Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG002915
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00:09 >> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
00:12 ILLUMINATED A WORLD VEILED IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION 00:15 ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 00:17 AND STILL TODAY THE GREATEST NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION 00:20 OF GOD'S LOVE AS REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST. 00:23 AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS, "THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL" 00:26 WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK FROM 00:29 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA. 00:33 DISCOVER HIDDEN TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY. 00:38 >> OUR MESSAGE THIS MORNING IS DEALING WITH A PLACE 00:45 THAT OFTEN APPEARS IN SCRIPTURE. 00:48 IT'S CALLED THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 00:51 AND YOU KNOW THERE ARE MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS AROUND THE WORLD THAT'S 00:55 BECOME VERY POPULAR RECENTLY, SOME ARE ROCK CLIMBERS, SOME ARE 00:59 THE HARD-CORE MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS THAT TAKE ON THE BIG MOUNTAINS. 01:04 AND IF YOU'RE A MOUNTAIN CLIMBER, VERY FEW OF THEM, 01:06 I DON'T THINK ANY OF THEM CAN SAY, "I'M GONNA CLIMB ALL 01:09 THE TALL MOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD" BECAUSE THERE'S JUST 01:12 TOO MANY OF THEM. 01:13 SO THEY SET GOALS AND THEY SAY, "WELL, I'M GONNA CLIMB ALL OF 01:17 THE MOUNTAINS THAT ARE ABOVE 20,000 FEET. 01:20 AND SOME HAVE ACTUALLY TAKEN THE GOAL OF SAYING, "I'M GONNA 01:23 CLIMB THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS OF THE WORLD." 01:26 AND WHAT THEY MEAN BY THAT IS THERE ARE THE TALLEST MOUNTAINS 01:30 ON EACH CONTINENT. 01:32 AND I THOUGHT THIS IS INTERESTING. 01:33 I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF IT'S SOMETHING I'D EVER DARE ATTEMPT 01:36 BUT FOR INSTANCE, AFRICA, WHO KNOWS? 01:39 I THINK ANTHONY'S GOING THERE SOON. 01:41 MOUNT KILIMANJARO IN AFRICA, 19,341 FEET, TALLEST MOUNTAIN, 01:46 SO THEY'D GO TO KILIMANJARO. 01:47 THESE ARE THE SEVEN TALL MOUNTAINS. 01:49 THERE'S VINSON MASSIF, WHO KNOWS WHERE THAT IS? 01:53 ANTARCTICA, THAT'S RIGHT, SMART ALECK. 01:57 THAT'S 16,500 FEET. 02:01 THEN THERE'S CARSTENSZ PYRAMID IN OCEANIA. 02:06 THIS IS THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN INDONESIA IN THE PACIFIC 02:10 AND THAT'S 16,024 FEET. 02:14 MUST BE A VOLCANO. 02:16 WHO KNOWS THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN ASIA? 02:19 EVEREST. 02:21 WE'VE ALL HEARD OF THAT ONE. 02:23 ROUGHLY 29,035 FEET. 02:26 THEY USED TO THINK IT WAS 28,000 BUT I GUESS THEY GOT A BETTER 02:28 GPS, 29,000 FEET. 02:31 IN EUROPE, THE MOUNTAINS ARE AREN'T THAT TALL THERE, 02:34 MOUNT ELBRUS, 18,000 FEET. 02:37 NORTH AMERICA, WHO KNOWS? 