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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU
THAT JOIN US EVERY WEEK AS WE
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STUDY TOGETHER FROM ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD -
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EITHER LIVE ON THE INTERNET,
THROUGH RADIO, TELEVISION -
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WELCOME TO THOSE OF YOU WHO
JOIN US EVERY WEEK RIGHT HERE
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TO STUDY GOD'S WORD.
WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO BE
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ABLE TO PULL OUT OUR HYMNALS
- TO PULL OUT OUR BIBLES ALL
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OVER THE PLANET AND STUDY GOD'S
WORD AND GET TO KNOW HIM BETTER.
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HE IS COMING SOON AND SOMEDAY
VERY SOON WE WILL BE STUDYING
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AND LEARNING TOGETHER IN
HEAVEN. I CAN HARDLY WAIT.
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AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN
GOING THROUGH THE HYMNAL.
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WE'RE UP IN THE ONE HUNDREDS -
TODAY IS #106 - 'GIVE TO GOD OUR
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IMMORTAL PRAISE' - HYMN #106.
AND THIS IS A REQUEST FROM FRED
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IN FINLAND, CLAUDIA IN MEXICO
AND CHRIS IN NIGERIA - AND WE
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WILL SING ALL FOUR VERSES.
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>>LET'S PRAY. OUR
KIND AND HEAVENLY FATHER,
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WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO
COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE YOU.
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WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE ON YOUR
THRONE AND WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE
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ABOUT TO BRING THAT KINGDOM HERE
TO THIS EARTH AND THAT WE WILL
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REIGN ETERNALLY WITH YOU AND
LORD, WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO
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THAT DAY WHEN WE CAN MEET OUR
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, ALL OVER
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THE WORLD, WHO HAVE KEPT THE
FAITH AND STAYED FAITHFUL TO YOU
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AND THERE WE WILL
RECEIVE OUR CROWN OF LIFE.
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BUT UNTIL THEN, LORD, KEEP US
FAITHFUL, KEEP US IN YOUR WORD,
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KEEP OUR HEARTS PURE AND CLEAN
THROUGH THE POWER OF JESUS WHO
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GAVE EVERYTHING FOR US
AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL.
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SO BE WITH PASTOR DOUG TODAY,
LORD, THAT BRINGS US YOUR WORDS
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OF LIFE. HELP US
TO APPLY THEM TO OUR
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LIVES AND TO GO FROM THIS
PLACE SERVING YOU TO THE END.
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I PRAY THESE THINGS IN
YOUR NAME, JESUS. AMEN.
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OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>GOOD MORNING.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOLYNE,
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EUNICE, OUR SINGERS -
FOR THE MUSIC AND THE HYMNS.
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WELCOME, FRIENDS, TO
CENTRAL STUDY HOUR AND, I KNOW,
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SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE I'M THE
GUEST NOW SO WHEN SHE ASKS, 'ARE
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THERE ANY VISITORS HERE?'
I'M GOING...BUT GLAD TO BE ABLE
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TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD WITH
YOU AND I WANT TO WELCOME OUR
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EXTENDED CLASS THAT ARE STUDYING
WITH US AROUND THE WORLD.
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AND, YOU KNOW, AS I TRAVEL THIS
LAST YEAR, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF
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TRAVEL IN ROMANIA, IN GERMANY,
IN EUROPE AND CHINA - SEEING ALL
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THE PEOPLE THAT SAY, 'OH, WE
STUDY WITH CENTRAL CHURCH EACH
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WEEK.' AND WE FORGET, SOMETIMES,
THAT THIS IS PART OF A GREAT
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OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY WITH OUR
BROTHERS AND SISTERS AROUND THE
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WORLD. AND TODAY WE HAVE A VERY
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IMPORTANT LESSON I'LL
GET TO IN JUST A MOMENT.
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THE OFFER TODAY - YOU MIGHT
WONDER, 'WHY OFFER THIS BOOK?'
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YOU'LL UNDERSTAND AS WE
PROCEED WITH THE LESSON.
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IT'S A NEW BOOK:
'WHO ARE THE SONS OF GOD?'
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THE SUBTITLE FOR THE BOOK IS
'ALIENS, ANGELS, OR ADOPTED' -
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IT'S OFFER #811 AND YOU
SIMPLY CALL 866-STUDY-MORE -
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THAT'S 866-788-3966 AND AS FOR
THE BOOK 'WHO ARE THE SONS OF
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GOD?' THAT
COMES OUT IN OUR STUDY
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TODAY AND OUR STUDY IS DEALING
WITH 'CHRIST'S CHURCH AND THE
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LAW'. IT'S LESSON #12
- WOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE
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IN A NEW QUARTERLY PRETTY SOON.
LESSON #12: 'CHRIST'S CHURCH AND
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THE LAW' AND WE HAVE A MEMORY
VERSE. THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM
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REVELATION 14:12 - I'D
APPRECIATE IF YOU WANT TO SAY
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THAT WITH ME - YOU
READY? REVELATION 14:12
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IN OUR QUARTERLY - IT COMES
FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION,
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"HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE
SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP
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THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
AND THE FAITH OF JESUS."
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- 'THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND
THE FAITH OF JESUS.' AND THERE'S
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ACTUALLY THREE VERSES
LIKE THAT IN REVELATION.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE
QUOTING FROM TWO OF THEM TODAY.
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NOW THE CORE OF THE LESSON TODAY
IS DEALING WITH - WELL, REALLY
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TWO THINGS. ONE IS
IT'S DEALING WITH THE
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CONTINUITY OF GOD'S LAW THROUGH
THE DIFFERENT AGES OF THE
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CHURCH. AND WE'VE
ALREADY TOUCHED ON
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THIS EARLIER IN THE QUARTERLY
- THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DID
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NOT SUDDENLY APPEAR
IN EXODUS CHAPTER 20 -
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WE'RE ALL AWARE OF
THAT? DID GOD HAVE THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS BEFORE
MOSES? HOW DO WE KNOW THAT?
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DID THE LORD SAY THAT IT WAS A
SIN FOR CAIN TO KILL HIS BROTHER
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- BEFORE THE LAW WAS WRITTEN BY
GOD - 'THOU SHALT NOT MURDER'?
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YEAH, REMEMBER, GOD SAID TO
CAIN, 'SIN LIES AT YOUR DOOR.'
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AND WAS IT A SIN - DID JOSEPH
KNOW IT WAS A SIN FOR HIM TO
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COMMIT ADULTERY WITH POTIPHAR'S
WIFE - BEFORE THE SEVENTH
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COMMANDMENT WAS
SPOKEN FROM MOUNT SINAI?
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JOSEPH SAID, 'HOW CAN I
COMMIT THIS SIN AGAINST GOD?'
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ADULTERY WAS A SIN. AND
YOU CAN LOOK AT A NUMBER OF
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EXAMPLES. THE
PATRIARCHS AND THE PEOPLE
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BEFORE MOSES - THEY
HAD THE LAW OF CHRIST THEN.
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OF COURSE, WE KNOW THEY HAD THE
LAW OF CHRIST DURING THE TIME OF
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MOSES AND THROUGH
THESE DIFFERENT STAGES.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK IN
OUR STUDY TODAY, AS YOU GO FROM
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SUNDAY ON THROUGH FRIDAY, WE'VE
GOT THE LAW OF CHRIST FROM ADAM
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TO NOAH, FROM NOAH TO ABRAHAM,
FROM ABRAHAM TO MOSES, FROM
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MOSES TO JESUS, AND
FROM JESUS TO THE REMNANT.
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BUT, AS MUCH AS ANYTHING, THIS
LESSON IS TEACHING ABOUT THE
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REMNANT - HOW
THERE IS A CONTINUITY OF
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GOD'S TRUTH THAT
HE COMMITS TO PEOPLE.
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AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SOMETIMES -
WHEN THE CHURCH OF GOD SOMETIMES
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GROWS INTO AN INSTITUTION AND
THEY BECOME INSTITUTIONALIZED,
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WHAT SOMETIMES HAPPENS IS
THERE'S APOSTASY THAT CREEPS IN.
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YOU SEE A PATTERN AND THEN THE
LORD SAVES A REMNANT OUT OF THAT
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GROUP AND HE COMMITS TO THEM
THE ORACLES OF TRUTH SO THAT THE
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TRUTH IS - THE LAW OF GOD IS
NOT JUST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
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THE LAW OF GOD IS THE TRUTH OF
GOD - THE WORD OF GOD - SO THAT
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IT IS PRESERVED BY THIS REMNANT
AND IT IS TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW
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GROUP THAT IS
USUALLY A REVIVAL MOVEMENT.
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IT GROWS, IT BECOMES
ESTABLISHED, IT SPREADS, AND
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THEN IT BECOMES AN INSTITUTION
AND IT BEGINS TO FALL AGAIN AND
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THE LORD HAS TO SORT OF PLUCK
THE TRUTH OUT OF THAT GROUP AND
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HAND IT TO ANOTHER GROUP.
AND SO THIS STUDY IS REALLY LIKE
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A STUDY OF THE REMNANT. HOW
MANY OF YOU - MEN OR WOMEN -
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USED TO MAKE YOUR OWN
BREAD OR YOU STILL DO?
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AND SOMETIMES
USE A LITTLE YEAST.
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NOW, TODAY, YOU CAN BUY -
IS IT FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST?
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I USED TO BAKE, BELIEVE
IT OR NOT. IT'S BEEN A WHILE.
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AND WHEN YOU MIX UP SOME DOUGH
WITH THE YEAST AND YOU LET IT
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SORT OF FERMENT - DEVELOP - YOU
THEN, IF YOU ARE WANTING TO SAVE
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A PIECE OF THAT DOUGH - YOU GET
A GOOD BATCH - YOU PINCH A PIECE
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OF THAT BEFORE YOU BAKE
IT AND YOU SAVE IT, RIGHT?
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AND YOU CAN USE THAT YEAST FROM
THAT PIECE OF DOUGH AND YOU CAN
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USE IT TO MIX IT
IN WITH ANOTHER BATCH.
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EVEN JESUS
REFERS TO THIS, RIGHT?
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HOW A LITTLE LEAVEN
CAN LEAVEN THE WHOLE LOAF.
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NOW LEAVEN, IN THE BIBLE, IS
USED BOTH IN A POSITIVE AND A
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NEGATIVE WAY SO I'M USING
IT IN THE POSITIVE WAY NOW.
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SO SOMETIMES THE LORD, HE WILL
TAKE A REMNANT FROM THAT GOOD
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BODY AND THEN HE TRANSFERS
IT. IT'S LIKE THE SACRED SEED.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO GET
TO THAT IN OUR STUDY TODAY.
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SO WE'RE STUDYING CHRIST'S
CHURCH AND HIS LAW AND THE WORD
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'CHURCH' IN GREEK, IT'S
FROM THE WORD 'ECCLESIA'
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AND IT MEANS 'A
GROUP THAT IS CALLED OUT'.
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OFTEN HIS CHURCH IS A GROUP THAT
IS CALLED OUT FROM AMONG ANOTHER
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GROUP AND THE WORD 'CHURCH' THAT
WE PRONOUNCE 'CHURCH' DOESN'T
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COME FROM ECCLESIA, IT COMES
FROM THE WORD THAT'S ONLY FOUND
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A COUPLE TIMES IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT: KURIAKON - KURIAKON -
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AND IT ACTUALLY MEANS 'SOMETHING
PERTAINING TO THE LORD'.
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NOW ANY OF YOU REMEMBER
THE OLD HYMNAL - THEY USED TO
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HAVE A SONG CALLED 'COME
TO THE KIRK IN THE WILDWOOD'?
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THE KIRK - OR IF YOU'RE FROM
ENGLAND OR SCOTLAND THE WORD FOR
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CHURCH WAS KIRK - AND
OUR ENGLISH WORD IN AMERICA -
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'CHURCH' - IS REALLY A
DERIVATIVE OF THE WORD 'KIRK'
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WHICH COMES FROM THIS GREEK WORD
'KURIAKON' AND SO JUST A LITTLE
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ETYMOLOGY OF WHERE
THE WORD COMES FROM.
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THAT WORD IS FOUND - KURIAKON
- YOU FIND, FOR INSTANCE IN
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1 CORINTHIANS 11:20 - WHEN
IT TALKS ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS
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SET ASIDE FOR OR PERTAINING
TO THE LORD, IT TALKS ABOUT THE
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LORD'S SUPPER - THE KURIAKON
SUPPER - SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY
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PERTAINING - SO THE CHURCH IS
A PEOPLE - A CALLED OUT GROUP.
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THE SYNAGOGUE IS
A SACRED ASSEMBLY.
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IT'S A WORD FOR 'CHURCH'.
IT'S KIND OF INTERCHANGEABLE.
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IT TALKS ABOUT THE CHURCH OF
SATAN IN REVELATION AND CALLS IT
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'THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN'.
AND SO THESE ARE SOME WORDS THAT
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YOU FIND ARE INTERCHANGEABLE
TALKING ABOUT THE CHURCH.
