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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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I AM SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING
IN - WHETHER THIS IS YOUR FIRST
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TIME OR YOU ARE A DIE-HARD
VIEWER, WE ARE JUST SO EXCITED
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TO HAVE YOU AND IT
IS WONDERFUL TO BE BACK.
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I HAVE BEEN GONE FOR SEVERAL
WEEKS AND PASTOR DOUG HAS BEEN
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SO GRACIOUS AND SAID THAT I CAN
GIVE YOU A QUICK UPDATE ON WHAT
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I'VE BEEN UP TO SO I'M GOING TO
START RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I DON'T
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HAVE VERY MUCH TIME. AS
YOU'LL SEE IN THIS PICTURE
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RIGHT UP HERE, I HAVE BEEN
IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH ANOTHER
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PHOTOGRAPHER - WE WENT
WITH A SMALL GROUP - TO DOCUMENT
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DIFFERENT BIBLICAL
ARCHAEOLOGICAL LOCATIONS
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FOR A COMPANY HERE IN
TOWN THAT IS GOING TO BE DOING
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AN INTERACTIVE APP, A
WEB SITE, AND A MAGAZINE ON
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DIFFERENT BIBLICAL
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES.
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SO WE WERE TRAVELING AROUND
TURKEY, JORDAN, AND ISRAEL
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AND I'M GOING TO SHOW
YOU SOME HIGHLIGHTS THAT JUST
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BRING THE BIBLE ALIVE.
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AND IT WAS SO EXCITING TO
ACTUALLY SEE THESE PLACES.
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AND THE FIRST ONE - WE WERE
IN EASTERN TURKEY - RIGHT ABOUT
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TWENTY MILES FROM THE IRANIAN
BORDER AND IT IS VERY MUCH HOW I
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IMAGINE IT WAS
IN THE BIBLE TIMES.
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SHEEP, SHEPHERDS,
ROLLING HILLS, BLUE SKY.
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IT WAS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS AND
OUR FIRST STOP WAS NOAH'S ARK.
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THIS IS A PLACE THAT MANY
ARCHAEOLOGISTS THINK THAT THIS
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IS A VERY IMPORTANT,
SIGNIFICANT, ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
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AND SO WE WERE
DOCUMENTING NOAH'S ARK.
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IT IS NOT ON MOUNT ARARAT,
BUT IT'S ACROSS THE VALLEY FROM
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MOUNT ARARAT, WHICH
ITSELF IS ABOUT 17,000 FEET.
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IT IS A VOLCANIC MOUNTAIN
SO ANY WOODEN STRUCTURE WOULD,
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OBVIOUSLY, NOT HAVE SURVIVED
ON MOUNT ARARAT, BUT IN THE
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MOUNTAINS OF ARARAT
- LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS -
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THE ARK CAME TO REST. AND
SO THIS IS RIGHT ACROSS THE
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VALLEY FROM ARARAT. IT
HAS BEEN PRESERVED IN A
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MUDFLOW AND IS DEFINITELY
A VERY INTERESTING OBJECT.
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THE NEXT PICTURE YOU'LL SEE
PUTS THIS INTO - THE SIZE INTO
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PERSPECTIVE - THAT'S ME - THE
LITTLE TINY DOT AT THE END OF
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THIS BIG BOAT STRUCTURE AND
WALKING AROUND TAKES A VERY LONG
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TIME AND THERE IS NO DOUBT IN
MY MIND THAT THEY COULD HAVE FIT
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THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS
IN SOMETHING THAT BIG.
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IT WAS ABSOLUTELY HUGE
AND ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING.
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THIS NEXT PICTURE IS OUR
GROUP WALKING ON THE ARK AND
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THERE'S MOUNT
ARARAT IN THE DISTANCE.
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AND YOU CAN SEE ALL THE LAVA
- THE DARK STUFF - HAS ALL COME
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DOWN THE VALLEY
FROM MOUNT ARARAT.
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AND THEN WE ALSO SAW THESE
THINGS CALLED 'ANCHOR STONES'.
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THESE ARE LOCATED IN VARIOUS
PLACES AROUND - IN THE VALLEY
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AND OVER THE MOUNTAINS.
THEY BELIEVE THAT THESE WERE
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TIED TO THE ARK, NOT AS
ANCHORS BUT TO STABILIZE IT.
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SO THEY WERE TIED ALL THE
WAY AROUND THE ARK AND THERE'S
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PLACES WHERE YOU FIND THESE -
YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE ROPE WOULD
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HAVE - OR THE WHATEVER - WOULD
HAVE HELD IT ONTO THE ARK - IS
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UP THERE AT THE TOP.
SO HUGE BIG ROCKS AND VERY
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INTERESTING - SO THEY ARE
ALL OVER IN DIFFERENT VALLEYS.
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ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VALLEY
FROM NOAH'S ARK, DOWN IN THE
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BOTTOM, IS THIS - HUGE
BIG FOSSIL DEPOSITS - MASSIVE
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BOULDERS JUST FULL OF FOSSILS.
THIS IS A SAND DOLLAR THAT
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CLEARLY DIDN'T MAKE IT ONTO THE
ARK BECAUSE HE IS A FOSSIL NOW
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AND HAS BEEN FOR
THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
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AND THERE'S JUST HUGE ROCKS FULL
OF SAND DOLLARS AND ALL KINDS OF
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LITTLE SEA CREATURES THAT ARE
ALL NOW DEPOSITED DOWN THERE.
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SO IT WAS VERY EXCITING TO SEE
THAT THERE'S SO MUCH EVIDENCE OF
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A FLOOD AT 7,000 FEET WHERE
THE ARK IS. THERE'S ALL KINDS OF
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LITTLE SEA CREATURES
SO IT'S VERY, VERY COOL.
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THEN WE STOPPED BY, IN JORDAN,
MOUNT NEBO, WHICH YOU REMEMBER,
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MOUNT NEBO IS WHERE MOSES -
HE DIED THERE - BUT IT WAS ALSO
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WHERE GOD SHOWED HIM THE
PROMISED LAND AND FROM UP THERE
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HE COULD SEE WHERE THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL WERE GOING RIGHT
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BEFORE THEY
CROSSED OVER JORDAN RIVER.
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FROM THERE YOU CAN SEE JERUSALEM
AND BETHLEHEM AND JERICHO AND
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BACK THEN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
LUSH AND GREEN, I'M TOLD, BUT
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RIGHT NOW IT'S
DESERT AND VERY, VERY DRY.
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SO THAT WAS MOUNT NEBO.
THE NEXT PLACE IS GOMORRAH -
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YOU'VE HEARD OF
SODOM AND GOMORRAH?
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AND GOD DESTROYED THEM WITH
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE AND THIS IS
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GOMORRAH, THEY BELIEVE.
HERE YOU CAN FIND ALL KINDS OF
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SULPHUR BALLS, WHICH THIS IS
WHAT SULPHUR BALLS LOOK LIKE.
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THEY MAKE GREAT SOUVENIRS
- PRESENTS TO BRING BACK.
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THEY'RE FREE AND THEY'RE
GOOD CONVERSATIONAL PIECES.
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SO I BROUGHT BACK
SOME SULPHUR BALLS.
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THE NEXT PLACE IS WADI RUM.
WADI RUM IS IN SOUTHERN JORDAN.
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IT IS BELIEVED TO BE THE SITE
WHERE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
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HUNG OUT IN THEIR WANDERINGS
IN THE WILDERNESS FOR 40 YEARS.
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IT IS A VERY LARGE AREA BUT IT'S
PROTECTED BY HIGH STONE CLIFFS
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AND IT WAS DEFINITELY LARGE
ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE, YOU KNOW,
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A MILLION-PLUS PEOPLE SO THAT
WAS VERY INTERESTING TO SEE.
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NOW IT'S JUST A DESERT POPULATED
BY CAMELS AND BEDOUINS AND THE
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FEW ODD TERRORISTS, BUT IT
IS BEAUTIFUL. AND THE LAST PLACE
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I WANT TO SHOW YOU WAS
OUR VISIT TO JERUSALEM.
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AND ONE OF THE PLACES I GOT
TO GO TO WAS THE GARDEN TOMB.
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE THAT THIS
IS THE GARDEN TOMB WHERE JESUS'
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BODY WAS LAID BECAUSE IT
FITS THE CRITERIA - THAT IT WAS
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OUTSIDE OF THE CITY WALLS, IT
WAS IN A GARDEN, IT WAS A RICH
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MAN'S TOMB - CLEARLY NOT
EVERYBODY HAD LOVELY PLACES LIKE
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THIS. IT WAS ALSO
NEAR THE CRUCIFIXION
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SITE, WHICH WAS OUTSIDE OF THE
CITY BY THE DAMASCUS GATE, AND
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THE MAJOR TRADE
ROAD CAME THROUGH
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THAT GATE TO JERICHO AND
IT WAS RIGHT NEAR THIS SITE.
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SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WE
DON'T HAVE A HUNDRED PERCENT
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PROOF THAT IT IS BUT,
YOU KNOW, IT FITS CRITERIA
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AND IT SEEMS LIKE A
LOGICAL PLACE FOR IT.
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THE REALLY INTERESTING THING, IN
THE NEXT PICTURE, IS YOU CAN SEE
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THIS TROUGH AND THAT'S IN FRONT
OF IT WHERE THE BIG MASSIVE
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STONE WAS ROLLED TO CLOSE
OFF THE TOMB WOULD HAVE BEEN.
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THEY BELIEVE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
HEWN FROM THE ROCK TO THE LEFT
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AND THEN ROLLED ON THIS
TROUGH AND THEN PUT IN PLACE.
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AT THE END - AND YOU CAN'T
REALLY SEE IT - THERE'S A BIG
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PIECE OF ROCK THAT WOULD PREVENT
IT FROM GOING PAST THE OPENING
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AND THEN IN THE WALL ON THE LEFT
THERE WAS A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN
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SEE THERE WAS AN IRON
NAIL - NAILED INTO THE ROCK -
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LIKE THE ROMAN SEAL -
TO STOP IT BEING OPENED AND
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COMING BACK THE OTHER
WAY. THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING.
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THE NEXT PICTURE IS INSIDE.
THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
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THERE'S - IT WAS A FAMILY
BURIAL PLOT FOR TWO ADULTS
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AND ONE CHILD
RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
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BUT THEY BELIEVE JESUS WAS
PLACED ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE AND
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YOU CAN SEE IN THE NEXT PICTURE
- IT'S EASIER - OVER IN THE TOP
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LEFT HAND CORNER THERE'S THAT
GRAY ROCK AREA - THE REASON THAT
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THEY THINK THAT THAT'S WHERE
JESUS WAS IS BECAUSE IT WAS A
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BORROWED TOMB AND THEY
NEEDED TO QUICKLY MAKE IT TO
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FIT HIS BODY AND IT, OBVIOUSLY,
HADN'T BEEN MADE FOR LONGER
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INDIVIDUALS SO THAT IT WAS
QUICKLY HEWN OUT OF THE ROCK
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AND, YOU KNOW, THEY
DIDN'T GET IT ALL NICE AND NEAT.
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SO THAT'S THE THINKING -
THAT THAT'S WHERE JESUS WAS.
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SO IT WAS JUST VERY, VERY
COOL TO BE INSIDE OF THERE.
