Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021425
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:49 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU THAT JOIN US EVERY WEEK AS WE 00:53 STUDY TOGETHER FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD - 00:56 EITHER LIVE ON THE INTERNET, THROUGH RADIO, TELEVISION - 01:00 WELCOME TO THOSE OF YOU WHO JOIN US EVERY WEEK RIGHT HERE 01:04 TO STUDY GOD'S WORD. WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO BE 01:07 ABLE TO PULL OUT OUR HYMNALS - TO PULL OUT OUR BIBLES ALL 01:11 OVER THE PLANET AND STUDY GOD'S WORD AND GET TO KNOW HIM BETTER. 01:15 HE IS COMING SOON AND SOMEDAY VERY SOON WE WILL BE STUDYING 01:21 AND LEARNING TOGETHER IN HEAVEN. I CAN HARDLY WAIT. 01:24 AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE HYMNAL. 01:27 WE'RE UP IN THE ONE HUNDREDS - TODAY IS #106 - 'GIVE TO GOD OUR 01:35 IMMORTAL PRAISE' - HYMN #106. AND THIS IS A REQUEST FROM FRED 01:40 IN FINLAND, CLAUDIA IN MEXICO AND CHRIS IN NIGERIA - AND WE 01:46 WILL SING ALL FOUR VERSES. 01:48 (MUSIC) 03:50 >>LET'S PRAY. OUR KIND AND HEAVENLY FATHER, 03:54 WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE YOU. 03:57 WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE ON YOUR THRONE AND WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE 04:00 ABOUT TO BRING THAT KINGDOM HERE TO THIS EARTH AND THAT WE WILL 04:05 REIGN ETERNALLY WITH YOU AND LORD, WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO 04:09 THAT DAY WHEN WE CAN MEET OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, ALL OVER 04:12 THE WORLD, WHO HAVE KEPT THE FAITH AND STAYED FAITHFUL TO YOU 04:16 AND THERE WE WILL RECEIVE OUR CROWN OF LIFE. 04:19 BUT UNTIL THEN, LORD, KEEP US FAITHFUL, KEEP US IN YOUR WORD, 04:23 KEEP OUR HEARTS PURE AND CLEAN THROUGH THE POWER OF JESUS WHO 04:27 GAVE EVERYTHING FOR US AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL. 04:31 SO BE WITH PASTOR DOUG TODAY, LORD, THAT BRINGS US YOUR WORDS 04:34 OF LIFE. HELP US TO APPLY THEM TO OUR 04:36 LIVES AND TO GO FROM THIS PLACE SERVING YOU TO THE END. 04:41 I PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR NAME, JESUS. AMEN. 04:45 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 04:53 >>GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOLYNE, 04:56 EUNICE, OUR SINGERS - FOR THE MUSIC AND THE HYMNS. 04:59 WELCOME, FRIENDS, TO CENTRAL STUDY HOUR AND, I KNOW, 05:05 SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE I'M THE GUEST NOW SO WHEN SHE ASKS, 'ARE 05:08 THERE ANY VISITORS HERE?' I'M GOING...BUT GLAD TO BE ABLE 05:13 TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD WITH YOU AND I WANT TO WELCOME OUR 05:15 EXTENDED CLASS THAT ARE STUDYING WITH US AROUND THE WORLD. 05:20 AND, YOU KNOW, AS I TRAVEL THIS LAST YEAR, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF 05:22 TRAVEL IN ROMANIA, IN GERMANY, IN EUROPE AND CHINA - SEEING ALL 05:31 THE PEOPLE THAT SAY, 'OH, WE STUDY WITH CENTRAL CHURCH EACH 05:34 WEEK.' AND WE FORGET, SOMETIMES, THAT THIS IS PART OF A GREAT 05:38 OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY WITH OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AROUND THE 05:40 WORLD. AND TODAY WE HAVE A VERY 05:43 IMPORTANT LESSON I'LL GET TO IN JUST A MOMENT. 05:45 THE OFFER TODAY - YOU MIGHT WONDER, 'WHY OFFER THIS BOOK?' 05:48 YOU'LL UNDERSTAND AS WE PROCEED WITH THE LESSON. 05:50 IT'S A NEW BOOK: 'WHO ARE THE SONS OF GOD?' 05:53 THE SUBTITLE FOR THE BOOK IS 'ALIENS, ANGELS, OR ADOPTED' - 05:58 IT'S OFFER #811 AND YOU SIMPLY CALL 866-STUDY-MORE - 06:03 THAT'S 866-788-3966 AND AS FOR THE BOOK 'WHO ARE THE SONS OF 06:08 GOD?' THAT COMES OUT IN OUR STUDY 06:11 TODAY AND OUR STUDY IS DEALING WITH 'CHRIST'S CHURCH AND THE 06:14 LAW'. IT'S LESSON #12 - WOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE 06:17 IN A NEW QUARTERLY PRETTY SOON. LESSON #12: 'CHRIST'S CHURCH AND 06:22 THE LAW' AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM 06:25 REVELATION 14:12 - I'D APPRECIATE IF YOU WANT TO SAY 06:28 THAT WITH ME - YOU READY? REVELATION 14:12 06:31 IN OUR QUARTERLY - IT COMES FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION, 06:36 "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP 06:40 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS." 06:45 - 'THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS.' AND THERE'S 06:49 ACTUALLY THREE VERSES LIKE THAT IN REVELATION. 06:52 WE'RE GOING TO BE QUOTING FROM TWO OF THEM TODAY. 06:54 NOW THE CORE OF THE LESSON TODAY IS DEALING WITH - WELL, REALLY 06:59 TWO THINGS. ONE IS IT'S DEALING WITH THE 07:02 CONTINUITY OF GOD'S LAW THROUGH THE DIFFERENT AGES OF THE 07:07 CHURCH. AND WE'VE ALREADY TOUCHED ON 07:11 THIS EARLIER IN THE QUARTERLY - THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DID 07:14 NOT SUDDENLY APPEAR IN EXODUS CHAPTER 20 - 07:17 WE'RE ALL AWARE OF THAT? DID GOD HAVE THE TEN 07:19 COMMANDMENTS BEFORE MOSES? HOW DO WE KNOW THAT? 07:25 DID THE LORD SAY THAT IT WAS A SIN FOR CAIN TO KILL HIS BROTHER 07:30 - BEFORE THE LAW WAS WRITTEN BY GOD - 'THOU SHALT NOT MURDER'? 07:34 YEAH, REMEMBER, GOD SAID TO CAIN, 'SIN LIES AT YOUR DOOR.' 07:37 AND WAS IT A SIN - DID JOSEPH KNOW IT WAS A SIN FOR HIM TO 07:42 COMMIT ADULTERY WITH POTIPHAR'S WIFE - BEFORE THE SEVENTH 07:45 COMMANDMENT WAS SPOKEN FROM MOUNT SINAI? 07:48 JOSEPH SAID, 'HOW CAN I COMMIT THIS SIN AGAINST GOD?' 07:51 ADULTERY WAS A SIN. AND YOU CAN LOOK AT A NUMBER OF 07:54 EXAMPLES. THE PATRIARCHS AND THE PEOPLE 07:56 BEFORE MOSES - THEY HAD THE LAW OF CHRIST THEN. 07:59 OF COURSE, WE KNOW THEY HAD THE LAW OF CHRIST DURING THE TIME OF 08:02 MOSES AND THROUGH THESE DIFFERENT STAGES. 08:05 AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK IN OUR STUDY TODAY, AS YOU GO FROM 08:09 SUNDAY ON THROUGH FRIDAY, WE'VE GOT THE LAW OF CHRIST FROM ADAM 08:14 TO NOAH, FROM NOAH TO ABRAHAM, FROM ABRAHAM TO MOSES, FROM 08:18 MOSES TO JESUS, AND FROM JESUS TO THE REMNANT. 08:22 BUT, AS MUCH AS ANYTHING, THIS LESSON IS TEACHING ABOUT THE 08:25 REMNANT - HOW THERE IS A CONTINUITY OF 08:28 GOD'S TRUTH THAT HE COMMITS TO PEOPLE. 08:33 AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SOMETIMES - WHEN THE CHURCH OF GOD SOMETIMES 08:38 GROWS INTO AN INSTITUTION AND THEY BECOME INSTITUTIONALIZED, 08:43 WHAT SOMETIMES HAPPENS IS THERE'S APOSTASY THAT CREEPS IN. 08:46 YOU SEE A PATTERN AND THEN THE LORD SAVES A REMNANT OUT OF THAT 08:51 GROUP AND HE COMMITS TO THEM THE ORACLES OF TRUTH SO THAT THE 08:55 TRUTH IS - THE LAW OF GOD IS NOT JUST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 08:59 THE LAW OF GOD IS THE TRUTH OF GOD - THE WORD OF GOD - SO THAT 09:01 IT IS PRESERVED BY THIS REMNANT AND IT IS TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW 09:06 GROUP THAT IS USUALLY A REVIVAL MOVEMENT. 09:09 IT GROWS, IT BECOMES ESTABLISHED, IT SPREADS, AND 09:11 THEN IT BECOMES AN INSTITUTION AND IT BEGINS TO FALL AGAIN AND 09:15 THE LORD HAS TO SORT OF PLUCK THE TRUTH OUT OF THAT GROUP AND 09:17 HAND IT TO ANOTHER GROUP. AND SO THIS STUDY IS REALLY LIKE 09:20 A STUDY OF THE REMNANT. HOW MANY OF YOU - MEN OR WOMEN - 09:26 USED TO MAKE YOUR OWN BREAD OR YOU STILL DO? 09:29 AND SOMETIMES USE A LITTLE YEAST. 09:32 NOW, TODAY, YOU CAN BUY - IS IT FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST? 09:37 I USED TO BAKE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. IT'S BEEN A WHILE. 09:40 AND WHEN YOU MIX UP SOME DOUGH WITH THE YEAST AND YOU LET IT 09:43 SORT OF FERMENT - DEVELOP - YOU THEN, IF YOU ARE WANTING TO SAVE 09:47 A PIECE OF THAT DOUGH - YOU GET A GOOD BATCH - YOU PINCH A PIECE 09:51 OF THAT BEFORE YOU BAKE IT AND YOU SAVE IT, RIGHT? 09:54 AND YOU CAN USE THAT YEAST FROM THAT PIECE OF DOUGH AND YOU CAN 09:59 USE IT TO MIX IT IN WITH ANOTHER BATCH. 10:02 EVEN JESUS REFERS TO THIS, RIGHT? 