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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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RIGHT HERE IN THE CAPITAL
CITY OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO.
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IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SUNNY DAY HERE
AND RATHER HOT BUT WE ARE INSIDE
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AND WE ARE EXCITED TO BE HERE
AND SING SONGS WITH YOU AND OPEN
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UP GOD'S WORD LIKE WE DO
EVERY WEEK AND STUDY TOGETHER.
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WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO
PULL YOUR HYMNALS AT THIS TIME.
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I'M SURE MOST OF YOU ARE READY
TO SING ALONG, BUT WE'RE GOING
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TO START OUR PROGRAM WITH 'FILL
MY CUP, LORD', WHICH IS A HUGE
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REQUEST FROM ALL OVER THE PLANET
SO TODAY I PICKED A SMATTERING
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OF DIFFERENT PLACES.
WE'RE GOING TO THE CAYMAN
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ISLANDS WITH RUBY AND RUTH IN
INDIA, VICE IN PAPAU NEW GUINEA
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AND MAY IN SOUTH KOREA. IT
WAS A LONG LIST, SO YOU KNOW
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WHO YOU ARE, GOD KNOWS WHO YOU
ARE, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
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SENDING IN YOUR FAVORITE SONG.
WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL THREE
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STANZAS. 23493 - JOIN
WITH US - 'FILL MY CUP, LORD.'
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>>IS THAT YOUR PRAYER
TODAY? FILL MY CUP, LORD.
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YOU KNOW SO MANY TIMES WE GO
LOOKING FOR THINGS TO FILL THAT
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LONGING IN OUR HEARTS, BUT THE
ONLY THING THAT CAN FILL THAT IS
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JESUS. SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
THINGS THAT JUST AREN'T DOING IT
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AND YOU'RE LEFT NOT
SATISFIED YOU KNOW WHERE TO GO.
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IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE SONG YOU
WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON AN
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UPCOMING PROGRAM, ALL YOU HAVE
TO DO IS GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
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'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE
'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN
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SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE SONG -
IF IT'S RIGHT HERE - AND WE WILL
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SING THAT FOR YOU
ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM.
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AT THIS TIME LET'S TURN TO 23148
- 'O LOVE, HOW DEEP, HOW BROAD'
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- 23148 - AND THIS IS OUR NEW
SONG AS WE'RE WORKING OUR WAY
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THROUGH THE HYMNAL.
WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS NOW FOR
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JUST OVER TWO YEARS, I THINK.
WE HAVE TEN MORE YEARS TO GO.
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23148 - 'O LOVE, HOW DEEP, HOW
BROAD' AND WE'RE GOING TO DO THE
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FIRST, SECOND,
FOURTH, AND FIFTH STANZAS.
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IT'S A BEAUTIFUL
SONG. SING WITH US.
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>>FATHER IN HEAVEN, YOUR
LOVE IS SO DEEP, SO BROAD,
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AND SO INCREDIBLY TRUE.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LOVING US,
FOR CALLING US YOUR CHILDREN,
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AND FATHER I JUST PRAY THAT WE
WILL BE GRATEFUL CHILDREN, THAT
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WE WILL NOT TURN OUR BACKS
ON YOU AND HURT YOU, BUT WE WILL
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LOVE YOU WITH THE LOVE THAT
YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED FOR US.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE
OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE TO BE
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HERE, TO STUDY
YOUR WORD TOGETHER.
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I PRAY YOU WILL BE WITH EACH
ONE HERE AND OUR EXTENDED FAMILY
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AROUND THE WORLD. WE
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EACH
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ONE AND I PRAY NOW THAT
YOU'LL BLESS OUR SPEAKER.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR
DOUG AND HIS MINISTRY HERE AT
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CENTRAL AND
AROUND THE WORLD AS WELL.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. OUR
LESSON STUDY IS GOING TO BE
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BROUGHT TO US AT THIS
TIME BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH DEBBIE AND
OUR MUSICIANS AND FRIENDS FOR
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JOINING US AND SINGING.
AND I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO
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MIGHT BE WATCHING ON SATELLITE
OR ON THE INTERNET AND JUST THIS
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WEEK SOMEONE AT OUR OFFICE
E-MAILED US A LIST OF - OH, IT
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MUST HAVE BEEN 167 OR 170
COUNTRIES WHERE SONG REQUESTS
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HAVE COME IN FROM.
THAT'S VERY ENCOURAGING.
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THAT MEANS THERE ARE, QUITE
LITERALLY, PEOPLE LISTENING FROM
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ALL CORNERS - I THINK THERE'S
ONLY ABOUT 207 COUNTRIES IN THE
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WORLD SO JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE
AROUND THE WORLD, PEOPLE ARE
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WATCHING ON SATELLITE, THROUGH
THE INTERNET, OR SOME OTHER
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MECHANISM AND IT'S JUST A
PLEASURE AND HONOR TO BE ABLE TO
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STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH YOU.
WELL, YOU KNOW, AT THE - BEFORE
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WE GET INTO OUR LESSON TODAY,
WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING A
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LITTLE UNIQUE.
WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU A
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GLIMPSE, NOT ON WHAT'S HAPPENING
ON THIS SIDE OF THE CAMERA, BUT
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WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING ON
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CAMERA.
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WE HAVE A MEMBER OF OUR MEDIA
TEAM THAT HAS BEEN HERE WITH US
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FOR, I THINK, 19 YEARS.
DOUG, WHY DON'T YOU JOIN ME UP
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HERE FOR A MOMENT. YOU
KNOW, WHEN AMAZING FACTS
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FIRST BEGAN TO BROADCAST HERE
AT CENTRAL CHURCH, WE WERE JUST
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PRAYING THAT GOD WOULD HELP
US FIND SOMEBODY THAT HAD THE
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SKILLS THAT COULD DO A
LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING BECAUSE
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THERE'S A LOT THAT GOES ON
BETWEEN PRODUCING AND LIGHTING
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AND EDITING AND AT THAT TIME,
THE LORD BROUGHT US TOGETHER
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WITH DOUG HILL AND DOUG HAS BEEN
A DEAR FRIEND AND PART OF THE
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CENTRAL FAMILY AND THE TEAM HERE
FOR 19 YEARS AND HE HAS BEEN
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BEHIND THE SCENES. HE'S
GENERALLY VERY QUIET BUT I SAID
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YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY
WANT TO SAY SOMETHING.
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VERY HUMBLE GENTLEMAN AND YOU
MAY NOT KNOW - I THINK WE'VE GOT
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SOME PICTURES WE'RE
GOING TO PUT UP ON THE SCREEN.
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DOUG HAS LITERALLY BEEN
AROUND THE WORLD WITH US.
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THIS IS, LET ME SEE, THIS
IS, WELL THIS IS CENTRAL CHURCH.
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OH, THAT'S NEW GUINEA, I
THINK, AND I DON'T KNOW, YOU'RE
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SOMEWHERE WITH CHARLES - THAT'S
IN INDIA IN 1999 WITH MYSELF,
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LOWELL HARGREAVES, DAWNA
SAWATSKY, AND MICAH, OUR SON.
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DOUG WAS THERE, AGAIN,
HELPING LEAD OUT IN THE PROGRAM.
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THAT, AGAIN, IS INDIA AND
PEOPLE TURN THEIR HEADS IN INDIA
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BECAUSE DOUG IS JUST A LITTLE
TALLER THAN ME AND THEY'RE A
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LITTLE SHORTER THAN ME IN INDIA.
AND HERE HE IS IN HIS TYPICAL
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SPOT BEHIND THE DIRECTOR'S
BOOTH IN THE PRODUCTION AREA.
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AGAIN, YOU JUST - SOME OF THE
THINGS THAT DOUG'S DOING BEHIND
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THE SCENES - YOU OFTEN - IT'S
HARD TO THINK YOU COULD HIDE
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BECAUSE HE'S 6 FOOT 6.
DOUG AND SHERLE EDITING.
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HE'S BEEN TO NEW YORK WITH US,
MICHIGAN, WASHINGTON, D.C., NEW
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GUINEA, INDIA, ALMOST WEEKLY,
FOR MANY YEARS, FOR CHURCH AND
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SABBATH SCHOOL AND WE JUST
HAVE A LOT OF MEMORIES TOGETHER.
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WE JUST WANTED TO HONOR AND
THANK DOUG AND TELL THE LORD HOW
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MUCH WE APPRECIATE HIM.
DOUG - THE LORD HAS OPENED THE
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DOOR FOR HIM TO TAKE A
NEW OPPORTUNITY IN HOUSTON.
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HIS FAMILY, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN,
IS ORIGINALLY FROM TEXAS.
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>>RIGHT, YES. WE ARE
FROM HOUSTON SO WE ARE
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GOING TO BE RETURNING HOME TO
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THE HOUSTON ARE AND WE ARE GOING
TO GREATLY MISS OUR FAMILY HERE
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AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND
AMAZING FACTS, BUT EMBRACE OUR
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NEW OPPORTUNITIES THAT GOD'S PUT
BEFORE US IN THE HOUSTON AREA.
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>>YEAH, AND SO WE
JUST WANTED TO THANK DOUG.
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THERE ARE GOING TO BE THOUSANDS
OF PEOPLE THAT WILL BE IN THE
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KINGDOM BECAUSE OF WHAT HE AND
HIS TEAM HAVE DONE ON THE OTHER
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SIDE OF THE CAMERA
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
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AND I THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE
TO JUST ASK HIM TO COME OUT AND
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INTRODUCE HIM TO EVERYBODY.
HE'S ALWAYS ON THE OTHER SIDE -
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YOU NEVER MEET HIM - AND TO
THANK HIM AND HAVE PRAYER FOR
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HIM AS THE EXTENDED
SABBATH SCHOOL FAMILY.
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DON'T YOU THINK THAT
WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA?
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AND SO I'D JUST LIKE
TO PRAY WITH YOU DOUG.
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IS THERE ANYTHING
ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO SAY?
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>>NO, I THINK I'VE
COVERED IT, YOU KNOW?
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I WILL SAY THAT I JUST HAVE
LOVED YOU, DOUG, AND YOUR FAMILY
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AND THE AMAZING FACTS FAMILY SO
MUCH OVER THE 19 YEARS I'VE BEEN
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SERVING WITH YOU AND
IT HAS JUST BEEN AN HONOR.
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>>HE IS SUCH A JOY TO
WORK WITH. >>AND BLESSING.
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>>AMEN. AND, YOU KNOW, HIS NAME
IS DOUGLAS EDWARD AND MY NAME IS
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DOUGLAS EDWARD BATCHELOR SO
WE CALL EACH OTHER 'DOUG E' -
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AFFECTIONATELY 'DOUGIE'.
>>AND THAT'S MY E-MAIL NAME -
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DOUGIE HILL - SO,
YEAH. >>LET'S PRAY.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE JUST WANT
TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR BLESSINGS
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THAT WE CAN LOOK TO YOU FOR YOU
TO GUIDE AND LEAD IN OUR LIVES
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AND WE JUST THANK YOU AND PRAISE
YOU FOR THE BLESSING THAT DOUG
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AND MICHELLE, ANDREW AND
NICHOLAS, AND THEIR WHOLE FAMILY
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HAS BEEN TO THE CENTRAL FAMILY
AND THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY
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AND WE JUST PRAY, LORD, THAT
YOU'LL BE WITH THEM UNTIL WE
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MEET AGAIN AND
WORK TOGETHER AGAIN.
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WATCH OVER THEM THROUGH
THE STRESS OF THE MOVE AND
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I PRAY YOUR
BLESSING ON THEIR FAMILY.
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AND, LORD, CONTINUE TO JUST
REVEAL YOUR LOVE AND YOUR SPIRIT
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IN THEIR LIVES AND GUARD
THEM WITH YOUR ANGELS NOW.
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SO WE, AGAIN, PRAISE YOU
AND THANK YOU FOR THEIR MINISTRY
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HERE AND ASK THAT YOU BE
WITH THEM, IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AND I THINK WE'VE GOT A
COUPLE LITTLE GIFTS FOR YOU AND
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MAYBE BONNIE WANTS TO BRING THAT
OUT AND JUST - WE DIDN'T WANT TO
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GET YOU LIKE A BIG SOFA
SET SINCE YOU'RE MOVING.
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IT'S SOMETHING TO
SHOW OUR APPRECIATION.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH, DOUG. GOD
BLESS. CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? AMEN.
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BUT THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE
TO BE PART OF GOD'S FAMILY.
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YOU MAKE FRIENDS AND GOD
MOVES YOU AROUND A LITTLE BIT.
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AND THAT'S OUR STUDY TODAY.
