Participants: Pr. Chris Buttery
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021426
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:49 COMING TO YOU FROM SACRAMENTO, THE CAPITAL CITY OF CALIFORNIA. 00:54 AND WE ARE JUST GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN WHETHER YOU ARE 00:57 WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEB SITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', LISTENING ON 01:01 THE RADIO OR JOINING US ON VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS, WE 01:05 ARE JUST SO EXCITED TO HAVE YOU. WE KNOW THAT YOU LOVE TO SING 01:08 WITH US AND YOU ALSO LOVE TO OPEN UP GOD'S WORD AND STUDY 01:11 WITH US AS WELL. TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. 01:14 I HOPE YOU ARE READY TO SING BECAUSE WE ARE. 01:16 WE'VE BEEN WARMING UP OUR VOICES AND WE ARE READY TO PRAISE THE 01:19 LORD WITH OUR FIRST REQUEST, ''TIS SO SWEET TO TRUST IN 01:24 JESUS' - #524 - SO IF YOU HAVE A HYMNAL AT HOME, 01:27 PULL IT OUT AND JOIN WITH US. THIS IS A REQUEST FROM KURT IN 01:30 DOMINICA, EMILY ROSE IN GERMANY, AND PRETHY IN INDIA - AND THERE 01:35 WAS A LONG LIST OF MORE PEOPLE WANTING TO SING THIS SONG WITH 01:38 US. SO WE'RE GOING TO SING THE 01:39 FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH STANZAS. 01:42 JOIN WITH US - 'TIS SO SWEET TO TRUST IN JESUS'. 01:46 (MUSIC) 03:59 >>WE HAVE A COUPLE MORE MINUTES SO WE'RE GOING TO JUMP 04:01 DOWN TO #108, WHICH IS AN ABSOLUTE FAVORITE AND THE 04:05 REQUESTS THAT COME IN - I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF 04:08 PEOPLE HAVE REQUESTED #108 OVER THE YEARS. 04:12 SO LET'S SING 'AMAZING GRACE' - DARCO IN ICELAND - WE DON'T GET 04:16 MANY REQUESTS FROM ICELAND, THAT'S EXCITING, ERIC IN 04:18 GUATEMALA AND SUSAN IN SAUDI ARABIA AND ABOUT A HUNDRED OTHER 04:21 PEOPLE. WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS - 04:23 WE ARE GOING TO DO THE FIRST, SECOND, 04:25 FOURTH, AND FIFTH STANZAS BECAUSE THIS IS A QUICK ONE. 04:28 #108 - HERE WE GO - 'AMAZING GRACE'. 04:30 (MUSIC) 06:51 >>FATHER IN HEAVEN, IT IS BECAUSE OF YOUR AMAZING GRACE 06:54 THAT WE ARE HERE. AND WE PRAISE YOU AND WE THANK 06:58 YOU FOR THE ASSURANCE THAT WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE BECAUSE OF 07:05 YOUR GIFT - COMING TO THIS WORLD AS A SACRIFICE AND YOUR GRACE. 07:10 I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE 07:14 STUDY TOGETHER. BE WITH OUR EXTENDED FAMILY 07:17 AROUND THE WORLD AND THOSE HERE AND WE JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH 07:20 FOR EACH ONE AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN WE CAN HAVE A 07:23 BIG CENTRAL STUDY HOUR REUNION ON THE STREETS OF GOLD AND SING 07:27 ABOUT YOUR AMAZING GRACE. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 07:33 AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY 07:36 PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY. HE IS THE SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT 07:39 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 07:45 >>WHAT A BLESSING TO BE TOGETHER TO STUDY GOD'S WORD AND WE WANT 07:49 TO CERTAINLY WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE JOINING US ONLINE AND 07:52 VIEWING US ON TV WHEREVER YOU MIGHT BE. AND THIS MORNING WE 07:56 WANT TO LET YOU KNOW - THOSE THAT ARE VIEWING WITHIN U.S. 08:00 TERRITORIES - WE HAVE A FREE OFFER AND IT'S THE LITTLE 08:04 BOOKLET WRITTEN BY DOUG BATCHELOR, 'ASSURANCE: 08:07 JUSTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE' - A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC THAT A LOT 08:12 OF PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND AND IT'S EASILY EXPLAINED RIGHT HERE IN 08:15 THIS LITTLE BOOK. IT IS OFFER #727 AND WHAT YOU 08:20 WANT TO DO IS CALL IN TO 1-866-788-3966 OR 08:25 1-866-STUDY-MORE. WELL, WE HAVE COME TO THE CLOSE 08:31 OF OUR QUARTER - THIS IS IT, ISN'T IT? REALLY. 08:36 THIS IS THE LAST LESSON AND IT HAS BEEN A GOOD, GOOD QUARTER. 08:40 THEY'VE ALL BEEN GOOD, HAVEN'T THEY? 08:42 THIS ONE, ABOUT GOD'S LAW, HAS BEEN TERRIFIC, ESPECIALLY - IT'S 08:47 NEEDED - ESPECIALLY IN AN AGE OF LAWLESSNESS WE NEED TO KNOW 08:53 ABOUT GOD'S LAW AND WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ITS ROLE - ITS 08:57 FUNCTION IN OUR LIVES AND WHAT PURPOSE IT SERVES AND WE'VE BEEN 09:01 LEARNING THAT THROUGHOUT THE LAST 13 WEEKS TOGETHER AND TODAY 09:07 IS LESSON #13, OF COURSE, 'CHRIST'S KINGDOM AND THE LAW'. 09:12 AND SO WE TRUST THAT YOU'RE THERE AND YOU HAVE OPENED UP 09:16 YOUR LESSON WITH ME AS WE ARE GOING TO STUDY TOGETHER. 09:19 WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE MEMORY VERSE HERE, THIS IS A VERY 09:22 PERTINENT AND IMPORTANT VERSE AND - BECAUSE IT HAS TO DO WITH 09:27 THE NEW COVENANT AND WE ARE NEW COVENANT CHRISTIANS AND SO THIS 09:31 PROMISE IS THEN FOR US TODAY AND THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS - IT SAYS - 09:37 THIS IS JEREMIAH 31, VERSE 33, "BUT THIS SHALL BE THE COVENANT 09:41 THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; AFTER THOSE DAYS, 09:45 SAITH THE LORD, I WILL PUT MY LAW IN THEIR INWARD PARTS, AND 09:49 WRITE IT IN THEIR HEARTS; AND WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY 09:55 SHALL BE MY PEOPLE." THAT'S RIGHT. 09:58 POWERFUL PROMISE, ISN'T IT? THAT'S ONE WE OUGHT TO MEMORIZE. 10:03 IT IS A MEMORY TEXT, AFTER ALL. GOD SAYS HE'LL PUT HIS LAW IN 10:06 OUR MINDS AND WRITE THEM IN OUR HEARTS. 10:10 THAT'S THE NEW COVENANT PROMISE. 10:11 WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT HERE TOWARD THE 10:14 END OF OUR CLASS HERE THIS MORNING AS WE REVIEW OUR LESSON. 10:20 I'M GOING TO BORROW THE ILLUSTRATION THAT WAS USED HERE 10:24 AS A START OF THE LESSON REGARDING STEVE JOBS. 10:28 OF COURSE, HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF APPLE. HE DIED IN 2011 AND 10:36 YEARS EARLIER, AFTER A BOUT WITH CANCER, HE WAS SAID TO HAVE SAID 10:41 THAT DEATH WAS THE SINGLE BEST INVENTION OF LIFE. 10:46 I BEG TO DIFFER AND I THINK MOST OF YOU, IF NOT ALL OF YOU HERE 10:49 THIS MORNING WOULD BEG TO DIFFER AS WELL. 10:52 HE CONSIDERED IT TO BE THE BEST INVENTION BECAUSE DEATH'S 10:56 INEVITABILITY FORCED PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE THE BEST THEY CAN HERE. 11:01 NOW, I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT WOULD BE THE BEST MOTIVATOR FOR 11:05 GIVING OUR BEST AND DOING THE BEST WE POSSIBLY COULD. 11:11 THE VERY THING THAT PROBABLY SHOULD - THE VERY THING THAT 11:15 CAUSES A PERSON TO REVIEW THEIR MORTALITY - THE VERY THING THAT 11:21 CAUSES A PERSON TO RECOGNIZE THAT LIFE IS BRIEF OUGHT NOT BE 11:25 THE THING THAT MOTIVATES US, PER SE, TO GIVE THIS SHORT SPAN OF 11:29 LIFE THE VERY BEST WE CAN. FOR ALL THAT STEVE JOBS DID, AND 11:33 I'M A BIG APPLE FAN - I LIKE MY APPLES - SORRY FOR THOSE WHO USE 11:37 PCS, BUT I LIKE MY APPLES - STEVE JOBS DID A GOOD THING. 11:41 ALL THE THINGS THAT HE INVENTED AND HIS TEAM INVENTED THOUGH, 11:44 WHAT ARE THEY IN LIGHT OF ETERNITY? IN LIGHT OF ENDLESS 11:48 YEARS OF EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY? AND THESE THINGS ARE 11:52 BIG, DON'T GET ME WRONG, BUT THERE'S AN ETERNITY BEYOND SO 11:56 THESE THINGS PALE INTO INSIGNIFICANCE, REALLY. 