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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT YOU
HAVE JOINED US FROM ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD.
EACH WEEK WE GET TOGETHER, WE
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STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER, WE
SING TOGETHER, WE PRAY TOGETHER,
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AND SOON WE WILL BE IN HEAVEN
TOGETHER BEFORE OUR SAVIOR AND
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OUR LORD, JESUS CHRIST.
BUT UNTIL THEN WE WILL KEEP
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STUDYING. WE HAVE A
SPECIAL TREAT FOR YOU
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THIS MORNING. AS YOU
CAN SEE, BEHIND ME ARE
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SOME BEAUTIFUL,
BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY YOUNG LADIES.
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THEY COME TO US FROM THE
ORANGEVALE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN
ORANGEVALE, CALIFORNIA.
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I'M ALWAYS THRILLED -
EVERY SPRING THEY COME AND JOIN
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US AND SHARE
THEIR MINISTRY WITH US.
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THIS MORNING THEY WILL
BE SINGING TWO SONGS FOR US:
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'GOD'S LOVE CAN TURN THE WORLD'
AND 'DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?' -
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AND THEY ARE LED THIS MORNING
BY BRAD DAVIS, WHO IS THE
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PRINCIPAL AT THE
ORANGEVALE SCHOOL.
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>>WE'RE AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT
AND DAY BUT WE'RE THE SAME IN
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DIFFERENT WAYS AND IT'S TRUE,
JUST LOOK AT ME AND YOU. WE CAN
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CHANGE THE WAY WE ARE THE POWER
LIVES INSIDE OUR HEARTS. WE CAN
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BE ANYTHING WE WANNA BE. IF COAL
CAN TURN INTO DIAMONDS AND SAND
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INTO PEARLS IF A WORM CAN TURN
INTO A BUTTERFLY THEN LOVE CAN
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TURN THE WORLD. YES, GOD'S LOVE
CAN TURN THE WORLD. JESUS THE
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GOD WHO MADE YOU MADE US ALL BIG
AND LITTLE, SHORT AND TALL AND
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THAT'S FINE 'CAUSE IT TAKES
ALL KINDS. IF HE HAD MADE US ALL
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ALIKE IT SURE WOULD BE A BORING
LIFE BUT HE KNEW WHAT LITTLE
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TIME COULD DO. IF COAL CAN
TURN INTO DIAMONDS AND SAND INTO
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PEARLS IF A WORM CAN TURN INTO A
BUTTERFLY THEN LOVE CAN TURN THE
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WORLD. YES, GOD'S LOVE CAN TURN
THE WORLD. IF COAL CAN TURN INTO
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DIAMONDS AND SAND INTO PEARLS
AND IF A WORM CAN TURN INTO A
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BUTTERFLY THEN LOVE CAN TURN THE
WORLD. YES, GOD'S LOVE CAN TURN
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THE WORLD. YES, GOD'S LOVE
CAN TURN THE WORLD. >>AMEN!
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>>IS THERE ANYBODY
HERE WHO LOVES MY JESUS?
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ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD?
I WANT TO KNOW, OH, I WANT TO
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KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES
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MY JESUS? ANYBODY
HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD?
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I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT
TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
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MAKES ME FEEL SO HAPPY
WHEN YOU LOVE MY JESUS. MAKES ME
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FEEL SO HAPPY WHEN YOU
LOVE MY LORD. I WANT TO KNOW,
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OH I WANT TO KNOW
DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
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IS THERE ANYBODY
HERE WHO LOVES MY JESUS?
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ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD?
I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO
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KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES
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MY JESUS? ANYBODY
HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD?
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I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT
TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
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TELL IT ON THE
MOUNTAIN DO YOU LOVE MY JESUS?
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TELL IT ON THE
MOUNTAIN DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
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I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT
TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
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IS THERE ANYBODY
HERE WHO LOVES MY JESUS?
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ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD?
I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO
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KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES
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MY JESUS? ANYBODY
HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD?
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I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT
TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
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I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT
TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
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I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT
TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?
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>>AMEN! >>AMEN! WERE
YOU BLESSED THIS MORNING?
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IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT MORE
ABOUT THE ORANGEVALE SCHOOL,
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THEY HAVE A WEBSITE THAT IS
'OVSCHOOL.ORG' AND YOU CAN CHECK
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OUT THEIR WEBSITE IF YOU'RE
LOOKING FOR A GREAT PLACE TO
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SEND YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL FOR
GREAT ADVENTIST EDUCATION, THAT
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IS THE PLACE.
LET'S BOW OUR HEADS.
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OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK
YOU SO MUCH FOR SABBATH - THAT
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WE CAN COME BEFORE YOU AND
WORSHIP FREELY OUR CREATOR AND
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OUR LORD. THANK YOU
FOR THE TALENTS THAT
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YOU HAVE GIVEN
THESE PRECIOUS GIRLS.
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AND LORD, I JUST ASK YOU TO
BLESS EACH ONE OF THEM AS THEY
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CONTINUE THROUGH THEIR LIFE.
MAY THEY USE THEIR TALENTS AND
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THEIR ENERGIES FOR YOUR SERVICE
- TO HASTEN YOUR COMING. LORD,
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HELP US ALL TO DO OUR PART.
WE KNOW YOU'RE COMING SOON.
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HELP US TO BE READY AND HELP US
TO SHINE FOR YOU IN EVERYTHING
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WE DO AND SAY TO OTHERS -
THAT WE CAN DO OUR PART TO ALSO
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HASTEN YOUR COMING. WE
LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY,
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LORD, WHEN WE WILL MEET YOU FACE
TO FACE. PLEASE KEEP US FAITHFUL
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'TIL THEN. WE PRAY
THESE THINGS IN YOUR
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NAME, AMEN. OUR
STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
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TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON.
HE'S THE HEALTH AND OUTREACH
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PASTOR HERE AT
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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>>THANK YOU JOLYNE AND THANK
YOU ALSO YOU YOUNG LADIES FROM
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ORANGEVALE. THEY DID
A NICE JOB, DIDN'T THEY?
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THEY REALLY DID. AND
THE PARENTS AS WELL -
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I GUESS WE HAVE A FEW
PARENTS HERE THIS MORNING.
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WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU COULD
BE WITH US TOO. WE'RE LOOKING -
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ACTUALLY, BEFORE I
BEGIN, THERE'S A SPECIAL OFFER.
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IT'S OFFER #715 AND IT'S CALLED
'DOES GOD'S GRACE BLOT OUT THE
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LAW?' IF YOU
CALL AND ASK FOR OFFER
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715 - CALL 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR
1-866-788-3966 - AMAZING FACTS
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WILL SEND THIS TO
YOU. WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS,
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ORIGINALLY, WHO PASSED AWAY.
HE WAS THE - HE WASN'T QUITE THE
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FOUNDER OF AMAZING FACTS BUT
HE WAS THE FIRST KEY SPEAKER.
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AND IT ANSWERS QUESTIONS SUCH
AS, YOU KNOW, 'WHAT IS THE LAW?'
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'WHAT IS GRACE?'
'WHY DO WE NEED A LAW?'
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'CAN WE KEEP THE LAW?'
JUST A TINY LITTLE BOOK, BUT
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IT'S FULL OF VERY GOOD
INFORMATION. SO IF YOU CALL
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AMAZING FACTS, THEY'LL SEND
THAT TO YOU ABSOLUTELY FREE.
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AND TO OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
LESSON, WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT
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'CHRIST AND HIS LAW' AND TODAY
OUR TOPIC - WE'RE IN LESSON #8
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ALREADY - 'THE LAW OF
GOD AND THE LAW OF CHRIST'.
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YOU MIGHT WONDER,
'WELL, IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?'
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UM...YES, BUT NO.
THERE'S NOT - THERE'S ACTUALLY
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NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL. ON
THE FIRST PAGE ON SABBATH
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AFTERNOON, WE HAVE OUR
KEY TEXT FROM JOHN 15:10.
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THE WORDS OF JESUS, "IF YOU KEEP
MY COMMANDMENTS, YOU WILL ABIDE
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IN MY LOVE, JUST AS I HAVE KEPT
MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND
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ABIDE IN HIS LOVE." AND I
JUST WANT TO KICK OFF WITH
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THE LAST PARAGRAPH ON SABBATH
AFTERNOON'S INTRODUCTION.
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WE READ, "AS THE SUPREME HEAD
OF THE UNIVERSE, THE CREATOR GOD
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HAS ESTABLISHED LAWS
FOR ALL HIS CREATURES.
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WHEN JESUS CHRIST VOLUNTARILY
TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO HUMAN
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FLESH, HE GAVE HIMSELF TO A LIFE
OF OBEDIENCE TO HIS FATHER."
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AND THERE'S A VERSE YOU CAN
LOOK UP THERE IN PHILIPPIANS 2:5
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THROUGH 11.
"...OBEDIENCE TO HIS FATHER AND
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TO HIS COMMANDMENTS.
THUS, EVERYTHING THAT JESUS
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TAUGHT, THE PERSPECTIVE THAT
HE PUT ON THE LAW - EVEN THE NEW
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COMMANDMENT THAT HE GAVE, WAS
ALWAYS IN FULL HARMONY WITH THE
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LAW OF GOD." AND
THAT IS - THAT IS A FACT.
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SO I WANT TO GO STRAIGHT TO
SUNDAY AND - 'THE LAW AND THE
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PROPHETS' - I WANT US TO LOOK
AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 22, VERSES 34
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THROUGH 40 - MATTHEW 22 VERSES
34 THROUGH 40 - AND IT SAYS,
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"BUT WHEN THE PHARISEES HEARD
THAT HE HAD PUT THE SADDUCEES TO
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SILENCE," - JESUS WAS VERY
GOOD AT PUTTING PHARISEES AND
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SADDUCEES TO SILENCE - NOT THAT
HE FOUND PLEASURE IN DOING THAT,
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BUT THEY WOULD COME AGAINST
HIM AND HE WOULD JUST SAY A FEW
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WORDS AND THEY WOULD JUST
HAVE TO WALK AWAY AND ZIP UP -
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"...PUT THE SADDUCEES TO
SILENCE, THEY WERE GATHERED
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TOGETHER. THEN ONE
OF THEM, WHICH WAS A
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LAWYER, ASKED HIM A QUESTION,
TEMPTING HIM," - THEY WERE
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ALWAYS TRYING TO TRIP HIM UP,
YOU SEE - "...TEMPTING HIM, AND
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SAYING, 'MASTER, WHICH IS THE
GREAT COMMANDMENT IN THE LAW?"
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- VERSE 37 - "JESUS SAID UNTO
HIM, 'THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD
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THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND
WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL
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THY MIND. THIS IS THE
FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT.
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AND THE SECOND IS LIKE UNTO IT,
THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS
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THYSELF. ON THESE
TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG
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ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.'"
SO, IN ANSWERING THIS WILY
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LAWYER HERE, JESUS DISTILLED THE
LAW AND THE PROPHETS INTO ONE
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FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENT, WHICH
IS LOVE. LOVE TO GOD, WHICH,
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WHEN YOU LOVE GOD WITH ALL
YOUR HEART YOU'RE FULFILLING THE
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FIRST TABLE OF THE LAW. AND
JESUS QUOTED, ACTUALLY, FROM
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DEUTERONOMY 6:5 IN
ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION.
