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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.
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WHETHER YOU ARE LIVE-STREAMING
AS WE TAPE TODAY, IF YOU'RE
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JOINING US THROUGH THE
RADIO, THROUGH TELEVISION -
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HOWEVER YOU'RE JOINING
US, WELCOME. AND WE KNOW THAT
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YOU WILL BE BLESSED AS WE
STUDY TOGETHER WITH A GROUP THAT
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MEETS EVERY WEEK FROM ACROSS
THE WHOLE PLANET, STUDYING
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GOD'S WORD TOGETHER.
WHAT A BLESSING THAT IS.
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WE SING TOGETHER EVERY WEEK
THAT WE STUDY TOGETHER AND THIS
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MORNING WE'RE GOING TO BE
SINGING 'CHRIST THE LORD IS
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RISEN TODAY' - HYMN #166 - THIS
COMES AS A REQUEST FROM MCDONALD
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IN BARBADOS, WARREN AND
NOLA IN AUSTRALIA, RUT IN THE
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NETHERLANDS, AND
GISELLE IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA.
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AND I NOTICED ON THE REQUEST
LIST THAT THERE WERE MANY, MANY
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FOR THIS SONG ALL ACROSS THE
PLANET, SO THIS IS YOUR SONG IF
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I DIDN'T MENTION YOU. HYMN #166
- WE'LL SING ALL FOUR VERSES.
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>>WHAT A BLESSED HOPE THAT
WE HAVE IN A RISEN SAVIOR AND
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A COMING KING. AMEN. IF
YOU HAVE A SPECIAL HYMN YOU'D
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LIKE TO SING WITH US, A FAVORITE
HYMN YOU'S LIKE TO SING WITH US,
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OR A NEW HYMN YOU'D LIKE TO
SING WITH US, IT'S VERY SIMPLE.
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YOU JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE
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'CONTACT US' LINK AND THERE
YOU CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR
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HYMNAL AND WE'D LOVE TO SING
THAT WITH YOU ON A COMING STUDY
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TOGETHER. WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING
NEW HYMNS. TODAY'S HYMN IS #105
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- 'SING TO THE GREAT JEHOVAH'S
PRAISE' - AND THIS COMES AS A
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REQUEST FROM VENICE IN JAMAICA.
SO HYMN #105 - WE'RE GOING TO
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LEARN THIS TOGETHER.
WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES.
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>>LET'S PRAY. OUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK
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YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY
WE HAVE TO COME BEFORE YOU AND
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WORSHIP AT YOUR FEET. WE
THANK YOU THAT YOU ARE A GOD
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IN HEAVEN THAT RULES THE WHOLE
UNIVERSE - THAT CREATED THE
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WHOLE UNIVERSE - BUT YET YOU
TAKE A SPECIAL INTEREST IN EACH
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ONE OF US INDIVIDUALLY
AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL.
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BLESS US NOW, LORD, AS WE OPEN
UP YOUR WORD - AS WE HEAR YOUR
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WORDS TO US, HELP US TO LISTEN
WITH HEARTS THAT ARE OPEN TO
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YOU. PLEASE
CHANGE EACH ONE OF US
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FROM THE INSIDE OUT THAT
WE REFLECT YOU. THANK YOU FOR
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PASTOR DOUG AND THE MESSAGE THAT
HE BRINGS AND THE INSPIRATION
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THAT HE BRINGS THROUGH
YOU TO LEAD HEARTS TO CHRIST.
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WE PRAY THESE THINGS
IN YOUR NAME JESUS, AMEN.
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OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH
JOLYNE AND OUR SINGERS.
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THOSE WERE SOME BEAUTIFUL
SONGS. I LIKE THE NEW ONE TOO.
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HOW IS EVERYBODY? HAPPY SABBATH.
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WITH YOUR PERMISSION,
BECAUSE THIS IS SABBATH SCHOOL,
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AND SOMETIMES PART OF SABBATH
SCHOOL IS A MISSION REPORT,
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I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE
MISSION REPORT ON WHERE I'VE
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BEEN IN THE
LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.
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I COULD NOT SAY TOO MUCH ABOUT
IT IN ADVANCE BECAUSE WE WERE
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PLANNING SOME EVANGELISTIC
MEETINGS IN CHINA AND THE
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ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE GOVERNMENT
THERE - IT'S A VERY DELICATE AND
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TENUOUS
PERMISSION THAT YOU NEED.
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ACTUALLY, YOU NEED
FOUR DIFFERENT PERMISSIONS.
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BUT THE LORD REALLY BLESSED AND
BY GOD'S GRACE WE JUST COMPLETED
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DOING A FULL EVANGELISTIC SERIES
- FIFTEEN PRESENTATIONS - IN
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CHINA AND THAT
WAS VERY EXCITING.
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MAYBE I'LL START
WITH AN AMAZING FACT.
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I THINK WE ALL KNOW THE GREAT
WALL OF CHINA IS ONE OF THE
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WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
- IT'S A WONDER OF THE WORLD
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TODAY. BUT IT WAS
THOUGHT, AT ONE TIME,
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THAT IT WAS 1,500 MILES LONG.
THEY NOW KNOW, WITH SATELLITE
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IMAGING, THAT THAT WALL
ACTUALLY WAS 3,800 MILES WHEN
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YOU INCLUDE THE DIFFERENT
BRANCHES THAT WENT OFF IT.
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IT'S INCREDIBLE BECAUSE IT'S
- OH, ABOUT THIRTY FEET WIDE AT
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THE BASE, AVERAGES 26 FEET
HIGH. CAN YOU IMAGINE BUILDING
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SOMETHING 3,800 MILES LONG?
THE IDEA WAS TO KEEP OUT THE
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INVADING NOMADS AND
THAT'S WHY THEY DID IT.
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BUT, IN SPITE OF ALL THAT
TROUBLE AND ALL THAT WORK THEY
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DID, GENGHIS KHAN, IN 1213,
STILL BREACHED THE WALL AND TOOK
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OVER CHINA. AND THE
GOOD NEWS IS THERE'S
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ANOTHER WALL THAT'S BEEN COMING
DOWN IN CHINA LATELY AND THAT'S
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A WALL THAT'S BEEN PREVENTING A
FREE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL.
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YOU KNOW, MAYBE I'LL SHOW YOU
ANOTHER PICTURE AND YOU'LL BE
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SURPRISED BY THIS ONE - OH,
HERE'S SOME AMAZING FACTS ABOUT
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CHINA: IT'S THE THIRD
LARGEST LAND MASS IN THE WORLD.
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I THINK FIRST IS
RUSSIA, THEN CANADA, THEN CHINA.
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THE SECOND LARGEST ECONOMY
AND IT'S POISED, AT SOME POINT,
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TO TAKE -
OVERTAKE THE U.S. IN THAT.
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FIRST LARGEST
MILITARY IN MANPOWER - THE U.S.
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HAS THE LARGEST MILITARY WHEN IT
COMES TO SPENDING, BY FAR, BUT
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THEY'VE GOT THE
LARGEST MANNED MILITARY.
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FIRST LARGEST POPULATION - 1.36
BILLION PEOPLE - AND THAT IS A
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CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE.
THAT MEANS APPROXIMATELY 20
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PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE
IN THE WORLD ARE CHINESE.
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AND SO, IT'S JUST - WHEN YOU GO
THERE AND YOU SEE THE BUILDING
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GOING ON AND YOU SEE ALL
THE PEOPLE ON THE STREETS, IT IS
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MIND-BOGGLING. NOW,
LET'S SEE IF YOU RECOGNIZE
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THESE TWO PEOPLE.
THAT'S KAREN AND I - AND I WANT
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YOU TO NOTICE MY BAGS AND
THEN HER BAGS ON THE LEFT.
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NO, ACTUALLY WE WERE GOING INTO
RUSSIA. THIS IS 21 YEARS AGO -
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OR A LITTLE MORE
THAN THAT - 22 YEARS AGO.
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WE WENT TO RUSSIA RIGHT
AFTER THE IRON CURTAIN FELL AND
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COMMUNISM DROPPED ITS BARRIERS
TO CHRISTIANITY AND WE WENT AND
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WE DID SIX WEEKS THERE.
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THE REASON I MENTION THAT IS
BECAUSE WE LEARNED, DURING THAT
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MEETING, OUR CHURCH WAS NOT
READY FOR THE OPPORTUNITIES TO
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FREELY PREACH IN THE
MASSIVE COUNTRY OF RUSSIA.
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AND SO, THAT ALWAYS STUCK IN MY
MIND AND WHEN I JOINED AMAZING
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FACTS I SAID, 'SOMETHING WE NEED
TO DO IS WE NEED TO BE READY FOR
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THE DAY, WHEN IT COMES, WHEN THE
WALLS IN CHINA GO DOWN AND WE
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CAN PREACH. WE NEED
TO HAVE MATERIALS - A
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LOT OF STUFF TRANSLATED
AND WEB SITES AND SO, WITH YOUR
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HELP, IN THE
LAST NINE YEARS WE'VE
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DEVELOPED A LOT OF WEB MATERIAL
- MATTER OF FACT, IN 2005 I WENT
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TO CHINA WITH KAREN AND
WE BROUGHT SOME OF OUR FIRST
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PRODUCT, WHICH WAS THE FINAL
EVENTS, AND THAT WAS DUBBED IN
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CHINESE - WHERE I'M ACTUALLY
SPEAKING CHINESE, NOT JUST THE
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SUBTITLES - AND WE
TOOK TWENTY COPIES.
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THAT WAS MULTIPLIED AND
WENT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
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I WAS THERE RECENTLY AND I
SAID TO SOMEONE - I SAID, 'HERE,
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LET'S GIVE THEM ONE OF THESE
'FINAL EVENTS'.' HE SAID, 'NO,
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EVERYBODY HERE'S SEEN THAT.' AND
HE MEANT EVERY CHRISTIAN FROM
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EVERY
DENOMINATION HAS SEEN THAT.
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'GIVE HIM
SOMETHING ELSE.' HE SAID.
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SO IT WAS WONDERFUL HOW THAT GOT
AROUND THE COUNTRY AND WE DID -
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I'M TRYING TO GIVE A SIGNAL TO
SHERLE ABOUT MOVING THE SLIDES
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AND SHE SAID, 'JUST EVERY TIME
YOU WANT ME TO MOVE THE SLIDES,
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JUST PULL UP YOUR PANTS OR PULL
ON YOUR EAR OR SOMETHING.' BUT
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THIS IS A WEB SITE THAT
HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SOME TIME.
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THAT'S AMAZING FACTS IN CHINESE.
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IT'S GOT JUST SCORES OF VIDEOS
AND EVANGELISTIC PROGRAMS.
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SO THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON
FOR NINE YEARS BECAUSE OF THE
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FAITHFUL DEDICATION OF A
LOT OF PEOPLE. AND SO WE GOT AN
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INVITATION IN DECEMBER
TO PLAN ON DOING A MEETING.
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DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL THE LAST
MINUTE IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN
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BECAUSE WE NEEDED SOME FINAL
PERMISSION. FREQUENTLY, WITH
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CHINA, YOU GET THERE AND THEN
THEY CANCEL AT THE LAST MINUTE.
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SO HERE WE ARE MEETING WITH
CHINESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND
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THEY APPROVED OUR MEETING
- WHICH WE WERE THANKFUL FOR
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BECAUSE WE HAD ALL THE PERMITS
AND THE VISAS AND WE GOT THERE
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AND THOUGHT, 'THEY COULD STILL
CANCEL ON US.' BUT THEY APPROVED
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THE MEETING AND WE WERE ALL
READY TO GO AND SOMETHING JUST
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EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED. WE
MET IN THE LARGEST CHURCH IN
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WUXI - WUXI IS - IT'S
LIKE A SUBURB OF SHANGHAI.
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SHANGHAI IS THE
BIGGEST CITY IN THE WORLD -
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24 MILLION PEOPLE. WUXI
IS ABOUT 50 MILES, BUT YOU
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NEVER STOP SEEING CITY
WHEN YOU LEAVE SHANGHAI.
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IT'S JUST SOLID CITY AND THERE'S
SIX MILLION PEOPLE THERE.
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AND THIS WAS THE LARGEST
CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE CITY,
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WHICH IS LARGELY
INTER-DENOMINATIONAL, AND THEY
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INVITED US TO COME
AND PREACH OUR MESSAGE.
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AND SO WE DID
FIFTEEN PRESENTATIONS.
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WE DID ABOUT HALF OF IT HERE
- KEEP GOING - WE WONDERED IF
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ANYONE WOULD COME BECAUSE, YOU
KNOW, THERE'S SOME PERSECUTION
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STILL IN CHINA. NEXT
PICTURE - AND THEY KEPT COMING.
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NOT ONLY DID THIS BUILDING
FILL UP - LET'S GO TO THE NEXT
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PICTURE - BUT THESE ARE - THERE
WERE TWO OVERFLOW ROOMS THAT
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FILLED UP WITH
SCREENS - NEXT PICTURE.
