXCEPT THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH. 40:00 FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE 40:02 GREAT FISH, SO WILL THE SON OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE 40:06 NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH." 40:07 NOW WHAT HAPPENED AFTER JONAH WAS IN THE GREAT FISH? 40:10 WHERE DID JONAH GO FROM THE FISH? TO THE GENTILES. 40:16 WHERE DID THE GOSPEL GO AFTER JESUS CAME FROM THE TOMB? 40:20 THE GOSPEL THEN WENT TO THE GENTILES, DIDN'T IT? 40:23 SO THAT'S JUST ONE OF MANY SIMILARITIES THERE. 40:25 AND THEN HE SAYS, "THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH WILL RISE UP IN THE 40:29 JUDGMENT WITH THIS GENERATION AND CONDEMN IT, FOR SHE CAME 40:33 FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH TO HEAR THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON; AND 40:36 INDEED A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE." 40:38 WHO IS THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH? 40:42 WHO CAME TO HEAR SOLOMON'S WISDOM? 40:44 QUEEN OF SHEBA - THAT'S THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH. 40:46 SO THE GENTILES CAME TO HEAR THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON AND SHE TOOK 40:51 THE TRUTH BACK TO HER COUNTRY. 40:53 JESUS SAID 'A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE. 40:55 I WANT THE GENTILES TO COME AND HEAR THIS TRUTH. 40:58 I WANT IT TO SPREAD EVERYWHERE.' SO, WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL THAT 41:03 WE DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THAT SOME OF THE JEWS - 41:06 OBVIOUSLY ALL OF THE JEWS DIDN'T MAKE THIS MISTAKE OR THERE'D BE 41:08 NO CHURCH TODAY. THE EARLY CHURCH WAS ALL JEWISH. 41:11 BUT MANY OF THE LEADERS DID MAKE THIS MISTAKE OF REJECTING THE 41:15 MESSAGE. SO I ALWAYS SAY THAT IF YOU WANT 41:20 TO BE SAVED YOU HAVE TO BE A SPIRITUAL JEW, AT THE VERY 41:22 LEAST. I THINK THAT'S WHAT PAUL SAYS. 41:25 ROMANS 2:28, "FOR HE IS NOT A JEW WHO IS ONE OUTWARDLY, NOR IS 41:30 CIRCUMCISION THAT WHICH IS OUTWARD IN THE FLESH; BUT HE IS 41:33 A JEW WHO IS ONE INWARDLY; AND CIRCUMCISION IS THAT OF THE 41:36 HEART," - WE ALL MUST BE SPIRITUAL JEWS. ROMANS 9:6 41:41 AND 7, "BUT IT IS NOT THAT THE WORD OF GOD HAS TAKEN NO EFFECT. 41:46 FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL WHO ARE OF ISRAEL, NOR ARE THEY ALL 41:51 CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SEED OF ABRAHAM; BUT, 'IN ISAAC 41:54 YOUR SEED SHALL BE CALLED.'" ABRAHAM HAD SEVERAL OTHER 41:57 CHILDREN BESIDES ISAAC, BUT THE MESSIAH WAS TO COME THROUGH 42:01 ISAAC - BUT - SO THERE ARE OTHER DESCENDENTS OF ABRAHAM OUT THERE 42:05 THAT MIGHT NOT BE FROM THE SEED OF ISAAC. GALATIANS 3:7, 42:10 "THEREFORE KNOW THAT ONLY THOSE WHO ARE OF FAITH 42:13 ARE THE SONS OF ABRAHAM." "ONLY THOSE WHO ARE OF FAITH ARE 42:18 THE SONS OF ABRAHAM." SO, MANY WILL COME FROM THE EAST 42:21 AND THE WEST. THE 144,000 THAT YOU READ ABOUT 42:25 IN THE LAST DAYS, IS THAT 12,000 OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL 42:30 ALL LITERAL JEWS? THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE. 42:34 WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO GET 12,000 LITERAL PEOPLE FROM THE 42:37 TRIBE OF MANASSEH AND ISSACHAR AND ZEBULON TODAY? 