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AND THE SECOND TABLE OF THE LAW
IS THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS,
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WHICH IS TO LOVE OUR FELLOW
HUMANS AS OURSELVES AND JESUS
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QUOTED THIS AS WELL, AND HE WAS
QUOTING FROM LEVITICUS 19:18.
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SO THE WHOLE LAW IS DISTILLED
IN THIS ONE ENTITY WHICH IS, OF
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COURSE, LOVE. NOW
WE DO WELL TO REMIND
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OURSELVES THAT LOVE, BEING
THE ESSENCE OF GOD'S LAW, IS THE
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GOVERNING PRINCIPLE THAT APPLIES
TO EVERY WORLD AND EVERY CREATED
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INTELLIGENCE IN THIS VAST
CREATION - THAT SAME PRINCIPLE.
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AND WE ALSO DO WELL TO REMIND
OURSELVES THAT THE LOVE THAT
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WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE, THAT
JESUS SPOKE ABOUT, 'LOVE THE
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LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL
YOUR HEART AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
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YOURSELF' - IT IS A LOVE
THAT TRANSCENDS ALL HUMAN LOVE
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BECAUSE IT IS A
LOVE OF DIVINE ORIGIN.
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THE SAME SUBLIME LOVE THAT WAS
EXERCISED TOWARD US AT CALVARY
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IS THE SAME WONDROUS LOVE
WHICH PROCEEDS FORTH FROM THE
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GOVERNING PRINCIPLE OR
PRINCIPLES OF GOD'S LAW.
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THERE'S A STATEMENT IN 'DESIRE
OF AGES' PAGE 20 AND IT'S RIGHT
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- IT'S RIGHT NEAR THE
BEGINNING - OBVIOUSLY, PAGE 20 -
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I WANT TO READ IT TO YOU.
"IT WILL BE" - TRY AND LISTEN
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OUT TO WHAT KIND OF LOVE - WE'RE
TRYING TO AMPLIFY THIS SO WE CAN
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GRASP IT WHEN WE SAY IT'S NOT
A LOVE OF HUMAN ORIGIN, IT'S OF
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DIVINE ORIGIN - "IT WILL BE SEEN
THAT THE GLORY SHINING IN THE
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FACE OF JESUS IS THE
GLORY OF SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE.
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IN THE LIGHT FROM CALVARY
IT WILL BE SEEN THAT THE LAW OF
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SELF-RENOUNCING LOVE IS THE LAW
OF LIFE FOR EARTH AND HEAVEN.
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THAT THE LOVE WHICH SEEKETH NOT
HER OWN HAS ITS SOURCE IN THE
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HEART OF GOD." YOU
COULD THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A
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LONG, LONG TIME AS YOU TRY TO
CONTEMPLATE THE WONDER OF GOD'S
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LOVE. THIS IS ALL THE LAW
AND THE PROPHETS - IT ALL COMES
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FROM THIS. SO AS
GOD'S LOVE FLOWS FORTH
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FROM HIS HEART AS AN EXPRESSION
OF THREE THINGS - WHAT WAS IT?
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SELF- SACRIFICING LOVE,
SELF-RENOUNCING LOVE, AND A LOVE
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THAT SEEKETH NOT HER OWN - AS IT
SAID IN THE PASSAGE HERE, IT IS
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THE LAW OF LIFE FOR EARTH
AND HEAVEN - JUST THAT ONE LAW.
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THIS IS WHY, IN THE GREAT
CONTROVERSY, YOU CAN SEE THAT
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SATAN'S CHARGE THAT GOD'S LAW
WAS UNJUST DOESN'T JUST CONCERN
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THINGS DOWN HERE - IT CONCERNS
THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND THAT
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UNIVERSE IS EXCEEDINGLY
VAST. I WON'T GET TALKING ABOUT
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ASTRONOMY BECAUSE I'LL GO
ON FOREVER. I JUST LOVE IT.
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BUT THIS ONE LAW OF LOVE THAT
PROCEEDS FROM THE HEART OF GOD
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IS THAT ONE LAW THAT GOVERNS
EVERY INTELLIGENCE IN GOD'S VAST
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CREATION. SO
REMEMBER, IT'S ONLY OF HUMAN
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ORIGIN - SO IT'S ONLY AS WE ARE
BORN AGAIN AND ALLOW GOD TO FILL
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US WITH THIS LOVE CAN OUR HEARTS
RECIPROCATE AND JOYFULLY WALK IN
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THE WAY OF HIS COMMANDMENT.
YOU KNOW, IT SAYS IN ROMANS 8:7,
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'THE CARNAL HEART IS
ENMITY AGAINST THE LAW OF GOD.
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IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF
GOD, NEITHER, INDEED, CAN BE.'
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AN UNCONVERTED HEART
IT'S AT WAR WITH GOD.
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IT'S AT WAR WITH HIS
LAW. IT JUST DOESN'T WANT IT.
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SO, YOU SEE, FOR US TO HAVE
IN OUR LIVES THAT SAME LOVE -
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DIVINE ORIGIN THAT JUST
RECIPROCATES, THEN DIVINITY HAS
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TO DO SOMETHING INSIDE OF
US AND THAT'S WHAT GOD DOES.
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IT'S - I THINK I SAID THIS IN
THE LAST LESSON, BUT I'LL SAY IT
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AGAIN MORE THAN
ONCE TODAY - CONVERSION.
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IT ALL COMES DOWN TO CONVERSION.
IF WE CAN EXPERIENCE THE NEW
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BIRTH AND - WE CAN - WE ALL CAN
- EVERYTHING THAT SEEMS A LITTLE
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SKEWED AND AT ODDS WITH US -
WE'LL FIND OURSELVES IMMEDIATELY
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IN HARMONY WITH
IT, COMPATIBLE WITH IT.
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WE'LL HUNGER AND
THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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WE JUST WON'T BE ABLE
TO GET ENOUGH CONVERSION.
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AND JESUS IS WAITING THERE.
AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS WAITING
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TO JUST FILL OUR HEARTS.
YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU CROSS THAT
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LINE - WE STRUGGLE, I MEAN, WE,
YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER IN MY OWN
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EXPERIENCE STRUGGLING. I
WAS IN A ROCK AND ROLL BAND.
00:17:54.13\00:17:57.56
I KNEW THAT KIND OF A LIFE,
BUT I KNEW GOD WAS CALLING ME TO
00:17:57.56\00:18:00.70
SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
SOME OF YOU ARE SMILING.
00:18:00.70\00:18:03.73
YOU DON'T BELIEVE I WAS IN A
ROCK AND ROLL BAND, BUT I WAS.
00:18:03.73\00:18:07.96
I'VE COME A LONG WAY.
BUT I REMEMBER BEING ON THE -
00:18:07.96\00:18:13.23
LIKE THE EGYPTIANS - ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE CLOUD WHERE
00:18:13.23\00:18:15.53
EVERYTHING LOOKED DARK.
AND FINALLY I THOUGHT, 'I CAN'T
00:18:15.53\00:18:19.46
STAND THIS ANY LONGER SO' -
I SAID - 'HERE I COME LORD.'
00:18:19.46\00:18:22.26
I WALKED INTO THAT DARK CLOUD,
I GOT ON THE OTHER SIDE AND -
00:18:22.26\00:18:24.96
YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS LIKE
IN THE CAMP OF THE ISRAELITES?
00:18:24.96\00:18:27.56
IT WAS ALL BRIGHT AND
GLORIOUS AND I THOUGHT,
00:18:27.56\00:18:29.33
'WHAT KEPT ME SO LONG?'
SO WHEN WE'RE CONVERTED,
00:18:29.33\00:18:33.13
IT ALL FITS INTO PLACE
AND GOD'S LAW IS SOMETHING -
00:18:33.13\00:18:38.43
SOMETHING WE DELIGHT IN.
00:18:38.43\00:18:40.10
BUT IF WE STILL HAVE THAT
UNREGENERATE HEART, WE CAN'T
00:18:40.10\00:18:44.56
RECIPROCATE AND GOD WANTS US
SO MUCH TO DO THAT BECAUSE THE
00:18:44.56\00:18:48.13
LAW'S THERE FOR OUR HAPPINESS
AND GOOD AND WE'RE HOLDING
00:18:48.13\00:18:51.33
OURSELVES BACK FROM OUR GREATEST
SOURCE OF JOY AND FULFILLMENT.
00:18:51.33\00:18:55.56
BUT ANYWAY, LET US MOVE ON HERE.
00:18:55.56\00:19:00.10
SO ONLY AS WE DO THIS CAN WE
HAVE SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE, A
00:19:00.10\00:19:04.36
SELF-RENOUNCING LOVE, AND A LOVE
THAT SEEKS NOT ITS OWN SELFISH
00:19:04.36\00:19:10.56
INTERESTS. NOW, AN
UNREGENERATE HUMAN HEART
00:19:10.56\00:19:16.80
CAN BRING FORTH VERY STRONG
DEMONSTRATIONS OF OBEDIENCE TO
00:19:16.80\00:19:21.50
THE LAW OF GOD. THE
APOSTLE PAUL HE SAID -
00:19:21.50\00:19:24.13
CONCERNING THE LAW HE SAID,
'PERFECT' - YOU KNOW, PERFECT.
00:19:24.13\00:19:29.36
BUT THERE'S MORE TO IT,
IT'S NOT AN OUTWARD OBEDIENCE.
00:19:29.36\00:19:33.06
WELL, THERE IS AN
OUTWARD OBEDIENCE, BUT IT HAS TO
00:19:33.06\00:19:35.93
SPRING FORTH FROM
THE RIGHT MOTIVES.
00:19:35.93\00:19:38.93
SO AN UNREGENERATE HEART CAN -
I SAY AGAIN - BRING FORTH STRONG
00:19:38.93\00:19:43.40
DEMONSTRATIONS OF OBEDIENCE
TO THE LAW OF GOD, BUT SUCH
00:19:43.40\00:19:48.70
OBEDIENCE, PERFECT AS IT MIGHT
BE, WILL NEVER MEET WITH GOD'S
00:19:48.70\00:19:51.93
APPROVAL OR QUALIFY THE PERSON
TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
00:19:51.93\00:19:59.23
ONLY AS OBEDIENCE BECOMES
THE OUTWARD EVIDENCE OF CHRIST'S
00:19:59.23\00:20:02.86
ENSHRINEMENT WITHIN THE HEART
CAN WE KNOW THAT WE ARE SONS AND
00:20:02.86\00:20:08.20
DAUGHTERS OF GOD. NOW
AS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
00:20:08.20\00:20:11.10
WE'RE VERY - TEND TO BE
VERY WARY OF EMOTIONALISM.
00:20:11.10\00:20:14.60
AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE AND
I'LL SAY IT AGAIN, WE NEED A BIT
00:20:14.60\00:20:17.73
MORE EMOTIONALISM.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT
00:20:17.73\00:20:20.86
PENTECOSTALISM. IF YOU
ARE A CHILD OF GOD, YOU
00:20:20.86\00:20:25.83
SHOULD HAVE THE ASSURANCE -
I DON'T MEAN THAT YOUR FEELINGS
00:20:25.83\00:20:29.63
ARE WAAAAAY UP HERE AND,
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ON A HIGH.
