Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021436
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN 00:48 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. WE ARE SO THRILLED THAT YOU'RE 00:52 JOINING US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. 00:56 WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE AN EXTENDED FAMILY THAT COVERS THIS PLANET 01:01 AND WE GET TOGETHER EVERY WEEK AND WE LOVE TO STUDY GOD'S WORD 01:04 BECAUSE WE LOVE HIM AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY 01:07 THAT'S GOING TO BE VERY SOON, WHEN WE CAN SEE JESUS FACE TO 01:11 FACE, ALL TOGETHER, AND BOW BEFORE HIM. 01:14 BUT UNTIL THAT DAY WE WILL KEEP STUDYING AND WE WILL KEEP 01:17 SINGING TOGETHER. TODAY IS NO DIFFERENT. 01:19 WE'RE GOING TO START WITH HYMN #255 - 'I CANNOT TELL WHY.' THIS 01:24 COMES AS A REQUEST FROM JOANN IN CANADA, ANNESSA IN DENMARK, 01:28 JEAN, MERCY, MARY AND LIZA IN ITALY AND ANUCIA IN THE MALDIVES 01:34 AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE AROUND THE PLANET HAVE REQUESTED #255 - 'I 01:38 CANNOT TELL WHY.' WE'RE GOING TO DO THE FIRST, THE SECOND, AND 01:41 THE LAST VERSES. 01:43 (MUSIC) 05:52 >>I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY WHEN WE WILL 05:55 BE WITH JESUS FACE TO FACE, LIVING FOREVER THE WAY THAT WE 05:59 WERE ORIGINALLY MEANT TO BE, AMEN? AMEN. 06:02 AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH OUR HYMNAL LEARNING ALL 06:06 THE NEW HYMNS THAT ARE UNFAMILIAR, NEW, HAVEN'T PICKED 06:12 UP FOR A LONG TIME - TODAY'S NO DIFFERENT. 06:14 HYMN #151 - 'JESUS WALKED THE LONESOME VALLEY.' AND THIS DOES 06:19 COME AS A REQUEST FROM DAVE IN INDIANA AND DARREN IN TEXAS. 06:24 SO WE ARE GOING TO SING ALL THREE VERSES OF #151 - 06:28 'JESUS WALKED THIS LONESOME VALLEY.' 06:30 (MUSIC) 08:20 >>LET'S PRAY. 08:22 OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE ARE SO GRATEFUL THIS MORNING THAT YOU 08:26 DID WALK THAT LONESOME VALLEY BY YOURSELF AND THAT YOU PAID THE 08:30 PRICE THAT NO ONE ELSE COULD PAY JUST TO SAVE US. WE'RE GRATEFUL 08:36 AND BECAUSE WE ARE GRATEFUL AND WE LOVE YOU, WE COME TO WORSHIP 08:40 YOU - TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU AND YOUR LOVE FOR US THAT WE CAN 08:43 TAKE THIS LOVE TO OTHERS AROUND US AND THAT WE CAN SHOW OTHERS 08:48 OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR US AND WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THEM. 08:51 PLEASE BE WITH PASTOR DOUG TODAY AS HE BRINGS US YOUR WORD, LORD. 08:54 JUST USE HIM ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN TO FINISH YOUR WORK. 09:01 WE PRAY THESE PRECIOUS THINGS IN YOUR NAME, JESUS, AMEN. 09:06 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 09:17 >>MORNING. HAPPY SABBATH. THANK YOU TO OUR MUSICIANS, 09:22 JOLYNE AND DEBBIE. THE VIOLIN SOUNDED VERY NICE 09:25 WITH THE PIANO FOR THOSE SONGS. HOW IS EVERYBODY? 09:29 GOOD TO BE ABLE TO BE HERE WITH YOU AND TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD 09:33 AND I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE A PART OF THE CLASS AROUND 09:37 THE COUNTRY. LAST WEEK I WAS IN MICHIGAN FOR 09:40 THE NATIONAL ASI MEETING AND MET A LOT OF OUR FRIENDS. 09:43 THE PROGRAM WAS IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, BUT PEOPLE CAME FROM 09:46 SEVERAL STATES AROUND MICHIGAN AND SO WE MET A LOT OF FOLKS 09:49 WHO SAID THEY TUNE IN FOR CENTRAL STUDY HOUR. 09:52 AND I WANT TO GREET YOU AGAIN AND TELL YOU - I PROMISED THEM 09:55 WE WOULD WAVE BACK AT THEM NEXT TIME SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. 09:59 AND, AGAIN, WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH OUR STUDY 10:03 DEALING WITH THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS. 10:05 IF IT'S OKAY, I'D LIKE TO MAKE AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT, 10:09 COMING THIS FALL - YOU KNOW, PART OF SABBATH SCHOOL IS 10:13 TALKING ABOUT MISSION WORK AND EVANGELISM - THERE'S GOING TO BE 10:15 A VERY SPECIAL EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM. 10:18 SOME OF YOU KNOW, PERIODICALLY, FROM YEAR TO YEAR, WE HAVE 10:22 SOMETHING THAT'S LIKE A SATELLITE EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM 10:24 OR A NET PROGRAM WHERE CHURCHES AND HOMES AROUND THE COUNTRY - 10:29 IF YOU HAVE THE INTERNET OR YOU'RE RECEIVING THESE PROGRAMS 10:32 VIA SATELLITE, YOU CAN PARTICIPATE. 10:35 THIS FALL, FROM OCTOBER 31ST - YES, WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN 10:39 HALLOWEEN - WE'RE GOING TO BE SHOWING PEOPLE THE BEAST ON 10:42 HALLOWEEN. NO, BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A PROPHECY SEMINAR. 10:47 IT'LL BE STARTING OCTOBER 31ST AND THROUGH THE 22ND OF NOVEMBER 10:52 UPLINKING FROM ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO. THAT'LL BE A FIRST. 10:56 AND CHURCHES ALL AROUND THE AREA IN ALBUQUERQUE ARE GOING TO BE 10:59 COMING TOGETHER AT THE MARRIOTT PYRAMID HOTEL - THAT'S RIGHT IN 11:03 THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF ALBUQUERQUE. 11:05 WE'RE GOING TO BE UPLINKING ON 3ABN AND AMAZING FACTS 11:08 TELEVISION SO ANY CHURCH, IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN EVANGELISTIC 11:12 PROGRAM PLANNED, YOU CAN DO SOME EVANGELISM IN YOUR CHURCH 11:15 AND IN YOUR HOME BEGINNING OCTOBER 31. 11:18 THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO SPEND THE NIGHT. 11:19 AND IT WILL BE GOING FOR 22 PRESENTATIONS AND SO ALL YOU'VE 11:25 GOT TO DO IS GO TO 'LANDMARKSOFPROPHECY.COM' - JUST 11:28 GO 'LANDMARKSOFPROPHECY.COM' - THERE'S INFORMATION HOW YOU CAN 11:31 DOWNLOAD THE HANDBILLS, INVITE YOUR FRIENDS - IF YOU WANT TO 11:35 GET THE LESSONS YOU CAN, BUT ANYONE CAN DO IT FOR VIRTUALLY 11:38 NOTHING IF YOU GET THE INTERNET OR THE SATELLITE AND 11:41 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO EVANGELISM. 11:42 SO I MIGHT SAY MORE ABOUT THAT LATER BUT I JUST WANTED TO PUT A 11:45 PLUG IN THERE BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN EVANGELISM, AMEN? 11:48 NOW TODAY'S LESSON IS VERY IMPORTANT. 11:51 WE'RE DEALING WITH 'THE LAW OF GOD' - IT'S LESSON #10 IN OUR 11:55 QUARTERLIES - LESSON #10 IN OUR QUARTERLIES AND THE MEMORY VERSE 11:59 IS ONE THAT I THINK EVERYONE KNOWS FROM JOHN 14, VERSE 15. 12:05 MATTER OF FACT, IF I STARTED I BET YOU COULD FINISH IT - 12:09 "IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." 12:12 LET'S DO THAT AGAIN. JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME, 12:15 KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." THIS IS A COMMANDMENT THAT 12:19 REALLY COVERS THE ESSENCE OF WHAT SALVATION IS ALL ABOUT. 12:23 IT ALL IS BASED UPON A LOVE RELATIONSHIP. 12:27 JESUS SAID THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS ARE SUMMARIZED IN 12:29 LOVE FOR GOD AND LOVE FOR EACH OTHER. 12:33 AND SO - WE'RE BASING - THESE STUDIES TODAY ARE BASED UPON A 12:36 NUMBER OF VERSES - OH, YOU KNOW WHAT I FORGOT? 12:40 YEAH, I WAS SO DISTRACTED WANTING TO TALK ABOUT THE 12:43 EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM AND FORGOT ABOUT THE FREE OFFER. 12:46 AND THIS IS - YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT NORMALLY THINK THAT WHEN 12:48 WE TALK ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD WE WOULD GIVE OUT THE AMAZING FACTS 12:50 STUDY GUIDE THAT DEALS WITH THE SUBJECT OF 'WRITTEN IN STONE'. 12:54 ACTUALLY, WE'RE OFFERING 'A LOVE THAT TRANSFORMS' AND THIS IS 12:59 TALKING ABOUT LIVING A GODLY, CHRISTIAN LIFE AND REALLY HOW 13:03 THAT ALL HAPPENS. BECAUSE OF LOVE FOR GOD, 13:06 WE LIVE OBEDIENT LIVES. 13:08 AND SO IF YOU'D LIKE A COPY OF THE STUDY 'A LOVE THAT 13:11 TRANSFORMS' JUST CALL THE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN AND IT'S 13:15 866-STUDY-MORE OR YOU DIAL 866-788-3966. 13:21 WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU FOR FREE - 'A LOVE THAT TRANSFORMS.' READ 13:25 IT - IT'S A GREAT STUDY - AND SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. 