Participants: Pr. Mike Thompson
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021421
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:49 IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US FROM ACROSS THE 00:52 COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD. EACH WEEK WE GET TOGETHER, WE 00:56 STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER, WE SING TOGETHER, WE PRAY TOGETHER, 01:00 AND SOON WE WILL BE IN HEAVEN TOGETHER BEFORE OUR SAVIOR AND 01:04 OUR LORD, JESUS CHRIST. BUT UNTIL THEN WE WILL KEEP 01:08 STUDYING. WE HAVE A SPECIAL TREAT FOR YOU 01:11 THIS MORNING. AS YOU CAN SEE, BEHIND ME ARE 01:15 SOME BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY YOUNG LADIES. 01:18 THEY COME TO US FROM THE ORANGEVALE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 01:22 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN ORANGEVALE, CALIFORNIA. 01:25 I'M ALWAYS THRILLED - EVERY SPRING THEY COME AND JOIN 01:28 US AND SHARE THEIR MINISTRY WITH US. 01:31 THIS MORNING THEY WILL BE SINGING TWO SONGS FOR US: 01:35 'GOD'S LOVE CAN TURN THE WORLD' AND 'DO YOU LOVE MY LORD?' - 01:39 AND THEY ARE LED THIS MORNING BY BRAD DAVIS, WHO IS THE 01:43 PRINCIPAL AT THE ORANGEVALE SCHOOL. 01:48 (MUSIC) 02:17 >>WE'RE AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY BUT WE'RE THE SAME IN 02:22 DIFFERENT WAYS AND IT'S TRUE, JUST LOOK AT ME AND YOU. WE CAN 02:31 CHANGE THE WAY WE ARE THE POWER LIVES INSIDE OUR HEARTS. WE CAN 02:38 BE ANYTHING WE WANNA BE. IF COAL CAN TURN INTO DIAMONDS AND SAND 02:48 INTO PEARLS IF A WORM CAN TURN INTO A BUTTERFLY THEN LOVE CAN 02:55 TURN THE WORLD. YES, GOD'S LOVE CAN TURN THE WORLD. JESUS THE 03:04 GOD WHO MADE YOU MADE US ALL BIG AND LITTLE, SHORT AND TALL AND 03:10 THAT'S FINE 'CAUSE IT TAKES ALL KINDS. IF HE HAD MADE US ALL 03:20 ALIKE IT SURE WOULD BE A BORING LIFE BUT HE KNEW WHAT LITTLE 03:27 TIME COULD DO. IF COAL CAN TURN INTO DIAMONDS AND SAND INTO 03:36 PEARLS IF A WORM CAN TURN INTO A BUTTERFLY THEN LOVE CAN TURN THE 03:43 WORLD. YES, GOD'S LOVE CAN TURN THE WORLD. IF COAL CAN TURN INTO 03:48 DIAMONDS AND SAND INTO PEARLS AND IF A WORM CAN TURN INTO A 03:55 BUTTERFLY THEN LOVE CAN TURN THE WORLD. YES, GOD'S LOVE CAN TURN 04:01 THE WORLD. YES, GOD'S LOVE CAN TURN THE WORLD. >>AMEN! 04:14 (MUSIC) 04:22 >>IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY JESUS? 04:27 ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD? I WANT TO KNOW, OH, I WANT TO 04:34 KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES 04:43 MY JESUS? ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD? 04:49 I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? 04:57 MAKES ME FEEL SO HAPPY WHEN YOU LOVE MY JESUS. MAKES ME 05:02 FEEL SO HAPPY WHEN YOU LOVE MY LORD. I WANT TO KNOW, 05:08 OH I WANT TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? 05:14 IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY JESUS? 05:19 ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD? I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO 05:27 KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES 05:35 MY JESUS? ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD? 05:41 I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? 05:49 TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN DO YOU LOVE MY JESUS? 05:54 TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? 05:58 I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? 06:07 IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY JESUS? 06:12 ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD? I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO 06:20 KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES 06:28 MY JESUS? ANYBODY HERE WHO LOVES MY LORD? 06:34 I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? 06:43 I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? 06:51 I WANT TO KNOW, OH I WANT TO KNOW DO YOU LOVE MY LORD? 07:08 >>AMEN! >>AMEN! WERE YOU BLESSED THIS MORNING? 07:14 IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE ORANGEVALE SCHOOL, 07:17 THEY HAVE A WEBSITE THAT IS 'OVSCHOOL.ORG' AND YOU CAN CHECK 07:22 OUT THEIR WEBSITE IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A GREAT PLACE TO 07:25 SEND YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL FOR GREAT ADVENTIST EDUCATION, THAT 07:29 IS THE PLACE. LET'S BOW OUR HEADS. 07:33 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SABBATH - THAT 07:37 WE CAN COME BEFORE YOU AND WORSHIP FREELY OUR CREATOR AND 07:41 OUR LORD. THANK YOU FOR THE TALENTS THAT 07:43 YOU HAVE GIVEN THESE PRECIOUS GIRLS. 07:45 AND LORD, I JUST ASK YOU TO BLESS EACH ONE OF THEM AS THEY 07:49 CONTINUE THROUGH THEIR LIFE. MAY THEY USE THEIR TALENTS AND 07:53 THEIR ENERGIES FOR YOUR SERVICE - TO HASTEN YOUR COMING. LORD, 07:57 HELP US ALL TO DO OUR PART. WE KNOW YOU'RE COMING SOON. 08:00 HELP US TO BE READY AND HELP US TO SHINE FOR YOU IN EVERYTHING 08:04 WE DO AND SAY TO OTHERS - THAT WE CAN DO OUR PART TO ALSO 08:09 HASTEN YOUR COMING. WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY, 08:11 LORD, WHEN WE WILL MEET YOU FACE TO FACE. PLEASE KEEP US FAITHFUL 08:15 'TIL THEN. WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR 08:17 NAME, AMEN. OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT 08:21 TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON. HE'S THE HEALTH AND OUTREACH 08:25 PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 08:28 >>THANK YOU JOLYNE AND THANK YOU ALSO YOU YOUNG LADIES FROM 08:32 ORANGEVALE. THEY DID A NICE JOB, DIDN'T THEY? 08:34 THEY REALLY DID. AND THE PARENTS AS WELL - 08:38 I GUESS WE HAVE A FEW PARENTS HERE THIS MORNING. 08:40 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU COULD BE WITH US TOO. WE'RE LOOKING - 08:44 ACTUALLY, BEFORE I BEGIN, THERE'S A SPECIAL OFFER. 08:47 IT'S OFFER #715 AND IT'S CALLED 'DOES GOD'S GRACE BLOT OUT THE 08:54 LAW?' IF YOU CALL AND ASK FOR OFFER 08:58 715 - CALL 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR 1-866-788-3966 - AMAZING FACTS 09:07 WILL SEND THIS TO YOU. WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS, 09:12 ORIGINALLY, WHO PASSED AWAY. HE WAS THE - HE WASN'T QUITE THE 09:15 FOUNDER OF AMAZING FACTS BUT HE WAS THE FIRST KEY SPEAKER. 09:19 AND IT ANSWERS QUESTIONS SUCH AS, YOU KNOW, 'WHAT IS THE LAW?' 09:22 'WHAT IS GRACE?' 