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THE WORD 'REMNANT' - I THINK
MOST OF US KNOW WHAT A REMNANT
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MEANS. IT'S WHERE YOU GET THE
WORD 'REMAINDER' - IT'S - YOU'D
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HATE TO SAY 'LEFTOVER' BUT
IT'S SOMETHING THAT SURVIVES.
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IT MEANS 'PART THAT IS LEFT OVER
AFTER USE; A SURVIVING TRACE OR
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VESTIGE; A REMAINDER
LIKE IN THE REMNANT OF CLOTH.'
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YOU EVER BOUGHT A REMNANT
FROM THE BOLT THAT IS LEFT?
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AND SO THE LORD OFTEN CALLS
OUT A REMNANT FROM THIS OTHER
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RELIGIOUS BODY THAT IS IN
APOSTASY AND THEY BECOME THE
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DEPOSITORIES OF
HIS TRUTH OR HIS LAW.
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AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE IS
A CONTINUITY OF THAT THAT GOES
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ALL THE WAY FROM
ADAM TO OUR PRESENT DAY.
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AND PROBABLY WITH THAT
INTRODUCTION I OUGHT TO - WELL,
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LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION: HOW
MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE
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A CHURCH? WHAT IS
THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT?
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I SAW SOMEONE SAY
ONE. I SAW SOMEONE SAY TWO.
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WELL, LET ME READ YOU A VERSE.
MATTHEW 18, VERSE 19 - JESUS
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SAID, "AGAIN I SAY TO YOU THAT
IF TWO OF YOU AGREE ON EARTH
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CONCERNING ANYTHING THAT THEY
ASK, IT WILL BE DONE FOR THEM BY
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MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.
FOR WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE
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GATHERED TOGETHER IN MY NAME, I
AM THERE IN THE MIDST OF THEM."
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NOW THAT IS NOT TO DISCOUNT
THE TRUTH THAT YOU MAY BE ALONE.
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YOU MAY FEEL LIKE YOU'RE THE
ONLY KNEE THAT HAS NOT BOWED TO
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BAAL AND YOU MIGHT RUN OFF
INTO A CAVE OR IN THE WILDERNESS
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UNDER A BROOM TREE LIKE ELIJAH
AND JUST PRAY THAT YOU MIGHT DIE
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BECAUSE YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE
LEFT AND YOU'RE NOT FORSAKEN.
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JESUS SAID, 'I WILL NEVER LEAVE
YOU OR FORSAKE YOU.' AND MANY A
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MISSIONARY, LIKE DAVID
LIVINGSTONE AND OTHERS, HAVE
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FOUND THEMSELVES ALONE AND THEY
- MANY TIMES MISSIONARIES ARE
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THE ONLY REPRESENTATIVES OF
GOD'S CHURCH IN SOME DARK COUNTY
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OR SOME DARK COUNTRY. AND
SO, YEAH, ONE PERSON CAN BE
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THE VEHICLE THROUGH
WHOM GOD BRINGS THE TRUTH.
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PHILIP WENT OFF INTO THE DESERT
BY HIMSELF TO PREACH AND HE WAS
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THE CHURCH OF JESUS BY HIMSELF.
BUT, TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, YOU
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THINK OF TWO OR THREE GATHERED
- HE IS IN THEIR MIDST AND BUT -
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YEAH, THE LORD - WHEREVER GOD'S
PRESENCE IS THERE IS HIS CHURCH.
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ALRIGHT, SO LET'S GO BACK FROM
ADAM TO NOAH AND IN GENESIS 2:16
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- LET'S GO THERE
FIRST - GENESIS 2
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- WE'RE STARTING
AT THE BEGINNING.
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"AND THE LORD GOD COMMANDED THE
MAN, SAYING, 'OF EVERY TREE OF
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THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT;
BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE
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OF GOOD AND EVIL YOU SHALL NOT
EAT, FOR IN THE DAY THAT YOU EAT
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OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE.' NOW
THE LORD GAVE A TRUTH TO ADAM
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AND EVE - THE
LORD GAVE THEM A TEST.
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WHY DID GOD NEED TO GIVE A
TEST TO MAN IN THE BEGINNING?
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PROBABLY, I BELIEVE, THAT THIS
PLANET WAS NOT THE ONLY PLANET
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THAT HAD SOME KIND
OF TEST OF LOYALTY.
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ANYWHERE GOD HAS INTELLIGENT
FREE MORAL CREATURES - IN ORDER
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FOR THERE TO BE LOVE, THERE MUST
BE GENUINE FREEDOM - FREEDOM
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THAT GOD IS WILLING TO
PROVE EVEN BY LOSING THAT LOVE.
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AND SO, TO HAVE THAT
FREEDOM YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE.
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YOU KNOW IF I ASKED MY WIFE TO
MARRY ME AND SHE SAID 'YES' AND
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SHE SAID, 'BECAUSE I HAVE NO
OTHER CHOICE' - I'D WONDER IF IT
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WAS LOVE, RIGHT? SO
JUST THE VERY NATURE OF LOVE,
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YOU ALMOST NEED TO BE ABLE TO
CHOOSE OR THEN IT BECOMES FORCED
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AND FORCED LOVE ISN'T LOVE.
AND SO GOD GAVE A CHOICE TO ADAM
00:15:34.46\00:15:38.36
AND EVE: 'WILL YOU LOVE
ME? WILL YOU BELIEVE ME?
00:15:38.36\00:15:40.90
AND HE SAID THERE - 'YOU'RE
FREE TO EAT ANY TREE' BUT IN THE
00:15:40.90\00:15:44.20
MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN YOU'VE GOT
ONE THAT IS ESPECIALLY DEDICATED
00:15:44.20\00:15:46.30
TO LIFE AND ONE
THAT IS FORBIDDEN.
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AND IF YOU TRUST ME, AND IF
YOU LOVE ME, YOU'LL TRUST ME.
00:15:48.86\00:15:53.13
YOU WON'T EAT THAT FORBIDDEN
TREE.' AND THE DEVIL SAID,
00:15:53.13\00:15:55.70
'DON'T TRUST GOD,
TRUST ME.' MAN HAD A CHOICE.
00:15:55.70\00:15:59.46
PROOF OF REAL LOVE IS
THAT WE CAN EVEN CHOOSE DEATH.
00:15:59.46\00:16:04.50
WE CAN EVEN CHOOSE NOT TO LOVE.
00:16:04.50\00:16:07.16
AND SO THE DEVIL TEMPTED THE
FIRST MEN TO DOUBT GOD'S WORD
00:16:07.16\00:16:11.73
AND THAT'S WHEN
SUFFERING CAME IN.
00:16:11.73\00:16:14.46
GOD SAID, 'DON'T EAT FROM THE
FORBIDDEN TREE OR YOU WILL DIE.'
00:16:14.46\00:16:18.70
SO THEN AFTER THE CURSE ENTERED
GOD SAID, 'LOOK, I LOVE YOU.
00:16:18.70\00:16:21.90
I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU.
I'M GOING TO ACTIVATE A PLAN OF
00:16:21.90\00:16:25.00
SALVATION -
THERE'LL BE ANOTHER CHANCE.
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I'M GIVING THE WORLD A
PROBATIONARY OPPORTUNITY TO BE
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SAVED, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A
BATTLE IN YOUR WORLD AND YOU'LL
00:16:30.43\00:16:33.43
NEED TO CONTINUE MAKING THE
RIGHT CHOICE TO LOVE AND TRUST
00:16:33.43\00:16:36.26
ME.' AND SO THE LORD, VERY EARLY
IN THE BIBLE, HE MAKES THIS
00:16:36.26\00:16:40.06
PROPHECY IN GENESIS 3:15, "AND I
WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND
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THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED
AND HER SEED; HE SHALL BRUISE
00:16:45.76\00:16:51.56
YOUR HEAD, AND YOU
SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL."
00:16:51.56\00:16:54.60
IT'S INTERESTING HE'S TALKING TO
THE WOMAN, BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN
00:16:54.60\00:16:57.20
IT TURNS INTO THE MASCULINE AND
SAYS, 'HE WILL BRUISE YOUR HEAD
00:16:57.20\00:16:59.90
AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL.'
NOW THE SEED OF THE WOMAN IS
00:16:59.90\00:17:04.76
WHO? JESUS. THIS
MAN-CHILD CAUGHT UP TO
00:17:04.76\00:17:09.76
GOD'S THRONE - THE SEED OF THE
WOMAN WOULD BRUISE WHOSE HEAD?
00:17:09.76\00:17:14.76
HE WOULD ACTUALLY CRUSH
THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT.
00:17:14.76\00:17:17.86
THE SERPENT WOULD BRUISE OR
INJURE THE HEEL OF THE SEED OF
00:17:17.86\00:17:22.70
THE WOMAN. AND SO,
THROUGH HISTORY YOU SEE
00:17:22.70\00:17:25.23
THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THE SEED OF
THE WOMAN, THE REMNANT, THE ONES
00:17:25.23\00:17:30.06
WHO EMBRACE AND HOLD THE
GUARDIANS OF THE LAW OF GOD, AND
00:17:30.06\00:17:35.50
BETWEEN THE SERPENT AND
THE SEED OF THE SERPENT.
00:17:35.50\00:17:39.46
THE WOMAN IN REVELATION
17, DOES SHE HAVE DAUGHTERS?
00:17:39.46\00:17:43.36
THAT'S THE SEED OF
THE SERPENT, RIGHT?
00:17:43.36\00:17:45.13
AND THE WOMAN IN REVELATION
12, DOES SHE HAVE A HOLY CHILD?
00:17:45.13\00:17:49.20
THERE'S BEEN THIS BATTLE
BETWEEN THESE TWO GROUPS THROUGH
00:17:49.20\00:17:51.36
HISTORY. ONE HAS
THE TRUTH COMMITTED TO
00:17:51.36\00:17:54.20
THEM - OR THE LAW OF GOD - AND
YOU SEE THESE DIFFERENT STAGES
00:17:54.20\00:17:57.83
THROUGH HISTORY. GO TO
REVELATION 12:17 AND WE'LL
00:17:57.83\00:18:00.56
READ THIS VERSE AGAIN
LATER, IF TIME PERMITS.
00:18:00.56\00:18:03.00
REVELATION 12:17, "AND THE
DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE
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WOMAN, AND HE WENT TO MAKE WAR
WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING,
00:18:07.63\00:18:16.06
WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS
00:18:16.06\00:18:20.53
CHRIST." IT'S AMAZING
HOW LONG SEEDS CAN SURVIVE.
00:18:20.53\00:18:25.03
THE SEED OF TRUTH THAT GOD GAVE
IN THE VERY BEGINNING TO HIS
00:18:25.03\00:18:28.63
PEOPLE HAS SOMEHOW SURVIVED ALL
THIS TIME. WE DON'T HAVE REALLY
00:18:28.63\00:18:33.93
A DIFFERENT TRUTH ABOUT
GOD THAN ADAM AND EVE HAD.
00:18:33.93\00:18:37.16
OH, THERE'S BEEN DIFFERENT
DIMENSIONS AND EXPANSION OF
00:18:37.16\00:18:40.03
REVELATION, BUT THE
TRUTH HAS NOT CHANGED.
00:18:40.03\00:18:41.93
TRUTH DOES NOT GO
AWAY. TRUTH NEVER DIES.
00:18:41.93\00:18:45.46
IF SOMETHING WAS TRUE A HUNDRED
YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW, TRUTH STAYS
00:18:45.46\00:18:50.60
TRUTH. I KNOW
THERE'S CERTAIN HABITS
00:18:50.60\00:18:54.50
AND PATTERNS THAT MAY EVOLVE AND
CHANGE AND STYLES CHANGE, BUT
00:18:54.50\00:18:58.80
TRUTH DOESN'T DIE, IT
STAYS THE SAME. JUST A FEW -
00:18:58.80\00:19:03.36
A LITTLE AMAZING FACT ABOUT
SEEDS I THOUGHT I'D SHARE WITH
00:19:03.36\00:19:06.03
YOU WHILE WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT THE SEED OF THE WOMAN.
00:19:06.03\00:19:07.96
HAVE SOME OF YOU HEARD OF
THE 'DOOMSDAY SEED VAULT'?
00:19:07.96\00:19:11.86
IN ONE OF THE VERY NORTHERNMOST
PARTS OF NORWAY - ONLY 620 MILES
00:19:11.86\00:19:17.56
FROM THE NORTH POLE - BLASTED
427 FEET INTO VIRTUAL ROCK AND
00:19:17.56\00:19:23.73
PERMAFROST IN THIS NORWEGIAN
MOUNTAIN, THEY'VE GOT THIS
00:19:23.73\00:19:27.16
'SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED
VAULT' - BETTER KNOWN AS
00:19:27.16\00:19:31.20
'THE DOOMSDAY VAULT'. IN
THIS VAULT IT'S DESIGNED TO
00:19:31.20\00:19:34.80
KEEP MILLIONS OF SEED SAMPLES,
GATHERED FROM AROUND THE WORLD,
00:19:34.80\00:19:38.33
IN THE EVENT THAT
THERE'S SOME NATURAL
00:19:38.33\00:19:39.80
OR UNNATURAL DISASTER LIKE A
NUCLEAR WAR, ASTEROIDS STRIKE,
00:19:39.80\00:19:43.20
VEGETATION PLAGUE, OR WAR -
SEA LEVELS RISE - SO THAT THE
00:19:43.20\00:19:48.90
VEGETATION AND AGRICULTURE
OF THE WORLD CAN BE PRESERVED.
