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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH,
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RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO,
CALIFORNIA. WE'RE SO GLAD THAT
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YOU'RE TUNING IN FROM ACROSS
THE COUNTRY, AROUND THE WORLD -
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LISTENING ON THE RADIO,
WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT
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'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR ON THE
VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS.
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IT DOES NOT MATTER
HOW YOU ARE JOINING US,
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WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU
ARE. WE HOPE THAT YOU'VE HAD A
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WONDERFUL WEEK. WE
HAVE AND WE'RE READY TO SING
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SOME SONGS WITH YOU AND OPEN UP
GOD'S WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER.
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SO IF YOU HAVE A HYMNAL AT HOME,
PULL IT OUT AND JOIN US RIGHT
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NOW FOR OUR FIRST
FAVORITE REQUEST -
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'ALL THINGS BRIGHT
AND BEAUTIFUL' - #93.
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THIS IS A REQUEST FROM GINA
IN CALIFORNIA AND JOYCE IN KENYA
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AND WE ARE GOING TO SING -
LISTEN CAREFULLY - THE FIRST,
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SECOND, FIRST, THIRD,
FOURTH, FIFTH, AND FIRST VERSES.
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FOLLOW ALONG AND IT WILL
ALL MAKE PERFECT SENSE. #93.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SENDING IN YOUR FAVORITES.
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WE HAVE HEARD FROM SO MANY OF
YOU - OVER 20,000 REQUESTS FROM
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ALL OVER THE WORLD -
AND WE ARE DOING OUR BEST
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TO GET THROUGH
THOSE SO DON'T PANIC.
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BUT IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE THAT
YOU WANT TO JOIN AND SING WITH
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US ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM,
IT'S VERY SIMPLE: JUST GO TO OUR
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WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG',
CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK,
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AND YOU CAN SEND IN YOUR
FAVORITE SONG IF IT'S RIGHT HERE
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IN OUR HYMNAL. AT THIS TIME,
LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK
YOU SO MUCH FOR BLESSING US AND
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BRINGING US HERE
TO STUDY YOUR WORD
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AND TO SING
PRAISES TO YOUR NAME.
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WE JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO
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COME HERE AGAIN TO OPEN UP
YOUR WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER.
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AND I JUST ASK THAT YOU
WOULD BE WITH OUR SPEAKER.
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BE WITH EACH PERSON HERE AND OUR
EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL FAMILY
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AROUND THE WORLD - THAT YOU WILL
OPEN UP OUR HEARTS, OUR MINDS,
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AND SPEAK TO US TODAY AND THAT
ONE DAY VERY SOON WE WILL ALL BE
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TOGETHER ON THE STREETS OF GOLD
SINGING PRAISES TO YOUR NAME.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT
THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS
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GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO
US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR
THE MUSIC AND THE SONGS - IT'S
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ALWAYS GOOD TO
LEARN SOME NEW SONGS.
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MORNING. HAPPY
SABBATH. HOW IS EVERYBODY?
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GLAD TO BE ABLE TO STUDY
TOGETHER WITH YOU AND ALSO WANT
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TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE
WATCHING OR STUDYING WITH US VIA
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INTERNET STREAMING OR SATELLITE
OR SOME OTHER MECHANISM -
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TELEVISION - WE'RE JUST
GLAD THAT YOU'VE TUNED IN.
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IN A MOMENT WE'LL GET TO OUR
STUDY ON - IT'S OUR LAST STUDY
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ON DISCIPLESHIP AND THAT REALLY
IS A GOOD SEGUE FOR OUR FREE
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OFFER TODAY AND THIS IS FOR
ANYONE WHO CALLS THE NUMBER ON
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THE SCREEN. IT'S
CALLED 'THE HIGH COST OF
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THE CROSS' BY JOE CREWS. IF
YOU CALL 866-788-3966 AND ASK
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FOR OFFER #156,
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FREE.
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PLEASE READ IT THEN SHARE
IT WITH SOMEBODY AND HOPEFULLY
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WE'LL MENTION THAT
AGAIN AT THE END OF OUR STUDY.
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'THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP' -
THIS IS OUR LAST STUDY ON THE
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SUBJECT OF DISCIPLESHIP AND
- COVERING A BROAD PLETHORA OF
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VERSES, BUT WE'RE GOING TO READ
A MEMORY VERSE THAT IS FROM 2
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CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1, VERSE
7, AND IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES,
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I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF YOU CAN
JOIN ME AND SAY THIS OUT LOUD
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WITH ME. I'LL BE DOING IT
FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION.
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2 CORINTHIANS 1:7 - ARE YOU
READY? "AND OUR HOPE FOR YOU IS
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STEADFAST, BECAUSE WE KNOW
THAT AS YOU ARE PARTAKERS OF THE
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SUFFERINGS, SO ALSO YOU WILL
PARTAKE OF THE CONSOLATION."
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BEING A CHRISTIAN HAS A COST,
BUT IT PAYS MORE THAN IT COSTS.
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BUT, NEVERTHELESS,
IT COSTS SOMETHING.
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THERE IS A NEW - IT'S
NOT THAT NEW, BUT THERE IS
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A SPREADING
VERSION OF CHRISTIANITY.
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IT'S CALLED BY A NUMBER OF NAMES
- PROSPERITY PREACHING OR THE
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PROSPERITY GOSPEL OR THE WORD
OF FAITH GOSPEL. HAVE YOU MAYBE
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HEARD OF THIS BEFORE?
IT'S THE NOTION THAT IF YOU'RE
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SICK OR POOR YOU JUST
DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH.
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AND IF YOU HAD ENOUGH FAITH YOU
COULD DECLARE - AND BECAUSE YOU
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ARE MADE IN GOD'S IMAGE
AND GOD'S WORD - WHEN HE SAYS
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SOMETHING IT HAPPENS, IF YOU
THEN DECLARE BY FAITH WHAT YOU
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WANT TO BE, YOU CAN SPEAK
PROSPERITY INTO YOUR LIFE.
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YOU CAN SPEAK
HEALING INTO YOUR LIFE.
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IT SORT OF MAKES YOU
A LITTLE MINI GOD AND -
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AS THOUGH THE MESSAGE OF JESUS
IS HOW YOU COULD BE WEALTHIER
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AND HEALTHIER AND WISE.
NOW, I DO BELIEVE GOD BLESSES
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HIS PEOPLE - I DO BELIEVE THERE
ARE PROMISES IN THE BIBLE THAT
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TALK ABOUT THAT.
THEY'RE NOT ALL MATERIAL
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BLESSINGS. AND I DO
BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A
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HEALTH MESSAGE AND GOD
WANTS US TO BE HEALTHY.
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THE PROBLEM IS, MOST CHRISTIANS
- THE PROBLEM WITH THEIR HEALTH
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IS NOT BECAUSE THEY DON'T SPEAK
FAITH INTO THEIR LIVES, IT'S
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BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY'RE
EATING AND THEIR LIVING HABITS.
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AND THE BIBLE HAS A LOT TO SAY
- THERE ARE A NUMBER OF HEALTH
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TRUTHS IN THE BIBLE THAT, IF YOU
PRACTICE THEM AND COOPERATE WITH
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GOD'S NATURAL MEANS OF HEALING,
YOU'LL BE STRONGER AND LIVE
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LONGER AND HAVE
MORE ABUNDANT LIFE.
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BUT THIS COUNTERFEIT GOSPEL
REALLY NEGLECTS AN IMPORTANT
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TRUTH THAT JESUS SAID THAT THERE
ARE GOING TO BE TROUBLES IN
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LIFE. IN A
MINUTE WE'LL GET TO THIS
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VERSE, BUT I
WANT TO GET YOU READY.
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WHO HAS ACTS CHAPTER 14:22 - WE
GAVE THAT VERSE TO - OVER HERE?
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ALRIGHT, YOU GOT
A MICROPHONE THERE?
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YOU WILL IN A MOMENT.
YOU KNOW THE LADY WITH THE
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MICROPHONES. OKAY
- THAT'S HIS WIFE.
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2 CORINTHIANS 11:23 - I JUST
WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU DID PAUL
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HAVE SOME
CHALLENGES IN HIS LIFE?
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NOW HERE'S AN APOSTLE
FULLY SURRENDERED TO THE LORD.
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PAUL SAYS - 2 CORINTHIANS 11:23,
"ARE THEY MINISTERS OF CHRIST?
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- I SPEAK AS A FOOL - I AM MORE:
IN LABORS MORE ABUNDANT, IN
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STRIPES" - THAT MEANS BEING
WHIPPED - IT LEFT STRIPES ON
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YOUR BACK - "IN
STRIPES ABOVE MEASURE,
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IN PRISONS MORE
FREQUENTLY, IN DEATHS OFTEN.
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FROM THE JEWS FIVE TIMES I
RECEIVED FORTY STRIPES MINUS
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ONE" - THEY COULD WHIP YOU UP
TO 39 TIMES - "THREE TIMES I WAS
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BEATEN WITH RODS; ONCE I
WAS STONED; THREE TIMES I WAS
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SHIPWRECKED; A NIGHT AND A
DAY I HAVE BEEN IN THE DEEP; IN
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JOURNEYS OFTEN, IN PERILS OF
WATERS, IN PERILS OF ROBBERS, IN
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PERILS OF MY OWN COUNTRYMEN,
IN PERILS OF THE GENTILES, IN
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PERILS IN THE CITY, IN PERILS IN
THE WILDERNESS, IN PERILS IN THE
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SEA, IN PERILS AMONG FALSE
BRETHREN; IN WEARINESS AND TOIL,
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IN SLEEPLESSNESS OFTEN, IN
HUNGER AND THIRST, IN FASTINGS
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OFTEN, IN COLD AND NAKEDNESS"
- LET'S ALL FOLLOW PAUL!
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DOES THAT SOUND LIKE
THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE?
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SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE EXPERIENCE
OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE NEW
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TESTAMENT WRITER, WAS IT A LIFE
OF HEALTH AND WEALTH AND EASE?
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OR WAS IT
TRIALS AND TRIBULATION?
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ALRIGHT, LISTEN TO WHAT JESUS
SAYS TO PETER: JOHN 21:18, "MOST
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ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, WHEN
YOU WERE YOUNGER, YOU GIRDED
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YOURSELF AND WALKED WHERE YOU
WISHED; BUT WHEN YOU ARE OLD,
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YOU WILL STRETCH OUT YOUR
HANDS, AND ANOTHER WILL GIRD
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YOU AND CARRY YOU
WHERE YOU DO NOT WISH."
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THIS HE SPOKE, SIGNIFYING BY
WHAT DEATH HE WOULD GLORIFY GOD.
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AND WHEN HE HAD SPOKEN THIS, HE
SAID TO HIM, 'FOLLOW ME.'" WHAT
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DEATH WAS JESUS TELLING
PETER HE WOULD EXPERIENCE?
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YOU'LL STRETCH FORTH
YOUR HANDS...CRUCIFIXION.
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PETER WAS CRUCIFIED.
TRADITION TELLS US HE WAS
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CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN.
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE.
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HEBREWS 11:35 - SPEAKING OF THE
FAITHFUL THROUGH THE AGES, PAUL
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- ASSUMING HE WROTE HEBREWS -
SAYS, "OTHERS WERE TORTURED, NOT
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ACCEPTING DELIVERANCE,
THAT THEY MIGHT OBTAIN A BETTER
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RESURRECTION.
STILL OTHERS HAD TRIAL OF
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MOCKINGS AND SCOURGINGS, YES,
AND OF CHAINS AND IMPRISONMENT.
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THEY WERE STONED, THEY WERE SAWN
IN TWO, WERE TEMPTED, WERE SLAIN
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WITH THE SWORD.
THEY WANDERED ABOUT IN
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SHEEPSKINS AND GOATSKINS, BEING
DESTITUTE, AFFLICTED, TORMENTED
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- OF WHOM THE
WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY.
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THEY WANDERED IN DESERTS AND
MOUNTAINS, IN DENS AND CAVES OF
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THE EARTH." I CAN
RELATE TO THAT LAST PART.
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BUT HERE IT'S TELLING US
ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.
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WAS IT ONE OF DRIVING A GOLD
MERCEDES AND WEARING A ROLEX AND
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BE, YOU KNOW, DECKED IN PEARLS
AND FOX COATS AND PRIVATE JETS
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AND - WAS THIS THE KIND OF JESUS
THAT WAS BEING PROMOTED IN THE
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FIRST CENTURY? BUT
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING
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ABOUT. I CAN START
NAMING THEIR NAMES.
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THERE'S ALL KINDS OF MINISTRIES
OUT THERE AND THEIR IDEA OF
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FAITH - IT MEANS YOU'RE GOING TO
BE RICH AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE
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COMFORTABLE AND YOU'RE GOING TO
BE HEALTHY AND YOU'RE GOING TO
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BE - A LOT OF IT IS MATERIALISM
AND PROSPERITY AND POWER.
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IS THAT WHAT JESUS SAID?
'COME, FOLLOW ME - AND DRIVE
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YOUR BENTLEY.'
WAS THAT HIS MESSAGE?
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BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT
APPEALS TO SOME PEOPLE.
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ONE PERSON WHO WAS INTERESTED
IN MONEY - HE WAS A SCRIBE - HE
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CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, 'LORD,
I'M GOING TO FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER
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YOU GO.' AND JESUS - ACTUALLY,
IF YOU READ THE BOOK 'DESIRE OF
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AGES' HE TELLS US THAT WAS JUDAS
WHO WAS LOOKING FOR EARTHLY - HE
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THOUGHT JESUS
MIGHT BE THE MESSIAH.