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SO AS I WAS STANDING IN THERE,
IT SUDDENLY OCCURRED TO ME THAT
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I VISITED, YOU KNOW, SO MANY
GRAVES AND MONUMENTS AND TOMBS
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TO OTHER RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL,
FAMOUS HISTORICAL PEOPLE AROUND
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THE WORLD, BUT
THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
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THERE LIES THEIR BODY - AND
THAT'S COOL - THERE THEY ARE,
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WAITING UNTIL THE RESURRECTION
- BUT I SUDDENLY - IT JUST
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OCCURRED TO ME - AND I'VE KNOWN
THIS ALL MY LIFE - YOU ALL KNOW
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IT, BUT WHEN YOU'RE STANDING
INSIDE OF THIS EMPTY TOMB, IT IS
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THE ONLY PLACE ON
THE PLANET THAT'S EMPTY -
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THAT BELONGED OR WAS
USED BY A RELIGIOUS LEADER.
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AS CHRISTIANS, WE ARE THE ONLY
PEOPLE THAT CAN SAY 'OUR LEADER
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IS NOT DEAD WAITING
FOR THE RESURRECTION.
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HE IS ALIVE AND ON THE
DOOR INSIDE OF IT WAS AWESOME.
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THE SIGN SAYS, 'HE IS
NOT HERE - FOR HE IS RISEN'.
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AND THAT WAS JUST INCREDIBLE
- ONE OF THOSE 'AH!' MOMENTS.
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I'M STANDING INSIDE OF THERE
REALIZING, 'WOW, THIS IS WHERE
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THE ANGEL CAME, THIS
IS WHERE HIS BODY WAS.
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RESURRECTION MORNING THAT
BIG STONE WHICH WAS EIGHT FEET
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ACROSS AND MASSIVE -
I MEAN, IT'S NOT THERE -
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THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WENT.
YOU KNOW, PICKED IT UP AND MOVED
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IT - YOU KNOW, BUT THAT TOMB IS
EMPTY AND, AS CHRISTIANS, THAT
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SHOULD BE AN ASSURANCE
AND EXCITEMENT. THERE'S PROOF.
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HE ISN'T HERE. HE IS RISEN.
SO ON THAT NOTE, THAT WAS MY
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QUICK TRIP AROUND THE MIDDLE
EAST AND I WOULD LOVE US TO SING
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A SONG THAT TIES RIGHT IN WITH
THAT - #166 - SO JOIN WITH US -
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'CHRIST THE
LORD IS RISEN TODAY'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU TO WARREN IN
AUSTRALIA, SELENA, JONATHAN AND
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RUT IN THE NETHERLANDS, AND
VICKY AND VERONICA IN TRINIDAD
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AND TOBAGO FOR PICKING
THAT SONG WITH US. AT THIS TIME,
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LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, YOU ARE ALIVE
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AND YOU ARE COMING BACK ONE
DAY TO GET US VERY, VERY SOON.
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WE HAVE ASSURANCE - WE HAVE HOPE
- BECAUSE YOUR TOMB IS EMPTY AND
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ON THE DOOR IS A SIGN THAT SAYS,
'HE IS NOT HERE - HE IS RISEN'
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AND WE KNOW THAT
THAT IS THE TRUTH.
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I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH
US TODAY AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD
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AND WE STUDY TOGETHER.
PLEASE BE WITH OUR SPEAKER.
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BE WITH OUR EXTENDED FAMILY
AROUND THE WORLD AND GIVE US THE
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BLESSING THAT YOU HAVE
FOR US. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS
GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US - OH,
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THERE HE IS - BY
PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON.
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HE IS OUR HEALTH AND VISITATION
PASTOR HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH.
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>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH LADIES
AND A HAPPY DAY TO YOU ALL.
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WELCOME TO CENTRAL STUDY HOUR.
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WE HAVE A FREE GIFT TODAY -
IT'S A VERY GOOD ONE - 'SATAN'S
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CONFUSING COUNTERFEITS' - FOR
EVERY GOOD THING THAT GOD HAS
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GIVEN TO US THE DEVIL'S GOT SOME
PHONY - WHATEVER YOU WANT TO
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CALL IT - TO TRY AND PAWN THAT
OFF IN PLACE OF THE GENUINE.
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WELL, THIS IS OFFER #191 AND
IF YOU CALL 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR
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1-866-788-3966, AMAZING
FACTS WILL SEND YOU THIS BOOK.
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AND WE'RE ON THE LESSON - LESSON
#11 - 'THE APOSTLES AND THE LAW'
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- AND THE MEMORY TEXT IS
FROM ROMANS 7:12 - FROM PAUL'S
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EPISTLE THERE IT SAYS,
"THEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY, AND
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THE COMMANDMENT
HOLY AND JUST AND GOOD."
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SO HAVING READ THAT, I WANT TO
ACTUALLY READ THE INTRODUCTION
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ON SABBATH AFTERNOON'S
PAGE. IT'S ALWAYS GOOD,
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I THINK, TO DO THAT. IT
GIVES US A CLEAR OVERVIEW OF
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WHERE WE ARE
SUPPOSED TO GO IN THE LESSON.
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SO I READ THE FOLLOWING,
"WITH SO MUCH EVIDENCE FOR THE
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CONTINUED VALIDITY OF GOD'S LAW,
WHY DO SO MANY CHRISTIANS ARGUE
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AGAINST IT?" - AND THEY
DO. AND THE AUTHOR LISTS THREE
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THINGS HERE: FIRST, SOME, AS WE
HAVE SEEN, LOOK AT CERTAIN NEW
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TESTAMENT TEXTS THAT CONDEMN A
FALSE UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW'S
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FUNCTION BUT CONCLUDE THAT THE
PROBLEM IS WITH THE LAW ITSELF.
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AS A RESULT, THEY CLAIM THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT OBLIGATORY
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FOR THOSE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT
- YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THAT.
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SECOND POINT: OTHERS ARE SO
CONVINCED THAT THE SABBATH IS
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NOT BINDING ON CHRISTIANS
THAT IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY THIS
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POSITION, THEY CLAIM THAT
ALL THE COMMANDMENTS HAVE BEEN
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CRUCIFIED WITH
JESUS ON THE CROSS.
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YOU'VE HEARD THAT
TOO AS WELL, I'M SURE.
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AND THE THIRD ONE - THIRD -
SOME ARGUE THAT THE OTHER NINE
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COMMANDMENTS ARE IN EFFECT, BUT
THAT THE FOURTH - I WONDER WHY
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THE FOURTH - THE SEVENTH-DAY
SABBATH - HAS BEEN SUPERCEDED BY
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SUNDAY, WHICH IS KEPT IN HONOR
OF THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS
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CHRIST. THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL BE THE
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FIRST TO TELL YOU
THAT. THAT IS NOT THE CASE.
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ANYWAY, NUMEROUS PROBLEMS
EXIST WITH ALL THESE POSITIONS -
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AND THEY DO. THIS
WEEK WE'LL LOOK AT THE
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ATTITUDE OF CHRIST'S APOSTLES.
HERE'S WHERE WE GET SOME GOOD
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CONCRETE EVIDENCE FROM FIRST
CENTURY WITNESSES AND ACTUAL
00:15:40.30\00:15:44.10
ONES WHO KNEW CHRIST.
THIS WEEK WE'LL LOOK AT THE
00:15:44.10\00:15:47.10
ATTITUDE OF CHRIST'S APOSTLES
CONCERNING THE LAW BECAUSE
00:15:47.10\00:15:50.86
SURELY, IF IT WERE TO HAVE
BEEN NULLED OR MODIFIED AFTER
00:15:50.86\00:15:56.20
CHRIST'S DEATH - THE APOSTLES
WOULD HAVE KNOWN SOMETHING ABOUT
00:15:56.20\00:15:59.50
IT - AND I THINK THAT'S A
GOOD THING TO ASSUME, DON'T YOU
00:15:59.50\00:16:02.40
THINK? SO FIRST OF
ALL, WE'RE GOING TO
00:16:02.40\00:16:04.93
LOOK HERE INTO SUNDAY'S
LESSON, 'PAUL AND THE LAW'.
00:16:04.93\00:16:10.90
AND THE FACT THAT PAUL WROTE
ALMOST HALF OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:16:10.90\00:16:16.13
- THERE'S A REASON WHY HE'S
PROBABLY THE MOST CITED WHEN
00:16:16.13\00:16:19.93
THESE ISSUES COME UP CONCERNING
THE LAW OF GOD AND THIS SECTION
00:16:19.93\00:16:26.46
ON SUNDAY FEATURES SOME OF
THE PRIME PASSAGES FROM PAUL'S
00:16:26.46\00:16:30.43
EPISTLES, WHICH ARE
USED BY PEOPLE THAT WE CALL
00:16:30.43\00:16:33.96
'ANTINOMIANISTS' - ANTI - THAT
IS 'AGAINST' OR 'IN PLACE OF' -
00:16:33.96\00:16:40.96
NOMIANIST - IT'S FROM THE GREEK
WORD 'NOMOS' - WHICH MEANS LAW.
00:16:40.96\00:16:44.46
SO WE CALL THEM ANTINOMIANISTS -
PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THE LAW, FOR
00:16:44.46\00:16:47.53
ONE REASON OR ANOTHER -
HAS BEEN DONE AWAY WITH.
00:16:47.53\00:16:51.16
SO AS WE LOOK AT THESE PASSAGES
USED BY THE ANTINOMIANISTS TO
00:16:51.16\00:16:56.26
PROVE, SUPPOSEDLY, THAT
THE LAW HAS BEEN ABOLISHED,
00:16:56.26\00:16:59.13
WE'LL FIND IT'S NOT THE CASE.
00:16:59.13\00:17:01.96
WE'LL LOOK AT SOME OF THESE
AND WE'LL LOOK AT THEM, FIRST OF
00:17:01.96\00:17:05.16
ALL, IN
ISOLATION - OUT OF CONTEXT.
00:17:05.16\00:17:08.83
THEN WE'LL PUT THEM IN THEIR
CONTEXT AND WE'LL SEE THAT THE
00:17:08.83\00:17:14.53
ANTINOMIANIST ARGUMENT JUST
SPREADS ITS LITTLE WINGS AND
00:17:14.53\00:17:17.60
FLIES AWAY - JUST
DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE.
00:17:17.60\00:17:20.46
WE COME UP WITH THE EXACT
OPPOSITE - THE LAW HAS NOT BEEN
00:17:20.46\00:17:23.20
ABOLISHED, IT'S
ACTUALLY ESTABLISHED.
00:17:23.20\00:17:26.96
SO A WELL-KNOWN ONE IN ROMANS
3:28 - AND THIS IS PAUL WRITING
00:17:26.96\00:17:32.33
THIS, "THEREFORE WE CONCLUDE
THAT A MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH
00:17:32.33\00:17:37.06
WITHOUT THE DEEDS OF THE
LAW." DO YOU BELIEVE THAT?
00:17:37.06\00:17:42.30
YOU SHOULD, IT'S IN THE BIBLE.
00:17:42.30\00:17:43.90
YEP, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE
- 'THEREFORE WE CONCLUDE THAT A
00:17:43.90\00:17:47.10
MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH
WITHOUT THE DEEDS OF THE LAW.'
00:17:47.10\00:17:50.73
BUT, OF COURSE, IT'S
NOT THE WHOLE STORY, IS IT?
00:17:50.73\00:17:54.43
BUT THAT FINAL CONCLUSION - BUT
WHAT FINAL CONCLUSION DO WE DRAW
00:17:54.43\00:17:59.13
WHEN WE READ, ALONG WITH
THIS, ROMANS 3:31 WHERE THE SAME
00:17:59.13\00:18:06.36
APOSTLE, IN THE SAME CHAPTER
SAYS, "DO WE MAKE THEN VOID THE
00:18:06.36\00:18:11.70
LAW BY FAITH?" -
QUESTION: DO WE MAKE THEN THE
00:18:11.70\00:18:15.63
LAW VOID BY FAITH?