00:19:48.90\00:19:52.66
AND SO SOMEONE'S INVESTED
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN - 9.4
00:19:52.66\00:19:57.10
MILLION DOLLARS - TO
BUILD THIS SEED VAULT UP THERE.
00:19:57.10\00:19:59.56
AND THEY VERY CAREFULLY
PUT THE SEEDS IN THERE.
00:19:59.56\00:20:01.03
IT IS POWERED, BUT IT'S DESIGNED
IN SUCH A WAY THAT EVEN IF
00:20:01.03\00:20:04.33
THERE'S SOME KIND OF CATASTROPHE
AND THEY LOSE POWER, BECAUSE
00:20:04.33\00:20:08.83
IT'S BUILT IN THE PERMAFROST, IT
KEEPS ALL THE SEEDS AT ABOUT 25
00:20:08.83\00:20:11.86
DEGREES. AND THEY FIGURE, AT
THAT TEMPERATURE, MANY OF THE
00:20:11.86\00:20:15.46
SEEDS CAN LAST 10,000 YEARS.
NOW SOME OF YOU - AND RIGHT NOW
00:20:15.46\00:20:20.10
THEY'VE GOT 4 MILLION PACKAGES
OF SEEDS - IT'S CAPABLE OF
00:20:20.10\00:20:24.70
HOLDING 4 MILLION PACKAGES -
OR 2 BILLION TOTAL SEEDS - ALL
00:20:24.70\00:20:29.43
DIFFERENT KINDS OF CLIMATES IN
ALL DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD
00:20:29.43\00:20:31.93
AND THEY'RE ADDING
NEW SEEDS ALL THE TIME.
00:20:31.93\00:20:34.23
SO THE SEEDS OF TRUTH HAVE
BEEN TRANSFERRED AND PRESERVED.
00:20:34.23\00:20:39.80
YOU KNOW, WHY DOES PAUL SAY -
PAUL DEFENDS THE JEWS IN ROMANS
00:20:39.80\00:20:47.43
AS STILL HAVING A UNIQUE
ROLE AND HE SAYS, YOU KNOW, 'GOD
00:20:47.43\00:20:51.60
PRESERVED THEM NOT BECAUSE THEY
WERE BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE -
00:20:51.60\00:20:54.63
GOD SAYS, 'BECAUSE YOU'RE
A STUBBORN AND A STIFF-NECKED
00:20:54.63\00:20:56.60
PEOPLE.' AND IF THE LORD HAD
DECIDED TO CHOOSE NORWEGIANS AND
00:20:56.60\00:21:02.00
MAKE THEM THE REPOSITORIES OF
HIS TRUTH, YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND
00:21:02.00\00:21:04.70
THEY HAD ALL SORTS OF
PROBLEMS. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT
00:21:04.70\00:21:06.96
PEOPLE GOD CHOSE, THEY WOULD
HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEIR HUMAN
00:21:06.96\00:21:09.86
FRAILTIES AND
WEAKNESS AND PROBLEMS.
00:21:09.86\00:21:12.63
BUT PAUL SAID THE REASON THAT
ISRAEL WAS SPECIAL - CATCH THIS
00:21:12.63\00:21:17.23
- IT SAYS, 'UNTO THEM WERE
COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF TRUTH.'
00:21:17.23\00:21:22.90
GOD, WHEN HE GAVE THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS TO THOSE PEOPLE -
00:21:22.90\00:21:26.00
WHEN THEY CARRIED THAT ARK,
HOLDING THE LAW OF GOD, IN THEIR
00:21:26.00\00:21:29.00
MIDST, GOD SAID, 'I HAVE GIVEN
YOU MY LAW. I HAVE GIVEN YOU
00:21:29.00\00:21:32.20
MY WORD.' AND THAT WAS
TRANSFERRED THROUGH THE AGES
00:21:32.20\00:21:36.46
THROUGH HIS PEOPLE. IT WAS GIVEN
TO NOAH AND IT WAS GIVEN TO
00:21:36.46\00:21:39.03
MOSES. IT WAS GIVEN TO
ADAM. IT WAS GIVEN TO ABRAHAM.
00:21:39.03\00:21:43.00
AND SO, IT CONTINUED TO TRANSFER
FROM REMNANT TO REMNANT.
00:21:43.00\00:21:46.56
WELL, AFTER ADAM AND EVE - THEY
HAD TWO SONS AND THEY DIDN'T GET
00:21:46.56\00:21:50.80
ALONG AND THERE
WAS AN ALTERCATION -
00:21:50.80\00:21:55.83
AND 'ALTERCATION'
IS PUTTING IT MILDLY.
00:21:55.83\00:21:59.03
CAIN REALLY SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING
TO WORSHIP GOD THE WAY GOD SAYS
00:21:59.03\00:22:01.53
WE SHOULD WORSHIP HIM' - WITH
BLOOD SACRIFICES - 'I'M GOING TO
00:22:01.53\00:22:03.86
WORSHIP THE WAY I
THINK WE SHOULD WORSHIP.
00:22:03.86\00:22:05.43
I'M GOING TO CLAIM TO WORSHIP
THE SAME GOD BUT I'M GOING TO DO
00:22:05.43\00:22:08.03
IT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY' DO
WE STILL HEAR THAT BATTLE TODAY?
00:22:08.03\00:22:12.30
PEOPLE WANT TO
IMPROVE ON HOW TO WORSHIP GOD.
00:22:12.30\00:22:14.73
IS THAT BATTLE GOING
TO REAPPEAR IN REVELATION?
00:22:14.73\00:22:17.76
WILL THERE BE A BATTLE BETWEEN
THOSE WHO WORSHIP GOD AND
00:22:17.76\00:22:20.80
RECEIVE THE SEAL OF GOD AND
THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE WAY THE
00:22:20.80\00:22:23.50
BEAST SAYS WE SHOULD WORSHIP?
IF YOU DON'T WORSHIP THE BEAST
00:22:23.50\00:22:26.10
YOU CANNOT BUY OR SELL AND SO
THERE'S A BATTLE OVER WORSHIP.
00:22:26.10\00:22:30.56
WAS THERE A BATTLE OVER
WORSHIP AT THE GOLDEN CALF?
00:22:30.56\00:22:35.10
SO WORSHIP IS A
VERY IMPORTANT THING.
00:22:35.10\00:22:38.06
LUCIFER DID NOT
WANT TO WORSHIP GOD.
00:22:38.06\00:22:41.26
SO CAIN SEPARATES - HE TAKES ONE
OF HIS SISTERS WHO BECOMES HIS
00:22:41.26\00:22:44.23
WIFE - I KNOW THAT ALWAYS SOUNDS
REALLY WEIRD TO PEOPLE BUT
00:22:44.23\00:22:47.16
THAT'S BASICALLY
WHAT ADAM AND EVE WERE -
00:22:47.16\00:22:50.06
DIDN'T THEY HAVE
PRETTY MUCH THE SAME FATHER?
00:22:50.06\00:22:52.56
AND ABRAHAM MARRIED HIS SISTER -
HALF SISTER - AND ISAAC MARRIED
00:22:52.56\00:22:57.00
HIS FIRST COUSIN AND JACOB
MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN AND SO
00:22:57.00\00:22:59.36
IT WASN'T THAT STRANGE BACK
THEN. IT'S JUST AS THE GENETICS
00:22:59.36\00:23:03.53
OF MAN BECAME MORE FRAIL
WITH THE DEFECTS, GOD SAID YOU
00:23:03.53\00:23:09.23
SHOULDN'T BE MARRYING TOO
CLOSE TO THE FAMILY TREE AND SO
00:23:09.23\00:23:11.96
THE RULES WERE MADE
ABOUT THE TIME OF MOSES.
00:23:11.96\00:23:14.63
BUT CAIN TOOK HIS WIFE AND
HE SEPARATED AND THEY MULTIPLIED
00:23:14.63\00:23:19.33
AND THERE WAS A WHOLE NEW
RACE OF PEOPLE THAT SEPARATED.
00:23:19.33\00:23:22.83
HE WENT AND BUILT A CITY AND
ADAM AND EVE HAD ANOTHER SON -
00:23:22.83\00:23:26.90
HIS NAME WAS WHAT?
AFTER ABEL DIED - SETH - AND
00:23:26.90\00:23:30.56
SETH AND HIS WIFE WHO WAS,
AGAIN, ONE OF HIS SISTERS, THEY
00:23:30.56\00:23:33.70
MULTIPLIED AND THEY DECIDED
TO BE TRUE TO GOD AND AS LONG AS
00:23:33.70\00:23:37.30
THEY MAINTAINED A SEPARATION
THIS REMNANT WAS FAITHFUL.
00:23:37.30\00:23:43.00
THEY FOLLOWED GOD ACCORDING
TO THE TRUTH OF HIS LAW AND HIS
00:23:43.00\00:23:45.40
WORD. BUT YOU
KNOW WHAT HAPPENED?
00:23:45.40\00:23:48.33
IF YOU GO TO GENESIS CHAPTER 6
AND YOU READ IN VERSE 1, "NOW IT
00:23:48.33\00:23:54.60
CAME TO PASS, WHEN MEN BEGAN
TO MULTIPLY ON THE FACE OF THE
00:23:54.60\00:23:57.36
EARTH, AND DAUGHTERS WERE BORN
TO THEM, THAT THE SONS OF GOD
00:23:57.36\00:24:02.76
SAW THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN, THAT
THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL; AND THEY
00:24:02.76\00:24:06.06
TOOK WIVES FOR THEMSELVES OF ALL
WHOM THEY CHOSE." NOW THIS IS
00:24:06.06\00:24:09.73
THE QUESTION - THIS IS
THE VERSE I GET ALL THE TIME.
00:24:09.73\00:24:12.66
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
BEFORE - MATTER OF FACT, SOME OF
00:24:12.66\00:24:15.30
YOU MAY EVEN HAVE A TRANSLATION
IN YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW THAT
00:24:15.30\00:24:18.26
THESE SONS OF GOD THAT
INTERMARRIED WITH THE DAUGHTERS
00:24:18.26\00:24:21.73
OF MEN WERE EITHER ALIENS
FROM OTHER PLANETS OR THEY WERE
00:24:21.73\00:24:26.20
FALLEN ANGELS -
DEVILS - THAT SOMEHOW GOT
00:24:26.20\00:24:29.80
MARRIED TO
HUMANS AND HAD BABIES.
00:24:29.80\00:24:34.73
AND THERE'S A COUPLE REASONS
- ONE IS BECAUSE IT SAYS - IT
00:24:34.73\00:24:37.36
SEEMS LIKE THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT
KINDS OF GROUPS - YOU'VE GOT
00:24:37.36\00:24:39.53
CHILDREN OF MEN AND
IT SAYS THE SONS OF GOD.
00:24:39.53\00:24:41.60
WELL, IF THEY'RE
NOT MEN, WHO ARE THEY?
00:24:41.60\00:24:43.23
THEY MUST BE NON-MEN AND THEN
IT SAYS THAT THEIR CHILDREN WERE
00:24:43.23\00:24:48.16
GIANTS - THEY WERE MIGHTY
MEN AND SO THEY HAD SOME KIND OF
00:24:48.16\00:24:51.40
SUPERNATURAL OFFSPRING. HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS?
00:24:51.40\00:24:56.60
I THINK THIS CAN BE EASILY
EXPLAINED AND SUPPORTED BY THE
00:24:56.60\00:24:58.80
BIBLE THAT IT WAS NOT DEMONS,
FALLEN ANGELS, ALIENS FROM OTHER
00:24:58.80\00:25:04.40
PLANETS THAT HAD
INTIMATE RELATIONS WITH HUMANS.
00:25:04.40\00:25:08.86
LET ME TELL YOU WHAT IT WAS: THE
SONS OF MEN IS THE TERM 'ENOS' -
00:25:08.86\00:25:13.70
IT'S THE WORD THAT IS BEING USED
TO DESCRIBE THE DESCENDENTS OF
00:25:13.70\00:25:17.33
CAIN. CAIN - HIS FAMILY - I
MEAN, YOU KNOW, THEY'D NOT COME
00:25:17.33\00:25:22.66
VERY FAR FROM CREATION.
THE DAUGHTERS OF CAIN WERE
00:25:22.66\00:25:26.86
BEAUTIFUL. THE DAUGHTERS OF ADAM
AND EVE AND SETH WERE BEAUTIFUL
00:25:26.86\00:25:32.46
AS WELL. IT'S JUST EMPHASIZING
THAT THEY WERE ATTRACTED BY
00:25:32.46\00:25:35.73
THEIR BEAUTY AND
NOT BY THEIR BELIEFS.
00:25:35.73\00:25:40.03
NOW, SHOULD WE MARRY BASED ON
LOOKS OR SHOULD WE MARRY - IT'S
00:25:40.03\00:25:43.33
NOT THAT LOOKS DON'T MATTER,
BUT WE'D ALL BE LYING IF WE SAID
00:25:43.33\00:25:47.73
THAT NOBODY
EVER CONSIDERED THAT.