02:40 MOUNT MCKINLEY. 02:42 WELL, WHITNEY'S IN CALIFORNIA. 02:43 FOR NORTH AMERICA IT'S MOUNT MCKINLEY. 02:46 STEVEN AND I, A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AGO, WE FLEW UP AND 02:48 LANDED AT MOUNT--THEY CALL IT DENALI IS THE ALASKAN NAME 02:52 FOR IT. 02:54 LANDED ON A GLACIER JUST BELOW. 02:55 OH, YOU GET UP THERE AND IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE. 02:59 JUST SEEING IT, IS SO AWESOME. 03:02 AND THEN I CAN'T SAY THE LAST ONE IT'S IN SOUTH AMERICA. 03:04 IT'S ONE OF THE TALLEST OF THE ANDES, 22--BY THE WAY, 03:07 MCKINLEY'S 20,300 FEET AND THIS IS ACONCAGUA. 03:14 ONE MORE TIME. 03:17 ACONCAGUA, I BELIEVE YOU, 22,800--I WASN'T EVEN CLOSE, 03:25 WAS I--41 FEET. 03:29 THOSE ARE THE SEVEN TALL MOUNTAINS. 03:31 WELL, TODAY WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SEVEN 03:33 MOUNTAINS OF THE BIBLE. 03:34 YOU KNOW, ONE THING'S THAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THE GREAT 03:37 MOUNTAINS OF THE BIBLE. 03:38 NAME SOME OF THEM FOR INSTANCE. 03:41 MOUNT SINAI. 03:43 NO ONE'S EXACTLY SURE WHERE THAT IS. 03:45 MATTER OF FACT, MOST SCHOLARS ARE NOW PRETTY SURE IT'S NOT 03:48 THE ONE THAT HAS ST. CATHARINE'S MONASTERY AT THE TOP IN THE 03:52 SINAI PENINSULA 'CAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS MOUNT SINAI IN ARABIA. 03:55 THERE'S ANOTHER MOUNTAIN THERE IN ARABIA, JEBEL AL-LAWZ 03:59 IS THAT IT? 04:01 THAT THEY THINK THAT THEY'VE FOUND THAT'S GUARDED BY 04:03 THE SAUDI ARABIAN GOVERNMENT. 04:05 THEY'RE NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION 04:08 WAS. 04:09 IT JUST SAYS A TALL MOUNTAIN. 04:11 SOME THINK I WAS MOUNT TABOR, COULD HAVE BEEN. 04:14 SOME THINK IT WAS MOUNT GERIZIM, WE DON'T KNOW. 04:15 COULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE MOUNTAINS OF LEBANON. 04:17 AND SO A NUMBER OF THE MOUNTAINS IN THE BIBLE ARE A MYSTERY. 04:21 WE'RE PRETTY SURE WE KNOW WHERE MOUNT CALVARY WAS ON THE HILL 04:26 OF GOLGOTHA ON THE NORTH OF JERUSALEM. 04:29 BUT IF THERE'S A MOUNTAIN IN THE BIBLE THERE'S NO DOUBTS ABOUT, 04:32 IT'S THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 04:34 IT IS VERY CLEARLY DESCRIBED AND DEFINED IN THE BIBLE AND IT MAY 04:39 BE A SMALL MOUNTAIN, BUT IT IS A VERY PROFOUND MOUNTAIN 04:45 IN BIBLE HISTORY. 04:47 JUST ACROSS THE KIDRON VALLEY IT'S ABOUT 3 MILES LONG 04:51 IS THIS MOUNTAIN. 04:52 IT'S CALLED MOUNT OF OLIVES BECAUSE OLIVE TREES--IT'S GOT 04:55 JUST THE RIGHT ELEVATION. 04:57 IT'S GOT JUST THE RIGHT CLIMATE. 04:59 THEY FLOURISH THERE. 05:00 THE OLIVES WERE BIG AND RICH AND SO IT GOT THE NAME OLIVETTE 05:06 OR THE MOUNT OF OLIVES OR THE OLIVE MOUNTAIN. 