11:59 NOT TOO LONG AGO I READ AN INTERESTING ARTICLE AND THE 12:02 ARTICLE WAS ABOUT DR. STEPHEN HAWKING - HE'S THE WORLD-RENOWN 12:05 THEORETICAL PHYSICIST - AND IN AN ARTICLE, HAWKING SAID THAT - 12:10 IN THIS ARTICLE HE SAID THAT THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR HEAVEN IN 12:13 HIS VISION OF THE COSMOS. HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN HEAVEN - 12:16 DIDN'T BELIEVE IN AN ETERNITY - LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE - HE JUST 12:20 DIDN'T BELIEVE ANY OF THAT. IN THE SAME ARTICLE, IT WAS 12:24 HAWKING THAT SAID, INTERESTINGLY, HE BEMOANED - 12:28 THIS IS WHAT HE SAID, HE SAID, "I'M IN NO HURRY TO DIE." 12:32 HERE'S THE REASON WHY - "I'M IN NO HURRY TO DIE" - HE SAYS - "I 12:34 HAVE SO MUCH I WANT TO DO FIRST." "I'M IN NO HURRY TO 12:40 DIE." STEPHEN HAWKING - NO LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE. NO ETERNITY. 12:46 THIS IS ALL YOU GET. I'M IN NO HURRY TO DIE BECAUSE 12:49 THERE'S SO MUCH THAT I WANT TO DO. 12:51 DR. HAWKING'S DESIRE TO LIVE LONGER - TO ACCOMPLISH MORE - 12:55 BRINGS TO LIGHT A GREAT TRUTH THAT NO ONE REALLY WANTS TO DIE 13:00 - THAT WE DESIRE TO LIVE FOR ETERNITY IF WE COULD AND THAT'S 13:03 WHAT THE BIBLE PRESENTS TO US. IT WAS C.S. 13:06 LEWIS WHO SAID THAT FOR EVERY HUMAN DESIRE THERE IS A 13:11 CORRESPONDING REALITY IN NATURE. FOR EXAMPLE, WE GET THIRSTY 13:16 BECAUSE THERE IS A SUCH A THING AS WATER. HE SAID WE CRAVE 13:21 PHYSICAL INTIMACY BECAUSE THERE'S SUCH A THING AS SEX. 13:24 HE SAID THE REASON WE DESIRE IMMORTALITY - ETERNITY - MIGHT 13:28 JUST BE BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY EXISTS AND CERTAINLY IT DOES. 13:34 IF WE HAVE FAITH IN THE SCRIPTURES AND THE HOLY WORD OF 13:36 GOD, WE'VE GOT EVERY GOOD REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A 13:39 HEAVEN. THERE IS AN ETERNITY. GOD'S KINGDOM WILL BE 13:42 ESTABLISHED HERE ON THE EARTH. THERE IS MORE THAN THIS LIFE HAS 13:48 TO OFFER, AMEN? THERE IS MUCH MORE THAN THIS 13:50 LIFE HAS TO OFFER. THERE IS ETERNITY. 13:52 CHRIST IS GOING TO ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM AND THE QUESTION THAT WE 13:58 WANT TO DISCOVER HERE THIS MORNING IS WHAT ROLE DOES THE 14:01 LAW HAVE WITH REGARD TO CHRIST'S KINGDOM? 14:04 THAT'S REALLY THE QUESTION WE'LL BE ASKING HERE THIS MORNING. 14:08 THE KEY THOUGHT, PROBABLY, TO THIS STUDY WOULD BE GOD WILL 14:11 ESTABLISH A NEW AND ETERNAL WORLD WHERE 1) HIS LAW WRITTEN 14:15 IN THE MINDS AND HEARTS OF THE SAVED WILL GOVERN THEIR LIVES, 14:19 GOVERN THEIR INTERACTIONS AND 2) THE RESULTS OF THE VIOLATION OF 14:23 THE LAW OF GOD WILL NO LONGER EXIST - THAT IS DEATH - 14:26 HALLELUJAH. EACH OF US ARE CALLED TO 14:29 ACCEPT THIS OFFER OF CITIZENSHIP INTO GOD'S ETERNAL KINGDOM. 14:35 AND SO LET'S GO OVER TO SUNDAY'S LESSON HERE AND LET'S LAUNCH IN. 14:40 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TAKING A LOOK AT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 14:43 LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS HERE FOR JUST A FEW MOMENTS - 14:48 THE KINGDOM OF GOD. WHAT HAS BEEN THE PRAYER OF 14:54 GOD'S PEOPLE FOR CENTURIES? IT'S THE PRAYER THAT JESUS 14:58 TAUGHT US TO PRAY, IS IT NOT? THY KINGDOM WHAT? 15:03 COME - THAT'S BEEN THE PRAYER OF GOD'S PEOPLE - THY KINGDOM COME 15:08 - AND WE REITERATE THE WORDS THAT THE DYING THIEF SAID ON THE 15:13 CROSS TO HIS LORD - TO OUR LORD - 'REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME IN 15:19 YOUR KINGDOM.' ISN'T THAT OUR DESIRE? ISN'T THAT OUR PRAYER? 15:24 IT HAS BEEN OUR PRAYER AND CONTINUES TO BE. 15:26 WHAT WE REALIZE WHEN WE PRAY THIS PRAYER AND WHEN WE'RE 15:29 ASKING GOD TO REMEMBER US WHEN HE COMES IN HIS KINGDOM, IS THAT 15:33 GOD'S KINGDOM HASN'T YET COME. IT IS STILL YET TO COME. 15:37 THIS IS NOT - THERE'S NO KINGDOM HERE. 15:42 GOD DOESN'T HAVE A KINGDOM ON EARTH YET. 15:44 NOW, IN A SPECIAL SENSE, THE CHURCH IS HIS KINGDOM IF WE 15:48 COULD SAY IT THAT WAY, BUT AS FAR AS GOD'S ETERNAL EVERLASTING 15:52 KINGDOM BEING ESTABLISHED, IT HASN'T COME. 15:56 AND WE'RE REMINDED OF THAT EVERY TIME WE PRAY 'THY KINGDOM COME.' 16:01 SO IN THE MEANTIME, WE NOW - WE LIVE, REALLY, IN ENEMY 16:05 TERRITORY. WE'RE BORN AND RAISED IN A LAND 16:09 - IN A WORLD - IN A COUNTRY THAT IS THE ENEMY'S. 16:16 WHAT HAPPENED? WE REMEMBER BACK THERE IN 16:18 GENESIS, ADAM HAD DOMINION. GOD GAVE HIM THAT. IT WAS A GIFT. 16:22 'SUBDUE THE LAND - YOU HAVE DOMINION OVER THE LAND, THE 16:26 ANIMALS, THE FISH, THE BIRDS, ETC. YOU HAVE DOMINION. 16:29 YOU ARE THE RULER OF THIS WORLD. I'M ENTRUSTING ALL THAT I'VE 16:34 MADE - ALL THAT'S MINE - INTO YOUR HANDS.' ADAM WAS GIVEN 16:37 DOMINION AND IT WAS LOST. WHY WAS IT LOST? 16:42 BECAUSE OF SIN. THAT'S RIGHT. BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE - 16:44 THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. THEY DISOBEYED GOD'S EXPRESS 16:48 COMMAND. THEY ATE OF THE FRUIT OF THE 16:50 TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. 16:52 AND SO, BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE, THEIR DOMINION, THEIR RULERSHIP, 16:55 WAS LOST AND, IN ESSENCE, SATAN, THE MASTER DECEIVER, BEGUILED 17:02 THE PAIR - ENDED UP CLAIMING RULERSHIP OF THIS WORLD. 17:09 YOU REMEMBER READING THERE IN JOB CHAPTER 1, THE SONS OF GOD 17:12 COME TO MEET WITH GOD, THE BIBLE SAYS, AND SATAN SHOWS UP AND THE 17:17 LORD ASKS HIM, 'WELL, WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM?' 17:19 IT'S NOT AS THOUGH THE LORD DOESN'T KNOW, BUT HE'S 17:22 QUESTIONING HIS RIGHT TO BE THERE. 17:25 AND HE SAYS, 'I'VE COME FROM ROAMING TO AND FRO ON THE 17:27 EARTH.' A STATEMENT OF DEFIANCE - 'I'M THE OWNER. I'M THE RULER. 17:32 I'M THE ONE WHO HAS EVERYONE UNDER MY CONTROL' AND, OF 17:36 COURSE, GOD SAYS, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB? 17:39 IT'S NOT ALL YOURS. THERE ARE SOME THAT STILL DON'T 17:42 SERVE YOU.' BUT THERE SATAN APPEARS TO GOD - APPEARS BEFORE 17:47 GOD - APPEARS AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS EARTH. 17:53 A COUPLE OF VERSES WE WANT TO LOOK AT HERE, JUST TO TALK ABOUT 17:56 BEING IN ENEMY TERRITORY HERE FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT HERE. 18:00 SOMEONE HAS GOT JOHN 12:31 FOR ME HERE THIS MORNING. 18:04 JOHN 12:31 - OKAY, THANK YOU. 18:06 AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT A COUPLE OTHER VERSES HERE: 2 18:09 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 4 AND VERSE 4 - I'M GOING TO LOOK AT A FEW 18:12 VERSES HERE BEFORE WE READ JOHN 12:31. 18:18 2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 4 AND VERSE 4 - NOTICE WHAT THE BIBLE 18:22 SAYS - TALKING ABOUT THE DEVIL - TALKING ABOUT THE ENEMY OF THIS 18:26 WORLD. 2 CORINTHIANS 4, VERSE 4 - IT 18:28 SAYS, "IN WHOM THE" - WHAT FRIENDS? 18:31 - "THE GOD OF THIS WORLD HATH BLINDED THE MINDS OF THEM WHICH 18:35 BELIEVE NOT, LEST THE LIGHT OF THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF CHRIST, 18:38 WHO IS THE IMAGE OF GOD, SHOULD SHINE UNTO THEM." 18:41 THE BIBLE WRITER CALLS THE DEVIL THE WHAT? 18:45 THE GOD OF WHAT? THE GOD OF THIS WORLD - GOD OF 18:50 THIS WORLD IN THE SENSE THAT HE WANTS DOMINION. 