10:04 HOW A LITTLE LEAVEN CAN LEAVEN THE WHOLE LOAF. 10:07 NOW LEAVEN, IN THE BIBLE, IS USED BOTH IN A POSITIVE AND A 10:10 NEGATIVE WAY SO I'M USING IT IN THE POSITIVE WAY NOW. 10:13 SO SOMETIMES THE LORD, HE WILL TAKE A REMNANT FROM THAT GOOD 10:18 BODY AND THEN HE TRANSFERS IT. IT'S LIKE THE SACRED SEED. 10:23 AND WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT IN OUR STUDY TODAY. 10:25 SO WE'RE STUDYING CHRIST'S CHURCH AND HIS LAW AND THE WORD 10:30 'CHURCH' IN GREEK, IT'S FROM THE WORD 'ECCLESIA' 10:36 AND IT MEANS 'A GROUP THAT IS CALLED OUT'. 10:41 OFTEN HIS CHURCH IS A GROUP THAT IS CALLED OUT FROM AMONG ANOTHER 10:45 GROUP AND THE WORD 'CHURCH' THAT WE PRONOUNCE 'CHURCH' DOESN'T 10:50 COME FROM ECCLESIA, IT COMES FROM THE WORD THAT'S ONLY FOUND 10:54 A COUPLE TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT: KURIAKON - KURIAKON - 10:58 AND IT ACTUALLY MEANS 'SOMETHING PERTAINING TO THE LORD'. 11:02 NOW ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE OLD HYMNAL - THEY USED TO 11:05 HAVE A SONG CALLED 'COME TO THE KIRK IN THE WILDWOOD'? 11:09 THE KIRK - OR IF YOU'RE FROM ENGLAND OR SCOTLAND THE WORD FOR 11:12 CHURCH WAS KIRK - AND OUR ENGLISH WORD IN AMERICA - 11:17 'CHURCH' - IS REALLY A DERIVATIVE OF THE WORD 'KIRK' 11:20 WHICH COMES FROM THIS GREEK WORD 'KURIAKON' AND SO JUST A LITTLE 11:25 ETYMOLOGY OF WHERE THE WORD COMES FROM. 11:29 THAT WORD IS FOUND - KURIAKON - YOU FIND, FOR INSTANCE IN 11:32 1 CORINTHIANS 11:20 - WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS 11:35 SET ASIDE FOR OR PERTAINING TO THE LORD, IT TALKS ABOUT THE 11:38 LORD'S SUPPER - THE KURIAKON SUPPER - SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY 11:43 PERTAINING - SO THE CHURCH IS A PEOPLE - A CALLED OUT GROUP. 11:46 THE SYNAGOGUE IS A SACRED ASSEMBLY. 11:51 IT'S A WORD FOR 'CHURCH'. IT'S KIND OF INTERCHANGEABLE. 11:53 IT TALKS ABOUT THE CHURCH OF SATAN IN REVELATION AND CALLS IT 11:56 'THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN'. AND SO THESE ARE SOME WORDS THAT 12:01 YOU FIND ARE INTERCHANGEABLE TALKING ABOUT THE CHURCH. 12:05 THE WORD 'REMNANT' - I THINK MOST OF US KNOW WHAT A REMNANT 12:10 MEANS. IT'S WHERE YOU GET THE WORD 'REMAINDER' - IT'S - YOU'D 12:14 HATE TO SAY 'LEFTOVER' BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT SURVIVES. 12:18 IT MEANS 'PART THAT IS LEFT OVER AFTER USE; A SURVIVING TRACE OR 12:24 VESTIGE; A REMAINDER LIKE IN THE REMNANT OF CLOTH.' 12:29 YOU EVER BOUGHT A REMNANT FROM THE BOLT THAT IS LEFT? 12:32 AND SO THE LORD OFTEN CALLS OUT A REMNANT FROM THIS OTHER 12:37 RELIGIOUS BODY THAT IS IN APOSTASY AND THEY BECOME THE 12:41 DEPOSITORIES OF HIS TRUTH OR HIS LAW. 12:45 AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE IS A CONTINUITY OF THAT THAT GOES 12:48 ALL THE WAY FROM ADAM TO OUR PRESENT DAY. 12:52 AND PROBABLY WITH THAT INTRODUCTION I OUGHT TO - WELL, 12:56 LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION: HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE 13:00 A CHURCH? WHAT IS THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT? 13:06 I SAW SOMEONE SAY ONE. I SAW SOMEONE SAY TWO. 13:11 WELL, LET ME READ YOU A VERSE. MATTHEW 18, VERSE 19 - JESUS 13:16 SAID, "AGAIN I SAY TO YOU THAT IF TWO OF YOU AGREE ON EARTH 13:20 CONCERNING ANYTHING THAT THEY ASK, IT WILL BE DONE FOR THEM BY 13:24 MY FATHER IN HEAVEN. FOR WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE 13:27 GATHERED TOGETHER IN MY NAME, I AM THERE IN THE MIDST OF THEM." 13:30 NOW THAT IS NOT TO DISCOUNT THE TRUTH THAT YOU MAY BE ALONE. 13:35 YOU MAY FEEL LIKE YOU'RE THE ONLY KNEE THAT HAS NOT BOWED TO 13:38 BAAL AND YOU MIGHT RUN OFF INTO A CAVE OR IN THE WILDERNESS 13:42 UNDER A BROOM TREE LIKE ELIJAH AND JUST PRAY THAT YOU MIGHT DIE 13:44 BECAUSE YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE LEFT AND YOU'RE NOT FORSAKEN. 13:47 JESUS SAID, 'I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU OR FORSAKE YOU.' AND MANY A 13:50 MISSIONARY, LIKE DAVID LIVINGSTONE AND OTHERS, HAVE 13:52 FOUND THEMSELVES ALONE AND THEY - MANY TIMES MISSIONARIES ARE 13:57 THE ONLY REPRESENTATIVES OF GOD'S CHURCH IN SOME DARK COUNTY 14:01 OR SOME DARK COUNTRY. AND SO, YEAH, ONE PERSON CAN BE 14:05 THE VEHICLE THROUGH WHOM GOD BRINGS THE TRUTH. 14:08 PHILIP WENT OFF INTO THE DESERT BY HIMSELF TO PREACH AND HE WAS 14:12 THE CHURCH OF JESUS BY HIMSELF. BUT, TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, YOU 14:16 THINK OF TWO OR THREE GATHERED - HE IS IN THEIR MIDST AND BUT - 14:21 YEAH, THE LORD - WHEREVER GOD'S PRESENCE IS THERE IS HIS CHURCH. 14:25 ALRIGHT, SO LET'S GO BACK FROM ADAM TO NOAH AND IN GENESIS 2:16 14:31 - LET'S GO THERE FIRST - GENESIS 2 14:33 - WE'RE STARTING AT THE BEGINNING. 14:35 "AND THE LORD GOD COMMANDED THE MAN, SAYING, 'OF EVERY TREE OF 14:38 THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT; BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE 14:42 OF GOOD AND EVIL YOU SHALL NOT EAT, FOR IN THE DAY THAT YOU EAT 14:45 OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE.' NOW THE LORD GAVE A TRUTH TO ADAM 14:50 AND EVE - THE LORD GAVE THEM A TEST. 14:53 WHY DID GOD NEED TO GIVE A TEST TO MAN IN THE BEGINNING? 14:58 PROBABLY, I BELIEVE, THAT THIS PLANET WAS NOT THE ONLY PLANET 15:01 THAT HAD SOME KIND OF TEST OF LOYALTY. 15:04 ANYWHERE GOD HAS INTELLIGENT FREE MORAL CREATURES - IN ORDER 15:08 FOR THERE TO BE LOVE, THERE MUST BE GENUINE FREEDOM - FREEDOM 15:12 THAT GOD IS WILLING TO PROVE EVEN BY LOSING THAT LOVE. 15:17 AND SO, TO HAVE THAT FREEDOM YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE. 15:20 YOU KNOW IF I ASKED MY WIFE TO MARRY ME AND SHE SAID 'YES' AND 15:23 SHE SAID, 'BECAUSE I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE' - I'D WONDER IF IT 15:27 WAS LOVE, RIGHT? SO JUST THE VERY NATURE OF LOVE, 15:31 YOU ALMOST NEED TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE OR THEN IT BECOMES FORCED 15:34 AND FORCED LOVE ISN'T LOVE. AND SO GOD GAVE A CHOICE TO ADAM 15:38 AND EVE: 'WILL YOU LOVE ME? WILL YOU BELIEVE ME? 15:40 AND HE SAID THERE - 'YOU'RE FREE TO EAT ANY TREE' BUT IN THE 15:44 MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN YOU'VE GOT ONE THAT IS ESPECIALLY DEDICATED 15:46 TO LIFE AND ONE THAT IS FORBIDDEN. 15:48 AND IF YOU TRUST ME, AND IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU'LL TRUST ME. 15:53 YOU WON'T EAT THAT FORBIDDEN TREE.' AND THE DEVIL SAID, 15:55 'DON'T TRUST GOD, TRUST ME.' MAN HAD A CHOICE. 15:59 PROOF OF REAL LOVE IS THAT WE CAN EVEN CHOOSE DEATH. 16:04 WE CAN EVEN CHOOSE NOT TO LOVE. 16:07 AND SO THE DEVIL TEMPTED THE FIRST MEN TO DOUBT GOD'S WORD 16:11 AND THAT'S WHEN SUFFERING CAME IN. 16:14 GOD SAID, 'DON'T EAT FROM THE FORBIDDEN TREE OR YOU WILL DIE.' 16:18 SO THEN AFTER THE CURSE ENTERED GOD SAID, 'LOOK, I LOVE YOU. 16:21 I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU. I'M GOING TO ACTIVATE A PLAN OF 16:25 SALVATION - THERE'LL BE ANOTHER CHANCE. 16:27 I'M GIVING THE WORLD A PROBATIONARY OPPORTUNITY TO BE 16:30 SAVED, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A BATTLE IN YOUR WORLD AND YOU'LL 16:33 NEED TO CONTINUE MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE TO LOVE AND TRUST 16:36 ME.' AND SO THE LORD, VERY EARLY IN THE BIBLE, HE MAKES THIS 16:40 PROPHECY IN GENESIS 3:15, "AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND 16:45 THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED; HE SHALL BRUISE 16:51 YOUR HEAD, AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL." 16:54 IT'S INTERESTING HE'S TALKING TO THE WOMAN, BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN 16:57 IT TURNS INTO THE MASCULINE AND SAYS, 'HE WILL BRUISE YOUR HEAD 16:59 AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL.' NOW THE SEED OF THE WOMAN IS 17:04 WHO? JESUS. THIS MAN-CHILD CAUGHT UP TO 17:09 GOD'S THRONE - THE SEED OF THE WOMAN WOULD BRUISE WHOSE HEAD? 17:14 HE WOULD ACTUALLY CRUSH THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT. 17:17 THE SERPENT WOULD BRUISE OR INJURE THE HEEL OF THE SEED OF 17:22 THE WOMAN. AND SO, THROUGH HISTORY YOU SEE 17:25 THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THE SEED OF THE WOMAN, THE REMNANT, THE ONES 17:30 WHO EMBRACE AND HOLD THE GUARDIANS OF THE LAW OF GOD, AND 17:35 BETWEEN THE SERPENT AND THE SEED OF THE SERPENT. 