IT'S DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF
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THE CHURCH. AND
WE'RE IN OUR LESSON DEALING
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WITH THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
TODAY, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE ON
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LESSON 238 AND WE
HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS TALKING
ABOUT UNITY, IN PARTICULAR.
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MEMORY VERSE IS FROM
JOHN 17, VERSES 20 AND 21.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE
YOU TO SAY THAT WITH US -
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JOHN 17, VERSES 20
AND 21. ARE YOU READY?
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"I DO NOT PRAY FOR THESE ALONE,
BUT ALSO FOR THOSE WHO WILL
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BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH THEIR
WORD; THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE,
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AS YOU, FATHER, ARE IN ME, AND
I IN YOU; THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE
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ONE IN US, THAT THE WORLD
MAY BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME."
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THE LORD TELLS US
THAT HE WANTS US TO BE ONE.
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HE WANTS US TO BE UNITED.
AND SO THERE'S SO MUCH I COULD
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SAY ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF THE
CHURCH, THE LESSON HAS HELPED IN
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CREATING SOME HIGH POINTS THAT
WE'RE GOING TO OUTLINE, BUT THE
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FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO MAKE
CLEAR IS WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE
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CHURCH WE OFTEN THINK ABOUT THE
DISTINCT AND THE UNIQUE CHURCH
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THAT EXISTED AFTER
THE TIME OF CHRIST.
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YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID - THIS
VERSE COMES UP LATER - 'ON THIS
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ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH.'
BUT DON'T LET THAT MAKE YOU
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THINK THAT JESUS DID NOT HAVE A
CHURCH BEFORE THE NEW TESTAMENT
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TIMES. THE CHURCH
PRIOR TO THE COMING
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OF CHRIST WAS DIFFERENT THAN THE
CHURCH AFTER THE COMING THE OF
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CHRIST, BUT IT'S ALL ONE CHURCH
BECAUSE IT WAS ALL ONE TRUTH.
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THE MAIN DIFFERENCE WAS THE
CHURCH BEFORE - THEY WERE LIVING
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IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS
WHERE THEY WERE DEALING WITH THE
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SACRIFICE OF LAMBS AND THE
CEREMONIES, BUT AFTER CHRIST
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CAME THEY WERE LIVING IN THE
REALITY OF THE SUBSTANCE OF WHAT
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JESUS DID. BUT THE
BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE
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CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS
AND THE CHURCH IS HIS GATHERING.
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MATTER OF FACT, I SHOULD
PROBABLY SAY A WORD ABOUT THE
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WORD 'CHURCH.' IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT, IN PARTICULAR - THE
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OLD TESTAMENT SOMETIMES CALLED
IT 'THE CONGREGATION' OR 'THE
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PEOPLE OF ISRAEL' OR 'MY PEOPLE'
OR 'HIS BRIDE' - A NUMBER OF
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DIFFERENT WORDS WERE USED
TO TALK ABOUT THE GATHERING.
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IN ENGLISH, THE WORD THAT WE USE
'CHURCH' IS REALLY ONLY FOUND A
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COUPLE OF TIMES
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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IT COMES FROM AN OLD ENGLISH
WORD PRONOUNCED IN GERMAN - IT'S
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A GERMAN-ENGLISH WORD - KIRCHE
- OR IN SCOTLAND IT WAS 'THE
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KIRK.' I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF
YOU OLDER SAINTS REMEMBER THAT
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SONG THAT WAS IN THE HYMNAL
CALLED 'COME TO THE KIRK IN THE
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WILDWOOD.' IT WAS - THEY CALLED
IT A 'KIRK' AND THAT'S WHERE WE
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GET THE WORD 'CHURCH' AND
IT COMES FROM THAT GREEK WORD
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'KURIOS', WHICH MEANS, 'LORD'
- KURIAKOS - KURIAKOS, YEAH, AND
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THAT MEANS 'PERTAINING TO THE
LORD; THAT WHICH PERTAINS TO THE
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LORD, THE CHURCH.' MOST OF
THE WORDS FOR CHURCH THAT ARE
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TRANSLATED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
COME FROM THE WORD 'ECCLESIA' -
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ECCLESIA, WHICH IS WHERE WE
GET THE WORD ECCLESIASTICAL OR
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ECCLESIASTIOLOGY AND THAT'S
TALKING ABOUT ESPECIALLY A
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CALLING OUT - A PEOPLE WHO ARE
CALLED OUT. NOW THE CHURCH IS
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OFTEN COMPRISED OF A
GROUP THAT IS CALLED OUT.
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IN THE VERY BEGINNING YOU SEE
THERE'S A DIVISION BETWEEN THE
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CHILDREN OF ADAM AND YOU'VE
GOT - ABEL IS KILLED, SETH IS
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SEPARATE AND AS LONG AS HE IS
SEPARATE THEY'RE - THEY TRY TO
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MAINTAIN SOME FORM OF PURITY
BUT WHEN THE SONS OF GOD SAW THE
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DAUGHTERS OF MEN AND THE
CHILDREN OF SETH INTERMARRIED
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WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF CAIN
WICKEDNESS PROLIFERATED IN THE
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WORLD. GOD WAS
GOING TO DESTROY THE
00:18:42.53\00:18:44.56
WORLD SO GOD
CALLED OUT A REMNANT.
00:18:44.56\00:18:46.83
AND THAT WAS NOAH, IN HIS
FAMILY. AND THEN, AFTER THE TIME
00:18:46.83\00:18:50.16
OF BABEL, WHEN THERE WAS
COMPROMISE AGAIN, GOD CALLS A
00:18:50.16\00:18:52.66
REMNANT OUT OF THE PLAINS OF
MESOPOTAMIA - THAT WAS ABRAHAM.
00:18:52.66\00:18:57.90
AND THEN THROUGH THE PATRIARCHS
- ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND IT'S NOT
00:18:57.90\00:19:01.96
ALL OF ISAAC'S FAMILY BUT IT'S
ISAAC'S FAMILY THROUGH JACOB AND
00:19:01.96\00:19:05.63
IT'S NOT ALL OF JACOB'S SONS -
JACOB IS CALLED OUT BUT IT'S NOT
00:19:05.63\00:19:09.96
ALL OF HIS SONS. YOU
REMEMBER HE CALLS ISRAELITES
00:19:09.96\00:19:11.93
BACK OUT OF EGYPT? BUT
MORE SPECIFICALLY, IT'S
00:19:11.93\00:19:16.20
JUDAH BECAUSE TEN OF THE
TRIBES ARE CARRIED TO ASSYRIA.
00:19:16.20\00:19:19.96
BUT THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH
COME BACK FROM THEIR BABYLONIAN
00:19:19.96\00:19:22.53
CAPTIVITY. AND
THEN, FROM THE TRIBE OF
00:19:22.53\00:19:24.86
DAVID - AND SO YOU'VE OFTEN
GOT THIS PICTURE OF A REMNANT.
00:19:24.86\00:19:28.70
AND EVEN AFTER THE CHURCH GREW
AND BECAME ACCEPTED, APOSTASY
00:19:28.70\00:19:32.26
CREPT IN AND GOD
CALLS OUT A REMNANT.
00:19:32.26\00:19:34.36
AND SO, OFTEN, YOU FIND THE
CHURCH IS THIS GROUP THAT GOD IS
00:19:34.36\00:19:37.13
CALLING OUT OF THE
WORLD. HE CALLS A REMNANT.
00:19:37.13\00:19:41.20
IN THE BEGINNING - IN GENESIS
3:5 - THE LORD - THE FIRST
00:19:41.20\00:19:45.93
PROPHECY YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE
- THE LORD FORETOLD THAT THERE
00:19:45.93\00:19:49.40
WOULD BE THIS ENMITY - THERE
WOULD BE THIS WAR THAT WOULD BE
00:19:49.40\00:19:53.20
RAGING AND IT REACHES
FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION.
00:19:53.20\00:19:56.50
GENESIS 3:15 YOU FIND, "AND I
WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND
00:19:56.50\00:20:00.90
THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED
AND HER SEED; HE" - THE SEED OF
00:20:00.90\00:20:06.13
THE WOMAN, OR JESUS - "SHALL
BRUISE YOUR HEAD," - GOD IS
00:20:06.13\00:20:09.66
SPEAKING TO THE SERPENT - BRUISE
THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT - "AND
00:20:09.66\00:20:12.30
YOU" - THE SERPENT -
"SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL."
00:20:12.30\00:20:15.10
NOW IF YOU GET YOUR HEAD
BRUISED TOO MUCH YOU DIE.
00:20:15.10\00:20:17.23
IT'S A MORTAL WOUND. YOU
CAN HAVE YOUR HEEL BRUISED
00:20:17.23\00:20:19.83
AND IT WILL MAKE YOU LIMP
BUT YOU CAN STILL GET ALONG.
00:20:19.83\00:20:23.00
SO THE DEVIL HAS BEEN IMPEDING
THE PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH BUT
00:20:23.00\00:20:27.46
JESUS, THE SEED OF THE WOMAN,
DEALT A MORTAL BLOW TO THE
00:20:27.46\00:20:31.10
SERPENT. AND SO
YOU'VE GOT THIS PROPHECY.
00:20:31.10\00:20:34.93
NOW THEN YOU GO TO REVELATION
12 - NOTICE, VERSE 17 - "AND THE
00:20:34.93\00:20:40.53
DRAGON" - THAT'S THE SERPENT
- SAME ONE - BECAUSE 'THAT OLD
00:20:40.53\00:20:43.20
SERPENT CALLED THE DRAGON
AND SATAN - USES ALL THOSE TERMS
00:20:43.20\00:20:47.00
THERE IN REVELATION 12 - CALLS
HIM THE DRAGON AND THE SERPENT -
00:20:47.00\00:20:49.63
SAME ONE - "AND THE DRAGON WAS
ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN AND HE
00:20:49.63\00:20:54.13
WENT TO MAKE WAR" - STILL TRYING
TO IMPEDE - NIP AT THE HEELS OF
00:20:54.13\00:20:58.36
THE CHURCH - "WENT TO MAKE WAR
WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING."
00:20:58.36\00:21:03.06
- ANOTHER WAY YOU COULD SAY THAT
IS 'THE REMNANT' OR REMAINDER OF
00:21:03.06\00:21:06.73
HER OFFSPRING - HER DESCENDENTS.
00:21:06.73\00:21:08.83
AND THE TWO
OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS?
00:21:08.83\00:21:11.30
"WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF
00:21:11.30\00:21:14.56
JESUS CHRIST." NOW
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:21:14.56\00:21:16.46
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND A
PATTERN ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE OF
00:21:16.46\00:21:19.70
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
LAST PROPHECY IN THE OLD
00:21:19.70\00:21:25.23
TESTAMENT - MALACHI
CHAPTER 4, "REMEMBER THE LAW OF
00:21:25.23\00:21:28.80
MOSES...BEHOLD, I
WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH."
00:21:28.80\00:21:33.36
MOSES - ELIJAH - THEN YOU TURN
INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND IN
00:21:33.36\00:21:38.03
THE BOOKS OF MATTHEW, MARK AND
LUKE, MOSES AND ELIJAH APPEAR TO
00:21:38.03\00:21:41.13
JESUS ON THE MOUNT
OF TRANSFIGURATION.
00:21:41.13\00:21:43.60
JESUS SAID - PROPHECY SAID A
PROPHET WOULD COME LIKE ELIJAH,
00:21:43.60\00:21:49.03
RIGHT? A PROPHET
WOULD COME IN THE
00:21:49.03\00:21:50.50
SPIRIT AND POWER OF
ELIJAH. WHO WAS THAT?
00:21:50.50\00:21:53.53
JOHN THE BAPTIST
- WAS THE FIRST ONE.
00:21:53.53\00:21:55.90
THERE MAY BE
OTHERS IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:21:55.90\00:21:57.33
AND THEN MOSES FORETOLD 'A
PROPHET WILL COME LIKE ME.' WHO
00:21:57.33\00:22:00.70
WAS THAT? JESUS.
00:22:00.70\00:22:03.16
SO THE LAST PROPHECY IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT IT SAYS, 'REMEMBER THE
00:22:03.16\00:22:06.13
LAW OF MOSES, BEHOLD I SEND
ELIJAH.' YOU TURN TO THE NEW
00:22:06.13\00:22:08.40
TESTAMENT AND JOHN THE
BAPTIST AND JESUS COME.
00:22:08.40\00:22:10.73
MOSES AND ELIJAH COME ENDORSING
THAT THESE WERE THE FULFILLMENT
00:22:10.73\00:22:14.93
OF THAT PROPHECY AND THEY
REPRESENT THE LAW - MOSES - AND
00:22:14.93\00:22:20.16
THE PROPHETS - ELIJAH.