18:53 GOD IN THE SENSE THAT HE RULES IN THE HEARTS OF MANY. 18:58 GOD OF THIS WORLD IN THE SENSE THAT HE HAS LIMITED CONTROL OVER 19:03 EARTH'S ELEMENTS - FIRE AND WIND STORM, ETC. NOW, IT'S LIMITED. 19:09 GOD ONLY PERMITS HIM TO HAVE SO MUCH ACCESS - SO MUCH POWER. 19:13 GOD IS, ULTIMATELY, THE RULER OF ALL, BUT HE'S GIVEN THESE 19:18 THINGS, YOU SEE - THE GOD OF THIS WORLD, IN THE SENSE THAT HE 19:23 WANTS DOMINION, THAT HE RULES IN THE HEARTS OF INDIVIDUALS AND 19:26 THAT HE HAS LIMITED CONTROL OVER EARTH'S ELEMENTS. 19:30 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2, AND VERSE 2 - JUST JUMP OVER THERE WITH ME 19:33 REAL QUICK - EPHESIANS 2 AND VERSE 2 - IT TELLS US, AGAIN 19:39 TALKING ABOUT THE ENEMY - IT SAYS, "WHEREIN IN TIME PAST YE 19:42 WALKED ACCORDING TO THE COURSE OF THIS WORLD, 19:44 ACCORDING TO THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR." 19:52 ALRIGHT, AND WE WANT TO LOOK AT JOHN 12:31 AT THIS TIME. 19:57 >>"NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD: NOW SHALL THE PRINCE OF 20:00 THIS WORLD BE CAST OUT." 20:02 >>OKAY. SO JESUS CALLED - JESUS CALLED THE DEVIL 'THE RULER OF 20:11 THIS WORLD' - IN THE KING JAMES HE IS THE 'PRINCE OF THIS 20:17 WORLD.' NOW, UNDERSTAND, THAT HE'S MERELY A PRINCE. 20:23 HE'S NOT A CROWN PRINCE. YOU KNOW WHAT A CROWN PRINCE IS? 20:27 A CROWN PRINCE IS ONE WHO IS HEIR - RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE 20:31 THRONE WHEN THE KING OR THE QUEEN DIE, THE CROWN PRINCE HAS 20:38 THE RIGHT TO THAT THRONE. THE DEVIL IS JUST A PRINCE. 20:42 HE'S NOT THE CROWN PRINCE. HE IS NOT HEIR TO THE THRONE, 20:45 INSTEAD HE WANTS TO USURP AND TAKE GOD'S THRONE BY FORCE - BY 20:50 COERCION - BY DECEPTION. HE IS NOT THE CROWN PRINCE. 20:55 HE IS NOT HEIR TO THE THRONE. HE IS PRINCE IN THIS WORLD, NOT 21:00 BY RIGHT. HE RULES AS A USURPER. 21:04 HE IS, IN ESSENCE, A DE FACTO RULER. 21:07 THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE DEVIL IS HERE IN THIS WORLD. 21:10 NOW, THE DEVIL CLAIMS RULERSHIP, BUT WHAT DID JESUS DO? 21:15 JESUS CAME TO DO WHAT? CLAIM THE KINGDOM BACK. 21:19 TAKE THE KINGDOM BACK AS RIGHTFULLY HIS. 21:23 MATTHEW CHAPTER 4 - JUST JUMP OVER THERE WITH ME, AS WELL - 21:26 MATTHEW CHAPTER 4 - WE'RE GOING TO FLIP AROUND THE SCRIPTURES 21:28 HERE A LITTLE BIT - MATTHEW CHAPTER 4, VERSES 8 AND 9. 21:31 WE REMEMBER THE STORY - JESUS HAS BEEN FASTING IN THE 21:35 WILDERNESS FOR 40 DAYS. THAT'S A LONG TIME. 21:40 I REMEMBER DOING 40-HOUR FAMINES BACK IN AUSTRALIA. 21:43 I UNDERSTAND YOU DO 30-HOUR FAMINES - WE DO 30-HOUR FAMINES 21:46 HERE IN AMERICA, IS THAT RIGHT? 40 HOURS IN AUSTRALIA, 30 HOURS 21:49 HERE IN AMERICA - I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT MEANS BUT SOME OF US 21:52 CAN'T FAST FOR FOUR HOURS OR 40 MINUTES, BUT JESUS FASTED FOR 40 21:58 DAYS AND AT THE END OF THOSE 40 DAYS THE DEVIL CAME TO HIM 22:01 TEMPTING HIM - THREE MASSIVE TEMPTATIONS. 22:04 THE THIRD ONE, NOTICE WHAT HE SAID - "AGAIN, THE DEVIL TAKETH 22:07 HIM UP INTO AN EXCEEDING HIGH MOUNTAIN, AND SHEWETH HIM ALL 22:11 THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THEM; AND SAITH 22:14 UNTO HIM, 'ALL THESE THINGS WILL I GIVE THEE, IF THOU WILT FALL 22:18 DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.'" SO THE DEVIL SHOWS - WE DON'T KNOW HOW 22:25 EXACTLY HE DID THIS - TAKES HIM TO A HIGH PLACE - CHRIST TO A 22:28 HIGH PLACE - HE GIVES HIM A PANORAMA OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE 22:32 WORLD AND NO DOUBT WHAT JESUS SAW WAS BRIGHT AND BRILLIANT AND 22:35 BEAUTIFUL - ALLURING - AND VERY, VERY INVITING AND THE DEVIL 22:42 SAYS, 'ALL THESE THINGS I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU. 22:46 ALL THESE THINGS' - AS IF THE DEVIL OWNED THEM. 22:49 THAT'S STOLEN PROPERTY. THEY WERE STOLEN PROPERTY AND - 22:53 BECAUSE CHRIST IS REALLY THE TRUE RULER. 22:56 BUT YOU CAN - IF YOU JUST PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AND CONSIDER THE 22:59 CHALLENGE - THE MASSIVE TEMPTATION THAT JESUS MUST HAVE 23:02 GONE THROUGH. HERE HE HAD COME TO REDEEM - 23:06 RECLAIM - THE KINGDOM BACK FROM THE HAND OF THE USURPER. 23:09 AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT JESUS NEEDED TO DO WHAT? 23:13 NEEDED TO DIE FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD. 23:16 HE NEEDED TO DO THAT. HE NEEDED TO LIVE A LIFE OF 23:19 PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER. AND IF HE HAD SUCCUMBED TO THIS 23:25 TEMPTATION - TO THIS ALLUREMENT - THEN ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST. 23:29 HE WOULD HAVE DISOBEYED THE FATHER'S WILL, WORSHIPED SOMEONE 23:33 OTHER THAN THE TRUE GOD AND ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST. 23:37 THE PLAN OF SALVATION WOULD HAVE BEEN DISSOLVED RIGHT THERE AND 23:39 THEN. WE WOULD BE DEAD IN OUR SINS. THAT WAS IT. 23:42 AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. THANK THE LORD FOR THAT. 23:45 JESUS WAS VICTORIOUS AND IS FOREVER, AMEN? YEAH, HE 23:48 CERTAINLY IS. THE DEVIL SAID, 'HERE ARE ALL THE THINGS I 23:52 WANT TO GIVE YOU.' - STOLEN PROPERTY - BUT JESUS SAID, 23:55 'NO, NO, NO. WORSHIP ONLY GOD. 23:58 HIM ONLY SHALL THOU SERVE.' AND IT WAS STRIKE THREE AND THE 24:01 DEVIL CERTAINLY WAS OUT OF THERE. 24:03 SO HERE WE ARE IN ENEMY TERRITORY AND YET CHRIST HAS 24:09 RECLAIMED THE KINGDOM AND HE OFFERS IT AND HE INVITES US TO 24:12 BE CITIZENS OF THAT KINGDOM. CAN WE BE SURE THAT CHRIST'S 24:16 KINGDOM WILL COME? CAN WE BE SURE? 24:19 THE PRAYER IS 'YOUR KINGDOM COME' - WHEN WE SAY THAT WE'RE 24:22 EXPRESSING FAITH IN THE PROMISE AND THE ASSURANCE THAT THE 24:25 KINGDOM WILL BE ESTABLISHED. YOU REMEMBER OVER THERE IN 24:28 DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 7, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, IN DANIEL 2, 24:32 HAD THIS DREAM OF THIS GREAT IMAGE - COULDN'T REMEMBER IT. 24:35 PROPHET OF GOD REVEALED THE DREAM TO THE PAGAN MONARCH - 24:40 BABYLONIAN MONARCH - AND GAVE HIM THE INTERPRETATION AND THE 24:46 INTERPRETATION, OF COURSE, WAS THAT THAT MASSIVE STATUE WITH 24:51 ALL THE DIFFERENT METALS REPRESENTED A DELINEATION OF 24:54 NATIONS STARTING WITH BABYLON, MOVING THROUGH MEDO-PERSIA, 24:57 GREECE, ROME, AND THEN THE BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 25:01 AND WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT PROPHECY - WHEN YOU CONSIDER 25:06 DANIEL 7, IT'S A PARALLEL PROPHECY. 25:08 IT'S A REPEATING OF DANIEL CHAPTER 2. 25:10 YOU'VE GOT THE LION, THE BEAR, THE FOUR-HEADED LEOPARD, THIS 25:13 NON-DISCRIPT BEAST, TEN HORNS, LITTLE HORN POWER, THAT HAPPENED 25:18 EXACTLY LIKE GOD HAD SAID - HISTORY UNFOLDED - BABYLON, 25:23 MEDO-PERSIA, GREECE, ROME, THE BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, 25:26 THE RISE OF THE LITTLE HORN POWER, THE PAPACY. 25:29 ALL OF THESE THINGS HAPPENED IN SUCCESSION JUST AS GOD SAID. 25:33 WHAT'S THE NEXT THING TO HAPPEN? GO OVER TO DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND 25:37 WE'LL LOOK AT VERSES 44 AND 45, DANIEL 2:44 AND 45. 