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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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COMING TO YOU FROM SACRAMENTO,
THE CAPITAL CITY OF CALIFORNIA.
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AND WE ARE JUST GLAD THAT YOU
ARE TUNING IN WHETHER YOU ARE
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WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEB SITE AT
'SACCENTRAL.ORG', LISTENING ON
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THE RADIO OR JOINING US ON
VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS, WE
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ARE JUST SO EXCITED TO HAVE YOU.
WE KNOW THAT YOU LOVE TO SING
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WITH US AND YOU ALSO LOVE
TO OPEN UP GOD'S WORD AND STUDY
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WITH US AS WELL.
TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION.
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I HOPE YOU ARE READY
TO SING BECAUSE WE ARE.
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WE'VE BEEN WARMING UP OUR VOICES
AND WE ARE READY TO PRAISE THE
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LORD WITH OUR FIRST REQUEST,
''TIS SO SWEET TO TRUST IN
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JESUS' - #524 - SO IF
YOU HAVE A HYMNAL AT HOME,
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PULL IT OUT AND JOIN WITH US.
THIS IS A REQUEST FROM KURT IN
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DOMINICA, EMILY ROSE IN GERMANY,
AND PRETHY IN INDIA - AND THERE
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WAS A LONG LIST OF MORE PEOPLE
WANTING TO SING THIS SONG WITH
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US. SO WE'RE GOING TO SING THE
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FIRST, SECOND
AND FOURTH STANZAS.
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JOIN WITH US - 'TIS SO
SWEET TO TRUST IN JESUS'.
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>>WE HAVE A COUPLE MORE
MINUTES SO WE'RE GOING TO JUMP
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DOWN TO #108, WHICH IS
AN ABSOLUTE FAVORITE AND THE
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REQUESTS THAT COME IN - I CAN'T
TELL YOU HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF
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PEOPLE HAVE
REQUESTED #108 OVER THE YEARS.
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SO LET'S SING 'AMAZING GRACE' -
DARCO IN ICELAND - WE DON'T GET
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MANY REQUESTS FROM ICELAND,
THAT'S EXCITING, ERIC IN
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GUATEMALA AND SUSAN IN SAUDI
ARABIA AND ABOUT A HUNDRED OTHER
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PEOPLE. WE ARE
GOING TO DO THIS -
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WE ARE GOING TO
DO THE FIRST, SECOND,
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FOURTH, AND FIFTH STANZAS
BECAUSE THIS IS A QUICK ONE.
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#108 - HERE WE GO
- 'AMAZING GRACE'.
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>>FATHER IN HEAVEN, IT IS
BECAUSE OF YOUR AMAZING GRACE
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THAT WE ARE HERE. AND
WE PRAISE YOU AND WE THANK
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YOU FOR THE ASSURANCE THAT
WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE BECAUSE OF
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YOUR GIFT - COMING TO THIS WORLD
AS A SACRIFICE AND YOUR GRACE.
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I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH US
AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE
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STUDY TOGETHER. BE
WITH OUR EXTENDED FAMILY
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AROUND THE WORLD AND THOSE HERE
AND WE JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH
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FOR EACH ONE AND WE LOOK FORWARD
TO THE DAY WHEN WE CAN HAVE A
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BIG CENTRAL STUDY HOUR REUNION
ON THE STREETS OF GOLD AND SING
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ABOUT YOUR AMAZING
GRACE. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY
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PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY. HE
IS THE SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT
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SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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>>WHAT A BLESSING TO BE TOGETHER
TO STUDY GOD'S WORD AND WE WANT
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TO CERTAINLY WELCOME THOSE
WHO ARE JOINING US ONLINE AND
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VIEWING US ON TV WHEREVER YOU
MIGHT BE. AND THIS MORNING WE
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WANT TO LET YOU KNOW - THOSE
THAT ARE VIEWING WITHIN U.S.
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TERRITORIES - WE HAVE A
FREE OFFER AND IT'S THE LITTLE
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BOOKLET WRITTEN BY
DOUG BATCHELOR, 'ASSURANCE:
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JUSTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE' - A
VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC THAT A LOT
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OF PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND AND IT'S
EASILY EXPLAINED RIGHT HERE IN
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THIS LITTLE BOOK. IT
IS OFFER #727 AND WHAT YOU
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WANT TO DO IS CALL
IN TO 1-866-788-3966 OR
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1-866-STUDY-MORE. WELL,
WE HAVE COME TO THE CLOSE
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OF OUR QUARTER - THIS
IS IT, ISN'T IT? REALLY.
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THIS IS THE LAST LESSON AND IT
HAS BEEN A GOOD, GOOD QUARTER.
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THEY'VE ALL BEEN
GOOD, HAVEN'T THEY?
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THIS ONE, ABOUT GOD'S LAW, HAS
BEEN TERRIFIC, ESPECIALLY - IT'S
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NEEDED - ESPECIALLY IN AN AGE
OF LAWLESSNESS WE NEED TO KNOW
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ABOUT GOD'S LAW AND WE NEED
TO KNOW ABOUT ITS ROLE - ITS
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FUNCTION IN OUR LIVES AND WHAT
PURPOSE IT SERVES AND WE'VE BEEN
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LEARNING THAT THROUGHOUT THE
LAST 13 WEEKS TOGETHER AND TODAY
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IS LESSON #13, OF COURSE,
'CHRIST'S KINGDOM AND THE LAW'.
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AND SO WE TRUST THAT YOU'RE
THERE AND YOU HAVE OPENED UP
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YOUR LESSON WITH ME AS WE
ARE GOING TO STUDY TOGETHER.
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WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE MEMORY
VERSE HERE, THIS IS A VERY
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PERTINENT AND IMPORTANT VERSE
AND - BECAUSE IT HAS TO DO WITH
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THE NEW COVENANT AND WE ARE NEW
COVENANT CHRISTIANS AND SO THIS
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PROMISE IS THEN FOR US TODAY AND
THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS - IT SAYS -
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THIS IS JEREMIAH 31, VERSE 33,
"BUT THIS SHALL BE THE COVENANT
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THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE
OF ISRAEL; AFTER THOSE DAYS,
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SAITH THE LORD, I WILL PUT MY
LAW IN THEIR INWARD PARTS, AND
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WRITE IT IN THEIR HEARTS;
AND WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY
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SHALL BE MY
PEOPLE." THAT'S RIGHT.
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POWERFUL PROMISE, ISN'T IT?
THAT'S ONE WE OUGHT TO MEMORIZE.
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IT IS A MEMORY TEXT, AFTER ALL.
GOD SAYS HE'LL PUT HIS LAW IN
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OUR MINDS AND
WRITE THEM IN OUR HEARTS.
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THAT'S THE NEW COVENANT PROMISE.
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WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT
MORE ABOUT THAT HERE TOWARD THE
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END OF OUR CLASS HERE THIS
MORNING AS WE REVIEW OUR LESSON.
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I'M GOING TO BORROW THE
ILLUSTRATION THAT WAS USED HERE
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AS A START OF THE
LESSON REGARDING STEVE JOBS.
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OF COURSE, HE WAS THE FOUNDER
OF APPLE. HE DIED IN 2011 AND
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YEARS EARLIER, AFTER A BOUT WITH
CANCER, HE WAS SAID TO HAVE SAID
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THAT DEATH WAS THE
SINGLE BEST INVENTION OF LIFE.
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I BEG TO DIFFER AND I THINK MOST
OF YOU, IF NOT ALL OF YOU HERE
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THIS MORNING WOULD
BEG TO DIFFER AS WELL.
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HE CONSIDERED IT TO BE THE
BEST INVENTION BECAUSE DEATH'S
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INEVITABILITY FORCED PEOPLE TO
ACHIEVE THE BEST THEY CAN HERE.
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NOW, I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT
WOULD BE THE BEST MOTIVATOR FOR
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GIVING OUR BEST AND DOING
THE BEST WE POSSIBLY COULD.
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THE VERY THING THAT PROBABLY
SHOULD - THE VERY THING THAT
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CAUSES A PERSON TO REVIEW THEIR
MORTALITY - THE VERY THING THAT
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CAUSES A PERSON TO RECOGNIZE
THAT LIFE IS BRIEF OUGHT NOT BE
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THE THING THAT MOTIVATES US, PER
SE, TO GIVE THIS SHORT SPAN OF
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LIFE THE VERY BEST WE CAN.
FOR ALL THAT STEVE JOBS DID, AND
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I'M A BIG APPLE FAN - I LIKE MY
APPLES - SORRY FOR THOSE WHO USE
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PCS, BUT I LIKE MY APPLES -
STEVE JOBS DID A GOOD THING.
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ALL THE THINGS THAT HE INVENTED
AND HIS TEAM INVENTED THOUGH,
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WHAT ARE THEY IN LIGHT OF
ETERNITY? IN LIGHT OF ENDLESS
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YEARS OF EXPLORATION AND
DISCOVERY? AND THESE THINGS ARE
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BIG, DON'T GET ME WRONG, BUT
THERE'S AN ETERNITY BEYOND SO
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THESE THINGS PALE INTO
INSIGNIFICANCE, REALLY.
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NOT TOO LONG AGO I READ AN
INTERESTING ARTICLE AND THE
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ARTICLE WAS ABOUT DR. STEPHEN
HAWKING - HE'S THE WORLD-RENOWN
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THEORETICAL PHYSICIST - AND IN
AN ARTICLE, HAWKING SAID THAT -
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IN THIS ARTICLE HE SAID THAT
THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR HEAVEN IN
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HIS VISION OF THE COSMOS.
HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN HEAVEN -
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DIDN'T BELIEVE IN AN ETERNITY -
LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE - HE JUST
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DIDN'T BELIEVE ANY OF THAT.
IN THE SAME ARTICLE, IT WAS
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HAWKING THAT SAID,
INTERESTINGLY, HE BEMOANED -
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THIS IS WHAT HE SAID, HE
SAID, "I'M IN NO HURRY TO DIE."
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HERE'S THE REASON WHY - "I'M IN
NO HURRY TO DIE" - HE SAYS - "I
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HAVE SO MUCH I WANT TO DO
FIRST." "I'M IN NO HURRY TO
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DIE." STEPHEN HAWKING - NO LIFE
BEYOND THE GRAVE. NO ETERNITY.
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THIS IS ALL YOU GET. I'M
IN NO HURRY TO DIE BECAUSE
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THERE'S SO MUCH
THAT I WANT TO DO.
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DR. HAWKING'S DESIRE TO LIVE
LONGER - TO ACCOMPLISH MORE -
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BRINGS TO LIGHT A GREAT TRUTH
THAT NO ONE REALLY WANTS TO DIE
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- THAT WE DESIRE TO LIVE FOR
ETERNITY IF WE COULD AND THAT'S
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WHAT THE BIBLE
PRESENTS TO US. IT WAS C.S.
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LEWIS WHO SAID THAT FOR
EVERY HUMAN DESIRE THERE IS A
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CORRESPONDING REALITY IN NATURE.
FOR EXAMPLE, WE GET THIRSTY
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BECAUSE THERE IS A SUCH A
THING AS WATER. HE SAID WE CRAVE
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PHYSICAL INTIMACY BECAUSE
THERE'S SUCH A THING AS SEX.
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HE SAID THE REASON WE DESIRE
IMMORTALITY - ETERNITY - MIGHT
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JUST BE BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY
EXISTS AND CERTAINLY IT DOES.
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IF WE HAVE FAITH IN THE
SCRIPTURES AND THE HOLY WORD OF
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GOD, WE'VE GOT EVERY GOOD REASON
TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A
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HEAVEN. THERE IS AN
ETERNITY. GOD'S KINGDOM WILL BE
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ESTABLISHED HERE ON THE EARTH.
