What are we going
to begin by doing?
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- [Audience]
Praying. - Praying, so let's
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do that together.
Father in heaven, we come
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before You this evening
and we are thrilled, You have
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put a joy in our hearts.
Father, we ask that as we
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open Your word tonight,
that You would open our hearts
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that we may understand
with clarity and with accuracy
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the great things that You are
teaching us out of Your word.
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Father, please, may we
tonight have an experience,
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an extraordinary
experience with You, not because
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of a man, but because
of the man, Jesus Christ.
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So please Father, be with
us now as we open Your word
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in Jesus' name,
let everyone say amen.
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Okay, let's begin with
just a little bit of review
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and we'll look to the
screen. Last night we did:
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"The Actual, Certain,
Definite, Unavoidable Identity"
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"of the Antichrist
Figure. " We saw from the Bible
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that the Antichristian figure
is none other than the Roman
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church-state, it fits all of
the identifying characteristics
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and we gave you 10 of
them. It was a little kingdom,
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it came up among them,
after them, plucked up 3 and was
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diverse, or
different from the others.
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Those are the first 5,
then it had a prominent man
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at its head that
guided it and spoke for it,
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spoke words of blasphemy,
you remember the 3 Biblical
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definitions of blasphemy:
claims to be able to forgive
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sins, claims to be God on
earth, and persecutes the people
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of God in the name of
God, all of those are met
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by that power. Then
it would think to change
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times and laws, but not just
some Sterling Heights Ordinance,
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it would think to change
the very times and laws of God,
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and that's what we're
going to talk about tonight,
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and then ruled for 1260
prophetic days or literal years.
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So let's go to Daniel
7:25 again, this is review,
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but just listen to this
powerful verse describing part
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of the enterprises of this
Antichrist, Antichristian power.
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It says: [text on screen]
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That's one of the identifying
characteristics, so we put
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this up on the screen
last night, let's read it again
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quickly. This is
from Lucious Ferarris'
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Prompta Bibliotheca, an
article entitled "Papa",
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literally scores,
probably hundreds and thousands
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of references just like
this could be given, but I just
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give you this one very
quickly: [text on screen]
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There might not be any problem
with explaining or interpreting,
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but there would be a significant
problem with this word
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right here: "modify". What
does the word "modify" mean?
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It means to change, that's
exactly what Daniel 7:25 said,
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that he would think to change
the very times and laws of God.
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[text on screen]
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Go to your study guide and
let's begin with our 2 part
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series entitled "The Rock
That Simply Will Not Role".
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I want to let you know,
when we come back together
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on Thursday night we
have an extremely important
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and exciting announcement
that we're going to be making,
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and I'm not very good at keeping
secrets that I'm excited about,
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but I'm not going to
spill the beans tonight,
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so Thursday night we
have an exciting announcement.
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It's not just the message, it's
an announcement, and it involves
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Scott Moore, the young
man who was just up here,
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I'll tell you more about
it on Thursday, but let's go
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to our study guide. It
says: We live in a time
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in which very few
things are solid and lasting.
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The promises and pledges
of politicians are fleeting,
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the moral values of society
are increasingly in flux,
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the economy can be strong,
then weak, then strong again
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all in a short time. Even
the most stable and secure
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jobs can be lost in a moment,
and I probably should have added
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"especially in Michigan".
... and a seemingly stable
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marriage can fall to
pieces in short order.
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Life is unstable,
uncertain and prone to dramatic
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upheavals. Life is
characterized by change
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more than stability, yet the
human heart longs for solidity
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and stability. In
this lesson we will see
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that there is a source
of unmovable and unshakable
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stability, we will see
that there is something that can
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be trusted to last, even
through life's uncertain times
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and storms, an anchor,
a rock that won't roll.
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Tradition or
Scripture? I'd like to draw your
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attention to a quotation that
is on the screen, this is taken
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from Adrian Nampon's "Doctrine
Defined by the Council of Trent"
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and this is what the
Roman church-state says:
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[text on screen]
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Notice that: there is a
foundation, there is a bedrock,
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upon which the church is built,
this is the claim of the Roman
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church-state, but that
bedrock is tradition and is not
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Scripture. Now
look at the subheading:
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Tradition or Scripture?
There are many differences
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that separate the Roman
church-state from Scripture
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based believers, but the
central difference is found
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in the desperate emphases put
on tradition versus Scripture,
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and that is essential.
Tradition versus Scripture.
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One camp has the former has
the foundation, the other camp
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has the latter. The
word "tradition" occurs
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guess how many times in the
Bible, somebody take a guess.
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Hundred times? No. Zero? No.
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13 times. 13 times in the Bible,
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and only 2 of them are positive
in context, in other words
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13 times in the Bible, all
of them in the New Testament
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and only 2 of them are positive.
In other words, tradition
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in a Scriptural context you
find was consistently something
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negative, now, we'll talk
about what makes for a good
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tradition, and what
makes for a bad tradition
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in just a moment, not
all traditions are bad.
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It goes on to say: consider,
for example, the following text,
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there are many texts there:
Matthew 15, but look at this one
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here, Mark 7:13, Jesus speaking,
He was speaking to the religious
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leaders of His day who had
established various traditions
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that caused them to actually
ignore and neglect the words
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and the law of God.
Jesus said: [text on screen]
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So notice, in Jesus' mind
when Scripture and tradition
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came into conflict, when the
word of God and tradition came
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into conflict which
one was given precedence?
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Which one was given
priority? Scripture of course.
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He said "Hey listen, you
guys make of none effect"
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"the words of God by your
traditions that you've handed"
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"down from generation
to generation", He said
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"You do this
about many things. "
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There are several passages there
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that you can look up in
your own time, but what you find
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in these passages is
that tradition in this context
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is not given a
positive connotation.
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Notice the last
paragraph on the study guide.
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There is nothing wrong
with traditions per se.
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For example, one of
the traditions that we have
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in the family that I
grew up in is every Christmas
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morning my mum would make
these things called sticky buns.
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You know what sticky buns are?
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I tell you! My mouth's
salivating right now just
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thinking about them.
They were probably 100%
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bad for you, but there was
so much motherly love in them
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that we never died from
eating them, and they were
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just basically sugar,
and white bread, and butter,
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and cinnamon, and yum!
And every December 25th
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you just [makes sniffing sound],
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we were excited about
the presents, but I was more
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excited about those sticky
buns, anything wrong with that
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tradition? [Audience] No.
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No, because that tradition
doesn't go against the law
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of God, that tradition
doesn't go against the Bible.
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Are we clear on
that? [Audience] Yes.
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But the problem comes when you
have a tradition, or an idea,
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that comes into
conflict with what God says.
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In that circumstance
what God says must not be made
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subordinate to a tradition.
Nothing wrong with traditions,
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every night we have a tradition
here: we have our little guys
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come up and they do
their introduction, they smile
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with their pearly whites,
Nate tries not to look awkward
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in an awkward situation,
it's kind of a little tradition
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of ours, nothing
wrong with that tradition,
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but if that tradition was
somehow in conflict with God's
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word then we would have to
somehow jettison the tradition
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and keep the Bible, does
that make sense everyone?
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[Audience] Yes.
Okay, so let's continue.
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There's nothing wrong
with traditions per se,
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but when traditions conflict
with the commandments of God
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there is a problem. One
must be made subordinate
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to the other. The
Roman church-state
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makes Scripture
bow to tradition.
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While Scripture based
believers, of which I am one,
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would insist that traditions
bow to God's command and word.
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This is the essential difference
between these 2 camps.
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There are many differences,
but the essential difference
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that separates adherence
to the Roman church-state's
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philosophy and the
Scripture based philosophy is:
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what prominence, what position
do we give to tradition?
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Again, I want to emphasize,
there is nothing wrong
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with tradition so long as
those traditions do not go over
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and against what God's word
says, are we all clear on that?
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Top of the second page.
It is significant to note
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that the word "law" occurs
approximately... guess how
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many times... 500
times in the Bible.
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Think about that, the word
"law" occurs some 500 times,
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how many times did I say
the word "tradition" occurs?
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13 times. The
word "commandments"
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occurs some 350
times, the simple difference
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in numerical occurrence
between "tradition" and "law"
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commandments is telling indeed.
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In other words, just from
that even if you didn't look up
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any of the verses
you have "law" 500 times;
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"commandments" 350
times; "tradition" 13 times,
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of which only 2 are positive,
that tells you that tradition
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is going to be made
subordinate to the word of God.
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"The Antichrist and God's
law" is the subheading on page 2
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of the study guide.
Last lesson we learned
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that one of the
identifying characteristics of
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the Antichrist is that he would
intend to change times and laws.
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Think of it! The
Antichrist is so bold
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as to think that it can
change the very law of God.
