Participants: Pr. Mike Thompson
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021419
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:48 WE ARE THRILLED THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD 00:52 TOGETHER AS YOU DO EVERY WEEK. AND WE KNOW BY OUR E-MAILS THAT 00:56 YOU'RE JOINING US ALL AROUND THE WORLD - PRACTICALLY FROM EVERY 00:59 COUNTRY - TO STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO 01:03 THE DAY SOON, WHEN WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE JESUS 01:06 FACE TO FACE AND ALL BE JOINED TOGETHER AS ONE BIG FAMILY. 01:10 SO WELCOME - AND AS YOU KNOW, FROM JOINING US EVERY WEEK, 01:14 WE LOVE TO SING TOGETHER SO TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. 01:18 TODAY I'VE CHOSEN A COUPLE OF MY FAVORITES SO WE ARE GOING TO 01:21 BEGIN WITH HYMN #337 - 'REDEEMED, HOW I LOVE TO 01:25 PROCLAIM IT' - AND WE ARE GOING TO SING ALL THREE VERSES. 01:30 (MUSIC) 03:32 >>YOU KNOW, YOU CAN JUST PRACTICALLY HEAR THE SAINTS 03:34 SHOUTING THAT, CAN'T YOU? REDEEMED, REDEEMED, REDEEMED, 03:38 AMEN. I CAN HARDLY WAIT. 03:41 IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE HYMN THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SING WITH US ON A 03:44 COMING STUDY TOGETHER, I INVITE YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 03:48 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'. THERE YOU CAN CLICK ON THE 03:50 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN SING ANY HYMN IN OUR HYMNAL WITH 03:53 US THAT YOU PREFER. AND WE WILL EVEN LEARN NEW ONES. 03:57 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK TODAY FROM LEARNING OUR NEW 04:00 SONGS, JUST BECAUSE I DIDN'T QUITE GET TO IT THIS WEEK, SO 04:05 HYMN #348 - 'THE CHURCH HAS ONE FOUNDATION'. 04:09 I THOUGHT THAT WAS APPROPRIATE AS WE SING ALL ACROSS THIS WORLD 04:13 TOGETHER THIS MORNING. THE CHURCH DOES HAVE ONE 04:16 FOUNDATION AND IT IS JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. 04:19 SO WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FOUR VERSES OF HYMN #348. 04:24 (MUSIC) 07:34 >>LET'S PRAY. 07:36 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE COME HUMBLY BEFORE YOU TODAY TO STUDY 07:40 YOUR WORD, TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU LOVE US, AND TO BE 07:45 ASSURED THAT THE CHURCH IS GOING TO BE VICTORIOUS. 07:47 WHEN ALL SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE NOT COMING AGAIN - WHEN ALL SEEMS 07:51 THE DARKEST, WE LOOK FORWARD TO THAT DAY WHEN YOU BREAK THROUGH 07:56 THE CLOUDS AND WE ARE DONE AND EVERYTHING IS COMPLETE AND YOU 08:02 TAKE US TO HEAVEN AND WE LIVE FOREVER WITH YOU. 08:05 LORD, WE LONG FOR THAT DAY AND WE JUST CRY OUT TO YOU, 'HOW 08:09 LONG, LORD?' AND WE JUST ASK YOU TO LIVE IN 08:12 OUR HEARTS AND HELP US TO DO OUR PARTS THAT WE CAN HASTEN YOUR 08:15 COMING AND THAT WHEN YOU FINALLY BREAK THROUGH THOSE CLOUDS THAT 08:18 NOT ONE OF US ARE MISSING AND THAT WE ALL CAN LIVE WITH YOU 08:23 FOREVER. LORD, WE LOOK FORWARD TO THAT DAY, BUT UNTIL YOU COME, 08:26 KEEP US FAITHFUL BY YOUR MIGHTY STRONG HAND. I PRAY THESE THINGS 08:31 IN YOUR NAME, JESUS, AMEN. OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT 08:35 TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON. HE IS THE HEALTH AND OUTREACH 08:40 PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 08:44 >>HAPPY SABBATH EVERYBODY. 08:47 I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO SABBATH SCHOOL AND I HAVE A 08:51 LITTLE BOOK HERE - THERE'S A FREE OFFER - IT'S CALLED 'THE 08:54 HIGH COST OF THE CROSS' AND IT'S OFFER #156. 09:01 AND IF YOU CALL 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR 1-866-788-3966 AMAZING FACTS 09:10 WILL SEND THIS TO YOU ABSOLUTELY FREE - 'THE HIGH COST OF THE 09:13 CROSS'. IT'S WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS, WHO WAS THE SPEAKER OF 09:17 AMAZING FACTS BEFORE PASTOR DOUG. WE OFTEN THINK, WELL, 09:22 PROBABLY DON'T THINK OF THE CROSS AS OFTEN AS WE SHOULD, BUT 09:26 THE PRICE THAT WAS PAID THERE WAS JUST INFINITE AND THIS GIVES 09:29 US A LITTLE GLIMPSE OF WHAT PRICE GOD PAID FOR OUR SAKES. 09:35 THERE'S A MEMORY VERSE HERE - IT'S IN ROMANS 7, VERSE 4 - IT 09:42 SAYS, 'IN THE SAME WAY, MY FRIENDS, YOU HAVE DIED TO THE 09:46 LAW THROUGH THE BODY OF CHRIST, SO YOU MAY BELONG TO ANOTHER. 09:52 TO HIM WHO HAS BEEN RAISED FROM THE DEAD IN ORDER THAT WE MAY 09:56 BEAR FRUIT TO GOD.' THERE'S ONE LITTLE SENTENCE RIGHT AT THE 10:02 END OF THE INTRODUCTION PAGE - IT SAYS, "THIS WEEK WE LOOK AT 10:06 THE DEATH OF JESUS AND WHAT IT MEANS IN RELATION TO THE LAW." 10:11 AND IT'S VERY NECESSARY THAT WE DO THAT BECAUSE YOU DON'T NEED 10:15 ME TO TELL YOU THAT THIS VERSE, FOR EXAMPLE, HAS BEEN GREATLY 10:19 MISINTERPRETED AND MISAPPLIED BY MANY CHRISTIANS WHO USE IT TO 10:25 TEACH THE IDEA THAT JESUS ABOLISHED THE LAW WHEN HE DIED 10:30 UPON THE CROSS. LET ME JUST READ IT AGAIN - ROMANS 7:4, 10:36 "WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN," - THIS IS THE KING JAMES VERSION - 10:39 "WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY 10:44 THE BODY OF CHRIST; THAT YE SHOULD BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER, 10:49 EVEN TO HIM WHO IS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, THAT WE SHOULD BRING 10:53 FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD." NOW THE APOSTLE PAUL IS NOT 10:59 TEACHING HERE THAT THE LAW IS DEAD, BUT THROUGH JESUS WE ARE 11:05 DEAD FROM BEING UNDER THE LAW'S POWER TO CONDEMN US. 11:10 IN FACT, I'M GOING TO READ ANOTHER VERSE IN ROMANS - ROMANS 11:13 7:6, WHICH IS AN ALTERNATE READING TO ROMANS 7:4 AND YOU 11:18 SEE HERE, IT SPEAKS OF NOT BEING DEAD TO THE LAW BUT ACTUALLY 11:22 BEING DELIVERED FROM THE LAW - DELIVERED FROM THE CONDEMNATION 11:25 OF THE LAW. ROMANS 7, VERSE 6, IT SAYS, "BUT 11:33 NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW," - NOT FROM BEING UNDER ITS 11:37 JURISDICTION BUT FROM BEING UNDER ITS POWER TO CONDEMN US - 11:44 SO THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND HERE. AND WE'RE BROUGHT 11:48 OUT FROM UNDER THIS CONDEMNATION BECAUSE JESUS TOOK UPON HIMSELF 11:53 OUR SINS. HE TOOK OUR SINS UPON HIS BODY. IN FACT, 11:58 IN CORINTHIANS IT SAYS HE BECAME SIN FOR US - HE WHO WAS 12:02 TOTALLY INNOCENT - HE'D NEVER ABUSED AN ORGAN OF HIS BODY. 12:06 HE WAS PURELY INNOCENT YET HIS BODY BECAME CORRUPTED WITH THE 12:12 SINS HE'D NEVER COMMITTED, BUT IT BECAME CORRUPTED WITH OUR 12:16 SINS AND HE BORE THOSE FOR US UPON THE CROSS AND HE SUFFERED 12:20 THE DEATH PENALTY IN OUR PLACE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO COME 12:23 UNDER THE CONDEMNATION OF THE LAW. 12:27 AND, OF COURSE, YOU DON'T NEED ME TO TELL YOU THAT SO SERIOUS 12:32 IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF SIN, WHICH IS VIOLATING THE LAW, THAT ONLY 12:38 THROUGH DEATH CAN THE OFFENDER APPEASE THE LAW THAT THEY HAVE 12:45 VIOLATED. IT'S THROUGH THE POWER OF THE 12:49 LAW THAT SIN ACTUALLY HAS ITS STING, IF YOU LIKE. 12:52 IF THERE WAS NO LAW THERE'D BE NO SIN - THERE'D BE NO DEATH 12:55 PENALTY. SO IT DOESN'T MEAN THE LAW IS 12:57 BAD, THE LAW IS GOOD - IT'S RIGHTEOUS. 