17:39 THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17, DOES SHE HAVE DAUGHTERS? 17:43 THAT'S THE SEED OF THE SERPENT, RIGHT? 17:45 AND THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 12, DOES SHE HAVE A HOLY CHILD? 17:49 THERE'S BEEN THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THESE TWO GROUPS THROUGH 17:51 HISTORY. ONE HAS THE TRUTH COMMITTED TO 17:54 THEM - OR THE LAW OF GOD - AND YOU SEE THESE DIFFERENT STAGES 17:57 THROUGH HISTORY. GO TO REVELATION 12:17 AND WE'LL 18:00 READ THIS VERSE AGAIN LATER, IF TIME PERMITS. 18:03 REVELATION 12:17, "AND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE 18:07 WOMAN, AND HE WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, 18:16 WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS 18:20 CHRIST." IT'S AMAZING HOW LONG SEEDS CAN SURVIVE. 18:25 THE SEED OF TRUTH THAT GOD GAVE IN THE VERY BEGINNING TO HIS 18:28 PEOPLE HAS SOMEHOW SURVIVED ALL THIS TIME. WE DON'T HAVE REALLY 18:33 A DIFFERENT TRUTH ABOUT GOD THAN ADAM AND EVE HAD. 18:37 OH, THERE'S BEEN DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS AND EXPANSION OF 18:40 REVELATION, BUT THE TRUTH HAS NOT CHANGED. 18:41 TRUTH DOES NOT GO AWAY. TRUTH NEVER DIES. 18:45 IF SOMETHING WAS TRUE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW, TRUTH STAYS 18:50 TRUTH. I KNOW THERE'S CERTAIN HABITS 18:54 AND PATTERNS THAT MAY EVOLVE AND CHANGE AND STYLES CHANGE, BUT 18:58 TRUTH DOESN'T DIE, IT STAYS THE SAME. JUST A FEW - 19:03 A LITTLE AMAZING FACT ABOUT SEEDS I THOUGHT I'D SHARE WITH 19:06 YOU WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. 19:07 HAVE SOME OF YOU HEARD OF THE 'DOOMSDAY SEED VAULT'? 19:11 IN ONE OF THE VERY NORTHERNMOST PARTS OF NORWAY - ONLY 620 MILES 19:17 FROM THE NORTH POLE - BLASTED 427 FEET INTO VIRTUAL ROCK AND 19:23 PERMAFROST IN THIS NORWEGIAN MOUNTAIN, THEY'VE GOT THIS 19:27 'SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT' - BETTER KNOWN AS 19:31 'THE DOOMSDAY VAULT'. IN THIS VAULT IT'S DESIGNED TO 19:34 KEEP MILLIONS OF SEED SAMPLES, GATHERED FROM AROUND THE WORLD, 19:38 IN THE EVENT THAT THERE'S SOME NATURAL 19:39 OR UNNATURAL DISASTER LIKE A NUCLEAR WAR, ASTEROIDS STRIKE, 19:43 VEGETATION PLAGUE, OR WAR - SEA LEVELS RISE - SO THAT THE 19:48 VEGETATION AND AGRICULTURE OF THE WORLD CAN BE PRESERVED. 19:52 AND SO SOMEONE'S INVESTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN - 9.4 19:57 MILLION DOLLARS - TO BUILD THIS SEED VAULT UP THERE. 19:59 AND THEY VERY CAREFULLY PUT THE SEEDS IN THERE. 20:01 IT IS POWERED, BUT IT'S DESIGNED IN SUCH A WAY THAT EVEN IF 20:04 THERE'S SOME KIND OF CATASTROPHE AND THEY LOSE POWER, BECAUSE 20:08 IT'S BUILT IN THE PERMAFROST, IT KEEPS ALL THE SEEDS AT ABOUT 25 20:11 DEGREES. AND THEY FIGURE, AT THAT TEMPERATURE, MANY OF THE 20:15 SEEDS CAN LAST 10,000 YEARS. NOW SOME OF YOU - AND RIGHT NOW 20:20 THEY'VE GOT 4 MILLION PACKAGES OF SEEDS - IT'S CAPABLE OF 20:24 HOLDING 4 MILLION PACKAGES - OR 2 BILLION TOTAL SEEDS - ALL 20:29 DIFFERENT KINDS OF CLIMATES IN ALL DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD 20:31 AND THEY'RE ADDING NEW SEEDS ALL THE TIME. 20:34 SO THE SEEDS OF TRUTH HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED AND PRESERVED. 20:39 YOU KNOW, WHY DOES PAUL SAY - PAUL DEFENDS THE JEWS IN ROMANS 20:47 AS STILL HAVING A UNIQUE ROLE AND HE SAYS, YOU KNOW, 'GOD 20:51 PRESERVED THEM NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE - 20:54 GOD SAYS, 'BECAUSE YOU'RE A STUBBORN AND A STIFF-NECKED 20:56 PEOPLE.' AND IF THE LORD HAD DECIDED TO CHOOSE NORWEGIANS AND 21:02 MAKE THEM THE REPOSITORIES OF HIS TRUTH, YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND 21:04 THEY HAD ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT 21:06 PEOPLE GOD CHOSE, THEY WOULD HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEIR HUMAN 21:09 FRAILTIES AND WEAKNESS AND PROBLEMS. 21:12 BUT PAUL SAID THE REASON THAT ISRAEL WAS SPECIAL - CATCH THIS 21:17 - IT SAYS, 'UNTO THEM WERE COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF TRUTH.' 21:22 GOD, WHEN HE GAVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TO THOSE PEOPLE - 21:26 WHEN THEY CARRIED THAT ARK, HOLDING THE LAW OF GOD, IN THEIR 21:29 MIDST, GOD SAID, 'I HAVE GIVEN YOU MY LAW. I HAVE GIVEN YOU 21:32 MY WORD.' AND THAT WAS TRANSFERRED THROUGH THE AGES 21:36 THROUGH HIS PEOPLE. IT WAS GIVEN TO NOAH AND IT WAS GIVEN TO 21:39 MOSES. IT WAS GIVEN TO ADAM. IT WAS GIVEN TO ABRAHAM. 21:43 AND SO, IT CONTINUED TO TRANSFER FROM REMNANT TO REMNANT. 21:46 WELL, AFTER ADAM AND EVE - THEY HAD TWO SONS AND THEY DIDN'T GET 21:50 ALONG AND THERE WAS AN ALTERCATION - 21:55 AND 'ALTERCATION' IS PUTTING IT MILDLY. 21:59 CAIN REALLY SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING TO WORSHIP GOD THE WAY GOD SAYS 22:01 WE SHOULD WORSHIP HIM' - WITH BLOOD SACRIFICES - 'I'M GOING TO 22:03 WORSHIP THE WAY I THINK WE SHOULD WORSHIP. 22:05 I'M GOING TO CLAIM TO WORSHIP THE SAME GOD BUT I'M GOING TO DO 22:08 IT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY' DO WE STILL HEAR THAT BATTLE TODAY? 22:12 PEOPLE WANT TO IMPROVE ON HOW TO WORSHIP GOD. 22:14 IS THAT BATTLE GOING TO REAPPEAR IN REVELATION? 22:17 WILL THERE BE A BATTLE BETWEEN THOSE WHO WORSHIP GOD AND 22:20 RECEIVE THE SEAL OF GOD AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE WAY THE 22:23 BEAST SAYS WE SHOULD WORSHIP? IF YOU DON'T WORSHIP THE BEAST 22:26 YOU CANNOT BUY OR SELL AND SO THERE'S A BATTLE OVER WORSHIP. 22:30 WAS THERE A BATTLE OVER WORSHIP AT THE GOLDEN CALF? 22:35 SO WORSHIP IS A VERY IMPORTANT THING. 22:38 LUCIFER DID NOT WANT TO WORSHIP GOD. 22:41 SO CAIN SEPARATES - HE TAKES ONE OF HIS SISTERS WHO BECOMES HIS 22:44 WIFE - I KNOW THAT ALWAYS SOUNDS REALLY WEIRD TO PEOPLE BUT 22:47 THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT ADAM AND EVE WERE - 22:50 DIDN'T THEY HAVE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME FATHER? 22:52 AND ABRAHAM MARRIED HIS SISTER - HALF SISTER - AND ISAAC MARRIED 22:57 HIS FIRST COUSIN AND JACOB MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN AND SO 22:59 IT WASN'T THAT STRANGE BACK THEN. IT'S JUST AS THE GENETICS 23:03 OF MAN BECAME MORE FRAIL WITH THE DEFECTS, GOD SAID YOU 23:09 SHOULDN'T BE MARRYING TOO CLOSE TO THE FAMILY TREE AND SO 23:11 THE RULES WERE MADE ABOUT THE TIME OF MOSES. 23:14 BUT CAIN TOOK HIS WIFE AND HE SEPARATED AND THEY MULTIPLIED 23:19 AND THERE WAS A WHOLE NEW RACE OF PEOPLE THAT SEPARATED. 23:22 HE WENT AND BUILT A CITY AND ADAM AND EVE HAD ANOTHER SON - 23:26 HIS NAME WAS WHAT? AFTER ABEL DIED - SETH - AND 23:30 SETH AND HIS WIFE WHO WAS, AGAIN, ONE OF HIS SISTERS, THEY 23:33 MULTIPLIED AND THEY DECIDED TO BE TRUE TO GOD AND AS LONG AS 23:37 THEY MAINTAINED A SEPARATION THIS REMNANT WAS FAITHFUL. 23:43 THEY FOLLOWED GOD ACCORDING TO THE TRUTH OF HIS LAW AND HIS 23:45 WORD. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? 