Crown Heights New York
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a jewish man
loses control of his car
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and accidentally
strikes and kills a 7 year old
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african american
boy. Ambulances rush
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to the sceen a crowd gathers and
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rumors start to fly that it
was racially motivated eventy
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even though it
wasnt. 3 hours later
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revenge is taken when a young
rabinical student is murdered
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just 5 blocks away these
incidents threw the neighborhood
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into two days of
intense violence and before
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the police could
regain control 188 people
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were injured and a whole
neighbor was turned upside down
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with hate and animosity.
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Blacksburg
Virginia. A student walks
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into a dorm at Virginia
Tech University and shoots
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two people in cold blood.
He then makes his way across
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the campus to the science and
engineering building where he
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goes from one classroom
to another indiscriminantly
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shooting proffessors and
students alike. When the whole
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massacre is over 32 were killed
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many were injured and it
turned a campus upside down
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the newspapers said this was the
deadliest peace time shooting
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by a single gunman in US histroy
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some propbably
remember that. Aurora, Colorado
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another young man walks into a
moive theater, makes his way to
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one of the rooms and begins
shooting. At first the people
thought the gun fire
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was from the movie screen
but once they heard the screams
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and saw blood, they all
scattered in the dark and in a
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matter of minutes 12 lost
there lives, 58 were injured,
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and families were torn apart
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i would like to be able to
say that these are isolated
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incidences and they don't
happen very mush but you know
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that isnt true becasue
all we have to do is read
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newspapers and turn on CNN
and we see that things like this
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are happening on a
regular basis it is part
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of our society
in the 21st century
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and it causes people
to ask the question why
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what is going on
here why does it seem like
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our world is
falling apart at the seams
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in fact if you look at our world
we're gonna take a look at some
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of the problems many societies
around this planet are facing
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take a look at these
statistics. We are told that
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10 million violent crimes are
committed just in this country
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alone every single year.
The bloodshed in our streets
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is common thing
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When you look at
statistics like this
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it tends to get your attention
and you go back to the origianl
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question why is
this happening. Why
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does it seem like our problems
are increasing in scope and
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magnitude and we cant do
anything about it why are the
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morals of our society
continually plummeting to an
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ever lower level.
many people have asked that
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in fact if we were to go around
the room tonight and solicit
everybody's opinion
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most of the things you say would
probably be right but did you
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know in prophetic portions
of the Bible God suggests
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an answer. In fact
God comes right out and
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tells us why we are facing
these things in the wrold today
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so I'd like to invite you to
tkae your Bibles and the first
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book we're gonna go to
is the book Hosea chapter 4
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Hosea chapter 4
verse 1 The Bible says
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hear the word of the Lord
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you children of Israel
for the Lord brings a charge
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against the inhabitants
of the land there is no truth
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or mercy or
knowledge of God in the land
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by swearing and
lying, killing and stealing
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and committing adultery
they break all restraint with
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bloodshed upon bloodshed I
want to stop there for second
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it is interesting to
know that as God looks
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at the societies of
Israel he is seeing things
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that are also taking place
in the pagan nations around them
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as Hosea describes the
society of his day Hosea
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day it almost sounds
like he is reading straight
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from a newspaper 21st century
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God says he sees lying
and stealing and killing
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people without self control,
bloodshed upon bloodshed
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sounds like our
world today does in it?
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but what is
shocking about this God is
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not speaking to the pagan
nations that do not know him
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he is talking about his own
people the children of Israel
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and then in verse 6
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God comes right
out in telling them why
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they face these problems in
fact in verse 6 he doesnt get
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symbolic her doesnt beat around
the bush he comes right out and
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says it in a way there is no
mistaking it.Lets pick it up now
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in verse 6 the Bible says,
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my people are
destroyed for (WHAT?) lack of
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knowledge (that is
spiritual knowledge) because
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you have rejected knowledge I
also will reject you from being
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priest for me becasue you
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have forgotten
the law of your God
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I also will forget your
children. Now notice God gives
them two main reasons
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why there society is
plummetting. one they have
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rejected spiritual knowledge.
They have turned away from the
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principles of God's word
and more specifically he says
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you have forgotten the law
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of your God. Remember how he
had given the nation of Israel
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principles to follow. That they
were given the 10 commandment
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law of God as a
principle of happiness
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God had told them, if you honor
these principles if you keep
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these laws you will have
a happy healthy and stable
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society that will be an
example to the rest of the world
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your family's will be strong,
and your neighborhoods will be
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strong but if you turn away
from the principle of happiness
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you will begin to
face pain, woe,and sorrow
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and things will begin to
fall apart and that is exactly
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what happened.
God gave them his law
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and they turned away from
it and God said that is why
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you're facing these
problems in your society
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do you realize we are running
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almost an exact parallel
of the land of Israel back in
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Hosea's day because in
our secular world today
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the majority has thrown away
the principles of God's word
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and when it comes ot
his holy ten commandment law
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the secular world says
we dont need that any more
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the 10 commandments
that's archaic that's
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irrelevant modern man
doesnt need to be guided
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by such ancient
principles and as a result
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our society plummets, our morals
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are decreasing and we find
ourselves falling into greater
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woe and we can't solve
the problem why? because
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God says we have turned
away from His principles
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of happiness now that
ought to tell us something
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about the Love of God
becasue he could have created us
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and said youre on your own but
God says becasue I love so much
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I'm going to give you principles
to follow that will bless
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you for life and if you
follow them you will have
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happiness if you follow
them you will experience
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the greatest blessing of live
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But our secular world has
rejected them they took surveys
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just a few years ago. you know
how they sometimes do roving
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surveys out in neighborhoods
they ask people you know
questions somtime when you ask
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kids like you know what
president was Abraham Lincoln
and they want to see how many
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Americans new Us
history Well one they decided to
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ask was "Can you name
two or three of the ten
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commandments?" and it
was absolutely shocking that
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here in the 21st century in our
modern world the vast majority
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people could not even name
2 or 3 of the ten commandments
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there was one that they could
name would like guess which on
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that is Thou shall not kill.
do know why do we know that one?
