Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021423
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:48 IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US. 00:51 WHETHER YOU ARE LIVE-STREAMING AS WE TAPE TODAY, IF YOU'RE 00:56 JOINING US THROUGH THE RADIO, THROUGH TELEVISION - 01:00 HOWEVER YOU'RE JOINING US, WELCOME. AND WE KNOW THAT 01:03 YOU WILL BE BLESSED AS WE STUDY TOGETHER WITH A GROUP THAT 01:06 MEETS EVERY WEEK FROM ACROSS THE WHOLE PLANET, STUDYING 01:11 GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. WHAT A BLESSING THAT IS. 01:13 WE SING TOGETHER EVERY WEEK THAT WE STUDY TOGETHER AND THIS 01:18 MORNING WE'RE GOING TO BE SINGING 'CHRIST THE LORD IS 01:22 RISEN TODAY' - HYMN #166 - THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM MCDONALD 01:28 IN BARBADOS, WARREN AND NOLA IN AUSTRALIA, RUT IN THE 01:32 NETHERLANDS, AND GISELLE IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA. 01:37 AND I NOTICED ON THE REQUEST LIST THAT THERE WERE MANY, MANY 01:42 FOR THIS SONG ALL ACROSS THE PLANET, SO THIS IS YOUR SONG IF 01:46 I DIDN'T MENTION YOU. HYMN #166 - WE'LL SING ALL FOUR VERSES. 01:52 (MUSIC) 04:50 >>WHAT A BLESSED HOPE THAT WE HAVE IN A RISEN SAVIOR AND 04:54 A COMING KING. AMEN. IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL HYMN YOU'D 05:00 LIKE TO SING WITH US, A FAVORITE HYMN YOU'S LIKE TO SING WITH US, 05:04 OR A NEW HYMN YOU'D LIKE TO SING WITH US, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 05:08 YOU JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 05:11 'CONTACT US' LINK AND THERE YOU CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR 05:14 HYMNAL AND WE'D LOVE TO SING THAT WITH YOU ON A COMING STUDY 05:18 TOGETHER. WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING NEW HYMNS. TODAY'S HYMN IS #105 05:26 - 'SING TO THE GREAT JEHOVAH'S PRAISE' - AND THIS COMES AS A 05:30 REQUEST FROM VENICE IN JAMAICA. SO HYMN #105 - WE'RE GOING TO 05:35 LEARN THIS TOGETHER. WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES. 05:39 (MUSIC) 07:38 >>LET'S PRAY. OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK 07:43 YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE TO COME BEFORE YOU AND 07:46 WORSHIP AT YOUR FEET. WE THANK YOU THAT YOU ARE A GOD 07:49 IN HEAVEN THAT RULES THE WHOLE UNIVERSE - THAT CREATED THE 07:56 WHOLE UNIVERSE - BUT YET YOU TAKE A SPECIAL INTEREST IN EACH 07:59 ONE OF US INDIVIDUALLY AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL. 08:03 BLESS US NOW, LORD, AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD - AS WE HEAR YOUR 08:08 WORDS TO US, HELP US TO LISTEN WITH HEARTS THAT ARE OPEN TO 08:12 YOU. PLEASE CHANGE EACH ONE OF US 08:14 FROM THE INSIDE OUT THAT WE REFLECT YOU. THANK YOU FOR 08:18 PASTOR DOUG AND THE MESSAGE THAT HE BRINGS AND THE INSPIRATION 08:23 THAT HE BRINGS THROUGH YOU TO LEAD HEARTS TO CHRIST. 08:27 WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR NAME JESUS, AMEN. 08:31 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 08:40 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOLYNE AND OUR SINGERS. 08:42 THOSE WERE SOME BEAUTIFUL SONGS. I LIKE THE NEW ONE TOO. 08:47 HOW IS EVERYBODY? HAPPY SABBATH. 08:49 WITH YOUR PERMISSION, BECAUSE THIS IS SABBATH SCHOOL, 08:53 AND SOMETIMES PART OF SABBATH SCHOOL IS A MISSION REPORT, 08:57 I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE MISSION REPORT ON WHERE I'VE 08:59 BEEN IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. 09:02 I COULD NOT SAY TOO MUCH ABOUT IT IN ADVANCE BECAUSE WE WERE 09:07 PLANNING SOME EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS IN CHINA AND THE 09:11 ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE GOVERNMENT THERE - IT'S A VERY DELICATE AND 09:15 TENUOUS PERMISSION THAT YOU NEED. 09:19 ACTUALLY, YOU NEED FOUR DIFFERENT PERMISSIONS. 09:20 BUT THE LORD REALLY BLESSED AND BY GOD'S GRACE WE JUST COMPLETED 09:24 DOING A FULL EVANGELISTIC SERIES - FIFTEEN PRESENTATIONS - IN 09:29 CHINA AND THAT WAS VERY EXCITING. 09:32 MAYBE I'LL START WITH AN AMAZING FACT. 09:35 I THINK WE ALL KNOW THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA IS ONE OF THE 09:36 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - IT'S A WONDER OF THE WORLD 09:39 TODAY. BUT IT WAS THOUGHT, AT ONE TIME, 09:42 THAT IT WAS 1,500 MILES LONG. THEY NOW KNOW, WITH SATELLITE 09:46 IMAGING, THAT THAT WALL ACTUALLY WAS 3,800 MILES WHEN 09:51 YOU INCLUDE THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES THAT WENT OFF IT. 09:53 IT'S INCREDIBLE BECAUSE IT'S - OH, ABOUT THIRTY FEET WIDE AT 09:57 THE BASE, AVERAGES 26 FEET HIGH. CAN YOU IMAGINE BUILDING 10:01 SOMETHING 3,800 MILES LONG? THE IDEA WAS TO KEEP OUT THE 10:06 INVADING NOMADS AND THAT'S WHY THEY DID IT. 10:09 BUT, IN SPITE OF ALL THAT TROUBLE AND ALL THAT WORK THEY 10:12 DID, GENGHIS KHAN, IN 1213, STILL BREACHED THE WALL AND TOOK 10:17 OVER CHINA. AND THE GOOD NEWS IS THERE'S 10:21 ANOTHER WALL THAT'S BEEN COMING DOWN IN CHINA LATELY AND THAT'S 10:24 A WALL THAT'S BEEN PREVENTING A FREE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL. 10:28 YOU KNOW, MAYBE I'LL SHOW YOU ANOTHER PICTURE AND YOU'LL BE 10:30 SURPRISED BY THIS ONE - OH, HERE'S SOME AMAZING FACTS ABOUT 10:35 CHINA: IT'S THE THIRD LARGEST LAND MASS IN THE WORLD. 10:39 I THINK FIRST IS RUSSIA, THEN CANADA, THEN CHINA. 10:42 THE SECOND LARGEST ECONOMY AND IT'S POISED, AT SOME POINT, 10:46 TO TAKE - OVERTAKE THE U.S. IN THAT. 10:48 FIRST LARGEST MILITARY IN MANPOWER - THE U.S. 10:51 HAS THE LARGEST MILITARY WHEN IT COMES TO SPENDING, BY FAR, BUT 10:55 THEY'VE GOT THE LARGEST MANNED MILITARY. 10:58 FIRST LARGEST POPULATION - 1.36 BILLION PEOPLE - AND THAT IS A 11:03 CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE. THAT MEANS APPROXIMATELY 20 11:06 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE CHINESE. 11:09 AND SO, IT'S JUST - WHEN YOU GO THERE AND YOU SEE THE BUILDING 11:12 GOING ON AND YOU SEE ALL THE PEOPLE ON THE STREETS, IT IS 11:14 MIND-BOGGLING. NOW, LET'S SEE IF YOU RECOGNIZE 11:17 THESE TWO PEOPLE. THAT'S KAREN AND I - AND I WANT 11:22 YOU TO NOTICE MY BAGS AND THEN HER BAGS ON THE LEFT. 11:26 NO, ACTUALLY WE WERE GOING INTO RUSSIA. THIS IS 21 YEARS AGO - 11:30 OR A LITTLE MORE THAN THAT - 22 YEARS AGO. 11:33 WE WENT TO RUSSIA RIGHT AFTER THE IRON CURTAIN FELL AND 11:35 COMMUNISM DROPPED ITS BARRIERS TO CHRISTIANITY AND WE WENT AND 11:40 WE DID SIX WEEKS THERE. 11:41 THE REASON I MENTION THAT IS BECAUSE WE LEARNED, DURING THAT 11:43 MEETING, OUR CHURCH WAS NOT READY FOR THE OPPORTUNITIES TO 11:49 FREELY PREACH IN THE MASSIVE COUNTRY OF RUSSIA. 11:52 AND SO, THAT ALWAYS STUCK IN MY MIND AND WHEN I JOINED AMAZING 11:55 FACTS I SAID, 'SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO IS WE NEED TO BE READY FOR 11:58 THE DAY, WHEN IT COMES, WHEN THE WALLS IN CHINA GO DOWN AND WE 12:02 CAN PREACH. WE NEED TO HAVE MATERIALS - A 12:04 LOT OF STUFF TRANSLATED AND WEB SITES AND SO, WITH YOUR 12:09 HELP, IN THE LAST NINE YEARS WE'VE 12:11 DEVELOPED A LOT OF WEB MATERIAL - MATTER OF FACT, IN 2005 I WENT 12:15 TO CHINA WITH KAREN AND WE BROUGHT SOME OF OUR FIRST 12:18 PRODUCT, WHICH WAS THE FINAL EVENTS, AND THAT WAS DUBBED IN 12:21 CHINESE - WHERE I'M ACTUALLY SPEAKING CHINESE, NOT JUST THE 12:25 SUBTITLES - AND WE TOOK TWENTY COPIES. 12:28 THAT WAS MULTIPLIED AND WENT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. 12:30 I WAS THERE RECENTLY AND I SAID TO SOMEONE - I SAID, 'HERE, 12:33 LET'S GIVE THEM ONE OF THESE 'FINAL EVENTS'.' HE SAID, 'NO, 12:35 EVERYBODY HERE'S SEEN THAT.' AND HE MEANT EVERY CHRISTIAN FROM 12:38 EVERY DENOMINATION HAS SEEN THAT. 12:40 'GIVE HIM SOMETHING ELSE.' HE SAID. 12:42 SO IT WAS WONDERFUL HOW THAT GOT AROUND THE COUNTRY AND WE DID - 12:44 I'M TRYING TO GIVE A SIGNAL TO SHERLE ABOUT MOVING THE SLIDES 12:48 AND SHE SAID, 'JUST EVERY TIME YOU WANT ME TO MOVE THE SLIDES, 12:50 JUST PULL UP YOUR PANTS OR PULL ON YOUR EAR OR SOMETHING.' BUT 12:54 THIS IS A WEB SITE THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SOME TIME. 12:57 THAT'S AMAZING FACTS IN CHINESE. 