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YOU KNOW, ROUGH ESTIMATES, THERE
WERE 2,000-PLUS THE OPENING
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NIGHT - NEXT PICTURE - I CAME IN
TO GREET ONE OF THE - HERE THEY
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ARE GATHERED OUTSIDE THE WINDOWS
AND THE DOORS BECAUSE THEY RAN
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OUT OF ROOM INSIDE - NEXT
PICTURE - AND THEY SAT THERE
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FAITHFULLY - AND THIS IS
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY -
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10:00 ON A
THURSDAY IS WHEN WE STARTED.
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THE HUNGER FOR THE WORD OF GOD
IS UNLIKE ANYTHING I'VE SEEN.
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AND THEY WERE SO OPEN AND
WE JUST PRAISED THE LORD - NEXT
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PICTURE - THEN WE MOVED - AFTER
FOUR DAYS WE MOVED INTO A LARGER
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FACILITY IN WUXI - AND THIS
IS A BEAUTIFUL BRAND-NEW CHURCH
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FACILITY THERE AND - NEXT
PICTURE - I'M GIVING YOU A QUICK
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REPORT BECAUSE WE
HAVE A BIG LESSON TO COVER.
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YOU KNOW WHAT'S SO
EXCITING ABOUT THIS?
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I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REALIZE -
SEVERAL PEOPLE TOLD US WHILE WE
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WERE THERE - IN FACT, A
COUPLE OF MINISTERS OF ANOTHER
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EVANGELICAL CHURCH CAME
AND THEY WERE JUST GOING
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'PRAISE THE LORD!
HALLELUJAH!' AND THEY SAID,
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'HOW DID YOU DO THIS?' AND
WE SAID, 'THE LORD DID IT.'
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AND THEY SAID, 'THERE HAS BEEN
NO FOREIGNER ALLOWED TO DO A
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FULL EVANGELISTIC MEETING IN
THIS COUNTRY SINCE 1959.' THEY
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SAID, 'HOW DID YOU?'
SEVERAL PEOPLE TOLD US THAT.
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SO THEY SAID THIS
IS JUST UNPRECEDENTED.
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AND WE WERE SO EXCITED
AND, NOT ONLY THAT, WE GOT TO
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TELEVISE IT. NEXT PICTURE.
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PEOPLE CAME FROM ALL OVER -
I WAS SHOCKED BY THE NUMBER OF
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ELECTRIC MOTOR SCOOTERS BECAUSE
WHEN WE WENT NINE YEARS AGO
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THERE WAS JUST A COUPLE OF
ELECTRIC ONES - EVERYONE WAS ON
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BICYCLES AND EVERYTHING ELSE
WAS MOTOR SCOOTERS - BUT NOW
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EVERYTHING IS ELECTRIC SCOOTERS
AND THEY'RE DANGEROUS BECAUSE
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YOU DON'T HEAR THEM COMING.
YOU'RE CROSSING THE STREET - AND
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THEY'RE EVERYWHERE -
AND THEY'RE ON THE SIDEWALK.
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I MEAN, I WAS WALKING UP
THE STREETS OF SHANGHAI AND I'M
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LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER ALL
THE TIME BECAUSE THEY'D JUST -
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THEY'D GET UP ON THE SIDEWALKS
AND YOU DON'T HEAR THEM.
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AND - BUT PEOPLE CAME TO THE
MEETINGS BY SCOOTER, THEY CAME
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BY PLANE, THEY WALKED, THEY CAME
IN CARTS - THIS MAN TOOK A TRAIN
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- THE MAN ON THE LEFT
- HIS LAST NAME IS FUNG -
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I'LL NOT TELL
YOU HIS FIRST NAME.
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HE TOOK A TRAIN 800 MILES
BECAUSE HE SAW ON OUR WEB SITE -
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HE SAID, 'I WAS AN ATHEIST.
I STARTED STUDYING AND WATCHING
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THE VIDEOS ON
AMAZING FACTS' WEB SITE.
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I ACCEPTED CHRIST AND I HEARD
YOU WERE COMING TO CHINA.' AND
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HE WENT 800 MILES TO
COME TO THE MEETINGS.
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HE STAYED FOUR DAYS AND HE LEFT
- AND HE'S BRINGING OTHERS TO
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CHRIST. THAT
WAS A FRIEND OF HIS.
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SO THE WORK IS JUST SPREADING
- AGAIN, THIS IS A SHORT STORY -
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THEY HAD TWO
BAPTISMS WHILE WE WERE THERE.
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NOW THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE
BAPTIZED WERE LARGELY PREPARED,
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OF COURSE, BEFORE WE GOT THERE
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET EVERYONE
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READY IN TEN
DAYS - FOR A MEETING.
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A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE - FORMER
ATHEISTS - MAKING DECISIONS.
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IT WAS JUST SO EXCITING, BUT
THEY HAD FOUND - MANY OF THEM -
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THEY FOUND THINGS FIRST ON THE
AMAZING FACTS WEB SITE AND THEY
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GOT THE LESSONS, THEY GOT THE
DVDS, AND THEY STARTED TO STUDY.
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I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST
BAPTISM AND THEN - I THINK WE
00:17:18.10\00:17:23.96
GOT THE NEXT PICTURE
IS THE SECOND BAPTISM.
00:17:23.96\00:17:26.23
THERE WERE 198 PEOPLE BAPTIZED.
I'M SHARING THIS WITH YOU
00:17:26.23\00:17:29.70
BECAUSE THEY SAY - AND THIS
WAS IN THE ENGLISH TELEGRAPH
00:17:29.70\00:17:33.90
NEWSPAPER THAT IN 15 YEARS,
CHINA IS POISED TO HAVE MORE
00:17:33.90\00:17:37.96
CHRISTIANS THAN
THE UNITED STATES.
00:17:37.96\00:17:40.63
SO CHRISTIANITY IS GROWING VERY
QUICKLY IN THIS COUNTRY AND, YOU
00:17:40.63\00:17:44.60
KNOW, YOU SAY,
'WELL, WHAT CAN YOU DO?
00:17:44.60\00:17:46.93
THERE'S ONE MEETING WITH A
COUPLE THOUSAND PEOPLE IN A
00:17:46.93\00:17:49.73
COUNTRY OF, YOU KNOW, 1.3
OR 4 BILLION PEOPLE.' BUT WHAT
00:17:49.73\00:17:54.30
MADE THESE MEETINGS REALLY
EXCITING - NEXT PICTURE - WE
00:17:54.30\00:17:57.13
WERE GIVEN PERMISSION TO
VIDEOTAPE THE WHOLE SERIES WITH
00:17:57.13\00:18:01.16
CHINESE TRANSLATION ALL READY
TO GO AND SO NOW THOSE TAPES ARE
00:18:01.16\00:18:04.60
BEING DUPLICATED ALREADY AND
THEY'RE GOING TO BE SPREAD ALL
00:18:04.60\00:18:07.60
AROUND THE COUNTRY. IT'S AN
ENTIRE EVANGELISTIC MEETING AND
00:18:07.60\00:18:10.40
THEY WILL BE PIRATED AND
SPREAD, I CAN PROMISE YOU THAT,
00:18:10.40\00:18:14.46
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
SO - AND THEN ALSO, ALL OUR
00:18:14.46\00:18:17.33
POWERPOINTS AND SHERLE, WHO'S
RIGHT THERE IN THE STUDIO, SHE
00:18:17.33\00:18:20.06
HELPED DEVELOP ALL THE POWER
POINTS FOR OUR MEETINGS - THEY
00:18:20.06\00:18:22.96
WERE THEN TRANSLATED TO CHINESE
AND NOW THE CHINESE POWERPOINTS
00:18:22.96\00:18:26.03
ARE GOING TO BIBLE
WORKERS AROUND THE COUNTRY.
00:18:26.03\00:18:27.90
THESE ARE SOME BIBLE WORKERS
I WAS TRAINING WHILE I WAS THERE
00:18:27.90\00:18:30.53
AND - NEXT PICTURE - I'LL TIE
THIS OFF - THEN THE LAST SABBATH
00:18:30.53\00:18:36.56
- A WEEK AGO I WAS IN SHANGHAI,
THE BIGGEST CITY IN THE WORLD,
00:18:36.56\00:18:39.46
AND IT - THIS WAS A NICE
PHOTOGRAPH SOMEONE ELSE TOOK.
00:18:39.46\00:18:42.46
THE AIR IS NOT THAT CLEAR.
IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO BREATHE
00:18:42.46\00:18:47.00
SOMETIMES - NEXT PICTURE - AND
WE WERE MEETING WITH CHRISTIANS
00:18:47.00\00:18:50.70
IN SHANGHAI AND THE
INTEREST WAS JUST PHENOMENAL.
00:18:50.70\00:18:54.66
SO PLEASE PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE
THERE - THEY SAT ALL DAY LONG -
00:18:54.66\00:18:58.80
KIDS WERE SO WELL BEHAVED
AND, YOU KNOW, LET ME TELL YOU
00:18:58.80\00:19:01.76
SOMETHING FUNNY, NOT ONLY HAVE
WE TRANSLATED, YOU KNOW, JUST
00:19:01.76\00:19:05.33
LOTS OF OUR EVANGELISTIC
PROGRAMS, WE TRANSLATED
00:19:05.33\00:19:07.80
THE AMAZING
ADVENTURES IN MANDARIN.
00:19:07.80\00:19:10.66
WE TRANSLATED THE MEETING FOR
TEENAGERS CALLED MIQ, AND I'M
00:19:10.66\00:19:14.86
SPEAKING TO HAVE ONE OF THE BEST
- HE'S A TELEVISION PERSONALITY
00:19:14.86\00:19:18.93
THAT LIP-SYNCS AND JUST A
GREAT PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR -
00:19:18.93\00:19:22.83
AND WE'RE HOPING HE'S
CONVERTED FROM LISTENING TO
00:19:22.83\00:19:24.93
ALL THIS STUFF,
BECAUSE HE'S A PROFESSIONAL.
00:19:24.93\00:19:27.06
BUT MY VOICE IN CHINESE IS VERY
GOOD, YOU KNOW, I MEAN - BUT I
00:19:27.06\00:19:30.43
CAN'T SPEAK - ALL I CAN SAY IS,
YOU KNOW, 'NEE HOW, SHE SHAN'
00:19:30.43\00:19:33.36
JUST A FEW LITTLE WORDS, BUT
THE KIDS WOULD COME UP TO ME AND
00:19:33.36\00:19:37.00
THEY'D START TALKING TO ME AND
I'D TALK TO THEM AND THEY'D LOOK
00:19:37.00\00:19:39.33
AT ME WITH DISDAIN, 'WHAT IS?
HOW COME YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
00:19:39.33\00:19:42.46
ME? AND YOUR VOICE -
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR VOICE?
00:19:42.46\00:19:45.70
AND THEY WERE SO DISAPPOINTED.
00:19:45.70\00:19:47.96
IT WAS KIND OF FUNNY -
NEXT PICTURE - ACTUALLY, SEVERAL
00:19:47.96\00:19:51.80
PEOPLE, WHEN THEY HEARD MY
REAL VOICE, WERE DISAPPOINTED.
00:19:51.80\00:19:54.76
THIS IS JUST ONE
OF THE OVERFLOWS.
00:19:54.76\00:19:56.63
WE STAYED - WE WENT BACK
IN THE AFTERNOON AND DID BIBLE
00:19:56.63\00:19:58.60
QUESTIONS AND THEY JUST HAD
- THEY'RE REALLY STUDYING OVER
00:19:58.60\00:20:01.30
THERE - THEY HAD SOME VERY
GOOD BIBLE QUESTIONS - NEXT
00:20:01.30\00:20:03.50
PICTURE - I DON'T
KNOW WHAT WE HAVE NEXT.
00:20:03.50\00:20:05.56
OH YEAH, PRAY FOR THE CHINESE
BECAUSE PERSECUTION IS NOT OVER.
00:20:05.56\00:20:11.43
THIS - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU
SAW THIS - WAS ON CNN NEWS BUT
00:20:11.43\00:20:14.56
ANOTHER PROVINCE - OUR
PROVINCE WAS MORE TOLERANT OF
00:20:14.56\00:20:17.56
CHRISTIANITY, OBVIOUSLY, BUT
A MONTH BEFORE WE CAME THE THREE
00:20:17.56\00:20:21.73
RIVERS CHURCH IN WENZHOU,
THE GOVERNMENT MAYBE FELT
00:20:21.73\00:20:26.50
CHRISTIANITY WAS SPREADING
TOO FAST, BUT THEY BULLDOZED THE
00:20:26.50\00:20:29.40
CHURCH AND SO - YEAH, A FOUR
MILLION DOLLAR BRAND-NEW CHURCH
00:20:29.40\00:20:33.36
AND IT WAS AN EVANGELICAL
CHRISTIAN CHURCH BUT - SO THERE
00:20:33.36\00:20:37.13
ARE STILL TENSIONS. IT'S -
YOU NEED TO PRAY FOR CHINA.