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A couple of reason a little
bit of selfishness is involved
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we like that commandment why?
one because we dont wanna be
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killed you know almost every
government on earth has that law
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but beyond that commandment
most people could not
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even name it. You might say
pastor Dave why are we studying
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this subject in a prophecy
seminar here is what we are
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going to discover God's law
becomes a big issue in the book
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of Revelation did you
know that? Revelation describes
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God's people at the end
of time as those who keep his
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commandments and the great
crisis that happens at the end
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is gonna force people to make
a choice between man's law and
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God's law we are gonna see
that in a few minutes so if we
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understand prophecy we have to
got know what God teached about
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his own law. So we will
spend time doing that tonight
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and since we are lets go ahead
and put the ten commandments on
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the screen and lets just briefly
go through them and see it we
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can find something archaic
and irrelevant for are world
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today now I'm going to go
through these pretty fast you
could do a whole sermon on each
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one Commandment number on e
Thou shalt have no other gods
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before me Well that make sense
God want use to be faithful to
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Him just as we don't wand are
husband or wife going off with
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some one else Commandment number
two, Thou shalt have no graven
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image well that one makes sense
because why worship something
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made of wood or stone when you
can have a living God who hears
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you. Can you Aman? Commandment
number three Thou shalt not take
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the name of the LORD thy
God in vain; in others words we
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should respect Gods name and you
use proper language Commandment
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number four Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy In other
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words God give us a time
to rest and to worship him and
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grow in our relationship with
Jesus Commandment number five
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Honour thy father and
thy mother God wants us
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to have happy and
strong family ties
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numebr six Thou
shalt not kill if we only
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keep that one this world would
be be better place. Can you say
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Amen? Number seven Thou
shalt not commit adultery.
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Well that certainly not
irrelevant God knows when
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marriages fall apart there is
a ton of pain in person live God
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wants somthing beter for than
that. Commandment number eight
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Thou shalt not steal.
well that one makes sense
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Commandment number nine Thou
shalt not bear false witness in
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other words be true full about
the things you say and lastly
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number ten Thou shalt not covet
in other words be thankful for
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what you have because if you are
always wanting something else
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that somebody has you'll never
be happy and so God has given us
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these principle of
happiness because he loves us
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but here is
something you notice.
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just a few generation
ago back in the early 1900s
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most of society thought that
those commandments were very
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important most of
society back then in the early
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twenty century thought
that we needed honor those
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principles of happiness
so in those early 1900s
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we taught to children at home,
they were taught in schoools
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systems and displayed in
government buildings and they
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were preached from christian
pulpits. but you fast forward
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a hundred years, now
to the early 21st century
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and all that is
changed there has been a
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definite shift in
thinking and attitude
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because now we are
not teaching them at home
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they definitely are not being
taught in school sytems, you
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can't display them in government
buildings, and rarely will you
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hear them preached from
christian pulpits today in fact
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even sometimes in christianity
we hear things like this.
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Well God's law thats not
important any more that was only
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for the Jews as if God only
wanted Jewish nation to be happy
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oh the commandments they
are a bit outdated it was
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done away with at the
cross we're under grace now
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so the question we
have to ask is does the
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Bible teach those
things but number two
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anyone can see our societies
plummeting wither you are
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religious secular and if
that is happen why in the world
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would this planet want to do
away with God's principles of
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happiness and why would the
religous world go right alone
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with it and
here's what you discover
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it is no accident
did you know that in
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Bible prophecy God
warned us that this
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shift in thinking would happen.
Did you know that? in book
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Daniel God warned
us that the spirit of
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Antichrist would be woking
in this world and to try to pull
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people from God and to
pull away from His Holy Law
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i want to take you
to a very revealing
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passage in the book of Daniel
this on of our a key passage
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for tonight id like you to take
your bibles and go to Daniel
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chapter 7 and verse 25
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becasue I think we all realize
there has been a defined shift
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in attitude towards God's law.
now if some of your grandparents
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or great grandparents happen to
be alive you ask them sometime
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what society thought of those
principles back when they were
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young and they will tell
you that society sought to honor
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them a lot more than we do
today Daniel is going to tell us
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why that shift is
taking place Daniel
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chapter 7 and we are
going to read verse 25
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now here in Daniel
chapter 7 this entire
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chapter describes
the work of antichrist
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God reveals to us
what the things antichrist
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will do in this world how
whe will try to pull people away
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from God later in this
seminar we are gonna spend
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2 whole nights on this
chapter but just for tonight
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i want to scratch the surface
by drawing your attention
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to something in verse
25 about what antichrist's
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will do now don't
miss this Daniel 7 verse 25
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The bible says,
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He shall speak pompous
words against (againt who?)
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the Most High, Shall persecute
the saints of the Most High,
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And shall intend to change times
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and law or if you have
the King James it say He shall
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to change times
and laws: Then the
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saints shall be given to
his hand for a time, times,
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and half a time. Now we are
goign to dig deaply into that a
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little later, but here is what I