42:41 DO YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLE HISTORY? THOSE TRIBES WERE CONQUERED 42:44 HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN. 42:46 THEY WERE SCATTERED TO ASSYRIA, THEY INTERMARRIED - THERE ARE, 42:49 TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THERE ARE PROBABLY NO PUREBRED MEMBERS OF 42:52 THOSE TRIBES. YOU STILL HAVE A HARD TIME. THERE ARE PROBABLY 42:55 STILL JEWS - A JEW IS FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH - BUT ISRAELITES 43:00 FROM THE TWELVE TRIBES? I THINK IT MUST BE TALKING ABOUT 43:02 SPIRITUAL ISRAELITES THERE AND YET, A LOT OF MY EVANGELICAL 43:06 FRIENDS THINK THE 144,000 HAVE TO BE LITERAL JEWS. 43:10 IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO GET LITERAL 12,000 FROM THESE PEOPLE 43:14 THAT ARE PUREBREDS BECAUSE THEY'RE LARGELY INTERMARRIED. 43:18 SO ANYWAY, JUST WHILE WE'RE ON THAT SUBJECT, JESUS SAID - 43:24 MATTHEW - ACTUALLY IT'S JOHN THE BAPTIST THAT SAID, 'SO DO NOT 43:28 SAY TO YOURSELVES 'WE HAVE ABRAHAM AS OUR FATHER' FOR GOD 43:31 IS ABLE TO RAISE UP CHILDREN TO ABRAHAM FROM THESE STONES.' DO 43:35 NOT SAY 'MY MOTHER WAS IN THE CHURCH - MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 43:38 PASTOR - I'VE BEEN IN THE CHURCH FOR FOUR GENERATIONS'. 43:40 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ANYONE TALK ABOUT HOW MANY GENERATIONS 43:42 THEY'VE BEEN IN THE CHURCH? IS IT - DOES GOD HAVE ANY 43:46 GRANDCHILDREN? GOD HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN. YOU 43:51 ALL MUST BE BORN AGAIN. IF YOU'RE ONLY BORN ONCE, YOU 43:54 WILL DIE TWICE - SECOND DEATH. IF YOU WANT TO ONLY DIE ONCE YOU 43:58 NEED TO BE BORN TWICE - PHYSICAL BIRTH, SPIRITUAL BIRTH - RIGHT? 44:02 SO THERE IS NO VIRTUE - I MEAN, IT'S NICE TO HAVE HERITAGE, BUT 44:07 YOU HAVE NO SANCTIFYING VALUE IN SAYING, 'I'VE GOT THREE OR FOUR 44:10 GENERATIONS IN THE CHURCH' - YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MORE OWNERSHIP OF 44:13 CHRIST BY THAT. 'WE FALL INTO THE MINDSET OF SOME 44:16 OF THE JEWS BACK THEN IN THINKING THAT WE'VE GOT THIS 44:19 HERITAGE - 'WE MUST BE SAVED, LOOK AT THE GREAT HERITAGE WE'VE 44:21 GOT.' I REALLY APPRECIATE MY MORMON BROTHERS AND SISTERS FOR 44:25 THE WONDERFUL GENEALOGY WORK THEY'VE DONE. 44:27 BY THE WAY, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE 'ANCESTORS.COM' IF IT WASN'T FOR 44:30 THEM. THAT'S HOW THAT ALL ORIGINATED. 44:33 AND SO - ANY OF YOU EVER LOG ON TO 'ANCESTORS.COM' TO TRY AND 44:36 FIND OUT WHO SOME OF YOUR IN-LAWS AND OUT-LAWS ARE OUT 44:39 THERE? IT'S INTERESTING - IT IS KIND OF INTERESTING. 44:43 IT KIND OF GIVES YOU ROOTS, BUT YOU DON'T GET ANY SALVATION 44:47 VIRTUE THROUGH YOUR ANCESTORS' BLOOD. 44:50 WE ALL MUST COME TO CHRIST ORIGINALLY TO BE SAVED. AMEN? 44:55 NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, WHEN PAUL SAYS - AND THIS IS JUST 45:00 EXTRA, IT'S NOT REALLY IN THE LESSON - WHEN PAUL SAYS IN 45:05 ROMANS 11:26, "AND SO ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED," - ALL ISRAEL 45:12 WILL BE SAVED - I'VE HAD FRIENDS FROM OTHER CHURCHES THAT HAVE 45:16 READ THAT VERSE THAT THINK THERE WILL BE SOME REVIVAL THAT'S 45:19 GOING TO GO THROUGH ISRAEL AND EVERY SINGLE JEW IS GOING TO BE 45:21 SAVED BECAUSE THEY'RE A JEW. PAUL MAKES THIS STATEMENT IN 45:25 ROMANS ABOUT ALL ISRAEL BEING SAVED BECAUSE IF IT'S ALSO 45:28 SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, THEN IT IS TRUE ALL OF THE REAL CHILDREN OF 45:32 ABRAHAM WILL BE SAVED - IF YOU'RE A REAL SPIRITUAL JEW. 45:36 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE THEN? IF NOT, THEN IT SOUNDS LIKE 45:39 GOD'S GOING TO SAVE PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR GENETICS. 