Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021434
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:48 RIGHT HERE IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO. 00:51 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SUNNY DAY HERE AND RATHER HOT BUT WE ARE INSIDE 00:55 AND WE ARE EXCITED TO BE HERE AND SING SONGS WITH YOU AND OPEN 01:00 UP GOD'S WORD LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK AND STUDY TOGETHER. 01:03 WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO PULL YOUR HYMNALS AT THIS TIME. 01:06 I'M SURE MOST OF YOU ARE READY TO SING ALONG, BUT WE'RE GOING 01:09 TO START OUR PROGRAM WITH 'FILL MY CUP, LORD', WHICH IS A HUGE 01:14 REQUEST FROM ALL OVER THE PLANET SO TODAY I PICKED A SMATTERING 01:19 OF DIFFERENT PLACES. WE'RE GOING TO THE CAYMAN 01:21 ISLANDS WITH RUBY AND RUTH IN INDIA, VICE IN PAPAU NEW GUINEA 01:26 AND MAY IN SOUTH KOREA. IT WAS A LONG LIST, SO YOU KNOW 01:30 WHO YOU ARE, GOD KNOWS WHO YOU ARE, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 01:33 SENDING IN YOUR FAVORITE SONG. WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL THREE 01:36 STANZAS. 23493 - JOIN WITH US - 'FILL MY CUP, LORD.' 01:40 (MUSIC) 04:37 >>IS THAT YOUR PRAYER TODAY? FILL MY CUP, LORD. 04:40 YOU KNOW SO MANY TIMES WE GO LOOKING FOR THINGS TO FILL THAT 04:44 LONGING IN OUR HEARTS, BUT THE ONLY THING THAT CAN FILL THAT IS 04:49 JESUS. SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THINGS THAT JUST AREN'T DOING IT 04:54 AND YOU'RE LEFT NOT SATISFIED YOU KNOW WHERE TO GO. 04:58 IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE SONG YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON AN 05:01 UPCOMING PROGRAM, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 05:04 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN 05:08 SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE SONG - IF IT'S RIGHT HERE - AND WE WILL 05:12 SING THAT FOR YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. 05:15 AT THIS TIME LET'S TURN TO 23148 - 'O LOVE, HOW DEEP, HOW BROAD' 05:21 - 23148 - AND THIS IS OUR NEW SONG AS WE'RE WORKING OUR WAY 05:26 THROUGH THE HYMNAL. WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS NOW FOR 05:28 JUST OVER TWO YEARS, I THINK. WE HAVE TEN MORE YEARS TO GO. 05:32 23148 - 'O LOVE, HOW DEEP, HOW BROAD' AND WE'RE GOING TO DO THE 05:36 FIRST, SECOND, FOURTH, AND FIFTH STANZAS. 05:39 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SONG. SING WITH US. 05:42 (MUSIC) 08:28 >>FATHER IN HEAVEN, YOUR LOVE IS SO DEEP, SO BROAD, 08:33 AND SO INCREDIBLY TRUE. 08:36 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LOVING US, FOR CALLING US YOUR CHILDREN, 08:43 AND FATHER I JUST PRAY THAT WE WILL BE GRATEFUL CHILDREN, THAT 08:48 WE WILL NOT TURN OUR BACKS ON YOU AND HURT YOU, BUT WE WILL 08:53 LOVE YOU WITH THE LOVE THAT YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED FOR US. 08:57 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE TO BE 09:00 HERE, TO STUDY YOUR WORD TOGETHER. 09:04 I PRAY YOU WILL BE WITH EACH ONE HERE AND OUR EXTENDED FAMILY 09:07 AROUND THE WORLD. WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EACH 09:09 ONE AND I PRAY NOW THAT YOU'LL BLESS OUR SPEAKER. 09:13 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR DOUG AND HIS MINISTRY HERE AT 09:16 CENTRAL AND AROUND THE WORLD AS WELL. 09:18 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. OUR LESSON STUDY IS GOING TO BE 09:23 BROUGHT TO US AT THIS TIME BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 09:31 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH DEBBIE AND OUR MUSICIANS AND FRIENDS FOR 09:35 JOINING US AND SINGING. AND I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO 09:39 MIGHT BE WATCHING ON SATELLITE OR ON THE INTERNET AND JUST THIS 09:44 WEEK SOMEONE AT OUR OFFICE E-MAILED US A LIST OF - OH, IT 09:49 MUST HAVE BEEN 167 OR 170 COUNTRIES WHERE SONG REQUESTS 09:54 HAVE COME IN FROM. THAT'S VERY ENCOURAGING. 09:56 THAT MEANS THERE ARE, QUITE LITERALLY, PEOPLE LISTENING FROM 09:58 ALL CORNERS - I THINK THERE'S ONLY ABOUT 207 COUNTRIES IN THE 10:02 WORLD SO JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD, PEOPLE ARE 10:06 WATCHING ON SATELLITE, THROUGH THE INTERNET, OR SOME OTHER 10:11 MECHANISM AND IT'S JUST A PLEASURE AND HONOR TO BE ABLE TO 10:14 STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH YOU. WELL, YOU KNOW, AT THE - BEFORE 10:19 WE GET INTO OUR LESSON TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING A 10:21 LITTLE UNIQUE. WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU A 10:23 GLIMPSE, NOT ON WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THIS SIDE OF THE CAMERA, BUT 10:28 WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CAMERA. 10:31 WE HAVE A MEMBER OF OUR MEDIA TEAM THAT HAS BEEN HERE WITH US 10:34 FOR, I THINK, 19 YEARS. DOUG, WHY DON'T YOU JOIN ME UP 10:38 HERE FOR A MOMENT. YOU KNOW, WHEN AMAZING FACTS 10:41 FIRST BEGAN TO BROADCAST HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH, WE WERE JUST 10:45 PRAYING THAT GOD WOULD HELP US FIND SOMEBODY THAT HAD THE 10:48 SKILLS THAT COULD DO A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING BECAUSE 10:51 THERE'S A LOT THAT GOES ON BETWEEN PRODUCING AND LIGHTING 10:54 AND EDITING AND AT THAT TIME, THE LORD BROUGHT US TOGETHER 10:59 WITH DOUG HILL AND DOUG HAS BEEN A DEAR FRIEND AND PART OF THE 11:03 CENTRAL FAMILY AND THE TEAM HERE FOR 19 YEARS AND HE HAS BEEN 11:08 BEHIND THE SCENES. HE'S GENERALLY VERY QUIET BUT I SAID 11:11 YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO SAY SOMETHING. 11:14 VERY HUMBLE GENTLEMAN AND YOU MAY NOT KNOW - I THINK WE'VE GOT 11:18 SOME PICTURES WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP ON THE SCREEN. 11:19 DOUG HAS LITERALLY BEEN AROUND THE WORLD WITH US. 11:21 THIS IS, LET ME SEE, THIS IS, WELL THIS IS CENTRAL CHURCH. 11:25 OH, THAT'S NEW GUINEA, I THINK, AND I DON'T KNOW, YOU'RE 11:30 SOMEWHERE WITH CHARLES - THAT'S IN INDIA IN 1999 WITH MYSELF, 11:34 LOWELL HARGREAVES, DAWNA SAWATSKY, AND MICAH, OUR SON. 11:37 DOUG WAS THERE, AGAIN, HELPING LEAD OUT IN THE PROGRAM. 11:40 THAT, AGAIN, IS INDIA AND PEOPLE TURN THEIR HEADS IN INDIA 11:43 BECAUSE DOUG IS JUST A LITTLE TALLER THAN ME AND THEY'RE A 11:46 LITTLE SHORTER THAN ME IN INDIA. AND HERE HE IS IN HIS TYPICAL 11:51 SPOT BEHIND THE DIRECTOR'S BOOTH IN THE PRODUCTION AREA. 11:57 AGAIN, YOU JUST - SOME OF THE THINGS THAT DOUG'S DOING BEHIND 12:01 THE SCENES - YOU OFTEN - IT'S HARD TO THINK YOU COULD HIDE 12:04 BECAUSE HE'S 6 FOOT 6. DOUG AND SHERLE EDITING. 12:10 HE'S BEEN TO NEW YORK WITH US, MICHIGAN, WASHINGTON, D.C., NEW 12:15 GUINEA, INDIA, ALMOST WEEKLY, FOR MANY YEARS, FOR CHURCH AND 12:21 SABBATH SCHOOL AND WE JUST HAVE A LOT OF MEMORIES TOGETHER. 12:24 WE JUST WANTED TO HONOR AND THANK DOUG AND TELL THE LORD HOW 12:27 MUCH WE APPRECIATE HIM. DOUG - THE LORD HAS OPENED THE 12:30 DOOR FOR HIM TO TAKE A NEW OPPORTUNITY IN HOUSTON. 12:35 HIS FAMILY, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, IS ORIGINALLY FROM TEXAS. 12:38 >>RIGHT, YES. WE ARE FROM HOUSTON SO WE ARE 12:42 GOING TO BE RETURNING HOME TO 12:44 THE HOUSTON ARE AND WE ARE GOING TO GREATLY MISS OUR FAMILY HERE 12:48 AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND AMAZING FACTS, BUT EMBRACE OUR 12:52 NEW OPPORTUNITIES THAT GOD'S PUT BEFORE US IN THE HOUSTON AREA. 12:56 >>YEAH, AND SO WE JUST WANTED TO THANK DOUG. 12:58 THERE ARE GOING TO BE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT WILL BE IN THE 13:01 KINGDOM BECAUSE OF WHAT HE AND HIS TEAM HAVE DONE ON THE OTHER 13:03 SIDE OF THE CAMERA ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:06 AND I THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO JUST ASK HIM TO COME OUT AND 13:09 INTRODUCE HIM TO EVERYBODY. HE'S ALWAYS ON THE OTHER SIDE - 13:11 YOU NEVER MEET HIM - AND TO THANK HIM AND HAVE PRAYER FOR 13:14 HIM AS THE EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL FAMILY. 