want you to notice it says that
antichrist works against who?
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the Most High and
his saints or his people
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and it specifically
said he would think to change
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times and laws
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in its context it is
talking about God's law
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because the
phrases right above that
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say that he or it is
woring against the Most High
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so what the bible is telling us
is that the spirit of antichrist
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will be working in
this world to do away with
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to try to
obliterate or turn us away from
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God's law and that is exactly
what you see happening today
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it is being fulfilled
even in the last hundred years
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as you see a definite
change in thinking towards God's
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principles of happiness in fact
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I want you notice waht
Revelation says about God's law
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because I'm not just pulling
this out of a hat saying that
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this is important in bible
prohecy we just read in Daniel
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that antichrist would think
to change God's times and God's
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laws but now want you to notice
what the book of Revelation says
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about God's
people at the end of time
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this one I have written out on
the screen for you. Revelation
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14 The Bible says
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Now let's stop for second
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Revelation here is describing
God's people at the end times
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it is describing God's church
if you will in the last days
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that is the saints and
it specifically describes
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them as those keeping
commandments of God because
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of their faith in
Jesus Christ in fact
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what you'll discover if you
read just a few before that,
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the third angel of
Revelation 14 is warning
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people about worshipping the
beast and his image now we'll
get into that a little bit
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later, but what Revelation is
telling us is that in the last
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days there will clearly be
two groups of people one group
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follows the beast and
worship his image God's people
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keeping His commandments
so what ever the final crises
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involves Revelation has
already told us that it revolves
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around the
commandments of God in some way
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one group follows man's
law the other group follows
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God's law at all cost
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and so if we want to clearly
understand the issue in the
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book of Revelation we
have got to know what does
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the Bible teach
about God's law becasue
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on one hand there is a
group of thinking that says
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well that was nailed to
the cross it is not important
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anymore and being under grace
says we dont need to worry about
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those principles but yet the
book of Revelation describes
God's chruch at the end
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as keeping His
commandments so since there are
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these two conflicting schools of
thought we need to pause right
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now and before we go any futher
in the book of Revelation we
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have to make sure we understand
what the scriptures teach
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concerning this subject because
if revelation brings it up that
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means it is important can you
say amen so what we are gonig to
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do now we're just start in the
Old Testamnet and make our way
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all the way to the New Testamnet
and see what does God's word
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teaches on this subject see that
is the way you study revelation
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when it brings up a subject
we need more information about
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before you go on in Revelation
aand try to fil in the blanks
with our own opinions,
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go to the Bible and
get a clear understanding
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that is how you let the Bible
interpret itself that is what
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we seek to do
everynight in this seminar
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so what we wanna do just
now I want you turn to the Old
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Testament and begin this
journey in the book of Exodus
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that hould com as no surprise
I want yoe to turn to Exodus
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chapter Exodus 31 and verse 18
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Exodus chapter 31 verse
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18 and here is what
we are going to read God
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had given Moses
the ten commandments
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and as God gives this to Moses
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surprise I want you to notice
how it is describe in the Bible
because there is two important
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things in this
verse Exodus 31 and verse
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18.The Bible says,
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And when He had made an end
of speaking with him on Mount
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Sinai, He gave
Moses two tablets of the
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Testimony,
tablets of (what?) stone
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written with? the finger of God
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lets stop there for a
second important things
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are mentioned here do
you notice when Moses went up
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to get the commandments
on what type of material
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did God put his principles
of happiness you tell me
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stone. now notice he
didnt put it on paper
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or papyrus He didn't put it
and any other material where
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something could
happen to it rot away etc. He
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wrote it on stone that ought
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to tell us something about
the permancy of that God attches
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to His Holly Law. Infact when
you think about it we have a
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figure of speech that we even
use in our world today that is
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very much connected to what
we just read here in the bible
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think about it when we want to
communicate to something or when
we want communicate
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to someone that something
is never gonna change and last
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forever what what do
we say it is written stone
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that means it has no ending
that figure of speech actually
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comes all the way from
the Bible here in Exodus
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in addition to that do you
notice what instrument God uses
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to write What is it? His
finger notice He didn't use
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a pen or whatever they had in
those days, He did not dictated
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to Moses for him to
write down God wrote it
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with His very own finger
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Now think about that
for a second do you know
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that means the
ten commandments it is
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the only part of
God Word that God
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wrote himself.
Now think about that
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we are told that when it comes
to the rest of the canon of
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scripture that holy men of old
were under inspiration of the
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holy spirit and God inspired
them with divine thought and
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they wrote them down in
their words in human language to
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comunicate it. He did not
dictate the Bible word for word
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but when it comes to His
law God wrote it with his
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very own finger that is
how important it must be
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now soemtimes we
have the impression
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well right here on Mount Sinai
that is the beginning of God's
00:24:50.29\00:24:54.32
law right? actually it is
not! God's law existed long
00:24:54.32\00:24:58.36
before this
notcie in Genesis 26:5
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Abraham is described as