13:01 BUT IT'S BECAUSE THAT LAW EXISTS THAT, THEREFORE, SIN HAS THE 13:06 STING OF DEATH WHEN IT STRIKES US. SO IT'S THROUGH THE POWER 13:12 OF THE LAW THAT SUCH CONDEMNATION UNTO DEATH FASTENS 13:15 ITSELF UPON THE SINNER AS AN UNBREAKABLE BOND WHEN THEY 13:22 VIOLATE THE PRECEPTS OF THE SACRED AND HOLY LAW OF GOD. 13:28 AND AS WE LOOK IN ROMANS 7, PAUL USES THE ANALOGY OF THE BINDING 13:32 NATURE OF MARRIAGE TO ILLUSTRATE THE BINDING AND DEADLY UNION 13:38 THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THE SINNER AND THEIR SIN. 13:41 YOU KNOW, MARRIAGE IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR KEEPS. 13:43 YOU KNOW THAT, DON'T YOU? AND IN GOD'S EYES - YOU MAKE A 13:46 VOW BEFORE GOD - IN THE EYES OF GOD - IN THE EYES OF - 13:49 SPECIFICALLY THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. 13:51 YOU ARE BOUND IN THAT UNION AND YOU CAN'T JUST WALK AWAY FROM 13:57 THAT. LET ME READ ROMANS 7, VERSES 1 14:01 AND 2 - HERE'S USING THE ANALOGY OF MARRIAGE HERE. 14:06 HE SAYS, "KNOW YE NOT BRETHREN, (FOR I SPEAK TO THEM THAT KNOW 14:10 THE LAW,) HOW THAT THE LAW HATH 14:13 DOMINION OVER A MAN AS LONG AS HE LIVETH? 14:17 FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO 14:23 HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE LIVETH; BUT IF THE HUSBAND BE 14:27 DEAD, SHE IS LOOSED FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND." 14:33 SO HERE PAUL, THE APOSTLE, DESCRIBES HOW, THROUGH THE POWER 14:38 AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE LAW THAT BINDS A MAN AND A WOMAN IN 14:43 THE TIGHT BONDS OF MATRIMONY, ONLY THROUGH DEATH OF ONE OR THE 14:48 OTHER, CAN THE REMAINING SPOUSE THEN BE FREE TO LAWFULLY MARRY 14:55 AGAIN IN THE EYES OF THE LAW AND NOT BE CONDEMNED AS AN 14:58 ADULTERER. THAT'S HOW BINDING THE LAW IS. 15:01 ROMANS 7, VERSE 3 - I'M GOING TO READ THAT RIGHT NOW. 15:05 IT SAYS, "SO THEN IF, WHILE HER HUSBAND LIVETH, SHE BE MARRIED 15:13 TO ANOTHER MAN, SHE SHALL BE CALLED AN ADULTERESS: BUT IF HER 15:16 HUSBAND BE DEAD," - SEE, IT'S ONLY THROUGH THE DEATH OF THE 15:19 SPOUSE - "IF HER HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS FREE FROM THAT LAW; 15:24 SO THAT SHE IS NO ADULTERESS, THOUGH SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER 15:29 MAN." - THAT'S HOW BINDING MARRIAGE IS 15:32 UPON A MAN AND A WOMAN AND ONLY THROUGH DEATH CAN THAT UNION BE 15:40 DISSOLVED - OR IF ONE COMMITS ADULTERY, THE OTHER ONE IS FREE, 15:44 UNDER THE LAW, TO GO AND REMARRY. 15:46 THE OTHER ONE DOES NOT HAVE BIBLICAL GROUNDS TO DO THAT. 15:50 SO PAUL HERE, HAVING MADE THIS POINT THAT ONLY THROUGH THE 15:53 DEATH OF ONE SPOUSE CAN THE SURVIVING SPOUSE INNOCENTLY 16:00 MARRY BEFORE THE LAW. NOW, PAUL USES THIS TO 16:03 ILLUSTRATE THAT THE ONLY WAY THE SINNER CAN ESCAPE FROM THE 16:09 MATRIMONIAL BONDS THAT EXIST BETWEEN THEM AND THE BODY OF 16:14 THEIR SIN IS ONLY THROUGH DEATH. IT'S ONLY THROUGH DEATH. 16:21 BUT THINK ABOUT THAT. IT DOESN'T WORK QUITE LIKE 16:26 MARRIAGE. IF YOU DIE STILL ATTACHED TO THE BODY OF YOUR 16:34 SIN, RIGHT, THEN YOU DIE IN YOUR SINS. YOU FOLLOW ME? 16:40 AND YOU DIE AS A LOST SOUL, SO THERE'S A PREDICAMENT HERE. 16:45 IN REAL MARRIAGE, YEAH, YOUR SPOUSE CAN DIE - I'M NOT MAKING 16:48 LIGHT OF ANYBODY WHO'S LOST A SPOUSE. 16:50 IN REAL MARRIAGE YOUR SPOUSE CAN DIE AND YOU CAN BE FREE. 16:54 BUT IN THE BOND BETWEEN THE SINNER AND THE BODY OF THEIR 16:59 SIN, IT DOESN'T QUITE HAPPEN LIKE THAT. 17:04 YOU KNOW, IF YOU DIE, YOU DIE IN YOUR SINS. 17:09 AND THIS IS WHY PAUL, IN 7:24, HE CRIES OUT. 17:12 HE SAYS, "O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! 17:15 WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH?" 17:19 HE'S SAYING, 'HOW CAN I GET OUT OF THIS MARRIAGE? 17:22 HOW CAN I GET OUT OF THIS RELATIONSHIP? 17:25 HOW CAN I GET RID OF THIS UGLY SPOUSE? 17:28 THE BODY OF MY SIN THAT KEEPS ME UNDER - THE CONDEMNATION OF THE 17:33 LAW THAT KEEPS ME UNDER THE CONDEMNATION OF ETERNAL DEATH. 17:36 THIS SPOUSE IS GOING TO DRAG ME DOWN TO THE GRAVE. 17:39 HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS BODY OF SIN IN WHICH I'M JUST DOOMED?' 17:44 BOY, IT'S QUITE A HEART CRY, ISN'T IT? 17:47 HE WAS CONCERNED - AND WE SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT WHO WE'RE 17:53 MARRIED TO. YOU KNOW, IT'S TOO EASY TO 17:55 BECOME COMPLACENT IN SIN AND THINK, YOU KNOW, 'YEAH, I NEED 17:59 TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS ONE DAY. 18:01 I NEED TO BE YOKED UP WITH HIM RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, I'M MARRIED 18:04 TO THE OLD - TO THE UGLY SPOUSE HERE - I'LL SPEAK FOR MYSELF - 18:09 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MY WIFE, BY THE WAY! I AM TALKING ABOUT, 18:15 FIGURATIVELY, THE BODY OF MY SIN, OKAY? 18:18 WE HAD OUR ANNIVERSARY JUST A FEW DAYS AGO - 42 YEARS. 18:23 THE POOR, DEAR GIRL - SHE'S DOING REMARKABLY WELL. 18:29 YOU GET THE POINT, RIGHT? 18:32 AND MAKE IT CLEAR WITH HELEN - MAKE SURE THAT YOU EXPLAIN HOW I 18:35 QUALIFIED THAT STATEMENT, JUST IN CASE SHE HEARS RUMORS. 18:40 SO TO REINFORCE, AGAIN, THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, 18:44 "WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY 18:48 THE BODY OF CHRIST" - HERE'S HOW IT WORKS. 