45:43 DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS? 45:47 THAT PEOPLE FROM EVERY NATION WHO BELIEVE IN HIM WILL BE 45:49 ACCEPTED? GOD HAS MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL PEOPLE? 45:53 SO PEOPLE FROM ALL DIFFERENT NATIONS WILL ACCEPT HIM AND 45:56 PEOPLE FROM ALL DIFFERENT NATIONS WILL REJECT HIM. 46:00 THEN ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH WILL MOURN FOR THEY WILL 46:04 SEE HIM COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN AND PEOPLE FROM EVERY 46:06 NATION ARE GOING TO REJECT HIM. MORE WILL REJECT HIM THAN ACCEPT 46:09 HIM. BUT HE HAS HIS CHILDREN IN EVERY NATION. 46:13 OKAY, I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU. 46:14 WHO'S GOT JOHN 10:16? LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ THAT. 46:20 >>JOHN 10:16 "AND OTHER SHEEP I HAVE, WHICH ARE NOT OF THIS 46:24 FOLD: THEM ALSO I MUST BRING, AND THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE; AND 46:29 THERE WILL BE ONE FLOCK, AND ONE SHEPHERD." 46:32 >>ALRIGHT, SO RIGHT THERE JESUS - HE MADE IT CLEAR IT'S NOT JUST 46:36 THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. 46:39 HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT OTHER SHEEP'. SO IF HE'S NOT JUST TALKING 46:42 ABOUT THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, WHO ARE THE 46:44 OTHER SHEEP? THE GENTILES - PEOPLE - A 46:47 GENTILE IS JUST A NON-JEW. IT MEANS EVERYBODY ELSE. 46:50 AND SO ALL THESE PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD - YOU KNOW, I 46:53 LOVE THIS VERSE THAT YOU FIND IN JOHN 12:20, "NOW THERE WERE 46:59 CERTAIN GREEKS AMONG THOSE WHO CAME UP TO WORSHIP AT THE FEAST. 47:03 THEN THEY CAME TO PHILIP, WHO WAS FROM BETHSAIDA OF GALILEE, 47:07 AND ASKED HIM," - HE WAS ONE OF THE APOSTLES - "SAYING, 'SIR, WE 47:10 WISH TO SEE JESUS.'" AREN'T THERE PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE 47:15 WORLD OUT THERE WHO WANT TO SEE JESUS? 47:19 DO THEY WANT TO SEE JESUS? ARE THEY GOING TO SEE HIM 47:22 PHYSICALLY OR MAYBE THEY SEE JESUS THROUGH US NOW. 47:26 YOU NOTICE BEFORE THEY SAW JESUS THEY HAD TO GO TO JESUS' 47:28 FOLLOWERS AND THEY APPROACHED PHILIP AND ANDREW AND SAID, 'WE 47:32 WOULD SEE JESUS.' PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COME TO US AND SAY, 'WE 47:35 WOULD SEE JESUS.' SO HOW ARE THEY GOING TO SEE JESUS? 47:37 HOW DO WE LEAD THEM TO JESUS TODAY LIKE THE APOSTLES DID BACK 47:41 THEN? ONE THING IS OUR EXAMPLE. 47:44 WE CAN LEAD THEM THROUGH THE WORD BECAUSE THE WORD WAS MADE 47:47 FLESH. THAT IS CHRIST, RIGHT? 47:50 PEOPLE ARE WANTING TO SEE CHRIST. 47:53 IN - LET'S GO TO JOHN 7:35 - JOHN 7:35, "THEN THE JEWS SAID 48:04 AMONG THEMSELVES, WHERE DOES HE INTEND TO GO THAT WE WILL NOT 48:08 FIND HIM? DOES HE INTEND TO GO TO THE 48:11 DISPERSION AMONG THE GREEKS AND TEACH THE GREEKS?" 