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Can this power actually change
the law of God? Yes or no.
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[Audience] No.
No, in order to change
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the law of God you'd have
to go to heaven, somehow you'd
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have to figure out how to
get there, then you'd have to go
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up to God, take Him off
of His throne and then change
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His law. No man can do that,
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no power can do that, no
church can do that, no tradition
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that he does change the
law of God, but that he intends
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to change, or King James says
he "thinks to change the times"
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"and laws of God", but even to
intend this is amazing enough.
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Now, with this sort of backdrop
in your mind, go with me
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to the book of Revelation,
and I want to show you
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a fascinating
contrast. We go to the book of
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Revelation 12, and
I want you to notice
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this remarkable contrast.
We've already spent a whole lot
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of time in Revelation 12,
we're going to spend a whole lot
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more time there, but I
want to direct your attention
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to the final climax of all
of Revelation 12, incidentally,
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as I've already told you,
many scholars and commentators
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believe that Revelation 12
is the climax of the whole book.
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So if Revelation 12:17 is
the pinnacle of Revelation 12,
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and Revelation 12 is the
pinnacle of the whole book
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then that would tell you that
this would be the pinnacle verse
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of the whole
book. Look at the verse,
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Revelation 12:17, it
says: "And the Dragon",
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who's the Dragon? Satan.
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"And Satan was enraged
with the woman", who's the woman
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in Bible
prophecy? God's true church.
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"And he went to make war
with the rest of her offspring"
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"who keep the commandments
of God, and have the testimony"
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"of Jesus Christ. " In
other words, the dragon
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would make this all out, frontal
assault on God's last day
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people, and John says
these last day people keep
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God's commandments. Now
look at Revelation 14:12.
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You're there in
Revelation 12:17,
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look at Revelation 14:12. It
says: "Here is the patience",
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or if you prefer, "the
endurance of the saints",
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who are the saints everyone?
What you should say is:
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"We are!" So who
are the saints everyone?
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[Audience] We are.
"Here is the endurance"
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"of the saints, here are those
who keep the traditions of men",
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no, what does it say?
"... here are those who keep"
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"the commandments of
God", and they also have faith.
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Now look at those 2 verses,
one says the commandments
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of God, and the
testimony of Jesus.
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One says they keep
the commandments of God
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and they have
the faith of Jesus.
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Listen, the commandments
of God and the faith of Jesus
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go hand in hand. In
fact, you can't even keep
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the commandments of God if
you don't have faith in Jesus.
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Paul says: "I know that
in me that is in my flesh"
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"dwells no good thing", you
can't even do one good thing
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without Jesus Christ in your
life, and even if you did do
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something good it's
probably for selfish reasons,
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and the apostle Paul
says: "Should we do evil"
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"that good may
come?" Even the best we do
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apart from Christ,
is not good enough.
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You need the faith
relationship with Jesus,
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and the commandments of God,
they go together like 2 legs
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or 2 wings.
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So notice that, now
go to Revelation 22.
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Revelation 22:14.
How many of you want
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to go to heaven? How
many of you want to go
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to the New
Jerusalem? Okay, well then guess
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what you're going to be
doing, Revelation 22:14:
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"Blessed are those who do
His commandments that they may"
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"have the right to the tree
of life and may enter through"
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"the gates into the
city. " Do you know what city
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that is? That's
the New Jerusalem.
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So how many people
here tonight want to go to
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the New Jerusalem some
day; want to go to heaven?
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Okay, then you're all
going to be commandment keepers.
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Not in order to gain the
favor of God, but because God
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has already bestowed His
favor upon you in the person
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of Jesus Christ.
Look at that, 3 verse,
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Revelation
12:17, Revelation 14:12,
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Revelation 22:14.
John in Revelation says
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the last day people
will keep God's commandments.
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I have a question for
you tonight: do you think
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God's last day people are
going to keep His commandments?
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That's exactly
what the Bible says.
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Now, what's remarkable
is that concerning God's law
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one camp says: "do
away", and the other
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seeks to honor and
obey; that's right on your
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study guide. One
camp says "we can modify,"
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"change, and interpret the laws
of God", and other camp says
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"No, we'll keep God's law
by faith, we'll keep God's law"
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"by His grace, we'll
keep God's law by His power. "
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So that's a remarkable contrast
in Revelation, and we'll see
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that develop further and still
further, that God's faithful
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people will be obeying
God, and the Antichristian power
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will be seeking to do away
with the very laws and times
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of God. We're back
to the study guide,
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hopefully we're
getting everything filled in.
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It says: "Which is the
rock upon which the church"
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"of Jesus Christ is
built?" That's a question
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that is often asked, and
Scripture is absolutely clear
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on this point:
Jesus Christ is the Rock.
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Consider the following text
that unmistakably established
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this. Some
people say: "well wait"
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"a minute, I thought that Jesus
built His church upon Peter,"
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"isn't that what He said there?
'I'm going to build My church'"
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"'upon Peter'?"
We'll come back to that
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in just a minute, let's
look at a few texts though.
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1 Corinthians 10:4,
it says: [text on screen]
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This is Paul recounting
the experience of Moses
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and the people in the
wilderness. [text on screen]
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Is that plain enough everyone?
It's as plain as can be.
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They all drank of the
same spiritual drink that was,
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remember, Moses stood
there and he struck the rock
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and what came out
of the rock? Water.
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And they all drank of that same
spiritual drink and the Rock
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that followed them was
Christ, there's not mistaking
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who the Rock was. We
can look at another one,
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Ephesians 2:20; again, the
apostle Paul: [text on screen]
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You know what a
cornerstone is, right?
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The corner stone is,
especially in ancient times,
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when we didn't have the
quarrying and the hewing
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facilities that we have
today, you would find a nice
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big solid rock and you would
set that stone and you would
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level that stone and you
would put it right into place
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and then everything else would
build off of the cornerstone.
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The cornerstone was
where the plum line was,
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the corner stone set the pace
for the rest of the building.
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If the cornerstone was
off, the building would be off,
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that's why you had your best
stone, was your cornerstone.
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Your most solid stone was
your corner stone, and this
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analogy taken from Psalm 118 is
that Jesus is the cornerstone.
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Who's the corner stone?
Who's that first, critical piece
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in the building of
God's people? Jesus Christ.
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Let's look at another one.
Matthew 21:44, Jesus speaking.
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Let's actually go to that
verse. Go with me to Matthew 21,
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let's look at that in our
Bibles because I want you to see
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the whole context, Matthew 21.
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Matthew 21:42.
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Jesus said to
them, Matthew 21:42,
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I still hear some pages,
I'll wait for you, don't worry.
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"Have you never read in
the Scriptures, the stone"
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"which the builders
rejected has become the chief"
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"cornerstone, this was
the Lord's doing and it is"
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"marvelous in our eyes.
" This is Jesus speaking
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to the religious
leaders of His day, He says:
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"Hey, haven't you read
in Psalm 118", of course,
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it wasn't called Psalm 118
at the time, but He's quoting
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from what we would
call Psalm 118, He says:
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"Hey, haven't you read that the
very stone that the builders"
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"said, Nah, we don't need
that stone, that that stone"
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"became the chief
stone, the cornerstone,"
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"the first stone. " Verse 43:
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"Therefore I say to you",
Jesus speaking to the religious
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leaders of His day, "the kingdom
of God will be taken away"
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"from you, and given to a nation
bearing the fruits of it. "
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Verse 44: [text on screen]
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Who is that stone?
Who's the chief cornerstone?
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Jesus. Jesus is basically saying
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to the religious leaders of
His day: "You'd better come"
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"to grips with who I am.
Whoever falls on this stone,"
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"whoever confessed that he's
a sinner in need of a Saviour,"
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"whoever falls on
this stone will be broken,"
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"but if you don't fall on
this stone, this stone will"
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"grind you to
powder. " Quick questions:
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where does that imagery,
does that sound familiar to us:
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a stone grinding
something to powder?
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Does that sound familiar?
What does that sound like?
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It sounds like
Daniel 2, doesn't it?
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That's exactly the image
that Jesus is drawing up here,
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so the stone that struck
the image was the kingdom of God
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that grew and
became a great mountain.
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The kingdom of God
becomes a great mountain
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because Jesus is
the chief cornerstone.
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So our message is
entitled: "The Rock that simply"
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"will not roll".
Now look at Matthew 7,
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since you're there in Matthew,
let's make it easy on you,
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Matthew 7:24, Jesus speaking,
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Matthew 7:24, He comes
to the end of what's called
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the Sermon on the Mount:
"Therefore, whoever hears"
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"these sayings of mine and
does them, I will liken him"
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"to a wise man, who built
his house on rock, and the rain"
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"descended and the floods came,
and the winds blew and beat"
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"on that house, and it did
not fall for it was founded"
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"upon the rock.