18:51 HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: THIS BODY OF SIN NEEDS TO DIE. 18:56 I CAN'T BREAK THAT BOND - IT'S GOING TO TAKE ME WITH IT TO THE 19:00 GRAVE. BUT WHEN JESUS HUNG UPON THE 19:03 CROSS OF CALVARY, THERE WAS JOINED TO HIM THE BODY OF YOUR 19:12 SIN. HE WAS BOUND - IF I CAN USE THE 19:18 TERM MATRIMONIALLY - TO THE BODY OF YOUR SIN. 19:24 HE TOOK YOUR SINFUL BODY AWAY FROM YOU AND HE EMBRACED IT - 19:30 WELL, IT KIND OF MORE EMBRACED HIM BUT HE TOOK IT AND THAT 19:35 UGLY, NASTY, SPOUSE IS JUST WAITING TO TAKE YOU DOWN TO 19:43 ETERNAL DEATH. JESUS TOOK THAT AND HE TOOK YOUR 19:47 UGLY - AND HE DIED AND YOUR UGLY SPOUSE DIED WITH HIM AND HE TOOK 19:53 YOUR UGLY SPOUSE DOWN TO THE GRAVE. 19:58 AND WHEN HE ROSE, HE LEFT YOUR UGLY SPOUSE THERE SO THAT WHEN 20:03 HE ROSE, HE FOUND YOU FREE, SINGLE AND ELIGIBLE TO MARRY 20:08 AGAIN. AND THAT IS - TO BE MARRIED TO WHO? 20:13 TO BE MARRIED TO JESUS. ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL? 20:17 ROMANS 7:4 SAYS, "THAT YE SHOULD BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO 20:23 HIM WHO IS RAISED FROM THE DEAD," - THE ONLY WAY THAT BODY 20:27 OF SIN CAN GO - YOU LET JESUS TAKE HIM - OR HER - 20:31 DOWN TO THE GRAVE. AND THROUGH THE PREVIOUS 20:35 MARRIAGE WITH THE BODY OF YOUR SIN, WHAT DID YOU DO? 20:38 OH, MARRIAGES USUALLY BRING FORTH OFFSPRING, DON'T THEY? 20:41 NOT ALWAYS, BUT MANY TIMES. 20:44 AND IT SAYS IN ROMANS 7:5 - I WANT TO READ THAT - IT SAYS, 20:49 "FOR WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH" - MARRIED TO THE BODY OF OUR SIN 20:52 - "THE MOTIONS OF SINS, WHICH WERE BY THE LAW, DID WORK IN OUR 20:55 MEMBERS TO BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO DEATH." 20:59 SO YOU RAISED ALL THESE OFFSPRING - YOU BRING OFFSPRING 21:02 INTO THE WORLD - ALL THESE FRUITS OF SIN AND SOMETIMES THEY 21:07 FOLLOW YOU THROUGH LIFE, YOU KNOW? 21:09 AND THEY MAY STILL CAUSE SOME CONSEQUENCES, BUT YOU CAN STILL 21:13 BE FORGIVEN AND THEY CAN BECOME NO LONGER YOUR CHILDREN, BUT YOU 21:18 CAN BE - YOU CAN BE SEPARATED FROM THEM. 21:23 BUT IN THE NEW MARRIAGE TO CHRIST, THE OPPOSITE HAPPENS. 21:28 IN YOUR NEW MARRIAGE TO CHRIST YOU BRING FORTH THE BEAUTIFUL 21:31 OFFSPRING OF THE FRUIT UNTO GOD. 21:33 LET'S LOOK AGAIN - ROMANS 7:4 - "WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE 21:40 ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY THE BODY OF CHRIST;" - HE 21:43 TOOK YOUR OLD SPOUSE AWAY, YOU SEE - "...BY THE BODY OF CHRIST; 21:47 THAT YE SHOULD BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO HIM WHO IS 21:51 RAISED FROM THE DEAD," - LEFT YOUR OLD SPOUSE DOWN THERE, 21:55 AROSE, FOUND YOU SINGLE - ELIGIBLE, MARRIED YOU - "THAT WE 22:00 SHOULD BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD." 22:04 POWERFUL ANALOGY, ISN'T IT? 22:07 THEN IN VERSE 6 WE READ, "BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE 22:13 LAW," - NOT FROM BEING UNDER ITS JURISDICTION - WE'RE ALWAYS 22:18 UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE LAW, BUT WE'RE DELIVERED FROM 22:22 BEING UNDER ITS CONDEMNATION BECAUSE JESUS HAS TAKEN AWAY OUR 22:27 BODY OF SIN AND ALONG WITH THAT BODY OF SIN, TOOK THE 22:30 CONDEMNATION THAT WAS RIGHTLY OURS. JESUS SAID, 'GIVE IT 22:33 TO ME.' HE TOOK OUR CONDEMNATION - HE TOOK THE WRATH OF GOD. 22:37 HE PAID THE PRICE - WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS TWO THINGS 22:40 WERE EXHAUSTED: THE WRATH OF GOD AND THE SON OF GOD. 22:45 OUR SINS JUST WASTED HIM AND THAT LAW, WHICH HAD BEEN 22:50 DEMANDING THE LIFE - THE LIFE OF EVERY MAN AND WOMAN - 'YOU'VE 22:55 BROKEN ME. I DEMAND YOUR LIFE.' 22:57 THAT LAW WAS SILENT. JESUS HAS PACIFIED IT. 23:03 I'M NOT TEACHING, HERE, THAT HE DIED AND YOU JUST ACCEPT THE 23:07 GIFT AND YOU DON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I DON'T MEAN THAT. 23:10 I DON'T MEAN THAT KIND OF A THING. 23:15 BUT HE DIED FOR EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING AS THEY ACCEPT HIM - 23:22 TO BE FORGIVEN, TO BE WASHED, TO BE CLEANSED, TO BE DELIVERED, TO 23:27 BECOME NEW CREATURES IN JESUS CHRIST. 23:32 - "BUT NOW YE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW" - NOT FROM UNDER ITS 23:36 JURISDICTION BUT UNDER ITS CONDEMNATION - "THAT BEING DEAD 23:40 WHEREIN WE WERE HELD; THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF 23:43 SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER." 23:49 SO AS CHRIST DWELLS IN US - WHO WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE LAW, WE 23:56 THEN ARE ABLE TO WALK IN ITS SPIRITUAL PRECEPTS OF THE LAW AS 24:02 SPIRITUAL BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIANS. I THINK I SAID THIS BEFORE, I 24:05 SAY IT MANY TIMES, CONVERSION - IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO CONVERSION. 24:12 IT'S JUST AS SIMPLE AS THAT - BEING BORN AGAIN. 24:16 JESUS SAID, 'EXCEPT A MAN (OR A WOMAN) IS BORN AGAIN, THEY 24:18 CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD. UNLESS YOU'RE BORN AGAIN, YOU 24:21 DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CLAIMS THAT GOD HAS UPON YOUR LIFE. 24:24 YOU'RE NUMB - THE DEVIL BLINDS YOU. 24:25 JESUS SAID YOU'VE GOT TO BE BORN AGAIN TO SEE - TO UNDERSTAND. 24:30 AND HE SAYS, 'UNLESS A MAN IS BORN AGAIN OF WATER AND THE 24:32 SPIRIT HE WILL NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.' SO IT COMES 24:35 DOWN TO CONVERSION. AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO 24:41 HAVE A CONVERSION EXPERIENCE, GO TO JESUS AND ASK HIM. 24:46 GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND SAY, 'LORD, YOU KNOW I HEAR PEOPLE 24:49 TALK ABOUT BEING CONVERTED AND I REALLY DON'T - I DON'T KNOW - 24:54 YOU KNOW, SHOW ME - LEAD ME INTO ONE. HERE'S YOUR WORD - 25:00 SHOW ME.' HE'LL DO THAT. IT'S HIS DELIGHT - IT'S HIS DELIGHT. 