keeping God's commandments
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the Bible saya,
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Abraham the father of the
faithful honored the
commandments of God
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but actually God's
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law existed even before
Abraham becasue we can go
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all the way back to the
beginning of this earth's
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history even all the way back to
Adam and Eve you say well how do
00:25:34.46\00:25:38.43
you know that Let me show you
something I'm going to put a
picture on the screen I wanna
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see if you know what
that it is thats right thats
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Cain and Abel. So
let me ask you a question
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when Cain killed Abel
was that a sin. Yes or No
00:25:50.48\00:25:54.48
How many people agree that is a
sin let see your hand its not a
00:25:54.48\00:25:58.49
trick question or anything
let me ask you something then
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if the ten commandments
didnt exist back then
00:26:02.49\00:26:06.53
how could God punish Cain
00:26:06.53\00:26:10.50
for something he
didnt know was wrong
00:26:10.50\00:26:14.50
if thou shall not kill
didnt exist in the beginning
00:26:14.50\00:26:18.51
how could God
punish cain for something
00:26:18.51\00:26:22.51
he was unaware of
becasue did God punish cain?
00:26:22.51\00:26:26.51
He did He put a mark on
him he was wander of the earth
00:26:26.51\00:26:30.55
so right here it tells us
that Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve
00:26:30.55\00:26:34.56
familiar with God's Law,
God shared it with them, orally
00:26:34.56\00:26:38.56
you say how do you
know that back in Genesis
00:26:38.56\00:26:42.53
1 it says that God walked and
talked with Adam and Eve in the
cool of the evening
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they had regular
communion together God had
00:26:46.57\00:26:50.57
shared his principles of
happiness with them it wasnt
00:26:50.57\00:26:54.58
unitl the time of Moses that
God decided to put it on stone
00:26:54.58\00:26:58.58
do you know why He
put it on stone? becasue
00:26:58.58\00:27:02.58
he already witnessed numerous
times how apt man is to forget
00:27:02.58\00:27:06.62
think about it not
long after they were created
00:27:06.62\00:27:10.63
apparently Cain and Abel
came along and Cain killed Abel
00:27:10.63\00:27:14.60
his law was
forgotten about by the time
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that you get only five chapters
into the bible it says the world
00:27:18.63\00:27:22.64
was filled with such wickedness
God had to destroy it with a
00:27:22.64\00:27:26.64
flood the world forgot
and even not long ater that
00:27:26.64\00:27:30.68
you read about the tower of
babel where the world rebelled
00:27:30.68\00:27:34.68
against God and he
confused their language
00:27:34.68\00:27:38.69
and even all the
way at the time of moses
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becasue knows how man forgets
He said now instead of sharing
00:27:42.72\00:27:46.73
orally I'm going
to write it on stone
00:27:46.73\00:27:50.70
and amazingly
enough even after that
00:27:50.70\00:27:54.70
it only took 40 days to forget
00:27:54.70\00:27:58.74
because here in Exodus
31 this is the second time
00:27:58.74\00:28:02.74
Moses goes up to
get the commandments
00:28:02.74\00:28:06.75
remember the first time he was
gone 40 days and when he came
00:28:06.75\00:28:10.79
down the mountain What were the
Israelites already doing dancing
00:28:10.79\00:28:14.79
and worshipping around the
golden calf and Moses was so
00:28:14.79\00:28:18.83
frustrated with them because
they has heard God speak those
00:28:18.83\00:28:22.80
commandments from the cloud
above the mountain He went up to
get it in stone in 40 days
00:28:22.80\00:28:26.80
they are already break them,
he throws the commandments down
00:28:26.80\00:28:30.84
this in away symbolizing
what Israel had done God
00:28:30.84\00:28:34.84
knows that man would
forget so now He puts it
00:28:34.84\00:28:38.88
stone, but believe it or not
00:28:38.88\00:28:42.88
you can go actually everfarther
back than the beging of this
00:28:42.88\00:28:46.89
world God's Law
has existed from all
00:28:46.89\00:28:50.93
of eternity becasue God's Law
00:28:50.93\00:28:54.93
is really a description of his
character it is the prinicples
00:28:54.93\00:28:58.93
of his government how he
operates and when you think
00:28:58.93\00:29:02.94
about it who was the first being
00:29:02.94\00:29:06.94
to break Gods
Law, the very first on
00:29:06.94\00:29:10.98
Lucifer remember
how we studied how
00:29:10.98\00:29:14.98
Satan was once a mighty
angel in the court of Heaven
00:29:14.98\00:29:19.02
but he lost his love
for God and he began to
00:29:19.02\00:29:23.02
deceive the other angels into
believing that God was not love
00:29:23.02\00:29:27.03
that God could
not be trusted that
00:29:27.03\00:29:31.03
His law was not imprtant
for angelic being to follow
00:29:31.03\00:29:35.07
and as a result Lucifer and
the angels that followed him
00:29:35.07\00:29:39.07
were cast out of heaven becasue
they brought woe and suffering
00:29:39.07\00:29:43.11
even to the courts of heaven
when you think about it Lucifer
00:29:43.11\00:29:47.15
broke at least three of those
commandments Number one Thou
00:29:47.15\00:29:51.15
shall have no other gods before
me, because Satan wanted to be
00:29:51.15\00:29:55.19
his own god. You know
when you think about it
00:29:55.19\00:29:59.19
that is the one you
and I struggle the most
00:29:59.19\00:30:03.20
you say oh no I don't
struggle with that one when you
00:30:03.20\00:30:07.20
think about the principle
behind that commandment it
00:30:07.20\00:30:11.21
probably is because
we want to be are own god
00:30:11.21\00:30:15.24
We may not say I want to be
divene Lord I want to seat on
00:30:15.24\00:30:19.28
your throne but when we say
Lord I know what your word says
00:30:19.28\00:30:23.32
but I'm going to do
something else Lord I
00:30:23.32\00:30:27.36
know what your will is
but it is inconvenient for me
00:30:27.36\00:30:31.39
so when I chose
ignore what God says and
00:30:31.39\00:30:35.40
do what I say I'm
am placing myself above
00:30:35.40\00:30:39.43
God I'm being my own
god it all comes back
00:30:39.43\00:30:43.47
to self and not having a
surrendered heart I assure you
00:30:43.47\00:30:47.51
that is the one I struggle with
the mostand probably that's the
00:30:47.51\00:30:51.51
one you'll find that the
majority people in the world
00:30:51.51\00:30:55.55
with. just say Lord I surrender
myself to you I wanna put your
00:30:55.55\00:30:59.59
word and your truth first.
Lucifer broke commandment nmmber
00:30:59.59\00:31:03.63
9 you shall not bear false
witness he lied the the other
00:31:03.63\00:31:07.66
angels about the character
of God and lastley number 10
00:31:07.66\00:31:11.63
he coveted the throne
so much that was willing
00:31:11.63\00:31:15.70
to instigate full
scale rebellion to get it
00:31:15.70\00:31:19.74
and so if turning away from the
00:31:19.74\00:31:23.78
if that brought
suffering even in heaven
00:31:23.78\00:31:27.78
what makes us think turning away
from Gods law wont do the same
00:31:27.78\00:31:31.82
thing on this earth see Lucifer
he is doing the same rebellion
00:31:31.82\00:31:35.82
here the more we turn away
from the principles of happiness
00:31:35.82\00:31:39.83
that God gave us in the
beginning the more our societies
00:31:39.83\00:31:43.80
and homes and neighborhoods
plunge deepera and deeper
00:31:43.80\00:31:47.80
into the pit and
many times the world turns
00:31:47.80\00:31:51.81
around and blames
God for it even though
00:31:51.81\00:31:55.84
He already gave us the
principles of happiness from the
00:31:55.84\00:31:59.85
beginning see folks the
fact that God gives us his law
00:31:59.85\00:32:03.85
tells us that he loves us
so much we tend to think God is
00:32:03.85\00:32:07.86
just being a party pooper cant
do this cant do that how many of
00:32:07.86\00:32:11.86
you have children raise your
hand do ever tell your childern
00:32:11.86\00:32:15.83
thou shall not, oh
come now do you do you ever
00:32:15.83\00:32:19.87
tell your childern thou shall
not you may not use those word
but I know in the homes here
00:32:19.87\00:32:23.87
say don't do this don't do that
is happen a lot in our family
00:32:23.87\00:32:27.88
why do we tell our children not
to do something because there is
00:32:27.88\00:32:31.88
danger involved you know I tell
our girls don't you dare cross
00:32:31.88\00:32:35.88
the street without use being
there it that because were are a
bunch of party pooper's
00:32:35.88\00:32:39.89
we don't know how to have
fun, well they might think but
00:32:39.89\00:32:43.93
as they get older they
understand that when you cross
00:32:43.93\00:32:47.93
the boundary potential danger in
that street and mommy and daddy
00:32:47.93\00:32:51.90
want something better
for you that is how God is He
00:32:51.90\00:32:55.94
gives us boundaries not because
He is trying to keep happiness
00:32:55.94\00:32:59.94
from us but becasue he wants to
give us ultimate happiness and
00:32:59.94\00:33:03.95
to keep us away from the
deceptions fo the Devil bringing
heart ache into our lives
00:33:03.95\00:33:07.95
what would we say about aparent
that says to there child you
00:33:07.95\00:33:11.99
what I don't care what you do
just go off and do whatever we
00:33:11.99\00:33:15.99
would say they don't love their
child very much why would we
00:33:15.99\00:33:20.00
want God to be like a bad parent
why would we want God to says
00:33:20.00\00:33:23.97
you know what ever you want I
don't care that is not the way
00:33:23.97\00:33:28.00
God is He loves
us and He is intently
00:33:28.00\00:33:31.97
involved in our lives so
He gives us the principle
00:33:31.97\00:33:36.01
of His law but
lets go a little farther
00:33:36.01\00:33:40.02
thus far we have looked up
things in the old testament
00:33:40.02\00:33:44.02
lets go to the new becasue
sometimes it is said well
00:33:44.02\00:33:48.06
the ten commandments are nailed
to the cross so lets go into the
00:33:48.06\00:33:52.06
New Testament so lets go see
what Jesus teached about the
subject because I reckon
00:33:52.06\00:33:56.03
if anyone know about Gods law
it ought to be Jesus himself Can
00:33:56.03\00:34:00.14
You Say Amen so lets go
to Matthew 5 and verse 17
00:34:00.14\00:34:04.07
the sermon on the
Mount now I wnat you
00:34:04.07\00:34:08.08
think about what this is this
by far the greatest sermon ever
00:34:08.08\00:34:12.08
preached. Jesus gave us
the principles of Christianity
00:34:12.08\00:34:16.12
in three chapters
can you believe that
00:34:16.12\00:34:20.16
he gave us the basic summary of
what it means to be a disciple
00:34:20.16\00:34:24.16
of Jesus and to follow the
religion of christ in three
00:34:24.16\00:34:28.13
simple chapters
that is it and of all the
00:34:28.13\00:34:32.13
things he could have covered one
of the things that He covered
00:34:32.13\00:34:36.17
He thought was essential
is what our attitude should be
00:34:36.17\00:34:40.18
towards Gods Law
Matthes 5 verse 17
00:34:40.18\00:34:44.21
The bible says do
not think that I came
00:34:44.21\00:34:48.22
to destroy the law or
the prophets, I did not come
00:34:48.22\00:34:52.25
to destroy but to do What?
