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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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IT IS BY NO MISTAKE
THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US.
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THIS IS CENTRAL STUDY HOUR WHERE
WE COME TOGETHER EVERY WEEK -
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FROM ACROSS THE WORLD, ACTUALLY
- AND WE TUNE IN TOGETHER TO
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STUDY GOD'S WORD TO LEARN TRUTH
AND HOW HE WANTS US TO LIVE AND
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HOW WE CAN BE BETTER SERVANTS
OF HIM. A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME
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TO YOU THAT ARE JOINING US
RIGHT HERE IN OUR AUDIENCE.
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU
THAT ARE TUNING IN EITHER FOR
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THE FIRST TIME OR THAT ARE
A REGULAR MEMBER OF OUR ONLINE
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STUDY AND OUR
TELEVISION STUDY. WELCOME.
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AS WE ALWAYS DO BEFORE WE
BEGIN TO GET INTO GOD'S WORD,
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WE SING TOGETHER. SO
BRING OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND
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LET'S SING TOGETHER HYMN #565
- 'FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH'.
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THIS COMES TO US AS A REQUEST
FROM PATRICE IN THE BRITISH
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VIRGIN ISLANDS, JULIA IN
CONNECTICUT, IAN IN SOUTH
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AFRICA, AND EUGENE IN THAILAND
AND A LOT MORE PEOPLE AROUND THE
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PLANET. 'FOR THE
BEAUTY OF THE EARTH' -
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AND WE WILL SING
ALL THREE VERSES.
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(MUSIC)
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>>I'M PRAYING THAT YOUR HEART
IS FULL - FULL THIS MORNING OF
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PRAISE AND SONGS FOR OUR LORD
AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST. AMEN?
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WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE
HYMNAL AND WE ARE NOW - LEARNING
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NEW HYMNS - AND WE ARE NOW
UP TO HYMN #96 - 'THE SPACIOUS
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FIRMAMENT' - AND THIS
ONE'S A LITTLE TRICKY.
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WE PRACTICED IT QUITE A BIT
THIS MORNING AND IT COMES AS A
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REQUEST FROM
SUZANNA IN NEW YORK.
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HYMN #96 - AND WE'RE
GOING TO SING ALL THREE VERSES.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WHEN YOU ARE NOT BUSY
TRYING TO LEARN THE NOTES OF
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THAT SONG, READ
THROUGH THE WORDS.
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THEY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AND YOU
WILL NEVER GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK
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AT A NIGHT SKY
THE SAME AGAIN. AMEN.
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GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS.
THAT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE,
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FAVORITE THINGS TO LOOK AT IS
THE STARS IN THE HEAVENS AND IT
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JUST REALLY REVEALS HIS
CREATIVE POWER. LET'S PRAY.
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OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU
SO MUCH FOR CREATING THE WORLD
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THAT WE LIVE IN, THE SUN,
THE MOON, THE STARS THAT SING OF
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YOUR GLORIOUS, GLORIOUS
CREATIVE POWER. BUT LORD,
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THE MOST CREATIVE THING THAT
YOU HAVE DONE IS THAT YOU HAVE
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CREATED NEW HEARTS IN EACH
ONE OF US THROUGH YOUR WORD.
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AND SO WE ARE SO GRATEFUL
THAT WE ARE NOT LEFT HERE FOR
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ETERNITY TO BE LOST, BUT THAT
YOU GAVE YOUR SON TO SAVE US AND
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THAT WE CAN SPEND
ETERNITY WITH YOU, LORD.
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WHAT A BLESSING.
WHAT A GLORIOUS PLAN.
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WHAT A GLORIOUS PROMISE
THAT IS TO EACH ONE OF US.
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SO BLESS US NOW AS WE
STUDY YOUR WORD, LORD.
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QUICKEN OUR HEARTS THAT WE SERVE
YOU MORE FAITHFULLY AND WE CAN
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SEE YOU SOON FACE-TO-FACE.
WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN THE
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PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS, AMEN.
OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
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TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON
AND HE IS THE VISITATION AND
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HEALTH PASTOR HERE
AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH
JOLYNE AND THE CHORISTERS.
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IT'S GOOD TO - GOOD TO
LEARN SOME NEW SONGS, ISN'T IT?
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WELL, HAPPY - HAPPY SABBATH
TO YOU ALL. BEFORE I BEGIN,
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WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER.
IT'S A REALLY GOOD LITTLE BOOK.
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IT'S CALLED 'FEAST
DAYS: SHADOWS OF OUR FAITH'.
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IT'S WRITTEN BY DR. HERBERT
DOUGLASS, WHO WE HAD SPEAKING
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HERE JUST ABOUT
TWO OR THREE WEEKS AGO.
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IT'S NOT A VERY BIG BOOK BUT
IT'S PUBLISHED BY AMAZING FACTS
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AND LET ME JUST GIVE
YOU THIS INFORMATION FIRST.
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IT'S OFFER #810 AND IF
YOU CONTACT AMAZING FACTS AT
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1-866-STUDY-MORE - I'VE ALMOST
GOT IT MEMORIZED, YOU SEE, I'M
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LOOKING AWAY A LITTLE BIT HERE
- 1-866-788-3966. YES, I GOT IT.
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THEY WILL SEND YOU
THIS BOOK ABSOLUTELY FREE.
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WHAT IT DEALS WITH IS THE
QUESTION - THERE'S PEOPLE FROM
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TIME TO TIME - THEY'RE VERY
SINCERE PEOPLE, BUT THEY SAY,
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'YOU KNOW, IN ANCIENT TIMES, YOU
KNOW, THEY KEPT THE PASSOVER AND
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PENTECOST AND THE FEAST OF
TABERNACLES AND SOME PEOPLE FEEL
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WE NEED TO STILL BE DOING THAT.
ACTUALLY, YOU DON'T, BECAUSE
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JESUS WAS THE
FULFILLMENT OF THOSE THINGS.
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WE'RE ACTUALLY IN, NOW, THE
ANTITYPICAL DAY OF ATONEMENT SO
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THAT'S STILL BEING FULFILLED.
AND WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN, THEN
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WE WILL ACTUALLY HAVE FULFILLED,
JOYOUSLY, THE FEAST OF
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TABERNACLES. BUT ANYWAY, THIS
BOOK, IT WILL ANSWER ALL THOSE
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QUESTIONS FOR YOU. SO
IT'S OFFER #810, 'FEAST DAYS:
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SHADOWS OF OUR FAITH'
BY DR. HERBERT E. DOUGLASS.
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AND SO, TODAY, WE'RE ON THE
THIRD LESSON OF OUR THEME - OUR
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NEW THEME THIS MONTH
'CHRIST AND HIS LAW'.
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AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO - I
ACTUALLY WANT TO - I DON'T OFTEN
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READ SO MUCH FROM THE LESSON
BOOK BUT I WANT TO DO THAT THIS
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MORNING BECAUSE THE INTRODUCTION
IS VERY WELL WRITTEN AND, YOU
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KNOW, WHY REINVENT THE WHEEL
WHEN SOMEBODY HAS ALREADY PUT IT
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VERY NICELY. SO I WANT TO FIND
THE BEGINNING OF LESSON #3 HERE.
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IT'S CALLED 'CHRIST IN RELIGIOUS
TRADITION'. AND I BEGIN WITH THE
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MEMORY TEXT WHICH IS
THERE, FROM MATTHEW 15:8 AND 9 -
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KIND OF A SHORTENED VERSION.
JESUS SAID, 'THIS PEOPLE HONORS
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ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT
THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME.
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IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP
ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE
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PRECEPTS OF MEN.' AND
I'LL READ THE INTRO RIGHT HERE.
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'JOHN WESLEY, THE FOUNDER OF THE
METHODIST CHURCH, SUGGESTED THAT
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ONE'S THEOLOGY IS INFLUENCED
BY FOUR FACTORS: FAITH, REASON,
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SCRIPTURE, AND TRADITION.' -
THERE'S A PLACE FOR TRADITION.
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THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO KEEP
IN MIND HERE - 'HE DIDN'T MEAN,
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HOWEVER, THAT ALL SIDES
ARE EQUALLY AUTHORITATIVE.
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HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE BIBLE
WAS FOUNDATIONAL, BUT HE ALSO
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RECOGNIZED THAT ONE'S INDIVIDUAL
FAITH, ABILITY TO REASON, AND
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RELIGIOUS TRADITION AFFECT
THE WAY IN WHICH THE BIBLE IS
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INTERPRETED. IF
WESLEY WERE BROUGHT BACK TO
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LIFE TODAY, HE WOULD BE SHOCKED
TO DISCOVER THAT MANY MODERN
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THEOLOGIANS IN THE WESLEYAN
TRADITION AND OTHER TRADITIONS
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AS WELL' - MAYBE EVEN INCLUDING
OURS - 'NOW VALUE REASON,
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TRADITION, OR PERSONAL OPINION
OVER THE CLEAR TEACHING OF
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SCRIPTURE.' - SO I HOPE YOU
GOT THAT - 'THIS WEEK'S LESSON
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INVESTIGATES THE RELIGIOUS
TRADITIONS UPON WHICH THE
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SCRIBES AND PHARISEES
BASED MANY OF THEIR TEACHINGS.
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THE RABBIS' - NOW THIS IS AN
IMPORTANT POINT - 'THE RABBIS
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WHO ORIGINALLY PENNED THESE
TRADITIONS GREATLY RESPECTED THE
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SCRIPTURES AND HAD NO INTENTION
FOR THESE TRADITIONS TO BE
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ELEVATED TO THE
STATUS OF GOD'S WORD.
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HOWEVER, SOME OF THEIR ZEALOUS
DISCIPLES CONFUSED THE METHOD
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WITH THE MESSAGE AND, IN DOING
SO, SHIFTED THE FOCUS FROM GOD'S
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WRITTEN REVELATION TO HUMAN
TRADITION.' SO, THAT'S KIND OF
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WHAT WE'RE
LOOKING AT THIS MORNING.
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IT HAPPENED THEN AND IT CAN AND
IT IS HAPPENING NOW AND WE NEED
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TO BE VERY CAREFUL THAT WE DON'T
WALK IN THE SAME FOOTSTEPS OF
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WELL-MEANING BUT, NONETHELESS,
MISLED AND CONFUSED SCRIBES AND
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PHARISEES. SUNDAY'S
LESSON - 'THE SEED OF
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MOSES' - I'M GOING TO READ
BEGINNING IN MATTHEW 23 AND, I
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MUST CONFESS, I DIDN'T TAKE TIME
TO ASSIGN ANY SCRIPTURE READING
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SO IT'S MOSTLY GOING TO BE ME.
I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND BUT YOU'RE
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USED TO SUFFERING THAT
BEFORE, AREN'T YOU MIKE?
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SO, MATTHEW 23,
VERSES 1 THROUGH 7.
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I WANT US TO READ THIS WHOLE
PASSAGE HERE, FIRST OF ALL.
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MATTHEW 23, VERSES 1 THROUGH
7, "THEN SPAKE JESUS TO THE
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MULTITUDE, AND TO HIS DISCIPLES,
SAYING, 'THE SCRIBES AND THE
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PHARISEES SIT IN MOSES' SEAT:"
- ACTUALLY, I'LL STOP THERE AND
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COMMENT ON IT. JESUS
SAID, 'THE SCRIBES AND THE
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PHARISEES THEY SIT IN MOSES'
SEAT' WHICH - AND HE WASN'T
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TRYING TO TAKE
AWAY THAT AUTHORITY.