00:20:29.63\00:20:34.10
YOU SHOULD HAVE THAT PEACEFUL
ASSURANCE IN YOUR HEART, 'I AM A
00:20:34.10\00:20:39.83
CHILD OF GOD.' IN ROMANS 8
IT SAYS, 'THE SPIRIT WITNESSES
00:20:39.83\00:20:44.00
THROUGH OUR SPIRIT THAT WE ARE
THE CHILDREN OF GOD.' SO DON'T
00:20:44.00\00:20:47.50
BE AFRAID TO ENTERTAIN FEELINGS
OF ASSURANCE. WE NEED THAT.
00:20:47.50\00:20:56.26
SO WE SHOULD KNOW - WE WILL KNOW
THAT - AS WE ENTER INTO THAT
00:20:56.26\00:21:01.50
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS
AND THEN HE WILL COUNT US SAFE.
00:21:01.50\00:21:07.13
HE WILL COUNT US AS SAFE TO
LET IN - NOT JUST INTO HEAVEN,
00:21:07.13\00:21:13.00
WONDERFUL AS THAT WILL BE
- BUT TO WING OUR TIRELESS -
00:21:13.00\00:21:15.46
HOW'S IT GO? WING OUR
TIRELESS FLIGHT TO WORLDS AFAR.
00:21:15.46\00:21:20.50
GOD WILL OPEN THE DOOR
TO THE UNIVERSE AND SAY,
00:21:20.50\00:21:23.26
'MY CHILDREN, THERE IT IS.
YOU GO LOOK AROUND.' SO HE WANTS
00:21:23.26\00:21:29.10
TO BE SURE AND THE BEINGS
ON THOSE WORLDS WANT TO BE
00:21:29.10\00:21:32.76
ABSOLUTELY SURE - THEY DON'T
WANT US WINGING OUR TIRELESS
00:21:32.76\00:21:36.86
FLIGHT LANDING ON THEIR AIRPORTS
IF WE'RE BRINGING IN SIN.
00:21:36.86\00:21:41.70
THEY WANT TO BE SURE THAT WE'RE
SAFE TO BE LET LOOSE OUT THERE.
00:21:41.70\00:21:45.30
AND SO, THIS IS WHY THE
NEW BIRTH - THIS LOVE ENSHRINED
00:21:45.30\00:21:50.70
WITHIN US - IS THAT WHICH
IS AN EVIDENCE THAT JESUS LIVES
00:21:50.70\00:21:55.00
WITHIN. BECAUSE
IT'S THIS - WHAT IS IT?
00:21:55.00\00:21:59.06
WHAT DID IT SAY? IT IS THE LAW
OF LIFE FOR EARTH AND HEAVEN.
00:21:59.06\00:22:03.20
AND YOU'VE READ THIS IN 'GREAT
CONTROVERSY' AND I THINK IT'S IN
00:22:03.20\00:22:06.73
'STEPS TO CHRIST' AS
WELL. FOR SOMEBODY WITH AN
00:22:06.73\00:22:10.03
UNREGENERATE HEART TO BE
TRANSPORTED TO HEAVEN, IT WOULD
00:22:10.03\00:22:14.46
BE TORTURE - IT WOULD.
BECAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE THERE IS
00:22:14.46\00:22:20.23
JUST FILLED WITH THIS SELFLESS
LOVE THAT'S AN ATMOSPHERE OF
00:22:20.23\00:22:23.73
PRISTINE PURITY - AND THE PERSON
WHO IS NOT CONVERTED - OR EVEN
00:22:23.73\00:22:30.13
HALF CONVERTED,
IF YOU CAN REALLY BE
00:22:30.13\00:22:31.83
HALF CONVERTED -
IT WOULD BE TORTURE.
00:22:31.83\00:22:35.20
YOU MIGHT STAND FIVE MINUTES
AND SAY, 'BOY THIS PLACE IS NICE
00:22:35.20\00:22:37.93
BUT, YOU KNOW, WHERE'S THE
BAR?' OR 'WHERE'S THE CLUB?'
00:22:37.93\00:22:41.83
'WE DON'T HAVE ANY
HERE.' 'YOU DON'T HAVE ANY HERE?
00:22:41.83\00:22:44.70
WELL, YOU KNOW,
WHERE'S THE TV STORE?
00:22:44.70\00:22:48.33
YOU KNOW, I MISS MY' - WHAT DO
THEY CALL THAT THING - 'DAYS OF
00:22:48.33\00:22:50.63
ETERNITY' OR
SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
00:22:50.63\00:22:53.06
- 'YOU KNOW, WE HAVE NO SOAP
OPERAS HERE.' 'YOU HAVE NO SOAP
00:22:53.06\00:22:56.23
OPERAS?' 'NO,
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THAT.'
00:22:56.23\00:22:59.90
AND IF YOU'RE SITTING HERE OR IF
YOU'RE LISTENING SOMEWHERE OUT
00:22:59.90\00:23:03.50
THERE IN CYBERSPACE AND, BECAUSE
THERE'S NO SOAP OPERAS IN
00:23:03.50\00:23:07.83
HEAVEN, AND THAT, THEREFORE,
DOESN'T APPEAL TO YOU, I CAN
00:23:07.83\00:23:12.53
TELL YOU, YOU'VE GOT
A LITTLE HEART PROBLEM.
00:23:12.53\00:23:15.93
BUT, YOU KNOW, JESUS,
HE CAN TAKE CARE OF THAT.
00:23:15.93\00:23:19.23
SO INSTEAD YOU WILL HUNGER
AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
00:23:19.23\00:23:23.40
HEAVEN WILL BE SOMETHING THAT
YOU LONG FOR AND WHEN YOU GET
00:23:23.40\00:23:26.43
THERE, TOTALLY DELIGHT IN.
00:23:26.43\00:23:29.23
MATTHEW 19, THE RICH YOUNG RULER
- STILL IN SUNDAY'S SECTION -
00:23:29.23\00:23:34.20
MATTHEW 19, VERSES 16 THROUGH
22 - IT SAYS, "AND, BEHOLD, ONE
00:23:34.20\00:23:44.53
CAME UNTO HIM AND SAID TO HIM,
'GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THING
00:23:44.53\00:23:48.46
SHALL I DO, THAT I MAY
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?' AND HE" -
00:23:48.46\00:23:53.73
THAT IS, JESUS - "SAID UNTO
HIM, 'WHY CALLEST THOU ME GOOD?
00:23:53.73\00:23:58.40
THERE IS NONE GOOD BUT ONE, THAT
IS, GOD: BUT IF THOU WILT ENTER
00:23:58.40\00:24:02.96
INTO LIFE, KEEP
THE COMMANDMENTS.'" -
00:24:02.96\00:24:04.90
I WANT TO STOP RIGHT THERE.
00:24:04.90\00:24:08.46
IF YOU'RE VIOLATING THE LAW
OF GOD, YOU WON'T GET INTO THE
00:24:08.46\00:24:11.60
KINGDOM OF GOD. I
JUST READ IT, RIGHT?
00:24:11.60\00:24:15.43
SO WE'RE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING
THE LAW, ABSOLUTELY NOT, BUT AS
00:24:15.43\00:24:21.50
LAW KEEPING COMES AS A
CONSEQUENCE OF CHRIST WITHIN, IT
00:24:21.50\00:24:24.90
SHOWS THAT WE ARE MIND AND HEART
WITH GOD AND WE'RE SAFE TO BE
00:24:24.90\00:24:29.16
LET INTO HEAVEN SO LET'S
UNDERSTAND THIS: WE'RE NOT SAVED
00:24:29.16\00:24:33.30
BY KEEPING GOD'S LAW BUT
WE WON'T GET INTO HEAVEN IF WE
00:24:33.30\00:24:35.73
DON'T. AND
SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE
00:24:35.73\00:24:38.80
THROW THIS AT US, 'OH,
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS ARE
00:24:38.80\00:24:40.86
SEVEN-DAY WONDERS, THEY'RE ALL
FOR THE LAW AND NO GRACE.' NO,
00:24:40.86\00:24:44.30
LAW AND GRACE, THEY GO TOGETHER.
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS, AS JAMES
00:24:44.30\00:24:48.33
SAID, IS DEAD. ANYHOW,
I WANT TO MOVE ON HERE.
00:24:48.33\00:24:52.53
JESUS CONTINUES IN VERSE
18, "HE SAITH UNTO HIM, 'WHICH?'
00:24:52.53\00:24:59.20
JESUS SAID, 'THOU SHALT DO
NO MURDER, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT
00:24:59.20\00:25:04.33
ADULTERY, THOU SHALT NOT
STEAL, THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE
00:25:04.33\00:25:08.00
WITNESS, HONOR THY FATHER AND
THY MOTHER: AND, THOU SHALT LOVE
00:25:08.00\00:25:11.80
THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF."
- HE'S DEALING HERE WITH THE
00:25:11.80\00:25:14.76
SECOND TABLE OF THE LAW BECAUSE
THE QUESTION THAT'S SPECIFICALLY
00:25:14.76\00:25:17.96
FROM THIS YOUNG MAN
WAS 'WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?'
00:25:17.96\00:25:20.53
THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS
ABOUT GOD, WHO HE WAS -
00:25:20.53\00:25:22.33
HE WAS THE CREATOR. OBVIOUSLY
DIDN'T TAKE HIS NAME IN VAIN -
00:25:22.33\00:25:25.30
DIDN'T BOW DOWN TO
IDOLS - THAT WAS NOT AN ISSUE.
00:25:25.30\00:25:28.30
BUT WITH THE JEWS THE QUESTION
WAS 'WHO'S MY NEIGHBOR?'
00:25:28.30\00:25:31.56
SO THIS IS WHY JESUS RESTRICTS
IT TO THE SECOND TABLE OF THE
00:25:31.56\00:25:34.93
LAW HERE - 'THOU SHALT LOVE THY
NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.' VERSE 20,
00:25:34.93\00:25:39.73
"THE YOUNG MAN SAITH UNTO HIM,
'ALL THESE THINGS HAVE I KEPT
00:25:39.73\00:25:44.23
FROM MY YOUTH
UP: WHAT LACK I YET?'
00:25:44.23\00:25:48.86
JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, 'IF THOU
WILT BE PERFECT, GO AND SELL
00:25:48.86\00:25:53.90
THAT THOU HAST, AND GIVE TO
THE POOR AND THOU SHALT HAVE
00:25:53.90\00:25:58.13
TREASURE IN HEAVEN: AND COME AND
FOLLOW ME.'" - SO HE'D DONE ALL
00:25:58.13\00:26:04.13
THE OUTWARD THINGS BUT THERE WAS
SOMETHING MORE, WASN'T THERE?
00:26:04.13\00:26:07.70
JESUS SAID, 'GIVE IT ALL AWAY
AND COME AND FOLLOW ME.' WHAT
00:26:07.70\00:26:10.46
WAS THIS CALLING FOR? WHAT
WERE THE THREE FACETS OF LOVE?
00:26:10.46\00:26:16.16
SELF-RENOUNCING LOVE,
SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE, A LOVE
00:26:16.16\00:26:22.90
THAT DOESN'T SEEK ITS OWN
INTERESTS - THAT'S WHAT WAS
00:26:22.90\00:26:26.20
MISSING. SO JESUS
SAID 'GIVE THAT ALL
00:26:26.20\00:26:28.56
AWAY AND HAVE THIS KIND OF LOVE
AND YOU COME AND YOU FOLLOW ME.'