00:20:37.13\00:20:40.40
IT'S A MIRACLE WE WERE ABLE
TO GO AND I'LL CLOSE WITH THIS:
00:20:40.40\00:20:45.60
ONE OF THE GREATEST
LOST OPPORTUNITIES IN HISTORY
00:20:45.60\00:20:47.66
HAPPENED AFTER GENGHIS KHAN -
HIS SON KUBLAI KHAN - WAS MORE
00:20:47.66\00:20:53.00
FRIENDLY TO RELIGION AND HE KNEW
MARCO POLO - MARCO POLO AND HIS
00:20:53.00\00:20:57.80
FATHER NICOLO POLO AND MAFFEO
POLO WERE VENETIAN TRADERS AND
00:20:57.80\00:21:01.90
THE KUBLAI KHAN WAS
INTERESTED IN THE RELIGION.
00:21:01.90\00:21:05.06
HE SAID, 'YOU GO BACK AND TELL
YOUR CHIEF PRIEST, 'SEND ME A
00:21:05.06\00:21:08.46
HUNDRED MISSIONARIES AND
TEACHERS TO TEACH ME AND OUR
00:21:08.46\00:21:12.13
PEOPLE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.'
AND SO THEY DID GO BACK TO
00:21:12.13\00:21:15.43
ITALY, THEY APPEALED
TO THE POPE PERSONALLY.
00:21:15.43\00:21:17.76
THEY SAID, 'YOU HAVE TO SEND AS
MANY MISSIONARIES AS POSSIBLE TO
00:21:17.76\00:21:20.70
THIS INCREDIBLY BIG COUNTRY OF
CHINA. AND THE POPE - THEY WERE
00:21:20.70\00:21:25.73
FIGHTING CRUSADES AND FIGHTING
AMONG THEMSELVES AND HE SAID,
00:21:25.73\00:21:29.16
'YOU KNOW, WE JUST CAN'T
DO IT. WE DON'T HAVE THEM.'
00:21:29.16\00:21:31.10
HE SAID, 'I'LL SEND YOU TWO.'
AND THEY KIND OF HALF-HEARTEDLY
00:21:31.10\00:21:34.70
WENT - ONE DIED ALONG THE WAY
AND THE OTHER ONE TURNED BACK
00:21:34.70\00:21:37.40
AND THEY NEVER WENT AND
INSTEAD, THE TIBETAN BUDDHIST
00:21:37.40\00:21:40.70
MISSIONARIES CAME IN
AND PRETTY MUCH TOOK OVER.
00:21:40.70\00:21:44.63
BUT THEY SAY ALL OF HISTORY
WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT -
00:21:44.63\00:21:47.26
THAT WINDOW WAS LOST.
WE HAVE ANOTHER INCREDIBLE
00:21:47.26\00:21:49.83
WINDOW IN CHINA AND I'M HOPING
THAT YOU'LL BE PRAYING FOR THAT
00:21:49.83\00:21:52.83
COUNTRY BECAUSE, LIKE I SAID, IT
REPRESENTS TWENTY PERCENT - IT'S
00:21:52.83\00:21:56.33
THE LARGEST
MISSION FIELD IN THE WORLD.
00:21:56.33\00:21:57.70
THANK YOU FOR ALSO MAKING THESE
MEETINGS POSSIBLE AND CONTINUE
00:21:57.70\00:22:01.60
TO PRAY FOR WHAT'S GOING ON
OVER THERE. WE STILL HAVE OTHER
00:22:01.60\00:22:04.60
THINGS HAPPENING - I CAN'T TELL
YOU. ALRIGHT, TO OUR LESSON.
00:22:04.60\00:22:07.86
THIS LESSON IS VERY IMPORTANT
AND IT'S DEALING WITH THE
00:22:07.86\00:22:10.93
SUBJECT OF THE COVENANTS.
CHRIST AND THE COVENANTS.
00:22:10.93\00:22:14.16
IN PARTICULAR, I WANT YOU
TO REQUEST THIS FREE STUDY.
00:22:14.16\00:22:17.46
THIS IS PERFECTLY
JOINED WITH OUR LESSON -
00:22:17.46\00:22:20.16
IT'S CALLED, 'WHY
THE OLD COVENANT FAILED'.
00:22:20.16\00:22:23.33
AND YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE
00:22:23.33\00:22:25.60
TEN COMMANDMENTS
AND THE OLD COVENANT.
00:22:25.60\00:22:27.53
'WHY THE OLD COVENANT FAILED'
- WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FREE.
00:22:27.53\00:22:30.00
READ IT, SHARE IT WITH
SOMEONE - IT'S OFFER #716.
00:22:30.00\00:22:33.80
JUST DIAL 866-STUDY-MORE -
866-788-3966 - AND WE'LL SEND
00:22:33.80\00:22:42.33
THAT TO YOU FOR FREE. OUR
LESSON TODAY IS LESSON #10
00:22:42.33\00:22:45.86
DEALING WITH CHRIST,
THE LAW, AND THE COVENANTS.
00:22:45.86\00:22:48.60
WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - I
ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF YOU CAN SAY
00:22:48.60\00:22:51.26
IT WITH ME - AND IT'S FROM
HEBREWS 9:15 - HEBREWS 9:15 -
00:22:51.26\00:22:57.23
I'M GOING TO DO IT FROM
THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION.
00:22:57.23\00:22:59.83
ARE YOU READY?
00:22:59.83\00:23:02.16
"AND FOR THIS REASON HE IS THE
MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, BY
00:23:02.16\00:23:07.60
MEANS OF DEATH, FOR THE
REDEMPTION OF THE TRANSGRESSIONS
00:23:07.60\00:23:11.10
UNDER THE FIRST COVENANT, THAT
THOSE WHO ARE CALLED MAY RECEIVE
00:23:11.10\00:23:14.96
THE PROMISE OF THE
ETERNAL INHERITANCE."
00:23:14.96\00:23:18.46
HEBREWS HAS QUITE A BIT TO
SAY ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THE
00:23:18.46\00:23:21.26
COVENANTS AND WE'LL READ SOME
MORE OF THAT IN A LITTLE BIT.
00:23:21.26\00:23:24.83
BUT MAYBE, BEFORE WE GO
INTO STUDYING THE SUBJECT OF THE
00:23:24.83\00:23:27.63
COVENANTS, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT
TO UNDERSTAND - WE OUGHT TO
00:23:27.63\00:23:30.83
DEFINE 'WHAT IS A COVENANT.'
A COVENANT IS SIMPLY AN
00:23:30.83\00:23:33.73
AGREEMENT. IT'S A CONTRACT.
00:23:33.73\00:23:37.20
IT'S SOMETHING OF MORE OF A
FORMAL AGREEMENT - A PROMISE.
00:23:37.20\00:23:40.36
THE BIBLE IS KNOWN AS THE NEW
AND THE OLD TESTAMENTS AND WHAT
00:23:40.36\00:23:44.46
THAT REALLY MEANS -
IT'S IDENTICAL TO SAYING,
00:23:44.46\00:23:47.16
'THIS IS THE NEW AND THE
OLD COVENANTS.' TESTAMENT -
00:23:47.16\00:23:49.96
COVENANT IS THE SAME THING.
00:23:49.96\00:23:51.80
AND SO, A COVENANT - YOU FIND
THE WORD ABOUT 300 TIMES IN THE
00:23:51.80\00:23:57.20
BIBLE, ACCORDING TO MY COMPUTER
- THE HEBREW FOR THE WORD IS
00:23:57.20\00:24:01.26
BERITH - THE GREEK IS DIATHEKE
- AND IT JUST MEANS A LEGAL
00:24:01.26\00:24:06.60
AGREEMENT - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
FIT INTO THE CATEGORY OF BEING
00:24:06.60\00:24:12.13
CONDITIONS OF A COVENANT BUT
THEY WERE NOT THE OLD COVENANT
00:24:12.13\00:24:16.46
AND WE'LL GET TO
THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:24:16.46\00:24:18.23
YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF
COVENANTS IN THE BIBLE.
00:24:18.23\00:24:20.83
SOME OF THEM WERE FORMAL - THEY
DEAL WITH NATIONS - SOME OF THEM
00:24:20.83\00:24:23.80
WERE ON AN INDIVIDUAL
BASIS WHERE GOD MADE INDIVIDUAL
00:24:23.80\00:24:27.20
COVENANTS WITH
PEOPLE OR WITH FAMILIES.
00:24:27.20\00:24:29.53
SOME OF THE COVENANTS YOU MIGHT
FIND IS THE COVENANT WITH ADAM
00:24:29.53\00:24:34.16
IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, FOR
INSTANCE, AND IT'S OFTEN CALLED
00:24:34.16\00:24:37.66
'THE EDENIC COVENANT'.
LET ME READ THIS TO YOU -
00:24:37.66\00:24:40.53
SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME -
WHERE ARE THE MICROPHONES?
00:24:40.53\00:24:42.86
DOES SOMEONE HAVE HOSEA 6, VERSE
7? OKAY, WE'LL HAVE YOU DO THAT
00:24:42.86\00:24:47.36
IN JUST A MOMENT. I
WANT TO FIRST READ GENESIS
00:24:47.36\00:24:50.53
1:27, "SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS
OWN IMAGE; IN THE IMAGE OF GOD
00:24:50.53\00:24:55.76
HE CREATED HIM; MALE
AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM.
00:24:55.76\00:25:00.43
THEN GOD BLESSED THEM, AND GOD
SAID TO THEM, 'BE FRUITFUL AND
00:25:00.43\00:25:03.43
MULTIPLY; FILL THE EARTH
AND SUBDUE IT; HAVE DOMINION'" -
00:25:03.43\00:25:07.10
HERE GOD IS PROMISING THEM
DOMINION - "'OVER THE FISH OF
00:25:07.10\00:25:09.96
THE SEA, OVER THE BIRDS OF THE
AIR, AND OVER EVERY LIVING THING
00:25:09.96\00:25:12.60
THAT MOVES ON THE EARTH.'" THEN
YOU GO TO CHAPTER 2, VERSE 16,
00:25:12.60\00:25:16.73
"AND THE LORD GOD COMMANDED THE
MAN, SAYING, 'OF EVERY TREE OF
00:25:16.73\00:25:20.16
THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT;
BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE
00:25:20.16\00:25:24.60
OF GOOD AND EVIL YOU SHALL NOT
EAT, FOR IN THE DAY THAT YOU EAT
00:25:24.60\00:25:27.73
OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE.'"
SO IN THE COVENANT THAT GOD MADE
00:25:27.73\00:25:30.86
WITH ADAM - OR IN EDEN,
HE BASICALLY IS SAYING, 'I AM
00:25:30.86\00:25:34.23
GIVING YOU LIFE, PARADISE,
DOMINION - BUT THERE'S A
00:25:34.23\00:25:36.73
CONDITION. YOU
DISOBEY - EAT OF THE
00:25:36.73\00:25:39.20
FORBIDDEN TREE, YOU WILL LOSE
YOUR DOMINION AND YOU WILL LOSE
00:25:39.20\00:25:41.66
YOUR LIFE.' AND THEY LOST
BOTH OF THOSE - THE DOMINION WAS
00:25:41.66\00:25:46.33
SURRENDERED TO THE ENEMY - THE
DEVIL IS CALLED THE PRINCE OF
00:25:46.33\00:25:49.33
THIS WORLD - THAT'S WHY THERE'S
SO MUCH MISERY IN THE WORLD -
00:25:49.33\00:25:51.96
WHEN THEY
VIOLATED THAT COVENANT.
00:25:51.96\00:25:54.00
NOW, JUST TO REINFORCE
THIS, GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US -
00:25:54.00\00:25:57.16
WHAT DID I SAY?
- HOSEA 6, VERSE 7.
00:25:57.16\00:25:59.66
>>"BUT THEY LIKE MEN HAVE
TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT: THERE
00:25:59.66\00:26:04.40
HAVE THEY DEALT
TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST ME."
00:26:04.40\00:26:07.70
>>ALRIGHT, VERY GOOD.
NOW, YOU SEE THAT WORD WHERE IT
00:26:07.70\00:26:09.13
SAYS 'MAN'- 'BUT THEY LIKE
MAN'? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A
00:26:09.13\00:26:11.76
TRANSLATION THAT SAYS, 'BUT
THEY, LIKE ADAM'? YEAH, SEE,
00:26:11.76\00:26:15.53
THAT WORD THERE IS
'ADAM' - 'THEY LIKE ADAM HAVE
00:26:15.53\00:26:19.03
TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT.'
SO GOD HAD MADE A COVENANT
00:26:19.03\00:26:22.40
WITH ADAM.