THERE IS MORE THAN THIS LIFE HAS
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TO OFFER, AMEN? THERE
IS MUCH MORE THAN THIS
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LIFE HAS TO
OFFER. THERE IS ETERNITY.
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CHRIST IS GOING TO ESTABLISH HIS
KINGDOM AND THE QUESTION THAT WE
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WANT TO DISCOVER HERE THIS
MORNING IS WHAT ROLE DOES THE
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LAW HAVE WITH
REGARD TO CHRIST'S KINGDOM?
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THAT'S REALLY THE QUESTION WE'LL
BE ASKING HERE THIS MORNING.
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THE KEY THOUGHT, PROBABLY,
TO THIS STUDY WOULD BE GOD WILL
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ESTABLISH A NEW AND ETERNAL
WORLD WHERE 1) HIS LAW WRITTEN
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IN THE MINDS AND HEARTS OF THE
SAVED WILL GOVERN THEIR LIVES,
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GOVERN THEIR INTERACTIONS AND 2)
THE RESULTS OF THE VIOLATION OF
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THE LAW OF GOD WILL NO
LONGER EXIST - THAT IS DEATH -
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HALLELUJAH. EACH
OF US ARE CALLED TO
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ACCEPT THIS OFFER OF CITIZENSHIP
INTO GOD'S ETERNAL KINGDOM.
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AND SO LET'S GO OVER TO SUNDAY'S
LESSON HERE AND LET'S LAUNCH IN.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TAKING
A LOOK AT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
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LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS
HERE FOR JUST A FEW MOMENTS -
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THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
WHAT HAS BEEN THE PRAYER OF
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GOD'S PEOPLE FOR CENTURIES?
IT'S THE PRAYER THAT JESUS
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TAUGHT US TO PRAY, IS
IT NOT? THY KINGDOM WHAT?
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COME - THAT'S BEEN THE PRAYER OF
GOD'S PEOPLE - THY KINGDOM COME
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- AND WE REITERATE THE WORDS
THAT THE DYING THIEF SAID ON THE
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CROSS TO HIS LORD - TO OUR LORD
- 'REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME IN
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YOUR KINGDOM.' ISN'T THAT OUR
DESIRE? ISN'T THAT OUR PRAYER?
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IT HAS BEEN OUR
PRAYER AND CONTINUES TO BE.
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WHAT WE REALIZE WHEN WE
PRAY THIS PRAYER AND WHEN WE'RE
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ASKING GOD TO REMEMBER US WHEN
HE COMES IN HIS KINGDOM, IS THAT
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GOD'S KINGDOM HASN'T YET
COME. IT IS STILL YET TO COME.
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THIS IS NOT -
THERE'S NO KINGDOM HERE.
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GOD DOESN'T HAVE A
KINGDOM ON EARTH YET.
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NOW, IN A SPECIAL SENSE,
THE CHURCH IS HIS KINGDOM IF WE
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COULD SAY IT THAT WAY, BUT AS
FAR AS GOD'S ETERNAL EVERLASTING
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KINGDOM BEING
ESTABLISHED, IT HASN'T COME.
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AND WE'RE REMINDED OF THAT EVERY
TIME WE PRAY 'THY KINGDOM COME.'
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SO IN THE MEANTIME, WE NOW
- WE LIVE, REALLY, IN ENEMY
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TERRITORY. WE'RE
BORN AND RAISED IN A LAND
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- IN A WORLD - IN A
COUNTRY THAT IS THE ENEMY'S.
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WHAT HAPPENED? WE
REMEMBER BACK THERE IN
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GENESIS, ADAM HAD DOMINION. GOD
GAVE HIM THAT. IT WAS A GIFT.
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'SUBDUE THE LAND - YOU
HAVE DOMINION OVER THE LAND, THE
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ANIMALS, THE FISH, THE
BIRDS, ETC. YOU HAVE DOMINION.
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YOU ARE THE RULER OF THIS WORLD.
I'M ENTRUSTING ALL THAT I'VE
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MADE - ALL THAT'S MINE -
INTO YOUR HANDS.' ADAM WAS GIVEN
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DOMINION AND IT WAS
LOST. WHY WAS IT LOST?
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BECAUSE OF SIN. THAT'S
RIGHT. BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE -
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THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
THEY DISOBEYED GOD'S EXPRESS
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COMMAND. THEY ATE
OF THE FRUIT OF THE
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TREE OF THE
KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL.
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AND SO, BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE,
THEIR DOMINION, THEIR RULERSHIP,
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WAS LOST AND, IN ESSENCE, SATAN,
THE MASTER DECEIVER, BEGUILED
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THE PAIR - ENDED UP CLAIMING
RULERSHIP OF THIS WORLD.
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YOU REMEMBER READING THERE IN
JOB CHAPTER 1, THE SONS OF GOD
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COME TO MEET WITH GOD, THE BIBLE
SAYS, AND SATAN SHOWS UP AND THE
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LORD ASKS HIM, 'WELL,
WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM?'
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IT'S NOT AS THOUGH THE
LORD DOESN'T KNOW, BUT HE'S
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QUESTIONING HIS
RIGHT TO BE THERE.
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AND HE SAYS, 'I'VE COME
FROM ROAMING TO AND FRO ON THE
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EARTH.' A STATEMENT OF DEFIANCE
- 'I'M THE OWNER. I'M THE RULER.
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I'M THE ONE WHO HAS EVERYONE
UNDER MY CONTROL' AND, OF
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COURSE, GOD SAYS, 'HAVE
YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB?
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IT'S NOT ALL YOURS.
THERE ARE SOME THAT STILL DON'T
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SERVE YOU.' BUT THERE SATAN
APPEARS TO GOD - APPEARS BEFORE
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GOD - APPEARS AS A
REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS EARTH.
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A COUPLE OF VERSES WE WANT TO
LOOK AT HERE, JUST TO TALK ABOUT
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BEING IN ENEMY TERRITORY
HERE FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT HERE.
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SOMEONE HAS GOT JOHN
12:31 FOR ME HERE THIS MORNING.
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JOHN 12:31 - OKAY, THANK YOU.
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AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT A
COUPLE OTHER VERSES HERE: 2
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CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 4 AND VERSE
4 - I'M GOING TO LOOK AT A FEW
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VERSES HERE BEFORE
WE READ JOHN 12:31.
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2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 4 AND
VERSE 4 - NOTICE WHAT THE BIBLE
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SAYS - TALKING ABOUT THE DEVIL -
TALKING ABOUT THE ENEMY OF THIS
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WORLD. 2
CORINTHIANS 4, VERSE 4 - IT
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SAYS, "IN WHOM
THE" - WHAT FRIENDS?
00:18:28.66\00:18:31.03
- "THE GOD OF THIS WORLD HATH
BLINDED THE MINDS OF THEM WHICH
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BELIEVE NOT, LEST THE LIGHT OF
THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF CHRIST,
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WHO IS THE IMAGE OF
GOD, SHOULD SHINE UNTO THEM."
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THE BIBLE WRITER
CALLS THE DEVIL THE WHAT?
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THE GOD OF WHAT? THE
GOD OF THIS WORLD - GOD OF
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THIS WORLD IN THE
SENSE THAT HE WANTS DOMINION.
00:18:50.60\00:18:53.40
GOD IN THE SENSE THAT HE
RULES IN THE HEARTS OF MANY.
00:18:53.40\00:18:58.50
GOD OF THIS WORLD IN THE SENSE
THAT HE HAS LIMITED CONTROL OVER
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EARTH'S ELEMENTS - FIRE AND WIND
STORM, ETC. NOW, IT'S LIMITED.
00:19:03.70\00:19:09.73
GOD ONLY PERMITS HIM TO HAVE
SO MUCH ACCESS - SO MUCH POWER.
00:19:09.73\00:19:13.50
GOD IS, ULTIMATELY, THE RULER
OF ALL, BUT HE'S GIVEN THESE
00:19:13.50\00:19:18.93
THINGS, YOU SEE - THE GOD OF
THIS WORLD, IN THE SENSE THAT HE
00:19:18.93\00:19:23.00
WANTS DOMINION, THAT HE RULES
IN THE HEARTS OF INDIVIDUALS AND
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THAT HE HAS LIMITED
CONTROL OVER EARTH'S ELEMENTS.
00:19:26.10\00:19:30.53
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2, AND VERSE
2 - JUST JUMP OVER THERE WITH ME
00:19:30.53\00:19:33.20
REAL QUICK - EPHESIANS 2
AND VERSE 2 - IT TELLS US, AGAIN
00:19:33.20\00:19:39.63
TALKING ABOUT THE ENEMY - IT
SAYS, "WHEREIN IN TIME PAST YE
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WALKED ACCORDING TO
THE COURSE OF THIS WORLD,
00:19:42.36\00:19:44.73
ACCORDING TO THE PRINCE
OF THE POWER OF THE AIR."
00:19:44.73\00:19:52.50
ALRIGHT, AND WE WANT TO
LOOK AT JOHN 12:31 AT THIS TIME.
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>>"NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS
WORLD: NOW SHALL THE PRINCE OF
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THIS WORLD BE CAST OUT."
00:20:00.76\00:20:02.76
>>OKAY. SO JESUS CALLED - JESUS
CALLED THE DEVIL 'THE RULER OF
00:20:02.76\00:20:11.60
THIS WORLD' - IN THE KING
JAMES HE IS THE 'PRINCE OF THIS
00:20:11.60\00:20:17.50
WORLD.' NOW, UNDERSTAND,
THAT HE'S MERELY A PRINCE.
00:20:17.50\00:20:23.13
HE'S NOT A CROWN PRINCE.
YOU KNOW WHAT A CROWN PRINCE IS?
00:20:23.13\00:20:27.50
A CROWN PRINCE IS ONE WHO
IS HEIR - RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE
00:20:27.50\00:20:31.16
THRONE WHEN THE KING OR THE
QUEEN DIE, THE CROWN PRINCE HAS
00:20:31.16\00:20:38.00
THE RIGHT TO THAT THRONE.
THE DEVIL IS JUST A PRINCE.
00:20:38.00\00:20:42.40
HE'S NOT THE CROWN PRINCE.
HE IS NOT HEIR TO THE THRONE,
00:20:42.40\00:20:45.86
INSTEAD HE WANTS TO USURP AND
TAKE GOD'S THRONE BY FORCE - BY
00:20:45.86\00:20:50.16
COERCION - BY DECEPTION.
HE IS NOT THE CROWN PRINCE.
00:20:50.16\00:20:55.23
HE IS NOT HEIR TO THE THRONE.
HE IS PRINCE IN THIS WORLD, NOT
00:20:55.23\00:21:00.10
BY RIGHT. HE RULES AS A USURPER.
00:21:00.10\00:21:04.40
HE IS, IN
ESSENCE, A DE FACTO RULER.
00:21:04.40\00:21:07.43
THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE
DEVIL IS HERE IN THIS WORLD.
00:21:07.43\00:21:10.20
NOW, THE DEVIL CLAIMS RULERSHIP,
BUT WHAT DID JESUS DO?
00:21:10.20\00:21:15.66
JESUS CAME TO DO WHAT?
CLAIM THE KINGDOM BACK.
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TAKE THE KINGDOM
BACK AS RIGHTFULLY HIS.
00:21:19.53\00:21:23.33
MATTHEW CHAPTER 4 - JUST JUMP
OVER THERE WITH ME, AS WELL -
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MATTHEW CHAPTER 4 - WE'RE GOING
TO FLIP AROUND THE SCRIPTURES
00:21:26.03\00:21:28.76
HERE A LITTLE BIT - MATTHEW
CHAPTER 4, VERSES 8 AND 9.
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WE REMEMBER THE STORY -
JESUS HAS BEEN FASTING IN THE
00:21:31.73\00:21:35.03
WILDERNESS FOR 40
DAYS. THAT'S A LONG TIME.