AND THE WORD OF GOD IS CALLED
00:22:20.16\00:22:23.53
'THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.'
THEY'RE THE TWO WITNESSES
00:22:23.53\00:22:26.46
IN REVELATION. YOU
MIGHT SAY THE NEW AND THE
00:22:26.46\00:22:27.96
OLD TESTAMENTS - THAT'S BECAUSE
THE BIBLE IS IN A DUAL NATURE.
00:22:27.96\00:22:32.13
IT'S A SWORD WITH HOW
MANY EDGES? TWO-EDGED SWORD.
00:22:32.13\00:22:36.23
AND SO YOU'VE GOT THE WORD OF
GOD AND THE CHURCH IN THE LAST
00:22:36.23\00:22:41.16
DAYS AND THE REMNANT ALL THROUGH
HISTORY - THE FOUNDATION FOR
00:22:41.16\00:22:44.20
WHAT THE REMNANT BELIEVES IS THE
BIBLE AND THAT LEADS US INTO OUR
00:22:44.20\00:22:48.90
NEXT - BY THE WAY,
YOU REMEMBER ISAIAH 8:14?
00:22:48.90\00:22:52.40
"BIND UP THE TESTIMONY?"
WHAT IS THE TESTIMONY?
00:22:52.40\00:22:55.36
SPIRIT OF PROPHECY - THE
PROPHETS - THE WORD OF GOD.
00:22:55.36\00:22:57.93
'SEAL THE LAW
AMONG MY DISCIPLES.
00:22:57.93\00:23:00.40
ACCORDING TO THE LAW AND
THE TESTIMONY, IF THEY SPEAK NOT
00:23:00.40\00:23:03.83
ACCORDING TO THIS WORD' -
RIGHT? JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD.
00:23:03.83\00:23:06.73
HE SAID TO THE TWO
ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS,
00:23:06.73\00:23:08.53
'O FOOLS AND SLOW
OF HEART TO BELIEVE.
00:23:08.53\00:23:11.26
ALL THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN
BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL THE
00:23:11.26\00:23:14.60
PROPHETS' - THE LAW AND THE
PROPHETS - 'HE EXPOUNDED UNTO
00:23:14.60\00:23:17.46
THEM AND ALL THE SCRIPTURES.'
THAT'S THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS
00:23:17.46\00:23:20.53
- ALL THE SCRIPTURES - 'THE
THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF.' SO
00:23:20.53\00:23:23.33
THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH
- THE ROCK IS THE WORD OF GOD.
00:23:23.33\00:23:26.80
NOW THAT'LL TAKE US INTO
OUR SECTION FOR THE FIRST DAY.
00:23:26.80\00:23:30.30
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR
ME 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11.
00:23:30.30\00:23:33.53
WE GAVE OUT SOME SLIPS, I THINK?
WE GOT THAT RIGHT UP HERE WITH
00:23:33.53\00:23:36.00
AARON. GET HIM A MICROPHONE.
AND WHILE WE'RE DOING THAT, I'M
00:23:36.00\00:23:39.50
GOING TO READ
EPHESIANS 2, VERSES 19 TO 22.
00:23:39.50\00:23:42.70
IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES
YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN ME THERE.
00:23:42.70\00:23:45.73
EPHESIANS 2:19-22, "NOW,
THEREFORE, YE ARE NO MORE
00:23:45.73\00:23:50.93
STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, BUT
FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS,
00:23:50.93\00:23:55.00
AND OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD; AND
ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION" -
00:23:55.00\00:23:59.53
HERE'S THE FOUNDATION - "OF
THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, JESUS
00:23:59.53\00:24:03.70
CHRIST HIMSELF" - SO THE
FOUNDATION IS MEANING THE
00:24:03.70\00:24:06.50
TEACHINGS AND WRITINGS OF THE
APOSTLES AND PROPHETS THAT YOU
00:24:06.50\00:24:09.40
WOULD FIND IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT AND THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:24:09.40\00:24:12.30
"JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING
THE CHF CORNERSTONE; IN WHOM ALL
00:24:12.30\00:24:18.26
THE BUILDING FITLY FRAMED
TOGETHER GROWETH UNTO AN HOLY
00:24:18.26\00:24:22.00
TEMPLE IN THE LORD: IN WHOM YE
ALSO ARE BUILDED TOGETHER FOR AN
00:24:22.00\00:24:26.70
HABITATION OF GOD
THROUGH THE SPIRIT."
00:24:26.70\00:24:28.63
ALL OF US ARE LIKE LIVING
STONES, PETER SAYS, THAT BUILD
00:24:28.63\00:24:33.80
UP THIS DWELLING PLACE
FOR GOD AND THAT'S THE CHURCH.
00:24:33.80\00:24:38.96
YOU KNOW, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
OFTEN FOCUS ON CHRIST'S
00:24:38.96\00:24:42.93
REDEMPTIVE WORK IN THE TEMPLE OF
HEAVEN, AND THAT'S APPROPRIATE,
00:24:42.93\00:24:46.60
BUT WE SOMETIMES FORGET THAT HE
ALSO HAS A REDEMPTIVE WORK WITH
00:24:46.60\00:24:50.20
THE TEMPLE ON EARTH. 'WHAT?
00:24:50.20\00:24:52.03
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YE ARE
THE TEMPLE OF GOD BUILT UPON THE
00:24:52.03\00:24:55.20
FOUNDATION AND THE
CORNERSTONE OF JESUS?'
00:24:55.20\00:24:58.00
AND SO, NOT ONLY IS HE CLEANSING
THE TEMPLE IN HEAVEN, BUT HE'S
00:24:58.00\00:25:01.66
CLEANSING THE TEMPLE
DOWN HERE, TOO, ISN'T HE?
00:25:01.66\00:25:04.20
AND HE'S TRYING TO USE IT AT THE
SAME TIME, TO REACH OUT TO THE
00:25:04.20\00:25:07.53
WORLD. ALRIGHT, GO
AHEAD - I THINK WE'RE READY.
00:25:07.53\00:25:11.00
WHY DON'T YOU READ YOUR VERSE?
00:25:11.00\00:25:13.26
>>"FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO
MAN LAY THAN THAT IS LAID, WHICH
00:25:13.26\00:25:17.60
IS JESUS CHRIST." >>ALRIGHT.
00:25:17.60\00:25:20.00
AND BY THE WAY,
THAT'S 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11.
00:25:20.00\00:25:21.86
"THERE IS NO OTHER FOUNDATION
THAN WHAT IS LAID AND THAT IS
00:25:21.86\00:25:25.53
CHRIST." WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD
FOR JESUS? WHAT BECAME FLESH?
00:25:25.53\00:25:29.93
THE WORD BECAME
FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US.
00:25:29.93\00:25:34.03
JESUS IS THE WORD INCARNATE.
SO WHEN WE SAY THAT CHRIST IS
00:25:34.03\00:25:38.90
THE FOUNDATION, WHAT ARE WE
REALLY SAYING? HIS TEACHINGS.
00:25:38.90\00:25:43.86
I MEAN, WHEN YOU SAY JESUS IS
THE FOUNDATION WE'RE NOT TALKING
00:25:43.86\00:25:46.10
ABOUT MUMMIFYING HIS BODY AND
BUILDING ON TOP OF IT, RIGHT?
00:25:46.10\00:25:49.03
YOU KNOW, THE MAFIA IS FAMOUS
FOR PUTTING PEOPLE IN CONCRETE
00:25:49.03\00:25:52.93
AND THEN
BUILDING ON TOP OF THEM.
00:25:52.93\00:25:54.73
AND WE'RE NOT
TALKING ABOUT THAT.
00:25:54.73\00:25:56.53
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUILDING ON
TOP OF THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS,
00:25:56.53\00:26:00.23
RIGHT? LET ME GIVE YOU AN
EXAMPLE. YOU ALL KNOW THIS.
00:26:00.23\00:26:03.50
NOT ONLY IS IT IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 7, YOU FIND THIS IS LUKE
00:26:03.50\00:26:06.26
6:47, "WHOEVER COMES TO ME, AND
HEARS MY SAYINGS AND DOES THEM,
00:26:06.26\00:26:14.46
I WILL SHOW YOU WHOM HE IS LIKE:
HE IS LIKE A MAN BUILDING A
00:26:14.46\00:26:17.70
HOUSE, WHO DUG DEEP" - LUKE SAYS
SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T - IT'S
00:26:17.70\00:26:21.76
NOT MENTIONED IN MATTHEW - "WHO
DUG DEEP AND LAID THE FOUNDATION
00:26:21.76\00:26:24.93
ON THE ROCK. AND
WHEN THE FLOOD AROSE, THE
00:26:24.93\00:26:28.63
STREAM BEAT VEHEMENTLY AGAINST
THAT HOUSE, AND COULD NOT SHAKE
00:26:28.63\00:26:31.93
IT, FOR IT WAS
FOUNDED ON THE ROCK."
00:26:31.93\00:26:33.56
- JESUS SAID
THIS IS THE WISE MAN.
00:26:33.56\00:26:35.66
THEN IN MATTHEW HE
SAYS 'THE FOOLISH MAN -
00:26:35.66\00:26:38.33
HE WHO HEARS THESE
WORDS OF MINE AND DOES NOT DO
00:26:38.33\00:26:42.50
THEM IS LIKE A MAN WHO BUILDS
HIS HOUSE ON EARTH' - OR SAND -
00:26:42.50\00:26:45.90
"WITHOUT A FOUNDATION,
AGAINST WHICH THE STREAM BEAT
00:26:45.90\00:26:49.30
VEHEMENTLY; AND
IMMEDIATELY IT FELL.
00:26:49.30\00:26:51.33
AND THE RUIN OF
THAT HOUSE WAS GREAT."
00:26:51.33\00:26:53.30
NOW THERE'S A VERY, VERY
IMPORTANT POINT I OFTEN HEAR
00:26:53.30\00:26:55.73
MISSED WHEN THEY READ THESE
VERSES ABOUT THE WISE MAN AND
00:26:55.73\00:26:58.96
THE FOOL AND THE FOUNDATION.
BOTH GROUPS HEAR THE WORD -
00:26:58.96\00:27:03.80
THE WISE MAN AND THE FOOL
- BOTH GROUPS BUILD A HOUSE.
00:27:03.80\00:27:08.76
BOTH GROUPS EXPERIENCE A STORM.
ONE HEARS THE WORD AND DOES IT.
00:27:08.76\00:27:17.00
ONE HEARS THE WORD
AND DOES NOT DO IT.
00:27:17.00\00:27:20.40
AND SO - HOW MANY CHURCHES
ARE THERE THAT CLAIM TO BE
00:27:20.40\00:27:23.76
CHRISTIANS THAT
HAVE BIBLES? THOUSANDS.
00:27:23.76\00:27:28.33
WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE TRUE CHURCH AND
00:27:28.33\00:27:31.80
FALSE CHURCHES? YOU
KNOW, EVERY CHURCH I GO TO
00:27:31.80\00:27:34.76
IN NORTH AMERICA - ANY
DENOMINATION - WILL ALL AGREE
00:27:34.76\00:27:37.46
THERE ARE FALSE
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.
00:27:37.46\00:27:40.06
I MEAN, THEY'LL SAY THERE ARE
GOOD PEOPLE IN ALL THE CHURCHES.
00:27:40.06\00:27:41.93
SOME CHURCHES WILL SAY THAT
UNLESS YOU'RE A MEMBER OF OUR
00:27:41.93\00:27:44.43
CHURCH YOU'RE ALL
LOST. WE DON'T SAY THAT.
00:27:44.43\00:27:46.66
BUT MOST CHURCHES WILL AGREE
THERE ARE SOME GOOD PEOPLE IN
00:27:46.66\00:27:49.06
MANY CHURCHES, BUT YOU ASK THEM
'ARE THERE FALSE CHURCHES OUT
00:27:49.06\00:27:51.13
THERE?' THEY'LL
SAY, 'ABSOLUTELY.' SO
00:27:51.13\00:27:53.03
HOW DO YOU SEPARATE
THE TRUE FROM THE FALSE?
00:27:53.03\00:27:55.63
MANY HEAR THE WORD
BUT THEY DON'T DO IT.
00:27:55.63\00:27:58.16
AND SO CHRIST SAYS HE HAS A
PEOPLE THAT WILL DIG DEEP ON THE
00:27:58.16\00:28:01.96
ROCK AND THAT IS NOT
ONLY HEARING, THAT IS DOING.