12:59 IT'S GOT JUST SCORES OF VIDEOS AND EVANGELISTIC PROGRAMS. 13:01 SO THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR NINE YEARS BECAUSE OF THE 13:04 FAITHFUL DEDICATION OF A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND SO WE GOT AN 13:08 INVITATION IN DECEMBER TO PLAN ON DOING A MEETING. 13:13 DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN 13:15 BECAUSE WE NEEDED SOME FINAL PERMISSION. FREQUENTLY, WITH 13:18 CHINA, YOU GET THERE AND THEN THEY CANCEL AT THE LAST MINUTE. 13:21 SO HERE WE ARE MEETING WITH CHINESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND 13:24 THEY APPROVED OUR MEETING - WHICH WE WERE THANKFUL FOR 13:28 BECAUSE WE HAD ALL THE PERMITS AND THE VISAS AND WE GOT THERE 13:31 AND THOUGHT, 'THEY COULD STILL CANCEL ON US.' BUT THEY APPROVED 13:33 THE MEETING AND WE WERE ALL READY TO GO AND SOMETHING JUST 13:37 EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED. WE MET IN THE LARGEST CHURCH IN 13:39 WUXI - WUXI IS - IT'S LIKE A SUBURB OF SHANGHAI. 13:43 SHANGHAI IS THE BIGGEST CITY IN THE WORLD - 13:45 24 MILLION PEOPLE. WUXI IS ABOUT 50 MILES, BUT YOU 13:49 NEVER STOP SEEING CITY WHEN YOU LEAVE SHANGHAI. 13:51 IT'S JUST SOLID CITY AND THERE'S SIX MILLION PEOPLE THERE. 13:54 AND THIS WAS THE LARGEST CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE CITY, 13:57 WHICH IS LARGELY INTER-DENOMINATIONAL, AND THEY 14:00 INVITED US TO COME AND PREACH OUR MESSAGE. 14:03 AND SO WE DID FIFTEEN PRESENTATIONS. 14:05 WE DID ABOUT HALF OF IT HERE - KEEP GOING - WE WONDERED IF 14:08 ANYONE WOULD COME BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME PERSECUTION 14:11 STILL IN CHINA. NEXT PICTURE - AND THEY KEPT COMING. 14:16 NOT ONLY DID THIS BUILDING FILL UP - LET'S GO TO THE NEXT 14:19 PICTURE - BUT THESE ARE - THERE WERE TWO OVERFLOW ROOMS THAT 14:25 FILLED UP WITH SCREENS - NEXT PICTURE. 14:27 YOU KNOW, ROUGH ESTIMATES, THERE WERE 2,000-PLUS THE OPENING 14:31 NIGHT - NEXT PICTURE - I CAME IN TO GREET ONE OF THE - HERE THEY 14:35 ARE GATHERED OUTSIDE THE WINDOWS AND THE DOORS BECAUSE THEY RAN 14:38 OUT OF ROOM INSIDE - NEXT PICTURE - AND THEY SAT THERE 14:42 FAITHFULLY - AND THIS IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY - 14:43 10:00 ON A THURSDAY IS WHEN WE STARTED. 14:47 THE HUNGER FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS UNLIKE ANYTHING I'VE SEEN. 14:50 AND THEY WERE SO OPEN AND WE JUST PRAISED THE LORD - NEXT 14:54 PICTURE - THEN WE MOVED - AFTER FOUR DAYS WE MOVED INTO A LARGER 14:59 FACILITY IN WUXI - AND THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BRAND-NEW CHURCH 15:03 FACILITY THERE AND - NEXT PICTURE - I'M GIVING YOU A QUICK 15:08 REPORT BECAUSE WE HAVE A BIG LESSON TO COVER. 15:11 YOU KNOW WHAT'S SO EXCITING ABOUT THIS? 15:13 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REALIZE - SEVERAL PEOPLE TOLD US WHILE WE 15:15 WERE THERE - IN FACT, A COUPLE OF MINISTERS OF ANOTHER 15:20 EVANGELICAL CHURCH CAME AND THEY WERE JUST GOING 15:23 'PRAISE THE LORD! HALLELUJAH!' AND THEY SAID, 15:26 'HOW DID YOU DO THIS?' AND WE SAID, 'THE LORD DID IT.' 15:28 AND THEY SAID, 'THERE HAS BEEN NO FOREIGNER ALLOWED TO DO A 15:32 FULL EVANGELISTIC MEETING IN THIS COUNTRY SINCE 1959.' THEY 15:36 SAID, 'HOW DID YOU?' SEVERAL PEOPLE TOLD US THAT. 15:38 SO THEY SAID THIS IS JUST UNPRECEDENTED. 15:41 AND WE WERE SO EXCITED AND, NOT ONLY THAT, WE GOT TO 15:45 TELEVISE IT. NEXT PICTURE. 15:47 PEOPLE CAME FROM ALL OVER - I WAS SHOCKED BY THE NUMBER OF 15:52 ELECTRIC MOTOR SCOOTERS BECAUSE WHEN WE WENT NINE YEARS AGO 15:54 THERE WAS JUST A COUPLE OF ELECTRIC ONES - EVERYONE WAS ON 15:57 BICYCLES AND EVERYTHING ELSE WAS MOTOR SCOOTERS - BUT NOW 16:01 EVERYTHING IS ELECTRIC SCOOTERS AND THEY'RE DANGEROUS BECAUSE 16:04 YOU DON'T HEAR THEM COMING. YOU'RE CROSSING THE STREET - AND 16:06 THEY'RE EVERYWHERE - AND THEY'RE ON THE SIDEWALK. 16:08 I MEAN, I WAS WALKING UP THE STREETS OF SHANGHAI AND I'M 16:10 LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER ALL THE TIME BECAUSE THEY'D JUST - 16:13 THEY'D GET UP ON THE SIDEWALKS AND YOU DON'T HEAR THEM. 16:14 AND - BUT PEOPLE CAME TO THE MEETINGS BY SCOOTER, THEY CAME 16:20 BY PLANE, THEY WALKED, THEY CAME IN CARTS - THIS MAN TOOK A TRAIN 16:24 - THE MAN ON THE LEFT - HIS LAST NAME IS FUNG - 16:27 I'LL NOT TELL YOU HIS FIRST NAME. 16:28 HE TOOK A TRAIN 800 MILES BECAUSE HE SAW ON OUR WEB SITE - 16:32 HE SAID, 'I WAS AN ATHEIST. I STARTED STUDYING AND WATCHING 16:35 THE VIDEOS ON AMAZING FACTS' WEB SITE. 16:38 I ACCEPTED CHRIST AND I HEARD YOU WERE COMING TO CHINA.' AND 16:40 HE WENT 800 MILES TO COME TO THE MEETINGS. 16:43 HE STAYED FOUR DAYS AND HE LEFT - AND HE'S BRINGING OTHERS TO 16:45 CHRIST. THAT WAS A FRIEND OF HIS. 16:46 SO THE WORK IS JUST SPREADING - AGAIN, THIS IS A SHORT STORY - 16:50 THEY HAD TWO BAPTISMS WHILE WE WERE THERE. 16:54 NOW THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE BAPTIZED WERE LARGELY PREPARED, 16:56 OF COURSE, BEFORE WE GOT THERE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET EVERYONE 16:59 READY IN TEN DAYS - FOR A MEETING. 17:02 A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE - FORMER ATHEISTS - MAKING DECISIONS. 17:07 IT WAS JUST SO EXCITING, BUT THEY HAD FOUND - MANY OF THEM - 17:09 THEY FOUND THINGS FIRST ON THE AMAZING FACTS WEB SITE AND THEY 17:13 GOT THE LESSONS, THEY GOT THE DVDS, AND THEY STARTED TO STUDY. 17:18 I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST BAPTISM AND THEN - I THINK WE 17:23 GOT THE NEXT PICTURE IS THE SECOND BAPTISM. 17:26 THERE WERE 198 PEOPLE BAPTIZED. I'M SHARING THIS WITH YOU 17:29 BECAUSE THEY SAY - AND THIS WAS IN THE ENGLISH TELEGRAPH 17:33 NEWSPAPER THAT IN 15 YEARS, CHINA IS POISED TO HAVE MORE 17:37 CHRISTIANS THAN THE UNITED STATES. 17:40 SO CHRISTIANITY IS GROWING VERY QUICKLY IN THIS COUNTRY AND, YOU 17:44 KNOW, YOU SAY, 'WELL, WHAT CAN YOU DO? 17:46 THERE'S ONE MEETING WITH A COUPLE THOUSAND PEOPLE IN A 17:49 COUNTRY OF, YOU KNOW, 1.3 OR 4 BILLION PEOPLE.' BUT WHAT 17:54 MADE THESE MEETINGS REALLY EXCITING - NEXT PICTURE - WE 17:57 WERE GIVEN PERMISSION TO VIDEOTAPE THE WHOLE SERIES WITH 18:01 CHINESE TRANSLATION ALL READY TO GO AND SO NOW THOSE TAPES ARE 18:04 BEING DUPLICATED ALREADY AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE SPREAD ALL 18:07 AROUND THE COUNTRY. IT'S AN ENTIRE EVANGELISTIC MEETING AND 18:10 THEY WILL BE PIRATED AND SPREAD, I CAN PROMISE YOU THAT, 18:14 ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. SO - AND THEN ALSO, ALL OUR 18:17 POWERPOINTS AND SHERLE, WHO'S RIGHT THERE IN THE STUDIO, SHE 18:20 HELPED DEVELOP ALL THE POWER POINTS FOR OUR MEETINGS - THEY 18:22 WERE THEN TRANSLATED TO CHINESE AND NOW THE CHINESE POWERPOINTS 18:26 ARE GOING TO BIBLE WORKERS AROUND THE COUNTRY. 18:27 THESE ARE SOME BIBLE WORKERS I WAS TRAINING WHILE I WAS THERE 18:30 AND - NEXT PICTURE - I'LL TIE THIS OFF - THEN THE LAST SABBATH 18:36 - A WEEK AGO I WAS IN SHANGHAI, THE BIGGEST CITY IN THE WORLD, 18:39 AND IT - THIS WAS A NICE PHOTOGRAPH SOMEONE ELSE TOOK. 18:42 THE AIR IS NOT THAT CLEAR. IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO BREATHE 18:47 SOMETIMES - NEXT PICTURE - AND WE WERE MEETING WITH CHRISTIANS 18:50 IN SHANGHAI AND THE INTEREST WAS JUST PHENOMENAL. 