25:06 WHAT GREATER INSTRUCTOR COULD YOU HAVE AS TO HOW YOU CAN HAVE 25:09 A NEW BIRTH IN JESUS AND HE'S WAITING JUST TO BE YOUR OWN 25:12 SPECIAL TUTOR AND INSTRUCTOR. SO AS WE'RE CONVERTED, THEN 25:19 THERE'S A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE. THE LAW IS NOT SOMETHING WE TRY 25:23 TO KEEP, YOU KNOW, TO BE SAVED. NO - NO - NO - NEVER - NEVER - 25:27 NEVER - NEVER - NEVER. THE - KEEPING THE LAW - JESUS 25:31 WRITES THAT LAW - THE TABLES OF THE LAW - UPON THE TABLES OF OUR 25:34 HEARTS. THIS IS THE PROMISE - THE NEW 25:36 TESTAMENT PROMISE FIRST GIVEN IN JEREMIAH AND THEN IN HEBREWS 8 25:40 AND IN HEBREWS 10 HE SAYS - GOD SAYS, 'THIS IS THE LAW. 25:42 THIS IS A COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE 25:45 DAYS.' SAYETH THE LORD - 'I WRITE MY LAWS UPON THEIR MINDS 25:48 AND IN THEIR HEARTS WILL I WRITE THEM. AND THAT MEANS JESUS COMES 25:52 IN AND THE LIFE THAT HE LIVED UPON THIS EARTH AS HE WALKED 25:57 SPIRITUALLY, HE'LL LIVE OUT THAT LIFE IN YOU. 26:00 YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO SECRET TO BEING A CHRISTIAN. 26:03 IT JUST TAKES, THE EFFORT TO MAKE A DECISION AND TO SPEND 26:08 TIME WITH HIM AND HE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE REST. 26:14 I'M PREACHING TO THE CONGREGATION - I KNOW - THIS 26:17 MORNING BUT, YOU KNOW, WE DO NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THESE 26:21 THINGS. AND WHAT JESUS ACCOMPLISHED FOR 26:23 US AT THE CROSS - TAKING THAT BODY OF SIN - WE NEED TO TAKE 26:28 ADVANTAGE OF THAT EVERY DAY. PAUL SAID, 'I DIE' - HOW OFTEN? 26:32 'DAILY.' EVERY DAY YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THAT DIVORCE. 26:36 EVERY DAY THAT UGLY SPOUSE HAS GOT TO BE TAKEN, STRETCH THAT 26:41 NECK ON THE BLOCK, AND - POOF - YOU'VE GOT TO BE MERCILESS. 26:45 EXCUSE THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION THERE, BUT WHO WANTS TO LIVE 26:47 WITH THAT UGLY SPOUSE EVERY DAY? THAT UGLY SPOUSE - YOU'VE GOT TO 26:50 GET A DIVORCE AND BE MARRIED AGAIN TO JESUS. 26:53 AND YOU BRING FORTH THOSE FRUITS UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEOPLE 26:57 LOOK AT YOU AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?' 26:58 - OR THEY TALK ABOUT YOU - 'YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW THAT JEFF OVER 27:02 THERE? HE'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT, ISN'T HE? 27:05 SOMETHING'S HAPPENED IN HIS LIFE. HE USED TO CUSS - 27:07 HE DOESN'T CUSS ANYMORE.' OR 'THERE'S JANE OVER THERE. 27:12 YOU KNOW, SHE WAS ALWAYS - ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THIS GUY 27:16 AND THAT GUY AND, YOU KNOW, SHE HAD A POTTY MOUTH AND SHE'S 27:21 CHANGED.' JESUS CHANGES FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS AND HE DELIVERS US 27:31 - HE TAKES THAT OLD SPOUSE AND HE DOES AWAY WITH IT. 27:35 AND, PRAISE THE LORD, WE CAN HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE EVERY DAY - 27:38 EVERY MOMENT. I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO MONDAY - 27:41 'THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH'. ROMANS 7 AND 8 SPEAK OF LAW IN 27:46 THREE WAYS - I'VE PRESENTED THIS - I DON'T KNOW - IN MY ALMOST 16 27:52 YEARS HERE, I PRESENTED THIS MANY TIMES, BUT IT'S IN THE 27:59 LESSON SO I'M GOING TO DO IT AGAIN WITHOUT ANY APOLOGIES 28:01 HERE. ROMANS 7 AND 8 SPEAK OF LAW IN 28:05 THREE WAYS: IN ROMANS 7:7 - IF YOU'D LIKE TO GO THERE WITH ME - 28:11 IT SPEAKS OF THE MORAL LAW THAT DEFINES SIN. 28:17 THE LAW DOES TWO THINGS: IT DEFINES SIN AND IT DEFINES 28:20 RIGHTEOUSNESS - OR, IF YOU LIKE - IT DEFINES RIGHTEOUSNESS AND 28:23 IT DEFINES SIN - WHICHEVER WAY AROUND YOU WANT TO PUT IT. 28:26 AND, BY THE WAY, THE LAW DEFINES SIN, BUT IS POWERLESS TO FORGIVE 28:35 IT. THE LAW DEFINES RIGHTEOUSNESS 28:39 BUT IS ALSO POWERLESS TO BESTOW IT. 28:42 BUT IT'S GOD'S STANDARD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THAT IS A 28:46 STANDARD WE WILL BE JUDGED BY IN THE JUDGMENT AND THE ONE WHO 28:51 WILL STAND WITH US IN THE JUDGMENT WILL BE JESUS. 28:54 BUT THERE IS THE LAW. NOW, NONETHELESS, LET'S READ ROMANS 28:58 7:7, "WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? IS THE LAW SIN? GOD FORBID. 29:07 NAY, I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN" - HE SAYS, 'I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN 29:10 WHAT SIN WAS BUT BY THE LAW - IF THE LAW HADN'T TOLD ME.' THEN HE 29:14 GIVES AN EXAMPLE, HE SAID, "FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST, EXCEPT THE 29:18 LAW HAD SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT COVET." SO HERE'S THIS LAW 29:23 AND IT DEFINES RIGHTEOUSNESS AND IT DEFINES SIN. 29:26 AND THEN, IN ROMANS 7:12 - THIS IS - THIS IS HOW HE SUMMARIZES 29:31 IT, HE SAYS, "WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY, 29:34 AND THE COMMANDMENT HOLY, AND JUST, AND GOOD." 29:38 HE SAID, 'I DIDN'T KNOW SIN EXCEPT THE LAW TOLD ME IT'S 29:40 SIN.' AND HE SAID, 'THAT LAW'S A GOOD LAW. 29:43 IT'S HOLY, JUST, AND GOOD.' THEN HE GOES ON TO DESCRIBE THE 29:46 EXPERIENCE OF A PERSON - AND YOU COULD BE GOING TO ROMANS 7:19 29:52 WHILE I'M TALKING - AND HE GOES ON TO DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCE OF 29:55 A PERSON WHO IS CONVICTED OF SIN BY THE LAW AND WANTS TO LIVE BY 30:01 THE PRINCIPLES AND THE PRECEPTS OF THE LAW, BUT FINDS THEMSELVES 30:05 POWERLESS TO DO SO. ROMANS 7, VERSE 19 - HE SAYS, 30:11 "FOR THE GOOD THAT I WOULD I DO NOT:" - IN OTHER WORDS, 'I WANT 30:17 TO DO GOOD BUT I DON'T DO IT.' - "BUT THE EVIL WHICH I WOULD NOT, 30:22 THAT I DO." - SO HE SAYS, 'THIS IS THE LAW. 30:25 IT'S A GOOD LAW. IT TELLS ME WHAT SIN IS. 30:26 IT'S HOLY, JUST, AND GOOD, BUT I TRY TO DO IT BUT - I TRY TO DO 30:30 GOOD BUT, YOU KNOW, I JUST CAN'T CUT IT. 30:33 IT DOESN'T WORK.' AND THEN HE CITES THE PROBLEM - HERE'S THE 30:37 PROBLEM, YOU SEE: 7, VERSE 14 - HE SAYS, "FOR WE KNOW THAT THE 30:44 LAW IS SPIRITUAL: BUT I AM CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN." 30:51 HERE'S THE PROBLEM: IT'S A GOOD LAW. 30:54 IT'S A SPIRITUAL LAW, BUT A CARNAL PERSON CANNOT KEEP A 30:59 SPIRITUAL LAW. IT'S JUST IMPOSSIBLE. 31:03 IT'S AS IMPOSSIBLE AS TRYING TO SEPARATE THE BONDS THAT SEPARATE 31:07 YOU FROM THAT UGLY SPOUSE OF YOUR BODY OF SIN. 31:11 YOU'RE JUST - YOU'RE HELD TIGHT. THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN DO IT. 31:15 NOW HE EXPLAINS WHY - HE EXPLAINS WHY A CARNAL PERSON 31:22 CANNOT OBEY A SPIRITUAL LAW - WELL, WE JUST SAID BECAUSE 31:25 THEY'RE CARNAL, BUT LET'S GET A BIT MORE DETAIL. 