00:25:47.73\00:25:49.80
BUT SHOULDN'T THE PRIMARY
CRITERIA BE 'WHAT IS THEIR
00:25:49.80\00:25:52.90
FAITH?' SOME PEOPLE
GET MARRIED AND THEY
00:25:52.90\00:25:55.76
SAY, 'WELL, I JUST REALLY LIKE
THE LOOKS OF HIM OR HER' AND
00:25:55.76\00:25:58.40
THEY DON'T CARE
WHAT THEIR FAITH IS.
00:25:58.40\00:26:01.56
DOES THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT THAT
BEING - 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14, "DO
00:26:01.56\00:26:08.33
NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED
TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS.
00:26:08.33\00:26:11.80
FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HAS
RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH LAWLESSNESS?
00:26:11.80\00:26:15.26
AND WHAT COMMUNION
HAS LIGHT WITH DARKNESS?
00:26:15.26\00:26:17.90
AND WHAT ACCORD
HAS CHRIST WITH BELIAL?
00:26:17.90\00:26:20.30
OR WHAT PART HAS A BELIEVER
WITH AN UNBELIEVER? AND WHAT
00:26:20.30\00:26:23.03
AGREEMENT HAS THE TEMPLE OF GOD
WITH IDOLS?" - LOOK AT ALL THE
00:26:23.03\00:26:25.46
CONTRASTS THAT PAUL IS
MAKING. HE'S BEING PRETTY CLEAR.
00:26:25.46\00:26:29.70
NOW, DOES THAT MEAN WHEN PAUL
SAYS THESE THINGS, 'DO NOT BE
00:26:29.70\00:26:33.33
UNEQUALLY YOKED' - DOES THAT
MEAN AS CHRISTIANS WE SHOULD
00:26:33.33\00:26:36.40
HAVE NOTHING TO
DO WITH UNBELIEVERS?
00:26:36.40\00:26:38.40
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO
WIN UNBELIEVERS IF YOU DON'T
00:26:38.40\00:26:41.80
INTERACT WITH THEM IN ANY
WAY? BEING YOKED IS DIFFERENT.
00:26:41.80\00:26:46.06
WHEN TWO OXEN ARE YOKED TOGETHER
THEY ARE BOUND TOGETHER AND THEY
00:26:46.06\00:26:49.73
CAN'T GET AWAY FROM EACH OTHER -
THEIR HEADS ARE HOOKED TOGETHER.
00:26:49.73\00:26:52.96
IT'S A DIFFERENT
KIND OF RELATIONSHIP.
00:26:52.96\00:26:54.50
SO, AS A BELIEVER, IF YOU GET
INTO A BUSINESS COVENANT WITH AN
00:26:54.50\00:26:59.00
UNBELIEVER IN A PARTNERSHIP AND
YOU KNOW THAT THEIR VALUES ARE
00:26:59.00\00:27:02.66
VERY DIFFERENT FROM YOURS,
YOU'RE GOING TO END UP HAVING
00:27:02.66\00:27:04.50
PROBLEMS. AND
DEFINITELY, ONE OF THE MOST
00:27:04.50\00:27:07.46
IMPORTANT WAYS THAT PEOPLE GET
YOKED TOGETHER IS IN MARRIAGE.
00:27:07.46\00:27:12.73
AND SO PAUL IS BEING VERY CLEAR
THAT BELIEVERS SHOULD NOT BE
00:27:12.73\00:27:16.96
YOKED WITH UNBELIEVERS BECAUSE,
BASICALLY, HE'S SAYING WHAT - IF
00:27:16.96\00:27:22.73
YOU'RE MARRYING A PAGAN HE
COMPARES THAT TO IDOL WORSHIP -
00:27:22.73\00:27:25.60
WHAT - HOW CAN THAT
IDOL BE IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD?
00:27:25.60\00:27:29.03
ISN'T THAT BLASPHEMY? AND
IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
00:27:29.03\00:27:31.40
YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF
GOD AND THEY'RE - THEY'VE GOT
00:27:31.40\00:27:33.60
IDOLATRY IN THEIR BODY -
IN THEIR LIVES - AND THEY'RE
00:27:33.60\00:27:35.93
PAGANS. THEY DON'T WORSHIP GOD.
00:27:35.93\00:27:37.13
AND TO SAY, 'OH, IT DOESN'T
MATTER.' PAUL SAYS IT'S LIGHT
00:27:37.13\00:27:40.70
AND DARKNESS - IT
DOESN'T GO TOGETHER.
00:27:40.70\00:27:43.20
WHEN THE SONS OF SETH - EVERY
NOW AND THEN THEY'D HAVE TO GO
00:27:43.20\00:27:46.60
TO THE VALLEY AND THEY'D SEE THE
DAUGHTERS OF CAIN - THEY WERE
00:27:46.60\00:27:49.60
CALLED THE SONS OF GOD BECAUSE
THEY STILL WORSHIPED THE TRUE
00:27:49.60\00:27:51.46
GOD - THEY HAD ETERNAL LIFE.
DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY IN 1 JOHN
00:27:51.46\00:27:56.70
CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1, "BEHOLD WHAT
MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HAS
00:27:56.70\00:28:01.56
BESTOWED ON US, THAT WE SHOULD
BE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD!"
00:28:01.56\00:28:05.50
SO THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF
GOD WERE THE DESCENDENTS OF SETH
00:28:05.50\00:28:08.63
THAT WERE STILL WORSHIPING
GOD - THAT HAD THE LAW OF GOD.
00:28:08.63\00:28:11.66
BUT WHEN THEY SAID, 'WELL,
I KNOW WE SHOULDN'T BE GETTING
00:28:11.66\00:28:14.03
MARRIED TO THE DAUGHTERS
OF CAIN, BUT BOY THEY'RE GOOD
00:28:14.03\00:28:16.46
LOOKING.' AND AFTER BEING
SEPARATED FOR GENERATIONS -
00:28:16.46\00:28:20.93
MAYBE HUNDREDS OF YEARS -
PROBABLY WAS HUNDREDS OF YEARS -
00:28:20.93\00:28:24.00
THEY REMAINED PURE
- THE CHILDREN OF SETH
00:28:24.00\00:28:26.33
REMAINED PURE IN
THEIR WORSHIP OF GOD.
00:28:26.33\00:28:28.93
BUT WHEN THEY BEGAN TO
INTERMARRY AFTER BEING SEPARATED
00:28:28.93\00:28:31.30
FROM GOD FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS,
CAIN AND HIS DAUGHTERS THEY HAD
00:28:31.30\00:28:34.70
BECOME VERY SELF-CENTERED
AND VILE AND STARTED WORSHIPING
00:28:34.70\00:28:37.73
NATURE AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
IT BEGAN TO CORRUPT THE WORSHIP
00:28:37.73\00:28:41.93
OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND
EVERYBODY WAS CORRUPTED.
00:28:41.93\00:28:45.23
THAT'S WHY IT GOES ON TO SAY,
IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT SAYS THEY
00:28:45.23\00:28:48.86
BEGAN TO INTERMARRY - GO TO
VERSE 5 - GENESIS 6, VERSE 5,
00:28:48.86\00:28:53.16
"THEN THE LORD SAW THAT THE
WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN
00:28:53.16\00:28:56.53
THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY INTENT
OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS
00:28:56.53\00:28:59.23
ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY."
AND THIS HAPPENED WHEN?
00:28:59.23\00:29:02.83
AFTER THE SONS OF GOD
INTERMARRIED WITH THE DAUGHTERS
00:29:02.83\00:29:05.60
OF CAIN - DAUGHTERS OF
MEN. THAT'S ALL IT'S SAYING.
00:29:05.60\00:29:08.53
IT'S NOT ALIENS. DOES
JESUS TELL US THAT THE
00:29:08.53\00:29:11.93
ANGELS MARRY OR DOES HE SAY THAT
THEY DON'T MARRY AND PROCREATE?
00:29:11.93\00:29:16.53
ANGELS DO NOT - THEY'RE
NOT BORN. THE BIBLE SAYS,
00:29:16.53\00:29:20.73
ABOUT THE DEVIL, IN THE
DAY THAT YOU WERE CREATED.
00:29:20.73\00:29:23.26
ANGELS ARE
CREATED BY FIAT FROM GOD.
00:29:23.26\00:29:26.26
THEY DO NOT MULTIPLY LIKE HUMANS
AND THAT'S ONE REASON THE DEVIL
00:29:26.26\00:29:29.13
DOESN'T LIKE PEOPLE - BECAUSE
HE CAN'T PROCREATE LIKE WE DO.
00:29:29.13\00:29:33.06
SO JESUS IS
PRETTY CLEAR ABOUT THIS.
00:29:33.06\00:29:34.83
THIS DOCTRINE - THIS TEACHING
- I HEAR IT ALL THE TIME THAT
00:29:34.83\00:29:38.43
SOMEHOW - IT'S REALLY BIZARRE -
ALIENS - CAN YOU IMAGINE FALLEN
00:29:38.43\00:29:43.43
ANGELS SETTING UP
HOUSE WITH PEOPLE?
00:29:43.43\00:29:45.43
I MEAN, WHAT DOES THAT
LOOK LIKE IN THE FAMILY?
00:29:45.43\00:29:47.56
THAT JUST - THAT'S REALLY A
STRANGE TEACHING. OR ALIENS?
00:29:47.56\00:29:50.93
I MEAN, I'VE EVEN READ THEY
SAID, 'YEAH, THEY'RE FROM OTHER
00:29:50.93\00:29:52.66
WORLDS.' STRANGE.
IT'S THE SONS OF GOD.
00:29:52.66\00:29:56.46
MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN READ
- WELL, LET ME FINISH MY VERSE
00:29:56.46\00:30:01.70
HERE. "THEN THE
LORD SAW" - THIS IS,
00:30:01.70\00:30:04.13
AGAIN, GENESIS 6, VERSE 5
- THEN THE LORD SAW THAT THE
00:30:04.13\00:30:06.26
WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN
THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY INTENT
00:30:06.26\00:30:08.93
OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS
HEART WAS ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY.
00:30:08.93\00:30:11.73
AND THE LORD WAS SORRY THAT
HE HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH,
00:30:11.73\00:30:15.70
AND HE WAS GRIEVED IN HIS HEART.
00:30:15.70\00:30:17.43
SO THE LORD SAID, 'I WILL
DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED
00:30:17.43\00:30:19.96
FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH, BOTH
MAN AND BEAST, CREEPING THING
00:30:19.96\00:30:23.00
AND BIRDS OF THE AIR, FOR I
AM SORRY THAT I HAVE MADE THEM.'
00:30:23.00\00:30:26.00
BUT" - HERE'S THE REMNANT THAT
WILL BECOME THE REPOSITORY OF
00:30:26.00\00:30:28.70
THE LAW AND THE TRUTH - "BUT
NOAH FOUND GRACE" - SO GOD'S
00:30:28.70\00:30:34.00
GOING TO PINCH A PIECE OF YEAST
OFF THE BREAD - THOSE THAT STILL
00:30:34.00\00:30:37.40
HAD THE TRUTH - AND HE'S GOING
TO TAKE THEM AND HE SAID, 'I'M
00:30:37.40\00:30:40.13
GOING TO MAKE YOU THE REPOSITORY
AND IN THAT ARK, ALL OF GOD'S
00:30:40.13\00:30:43.36
TRUTH - THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION
- ABOUT THE TRUE GOD WAS THERE.
00:30:43.36\00:30:45.96
WHAT'S THE FIRST THING NOAH
DID WHEN HE GOT OUT OF THE ARK?
00:30:45.96\00:30:48.36
WORSHIPED GOD.
OFFERED SACRIFICE, RIGHT?
00:30:48.36\00:30:52.30
GOD RATIFIED A COVENANT WITH HIM
- RAINBOW IN THE HEAVENS AND SO
00:30:52.30\00:30:55.93
HE SAID, 'I'VE
GIVEN YOU THE TRUTH.
00:30:55.93\00:30:57.63
YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE LEFT THAT
STILL REALLY BELIEVED THE TRUTH
00:30:57.63\00:31:00.63
- YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.' OH, ONE
MORE THING, JUST SO I TIE OFF
00:31:00.63\00:31:04.70
THIS ALIEN/FALLEN ANGEL/SONS
OF GOD THING, SO WHY WERE THE
00:31:04.70\00:31:12.60
DAUGHTERS OF MEN INTERMARRYING
WITH THE SONS OF GOD?
00:31:12.60\00:31:15.40
WHY DOES IT SAY THAT THEIR
CHILDREN WERE GIANTS AND MIGHTY
00:31:15.40\00:31:19.33
MEN IN THE EARTH? WHAT
IS - ISN'T THAT SOME KIND
00:31:19.33\00:31:21.70
OF...? YOU KNOW, IT'S A
VERY SIMPLE LAW OF GENETICS.
00:31:21.70\00:31:24.96
IT'S CALLED GENETIC VITALITY.
YOU SEE IT IN THE WORLD TODAY.