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HE DID RECOGNIZE THAT THEY DID
SIT IN THAT PARTICULAR PLACE OF
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AUTHORITY, BUT HIS PROBLEM WAS
WITH HOW THEY ACTUALLY EXERCISED
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THAT AUTHORITY AND HOW
THEY USED IT TO DISTORTED ENDS.
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BUT, NONETHELESS, TO SIT IN
MOSES' SEAT - IT WAS A WAY OF
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SAYING THAT THE SCRIBES AND
PHARISEES WERE, SUPPOSED TO BE
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AT LEAST, THE OFFICIAL
INTERPRETER OF THE LAW OF MOSES
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AND PEOPLE LOOKED TO THEM FOR
THIS AND THIS IS WHY, IN MANY
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WAYS, THEY WERE OFTEN MISLED.
BUT THEN JESUS, IN THE NEXT
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VERSE, AFTER HE SAYS THE SCRIBES
AND PHARISEES SIT IN MOSES'
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SEAT, IN THE
NEXT VERSE - VERSE 3
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JESUS SAID, "ALL THEREFORE
WHATSOEVER THEY BID YOU OBSERVE,
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THAT OBSERVE AND DO;" - SO WHEN
JESUS WAS TELLING THE PEOPLE
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THEY SIT IN MOSES' SEAT AND
WHATEVER THEY TELL YOU OBSERVE
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AND DO, THERE'S
A CONTEXT TO THAT.
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JESUS WAS SAYING, 'WHATEVER THEY
TELL YOU THAT IS BASED ON THE
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TEN COMMANDMENT LAW AND ON THE
LAW OF MOSES - AND THE LAW OF
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MOSES WAS DIFFERENT
FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW.
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GOD, HIMSELF, SPOKE THAT LAW.
HE WROTE IT ON TABLES OF STONE.
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HE GAVE IT TO MOSES.
WHAT WAS KNOWN AS 'THE LAW OF
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MOSES' WAS INSTRUCTIONS THAT GOD
DICTATED TO MOSES WHEN MOSES WAS
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UP ON THE MOUNT. IN
ALL TOLD, THERE'S ABOUT 613
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LAWS WHICH COME UNDER THIS
GENERAL HEADING OF THE LAW OF
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MOSES AND IT COVERED ALL
KINDS OF THINGS FROM, YOU KNOW,
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DIETARY LAWS, HYGIENE, THERE WAS
A PENAL CODE THERE, THE TEMPLE
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SERVICES, COMMERCE, SOCIAL
INTERACTION, LAWS WHICH GOVERNED
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MARRIAGE AND ALL
THESE KINDS OF THINGS.
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THOSE CAME UNDER THE GENERAL
HEADING OF THE LAW OF MOSES.
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SO JESUS WAS SAYING, 'WHEN THE
SCRIBES AND PHARISEES READ THESE
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THINGS, YES, YOU NEED TO
LISTEN.' BUT, HAVING SAID THAT,
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IN THE NEXT BREATH - IN VERSE
3 - JESUS TELLS US THIS - WE'RE
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STILL IN MATTHEW 23, VERSE 3 -
BUT THEN HE SAYS, "BUT DO NOT YE
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AFTER THEIR WORKS:
FOR THEY SAY AND DO NOT."
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SO IT SAYS THEY
SIT IN MOSES' SEAT.
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WHAT THEY TELL YOU OBSERVE
AND DO BUT DON'T FOLLOW THEIR
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EXAMPLE BECAUSE THEY'RE GOOD AT
SPOUTING OFF AND PREACHING BUT
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THEY DON'T LIVE OUT WHAT THEY'RE
SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTING THAT
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IS IN THE WORD OF GOD - THE
TEN COMMANDMENT AND THE LAW OF
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MOSES. IN OTHER WORDS, JESUS
VERY CLEARLY, FOR GOOD REASON,
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CONDEMNED THE SCRIBES
AND PHARISEES AS HYPOCRITES.
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YOU KNOW WHAT A HYPOCRITE
MEANS? IT'S FROM THE GREEK WORD
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HIPPOCRATES - IT MEANS 'AN
ACTOR'. AND IT'S NOT ALL MEN,
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THERE'S ACTRESSES AS WELL, BY
THE WAY. BUT IT MEANS SOMEBODY
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WHO IS JUST AN ACTOR. SO IT
SAYS, 'DON'T DO WHAT THEY DO,
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EVEN THOUGH THEY DEMAND
THAT YOU DO CERTAIN THINGS.
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DON'T FOLLOW THEIR EXAMPLE.'
BUT IT GETS A LITTLE WORSE THAN
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THIS, YOU SEE, THE HYPOCRISY
OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES WAS
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ALSO EQUALED BY ANOTHER
DISAGREEABLE PRACTICE THAT JESUS
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ALSO ADDRESSED AND CONDEMNED.
WE'RE STILL IN MATTHEW
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CHAPTER 23, VERSE 4.
SPEAKING OF THE SCRIBES AND
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PHARISEES HE SAYS, "FOR THEY
BIND HEAVY BURDENS AND GRIEVOUS
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TO BE BORNE, AND LAY THEM
ON MEN'S SHOULDERS; BUT THEY
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THEMSELVES WILL NOT MOVE
THEM WITH ONE OF THEIR FINGERS."
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NOW HERE, JESUS IS NOT
REFERRING TO GOD'S LAW - THE TEN
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COMMANDMENT LAW OR THE LAW
OF MOSES - HE'S TALKING ABOUT A
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WHOLE COLLECTION OF WHAT WERE
CALLED 'RABBINICAL LAWS' KNOWN
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AS 'THE MISHNAH' AND
THERE WAS MORE THAN 613 OF THIS.
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I MEAN, THERE WAS JUST A
WHOLE HOST OF MAN-MADE RULES AND
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REGULATIONS THAT THE RELIGIOUS
LEADERS INSISTED SHOULD BE
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ACCEPTED BY THE
PEOPLE AND OBEYED.
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SO THIS IS WHERE THE TRADITION
SIDE COMES IN, WHICH IS VERY,
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VERY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE TRUE
WORSHIP OF GOD WHICH SHOULD BE
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JOYOUS AND UPLIFTING AND IT
LED THE PEOPLE INTO LEGALISM.
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YOU KNOW, LEGALISM - THE
LORD SAYS - ELLEN WHITE SAYS
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'LEGALISM - THAT KIND OF
RELIGION IS A TROUBLESOME
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GUEST.' AND IT IS BECAUSE IT
JUST SOAKS ALL THE JOY AND ALL
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THE FULFILLMENT AND JUST THE
SATISFACTION THAT GOD WANTS US
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TO GET OUT OF A RELATIONSHIP
WITH HIM, LEGALISM JUST - JUST
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SUCKS IT ALL OUT AND YOU'RE LEFT
WITH A HOLLOW SHELL AND PEOPLE
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ARE LEFT BELIEVING 'I'VE GOT
TO DO THIS LITTLE, TINY THING.
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AND I MUST DO THIS LITTLE TINY
THING, AND THEN THIS LITTLE TINY
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THING TO HAVE
FAVOR IN GOD'S EYES.'
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NOW, AND THEN, HOPEFULLY THAT
WILL SECURE FOR ME ETERNAL LIFE
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WHEN THIS LIFE IS ALL FINISHED.'
WELL, I'M SURE YOU'LL AGREE THAT
00:19:20.50\00:19:26.06
THAT KIND OF RELIGION IS
INDEED A TROUBLESOME GUEST.
00:19:26.06\00:19:29.53
AND I'M GOING TO RETURN TO THIS
IN A MOMENT - THE MISHNAH AND
00:19:29.53\00:19:32.76
THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES - ALL
THESE LITTLE MINUTE - I'M GOING
00:19:32.76\00:19:35.50
TO COME TO THAT IN A MOMENT.
SO ALL THIS WAS BAD ENOUGH, BUT
00:19:35.50\00:19:40.73
THE GREATER AND MORE GRIEVOUS
OFFENSIVENESS OF THE PHARISEES
00:19:40.73\00:19:47.00
IN GOD'S EYES - IT JUST
GET WORSE, DOESN'T IT REALLY?
00:19:47.00\00:19:48.93
THE GREATER AND THE MORE
GRIEVOUS AND THE OFFENSIVENESS
00:19:48.93\00:19:52.83
OF THE PHARISEES IN GOD'S EYES
WAS THAT THEY HAD THIS OUTWARD
00:19:52.83\00:19:57.16
DISPLAY OF PIETY - JUST DISPLAY
OF PIETY AND HOLINESS THAT THEY
00:19:57.16\00:20:04.43
PARADED PUBLICLY
BEFORE EVERYBODY.
00:20:04.43\00:20:09.56
BUT INSIDE, WHEN YOU GOT BEHIND
THAT EXTERIOR AND IT WAS JUST A
00:20:09.56\00:20:14.36
VERY THIN VENEER, THEIR HEARTS
WERE PROUD AND VAIN AND HARD AND
00:20:14.36\00:20:20.96
SELFISH AND CORRUPT. AND,
BY THE WAY, WE CAN HAVE THE
00:20:20.96\00:20:26.00
SAME HEARTS AS PHARISEES,
BUT THIS IS ONE REASON WHY, ONE
00:20:26.00\00:20:29.66
TIME, JESUS CALLED
THEM 'WHITED SEPULCHERS'.
00:20:29.66\00:20:31.70
HE SAID, 'YOU'RE JUST
LIKE WHITE-WASHED SEPULCHERS'.
00:20:31.70\00:20:34.33
HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK ALL
NICE AND WHITE ON THE OUTSIDE -
00:20:34.33\00:20:37.10
YOU MAY HAVE A FEW LITTLE
FLOWERS THERE TO GARNISH THE
00:20:37.10\00:20:39.70
TOMB - BUT INSIDE' - HE SAID -
'YOU'RE FULL OF UNCLEANNESS AND
00:20:39.70\00:20:45.60
DEAD-MEN'S BONES.' VERY
GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION HERE.
00:20:45.60\00:20:51.00
MATTHEW 23 STILL - I WANT
TO READ VERSES 5 THROUGH 7.
00:20:51.00\00:20:56.20
HERE'S WHERE JESUS IS
STILL GOING AT THEM HERE.
00:20:56.20\00:21:00.93
THIS IS WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THEM
- VERSE 5 - ABOUT SCRIBES AND
00:21:00.93\00:21:04.00
PHARISEES. HE SAYS,
"BUT ALL THEIR WORKS
00:21:04.00\00:21:06.76
THEY DO FOR TO BE SEEN OF
MEN: THEY MAKE BROAD THEIR
00:21:06.76\00:21:11.20
PHYLACTERIES," - I THINK MOST OF
YOU KNOW, BUT FOR ANYBODY NEW A
00:21:11.20\00:21:15.76
PHYLACTERY WAS SOMETHING
THE SUPER ULTRA RELIGIOUS PERSON
00:21:15.76\00:21:21.53
WOULD WEAR - LIKE A LITTLE BOX
- PUT IT ON HIS HEAD OR ON HIS
00:21:21.53\00:21:24.76
WRIST AND THERE WAS A
PORTION OF GOD'S LAW IN THERE.
00:21:24.76\00:21:28.90
THEY TOOK A PASSAGE FROM THE
OLD TESTAMENT - STARTED IT - AND
00:21:28.90\00:21:34.00
THEY WORE IT ON THERE. BUT
THEY WERE SO LEGALISTIC YOU
00:21:34.00\00:21:36.63
DIDN'T WEAR IT ON SABBATH
BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE LIKE
00:21:36.63\00:21:38.30
CARRYING A BURDEN
- OR ON FEAST DAYS.