00:18:15.63\00:18:17.96
- AND THE ANSWER IS, "GOD
FORBID" - HE SAYS, 'GOD FORBID'
00:18:17.96\00:18:22.90
- NO, HE SAYS,
'WE ESTABLISH THE LAW.
00:18:22.90\00:18:25.50
SO ANOTHER QUESTION: HOW IS
IT THEN THAT FAITH - FAITH - OR
00:18:25.50\00:18:33.10
FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST - DOES NOT
CANCEL OUT THE LAW BUT ACTUALLY
00:18:33.10\00:18:37.06
ESTABLISHES IT?
THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
00:18:37.06\00:18:39.76
SO I WANT TO READ TO YOU FROM
THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST BIBLE
00:18:39.76\00:18:42.86
COMMENTARY, WHICH IS
ABBREVIATED, VERY CONVENIENTLY,
00:18:42.86\00:18:47.40
AS SDABC - VOLUME 6, PAGE
510 - IT SAYS, "THE PLAN OF
00:18:47.40\00:18:54.96
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH REVEALS
GOD'S REGARD FOR HIS LAW IN
00:18:54.96\00:19:03.80
DEMANDING AND PROVIDING
THE ATONING SACRIFICE."
00:19:03.80\00:19:07.40
- DO YOU FOLLOW THAT?
00:19:07.40\00:19:09.23
- "IF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH
ABOLISHES LAW, THEN THERE IS NO
00:19:09.23\00:19:14.16
NEED FOR THE ATONING DEATH
OF CHRIST TO RELEASE THE SINNER
00:19:14.16\00:19:17.70
FROM HIS SINS AND, THUS,
RESTORE HIM TO PEACE WITH GOD."
00:19:17.70\00:19:24.46
SO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE
THIS DOCTRINE - JUSTIFICATION BY
00:19:24.46\00:19:29.93
FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST - WE
NEED THAT BECAUSE THERE IS A LAW
00:19:29.93\00:19:35.63
THAT, IF WE GET OUT OF
LINE WITH IT, CONDEMNS US.
00:19:35.63\00:19:41.76
SO THE WHOLE FACT THAT WE SPEAK
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH IN
00:19:41.76\00:19:45.30
JESUS CHRIST CLEARLY IMPLIES
THEN THERE'S GOT TO BE A LAW -
00:19:45.30\00:19:50.56
WE'VE GOT TO NEED SOMEBODY TO
SPARE US FROM THE CONSEQUENCES
00:19:50.56\00:19:53.66
OF THAT LAW. THAT'S
VERY CLEARLY IMPLIED.
00:19:53.66\00:19:56.80
AND, OF COURSE, WE'RE NOT JUST
DEALING WITH IMPLICATIONS HERE,
00:19:56.80\00:19:58.80
WE'RE DEALING WITH SOME
STATEMENTS LATER ON, WHICH TELL
00:19:58.80\00:20:00.76
US, VERY CLEARLY, THERE
IS A LAW - PLAIN AS THAT.
00:20:00.76\00:20:03.66
NOW, THERE'S ANOTHER
TEXT, WHEN READ OUT OF CONTEXT,
00:20:03.66\00:20:08.50
ALSO APPEARS TO NEGATE THE LAW.
00:20:08.50\00:20:10.73
THERE WE ARE AGAIN WITH
PAUL - WE'RE LOOKING AT PAUL IN
00:20:10.73\00:20:13.30
SUNDAY'S SECTION - ROMANS
CHAPTER 6 AND VERSE 14 - IT
00:20:13.30\00:20:18.80
SAYS, "FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE
DOMINION OVER YOU: FOR YE ARE
00:20:18.80\00:20:24.43
NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT
UNDER GRACE." IS THAT TRUE?
00:20:24.43\00:20:29.43
IT'S IN THE BIBLE,
OF COURSE IT'S TRUE.
00:20:29.43\00:20:32.16
YOU'RE NOT UNDER THE
LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE.
00:20:32.16\00:20:35.76
BUT AGAIN, WHEN WE PUT IT IN ITS
FULLER CONTEXT, WE READ THE NEXT
00:20:35.76\00:20:42.03
VERSE, ROMANS 15 - SORRY, ROMANS
6:15 - AND THIS ANTINOMIANIST
00:20:42.03\00:20:50.53
ARGUMENT DISAPPEARS.
ROMANS 6:15 - PAUL SAYS,
00:20:50.53\00:20:55.20
"WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN," -
WHAT IS SIN? OKAY, SO LET'S READ
00:20:55.20\00:21:03.13
VERSE 14 AGAIN - "FOR SIN SHALL
NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU:
00:21:03.13\00:21:06.30
FOR YE ARE NOT UNDER
THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE."
00:21:06.30\00:21:08.33
- BUT THEN THE NEXT
VERSE SAYS, "WHAT THEN?
00:21:08.33\00:21:11.83
SHALL WE SIN," -
SHALL WE BREAK THE LAW?
00:21:11.83\00:21:14.76
IT SAYS, "BECAUSE WE ARE NOT
UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE?"
00:21:14.76\00:21:18.00
- AND AGAIN HE
SAYS, "GOD FORBID."
00:21:18.00\00:21:20.93
PAUL IS SIMPLY TEACHING
HERE THAT THE LAW STILL STANDS.
00:21:20.93\00:21:25.73
BUT THE REFERENCE OF NOT BEING
UNDER THE LAW IS IN RESPECT TO
00:21:25.73\00:21:29.10
NOT BEING UNDER
ITS CONDEMNATION.
00:21:29.10\00:21:30.86
I THINK WE'VE MENTIONED THIS
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES,
00:21:30.86\00:21:32.90
DURING THE SERIES OF
THESE LESSONS THIS QUARTER.
00:21:32.90\00:21:37.33
WE'RE NOT UNDER ITS CONDEMNATION
BECAUSE JESUS TOOK OUR GUILT AND
00:21:37.33\00:21:45.26
CONDEMNATION UPON HIMSELF
WHEN HE DIED UPON THE CROSS.
00:21:45.26\00:21:50.46
SO WE CAN STAND BEFORE THAT LAW
THAT STILL EXISTS - WE CAN STAND
00:21:50.46\00:21:56.16
BEFORE IT - BUT NO LONGER
BE UNDER ITS CONDEMNATION.
00:21:56.16\00:22:01.93
PRETTY CLEAR, RIGHT? SO
PAUL, NOWHERE, TEACHES THAT
00:22:01.93\00:22:05.90
CHRIST'S DEATH ABOLISHES THE LAW
AND AS NEW TESTAMENT CREATURES -
00:22:05.90\00:22:10.90
CHRISTIANS - WELL, WE'RE
CREATURES - WE'RE NO LONGER
00:22:10.90\00:22:15.43
UNDER ITS - WE'RE
STILL UNDER ITS JURISDICTION.
00:22:15.43\00:22:19.20
NOW, PERHAPS, PAUL'S GREATEST
AFFIRMATION OF THE LAW -
00:22:19.20\00:22:21.46
AFFIRMATION OF THE
LAW - IS OUR MEMORY VERSE,
00:22:21.46\00:22:23.56
WHICH I READ
EARLIER ON FROM ROMANS 7:12.
00:22:23.56\00:22:26.10
HE SAYS, "WHEREFORE THE LAW IS
HOLY AND THE COMMANDMENT HOLY,
00:22:26.10\00:22:30.23
AND JUST AND GOOD." IS
THERE ANYTHING AMBIGUOUS
00:22:30.23\00:22:32.16
ABOUT THAT? NO,
I SHOULD HOPE NOT.
00:22:32.16\00:22:36.70
AND THEN, FURTHER, IN ROMANS
CHAPTER 8 - SAME APOSTLE GOES ON
00:22:36.70\00:22:43.06
TO TEACH THAT THE PRECEPTS
OF THIS HOLY AND JUST LAW CAN
00:22:43.06\00:22:47.50
ACTUALLY BE LIVED OUT IN
OUR LIVES AS WE ENTER INTO THE
00:22:47.50\00:22:52.16
EXPERIENCE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
00:22:52.16\00:22:57.16
LET'S READ ROMANS 8, VERSE 4
- THERE'S NO DOING AWAY WITH THE
00:22:57.16\00:23:02.23
LAW HERE - IT'S ESTABLISHING THE
LAW AND ACTUALLY SHOWING THROUGH
00:23:02.23\00:23:05.30
CHRIST HOW THOSE RIGHTEOUS
PRINCIPLES CAN BE ACTUALLY LIVED
00:23:05.30\00:23:09.26
OUT IN OUR LIVES AS
WE TRUST CHRIST AS OUR
00:23:09.26\00:23:12.46
LORD AND SAVIOR.
ROMANS 8, VERSE 4,
00:23:12.46\00:23:15.40
"THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE
LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US," -
00:23:15.40\00:23:20.30
NOT FOR US - NOT
JUST FOR US BUT IN US,
00:23:20.30\00:23:25.33
"WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE
FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT."
00:23:25.33\00:23:30.80
NOTICE AGAIN, THE SPIRIT
CONVERSION PLAYS A CRUCIAL PART
00:23:30.80\00:23:36.50
IN EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE
LOOKING AT. SO MOVING ON -
00:23:36.50\00:23:40.46
A LOT MORE WE CAN SAY THERE BUT
I'M GOING TO TRY AND ACTUALLY
00:23:40.46\00:23:42.53
GET THROUGH THE
LESSON THIS WEEK, IF I CAN,
00:23:42.53\00:23:45.03
AND SEE HOW WE DO. LET'S
GO ON TO MONDAY - IF I DO
00:23:45.03\00:23:49.00
IT WILL BE A FIRST, MICHAEL.
'PETER AND THE LAW' - AGAIN,
00:23:49.00\00:23:56.26
FROM THE INTRODUCTION IN THE
LESSON - NO, ACTUALLY, I TAKE
00:23:56.26\00:24:00.06
THAT BACK - I'M GOING STRAIGHT
INTO A PASSAGE HERE FROM 1
00:24:00.06\00:24:02.93
PETER 2:9 - 1 PETER
CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 9.
00:24:02.93\00:24:07.23
PETER SAYS - SPEAKING OF GOD'S
CHILDREN - "BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN
00:24:07.23\00:24:13.36
GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD,
AN HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR
00:24:13.36\00:24:20.73
PEOPLE;" - THAT DOESN'T MEAN
STRANGE - WELL, ACTUALLY, IT
00:24:20.73\00:24:23.30
DOES, IN A SENSE. WE
SHOULD BE A LITTLE STRANGE IN
00:24:23.30\00:24:26.43
THIS WORLD COMPARED
TO THE SECULAR MIND.
00:24:26.43\00:24:29.40
THERE'S A MARGINAL READING,
ACTUALLY, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:24:29.40\00:24:32.03
THERE FOR PECULIAR -
IT MEANS 'PURCHASED' -
00:24:32.03\00:24:36.56
SO WE'RE A PURCHASED
PEOPLE. IS THAT TRUE?
00:24:36.56\00:24:40.56
WHAT HAVE WE
BEEN PURCHASED WITH?
00:24:40.56\00:24:43.66
PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST
AS A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND
00:24:43.66\00:24:48.23
WITHOUT SPOT. SO IT
COST GOD DEARLY AND YET IT
00:24:48.23\00:24:53.86
COSTS US NOTHING. AMAZING.