'WHY DO WE NEED A LAW?' 09:26 'CAN WE KEEP THE LAW?' JUST A TINY LITTLE BOOK, BUT 09:30 IT'S FULL OF VERY GOOD INFORMATION. SO IF YOU CALL 09:33 AMAZING FACTS, THEY'LL SEND THAT TO YOU ABSOLUTELY FREE. 09:37 AND TO OUR SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON, WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT 09:39 'CHRIST AND HIS LAW' AND TODAY OUR TOPIC - WE'RE IN LESSON #8 09:45 ALREADY - 'THE LAW OF GOD AND THE LAW OF CHRIST'. 09:49 YOU MIGHT WONDER, 'WELL, IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?' 09:52 UM...YES, BUT NO. THERE'S NOT - THERE'S ACTUALLY 09:56 NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL. ON THE FIRST PAGE ON SABBATH 10:02 AFTERNOON, WE HAVE OUR KEY TEXT FROM JOHN 15:10. 10:07 THE WORDS OF JESUS, "IF YOU KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, YOU WILL ABIDE 10:11 IN MY LOVE, JUST AS I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND 10:17 ABIDE IN HIS LOVE." AND I JUST WANT TO KICK OFF WITH 10:21 THE LAST PARAGRAPH ON SABBATH AFTERNOON'S INTRODUCTION. 10:27 WE READ, "AS THE SUPREME HEAD OF THE UNIVERSE, THE CREATOR GOD 10:31 HAS ESTABLISHED LAWS FOR ALL HIS CREATURES. 10:35 WHEN JESUS CHRIST VOLUNTARILY TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO HUMAN 10:39 FLESH, HE GAVE HIMSELF TO A LIFE OF OBEDIENCE TO HIS FATHER." 10:45 AND THERE'S A VERSE YOU CAN LOOK UP THERE IN PHILIPPIANS 2:5 10:48 THROUGH 11. "...OBEDIENCE TO HIS FATHER AND 10:51 TO HIS COMMANDMENTS. THUS, EVERYTHING THAT JESUS 10:55 TAUGHT, THE PERSPECTIVE THAT HE PUT ON THE LAW - EVEN THE NEW 11:00 COMMANDMENT THAT HE GAVE, WAS ALWAYS IN FULL HARMONY WITH THE 11:04 LAW OF GOD." AND THAT IS - THAT IS A FACT. 11:09 SO I WANT TO GO STRAIGHT TO SUNDAY AND - 'THE LAW AND THE 11:13 PROPHETS' - I WANT US TO LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 22, VERSES 34 11:19 THROUGH 40 - MATTHEW 22 VERSES 34 THROUGH 40 - AND IT SAYS, 11:28 "BUT WHEN THE PHARISEES HEARD THAT HE HAD PUT THE SADDUCEES TO 11:31 SILENCE," - JESUS WAS VERY GOOD AT PUTTING PHARISEES AND 11:36 SADDUCEES TO SILENCE - NOT THAT HE FOUND PLEASURE IN DOING THAT, 11:40 BUT THEY WOULD COME AGAINST HIM AND HE WOULD JUST SAY A FEW 11:43 WORDS AND THEY WOULD JUST HAVE TO WALK AWAY AND ZIP UP - 11:47 "...PUT THE SADDUCEES TO SILENCE, THEY WERE GATHERED 11:49 TOGETHER. THEN ONE OF THEM, WHICH WAS A 11:52 LAWYER, ASKED HIM A QUESTION, TEMPTING HIM," - THEY WERE 11:55 ALWAYS TRYING TO TRIP HIM UP, YOU SEE - "...TEMPTING HIM, AND 11:58 SAYING, 'MASTER, WHICH IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENT IN THE LAW?" 12:04 - VERSE 37 - "JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, 'THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD 12:09 THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL 12:13 THY MIND. THIS IS THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT. 12:17 AND THE SECOND IS LIKE UNTO IT, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS 12:22 THYSELF. ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG 12:25 ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.'" SO, IN ANSWERING THIS WILY 12:30 LAWYER HERE, JESUS DISTILLED THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS INTO ONE 12:37 FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENT, WHICH IS LOVE. LOVE TO GOD, WHICH, 12:43 WHEN YOU LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART YOU'RE FULFILLING THE 12:46 FIRST TABLE OF THE LAW. AND JESUS QUOTED, ACTUALLY, FROM 12:49 DEUTERONOMY 6:5 IN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION. 12:53 AND THE SECOND TABLE OF THE LAW IS THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS, 12:57 WHICH IS TO LOVE OUR FELLOW HUMANS AS OURSELVES AND JESUS 13:01 QUOTED THIS AS WELL, AND HE WAS QUOTING FROM LEVITICUS 19:18. 13:07 SO THE WHOLE LAW IS DISTILLED IN THIS ONE ENTITY WHICH IS, OF 13:13 COURSE, LOVE. NOW WE DO WELL TO REMIND 13:17 OURSELVES THAT LOVE, BEING THE ESSENCE OF GOD'S LAW, IS THE 13:24 GOVERNING PRINCIPLE THAT APPLIES TO EVERY WORLD AND EVERY CREATED 13:29 INTELLIGENCE IN THIS VAST CREATION - THAT SAME PRINCIPLE. 13:36 AND WE ALSO DO WELL TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT THE LOVE THAT 13:40 WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE, THAT JESUS SPOKE ABOUT, 'LOVE THE 13:43 LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS 13:46 YOURSELF' - IT IS A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS ALL HUMAN LOVE 13:53 BECAUSE IT IS A LOVE OF DIVINE ORIGIN. 13:58 THE SAME SUBLIME LOVE THAT WAS EXERCISED TOWARD US AT CALVARY 14:04 IS THE SAME WONDROUS LOVE WHICH PROCEEDS FORTH FROM THE 14:09 GOVERNING PRINCIPLE OR PRINCIPLES OF GOD'S LAW. 14:14 THERE'S A STATEMENT IN 'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE 20 AND IT'S RIGHT 14:18 - IT'S RIGHT NEAR THE BEGINNING - OBVIOUSLY, PAGE 20 - 14:22 I WANT TO READ IT TO YOU. "IT WILL BE" - TRY AND LISTEN 14:26 OUT TO WHAT KIND OF LOVE - WE'RE TRYING TO AMPLIFY THIS SO WE CAN 14:29 GRASP IT WHEN WE SAY IT'S NOT A LOVE OF HUMAN ORIGIN, IT'S OF 14:34 DIVINE ORIGIN - "IT WILL BE SEEN THAT THE GLORY SHINING IN THE 14:38 FACE OF JESUS IS THE GLORY OF SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE. 14:45 IN THE LIGHT FROM CALVARY IT WILL BE SEEN THAT THE LAW OF 14:50 SELF-RENOUNCING LOVE IS THE LAW OF LIFE FOR EARTH AND HEAVEN. 14:59 THAT THE LOVE WHICH SEEKETH NOT HER OWN HAS ITS SOURCE IN THE 15:04 HEART OF GOD." YOU COULD THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A 15:08 LONG, LONG TIME AS YOU TRY TO CONTEMPLATE THE WONDER OF GOD'S 15:13 LOVE. THIS IS ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS - IT ALL COMES 15:16 FROM THIS. SO AS GOD'S LOVE FLOWS FORTH 15:22 FROM HIS HEART AS AN EXPRESSION OF THREE THINGS - WHAT WAS IT? 15:25 SELF- SACRIFICING LOVE, SELF-RENOUNCING LOVE, AND A LOVE 15:30 THAT SEEKETH NOT HER OWN - AS IT SAID IN THE PASSAGE HERE, IT IS 15:35 THE LAW OF LIFE FOR EARTH AND HEAVEN - JUST THAT ONE LAW. 15:44 THIS IS WHY, IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, YOU CAN SEE THAT 15:49 SATAN'S CHARGE THAT GOD'S LAW WAS UNJUST DOESN'T JUST CONCERN 15:56 THINGS DOWN HERE - IT CONCERNS THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND THAT 16:00 UNIVERSE IS EXCEEDINGLY VAST. I WON'T GET TALKING ABOUT 16:04 ASTRONOMY BECAUSE I'LL GO ON FOREVER. I JUST LOVE IT. 16:09 BUT THIS ONE LAW OF LOVE THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE HEART OF GOD 16:15 IS THAT ONE LAW THAT GOVERNS EVERY INTELLIGENCE IN GOD'S VAST 16:20 CREATION. SO REMEMBER, IT'S ONLY OF HUMAN 16:25 ORIGIN - SO IT'S ONLY AS WE ARE BORN AGAIN AND ALLOW GOD TO FILL 16:30 US WITH THIS LOVE CAN OUR HEARTS RECIPROCATE AND JOYFULLY WALK IN 16:36 THE WAY OF HIS COMMANDMENT. YOU KNOW, IT SAYS IN ROMANS 8:7, 16:39 'THE CARNAL HEART IS ENMITY AGAINST THE LAW OF GOD. 16:43 IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NEITHER, INDEED, CAN BE.' 16:47 AN UNCONVERTED HEART IT'S AT WAR WITH GOD. 16:50 IT'S AT WAR WITH HIS LAW. IT JUST DOESN'T WANT IT. 16:54 SO, YOU SEE, FOR US TO HAVE IN OUR LIVES THAT SAME LOVE - 16:59 DIVINE ORIGIN THAT JUST RECIPROCATES, THEN DIVINITY HAS 17:03 TO DO SOMETHING INSIDE OF US AND THAT'S WHAT GOD DOES. 17:09 IT'S - I THINK I SAID THIS IN THE LAST LESSON, BUT I'LL SAY IT 17:13 AGAIN MORE THAN ONCE TODAY - CONVERSION. 