05:11 MATTER OF FACT, IT HAD ONE MORE NAME I THOUGHT WAS INTERESTING. 05:14 IT WAS CALLED THE MOUNTAIN OF THREE LIGHTS, THE MOUNTAIN OF 05:18 THREE LIGHTS AND HERE'S THE REASON; IT WAS JUST ACROSS 05:21 THE VALLEY, THE KIDRON VALLEY FROM THE TEMPLE. 05:25 MATTER OF FACT WHEN YOU SAT ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, YOU HAD 05:27 A BEAUTIFUL VIEW. 05:28 ONE OF THE BEST VIEWS OF JERUSALEM IS FROM THE MOUNT OF 05:31 OLIVES 'CAUSE IT'S SLIGHTLY HIGHER. 05:33 AND YOU COULD SEE THE LIGHT WAS ALWAYS KEPT BURNING. 05:38 THERE WAS A TORCH ABOVE THE TEMPLE. 05:39 THEY KEPT IT BURNING IN THE DAYS OF CHRIST CONTINUALLY AND SO 05:42 THEY HAD THIS LIGHT TO THE WEST. 05:45 WHEN THE SUN CAME UP IN THE MORNING TO EAST, THEY HAD--THEY 05:48 CALLED THAT THE SECOND LIGHT, THE LIGHT OF THE EAST. 05:50 THE THIRD LIGHT OF THE MOUNTAIN OF THREE LIGHTS WAS THE LIGHT 05:54 THAT THE OLIVE OIL PRODUCED. 05:56 AND SO THEY CALLED IT THE MOUNTAIN OF THREE LIGHTS. 06:00 YOU MIGHT SEE THE SUN RISE, YOU MIGHT SEE THE LIGHT FROM THE 06:02 TEMPLE AND IT PRODUCED ITS OWN LIGHT FROM ALL OF THE OLIVE OIL 06:06 THAT CAME FROM THAT MOUNTAIN. 06:08 MATTER OF FACT THERE WAS AN OLIVE PRESS THAT WAS LOCATED ON 06:12 THAT MOUNTAIN, AND WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT LATER. 06:15 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, A VERY HISTORIC MOUNTAIN IN THE BIBLE. 06:19 WE'RE NOT GONNA CLIMB A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MOUNTAINS BUT WE'RE 06:21 GONNA CLAIM ONE MOUNTAIN SELF-SEVEN TIMES. 06:24 AND I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT--AND THIS IS NOT THE LIMIT BUT--SEVEN 06:28 VERY IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT TRANSPIRED ON THIS MOUNTAIN. 06:33 NOW YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING WHY WE'RE DOING THIS. 06:35 I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE TO 06:40 IT BEING CALLED THE MOUNTAIN OF OLIVES. 06:44 WHY WERE OLIVES SO IMPORTANT TO BIBLE TIMES? 06:47 THEY WERE USED FOR FOOD BUT EVEN MORE THAN THAT, 06:51 THEY WERE USED FOR OIL. 06:53 WHAT DOES OIL SYMBOLIZE IN THE BIBLE? 06:57 HOLY SPIRIT. 06:59 YOU REMEMBER THAT WOMAN IN 2 KINGS 4, HER SONS WERE GONNA 07:04 BE TAKEN AS SLAVES, HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD. 07:06 ALL SHE HAD LEFT WAS THIS LITTLE VIAL OF OIL. 07:09 SOLD EVERYTHING IN THE HOUSE BUT A LITTLE VESSEL OF OIL. 07:12 OIL WAS SO PRECIOUS BACK THEN BECAUSE THEY USED IT FOR 07:16 SO MANY THINGS. 07:17 THEY USED OIL FOR FOOD. 07:21 SHE DIDN'T WANT HER KIDS HUNGRY. 07:22 SHE KEPT THE OIL. 07:23 THEY USED IT TO ILLUMINATE THEIR DWELLINGS FOR LIGHT. 07:27 THEY USED IT FOR HEALING. 07:31 PEOPLE WERE ANOINTED WITH OIL FOR HEALING. 07:33 YOU READ THAT IN JAMES 5. 07:35 THEY USED IT FOR BEAUTY. 