48:14 NOW, I'VE JUST GOT TO TAKE A MOMENT AND GIVE YOU A PICTURE. 48:17 THEY USED THE WORDS 'GREEK' AND 'GENTILE' INTERCHANGEABLY 48:21 BECAUSE JESUS SAID, 'SALVATION IS TO THE JEW FIRST, THEN THE 48:25 GREEK.' HE DIDN'T MEAN JUST PEOPLE FROM GREECE. 48:28 THE GREEKS - ALEXANDER THE GREAT HAD TAKEN HIS HELLENISTIC 48:34 TEACHINGS AND PHILOSOPHY AND LANGUAGE ALL AROUND THE ROMAN 48:40 EMPIRE. THAT'S WHY THEY SOMETIMES CALL 48:42 IT THE 'GRECO-ROMAN EMPIRE' BECAUSE EVEN THE ROMANS ADOPTED 48:45 A LOT OF THE GREEK ARCHITECTURE AND THE GREEK GODS AND THE GREEK 48:47 WAYS. SO THE GREEKS WERE - IT WAS A 48:50 WORD THAT WAS USED TO DESCRIBE EVERYBODY ELSE. 48:53 YOU EVER SOMEBODY SAY, 'IT'S GREEK TO ME'? 48:55 THEY DON'T MEAN THAT YOU'RE SOUNDING GREEK, IT MEANS 'IT'S A 48:58 FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO ME.' SO THAT WORD GREEK WAS USED TO SAY 49:02 ANYBODY WHO WAS NOT A JEW - THE GENTILES THROUGHOUT THE 49:04 ROMAN EMPIRE. 49:06 AND SO, SCATTERED AMONG THE CITIES OF ASIA, WHICH ALEXANDER 49:12 THE GREAT HAD CONQUERED, AND ROME, WHICH ALEXANDER HAD 49:15 CONQUERED, AND PERSIA, WHICH ALEXANDER HAD CONQUERED, AND 49:19 INDIA, WHICH ALEXANDER HAD ENTERED, AND EGYPT, WHICH 49:22 ALEXANDER HAD CONQUERED, THERE WAS A GREEK INFLUENCE. 49:25 THE JEWS HAD BEEN SCATTERED THROUGH ALL OF THAT. 49:29 AND SO WHEN IT SAYS 'TAKE THE GOSPEL AMONG' - 49:31 WHERE'S IT GOING TO GO? IS HE GOING TO GO TO THE GREEKS 49:33 AND TEACH THE GREEKS - MEANING THE GENTILES? 49:36 SO THEY THOUGHT, 'IS HE GOING TO DO THIS? 49:39 HE'S NOT GOING TO TAKE THE MESSAGE TO THEM, IS HE?' 49:41 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IMPLIES? THEY WEREN'T DOING IT. 49:44 WOULD JESUS DO IT? THEY HAD KIND OF WRITTEN THEM 49:47 OFF AS LOST. NOW WHERE'S THE GREAT COMMISSION 49:51 TO GO? THESE ARE OUR LAST VERSES WE'RE 49:53 GOING TO CONSIDER. ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 49:56 ROMANS 15:12. WHO HAS THAT VERSE? 49:59 WE'VE GOT A HAND OVER HERE. LET'S PASS YOU THE MICROPHONE. 50:02 SEEMS LIKE WE'VE BEEN A LITTLE BIASED TO MY RIGHT HAND SIDE OF 50:05 THE CHURCH TODAY, WITH THE VERSES. 50:09 AND WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. 50:12 MATTHEW 28:19 - HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE GREAT COMMISSION BY 50:15 HEART? WE SHOULD KNOW THAT, RIGHT? 50:20 'GO YE THEREFORE, MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING THEM IN 50:25 THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT TEACHING 50:28 THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I'VE COMMANDED YOU. 50:32 LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE AGE.' - 50:34 OR THE END OF THE WORLD. AND SO, DID JESUS MAKE IT CLEAR 50:39 THE GOSPEL IS TO GO EVERYWHERE? GO EVERYWHERE AND TEACH THE 50:43 GOSPEL. ALRIGHT, I THINK WE'RE READY. 50:45 GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US ROMANS 15:12, PLEASE. 50:48 >>ROMANS 15:12, "AND AGAIN, ISAIAH SAYS: 'THERE SHALL BE A 50:53 ROOT OF JESSE; AND HE WHO SHALL RISE TO REIGN OVER THE GENTILES, 51:00 IN HIM THE GENTILES SHALL HOPE.'" 51:03 >>NOW THIS IS A NEW TESTAMENT QUOTE OF AN OLD TESTAMENT 51:05 PROPHECY THAT WOULD BE FULFILLED AFTER THE QUOTE WAS MADE. 51:09 PAUL IS SAYING, 'THE GOSPEL IS TO GO EVERYWHERE.' AND WHEN PAUL 51:13 WENT TO A TOWN HE WOULD START OUT, YOU NOTICE, IN THE 51:16 SYNAGOGUE AND IF THEY LISTENED, GREAT. 