13:17 DON'T YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA? 13:19 AND SO I'D JUST LIKE TO PRAY WITH YOU DOUG. 13:21 IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO SAY? 13:23 >>NO, I THINK I'VE COVERED IT, YOU KNOW? 13:25 I WILL SAY THAT I JUST HAVE LOVED YOU, DOUG, AND YOUR FAMILY 13:29 AND THE AMAZING FACTS FAMILY SO MUCH OVER THE 19 YEARS I'VE BEEN 13:33 SERVING WITH YOU AND IT HAS JUST BEEN AN HONOR. 13:35 >>HE IS SUCH A JOY TO WORK WITH. >>AND BLESSING. 13:37 >>AMEN. AND, YOU KNOW, HIS NAME IS DOUGLAS EDWARD AND MY NAME IS 13:40 DOUGLAS EDWARD BATCHELOR SO WE CALL EACH OTHER 'DOUG E' - 13:43 AFFECTIONATELY 'DOUGIE'. >>AND THAT'S MY E-MAIL NAME - 13:47 DOUGIE HILL - SO, YEAH. >>LET'S PRAY. 13:52 FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR BLESSINGS 13:55 THAT WE CAN LOOK TO YOU FOR YOU TO GUIDE AND LEAD IN OUR LIVES 13:58 AND WE JUST THANK YOU AND PRAISE YOU FOR THE BLESSING THAT DOUG 14:01 AND MICHELLE, ANDREW AND NICHOLAS, AND THEIR WHOLE FAMILY 14:04 HAS BEEN TO THE CENTRAL FAMILY AND THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY 14:07 AND WE JUST PRAY, LORD, THAT YOU'LL BE WITH THEM UNTIL WE 14:10 MEET AGAIN AND WORK TOGETHER AGAIN. 14:11 WATCH OVER THEM THROUGH THE STRESS OF THE MOVE AND 14:14 I PRAY YOUR BLESSING ON THEIR FAMILY. 14:17 AND, LORD, CONTINUE TO JUST REVEAL YOUR LOVE AND YOUR SPIRIT 14:20 IN THEIR LIVES AND GUARD THEM WITH YOUR ANGELS NOW. 14:23 SO WE, AGAIN, PRAISE YOU AND THANK YOU FOR THEIR MINISTRY 14:25 HERE AND ASK THAT YOU BE WITH THEM, IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 14:30 AND I THINK WE'VE GOT A COUPLE LITTLE GIFTS FOR YOU AND 14:34 MAYBE BONNIE WANTS TO BRING THAT OUT AND JUST - WE DIDN'T WANT TO 14:40 GET YOU LIKE A BIG SOFA SET SINCE YOU'RE MOVING. 14:42 IT'S SOMETHING TO SHOW OUR APPRECIATION. 14:45 THANK YOU SO MUCH, DOUG. GOD BLESS. CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? AMEN. 14:49 BUT THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE PART OF GOD'S FAMILY. 14:51 YOU MAKE FRIENDS AND GOD MOVES YOU AROUND A LITTLE BIT. 14:54 AND THAT'S OUR STUDY TODAY. IT'S DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF 14:57 THE CHURCH. AND WE'RE IN OUR LESSON DEALING 15:01 WITH THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS. TODAY, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE ON 15:05 LESSON 238 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. 15:08 AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS TALKING ABOUT UNITY, IN PARTICULAR. 15:12 MEMORY VERSE IS FROM JOHN 17, VERSES 20 AND 21. 15:16 I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SAY THAT WITH US - 15:18 JOHN 17, VERSES 20 AND 21. ARE YOU READY? 15:23 "I DO NOT PRAY FOR THESE ALONE, BUT ALSO FOR THOSE WHO WILL 15:28 BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH THEIR WORD; THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE, 15:32 AS YOU, FATHER, ARE IN ME, AND I IN YOU; THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE 15:38 ONE IN US, THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME." 15:43 THE LORD TELLS US THAT HE WANTS US TO BE ONE. 15:46 HE WANTS US TO BE UNITED. AND SO THERE'S SO MUCH I COULD 15:50 SAY ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF THE CHURCH, THE LESSON HAS HELPED IN 15:53 CREATING SOME HIGH POINTS THAT WE'RE GOING TO OUTLINE, BUT THE 15:57 FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO MAKE CLEAR IS WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE 16:01 CHURCH WE OFTEN THINK ABOUT THE DISTINCT AND THE UNIQUE CHURCH 16:05 THAT EXISTED AFTER THE TIME OF CHRIST. 16:09 YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID - THIS VERSE COMES UP LATER - 'ON THIS 16:12 ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH.' BUT DON'T LET THAT MAKE YOU 16:16 THINK THAT JESUS DID NOT HAVE A CHURCH BEFORE THE NEW TESTAMENT 16:20 TIMES. THE CHURCH PRIOR TO THE COMING 16:23 OF CHRIST WAS DIFFERENT THAN THE CHURCH AFTER THE COMING THE OF 16:27 CHRIST, BUT IT'S ALL ONE CHURCH BECAUSE IT WAS ALL ONE TRUTH. 16:31 THE MAIN DIFFERENCE WAS THE CHURCH BEFORE - THEY WERE LIVING 16:35 IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS WHERE THEY WERE DEALING WITH THE 16:39 SACRIFICE OF LAMBS AND THE CEREMONIES, BUT AFTER CHRIST 16:43 CAME THEY WERE LIVING IN THE REALITY OF THE SUBSTANCE OF WHAT 16:47 JESUS DID. BUT THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE 16:50 CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS AND THE CHURCH IS HIS GATHERING. 16:54 MATTER OF FACT, I SHOULD PROBABLY SAY A WORD ABOUT THE 16:56 WORD 'CHURCH.' IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, IN PARTICULAR - THE 17:02 OLD TESTAMENT SOMETIMES CALLED IT 'THE CONGREGATION' OR 'THE 17:04 PEOPLE OF ISRAEL' OR 'MY PEOPLE' OR 'HIS BRIDE' - A NUMBER OF 17:07 DIFFERENT WORDS WERE USED TO TALK ABOUT THE GATHERING. 17:10 IN ENGLISH, THE WORD THAT WE USE 'CHURCH' IS REALLY ONLY FOUND A 17:15 COUPLE OF TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 17:17 IT COMES FROM AN OLD ENGLISH WORD PRONOUNCED IN GERMAN - IT'S 17:22 A GERMAN-ENGLISH WORD - KIRCHE - OR IN SCOTLAND IT WAS 'THE 17:24 KIRK.' I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU OLDER SAINTS REMEMBER THAT 17:28 SONG THAT WAS IN THE HYMNAL CALLED 'COME TO THE KIRK IN THE 17:31 WILDWOOD.' IT WAS - THEY CALLED IT A 'KIRK' AND THAT'S WHERE WE 17:35 GET THE WORD 'CHURCH' AND IT COMES FROM THAT GREEK WORD 17:38 'KURIOS', WHICH MEANS, 'LORD' - KURIAKOS - KURIAKOS, YEAH, AND 17:45 THAT MEANS 'PERTAINING TO THE LORD; THAT WHICH PERTAINS TO THE 17:50 LORD, THE CHURCH.' MOST OF THE WORDS FOR CHURCH THAT ARE 17:53 TRANSLATED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT COME FROM THE WORD 'ECCLESIA' - 17:57 ECCLESIA, WHICH IS WHERE WE GET THE WORD ECCLESIASTICAL OR 18:01 ECCLESIASTIOLOGY AND THAT'S TALKING ABOUT ESPECIALLY A 18:09 CALLING OUT - A PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED OUT. NOW THE CHURCH IS 18:15 OFTEN COMPRISED OF A GROUP THAT IS CALLED OUT. 18:18 IN THE VERY BEGINNING YOU SEE THERE'S A DIVISION BETWEEN THE 18:21 CHILDREN OF ADAM AND YOU'VE GOT - ABEL IS KILLED, SETH IS 18:27 SEPARATE AND AS LONG AS HE IS SEPARATE THEY'RE - THEY TRY TO 18:31 MAINTAIN SOME FORM OF PURITY BUT WHEN THE SONS OF GOD SAW THE 18:36 DAUGHTERS OF MEN AND THE CHILDREN OF SETH INTERMARRIED 18:39 WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF CAIN WICKEDNESS PROLIFERATED IN THE 18:42 WORLD. GOD WAS GOING TO DESTROY THE 18:44 WORLD SO GOD CALLED OUT A REMNANT. 18:46 AND THAT WAS NOAH, IN HIS FAMILY. AND THEN, AFTER THE TIME 18:50 OF BABEL, WHEN THERE WAS COMPROMISE AGAIN, GOD CALLS A 18:52 REMNANT OUT OF THE PLAINS OF MESOPOTAMIA - THAT WAS ABRAHAM. 18:57 AND THEN THROUGH THE PATRIARCHS - ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND IT'S NOT 19:01 ALL OF ISAAC'S FAMILY BUT IT'S ISAAC'S FAMILY THROUGH JACOB AND 19:05 IT'S NOT ALL OF JACOB'S SONS - JACOB IS CALLED OUT BUT IT'S NOT 19:09 ALL OF HIS SONS. YOU REMEMBER HE CALLS ISRAELITES 19:11 BACK OUT OF EGYPT? BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY, IT'S 19:16 JUDAH BECAUSE TEN OF THE TRIBES ARE CARRIED TO ASSYRIA. 