18:54 SO PLEASE PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE THERE - THEY SAT ALL DAY LONG - 18:58 KIDS WERE SO WELL BEHAVED AND, YOU KNOW, LET ME TELL YOU 19:01 SOMETHING FUNNY, NOT ONLY HAVE WE TRANSLATED, YOU KNOW, JUST 19:05 LOTS OF OUR EVANGELISTIC PROGRAMS, WE TRANSLATED 19:07 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES IN MANDARIN. 19:10 WE TRANSLATED THE MEETING FOR TEENAGERS CALLED MIQ, AND I'M 19:14 SPEAKING TO HAVE ONE OF THE BEST - HE'S A TELEVISION PERSONALITY 19:18 THAT LIP-SYNCS AND JUST A GREAT PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR - 19:22 AND WE'RE HOPING HE'S CONVERTED FROM LISTENING TO 19:24 ALL THIS STUFF, BECAUSE HE'S A PROFESSIONAL. 19:27 BUT MY VOICE IN CHINESE IS VERY GOOD, YOU KNOW, I MEAN - BUT I 19:30 CAN'T SPEAK - ALL I CAN SAY IS, YOU KNOW, 'NEE HOW, SHE SHAN' 19:33 JUST A FEW LITTLE WORDS, BUT THE KIDS WOULD COME UP TO ME AND 19:37 THEY'D START TALKING TO ME AND I'D TALK TO THEM AND THEY'D LOOK 19:39 AT ME WITH DISDAIN, 'WHAT IS? HOW COME YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND 19:42 ME? AND YOUR VOICE - WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR VOICE? 19:45 AND THEY WERE SO DISAPPOINTED. 19:47 IT WAS KIND OF FUNNY - NEXT PICTURE - ACTUALLY, SEVERAL 19:51 PEOPLE, WHEN THEY HEARD MY REAL VOICE, WERE DISAPPOINTED. 19:54 THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE OVERFLOWS. 19:56 WE STAYED - WE WENT BACK IN THE AFTERNOON AND DID BIBLE 19:58 QUESTIONS AND THEY JUST HAD - THEY'RE REALLY STUDYING OVER 20:01 THERE - THEY HAD SOME VERY GOOD BIBLE QUESTIONS - NEXT 20:03 PICTURE - I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE HAVE NEXT. 20:05 OH YEAH, PRAY FOR THE CHINESE BECAUSE PERSECUTION IS NOT OVER. 20:11 THIS - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THIS - WAS ON CNN NEWS BUT 20:14 ANOTHER PROVINCE - OUR PROVINCE WAS MORE TOLERANT OF 20:17 CHRISTIANITY, OBVIOUSLY, BUT A MONTH BEFORE WE CAME THE THREE 20:21 RIVERS CHURCH IN WENZHOU, THE GOVERNMENT MAYBE FELT 20:26 CHRISTIANITY WAS SPREADING TOO FAST, BUT THEY BULLDOZED THE 20:29 CHURCH AND SO - YEAH, A FOUR MILLION DOLLAR BRAND-NEW CHURCH 20:33 AND IT WAS AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH BUT - SO THERE 20:37 ARE STILL TENSIONS. IT'S - YOU NEED TO PRAY FOR CHINA. 20:40 IT'S A MIRACLE WE WERE ABLE TO GO AND I'LL CLOSE WITH THIS: 20:45 ONE OF THE GREATEST LOST OPPORTUNITIES IN HISTORY 20:47 HAPPENED AFTER GENGHIS KHAN - HIS SON KUBLAI KHAN - WAS MORE 20:53 FRIENDLY TO RELIGION AND HE KNEW MARCO POLO - MARCO POLO AND HIS 20:57 FATHER NICOLO POLO AND MAFFEO POLO WERE VENETIAN TRADERS AND 21:01 THE KUBLAI KHAN WAS INTERESTED IN THE RELIGION. 21:05 HE SAID, 'YOU GO BACK AND TELL YOUR CHIEF PRIEST, 'SEND ME A 21:08 HUNDRED MISSIONARIES AND TEACHERS TO TEACH ME AND OUR 21:12 PEOPLE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.' AND SO THEY DID GO BACK TO 21:15 ITALY, THEY APPEALED TO THE POPE PERSONALLY. 21:17 THEY SAID, 'YOU HAVE TO SEND AS MANY MISSIONARIES AS POSSIBLE TO 21:20 THIS INCREDIBLY BIG COUNTRY OF CHINA. AND THE POPE - THEY WERE 21:25 FIGHTING CRUSADES AND FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES AND HE SAID, 21:29 'YOU KNOW, WE JUST CAN'T DO IT. WE DON'T HAVE THEM.' 21:31 HE SAID, 'I'LL SEND YOU TWO.' AND THEY KIND OF HALF-HEARTEDLY 21:34 WENT - ONE DIED ALONG THE WAY AND THE OTHER ONE TURNED BACK 21:37 AND THEY NEVER WENT AND INSTEAD, THE TIBETAN BUDDHIST 21:40 MISSIONARIES CAME IN AND PRETTY MUCH TOOK OVER. 21:44 BUT THEY SAY ALL OF HISTORY WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT - 21:47 THAT WINDOW WAS LOST. WE HAVE ANOTHER INCREDIBLE 21:49 WINDOW IN CHINA AND I'M HOPING THAT YOU'LL BE PRAYING FOR THAT 21:52 COUNTRY BECAUSE, LIKE I SAID, IT REPRESENTS TWENTY PERCENT - IT'S 21:56 THE LARGEST MISSION FIELD IN THE WORLD. 21:57 THANK YOU FOR ALSO MAKING THESE MEETINGS POSSIBLE AND CONTINUE 22:01 TO PRAY FOR WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE. WE STILL HAVE OTHER 22:04 THINGS HAPPENING - I CAN'T TELL YOU. ALRIGHT, TO OUR LESSON. 22:07 THIS LESSON IS VERY IMPORTANT AND IT'S DEALING WITH THE 22:10 SUBJECT OF THE COVENANTS. CHRIST AND THE COVENANTS. 22:14 IN PARTICULAR, I WANT YOU TO REQUEST THIS FREE STUDY. 22:17 THIS IS PERFECTLY JOINED WITH OUR LESSON - 22:20 IT'S CALLED, 'WHY THE OLD COVENANT FAILED'. 22:23 AND YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 22:25 TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE OLD COVENANT. 22:27 'WHY THE OLD COVENANT FAILED' - WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FREE. 22:30 READ IT, SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE - IT'S OFFER #716. 22:33 JUST DIAL 866-STUDY-MORE - 866-788-3966 - AND WE'LL SEND 22:42 THAT TO YOU FOR FREE. OUR LESSON TODAY IS LESSON #10 22:45 DEALING WITH CHRIST, THE LAW, AND THE COVENANTS. 22:48 WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF YOU CAN SAY 22:51 IT WITH ME - AND IT'S FROM HEBREWS 9:15 - HEBREWS 9:15 - 22:57 I'M GOING TO DO IT FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. 22:59 ARE YOU READY? 23:02 "AND FOR THIS REASON HE IS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, BY 23:07 MEANS OF DEATH, FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE TRANSGRESSIONS 23:11 UNDER THE FIRST COVENANT, THAT THOSE WHO ARE CALLED MAY RECEIVE 23:14 THE PROMISE OF THE ETERNAL INHERITANCE." 23:18 HEBREWS HAS QUITE A BIT TO SAY ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THE 23:21 COVENANTS AND WE'LL READ SOME MORE OF THAT IN A LITTLE BIT. 23:24 BUT MAYBE, BEFORE WE GO INTO STUDYING THE SUBJECT OF THE 23:27 COVENANTS, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND - WE OUGHT TO 23:30 DEFINE 'WHAT IS A COVENANT.' A COVENANT IS SIMPLY AN 23:33 AGREEMENT. IT'S A CONTRACT. 23:37 IT'S SOMETHING OF MORE OF A FORMAL AGREEMENT - A PROMISE. 23:40 THE BIBLE IS KNOWN AS THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENTS AND WHAT 23:44 THAT REALLY MEANS - IT'S IDENTICAL TO SAYING, 23:47 'THIS IS THE NEW AND THE OLD COVENANTS.' TESTAMENT - 23:49 COVENANT IS THE SAME THING. 23:51 AND SO, A COVENANT - YOU FIND THE WORD ABOUT 300 TIMES IN THE 23:57 BIBLE, ACCORDING TO MY COMPUTER - THE HEBREW FOR THE WORD IS 24:01 BERITH - THE GREEK IS DIATHEKE - AND IT JUST MEANS A LEGAL 24:06 AGREEMENT - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FIT INTO THE CATEGORY OF BEING 24:12 CONDITIONS OF A COVENANT BUT THEY WERE NOT THE OLD COVENANT 24:16 AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. 24:18 YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF COVENANTS IN THE BIBLE. 24:20 SOME OF THEM WERE FORMAL - THEY DEAL WITH NATIONS - SOME OF THEM 24:23 WERE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS WHERE GOD MADE INDIVIDUAL 24:27 COVENANTS WITH PEOPLE OR WITH FAMILIES. 24:29 SOME OF THE COVENANTS YOU MIGHT FIND IS THE COVENANT WITH ADAM 24:34 IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, FOR INSTANCE, AND IT'S OFTEN CALLED 24:37 'THE EDENIC COVENANT'. LET ME READ THIS TO YOU - 24:40 SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME - WHERE ARE THE MICROPHONES? 24:42 DOES SOMEONE HAVE HOSEA 6, VERSE 7? OKAY, WE'LL HAVE YOU DO THAT 24:47 IN JUST A MOMENT. I WANT TO FIRST READ GENESIS 24:50 1:27, "SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE; IN THE IMAGE OF GOD 24:55 HE CREATED HIM; MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM. 25:00 THEN GOD BLESSED THEM, AND GOD SAID TO THEM, 'BE FRUITFUL AND 25:03 MULTIPLY; FILL THE EARTH AND SUBDUE IT; HAVE DOMINION'" - 25:07 HERE GOD IS PROMISING THEM DOMINION - "'OVER THE FISH OF 25:09 THE SEA, OVER THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, AND OVER EVERY LIVING THING 25:12 THAT MOVES ON THE EARTH.'" THEN YOU GO TO CHAPTER 2, VERSE 16, 25:16 "AND THE LORD GOD COMMANDED THE MAN, SAYING, 'OF EVERY TREE OF 25:20 THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT; BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE 25:24 OF GOOD AND EVIL YOU SHALL NOT EAT, FOR IN THE DAY THAT YOU EAT 25:27 OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE.'" SO IN THE COVENANT THAT GOD MADE 25:30 WITH ADAM - OR IN EDEN, HE BASICALLY IS SAYING, 'I AM 25:34 GIVING YOU LIFE, PARADISE, DOMINION - BUT THERE'S A 25:36 CONDITION. YOU DISOBEY - EAT OF THE 25:39 FORBIDDEN TREE, YOU WILL LOSE YOUR DOMINION AND YOU WILL LOSE 25:41 YOUR LIFE.' AND THEY LOST BOTH OF THOSE - THE DOMINION WAS 25:46 SURRENDERED TO THE ENEMY - THE DEVIL IS CALLED THE PRINCE OF 25:49 THIS WORLD - THAT'S WHY THERE'S SO MUCH MISERY IN THE WORLD - 25:51 WHEN THEY VIOLATED THAT COVENANT. 