00:26:22.40\00:26:23.70
NOW, YOU ALSO FIND IN THE BIBLE,
GOD MAKES A COVENANT WITH NOAH
00:26:23.70\00:26:27.20
AND IT SAYS VERSE - GENESIS 6,
VERSE 18, "BUT WITH THEE WILL I
00:26:27.20\00:26:33.03
ESTABLISH MY COVENANT; AND THOU
SHALT COME INTO THE ARK, THOU,
00:26:33.03\00:26:36.36
AND THY SONS, AND THY WIFE,
AND THY SONS' WIVES WITH THEE."
00:26:36.36\00:26:40.03
NOW THERE WAS A CONDITION TO
THAT COVENANT - THE CONDITION
00:26:40.03\00:26:43.16
WAS, 'I WILL SAVE
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
00:26:43.16\00:26:45.70
YOU HAVE TO BUILD AN ARK.'
SO IF NOAH SAID, 'THANK YOU FOR
00:26:45.70\00:26:50.33
SHOWING GRACE AND SAVING ME'
BUT HE DIDN'T BUILD AN ARK, WHAT
00:26:50.33\00:26:53.93
GOOD WOULD THAT
COVENANT OF SALVATION HAVE BEEN?
00:26:53.93\00:26:56.46
SO YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THERE'S
TWO KINDS OF COVENANTS IN THE
00:26:56.46\00:26:59.66
BIBLE, PRINCIPALLY, YOU'VE
GOT THE UNCONDITIONAL COVENANTS
00:26:59.66\00:27:04.26
WHERE GOD SAYS, 'I WILL DO
SOMETHING' AND HE'S JUST GOING
00:27:04.26\00:27:06.80
TO DO IT AND
YOU'LL BE A RECIPIENT.
00:27:06.80\00:27:09.43
OR HE'S SAYS, 'I DO THIS IF
YOU DO THAT.' SO YOU'VE GOT THE
00:27:09.43\00:27:13.56
CONDITIONAL COVENANTS AND
THE UNCONDITIONAL COVENANTS AND
00:27:13.56\00:27:16.56
WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT SOME OF
THE DIFFERENCES ARE IN A MOMENT.
00:27:16.56\00:27:19.76
SO YOU'VE GOT THE COVENANT WITH
NOAH, YOU'VE GOT A COVENANT WITH
00:27:19.76\00:27:22.30
ABRAHAM. NOW WE DON'T HAVE TIME
TO READ ALL THE COVENANTS OR WE
00:27:22.30\00:27:26.00
WON'T GET INTO THE - SOME
OF THE HEART OF THE LESSON.
00:27:26.00\00:27:29.16
THE COVENANT WITH NOAH - WITH
ABRAHAM - IS MADE, FIRSTLY, IN
00:27:29.16\00:27:33.06
GENESIS 12:1-3, WHEN HE SAYS,
'COME OUT OF THIS LAND AND I
00:27:33.06\00:27:38.10
WILL MAKE A COVENANT WITH
YOU AND YOUR DESCENDENTS.' AND,
00:27:38.10\00:27:41.16
ULTIMATELY, 'IN YOUR SEED ALL
THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WILL BE
00:27:41.16\00:27:43.90
BLESSED.' LATER HE MAKES
A COVENANT WITH DAVID - THE
00:27:43.90\00:27:47.26
DAVIDIC COVENANT - AND YOU CAN
READ ABOUT THAT IN 2 SAMUEL 7,
00:27:47.26\00:27:51.53
VERSES 12 AND 13 AND THAT
COVENANT BASICALLY SAID THAT
00:27:51.53\00:27:54.90
'THROUGH YOUR HOUSE AND THROUGH
YOUR DESCENDENTS, THE MESSIAH
00:27:54.90\00:27:58.46
WOULD COME.' YOU KNOW, AND -
THEY - I SHOULD SAY THE COVENANT
00:27:58.46\00:28:04.30
THAT GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM, HE
ALSO THEN REPEATS TO ISAAC AND
00:28:04.30\00:28:10.43
TO JACOB - AND JACOB, ON HIS
DEATH BED, HE REPEATS IT TO HIS
00:28:10.43\00:28:13.66
SONS AND SPECIFIES THAT THROUGH
JUDAH THE MESSIAH WOULD COME AND
00:28:13.66\00:28:19.53
THEN LATER HE SPECIFIES EVEN
MORE THAT THROUGH THE TRIBE OF
00:28:19.53\00:28:23.03
JUDAH, THROUGH THE HOUSE OF
DAVID THE MESSIAH WOULD COME.
00:28:23.03\00:28:26.43
AND SO, YOU CAN SEE
THESE COVENANTS ARE MADE.
00:28:26.43\00:28:30.56
NOW, SOMETIMES - LET'S GO TO THE
SECTION UNDER 'COVENANT SIGNS' -
00:28:30.56\00:28:34.36
'COVENANT SIGNS'. WE
DON'T HAVE TO GUESS VERY
00:28:34.36\00:28:37.60
LONG, BUT IN NOAH'S TIME,
WHAT WAS THE COVENANT SIGN?
00:28:37.60\00:28:41.23
IT WAS THE RAINBOW AND YOU CAN
SEE THAT - GENESIS 9:12 AND 13 -
00:28:41.23\00:28:45.40
"AND GOD SAID: 'THIS IS THE SIGN
OF THE COVENANT WHICH I MAKE
00:28:45.40\00:28:48.80
BETWEEN ME AND YOU, AND EVERY
LIVING CREATURE THAT IS WITH
00:28:48.80\00:28:53.90
YOU, FOR PERPETUAL GENERATIONS:
I SET MY RAINBOW IN THE CLOUD,
00:28:53.90\00:28:57.76
AND IT SHALL BE FOR THE SIGN OF
THE COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND THE
00:28:57.76\00:29:00.46
EARTH." HOW COME
THEY'D NEVER SEEN THE
00:29:00.46\00:29:01.96
RAINBOW BEFORE? IT
NEVER RAINED BEFORE.
00:29:01.96\00:29:06.06
SO THEY NEVER SAW THAT THE
REFRACTION OF THE, YOU KNOW,
00:29:06.06\00:29:11.00
PYRAMIDS OF COLOR COMING IN THAT
- IN THE RAINBOW - BECAUSE IT
00:29:11.00\00:29:17.50
HAD NEVER RAINED BEFORE AND
SO GOD WANTED TO REMIND THEM
00:29:17.50\00:29:20.46
WHENEVER THEY SAW THAT MIST
IN THE CLOUDS AND THEY SAW THAT
00:29:20.46\00:29:22.73
RAINBOW, THAT HE WOULD NOT
DO - NOW DOES THAT MEAN IT WOULD
00:29:22.73\00:29:25.53
NEVER FLOOD AGAIN? OR
HE'D NEVER DESTROY THE EARTH
00:29:25.53\00:29:27.93
AGAIN WITH A FLOOD?
THERE'VE BEEN PLENTY OF FLOODS -
00:29:27.93\00:29:30.76
THERE'S BEEN
PLENTY OF GOOD RAINS.
00:29:30.76\00:29:32.86
HE JUST WANTED TO REMIND HIM
THAT HE WOULDN'T WIPE OUT ALL
00:29:32.86\00:29:35.30
THE EARTH WITH WATER AGAIN.
NEXT TIME IT'S A FLOOD OF WHAT?
00:29:35.30\00:29:39.60
FIRE - THE BIBLE TELLS US - AND
THE ARK IN THAT DAY IS JESUS -
00:29:39.60\00:29:44.20
BEING IN CHRIST.
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME JOSHUA
00:29:44.20\00:29:47.56
2:18 - I'LL GET TO YOU IN
A MINUTE. WHO GOT THAT ONE?
00:29:47.56\00:29:50.43
RIGHT OVER HERE -
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:29:50.43\00:29:51.86
HOLD YOUR HAND UP - ALRIGHT,
JUST A MOMENT, WE'LL GET TO YOU.
00:29:51.86\00:29:54.76
ANOTHER - LET'S TALK
ABOUT 'WHAT WAS THE SIGN FOR
00:29:54.76\00:29:58.96
ABRAHAM' - OF THAT COVENANT?
00:29:58.96\00:30:02.40
COUPLE OF SIGNS: ONE THING,
CIRCUMCISION WAS A SIGN OF THE
00:30:02.40\00:30:06.93
COVENANT THAT GOD MADE WITH
ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED AND THE
00:30:06.93\00:30:10.83
BIRTH OF ISAAC WAS A
SIGN. WAS THAT A MIRACLE?
00:30:10.83\00:30:14.86
YEAH, SO THAT WAS A SIGN THAT
GOD WAS GOING TO FULFILL HIS
00:30:14.86\00:30:18.86
COVENANT IN THAT HE MIRACULOUSLY
HAD THIS CHILD LONG AFTER SARAH
00:30:18.86\00:30:24.23
WAS AT THE BEARING AGE.
AND YOU CAN READ IN EXODUS 20 -
00:30:24.23\00:30:30.00
WAS THERE A SIGN OF THE COVENANT
GOD MADE WITH THE CHILDREN OF
00:30:30.00\00:30:33.06
ISRAEL ON MOUNT SINAI?
"AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAW THE
00:30:33.06\00:30:37.53
THUNDERINGS, AND THE LIGHTNINGS,
AND THE NOISE OF THE TRUMPET,
00:30:37.53\00:30:40.53
AND THE MOUNTAIN SMOKING:
AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW IT, THEY
00:30:40.53\00:30:42.83
REMOVED, AND STOOD AFAR OFF."
SO THERE WERE SIGNS AND WONDERS
00:30:42.83\00:30:46.43
WHEN GOD SPOKE HIS LAW -
THAT WAS ONE OF THE SIGNS.
00:30:46.43\00:30:50.66
YOU CAN READ THAT - NOW IF
YOU JUMP TO THE NEW TESTAMENT -
00:30:50.66\00:30:53.20
HEBREWS CHAPTER 12, IT SAYS,
'FOR YOU HAVE NOT COME TO THE
00:30:53.20\00:30:57.90
MOUNTAIN THAT MAY BE TOUCHED
AND BURNED WITH FIRE AND TO
00:30:57.90\00:31:01.60
BLACKNESS AND DARKNESS AND
TEMPESTS AND THE SOUND OF A
00:31:01.60\00:31:05.03
TRUMPET AND THE VOICE OF
WORDS SO THAT THOSE WHO HEARD IT
00:31:05.03\00:31:08.26
BEGGED THAT THE WORD SHOULD NOT
BE SPOKEN TO THEM ANYMORE.' HE
00:31:08.26\00:31:11.13
SAID THESE WERE THE SIGNS OF
GOD'S PRESENCE AND GLORY THERE
00:31:11.13\00:31:15.00
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND IN
THE NEW COVENANT IT'S SOMETHING
00:31:15.00\00:31:18.76
DIFFERENT - AND HE
GETS INTO THAT IN HEBREWS
00:31:18.76\00:31:21.56
IN JUST A MOMENT. OTHER SIGNS OF
THE COVENANT HAD TO DO WITH THE
00:31:21.56\00:31:25.70
- WAS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS A
SIGN ITSELF - PUT IN THE ARK?
00:31:25.70\00:31:30.33
WAS THERE A SHEKINAH GLORY
ABOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:31:30.33\00:31:35.06
ALRIGHT SOMEONE READ - YOU
WERE GOING TO READ FOR ME JOSHUA
00:31:35.06\00:31:37.30
2:18, TALKING ABOUT
ANOTHER SIGN - TOKEN.
00:31:37.30\00:31:40.86
"BEHOLD, WHEN WE COME INTO THE
LAND, THOU SHALT BIND THIS LINE
00:31:40.86\00:31:45.30
OF SCARLET THREAD IN THE WINDOW
WHICH THOU DIDST LET US DOWN BY:
00:31:45.30\00:31:49.86
AND THOU SHALT BRING THY
FATHER, AND THEY MOTHER, AND THY
00:31:49.86\00:31:53.03
BRETHREN, AND ALL THY FATHER'S
HOUSEHOLD, HOME UNTO THEE."
00:31:53.03\00:31:58.96
>>ALRIGHT, DID THE LORD
MAKE A COVENANT WITH RAHAB?
00:31:58.96\00:32:01.90
YEAH, THROUGH THE
TWO SPIES - THEY SAID,
00:32:01.90\00:32:05.13
'OUR LIFE FOR YOUR LIFE.
BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE THIS -
00:32:05.13\00:32:08.20
AND HERE'S THE AGREEMENT.
IF YOU DON'T TELL OUR BUSINESS
00:32:08.20\00:32:10.73
ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE, IT'LL
BE WHEN WE COME TO THE LAND,
00:32:10.73\00:32:13.43
EVERYONE IN YOUR
HOUSE WE'LL SAVE.
00:32:13.43\00:32:15.30
HERE'S THE TOKEN OF THE
COVENANT: PUT THIS RED CORD IN
00:32:15.30\00:32:18.60
YOUR WINDOW.' AND EVERYBODY THAT
HAD THE RED - IF THEY WERE IN
00:32:18.60\00:32:21.96
THE HOUSE WHERE THE RED CORD WAS
IN THE WINDOW, THEY WERE SAVED.