19:19 BUT THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH COME BACK FROM THEIR BABYLONIAN 19:22 CAPTIVITY. AND THEN, FROM THE TRIBE OF 19:24 DAVID - AND SO YOU'VE OFTEN GOT THIS PICTURE OF A REMNANT. 19:28 AND EVEN AFTER THE CHURCH GREW AND BECAME ACCEPTED, APOSTASY 19:32 CREPT IN AND GOD CALLS OUT A REMNANT. 19:34 AND SO, OFTEN, YOU FIND THE CHURCH IS THIS GROUP THAT GOD IS 19:37 CALLING OUT OF THE WORLD. HE CALLS A REMNANT. 19:41 IN THE BEGINNING - IN GENESIS 3:5 - THE LORD - THE FIRST 19:45 PROPHECY YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE - THE LORD FORETOLD THAT THERE 19:49 WOULD BE THIS ENMITY - THERE WOULD BE THIS WAR THAT WOULD BE 19:53 RAGING AND IT REACHES FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION. 19:56 GENESIS 3:15 YOU FIND, "AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND 20:00 THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED; HE" - THE SEED OF 20:06 THE WOMAN, OR JESUS - "SHALL BRUISE YOUR HEAD," - GOD IS 20:09 SPEAKING TO THE SERPENT - BRUISE THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT - "AND 20:12 YOU" - THE SERPENT - "SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL." 20:15 NOW IF YOU GET YOUR HEAD BRUISED TOO MUCH YOU DIE. 20:17 IT'S A MORTAL WOUND. YOU CAN HAVE YOUR HEEL BRUISED 20:19 AND IT WILL MAKE YOU LIMP BUT YOU CAN STILL GET ALONG. 20:23 SO THE DEVIL HAS BEEN IMPEDING THE PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH BUT 20:27 JESUS, THE SEED OF THE WOMAN, DEALT A MORTAL BLOW TO THE 20:31 SERPENT. AND SO YOU'VE GOT THIS PROPHECY. 20:34 NOW THEN YOU GO TO REVELATION 12 - NOTICE, VERSE 17 - "AND THE 20:40 DRAGON" - THAT'S THE SERPENT - SAME ONE - BECAUSE 'THAT OLD 20:43 SERPENT CALLED THE DRAGON AND SATAN - USES ALL THOSE TERMS 20:47 THERE IN REVELATION 12 - CALLS HIM THE DRAGON AND THE SERPENT - 20:49 SAME ONE - "AND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN AND HE 20:54 WENT TO MAKE WAR" - STILL TRYING TO IMPEDE - NIP AT THE HEELS OF 20:58 THE CHURCH - "WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING." 21:03 - ANOTHER WAY YOU COULD SAY THAT IS 'THE REMNANT' OR REMAINDER OF 21:06 HER OFFSPRING - HER DESCENDENTS. 21:08 AND THE TWO OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS? 21:11 "WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF 21:14 JESUS CHRIST." NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 21:16 YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND A PATTERN ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE OF 21:19 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. LAST PROPHECY IN THE OLD 21:25 TESTAMENT - MALACHI CHAPTER 4, "REMEMBER THE LAW OF 21:28 MOSES...BEHOLD, I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH." 21:33 MOSES - ELIJAH - THEN YOU TURN INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND IN 21:38 THE BOOKS OF MATTHEW, MARK AND LUKE, MOSES AND ELIJAH APPEAR TO 21:41 JESUS ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 21:43 JESUS SAID - PROPHECY SAID A PROPHET WOULD COME LIKE ELIJAH, 21:49 RIGHT? A PROPHET WOULD COME IN THE 21:50 SPIRIT AND POWER OF ELIJAH. WHO WAS THAT? 21:53 JOHN THE BAPTIST - WAS THE FIRST ONE. 21:55 THERE MAY BE OTHERS IN THE LAST DAYS. 21:57 AND THEN MOSES FORETOLD 'A PROPHET WILL COME LIKE ME.' WHO 22:00 WAS THAT? JESUS. 22:03 SO THE LAST PROPHECY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IT SAYS, 'REMEMBER THE 22:06 LAW OF MOSES, BEHOLD I SEND ELIJAH.' YOU TURN TO THE NEW 22:08 TESTAMENT AND JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JESUS COME. 22:10 MOSES AND ELIJAH COME ENDORSING THAT THESE WERE THE FULFILLMENT 22:14 OF THAT PROPHECY AND THEY REPRESENT THE LAW - MOSES - AND 22:20 THE PROPHETS - ELIJAH. AND THE WORD OF GOD IS CALLED 22:23 'THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.' THEY'RE THE TWO WITNESSES 22:26 IN REVELATION. YOU MIGHT SAY THE NEW AND THE 22:27 OLD TESTAMENTS - THAT'S BECAUSE THE BIBLE IS IN A DUAL NATURE. 22:32 IT'S A SWORD WITH HOW MANY EDGES? TWO-EDGED SWORD. 22:36 AND SO YOU'VE GOT THE WORD OF GOD AND THE CHURCH IN THE LAST 22:41 DAYS AND THE REMNANT ALL THROUGH HISTORY - THE FOUNDATION FOR 22:44 WHAT THE REMNANT BELIEVES IS THE BIBLE AND THAT LEADS US INTO OUR 22:48 NEXT - BY THE WAY, YOU REMEMBER ISAIAH 8:14? 22:52 "BIND UP THE TESTIMONY?" WHAT IS THE TESTIMONY? 22:55 SPIRIT OF PROPHECY - THE PROPHETS - THE WORD OF GOD. 22:57 'SEAL THE LAW AMONG MY DISCIPLES. 23:00 ACCORDING TO THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY, IF THEY SPEAK NOT 23:03 ACCORDING TO THIS WORD' - RIGHT? JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD. 23:06 HE SAID TO THE TWO ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, 23:08 'O FOOLS AND SLOW OF HEART TO BELIEVE. 23:11 ALL THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL THE 23:14 PROPHETS' - THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS - 'HE EXPOUNDED UNTO 23:17 THEM AND ALL THE SCRIPTURES.' THAT'S THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS 23:20 - ALL THE SCRIPTURES - 'THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF.' SO 23:23 THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH - THE ROCK IS THE WORD OF GOD. 23:26 NOW THAT'LL TAKE US INTO OUR SECTION FOR THE FIRST DAY. 23:30 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11. 23:33 WE GAVE OUT SOME SLIPS, I THINK? WE GOT THAT RIGHT UP HERE WITH 23:36 AARON. GET HIM A MICROPHONE. AND WHILE WE'RE DOING THAT, I'M 23:39 GOING TO READ EPHESIANS 2, VERSES 19 TO 22. 23:42 IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN ME THERE. 23:45 EPHESIANS 2:19-22, "NOW, THEREFORE, YE ARE NO MORE 23:50 STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS, 23:55 AND OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD; AND ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION" - 23:59 HERE'S THE FOUNDATION - "OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, JESUS 24:03 CHRIST HIMSELF" - SO THE FOUNDATION IS MEANING THE 24:06 TEACHINGS AND WRITINGS OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS THAT YOU 24:09 WOULD FIND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE OLD TESTAMENT. 24:12 "JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHF CORNERSTONE; IN WHOM ALL 24:18 THE BUILDING FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER GROWETH UNTO AN HOLY 24:22 TEMPLE IN THE LORD: IN WHOM YE ALSO ARE BUILDED TOGETHER FOR AN 24:26 HABITATION OF GOD THROUGH THE SPIRIT." 24:28 ALL OF US ARE LIKE LIVING STONES, PETER SAYS, THAT BUILD 24:33 UP THIS DWELLING PLACE FOR GOD AND THAT'S THE CHURCH. 24:38 YOU KNOW, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS OFTEN FOCUS ON CHRIST'S 24:42 REDEMPTIVE WORK IN THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN, AND THAT'S APPROPRIATE, 24:46 BUT WE SOMETIMES FORGET THAT HE ALSO HAS A REDEMPTIVE WORK WITH 24:50 THE TEMPLE ON EARTH. 'WHAT? 24:52 DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD BUILT UPON THE 24:55 FOUNDATION AND THE CORNERSTONE OF JESUS?' 24:58 AND SO, NOT ONLY IS HE CLEANSING THE TEMPLE IN HEAVEN, BUT HE'S 25:01 CLEANSING THE TEMPLE DOWN HERE, TOO, ISN'T HE? 25:04 AND HE'S TRYING TO USE IT AT THE SAME TIME, TO REACH OUT TO THE 25:07 WORLD. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD - I THINK WE'RE READY. 25:11 WHY DON'T YOU READ YOUR VERSE? 25:13 >>"FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT IS LAID, WHICH 25:17 IS JESUS CHRIST." >>ALRIGHT. 25:20 AND BY THE WAY, THAT'S 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11. 