13:29 ALRIGHT, BACK TO OUR LESSON. AND WE ALREADY WENT THROUGH THE 13:32 MEMORY VERSE. OUR LESSON - DEALING WITH THE 13:37 TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND THE LAW OF GOD. 13:39 NOW, THERE'S A LOT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD - 13:42 CERTAINLY A LOT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TALKING ABOUT THE LAW 13:44 OF GOD. WE'RE GOING TO PRINCIPALLY BE 13:47 DEALING WITH THE PLACES WHERE JESUS TALKS ABOUT THE LAW. 13:50 UNDER SECTION #1 JESUS DID NOT CHANGE THE LAW. 13:57 NOW THAT SHOCKS SOME PEOPLE. PEOPLE THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, 14:01 THERE'S THE OLD TESTAMENT CEREMONIAL LAWS - ARE WE STILL 14:07 REQUIRED TO SACRIFICE? YEAH, WHAT SACRIFICE THOUGH? 14:14 IT'S THE LAMB OF GOD NOW, RIGHT? BUT NO, WE DON'T HAVE TO CARRY 14:18 OUT THE CEREMONIAL SACRIFICES ANYMORE. 14:21 IS THE NEW TESTAMENT CLEAR THAT LAWS REGARDING CIRCUMCISION AND 14:25 A NUMBER OF THE TEMPLE LAWS - THAT THEY ARE NAILED TO THE 14:28 CROSS - AND THAT'S WHY THE VEIL WAS RIPPED WHEN JESUS DIED ON 14:31 THE CROSS. THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS 14:32 RIPPED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. WE'RE NOT UNDER THE SANCTUARY 14:37 ECONOMY NOW, IT IS A SPIRITUAL SANCTUARY. 14:40 JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE 14:43 DAYS I WILL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.' AND SO CHRIST WAS 14:47 SPEAKING OF HIS BODY AND THE CHURCH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST AND 14:50 YOU ARE NOW LIVING STONES BUILT ON THE CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION OF 14:54 JESUS CHRIST SO ALL OF THE CEREMONIAL LAWS HAD A SYMBOLIC 15:01 FULFILLMENT THAT IS VERY REAL NOW, BUT JESUS DID NOT DO AWAY 15:06 WITH THE LAW OF GOD, WHICH IS SUMMARIZED IN THE COVENANT OF 15:11 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. WE'RE NOW LIVING UNDER THE TIME OF THE NEW 15:15 COVENANT, WHICH IS THE SAME LAW WRITTEN IN A NEW PLACE. 15:20 HEBREWS CHAPTER 8, VERSE 10, 'A NEW COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH 15:24 THEM...I WILL WRITE MY LAW ON THEIR HEARTS.' SO LEST SOMEBODY 15:29 MISUNDERSTAND THIS - OH, WE'LL JUST GET PEOPLE SET UP - WE HAVE 15:32 SOME MICROPHONES AND IF - WHO HAS LUKE 16:17? 15:38 YOU'LL BE FIRST - WHEREVER YOU ARE. HOLD YOUR HAND UP. 15:41 MANJEET - LET'S GET A MICROPHONE OVER HERE FOR MANJEET. 15:44 AND I THINK THE NEXT ONE IS GOING TO BE MATTHEW 7:12 - AND 15:49 THAT'LL BE OVER HERE. OKAY, JOLYNE, YOU CAN TAKE THAT 15:51 MICROPHONE THERE. DID JESUS CHANGE THE LAW? 15:55 ROMANS 10:4 - IT SAYS, "FOR CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR 16:03 RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH." HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE 16:06 HEARD IT SAID BEFORE THAT JESUS CAME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW? 16:09 'HE CAME TO - WE'RE NOT UNDER THAT OLD LAW ANYMORE, WE'RE NOW 16:13 UNDER THE LAW OF LOVE.' AND THEN THEY READ VERSES LIKE THIS HERE 16:16 IN ROMANS 10:4, 'CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW - PERIOD - SO WE 16:21 DON'T HAVE LAW ANYMORE. WE ARE NOW NOT UNDER THE LAW - 16:24 WE'RE UNDER GRACE.' BUT YOU PLAY THAT OUT THE WAY THAT SOME 16:29 PEOPLE SAY IT AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 16:31 DOES THAT MEAN IT'S OKAY, NOW, TO BREAK THE LAW? 16:33 AND I'VE BEEN IN MANY CHURCHES WHERE I'VE HEARD SERMONS ABOUT 16:36 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW NOW, WE'RE UNDER GRACE.' AND PEOPLE 16:39 SAY, 'AMEN.' AND YOU AND I BELIEVE THAT TOO, DON'T WE? 16:42 RIGHTLY UNDERSTOOD WE BELIEVE IT. 16:43 BUT DOES THAT MEAN THAT NOW THAT WE'RE UNDER GRACE AND WE'RE NOT 16:47 UNDER THE LAW, CHRISTIANS ARE FREE TO STEAL? NO. 16:52 DOES IT MEAN CHRISTIANS ARE FREE TO WORSHIP OTHER GODS OR PRAY TO 16:55 IDOLS? OR USE HIS NAME IN VAIN OR TO 16:58 COMMIT ADULTERY OR TO KILL OR TO COVET? 17:01 IS THAT WHAT IT MEANS? NO, OF COURSE NOT. 17:05 SO WHEN JESUS SAYS - OR PAUL, ACTUALLY - SAYS THAT WE'RE NOT 17:09 UNDER THE LAW BUT WE'RE UNDER GRACE AND PAUL SAYS THAT CHRIST 17:12 IS THE END OF THE LAW, DOES THAT MEAN IT'S THE END OF THE TEN 17:15 COMMANDMENTS - THAT WE'RE NO LONGER UNDER OBLIGATION TO KEEP 17:18 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT WOULD 17:21 MEAN AND - OBVIOUSLY NOT BECAUSE SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE 17:25 LAW. AND DO PEOPLE STILL SIN? 17:29 SO THEY MUST STILL BE TRANSGRESSING THE LAW OF GOD, 17:31 RIGHT? AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS THE 17:34 CLEANEST EXPRESSION OF GOD'S LAW. 17:37 THE FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH OUR LOVE FOR GOD. 17:39 THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH OUR LOVE AND OUR 17:41 RELATIONSHIP WITH MANKIND. ALL OF THE LAW - THE TEN 17:44 COMMANDMENTS - IS SUMMARIZED IN THIS LOVE RELATIONSHIP AND THIS 17:48 LOVE RELATIONSHIP. THAT IS ETERNAL. IT IS UNCHANGING. 17:52 WHAT PAUL MEANT WHEN HE SAID CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW - 17:54 YOU READ THE END OF THE VERSE. HE IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR 17:57 RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES. 18:01 SO WE DO NOT OBTAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY OBEDIENCE. 18:07 IS ANYONE GOING TO BE IN HEAVEN BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE RIGHTEOUS 18:11 BY VIRTUE OF OBEYING. 'OH, BUT WHAT ABOUT IN THE OLD 18:15 TESTAMENT, WERE THEY SAVED BY WORKS AND NOW WE'RE SAVED BY 18:17 GRACE?' ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD AND IT WAS 18:21 COUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 18:23 ABRAHAM WAS SAVED BY FAITH AS SURELY AS YOU AND I ARE SAVED BY 18:27 FAITH. WE ARE ALL CONDEMNED. 'THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NO NOT 18:31 ONE. WE HAVE ALL BROKEN GOD'S LAW. 18:33 WE HAVE ALL FALLEN SHORT.' THEM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 18:36 US IN THE NEW TESTAMENT TIMES. 18:38 WE ALL NEED TO BE SAVED BY GRACE. 18:41 THEY WERE SAVED BY FAITH LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CROSS AND SO, AS 18:46 A SIGN OF THAT THEY HAD THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION AND 18:49 THEY SACRIFICED LAMBS, ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN 18:52 JOHN THE BAPTIST WOULD SAY, 'BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD.' WE ARE 18:55 NOW SAVED BY FAITH AND SOMETHING THAT WE SEE HAPPENED WHEN JESUS 18:59 DIED ON THE CROSS. WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH LOOKING 19:01 BACK AT THE CROSS. BUT WE'RE ALL SAVED BY FAITH IN 19:04 THE CROSS. NOBODY IS SAVED BY RIGHTEOUSNESS. 19:07 WE ARE SAVED BY BELIEVING IN CHRIST. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 19:11 SO GOD'S - GOD'S METHOD OF SAVING MAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BY 19:15 THE VIRTUES OF CHRIST. NOBODY'S GOING TO BE IN HEAVEN 19:17 AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE OLD TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS - BELIEVERS 19:21 - WALKING UP TO NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS AND SAY, 19:23 'YOU GUYS ARE LUCKY. YOU WERE SAVED BY FAITH. 19:25 WE HAD TO WORK OUR WAY IN.' BUT THAT'S THE WAY IT'S PREACHED. 19:29 THERE'S TWO DISPENSATIONS AND THERE'S ONE GROUP THAT'S GOING 19:32 TO BE IN HEAVEN, 'MOSES IS THERE BECAUSE OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.' 19:36 MOSES SINNED AND ABRAHAM SINNED AND DAVID SINNED AND THEY WERE 19:44 ALL SAVED BY THE MERCY OF GOD. READ PSALM 51. AND SO THAT'S A 19:49 BIG MISUNDERSTANDING. LISTEN TO WHAT JESUS SAID IN 19:51 MATTHEW 5:17. THIS IS A REALLY CLEAR VERSE. 