51:19 BUT IF THEY DIDN'T LISTEN, HE WOULD SHAKE THE DUST OFF HIS 51:22 FEET AND SAY, 'LO, SEEING THAT YOU PROVE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY OF 51:26 THE KINGDOM OF GOD, WE ARE TURNING TO THE GENTILES. 51:28 BUT HE'D GO FIRST TO THEM BECAUSE THEY HAD THE BACKGROUND. 51:31 AND SOME OF THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUES, WHEN THEY HEARD IT - 51:33 LIKE THE BEREANS - THEY SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY WHETHER 51:37 THOSE THINGS WERE SO.' THEY EMBRACED THE GOSPEL WITH ALL 51:39 THEIR HEART AND SOUL. DIFFERENT TOWNS - SOME OF THEM 51:42 ACCEPTED IT. SOME OF THEM THEY STIRRED UP 51:44 MOBS AGAINST THE APOSTLES AND CHASED THEM OUT OF TOWN. 51:48 YOU KNOW WHO SOMETIMES - IF I GO INTO A CITY AND I DO AN 51:53 EVANGELISTIC MEETING, YOU KNOW WHERE THE OPPOSITION 51:57 TYPICALLY COMES FROM? 51:59 IT'S NOT FROM ATHEISTS AND AGNOSTICS IN THAT CITY, IT'S 52:04 FROM OTHER CHRISTIANS AND SOMETIMES WE'VE HAD PASTORS THAT 52:09 WILL STAND UP IN THE CHURCHES AND SAY, 'WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T 52:12 GO TO THIS PROPHECY SEMINAR.' OR THEY TRY TO CLOSE DOWN THE 52:17 PUBLIC SCHOOL WHERE WE'RE MEETING - THEY'LL GO TO THEIR 52:19 FRIEND WHO IS ON THE SCHOOL BOARD AND SAY, 'DON'T RENT IT TO 52:21 THEM.' 'BUT WE'VE GOT A CONTRACT.' 'BREAK THE CONTRACT. 52:23 DON'T RENT IT TO THEM, THEY'RE A CULT.' AND YOU - IT'S AMAZING, 52:28 YOU GET THIS OPPOSITION FROM, OSTENSIBLY, OTHER BELIEVERS AND 52:33 THAT'S WHAT THE APOSTLES RAN INTO. 52:35 THEY'D GO FROM TOWN TO TOWN AND THEY'D START PREACHING. 52:37 AND YOU KNOW WHO'D TRY TO TURN THE GENTILES AWAY? THE JEWS. 52:42 AND THEY'D TRY TO GET A MOB AND CHASE THEM OUT OF TOWN. 52:46 AND SO THINGS HAVEN'T CHANGED VERY MUCH. 52:48 GREAT COMMISSION - MARK 16:15 - JESUS, AGAIN HE SAID, 'GO INTO 52:54 ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. 52:57 HE THAT BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED WILL BE SAVED. 52:59 ACTS 1:7 AND 8 - JESUS SAID - WHEN THEY SAID 'WHEN ARE YOU 53:05 GOING TO ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM?' CHRIST SAID, "IT IS NOT FOR YOU 53:08 TO KNOW THE TIMES OR SEASONS WHICH THE FATHER HAS 53:10 PUT IN HIS OWN AUTHORITY. 53:11 BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON 53:14 YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL 53:18 JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH." 53:22 NOW DO YOU KNOW, THAT'S EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENED. 53:24 THEY STARTED - THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT IN JERUSALEM AND 53:26 THEN THEY WENT OUT PREACHING IN JUDEA AND THEN THEY WENT OUT TO 53:28 SAMARIA AND THEN THEY SCATTERED TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. 53:32 THOMAS WENT TO INDIA AND OTHERS THEY SCATTERED TO THE NORTH AND 53:35 INTO ASIA AND THE GOSPEL WENT EVERYWHERE. 