25:54 NOW, JUST TO REINFORCE THIS, GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US - 25:57 WHAT DID I SAY? - HOSEA 6, VERSE 7. 25:59 >>"BUT THEY LIKE MEN HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT: THERE 26:04 HAVE THEY DEALT TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST ME." 26:07 >>ALRIGHT, VERY GOOD. NOW, YOU SEE THAT WORD WHERE IT 26:09 SAYS 'MAN'- 'BUT THEY LIKE MAN'? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A 26:11 TRANSLATION THAT SAYS, 'BUT THEY, LIKE ADAM'? YEAH, SEE, 26:15 THAT WORD THERE IS 'ADAM' - 'THEY LIKE ADAM HAVE 26:19 TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT.' SO GOD HAD MADE A COVENANT 26:22 WITH ADAM. 26:23 NOW, YOU ALSO FIND IN THE BIBLE, GOD MAKES A COVENANT WITH NOAH 26:27 AND IT SAYS VERSE - GENESIS 6, VERSE 18, "BUT WITH THEE WILL I 26:33 ESTABLISH MY COVENANT; AND THOU SHALT COME INTO THE ARK, THOU, 26:36 AND THY SONS, AND THY WIFE, AND THY SONS' WIVES WITH THEE." 26:40 NOW THERE WAS A CONDITION TO THAT COVENANT - THE CONDITION 26:43 WAS, 'I WILL SAVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. 26:45 YOU HAVE TO BUILD AN ARK.' SO IF NOAH SAID, 'THANK YOU FOR 26:50 SHOWING GRACE AND SAVING ME' BUT HE DIDN'T BUILD AN ARK, WHAT 26:53 GOOD WOULD THAT COVENANT OF SALVATION HAVE BEEN? 26:56 SO YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THERE'S TWO KINDS OF COVENANTS IN THE 26:59 BIBLE, PRINCIPALLY, YOU'VE GOT THE UNCONDITIONAL COVENANTS 27:04 WHERE GOD SAYS, 'I WILL DO SOMETHING' AND HE'S JUST GOING 27:06 TO DO IT AND YOU'LL BE A RECIPIENT. 27:09 OR HE'S SAYS, 'I DO THIS IF YOU DO THAT.' SO YOU'VE GOT THE 27:13 CONDITIONAL COVENANTS AND THE UNCONDITIONAL COVENANTS AND 27:16 WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES ARE IN A MOMENT. 27:19 SO YOU'VE GOT THE COVENANT WITH NOAH, YOU'VE GOT A COVENANT WITH 27:22 ABRAHAM. NOW WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL THE COVENANTS OR WE 27:26 WON'T GET INTO THE - SOME OF THE HEART OF THE LESSON. 27:29 THE COVENANT WITH NOAH - WITH ABRAHAM - IS MADE, FIRSTLY, IN 27:33 GENESIS 12:1-3, WHEN HE SAYS, 'COME OUT OF THIS LAND AND I 27:38 WILL MAKE A COVENANT WITH YOU AND YOUR DESCENDENTS.' AND, 27:41 ULTIMATELY, 'IN YOUR SEED ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WILL BE 27:43 BLESSED.' LATER HE MAKES A COVENANT WITH DAVID - THE 27:47 DAVIDIC COVENANT - AND YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN 2 SAMUEL 7, 27:51 VERSES 12 AND 13 AND THAT COVENANT BASICALLY SAID THAT 27:54 'THROUGH YOUR HOUSE AND THROUGH YOUR DESCENDENTS, THE MESSIAH 27:58 WOULD COME.' YOU KNOW, AND - THEY - I SHOULD SAY THE COVENANT 28:04 THAT GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM, HE ALSO THEN REPEATS TO ISAAC AND 28:10 TO JACOB - AND JACOB, ON HIS DEATH BED, HE REPEATS IT TO HIS 28:13 SONS AND SPECIFIES THAT THROUGH JUDAH THE MESSIAH WOULD COME AND 28:19 THEN LATER HE SPECIFIES EVEN MORE THAT THROUGH THE TRIBE OF 28:23 JUDAH, THROUGH THE HOUSE OF DAVID THE MESSIAH WOULD COME. 28:26 AND SO, YOU CAN SEE THESE COVENANTS ARE MADE. 28:30 NOW, SOMETIMES - LET'S GO TO THE SECTION UNDER 'COVENANT SIGNS' - 28:34 'COVENANT SIGNS'. WE DON'T HAVE TO GUESS VERY 28:37 LONG, BUT IN NOAH'S TIME, WHAT WAS THE COVENANT SIGN? 28:41 IT WAS THE RAINBOW AND YOU CAN SEE THAT - GENESIS 9:12 AND 13 - 28:45 "AND GOD SAID: 'THIS IS THE SIGN OF THE COVENANT WHICH I MAKE 28:48 BETWEEN ME AND YOU, AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT IS WITH 28:53 YOU, FOR PERPETUAL GENERATIONS: I SET MY RAINBOW IN THE CLOUD, 28:57 AND IT SHALL BE FOR THE SIGN OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND THE 29:00 EARTH." HOW COME THEY'D NEVER SEEN THE 29:01 RAINBOW BEFORE? IT NEVER RAINED BEFORE. 29:06 SO THEY NEVER SAW THAT THE REFRACTION OF THE, YOU KNOW, 29:11 PYRAMIDS OF COLOR COMING IN THAT - IN THE RAINBOW - BECAUSE IT 29:17 HAD NEVER RAINED BEFORE AND SO GOD WANTED TO REMIND THEM 29:20 WHENEVER THEY SAW THAT MIST IN THE CLOUDS AND THEY SAW THAT 29:22 RAINBOW, THAT HE WOULD NOT DO - NOW DOES THAT MEAN IT WOULD 29:25 NEVER FLOOD AGAIN? OR HE'D NEVER DESTROY THE EARTH 29:27 AGAIN WITH A FLOOD? THERE'VE BEEN PLENTY OF FLOODS - 29:30 THERE'S BEEN PLENTY OF GOOD RAINS. 29:32 HE JUST WANTED TO REMIND HIM THAT HE WOULDN'T WIPE OUT ALL 29:35 THE EARTH WITH WATER AGAIN. NEXT TIME IT'S A FLOOD OF WHAT? 29:39 FIRE - THE BIBLE TELLS US - AND THE ARK IN THAT DAY IS JESUS - 29:44 BEING IN CHRIST. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME JOSHUA 29:47 2:18 - I'LL GET TO YOU IN A MINUTE. WHO GOT THAT ONE? 29:50 RIGHT OVER HERE - LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 29:51 HOLD YOUR HAND UP - ALRIGHT, JUST A MOMENT, WE'LL GET TO YOU. 29:54 ANOTHER - LET'S TALK ABOUT 'WHAT WAS THE SIGN FOR 29:58 ABRAHAM' - OF THAT COVENANT? 30:02 COUPLE OF SIGNS: ONE THING, CIRCUMCISION WAS A SIGN OF THE 30:06 COVENANT THAT GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED AND THE 30:10 BIRTH OF ISAAC WAS A SIGN. WAS THAT A MIRACLE? 30:14 YEAH, SO THAT WAS A SIGN THAT GOD WAS GOING TO FULFILL HIS 30:18 COVENANT IN THAT HE MIRACULOUSLY HAD THIS CHILD LONG AFTER SARAH 30:24 WAS AT THE BEARING AGE. AND YOU CAN READ IN EXODUS 20 - 30:30 WAS THERE A SIGN OF THE COVENANT GOD MADE WITH THE CHILDREN OF 30:33 ISRAEL ON MOUNT SINAI? "AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAW THE 30:37 THUNDERINGS, AND THE LIGHTNINGS, AND THE NOISE OF THE TRUMPET, 30:40 AND THE MOUNTAIN SMOKING: AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW IT, THEY 30:42 REMOVED, AND STOOD AFAR OFF." SO THERE WERE SIGNS AND WONDERS 30:46 WHEN GOD SPOKE HIS LAW - THAT WAS ONE OF THE SIGNS. 30:50 YOU CAN READ THAT - NOW IF YOU JUMP TO THE NEW TESTAMENT - 30:53 HEBREWS CHAPTER 12, IT SAYS, 'FOR YOU HAVE NOT COME TO THE 30:57 MOUNTAIN THAT MAY BE TOUCHED AND BURNED WITH FIRE AND TO 31:01 BLACKNESS AND DARKNESS AND TEMPESTS AND THE SOUND OF A 31:05 TRUMPET AND THE VOICE OF WORDS SO THAT THOSE WHO HEARD IT 31:08 BEGGED THAT THE WORD SHOULD NOT BE SPOKEN TO THEM ANYMORE.' HE 31:11 SAID THESE WERE THE SIGNS OF GOD'S PRESENCE AND GLORY THERE 31:15 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND IN THE NEW COVENANT IT'S SOMETHING 31:18 DIFFERENT - AND HE GETS INTO THAT IN HEBREWS 31:21 IN JUST A MOMENT. OTHER SIGNS OF THE COVENANT HAD TO DO WITH THE 31:25 - WAS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS A SIGN ITSELF - PUT IN THE ARK? 31:30 WAS THERE A SHEKINAH GLORY ABOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 31:35 ALRIGHT SOMEONE READ - YOU WERE GOING TO READ FOR ME JOSHUA 31:37 2:18, TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER SIGN - TOKEN. 31:40 "BEHOLD, WHEN WE COME INTO THE LAND, THOU SHALT BIND THIS LINE 31:45 OF SCARLET THREAD IN THE WINDOW WHICH THOU DIDST LET US DOWN BY: 31:49 AND THOU SHALT BRING THY FATHER, AND THEY MOTHER, AND THY 31:53 BRETHREN, AND ALL THY FATHER'S HOUSEHOLD, HOME UNTO THEE." 31:58 >>ALRIGHT, DID THE LORD MAKE A COVENANT WITH RAHAB? 