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HE WANTED TO GET UP CLOSE
TO THE NEXT KING BECAUSE OF THE
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BENEFITS. AND JESUS SAID,
'REALLY, YOU'RE GOING TO FOLLOW
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ME WHEREVER I GO?' HE
SAID, 'FOXES HAVE THEIR HOLES
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AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR HAVE
THEIR NESTS, BUT THE SON OF MAN
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HAS NOWHERE TO
EVEN LAY HIS HEAD.
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YOU WANT TO FOLLOW ME?' SO
A LOT OF WHAT'S BEING TOLD IN
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THE CHRISTIAN WORLD
ABOUT THE PRICE OR THE COST OF
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DISCIPLESHIP IS NOT
REALLY WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.
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ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US ACTS 14:22.
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>>"CONFIRMING THE SOULS OF THE
DISCIPLES, AND EXHORTING THEM TO
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CONTINUE IN THE FAITH, AND THAT
WE MUST THROUGH MUCH TRIBULATION
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ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD."
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>>ALRIGHT, SO WHILE WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT TRIBULATION, YOU
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REALIZE THAT, IN THE CHRISTIAN
WORLD, THERE ARE THREE VIEWS ON
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THE TRIBULATION IN
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RAPTURE.
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NOW, WHEN I USE THE WORD
'RAPTURE' I MEAN THE TIME WE'RE
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CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD IN
THE AIR - I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT
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'THE SECRET RAPTURE' - I'M
TALKING ABOUT THE SECOND COMING.
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BUT THERE ARE THREE VIEWS: ONE
VIEW IS THAT THE SECOND COMING
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HAPPENS BEFORE THE TRIBULATION
- POST - ONE VIEW IS THAT THE
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SECOND COMING HAPPENS IN THE
MIDDLE - THEY CALL IT 'MID-TRIB'
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- AND THE THIRD IS FOLLOWING -
OR 'PRE-TRIB' IS THE ONE BEFORE
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AND POST-TRIB IS
THE ONE FOLLOWING.
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SO YOU'VE GOT THESE THREE VIEWS.
NOW MUCH OF THE WORLD BELIEVES
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WHAT WE CALL 'THE LEFT BEHIND'
SCENARIO - MUCH OF THE CHRISTIAN
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WORLD. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT
'LEFT BEHIND' SCENARIO IS?
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IT'S THAT ANY DAY NOW THE LORD
IS GOING TO COME AND RAPTURE
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AWAY THE CHURCH BECAUSE
HE DOESN'T - I MEAN, MOST
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CHRISTIANS AGREE THERE
IS A TRIBULATION COMING.
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IF YOU READ IN REVELATION 15
AND 16, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE
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SEVEN LAST PLAGUES, IT TELLS US
THERE'S A TRIBULATION COMING -
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YOU CAN'T DENY THAT.
JESUS SAID, 'HE THAT ENDURES TO
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THE END' - IN DANIEL CHAPTER
12 THAT - WHEN MICHAEL STANDS UP
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THERE'S A TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH
AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN EVER
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SINCE TIME UNTIL THE END AND AT
THAT TIME GOD'S PEOPLE WILL BE
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DELIVERED.
GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE.
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SO THE BIBLE TELLS US ABOUT
MEN'S HEARTS FAILING BECAUSE OF
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FEAR, AND THE SEA AND THE WAVES
ROARING, AND GREAT PERPLEXITY.
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SO THERE'S THIS TIME OF TROUBLE.
SO DOES THE LORD LOVE US TOO
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MUCH TO ALLOW US TO
GO THROUGH TRIBULATION?
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THE LEFT BEHIND SCENARIO SAYS HE
TAKES US OUT OF THE WORLD BEFORE
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THE TRIBULATION AND THEN
THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES HAPPEN.
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WERE GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
WHEN THE TEN PLAGUES CAME ON
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EGYPT? WERE THEY IN
EGYPT WHEN THE PLAGUES FELL?
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DID HE SAVE THEM FROM THE
PLAGUES OR THROUGH THE PLAGUES?
00:15:27.56\00:15:32.16
DID GOD SAVE NOAH FROM THE FLOOD
OR THROUGH THE FLOOD? DID HE
00:15:32.16\00:15:36.26
SAVE SHADRACH, MESHACH AND
ABEDNEGO FROM THE FIERY FURNACE
00:15:36.26\00:15:39.13
OR THROUGH IT? DANIEL FROM
THE LIONS' DEN OR THROUGH IT?
00:15:39.13\00:15:43.96
JOSEPH FROM HIS TRIALS OR DID HE
SAVE JOSEPH THROUGH HIS TRIALS?
00:15:43.96\00:15:47.93
AND THEN WE JUST READ WHERE
PAUL SAID IT IS THROUGH MUCH
00:15:47.93\00:15:50.96
TRIBULATION WE WILL
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:15:50.96\00:15:53.90
THERE ARE TRIALS. I
MEAN, WHO WANTS TRIALS?
00:15:53.90\00:15:57.10
I DON'T WANT TRIALS. I
MEAN, DO YOU PRAY FOR TRIALS?
00:15:57.10\00:16:02.63
ONLY TIME I PRAY FOR TRIALS
IS WHEN I PRAY FOR THEM FOR YOU.
00:16:02.63\00:16:06.16
NO, I DON'T PRAY FOR
ME TO GO THROUGH TRIALS.
00:16:06.16\00:16:11.03
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
SAYING? I DON'T WANT TRIALS BUT
00:16:11.03\00:16:13.40
TYPICALLY GOD SAYS IT IS THROUGH
TRIBULATION - THE LORD IS COMING
00:16:13.40\00:16:18.73
FOR A CHURCH WITHOUT SPOT
OR WRINKLE. DO YOU IRON WITH A
00:16:18.73\00:16:22.20
COLD IRON OR A HOT IRON?
COLD ONE DOESN'T WORK, DOES IT?
00:16:22.20\00:16:26.86
AND IT'S HOT WATER
THAT GETS THOSE SPOTS OUT.
00:16:26.86\00:16:31.03
AND SO THERE ARE GOING
TO BE FIERY TRIALS THAT WILL
00:16:31.03\00:16:33.26
ULTIMATELY PURIFY THE CHURCH,
BUT TEACHING THE CHURCH 'GOD
00:16:33.26\00:16:37.06
JUST LOVES YOU SO MUCH, HE WANTS
YOU TO BE WEALTHY, HE WANTS YOU
00:16:37.06\00:16:40.03
TO BE HEALTHY, AND HE IS GOING
TO POP YOU OUT OF THE WORLD
00:16:40.03\00:16:43.16
BEFORE THE TRIALS
COME.' THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT -
00:16:43.16\00:16:45.60
THAT'S THE DEVIL'S
MARKETING CAMPAIGN.
00:16:45.60\00:16:47.90
THAT'S WHY PETER SAYS, 'DO NOT
BE AMAZED AT THE FIERY TRIALS
00:16:47.90\00:16:52.43
THAT WILL TRY YOUR FAITH AS IF
SOME STRANGE THING IS HAPPENED
00:16:52.43\00:16:55.00
UNTO YOU.' YOU
KNOW WHY HE SAYS THAT?
00:16:55.00\00:16:56.53
BECAUSE A LOT OF THE
CHURCH IS GOING TO BE AMAZED.
00:16:56.53\00:16:58.56
THERE ARE SINCERE CHRISTIANS
CAUGHT UP IN THESE FALSE
00:16:58.56\00:17:00.63
TEACHINGS. AND
WHEN THE TRIALS BEGIN TO
00:17:00.63\00:17:03.10
COME UPON GOD'S PEOPLE
THEY'RE GOING TO GO, 'WHAT?
00:17:03.10\00:17:05.23
I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO MISS
ALL THIS AND JUST BE BLESSED ALL
00:17:05.23\00:17:08.23
THE TIME.' WELL, GOD DOES BLESS
HIS PEOPLE AND IF YOU FOLLOW THE
00:17:08.23\00:17:13.13
LORD AND OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS
HE SAYS, 'YOU'LL BE BLESSED
00:17:13.13\00:17:15.30
GOING OUT AND YOU'LL BE BLESSED
COMING IN.' BUT HE DOESN'T SAY
00:17:15.30\00:17:17.06
YOU'LL NEVER GO THROUGH
TRIALS. WAS JOB A GOOD MAN?
00:17:17.06\00:17:21.33
DID GOD BLESS JOB? BUT DID JOB
GO THROUGH A GREAT TRIBULATION?
00:17:21.33\00:17:26.20
BINGO. THAT'S NOT
A BIBLICAL WORD BUT
00:17:26.20\00:17:28.33
THAT'S SO YOU GET
THE IDEA. THAT SAYS IT.
00:17:28.33\00:17:30.93
THAT'S EXHIBIT A OF
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
00:17:30.93\00:17:33.33
THERE IS A COST OF DISCIPLESHIP.
ALRIGHT, LET'S LOOK AT LUKE
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CHAPTER 12, VERSE 49.
JESUS SAID, "I CAME TO SEND FIRE
00:17:38.30\00:17:45.06
ON THE EARTH, AND HOW I
WISH IT WERE ALREADY KINDLED!
00:17:45.06\00:17:48.93
BUT I HAVE A BAPTISM TO
BE BAPTIZED WITH, AND HOW
00:17:48.93\00:17:51.23
DISTRESSED I AM
TILL IT IS ACCOMPLISHED!
00:17:51.23\00:17:54.40
DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT I
CAME TO GIVE PEACE ON EARTH?
00:17:54.40\00:17:56.93
I TELL YOU, NOT AT
ALL, BUT RATHER DIVISION."
00:17:56.93\00:18:00.96
DID ANY OF YOU SEE THAT VIDEO
- AT THE TIME OF THIS BROADCAST
00:18:00.96\00:18:04.76
IT'LL BE OLD NEWS, BUT LAST
WEEK, YOU KNOW, THE POPE GAVE A
00:18:04.76\00:18:07.96
MESSAGE. HOW
MANY OF YOU SAW THAT?
00:18:07.96\00:18:10.90
DID ANY OF YOU SEE MY
COMMENTARY ON THAT? OKAY.
00:18:10.90\00:18:13.90
DID YOU NOTICE THAT IN THE
PREAMBLE TO THE POPE'S MESSAGE
00:18:13.90\00:18:16.20
THIS GUY, BISHOP ANTHONY PALMER
SAID, 'DIVISION IS DIABOLICAL.
00:18:16.20\00:18:21.53
DIVERSITY IS WONDERFUL.' WELL,
DIVISION IS NOT ALL DIABOLICAL
00:18:21.53\00:18:25.30
OR JESUS IS DIABOLICAL BECAUSE
JESUS SAID 'I CAME TO BRING
00:18:25.30\00:18:28.00
DIVISION.' THE
TRUTH CAUSES DIVISION.
00:18:28.00\00:18:30.50
THE WORD OF GOD IS SHARPER THAN
ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD THAT DIVIDES
00:18:30.50\00:18:34.63
AND SO SOMETIMES JESUS SAID, 'I
CAME' - I'M JUST READING THESE -
00:18:34.63\00:18:39.13
RED-LETTER
EDITION - IT'S HIS WORDS.
00:18:39.13\00:18:42.16
"I TELL YOU, NOT AT
ALL, BUT RATHER DIVISION.
00:18:42.16\00:18:45.00
FOR FROM NOW ON FIVE IN ONE
HOUSE WILL BE DIVIDED: THREE
00:18:45.00\00:18:47.96
AGAINST TWO, AND
TWO AGAINST THREE.
00:18:47.96\00:18:52.33
FATHER WILL BE DIVIDED AGAINST
SON AND SON AGAINST FATHER,
00:18:52.33\00:18:54.90
MOTHER AGAINST DAUGHTER
AND DAUGHTER AGAINST MOTHER,
00:18:54.90\00:18:56.56
MOTHER-IN-LAW AGAINST
HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND
00:18:56.56\00:19:00.63
DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW." -
00:19:00.63\00:19:02.10
BOY, A LOT OF
MOTHERS-IN-LAW THERE. SO THERE -
00:19:02.10\00:19:06.00
HE SAYS, EVEN A PERSON'S FAMILY
- THERE'LL BE DIVISION THERE.
00:19:06.00\00:19:09.26
LUKE 14:25, "NOW GREAT
MULTITUDES WENT WITH HIM.
00:19:09.26\00:19:13.90
AND HE TURNED AND SAID TO THEM,
'IF ANYONE COMES TO ME AND DOES
00:19:13.90\00:19:17.10
NOT HATE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER,
WIFE AND CHILDREN," - WHAT?
00:19:17.10\00:19:21.13
I THOUGHT THE BIBLE SAID YOU'RE
SUPPOSED TO LOVE YOUR WIFE, LOVE
00:19:21.13\00:19:22.80
YOUR CHILDREN. WHY
IS JESUS SAYING THAT?
00:19:22.80\00:19:25.33
I'M READING NEW KING JAMES
VERSION, JUST IN CASE YOU'RE
00:19:25.33\00:19:27.66
WONDERING. SOME
VERSIONS DO THIS DIFFERENTLY.
00:19:27.66\00:19:31.83
IF HE "DOES NOT HATE HIS FATHER
AND MOTHER, WIFE AND CHILDREN,
00:19:31.83\00:19:33.96
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, YES, AND
HIS OWN LIFE ALSO, HE CANNOT BE
00:19:33.96\00:19:37.46
MY DISCIPLE." NOW WHAT DOES
THE LORD MEAN BY 'HATE' THERE?
00:19:37.46\00:19:40.86
IS JESUS - I THOUGHT
HE COMMANDED US TO LOVE;
00:19:40.86\00:19:42.70
HERE IT SOUNDS LIKE
HE'S COMMANDING US TO HATE.