00:32:21.96\00:32:25.46
WAS THERE A TOKEN OF THE
COVENANT DURING THE PASSOVER?
00:32:25.46\00:32:30.63
WHAT WAS THE TOKEN
THEN? RED BLOOD ON THE DOOR.
00:32:30.63\00:32:35.40
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
WHEN THEY LEFT EGYPT, THOSE IN
00:32:35.40\00:32:39.73
THE HOUSE WITH
THE RED WERE SAVED.
00:32:39.73\00:32:42.26
WHEN THEY ENTERED - AND
THEY WERE ALL ISRAELITES.
00:32:42.26\00:32:44.76
WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PROMISED
LAND, THERE'S A TOKEN FOR
00:32:44.76\00:32:48.13
GENTILES. EVERYONE IN
RAHAB'S HOUSE WERE GENTILES.
00:32:48.13\00:32:52.10
THOSE IN THE HOUSE
WITH THE RED WERE SAVED.
00:32:52.10\00:32:55.93
NOW WHAT'S THAT RED A
SYMBOL OF? THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
00:32:55.93\00:32:57.83
SO SOMETIMES THERE WERE TOKENS
THAT WERE GIVEN THAT WERE SIGNS
00:32:57.83\00:33:01.10
OF THESE THINGS. WHAT
ABOUT A SIGN FOR JESUS?
00:33:01.10\00:33:04.23
NOW GETTING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
- SOME OF YOU REMEMBER IN ISAIAH
00:33:04.23\00:33:08.96
7:14, "THEREFORE THE LORD
HIMSELF SHALL GIVE YOU A SIGN;
00:33:08.96\00:33:13.66
BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL
CONCEIVE, AND BEAR A SON."
00:33:13.66\00:33:19.23
YOU REMEMBER THAT? THAT DOESN'T
HAPPEN EVERY DAY, DOES IT?
00:33:19.23\00:33:22.03
IT MAY BE CLAIMED FROM TIME TO
TIME BUT I THINK SOME OF THOSE
00:33:22.03\00:33:26.40
CLAIMS ARE DUBIOUS.
00:33:26.40\00:33:27.76
AND IF YOU GO TO THE NEW
TESTAMENT, LUKE 2, VERSE 12 -
00:33:27.76\00:33:31.63
BY THE WAY, DON'T MISS
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE
00:33:31.63\00:33:34.83
MIRACULOUS BIRTH - THE
MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION OF SARAH
00:33:34.83\00:33:39.10
WITH ISAAC AND ISAAC IS OFFERED
BY THE FATHER AND THAT IS A SIGN
00:33:39.10\00:33:44.36
OF THE MIRACULOUS BIRTH OF JESUS
AND JESUS IS OFFERED BY THE
00:33:44.36\00:33:48.50
FATHER. SO THERE ARE
SOME OTHER SIGNS THERE.
00:33:48.50\00:33:51.70
BUT THEN YOU LOOK IN LUKE 2:12,
"AND THIS WILL BE THE SIGN TO
00:33:51.70\00:33:55.40
YOU: YOU WILL FIND A BABE
WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHS,
00:33:55.40\00:33:58.80
LYING IN A MANGER." THIS
IS WHAT THE ANGELS TOLD THE
00:33:58.80\00:34:01.03
SHEPHERDS AND YOU DIDN'T
NORMALLY FIND A BABY LYING IN A
00:34:01.03\00:34:06.43
MANGER, EVEN
BACK IN BIBLE TIMES.
00:34:06.43\00:34:08.96
IF YOU FOUND A BABY LYING IN
A HORSE TROUGH IN A BARN, YOU'D
00:34:08.96\00:34:14.30
PROBABLY CALL AUTHORITIES TODAY,
RIGHT? AND SO THAT WAS UNUSUAL.
00:34:14.30\00:34:18.70
JUMPING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT NOW
- SO - YEAH, I'M JUST THINKING
00:34:18.70\00:34:25.40
ABOUT TIMING THIS.
YEAH, LET'S DO THIS NOW.
00:34:25.40\00:34:28.10
SO JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR, THE
OLD COVENANT - TELL YOU WHAT,
00:34:28.10\00:34:32.36
TURN IN YOUR BIBLES -
LET'S JUST READ THIS FIRST.
00:34:32.36\00:34:34.60
TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO
DEUTERONOMY - I JUST WANT YOU TO
00:34:34.60\00:34:37.20
READ IT FOR YOURSELF - AND THOSE
WHO ARE WATCHING, DEUTERONOMY
00:34:37.20\00:34:40.26
CHAPTER 4 AND WE'LL GO TO VERSE
13 - I CAN GO TO VERSE 12 -
00:34:40.26\00:34:50.50
DEUTERONOMY 4, VERSE 12, "AND
THE LORD SPOKE TO YOU OUT OF THE
00:34:50.50\00:34:55.33
MIDST OF THE FIRE.
YOU HEARD THE SOUND OF THE
00:34:55.33\00:34:58.06
WORDS, BUT SAW NO FORM;
YOU ONLY HEARD A VOICE." -
00:34:58.06\00:35:01.66
GOD IS REMINDING
THEM, 'DON'T MAKE AN IDOL.
00:35:01.66\00:35:03.03
YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING.' SO
HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS COVENANT
00:35:03.03\00:35:06.80
WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO
PERFORM, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS;
00:35:06.80\00:35:09.93
AND HE WROTE THEM ON
TWO TABLETS OF STONE.
00:35:09.93\00:35:12.53
AND THE LORD COMMANDED ME AT
THAT TIME TO TEACH YOU STATUES
00:35:12.53\00:35:15.86
AND JUDGMENTS, THAT YOU
MIGHT OBSERVE THEM IN THE LAND
00:35:15.86\00:35:18.33
WHICH YOU CROSS
OVER TO POSSESS."
00:35:18.33\00:35:20.03
AND SO THERE'S A DISTINCTION
HERE BETWEEN THE LAWS THAT GOD
00:35:20.03\00:35:23.13
SPOKE AND WROTE AND THE LAWS
- THE CEREMONIAL LAWS - THAT GOD
00:35:23.13\00:35:27.06
GAVE MOSES THAT
MOSES SPOKE AND WROTE.
00:35:27.06\00:35:29.43
NOW, ARE THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS THE OLD COVENANT?
00:35:29.43\00:35:34.96
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THEMSELVES
ARE NOT THE PART OF THE OLD
00:35:34.96\00:35:39.56
COVENANT THAT HAS
BEEN DONE AWAY WITH.
00:35:39.56\00:35:42.10
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
PEOPLE SAY, 'DON'T BE TALKING
00:35:42.10\00:35:45.36
ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
THAT'S THE OLD COVENANT.
00:35:45.36\00:35:48.33
WE'RE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT NOW
WHICH IS JUST TWO COMMANDMENTS:
00:35:48.33\00:35:51.23
LOVE THE LORD AND LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT?
00:35:51.23\00:35:54.66
JESUS GAVE US A NEW
COMMANDMENT, 'LOVE THE LORD AND
00:35:54.66\00:35:56.36
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR'.
00:35:56.36\00:35:57.70
THAT'S THE NEW COVENANT, THE OLD
COVENANT IS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
00:35:57.70\00:36:00.26
- NOW WE JUST HAVE TWO.' WHEN
JESUS SAID, 'LOVE THE LORD YOUR
00:36:00.26\00:36:04.16
GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, MIND,
SOUL AND STRENGTH, WHERE'D HE
00:36:04.16\00:36:07.33
GET THAT IDEA?
HE'S QUOTING MOSES.
00:36:07.33\00:36:10.66
HE'S QUOTING DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER
6. AND WHEN JESUS SAID YOU
00:36:10.66\00:36:14.83
SHOULD LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF,
00:36:14.83\00:36:16.36
WHAT'S HE QUOTING? HE'S QUOTING
MOSES. IS THAT REALLY NEW?
00:36:16.36\00:36:21.70
DIDN'T EVERY JEW KNOW
THOSE TWO COMMANDMENTS?
00:36:21.70\00:36:24.93
SO BOTH THE WORDING OF THE OLD
TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THOSE OTHER
00:36:24.93\00:36:29.36
LAWS JESUS GAVE
ARE ALL OLD TESTAMENT.
00:36:29.36\00:36:32.26
THE DIFFERENCE WAS NOT THE
CONTENT, BUT WHAT IT IS WRITTEN
00:36:32.26\00:36:38.20
ON - IT'S THE PROMISES. NOW LET
ME ILLUSTRATE THAT TO YOU. GO IN
00:36:38.20\00:36:43.20
- I'M JUMPING AROUND A LITTLE
BIT, BUT I'LL GET BACK TO IT.
00:36:43.20\00:36:46.56
GO WITH ME, PLEASE TO HEBREWS
CHAPTER 6 - NO HEBREWS 8 AND
00:36:46.56\00:36:51.60
VERSE 6 - HEBREWS 8, VERSE 6 -
WE JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS
00:36:51.60\00:36:55.16
BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE
PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, YOU ADVENTISTS,
00:36:55.16\00:36:57.70
YOU'RE TEACHING
PEOPLE TO KEEP THE SABBATH -
00:36:57.70\00:36:59.33
THAT'S THE OLD COVENANT.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE THE OLD
00:36:59.33\00:37:01.53
COVENANT.' HAVE YOU
HEARD THAT? IT'S NOT TRUE.
00:37:01.53\00:37:06.30
THE PROBLEM WITH THE
OLD COVENANT WAS NOT THE TEN
00:37:06.30\00:37:09.20
COMMANDMENTS, THE PROBLEM
WITH THE OLD COVENANT WAS THE
00:37:09.20\00:37:11.40
PROMISES OF THE PEOPLE.
00:37:11.40\00:37:14.03
LET ME READ IT TO YOU - HEBREWS
8, VERSE 6, "BUT NOW HE HAS
00:37:14.03\00:37:18.36
OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT
MINISTRY, INASMUCH AS HE IS ALSO
00:37:18.36\00:37:22.00
MEDIATOR OF A BETTER COVENANT,"
- NOW WHAT IS A COVENANT?
00:37:22.00\00:37:27.20
A PROMISE OR AGREEMENT - SO, IF
YOU'VE GOT A HOUSE AND I WANT TO
00:37:27.20\00:37:33.26
BUY THE HOUSE, THE WAY IT WOULD
WORK IS YOU AND I WOULD TALK
00:37:33.26\00:37:36.46
FIRST AND WE WOULD NEGOTIATE
AND I'D SAY, 'I'LL GIVE YOU A
00:37:36.46\00:37:39.93
HUNDRED THOUSAND.' AND
YOU'D SAY, 'NO, I'VE GOT TO
00:37:39.93\00:37:41.60
HAVE A HUNDRED AND TEN.' AND
I'D SAY, 'NO, I WANT A HUNDRED
00:37:41.60\00:37:43.36
AND FIVE.' YOU'D SAY, 'OKAY,
AGREED.' NOW THAT WE'VE GOT THE
00:37:43.36\00:37:45.86
VERBAL AGREEMENT
WE'LL WRITE IT DOWN, RIGHT?
00:37:45.86\00:37:49.13
THEN YOU DO A CONTRACT.
YOU GET A COPY, I GET A COPY.
00:37:49.13\00:37:52.20
FIRST IT'S SPOKEN
THEN IT'S WRITTEN.
00:37:52.20\00:37:54.13
YOU CAN GO THROUGH A LOT OF
WRITING REVISIONS IF YOU DO THE
00:37:54.13\00:37:56.43
WRITING FIRST. SO YOU
SPEAK IT. DOES GOD SPEAK THE TEN
00:37:56.43\00:38:01.26
COMMANDMENTS IN EXODUS CHAPTER
20 AND THEN LATER HE WRITES THEM
00:38:01.26\00:38:04.96
DOWN? AND SO
THERE WAS THE AGREEMENT.
00:38:04.96\00:38:09.00
IS THE HOUSE - LET'S SUPPOSE
WE AGREE TO BUY THE HOUSE AND WE
00:38:09.00\00:38:12.60
WRITE UP A CONTRACT - WE BOTH
MAKE PROMISES THAT I'M GOING TO
00:38:12.60\00:38:14.73
PAY YOU SO MUCH BY A CERTAIN
DATE AND I CAN'T MOVE IN UNTIL
00:38:14.73\00:38:17.83
THESE THINGS ARE DONE AND WE'VE
GOT TERMS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
00:38:17.83\00:38:20.66
SO NOW WE'VE GOT
A COVENANT, RIGHT?
00:38:20.66\00:38:23.86
WE'VE MADE AN AGREEMENT. WE BOTH
SIGN IT. WE HAVE A COVENANT -
00:38:23.86\00:38:25.70
AN AGREEMENT. THAT'S WHAT IT IS
- PROMISES - MUTUAL PROMISES -
00:38:25.70\00:38:28.46
EXPECTATIONS - I'LL
DO THIS AND YOU DO THIS.
00:38:28.46\00:38:31.60
I'LL PAY YOU AND YOU
MOVE OUT AND I MOVE IN.