32:01 YEAH, THROUGH THE TWO SPIES - THEY SAID, 32:05 'OUR LIFE FOR YOUR LIFE. BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE THIS - 32:08 AND HERE'S THE AGREEMENT. IF YOU DON'T TELL OUR BUSINESS 32:10 ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE, IT'LL BE WHEN WE COME TO THE LAND, 32:13 EVERYONE IN YOUR HOUSE WE'LL SAVE. 32:15 HERE'S THE TOKEN OF THE COVENANT: PUT THIS RED CORD IN 32:18 YOUR WINDOW.' AND EVERYBODY THAT HAD THE RED - IF THEY WERE IN 32:21 THE HOUSE WHERE THE RED CORD WAS IN THE WINDOW, THEY WERE SAVED. 32:25 WAS THERE A TOKEN OF THE COVENANT DURING THE PASSOVER? 32:30 WHAT WAS THE TOKEN THEN? RED BLOOD ON THE DOOR. 32:35 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? WHEN THEY LEFT EGYPT, THOSE IN 32:39 THE HOUSE WITH THE RED WERE SAVED. 32:42 WHEN THEY ENTERED - AND THEY WERE ALL ISRAELITES. 32:44 WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND, THERE'S A TOKEN FOR 32:48 GENTILES. EVERYONE IN RAHAB'S HOUSE WERE GENTILES. 32:52 THOSE IN THE HOUSE WITH THE RED WERE SAVED. 32:55 NOW WHAT'S THAT RED A SYMBOL OF? THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. 32:57 SO SOMETIMES THERE WERE TOKENS THAT WERE GIVEN THAT WERE SIGNS 33:01 OF THESE THINGS. WHAT ABOUT A SIGN FOR JESUS? 33:04 NOW GETTING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT - SOME OF YOU REMEMBER IN ISAIAH 33:08 7:14, "THEREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL GIVE YOU A SIGN; 33:13 BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE, AND BEAR A SON." 33:19 YOU REMEMBER THAT? THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN EVERY DAY, DOES IT? 33:22 IT MAY BE CLAIMED FROM TIME TO TIME BUT I THINK SOME OF THOSE 33:26 CLAIMS ARE DUBIOUS. 33:27 AND IF YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, LUKE 2, VERSE 12 - 33:31 BY THE WAY, DON'T MISS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE 33:34 MIRACULOUS BIRTH - THE MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION OF SARAH 33:39 WITH ISAAC AND ISAAC IS OFFERED BY THE FATHER AND THAT IS A SIGN 33:44 OF THE MIRACULOUS BIRTH OF JESUS AND JESUS IS OFFERED BY THE 33:48 FATHER. SO THERE ARE SOME OTHER SIGNS THERE. 33:51 BUT THEN YOU LOOK IN LUKE 2:12, "AND THIS WILL BE THE SIGN TO 33:55 YOU: YOU WILL FIND A BABE WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHS, 33:58 LYING IN A MANGER." THIS IS WHAT THE ANGELS TOLD THE 34:01 SHEPHERDS AND YOU DIDN'T NORMALLY FIND A BABY LYING IN A 34:06 MANGER, EVEN BACK IN BIBLE TIMES. 34:08 IF YOU FOUND A BABY LYING IN A HORSE TROUGH IN A BARN, YOU'D 34:14 PROBABLY CALL AUTHORITIES TODAY, RIGHT? AND SO THAT WAS UNUSUAL. 34:18 JUMPING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT NOW - SO - YEAH, I'M JUST THINKING 34:25 ABOUT TIMING THIS. YEAH, LET'S DO THIS NOW. 34:28 SO JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR, THE OLD COVENANT - TELL YOU WHAT, 34:32 TURN IN YOUR BIBLES - LET'S JUST READ THIS FIRST. 34:34 TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO DEUTERONOMY - I JUST WANT YOU TO 34:37 READ IT FOR YOURSELF - AND THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, DEUTERONOMY 34:40 CHAPTER 4 AND WE'LL GO TO VERSE 13 - I CAN GO TO VERSE 12 - 34:50 DEUTERONOMY 4, VERSE 12, "AND THE LORD SPOKE TO YOU OUT OF THE 34:55 MIDST OF THE FIRE. YOU HEARD THE SOUND OF THE 34:58 WORDS, BUT SAW NO FORM; YOU ONLY HEARD A VOICE." - 35:01 GOD IS REMINDING THEM, 'DON'T MAKE AN IDOL. 35:03 YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING.' SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS COVENANT 35:06 WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS; 35:09 AND HE WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE. 35:12 AND THE LORD COMMANDED ME AT THAT TIME TO TEACH YOU STATUES 35:15 AND JUDGMENTS, THAT YOU MIGHT OBSERVE THEM IN THE LAND 35:18 WHICH YOU CROSS OVER TO POSSESS." 35:20 AND SO THERE'S A DISTINCTION HERE BETWEEN THE LAWS THAT GOD 35:23 SPOKE AND WROTE AND THE LAWS - THE CEREMONIAL LAWS - THAT GOD 35:27 GAVE MOSES THAT MOSES SPOKE AND WROTE. 35:29 NOW, ARE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THE OLD COVENANT? 35:34 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THEMSELVES ARE NOT THE PART OF THE OLD 35:39 COVENANT THAT HAS BEEN DONE AWAY WITH. 35:42 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SAY, 'DON'T BE TALKING 35:45 ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THAT'S THE OLD COVENANT. 35:48 WE'RE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT NOW WHICH IS JUST TWO COMMANDMENTS: 35:51 LOVE THE LORD AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT? 35:54 JESUS GAVE US A NEW COMMANDMENT, 'LOVE THE LORD AND 35:56 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR'. 35:57 THAT'S THE NEW COVENANT, THE OLD COVENANT IS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 36:00 - NOW WE JUST HAVE TWO.' WHEN JESUS SAID, 'LOVE THE LORD YOUR 36:04 GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL AND STRENGTH, WHERE'D HE 36:07 GET THAT IDEA? HE'S QUOTING MOSES. 36:10 HE'S QUOTING DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6. AND WHEN JESUS SAID YOU 36:14 SHOULD LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF, 36:16 WHAT'S HE QUOTING? HE'S QUOTING MOSES. IS THAT REALLY NEW? 36:21 DIDN'T EVERY JEW KNOW THOSE TWO COMMANDMENTS? 36:24 SO BOTH THE WORDING OF THE OLD TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THOSE OTHER 36:29 LAWS JESUS GAVE ARE ALL OLD TESTAMENT. 36:32 THE DIFFERENCE WAS NOT THE CONTENT, BUT WHAT IT IS WRITTEN 36:38 ON - IT'S THE PROMISES. NOW LET ME ILLUSTRATE THAT TO YOU. GO IN 36:43 - I'M JUMPING AROUND A LITTLE BIT, BUT I'LL GET BACK TO IT. 36:46 GO WITH ME, PLEASE TO HEBREWS CHAPTER 6 - NO HEBREWS 8 AND 36:51 VERSE 6 - HEBREWS 8, VERSE 6 - WE JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS 36:55 BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, YOU ADVENTISTS, 36:57 YOU'RE TEACHING PEOPLE TO KEEP THE SABBATH - 36:59 THAT'S THE OLD COVENANT. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE THE OLD 37:01 COVENANT.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT? IT'S NOT TRUE. 37:06 THE PROBLEM WITH THE OLD COVENANT WAS NOT THE TEN 37:09 COMMANDMENTS, THE PROBLEM WITH THE OLD COVENANT WAS THE 37:11 PROMISES OF THE PEOPLE. 37:14 LET ME READ IT TO YOU - HEBREWS 8, VERSE 6, "BUT NOW HE HAS 37:18 OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT MINISTRY, INASMUCH AS HE IS ALSO 37:22 MEDIATOR OF A BETTER COVENANT," - NOW WHAT IS A COVENANT? 37:27 A PROMISE OR AGREEMENT - SO, IF YOU'VE GOT A HOUSE AND I WANT TO 37:33 BUY THE HOUSE, THE WAY IT WOULD WORK IS YOU AND I WOULD TALK 37:36 FIRST AND WE WOULD NEGOTIATE AND I'D SAY, 'I'LL GIVE YOU A 37:39 HUNDRED THOUSAND.' AND YOU'D SAY, 'NO, I'VE GOT TO 37:41 HAVE A HUNDRED AND TEN.' AND I'D SAY, 'NO, I WANT A HUNDRED 37:43 AND FIVE.' YOU'D SAY, 'OKAY, AGREED.' NOW THAT WE'VE GOT THE 37:45 VERBAL AGREEMENT WE'LL WRITE IT DOWN, RIGHT? 37:49 THEN YOU DO A CONTRACT. YOU GET A COPY, I GET A COPY. 37:52 FIRST IT'S SPOKEN THEN IT'S WRITTEN. 37:54 YOU CAN GO THROUGH A LOT OF WRITING REVISIONS IF YOU DO THE 37:56 WRITING FIRST. SO YOU SPEAK IT. DOES GOD SPEAK THE TEN 38:01 COMMANDMENTS IN EXODUS CHAPTER 20 AND THEN LATER HE WRITES THEM 38:04 DOWN? AND SO THERE WAS THE AGREEMENT. 38:09 IS THE HOUSE - LET'S SUPPOSE WE AGREE TO BUY THE HOUSE AND WE 38:12 WRITE UP A CONTRACT - WE BOTH MAKE PROMISES THAT I'M GOING TO 38:14 PAY YOU SO MUCH BY A CERTAIN DATE AND I CAN'T MOVE IN UNTIL 38:17 THESE THINGS ARE DONE AND WE'VE GOT TERMS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. 38:20 SO NOW WE'VE GOT A COVENANT, RIGHT? 38:23 WE'VE MADE AN AGREEMENT. WE BOTH SIGN IT. WE HAVE A COVENANT - 38:25 AN AGREEMENT. THAT'S WHAT IT IS - PROMISES - MUTUAL PROMISES - 38:28 EXPECTATIONS - I'LL DO THIS AND YOU DO THIS. 38:31 I'LL PAY YOU AND YOU MOVE OUT AND I MOVE IN. 38:35 IS THE HOUSE THE COVENANT? THE HOUSE IS NOT THE COVENANT. 