17:16 IT ALL COMES DOWN TO CONVERSION. IF WE CAN EXPERIENCE THE NEW 17:22 BIRTH AND - WE CAN - WE ALL CAN - EVERYTHING THAT SEEMS A LITTLE 17:29 SKEWED AND AT ODDS WITH US - WE'LL FIND OURSELVES IMMEDIATELY 17:33 IN HARMONY WITH IT, COMPATIBLE WITH IT. 17:36 WE'LL HUNGER AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 17:39 WE JUST WON'T BE ABLE TO GET ENOUGH CONVERSION. 17:44 AND JESUS IS WAITING THERE. AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS WAITING 17:47 TO JUST FILL OUR HEARTS. YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU CROSS THAT 17:50 LINE - WE STRUGGLE, I MEAN, WE, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER IN MY OWN 17:54 EXPERIENCE STRUGGLING. I WAS IN A ROCK AND ROLL BAND. 17:57 I KNEW THAT KIND OF A LIFE, BUT I KNEW GOD WAS CALLING ME TO 18:00 SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SOME OF YOU ARE SMILING. 18:03 YOU DON'T BELIEVE I WAS IN A ROCK AND ROLL BAND, BUT I WAS. 18:07 I'VE COME A LONG WAY. BUT I REMEMBER BEING ON THE - 18:13 LIKE THE EGYPTIANS - ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CLOUD WHERE 18:15 EVERYTHING LOOKED DARK. AND FINALLY I THOUGHT, 'I CAN'T 18:19 STAND THIS ANY LONGER SO' - I SAID - 'HERE I COME LORD.' 18:22 I WALKED INTO THAT DARK CLOUD, I GOT ON THE OTHER SIDE AND - 18:24 YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN THE CAMP OF THE ISRAELITES? 18:27 IT WAS ALL BRIGHT AND GLORIOUS AND I THOUGHT, 18:29 'WHAT KEPT ME SO LONG?' SO WHEN WE'RE CONVERTED, 18:33 IT ALL FITS INTO PLACE AND GOD'S LAW IS SOMETHING - 18:38 SOMETHING WE DELIGHT IN. 18:40 BUT IF WE STILL HAVE THAT UNREGENERATE HEART, WE CAN'T 18:44 RECIPROCATE AND GOD WANTS US SO MUCH TO DO THAT BECAUSE THE 18:48 LAW'S THERE FOR OUR HAPPINESS AND GOOD AND WE'RE HOLDING 18:51 OURSELVES BACK FROM OUR GREATEST SOURCE OF JOY AND FULFILLMENT. 18:55 BUT ANYWAY, LET US MOVE ON HERE. 19:00 SO ONLY AS WE DO THIS CAN WE HAVE SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE, A 19:04 SELF-RENOUNCING LOVE, AND A LOVE THAT SEEKS NOT ITS OWN SELFISH 19:10 INTERESTS. NOW, AN UNREGENERATE HUMAN HEART 19:16 CAN BRING FORTH VERY STRONG DEMONSTRATIONS OF OBEDIENCE TO 19:21 THE LAW OF GOD. THE APOSTLE PAUL HE SAID - 19:24 CONCERNING THE LAW HE SAID, 'PERFECT' - YOU KNOW, PERFECT. 19:29 BUT THERE'S MORE TO IT, IT'S NOT AN OUTWARD OBEDIENCE. 19:33 WELL, THERE IS AN OUTWARD OBEDIENCE, BUT IT HAS TO 19:35 SPRING FORTH FROM THE RIGHT MOTIVES. 19:38 SO AN UNREGENERATE HEART CAN - I SAY AGAIN - BRING FORTH STRONG 19:43 DEMONSTRATIONS OF OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD, BUT SUCH 19:48 OBEDIENCE, PERFECT AS IT MIGHT BE, WILL NEVER MEET WITH GOD'S 19:51 APPROVAL OR QUALIFY THE PERSON TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 19:59 ONLY AS OBEDIENCE BECOMES THE OUTWARD EVIDENCE OF CHRIST'S 20:02 ENSHRINEMENT WITHIN THE HEART CAN WE KNOW THAT WE ARE SONS AND 20:08 DAUGHTERS OF GOD. NOW AS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS 20:11 WE'RE VERY - TEND TO BE VERY WARY OF EMOTIONALISM. 20:14 AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN, WE NEED A BIT 20:17 MORE EMOTIONALISM. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT 20:20 PENTECOSTALISM. IF YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, YOU 20:25 SHOULD HAVE THE ASSURANCE - I DON'T MEAN THAT YOUR FEELINGS 20:29 ARE WAAAAAY UP HERE AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ON A HIGH. 20:34 YOU SHOULD HAVE THAT PEACEFUL ASSURANCE IN YOUR HEART, 'I AM A 20:39 CHILD OF GOD.' IN ROMANS 8 IT SAYS, 'THE SPIRIT WITNESSES 20:44 THROUGH OUR SPIRIT THAT WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD.' SO DON'T 20:47 BE AFRAID TO ENTERTAIN FEELINGS OF ASSURANCE. WE NEED THAT. 20:56 SO WE SHOULD KNOW - WE WILL KNOW THAT - AS WE ENTER INTO THAT 21:01 RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS AND THEN HE WILL COUNT US SAFE. 21:07 HE WILL COUNT US AS SAFE TO LET IN - NOT JUST INTO HEAVEN, 21:13 WONDERFUL AS THAT WILL BE - BUT TO WING OUR TIRELESS - 21:15 HOW'S IT GO? WING OUR TIRELESS FLIGHT TO WORLDS AFAR. 21:20 GOD WILL OPEN THE DOOR TO THE UNIVERSE AND SAY, 21:23 'MY CHILDREN, THERE IT IS. YOU GO LOOK AROUND.' SO HE WANTS 21:29 TO BE SURE AND THE BEINGS ON THOSE WORLDS WANT TO BE 21:32 ABSOLUTELY SURE - THEY DON'T WANT US WINGING OUR TIRELESS 21:36 FLIGHT LANDING ON THEIR AIRPORTS IF WE'RE BRINGING IN SIN. 21:41 THEY WANT TO BE SURE THAT WE'RE SAFE TO BE LET LOOSE OUT THERE. 21:45 AND SO, THIS IS WHY THE NEW BIRTH - THIS LOVE ENSHRINED 21:50 WITHIN US - IS THAT WHICH IS AN EVIDENCE THAT JESUS LIVES 21:55 WITHIN. BECAUSE IT'S THIS - WHAT IS IT? 21:59 WHAT DID IT SAY? IT IS THE LAW OF LIFE FOR EARTH AND HEAVEN. 22:03 AND YOU'VE READ THIS IN 'GREAT CONTROVERSY' AND I THINK IT'S IN 22:06 'STEPS TO CHRIST' AS WELL. FOR SOMEBODY WITH AN 22:10 UNREGENERATE HEART TO BE TRANSPORTED TO HEAVEN, IT WOULD 22:14 BE TORTURE - IT WOULD. BECAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE THERE IS 22:20 JUST FILLED WITH THIS SELFLESS LOVE THAT'S AN ATMOSPHERE OF 22:23 PRISTINE PURITY - AND THE PERSON WHO IS NOT CONVERTED - OR EVEN 22:30 HALF CONVERTED, IF YOU CAN REALLY BE 22:31 HALF CONVERTED - IT WOULD BE TORTURE. 22:35 YOU MIGHT STAND FIVE MINUTES AND SAY, 'BOY THIS PLACE IS NICE 22:37 BUT, YOU KNOW, WHERE'S THE BAR?' OR 'WHERE'S THE CLUB?' 22:41 'WE DON'T HAVE ANY HERE.' 'YOU DON'T HAVE ANY HERE? 22:44 WELL, YOU KNOW, WHERE'S THE TV STORE? 22:48 YOU KNOW, I MISS MY' - WHAT DO THEY CALL THAT THING - 'DAYS OF 22:50 ETERNITY' OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? 22:53 - 'YOU KNOW, WE HAVE NO SOAP OPERAS HERE.' 'YOU HAVE NO SOAP 22:56 OPERAS?' 