For everyone who hears"
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"these sayings of
mine and does not do them"
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"is like a foolish man who
built his house on the sand,"
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"and the rains descended, and
the floods came, and the wind"
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"blew, and beat on that
house and it fell, and great"
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"was its fall. "
Now look at verse 28:
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"And so it was, when
Jesus had ended these sayings"
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"that the people were
astonished at His teaching. "
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Why? Why were they surprised?
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Verse 29: "For He taught
them as one having authority"
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"and not as the
scribes. " Jesus basically says:
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"If you follow My
words, if you obey what I'm"
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"telling you here in
the Sermon on the Mount,"
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"and in My other teachings,
that's the equivalent"
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"of building your house on a
rock, but if you want to have"
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"your own ideas, your own
opinions, your own traditions,"
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"that's like building
your house on the sand. "
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So we ask the questions:
Who was the rock that Jesus
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built His church
upon? It would be Jesus.
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Now go to Matthew
16, somebody says Peter,
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and I think they're just
being a little facetious.
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Go to Matthew 16.
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I think that was
Kevin, and he's clever,
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so... ahhh... Matthew 16:13.
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This is the verse, now
you've got to hang in there
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for this verse, and
really understand it.
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Do you want to
understand this verse?
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- [Audience]
Yeah. - Yeah, me too.
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So let's look at it,
Matthew 16:13, Jesus takes
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a Barna Report, He
takes a public opinion survey.
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"Jesus came to the
region of Caesarea Philippi,"
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"and He asked His disciples
saying, Who do men say"
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"that I, the Son of Man,
am?" "I want to know what's"
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"the word of the streets, what
are people saying about Me?"
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"Out there in the streets, who
are people saying that I am?"
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Then they begin to
say, verse 14: "Some say"
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"You're John the
Baptist, some say Elijah,"
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"others say Jeremiah,
or one of the prophets. "
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Jesus says: "Okay, I'm
satisfied that you give Me"
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"an accurate representation
of what others are saying",
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there He says in verse 15:
"Who do you say that I am?"
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Then Peter speaks up on behalf
of the rest of the apostles,
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"Simon Peter answered and
said, You are the Christ",
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or the Messiah, same
word. "Kristos" in the Greek
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is "the anointed" and "Meshiach"
in the Hebrew is "the anointed".
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"You're the
anointed, You're the Messiah,"
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"the Son of the living
God. Jesus answered and said"
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"to him, Blessed
are you Simon Barjona,"
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"for flesh and blood has
not revealed this to you,"
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"but My Father,
who is in heaven. "
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Here it is, verse
18, drum roll please:
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"And I say to you that you
are Peter, and on this Rock"
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"I will build my church, and
the gates of Hades shall not"
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"prevail against it. "
There it is, "Jesus is going"
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"to build His church on
Peter. " That's what people say,
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they say: "Oh, that verse
plainly teaches that Jesus"
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"is going to build
His church on Peter. "
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There's just 3 problems
with that, problem 1 is:
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it does not agree
with the rest of Scripture.
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We've already
seen who is the Rock.
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Who's the rock?
[Audience] Jesus.
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Okay, that's the first
problem. The second problem is
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that notice He says
"the gates of hell will not"
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"prevail against it", but notice
just in a few short verses,
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the gates of hell do
prevail against Peter.
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Verse 21, that same chapter,
verse 21: "From that time"
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"Jesus began to show
His disciples that He must"
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"go to Jerusalem, that He
must suffer many things from"
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"the elders, and chief priests
and scribes and be killed,"
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"and be raised the 3rd
day. And Peter took Him aside"
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"and began to rebuke
Him", can you imagine Peter
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rebuking the Lord of glory.
He says: "Far be it from You,"
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"this is not going
to happen to You. "
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Verse 23: "And He turned and
said to Peter, get behind Me,"
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"Satan". Question:
"get behind me Satan,"
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"for you do not savor the things
that be of God, but the things"
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"that be of men. "
Did the gates of hell
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prevail against Peter?
Yeah, about 20 seconds later.
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He says: "You're Peter,
and on this rock I'm going"
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"to build my church and the
gates of hell won't prevail"
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"against it", and moments
later He says: "I'm going to go"
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"to Jerusalem, I'm going to
be killed and I'll raise again"
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"the third day", and Peter says:
"No, this isn't going to happen"
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and He says "Get behind me,
Satan", that's proof positive 2
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the gates of hell did
prevail against Peter,
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and reason 3, it's just a
very simple matter of looking
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at the actual
language. Look at verse 18:
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"I say that you are Peter.
" The Greek word for Peter
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is "petros", this doesn't
come across in the English,
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so you need to follow
this: "You are 'Petros'",
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the word "petros",
you can look it up in any
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Strong's Concordance
of the Greek language,
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"petros" is: [text on screen]
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"... but upon this rock", and
the word for rock is "Petra",
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"large, monolithic,
unmovable, mass of rock"
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"I will build my
church. " If you look at it
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in the Greek it's so
plain, first of all, you don't
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have to know Greek, not
at all, the Scripture makes
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it very clear that Jesus
is the chief cornerstone,
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but in the language
that's being employed here
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it's very simple, He says:
"You're Peter, you're a little"
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"rolling stone, you go
this way and that way,"
00:26:06.63\00:26:09.37
"you say, Let me walk out onto
the water and come after you"
00:26:09.40\00:26:12.05
"and then you sink 2
seconds later, you're a little"
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"rolling stone and I'm
glad you're following me,"
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"but I need a more
stable, sure foundation"
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"for my church, and upon
this 'Petra', large, unmovable,"
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"monolithic, mass of rock
I'm going to build my church. "
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The church is built on
Jesus, not on a sinful man.
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So far so good?
Okay, let's continue,
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it gets even better. So
notice, you can fill all
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that in, what about Matthew
16? You should be able to fill
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every bit in, so I'm on page 3.
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No problem, you
can do that, can't you?
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I want to go back to a
slide I just missed, and I want
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to be crystal clear that I
am not making fun of anyone,
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I'm over that, we left those
days back in junior high school,
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the "nanny nanny, boo
boo", "my dad can beat up"
00:26:59.24\00:27:01.77
"your dad", "your nose is too
big", those days are over, okay?
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What we're
interested in is truth.
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We've already said:
God is not against people,
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but God is against
systems that obscure the person
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of Jesus Christ.
Now we're talking about
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the changing of God's
law. What we're actually going
00:27:22.23\00:27:24.87
to discover is that right
in the heart of God's law,
00:27:24.90\00:27:28.25
the 10 commandment
law, this power has actually
00:27:28.28\00:27:31.93
changed God's
law. You say: "What?!"
00:27:31.96\00:27:34.72
"Impossible!" Of
course, they can't actually
00:27:34.75\00:27:37.53
change it, but
they've tried to change it.
00:27:37.56\00:27:40.35
One of the things that they've
done is the second commandment
00:27:40.38\00:27:43.18
in the Catechism, notice, not
the Bible, but the Catechism,
00:27:43.21\00:27:47.14
the 2nd
commandment has been removed.
00:27:47.17\00:27:50.21
The 2nd commandment says:
"Thou shalt not make unto thee"
00:27:50.24\00:27:53.00
"any graven image, or
any likeness of anything"
00:27:53.03\00:27:55.73
"that is in the heaven
above, the earth beneath,"
00:27:55.76\00:27:58.50
"or the waters under the
earth. Thou shalt not bow down"
00:27:58.53\00:28:01.17
"thyself to them, nor serve
them, for I, the Lord thy God,"
00:28:01.20\00:28:04.07
"am a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers"
00:28:04.10\00:28:06.81
"upon the children unto the
3rd and 4th generation of them"
00:28:06.84\00:28:09.36
"that hate me, but showing
mercy unto thousands of them"
00:28:09.39\00:28:12.16
"that love Me and
keep My commandments. "
00:28:12.19\00:28:14.69
So far so good?
That commandment is gone
00:28:14.72\00:28:17.24
in the Catechism,
you don't believe me?
00:28:17.27\00:28:19.79
You go find any Catechism,
it's gone in the Roman
00:28:19.82\00:28:22.60
church-state's
Catechism. It is not there.
00:28:22.63\00:28:25.36
Well, that doesn't
sound so good: 9 commandments.
00:28:25.39\00:28:28.11
We have to have the 10
commandments, so what happened
00:28:28.14\00:28:30.74
is the 10th
commandment was divided into 2.