00:21:38.30\00:21:41.80
BUT THEY WOULD WEAR THESE
PHYLACTERIES TO BE SEEN, YOU
00:21:41.80\00:21:44.43
KNOW, 'SEE ME', YOU
KNOW, 'SEE MY NEW PHYLACTERY -
00:21:44.43\00:21:49.43
ONE AT THE FRONT, ONE AT THE
BACK', YOU KNOW? GOD HATES THAT
00:21:49.43\00:21:54.16
KIND OF PRETENSE. LET'S
GET BACK HERE. AND WHAT ELSE?
00:21:54.16\00:22:02.46
"THEY MAKE LARGE THEIR
PHYLACTERIES AND ENLARGE THE
00:22:02.46\00:22:05.13
BORDERS OF THEIR GARMENTS," -
THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES WOULD
00:22:05.13\00:22:13.00
HAVE THESE TASSELS OR FRINGES
WHICH HUNG FROM THE BOTTOM OF
00:22:13.00\00:22:18.30
THEIR ROBES AND THE BIGGER
THE TASSEL IT WAS A SIGNAL, YOU
00:22:18.30\00:22:21.80
KNOW, THAT YOU WERE PIOUS - EVEN
MORE PIOUS AND RIGHTEOUS - EVEN
00:22:21.80\00:22:27.06
BEYOND THE LAW - AND FAR MORE
RIGHTEOUS THAN OTHER MEN AND
00:22:27.06\00:22:31.93
WOMEN. SO, YOU
KNOW, THEY HAD THEIR
00:22:31.93\00:22:34.03
ROBES WITH THEIR PHYLACTERIES ON
THEM, YOU KNOW, 'SEE MY' - I'M
00:22:34.03\00:22:37.53
SORRY - 'WITH MY FRINGES ON
THEM.' I MEAN, WE MAY LAUGH, YOU
00:22:37.53\00:22:42.63
KNOW, BUT THAT WAS THE
MIND SET IN THOSE DAYS.
00:22:42.63\00:22:47.76
AND WE, SITTING HERE
IN THIS CHURCH IN THE 21ST
00:22:47.76\00:22:51.06
CENTURY, WE MIGHT LOOK AND THINK
'HOW COULD THOSE PEOPLE BE SO
00:22:51.06\00:22:55.66
BLINKERED AND BLIND?' BUT,
YOU KNOW, WE'RE PEOPLE LIKE
00:22:55.66\00:23:00.26
THEY WERE AND MAYBE THERE'S
SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T SEE BUT
00:23:00.26\00:23:05.56
OUR CHILDREN MIGHT SEE
OR SOMEBODY ELSE MIGHT SEE.
00:23:05.56\00:23:07.70
SO EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T APPROVE
OF WHAT THEY DID, LET'S JUST BE
00:23:07.70\00:23:11.16
CAREFUL ABOUT SITTING IN
JUDGMENT ON SOME OF THESE PEOPLE
00:23:11.16\00:23:14.46
SOMETIMES BECAUSE WE'RE
STILL A BUNCH OF WORK OURSELVES.
00:23:14.46\00:23:18.66
SO LET US LEARN
FROM THESE THINGS.
00:23:18.66\00:23:22.10
AND VERSE 6 HERE, "AND LOVE THE
UPPERMOST ROOMS" - THAT MEANS
00:23:22.10\00:23:29.16
THE HIGHEST POSITIONS OF HONOR -
"AT FEASTS, AND THE CHIEF SEATS
00:23:29.16\00:23:33.96
IN THE SYNAGOGUES, AND GREETINGS
IN THE MARKETS, AND TO BE CALLED
00:23:33.96\00:23:37.60
OF MEN, RABBI, RABBI."
NOW, WHEN THE TERM 'RABBI' CAME
00:23:37.60\00:23:43.96
OUT THERE WAS THE
PERSONAL PRONOUN ATTACHED TO IT.
00:23:43.96\00:23:47.66
ORIGINALLY IT MEANT - IT
MEANT, 'MY GREAT ONE' YOU KNOW.
00:23:47.66\00:23:52.93
'YOU ARE MY GREAT
ONE' OR 'MY GREAT TEACHER'.
00:23:52.93\00:23:57.13
SO YOU CAN IMAGINE A RABBI THERE
WITH HIS PHYLACTERY AND HIS BIG
00:23:57.13\00:24:01.43
LONG FRINGES AND HE'S AT A FEAST
AND HE GETS, YOU KNOW, A SPECIAL
00:24:01.43\00:24:06.03
SEAT AND THERE'S PEOPLE COMING
UP AND THEY SAY, 'OH, MY RABBI,
00:24:06.03\00:24:09.56
MY GREAT ONE'.
WELL, WHO NEEDS THAT?
00:24:09.56\00:24:16.40
HUMAN BEINGS - EVEN IF IT
WAS ALL TRUE, THAT THEY WERE
00:24:16.40\00:24:19.16
RIGHTEOUS, WHO NEEDS PRAISE?
WE DON'T NEED PRAISE, DO WE?
00:24:19.16\00:24:24.80
WE'RE ALREADY PROUD ENOUGH.
BUT THERE'S WHAT THESE MEN WERE
00:24:24.80\00:24:28.96
LIKE AND RIGHTLY SO IT
GAVE JESUS - IT WAS A PROBLEM.
00:24:28.96\00:24:35.66
YOU COMPARE THAT TO PHILIPPIANS
2 - I WANT TO TURN THERE VERY
00:24:35.66\00:24:39.66
QUICKLY - TO PHILIPPIANS 2 -
WHERE WE SEE THE COMPARISON HERE
00:24:39.66\00:24:44.46
BETWEEN THEM AND
JESUS. PHILIPPIANS 2 - THIS IS
00:24:44.46\00:24:49.63
SOMETHING WE SHOULD READ EVERY
DAY. PHILIPPIANS 2 - WE'RE GOING
00:24:49.63\00:24:54.30
TO READ FROM VERSE 3. IT
SAYS, "LET NOTHING BE DONE
00:24:54.30\00:24:58.90
THROUGH STRIFE OR VAINGLORY;
BUT IN LOWLINESS OF MIND LET
00:24:58.90\00:25:05.30
EACH ESTEEM OTHERS
BETTER THAN THEMSELVES."
00:25:05.30\00:25:10.26
DOWN TO VERSE 5 - IT SAYS, "LET
THIS MIND BE IN YOU, WHICH WAS
00:25:10.26\00:25:15.33
ALSO IN CHRIST JESUS: WHO, BEING
IN THE FORM OF GOD, THOUGHT IT
00:25:15.33\00:25:19.83
NOT ROBBERY TO BE EQUAL
WITH GOD: BUT MADE HIMSELF OF NO
00:25:19.83\00:25:26.26
REPUTATION, AND TOOK UPON HIM
THE FORM OF A SERVANT, AND WAS
00:25:26.26\00:25:30.80
MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN: AND
BEING FOUND IN FASHION AS A MAN,
00:25:30.80\00:25:35.93
HE HUMBLED HIMSELF, AND BECAME
OBEDIENT UNTO DEATH, EVEN THE
00:25:35.93\00:25:40.06
DEATH OF THE CROSS." SO YOU
COMPARE THE PHARISEES TO JESUS.
00:25:40.06\00:25:45.66
NOW, IF ANYBODY HAD A RIGHT
TO HAVE LONG TASSELS ON HIS ROBE
00:25:45.66\00:25:51.13
YOU'D SAY JESUS DID. OR
TO HAVE THE SEAT OF HONOR AT
00:25:51.13\00:25:53.96
A FEAST - JESUS
CERTAINLY DESERVED IT.
00:25:53.96\00:25:57.10
BUT HE SHUNNED THAT.
BUT THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
00:25:57.10\00:26:00.30
BETWEEN THE SCRIBES
AND PHARISEES AND CHRIST.
00:26:00.30\00:26:02.76
AND WHICH MIND DO YOU WANT?
IT SAYS HERE, 'LET THIS MIND BE'
00:26:02.76\00:26:07.56
- I WANT THE MIND OF JESUS,
I DON'T WANT THE MIND OF THE
00:26:07.56\00:26:09.76
SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES.
AND I WANT A MIND THAT'S OPEN TO
00:26:09.76\00:26:15.13
THE TEACHINGS OF GOD'S WORD
AND THE PROMPTINGS OF THE HOLY
00:26:15.13\00:26:18.10
SPIRIT SO THAT IF GOD NEEDS
TO TELL ME, 'MICHAEL, YOU KNOW,
00:26:18.10\00:26:22.20
YOU'RE A BIT OF
A TRADITIONALIST.
00:26:22.20\00:26:24.06
YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE THING GOING
OVER HERE AND YOU'RE SO BLIND
00:26:24.06\00:26:26.53
YOU CAN'T SEE IT.' I WANT TO
HEAR GOD'S VOICE AND I WANT TO
00:26:26.53\00:26:29.20
KNOW THAT. AND THROUGH HIS GRACE
I WANT TO TURN AWAY FROM THAT
00:26:29.20\00:26:33.76
BECAUSE I WANT TO HAVE
A CLEAR PATH FOR MY FEET.
00:26:33.76\00:26:36.93
BUT THE PROBLEM IS, YOU SEE,
WHEN WE'RE HOOKED ON TRADITION
00:26:36.93\00:26:41.96
AS THEY WERE, THE
LIGHT BECOMES DARKNESS.
00:26:41.96\00:26:45.76
ON MONDAY'S SECTION - AND I'M
GOING TO READ THE FIRST - I'M
00:26:45.76\00:26:54.36
GOING TO READ AGAIN,
ACTUALLY, FROM OUR LESSON HERE.
00:26:54.36\00:26:57.50
IT SAYS - YEAH, I SAID I'D GET
BACK TO THE MISHNAH, YOU KNOW,
00:26:57.50\00:27:01.43
ALL THOSE BOOKS WITH ALL
THOSE LITTLE THINGS HERE.
00:27:01.43\00:27:04.60
MONDAY'S SECTION
'HUMAN COMMANDMENTS' -
00:27:04.60\00:27:06.73
I'M GOING TO READ
THE FIRST PARAGRAPH.
00:27:06.73\00:27:08.50
IT SAYS, "ALTHOUGH THE SCRIBES
AND PHARISEES SAT IN MOSES'
00:27:08.50\00:27:11.96
SEAT, THEIR SOURCE OF AUTHORITY
FOR RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION
00:27:11.96\00:27:16.36
EXTENDED BEYOND
THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:27:16.36\00:27:19.86
THE LAW THAT THE PHARISEES
UTILIZED CONSISTED OF BIBLICAL
00:27:19.86\00:27:24.16
INTERPRETATIONS
OF LEADING RABBIS."
00:27:24.16\00:27:26.70
- AND WE DID MENTION THIS -
"THEIR INTERPRETATIONS WERE NOT
00:27:26.70\00:27:30.53
INTENDED TO REPLACE THE
SCRIPTURE, BUT TO COMPLEMENT
00:27:30.53\00:27:34.20
THEM. AT FIRST THEY
WERE CIRCULATED ORALLY.
00:27:34.20\00:27:38.80
LATER, THE SCRIBES BEGAN
TO ASSEMBLE THEM INTO BOOKS.