fulfill. for For assuredly,
00:34:52.25\00:34:56.26
I say to you, till
heaven and earth pass away,
00:34:56.26\00:35:00.33
one jot or one tittle will
by no means pass from the law
00:35:00.33\00:35:04.27
until all is
fulfilled then notice verse 19
00:35:04.27\00:35:08.30
Whoever therefore breaks one of
the least of these commandments,
00:35:08.30\00:35:12.31
and teaches men so, shall
be called least in the kingdom
00:35:12.31\00:35:16.31
but whoever does
and teaches them,
00:35:16.31\00:35:20.35
he shall be called great
in the kingdom of heaven.
00:35:20.35\00:35:24.35
there is a few
things there as a minister
00:35:24.35\00:35:28.39
verse 19 really
gets my attention
00:35:28.39\00:35:32.43
do you know why? Jesus
00:35:32.43\00:35:36.40
actually
pronounces a woe on anyone
00:35:36.40\00:35:40.44
that teacehs
others to ignore his law
00:35:40.44\00:35:44.44
i dont want Jesus to
pronounce a woe on me
00:35:44.44\00:35:48.48
that is a serious thing He says
they there will be least in the
kingdom of heaven and that is
00:35:48.48\00:35:52.51
really a play on words becasue
they are not gonna be in the
00:35:52.51\00:35:56.52
kingdom of heaven see that is a
temptation for a minister you
say what do you mean
00:35:56.52\00:36:00.62
I'm gonna let you into the heart
of a minister for the next
minute or two is that ok
00:36:00.62\00:36:04.59
I'm going to share with
some of temptations we face
00:36:04.59\00:36:08.56
is in many ways ministers have
a human nature just like you
00:36:08.56\00:36:12.60
and like many people in
the world we want to be liked
00:36:12.60\00:36:16.64
we dont like to have enemies
we don't like to have anybody
00:36:16.64\00:36:20.68
criticize us it hurts and so as
00:36:20.68\00:36:24.68
a result there are times when we
are tempted to say you know what
00:36:24.68\00:36:28.72
i dont wanna preach that part of
God's Word becasue it is too
straight forward somebody
00:36:28.72\00:36:32.75
might get upset with me
tempted to maybe pick and chose
00:36:32.75\00:36:36.79
certain things in the Word of
God you know not upset anybody
00:36:36.79\00:36:40.83
and dont talk about sin,
dont step on toes dont lovingly
00:36:40.83\00:36:44.83
challenge a church
to grow becasue when you
00:36:44.83\00:36:48.87
upset people for
teaching that which truth
00:36:48.87\00:36:52.91
sometimes your church may
not be the biggest in twon
00:36:52.91\00:36:56.95
sometimes the
attendance goes down
00:36:56.95\00:37:01.02
when the attendance
goes down that means
00:37:01.02\00:37:05.05
less offering in the plate and
when there less offerings are in
00:37:05.05\00:37:09.09
the palte you cant pay the
bills and when you cant pay
00:37:09.09\00:37:13.09
the bills guess
who doen't get paid
00:37:13.09\00:37:17.10
the minister you see the
00:37:17.10\00:37:21.17
temptaion sometimes us
minister to skip and chose
00:37:21.17\00:37:25.17
only preach bubbling brooks
and things make people happy
00:37:25.17\00:37:29.18
and never address
serious subject I think we all
00:37:29.18\00:37:33.18
realize that there are true
ministers and there are minsters
who are not genuine
00:37:33.18\00:37:37.22
now it's not up to me to that
judge only God can read the
heart Cna you say Amen?
00:37:37.22\00:37:41.22
but i think we know like any
proffession there are people in
00:37:41.22\00:37:45.23
it for the wrong reasons
but see the word of God tells me
00:37:45.23\00:37:49.20
I cannot skip things because
they are difficult it might
00:37:49.20\00:37:53.20
me easier for me to say, hay
don't worry about the principles
00:37:53.20\00:37:57.24
of God's Law but God says i need
to preach the whole council of
00:37:57.24\00:38:01.31
his word and so yes I realize
I do say somethings in this
00:38:01.31\00:38:05.25
seminar maybe not what the
popular belief is but it is
becasue I take seriously
00:38:05.25\00:38:09.25
we need to uplift the Word
of God becasue it is His Word
00:38:09.25\00:38:13.25
that set us free and it is
His word that brings us ultimate
00:38:13.25\00:38:17.29
happiness can you say amen so I
take it seriously when God talks
00:38:17.29\00:38:21.26
about pronouncing a woe the
other thing you notice is God
00:38:21.26\00:38:25.27
law. He says specifically
concerning his Law and even the
00:38:25.27\00:38:29.30
prophets also talking about the
Old testament Scriptures He says
00:38:29.30\00:38:33.31
as long as heaven and earth are
here, nothing will pass from his
00:38:33.31\00:38:37.31
law not even a jot or a tittle
00:38:37.31\00:38:41.32
now that is not a words we use
in the 21st century very much
you say what is a jot or
00:38:41.32\00:38:45.32
tittle you know what that means
it is basically the crossing of
00:38:45.32\00:38:49.36
a t or the dotting of an
i. that is a jot or a title
00:38:49.36\00:38:53.36
just like a legal contract you
got to across your t's and dot
00:38:53.36\00:38:57.33
your i's Jesus said as long as
heaven and earth are still here
00:38:57.33\00:39:01.37
we are going to need the
pricnicples of His Law to
00:39:01.37\00:39:05.37
have healthy
happy stable society
00:39:05.37\00:39:09.38
families and
lives. can you say amen
00:39:09.38\00:39:13.42
but you know Jesus said
soemthing else infact the next
00:39:13.42\00:39:17.42
verse is one sentence long
we probably could have go on
00:39:17.42\00:39:21.42
home but i figured you wanted to
get a full sermon tonight so we
did more than on verse
00:39:21.42\00:39:25.46
it is John 14:15
notice that Jesus said
00:39:25.46\00:39:29.43
now notice it is almost
00:39:33.47\00:39:37.47
just as important what
he didnt say he didnt say,
00:39:37.47\00:39:41.48
if you wanna earn your way to
heaven keep my commandments if
00:39:41.48\00:39:45.51
you wanna be a legalist keep my
commandments if you don't
believe in grace keep
00:39:45.51\00:39:49.52
keek My commadment if you
wanna gain righteousness keep My
00:39:49.52\00:39:53.56
commadments That not
want He said, He said if
00:39:53.56\00:39:57.69
you love me if you
appreciate what I have
00:39:57.69\00:40:01.70
done for you on the
cross calvary if you recognize
00:40:01.70\00:40:05.73
I have given you a gift
that you could never give
00:40:05.73\00:40:09.77
to yourself that I have given
you righteousness so that you
00:40:09.77\00:40:13.81
can enter kingdom of heaven.