07:37 THEY WOULD ANOINT THEMSELVES, JESUS SAID, THEY'D ANOINT 07:39 THEIR FACES WITH OIL. 07:41 THEY USED TO THINK THAT THAT SHINE MADE THEM BEAUTIFUL. 07:44 THEY DID IT FOR WARMTH. 07:46 THEY WOULD USE IT TO LIGHT FIRES JUST LIKE YOU MIGHT USE KEROSENE 07:50 SOMETIMES AND GET SOMETHING GOING. 07:53 AND SO OIL WAS JUST IN EVERY MEDICINE CABINET. 07:56 IT WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF LIFE. 07:59 IT WAS USED TO COOK THE FOOD, IT WAS USED IN THE FOOD. 08:02 IT WAS USED TO LIGHT THE FIRE, USED TO ILLUMINATE THE DWELLING. 08:04 I MEAN JUST THE OIL WAS SO PRECIOUS. 08:07 AND SO IT WAS LIFE FOR THEM. 08:09 IT'S A SYMBOL FOR THE SPIRIT. 08:10 AND SO WHEN YOU SAY THE MOUNTAIN OF OLIVES, I WANT YOU TO BE 08:15 THINKING IN THE BACKDROP OF YOUR MIND, THIS IS A MOUNTAIN THAT 08:18 FLOWED WITH SPIRIT, WITH LIGHT, WITH LIFE. 08:23 AND JESUS CHOSE TO DO A LOT OF VERY SIGNIFICANT THINGS IN HIS 08:28 LIFE ON THIS MOUNTAIN. 08:30 AND I JUST WANT TO BRING SOME OF THOSE THINGS TO YOUR ATTENTION 08:32 TODAY. 08:33 FIRST OF ALL, IT WAS A FAVORITE PLACE FOR CHRIST. 08:36 OH, BY THE WAY, WE GOTTA--HOPE GOOGLE DOESN'T MIND, I JUST 08:39 TOOK A PICTURE FROM GOOGLE. 08:41 THIS IS JERUSALEM, I DON'T KNOW HOW OLD IT IS BUT IF YOU'VE GOT 08:44 A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF JERUSALEM TODAY, YOU SEE THE BIG WHITE 08:48 BLOCK FIGURES ON YOUR LEFT, THAT'S THE TEMPLE MOUNT THERE 08:52 WITH THE DOME OF THE ROCK TEMPLE. 08:54 YOU CAN EVEN MAKE OUT WHERE THE WALL IS THERE. 08:56 AND THEN DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THAT ARE THE THREE HILLS 08:59 OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 09:00 IT HAD THREE PROMINENT PEAKS ON IT. 09:03 AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT IT'S DIRECTLY EAST OF JERUSALEM. 09:05 CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED. 09:07 THE GARDEN TOMB, GOLGOTHA IS DIRECTLY NORTH OF JERUSALEM 09:13 AND THAT TEMPLE. 09:14 SO I JUST WANT YOU TO HAVE A LITTLE BIBLE GEOGRAPHY IN YOUR 09:16 MINDS SO WHEN YOU READ YOUR BIBLE, YOU CAN KIND OF SAY, 09:20 WHERE DID THEY GO? 09:21 THE VALLEY THAT GOES BETWEEN, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S 09:23 A ROAD THERE NOW. 09:24 BUT THE VALLEY THAT GOES BETWEEN THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND THE MOUNT 09:27 OF OLIVES ON THE RIGHT WAS THE KIDRON VALLEY. 09:30 THE BLOOD FROM THE SACRIFICES DURING THE PASSOVER, WHICH IS 09:34 WHAT TIME OF YEAR WE'RE AT NOW, WOULD FLOW FROM A TUNNEL WHERE 09:38 THE TEMPLE WAS OUT INTO THAT VALLEY AND IT USED TO RUN DOWN 09:42 THERE TO THE DEAD SEA. 09:44 NOW THAT'S SIGNIFICANT ALSO IN OUR STORY TODAY. 09:46 JESUS LIKED TO ABIDE ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 09:49 IT WAS A FAVORITE PLACE FOR HIM. 09:52 HE, OF COURSE, HAD SOME DEAR FRIENDS THAT LIVED UP THERE. 