00:21:35.03\00:21:40.30
I REMEMBER DOING 40-HOUR
FAMINES BACK IN AUSTRALIA.
00:21:40.30\00:21:43.20
I UNDERSTAND YOU DO 30-HOUR
FAMINES - WE DO 30-HOUR FAMINES
00:21:43.20\00:21:46.03
HERE IN AMERICA, IS THAT RIGHT?
40 HOURS IN AUSTRALIA, 30 HOURS
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HERE IN AMERICA - I'M NOT SURE
WHAT THAT MEANS BUT SOME OF US
00:21:49.40\00:21:52.43
CAN'T FAST FOR FOUR HOURS OR 40
MINUTES, BUT JESUS FASTED FOR 40
00:21:52.43\00:21:58.66
DAYS AND AT THE END OF THOSE
40 DAYS THE DEVIL CAME TO HIM
00:21:58.66\00:22:01.50
TEMPTING HIM -
THREE MASSIVE TEMPTATIONS.
00:22:01.50\00:22:04.13
THE THIRD ONE, NOTICE WHAT HE
SAID - "AGAIN, THE DEVIL TAKETH
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HIM UP INTO AN EXCEEDING HIGH
MOUNTAIN, AND SHEWETH HIM ALL
00:22:07.73\00:22:11.50
THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD,
AND THE GLORY OF THEM; AND SAITH
00:22:11.50\00:22:14.46
UNTO HIM, 'ALL THESE THINGS WILL
I GIVE THEE, IF THOU WILT FALL
00:22:14.46\00:22:18.96
DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.'" SO THE
DEVIL SHOWS - WE DON'T KNOW HOW
00:22:18.96\00:22:25.63
EXACTLY HE DID THIS - TAKES HIM
TO A HIGH PLACE - CHRIST TO A
00:22:25.63\00:22:28.23
HIGH PLACE - HE GIVES HIM A
PANORAMA OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE
00:22:28.23\00:22:32.16
WORLD AND NO DOUBT WHAT JESUS
SAW WAS BRIGHT AND BRILLIANT AND
00:22:32.16\00:22:35.33
BEAUTIFUL - ALLURING - AND VERY,
VERY INVITING AND THE DEVIL
00:22:35.33\00:22:42.80
SAYS, 'ALL THESE
THINGS I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU.
00:22:42.80\00:22:46.60
ALL THESE THINGS' - AS
IF THE DEVIL OWNED THEM.
00:22:46.60\00:22:49.13
THAT'S STOLEN PROPERTY.
THEY WERE STOLEN PROPERTY AND -
00:22:49.13\00:22:53.90
BECAUSE CHRIST IS
REALLY THE TRUE RULER.
00:22:53.90\00:22:56.76
BUT YOU CAN - IF YOU JUST PAUSE
FOR A MOMENT AND CONSIDER THE
00:22:56.76\00:22:59.66
CHALLENGE - THE MASSIVE
TEMPTATION THAT JESUS MUST HAVE
00:22:59.66\00:23:02.66
GONE THROUGH. HERE
HE HAD COME TO REDEEM -
00:23:02.66\00:23:06.33
RECLAIM - THE KINGDOM BACK
FROM THE HAND OF THE USURPER.
00:23:06.33\00:23:09.90
AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT
JESUS NEEDED TO DO WHAT?
00:23:09.90\00:23:13.66
NEEDED TO DIE FOR
THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
00:23:13.66\00:23:16.80
HE NEEDED TO DO THAT.
HE NEEDED TO LIVE A LIFE OF
00:23:16.80\00:23:19.63
PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER.
AND IF HE HAD SUCCUMBED TO THIS
00:23:19.63\00:23:25.16
TEMPTATION - TO THIS ALLUREMENT
- THEN ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST.
00:23:25.16\00:23:29.90
HE WOULD HAVE DISOBEYED THE
FATHER'S WILL, WORSHIPED SOMEONE
00:23:29.90\00:23:33.43
OTHER THAN THE TRUE GOD
AND ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST.
00:23:33.43\00:23:37.36
THE PLAN OF SALVATION WOULD HAVE
BEEN DISSOLVED RIGHT THERE AND
00:23:37.36\00:23:39.76
THEN. WE WOULD BE DEAD
IN OUR SINS. THAT WAS IT.
00:23:39.76\00:23:42.06
AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
THANK THE LORD FOR THAT.
00:23:42.06\00:23:45.30
JESUS WAS VICTORIOUS AND
IS FOREVER, AMEN? YEAH, HE
00:23:45.30\00:23:48.93
CERTAINLY IS. THE DEVIL
SAID, 'HERE ARE ALL THE THINGS I
00:23:48.93\00:23:52.10
WANT TO GIVE YOU.' - STOLEN
PROPERTY - BUT JESUS SAID,
00:23:52.10\00:23:55.30
'NO, NO, NO. WORSHIP ONLY GOD.
00:23:55.30\00:23:58.00
HIM ONLY SHALL THOU SERVE.'
AND IT WAS STRIKE THREE AND THE
00:23:58.00\00:24:01.60
DEVIL CERTAINLY
WAS OUT OF THERE.
00:24:01.60\00:24:03.36
SO HERE WE ARE IN ENEMY
TERRITORY AND YET CHRIST HAS
00:24:03.36\00:24:09.26
RECLAIMED THE KINGDOM AND HE
OFFERS IT AND HE INVITES US TO
00:24:09.26\00:24:12.90
BE CITIZENS OF THAT KINGDOM.
CAN WE BE SURE THAT CHRIST'S
00:24:12.90\00:24:16.83
KINGDOM WILL
COME? CAN WE BE SURE?
00:24:16.83\00:24:19.53
THE PRAYER IS 'YOUR KINGDOM
COME' - WHEN WE SAY THAT WE'RE
00:24:19.53\00:24:22.66
EXPRESSING FAITH IN THE PROMISE
AND THE ASSURANCE THAT THE
00:24:22.66\00:24:25.50
KINGDOM WILL BE ESTABLISHED.
YOU REMEMBER OVER THERE IN
00:24:25.50\00:24:28.00
DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE
7, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, IN DANIEL 2,
00:24:28.00\00:24:32.53
HAD THIS DREAM OF THIS GREAT
IMAGE - COULDN'T REMEMBER IT.
00:24:32.53\00:24:35.60
PROPHET OF GOD REVEALED THE
DREAM TO THE PAGAN MONARCH -
00:24:35.60\00:24:40.86
BABYLONIAN MONARCH - AND GAVE
HIM THE INTERPRETATION AND THE
00:24:40.86\00:24:46.40
INTERPRETATION, OF COURSE, WAS
THAT THAT MASSIVE STATUE WITH
00:24:46.40\00:24:51.56
ALL THE DIFFERENT METALS
REPRESENTED A DELINEATION OF
00:24:51.56\00:24:54.90
NATIONS STARTING WITH BABYLON,
MOVING THROUGH MEDO-PERSIA,
00:24:54.90\00:24:57.86
GREECE, ROME, AND THEN THE
BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
00:24:57.86\00:25:01.36
AND WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT
PROPHECY - WHEN YOU CONSIDER
00:25:01.36\00:25:06.03
DANIEL 7, IT'S A
PARALLEL PROPHECY.
00:25:06.03\00:25:08.90
IT'S A REPEATING
OF DANIEL CHAPTER 2.
00:25:08.90\00:25:10.86
YOU'VE GOT THE LION, THE BEAR,
THE FOUR-HEADED LEOPARD, THIS
00:25:10.86\00:25:13.66
NON-DISCRIPT BEAST, TEN HORNS,
LITTLE HORN POWER, THAT HAPPENED
00:25:13.66\00:25:18.30
EXACTLY LIKE GOD HAD SAID
- HISTORY UNFOLDED - BABYLON,
00:25:18.30\00:25:23.20
MEDO-PERSIA, GREECE, ROME, THE
BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE,
00:25:23.20\00:25:26.06
THE RISE OF THE LITTLE
HORN POWER, THE PAPACY.
00:25:26.06\00:25:29.46
ALL OF THESE THINGS HAPPENED
IN SUCCESSION JUST AS GOD SAID.
00:25:29.46\00:25:33.63
WHAT'S THE NEXT THING TO HAPPEN?
GO OVER TO DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND
00:25:33.63\00:25:37.36
WE'LL LOOK AT VERSES 44
AND 45, DANIEL 2:44 AND 45.
00:25:37.36\00:25:43.73
I THINK DANIEL 2 - I MEAN,
CERTAINLY THERE'S A FOUNDATIONAL
00:25:43.73\00:25:46.70
PROPHECY IN IT AND IT HELPS
YOU UNDERSTAND ALL THE GREAT
00:25:46.70\00:25:49.30
PROPHECIES OF DANIEL AND
REVELATION, BUT THE PROPHECY OF
00:25:49.30\00:25:52.53
DANIEL 2 - IF A PERSON IS
DOUBTING THE WORD OF GOD OR
00:25:52.53\00:25:56.86
ISN'T SURE THEY CAN TRUST
THE WORD OF GOD, DANIEL 2 - THE
00:25:56.86\00:26:01.26
PROPHECY OF DANIEL 2 - SHOULD
ENCOURAGE A PERSON TO RECONSIDER
00:26:01.26\00:26:04.93
THE AUTHENTICITY, THE AUTHORITY
OF THE WORD OF GOD - THAT THE
00:26:04.93\00:26:09.33
WORD OF GOD IS TRULY INSPIRED,
AMEN. I MEAN, IT'S AN AMAZING
00:26:09.33\00:26:12.90
PROPHECY. NOW, WE
PROBABLY KNOW IT TOO
00:26:12.90\00:26:14.96
WELL TO BE
IMPRESSED BY IT SOMETIMES.
00:26:14.96\00:26:18.43
BUT WE OUGHT TO
BE IMPRESSED BY IT.
00:26:18.43\00:26:20.00
HERE, BACK IN THE SIXTH
CENTURY BC, GOD DELINEATED OVER
00:26:20.00\00:26:27.00
2,000 YEARS OF HISTORY HAS
HAPPENED EXACTLY AS HE SAID.
00:26:27.00\00:26:29.90
CONSIDER IN DANIEL 2 THE FEET
OF IRON AND CLAY AND THEY WERE -
00:26:29.90\00:26:33.76
THEY WERE NOT TO
ADHERE TO ONE ANOTHER.
00:26:33.76\00:26:36.16
THEY WEREN'T TO STICK
OR CLEAVE TO ONE ANOTHER.
00:26:36.16\00:26:38.70
ALL THE EFFORT THAT DESPOTS AND
DIPLOMATS HAVE MADE TO TRY TO
00:26:38.70\00:26:42.16
REUNITE EUROPE - THE OLD - TO
BRING IT BACK TO THE OLD ROMAN -
00:26:42.16\00:26:47.50
THE HOLY ROMAN
EMPIRE HAVE FAILED.
00:26:47.50\00:26:50.36
HITLER AND NAPOLEON AND CHARLES
THE V AND OTHERS HAVE TRIED AND
00:26:50.36\00:26:55.60
FAILED. DIPLOMATS
- SOME HAVE SUGGESTED
00:26:55.60\00:26:58.73
IT WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON THAT
SUGGESTED - HE LOOKED AT EUROPE
00:26:58.73\00:27:02.26
AND HE SAID IT SHOULD BECOME
THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.
00:27:02.26\00:27:06.03
AND THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL
TODAY TRYING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
00:27:06.03\00:27:09.46
BUT ALL THE UNREST AND
THE DISUNITY SPEAKS TO THE
00:27:09.46\00:27:14.96
FULFILLMENT OF THE VERY PROPHECY
HERE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2.
00:27:14.96\00:27:20.03
IT CONTINUES TO BE FULFILLED
RIGHT BEFORE OUR VERY EYES.