if you recognize that and if you
00:40:13.81\00:40:17.85
love me then keep my
commandments see i dont keep the
00:40:17.85\00:40:21.88
commandments becasue I'm
trying to get saved we keep the
00:40:21.88\00:40:26.29
commandments because we already
are saved through the blood of
00:40:26.29\00:40:30.36
Jesus it is our way to show
appreciating and when people see
00:40:30.36\00:40:34.36
the holy spirit living those
commandments out in our life
00:40:34.36\00:40:38.33
hopefully, in our work places in
our homes and in our
neighborhoods people can look at
00:40:38.33\00:40:42.34
us and see a little
picture characterof Jesus in
00:40:42.34\00:40:46.34
our lives. lets
illustrate it actually with
00:40:46.34\00:40:50.35
marriage. Now my wife is
not here so i can use this
00:40:50.35\00:40:54.38
illustration she not here to
tell if I got it wrong but she
wouldn't say that any way
00:40:54.38\00:40:58.39
because she knows the story now
i think we all realize that that
00:40:58.39\00:41:02.39
you believe I love Marquita, let
me see your hands great most of
you put your hands up
00:41:02.39\00:41:06.39
well when I
married Marquita back in
00:41:06.39\00:41:10.40
1995 there will be a
lot of laws of marriage
00:41:10.40\00:41:14.37
that went into effect weren't
there. When we said I do that
meant that mend pretty much
00:41:14.37\00:41:18.41
everything I have belong to
her as well the laws of marriage
00:41:18.41\00:41:22.41
say that I got to treat her well
be kind to her I shouldn't abuse
00:41:22.41\00:41:26.41
her I should try to support he
the laws of marriage I really
shouldn't be flirting
00:41:26.41\00:41:30.42
with other women or sleeping
around with other women or going
00:41:30.42\00:41:34.42
dates other people I hope all
agree those are pretty much the
00:41:34.42\00:41:38.46
laws of marriage do you think
I get up every morning I got to
00:41:38.46\00:41:42.43
pickup those Laws of marriage
and I say OH I guess I have to
be nice to Marquita
00:41:42.43\00:41:46.43
today OH I guess I
better kind and gentle or she
00:41:46.43\00:41:50.44
might divorce me and take
everything I have OH I better
00:41:50.44\00:41:54.48
home a pay check OH
I better be OH I can't
00:41:54.48\00:41:58.48
flirt with any women in the work
place I sleep with any body else
00:41:58.48\00:42:02.48
Oh what a burden
it is to love Marquita
00:42:02.48\00:42:06.49
Do think I would say that? well
now you better be more emphatic
00:42:06.49\00:42:10.49
than that. Do think I
would say that? certainly not
00:42:10.49\00:42:14.46
I love to honor the laws
of marriage becasue Im'in love
00:42:14.46\00:42:18.50
Marquita so those law
are already written on my
00:42:18.50\00:42:22.50
Marquita it's a natural thing.
00:42:22.50\00:42:26.51
that's the way it is God's Law
becasue of what Jesus has done
00:42:26.51\00:42:30.55
for me He lets
His prefect count me
00:42:30.55\00:42:34.55
his rigtheousness is
put in my record book
00:42:34.55\00:42:38.55
and so when God looks
at my mistake filed life
00:42:38.55\00:42:42.56
he doesn't see my sins he
sees the prefect life of Jesus
00:42:42.56\00:42:46.56
that counts for me
because Jesus prefectly kept
00:42:46.56\00:42:50.57
the law when he was on
this earth so that perfection
00:42:50.57\00:42:54.57
counts in may
place as a result you
00:42:54.57\00:42:58.57
and I came be saved that
why is say if you love me
00:42:58.57\00:43:02.58
keep my commandments
00:43:02.58\00:43:06.58
but there is another verse
in the new testament I almost
00:43:06.58\00:43:10.62
hesitate to go to this one this
one of the ones you are tempted
00:43:10.62\00:43:14.62
to skip becasue it is one of the
most straight forward verses in
00:43:14.62\00:43:18.66
the Bible but since i just
talked about sharing whole
counsel God's word I dare not
00:43:18.66\00:43:22.63
skip it. So I want
you turn to 1st John 2
00:43:22.63\00:43:26.63
verse 4 but as we read
it I want you to understand
00:43:26.63\00:43:30.67
I didn't say it
God said it 1st John
00:43:30.67\00:43:34.68
chapter 2 verse 4 now I have
been talking I got to look it up
00:43:34.68\00:43:38.68
myself 1st John
chapter 2 verse 4
00:43:38.68\00:43:42.72
just go to revelation go about
three books backwards and you
will be in 1st John
00:43:42.72\00:43:46.72
actual four books
backward 1st John chapter 2
00:43:46.72\00:43:50.76
and verse 4 before I
read this I got to tell you
00:43:50.76\00:43:54.73
Who wrote this? John What do
you know about John character
00:43:54.73\00:43:58.77
gentle John was fairly gentle
00:43:58.77\00:44:02.77
loving he was the disciple of
love. Peter was the one
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR you know
00:44:02.77\00:44:06.78
but I want you to
notice in 1st John I don't what
00:44:06.78\00:44:10.78
was going on with John but
here he goes from be gentle
00:44:10.78\00:44:14.82
to basically tell it
like it is notice what he say
00:44:14.82\00:44:18.82
1st John 2
verse 4 The Bible says
00:44:18.82\00:44:22.82
He who says, "I know
Him," and does not keep
00:44:22.82\00:44:26.90
His commandments, is a
What? liar, and the truth
00:44:26.90\00:44:30.87
is not in him. woohoo
00:44:30.87\00:44:34.90
talk about cutting
knife I don't knowwhat bee was
00:44:34.90\00:44:38.94
in John's bonnet you what
he utters a profound truth
00:44:38.94\00:44:42.94
now John was John
there when Jesus said
00:44:42.94\00:44:46.98
if you love me keep
my commandments sure
00:44:46.98\00:44:50.99
was he there for the sermon of
the mount? when Jesus that
nothing would pass from His Law
00:44:50.99\00:44:55.02
until all was fulfilled he
feard that so all he is doing is
00:44:55.02\00:44:59.06
reiterating what Jesus said