09:55 YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT MARY AND MARTHA. 09:57 IN YOUR BIBLES, AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO MAKE NOTES 'CAUSE I'M 09:59 GOING QUICKLY WITH SCRIPTURE, LUKE 21:37-38. 10:04 "IN THE DAYTIME, HE WAS TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE. 10:07 BUT AT NIGHT, HE WENT OUT AND HE STAYED ON THE MOUNTAIN 10:11 CALLED OLIVETTE." 10:13 SAME MOUNTAIN. 10:14 "THEN EARLY IN THE MORNING ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO HIM 10:16 IN THE TEMPLE TO HEAR HIM." 10:18 JOHN 7:53-JOHN 8:1, "AND EVERYONE WENT TO THIS OWN HOUSE 10:24 BUT JESUS WENT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES," THAT'S OLIVETTE. 10:29 HE LIKED TO ABIDE ON THE MOUNTAIN. 10:32 PART OF THE REASON HE LIKED TO BE UP THERE IS HE COULD LOOK AT 10:35 JERUSALEM. 10:36 HE SPENT TIME GAZING AT THE CITY THINKING ABOUT IT, PRAYING OVER 10:40 THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE. 10:42 THIS WAS HIS MOUNTAIN. 10:44 THESE WERE HIS PEOPLE AND HE YEARNED TO SEE THEM SAVED. 10:48 WE KNOW THAT HE LOOKED AT THE CITY AND HE ONCE CRIED OUT, 10:52 "OH, JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM." 10:54 HE LONGED TO SEE THOSE PEOPLE SAVED. 10:56 HE TAUGHT IN THE TEMPLE WHEN HE WAS 12 YEARS OLD. 10:58 JESUS, BEFORE HE WAS INCARNATE, IS THE ONE WHO CHOSE THIS CITY, 11:02 JERU SHALOM, CITY OF PEACE. 11:05 IT WAS TO BE A PLACE THAT WOULD BE A LIGHT TO THE WORLD. 11:10 AND MAYBE WHEN HE LOOKED UPON THAT CITY, HE THOUGHT ABOUT ALL 11:13 IT COULD BE AND HIS MIND WENT BEYOND IT TO THE 11:15 NEW JERU SHALOM, CITY OF PEACE WHERE WE WILL ALL LIVE SOME DAY. 11:21 AND SO HE LIKED TO SPEND TIME ON THAT MOUNTAIN. 11:24 ANOTHER REASON IS HE HAD SOME DEAR FRIENDS THAT LIVED 11:27 ON THAT MOUNTAIN. 11:29 YOU SEE, THERE WAS A VERY PROMINENT BIBLICAL CITY 11:31 CALLED BETHANY. 11:33 YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THAT. 11:34 THE WORD BETHANY, IT'S A MYSTERY THEY'RE NOT EXACTLY SURE BUT 11:37 IT'S SOMETHING BETWEEN HOUSE OF DATES. 11:40 THE WORD "BETH" MEANS HOUSE. 11:42 JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM, BUT THIS IS BETHANY. 11:45 IT MEANS HOUSE OF DATES OR HOUSE OF SONG. 11:49 MAYBE HOUSE OF SWEETNESS OR SONG WERE INTERCHANGEABLE, 11:52 I DON'T KNOW. 11:53 BUT IT WAS A PLACE ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, A CITY, A TOWN, SMALL 11:58 TOWN ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 12:00 THEY'RE NOT EVEN EXACTLY SURE WHERE IT IS NOW BECAUSE IT WAS 12:03 SO SMALL THAT HISTORY HAS SORT OF DISPLACED IT AND THERE'S SO 12:06 MANY DIFFERENT VILLAGES THAT HAVE SPRUNG UP. 12:09 AND HE HAD SOME DEAR FRIENDS THERE NAMED LAZARUS, MARTHA 12:15 AND THEIR YOUNGER SISTER, WHO SOMETIMES GOT INTO TROUBLE, 12:18 NAMED MARY. 12:20 SOMETIMES SHE'S CALLED MARY OF MAGDALENE BECAUSE SHE HAD LEFT 12:23 AND DWELT IN MAGDALENE, COME BACK AGAIN. 