00:31:24.96\00:31:28.86
IF YOU - HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW IF
YOU GARDEN IF YOU USE THE SEEDS
00:31:28.86\00:31:33.06
OF THE SQUASH THIS YEAR, NEXT
YEAR AND THEY'VE BEEN CORRUPTED
00:31:33.06\00:31:36.60
BY A CROSS-POLLINATION FROM
THE OTHER ZUCCHINI AND THINGS IN
00:31:36.60\00:31:39.33
YOUR GARDEN, THAT YOU WILL
NOT HAVE AS STRONG A SQUASH NEXT
00:31:39.33\00:31:42.46
YEAR? IT GETS
WEAKER IF YOU JUST KEEP
00:31:42.46\00:31:44.73
USING THE SAME THING.
THAT'S WHY BURPEE'S SEEDS - YOU
00:31:44.73\00:31:49.20
ALL KNOW WHAT
BURPEE'S SEEDS ARE?
00:31:49.20\00:31:50.56
THEY SPECIFICALLY PRODUCE
GENETICALLY STRONG SEEDS SO THAT
00:31:50.56\00:31:55.23
YOU GET THOSE
STRONG SEEDS EVERY TIME.
00:31:55.23\00:31:57.03
WHEN PEOPLE ARE SEPARATED
FOR GENERATIONS AND THEY JUST
00:31:57.03\00:32:01.46
INTERMARRY - SUPPOSE THEY'RE
ON ISLANDS AND YOU'VE GOT THESE
00:32:01.46\00:32:04.36
LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE ON
THE ISLANDS AND THEY INTERMARRY.
00:32:04.36\00:32:07.03
THEY WILL HAVE MORE PHYSICAL
DEFECTS THAN IF THEY GET FRESH
00:32:07.03\00:32:11.66
BLOOD AND THEY INTERMARRY
WITH OTHERS. DO YOU KNOW, IF YOU
00:32:11.66\00:32:14.96
CROSS A LION AND A TIGER -
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET? A LIGER.
00:32:14.96\00:32:19.06
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
OF THIS? AND YOU KNOW, THEY'RE
00:32:19.06\00:32:21.13
HUGE. THEY'RE BIG. IT'S
NOT UNCOMMON. YOU CAN CROSS A
00:32:21.13\00:32:24.80
ZEBRA AND A DONKEY
AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET?
00:32:24.80\00:32:28.30
A ZONKEY -
ABSOLUTELY - THEY HAVE THEM.
00:32:28.30\00:32:31.20
AND THEY'RE BIGGER.
IT'S CALLED GENETIC VITALITY.
00:32:31.20\00:32:34.76
AND SO THAT'S ALL THAT HAPPENED
THERE WHEN THE SONS OF GOD - THE
00:32:34.76\00:32:37.10
CHILDREN OF SETH INTERMARRIED
WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN.
00:32:37.10\00:32:40.23
THEY'D BEEN SEPARATED BY
HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF CENTURIES.
00:32:40.23\00:32:43.43
THEIR OFFSPRING HAD
MORE GENETIC VITALITY.
00:32:43.43\00:32:47.20
SO IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY
WERE ALIENS. OKAY, ANYWAY,
00:32:47.20\00:32:49.80
BACK ON WITH OUR LESSON.
YOU GOT ALL OF THAT FOR FREE.
00:32:49.80\00:32:53.56
THAT WAS NOT
EXPECTED. SO WHAT HAPPENED?
00:32:53.56\00:32:55.90
WHEN THEY INTERMARRIED, THAT
SEPARATION WAS LOST AND SO AS
00:32:55.90\00:33:01.56
CHRISTIANS WE NEED TO KNOW
WHERE ARE THE PLACES WE NEED TO
00:33:01.56\00:33:05.76
INTERACT WITH OTHER
PEOPLE SO WE CAN WITNESS.
00:33:05.76\00:33:08.46
DOES GOD WANT US TO ALL GO TO
A MONASTERY AND HIDE OURSELVES?
00:33:08.46\00:33:11.76
HOW CAN YOU REACH
THE WORLD LIKE THAT?
00:33:11.76\00:33:13.00
BUT DOES HE WANT US TO DO
OUR WITNESSING IN THE BAR?
00:33:13.00\00:33:18.26
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
SO, OBVIOUSLY, YOU'VE GOT TO
00:33:18.26\00:33:20.63
KNOW WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE
SO YOU MAINTAIN THE RIGHT AMOUNT
00:33:20.63\00:33:24.46
OF A SEPARATION. I
HEARD ONE PASTOR SAY, 'A
00:33:24.46\00:33:29.56
CHRISTIAN IS SOMETHING
LIKE A BOAT IN THE WATER.
00:33:29.56\00:33:31.93
A BOAT BELONGS IN THE WATER BUT
YOU DON'T WANT THE WATER IN THE
00:33:31.93\00:33:35.23
BOAT.' WE NEED TO BE IN THE
WORLD WITHOUT THE WORLD BEING IN
00:33:35.23\00:33:38.43
US. AND THERE'S A BALANCE THERE.
00:33:38.43\00:33:41.46
IF THE WATER GETS IN THE
BOAT THEN YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM.
00:33:41.46\00:33:43.53
2 CORINTHIANS 6, VERSE 17,
"WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG
00:33:43.53\00:33:48.43
THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH
THE LORD," - AND, BY THE WAY,
00:33:48.43\00:33:51.50
PAUL HERE IS QUOTING ISAIAH,
I BELIEVE - "COME OUT FROM AMONG
00:33:51.50\00:33:55.33
THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH
THE LORD, AND TOUCH NOT THE
00:33:55.33\00:33:57.46
UNCLEAN THING; AND
I WILL RECEIVE YOU.
00:33:57.46\00:33:59.90
AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO
YOU, AND YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND
00:33:59.90\00:34:02.80
DAUGHTERS, SAITH
THE LORD ALMIGHTY."
00:34:02.80\00:34:05.43
WHAT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS
THAT GOD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF
00:34:05.43\00:34:08.33
ISRAEL AFTER HE
CALLED THEM OUT OF EGYPT?
00:34:08.33\00:34:10.13
HE SAID, 'I'M BRINGING YOU INTO
THE PROMISED LAND AND YOU'RE
00:34:10.13\00:34:12.13
GOING TO BE
SURROUNDED BY OTHER NATIONS.
00:34:12.13\00:34:13.70
DO NOT ENTER INTO MARRIAGES
WITH THEM OR THEY WILL DRAW YOUR
00:34:13.70\00:34:19.20
HEARTS AWAY.' HE DIDN'T SAY
DON'T DO ANY BUSINESS WITH THEM.
00:34:19.20\00:34:22.76
THEY WERE
ALLOWED TO DO BUSINESS.
00:34:22.76\00:34:24.03
MATTER OF FACT, HE TALKED ABOUT
LOVING THE STRANGER AND THE
00:34:24.03\00:34:26.50
OTHER PEOPLE AND THE ALIEN.
SO HE HAD ALL KINDS OF LAWS TO
00:34:26.50\00:34:29.43
EVEN PROTECT THE ALIENS AMONG
THEM BUT HE SAID, 'DO NOT LET
00:34:29.43\00:34:32.26
THEM MARRY YOU.' WHEN THE
SAMARITANS SAID, 'WE WANT TO
00:34:32.26\00:34:37.03
HELP YOU BUILD YOUR TEMPLE.'
WHEN NEHEMIAH CAME BACK.
00:34:37.03\00:34:39.90
THEY SAID, 'SORRY, THANK YOU
VERY MUCH BUT YOU WILL HAVE NO
00:34:39.90\00:34:43.13
PART OF THIS BECAUSE YOU WORSHIP
A DIFFERENT GOD AND YOU'RE GOING
00:34:43.13\00:34:45.26
TO BRING YOUR IDEA OF
WORSHIPING OUR GOD IN.
00:34:45.26\00:34:48.93
AND BOY, THE SAMARITANS GOT SO
MAD THERE BECAME A WAR BETWEEN
00:34:48.93\00:34:51.83
THE JEWS AND THE SAMARITANS THAT
LASTED FROM NEHEMIAH AND EZRA
00:34:51.83\00:34:54.80
ALL THE WAY
THROUGH THE TIME OF CHRIST.
00:34:54.80\00:34:56.86
AND IT STARTED BECAUSE
THEY WANTED TO MAINTAIN THAT
00:34:56.86\00:34:59.56
SEPARATION. NEHEMIAH AND
EZRA UNDERSTOOD, 'WE HAVE BEEN
00:34:59.56\00:35:03.06
CALLED OUT FROM BABYLON.
WE ARE A SEPARATE PEOPLE.
00:35:03.06\00:35:06.53
WE ARE
REPOSITORIES OF THE TRUTH.
00:35:06.53\00:35:08.10
WE'RE BEING
GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE.
00:35:08.10\00:35:09.80
WE NEED TO MAINTAIN
SEPARATION IN THE RIGHT PLACES.
00:35:09.80\00:35:15.36
IF I WAS INVITED TO PREACH
IN ANY NUMBER OF OTHER CHURCHES
00:35:15.36\00:35:22.60
HERE IN TOWN, I WOULD BE VERY
THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY AND
00:35:22.60\00:35:26.43
I WOULD TAKE IT. WOULD THAT
BE OKAY? SURE, I'VE DONE IT.
00:35:26.43\00:35:32.40
BUT IF THOSE SAME PASTORS
SAID, 'CAN WE NOW PREACH IN YOUR
00:35:32.40\00:35:35.73
CHURCH?' I'D
SAY, 'I'M VERY SORRY.
00:35:35.73\00:35:37.60
THAT GOES AGAINST OUR
POLICY.' THERE'S A DIFFERENCE.
00:35:37.60\00:35:43.23
IF I REALLY BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE
THE TRUTH AND I'M WILLING TO GO
00:35:43.23\00:35:46.36
SHARE THE TRUTH WITH
ANYBODY THAT WILL LISTEN.
00:35:46.36\00:35:48.40
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'M GOING
TO RECIPROCATE AND OPEN UP THE
00:35:48.40\00:35:51.80
PULPIT TO PEOPLE THAT I KNOW DO
NOT HAVE THE TRUTH BECAUSE THAT
00:35:51.80\00:35:55.63
THEN OPENS UP THE FLOCK.
YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT
00:35:55.63\00:35:57.90
THE SHEEP EAT, AS A
PASTOR, RIGHT? THAT OPENS UP THE
00:35:57.90\00:36:00.53
FLOCK TO BAD SEED AND THAT
- THOSE KIND OF COMPROMISES.
00:36:00.53\00:36:05.40
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED
WITH SOLOMON. HIS WIVES SAID,
00:36:05.40\00:36:07.80
'WELL, IF YOU REALLY LOVE US YOU
SHOULD LET US WORSHIP OUR GODS.
00:36:07.80\00:36:10.86
I MEAN, THAT'S NOT
FAIR. WE NEED MORE JUSTICE.'
00:36:10.86\00:36:14.73
SOLOMON GOT OLD AND HE LISTENED
TO ALL THAT RATIONALIZATION AND
00:36:14.73\00:36:17.53
HE SAID, 'OKAY, WELL YOU CAN
BRING SOME OF YOUR IDOLS INTO
00:36:17.53\00:36:19.30
THE TEMPLE.' AND
GOD SAID IT WAS A SIN.
00:36:19.30\00:36:22.76
THE WHOLE KINGDOM
FELL BECAUSE OF THAT.
00:36:22.76\00:36:24.93
WE NEED TO KNOW - WE NEED TO BE
EDUCATED ABOUT WHERE DO YOU DRAW
00:36:24.93\00:36:28.40
THE LINES OF SEPARATION IN THESE
AREAS? ALRIGHT, LET'S GO ON
00:36:28.40\00:36:33.03
HERE TO - 'FROM
ABRAHAM TO MOSES.'
00:36:33.03\00:36:37.63
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
EXODUS 19, VERSES 5 AND 6.
00:36:37.63\00:36:41.06
YOU GOT THAT MIKE? OKAY, WE'LL
GET TO YOU IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:36:41.06\00:36:44.06
I'M GOING TO READ GENESIS
12:1-3, "NOW THE LORD HAD SAID
00:36:44.06\00:36:49.36
TO ABRAM: 'GET OUT OF YOUR
COUNTRY, FROM YOUR FAMILY AND
00:36:49.36\00:36:53.36
FROM YOUR FATHER'S HOUSE,
TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.
00:36:53.36\00:36:56.43
I WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT NATION;
I WILL BLESS YOU AND MAKE YOUR
00:36:56.43\00:37:00.73
NAME GREAT; AND YOU SHALL BE A
BLESSING. I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO
00:37:00.73\00:37:04.16
BLESS YOU, AND I WILL CURSE HIM
WHO CURSES YOU; AND IN YOU ALL
00:37:04.16\00:37:08.00
THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL
BE BLESSED.'" WHY WAS IT THAT
00:37:08.00\00:37:12.46
GOD WAS GOING TO BLESS ALL
THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH IN
00:37:12.46\00:37:14.60
ABRAHAM? IN WHAT WAY WERE
ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH
00:37:14.60\00:37:17.80
BLESSED THROUGH ABRAHAM
COMING OUT AND BEING SEPARATE?