except in differnt words and so
00:44:59.06\00:45:03.06
John says that if I say that
I love Jesus and I am a disciple
00:45:03.06\00:45:07.07
of Christ but in my
live I purposely and
00:45:07.07\00:45:11.07
willfully refuse to follow
His commandments John is saying
00:45:11.07\00:45:15.11
I am a liar. there something
not genuine and insincere
00:45:15.11\00:45:19.15
about my witness
that is not pleasant to
00:45:19.15\00:45:23.18
to be told when you think
about now this isnt talking
00:45:23.18\00:45:27.22
about people who make genuine
mistakes we all fall we sin and
00:45:27.22\00:45:31.26
don't realize it and have to go
back say Lord forgive that's not
what John is talk about
00:45:31.26\00:45:35.23
John is talking about the person
who says I love the Lord but I
00:45:35.23\00:45:39.27
see what he has written in his
Law and it cost too much it is
00:45:39.27\00:45:43.30
inconvenient I absolutely refuse
to follow it, but I'm still a
disciple of Jesus Christ this
00:45:43.30\00:45:47.38
what John says that's not
sincere that's not genuine
00:45:47.38\00:45:51.41
because my actions do
not match my profession
00:45:51.41\00:45:55.45
that doesnt mean
I'm save by my works
00:45:55.45\00:45:59.49
when the Holy Spirit lives in us
there is good works in our lives
00:45:59.49\00:46:03.53
isn't that correct becasue
people should see Jesus in us
but those good works
00:46:03.53\00:46:07.60
are simply evidence that
show a higher power is living
00:46:07.60\00:46:11.60
and working in me because the
truth is when you I do good
works that's not us
00:46:11.60\00:46:15.64
doing them any way human nature
can't do good works that God
00:46:15.64\00:46:19.71
working thorugh us so
those good works dont save us
00:46:19.71\00:46:23.71
but they do show
who is in control
00:46:23.71\00:46:27.72
of my life now lest go back
marriage illustration let's
illustrate it this way
00:46:27.72\00:46:31.75
let's go back to me and Marquita
again you have heard me say
00:46:31.75\00:46:35.76
I love Marquita I'm in
love with her but if on the off
00:46:35.76\00:46:39.76
night of this seminar you
saw me in down town Springfield
00:46:39.76\00:46:43.73
hanging around with other
women my arm aound their waist
00:46:43.73\00:46:47.77
giving them a
pick on the cheek maybe
00:46:47.77\00:46:51.77
see me walking into a motel with
another woman but then see me
00:46:51.77\00:46:55.78
coming here on the weekends
professing how much I'm in love
00:46:55.78\00:46:59.78
with my wife would you
belive me? no becasue my actions
00:46:59.78\00:47:03.79
would contradict my profession
00:47:03.79\00:47:07.82
no matter what i say what is
coming out in my life is showing
00:47:07.82\00:47:11.79
different You say I am not
genuine and I am insincer and
00:47:11.79\00:47:15.80
need help we all
need help that is why
00:47:15.80\00:47:19.80
we go to Jesus. That is
why Revelation at the end
00:47:19.80\00:47:23.81
of time describes God's people
like thiswe have already read
00:47:23.81\00:47:28.08
this verse notice
commandment keeping and a
00:47:35.85\00:47:39.89
faith relationship with
Jesus always goes hand in hand
00:47:39.89\00:47:43.89
particularly in
the book of Revelation
00:47:43.89\00:47:47.86
see in the last
days we must choose
00:47:47.86\00:47:51.87
do we follow man law or God Law
00:47:51.87\00:47:55.87
do we go along with the spirti
of antichrist that wants do away
00:47:55.87\00:47:59.91
with Gods time Gods Law
and say it is irrelevant
00:47:59.91\00:48:03.41
it is archaic and
not important any more
00:48:03.41\00:48:07.42
you know the only law
ever nailed to the cross
00:48:07.42\00:48:11.42
and usually i do a whole sermon
on this. there was a law nailed
00:48:11.42\00:48:15.46
to the cross but when you read
the verses in context it is not
the ten commandments
00:48:15.46\00:48:19.46
becasue we read how that
law is eternal how his people
00:48:19.46\00:48:23.43
end of time are honoring it.
the only law ever nailed to the
00:48:23.43\00:48:27.44
cross was moses law of
ceremonies sacrificing those
00:48:27.44\00:48:31.44
lambs and those goat they were
required to do in the sanctuary
00:48:31.44\00:48:35.48
because all those pointed
to Jesus, when Jesus finally
00:48:35.48\00:48:39.48
came the true lamb was
here so there was no need to do
00:48:39.48\00:48:43.49
those things any more because
you could go directly to Jesus.
00:48:43.49\00:48:47.49
Can you say Amen? and see
that is why sometimes people
00:48:47.49\00:48:51.53
or even churches may avoid the
book of Revelation Now I'm just
00:48:51.53\00:48:55.50
gonna be blunt if I
am saying that Gods law
00:48:55.50\00:48:59.50
is done away with and is not
important but then Revelation
00:48:59.50\00:49:03.51
14:12 says people at the end
time will keep His commandments
00:49:03.51\00:49:07.51
I have a proplem there that
means im either going to have to
00:49:07.51\00:49:11.51
change my belief or going to
have to changge the Bible so as
00:49:11.51\00:49:15.55
not to deal with that sometimes
we purposely skip over the book
00:49:15.55\00:49:19.55
of Revelation because it brings
to forefront deep and important
00:49:19.55\00:49:23.56
truths that we
need for the end of time
00:49:23.56\00:49:27.56
lastly one more verse
then I want to the illustration
00:49:27.56\00:49:31.57
you may say so ok what
is the purpose of God's law?
00:49:31.57\00:49:35.57
romans 3:20 says is
so beautifully Romas 3:30
00:49:35.57\00:49:39.57
The Bible says Therefore
by the deeds of the law
00:49:39.57\00:49:43.58
no flesh will be
justified in His sight,
00:49:43.58\00:49:47.62
how many people are
justified by law NONE
00:49:47.62\00:49:51.62
for by the law is
(waht?)the knowledge of sin.