31:27 ROMANS 7:21 THROUGH 23. AND HERE'S WHERE - REMEMBER AT 31:34 THE BEGINNING OF THIS SECTION I SAID WE'RE GOING TO SPEAK IN THE 31:37 LAW - MAKE THREE REFERENCES TO LAW HERE. 31:40 WE'VE LOOKED AT THE MORAL LAW - ROMANS 7:7 - BUT NOW HERE COMES 31:45 A SECOND LAW AND THIS IS - IT'S THIS SECOND LAW THAT 31:49 STOPS HIM FROM KEEPING THAT FIRST LAW. 31:52 JUST FOLLOW ME HERE - VERSE 21 - HE SAYS, "I FIND THEN A LAW, 31:59 THAT, WHEN I WOULD DO GOOD, EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME. 32:06 FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD" - THAT'S THE MORAL LAW - "AFTER 32:09 THE INWARD MAN: BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW" - THIS SECOND LAW - 32:14 "IN MY MEMBERS, WARRING AGAINST THE LAW OF MY MIND, AND BRINGING 32:17 ME INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS." 32:22 SO WHAT IS THIS SECOND LAW? WELL, IT DESCRIBES IT - IT 32:25 DESCRIBES IT AS - THAT IT'S LIKE THE LAW OF HIS FALLEN NATURE. 32:29 IT IS THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH THAT WORKS INSIDE HIS UGLY 32:34 SPOUSE - HIS FALLEN NATURE. 32:37 IT'S JUST AS POWERFUL AS - LET'S SEE HERE - WHAT HAVE I GOT? 32:41 OH, MY KEYS, OKAY - OKAY, THOSE KEYS. 32:46 WHAT MAKES THEM FALL TO THE GROUND? 32:49 GRAVITY, RIGHT? IT'S THE FORCE OF GRAVITY. 32:54 WE SAY - THE LAW ACTUALLY DESCRIBES THE FORCE, BUT IT'S A 32:57 LAW THAT WORKS, RIGHT? THINGS JUST FALL DOWN. 33:01 AND YOUR FALLEN NATURE IS SUCH - IT'S LIKE A LAW. 33:07 IT HAS A FORCE AND IT JUST NATURALLY JUST PULLS YOU DOWN 33:11 EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO DO RIGHT. POWERFUL - AND IT'S A MOTOR. 33:14 IT'S AN ENGINE AND IT DRIVES YOUR SINFUL PASSIONS. 33:19 AND THAT MOTOR - IT'S LIKE PART OF THAT UGLY SPOUSE THAT JUST 33:24 CLINGS TO YOU. SO HERE'S WHERE - HERE'S WHERE 33:29 IT JUST KEEPS US TRYING TO DO RIGHT - BUT WE CAN'T. 33:33 AND SO, AS WE'RE TRYING TO DO RIGHT, WHAT ARE WE DOING? 33:35 WE'RE JUST BEING LEGALISTS. 33:37 'OH, I'VE GOT TO KEEP THE LAW BETTER. 33:38 I'VE GOT TO DO THIS BETTER. I'VE GOT TO DO THAT BETTER. 33:41 OH YEAH, YEAH, I'VE GOT TO DO...' IT'S LEGALISM. 33:46 SAD THING IS, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND 33:52 RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH AND THEY LOOK AT SINCERE CHRISTIANS WHO 33:56 ARE STRIVING TO KEEP THE LAW THROUGH THE POWER OF CHRIST AND 34:00 GROW IN GRACE AND THEY SAY, 'YOU'RE LEGALISTS.' 34:02 THEY'VE GOT IT ALL WRONG. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 34:04 EXPERIENCE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH AND GROWING IN GRACE WITH 34:08 CHRIST AND OVERCOMING. THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN SOMEBODY 34:11 WHO REMAINS UNCONVERTED AND HE'S TRYING DESPERATELY TO KEEP THE 34:15 LAW BETTER. THAT'S LEGALISM AND, AS I'VE 34:18 SAID BEFORE, ELLEN WHITE SAYS IT'S A TROUBLESOME GUEST. 34:22 EVERYWHERE YOU GO IT'S THERE. THAT UGLY SPOUSE IS REALLY 34:25 SOMETHING ELSE, ISN'T IT? SO WE'RE MOVING TO CHAPTER 8 AND 34:30 WE FIND RESOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM WHERE A THIRD LAW NOW - 34:34 A THIRD LAW - IS BROUGHT TO LIGHT. 34:38 I'M GOING TO READ FROM ROMANS 8, VERSES 1 AND 2: "THERE IS 34:44 THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION" - CONDEMNATION, HUH - NO 34:50 CONDEMNATION - "THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO 34:55 THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO" - BECAUSE WHAT DID HE DO? 34:59 HE TOOK YOUR UGLY SPOUSE DOWN TO THE GRAVE, LEFT IT THERE, ROSE, 35:03 FOUND YOU FREE, SINGLE, ELIGIBLE, AND MARRIED YOU. 35:06 YOU'RE BRINGING OFFSPRING - FRUIT - UNTO GOD - "THERE IS 35:10 THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS 35:13 WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT." 35:18 - AH, NOW, THIS IS - THIS IS WHERE IT'S AT. VERSE 2 - 35:22 "FOR THE LAW" - HERE'S THIS THIRD LAW: "FOR THE LAW OF THE 35:25 SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM" - WHAT? 35:32 THAT SECOND LAW THAT STOPPED ME KEEPING THE FIRST LAW - THE 35:35 MORAL LAW - THAT SECOND LAW - "THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH." 35:39 DO WE GET IT HERE? AM I MAKING SENSE? 35:44 ALRIGHT, YOU'RE JUST ALL JUST LOOKING AT ME HERE - I'M 35:46 THINKING, 'OKAY' - "THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH." 35:52 AND HERE IN ROMANS 8:1 AND 2 IS DESCRIBED THIS POWERFUL 35:56 TRANSFORMATION THAT TAKES PLACE, AGAIN, THROUGH WHAT ELSE? 36:00 CONVERSION. THIS THIRD LAW - THE LAW OF THE 36:04 SPIRIT OF LIFE IN JESUS CHRIST, IS REFERRING NOW TO THE 36:07 GOVERNING POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH CHRIST WHEN HE 36:12 COMES INTO THE HEART AT CONVERSION. 36:16 AND THIS THIRD LAW - THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN JESUS 36:19 CHRIST, OVERRIDES THAT SECOND LAW OF SIN AND DEATH THAT STOPS 36:26 YOU TRYING TO KEEP THAT FIRST LAW - THE MORAL LAW, WHICH IS 36:30 HOLY, JUST, AND GOOD. AND ROMANS 8:3 GOES FURTHER TO 36:35 DESCRIBE HOW WEAK, CARNAL HUMAN BEINGS, SO PROGRAMMED TO 36:41 FUNCTION UNDER THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH, HAVING BEEN ASSURED 36:44 OF POWER AND DELIVERANCE AND VICTORY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST SO 36:50 THAT THE RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW CAN BE FULFILLED IN 36:53 THEM, NOT AS - NOT AS EXERTING THEMSELVES TO LIVE A LEGALISTIC 36:58 LIFE, BUT AS PART OF THE CONVERSION EXPERIENCE - AND IT 37:02 COMES THROUGH JESUS. LET'S READ VERSE 3. 37:04 THIS IS WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR US. 37:08 THIS IS THE GOSPEL - ROMANS 8:3, "FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, 37:15 IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH," - THE ENGLISH IS A 37:18 LITTLE BIT BACK TO FRONT HERE IN THE KING JAMES. 37:21 WHAT IT MEANS IS, BECAUSE OF THE WEAKNESSES OF OUR FLESH - 37:24 REMEMBER THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH? 37:26 - WE COULDN'T KEEP THE LAW, FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO - IT 37:28 COULDN'T BE FULFILLED BECAUSE WE WERE WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH - 37:32 "GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, AND 37:40 FOR SIN, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH:" WE SHOULD ALL KNOW THIS. 37:48 WHAT DID JESUS DO? HE CAME DOWN TO THIS WORLD. 