25:43 I THINK DANIEL 2 - I MEAN, CERTAINLY THERE'S A FOUNDATIONAL 25:46 PROPHECY IN IT AND IT HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND ALL THE GREAT 25:49 PROPHECIES OF DANIEL AND REVELATION, BUT THE PROPHECY OF 25:52 DANIEL 2 - IF A PERSON IS DOUBTING THE WORD OF GOD OR 25:56 ISN'T SURE THEY CAN TRUST THE WORD OF GOD, DANIEL 2 - THE 26:01 PROPHECY OF DANIEL 2 - SHOULD ENCOURAGE A PERSON TO RECONSIDER 26:04 THE AUTHENTICITY, THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF GOD - THAT THE 26:09 WORD OF GOD IS TRULY INSPIRED, AMEN. I MEAN, IT'S AN AMAZING 26:12 PROPHECY. NOW, WE PROBABLY KNOW IT TOO 26:14 WELL TO BE IMPRESSED BY IT SOMETIMES. 26:18 BUT WE OUGHT TO BE IMPRESSED BY IT. 26:20 HERE, BACK IN THE SIXTH CENTURY BC, GOD DELINEATED OVER 26:27 2,000 YEARS OF HISTORY HAS HAPPENED EXACTLY AS HE SAID. 26:29 CONSIDER IN DANIEL 2 THE FEET OF IRON AND CLAY AND THEY WERE - 26:33 THEY WERE NOT TO ADHERE TO ONE ANOTHER. 26:36 THEY WEREN'T TO STICK OR CLEAVE TO ONE ANOTHER. 26:38 ALL THE EFFORT THAT DESPOTS AND DIPLOMATS HAVE MADE TO TRY TO 26:42 REUNITE EUROPE - THE OLD - TO BRING IT BACK TO THE OLD ROMAN - 26:47 THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE HAVE FAILED. 26:50 HITLER AND NAPOLEON AND CHARLES THE V AND OTHERS HAVE TRIED AND 26:55 FAILED. DIPLOMATS - SOME HAVE SUGGESTED 26:58 IT WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON THAT SUGGESTED - HE LOOKED AT EUROPE 27:02 AND HE SAID IT SHOULD BECOME THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE. 27:06 AND THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL TODAY TRYING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. 27:09 BUT ALL THE UNREST AND THE DISUNITY SPEAKS TO THE 27:14 FULFILLMENT OF THE VERY PROPHECY HERE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2. 27:20 IT CONTINUES TO BE FULFILLED RIGHT BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. 27:22 I MEAN, IT WAS MASSIVE - MASSIVE STUFF. 27:25 WE SHOULD HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE WORD OF GOD. 27:26 AS THOSE THINGS TOOK PLACE, WHAT'S THE NEXT GREAT EVENT TO 27:29 HAPPEN ACCORDING TO DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND VERSES 44 AND 45? 27:36 IT SAYS, "AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS SHALL THE GOD OF 27:38 HEAVEN" - WHAT? - "SET UP A KINGDOM, 27:41 WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED: AND THE 27:44 KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE, BUT IT SHALL BREAK 27:46 IN PIECES AND CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS, AND IT SHALL STAND 27:51 FOR" - HOW LONG? - "IT SHALL STAND FOREVER." 27:55 WE CAN BE SURE THAT CHRIST'S KINGDOM WILL COME AS HE SAID 27:59 BABYLON WILL BE THE WORLD POWER, THEN MEDO-PERSIA WILL CONQUER 28:03 AND BE THE NEXT ONE AND GREECE AND ROME WILL BE DIVIDED AND IN 28:07 THE DAYS OF THOSE KINGS GOD WILL SET UP HIS KINGDOM. 28:12 YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT AS SURELY AS THE PREVIOUS HAS BEEN 28:15 FULFILLED, AMEN? THIS IS WONDERFUL, EXCITING STUFF. 28:19 SO WE CAN BE SURE THAT CHRIST'S KINGDOM WILL COME. 28:23 LET'S GO OVER TO MONDAY'S LESSON. 28:24 LET'S TALK ABOUT BEING CITIZENS OF THAT KINGDOM. 28:29 CITIZENS - BEING A CITIZEN IS A PRIVILEGE, IS IT NOT? 28:33 YEAH, BEING A CITIZEN OF A COUNTRY IS A PRIVILEGE AND IF 28:39 YOU WANT TO - IF YOU'RE A CITIZEN OF A CERTAIN COUNTRY AND 28:42 YOU WANT TO BECOME A CITIZEN OF ANOTHER COUNTRY, IT'S UNLIKELY 28:46 THAT YOU CAN HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP. 28:48 BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF COUNTRIES THAT YOU CAN BE PART OF WHEREBY 28:53 YOU CAN HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP. MY CHILDREN - WE LIVED IN CANADA 28:58 FOR SEVEN YEARS AND THEY WERE ALL BORN IN TORONTO, CANADA AND 29:02 SO BY THAT VIRTUE THEY ALL BECAME CANADIAN. 29:06 SO THEY HAVE CANADIAN BIRTH CERTIFICATES. 29:09 AND THEIR MOTHER IS AMERICAN AND I'M AUSTRALIAN AND WE'RE A MESS. 29:13 THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, BUT THEY WERE BORN THERE AND THEY 29:16 HAVE - AND THEIR MOTHER'S AMERICAN SO THEY ARE, BY VIRTUE 29:19 OF THAT FACT, THEY ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS. 29:22 SO THEY HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP. AND I KNOW YOU'RE WONDERING, 29:25 'DO THEY HAVE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP?' 29:27 NOT BY VIRTUE OF ME BEING FATHER. 29:29 WE'VE GOT TO APPLY FOR THEM TO HAVE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP. 29:31 YOU CAN EVEN HAVE TRI-CITIZENSHIP - CARRY ONLY TWO 29:34 PASSPORTS, BUT YOU CAN HAVE SEVERAL CITIZENSHIPS. 29:36 I THINK THAT'S AN ADVANTAGE FOR SOME - HAVING DUAL CITIZENSHIP, 29:40 BUT WHEN IT COMES TO BEING A CITIZEN OF GOD'S KINGDOM, 29:45 THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS DUAL CITIZENSHIP. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN - 29:49 IT CAN'T HAPPEN IN THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY. 29:51 YOU CAN ONLY EITHER BELONG TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD OR YOU CAN 29:57 CHOOSE TO BELONG TO THE KINGDOM OF THE WORLD. IT'S AN EITHER/OR 30:03 PROPOSITION, YOU UNDERSTAND. LET'S LOOK AT A FEW VERSES HERE. 30:06 SOMEONE'S GOT MATTHEW 12:30 FOR US THIS MORNING - MATTHEW 12:30 30:11 - OKAY, OVER THERE. VERY GOOD. 30:13 LET'S LOOK AT A COUPLE OF VERSES. 30:15 1 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11 - 1 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11. 30:22 IT SAYS, "DEARLY BELOVED, I BESEECH YOU AS" - TWO WORDS 30:26 THERE - "STRANGERS AND" - WHAT? PILGRIMS - "I BESEECH YOU AS 30:30 STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS" - STRANGERS - THAT WORD COULD BE 30:34 INTERPRETED AS 'ALIEN' - I BESEECH YOU AS ALIEN - WHAT IS 30:40 AN ALIEN? YEAH, A NON-CITIZEN. 30:45 I MAY - I PERSONALLY AM A RESIDENT ALIEN. 30:48 DON'T BE SCARED. DON'T BE FRIGHTENED. 30:52 I DON'T LOOK STRANGE OR WEIRD, BUT I'M A RESIDENT ALIEN, YOU 30:56 SEE. AND BECAUSE I DON'T - I'M NOT A 30:59 CITIZEN YET HERE, OF THE UNITED STATES, YOU SEE. 31:04 AND IF YOU WENT TO AUSTRALIA OR YOU WENT TO ANY OTHER COUNTRY 31:07 AND YOU LIVED THERE - YOU BECAME A RESIDENT - YOU'D BE AN ALIEN 31:09 AS WELL BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT A CITIZEN THERE. 31:12 SO STRANGER, ALIEN - ONE WHO DOESN'T ENJOY THE RIGHTS OF 31:16 CITIZENSHIP AND PILGRIMS. THEY ARE SOJOURNERS OR THEY ARE 31:20 EXILES. THEY'RE JUST THERE TEMPORARILY. 31:24 SO PETER SAYS HERE IN 1 PETER 2, VERSE 11, "I BESEECH YOU AS 31:28 STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, ABSTAIN FROM FLESHLY LUSTS, WHICH WAR 31:32 AGAINST THE SOUL;" WE CAN COMPARE THAT WITH HEBREWS 11, 31:37 VERSE 13 - PAUL WRITING TO THE HEBREW CHRISTIANS - BASICALLY HE 31:41 SAYS THE SAME THING. HE'S SUGGESTING THERE THAT FOLK 31:44 WANDER THROUGH THIS WORLD AS PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS. 31:47 THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THE BETTER COUNTRY. 