19:55 "DO NOT THINK THAT I AM COME TO DESTROY THE LAW, OR THE 19:59 PROPHETS: I AM NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO FULFIL." 20:03 MATTER OF FACT, IN LUKE HE DOESN'T EVEN USE THAT WORD 20:05 'FULFIL' BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK FULFILL MEANS 'TO DO AWAY WITH.' 20:08 HAVE YOU HEARD THAT? 20:10 JESUS FULFILLED THE LAW AND WHAT THEY SAY WHEN THEY MEAN THAT - 20:13 OR WHEN THEY SAY THAT THEY MEAN HE DID AWAY WITH THE LAW. 20:17 WELL, JESUS WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF CERTAIN CEREMONIAL LAWS BUT 20:21 JESUS SAID, 'DO NOT THINK THAT I CAME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE 20:23 PROPHETS.' HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE HE 20:26 RECITES SEVERAL OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE FOLLOWING 20:29 VERSES IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. WHAT DOES FULFILL MEAN? 20:35 WHEN JESUS CAME TO JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JOHN, KNOWING HE WAS 20:38 THE MESSIAH SAID, 'OH LORD, WHY ARE YOU COMING FOR BAPTISM? 20:42 THAT REPRESENTS CLEANSING FROM SIN AND YOU'RE THE SINLESS ONE. 20:45 YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME.' AND JESUS SAID, 'NO, SUFFER IT TO BE 20:49 SO NOW, FOR THUS IT BECOMES US TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' 20:55 DOES THE WORD 'FULFIL' MEAN 'TO DO AWAY WITH?' 20:58 DID JESUS COME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW? 21:00 WOULD JESUS SAY TO JOHN, 'I'M GETTING BAPTIZED TO DO AWAY WITH 21:04 ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS?' FULFILL MEANS 'TO FILL SOMETHING 21:07 FULL.' IF I HAND YOU A PITCHER AND SAY, 'FULFILL IT.' YOU 21:11 WOULDN'T DUMP IT OUT, YOU'D FILL IT UP. 21:14 AND SO FULFILL MEANS 'TO COMPLETE.' JESUS CAME TO 21:19 COMPLETE ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. HIS LIFE WAS A PERFECT LIFE. 21:23 THAT'S WHAT THAT'S TALKING ABOUT. 21:24 SO - LET ME FINISH READING WHAT IT SAYS HERE IN MATTHEW 5:17, 21:29 "DO NOT THINK THAT I CAME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS. 21:31 I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL. 21:35 FOR ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY, 21:38 ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL BY NO MEANS PASS FROM THE LAW TILL ALL 21:42 IS FULFILLED." - A JOT AND TITTLE WERE IN THE 21:45 HEBREW WRITING, SIMILAR TO OUR LITTLE PERIOD OR THE CROSSING OF 21:49 A 'T' - THE SMALLEST CHARACTERS. HE'S SAYING, 'EVEN THE SMALLEST 21:52 CHARACTER OF THE LAW - THE PUNCTUATION WILL NOT CHANGE TILL 21:56 ALL IS FULFILLED OR KEPT OR FILLED UP. 22:01 AND THEN HE GOES ON AND SAYS, "WHOEVER THEREFORE BREAKS ONE OF 22:04 THE LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, AND TEACHES MEN SO, SHALL BE 22:09 CALLED LEAST" - AND THAT WORD 'CALL' THERE MEANS 'SPOKEN OF; 22:12 AS' - HE WILL BE SPOKEN OF AS LEAST "IN THE KINGDOM OF 22:15 HEAVEN;" - THEY'RE NOT THERE BUT THE PEOPLE IN THE KINGDOM OF 22:18 HEAVEN SPEAK OF THEM AS LEAST. YOU GOT THAT? 22:22 IT'S NOT SAYING THEY'LL BE IN HEAVEN, THEY'LL JUST HAVE A 22:23 LOWER POSITION; IT MEANS THOSE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SPEAK 22:26 OF THEM AS THE LOWEST. WHOEVER DOES - WHOEVER BREAKS 22:30 THE LAW AND TEACHES OTHERS TO BREAK - ISN'T THAT WHAT THE 22:33 DEVIL DOES? TEACHES PEOPLE TO BREAK THE LAW? 22:36 WHOEVER DOES THAT IS SPOKEN OF AS THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF 22:40 HEAVEN. "BUT WHOEVER DOES AND TEACHES 22:43 THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." 22:46 SO IF THIS MORNING YOU THINK PASTOR DOUG'S BEING LEGALISTIC 22:49 BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN DOING AND TEACHING THE LAW. 22:52 ACCORDING TO JESUS, THEY ARE SPOKEN OF AS THE GREATEST IN THE 22:54 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. HE WANTS YOU TO BE A DOER AND A 22:58 TEACHER OF THE LAW - AND THAT'S GREAT. 23:01 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, WE'RE GOING TO READ LUKE 16:17. 23:05 MANJEET, I THINK WE'RE READY FOR THAT. 23:07 >>LUKE 16:17, "AND IT IS EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS 23:13 AWAY THAN FOR ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL." 23:18 >>YOU KNOW ONE REASON GOD SAID IT'S EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH 23:21 TO PASS AWAY? FIRST OF ALL, WHAT DID GOD WRITE 23:25 THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW ON? STONE. 23:28 DO YOU WRITE ANYTHING ON STONE IF YOU WANT IT TO BE TEMPORARY? 23:32 HE WROTE IT ON STONE. AND THEN WHERE WAS IT PLACED? 23:37 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE PLACED WHERE? 23:39 IN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. WHEN YOU READ IN REVELATION AND 23:44 IT SAYS - AND I THINK IT'S - IS IT CHAPTER 11, VERSE 19, "THEN 23:48 THE TEMPLE OF GOD WAS OPENED IN HEAVEN, AND THE ARK OF HIS 23:51 COVENANT WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE." 23:52 TEMPLE OF GOD OPENED IN HEAVEN - ARK OF THE COVENANT - 23:54 WHAT'S IN THE ARK? TEN COMMANDMENTS - SO FOR YOU TO 23:57 DO AWAY WITH THE LAW OF GOD, YOU HAVE TO DO AWAY WITH HEAVEN 24:02 BECAUSE GOD HAS A COPY THERE. SOME PEOPLE ARGUE THAT THE 24:05 ORIGINAL IS THERE BUT I THINK IT'S A DUPLICATE. 24:08 I WON'T GO INTO THAT - OH, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT. 24:11 WHEN MOSES BROUGHT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DOWN, HOW MANY 24:14 TABLES WERE THERE? TWO. HOW MANY SIDES WERE THEY WRITTEN ON? 24:21 BOTH SIDES - IT SAYS, 'WRITTEN ON THE FRONT AND THE BACK' - 24:24 TWO TABLES. THAT COULD MEAN TWO COPIES. 24:27 WHEN YOU MAKE A CONTRACT, HOW MANY COPIES ARE THERE - IF YOU 24:29 MAKE A COVENANT WITH SOMEBODY? ONE FOR YOU. 24:31 ONE FOR THEM. ONE ON EARTH. ONE IN HEAVEN. 24:35 SO HIDDEN SOMEWHERE IN JERUSALEM IS THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. 24:38 I THINK THE TWO TABLES ARE IN THERE. 24:40 I THINK THAT GOD MAY HAVE A COPY. 24:43 I DON'T KNOW BUT I THINK THERE'S A COPY IN HEAVEN. 24:46 BUT SOMEWHERE HIDDEN IN A CAVE IN JERUSALEM, I THINK, IS THE 24:48 ARK OF THE COVENANT. BUT IN REVELATION IT APPEARS IN HEAVEN. 24:52 SOME HAVE WONDERED, IN THE SAME WAY THAT GOD TOOK THE TREE OF 24:55 LIFE TO HEAVEN BEFORE THE FLOOD - BECAUSE IT'S IN THE NEW 24:57 JERUSALEM, RIGHT? MAYBE HE TOOK THE ARK UP BEFORE 25:01 JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED. I WAS JUST TELLING YOU WHAT SOME 25:04 OF THE THEORIES ARE. I THINK IT'S STILL HIDDEN IN A 25:06 CAVE OVER THERE. ALRIGHT, THAT WAS TOO MUCH 25:10 INFORMATION. MALACHI 3:6 - DOES GOD CHANGE? 25:15 "FOR I AM THE LORD, I DO NOT CHANGE;" - HEBREWS 13:8, "JESUS 25:20 CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER." 25:23 AND, BY THE WAY, WHO IS THE ONE WHO DELIVERED 25:24 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TO HUMANITY? 25:27 WHO WAS UP THERE ON THE MOUNTAIN WITH MOSES? 25:30 'ALL THINGS' - THE BIBLE SAYS, 'ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE 25:33 MADE BY HIM AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE THAT WAS 25:36 MADE.' AND SO, WHEN IT SAYS THE LORD HEWED THESE STONES AND 25:40 WROTE WITH HIS FINGER, ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE 25:43 BY HIM. WHO WROTE THAT LAW? IT'S JESUS' LAW. 25:47 JESUS DOESN'T HAVE A DIFFERENT LAW FROM THE FATHER. 