00:38:31.60\00:38:35.36
IS THE HOUSE THE COVENANT?
THE HOUSE IS NOT THE COVENANT.
00:38:35.36\00:38:40.20
THE HOUSE MAY BE WHAT
THE COVENANT IS BUILT AROUND.
00:38:40.20\00:38:43.76
THE COVENANT IS
THE PROMISES, RIGHT?
00:38:43.76\00:38:47.40
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
ARE NOT THE COVENANT.
00:38:47.40\00:38:49.46
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE WHAT
THE COVENANT IS BUILT AROUND.
00:38:49.46\00:38:52.33
NOTICE, HE IS THE MEDIATOR OF A
BETTER COVENANT, ESTABLISHED ON
00:38:52.33\00:38:56.90
BETTER PROMISES.
NOW, IN ORDER FOR THE NEW
00:38:56.90\00:39:00.26
COVENANT TO BE - HAVE BETTER
PROMISES, WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF
00:39:00.26\00:39:04.56
YOU SAY THESE
ARE BETTER PROMISES?
00:39:04.56\00:39:06.16
ISN'T THAT A COMPARATIVE TERM
THAT MEANS SOMEWHERE THERE ARE
00:39:06.16\00:39:08.56
POORER PROMISES? WAS
THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH
00:39:08.56\00:39:12.40
GOD'S PROMISE IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:39:12.40\00:39:16.00
DOES GOD EVER DO ANYTHING WRONG?
WHERE WERE THE BAD PROMISES IN
00:39:16.00\00:39:19.53
THE OLD TESTAMENT? FROM GOD
OR THE PEOPLE? WHEN GOD SPOKE
00:39:19.53\00:39:23.03
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
WHAT DID THE PEOPLE SAY?
00:39:23.03\00:39:25.96
'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE
WILL DO.' THEY MADE A PROMISE.
00:39:25.96\00:39:31.56
HOW LONG AFTER THEY MADE THAT
PROMISE BEFORE IT WAS BROKEN?
00:39:31.56\00:39:36.43
THEIR PROMISES
WERE NOT VERY GOOD.
00:39:36.43\00:39:39.10
IT WAS BASED ON THE PROMISE OF
'WHAT WE WILL DO - ALL THE LORD
00:39:39.10\00:39:42.36
SAID, WE WILL DO.'
THAT WAS THEIR PROMISE.
00:39:42.36\00:39:45.06
AND YOU NOTICE IT SAYS IN - I'M
STILL IN HEBREWS 8, GO TO VERSE
00:39:45.06\00:39:48.43
7, "FOR IF THAT FIRST COVENANT
HAD BEEN FAULTLESS, THEN NO
00:39:48.43\00:39:51.73
PLACE WOULD HAVE
BEEN SOUGHT FOR A SECOND."
00:39:51.73\00:39:53.66
NOW, IS THERE FAULT
WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:39:53.66\00:39:57.33
PAUL SAID THE LAW - ROMANS 7:12,
"THEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY, AND
00:39:57.33\00:40:05.56
THE COMMANDMENT
HOLY AND JUST AND GOOD."
00:40:05.56\00:40:09.63
NOBODY CAN FIND ANY FLAW
WITH ANYTHING THAT GOD MAKES.
00:40:09.63\00:40:14.03
IT WAS THE
PROMISES OF THE PEOPLE.
00:40:14.03\00:40:17.03
IT SAYS, 'FOR THE FIRST
COVENANT, IF IT HAD BEEN
00:40:17.03\00:40:19.26
FAULTLESS, NO PLACE WOULD
HAVE BEEN SOUGHT FOR A SECOND.
00:40:19.26\00:40:22.10
FINDING - HERE'S THE KEY,
VERSE 8 - HEBREWS 8:8, "FINDING
00:40:22.10\00:40:26.06
FAULT WITH THEM," - WHAT WAS THE
PROBLEM WITH THE FIRST COVENANT?
00:40:26.06\00:40:31.26
THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS OR THE PEOPLE?
00:40:31.26\00:40:33.50
WAS IT GOD'S PROMISE OR THEIR
PROMISE? SO WHAT NEEDED TO BE
00:40:33.50\00:40:39.20
CHANGED WAS NOT THE LAW, BECAUSE
THE NEW COVENANT IS WRITING
00:40:39.20\00:40:44.40
THAT SAME LAW IN THE
HEART - IT'S THE SAME LAW.
00:40:44.40\00:40:49.63
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE
ALL ABOUT LOVE - THE FIRST FOUR
00:40:49.63\00:40:52.46
COMMANDMENTS DEAL
WITH OUR LOVE FOR GOD.
00:40:52.46\00:40:53.93
THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS DEAL
WITH OUR LOVE FOR OUR FELLOW
00:40:53.93\00:40:56.36
MAN. THAT MUST BE WRITTEN ON THE
00:40:56.36\00:40:58.06
HEART - WHEN WE LOVE GOD,
WE WILL KEEP THE FIRST FOUR.
00:40:58.06\00:41:00.66
WHEN WE LOVE OUR FELLOW MAN
WE WILL KEEP THE LAST SIX AND SO
00:41:00.66\00:41:03.73
WHAT'S DIFFERENT IS THE FIRST
COVENANT WAS WHAT YOU CALL A
00:41:03.73\00:41:06.83
CONDITIONAL COVENANT - WHERE GOD
SAID, 'I'LL DO THIS IF YOU DO
00:41:06.83\00:41:10.73
THIS.' THEY SAID,
'WE'LL DO IT.' AND THEY DIDN'T.
00:41:10.73\00:41:15.26
THE NEXT COVENANT - THE NEW
COVENANT - WHAT PROMISE IS MADE
00:41:15.26\00:41:20.10
BY PEOPLE IN THE NEW COVENANT?
YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE NEW
00:41:20.10\00:41:25.86
COVENANT? GO WITH
ME - WHERE DO YOU THINK
00:41:25.86\00:41:27.73
YOU FIRST FIND THE NEW COVENANT?
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, OF COURSE.
00:41:27.73\00:41:32.66
JEREMIAH 31 - LET'S LOOK AT THE
NEW COVENANT HERE - VERSE 31 -
00:41:32.66\00:41:41.00
THIS SHOULD BE EASY TO REMEMBER
- JEREMIAH 31:31, "BEHOLD, THE
00:41:41.00\00:41:46.20
DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD,
WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT
00:41:46.20\00:41:49.50
WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND
WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH - NOT
00:41:49.50\00:41:52.53
ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT
I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE
00:41:52.53\00:41:55.50
DAY THAT I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND
TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF
00:41:55.50\00:41:58.03
EGYPT, MY COVENANT
WHICH THEY BROKE, THOUGH I WAS
00:41:58.03\00:42:01.10
A HUSBAND TO
THEM, SAYS THE LORD.
00:42:01.10\00:42:02.83
BUT THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT
I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF
00:42:02.83\00:42:05.50
ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS
THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAW IN
00:42:05.50\00:42:09.00
THEIR MINDS, AND WRITE IT
ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE
00:42:09.00\00:42:11.90
THEIR GOD, AND
THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
00:42:11.90\00:42:13.83
NO MORE SHALL EVERY MAN TEACH
HIS NEIGHBOR, AND EVERY MAN HIS
00:42:13.83\00:42:16.53
BROTHER, SAYING, 'KNOW THE
LORD,' FOR THEY ALL SHALL KNOW
00:42:16.53\00:42:18.33
ME, FROM THE LEAST OF THEM TO
THE GREATEST OF THEM, SAYS THE
00:42:18.33\00:42:21.16
LORD. FOR I WILL FORGIVE THEIR
INIQUITY, AND THEIR SIN I WILL
00:42:21.16\00:42:23.66
REMEMBER NO MORE." NOW
WHO'S MAKING THE PROMISE IN
00:42:23.66\00:42:28.66
THIS COVENANT -
THE PEOPLE OR GOD?
00:42:28.66\00:42:31.06
IS THIS A CONDITIONAL PROMISE
OR AN UNCONDITIONAL PROMISE?
00:42:31.06\00:42:35.56
IN OTHER WORDS, IS GOD SAYING
'I'LL DO THIS IF YOU DO THIS'?
00:42:35.56\00:42:38.96
THERE IS NOWHERE IN HERE WHERE
GOD SAYS, 'IF YOU DO THIS, I'LL
00:42:38.96\00:42:42.90
MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH YOU.
THE NEW COVENANT IS BASED UPON
00:42:42.90\00:42:46.46
WHAT CHRIST DID. IT'S
BASED UPON BETTER PROMISES.
00:42:46.46\00:42:50.46
IT'S NOT THE PROMISES OF
THE PEOPLE, IT'S BASED ON THE
00:42:50.46\00:42:53.06
PROMISES OF GOD TO
WRITE THAT SAME LAW -
00:42:53.06\00:42:56.16
EXCEPT WRITE IT NOW
WHERE? IN OUR HEARTS.
00:42:56.16\00:43:00.16
AND SO THE IDEA THAT THE NEW
COVENANT IS TO OBLITERATE OR DO
00:43:00.16\00:43:03.93
AWAY WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
YOU CAN'T SUPPORT THAT FROM THE
00:43:03.93\00:43:06.90
BIBLE - THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S
TEACHING. THE NEW COVENANT IS,
00:43:06.90\00:43:10.60
THROUGH THE LOVE OF CHRIST,
HIS LAW IS WRITTEN IN OUR HEART.
00:43:10.60\00:43:13.83
NOW, HERE'S ANOTHER VERY
IMPORTANT THING: OLD COVENANT -
00:43:13.83\00:43:17.46
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THIS - OLD
COVENANT IS MADE WITH THE JEWS.
00:43:17.46\00:43:22.66
THE NEW COVENANT IS
MADE WITH WHO? GENTILES?
00:43:22.66\00:43:27.00
LET'S READ IT - IT SAYS, 'I'LL
MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE
00:43:27.00\00:43:32.83
HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF
JUDAH' AND IF YOU GO TO HEBREWS
00:43:32.83\00:43:36.76
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHEN IT
QUOTES IT - HEBREWS 8, VERSE 8 -
00:43:36.76\00:43:39.46
IT SAYS THE SAME THING, 'I WILL
MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE
00:43:39.46\00:43:42.23
HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE
OF JUDAH. SO HOW IN THE WORLD
00:43:42.23\00:43:45.36
CAN ANY GENTILE BE SAVED
THROUGH THE NEW COVENANT?
00:43:45.36\00:43:49.66
PAUL MAKES IT VERY CLEAR - THE
APOSTLES MADE IT VERY CLEAR -
00:43:49.66\00:43:53.53
WE ARE GRAFTED
IN. WE ARE ADOPTED.
00:43:53.53\00:43:56.53
WE RECEIVE CIRCUMCISION
IN THE HEART. IF YOU ARE -
00:43:56.53\00:44:03.46
IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S THEN YOU ARE
ABRAHAM'S SEED. 'HE IS NOT A JEW
00:44:03.46\00:44:06.40
WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY,
HE IS A JEW WHICH IS' - WHAT?
00:44:06.40\00:44:09.50
'ONE INWARDLY' - AND
SO WE BECOME ADOPTED IN.
00:44:09.50\00:44:12.50
NOW GOD STILL HAS A WORK FOR THE
JEWISH PEOPLE - I DON'T WANT TO
00:44:12.50\00:44:14.83
MAKE IT SOUND LIKE THEY
DON'T EXIST ANYMORE, BUT THE NEW
00:44:14.83\00:44:18.00
COVENANT IS NOT GIVEN TO LITERAL
JEWS, IT'S GIVEN TO SPIRITUAL
00:44:18.00\00:44:23.30
JEWS, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE
LITERAL JEWS BECAUSE IT'S
00:44:23.30\00:44:26.06
WHOSOEVER WILL. YOU SEE WHAT I'M
SAYING? BUT IF YOU THINK THAT
00:44:26.06\00:44:31.10
THE NEW COVENANT IS ONLY FOR
LITERAL JEWS, A LOT OF US HERE
00:44:31.10\00:44:34.86
ARE IN TROUBLE. SO
HOW DO YOU RESOLVE THAT?
00:44:34.86\00:44:37.96
THAT'S WHY PAUL SAYS, 'ALL OF
ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED.' BECAUSE
00:44:37.96\00:44:42.20
GOD HAS MADE AN UNCONDITIONAL
PROMISE THAT HE WILL SAVE ALL OF
00:44:42.20\00:44:46.93
HIS CHILDREN THAT COME TO HIM
IN FAITH - THAT WHOSOEVER WILL -
00:44:46.93\00:44:52.50
WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM WILL
NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING
00:44:52.50\00:44:54.86
LIFE. IS IT BASED ON
OUR PROMISES OR HIS PROMISE?
00:44:54.86\00:44:58.53
NOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF PROMISES
AND COVENANTS IN THE BIBLE THAT
00:44:58.53\00:45:02.10
WERE CONDITIONAL. LET ME
GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF THAT.