37:51 DID HE COME LIKE ADAM BEFORE THE FALL OR DID HE COME LIKE ADAM 37:56 AFTER THE FALL? HE CAME LIKE ADAM - WITH THE 38:01 SAME NATURE THAT ADAM HAD - AFTER THE FALL. 38:06 HE CAME WITH A FALLEN, SINFUL, HUMAN NATURE. 38:11 IT DIDN'T MEAN HE SINNED, IT DIDN'T MEAN HE FELL. 38:13 ALL IT MEANT WAS HE TOOK ON THE SAME WEAKNESSES AND LIABILITIES 38:17 THAT WE POSSESS. THAT'S ALL IT MEANS. 38:21 AND HE LIVED A SINLESS AND A PERFECT LIFE. 38:26 BUT TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEM OF OUR UGLY SPOUSE THAT KEEPS 38:34 BRINGING US DOWN - THE FALLEN FLESH - JESUS ENTERED THE ARENA 38:39 AND HE DID BATTLE WITH OUR UGLY SPOUSE - THE FALLEN FLESH - AND 38:45 THEY FACED OFF IN THE ARENA OF LIFE. 38:48 OUR UGLY SPOUSE WAS TRYING TO GET HIM AND PUT HIM DOWN. 38:51 EVERY TIME JESUS GOT THE VICTORY. 38:54 HE GOT THE VICTORY. HE GOT THE VICTORY. 38:56 UNTIL FINALLY, THROUGH 33 YEARS OF LIFE - CONSTANTLY BEING 39:00 DOGGED BY THE DEVIL - TEMPTED - THE DEVIL WORKING THROUGH HIS 39:04 FALLEN NATURE - HEBREWS SAYS HE WAS TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS LIKE 39:08 WE ARE. IN THAT ARENA OF LIFE, BATTLING 39:11 WITH THE FALLEN FLESH, JESUS GOT THE VICTORY. 39:14 AND THAT IS WHY HE CONDEMNED SIN. 39:18 HE FACED OFF WITH SIN AND HE FINALLY - HE PUT HIS FOOT ON ITS 39:22 NECK. YOU KNOW HOW THE GLADIATORS GO? 39:27 HE CONDEMNED IT AND THAT VICTORY THAT HE GOT IN HIS FALLEN FLESH, 39:37 HE GIVES TO YOU AND HE GIVES TO ME. 39:41 HE SEPARATES US FROM THAT UGLY SPOUSE THAT HE KILLED - TOOK 39:47 DOWN TO THE GRAVE AND LEFT THERE. 39:51 EVERY MORNING THAT SPOUSE IS GOING TO BE THERE WAITING BY 39:53 YOUR BEDSIDE TO, YOU KNOW, PLAY THOSE SWEET LITTLE TUNES - 'YOU 39:56 REMEMBER ME, HONEY? OH, COME ON NOW, LET'S GO ON A 39:59 DATE.' YOU GET OUT OF BED AND YOU FALL ON YOUR KNEES AND YOU 40:03 SAY, 'LORD JESUS, THIS IS NOT MY SPOUSE, YOU ARE MY SPOUSE. 40:07 I ASKED YOU AGAIN TODAY TO COME INTO MY HEART. 40:10 I ASK YOU RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT UGLY SPOUSE, PUT IT BACK DOWN IN 40:14 THE GRAVE, AND KEEP IT THERE. I GIVE MY LIFE TO YOU. 40:18 COME INTO MY HEART. LORD, I WANT TO BRING FORTH 40:20 FRUITS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS TO YOUR GLORY.' NOT TO IMPRESS GOD, BUT 40:25 TO GLORIFY GOD - TO BRING HONOR TO GOD BEFORE ALL THE - 40:29 ALL THE UNIVERSE. BEFORE MEN AND BEFORE ANGELS. 40:33 IT'S A WONDERFUL THING THAT JESUS DID AND HERE, IN - YEAH, 40:40 BECAUSE, YOU SEE, WHAT JESUS DID, HE DIDN'T WALK ACCORDING TO 40:44 THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH, HE WALKED NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT 40:49 AFTER THE SPIRIT AS A FULLY CONVERTED HUMAN BEING. 40:55 HE WAS BORN - BORN AGAIN. AND JESUS HAD NO ADVANTAGE OVER US. 41:03 WHEN WE ARE BORN AGAIN, WE ARE ON THE SAME VANTAGE GROUND AS 41:06 JESUS - HUMANLY. AND IF HE COULD DO IT AS A 41:09 CONVERTED MAN, WE CAN DO IT AS CONVERTED MEN AND WOMEN. 41:13 AND THIS IS WHAT GOD IS WAITING TO SEE. 41:15 THIS IS THE WHOLE ISSUE IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY. 41:19 AND SO, IN HIS HUMANITY THEREFORE, JESUS IS TO US BOTH 41:22 AN EXAMPLE AND A GUARANTEE. IF YOU WANT A GUARANTEE, 'LORD' 41:29 - WELL, THERE'S TWO GUARANTEES YOU CAN - GOD GIVES US: A 41:33 GUARANTEE THAT YOU'VE FORGIVEN ME. 41:35 'LORD, DO I HAVE A GUARANTEE? DO I HAVE SURETY THAT YOU'VE 41:37 FORGIVEN ME?' AND GOD SAYS, 'YES, LOOK AT THE 41:39 CROSS.' WOW, THERE'S A GUARANTEE. 41:44 THERE'S A GUARANTEE THAT I CAN BE FORGIVEN. 41:47 'BUT LORD, YOU KNOW, IS THERE A GUARANTEE THAT YOU CAN KEEP ME 41:52 FROM DOING THOSE THINGS THAT NAILED JESUS TO THE CROSS?' 41:55 GOD SAYS, 'YES, THERE IS ANOTHER GUARANTEE. 41:58 YOU LOOK BACK AT THE 33 YEARS THAT MY SON WALKED UPON THIS 42:02 EARTH IN YOUR SHOES AND YOUR FLESH. 42:04 THERE'S A GUARANTEE.' AND YOU SAY, 'PRAISE THE LORD. 42:07 JESUS DID IT. THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD I CAN 42:10 DO IT TOO.' WE HAVE TO HAVE FAITH, FRIENDS. 42:16 WE HAVE TO HAVE FAITH TO BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN DO THESE THINGS FOR 42:21 US - AND HE WILL BECAUSE HE'S PROMISED. 42:25 AND WE HAVE JESUS AS AN EXAMPLE AND AS A GUARANTEE THAT THIS 42:31 WILL BE SO IF WE RECEIVE HIM FULLY INTO OUR LIVES. 42:36 AND THEN WE GO TO ROMANS 8:4 AND THIS IS WHY IT SAYS THIS IS WHAT 42:39 - THIS IS THE CULMINATION - THIS IS THE RESULT. 42:41 IT SAYS, "THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN 42:47 US," - IN US - "WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE 42:55 SPIRIT." IF YOU JUST PUT THE OLD SPOUSE 42:56 DOWN - 'MY VICTORY I GIVE TO YOU. 43:00 YOU INVITE ME INTO YOUR HEART, I WILL ENABLE YOU AND EMPOWER YOU 43:04 TO ALSO WALK THAT THE RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW WILL BE 43:08 FULFILLED IN YOU.' NOT SOMETHING HE JUST CREDITS TO YOU WHILE YOU 43:13 CONTINUE TO LIVE IN SIN - THAT'S EVANGELICALISM - THAT IS NOT 43:17 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGY - IN YOU - CHANGED LIFE. 43:24 OKAY, THUS, THE WORD OF GOD CLEARLY TEACHES THE GLORIOUS 43:29 TRUTH THAT FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS, THROUGH THE POWER OF CHRIST CAN, 43:33 AS THEY TRUST HIM AND STRIVE FOR VICTORY IN HIS STRENGTH - 43:36 PERFECTLY OBEY THE LAW OF GOD AND DEVELOP PERFECTLY RIGHTEOUS 43:40 MORAL CHARACTER EQUAL TO THAT WHICH JESUS POSSESSED IN HIS 43:44 HUMANITY. NOW, IN CONNECTION WITH THIS, I 43:50 WISH TO MAKE A COMMENT ON A FEW SENTENCES IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH 43:54 OF THURSDAY'S LESSON. I HATE TO KIND OF DO THIS 43:57 PUBLICLY, BUT I'M AFRAID I HAVE TO TAKE EXCEPTION WITH THE 44:01 LESSON. I DISAGREE WITH SOMETHING THAT 44:04 WE FIND HERE IN THURSDAY. IN THURSDAY IT SAYS, "WITH THE 44:08 EXCEPTION OF CHRIST, ALL HUMAN BEINGS HAVE A COMMON EXPERIENCE 44:13 IN THAT ALL HAVE BEEN INFECTED BY ADAM'S SIN. 44:18 I DISAGREE WITH THAT. WE'VE JUST READ HERE A MAJOR 44:23 TENET OF CALVINISTIC EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY. 44:27 TO SAY THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS HAVE BEEN INFECTED BY ADAM'S SIN 44:32 IS TO PROPAGATE THE ERRONEOUS DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN, WHICH 44:38 ACTUALLY PREDATES CALVIN AND EVANGELICALISM - IT WAS RECEIVED 44:42 AS A LEGACY FROM CATHOLICISM AND THAT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE 44:45 LESSON, FOLKS - IN THURSDAY. WHEN ADAM SINNED, HE ALONE BORE 44:51 THE GUILT, NOT HIS OFFSPRING - NOT US. 44:55 EZEKIEL 18:20 SAYS, "...THE SON SHALL NOT BEAR THE INIQUITY OF 44:59 THE FATHER." COULD IT BE CLEARER THAN THAT? NOW ALL HUMAN BEINGS 45:07 HAVE NOT, THEREFORE, BEEN INFECTED BY ADAM'S SIN. 45:10 WHEN A BABY IS BORN, IT IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY BROUGHT FORTH 45:13 BEARING THE GUILT OF ADAM'S TRANSGRESSION. 