(MUSIC) 00:00:00.36\00:00:46.43 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 00:00:46.43\00:00:49.50 RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA IN THE 00:00:49.50\00:00:52.30 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WELCOME, AND WE ARE SO THRILLED 00:00:52.30\00:00:56.06 THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY TOGETHER GOD'S WORD. 00:00:56.06\00:00:59.66 WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS THAT WE CAN GATHER FROM ALL OVER THE 00:00:59.66\00:01:02.56 PLANET AND STUDY GOD'S WORD AND LOOK FORWARD TOGETHER 00:01:02.56\00:01:07.03 TO HIS SOON RETURN, AMEN? 00:01:07.03\00:01:09.33 AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN MAKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE 00:01:09.33\00:01:12.56 HYMNAL AND I THINK WE'VE BEEN ON TWO YEARS ALREADY AND WE'RE ONLY 00:01:12.56\00:01:15.60 ON 95, SO WE WILL EVENTUALLY MAKE IT THROUGH. 00:01:15.60\00:01:20.36 HYMN #95 THIS MORNING - 'SPRING HAS NOW UNWRAPPED THE FLOWERS' - 00:01:20.36\00:01:25.03 AND YOU ARE GOING TO RECOGNIZE THE TUNE TO THIS SONG. 00:01:25.03\00:01:29.00 A LOT OF THESE WE FIND COME FROM A BOOK OF CAROLS SO THEY'RE 00:01:29.00\00:01:32.10 CHRISTMAS CAROLS AND I'M NOT SURE WHICH CAME FIRST, THE 00:01:32.10\00:01:35.70 CHRISTMAS CAROL OR THE WORDS TO THIS. 00:01:35.70\00:01:39.56 SO WE'RE GOING TO SING #95 - 'SPRING HAS NOW UNWRAPPED THE 00:01:39.56\00:01:42.36 FLOWERS'. IT COMES AS A REQUEST FROM KAREN 00:01:42.36\00:01:44.70 IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AND THIS IS OUR FIRST REQUEST FROM THE 00:01:44.70\00:01:47.63 FALKLAND ISLANDS SO WELCOME - AND 00:01:47.63\00:01:50.40 ALSO FROM JOYCE IN KENYA - #95 - WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES. 00:01:50.40\00:01:55.23 (MUSIC) 00:01:55.23\00:01:55.80 >>YOU KNOW, YESTERDAY I WAS DRIVING TO WORK AND IT IS 00:03:58.50\00:04:01.53 SPRINGTIME AND I WAS DRIVING OUT TO THE MARYSVILLE AREA AND 00:04:01.53\00:04:05.03 CUTTING THROUGH SOME OF THE BACK ROADS - IT WAS GREEN AND 00:04:05.03\00:04:07.63 BEAUTIFUL AND THE TREES WERE IN BLOOM AND I COULDN'T HELP BUT 00:04:07.63\00:04:11.16 JUST BE THRILLED WITH SPRING AND THE WORDS IN THIS SONG: 'ARTIST 00:04:11.16\00:04:15.86 WITHOUT RIVAL' - HOW TRUE THAT IS - AND HIS ARTISTRY IS WRITTEN 00:04:15.86\00:04:20.13 EVERY SINGLE DAY FROM SUNRISE TO SUNDOWN IF YOU AND I ARE LOOKING 00:04:20.13\00:04:24.53 FOR IT, AMEN? AMEN. LET'S PRAY. 00:04:24.53\00:04:27.73 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING SUCH AN 00:04:27.73\00:04:30.66 AWESOME CREATOR - FROM THE SUNRISE TO THE SUNSET AND 00:04:30.66\00:04:35.83 EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, LORD, WE ACKNOWLEDGE YOU AS WHO YOU ARE 00:04:35.83\00:04:39.43 AND OUR HEARTS ARE HUMBLED THIS MORNING JUST BECAUSE WE KNOW 00:04:39.43\00:04:43.00 THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE THE CREATOR, YOU ALSO GAVE UP YOUR 00:04:43.00\00:04:46.10 SON TO DIE FOR US THAT WE COULD BE RESTORED TO YOU AND THAT IS 00:04:46.10\00:04:51.46 THE MOST AMAZING - AMAZING REGENERATION AND BIRTH IS WHAT 00:04:51.46\00:04:56.30 TAKES PLACE IN OUR HEARTS EVERY DAY. 00:04:56.30\00:04:58.56 SO WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR YOUR WORD THAT WE CAN STUDY TOGETHER 00:04:58.56\00:05:02.40 AND WE CAN BECOME BETTER PEOPLE BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE. 00:05:02.40\00:05:06.76 SO FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT. PLEASE FILL PASTOR DOUG AND 00:05:06.76\00:05:09.06 LORD, JUST LET HIS WORDS BE YOUR WORDS AND HELP US EACH 00:05:09.06\00:05:12.83 INDIVIDUALLY IN OUR SPHERES OF INFLUENCE, TO SHOW OTHERS HOW 00:05:12.83\00:05:17.53 WONDERFUL YOU ARE AND THAT WE CAN HASTEN YOUR COMING, LORD. 00:05:17.53\00:05:20.86 WE JUST SO LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY TO MEET YOU FACE TO FACE AND 00:05:20.86\00:05:24.16 KNOW YOUR WORDS AND YOUR PROMISES ARE TRUE AND WE CLAIM 00:05:24.16\00:05:28.20 THOSE THIS MORNING. I PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR 00:05:28.20\00:05:30.50 PRECIOUS NAME, JESUS, AMEN. OUR STUDY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US 00:05:30.50\00:05:35.63 BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 00:05:35.63\00:05:45.46 >>THANK YOU, JOLYNE AND OUR MUSICIANS. 00:05:45.46\00:05:48.36 GOOD MORNING FRIENDS. HAPPY SABBATH. 00:05:48.36\00:05:52.83 I'D NEVER SUNG THAT SONG BEFORE, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY APPROPRIATE. 00:05:52.83\00:05:56.90 SPRING IS SPRUNG. WE'VE JUST HAD SOME BEAUTIFUL 00:05:56.90\00:06:00.23 GLORIOUS DAYS HERE IN SACRAMENTO. 00:06:00.23\00:06:03.73 THE MYSTERY IS WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WINTER? 00:06:03.73\00:06:07.06 WE HAD SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WEATHER FROM DECEMBER 00:06:07.06\00:06:12.03 THROUGH FEBRUARY AND IT WAS A LITTLE COOL, BUT WE NEVER REALLY 00:06:12.03\00:06:15.76 HAD A WINTER HERE. OF COURSE, THAT'S WHY WE'RE 00:06:15.76\00:06:17.60 HAVING A DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA, BUT IT'S PRETTY NOW. 00:06:17.60\00:06:20.36 AND WE'RE ENJOYING IT. HAPPY SABBATH. 00:06:20.36\00:06:23.50 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU ARE STUDYING WITH US THIS MORNING. 00:06:23.50\00:06:25.60 I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE STUDYING VIA THE INTERNET OR 00:06:25.60\00:06:30.20 SATELLITE OR SOME OTHER BROADCAST MECHANISM. 00:06:30.20\00:06:34.56 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'VE JOINED US AND THOSE WHO ARE EXTENDED 00:06:34.56\00:06:36.90 MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL STUDY GROUP - WE ARE ENTERING, TODAY, 00:06:36.90\00:06:42.13 INTO STUDYING A NEW LESSON DEALING WITH CHRIST AND HIS LAW 00:06:42.13\00:06:46.16 AND I'LL SAY A WORD MORE ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MOMENT BUT, AS 00:06:46.16\00:06:49.56 ALWAYS, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT'S PERFECT FOR TODAY. 00:06:49.56\00:06:52.56 IT'S ONE OF THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDES THAT DEALS 00:06:52.56\00:06:55.33 SPECIFICALLY WITH THE LAW OF GOD AND IT'S CALLED 00:06:55.33\00:06:57.90 'WRITTEN IN STONE' AND IF YOU'D LIKE THIS IT 00:06:57.90\00:07:00.30 HAS A GREAT OVERVIEW OF THE LAW OF GOD. 00:07:00.30\00:07:03.30 ASK FOR OFFER #111 - IT'S FREE WHEN YOU CALL. 00:07:03.30\00:07:06.93 THAT NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S THE ACRONYM FOR 00:07:06.93\00:07:11.56 866-788-3966 AND WHEN YOU CALL WE JUST ASK THAT YOU LOOK IT 00:07:11.56\00:07:17.26 OVER, READ IT, AND SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. ASK FOR 00:07:17.26\00:07:19.86 OFFER #111 AND IT'S, AGAIN, CALLED 'WRITTEN IN STONE'. 00:07:19.86\00:07:25.30 WE'RE BEGINNING A NEW SERIES DEALING WITH CHRIST AND HIS LAW 00:07:25.30\00:07:30.33 AND I THINK THAT THAT IS SUCH A VERY IMPORTANT PERTINENT 00:07:30.33\00:07:33.46 SUBJECT FOR US TO STUDY RIGHT NOW. 00:07:33.46\00:07:35.63 YOU HEAR ASTONISHINGLY LITTLE ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD IN 00:07:35.63\00:07:43.23 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES TODAY. WHAT ARE THE OPERATIVE WORDS 00:07:43.23\00:07:47.56 THAT WE HEAR COMING FROM MOST PULPITS TODAY? 00:07:47.56\00:07:52.03 GRACE, LOVE, FAITH - YOU HEAR VERY LITTLE ABOUT LAW. 00:07:52.03\00:08:02.06 BUT IF THERE WAS NO LAW WE WOULD NOT NEED JESUS. 00:08:02.06\00:08:06.70 THE REASON THAT WE NEED CHRIST IS BECAUSE THERE IS SIN AND SIN 00:08:06.70\00:08:11.36 IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S LAW AND EVEN AFTER WE ARE SAVED 00:08:11.36\00:08:15.60 FROM OUR SINS, WE STILL NEED THE LAW OF GOD. 00:08:15.60\00:08:20.70 IT SAID, EARLIER IN THE LESSON, I WAS READING THE INTRODUCTION 00:08:20.70\00:08:22.76 AGAIN THIS MORNING, THAT IF THERE WAS NO GOD AND IF THERE 00:08:22.76\00:08:26.00 WAS NO LIFE, IT WOULD NOT BE AS THOUGH THE UNIVERSE WAS IMMORAL 00:08:26.00\00:08:31.96 BECAUSE IN ORDER FOR SOMETHING TO BE IMMORAL, IT NEEDS TO BE 00:08:31.96\00:08:34.53 CONFLICTING WITH OR CONTRADICTING SOME LAW. 00:08:34.53\00:08:37.43 THE WORLD WOULD BE AMORAL - MEANING THERE IS NO LAW AND 00:08:37.43\00:08:40.60 THERE IS NO NEED FOR LAW. YOU CAN'T BREAK THE LAW - 00:08:40.60\00:08:42.13 THERE'S NOBODY TO BREAK IT. NOTHING GOVERNS ANYTHING, YOU'VE 00:08:42.13\00:08:45.40 JUST GOT, MAYBE, EMPTY SPACE OR SOME LIFELESS ROCKS FLOATING 00:08:45.40\00:08:50.53 AROUND OUT THERE. THERE'S NO NEED FOR LAW AT THAT 00:08:50.53\00:08:52.56 POINT. YOU CAN'T BREAK A LAW. 00:08:52.56\00:08:54.83 WHERE THERE IS NO LAW, THERE IS NO SIN. 00:08:54.83\00:08:56.86 BUT WHERE THERE'S LIFE AND THERE'S INTELLIGENCE AND THERE'S 00:08:56.86\00:08:59.03 CHOICES, AND THERE'S RIGHT AND THERE'S WRONG, THEN LAW NEEDS TO 00:08:59.03\00:09:03.53 BE THERE AND PENALTY FOR BREAKING THE LAW. 00:09:03.53\00:09:07.96 THINK ABOUT THE CHAOS THAT WE HAVE WHEN THE POWER GRID GOES 00:09:07.96\00:09:12.33 DOWN AND WHAT IT DOES TO TRAFFIC WITHOUT LAWS TO GOVERN. 00:09:12.33\00:09:17.63 I REMEMBER LISTENING TO A TALK BY ZIG ZIGLAR, WHO WAS, 00:09:17.63\00:09:20.53 OF COURSE, A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER. 00:09:20.53\00:09:22.40 HE WAS VERY POSITIVE AND HE SAID, 'WE ALWAYS THINK OF 00:09:22.40\00:09:25.60 TRAFFIC LIGHTS - WE CALL THEM STOP LIGHTS' - HE SAID - 'BUT 00:09:25.60\00:09:28.40 THEY'RE NOT REALLY JUST STOP LIGHTS' - HE SAID - 'THERE'S 00:09:28.40\00:09:30.53 THREE COLORS THERE AND ONE OF THEM IS GREEN.' - HE SAID - 'WHY 00:09:30.53\00:09:32.66 DON'T WE CALL THEM 'GO LIGHTS'?' - HE SAID - 'IF YOU DON'T THINK 00:09:32.66\00:09:35.70 THEY'RE GO LIGHTS, WAIT UNTIL ALL OF THEM STOP WORKING AND YOU 00:09:35.70\00:09:39.40 REALIZE THAT WHEN THEY DON'T WORK THEY'RE STOP LIGHTS. 00:09:39.40\00:09:42.70 WHEN THEY WORK, THEY'RE GO LIGHTS.' 00:09:42.70\00:09:45.40 THEY HELP EVERYTHING KEEP ON GOING. 