00:27:20.03\00:27:22.86
I MEAN, IT WAS
MASSIVE - MASSIVE STUFF.
00:27:22.86\00:27:25.06
WE SHOULD HAVE
CONFIDENCE IN THE WORD OF GOD.
00:27:25.06\00:27:26.66
AS THOSE THINGS TOOK PLACE,
WHAT'S THE NEXT GREAT EVENT TO
00:27:26.66\00:27:29.33
HAPPEN ACCORDING TO DANIEL
CHAPTER 2 AND VERSES 44 AND 45?
00:27:29.33\00:27:36.16
IT SAYS, "AND IN THE DAYS
OF THESE KINGS SHALL THE GOD OF
00:27:36.16\00:27:38.13
HEAVEN" - WHAT? -
"SET UP A KINGDOM,
00:27:38.13\00:27:41.70
WHICH SHALL NEVER
BE DESTROYED: AND THE
00:27:41.70\00:27:44.00
KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO
OTHER PEOPLE, BUT IT SHALL BREAK
00:27:44.00\00:27:46.96
IN PIECES AND CONSUME ALL THESE
KINGDOMS, AND IT SHALL STAND
00:27:46.96\00:27:51.46
FOR" - HOW LONG? -
"IT SHALL STAND FOREVER."
00:27:51.46\00:27:55.13
WE CAN BE SURE THAT CHRIST'S
KINGDOM WILL COME AS HE SAID
00:27:55.13\00:27:59.50
BABYLON WILL BE THE WORLD POWER,
THEN MEDO-PERSIA WILL CONQUER
00:27:59.50\00:28:03.93
AND BE THE NEXT ONE AND GREECE
AND ROME WILL BE DIVIDED AND IN
00:28:03.93\00:28:07.40
THE DAYS OF THOSE KINGS
GOD WILL SET UP HIS KINGDOM.
00:28:07.40\00:28:12.40
YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT AS
SURELY AS THE PREVIOUS HAS BEEN
00:28:12.40\00:28:15.66
FULFILLED, AMEN? THIS IS
WONDERFUL, EXCITING STUFF.
00:28:15.66\00:28:19.16
SO WE CAN BE SURE THAT
CHRIST'S KINGDOM WILL COME.
00:28:19.16\00:28:23.10
LET'S GO OVER
TO MONDAY'S LESSON.
00:28:23.10\00:28:24.26
LET'S TALK ABOUT BEING
CITIZENS OF THAT KINGDOM.
00:28:24.26\00:28:29.26
CITIZENS - BEING A CITIZEN
IS A PRIVILEGE, IS IT NOT?
00:28:29.26\00:28:33.53
YEAH, BEING A CITIZEN OF A
COUNTRY IS A PRIVILEGE AND IF
00:28:33.53\00:28:39.90
YOU WANT TO - IF YOU'RE A
CITIZEN OF A CERTAIN COUNTRY AND
00:28:39.90\00:28:42.46
YOU WANT TO BECOME A CITIZEN OF
ANOTHER COUNTRY, IT'S UNLIKELY
00:28:42.46\00:28:46.00
THAT YOU CAN
HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP.
00:28:46.00\00:28:48.66
BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF COUNTRIES
THAT YOU CAN BE PART OF WHEREBY
00:28:48.66\00:28:53.83
YOU CAN HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP.
MY CHILDREN - WE LIVED IN CANADA
00:28:53.83\00:28:58.66
FOR SEVEN YEARS AND THEY WERE
ALL BORN IN TORONTO, CANADA AND
00:28:58.66\00:29:02.96
SO BY THAT VIRTUE
THEY ALL BECAME CANADIAN.
00:29:02.96\00:29:06.86
SO THEY HAVE
CANADIAN BIRTH CERTIFICATES.
00:29:06.86\00:29:09.16
AND THEIR MOTHER IS AMERICAN AND
I'M AUSTRALIAN AND WE'RE A MESS.
00:29:09.16\00:29:13.43
THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, BUT
THEY WERE BORN THERE AND THEY
00:29:13.43\00:29:16.36
HAVE - AND THEIR MOTHER'S
AMERICAN SO THEY ARE, BY VIRTUE
00:29:16.36\00:29:19.03
OF THAT FACT, THEY
ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS.
00:29:19.03\00:29:22.63
SO THEY HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP.
AND I KNOW YOU'RE WONDERING,
00:29:22.63\00:29:25.23
'DO THEY HAVE
AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP?'
00:29:25.23\00:29:27.23
NOT BY VIRTUE
OF ME BEING FATHER.
00:29:27.23\00:29:29.03
WE'VE GOT TO APPLY FOR THEM
TO HAVE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP.
00:29:29.03\00:29:31.80
YOU CAN EVEN HAVE
TRI-CITIZENSHIP - CARRY ONLY TWO
00:29:31.80\00:29:34.23
PASSPORTS, BUT YOU CAN
HAVE SEVERAL CITIZENSHIPS.
00:29:34.23\00:29:36.93
I THINK THAT'S AN ADVANTAGE FOR
SOME - HAVING DUAL CITIZENSHIP,
00:29:36.93\00:29:40.33
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO BEING
A CITIZEN OF GOD'S KINGDOM,
00:29:40.33\00:29:45.26
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS DUAL
CITIZENSHIP. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN -
00:29:45.26\00:29:49.36
IT CAN'T HAPPEN IN
THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY.
00:29:49.36\00:29:51.63
YOU CAN ONLY EITHER BELONG
TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD OR YOU CAN
00:29:51.63\00:29:57.96
CHOOSE TO BELONG TO THE KINGDOM
OF THE WORLD. IT'S AN EITHER/OR
00:29:57.96\00:30:03.00
PROPOSITION, YOU UNDERSTAND.
LET'S LOOK AT A FEW VERSES HERE.
00:30:03.00\00:30:06.96
SOMEONE'S GOT MATTHEW 12:30 FOR
US THIS MORNING - MATTHEW 12:30
00:30:06.96\00:30:11.76
- OKAY, OVER THERE. VERY GOOD.
00:30:11.76\00:30:13.73
LET'S LOOK AT A
COUPLE OF VERSES.
00:30:13.73\00:30:15.06
1 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11
- 1 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11.
00:30:15.06\00:30:22.36
IT SAYS, "DEARLY BELOVED,
I BESEECH YOU AS" - TWO WORDS
00:30:22.36\00:30:26.13
THERE - "STRANGERS AND" - WHAT?
PILGRIMS - "I BESEECH YOU AS
00:30:26.13\00:30:30.63
STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS" -
STRANGERS - THAT WORD COULD BE
00:30:30.63\00:30:34.70
INTERPRETED AS 'ALIEN' - I
BESEECH YOU AS ALIEN - WHAT IS
00:30:34.70\00:30:40.63
AN ALIEN? YEAH, A NON-CITIZEN.
00:30:40.63\00:30:45.30
I MAY - I
PERSONALLY AM A RESIDENT ALIEN.
00:30:45.30\00:30:48.76
DON'T BE SCARED.
DON'T BE FRIGHTENED.
00:30:48.76\00:30:52.46
I DON'T LOOK STRANGE OR WEIRD,
BUT I'M A RESIDENT ALIEN, YOU
00:30:52.46\00:30:56.36
SEE. AND BECAUSE
I DON'T - I'M NOT A
00:30:56.36\00:30:59.86
CITIZEN YET HERE, OF
THE UNITED STATES, YOU SEE.
00:30:59.86\00:31:04.60
AND IF YOU WENT TO AUSTRALIA
OR YOU WENT TO ANY OTHER COUNTRY
00:31:04.60\00:31:07.16
AND YOU LIVED THERE - YOU BECAME
A RESIDENT - YOU'D BE AN ALIEN
00:31:07.16\00:31:09.60
AS WELL BECAUSE
YOU'RE NOT A CITIZEN THERE.
00:31:09.60\00:31:12.83
SO STRANGER, ALIEN - ONE
WHO DOESN'T ENJOY THE RIGHTS OF
00:31:12.83\00:31:16.13
CITIZENSHIP AND PILGRIMS.
THEY ARE SOJOURNERS OR THEY ARE
00:31:16.13\00:31:20.80
EXILES. THEY'RE
JUST THERE TEMPORARILY.
00:31:20.80\00:31:24.40
SO PETER SAYS HERE IN 1 PETER
2, VERSE 11, "I BESEECH YOU AS
00:31:24.40\00:31:28.23
STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, ABSTAIN
FROM FLESHLY LUSTS, WHICH WAR
00:31:28.23\00:31:32.46
AGAINST THE SOUL;" WE CAN
COMPARE THAT WITH HEBREWS 11,
00:31:32.46\00:31:37.30
VERSE 13 - PAUL WRITING TO THE
HEBREW CHRISTIANS - BASICALLY HE
00:31:37.30\00:31:41.43
SAYS THE SAME THING. HE'S
SUGGESTING THERE THAT FOLK
00:31:41.43\00:31:44.33
WANDER THROUGH THIS WORLD
AS PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS.
00:31:44.33\00:31:47.13
THEY WERE LOOKING
FOR THE BETTER COUNTRY.
00:31:47.13\00:31:48.46
THEY DIDN'T RECEIVE THE
PROMISE BUT THEY ANTICIPATED IT.
00:31:48.46\00:31:51.53
THEY REACHED OUT BY
FAITH TO RECEIVE IT.
00:31:51.53\00:31:54.23
BUT THEY WERE PILGRIMS AND
THEY WERE STRANGERS, YOU SEE.
00:31:54.23\00:31:58.43
AND THEN EPHESIANS
CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 12.
00:31:58.43\00:32:01.06
LET'S LOOK AT THAT ONE.
EPHESIANS 2 AND VERSE 12 - PAUL
00:32:01.06\00:32:04.83
SAYS, "THAT AT THAT TIME YE WERE
WITHOUT CHRIST," - NOW HE'S -
00:32:04.83\00:32:11.43
WE'RE LOOKING AT IT
FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE.
00:32:11.43\00:32:13.63
AS CHRISTIANS - AS FOLLOWERS
OF CHRIST - WE'RE PILGRIMS AND
00:32:13.63\00:32:18.46
STRANGERS IN THIS WORLD PASSING
THROUGH, IS WHAT HE - IS WHAT
00:32:18.46\00:32:22.30
THE WRITER IS SAYING.
WE ARE NOT CITIZENS OF THIS
00:32:22.30\00:32:25.53
WORLD, PER SE, IF WE ARE
CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:32:25.53\00:32:29.96
BUT HE'S TALKING, NOW, ABOUT
SOMETHING ELSE, "THAT AT THAT
00:32:29.96\00:32:32.80
TIME" - VERSE 12 - "YE WERE
WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS
00:32:32.80\00:32:36.83
FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL,
AND STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS
00:32:36.83\00:32:40.96
OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE,
AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD."
00:32:40.96\00:32:43.83
SO A PERSON WHO IS WITHOUT
CHRIST, WHO HAS NOT EXPRESSED
00:32:43.83\00:32:46.66
FAITH IN CHRIST, DOESN'T HAVE
CHRIST LIVING IN THEIR HEART OR
00:32:46.66\00:32:49.10
THEIR LIVES IS CONSIDERED BY GOD
AN ALIEN - AN ALIEN - SOMEONE
00:32:49.10\00:32:56.20
WITHOUT - OUTSIDE OF CHRIST.
NOW, DON'T GET ME WRONG, I MEAN,
00:32:56.20\00:32:59.93
GOD LOVES ALL. WE ARE
ALL HIS CHILDREN WHETHER
00:32:59.93\00:33:02.93
YOU HAVE FAITH IN HIM OR NOT.