31:48 THEY DIDN'T RECEIVE THE PROMISE BUT THEY ANTICIPATED IT. 31:51 THEY REACHED OUT BY FAITH TO RECEIVE IT. 31:54 BUT THEY WERE PILGRIMS AND THEY WERE STRANGERS, YOU SEE. 31:58 AND THEN EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 12. 32:01 LET'S LOOK AT THAT ONE. EPHESIANS 2 AND VERSE 12 - PAUL 32:04 SAYS, "THAT AT THAT TIME YE WERE WITHOUT CHRIST," - NOW HE'S - 32:11 WE'RE LOOKING AT IT FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE. 32:13 AS CHRISTIANS - AS FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST - WE'RE PILGRIMS AND 32:18 STRANGERS IN THIS WORLD PASSING THROUGH, IS WHAT HE - IS WHAT 32:22 THE WRITER IS SAYING. WE ARE NOT CITIZENS OF THIS 32:25 WORLD, PER SE, IF WE ARE CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 32:29 BUT HE'S TALKING, NOW, ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE, "THAT AT THAT 32:32 TIME" - VERSE 12 - "YE WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS 32:36 FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, AND STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS 32:40 OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE, AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD." 32:43 SO A PERSON WHO IS WITHOUT CHRIST, WHO HAS NOT EXPRESSED 32:46 FAITH IN CHRIST, DOESN'T HAVE CHRIST LIVING IN THEIR HEART OR 32:49 THEIR LIVES IS CONSIDERED BY GOD AN ALIEN - AN ALIEN - SOMEONE 32:56 WITHOUT - OUTSIDE OF CHRIST. NOW, DON'T GET ME WRONG, I MEAN, 32:59 GOD LOVES ALL. WE ARE ALL HIS CHILDREN WHETHER 33:02 YOU HAVE FAITH IN HIM OR NOT. HE LOVES US ALL THE SAME, BUT 33:08 YOU ARE CONSIDERED AN ALIEN, NOT PART OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF 33:10 ISRAEL OR OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. VERY INTERESTING. 33:14 OKAY, MATTHEW 12, VERSE 30 - MATTHEW 12, VERSE 30. 33:18 >>"HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME; AND HE THAT 33:22 GATHERETH NOT WITH ME SCATTERETH ABROAD." 33:26 >>SO JESUS SAID HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME IS WHAT? AGAINST ME. 33:30 THIS IS AN EITHER/OR PROPOSITION. 33:32 THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO DESCRIBE THAT. 33:35 YOU REMEMBER IN DEUTERONOMY, GOD OUTLINED THE BLESSINGS AND THE 33:40 CURSES FOR HIS PEOPLE. 'IF YOU OBEY ME, HERE ARE THE BLESSINGS. 33:44 IF YOU DISOBEY ME THERE'S GOING TO BE CURSES. 33:47 THINGS AREN'T GOING TO GO WELL FOR YOU AT ALL.' IT'S AN 33:49 EITHER/OR PROPOSITION. WE ARE EITHER, FRIENDS, WE ARE 33:52 EITHER A PATRIOT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN OR WE ARE A TRAITOR. 33:56 THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS SAYING. WE'RE EITHER A PATRIOT OR WE ARE 34:00 A TRAITOR. THINK ABOUT THE REVOLUTIONARY 34:02 WAR AND ALL THE ISSUES GOING ON - THE PATRIOTS. 34:07 THE PATRIOTS WANTED FREEDOM. THEY WANTED TO COME OUT FROM 34:09 THAT - THE YOKE OF THAT TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. 34:14 THEY WANTED TO BE OUTSIDE OF THAT. THEY WERE PATRIOTS. 34:19 THEY WANTED FREEDOM HERE IN THIS COUNTRY, YOU SEE. 34:22 SOME TURNED TRAITOR. SOME TURNED TRAITOR. 34:28 SOMEONE WROTE, 'TO BE ALMOST BUT NOT WHOLLY WITH CHRIST IS TO BE 34:34 NOT ALMOST, BUT WHOLLY AGAINST HIM.' 34:37 AND THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS SUGGESTING HERE. 34:39 NOW, WHEN YOU'RE A CITIZEN OF GOD'S KINGDOM - WHEN YOU'RE A 34:42 CITIZEN OF A COUNTRY YOU'VE GOT TO OBEY THEIR LAWS, RIGHT? 34:44 EVEN IF YOU'RE A RESIDENT ALIEN YOU'VE GOT TO OBEY THEIR LAWS 34:47 BUT WHEN YOU'RE A CITIZEN YOU'VE GOT TO OBEY THEIR LAWS. 34:49 WHEN I CAME FROM AUSTRALIA HERE TO AMERICA I - YOU ALL DRIVE ON 34:53 THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD, WHICH IS THE LEFT SIDE. 34:56 NO, THE RIGHT SIDE, WE DROVE ON THE LEFT SIDE AND - WHICH WAS 35:00 THE RIGHT SIDE, AS A MATTER OF FACT, AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO OBEY 35:05 THE LAWS. IF YOU DON'T, YOU'RE GOING TO 35:06 GET YOURSELF INTO TROUBLE. I COULD GET MYSELF INTO TROUBLE 35:08 IF I DECIDED I WAS GOING TO DRIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 35:10 ROAD. WE'VE GOT TO OBEY. 35:12 THERE ARE LAWS - THERE ARE LAWS WITHIN A COUNTRY THAT NEED TO BE 35:16 OBEYED AND IT'S THE SAME WITH GOD'S KINGDOM. 35:19 THERE ARE LAWS THAT GOVERN THE KINGDOM THAT ALSO NEED TO BE 35:21 OBEYED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH, YOU SEE. 35:24 AS CITIZENS OF GOD'S KINGDOM, LIVING IN THE WORLD, THERE IS 35:32 THE POSSIBILITY - THE VERY STRONG POSSIBILITY THAT WE COULD 35:35 LOOK DIFFERENT AND NOT FIT IN TO THE CITIZENSHIP OF THE WORLD. 35:40 CHRISTIANITY IS A CULTURE IN AND OF ITSELF, IS IT NOT? 35:45 YEAH, IT TRULY IS. IF WE ARE CITIZENS OF THE 35:48 KINGDOM OF GOD, WE'RE NOT GOING TO LOOK THE SAME AS OTHERS, 35:52 PER SE. TOURISTS ALWAYS STAND OUT. 35:54 WHEN I CAME HERE, YOU KNOW, AND I OPENED MY MOUTH FOR THE FIRST 35:58 TIME, I MEAN, EVERYONE WANTED TO KNOW, 'WHERE ARE YOU FROM? 36:01 WHAT COUNTRY DO YOU RESIDE?' AS SOON AS I OPENED MY MOUTH. 36:05 WHAT I SAID, HOW I SAID THINGS, HOW I - MY COLLOQUIALISMS AND 36:10 DIFFERENT THINGS WERE DIFFERENT WHEN I CAME HERE. 36:15 YOU TRAVEL TO ANOTHER COUNTRY AND, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T SPEAK 36:19 THE LANGUAGE, YOU'RE GOING TO STAND OUT, YOU KNOW? 36:23 YOU SPOT THE TOURISTS AS WELL. 36:24 THEY'VE GOT THEIR CAMERAS AROUND - TAKING A CAMERA AROUND THEIR 36:27 NECK - TAKING THE PHOTOS AND SO ON. 36:28 WE ARE FOREIGNERS, SO TO SPEAK, ARE WE NOT? 36:32 IN ENEMY TERRITORY - WE'RE FOREIGNERS HERE IN THIS WORLD 36:36 AND HOW DO WE - HOW SHOULD WE - HOW DO WE STAND OUT AS 36:41 FOREIGNERS, AS STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS IN THIS WORLD? 36:44 HOW DO WE STAND OUT? I THINK IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH 36:48 GOD'S LAW, DOES IT NOT? REVELATION 14, VERSE 12 - JUST 36:51 TURN OVER THERE WITH ME - REVELATION 14 AND VERSE 12. 36:57 CERTAINLY - CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, WHEN I CAME HERE, OPENED MY 37:00 MOUTH, 'OKAY, YOU'RE FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY.' WOULD PEOPLE 37:04 BE ABLE TO TELL A CHRISTIAN BY THE WAY WE TALK? 37:08 AND THE LANGUAGE WE USE - OR THE LANGUAGE WE DON'T USE? 37:13 SURE, THEY OUGHT TO, RIGHT? YEAH. 37:16 YEAH, I MEAN, GOD'S PEOPLE AREN'T WALKING AROUND WITH 37:18 CAMERAS AROUND THEIR NECKS EITHER, BUT WE ARE PASSING 37:22 THROUGH. THIS IS NOT OUR - BEAR WITH ME - 37:27 THIS IS NOT OUR FINAL DESTINATION. 37:28 THERE IS HEAVEN, OF COURSE, THERE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 37:30 ULTIMATELY WE COME BACK HERE RECREATED - NEW EARTH. 37:34 GOD'S GOING TO PURGE THE EARTH WITH FIRE, RECREATE IT BEFORE 37:37 OUR VERY EYES, AND THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH. 37:40 SO, YES, THIS WILL BECOME OUR FINAL DESTINATION. 37:43 WE'RE PASSING THROUGH HERE, THOUGH, AT THIS POINT. 37:45 HOW DO PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS LOOK DIFFERENT IN THE WORLD? 37:49 REVELATION 14, VERSE 12 - IT SAYS, "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF 37:52 THE SAINTS: HERE ARE THEY THAT" - WHAT? - "KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS 37:57 OF GOD," - THAT'S RIGHT - "AND THE FAITH OF JESUS." 