00:09:45.40\00:09:48.33 AND SO, WE THINK ABOUT LAW THAT WAY IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 00:09:48.33\00:09:51.73 WE THINK THE LAW IS STOPPING OUR FREEDOM OR IT'S RESTRICTING US. 00:09:51.73\00:09:56.46 BUT, ACTUALLY, LAW IS WHAT GIVES US FREEDOM. 00:09:56.46\00:09:59.63 THE BIBLE CALLS IT THE LAWS OF LIBERTY. 00:09:59.63\00:10:03.06 YOU FIND THAT NOT ONLY IN PSALM 119 - I THINK VERSE 45 - YOU 00:10:03.06\00:10:06.40 FIND THAT MENTIONED TWICE IN THE BOOK OF JAMES. 00:10:06.40\00:10:09.03 IT TALKS ABOUT THE LAW OF LIBERTY AND, BECAUSE IN THIS 00:10:09.03\00:10:12.90 WORLD THAT'S BEEN KIDNAPPED BY THE DEVIL AND HIS FORCES, HIS - 00:10:12.90\00:10:20.60 WITHOUT LAW WE ARE ENSLAVED. 00:10:20.60\00:10:23.30 IT'S THE LAW THAT REALLY GIVES US FREEDOM. 00:10:23.30\00:10:25.10 PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE LAW AND THEY SAY, 'OH, YOU KNOW, THE LAW 00:10:25.10\00:10:29.76 IS REALLY PUTTING PEOPLE IN JAIL.' AND WE THINK ABOUT THE 00:10:29.76\00:10:33.76 LAW - OH, THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW - IT GOT AHOLD OF THEM, 00:10:33.76\00:10:37.43 PUT THEM IN CHAINS AND HANDCUFFS. 00:10:37.43\00:10:39.33 BUT REALLY, IT'S THE LAW THAT KEEPS YOU FREE, YOU SEE, BECAUSE 00:10:39.33\00:10:44.10 WHAT IF THERE WERE NO LAWS AND THERE WERE NO JAILS? 00:10:44.10\00:10:47.46 WOULD YOU FEEL SAFE GOING OUT ON THE STREET? 00:10:47.46\00:10:50.43 AND SO IT'S THE LAW, YES, THAT DOES LOCK SOME PEOPLE UP 00:10:50.43\00:10:54.16 - THAT KEEPS THE REST OF US FREE. 00:10:54.16\00:10:57.00 AND SO, I COULD GO DOWN THAT ROAD AND TALK ABOUT A LOT OF 00:10:57.00\00:11:00.90 DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF IT - AND SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT 00:11:00.90\00:11:03.20 THAT WE TALK ABOUT THE LAW. 00:11:03.20\00:11:04.56 PEOPLE OFTEN THINK, ALSO - THEY THINK THAT JESUS CAME TO DO AWAY 00:11:04.56\00:11:07.76 WITH THE LAW AND THEY SEE CHRIST AND THE LAW AS POLAR OPPOSITES 00:11:07.76\00:11:12.46 AND THEY FORGET THAT JESUS, ACTUALLY - BECAUSE ALL THINGS 00:11:12.46\00:11:15.63 THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE BY HIM AND WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE 00:11:15.63\00:11:19.06 THAT WAS MADE. WHO IS IT THAT REALLY DELIVERS THE LAW? 00:11:19.06\00:11:24.33 IT'S THE LAW OF CHRIST. PEOPLE THINK THAT THE LAW OF GOD 00:11:24.33\00:11:27.46 AND THE LAW OF CHRIST ARE TWO DIFFERENT LAWS. 00:11:27.46\00:11:30.00 OR THEY THINK THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE LAW OF JESUS ARE TWO 00:11:30.00\00:11:33.70 DIFFERENT LAWS. DID MOSES DREAM UP THE 00:11:33.70\00:11:37.03 CEREMONIAL LAW ON HIS OWN OR WAS IT GIVEN TO HIM BY GOD? 00:11:37.03\00:11:43.60 WHICH GOD - FATHER OR THE SON? SO THE CEREMONIAL LAW REALLY 00:11:43.60\00:11:48.46 CAME FROM CHRIST. THE MORAL LAW OF THE TEN 00:11:48.46\00:11:51.23 COMMANDMENTS CAME FROM CHRIST. THE LAW OF GOD IS CHRIST'S LAW. 00:11:51.23\00:11:56.66 NOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT OTHER LAWS IN THE BIBLE - 00:11:56.66\00:11:59.03 THERE ARE MAN-MADE LAWS, THERE ARE TRADITIONS, THERE ARE CIVIL 00:11:59.03\00:12:02.16 LAWS, THERE ARE GOVERNMENT LAWS - THE BIBLE IS TALKING ABOUT THE 00:12:02.16\00:12:04.70 HEALTH LAWS - AND SO THERE'S ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF SPECTRUMS OF 00:12:04.70\00:12:08.26 LAW. YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO - I REALLY TRIED - YOU CAN TRY AND 00:12:08.26\00:12:12.33 YOU LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU FIND OUT, BUT I WENT AND I TRIED TO 00:12:12.33\00:12:19.73 FIND OUT, IN AMERICA, HOW MANY LAWS WE ACTUALLY HAVE. 00:12:19.73\00:12:25.43 DID YOU KNOW - AND I THINK THIS WAS JUST IN 2010 - IN 2010, 00:12:25.43\00:12:32.60 40,000 NEW LAWS WERE ADDED TO THE AMERICAN CODE. 00:12:32.60\00:12:38.66 THOSE ARE STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS AND ALL DIFFERENT - THERE'S ALL 00:12:38.66\00:12:41.76 DIFFERENT KINDS OF LAWS - 40,000 LAWS. 00:12:41.76\00:12:47.56 IT'S AMAZING THAT GOD WAS ABLE TO SUM UP HIS WILL IN TEN - DO 00:12:47.56\00:12:51.10 YOU KNOW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ACTUALLY, IN HEBREW, IT 00:12:51.10\00:12:52.86 CALLS IT THE 'TEN WORDS'? BUT THOSE - IN THOSE TEN SIMPLE 00:12:52.86\00:12:57.00 STATEMENTS GOD WAS ABLE - THAT'S A MIRACLE BY ITSELF. 00:12:57.00\00:13:01.30 SO I TRIED TO FIND OUT HOW MANY LAWS DO WE HAVE 00:13:01.30\00:13:03.66 IN THE UNITED STATES. 00:13:03.66\00:13:06.00 AND I SEARCHED - YOU KNOW, YOU THINK YOU'D FIND THE ANSWER TO 00:13:06.00\00:13:07.80 EVERYTHING ON GOOGLE OR 'ASK.COM' AND I LOOKED AND I 00:13:07.80\00:13:10.46 LOOKED AND YOU KNOW WHAT I CAME UP WITH? 00:13:10.46\00:13:14.16 HEAD LIBRARIAN OF THE LAW LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - YOU'VE 00:13:14.16\00:13:17.30 HEARD OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS? 00:13:17.30\00:13:18.83 WELL, THERE'S A SPECIALIST WHO DEALS WITH THE LAWS BECAUSE 00:13:18.83\00:13:21.73 THERE ARE SO MANY LAWS AND THERE IS "AT THE REFERENCE DESK WE ARE 00:13:21.73\00:13:27.50 FREQUENTLY ASKED TO ESTIMATE THE NUMBER OF FEDERAL LAWS IN FORCE; 00:13:27.50\00:13:31.60 HOWEVER, TRYING TO TALLY THIS NUMBER IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE." 00:13:31.60\00:13:37.03 YOU JUST LOOK AT ALL THE LAW BOOKS THAT THEY'VE GOT. 00:13:37.03\00:13:39.96 NOW, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY LAWS? HAVE YOU EVER READ ABOUT 00:13:39.96\00:13:46.00 SOME OF THE GOOFY LAWS THAT DIFFERENT STATES HAVE? 00:13:46.00\00:13:50.76 I FORGET WHAT STATE IT IS THAT SAYS, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO PUT 00:13:50.76\00:13:54.86 A SKUNK IN YOUR BOSS' DESK - THERE'S ACTUALLY A LAW 00:13:54.86\00:13:59.70 SOMEWHERE. WHY DO YOU THINK THERE IS SUCH A 00:13:59.70\00:14:03.20 LAW? WHAT WAS THE STORY BEHIND THAT? 00:14:03.20\00:14:07.46 ISN'T THERE, INHERENT IN THAT LAW, AN UNDERSTANDING THAT 00:14:07.46\00:14:10.50 SOMEWHERE, SOME EMPLOYEE BECAME EXASPERATED WITH HIS BOSS AND 00:14:10.50\00:14:14.00 PUT A - PRESUMABLY A LIVE SKUNK IN HIS DESK? 00:14:14.00\00:14:17.80 I DON'T KNOW, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DEAD ONE, BUT - AND SO SOMEONE 00:14:17.80\00:14:20.56 HAD TO MAKE A LAW THAT YOU CAN'T DO THAT. ANOTHER STATE HAS A LAW 00:14:20.56\00:14:23.80 THAT YOU CAN'T CARRY AN ICE CREAM CONE IN YOUR POCKET. 00:14:23.80\00:14:29.63 NOW I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT SOMEONE - MAYBE KIDS WERE DOING THAT AND 00:14:29.63\00:14:33.53 THEN THEY WERE SITTING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY AND STAINING THINGS? 00:14:33.53\00:14:36.43 I DON'T KNOW, BUT THERE'S SOME STORY BEHIND IT. 00:14:36.43\00:14:38.23 BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY A LAW. SOME OF THE LAWS ARE JUST REALLY 00:14:38.23\00:14:42.10 DUMB, BUT THE MORE LAWLESS A PEOPLE BECOMES, THE MORE LAWS 00:14:42.10\00:14:49.36 THEY WILL NEED TO GOVERN AND CONTROL THEIR BEHAVIOR. 00:14:49.36\00:14:54.80 AND EVERY YEAR OUR LEGISLATURES - AND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE 00:14:54.80\00:14:58.80 THAT WORK UNDERNEATH THE SENATE AND THE CONGRESS THAT ARE 00:14:58.80\00:15:03.26 CONSTANTLY CRAFTING AND DRAFTING AND REFINING DIFFERENT LAWS AND 00:15:03.26\00:15:08.93 CORPORATIONS ARE ALSO WORKING WITH LOBBYISTS TO HAVE DIFFERENT 00:15:08.93\00:15:12.66 LAWS PUT THROUGH THAT WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR THEIR 00:15:12.66\00:15:14.90 COMPETITORS AND JUST ALL OF THESE SINFUL TENDENCIES GET TO 00:15:14.90\00:15:19.16 WHERE THE LAWS MUSHROOM AND EXPLODE SO THAT EVEN THE BEST 00:15:19.16\00:15:23.86 LAWYERS DON'T KNOW HOW MANY LAWS THERE ARE. 00:15:23.86\00:15:26.83 THEY'VE GOT TO HAVE LIBRARIES FULL OF LAW BOOKS AND DATA BASES 00:15:26.83\00:15:29.70 SO THAT THEY CAN RESEARCH HOW TO DEFEND AND FIGHT THINGS BASED ON 00:15:29.70\00:15:34.13 DIFFERENT CASES AND THE COURTS ARE BACKED UP BECAUSE 00:15:34.13\00:15:37.03 EVERYBODY'S SUING EVERYBODY AND THERE'S SO MANY LAWS. 00:15:37.03\00:15:41.30 GOD WAS ABLE TO SUMMARIZE HIS LAW IN JUST A FEW SIMPLE TERMS. 00:15:41.30\00:15:45.63 YOU KNOW THAT THE WHOLE LAW OF GOD IS SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD - 00:15:45.63\00:15:50.36 WHAT IS THAT ONE WORD? LOVE. 00:15:50.36\00:15:52.46 IF EVERYBODY REALLY LOVED GOD - FIRST - THEN WE WOULD LOVE OUR 00:15:52.46\00:15:58.03 NEIGHBOR AND IF WE REALLY LOVED GOD, WE'D REALLY LOVE OUR 00:15:58.03\00:16:01.43 NEIGHBOR, YOU WOULDN'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT ALL - WOULD YOU PUT 00:16:01.43\00:16:04.13 A SKUNK IN YOUR BOSS' DESK IF YOU LOVED YOUR NEIGHBOR? 00:16:04.13\00:16:08.63 YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT LAWS. 00:16:08.63\00:16:10.10 IF WE REALLY LOVED EACH OTHER WE WOULDN'T NEED ALL OF THAT. 00:16:10.10\00:16:14.43 BUT IT'S BECAUSE INIQUITY ABOUNDS AND THE LOVE OF MANY 00:16:14.43\00:16:19.26 GROWS COLD. I LOOKED UP A DEFINITION. 00:16:19.26\00:16:22.66 LAW IS THE SYSTEM OF RULES THAT A PARTICULAR COUNTRY OR 00:16:22.66\00:16:26.70 COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES AS REGULATING THE ACTIONS OF ITS 00:16:26.70\00:16:29.73 MEMBERS AND IT MAY ENFORCE BY THE IMPOSITION OF PENALTIES. 00:16:29.73\00:16:35.20 IN GREEK THE WORD IS NOMOS. IN LATIN, LEX. 00:16:35.20\00:16:41.66 IN HEBREW, TORAH - WE'VE ALL HEARD OF THE TORAH. 00:16:41.66\00:16:44.93 ALL THOSE WORDS MEAN LAW - AND DIFFERENT KINDS OF LAWS - THERE 00:16:44.93\00:16:50.06 ARE TRAFFIC LAWS, TAX LAW, CONSTRUCTION LAW, THERE'S 00:16:50.06\00:16:54.73 AVIATION LAW, THERE'S MARITIME LAW. 00:16:54.73\00:16:58.20 THEY'VE GOT LAWS REGARDING DRUGS, LAWS REGARDING EDUCATION, 00:16:58.20\00:17:01.70 LAWS REGARDING IMMIGRATION, CONTRACT LAW, PROPERTY LAW - 00:17:01.70\00:17:05.56 THAT'S JUST TO NAME A FEW. THEY'VE ACTUALLY GOT A DIVISION 00:17:05.56\00:17:10.16 THAT ENFORCES SOME OF THESE LAWS CALLED THE ATF - DO YOU KNOW 00:17:10.16\00:17:12.83 WHAT ATF STANDS FOR? THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, 00:17:12.83\00:17:17.36 FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES. NOW IS IT JUST ME? 00:17:17.36\00:17:21.36 BUT SHOULD ALCOHOL AND FIREARMS BE USED IN THE SAME SENTENCE? 