00:26:28.56\00:26:34.33
BUT WHAT WAS THE
RESPONSE IN VERSE 22?
00:26:34.33\00:26:37.83
"BUT WHEN THE YOUNG MAN
HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WENT AWAY
00:26:37.83\00:26:40.70
SORROWFUL: FOR HE
HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS."
00:26:40.70\00:26:46.40
MIKE, CAN YOU PASS ME 'DESIRE
OF AGES' PLEASE? THANK YOU.
00:26:46.40\00:26:52.56
I WANT TO READ 'DESIRE OF AGES'
PAGES 520 AND 521 - THERE'S A
00:26:52.56\00:27:00.46
LITTLE COMMENT HERE
ABOUT THIS RICH YOUNG RULER.
00:27:00.46\00:27:04.83
"HIS CLAIM THAT HE HAD KEPT
THE LAW OF GOD WAS A DECEPTION.
00:27:04.83\00:27:10.86
HE SHOWED THAT
RICHES WERE HIS IDOL.
00:27:10.86\00:27:14.26
HE COULD NOT KEEP THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD WHILE THE
00:27:14.26\00:27:16.96
WORLD WAS FIRST
IN HIS AFFECTIONS."
00:27:16.96\00:27:19.73
YOU SEE, OUTWARDLY HE MAY HAVE
DONE IT, BUT TRUE RELIGION IS A
00:27:19.73\00:27:22.46
THING OF THE HEART, OKAY?
00:27:22.46\00:27:25.93
"HE LOVED THE GIFTS OF GOD
MORE THAN HE LOVED THE GIVER.
00:27:25.93\00:27:30.00
CHRIST HAD OFFERED THIS YOUNG
MAN FELLOWSHIP WITH HIMSELF -
00:27:30.00\00:27:34.06
'FOLLOW ME' HE SAID - BUT THE
SAVIOR WAS NOT SO MUCH TO HIM AS
00:27:34.06\00:27:39.03
HIS OWN NAME AMONG
MEN OR HIS POSSESSIONS.
00:27:39.03\00:27:42.56
TO GIVE UP HIS EARTHLY TREASURE
THAT WAS SEEN FOR THE HEAVENLY
00:27:42.56\00:27:46.60
TREASURE THAT WAS
UNSEEN WAS TOO GREAT A RISK."
00:27:46.60\00:27:51.56
TOO GREAT A
RISK TO FOLLOW JESUS.
00:27:51.56\00:27:55.73
NOW LISTEN TO THIS: "HE REFUSED
THE OFFER OF ETERNAL LIFE AND
00:27:55.73\00:28:00.76
WENT AWAY AND EVER AFTER
THE WORLD WAS TO RECEIVE HIS
00:28:00.76\00:28:05.36
WORSHIP." YOU KNOW LIFE -
ETERNITY - CAN TURN ON A DIME.
00:28:05.36\00:28:12.40
HE WAS STOOD ON A DIME - THIS
YOUNG MAN WAS STOOD ON A DIME
00:28:12.40\00:28:16.23
RIGHT AT THE SAVIOR'S
FEET. HE SAID, 'GIVE IT UP.
00:28:16.23\00:28:20.43
FOLLOW ME.' I WISH THAT HE
THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT BUT ON THAT
00:28:20.43\00:28:25.40
DIME HE TURNED AND IT SAYS,
'EVER AFTERWARD THE WORLD WAS TO
00:28:25.40\00:28:30.36
RECEIVE HIS WORSHIP.' YOU KNOW,
ACCORDING TO THE PROPHET, HE
00:28:30.36\00:28:36.00
SEALED HIS ETERNAL DESTINY.
THAT YOUNG MAN, ONE DAY, HE'S
00:28:36.00\00:28:39.26
GOING TO STAND OUTSIDE THE WALLS
OF THE NEW JERUSALEM AND HE'S
00:28:39.26\00:28:43.53
GOING TO REMEMBER THAT ENCOUNTER
WITH JESUS AND THOSE WORDS OF
00:28:43.53\00:28:47.66
JESUS ARE GOING
TO RING IN HIS EARS.
00:28:47.66\00:28:50.16
HE'S GOING TO RECALL IT SO
VIVIDLY - HE'S GOING TO HAVE
00:28:50.16\00:28:52.03
SUCH CLARITY, WHEN HIS LOVE FOR
THE WORLD IS GONE BECAUSE IT'S
00:28:52.03\00:28:55.70
BEEN TAKEN AWAY, AND THE WORDS
OF CHRIST ARE GOING TO COME BACK
00:28:55.70\00:28:59.03
AND THE REMORSE THAT HE IS GOING
TO FEEL WILL BE BEYOND ALL HUMAN
00:28:59.03\00:29:04.93
ABILITY TO PUT INTO WORDS.
YOU SEE ON THE - READ ON THE
00:29:04.93\00:29:10.53
NEXT PAGE "THOUSANDS ARE PASSING
THROUGH THIS ORDEAL, WEIGHING
00:29:10.53\00:29:14.76
CHRIST AGAINST THE WORLD,
AND MANY CHOOSE THE WORLD.
00:29:14.76\00:29:21.83
LIKE THE YOUNG RULER THEY TURN
FROM THE SAVIOR SAYING IN THEIR
00:29:21.83\00:29:25.00
HEARTS, 'I WILL NOT HAVE
THIS MAN AS MY LEADER.' CHRIST
00:29:25.00\00:29:30.13
DEALING WITH THE YOUNG MAN IS
PRESENTED AS AN OBJECT LESSON.
00:29:30.13\00:29:34.03
GOD HAS GIVEN US THE RULE
OF CONDUCT WHICH EVERY ONE OF
00:29:34.03\00:29:36.63
HIS SERVANTS MUST FOLLOW."
IT IS OBEDIENCE TO HIS LAW, YET
00:29:36.63\00:29:42.70
THERE'S NOT MERELY A LEGAL
OBEDIENCE, BUT AN OBEDIENCE
00:29:42.70\00:29:47.96
WHICH ENTERS INTO THE LIFE AND
EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CHARACTER -
00:29:47.96\00:29:53.23
EXEMPLIFIED IN THAT EXPRESSION
OF DIVINE LOVE WHICH WE
00:29:53.23\00:29:58.50
RECIPROCATE - AND
WHAT IS THAT LOVE AGAIN?
00:29:58.50\00:30:01.06
SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE, SELF-
RENOUNCING LOVE, A LOVE THAT
00:30:01.06\00:30:06.23
SEEKETH NOT HER OWN AND IT
IS THE LAW OF LIFE FOR EARTH AND
00:30:06.23\00:30:12.36
HEAVEN. DEEP
THINGS, AREN'T THEY?
00:30:12.36\00:30:16.70
DEEP THINGS THAT
WE NEED TO PONDER.
00:30:16.70\00:30:19.56
OKAY, I'M GOING
TO MOVE ON TO MONDAY.
00:30:19.56\00:30:21.90
I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR WE'LL GET
BUT WE'LL GIVE IT OUR BEST HERE.
00:30:21.90\00:30:25.43
'THE RULES OF LIFE' - NOW
I CLEARLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE
00:30:25.43\00:30:30.40
LESSON MEANS BY THIS HEADING:
LOVE IS NOT GENUINE UNLESS IT
00:30:30.40\00:30:35.70
MEANS THE DIVINE - UNLESS IT
MEETS THE DIVINE BENCHMARK OF
00:30:35.70\00:30:39.53
THE LAW - AS AN EVIDENCE
THAT CHRIST IS WITHIN - BUT THAT
00:30:39.53\00:30:47.23
SAID, I'D LIKE TO TAKE THE
LIBERTY OF OFFERING ANOTHER
00:30:47.23\00:30:50.36
HEADING FOR MONDAY'S SECTION.
INSTEAD OF 'RULES OF LOVE' WHICH
00:30:50.36\00:30:53.86
IS FINE, I'D LIKE TO
CHANGE IT TO 'FACETS OF LOVE'.
00:30:53.86\00:30:58.73
LET ME EXPLAIN THAT, IF I CAN.
I'D LIKE YOU TO IMAGINE THAT I'M
00:30:58.73\00:31:02.90
HOLDING A BEAUTIFUL DIAMOND IN
MY HAND HERE - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL
00:31:02.90\00:31:06.66
DIAMOND - IT'S
BEEN INTRICATELY CUT.
00:31:06.66\00:31:10.23
IT'S GOT ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL
FACETS, BUT IT'S ONE DIAMOND.
00:31:10.23\00:31:16.40
HOW MANY? JUST ONE DIAMOND.
00:31:16.40\00:31:18.50
BUT AS I HOLD THIS DIAMOND
TO THE LIGHT AND I TURN IT, ALL
00:31:18.50\00:31:24.13
THOSE DIFFERENT FACETS, THEY
SPARKLE AND THEY FLASH AND THEY
00:31:24.13\00:31:29.36
SHINE AS I HOLD IT AT
DIFFERENT ANGLES TO THE LIGHT.
00:31:29.36\00:31:33.30
AND SO GOD'S LOVE IS LIKE THAT
- HE MANIFESTS HIS KINDNESS AND
00:31:33.30\00:31:40.80
AFFECTION TO US IN SO MANY
DIFFERENT WAYS AND YET, VARIED
00:31:40.80\00:31:49.13
AS THOSE WAYS ARE, THEY ALL COME
FROM THAT ONE GREAT UNBOUNDLESS
00:31:49.13\00:31:52.86
SOURCE - THAT ONE HEART OF
OUR HEAVENLY FATHER - THAT ONE
00:31:52.86\00:31:58.70
SOURCE - AND YET, IT EMANATES
THIS LOVE WHICH HAS SO MANY
00:31:58.70\00:32:03.00
FACETS. PERHAPS
ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION WE
00:32:03.00\00:32:06.53
CAN USE OF GOD'S LOVE IS
HOW IT EMANATES FROM ONE GREAT
00:32:06.53\00:32:11.00
BOUNDLESS SOURCE - THE
HEART OF LOVE - IS A RAINBOW.
00:32:11.00\00:32:15.53
A RAINBOW IS
ONE, RIGHT? OR IS IT?
00:32:15.53\00:32:20.06
WELL, IT'S - THE SUN SHINES AND
HITS THE RAIN AND THAT - THOSE
00:32:20.06\00:32:25.23
RAINDROPS ARE
LIKE - WHAT'S THE WORD?
00:32:25.23\00:32:30.03
A PRISM - THANK YOU VERY MUCH
- A PRISM AND SO IT BREAKS THAT
00:32:30.03\00:32:35.03
LIGHT UP INTO A
SPECTRUM THAT WE CAN SEE.
00:32:35.03\00:32:38.30
THERE'S OTHER ENDS OF THE LIGHT
SPECTRUM WE DON'T SEE - WE DON'T
00:32:38.30\00:32:41.33
NEED TO. BUT YOU
SEE THAT ONE RAINBOW AND
00:32:41.33\00:32:44.30
WHAT - OKAY, WHAT'S
THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW?
00:32:44.30\00:32:48.10
RED, ORANGE, YELLOW,
GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET.
00:32:48.10\00:32:57.70
YOU DID GOOD. I
HAD IT WRITTEN DOWN.
00:32:57.70\00:32:58.83
YOU DID IT FROM YOUR
HEAD. THAT'S REALLY GOOD.