53:39 WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING AT THAT AND I SEE OUR TIME IS UP. 53:42 I'D LIKE TO, BEFORE WE CLOSE, REMIND YOU THAT WE DO HAVE A 53:45 FREE OFFER IF YOU MISSED IT AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR LESSON, 53:48 CALLED 'THE SIGN OF JONAH' AND IF YOU'D LIKE THIS BOOKLET THAT 53:50 TALKS ABOUT THE MESSAGE THAT'S SUPPOSED TO GO EVERYWHERE - AND 53:53 WHAT IS THAT SECRET SIGN THAT JESUS SAID WOULD BE THE ONLY 53:55 SIGN GIVEN? WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 53:58 OFFER #149 - ASK FOR THAT WHEN YOU CALL 788-3966 - THAT'S 54:04 866-788-3966 OR 866-STUDY-MORE - SAME NUMBER - AND WE'LL STUDY 54:11 TOGETHER. GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, UNTIL WE CAN TURN TO 54:15 THE WORD OF GOD TOGETHER NEXT WEEK. 54:22 >>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES. 54:31 >>NOBODY WAS THERE TO DEFEND ME. NOBODY WAS THERE TO PROTECT ME. 54:36 MY QUESTION WAS: 'WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME GOD? 54:39 WHY DIDN'T YOU INTERVENE?' ONCE I HIT MY TEENAGE YEARS, 54:45 EVERYTHING JUST STARTED COMING OUT. 54:47 I FELT EMBARRASSED ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED BECAUSE FOR SO LONG 54:51 I FELT IT WAS MY FAULT. THERE WERE TIMES THAT I PRAYED 54:55 BUT IT WAS PRAYERS OF RESENTMENT AND ANGER AND JUST YELLING AT 55:00 GOD. I WAS SO CONFUSED, SO DEPRESSED 55:05 AND I COULD NOT BEAR ANY MORE OF THE PAIN. 55:08 YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE POINT OF LIVING? 55:10 IT'S MIGHT AS WELL JUST DIE. I STARTED CUTTING MYSELF BUT I 55:17 HEARD A SMALL, STILL VOICE AND IT SAID, 'STOP! 55:24 GIVE ME A SECOND CHANCE.' AND RIGHT THERE I JUST FELT 55:29 SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. 55:31 I FELT A PRESENCE THERE AND I PUT EVERYTHING DOWN AND I WENT 55:36 TO MY ROOM AND I JUST STARTED CRYING. 55:39 I REALIZED THAT ME AND GOD CONNECTED SO WELL AND I NO 55:42 LONGER SAW HIM AS JUST A GOD THAT NO LONGER CARED, BUT I 55:47 ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A FATHER AND I CONTINUED PRAYING. 55:51 ONE DAY I WAS SLEEPING. MY MOM CAME TO THE BED AND SHE 55:56 SAID, 'CONNIE, HE'S HERE. HE'S IN TOWN AND THE LORD 56:00 IMPRESSED ME THAT YOU NEED TO FACE THE SITUATION. 56:04 IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO FORGIVE.' WHEN SOMETHING SO DRASTIC AND SO 56:11 PAINFUL HAS HAPPENED, FORGIVENESS IS VERY HARD BECAUSE 56:16 YOU'RE VULNERABLE. YOU LET GO OF THAT EGO - THAT 56:19 PRIDE - THAT HAS TAKEN OVER YOU FOR SO MANY YEARS. 56:24 I PRAYED AND WHEN WE CONFRONTED THE SITUATION IT WAS THE MOST 56:29 AMAZING MOMENT WHERE WE COULD PRAY, WE COULD CRY, 56:33 AND WE COULD FORGIVE. 56:34 AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I'M ABLE TO HELP OTHERS AND TELL OTHERS THAT 56:38 THERE IS HOPE AND THERE IS SOMEONE THAT DOES CARE. 56:50 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 56:53 BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 57:02 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 57:07 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 57:10 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK MILLIONS OF 57:13 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 57:17 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 57:19 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 57:22 WHO IS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 57:25 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. 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