00:27:38.80\00:27:42.56
THE FIRST OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
OF RABBINICAL LAW DID NOT APPEAR
00:27:42.56\00:27:46.26
UNTIL THE END OF THE SECOND
CENTURY AD, WHEN RABBI YAHUDA, A
00:27:46.26\00:27:53.26
PRINCE IN JUDAH, PUBLISHED THE
MISHNAH." THAT'S HOW THE WORD
00:27:53.26\00:27:55.93
CAME ABOUT - "THE LAWS RECORDED
IN THE MISHNAH REFLECTED ABOUT
00:27:55.93\00:27:59.56
FOUR CENTURIES OF
RABBINIC INTERPRETATION.
00:27:59.56\00:28:03.26
INCLUDED AMONG THE CONTRIBUTING
RABBIS ARE MANY WHO HAVE LIVED -
00:28:03.26\00:28:07.93
WERE MANY WHO LIVED AT THE TIME
OF JESUS." - AND IT MENTIONS
00:28:07.93\00:28:11.20
HILLEL AND SHAMMAI.
THERE WAS ALSO GAMALIEL,
00:28:11.20\00:28:14.50
THE GRANDSON OF HILEL
AND ALSO PAUL'S TEACHER.
00:28:14.50\00:28:17.86
AND SOMETIMES THESE RABBIS THEY
WOULD - THEY'D GET THE MISHNAH
00:28:17.86\00:28:22.53
AND THEY'D
DEBATE CERTAIN THINGS.
00:28:22.53\00:28:26.33
I IMAGINE PEOPLE SAT AROUND
LISTENING TO THESE GREAT MINDS,
00:28:26.33\00:28:29.40
YOU KNOW, THESE GREAT MEN WHO
WERE SO VERSED IN THE MISHNAH,
00:28:29.40\00:28:33.16
JUST KIND OF BEING AWED.
WELL, YOU KNOW, ONE TIME THERE
00:28:33.16\00:28:37.20
WAS A FACE-OFF BETWEEN TWO
- FACE-OFF BETWEEN TWO LEADING
00:28:37.20\00:28:41.83
RABBIS WHO WERE ARGUING THIS
POINT: WAS IT LAWFUL TO EAT AN
00:28:41.83\00:28:49.66
EGG ON SABBATH - WAS IT LAWFUL
TO EAT AN EGG THAT A CHICKEN HAD
00:28:49.66\00:28:55.23
LAID ON SABBATH? YOU
WANT A SHOW OF HANDS?
00:28:55.23\00:28:58.96
BY THE WAY, WHO'S - NO,
WE WON'T GO THERE BUT CAN
00:28:58.96\00:29:03.13
YOU IMAGINE THAT? TWO
GREAT MINDS DEBATING 'IS IT
00:29:03.13\00:29:07.90
LAWFUL TO EAT AN EGG LAID
BY A CHICKEN ON THE SABBATH?'
00:29:07.90\00:29:13.96
WELL, YOU CAN FIGURE THAT ONE
OUT YOURSELF. BUT I'M JUST USING
00:29:13.96\00:29:20.60
THAT TO SHOW YOU HOW RIDICULOUS
THIS WHOLE SYSTEM BECAME.
00:29:20.60\00:29:26.33
SO WE ARE CREATURES OF
TRADITION - REMEMBER, IN THE
00:29:26.33\00:29:31.66
BEGINNING I MENTIONED THAT
WESLEY SAID THERE WERE FOUR
00:29:31.66\00:29:34.03
THINGS: THERE WAS THE WORD OF
GOD, THERE WAS FAITH AND THERE
00:29:34.03\00:29:36.13
WAS OUR TRADITIONS AND OUR
TRADITIONS DO COME INTO PLAY AND
00:29:36.13\00:29:40.53
THEY'RE PERFECTLY FINE PROVIDED
THEY DON'T SUPERCEDE THE WORD OF
00:29:40.53\00:29:44.06
GOD. IT'S
PERFECTLY FINE TO DO THAT.
00:29:44.06\00:29:50.83
FOR EXAMPLE, YOU
MIGHT HAVE A TRADITION.
00:29:50.83\00:29:54.43
I DON'T KNOW WHY WE DID IT,
BUT WHEN OUR LITTLE GIRLS WERE
00:29:54.43\00:29:57.20
YOUNGER, WHEN SUNDOWN CAME
WE WOULD - WE'D LIGHT A CANDLE.
00:29:57.20\00:30:01.70
NOW, YOU MIGHT THINK, 'OH,
THAT'S VERY CATHOLIC PASTOR
00:30:01.70\00:30:04.26
MIKE.' WELL, WE
DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF IT.
00:30:04.26\00:30:06.43
WE DID IT FOR A
COUPLE - A LITTLE TRADITION -
00:30:06.43\00:30:08.30
LITTLE GIRLS LIKE
TO LIGHT A CANDLE.
00:30:08.30\00:30:10.13
LAST NIGHT - I PROBABLY
SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT.
00:30:10.13\00:30:13.80
I SEE SOME FROWNS ALREADY - BUT
LAST NIGHT DEBBIE AND ERIC CAME
00:30:13.80\00:30:17.53
AROUND WITH JACK AND WEEMO
AND WE WERE SINGING SOME LITTLE
00:30:17.53\00:30:19.70
SONGS FOR WORSHIP - 'THIS LITTLE
LIGHT OF MINE' - AND ONE OF OUR
00:30:19.70\00:30:22.66
TRADITIONS IS - WE HAVE A COUPLE
OF - THEY'RE ACTUALLY BATTERY
00:30:22.66\00:30:26.46
OPERATED - YOU FLICK THEM ON -
BUT THEY LOOK LIKE CANDLES, YOU
00:30:26.46\00:30:28.76
KNOW? SO THEY GET
THIS LITTLE CANDLE
00:30:28.76\00:30:30.86
AND THEY'RE WALKING AROUND
THE COUCH. 'THIS LITTLE LIGHT
00:30:30.86\00:30:33.40
OF MINE, I'M GOING' - SO THAT'S
A LITTLE TRADITION WE HAVE.
00:30:33.40\00:30:37.03
ANYTHING WRONG WITH
THAT? OH, THAT'S A RELIEF.
00:30:37.03\00:30:40.36
GOOD - NO,
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
00:30:40.36\00:30:42.56
SO, YOU SEE, LITTLE TRADITIONS
LIKE THAT ARE PERFECTLY FINE.
00:30:42.56\00:30:46.66
YOU MAY, FOR EXAMPLE, HAVE A
TRADITION, LADIES, YOU MAY DO
00:30:46.66\00:30:52.23
THE - IF YOU'VE GOT ANY BAKING
TO DO FOR SABBATH YOU MAY DO IT
00:30:52.23\00:30:55.50
ON THURSDAY OR FRIDAY MORNING.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
00:30:55.50\00:30:58.86
MAYBE THERE'S A CERTAIN DRESS OR
A CERTAIN PAIR OF SHOES YOU LIKE
00:30:58.86\00:31:05.00
TO WEAR ON SABBATH. THAT'S
FINE - NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
00:31:05.00\00:31:07.86
SO, YOU
UNDERSTAND, WE HAVE TRADITIONS
00:31:07.86\00:31:10.66
AND THEY'RE PERFECTLY FINE.
00:31:10.66\00:31:12.20
AND, BY THE WAY, I WANT TO TAKE
AN OPPORTUNITY TO MENTION THIS:
00:31:12.20\00:31:16.83
IN VOLUME 6 OF 'THE TESTIMONIES'
- IF YOU DON'T HAVE THESE BOOKS
00:31:16.83\00:31:21.76
YOU SHOULD GET THEM - THERE IS A
SECTION CALLED, 'THE OBSERVANCE
00:31:21.76\00:31:25.06
OF THE SABBATH' AND IT GOES ON
FOR SEVERAL PAGES, BUT I WANT TO
00:31:25.06\00:31:31.70
ENCOURAGE YOU - IF I
MAY GIVE YOU AN ASSIGNMENT.
00:31:31.70\00:31:36.83
IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT IN A
WHILE, GO TO VOLUME 6 OF THE
00:31:36.83\00:31:39.06
TESTIMONIES AND READ THE CHAPTER
'THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH'.
00:31:39.06\00:31:43.00
IT BEGINS ON PAGE 349 AND YOU
MAY FIND SOME THINGS IN THERE
00:31:43.00\00:31:47.76
THAT, AS YOU'RE PREPARING FOR
THE SABBATH, MAYBE WOULD BE GOOD
00:31:47.76\00:31:52.46
THINGS TO BECOME TRADITIONAL IN
YOUR LIFE THAT YOU DO ON FRIDAY
00:31:52.46\00:31:56.23
SO THAT WHEN THE SUN
GOES DOWN, YOU'RE ALL READY.
00:31:56.23\00:32:00.70
IT SAYS HERE ON PAGE 353, "ALL
THROUGH THE WEEK WE ARE TO HAVE
00:32:00.70\00:32:07.16
THE SABBATH IN MIND." - THERE'S
A TRADITION YOU CAN HAVE.
00:32:07.16\00:32:10.23
ALL THROUGH THE WEEK YOU CAN
HAVE THE SABBATH IN MIND. - "BE
00:32:10.23\00:32:14.33
MAKING PREPARATION TO KEEP IT
ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT."
00:32:14.33\00:32:18.23
SO THAT TRADITION DOES
NOT EXCEED THE COMMANDMENT.
00:32:18.23\00:32:21.33
THERE'S NOTHING IN HERE THAT
SAYS, 'YOU MUST KEEP HOLY THE
00:32:21.33\00:32:23.36
SIXTH DAY' BUT THE SIXTH
DAY IS A GOOD DAY TO HAVE SOME
00:32:23.36\00:32:27.43
TRADITION SO THAT YOU'RE READY
WHEN THE SEVENTH DAY COMES -
00:32:27.43\00:32:31.33
EVERYTHING'S DONE. SO
THERE'S GOOD TRADITIONS.
00:32:31.33\00:32:36.13
SO THAT WHEN THE SABBATH COMES
WE'RE READY TO ENTER INTO THAT
00:32:36.13\00:32:38.23
VERY PRECIOUS AND
WONDERFUL TIME OF REST.
00:32:38.23\00:32:42.53
OKAY, TO REPEAT AGAIN,
UNFORTUNATELY, MANY OF THE
00:32:42.53\00:32:51.53
JEWISH TRADITIONS BEGAN TO
BE GIVEN EQUAL STATUS UNTIL THEY
00:32:51.53\00:32:57.10
WERE GIVEN EQUALITY WITH THE LAW
ITSELF AND BECAME BINDING UPON
00:32:57.10\00:33:02.83
THEM. I'M GOING
BACK TO MATTHEW -
00:33:02.83\00:33:05.50
I'M GOING TO MATTHEW 15 NOW,
ACTUALLY. LET'S GO TO MATTHEW 15
00:33:05.50\00:33:10.03
TO LOOK AT A PRIME EXAMPLE HERE.
MATTHEW 15 - I'M GOING TO READ
00:33:10.03\00:33:16.03
THE FIRST TWO VERSES.
AND THIS WHOLE THING, YOU'LL
00:33:16.03\00:33:20.93
FIND IT ALSO IN MARK 7 -
IT'S A BIT MORE DETAILED IN
00:33:20.93\00:33:23.86
MARK 7 IN SOME WAYS,
BUT THIS IS JUST AS WELL.
00:33:23.86\00:33:28.13
MATTHEW 15, VERSES 1 AND 2,
"THEN CAME TO JESUS SCRIBES AND
00:33:28.13\00:33:33.80
PHARISEES, WHICH WERE OF
JERUSALEM, SAYING, 'WHY DO THY
00:33:33.80\00:33:39.30
DISCIPLES TRANSGRESS
THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS?