00:32:58.83\00:33:01.96
IN ENGLAND, AS KIDS, WE HAD A
LITTLE WAY OF REMEMBERING THAT -
00:33:01.96\00:33:05.33
IT SAID, 'RICHARD OF YORK GAINED
BATTLES IN VAIN.' A PART OF
00:33:05.33\00:33:08.80
BRITISH HISTORY. I'M FROM YORK.
00:33:08.80\00:33:11.13
RICHARD THE THIRD - SO WE
REMEMBERED IT THAT WAY, 'RICHARD
00:33:11.13\00:33:13.83
OF YORK GAINED BATTLES IN VAIN.'
SO IT IS RED, ORANGE, YELLOW,
00:33:13.83\00:33:16.73
GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, AND
VIOLET. BUT ONE RAINBOW, RIGHT?
00:33:16.73\00:33:23.43
AND WITH THE RAINBOW IN MIND,
IN CONNECTION WITH GOD'S LOVE, I
00:33:23.43\00:33:28.10
ALWAYS LIKED TO THINK OF 1
CORINTHIANS 13 AS THE RAINBOW OF
00:33:28.10\00:33:32.80
GOD'S LOVE - THIS ONE ELEMENT OF
LOVE THAT FLOWS FROM HIS HEART -
00:33:32.80\00:33:37.80
LET'S TURN TO 1 CORINTHIANS
13, VERSES 4 THROUGH 7.
00:33:37.80\00:33:42.93
THIS ONE LOVE AND YET
IT HAS SO MANY FACETS.
00:33:42.93\00:33:46.93
IT'S LIKE THE SPECTRUM OF GOD'S
LOVE AND IT'S NOT EXHAUSTIVE
00:33:46.93\00:33:50.56
HERE, BY ANY MEANS. BUT
1 CORINTHIANS 13, VERSES 4
00:33:50.56\00:33:55.00
THROUGH 7 - IT SAYS, "CHARITY"
- WHICH IS LOVE - I'LL USE THE
00:33:55.00\00:33:59.43
WORD 'LOVE' - "LOVE SUFFERETH
LONG, AND IS KIND; LOVE ENVIETH
00:33:59.43\00:34:05.73
NOT; LOVE VAUNTETH NOT
ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP."
00:34:05.73\00:34:11.26
- IT MEANS IT'S NOT RASH -
THAT'S WHAT 'VAUNTETH' MEANS.
00:34:11.26\00:34:15.63
IT'S NOT RASH AND IT'S NOT
PUFFED UP AND PROUD - "DOTH NOT
00:34:15.63\00:34:20.36
BEHAVE ITSELF UNSEEMLY," - A
CHRISTIAN WHO'S FILLED WITH THE
00:34:20.36\00:34:24.73
LOVE OF JESUS - NOW,
LET ME PUT IT ANOTHER WAY,
00:34:24.73\00:34:27.26
JESUS NEVER ACTED
IN AN UNSEEMLY WAY.
00:34:27.26\00:34:31.00
EVEN TO HIS ENEMIES, WHO
HEAPED THE WORSE ABUSE UPON HIM.
00:34:31.00\00:34:35.63
HE HAD A WAY OF SILENCING THEM
WITH, YOU KNOW, 'WHAT DOES THE
00:34:35.63\00:34:38.86
SCRIPTURE SAY?' BUT
IT WAS ALWAYS IN A VERY
00:34:38.86\00:34:41.80
DIGNIFIED FASHION AND NEVER IN
A WAY TO - 'I'M GOING TO PUT YOU
00:34:41.80\00:34:45.26
DOWN, BUDDY.' NEVER LIKE THAT.
00:34:45.26\00:34:48.50
JESUS NEVER BEHAVED UNSEEMLY
AND, AS CHRISTIANS, IF HIS LOVE
00:34:48.50\00:34:53.60
IS ENSHRINED WITHIN US,
NEITHER WILL WE BEHAVE UNSEEMLY.
00:34:53.60\00:35:01.23
BACK IN VERSE 5, "SEEKETH
NOT HER OWN," - WELL, THAT'S THE
00:35:01.23\00:35:06.90
KIND OF LOVE, ISN'T IT, THAT'S
NOT SELF-SEEKING - "IS NOT
00:35:06.90\00:35:10.46
EASILY PROVOKED," - DOES
THAT PROD ANY OF US HERE?
00:35:10.46\00:35:15.03
ARE YOU EASILY PROVOKED?
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER.
00:35:15.03\00:35:17.83
YOU DON'T HAVE TO HOLD UP YOUR
HAND BUT, WHETHER IT'S AT HOME
00:35:17.83\00:35:21.40
OR ON THE FREEWAY, WE CAN VERY
EASILY BE PROVOKED, CAN'T WE?
00:35:21.40\00:35:27.13
- "THINKETH NO EVIL; REJOICETH
NOT IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICETH
00:35:27.13\00:35:33.43
IN THE TRUTH;" - I THINK ONE
OF MY FAVORITE SAYINGS IS - I'VE
00:35:33.43\00:35:39.03
SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT I'LL
SAY IT AGAIN - I WILL SAY THIS
00:35:39.03\00:35:41.26
AGAIN, THERE'S A TEST THAT YOU
CAN APPLY TO YOURSELF: IF YOU
00:35:41.26\00:35:48.76
HEAR SOME BAD NEWS ABOUT
SOMEBODY OR SOME SCANDALOUS NEWS
00:35:48.76\00:35:54.20
- ESPECIALLY ABOUT A CHURCH
MEMBER - AND YOU THINK, 'I'VE
00:35:54.20\00:35:59.10
GOT TO TELL SO AND SO AND
SO AND SO.' STOP RIGHT THERE.
00:35:59.10\00:36:02.36
STOP RIGHT THERE AND
ASK YOURSELF AND PRAY.
00:36:02.36\00:36:05.90
SAY, 'LORD, WHY AM I IN SUCH
A RUSH, RIGHT NOW, TO WANT TO
00:36:05.90\00:36:10.83
SHARE THIS NEWS WITH THIS PERSON
OR THIS PERSON OR THIS PERSON?'
00:36:10.83\00:36:18.60
AND RIGHT THERE IT WILL
BE TELLING - IF THERE IS THE
00:36:18.60\00:36:24.13
SLIGHTEST LITTLE BIT OF
SATISFACTION - 'I'M GOING TO BE
00:36:24.13\00:36:28.40
THE FIRST' - YOU KNOW WHAT
I'M TALKING ABOUT, DON'T YOU?
00:36:28.40\00:36:30.56
'I WANT TO BE THE FIRST TO TELL
THEM.' YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE HEART
00:36:30.56\00:36:35.13
PROBLEM. YOU NEED
JESUS TO TAKE CARE OF
00:36:35.13\00:36:38.90
THAT BECAUSE LOVE DOES NOT
REJOICE IN INIQUITY OR OTHER
00:36:38.90\00:36:43.83
PEOPLE'S SHORTCOMINGS. IS
THE NEWS GOING TO GET OUT?
00:36:43.83\00:36:47.90
SURE IT'S GOING TO GET
OUT, BUT LET OTHERS TELL IT.
00:36:47.90\00:36:50.80
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOWER YOURSELF
TO BE THE ONE TO RUSH TO YOUR
00:36:50.80\00:36:54.16
BUDDY AND SAY, 'LET ME TELL
YOU THIS.' NO, THAT IS UNSEEMLY.
00:36:54.16\00:37:00.13
JESUS NEVER BEHAVED LIKE
THAT. IT'S IN 'DESIRE OF AGES' -
00:37:00.13\00:37:04.46
I FORGET THE PAGE - BUT IT SAYS
WHEN WE COME TO JESUS WITH OUR
00:37:04.46\00:37:07.96
FAULTS AND FAILINGS AND HE
FORGIVES US, ELLEN WHITE SAYS,
00:37:07.96\00:37:11.60
'HE DOESN'T TELL ALL
THAT HE MIGHT TELL TO OTHERS.'
00:37:11.60\00:37:15.06
HE DOESN'T. HE TAKES
US AND HE PUTS HIS ROBE
00:37:15.06\00:37:18.86
AROUND US AND HE SAYS,
'THIS,THAT, AND THE OTHER -
00:37:18.86\00:37:22.56
IT'S BETWEEN YOU
AND ME. I'M YOUR FRIEND.
00:37:22.56\00:37:25.83
I DON'T GOSSIP ABOUT YOU.' SO
LET'S NOT DO THAT ABOUT OTHERS.
00:37:25.83\00:37:31.83
- "REJOICETH NOT IN INIQUITY,
BUT REJOICETH IN THE TRUTH;
00:37:31.83\00:37:36.63
BEARETH ALL THINGS, BELIEVETH
ALL THINGS, HOPETH ALL THINGS,
00:37:36.63\00:37:42.86
ENDURETH ALL THINGS."
ISN'T THAT A BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW?
00:37:42.86\00:37:49.70
THOSE ARE THE FACETS - ALL
THE BEAUTIFUL FACETS OF THAT ONE
00:37:49.70\00:37:54.86
ENTITY FROM THE ONE HEART
OF THAT ONE WONDROUS AND MOST
00:37:54.86\00:38:00.40
WONDERFUL BEING IN THIS WHOLE
UNIVERSE, GOD HIMSELF, YOUR BEST
00:38:00.40\00:38:05.23
FRIEND. IS IT ANY SACRIFICE
TO WANT TO FOLLOW JESUS? NOT SO.
00:38:05.23\00:38:13.73
AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE LIFE
OF JESUS, THE LOVE THAT FLOWED
00:38:13.73\00:38:18.93
FORTH FROM THAT CENTRAL SOURCE
OF HIS OWN HEART ALSO SPARKLED
00:38:18.93\00:38:24.70
AND SHONE IN MANY WAYS. YOU
SEE, THE LIGHT THAT GENERATED -
00:38:24.70\00:38:31.66
THE LIGHT OF LOVE THAT
GENERATED FROM JESUS WAS DIVINE.
00:38:31.66\00:38:34.40
AFTER ALL, HE WAS GOD - FOR ALL
HE HAD THIS MYSTERIOUS WHATEVER
00:38:34.40\00:38:40.46
YOU WANT TO CALL IT - THIS
BLEND OF DIVINITY WITH HUMANITY.
00:38:40.46\00:38:44.06
HE WAS FULLY, FULLY,
FULLY DIVINE FROM ETERNITY.
00:38:44.06\00:38:48.73
FROM HIS HUMANITY
HE WAS FULLY HUMAN.
00:38:48.73\00:38:52.20
HE WAS BORN - BORN AGAIN - AND
WE CAN BE BORN AGAIN AND, WE CAN
00:38:52.20\00:38:55.93
THEREFORE, WITH A FALLEN
NATURE LIKE JESUS HAD, BE ON THE
00:38:55.93\00:38:58.50
SELF-SAME FOOTING. HE HAD NO
ADVANTAGES THAT WE CAN'T HAVE.
00:38:58.50\00:39:03.26
BUT, ALSO FROM HIS HUMAN SIDE,
AS A MAN, HE EQUALLY REFLECTED
00:39:03.26\00:39:10.03
THE LIGHT THAT SHONE FROM HIM
- FROM HIS DIVINE SIDE - BECAUSE
00:39:10.03\00:39:15.93
OF EARNEST AND SINCERE COMMUNION
WITH HIS HEAVENLY FATHER.