'NO, THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THAT.' 22:59 AND IF YOU'RE SITTING HERE OR IF YOU'RE LISTENING SOMEWHERE OUT 23:03 THERE IN CYBERSPACE AND, BECAUSE THERE'S NO SOAP OPERAS IN 23:07 HEAVEN, AND THAT, THEREFORE, DOESN'T APPEAL TO YOU, I CAN 23:12 TELL YOU, YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE HEART PROBLEM. 23:15 BUT, YOU KNOW, JESUS, HE CAN TAKE CARE OF THAT. 23:19 SO INSTEAD YOU WILL HUNGER AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND 23:23 HEAVEN WILL BE SOMETHING THAT YOU LONG FOR AND WHEN YOU GET 23:26 THERE, TOTALLY DELIGHT IN. 23:29 MATTHEW 19, THE RICH YOUNG RULER - STILL IN SUNDAY'S SECTION - 23:34 MATTHEW 19, VERSES 16 THROUGH 22 - IT SAYS, "AND, BEHOLD, ONE 23:44 CAME UNTO HIM AND SAID TO HIM, 'GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THING 23:48 SHALL I DO, THAT I MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?' AND HE" - 23:53 THAT IS, JESUS - "SAID UNTO HIM, 'WHY CALLEST THOU ME GOOD? 23:58 THERE IS NONE GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD: BUT IF THOU WILT ENTER 24:02 INTO LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.'" - 24:04 I WANT TO STOP RIGHT THERE. 24:08 IF YOU'RE VIOLATING THE LAW OF GOD, YOU WON'T GET INTO THE 24:11 KINGDOM OF GOD. I JUST READ IT, RIGHT? 24:15 SO WE'RE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW, ABSOLUTELY NOT, BUT AS 24:21 LAW KEEPING COMES AS A CONSEQUENCE OF CHRIST WITHIN, IT 24:24 SHOWS THAT WE ARE MIND AND HEART WITH GOD AND WE'RE SAFE TO BE 24:29 LET INTO HEAVEN SO LET'S UNDERSTAND THIS: WE'RE NOT SAVED 24:33 BY KEEPING GOD'S LAW BUT WE WON'T GET INTO HEAVEN IF WE 24:35 DON'T. AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE 24:38 THROW THIS AT US, 'OH, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS ARE 24:40 SEVEN-DAY WONDERS, THEY'RE ALL FOR THE LAW AND NO GRACE.' NO, 24:44 LAW AND GRACE, THEY GO TOGETHER. FAITH WITHOUT WORKS, AS JAMES 24:48 SAID, IS DEAD. ANYHOW, I WANT TO MOVE ON HERE. 24:52 JESUS CONTINUES IN VERSE 18, "HE SAITH UNTO HIM, 'WHICH?' 24:59 JESUS SAID, 'THOU SHALT DO NO MURDER, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT 25:04 ADULTERY, THOU SHALT NOT STEAL, THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE 25:08 WITNESS, HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER: AND, THOU SHALT LOVE 25:11 THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF." - HE'S DEALING HERE WITH THE 25:14 SECOND TABLE OF THE LAW BECAUSE THE QUESTION THAT'S SPECIFICALLY 25:17 FROM THIS YOUNG MAN WAS 'WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?' 25:20 THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS ABOUT GOD, WHO HE WAS - 25:22 HE WAS THE CREATOR. OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T TAKE HIS NAME IN VAIN - 25:25 DIDN'T BOW DOWN TO IDOLS - THAT WAS NOT AN ISSUE. 25:28 BUT WITH THE JEWS THE QUESTION WAS 'WHO'S MY NEIGHBOR?' 25:31 SO THIS IS WHY JESUS RESTRICTS IT TO THE SECOND TABLE OF THE 25:34 LAW HERE - 'THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.' VERSE 20, 25:39 "THE YOUNG MAN SAITH UNTO HIM, 'ALL THESE THINGS HAVE I KEPT 25:44 FROM MY YOUTH UP: WHAT LACK I YET?' 25:48 JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, 'IF THOU WILT BE PERFECT, GO AND SELL 25:53 THAT THOU HAST, AND GIVE TO THE POOR AND THOU SHALT HAVE 25:58 TREASURE IN HEAVEN: AND COME AND FOLLOW ME.'" - SO HE'D DONE ALL 26:04 THE OUTWARD THINGS BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING MORE, WASN'T THERE? 26:07 JESUS SAID, 'GIVE IT ALL AWAY AND COME AND FOLLOW ME.' WHAT 26:10 WAS THIS CALLING FOR? WHAT WERE THE THREE FACETS OF LOVE? 26:16 SELF-RENOUNCING LOVE, SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE, A LOVE 26:22 THAT DOESN'T SEEK ITS OWN INTERESTS - THAT'S WHAT WAS 26:26 MISSING. SO JESUS SAID 'GIVE THAT ALL 26:28 AWAY AND HAVE THIS KIND OF LOVE AND YOU COME AND YOU FOLLOW ME.' 26:34 BUT WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE IN VERSE 22? 26:37 "BUT WHEN THE YOUNG MAN HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WENT AWAY 26:40 SORROWFUL: FOR HE HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS." 26:46 MIKE, CAN YOU PASS ME 'DESIRE OF AGES' PLEASE? THANK YOU. 26:52 I WANT TO READ 'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGES 520 AND 521 - THERE'S A 27:00 LITTLE COMMENT HERE ABOUT THIS RICH YOUNG RULER. 27:04 "HIS CLAIM THAT HE HAD KEPT THE LAW OF GOD WAS A DECEPTION. 27:10 HE SHOWED THAT RICHES WERE HIS IDOL. 27:14 HE COULD NOT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD WHILE THE 27:16 WORLD WAS FIRST IN HIS AFFECTIONS." 27:19 YOU SEE, OUTWARDLY HE MAY HAVE DONE IT, BUT TRUE RELIGION IS A 27:22 THING OF THE HEART, OKAY? 27:25 "HE LOVED THE GIFTS OF GOD MORE THAN HE LOVED THE GIVER. 27:30 CHRIST HAD OFFERED THIS YOUNG MAN FELLOWSHIP WITH HIMSELF - 27:34 'FOLLOW ME' HE SAID - BUT THE SAVIOR WAS NOT SO MUCH TO HIM AS 27:39 HIS OWN NAME AMONG MEN OR HIS POSSESSIONS. 27:42 TO GIVE UP HIS EARTHLY TREASURE THAT WAS SEEN FOR THE HEAVENLY 27:46 TREASURE THAT WAS UNSEEN WAS TOO GREAT A RISK." 27:51 TOO GREAT A RISK TO FOLLOW JESUS. 27:55 NOW LISTEN TO THIS: "HE REFUSED THE OFFER OF ETERNAL LIFE AND 28:00 WENT AWAY AND EVER AFTER THE WORLD WAS TO RECEIVE HIS 28:05 WORSHIP." YOU KNOW LIFE - ETERNITY - CAN TURN ON A DIME. 28:12 HE WAS STOOD ON A DIME - THIS YOUNG MAN WAS STOOD ON A DIME 28:16 RIGHT AT THE SAVIOR'S FEET. HE SAID, 'GIVE IT UP. 28:20 FOLLOW ME.' I WISH THAT HE THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT BUT ON THAT 28:25 DIME HE TURNED AND IT SAYS, 'EVER AFTERWARD THE WORLD WAS TO 28:30 RECEIVE HIS WORSHIP.' YOU KNOW, ACCORDING TO THE PROPHET, HE 28:36 SEALED HIS ETERNAL DESTINY. THAT YOUNG MAN, ONE DAY, HE'S 28:39 GOING TO STAND OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM AND HE'S 28:43 GOING TO REMEMBER THAT ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS AND THOSE WORDS OF 28:47 JESUS ARE GOING TO RING IN HIS EARS. 28:50 HE'S GOING TO RECALL IT SO VIVIDLY - HE'S GOING TO HAVE 28:52 SUCH CLARITY, WHEN HIS LOVE FOR THE WORLD IS GONE BECAUSE IT'S 28:55 BEEN TAKEN AWAY, AND THE WORDS OF CHRIST ARE GOING TO COME BACK 28:59 AND THE REMORSE THAT HE IS GOING TO FEEL WILL BE BEYOND ALL HUMAN 29:04 ABILITY TO PUT INTO WORDS. YOU SEE ON THE - READ ON THE 29:10 NEXT PAGE "THOUSANDS ARE PASSING THROUGH THIS ORDEAL, WEIGHING 29:14 CHRIST AGAINST THE WORLD, AND MANY CHOOSE THE WORLD. 29:21 LIKE THE YOUNG RULER THEY TURN FROM THE SAVIOR SAYING IN THEIR 29:25 HEARTS, 'I WILL NOT HAVE THIS MAN AS MY LEADER.' CHRIST 29:30 DEALING WITH THE YOUNG MAN IS PRESENTED AS AN OBJECT LESSON. 