23:48 IF YOU GO TO GENESIS CHAPTER 6 AND YOU READ IN VERSE 1, "NOW IT 23:54 CAME TO PASS, WHEN MEN BEGAN TO MULTIPLY ON THE FACE OF THE 23:57 EARTH, AND DAUGHTERS WERE BORN TO THEM, THAT THE SONS OF GOD 24:02 SAW THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN, THAT THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL; AND THEY 24:06 TOOK WIVES FOR THEMSELVES OF ALL WHOM THEY CHOSE." NOW THIS IS 24:09 THE QUESTION - THIS IS THE VERSE I GET ALL THE TIME. 24:12 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD BEFORE - MATTER OF FACT, SOME OF 24:15 YOU MAY EVEN HAVE A TRANSLATION IN YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW THAT 24:18 THESE SONS OF GOD THAT INTERMARRIED WITH THE DAUGHTERS 24:21 OF MEN WERE EITHER ALIENS FROM OTHER PLANETS OR THEY WERE 24:26 FALLEN ANGELS - DEVILS - THAT SOMEHOW GOT 24:29 MARRIED TO HUMANS AND HAD BABIES. 24:34 AND THERE'S A COUPLE REASONS - ONE IS BECAUSE IT SAYS - IT 24:37 SEEMS LIKE THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF GROUPS - YOU'VE GOT 24:39 CHILDREN OF MEN AND IT SAYS THE SONS OF GOD. 24:41 WELL, IF THEY'RE NOT MEN, WHO ARE THEY? 24:43 THEY MUST BE NON-MEN AND THEN IT SAYS THAT THEIR CHILDREN WERE 24:48 GIANTS - THEY WERE MIGHTY MEN AND SO THEY HAD SOME KIND OF 24:51 SUPERNATURAL OFFSPRING. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS? 24:56 I THINK THIS CAN BE EASILY EXPLAINED AND SUPPORTED BY THE 24:58 BIBLE THAT IT WAS NOT DEMONS, FALLEN ANGELS, ALIENS FROM OTHER 25:04 PLANETS THAT HAD INTIMATE RELATIONS WITH HUMANS. 25:08 LET ME TELL YOU WHAT IT WAS: THE SONS OF MEN IS THE TERM 'ENOS' - 25:13 IT'S THE WORD THAT IS BEING USED TO DESCRIBE THE DESCENDENTS OF 25:17 CAIN. CAIN - HIS FAMILY - I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THEY'D NOT COME 25:22 VERY FAR FROM CREATION. THE DAUGHTERS OF CAIN WERE 25:26 BEAUTIFUL. THE DAUGHTERS OF ADAM AND EVE AND SETH WERE BEAUTIFUL 25:32 AS WELL. IT'S JUST EMPHASIZING THAT THEY WERE ATTRACTED BY 25:35 THEIR BEAUTY AND NOT BY THEIR BELIEFS. 25:40 NOW, SHOULD WE MARRY BASED ON LOOKS OR SHOULD WE MARRY - IT'S 25:43 NOT THAT LOOKS DON'T MATTER, BUT WE'D ALL BE LYING IF WE SAID 25:47 THAT NOBODY EVER CONSIDERED THAT. 25:49 BUT SHOULDN'T THE PRIMARY CRITERIA BE 'WHAT IS THEIR 25:52 FAITH?' SOME PEOPLE GET MARRIED AND THEY 25:55 SAY, 'WELL, I JUST REALLY LIKE THE LOOKS OF HIM OR HER' AND 25:58 THEY DON'T CARE WHAT THEIR FAITH IS. 26:01 DOES THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT THAT BEING - 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14, "DO 26:08 NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS. 26:11 FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HAS RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH LAWLESSNESS? 26:15 AND WHAT COMMUNION HAS LIGHT WITH DARKNESS? 26:17 AND WHAT ACCORD HAS CHRIST WITH BELIAL? 26:20 OR WHAT PART HAS A BELIEVER WITH AN UNBELIEVER? AND WHAT 26:23 AGREEMENT HAS THE TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS?" - LOOK AT ALL THE 26:25 CONTRASTS THAT PAUL IS MAKING. HE'S BEING PRETTY CLEAR. 26:29 NOW, DOES THAT MEAN WHEN PAUL SAYS THESE THINGS, 'DO NOT BE 26:33 UNEQUALLY YOKED' - DOES THAT MEAN AS CHRISTIANS WE SHOULD 26:36 HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH UNBELIEVERS? 26:38 HOW ARE YOU GOING TO WIN UNBELIEVERS IF YOU DON'T 26:41 INTERACT WITH THEM IN ANY WAY? BEING YOKED IS DIFFERENT. 26:46 WHEN TWO OXEN ARE YOKED TOGETHER THEY ARE BOUND TOGETHER AND THEY 26:49 CAN'T GET AWAY FROM EACH OTHER - THEIR HEADS ARE HOOKED TOGETHER. 26:52 IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP. 26:54 SO, AS A BELIEVER, IF YOU GET INTO A BUSINESS COVENANT WITH AN 26:59 UNBELIEVER IN A PARTNERSHIP AND YOU KNOW THAT THEIR VALUES ARE 27:02 VERY DIFFERENT FROM YOURS, YOU'RE GOING TO END UP HAVING 27:04 PROBLEMS. AND DEFINITELY, ONE OF THE MOST 27:07 IMPORTANT WAYS THAT PEOPLE GET YOKED TOGETHER IS IN MARRIAGE. 27:12 AND SO PAUL IS BEING VERY CLEAR THAT BELIEVERS SHOULD NOT BE 27:16 YOKED WITH UNBELIEVERS BECAUSE, BASICALLY, HE'S SAYING WHAT - IF 27:22 YOU'RE MARRYING A PAGAN HE COMPARES THAT TO IDOL WORSHIP - 27:25 WHAT - HOW CAN THAT IDOL BE IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD? 27:29 ISN'T THAT BLASPHEMY? AND IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 27:31 YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND THEY'RE - THEY'VE GOT 27:33 IDOLATRY IN THEIR BODY - IN THEIR LIVES - AND THEY'RE 27:35 PAGANS. THEY DON'T WORSHIP GOD. 27:37 AND TO SAY, 'OH, IT DOESN'T MATTER.' PAUL SAYS IT'S LIGHT 27:40 AND DARKNESS - IT DOESN'T GO TOGETHER. 27:43 WHEN THE SONS OF SETH - EVERY NOW AND THEN THEY'D HAVE TO GO 27:46 TO THE VALLEY AND THEY'D SEE THE DAUGHTERS OF CAIN - THEY WERE 27:49 CALLED THE SONS OF GOD BECAUSE THEY STILL WORSHIPED THE TRUE 27:51 GOD - THEY HAD ETERNAL LIFE. DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY IN 1 JOHN 27:56 CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1, "BEHOLD WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HAS 28:01 BESTOWED ON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD!" 28:05 SO THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD WERE THE DESCENDENTS OF SETH 28:08 THAT WERE STILL WORSHIPING GOD - THAT HAD THE LAW OF GOD. 28:11 BUT WHEN THEY SAID, 'WELL, I KNOW WE SHOULDN'T BE GETTING 28:14 MARRIED TO THE DAUGHTERS OF CAIN, BUT BOY THEY'RE GOOD 28:16 LOOKING.' AND AFTER BEING SEPARATED FOR GENERATIONS - 28:20 MAYBE HUNDREDS OF YEARS - PROBABLY WAS HUNDREDS OF YEARS - 28:24 THEY REMAINED PURE - THE CHILDREN OF SETH 28:26 REMAINED PURE IN THEIR WORSHIP OF GOD. 28:28 BUT WHEN THEY BEGAN TO INTERMARRY AFTER BEING SEPARATED 28:31 FROM GOD FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, CAIN AND HIS DAUGHTERS THEY HAD 28:34 BECOME VERY SELF-CENTERED AND VILE AND STARTED WORSHIPING 28:37 NATURE AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS. IT BEGAN TO CORRUPT THE WORSHIP 28:41 OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND EVERYBODY WAS CORRUPTED. 28:45 THAT'S WHY IT GOES ON TO SAY, IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT SAYS THEY 28:48 BEGAN TO INTERMARRY - GO TO VERSE 5 - GENESIS 6, VERSE 5, 28:53 "THEN THE LORD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN 28:56 THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY INTENT OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS 28:59 ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY." AND THIS HAPPENED WHEN? 29:02 AFTER THE SONS OF GOD INTERMARRIED WITH THE DAUGHTERS 29:05 OF CAIN - DAUGHTERS OF MEN. THAT'S ALL IT'S SAYING. 29:08 IT'S NOT ALIENS. DOES JESUS TELL US THAT THE 29:11 ANGELS MARRY OR DOES HE SAY THAT THEY DON'T MARRY AND PROCREATE? 29:16 ANGELS DO NOT - THEY'RE NOT BORN. THE BIBLE SAYS, 29:20 ABOUT THE DEVIL, IN THE DAY THAT YOU WERE CREATED. 29:23 ANGELS ARE CREATED BY FIAT FROM GOD. 29:26 THEY DO NOT MULTIPLY LIKE HUMANS AND THAT'S ONE REASON THE DEVIL 29:29 DOESN'T LIKE PEOPLE - BECAUSE HE CAN'T PROCREATE LIKE WE DO. 29:33 SO JESUS IS PRETTY CLEAR ABOUT THIS. 29:34 THIS DOCTRINE - THIS TEACHING - I HEAR IT ALL THE TIME THAT 29:38 SOMEHOW - IT'S REALLY BIZARRE - ALIENS - CAN YOU IMAGINE FALLEN 29:43 ANGELS SETTING UP HOUSE WITH PEOPLE? 29:45 I MEAN, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE IN THE FAMILY? 29:47 THAT JUST - THAT'S REALLY A STRANGE TEACHING. OR ALIENS? 29:50 I MEAN, I'VE EVEN READ THEY SAID, 'YEAH, THEY'RE FROM OTHER 29:52 WORLDS.' STRANGE. IT'S THE SONS OF GOD. 29:56 MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN READ - WELL, LET ME FINISH MY VERSE 30:01 HERE. "THEN THE LORD SAW" - THIS IS, 30:04 AGAIN, GENESIS 6, VERSE 5 - THEN THE LORD SAW THAT THE 30:06 WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY INTENT 30:08 OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY. 30:11 AND THE LORD WAS SORRY THAT HE HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH, 30:15 AND HE WAS GRIEVED IN HIS HEART. 