00:17:21.36\00:17:25.63 AND WHAT DO YOU THINK? TOBACCO AND EXPLOSIVES - DOES 00:17:25.63\00:17:27.60 THAT BELONG TOGETHER? WE'VE GOT A BUREAU FOR ALMOST 00:17:27.60\00:17:34.36 EVERYTHING IN THE U.S. TO COVER ALL THE LAWS. 00:17:34.36\00:17:39.50 SO WE'RE SURROUNDED - WE'RE SWIMMING IN LEGISLATION AND LAWS 00:17:39.50\00:17:44.63 TO GOVERN BEHAVIOR BECAUSE IF WE CANNOT BE SELF-GOVERNED BY LOVE 00:17:44.63\00:17:50.63 AND COMMON SENSE THEN IT ALL NEEDS TO BE CODIFIED AND ALL 00:17:50.63\00:17:54.40 THESE RESTRICTIONS NEED TO BE WRITTEN. 00:17:54.40\00:17:57.63 SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE FIRST SECTION IN OUR LESSON 00:17:57.63\00:17:59.90 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF ROMAN LAW. 00:17:59.90\00:18:01.90 NOW CHRIST TAUGHT AND LIVED DURING THE TIME OF ROME AND 00:18:01.90\00:18:07.36 SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME ACTS 18 - WE GAVE OUT SOME SLIPS AND I 00:18:07.36\00:18:11.36 DON'T KNOW WHO HAS THIS ONE - ACTS 18:15 - OH YOU'VE GOT YOUR 00:18:11.36\00:18:15.26 HAND UP MIKE? ALRIGHT, RIGHT HERE. 00:18:15.26\00:18:16.56 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE AND IN A FEW MOMENTS WE'LL HAVE ACTS 00:18:16.56\00:18:20.63 23:29 - WHERE IS THAT VERSE? 00:18:20.63\00:18:23.36 JUST WONDERING - OH, GOT A MICROPHONE OVER HERE SOMEWHERE? 00:18:23.36\00:18:26.43 HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO HE CAN SEE IT. 00:18:26.43\00:18:27.76 OKAY, YOU'LL BE SECOND BUT I'LL - AS YOU ALL KNOW, I'LL TALK A 00:18:27.76\00:18:31.86 LITTLE BIT - I JUST WANT TO GET QUEUED UP HERE. ALRIGHT, 00:18:31.86\00:18:34.36 JESUS WAS BORN DURING THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS CAESAR - OCTAVIUS 00:18:34.36\00:18:42.16 CAESAR - HE WAS KNOWN AS AUGUSTUS CAESAR AND HE ACTUALLY 00:18:42.16\00:18:46.93 LIVED - HE LIVED LONGER BUT HE RULED FOR ABOUT 40 YEARS AND 00:18:46.93\00:18:51.63 DURING HIS TIME HE FOLLOWED, OF COURSE, JULIUS CAESAR - DURING 00:18:51.63\00:18:55.56 HIS TIME THEY HAD WHAT THEY CALLED THE 'PAX ROMANA' OR 00:18:55.56\00:19:02.00 THE ROMAN PEACE. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IN SPITE OF 00:19:02.00\00:19:05.56 THE CRUELTY WE THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF THE CRUCIFIXION OF 00:19:05.56\00:19:08.53 JESUS, COMPARED TO THE WARS THAT HAD BEEN RAGING AMONG THE 00:19:08.53\00:19:12.76 TERRITORIES THAT ROME OCCUPIED, THERE HAD BEEN A LOT OF WAR. 00:19:12.76\00:19:16.96 DURING THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS THERE WAS COMPARATIVE PEACE. 00:19:16.96\00:19:21.03 ROME HAD A VERY CAREFULLY WRITTEN SYSTEM OF LAWS - AND I 00:19:21.03\00:19:26.40 KNOW WE WOULD THINK SOME OF THEM WERE BARBARIC - BUT THEY WERE 00:19:26.40\00:19:29.43 ABLE TO ENSURE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PEACE. 00:19:29.43\00:19:31.36 YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IF YOU DISOBEYED CERTAIN ROMAN LAWS - 00:19:31.36\00:19:36.30 IF YOU WERE NOT A ROMAN CITIZEN, YOU COULD BE CRUCIFIED AND YOU 00:19:36.30\00:19:38.70 WERE CRUCIFIED WITH YOUR OFFENSE NAILED ABOVE YOUR HEAD AND ON A 00:19:38.70\00:19:41.80 PUBLIC ROAD FOR EVERYONE TO SEE. AND IF YOU WALKED OUT OF YOUR 00:19:41.80\00:19:46.00 CITY GATES AND YOU SAW SOMEONE BEING - DYING FROM CRUCIFIXION 00:19:46.00\00:19:50.10 BECAUSE THEY HAD BROKEN SOME ROMAN LAW, YOU'D BE REALLY 00:19:50.10\00:19:54.06 CAREFUL ABOUT KEEPING THE LAW. YOU KNOW WHAT ONE OF THE 00:19:54.06\00:19:59.03 CLEANEST CITIES IN THE WORLD IS? SINGAPORE. YOU KNOW WHAT CITY 00:19:59.03\00:20:04.96 IN THE WORLD HAS THE STRICTEST SANITATION LAWS? SINGAPORE. 00:20:04.96\00:20:10.40 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN AN AMERICAN WAS BEATEN WITH RODS 00:20:10.40\00:20:16.16 FOR SPRAYING GRAFFITI SOMEWHERE IN SINGAPORE? 00:20:16.16\00:20:21.40 YOU REMEMBER THAT HAPPENED SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND AMERICA 00:20:21.40\00:20:23.23 TRIED TO GET IN AND MAKE IT STOP AND SINGAPORE SAID, 00:20:23.23\00:20:26.96 'LOOK, HE WAS HERE, HE BROKE OUR LAW. 00:20:26.96\00:20:28.66 IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH YOU CLAMOR AND HOW MUCH YOU PROTEST, 00:20:28.66\00:20:31.50 HE WAS IN OUR COUNTRY, HE BROKE OUR LAWS.' AND THEY WHIPPED HIM 00:20:31.50\00:20:35.26 WITH A BAMBOO POLE THREE TIMES, I THINK. 00:20:35.26\00:20:36.66 THAT REALLY - IT LEAVES A WELT ON YOU AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS 00:20:36.66\00:20:39.63 BARBARIC BUT THEY'VE GOT THE CLEANEST COUNTRY. 00:20:39.63\00:20:43.03 THEY'VE GOT LAWS ABOUT CHEWING GUM SPITTING ON THE STREET AND 00:20:43.03\00:20:45.16 THEY ENFORCE THEM. SO, IF YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A 00:20:45.16\00:20:48.83 COUNTRY THAT HAS PEACE, YOU CAN ALSO LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE 00:20:48.83\00:20:54.03 CRIMINALS ARE IMMEDIATELY AND SWIFTLY PUNISHED. 00:20:54.03\00:20:58.73 IF YOU LIVE IN A COUNTRY - YOU KNOW WHAT COUNTRY HAS SOME 00:20:58.73\00:21:01.10 OF THE HIGHEST MURDER STATISTICS? 00:21:01.10\00:21:03.93 >>THE UNITED STATES. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 00:21:03.93\00:21:05.96 AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU SPEND THE LONGEST ON DEATH ROW 00:21:05.96\00:21:09.96 OF ANY COUNTRY? YOU CAN BE CONDEMNED AND 00:21:09.96\00:21:13.60 SENTENCED TO EXECUTION FOR MURDER AND SPEND 20 YEARS 00:21:13.60\00:21:18.70 APPEALING IT. YOU CAN DIE OF OLD AGE ON DEATH ROW IN THE U.S. 00:21:18.70\00:21:24.90 YOU CAN ACTUALLY, IN THE U.S., SUE TO HAVE A HEART TRANSPLANT 00:21:24.90\00:21:29.86 BECAUSE YOUR HEART ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO HANDLE EXECUTION. 00:21:29.86\00:21:36.63 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THAT BEFORE? 00:21:36.63\00:21:38.66 IN AMERICA - ONLY IN AMERICA. 00:21:38.66\00:21:41.26 AND SO WE WONDER WHY THERE'S SO MUCH LAWLESSNESS WHEN THE LAWS 00:21:41.26\00:21:47.50 SEEM TO BE SKEWED TO PROTECT AND CARE FOR THE CRIMINALS AND NOT 00:21:47.50\00:21:52.46 WATCH OUT FOR THE VICTIMS. SO THERE'S A NEED FOR LAW AND, 00:21:52.46\00:21:56.70 YOU KNOW, WHEN THE LAW IS ABUSED OR WHEN IT'S NOT ENFORCED - BUT 00:21:56.70\00:22:01.33 DURING THE TIME OF ROME, YES, THEY WERE VERY STRICT, BUT THERE 00:22:01.33\00:22:03.86 WAS WHAT THEY CALL THE 'PAX ROMANA'. 00:22:03.86\00:22:05.80 THERE WAS A GREAT PEACE - COMPARATIVE PEACE - IN THE 00:22:05.80\00:22:08.80 COUNTRY DURING THAT TIME AND THEY SWIFTLY DEALT WITH THE 00:22:08.80\00:22:13.03 REBELLION WHEN 900 JEWS REBELLED AT MASADA. 00:22:13.03\00:22:20.13 OH, I THINK THAT WAS - I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS IMMEDIATELY 00:22:20.13\00:22:22.53 BEFORE OR IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE, BUT 00:22:22.53\00:22:25.26 IT WAS A THREE-YEAR PERIOD OF TIME THAT THE JEWS TOOK THIS 00:22:25.26\00:22:28.66 FORTRESS THAT HEROD THE GREAT HAD BUILT UP ON A MESA - I'VE 00:22:28.66\00:22:31.30 BEEN THERE - AND THEY HELD OFF THE ROMAN ARMY - AND THE ROMAN 00:22:31.30\00:22:34.20 ARMY COULD HAVE SAID, 'LOOK, THERE'S 900 JEWS - WE'VE GOT 00:22:34.20\00:22:36.06 WARS TO FIGHT.' BUT THE ROMAN ARMY SAID, 'WE ARE NOT GOING TO 00:22:36.06\00:22:38.43 TOLERATE ANY REBELLION WITHIN OUR TERRITORY AND THEY SENT A 00:22:38.43\00:22:41.80 WHOLE ROMAN ARMY THAT BUILT A ROAD OUT OF DIRT THAT REACHED 00:22:41.80\00:22:47.80 FROM THE BASE OF THE LOWEST PLACE ON EARTH THERE BY THE DEAD 00:22:47.80\00:22:50.86 SEA, UP TO THE TOP OF THIS MESA SO THAT THEY COULD CONQUER - 00:22:50.86\00:22:54.50 WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT THERE THE JEWS ALL COMMITTED SUICIDE. 00:22:54.50\00:22:57.40 SO THEY SPENT THREE YEARS BUILDING A ROAD BASICALLY FOR 00:22:57.40\00:22:59.06 NOTHING, BUT THE ROMANS SAID, 'LOOK, WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO 00:22:59.06\00:23:01.43 NOTHING WHILE THERE IS AN ELEMENT OF REBELLION IN OUR 00:23:01.43\00:23:04.46 KINGDOM. THEY WERE EXTREMELY STRICT THAT WAY. 00:23:04.46\00:23:07.30 BUT IF YOU OBEYED THE LAWS, THEY TOOK CARE OF YOU AND THEY 00:23:07.30\00:23:11.06 PROTECTED THEIR OWN. ALRIGHT, SO - LET ME READ 00:23:11.06\00:23:13.03 LUKE CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1, "AND IT CAME TO PASS 00:23:13.03\00:23:17.76 IN THOSE DAYS THAT A DECREE WENT OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT 00:23:17.76\00:23:22.30 ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE REGISTERED." 00:23:22.30\00:23:25.50 - THERE WAS A CENSUS - "THIS CENSUS FIRST TOOK PLACE 00:23:25.50\00:23:28.10 WHILE QUIRINIUS WAS GOVERNING SYRIA. 00:23:28.10\00:23:30.73 SO ALL WENT TO BE REGISTERED, EVERYONE TO HIS OWN CITY. 00:23:30.73\00:23:34.16 JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE, OUT OF THE CITY OF 00:23:34.16\00:23:36.70 NAZARETH, INTO JUDEA, TO THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CALLED 00:23:36.70\00:23:39.26 BETHLEHEM, BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE HOUSE AND LINEAGE OF DAVID, TO 00:23:39.26\00:23:43.33 BE REGISTERED WITH MARY, HIS BETROTHED WIFE, 00:23:43.33\00:23:45.90 WHO WAS WITH CHILD." NOW, WHEN THE EMPEROR SAID 00:23:45.90\00:23:48.53 EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GO TO YOUR HOME TOWN AND BE REGISTERED, 00:23:48.53\00:23:51.36 THAT MEANT EVERYBODY. DID IT MEAN RICH OR POOR? 00:23:51.36\00:23:55.40 YOU KNOW YOU MIGHT GET A SUMMONS TO JURY DUTY - 00:23:55.40\00:23:57.40 YOU EVER GET THAT? 00:23:57.40\00:23:59.63 I, TYPICALLY, HAVE TO APPLY AND SAY I NEED TO ASK FOR 00:23:59.63\00:24:03.96 FORGIVENESS FOR THAT BECAUSE IT IS VERY HARD, IF YOU'RE A SENIOR 00:24:03.96\00:24:08.40 PASTOR, AND THERE'S PEOPLE YOU MINISTER - MARRIAGES AND 00:24:08.40\00:24:11.43 FUNERALS - AND YOU SAY, 'I CAN'T, I'M ON JURY DUTY.' OR 00:24:11.43\00:24:14.66 HOSPITAL VISITS - AND SO, TYPICALLY, YOU'RE ABLE TO GET 00:24:14.66\00:24:18.30 OFF THAT. BUT IN ROME, WHEN YOU SAID, 00:24:18.30\00:24:20.20 'LOOK, I DON'T HAVE TIME. I CAN'T DO THIS. 00:24:20.20\00:24:22.16 I CAN'T' - THEY SAID, 'EVERYBODY HAD TO' - 'PREGNANT, I CAN'T GO. 00:24:22.16\00:24:26.53 I'M NINE MONTHS PREGNANT.' 