00:37:17.80\00:37:22.00
HE CAME OUT FROM
THE AREA OF BABEL.
00:37:22.00\00:37:24.00
OTHER WORSHIP HAD
COME IN TO MESOPOTAMIA.
00:37:24.00\00:37:26.46
GOD CALLED HIM OUT AND EVEN
JOSHUA, AT THE END OF HIS LIFE,
00:37:26.46\00:37:30.36
HE SAID, 'THE LORD BROUGHT YOUR
FATHERS FROM ACROSS THE RIVER
00:37:30.36\00:37:33.93
WHERE THEY WERE
WORSHIPING OTHER GODS.
00:37:33.93\00:37:36.56
AND ABRAHAM WAS CALLED OUT WHY?
BECAUSE HE WAS STILL WORSHIPING
00:37:36.56\00:37:39.96
THE TRUE GOD.
EVERYWHERE HE WENT ABRAHAM BUILT
00:37:39.96\00:37:42.03
AN ALTAR TO THE TRUE
GOD. IT SAYS ABRAHAM KEPT
00:37:42.03\00:37:45.06
THE COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD AND GOD'S LAWS.
00:37:45.06\00:37:48.23
WHERE IS THAT? GENESIS 25?
IT SAYS, 'HE KEPT MY LAWS AND MY
00:37:48.23\00:37:51.96
COMMANDMENTS.' SO THE LAW OF GOD
WAS WITH ABRAHAM EVEN BEFORE THE
00:37:51.96\00:37:56.43
TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE
GIVEN. DO WE BELIEVE IN THAT?
00:37:56.43\00:37:59.10
SO NOT ONLY WAS THE SEED OF
CHRIST IN THE GENES OF ABRAHAM
00:37:59.10\00:38:05.46
THAT WOULD BE PASSED ON THROUGH
ISAAC AND JACOB AND SO FORTH,
00:38:05.46\00:38:09.60
BUT THE TRUTH WAS GIVEN TO
ABRAHAM AND HE WAS PASSING THAT
00:38:09.60\00:38:12.86
ON WITH EVERY
GENERATION TOO, RIGHT?
00:38:12.86\00:38:15.66
MATTER OF FACT,
WHAT WAS MORE IMPORTANT?
00:38:15.66\00:38:18.26
WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT
THING THAT ABRAHAM PASSED ON
00:38:18.26\00:38:22.40
FROM ONE REVIVAL MOVEMENT
AND FROM ONE REMNANT TO ANOTHER?
00:38:22.40\00:38:26.90
WAS IT THE DNA OF JESUS
OR WAS IT THE WORD OF GOD.
00:38:26.90\00:38:33.70
I'LL SAY THAT IT WAS EVEN THE
WORD OF GOD BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET
00:38:33.70\00:38:37.80
TO THE NEW TESTAMENT - I'M
JUMPING AHEAD NOW BUT I MAY NOT
00:38:37.80\00:38:41.66
THINK OF IT LATER AND
I'M THINKING OF IT NOW.
00:38:41.66\00:38:43.80
WHEN YOU GET TO THE NEW
TESTAMENT, PAUL MAKES A VERY
00:38:43.80\00:38:47.76
IMPORTANT POINT
AND HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW,
00:38:47.76\00:38:49.06
SOMETHING
INTERESTING HAS HAPPENED NOW.
00:38:49.06\00:38:50.53
THE PROMISE OF ABRAHAM HAS COME'
- WHICH WAS JESUS - AND NOW TIME
00:38:50.53\00:38:54.16
GOES ON AND GOD STILL HAS A
PEOPLE BUT IT'S NOT THE DNA -
00:38:54.16\00:38:59.26
IT'S NOT THE JEWISH GENETICS
THAT MAKES YOU A JEW NOW.
00:38:59.26\00:39:03.26
IT'S DO YOU HAVE THE
TRUTH ABOUT CHRIST? DO YOU HAVE
00:39:03.26\00:39:05.73
THE LAW OF GOD IN YOUR HEART?
DO YOU HAVE THAT NEW COVENANT?
00:39:05.73\00:39:08.90
BECAUSE IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S THEN
YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED AND YOU
00:39:08.90\00:39:11.46
MIGHT BE A JEW.
YOU MIGHT NOT BE.
00:39:11.46\00:39:14.50
SO JEWS CAN STILL BE A PART OF
THAT. BUT WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU
00:39:14.50\00:39:17.43
A GENUINE JEW IS THAT YOU HAVE
THE GENUINE SEED OF ABRAHAM,
00:39:17.43\00:39:20.86
WHICH IS CHRIST IN HIS
WORD AND HIS LAW, RIGHT?
00:39:20.86\00:39:25.60
AND SO THIS LAW WAS PASSED ON
FROM ONE EPIC OF THE CHURCH TO
00:39:25.60\00:39:31.20
ANOTHER - FROM ONE PHASE OF
THE CHURCH TO ANOTHER AND THAT'S
00:39:31.20\00:39:35.10
WHAT WAS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT IT.
ALRIGHT, BACK TO - YOU'RE GOING
00:39:35.10\00:39:38.36
TO READ NOW FOR US
EXODUS 19, VERSES 5 AND 6.
00:39:38.36\00:39:44.10
>>EXODUS 19, VERSES 5 AND
6, "NOW, THEREFORE, IF YOU WILL
00:39:44.10\00:39:47.83
INDEED OBEY MY VOICE AND KEEP
MY COVENANT, THEN YOU SHALL BE A
00:39:47.83\00:39:51.80
SPECIAL TREASURE TO ME ABOVE
ALL PEOPLE; FOR ALL THE EARTH IS
00:39:51.80\00:39:55.96
MINE. AND YOU SHALL BE TO ME A
00:39:55.96\00:39:58.86
KINGDOM OF PRIESTS
AND A HOLY NATION.'"
00:39:58.86\00:40:01.83
>>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. SO
AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM
00:40:01.83\00:40:04.70
WERE ALL OF THEM A REMNANT? HOW
MANY CHILDREN DID ABRAHAM HAVE?
00:40:04.70\00:40:12.10
I LOST COUNT. HE
HAD ISHAMAEL BY HAGAR.
00:40:12.10\00:40:17.36
HE HAD ONLY ISAAC BY SARAH, THEN
HE MARRIED KETURAH - I FORGET -
00:40:17.36\00:40:21.43
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER? I
THINK HE HAD AT LEAST FIVE -
00:40:21.43\00:40:23.56
SIX BOYS WITH KETURAH.
SO THAT'S A TOTAL OF WHAT,
00:40:23.56\00:40:27.33
EIGHT? HE HAD EIGHT CHILDREN.
00:40:27.33\00:40:29.60
BUT THE PROMISED SEED DIDN'T
COME THROUGH ALL THOSE OTHER
00:40:29.60\00:40:32.46
SEVEN, IT CAME THROUGH ISAAC AND
THEN ISAAC HAD A COUPLE OF BOYS
00:40:32.46\00:40:38.36
- TWINS - WHAT WERE
THEIR NAMES? JACOB AND ESAU.
00:40:38.36\00:40:42.60
SO DID THE PROMISED SEED COME
THROUGH BOTH OR DID GOD SAY,
00:40:42.60\00:40:46.63
'JACOB I HAVE LOVED AND ESAU
I HAVE HATED.' BECAUSE OF ESAU -
00:40:46.63\00:40:50.70
HE WANTED THE
BIRTHRIGHT - HE WANTED
00:40:50.70\00:40:53.06
THE BEANS INSTEAD
OF THE BIRTHRIGHT.
00:40:53.06\00:40:54.30
HE WANTED A PHYSICAL
EARTHLY SATISFACTION RIGHT NOW.
00:40:54.30\00:40:57.06
HE WAS CARNAL.
JACOB WAS MORE SPIRITUAL.
00:40:57.06\00:40:59.46
AND SO THE PROMISED SEED WENT
DOWN THROUGH JACOB AND THE TRUE
00:40:59.46\00:41:05.23
WORSHIP. YOU
NOTICE - NOTICE HOW BEING
00:41:05.23\00:41:07.80
UNEQUALLY YOKED WAS
SO IMPORTANT TO GOD?
00:41:07.80\00:41:10.43
DID ISAAC - I'M SORRY - DID ESAU
ONLY MARRY GIRLS THAT BELIEVED
00:41:10.43\00:41:15.96
THE TRUE GOD OR DID HE
MARRY LOCAL PAGAN GIRLS?
00:41:15.96\00:41:19.40
HE MARRIED LOCAL PAGAN GIRLS.
00:41:19.40\00:41:20.96
ISAAC AND REBEKAH SAID TO JACOB,
'DON'T DO THAT AND BREAK OUR
00:41:20.96\00:41:24.23
HEARTS, EVEN IF IT MEANS YOU'VE
GOT TO GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO
00:41:24.23\00:41:26.86
MESOPOTAMIA AND FIND A GIRL WHO
WORSHIPS THE TRUE GOD FROM OUR
00:41:26.86\00:41:30.16
FAMILY, DO THAT.' AND HE DID.
HE WENT ALL THE WAY BACK AND HE
00:41:30.16\00:41:33.00
GOT RACHEL AND LEAH
AND BILHAH AND ZILPAH.
00:41:33.00\00:41:37.03
AND WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR ISAAC
TO MARRY, WHAT DID ABRAHAM SAY?
00:41:37.03\00:41:40.53
'DON'T MARRY THE
LOCAL PAGAN GIRLS.
00:41:40.53\00:41:42.83
GO ALL THE WAY BACK AND GET A
GIRL WHO WORSHIPS THE TRUE GOD.'
00:41:42.83\00:41:46.66
SO HAVING THE LINE OF
TRUTH GOING THROUGH HIS PEOPLE -
00:41:46.66\00:41:51.23
HAVING PARENTS THAT BELIEVED THE
TRUTH WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO GOD.
00:41:51.23\00:41:55.00
THAT SHOULD TELL US HOW
IMPORTANT FAMILY WORSHIP IS TO
00:41:55.00\00:41:57.66
THE LORD AND THAT WE'RE UNITED
IN OUR BELIEFS IN OUR FAMILIES.
00:41:57.66\00:42:00.90
I KNOW IT'S TOUGH WHEN WE'RE NOT
AND YOU MIGHT NEED TO CARRY THAT
00:42:00.90\00:42:03.53
BURDEN ALONE IN YOUR FAMILY, BUT
BE FAITHFUL AND ASK GOD TO HELP
00:42:03.53\00:42:07.30
YOU COMPENSATE.
ALRIGHT, SO YOU CAN
00:42:07.30\00:42:10.26
- CAN YOU SEE THE
TRANSITION OF THE TRUTH
00:42:10.26\00:42:12.03
GOING NOW ON FROM ABRAHAM
THROUGH ISAAC, THROUGH JACOB, ON
00:42:12.03\00:42:18.70
THROUGH WHICH TRIBE OF
- WHICH OF JACOB'S SONS?
00:42:18.70\00:42:22.56
LATER THROUGH JUDAH BUT THEN
ISRAEL COMES OUT AND GOD CALLED
00:42:22.56\00:42:26.90
ISRAEL OUT AND
THEY BECAME A CHURCH.
00:42:26.90\00:42:29.93
THE JEWS REALLY BECAME A CHURCH,
AS YOU WOULD THINK - A NATION -
00:42:29.93\00:42:33.30
WHEN THEY CAME OUT DURING THE
EXODUS AND THEY HAD THE PASSOVER
00:42:33.30\00:42:39.33
SERVICE. THAT'S
WHEN YOU REALLY SENSE
00:42:39.33\00:42:42.46
THAT THEY'RE
BECOMING A UNIQUE PEOPLE.
00:42:42.46\00:42:44.70
YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 10,
VERSES 20 TO 22, "AND IT SHALL
00:42:44.70\00:42:48.56
COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY THAT
THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL, AND SUCH
00:42:48.56\00:42:55.00
AS HAVE ESCAPED OF THE HOUSE OF
JACOB, WILL NEVER AGAIN DEPEND
00:42:55.00\00:42:58.20
ON HIM WHO DEFEATED THEM,
BUT WILL DEPEND ON THE LORD, THE
00:42:58.20\00:43:02.73
HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, IN TRUTH.
THE REMNANT WILL RETURN, THE
00:43:02.73\00:43:07.00
REMNANT OF JACOB,
TO THE MIGHTY GOD.
00:43:07.00\00:43:09.60
FOR THOUGH YOUR PEOPLE, O
ISRAEL, BE AS THE SAND OF THE
00:43:09.60\00:43:13.00
SEA, A REMNANT OF THEM WILL
RETURN; THE DESTRUCTION DECREED
00:43:13.00\00:43:16.93
SHALL OVERFLOW
WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:43:16.93\00:43:19.40
HOW MANY TIMES - THE JEWS ARE AN
AMAZING PEOPLE - HOW MANY TIMES
00:43:19.40\00:43:24.76
WERE THE JEWS CALLED
BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND?
00:43:24.76\00:43:31.16
LET'S COUNT. THEY
WERE CARRIED AWAY WHEN
00:43:31.16\00:43:34.83
JACOB WENT DOWN TO EGYPT SO
THEY HAD TO LEAVE AT THAT POINT.