00:19:42.70\00:19:44.70
THAT'S A DIFFICULT
VERSE. WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:19:44.70\00:19:47.53
IS A COMPARISON. HE'S SAYING,
'IN COMPARISON TO YOUR LOVE FOR
00:19:47.53\00:19:51.80
ME, THOSE THINGS MUST BE
SECOND. YOU MUST HATE THEM.'
00:19:51.80\00:19:55.66
IN COMPARISON TO WHERE
GOD BELONGS IN YOUR LIFE.
00:19:55.66\00:19:59.76
AN EXAMPLE OF THAT WOULD BE, IF
YOU LOOK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IN
00:19:59.76\00:20:03.00
DEUTERONOMY 21 - AND THIS IS IN
YOUR LESSON - DEUTERONOMY 21:15,
00:20:03.00\00:20:08.50
"IF A MAN HAVE TWO WIVES," - NOW
I'M READING KING JAMES VERSION
00:20:08.50\00:20:11.30
BECAUSE OTHER VERSIONS CHANGE
THIS - "IF A MAN HAVE TWO WIVES"
00:20:11.30\00:20:15.23
- GOD'S NOT ENDORSING THIS, BUT
THEY DID IT - "ONE BELOVED, AND
00:20:15.23\00:20:19.00
ANOTHER HATED," - CAN
YOU THINK OF SOME PEOPLE IN
00:20:19.00\00:20:20.66
THE BIBLE THAT
HAD THAT SITUATION?
00:20:20.66\00:20:23.96
YOU REMEMBER, YEAH, YOU'VE GOT
HAGAR AND SARAH; YOU'VE GOT - I
00:20:23.96\00:20:28.00
DON'T KNOW THAT HE HATED HAGAR,
BUT YOU'VE GOT ELKANAH HAD
00:20:28.00\00:20:32.70
HANNAH AND PENINNAH - THE MOTHER
OF SAMUEL WAS HANNAH; AND YOU'VE
00:20:32.70\00:20:36.43
GOT JACOB THAT HAD TWO SISTERS
AND HE REALLY LOVED RACHEL AND
00:20:36.43\00:20:41.50
HE GOT STUCK WITH LEAH. BY
THE WAY, JESUS CAME THROUGH
00:20:41.50\00:20:44.56
LEAH SO GOD KNEW
WHAT WAS GOING ON.
00:20:44.56\00:20:47.83
SO YOU'VE GOT
SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS.
00:20:47.83\00:20:49.30
SO THEY DID IT - GOD DIDN'T
ENDORSE IT BUT HE MADE A LAW AND
00:20:49.30\00:20:52.30
HE SAID, 'IF YOU HAVE
THAT - "AND THEY HAVE BORNE HIM
00:20:52.30\00:20:54.83
CHLIDREN, BOTH THE BELOVED AND
THE HATED; AND IF THE FIRSTBORN
00:20:54.83\00:20:57.63
SON BE HERS THAT WAS HATED:"
- IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU
00:20:57.63\00:21:02.46
LOVE ONE AND YOU DON'T LOVE THE
OTHER, THE FIRSTBORN IS SUPPOSED
00:21:02.46\00:21:05.56
TO BE THE FIRSTBORN. AND
THE WORD 'HATED' THERE MEANS
00:21:05.56\00:21:08.80
'DISLIKED OR LOVED LESS'
- THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS.
00:21:08.80\00:21:12.43
SO IT CONFUSES US - IT DOESN'T
MEAN HATE IN THE SENSE THAT YOU
00:21:12.43\00:21:15.56
LOATHE SOMEBODY, HERE THE WORD
'HATE' MEANS 'LOVED LESS' AND SO
00:21:15.56\00:21:21.46
HE'S SIMPLY SAYING, 'WE
CAN'T LOVE ANYBODY MORE.
00:21:21.46\00:21:27.10
THAT'S THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP.
HAVE YOU EVER MET FOLKS THAT
00:21:27.10\00:21:30.30
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, ONE OF THESE
DAYS I'M GOING TO SURRENDER ALL
00:21:30.30\00:21:32.60
AND FOLLOW JESUS BUT I'M WAITING
FOR MY SPOUSE TO COME AROUND.
00:21:32.60\00:21:38.93
I'M WAITING UNTIL MY HUSBAND,
YOU KNOW, MY HUSBAND - I'D GO TO
00:21:38.93\00:21:43.23
CHURCH WITH YOU BUT HE REALLY
LIKES ME TO GO OUT SHOPPING WITH
00:21:43.23\00:21:45.96
HIM ON THE WEEKENDS AND THAT'S
HIS DAY AND I, YOU KNOW, I LOVE
00:21:45.96\00:21:51.76
MY HUSBAND AND I KNOW IT'S THE
TRUTH AND I SHOULD BE IN CHURCH
00:21:51.76\00:21:53.83
ON THE SABBATH BUT" - AND
I REMEMBER ONE SISTER TOLD ME
00:21:53.83\00:21:57.46
THAT. I SAID, 'THE BEST THING
YOU CAN DO FOR YOU HUSBAND IS
00:21:57.46\00:22:01.00
PUTTING GOD FIRST.'
AND SHE DIDN'T - AT FIRST.
00:22:01.00\00:22:06.73
AND THEN HER HUSBAND HAD A VERY
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT WORK THAT
00:22:06.73\00:22:14.13
NEARLY KILLED HIM AND I WENT
TO VISIT HIM IN THE HOSPITAL AND
00:22:14.13\00:22:18.06
SHE CRIED TO ME - SHE WAITED
UNTIL WE GOT OUT OF THE ROOM.
00:22:18.06\00:22:20.63
SHE SAID, 'I'VE BEEN PUTTING MY
HUSBAND FIRST AND I REALIZED -
00:22:20.63\00:22:22.80
GOD SAID, 'I CAN TAKE YOUR
HUSBAND FROM YOU.' SHE SAID, 'I
00:22:22.80\00:22:26.16
NEED TO PUT GOD FIRST.' AND SHE
STARTED TO COME TO CHURCH AND
00:22:26.16\00:22:29.03
EVENTUALLY HER HUSBAND
BEGAN TO VISIT WITH HER.
00:22:29.03\00:22:31.66
SO THAT'S WHY THE LORD IS
TELLING US YOU'VE GOT TO HATE
00:22:31.66\00:22:34.90
EVEN THE CLOSEST THING YOU CAN
THINK OF AS A FAMILY MEMBER -
00:22:34.90\00:22:38.10
THAT HAS TO COME SECONDARILY
TO GOD. GOD NEEDS TO BE FIRST.
00:22:38.10\00:22:41.63
THAT'S THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP.
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:22:41.63\00:22:47.36
LUKE 14:27. WHO HAS
THAT VERSE? OVER HERE?
00:22:47.36\00:22:51.40
YOU'VE GOT THE MICROPHONE
ALREADY. ALRIGHT, LET'S GET THE
00:22:51.40\00:22:54.06
- IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING
TO GET A CAMERA FOCUSED ON YOU.
00:22:54.06\00:22:56.30
IN THE MEANTIME, 'BEARING ONE'S
CROSS' IS OUR HEADING RIGHT NOW.
00:22:56.30\00:23:00.26
MARK 10:21, "THEN JESUS, LOOKING
AT HIM, LOVED HIM, AND SAID TO
00:23:00.26\00:23:06.20
HIM, 'ONE THING YOU LACK: GO
YOUR WAY, SELL WHATEVER YOU HAVE
00:23:06.20\00:23:10.96
AND GIVE TO THE POOR, AND YOU
WILL HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN;
00:23:10.96\00:23:14.06
AND COME, TAKE UP THE CROSS, AND
FOLLOW ME.'" NOW THIS IS WHAT
00:23:14.06\00:23:18.10
JESUS SAID TO
THAT RICH YOUNG RULER.
00:23:18.10\00:23:19.93
YOU'LL ALSO FIND THIS IN - ALL
THREE GOSPELS TALK ABOUT THIS
00:23:19.93\00:23:25.43
RICH YOUNG RULER - HE'S REALLY
BEING INVITED TO BE AN APOSTLE.
00:23:25.43\00:23:29.80
NOW HE'S TELLING HIM THE COST
OF DISCIPLESHIP: SELL EVERYTHING
00:23:29.80\00:23:33.50
YOU HAVE, GIVE IT TO THE POOR
- IS HE ASKING ALL OF US TO DO
00:23:33.50\00:23:36.26
THAT? NOT NECESSARILY.
HE IS ASKING ALL OF US TO DO
00:23:36.26\00:23:41.63
WHATEVER IT TAKES TO
PUT ALL ON THE ALTAR.
00:23:41.63\00:23:45.16
WHEN YOU FOLLOW JESUS
YOU GIVE EVERYTHING TO HIM.
00:23:45.16\00:23:47.36
NOW, FOR THE APOSTLES, THEY
REALLY NEEDED TO LIQUIDATE AND
00:23:47.36\00:23:51.46
FOLLOW JESUS. GO
AHEAD, READ FOR ME LUKE 14:27.
00:23:51.46\00:23:57.00
>>"AND WHOEVER DOES NOT BEAR HIS
CROSS AND COME AFTER ME CANNOT
00:23:57.00\00:24:00.80
BE MY DISCIPLE."
00:24:00.80\00:24:03.36
>>NOW DOES THAT TALK - DOES THAT
TELL US THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE
00:24:03.36\00:24:06.40
SOME STRUGGLE? WHERE DID
PEOPLE TAKE CROSSES BACK THEN?
00:24:06.40\00:24:11.43
IF THE ROMANS GAVE YOU A
CROSS, WHERE'D YOU TAKE IT?
00:24:11.43\00:24:15.16
TO YOUR EXECUTION. THEY
USED TO MAKE YOU CARRY YOUR
00:24:15.16\00:24:16.90
OWN CROSS TO YOUR EXECUTION.
YOU WEREN'T GOING TO GET A
00:24:16.90\00:24:19.33
SOLDIER TO CARRY IT FOR YOU.
AND SO, THEY WERE VERY FAMILIAR
00:24:19.33\00:24:23.13
WITH THE TERM
'TAKING YOUR CROSS'.
00:24:23.13\00:24:25.83
IT MEANT THAT
SELF-DENIAL - DEATH TO SELF.
00:24:25.83\00:24:30.06
NOW THAT'S NOT
VERY POPULAR, IS IT?
00:24:30.06\00:24:32.23
YOU DON'T HEAR A LOT OF PASTORS
AND PREACHERS TALKING ABOUT - TO
00:24:32.23\00:24:37.10
THE SECULAR, ATHEISTIC WORLD
- CHOOSE TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
00:24:37.10\00:24:40.10
DIE TO SELF. BUT,
YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE ONLY
00:24:40.10\00:24:42.90
WAY YOU CAN
REALLY LIVE, BIBLICALLY.
00:24:42.90\00:24:48.13
SOMEONE LOOK UP LUKE 12:15 -
LUKE 12:15 - WHO - WE GOT THAT
00:24:48.13\00:24:54.00
OVER HERE? ALRIGHT.
00:24:54.00\00:24:55.76
WE'LL GET A MICROPHONE
FOR YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:24:55.76\00:24:58.90
AND I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW
12:16 - I'M SORRY, MATTHEW
00:24:58.90\00:25:02.43
16:26, "FOR WHAT PROFIT IS IT
TO A MAN IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE
00:25:02.43\00:25:07.73
WORLD, AND LOSES HIS OWN SOUL?"
SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE COST
00:25:07.73\00:25:10.66
OF DISCIPLESHIP. WHAT
DOES IT COST TO BE A DISCIPLE?
00:25:10.66\00:25:16.43
HOW MUCH DOES IT
COST? EVERYTHING.
00:25:16.43\00:25:21.76
THE BIBLE TELLS US IT'S LIKE
A MAN WHO'S WALKING THROUGH HIS
00:25:21.76\00:25:24.70
FIELD AND HE - MAYBE
HE'S PLOWING IN HIS FIELD.
00:25:24.70\00:25:29.53
HIS PLOW STICKS ON A BOX AND THE
BOX - HE DIGS UP AND IT'S GOT
00:25:29.53\00:25:34.96
TREASURE IN IT. THE PROBLEM
IS HE'S ONLY LEASED THE FIELD,
00:25:34.96\00:25:38.20
HE DOESN'T REALLY OWN IT.
AND SO, IN ORDER TO GET THE
00:25:38.20\00:25:41.50
TREASURE - HE'S AN HONEST MAN,
HE REALIZES HE NEEDS TO BUY THE
00:25:41.50\00:25:44.00
FIELD AND THEN HE'LL
OWN EVERYTHING IN THE FIELD.
00:25:44.00\00:25:46.66
SO HE GOES TO HIS WIFE AND
HE SAYS, 'WE'RE GOING TO SELL
00:25:46.66\00:25:48.33
EVERYTHING.' 'EVERYTHING?'
'EVERYTHING.' 'WELL, WE'RE NOT
00:25:48.33\00:25:51.53
GOING TO SELL GRANDMA'S
CHINA?' 'WE'RE GOING TO SELL
00:25:51.53\00:25:53.63
EVERYTHING.' WHY
ARE WE GOING TO SELL
00:25:53.63\00:25:55.63
EVERYTHING?' 'BECAUSE
WE'RE GOING TO BUY THIS
00:25:55.63\00:25:57.03
FIELD.' 'THIS OLD FIELD?
IT'S GOT WEEDS AND ROCKS IN IT.'
00:25:57.03\00:25:59.83
HE SAYS, 'TRUST ME.
IT'S GOT TREASURE IN IT.
00:25:59.83\00:26:03.30
TREASURE WORTH MORE
THAN EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT.
00:26:03.30\00:26:05.83
WE'RE GOING TO SELL EVERYTHING.'
'WE'RE NOT GOING TO SELL MY
00:26:05.83\00:26:09.23
FAMILY HEIRLOOMS?'
'EVERYTHING.' 'MY JEWELS?'