25:50 I JUST - PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT THINK THERE'S ONE GOD IN THE OLD 25:52 TESTAMENT AND JESUS IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE GOD OF THE 25:55 OLD TESTAMENT AND THE FATHER IS A TYRANT AND HE'S CRUEL IN THE 25:58 OLD TESTAMENT AND JESUS IS LOVING. AND JESUS CAME TO TRY 26:01 TO SAVE US FROM THE WRATH OF THE FATHER THAT WANT TO DESTROY US. 26:04 PEOPLE HAVE THIS PICTURE IN THEIR MIND AND THEY FORGET THAT 26:06 JESUS SAID, 'MY FATHER HIMSELF LOVES YOU.' AND JESUS SAID, 'FOR 26:11 GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD' - THE FATHER - 'THAT HE GAVE' - THE 26:14 SON. SO WHO'S GIVING MORE? WHAT WOULD HURT MORE? 26:19 SO THIS IDEA THAT THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT GODS - BUT PEOPLE HAVE 26:22 THAT PICTURE IN THEIR MIND THAT JESUS IS TRYING TO SAVE US FROM 26:25 THE WRATH OF THE FATHER AND IT'S THE FATHER WHO'S THE LAW GIVER 26:28 AND JESUS WHO'S THE GRACE GIVER. NO, THEY'RE THE SAME GOD. 26:33 'HEAR, O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE GOD.' IT'S NOT TWO 26:36 DIFFERENT GODS. THAT LAW IS THE LAW OF JESUS. 26:41 ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SECTION. 26:42 'JESUS DEEPENED THE MEANING OF THE LAW.' ALRIGHT, ISAIAH 42:21 26:48 - THIS IS A PROPHECY ABOUT THE COMING MESSIAH AND IT SAYS, "THE 26:52 LORD IS WELL PLEASED FOR HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE; HE WILL 26:56 MAGNIFY THE LAW AND MAKE IT HONORABLE." 27:00 SO WHAT WOULD THE MESSIAH DO WITH THE LAW? MAGNIFY. 27:04 WHEN YOU MAGNIFY YOU SHRINK, RIGHT? 27:08 YOU HAVE A SHRINKING RAY GUN AND YOU MAKE IT SMALLER. 27:10 NO, MAGNIFY DOES WHAT? IT BLOWS IT UP. IT ENLARGES. 27:16 SO WHEN JESUS CAME IN HIS TEACHING, DID HE DETRACT FROM 27:19 THE LAW OR DID HE MAGNIFY THE LAW? WHY WOULD HE MAGNIFY THE 27:23 LAW? BECAUSE HE WAS A LEGALIST? LET ME EXPLAIN. 27:29 WHEN YOU MAGNIFY THE LAW, YOU MAGNIFY THE LORD BECAUSE THE LAW 27:34 OF GOD IS A PERFECT EXPRESSION OF THE LORD. 27:39 THE LAW IS A REFLECTION OF HIS CHARACTER. 27:42 NOW I'LL TRY TO INCLUDE THIS WITH MY NOTES. 27:45 I DON'T KNOW IF DIANNE IS LISTENING IN THE STUDIO BUT SHE 27:48 ALWAYS REMINDS ME TO PUT MY NOTES ONLINE. 27:50 DON'T LET ME FORGET TO ALSO PUT THIS SPECIAL STUDY ONLINE. 27:52 I DIDN'T WRITE THIS. I DON'T KNOW WHO DID. 27:55 IT'S JUST ON THE INTERNET STANDING ALONE. 27:59 THERE'S NO NAME ON IT BUT IT'S A GREAT STUDY I'VE USED BEFORE AND 28:04 IT SIMPLY HAS DIFFERENT ATTRIBUTES AND IT SHOWS 28:08 SCRIPTURE WHERE YOU FIND THESE ARE THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD'S 28:12 CHARACTER AND THEN YOU FIND THE SAME SCRIPTURES THAT SAY THEY 28:15 ARE ATTRIBUTES OF THE LAW - OR SIMILAR SCRIPTURES. 28:19 FOR INSTANCE, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD IS LOVE. 28:23 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? WE ALL KNOW THAT. 1 JOHN 4:8, 1 JOHN 4:16. 28:27 THE BIBLE SAYS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS LOVE - 28:31 ROMANS 3:8-10 - GALATIANS 5:14. 28:34 THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS PERFECT MATTHEW 5:48 - IT ALSO SAYS HIS 28:40 LAW IS PERFECT - JAMES 1:25; PSALM 19:7, "THE LAW OF THE LORD 28:45 IS PERFECT, CONVERTING THE SOUL." THE BIBLE SAYS, 28:48 'GOD IS HOLY.' I WON'T GIVE YOU ALL THE SCRIPTURES. 28:51 YOU'LL HAVE TO DOWNLOAD THIS BECAUSE THAT'S A LOT OF 28:53 SCRIPTURES - WE'LL BE HERE FOR AWHILE - WON'T GET INTO THE 28:55 LESSON. LET ME JUST GO THROUGH WHAT THE CHARACTERISTICS ARE. 28:58 IT SAYS GOD IS HOLY; HIS LAW IS HOLY. 29:02 GOD IS ETERNAL; HIS LAW IS ETERNAL. 29:04 GOD IS TRUTH; HIS LAW IS TRUTH. GOD IS PURE; THE LAW IS PURE. 29:08 GOD IS GOOD; THE LAW IS GOOD. GOD IS SPIRITUAL; 29:10 THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL. GOD IS JUST; THE LAW IS JUST. 29:13 GOD IS FAITHFUL; THE LAW IS FAITHFUL. 29:15 THEY'RE BOTH LIGHT. THEY'RE BOTH LIFE. 29:18 THEY'RE BOTH RIGHTEOUS. THEY'RE BOTH TRUE. 29:19 THEY'RE BOTH PEACE. THEY'RE BOTH HONORABLE. 29:21 THEY'RE BOTH GREAT. THEY'RE BOTH WONDERFUL. 29:22 THEY'RE BOTH THE WAY. THEY'RE BOTH SURE. 29:24 THEY'RE UNCHANGING. THEY'RE WISE. 29:25 THEY'RE ENLIGHTENED. THEY'RE BLESSED. 29:27 THEY'RE HAPPY. THEY'RE MERCIFUL. 29:28 THEY'RE UNDERSTANDING. THEY'RE DELIGHT. 29:29 THEY'RE LIBERTY. THEY'RE KNOWLEDGE. 29:31 THEY'RE HOPE. THEY'RE OUR MEDITATION. 29:33 EVERYTHING THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT GOD IT ALSO SAYS ABOUT THE LAW. 29:37 SO WHEN PEOPLE DIMINISH THE LAW WHO ARE THEY DIMINISHING? 29:42 THEY'RE DIMINISHING GOD. ANOTHER REASON IT'S IMPORTANT TO 29:45 MAGNIFY THE LAW - THIS IS WHY JESUS CAME. 29:47 HE WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE LAW. HE LIVED THE LAW. 29:50 HE SAYS, 'I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS - 29:52 WHAT HE SAID? - SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'DIDN'T JESUS 29:55 SIN BECAUSE HE BROKE THE SABBATH? 29:57 NO, JOHN IS SAYING THE PHARISEES ACCUSED HIM OF BREAKING THEIR 30:01 SABBATICAL LAWS - THEY WEREN'T FLAWS IN THE BIBLE. 30:04 JESUS WAS ALSO ACCUSED BY THE PHARISEES OF BEING A GLUTTON. 30:07 WAS HE? HE WAS ACCUSED OF BEING A SAMARITAN. 30:10 HE WAS ACCUSED OF HAVING A DEMON. 30:11 THEY ACCUSED HIM OF ALL KINDS OF THINGS. 30:13 JESUS NEVER SINNED. HE IS THE SINLESS ONE, AMEN? 30:16 AND SO HE CAME TO MAGNIFY THE LAW. NOW, WHAT IS SIN? 30:25 SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW - THAT'S THE MOST CLEAR 30:27 BIBLE - IT'S ALMOST LIKE A DICTIONARY DEFINITION. 30:31 WHY DID JESUS DIE? 30:35 ANGEL TOLD MARY, 'YOU'LL CALL HIS NAME JESUS FOR HE WILL SAVE 30:38 PEOPLE FROM THEIR SIN.' IF YOU DON'T HAVE A LAW - PAUL SAYS, 30:44 'WHERE THERE IS NO LAW THERE IS NO SIN.' DOESN'T HE SAY THAT - 30:47 ROMANS? SO IF YOU HAVE NO LAW YOU HAVE WHAT? NO SIN. 30:51 IF YOU HAVE NO SIN, WHO NEEDS A SAVIOR? 30:56 WHEN YOU MAGNIFY THE LAW, WE LOOK IN THE PERFECT LAW LIKE A 31:01 MIRROR, WE SEE OUR SIN, WE REALIZE OUR NEED OF THE SAVIOR, 31:04 WE RUN TO JESUS. THE DEVIL HATES THE LAW BECAUSE 31:07 WHERE THERE'S NO LAW THERE'S NO SIN - NO SIN, YOU DON'T NEED 31:09 JESUS. YOU GOT THAT? 31:12 SO HE'S ALWAYS ATTACKING THE LAW. 31:13 HE'S DIMINISHING THE LAW - EVEN IN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. 31:16 AND SO THEY BECOME SOME OTHER KIND OF CHURCH WHERE THEY GET 31:19 TOGETHER FOR ALL KINDS OF OTHER SOCIAL REASONS AND HAVE SOME 31:22 KIND OF COUNTERFEIT CONCEPT OF WHAT SALVATION IS. 31:25 BUT IF YOU REALLY LOVE THE LORD, YOU WILL LOVE HIS LAW BECAUSE 31:28 THEY'RE ONE AND THE SAME. HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU LOVE JESUS 31:31 AND YOU LOVE MURDER AT THE SAME TIME? 31:35 YOU KNOW, YOU JUST GO THROUGH THE COMMANDMENTS. 31:37 HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU LOVE JESUS AND THEN YOU ABUSE HIS NAME? 31:42 OF COURSE, IF YOU LOVE THE LORD YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE HIS LAW. 31:46 ALRIGHT, KEEP GOING. 31:48 'JESUS DEEPENED THE MEANING OF THE LAW.' 2 CORINTHIANS 3:5, 31:54 "NOT THAT WE ARE SUFFICIENT OF OURSELVES TO THINK OF ANYTHING 31:58 AS BEING FROM OURSELVES, BUT OUR SUFFICIENCY IS FROM GOD, WHO 32:01 ALSO MADE US SUFFICIENT AS MINISTERS OF THE NEW COVENANT, 32:05 NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, 32:09 BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE." NOW WHAT IS PAUL TALKING ABOUT? 32:13 JESUS CAME TO MAGNIFY THE LAW, ESPECIALLY SHOWING THE SPIRIT OF 32:19 THE LAW WHERE THE PHARISEES WERE EMPHASIZING THE LETTER. 32:23 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF THAT. 32:25 MATTHEW 5:21 AND 22 - RED LETTER - JESUS IS SPEAKING - "YOU HAVE 32:30 HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID TO THOSE OF OLD," - FROM A LONG TIME AGO 32:34 - "'YOU SHALL NOT MURDER.'" - NOW WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? 32:38 TEN COMMANDMENTS. NOTICE JESUS DOESN'T SAY 32:40 'DO NOT KILL.' BECAUSE THE HEBREW 32:42 ACTUALLY SAYS, 'DO NOT MURDER.' IF YOU PLUCK A WEED, YOU'RE 32:45 KILLING, TECHNICALLY, BUT THAT'S NOT BREAKING 32:46 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. IF YOU SQUASH A MOSQUITO, YOU'RE 32:49 KILLING, BUT IT'S NOT MURDER. MURDER'S DIFFERENT. 32:51 MURDER IS THE TAKING OF ONE HUMAN OF ANOTHER HUMAN INNOCENT 32:57 LIFE. WHEN POLICE SHOOT SOMEONE IN 33:01 SELF DEFENSE THAT'S NOT MURDER. WHEN A SOLDIER FIGHTS AN ENEMY, 33:06 DO WE CALL THEM MURDERERS? NO. PEOPLE HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD THAT 33:10 COMMANDMENT. THEY SAY, 'WHY DOES GOD SAY 33:12 'DON'T KILL.' AND THEN HE SENDS DAVID OUT TO KILL GOLIATH. 