'EVERYBODY.' AND SO THE ROMAN 00:24:26.53\00:24:30.53 LAWS WERE PRETTY SERIOUS. YOU HAD TO FOLLOW THEM. 00:24:30.53\00:24:34.30 FOR THE MOST PART, ROME ALLOWED VASSAL KINGDOMS TO MAINTAIN 00:24:34.30\00:24:38.86 THEIR OWN CUSTOMS, BUT ALL SUBJECTS WERE EXPECTED TO OBEY 00:24:38.86\00:24:42.33 THE IMPERIAL AND SENATORIAL LAWS. 00:24:42.33\00:24:44.86 OBVIOUSLY, THIS INCLUDED JOSEPH AND MARY. 00:24:44.86\00:24:46.90 SO ROME WOULD OFTEN FARM OUT DIFFERENT FIEFDOMS - 00:24:46.90\00:24:52.76 GOVERNORSHIPS - AND THEY CALLED THEM KINGS, LIKE HEROD WAS A 00:24:52.76\00:24:56.33 KING UNDER ROME. KINGS HAD KINGS UNDER THEM. 00:24:56.33\00:25:00.36 YOU REMEMBER READING IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL IT TALKS ABOUT THAT - 00:25:00.36\00:25:07.10 DANIEL CHAPTER 6 - THAT DANIEL WAS THREE - HE WAS ONE OF THE 00:25:07.10\00:25:11.53 TOP THREE OF THE MANY DIFFERENT GOVERNORS THAT WERE UNDER DARIUS 00:25:11.53\00:25:15.40 THE KING OF PERSIA. AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD OTHERS 00:25:15.40\00:25:19.03 THAT - BABYLON HAD OTHER KINGS THAT SAT AT HIS TABLE. 00:25:19.03\00:25:22.13 FINALLY HE LET JEHOICHIM OUT OF PRISON - 00:25:22.13\00:25:24.16 HE COULD SIT AT HIS TABLE WITH THE OTHER KINGS THAT 00:25:24.16\00:25:26.83 SAT AT NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S TABLE AND EVIL MERODACH'S TABLE. 00:25:26.83\00:25:29.46 THEN YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER ABOUT KING AHASUERUS AND 00:25:29.46\00:25:32.33 THERE WAS 127 PROVINCES AND ALL THESE OTHER KINGS. 00:25:32.33\00:25:36.00 THAT'S WHY WHEN IT CALLS JESUS THE KING OF KINGS IT MEANS THERE 00:25:36.00\00:25:40.70 ARE NO OTHER KINGS ABOVE HIM. HE IS THE ULTIMATE KING. 00:25:40.70\00:25:44.93 AND SO THE EMPEROR OF ROME, HE WAS THE KING OF KINGS BACK THEN. 00:25:44.93\00:25:50.66 AND SO THEY HAD DIFFERENT PROVINCIAL KINGDOMS UNDER THAT 00:25:50.66\00:25:54.16 AND HEROD WAS ONE OF THEM. 00:25:54.16\00:25:55.70 BUT EVERYONE HAD TO FOLLOW THE IMPERIAL LAW OF ROME. 00:25:55.70\00:26:00.40 ALRIGHT, READ FOR ME ACTS 18:15 AND 16, PLEASE. 00:26:00.40\00:26:05.53 >>ACTS 18:15 AND 16, "'BUT IF IT IS A QUESTION OF WORDS AND NAMES 00:26:05.53\00:26:11.93 AND YOUR OWN LAW, LOOK TO IT YOURSELVES; FOR I DO NOT WANT TO 00:26:11.93\00:26:17.00 BE A JUDGE OF SUCH MATTERS.' AND HE DROVE THEM FROM THE 00:26:17.00\00:26:20.73 JUDGMENT SEAT." 00:26:20.73\00:26:22.40 >>ALRIGHT, RIGHT NOW YOU CAN SEE THAT HERE, WHEN THEY WERE IN 00:26:22.40\00:26:24.50 ASIA, PAUL AND SOME OF HIS ASSOCIATES, THEY WERE BROUGHT 00:26:24.50\00:26:27.93 BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES - THE ROMAN MAGISTRATES - UNDER ROMAN 00:26:27.93\00:26:31.53 LAW AND SOME OF THE JEWS AND OTHERS WERE ACCUSING THEM OF 00:26:31.53\00:26:35.80 VIOLATING THEIR CUSTOMS AND THEY SAID, 'LOOK, WHAT YOU DO WITH 00:26:35.80\00:26:39.96 YOUR CUSTOMS IS YOUR BUSINESS. 00:26:39.96\00:26:41.46 I DON'T SIT AS A GOVERNOR OF ROME TO JUDGE THESE MATTERS.' 00:26:41.46\00:26:46.60 YOU KNOW ANOTHER CASE WHERE THAT SAME ISSUE COMES UP? 00:26:46.60\00:26:51.96 IF WE DISFELLOWSHIP SOMEBODY, IN OUR CHURCH - OR ANY DENOMINATION 00:26:51.96\00:26:58.40 - AND THEY GET UPSET AND THEY WANT TO SUE AND THEY GO TO THE 00:26:58.40\00:27:03.60 GOVERNMENT AND THEY WANT TO SUE FOR DAMAGES - BECAUSE PEOPLE 00:27:03.60\00:27:07.63 HAVE TRIED THIS BEFORE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT - 00:27:07.63\00:27:09.60 YOU KNOW WHAT THE COURT SYSTEM SAYS? 00:27:09.60\00:27:11.63 'WE DON'T DEAL WITH ECCLESIASTICAL ISSUES. 00:27:11.63\00:27:15.30 YOU HAVE CHURCH AND YOU HAVE CHURCH LAW AND YOU'RE UPSET 00:27:15.30\00:27:18.33 ABOUT YOUR CHURCH LAW. YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME MEDIATION 00:27:18.33\00:27:20.50 AND APPEAL PROCESS IN YOUR CHURCH, BUT YOU DO NOT BRING 00:27:20.50\00:27:23.16 YOUR ECCLESIASTICAL PROBLEMS TO THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES. 00:27:23.16\00:27:26.43 WE ARE NOT GOING TO JUDGE IN THOSE MATTERS.' I KNOW BECAUSE 00:27:26.43\00:27:30.90 WE'VE HEARD OF PEOPLE, WHO, FOR WHATEVER REASON, THEY WERE 00:27:30.90\00:27:34.30 DISFELLOWSHIPPED AND THEY THEN WENT TO THE COURTS AND SAID, 'I 00:27:34.30\00:27:37.20 WANT TO SUE AND GET MY BACK TITHE RETURNED TO ME.' AND THEY 00:27:37.20\00:27:44.06 SAID, 'LOOK, WE'RE NOT DEALING WITH THAT STUFF. 00:27:44.06\00:27:45.70 YOU GAVE YOUR MONEY AND YOU GOT YOUR TAX BENEFIT. 00:27:45.70\00:27:47.13 YOU'RE NOT GETTING IT BACK AGAIN.' SO WE EVEN SEE THAT SAME 00:27:47.13\00:27:52.36 DYNAMIC IN OUR CULTURE WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE CIVIL 00:27:52.36\00:27:55.30 LAW AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE ECCLESIASTICAL LAW AND WE HAVE 00:27:55.30\00:27:58.83 CERTAIN RULES AND LAWS. WE HAVE A CHURCH MANUAL IN OUR 00:27:58.83\00:28:01.23 CHURCH AND WE HAVE OUR TRADITIONS. 00:28:01.23\00:28:02.76 WE COME TOGETHER AND SAY, 'THAT VIOLATES THIS RULE. 00:28:02.76\00:28:04.76 THAT VIOLATES THAT RULE.' AND THERE'S PLACES WHERE THEY MAY 00:28:04.76\00:28:07.80 OVERLAP, BUT FOR THE MOST PART THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND 00:28:07.80\00:28:10.86 SO YOU CAN SEE THAT WAS HAPPENING EVEN IN PAUL'S DAY. 00:28:10.86\00:28:13.86 IF YOU LOOK IN ACTS 16, VERSE 37, "BUT PAUL SAID TO THEM, 00:28:13.86\00:28:19.06 'THEY HAVE BEATEN US OPENLY, UNCONDEMNED ROMANS, 00:28:19.06\00:28:24.20 AND HAVE THROWN US INTO PRISON. AND NOW DO THEY PUT US OUT 00:28:24.20\00:28:27.06 SECRETLY? NO INDEED! LET THEM COME THEMSELVES AND GET 00:28:27.06\00:28:30.03 US OUT.'" AND THE OFFICERS TOLD THESE WORDS TO THE MAGISTRATES, 00:28:30.03\00:28:33.50 AND THEY WERE AFRAID WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THEY WERE ROMANS." 00:28:33.50\00:28:36.93 NOW, IN ROME - AND YOU'LL SEE THIS COMES UP TWO OR THREE TIMES 00:28:36.93\00:28:40.13 IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - THE ROMANS HAD A LAW THAT ROMAN CITIZENS 00:28:40.13\00:28:45.36 ACTUALLY HAD DIFFERENT RIGHTS FROM NON-ROMAN CITIZENS - AND 00:28:45.36\00:28:50.06 THERE WAS A THIRD CLASS AND I'M NOT SAYING THIS WAS A GOOD 00:28:50.06\00:28:52.43 THING, I'M JUST SAYING THIS IS HOW IT WAS - 00:28:52.43\00:28:54.13 AND THAT WAS THE SLAVES. YOU COULD BEAT YOUR SLAVE AND 00:28:54.13\00:28:58.63 THE SLAVE COULD NOT GO PROTEST TO THE POLICE AND SAY, 00:28:58.63\00:29:01.43 'I WAS UNFAIRLY BEATEN. NOW, IT WAS BAD FOR YOU IN THE 00:29:01.43\00:29:05.06 COMMUNITY IF YOU TREATED YOUR SLAVES THAT WAY AND, YOU KNOW 00:29:05.06\00:29:09.80 THEY HAD CERTAIN LAWS TO PROTECT THE SLAVES BUT YOU COULDN'T GO - 00:29:09.80\00:29:13.23 IF YOU WERE A SLAVE - BUT IF YOU WERE A ROMAN CITIZEN, THAT WAS 00:29:13.23\00:29:15.16 THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CIVIL CITIZENSHIP. 00:29:15.16\00:29:20.50 IF YOU'RE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO HAVE CERTAIN 00:29:20.50\00:29:23.43 RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES THAT MAYBE A VISITING IMMIGRANT MAY NOT 00:29:23.43\00:29:25.86 HAVE. THAT YOU CAN VOTE AND CERTAIN THINGS? 00:29:25.86\00:29:29.13 NOW THAT'S CHANGING ALL THE TIME, BUT IT USED TO BE IT MEANT 00:29:29.13\00:29:31.00 SOMETHING. AND THAT'S HOW IT WAS IN ROME. 00:29:31.00\00:29:34.40 YOU COULD NOT BEAT A ROMAN CITIZEN UNTIL THEY HAD A FAIR 00:29:34.40\00:29:38.13 TRIAL. YOU COULD NOT EVEN BIND THEM 00:29:38.13\00:29:41.30 UNTIL - THEY WERE CONSIDERED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. 00:29:41.30\00:29:46.40 YOU KNOW, A NUMBER OF LAWS THAT WE HAVE IN NORTH AMERICA - 00:29:46.40\00:29:48.80 BELIEVE IT OR NOT - COME FROM BOTH THE GRECO-ROMAN CULTURE AND 00:29:48.80\00:29:53.36 EVEN MORE THAN THAT, THE TORAH OR THE JEWISH LAW. 00:29:53.36\00:29:57.43 YOU START LOOKING AT THE LAW OF MOSES AND YOU'D BE AMAZED AT HOW 00:29:57.43\00:30:00.13 MUCH OF OUR MODERN LAW IS ADDRESSED IN THE PRINCIPLES THAT 00:30:00.13\00:30:03.63 GOD GAVE MOSES. YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'VE GOT LIKE 00:30:03.63\00:30:06.66 FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD DEGREE MURDER? 00:30:06.66\00:30:08.16 YOU CAN FIND THAT EVEN IN THE MOSAIC LAW. 00:30:08.16\00:30:11.36 THERE WAS DELIBERATE MURDER AND THERE WAS ACCIDENTAL MURDER - 00:30:11.36\00:30:13.70 WHAT WE CALL MANSLAUGHTER - AND THERE WERE DIFFERENT PROVISIONS 00:30:13.70\00:30:16.00 FOR THAT IN THE LAW. AND YOU CAN SEE ALL KINDS OF 00:30:16.00\00:30:19.26 LAWS OF OUR CURRENT CULTURE THAT EVALUATE MOTIVE AND YOU SEE THAT 00:30:19.26\00:30:26.23 ORIGINATING IN THE MOSAIC LAW. WELL, SOME OF THAT BLEEDS OVER 00:30:26.23\00:30:29.13 FROM ROMAN LAW. I MEAN, DO WE HAVE CONGRESS? 00:30:29.13\00:30:31.70 THE ROMANS HAD A SENATE - AND SO THERE'S SOME OVERLAP. 00:30:31.70\00:30:36.00 SO WHAT HAD HAPPENED IS PAUL AND SILAS HAD BEEN ARRESTED BECAUSE 00:30:36.00\00:30:39.90 OF THEIR PREACHING AND TEACHING - IT WAS HURTING THE BUSINESS OF 00:30:39.90\00:30:43.50 THE IDOL MAKERS BECAUSE THEY SAID IT WAS HURTING THE SALES OF 00:30:43.50\00:30:47.66 THESE STATUES OF DIANA AND THEY WERE THROWN IN JAIL AND THEY 00:30:47.66\00:30:52.43 WERE BEATEN AND IT WAS ALL POLITICALLY DRIVEN BY THE UNIONS 00:30:52.43\00:30:55.43 - BELIEVE IT OR NOT - THERE WAS AN IDOL-MAKING UNION IN EPHESUS 00:30:55.43\00:30:59.80 AND THEY DID ALL THIS AND THEN PAUL AND SILAS ARE PRAYING AT 00:30:59.80\00:31:05.66 NIGHT, THERE'S AN EARTHQUAKE, AND ALL THE PRISONERS' 00:31:05.66\00:31:10.93 DOORS ARE OPENED. THE JAILER IS ABOUT TO KILL 00:31:10.93\00:31:12.80 HIMSELF AND PAUL SAYS 'DO YOURSELF NO HARM, WE'RE ALL 00:31:12.80\00:31:15.80 STILL HERE.' AND HE COMES AND HE FALLS DOWN BEFORE PAUL AND SILAS 00:31:15.80\00:31:18.76 AND HE SAYS, 'WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO BE SAVED? 