30:17 SO THE LORD SAID, 'I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED 30:19 FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH, BOTH MAN AND BEAST, CREEPING THING 30:23 AND BIRDS OF THE AIR, FOR I AM SORRY THAT I HAVE MADE THEM.' 30:26 BUT" - HERE'S THE REMNANT THAT WILL BECOME THE REPOSITORY OF 30:28 THE LAW AND THE TRUTH - "BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE" - SO GOD'S 30:34 GOING TO PINCH A PIECE OF YEAST OFF THE BREAD - THOSE THAT STILL 30:37 HAD THE TRUTH - AND HE'S GOING TO TAKE THEM AND HE SAID, 'I'M 30:40 GOING TO MAKE YOU THE REPOSITORY AND IN THAT ARK, ALL OF GOD'S 30:43 TRUTH - THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION - ABOUT THE TRUE GOD WAS THERE. 30:45 WHAT'S THE FIRST THING NOAH DID WHEN HE GOT OUT OF THE ARK? 30:48 WORSHIPED GOD. OFFERED SACRIFICE, RIGHT? 30:52 GOD RATIFIED A COVENANT WITH HIM - RAINBOW IN THE HEAVENS AND SO 30:55 HE SAID, 'I'VE GIVEN YOU THE TRUTH. 30:57 YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE LEFT THAT STILL REALLY BELIEVED THE TRUTH 31:00 - YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.' OH, ONE MORE THING, JUST SO I TIE OFF 31:04 THIS ALIEN/FALLEN ANGEL/SONS OF GOD THING, SO WHY WERE THE 31:12 DAUGHTERS OF MEN INTERMARRYING WITH THE SONS OF GOD? 31:15 WHY DOES IT SAY THAT THEIR CHILDREN WERE GIANTS AND MIGHTY 31:19 MEN IN THE EARTH? WHAT IS - ISN'T THAT SOME KIND 31:21 OF...? YOU KNOW, IT'S A VERY SIMPLE LAW OF GENETICS. 31:24 IT'S CALLED GENETIC VITALITY. YOU SEE IT IN THE WORLD TODAY. 31:28 IF YOU - HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW IF YOU GARDEN IF YOU USE THE SEEDS 31:33 OF THE SQUASH THIS YEAR, NEXT YEAR AND THEY'VE BEEN CORRUPTED 31:36 BY A CROSS-POLLINATION FROM THE OTHER ZUCCHINI AND THINGS IN 31:39 YOUR GARDEN, THAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE AS STRONG A SQUASH NEXT 31:42 YEAR? IT GETS WEAKER IF YOU JUST KEEP 31:44 USING THE SAME THING. THAT'S WHY BURPEE'S SEEDS - YOU 31:49 ALL KNOW WHAT BURPEE'S SEEDS ARE? 31:50 THEY SPECIFICALLY PRODUCE GENETICALLY STRONG SEEDS SO THAT 31:55 YOU GET THOSE STRONG SEEDS EVERY TIME. 31:57 WHEN PEOPLE ARE SEPARATED FOR GENERATIONS AND THEY JUST 32:01 INTERMARRY - SUPPOSE THEY'RE ON ISLANDS AND YOU'VE GOT THESE 32:04 LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE ON THE ISLANDS AND THEY INTERMARRY. 32:07 THEY WILL HAVE MORE PHYSICAL DEFECTS THAN IF THEY GET FRESH 32:11 BLOOD AND THEY INTERMARRY WITH OTHERS. DO YOU KNOW, IF YOU 32:14 CROSS A LION AND A TIGER - YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET? A LIGER. 32:19 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF THIS? AND YOU KNOW, THEY'RE 32:21 HUGE. THEY'RE BIG. IT'S NOT UNCOMMON. YOU CAN CROSS A 32:24 ZEBRA AND A DONKEY AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET? 32:28 A ZONKEY - ABSOLUTELY - THEY HAVE THEM. 32:31 AND THEY'RE BIGGER. IT'S CALLED GENETIC VITALITY. 32:34 AND SO THAT'S ALL THAT HAPPENED THERE WHEN THE SONS OF GOD - THE 32:37 CHILDREN OF SETH INTERMARRIED WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN. 32:40 THEY'D BEEN SEPARATED BY HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF CENTURIES. 32:43 THEIR OFFSPRING HAD MORE GENETIC VITALITY. 32:47 SO IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY WERE ALIENS. OKAY, ANYWAY, 32:49 BACK ON WITH OUR LESSON. YOU GOT ALL OF THAT FOR FREE. 32:53 THAT WAS NOT EXPECTED. SO WHAT HAPPENED? 32:55 WHEN THEY INTERMARRIED, THAT SEPARATION WAS LOST AND SO AS 33:01 CHRISTIANS WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE ARE THE PLACES WE NEED TO 33:05 INTERACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE SO WE CAN WITNESS. 33:08 DOES GOD WANT US TO ALL GO TO A MONASTERY AND HIDE OURSELVES? 33:11 HOW CAN YOU REACH THE WORLD LIKE THAT? 33:13 BUT DOES HE WANT US TO DO OUR WITNESSING IN THE BAR? 33:18 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO, OBVIOUSLY, YOU'VE GOT TO 33:20 KNOW WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE SO YOU MAINTAIN THE RIGHT AMOUNT 33:24 OF A SEPARATION. I HEARD ONE PASTOR SAY, 'A 33:29 CHRISTIAN IS SOMETHING LIKE A BOAT IN THE WATER. 33:31 A BOAT BELONGS IN THE WATER BUT YOU DON'T WANT THE WATER IN THE 33:35 BOAT.' WE NEED TO BE IN THE WORLD WITHOUT THE WORLD BEING IN 33:38 US. AND THERE'S A BALANCE THERE. 33:41 IF THE WATER GETS IN THE BOAT THEN YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM. 33:43 2 CORINTHIANS 6, VERSE 17, "WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG 33:48 THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH THE LORD," - AND, BY THE WAY, 33:51 PAUL HERE IS QUOTING ISAIAH, I BELIEVE - "COME OUT FROM AMONG 33:55 THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH THE LORD, AND TOUCH NOT THE 33:57 UNCLEAN THING; AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU. 33:59 AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU, AND YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND 34:02 DAUGHTERS, SAITH THE LORD ALMIGHTY." 34:05 WHAT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT GOD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF 34:08 ISRAEL AFTER HE CALLED THEM OUT OF EGYPT? 34:10 HE SAID, 'I'M BRINGING YOU INTO THE PROMISED LAND AND YOU'RE 34:12 GOING TO BE SURROUNDED BY OTHER NATIONS. 34:13 DO NOT ENTER INTO MARRIAGES WITH THEM OR THEY WILL DRAW YOUR 34:19 HEARTS AWAY.' HE DIDN'T SAY DON'T DO ANY BUSINESS WITH THEM. 34:22 THEY WERE ALLOWED TO DO BUSINESS. 34:24 MATTER OF FACT, HE TALKED ABOUT LOVING THE STRANGER AND THE 34:26 OTHER PEOPLE AND THE ALIEN. SO HE HAD ALL KINDS OF LAWS TO 34:29 EVEN PROTECT THE ALIENS AMONG THEM BUT HE SAID, 'DO NOT LET 34:32 THEM MARRY YOU.' WHEN THE SAMARITANS SAID, 'WE WANT TO 34:37 HELP YOU BUILD YOUR TEMPLE.' WHEN NEHEMIAH CAME BACK. 34:39 THEY SAID, 'SORRY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH BUT YOU WILL HAVE NO 34:43 PART OF THIS BECAUSE YOU WORSHIP A DIFFERENT GOD AND YOU'RE GOING 34:45 TO BRING YOUR IDEA OF WORSHIPING OUR GOD IN. 34:48 AND BOY, THE SAMARITANS GOT SO MAD THERE BECAME A WAR BETWEEN 34:51 THE JEWS AND THE SAMARITANS THAT LASTED FROM NEHEMIAH AND EZRA 34:54 ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE TIME OF CHRIST. 34:56 AND IT STARTED BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO MAINTAIN THAT 34:59 SEPARATION. NEHEMIAH AND EZRA UNDERSTOOD, 'WE HAVE BEEN 35:03 CALLED OUT FROM BABYLON. WE ARE A SEPARATE PEOPLE. 35:06 WE ARE REPOSITORIES OF THE TRUTH. 35:08 WE'RE BEING GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE. 35:09 WE NEED TO MAINTAIN SEPARATION IN THE RIGHT PLACES. 35:15 IF I WAS INVITED TO PREACH IN ANY NUMBER OF OTHER CHURCHES 35:22 HERE IN TOWN, I WOULD BE VERY THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY AND 35:26 I WOULD TAKE IT. WOULD THAT BE OKAY? SURE, I'VE DONE IT. 35:32 BUT IF THOSE SAME PASTORS SAID, 'CAN WE NOW PREACH IN YOUR 35:35 CHURCH?' I'D SAY, 'I'M VERY SORRY. 35:37 THAT GOES AGAINST OUR POLICY.' THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. 35:43 IF I REALLY BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE THE TRUTH AND I'M WILLING TO GO 35:46 SHARE THE TRUTH WITH ANYBODY THAT WILL LISTEN. 35:48 BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'M GOING TO RECIPROCATE AND OPEN UP THE 35:51 PULPIT TO PEOPLE THAT I KNOW DO NOT HAVE THE TRUTH BECAUSE THAT 35:55 THEN OPENS UP THE FLOCK. YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT 35:57 THE SHEEP EAT, AS A PASTOR, RIGHT? THAT OPENS UP THE 36:00 FLOCK TO BAD SEED AND THAT - THOSE KIND OF COMPROMISES. 36:05 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH SOLOMON. HIS WIVES SAID, 36:07 'WELL, IF YOU REALLY LOVE US YOU SHOULD LET US WORSHIP OUR GODS. 36:10 I MEAN, THAT'S NOT FAIR. WE NEED MORE JUSTICE.' 36:14 SOLOMON GOT OLD AND HE LISTENED TO ALL THAT RATIONALIZATION AND 36:17 HE SAID, 'OKAY, WELL YOU CAN BRING SOME OF YOUR IDOLS INTO 36:19 THE TEMPLE.' AND GOD SAID IT WAS A SIN. 36:22 THE WHOLE KINGDOM FELL BECAUSE OF THAT. 36:24 WE NEED TO KNOW - WE NEED TO BE EDUCATED ABOUT WHERE DO YOU DRAW 36:28 THE LINES OF SEPARATION IN THESE AREAS? ALRIGHT, LET'S GO ON 36:33 HERE TO - 'FROM ABRAHAM TO MOSES.' 