00:28:30.77\00:28:33.25
So there actually has been
an effrontery, a frontal attack
00:28:33.28\00:28:36.00
on the very law of God, and this
actually also begins to involve
00:28:36.03\00:28:38.88
the Sabbath commandment,
which is the 4th commandment:
00:28:38.91\00:28:42.13
"Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy, 6 days"
00:28:42.16\00:28:44.89
"shalt thou labor and do
all thy work, but the 7th day"
00:28:44.92\00:28:47.71
"is the Sabbath of
the Lord thy God. "
00:28:47.74\00:28:50.28
Even that has been
attacked and changed, we'll talk
00:28:50.31\00:28:53.16
more about that
tomorrow. The point here is that
00:28:53.19\00:28:55.94
the 10 commandment law has been
attacked directly by this power,
00:28:55.97\00:28:58.85
and that's one of the
identifiers, Daniel said,
00:28:58.88\00:29:01.38
he would actually think to
change the very laws of God
00:29:01.41\00:29:04.38
and supplant the laws
of God with his traditions.
00:29:04.41\00:29:07.66
Now, you're there in
Matthew 16, so go back 1 chapter
00:29:07.69\00:29:11.47
to Matthew 15, and let's
just look at a very simple
00:29:11.50\00:29:15.42
outplaying of how this
works when tradition comes into
00:29:15.45\00:29:18.40
contradistinction to
God's law. Matthew 15:1:
00:29:18.43\00:29:23.61
"Then the scribes and
the Pharisees who were from"
00:29:23.64\00:29:26.45
"Jerusalem saying, Why do
your disciples transgress"
00:29:26.48\00:29:29.34
"the traditions of the elders,
for they do not wash their"
00:29:29.37\00:29:33.96
"hands when they eat bread.
" I recommend that you wash
00:29:33.99\00:29:36.69
your hands before you
eat, but that was a ritual
00:29:36.72\00:29:39.40
cleansing that they were
talking about, not so much
00:29:39.43\00:29:42.16
for cleanliness,
but a ritual cleansing.
00:29:42.19\00:29:44.94
Verse 3: "He answered
and said to them, Why do you"
00:29:44.97\00:29:47.76
"transgress the command of
God because of your tradition?"
00:29:47.79\00:29:50.63
"For God commanded,
saying, Honor your father"
00:29:50.66\00:29:53.94
"and your mother, and he
that curses father and mother,"
00:29:53.97\00:29:56.27
"let him be put to death. "
Which of the 10 commandments
00:29:56.30\00:29:58.32
is that? "Honor thy father and"
00:29:58.35\00:30:01.04
"thy mother", that's number 5.
00:30:01.07\00:30:03.55
Verse 5 says: "But you
say, whoever says to his father"
00:30:03.58\00:30:06.97
"or mother, whatever
profit you might have received"
00:30:07.00\00:30:09.67
"from me, it is a gift to
God, then He need not honor"
00:30:09.70\00:30:12.83
"his father or
mother, thus you have made"
00:30:12.86\00:30:15.55
"the commandment of God of
no effect by your tradition. "
00:30:15.58\00:30:20.57
This is very simple, there was
a tradition that basically said;
00:30:20.60\00:30:25.08
first of all, we know
that we should all take care
00:30:25.11\00:30:27.67
of our parents because they
took care of us when we were
00:30:27.70\00:30:30.74
little babies, just very simple,
that's just good common sense.
00:30:30.77\00:30:33.66
So too in the time of Jesus, so
too in the time of the disciples
00:30:33.69\00:30:38.69
so too even for that, "honor
thy father and thy mother".
00:30:38.72\00:30:41.51
When they get older and they
need your help, and they need
00:30:41.54\00:30:44.39
assistance, you take care
of them, not just in terms
00:30:44.42\00:30:47.17
of physically, but you
give them financial resources if
00:30:47.20\00:30:50.10
they need, it's just
basic common sense, it's also
00:30:50.13\00:30:52.84
a Biblical principle, but
what was happening in the days
00:30:52.87\00:30:55.83
of Jesus is that they were
saying is the money that you
00:30:55.86\00:30:58.60
normally would give to
your parents who need your
00:30:58.63\00:31:01.42
assistance because they're
retired and can't work anymore,
00:31:01.45\00:31:04.33
that money, you can actually
take that money and bring
00:31:04.36\00:31:07.25
it to the temple
and God understands.
00:31:07.28\00:31:10.11
So there was a tradition
that money that could have gone
00:31:10.14\00:31:12.92
to your parents, or should
have gone to your parents,
00:31:12.95\00:31:15.72
if it was given to
the temple God understood.
00:31:15.75\00:31:18.46
Jesus says "Hey, wait a minute,
you're giving My disciples"
00:31:18.49\00:31:21.17
"a hard time because they
break your silly traditions?"
00:31:21.20\00:31:23.87
"You violate the very command
of God by your sill tradition"
00:31:23.90\00:31:26.87
"that says you can neglect
your parents just to make"
00:31:26.90\00:31:29.62
"a contribution to the temple",
and guess who was the recipients
00:31:29.65\00:31:32.52
of the moneys that went to
the temple: the very people
00:31:32.55\00:31:35.31
that upheld that tradition.
Are we all together so far?
00:31:35.34\00:31:38.08
Let's pick it up in
verse 7: "You hypocrites!"
00:31:38.11\00:31:40.70
He says "You're hypocrites",
"Well did Isaiah prophesy"
00:31:40.73\00:31:43.54
"about you saying", now look
at verse 8 and 9, phenomenal,
00:31:43.57\00:31:46.41
"these people draw near to
Me with their mouth and honor"
00:31:46.44\00:31:49.13
"Me with their lips, but
their heart is far from Me",
00:31:49.16\00:31:53.05
and look at verse 9, it's so
phenomenally easy to understand:
00:31:53.08\00:31:58.19
"in vain to they worship
Me, teaching as doctrines"
00:31:58.22\00:32:02.96
"the commandments of men.
" Could the be any plainer?
00:32:02.99\00:32:08.44
When the traditions of man come
into conflict with God's law
00:32:08.47\00:32:12.28
and God's word, which one has
to be subordinate to the other?
00:32:12.31\00:32:16.70
Tradition is
subordinate to the laws of God.
00:32:16.73\00:32:20.50
Very interesting.
So what we find is when
00:32:20.53\00:32:23.07
we go to the teachings, the
actual teachings of the Roman
00:32:23.10\00:32:26.04
Church-state, tradition
has superseded the very laws
00:32:26.07\00:32:31.14
of God, just as prophecy said,
that they would think to change
00:32:31.17\00:32:34.53
the very times and laws of God.
00:32:34.56\00:32:37.91
You're there still on
your study guide, it says:
00:32:40.32\00:32:43.16
Really this is what we
would expect when we consider
00:32:43.19\00:32:46.01
Jesus' words - I'm at the
top of page 3- in passages like
00:32:46.04\00:32:48.97
Matthew 5:17,18,
Jesus said: [text on screen]
00:32:49.00\00:32:53.43
Jesus says "Hey listen, even
the earth, this solid earth,"
00:33:13.58\00:33:17.97
"the terra firma is
less stable than God's law. "
00:33:18.00\00:33:22.40
So far so good? Okay,
now buckle your safety
00:33:22.43\00:33:25.48
belt because
this gets incredible.
00:33:25.51\00:33:28.18
The law of God, the
big Biblical picture.
00:33:28.21\00:33:31.17
The law of God is solid,
unmovable, and unchangeable,
00:33:31.20\00:33:34.24
it is a transcript of God's
own character, that's the word
00:33:34.27\00:33:38.69
you'd write in there, it is
a transcript of the character
00:33:38.72\00:33:41.47
of God; God is
holy, the law is holy,
00:33:41.50\00:33:44.81
God is good, the law is
good, God is righteous, the law
00:33:44.84\00:33:47.88
is righteous, the law is a
transcript of the very character
00:33:47.91\00:33:50.83
of God. Abraham kept God's law,
00:33:50.86\00:33:55.39
so did Moses and the
many Old Testament prophets,
00:33:55.42\00:33:57.87
and Jesus, and the
disciples. Now, some people say
00:33:57.90\00:34:02.37
"well wait a minute, I thought
the law began with Moses. "
00:34:02.40\00:34:04.90
"I thought the law
began in the days of Moses. "
00:34:04.93\00:34:07.39
No, no, no. Did
Cain sin, yes or no?
00:34:07.42\00:34:11.85
Yeah, Cain sinned when He
murdered Abel because there
00:34:11.88\00:34:16.61
was a command that
said "Thou shalt not kill. "
00:34:16.64\00:34:20.73
So Genesis
26:5: [text on screen]
00:34:20.76\00:34:24.47
Who came first:
Abraham or Moses?