00:33:39.30\00:33:42.56
FOR THEY WASH NOT THEIR HANDS
WHEN THEY EAT BREAD.'" AH, 'WHY
00:33:42.56\00:33:50.36
DO YOUR DISCIPLES TRANSGRESS
THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS?' -
00:33:50.36\00:33:55.10
SPEAKING OF 'YOUR DISCIPLES,
THEY'RE VIOLATING CERTAIN
00:33:55.10\00:33:59.66
PRECEPTS IN THE MISHNAH - THAT'S
WHAT THEY'RE DOING HERE - THEY
00:33:59.66\00:34:03.70
DON'T WASH THEIR HANDS BEFORE
THEY EAT BREAD.' WELL, YOU KNOW,
00:34:03.70\00:34:08.40
IT'S NOT A BAD THING TO
WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE YOU EAT,
00:34:08.40\00:34:10.40
IS IT? BUT THERE WAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH HYGIENE IN THIS KIND
00:34:10.40\00:34:15.86
OF HAND WASHING HERE THAT
THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES WERE
00:34:15.86\00:34:20.60
ACCUSING JESUS' DISCIPLES OF NOT
DOING - NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT.
00:34:20.60\00:34:27.06
THEIR MIND SET - IT WAS A
TRADITIONAL KIND OF HAND WASHING
00:34:27.06\00:34:30.16
THAT JUST EXCEEDED THE BOUNDS OF
RATIONALITY AND PRACTICABILITY
00:34:30.16\00:34:35.20
AND IF YOU WANT SOME DETAILS
ON THAT I'LL READ THEM TO YOU.
00:34:35.20\00:34:39.26
THIS IS WHAT THEY
WERE TALKING ABOUT.
00:34:39.26\00:34:41.00
THIS IS FROM THE SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST BIBLE COMMENTARY
00:34:41.00\00:34:43.83
PAGE 622, "THE
WASHING HERE REFERRED TO
00:34:43.83\00:34:50.40
WAS STRICTLY
RITUALISTIC, NOT SANITARY.
00:34:50.40\00:34:54.66
THIS RITE IS SAID TO HAVE
CONSISTED OF POURING" - NOW
00:34:54.66\00:34:58.23
LISTEN TO THIS - "A SMALL
QUANTITY OF WATER UPON THE
00:34:58.23\00:35:01.73
FINGERS AND PALM OF FIRST ONE
HAND" - A LITTLE BIT OF WATER ON
00:35:01.73\00:35:05.83
THE FINGERS AND JUST ON THE
PALM OF ONE HAND - "AND THEN THE
00:35:05.83\00:35:09.50
OTHER HAND, TILTED SO THAT THE
WATER RAN FROM THE PALM TO THE
00:35:09.50\00:35:13.23
WRIST." CAN YOU REMEMBER THAT?
00:35:13.23\00:35:16.20
OH, YOU'VE GOT TO GET THIS
RIGHT, NOW - "TILTED SO THAT THE
00:35:16.20\00:35:20.10
WATER RAN FROM THE PALM OF
THE HAND TO THE WRIST BUT NOT
00:35:20.10\00:35:23.76
FURTHER" - OKAY - "BUT ALL THE
TIME TAKING CARE LEST THE WATER
00:35:23.76\00:35:28.73
RUN BACK INTO THE PALM." -
SO HE HAD TO KIND OF DO - DO
00:35:28.73\00:35:31.86
THIS KIND OF THING WITH
HIS WATER HERE IN YOUR WRIST.
00:35:31.86\00:35:36.13
ALRIGHT? - "AND
THEN, ALTERNATIVELY
00:35:36.13\00:35:39.03
RUBBING ONE HAND WITH
THE PALM OF THE OTHER.
00:35:39.03\00:35:43.23
THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF WATER
PRESCRIBED WAS THAT WHICH COULD
00:35:43.23\00:35:47.16
BE CONTAINED IN ONE
AND A HALF EGGSHELLS.
00:35:47.16\00:35:51.26
IT SEEMS, HOWEVER, THAT WHERE
WATER WAS NOT AVAILABLE, A DRY
00:35:51.26\00:35:55.86
ABLUTION WAS PERMITTED, IN WHICH
A PERSON WOULD SIMPLY GO THROUGH
00:35:55.86\00:35:59.70
THE MOTIONS OF WASHING HIS
HANDS IN THE PRESCRIBED MANNER."
00:35:59.70\00:36:05.33
SO WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS AND
SAID, 'YOUR DISCIPLES ARE EATING
00:36:05.33\00:36:10.20
WITH UNWASHED HANDS.' IT WAS
NOTHING TO DO WITH GETTING BUGS
00:36:10.20\00:36:12.60
OFF, IT WAS NOT PUTTING A LITTLE
DROP ON THE FINGERS OR IN THE
00:36:12.60\00:36:17.03
PALM AND DOING THIS AND THEN ON
THE OTHER ONE AND - SO JESUS WAS
00:36:17.03\00:36:23.60
VERY PATIENT, WASN'T HE? VERY
PATIENT - VERY PATIENT INDEED.
00:36:23.60\00:36:32.60
BUT THEN - OKAY, LET
ME GET BACK TO THIS HERE.
00:36:32.60\00:36:37.33
SO JESUS WAS FRUSTRATED ENOUGH
AND THEN JESUS GIVES AN EXAMPLE
00:36:37.33\00:36:41.70
OF HOW ANOTHER TRADITION OF THE
PHARISEES COULD BE INVOKED TO
00:36:41.70\00:36:47.40
SUPERCEDE THE AUTHORITY OF GOD'S
LAW AGAIN, THIS TIME THE FIFTH
00:36:47.40\00:36:52.23
COMMANDMENT. THE
FIFTH COMMANDMENT IS 'HONOR
00:36:52.23\00:36:55.96
THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER' WHICH
IS IN EXODUS 20, BUT WE GO BACK
00:36:55.96\00:37:00.20
AGAIN TO MATTHEW 15, PICKING
UP HERE VERSES 4 THROUGH 6.
00:37:00.20\00:37:09.53
SO JESUS, YOU KNOW, HE - A
LITTLE FURTHER ON IN THE PASSAGE
00:37:09.53\00:37:13.26
HE TELLS THEM, 'LOOK, EATING
WITH UNWASHED HANDS IS NOT A
00:37:13.26\00:37:15.73
PROBLEM.' BUT HE LEAVES THAT
UNTIL FURTHER IN HIS DISCUSSION
00:37:15.73\00:37:18.60
WITH THE PHARISEES. BUT
HE GOES ON TO VERSE 4 AND HE
00:37:18.60\00:37:22.56
SAYS THE FOLLOWING: HE SAYS,
"FOR GOD COMMANDED, SAYING,
00:37:22.56\00:37:28.03
'HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER:
AND HE THAT CURSETH FATHER OR
00:37:28.03\00:37:32.86
MOTHER, LET HIM DIE THE
DEATH.'" - SO HE QUOTES THE
00:37:32.86\00:37:37.23
FIFTH COMMANDMENT TO
THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES.
00:37:37.23\00:37:39.36
THEN HE LOOKED AT THEM AND
HE SAYS, "BUT YE SAY, 'WHOSOEVER
00:37:39.36\00:37:42.90
SHALL SAY TO THIS FATHER OR HIS
MOTHER, 'IT IS A GIFT,'" - WE'LL
00:37:42.90\00:37:46.93
EXPLAIN THAT IN A MOMENT - "'IT
IS A GIFT BY WHATSOEVER THOU
00:37:46.93\00:37:49.90
MIGHTEST BE PROFITED BY ME;
AND HONOR NOT HIS FATHER OR HIS
00:37:49.90\00:37:54.53
MOTHER, HE SHALL BE
FREE. THUS HAVE YE MADE THE
00:37:54.53\00:37:58.40
COMMANDMENT OF GOD OF NONE
EFFECT BY YOUR TRADITION.'" WHAT
00:37:58.40\00:38:01.86
JESUS IS TELLING THEM HERE
IS, 'OKAY, YOU'VE GOT YOUR HAND
00:38:01.86\00:38:05.50
WASHING THING, BUT MORE THAN
THIS' - HE SAYS - 'YOU ALSO' -
00:38:05.50\00:38:08.26
HE SAYS - 'YOU NOT ONLY BREAK
THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD' - BUT HE
00:38:08.26\00:38:12.56
SAID - 'YOU
ACTUALLY DO AWAY WITH IT.
00:38:12.56\00:38:14.30
YOU TRY AND GET AROUND IT WITH
THIS THING THAT YOU'VE COME UP
00:38:14.30\00:38:16.73
WITH.' AND THIS IS
WHAT IT AMOUNTED TO.
00:38:16.73\00:38:19.00
THERE MAY BE A YOUNG MAN LIVING
IN THE HOUSE AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S
00:38:19.00\00:38:22.50
MAYBE GOT FREE ROOM AND BOARD
AND ONCE IN A WHILE HE NEEDS TO
00:38:22.50\00:38:25.33
PAY HIS PARENTS SOMETHING. MAYBE
HE NEEDED TO GET A JOB AS WELL.
00:38:25.33\00:38:31.56
AND SO HE HAS A FEW SHEKELS IN
HIS POCKET AND IT'S ONLY RIGHT
00:38:31.56\00:38:34.96
THAT HE GIVES IT TO HIS MOM AND
DAD AND HE GETS THE MONEY IN HIS
00:38:34.96\00:38:38.56
HAND AND HE COMES TO HIS MOM
AND DAD AND HE SAYS, 'KORBAN'.
00:38:38.56\00:38:43.43
AND AS SOON AS THE WORDS WENT
OUT OF HIS MOUTH 'KORBAN' IT
00:38:43.43\00:38:46.23
MEANS THAT THIS MONEY IS
NOW DEDICATED TO THE TEMPLE.
00:38:46.23\00:38:50.90
SO MOM AND DAD, I KNOW I OWE
THIS TO YOU, BUT I CAN'T GIVE IT
00:38:50.90\00:38:54.46
TO YOU. IT BELONGS TO THE TEMPLE
NOW. BUT WHILE HE STILL HAD
00:38:54.46\00:38:59.13
POSSESSION OF THAT
MONEY HE COULD USE IT.
00:38:59.13\00:39:03.40
AND SO THE PRIESTS, WHO
WERE SUPPOSED TO UPHOLD THE LAW,
00:39:03.40\00:39:10.40
SITTING IN MOSES' SEAT, THEY
HONORED THIS TRADITION SO THAT
00:39:10.40\00:39:14.86
THEY COULD WORK OUT A DEAL WITH
A YOUNG GUY LIKE THIS AND SAY,
00:39:14.86\00:39:17.80
'TELL YOUR PARENTS IT'S
KORBAN - IT'S FOR THE TEMPLE.
00:39:17.80\00:39:22.40
GIVE US HALF - YOU KEEP THE
OTHER HALF AND WHILE YOU STILL
00:39:22.40\00:39:24.30
HAVE SOME LEFT, IT'S OKAY.
SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND HOW JESUS
00:39:24.30\00:39:27.83
WAS SO INCENSED THAT THEY WOULD
TAKE - THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT,
00:39:27.83\00:39:31.96
IN THIS INSTANCE -
AND FIND A WAY AROUND IT.
00:39:31.96\00:39:35.63
TALK ABOUT HYPOCRISY.
WAS HYPOCRITES A GOOD TERM TO
00:39:35.63\00:39:39.73
USE? ABSOLUTELY IT WAS.