00:28:01.96\00:28:05.50
THEY'RE BUILDING THEIR LIVES
ON WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS.
00:28:05.50\00:28:08.26
YOU CAN ALSO READ PSALM 28,
SPEAKING OF THAT ROCK AGAIN,
00:28:08.26\00:28:12.56
IT'S A TERM THAT'S
OFTEN USED FOR GOD.
00:28:12.56\00:28:14.46
"TO YOU I WILL CRY, O LORD
MY ROCK: DO NOT BE SILENT TO ME,
00:28:14.46\00:28:21.70
LEST, IF YOU ARE SILENT TO ME, I
BECOME LIKE THOSE WHO GO DOWN TO
00:28:21.70\00:28:24.26
THE PIT." WHAT WERE THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON?
00:28:24.26\00:28:28.23
COULDN'T THE LORD HAVE
WRITTEN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON
00:28:28.23\00:28:30.93
PARCHMENT LIKE
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS?
00:28:30.93\00:28:33.96
WHY DID HE CHOOSE STONE? IT
REPRESENTS SOMETHING ENDURING
00:28:33.96\00:28:39.43
AND IT'S A TYPE OF CHRIST.
WE ALL SING THAT SONG 'ROCK OF
00:28:39.43\00:28:42.73
AGES' - WHO ARE WE
SINGING ABOUT? IT'S ABOUT JESUS.
00:28:42.73\00:28:46.26
HE IS THE FOUNDATION
STONE FOR THE CHURCH.
00:28:46.26\00:28:48.50
AND, AGAIN, IN ACTS 4:11, "THIS
IS THE 'STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED
00:28:48.50\00:28:53.96
BY YOU BUILDERS, WHICH HAS
BECOME THE CHF CORNERSTONE.'
00:28:53.96\00:28:58.33
NOR IS THERE SALVATION IN
ANY OTHER, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER
00:28:58.33\00:29:02.03
NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG
MEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED."
00:29:02.03\00:29:06.20
AND SO THIS IS THE FOUNDATION
FOR THE CHURCH. AND THEN CHRIST
00:29:06.20\00:29:09.76
MAKES THAT STATEMENT - TURN
WITH ME TO MATTHEW 16, VERSE 18.
00:29:09.76\00:29:14.00
THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON - MATTHEW
16:18 - AND OH, HOW MANY PEOPLE
00:29:14.00\00:29:18.43
HAVE BEEN
CONFUSED BY THIS VERSE?
00:29:18.43\00:29:20.90
I'M GOING TO START WITH VERSE
13 - MATTHEW 16, VERSE 13, "WHEN
00:29:20.90\00:29:28.03
JESUS CAME INTO THE REGION OF
CAESAREA PHILIPPI, HE ASKED HIS
00:29:28.03\00:29:32.16
DISCIPLES, SAYING, 'WHO DO MEN
SAY THAT I, THE SON OF MAN, AM?'
00:29:32.16\00:29:36.20
SO THEY SAID, 'SOME SAY JOHN
THE BAPTIST, SOME ELIJAH,'" -
00:29:36.20\00:29:39.50
BECAUSE JOHN HAD DIED AND THEY
THOUGHT MAYBE SOMEHOW JESUS WAS
00:29:39.50\00:29:42.43
THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF
JOHN RESURRECTED - "'AND OTHERS
00:29:42.43\00:29:45.50
JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE
PROPHETS.' HE SAID TO THEM, 'BUT
00:29:45.50\00:29:49.23
WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I
AM?'" - NOW WITHOUT WAITING FOR
00:29:49.23\00:29:52.53
ANYONE ELSE TO GET A CHANCE
PETER BLURTS OUT - I THREW THAT
00:29:52.53\00:29:56.66
IN - "SIMON PETER ANSWERED AND
SAID, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE
00:29:56.66\00:30:01.33
SON OF THE LIVING GOD.'" NOW
WHEN HE SAID 'THE CHRIST' THAT
00:30:01.33\00:30:04.76
WORD THERE HE SAID
'YOU ARE THE ANOINTED -
00:30:04.76\00:30:06.46
YOU ARE THE MESSIAH'
IS WHAT HE WAS SAYING.
00:30:06.46\00:30:09.03
"'SON OF THE LIVING GOD.'" AND
THEN JESUS, DID HE SAY, 'NO, NO,
00:30:09.03\00:30:13.93
THAT'S NOT TRUE' OR DID JESUS
AGREE? HE SAID, "BLESSED ARE
00:30:13.93\00:30:18.53
YOU, SIMON BAR-JONAH," - PETER'S
FATHER'S NAME WAS JONAH -
00:30:18.53\00:30:22.80
SIMON, SON OF JONAH, THAT MEANS
- "FOR FLESH AND BLOOD HAS NOT
00:30:22.80\00:30:27.16
REVEALED THIS TO YOU BUT MY
FATHER IN HEAVEN." SO DID JESUS
00:30:27.16\00:30:30.13
ACCEPT THE DECLARATION
THAT HE WAS THE MESSIAH?
00:30:30.13\00:30:33.83
I SAY THAT BECAUSE I MEET A LOT
OF PEOPLE - I DID THIS WEEK -
00:30:33.83\00:30:36.53
FROM OTHER RELIGIONS AND THEY
SAY, 'WELL, WE BELIEVE JESUS WAS
00:30:36.53\00:30:39.80
A GOOD MAN AND HE WAS A
VERY GOOD TEACHER AND HE WAS A
00:30:39.80\00:30:42.13
PROPHET' - WELL, IF HE WAS A
GOOD MAN AND HE WAS A PROPHET -
00:30:42.13\00:30:45.63
HE SAID HE WAS THE
MESSIAH, WAS HE LYING?
00:30:45.63\00:30:48.56
SO YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
YOU CAN'T SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, HE
00:30:48.56\00:30:53.33
WAS A GOOD MAN, HE TOLD THE
TRUTH, AND HE WAS A PROPHET.
00:30:53.33\00:30:55.36
AND THEN HE SAYS, 'I AM THE
MESSIAH.' WELL THAT WOULD MAKE
00:30:55.36\00:30:57.26
HIM A DECEIVER UNLESS
HE REALLY IS THE MESSIAH.
00:30:57.26\00:31:00.46
AND THEN JESUS MAKES
THIS STATEMENT THAT'S OFTEN
00:31:00.46\00:31:02.46
MISUNDERSTOOD - VERSE 18 - "AND
I ALSO SAY TO YOU THAT YOU ARE
00:31:02.46\00:31:08.73
PETER AND ON THIS ROCK I WILL
BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE GATES
00:31:08.73\00:31:12.90
OF HADES SHALL NOT
PREVAIL AGAINST IT."
00:31:12.90\00:31:15.66
PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, JESUS
BUILT HIS CHURCH ON PETER?'
00:31:15.66\00:31:19.63
WELL, THAT WOULD BE STRANGE
BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK IN VERSE 23
00:31:19.63\00:31:23.63
HE TURNS TO PETER AND
SAYS, 'GET BEHIND ME SATAN!'
00:31:23.63\00:31:28.73
SO ONE - SAME CHAPTER, SAME
DISCOURSE - ONE PLACE THEY SAY
00:31:28.73\00:31:32.30
HE'S BUILDING HIS CHURCH UPON
PETER AND A LITTLE WHILE LATER
00:31:32.30\00:31:35.30
HE CALLS PETER SATAN BECAUSE
SATAN WAS SPEAKING THROUGH HIM.
00:31:35.30\00:31:38.63
HE SAID, 'GET BEHIND ME, SATAN.'
PETER WAS NOT THE DEVIL BUT THE
00:31:38.63\00:31:40.70
DEVIL WAS
SPEAKING THROUGH PETER.
00:31:40.70\00:31:42.43
BOY, THAT WOULD BE A PRETTY
SHAKY FOUNDATION FOR A CHURCH.
00:31:42.43\00:31:45.23
WHAT JESUS IS SAYING -
HE'S MAKING A CONTRAST.
00:31:45.23\00:31:48.80
PETER'S NAME IS PETROS.
THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS.
00:31:48.80\00:31:53.56
ONE IS A WORD THAT MEANS PEBBLE
AND THE OTHER IS A WORD THAT
00:31:53.56\00:31:59.83
MEANS 'ROCK' - MEANING A
ROCK OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS.
00:31:59.83\00:32:03.83
LIKE SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN THAT
PRUDENTIAL ROCK OR THE ROCK OF
00:32:03.83\00:32:07.26
GIBRALTAR CALLED THE GATES OF
HERCULES - THESE GREAT BIG ROCKS
00:32:07.26\00:32:11.10
LIKE HALF-DOME - THINK OF
HALF-DOME - FOR THOSE OF US IN
00:32:11.10\00:32:14.10
CALIFORNIA - THERE IN YOSEMITE -
THE GREAT BIG GRANITE MOUNTAIN.
00:32:14.10\00:32:20.43
SO JESUS IS MAKING A CONTRAST
THAT IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE IS
00:32:20.43\00:32:23.40
VERY CLEAR. HE'S
SAYING, 'YOU ARE A PEBBLE,
00:32:23.40\00:32:25.26
BUT ON THIS PETRA - OR PETROS
- I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH.' WHAT
00:32:25.26\00:32:30.26
WAS THE PETRA UPON WHICH
HE WAS BUILDING THE CHURCH?
00:32:30.26\00:32:33.03
WHAT PETER SAID - THAT
CHRIST WAS THE MESSIAH.
00:32:33.03\00:32:35.83
THAT WAS THE ROCK UPON
WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT.
00:32:35.83\00:32:38.63
THAT JESUS WAS THE ONE WHERE
THERE'S NO OTHER NAME GIVEN
00:32:38.63\00:32:41.90
AMONG MEN
WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED.
00:32:41.90\00:32:44.10
THAT WAS THE TRUTH UPON
WHICH THE CHURCH WAS BUILT.
00:32:44.10\00:32:46.50
NOT ON THAT VACILLATING
LOUD FISHERMAN WHO WAS A GOOD
00:32:46.50\00:32:50.63
PREACHER BUT HE ALSO, YOU KNOW,
HE'S NOT THE FOUNDATION FOR THE
00:32:50.63\00:32:54.20
CHURCH. CHRIST IS THE
FOUNDATION FOR THE CHURCH, AMEN?
00:32:54.20\00:32:57.80
SO HAVING SAID THAT, I THINK
WE COVERED THE FOUNDATION PRETTY
00:32:57.80\00:33:00.96
WELL. YEAH, LET'S
GO ON TO 'CHRIST'S
00:33:00.96\00:33:04.30
PRAYER FOR UNITY.' NOW WHEN
YOU READ JOHN 17 - THIS IS THE
00:33:04.30\00:33:09.96
LONGEST PRAYER OF
JESUS IN THE BIBLE.
00:33:09.96\00:33:12.56
IT'S THE LONGEST INTERCESSORY
PRAYER IN THE BIBLE.
00:33:12.56\00:33:17.06
YOU ONLY FIND THIS SPECIFIC
PRAYER IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN,
00:33:17.06\00:33:20.83
WHICH IS INTERESTING. BUT
HE IS SPECIFICALLY PRAYING
00:33:20.83\00:33:25.03
FOR HIS CHURCH - NOW YOU'RE
ABOUT TO DIE A TERRIBLE DEATH.
00:33:25.03\00:33:32.46
YOU'RE GOING TO BE CRUCIFIED.
00:33:32.46\00:33:34.60
IT'S BASICALLY - YOU'RE
ABOUT TO BE TORTURED FOR HOURS.
00:33:34.60\00:33:38.73
NOT ONLY THAT, YOU'RE ABOUT TO
HAVE THE BURDEN OF ALL THE GUILT
00:33:38.73\00:33:41.30
AND SHAME AND JUDGMENT,
THAT BELONGS TO A WHOLE RACE OF
00:33:41.30\00:33:44.30
HUMANITY,
WEIGHING DOWN ON YOUR SOUL.
00:33:44.30\00:33:47.40
AND AS YOU'RE PREPARING TO FACE
THIS - THAT JUST - IT TORE FROM
00:33:47.40\00:33:51.96
THE LIPS THAT CRY, 'FATHER,
IF THERE'S ANY WAY THAT THIS CAN
00:33:51.96\00:33:55.20
PASS, LET IT PASS.' WHO WAS
JESUS THINKING ABOUT, HIMSELF OR
00:33:55.20\00:33:59.56
THE CHURCH DURING THOSE
HOURS? I'D JUST BE FRETTING AND
00:33:59.56\00:34:03.46
SWEATING THINKING
ABOUT MYSELF AT THAT TIME.