00:26:09.23\00:26:12.63
'EVERYTHING.' CAN YOU
IMAGINE THAT DISCUSSION?
00:26:12.63\00:26:16.80
AND FINALLY HE SELLS EVERYTHING.
THEY TAKE - THEY HAVE NOTHING
00:26:16.80\00:26:20.40
LEFT - THEY BRING IT TO THE
REALTOR, THEY BUY THE LAND, THEY
00:26:20.40\00:26:27.63
GET IT REGISTERED, THEN HE TAKES
HIS WIFE OUT INTO THE FIELD.
00:26:27.63\00:26:29.83
HE SAYS, 'LOOK WHAT I FOUND.'
AND HE DIGS UP THE BOX THAT HE
00:26:29.83\00:26:33.23
HAD MARKED AND
THERE IT'S FULL OF GOLD.
00:26:33.23\00:26:35.86
HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD ABOUT
THIS REALLY HAPPENING HERE IN
00:26:35.86\00:26:39.03
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA? IT
HIT THE NEWS NOT TOO LONG AGO.
00:26:39.03\00:26:43.56
TALK ABOUT FINDING A POT AT
THE END OF THE RAINBOW, A COUPLE
00:26:43.56\00:26:47.73
SOMEWHERE UP IN PLACER COUNTY,
ABOVE AUBURN,THEY HAD SOME RURAL
00:26:47.73\00:26:52.73
LAND THEY'VE OWNED FOR YEARS.
THEY WERE WALKING AROUND ON A
00:26:52.73\00:26:55.36
TRAIL THEY'VE WALKED ON FOR
YEARS WITH THEIR DOG AND THEY
00:26:55.36\00:26:57.43
SAW A CAN STICKING UP - A RUSTY
CAN - OUT OF THE GROUND AND THEY
00:26:57.43\00:27:00.63
DECIDED TO EXPLORE IT
AND IT HAD GOLD IN IT.
00:27:00.63\00:27:04.83
THEN THEY FOUND ANOTHER CAN AND
THEY STARTED DIGGING AND THEY
00:27:04.83\00:27:06.66
FOUND EIGHT CANS CONTAINING
OVER 1,400 GOLD COINS THAT DATED
00:27:06.66\00:27:11.50
BETWEEN 1847 AND 1893 -
MANY OF THEM IN MINT CONDITION.
00:27:11.50\00:27:16.46
SOME OF THEM ARE IN SUCH
GOOD CONDITION - THEY'RE SO RARE
00:27:16.46\00:27:18.96
THEY'RE WORTH A MILLION DOLLARS
A PIECE - AND THEY FOUND 1,400
00:27:18.96\00:27:23.16
OF THEM. THEY FIGURE IT'S
WORTH ABOUT TEN MILLION DOLLARS.
00:27:23.16\00:27:27.66
THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT HOW IT GOT THERE.
00:27:27.66\00:27:31.20
SOME ARE SPECULATING -
YOU EVER HEAR OF A STAGE COACH
00:27:31.20\00:27:33.60
ROBBER NAMED BLACK
BART? HE WAS CAUGHT -
00:27:33.60\00:27:37.43
QUITE AN INTERESTING CHARACTER -
00:27:37.43\00:27:38.76
ACTUALLY, HE USED TO HIDE
OUT IN COVELO TOO - BLACK BART.
00:27:38.76\00:27:42.10
I USED TO TELL THE KIDS ALL
THE TIME, I'D TEASE THEM WITH A
00:27:42.10\00:27:44.03
METAL DETECTOR OUT IN THE
FRONT YARD, 'YOU KEEP LOOKING.
00:27:44.03\00:27:46.43
BLACK BART'S TREASURE IS
OUT THERE.' THIS GUY USED TO ROB
00:27:46.43\00:27:49.23
WELLS FARGO AND THEY CALLED HIM
'THE GENTLEMAN BANDIT' BECAUSE
00:27:49.23\00:27:53.43
HE WOULD LEAVE POETRY AND
HE NEVER CURSED AND HE WAS VERY
00:27:53.43\00:27:55.73
POLITE AND THEY
FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH HIM.
00:27:55.73\00:27:58.80
THEY PUT HIM IN
SAN QUENTIN PRISON.
00:27:58.80\00:28:01.00
HE STAYED THERE FOUR YEARS
AND GOT OUT ON GOOD BEHAVIOR AND
00:28:01.00\00:28:03.13
THEN WELLS FARGO TRACKED HIM FOR
AWHILE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THAT
00:28:03.13\00:28:06.00
HE WOULD START
ROBBING STAGECOACHES AGAIN AND
00:28:06.00\00:28:08.70
EVENTUALLY HE SLIPPED AWAY AND
THEY NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN.
00:28:08.70\00:28:11.13
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT
HAPPENED TO HIM IN HISTORY.
00:28:11.13\00:28:13.13
VERY INTERESTING CHARACTER.
WELL, THEY'RE WONDERING NOW IF
00:28:13.13\00:28:15.56
THIS WAS SOME OF BLACK
BART'S TREASURE THAT NEVER GOT
00:28:15.56\00:28:17.70
RECOVERED. SOME OF
IT, HE TOLD THEM, HE HID
00:28:17.70\00:28:20.73
IN A HOLLOW LOG IN THE WOODS
AND HE FORGOT WHERE IT WAS.
00:28:20.73\00:28:25.06
BUT IT JUST MAKES
YOU WONDER - INTERESTING.
00:28:25.06\00:28:28.16
SO, YOU FIND THIS TREASURE IN
A FIELD - THAT WAS A LONG WAY OF
00:28:28.16\00:28:30.10
TELLING A PARABLE. IT
DOES HAPPEN, DOESN'T IT?
00:28:30.10\00:28:35.26
WOULD YOU SELL EVERYTHING IF YOU
COULD BUY THAT LAND THAT HAD TEN
00:28:35.26\00:28:38.20
MILLION DOLLARS ON IT? WOULD
YOU SELL EVERYTHING YOU HAD?
00:28:38.20\00:28:40.76
UNLESS YOU'VE GOT
OVER TEN MILLION DOLLARS.
00:28:40.76\00:28:43.10
IF YOU DO WE'D LIKE TO
TALK TO YOU AFTERWARDS.
00:28:43.10\00:28:48.26
WOULD IT BE WORTH IT? HOW MUCH
DOES IT COST TO FOLLOW JESUS?
00:28:48.26\00:28:52.80
GO AHEAD, READ FOR
US - WHO HAS LUKE 12:15?
00:28:52.80\00:28:57.33
>>LUKE 12:15, "...'TAKE HEED
AND BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS, FOR
00:28:57.33\00:29:02.43
ONE'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST IN
THE ABUNDANCE OF THE THINGS HE
00:29:02.43\00:29:06.03
POSSESSES.'" >>BY
THE WAY - THANK YOU -
00:29:06.03\00:29:09.06
THAT WAS MATTHEW 13:44
00:29:09.06\00:29:11.50
- "THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
IS LIKE A TREASURE HIDDEN IN A
00:29:11.50\00:29:13.26
FIELD, WHICH A MAN FOUND AND
HID; AND FOR JOY OVER IT HE GOES
00:29:13.26\00:29:16.43
AND SELLS ALL THAT HE
HAS AND BUYS THAT FIELD."
00:29:16.43\00:29:19.63
SO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN,
HOW MUCH SHOULD IT BE WORTH?
00:29:19.63\00:29:23.23
EVERYTHING. IT
SHOULD BE EVERYTHING.
00:29:23.23\00:29:25.93
WHEN JESUS ASKED THE APOSTLES TO
FOLLOW, DO YOU NOTICE HE WAITED
00:29:25.93\00:29:28.90
UNTIL HE FILLED THEIR
NETS AND THEN HE SAID,
00:29:28.90\00:29:32.03
'FORSAKE
EVERYTHING AND FOLLOW ME'?
00:29:32.03\00:29:34.53
WHEN HE ASKED MATTHEW TO FOLLOW
HE WAS SITTING AT HIS CASH
00:29:34.53\00:29:37.23
REGISTER BRIMMING WITH COIN AND
HE SAID, 'WALK AWAY FROM IT AND
00:29:37.23\00:29:42.73
FOLLOW ME.' SO JESUS LETS US
KNOW THAT 'I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU
00:29:42.73\00:29:46.60
SOMETHING THAT IS WORTH ETERNAL
TREASURE - ETERNAL LIFE - BUT
00:29:46.60\00:29:50.83
YOU'VE GOT TO LET
GO OF EVERYTHING ELSE.
00:29:50.83\00:29:52.10
YOU CAN'T KEEP BOTH.' SO WHEN
THEY BROUGHT THEIR BOATS TO LAND
00:29:52.10\00:29:56.86
THEY FORSOOK ALL
AND FOLLOWED HIM.
00:29:56.86\00:29:59.63
PETER SAYS - SOMEONE
LOOK UP FOR ME MATTHEW 16:21.
00:29:59.63\00:30:03.13
WHO HAS THAT? RIGHT HERE?
WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A
00:30:03.13\00:30:05.40
SECOND. GET YOU THE MICROPHONE.
00:30:05.40\00:30:08.30
PETER SAID - AND
THIS IS LUKE 18:28,
00:30:08.30\00:30:13.26
"LO, WE HAVE LEFT
ALL, AND FOLLOWED THEE."
00:30:13.26\00:30:17.83
THEY WERE WILLING TO FORSAKE
EVERYTHING TO FOLLOW JESUS.
00:30:17.83\00:30:22.53
CHRISTIANITY COSTS SOMETHING,
BUT IT PAYS MORE THAN IT COSTS,
00:30:22.53\00:30:25.73
DOESN'T IT. SO,
ALRIGHT, ARE WE READY FOR THAT?
00:30:25.73\00:30:30.93
OKAY, GO AHEAD MIKE. WHY
DON'T YOU READ THAT NEXT VERSE?
00:30:30.93\00:30:33.00
>>ALRIGHT, MATTHEW 16:21, "FROM
THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO SHOW
00:30:33.00\00:30:37.43
HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE MUST
GO TO JERUSALEM, AND SUFFER MANY
00:30:37.43\00:30:42.26
THINGS FROM THE ELDERS AND CHIEF
PRIESTS AND SCRIBES, AND BE
00:30:42.26\00:30:45.90
KILLED, AND BE
RAISED THE THIRD DAY."
00:30:45.90\00:30:50.23
>>RIGHT. YOU KNOW,
SO JESUS WAS LETTING
00:30:50.23\00:30:52.76
THEM KNOW. WHAT WERE
THEIR PLANS FOR JESUS?
00:30:52.76\00:30:56.50
THEIR THEOLOGY SAID MESSIAH
IS GOING TO, YOU KNOW, USE HIS
00:30:56.50\00:31:00.60
MIRACULOUS POWER AND OVERTHROW
THE ROMANS AND HE'LL HAVE THE
00:31:00.60\00:31:03.83
STRENGTH OF SAMPSON AND
THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON AND THE
00:31:03.83\00:31:07.16
COURAGE OF DAVID AND HE'S GOING
TO BE OUR NEW KING AND THEY HAD
00:31:07.16\00:31:10.26
BUILT ALL THESE THINGS
INTO THEIR PICTURE OF WHAT THE
00:31:10.26\00:31:13.36
MESSIAH WOULD BE LIKE. AND
JESUS, THEY THOUGHT, HE CAN
00:31:13.36\00:31:16.20
EVEN MULTIPLY
BREAD AND FEED THE ARMY.
00:31:16.20\00:31:19.00
AND THAT'S WHY JAMES
AND JOHN CAME TO HIM.
00:31:19.00\00:31:21.96
ONE VERSION SAYS THEIR MOTHER
CAME WITH THEM AND THEY SAID,
00:31:21.96\00:31:24.73
'LORD, CAN WE TALK
TO YOU FOR A MOMENT?'
00:31:24.73\00:31:26.06
AND HE SAID, 'SURE,
HOW CAN I HELP YOU?'
00:31:26.06\00:31:27.56
'WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR
KINGDOM, CAN I SIT' - JAMES,
00:31:27.56\00:31:31.70
PROBABLY, BEING THE OLDER
BROTHER - 'CAN I SIT ON YOUR
00:31:31.70\00:31:33.80
RIGHT HAND AND JOHN ON YOUR LEFT
HAND?' HOW DID THEY VIEW THAT?
00:31:33.80\00:31:39.50
WERE THEY THINKING OF BEING
CRUCIFIED ON HIS RIGHT AND LEFT
00:31:39.50\00:31:41.80
OR SITTING ON THRONES
ON HIS RIGHT AND LEFT?
00:31:41.80\00:31:44.36
THEY WERE SO - WHEN HE SAID,
'I'M GOING TO JERUSALEM AND I'M
00:31:44.36\00:31:46.83
GOING TO BE CRUCIFIED' -
EVEN PETER SAID, 'LORD, FAR BE
00:31:46.83\00:31:49.43
IT FOR YOU. NOT
YOU! NO, NOT THAT.
00:31:49.43\00:31:52.56
THAT'S WHAT
HAPPENS TO CRIMINALS.
00:31:52.56\00:31:53.80
YOU'RE THE KING.' AND JESUS
SAID TO PETER, 'GET BEHIND ME,
00:31:53.80\00:31:56.80
SATAN.' THEY DID
NOT UNDERSTAND EVEN
00:31:56.80\00:32:00.46
BACK THEN, THE REAL
COST OF DISCIPLESHIP.
00:32:00.46\00:32:04.36
NOW, IF YOU GO INTO IT
WITHOUT FALSE EXPECTATIONS.