12:26 IT'S PROBABLY THE SAME MARY. 12:28 MARY OF BETHANY, MARY OF MAGDALENE, SAME MARY. 12:31 SO HE WOULD SPEND TIME AT THEIR HOUSE. 12:33 YOU PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT THE FEAST IN SIMON'S HOUSE, SIMON 12:38 THE LEPER THAT JESUS HEALED. 12:39 JESUS WENT TO HIS HOUSE AND THERE MARY ANOINTED HIS FEET, 12:44 ANOINTED HIS HEAD. 12:46 JESUS WAS ANOINTED ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 12:49 THAT WAS IN BETHANY. 12:51 MATTHEW 26:6-7, "AND WHEN JESUS WAS IN BETHANY AT THE HOUSE OF 12:57 SIMON THE LEPER, A WOMAN CAME TO HIM HAVING AN ALABASTER FLASK OF 13:02 VERY COSTLY FRAGRANT OIL AND SHE POURED IT ON HIS HEAD 13:07 AS HE SAT AT THE TABLE." 13:08 THEN OF COURSE, SHE TOOK A VIAL WITH HER TEARS AND NEXT SHE 13:12 ANOINTED HIS FEET WITH HER TEARS. 13:15 JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH, THE LAST WEEK OF HIS LIFE, A LOT OF 13:18 INTERESTING THINGS HAPPENED ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND THAT'S 13:21 THE TIME IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING RIGHT NOW. 13:24 THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR WHEN CHRIST EXPERIENCED THESE THINGS. 13:29 JESUS WAS ANOINTED AS MESSIAH WHEN HE BEGAN PREACHING 13:33 WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 13:35 THAT WAS DONE AT ANOTHER PLACE CALLED BETH--BETHPHAGE. 13:39 JOHN THE BAPTIST BAPTIZED HIM DOWN THERE, ANOINTED WITH 13:43 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 13:44 HE WAS ANOINTED AS KING AND SACRIFICED AND PRIEST 13:48 JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH. 13:51 NOW WE WOULD NEVER BE ANOINTED BY THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE DAY, 13:55 SO GOD CHOSE A VERY HUMBLE WOMAN WHO EVERYONE ELSE CONSIDERED 14:00 TO BE AN OUTCAST. 14:02 AND BECAUSE HE HAD MENTIONED HE WAS ABOUT TO DIE AND SHE HEARD 14:05 HIM SAY THAT--REMEMBER JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES VERY PLAINLY, 14:11 THIS LAST JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM, HE SAID, 14:12 "I'M GOING TO JERUSALEM, I'LL BE BETRAYED THERE. 14:15 I'LL BE HANDED OVER TO THE GENTILES. 14:17 I'LL BE CRUCIFIED, AND I'LL RISE THE THIRD DAY." 14:20 AND THE DISCIPLES HEARD HIM SAY THAT 'CAUSE THEY--THEY SAID 14:23 THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT. 14:24 MARY HEARD THAT AND SHE WENT AND BOUGHT A GIFT FOR HIM. 14:27 SHE WANTED TO ANOINT HIM. 14:28 SHE BOUGHT ANOINTING OIL FIT FOR A KING. 14:31 AND IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS THEY'RE AT THIS DINNER, 14:34 RIGHT OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 14:36 HE WAS ANOINTED. 14:38 NOT ONLY WAS HE ANOINTED AS OUR KING AND AS OUR PRIEST AND AS 14:41 OUR SACRIFICE, SHE THEN ANOINTED HIS FEET WITH TEARS. 