36:37 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME EXODUS 19, VERSES 5 AND 6. 36:41 YOU GOT THAT MIKE? OKAY, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MINUTE. 36:44 I'M GOING TO READ GENESIS 12:1-3, "NOW THE LORD HAD SAID 36:49 TO ABRAM: 'GET OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY, FROM YOUR FAMILY AND 36:53 FROM YOUR FATHER'S HOUSE, TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU. 36:56 I WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT NATION; I WILL BLESS YOU AND MAKE YOUR 37:00 NAME GREAT; AND YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING. I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO 37:04 BLESS YOU, AND I WILL CURSE HIM WHO CURSES YOU; AND IN YOU ALL 37:08 THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.'" WHY WAS IT THAT 37:12 GOD WAS GOING TO BLESS ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH IN 37:14 ABRAHAM? IN WHAT WAY WERE ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH 37:17 BLESSED THROUGH ABRAHAM COMING OUT AND BEING SEPARATE? 37:22 HE CAME OUT FROM THE AREA OF BABEL. 37:24 OTHER WORSHIP HAD COME IN TO MESOPOTAMIA. 37:26 GOD CALLED HIM OUT AND EVEN JOSHUA, AT THE END OF HIS LIFE, 37:30 HE SAID, 'THE LORD BROUGHT YOUR FATHERS FROM ACROSS THE RIVER 37:33 WHERE THEY WERE WORSHIPING OTHER GODS. 37:36 AND ABRAHAM WAS CALLED OUT WHY? BECAUSE HE WAS STILL WORSHIPING 37:39 THE TRUE GOD. EVERYWHERE HE WENT ABRAHAM BUILT 37:42 AN ALTAR TO THE TRUE GOD. IT SAYS ABRAHAM KEPT 37:45 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND GOD'S LAWS. 37:48 WHERE IS THAT? GENESIS 25? IT SAYS, 'HE KEPT MY LAWS AND MY 37:51 COMMANDMENTS.' SO THE LAW OF GOD WAS WITH ABRAHAM EVEN BEFORE THE 37:56 TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE GIVEN. DO WE BELIEVE IN THAT? 37:59 SO NOT ONLY WAS THE SEED OF CHRIST IN THE GENES OF ABRAHAM 38:05 THAT WOULD BE PASSED ON THROUGH ISAAC AND JACOB AND SO FORTH, 38:09 BUT THE TRUTH WAS GIVEN TO ABRAHAM AND HE WAS PASSING THAT 38:12 ON WITH EVERY GENERATION TOO, RIGHT? 38:15 MATTER OF FACT, WHAT WAS MORE IMPORTANT? 38:18 WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT ABRAHAM PASSED ON 38:22 FROM ONE REVIVAL MOVEMENT AND FROM ONE REMNANT TO ANOTHER? 38:26 WAS IT THE DNA OF JESUS OR WAS IT THE WORD OF GOD. 38:33 I'LL SAY THAT IT WAS EVEN THE WORD OF GOD BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET 38:37 TO THE NEW TESTAMENT - I'M JUMPING AHEAD NOW BUT I MAY NOT 38:41 THINK OF IT LATER AND I'M THINKING OF IT NOW. 38:43 WHEN YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, PAUL MAKES A VERY 38:47 IMPORTANT POINT AND HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, 38:49 SOMETHING INTERESTING HAS HAPPENED NOW. 38:50 THE PROMISE OF ABRAHAM HAS COME' - WHICH WAS JESUS - AND NOW TIME 38:54 GOES ON AND GOD STILL HAS A PEOPLE BUT IT'S NOT THE DNA - 38:59 IT'S NOT THE JEWISH GENETICS THAT MAKES YOU A JEW NOW. 39:03 IT'S DO YOU HAVE THE TRUTH ABOUT CHRIST? DO YOU HAVE 39:05 THE LAW OF GOD IN YOUR HEART? DO YOU HAVE THAT NEW COVENANT? 39:08 BECAUSE IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED AND YOU 39:11 MIGHT BE A JEW. YOU MIGHT NOT BE. 39:14 SO JEWS CAN STILL BE A PART OF THAT. BUT WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU 39:17 A GENUINE JEW IS THAT YOU HAVE THE GENUINE SEED OF ABRAHAM, 39:20 WHICH IS CHRIST IN HIS WORD AND HIS LAW, RIGHT? 39:25 AND SO THIS LAW WAS PASSED ON FROM ONE EPIC OF THE CHURCH TO 39:31 ANOTHER - FROM ONE PHASE OF THE CHURCH TO ANOTHER AND THAT'S 39:35 WHAT WAS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT IT. ALRIGHT, BACK TO - YOU'RE GOING 39:38 TO READ NOW FOR US EXODUS 19, VERSES 5 AND 6. 39:44 >>EXODUS 19, VERSES 5 AND 6, "NOW, THEREFORE, IF YOU WILL 39:47 INDEED OBEY MY VOICE AND KEEP MY COVENANT, THEN YOU SHALL BE A 39:51 SPECIAL TREASURE TO ME ABOVE ALL PEOPLE; FOR ALL THE EARTH IS 39:55 MINE. AND YOU SHALL BE TO ME A 39:58 KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND A HOLY NATION.'" 40:01 >>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. SO AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM 40:04 WERE ALL OF THEM A REMNANT? HOW MANY CHILDREN DID ABRAHAM HAVE? 40:12 I LOST COUNT. HE HAD ISHAMAEL BY HAGAR. 40:17 HE HAD ONLY ISAAC BY SARAH, THEN HE MARRIED KETURAH - I FORGET - 40:21 DOES ANYONE REMEMBER? I THINK HE HAD AT LEAST FIVE - 40:23 SIX BOYS WITH KETURAH. SO THAT'S A TOTAL OF WHAT, 40:27 EIGHT? HE HAD EIGHT CHILDREN. 40:29 BUT THE PROMISED SEED DIDN'T COME THROUGH ALL THOSE OTHER 40:32 SEVEN, IT CAME THROUGH ISAAC AND THEN ISAAC HAD A COUPLE OF BOYS 40:38 - TWINS - WHAT WERE THEIR NAMES? JACOB AND ESAU. 40:42 SO DID THE PROMISED SEED COME THROUGH BOTH OR DID GOD SAY, 40:46 'JACOB I HAVE LOVED AND ESAU I HAVE HATED.' BECAUSE OF ESAU - 40:50 HE WANTED THE BIRTHRIGHT - HE WANTED 40:53 THE BEANS INSTEAD OF THE BIRTHRIGHT. 40:54 HE WANTED A PHYSICAL EARTHLY SATISFACTION RIGHT NOW. 40:57 HE WAS CARNAL. JACOB WAS MORE SPIRITUAL. 40:59 AND SO THE PROMISED SEED WENT DOWN THROUGH JACOB AND THE TRUE 41:05 WORSHIP. YOU NOTICE - NOTICE HOW BEING 41:07 UNEQUALLY YOKED WAS SO IMPORTANT TO GOD? 41:10 DID ISAAC - I'M SORRY - DID ESAU ONLY MARRY GIRLS THAT BELIEVED 41:15 THE TRUE GOD OR DID HE MARRY LOCAL PAGAN GIRLS? 41:19 HE MARRIED LOCAL PAGAN GIRLS. 41:20 ISAAC AND REBEKAH SAID TO JACOB, 'DON'T DO THAT AND BREAK OUR 41:24 HEARTS, EVEN IF IT MEANS YOU'VE GOT TO GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO 41:26 MESOPOTAMIA AND FIND A GIRL WHO WORSHIPS THE TRUE GOD FROM OUR 41:30 FAMILY, DO THAT.' AND HE DID. HE WENT ALL THE WAY BACK AND HE 41:33 GOT RACHEL AND LEAH AND BILHAH AND ZILPAH. 41:37 AND WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR ISAAC TO MARRY, WHAT DID ABRAHAM SAY? 41:40 'DON'T MARRY THE LOCAL PAGAN GIRLS. 41:42 GO ALL THE WAY BACK AND GET A GIRL WHO WORSHIPS THE TRUE GOD.' 41:46 SO HAVING THE LINE OF TRUTH GOING THROUGH HIS PEOPLE - 41:51 HAVING PARENTS THAT BELIEVED THE TRUTH WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO GOD. 41:55 THAT SHOULD TELL US HOW IMPORTANT FAMILY WORSHIP IS TO 41:57 THE LORD AND THAT WE'RE UNITED IN OUR BELIEFS IN OUR FAMILIES. 42:00 I KNOW IT'S TOUGH WHEN WE'RE NOT AND YOU MIGHT NEED TO CARRY THAT 42:03 BURDEN ALONE IN YOUR FAMILY, BUT BE FAITHFUL AND ASK GOD TO HELP 42:07 YOU COMPENSATE. ALRIGHT, SO YOU CAN 42:10 - CAN YOU SEE THE TRANSITION OF THE TRUTH 42:12 GOING NOW ON FROM ABRAHAM THROUGH ISAAC, THROUGH JACOB, ON 42:18 THROUGH WHICH TRIBE OF - WHICH OF JACOB'S SONS? 42:22 LATER THROUGH JUDAH BUT THEN ISRAEL COMES OUT AND GOD CALLED 42:26 ISRAEL OUT AND THEY BECAME A CHURCH. 42:29 THE JEWS REALLY BECAME A CHURCH, AS YOU WOULD THINK - A NATION - 42:33 WHEN THEY CAME OUT DURING THE EXODUS AND THEY HAD THE PASSOVER 42:39 SERVICE. THAT'S WHEN YOU REALLY SENSE 42:42 THAT THEY'RE BECOMING A UNIQUE PEOPLE. 42:44 YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 10, VERSES 20 TO 22, "AND IT SHALL 42:48 COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY THAT THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL, AND SUCH 42:55 AS HAVE ESCAPED OF THE HOUSE OF JACOB, WILL NEVER AGAIN DEPEND 42:58 ON HIM WHO DEFEATED THEM, BUT WILL DEPEND ON THE LORD, THE 43:02 HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, IN TRUTH. THE REMNANT WILL RETURN, THE 43:07 REMNANT OF JACOB, TO THE MIGHTY GOD. 43:09 FOR THOUGH YOUR PEOPLE, O ISRAEL, BE AS THE SAND OF THE 43:13 SEA, A REMNANT OF THEM WILL RETURN; THE DESTRUCTION DECREED 43:16 SHALL OVERFLOW WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS." 43:19 HOW MANY TIMES - THE JEWS ARE AN AMAZING PEOPLE - HOW MANY TIMES 43:24 WERE THE JEWS CALLED BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND? 43:31 LET'S COUNT. THEY WERE CARRIED AWAY WHEN 43:34 JACOB WENT DOWN TO EGYPT SO THEY HAD TO LEAVE AT THAT POINT. 