HE LOVES US ALL THE SAME, BUT
00:33:02.93\00:33:08.03
YOU ARE CONSIDERED AN ALIEN,
NOT PART OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF
00:33:08.03\00:33:10.63
ISRAEL OR OF THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN. VERY INTERESTING.
00:33:10.63\00:33:14.43
OKAY, MATTHEW 12, VERSE
30 - MATTHEW 12, VERSE 30.
00:33:14.43\00:33:18.90
>>"HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME
IS AGAINST ME; AND HE THAT
00:33:18.90\00:33:22.90
GATHERETH NOT WITH
ME SCATTERETH ABROAD."
00:33:22.90\00:33:26.56
>>SO JESUS SAID HE THAT IS
NOT WITH ME IS WHAT? AGAINST ME.
00:33:26.56\00:33:30.13
THIS IS AN
EITHER/OR PROPOSITION.
00:33:30.13\00:33:32.53
THERE'S NO OTHER
WAY TO DESCRIBE THAT.
00:33:32.53\00:33:35.10
YOU REMEMBER IN DEUTERONOMY, GOD
OUTLINED THE BLESSINGS AND THE
00:33:35.10\00:33:40.10
CURSES FOR HIS PEOPLE. 'IF YOU
OBEY ME, HERE ARE THE BLESSINGS.
00:33:40.10\00:33:44.43
IF YOU DISOBEY ME
THERE'S GOING TO BE CURSES.
00:33:44.43\00:33:47.13
THINGS AREN'T GOING TO GO
WELL FOR YOU AT ALL.' IT'S AN
00:33:47.13\00:33:49.16
EITHER/OR PROPOSITION. WE
ARE EITHER, FRIENDS, WE ARE
00:33:49.16\00:33:52.83
EITHER A PATRIOT FOR THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN OR WE ARE A TRAITOR.
00:33:52.83\00:33:56.90
THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS SAYING.
WE'RE EITHER A PATRIOT OR WE ARE
00:33:56.90\00:34:00.06
A TRAITOR. THINK
ABOUT THE REVOLUTIONARY
00:34:00.06\00:34:02.50
WAR AND ALL THE ISSUES
GOING ON - THE PATRIOTS.
00:34:02.50\00:34:07.30
THE PATRIOTS WANTED FREEDOM.
THEY WANTED TO COME OUT FROM
00:34:07.30\00:34:09.86
THAT - THE YOKE OF THAT
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
00:34:09.86\00:34:14.96
THEY WANTED TO BE OUTSIDE
OF THAT. THEY WERE PATRIOTS.
00:34:14.96\00:34:19.46
THEY WANTED FREEDOM HERE
IN THIS COUNTRY, YOU SEE.
00:34:19.46\00:34:22.53
SOME TURNED
TRAITOR. SOME TURNED TRAITOR.
00:34:22.53\00:34:28.93
SOMEONE WROTE, 'TO BE ALMOST BUT
NOT WHOLLY WITH CHRIST IS TO BE
00:34:28.93\00:34:34.03
NOT ALMOST, BUT
WHOLLY AGAINST HIM.'
00:34:34.03\00:34:37.50
AND THAT'S WHAT
JESUS IS SUGGESTING HERE.
00:34:37.50\00:34:39.86
NOW, WHEN YOU'RE A CITIZEN
OF GOD'S KINGDOM - WHEN YOU'RE A
00:34:39.86\00:34:42.23
CITIZEN OF A COUNTRY YOU'VE
GOT TO OBEY THEIR LAWS, RIGHT?
00:34:42.23\00:34:44.70
EVEN IF YOU'RE A RESIDENT ALIEN
YOU'VE GOT TO OBEY THEIR LAWS
00:34:44.70\00:34:47.06
BUT WHEN YOU'RE A CITIZEN
YOU'VE GOT TO OBEY THEIR LAWS.
00:34:47.06\00:34:49.86
WHEN I CAME FROM AUSTRALIA HERE
TO AMERICA I - YOU ALL DRIVE ON
00:34:49.86\00:34:53.10
THE WRONG SIDE OF THE
ROAD, WHICH IS THE LEFT SIDE.
00:34:53.10\00:34:56.46
NO, THE RIGHT SIDE, WE DROVE
ON THE LEFT SIDE AND - WHICH WAS
00:34:56.46\00:35:00.83
THE RIGHT SIDE, AS A MATTER OF
FACT, AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO OBEY
00:35:00.83\00:35:05.00
THE LAWS. IF YOU
DON'T, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:35:05.00\00:35:06.40
GET YOURSELF INTO TROUBLE. I
COULD GET MYSELF INTO TROUBLE
00:35:06.40\00:35:08.20
IF I DECIDED I WAS GOING TO
DRIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
00:35:08.20\00:35:10.83
ROAD. WE'VE GOT TO OBEY.
00:35:10.83\00:35:12.93
THERE ARE LAWS - THERE ARE LAWS
WITHIN A COUNTRY THAT NEED TO BE
00:35:12.93\00:35:16.70
OBEYED AND IT'S THE
SAME WITH GOD'S KINGDOM.
00:35:16.70\00:35:19.03
THERE ARE LAWS THAT GOVERN
THE KINGDOM THAT ALSO NEED TO BE
00:35:19.03\00:35:21.83
OBEYED BY GRACE
THROUGH FAITH, YOU SEE.
00:35:21.83\00:35:24.33
AS CITIZENS OF GOD'S KINGDOM,
LIVING IN THE WORLD, THERE IS
00:35:24.33\00:35:32.76
THE POSSIBILITY - THE VERY
STRONG POSSIBILITY THAT WE COULD
00:35:32.76\00:35:35.40
LOOK DIFFERENT AND NOT FIT IN
TO THE CITIZENSHIP OF THE WORLD.
00:35:35.40\00:35:40.73
CHRISTIANITY IS A CULTURE
IN AND OF ITSELF, IS IT NOT?
00:35:40.73\00:35:45.30
YEAH, IT TRULY IS. IF
WE ARE CITIZENS OF THE
00:35:45.30\00:35:48.56
KINGDOM OF GOD, WE'RE NOT GOING
TO LOOK THE SAME AS OTHERS,
00:35:48.56\00:35:52.33
PER SE. TOURISTS
ALWAYS STAND OUT.
00:35:52.33\00:35:54.96
WHEN I CAME HERE, YOU KNOW, AND
I OPENED MY MOUTH FOR THE FIRST
00:35:54.96\00:35:58.96
TIME, I MEAN, EVERYONE WANTED
TO KNOW, 'WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
00:35:58.96\00:36:01.86
WHAT COUNTRY DO YOU RESIDE?'
AS SOON AS I OPENED MY MOUTH.
00:36:01.86\00:36:05.43
WHAT I SAID, HOW I SAID THINGS,
HOW I - MY COLLOQUIALISMS AND
00:36:05.43\00:36:10.83
DIFFERENT THINGS WERE
DIFFERENT WHEN I CAME HERE.
00:36:10.83\00:36:15.66
YOU TRAVEL TO ANOTHER COUNTRY
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T SPEAK
00:36:15.66\00:36:19.56
THE LANGUAGE, YOU'RE
GOING TO STAND OUT, YOU KNOW?
00:36:19.56\00:36:23.13
YOU SPOT THE TOURISTS AS WELL.
00:36:23.13\00:36:24.46
THEY'VE GOT THEIR CAMERAS AROUND
- TAKING A CAMERA AROUND THEIR
00:36:24.46\00:36:27.00
NECK - TAKING
THE PHOTOS AND SO ON.
00:36:27.00\00:36:28.63
WE ARE FOREIGNERS,
SO TO SPEAK, ARE WE NOT?
00:36:28.63\00:36:32.53
IN ENEMY TERRITORY - WE'RE
FOREIGNERS HERE IN THIS WORLD
00:36:32.53\00:36:36.10
AND HOW DO WE - HOW SHOULD
WE - HOW DO WE STAND OUT AS
00:36:36.10\00:36:41.43
FOREIGNERS, AS STRANGERS
AND PILGRIMS IN THIS WORLD?
00:36:41.43\00:36:44.86
HOW DO WE STAND OUT? I
THINK IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH
00:36:44.86\00:36:48.26
GOD'S LAW, DOES IT NOT?
REVELATION 14, VERSE 12 - JUST
00:36:48.26\00:36:51.73
TURN OVER THERE WITH ME -
REVELATION 14 AND VERSE 12.
00:36:51.73\00:36:57.03
CERTAINLY - CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW,
WHEN I CAME HERE, OPENED MY
00:36:57.03\00:37:00.46
MOUTH, 'OKAY, YOU'RE FROM
ANOTHER COUNTRY.' WOULD PEOPLE
00:37:00.46\00:37:04.93
BE ABLE TO TELL A
CHRISTIAN BY THE WAY WE TALK?
00:37:04.93\00:37:08.03
AND THE LANGUAGE WE USE -
OR THE LANGUAGE WE DON'T USE?
00:37:08.03\00:37:13.23
SURE, THEY
OUGHT TO, RIGHT? YEAH.
00:37:13.23\00:37:16.16
YEAH, I MEAN, GOD'S PEOPLE
AREN'T WALKING AROUND WITH
00:37:16.16\00:37:18.56
CAMERAS AROUND THEIR
NECKS EITHER, BUT WE ARE PASSING
00:37:18.56\00:37:22.36
THROUGH. THIS IS
NOT OUR - BEAR WITH ME -
00:37:22.36\00:37:27.10
THIS IS NOT OUR
FINAL DESTINATION.
00:37:27.10\00:37:28.53
THERE IS HEAVEN, OF COURSE,
THERE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
00:37:28.53\00:37:30.70
ULTIMATELY WE COME BACK
HERE RECREATED - NEW EARTH.
00:37:30.70\00:37:34.13
GOD'S GOING TO PURGE THE EARTH
WITH FIRE, RECREATE IT BEFORE
00:37:34.13\00:37:37.43
OUR VERY EYES, AND THE
MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
00:37:37.43\00:37:40.40
SO, YES, THIS WILL
BECOME OUR FINAL DESTINATION.
00:37:40.40\00:37:43.46
WE'RE PASSING THROUGH
HERE, THOUGH, AT THIS POINT.
00:37:43.46\00:37:45.96
HOW DO PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS
LOOK DIFFERENT IN THE WORLD?
00:37:45.96\00:37:49.13
REVELATION 14, VERSE 12 - IT
SAYS, "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF
00:37:49.13\00:37:52.03
THE SAINTS: HERE ARE THEY THAT"
- WHAT? - "KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS
00:37:52.03\00:37:57.43
OF GOD," - THAT'S RIGHT
- "AND THE FAITH OF JESUS."
00:37:57.43\00:38:01.20
YOU CAN'T KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS
WITHOUT FAITH IN JESUS.
00:38:01.20\00:38:03.80
YOU'VE GOT THE
CART BEFORE THE HORSE.
00:38:03.80\00:38:06.03
YOU EXPRESS FAITH IN CHRIST,
CHRIST COMES INTO YOUR HEART,
00:38:06.03\00:38:08.70
AND THROUGH THE MIRACLE WORKING
POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, HE
00:38:08.70\00:38:11.86
WRITES HIS LAW IN YOUR HEART AND
IN YOUR MIND. SO GOD'S PEOPLE -
00:38:11.86\00:38:16.40
PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS WANDERING
THROUGH THIS LAND AS CITIZENS
00:38:16.40\00:38:19.63
OF GOD'S KINGDOM, KEEP GOD'S
LAW. AND THAT'S - BY DOING SO,
00:38:19.63\00:38:25.96
YOU'RE GOING TO
STAND OUT. ISN'T THAT TRUE?