00:34:03.46\00:34:07.43
BUT THE BURDEN OF CHRIST'S
PRAYER - HE'S NOT PRAYING FOR
00:34:07.43\00:34:11.63
HIMSELF, HE DOES THAT IN
THE GARDEN BRFLY, BUT HE SPENDS
00:34:11.63\00:34:14.80
MOST OF HIS TIME
PRAYING FOR THIS SACRED CHARGE.
00:34:14.80\00:34:18.36
HE HAS SPENT THREE AND A HALF
YEARS TRAINING VERY VACILLATING
00:34:18.36\00:34:23.36
HUMANS TO GROW INTO A MIGHTY
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT THAT WILL
00:34:23.36\00:34:28.16
CHANGE THE WORLD AND SO HE
SPENDS HIS TIME PRAYING FOR THE
00:34:28.16\00:34:31.13
CHURCH. NOTICE, HE NOT ONLY
PRAYS FOR THE CHURCH, IN THAT
00:34:31.13\00:34:34.80
PRAYER - AND THIS IS PART OF OUR
MEMORY VERSE - READ IT AGAIN,
00:34:34.80\00:34:37.96
JOHN 17 - WAIT A SECOND, WHO
HAS ACTS 2:1? LET'S GET YOU A
00:34:37.96\00:34:42.00
MICROPHONE. HOLD YOUR HAND
UP THERE. WE'LL GO TO YOU NEXT.
00:34:42.00\00:34:45.66
BUT IN THAT PRAYER OF JOHN
17, NOTICE JESUS SAID, "I DO NOT
00:34:45.66\00:34:51.23
PRAY" - THIS IS VERSE 20 - "I
DO NOT PRAY FOR THESE ALONE, BUT
00:34:51.23\00:34:55.30
ALSO FOR THOSE WHO WILL BELIEVE
IN ME THROUGH THEIR WORD;" NOW
00:34:55.30\00:34:59.30
WHEN YOU READ THE WRITINGS OF
PETER AND THE WRITINGS OF PAUL
00:34:59.30\00:35:02.26
AND THE WRITINGS OF JUDE AND
JAMES, YOU'RE READING THE WORDS
00:35:02.26\00:35:05.33
OF THE APOSTLES. AND
IF YOU AND I BELIEVE, FROM
00:35:05.33\00:35:09.20
READING THOSE THINGS, JESUS IS
PRAYING FOR US, SPECIFICALLY IN
00:35:09.20\00:35:15.46
THIS PRAYER. YOU
SEE, HE'S NOT JUST PRAYING
00:35:15.46\00:35:17.43
FOR THE APOSTLES, HE'S PRAYING
FOR THOSE WHO WOULD BELIEVE,
00:35:17.43\00:35:19.70
DOWN THROUGH THE AGES, ON
CHRIST THROUGH THEIR WORD.
00:35:19.70\00:35:24.16
THIS IS VERY ENCOURAGING TO ME.
THAT MEANS JESUS PRAYED FOR ME.
00:35:24.16\00:35:27.90
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT GOD
THE FATHER IS GOING TO ANSWER A
00:35:27.90\00:35:31.33
PRAYER PRAYED BY JESUS?
WHEN YOU WONDER IF YOU'RE GOING
00:35:31.33\00:35:34.86
TO MAKE IT, DOES IT ENCOURAGE
YOU TO KNOW JESUS PRAYED FOR
00:35:34.86\00:35:38.23
YOU? DOES THE FATHER
WANT TO ANSWER A PRAYER?
00:35:38.23\00:35:42.20
HOW DOES JESUS END A PRAYER?
YOU AND I END BY SAYING, 'IN
00:35:42.20\00:35:45.20
JESUS' NAME.' DOES JESUS END
A PRAYER SAYING, 'IN MY NAME'?
00:35:45.20\00:35:50.33
I MEAN, YOU DON'T GET A BETTER
ENDORSEMENT ON A PRAYER THAN ONE
00:35:50.33\00:35:53.13
THAT JESUS PRAYED. AND SO THAT
SHOULD BE ENCOURAGING TO YOU.
00:35:53.13\00:35:56.43
FOR ONE THING, HE SAYS, "I PRAY
FOR THOSE WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME
00:35:56.43\00:35:58.70
THROUGH THEIR WORD;" -
NOW WHAT IS HE PRAYING?
00:35:58.70\00:36:01.56
IT'S A PRETTY HIGH CALLING.
"THAT THEY MAY" - SOME OF THEM -
00:36:01.56\00:36:05.33
"BE ONE?" "ALL MAY BE ONE,
AS" - NOW WHAT KIND OF ONENESS?
00:36:05.33\00:36:12.20
'THAT THEY MAY BE ONE
AS THE APOSTLES WERE ONE?'
00:36:12.20\00:36:15.90
WELL, THEY OFTEN
FOUGHT AMONG THEMSELVES.
00:36:15.90\00:36:17.86
HE SAID, "THAT THEY MIGHT BE ONE
AS YOU, FATHER, ARE IN ME AND I
00:36:17.86\00:36:23.36
IN YOU, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE IN
US, THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE
00:36:23.36\00:36:30.00
THAT YOU SENT ME."
SO ONE OF THE STRONGEST
00:36:30.00\00:36:33.33
EVANGELISTIC BILLBOARDS
TO THE WORLD IS THE WHAT?
00:36:33.33\00:36:38.13
THE ONENESS OF CHRISTIANITY.
00:36:38.13\00:36:40.43
JESUS SAID, 'ALL MEN WILL KNOW
THAT YOU'RE MY DISCIPLES BY YOUR
00:36:40.43\00:36:43.20
LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.' WE DON'T
REALLY NEED TO STUDY THIS LESSON
00:36:43.20\00:36:47.46
BECAUSE WE HAVE NO PROBLEMS
LOVING EACH OTHER, DO WE?
00:36:47.46\00:36:52.10
HE SAID TONGUE-IN CHEEK.
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON.
00:36:52.10\00:36:56.03
THIS IS A LESSON
THAT'S ABOUT UNITY.
00:36:56.03\00:36:58.30
MATTER OF FACT, AS I STUDIED THE
LESSON I THOUGHT THERE'S SO MANY
00:36:58.30\00:37:00.16
OTHER THINGS I COULD SAY ABOUT
THE CHURCH AND I THINK THIS
00:37:00.16\00:37:02.63
LESSON IS SPECIFICALLY
WRITTEN WITH THE THEME OF UNITY.
00:37:02.63\00:37:06.83
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AS AN
EVANGELIST, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT
00:37:06.83\00:37:08.86
THE CHURCH, I WANT TO
START GOING THROUGH 'HOW DO YOU
00:37:08.86\00:37:10.83
IDENTIFY THE TRUE
CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS?'
00:37:10.83\00:37:12.96
AND 'HOW DO YOU
BECOME PART OF THE CHURCH?'
00:37:12.96\00:37:15.30
AND YOU TALK ABOUT THOSE ISSUES,
BUT THIS IS REALLY TALKING ABOUT
00:37:15.30\00:37:17.00
THE NATURE OF THE CHURCH
KNOWN BY UNITY - BY ITS LOVE.
00:37:17.00\00:37:22.03
YOU SEE, I BELIEVE THAT JESUS -
THE DEVIL HEARD JESUS PRAY 'ALL
00:37:22.03\00:37:26.96
MEN WILL KNOW YOU'RE MY
DISCIPLES BY YOUR LOVE FOR ONE
00:37:26.96\00:37:29.43
ANOTHER' AND HE THOUGHT,
'IF EVERYONE WILL KNOW THEY'RE
00:37:29.43\00:37:33.00
CHRISTIANS BY THEIR LOVE, THE
REVERSE OF EVANGELISM WOULD BE
00:37:33.00\00:37:38.13
DIVIDE THEM. IF OUR
UNITY AND LOVE FOR ONE
00:37:38.13\00:37:41.73
ANOTHER WILL ATTRACT PEOPLE,
THEN THE DIVISION IN THE CHURCH
00:37:41.73\00:37:46.86
WILL REPULSE THEM. IS
THERE A RELIGION IN THE WORLD
00:37:46.86\00:37:50.86
THAT IS MORE DIVIDED
THAN CHRISTIANITY? NO.
00:37:50.86\00:37:55.16
THERE ARE NOT - THERE ARE
MANY FRAGMENTS OF JUDAISM.
00:37:55.16\00:37:59.00
THERE ARE MANY FRAGMENTS OF
ISLAM - YOU'VE GOT THE SUNNIS
00:37:59.00\00:38:04.53
AND THE SHIITES THAT ARE
FIGHTING AND KILLING EACH OTHER
00:38:04.53\00:38:07.26
AND THERE ARE MANY
FRAGMENTS BESIDES THAT.
00:38:07.26\00:38:09.93
THERE ARE FRAGMENTS WITHIN
BUDDHISM AND HINDUISM AND YOU'VE
00:38:09.93\00:38:14.00
GOT A LOT OF DIFFERENT
FRAGMENTED RELIGIONS IN THE
00:38:14.00\00:38:16.50
WORLD BUT THERE IS NO RELIGION
THAT COMES ANYWHERE NEAR BEING
00:38:16.50\00:38:23.53
AS FRAGMENTED - THERE ARE
THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT DIVISIONS
00:38:23.53\00:38:27.50
AND EVERY NEW SELF-PROCLAIMED
PASTOR THAT WANTS TO START HIS
00:38:27.50\00:38:31.13
OWN BRAND OF CHRISTIANITY -
HE KIND OF COPYRIGHTS ANOTHER
00:38:31.13\00:38:34.33
DENOMINATION - THAT'S WHY
THERE'S THOUSANDS OF THEM.
00:38:34.33\00:38:36.66
AND OFTEN CHURCHES THAT DIVIDE
OVER SOME DOCTRINE, THEY'LL
00:38:36.66\00:38:40.33
BREAK OFF AND SAY, 'I'M THE
FIRST REFORMED - SECOND POINT OF
00:38:40.33\00:38:44.40
A CATEGORY B BAPTIST CHURCH.'
I MEAN, I DON'T MEAN TO PICK ON
00:38:44.40\00:38:48.80
THE BAPTISTS, BUT THERE'S
MANY DIFFERENT DIVISIONS OF THE
00:38:48.80\00:38:51.23
BAPTISTS AND THE METHODISTS.
00:38:51.23\00:38:53.63
AND, UNFORTUNATELY, THERE
ARE EVEN, WITHIN THE SEVENTH-DAY
00:38:53.63\00:38:56.80
ADVENTIST CHURCH, TWO DIFFERENT
GROUPS OF REFORMED SEVENTH-DAY
00:38:56.80\00:39:00.53
ADVENTIST CHURCHES. ISN'T
THAT RIGHT? LOVELY PEOPLE.
00:39:00.53\00:39:04.93
I'VE MET WITH THEIR
LEADERS ON BOTH SIDES.
00:39:04.93\00:39:07.20
BUT SOME ISSUE CAME
ALONG WHERE THEY DIVIDED.
00:39:07.20\00:39:12.20
YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY - YOU
KNOW ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE
00:39:12.20\00:39:15.46
METHODS OF CHURCH
PLANTING THAT HAPPENS?
00:39:15.46\00:39:19.26
TWO GROUPS IN A CHURCH HAVE AN
ARGUMENT AND ONE DECIDES TO GO
00:39:19.26\00:39:24.23
PLANT A CHURCH SOMEWHERE
ELSE. IT'S TRUE. IT'S TRUE.
00:39:24.23\00:39:29.10
I'M - WELL, I WON'T TELL YOU THE
HISTORY BUT THERE'S - I COULD
00:39:29.10\00:39:32.50
JUST - I COULD LAY
OUT THE HISTORY FOR YOU.
00:39:32.50\00:39:34.43
CHURCHES HAVE GOTTEN INTO
ARGUMENTS OVER DECORATING ISSUES
00:39:34.43\00:39:37.93
AND IT BECAME SO HEATED THEY
SAID, 'WELL, THEN WE'LL JUST GO
00:39:37.93\00:39:40.86
BUILD OUR OWN CHURCH.
THAT'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT JESUS
00:39:40.86\00:39:46.66
HAD IN MIND WHEN HE
WANTED US TO DO CHURCH PLANTING.
00:39:46.66\00:39:51.10
BUT GOD HAS TURNED SOME OF
THOSE THINGS TOGETHER FOR GOOD.
00:39:51.10\00:39:53.96
PAUL AND BARNABAS HAD
AN ARGUMENT, DIDN'T THEY?