00:31:18.76\00:31:22.13 YOUR GOD IS SO POWERFUL. I MEAN, YOU PRAYED. 00:31:22.13\00:31:23.96 YOU SANG AFTER WE MISTREATED YOU IN YOUR SHACKLES AND THE STOCKS 00:31:23.96\00:31:28.10 ON YOUR FEET WERE MIRACULOUSLY BROKEN AND OPENED AND TELL ME 00:31:28.10\00:31:32.63 ABOUT YOUR GOD.' AND SO PAUL PREACHES TO HIM. 00:31:32.63\00:31:34.10 THE GUY WASHES THEIR WOUNDS. HE (PAUL) BAPTIZES THEM. 00:31:34.10\00:31:36.73 THE NEXT MORNING THE MAGISTRATES FIND OUT THESE GUYS WERE ROMAN 00:31:36.73\00:31:40.03 AND THEY SAY, 'TELL THEM THEY'RE FREE TO GO.' PAUL SAID, 00:31:40.03\00:31:42.16 'NOT ON YOUR LIFE. YOU ARRESTED US AND YOU BEAT US. 00:31:42.16\00:31:45.83 WE ARE ROMANS. WE WERE UNCONDEMNED. 00:31:45.83\00:31:48.50 YOU COME AND YOU BRING US OUT OF JAIL.' IN OTHER WORDS, 00:31:48.50\00:31:53.43 YOU NEED TO BE SEEN. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO JUST SEND A 00:31:53.43\00:31:55.46 MESSAGE AND SAY, 'YOU'RE FREE TO GO.' AND SO PAUL WAS, 00:31:55.46\00:31:58.06 BASICALLY, CALLING THEM ON THE CARPET. 00:31:58.06\00:31:59.53 HE COULD HAVE PROSECUTED THEM AND IF IT WAS FOUND OUT THAT 00:31:59.53\00:32:01.83 THEY HAD BEATEN ROMANS UNCONDEMNED THEN THEY'D GET IT 00:32:01.83\00:32:05.33 FROM THE GOVERNOR AND THEY CAN LOSE THEIR POSITION. 00:32:05.33\00:32:08.70 SEE HOW - THEY GET IT FROM CAESAR. 00:32:08.70\00:32:10.63 SO YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? THEY'RE NOW AFRAID THAT 00:32:10.63\00:32:13.46 THEY'RE GOING TO GET WRITTEN UP FOR ABUSING THEIR POWER AGAINST 00:32:13.46\00:32:15.66 THE ROMAN CITIZEN AND THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE THEIR POSITION. 00:32:15.66\00:32:18.26 SO THE ROMANS WERE PRETTY - PRETTY STRONG ABOUT THEIR LAW. 00:32:18.26\00:32:21.66 ALRIGHT, TAKE A LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, ACTS 22:25, "AND AS 00:32:21.66\00:32:27.70 THEY BOUND HIM WITH THONGS," - NOW THIS IS WHEN PAUL - YOU 00:32:27.70\00:32:30.63 REMEMBER, THERE'S A RUCKUS IN THE TEMPLE. 00:32:30.63\00:32:32.50 PAUL IS FALSELY ACCUSED OF BRINGING GENTILES IN THE TEMPLE. 00:32:32.50\00:32:36.90 THE ROMANS HELPED GUARD THE OUTSIDE OF THE TEMPLE. 00:32:36.90\00:32:40.50 THEY HAD TEMPLE GUARDS ON THE INSIDE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT 00:32:40.50\00:32:42.76 THE ROMAN POLICE INSIDE THE TEMPLE. 00:32:42.76\00:32:45.96 THEY HAD THEIR OWN SECURITY. 00:32:45.96\00:32:47.96 AND WE SEE THAT TODAY, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT HAVE THE POLICE OF AN 00:32:47.96\00:32:51.36 INSTITUTION OUT ON THE STREETS AND YOU MIGHT GO TO AN ARENA AND 00:32:51.36\00:32:54.93 THE ARENA HAS THEIR OWN SECURITY THAT THEY HIRE. AND - 00:32:54.93\00:33:00.30 BECAUSE THEY MAY BE ENFORCING DIFFERENT KINDS OF RULES INSIDE 00:33:00.30\00:33:04.20 - AND SO PAUL WAS ARRESTED IN THE TEMPLE BECAUSE THERE WAS A 00:33:04.20\00:33:09.80 MOB AND THEY WERE TRYING TO TEAR HIM LIMB FROM LIMB. 00:33:09.80\00:33:11.70 THE ROMANS REALIZED THERE WAS A RIOT. THE ROMANS CAME IN 00:33:11.70\00:33:13.83 WITH THEIR SOLDIERS AND THEIR SPEARS AND THEIR SHIELDS. 00:33:13.83\00:33:16.26 THEY RESCUED PAUL BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT ANYONE GETTING 00:33:16.26\00:33:19.36 EXECUTED - SLAVE OR ROMAN - UNTRIED AND THEY FIGURED, 'WE'RE 00:33:19.36\00:33:23.73 GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT CAUSED THIS. WE'RE GOING TO TIE YOU UP 00:33:23.73\00:33:25.80 AND WE'RE GOING TO BEAT YOU.' THEY ACTUALLY WOULD - THEY HAD 00:33:25.80\00:33:27.60 PERMISSION TO INTERROGATE YOU AND THEY DID IT BY FLOGGING YOU 00:33:27.60\00:33:30.40 AND THEY DID IT UNTIL YOU TOLD THEM WHAT WAS GOING ON. 00:33:30.40\00:33:32.26 SO AS THEY BIND PAUL AND THEY'RE READY TO FLOG HIM, PAUL SAYS TO 00:33:32.26\00:33:35.96 THE CENTURION WHO STOOD BY HIM, 'IS IT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO SCOURGE 00:33:35.96\00:33:39.70 A MAN WHO IS A ROMAN UNCONDEMNED?' 00:33:39.70\00:33:42.66 AND WHEN THE CENTURION HEARD THAT, HE WENT AND TOLD THE 00:33:42.66\00:33:45.53 COMMANDER SAYING, 'TAKE HEED WHAT YOU DO. 00:33:45.53\00:33:48.16 THIS MAN IS A ROMAN.' THEN THE COMMANDER CAME TO HIM AND HE 00:33:48.16\00:33:51.80 SAID, 'TELL US, ARE YOU A ROMAN?' 00:33:51.80\00:33:54.76 HE ASSUMED THAT BECAUSE HE SPOKE HEBREW THAT HE WAS JUST A HEBREW 00:33:54.76\00:33:56.90 CITIZEN. HE SAID, 'YES. THE COMMANDER ANSWERED WITH A 00:33:56.90\00:33:59.90 LARGE SUM I OBTAINED THIS CITIZENSHIP.' YOU COULD BUY YOUR 00:33:59.90\00:34:03.76 CITIZENSHIP, BUT IT COST YOU SOMETHING. 00:34:03.76\00:34:06.76 HE SAID, 'WITH A LARGE SUM I OBTAINED THIS CITIZENSHIP.' AND 00:34:06.76\00:34:09.56 PAUL SAID, 'YES, BUT I WAS BORN A CITIZEN.' WHERE WAS PAUL BORN? 00:34:09.56\00:34:13.70 TARSUS. HE WASN'T BORN IN JERUSALEM. 00:34:13.70\00:34:16.63 AND BECAUSE OF HIS FAMILY RELATIONS, PAUL WAS BORN - YOU 00:34:16.63\00:34:19.33 KNOW THAT WHEN SOMEONE IS MAYBE EVEN AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AND 00:34:19.33\00:34:24.43 THEY COME TO THE COUNTRY AND THEY HAVE A BABY IN AMERICA, 00:34:24.43\00:34:27.20 DOES THAT BABY HAVE RIGHTS BECAUSE IT'S BORN IN AMERICA? 00:34:27.20\00:34:30.23 SO, FOR WHATEVER REASON, PAUL WAS BORN IN A ROMAN TERRITORY 00:34:30.23\00:34:33.73 UNDER A PLACE WHERE IF YOU'RE BORN THERE YOU HAD THE ROMAN 00:34:33.73\00:34:36.80 RIGHTS AND HE WAS BORN ROMAN AND THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T CARRY A 00:34:36.80\00:34:40.16 PLASTIC CARD, BUT HE HAD SOME KIND OF CERTIFICATION THAT SAID 00:34:40.16\00:34:42.60 HE WAS REGISTERED AS A ROMAN CITIZEN AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT 00:34:42.60\00:34:45.80 THEY SAID, 'WE WEREN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BIND HIM. 00:34:45.80\00:34:48.63 AND NOW WE'RE GETTING READY TO BEAT HIM. 00:34:48.63\00:34:50.93 "THEN IMMEDIATELY" - VERSE 29 - "THOSE WHO WERE 00:34:50.93\00:34:53.80 ABOUT TO EXAMINE HIM WITHDREW FROM HIM; AND THE COMMANDER WAS 00:34:53.80\00:34:57.16 ALSO AFRAID AFTER HE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A ROMAN, 00:34:57.16\00:35:00.30 AND BECAUSE HE HAD BOUND HIM." 00:35:00.30\00:35:02.73 AND EXAMINED HIM AND THE CHIEF CAPTAIN ALSO WAS AFRAID AFTER HE 00:35:02.73\00:35:05.13 KNEW THAT HE WAS A ROMAN BECAUSE HE HAD BOUND HIM. 00:35:05.13\00:35:07.66 CAN YOU SEE THE FEAR THAT YOU WOULD MISTREAT A ROMAN CITIZEN? 00:35:07.66\00:35:12.10 THIS WAS THE NATURE OF WHAT THE KIND OF LAW THAT WAS IN THE 00:35:12.10\00:35:15.43 WORLD IN THAT DAY WHEN JESUS WAS BORN. 00:35:15.43\00:35:18.23 ALRIGHT, WHO HAS ACTS 23:29? OVER HERE. 00:35:18.23\00:35:23.26 >>ACTS 23:29, "WHOM I PERCEIVED TO BE ACCUSED OF QUESTIONS OF 00:35:23.26\00:35:27.86 THEIR LAW, BUT TO HAVE NOTHING LAID TO HIS CHARGE WORTHY OF 00:35:27.86\00:35:32.33 DEATH OR OF BONDS." 00:35:32.33\00:35:34.50 >>PAUL, DURING THIS TIME WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED IN THE TEMPLE, THEY 00:35:34.50\00:35:38.73 DID END UP SENDING HIM DOWN TO - WHEN PAUL - YOU LEARN A LOT 00:35:38.73\00:35:44.56 ABOUT ROMAN LAW JUST THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING. 00:35:44.56\00:35:47.13 PAUL WAS ARRESTED BECAUSE OF THE RIOT IN THE TEMPLE. 00:35:47.13\00:35:50.20 THEY PUT HIM IN JAIL BUT THEY KEPT HIM FREE. 00:35:50.20\00:35:52.70 THEY HAD LET PEOPLE VISIT HIM. THEY BROUGHT HIM FOOD. 00:35:52.70\00:35:55.63 SO, IN OTHER WORDS, THEY TOOK CARE OF HIM. 00:35:55.63\00:35:57.63 HE WAS GIVEN WHAT YOU WOULD CALL MINIMUM SECURITY HOUSE ARREST. 00:35:57.63\00:36:01.80 BUT HE WAS IN PRISON. THEN 40 JEWS OF THE PHARISEES 00:36:01.80\00:36:07.23 MADE A COVENANT - THEY SAID, 'WE WILL NOT EAT OR DRINK UNTIL WE 00:36:07.23\00:36:10.20 KILL PAUL.' AND THEY HAD THIS PACT AND PAUL HAD A NEPHEW - 00:36:10.20\00:36:17.76 PAUL MUST HAVE HAD A SISTER OR BROTHER BECAUSE HE HAD A NEPHEW. 00:36:17.76\00:36:19.96 HIS NEPHEW CAME AND TOLD THE CENTURION - FIRST HE TOLD PAUL 00:36:19.96\00:36:23.40 AND PAUL SAID 'YOU NEED TO' - TOLD HIS NEPHEW - 'YOU NEED TO 00:36:23.40\00:36:25.40 GO TELL THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD.' HE TOLD THE CAPTAIN OF 00:36:25.40\00:36:28.06 THE GUARD, 'THERE'S SOME JEWS THAT, WHEN YOU TAKE PAUL TO BE 00:36:28.06\00:36:31.40 TRIED, THEY'RE GOING TO JUMP HIM AND KILL HIM BECAUSE THEY'VE 00:36:31.40\00:36:34.43 MADE THIS COVENANT.' HE SAID, 'THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME. 00:36:34.43\00:36:36.23 DON'T TELL ANYONE YOU TOLD ME THIS.' THEN THEY, AT NIGHT, GOT 00:36:36.23\00:36:39.23 200 SOLDIERS ARMED AND THEY TRANSPORTED PAUL FROM JERUSALEM, 00:36:39.23\00:36:44.30 WHERE IT WAS A LOT MORE DANGEROUS, DOWN TO CAESAREA 00:36:44.30\00:36:48.36 WHERE THERE WAS A LOT MORE ROMAN INFLUENCE IN GOVERNMENT AND - TO 00:36:48.36\00:36:52.73 PROTECT HIM THERE - BIGGER FORTRESS AS WELL. 00:36:52.73\00:36:55.76 LOOK AT ALL THE TROUBLE THAT THE ROMANS WENT THROUGH TO GUARD ONE 00:36:55.76\00:36:59.86 ROMAN CITIZEN. I MEAN, YOU MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT 00:36:59.86\00:37:02.13 THEY WOULD HAVE JUST SAID, 'WELL, THROW HIM TO THEM. 00:37:02.13\00:37:05.76 LET THEM DO WHAT THEY WANT.' BUT BECAUSE HE WAS A ROMAN CITIZEN 00:37:05.76\00:37:08.50 THEY WENT TO GREAT EXPENSE TO PROTECT HIM. 00:37:08.50\00:37:11.46 AND SO, JUST GIVING YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND OF WHAT WAS GOING ON 00:37:11.46\00:37:14.13 WITH THE ROMAN LAW, THEY WERE VERY STRONG IN KEEPING IT. 00:37:14.13\00:37:18.46 SOME OF WHAT THEY DID AND THE WAY THEY PUNISHED PEOPLE WAS - 00:37:18.46\00:37:21.20 SEEMED BRUTAL, BUT IF YOU WERE A ROMAN CITIZEN - NOW KEEP THAT IN 00:37:21.20\00:37:24.96 MIND BECAUSE LATER IN THE BIBLE YOU'RE GOING TO READ ABOUT THE 00:37:24.96\00:37:27.63 CITIZENSHIP OF CHRIST AND PAUL IS USING THAT MIND SET WHEN HE'S 00:37:27.63\00:37:33.53 SHARING THOSE THINGS. OKAY, MOSAIC LAW AND CIVIC LAW - 00:37:33.53\00:37:37.73 OR THE - YEAH, THE MOSAIC LAW OF THE CIVIC NATURE. 