38:01 YOU CAN'T KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS WITHOUT FAITH IN JESUS. 38:03 YOU'VE GOT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE. 38:06 YOU EXPRESS FAITH IN CHRIST, CHRIST COMES INTO YOUR HEART, 38:08 AND THROUGH THE MIRACLE WORKING POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, HE 38:11 WRITES HIS LAW IN YOUR HEART AND IN YOUR MIND. SO GOD'S PEOPLE - 38:16 PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS WANDERING THROUGH THIS LAND AS CITIZENS 38:19 OF GOD'S KINGDOM, KEEP GOD'S LAW. AND THAT'S - BY DOING SO, 38:25 YOU'RE GOING TO STAND OUT. ISN'T THAT TRUE? 38:31 WE LIVE IN A - WE LIVE IN A LAWLESS SOCIETY AND IF WE KEPT 38:34 THE LAW - NOT JUST THE LETTER, BUT THE VERY SPIRIT, AS WELL, OF 38:37 THE LAW - AND EVERY DETAIL, JESUS SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU - 38:40 YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID OF OLD THAT IF YOU KILL SOMEONE YOU'VE 38:45 BROKEN THE COMMANDMENT. BUT I SAY THAT IF YOU HATE 38:48 SOMEONE IN YOUR HEART YOU'RE A MURDERER. 38:51 YOU'VE HEARD IT OF OLD ABOUT THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT - 'THOU 38:55 SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' BUT IF YOU LUST AFTER THE OPPOSITE 38:58 SEX YOU'VE COMMITTED ADULTERY ALREADY IN YOUR HEART. 39:01 SO THE VERY EXTENT - IF WE'RE KEEPING IT IN OUR HEARTS AND 39:05 PRACTICALLY IN OUR LIVES, ARE WE GOING TO STAND OUT? SURE. 39:09 OUT OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHAT'S THE COMMANDMENT THAT IS A 39:14 - IS THE HALLMARK OF THE COMMANDMENTS - NOT THE MOST 39:18 IMPORTANT, BUT THE ONE THAT SIGNIFIES THAT YOU - THAT YOU 39:21 ARE - THAT I AM - A PART OF GOD'S KINGDOM? 39:24 WHICH ONE DO YOU SUPPOSE? THE FOURTH, YEAH. 39:27 EZEKIEL 20:12 AND 20:20 TELL US THAT IT IS A SIGN THAT - BETWEEN 39:32 US AND GOD - THAT HE IS OUR GOD - THAT HE SANCTIFIES US - THAT 39:35 HE MAKES US HOLY. SO THE SABBATH - KEEPING THE 39:39 SABBATH CERTAINLY CAUSES YOU TO STAND OUT. 39:41 WALKING OUT OF YOUR HOME ALL DRESSED UP SATURDAY MORNING - 39:45 YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE WONDERING, 'WHERE ON EARTH ARE THEY GOING? 39:47 A BLACK BOOK UNDER THEIR ARM, YES, THE BLACK BOOK - THE BIBLE 39:50 - UNDER THEIR ARM. YOU'RE GOING TO STAND OUT A LITTLE BIT. 39:53 KEEPING GOD'S LAW IN EVERY RESPECT. 39:55 IT'S GOING TO CAUSE YOU TO STAND OUT IN THIS WORLD. 39:58 LET'S MOVE OVER TO TUESDAY'S LESSON AND LET'S TALK ABOUT 40:01 FAITH AND LAW. BECAUSE WHILE GOD OFFERS AN 40:06 ETERNITY - OFFERS INDIVIDUALS TO ACCEPT HIS OFFERS INTO 40:10 HIS KINGDOM - TO BE CITIZENS OF HIS KINGDOM, THERE ARE GOING TO 40:14 BE MANY, MANY INDIVIDUALS THAT REFUSE THAT OFFER. 40:19 THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE CITIZENS OF GOD'S KINGDOM. 40:21 AND IN A COUPLE OF VERSES WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT - 1 CORINTHIANS 40:24 CHAPTER 6, VERSES 9 THROUGH 11, WE DISCOVER THOSE WHO 40:29 WILL BE LEFT OUT OF GOD'S KINGDOM. 40:32 THOSE WHO WON'T MAKE IT INTO ETERNITY VERSUS THOSE WHO DO. 40:37 NOW, WE KNOW THAT GOD'S KINGDOM IS BASED ON LOVE, IS IT NOT? 40:43 AND OBEDIENCE TO GOD IS MOTIVATED BY WHAT? 40:47 BY THE SAME. BY LOVE. THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. 40:49 LOVE RULES IN GOD'S KINGDOM AND IN ORDER TO LOVE YOU'VE GOT TO 40:53 BE ABLE TO FREELY CHOOSE TO LOVE, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 40:57 YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 40:59 AND WE CHOOSE TO LOVE AND WE RESPOND TO THE LOVE OF GOD. 41:03 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE LOVE GOD BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. 41:08 AND HE LOVES US - WE RESPOND TO THAT LOVE AND WE OPEN OUR HEARTS 41:12 TO THAT LOVE AND WE LET THAT LOVE TRANSFORM AND CHANGE US AND 41:16 THEN THE ETERNAL KINGDOM IS PROMISED US, YOU SEE. 41:22 BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO DON'T RESPOND TO THAT LOVE WHO EITHER 41:26 IGNORE IT OR THEY PUSH IT AWAY OR THEY REFUSE IT OR REJECT IT. 41:33 AND CAN GOD TAKE THEM INTO HIS KINGDOM? 41:37 THOSE WHO DO NOT ACCEPT THAT LAW OF LOVE - THE LAW OF UNSELFISH 41:41 SACRIFICE. THAT'S REALLY WHAT LOVE IS, IS IT NOT? 41:44 LOVE IS UNSELFISH SACRIFICE. OFTENTIMES YOU HEAR FOLKS SAY 41:48 THAT THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS HATE. THAT'S NOT TRUE. 41:51 THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS SELFISHNESS. 41:54 TRUE LOVE IS UNSELFISH: JOHN 3:16, "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE 41:58 WORLD THAT HE" - WHAT? "GAVE." HE GAVE HIS SON, THAT'S RIGHT. 42:03 IT'S UNSELFISH - THAT'S WHAT LOVE IS, 42:05 UNSELFISH SACRIFICE, YOU SEE. 42:08 AND THOSE WHO REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE INTO 42:13 THEIR LIVES WILL NOT BE FITTED FOR HEAVEN - FOR GOD'S KINGDOM - 42:17 WHICH IS RULED BY SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE. 42:20 IT WOULD BE A LITTLE AWKWARD, WOULD IT NOT? IF YOU'VE LIVED A 42:23 SELFISH LIFE HERE AND GOD WERE TO TAKE YOU THERE 42:25 AND YOU JUST WOULDN'T FIT IN IF YOU WEREN'T USED TO SERVING - IF 42:31 YOU WEREN'T USED TO SACRIFICING AND YOU WEREN'T USED TO LIVING 42:33 FOR JESUS WHEN EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS. 42:36 SO PERHAPS IN GOD'S MERCY HE SHUTS PEOPLE OUT BECAUSE IT 42:40 WOULD BE MORE LIKE HELL TO THEM THAN HEAVEN. 42:44 LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT - THAT'S LOVE AND JUSTICE. 42:47 LOVE RULES GOD'S KINGDOM, JUSTICE IS SEEN IN - LOVE IS 42:51 SEEN AND JUSTICE IS SEEN IN REFUSING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS 42:55 INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN FOR THE REASONS I'VE STATED. 42:58 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9 THROUGH 11 - IT SAYS, "KNOW YE NOT THAT THE 43:01 UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD?" - THAT'S 43:06 OPPOSED TO THE RIGHTEOUS. THE RIGHTEOUS ARE THOSE WHO OBEY 43:09 AND KEEP GOD'S LAW THROUGH GRACE, BY FAITH, OF COURSE. 