00:39:53.96\00:39:57.80
THEY COULDN'T AGREE ON WHETHER
OR NOT TO FORGIVE MARK AND TAKE
00:39:57.80\00:40:00.46
HIM WITH THEM AND
GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE.
00:40:00.46\00:40:02.36
PAUL, ACTUALLY,
WAS WRONG THIS TIME.
00:40:02.36\00:40:04.63
AND SO THEY SAID,
'ALRIGHT, WE'LL GO ON OUR OWN.
00:40:04.63\00:40:06.83
I'LL JUST TAKE SILAS AND I'LL
GO.' AND BARNABAS SAID, 'WELL,
00:40:06.83\00:40:09.50
I'LL TAKE MARK AND I'LL GO
AND THERE.' WELL, YOU KNOW, GOD
00:40:09.50\00:40:13.23
WORKED IT FOR GOOD - HE ENDED
UP WITH TWO MISSIONARY GROUPS.
00:40:13.23\00:40:15.36
BUT WAS THAT THE WAY HE WANTED
THEM TO SCATTER AND GOD'LL WORK,
00:40:15.36\00:40:19.40
SOMETIMES, OUR BAD DECISIONS OUT
FOR GOOD BUT ALL MEN SHOULD KNOW
00:40:19.40\00:40:23.76
YOU ARE HIS DISCIPLES
BY OUR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER.
00:40:23.76\00:40:27.10
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD.
READ FOR US ACTS 2, VERSE 1.
00:40:27.10\00:40:30.50
>>OKAY, ACTS 2, VERSE 1, "WHEN
THE DAY OF PENTECOST HAD FULLY
00:40:30.50\00:40:35.30
COME, THEY WERE ALL WITH
ONE ACCORD IN ONE PLACE."
00:40:35.30\00:40:39.33
>>NOTICE, ONE ACCORD, ONE PLACE.
AND THEN THEY WERE BAPTIZED WITH
00:40:39.33\00:40:45.70
ONE SPIRIT. DOES
THE CHURCH NEED ANOTHER
00:40:45.70\00:40:48.46
PENTECOSTAL BAPTISM OF THE
SPIRIT THESE DAYS? WHAT DO YOU
00:40:48.46\00:40:52.73
THINK IS GOING TO PRECEDE
THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT?
00:40:52.73\00:40:56.20
WELL, FOR ONE THING, WE NEED
TO PUT ASIDE OUR DIFFERENCES -
00:40:56.20\00:40:59.66
PETTY DIFFERENCES
- FORGIVE EACH OTHER.
00:40:59.66\00:41:04.10
AND THEY'RE USUALLY NOT
THEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES.
00:41:04.10\00:41:07.13
YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE
THEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES ARE
00:41:07.13\00:41:08.83
IMPORTANT - I'LL GET TO THAT IN
A MINUTE - BUT OFTEN IT'S STRIFE
00:41:08.83\00:41:13.96
AND RIVALRY OVER DIFFERENT
THINGS AND WHEN WE CAN PUT THAT
00:41:13.96\00:41:19.00
ASIDE - WHEN DID GOD SEND
THE RAIN IN THE DAYS OF ELIJAH?
00:41:19.00\00:41:24.83
WHEN GOD'S PEOPLE HUMBLED
THEMSELVES, THE KNELT DOWN, THEY
00:41:24.83\00:41:27.83
PRAYED 'THE LORD HE IS
GOD.' GOD OPENED UP THE HEAVENS
00:41:27.83\00:41:30.10
AND HE POURED OUT THE SPIRIT.
00:41:30.10\00:41:32.43
BUT WHEN THEY TURNED BACK TO THE
LORD - WHEN THERE WAS REFORM AND
00:41:32.43\00:41:35.93
THERE WAS REVIVAL - NOTICE, GOD
DIDN'T SEND THE RAIN UNTIL THEY
00:41:35.93\00:41:39.30
KNOCKED DOWN THE ALTARS OF
BAAL AND KILLED THE PROPHETS.
00:41:39.30\00:41:42.26
NOW I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT WE,
YOU KNOW, GET OUT OUR MACHETES
00:41:42.26\00:41:45.23
AND RUN THROUGH THE CHURCH.
THAT DID HAPPEN, THOUGH, BACK
00:41:45.23\00:41:48.56
WHEN THEY WORSHIPED
THE GOLDEN CALF, DIDN'T IT?
00:41:48.56\00:41:51.93
I MEAN IT'S HAPPENED A
COUPLE OF TIMES IN THE CHURCH.
00:41:51.93\00:41:54.06
I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD DO THAT
LITERALLY, BUT I THINK SOMETIMES
00:41:54.06\00:41:56.53
WE NEED TO MAKE
SOME TOUGH DECISIONS.
00:41:56.53\00:42:01.66
THAT - YOU KNOW IT
JUST BROKE MY HEART.
00:42:01.66\00:42:04.33
I JUST CAME BACK FROM WORKING AT
A UNIVERSITY I WON'T MENTION AND
00:42:04.33\00:42:09.60
YOU HEAR STORIES ABOUT
PROFESSORS IN THE UNIVERSITIES
00:42:09.60\00:42:12.13
THAT DON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE'S
TRUE AND THEY'LL COME RIGHT OUT
00:42:12.13\00:42:14.16
AND SAY IT. AND
THEY'RE STILL THERE.
00:42:14.16\00:42:17.60
OR THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY
DON'T BELIEVE IN CREATION.
00:42:17.60\00:42:21.16
THEY DON'T BELIEVE SOME OF
THE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES.
00:42:21.16\00:42:26.06
I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING
TO HAVE A REVIVAL IN OUR CHURCH
00:42:26.06\00:42:28.13
UNTIL WE BELIEVE THESE THINGS
ARE IMPORTANT AND I THINK THAT
00:42:28.13\00:42:33.56
MEANS SOMETIMES YOU'VE
GOT TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS.
00:42:33.56\00:42:36.80
IN THE CHURCH, AS WELL, IT'S NOT
JUST IN THE - WHAT'S HAPPENING
00:42:36.80\00:42:40.73
IN MAYBE SOME OF THE
SCHOOLS - IN CHURCHES.
00:42:40.73\00:42:42.50
IS THERE EVER SUPPOSED TO BE
A TIME WHEN YOU PRACTICE CHURCH
00:42:42.50\00:42:45.10
DISCIPLINE? DOESN'T PAUL TALK
ABOUT THAT IN 1 CORINTHIANS?
00:42:45.10\00:42:50.73
I THINK THAT THERE NEEDS TO
BE REFORMATION IN OUR LIVES,
00:42:50.73\00:42:54.13
INDIVIDUALLY. THERE
NEEDS TO BE REPENTANCE AND
00:42:54.13\00:42:56.13
SOMETIMES EVEN
PUBLIC CONFESSION.
00:42:56.13\00:42:58.46
I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE
SOME CLEANING UP OF THE BOOKS.
00:42:58.46\00:43:01.53
WE'VE GOT PEOPLE ON CHURCH BOOKS
THAT HAVEN'T BEEN TO CHURCH IN
00:43:01.53\00:43:03.53
YEARS, THEY'RE JUST OUT THERE
IN THE WORLD, BUT IT MAKES THE
00:43:03.53\00:43:06.13
NUMBERS LOOK BAD SO WE
JUST DON'T DEAL WITH IT.
00:43:06.13\00:43:08.06
IT'S A SHAME FOR
THE NAME OF CHRIST.
00:43:08.06\00:43:10.76
THERE'S PEOPLE OUT THERE TAKING
THE NAME OF CHRISTIAN OR THEY'RE
00:43:10.76\00:43:13.23
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS AND NOT
LIVING ANYTHING LIKE A CHRISTIAN
00:43:13.23\00:43:15.73
AND WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT
IT. WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE
00:43:15.73\00:43:20.53
PEACE AND REVIVAL - THEY HAD
TO THROW JONAH OVERBOARD BEFORE
00:43:20.53\00:43:23.10
THEY HAD PEACE, DIDN'T THEY?
- UNTIL WE START WAKING UP AND
00:43:23.10\00:43:27.50
REALLY ACTING LIKE A
CHURCH IS SUPPOSED TO ACT.
00:43:27.50\00:43:29.70
LOVING EACH OTHER AS MUCH AS WE
CAN LOVE EACH OTHER, TRYING TO
00:43:29.70\00:43:34.16
WIN PEOPLE BACK AS MUCH AS
WE CAN, BUT THEN THOSE WHO ARE
00:43:34.16\00:43:37.20
RECALCITRANT AND THEY'RE JUST
LIVING FOR THE WORLD, THEN AT
00:43:37.20\00:43:39.76
LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE IT AND TAKE
THEIR NAMES OFF THE BOOK, RIGHT?
00:43:39.76\00:43:43.70
YOU'VE GOT TO STAND FOR
SOMETHING BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT'S
00:43:43.70\00:43:46.10
ALL - THE WORLD
LAUGHS AT THE CHURCH.
00:43:46.10\00:43:49.76
THEY LAUGH AT THE WAY WE FIGHT.
00:43:49.76\00:43:51.53
THEY LAUGH AT THE FALSE
PROFESSIONS THAT ARE OUT THERE.
00:43:51.53\00:43:54.70
IF WE REALLY WANT TO SEE AN
OUTPOURING THE SPIRIT, THERE
00:43:54.70\00:43:57.43
NEEDS TO BE REFORMATION.
THERE NEEDS TO BE A REVIVAL.
00:43:57.43\00:44:01.23
THERE NEEDS TO BE CHANGES
IN OUR FAMILIES - IN OUR LIVES.
00:44:01.23\00:44:05.13
YOU THINK GOD IS GOING TO
POUR HIS HOLY SPIRIT ON A CHURCH
00:44:05.13\00:44:07.50
WHERE THE FAMILIES
DON'T EVEN HAVE WORSHIP?
00:44:07.50\00:44:10.33
HOW - DO YOU THINK HE'S GOING TO
BAPTIZE US WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:44:10.33\00:44:14.43
WHEN WE COME ONCE A WEEK IF WE
DON'T SEEK AFTER THE SPIRIT IN
00:44:14.43\00:44:18.63
OUR HOMES DURING THE WEEK?
WE NEED TO HAVE A REVIVAL AND
00:44:18.63\00:44:23.23
START BEING SERIOUS ABOUT
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD.
00:44:23.23\00:44:26.83
SO, NOW THAT I'VE GOT THAT
OFF MY CHEST, NOW WE'RE GOING TO
00:44:26.83\00:44:31.83
TALK ABOUT CHRIST'S
PROVISION FOR UNITY.
00:44:31.83\00:44:34.26
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP
EPHESIANS 4 - WE HAVE A HAND
00:44:34.26\00:44:37.00
THAT'S GOT EPHESIANS 4:4-6?
I THINK WE GAVE THAT OUT -
00:44:37.00\00:44:40.33
OH, RIGHT OVER HERE. RICHARD'S
GOT THAT. GET HIM A MICROPHONE.
00:44:40.33\00:44:43.40
JESUS MADE A
PROVISION FOR UNITY.
00:44:43.40\00:44:46.00
JOHN 17:17 - NOW THIS IS VERY
IMPORTANT - JOHN CHAPTER 17,
00:44:46.00\00:44:50.56
VERSE 17 - IN THAT PRAYER -
THAT APPEAL THAT JESUS MADE,
00:44:50.56\00:44:56.73
"SANCTIFY THEM BY YOUR
TRUTH. YOUR WORD IS TRUTH."
00:44:56.73\00:45:02.86
SO UNITY MUST
BE BASED UPON WHAT?
00:45:02.86\00:45:07.23
DO WE SAY, 'LET'S JUST GET
TOGETHER FOR THE SAKE OF BEING
00:45:07.23\00:45:10.30
TOGETHER?' I DON'T KNOW IF
YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING THE NEWS
00:45:10.30\00:45:13.66
LATELY, BUT POPE FRANCIS SEEMS
LIKE SUCH A FRIENDLY GUY AND
00:45:13.66\00:45:18.30
HE'S REACHING OUT TO ALL
DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT NO OTHER
00:45:18.30\00:45:21.73
POPE HAS REACHED OUT TO BEFORE.
HE IS GOING - FOR THE FIRST
00:45:21.73\00:45:24.43
TIME HE'S VISITING PENTECOSTAL
AND CHARISMATIC CHURCHES.
00:45:24.43\00:45:27.96
I MEAN, POPES NEVER USED TO STEP
FOOT IN THOSE CHURCHES BECAUSE
00:45:27.96\00:45:30.20
THAT WOULD SEEM LIKE, FOR
THE POPE TO STEP FOOT IN THOSE
00:45:30.20\00:45:32.93
CHURCHES, THAT WOULD SEEM
LIKE SOME FORM OF ACCEPTANCE.