00:37:37.73\00:37:41.00 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP MATTHEW - SOMEONE HAS MATTHEW 26:59 00:37:41.00\00:37:45.00 THROUGH 60 - WHO HAS THAT? DID ANYONE - RIGHT UP HERE? 00:37:45.00\00:37:49.33 MANJEET, HOLD YOUR HAND UP. I DON'T KNOW IF HE SAW YOU. 00:37:49.33\00:37:51.60 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 00:37:51.60\00:37:54.86 AND I'M GOING TO READ JOHN 11:47, "THEN GATHERED THE CHIEF 00:37:54.86\00:37:59.03 PRIESTS AND THE PHARISEES A COUNCIL, AND SAID, 'WHAT DO WE? 00:37:59.03\00:38:03.80 FOR THIS MAN DOETH MANY MIRACLES.'" YOU'LL OFTEN HEAR 00:38:03.80\00:38:06.96 ABOUT THE SADDUCEES AND THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES - THEY HAD 00:38:06.96\00:38:10.93 A COUNCIL AND THE COUNCIL CALLED THE SANHEDRIN - OR SANHEDRIN - 00:38:10.93\00:38:15.30 CONSISTED OF 71 MEN THAT WERE SELECTED FROM AMONG THE PRIESTS, 00:38:15.30\00:38:20.66 THE ELDERS, AND RABBIS AND THEY PRESIDED OVER - THEY WERE 00:38:20.66\00:38:24.16 PRESIDED OVER BY THE HIGH PRIEST - IT SERVED AS THE 00:38:24.16\00:38:27.56 JERUSALEM EQUIVALENT OF THE SUPREME COURT. 00:38:27.56\00:38:31.40 AND WHEN - THERE WAS NO HIGHER APPEAL COURT THAN THE SANHEDRIN 00:38:31.40\00:38:35.86 AND THEY CAME TOGETHER IN THEIR COUNCIL - THEY'RE THE ONES WHO, 00:38:35.86\00:38:38.30 ULTIMATELY, CONDEMNED JESUS TO CRUCIFIXION - AND THEN HANDED 00:38:38.30\00:38:43.03 HIM OVER TO THE ROMANS FOR CRUCIFIXION. 00:38:43.03\00:38:45.80 SO THEY GATHERED TOGETHER AND SAID, 'WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO 00:38:45.80\00:38:48.83 FOR THIS MAN DOES MANY MIRACLES?' 00:38:48.83\00:38:50.40 SO THIS IS NOW THE CIVIL LAW. THEY ARE WITHIN THE ROMAN LAW. 00:38:50.40\00:38:55.10 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US - GO AHEAD - MATTHEW 26:59, PLEASE. 00:38:55.10\00:38:59.73 >>"NOW THE CHIEF PRIESTS, THE ELDERS, AND ALL THE COUNCIL, 00:38:59.73\00:39:04.06 SOUGHT FALSE TESTIMONY AGAINST JESUS, TO PUT HIM TO DEATH, 00:39:04.06\00:39:09.23 BUT FOUND NONE." 00:39:09.23\00:39:11.26 >>NOW, AT THE TRIAL OF JESUS - BECAUSE IT HAPPENED AT NIGHT - 00:39:11.26\00:39:14.96 NORMALLY THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO MEET AT NIGHT, 00:39:14.96\00:39:16.36 IT WAS ILLEGAL. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET DURING THE DAY, 00:39:16.36\00:39:19.20 BUT THEY CALLED A SPECIAL EMERGENCY COUNCIL AT NIGHT. 00:39:19.20\00:39:23.46 SOMETIMES SOME QUESTIONABLE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED UNDER THE 00:39:23.46\00:39:28.30 PRETENSE OF EMERGENCY SESSIONS, BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY ALWAYS 00:39:28.30\00:39:32.60 GETS THE WORD AND THINGS CAN BE RAILROADED IN THOSE SESSIONS AND 00:39:32.60\00:39:37.46 SO THEY HAD THIS EMERGENCY MEETING AND IT WAS, 00:39:37.46\00:39:41.20 AGAIN, THE SANHEDRIN. THEY CAME TOGETHER. 00:39:41.20\00:39:42.93 THEY WERE THE ONES WHO WERE GOVERNING THE JEWISH LAW. 00:39:42.93\00:39:45.33 ACTS 5:27 - YOU SEE THIS AGAIN IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - "AND WHEN 00:39:45.33\00:39:48.83 THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM, THEY SET THEM BEFORE THE COUNCIL. 00:39:48.83\00:39:51.83 AND THE HIGH PRIEST ASKED THEM," - THIS IS WHEN THE APOSTLES WERE 00:39:51.83\00:39:54.56 BROUGHT IN AND THEY BEGAN TO ASK THEM ABOUT 'WHY ARE YOU TEACHING 00:39:54.56\00:39:57.96 IN THE NAME OF JESUS?' SO THEY'RE BEING TRIED BY THE 00:39:57.96\00:40:00.86 SUPREME COURT COUNCIL. NOW, THERE WAS ONE TIME, 00:40:00.86\00:40:03.73 TYPICALLY, WHEN THE SANHEDRIN - SOMETIMES I'VE HEARD IT 00:40:03.73\00:40:08.10 PRONOUNCED SANHEDRIN - WHEN THEY WANT TO TRY SOMEBODY THEY COULD 00:40:08.10\00:40:13.66 TRY A PERSON. THEY COULD THEN EVEN TEMPORARILY 00:40:13.66\00:40:16.73 IMPRISON A PERSON. THEY COULD WHIP A PERSON. 00:40:16.73\00:40:19.36 THEY COULD NOT EXECUTE A PERSON WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE 00:40:19.36\00:40:22.40 ROMANS. YOU COULD NOT IMPLEMENT THE DEATH DECREE. 00:40:22.40\00:40:26.70 AND THERE ARE CERTAIN LAWS THAT STATES ENFORCE AND THEN THERE 00:40:26.70\00:40:30.30 ARE CERTAIN LAWS THAT ARE FEDERALLY ENFORCED. 00:40:30.30\00:40:33.46 AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME LAWS THAT STATES WILL NOT 00:40:33.46\00:40:36.03 ENFORCE BUT THEY'RE FEDERAL LAWS. 00:40:36.03\00:40:38.83 AMERICA, RIGHT NOW, IS BIPOLAR WHEN IT COMES TO MARIJUANA. 00:40:38.83\00:40:42.56 DID YOU KNOW THAT? WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS FEDERALLY 00:40:42.56\00:40:49.26 IT IS AGAINST THE LAW. JUST - THIS IS NOT A SECRET. 00:40:49.26\00:40:52.63 YOU KNOW, YOU GO UP TO WHAT THEY CALL THE EMERALD TRIANGLE, WHICH 00:40:52.63\00:40:56.00 IS HUMBOLT COUNTY, TRINITY COUNTY, AND MENDOCINO COUNTY, 00:40:56.00\00:41:00.43 WHERE WE'VE HAD SOME PROPERTY FOR 35 YEARS. 00:41:00.43\00:41:04.33 IT IS THE MARIJUANA CAPITAL OF NORTH AMERICA. 00:41:04.33\00:41:07.46 THEY CALL IT THE EMERALD TRIANGLE. 00:41:07.46\00:41:09.00 AND WHEN WE FLY, EVERY NOW AND THEN I'LL BRING A GUEST AND 00:41:09.00\00:41:12.40 WE'LL FLY OUR LITTLE PLANE UP TO COVELO AND IF YOU GO IN THE FALL 00:41:12.40\00:41:15.36 YOU JUST LOOK OUT THE WINDOW - I SAY, 'I JUST WANT YOU SEE 00:41:15.36\00:41:17.83 SOMETHING. LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW.' I SAY, 00:41:17.83\00:41:19.96 'YOU SEE ALL THOSE GREEN, DARK CIRCLES IN EVERYBODY'S 00:41:19.96\00:41:23.63 BACKYARD?' IT'S VERY TELLING TOO, BECAUSE I 00:41:23.63\00:41:28.10 KNOW WHERE SOME PEOPLE LIVE FROM THE AIR. 00:41:28.10\00:41:31.13 FOLKS THAT YOU WOULD THINK WOULD BE UPSTANDING CITIZENS - 00:41:31.13\00:41:34.33 CHRISTIANS - AND YOU SEE ALL THOSE DARK GREEN CIRCLES IN 00:41:34.33\00:41:38.86 THEIR BACKYARD. THEY SAY IT'S MEDICAL. 00:41:38.86\00:41:44.00 AND FEDERAL LAW DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO BECAUSE IT'S AGAINST 00:41:44.00\00:41:48.43 THE LAW FEDERALLY BUT THE STATE LAW, THEY'RE BASICALLY WINKING 00:41:48.43\00:41:51.90 AT IT. AND WHAT DO YOU DO WHERE YOU'VE GOT SOMEWHERE LIKE 00:41:51.90\00:41:54.96 COLORADO, WHERE THE STATE LAW NOW CONTRADICTS THE FEDERAL LAW? 00:41:54.96\00:42:00.06 AND SO, JUST, AGAIN, I TOLD YOU, LAW GETS CONFUSING. 00:42:00.06\00:42:03.00 SO WHAT THEY WOULD DO SOMETIMES IS THEY WOULD PRE-EMPT - THEY 00:42:03.00\00:42:08.03 WOULD NOT TAKE AN EXECUTION TO THE STATE AUTHORITIES. 00:42:08.03\00:42:12.06 YOU REMEMBER WHEN THEY BROUGHT MARY IN - 00:42:12.06\00:42:13.46 THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY? 00:42:13.46\00:42:15.10 I SOMETIMES THINK THAT MAY HAVE BEEN MARY MAGDALENE - I CAN'T 00:42:15.10\00:42:17.20 PROVE IT BUT YOU CAN'T PROVE IT WASN'T. 00:42:17.20\00:42:19.03 SO THEY CATCH THIS WOMAN IN ADULTERY - IN THE TEMPLE - JOHN 00:42:19.03\00:42:21.70 CHAPTER 8, AND THEY SAID, 'MOSES AND THE LAW SAY SUCH SHOULD BE 00:42:21.70\00:42:24.96 STONED, BUT WHAT DO YOU SAY?' THEY WERE READY TO STONE HER. 00:42:24.96\00:42:27.80 DO YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE STONED 00:42:27.80\00:42:29.46 HER, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE RUN TO THE 00:42:29.46\00:42:31.06 ROMANS AND SAID, 'JESUS PRONOUNCED THE DEATH SENTENCE ON 00:42:31.06\00:42:34.50 SOMEBODY.' JESUS WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. 00:42:34.50\00:42:37.13 THE PROBLEM WOULD HAVE BEEN THE ROMAN'S AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 00:42:37.13\00:42:40.30 IN TROUBLE. THEY KNEW THEY COULDN'T DO THAT. 00:42:40.30\00:42:42.70 THAT'S WHY THE HAD TO TAKE JESUS TO PILATE. 00:42:42.70\00:42:44.96 SO, IN A BIG PUBLIC FIGURE LIKE THAT, THE ROMANS KNEW THEY 00:42:44.96\00:42:47.83 COULDN'T' DO IT. BUT WITH STEPHEN - YOU REMEMBER, 00:42:47.83\00:42:50.76 WITH STEPHEN THEY WERE SO OUTRAGED THEY GRIT THEIR TEETH, 00:42:50.76\00:42:55.10 THEY SHOUTED, THEY RAN AFTER HIM, THEY BROUGHT HIM OUT, 00:42:55.10\00:42:59.16 THEY EXECUTED HIM. THEY DIDN'T GO TO THE ROMANS. 00:42:59.16\00:43:01.33 PAUL WAS GIVEN PERMISSION BY THE COUNCIL - THE SANHEDRIN - TO 00:43:01.33\00:43:07.46 ARREST CHRISTIANS AND TO IMPRISON THEM AND SOME WERE 00:43:07.46\00:43:11.36 EXECUTED. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? AND SO THEY WERE OVERSTEPPING 00:43:11.36\00:43:15.70 THEIR AUTHORITY WHEN THEY WERE DOING THAT. 00:43:15.70\00:43:18.23 HE ONLY HAD REALLY PERMISSION - LEGALLY HE HAD LETTERS TO HAVE 00:43:18.23\00:43:21.23 THEM PUT IN JAIL, BUT HE TELLS LATER IN HIS TESTIMONY, SOME 00:43:21.23\00:43:24.70 WERE KILLED. AND SO THAT WAS GOING BEYOND THE 00:43:24.70\00:43:27.56 ROMAN LAW. SO YOU HAD THE CIVIC LAW THERE. 00:43:27.56\00:43:31.66 HEBREWS 10:28, "ANYONE WHO HAS REJECTED MOSES' LAW DIES WITHOUT 00:43:31.66\00:43:36.36 MERCY ON THE TESTIMONY OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES." 00:43:36.36\00:43:39.43 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT VIOLATION OF 00:43:39.43\00:43:41.86 THOSE LAWS - THE PENALTY WAS DEATH. 00:43:41.86\00:43:44.86 AND SO, THAT WAS PRETTY SEVERE. AND, OF COURSE, IF YOU STOLE 00:43:44.86\00:43:50.73 SOMETHING, WAS THE PENALTY DEATH? WAS IT? 00:43:50.73\00:43:55.80 COME ON, YOU CAN TALK TO ME. NO. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO PAY BACK 00:43:55.80\00:43:59.13 FOUR-FOLD. YOU REMEMBER WHAT NICODEMUS SAID 00:43:59.13\00:44:03.60 - I'M SORRY - ZACCHEUS SAID WHEN HE CAME TO JESUS? 00:44:03.60\00:44:05.96 'IF I'VE TAKEN ANYTHING FROM ANY MAN BY FALSE ACCUSATION, I PAY 00:44:05.96\00:44:08.73 HIM BACK FOUR-FOLD.' HE KNEW WHAT THE MOSAIC LAW SAID ABOUT 00:44:08.73\00:44:12.53 THAT. AND WHEN DAVID WAS CONFRONTED 00:44:12.53\00:44:15.26 WITH THE STORY, NATHAN SAID, 'THERE'S THIS MAN THAT TOOK HIS 00:44:15.26\00:44:19.60 POOR NEIGHBOR'S SHEEP AND KILLED IT WHEN HE HAD FLOCKS FULL OF 00:44:19.60\00:44:23.13 SHEEP.' NATHAN MADE UP THIS STORY AND TOLD DAVID. 