00:34:25.65\00:34:27.98
Abraham because it was Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, then
00:34:28.01\00:34:30.71
the children of Israel
went to Egypt for 400 years,
00:34:30.74\00:34:33.59
and then Moses came out of
that, so Abraham is before Moses
00:34:33.62\00:34:36.62
by several hundred
years. [text on screen]
00:34:36.65\00:34:40.47
Did God have commandments
in the days of Abraham?
00:34:43.78\00:34:46.64
Sure He did.
[continues reading text]
00:34:46.67\00:34:49.52
What did happen in the
days of Moses is that the law
00:34:49.55\00:34:52.28
of God was codified. You
say "what does codified mean?"
00:34:52.31\00:34:58.03
It's a fancy-dancy
word for "written down".
00:34:58.06\00:35:01.78
It was written in the days
of Moses, you say "Oh really?"
00:35:01.81\00:35:06.06
"It was written in
the days of Moses?"
00:35:06.09\00:35:08.94
Look, this gets incredible.
The law of God came directly
00:35:08.97\00:35:14.03
from God to Moses. As
if that wasn't enough,
00:35:14.06\00:35:19.12
the law of God was written,
God's 10 commandment law
00:35:19.15\00:35:22.74
was written with His own finger.
Look at the book of Exodus,
00:35:22.77\00:35:27.56
second book of
the Bible, Exodus 31.
00:35:27.59\00:35:31.13
Just quickly look at it,
Exodus 31, don't take my word
00:35:32.09\00:35:34.97
for it, let's see what
the Bible says, Exodus 31:18.
00:35:35.00\00:35:40.68
Second book of the Old
Testament, you can find it.
00:35:40.71\00:35:45.35
Exodus 31:18. It
says: "And when He had made"
00:35:45.44\00:35:51.68
"an end of speaking
with him on Mount Sinai,"
00:35:51.71\00:35:54.34
"He", being God, "gave Moses
2 tablets of the testimony,"
00:35:54.37\00:35:59.42
"tablets of stone written
with the finger of God. "
00:35:59.45\00:36:05.30
So they were written
by who? God wrote them.
00:36:05.33\00:36:08.64
You can fill in all the blanks.
The law of God was written
00:36:08.67\00:36:11.83
by the finger of
God on tablets of stone.
00:36:11.86\00:36:15.66
You might be looking at
that picture and thinking
00:36:15.69\00:36:18.29
"Hmmm, the 10 commandments look
a little blue there, I've never"
00:36:18.32\00:36:21.26
"seen that before. " Who
thinks those commandments
00:36:21.29\00:36:24.08
look a little blue?
00:36:24.11\00:36:26.46
Yeah, they're purposefully
blue, I made them blue,
00:36:26.49\00:36:29.25
and I'll explain
why in just a moment.
00:36:29.28\00:36:31.81
What happened is that
Moses comes down the mountain
00:36:31.84\00:36:34.66
with these 2 tablets of stone
that have the 10 commandments
00:36:34.69\00:36:37.34
on them, and God had told
him specifically what to do with
00:36:37.37\00:36:40.08
those commandments.
He was to take them
00:36:40.11\00:36:42.65
and put them into
the Ark of the Covenant.
00:36:42.68\00:36:45.50
You remember "Indiana Jones and
the Raiders of the Lost Ark".
00:36:45.53\00:36:50.67
How many people have heard of
the Ark of the Covenant before?
00:36:50.70\00:36:53.77
We think "Oh, it's so holy";
let me tell you what the Ark
00:36:53.80\00:36:56.30
is all about. The
Ark is a glorified box.
00:36:56.33\00:37:01.96
That's what the Ark
is. Do you know what made
00:37:01.99\00:37:04.64
the Ark so special?
It wasn't the Ark itself,
00:37:04.67\00:37:07.02
it's what's inside of the
Ark, if you go to a shoe store
00:37:07.05\00:37:10.62
and you say "Oh, I really like
those shoes, I've got to have"
00:37:10.65\00:37:13.39
"that pair of shoes right there,
that's the shoes I want. "
00:37:13.42\00:37:16.22
They say "Well, we'll go
and see if we have your size. "
00:37:16.25\00:37:19.02
So they run in the back
and sure enough, they come out
00:37:19.05\00:37:21.95
and they say "Yep, we don't
have the shoes in your size,"
00:37:21.98\00:37:24.63
"but we've got the
box. " [Audience laughs]
00:37:24.66\00:37:27.24
"We've got the box", are
you going to buy the box?
00:37:27.27\00:37:30.01
No, because you're interested
in what's inside of the box.
00:37:30.04\00:37:32.61
If they came out and they
said "Oh yeah, we do have"
00:37:32.64\00:37:35.27
"those shoes right in your size,
but we don't have the box",
00:37:35.30\00:37:38.01
would you take the
shoes? Sure, because you want
00:37:38.04\00:37:40.78
what's in the box, not the
box itself. What really makes
00:37:40.81\00:37:44.34
the Ark special, we think
"Oh, the Ark with the cherubim"
00:37:44.37\00:37:46.92
"and the gold plating, and the
mercy seat", what made the Ark
00:37:46.95\00:37:50.03
so special is that what
was inside of it was the very
00:37:50.06\00:37:54.47
tablets of stone
written by God's own finger.
00:37:54.50\00:38:00.88
That's what made that
thing so special, phenomenal.
00:38:00.91\00:38:04.05
In fact, I gave you the
verse right there, so it says:
00:38:04.08\00:38:06.57
The law as placed in the
Ark. Why did God write His law
00:38:06.60\00:38:12.39
on tables of stone? To
show that it was temporary,
00:38:12.42\00:38:15.02
transient, and
passing away, right?
00:38:15.05\00:38:17.58
My dad used to say to me,
in fact, I remember one time
00:38:17.61\00:38:20.35
I was on vacation with him
down in Corpus Christi, Texas,
00:38:20.38\00:38:23.09
and there was a hurricane,
this is years and years ago,
00:38:23.12\00:38:25.84
there's a hurricane off in
the distance, you could actually
00:38:25.87\00:38:28.45
see the waves frothing
up and doing their thing.
00:38:28.48\00:38:31.38
I lived in South Dakota,
we don't have many oceans
00:38:31.41\00:38:34.01
in South Dakota, and I
was looking at that ocean,
00:38:34.04\00:38:36.88
and it was hot, and I wanted
to get out there and I said
00:38:36.91\00:38:39.51
"Dad, can I go swimming?"
He said "No, you're not"
00:38:39.54\00:38:42.21
"going swimming, boy. "
We walked a little further
00:38:42.24\00:38:45.04
down the beach and I said
"Papa, I've got to go swimming,"
00:38:45.07\00:38:47.75
"can I please go swimming?"
He said "Boy, you're not going"
00:38:47.78\00:38:50.47
"swimming", remember I told
you my dad was a military dad,
00:38:50.50\00:38:53.30
36 years in the military;
I asked him one more time,
00:38:53.33\00:38:55.87
I said "Dad, please can I
go swimming?", and I'll never
00:38:55.90\00:38:58.48
forget, he turned around with
that index finger that's about
00:38:58.51\00:39:01.39
that long and he
pointed right at me, he said:
00:39:01.42\00:39:04.04
"Boy, you ain't going swimming
and that's written in stone!"
00:39:04.07\00:39:07.01
[Audience laughs]
00:39:07.04\00:39:09.37
What did that means?
Did that mean "ask one more"
00:39:09.40\00:39:12.17
"time and he'll let
me go?" [Audience] No.
00:39:12.20\00:39:14.73
It meant "case closed,
if you want to eat tonight"
00:39:14.76\00:39:17.42
"stop asking. " So
when God writes His law
00:39:17.45\00:39:20.16
on tables of stone what He's
saying is it doesn't change.
00:39:20.19\00:39:22.94
This is phenomenal, buckle your
safety belts: Blue Commandments?
00:39:22.97\00:39:25.57
That's the
subheading, "Blue Commandments?"
00:39:25.60\00:39:28.47
You've got to be kidding
me. As amazing as it sounds,
00:39:28.50\00:39:31.36
the 10 commandments were blue.
00:39:31.39\00:39:34.06
How do we know that? They
were carved out of the very
00:39:34.09\00:39:37.87
throne of God, which
is made of blue sapphire.
00:39:37.90\00:39:41.72
Open your Bible to
Exodus 24. I'm going to show you
00:39:41.75\00:39:45.77
something here that is going
to absolutely blow your mind.
00:39:45.80\00:39:49.13
Exodus 24:9.
00:39:49.16\00:39:55.97
This is Mount Sinai, "Then Moses
went up, also Aaron, Nadab,"
00:39:58.12\00:40:01.90
"and Abihu, and 70 of the
elders of Israel, and they saw"
00:40:01.93\00:40:04.71
"the God of Israel, and there
was under His feet a paved work"
00:40:04.74\00:40:09.36
"of sapphire stone. "
What color is sapphire?