SO WHEN PETER SAYS THIS: "BUT YE
00:24:53.86\00:24:59.83
ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD, AN HOLY NATION" -
00:24:59.83\00:25:05.50
HE'S ACTUALLY ECHOING A
DECLARATION THAT GOD MADE ABOUT
00:25:05.50\00:25:11.46
HIS PEOPLE
ISRAEL AT MOUNT SINAI.
00:25:11.46\00:25:14.10
LET'S GO BACK TO EXODUS 19 AND
VERSE 6 - EXODUS 19 AND VERSE 6
00:25:14.10\00:25:21.86
- THIS IS WHAT GOD
SAID A LONG TIME BEFORE -
00:25:21.86\00:25:26.83
ABOUT 3,500 YEARS BEFORE.
00:25:26.83\00:25:31.40
GOD SAYS HERE, JUST BEFORE HE
DECLARES THE TEN COMMANDMENTS -
00:25:31.40\00:25:35.43
EXODUS 19:6 - "YE SHALL BE UNTO
ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND AN
00:25:35.43\00:25:41.36
HOLY NATION." - HE
SAYS, 'YOU WILL BE THAT'.
00:25:41.36\00:25:47.20
AND GOD'S BIDDINGS, OF COURSE,
ARE ENABLINGS - GOD GIVES GRACE.
00:25:47.20\00:25:52.23
BUT WHEN GOD SAYS, 'YOU SHALL BE
UNTO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND
00:25:52.23\00:25:58.06
AN HOLY NATION, AT THE
SAME TIME, GOD ALSO DECLARED A
00:25:58.06\00:26:02.10
CERTAIN TWO - TWO PARTICULAR
CONDITIONS THAT ISRAEL WOULD
00:26:02.10\00:26:07.70
HAVE TO MEET IN ORDER TO BE
ACCEPTED BY HIM AS A KINGDOM OF
00:26:07.70\00:26:13.03
PRIESTS AND AN HOLY NATION.
00:26:13.03\00:26:14.83
STILL IN EXODUS 19 - LET'S
GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS VERSE -
00:26:14.83\00:26:19.10
VERSE 5 - NOTICE HERE TWO MAJOR
PRECONDITIONS - SEE IF YOU CAN
00:26:19.10\00:26:23.76
NOTICE THEM, "NOW THEREFORE,
IF YOU WILL OBEY MY VOICE
00:26:23.76\00:26:29.13
INDEED...THEN YE SHALL BE A
PECULIAR TREASURE UNTO ME ABOVE
00:26:29.13\00:26:35.76
ALL PEOPLE:" - NOW, THERE'S
TWO THINGS HERE AND, ACTUALLY I
00:26:35.76\00:26:41.53
MISSED A LITTLE BIT -
I MISSED A BIT OUT HERE.
00:26:41.53\00:26:44.03
LET ME GO BACK TO - I'M
JUST READING FROM MY NOTES BUT I
00:26:44.03\00:26:47.43
WANTED TO READ FROM EXODUS 19:5
BECAUSE I MISSED A LITTLE BIT
00:26:47.43\00:26:51.40
OUT THERE. EXODUS 19, VERSE 5,
"NOW THEREFORE, IF YE WILL OBEY
00:26:51.40\00:26:58.30
MY VOICE INDEED," - IS THAT
A CONDITION? YEAH - "AND KEEP
00:26:58.30\00:27:06.56
MY COVENANT" - WOULD YOU
SAY THAT WAS A CONDITION?
00:27:06.56\00:27:11.33
YES - "THEN" - HE SAYS - "THEY
SHALL BE A PECULIAR TREASURE
00:27:11.33\00:27:17.50
UNTO ME ABOVE ALL PEOPLE:
FOR ALL THE EARTH IS MINE:" - SO
00:27:17.50\00:27:24.53
THEREFORE THERE ARE CONDITIONS.
IT WAS NOT FOR THEM TO WALK
00:27:24.53\00:27:27.86
AROUND AND SAY, 'OH, YOU KNOW,
WE'RE A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS.
00:27:27.86\00:27:30.60
OH, WE'RE SUCH A HOLY NATION.'
WELL, THEY NEEDED TO BE BUT
00:27:30.60\00:27:36.36
ACTUALLY THEY
WEREN'T MOST OF THE TIME.
00:27:36.36\00:27:41.13
BUT THEY COULD HAVE BEEN
IF THEY'D FULFILLED THOSE TWO
00:27:41.13\00:27:45.50
PRECONDITIONS: OBEY ME; KEEP
MY COVENANT - AND THE GRACE WAS
00:27:45.50\00:27:50.70
THERE ALL THE TIME, SAME AS THAT
GRACE IS HERE WITH US EVEN NOW.
00:27:50.70\00:27:55.90
SO THOSE CONDITIONS NOT ONLY
APPLY TO ISRAEL - CONDITIONS
00:27:55.90\00:28:01.36
ABOUT HOW YOU COULD BE A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION - NOT
00:28:01.36\00:28:05.10
ONLY APPLIED TO ISRAEL
ABOUT 3,500 YEARS AGO - NOT ONLY
00:28:05.10\00:28:10.30
APPLIED TO THE CHRISTIANS IN
PETER'S DAY 2,000 YEARS AGO, BUT
00:28:10.30\00:28:16.43
THEY ALSO APPLY TO US TODAY WHO
ARE LOOKING FOR THE SOON RETURN
00:28:16.43\00:28:20.76
OF JESUS, RIGHT? ARE WE SUPPOSED
TO BE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD?
00:28:20.76\00:28:23.90
A HOLY NATION? I SHOULD
THINK SO, YEAH. THEY WERE - THE
00:28:23.90\00:28:31.43
ISRAELITES WERE RIGHT ON THE
BORDERS OF THE PROMISED LAND -
00:28:31.43\00:28:34.13
THEY DIDN'T ACTUALLY GO
IN BECAUSE THEY MESSED UP.
00:28:34.13\00:28:36.63
BUT THEY'RE RIGHT ON THE
BORDERS OF THE PROMISED LAND AND
00:28:36.63\00:28:38.90
GOD SAYS YOU NEED TO BE A
ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION.
00:28:38.90\00:28:41.46
WE ARE RIGHT ON THE BORDERS,
ALSO, OF THE HEAVENLY CANAAN,
00:28:41.46\00:28:47.26
AND IF EVER THERE WAS A
GENERATION THAT NEEDED TO BE A
00:28:47.26\00:28:49.60
ROYAL PRIESTHOOD AND A
HOLY NATION, IT'S THIS ONE -
00:28:49.60\00:28:52.10
IT'S YOU AND IT'S ME.
00:28:52.10\00:28:54.30
I WON'T GET INTO WHAT
HAPPENED AT BAAL-PEOR -
00:28:54.30\00:28:57.83
THAT'S ANOTHER STORY IN
ITSELF - BUT HERE WE ARE.
00:28:57.83\00:29:00.96
WE'RE THE REMNANT CHURCH -
THE LAST CHURCH FROM THE BOLT OF
00:29:00.96\00:29:06.26
CLOTH, IF YOU LIKE, THAT'S BEEN
UNRAVELED OVER THE YEARS WITH
00:29:06.26\00:29:09.33
GENERATIONS OF
CHRISTIANS. WE'RE THE REMNANT.
00:29:09.33\00:29:12.46
IN REVELATION 14:12 THAT
REMNANT IS SUPPOSED TO BE HOLY.
00:29:12.46\00:29:16.03
THEY ARE THEY THAT KEEP
WHAT? THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD -
00:29:16.03\00:29:19.70
IS THAT A CONDITION? YES,
TO BEING A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD
00:29:19.70\00:29:23.06
AND A HOLY NATION - AND
HAVE THE FAITH OF JESUS.
00:29:23.06\00:29:27.10
IS THAT A CONDITION? YES, IT IS.
00:29:27.10\00:29:29.53
YOU HAVE TO MAKE
THAT A CONDITION.
00:29:29.53\00:29:30.93
IF YOU DON'T HAVE FAITH
IN JESUS IT'S A CONDITION.
00:29:30.93\00:29:33.80
YOU CANNOT BE PART
OF GOD'S REMNANT CHURCH.
00:29:33.80\00:29:36.26
YOU CANNOT BE A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD AND A HOLY NATION.
00:29:36.26\00:29:39.33
AND SO, TO MEASURE UP TO
SUCH A STANDARD, WE MUST ACT -
00:29:39.33\00:29:43.90
I'M SORRY - WE MUST ACCEPT
AND ACT UPON THE ADMONITION THAT
00:29:43.90\00:29:48.56
PETER GAVE TO THE CHURCH
IN HIS DAY. 1 PETER 2:11 -
00:29:48.56\00:29:54.23
THIS IS WHAT HE SAID - HE SAYS,
"DEARLY BELOVED," - IF YOU WANT
00:29:54.23\00:29:57.56
TO BE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD AND
A HOLY NATION HE SAYS, "DEARLY
00:29:57.56\00:29:59.76
BELOVED," - 1 PETER 2:11 -
"I BESEECH YOU AS STRANGERS AND
00:29:59.76\00:30:04.30
PILGRIMS, ABSTAIN FROM FLESHLY
LUSTS, WHICH WAR AGAINST THE
00:30:04.30\00:30:10.96
SOUL;" HERE'S
WHERE IT'S AT MY FRIENDS.
00:30:10.96\00:30:15.03
I WON'T - IT'S A TEMPTATION
TO GO TO BAAL-PEOR BUT I WON'T,
00:30:15.03\00:30:18.43
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT
HAPPENED THERE. THEY GAVE WAY TO
00:30:18.43\00:30:21.43
FLESHLY LUSTS THAT WAR AGAINST
THE SOUL AND OUR HUMAN NATURES
00:30:21.43\00:30:28.06
ARE NO DIFFERENT. IN
FACT, THEY HAD 3,500 YEARS -
00:30:28.06\00:30:33.20
THEY WERE 3,500 YEARS CLOSER
TO BEING THE OFFSPRING OF ADAM.
00:30:33.20\00:30:39.10
THEY WERE PERVERTED ENOUGH BUT
HERE WE'RE 3,500 YEARS FURTHER
00:30:39.10\00:30:44.40
DOWNSTREAM SO WE'RE EVEN
MORE WEAK. AND YET WE HAVE
00:30:44.40\00:30:48.16
THIS CHALLENGE AND THIS
ADMONITION TO BE A ROYAL
00:30:48.16\00:30:50.60
PRIESTHOOD AND A HOLY NATION, SO
WE HAVE TO MEASURE UP TO THAT.
00:30:50.60\00:30:55.43
BUT GOD'S BIDDINGS
ARE GOD'S ENABLINGS.
00:30:55.43\00:30:57.50
BUT LISTEN TO THIS - LISTEN
TO THIS - THIS APPLIES TO US.
00:30:57.50\00:31:02.06
AND LISTEN TO COUNCILS ON
HEALTH PAGE 568, PARAGRAPH 2.
00:31:02.06\00:31:11.16
THERE'S A LITTLE SUBTITLE
- 'PATTERNS OF PIETY' - THE
00:31:11.16\00:31:14.90
PUBLISHERS PUT THAT IN, BUT THIS
IS WHAT THE SERVANT OF THE LORD
00:31:14.90\00:31:18.86
SAYS, "SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS" - NOW WHO ARE THOSE?
00:31:18.86\00:31:24.66
ARE YOU A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST?