25:21 "THERE IS NO OTHER FOUNDATION THAN WHAT IS LAID AND THAT IS 25:25 CHRIST." WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD FOR JESUS? WHAT BECAME FLESH? 25:29 THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US. 25:34 JESUS IS THE WORD INCARNATE. SO WHEN WE SAY THAT CHRIST IS 25:38 THE FOUNDATION, WHAT ARE WE REALLY SAYING? HIS TEACHINGS. 25:43 I MEAN, WHEN YOU SAY JESUS IS THE FOUNDATION WE'RE NOT TALKING 25:46 ABOUT MUMMIFYING HIS BODY AND BUILDING ON TOP OF IT, RIGHT? 25:49 YOU KNOW, THE MAFIA IS FAMOUS FOR PUTTING PEOPLE IN CONCRETE 25:52 AND THEN BUILDING ON TOP OF THEM. 25:54 AND WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT. 25:56 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUILDING ON TOP OF THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS, 26:00 RIGHT? LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. YOU ALL KNOW THIS. 26:03 NOT ONLY IS IT IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 7, YOU FIND THIS IS LUKE 26:06 6:47, "WHOEVER COMES TO ME, AND HEARS MY SAYINGS AND DOES THEM, 26:14 I WILL SHOW YOU WHOM HE IS LIKE: HE IS LIKE A MAN BUILDING A 26:17 HOUSE, WHO DUG DEEP" - LUKE SAYS SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T - IT'S 26:21 NOT MENTIONED IN MATTHEW - "WHO DUG DEEP AND LAID THE FOUNDATION 26:24 ON THE ROCK. AND WHEN THE FLOOD AROSE, THE 26:28 STREAM BEAT VEHEMENTLY AGAINST THAT HOUSE, AND COULD NOT SHAKE 26:31 IT, FOR IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK." 26:33 - JESUS SAID THIS IS THE WISE MAN. 26:35 THEN IN MATTHEW HE SAYS 'THE FOOLISH MAN - 26:38 HE WHO HEARS THESE WORDS OF MINE AND DOES NOT DO 26:42 THEM IS LIKE A MAN WHO BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON EARTH' - OR SAND - 26:45 "WITHOUT A FOUNDATION, AGAINST WHICH THE STREAM BEAT 26:49 VEHEMENTLY; AND IMMEDIATELY IT FELL. 26:51 AND THE RUIN OF THAT HOUSE WAS GREAT." 26:53 NOW THERE'S A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT POINT I OFTEN HEAR 26:55 MISSED WHEN THEY READ THESE VERSES ABOUT THE WISE MAN AND 26:58 THE FOOL AND THE FOUNDATION. BOTH GROUPS HEAR THE WORD - 27:03 THE WISE MAN AND THE FOOL - BOTH GROUPS BUILD A HOUSE. 27:08 BOTH GROUPS EXPERIENCE A STORM. ONE HEARS THE WORD AND DOES IT. 27:17 ONE HEARS THE WORD AND DOES NOT DO IT. 27:20 AND SO - HOW MANY CHURCHES ARE THERE THAT CLAIM TO BE 27:23 CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE BIBLES? THOUSANDS. 27:28 WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TRUE CHURCH AND 27:31 FALSE CHURCHES? YOU KNOW, EVERY CHURCH I GO TO 27:34 IN NORTH AMERICA - ANY DENOMINATION - WILL ALL AGREE 27:37 THERE ARE FALSE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. 27:40 I MEAN, THEY'LL SAY THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE IN ALL THE CHURCHES. 27:41 SOME CHURCHES WILL SAY THAT UNLESS YOU'RE A MEMBER OF OUR 27:44 CHURCH YOU'RE ALL LOST. WE DON'T SAY THAT. 27:46 BUT MOST CHURCHES WILL AGREE THERE ARE SOME GOOD PEOPLE IN 27:49 MANY CHURCHES, BUT YOU ASK THEM 'ARE THERE FALSE CHURCHES OUT 27:51 THERE?' THEY'LL SAY, 'ABSOLUTELY.' SO 27:53 HOW DO YOU SEPARATE THE TRUE FROM THE FALSE? 27:55 MANY HEAR THE WORD BUT THEY DON'T DO IT. 27:58 AND SO CHRIST SAYS HE HAS A PEOPLE THAT WILL DIG DEEP ON THE 28:01 ROCK AND THAT IS NOT ONLY HEARING, THAT IS DOING. 28:05 THEY'RE BUILDING THEIR LIVES ON WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS. 28:08 YOU CAN ALSO READ PSALM 28, SPEAKING OF THAT ROCK AGAIN, 28:12 IT'S A TERM THAT'S OFTEN USED FOR GOD. 28:14 "TO YOU I WILL CRY, O LORD MY ROCK: DO NOT BE SILENT TO ME, 28:21 LEST, IF YOU ARE SILENT TO ME, I BECOME LIKE THOSE WHO GO DOWN TO 28:24 THE PIT." WHAT WERE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON? 28:28 COULDN'T THE LORD HAVE WRITTEN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON 28:30 PARCHMENT LIKE THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS? 28:33 WHY DID HE CHOOSE STONE? IT REPRESENTS SOMETHING ENDURING 28:39 AND IT'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. WE ALL SING THAT SONG 'ROCK OF 28:42 AGES' - WHO ARE WE SINGING ABOUT? IT'S ABOUT JESUS. 28:46 HE IS THE FOUNDATION STONE FOR THE CHURCH. 28:48 AND, AGAIN, IN ACTS 4:11, "THIS IS THE 'STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED 28:53 BY YOU BUILDERS, WHICH HAS BECOME THE CHF CORNERSTONE.' 28:58 NOR IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER 29:02 NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED." 29:06 AND SO THIS IS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CHURCH. AND THEN CHRIST 29:09 MAKES THAT STATEMENT - TURN WITH ME TO MATTHEW 16, VERSE 18. 29:14 THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON - MATTHEW 16:18 - AND OH, HOW MANY PEOPLE 29:18 HAVE BEEN CONFUSED BY THIS VERSE? 29:20 I'M GOING TO START WITH VERSE 13 - MATTHEW 16, VERSE 13, "WHEN 29:28 JESUS CAME INTO THE REGION OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI, HE ASKED HIS 29:32 DISCIPLES, SAYING, 'WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I, THE SON OF MAN, AM?' 29:36 SO THEY SAID, 'SOME SAY JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOME ELIJAH,'" - 29:39 BECAUSE JOHN HAD DIED AND THEY THOUGHT MAYBE SOMEHOW JESUS WAS 29:42 THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF JOHN RESURRECTED - "'AND OTHERS 29:45 JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE PROPHETS.' HE SAID TO THEM, 'BUT 29:49 WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?'" - NOW WITHOUT WAITING FOR 29:52 ANYONE ELSE TO GET A CHANCE PETER BLURTS OUT - I THREW THAT 29:56 IN - "SIMON PETER ANSWERED AND SAID, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE 30:01 SON OF THE LIVING GOD.'" NOW WHEN HE SAID 'THE CHRIST' THAT 30:04 WORD THERE HE SAID 'YOU ARE THE ANOINTED - 30:06 YOU ARE THE MESSIAH' IS WHAT HE WAS SAYING. 30:09 "'SON OF THE LIVING GOD.'" AND THEN JESUS, DID HE SAY, 'NO, NO, 30:13 THAT'S NOT TRUE' OR DID JESUS AGREE? HE SAID, "BLESSED ARE 30:18 YOU, SIMON BAR-JONAH," - PETER'S FATHER'S NAME WAS JONAH - 30:22 SIMON, SON OF JONAH, THAT MEANS - "FOR FLESH AND BLOOD HAS NOT 30:27 REVEALED THIS TO YOU BUT MY FATHER IN HEAVEN." SO DID JESUS 30:30 ACCEPT THE DECLARATION THAT HE WAS THE MESSIAH? 30:33 I SAY THAT BECAUSE I MEET A LOT OF PEOPLE - I DID THIS WEEK - 30:36 FROM OTHER RELIGIONS AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, WE BELIEVE JESUS WAS 30:39 A GOOD MAN AND HE WAS A VERY GOOD TEACHER AND HE WAS A 30:42 PROPHET' - WELL, IF HE WAS A GOOD MAN AND HE WAS A PROPHET - 30:45 HE SAID HE WAS THE MESSIAH, WAS HE LYING? 30:48 SO YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. YOU CAN'T SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, HE 30:53 WAS A GOOD MAN, HE TOLD THE TRUTH, AND HE WAS A PROPHET. 30:55 AND THEN HE SAYS, 'I AM THE MESSIAH.' WELL THAT WOULD MAKE 30:57 HIM A DECEIVER UNLESS HE REALLY IS THE MESSIAH. 31:00 AND THEN JESUS MAKES THIS STATEMENT THAT'S OFTEN 31:02 MISUNDERSTOOD - VERSE 18 - "AND I ALSO SAY TO YOU THAT YOU ARE 31:08 PETER AND ON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE GATES 31:12 OF HADES SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT." 31:15 PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, JESUS BUILT HIS CHURCH ON PETER?' 31:19 WELL, THAT WOULD BE STRANGE BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK IN VERSE 23 31:23 HE TURNS TO PETER AND SAYS, 'GET BEHIND ME SATAN!' 31:28 SO ONE - SAME CHAPTER, SAME DISCOURSE - ONE PLACE THEY SAY 31:32 HE'S BUILDING HIS CHURCH UPON PETER AND A LITTLE WHILE LATER 31:35 HE CALLS PETER SATAN BECAUSE SATAN WAS SPEAKING THROUGH HIM. 31:38 HE SAID, 'GET BEHIND ME, SATAN.' PETER WAS NOT THE DEVIL BUT THE 31:40 DEVIL WAS SPEAKING THROUGH PETER. 