29:34 GOD HAS GIVEN US THE RULE OF CONDUCT WHICH EVERY ONE OF 29:36 HIS SERVANTS MUST FOLLOW." IT IS OBEDIENCE TO HIS LAW, YET 29:42 THERE'S NOT MERELY A LEGAL OBEDIENCE, BUT AN OBEDIENCE 29:47 WHICH ENTERS INTO THE LIFE AND EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CHARACTER - 29:53 EXEMPLIFIED IN THAT EXPRESSION OF DIVINE LOVE WHICH WE 29:58 RECIPROCATE - AND WHAT IS THAT LOVE AGAIN? 30:01 SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE, SELF- RENOUNCING LOVE, A LOVE THAT 30:06 SEEKETH NOT HER OWN AND IT IS THE LAW OF LIFE FOR EARTH AND 30:12 HEAVEN. DEEP THINGS, AREN'T THEY? 30:16 DEEP THINGS THAT WE NEED TO PONDER. 30:19 OKAY, I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO MONDAY. 30:21 I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR WE'LL GET BUT WE'LL GIVE IT OUR BEST HERE. 30:25 'THE RULES OF LIFE' - NOW I CLEARLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE 30:30 LESSON MEANS BY THIS HEADING: LOVE IS NOT GENUINE UNLESS IT 30:35 MEANS THE DIVINE - UNLESS IT MEETS THE DIVINE BENCHMARK OF 30:39 THE LAW - AS AN EVIDENCE THAT CHRIST IS WITHIN - BUT THAT 30:47 SAID, I'D LIKE TO TAKE THE LIBERTY OF OFFERING ANOTHER 30:50 HEADING FOR MONDAY'S SECTION. INSTEAD OF 'RULES OF LOVE' WHICH 30:53 IS FINE, I'D LIKE TO CHANGE IT TO 'FACETS OF LOVE'. 30:58 LET ME EXPLAIN THAT, IF I CAN. I'D LIKE YOU TO IMAGINE THAT I'M 31:02 HOLDING A BEAUTIFUL DIAMOND IN MY HAND HERE - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL 31:06 DIAMOND - IT'S BEEN INTRICATELY CUT. 31:10 IT'S GOT ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL FACETS, BUT IT'S ONE DIAMOND. 31:16 HOW MANY? JUST ONE DIAMOND. 31:18 BUT AS I HOLD THIS DIAMOND TO THE LIGHT AND I TURN IT, ALL 31:24 THOSE DIFFERENT FACETS, THEY SPARKLE AND THEY FLASH AND THEY 31:29 SHINE AS I HOLD IT AT DIFFERENT ANGLES TO THE LIGHT. 31:33 AND SO GOD'S LOVE IS LIKE THAT - HE MANIFESTS HIS KINDNESS AND 31:40 AFFECTION TO US IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS AND YET, VARIED 31:49 AS THOSE WAYS ARE, THEY ALL COME FROM THAT ONE GREAT UNBOUNDLESS 31:52 SOURCE - THAT ONE HEART OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER - THAT ONE 31:58 SOURCE - AND YET, IT EMANATES THIS LOVE WHICH HAS SO MANY 32:03 FACETS. PERHAPS ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION WE 32:06 CAN USE OF GOD'S LOVE IS HOW IT EMANATES FROM ONE GREAT 32:11 BOUNDLESS SOURCE - THE HEART OF LOVE - IS A RAINBOW. 32:15 A RAINBOW IS ONE, RIGHT? OR IS IT? 32:20 WELL, IT'S - THE SUN SHINES AND HITS THE RAIN AND THAT - THOSE 32:25 RAINDROPS ARE LIKE - WHAT'S THE WORD? 32:30 A PRISM - THANK YOU VERY MUCH - A PRISM AND SO IT BREAKS THAT 32:35 LIGHT UP INTO A SPECTRUM THAT WE CAN SEE. 32:38 THERE'S OTHER ENDS OF THE LIGHT SPECTRUM WE DON'T SEE - WE DON'T 32:41 NEED TO. BUT YOU SEE THAT ONE RAINBOW AND 32:44 WHAT - OKAY, WHAT'S THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW? 32:48 RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET. 32:57 YOU DID GOOD. I HAD IT WRITTEN DOWN. 32:58 YOU DID IT FROM YOUR HEAD. THAT'S REALLY GOOD. 33:01 IN ENGLAND, AS KIDS, WE HAD A LITTLE WAY OF REMEMBERING THAT - 33:05 IT SAID, 'RICHARD OF YORK GAINED BATTLES IN VAIN.' A PART OF 33:08 BRITISH HISTORY. I'M FROM YORK. 33:11 RICHARD THE THIRD - SO WE REMEMBERED IT THAT WAY, 'RICHARD 33:13 OF YORK GAINED BATTLES IN VAIN.' SO IT IS RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, 33:16 GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, AND VIOLET. BUT ONE RAINBOW, RIGHT? 33:23 AND WITH THE RAINBOW IN MIND, IN CONNECTION WITH GOD'S LOVE, I 33:28 ALWAYS LIKED TO THINK OF 1 CORINTHIANS 13 AS THE RAINBOW OF 33:32 GOD'S LOVE - THIS ONE ELEMENT OF LOVE THAT FLOWS FROM HIS HEART - 33:37 LET'S TURN TO 1 CORINTHIANS 13, VERSES 4 THROUGH 7. 33:42 THIS ONE LOVE AND YET IT HAS SO MANY FACETS. 33:46 IT'S LIKE THE SPECTRUM OF GOD'S LOVE AND IT'S NOT EXHAUSTIVE 33:50 HERE, BY ANY MEANS. BUT 1 CORINTHIANS 13, VERSES 4 33:55 THROUGH 7 - IT SAYS, "CHARITY" - WHICH IS LOVE - I'LL USE THE 33:59 WORD 'LOVE' - "LOVE SUFFERETH LONG, AND IS KIND; LOVE ENVIETH 34:05 NOT; LOVE VAUNTETH NOT ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP." 34:11 - IT MEANS IT'S NOT RASH - THAT'S WHAT 'VAUNTETH' MEANS. 34:15 IT'S NOT RASH AND IT'S NOT PUFFED UP AND PROUD - "DOTH NOT 34:20 BEHAVE ITSELF UNSEEMLY," - A CHRISTIAN WHO'S FILLED WITH THE 34:24 LOVE OF JESUS - NOW, LET ME PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, 34:27 JESUS NEVER ACTED IN AN UNSEEMLY WAY. 34:31 EVEN TO HIS ENEMIES, WHO HEAPED THE WORSE ABUSE UPON HIM. 34:35 HE HAD A WAY OF SILENCING THEM WITH, YOU KNOW, 'WHAT DOES THE 34:38 SCRIPTURE SAY?' BUT IT WAS ALWAYS IN A VERY 34:41 DIGNIFIED FASHION AND NEVER IN A WAY TO - 'I'M GOING TO PUT YOU 34:45 DOWN, BUDDY.' NEVER LIKE THAT. 34:48 JESUS NEVER BEHAVED UNSEEMLY AND, AS CHRISTIANS, IF HIS LOVE 34:53 IS ENSHRINED WITHIN US, NEITHER WILL WE BEHAVE UNSEEMLY. 35:01 BACK IN VERSE 5, "SEEKETH NOT HER OWN," - WELL, THAT'S THE 35:06 KIND OF LOVE, ISN'T IT, THAT'S NOT SELF-SEEKING - "IS NOT 35:10 EASILY PROVOKED," - DOES THAT PROD ANY OF US HERE? 35:15 ARE YOU EASILY PROVOKED? YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER. 35:17 YOU DON'T HAVE TO HOLD UP YOUR HAND BUT, WHETHER IT'S AT HOME 35:21 OR ON THE FREEWAY, WE CAN VERY EASILY BE PROVOKED, CAN'T WE? 35:27 - "THINKETH NO EVIL; REJOICETH NOT IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICETH 35:33 IN THE TRUTH;" - I THINK ONE OF MY FAVORITE SAYINGS IS - I'VE 35:39 SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT I'LL SAY IT AGAIN - I WILL SAY THIS 35:41 AGAIN, THERE'S A TEST THAT YOU CAN APPLY TO YOURSELF: IF YOU 35:48 HEAR SOME BAD NEWS ABOUT SOMEBODY OR SOME SCANDALOUS NEWS 35:54 - ESPECIALLY ABOUT A CHURCH MEMBER - AND YOU THINK, 'I'VE 35:59 GOT TO TELL SO AND SO AND SO AND SO.' STOP RIGHT THERE. 36:02 STOP RIGHT THERE AND ASK YOURSELF AND PRAY. 36:05 SAY, 'LORD, WHY AM I IN SUCH A RUSH, RIGHT NOW, TO WANT TO 36:10 SHARE THIS NEWS WITH THIS PERSON OR THIS PERSON OR THIS PERSON?' 36:18 AND RIGHT THERE IT WILL BE TELLING - IF THERE IS THE 36:24 SLIGHTEST LITTLE BIT OF SATISFACTION - 'I'M GOING TO BE 36:28 THE FIRST' - YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, DON'T YOU? 36:30 'I WANT TO BE THE FIRST TO TELL THEM.' YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE HEART 36:35 PROBLEM. YOU NEED JESUS TO TAKE CARE OF 36:38 THAT BECAUSE LOVE DOES NOT REJOICE IN INIQUITY OR OTHER 36:43 PEOPLE'S SHORTCOMINGS. IS THE NEWS GOING TO GET OUT? 36:47 SURE IT'S GOING TO GET OUT, BUT LET OTHERS TELL IT. 36:50 YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOWER YOURSELF TO BE THE ONE TO RUSH TO YOUR 36:54 BUDDY AND SAY, 'LET ME TELL YOU THIS.' NO, THAT IS UNSEEMLY. 