43:38 SO THEY CAME BACK DURING THE EXODUS. AND THEN THEY WERE 43:41 CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON AND THEN THEY CAME BACK AGAIN. 43:45 AND THEN, I THINK YOU CAN MAKE A CASE THAT THEY WERE SCATTERED BY 43:48 THE ROMANS AND THEY CAME BACK AGAIN. 43:50 AND I HEARD ONE EVANGELIST SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, IF NO OTHER 43:54 REASON - ONE OF THE BEST REASONS FOR THE WORLD TO BELIEVE THE 43:57 BIBLE IS A SUPERNATURAL BOOK IS JUST THE JEWS. 44:00 HOW IN THE WORLD HAVE THE JEWS BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN - AFTER 44:03 BEING SCATTERED AROUND THE WORLD - A UNIQUE IDENTITY 3,000 YEARS. 44:10 DO YOU REALIZE HOW REMARKABLE THAT IS? 44:13 AND THEN GET THEIR LAND BACK AGAIN. 44:16 BUT THE REMNANT THAT ISAIAH IS TALKING ABOUT IS NOT JUST 44:19 LITERAL ISRAEL, IT'S TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, 44:22 MORE SPECIFICALLY. 44:25 ALRIGHT, SO THEN YOU GO FROM MOSES TO JESUS. 44:28 NOW WE SEE THE REMNANT ALL THROUGH THE TIME - IT NOT ONLY 44:31 CAME FROM JUDAH - THE PROMISED SEED, YOU KNOW, FROM THE TWELVE 44:35 TRIBES OF JACOB - IT WASN'T ESAU, IT WAS JACOB AND IT WASN'T 44:38 THE TWELVE SONS, IT WAS JUDAH AND IT WASN'T ALL THE SONS OF 44:41 JUDAH, IT WAS WHAT HOUSE OF JUDAH? THE HOUSE OF DAVID, 44:48 RIGHT? AMONG THE DIFFERENT SONS OF JUDAH AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF 44:52 JUDAH - IT WASN'T ALL OF THEM - IT THEN ENDED UP GOING 44:54 SPECIFICALLY THROUGH THE LINE OF DAVID. ALRIGHT, SO GO WITH ME 45:00 TO - SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME REVELATION 12:17. 45:02 WE READ THIS, BUT WE'LL GET TO IT AGAIN. AND I'M GOING TO 45:05 READ DEUTERONOMY 7, VERSES 6 THROUGH 8. 45:10 SO WHEN THE LORD BRINGS MOSES AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT 45:12 OF EGYPT, GOD SAYS, "FOR YOU ARE A HOLY PEOPLE TO THE LORD YOUR 45:17 GOD;" - THEY BECAME HIS CHURCH - "THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN 45:21 YOU TO BE A PEOPLE FOR HIMSELF, A SPECIAL TREASURE ABOVE ALL THE 45:24 PEOPLES ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH." NOW, HAVE YOU EVER READ 45:29 THAT STATEMENT IN 'ACTS OF THE APOSTLES'? 45:31 AND I APOLOGIZE, I DON'T REMEMBER THE PAGE, BUT I CAN 45:34 JUST ABOUT QUOTE IT AND IT SAYS THAT 'ENFEEBLED AND DEFECTIVE 45:39 THOUGH THEY MIGHT BE, GOD'S CHURCH IS THE SUPREME - IS THE 45:43 OBJECT UPON EARTH ON WHICH HE BESTOWS HIS SUPREME REGARD.' 45:48 IT'S THE APPLE OF HIS EYE. IT'S THE THEATER OF HIS GRACE. 45:51 GOD'S CHURCH IS THE GROUP THAT HE ESPECIALLY LOVES AND THIS IS 45:56 WHAT GOD IS SAYING HERE. HE SAYS, 'I AM CALLING - WHAT 45:59 NATION IS THERE LIKE YOU THAT HAS SUCH RIGHTEOUS AND GOOD LAWS 46:02 THAT YOU HAVE?' AND SO THERE WAS THIS TRUTH THAT 46:06 GOD COMMITTED TO HIS PEOPLE. NOW, CAN I PAUSE RIGHT THERE AND 46:09 JUST INSERT - DOES GOD HAVE A REMNANT TODAY? 46:16 YOU KNOW ONE REASON I BECAME A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST IS I 46:18 BOUNCED FROM ONE DENOMINATION TO ANOTHER. 46:20 AFTER ACCEPTING JESUS AND READING THE BIBLE I KNEW 46:22 CHRISTIANITY AND THE BIBLE WERE TRUE AND I WENT ON JUST A KIND 46:26 OF A FRANTIC STUDY WITH CHRISTIANS FROM ALL DIFFERENT 46:30 KINDS OF CHURCHES. I WAS CHURCH HOPPING - EVEN 46:33 AFTER I FOUND THE ADVENTISTS I DIDN'T JOIN RIGHT AWAY. 46:36 I CONTINUED CHURCH HOPPING AND I KEPT - BECAUSE, QUITE FRANKLY, 46:40 SOME OF THE CHURCHES I LIKED THEIR WORSHIP SERVICES MORE. 46:43 IT WAS A LOT MORE ENTERTAINING. SOME OF THEM SEEMED MORE LOVING. 46:47 SOME OF THEM HAD BETTER MUSIC. 46:48 BUT I KEPT COMING BACK TO THE ADVENTISTS BECAUSE I THOUGHT 46:50 'WOW, THERE IS NO CHURCH OUT THERE THAT HAS A COMPREHENSION 46:55 OF THE LAW AND THE TRUTH LIKE THE ADVENTISTS. 46:58 I, FRANKLY, DIDN'T WANT TO BE A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST BECAUSE, 47:02 LIKE I SAID, I'D GO TO SOME OF MY CHARISMATIC CHURCH FRIENDS - 47:05 BOY, THEIR CHURCHES WERE A LOT MORE KINESTHETIC. 47:08 AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I'D WORSHIP WITH SOME OF MY PRESBYTERIAN 47:12 FRIENDS AND THEY JUST LOVED US AND THEY WERE JUST SO SWEET. 47:15 AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE ADVENTIST CHURCHES I MET WERE 47:18 THAT WAY, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM. AND I THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, I'M 47:21 GOING TO BECOME PECULIAR IF I BECOME AN ADVENTIST, BUT BOY, 47:23 WHEN I READ THE BIBLE I DON'T KNOW WHERE ELSE TO GO. 47:25 IT'S THE BIBLE.' AND I SAID - FINALLY I HAD TO DEAL WITH IT 47:29 AND I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THE REMNANT THAT GOD HAS CALLED 47:32 IN THESE LAST DAYS.' AND I BELIEVE THE SEVENTH-DAY 47:36 ADVENTIST CHURCH IS AS IMPORTANT TO GOD IN THE WORLD TODAY 47:41 AS ISRAEL WAS IN THE DAYS OF MOSES. 47:45 THE WAY THAT HE SUPERNATURALLY RAISED UP A PROPHET, MOSES, AND 47:50 COMMUNICATED TRUTH THROUGH HIM, I BELIEVE HE DID WITH THE 47:53 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THE EVIDENCE OF THE WAY IT'S 47:55 GROWN AND SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD AND THEY'RE - WHAT PEOPLE 47:59 ARE THAT HAVE SUCH RIGHTEOUS LAWS - THAT HAVE SUCH A COHESIVE 48:02 UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE AS THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 48:06 CHURCH? AND SO I SAID, 'THIS IS THE TRUTH.' 48:09 NOW, HAVING SAID THAT, FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT. WHAT HAS THE 48:16 PATTERN BEEN AS WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH HISTORY? 48:20 IT SEEMS LIKE AS THESE MOVEMENTS OF REVIVAL - GOD CALLS OUT 48:23 ABRAHAM AND THEN HIS PEOPLE BEGIN TO APOSTATIZE AND THEN HE 48:26 CALLS OUT ISAAC AND THEN THEY'RE - AND THEN HE CALLS OUT JACOB 48:29 AND - BECAUSE ESAU APOSTATIZES AND YOU SEE THAT AS THERE'S A 48:32 LAPSE HE CALLS OUT A REMNANT AND AS THEY BECOME INSTITUTIONALIZED 48:36 HE CALLS OUT A REMNANT. SOMETIMES THEY HAVE TO LIVE IN 48:38 THE WILDERNESS OR IN AN ARK OR IN A CAVE, RIGHT? WHEN I SAID 48:43 'ARK' I MEANT NOAH'S ARK, NOT THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. 48:48 IS THERE A POSSIBILITY THAT OUR CHURCH MAY ALSO GO THROUGH THAT 48:54 EVOLUTION WHERE WE BECOME AN INSTITUTION AND WE START TO 48:56 COMPROMISE WITH THE WORLD AND THERE'LL BE A SHAKING AND GOD IS 49:01 GOING TO CALL A REMNANT WHO ARE FAITHFUL TO THIS MESSAGE? 49:06 THE QUESTION IS: WHO GETS CALLED OUT? 49:10 IN THE TIME OF CAIN, CAIN SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM THE TRUTH 49:18 - ISN'T THAT WHAT WE SAID? CAIN WENT OUT. 49:20 WHEN LOT AND ABRAM GOT WHERE THEY COULDN'T STAY TOGETHER 49:24 ANYMORE, LOT FIXED HIS EYES TOWARD SODOM AND LOT LEFT. 49:28 I THINK OUR CHURCH IS FACING SOME KIND OF IMPENDING 49:31 SEPARATION. I MEAN, WE ALL KNOW THAT AS TIME 49:33 GOES BY, PRETTY SOON YOU GET MORE AND MORE NEW THEOLOGY THAT 49:36 IT JUST GETS TO BE THIS TOTAL INCOMPATIBILITY OF TEACHING AND 49:41 YOU WONDER, 'WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE CHURCH?' 49:44 AND I BELIEVE THE CHURCH IS GOING TO GO THROUGH. 49:46 I MEAN, WE'VE SEEN IT ALL THROUGH HISTORY. 49:48 YOU SEE IT ALL THE WAY FROM ADAM ALL THE WAY UP TO OUR PRESENT 49:52 DAY. DO YOU THINK GOD IS GOING TO 49:53 HAVE A PEOPLE THAT HE COMES FOR THAT ARE FAITHFUL TO THE TRUTH, 49:56 THAT CLING TO HIS WORD AND HIS LAW? YES HE WILL. 50:01 BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE WON'T BE ANOTHER CONVULSION BEFORE 50:04 JESUS COMES BACK AGAIN. DO WE ALL KNOW THAT? 50:07 I JUST WANT TO BE FAITHFUL TO CLING TO THE TRUTH AND WORSHIP 50:09 GOD THE WAY HE SAYS WE SHOULD WORSHIP HIM AS THAT TIME 50:12 APPROACHES. ALRIGHT, I'VE GOT A MINUTE LEFT. 50:16 SO, BY THE WAY, ACTS 7:38, IT SAYS, "THIS IS HE THAT WAS 50:22 WITH THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS." 50:24 SO DID GOD HAVE A CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS? 50:26 WE ALWAYS THINK CHURCH IS A NEW TESTAMENT WORD. BUT IN THE 50:29 NEW TESTAMENT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT MOSES AS BEING A CHURCH. 