38:40 THE HOUSE MAY BE WHAT THE COVENANT IS BUILT AROUND. 38:43 THE COVENANT IS THE PROMISES, RIGHT? 38:47 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT THE COVENANT. 38:49 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE WHAT THE COVENANT IS BUILT AROUND. 38:52 NOTICE, HE IS THE MEDIATOR OF A BETTER COVENANT, ESTABLISHED ON 38:56 BETTER PROMISES. NOW, IN ORDER FOR THE NEW 39:00 COVENANT TO BE - HAVE BETTER PROMISES, WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF 39:04 YOU SAY THESE ARE BETTER PROMISES? 39:06 ISN'T THAT A COMPARATIVE TERM THAT MEANS SOMEWHERE THERE ARE 39:08 POORER PROMISES? WAS THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH 39:12 GOD'S PROMISE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 39:16 DOES GOD EVER DO ANYTHING WRONG? WHERE WERE THE BAD PROMISES IN 39:19 THE OLD TESTAMENT? FROM GOD OR THE PEOPLE? WHEN GOD SPOKE 39:23 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHAT DID THE PEOPLE SAY? 39:25 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO.' THEY MADE A PROMISE. 39:31 HOW LONG AFTER THEY MADE THAT PROMISE BEFORE IT WAS BROKEN? 39:36 THEIR PROMISES WERE NOT VERY GOOD. 39:39 IT WAS BASED ON THE PROMISE OF 'WHAT WE WILL DO - ALL THE LORD 39:42 SAID, WE WILL DO.' THAT WAS THEIR PROMISE. 39:45 AND YOU NOTICE IT SAYS IN - I'M STILL IN HEBREWS 8, GO TO VERSE 39:48 7, "FOR IF THAT FIRST COVENANT HAD BEEN FAULTLESS, THEN NO 39:51 PLACE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOUGHT FOR A SECOND." 39:53 NOW, IS THERE FAULT WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 39:57 PAUL SAID THE LAW - ROMANS 7:12, "THEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY, AND 40:05 THE COMMANDMENT HOLY AND JUST AND GOOD." 40:09 NOBODY CAN FIND ANY FLAW WITH ANYTHING THAT GOD MAKES. 40:14 IT WAS THE PROMISES OF THE PEOPLE. 40:17 IT SAYS, 'FOR THE FIRST COVENANT, IF IT HAD BEEN 40:19 FAULTLESS, NO PLACE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOUGHT FOR A SECOND. 40:22 FINDING - HERE'S THE KEY, VERSE 8 - HEBREWS 8:8, "FINDING 40:26 FAULT WITH THEM," - WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM WITH THE FIRST COVENANT? 40:31 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OR THE PEOPLE? 40:33 WAS IT GOD'S PROMISE OR THEIR PROMISE? SO WHAT NEEDED TO BE 40:39 CHANGED WAS NOT THE LAW, BECAUSE THE NEW COVENANT IS WRITING 40:44 THAT SAME LAW IN THE HEART - IT'S THE SAME LAW. 40:49 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ALL ABOUT LOVE - THE FIRST FOUR 40:52 COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH OUR LOVE FOR GOD. 40:53 THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH OUR LOVE FOR OUR FELLOW 40:56 MAN. THAT MUST BE WRITTEN ON THE 40:58 HEART - WHEN WE LOVE GOD, WE WILL KEEP THE FIRST FOUR. 41:00 WHEN WE LOVE OUR FELLOW MAN WE WILL KEEP THE LAST SIX AND SO 41:03 WHAT'S DIFFERENT IS THE FIRST COVENANT WAS WHAT YOU CALL A 41:06 CONDITIONAL COVENANT - WHERE GOD SAID, 'I'LL DO THIS IF YOU DO 41:10 THIS.' THEY SAID, 'WE'LL DO IT.' AND THEY DIDN'T. 41:15 THE NEXT COVENANT - THE NEW COVENANT - WHAT PROMISE IS MADE 41:20 BY PEOPLE IN THE NEW COVENANT? YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE NEW 41:25 COVENANT? GO WITH ME - WHERE DO YOU THINK 41:27 YOU FIRST FIND THE NEW COVENANT? IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, OF COURSE. 41:32 JEREMIAH 31 - LET'S LOOK AT THE NEW COVENANT HERE - VERSE 31 - 41:41 THIS SHOULD BE EASY TO REMEMBER - JEREMIAH 31:31, "BEHOLD, THE 41:46 DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT 41:49 WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH - NOT 41:52 ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE 41:55 DAY THAT I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF 41:58 EGYPT, MY COVENANT WHICH THEY BROKE, THOUGH I WAS 42:01 A HUSBAND TO THEM, SAYS THE LORD. 42:02 BUT THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF 42:05 ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAW IN 42:09 THEIR MINDS, AND WRITE IT ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE 42:11 THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. 42:13 NO MORE SHALL EVERY MAN TEACH HIS NEIGHBOR, AND EVERY MAN HIS 42:16 BROTHER, SAYING, 'KNOW THE LORD,' FOR THEY ALL SHALL KNOW 42:18 ME, FROM THE LEAST OF THEM TO THE GREATEST OF THEM, SAYS THE 42:21 LORD. FOR I WILL FORGIVE THEIR INIQUITY, AND THEIR SIN I WILL 42:23 REMEMBER NO MORE." NOW WHO'S MAKING THE PROMISE IN 42:28 THIS COVENANT - THE PEOPLE OR GOD? 42:31 IS THIS A CONDITIONAL PROMISE OR AN UNCONDITIONAL PROMISE? 42:35 IN OTHER WORDS, IS GOD SAYING 'I'LL DO THIS IF YOU DO THIS'? 42:38 THERE IS NOWHERE IN HERE WHERE GOD SAYS, 'IF YOU DO THIS, I'LL 42:42 MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH YOU. THE NEW COVENANT IS BASED UPON 42:46 WHAT CHRIST DID. IT'S BASED UPON BETTER PROMISES. 42:50 IT'S NOT THE PROMISES OF THE PEOPLE, IT'S BASED ON THE 42:53 PROMISES OF GOD TO WRITE THAT SAME LAW - 42:56 EXCEPT WRITE IT NOW WHERE? IN OUR HEARTS. 43:00 AND SO THE IDEA THAT THE NEW COVENANT IS TO OBLITERATE OR DO 43:03 AWAY WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, YOU CAN'T SUPPORT THAT FROM THE 43:06 BIBLE - THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S TEACHING. THE NEW COVENANT IS, 43:10 THROUGH THE LOVE OF CHRIST, HIS LAW IS WRITTEN IN OUR HEART. 43:13 NOW, HERE'S ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT THING: OLD COVENANT - 43:17 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THIS - OLD COVENANT IS MADE WITH THE JEWS. 43:22 THE NEW COVENANT IS MADE WITH WHO? GENTILES? 43:27 LET'S READ IT - IT SAYS, 'I'LL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE 43:32 HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH' AND IF YOU GO TO HEBREWS 43:36 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHEN IT QUOTES IT - HEBREWS 8, VERSE 8 - 43:39 IT SAYS THE SAME THING, 'I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE 43:42 HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. SO HOW IN THE WORLD 43:45 CAN ANY GENTILE BE SAVED THROUGH THE NEW COVENANT? 43:49 PAUL MAKES IT VERY CLEAR - THE APOSTLES MADE IT VERY CLEAR - 43:53 WE ARE GRAFTED IN. WE ARE ADOPTED. 43:56 WE RECEIVE CIRCUMCISION IN THE HEART. IF YOU ARE - 44:03 IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED. 'HE IS NOT A JEW 44:06 WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY, HE IS A JEW WHICH IS' - WHAT? 44:09 'ONE INWARDLY' - AND SO WE BECOME ADOPTED IN. 44:12 NOW GOD STILL HAS A WORK FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE - I DON'T WANT TO 44:14 MAKE IT SOUND LIKE THEY DON'T EXIST ANYMORE, BUT THE NEW 44:18 COVENANT IS NOT GIVEN TO LITERAL JEWS, IT'S GIVEN TO SPIRITUAL 44:23 JEWS, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE LITERAL JEWS BECAUSE IT'S 44:26 WHOSOEVER WILL. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? BUT IF YOU THINK THAT 44:31 THE NEW COVENANT IS ONLY FOR LITERAL JEWS, A LOT OF US HERE 44:34 ARE IN TROUBLE. SO HOW DO YOU RESOLVE THAT? 44:37 THAT'S WHY PAUL SAYS, 'ALL OF ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED.' BECAUSE 44:42 GOD HAS MADE AN UNCONDITIONAL PROMISE THAT HE WILL SAVE ALL OF 44:46 HIS CHILDREN THAT COME TO HIM IN FAITH - THAT WHOSOEVER WILL - 44:52 WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM WILL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING 44:54 LIFE. IS IT BASED ON OUR PROMISES OR HIS PROMISE? 44:58 NOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF PROMISES AND COVENANTS IN THE BIBLE THAT 45:02 WERE CONDITIONAL. LET ME GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF THAT. 45:05 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME - WHO HAS LEVITICUS 26, VERSE 3? 