00:40:09.39\00:40:12.61
[Audience] Blue. "...
a sapphire stone, and it"
00:40:12.64\00:40:15.28
"was like the very heavens in
its clarity, but on the nobles"
00:40:15.31\00:40:18.05
"of the children of
Israel he did not lay His hands"
00:40:18.08\00:40:20.60
"so they saw God and
they ate and they drank. "
00:40:20.63\00:40:23.29
They go up to confirm the
covenant, that was common.
00:40:23.32\00:40:26.84
What do we do
when we have a wedding?
00:40:26.87\00:40:29.59
After a wedding what
do you go to? A meal.
00:40:29.62\00:40:32.32
That's a tradition,
that's ancient, because after
00:40:32.35\00:40:35.08
a covenant is sealed you
have a meal, here the covenant
00:40:35.11\00:40:37.70
was sealed and they had a meal.
Jesus, when He seals the new
00:40:37.73\00:40:40.55
covenant in the upper
room in the New Testament has
00:40:40.58\00:40:43.40
the last supper, so here they're
having a meal, and they're
00:40:43.43\00:40:46.20
sealing the covenant.
This happens even today in
00:40:46.23\00:40:48.76
business partnerships, a great
big business deal goes through,
00:40:48.79\00:40:51.60
a big merger of 2 companies,
they have a big party,
00:40:51.63\00:40:54.41
they have a dinner,
why? Because they're sealing
00:40:54.44\00:40:57.30
the covenant.
Now look at verse 12:
00:40:57.33\00:40:59.92
"Then the Lord said to Moses,
Come up to Me on the mountain"
00:40:59.95\00:41:02.91
"and I will be there, and I
will give you tablets of stone"
00:41:02.94\00:41:05.56
"and the law and commandments,
which I have written"
00:41:05.59\00:41:08.27
"that you may teach them.
" Now this is interesting.
00:41:08.30\00:41:11.00
Keep your finger right there,
and look at your study guide.
00:41:11.03\00:41:14.26
Underneath the feet of God
there was a pavement like blue
00:41:14.29\00:41:17.29
sapphire stone. I've
given you 2 texts there,
00:41:17.32\00:41:20.27
Ezekiel 1 and Ezekiel 10,
you can go look at those verses,
00:41:20.30\00:41:23.40
and it will show you that God's
throne is made of sapphire;
00:41:23.43\00:41:28.54
as plain as can be, in
Ezekiel 10:1 Ezekiel says
00:41:28.57\00:41:31.65
"I saw God's sapphire throne.
" So what's His throne made of?
00:41:31.68\00:41:36.34
- [Audience]
Sapphire. - Now look at this:
00:41:36.37\00:41:38.93
Note especially Exodus 24:12,
"Then the Lord said to Moses,"
00:41:38.96\00:41:42.47
"Come up to Me on the mountain
and be there, and I will"
00:41:42.50\00:41:44.94
"give you tablets of stone and
the law, and the commandments,"
00:41:44.97\00:41:48.30
"which I have written,
that you may teach them. "
00:41:48.33\00:41:51.11
The literal rendering in the
Hebrew reads: "I will give you"
00:41:51.14\00:41:55.11
"tablets of THE stone", that's
what you'd write in there.
00:41:55.14\00:42:00.87
Now, that's the definite
article "I'm going to give you"
00:42:00.90\00:42:03.60
"tablets of THE stone.
" You say "what stone?"
00:42:03.63\00:42:06.95
The only other stone that's
mentioned is mentioned 2 verses
00:42:06.98\00:42:09.65
before, it's "THE sapphire
stone" that God is standing on,
00:42:09.68\00:42:13.71
and that His throne is
made of. God says "You come up,"
00:42:13.74\00:42:17.40
"I'm going to give you
2 tablets of the stone. "
00:42:17.43\00:42:20.73
The only other stone
that's mentioned in context
00:42:20.76\00:42:23.08
is that sapphire stone.
Now it gets even better,
00:42:23.11\00:42:26.36
look at this: It's a specific
stone, the only stone mentioned
00:42:26.39\00:42:29.89
in this passage is the one found
in verse 10, a sapphire stone,
00:42:29.92\00:42:33.01
so the 10 commandments were
carved out of that blue sapphire
00:42:33.04\00:42:35.45
stone that makes up God's
standing platform and throne.
00:42:35.48\00:42:38.20
Talk about awesome!
And look at Exodus 32:16,
00:42:38.23\00:42:41.02
I've written it in here
for you, "Now the tablets were"
00:42:41.05\00:42:44.03
"the work of God. "
We like to say that God
00:42:44.06\00:42:48.91
wrote it with His own finger,
but according to that verse,
00:42:48.94\00:42:51.77
not only did God write
it, God made those tablets.
00:42:51.80\00:42:55.41
Do you know what
He made them out of?
00:42:55.44\00:42:56.86
A blue sapphire stone.
The tablets were the work
00:42:56.89\00:43:00.63
of God, and the writing was
the writing of God, engraved
00:43:00.66\00:43:02.85
on tablets; so both the tablets,
and the writing were the work
00:43:02.88\00:43:05.56
of God. We're
just getting started,
00:43:05.59\00:43:09.19
look at the next paragraph:
The Jews were required
00:43:09.22\00:43:12.32
to wear blue tassels on
the borders of their garments.
00:43:12.35\00:43:15.93
How many of you new that?
00:43:15.96\00:43:18.30
Open your Bibles to Numbers 15,
I appreciate those responses.
00:43:18.33\00:43:21.77
Numbers 15. You're in Exodus,
00:43:21.80\00:43:24.27
come on, see if you can beat
me there, Leviticus, Numbers.
00:43:24.30\00:43:27.86
Chapter what? [Audience]
15. Can you beat me there?
00:43:27.89\00:43:30.27
I'm there! Numbers 15:37.
00:43:30.30\00:43:37.15
I've got 11 minutes
and 30 seconds, let's go!
00:43:37.18\00:43:40.88
Numbers 15.
You've got to see this,
00:43:40.91\00:43:45.63
this is out of this world.
Verse 37, again, "The Lord"
00:43:45.66\00:43:48.17
"spoke to Moses", who spoke
to Moses? [Audience] The Lord.
00:43:48.20\00:43:50.91
So this was God's
idea, verse 38: "Speak to"
00:43:50.94\00:43:53.87
"the children of Israel
and tell them to make tassels"
00:43:53.90\00:43:57.64
"on the corners of
their garments throughout"
00:43:57.67\00:44:00.13
"their generations and to put
a blues thread in the tassels"
00:44:00.16\00:44:03.35
"of the corners. " What,
is this a fashion statement?
00:44:03.38\00:44:06.33
Why is God so interested
in the blue? Why blue?
00:44:06.36\00:44:09.09
Look at verse 39,
He tells us why blue.
00:44:09.12\00:44:11.69
"And you shall have the tassel
that you may look upon it"
00:44:11.72\00:44:14.79
"and remember all the
commandments of the Lord"
00:44:14.82\00:44:22.33
"and do them", now notice this,
this is phenomenal, "that you"
00:44:22.36\00:44:26.87
"may not
following the harlotry. "
00:44:26.90\00:44:31.12
That's what it says, "I
don't want you to be a harlot,"
00:44:31.15\00:44:33.98
"leave My commandments
and go after the world",
00:44:34.01\00:44:36.82
"that you may not follow
the harlotry to which your own"
00:44:36.85\00:44:39.01
"heart and your own eyes
are inclined, and that you may"
00:44:39.04\00:44:41.75
"remember and do all My
commandments, and be holy,"
00:44:41.78\00:44:45.45
"for I am your God, I am
the Lord, God, who brought you"
00:44:45.48\00:44:48.29
"out of the land of
Egypt. " Isn't this fascinating?
00:44:48.32\00:44:50.82
God says: "Moses, tell the
children of Israel that if"
00:44:50.85\00:44:53.52
"they're My people, the Jewish
people, they're going to put"
00:44:53.55\00:44:56.16
"a fringe on the borders
of their garment, and there's"
00:44:56.19\00:44:59.14
"going to be a tassel there,
and that tassel has to be blue",
00:44:59.17\00:45:01.80
and then He says, "because
I want them to remember"
00:45:01.83\00:45:04.44
"My commandments. " Why blue?
00:45:04.47\00:45:06.76
Why would blue remind
them of the commandments?
00:45:06.79\00:45:09.60
Because the commandments were
written on blue sapphire stone.
00:45:09.63\00:45:13.40
You think "Wow, that's
amazing, I didn't know that. "
00:45:13.43\00:45:16.24
Well, it gets even better,
again, we're just getting
00:45:16.27\00:45:18.99
started. Look at
this now, it says,
00:45:19.02\00:45:21.39
where am I at? Here I am.