37:00 JESUS NEVER BEHAVED LIKE THAT. IT'S IN 'DESIRE OF AGES' - 37:04 I FORGET THE PAGE - BUT IT SAYS WHEN WE COME TO JESUS WITH OUR 37:07 FAULTS AND FAILINGS AND HE FORGIVES US, ELLEN WHITE SAYS, 37:11 'HE DOESN'T TELL ALL THAT HE MIGHT TELL TO OTHERS.' 37:15 HE DOESN'T. HE TAKES US AND HE PUTS HIS ROBE 37:18 AROUND US AND HE SAYS, 'THIS,THAT, AND THE OTHER - 37:22 IT'S BETWEEN YOU AND ME. I'M YOUR FRIEND. 37:25 I DON'T GOSSIP ABOUT YOU.' SO LET'S NOT DO THAT ABOUT OTHERS. 37:31 - "REJOICETH NOT IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICETH IN THE TRUTH; 37:36 BEARETH ALL THINGS, BELIEVETH ALL THINGS, HOPETH ALL THINGS, 37:42 ENDURETH ALL THINGS." ISN'T THAT A BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW? 37:49 THOSE ARE THE FACETS - ALL THE BEAUTIFUL FACETS OF THAT ONE 37:54 ENTITY FROM THE ONE HEART OF THAT ONE WONDROUS AND MOST 38:00 WONDERFUL BEING IN THIS WHOLE UNIVERSE, GOD HIMSELF, YOUR BEST 38:05 FRIEND. IS IT ANY SACRIFICE TO WANT TO FOLLOW JESUS? NOT SO. 38:13 AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE LIFE OF JESUS, THE LOVE THAT FLOWED 38:18 FORTH FROM THAT CENTRAL SOURCE OF HIS OWN HEART ALSO SPARKLED 38:24 AND SHONE IN MANY WAYS. YOU SEE, THE LIGHT THAT GENERATED - 38:31 THE LIGHT OF LOVE THAT GENERATED FROM JESUS WAS DIVINE. 38:34 AFTER ALL, HE WAS GOD - FOR ALL HE HAD THIS MYSTERIOUS WHATEVER 38:40 YOU WANT TO CALL IT - THIS BLEND OF DIVINITY WITH HUMANITY. 38:44 HE WAS FULLY, FULLY, FULLY DIVINE FROM ETERNITY. 38:48 FROM HIS HUMANITY HE WAS FULLY HUMAN. 38:52 HE WAS BORN - BORN AGAIN - AND WE CAN BE BORN AGAIN AND, WE CAN 38:55 THEREFORE, WITH A FALLEN NATURE LIKE JESUS HAD, BE ON THE 38:58 SELF-SAME FOOTING. HE HAD NO ADVANTAGES THAT WE CAN'T HAVE. 39:03 BUT, ALSO FROM HIS HUMAN SIDE, AS A MAN, HE EQUALLY REFLECTED 39:10 THE LIGHT THAT SHONE FROM HIM - FROM HIS DIVINE SIDE - BECAUSE 39:15 OF EARNEST AND SINCERE COMMUNION WITH HIS HEAVENLY FATHER. 39:22 JESUS SPENT LONG HOURS IN PRAYER. HE WAS A SUPPLIANT. 39:27 WE HAVE TO SUPPLICATE THE THRONE OF GRACE. 39:30 HE HAD TO DO THE VERY SAME THING, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE WAS 39:35 TEMPTED. ESPECIALLY WHEN BURDENS ARE LAID UPON HIM. 39:39 YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL WAS ON HIS TRACK ALL THE TIME 39:41 JUST TRYING TO TRIP HIM UP. 39:43 ALL THE TIME, JESUS, HE JUST HAD TO KEEP VIGILANT. 39:47 HE BORE UPON HIS SHOULDERS A BURDEN THAT WE WILL NEVER 39:52 UNDERSTAND AND, YET, HE BORE THAT BURDEN IN HIS HUMANITY 39:57 BECAUSE HE SOUGHT THE THRONE OF GRACE. HE SOUGHT THOSE SPIRITUAL 40:01 NEEDS IN HIS HUMANITY AS WE NEED TO DO. 40:04 I WANT TO READ FROM HEBREWS 5 - I'M STILL TALKING ABOUT HIS LOVE 40:08 FOR YOU, BUT I'M JUST TAKING A LITTLE SIDETRACK HERE - HOW HE 40:12 REFLECTED THAT LOVE AND HE REFLECTED THAT LOVE AS WE CAN IF 40:17 WE WILL SEEK IT - IF WE WILL SEEK GOD'S FACE. 40:19 HEBREWS CHAPTER 5, VERSE 7, "WHO IN THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH, WHEN 40:27 HE HAD OFFERED UP PRAYERS AND SUPPLICATIONS WITH STRONG CRYING 40:31 AND TEARS" - THAT'S WHAT JESUS - THAT'S WHAT HE WENT THROUGH. 40:37 BUT HE WOULD ALWAYS PREVAIL. HE WOULD PREVAIL IN HIS HUMANITY 40:43 AND HE WOULD COME FORTH CHARGED AFRESH WITH DIVINE STRENGTH AND 40:48 OVERFLOWING WITH LOVE EVEN FOR HIS WORST ENEMIES. 40:51 NOW, GETTING BACK TO A DIAMOND: A DIAMOND WILL ONLY SPARKLE IN 40:56 THE PRESENCE OF LIGHT. IS THAT TRUE? 41:00 YOU HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DIAMOND, BUT YOU PUT IT IN A 41:04 DARK ROOM, IT MIGHT AS WELL BE A PIECE OF COAL, RIGHT? 41:09 A DIAMOND WILL NOT SPARKLE UNLESS IT'S IN THE PRESENCE OF 41:12 LIGHT. BUT SO MYSTERIOUS, SO DEEP, SO BOUNDLESS, SO INTENSE 41:22 WAS JESUS' LOVE, THAT WHEN IT WAS EXPOSED TO THE DARKNESS OF 41:27 HUMAN HATRED, AND THE ABUSE OF THOSE WHO TORTURED, MOCKED HIM, 41:33 AND CRUCIFIED HIM, THE MANY BEAUTIFUL FACETS OF JESUS' LOVE 41:39 STILL FLASHED AND SPARKLED AND SHONE FORTH EVEN IN THE DARKEST 41:44 EXPERIENCES OF HIS LIFE. AND THERE IN GETHSEMANE, THAT 41:49 WAS A DARK, DARK PLACE, BUT THAT DIAMOND IN THAT DARKNESS STILL 41:57 FLASHED AND SPARKLED BECAUSE AS THAT CUP TREMBLED IN HIS HAND, 42:03 AND HE SAW HIMSELF - LET ME READ YOU THIS HERE. 42:09 I WAS PRAYING THE OTHER MORNING AND THIS KIND OF 42:13 JUST POPPED INTO MY HEAD. I TRIED TO WRITE THESE WORDS 42:15 DOWN - THEY'RE NOT UNIQUE, YOU'LL SEE THEM PRETTY MUCH IN 42:19 'DESIRE OF AGES' BUT I KIND OF DID MY OWN VERSION HERE IF I CAN 42:23 READ IT. WHEN HE WAS IN GETHSEMANE - I'VE 42:30 GOT WRITTEN HERE 'JESUS FELT HIMSELF DESCENDING INTO THE DARK 42:34 ABYSS OF ETERNAL DEATH, DEVOID OF ANY HOPE OR EXPECTATION OF 42:42 EVER ASCENDING UPWARDS AND BACK INTO THE LIGHT. 42:47 SUCH WAS THE HORROR AND DREAD THAT SEIZED AND OVERWHELMED HIS 42:52 DARKENED, TORTURED, AND ANGUISHED MIND AS HE WRESTLED IN 42:57 PRAYER AND STRUGGLED AGAINST THE POWERS OF EVIL THAT PRESSED UPON 43:02 HIM TO TAKE HIM CAPTIVE TO ETERNAL DEATH IN THE GARDEN OF 43:06 GETHSEMANE.' THAT WAS THE DARKNESS THAT HE WAS IN. 43:11 AND YET, IN THAT DARKNESS, WHEN HE COULD HAVE WIPED THE BLOODY 43:14 SWEAT FROM HIS BROW, WHERE DID HE STAY? HE STAYED RIGHT THERE 43:21 BECAUSE IN THAT DARK PLACE, AS THAT CUP TREMBLED, RISING UP 43:26 BEFORE HIM, HE SAW THE FACES OF OUR LITTLE CHILDREN. 43:30 WE ALL LOVE OUR KIDS, DON'T WE? REMEMBER WHEN THEY WERE BABIES? 43:34 WE'VE GOT SOME CUTE LITTLE BABIES IN THIS CHURCH. 43:36 I THINK OF MY LITTLE GRANDSONS - WHEN I PRAY IN THE MORNING I SEE 43:40 JESUS IN GETHSEMANE AND I SEE HIM STRUGGLING AND I SEE LITTLE 43:43 JACK'S FACE COMING UP BEFORE JESUS - LITTLE WEEMO'S FACE - 43:49 AND JESUS SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, THAT'S A BLACK HOLE I'VE GOT TO 43:53 GO INTO BUT I CAN'T LEAVE LITTLE JACK AND LITTLE WEEMO WITHOUT A 43:57 SAVIOR.' SO HE ACCEPTED THAT BAPTISM OF BLOOD AT ANY COST TO 44:04 HIMSELF - NOT JUST THEIR FACES - OUR FACES. 44:07 WE'VE GOT BABY FACES IN GOD'S EYES. 44:09 I KNOW, WE GET A LITTLE OLD AND WE GET A FEW TURKEY NECKS AND 44:12 WRINKLES, BUT WE'RE STILL HIS LITTLE CHILDREN. 