THEN THIS IS FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
00:31:24.66\00:31:31.90
"SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS,
ABOVE ALL OTHER PEOPLE" -
00:31:31.90\00:31:38.60
ABOVE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE? -
ALL - "ALL OTHER PEOPLE IN THE
00:31:38.60\00:31:42.16
WORLD SHOULD BE PATTERNS
OF PIETY, HOLY IN HEART AND IN
00:31:42.16\00:31:48.16
CONVERSATION.
SHOULD THEY WHO MAKE SO
00:31:48.16\00:31:55.66
HIGH A PROFESSION INDULGE IN SIN
AND INIQUITY, THEIR GUILT WOULD
00:31:55.66\00:32:01.66
BE VERY GREAT." - NOW
OUR GUILT WOULD BE GREATER
00:32:01.66\00:32:07.53
- WOULD IT BE GREATER
THAN BAPTISTS? I THINK SO.
00:32:07.53\00:32:11.90
WE HAVE MORE LIGHT.
WOULD OUR GUILT BE GREATER THAN
00:32:11.90\00:32:15.46
CATHOLICS? I BELIEVE SO.
THEY SHOULD KNOW WHAT'S RIGHT
00:32:15.46\00:32:20.53
AND WRONG, BUT WE HAVE
MORE LIGHT THAN ANYBODY ELSE.
00:32:20.53\00:32:24.83
SO THEIR GUILT - OUR
GUILT WOULD BE VERY GREAT.
00:32:24.83\00:32:28.16
THOSE WHO DO NOT CONTROL THEIR
BASE PASSIONS CANNOT APPRECIATE
00:32:28.16\00:32:34.30
THE ATONEMENT OR PLACE A
RIGHT VALUE UPON THE SOUL -
00:32:34.30\00:32:40.13
EVEN THEIR OWN SOUL."
YOU KNOW THAT'S A FACT?
00:32:40.13\00:32:45.13
YOU CAN INDULGE SO MUCH IN SIN
YOUR CONSCIENCE IS SO BLUNTED,
00:32:45.13\00:32:50.33
YOUR MIND IS SO FUZZY AND DUMBED
DOWN, YOU DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT
00:32:50.33\00:32:55.56
YOURSELF. BUT IF
THAT MIND COULD BE
00:32:55.56\00:33:00.06
CLEARED THROUGH HEALTHFUL LIVING
AND YOU HAD THAT ACUITY AND
00:33:00.06\00:33:04.43
CLARITY BACK, YOU WOULD REALIZE
THE VALUE OF YOUR OWN SOUL AND
00:33:04.43\00:33:10.06
YOU WOULD SEE MORE CLEARLY THE
PERIL THAT YOUR OWN SOUL IS IN
00:33:10.06\00:33:16.33
AND YOU WOULD TREMBLE.
THIS IS WHY SATAN LEADS PEOPLE
00:33:16.33\00:33:20.86
INTO SIN BECAUSE THEY BECOME
CARELESS - BECOME NUMB AND DUMB
00:33:20.86\00:33:26.16
- AND THEY CAN
HEAR A PREACHER SPEAK -
00:33:26.16\00:33:28.33
EVEN A GOOD OLD SOUTHERN BAPTIST
PREACHER PREACH ABOUT HELLFIRE.
00:33:28.33\00:33:33.70
IT DOESN'T PHASE THEM,
THEY JUST GO ON THEIR WAY
00:33:33.70\00:33:36.40
LOOKING FOR THEIR
NEXT FORBIDDEN PLEASURE.
00:33:36.40\00:33:39.50
SO WE, TOO, CAN GET JUST AS
DUMBED DOWN AND NOT BE ABLE TO
00:33:39.50\00:33:44.80
APPRECIATE - PUT A RIGHT VALUE
ON OUR OWN SOUL - SALVATION IS
00:33:44.80\00:33:49.50
NOT APPRECIATED OR
UNDERSTOOD BY THEM - BY US.
00:33:49.50\00:33:54.36
- "THE GRATIFICATION OF ANIMAL
PASSION IS THE HIGHEST AMBITION
00:33:54.36\00:33:58.26
OF THEIR LIVES."
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?
00:33:58.26\00:34:02.56
SOME PEOPLE, THEIR HIGHEST
AMBITION IS TO JUST USE SOME
00:34:02.56\00:34:08.10
ORGANS - WHETHER IT'S THEIR
STOMACH OR THEIR SEXUAL ORGANS -
00:34:08.10\00:34:11.60
THAT'S ALL THEY LIVE FOR -
THE NEXT THRILL OR PLEASURE FROM
00:34:11.60\00:34:15.46
SOME ORGAN OF THEIR BODY MADE OF
FLESH THAT'S GETTING OLD - WILL
00:34:15.46\00:34:19.03
DECAY - MIGHT EVEN BECOME
CANCEROUS - BUT THEY DON'T CARE.
00:34:19.03\00:34:22.46
THAT'S ALL THEY LIVE FOR.
ANIMALS HAVE MORE OF AN EXCUSE,
00:34:22.46\00:34:27.66
VERY OFTEN, THAN
HUMAN BEINGS. IT'S A FACT.
00:34:27.66\00:34:32.23
THE GRATIFICATION OF ANIMAL
PASSION IS THE HIGHEST AMBITION
00:34:32.23\00:34:35.56
OF THEIR LIVES. GOD
WILL ACCEPT NOTHING BUT
00:34:35.56\00:34:39.66
PURITY AND HOLINESS.
ONE SPOT, ONE WRINKLE, ONE
00:34:39.66\00:34:48.10
DEFECT IN THE CHARACTER, WILL
FOREVER DEBAR THEM FROM HEAVEN
00:34:48.10\00:34:52.53
WITH ALL ITS
GLORIES AND TREASURES."
00:34:52.53\00:34:56.90
SO TO BE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD,
A HOLY NATION, WE'VE GOT TO BE
00:34:56.90\00:35:00.20
SURE THAT WE'RE NOT
SLAVES TO APPETITE AND PASSION.
00:35:00.20\00:35:04.40
AND WE'RE ALL PRONE TO IT -
WE'RE ALL - I REMEMBER, ONCE,
00:35:04.40\00:35:07.90
READING
SOMETHING BY ELLEN WHITE.
00:35:07.90\00:35:10.16
SHE KNEW THIS LADY WHO LIKED TO
SMOKE A PIPE AND THIS LADY HEARD
00:35:10.16\00:35:16.46
THAT SHE COULDN'T SMOKE A PIPE
IN HEAVEN AND SHE SAID, 'I DON'T
00:35:16.46\00:35:19.63
WANT TO GO.' CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?
00:35:19.63\00:35:23.53
'IF I CAN'T TAKE MY PIPE TO
HEAVEN, I DON'T WANT TO GO.' SO
00:35:23.53\00:35:28.06
I GUESS SHE
DIDN'T GO. YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:35:28.06\00:35:31.06
SHE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO
SMOKE A PIPE IN HELL EITHER.
00:35:31.06\00:35:33.46
SO, YOU KNOW, SO WHY NOT GIVE
IT UP AND GO TO A NICER PLACE?
00:35:33.46\00:35:41.73
SOLEMN ADMONITION,
BUT - BUT THERE IS HOPE.
00:35:41.73\00:35:47.76
THERE'S ALWAYS - YOU KNOW, GOD
KNOCKS US DOWN SOMETIMES, RIGHT?
00:35:47.76\00:35:55.00
HIS WORD JUST CUTS US OFF BY THE
KNEES SOMETIMES AND WE NEED IT.
00:35:55.00\00:35:58.60
BUT GOD IS GOOD
AND KIND AND MERCIFUL.
00:35:58.60\00:36:01.40
WITH THE SAME HAND HE CUTS US
OFF BY THE KNEES, HE PICKS US UP
00:36:01.40\00:36:04.56
AND ENCOURAGES US. JESUS
IS A GREAT ENCOURAGER AND
00:36:04.56\00:36:07.90
SO IS HIS SERVANT ELLEN WHITE.
IN THE VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH I
00:36:07.90\00:36:11.00
READ THIS: "AMPLE PROVISIONS
HAVE BEEN MADE FOR ALL WHO
00:36:11.00\00:36:15.93
SINCERELY AND EARNESTLY AND
THOROUGHLY SET ABOUT THE WORK OF
00:36:15.93\00:36:21.43
PERFECTING
HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD.
00:36:21.43\00:36:25.53
STRENGTH, GRACE, AND GLORY HAVE
BEEN PROVIDED, THROUGH CHRIST,
00:36:25.53\00:36:31.03
TO BE BROUGHT BY MINISTERING
ANGELS TO THE HEIRS OF
00:36:31.03\00:36:35.00
SALVATION." -
DOESN'T THAT SOUND GOOD? -
00:36:35.00\00:36:37.30
"NONE IS SO LOW, CORRUPT
AND VILE THAT THEY CANNOT FIND,
00:36:37.30\00:36:42.63
IN JESUS WHO DIED
FOR THEM, STRENGTH,
00:36:42.63\00:36:45.63
PURITY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
IF THEY WILL PUT AWAY THEIR
00:36:45.63\00:36:49.53
SINS" - OR JUST AT LEAST BE
WILLING - SAY, 'LORD, HELP ME DO
00:36:49.53\00:36:52.63
THE REST' - HE'LL HELP YOU -
"IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO PUT
00:36:52.63\00:36:56.03
AWAY THEIR SINS,
CEASE THEIR COURSE
00:36:56.03\00:36:58.00
OF INIQUITY, AND TURN WITH FULL
PURPOSE OF HEART TO THE LIVING
00:36:58.00\00:37:02.86
GOD." CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? AMEN.
OKAY, I'M TRYING TO BE GOOD.
00:37:02.86\00:37:06.70
I'M MOVING ON TO TUESDAY.
I CAN SAY AN AWFUL LOT MORE
00:37:06.70\00:37:10.00
RIGHT THERE BUT LET'S
SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TODAY.
00:37:10.00\00:37:12.70
I'M GOING TO READ FROM TUESDAY'S
LESSON - A LITTLE BIT FROM THE
00:37:12.70\00:37:16.66
FIRST PARAGRAPH. WE'RE LOOKING
AT JOHN - 'JOHN AND THE LAW'.
00:37:16.66\00:37:21.70
JOHN KNEW A LOT OF PERSONAL
INFORMATION ABOUT JESUS -
00:37:21.70\00:37:26.66
AND HE SURELY DID.
SURELY ONE WHO WAS AS CLOSE TO
00:37:26.66\00:37:31.63
JESUS AS JOHN WOULD HAVE
KNOWN IF JESUS HAD SET ASIDE
00:37:31.63\00:37:36.06
GOD'S LAW. AND I
THINK THERE'S ABSOLUTELY A
00:37:36.06\00:37:38.03
HUNDRED PERCENT
TRUTH IN THAT, DON'T YOU?
00:37:38.03\00:37:40.80
IF ANYBODY WOULD
HAVE KNOWN, JOHN WOULD.
00:37:40.80\00:37:42.80
WELL, IT'S VERY CLEAR IN JOHN'S
GOSPEL AND HIS EPISTLES THAT
00:37:42.80\00:37:47.16
JESUS NEVER DECLARED ANY SUCH
INTENT TO AS BELOVED A DISCIPLE
00:37:47.16\00:37:53.66
AS JOHN THAT HE WAS GOING
TO ABOLISH THE LAW - NOTHING.
00:37:53.66\00:37:58.40
I'M GOING TO READ
FROM JOHN 15:10 HERE.