43:12 BUT "THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 43:15 BE NOT DECEIVED:" - AND THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT STATEMENT TO 43:20 REMEMBER FOR EACH ONE OF US. DON'T BE DECEIVED BY THIS. 43:23 DON'T THINK THAT GOD IS TOO LOVING TO PREVENT PEOPLE INTO 43:29 HIS KINGDOM. DON'T BE DECEIVED BY THAT. 43:31 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN. 43:33 "NEITHER FORNICATORS, IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR 43:39 EFFEMINATE," - THAT WOULD MEAN DELICATE OR TENDER WHICH, IN 43:43 THIS CONTEXT OF IDOLATRY AND ADULTERY AND FORNICATION WOULD 43:47 REFER TO HOMOSEXUALITY - "NOR ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH 43:51 MANKIND," - THE SAME THING - "NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR 43:54 DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS," - THAT WOULD BE SLANDERERS - "NOR 43:58 EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD." 44:00 SO PAUL IS VERY CLEAR WHO WILL BE SHUT OUT OF THE KINGDOM OF 44:06 HEAVEN. WHY? WHY? BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO GIVE 44:11 THOSE THINGS UP, DID THEY NOT? THEY REFUSED TO EMBRACE GOD'S 44:15 LAW AND HIS LOVE AND HIS WILL AND HIS WAY. SO WOULD IT BE 44:18 A GOOD THING - A JUST - WOULD IT BE GOOD FOR A JUST GOD TO TAKE 44:22 PEOPLE TO HEAVEN, BRING THEM INTO HIS ETERNAL KINGDOM, 44:26 IF THEY WOULD NEVER FIT IN BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO GIVE 44:31 THESE LIFESTYLE PRACTICES - THOUGHT PROCESSES UP? 44:36 IT WOULDN'T BE VERY FAIR FOR GOD TO DO THAT, WOULD IT? 44:40 IT GOES ON TO SAY, IN VERSE 11, "AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU: BUT 44:45 YE ARE WASHED, BUT YE ARE SANCTIFIED, BUT YE ARE JUSTIFIED 44:50 IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD." 44:54 THAT'S INTERESTING. HERE ARE FOLK WHO ARE GOING TO 44:56 BE IN HEAVEN WHO ARE JUSTIFIED. NOW IN ROMANS 3:28, PAUL SAID 45:00 THAT YOU ARE JUSTIFIED APART FROM THE DEEDS OF THE LAW. 45:04 SO HERE ARE FOLK WHO ARE THERE - ARE JUSTIFIED - BUT THEY'RE ALSO 45:09 KEEPING GOD'S LAW. SO JUSTIFICATION AND OBEDIENCE 45:13 ARE NOT TWO DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED IDEAS HERE, NOT AT ALL. 45:17 JUSTIFICATION LEADS US TO - SANCTIFICATION LEADS US TO 45:21 OBEDIENCE, YOU SEE. THEN IN REVELATION CHAPTER 22, 45:25 VERSES 14 AND 15 - I'LL JUST READ THIS FOR US. 45:27 IT SAYS, "BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS," - ALTHOUGH 45:31 THEY'RE JUSTIFIED, THEY DO HIS COMMANDMENTS - "THAT THEY MAY 45:34 HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER IN THROUGH THE 45:37 GATES INTO THE CITY." NOW, IN VERSE 15 IT GOES ON TO 45:40 SAY THOSE THAT WON'T BE IN - THEY - "FOR WITHOUT ARE DOGS." 45:44 NOW THAT'S JUST A WAY OF SAYING, 'A VILE OR A SHAMELESS PERSON. 45:48 "SORCERERS, AND WHOREMONGERS," FORNICATORS OR HARLOTS, 45:51 "AND MURDERERS, AND IDOLATERS, AND WHOSOEVER LOVETH AND MAKETH 45:54 A LIE." THEY'RE GOING TO BE SHUT OUT. 45:55 WHY? IS IT THAT GOD IS BEING ARBITRARY? 45:58 NO, IT'S BECAUSE GOD IS BEING LOVING AND FAIR AND SAYING, 46:04 'OKAY, I PRESENTED TO YOU WHAT MY KINGDOM WOULD BE LIKE. 46:07 I PRESENTED TO YOU MY GRACE. I GAVE TO YOU MY SON AND ALL YOU 46:11 NEEDED TO DO WAS OPEN YOUR HEART AND RECEIVE HIM AND LET HIM 46:14 TRANSFORM YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT. 46:16 THAT'S ALL YOU NEEDED TO DO. AND I WILL USHER YOU IN TO MY 46:20 ETERNAL KINGDOM, BUT YOU REFUSED OR YOU NEGLECTED THE WORK OR 46:24 WHATEVER. YOU PUT IF OFF AND BECAUSE 46:27 YOU'RE NOT READY TO ENTER IN TO THAT HOLY, UNSELFISH ATMOSPHERE, 46:31 OUT OF LOVING KINDNESS I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU WHAT YOU ASKED FOR. 46:36 BECAUSE GOD'S A GENTLEMAN AND HE GIVES PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT. 46:40 HE GIVES PEOPLE WHAT THEY ASK FOR. 46:44 IN THE POWERFUL LITTLE BOOK 'STEPS TO CHRIST' - THAT LITTLE 46:48 DEVOTIONAL ABOUT HOW TO COME AND STAY WITH CHRIST THAT'S BEEN 46:52 TRANSLATED IN OVER A HUNDRED DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. 46:54 ON PAGE 18 IT SAYS, 'THE SINNER COULD NOT BE HAPPY IN GOD'S 46:59 PRESENCE. HE WOULD SHRINK FROM THE 47:00 COMPANIONSHIP OF HOLY BEINGS. COULD HE BE PERMITTED TO ENTER 47:04 HEAVEN, IT WOULD HAVE NO JOY FOR HIM. 47:08 THE SPIRIT OF UNSELFISH LOVE THAT REIGNS THERE - EVERY HEART 47:10 RESPONDING TO THE HEART OF INFINITE LOVE WOULD TOUCH NO 47:13 ANSWERING CHORD IN HIS SOUL. HIS THOUGHTS, HIS INTERESTS, HIS 47:16 MOTIVES WOULD BE ALIEN TO THOSE THAT ACTUATE THE SINLESS 47:19 DWELLERS THERE." SO GOD KEEPS THEM OUT FOR 47:23 THEIR OWN SAKE AND THEIR OWN SANITY. 47:26 LET'S GO OVER TO WEDNESDAY'S LESSON. 47:28 LET'S TALK ABOUT THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM. 47:30 THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM - THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM. 47:36 WE UNDERSTAND THAT GOD CREATED A PERFECT WORLD. 47:38 SIN, OF COURSE, MARRED GOD'S PERFECT PLAN AND JESUS, THANK 47:43 THE LORD, THAT JESUS CAME TO RESTORE THE PERFECTION - THE 47:47 ORIGINAL PERFECTION OF THIS WORLD AND OF MANKIND AND 47:51 ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM WHERE LOVE REIGNS SUPREME. 47:55 NOW FOR LOVE TO REIGN, ONE MUST CHOOSE TO LOVE AND TO CHOOSE, 48:01 ONE MUST BE A FREE MORAL AGENT TO DO SO, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 48:05 SURE. SO FREEDOM. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD'S 48:09 KINGDOM IS GOING TO BE AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM, WHICH BEGS 48:12 THE QUESTION: 'COULD EVIL RISE AGAIN? 48:16 MAYBE IT DOESN'T EVEN BEG THE QUESTION - IF IT'S AN 48:17 EVERLASTING KINGDOM THE ANSWER'S ALREADY THERE. 48:20 WILL SIN EVER RISE? WILL EVIL EVER RISE AGAIN? 48:23 NO, IF IT'S EVERLASTING THEN OBVIOUSLY NOT. 48:27 BUT IF WE ARE TAKING OUR BRAINS WITH US TO HEAVEN AND WE ARE 48:30 GOING TO REMAIN FREE MORAL AGENTS, ISN'T THERE A CHANCE, 48:33 ISN'T THERE A RISK THAT SIN MIGHT RISE - 48:35 RAISE ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN? 48:37 THERE IS THAT CHANCE. BUT WILL IT HAPPEN? NO. 48:41 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM - JOHN 3:16, 48:44 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON 48:46 THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE 48:50 WHAT? EVERLASTING LIFE, THAT'S RIGHT. REVELATION 21:4 TALKS 48:55 ABOUT THE END OF PAIN, SORROW AND DEATH. DEATH IS A 48:59 CONSEQUENCE, A RESULT OF SIN, WHICH SAYS SIN WON'T BE THERE. 49:04 DANIEL 7:27 TALKS ABOUT AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM - WE READ 49:08 THAT IN DANIEL 2 AS WELL. THIS KINGDOM IS EVERLASTING. 49:10 YOU CAN'T WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND EVERLASTING - IT'S QUITE HARD. 49:13 HERE ARE SOME SYNONYMS: ETERNAL; ENDLESS; NEVER-ENDING; 49:16 PERPETUAL; UNDYING; ABIDING; ENDURING; INFINITE; BOUNDLESS; 49:22 TIMELESS. THAT'S EVERLASTING. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SIN WILL 49:27 NEVER RISE - RAISE ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN? 49:30 JEREMIAH 31:33 - WHO'S GOT THAT FOR US? OKAY, RIGHT OVER HERE. 49:35 JEREMIAH 31:33. I THINK THE ANSWER IS HERE. 49:38 THIS GOES BACK TO OUR MEMORY TEXT HERE FOR OUR LESSON. 49:44 JEREMIAH 31 AND VERSE 33. I'D LIKE TO SUBMIT TO US HERE 49:50 THIS MORNING THAT LOVE HAS REMOVED ALL POSSIBILITIES THAT 49:54 SIN WOULD RISE AGAIN. LOVE. 49:59 >>"'BUT THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE 50:03 OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS,' SAYS THE LORD: 'I WILL PUT MY 50:07 LAW IN THEIR MINDS, AND WRITE IT ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE 50:11 THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.'" 50:15 >>SO THE LAW IS IN THE MIND AND IN THE HEART, RIGHT? YOU SEE, 50:20 LOVE HAS REMOVED ALL POSSIBILITIES THAT SIN WILL RISE 50:23 AGAIN. THE GOSPEL - THE GOSPEL OF GRACE - THE GOSPEL OF JESUS 50:26 CHRIST - HAS BEEN SO EFFECTIVE TO THE EXTENT THAT IN THE 50:30 BELIEVER'S LIFE, THEY WOULD RATHER DIE THAN TO SIN AGAINST 50:32 THEIR GOD. THAT'S THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE GOSPEL GETS AHOLD OF A 50:37 PERSON. IT CAUSES US TO HATE THE THINGS WE USED TO LOVE AND LOVE 50:41 THE THINGS WE USED TO HATE. 50:43 THAT'S THE MIRACLE OF GRACE RIGHT THERE THAT WAS READ FOR US 50:46 IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 31, VERSE 33. 