00:39:39.73\00:39:45.40
YOU COULD - IF YOU HAVE AN SDA
BIBLE COMMENTARY, IF YOU GO TO
00:39:45.40\00:39:48.46
VOLUME 5, PAGE 624, YOU COULD
READ ABOUT THAT THERE AS WELL.
00:39:48.46\00:39:53.83
BUT CONTINUING BACK IN MATTHEW
15, VERSES 7 THROUGH 9 - AND
00:39:53.83\00:40:00.13
HERE, HE JUST TELLS THEM - HE
SAYS, "YE HYPOCRITES, WELL DID
00:40:00.13\00:40:07.76
ESAIAS PROPHESY OF YOU SAYING,
'THIS PEOPLE DRAWETH NIGH UNTO
00:40:07.76\00:40:12.80
ME WITH THEIR MOUTH, AND
HONORETH ME WITH THEIR LIPS; BUT
00:40:12.80\00:40:16.36
THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME.
BUT IN VAIN THEY DO WORSHIP ME,
00:40:16.36\00:40:21.43
TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES
THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN."
00:40:21.43\00:40:26.66
AND SO, AFTER REBUKING THEIR
EXALTING OF HUMAN TRADITION OVER
00:40:26.66\00:40:34.43
THE WORD OF GOD, JESUS
CUTS THROUGH ALL THE SHALLOW,
00:40:34.43\00:40:36.93
PHARISAICAL NONSENSE AND ALL THE
OBSESSING OVER HAND WASHING AND
00:40:36.93\00:40:41.80
THE LIKE, TO FOCUS ON WHERE THE
REAL PROBLEM LAY IN THE HEARTS
00:40:41.80\00:40:45.86
OF THE PHARISEES. AND OUR
HEARTS TOO IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL.
00:40:45.86\00:40:50.36
IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH UNWASHED
HANDS, THE PROBLEM IS UNWASHED
00:40:50.36\00:40:53.83
HEARTS, THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM
LIES - UNWASHED HEARTS - EVIL
00:40:53.83\00:41:00.80
HEARTS. SOMETHING THAT ALL THE
RITUALISTIC OUTWARD WASHINGS IN
00:41:00.80\00:41:06.46
THE WORLD CAN NEVER CLEANSE
AWAY OR CURE. MATTHEW 15:16
00:41:06.46\00:41:15.13
THROUGH 20 - LET'S GO HERE -
AND HE SAYS - HE KIND OF SUMS UP
00:41:15.13\00:41:19.46
HERE, AND JESUS SAID, 'ARE YOU
ALSO YET WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING?
00:41:19.46\00:41:24.13
DO NOT YE YET UNDERSTAND, THAT
WHATSOEVER ENTERETH IN AT THE
00:41:24.13\00:41:27.73
MOUTH'" - LIKE EATING WITH
UNWASHED HANDS - "'GOETH INTO
00:41:27.73\00:41:30.76
THE BELLY, AND IS CAST
OUT INTO THE DRAUGHT?'" -
00:41:30.76\00:41:32.90
HE SAID THOSE THINGS
DON'T MATTER - HE SAID,
00:41:32.90\00:41:35.20
"BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH PROCEED
OUT OF THE MOUTH COME FORTH
00:41:35.20\00:41:39.50
FROM THE HEART; AND
THEY DEFILE THE MAN.
00:41:39.50\00:41:44.73
FOR OUT OF THE HEART
PROCEED EVIL THOUGHTS, MURDERS,
00:41:44.73\00:41:49.66
ADULTERIES, FORNICATIONS,
THEFTS, FALSE WITNESS,
00:41:49.66\00:41:53.90
BLASPHEMIES: THESE ARE THE
THINGS WHICH DEFILE A MAN: BUT
00:41:53.90\00:41:58.06
TO EAT WITH UNWASHEN HANDS
DEFILETH NOT A MAN.'" AND JESUS
00:41:58.06\00:42:02.46
JUST NAILED IT RIGHT THERE.
YOU KNOW, WHAT HE TOLD THEM,
00:42:02.46\00:42:07.53
THIS WAS TOTALLY
ALIEN TO THOSE MEN.
00:42:07.53\00:42:10.66
THEY WERE THERE WITH THEIR
PHYLACTERIES, THEIR NICE ROBES
00:42:10.66\00:42:12.60
WITH THEIR BIG LONGTASSELS ON
JUST PROBABLY SHAKING AROUND IN
00:42:12.60\00:42:16.40
THE BREEZE, MAYBE, WHILE THEY'RE
TALKING TO JESUS AND WHAT HE
00:42:16.40\00:42:18.73
SAID, IT WAS JUST
TOTALLY ALIEN TO THEM.
00:42:18.73\00:42:23.36
IT WAS ALL THE MORE REASON
WHY THEY JUST WANTED HIM GONE.
00:42:23.36\00:42:25.90
THEY WANTED HIM DEAD AND
FINALLY THEY GOT THEIR WAY.
00:42:25.90\00:42:29.36
BUT JESUS JUST NAILS IT HERE
AND HE SHOWS VERY, VERY, VERY
00:42:29.36\00:42:34.03
CLEARLY. HERE IS BROUGHT
TO LIGHT THE REPEATED THEME OF
00:42:34.03\00:42:38.33
SCRIPTURE THAT CONVERSION
HAS TO COME FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
00:42:38.33\00:42:44.33
IT WILL NOT WORK FROM THE
OUTSIDE IN - 'EXCEPT A MAN IS
00:42:44.33\00:42:49.83
BORN AGAIN HE CANNOT SEE THE
KINGDOM OF GOD.' EPHESIANS 2,
00:42:49.83\00:42:57.63
VERSES 8 THROUGH 10. WE
KNOW THIS VERY WELL BUT, YOU
00:42:57.63\00:43:02.13
KNOW, IT'S GOOD TO READ THESE
PASSAGES AGAIN ONCE IN A WHILE.
00:43:02.13\00:43:04.83
EPHESIANS 2:8 THROUGH 10 - IT
SAYS, "FOR BY GRACE YE ARE SAVED
00:43:04.83\00:43:09.36
THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT
OF YOURSELVES;" - NOT OF A HAND
00:43:09.36\00:43:14.43
WASHING OF ONE AND A HALF
EGGSHELLS FULL OF WATER OR THAT
00:43:14.43\00:43:19.06
KIND OF STUFF - YOU'RE SAVED
THROUGH FAITH - "IT IS THE GIFT
00:43:19.06\00:43:24.03
OF GOD: NOT OF WORKS,
LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST.
00:43:24.03\00:43:27.66
FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP,
CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS UNTO
00:43:27.66\00:43:32.76
GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD HATH
BEFORE ORDAINED THAT WE SHOULD
00:43:32.76\00:43:36.50
WALK IN THEM." LET'S NEVER
LOSE SIGHT OF THOSE THINGS.
00:43:36.50\00:43:41.76
YEAH, LET'S HAVE
OUR LITTLE TRADITIONS.
00:43:41.76\00:43:43.13
IT'S FINE TO WALK AROUND 'THIS
LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE' - BAKE
00:43:43.13\00:43:46.50
YOUR BREAD ON THURSDAY OR
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO, BUT
00:43:46.50\00:43:51.10
NEVER, NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT
THAT EARNS YOU MERIT AND NEVER
00:43:51.10\00:43:55.10
PLACE THOSE THINGS
ABOVE THE WORD OF GOD.
00:43:55.10\00:43:57.76
I WANT TO RETURN NOW
TO MATTHEW 15:7 AND 8.
00:43:57.76\00:44:01.46
JESUS SAID AGAIN, HE SAYS,
"YE HYPOCRITES, WELL DID EASIAS
00:44:01.46\00:44:07.16
PROPHESY OF YOU, SAYING," - AND
HE QUOTES HERE FROM ISAIAH 29:13
00:44:07.16\00:44:11.90
- "THIS PEOPLE DRAWETH NIGH
UNTO ME WITH THEIR MOUTH, AND
00:44:11.90\00:44:15.80
HONORETH ME WITH THEIR LIPS;
BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME."
00:44:15.80\00:44:22.30
THAT - THAT WAS THE PROBLEM
WITH THE PHARISEES, THEY WERE
00:44:22.30\00:44:27.26
UNCONVERTED AND THEY'RE
UNCONVERTED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T
00:44:27.26\00:44:30.23
KNOW GOD AND IF YOU DON'T
KNOW GOD, YOU DON'T LOVE HIM.
00:44:30.23\00:44:33.90
THEN EVERYTHING
UNRAVELS FROM THAT POINT ONWARD.
00:44:33.90\00:44:37.63
BUT HE QUOTED FROM ISAIAH 29:9
THROUGH 13, ACTUALLY THAT'S WHAT
00:44:37.63\00:44:46.16
HE WAS QUOTING FROM THERE.
I WANT TO TURN TO THAT PASSAGE
00:44:46.16\00:44:50.63
BECAUSE IT BRINGS TO
LIGHT A VERY - SOMETHING VERY
00:44:50.63\00:44:54.10
SIGNIFICANT HERE. SO
JESUS QUOTED FROM ISAIAH 29
00:44:54.10\00:44:57.56
AND WE'RE GOING TO GO THERE NOW.
ISAIAH 29, VERSES 9 THROUGH 13
00:44:57.56\00:45:02.56
AND WE READ THE FOLLOWING:
IT SAYS, "STAY YOURSELVES, AND
00:45:02.56\00:45:09.66
WONDER; CRY YE OUT, AND CRY:
THEY ARE DRUNKEN, BUT NOT WITH
00:45:09.66\00:45:16.30
WINE; THEY STAGGER,
BUT NOT WITH STRONG DRINK."
00:45:16.30\00:45:20.30
- ISAIAH HERE IS SPEAKING TO
GOD'S PEOPLE ABOUT 700 YEARS BC.
00:45:20.30\00:45:25.80
HE SAYS - HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE
DRUNKEN' - GOD'S SAYING THIS -
00:45:25.80\00:45:29.36
NOT WITH WINE BUT
WITH STRONG DRINK.
00:45:29.36\00:45:33.60
"FOR THE LORD HATH POURED
OUT UPON YOU THE SPIRIT OF DEEP
00:45:33.60\00:45:37.03
SLEEP, AND HATH CLOSED
YOUR EYES: THE PROPHETS AND YOUR
00:45:37.03\00:45:41.16
RULERS, THE
SEERS HATH HE COVERED.
00:45:41.16\00:45:45.00
AND THE VISION OF ALL IS BECOME
UNTO YOU AS THE WORDS OF A BOOK
00:45:45.00\00:45:49.06
THAT IS SEALED, WHICH MEN
DELIVER TO ONE THAT IS LEARNED,
00:45:49.06\00:45:51.96
SAYING, 'READ THIS, I
PRAY THEE:' AND HE SAITH,
00:45:51.96\00:45:54.76
I CANNOT FOR IT IS SEALED.
00:45:54.76\00:45:57.40
AND THE BOOK IS DELIVERED TO
HIM THAT IS NOT LEARNED, SAYING,
00:45:57.40\00:46:00.30
'READ THIS, I PRAY THEE:'
AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT LEARNED."
00:46:00.30\00:46:03.80
- WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT HERE -
HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS PEOPLE IN
00:46:03.80\00:46:07.06
ANCIENT TIME - HE SAID, 'YOU'RE
DRUNK.' - NOT WITH STRONG WINE
00:46:07.06\00:46:12.16
BUT THEY ARE DRUNK - SPIRITUALLY
BLIND AND SPIRITUALLY DRUNK.