45:16 HOWEVER, WHEN ADAM SINNED, HIS SINLESS NATURE BECAME FALLEN AND 45:24 CORRUPTED AND IT IS THIS - IT'S IN THIS - YEAH, WE CAN USE THE 45:27 TERM 'INFECTED' THEN IF YOU WANT - OR TRANSMITTED TO US - BUT 45:31 IT'S THIS WHEREBY WE'VE BEEN AFFECTED - THAT HE HAS PASSED ON 45:36 TO HIS POSTERITY HIS FALLEN HUMAN NATURE. 45:41 BUT HAVING A FALLEN HUMAN NATURE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE SIN BECAUSE 45:46 SIN IS A CHOICE. IT IS NOT BEING BORN IN A WEAK 45:52 MORAL STATE. WE'RE ALL BORN MORALLY WEAK - A 45:55 BABY'S BORN MORALLY WEEK - IT'S WHAT THEY GET FROM THEIR PARENTS 45:58 AND THAT WAS - YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL THE SAME. 46:00 THAT IS NOT SIN. SIN IS A CHOICE. 46:05 "WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CHRIST, ALL HUMAN BEINGS HAVE A COMMON 46:10 EXPERIENCE IN THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INFECTED BY ADAM'S SIN." 46:13 GOING HERE TO THIS PART OF THIS SAYING, 'WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 46:16 CHRIST' - JESUS, WHEN HE WAS BORN, WAS NOT AN EXCEPTION TO 46:21 US. HE WAS - HE TOOK ON THE SAME FALLEN HUMAN FLESH THAT 46:26 WE HAVE - BUT DID HE SIN? THAT'S THE THING THAT MATTERS - 46:31 HAVING A FALLEN NATURE IS NOT A SIN. 46:34 HEBREWS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 14 - FIRST PART - I'M GOING TO READ - 46:42 SPEAKING OF JESUS, "FORASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN ARE 46:45 PARTAKERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD," - THIS IS JESUS - "HE ALSO HIMSELF 46:50 LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE SAME;" WE'RE THE CHILDREN. 46:56 WE PARTAKE OF FLESH AND BLOOD THAT WE GET FROM OUR ANCESTORS. 47:00 JESUS, LIKE US, ALSO TOOK PART OF THE SAME. 47:05 THEN WE GO TO VERSES 16 AND 17 - IT SAYS, "FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT 47:09 ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS; BUT HE TOOK ON HIM THE SEED OF 47:14 ABRAHAM." - HE HAD ABRAHAM'S DNA IN HIM - 47:17 AND ALL THE DESCENDENTS OF ABRAHAM AND BEFORE ABRAHAM - 47:20 FROM ALL THE TIME OF ADAM HE HAD HUMAN DNA WITH ALL ITS 47:24 SKEWEDNESS. HE WAS BORN WITH THAT. 47:27 VERSE 17, "WHEREFORE IN ALL THINGS IT BEHOOVED HIM TO BE 47:31 MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN," - WHO ARE HIS BRETHREN? 47:37 WE ARE - AND HIS SISTERS - JUST LIKE US. 47:42 AND, BY THE WAY, I'LL READ THE REST BECAUSE IT SAYS, "THAT HE 47:46 MIGHT BE A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST IN THINGS PERTAINING 47:52 TO GOD, TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. 47:56 FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HATH SUFFERED BEING TEMPTED, HE IS 47:59 ABLE TO SUCCOUR THEM THAT ARE TEMPTED." 48:04 YOU KNOW, WHATEVER YOU STRUGGLE WITH JESUS UNDERSTANDS. 48:09 WHY DOES HE UNDERSTAND? BECAUSE HE'S WALKED IN YOUR SHOES. 48:12 HE WALKED ENCUMBERED WITH YOUR FLESH. AND TO ME, 48:16 THIS GIVES ME ENCOURAGEMENT WHEN I'M STRUGGLING. 48:20 I SAY, 'LORD, LORD HELP ME.' JESUS SAYS, 'HERE AM I.' 'LORD, 48:26 I'M STRUGGLING WITH THIS.' HE SAYS, 'I KNOW. I'VE BEEN THERE. 48:29 I GOT THE VICTORY. TRUST ME. TRUST ME. LET ME SHARE MY 48:33 VICTORY WITH YOU AND I UNDERSTAND.' YOU HAVE A SAVIOR 48:38 WHO CAN COMFORT YOU AND HELP YOU. BUT IF YOU HAVE A 48:43 SAVIOR THAT CAME WITH A DIFFERENT NATURE - I DON'T KNOW, 48:47 IT'D BE LIKE BIG BROTHER THAT'S THREE TIMES REMOVED, YOU KNOW? 48:49 BIG BROTHER THAT STAYS IN HIS ROOM PLAYING WITH HIS X-BOX AND 48:52 YOU'RE THE LITTLE KID DOWNSTAIRS AND YOU WANT YOUR BIG BROTHER. 48:55 'I'VE FALLEN DOWN AND BIG BROTHER IS UP THERE SOMEWHERE 48:56 AND HE SAYS, 'AH, I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU BUT I'M TOO BUSY.' HE'S 48:59 REMOVED FROM YOU, RIGHT? JESUS IS NOT BIG BROTHER REMOVED 49:04 UPSTAIRS IN HIS BEDROOM DOING HIS STUFF. 49:07 HE'S DOWN HERE WITH YOU ON THE CARPET. 49:13 I WANT TO READ YOU SOMETHING. YOU SEE THIS? 49:19 THIS - THIS WAS MY BIBLE BEFORE I BOUGHT THIS NEWER ONE ABOUT 49:25 TEN YEARS AGO AND YOU SEE IT FELL TO PIECES. 49:30 BUT I HAVE A FEW NOTES HERE IN THE BEGINNING SO I JUST BROUGHT 49:33 THIS THIS MORNING. I KNOW IT LOOKS LIKE THE DEAD 49:35 SEA SCROLLS BUT I WANT TO READ YOU THIS. 49:42 IT'S ABOUT THE NATURE OF CHRIST AND THIS IS FROM 'BIBLE READINGS 49:47 FOR THE HOME' - ADVENTIST PUBLICATION - THE 1915 EDITION. 49:54 THEY DON'T REALLY PRINT STUFF LIKE THIS ANYMORE. 49:59 IT'S A LITTLE LENGTHY, BUT BEAR WITH ME. 50:02 AND IT'S RIGHT IN HARMONY WITH WHAT WE READ IN HEBREWS, "IN HIS 50:07 HUMANITY, CHRIST PARTOOK OF OUR SINFUL FALLEN NATURE. 50:13 IF NOT, THEN HE WAS NOT MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN, WAS NOT, 50:20 IN ALL POINTS, TEMPTED LIKE AS WE ARE, DID NOT OVERCOME AS WE 50:24 HAVE TO OVERCOME, AND IS NOT, THEREFORE, THE COMPLETE AND 50:28 PERFECT SAVIOR MAN NEEDS AND MUST HAVE TO BE SAVED. 50:33 THE IDEA THAT CHRIST WAS BORN OF AN IMMACULATE SINLESS MOTHER, 50:37 INHERITED NO TENDENCIES TO SIN, REMOVES HIM FROM THE REALM OF A 50:42 FALLEN WORLD - FROM THE VERY PLACE WHERE HELP IS NEEDED. 50:45 ON HIS HUMAN SIDE, CHRIST INHERITED JUST WHAT EVERY CHILD 50:51 OF ADAM INHERITED - A SINFUL NATURE." 50:55 IT'S LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR, ISN'T IT? 50:58 ON THE DIVINE SIDE, FROM HIS VERY CONCEPTION, HE WAS BEGOTTEN 51:02 AND BORN OF THE SPIRIT AND ALL THIS WAS DONE TO PLACE MANKIND 51:07 ON A VANTAGE GROUND AND TO DEMONSTRATE THAT IN THE SAME WAY 51:11 EVERYONE THAT WAS BORN OF THE SPIRIT - LIKE JESUS WAS - MAY 51:16 GAIN LIKE VICTORIES OVER SIN IN HIS OWN SINFUL FLESH. 