44:15 AND IT WAS THAT THAT ROSE BEFORE HIS EYES AND HE - EVEN THOUGH 44:22 HIS FATHER HAD SEPARATED - HAD SEEMED LIKE IT TO HIM - HIS 44:26 FATHER HAD GONE AND HE FELT THE FROWN OF GOD UPON HIM AND HE 44:31 FELT THE WRATH OF GOD AND SATAN WAS PRESSING IN AND HE SAW A 44:35 BLACK HOLE, HE SAW US AND EVEN THOUGH HIS HEART WAS ANGUISHED, 44:43 HIS HEART COULD NOT HELP ITSELF BUT TO SAY, 'FATHER, I'M GOING 44:49 TO STAY HERE. WHATEVER IT COSTS, I'M GOING TO 44:52 STAY RIGHT HERE.' AND HE DID. ARE YOU GLAD FOR THAT? 44:59 YEAH, SO AM I. SO THERE IN THAT DARK PLACE THAT 45:04 DIAMOND SPARKLED. PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT. 45:09 SO THAT WAS THE KIND OF LOVE THAT JESUS SPOKE OF WHEN HE TOLD 45:12 HIS DISCIPLES IN JOHN 15:12 AND 13. 45:18 HE SAID, "THIS IS MY COMMANDMENT, THAT YE LOVE ONE 45:20 ANOTHER," - A NEW COMMANDMENT, REALLY. 45:26 NO, NOT REALLY, BUT THERE'S A WORD THERE - HE SAYS - WELL, 45:31 THERE'S ONE, TWO - THERE'S FIVE WORDS THAT FOLLOW IT: "THIS IS 45:34 MY COMMANDMENT, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, AS I HAVE LOVED YOU." 45:40 OKAY, THERE'S THE DIFFERENCE. NO NEW COMMANDMENT, BUT IT'S 45:46 AMPLIFIED. HE PUTS A DIFFERENT - HE HELPS US TO SEE IT FROM A - 45:51 MORE OF A FULLER AND A CLEARER ANGLE. HE SAYS, 'TO LOVE ONE 45:54 ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU.' AND TO WHAT EXTENT? 45:58 WELL, A LOVE THAT IS SELF-SACRIFICING, A LOVE THAT 46:02 DOESN'T SEEK ITS OWN, A LOVE THAT IS WILLING TO LAY DOWN ITS 46:07 LIFE - AND THAT COMES IN THE VERY NEXT VERSE. 46:09 IT SAYS, "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY 46:13 DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS." AND WHEN THOSE DISCIPLES - WHEN 46:20 THEY SAW THAT, THEY BECAME - WELL, THEY WEREN'T THERE AT THE 46:26 CROSS BUT AFTER THE FACT THEY UNDERSTOOD THE FACT. 46:29 THEY BECAME CHANGED. THEY BECAME BORN AGAIN - 46:33 ESPECIALLY PETER. AND WHY WAS IT, AFTER THE FACT, 46:37 THAT PETER WAS WILLING TO BE CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN? 46:42 BECAUSE HE'D SEEN A REVELATION - NOT JUST OF LOVE BUT TO SEE HOW 46:49 JESUS HAD LOVED HIM AS JESUS HAD LOVED HIM AND, IN TURN, 46:53 HE WANTED TO RECIPROCATE THAT. 46:55 HE WANTED TO LOVE JESUS BACK AS JESUS HAD LOVED HIM. 46:58 SO WHEN THEY SAID, 'ALRIGHT PETER, THIS IS IT. 47:00 WE'RE GOING TO CRUCIFY YOU.' HE SAID, 'PLEASE, PLEASE, I DON'T 47:04 MIND DYING BUT' - HE SAYS - 'I'M NOT WORTHY TO BE CRUCIFIED THE 47:07 SAME WAY UP AS MY SAVIOR WHOM I BETRAYED. 47:10 PLEASE CRUCIFY ME UPSIDE DOWN.' THEY SAID, 'WELL, WE THINK THIS 47:16 GUY'S A LITTLE CRAZY BUT THAT'S - IF YOU WANT, OKAY.' SO THEY 47:20 CRUCIFIED HIM UPSIDE DOWN. WOULD ANYBODY IN THEIR RIGHT 47:25 MIND WANT TO BE CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN? OR CRUCIFIED AT ALL? 47:31 NOW, WELL YOU SEE, WHEN THAT LOVE OF CHRIST COMES INTO YOUR 47:33 HEART, SOMETIMES TO THE WORLD YOU MAY LOOK A LITTLE INSANE 47:38 SOMETIMES BECAUSE YOU'RE SO UNSELFISH. 47:42 YOU'RE WILLING TO GIVE EVERYTHING AWAY. 47:45 YOU KNOW, IN THE WORLD'S EYES, 'WELL, BE GENEROUS. 47:47 GIVE STUFF AWAY, BUT KEEP ENOUGH FOR YOURSELF.' YOU KNOW, A DAY 47:51 IS COMING WHEN WHATEVER WE HAVE - IF WE HAVEN'T GIVEN IT AWAY 47:54 IT'S GOING TO BE TAKEN AWAY. WE'RE ALL GOING TO FINISH UP 47:56 WITH ZILCH. YOU KNOW THAT? AND WE'RE TOLD THAT IF WE KEEP 48:01 OUR GOODS UPON THE ALTAR, GOD WILL SHOW US, AT THE RIGHT TIME, 48:06 WHEN TO SELL IT, WHEN TO GIVE IT AWAY. 48:09 BUT IF WE KEEP IN STEP WITH GOD HE'LL SHOW US HOW TO DISPERSE 48:12 WITH THESE THINGS BECAUSE WE'RE ALMOST THERE. 48:15 BUT IF, LIKE THE RICH YOUNG RULER, WE'RE SITTING IN CHURCH 48:18 THIS MORNING, 'JESUS IS COMING SOON.' 48:20 YOU KNOW, WE'RE HAVING A 'CLOSING EVENTS' SEMINAR - 48:22 I LOVE PROPHECY, BUT YOUR HEART ISN'T CHANGED. 48:25 WHEN THAT CRISIS COMES AND THAT SUNDAY LAW COMES AND THEY TELL 48:30 YOU YOU HAVE TO ABIDE BY THIS LAW - WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR 48:36 HOUSE, YOUR CAR, YOUR JOB, YOUR SAVINGS, YOUR - WHATEVER YOU 48:38 HAVE - WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BE? A RICH YOUNG RULER OR I'M TRYING 48:47 TO THINK OF AN EXAMPLE - OR NICODEMUS? 48:50 NICODEMUS - HE GAVE IT ALL AWAY. JOSEPH BATES - REMEMBER THE 48:54 STORY OF JOSEPH BATES? HE WAS A SEA CAPTAIN. 48:57 HE HAD QUITE A LITTLE NEST EGG. PIONEER OF THIS MOVEMENT - GAVE 49:03 IT ALL AWAY - HE FINALLY COMES HOME ONE DAY AND HIS WIFE SAID, 49:06 'YOU KNOW, JOSEPH, WE NEED SOME FLOUR AND A FEW THINGS.' - YOU 49:09 KNOW SHE KNEW HE ALWAYS HAD SOME DOLLARS IN HIS POCKET - 'CAN YOU 49:12 GO TO THE STORE AND BUY SOME FLOUR AND STUFF?' 49:14 HE SAYS, 'WELL, DEAR, WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY LEFT.' 'WHAT? 49:18 WHERE'S IT ALL GONE?' 'I'VE GIVEN IT ALL AWAY TO THE 49:22 CAUSE.' SO YOU CAN BE A RICH YOUNG RULER OR A JOSEPH BATES. 49:27 THE RICH YOUNG RULER LOST HIS ETERNAL INHERITANCE. 49:30 JOSEPH BATES MAY HAVE NOT HAD TWO PENNIES TO RUB TOGETHER BUT 49:33 YOU KNOW WHAT? HE'LL BE IN HEAVEN. 49:36 I KNOW WHICH I WOULD LIKE TO BE OF THE TWO OF THEM. 49:40 SO, AND SO THE DISCIPLES THEY WERE WILLING - THEY WERE WILLING 49:44 - THIS IS WHY PAUL SAID, IN 2 CORINTHIANS 5:14, 49:47 "FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONSTRAINETH US." 49:50 THE OLD ENGLISH WORD THERE, IT MEANS 'COMPELLED'. 49:53 IT SAYS, 'THE LOVE OF CHRIST' - IT SAYS - 'IT COMPELS ME.' AND 49:57 IT WAS THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE LOVE OF JESUS THAT WAS 50:01 DEMONSTRATED, IN PAUL'S PARTICULAR EXPERIENCE, THAT 50:06 DROVE HIM ONWARD. I MEAN, HE WAS DRIVEN. 50:10 IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR PAUL - I SUPPOSE GOD WOULD HAVE PROBABLY 50:13 RAISED UP SOMEBODY ELSE BECAUSE GOD IS NOT DEPENDENT UPON MEN, 50:17 YET AT THE SAME TIME HE USES THEM. 50:19 BUT HERE'S THIS UNLIKELY INSTRUMENT - SAUL BECOMES THE 50:24 APOSTLE PAUL AND HE GOT THIS LOVE - HE GOT THIS GLIMPSE OF 50:28 THE LOVE OF CHRIST AND HE SAID, 'IT JUST DRIVES ME.' AND YOU 50:31 READ THE THINGS THAT PAUL HAD TO CONTEND WITH AS A MISSIONARY IN 50:37 THE FIRST CENTURY FOR JESUS CHRIST. WE DON'T HAVE TIME, BUT 50:40 IF YOU READ IN 2 CORINTHIANS 11, VERSES 24 THROUGH 28. 50:44 YOU KNOW, IT SAYS, 'I WAS - THREE TIMES I WAS SCOURGED BY MY 50:48 OWN KIND.' HE SAYS, 'I HAVE BEEN SHIPWRECKED. 50:51 I'VE BEEN NAKED, COLD, HUNGRY.' HE SAYS ALL OF THESE THINGS AND 50:55 ON TOP OF ALL THIS, THE CARE OF ALL THE CHURCHES. 