14:46 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 14:47 WELL, IT'S YOUR WALK. 14:50 THE FACT THAT CHRIST'S FEET WERE ANOINTED WITH TEARS, THEY USED 14:53 TO COLLECT THE TEARS, YOU KNOW, IN THIS BOTTLE. 14:56 WHEN THEY CRIED BACK THEN, WHEN THEY WERE MOURNING, THEY HAD 14:58 A TEAR VIAL AND THEY CRIED RIGHT INTO THEM. 15:00 I KNOW THAT SOUNDS PECULIAR TO US, BUT THEY THOUGHT THE TEARS 15:02 WERE SACRED. 15:03 AND THEY WOULD CRY INTO THIS VIALS THAT HAD A LITTLE LIP 15:07 ON IT AND CATCH THEIR TEARS. 15:09 AND MARY PROBABLY HAD A FULL VIAL 'CAUSE SHE HAD GONE THROUGH 15:12 A LOT OF SORROW IF HER LIFE AND SHE POURED IT OUT HIS FEET. 15:15 THAT REMINDS US THAT OUR SAVIOR HAS BEEN TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS 15:20 AS WE ARE TEMPTED. 15:21 HE HAS GONE THROUGH AND EXPERIENCED OUR TRIALS. 15:24 HE'S WALKED AND EXPERIENCED AND TAKEN OUR SORROWS. 15:30 SOMETIMES GOVERNMENT TELLS US THAT THEY FEEL OUR PAIN. 15:34 WE HAVE DOUBTS. 15:36 BUT JESUS DOES FEEL OUR PAIN. 15:39 HE DOES KNOW HOW WE FEEL, SO SHE ANOINTED HIS FEET. 15:43 HE WAS ANOINTED ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES CHRIST JUST BEFORE HIS 15:46 SACRIFICE, ANOINTED ON OLIVETTE FROM HEAD TO FOOT. 15:51 SHE ANOINTED HIS HEAD, ANOINTED HIS FEET. 15:54 WE NEED TO FOLLOW JESUS' EXAMPLE. 15:58 JESUS SPENT TIME RESTING AND MEDITATING THERE ON THE MOUNT OF 16:02 OLIVES, WE NEED THAT TIME. 16:04 WE NEED A PLACE TO ABIDE IN THE SPIRIT. 16:07 HE WAS ANOINTED THERE ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 16:10 WE NEED THAT ANOINTING FROM HEAD TO FOOT AS WELL. 16:13 THE THIRD MOUNTAINTOP I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ON THE MOUNT OF 16:15 OLIVES IS WHAT WE CALL THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. 16:20 THIS IS WHERE THE MOUNTAIN TURNS INTO A PLACE OF PRAISE. 16:25 MARK 11, MATTER OF FACT, MAYBE I'LL READ THIS TO YOU. 16:29 YOU FIND THIS STORY IN ALL FOUR GOSPELS. 16:31 I'M GONNA GO TO LUKE 19, I'LL READ IT TO YOU FROM LUKE. 16:37 LUKE 19:29, "AND IT CAME TO PASS WHEN HE CAME NEAR BETHPHAGE AND 16:47 BETHANY AT THE MOUNTAIN CALLED OLIVETTE." 16:51 SO WHERE'S THIS HAPPENING? 16:52 MOUNT OF OLIVES. 16:54 "THAT HE SENT TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES AND HE SAID, 'GO 16:57 INTO THE VILLAGE OPPOSITE YOU WHICH IS ON THE OTHER SIDE THERE 17:03 AND YOU'LL FIND A COLT TIED ON WHICH NO ONE HAS EVER SAT. 17:08 LOOSE HIM AND BRING HIM HERE. 17:11 IF ANYONE ASKS YOU--'" NOW YOU'RE GONNA THINK JESUS IS 17:13 AUTHORIZING SHOPLIFTING HERE. 17:16 HE JUST BORROWED IT AND HE BROUGHT IT BACK. 17:19 BY THE WAY, HE OWNS EVERYTHING. 