31:42 BOY, THAT WOULD BE A PRETTY SHAKY FOUNDATION FOR A CHURCH. 31:45 WHAT JESUS IS SAYING - HE'S MAKING A CONTRAST. 31:48 PETER'S NAME IS PETROS. THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS. 31:53 ONE IS A WORD THAT MEANS PEBBLE AND THE OTHER IS A WORD THAT 31:59 MEANS 'ROCK' - MEANING A ROCK OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS. 32:03 LIKE SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN THAT PRUDENTIAL ROCK OR THE ROCK OF 32:07 GIBRALTAR CALLED THE GATES OF HERCULES - THESE GREAT BIG ROCKS 32:11 LIKE HALF-DOME - THINK OF HALF-DOME - FOR THOSE OF US IN 32:14 CALIFORNIA - THERE IN YOSEMITE - THE GREAT BIG GRANITE MOUNTAIN. 32:20 SO JESUS IS MAKING A CONTRAST THAT IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE IS 32:23 VERY CLEAR. HE'S SAYING, 'YOU ARE A PEBBLE, 32:25 BUT ON THIS PETRA - OR PETROS - I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH.' WHAT 32:30 WAS THE PETRA UPON WHICH HE WAS BUILDING THE CHURCH? 32:33 WHAT PETER SAID - THAT CHRIST WAS THE MESSIAH. 32:35 THAT WAS THE ROCK UPON WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT. 32:38 THAT JESUS WAS THE ONE WHERE THERE'S NO OTHER NAME GIVEN 32:41 AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED. 32:44 THAT WAS THE TRUTH UPON WHICH THE CHURCH WAS BUILT. 32:46 NOT ON THAT VACILLATING LOUD FISHERMAN WHO WAS A GOOD 32:50 PREACHER BUT HE ALSO, YOU KNOW, HE'S NOT THE FOUNDATION FOR THE 32:54 CHURCH. CHRIST IS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CHURCH, AMEN? 32:57 SO HAVING SAID THAT, I THINK WE COVERED THE FOUNDATION PRETTY 33:00 WELL. YEAH, LET'S GO ON TO 'CHRIST'S 33:04 PRAYER FOR UNITY.' NOW WHEN YOU READ JOHN 17 - THIS IS THE 33:09 LONGEST PRAYER OF JESUS IN THE BIBLE. 33:12 IT'S THE LONGEST INTERCESSORY PRAYER IN THE BIBLE. 33:17 YOU ONLY FIND THIS SPECIFIC PRAYER IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, 33:20 WHICH IS INTERESTING. BUT HE IS SPECIFICALLY PRAYING 33:25 FOR HIS CHURCH - NOW YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE A TERRIBLE DEATH. 33:32 YOU'RE GOING TO BE CRUCIFIED. 33:34 IT'S BASICALLY - YOU'RE ABOUT TO BE TORTURED FOR HOURS. 33:38 NOT ONLY THAT, YOU'RE ABOUT TO HAVE THE BURDEN OF ALL THE GUILT 33:41 AND SHAME AND JUDGMENT, THAT BELONGS TO A WHOLE RACE OF 33:44 HUMANITY, WEIGHING DOWN ON YOUR SOUL. 33:47 AND AS YOU'RE PREPARING TO FACE THIS - THAT JUST - IT TORE FROM 33:51 THE LIPS THAT CRY, 'FATHER, IF THERE'S ANY WAY THAT THIS CAN 33:55 PASS, LET IT PASS.' WHO WAS JESUS THINKING ABOUT, HIMSELF OR 33:59 THE CHURCH DURING THOSE HOURS? I'D JUST BE FRETTING AND 34:03 SWEATING THINKING ABOUT MYSELF AT THAT TIME. 34:07 BUT THE BURDEN OF CHRIST'S PRAYER - HE'S NOT PRAYING FOR 34:11 HIMSELF, HE DOES THAT IN THE GARDEN BRFLY, BUT HE SPENDS 34:14 MOST OF HIS TIME PRAYING FOR THIS SACRED CHARGE. 34:18 HE HAS SPENT THREE AND A HALF YEARS TRAINING VERY VACILLATING 34:23 HUMANS TO GROW INTO A MIGHTY RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT THAT WILL 34:28 CHANGE THE WORLD AND SO HE SPENDS HIS TIME PRAYING FOR THE 34:31 CHURCH. NOTICE, HE NOT ONLY PRAYS FOR THE CHURCH, IN THAT 34:34 PRAYER - AND THIS IS PART OF OUR MEMORY VERSE - READ IT AGAIN, 34:37 JOHN 17 - WAIT A SECOND, WHO HAS ACTS 2:1? LET'S GET YOU A 34:42 MICROPHONE. HOLD YOUR HAND UP THERE. WE'LL GO TO YOU NEXT. 34:45 BUT IN THAT PRAYER OF JOHN 17, NOTICE JESUS SAID, "I DO NOT 34:51 PRAY" - THIS IS VERSE 20 - "I DO NOT PRAY FOR THESE ALONE, BUT 34:55 ALSO FOR THOSE WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH THEIR WORD;" NOW 34:59 WHEN YOU READ THE WRITINGS OF PETER AND THE WRITINGS OF PAUL 35:02 AND THE WRITINGS OF JUDE AND JAMES, YOU'RE READING THE WORDS 35:05 OF THE APOSTLES. AND IF YOU AND I BELIEVE, FROM 35:09 READING THOSE THINGS, JESUS IS PRAYING FOR US, SPECIFICALLY IN 35:15 THIS PRAYER. YOU SEE, HE'S NOT JUST PRAYING 35:17 FOR THE APOSTLES, HE'S PRAYING FOR THOSE WHO WOULD BELIEVE, 35:19 DOWN THROUGH THE AGES, ON CHRIST THROUGH THEIR WORD. 35:24 THIS IS VERY ENCOURAGING TO ME. THAT MEANS JESUS PRAYED FOR ME. 35:27 WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT GOD THE FATHER IS GOING TO ANSWER A 35:31 PRAYER PRAYED BY JESUS? WHEN YOU WONDER IF YOU'RE GOING 35:34 TO MAKE IT, DOES IT ENCOURAGE YOU TO KNOW JESUS PRAYED FOR 35:38 YOU? DOES THE FATHER WANT TO ANSWER A PRAYER? 35:42 HOW DOES JESUS END A PRAYER? YOU AND I END BY SAYING, 'IN 35:45 JESUS' NAME.' DOES JESUS END A PRAYER SAYING, 'IN MY NAME'? 35:50 I MEAN, YOU DON'T GET A BETTER ENDORSEMENT ON A PRAYER THAN ONE 35:53 THAT JESUS PRAYED. AND SO THAT SHOULD BE ENCOURAGING TO YOU. 35:56 FOR ONE THING, HE SAYS, "I PRAY FOR THOSE WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME 35:58 THROUGH THEIR WORD;" - NOW WHAT IS HE PRAYING? 36:01 IT'S A PRETTY HIGH CALLING. "THAT THEY MAY" - SOME OF THEM - 36:05 "BE ONE?" "ALL MAY BE ONE, AS" - NOW WHAT KIND OF ONENESS? 36:12 'THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS THE APOSTLES WERE ONE?' 36:15 WELL, THEY OFTEN FOUGHT AMONG THEMSELVES. 36:17 HE SAID, "THAT THEY MIGHT BE ONE AS YOU, FATHER, ARE IN ME AND I 36:23 IN YOU, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE IN US, THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE 36:30 THAT YOU SENT ME." SO ONE OF THE STRONGEST 36:33 EVANGELISTIC BILLBOARDS TO THE WORLD IS THE WHAT? 36:38 THE ONENESS OF CHRISTIANITY. 36:40 JESUS SAID, 'ALL MEN WILL KNOW THAT YOU'RE MY DISCIPLES BY YOUR 36:43 LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.' WE DON'T REALLY NEED TO STUDY THIS LESSON 36:47 BECAUSE WE HAVE NO PROBLEMS LOVING EACH OTHER, DO WE? 36:52 HE SAID TONGUE-IN CHEEK. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON. 36:56 THIS IS A LESSON THAT'S ABOUT UNITY. 36:58 MATTER OF FACT, AS I STUDIED THE LESSON I THOUGHT THERE'S SO MANY 37:00 OTHER THINGS I COULD SAY ABOUT THE CHURCH AND I THINK THIS 37:02 LESSON IS SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN WITH THE THEME OF UNITY. 37:06 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AS AN EVANGELIST, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 37:08 THE CHURCH, I WANT TO START GOING THROUGH 'HOW DO YOU 37:10 IDENTIFY THE TRUE CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS?' 37:12 AND 'HOW DO YOU BECOME PART OF THE CHURCH?' 37:15 AND YOU TALK ABOUT THOSE ISSUES, BUT THIS IS REALLY TALKING ABOUT 37:17 THE NATURE OF THE CHURCH KNOWN BY UNITY - BY ITS LOVE. 37:22 YOU SEE, I BELIEVE THAT JESUS - THE DEVIL HEARD JESUS PRAY 'ALL 37:26 MEN WILL KNOW YOU'RE MY DISCIPLES BY YOUR LOVE FOR ONE 37:29 ANOTHER' AND HE THOUGHT, 'IF EVERYONE WILL KNOW THEY'RE 37:33 CHRISTIANS BY THEIR LOVE, THE REVERSE OF EVANGELISM WOULD BE 37:38 DIVIDE THEM. IF OUR UNITY AND LOVE FOR ONE 37:41 ANOTHER WILL ATTRACT PEOPLE, THEN THE DIVISION IN THE CHURCH 37:46 WILL REPULSE THEM. IS THERE A RELIGION IN THE WORLD 37:50 THAT IS MORE DIVIDED THAN CHRISTIANITY? NO. 37:55 THERE ARE NOT - THERE ARE MANY FRAGMENTS OF JUDAISM. 37:59 THERE ARE MANY FRAGMENTS OF ISLAM - YOU'VE GOT THE SUNNIS 38:04 AND THE SHIITES THAT ARE FIGHTING AND KILLING EACH OTHER 38:07 AND THERE ARE MANY FRAGMENTS BESIDES THAT. 38:09 THERE ARE FRAGMENTS WITHIN BUDDHISM AND HINDUISM AND YOU'VE 38:14 GOT A LOT OF DIFFERENT FRAGMENTED RELIGIONS IN THE 38:16 WORLD BUT THERE IS NO RELIGION THAT COMES ANYWHERE NEAR BEING 38:23 AS FRAGMENTED - THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT DIVISIONS 38:27 AND EVERY NEW SELF-PROCLAIMED PASTOR THAT WANTS TO START HIS 38:31 OWN BRAND OF CHRISTIANITY - HE KIND OF COPYRIGHTS ANOTHER 38:34 DENOMINATION - THAT'S WHY THERE'S THOUSANDS OF THEM. 38:36 AND OFTEN CHURCHES THAT DIVIDE OVER SOME DOCTRINE, THEY'LL 38:40 BREAK OFF AND SAY, 'I'M THE FIRST REFORMED - SECOND POINT OF 38:44 A CATEGORY B BAPTIST CHURCH.' I MEAN, I DON'T MEAN TO PICK ON 38:48 THE BAPTISTS, BUT THERE'S MANY DIFFERENT DIVISIONS OF THE 38:51 BAPTISTS AND THE METHODISTS. 