00:46:12.16\00:46:16.90
AND, BY THE WAY, IN VERSE 10 IT
SAYS, 'GOD HAS POURED OUT UPON
00:46:16.90\00:46:19.63
YOU THE SPIRIT OF DEEP
SLEEP AND HAS CLOSED YOUR EYES.'
00:46:19.63\00:46:22.63
GOD DOESN'T DO THAT. THE
HEBREW, SOMETIMES, ASCRIBES
00:46:22.63\00:46:27.03
TO GOD THAT WHICH HE PERMITS,
IF YOU GET THE POINT THERE.
00:46:27.03\00:46:33.23
GOD DID NOT HARDEN PHARAOH'S
HEART, BUT THE WAY THE HEBREW IS
00:46:33.23\00:46:37.26
WRITTEN IT SEEMS THAT IT
ASCRIBES TO GOD THE FACT THAT HE
00:46:37.26\00:46:41.23
HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART.
HE DIDN'T HARDEN PHARAOH'S
00:46:41.23\00:46:43.10
HEART, HE WORKED MIRACLES IN
FRONT OF PHARAOH AND PHARAOH,
00:46:43.10\00:46:46.50
FROM THE FIRST ONE, COULD HAVE
LET THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL GO.
00:46:46.50\00:46:50.50
BUT HE DIDN'T, SO THE MORE
HE RESISTED HE HARDENED HIS OWN
00:46:50.50\00:46:52.73
HEART. AND HERE
IT SAYS - IT KIND OF
00:46:52.73\00:46:55.23
ASCRIBES TO GOD HE GAVE
THEM - HE PUT THEM TO SLEEP.
00:46:55.23\00:46:59.83
GOD DIDN'T PUT THEM TO SLEEP, HE
ALLOWED THEM TO RECEIVE - REAP
00:46:59.83\00:47:04.60
THE CONSEQUENCES
OF THEIR OWN ACTIONS.
00:47:04.60\00:47:06.23
THEY DIDN'T WANT TO
HEAR THE WORD OF GOD.
00:47:06.23\00:47:07.63
THEY DIDN'T WANT TO
HEAR FROM THE PROPHETS.
00:47:07.63\00:47:09.66
SO HE DESCRIBES IN HERE,
FIGURATIVELY, IN VERSE 9 HE
00:47:09.66\00:47:13.00
SAYS, 'YOU'RE DRUNK AS WITH
STRONG DRINK.' NOW LET'S NOTICE
00:47:13.00\00:47:17.16
THE REASON WHY THEY'RE DRUNK
- VERSE 13, "WHEREFORE THE LORD
00:47:17.16\00:47:22.40
SAID," - AND HERE'S THE VERSE
THAT JESUS QUOTED - "'FORASMUCH
00:47:22.40\00:47:27.40
AS THIS PEOPLE DRAW NEAR ME WITH
THEIR MOUTH, AND WITH THEIR LIPS
00:47:27.40\00:47:30.63
DO HONOR ME, BUT HAVE REMOVED
THEIR HEART FAR FROM ME, AND
00:47:30.63\00:47:34.40
THEIR FEAR TOWARD ME IS TAUGHT
BY THE PRECEPT OF MEN:'" - SO
00:47:34.40\00:47:37.53
THE REASON WHY THEY'RE DESCRIBED
AS DRUNK IN VERSE 9 IS BECAUSE
00:47:37.53\00:47:40.73
THEY PUT ASIDE THE WORD OF GOD
AND THEY'VE IMBIBED THE PRECEPTS
00:47:40.73\00:47:44.13
OF MEN. YOU GET THE POINT HERE?
00:47:44.13\00:47:49.36
BUT THE REAL THING THAT I WANT
TO PULL OUT OF THIS VERSE HERE
00:47:49.36\00:47:52.86
IN VERSE 29 IS - ACTUALLY,
DO I WANT TO DO THAT NOW OR IN A
00:47:52.86\00:47:59.36
MOMENT? JUST -
YEAH, THE REAL POINT I
00:47:59.36\00:48:02.73
WANT TO MAKE HERE IS GOD SAYS
TO THEM - HE SAYS, 'YOU HONOR ME
00:48:02.73\00:48:06.83
WITH YOUR LIPS BUT YOUR HEART
IS FAR FROM ME.' AND THAT -
00:48:06.83\00:48:13.96
THAT'S WHERE IT ALL BEGINS.
THAT'S WHERE IT ALL BEGINS.
00:48:13.96\00:48:19.40
IF YOU DON'T LOVE GOD,
YOU WON'T LOVE HIS WORD.
00:48:19.40\00:48:23.36
YOU WON'T HAVE A DESIRE
TO DO WHAT HE ASKS YOU TO DO.
00:48:23.36\00:48:28.00
AND SO, IF TRADITIONS COME
ALONG WHICH SUIT YOUR CARNAL
00:48:28.00\00:48:32.23
PRACTICES, 'SURE, BRING THEM ON.
00:48:32.23\00:48:35.16
LET'S HAVE MY OWN 21ST
CENTURY MISHNAH' - YOU KNOW?
00:48:35.16\00:48:38.60
- 'LET ME KEEP MY RELIGIOUS
VENEER BUT LET ME KEEP MY
00:48:38.60\00:48:41.23
TRADITIONS WHEREBY I CAN FIND MY
WAY AROUND GOD'S COMMANDMENTS,
00:48:41.23\00:48:47.26
AS WITH KORBAN.' - USING THIS
JUST AS AN ILLUSTRATION HERE.
00:48:47.26\00:48:52.60
AND SO WHEN WE DISREGARD
GOD'S WORD AND WE GIVE IN TO
00:48:52.60\00:48:57.96
HUMANISTIC TEACHINGS AND
PRACTICES, WE FINISH UP DRUNK.
00:48:57.96\00:49:03.56
THAT'S THE PROBLEM -
DRUNK WITH THIS FALSE DOCTRINE.
00:49:03.56\00:49:07.60
SAME HAPPENED TO THEM
AND IT CAN HAPPEN TO US.
00:49:07.60\00:49:10.26
THIS IS WHY, EVEN AMONG
OURSELVES, THE SAME ROOT CAUSE
00:49:10.26\00:49:14.50
IS WHY, TO SOME, THE
FOUNDATIONAL TRUTHS OF ADVENTISM
00:49:14.50\00:49:17.66
- THE THIRD ANGEL'S
MESSAGE - ARE NOT UNDERSTOOD AND
00:49:17.66\00:49:21.10
APPRECIATED.
THEY'RE LOOKED UPON AS OLD
00:49:21.10\00:49:24.00
FASHIONED, NO LONGER RELEVANT
- ESPECIALLY BY SOME WHO BELIEVE
00:49:24.00\00:49:31.00
WE NEED SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN
ORDER TO REACH, ESPECIALLY, THE
00:49:31.00\00:49:34.50
YOUNGER GENERATION AND HAVE
SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH OTHER
00:49:34.50\00:49:37.66
DENOMINATIONS SO WE DON'T
LOOK SO ODD AND WE DON'T LOOK SO
00:49:37.66\00:49:40.96
SINGULAR. SO WHAT DO
YOU DO? THIS IS A DANGER.
00:49:40.96\00:49:46.06
YOU STEP OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS
OF SOLID BIBLICAL TRUTH AND YOU
00:49:46.06\00:49:49.83
BEGIN TO BUILD A NEW BELIEF
SYSTEM THAT IS BUILT ON MODERN-
00:49:49.83\00:49:55.93
DAY HUMAN
TRADITION AND PRACTICES.
00:49:55.93\00:49:59.70
YOU MAY USE NEW TERMS. YOU
MAY MAKE IT SPARKLE AND YOU
00:49:59.70\00:50:03.36
PUT THE NEON SIGNS UP THERE AND
GIVE IT A FRESH NEW LOOK AND YOU
00:50:03.36\00:50:06.20
USE TERMS SUCH AS - WELL, I'LL
SAY IT - 'SPIRITUAL FORMATION'
00:50:06.20\00:50:10.06
OR 'EMERGENT THEOLOGY' - ALL
THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, BUT IT'S
00:50:10.06\00:50:15.13
STILL PUTTING ASIDE GOD'S WORD
AND BUILDING ON A MODERN FORM OF
00:50:15.13\00:50:20.90
HUMANISTIC RELIGIOUS TRADITION.
JUST THE SAME WAY THAT THE
00:50:20.90\00:50:26.76
SCRIBES AND
PHARISEES DID IN CHRIST'S DAY.
00:50:26.76\00:50:29.56
NO MATTER HOW MUCH THESE MODERN
NEW TRADITIONS - THEY'RE ALL NEW
00:50:29.56\00:50:33.40
AND SPARKLY - YOU KNOW,
THESE BUZZWORDS THAT WE USE - NO
00:50:33.40\00:50:38.76
MATTER HOW MUCH THEY IMPACT
THE MIND OR THE EMOTIONS, THEIR
00:50:38.76\00:50:42.70
ABILITY TO SANCTIFY - BECAUSE
ERROR NEVER SANCTIFIES - THE
00:50:42.70\00:50:47.23
ABILITY TO SANCTIFY OR MORALLY
PERFECT THE CHARACTER FOR THE
00:50:47.23\00:50:51.20
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST IS
AS INEFFECTIVE AS THE WASHING OF
00:50:51.20\00:50:55.66
HANDS AND POTS THAT THE
PHARISEES DID IN THE DAYS OF
00:50:55.66\00:51:00.53
CHRIST. THAT'S
WHY, WHEN JESUS CAME AND
00:51:00.53\00:51:03.53
HE SPOKE TO THEM -
PFFFFT - RIGHT OVER THEIR HEADS.
00:51:03.53\00:51:07.00
IF YOU TOLD THESE PEOPLE, 'YOU
KNOW, WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES
00:51:07.00\00:51:09.83
YOU'LL CRUCIFY HIM.' THEY
WOULD HAVE SAID, 'NO WAY!'
00:51:09.83\00:51:13.03
WE'RE LOOKING FOR HIM AND
HE'S RIGHT HERE TALKING TO YOU.
00:51:13.03\00:51:16.00
YOU SEE, THAT IS THE DANGER.
00:51:16.00\00:51:17.30
THAT IS THE FEAR OF HOW THE
HUMAN MIND CAN BE SO SKEWED AND
00:51:17.30\00:51:23.20
SO - TO THE LESSON HERE THERE'S
A GOOD STATEMENT FROM 'DESIRE OF
00:51:23.20\00:51:29.43
AGES' AT THE TOP
OF WEDNESDAY'S LESSON.
00:51:29.43\00:51:32.43
IT SAYS, "THE SUBSTITUTION
OF THE PRECEPTS OF MEN FOR THE
00:51:32.43\00:51:35.80
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD HAS NOT
CEASED." - WELL, IT HASN'T -
00:51:35.80\00:51:40.86
"EVEN AMONG CHRISTIANS ARE FOUND
INSTITUTIONS AND USAGES THAT
00:51:40.86\00:51:44.70
HAVE NO BETTER FOUNDATION THAN
THE TRADITIONS OF THE FATHERS.
00:51:44.70\00:51:49.06
SUCH INSTITUTIONS, RESTING UPON
A MERE HUMAN AUTHORITY, HAVE
00:51:49.06\00:51:53.00
SUPPLANTED THOSE
OF DIVINE APPOINTMENT.
00:51:53.00\00:51:56.60
MEN CLING TO THEIR TRADITIONS
AND REVERE THEIR CUSTOMS AND
00:51:56.60\00:52:00.56
CHERISH HATRED AGAINST THOSE WHO
SEEK TO SHOW THEM THEIR ERROR.