00:45:21.42\00:45:23.52
I'm at the Macedonian Cultural
Arts Center, that's where
00:45:23.55\00:45:26.13
I'm at. Here we go.
00:45:26.16\00:45:28.31
This is phenomenal, open your
Bible to the book of Revelation.
00:45:28.34\00:45:31.35
Revelation 17.
You've already learned a lot
00:45:31.38\00:45:35.48
more about the book of
Revelation than you think.
00:45:35.51\00:45:38.24
What's a woman in
Bible prophecy? A church.
00:45:38.27\00:45:41.15
What's a beast in
Bible prophecy? A kingdom.
00:45:41.18\00:45:44.07
So what you find in
Revelation 17 is a woman
00:45:44.10\00:45:47.07
on a beast.
Think about it: a woman
00:45:47.10\00:45:49.49
on a beast would be a church
that's in control of the state.
00:45:49.52\00:45:55.89
You see, that's very simple,
a woman in Bible prophecy's
00:45:55.92\00:45:58.92
a church, a beast in
Bible prophecy's a nation,
00:45:58.95\00:46:01.62
so here in Revelation 17
you have an unfaithful woman,
00:46:01.65\00:46:04.24
a harlot woman, on the
back of a beast, so you have
00:46:04.27\00:46:07.03
an unfaithful church
in charge of the state.
00:46:07.06\00:46:09.74
It's going to get better, watch.
Revelation 17:1: "And one of"
00:46:09.77\00:46:12.40
"the 7 angels who had 7
bowls came and talked with me"
00:46:12.43\00:46:15.39
"saying to me 'Hey, come here,
I want to show you something',"
00:46:15.42\00:46:18.19
"the judgment of the great
harlot", or whore, "who sits"
00:46:18.22\00:46:21.08
"on many waters, with whom
the kings of the earth have"
00:46:21.11\00:46:23.49
"committed fornication,
the inhabitants of the earth"
00:46:23.52\00:46:26.11
"were made drunk with the
wine of her fornication. "
00:46:26.14\00:46:28.98
"So he carried me away in
the Spirit into the wilderness,"
00:46:29.01\00:46:31.79
"and I saw a woman sitting
on a scarlet beast which was"
00:46:31.82\00:46:34.59
"full of the names of blasphemy,
having 7 heads and 10 horns. "
00:46:34.62\00:46:37.37
This all sounds familiar.
Verse 4: "And the woman"
00:46:37.40\00:46:40.20
"was arrayed in purple, and
scarlet and adorned with gold,"
00:46:40.23\00:46:44.63
"and precious stones and
pearls, having in her hand"
00:46:44.66\00:46:47.37
"a golden cup full of
abominations and the filthiness"
00:46:47.40\00:46:50.37
"of her fornication, and on
her head a name was written:"
00:46:50.40\00:46:53.26
"Mystery, Babylon the Great,
The mother of harlots, and of"
00:46:53.29\00:46:56.05
"the abominations of the
earth" This is fascinating,
00:46:56.08\00:46:58.77
verse 6 says that this woman
was drunk with the blood of
00:46:58.80\00:47:01.40
the saints, so this is a
persecuting, unfaithful church.
00:47:01.43\00:47:04.35
Look in your study
guide, a chaste woman would be
00:47:04.38\00:47:09.02
a faithful church with
1 husband, a harlot woman
00:47:09.05\00:47:11.72
would be an unfaithful
church with numerous lovers.
00:47:11.75\00:47:16.58
I want you to notice
the 3 colors that that woman
00:47:18.34\00:47:21.21
was wearing, see if you can
remember them, what 3 colors?
00:47:21.24\00:47:23.96
Purple, and scarlet and gold.
00:47:23.99\00:47:29.60
Go to Exodus 28, phenomenal.
Here God gives very specific
00:47:29.63\00:47:36.01
instructions to Moses about
how the priests were to dress.
00:47:36.04\00:47:42.35
Everything was specific, it
had to be just a certain way.
00:47:42.38\00:47:46.72
Sometimes people have a hard
time reading the last part of
00:47:46.75\00:47:48.78
Exodus and all of Leviticus,
you get trapped up in there.
00:47:48.81\00:47:52.03
Beloved listen, Leviticus is
an instruction manual, the last
00:47:52.06\00:47:56.36
half of Exodus is an instruction
manual, God was giving them
00:47:56.39\00:47:59.17
very explicit instructions
how to conduct themselves
00:47:59.20\00:48:02.23
in the sanctuary, and
how to build the sanctuary,
00:48:02.26\00:48:04.85
and how to dress in the
sanctuary, and how to perform
00:48:04.88\00:48:07.78
the rites and
rituals of the sanctuary.
00:48:07.81\00:48:10.50
So in Exodus 28 God says
"This is how Aaron and his sons"
00:48:10.53\00:48:13.14
"are supposed to
dress... " Exodus 28:31:
00:48:13.17\00:48:16.83
"You shall make the robe
of the ephod", that was what
00:48:16.86\00:48:20.53
the priests wore, "all of
blue. there shall be an opening"
00:48:20.56\00:48:25.86
"for his head in the middle
of it, it shall have a woven"
00:48:25.89\00:48:28.89
"binding all around its opening,
like the opening in a coat"
00:48:28.92\00:48:31.59
"of mail, so it does not tear,
and upon its hem you shall"
00:48:31.62\00:48:34.95
"make pomegranates of
blue, and purple and scarlet"
00:48:34.98\00:48:40.49
"all around its hem, and bells
of gold between them all. "
00:48:40.52\00:48:44.76
Wow, isn't this
interesting? Look at the colors
00:48:44.79\00:48:46.80
that the high priest was
supposed to wear: purple,
00:48:46.83\00:48:49.69
scarlet, blue and
gold. What were the 3 colors
00:48:49.72\00:48:53.91
that the woman was wearing?
Scarlet, purple and gold.
00:48:53.94\00:48:58.95
So she's wearing the colors
of the high priests, but what
00:48:58.98\00:49:01.74
color is
absent? [Audience] Blue.
00:49:01.77\00:49:04.38
Why? Because she's forgotten
the commandments and the law
00:49:04.41\00:49:08.58
of God.
00:49:08.61\00:49:11.54
Let's keep going, what
is the purpose of the law?
00:49:13.92\00:49:17.66
Some people say "Wait a minute,
I thought we were New Testament"
00:49:17.69\00:49:23.44
"Christians, what's all
this talk about the law?"
00:49:23.47\00:49:27.54
Remember, we already
read in the book of Revelation
00:49:27.57\00:49:32.11
that God's last day...
is Revelation in the New
00:49:32.14\00:49:34.86
Testament or the Old
Testament? New Testament.
00:49:34.89\00:49:37.67
So it says in the New Testament
that God's people will be
00:49:37.70\00:49:40.46
keeping His law.
Amen? [Audience] Amen.
00:49:40.49\00:49:43.01
You might be thinking "Whoa,
Pastor Asscherick, that's great"
00:49:43.04\00:49:45.87
"you made that up", you
wish I made it up, I didn't make
00:49:45.90\00:49:48.65
it up, the harlot woman of
Revelation 17, she was wearing
00:49:48.68\00:49:51.06
gold, and purple, and scarlet,
but she didn't have blue.
00:49:51.09\00:49:56.00
Now look at this, this is taken
from "The Legends of the Jews",
00:49:56.03\00:49:58.96
Vol. 3, by Louis
Ginzberg, page 118, 119.
00:49:58.99\00:50:03.19
Beloved, this is what the
Jews have historically believed
00:50:04.52\00:50:07.49
about the 10 commandment
law, that it was written on
00:50:07.52\00:50:10.35
the very stone
taken from God's throne.
00:50:10.38\00:50:13.12
Look at this: [text on screen]
00:50:13.15\00:50:16.64
That's what the
Jews have believed.
00:50:23.73\00:50:26.94
Those 10 commandments
weren't made out of some rock,
00:50:26.97\00:50:30.14
some rock that Moses just
found in the Sinai desert floor.
00:50:30.17\00:50:33.69
No! They were carved out
of a blue sapphire stone,
00:50:33.72\00:50:37.12
and look at this one, also from
Ginsberg's "Legends of the Jews"
00:50:37.15\00:50:40.15
Vol. 6, page
49, [text on screen]
00:50:40.18\00:50:43.20
Beloved, I want you to
think about that, the law of God
00:50:51.33\00:50:54.94
is taken from the
very throne of God.
00:50:54.97\00:50:59.37
Remember, where
was that law placed?
00:50:59.40\00:51:02.39
In the Ark, do you know
what the Ark is a symbol of?