38:53 AND, UNFORTUNATELY, THERE ARE EVEN, WITHIN THE SEVENTH-DAY 38:56 ADVENTIST CHURCH, TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS OF REFORMED SEVENTH-DAY 39:00 ADVENTIST CHURCHES. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? LOVELY PEOPLE. 39:04 I'VE MET WITH THEIR LEADERS ON BOTH SIDES. 39:07 BUT SOME ISSUE CAME ALONG WHERE THEY DIVIDED. 39:12 YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY - YOU KNOW ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE 39:15 METHODS OF CHURCH PLANTING THAT HAPPENS? 39:19 TWO GROUPS IN A CHURCH HAVE AN ARGUMENT AND ONE DECIDES TO GO 39:24 PLANT A CHURCH SOMEWHERE ELSE. IT'S TRUE. IT'S TRUE. 39:29 I'M - WELL, I WON'T TELL YOU THE HISTORY BUT THERE'S - I COULD 39:32 JUST - I COULD LAY OUT THE HISTORY FOR YOU. 39:34 CHURCHES HAVE GOTTEN INTO ARGUMENTS OVER DECORATING ISSUES 39:37 AND IT BECAME SO HEATED THEY SAID, 'WELL, THEN WE'LL JUST GO 39:40 BUILD OUR OWN CHURCH. THAT'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT JESUS 39:46 HAD IN MIND WHEN HE WANTED US TO DO CHURCH PLANTING. 39:51 BUT GOD HAS TURNED SOME OF THOSE THINGS TOGETHER FOR GOOD. 39:53 PAUL AND BARNABAS HAD AN ARGUMENT, DIDN'T THEY? 39:57 THEY COULDN'T AGREE ON WHETHER OR NOT TO FORGIVE MARK AND TAKE 40:00 HIM WITH THEM AND GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE. 40:02 PAUL, ACTUALLY, WAS WRONG THIS TIME. 40:04 AND SO THEY SAID, 'ALRIGHT, WE'LL GO ON OUR OWN. 40:06 I'LL JUST TAKE SILAS AND I'LL GO.' AND BARNABAS SAID, 'WELL, 40:09 I'LL TAKE MARK AND I'LL GO AND THERE.' WELL, YOU KNOW, GOD 40:13 WORKED IT FOR GOOD - HE ENDED UP WITH TWO MISSIONARY GROUPS. 40:15 BUT WAS THAT THE WAY HE WANTED THEM TO SCATTER AND GOD'LL WORK, 40:19 SOMETIMES, OUR BAD DECISIONS OUT FOR GOOD BUT ALL MEN SHOULD KNOW 40:23 YOU ARE HIS DISCIPLES BY OUR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER. 40:27 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD. READ FOR US ACTS 2, VERSE 1. 40:30 >>OKAY, ACTS 2, VERSE 1, "WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST HAD FULLY 40:35 COME, THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN ONE PLACE." 40:39 >>NOTICE, ONE ACCORD, ONE PLACE. AND THEN THEY WERE BAPTIZED WITH 40:45 ONE SPIRIT. DOES THE CHURCH NEED ANOTHER 40:48 PENTECOSTAL BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT THESE DAYS? WHAT DO YOU 40:52 THINK IS GOING TO PRECEDE THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT? 40:56 WELL, FOR ONE THING, WE NEED TO PUT ASIDE OUR DIFFERENCES - 40:59 PETTY DIFFERENCES - FORGIVE EACH OTHER. 41:04 AND THEY'RE USUALLY NOT THEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES. 41:07 YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE THEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES ARE 41:08 IMPORTANT - I'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE - BUT OFTEN IT'S STRIFE 41:13 AND RIVALRY OVER DIFFERENT THINGS AND WHEN WE CAN PUT THAT 41:19 ASIDE - WHEN DID GOD SEND THE RAIN IN THE DAYS OF ELIJAH? 41:24 WHEN GOD'S PEOPLE HUMBLED THEMSELVES, THE KNELT DOWN, THEY 41:27 PRAYED 'THE LORD HE IS GOD.' GOD OPENED UP THE HEAVENS 41:30 AND HE POURED OUT THE SPIRIT. 41:32 BUT WHEN THEY TURNED BACK TO THE LORD - WHEN THERE WAS REFORM AND 41:35 THERE WAS REVIVAL - NOTICE, GOD DIDN'T SEND THE RAIN UNTIL THEY 41:39 KNOCKED DOWN THE ALTARS OF BAAL AND KILLED THE PROPHETS. 41:42 NOW I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT WE, YOU KNOW, GET OUT OUR MACHETES 41:45 AND RUN THROUGH THE CHURCH. THAT DID HAPPEN, THOUGH, BACK 41:48 WHEN THEY WORSHIPED THE GOLDEN CALF, DIDN'T IT? 41:51 I MEAN IT'S HAPPENED A COUPLE OF TIMES IN THE CHURCH. 41:54 I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD DO THAT LITERALLY, BUT I THINK SOMETIMES 41:56 WE NEED TO MAKE SOME TOUGH DECISIONS. 42:01 THAT - YOU KNOW IT JUST BROKE MY HEART. 42:04 I JUST CAME BACK FROM WORKING AT A UNIVERSITY I WON'T MENTION AND 42:09 YOU HEAR STORIES ABOUT PROFESSORS IN THE UNIVERSITIES 42:12 THAT DON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE'S TRUE AND THEY'LL COME RIGHT OUT 42:14 AND SAY IT. AND THEY'RE STILL THERE. 42:17 OR THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN CREATION. 42:21 THEY DON'T BELIEVE SOME OF THE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES. 42:26 I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A REVIVAL IN OUR CHURCH 42:28 UNTIL WE BELIEVE THESE THINGS ARE IMPORTANT AND I THINK THAT 42:33 MEANS SOMETIMES YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS. 42:36 IN THE CHURCH, AS WELL, IT'S NOT JUST IN THE - WHAT'S HAPPENING 42:40 IN MAYBE SOME OF THE SCHOOLS - IN CHURCHES. 42:42 IS THERE EVER SUPPOSED TO BE A TIME WHEN YOU PRACTICE CHURCH 42:45 DISCIPLINE? DOESN'T PAUL TALK ABOUT THAT IN 1 CORINTHIANS? 42:50 I THINK THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE REFORMATION IN OUR LIVES, 42:54 INDIVIDUALLY. THERE NEEDS TO BE REPENTANCE AND 42:56 SOMETIMES EVEN PUBLIC CONFESSION. 42:58 I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME CLEANING UP OF THE BOOKS. 43:01 WE'VE GOT PEOPLE ON CHURCH BOOKS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN TO CHURCH IN 43:03 YEARS, THEY'RE JUST OUT THERE IN THE WORLD, BUT IT MAKES THE 43:06 NUMBERS LOOK BAD SO WE JUST DON'T DEAL WITH IT. 43:08 IT'S A SHAME FOR THE NAME OF CHRIST. 43:10 THERE'S PEOPLE OUT THERE TAKING THE NAME OF CHRISTIAN OR THEY'RE 43:13 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS AND NOT LIVING ANYTHING LIKE A CHRISTIAN 43:15 AND WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE 43:20 PEACE AND REVIVAL - THEY HAD TO THROW JONAH OVERBOARD BEFORE 43:23 THEY HAD PEACE, DIDN'T THEY? - UNTIL WE START WAKING UP AND 43:27 REALLY ACTING LIKE A CHURCH IS SUPPOSED TO ACT. 43:29 LOVING EACH OTHER AS MUCH AS WE CAN LOVE EACH OTHER, TRYING TO 43:34 WIN PEOPLE BACK AS MUCH AS WE CAN, BUT THEN THOSE WHO ARE 43:37 RECALCITRANT AND THEY'RE JUST LIVING FOR THE WORLD, THEN AT 43:39 LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE IT AND TAKE THEIR NAMES OFF THE BOOK, RIGHT? 43:43 YOU'VE GOT TO STAND FOR SOMETHING BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT'S 43:46 ALL - THE WORLD LAUGHS AT THE CHURCH. 43:49 THEY LAUGH AT THE WAY WE FIGHT. 43:51 THEY LAUGH AT THE FALSE PROFESSIONS THAT ARE OUT THERE. 43:54 IF WE REALLY WANT TO SEE AN OUTPOURING THE SPIRIT, THERE 43:57 NEEDS TO BE REFORMATION. THERE NEEDS TO BE A REVIVAL. 44:01 THERE NEEDS TO BE CHANGES IN OUR FAMILIES - IN OUR LIVES. 44:05 YOU THINK GOD IS GOING TO POUR HIS HOLY SPIRIT ON A CHURCH 44:07 WHERE THE FAMILIES DON'T EVEN HAVE WORSHIP? 44:10 HOW - DO YOU THINK HE'S GOING TO BAPTIZE US WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT 44:14 WHEN WE COME ONCE A WEEK IF WE DON'T SEEK AFTER THE SPIRIT IN 44:18 OUR HOMES DURING THE WEEK? WE NEED TO HAVE A REVIVAL AND 44:23 START BEING SERIOUS ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD. 44:26 SO, NOW THAT I'VE GOT THAT OFF MY CHEST, NOW WE'RE GOING TO 44:31 TALK ABOUT CHRIST'S PROVISION FOR UNITY. 44:34 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP EPHESIANS 4 - WE HAVE A HAND 44:37 THAT'S GOT EPHESIANS 4:4-6? I THINK WE GAVE THAT OUT - 44:40 OH, RIGHT OVER HERE. RICHARD'S GOT THAT. GET HIM A MICROPHONE. 