00:38:25.96\00:38:31.23
WE LIVE IN A - WE LIVE IN A
LAWLESS SOCIETY AND IF WE KEPT
00:38:31.23\00:38:34.26
THE LAW - NOT JUST THE LETTER,
BUT THE VERY SPIRIT, AS WELL, OF
00:38:34.26\00:38:37.56
THE LAW - AND EVERY DETAIL,
JESUS SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU -
00:38:37.56\00:38:40.50
YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID OF OLD
THAT IF YOU KILL SOMEONE YOU'VE
00:38:40.50\00:38:45.83
BROKEN THE COMMANDMENT.
BUT I SAY THAT IF YOU HATE
00:38:45.83\00:38:48.73
SOMEONE IN YOUR
HEART YOU'RE A MURDERER.
00:38:48.73\00:38:51.23
YOU'VE HEARD IT OF OLD ABOUT
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT - 'THOU
00:38:51.23\00:38:55.30
SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' BUT
IF YOU LUST AFTER THE OPPOSITE
00:38:55.30\00:38:58.43
SEX YOU'VE COMMITTED
ADULTERY ALREADY IN YOUR HEART.
00:38:58.43\00:39:01.86
SO THE VERY EXTENT - IF WE'RE
KEEPING IT IN OUR HEARTS AND
00:39:01.86\00:39:05.40
PRACTICALLY IN OUR LIVES,
ARE WE GOING TO STAND OUT? SURE.
00:39:05.40\00:39:09.63
OUT OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
WHAT'S THE COMMANDMENT THAT IS A
00:39:09.63\00:39:14.06
- IS THE HALLMARK OF THE
COMMANDMENTS - NOT THE MOST
00:39:14.06\00:39:18.16
IMPORTANT, BUT THE ONE THAT
SIGNIFIES THAT YOU - THAT YOU
00:39:18.16\00:39:21.73
ARE - THAT I AM - A
PART OF GOD'S KINGDOM?
00:39:21.73\00:39:24.10
WHICH ONE DO YOU
SUPPOSE? THE FOURTH, YEAH.
00:39:24.10\00:39:27.06
EZEKIEL 20:12 AND 20:20 TELL US
THAT IT IS A SIGN THAT - BETWEEN
00:39:27.06\00:39:32.13
US AND GOD - THAT HE IS OUR GOD
- THAT HE SANCTIFIES US - THAT
00:39:32.13\00:39:35.86
HE MAKES US HOLY. SO
THE SABBATH - KEEPING THE
00:39:35.86\00:39:39.43
SABBATH CERTAINLY
CAUSES YOU TO STAND OUT.
00:39:39.43\00:39:41.76
WALKING OUT OF YOUR HOME ALL
DRESSED UP SATURDAY MORNING -
00:39:41.76\00:39:45.36
YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE WONDERING,
'WHERE ON EARTH ARE THEY GOING?
00:39:45.36\00:39:47.46
A BLACK BOOK UNDER THEIR ARM,
YES, THE BLACK BOOK - THE BIBLE
00:39:47.46\00:39:50.63
- UNDER THEIR ARM. YOU'RE
GOING TO STAND OUT A LITTLE BIT.
00:39:50.63\00:39:53.86
KEEPING GOD'S
LAW IN EVERY RESPECT.
00:39:53.86\00:39:55.93
IT'S GOING TO CAUSE YOU
TO STAND OUT IN THIS WORLD.
00:39:55.93\00:39:58.80
LET'S MOVE OVER TO TUESDAY'S
LESSON AND LET'S TALK ABOUT
00:39:58.80\00:40:01.33
FAITH AND LAW.
BECAUSE WHILE GOD OFFERS AN
00:40:01.33\00:40:06.56
ETERNITY - OFFERS INDIVIDUALS
TO ACCEPT HIS OFFERS INTO
00:40:06.56\00:40:10.90
HIS KINGDOM - TO BE CITIZENS OF
HIS KINGDOM, THERE ARE GOING TO
00:40:10.90\00:40:14.93
BE MANY, MANY INDIVIDUALS
THAT REFUSE THAT OFFER.
00:40:14.93\00:40:19.23
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE
CITIZENS OF GOD'S KINGDOM.
00:40:19.23\00:40:21.33
AND IN A COUPLE OF VERSES WE'RE
GOING TO LOOK AT - 1 CORINTHIANS
00:40:21.33\00:40:24.16
CHAPTER 6, VERSES 9 THROUGH
11, WE DISCOVER THOSE WHO
00:40:24.16\00:40:29.96
WILL BE LEFT OUT
OF GOD'S KINGDOM.
00:40:29.96\00:40:32.43
THOSE WHO WON'T MAKE IT INTO
ETERNITY VERSUS THOSE WHO DO.
00:40:32.43\00:40:37.46
NOW, WE KNOW THAT GOD'S KINGDOM
IS BASED ON LOVE, IS IT NOT?
00:40:37.46\00:40:43.90
AND OBEDIENCE TO GOD
IS MOTIVATED BY WHAT?
00:40:43.90\00:40:47.50
BY THE SAME. BY
LOVE. THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
00:40:47.50\00:40:49.56
LOVE RULES IN GOD'S KINGDOM AND
IN ORDER TO LOVE YOU'VE GOT TO
00:40:49.56\00:40:53.90
BE ABLE TO FREELY CHOOSE
TO LOVE, ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:40:53.90\00:40:57.56
YES, THAT'S RIGHT.
00:40:57.56\00:40:59.46
AND WE CHOOSE TO LOVE AND
WE RESPOND TO THE LOVE OF GOD.
00:40:59.46\00:41:03.56
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE LOVE
GOD BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US.
00:41:03.56\00:41:08.76
AND HE LOVES US - WE RESPOND TO
THAT LOVE AND WE OPEN OUR HEARTS
00:41:08.76\00:41:12.83
TO THAT LOVE AND WE LET THAT
LOVE TRANSFORM AND CHANGE US AND
00:41:12.83\00:41:16.40
THEN THE ETERNAL
KINGDOM IS PROMISED US, YOU SEE.
00:41:16.40\00:41:22.50
BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO DON'T
RESPOND TO THAT LOVE WHO EITHER
00:41:22.50\00:41:26.03
IGNORE IT OR THEY PUSH IT AWAY
OR THEY REFUSE IT OR REJECT IT.
00:41:26.03\00:41:33.13
AND CAN GOD TAKE
THEM INTO HIS KINGDOM?
00:41:33.13\00:41:37.50
THOSE WHO DO NOT ACCEPT THAT LAW
OF LOVE - THE LAW OF UNSELFISH
00:41:37.50\00:41:41.76
SACRIFICE. THAT'S
REALLY WHAT LOVE IS, IS IT NOT?
00:41:41.76\00:41:44.16
LOVE IS UNSELFISH SACRIFICE.
OFTENTIMES YOU HEAR FOLKS SAY
00:41:44.16\00:41:48.96
THAT THE OPPOSITE OF
LOVE IS HATE. THAT'S NOT TRUE.
00:41:48.96\00:41:51.33
THE OPPOSITE OF
LOVE IS SELFISHNESS.
00:41:51.33\00:41:54.16
TRUE LOVE IS UNSELFISH:
JOHN 3:16, "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE
00:41:54.16\00:41:58.36
WORLD THAT HE" - WHAT? "GAVE."
HE GAVE HIS SON, THAT'S RIGHT.
00:41:58.36\00:42:03.73
IT'S UNSELFISH -
THAT'S WHAT LOVE IS,
00:42:03.73\00:42:05.76
UNSELFISH SACRIFICE, YOU SEE.
00:42:05.76\00:42:08.86
AND THOSE WHO REFUSE TO ACCEPT
THAT SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE INTO
00:42:08.86\00:42:13.10
THEIR LIVES WILL NOT BE FITTED
FOR HEAVEN - FOR GOD'S KINGDOM -
00:42:13.10\00:42:17.46
WHICH IS RULED BY
SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE.
00:42:17.46\00:42:20.16
IT WOULD BE A LITTLE AWKWARD,
WOULD IT NOT? IF YOU'VE LIVED A
00:42:20.16\00:42:23.33
SELFISH LIFE HERE AND
GOD WERE TO TAKE YOU THERE
00:42:23.33\00:42:25.96
AND YOU JUST WOULDN'T FIT IN IF
YOU WEREN'T USED TO SERVING - IF
00:42:25.96\00:42:31.20
YOU WEREN'T USED TO SACRIFICING
AND YOU WEREN'T USED TO LIVING
00:42:31.20\00:42:33.93
FOR JESUS WHEN
EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS.
00:42:33.93\00:42:36.80
SO PERHAPS IN GOD'S MERCY
HE SHUTS PEOPLE OUT BECAUSE IT
00:42:36.80\00:42:40.33
WOULD BE MORE LIKE
HELL TO THEM THAN HEAVEN.
00:42:40.33\00:42:44.30
LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
THAT - THAT'S LOVE AND JUSTICE.
00:42:44.30\00:42:47.36
LOVE RULES GOD'S KINGDOM,
JUSTICE IS SEEN IN - LOVE IS
00:42:47.36\00:42:51.50
SEEN AND JUSTICE IS SEEN IN
REFUSING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS
00:42:51.50\00:42:55.16
INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
FOR THE REASONS I'VE STATED.
00:42:55.16\00:42:58.50
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9 THROUGH 11
- IT SAYS, "KNOW YE NOT THAT THE
00:42:58.50\00:43:01.40
UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT
THE KINGDOM OF GOD?" - THAT'S
00:43:01.40\00:43:06.03
OPPOSED TO THE RIGHTEOUS.
THE RIGHTEOUS ARE THOSE WHO OBEY
00:43:06.03\00:43:09.36
AND KEEP GOD'S LAW THROUGH
GRACE, BY FAITH, OF COURSE.
00:43:09.36\00:43:12.40
BUT "THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL
NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:43:12.40\00:43:15.80
BE NOT DECEIVED:" - AND THAT'S
A VERY IMPORTANT STATEMENT TO
00:43:15.80\00:43:20.40
REMEMBER FOR EACH ONE OF
US. DON'T BE DECEIVED BY THIS.
00:43:20.40\00:43:23.83
DON'T THINK THAT GOD IS TOO
LOVING TO PREVENT PEOPLE INTO
00:43:23.83\00:43:29.36
HIS KINGDOM. DON'T
BE DECEIVED BY THAT.
00:43:29.36\00:43:31.53
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN.
00:43:31.53\00:43:33.56
"NEITHER FORNICATORS,
IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR
00:43:33.56\00:43:39.23
EFFEMINATE," - THAT WOULD MEAN
DELICATE OR TENDER WHICH, IN
00:43:39.23\00:43:43.60
THIS CONTEXT OF IDOLATRY AND
ADULTERY AND FORNICATION WOULD
00:43:43.60\00:43:47.60
REFER TO HOMOSEXUALITY -
"NOR ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH
00:43:47.60\00:43:51.33
MANKIND," - THE SAME THING -
"NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR
00:43:51.33\00:43:54.76
DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS," -
THAT WOULD BE SLANDERERS - "NOR
00:43:54.76\00:43:58.16
EXTORTIONERS, SHALL
INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD."
00:43:58.16\00:44:00.90
SO PAUL IS VERY CLEAR WHO WILL
BE SHUT OUT OF THE KINGDOM OF
00:44:00.90\00:44:06.40
HEAVEN. WHY? WHY?
BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO GIVE
00:44:06.40\00:44:11.33
THOSE THINGS UP, DID THEY NOT?
THEY REFUSED TO EMBRACE GOD'S
00:44:11.33\00:44:15.00
LAW AND HIS LOVE AND HIS
WILL AND HIS WAY. SO WOULD IT BE
00:44:15.00\00:44:18.50
A GOOD THING - A JUST - WOULD IT
BE GOOD FOR A JUST GOD TO TAKE
00:44:18.50\00:44:22.06
PEOPLE TO HEAVEN, BRING
THEM INTO HIS ETERNAL KINGDOM,
00:44:22.06\00:44:26.46
IF THEY WOULD NEVER FIT IN
BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO GIVE
00:44:26.46\00:44:31.20
THESE LIFESTYLE PRACTICES
- THOUGHT PROCESSES UP?