00:51:02.42\00:51:05.91
The throne of God.
We had the 2 angels
00:51:05.94\00:51:08.83
that came up and what
was between those 2 angels?
00:51:08.86\00:51:12.38
The mercy seat, and what
was above the mercy seat?
00:51:12.41\00:51:15.45
The Shekinah glory, which
represented the very presence
00:51:15.48\00:51:17.95
of God Himself; it was
the presence of God Himself.
00:51:17.98\00:51:21.29
So here in the Most Holy
place of the heavenly sanctuary
00:51:21.32\00:51:23.94
is the mercy seat, the throne,
and what's under the throne?
00:51:23.97\00:51:28.22
The tablets of stone made out of
blue sapphire, cut from the very
00:51:28.25\00:51:32.62
throne of God. The
Antichrist power says:
00:51:32.65\00:51:36.76
"Bah, we can do
away... " You what?!
00:51:36.79\00:51:41.03
Can you do away with
God's throne? Impossible.
00:51:43.09\00:51:47.36
Now let's wrap this up,
first of all, the law is like
00:51:47.39\00:51:51.86
a mirror, it is
not like a bar of soap.
00:51:51.89\00:51:56.06
What is the purpose of the
law? Write there on your sheet:
00:51:57.45\00:52:00.38
the law is like a mirror,
the law is designed to show us
00:52:00.41\00:52:02.96
2 things, 1- the
righteousness of God,
00:52:02.99\00:52:08.50
and 2- the unrighteousness
of man, that's the purpose
00:52:08.53\00:52:12.35
of the law. Have
you ever had a black
00:52:12.38\00:52:14.87
bean on your tooth?
Have you ever gone out
00:52:14.90\00:52:17.46
and eaten Mexican and
got a bean on your tooth?
00:52:17.49\00:52:20.22
Anyone ever done that?
A big old piece of parsley
00:52:20.25\00:52:23.21
on your tooth, ever done
that? For those of you who are
00:52:23.24\00:52:25.96
married, have you ever got
home and been washing you face
00:52:25.99\00:52:28.72
before you go to bed, and then
you see that big piece of bean
00:52:28.75\00:52:31.47
on your tooth, ever done that?
Yeah, it happens to me too.
00:52:31.50\00:52:34.05
I remember one time it happened
to me, I turned to my wife,
00:52:34.08\00:52:36.82
I said "Sweetie!", we had
been visiting with our friends
00:52:36.85\00:52:39.66
for 2 or 3 hours after we
ate, "Sweetie! Do you see this?"
00:52:39.69\00:52:42.34
[Audience laughs]
"Can you see that sweetie?"
00:52:42.37\00:52:45.10
She said "Oh yeah, you've
got a great big piece of bean,"
00:52:45.13\00:52:47.86
"I've been meaning to
tell you that all night. "
00:52:47.89\00:52:50.73
I say "Sweetie, I've got
news for you: I can't see that!"
00:52:50.76\00:52:53.48
"My eyes don't do that,
so I need you to tell me"
00:52:53.51\00:52:56.87
"that that's there, you're
my help meet, help me out now. "
00:52:56.90\00:53:01.61
The mirror told me that I
had a problem, the mirror didn't
00:53:01.64\00:53:06.51
solve my problem.
Someone say "amen"!
00:53:06.54\00:53:09.83
- [Audience] Amen. -
The mirror told me I had
00:53:09.86\00:53:12.74
a need, the mirror
tells me I need help.
00:53:12.77\00:53:19.13
The law is like a
mirror, this is what James says
00:53:19.16\00:53:22.06
in the New Testament. "A
man looks into the perfect"
00:53:22.09\00:53:25.20
"law of liberty and when we
look into that mirror we see"
00:53:25.23\00:53:28.39
"that we are all unrighteous,
there is none that does good,"
00:53:28.42\00:53:31.11
"no, not one. "
The law tells us God is
00:53:31.14\00:53:33.91
righteous, we're
unrighteous, we need a Saviour.
00:53:33.94\00:53:38.60
Can you imagine trying to take
that mirror and trying to scrub
00:53:38.63\00:53:41.28
your face up? The
purpose of God's law
00:53:41.31\00:53:44.04
is to show us how
righteous He is, and conversely,
00:53:44.07\00:53:46.93
how unrighteous we are, and
then drive us to Jesus because
00:53:46.96\00:53:51.57
we need a Saviour to take away
our unrighteousness and our sin.
00:53:51.60\00:53:56.61
That's the purpose of the law.
We don't keep the law of God
00:53:56.64\00:54:00.04
in order to be saved, in fact,
go right down to your study
00:54:00.07\00:54:02.71
guide, the underlined
portion says: So God's faithful
00:54:02.74\00:54:06.16
will keep His law because they
love Him, not in order to be
00:54:06.19\00:54:09.69
saved, but
because they are saved.
00:54:09.72\00:54:12.85
Some people today say "don't
worry about that old law,"
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"the law has been done away
with, the law has been nailed"
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"to the cross",
whoa! Something was nailed
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to the cross, but let me
tell you what wasn't nailed
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to the cross, it wasn't
God's 10 commandment law.
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Which one of those commandments
do you want to get rid of,
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I just gave them to you quickly
in brief, which one do you
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want to throw out? The
one that says you can have
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other God's, number 1
Anyone here want to throw
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that one out? How
about 2, that says don't
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worship an image, anyone
want to throw that one out?
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How about 3 that says
we're not going to take the name
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of the Lord thy God in vain,
anyone here, any New Testament
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Christian want to
say we don't need that?
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How about 4 that says "Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy"
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let's throw that one out, right?
How about the one that says
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"honor your father and
your mother", should we get
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rid of that one as
New Testament Christians?
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Oh, but the one that
says "don't kill", that's for
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the Old
Testament; I don't think so.
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How about the one that
says "Thou shalt not steal",
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or "commit adultery"? No.
What about the one that says
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"don't lie?" Or
the one that says...
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Which one are you
going to get rid of?
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- [Audience]
None of them. - Amen.
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The difference is the
New Testament was trying to
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communicate to us that we
don't keep the law in order
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to be saved, but because
we are saved, the law tells us
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we need a Saviour,
the law drives us to Jesus
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and Jesus saves us.
Then God gives us power
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to keep His law, not in
order to be saved, but because
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we are saved.
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The law is like a mirror!
I want to ask 2 questions
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as we close tonight, and
the ministry partners are going
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to be handing out a decision
card, in fact they're going
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to stand up and do that right
now; my ministry partners are
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just ready to go just
like that, a decision card.
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2 questions tonight's as we
close, 1: has this presentation
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been clear, yes or
no? [Audience] Yes.
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Do you see the conflict over
the law of God, that God's law
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is eternal and lasting,
but others are going to try
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to take away from that
law. Do you see the conflict,
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yes or no? [Audience] Yes.
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Daniel 7 says that the
Antichristian power is actually
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going to seek to try to do away
with God's law, yet God's law
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is eternal, it's
immutable, it's everlasting.
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We saw in Revelation that
that woman was actually wearing
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the colors of the high priest,
but she didn't have blue, why?
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Because she had
forgotten God's commandments.
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Beloved, we do need the law,
but the law doesn't save us.
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Someone say amen to
that. [Audience] Amen.
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I want to say it again, the
law doesn't save us, only Jesus
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can save us.
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So you've got a card in front
of you, I just want to quickly
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go over it. Please take a moment
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to fill that out, our
ministry partners are putting
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there cards in your hands,
if anyone needs one just lift
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your hand up to heaven.
I see one there, excellent.
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1, it say: "I understood
tonight's presentation",
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please fill this out, it
helps me to know if we're
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getting it. I
look at these cards
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and it's very helpful for
me to know, are we getting it?
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1- "I understood
tonight's presentation",
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2- "I reaffirm my personal
acceptance of Jesus Christ's"
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"death for me. " Do
you want to do that,
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just check it, say "Yeah,
tonight, hallelujah, glory to"
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"God, I reaffirm my commitment
to Jesus, I'll do that. "
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If I had a pen up here
I'd fill that out no problem.
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3- "For the first time I
want to accept Jesus Christ"
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"as my personal
Saviour from sin and death. "
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If you've never accepted
Christ as your personal Saviour
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before, this'll
be the time to do it.
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Or maybe you did, a long
time ago, so long ago you can
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barely remember, and you want
to come back, you check that.
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4- "I have wandered from
God and His plan for my life,"
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"and I want to return to Him.
" Check that if that applies
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to you. 5- "I'd
like to be baptized. "
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As we've already said, Thursday
night we begin our baptismal
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class right over here.
We're going to have a baptism
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at the end of this meeting,
not this meeting, but at
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the end of the month we're going
to have a powerful baptism.
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