00:39:15.93\00:39:22.33
JESUS SPENT LONG HOURS IN
PRAYER. HE WAS A SUPPLIANT.
00:39:22.33\00:39:27.33
WE HAVE TO
SUPPLICATE THE THRONE OF GRACE.
00:39:27.33\00:39:30.46
HE HAD TO DO THE VERY SAME
THING, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE WAS
00:39:30.46\00:39:35.13
TEMPTED. ESPECIALLY WHEN
BURDENS ARE LAID UPON HIM.
00:39:35.13\00:39:39.33
YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL WAS
ON HIS TRACK ALL THE TIME
00:39:39.33\00:39:41.93
JUST TRYING TO TRIP HIM UP.
00:39:41.93\00:39:43.70
ALL THE TIME, JESUS, HE
JUST HAD TO KEEP VIGILANT.
00:39:43.70\00:39:47.40
HE BORE UPON HIS SHOULDERS
A BURDEN THAT WE WILL NEVER
00:39:47.40\00:39:52.30
UNDERSTAND AND, YET, HE
BORE THAT BURDEN IN HIS HUMANITY
00:39:52.30\00:39:57.20
BECAUSE HE SOUGHT THE THRONE OF
GRACE. HE SOUGHT THOSE SPIRITUAL
00:39:57.20\00:40:01.60
NEEDS IN HIS
HUMANITY AS WE NEED TO DO.
00:40:01.60\00:40:04.76
I WANT TO READ FROM HEBREWS 5 -
I'M STILL TALKING ABOUT HIS LOVE
00:40:04.76\00:40:08.73
FOR YOU, BUT I'M JUST TAKING
A LITTLE SIDETRACK HERE - HOW HE
00:40:08.73\00:40:12.36
REFLECTED THAT LOVE AND HE
REFLECTED THAT LOVE AS WE CAN IF
00:40:12.36\00:40:17.00
WE WILL SEEK IT - IF
WE WILL SEEK GOD'S FACE.
00:40:17.00\00:40:19.90
HEBREWS CHAPTER 5, VERSE 7, "WHO
IN THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH, WHEN
00:40:19.90\00:40:27.06
HE HAD OFFERED UP PRAYERS AND
SUPPLICATIONS WITH STRONG CRYING
00:40:27.06\00:40:31.40
AND TEARS" - THAT'S WHAT JESUS
- THAT'S WHAT HE WENT THROUGH.
00:40:31.40\00:40:37.76
BUT HE WOULD ALWAYS PREVAIL.
HE WOULD PREVAIL IN HIS HUMANITY
00:40:37.76\00:40:43.30
AND HE WOULD COME FORTH CHARGED
AFRESH WITH DIVINE STRENGTH AND
00:40:43.30\00:40:48.36
OVERFLOWING WITH LOVE
EVEN FOR HIS WORST ENEMIES.
00:40:48.36\00:40:51.83
NOW, GETTING BACK TO A DIAMOND:
A DIAMOND WILL ONLY SPARKLE IN
00:40:51.83\00:40:56.63
THE PRESENCE OF
LIGHT. IS THAT TRUE?
00:40:56.63\00:41:00.43
YOU HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
DIAMOND, BUT YOU PUT IT IN A
00:41:00.43\00:41:04.03
DARK ROOM, IT MIGHT AS
WELL BE A PIECE OF COAL, RIGHT?
00:41:04.03\00:41:09.83
A DIAMOND WILL NOT SPARKLE
UNLESS IT'S IN THE PRESENCE OF
00:41:09.83\00:41:12.80
LIGHT. BUT SO MYSTERIOUS, SO
DEEP, SO BOUNDLESS, SO INTENSE
00:41:12.80\00:41:22.76
WAS JESUS' LOVE, THAT WHEN IT
WAS EXPOSED TO THE DARKNESS OF
00:41:22.76\00:41:27.30
HUMAN HATRED, AND THE ABUSE OF
THOSE WHO TORTURED, MOCKED HIM,
00:41:27.30\00:41:33.10
AND CRUCIFIED HIM, THE MANY
BEAUTIFUL FACETS OF JESUS' LOVE
00:41:33.10\00:41:39.90
STILL FLASHED AND SPARKLED AND
SHONE FORTH EVEN IN THE DARKEST
00:41:39.90\00:41:44.46
EXPERIENCES OF HIS LIFE.
AND THERE IN GETHSEMANE, THAT
00:41:44.46\00:41:49.93
WAS A DARK, DARK PLACE, BUT THAT
DIAMOND IN THAT DARKNESS STILL
00:41:49.93\00:41:57.63
FLASHED AND SPARKLED BECAUSE AS
THAT CUP TREMBLED IN HIS HAND,
00:41:57.63\00:42:03.66
AND HE SAW HIMSELF -
LET ME READ YOU THIS HERE.
00:42:03.66\00:42:09.43
I WAS PRAYING THE OTHER
MORNING AND THIS KIND OF
00:42:09.43\00:42:13.50
JUST POPPED INTO MY HEAD.
I TRIED TO WRITE THESE WORDS
00:42:13.50\00:42:15.60
DOWN - THEY'RE NOT UNIQUE,
YOU'LL SEE THEM PRETTY MUCH IN
00:42:15.60\00:42:19.83
'DESIRE OF AGES' BUT I KIND OF
DID MY OWN VERSION HERE IF I CAN
00:42:19.83\00:42:23.06
READ IT. WHEN HE
WAS IN GETHSEMANE - I'VE
00:42:23.06\00:42:30.26
GOT WRITTEN HERE 'JESUS FELT
HIMSELF DESCENDING INTO THE DARK
00:42:30.26\00:42:34.63
ABYSS OF ETERNAL DEATH, DEVOID
OF ANY HOPE OR EXPECTATION OF
00:42:34.63\00:42:42.63
EVER ASCENDING UPWARDS
AND BACK INTO THE LIGHT.
00:42:42.63\00:42:47.80
SUCH WAS THE HORROR AND DREAD
THAT SEIZED AND OVERWHELMED HIS
00:42:47.80\00:42:52.16
DARKENED, TORTURED, AND
ANGUISHED MIND AS HE WRESTLED IN
00:42:52.16\00:42:57.83
PRAYER AND STRUGGLED AGAINST THE
POWERS OF EVIL THAT PRESSED UPON
00:42:57.83\00:43:02.06
HIM TO TAKE HIM CAPTIVE TO
ETERNAL DEATH IN THE GARDEN OF
00:43:02.06\00:43:06.13
GETHSEMANE.' THAT WAS
THE DARKNESS THAT HE WAS IN.
00:43:06.13\00:43:11.30
AND YET, IN THAT DARKNESS, WHEN
HE COULD HAVE WIPED THE BLOODY
00:43:11.30\00:43:14.63
SWEAT FROM HIS BROW, WHERE DID
HE STAY? HE STAYED RIGHT THERE
00:43:14.63\00:43:21.50
BECAUSE IN THAT DARK PLACE,
AS THAT CUP TREMBLED, RISING UP
00:43:21.50\00:43:26.16
BEFORE HIM, HE SAW THE
FACES OF OUR LITTLE CHILDREN.
00:43:26.16\00:43:30.23
WE ALL LOVE OUR KIDS, DON'T WE?
REMEMBER WHEN THEY WERE BABIES?
00:43:30.23\00:43:34.10
WE'VE GOT SOME CUTE
LITTLE BABIES IN THIS CHURCH.
00:43:34.10\00:43:36.40
I THINK OF MY LITTLE GRANDSONS -
WHEN I PRAY IN THE MORNING I SEE
00:43:36.40\00:43:40.26
JESUS IN GETHSEMANE AND I SEE
HIM STRUGGLING AND I SEE LITTLE
00:43:40.26\00:43:43.83
JACK'S FACE COMING UP BEFORE
JESUS - LITTLE WEEMO'S FACE -
00:43:43.83\00:43:49.80
AND JESUS SAYING, 'YOU KNOW,
THAT'S A BLACK HOLE I'VE GOT TO
00:43:49.80\00:43:53.73
GO INTO BUT I CAN'T LEAVE LITTLE
JACK AND LITTLE WEEMO WITHOUT A
00:43:53.73\00:43:57.53
SAVIOR.' SO HE ACCEPTED THAT
BAPTISM OF BLOOD AT ANY COST TO
00:43:57.53\00:44:04.43
HIMSELF - NOT JUST
THEIR FACES - OUR FACES.
00:44:04.43\00:44:07.83
WE'VE GOT BABY
FACES IN GOD'S EYES.
00:44:07.83\00:44:09.60
I KNOW, WE GET A LITTLE OLD AND
WE GET A FEW TURKEY NECKS AND
00:44:09.60\00:44:12.86
WRINKLES, BUT WE'RE
STILL HIS LITTLE CHILDREN.
00:44:12.86\00:44:15.40
AND IT WAS THAT THAT ROSE BEFORE
HIS EYES AND HE - EVEN THOUGH
00:44:15.40\00:44:22.40
HIS FATHER HAD SEPARATED -
HAD SEEMED LIKE IT TO HIM - HIS
00:44:22.40\00:44:26.03
FATHER HAD GONE AND HE FELT
THE FROWN OF GOD UPON HIM AND HE
00:44:26.03\00:44:31.06
FELT THE WRATH OF GOD AND SATAN
WAS PRESSING IN AND HE SAW A
00:44:31.06\00:44:35.16
BLACK HOLE, HE SAW US AND EVEN
THOUGH HIS HEART WAS ANGUISHED,
00:44:35.16\00:44:43.36
HIS HEART COULD NOT HELP ITSELF
BUT TO SAY, 'FATHER, I'M GOING
00:44:43.36\00:44:49.13
TO STAY HERE.
WHATEVER IT COSTS, I'M GOING TO
00:44:49.13\00:44:52.56
STAY RIGHT HERE.' AND HE
DID. ARE YOU GLAD FOR THAT?
00:44:52.56\00:44:59.03
YEAH, SO AM I. SO
THERE IN THAT DARK PLACE THAT
00:44:59.03\00:45:04.83
DIAMOND SPARKLED.
PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT.
00:45:04.83\00:45:09.70
SO THAT WAS THE KIND OF LOVE
THAT JESUS SPOKE OF WHEN HE TOLD
00:45:09.70\00:45:12.66
HIS DISCIPLES IN
JOHN 15:12 AND 13.
00:45:12.66\00:45:18.40
HE SAID, "THIS IS MY
COMMANDMENT, THAT YE LOVE ONE
00:45:18.40\00:45:20.83
ANOTHER," - A NEW
COMMANDMENT, REALLY.
00:45:20.83\00:45:26.40
NO, NOT REALLY, BUT THERE'S
A WORD THERE - HE SAYS - WELL,
00:45:26.40\00:45:31.53
THERE'S ONE, TWO - THERE'S FIVE
WORDS THAT FOLLOW IT: "THIS IS
00:45:31.53\00:45:34.80
MY COMMANDMENT, THAT YE LOVE ONE
ANOTHER, AS I HAVE LOVED YOU."
00:45:34.80\00:45:40.53
OKAY, THERE'S THE DIFFERENCE.