44:43 JESUS MADE A PROVISION FOR UNITY. 44:46 JOHN 17:17 - NOW THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - JOHN CHAPTER 17, 44:50 VERSE 17 - IN THAT PRAYER - THAT APPEAL THAT JESUS MADE, 44:56 "SANCTIFY THEM BY YOUR TRUTH. YOUR WORD IS TRUTH." 45:02 SO UNITY MUST BE BASED UPON WHAT? 45:07 DO WE SAY, 'LET'S JUST GET TOGETHER FOR THE SAKE OF BEING 45:10 TOGETHER?' I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING THE NEWS 45:13 LATELY, BUT POPE FRANCIS SEEMS LIKE SUCH A FRIENDLY GUY AND 45:18 HE'S REACHING OUT TO ALL DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT NO OTHER 45:21 POPE HAS REACHED OUT TO BEFORE. HE IS GOING - FOR THE FIRST 45:24 TIME HE'S VISITING PENTECOSTAL AND CHARISMATIC CHURCHES. 45:27 I MEAN, POPES NEVER USED TO STEP FOOT IN THOSE CHURCHES BECAUSE 45:30 THAT WOULD SEEM LIKE, FOR THE POPE TO STEP FOOT IN THOSE 45:32 CHURCHES, THAT WOULD SEEM LIKE SOME FORM OF ACCEPTANCE. 45:36 THEY USED TO SAY ALL PROTESTANTS WERE LOST AND DOOMED. 45:39 AND SO THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY AND HE IS MEETING WITH RELIGIOUS 45:42 LEADERS FROM ALL DIFFERENT PERSUASIONS AND SAYING, 45:46 'LOOK, LET'S PRAY FOR EACH OTHER. YOU PRAY FOR ME. 45:49 I'LL PRAY FOR YOU. 45:51 WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER.' I'M GOING, 'WOW, THAT SOUNDS 45:53 WONDERFUL.' BUT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE UNITED JUST FOR THE SAKE 45:57 OF LOVING EACH OTHER AND GETTING ALONG OR ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE 46:00 UNITED FOR THE SAKE OF TRUTH? JESUS' PRAYER WAS A PRAYER OF 46:05 BEING UNITED IN TRUTH. THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT. 46:08 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD RICHARD, READ YOUR VERSE FOR US. 46:11 >>"THERE IS ONE BODY AND ONE SPIRIT, EVEN AS YE ARE CALLED IN 46:15 ONE HOPE OF YOUR CALLING; ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM, 46:21 ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS ABOVE ALL, AND THROUGH ALL, 46:26 AND IN YOU ALL." >>WHAT'S THE WORD THAT'S BEING 46:28 EMPHASIZED IN ALL OF THIS? ONE. 46:32 BUT YOU NOTICE HE SAYS THERE IS ONE FAITH? IT DOESN'T MEAN 46:36 THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT FAITHS WE'RE TO UNITE ON. YOU GOT THAT? 46:40 ONE FAITH. ONE LORD. DOES THAT MEAN WE SHOULD UNITE WITH 46:44 PEOPLE THAT WORSHIP MANY GODS? NO. THERE'S ONE TRUE GOD. 46:48 THERE'S ONE FAITH. DO WE ALL AGREE THAT THERE'S ONE 46:52 TRUTH? DO YOU WANT TO GET ON AN 46:55 AIRPLANE WITH A PILOT WHO THINKS THERE MAY BE SEVERAL DIFFERENT 46:57 VARYING TRUTHS OF AERODYNAMICS AND HE'S GOING TO TRY A 47:00 DIFFERENT ONE WHEN YOU GET ON BOARD? 47:03 OR DO YOU WANT HIM TO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A CERTAIN ABSOLUTE 47:06 TRUTH OF WHAT KEEPS THAT PLANE IN THE AIR? 47:08 THERE'S NOT MANY DIFFERENT THEORIES. 47:11 YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A TRUTH AND SO WE ARE TO UNITE ON 47:15 NOT TRUTHS BUT THE TRUTH. AND SO - BECAUSE CHRIST IS THE TRUTH. 47:22 HE SAID, 'I AM THE TRUTH.' SO WHAT IS TO BE THE FOUNDATION OF 47:25 OUR UNITY? JESUS AND HIS WORD? CHRIST HIMSELF? 47:29 AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST THIS SIMPLE, FRIENDS, I SAY THIS IN 47:33 MARRIAGE COUNSELING BUT IT ALSO WORKS FOR CHURCH COUNSELING. 47:36 THE CLOSER ANY TWO INDIVIDUALS COME TO THE SAME POINT, THE 47:41 CLOSER, INEVITABLY, THEY COME TO EACH OTHER. 47:43 AND SO, IF JESUS IS THE CENTER AND IF ALL OF THE MEMBERS, 47:48 WHETHER THEY'RE MEMBERS IN A FAMILY OR MEMBERS IN A CHURCH, 47:51 IF ALL OF US ARE REALLY MOVING CLOSER TO BEING IN CHRIST, WE 47:55 CANNOT HELP BUT MOVE CLOSER TO ONE ANOTHER. 47:58 IF WE ARE ALL MOVING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH - IF WE'RE REALLY 48:03 STUDYING THE BIBLE TOGETHER AND WE'RE READING THE SAME BOOK AND 48:06 TRYING TO BRING OUR LIVES INTO HARMONY WITH THAT BOOK, WE WILL 48:09 INEVITABLY BE DRAWING TOGETHER IF IT'S ONE SPIRIT THAT IS 48:14 LEADING US IN THIS ONE TRUTH, RIGHT? 48:16 WE WILL BE COMING TOGETHER. 48:18 THAT MUST BE THE FOUNDATION FOR UNITY. 48:19 BUT WE HEAR, EVERY NOW AND THEN, PEOPLE MAKING WONDERFUL, 48:22 ELOQUENT APPEALS FOR UNITY BUT THEY'RE DOING IT SEPARATE FROM 48:26 TRUTH AND THAT IS GOING TO BE THE CRY OF THE BEAST IN THE LAST 48:30 DAYS AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. 48:32 YOU KNOW, I SAW A STATEMENT - I PUT IT UP ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE A 48:36 FEW WEEKS AGO BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS SAID SO WELL. 48:40 I ACTUALLY HAVE TWO STATEMENTS. 48:42 I'VE GOT ONE FROM ELLEN WHITE AND ONE FROM SPURGEON. 48:44 THEY SAY PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING, BUT NOTICE - I'LL READ 48:46 SPURGEON'S FIRST. "TO REMAIN DIVIDED IS SINFUL." - 48:51 HE'S SAYING THIS MOCKINGLY OR TONGUE-IN-CHEEK - "DID NOT OUR 48:54 LORD PRAY THAT WE MIGHT BE ONE? EVEN THAT THEY MAY BE ONE EVEN 49:00 AS WE ARE ONE? A CHORUS OF ECUMENICAL VOICES 49:08 KEEP HARPING THE UNITY TUNE. WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS 49:12 CHRISTIANS OF ALL DOCTRINAL SHADES AND BELFS MUST COME 49:15 TOGETHER IN ONE VISIBLE ORGANIZATION REGARDLESS." - 49:19 ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BEAST POWER IS GOING TO ADVOCATE? - 49:22 "UNITE! UNITE!" - SPURGEON SAYS, "SUCH TEACHING 49:25 IS FALSE, RECKLESS AND DANGEROUS. 49:28 TRUTH ALONE MUST DETERMINE OUR ALIGNMENTS. 49:32 TRUTH COMES BEFORE UNITY. UNITY WITHOUT TRUTH IS HAZARDOUS. 49:37 OUR LORD'S PRAYER IN JOHN 17 MUST BE READ IN ITS FULL 49:40 CONTEXT. LOOK AT VERSE 17, 'SANCTIFY THEM 49:43 THROUGH THY TRUTH: THY WORD IS TRUTH.' ONLY THOSE WHO ARE 49:47 SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE WORD CAN BE ONE IN CHRIST. 49:50 TO TEACH OTHERWISE WOULD BE TO BETRAY THE GOSPEL." 49:54 THAT'S VERY WELL SAID. HERE'S ELLEN WHITE, HISTORICAL 49:56 SKETCHES, 197, "WE CANNOT PURCHASE PEACE AND UNITY BY 50:02 SACRIFICING TRUTH. THE CONFLICT MIGHT BE LONG AND 50:06 PAINFUL BUT AT ANY COST WE MUST HOLD FAST TO THE WORD OF GOD." 50:10 SOME PEOPLE ARE READY TO SACRIFICE PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH 50:13 FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY. WON'T THE WORLD COME TO THE 50:18 REMNANT CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS AND SAY, 'LOOK, THE WORLD'S 50:21 FALLING APART - NATURAL DISASTERS AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL 50:24 AND WARS AND FINANCIAL DISASTER AND GOD WANTS US TO BE ONE. 50:29 SO SOMEONE HAS TO SACRIFICE SOME OF THEIR DOCTRINAL BELFS SO 50:32 THAT WE CAN WORSHIP TOGETHER.' WHO DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE 50:35 ASKED TO SACRIFICE? I MEAN, IF THEY'RE ALL WANTING 50:38 TO WORSHIP TOGETHER, WHEN DO YOU THINK THEY'RE GOING TO WORSHIP? 50:40 LET'S UNITE. YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR THAT. YES YOU ARE. 50:45 IT'S GOING TO SOUND SO GOOD AND IF YOU SAY, 'BUT, BUT...' 50:49 THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'OH, YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN ONENESS. 50:51 YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN UNITY. YOU DON'T LOVE. 50:57 JESUS WANTS US TO BE ONE.' OH, AND IT'S GOING TO SOUND SO 51:00 POETIC AND ELOQUENT AND CLEVER, BUT THAT'LL BE FROM THE DEVIL. 51:04 THAT IS THE WRONG KIND OF UNITY. 51:06 BEFORE YOU HAVE THE REAL UNITY YOU MUST BEING WITH, NOT UNITY, 51:10 YOU MUST BEGIN WITH TRUTH AND THEN WE GATHER AND UNITE AROUND 51:14 THE TRUTH. WHAT SPURGEON AND ELLEN WHITE 51:17 SAID HERE IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. THEY'VE GOT IT RIGHT. 