00:44:23.13\00:44:25.56 AND YOU KNOW WHAT DAVID SAID? 'THAT MAN WILL PAY FOUR-FOLD.' 00:44:25.56\00:44:28.53 WHY DID HE SAY THAT? THAT WAS PART OF THE MOSAIC LAW, 00:44:28.53\00:44:31.70 THAT IF YOU STOLE SOMETHING AND IT WAS FOUND WITH YOU, YOU WERE 00:44:31.70\00:44:34.36 TO PAY BACK FOUR TIMES. THAT WASN'T THE ROMAN LAW. 00:44:34.36\00:44:38.30 ALRIGHT, NOW TO THE MOSAIC LAW OR THE CEREMONIAL PART OF THE 00:44:38.30\00:44:43.06 MOSAIC LAW. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 00:44:43.06\00:44:45.20 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19. WHO GOT THAT ONE? 00:44:45.20\00:44:50.53 HOLD YOUR HAND UP. OVER HERE. 00:44:50.53\00:44:52.60 ALRIGHT WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. YOU'LL BE NEXT. 00:44:52.60\00:44:55.00 LET ME READ LEVITICUS 2, VERSES 14 THROUGH 16, "IF YOU OFFER A 00:44:55.00\00:45:01.33 GRAIN OFFERING OF YOUR FIRSTFRUITS TO THE LORD, YOU 00:45:01.33\00:45:05.10 SHALL OFFER FOR THE GRAIN OFFERING OF YOUR FIRSTFRUITS 00:45:05.10\00:45:07.20 GREEN HEADS OF GRAIN ROASTED ON THE FIRE, GRAIN BEATEN FROM FULL 00:45:07.20\00:45:11.46 HEADS. AND YOU SHALL PUT OIL ON IT, AND 00:45:11.46\00:45:13.83 LAY FRANKINCENSE ON IT. IT IS A GRAIN OFFERING. 00:45:13.83\00:45:16.30 THEN THE PRIEST SHALL BURN THE MEMORIAL PORTION: PART OF ITS 00:45:16.30\00:45:19.53 BEATEN GRAIN AND PART OF ITS OIL, WITH ALL THE FRANKINCENSE, 00:45:19.53\00:45:22.86 AS AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE TO THE LORD." 00:45:22.86\00:45:25.20 AS WE READ ON, WE FIND THAT THEY HAD OFFERINGS THAT WERE TO BE 00:45:25.20\00:45:28.00 MADE OF THE VINE, WHERE THEY WOULD POUR OUT WINE BEFORE THE 00:45:28.00\00:45:32.10 LORD. THEY HAD OFFERINGS THAT WERE 00:45:32.10\00:45:33.46 MADE OF THE FIELD. THEY HAD OFFERINGS THAT WERE 00:45:33.46\00:45:36.20 MADE OF THE LIVESTOCK. AND SO THEY WOULD SHOW THAT ALL 00:45:36.20\00:45:39.66 THE BOUNTY AND THE BLESSING BELONGED TO THE LORD. 00:45:39.66\00:45:41.86 SO THESE OFFERINGS WERE SYMBOLIC. 00:45:41.86\00:45:44.06 THERE WERE LAWS REGARDING THESE CEREMONIES THAT WERE A SYMBOL. 00:45:44.06\00:45:49.80 WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM? 00:45:49.80\00:45:55.03 STAND. WHERE'S THAT WRITTEN? 00:45:55.03\00:45:59.00 DO YOU GET ARRESTED IF YOU DON'T? IS IT - ARE YOU SUPPOSED 00:45:59.00\00:46:04.26 TO PUT YOUR HAND OVER YOUR HEART OR IF YOU'RE MILITARY YOU 00:46:04.26\00:46:06.53 SALUTE? I WENT TO MILITARY SCHOOL - YEAH. 00:46:06.53\00:46:10.50 BUT IT'S SOMETHING OF A CEREMONIAL LAW THAT WE HAVE IN 00:46:10.50\00:46:13.53 OUR COUNTRY. IT'S TERRIBLY FROWNED UPON. 00:46:13.53\00:46:17.10 I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY ARRESTED FOR SITTING. 00:46:17.10\00:46:19.66 YOU'RE GOING TO GET A LOT OF SCORNFUL LOOKS AND BE THOUGHT TO 00:46:19.66\00:46:23.20 BE A TRAITOR, BUT THIS IS A CEREMONIAL LAW, RIGHT? 00:46:23.20\00:46:28.66 SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 00:46:28.66\00:46:29.60 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19. 00:46:29.60\00:46:33.00 >>1 CORINTHIANS 7:19, "CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING AND 00:46:33.00\00:46:37.16 UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, BUT KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD 00:46:37.16\00:46:41.73 IS WHAT MATTERS." 00:46:41.73\00:46:43.03 >>THAT'S A VERSE YOU OUGHT TO REMEMBER AND YOU SHOULD PROBABLY 00:46:43.03\00:46:46.73 UNDERLINE THAT IF YOU UNDERLINE IN YOUR BIBLE. 00:46:46.73\00:46:49.66 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE TELL US THAT WHEN JESUS 00:46:49.66\00:46:53.36 DIED THAT THE COMMANDMENTS WERE DONE AWAY WITH - THAT THEY WERE 00:46:53.36\00:46:57.40 NAILED TO THE CROSS. IT TELLS US THAT CERTAIN LAWS 00:46:57.40\00:47:01.46 WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS. WHAT LAWS ARE NO LONGER AN 00:47:01.46\00:47:05.63 OBLIGATION ON CHRISTIANS? CEREMONIAL LAWS. 00:47:05.63\00:47:10.90 THE CEREMONIAL LAWS - DID THEY COME BEFORE SIN OR AFTER SIN? 00:47:10.90\00:47:16.76 AFTER SIN. CIRCUMCISION - DID IT COME 00:47:16.76\00:47:19.73 BEFORE SIN OR AFTER SIN? IT WAS A COVENANT - WAS IT GIVEN 00:47:19.73\00:47:22.83 TO ALL PEOPLE OR TO A SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE? 00:47:22.83\00:47:26.50 CIRCUMCISION WAS GIVEN TO ABRAHAM AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 00:47:26.50\00:47:28.30 RIGHT? IT - GOD DIDN'T SAY THAT ONLY 00:47:28.30\00:47:31.76 PEOPLE WHO ARE CIRCUMCISED ARE GOING TO GO TO HEAVEN. 00:47:31.76\00:47:35.43 DID GOD HAVE PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES THAT WORSHIPED HIM? 00:47:35.43\00:47:40.43 I DON'T WANT TO GET TOO GRAPHIC HERE, BUT ABRAHAM, NOAH, 00:47:40.43\00:47:44.16 METHUSELAH, ENOCH, WERE THEY CIRCUMCISED? WERE THEY? 00:47:44.16\00:47:50.03 SO IS IT A REQUIREMENT FOR SALVATION? NO. 00:47:50.03\00:47:53.63 IT WAS A CEREMONIAL LAW. THAT'S WHY PAUL SAID, 00:47:53.63\00:47:56.13 'CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING. UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING. 00:47:56.13\00:47:59.40 WHAT MATTERS IS KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS.' SO YOU SEE, 00:47:59.40\00:48:02.33 THERE'S A DISTINCTION THERE BETWEEN THE TWO - BETWEEN THE 00:48:02.33\00:48:04.96 CEREMONIAL LAW AND THE MORAL LAW. 00:48:04.96\00:48:08.56 ALRIGHT, IF YOU LOOK IN LEVITICUS 5:11, FOR INSTANCE, 00:48:08.56\00:48:12.16 "BUT IF HE IS NOT ABLE TO BRING TWO TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG 00:48:12.16\00:48:15.33 PIGEONS, THEN HE WHO SINNED SHALL BRING FOR HIS OFFERING 00:48:15.33\00:48:17.73 ONE-TENTH OF AN EPHAH OF FINE FLOUR AS A SIN OFFERING. 00:48:17.73\00:48:20.73 HE SHALL PUT NO OIL ON IT, NOR SHALL HE PUT FRANKINCENSE ON 00:48:20.73\00:48:23.36 IT, FOR IT IS A SIN OFFERING." 00:48:23.36\00:48:25.00 HERE AGAIN, IT'S GOING INTO SOME OF THE CEREMONIAL LAWS AND THESE 00:48:25.00\00:48:30.60 THINGS WERE PRESCRIBED ABOUT HOW TO MAKE THEIR OFFERINGS. 00:48:30.60\00:48:34.40 IF YOU JUMP TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 00:48:34.40\00:48:37.36 HEBREWS 9 - BEFORE I READ THAT, WHO HAS DEUTERONOMY 4, VERSES 13 00:48:37.36\00:48:42.30 AND 14? DID WE GIVE THAT TO SOMEBODY? 00:48:42.30\00:48:47.20 DEUTERONOMY 4:13-14 - DO YOU HAVE THAT SYLVIA? 00:48:47.20\00:48:49.86 ALRIGHT, LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 00:48:49.86\00:48:51.30 HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO HE CAN SEE YOU. 00:48:51.30\00:48:53.50 ALRIGHT - AND I'M GOING TO READ HEBREWS 9:9-12, "IT WAS SYMBOLIC 00:48:53.50\00:49:01.26 FOR THE PRESENT TIME IN WHICH BOTH GIFTS AND SACRIFICES ARE 00:49:01.26\00:49:04.86 OFFERED WHICH CANNOT MAKE HIM WHO PERFORMED THE SERVICE 00:49:04.86\00:49:07.66 PERFECT IN REGARD TO THE CONSCIENCE - CONCERNED ONLY WITH 00:49:07.66\00:49:10.76 FOODS AND DRINKS, VARIOUS WASHINGS, AND FLESHLY ORDINANCES 00:49:10.76\00:49:13.70 IMPOSED UNTIL THE TIME OF REFORMATION. 00:49:13.70\00:49:16.43 BUT CHRIST CAME AS HIGH PRIEST OF THE GOOD THINGS TO COME, WITH 00:49:16.43\00:49:20.80 THE GREATER AND MORE PERFECT TABERNACLE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, 00:49:20.80\00:49:24.26 THAT IS, NOT OF THIS CREATION. NOT WITH THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND 00:49:24.26\00:49:27.40 CALVES, BUT WITH HIS OWN BLOOD HE ENTERED THE MOST HOLY PLACE 00:49:27.40\00:49:30.93 ONCE FOR ALL, HAVING OBTAINED ETERNAL REDEMPTION." 00:49:30.93\00:49:34.43 BY THE WAY, IT SAYS 'MOST HOLY PLACE' IN THE NEW KING JAMES - A 00:49:34.43\00:49:38.10 LOT OF VERSIONS SAY 'HOLY PLACE' - IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT 00:49:38.10\00:49:40.63 HAGION, IS THE WORD THERE - IT'S AN INTERESTING STUDY ON 00:49:40.63\00:49:44.03 THAT I WON'T GO INTO, BUT POINT BEING WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THAT 00:49:44.03\00:49:47.76 WAS SYMBOLIC. DID YOU CATCH THAT? 00:49:47.76\00:49:51.53 VERSE 9, IT WAS SYMBOLIC FOR THE PRESENT TIME. 00:49:51.53\00:49:54.60 THE CEREMONIAL LAWS WERE WHAT? SYMBOLIC. 00:49:54.60\00:49:59.10 THE PASSOVER WAS WHAT? SYMBOLIC. 00:49:59.10\00:50:02.43 OF WHAT? OF JESUS, THE PASSOVER LAMB. 00:50:02.43\00:50:05.60 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'NOW CHRIST IS OUR PASSOVER.' 00:50:05.60\00:50:08.26 THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. 00:50:08.26\00:50:09.63 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED PEOPLE THAT SAY IT IS MANDATORY 00:50:09.63\00:50:15.63 FOR MODERN 21ST CENTURY CHRISTIANS TO BE KEEPING THE 00:50:15.63\00:50:19.06 JEWISH FEAST DAYS? HAVE YOU RUN INTO THAT BEFORE? 00:50:19.06\00:50:21.23 LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS. YEAH, I HAVE. 00:50:21.23\00:50:25.30 WE GET CALLS PERIODICALLY AND PEOPLE FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT 00:50:25.30\00:50:29.56 WE SHOULD BE KEEPING THE FEAST DAYS. 00:50:29.56\00:50:31.13 BUT I RESPECTFULLY AND FIRMLY DISAGREE WITH THAT. 00:50:31.13\00:50:34.96 I THINK THAT WHEN THE HIGH PRIEST TORE HIS GARMENTS AT THE 00:50:34.96\00:50:39.06 TRIAL OF CHRIST - WHEN THE VEIL WAS RIPPED IN THE TEMPLE AT THE 00:50:39.06\00:50:43.73 CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST - IT WAS SHOWING US THAT THERE'S A 00:50:43.73\00:50:46.53 DIFFERENT PRIESTHOOD AND THERE'S A DIFFERENT TEMPLE. 00:50:46.53\00:50:49.53 WE NOW BECOME A SPIRITUAL NATION OF PRIESTS. 00:50:49.53\00:50:52.60 YOU NOW ARE A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE. 00:50:52.60\00:50:54.80 YOU ARE LIVING STONES IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, RIGHT? 