45:09 IF YOU'VE GOT THAT, HOLD UP YOUR HAND. 45:11 DID WE GIVE THAT TO SOMEBODY? DID I SEE A HAND? 45:15 OH, IT'S WAY BACK HERE. DO YOU HAVE IT? ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO 45:17 GET YOU A MICROPHONE AND WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MINUTE. 45:21 LET ME - I'LL READ TO YOU FOR INSTANCE, DEUTERONOMY 11 - I'M 45:24 JUST GOING TO JUMP AROUND A LITTLE BIT AND SHOW YOU THE 45:26 DIFFERENCE IN THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF COVENANTS - DEUTERONOMY 45:29 11:22, "FOR IF YOU CAREFULLY KEEP ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS 45:35 WHICH I COMMAND YOU TO DO - TO LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD, TO WALK 45:38 IN ALL HIS WAYS, AND TO HOLD FAST TO HIM - THEN THE LORD WILL 45:42 DRIVE OUT ALL THESE NATIONS FROM BEFORE YOU AND YOU WILL 45:46 DISPOSSESS GREATER AND MIGHTIER NATIONS THAN 45:48 YOURSELVES...BEHOLD, I SET BEFORE YOU TODAY A BLESSING AND 45:52 A CURSE: THE BLESSING, IF YOU OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE 45:55 LORD YOUR GOD WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY; AND THE CURSE, IF YOU 45:57 DO NOT OBEY." SO IS THIS AN UNCONDITIONAL OR A 46:01 CONDITIONAL PROMISE? CONDITIONAL. ARE WE READY? 46:06 GO AHEAD, LET'S READ LEVITICUS 26:3 AND 4. 46:10 >>IF YOU WALK IN MY STATUTES AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND 46:14 PERFORM THEM, THEN I WILL GIVE YOU RAIN IN ITS SEASON, THE LAND 46:18 SHALL YIELD ITS PRODUCE, AND THE TREES OF THE FIELD SHALL YIELD 46:21 THEIR FRUIT." 46:23 >>CONDITIONAL OR UNCONDITIONAL? 46:25 BY THE WAY, ONE REASON I'M READING THESE - DO SOME OF GOD'S 46:29 CONDITIONAL PROMISES STILL APPLY? 46:32 WHEN GOD SAID, 'PROVE ME NOW HEREWITH,' SAYS THE LORD, 'BRING 46:38 ALL THE TITHES INTO THE STOREHOUSE AND SEE IF I DON'T 46:41 OPEN FOR YOU THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POUR OUT A BLESSING 46:43 THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE IT.' IS THAT 46:46 AN UNCONDITIONAL OR A CONDITIONAL COVENANT? 46:50 IT'S CONDITIONAL, BUT DOES IT STILL EXIST? 46:53 DOES GOD STILL INVITE US TO TEST HIM? 46:54 DOES HE STILL BLESS THOSE THAT OBEY HIM? 46:56 I MEAN, DOES THE BIBLE SAY IT'LL BE WELL WITH THOSE THAT SERVE 46:59 THE LORD? AND SO, YEAH, THERE'S A LOT OF 47:02 EXAMPLES NEW AND OLD TESTAMENT WHERE GOD TALKS ABOUT HIS 47:05 CONDITIONAL COVENANTS - THERE ARE CONDITIONAL PROMISES. 47:09 AND THEN IF YOU GO TO DEUTERONOMY - HERE'S ANOTHER ONE 47:13 - DEUTERONOMY 28, VERSE 9, "THE LORD WILL ESTABLISH YOU AS A 47:18 HOLY PEOPLE TO HIMSELF, JUST AS HE HAS SWORN TO YOU, IF YOU KEEP 47:21 THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD YOUR GOD AND WALK IN HIS WAYS. 47:24 THEN ALL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH SHALL SEE THAT YOU ARE CALLED BY 47:27 THE NAME OF THE LORD, AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID OF YOU. 47:29 AND THE LORD WILL GRANT YOU PLENTY OF GOODS, IN THE FRUIT OF 47:32 YOUR BODY, IN THE INCREASE OF YOUR LIVESTOCK, AND IN THE 47:34 PRODUCE OF YOUR GROUND, IN THE LAND OF WHICH THE LORD SWORE TO 47:37 YOUR FATHERS TO GIVE YOU." GO TO DEUTERONOMY 30, VERSE 8, 47:41 "AND YOU WILL AGAIN OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD AND DO ALL HIS 47:44 COMMANDMENTS WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY. 47:46 THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL MAKE YOU ABOUND IN ALL THE WORK OF YOUR 47:49 HAND, IN THE FRUIT OF YOUR BODY, IN THE INCREASE OF YOUR 47:51 LIVESTOCK...FOR THE LORD WILL AGAIN REJOICE OVER YOU FOR GOOD 47:54 AS HE REJOICED OVER YOUR FATHERS, IF YOU OBEY THE VOICE 47:58 OF THE LORD YOUR GOD." NOW YOU'LL GO TO THE ONE - 48:01 SOMEONE HAS 1 KINGS 3:14 - WHO HAS THAT? OVER HERE? 48:06 WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 48:08 ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A CONDITIONAL PROMISE. 48:10 1 JAMES - AND SOMEBODY ELSE, I THINK, HAS GOT DEUTERONOMY 29:1 48:14 - DID WE GIVE THAT OUT TO SOMEBODY? 48:18 I DON'T SEE A HAND SO I'M GOING TO READ IT, OKAY? 48:20 DEUTERONOMY 29:1, "THESE ARE THE WORDS OF THE COVENANT WHICH THE 48:25 LORD COMMANDED MOSES TO MAKE WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN 48:29 THE LAND OF MOAB, BESIDES THE COVENANT WHICH HE MADE WITH THEM 48:34 IN HOREB." NOW HERE'S TWO MOUNTAINS - HOREB 48:37 AND MOAB - WHAT SEPARATES THESE TWO MOUNTAINS? WHO KNOWS? 48:43 FORTY YEARS SEPARATES THOSE TWO MOUNTAINS. 48:47 WHEN THEY FIRST CAME OUT OF EGYPT THEY WENT TO MOUNT HOREB - 48:50 MOUNT HOREB AND MOUNT SINAI ARE THE SAME MOUNTAIN - AND SO HE 48:56 GIVES THEM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT? 48:59 YOU CAN SEE IN MALACHI CHAPTER 4, IT SAYS, 'MOSES GAVE YOU THE 49:02 TEN COMMANDMENTS IN HOREB.' IT'S MOUNT SINAI - SAME MOUNTAIN. 49:06 MOAB IS THE MOUNTAIN WHERE MOSES DIED FORTY YEARS LATER. 49:11 AND SO YOU'VE GOT THESE TWO MOUNTAINS AND THE BOOK 49:14 DEUTERONOMY MEANS 'A REPEATING OF THE COVENANT'. 49:18 GOD REPEATS HIS PROMISES AND HIS COVENANT TO THE PEOPLE THERE IN 49:20 THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. ALRIGHT, READ FOR US 1 KINGS 3 - 49:25 WHO HAS THAT? 1 KINGS 3, VERSE 14. GO AHEAD. 49:30 >>SO IF YOU WALK IN MY WAYS, TO KEEP MY STATUTES AND MY 49:35 COMMANDMENTS, AS YOUR FATHER DAVID WALKED, 49:37 THEN I WILL LENGTHEN YOUR DAYS." 49:39 >>ALRIGHT, SO CONDITIONAL OR UNCONDITIONAL? 49:44 CONDITIONAL PROMISE. 49:45 YOU KNOW, GOD IS GOOD AND HE HAS SHOWN A LOT OF MERCY. 49:49 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO GET TO BEFORE OUR TIME 49:52 RUNS OUT - IN LIGHT OF WHAT WE SAID ABOUT THE TWO COVENANTS A 49:56 MINUTE AGO, TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO GALATIANS 4 - 49:59 YOU'RE GOING TO RUN INTO THIS. GALATIANS 4, VERSE 22 - IT MAKES 50:04 THE COMPARISON BETWEEN HAGAR AND SARAH - ISAAC AND ISHMAEL - 50:11 GALATIANS 4:22, "FOR IT IS WRITTEN THAT ABRAHAM HAD TWO 50:16 SONS: THE ONE BY A BONDWOMAN, THE OTHER BY A FREEWOMAN. 50:20 BUT HE WHO WAS OF THE BONDWOMAN WAS BORN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, 50:24 AND HE OF THE FREEWOMAN THROUGH PROMISE." 50:28 ALRIGHT, WHO WAS THE BONDWOMAN? HAGAR. AND THE FREEWOMAN IS? 50:31 SARAH. HAGAR WAS SARAH'S SLAVE. NOW WHY IS PAUL SAYING THAT 50:37 HAGAR WAS OF THE FLESH AND SARAH WAS OF FAITH? 50:42 BECAUSE GOD HAD MADE A PROMISE TO ABRAHAM THAT 'THROUGH YOUR 50:45 SON WITH SARAH, ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WOULD BE BLESSED.' 50:49 AND SARAH GOT OLD, SHE COULDN'T HAVE CHILDREN ANYMORE, AND THEY 50:52 THOUGHT, 'WE'LL HELP GOD OUT.' AND THEY TRIED TO USE EARTHLY 50:56 MEANS - FLESHLY MEANS - CARNAL MEANS - TO ACCOMPLISH GOD'S 50:59 PROMISE. YEAH, THEY HAD A SON, BUT IT WAS - YOU COULD SAY IT 51:03 WAS RIGHTEOUSNESS BY WORKS. HE WAS NOT THE SON OF PROMISE. 51:07 IT WAS MAN'S ATTEMPT TO FORCE GOD'S PROMISES AND THAT'S KIND 51:12 OF LIKE SAVING OURSELVES BY OUR OWN WORKS. 51:15 AND HE SAYS THEN, IN VERSE 24, "WHICH THINGS ARE SYMBOLIC. 51:21 FOR THESE ARE THE TWO COVENANTS: THE ONE FROM MOUNT SINAI WHICH 51:25 GIVES BIRTH TO BONDAGE, WHICH IS HAGAR - FOR THIS HAGAR IS MOUNT 51:29 SINAI" - MADE ON FAULTY PROMISES - NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - "IN 51:34 ARABIA, AND CORRESPONDS TO JERUSALEM WHICH NOW IS, AND IS 51:39 IN BONDAGE WITH HER CHILDREN." - THE PROMISE THAT THE CHILDREN 51:42 OF ISRAEL MADE AT MOUNT SINAI, 'WE WILL DO IT. 51:44 WE'RE GOING TO DO IT BY OUR WORKS.' - THAT WAS THE SAME 51:46 PROMISE THEY WERE MAKING IN JERUSALEM IN THE TIME OF PAUL. 51:49 THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES - THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES - IT 51:52 WAS ALL ABOUT WORKS AND HE SAID, 'IT CORRESPONDS TO OLD 51:55 JERUSALEM.' BUT THEN PAUL GOES ON AND SAYS, "...IN BONDAGE WITH 52:00 HER CHILDREN - BUT THE JERUSALEM ABOVE" - THE NEW JERUSALEM - "IS 52:03 FREE, WHICH IS THE MOTHER OF US ALL." IT'S BY LOOKING UP - 52:07 IT'S THROUGH FAITH. AND WHERE IS CHRIST NOW? IS HE BELOW OR IS HE 52:11 IN THE NEW JERUSALEM ABOVE - IN THE TEMPLE ABOVE? 