00:43:34.83\00:43:38.56
SO THEY CAME BACK DURING
THE EXODUS. AND THEN THEY WERE
00:43:38.56\00:43:41.23
CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON
AND THEN THEY CAME BACK AGAIN.
00:43:41.23\00:43:45.43
AND THEN, I THINK YOU CAN MAKE A
CASE THAT THEY WERE SCATTERED BY
00:43:45.43\00:43:48.03
THE ROMANS AND
THEY CAME BACK AGAIN.
00:43:48.03\00:43:50.90
AND I HEARD ONE EVANGELIST
SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, IF NO OTHER
00:43:50.90\00:43:54.80
REASON - ONE OF THE BEST REASONS
FOR THE WORLD TO BELIEVE THE
00:43:54.80\00:43:57.40
BIBLE IS A SUPERNATURAL
BOOK IS JUST THE JEWS.
00:43:57.40\00:44:00.80
HOW IN THE WORLD HAVE THE JEWS
BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN - AFTER
00:44:00.80\00:44:03.63
BEING SCATTERED AROUND THE WORLD
- A UNIQUE IDENTITY 3,000 YEARS.
00:44:03.63\00:44:10.80
DO YOU REALIZE HOW
REMARKABLE THAT IS?
00:44:10.80\00:44:13.30
AND THEN GET
THEIR LAND BACK AGAIN.
00:44:13.30\00:44:16.16
BUT THE REMNANT THAT ISAIAH
IS TALKING ABOUT IS NOT JUST
00:44:16.16\00:44:19.60
LITERAL ISRAEL, IT'S
TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL,
00:44:19.60\00:44:22.96
MORE SPECIFICALLY.
00:44:22.96\00:44:25.13
ALRIGHT, SO THEN YOU
GO FROM MOSES TO JESUS.
00:44:25.13\00:44:28.66
NOW WE SEE THE REMNANT ALL
THROUGH THE TIME - IT NOT ONLY
00:44:28.66\00:44:31.96
CAME FROM JUDAH - THE PROMISED
SEED, YOU KNOW, FROM THE TWELVE
00:44:31.96\00:44:35.13
TRIBES OF JACOB - IT WASN'T
ESAU, IT WAS JACOB AND IT WASN'T
00:44:35.13\00:44:38.50
THE TWELVE SONS, IT WAS JUDAH
AND IT WASN'T ALL THE SONS OF
00:44:38.50\00:44:41.93
JUDAH, IT WAS WHAT HOUSE
OF JUDAH? THE HOUSE OF DAVID,
00:44:41.93\00:44:48.60
RIGHT? AMONG THE DIFFERENT SONS
OF JUDAH AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF
00:44:48.60\00:44:52.40
JUDAH - IT WASN'T ALL OF
THEM - IT THEN ENDED UP GOING
00:44:52.40\00:44:54.96
SPECIFICALLY THROUGH THE LINE
OF DAVID. ALRIGHT, SO GO WITH ME
00:44:54.96\00:45:00.40
TO - SOMEONE LOOK UP
FOR ME REVELATION 12:17.
00:45:00.40\00:45:02.83
WE READ THIS, BUT WE'LL GET
TO IT AGAIN. AND I'M GOING TO
00:45:02.83\00:45:05.76
READ DEUTERONOMY
7, VERSES 6 THROUGH 8.
00:45:05.76\00:45:10.36
SO WHEN THE LORD BRINGS MOSES
AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT
00:45:10.36\00:45:12.83
OF EGYPT, GOD SAYS, "FOR YOU ARE
A HOLY PEOPLE TO THE LORD YOUR
00:45:12.83\00:45:17.50
GOD;" - THEY BECAME HIS CHURCH
- "THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN
00:45:17.50\00:45:21.56
YOU TO BE A PEOPLE FOR HIMSELF,
A SPECIAL TREASURE ABOVE ALL THE
00:45:21.56\00:45:24.53
PEOPLES ON THE FACE OF THE
EARTH." NOW, HAVE YOU EVER READ
00:45:24.53\00:45:29.26
THAT STATEMENT IN
'ACTS OF THE APOSTLES'?
00:45:29.26\00:45:31.93
AND I APOLOGIZE, I DON'T
REMEMBER THE PAGE, BUT I CAN
00:45:31.93\00:45:34.30
JUST ABOUT QUOTE IT AND IT SAYS
THAT 'ENFEEBLED AND DEFECTIVE
00:45:34.30\00:45:39.00
THOUGH THEY MIGHT BE, GOD'S
CHURCH IS THE SUPREME - IS THE
00:45:39.00\00:45:43.43
OBJECT UPON EARTH ON WHICH
HE BESTOWS HIS SUPREME REGARD.'
00:45:43.43\00:45:48.60
IT'S THE APPLE OF HIS EYE.
IT'S THE THEATER OF HIS GRACE.
00:45:48.60\00:45:51.80
GOD'S CHURCH IS THE GROUP THAT
HE ESPECIALLY LOVES AND THIS IS
00:45:51.80\00:45:56.40
WHAT GOD IS SAYING HERE.
HE SAYS, 'I AM CALLING - WHAT
00:45:56.40\00:45:59.13
NATION IS THERE LIKE YOU THAT
HAS SUCH RIGHTEOUS AND GOOD LAWS
00:45:59.13\00:46:02.70
THAT YOU HAVE?' AND SO
THERE WAS THIS TRUTH THAT
00:46:02.70\00:46:06.20
GOD COMMITTED TO HIS PEOPLE.
NOW, CAN I PAUSE RIGHT THERE AND
00:46:06.20\00:46:09.40
JUST INSERT - DOES
GOD HAVE A REMNANT TODAY?
00:46:09.40\00:46:16.13
YOU KNOW ONE REASON I BECAME
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST IS I
00:46:16.13\00:46:18.53
BOUNCED FROM ONE
DENOMINATION TO ANOTHER.
00:46:18.53\00:46:20.66
AFTER ACCEPTING JESUS
AND READING THE BIBLE I KNEW
00:46:20.66\00:46:22.80
CHRISTIANITY AND THE BIBLE WERE
TRUE AND I WENT ON JUST A KIND
00:46:22.80\00:46:26.36
OF A FRANTIC STUDY WITH
CHRISTIANS FROM ALL DIFFERENT
00:46:26.36\00:46:30.66
KINDS OF CHURCHES. I
WAS CHURCH HOPPING - EVEN
00:46:30.66\00:46:33.93
AFTER I FOUND THE ADVENTISTS
I DIDN'T JOIN RIGHT AWAY.
00:46:33.93\00:46:36.26
I CONTINUED CHURCH HOPPING AND
I KEPT - BECAUSE, QUITE FRANKLY,
00:46:36.26\00:46:40.73
SOME OF THE CHURCHES I LIKED
THEIR WORSHIP SERVICES MORE.
00:46:40.73\00:46:43.16
IT WAS A LOT MORE ENTERTAINING.
SOME OF THEM SEEMED MORE LOVING.
00:46:43.16\00:46:47.00
SOME OF THEM HAD BETTER MUSIC.
00:46:47.00\00:46:48.80
BUT I KEPT COMING BACK TO
THE ADVENTISTS BECAUSE I THOUGHT
00:46:48.80\00:46:50.90
'WOW, THERE IS NO CHURCH OUT
THERE THAT HAS A COMPREHENSION
00:46:50.90\00:46:55.13
OF THE LAW AND THE
TRUTH LIKE THE ADVENTISTS.
00:46:55.13\00:46:58.63
I, FRANKLY, DIDN'T WANT TO BE
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST BECAUSE,
00:46:58.63\00:47:02.50
LIKE I SAID, I'D GO TO SOME OF
MY CHARISMATIC CHURCH FRIENDS -
00:47:02.50\00:47:05.30
BOY, THEIR CHURCHES
WERE A LOT MORE KINESTHETIC.
00:47:05.30\00:47:08.73
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I'D WORSHIP
WITH SOME OF MY PRESBYTERIAN
00:47:08.73\00:47:12.30
FRIENDS AND THEY JUST LOVED
US AND THEY WERE JUST SO SWEET.
00:47:12.30\00:47:15.80
AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE
ADVENTIST CHURCHES I MET WERE
00:47:15.80\00:47:18.16
THAT WAY, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM.
AND I THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, I'M
00:47:18.16\00:47:21.60
GOING TO BECOME PECULIAR IF
I BECOME AN ADVENTIST, BUT BOY,
00:47:21.60\00:47:23.70
WHEN I READ THE BIBLE I
DON'T KNOW WHERE ELSE TO GO.
00:47:23.70\00:47:25.70
IT'S THE BIBLE.' AND I SAID
- FINALLY I HAD TO DEAL WITH IT
00:47:25.70\00:47:29.56
AND I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, THEY'RE
THE REMNANT THAT GOD HAS CALLED
00:47:29.56\00:47:32.70
IN THESE LAST DAYS.' AND
I BELIEVE THE SEVENTH-DAY
00:47:32.70\00:47:36.00
ADVENTIST CHURCH IS AS IMPORTANT
TO GOD IN THE WORLD TODAY
00:47:36.00\00:47:41.33
AS ISRAEL WAS IN
THE DAYS OF MOSES.
00:47:41.33\00:47:45.03
THE WAY THAT HE SUPERNATURALLY
RAISED UP A PROPHET, MOSES, AND
00:47:45.03\00:47:50.46
COMMUNICATED TRUTH THROUGH
HIM, I BELIEVE HE DID WITH THE
00:47:50.46\00:47:53.10
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
AND THE EVIDENCE OF THE WAY IT'S
00:47:53.10\00:47:55.60
GROWN AND SPREAD AROUND THE
WORLD AND THEY'RE - WHAT PEOPLE
00:47:55.60\00:47:59.26
ARE THAT HAVE SUCH RIGHTEOUS
LAWS - THAT HAVE SUCH A COHESIVE
00:47:59.26\00:48:02.80
UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE
AS THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
00:48:02.80\00:48:06.13
CHURCH? AND SO I
SAID, 'THIS IS THE TRUTH.'
00:48:06.13\00:48:09.90
NOW, HAVING SAID THAT, FASTEN
YOUR SEAT BELT. WHAT HAS THE
00:48:09.90\00:48:16.43
PATTERN BEEN AS WE'VE
BEEN STUDYING THROUGH HISTORY?
00:48:16.43\00:48:20.46
IT SEEMS LIKE AS THESE MOVEMENTS
OF REVIVAL - GOD CALLS OUT
00:48:20.46\00:48:23.93
ABRAHAM AND THEN HIS PEOPLE
BEGIN TO APOSTATIZE AND THEN HE
00:48:23.93\00:48:26.73
CALLS OUT ISAAC AND THEN THEY'RE
- AND THEN HE CALLS OUT JACOB
00:48:26.73\00:48:29.36
AND - BECAUSE ESAU APOSTATIZES
AND YOU SEE THAT AS THERE'S A
00:48:29.36\00:48:32.70
LAPSE HE CALLS OUT A REMNANT AND
AS THEY BECOME INSTITUTIONALIZED
00:48:32.70\00:48:36.30
HE CALLS OUT A REMNANT.
SOMETIMES THEY HAVE TO LIVE IN
00:48:36.30\00:48:38.80
THE WILDERNESS OR IN AN ARK
OR IN A CAVE, RIGHT? WHEN I SAID
00:48:38.80\00:48:43.53
'ARK' I MEANT NOAH'S ARK,
NOT THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
00:48:43.53\00:48:48.10
IS THERE A POSSIBILITY THAT OUR
CHURCH MAY ALSO GO THROUGH THAT
00:48:48.10\00:48:54.00
EVOLUTION WHERE WE BECOME
AN INSTITUTION AND WE START TO
00:48:54.00\00:48:56.63
COMPROMISE WITH THE WORLD AND
THERE'LL BE A SHAKING AND GOD IS
00:48:56.63\00:49:01.96
GOING TO CALL A REMNANT WHO
ARE FAITHFUL TO THIS MESSAGE?
00:49:01.96\00:49:06.03
THE QUESTION IS:
WHO GETS CALLED OUT?
00:49:06.03\00:49:10.63
IN THE TIME OF CAIN, CAIN
SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM THE TRUTH
00:49:10.63\00:49:18.13
- ISN'T THAT WHAT
WE SAID? CAIN WENT OUT.
00:49:18.13\00:49:20.53
WHEN LOT AND ABRAM GOT WHERE
THEY COULDN'T STAY TOGETHER
00:49:20.53\00:49:24.03
ANYMORE, LOT FIXED HIS
EYES TOWARD SODOM AND LOT LEFT.
00:49:24.03\00:49:28.10
I THINK OUR CHURCH IS
FACING SOME KIND OF IMPENDING
00:49:28.10\00:49:31.26
SEPARATION. I MEAN,
WE ALL KNOW THAT AS TIME
00:49:31.26\00:49:33.46
GOES BY, PRETTY SOON YOU GET
MORE AND MORE NEW THEOLOGY THAT
00:49:33.46\00:49:36.73
IT JUST GETS TO BE THIS TOTAL
INCOMPATIBILITY OF TEACHING AND
00:49:36.73\00:49:41.00
YOU WONDER, 'WHAT'S
GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE CHURCH?'