33:15 THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.' WELL, IT'S NOT MURDER FOR SOLDIERS. 33:19 MURDER IS A TAKING OF INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE.' SO JESUS QUOTES IT 33:23 THE CORRECT WAY HERE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. HE SAID, 'YOU'VE 33:25 HEARD IT SAID BY THEM OF OLD, 'YOU SHALL NOT MURDER.' AND 33:28 WHOEVER MURDERS WILL BE IN DANGER OF THE JUDGMENT. 33:31 BUT I SAY TO YOU, 'WHOEVER IS ANGRY WITH HIS BROTHER WITHOUT A 33:35 CAUSE WILL BE IN DANGER OF THE JUDGEMENT. 33:37 AND WHOEVER SAYS 'RACA!' - OR 'YOU FOOL!' 33:39 - SHALL BE IN DANGER OF THE COUNCIL. BUT WHOEVER SAYS, 33:41 'YOU FOOL!' SHALL BE IN DANGER OF HELL FIRE.' 33:44 RACA MEANS 'WORTHLESS ONE.' AND SO WHAT DOES CHRIST SAY? 33:49 'I'VE COME TO SHOW YOU THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW.' THE SPIRIT 33:52 OF THE LAW IS NOT JUST LITERALLY MURDERING SOMEBODY, IT'S BEING 33:57 ANGRY AND HAVING MURDER IN YOUR HEART. 34:01 IT'S NOT JUST THE ACTION, IT'S THE ATTITUDE. 34:05 IT'S NOT JUST THE LETTER, IT'S THE SPIRIT. 34:07 AND HE GIVES SEVERAL OTHER EXAMPLES. 34:12 AND I MAY BE RUNNING AHEAD OF MYSELF. 34:15 JESUS SAID, 'YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID BY THEM OF OLD YOU SHALL 34:17 NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.' THAT'S THE LETTER OF THE LAW - ONE OF THE 34:20 TEN COMMANDMENTS - 'BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOEVER LOOKS UPON A 34:24 WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER IN HIS HEART' - AND LADIES, IT GOES 34:27 BOTH WAYS - 'IS GUILTY OF ADULTERY.' NOW IT'S NOT JUST THE 34:32 ACTION OF ADULTERY, IT'S THE ATTITUDE, JESUS SAID. 34:38 HE NOT ONLY WANTS TO CHANGE OUR BEHAVIOR, HE WANTS TO CHANGE OUR 34:40 HEARTS BECAUSE IF YOU GET THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, YOU WILL KEEP 34:43 THE LETTER. IF I LEARN TO FORGIVE MY BROTHER 34:47 IN MY HEART AND I'M NOT ANGRY WITH MY BROTHER, AM I GOING TO 34:50 CONTEMPLATE MURDER? SO IT STARTS IN THE HEART. IF I CAN LEARN 34:53 NOT TO LUST IN MY HEART, AM I GOING TO COMMIT ADULTERY? 34:57 SO WHEN YOU'RE KEEPING THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, YOU WILL KEEP 35:00 THE LETTER OF THE LAW. NOW WHILE I'M ON THAT POINT, LET 35:04 ME TALK ABOUT THE SABBATH FOR A MINUTE. OH, BY THE WAY, JESUS - 35:07 HE USES SEVERAL OTHER EXAMPLES OF THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER. 35:10 JESUS SAID, 'COME UNTO ME AND I'LL GIVE YOU REST.' AND HOW 35:15 MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD SOMEONE SAY, 'WELL, WE DON'T NEED TO 35:18 KEEP THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT ANYMORE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE 35:21 SPIRIT OF THE LAW NOW, WE DON'T NEED THE LETTER.' 35:24 HAVE YOU HEARD THAT? BUT WHEN YOU KEEP THE SPIRIT OF 35:29 THE LAW, WILL YOU BREAK THE LETTER? 35:32 IF YOU'RE KEEPING THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW THAT SAYS, 'DON'T COMMIT 35:34 ADULTERY, ARE YOU GOING TO PHYSICALLY COMMIT ADULTERY? 35:36 'SEE, I'M NOT THINKING IT IN MY HEART, I'M JUST DOING IT WITH MY 35:38 BODY.' OR IF YOU SAY, 'I'M NOT GOING TO REALLY MURDER, I'M 35:42 GOING TO KEEP THE LETTER OF THE LAW' - I MEAN, 'I'M GOING TO 35:45 KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, I'M NOT GOING TO THINK MURDEROUS 35:48 THOUGHTS. I AM GOING TO ACTUALLY SHOOT 35:49 PEOPLE, BUT I'LL HAVE THE RIGHT ATTITUDE IN MY HEART. 35:52 I'M KEEPING THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW.' WHENEVER YOU REALLY KEEP 35:55 THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW YOU WILL ALSO KEEP THE LETTER. 35:58 AND SO, IF YOU'RE KEEPING THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, 'COME UNTO ME 36:01 AND I'LL GIVE YOU REST.' WILL YOU WANT TO REST THAT SPECIAL 36:04 HOLY DAY THAT GOD'S GIVEN YOU WITH HIM? 36:07 SO WHOEVER IS KEEPING THE SPIRIT WILL WANT TO KEEP THE LETTER AS 36:10 WELL. ALRIGHT, WHO HAS - TALKING ABOUT 36:13 THE DEEPER MEANING OF THE LAW - SOMEBODY HAS MATTHEW 7:12 - 36:17 OVER HERE. I THINK WE'RE READY. 36:19 >>MATTHEW 7:12, "THEREFORE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT 36:23 MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM: 36:27 FOR THIS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS." 36:31 >>MORE THAN ONCE JESUS SUMS UP THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS IN 36:34 SAYING IT'S LOVE FOR GOD AND LOVE FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR. AMEN? 36:39 AND HE SAID, FOR INSTANCE, IN MATTHEW 22:35, ONE WHO WAS A 36:43 LAWYER "ASKED HIM A QUESTION, TESTING HIM, AND SAYING, 36:46 'TEACHER, WHICH IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENT IN THE LAW?' 36:49 JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL 36:51 YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' THIS IS 36:53 THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT. AND THE SECOND IS LIKE IT: 36:57 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' ON THESE TWO 36:59 COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS." 37:03 NOW I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SAY - YOU PROBABLY HAVE TOO - 37:06 JESUS CAME TO FULFILL THE LAW. 37:08 WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE BECAUSE HE 37:10 GAVE US THE NEW COVENANT, WHICH IS 'LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR 37:13 HEART AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT? 37:17 WHERE DID JESUS GET 'THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL THY 37:21 HEART?' DID HE THINK THAT UP OR WAS HE 37:23 QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT? THAT'S DEUTERONOMY. 37:26 THAT'S THE OLD TESTAMENT - CHAPTER 6. 37:29 AND WHERE DID JESUS GET 'THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS 37:32 YOURSELF?' LEVITICUS 19:18. 37:35 I ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT ONE BECAUSE I THINK ABOUT WORLD WAR 37:36 I - 1918 - AT LEAST FOR US IT WAS. 37:40 SOME OTHER COUNTRIES GOT IN THERE SOONER. 37:42 SO THAT REALLY IS THE OPPOSITE OF THAT. 37:45 IT'S LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR, RIGHT? 37:48 AND SO JESUS WAS SIMPLY SAYING THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE SUMMARY 37:52 OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - LOVE THE LORD AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. 37:55 AND YET, I HEAR PASTORS SAY, 'OH, WE DON'T NEED THE TEN 37:57 COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE, JESUS GAVE US A NEW LAW. 37:59 JUST LOVE THE LORD AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' BUT IF YOU LOVE THE 38:02 LORD WILL YOU KEEP THE FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS? 38:05 AND IF YOU LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR YOU'LL KEEP THE LAST SIX THAT'S 38:08 WHY HE SAID, ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS HANG UPON - IS HELD UP 38:12 BY - THESE TWO GREAT COMMANDMENTS. 38:15 AND AGAIN YOU HAVE JESUS SAYING HE HAS A NEW COVENANT. 38:19 IN MARK 14:24. "THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW 38:23 COVENANT, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY." SO NO QUESTION, 38:25 JESUS SAID 'NEW COVENANT.' NOW, WHEN DID JESUS DO THAT? 38:30 COMMUNION SERVICE - LAST SUPPER - WHAT WE CALL THE LAST SUPPER - 38:33 THE LORD'S SUPPER. WHAT WAS THE LORD'S SUPPER? 38:37 PASSOVER. WE ALL STILL IN AGREEMENT? 38:40 HE SAID, 'I'VE LONGED TO EAT THIS PASSOVER WITH YOU.' WHAT 38:42 WAS THE PASSOVER ALL ABOUT? THE ANGEL OF JUDGMENT WAS 38:45 PASSING BY BECAUSE THEY HAD THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. 