50:32 IT WAS THE CALLED OUT GROUP. THEY HAD BEEN CALLED OUT. 50:35 BY THE WAY, IF YOU LOOK IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, PAUL 50:38 SAYS THERE - 1 CORINTHIANS 10 - YOU READ VERSES 1 THROUGH 11 - 50:42 EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO ANCIENT ISRAEL IS A SIGN FOR 50:45 THOSE OF US - THEY'RE EXAMPLES - WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH THEN 50:49 DURING THE EXODUS AND ALL THEIR EXPERIENCES IN THE WILDERNESS 50:52 AND COMING INTO THE PROMISED LAND, IS A TYPE FOR WHAT WE WILL 50:55 EXPERIENCE AS WE COME OUT OF EGYPT AND WE GET READY TO ENTER 50:59 THE PROMISED LAND IN THE LAST DAYS. THEY WERE A CHURCH THEN. 51:01 WE ARE A CHURCH NOW AND NOW WE'VE GOT JESUS AND THE REMNANT. 51:06 DID THE LORD HAVE TO CALL A FAITHFUL GROUP 51:11 OUT OF THE DARK AGES? YEAH. 51:14 YOU'VE GOT THE WALDENSES AND THE ALBIGENSES, AND THE HUSSITES AND 51:18 THESE PEOPLE THAT, WHEN THE CHURCH KIND OF BECAME 51:20 INSTITUTIONALIZED - THEY FORSOOK THE TRUTH - THEY COMBINED WHAT 51:24 THE WORLD WAS DOING AND PAGANISM WITH WHAT THE CHURCH WAS DOING. 51:27 BUT THERE WERE THOSE WHO SAID, 'WE NEED TO STICK WITH THE WORD 51:29 AND BE FAITHFUL.' AND THERE WAS THIS SEPARATION. 51:33 IT TURNED INTO THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION AND OUT OF THAT 51:36 PROTESTANT REFORMATION A NUMBER OF WONDERFUL MOVEMENTS CAME AND 51:40 I BELIEVE THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IS THE 51:42 CONTINUATION OF THAT REFORMATION GETTING BACK TO THE WORD, AMEN? 51:47 SO TIME IS UP. I'LL HAVE MY NOTES. 51:51 I'LL POST MY NOTES ON THE INTERNET BECAUSE I HAD A FEW 51:54 MORE ON THE REMNANT AND I'VE GOT MY AMAZING FACTS IN HERE I'LL BE 51:57 HAPPY TO SHARE WITH ANY TEACHERS OR STUDENTS OUT THERE THAT ARE 51:59 INTERESTED. AND DON'T FORGET, WE HAVE OUR 52:02 FREE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THAT CONUNDRUM ABOUT WHO ARE THE SONS 52:06 OF GOD. LOTS - A LOT MORE EVIDENCE IN THE BOOK - 52:08 'WHO ARE THE SONS OF GOD?' JUST ASK FOR IT AND CALL 52:11 866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU. 52:16 THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO STUDY GOD'S WORD 52:19 TOGETHER THIS WEEK AND MEET IN OUR STUDY NEXT WEEK. GOD BLESS. 52:25 >>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION! 52:37 >>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN FROM THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS 52:43 AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CHURCH UP UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE 52:47 SECOND COMING OF JESUS. IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT 52:52 CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND, THEN ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL 52:57 THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION. THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE. 53:03 IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT IS HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A 53:07 PROPHET. THOSE THINGS ARE PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY. 53:21 >>THE SCARLET HARLOT WOMAN IN REVELATION 17, WHO REPRESENTS 53:25 THE CHURCH THAT HAS FALLEN INTO APOSTASY - AND WE THOUGHT, IN 53:30 THE CONTEXT OF THESE TWO POLAR OPPOSITE VISIONS IN REVELATION, 53:35 WE COULD TELL THE STORY OF WHAT THE DEVIL WANTED TO DO TO THE 53:38 CHURCH - THIS COUNTERFEIT CHURCH - AND THIS PERSECUTING POWER - 53:43 AND THE REAL PURITY THAT GOD WANTED FOR HIS PEOPLE - THE PURE 53:46 TRUTH - THE PURE WORD - AND JUST SEE THE BATTLE - THE CONFLICT 53:50 BETWEEN THESE TWO AND THE DRAGON APPEARS IN BOTH STORIES. 53:55 YOU'VE GOT THE SAME DRAGON - THAT SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON IS 53:57 PERSECUTING THIS ONE WOMAN AND YET, THE OTHER WOMAN IS RIDING 54:02 UPON IT. THEY'RE WORKING IN COOPERATION. THEY'RE A TEAM. 54:06 THE CONTEXT OF THESE TWO VISIONS CREATES A VERY CLEAN WAY TO 54:10 ILLUSTRATE THE BATTLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND ERROR. 54:13 TRUE CHURCH - FALSE CHURCH. GOOD CHURCH - BAD CHURCH. 54:16 PURE CHURCH - DEFILED CHURCH. AND THAT'S THE GREAT CONTROVERSY 54:20 GOING ON IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD TODAY. 54:24 >>WE DON'T WANT HER TO GO TO THE POINT WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE, 54:25 'OH MAN, SHE'S KIND OF SCARY.' 54:27 >>NO, THE FACE IS GOING TO BE LIKE FLAWLESS BEAUTY - 54:30 JUST INTENSE EYES. I'VE GOT CRAZY LASHES. 54:35 I'VE GOT LIKE THREE DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR LASHES. 54:37 >>OKAY. >>UMM, LIKE A REALLY VIBRANT 54:39 LIP, YOU KNOW, SO JUST REALLY, REALLY INTENSE IN THE FACE AND 54:44 FLAWLESS, BUT WE COULD ALSO DO DECORATIVE STUFF TOO, LIKE WE 54:48 WERE TALKING ABOUT LIKE ON THE HAND. 54:52 >>AND WE'RE GOING TO ADD A PIECE THAT'S A FALL AND IT'S GOING TO 54:55 HAVE BRAIDS AND IT'S GOING TO ADD MORE HAIR AND MORE WAVE. 54:59 AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO ADD A BUNCH OF JEWELS AND A CROWN 55:02 AND GEMS AND JEWELRY. >>SHE IS GOING TO BE HIGHLY 55:08 DECORATED. >>YEAH, DECORATIONS. 55:11 >>THE WOMAN ON THE DRAGON ALSO HAS WRITING ON HER FOREHEAD - 55:15 'MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE 55:18 ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.' WE HAD NICOLE, OUR MAKE-UP ARTIST, 55:21 WRITE ALL THE ACTUAL SCRIPTURE VERSE THERE, ON HER FOREHEAD, IN 55:26 HEBREW. ALRIGHT, TAKE HER AROUND. 55:30 VERY NICE. DIP THE HEAD A LITTLE BIT. 55:35 >>AS AN EVANGELIST, WE HAVE PREACHED - FOR YEARS I'VE TALKED 55:37 ABOUT REVELATION 17 - THIS INFAMOUS WOMAN - AND I'VE NEVER 55:41 REALLY SEEN AN ARTIST'S CONCEPT THAT RIGHTLY PORTRAYS WHAT I 55:45 THOUGHT IN MY MIND JOHN SAW IN VISION. AND IT JUST - 55:49 SOMETHING ABOUT THE VIVID BRIGHT COLORS - EVERYBODY THAT WALKED 55:55 IN AND SAW THAT BEING SHOT, THEIR MOUTHS FELL OPEN. 55:58 I EXPECT THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A MIXTURE OF RESPONSES AND 56:02 THAT'S ALWAYS THE CASE WHEN YOU SHARE TRUTH WITH PEOPLE. 56:05 BUT THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH AND SO WHEN PEOPLE SEE WHAT HAS 56:09 HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH AND THE GREAT COMPROMISE AND THE 56:15 PERSECUTION THAT GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH EVEN AT THE 56:18 HANDS OF PROFESSED CHRISTIANS, I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO 56:22 SAY, 'WOW! HOW COME I NEVER SAW THIS BEFORE? 56:26 I'M GOING TO TAKE A STAND FOR THE TRUTH. 56:29 I BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT MY LIFE. 56:31 THIS IS GOING TO LIBERATE ME. THIS IS GOING TO MAKE ME A 56:32 BETTER PERSON. THIS IS A BETTER PICTURE OF GOD. 56:35 ANYTHING WE DO TO DISTORT THE TRUTH OR TO COVER THE TRUTH, IT 56:39 HIDES OR VEILS JESUS IN SOME WAY AND SO THIS FILM - WE'RE WANTING 56:43 TO TEAR THE VEIL AWAY AND REALLY SHOW WHO JESUS IS THROUGH A PURE 56:48 VIEW OF THE TRUTH AND EVERYBODY IS AFFECTED BY THAT. 57:07 >>HAVE YOU EVER WISHED YOU COULD DO MORE TO LEAD SOMEONE 57:10 TO JESUS? HAVE YOU EVER FELT THE NEED FOR 57:12 REVIVAL IN YOUR OWN LIFE? WELL, AFCOE IS THE PLACE FOR YOU. 57:17 THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF EVANGELISM HAS INCREDIBLE 57:20 TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BECOME A 57:23 DYNAMIC AND EFFECTIVE SOUL WINNER. 57:26 THIS COMING FALL, AMAZING FACTS WILL BE CONDUCTING AN INDUSTRIAL 57:30 STRENGTH AFCOE EVANGELISM TRAINING PROGRAM IN 57:32 ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO. 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