00:32:04.36\00:32:08.53
IF YOU GO INTO CHRISTIANITY AND
YOU SURRENDER EVERYTHING AND YOU
00:32:08.53\00:32:12.23
ARE READY TO BE CRUCIFIED WITH
CHRIST AND YOU SAY, 'LORD, ALL
00:32:12.23\00:32:15.56
THAT I AM AND ALL THAT I HAVE IS
YOURS.' IF THAT'S YOUR ATTITUDE
00:32:15.56\00:32:18.26
GOING IN, THEN IT'S
UPHILL FROM THERE ISN'T IT?
00:32:18.26\00:32:21.66
IT'LL ONLY GET BETTER. I
MEAN, IF YOU DIE, CAN THINGS
00:32:21.66\00:32:25.40
GET WORSE? CAN THEY? NO,
SO ONCE YOU ARE CRUCIFIED
00:32:25.40\00:32:31.26
WITH CHRIST THEN EVERYTHING
ELSE IS A BLESSING AFTER THAT.
00:32:31.26\00:32:34.80
CAN ANYONE HURT YOUR FEELINGS
IF YOU'RE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST?
00:32:34.80\00:32:38.30
BUT IF YOU'RE LIVING FOR
YOURSELF AND YOUR KINGDOM IS IN
00:32:38.30\00:32:40.93
THE WORLD - IF YOU'RE THINKING
ABOUT AN EARTHLY KINGDOM YOU'RE
00:32:40.93\00:32:43.50
GOING TO BE DISAPPOINTED.
SO JESUS TRIED TO SAY, 'THE
00:32:43.50\00:32:46.93
WORLD'S NOT GOING TO LOVE
YOU. YOU'LL NEVER BE POPULAR.
00:32:46.93\00:32:49.83
JOHN 15, VERSE 18 - JOHN 15,
VERSE 18, "IF THE WORLD HATES
00:32:49.83\00:32:59.13
YOU, YOU KNOW THAT IT
HATED ME BEFORE IT HATED YOU.
00:32:59.13\00:33:03.63
IF YOU WERE OF THE WORLD,
THE WORLD WOULD LOVE ITS OWN.
00:33:03.63\00:33:05.80
YET BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT OF THE
WORLD, BUT I CHOSE YOU OUT OF
00:33:05.80\00:33:08.03
THE WORLD,
THEREFORE THE WORLD HATES YOU.
00:33:08.03\00:33:10.03
REMEMBER THE WORD THAT I SAID TO
YOU, 'A SERVANT IS NOT GREATER
00:33:10.03\00:33:13.43
THAN HIS MASTER.'
IF THEY PERSECUTED ME,
00:33:13.43\00:33:15.90
THEY WILL PERSECUTE
YOU. IF THEY KEPT MY WORD,
00:33:15.90\00:33:19.90
THEY WILL KEEP YOURS ALSO." I
HEARD A STORY AND JOHN WESLEY,
00:33:19.90\00:33:25.13
YOU KNOW, HE WAS ONE OF THESE
OUTDOOR PREACHERS - FOUNDER OF
00:33:25.13\00:33:28.33
THE METHODIST CHURCH -
AND IT WAS CONSIDERED VERY
00:33:28.33\00:33:31.70
UNPOPULAR AND UNCONVENTIONAL
TO BE PREACHING OUTDOORS.
00:33:31.70\00:33:35.86
AND HE HAD BEEN CONDEMNED BY
THE OFFICIAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
00:33:35.86\00:33:39.26
AND OFTEN, WHEN HE WOULD GO
PREACH, THERE WERE MOBS THAT
00:33:39.26\00:33:43.63
THEY THOUGHT OF HIM AS A REBEL
AND PREACHING OUTSIDE AND HIS
00:33:43.63\00:33:49.70
SERMONS ABOUT LIVING GODLY
LIVES THEY USED TO RIDICULE.
00:33:49.70\00:33:52.63
HE'D GET DONE PREACHING IN THE
TOWN AND THEY'D SHUT DOWN ALL
00:33:52.63\00:33:55.70
THE SALOONS AND THE BARS AND
SO SOME PEOPLE REALLY HATED HIM.
00:33:55.70\00:33:59.56
AND, FREQUENTLY THEY MADE
ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE - THEY'D
00:33:59.56\00:34:01.96
BREAK DOWN THE DOOR OF HIS HOUSE
OR STAB HIM OR THROW BRICKS AT
00:34:01.96\00:34:05.50
HIM OR JUST ALL KINDS OF
THINGS. YOU CAN READ - HIS OWN
00:34:05.50\00:34:08.36
AUTOBIOGRAPHY WILL TELL YOU
ABOUT THE THINGS THAT WERE DONE.
00:34:08.36\00:34:11.56
BUT ONE TIME, HE WAS PREACHING
IN ENGLAND AND HE REALIZED THAT
00:34:11.56\00:34:16.56
SEVERAL WEEKS HAD GONE BY WHERE
HE HADN'T EXPERIENCED ALMOST ANY
00:34:16.56\00:34:19.80
RESISTANCE OR UNKIND WORDS OR
ANY PERSECUTION AND HE'S ON HIS
00:34:19.80\00:34:22.73
HORSE AND HE THOUGHT, 'LORD,
MAYBE I'M NOT PREACHING THE TRUE
00:34:22.73\00:34:26.20
GOSPEL ANYMORE.' AND HE STOPPED
WHERE HE WAS AND HE GOT DOWN OFF
00:34:26.20\00:34:29.00
THE HORSE AND HE BEGAN TO PRAY
AND HE SAID, 'LORD, I'VE JUST
00:34:29.00\00:34:31.96
NOTICED THINGS ARE GOING REALLY
WELL AND YOU SAY, 'WOE UNTO YOU
00:34:31.96\00:34:34.40
WHEN ALL MEN SPEAK WELL OF
YOU FOR SO THEY DID OF THE FALSE
00:34:34.40\00:34:36.60
PROPHETS.' AND LORD, MAYBE I'M
NOT BEING FAITHFUL.' AND RIGHT
00:34:36.60\00:34:39.73
WHILE HE WAS PRAYING, SOMEBODY
IN A HOUSE NOT FAR FROM THE ROAD
00:34:39.73\00:34:42.76
SAW HIM AND SAID, 'BE YE
THAT TERRIBLE PREACHER WESLEY?'
00:34:42.76\00:34:46.33
AND HE HURLED A BRICK AT HIM.
00:34:46.33\00:34:48.56
AND WESLEY SAID, 'THANK YOU,
LORD.' HE THOUGHT, 'I GUESS I'M
00:34:48.56\00:34:53.00
STILL ON THE RIGHT COURSE.'
AND HE GOT BACK ON HIS HORSE.
00:34:53.00\00:34:56.83
SO, YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID, 'IF
THEY HATED ME, THEY'RE GOING TO
00:34:56.83\00:35:01.53
HATE YOU.' SO YOU CAN'T PREACH
THE GOSPEL WITHOUT OFFENSE AND
00:35:01.53\00:35:09.86
IN OUR WORLD TODAY THERE'S
A MOVEMENT WHERE WE'RE JUST
00:35:09.86\00:35:15.46
WANTING TO PULL OUR PUNCHES FOR
WHAT THE REAL GOSPEL IS AND JUST
00:35:15.46\00:35:18.23
GET ALONG WITH EVERYBODY AND
JUST TALK ABOUT LOVE AND UNITY.
00:35:18.23\00:35:21.86
THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?
CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?
00:35:21.86\00:35:25.53
LET'S NOT
HIGHLIGHT THE DIFFERENCES.
00:35:25.53\00:35:27.36
LET'S NOT BE DIVISIVE.
DON'T PREACH THE REAL MESSAGE
00:35:27.36\00:35:30.50
ABOUT TURNING FROM YOUR
SINS AND TAKING UP YOUR CROSS.
00:35:30.50\00:35:34.80
FOLLOW JESUS AND EVERYTHING'S
GOING TO BE OKEY DOKIE.
00:35:34.80\00:35:37.96
AND THAT'S A LIE. THAT'S
JUST WHAT THE DEVIL WANTS.
00:35:37.96\00:35:41.80
IT'S NOT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT.
00:35:41.80\00:35:44.60
JOHN 16 - LISTEN TO THIS - 1 AND
2, "THESE THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN
00:35:44.60\00:35:48.33
TO YOU, THAT YOU
SHOULD NOT BE MADE TO STUMBLE.
00:35:48.33\00:35:51.30
THEY WILL PUT YOU OUT OF
THE SYNAGOGUES; YES, THE TIME IS
00:35:51.30\00:35:54.10
COMING THAT WHOEVER KILLS YOU
WILL THINK THAT HE OFFERS GOD
00:35:54.10\00:35:58.03
SERVICE." THAT'S
AN EXACT PREDICTION OF
00:35:58.03\00:36:00.60
WHAT HAPPENED WITH PAUL.
DIDN'T PAUL THINK HE WAS SERVING
00:36:00.60\00:36:02.93
GOD WHEN HE KILLED CHRISTIANS
AND PUT THEM IN PRISON?
00:36:02.93\00:36:06.03
HE WAS SINCERE,
BUT HE WAS WRONG.
00:36:06.03\00:36:08.60
JESUS SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING TO
BE PERSECUTED.' LUKE 21:12, "BUT
00:36:08.60\00:36:16.20
BEFORE ALL THESE THINGS, THEY
WILL LAY THEIR HANDS ON YOU AND
00:36:16.20\00:36:19.53
PERSECUTE YOU, DELIVERING YOU UP
TO THE SYNAGOGUES AND PRISONS.
00:36:19.53\00:36:23.43
YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE KINGS
AND RULERS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.
00:36:23.43\00:36:27.06
BUT IT WILL TURN OUT FOR YOU
AS AN OCCASION FOR TESTIMONY."
00:36:27.06\00:36:29.90
SO WHY DO WE GO
THROUGH TRIALS AS DISCIPLES?
00:36:29.90\00:36:33.60
IT SAYS, 'IT WILL TURN OUT AS
AN OCCASION FOR TESTIMONY.' YOU
00:36:33.60\00:36:38.23
KNOW WHEN CHRISTIANS MAKE THE
BEST WITNESSES? THROUGH TRIAL.
00:36:38.23\00:36:42.93
WHEN DID PAUL GET
TO PREACH TO KINGS?
00:36:42.93\00:36:45.83
WHILE HE WAS IN JAIL. WHEN
DID JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACH
00:36:45.83\00:36:48.26
TO HEROD? WHEN HE WAS IN JAIL.
00:36:48.26\00:36:50.60
I MEAN, YOU HAVE A LOT OF
OPPORTUNITY TO BE A WITNESS,
00:36:50.60\00:36:53.53
SOMETIMES, WHEN
YOU'RE GOING THROUGH TRIAL.
00:36:53.53\00:36:56.10
"IT WILL TURN OUT FOR YOU
AS AN OCCASION FOR TESTIMONY.
00:36:56.10\00:36:58.46
THEREFORE SETTLE IT IN
YOUR HEARTS NOT TO MEDITATE
00:36:58.46\00:37:01.00
BEFOREHAND ON WHAT YOU WILL
ANSWER; FOR I WILL GIVE YOU A
00:37:01.00\00:37:04.20
MOUTH AND WISDOM WHICH ALL YOUR
ADVERSARIES WILL NOT BE ABLE TO
00:37:04.20\00:37:07.03
CONTRADICT OR RESIST."
KIND OF LIKE LUTHER BEFORE THE
00:37:07.03\00:37:09.73
DIET OF WORMS, WHERE GOD GAVE
HIM SUCH GREAT ELOQUENCE AS HE
00:37:09.73\00:37:14.00
WAS BEING TRIED FOR HIS FAITH.
THE LORD WILL DO THAT FOR YOU.
00:37:14.00\00:37:17.40
AND THAT TIME'S GOING TO HAPPEN
AGAIN WHEN REAL DISCIPLES,
00:37:17.40\00:37:20.26
IF WE'RE FAITHFUL, GOD IS GOING
TO ALLOW THAT TO PROVE TO BE
00:37:20.26\00:37:25.36
AN OPPORTUNITY
TO SHARE OUR FAITH.
00:37:25.36\00:37:29.06
'THEY'LL PUT SOME OF
YOU TO DEATH' JESUS SAID.
00:37:29.06\00:37:31.53
I'M STILL IN LUKE 21 - I'M
READING VERSE 16 - VERSE 17,
00:37:31.53\00:37:35.90
"AND YOU WILL BE HATED
BY ALL FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.
00:37:35.90\00:37:39.10
BUT NOT A HAIR OF
YOUR HEAD WILL BE LOST."
00:37:39.10\00:37:41.53
WELL, I'VE HAD TO TALK TO
THE LORD ABOUT THAT VERSE.
00:37:41.53\00:37:44.76
"BY YOUR PATIENCE
POSSESS YOUR SOULS."
00:37:44.76\00:37:48.83
SO, TO BE A CHRISTIAN REQUIRES
PUTTING EVERYTHING ON THE ALTAR.
00:37:48.83\00:37:54.73
ROMANS 12, VERSES 1 AND
2, "I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE,
00:37:54.73\00:37:58.36
BRETHREN, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD,
THAT YOU PRESENT YOUR BODIES A
00:37:58.36\00:38:01.30
LIVING SACRIFICE,
HOLY, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD,
00:38:01.30\00:38:04.73
WHICH IS YOUR
REASONABLE SERVICE.
00:38:04.73\00:38:06.90
AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS
WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE
00:38:06.90\00:38:11.56
RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, THAT YOU
MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD AND
00:38:11.56\00:38:15.13
ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT WILL
OF GOD." SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:38:15.13\00:38:19.90
PHILIPPIANS 2:3. WHO DID
WE GIVE THAT TO? OVER HERE?
00:38:19.90\00:38:24.96
YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT RICKY?
00:38:24.96\00:38:25.93
OKAY, I'LL LET THEM
LOCATE YOU AND ZERO IN.