38:48 THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN OF THE FAMILY 38:52 UNLESS THEY HAD THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB APPLIED TO THE DOOR - OR 38:55 THE THRESHOLD AND DOOR OF THE HOUSE. 38:59 AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THAT ANGEL OF JUDGMENT WENT BY. 39:02 WELL, JESUS WASN'T DOING AWAY WITH THE LAW, HE WAS SHOWING THE 39:06 FULL MEANING OF IT. THAT ANGEL OF JUDGMENT PASSES BY 39:09 US BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. SO HE SAID 39:12 'A NEW COMMANDMENT.' JOHN 13:34, "A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE TO 39:16 YOU, THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER; AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, THAT YOU 39:20 ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER." DID JESUS HAVE PERFECT LOVE? 39:27 DID JESUS HAVE THE KIND OF LOVE HE WANTS US TO HAVE? 39:30 DID JESUS KEEP HIS FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS? 39:33 AND SO, IF WE LOVE LIKE JESUS LOVED, AND CHRIST SAID, 'FATHER, 39:39 I PRAY THAT THE APOSTLES AND BELIEVERS WILL BE ONE WITH EACH 39:43 OTHER THE WAY YOU AND I ARE ONE. HOW ARE JESUS AND THE FATHER 39:47 ONE? PERFECT LOVE. AND JESUS OBEYED THE LAW OF THE 39:51 FATHER. HE SAID SO. HOW ARE WE TO BE ONE? 39:54 THE SAME WAY CHRIST AND THE FATHER WERE ONE. 39:57 SO THIS IDEA THAT THIS NEW COVENANT MEANS THAT NOW WE ARE 40:00 LIBERATED TO DISOBEY, THAT IS SO INCONGRUOUS WITH THE TEACHINGS 40:06 OF JESUS. BUT SOMEHOW THE DEVIL HAS GOT 40:08 THESE DIABOLICAL DOCTRINES BEING PREACHED FROM CHRISTIAN PULPITS 40:11 THAT ONCE YOU'RE SAVED YOU ARE NOW FREE FROM OBEDIENCE. 40:16 IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM OR IS OBEDIENCE THE RESULT OF LOVE? 40:21 'IF YOU LOVE ME' - JESUS SAID - WHAT? 40:25 - 'KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' THE LAST THING IT SAYS IN THE NEW 40:27 TESTAMENT, REVELATION 22, 'BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO KEEP HIS 40:30 COMMANDMENTS THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE A RIGHT TO ENTER INTO THE 40:33 GATES OF THE CITY AND EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE. 40:36 HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP 40:39 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS.' I MEAN, 40:43 YOU JUST - AND THAT'S, AGAIN, REVELATION. 40:45 YOU SEE IT ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE - THIS PRINCIPLE - AND YET IN 40:47 CHRISTIAN PULPITS I'M HEARING PASTORS - IT BREAKS MY HEART - 40:51 TELLING PEOPLE 'DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE LAW.' YES, YOU DON'T 40:53 HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE CEREMONIAL LAW, BUT THE TEN 40:56 COMMANDMENTS? YES, IF YOU LOVE THE LORD, 40:59 YOU'LL WANT TO DO HIS WILL. WHAT'S THE BEST EXPRESSION OF 41:03 GOD'S WILL? IT SAYS, 'I LOVE TO DO THY WILL. 41:07 THY LAW IS IN MY HEART.' THE LAW OF GOD IS THE WILL OF GOD. 41:13 IT'S THE VERY NATURE OF GOD. 41:15 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 1 CORINTHIANS 7:10. 41:18 I DON'T KNOW WHO WOULD HAVE THAT VERSE. 41:20 WE GAVE OUT SOME VERSES - THEY LOOK LIKE BIG FORTUNE COOKIES. 41:22 OKAY. JUST A - WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. 41:25 WE'RE NOT QUITE READY. JESUS AND THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. 41:29 WHAT'S THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT? 'THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT 41:33 ADULTERY.' RIGHT. THIS IS A TEST, FRIENDS. 41:35 YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT. I MEAN, WE OUGHT TO KNOW - 41:38 EVERY SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILD SHOULD KNOW 41:39 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT? AND SO WE OUGHT TO KNOW THESE. 41:43 THIS ISN'T JUST FOR PASTORS TO KNOW THAT. 41:45 YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE RICH YOUNG RULER TALKED TO JESUS. 41:49 HE SAID, 'GOOD MASTER,' - THIS IS LATER IN THE LESSON - 'WHAT 41:51 GOOD THING SHALL I DO THAT I MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?' 41:54 CHRIST SAID, 'WHY CALLEST THOU ME GOOD. 41:56 NONE IS GOOD SAVE ONE, THAT IS GOD. 41:58 BUT IF YOU WOULD ENTER INTO LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.' HE 42:01 SAID, 'WHICH ONES?' JESUS STARTS GOING THROUGH THE 42:03 TEN COMMANDMENTS. HE SAYS, 'ALL THESE I'VE KEPT 42:05 FROM MY YOUTH.' - EVERY CHILD KNOWS THAT - EVERY JEWISH BOY 42:07 AND GIRL KNEW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 42:10 THEY'RE DOING BETTER THAN SOME CHRISTIANS, RIGHT? 42:14 DO YOU KNOW IF YOU GO OUT ON THE STREET - I OUGHT TO DO THIS - GO 42:18 OUT ON THE STREET AND ASK THE AVERAGE PERSON - FIND CHRISTIANS 42:20 - SAY, 'CAN YOU QUOTE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TO ME?' 42:24 SOME OF THEM CAN MAYBE GET 50%. IT'S AMAZING. 42:29 WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO QUOTE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, AMEN? 42:33 ALRIGHT, MATTHEW 5:27, "YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID TO THOSE 42:38 OF OLD, 'YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.' BUT I SAY TO YOU THAT 42:41 WHOEVER LOOKS AT A WOMAN TO LUST FOR HER HAS ALREADY 42:43 COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH HER IN HIS HEART." 42:46 SO CHRIST IS SAYING THE BEST WAY TO PRESERVE MARRIAGES IS TO MAKE 42:49 SURE YOUR HEART IS NOT GOING IN THE WRONG PLACE. 42:52 YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY, HOW ADULTERY HAPPENS? 42:55 VERY RARELY DOES A HAPPY - HAPPILY MARRIED COUPLE HAVE ONE 43:00 OF THE PARTNERS - SPOUSES - WAKE UP ONE DAY AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW, 43:05 TODAY I THINK I'LL JUST COMMIT ADULTERY. 43:09 I'M GOING TO GO SEE IF I CAN FIND SOMEONE TO COMMIT ADULTERY 43:11 WITH.' IT DOESN'T USUALLY HAPPEN THAT WAY. 43:14 THEY ENTER INTO AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP. 43:17 FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S PROBLEMS WITH INTIMACY, USUALLY, WITHIN 43:21 THE MARRIAGE. THERE'S PROBLEMS WITH THEIR RELATIONSHIP. 43:25 THEY'RE NOT IN - THEY'RE NOT BEING ONE THE WAY 43:28 THEY SHOULD BE ONE AND IN COMMUNION. 43:30 AND, AS A RESULT OF THAT, SOMEBODY ELSE - AT THE OFFICE OR 43:34 SOME OTHER FRIEND OF A FRIEND STARTS SHOWING AN INTEREST AND 43:38 THEY START SAYING, 'BOY, THIS PERSON'S SO NICE - UNLIKE MY 43:41 HUSBAND OR MY WIFE.' AND THEY SEEM TO HAVE ALL THESE STRENGTHS 43:46 AND ALL THESE CHARACTERS AND 'BOY, IF I COULD FIND A MAN OR A 43:49 WOMAN LIKE THAT.' AND THEN THEY START TO TALK TOGETHER AND THEY 43:51 START SHARING THINGS THEY SHOULDN'T SHARE AND IN THEIR 43:53 MINDS THEY BEGIN TO OPEN A DOOR. IT HAPPENS IN THE HEART FIRST. 43:59 AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE MAN PLACES HIS HAND ON HER 44:03 SHOULDER BECAUSE SHE STARTS TO CRY. AND THEN SHE THROWS HERSELF 44:07 - HER HEAD - ON HIS SHOULDER AND STARTS TO SOB, 'MY MARRIAGE IS 44:11 FALLING APART.' AND HE SAYS, 'COME, LET ME HELP YOU. 44:16 I'LL COMFORT YOU.' AND THAT'S OFTEN HOW IT HAPPENS. 44:20 ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER AND IF WE DON'T ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN 44:25 IN THE HEART, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN THE LIFE. 44:30 YOU JUST DON'T EVEN GO THERE. SO JESUS' TEACHING ON THE 44:34 SEVENTH COMMANDMENT WAS NOT THAT - HE DIDN'T LOWER THE STANDARD. 44:37 NOTICE THIS: MATTHEW 5:31, "FURTHERMORE, IT HAS BEEN SAID," 44:42 - SPEAKING, AGAIN, IN OLD TESTAMENT - "'WHOEVER WILL PUT 44:45 AWAY HIS WIFE, LET HIM GIVE HER A WRITING OF DIVORCEMENT.' 44:48 BUT I SAY TO YOU," - NOW IS HE GOING TO LOWER THE 44:50 STANDARD OR RAISE IT? SO JESUS DIDN'T COME TO MAKE THE 44:53 LAW SMALLER, HE CAME TO MAKE IT BIGGER - "BUT I SAY TO YOU, 44:58 WHOEVER WILL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE SAVING FOR THE CAUSE OF 45:00 FORNICATION CAUSES HER TO COMMIT ADULTERY; AND WHOEVER SHALL 45:04 MARRY HER THAT IS DIVORCED COMMITS ADULTERY." 