00:45:32.93\00:45:36.83
THEY USED TO SAY ALL PROTESTANTS
WERE LOST AND DOOMED.
00:45:36.83\00:45:39.40
AND SO THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY
AND HE IS MEETING WITH RELIGIOUS
00:45:39.40\00:45:42.66
LEADERS FROM ALL DIFFERENT
PERSUASIONS AND SAYING,
00:45:42.66\00:45:46.93
'LOOK, LET'S PRAY FOR
EACH OTHER. YOU PRAY FOR ME.
00:45:46.93\00:45:49.03
I'LL PRAY FOR YOU.
00:45:49.03\00:45:51.20
WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER.'
I'M GOING, 'WOW, THAT SOUNDS
00:45:51.20\00:45:53.33
WONDERFUL.' BUT WE'RE SUPPOSED
TO BE UNITED JUST FOR THE SAKE
00:45:53.33\00:45:57.26
OF LOVING EACH OTHER AND GETTING
ALONG OR ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE
00:45:57.26\00:46:00.53
UNITED FOR THE SAKE OF TRUTH?
JESUS' PRAYER WAS A PRAYER OF
00:46:00.53\00:46:05.10
BEING UNITED IN TRUTH.
THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT.
00:46:05.10\00:46:08.56
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD
RICHARD, READ YOUR VERSE FOR US.
00:46:08.56\00:46:11.20
>>"THERE IS ONE BODY AND ONE
SPIRIT, EVEN AS YE ARE CALLED IN
00:46:11.20\00:46:15.53
ONE HOPE OF YOUR CALLING; ONE
LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM,
00:46:15.53\00:46:21.06
ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL, WHO
IS ABOVE ALL, AND THROUGH ALL,
00:46:21.06\00:46:26.06
AND IN YOU ALL."
>>WHAT'S THE WORD THAT'S BEING
00:46:26.06\00:46:28.73
EMPHASIZED IN ALL OF THIS? ONE.
00:46:28.73\00:46:32.56
BUT YOU NOTICE HE SAYS THERE
IS ONE FAITH? IT DOESN'T MEAN
00:46:32.56\00:46:36.36
THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT FAITHS
WE'RE TO UNITE ON. YOU GOT THAT?
00:46:36.36\00:46:40.40
ONE FAITH. ONE LORD. DOES
THAT MEAN WE SHOULD UNITE WITH
00:46:40.40\00:46:44.43
PEOPLE THAT WORSHIP MANY
GODS? NO. THERE'S ONE TRUE GOD.
00:46:44.43\00:46:48.73
THERE'S ONE FAITH. DO WE
ALL AGREE THAT THERE'S ONE
00:46:48.73\00:46:52.16
TRUTH? DO YOU WANT TO GET ON AN
00:46:52.16\00:46:55.23
AIRPLANE WITH A PILOT WHO THINKS
THERE MAY BE SEVERAL DIFFERENT
00:46:55.23\00:46:57.43
VARYING TRUTHS OF AERODYNAMICS
AND HE'S GOING TO TRY A
00:46:57.43\00:47:00.63
DIFFERENT ONE
WHEN YOU GET ON BOARD?
00:47:00.63\00:47:03.20
OR DO YOU WANT HIM TO BELIEVE
THAT THERE'S A CERTAIN ABSOLUTE
00:47:03.20\00:47:06.13
TRUTH OF WHAT KEEPS
THAT PLANE IN THE AIR?
00:47:06.13\00:47:08.90
THERE'S NOT MANY
DIFFERENT THEORIES.
00:47:08.90\00:47:11.50
YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A
TRUTH AND SO WE ARE TO UNITE ON
00:47:11.50\00:47:15.90
NOT TRUTHS BUT THE TRUTH. AND SO
- BECAUSE CHRIST IS THE TRUTH.
00:47:15.90\00:47:22.86
HE SAID, 'I AM THE TRUTH.' SO
WHAT IS TO BE THE FOUNDATION OF
00:47:22.86\00:47:25.66
OUR UNITY? JESUS AND
HIS WORD? CHRIST HIMSELF?
00:47:25.66\00:47:29.80
AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST THIS
SIMPLE, FRIENDS, I SAY THIS IN
00:47:29.80\00:47:33.33
MARRIAGE COUNSELING BUT IT ALSO
WORKS FOR CHURCH COUNSELING.
00:47:33.33\00:47:36.36
THE CLOSER ANY TWO INDIVIDUALS
COME TO THE SAME POINT, THE
00:47:36.36\00:47:41.03
CLOSER, INEVITABLY,
THEY COME TO EACH OTHER.
00:47:41.03\00:47:43.96
AND SO, IF JESUS IS THE CENTER
AND IF ALL OF THE MEMBERS,
00:47:43.96\00:47:48.70
WHETHER THEY'RE MEMBERS IN A
FAMILY OR MEMBERS IN A CHURCH,
00:47:48.70\00:47:51.26
IF ALL OF US ARE REALLY MOVING
CLOSER TO BEING IN CHRIST, WE
00:47:51.26\00:47:55.50
CANNOT HELP BUT MOVE
CLOSER TO ONE ANOTHER.
00:47:55.50\00:47:58.93
IF WE ARE ALL MOVING CLOSER
TO THE TRUTH - IF WE'RE REALLY
00:47:58.93\00:48:03.20
STUDYING THE BIBLE TOGETHER AND
WE'RE READING THE SAME BOOK AND
00:48:03.20\00:48:06.63
TRYING TO BRING OUR LIVES INTO
HARMONY WITH THAT BOOK, WE WILL
00:48:06.63\00:48:09.66
INEVITABLY BE DRAWING TOGETHER
IF IT'S ONE SPIRIT THAT IS
00:48:09.66\00:48:14.46
LEADING US IN
THIS ONE TRUTH, RIGHT?
00:48:14.46\00:48:16.93
WE WILL BE COMING TOGETHER.
00:48:16.93\00:48:18.03
THAT MUST BE THE
FOUNDATION FOR UNITY.
00:48:18.03\00:48:19.90
BUT WE HEAR, EVERY NOW AND
THEN, PEOPLE MAKING WONDERFUL,
00:48:19.90\00:48:22.56
ELOQUENT APPEALS FOR UNITY BUT
THEY'RE DOING IT SEPARATE FROM
00:48:22.56\00:48:26.03
TRUTH AND THAT IS GOING TO BE
THE CRY OF THE BEAST IN THE LAST
00:48:26.03\00:48:30.73
DAYS AND SO YOU'VE GOT
TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
00:48:30.73\00:48:32.50
YOU KNOW, I SAW A STATEMENT - I
PUT IT UP ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE A
00:48:32.50\00:48:36.60
FEW WEEKS AGO BECAUSE I
THOUGHT IT WAS SAID SO WELL.
00:48:36.60\00:48:40.96
I ACTUALLY HAVE TWO STATEMENTS.
00:48:40.96\00:48:42.36
I'VE GOT ONE FROM ELLEN
WHITE AND ONE FROM SPURGEON.
00:48:42.36\00:48:44.43
THEY SAY PRETTY MUCH THE SAME
THING, BUT NOTICE - I'LL READ
00:48:44.43\00:48:46.70
SPURGEON'S FIRST. "TO
REMAIN DIVIDED IS SINFUL." -
00:48:46.70\00:48:51.10
HE'S SAYING THIS MOCKINGLY OR
TONGUE-IN-CHEEK - "DID NOT OUR
00:48:51.10\00:48:54.73
LORD PRAY THAT WE MIGHT BE ONE?
EVEN THAT THEY MAY BE ONE EVEN
00:48:54.73\00:49:00.20
AS WE ARE ONE? A
CHORUS OF ECUMENICAL VOICES
00:49:00.20\00:49:08.40
KEEP HARPING THE UNITY
TUNE. WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS
00:49:08.40\00:49:12.56
CHRISTIANS OF ALL DOCTRINAL
SHADES AND BELFS MUST COME
00:49:12.56\00:49:15.60
TOGETHER IN ONE VISIBLE
ORGANIZATION REGARDLESS." -
00:49:15.60\00:49:19.06
ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BEAST
POWER IS GOING TO ADVOCATE? -
00:49:19.06\00:49:22.00
"UNITE! UNITE!" -
SPURGEON SAYS, "SUCH TEACHING
00:49:22.00\00:49:25.13
IS FALSE,
RECKLESS AND DANGEROUS.
00:49:25.13\00:49:28.36
TRUTH ALONE MUST
DETERMINE OUR ALIGNMENTS.
00:49:28.36\00:49:32.20
TRUTH COMES BEFORE UNITY. UNITY
WITHOUT TRUTH IS HAZARDOUS.
00:49:32.20\00:49:37.56
OUR LORD'S PRAYER IN JOHN
17 MUST BE READ IN ITS FULL
00:49:37.56\00:49:40.76
CONTEXT. LOOK AT
VERSE 17, 'SANCTIFY THEM
00:49:40.76\00:49:43.80
THROUGH THY TRUTH: THY WORD
IS TRUTH.' ONLY THOSE WHO ARE
00:49:43.80\00:49:47.46
SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE
WORD CAN BE ONE IN CHRIST.
00:49:47.46\00:49:50.76
TO TEACH OTHERWISE WOULD
BE TO BETRAY THE GOSPEL."
00:49:50.76\00:49:54.50
THAT'S VERY WELL SAID.
HERE'S ELLEN WHITE, HISTORICAL
00:49:54.50\00:49:56.90
SKETCHES, 197, "WE CANNOT
PURCHASE PEACE AND UNITY BY
00:49:56.90\00:50:02.60
SACRIFICING TRUTH. THE
CONFLICT MIGHT BE LONG AND
00:50:02.60\00:50:06.13
PAINFUL BUT AT ANY COST WE MUST
HOLD FAST TO THE WORD OF GOD."
00:50:06.13\00:50:10.80
SOME PEOPLE ARE READY TO
SACRIFICE PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH
00:50:10.80\00:50:13.76
FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY.
WON'T THE WORLD COME TO THE
00:50:13.76\00:50:18.20
REMNANT CHURCH IN THE LAST
DAYS AND SAY, 'LOOK, THE WORLD'S
00:50:18.20\00:50:21.13
FALLING APART - NATURAL
DISASTERS AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL
00:50:21.13\00:50:24.53
AND WARS AND FINANCIAL DISASTER
AND GOD WANTS US TO BE ONE.
00:50:24.53\00:50:29.46
SO SOMEONE HAS TO SACRIFICE
SOME OF THEIR DOCTRINAL BELFS SO
00:50:29.46\00:50:32.56
THAT WE CAN WORSHIP TOGETHER.'
WHO DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE
00:50:32.56\00:50:35.30
ASKED TO SACRIFICE? I
MEAN, IF THEY'RE ALL WANTING
00:50:35.30\00:50:38.53
TO WORSHIP TOGETHER, WHEN DO YOU
THINK THEY'RE GOING TO WORSHIP?
00:50:38.53\00:50:40.90
LET'S UNITE. YOU'RE GOING
TO HEAR THAT. YES YOU ARE.
00:50:40.90\00:50:45.93
IT'S GOING TO SOUND SO GOOD
AND IF YOU SAY, 'BUT, BUT...'
00:50:45.93\00:50:49.50
THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'OH,
YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN ONENESS.
00:50:49.50\00:50:51.66
YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN
UNITY. YOU DON'T LOVE.
00:50:51.66\00:50:57.10
JESUS WANTS US TO BE ONE.'
OH, AND IT'S GOING TO SOUND SO
00:50:57.10\00:51:00.70
POETIC AND ELOQUENT AND CLEVER,
BUT THAT'LL BE FROM THE DEVIL.
00:51:00.70\00:51:04.56
THAT IS THE WRONG KIND OF UNITY.
00:51:04.56\00:51:06.83
BEFORE YOU HAVE THE REAL UNITY
YOU MUST BEING WITH, NOT UNITY,
00:51:06.83\00:51:10.26
YOU MUST BEGIN WITH TRUTH AND
THEN WE GATHER AND UNITE AROUND
00:51:10.26\00:51:14.23
THE TRUTH. WHAT
SPURGEON AND ELLEN WHITE
00:51:14.23\00:51:17.80
SAID HERE IS ABSOLUTELY
CORRECT. THEY'VE GOT IT RIGHT.
00:51:17.80\00:51:20.10
SO THAT'S REALLY
IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND.