00:38:25.93\00:38:30.60
SO THERE'S A TRIAL
IN BEING A CHRISTIAN.
00:38:30.60\00:38:33.90
NOW, I DON'T WANT
TO DISCOURAGE YOU.
00:38:33.90\00:38:35.20
WHEN I TALK ABOUT THE COST, I
THINK SOME OF YOU WENT, 'OH MAN,
00:38:35.20\00:38:37.13
DEATH, TRIALS,
PERSECUTION AND PRISON?
00:38:37.13\00:38:41.06
DOUG, YOU'RE SCARING US.' DON'T
FORGET WHAT I SAID: CHRISTIANITY
00:38:41.06\00:38:45.83
COSTS BUT IT PAYS
MORE THAN IT COSTS.
00:38:45.83\00:38:51.16
JESUS SAID TO
THE RICH YOUNG RULER,
00:38:51.16\00:38:52.80
'GO SELL ALL THAT YOU
HAVE. GIVE IT TO THE POOR.
00:38:52.80\00:38:55.46
FOLLOW ME.' AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE
SAID, 'YOU WILL HAVE TREASURE IN
00:38:55.46\00:38:58.56
HEAVEN.' IS THAT TRUE?
NOT ONLY THERE, BUT YOU END UP
00:38:58.56\00:39:04.43
WITH MORE HERE. PETER
SAID, 'LORD, LOOK, WE'VE
00:39:04.43\00:39:07.00
FORSAKEN
EVERYTHING TO FOLLOW YOU.
00:39:07.00\00:39:08.80
WHAT WILL WE HAVE?' JESUS
SAID, 'NO MAN OR WOMAN HAS
00:39:08.80\00:39:13.86
GIVEN UP HOUSES OR LANDS OR
POSITION' - I'M PARAPHRASING NOW
00:39:13.86\00:39:19.53
- 'OR HUSBAND OR WIFE, OR
CHILDREN IN THIS LIFE BUT HE
00:39:19.53\00:39:26.13
WILL HAVE A HUNDRED TIMES MORE
HOUSES AND LANDS AND FAMILY WITH
00:39:26.13\00:39:31.50
PERSECUTIONS AND ETERNAL LIFE IN
THE WORLD TO COME.' BUT HE SAYS,
00:39:31.50\00:39:34.96
'EVEN IN THIS LIFE YOU END
UP WITH A HUNDRED TIMES MORE.'
00:39:34.96\00:39:37.86
NOW, HOW DOES THAT WORK?
00:39:37.86\00:39:39.00
DOES THAT MEAN YOU'RE
GOING TO OWN A HUNDRED HOUSES?
00:39:39.00\00:39:40.60
NO, BUT WHEN YOU BECOME A CHILD
OF GOD, INSTANTLY YOUR FAMILY
00:39:40.60\00:39:43.56
GROWS AND THEIR
HOUSE BECOMES YOUR HOUSE.
00:39:43.56\00:39:46.33
DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY, IN THE
DAYS OF THE EARLY CHURCH WHEN HE
00:39:46.33\00:39:49.70
POURED OUT THE SPIRIT, 'NO MAN
SAID THAT OUGHT THAT HE HAD WAS
00:39:49.70\00:39:52.66
HIS OWN BUT ALL MEN HAD
EVERYTHING IN COMMON.' I KNOW
00:39:52.66\00:39:55.86
THAT SOUNDS LIKE COMMUNISM
BUT IT MEANS THAT WE REALLY LOVE
00:39:55.86\00:39:58.26
EACH OTHER AND
WE'RE WILLING TO SHARE.
00:39:58.26\00:40:00.56
AND HE SAYS YOU'LL HAVE
MORE FAMILY. HOW DOES THAT WORK?
00:40:00.56\00:40:04.30
WE CALL EACH OTHER BROTHER AND
SISTER AND EVERYWHERE I GO I'VE
00:40:04.30\00:40:07.70
GOT FAMILY NOW. I HAD A
VERY SMALL FAMILY GROWING UP.
00:40:07.70\00:40:11.53
I JUST HAD, YOU KNOW, MY BROTHER
AND MY FATHER AND MOTHER AND
00:40:11.53\00:40:13.70
THEY DIVORCED AND IT FELT PRETTY
SMALL LIVING WITH A SINGLE MOM
00:40:13.70\00:40:16.86
IN NEW YORK BECAUSE MY
BROTHER WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE.
00:40:16.86\00:40:18.66
AND SO I KIND OF GREW UP
- SMALL FAMILY - DISTANT.
00:40:18.66\00:40:24.06
I BECAME A CHRISTIAN - MAN
- FIRST TIME I CAME TO CHURCH
00:40:24.06\00:40:27.76
EVERYONE STARTS
HUGGING ME AND SO YEAH.
00:40:27.76\00:40:31.06
YOU GET INVITED HOME EVERY WEEK
AND YOU FINALLY GET TO WHERE YOU
00:40:31.06\00:40:35.06
GET TO ASK, 'SO WHAT ARE
YOU GUYS HAVING FOR DINNER?
00:40:35.06\00:40:37.80
MAYBE I'LL GET MYSELF INVITED
OVER HERE.' AND HERE AT CENTRAL
00:40:37.80\00:40:40.20
CHURCH IT'S GREAT BECAUSE I'D
WALK OUT IN THE COURTYARD AND
00:40:40.20\00:40:42.76
I'D BE ABLE TO SAY, 'I DON'T
KNOW, TODAY WHAT DO I WANT?
00:40:42.76\00:40:45.53
DO I WANT TO GO TO THE FIJIAN
POTLUCK OR DO I WANT TO GO TO
00:40:45.53\00:40:48.70
THE FILIPINO POTLUCK? OR
SHOULD I GO TO THE HODGEPODGE
00:40:48.70\00:40:51.20
POTLUCK OR THE ROMANIAN
POTLUCK? OR WHO'S POTLUCK -
00:40:51.20\00:40:54.13
THAT'S PRETTY NICE.
YOU'VE GOT FAMILY ALL OVER THE
00:40:54.13\00:40:56.56
WORLD WITHOUT EVEN
LEAVING THE CHURCH.
00:40:56.56\00:40:59.33
SO YOU REALLY DO GET A HUNDRED
TIMES MORE BUT THERE'S TRIALS.
00:40:59.33\00:41:03.23
ALRIGHT, WHO IS
NEXT WITH A VERSE? RICKY?
00:41:03.23\00:41:06.90
>>PHILIPPIANS 2, VERSE 3, "LET
NOTHING BE DONE THROUGH SELFISH
00:41:06.90\00:41:10.73
AMBITION OR CONCEIT, BUT
IN LOWLINESS OF MIND LET EACH
00:41:10.73\00:41:15.13
ESTEEM OTHERS
BETTER THAN HIMSELF."
00:41:15.13\00:41:18.93
>>THAT'S THE KEY TO THE COST OF
DISCIPLESHIP IS: 'HE THAT SEEKS
00:41:18.93\00:41:23.63
TO SAVE HIS LIFE WILL LOSE IT,
BUT HE THAT LOSES HIS LIFE FOR
00:41:23.63\00:41:28.10
MY SAKE AND THE
GOSPEL WILL FIND IT.'
00:41:28.10\00:41:30.46
THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU EVER
GET IT IS BY FIRST GIVING IT
00:41:30.46\00:41:34.20
AWAY. NOW LET ME
ILLUSTRATE THIS HERE.
00:41:34.20\00:41:39.90
DOES EVERYONE KNOW
WHAT ONE OF THESE IS?
00:41:39.90\00:41:42.50
POWER STRIP - AND
THEY'RE VERY HANDY.
00:41:42.50\00:41:45.33
IF YOU'VE GOT A COMPUTER OR SOME
KIND OF ELECTRONICS OR MEDIA,
00:41:45.33\00:41:48.40
YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT ALL THOSE
POWER CORDS THAT HANG DOWN -
00:41:48.40\00:41:51.40
YOU'VE GOT YOUR BATTERY BACK UP,
YOU'VE GOT YOUR COMPUTER ITSELF,
00:41:51.40\00:41:54.30
YOU MIGHT HAVE POWER SPEAKERS,
YOU'VE GOT YOUR PRINTER AND ALL
00:41:54.30\00:41:57.03
THAT STUFF - YOU KNOW, THOSE
CORDS DANGLE BEHIND YOUR DESK.
00:41:57.03\00:41:59.86
YOU DON'T HAVE
THAT MANY OUTLETS.
00:41:59.86\00:42:01.56
YOU'VE GOT TWO OUTLETS ON THE
WALL SO YOU'VE GOT TO MULTIPLY
00:42:01.56\00:42:04.10
THEM SO YOU STICK THIS IN
THE WALL THEN YOU STICK ALL YOUR
00:42:04.10\00:42:06.93
APPARATUS IN HERE AND THEN
YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THE
00:42:06.93\00:42:08.83
SWITCH IS ON. I WON'T PLUG THIS
IN BUT IT DOES COME ON. WELL, I
00:42:08.83\00:42:12.63
WAS ROOTING AROUND BEHIND
MY DESK ONE TIME - AS I WAS
00:42:12.63\00:42:15.90
RECONFIGURING THE WIRES IN MY
COMPUTER AND I PLUGGED IT ALL IN
00:42:15.90\00:42:20.50
AND I COULDN'T GET MY COMPUTER
TO WORK. AND I LOOKED AND I SAW
00:42:20.50\00:42:23.93
THAT IT WAS ALL PLUGGED IN AND
I KEPT CHECKING THE POWER SWITCH
00:42:23.93\00:42:26.80
AND I COULDN'T GET IT
THE POWER SWITCH TO COME ON.
00:42:26.80\00:42:28.43
I KNEW IT WAS A GOOD POWER STRIP
BECAUSE I JUST BOUGHT IT AND I'D
00:42:28.43\00:42:31.86
TESTED IT SOMEWHERE
ELSE AND THE LIGHT CAME ON.
00:42:31.86\00:42:34.60
AND YOU KNOW
WHAT I ENDED UP DOING?
00:42:34.60\00:42:37.76
I'D PLUGGED ONE OF THE PLUGS
- THERE WERE ALL THESE PLUGS
00:42:37.76\00:42:39.40
HANGING - BACK INTO ITSELF.
SO ALL THE WIRES ARE KIND OF
00:42:39.40\00:42:42.33
DOWN TO THERE AND I DIDN'T
REALIZE I'D PLUGGED THE POWER
00:42:42.33\00:42:44.50
STRIP BACK INTO ITSELF.
NOW, HOW DOES THAT WORK?
00:42:44.50\00:42:48.86
SEE, THE IDEA - I KNOW,
IT'S REALLY EMBARRASSING.
00:42:48.86\00:42:54.06
ANY OF YOU EVER
DONE THAT BEFORE? NO?
00:42:54.06\00:42:56.40
I SAW ONE HAND WENT - NO
ONE ELSE IS GOING TO RAISE THEIR
00:42:56.40\00:42:58.96
HAND, I'M NOT RAISING
MY HAND.' ALRIGHT, CONFESS.
00:42:58.96\00:43:05.26
IN YOUR LIFE, HAVE YOU EVER GONE
TO UNSCREW A LIGHT BULB WHILE IT
00:43:05.26\00:43:09.73
WAS STILL HOT?
OKAY, I JUST WONDERED.
00:43:09.73\00:43:13.26
SO WE ALL DO DUMB THINGS,
RIGHT? I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE.
00:43:13.26\00:43:17.06
BUT THE IDEA IS THE POWER
IS SUPPOSED TO COME IN HERE,
00:43:17.06\00:43:20.20
FLOW THROUGH AND GO OUT HERE.
AND IT WORKS JUST FINE IF YOU DO
00:43:20.20\00:43:24.33
IT THAT WAY. YOUR
LIVES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE
00:43:24.33\00:43:26.96
LIKE THAT. BUT MOST
OF US, THIS IS HOW WE
00:43:26.96\00:43:32.06
GO THROUGH LIFE. WE
JUST - WE THINK WE'RE GOING
00:43:32.06\00:43:35.90
TO LIVE UNTO OURSELVES AND WE'RE
ALL PLUGGED IN TO OURSELVES AND
00:43:35.90\00:43:40.00
YOU WILL HAVE A POWERLESS LIFE.
YOU END UP SELF-DESTRUCTING.
00:43:40.00\00:43:43.43
IF YOU WORSHIP GOD - IF YOU GET
YOUR LIFE AND YOUR POWER FROM
00:43:43.43\00:43:47.66
GOD, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PASS
IT ON TO OTHERS AND YOU BECOME A
00:43:47.66\00:43:51.73
CHANNEL OF BLESSING AND YOU
LIGHT UP. BUT IF YOU LIVE UNTO
00:43:51.73\00:43:55.43
YOURSELF AND YOU JUST YOU THINK
THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOD AND
00:43:55.43\00:43:59.90
ALL OF IT IS GOING TO BE
YOU, YOU DON'T GET ANYWHERE.
00:43:59.90\00:44:04.30
AND MOST PEOPLE GO THROUGH THEIR
LIVES - THEY SAY, 'IT'S ALL
00:44:04.30\00:44:06.23
ABOUT ME.' SOMEONE BROUGHT TO MY
ATTENTION A FEW YEARS AGO - WE
00:44:06.23\00:44:09.56
USED TO HAVE
MAGAZINES CALLED 'LIFE'.
00:44:09.56\00:44:12.53
NOW THERE'S A MAGAZINE CALLED
'SELF' AND 'LIFE' MAGAZINE IS
00:44:12.53\00:44:15.53
OUT OF BUSINESS. AND
THEY'VE GOT THE ME MAGAZINE
00:44:15.53\00:44:20.16
AND IT'S ALL 'YOU DESERVE IT.