00:50:54.80\00:50:58.63 WE DON'T SACRIFICE LAMBS ANYMORE AS JESUS' BODY WAS TORN, THE 00:50:58.63\00:51:02.76 PRIEST'S ROBES WERE TORN, THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS TORN, THE 00:51:02.76\00:51:06.13 BODY OF CHRIST WAS TORN SYMBOLIZING NOW IT'S NOT EARTHLY 00:51:06.13\00:51:10.36 LAMBS, IT'S JESUS THE LAMB OF GOD. 00:51:10.36\00:51:13.86 SO THE IDEA THAT THESE SYMBOLS - THAT YOU WOULD GO TO THE SYMBOL 00:51:13.86\00:51:17.70 WHEN YOU HAVE THE REALITY - I TRY AND EXPLAIN IT LIKE THIS: IF 00:51:17.70\00:51:22.26 YOU'VE GOT A BELOVED SON OR DAUGHTER THAT IS OVERSEAS - ON A 00:51:22.26\00:51:26.43 MISSION TRIP OR IN THE MILITARY - WHATEVER IT IS - AND YOU MISS 00:51:26.43\00:51:28.46 THEM AND YOU PUT THEIR PICTURE UP ON THE COUNTER AND BECAUSE 00:51:28.46\00:51:33.16 YOU MISS THEM AND YOU'RE SENTIMENTAL, YOU PICK IT UP AND 00:51:33.16\00:51:35.10 YOU KISS IT ONCE A DAY, IT'S A SYMBOL OF YOUR LOVE FOR THEM. 00:51:35.10\00:51:40.50 IT'S NOT IDOLATRY, YOU'RE JUST THINKING OF THEM. 00:51:40.50\00:51:42.86 BUT THEN THEY KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR BECAUSE THEY CAME HOME AND YOU 00:51:42.86\00:51:46.66 FLING THE DOOR OPEN AND YOU LOOK AT THEM AND YOU SAY, 'MY SON, MY 00:51:46.66\00:51:49.36 DAUGHTER!' AND YOU RUN OVER TO THE TABLE, YOU PICK UP THE 00:51:49.36\00:51:51.13 PICTURE, AND YOU KISS THE PICTURE. DOES THAT SEEM RIGHT? 00:51:51.13\00:51:56.23 SO FOR YOU TO BE EMBRACING THE SYMBOL WHEN THE REALITY IS IN 00:51:56.23\00:51:59.50 FRONT OF YOU, IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 00:51:59.50\00:52:02.73 FOR US TO BE KEEPING THE CEREMONIAL LAWS WHEN THE REALITY 00:52:02.73\00:52:06.03 OF WHAT IT ALL POINTS TO IS NOW THERE - AND, BY THE WAY, IT'S 00:52:06.03\00:52:08.83 NOT POSSIBLE FOR MOST OF US TO GO TO JERUSALEM AND KEEP THOSE 00:52:08.83\00:52:11.30 FEASTS THE WAY WE'RE COMMANDED TO KEEP THEM. 00:52:11.30\00:52:13.63 THE TEMPLE'S NOT THERE BECAUSE - ALL OF THOSE FEASTS WERE 00:52:13.63\00:52:16.66 CONNECTED WITH SACRIFICES IN THE TEMPLE. 00:52:16.66\00:52:19.10 ARE THERE THINGS WE CAN LEARN FROM STUDYING THE FEASTS? YEAH. 00:52:19.10\00:52:22.90 AND IF A PERSON WANTS TO GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF 00:52:22.90\00:52:25.63 REMEMBERING ONE OF THE FEASTS, THAT'S UP TO YOU. 00:52:25.63\00:52:28.30 I MEAN, IF MAN'S GOING TO REGARD THE DAY, REGARD THE DAY TO THE 00:52:28.30\00:52:31.66 LORD BUT DON'T REQUIRE OTHERS TO. 00:52:31.66\00:52:34.33 THAT'S WHAT ROMANS 14 IS TALKING ABOUT. 00:52:34.33\00:52:36.40 IF YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP A DAY, KEEP A DAY TO THE LORD. 00:52:36.40\00:52:37.90 IF YOU WANT TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS. 00:52:37.90\00:52:40.53 DON'T TELL OTHER PEOPLE THEY HAVE TO. 00:52:40.53\00:52:42.50 IF YOU'RE GOING TO REMEMBER THE BIRTH OF JESUS ON THAT DAY - BUT 00:52:42.50\00:52:45.46 IT'S NOT A LAW THAT WE HAVE TO, IS IT? 00:52:45.46\00:52:47.73 AND SO, THIS IS WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. 00:52:47.73\00:52:49.86 SO WE'VE GOT ONE MINUTE TO TALK ABOUT THE MORAL LAW. 00:52:49.86\00:52:53.10 I KNEW THAT - I KNEW THAT. A LOT OF OTHER LESSONS COVER 00:52:53.10\00:52:58.70 THIS SO WE'LL BE GETTING TO THAT. ALRIGHT, THE MORAL LAW. 00:52:58.70\00:53:04.93 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE A DISTINCTION HERE. 00:53:04.93\00:53:06.83 WHO HAS DEUTERONOMY 4? DID I GIVE THAT TO SOMEBODY? 00:53:06.83\00:53:09.70 SYLVIA - YOU GO AHEAD. I WANT YOU TO READ THAT. 00:53:09.70\00:53:12.26 >>DEUTERONOMY 4:13-14, "SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS COVENANT 00:53:12.26\00:53:17.00 WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS; 00:53:17.00\00:53:20.53 AND HE WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE. 00:53:20.53\00:53:23.10 AND THE LORD COMMANDED ME AT THAT TIME TO TEACH YOU STATUTES 00:53:23.10\00:53:26.10 AND JUDGMENTS, THAT YOU MIGHT OBSERVE THEM IN THE LAND WHICH 00:53:26.10\00:53:29.30 YOU CROSS OVER TO POSSESS." 00:53:29.30\00:53:31.73 >>ALRIGHT, IF WE'RE - THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO SUMMARIZE. 00:53:31.73\00:53:35.30 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MORAL 00:53:35.30\00:53:39.46 LAW AND THE CEREMONIAL LAW? I GOT A PHONE CALL AT OUR BIBLE 00:53:39.46\00:53:44.26 ANSWER PROGRAM LAST WEEK AND SOMEONE SAID, 'THERE'S NO 00:53:44.26\00:53:47.20 DISTINCTION ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE. 00:53:47.20\00:53:48.53 THERE'S ONLY ONE LAW.' I SAID, 'I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. 00:53:48.53\00:53:51.50 THE BIBLE MAKES VERY CLEAR DISTINCTIONS IN SEVERAL PLACES.' 00:53:51.50\00:53:53.93 HERE'S ONE - YOU NOTICE WHEN IT SAYS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - 'HE 00:53:53.93\00:53:56.80 DECLARED TO YOU HIS COVENANT HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM THE TEN 00:53:56.80\00:53:59.96 COMMANDMENTS.' THERE'S A CONCISE NUMBER - TEN COMMANDMENTS - 00:53:59.96\00:54:02.53 'AND' - IT SAYS - 'THE LORD COMMANDED ME' - AT THAT TIME 00:54:02.53\00:54:07.06 MOSES IS SPEAKING - 'TO TEACH YOU STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS THAT 00:54:07.06\00:54:09.90 YOU MIGHT OBSERVE THEM IN THE LAND YOU CROSS OVER TO POSSESS.' 00:54:09.90\00:54:12.60 AND IN THERE WERE CEREMONIAL LAWS AND THERE WERE HEALTH LAWS 00:54:12.60\00:54:15.50 AND THERE WERE CIVIL LAWS AND SOME OF THE LAWS THAT HAD TO DO 00:54:15.50\00:54:19.36 WITH FAMILY AND INHERITANCE AND ALL KINDS OF OTHER LAWS. 00:54:19.36\00:54:23.60 BUT GOD MADE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS A VERY CLEAR, 00:54:23.60\00:54:25.83 DISTINCT LAW. HE SPOKE IT WITH HIS VOICE. 00:54:25.83\00:54:29.20 HE WROTE IT WITH HIS FINGER. IT WAS DIFFERENT IN THE DELIVERY 00:54:29.20\00:54:32.66 OF THE LAW, DIFFERENT IN WHAT HE WROTE IT ON, DIFFERENT IN WHAT 00:54:32.66\00:54:35.66 IT WAS WRITTEN WITH, DIFFERENT IN WHERE IT WAS PLACED - IN THE 00:54:35.66\00:54:39.26 MIDDLE OF THE ARK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TEMPLE. 00:54:39.26\00:54:41.73 SO GOD MADE A DISTINCTION, WE SHOULD RECOGNIZE THERE'S A 00:54:41.73\00:54:44.80 DISTINCTION, RIGHT? BETWEEN THE MORAL TEN 00:54:44.80\00:54:46.66 COMMANDMENT LAW AND SOME OF THESE OTHER MANY LAWS THE RABBIS 00:54:46.66\00:54:50.66 HAD COME UP WITH - ABOUT 613 - WE'RE OUT OF TIME. 00:54:50.66\00:54:53.53 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER I WANT TO REMIND YOU ABOUT. 00:54:53.53\00:54:55.86 IT'S CALLED 'WRITTEN IN STONE'. IT'S A FREE LESSON BY 00:54:55.86\00:54:59.30 AMAZING FACTS. 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IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT 00:55:49.60\00:55:55.56 CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND, ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL 00:55:55.56\00:55:59.56 THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION. THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE. 00:55:59.56\00:56:05.83 IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT IS HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A 00:56:05.83\00:56:09.96 PROPHET. THOSE THINGS ARE PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY. 00:56:09.96\00:56:24.43 >>TODAY WE ARE SHOOTING MULTIPLE SCENES. 00:56:24.43\00:56:26.10 A LOT OF PROPS ARE GOING TO BE IN PLAY. 00:56:26.10\00:56:28.86 NOW RIGHT OVER HERE WE HAVE A DOOR THAT LUTHER WILL BE NAILING 00:56:28.86\00:56:33.20 HIS 95 THESES INTO. AS YOU CAN TELL, IT'S NOT THE WHOLE DOOR. 00:56:33.20\00:56:36.36 IN FILM, YOU JUST CUT DOWN TO WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AND SO 00:56:36.36\00:56:39.93 THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE. AND THEN OVER HERE WE'VE GOT 00:56:39.93\00:56:43.13 THESE SHIELDS COMING TOGETHER. WE'RE GOING TO BE PUTTING IN 00:56:43.13\00:56:46.03 SOME TEXTURE AND PAINTING THESE RED. 00:56:46.03\00:56:47.96 WE'RE LIGHTING, RIGHT NOW, THE EUCHARIST AND SO WE'RE GOING TO 00:56:47.96\00:56:50.73 GO SCENE BY SCENE - A LITTLE PIECE BY PIECE OF WHAT THE 00:56:50.73\00:56:53.13 ACTUAL CHALICE, THE BREAD, THE WINE. 00:56:53.13\00:56:56.90 AND THEN AFTER THAT WE'RE GOING TO FLY IN THE GOBLET THAT THE 00:56:56.90\00:56:59.13 WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS HOLDING. 00:56:59.13\00:57:01.60 SHE'S DRINKING BLOOD AND WE'LL HAVE THE BLOOD DRIPPING DOWN. 00:57:01.60\00:57:03.86 WHEN PUTTING TOGETHER A FILM YOU HAVE TONS OF PRACTICALS AND 00:57:03.86\00:57:07.76 PROPS THAT ARE ON YOUR SET AND YOU'VE GOT TO DO THE RESEARCH. 00:57:07.76\00:57:11.63 YOU'VE GOT TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS USED DURING THAT TIME. 00:57:11.63\00:57:13.70 JOHN WAS WRITING ON PATMOS AND EVERYBODY THINKS HE WAS USING A 00:57:13.70\00:57:16.66 SCROLL WITH INK, BUT HE WAS ACTUALLY - HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 00:57:16.66\00:57:19.10 USING A LEAD STYLUS. WE TRY TO PUT THOSE REAL 00:57:19.10\00:57:22.60 ELEMENTS IN THERE WITHOUT CAUSING ANY DISTRACTION TO THE 00:57:22.60\00:57:25.73 AUDIENCE WHERE THEY'D BE LIKE, 'NO! 00:57:25.73\00:57:27.03 THAT'S NOT WHAT WAS USED.' THEN YOU HAVE, LIKE THE REFORMATION 00:57:27.03\00:57:30.46 PERIODS, THE RENAISSANCE ERA AND THE DARK AGES - ALL THOSE 00:57:30.46\00:57:33.60 DETAILS - FROM THE TYPES OF CANDLES THEY WERE USING OR 00:57:33.60\00:57:38.80 POSSIBLY THE TYPES OF PARCHMENT THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN 00:57:38.80\00:57:41.60 WRITING ON. WE HAD TO RECREATE THAT KIND OF STUFF. 00:57:41.60\00:57:45.20 >>WE LEARNED, AS WE INTERVIEWED THE HISTORIANS - BECAUSE THEY'VE 00:57:45.20\00:57:48.93 REALLY RESEARCHED A LOT OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY AND MOST OF US 00:57:48.93\00:57:52.36 HAVE LAYMEN'S KNOWLEDGE OF THESE THINGS. 00:57:52.36\00:57:54.83 IT REALLY ADDED A LOT OF VALUABLE INSIGHTS TO THE PICTURE 00:57:54.83\00:57:59.03 THAT KIND OF GAVE IT DETAIL AND COLOR AND BROUGHT IT TO LIFE. 00:57:59.03\00:58:14.56 (MUSIC) 00:58:14.56\00:58:15.56