00:37:58.40\00:38:02.60
THIS IS WHAT JESUS SAID AND
JOHN WROTE IT DOWN. JESUS SAID,
00:38:02.60\00:38:07.03
"IF YOU LOVE" - SORRY -
"IF YOU KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS
00:38:07.03\00:38:11.76
YE SHALL ABIDE IN MY
LOVE." CLEAR AS ANYTHING, RIGHT?
00:38:11.76\00:38:16.00
'IF YOU KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS YOU
SHALL ABIDE IN MY LOVE,' JOHN
00:38:16.00\00:38:20.13
15:10 - BUT THEN IN JOHN 14:15
HE SAYS, "IF YOU LOVE ME KEEP MY
00:38:20.13\00:38:25.90
COMMANDMENTS. SO
WHAT COMES FIRST?
00:38:25.90\00:38:29.33
IS THAT A FAIR QUESTION?
WHAT COMES FIRST, KEEPING GOD'S
00:38:29.33\00:38:32.40
COMMANDMENTS AND ABIDING IN HIS
LOVE OR LOVING CHRIST AND THEN
00:38:32.40\00:38:36.30
KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS?
ANYTHING COME FIRST?
00:38:36.30\00:38:39.96
WELL, THERE'S NO CONTRADICTION
HERE, BUT THERE IS A SEQUENCE
00:38:39.96\00:38:43.63
THROUGH WHICH LOVING JESUS AND
OBEYING JESUS - BOTH OF THESE
00:38:43.63\00:38:49.56
THINGS COME PERFECTLY TOGETHER
- LOVING HIM AND KEEPING HIS
00:38:49.56\00:38:53.96
COMMANDMENTS AND KEEPING
HIS COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE WE LOVE
00:38:53.96\00:38:58.16
HIM. AND THE UNITING FACTOR THAT
00:38:58.16\00:39:02.60
BRINGS THIS ALL TOGETHER
IS FOUND IN THE TERM 'ABIDE'.
00:39:02.60\00:39:07.90
YOU'VE HEARD THAT
TERM BEFORE, ABIDE.
00:39:07.90\00:39:11.36
IN JOHN CHAPTER 15, IN THE FIRST
11 VERSES - WE'RE NOT GOING TO
00:39:11.36\00:39:15.53
READ IT ALL, BUT HAVE A
LOOK AFTERWARDS IF YOU WANT.
00:39:15.53\00:39:19.56
JESUS USES THE WORD OR
THE TERM 'ABIDE' NINE TIMES.
00:39:19.56\00:39:24.76
THAT'S QUITE SIGNIFICANT.
AND, ALSO, THE TERM 'ABIDE' IS
00:39:24.76\00:39:29.23
IMPLIED AS WELL. IF YOU
GO THROUGH IT YOU'LL SEE
00:39:29.23\00:39:31.60
THAT IT'S IMPLIED
IN SEVERAL INSTANCES.
00:39:31.60\00:39:34.66
LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE:
IN JOHN 15, VERSE 4 - COUNT HOW
00:39:34.66\00:39:39.63
MANY TIMES
'ABIDE' COMES IN HERE.
00:39:39.63\00:39:42.60
HERE'S WHERE WE START
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER.
00:39:42.60\00:39:45.40
JESUS SAID, "ABIDE IN ME AND
I IN YOU." - OKAY, SO THERE'S AN
00:39:45.40\00:39:50.73
IMPLIED 'ABIDE',
RIGHT? IS THAT CORRECT?
00:39:50.73\00:39:53.00
HE SAYS, "ABIDE IN ME
AND I (ABIDE) IN YOU."
00:39:53.00\00:39:56.70
- SO THERE'S TWO - "AS THE
BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF
00:39:56.70\00:40:00.10
ITSELF, EXCEPT IT ABIDE
IN THE VINE; NO MORE CAN YE,
00:40:00.10\00:40:05.00
EXCEPT YE" -
WHAT? - "ABIDE IN ME."
00:40:05.00\00:40:07.66
SO THAT'S FOUR REFERENCES TO THE
WORD - THE TERM - 'ABIDE' THERE.
00:40:07.66\00:40:12.83
AND IF WE UNDERSTAND ABIDING
IN CHRIST TO MEAN THAT THE
00:40:12.83\00:40:18.53
GLORIOUS, GLORIOUS MYSTERY -
WONDEROUS MYSTERY OF CONVERSION
00:40:18.53\00:40:23.90
- WHERE HE DWELLS IN US AND,
MYSTERIOUSLY, WE BECOME ONE WITH
00:40:23.90\00:40:28.30
HIM, WE DWELL IN HIM AND HIM
IN US, THEN THE FOLLOWING WILL
00:40:28.30\00:40:36.53
NATURALLY TAKE
PLACE. NOW LISTEN TO THIS:
00:40:36.53\00:40:39.63
"IF YOU ABIDE IN ME" -
THERE WE HAVE IT AGAIN -
00:40:39.63\00:40:44.30
"AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN
YOU" - SO WHEN JESUS COMES AND
00:40:44.30\00:40:46.96
HE ABIDES IN US, HE BRINGS HIS
WORDS AND HIS WORDS ABIDE IN US
00:40:46.96\00:40:51.60
AS WELL. AND WHAT ARE JESUS'
WORDS? IT'S HIS TEACHINGS.
00:40:51.60\00:40:55.96
IT'S HIS LAW, RIGHT?
IT'S THE WORDS OF HIS LAW.
00:40:55.96\00:41:00.10
THEY COME AND HE PUTS
THEM IN OUR MINDS AND HEARTS.
00:41:00.10\00:41:04.56
AND HERE IS WHERE THE SEQUENCE
THEN BEGINS: IF YOU ABIDE IN
00:41:04.56\00:41:10.20
CHRIST THROUGH CONVERSION, HIS
WORDS - HIS TEACHING AND HIS LAW
00:41:10.20\00:41:16.10
- ABIDE IN US AS HE FULFILLS
IN US THE NEW TESTAMENT PROMISE
00:41:16.10\00:41:22.23
WHERE HE SAYS HE'LL WRITE
HIS LAW IN OUR MINDS AND HEARTS.
00:41:22.23\00:41:24.93
LET ME READ IT, HEBREWS 10:16
- HE SAYS, "THIS IS THE COVENANT
00:41:24.93\00:41:29.56
THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER
THOSE DAYS, SAITH THE LORD, I
00:41:29.56\00:41:34.56
WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR
HEARTS, AND IN THEIR MINDS WILL
00:41:34.56\00:41:37.86
I WRITE THEM;" SO WE ABIDE IN
CHRIST THROUGH CONVERSION - HIS
00:41:37.86\00:41:44.20
WORD - HE BRINGS HIS WORD
WITH US AND FULFILLS HIS NEW
00:41:44.20\00:41:47.06
TESTAMENT PROMISE THAT
HE'LL PUT HIS LAW IN US.
00:41:47.06\00:41:49.50
THEN, BECAUSE WE'RE CONVERTED
AND FILLED WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS
00:41:49.50\00:41:53.13
CHRIST, AND HIS WORD BECOMES -
HIS WORD BECOMES OUR DESIRE AND
00:41:53.13\00:41:57.96
IT'S OUR JOY TO WALK IN THE
WAYS OF HIS COMMANDMENTS AND,
00:41:57.96\00:42:01.60
THEREFORE, IT BECOMES NATURAL.
HE SAYS, 'IF YOU LOVE ME' -
00:42:01.60\00:42:04.56
'LORD, I DO' - 'THEN KEEP MY
COMMANDMENTS' - 'I WANT TO' -
00:42:04.56\00:42:08.66
SO IT ALL FITS TOGETHER.
IF WE ABIDE IN HIM, YOU SEE,
00:42:08.66\00:42:12.80
THERE'S REALLY NOTHING
MYSTERIOUS ABOUT BEING A
00:42:12.80\00:42:17.46
CHRISTIAN AND HAVING
A CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.
00:42:17.46\00:42:20.73
YOU GO TO JESUS, YOU SAY, 'LORD,
I WANT TO BE ONE WITH YOU.
00:42:20.73\00:42:27.26
I KNOW A LITTLE BIT OF THE BIBLE
- I DON'T KNOW A LOT, BUT SHOW
00:42:27.26\00:42:30.40
ME.' AND HE'LL SEND AN ANGEL
OR SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT OR SEND
00:42:30.40\00:42:34.33
SOMEBODY INTO YOUR LIFE TO SHOW
YOU, AS A LITTLE CHILD, HOW YOU
00:42:34.33\00:42:37.60
CAN BECOME A CHRISTIAN. IT'S NOT
HARD. IT'S A WONDERFUL THING.
00:42:37.60\00:42:44.96
BUT THEN THIS EXPERIENCE OF
US ABIDING IN CHRIST AND WE KEEP
00:42:44.96\00:42:51.56
HIS WORD BECAUSE WE LOVE HIM AND
- WELL, YOU KNOW, I DID IT TWO
00:42:51.56\00:42:57.56
WAYS AROUND - BUT THIS
EXPERIENCE GOES FURTHER THAN
00:42:57.56\00:43:02.16
LIVING TO SIMPLY RECIPROCATE
OUR LOVE FOR GOD BECAUSE
00:43:02.16\00:43:07.60
HE LOVES US. HE MOVES
UPON US TO ALSO MAKE US
00:43:07.60\00:43:12.13
A CHANNEL OF HIS
LOVE TOWARD OTHERS.
00:43:12.13\00:43:16.23
AND HERE'S THE THING:
A BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN IS
00:43:16.23\00:43:21.50
SUPERNATURALLY FILLED WITH A NEW
JOYOUS, INSTINCTIVE DESIRE TO
00:43:21.50\00:43:28.80
SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE - TO
SHARE THE LOVE OF JESUS - WITH
00:43:28.80\00:43:32.80
OTHERS AND TO LABOR
FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS.
00:43:32.80\00:43:36.13
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:43:36.13\00:43:38.03
I REMEMBER THE DAY AFTER I WAS
BAPTIZED, I WAS LIVING - I MOVED
00:43:38.03\00:43:43.50
INTO THIS APARTMENT BY MYSELF -
RIGHT BY THE RIVER - JUST AT THE
00:43:43.50\00:43:47.53
END OF THE STREET
THERE WAS A RIVER.
00:43:47.53\00:43:49.20
AND THAT SUNDAY MORNING I GOT
UP AND - BEEN BAPTIZED THE DAY
00:43:49.20\00:43:52.46
BEFORE AND 'WOW, I'M A BRAND-NEW
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST AND JESUS
00:43:52.46\00:43:56.30
IS IN MY HEART' - AND I WAS JUST
HAPPY AND I JUST COULDN'T SIT IN
00:43:56.30\00:43:59.93
THAT ROOM. I WANTED TO
GO OUT AND TELL SOMEBODY.
00:43:59.93\00:44:01.86
SO I GOT A FEW TRACTS AND I WAS
A LITTLE SCARED BECAUSE IT WAS
00:44:01.86\00:44:04.40
NEW TO ME BUT, WALKING BY
THE RIVER, SOMEBODY COMES BY AND
00:44:04.40\00:44:07.66
'HEY, I'D LIKE TO GIVE
YOU THIS.' THEN I'D MOVE ON,
00:44:07.66\00:44:10.56
YOU KNOW? BUT I GOT
BACK TO MY APARTMENT
00:44:10.56\00:44:12.43
AND I THOUGHT, 'I
SHARED THE LOVE OF JESUS.'
00:44:12.43\00:44:15.10
IT SHOULD BE NATURAL, YOU SEE.