HAVE YOUR OWN WAY' AND 'YOU'RE
00:44:20.16\00:44:24.60
WORTH IT.' AND EVERYTHING'S
ABOUT, KIND OF, SELF WORSHIP.
00:44:24.60\00:44:29.06
BUT TO BE A CHRISTIAN
IT'S ABOUT GIVING IT AWAY.
00:44:29.06\00:44:32.96
WHAT'S THE GREAT COMMANDMENT?
LOVE THE LORD FIRST - IT'S NOT
00:44:32.96\00:44:36.43
YOU - LOVE THE LORD WITH
ALL YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL, AND
00:44:36.43\00:44:39.40
STRENGTH. LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
00:44:39.40\00:44:42.86
AND YOU'VE HEARD THAT ACRONYM
BEFORE, 'JOY' - SECRET TO
00:44:42.86\00:44:45.76
HAPPINESS IS 'JESUS, OTHERS,
YOU.' AND THAT'S GOT TO BE THE
00:44:45.76\00:44:50.43
SEQUENCE, BUT THE WORLD HAS
INVERTED THAT SO IT'S ALL FIRST
00:44:50.43\00:44:53.70
YOU AND PEOPLE ARE NEVER
SATISFIED JUST TAKING CARE OF
00:44:53.70\00:44:56.90
THEMSELVES SO THEY NEVER GET TO
JESUS AND OTHERS, IT'S ALL ABOUT
00:44:56.90\00:45:00.76
ME AND MYSELF AND I.
OKAY, CARRYING ON HERE.
00:45:00.76\00:45:06.56
LUKE 18, VERSE 28 - OH, ACTUALLY
I GAVE YOU THIS VERSE ALREADY.
00:45:06.56\00:45:16.03
THAT'S WHERE HE SAYS - THERE'S
ALSO A VERSION I QUOTED MORE
00:45:16.03\00:45:18.23
FROM MATTHEW - LUKE 18:28,
"PETER SAID, 'SEE, WE HAVE LEFT
00:45:18.23\00:45:20.73
ALL AND FOLLOWED YOU.' SO HE
SAID, 'ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU,
00:45:20.73\00:45:24.00
THERE IS NO ONE WHO HAS LEFT
HOUSE OR PARENTS OR BROTHERS OR
00:45:24.00\00:45:26.46
WIFE OR CHILDREN, FOR THE SAKE
OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, WHO SHALL
00:45:26.46\00:45:29.36
NOT RECEIVE MANY TIMES MORE IN
THIS PRESENT TIME,'" - IN THIS
00:45:29.36\00:45:34.40
LIFE - "'AND IN THE AGE TO COME
00:45:34.40\00:45:36.26
ETERNAL LIFE." SO YOU
END UP GETTING MUCH MORE.
00:45:36.26\00:45:38.43
IT DOES COST SOMETHING
BUT YOU DO GET BLESSED.
00:45:38.43\00:45:41.00
READ DEUTERONOMY 28 - IT TALKS
ABOUT THE BLESSINGS AND THE
00:45:41.00\00:45:44.13
CURSINGS AND GOD SAYS IF YOU
OBEY GOD'S COMMANDMENTS AND YOU
00:45:44.13\00:45:47.20
SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM, YOU
WILL BE BLESSED WHEN YOU GO OUT.
00:45:47.20\00:45:50.43
YOU WILL BE
BLESSED WHEN YOU COME IN.
00:45:50.43\00:45:51.73
YOU WILL BE
BLESSED IN YOUR BARN.
00:45:51.73\00:45:53.33
YOU WILL BE
BLESSED IN YOUR FIELD.
00:45:53.33\00:45:54.66
YOU WILL BE
BLESSED IN YOUR FAMILY.
00:45:54.66\00:45:56.13
YOU WILL BE BLESSED
EVERYWHERE YOU CAN BE BLESSED.
00:45:56.13\00:45:58.96
HE SAYS YOU'LL BE BLESSED, BUT
HE DOESN'T SAY THERE'LL NEVER BE
00:45:58.96\00:46:02.63
YOUR TIME OF TROUBLE LIKE WHAT
JOB WENT THROUGH OR LIKE WHAT
00:46:02.63\00:46:08.33
JOSEPH WENT THROUGH.
JOHN 14:1-3, JESUS SAID, "LET
00:46:08.33\00:46:15.23
NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED" -
YES, IN THIS WORLD YOU'LL HAVE
00:46:15.23\00:46:18.60
TRIBULATION, BUT "LET NOT YOUR
HEART BE TROUBLED; YOU BELIEVE
00:46:18.60\00:46:21.60
IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.
IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY
00:46:21.60\00:46:25.20
MANSIONS" - OR DWELLING
PLACES - "IF IT WERE NOT SO,
00:46:25.20\00:46:27.86
I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. I
GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU.
00:46:27.86\00:46:31.40
AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE
FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN AND
00:46:31.40\00:46:34.60
RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF;" -
IT COSTS SOMETHING, BUT IT PAYS.
00:46:34.60\00:46:39.93
ETERNAL LIFE, A BODY THAT HAS
NO PAIN OR SICKNESS, IN A WORLD
00:46:39.93\00:46:44.43
WHERE THERE'S NO FEAR, NO LOCKS
ON THE DOORS, THERE'S NO COLD
00:46:44.43\00:46:48.40
WEATHER, THERE'S NO HOT WEATHER.
EVERY DAY'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY.
00:46:48.40\00:46:53.13
EVERYBODY IS NICE UP
THERE. THEY DON'T JUST PRETEND
00:46:53.13\00:46:55.80
TO BE NICE.
EVERYBODY'S REALLY NICE.
00:46:55.80\00:46:58.60
CAN YOU IMAGINE LIVING IN A
WORLD LIKE THAT WHERE, YOU KNOW,
00:46:58.60\00:47:02.96
YOUR GREATEST MENTAL CHALLENGE
IS YOU'LL BE ABLE TO ENDEAVOR
00:47:02.96\00:47:07.40
GREAT THINGS EVEN IN HEAVEN.
IF YOU READ IN HEBREWS 11 IT
00:47:07.40\00:47:14.50
SAYS, 'A BETTER
RESURRECTION' IN YOUR LESSON.
00:47:14.50\00:47:17.30
HEBREWS 11, VERSE 35, "WOMEN
RECEIVED THEIR DEAD RAISED TO
00:47:17.30\00:47:22.43
LIFE AGAIN.
OTHERS WERE TORTURED, NOT
00:47:22.43\00:47:24.93
ACCEPTING DELIVERANCE,
THAT THEY MIGHT OBTAIN A BETTER
00:47:24.93\00:47:27.33
RESURRECTION. STILL OTHERS
HAD TRIALS OF MOCKINGS AND
00:47:27.33\00:47:30.63
SCOURGINGS, YES, AND OF
CHAINS AND IMPRISONMENT.
00:47:30.63\00:47:33.36
THEY WERE STONED,
THEY WERE SAWN IN TWO" -
00:47:33.36\00:47:35.26
AND I READ THIS TO YOU EARLIER.
AND SO THEY SUFFERED BECAUSE
00:47:35.26\00:47:39.13
THEY SAID, 'WE ARE
LOOKING FORWARD TO A BETTER
00:47:39.13\00:47:41.66
RESURRECTION.' AND SO, ARE THERE
DAYS COMING FOR THE CHURCH WHEN
00:47:41.66\00:47:46.83
FAITHFUL CHRISTIANS
ARE GOING TO BE CHALLENGED?
00:47:46.83\00:47:50.23
NOW LET'S FACE IT, HOW MANY
OF YOU KNOW SOMEBODY THAT THEY
00:47:50.23\00:47:56.36
MOVED TO THE COUNTRY YEARS AGO
BECAUSE THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT
00:47:56.36\00:48:00.30
THE TIME OF TROUBLE AND THEY GOT
OLD AND DIED UP IN THE HILLS AND
00:48:00.30\00:48:06.10
THE ONLY TIME OF TROUBLE
WAS THAT THEY WERE TOO FAR AWAY
00:48:06.10\00:48:08.23
FROM THE HOSPITAL
WHEN THEY GOT OLD?
00:48:08.23\00:48:12.60
YOU CAN GO BACK A HUNDRED
YEARS AND PEOPLE HAVE - THEY'VE
00:48:12.60\00:48:15.16
THOUGHT OR THEY READ ABOUT THESE
TIMES OF TROUBLE - THE GREAT
00:48:15.16\00:48:18.00
TRIBULATION AND, YOU KNOW,
FRANKLY I'M A LITTLE WORRIED
00:48:18.00\00:48:21.66
BECAUSE SOME
CHRISTIANS GOD WOULD HAVE US -
00:48:21.66\00:48:24.76
WHERE'S MOST PEOPLE?
CITY OR COUNTRY? THE CITY.
00:48:24.76\00:48:28.86
GOD - WE NEED TO
HAVE A WORK IN THE CITY.
00:48:28.86\00:48:31.30
THERE'S A LOT TO BE SAID
ABOUT WORK IN THE CITIES.
00:48:31.30\00:48:33.00
IT'S NICE IF YOU CAN LIVE ON THE
OUTSKIRTS AND HAVE A LITTLE MORE
00:48:33.00\00:48:35.96
OF A RURAL DWELLING, BUT
WE CAN'T ALL GO FLEE INTO
00:48:35.96\00:48:39.86
THE WOODS WAITING
FOR THE TIME OF TROUBLE.
00:48:39.86\00:48:42.10
BUT EVENTUALLY IT IS
GOING TO HAPPEN. IT WILL HAPPEN.
00:48:42.10\00:48:45.76
AND YOU ARE GOING
TO BE A LOT BETTER OFF.
00:48:45.76\00:48:47.10
GOD'S TOLD US WHEN
TO HEAD FOR THE HILLS.
00:48:47.10\00:48:49.70
HE SAID WHEN THE GOVERNMENTS
BEGIN TO MAKE LAWS THAT START
00:48:49.70\00:48:52.16
TELLING US HOW TO WORSHIP,
THAT WILL BE THE SIGNAL THAT -
00:48:52.16\00:48:56.63
EVIDENTLY IT'S NOT
GOING TO HAPPEN IN 24 HOURS.
00:48:56.63\00:49:00.70
I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL
BE THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:49:00.70\00:49:03.36
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TIME
PERIOD IS, BUT I THINK THAT
00:49:03.36\00:49:06.20
GOD'S GOING TO GIVE US A SIGNAL
THAT WE NEED TO START GETTING TO
00:49:06.20\00:49:09.40
MORE REMOTE PLACES WHERE WE
CAN BE SELF-SUFFICIENT BECAUSE
00:49:09.40\00:49:12.13
THERE'S GOING TO BE A
GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE.
00:49:12.13\00:49:14.06
BUT THERE'LL BE PERSECUTION
THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWHERE
00:49:14.06\00:49:17.60
- CAN YOU HIDE THESE DAYS?
I MEAN, YOU JUST LOOK AT THE
00:49:17.60\00:49:21.70
TECHNOLOGY THE GOVERNMENT
HAS FOR TRACKING PEOPLE DOWN.
00:49:21.70\00:49:24.36
DO YOU REALLY THINK - I MEAN, I
KNOW PEOPLE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE
00:49:24.36\00:49:26.86
A DRIVER'S LICENSE.
THEY DON'T HAVE A SOCIAL
00:49:26.86\00:49:28.46
SECURITY - THEY'RE
TRYING TO LIVE OFF THE GRID.
00:49:28.46\00:49:30.96
OH, COME ON,
WHO ARE YOU KIDDING?
00:49:30.96\00:49:33.43
THERE'S VIDEO
CAMERAS EVERYWHERE.
00:49:33.43\00:49:35.16
THEY'RE IN THE AIR RIGHT
NOW. THEY'VE GOT INFRARED.
00:49:35.16\00:49:37.56
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, WALK
AROUND WITH TINFOIL ON YOUR BODY
00:49:37.56\00:49:39.73
AT NIGHT? WHAT KIND OF
LIFE ARE YOU GOING TO LIVE?
00:49:39.73\00:49:43.26
SO PEOPLE TRYING TO HIDE
- YOU KNOW, GOD'LL HAVE TO
00:49:43.26\00:49:45.86
TAKE CARE OF YOU. AND
YES, YOU'RE GOING TO MAYBE
00:49:45.86\00:49:48.73
BE - YOU'RE GOING TO BE CORNERED
AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY,
00:49:48.73\00:49:52.30
'WHY DO YOU
BELIEVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE?
00:49:52.30\00:49:54.53
YOU MIGHT BE CHALLENGED.
YOU MIGHT BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
00:49:54.53\00:49:56.80
YOU MAY
EXPERIENCE SOME PERSECUTION.
00:49:56.80\00:49:59.06
ARE WE TO HIDE FROM THAT OR DID
JESUS SAY, 'IF THEY PERSECUTE
00:49:59.06\00:50:02.66
YOU IN THIS CITY, GO TO THE
NEXT ONE.' THAT'S WHAT HE SAID.
00:50:02.66\00:50:06.46
AND SO HE'S TOLD
YOU, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE
00:50:06.46\00:50:07.90
A CHRISTIAN
THERE'S GOING TO BE TRIALS.
00:50:07.90\00:50:09.53
THIS MENTALITY THAT I RUN INTO
IN THE CHURCH ABOUT 'WELL, BUT
00:50:09.53\00:50:13.73
IF I GET ENOUGH 5-GALLON BUCKETS
AND IF I CAN GET OFF THE GRID
00:50:13.73\00:50:16.63
AND' - YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT A
HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY - WE HAVE A
00:50:16.63\00:50:19.33
PLACE LIKE THAT THAT'S SOLAR
POWERED AND - BUT WE DIDN'T DO
00:50:19.33\00:50:23.30
IT TO SAVE YOURSELF.