NO NEW COMMANDMENT, BUT IT'S
00:45:40.53\00:45:46.50
AMPLIFIED. HE PUTS A DIFFERENT
- HE HELPS US TO SEE IT FROM A -
00:45:46.50\00:45:51.16
MORE OF A FULLER AND A CLEARER
ANGLE. HE SAYS, 'TO LOVE ONE
00:45:51.16\00:45:54.46
ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED
YOU.' AND TO WHAT EXTENT?
00:45:54.46\00:45:58.86
WELL, A LOVE THAT IS
SELF-SACRIFICING, A LOVE THAT
00:45:58.86\00:46:02.53
DOESN'T SEEK ITS OWN, A LOVE
THAT IS WILLING TO LAY DOWN ITS
00:46:02.53\00:46:07.13
LIFE - AND THAT COMES
IN THE VERY NEXT VERSE.
00:46:07.13\00:46:09.16
IT SAYS, "GREATER LOVE HATH
NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY
00:46:09.16\00:46:13.30
DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS."
AND WHEN THOSE DISCIPLES - WHEN
00:46:13.30\00:46:20.66
THEY SAW THAT, THEY BECAME -
WELL, THEY WEREN'T THERE AT THE
00:46:20.66\00:46:26.56
CROSS BUT AFTER THE FACT
THEY UNDERSTOOD THE FACT.
00:46:26.56\00:46:29.73
THEY BECAME CHANGED.
THEY BECAME BORN AGAIN -
00:46:29.73\00:46:33.40
ESPECIALLY PETER. AND
WHY WAS IT, AFTER THE FACT,
00:46:33.40\00:46:37.56
THAT PETER WAS WILLING
TO BE CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN?
00:46:37.56\00:46:42.90
BECAUSE HE'D SEEN A REVELATION -
NOT JUST OF LOVE BUT TO SEE HOW
00:46:42.90\00:46:49.20
JESUS HAD LOVED HIM AS JESUS
HAD LOVED HIM AND, IN TURN,
00:46:49.20\00:46:53.70
HE WANTED TO RECIPROCATE THAT.
00:46:53.70\00:46:55.26
HE WANTED TO LOVE JESUS
BACK AS JESUS HAD LOVED HIM.
00:46:55.26\00:46:58.23
SO WHEN THEY SAID,
'ALRIGHT PETER, THIS IS IT.
00:46:58.23\00:47:00.33
WE'RE GOING TO CRUCIFY YOU.' HE
SAID, 'PLEASE, PLEASE, I DON'T
00:47:00.33\00:47:04.83
MIND DYING BUT' - HE SAYS - 'I'M
NOT WORTHY TO BE CRUCIFIED THE
00:47:04.83\00:47:07.86
SAME WAY UP AS MY
SAVIOR WHOM I BETRAYED.
00:47:07.86\00:47:10.46
PLEASE CRUCIFY ME UPSIDE DOWN.'
THEY SAID, 'WELL, WE THINK THIS
00:47:10.46\00:47:16.06
GUY'S A LITTLE CRAZY BUT THAT'S
- IF YOU WANT, OKAY.' SO THEY
00:47:16.06\00:47:20.00
CRUCIFIED HIM UPSIDE DOWN.
WOULD ANYBODY IN THEIR RIGHT
00:47:20.00\00:47:25.43
MIND WANT TO BE CRUCIFIED UPSIDE
DOWN? OR CRUCIFIED AT ALL?
00:47:25.43\00:47:31.00
NOW, WELL YOU SEE, WHEN THAT
LOVE OF CHRIST COMES INTO YOUR
00:47:31.00\00:47:33.46
HEART, SOMETIMES TO THE WORLD
YOU MAY LOOK A LITTLE INSANE
00:47:33.46\00:47:38.50
SOMETIMES BECAUSE
YOU'RE SO UNSELFISH.
00:47:38.50\00:47:42.46
YOU'RE WILLING TO
GIVE EVERYTHING AWAY.
00:47:42.46\00:47:45.00
YOU KNOW, IN THE WORLD'S
EYES, 'WELL, BE GENEROUS.
00:47:45.00\00:47:47.43
GIVE STUFF AWAY, BUT KEEP ENOUGH
FOR YOURSELF.' YOU KNOW, A DAY
00:47:47.43\00:47:51.00
IS COMING WHEN WHATEVER WE HAVE
- IF WE HAVEN'T GIVEN IT AWAY
00:47:51.00\00:47:54.93
IT'S GOING TO BE TAKEN AWAY.
WE'RE ALL GOING TO FINISH UP
00:47:54.93\00:47:56.83
WITH ZILCH. YOU KNOW THAT?
AND WE'RE TOLD THAT IF WE KEEP
00:47:56.83\00:48:01.16
OUR GOODS UPON THE ALTAR, GOD
WILL SHOW US, AT THE RIGHT TIME,
00:48:01.16\00:48:06.00
WHEN TO SELL IT,
WHEN TO GIVE IT AWAY.
00:48:06.00\00:48:09.30
BUT IF WE KEEP IN STEP WITH GOD
HE'LL SHOW US HOW TO DISPERSE
00:48:09.30\00:48:12.23
WITH THESE THINGS
BECAUSE WE'RE ALMOST THERE.
00:48:12.23\00:48:15.53
BUT IF, LIKE THE RICH YOUNG
RULER, WE'RE SITTING IN CHURCH
00:48:15.53\00:48:18.10
THIS MORNING,
'JESUS IS COMING SOON.'
00:48:18.10\00:48:20.33
YOU KNOW, WE'RE HAVING A
'CLOSING EVENTS' SEMINAR -
00:48:20.33\00:48:22.56
I LOVE PROPHECY, BUT
YOUR HEART ISN'T CHANGED.
00:48:22.56\00:48:25.30
WHEN THAT CRISIS COMES AND THAT
SUNDAY LAW COMES AND THEY TELL
00:48:25.30\00:48:30.13
YOU YOU HAVE TO ABIDE BY THIS
LAW - WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR
00:48:30.13\00:48:36.13
HOUSE, YOUR CAR, YOUR JOB, YOUR
SAVINGS, YOUR - WHATEVER YOU
00:48:36.13\00:48:38.96
HAVE - WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BE?
A RICH YOUNG RULER OR I'M TRYING
00:48:38.96\00:48:47.36
TO THINK OF AN
EXAMPLE - OR NICODEMUS?
00:48:47.36\00:48:50.00
NICODEMUS - HE GAVE IT ALL AWAY.
JOSEPH BATES - REMEMBER THE
00:48:50.00\00:48:54.60
STORY OF JOSEPH
BATES? HE WAS A SEA CAPTAIN.
00:48:54.60\00:48:57.50
HE HAD QUITE A LITTLE NEST EGG.
PIONEER OF THIS MOVEMENT - GAVE
00:48:57.50\00:49:03.60
IT ALL AWAY - HE FINALLY COMES
HOME ONE DAY AND HIS WIFE SAID,
00:49:03.60\00:49:06.23
'YOU KNOW, JOSEPH, WE NEED SOME
FLOUR AND A FEW THINGS.' - YOU
00:49:06.23\00:49:09.13
KNOW SHE KNEW HE ALWAYS HAD SOME
DOLLARS IN HIS POCKET - 'CAN YOU
00:49:09.13\00:49:12.00
GO TO THE STORE AND
BUY SOME FLOUR AND STUFF?'
00:49:12.00\00:49:14.10
HE SAYS, 'WELL, DEAR, WE DON'T
HAVE ANY MONEY LEFT.' 'WHAT?
00:49:14.10\00:49:18.53
WHERE'S IT ALL GONE?'
'I'VE GIVEN IT ALL AWAY TO THE
00:49:18.53\00:49:22.16
CAUSE.' SO YOU CAN BE A RICH
YOUNG RULER OR A JOSEPH BATES.
00:49:22.16\00:49:27.86
THE RICH YOUNG RULER
LOST HIS ETERNAL INHERITANCE.
00:49:27.86\00:49:30.83
JOSEPH BATES MAY HAVE NOT HAD
TWO PENNIES TO RUB TOGETHER BUT
00:49:30.83\00:49:33.90
YOU KNOW WHAT?
HE'LL BE IN HEAVEN.
00:49:33.90\00:49:36.66
I KNOW WHICH I WOULD
LIKE TO BE OF THE TWO OF THEM.
00:49:36.66\00:49:40.10
SO, AND SO THE DISCIPLES THEY
WERE WILLING - THEY WERE WILLING
00:49:40.10\00:49:44.80
- THIS IS WHY PAUL
SAID, IN 2 CORINTHIANS 5:14,
00:49:44.80\00:49:47.26
"FOR THE LOVE OF
CHRIST CONSTRAINETH US."
00:49:47.26\00:49:50.40
THE OLD ENGLISH WORD
THERE, IT MEANS 'COMPELLED'.
00:49:50.40\00:49:53.60
IT SAYS, 'THE LOVE OF CHRIST'
- IT SAYS - 'IT COMPELS ME.' AND
00:49:53.60\00:49:57.46
IT WAS THE CONTEMPLATION
OF THE LOVE OF JESUS THAT WAS
00:49:57.46\00:50:01.76
DEMONSTRATED, IN PAUL'S
PARTICULAR EXPERIENCE, THAT
00:50:01.76\00:50:06.36
DROVE HIM ONWARD. I
MEAN, HE WAS DRIVEN.
00:50:06.36\00:50:10.73
IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR PAUL - I
SUPPOSE GOD WOULD HAVE PROBABLY
00:50:10.73\00:50:13.76
RAISED UP SOMEBODY ELSE BECAUSE
GOD IS NOT DEPENDENT UPON MEN,
00:50:13.76\00:50:17.26
YET AT THE SAME
TIME HE USES THEM.
00:50:17.26\00:50:19.46
BUT HERE'S THIS UNLIKELY
INSTRUMENT - SAUL BECOMES THE
00:50:19.46\00:50:24.50
APOSTLE PAUL AND HE GOT THIS
LOVE - HE GOT THIS GLIMPSE OF
00:50:24.50\00:50:28.46
THE LOVE OF CHRIST AND HE SAID,
'IT JUST DRIVES ME.' AND YOU
00:50:28.46\00:50:31.93
READ THE THINGS THAT PAUL HAD TO
CONTEND WITH AS A MISSIONARY IN
00:50:31.93\00:50:37.30
THE FIRST CENTURY FOR JESUS
CHRIST. WE DON'T HAVE TIME, BUT
00:50:37.30\00:50:40.66
IF YOU READ IN 2 CORINTHIANS
11, VERSES 24 THROUGH 28.
00:50:40.66\00:50:44.53
YOU KNOW, IT SAYS, 'I WAS -
THREE TIMES I WAS SCOURGED BY MY
00:50:44.53\00:50:48.06
OWN KIND.' HE SAYS,
'I HAVE BEEN SHIPWRECKED.
00:50:48.06\00:50:51.36
I'VE BEEN NAKED, COLD, HUNGRY.'
HE SAYS ALL OF THESE THINGS AND
00:50:51.36\00:50:55.23
ON TOP OF ALL THIS, THE
CARE OF ALL THE CHURCHES.
00:50:55.23\00:50:58.16
WHY DID HE PUT UP WITH THAT?
THAT'S WHAT THE MIND MIGHT SAY,
00:50:58.16\00:51:04.56
BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING
GOING ON IN HERE, YOU SEE.