45:07 MATTER OF FACT, THE DISCIPLES - MATTHEW 19, VERSE 7, THEY CAME 45:12 TO JESUS AND SAID, "WHY THEN DID MOSES COMMAND TO GIVE A 45:15 CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE, AND TO PUT HER AWAY?" 45:18 'IT'S BIBLICAL TO DIVORCE. 45:21 WHY DID MOSES ALLOW THIS?' - "HE SAID TO THEM, 'MOSES, 45:24 BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF YOUR HEARTS," - GOD MADE A PROVISION 45:28 TO PROTECT WIVES BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF YOUR HEARTS - BUT 45:33 THIS WAS NOT THE BEGINNING - IT WAS NOT SO - "I SAY TO YOU, 45:36 WHOEVER DIVORCES HIS WIFE EXCEPT FOR SEXUAL IMMORALITY, AND 45:40 MARRIES ANOTHER, COMMITS ADULTERY; AND WHOEVER MARRIES 45:42 HER WHO IS DIVORCED COMMITS ADULTERY." 45:44 THAT'S MATTHEW 19. IT SAYS A SIMILAR THING IN MARK. 45:48 SO DID JESUS - HOW DID HE FEEL ABOUT DIVORCE? 45:52 YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING. PEOPLE THINK THAT JESUS CAME TO 45:56 REDUCE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. YOU KNOW ONE OF THE ONES I HEAR? 46:00 IT'S VERY INTERESTING. 'WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY TITHE 46:03 ANYMORE, THAT WAS AN OLD TESTAMENT LAW. 46:07 AND I THINK, WELL, DID JESUS COME AND LOWER THE GIVING 46:12 STANDARD FOR NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS? 46:15 IF IT'S NOT TITHE, WHAT IS IT FOR NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS? 46:20 IT'S HIGHER, NOT LOWER. YOU READ IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - 46:26 IN THE BIBLE - OLD TESTAMENT - TITHES AND OFFERINGS. 46:29 TITHE WAS A TENTH, OFFERINGS YOU COULD DETERMINE. 46:31 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT NO MAN SAID THAT ALL - AUGHT THAT HE HAD WAS 46:37 HIS OWN, BUT THEY SOLD THEIR HOUSES AND LANDS - LIQUIDATED 46:41 THEIR ASSETS AND LAID THEM AT THE DISCIPLES' FEET. 46:45 SO PEOPLE WHO SAY, 'TITHE, WHY? WE'RE NOT UNDER 46:48 THE OLD TESTAMENT. THAT'S TOO EXPENSIVE. 46:50 TITHE - TEN PERCENT - ARE YOU KIDDING ME?' OH, YOU WANT TO BE 46:53 A NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN, THAT'S FINE. 46:55 YOU LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WITH THEIR 46:58 POSSESSIONS AND, BOY, IT WASN'T TEN PERCENT. 47:02 I MEAN, BARNABAS, HE SOLD HIS LAND. 47:04 THEY WERE SELLING THEIR HOUSES. THEY WERE PUTTING IT ON THE 47:06 ALTAR TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL. I MEAN, IT WASN'T A LOWER 47:09 STANDARD. IT WAS A HIGHER STANDARD. 47:11 YOU WOULD BE HAPPY TO GO BACK AND AT LEAST KEEP THE OLD 47:13 TESTAMENT TITHE. WE'VE GOT CHRISTIANS THAT AREN'T 47:15 EVEN PAYING A TITHE TODAY AND THEY THINK THEY'RE CHRISTIANS. 47:19 THEY DON'T WANT TO KEEP A NEW TESTAMENT GIVING STANDARD - 47:21 THEY'RE NOT EVEN KEEPING THE OLD TESTAMENT GIVING STANDARD. 47:24 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? NEW TESTAMENT IS A HIGHER STANDARD. 47:28 AND IT'S THAT WAY WITH MARRIAGE TOO. 47:31 BUT, SADLY - YOU KNOW, THERE'S A STATISTIC GOING AROUND - IT'S 47:36 ACTUALLY NOT TRUE - THERE'S A STATISTIC THAT SAYS THAT THE 47:38 DIVORCE RATE IN THE CHURCH IS JUST AS HIGH AS IN THE WORLD. 47:41 THAT'S ACTUALLY NOT TRUE. OF PROFESSED CHRISTIANS, THE 47:46 DIVORCE RATE IN THE AMERICAN CULTURE AMONG PROFESSED 47:48 CHRISTIANS IS JUST AS HIGH AS THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL. 47:52 BUT THAT'S NOT TELLING AN HONEST PICTURE. 47:54 A LOT OF PROFESSED CHRISTIANS DON'T ACTUALLY ATTEND CHURCH. 47:59 BARNA DID A STUDY - THE CHURCH SURVEY GROUP - AMONG CHURCH- 48:04 GOING CHRISTIANS - MARRIAGES FARE BETTER THAN THE PUBLIC. 48:10 BUT THERE'S STILL A VERY HIGH DIVORCE RATE. 48:13 WHEREAS, IN THE WORLD - I FORGET THE EXACT PERCENTAGE - IT MAY BE 48:15 UP TO 50 PERCENT - IN THE CHURCH, IT MAY BE 38 PERCENT. 48:20 SO IT'S BETTER, BUT IT'S STILL PRETTY BAD. 48:23 AND SO, WHAT WAS JESUS' STANDARD ABOUT MARRIAGE? 48:27 BY THE WAY, READ WHAT PAUL SAYS ABOUT MARRIAGE - AND THAT'S THE 48:29 NEXT VERSE IN 1 CORINTHIANS 7:10 - WHO HAS THAT? 48:34 OVER HERE. GO AHEAD, YOU'RE UP. 48:36 >>"NOW TO THE MARRIED I COMMAND, YET NOT I BUT THE LORD: 48:39 A WIFE IS NOT TO DEPART FROM HER HUSBAND. BUT EVEN IF SHE DOES 48:42 DEPART, LET HER REMAIN UNMARRIED OR BE RECONCILED TO HER HUSBAND. 48:46 AND A HUSBAND IS NOT TO DIVORCE HIS WIFE." 48:49 >>ALRIGHT, SO AGAIN, NOTICE WHAT PAUL IS SAYING. 48:52 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS. 48:53 PAUL SAYS, 'NOT I, BUT THE LORD.' SO HE SAYS, 'I'M QUOTING 48:56 WHAT THE LORD JESUS SAID.' AND HE'S REFERRING BACK TO THESE 48:58 VERSES IN MATTHEW AND MARK THAT WE JUST READ ABOUT MARRIAGE, 49:01 THAT SOMETIMES THERE ARE IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES AND 49:06 IF TWO CHRISTIANS ARE MARRIED AND, FOR WHATEVER REASON, THEY 49:11 SEPARATE. HE SAYS REMAIN UNMARRIED. 49:14 YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO BOUNCE FROM MARRIAGE TO 49:16 MARRIAGE, BIBLICALLY. I KNOW THAT SOUNDS PRETTY STERN. 49:19 THERE ARE ONLY TWO CASES I FIND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHERE 49:23 REMARRIAGE - WELL, THREE CASES - REMARRIAGE IS ALLOWED. 49:26 PAUL SAYS, 'IF A SPOUSE DIES.' THAT'S WHY, DURING THE WEDDING 49:29 VOWS, IT SAYS, 'TILL DEATH DO YOU PART.' RIGHT? 49:32 YOU'RE FREE TO REMARRY. PAUL SAYS THAT, RIGHT? 49:36 IF YOU ARE TWO PAGANS - NOW LISTEN CAREFULLY, THIS IS 1 49:39 CORINTHIANS 7, 'IF YOU'RE TWO PAGANS AND ONE OF YOU LEARNS 49:43 ABOUT CHRIST AND YOU SAY, 'I WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN.' AND 49:48 YOUR PAGAN SPOUSE - HUSBAND OR WIFE - SAYS, 'I DIDN'T SIGN UP 49:52 FOR THAT. I'M GOING TO CONTINUE WORSHIPING JUPITER.' THIS 49:55 HAPPENED A LOT WHEN THE GOSPEL WAS SPREADING. AND HE SAYS, 49:58 'OH, I'M LEAVING YOU. I DON'T WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN. 50:00 I'M OUT OF HERE.' AND YOU'RE ABANDONED BY YOUR HUSBAND OR 50:02 WIFE - PAUL SAYS, 'IF THEY'RE WILLING TO STAY WITH YOU, STAY 50:05 MARRIED EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE PAGANS BECAUSE YOU BEING A 50:08 BELIEVER WILL HAVE A SANCTIFYING, CONVERTING 50:09 INFLUENCE ON YOUR UNBELIEVING SPOUSE AND YOUR CHILDREN. 50:14 STAY IN THE MARRIAGE IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS. 50:17 THAT'S WHY PETER SAYS THAT THE BELIEVING WIFE, BY HER CHASTE 50:22 CONVERSATION CAN HAVE A CONVERTING INFLUENCE ON HER 50:24 UNBELIEVING HUSBAND AS THEY BEHOLD YOUR HUMBLE BEHAVIOR. 50:29 STAY TOGETHER IF YOU CAN. BUT IF THEY ARE DETERMINED TO 50:32 LEAVE, IT SAYS, 'LET THEM DEPART.' 50:34 A BELIEVER IS NOT UNDER BONDAGE IN SOME CASES. 50:36 IF YOU'RE ABANDONED AND YOU DID NOT MARRY WITH THE COVENANT OF 50:41 BEING A CHRISTIAN - YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT, THEN YOU'RE 50:43 FREE, IT SAYS, TO REMARRY. GOD DID NOT EXPECT YOU THEN TO 50:48 RAISE YOUR CHILDREN ALONE. SO DO YOU GET THE DIFFERENCE 50:50 THERE? SO THAT'S THE OTHER DIFFERENCE. 50:52 AND THEN THE THIRD CAVEAT IS CHRIST SAYS, 'SAVING FOR THE 50:56 CAUSE OF FORNICATION. IF ONE OF THE PARTNERS VIOLATES 51:01 THE WEDDING VOWS AND - THROUGH FORNICATION - THROUGH ADULTERY - 51:06 THEN THE OTHER IS TECHNICALLY FREE. 51:09 THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULDN'T TRY TO RECONCILE. 51:12 RECONCILIATION IS ALWAYS BETTER. AND SO IF THERE'S ANY REDEEMABLE 51:17 QUALITIES IN THE RELATIONSHIP, RECONCILE. 51:20 THERE ARE CASES WHERE PASTORS HAVE RECOMMENDED DIVORCE. 51:24 I MEAN, I'VE TALKED, BEFORE, TO MEN OR WOMEN THAT ARE 51:27 PERPETUALLY HAVING SCANDALOUS RELATIONSHIPS. 