FIRST OF ALL, WHO HERE DOESN'T
00:50:23.30\00:50:26.66
KNOW THAT WE HAVE A
COUNTRY PLACE IN THE HILLS?
00:50:26.66\00:50:29.06
FIRST PLACE THEY'RE
GOING TO GO LOOKING FOR ME,
00:50:29.06\00:50:30.63
SO THERE'S NOWHERE
YOU CAN REALLY HIDE.
00:50:30.63\00:50:35.26
THE IDEA THAT, 'IF
I JUST STORE UP ENOUGH
00:50:35.26\00:50:38.26
SOYBEANS AND IF
I'VE GOT ENOUGH WHEAT.
00:50:38.26\00:50:40.26
AND, YOU KNOW, IF I GET THIS
CANNED FOOD THAT LASTS FOR 50
00:50:40.26\00:50:42.10
YEARS AND I CAN DO ALL THIS.'
THE MENTALITY IS: 'I'M GOING TO
00:50:42.10\00:50:45.26
SAVE MYSELF SOMEHOW.' HOW MANY
OF YOU KNOW THAT MORMONS STORE
00:50:45.26\00:50:49.23
ENOUGH FOOD TO LAST A YEAR
OR TWO? I FORGET WHAT IT IS.
00:50:49.23\00:50:51.60
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW
THAT? LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS.
00:50:51.60\00:50:54.30
SO WHERE ARE YOU GOING
TO GO WHEN YOU GET HUNGRY?
00:50:54.30\00:50:57.56
WE'RE GOING TO GO SEE
OUR MORMON FRIENDS, RIGHT?
00:50:57.56\00:51:03.03
THAT STUFF'S GOING TO - YEAH, OR
A CAVE - YOU CAN'T - YOUR FAITH
00:51:03.03\00:51:08.23
CAN'T BE IN SAVING YOURSELF
BECAUSE OF COUNTRY LIVING OR THE
00:51:08.23\00:51:11.70
FOOD YOU'VE GOT STOCKPILED.
THERE'S GOING TO BE PERSECUTION
00:51:11.70\00:51:15.40
AND YOU JUST NEED TO LIVE IN
THE LIGHT. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE,
00:51:15.40\00:51:18.46
RIGHT? DON'T PUT
YOUR LIGHT UNDER A BUSH.
00:51:18.46\00:51:20.93
GOD WANTS US TO
SHARE THE MESSAGE.
00:51:20.93\00:51:22.56
AND SO, I JUST WORRY ABOUT THE
MENTALITY ABOUT 'LET'S GO CRAWL
00:51:22.56\00:51:24.56
UNDER A ROCK SOMEWHERE
UNTIL THE TRIBULATION COMES.'
00:51:24.56\00:51:27.70
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
SAVE YOURSELF THAT WAY.
00:51:27.70\00:51:30.36
IT'S GOING TO BE
SURRENDERING TO JESUS.
00:51:30.36\00:51:32.46
AND WHEN YOU COMPLETELY
SURRENDER TO JESUS AND YOU'RE
00:51:32.46\00:51:34.30
CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, YOU'RE
GOING TO WANT TO USE THE LIFE
00:51:34.30\00:51:36.83
THAT'S LEFT IN
SPREADING THE GOSPEL, RIGHT?
00:51:36.83\00:51:40.60
THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A
DISCIPLE: TO GO - JESUS SAID TO
00:51:40.60\00:51:43.10
PETER, 'COME AND FOLLOW ME.'
PAUL SAID, 'BEFORE I DIE I WANT
00:51:43.10\00:51:46.93
TO GO TO ROME.' HE DIDN'T SAY,
'I WANT TO GO TO THE HIMALAYAS
00:51:46.93\00:51:49.73
AND HIDE.' HE SAID, 'I WANT TO
GO TO ROME AND PREACH THE GOSPEL
00:51:49.73\00:51:53.60
- REACH AS MANY PEOPLE AS I
CAN.' HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE.
00:51:53.60\00:51:57.96
AND SO, I JUST THOUGHT WE
SHOULD REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT'S
00:51:57.96\00:52:01.46
INVOLVED HERE IN THE
COST OF DISCIPLESHIP.
00:52:01.46\00:52:03.36
LET ME READ SOMETHING TO
YOU - I'LL CLOSE WITH THIS:
00:52:03.36\00:52:06.03
'STEPS TO CHRIST' PAGE
47, "MANY ARE INQUIRING,
00:52:06.03\00:52:11.10
'HOW AM I TO MAKE A
SURRENDER OF MYSELF TO GOD?'
00:52:11.10\00:52:14.70
YOU DESIRE TO GIVE YOURSELF
TO HIM BUT YOU'RE WEAK IN MORAL
00:52:14.70\00:52:16.93
POWER, IN SLAVERY TO DOUBT AND
CONTROLLED BY THE HABITS OF YOUR
00:52:16.93\00:52:20.06
LIFE OF SIN.' - THAT WOULD BE
MOST OF US - "YOUR PROMISES AND
00:52:20.06\00:52:23.66
RESOLUTIONS ARE LIKE ROPES
OF SAND. YOU CANNOT CONTROL YOUR
00:52:23.66\00:52:27.13
THOUGHTS, YOUR
IMPULSES, YOUR AFFECTIONS.
00:52:27.13\00:52:29.83
THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR BROKEN
PROMISES AND FORFEITED PLEDGES
00:52:29.83\00:52:32.33
WEAKENS YOUR CONFIDENCE IN YOUR
OWN SINCERITY AND CAUSES YOU TO
00:52:32.33\00:52:36.16
FEEL THAT GOD CANNOT ACCEPT
YOU. BUT YOU NEED NOT DESPAIR.
00:52:36.16\00:52:40.60
WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND
IS THE TRUE FORCE OF THE WILL.
00:52:40.60\00:52:43.90
THIS IS THE GOVERNING
POWER IN THE NATURE OF MAN.
00:52:43.90\00:52:47.06
THE POWER OF
DECISION OR OF CHOICE.
00:52:47.06\00:52:49.53
EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON
THE RIGHT ACTION OF THE WILL.
00:52:49.53\00:52:52.63
THE POWER OF CHOICE
GOD HAS GIVEN TO MAN.
00:52:52.63\00:52:55.63
IT IS THEIRS TO EXERCISE.
YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR HEART.
00:52:55.63\00:52:58.70
YOU CANNOT OF YOURSELF
GIVE GOD OF ITS AFFECTIONS,
00:52:58.70\00:53:01.86
BUT YOU CAN CHOOSE TO SERVE HIM.
YOU CAN GIVE YOUR WILL TO HIM
00:53:01.86\00:53:07.06
THEN HE WILL WORK IN YOU TO WILL
AND TO DO ACCORDING TO HIS GOOD
00:53:07.06\00:53:11.10
PLEASURE. THUS YOUR
WHOLE NATURE WILL BE
00:53:11.10\00:53:13.60
BROUGHT UNDER THE
CONTROL OF THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST.
00:53:13.60\00:53:16.13
YOUR AFFECTIONS WILL
BE CENTERED UPON HIM.
00:53:16.13\00:53:18.10
YOUR THOUGHTS WILL BE
IN HARMONY WITH HIM." -
00:53:18.10\00:53:20.73
THIS IS REALLY
IMPORTANT. DID YOU GET THAT?
00:53:20.73\00:53:25.03
ALL WE CAN DO IS SAY,
'LORD, I ADMIT I'M HELPLESS.
00:53:25.03\00:53:28.30
MY PROMISES ARE
LIKE ROPES OF SAND.
00:53:28.30\00:53:31.00
WITHOUT YOU I CAN DO NOTHING.
BUT I WANT TO FOLLOW YOU.
00:53:31.00\00:53:34.33
I AM CHOOSING TO FOLLOW YOU.'
AND WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU GIVE
00:53:34.33\00:53:37.93
THE LORD PERMISSION TO ACTIVATE
THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:53:37.93\00:53:41.46
BECAUSE HE WILL NOT
FORCE YOU TO LOVE HIM.
00:53:41.46\00:53:43.56
BUT IF YOU SAY, 'I WANT TO
LOVE YOU. I WANT TO SERVE YOU.
00:53:43.56\00:53:46.33
HELP ME.' AND INVITE HIM
INTO YOUR LIFE THEN, WHEN THOSE
00:53:46.33\00:53:50.20
STRUGGLES COME, HE WILL UNITE
HIS SUPERNATURAL POWER WITH YOUR
00:53:50.20\00:53:54.93
FREE WILL AND YOU CAN
START EXPERIENCING VICTORIES.
00:53:54.93\00:53:59.16
THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENS, AMEN?
00:53:59.16\00:54:01.43
AND THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE
THE LIFE THAT YOU SAY, 'NOT I
00:54:01.43\00:54:05.60
BUT CHRIST.' THERE'LL BE
CHALLENGES - THERE'S GOING TO BE
00:54:05.60\00:54:08.20
TRIALS IN LIFE, BUT
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>>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION!
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>>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN
FROM THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS
00:55:00.96\00:55:06.30
AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE
CHURCH UP UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE
00:55:06.30\00:55:10.00
SECOND COMING OF JESUS. IT
SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT
00:55:10.00\00:55:15.83
CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND,
ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL
00:55:15.83\00:55:20.23
THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION.
THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE.
00:55:20.23\00:55:26.03
IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT IS
HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A
00:55:26.03\00:55:30.16
PROPHET. THOSE THINGS ARE
PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY.
00:55:30.16\00:55:44.50
>>THIS IS AN EXCITING DAY.
00:55:44.50\00:55:45.90
THIS IS NOT ONLY OUR FIRST SHOOT
FOR STUDIO FOR REVELATION, BUT
00:55:45.90\00:55:49.43
THIS IS ALSO OUR FIRST
REAL SHOOT IN THIS STUDIO.
00:55:49.43\00:55:54.36
WHEN WE STARTED THIS PROJECT,
THE PAINT WAS LITERALLY DRYING
00:55:54.36\00:55:58.03
ON THE BLUE CYC THAT WE SHOT
MOST OF THE SCENES ON AND WE
00:55:58.03\00:56:01.90
LITERALLY PUT IN THE
FLOORING AND ALL THE PILLARS AND
00:56:01.90\00:56:05.23
EVERYTHING TO SHOOT THE SCENES
WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
00:56:05.23\00:56:09.66
WHEN WE CREATED OUR SCENE
BREAKDOWN, WE DECIDED THAT THERE
00:56:09.66\00:56:13.96
WERE ABOUT 68 SCENES THAT WERE
REALLY PIVOTAL TO TELLING THIS
00:56:13.96\00:56:17.70
STORY TO MAKE IT WHAT WE DREAMED
AND IMAGINED IT COULD BE.
00:56:17.70\00:56:22.26
>>WE HAD A WISH LIST OF THINGS
WE WANTED TO RECREATE BUT YOU
00:56:22.26\00:56:25.66
ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITHIN REALITY
AND A BUDGET AND SO WE NEEDED TO
00:56:25.66\00:56:28.93
PICK, YOU KNOW, WHICH OF THE
SCENES WE NEEDED TO COMMUNICATE
00:56:28.93\00:56:33.36
THE DRAMA AND THE EMOTION
OF WHAT HAS REALLY HAPPENED IN
00:56:33.36\00:56:36.30
RELIGIOUS HISTORY FROM THE
TIME OF CHRIST'S FIRST COMING UP
00:56:36.30\00:56:39.96
UNTIL WHERE WE ARE TODAY.
00:56:39.96\00:56:41.96
WE MADE THE CHOICE TO ACTUALLY
SEND A FILM CREW TO DIFFERENT
00:56:41.96\00:56:44.73
PARTS OF THE WORLD TO GET FRESH
FOOTAGE OF SOME OF THE SCENES OF
00:56:44.73\00:56:49.40
THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE AND
SOME OF THE CATACOMBS IN ROME.
00:56:49.40\00:56:56.96
>>NOW WE'RE IN ROME AND WE'RE
ACTUALLY IN A CATACOMB WHERE THE
00:56:56.96\00:57:01.43
CHRISTIANS WOULD BURY
THEIR DEAD. THIS IS THE
00:57:01.43\00:57:05.43
CATACOMB DOMATILLA AND THIS
ONE IS ONE OF THE MOST, I GUESS,
00:57:05.43\00:57:11.06
MOST FASCINATING ONES BECAUSE
IT'S 17 KILOMETERS IN DISTANCE.
00:57:11.06\00:57:16.00
THAT'S ALMOST TEN AND A
HALF MILES OF BURIAL SPOTS.
00:57:16.00\00:57:19.46
YOU'VE GOT SO MUCH
ARTWORK ON THE WALLS.
00:57:19.46\00:57:21.40
YOU'VE GOT AREAS WHERE PEOPLE
HAVE ENGRAVED TOMBSTONES OR
00:57:21.40\00:57:24.50
YOU'VE GOT SOME OF THE SYMBOLS
WHICH COME FROM THE CONSTANTINE
00:57:24.50\00:57:28.23
ERA. SO IT'S BEEN
VERY, VERY EXCITING
00:57:28.23\00:57:31.46
TO SEE ALL OF THIS HISTORY
ALL IN ONE PLACE WHERE THE
00:57:31.46\00:57:35.16
CHRISTIANS ACTUALLY CAME NOT
JUST TO BURY THEIR DEAD, BUT TO
00:57:35.16\00:57:37.86
ESCAPE - TO BE ABLE TO
CONTINUE IN THEIR FAITH.
00:57:37.86\00:57:41.86
>>GETTING THE ACTUAL SHOTS
OF THE PLACES WHERE THESE EVENTS
00:57:41.86\00:57:44.53
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