00:51:04.56\00:51:07.53
HE'D SEEN A DEMONSTRATION OF
LOVE AND, AS IT FILLED HIM, HE
00:51:07.53\00:51:13.93
JUST COULDN'T HELP HIMSELF.
A LOVE AS JESUS LOVED - AND WE
00:51:13.93\00:51:19.83
CAN LOOK AT OTHER CHRISTIANS AS
WELL, WHO FOLLOWED ALL THE OTHER
00:51:19.83\00:51:23.83
APOSTLES. APART
FROM JOHN, THEY WERE ALL
00:51:23.83\00:51:26.00
MARTYRED. JOHN WAS
THROWN IN BOILING OIL -
00:51:26.00\00:51:29.06
CAME OUT - WASN'T HIS
TIME TO DIE IN THAT FASHION.
00:51:29.06\00:51:35.93
1 CORINTHIANS 9:19 THROUGH 23
- 1 CORINTHIANS 9:19 THROUGH 23.
00:51:35.93\00:51:50.10
PAUL SAYS, "FOR THOUGH I BE FREE
FROM ALL MEN, YET HAVE I MADE
00:51:50.10\00:51:54.40
MYSELF SERVANT UNTO ALL,
THAT I MIGHT GAIN THE MORE.
00:51:54.40\00:51:59.90
AND UNTO THE JEWS I BECAME AS A
JEW, THAT I MIGHT GAIN THE JEWS;
00:51:59.90\00:52:04.73
TO THEM THAT ARE UNDER THE LAW,
AS UNDER THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT
00:52:04.73\00:52:07.66
GAIN THEM THAT ARE UNDER THE
LAW; TO THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT
00:52:07.66\00:52:11.06
LAW," - THAT IS THE GENTILES
- "TO THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT LAW,
00:52:11.06\00:52:14.56
AS WITHOUT LAW, (BEING NOT
WITHOUT LAW TO GOD, BUT UNDER
00:52:14.56\00:52:18.56
THE LAW TO CHRIST,) THAT I MIGHT
GAIN THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT LAW.
00:52:18.56\00:52:23.03
TO THE WEAK BECAME I AS WEAK,
THAT I MIGHT GAIN THE WEAK: I AM
00:52:23.03\00:52:26.96
MADE ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN, THAT
I MIGHT BY ALL MEANS SAVE SOME.
00:52:26.96\00:52:32.16
AND THIS I DO FOR THE GOSPEL'S
SAKE, THAT I MIGHT BE PARTAKER
00:52:32.16\00:52:37.13
THEREOF WITH YOU." THE
APOSTLE PAUL PRESENTS HERE A
00:52:37.13\00:52:42.16
VERY SOUND AND WELL-TESTED
PRINCIPLE OF SOUL WINNING
00:52:42.16\00:52:47.83
BECAUSE IT'S OF DIVINE ORIGIN.
WE SHOULD SEEK, AS FAR AS
00:52:47.83\00:52:52.03
POSSIBLE, TO MEET PEOPLE
WHERE THEY ARE WITHOUT OURSELVES
00:52:52.03\00:52:56.23
SACRIFICING PRINCIPLE,
AND WE CAN GO A LONG WAY.
00:52:56.23\00:53:01.83
JESUS MIXED WITH THE PUBLICANS
AND THE SINNERS YET NEVER ONCE
00:53:01.83\00:53:06.53
DID HE VIOLATE ONE PRINCIPLE OF
THE LAW OF GOD AND WE CAN DO THE
00:53:06.53\00:53:13.60
SAME. GOD WILL GIVE US WISDOM.
AND IN THIS WAY WE CAN RELATE TO
00:53:13.60\00:53:18.93
THEM AND THEY CAN RELATE MORE
TO US. YOU KNOW, TO A LOT OF
00:53:18.93\00:53:23.03
PEOPLE OUT THERE - CHRISTIANS,
THEY'RE A MYSTERIOUS BUNCH, YOU
00:53:23.03\00:53:26.23
KNOW, AND SO THERE'S
A PREJUDICE OUT THERE.
00:53:26.23\00:53:29.70
THERE'S A SUSPICION - ESPECIALLY
NOW WITH THE RISE - YOU KNOW,
00:53:29.70\00:53:33.00
SECULARISM IS
REALLY, REALLY STRONG.
00:53:33.00\00:53:36.10
AND SO WE'VE GOT TO FIND
A WAY OF BEING ABLE TO MORE
00:53:36.10\00:53:39.73
EFFECTIVELY BREAK DOWN
PREJUDICE AND BARRIERS THAT STOP
00:53:39.73\00:53:45.33
PEOPLE OPENING
THEIR HEARTS TO US.
00:53:45.33\00:53:47.53
AND HERE WE HAVE THIS BROAD TERM
HERE 'THE LAW OF CHRIST' AND
00:53:47.53\00:53:51.56
IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S THIS
SELF-SACRIFICING PRINCIPLE.
00:53:51.56\00:53:56.83
IT IS THIS LOVE THAT IS THE
KEY THAT WILL GAIN ENTRANCE INTO
00:53:56.83\00:54:01.73
HEARTS WHICH ARE LOCKED BY
UNBELIEF, PREJUDICES, SUSPICION
00:54:01.73\00:54:06.90
TOWARD RELIGION AND
ESPECIALLY TOWARD CHRISTIANS.
00:54:06.90\00:54:10.73
AND IF YOU WANT TO LOOK BACK AT
A PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW THE LAW
00:54:10.73\00:54:15.26
OF CHRIST WORKED AND WAS A KEY
TO OPENING PEOPLE'S HEARTS, WE
00:54:15.26\00:54:19.30
JUST HAVE TO LOOK AT THE LAW OF
ACTION - AT THE LAW OF CHRIST -
00:54:19.30\00:54:22.50
THAT OPERATED IN
THE LAW OF JESUS.
00:54:22.50\00:54:25.23
IN 'MINISTRY OF HEALING' PAGE
143 - I WROTE THE REFERENCE DOWN
00:54:25.23\00:54:29.96
AND I COULDN'T
FIND IT IN MY OFFICE.
00:54:29.96\00:54:31.96
I FOUND A PAPERBACK, BUT IT'S
NOT THE ORIGINAL PAGING BUT IT
00:54:31.96\00:54:35.30
GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS:
"CHRIST'S METHODS ALONE WILL
00:54:35.30\00:54:40.06
BRING SUCCESS. HE
MINGLED WITH THE PEOPLE AS
00:54:40.06\00:54:43.66
ONE WHO DESIRED THEIR BEST GOOD.
HE MINISTERED TO THEIR NEEDS.
00:54:43.66\00:54:50.20
HE - YOU KNOW THIS, VIRGINIA,
I'M SURE - HE SYMPATHIZED WITH
00:54:50.20\00:54:54.20
THEM - ALL THESE THINGS - THEN
HE BADE THEM, 'FOLLOW ME.' AND
00:54:54.20\00:55:01.30
THAT'S CHRIST'S METHOD AND WE'RE
TOLD THAT CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE
00:55:01.30\00:55:05.83
WILL BRING SUCCESS. SO
THE LAW OF CHRIST NEEDS TO BE
00:55:05.83\00:55:09.80
SEEN, FOR EXAMPLE, IN
THE TOOLS GOD HAS GIVEN US.
00:55:09.80\00:55:13.00
OUR HEALTH MESSAGE - RIGHT
NOW WE'VE GOT A LITTLE HEALTH
00:55:13.00\00:55:16.36
PROGRAM GOING ON AT OUR CHURCH
AND WANT TO BUILD MORE AND MORE
00:55:16.36\00:55:18.73
HEALTH PROGRAMS THROUGH THE
YEARS TO DOVE-TAIL IN WITH OTHER
00:55:18.73\00:55:21.70
EVANGELISTIC EVENTS. BUT,
AGAIN, THE LAW OF CHRIST -
00:55:21.70\00:55:27.23
IT IS TO MINISTER TO OTHERS.
AND THIS IS WHAT WE READ IN 9
00:55:27.23\00:55:30.06
TESTIMONIES, 189, "IF WE WOULD
HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE GOD AND
00:55:30.06\00:55:37.70
BE KIND AND COURTEOUS AND
TENDERHEARTED AND PITIFUL" - IS
00:55:37.70\00:55:47.50
THAT - ARE THOSE FACETS OF
LOVE? YES THEY ARE, AREN'T THEY?
00:55:47.50\00:55:52.86
THEY'RE FACETS OF A LOVE
THAT DOESN'T SEEK ITS OWN.
00:55:52.86\00:55:55.90
THEY'RE FACETS OF
NOT A SELF-SEEKING LOVE.
00:55:55.90\00:55:59.06
THEY'RE FACETS OF
SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE. -
00:55:59.06\00:56:02.26
"IF WE WOULD HUMBLE OURSELVES
BEFORE GOD AND BE KIND AND
00:56:02.26\00:56:05.63
COURTEOUS AND TENDERHEARTED
AND PITIFUL, THERE WOULD BE ONE
00:56:05.63\00:56:09.50
HUNDRED CONVERSIONS TO THE TRUTH
WHERE NOW THERE IS ONLY ONE."
00:56:09.50\00:56:16.63
ONLY ONE - IT'S A
TERRIBLE INDICTMENT, ISN'T IT?
00:56:16.63\00:56:20.23
TERRIBLE INDICTMENT.
ANYWAY, WE CAN PREACH A WHOLE
00:56:20.23\00:56:25.53
SERMON THERE BUT I'LL
LEAVE YOU TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
00:56:25.53\00:56:27.93
9 TESTIMONIES, 189 - AND ASK GOD
- SAY, 'LORD, IS THERE SOMETHING
00:56:27.93\00:56:33.50
YOU WANT TO TEACH
ME FROM THIS STATEMENT?
00:56:33.50\00:56:36.43
DO I NEED TO BE MORE KIND,
COURTEOUS, TENDERHEARTED, AND
00:56:36.43\00:56:38.86
PITIFUL? AND WORK FOR SOULS?'
00:56:38.86\00:56:41.30
I'LL LEAVE YOU AND
GOD TO WORK THAT ONE OUT.
00:56:41.30\00:56:44.66
BUT AGAIN, WHERE DO YOU
AND I GET SUCH KINDNESS FROM?
00:56:44.66\00:56:49.56
WELL, IT'S OF DIVINE ORIGIN
AND IT NEEDS TO BE IMPLANTED
00:56:49.56\00:56:54.00
WITHIN US. BUT IN OURSELVES
WE'RE NOT NATURALLY LIKE THAT.
00:56:54.00\00:57:00.26
'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE 20
SAYS, "THERE IS NOTHING SAVE THE
00:57:00.26\00:57:03.60
SELFISH HEART OF MEN
THAT LIVES UNTO ITSELF."
00:57:03.60\00:57:08.96
AGAIN, WE MAY DO GOOD WORKS FROM
A SENSE OF OBLIGATION - FROM A
00:57:08.96\00:57:13.63
SENSE OF DUTY - BUT
WE NEED JESUS, DON'T WE?
00:57:13.63\00:57:18.16
WE NEED HIM TO COME IN AND FILL
US AND MAKE US EVERYTHING THAT
00:57:18.16\00:57:24.13
HE WANTS US TO BE.
00:57:24.13\00:57:27.86
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:27.86\00:57:31.40
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:31.40\00:57:35.20
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:57:35.20\00:57:38.46
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