50:50 GOD SAYS HE WILL WRITE HIS LAW IN OUR MINDS AND IN OUR HEARTS 50:54 INSOMUCH THAT DOING GOD'S WILL JUST BECOMES A NATURAL THING FOR 50:59 US AND WE DON'T WANT TO SIN AGAIN AND WE DON'T WANT TO GO 51:03 BACK TO THE WAY IT HAS BEEN BECAUSE OF THE GREAT COST OF 51:10 SIN. AND WHAT WAS THE COST OF SIN? 51:14 CALVARY. JESUS CHRIST. EXACTLY. 51:17 AND IF WE'VE SPENT TIME LOOKING AT CALVARY AND LOOKING AT JESUS, 51:19 WE'LL RECOGNIZE THAT SIN IS NOTHING TO PLAY WITH. 51:22 IT CRUCIFIED THE SON OF GOD, OUR BEST FRIEND. 51:26 AND SO THE GOSPEL HAS WORKED TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE WILLING 51:29 TO DO GOD'S WILL AND WE'D DO IT EVEN - WE'D RATHER DIE THAN TO 51:33 NOT DO GOD'S WILL. THAT'S HOW FAR-REACHING THE 51:36 GOSPEL IS. THE GOSPEL MUST PENETRATE OUR 51:39 LIVES IN ORDER TO BE FITTED FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 51:45 THE LAST DAY - WE MADE IT - THURSDAY - HERE IT IS. 51:50 THURSDAY'S LESSON: 'THE LAW IN THE KINGDOM' - 51:54 THE LAW IN THE KINGDOM. 51:55 SOMEONE SAID, 'HAVE THE COURAGE TO LIVE - ANYONE CAN DIE.' 51:59 HAVE THE COURAGE TO LIVE - ANYONE CAN DIE. 52:04 SPEAKING TO THE FACT OF THE INEVITABILITY OF DEATH. 52:08 DEATH HAS BEEN THE MOST PERSISTENT OUT OF ALL THE HARSH 52:11 CONSEQUENCES OF SIN. SATAN CAN BE RESISTED. 52:15 SIN CAN BE OVERCOME. BUT WHO, APART FROM ENOCH AND 52:20 ELIJAH, CAN ESCAPE THE POSSIBILITY OF DEATH? 52:25 WE'RE ALL SUBJECT TO IT, AREN'T WE? 52:27 THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT DEATH WILL BE DESTROYED. 52:29 WHO'S GOT 1 CORINTHIANS 15:26 FOR US? 52:32 RIGHT DOWN HERE. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:26. 52:35 LET ME READ REVELATION CHAPTER 20 AND VERSE 14 - ONE DAY DEATH 52:39 IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED. AND THERE SHOULD BE AN 'AMEN' 52:43 FOR THAT HERE THIS MORNING - A BIGGER 'AMEN' THAN THAT. 52:47 REVELATION 20, VERSE 14. THE BIBLE CALLS DEATH AN ENEMY. 52:51 IS IT NOT AN ENEMY? SURE IT IS. IT SEPARATES LOVED ONES. 52:54 IT CAUSES PAIN AND GRIEF AND HEARTACHE AND SOME PEOPLE HERE 52:58 TODAY, THEIR LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE SOMEONE THEY 53:00 LOVED PASSED AWAY. DEATH IS AN ENEMY. 53:03 AND ONE DAY, THOUGH, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT DEATH IS GOING TO BE 53:06 DESTROYED. THAT IS GOOD NEWS. YEAH, REVELATION 20, VERSE 14, 53:10 "AND DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 53:14 THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH." THAT'S IT. 53:17 GOING TO BE ALL SAID AND DONE. 1 CORINTHIANS 15 AND VERSE 26. 53:22 >>"THE LAST ENEMY THAT SHALL BE DESTROYED IS DEATH." 53:26 >>AMEN. THE ENEMY, DEATH, IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED. 53:30 SO HERE'S THE QUESTION: 'WILL GOD'S LAW BE NEEDED IN HIS 53:33 KINGDOM? HERE'S THE RATIONALE: DEATH 53:36 COMES BECAUSE OF SIN AND SIN EXISTS BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW. 53:42 SIN EXISTS BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW. 53:43 IF DEATH IS DESTROYED WILL THERE BE ANY USE FOR THE LAW OF GOD IN 53:46 HEAVEN? IT'S NOT A TRICK QUESTION - YES! 53:53 WHERE IS THE LAW? IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS. 53:56 THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. IT'S WRITTEN THERE. 53:58 IT IS WRITTEN THERE. THE LAW EXISTED IN HEAVEN EVEN 54:02 BEFORE SIN ENTERED IN HEAVEN. AND THE FACT THAT SIN ENTERED 54:05 HEAVEN TELLS US THAT THERE WAS A LAW IN HEAVEN. 54:09 YOU KNOW THERE'S SIN - YOU KNOW IT'S SIN BECAUSE THE LAW TELLS 54:12 YOU THAT THAT THING IS WRONG. SO WHEN LUCIFER REBELLED IN 54:16 HEAVEN HE REBELLED - WE KNOW HE REBELLED - WE KNOW THERE WAS A 54:20 LAW BECAUSE HE REBELLED AND BECAUSE HE SINNED. 54:22 SO THERE WAS A LAW THAT EXISTED IN HEAVEN EVEN BEFORE. 54:25 AS A MATTER OF FACT IN THAT BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BOOK 'THOUGHTS 54:28 FROM THE MOUNT OF BLESSING' ON PAGE 108 IT SAYS, 'BUT IN HEAVEN 54:30 SERVICE IS NOT RENDERED IN THE SPIRIT OF LEGALITY. 54:33 WHEN SATAN REBELLED AGAINST THE LAW OF JEHOVAH THE THOUGHT THAT 54:36 THERE WAS A LAW CAME TO THE ANGELS ALMOST AS AN AWAKENING TO 54:39 SOMETHING UNTHOUGHT OF. IN THEIR MINISTRY THE ANGELS ARE 54:42 NOT HIS SERVANTS BUT HIS SONS. 54:43 THERE'S PERFECT UNITY BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR CREATOR. 54:46 OBEDIENCE IS NOT, TO THEM, DRUDGERY, LOVE FOR GOD MAKES 54:48 THEIR SERVICE A JOY. AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU LOVE YOUR WIFE. 54:53 YOU LOVE YOUR HUSBAND, YOU JUST DO WHAT THEY ASK YOU TO DO. 54:55 YOUR CHILDREN - THEY LOVE YOU - THEY DO WHAT YOU ASK THEM TO DO. 54:58 I'M NOT TREATING MY CHILDREN WELL BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW IN 55:01 THE STATE THAT SAYS 'DON'T DO HARM TO YOUR CHILDREN OR WE'RE 55:03 GOING TO COME AFTER YOU AND GET YOU AND THROW YOU IN THE 55:07 SLAMMER.' I'M DOING THE BEST BY MY CHILDREN WHY? 55:11 BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW WRITTEN IN MY HEART THAT'S A LAW OF LOVE. 55:14 THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. AND SO WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN - 55:18 WHEN WE ENTER GOD'S KINGDOM - BEFORE WE GET TO GOD'S KINGDOM 55:20 WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING HIS WILL. 55:22 WE'RE GOING TO LOVE TO DO HIS WILL AND IT WILL JUST CONTINUE 55:24 ON THROUGHOUT THE CEASELESS AGES OF ETERNITY. 55:27 AND WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW? 55:29 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW IN GOD'S KINGDOM? 55:31 TO GOVERN THE LIFE OF THE SAVED AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE MIND AND 55:37 IN THE HEART. THAT'S ALL - AS IT DOES FOR US NOW. 55:40 THAT'S THE GOSPEL. THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS. 55:43 CHRIST'S TRANSFORMING GRACE, YOU SEE. FRIENDS, THERE'S NOTHING 55:46 WRONG WITH GOD'S LAW. NOTHING WHATSOEVER. 55:49 THE PROBLEM IS WITH YOU AND WITH ME - WITH YOU AND WITH ME. 55:54 SO LET'S ALLOW GOD TO WORK THE MIRACLE OF INSCRIBING THAT 55:58 PRECIOUS, POWERFUL, HOLY, PERFECT, JUST LAW -IN OUR HEARTS 56:02 AND IN OUR MINDS SO THAT WITH KING DAVID, WE CAN SAY AS HE 56:08 SAID IN PSALM 40, VERSE 8, "I DELIGHT TO DO THY WILL, O MY 56:11 GOD, YEA, THY LAW IS WITHIN MY HEART." 56:18 MAN, MAY THAT BE OUR EXPERIENCE, AMEN? AMEN. 56:21 WELL, FOR THOSE TUNING IN, I WANT TO REMIND YOU TO CALL IN 56:23 AND GET YOUR FREE OFFER. IT'S OFFER #727 - 56:27 'ASSURANCE: JUSTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE'. 56:30 CALL IN TO 1-866-788-3966 OR 1-866-STUDY-MORE. 56:36 WE'RE SO GLAD YOU JOINED US TODAY AND GOD BLESS YOU. 56:41 >>HAVE YOU EVER WISHED YOU COULD DO MORE TO LEAD SOMEONE TO 56:43 JESUS? 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