00:52:00.56\00:52:05.90
IN THE PLACE OF THE AUTHORITY
OF THE SO-CALLED FATHERS OF THE
00:52:05.90\00:52:09.06
CHURCH, GOD BIDS US ACCEPT THE
WORD OF THE ETERNAL FATHER - GOD
00:52:09.06\00:52:14.63
BIDS US ACCEPT THE WORD OF
THE ETERNAL FATHER, THE LORD OF
00:52:14.63\00:52:17.96
HEAVEN AND EARTH."
AND SO THESE NEWLY CREATED
00:52:17.96\00:52:26.46
TRADITIONS AND CEREMONIES IN
TODAY'S COUNTERFEIT RELIGIOUS
00:52:26.46\00:52:29.93
MOVEMENTS, SUCH AS SPIRITUAL
FORMATION AND THE EMERGING
00:52:29.93\00:52:35.00
THEOLOGY, ARE SOON TO FIND
THEMSELVES UNITING WITH A VERY
00:52:35.00\00:52:41.20
ANCIENT TRADITION, FROM
PAGANISM, WHICH IS IN MAINLINE
00:52:41.20\00:52:46.90
CHRISTIANITY - AND
THAT IS SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
00:52:46.90\00:52:50.36
THAT'S WHERE, IF YOU GET
INTO THESE THINGS - SPIRITUAL
00:52:50.36\00:52:55.16
FORMATION, EMERGENT THEOLOGY, OR
OTHER THINGS THE DEVIL HAS USED
00:52:55.16\00:52:58.66
TO INFILTRATE THE REMNANT,
YOU WILL ULTIMATELY FINISH UP
00:52:58.66\00:53:02.13
UNITING YOUR NEW TRADITION WITH
THE LONG-ESTABLISHED TRADITION
00:53:02.13\00:53:05.83
OF SUNDAY WORSHIP. THAT'S
EXACTLY WHERE IT'S GOING TO GO.
00:53:05.83\00:53:08.80
NOW THERE MAY BE THOSE
WHO DECRY SUCH AND SAY,
00:53:08.80\00:53:10.96
'PASTOR MIKE
THOMPSON, THAT IS EXTREME.
00:53:10.96\00:53:14.70
THAT IS FANATICAL.
THAT IS PREPOSTEROUS.
00:53:14.70\00:53:17.13
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.'
BUT I'M TELLING YOU IT WILL.
00:53:17.13\00:53:20.20
SOON, VERY SOON, EVERY BELIEF
SYSTEM NOT ROOTED IN SCRIPTURE
00:53:20.20\00:53:26.00
WILL COME UNDER THE POWER
OF SATANIC DECEPTION UNDER A
00:53:26.00\00:53:29.00
RELIGIOUS GUISE. AND
YOU'VE READ THIS FROM 'GREAT
00:53:29.00\00:53:32.86
CONTROVERSY' I'M SURE.
I'LL SHARE A BIT WITH YOU -
00:53:32.86\00:53:35.50
PAGE 588 - IT SAYS HERE "AS
SPIRITUALISM" - BECAUSE THERE'S
00:53:35.50\00:53:40.93
MYSTICISM SO WORKING ITS WAY
INTO CHRISTIANITY TODAY AND IT'S
00:53:40.93\00:53:45.50
SPIRITUALISM
UNDER A CHRISTIAN GUISE.
00:53:45.50\00:53:48.50
"AS SPIRITUALISM MORE
CLOSELY IMITATES THE NOMINAL
00:53:48.50\00:53:51.30
CHRISTIANITY OF THE DAY, THERE'S
GREATER POWER TO DECEIVE AND
00:53:51.30\00:53:55.10
ENSNARE. SATAN,
HIMSELF, IS CONVERTED
00:53:55.10\00:53:58.70
AFTER THE
MODERN ORDER OF THINGS.
00:53:58.70\00:54:01.30
HE WILL APPEAR IN THE CHARACTER
OF AN ANGEL OF LIGHT" - THIS WAS
00:54:01.30\00:54:04.20
WRITTEN OVER 100 YEARS AGO,
SO IF IT WAS SOMEWHAT LIKE THAT
00:54:04.20\00:54:06.90
THEN, WHAT IS IT NOW? "HE
WILL APPEAR IN THE CHARACTER
00:54:06.90\00:54:09.80
OF AN ANGEL OF
LIGHT. THROUGH THE AGENCY OF
00:54:09.80\00:54:12.66
SPIRITUALISM MIRACLES WILL
BE WROUGHT, THE SICK WILL BE
00:54:12.66\00:54:15.53
HEALED, AND MANY UNDENIABLE
WONDERS WILL BE PERFORMED.
00:54:15.53\00:54:18.96
AND THE SPIRITS WILL PROFESS
FAITH IN THE BIBLE AND MANIFEST
00:54:18.96\00:54:21.73
RESPECT FOR THE INSTITUTIONS OF
THE CHURCH AND AS THEY DO THAT
00:54:21.73\00:54:25.13
THEIR WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AS A
MANIFESTATION OF DIVINE POWER."
00:54:25.13\00:54:31.86
NOW, I'LL CUT IT SHORT HERE
- NEXT PARAGRAPH - "PAPISTS WHO
00:54:31.86\00:54:35.63
BOAST OF MIRACLES AS A CERTAIN
SIGN OF THE TRUE CHURCH WILL BE
00:54:35.63\00:54:39.56
READILY DECEIVED BY
THIS WONDER-WORKING POWER AND
00:54:39.56\00:54:42.93
PROTESTANTS WHO HAVE CAST AWAY
THE SHIELD OF TRUTH" - THIS HERE
00:54:42.93\00:54:49.20
- "IN PREFERENCE TO SOME OF
THE MODERN-DAY TRADITIONS AND
00:54:49.20\00:54:53.93
PROTESTANTS WHO HAVE CAST AWAY
THE SHIELD OF TRUTH WILL ALSO BE
00:54:53.93\00:54:58.26
DELUDED." AND WHERE
WILL THEY ALL FINISH UP?
00:54:58.26\00:55:03.86
PART OF THE GREAT MOVEMENT - THE
GREAT HARLOT OF REVELATION 17 -
00:55:03.86\00:55:09.50
THAT'S WHERE IT'S
GOING TO FINISH UP.
00:55:09.50\00:55:10.83
SO YOUR ONLY SAFETY AND MY ONLY
SAFETY, MY FRIENDS IS HAVE YOUR
00:55:10.83\00:55:17.83
LITTLE INNOCENT TRADITIONS,
YES, BUT DO NOT IN THAT - DO NOT
00:55:17.83\00:55:21.90
EXCEED THE BOUNDS OF GOD'S WORD.
YOU STAY ON THIS FOUNDATION, YOU
00:55:21.90\00:55:29.46
ARE SAFE. YOU'LL
GET ATTACKED BECAUSE
00:55:29.46\00:55:31.93
YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK
VERY ODD AND SINGULAR.
00:55:31.93\00:55:33.93
WE'RE NOT EVEN AT THE
WORST POINT YET OF GETTING STUFF
00:55:33.93\00:55:36.16
THROWN AT US. BUT, YOU KNOW,
THAT'S A SMALL PRICE TO PAY.
00:55:36.16\00:55:40.43
STAY. STAY WITH JESUS.
00:55:40.43\00:55:43.30
STAY WITH HIS WORD AND YOU WILL
BE SAFE EVEN IF YOU'RE THE ONLY
00:55:43.30\00:55:47.06
ONE AMONG A MULTITUDE THAT
REMAINS FAITHFUL TO THE END.
00:55:47.06\00:55:51.70
I'M GOING TO CONCLUDE WITH
THIS: IN MATTHEW 15, VERSE 13 -
00:55:51.70\00:55:56.56
MATTHEW 15, VERSE 13 JESUS SAID,
"EVERY PLANT, WHICH MY HEAVENLY
00:55:56.56\00:56:02.93
FATHER HATH NOT
PLANTED, SHALL BE ROOTED UP."
00:56:02.93\00:56:07.33
THEN HE'S SPEAKING OF
THOSE WHO ARE SPIRITUALLY BLIND.
00:56:07.33\00:56:10.30
HE SAYS, "LET THEM ALONE: THEY
BE BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND.
00:56:10.30\00:56:13.76
AND IF THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND,
BOTH SHALL FALL INTO THE DITCH."
00:56:13.76\00:56:18.86
SO LET'S NOT BECOME PART OF
A STRANGE PLANT BECAUSE GOD IS
00:56:18.86\00:56:23.13
GOING TO FINALLY PULL IT UP.
00:56:23.13\00:56:26.60
BUT I WANT TO SAY
THIS, IN CONCLUSION.
00:56:26.60\00:56:30.00
MAYBE THIS MIGHT
RESONATE WITH SOMEBODY TODAY.
00:56:30.00\00:56:35.03
YOU MAY HAVE KNOWN
THE TRUTH FOR A LONG TIME.
00:56:35.03\00:56:37.33
IT MAY BE NEW TO YOU, BUT
SOMEHOW, IN SOME WAY YOU FOUND
00:56:37.33\00:56:40.33
YOURSELF TENDING TO PUT THE
WORD OF GOD ASIDE AND JUST BEING
00:56:40.33\00:56:44.16
FASCINATED BY SOME SPARKLY
THINGS OUT THERE, WHICH SEEM
00:56:44.16\00:56:48.66
EXCITING AND NEW AND INNOVATIVE.
BUT SOMEHOW, YOU GET TO THE
00:56:48.66\00:56:52.73
BOTTOM OF IT, YOU REALIZE IT'S
NOT REALLY IN THE WORD OF GOD.
00:56:52.73\00:56:56.60
IT'S NOT REALLY IN THE SPIRIT
OF PROPHECY, BUT YOU'VE ALLOWED
00:56:56.60\00:56:59.13
YOURSELF TO GET DRAWN AWAY AND
YOU REALIZE THAT YOU NEED TO GET
00:56:59.13\00:57:03.93
BACK TO WHERE YOU BELONG.
I WANT TO TELL YOU THIS: NO
00:57:03.93\00:57:08.83
MATTER WHAT ROAD YOU'VE TAKEN
- EVEN IF IT'S NOT WITH ANYTHING
00:57:08.83\00:57:12.06
TO DO WITH WHAT WE'VE BEEN
TALKING ABOUT THIS MORNING.
00:57:12.06\00:57:14.53
EVEN IF SOMEBODY HAS NEVER EVEN
BEEN A CHRISTIAN BEFORE AND IS
00:57:14.53\00:57:17.53
SITTING HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME
- OR SOMEBODY WATCHING ON LIVE
00:57:17.53\00:57:20.03
STREAM NEVER EVEN BEEN A
CHRISTIAN - BUT YOU LOOK AND YOU
00:57:20.03\00:57:24.16
REALIZE YOUR LIFE IS
NOT WHAT IS SHOULD BE.
00:57:24.16\00:57:27.10
WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT THAT?
00:57:27.10\00:57:29.63
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN DO
ABOUT IT, YOU CAN COME TO JESUS
00:57:29.63\00:57:32.90
AND HE'LL FORGIVE YOU AND
HE'LL GIVE YOU A NEW START.
00:57:32.90\00:57:36.66
YOU KNOW, HE'S THE BEST
FRIEND YOU COULD EVER HAVE.
00:57:36.66\00:57:41.76
>> DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:41.76\00:57:45.26
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THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:45.26\00:57:48.70
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
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