AND IT SHOULD BECOME SO NATURAL
00:44:15.10\00:44:18.93
THAT IT BECOMES A WAY OF LIFE -
THAT WE'LL DO IT UNCONSCIOUSLY.
00:44:18.93\00:44:24.10
LET'S SEE HOW JESUS CITED
THE FACT THAT WE WILL DO IT
00:44:24.10\00:44:28.86
UNCONSCIOUSLY. MATTHEW 25 -
YOU KNOW THIS PASSAGE VERY WELL.
00:44:28.86\00:44:36.93
LET'S LOOK AT IT AGAIN - MATTHEW
25, VERSES 31 THROUGH 40.
00:44:36.93\00:44:41.96
THESE ARE THOSE THAT
JESUS COMMENDS IN THE JUDGMENT.
00:44:41.96\00:44:47.23
IT SAYS - MATTHEW 25:31-40,
"WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES IN
00:44:47.23\00:44:53.10
HIS GLORY, AND ALL THE HOLY
ANGELS WITH HIM, THEN HE WILL
00:44:53.10\00:44:57.16
SIT UPON THE THRONE OF HIS
GLORY: ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE
00:44:57.16\00:45:01.60
GATHERED BEFORE HIM, AND HE WILL
SEPARATE THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER,
00:45:01.60\00:45:05.33
AS A SHEPHERD DIVIDES HIS SHEEP
FROM THE GOATS:" - NOW WE'RE
00:45:05.33\00:45:11.30
LOOKING AT THE SHEEP THIS
MORNING - "AND HE WILL SET THE
00:45:11.30\00:45:13.50
SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT HAND,
BUT THE GOATS ON THE LEFT.
00:45:13.50\00:45:16.33
THEN THE KING WILL SAY TO THOSE
ON HIS RIGHT HAND, 'COME, YOU
00:45:16.33\00:45:20.66
BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT
THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU
00:45:20.66\00:45:24.73
FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE
WORLD:'" - IT SAYS - "'I WAS
00:45:24.73\00:45:28.66
HUNGRY, AND YOU GAVE ME FOOD;
I WAS THIRSTY, AND YOU GAVE ME
00:45:28.66\00:45:35.56
DRINK; I WAS A STRANGER, AND YOU
TOOK ME IN; I WAS NAKED AND YOU
00:45:35.56\00:45:43.36
CLOTHED ME; I WAS SICK AND YOU
VISITED ME; I WAS IN PRISON, AND
00:45:43.36\00:45:47.63
YOU CAME TO ME.' THEN THE
RIGHTEOUS WILL ANSWER HIM,
00:45:47.63\00:45:51.23
SAYING, 'LORD, WHEN DID WE
SEE YOU HUNGRY AND FEED YOU, OR
00:45:51.23\00:45:56.33
THIRSTY AND GIVE YOU DRINK?
WHEN DID WE SEE YOU A STRANGER
00:45:56.33\00:46:02.06
AND TAKE YOU IN, OR
NAKED AND CLOTHE YOU?
00:46:02.06\00:46:04.70
OR WHEN DID WE SEE YOU SICK,
OR IN PRISON, AND COME TO YOU?'"
00:46:04.70\00:46:09.93
- WHY? BECAUSE
IT'S JUST A WAY OF LIFE
00:46:09.93\00:46:13.16
- "AND THEN THE KING" - VERSE
40 - "SHALL ANSWER AND SAY UNTO
00:46:13.16\00:46:17.73
THEM, 'VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU,
INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO
00:46:17.73\00:46:21.36
ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY
BRETHREN, YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO
00:46:21.36\00:46:24.90
ME.'" AND THESE PEOPLE STAND
THERE AND THINK, 'WELL, I NEVER
00:46:24.90\00:46:29.03
REALIZED HALF OF IT.'
IT'S JUST A WAY OF BEING.
00:46:29.03\00:46:34.43
I READ A STATEMENT JUST A FEW
DAYS AGO WHERE IT SAYS A SIGN OF
00:46:34.43\00:46:37.60
OUR CHARACTERS PERFECTING -
GETTING TO PERFECTION - IS WE
00:46:37.60\00:46:41.23
INSTINCTIVELY JUST FILL WITH THE
DESIRE TO DO THINGS FOR PEOPLE.
00:46:41.23\00:46:47.00
THAT'S WHAT HEAVEN'S
LIKE. IT'S A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE
00:46:47.00\00:46:49.53
INSTINCTIVELY DO
STUFF FOR OTHERS.
00:46:49.53\00:46:51.50
OKAY, WEDNESDAY - LET'S
MOVE ON -'JAMES AND THE LAW'.
00:46:51.50\00:46:55.86
AGAIN, IN THE LESSON - IN THE
INTRODUCTION - IT SAYS, "AGAIN,
00:46:55.86\00:47:00.10
IF JESUS HAD INTENDED TO
ABROGATE OR DO AWAY WITH THE
00:47:00.10\00:47:04.30
DIVINE LAW, HIS OWN BROTHER,
JAMES, CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE
00:47:04.30\00:47:09.63
KNOWN." JAMES WAS
THE BROTHER OF JESUS
00:47:09.63\00:47:13.40
AND YOU WOULD THINK THAT JESUS'
BROTHER JAMES WOULD HAVE KNOWN
00:47:13.40\00:47:16.50
SOMETHING ABOUT IT, BUT JAMES
- NOT A WORD TO SAY ABOUT IT.
00:47:16.50\00:47:20.03
WELL, IT'S OBVIOUS THAT JESUS
MADE NO SUCH DECLARATION TO HIS
00:47:20.03\00:47:24.53
BROTHER BECAUSE JAMES
ALSO STRONGLY UPHOLDS THE LAW.
00:47:24.53\00:47:27.96
AND IN JAMES 2, VERSES 8 THROUGH
11 - I'LL READ THIS QUICKLY
00:47:27.96\00:47:31.73
HERE. IT SAYS,
"IF YE FULFILL THE
00:47:31.73\00:47:34.66
ROYAL LAW ACCORDING TO THE
SCRIPTURE, THOU SHALT LOVE THY
00:47:34.66\00:47:38.40
NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF, YE DO
WELL: BUT IF YE HAVE RESPECT TO
00:47:38.40\00:47:43.70
PERSONS, YE COMMIT
SIN," - WHAT IS SIN?
00:47:43.70\00:47:46.26
TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW, OKAY -
"AND ARE CONVICTED OF THE LAW AS
00:47:46.26\00:47:51.50
TRANSGRESSORS, FOR WHOSOEVER
SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND
00:47:51.50\00:47:54.26
YET OFFEND IN ONE
POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL.
00:47:54.26\00:47:57.16
FOR HE THAT SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT
ADULTERY,' SAID ALSO, 'DO NOT
00:47:57.16\00:48:01.70
KILL.' NOW IF THOU COMMIT NO
ADULTERY, YET IF THOU KILL, THOU
00:48:01.70\00:48:05.36
ART BECOME A
TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW."
00:48:05.36\00:48:08.80
SO THERE ARE SOME WHO MISTAKENLY
BELIEVE THAT JAMES IS TOTALLY
00:48:08.80\00:48:13.43
OUT OF SYNC WITH PAUL.
WE READ PAUL - PAUL MAKES IT
00:48:13.43\00:48:15.96
VERY CLEAR THAT
THE LAW IS IN EFFECT.
00:48:15.96\00:48:18.80
SOME PEOPLE SAY, YOU KNOW,
MARTIN LUTHER CALLED THE APOSTLE
00:48:18.80\00:48:22.20
OF - THE EPISTLE OF
JAMES AN EPISTLE OF STRAW.
00:48:22.20\00:48:27.80
BUT HE'S NOT OUT OF SYNC
WITH THE GREAT APOSTLE PAUL.
00:48:27.80\00:48:33.63
PAUL VERY MUCH SO EMPHASIZED
THAT WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE -
00:48:33.63\00:48:37.26
WE'RE SAVED THROUGH GRACE AND
NOT BY WORKS AND - BUT, HOWEVER,
00:48:37.26\00:48:44.63
PAUL DID EMPHASIZE THE
IMPORTANCE - I'M SORRY -
00:48:44.63\00:48:48.10
HOWEVER, WHILE PAUL EMPHASIZED
THE IMPORTANCE OF SALVATION BY
00:48:48.10\00:48:52.46
GRACE THROUGH FAITH, HE IN NO
WAY RELEGATED OBEDIENCE TO THE
00:48:52.46\00:48:58.46
LAW TO A SECONDARY PLACE OF
IMPORTANCE. HE DIDN'T DO THAT.
00:48:58.46\00:49:02.70
AGAIN, CITING OUR MEMORY VERSE,
ROMANS 7:12, "WHEREFORE THE
00:49:02.70\00:49:06.33
COMMANDMENT IS
HOLY AND JUST AND GOOD."
00:49:06.33\00:49:08.66
AND HERE'S A REAL CLINCHER FROM
PAUL - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JAMES
00:49:08.66\00:49:11.93
BUT WE'RE JUST CONTRASTING
HIM WITH PAUL FOR A MOMENT.
00:49:11.93\00:49:15.20
ROMANS 2:13 - PAUL SAYS, "FOR
NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE
00:49:15.20\00:49:19.36
JUST BEFORE GOD, BUT THE DOERS
OF THE LAW SHALL BE JUSTIFIED."
00:49:19.36\00:49:24.96
SO HERE IN ROMANS 2:13 PAUL
IS ON THE SAME PAGE EXACTLY -
00:49:24.96\00:49:30.56
TAKING THE SAME APPROACH TO THE
LAW AS JAMES IS IN CHAPTER 2.
00:49:30.56\00:49:34.90
THEY'RE BOTH
SAYING, 'HERE'S THE LAW.
00:49:34.90\00:49:36.26
YOU CAN'T BE JUSTIFIED IF YOU
NEGLECT IT AND YOU REJECT IT AND
00:49:36.26\00:49:41.10
YOU CAST IT AWAY AND
YOU WILLFULLY VIOLATE IT.
00:49:41.10\00:49:43.43
YOU JUST CAN'T DO THAT.
NOW RETURNING AGAIN TO JAMES
00:49:43.43\00:49:47.66
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 12, HE SAYS,
"SO SPEAK YE AND SO DO AS THEY
00:49:47.66\00:49:54.26
THAT SHALL BE JUDGED
BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY."
00:49:54.26\00:49:57.93
REMEMBER, WE JUST READ JAMES 8
THROUGH 11 ABOUT THE LAW AND NOW
00:49:57.93\00:50:01.90
HE CONTINUES ON HERE, "SO
SPEAK YE AND DO AS THEY THAT
00:50:01.90\00:50:05.03
SHALL BE JUDGED BY
THE LAW OF LIBERTY."
00:50:05.03\00:50:08.70
SO HERE, TOO, JAMES SOLIDLY
AFFIRMS THE LAW AS HE CITES IT
00:50:08.70\00:50:13.60
AS THE GREAT MORAL STANDARD
BY WHICH WE WILL ALL BE JUDGED.
00:50:13.60\00:50:20.46
AND WE COULD REPHRASE JAMES'
STATEMENT AS FOLLOWS - FIRST OF
00:50:20.46\00:50:26.83
ALL, LET ME READ THE ORIGINAL
ONE - HE SAYS, "SO SPEAK YE AND
00:50:26.83\00:50:29.66
DO AS THEY THAT SHALL BE
JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY."
00:50:29.66\00:50:32.23
WE COULD REPHRASE THAT AND
SAY THAT JAMES IS SAYING, 'OBEY
00:50:32.23\00:50:35.43
GOD'S COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE YOU
WILL BE JUDGED BY IT ONE DAY.'