00:44:31.20\00:44:36.60
IT WOULDN'T BE VERY FAIR
FOR GOD TO DO THAT, WOULD IT?
00:44:36.60\00:44:40.50
IT GOES ON TO SAY, IN VERSE 11,
"AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU: BUT
00:44:40.50\00:44:45.00
YE ARE WASHED, BUT YE ARE
SANCTIFIED, BUT YE ARE JUSTIFIED
00:44:45.00\00:44:50.93
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS,
AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD."
00:44:50.93\00:44:54.16
THAT'S INTERESTING. HERE
ARE FOLK WHO ARE GOING TO
00:44:54.16\00:44:56.13
BE IN HEAVEN WHO ARE JUSTIFIED.
NOW IN ROMANS 3:28, PAUL SAID
00:44:56.13\00:45:00.26
THAT YOU ARE JUSTIFIED
APART FROM THE DEEDS OF THE LAW.
00:45:00.26\00:45:04.86
SO HERE ARE FOLK WHO ARE THERE -
ARE JUSTIFIED - BUT THEY'RE ALSO
00:45:04.86\00:45:09.40
KEEPING GOD'S LAW. SO
JUSTIFICATION AND OBEDIENCE
00:45:09.40\00:45:13.06
ARE NOT TWO DIAMETRICALLY
OPPOSED IDEAS HERE, NOT AT ALL.
00:45:13.06\00:45:17.06
JUSTIFICATION LEADS US TO
- SANCTIFICATION LEADS US TO
00:45:17.06\00:45:21.86
OBEDIENCE, YOU SEE. THEN
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 22,
00:45:21.86\00:45:25.06
VERSES 14 AND 15 -
I'LL JUST READ THIS FOR US.
00:45:25.06\00:45:27.93
IT SAYS, "BLESSED ARE THEY THAT
DO HIS COMMANDMENTS," - ALTHOUGH
00:45:27.93\00:45:31.13
THEY'RE JUSTIFIED, THEY DO HIS
COMMANDMENTS - "THAT THEY MAY
00:45:31.13\00:45:34.13
HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE,
AND MAY ENTER IN THROUGH THE
00:45:34.13\00:45:37.80
GATES INTO THE CITY."
NOW, IN VERSE 15 IT GOES ON TO
00:45:37.80\00:45:40.60
SAY THOSE THAT WON'T BE IN -
THEY - "FOR WITHOUT ARE DOGS."
00:45:40.60\00:45:44.23
NOW THAT'S JUST A WAY OF SAYING,
'A VILE OR A SHAMELESS PERSON.
00:45:44.23\00:45:48.33
"SORCERERS, AND WHOREMONGERS,"
FORNICATORS OR HARLOTS,
00:45:48.33\00:45:51.03
"AND MURDERERS, AND IDOLATERS,
AND WHOSOEVER LOVETH AND MAKETH
00:45:51.03\00:45:54.20
A LIE." THEY'RE
GOING TO BE SHUT OUT.
00:45:54.20\00:45:55.80
WHY? IS IT THAT
GOD IS BEING ARBITRARY?
00:45:55.80\00:45:58.86
NO, IT'S BECAUSE GOD IS BEING
LOVING AND FAIR AND SAYING,
00:45:58.86\00:46:04.43
'OKAY, I PRESENTED TO YOU
WHAT MY KINGDOM WOULD BE LIKE.
00:46:04.43\00:46:07.66
I PRESENTED TO YOU MY GRACE.
I GAVE TO YOU MY SON AND ALL YOU
00:46:07.66\00:46:11.50
NEEDED TO DO WAS OPEN YOUR HEART
AND RECEIVE HIM AND LET HIM
00:46:11.50\00:46:14.10
TRANSFORM YOU
FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
00:46:14.10\00:46:16.43
THAT'S ALL YOU NEEDED TO DO.
AND I WILL USHER YOU IN TO MY
00:46:16.43\00:46:20.50
ETERNAL KINGDOM, BUT YOU REFUSED
OR YOU NEGLECTED THE WORK OR
00:46:20.50\00:46:24.36
WHATEVER. YOU PUT
IF OFF AND BECAUSE
00:46:24.36\00:46:27.60
YOU'RE NOT READY TO ENTER IN TO
THAT HOLY, UNSELFISH ATMOSPHERE,
00:46:27.60\00:46:31.90
OUT OF LOVING KINDNESS I'M GOING
TO GIVE YOU WHAT YOU ASKED FOR.
00:46:31.90\00:46:36.73
BECAUSE GOD'S A GENTLEMAN AND
HE GIVES PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT.
00:46:36.73\00:46:40.96
HE GIVES PEOPLE
WHAT THEY ASK FOR.
00:46:40.96\00:46:44.13
IN THE POWERFUL LITTLE BOOK
'STEPS TO CHRIST' - THAT LITTLE
00:46:44.13\00:46:48.30
DEVOTIONAL ABOUT HOW TO COME
AND STAY WITH CHRIST THAT'S BEEN
00:46:48.30\00:46:52.56
TRANSLATED IN OVER A
HUNDRED DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
00:46:52.56\00:46:54.73
ON PAGE 18 IT SAYS, 'THE SINNER
COULD NOT BE HAPPY IN GOD'S
00:46:54.73\00:46:59.03
PRESENCE. HE
WOULD SHRINK FROM THE
00:46:59.03\00:47:00.93
COMPANIONSHIP OF HOLY BEINGS.
COULD HE BE PERMITTED TO ENTER
00:47:00.93\00:47:04.60
HEAVEN, IT WOULD
HAVE NO JOY FOR HIM.
00:47:04.60\00:47:08.43
THE SPIRIT OF UNSELFISH LOVE
THAT REIGNS THERE - EVERY HEART
00:47:08.43\00:47:10.90
RESPONDING TO THE HEART OF
INFINITE LOVE WOULD TOUCH NO
00:47:10.90\00:47:13.60
ANSWERING CHORD IN HIS SOUL.
HIS THOUGHTS, HIS INTERESTS, HIS
00:47:13.60\00:47:16.16
MOTIVES WOULD BE ALIEN TO
THOSE THAT ACTUATE THE SINLESS
00:47:16.16\00:47:19.60
DWELLERS THERE." SO
GOD KEEPS THEM OUT FOR
00:47:19.60\00:47:23.63
THEIR OWN SAKE
AND THEIR OWN SANITY.
00:47:23.63\00:47:26.23
LET'S GO OVER TO
WEDNESDAY'S LESSON.
00:47:26.23\00:47:28.53
LET'S TALK ABOUT
THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM.
00:47:28.53\00:47:30.80
THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM
- THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM.
00:47:30.80\00:47:36.26
WE UNDERSTAND THAT GOD
CREATED A PERFECT WORLD.
00:47:36.26\00:47:38.36
SIN, OF COURSE, MARRED GOD'S
PERFECT PLAN AND JESUS, THANK
00:47:38.36\00:47:43.36
THE LORD, THAT JESUS CAME
TO RESTORE THE PERFECTION - THE
00:47:43.36\00:47:47.03
ORIGINAL PERFECTION OF
THIS WORLD AND OF MANKIND AND
00:47:47.03\00:47:51.66
ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM
WHERE LOVE REIGNS SUPREME.
00:47:51.66\00:47:55.73
NOW FOR LOVE TO REIGN, ONE MUST
CHOOSE TO LOVE AND TO CHOOSE,
00:47:55.73\00:48:01.66
ONE MUST BE A FREE MORAL AGENT
TO DO SO, ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:48:01.66\00:48:05.73
SURE. SO FREEDOM.
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD'S
00:48:05.73\00:48:09.73
KINGDOM IS GOING TO BE AN
EVERLASTING KINGDOM, WHICH BEGS
00:48:09.73\00:48:12.50
THE QUESTION:
'COULD EVIL RISE AGAIN?
00:48:12.50\00:48:16.26
MAYBE IT DOESN'T EVEN
BEG THE QUESTION - IF IT'S AN
00:48:16.26\00:48:17.86
EVERLASTING KINGDOM
THE ANSWER'S ALREADY THERE.
00:48:17.86\00:48:20.00
WILL SIN EVER RISE?
WILL EVIL EVER RISE AGAIN?
00:48:20.00\00:48:23.03
NO, IF IT'S
EVERLASTING THEN OBVIOUSLY NOT.
00:48:23.03\00:48:27.53
BUT IF WE ARE TAKING OUR BRAINS
WITH US TO HEAVEN AND WE ARE
00:48:27.53\00:48:30.80
GOING TO REMAIN FREE MORAL
AGENTS, ISN'T THERE A CHANCE,
00:48:30.80\00:48:33.26
ISN'T THERE A RISK
THAT SIN MIGHT RISE -
00:48:33.26\00:48:35.26
RAISE ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN?
00:48:35.26\00:48:37.10
THERE IS THAT CHANCE.
BUT WILL IT HAPPEN? NO.
00:48:37.10\00:48:41.56
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT AN
EVERLASTING KINGDOM - JOHN 3:16,
00:48:41.56\00:48:44.33
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT
HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON
00:48:44.33\00:48:46.96
THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN
HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE
00:48:46.96\00:48:50.46
WHAT? EVERLASTING LIFE, THAT'S
RIGHT. REVELATION 21:4 TALKS
00:48:50.46\00:48:55.26
ABOUT THE END OF PAIN,
SORROW AND DEATH. DEATH IS A
00:48:55.26\00:48:59.96
CONSEQUENCE, A RESULT OF SIN,
WHICH SAYS SIN WON'T BE THERE.
00:48:59.96\00:49:04.46
DANIEL 7:27 TALKS ABOUT AN
EVERLASTING KINGDOM - WE READ
00:49:04.46\00:49:08.20
THAT IN DANIEL 2 AS WELL.
THIS KINGDOM IS EVERLASTING.
00:49:08.20\00:49:10.80
YOU CAN'T WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND
EVERLASTING - IT'S QUITE HARD.
00:49:10.80\00:49:13.46
HERE ARE SOME SYNONYMS:
ETERNAL; ENDLESS; NEVER-ENDING;
00:49:13.46\00:49:16.56
PERPETUAL; UNDYING; ABIDING;
ENDURING; INFINITE; BOUNDLESS;
00:49:16.56\00:49:22.00
TIMELESS. THAT'S EVERLASTING.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SIN WILL
00:49:22.00\00:49:27.43
NEVER RISE - RAISE
ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN?
00:49:27.43\00:49:30.26
JEREMIAH 31:33 - WHO'S GOT THAT
FOR US? OKAY, RIGHT OVER HERE.
00:49:30.26\00:49:35.30
JEREMIAH 31:33. I
THINK THE ANSWER IS HERE.
00:49:35.30\00:49:38.30
THIS GOES BACK TO OUR
MEMORY TEXT HERE FOR OUR LESSON.
00:49:38.30\00:49:44.60
JEREMIAH 31 AND VERSE 33.
I'D LIKE TO SUBMIT TO US HERE
00:49:44.60\00:49:50.43
THIS MORNING THAT LOVE HAS
REMOVED ALL POSSIBILITIES THAT
00:49:50.43\00:49:54.30
SIN WOULD RISE AGAIN. LOVE.
00:49:54.30\00:49:59.40
>>"'BUT THIS IS THE COVENANT
THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE
00:49:59.40\00:50:03.00
OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS,'
SAYS THE LORD: 'I WILL PUT MY
00:50:03.00\00:50:07.50
LAW IN THEIR MINDS, AND WRITE IT
ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE
00:50:07.50\00:50:11.86
THEIR GOD, AND THEY
SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.'"