00:45:02.10\00:45:05.23
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME -
WHO HAS LEVITICUS 26, VERSE 3?
00:45:05.23\00:45:09.90
IF YOU'VE GOT
THAT, HOLD UP YOUR HAND.
00:45:09.90\00:45:11.73
DID WE GIVE THAT TO
SOMEBODY? DID I SEE A HAND?
00:45:11.73\00:45:15.60
OH, IT'S WAY BACK HERE. DO YOU
HAVE IT? ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO
00:45:15.60\00:45:17.83
GET YOU A MICROPHONE AND WE'LL
GET TO YOU IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:45:17.83\00:45:21.40
LET ME - I'LL READ TO YOU FOR
INSTANCE, DEUTERONOMY 11 - I'M
00:45:21.40\00:45:24.96
JUST GOING TO JUMP AROUND
A LITTLE BIT AND SHOW YOU THE
00:45:24.96\00:45:26.53
DIFFERENCE IN THE DIFFERENT
KINDS OF COVENANTS - DEUTERONOMY
00:45:26.53\00:45:29.90
11:22, "FOR IF YOU CAREFULLY
KEEP ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS
00:45:29.90\00:45:35.73
WHICH I COMMAND YOU TO DO - TO
LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD, TO WALK
00:45:35.73\00:45:38.70
IN ALL HIS WAYS, AND TO HOLD
FAST TO HIM - THEN THE LORD WILL
00:45:38.70\00:45:42.70
DRIVE OUT ALL THESE NATIONS
FROM BEFORE YOU AND YOU WILL
00:45:42.70\00:45:46.63
DISPOSSESS GREATER
AND MIGHTIER NATIONS THAN
00:45:46.63\00:45:48.66
YOURSELVES...BEHOLD, I SET
BEFORE YOU TODAY A BLESSING AND
00:45:48.66\00:45:52.06
A CURSE: THE BLESSING, IF
YOU OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE
00:45:52.06\00:45:55.56
LORD YOUR GOD WHICH I COMMAND
YOU TODAY; AND THE CURSE, IF YOU
00:45:55.56\00:45:57.96
DO NOT OBEY." SO IS
THIS AN UNCONDITIONAL OR A
00:45:57.96\00:46:01.23
CONDITIONAL PROMISE?
CONDITIONAL. ARE WE READY?
00:46:01.23\00:46:06.33
GO AHEAD, LET'S READ
LEVITICUS 26:3 AND 4.
00:46:06.33\00:46:10.16
>>IF YOU WALK IN MY STATUTES
AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND
00:46:10.16\00:46:14.03
PERFORM THEM, THEN I WILL GIVE
YOU RAIN IN ITS SEASON, THE LAND
00:46:14.03\00:46:18.06
SHALL YIELD ITS PRODUCE, AND THE
TREES OF THE FIELD SHALL YIELD
00:46:18.06\00:46:21.83
THEIR FRUIT."
00:46:21.83\00:46:23.26
>>CONDITIONAL OR UNCONDITIONAL?
00:46:23.26\00:46:25.33
BY THE WAY, ONE REASON I'M
READING THESE - DO SOME OF GOD'S
00:46:25.33\00:46:29.56
CONDITIONAL
PROMISES STILL APPLY?
00:46:29.56\00:46:32.70
WHEN GOD SAID, 'PROVE ME NOW
HEREWITH,' SAYS THE LORD, 'BRING
00:46:32.70\00:46:38.03
ALL THE TITHES INTO THE
STOREHOUSE AND SEE IF I DON'T
00:46:38.03\00:46:41.23
OPEN FOR YOU THE WINDOWS OF
HEAVEN AND POUR OUT A BLESSING
00:46:41.23\00:46:43.73
THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ROOM
ENOUGH TO RECEIVE IT.' IS THAT
00:46:43.73\00:46:46.80
AN UNCONDITIONAL OR
A CONDITIONAL COVENANT?
00:46:46.80\00:46:50.10
IT'S CONDITIONAL,
BUT DOES IT STILL EXIST?
00:46:50.10\00:46:53.56
DOES GOD STILL
INVITE US TO TEST HIM?
00:46:53.56\00:46:54.73
DOES HE STILL BLESS
THOSE THAT OBEY HIM?
00:46:54.73\00:46:56.53
I MEAN, DOES THE BIBLE SAY IT'LL
BE WELL WITH THOSE THAT SERVE
00:46:56.53\00:46:59.10
THE LORD? AND SO,
YEAH, THERE'S A LOT OF
00:46:59.10\00:47:02.16
EXAMPLES NEW AND OLD TESTAMENT
WHERE GOD TALKS ABOUT HIS
00:47:02.16\00:47:05.90
CONDITIONAL COVENANTS -
THERE ARE CONDITIONAL PROMISES.
00:47:05.90\00:47:09.00
AND THEN IF YOU GO TO
DEUTERONOMY - HERE'S ANOTHER ONE
00:47:09.00\00:47:13.56
- DEUTERONOMY 28, VERSE 9, "THE
LORD WILL ESTABLISH YOU AS A
00:47:13.56\00:47:18.06
HOLY PEOPLE TO HIMSELF, JUST AS
HE HAS SWORN TO YOU, IF YOU KEEP
00:47:18.06\00:47:21.56
THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD
YOUR GOD AND WALK IN HIS WAYS.
00:47:21.56\00:47:24.00
THEN ALL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH
SHALL SEE THAT YOU ARE CALLED BY
00:47:24.00\00:47:27.30
THE NAME OF THE LORD, AND
THEY SHALL BE AFRAID OF YOU.
00:47:27.30\00:47:29.66
AND THE LORD WILL GRANT YOU
PLENTY OF GOODS, IN THE FRUIT OF
00:47:29.66\00:47:32.33
YOUR BODY, IN THE INCREASE
OF YOUR LIVESTOCK, AND IN THE
00:47:32.33\00:47:34.93
PRODUCE OF YOUR GROUND, IN THE
LAND OF WHICH THE LORD SWORE TO
00:47:34.93\00:47:37.63
YOUR FATHERS TO GIVE YOU."
GO TO DEUTERONOMY 30, VERSE 8,
00:47:37.63\00:47:41.40
"AND YOU WILL AGAIN OBEY THE
VOICE OF THE LORD AND DO ALL HIS
00:47:41.40\00:47:44.20
COMMANDMENTS WHICH
I COMMAND YOU TODAY.
00:47:44.20\00:47:46.20
THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL MAKE YOU
ABOUND IN ALL THE WORK OF YOUR
00:47:46.20\00:47:49.20
HAND, IN THE FRUIT OF YOUR
BODY, IN THE INCREASE OF YOUR
00:47:49.20\00:47:51.60
LIVESTOCK...FOR THE LORD WILL
AGAIN REJOICE OVER YOU FOR GOOD
00:47:51.60\00:47:54.60
AS HE REJOICED OVER YOUR
FATHERS, IF YOU OBEY THE VOICE
00:47:54.60\00:47:58.10
OF THE LORD YOUR GOD."
NOW YOU'LL GO TO THE ONE -
00:47:58.10\00:48:01.00
SOMEONE HAS 1 KINGS 3:14
- WHO HAS THAT? OVER HERE?
00:48:01.00\00:48:06.00
WE'RE GOING TO
GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:48:06.00\00:48:08.03
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF
A CONDITIONAL PROMISE.
00:48:08.03\00:48:10.63
1 JAMES - AND SOMEBODY ELSE, I
THINK, HAS GOT DEUTERONOMY 29:1
00:48:10.63\00:48:14.46
- DID WE GIVE
THAT OUT TO SOMEBODY?
00:48:14.46\00:48:18.43
I DON'T SEE A HAND SO
I'M GOING TO READ IT, OKAY?
00:48:18.43\00:48:20.76
DEUTERONOMY 29:1, "THESE ARE THE
WORDS OF THE COVENANT WHICH THE
00:48:20.76\00:48:25.56
LORD COMMANDED MOSES TO MAKE
WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN
00:48:25.56\00:48:29.53
THE LAND OF MOAB, BESIDES THE
COVENANT WHICH HE MADE WITH THEM
00:48:29.53\00:48:34.33
IN HOREB." NOW
HERE'S TWO MOUNTAINS - HOREB
00:48:34.33\00:48:37.33
AND MOAB - WHAT SEPARATES
THESE TWO MOUNTAINS? WHO KNOWS?
00:48:37.33\00:48:43.30
FORTY YEARS
SEPARATES THOSE TWO MOUNTAINS.
00:48:43.30\00:48:47.20
WHEN THEY FIRST CAME OUT OF
EGYPT THEY WENT TO MOUNT HOREB -
00:48:47.20\00:48:50.56
MOUNT HOREB AND MOUNT SINAI ARE
THE SAME MOUNTAIN - AND SO HE
00:48:50.56\00:48:56.96
GIVES THEM THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT?
00:48:56.96\00:48:59.16
YOU CAN SEE IN MALACHI CHAPTER
4, IT SAYS, 'MOSES GAVE YOU THE
00:48:59.16\00:49:02.56
TEN COMMANDMENTS IN HOREB.' IT'S
MOUNT SINAI - SAME MOUNTAIN.
00:49:02.56\00:49:06.10
MOAB IS THE MOUNTAIN WHERE
MOSES DIED FORTY YEARS LATER.
00:49:06.10\00:49:11.46
AND SO YOU'VE GOT THESE
TWO MOUNTAINS AND THE BOOK
00:49:11.46\00:49:14.80
DEUTERONOMY MEANS 'A
REPEATING OF THE COVENANT'.
00:49:14.80\00:49:18.16
GOD REPEATS HIS PROMISES AND HIS
COVENANT TO THE PEOPLE THERE IN
00:49:18.16\00:49:20.96
THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY.
ALRIGHT, READ FOR US 1 KINGS 3 -
00:49:20.96\00:49:25.10
WHO HAS THAT? 1 KINGS
3, VERSE 14. GO AHEAD.
00:49:25.10\00:49:30.66
>>SO IF YOU WALK IN MY
WAYS, TO KEEP MY STATUTES AND MY
00:49:30.66\00:49:35.23
COMMANDMENTS, AS
YOUR FATHER DAVID WALKED,
00:49:35.23\00:49:37.83
THEN I WILL LENGTHEN YOUR DAYS."
00:49:37.83\00:49:39.86
>>ALRIGHT, SO
CONDITIONAL OR UNCONDITIONAL?
00:49:39.86\00:49:44.03
CONDITIONAL PROMISE.
00:49:44.03\00:49:45.93
YOU KNOW, GOD IS GOOD AND
HE HAS SHOWN A LOT OF MERCY.
00:49:45.93\00:49:49.50
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I
WANTED TO GET TO BEFORE OUR TIME
00:49:49.50\00:49:52.76
RUNS OUT - IN LIGHT OF WHAT WE
SAID ABOUT THE TWO COVENANTS A
00:49:52.76\00:49:56.43
MINUTE AGO, TURN IN
YOUR BIBLES TO GALATIANS 4 -
00:49:56.43\00:49:59.60
YOU'RE GOING TO RUN INTO THIS.
GALATIANS 4, VERSE 22 - IT MAKES
00:49:59.60\00:50:04.80
THE COMPARISON BETWEEN HAGAR
AND SARAH - ISAAC AND ISHMAEL -
00:50:04.80\00:50:11.46
GALATIANS 4:22, "FOR IT IS
WRITTEN THAT ABRAHAM HAD TWO
00:50:11.46\00:50:16.30
SONS: THE ONE BY A BONDWOMAN,
THE OTHER BY A FREEWOMAN.
00:50:16.30\00:50:20.86
BUT HE WHO WAS OF THE BONDWOMAN
WAS BORN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH,
00:50:20.86\00:50:24.46
AND HE OF THE
FREEWOMAN THROUGH PROMISE."
00:50:24.46\00:50:28.30
ALRIGHT, WHO WAS THE BONDWOMAN?
HAGAR. AND THE FREEWOMAN IS?
00:50:28.30\00:50:31.90
SARAH. HAGAR WAS SARAH'S SLAVE.
NOW WHY IS PAUL SAYING THAT
00:50:31.90\00:50:37.50
HAGAR WAS OF THE FLESH
AND SARAH WAS OF FAITH?
00:50:37.50\00:50:42.13
BECAUSE GOD HAD MADE A PROMISE
TO ABRAHAM THAT 'THROUGH YOUR
00:50:42.13\00:50:45.70
SON WITH SARAH, ALL THE NATIONS
OF THE WORLD WOULD BE BLESSED.'
00:50:45.70\00:50:49.66
AND SARAH GOT OLD, SHE COULDN'T
HAVE CHILDREN ANYMORE, AND THEY
00:50:49.66\00:50:52.56
THOUGHT, 'WE'LL HELP GOD OUT.'