00:50:35.43\00:50:38.96
WE COULD CERTAINLY DO THAT.
WE ARE JUSTIFIED IN DOING THAT.
00:50:38.96\00:50:42.20
AND IN GIVING THIS TESTIMONY,
WHAT JAMES SAID IS IN ABSOLUTE
00:50:42.20\00:50:50.66
PERFECT HARMONY WITH THE FIRST
ANGEL'S MESSAGE - REVELATION
00:50:50.66\00:50:56.16
14:6 AND 7 - ESPECIALLY VERSE 7.
IT SAYS IN REVELATION 14:7 - IT
00:50:56.16\00:51:03.86
SAYS, "FEAR GOD, AND GIVE
GLORY TO HIM; FOR" - WHAT?
00:51:03.86\00:51:09.13
- "THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS
COME" WE COULD REPHRASE THAT -
00:51:09.13\00:51:15.73
REVELATION 14:7 - WE COULD
REPHRASE IT AND SAY, 'OBEY GOD'S
00:51:15.73\00:51:20.33
COMMANDMENTS AND GIVE GLORY TO
HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT
00:51:20.33\00:51:23.33
IS COME.' AND THEN THE REPHRASED
ONE OF JAMES IS 'OBEY GOD'S
00:51:23.33\00:51:27.30
COMMANDMENTS FOR YOU WILL BE
JUDGED BY THEM ONE DAY.' SO WHAT
00:51:27.30\00:51:30.70
JAMES IS SAYING IS IN TOTAL
HARMONY WITH THE FIRST ANGEL'S
00:51:30.70\00:51:33.30
MESSAGE AND IN TOTAL HARMONY
WITH WHAT PAUL SAYS, BUT WHAT I
00:51:33.30\00:51:37.06
NEED TO DO IS GIVE YOU SOME CITE
HERE - THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
00:51:37.06\00:51:40.66
THAT ENABLES US TO BE ABLE
TO TAKE THE TERM 'FEAR GOD' AND
00:51:40.66\00:51:46.03
SHOW THAT IT'S
SYNONYMOUS WITH KEEPING HIS LAW.
00:51:46.03\00:51:48.76
I HOPE YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME HERE.
00:51:48.76\00:51:51.36
BACK THERE IN EXODUS - EXODUS 20
- WHERE GOD HAD LISTED ALL THE
00:51:51.36\00:51:56.30
TEN COMMANDMENTS AND HE WENT
FROM EXODUS 20, VERSE 1 ALL THE
00:51:56.30\00:52:01.40
WAY DOWN TO VERSE 17,
IMMEDIATELY ALMOST AFTERWARDS IN
00:52:01.40\00:52:07.16
VERSE 20, WE READ THESE WORDS:
"AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE,
00:52:07.16\00:52:13.46
'FEAR NOT FOR GOD HAS COME TO
PROVE YOU THAT HIS FEAR MAY BE
00:52:13.46\00:52:19.36
BEFORE YOUR FACES THAT YOU SIN
NOT." SO TO FEAR GOD MEANS TO
00:52:19.36\00:52:25.16
SIN NOT AND TO SIN NOT IS WHAT?
TO NOT BREAK THE LAW, RIGHT?
00:52:25.16\00:52:31.73
SO WE CAN SAY THAT MOSES SAID
UNTO THE PEOPLE, 'FEAR NOT FOR
00:52:31.73\00:52:36.16
GOD IS COME TO PROVE YOU
THAT YOU - THAT HIS FEAR MAY BE
00:52:36.16\00:52:41.70
BEFORE YOU THAT YOU KEEP HIS
COMMANDMENTS.' SO, ECCLESIASTES
00:52:41.70\00:52:53.86
12, VERSE 13 - THIS KIND OF VERY
CLEARLY TIES ALL THIS UP HERE -
00:52:53.86\00:53:01.56
ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 12, VERSES
13 AND 14 - IT SAYS, "LET US
00:53:01.56\00:53:09.33
HEAR THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE
MATTER: FEAR GOD AND" - WHAT?
00:53:09.33\00:53:15.90
- "KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS."
AGAIN, WE SEE THERE THAT 'FEAR
00:53:15.90\00:53:18.30
GOD' MEANS IT'S SYNONYMOUS
WITH KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS.
00:53:18.30\00:53:21.76
"FEAR GOD AND
KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
00:53:21.76\00:53:23.76
FOR THIS IS THE
WHOLE DUTY OF MAN.
00:53:23.76\00:53:26.86
FOR GOD SHALL BRING EVERY WORK
INTO JUDGMENT WITH EVERY SECRET
00:53:26.86\00:53:30.70
THING, WHETHER IT BE
GOOD OR WHETHER IT BE EVIL."
00:53:30.70\00:53:36.00
SO JAMES IS RIGHT ON WHEN
HE SAYS THAT FAITH IS OKAY BUT
00:53:36.00\00:53:41.60
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THE WORKS
OF THE LAW WITH IT AS WELL.
00:53:41.60\00:53:45.80
AND I'LL JUST CONCLUDE
THIS SECTION BY READING,
00:53:45.80\00:53:47.50
AGAIN, FROM JAMES CHAPTER 2.
00:53:47.50\00:53:50.23
HE'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ON AS OUR
GOOD FRIEND HERE, JAMES - JAMES
00:53:50.23\00:53:55.33
2, VERSE 20 - HE SAYS, "BUT
WILT THOU KNOW, O VAIN MAN, THAT
00:53:55.33\00:53:59.70
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS" - THAT
IS, WITHOUT THE LAW - "IS DEAD?"
00:53:59.70\00:54:04.90
AND HE ALSO SAYS, IN VERSE
26, "FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE
00:54:04.90\00:54:09.16
SPIRIT IS DEAD, SO FAITH
WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD ALSO."
00:54:09.16\00:54:13.73
AND THEN HE SAYS IN VERSE 12,
"SO SPEAK YE, AND SO DO, AS THEY
00:54:13.73\00:54:19.53
THAT SHALL BE JUDGED BY THE
LAW OF LIBERTY." VERY CLEAR.
00:54:19.53\00:54:26.63
AND AS IN JAMES WE ARE GIVEN A
PICTURE OF JUDGMENT, IN JUDE TOO
00:54:26.63\00:54:34.06
WE ALSO GET A
PICTURE OF JUDGMENT AS WELL.
00:54:34.06\00:54:37.10
HE DOESN'T MENTION LAW BUT HE
BRINGS JUDGMENT IN, WHICH TELLS
00:54:37.10\00:54:39.86
US THERE HAS TO BE A LAW.
THERE HAS TO BE A LAW BECAUSE IF
00:54:39.86\00:54:45.00
THERE WAS NO LAW
THERE COULD BE NO SIN.
00:54:45.00\00:54:47.93
NOTHING COULD BE DESIGNATED
AS SIN AND IT ONLY CAN BE
00:54:47.93\00:54:51.00
DESIGNATED AS SIN BY
VIRTUE OF THE FACT THAT
00:54:51.00\00:54:53.50
THE LAW IS IN EFFECT.
00:54:53.50\00:54:56.23
SO TO SUMMARIZE: IF THERE'S
NO SIN, THERE'S NO GUILT.
00:54:56.23\00:55:00.16
IF THERE'S NO GUILT, WHY
DO WE NEED TO HAVE A JUDGMENT?
00:55:00.16\00:55:04.86
THERE'S NO NEED TO HAVE A
JUDGMENT, BECAUSE IF STEALING
00:55:04.86\00:55:09.80
AND MURDERING IS NOT A SIN
WE CAN REMAIN IN A STATE OF
00:55:09.80\00:55:14.30
PERPETUAL INNOCENCE AND HAVE A
LEGAL RIGHT TO GO TO HEAVEN AND
00:55:14.30\00:55:18.63
LIVE UP THERE JUST ANY OLD WAY
WE PLEASE THAT WE HAVE DOWN HERE
00:55:18.63\00:55:21.86
UPON THIS EARTH.
SILLY REASONING, ISN'T IT?
00:55:21.86\00:55:26.30
BUT THAT IS ACTUALLY THE
REASONING THAT PEOPLE HAVE OUT
00:55:26.30\00:55:29.20
THERE THAT SAY, FOR ONE REASON
OR ANOTHER, 'NO, THE LAW HAS
00:55:29.20\00:55:33.00
BEEN ABOLISHED - TOTALLY
ABOLISHED.' BUT GOD DOES,
00:55:33.00\00:55:36.96
INDEED, HAVE A HOLY AND A
SACRED LAW AND THERE ARE DIRE
00:55:36.96\00:55:40.63
CONSEQUENCES AWAITING THOSE
WHO TURN FROM THE DECALOGUE
00:55:40.63\00:55:45.03
REGARDLESS OF HOW HIGHLY
REGARDED THEY MAY HAVE BEEN BY
00:55:45.03\00:55:48.83
GOD. THIS IS FROM
JUDE 5 - HERE'S THE
00:55:48.83\00:55:52.70
ONE WE'RE LOOKING AT - HE
DOESN'T MENTION THE LAW BUT HE
00:55:52.70\00:55:57.30
CERTAINLY SPEAKS ABOUT JUDGMENT
AND TRANSGRESSION, WHICH MEANS
00:55:57.30\00:56:00.66
THERE HAS TO BE A LAW.
VERSE 5, "I WILL THEREFORE PUT
00:56:00.66\00:56:04.10
YOU IN REMEMBRANCE, THOUGH
YE ONCE KNEW THIS, HOW THAT THE
00:56:04.10\00:56:07.73
LORD, HAVING SAVED THE
PEOPLE OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,
00:56:07.73\00:56:11.06
AFTERWARD DESTROYED
THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT.
00:56:11.06\00:56:15.10
AND THE ANGELS WHICH KEPT
NOT THEIR FIRST ESTATE, BUT LEFT
00:56:15.10\00:56:18.83
THEIR OWN HABITATION, HE HATH
RESERVED IN EVERLASTING CHAINS
00:56:18.83\00:56:23.23
UNDER DARKNESS UNTO THE
JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT DAY."
00:56:23.23\00:56:27.60
- AND THE GREAT MORAL STANDARD
IN THE JUDGMENT IS THE LAW -
00:56:27.60\00:56:30.96
VERSE 7, "EVEN AS SODOM AND
GOMORRAH, AND THE CITIES ABOUT
00:56:30.96\00:56:34.36
THEM IN LIKE MANNER, GIVING
THEMSELVES OVER TO FORNICATION,
00:56:34.36\00:56:37.63
AND GOING AFTER STRANGE
FLESH," - HE'S SPEAKING THERE OF
00:56:37.63\00:56:40.86
HOMOSEXUALITY - "ARE SET FORTH
FOR AN EXAMPLE, SUFFERING THE
00:56:40.86\00:56:46.06
VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE."
SO, IS IT VERY CLEAR THAT THERE
00:56:46.06\00:56:53.86
IS A JUDGMENT? IF
THERE'S NO LAW THERE COULD BE
00:56:53.86\00:56:57.06
NO JUDGMENT -
AND OUR TIME IS GONE.
00:56:57.06\00:56:59.56
BUT WE'VE LOOKED AT PAUL, LOOKED
AT JOHN, LOOKED AT JAMES, WE'VE
00:56:59.56\00:57:06.20
LOOKED AT JUDE, AND WE'D LOOK
A LITTLE FURTHER IF WE COULD
00:57:06.20\00:57:09.43
BUT OUR TIME IS
GONE THIS MORNING.
00:57:09.43\00:57:13.56
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