00:49:41.00\00:49:44.53
AND I BELIEVE THE
CHURCH IS GOING TO GO THROUGH.
00:49:44.53\00:49:46.46
I MEAN, WE'VE SEEN
IT ALL THROUGH HISTORY.
00:49:46.46\00:49:48.40
YOU SEE IT ALL THE WAY FROM ADAM
ALL THE WAY UP TO OUR PRESENT
00:49:48.40\00:49:52.00
DAY. DO YOU
THINK GOD IS GOING TO
00:49:52.00\00:49:53.70
HAVE A PEOPLE THAT HE COMES FOR
THAT ARE FAITHFUL TO THE TRUTH,
00:49:53.70\00:49:56.36
THAT CLING TO HIS WORD
AND HIS LAW? YES HE WILL.
00:49:56.36\00:50:01.06
BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE WON'T
BE ANOTHER CONVULSION BEFORE
00:50:01.06\00:50:04.60
JESUS COMES BACK
AGAIN. DO WE ALL KNOW THAT?
00:50:04.60\00:50:07.53
I JUST WANT TO BE FAITHFUL TO
CLING TO THE TRUTH AND WORSHIP
00:50:07.53\00:50:09.66
GOD THE WAY HE SAYS WE
SHOULD WORSHIP HIM AS THAT TIME
00:50:09.66\00:50:12.10
APPROACHES. ALRIGHT,
I'VE GOT A MINUTE LEFT.
00:50:12.10\00:50:16.93
SO, BY THE WAY, ACTS 7:38,
IT SAYS, "THIS IS HE THAT WAS
00:50:16.93\00:50:22.46
WITH THE CHURCH
IN THE WILDERNESS."
00:50:22.46\00:50:24.63
SO DID GOD HAVE A
CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS?
00:50:24.63\00:50:26.43
WE ALWAYS THINK CHURCH IS A
NEW TESTAMENT WORD. BUT IN THE
00:50:26.43\00:50:29.06
NEW TESTAMENT THEY THOUGHT
ABOUT MOSES AS BEING A CHURCH.
00:50:29.06\00:50:32.93
IT WAS THE CALLED OUT
GROUP. THEY HAD BEEN CALLED OUT.
00:50:32.93\00:50:35.10
BY THE WAY, IF YOU LOOK IN
1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, PAUL
00:50:35.10\00:50:38.86
SAYS THERE - 1 CORINTHIANS 10
- YOU READ VERSES 1 THROUGH 11 -
00:50:38.86\00:50:42.33
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO
ANCIENT ISRAEL IS A SIGN FOR
00:50:42.33\00:50:45.76
THOSE OF US - THEY'RE EXAMPLES -
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH THEN
00:50:45.76\00:50:49.76
DURING THE EXODUS AND ALL THEIR
EXPERIENCES IN THE WILDERNESS
00:50:49.76\00:50:52.66
AND COMING INTO THE PROMISED
LAND, IS A TYPE FOR WHAT WE WILL
00:50:52.66\00:50:55.83
EXPERIENCE AS WE COME OUT OF
EGYPT AND WE GET READY TO ENTER
00:50:55.83\00:50:59.10
THE PROMISED LAND IN THE LAST
DAYS. THEY WERE A CHURCH THEN.
00:50:59.10\00:51:01.70
WE ARE A CHURCH NOW AND NOW
WE'VE GOT JESUS AND THE REMNANT.
00:51:01.70\00:51:06.90
DID THE LORD HAVE TO
CALL A FAITHFUL GROUP
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OUT OF THE DARK AGES? YEAH.
00:51:11.26\00:51:14.93
YOU'VE GOT THE WALDENSES AND THE
ALBIGENSES, AND THE HUSSITES AND
00:51:14.93\00:51:18.40
THESE PEOPLE THAT, WHEN
THE CHURCH KIND OF BECAME
00:51:18.40\00:51:20.60
INSTITUTIONALIZED - THEY FORSOOK
THE TRUTH - THEY COMBINED WHAT
00:51:20.60\00:51:24.50
THE WORLD WAS DOING AND PAGANISM
WITH WHAT THE CHURCH WAS DOING.
00:51:24.50\00:51:27.63
BUT THERE WERE THOSE WHO SAID,
'WE NEED TO STICK WITH THE WORD
00:51:27.63\00:51:29.86
AND BE FAITHFUL.' AND
THERE WAS THIS SEPARATION.
00:51:29.86\00:51:33.70
IT TURNED INTO THE PROTESTANT
REFORMATION AND OUT OF THAT
00:51:33.70\00:51:36.90
PROTESTANT REFORMATION A NUMBER
OF WONDERFUL MOVEMENTS CAME AND
00:51:36.90\00:51:40.36
I BELIEVE THE SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH IS THE
00:51:40.36\00:51:42.40
CONTINUATION OF THAT REFORMATION
GETTING BACK TO THE WORD, AMEN?
00:51:42.40\00:51:47.90
SO TIME IS UP.
I'LL HAVE MY NOTES.
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I'LL POST MY NOTES ON THE
INTERNET BECAUSE I HAD A FEW
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MORE ON THE REMNANT AND I'VE GOT
MY AMAZING FACTS IN HERE I'LL BE
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HAPPY TO SHARE WITH ANY TEACHERS
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00:51:57.03\00:51:59.46
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CONTINUE TO STUDY GOD'S WORD
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TOGETHER THIS WEEK AND MEET IN
OUR STUDY NEXT WEEK. GOD BLESS.
00:52:19.70\00:52:25.30
>>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION!
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>>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN
FROM THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS
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AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE
CHURCH UP UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE
00:52:43.20\00:52:47.16
SECOND COMING OF JESUS. IT
SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT
00:52:47.16\00:52:52.93
CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND, THEN
ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL
00:52:52.93\00:52:57.23
THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION.
THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE.
00:52:57.23\00:53:03.26
IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT IS
HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A
00:53:03.26\00:53:07.43
PROPHET. THOSE THINGS ARE
PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY.
00:53:07.43\00:53:21.66
>>THE SCARLET HARLOT WOMAN
IN REVELATION 17, WHO REPRESENTS
00:53:21.66\00:53:25.76
THE CHURCH THAT HAS FALLEN INTO
APOSTASY - AND WE THOUGHT, IN
00:53:25.76\00:53:30.43
THE CONTEXT OF THESE TWO POLAR
OPPOSITE VISIONS IN REVELATION,
00:53:30.43\00:53:35.86
WE COULD TELL THE STORY OF WHAT
THE DEVIL WANTED TO DO TO THE
00:53:35.86\00:53:38.56
CHURCH - THIS COUNTERFEIT CHURCH
- AND THIS PERSECUTING POWER -
00:53:38.56\00:53:43.33
AND THE REAL PURITY THAT GOD
WANTED FOR HIS PEOPLE - THE PURE
00:53:43.33\00:53:46.26
TRUTH - THE PURE WORD - AND JUST
SEE THE BATTLE - THE CONFLICT
00:53:46.26\00:53:50.23
BETWEEN THESE TWO AND THE
DRAGON APPEARS IN BOTH STORIES.
00:53:50.23\00:53:55.13
YOU'VE GOT THE SAME DRAGON
- THAT SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON IS
00:53:55.13\00:53:57.90
PERSECUTING THIS ONE WOMAN AND
YET, THE OTHER WOMAN IS RIDING
00:53:57.90\00:54:02.46
UPON IT. THEY'RE WORKING IN
COOPERATION. THEY'RE A TEAM.
00:54:02.46\00:54:06.03
THE CONTEXT OF THESE TWO VISIONS
CREATES A VERY CLEAN WAY TO
00:54:06.03\00:54:10.40
ILLUSTRATE THE BATTLE
BETWEEN TRUTH AND ERROR.
00:54:10.40\00:54:13.00
TRUE CHURCH - FALSE CHURCH.
GOOD CHURCH - BAD CHURCH.
00:54:13.00\00:54:16.96
PURE CHURCH - DEFILED CHURCH.
AND THAT'S THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
00:54:16.96\00:54:20.93
GOING ON IN THE
RELIGIOUS WORLD TODAY.
00:54:20.93\00:54:24.26
>>WE DON'T WANT HER TO GO TO
THE POINT WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE,
00:54:24.26\00:54:25.83
'OH MAN, SHE'S KIND OF SCARY.'
00:54:25.83\00:54:27.16
>>NO, THE FACE IS GOING
TO BE LIKE FLAWLESS BEAUTY -
00:54:27.16\00:54:30.63
JUST INTENSE EYES.
I'VE GOT CRAZY LASHES.
00:54:30.63\00:54:35.60
I'VE GOT LIKE THREE
DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR LASHES.
00:54:35.60\00:54:37.50
>>OKAY. >>UMM,
LIKE A REALLY VIBRANT
00:54:37.50\00:54:39.70
LIP, YOU KNOW, SO JUST REALLY,
REALLY INTENSE IN THE FACE AND
00:54:39.70\00:54:44.53
FLAWLESS, BUT WE COULD ALSO
DO DECORATIVE STUFF TOO, LIKE WE
00:54:44.53\00:54:48.40
WERE TALKING
ABOUT LIKE ON THE HAND.
00:54:48.40\00:54:52.33
>>AND WE'RE GOING TO ADD A PIECE
THAT'S A FALL AND IT'S GOING TO
00:54:52.33\00:54:55.60
HAVE BRAIDS AND IT'S GOING
TO ADD MORE HAIR AND MORE WAVE.
00:54:55.60\00:54:59.93
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO ADD
A BUNCH OF JEWELS AND A CROWN
00:54:59.93\00:55:02.90
AND GEMS AND JEWELRY.
>>SHE IS GOING TO BE HIGHLY
00:55:02.90\00:55:08.03
DECORATED. >>YEAH, DECORATIONS.
00:55:08.03\00:55:11.56
>>THE WOMAN ON THE DRAGON ALSO
HAS WRITING ON HER FOREHEAD -
00:55:11.56\00:55:15.66
'MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE
00:55:15.66\00:55:18.43
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.' WE
HAD NICOLE, OUR MAKE-UP ARTIST,
00:55:18.43\00:55:21.50
WRITE ALL THE ACTUAL SCRIPTURE
VERSE THERE, ON HER FOREHEAD, IN
00:55:21.50\00:55:26.70
HEBREW.
ALRIGHT, TAKE HER AROUND.
00:55:26.70\00:55:30.00
VERY NICE. DIP
THE HEAD A LITTLE BIT.
00:55:30.00\00:55:35.30
>>AS AN EVANGELIST, WE HAVE
PREACHED - FOR YEARS I'VE TALKED
00:55:35.30\00:55:37.73
ABOUT REVELATION 17 - THIS
INFAMOUS WOMAN - AND I'VE NEVER
00:55:37.73\00:55:41.90
REALLY SEEN AN ARTIST'S CONCEPT
THAT RIGHTLY PORTRAYS WHAT I
00:55:41.90\00:55:45.33
THOUGHT IN MY MIND JOHN
SAW IN VISION. AND IT JUST -
00:55:45.33\00:55:49.56
SOMETHING ABOUT THE VIVID BRIGHT
COLORS - EVERYBODY THAT WALKED
00:55:49.56\00:55:55.86
IN AND SAW THAT BEING
SHOT, THEIR MOUTHS FELL OPEN.
00:55:55.86\00:55:58.96
I EXPECT THAT THERE'S GOING
TO BE A MIXTURE OF RESPONSES AND
00:55:58.96\00:56:02.63
THAT'S ALWAYS THE CASE WHEN
YOU SHARE TRUTH WITH PEOPLE.
00:56:02.63\00:56:05.76
BUT THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH
AND SO WHEN PEOPLE SEE WHAT HAS
00:56:05.76\00:56:09.46
HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH AND
THE GREAT COMPROMISE AND THE
00:56:09.46\00:56:15.50
PERSECUTION THAT GOD'S PEOPLE
HAVE GONE THROUGH EVEN AT THE
00:56:15.50\00:56:18.63
HANDS OF PROFESSED CHRISTIANS,
I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
00:56:18.63\00:56:22.56
SAY, 'WOW! HOW COME I
NEVER SAW THIS BEFORE?
00:56:22.56\00:56:26.93
I'M GOING TO TAKE A
STAND FOR THE TRUTH.
00:56:26.93\00:56:29.10
I BELIEVE THIS IS
GOING TO AFFECT MY LIFE.
00:56:29.10\00:56:31.03
THIS IS GOING TO LIBERATE
ME. THIS IS GOING TO MAKE ME A
00:56:31.03\00:56:32.93
BETTER PERSON. THIS IS
A BETTER PICTURE OF GOD.
00:56:32.93\00:56:35.96
ANYTHING WE DO TO DISTORT THE
TRUTH OR TO COVER THE TRUTH, IT
00:56:35.96\00:56:39.70
HIDES OR VEILS JESUS IN SOME WAY
AND SO THIS FILM - WE'RE WANTING
00:56:39.70\00:56:43.73
TO TEAR THE VEIL AWAY AND REALLY
SHOW WHO JESUS IS THROUGH A PURE
00:56:43.73\00:56:48.26
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