AND THEY TRIED TO USE EARTHLY
00:50:52.56\00:50:56.23
MEANS - FLESHLY MEANS - CARNAL
MEANS - TO ACCOMPLISH GOD'S
00:50:56.23\00:50:59.93
PROMISE. YEAH, THEY HAD A SON,
BUT IT WAS - YOU COULD SAY IT
00:50:59.93\00:51:03.56
WAS RIGHTEOUSNESS BY WORKS.
HE WAS NOT THE SON OF PROMISE.
00:51:03.56\00:51:07.76
IT WAS MAN'S ATTEMPT TO FORCE
GOD'S PROMISES AND THAT'S KIND
00:51:07.76\00:51:12.03
OF LIKE SAVING
OURSELVES BY OUR OWN WORKS.
00:51:12.03\00:51:15.23
AND HE SAYS THEN, IN VERSE
24, "WHICH THINGS ARE SYMBOLIC.
00:51:15.23\00:51:21.10
FOR THESE ARE THE TWO COVENANTS:
THE ONE FROM MOUNT SINAI WHICH
00:51:21.10\00:51:25.50
GIVES BIRTH TO BONDAGE, WHICH IS
HAGAR - FOR THIS HAGAR IS MOUNT
00:51:25.50\00:51:29.83
SINAI" - MADE ON FAULTY PROMISES
- NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - "IN
00:51:29.83\00:51:34.73
ARABIA, AND CORRESPONDS TO
JERUSALEM WHICH NOW IS, AND IS
00:51:34.73\00:51:39.03
IN BONDAGE WITH HER CHILDREN."
- THE PROMISE THAT THE CHILDREN
00:51:39.03\00:51:42.06
OF ISRAEL MADE AT
MOUNT SINAI, 'WE WILL DO IT.
00:51:42.06\00:51:44.13
WE'RE GOING TO DO IT BY
OUR WORKS.' - THAT WAS THE SAME
00:51:44.13\00:51:46.93
PROMISE THEY WERE MAKING IN
JERUSALEM IN THE TIME OF PAUL.
00:51:46.93\00:51:49.63
THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES -
THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES - IT
00:51:49.63\00:51:52.73
WAS ALL ABOUT WORKS AND HE
SAID, 'IT CORRESPONDS TO OLD
00:51:52.73\00:51:55.26
JERUSALEM.' BUT THEN PAUL GOES
ON AND SAYS, "...IN BONDAGE WITH
00:51:55.26\00:52:00.23
HER CHILDREN - BUT THE JERUSALEM
ABOVE" - THE NEW JERUSALEM - "IS
00:52:00.23\00:52:03.40
FREE, WHICH IS THE MOTHER OF
US ALL." IT'S BY LOOKING UP -
00:52:03.40\00:52:07.43
IT'S THROUGH FAITH. AND WHERE IS
CHRIST NOW? IS HE BELOW OR IS HE
00:52:07.43\00:52:11.63
IN THE NEW JERUSALEM
ABOVE - IN THE TEMPLE ABOVE?
00:52:11.63\00:52:14.20
AND SO PAUL IS JUST MAKING A
COMPARISON BETWEEN - YOU'VE GOT
00:52:14.20\00:52:17.00
ONE THAT IS THROUGH WORKS AND
YOU'VE GOT ONE THAT IS THROUGH
00:52:17.00\00:52:19.53
FAITH. AND SO,
THAT'S ALL HE'S SAYING.
00:52:19.53\00:52:22.30
HE'S NOT SAYING WHAT
HAPPENED AT MOUNT SINAI WAS BAD.
00:52:22.30\00:52:27.83
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
BENEFITS OF THE COVENANT?
00:52:27.83\00:52:32.80
IT SAYS HERE IN EPHESIANS
2, VERSE 6, "AND RAISED US UP
00:52:32.80\00:52:37.00
TOGETHER, AND MADE US SIT
TOGETHER IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES
00:52:37.00\00:52:40.20
IN CHRIST JESUS." SO
LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ -
00:52:40.20\00:52:43.23
WHEN DOES JESUS
ESTABLISH THE NEW COVENANT?
00:52:43.23\00:52:46.16
MARK 14 - YOU GOT YOUR BIBLES?
00:52:46.16\00:52:48.66
IF YOU'RE MAKING NOTES -
AND I'LL HAVE MY NOTES ONLINE IF
00:52:48.66\00:52:52.10
ANYONE WANTS THEM - MATTHEW
26:26, LUKE 22:17, 1 CORINTHIANS
00:52:52.10\00:53:00.46
11:23 - THESE ARE PLACES
WHERE, AT THE LAST SUPPER, GOD
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INSTITUTES A SIGN - A
TOKEN - OF THE NEW COVENANT.
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AND WHAT DO WE DO IN THE CHURCH,
TYPICALLY ONCE A QUARTER?
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WHAT DO WE DO TO REMEMBER
THE TOKEN OF THE NEW COVENANT?
00:53:13.10\00:53:18.06
IT'S THE
COMMUNION SERVICE, RIGHT.
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MARK 14:22, "AND AS THEY
WERE EATING, JESUS TOOK BREAD,
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BLESSED AND BROKE IT, AND GAVE
IT TO THEM AND SAID, 'TAKE, EAT;
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THIS IS MY BODY.' THEN HE TOOK
THE CUP, AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN
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THANKS HE GAVE IT TO THEM,
AND THEY ALL DRANK FROM IT.
00:53:31.46\00:53:36.40
AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'THIS IS
MY BLOOD OF THE NEW COVENANT."
00:53:36.40\00:53:40.50
OLD COVENANT WHAT BLOOD WAS IT?
00:53:40.50\00:53:43.30
BLOOD OF GOATS AND
ANIMALS - IT WAS ALL A SYMBOL.
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NEW COVENANT - IT'S THE BLOOD OF
JESUS, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY.
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'ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU I'LL NO
LONGER DRINK OF THE FRUIT OF THE
00:53:51.66\00:53:54.06
VINE UNTIL THAT DAY I DRINK IT
NEW' - IT'S UNFERMENTED - 'WITH
00:53:54.06\00:53:58.16
YOU IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.'
AND SO, HERE JESUS, ON THURSDAY
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NIGHT, HE
ESTABLISHES THE NEW COVENANT.
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OLD COVENANT, YOU
HAD THE EARTHLY TEMPLE.
00:54:05.06\00:54:07.96
WHAT HAPPENED, WHEN JESUS DIED
ON THE CROSS, IN THE TEMPLE?
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THE VEIL WAS RIPPED.
IS THERE A NEW TEMPLE NOW?
00:54:12.03\00:54:16.73
'WHAT,KNOW YE NOT THAT
YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?'
00:54:16.73\00:54:19.36
YOU'RE LIVING STONES - CHRIST
WAS A CORNERSTONE. JESUS SAID,
00:54:19.36\00:54:23.60
'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH
HANDS AND IN THREE DAYS I'LL
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MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.
BY THE WAY, THAT WAS THE ONLY
00:54:25.83\00:54:28.33
TESTIMONY THEY COULD GET THE TWO
PEOPLE TO AGREE ON AT HIS TRIAL.
00:54:28.33\00:54:33.16
THEY ACTUALLY MISQUOTED IT A
LITTLE BIT, BUT JESUS DID SAY IN
00:54:33.16\00:54:36.56
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, 'DESTROY
THIS TEMPLE AND IN THREE DAYS
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I'LL RAISE IT UP' -
AND HE SPOKE OF HIS BODY.
00:54:38.83\00:54:41.30
YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST.
WE ARE NOW A LIVING TEMPLE.
00:54:41.30\00:54:44.43
OLD TEMPLE - VEIL
RIPPED. WHAT ABOUT PRIESTHOOD?
00:54:44.43\00:54:47.33
SAME PRIESTHOOD? NEW
COVENANT, NEW PRIESTHOOD.
00:54:47.33\00:54:50.40
WHAT HAPPENED, AT
THE TRIAL OF CHRIST,
00:54:50.40\00:54:52.40
TO THE HIGH PRIEST'S GARMENTS?
00:54:52.40\00:54:54.00
HE TORE THEM - BECAUSE WE'RE NOT
UNDER THAT PRIESTHOOD ANYMORE.
00:54:54.00\00:54:59.10
NOW THE BIBLE SAYS WE ARE A
HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE.
00:54:59.10\00:55:03.50
WE ARE A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD WITH THE LORD.
00:55:03.50\00:55:07.76
AND SO YOU'VE GOT A NEW
TEMPLE, A NEW PRIESTHOOD, NEW
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SACRIFICES, YOU'VE
GOT BETTER PROMISES.
00:55:10.60\00:55:12.93
YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
THE OLD COVENANT AND THE NEW
00:55:12.93\00:55:15.50
COVENANT? AND SO
WE DON'T NEED THE TEN
00:55:15.50\00:55:17.30
COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE, RIGHT?
NO, YOU STILL HAVE THE SANCTUARY
00:55:17.30\00:55:22.90
AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
SANCTUARY WAS THE COVENANT. IT
00:55:22.90\00:55:26.40
WAS THE HOLY OF HOLIES AND THE
LAW WAS WRITTEN THERE AND JESUS
00:55:26.40\00:55:29.60
WROTE THAT WITH HIS FINGER.
WHAT GOD WRITES IS ETERNAL.
00:55:29.60\00:55:32.20
'HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS
AWAY BUT MY WORDS WILL NOT PASS
00:55:32.20\00:55:34.23
AWAY.' AND IT'S
NOW TO BE WRITTEN HERE.
00:55:34.23\00:55:37.80
'THY WORD I'VE HIDDEN IN MY
HEART THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN.' SIN
00:55:37.80\00:55:41.10
IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
SO THE NEW COVENANT IS TO HAVE
00:55:41.10\00:55:45.10
THE LAW WRITTEN
IN THE HEART, RIGHT?
00:55:45.10\00:55:47.83
AND SO JUST - I THOUGHT THIS
WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO KIND OF
00:55:47.83\00:55:51.83
REITERATE THAT. AND
WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME.
00:55:51.83\00:55:54.03
I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO
MAY HAVE JOINED US LATE - IF YOU
00:55:54.03\00:55:56.50
MISSED IT, WE HAVE A REALLY
GOOD BOOK THAT HELPS EXPLAIN THE
00:55:56.50\00:55:59.13
COVENANTS. IT'S FREE. I
HOPE YOU'LL SEND FOR IT.
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WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS AND IT'S
CALLED 'WHY THE OLD COVENANT
00:56:01.60\00:56:04.76
FAILED.' AND WE'LL BE HAPPY
TO SEND YOU THIS BOOK AND THEN
00:56:04.76\00:56:07.30
PLEASE READ IT AND SHARE
IT WITH OTHERS. GOD BLESS YOU.
00:56:07.30\00:56:10.03
WE LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING
TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:56:10.03\00:56:14.50
>>AMAZING FACTS
HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE.
00:56:14.50\00:56:16.90
>>I JUST PRAISE
GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS.
00:56:16.90\00:56:18.46
>>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY
DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE.
00:56:18.46\00:56:21.36
>>IT'S ALL A PROCESS,
GETTING TO WHERE I AM TODAY.
00:56:21.36\00:56:23.30
>>AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN
- >>I FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT -
00:56:23.30\00:56:25.93
>>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE.
00:56:25.93\00:56:28.40
I GOT BAPTIZED INTO
THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST -
00:56:28.40\00:56:31.03
>>I REALIZED THAT
THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE.
00:56:31.03\00:56:33.16
>>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS.
>>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL.
00:56:33.16\00:56:38.40
>> AMAZING FACTS - MORE THAN
45 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING GOD'S
00:56:38.40\00:56:43.90
MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
00:56:43.90\00:56:45.93
>> AND THEN THE LOGO POPS
ACROSS - AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS.
00:56:45.93\00:56:49.80
I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT
OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT
00:56:49.80\00:56:52.16
- THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT
HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING
00:56:52.16\00:56:55.03
WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND
ACTUALLY PICK IT UP - AND I'VE
00:56:55.03\00:56:59.13
NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE LET
ME - LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND
00:56:59.13\00:57:01.90
FIND THIS. I JUST
COULDN'T GET ENOUGH.
00:57:01.90\00:57:03.63
>>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE
STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF
00:57:03.63\00:57:07.06
THESE GUYS STARTED BEING
CHANGED - INCLUDING MYSELF.
00:57:07.06\00:57:10.70
>>MY QUESTION WAS 'WHY
DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?'
00:57:10.70\00:57:14.10
THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT
AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS
00:57:14.10\00:57:17.40
A FATHER.
00:57:17.40\00:57:18.73
>>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT
WAS WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS
00:57:18.73\00:57:22.50
GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE.
00:57:22.50\00:57:24.16
>>I WENT TO A PROPHECY
SEMINAR WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT.
00:57:24.16\00:57:27.73
THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND
SO IRREFUTABLE AND I JUST WENT
00:57:27.73\00:57:31.86
'THIS IS REAL. THIS
IS - THIS IS AMAZING.'
00:57:31.86\00:57:37.36
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:37.36\00:57:41.03
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:41.03\00:57:44.90
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
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