00:49:51.62\00:49:55.62
in other words the
law can't make me clean
00:49:55.62\00:49:59.66
it can't make me
perfect and righteous
00:49:59.66\00:50:03.63
the job is to show me that I
fall short of God's standards
00:50:03.63\00:50:07.64
to show me that I
have sin in my life
00:50:07.64\00:50:11.64
so that it will point to me
to the one who can take care of
00:50:11.64\00:50:15.64
that sin Jesus Christ the
righteous see that means the
00:50:15.64\00:50:19.68
law propose is
to point me to Jesus
00:50:19.68\00:50:23.69
the law pionts me to the
cross now put 2 and 2 together
00:50:23.69\00:50:27.69
that is why the
devil hates God's law
00:50:27.69\00:50:31.69
that's why he works through the
spirit of antichrist to do away
00:50:31.69\00:50:35.70
with God's times and God's
laws becasue the devil hates
00:50:35.70\00:50:39.70
any tool that
points to Jesus antichrist
00:50:39.70\00:50:43.71
hats any tool that will
piont people the the cross
00:50:43.71\00:50:47.74
so the easiest way is
is just to do away with it
00:50:47.74\00:50:51.75
and let it be lost sight
of and that is why Daniel
00:50:51.75\00:50:55.75
and Revelation
tells us in the end God's
00:50:55.75\00:50:59.79
law is going to be
the issue that the great
00:50:59.79\00:51:03.79
controversy and
great crisis centers around
00:51:03.79\00:51:07.76
so you and I we must choose
if wand to follow God tomorrow
00:51:07.76\00:51:11.80
then by His grace we
need to choose to follow him
00:51:11.80\00:51:15.80
today I would like
do that illustration
00:51:15.80\00:51:19.81
so what id need to do I'm going
do an illustration from James
00:51:19.81\00:51:23.85
chapter 1 so I'm going to
go in the back room for about
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60 seconds you wont see
me the seminar is not over
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so so don't get up and leave the
cameras are still going to be
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rolling but I need go back there
and im gonna sin for about 60
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seconds ok so dont go anywhere
I'm just going keep talking into
the mic while im back there
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and im gonna enjoy a little
sin before this seminar is over
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hang tight and smile and
meditate up on Gods word here
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so the door is closed can you
still hear me? if you can say
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Amen alright so I'm
back here and I am doing my
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dirty deeds and no body can see
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me this is alot
fun but you know i fear
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the newspaper might a hold of
thisand then tomorrow you will
see it in the paper
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a prophecy speaker sins
in front of congregation
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and theyll be a big scandalabout
it so I'm enjoying my sin
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time is all most up
no body can see me oh
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did I enjoy that low
and behold I must come back
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the congregation at
this time so I've finished
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my dirty deed now we got come
back finish the sermon we need
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to finish we need to finish
the last few text on here so now
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we are ready to go
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there is dead silence
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would someone be so kind as
to tell me why are you laughing
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someone tell me I've got
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dirt on my face how many people
say I have dirt on my face let
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me see your hands there is
something on my face well I got
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news for you I can't is it how
do i know youre not just pulling
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my leg and my face is
perfectly clean what do i need
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in order to tell if
I have dirt on my face?
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I need a mirror and
low and befold there is a
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mirror right here
so I pick up the mirror
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and i look into
it oh in deed I have
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got dirt on may
face now I got two choice
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here i can take the mirror
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and start rub it with my face to
try to cleean htis dirt off of
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me will that slove the problem?
no in fact it will make it worse
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you know I can say
what I hate the dumb old
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mirror this foolish mirror tells
me I have dirt on my face let's
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just do away with the
mirror does it solve my problem?
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I still have dirt on my face
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the purpose of
the mirror is simply
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to point me to the
one who can cleanse me
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of my sin, so it
points me to go to the foot
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of the cross filled
from Emmanuel's veins He
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washed me and made me clean
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that is what we do we
come to Jesus just as we are
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with all our sin with
all of our short comings
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with all of our mistakes
and the Bible says He washes us
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and He make us clean
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aw yes it feels good to be
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clean now how many people
say I'm clean am I clean yet
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there still remnants there
I didn't stay on my knees long
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enough I hope I commit the
unpardonable sin there we go
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am I clean now I not clean now
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mercy me I must have realy
done something in that back room
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the other side I didn't
put it on the other side
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there we go am I clean
I'm not then what do I need
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do I need to look in the
mirror and low and behold
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yes I am mostly and
now Jesus makes me fully
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clean because of
His death on the cross
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now I have to ask you a
question is my face clean
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you say it is, now
before I looked in the mirror
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did I now my face was clean you
could have been lying to me when
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I go Walmart afterwards the
clerk is going to like at I'm
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craze I look in the mirror I
see indeed the charter of Jesus
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is starting to be
formed in me I am clean
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because of what Jesus
has done for me the law is a
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mirror that points me to Jesus
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bother and sisters I understand
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as we look our
live you may say pastor
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today my live is
not in with God's law
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I fall so short
and sometimes the Devil
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throws in our face
our faults our weakness
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choses we made in the past maybe
00:56:12.93\00:56:16.94
the habits patterns
we struggle with today
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we struggle with that
sense of shame and guilt and
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unworthiness if you are
struggling with that today
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Jesus has a beautiful
promise in Matthew 11:28
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Jesus said
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if you are tired
of the burden of sin
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and are wanting guilt
and stain to be removed
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and if you're just simply
wanting peace wanting Jesus
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perfect life to count
for you Jesus says come to me
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I will give you rest I'll
give you confidence I will
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give you the assurance
of salvation tonight are you
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willing to say in your heart
Loard Jesus I want you transform
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me I want you to
change Lord I you permission
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to write the principles
of your law on my heart
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If that is your desire tonight,
if just want say Lord I don't
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claim to be perfect of myself
but Lord I want you to begin
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the principles of your law
my heart if that your desire
00:57:30.81\00:57:36.08
would stand with me
as we have a closing pray
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Heavenly Father
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so often we are well aware where
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we fall short and you
know Lord how the Devil
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seeks to throw that in our face
and take away the assurance of
00:57:51.03\00:57:55.14
salvation but Lord to night
we present ourselves to you
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we understand there is a
controversy that's surrounding
00:57:59.31\00:58:03.28
your law and tonight we give
permission Lord as a church as
00:58:03.28\00:58:08.08
your people we want you to
change and transform us we want
you Lord to write that Law
00:58:08.08\00:58:12.09
in our hearts so
people can see Jesus in us
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we want to experience that peace
we want experience the happiness
00:58:16.12\00:58:20.16
that your law brings
so this we ask you do
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in Jesus we pray
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