50:58 WHY DID HE PUT UP WITH THAT? THAT'S WHAT THE MIND MIGHT SAY, 51:04 BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON IN HERE, YOU SEE. 51:07 HE'D SEEN A DEMONSTRATION OF LOVE AND, AS IT FILLED HIM, HE 51:13 JUST COULDN'T HELP HIMSELF. A LOVE AS JESUS LOVED - AND WE 51:19 CAN LOOK AT OTHER CHRISTIANS AS WELL, WHO FOLLOWED ALL THE OTHER 51:23 APOSTLES. APART FROM JOHN, THEY WERE ALL 51:26 MARTYRED. JOHN WAS THROWN IN BOILING OIL - 51:29 CAME OUT - WASN'T HIS TIME TO DIE IN THAT FASHION. 51:35 1 CORINTHIANS 9:19 THROUGH 23 - 1 CORINTHIANS 9:19 THROUGH 23. 51:50 PAUL SAYS, "FOR THOUGH I BE FREE FROM ALL MEN, YET HAVE I MADE 51:54 MYSELF SERVANT UNTO ALL, THAT I MIGHT GAIN THE MORE. 51:59 AND UNTO THE JEWS I BECAME AS A JEW, THAT I MIGHT GAIN THE JEWS; 52:04 TO THEM THAT ARE UNDER THE LAW, AS UNDER THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT 52:07 GAIN THEM THAT ARE UNDER THE LAW; TO THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT 52:11 LAW," - THAT IS THE GENTILES - "TO THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT LAW, 52:14 AS WITHOUT LAW, (BEING NOT WITHOUT LAW TO GOD, BUT UNDER 52:18 THE LAW TO CHRIST,) THAT I MIGHT GAIN THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT LAW. 52:23 TO THE WEAK BECAME I AS WEAK, THAT I MIGHT GAIN THE WEAK: I AM 52:26 MADE ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN, THAT I MIGHT BY ALL MEANS SAVE SOME. 52:32 AND THIS I DO FOR THE GOSPEL'S SAKE, THAT I MIGHT BE PARTAKER 52:37 THEREOF WITH YOU." THE APOSTLE PAUL PRESENTS HERE A 52:42 VERY SOUND AND WELL-TESTED PRINCIPLE OF SOUL WINNING 52:47 BECAUSE IT'S OF DIVINE ORIGIN. WE SHOULD SEEK, AS FAR AS 52:52 POSSIBLE, TO MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE WITHOUT OURSELVES 52:56 SACRIFICING PRINCIPLE, AND WE CAN GO A LONG WAY. 53:01 JESUS MIXED WITH THE PUBLICANS AND THE SINNERS YET NEVER ONCE 53:06 DID HE VIOLATE ONE PRINCIPLE OF THE LAW OF GOD AND WE CAN DO THE 53:13 SAME. GOD WILL GIVE US WISDOM. AND IN THIS WAY WE CAN RELATE TO 53:18 THEM AND THEY CAN RELATE MORE TO US. YOU KNOW, TO A LOT OF 53:23 PEOPLE OUT THERE - CHRISTIANS, THEY'RE A MYSTERIOUS BUNCH, YOU 53:26 KNOW, AND SO THERE'S A PREJUDICE OUT THERE. 53:29 THERE'S A SUSPICION - ESPECIALLY NOW WITH THE RISE - YOU KNOW, 53:33 SECULARISM IS REALLY, REALLY STRONG. 53:36 AND SO WE'VE GOT TO FIND A WAY OF BEING ABLE TO MORE 53:39 EFFECTIVELY BREAK DOWN PREJUDICE AND BARRIERS THAT STOP 53:45 PEOPLE OPENING THEIR HEARTS TO US. 53:47 AND HERE WE HAVE THIS BROAD TERM HERE 'THE LAW OF CHRIST' AND 53:51 IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S THIS SELF-SACRIFICING PRINCIPLE. 53:56 IT IS THIS LOVE THAT IS THE KEY THAT WILL GAIN ENTRANCE INTO 54:01 HEARTS WHICH ARE LOCKED BY UNBELIEF, PREJUDICES, SUSPICION 54:06 TOWARD RELIGION AND ESPECIALLY TOWARD CHRISTIANS. 54:10 AND IF YOU WANT TO LOOK BACK AT A PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW THE LAW 54:15 OF CHRIST WORKED AND WAS A KEY TO OPENING PEOPLE'S HEARTS, WE 54:19 JUST HAVE TO LOOK AT THE LAW OF ACTION - AT THE LAW OF CHRIST - 54:22 THAT OPERATED IN THE LAW OF JESUS. 54:25 IN 'MINISTRY OF HEALING' PAGE 143 - I WROTE THE REFERENCE DOWN 54:29 AND I COULDN'T FIND IT IN MY OFFICE. 54:31 I FOUND A PAPERBACK, BUT IT'S NOT THE ORIGINAL PAGING BUT IT 54:35 GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS: "CHRIST'S METHODS ALONE WILL 54:40 BRING SUCCESS. HE MINGLED WITH THE PEOPLE AS 54:43 ONE WHO DESIRED THEIR BEST GOOD. HE MINISTERED TO THEIR NEEDS. 54:50 HE - YOU KNOW THIS, VIRGINIA, I'M SURE - HE SYMPATHIZED WITH 54:54 THEM - ALL THESE THINGS - THEN HE BADE THEM, 'FOLLOW ME.' AND 55:01 THAT'S CHRIST'S METHOD AND WE'RE TOLD THAT CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE 55:05 WILL BRING SUCCESS. SO THE LAW OF CHRIST NEEDS TO BE 55:09 SEEN, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE TOOLS GOD HAS GIVEN US. 55:13 OUR HEALTH MESSAGE - RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT A LITTLE HEALTH 55:16 PROGRAM GOING ON AT OUR CHURCH AND WANT TO BUILD MORE AND MORE 55:18 HEALTH PROGRAMS THROUGH THE YEARS TO DOVE-TAIL IN WITH OTHER 55:21 EVANGELISTIC EVENTS. BUT, AGAIN, THE LAW OF CHRIST - 55:27 IT IS TO MINISTER TO OTHERS. AND THIS IS WHAT WE READ IN 9 55:30 TESTIMONIES, 189, "IF WE WOULD HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE GOD AND 55:37 BE KIND AND COURTEOUS AND TENDERHEARTED AND PITIFUL" - IS 55:47 THAT - ARE THOSE FACETS OF LOVE? YES THEY ARE, AREN'T THEY? 55:52 THEY'RE FACETS OF A LOVE THAT DOESN'T SEEK ITS OWN. 55:55 THEY'RE FACETS OF NOT A SELF-SEEKING LOVE. 55:59 THEY'RE FACETS OF SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE. - 56:02 "IF WE WOULD HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE GOD AND BE KIND AND 56:05 COURTEOUS AND TENDERHEARTED AND PITIFUL, THERE WOULD BE ONE 56:09 HUNDRED CONVERSIONS TO THE TRUTH WHERE NOW THERE IS ONLY ONE." 56:16 ONLY ONE - IT'S A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT, ISN'T IT? 56:20 TERRIBLE INDICTMENT. ANYWAY, WE CAN PREACH A WHOLE 56:25 SERMON THERE BUT I'LL LEAVE YOU TO THINK ABOUT THAT. 56:27 9 TESTIMONIES, 189 - AND ASK GOD - SAY, 'LORD, IS THERE SOMETHING 56:33 YOU WANT TO TEACH ME FROM THIS STATEMENT? 56:36 DO I NEED TO BE MORE KIND, COURTEOUS, TENDERHEARTED, AND 56:38 PITIFUL? AND WORK FOR SOULS?' 56:41 I'LL LEAVE YOU AND GOD TO WORK THAT ONE OUT. 56:44 BUT AGAIN, WHERE DO YOU AND I GET SUCH KINDNESS FROM? 56:49 WELL, IT'S OF DIVINE ORIGIN AND IT NEEDS TO BE IMPLANTED 56:54 WITHIN US. BUT IN OURSELVES WE'RE NOT NATURALLY LIKE THAT. 57:00 'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE 20 SAYS, "THERE IS NOTHING SAVE THE 57:03 SELFISH HEART OF MEN THAT LIVES UNTO ITSELF." 57:08 AGAIN, WE MAY DO GOOD WORKS FROM A SENSE OF OBLIGATION - FROM A 57:13 SENSE OF DUTY - BUT WE NEED JESUS, DON'T WE? 57:18 WE NEED HIM TO COME IN AND FILL US AND MAKE US EVERYTHING THAT 57:24 HE WANTS US TO BE. 57:27 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:31 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:35 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:38 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST DAY EVENTS OF 57:41 REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 57:45 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. ENHANCE YOUR 57:49 KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S WORD. GO 57:53 DEEPER. VISIT THE AMAZING BIBLE TIMELINE AT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. 57:59 (MUSIC) |
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