00:51:20.10\00:51:23.46
AND IF WE REALLY ARE STUDYING
THE WORD, IF WE'RE LOVING EACH
00:51:23.46\00:51:27.03
OTHER - YOU KNOW SOMETHING ELSE
THAT I'LL SAY, SINCE I'VE GONE
00:51:27.03\00:51:31.63
THIS FAR I MAY AS WELL GO
ALL THE WAY, OUR CHURCH IS NOT
00:51:31.63\00:51:36.43
UNLIKE MANY OTHER CHURCHES.
WE HAVE SOME SERIOUS DIVISIONS
00:51:36.43\00:51:39.63
IN OUR CHURCH RIGHT NOW THAT,
TO ME, THEY SEEM TO BE GETTING
00:51:39.63\00:51:41.76
WORSE. I MEAN, THERE ARE PEOPLE
00:51:41.76\00:51:44.66
DIVIDING OVER THE ISSUE -
WHETHER WE BELIEVE IN A LITERAL
00:51:44.66\00:51:47.06
CREATION - I DO - LITERAL
6-DAY CREATION - BUT SOME DON'T.
00:51:47.06\00:51:51.23
I THINK IT'S HARD TO BE A
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST AND THINK
00:51:51.23\00:51:53.26
THAT FIRST DAY WAS MILLIONS OR
BILLIONS OR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
00:51:53.26\00:51:57.26
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN
RECONCILE - THE WHOLE SABBATH
00:51:57.26\00:52:00.80
IS A MEMORIAL OF
A DIVINE CREATION.
00:52:00.80\00:52:03.06
ANYWAY, HAVING SAID
THAT, THERE'S DIVISIONS OVER
00:52:03.06\00:52:06.43
EVERYTHING FROM SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE TO WOMEN'S ORDINATION
00:52:06.43\00:52:10.90
AND A WHOLE PANOPLY AND
THE INSPIRATION - THE SPIRIT OF
00:52:10.90\00:52:14.60
PROPHECY - I THINK THAT
IS ALMOST A PIVOTAL ISSUE.
00:52:14.60\00:52:20.43
MATTER OF FACT, ELLEN WHITE SAID
ONE OF THE LAST TESTS THAT WILL
00:52:20.43\00:52:25.73
COME IS REGARDING THE
INSPIRATION OF THE TESTIMONIES
00:52:25.73\00:52:30.30
AND THAT'S EXACTLY
WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
00:52:30.30\00:52:33.53
PEOPLE WHO STILL BELIEVE IN
THE INSPIRATION OF THE SPIRIT OF
00:52:33.53\00:52:35.96
PROPHECY, THEY'RE
TENDING TO BE MORE UNITED.
00:52:35.96\00:52:39.60
BUT THOSE THAT ARE DOWNPLAYING
IT AND QUESTIONING IT - IT SEEMS
00:52:39.60\00:52:44.10
LIKES THAT'S WHERE THINGS
ARE GOING TO THE FRINGES SO WE
00:52:44.10\00:52:47.83
REALLY NEED TO BE COMING
TOGETHER BUT PRINCIPALLY IT MUST
00:52:47.83\00:52:51.66
BE THE WORD OF GOD. BUT
GOD'S GIVEN US A WONDERFUL
00:52:51.66\00:52:53.60
GIFT IN THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY
THAT I THINK WILL BRING A UNITY
00:52:53.60\00:52:57.13
WHEN WE READ IT
TOGETHER IN GOD'S SPIRIT.
00:52:57.13\00:53:00.23
ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO
SAY THAT BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT.
00:53:00.23\00:53:02.63
SO WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES
TO UNITY? WELL, PRIDE USUALLY.
00:53:02.63\00:53:09.96
ONE OF THE BIG OBSTACLES - WE
DIVIDE IN CHURCHES WHEN PEOPLE
00:53:09.96\00:53:13.73
START TO TALK ABOUT ONE ANOTHER.
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME LUKE
00:53:13.73\00:53:17.30
22:24 - LUKE -
GOT A HAND RIGHT HERE.
00:53:17.30\00:53:21.16
HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO
THE MIC WILL SEE YOU.
00:53:21.16\00:53:24.36
PASS THAT DOWN TO JIM.
PROVERBS 16:28 - A FROWARD MAN
00:53:24.36\00:53:29.90
SOWS STRIFE AND A WHISPERER
SEPARATES CHF FRIENDS."
00:53:29.90\00:53:34.60
HOW MANY PROBLEMS COULD WE AVOID
IF WE OBEYED THAT STATEMENT, "DO
00:53:34.60\00:53:38.53
NOT GO ABOUT AS A
TALE-BEARER AMONG YOUR PEOPLE."
00:53:38.53\00:53:42.00
LEVITICUS 19:16. WHY DID
SAUL GET UPSET WITH DAVID?
00:53:42.00\00:53:47.00
1 SAMUEL 18:7, "SO THE WOMEN
SANG AS THEY DANCED, AND SAID,
00:53:47.00\00:53:51.90
'SAUL HAS SLAIN HIS THOUSANDS,'"
- AND SAUL WAS GLOWING WHEN HE
00:53:51.90\00:53:54.53
HEARD THAT UNTIL HE
HEARD THE SECOND VERSE -
00:53:54.53\00:53:57.86
"'AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS.
00:53:57.86\00:54:00.73
THEN SAUL WAS VERY ANGRY AND THE
SAYING DISPLEASED HIM; AND HE
00:54:00.73\00:54:04.86
SAID, 'THEY HAVE ASCRIBED TO
DAVID TEN THOUSANDS, AND TO ME
00:54:04.86\00:54:07.56
THEY HAVE ASCRIBED ONLY
THOUSANDS.'" - HE WAS PERFECTLY
00:54:07.56\00:54:10.56
HAPPY WHEN HE HAD TWO SCOOPS
UNTIL SOMEONE ELSE HAD THREE -
00:54:10.56\00:54:13.50
"'NOW WHAT MORE CAN HE
HAVE BUT THE KINGDOM?'"
00:54:13.50\00:54:16.63
DO YOU KNOW IT SAYS
BEFORE THAT, 'SAUL LOVED DAVID?'
00:54:16.63\00:54:19.03
BUT AFTER HE FELT LIKE DAVID WAS
GETTING MORE CREDIT HE GOT UPSET
00:54:19.03\00:54:24.30
AND HE THEN TRIED TO KILL DAVID.
IT BROUGHT A LOT OF DIVISION.
00:54:24.30\00:54:29.36
WHY DID JOSEPH'S BROTHERS
WANT TO KILL JOSEPH? JEALOUSY.
00:54:29.36\00:54:34.63
AND THE FATHER PROBABLY
DIDN'T HELP MATTERS BY PAMPERING
00:54:34.63\00:54:37.30
AND FAVORING ONE OF HIS SONS.
00:54:37.30\00:54:39.40
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT HAPPENING
IN THE CLASSROOMS WITH THE
00:54:39.40\00:54:44.26
TEACHER'S PET, BUT THESE
ARE THE OBSTACLES TO UNITY.
00:54:44.26\00:54:48.93
THE MOTHER OF JAMES AND JOHN
SAID TO JESUS, 'LET MY SONS SIT
00:54:48.93\00:54:53.23
ON YOUR RIGHT HAND AND YOUR LEFT
HAND WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR
00:54:53.23\00:54:55.50
KINGDOM.' ANYWAY, RESTORATION
OF UNITY. WHAT BRINGS UNITY?
00:54:55.50\00:55:00.23
SOMEONE READ JAMES 4:6 -
WHO GOT THAT ONE? OVER HERE?
00:55:00.23\00:55:03.30
ALRIGHT JOLYNE, WE'LL
GET TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND.
00:55:03.30\00:55:05.23
IN THE MEANTIME, I'M
GOING TO READ 2 CHRONICLES 7:14.
00:55:05.23\00:55:08.30
YOU SHOULD ALL KNOW THIS.
"IF MY PEOPLE, WHICH ARE CALLED
00:55:08.30\00:55:12.33
BY MY NAME, WILL HUMBLE
THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY
00:55:12.33\00:55:16.73
FACE AND TURN" - HT'S THE
REFORMATION I WAS TALKING ABOUT
00:55:16.73\00:55:20.46
- MAKING THOSE REAL CHANGES.
"...TURN FROM THOSE WICKED WAYS.
00:55:20.46\00:55:23.93
THEN I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN,
I'LL FORGIVE THEIR SIN, AND I
00:55:23.93\00:55:27.76
WILL HEAL THEIR LAND.' YOU KNOW,
IT'S TALKING ABOUT MY PEOPLE
00:55:27.76\00:55:31.30
COMING TOGETHER AND PRAYING.
00:55:31.30\00:55:32.83
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED
OUT AT PENTECOST THEY WERE NOT
00:55:32.83\00:55:35.30
ONLY OF ONE ACCORD,
THEY WERE IN ONE PLACE.
00:55:35.30\00:55:38.40
I THINK ANOTHER THING THAT'LL
HAPPEN THAT WILL BRING UNITY IS
00:55:38.40\00:55:41.70
US TO COME TOGETHER MORE
IN THESE SMALL GROUPS AND PRAY
00:55:41.70\00:55:45.00
TOGETHER, RIGHT?
ALRIGHT, WE READY?
00:55:45.00\00:55:48.23
GO AHEAD, JOLYNE, WHY
DON'T YOU READ YOUR VERSE?
00:55:48.23\00:55:50.06
>>JAMES 4:6, "BUT
HE GIVES MORE GRACE.
00:55:50.06\00:55:54.76
THEREFORE HE SAYS: 'GOD RESISTS
THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO
00:55:54.76\00:55:59.76
THE HUMBLE.'" >>SO
HUMBLING OURSELVES - 'IF MY
00:55:59.76\00:56:03.30
PEOPLE WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES
AND PRAY.' PRIDE BRINGS STRIFE
00:56:03.30\00:56:05.96
AND DIVISION. THAT'S
WHERE THE DEVIL FELL.
00:56:05.96\00:56:07.96
HUMBLING OURSELVES, FORGIVING
EACH OTHER, DRAWING TOGETHER -
00:56:07.96\00:56:11.73
THAT'S WHAT'S
GOING TO BRING UNITY.
00:56:11.73\00:56:13.50
AND THAT MIGHT MEAN THAT YOU
NEED TO GO TO A BROTHER AND A
00:56:13.50\00:56:15.40
SISTER IN THE CHURCH
AND APOLOGIZE. NOW THERE ARE
00:56:15.40\00:56:19.36
DOCTRINAL ESSENTIALS
THAT WE'RE VERY CLEAR ON.
00:56:19.36\00:56:23.26
THESE ARE FOUNDATIONAL
TRUTHS THAT WE DON'T COMPROMISE.
00:56:23.26\00:56:26.50
THERE'S LATITUDE IN THE CHURCH
FOR PEOPLE TO BELIEVE DIFFERENT
00:56:26.50\00:56:31.26
THINGS, I MEAN, I THINK PROBABLY
RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM WE'VE
00:56:31.26\00:56:33.86
GOT DIFFERENT VIEWS ON WHETHER
THE 144,000 IS A LITERAL NUMBER
00:56:33.86\00:56:37.76
OR A SPIRITUAL NUMBER. AND
THERE ARE PROBABLY DIFFERENT
00:56:37.76\00:56:40.53
VIEWS IN THIS ROOM ABOUT THE
SEVEN TRUMPETS - WHETHER THEY'RE
00:56:40.53\00:56:43.06
ALL IN THE PAST, WHETHER THEY'RE
IN THE FUTURE, OR WHETHER
00:56:43.06\00:56:45.56
THERE'S A DUALISM FOR
THE PAST AND THE FUTURE.
00:56:45.56\00:56:48.00
AND THERE ARE A VARIETY OF
DIFFERENT VIEWS ON SOME OF THESE
00:56:48.00\00:56:52.03
NON-ESSENTIAL MINOR TEACHINGS.
THERE'S CERTAIN FOUNDATIONAL
00:56:52.03\00:56:57.33
THINGS AND
THEY'RE VERY IMPORTANT.
00:56:57.33\00:57:00.76
THEY'RE VERY IMPORTANT TRUTHS
THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND.
00:57:00.76\00:57:03.73
BUT GOD WANTS US - WHEN IT COMES
TO - MOST DIVISION IS NOT THE
00:57:03.73\00:57:06.96
THEOLOGY, IT'S THE
RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS.
00:57:06.96\00:57:09.80
WE NEED TO HUMBLE OURSELVES,
COME TOGETHER AND PRAY.
00:57:09.80\00:57:12.63
AMEN? YOU KNOW, I
FORGOT TO MENTION AT
00:57:12.63\00:57:14.80
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00:57:22.43\00:57:25.56
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00:57:42.10\00:57:45.00
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