52:14 AND SO PAUL IS JUST MAKING A COMPARISON BETWEEN - YOU'VE GOT 52:17 ONE THAT IS THROUGH WORKS AND YOU'VE GOT ONE THAT IS THROUGH 52:19 FAITH. AND SO, THAT'S ALL HE'S SAYING. 52:22 HE'S NOT SAYING WHAT HAPPENED AT MOUNT SINAI WAS BAD. 52:27 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF THE COVENANT? 52:32 IT SAYS HERE IN EPHESIANS 2, VERSE 6, "AND RAISED US UP 52:37 TOGETHER, AND MADE US SIT TOGETHER IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES 52:40 IN CHRIST JESUS." SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ - 52:43 WHEN DOES JESUS ESTABLISH THE NEW COVENANT? 52:46 MARK 14 - YOU GOT YOUR BIBLES? 52:48 IF YOU'RE MAKING NOTES - AND I'LL HAVE MY NOTES ONLINE IF 52:52 ANYONE WANTS THEM - MATTHEW 26:26, LUKE 22:17, 1 CORINTHIANS 53:00 11:23 - THESE ARE PLACES WHERE, AT THE LAST SUPPER, GOD 53:04 INSTITUTES A SIGN - A TOKEN - OF THE NEW COVENANT. 53:09 AND WHAT DO WE DO IN THE CHURCH, TYPICALLY ONCE A QUARTER? 53:13 WHAT DO WE DO TO REMEMBER THE TOKEN OF THE NEW COVENANT? 53:18 IT'S THE COMMUNION SERVICE, RIGHT. 53:20 MARK 14:22, "AND AS THEY WERE EATING, JESUS TOOK BREAD, 53:24 BLESSED AND BROKE IT, AND GAVE IT TO THEM AND SAID, 'TAKE, EAT; 53:27 THIS IS MY BODY.' THEN HE TOOK THE CUP, AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN 53:31 THANKS HE GAVE IT TO THEM, AND THEY ALL DRANK FROM IT. 53:36 AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW COVENANT." 53:40 OLD COVENANT WHAT BLOOD WAS IT? 53:43 BLOOD OF GOATS AND ANIMALS - IT WAS ALL A SYMBOL. 53:47 NEW COVENANT - IT'S THE BLOOD OF JESUS, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY. 53:51 'ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU I'LL NO LONGER DRINK OF THE FRUIT OF THE 53:54 VINE UNTIL THAT DAY I DRINK IT NEW' - IT'S UNFERMENTED - 'WITH 53:58 YOU IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.' AND SO, HERE JESUS, ON THURSDAY 54:02 NIGHT, HE ESTABLISHES THE NEW COVENANT. 54:05 OLD COVENANT, YOU HAD THE EARTHLY TEMPLE. 54:07 WHAT HAPPENED, WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS, IN THE TEMPLE? 54:12 THE VEIL WAS RIPPED. IS THERE A NEW TEMPLE NOW? 54:16 'WHAT,KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?' 54:19 YOU'RE LIVING STONES - CHRIST WAS A CORNERSTONE. JESUS SAID, 54:23 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE DAYS I'LL 54:25 MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS. BY THE WAY, THAT WAS THE ONLY 54:28 TESTIMONY THEY COULD GET THE TWO PEOPLE TO AGREE ON AT HIS TRIAL. 54:33 THEY ACTUALLY MISQUOTED IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT JESUS DID SAY IN 54:36 THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE AND IN THREE DAYS 54:38 I'LL RAISE IT UP' - AND HE SPOKE OF HIS BODY. 54:41 YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST. WE ARE NOW A LIVING TEMPLE. 54:44 OLD TEMPLE - VEIL RIPPED. WHAT ABOUT PRIESTHOOD? 54:47 SAME PRIESTHOOD? NEW COVENANT, NEW PRIESTHOOD. 54:50 WHAT HAPPENED, AT THE TRIAL OF CHRIST, 54:52 TO THE HIGH PRIEST'S GARMENTS? 54:54 HE TORE THEM - BECAUSE WE'RE NOT UNDER THAT PRIESTHOOD ANYMORE. 54:59 NOW THE BIBLE SAYS WE ARE A HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE. 55:03 WE ARE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD WITH THE LORD. 55:07 AND SO YOU'VE GOT A NEW TEMPLE, A NEW PRIESTHOOD, NEW 55:10 SACRIFICES, YOU'VE GOT BETTER PROMISES. 55:12 YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE OLD COVENANT AND THE NEW 55:15 COVENANT? AND SO WE DON'T NEED THE TEN 55:17 COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE, RIGHT? NO, YOU STILL HAVE THE SANCTUARY 55:22 AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SANCTUARY WAS THE COVENANT. IT 55:26 WAS THE HOLY OF HOLIES AND THE LAW WAS WRITTEN THERE AND JESUS 55:29 WROTE THAT WITH HIS FINGER. WHAT GOD WRITES IS ETERNAL. 55:32 'HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY BUT MY WORDS WILL NOT PASS 55:34 AWAY.' AND IT'S NOW TO BE WRITTEN HERE. 55:37 'THY WORD I'VE HIDDEN IN MY HEART THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN.' SIN 55:41 IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. SO THE NEW COVENANT IS TO HAVE 55:45 THE LAW WRITTEN IN THE HEART, RIGHT? 55:47 AND SO JUST - I THOUGHT THIS WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO KIND OF 55:51 REITERATE THAT. AND WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME. 55:54 I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO MAY HAVE JOINED US LATE - IF YOU 55:56 MISSED IT, WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD BOOK THAT HELPS EXPLAIN THE 55:59 COVENANTS. IT'S FREE. I HOPE YOU'LL SEND FOR IT. 56:01 WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS AND IT'S CALLED 'WHY THE OLD COVENANT 56:04 FAILED.' AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU THIS BOOK AND THEN 56:07 PLEASE READ IT AND SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. GOD BLESS YOU. 56:10 WE LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 56:14 >>AMAZING FACTS HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE. 56:16 >>I JUST PRAISE GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS. 56:18 >>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE. 56:21 >>IT'S ALL A PROCESS, GETTING TO WHERE I AM TODAY. 56:23 >>AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN - >>I FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT - 56:25 >>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE. 56:28 I GOT BAPTIZED INTO THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST - 56:31 >>I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 56:33 >>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. >>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. 56:38 >> AMAZING FACTS - MORE THAN 45 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING GOD'S 56:43 MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 56:45 >> AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS - AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 56:49 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT 56:52 - THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING 56:55 WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP - AND I'VE 56:59 NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE LET ME - LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND 57:01 FIND THIS. I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 57:03 >>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF 57:07 THESE GUYS STARTED BEING CHANGED - INCLUDING MYSELF. 57:10 >>MY QUESTION WAS 'WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' 57:14 THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS 57:17 A FATHER. 57:18 >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS 57:22 GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE. 57:24 >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. 57:27 THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND SO IRREFUTABLE AND I JUST WENT 57:31 'THIS IS REAL. THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 57:37 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:41 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:44 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:48 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST DAY EVENTS OF 57:51 REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 57:55 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 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