51:20 SO THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. 51:23 AND IF WE REALLY ARE STUDYING THE WORD, IF WE'RE LOVING EACH 51:27 OTHER - YOU KNOW SOMETHING ELSE THAT I'LL SAY, SINCE I'VE GONE 51:31 THIS FAR I MAY AS WELL GO ALL THE WAY, OUR CHURCH IS NOT 51:36 UNLIKE MANY OTHER CHURCHES. WE HAVE SOME SERIOUS DIVISIONS 51:39 IN OUR CHURCH RIGHT NOW THAT, TO ME, THEY SEEM TO BE GETTING 51:41 WORSE. I MEAN, THERE ARE PEOPLE 51:44 DIVIDING OVER THE ISSUE - WHETHER WE BELIEVE IN A LITERAL 51:47 CREATION - I DO - LITERAL 6-DAY CREATION - BUT SOME DON'T. 51:51 I THINK IT'S HARD TO BE A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST AND THINK 51:53 THAT FIRST DAY WAS MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. 51:57 I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN RECONCILE - THE WHOLE SABBATH 52:00 IS A MEMORIAL OF A DIVINE CREATION. 52:03 ANYWAY, HAVING SAID THAT, THERE'S DIVISIONS OVER 52:06 EVERYTHING FROM SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TO WOMEN'S ORDINATION 52:10 AND A WHOLE PANOPLY AND THE INSPIRATION - THE SPIRIT OF 52:14 PROPHECY - I THINK THAT IS ALMOST A PIVOTAL ISSUE. 52:20 MATTER OF FACT, ELLEN WHITE SAID ONE OF THE LAST TESTS THAT WILL 52:25 COME IS REGARDING THE INSPIRATION OF THE TESTIMONIES 52:30 AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. 52:33 PEOPLE WHO STILL BELIEVE IN THE INSPIRATION OF THE SPIRIT OF 52:35 PROPHECY, THEY'RE TENDING TO BE MORE UNITED. 52:39 BUT THOSE THAT ARE DOWNPLAYING IT AND QUESTIONING IT - IT SEEMS 52:44 LIKES THAT'S WHERE THINGS ARE GOING TO THE FRINGES SO WE 52:47 REALLY NEED TO BE COMING TOGETHER BUT PRINCIPALLY IT MUST 52:51 BE THE WORD OF GOD. BUT GOD'S GIVEN US A WONDERFUL 52:53 GIFT IN THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY THAT I THINK WILL BRING A UNITY 52:57 WHEN WE READ IT TOGETHER IN GOD'S SPIRIT. 53:00 ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT. 53:02 SO WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES TO UNITY? WELL, PRIDE USUALLY. 53:09 ONE OF THE BIG OBSTACLES - WE DIVIDE IN CHURCHES WHEN PEOPLE 53:13 START TO TALK ABOUT ONE ANOTHER. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME LUKE 53:17 22:24 - LUKE - GOT A HAND RIGHT HERE. 53:21 HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO THE MIC WILL SEE YOU. 53:24 PASS THAT DOWN TO JIM. PROVERBS 16:28 - A FROWARD MAN 53:29 SOWS STRIFE AND A WHISPERER SEPARATES CHF FRIENDS." 53:34 HOW MANY PROBLEMS COULD WE AVOID IF WE OBEYED THAT STATEMENT, "DO 53:38 NOT GO ABOUT AS A TALE-BEARER AMONG YOUR PEOPLE." 53:42 LEVITICUS 19:16. WHY DID SAUL GET UPSET WITH DAVID? 53:47 1 SAMUEL 18:7, "SO THE WOMEN SANG AS THEY DANCED, AND SAID, 53:51 'SAUL HAS SLAIN HIS THOUSANDS,'" - AND SAUL WAS GLOWING WHEN HE 53:54 HEARD THAT UNTIL HE HEARD THE SECOND VERSE - 53:57 "'AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS. 54:00 THEN SAUL WAS VERY ANGRY AND THE SAYING DISPLEASED HIM; AND HE 54:04 SAID, 'THEY HAVE ASCRIBED TO DAVID TEN THOUSANDS, AND TO ME 54:07 THEY HAVE ASCRIBED ONLY THOUSANDS.'" - HE WAS PERFECTLY 54:10 HAPPY WHEN HE HAD TWO SCOOPS UNTIL SOMEONE ELSE HAD THREE - 54:13 "'NOW WHAT MORE CAN HE HAVE BUT THE KINGDOM?'" 54:16 DO YOU KNOW IT SAYS BEFORE THAT, 'SAUL LOVED DAVID?' 54:19 BUT AFTER HE FELT LIKE DAVID WAS GETTING MORE CREDIT HE GOT UPSET 54:24 AND HE THEN TRIED TO KILL DAVID. IT BROUGHT A LOT OF DIVISION. 54:29 WHY DID JOSEPH'S BROTHERS WANT TO KILL JOSEPH? JEALOUSY. 54:34 AND THE FATHER PROBABLY DIDN'T HELP MATTERS BY PAMPERING 54:37 AND FAVORING ONE OF HIS SONS. 54:39 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOMS WITH THE 54:44 TEACHER'S PET, BUT THESE ARE THE OBSTACLES TO UNITY. 54:48 THE MOTHER OF JAMES AND JOHN SAID TO JESUS, 'LET MY SONS SIT 54:53 ON YOUR RIGHT HAND AND YOUR LEFT HAND WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR 54:55 KINGDOM.' ANYWAY, RESTORATION OF UNITY. WHAT BRINGS UNITY? 55:00 SOMEONE READ JAMES 4:6 - WHO GOT THAT ONE? OVER HERE? 55:03 ALRIGHT JOLYNE, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND. 55:05 IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING TO READ 2 CHRONICLES 7:14. 55:08 YOU SHOULD ALL KNOW THIS. "IF MY PEOPLE, WHICH ARE CALLED 55:12 BY MY NAME, WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY 55:16 FACE AND TURN" - HT'S THE REFORMATION I WAS TALKING ABOUT 55:20 - MAKING THOSE REAL CHANGES. "...TURN FROM THOSE WICKED WAYS. 55:23 THEN I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN, I'LL FORGIVE THEIR SIN, AND I 55:27 WILL HEAL THEIR LAND.' YOU KNOW, IT'S TALKING ABOUT MY PEOPLE 55:31 COMING TOGETHER AND PRAYING. 55:32 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT AT PENTECOST THEY WERE NOT 55:35 ONLY OF ONE ACCORD, THEY WERE IN ONE PLACE. 55:38 I THINK ANOTHER THING THAT'LL HAPPEN THAT WILL BRING UNITY IS 55:41 US TO COME TOGETHER MORE IN THESE SMALL GROUPS AND PRAY 55:45 TOGETHER, RIGHT? ALRIGHT, WE READY? 55:48 GO AHEAD, JOLYNE, WHY DON'T YOU READ YOUR VERSE? 55:50 >>JAMES 4:6, "BUT HE GIVES MORE GRACE. 55:54 THEREFORE HE SAYS: 'GOD RESISTS THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO 55:59 THE HUMBLE.'" >>SO HUMBLING OURSELVES - 'IF MY 56:03 PEOPLE WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY.' PRIDE BRINGS STRIFE 56:05 AND DIVISION. THAT'S WHERE THE DEVIL FELL. 56:07 HUMBLING OURSELVES, FORGIVING EACH OTHER, DRAWING TOGETHER - 56:11 THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO BRING UNITY. 56:13 AND THAT MIGHT MEAN THAT YOU NEED TO GO TO A BROTHER AND A 56:15 SISTER IN THE CHURCH AND APOLOGIZE. NOW THERE ARE 56:19 DOCTRINAL ESSENTIALS THAT WE'RE VERY CLEAR ON. 56:23 THESE ARE FOUNDATIONAL TRUTHS THAT WE DON'T COMPROMISE. 56:26 THERE'S LATITUDE IN THE CHURCH FOR PEOPLE TO BELIEVE DIFFERENT 56:31 THINGS, I MEAN, I THINK PROBABLY RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM WE'VE 56:33 GOT DIFFERENT VIEWS ON WHETHER THE 144,000 IS A LITERAL NUMBER 56:37 OR A SPIRITUAL NUMBER. AND THERE ARE PROBABLY DIFFERENT 56:40 VIEWS IN THIS ROOM ABOUT THE SEVEN TRUMPETS - WHETHER THEY'RE 56:43 ALL IN THE PAST, WHETHER THEY'RE IN THE FUTURE, OR WHETHER 56:45 THERE'S A DUALISM FOR THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. 56:48 AND THERE ARE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT VIEWS ON SOME OF THESE 56:52 NON-ESSENTIAL MINOR TEACHINGS. THERE'S CERTAIN FOUNDATIONAL 56:57 THINGS AND THEY'RE VERY IMPORTANT. 57:00 THEY'RE VERY IMPORTANT TRUTHS THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND. 57:03 BUT GOD WANTS US - WHEN IT COMES TO - MOST DIVISION IS NOT THE 57:06 THEOLOGY, IT'S THE RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS. 57:09 WE NEED TO HUMBLE OURSELVES, COME TOGETHER AND PRAY. 57:12 AMEN? YOU KNOW, I FORGOT TO MENTION AT 57:14 THE BEGINNING OF OUR LESSON WE HAVE A FREE OFFER. 57:17 AND FOR ANYONE THAT ASKS WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY OF 'THE 57:20 BRIDE OF CHRIST.' IT'S A GREAT LESSON THAT TALKS ABOUT THE 57:22 CHURCH, HOW TO IDENTIFY THE CHURCH, AND BEING IN ONE FAMILY 57:25 IN THE CHURCH. IF YOU SIMPLY CALL 866-788-3966 57:31 WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY. PLEASE READ IT. 57:34 SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS. AGAIN, THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE AND 57:38 ASK FOR OFFER 23133. WITH THAT, FRIENDS, I THINK YOU 57:42 CAN TELL WE RAN OUT OF TIME. GOD BLESS YOU 'TIL WE STUDY HIS 57:45 WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT. 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