00:50:11.86\00:50:15.53
>>SO THE LAW IS IN THE MIND AND
IN THE HEART, RIGHT? YOU SEE,
00:50:15.53\00:50:20.90
LOVE HAS REMOVED ALL
POSSIBILITIES THAT SIN WILL RISE
00:50:20.90\00:50:23.03
AGAIN. THE GOSPEL - THE GOSPEL
OF GRACE - THE GOSPEL OF JESUS
00:50:23.03\00:50:26.63
CHRIST - HAS BEEN SO EFFECTIVE
TO THE EXTENT THAT IN THE
00:50:26.63\00:50:30.36
BELIEVER'S LIFE, THEY WOULD
RATHER DIE THAN TO SIN AGAINST
00:50:30.36\00:50:32.93
THEIR GOD. THAT'S THE EXTENT TO
WHICH THE GOSPEL GETS AHOLD OF A
00:50:32.93\00:50:37.40
PERSON. IT CAUSES US TO HATE THE
THINGS WE USED TO LOVE AND LOVE
00:50:37.40\00:50:41.26
THE THINGS WE USED TO HATE.
00:50:41.26\00:50:43.06
THAT'S THE MIRACLE OF GRACE
RIGHT THERE THAT WAS READ FOR US
00:50:43.06\00:50:46.73
IN JEREMIAH
CHAPTER 31, VERSE 33.
00:50:46.73\00:50:50.13
GOD SAYS HE WILL WRITE HIS LAW
IN OUR MINDS AND IN OUR HEARTS
00:50:50.13\00:50:54.33
INSOMUCH THAT DOING GOD'S WILL
JUST BECOMES A NATURAL THING FOR
00:50:54.33\00:50:59.16
US AND WE DON'T WANT TO SIN
AGAIN AND WE DON'T WANT TO GO
00:50:59.16\00:51:03.03
BACK TO THE WAY IT HAS BEEN
BECAUSE OF THE GREAT COST OF
00:51:03.03\00:51:10.60
SIN. AND WHAT
WAS THE COST OF SIN?
00:51:10.60\00:51:14.26
CALVARY. JESUS CHRIST. EXACTLY.
00:51:14.26\00:51:17.30
AND IF WE'VE SPENT TIME LOOKING
AT CALVARY AND LOOKING AT JESUS,
00:51:17.30\00:51:19.86
WE'LL RECOGNIZE THAT
SIN IS NOTHING TO PLAY WITH.
00:51:19.86\00:51:22.23
IT CRUCIFIED THE SON
OF GOD, OUR BEST FRIEND.
00:51:22.23\00:51:26.56
AND SO THE GOSPEL HAS WORKED TO
THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE WILLING
00:51:26.56\00:51:29.43
TO DO GOD'S WILL AND WE'D DO IT
EVEN - WE'D RATHER DIE THAN TO
00:51:29.43\00:51:33.33
NOT DO GOD'S WILL.
THAT'S HOW FAR-REACHING THE
00:51:33.33\00:51:36.60
GOSPEL IS. THE
GOSPEL MUST PENETRATE OUR
00:51:36.60\00:51:39.23
LIVES IN ORDER TO BE FITTED
FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
00:51:39.23\00:51:45.53
THE LAST DAY - WE MADE
IT - THURSDAY - HERE IT IS.
00:51:45.53\00:51:50.03
THURSDAY'S LESSON:
'THE LAW IN THE KINGDOM' -
00:51:50.03\00:51:54.10
THE LAW IN THE KINGDOM.
00:51:54.10\00:51:55.56
SOMEONE SAID, 'HAVE THE COURAGE
TO LIVE - ANYONE CAN DIE.'
00:51:55.56\00:51:59.83
HAVE THE COURAGE TO
LIVE - ANYONE CAN DIE.
00:51:59.83\00:52:04.50
SPEAKING TO THE FACT OF
THE INEVITABILITY OF DEATH.
00:52:04.50\00:52:08.13
DEATH HAS BEEN THE MOST
PERSISTENT OUT OF ALL THE HARSH
00:52:08.13\00:52:11.93
CONSEQUENCES OF SIN.
SATAN CAN BE RESISTED.
00:52:11.93\00:52:15.93
SIN CAN BE OVERCOME. BUT
WHO, APART FROM ENOCH AND
00:52:15.93\00:52:20.53
ELIJAH, CAN ESCAPE
THE POSSIBILITY OF DEATH?
00:52:20.53\00:52:25.43
WE'RE ALL
SUBJECT TO IT, AREN'T WE?
00:52:25.43\00:52:27.90
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT
DEATH WILL BE DESTROYED.
00:52:27.90\00:52:29.90
WHO'S GOT 1
CORINTHIANS 15:26 FOR US?
00:52:29.90\00:52:32.30
RIGHT DOWN HERE.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:26.
00:52:32.30\00:52:35.00
LET ME READ REVELATION CHAPTER
20 AND VERSE 14 - ONE DAY DEATH
00:52:35.00\00:52:39.70
IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED.
AND THERE SHOULD BE AN 'AMEN'
00:52:39.70\00:52:43.36
FOR THAT HERE THIS MORNING
- A BIGGER 'AMEN' THAN THAT.
00:52:43.36\00:52:47.63
REVELATION 20, VERSE 14.
THE BIBLE CALLS DEATH AN ENEMY.
00:52:47.63\00:52:51.16
IS IT NOT AN ENEMY? SURE IT
IS. IT SEPARATES LOVED ONES.
00:52:51.16\00:52:54.53
IT CAUSES PAIN AND GRIEF AND
HEARTACHE AND SOME PEOPLE HERE
00:52:54.53\00:52:58.33
TODAY, THEIR LIFE HAS NEVER
BEEN THE SAME SINCE SOMEONE THEY
00:52:58.33\00:53:00.90
LOVED PASSED
AWAY. DEATH IS AN ENEMY.
00:53:00.90\00:53:03.70
AND ONE DAY, THOUGH, THE BIBLE
SAYS THAT DEATH IS GOING TO BE
00:53:03.70\00:53:06.10
DESTROYED. THAT IS GOOD NEWS.
YEAH, REVELATION 20, VERSE 14,
00:53:06.10\00:53:10.66
"AND DEATH AND HELL WERE
CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
00:53:10.66\00:53:14.16
THIS IS THE
SECOND DEATH." THAT'S IT.
00:53:14.16\00:53:17.53
GOING TO BE ALL SAID AND DONE.
1 CORINTHIANS 15 AND VERSE 26.
00:53:17.53\00:53:22.26
>>"THE LAST ENEMY THAT
SHALL BE DESTROYED IS DEATH."
00:53:22.26\00:53:26.23
>>AMEN. THE ENEMY,
DEATH, IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED.
00:53:26.23\00:53:30.93
SO HERE'S THE QUESTION:
'WILL GOD'S LAW BE NEEDED IN HIS
00:53:30.93\00:53:33.93
KINGDOM? HERE'S
THE RATIONALE: DEATH
00:53:33.93\00:53:36.16
COMES BECAUSE OF SIN AND SIN
EXISTS BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW.
00:53:36.16\00:53:42.06
SIN EXISTS
BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW.
00:53:42.06\00:53:43.56
IF DEATH IS DESTROYED WILL THERE
BE ANY USE FOR THE LAW OF GOD IN
00:53:43.56\00:53:46.90
HEAVEN? IT'S NOT A
TRICK QUESTION - YES!
00:53:46.90\00:53:53.33
WHERE IS THE LAW? IN
OUR HEARTS AND MINDS.
00:53:53.33\00:53:56.40
THAT'S EXACTLY
RIGHT. IT'S WRITTEN THERE.
00:53:56.40\00:53:58.33
IT IS WRITTEN THERE. THE
LAW EXISTED IN HEAVEN EVEN
00:53:58.33\00:54:02.33
BEFORE SIN ENTERED IN HEAVEN.
AND THE FACT THAT SIN ENTERED
00:54:02.33\00:54:05.16
HEAVEN TELLS US THAT
THERE WAS A LAW IN HEAVEN.
00:54:05.16\00:54:09.23
YOU KNOW THERE'S SIN - YOU KNOW
IT'S SIN BECAUSE THE LAW TELLS
00:54:09.23\00:54:12.43
YOU THAT THAT THING IS WRONG.
SO WHEN LUCIFER REBELLED IN
00:54:12.43\00:54:16.53
HEAVEN HE REBELLED - WE KNOW HE
REBELLED - WE KNOW THERE WAS A
00:54:16.53\00:54:20.20
LAW BECAUSE HE
REBELLED AND BECAUSE HE SINNED.
00:54:20.20\00:54:22.26
SO THERE WAS A LAW THAT
EXISTED IN HEAVEN EVEN BEFORE.
00:54:22.26\00:54:25.56
AS A MATTER OF FACT IN THAT
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BOOK 'THOUGHTS
00:54:25.56\00:54:28.00
FROM THE MOUNT OF BLESSING' ON
PAGE 108 IT SAYS, 'BUT IN HEAVEN
00:54:28.00\00:54:30.26
SERVICE IS NOT RENDERED
IN THE SPIRIT OF LEGALITY.
00:54:30.26\00:54:33.13
WHEN SATAN REBELLED AGAINST THE
LAW OF JEHOVAH THE THOUGHT THAT
00:54:33.13\00:54:36.16
THERE WAS A LAW CAME TO THE
ANGELS ALMOST AS AN AWAKENING TO
00:54:36.16\00:54:39.76
SOMETHING UNTHOUGHT OF. IN
THEIR MINISTRY THE ANGELS ARE
00:54:39.76\00:54:42.10
NOT HIS SERVANTS BUT HIS SONS.
00:54:42.10\00:54:43.83
THERE'S PERFECT UNITY
BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR CREATOR.
00:54:43.83\00:54:46.03
OBEDIENCE IS NOT, TO THEM,
DRUDGERY, LOVE FOR GOD MAKES
00:54:46.03\00:54:48.90
THEIR SERVICE A JOY. AND SO,
YOU KNOW, YOU LOVE YOUR WIFE.
00:54:48.90\00:54:53.23
YOU LOVE YOUR HUSBAND, YOU
JUST DO WHAT THEY ASK YOU TO DO.
00:54:53.23\00:54:55.43
YOUR CHILDREN - THEY LOVE YOU -
THEY DO WHAT YOU ASK THEM TO DO.
00:54:55.43\00:54:58.20
I'M NOT TREATING MY CHILDREN
WELL BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW IN
00:54:58.20\00:55:01.26
THE STATE THAT SAYS 'DON'T DO
HARM TO YOUR CHILDREN OR WE'RE
00:55:01.26\00:55:03.76
GOING TO COME AFTER YOU AND
GET YOU AND THROW YOU IN THE
00:55:03.76\00:55:07.46
SLAMMER.' I'M DOING THE
BEST BY MY CHILDREN WHY?
00:55:07.46\00:55:11.66
BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW WRITTEN IN
MY HEART THAT'S A LAW OF LOVE.
00:55:11.66\00:55:14.70
THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. AND
SO WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN -
00:55:14.70\00:55:18.00
WHEN WE ENTER GOD'S KINGDOM -
BEFORE WE GET TO GOD'S KINGDOM
00:55:18.00\00:55:20.56
WE'RE GOING TO
BE DOING HIS WILL.
00:55:20.56\00:55:22.33
WE'RE GOING TO LOVE TO DO HIS
WILL AND IT WILL JUST CONTINUE
00:55:22.33\00:55:24.56
ON THROUGHOUT THE
CEASELESS AGES OF ETERNITY.
00:55:24.56\00:55:27.50
AND WHAT'S THE
PURPOSE OF THE LAW?
00:55:27.50\00:55:29.06
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF
THE LAW IN GOD'S KINGDOM?
00:55:29.06\00:55:31.80
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