51:20 THUS, EACH ONE IS TO OVERCOME AS CHRIST OVERCAME. 51:24 WITHOUT THIS BIRTH" - YOU SEE IT'S CONVERSION - "WITHOUT THIS 51:28 BIRTH, THERE CAN BE NO VICTORY OVER TEMPTATION AND NO SALVATION 51:34 FROM SIN." 'BIBLE READINGS FOR THE HOME, 1915'. 51:39 I HAVE A WHOLE COPY IN MY OFFICE AND, BELIEVE ME, IT'S A VERY 51:42 VALUABLE TREASURE. AND I WANT TO READ SOMETHING 51:47 ELSE FROM HERE AS WELL - FROM MY DEAD SEA SCROLLS VERSION - 51:51 'FIRST SELECTED MESSAGES, 408' - THIS IS THE WORD OF - 51:55 THIS IS THE WORD OF ELLEN G. WHITE. 51:58 THIS IS A VERY DEFINITIVE STATEMENT HERE BECAUSE, YOU 52:01 KNOW, THIS ISSUE OF 'DID JESUS HAVE A FALLEN NATURE OR AN 52:04 UNFALLEN NATURE?' THE TRUTH IS WHAT YOU'RE HEARING 52:09 THIS MORNING. BUT THERE ARE OTHERS WHO GO 52:11 CONTRARY TO THAT. BUT THIS IS WHAT ELLEN WHITE 52:14 SAID - IT SAYS, "LETTERS HAVE BEEN COMING TO ME." 52:17 - OKAY, YOU'VE GOT "LETTERS HAVE BEEN COMING TO ME AFFIRMING THAT 52:20 CHRIST COULD NOT HAVE TAKEN THE SAME NATURE AS MAN FOR, IF HE 52:25 HAD, HE WOULD HAVE FALLEN UNDER SIMILAR TEMPTATIONS." 52:29 AND SHE SAYS THIS: "IF HE DID NOT HAVE MAN'S NATURE HE COULD 52:32 NOT BE OUR EXAMPLE. IF HE WAS NOT A PARTAKER OF OUR 52:36 NATURE, HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN TEMPTED AS MAN HAS BEEN 52:40 TEMPTED." DOES THAT NEED TO BE ANY CLEARER? PRETTY CLEAR, 52:43 ISN'T IT? AND THEN - MIKE, YOU'VE GOT MY 'DESIRE OF AGES'? 52:47 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MIKE. 'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE 24. 52:52 I HAVE THINGS I'D LIKE TO SAY ABOUT ENOCH AND ELIJAH BECAUSE 52:56 THIS IS BROUGHT UP IN THE LESSON, BUT I MIGHT NOT HAVE 52:59 TIME. BUT I WANT TO READ THIS - THERE'S ANOTHER ONE LIKE IT ON 53:03 ANOTHER PAGE, BUT I WANT TO READ YOU THIS BECAUSE THIS IS KIND OF 53:06 IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY AND HOW THE 53:08 IMPLICATIONS OF HOW CHRIST'S FALLEN NATURE AFFECT US AND SO 53:12 ON. 24 - "SATAN REPRESENTS GOD'S LAW OF LOVE AS A LAW OF 53:17 SELFISHNESS. HE DECLARES THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO OBEY ITS 53:22 PRECEPTS. THE FALL OF OUR FIRST PARENTS, WITH ALL THE WOE THAT 53:26 HAS RESULTED, HE CHARGES UPON THE CREATOR 53:29 LEADING MEN TO LOOK UPON GOD AS THE AUTHOR OF SIN 53:32 AND SUFFERING AND DEATH. JESUS WAS TO UNVEIL THIS 53:37 DECEPTION. AS ONE OF US HE GAVE AN EXAMPLE 53:42 OF OBEDIENCE. FOR THIS HE TOOK UPON HIMSELF 53:46 OUR NATURE." - WHAT KIND OF A NATURE? FALLEN NATURE - 53:51 "AND PASSED THROUGH OUR EXPERIENCES." - AND IT QUOTES 53:54 FROM HEBREWS 2:17, WHICH WE JUST READ. IT SAYS, "IN ALL THINGS IT 53:57 BEHOOVED HIM TO BE MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN. 54:01 IF HE HAD TO BEAR ANYTHING - IF WE HAD TO BEAR ANYTHING WHICH 54:04 JESUS DID NOT ENDURE, THEN UPON THIS POINT, SATAN WOULD 54:08 REPRESENT THE POWER OF GOD AS INSUFFICIENT FOR US. 54:11 THEREFORE, JESUS WAS IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED LIKE AS WE ARE. 54:16 HE ENDURED EVERY TRIAL TO WHICH WE ARE SUBJECT AND HE EXERCISED, 54:20 IN HIS OWN BEHALF, NO POWER THAT IS NOT FREELY OFFERED TO US. 54:25 AS MAN, HE MET TEMPTATION AND OVERCAME IN THE STRENGTH GIVEN 54:29 HIM FROM GOD. HE SAYS, 'I DELIGHT TO DO THY WILL O MY GOD. 54:36 THY LAW IS WRITTEN WITHIN MY HEART.' 54:38 AS HE WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD AND HEALING ALL WHO WERE AFFLICTED 54:41 BY SATAN, HE MADE PLAIN TO MEN THE CHARACTER OF GOD'S LAW AND 54:45 THE NATURE OF HIS SERVICE.' AND FINISHES WITH THIS: "HIS LIFE 54:49 TESTIFIES THAT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR US, ALSO, TO OBEY THE LAW OF 54:56 GOD. BY HIS HUMANITY CHRIST TOUCHED HUMANITY. 55:00 BY HIS DIVINITY HE LAYS HOLD UPON THE THRONE OF GOD. 55:04 AS THE SON OF MAN, HE GIVES US AN EXAMPLE OF OBEDIENCE. 55:07 AS THE SON OF GOD HE GIVES US POWER TO OBEY." 55:12 I SAY, 'AMEN. PRAISE THE LORD.' TO THAT. 55:19 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 55:22 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 55:26 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 55:29 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST DAY EVENTS OF 55:32 REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 55:36 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. ENHANCE YOUR 55:39 KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S WORD. GO DEEPER. 55:44 VISIT THE AMAZING BIBLE TIMELINE AT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. 56:01 >>THROUGHOUT RECORDED HISTORY, TALES OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS CAN 56:05 BE FOUND IN FOLKLORE IN NEARLY EVERY COUNTRY AND CULTURE. 56:11 EGYPTIANS BUILT PYRAMIDS TO HELP GUIDE THE SPIRITS OF THEIR 56:15 LEADERS. ROME SANCTIONED HOLIDAYS TO 56:17 HONOR AND APPEASE THE SPIRITS OF THEIR DEAD. 56:20 EVEN THE BIBLE TELLS OF A KING THAT USED A WITCH TO CONTACT THE 56:25 SPIRIT OF A DECEASED PROPHET. TODAY, ANCIENT FOLKLORE OF 56:29 SPIRITS AND APPARITIONS HAVE GONE FROM MERE SUPERSTITIONS TO 56:33 MAINSTREAM ENTERTAINMENT AND REALITY. 56:37 SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS INVESTIGATE STORIES OF HAUNTINGS 56:40 AND SIGHTINGS, TRYING TO PROVE, ONCE AND FOR ALL, THE EXISTENCE 56:45 OF GHOSTS. EVEN WITH ALL THE NEW-FOUND 56:51 TECHNOLOGY AND CENTURIES OF STORIES ALL OVER THE WORLD, 56:55 THERE IS STILL NO CLEAR-CUT ANSWER. 57:01 SO HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT'S TRUE? WHY DO THESE STORIES PERSIST? 57:08 DOES IT EVEN MATTER? WE INVITE YOU TO LOOK INSIDE AND 57:15 FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF. VISIT 'GHOSTTRUTH.COM'. 57:26 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 57:30 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 57:33 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK MILLIONS OF 57:36 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 57:40 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 57:42 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 57:45 WHO IS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 57:49 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. VISIT 'SABBATHTRUTH.COM'. 57:56 (MUSIC) |
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