51:31 I KNEW THIS ONE LADY, HER HUSBAND WAS ALWAYS ON THE ROAD, 51:34 AND HE WAS PHILANDERING WITH THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT AND WAS NOT 51:40 AT ALL REPENTANT. AND SHE SAID, 'WHAT DO I DO?' 51:42 I SAID, 'HE'S NOT EVEN REMORSEFUL ABOUT IT. 51:45 HE'S FLAUNTING IT.' I SAID, 'I'D DIVORCE BECAUSE YOU CAN CATCH A 51:48 DISEASE, FOR ONE THING.' I SAID, 'THERE'S TIMES WHEN - IT'S VERY 51:52 SAD - BUT THERE ARE BIBLICAL GROUNDS.' SO JESUS' STANDARD, 51:57 THOUGH, IS A VERY HIGH STANDARD. ALRIGHT, I'VE SAID TOO MUCH ON 51:59 THAT SUBJECT. NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO TO JESUS 52:02 AND THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT, 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.' 52:04 WHO'S GOING TO READ FOR ME MARK 10:19? 52:07 DO WE HAVE A MICROPHONE SOMEWHERE? 52:10 OVER HERE. JOLYNE? WE'LL GET YOU READY. 52:12 I'M GOING TO READ MARK 7, VERSE 10 - WAIT, YOU KNOW WHAT? 52:17 I'M GOING TO START WITH EXODUS 21:17 - NOTICE THIS: EXODUS 52:22 21:17, "AND HE WHO CURSES HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER SHALL 52:26 SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH." THAT'S PRETTY SERIOUS. 52:33 SO HOW - HOW SERIOUS WAS IT, IN BIBLE TIMES, TO SPEAK 52:40 DISRESPECTFULLY - HAVE YOU EVER SEEN TEENAGERS CURSING AT THEIR 52:43 PARENTS? YOU EVER - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN 52:46 OUT IN PUBLIC AND YOU SEE TEENAGERS YELLING AT THEIR 52:48 PARENTS AND TALKING BACK TO THEIR PARENTS? 52:51 OH BOY - AND AS HARD OF A TIME AS I GAVE MY PARENTS, I - YOU 52:57 SASSED YOUR PARENTS - MY GRANDMOTHER, SHE TAUGHT ME THAT. 53:02 I TALKED BACK TO MY GRANDMOTHER ONE TIME AND SHE SAID, 'LET ME 53:05 SEE YOUR TONGUE.' I STUCK OUT MY TONGUE - SHE SLAPPED ME ON THE 53:08 BOTTOM OF MY JAW - MADE ME BITE MY TONGUE. 53:12 I'M NOT RECOMMENDING THAT, I'M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT MY GRANDMA 53:14 DID. BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU MAKE THIS CONNECTION BETWEEN PAIN AND 53:19 EVENTS AND YOU JUST DON'T FORGET. 53:22 AND SO, EVERY TIME I'D TALK BACK TO HER, BOY GRANDMA CAME DOWN 53:26 HARD. AND SHE KNEW YOU'VE GOT TO OBEY YOUR ELDERS. 53:30 YOU NOTICE HOW, SOMETIMES, YOU LEARN BEST WITH PAIN? 53:34 I WAS RIDING MY FOUR-WHEELER AROUND IN THE HILLS ONE DAY AND 53:40 I PARKED FOR A SECOND AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I GOT SHOT - I THOUGHT 53:45 - IT TURNS OUT I GOT STUNG BY A YELLOW JACKET AND THEN ANOTHER 53:47 ONE. I HAD PARKED ON A YELLOW JACKET 53:49 NEST AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 53:51 ALL OF A SUDDEN I FELT LIKE I'D BEEN SHOT. I WENT 'OW! 53:54 WHAT WAS THAT?' AND 'OH!' YOU KNOW, AND PRETTY 53:55 SOON I REALIZED THAT THIS WAS A CLOUD OF YELLOW JACKETS. 53:57 AND I TOOK OFF - I GOT OUT OF THERE IN GREAT PAIN. 53:59 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I GOT STUNG. 54:02 I STILL RIDE AROUND THOSE SAME HILLS - THIS HAS BEEN 20 YEARS 54:06 AGO - I ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT SPOT. 54:11 PAIN TEACHES YOU, YOU KNOW THAT? YOU WILL NEVER FORGET THAT SPOT. 54:14 THE YELLOW JACKETS - THEY'RE DEAD AND GONE LONG AGO. 54:17 THEY'RE NOT THERE ANYMORE, BUT I NEVER FORGET THAT LITTLE HILL 54:20 WHERE THAT HAPPENED. SOMETIMES GOD HAS TO TEACH US 54:24 THAT WAY, DOESN'T HE? BECAUSE YOU JUST - THAT'S HOW 54:26 YOU REMEMBER SOMETIMES, THROUGH SUFFERING. 54:28 HOW DID I GET ON THAT? OH, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER. 54:32 ALRIGHT, READ FOR ME, JOLYNE, MARK 10:19. 54:36 >>MARK 10:19, "YOU KNOW THE COMMANDMENTS: 'DO NOT COMMIT 54:40 ADULTERY,' 'DO NOT MURDER,' 'DO NOT STEAL,' 'DO NOT BEAR FALSE 54:44 WITNESS,' 'DO NOT DEFRAUD,' 54:46 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER.'" 54:49 >>SO AMONG THE COMMANDMENTS THAT JESUS REPEATS 54:51 TO THE YOUNG RULER - 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER.' RIGHT? 54:56 AND THEN JESUS GOES ON TO SAY - MARK 7:10, "FOR MOSES SAID, 55:00 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER'; AND, 'HE WHO CURSES 55:02 FATHER OR MOTHER, LET HIM BE PUT TO DEATH.' BUT YOU SAY, 'IF A 55:08 MAN SAYS TO HIS FATHER OR MOTHER, 'WHATEVER PROFIT YOU 55:10 MIGHT HAVE RECEIVED FROM ME IS KORBAN' - (THAT IS, A GIFT TO 55:12 GOD)," - BY WHATEVER YOU MIGHT HAVE PROFITED BY ME, HE'S FREE. 55:15 LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT KORBAN MEANS. 55:16 THE PHARISEES HAD MANUFACTURED A LAW THAT IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO 55:20 HAVE TO SUPPORT YOUR PARENTS IN THEIR OLD AGE, ALL YOU HAD TO DO 55:24 WAS DECLARE THAT ALL OF YOUR POSSESSIONS WOULD BE WILLED TO 55:27 THE TEMPLE WHEN YOU'RE GONE. THEN YOU'RE FREE TO LIVE ON THEM 55:30 AS LONG AS YOU WANT AND YOU CAN'T GIVE IT TO ANYBODY ELSE 55:33 BECAUSE IT'S HOLY MONEY NOW. AND IT WAS THIS LOOPHOLE SO YOU 55:37 COULD LIVE WITH ALL YOUR MONEY ANY WAY YOU WANTED. 55:40 BUT YOU COULDN'T GIVE IT TO ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE YOU 55:42 PROMISED TO WILL IT TO THE TEMPLE. 55:43 THEY MADE UP THIS LAW TO ENRICH THEMSELVES TO VIOLATE THE LAW 55:47 THAT SAYS 'HONOR YOUR PARENTS IN THEIR OLD AGE AND TAKE CARE OF 55:49 THEM.' THEY HAD NO SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE BACK THEN. 55:53 YOUR CHILDREN TOOK CARE OF YOU IN YOUR OLD AGE. 55:54 JESUS SAID, 'YOU HAVE MADE THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD OF NONE 55:57 EFFECT BY YOUR TRADITIONS.' SO JESUS DID NOT LOWER THE 56:00 STANDARD, HE SAYS, 'NOT ONLY DO YOU HONOR YOUR PARENTS, BUT ONE 56:03 WAY YOU HONOR THEM IS - THEY TOOK CARE OF YOU WHEN YOU WERE 56:06 YOUNG. IF THEY GET OLD AND FEEBLE, YOU TAKE CARE OF THEM,' 56:11 RIGHT? AND SO HE RAISED THE STANDARD. 56:15 AND I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME. 'JESUS AND THE ESSENCE OF THE 56:18 LAW.' LET ME JUMP ALONG TO THIS LAST SECTION HERE. 56:21 MATTHEW 19, VERSE 20 - NOW I'M GOING TO JUMP OVER - I'M GOING 56:26 TO JUMP DOWN TO JAMES 1:25, "BUT HE WHO LOOKS INTO THE 56:30 PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AND CONTINUES IN IT, AND IS NOT A 56:35 FORGETFUL HEARER BUT A DOER OF THE WORK, 56:37 THIS ONE WILL BE BLESSED IN WHAT HE DOES." 56:40 WHAT IS THIS PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY WE'RE TO LOOK INTO? 56:43 JAMES EXPLAINS IN THE NEXT CHAPTER - JAMES 2, VERSE 11, 56:47 "FOR HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' ALSO SAID, 'DO NOT 56:51 MURDER.' NOW IF YOU DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, BUT YOU DO 56:54 MURDER, YOU HAVE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW." 56:56 WHAT TWO COMMANDMENTS ARE THOSE ABOUT? 56:59 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, AREN'T THEY? 57:00 'DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'DO NOT MURDER' - PART OF THE TEN 57:02 COMMANDMENTS. IT SAYS YOU'RE A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW. 57:05 LISTEN TO HOW HE CLOSES. I'M STILL IN JAMES 2, VERSE 12, 57:08 "SO SPEAK AND SO DO" - WHAT DOES GOD WANT US TO DO WITH THE TEN 57:13 COMMANDMENTS? DO IT. "SO SPEAK AND SO DO AS THOSE WHO 57:17 WILL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY." 57:21 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS CALLED THE LAW OF LIBERTY. 57:23 I THINK GEORGE MACDONALD IS THE ONE WHO SAID, "A FREE WILL IS 57:27 NOT LIBERTY TO DO WHATEVER ONE LIKES, BUT THE POWER OF DOING 57:31 WHATEVER ONE SEES OUGHT TO BE DONE, EVEN IN THE FACE OF 57:34 OTHERWISE AN OVERWHELMING IMPULSE. 57:37 HERE LIES FREEDOM, INDEED." IN DOING WHAT YOU KNOW OUGHT TO 57:40 BE DONE IS WHERE REAL FREEDOM COMES FROM. 57:43 IT'S IN DOING THE LAW OF GOD AND THE WILL OF GOD, AMEN? 57:45 WELL, THERE'S MORE ABOUT THE LAW OF JESUS AND - PLEASE SEND FOR 57:49 THE FREE RESOURCE THAT IS CALLED, 'A LOVE THAT 57:51 TRANSFORMS.' IT'S 866-STUDY-MORE - 866-STUDY-MORE. 57:55 WE'LL SEND YOU THAT STUDY GUIDE. 57:57 GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 58:02 (MUSIC) |
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