17:21 "IF ANYONE ASKS YOU WHY ARE YOU LOOSING HIM, YOU SHALL SAY THUS 17:25 BECAUSE THE LORD HAD NEED OF HIM." 17:28 NOW JUST FOR THE SCHOLARS HERE, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED WHEN 17:30 YOU READ THIS STORY IN MATTHEW 21 17:33 AND THIS STORY IN LUKE AND MARK, THE OTHER VERSIONS SAY 17:37 THAT THERE WAS JUST A COLT. 17:39 MATTHEW SAYS IT WAS A MOTHER WITH HER COLT. 17:42 ONE OF THEM WAS TIED, PROBABLY THE MOTHER. 17:45 THE COLT WILL ALWAYS STAY WITH ITS MOTHER, 17:47 DON'T NEED TO TIE THE COLT. 17:49 AND IF YOU TAKE ONE, THE OTHER ALWAYS FOLLOWS. 17:51 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER HAD A MOTHER BURRO AND HER COLT 17:55 BUT YOU PULL ONE AWAY, THE OTHER ONE'S GONNA STAY REAL CLOSE BY. 18:00 THEY PROBABLY TOOK BOTH 'CAUSE IT SAYS IN THE GOSPEL OF 18:03 MATTHEW, THEY TOOK THEM, THE COLT AND THE MOTHER. 18:07 THE COLT NO ONE HAD EVER SAT ON BEFORE BUT IT ONLY TALKS ABOUT 18:11 THE ONE THAT WAS LOOSED IN THE OTHER GOSPELS. 18:14 WHEN JESUS ULTIMATELY RIDES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN, MAY HAVE RIDDEN ON 18:17 THE DONKEY UP UNTIL THEY GOT TO THE PEAK OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 18:22 THEY WENT FROM BETHPHAGE 'TIL THEY GOT THE PEAK, THE VISTA. 18:25 THEY'RE GONNA BRING HIM IN AND INTRODUCE HIM AS KING. 18:27 HE THEN SHIFTED TO THE COLT ON WHICH ONE HAD EVER SAT. 18:30 IT DID NOT BUCK OR KICK. 18:32 IT WAS TOTALLY SUBMISSIVE AND COOPERATIVE, AND THAT WAS 18:35 A MIRACLE IN ITSELF. 18:36 IT WAS A MIRACLE OF PROVIDENCE THAT WHEN SOMEONE SAID, 18:39 "WHY ARE YOU TAKING THIS VERY EXPENSIVE ANIMAL?" 18:42 THEY SAID THE LORD NEEDS IT AND THEY DIDN'T QUESTION IT AT ALL. 18:47 IF YOU ARE PREPARING TO LEAVE FROM CHURCH AND I HOPPED 18:50 IN YOUR CAR WHEN YOU UNLOCKED THE DOOR AND YOU SAID, 18:52 "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" 18:52 I SAID, "THE LORD HAS NEED OF IT," I WONDER IF YOU'D ACT 18:55 THE SAME WAY. 18:57 BUT MAYBE I'LL TRY THAT LATER, SEE WHAT HAPPENS. 19:03 ANYONE HERE HAVE A LAMBORGHINI? 19:06 I JUST THOUGHT I'D-- I WOULDN'T WANT ONE OF THOSE. 19:10 ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO BACK TO OUR STORY. 19:13 SO THOSE WHO WERE SENT--I'M IN LUKE 19:32, "DEPARTED AND FOUND 19:18 JUST AS IT HAD BEEN SAID TO THEM. 19:21 BUT AS THEY WERE LOOSING THE COLT, THE OWNERS OF IT SAID, 19:23 'WHY ARE YOU LOOSING THE COLT?' AND THEY SAID, 19:26 'THE LORD HAS NEED OF HIM.' THEN THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JESUS 19:29 AND THEY THREW THEIR OWN GARMENTS ON THE COLT 19:33 AND THEY SET JESUS ON HIM. 19:35 AND AS THEY WENT, THEY SPREAD THEIR CLOTHES ON THE ROAD." 19:39 THIS WAS A SIGN OF SUBMISSION, RECOGNIZING HIM AS KING. 19:42 THE STATEMENT MADE BY THIS ACTION SPOKE VOLUMES. 19:47 ANYBODY LIVING BACK THEN KNEW WHAT THIS MEANT. 19:49 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN A PROPHET CAME FROM ELISHA 19:52 AND THE PROPHET TOLD JEHU, GOD HAS ANOINTED YOU TO BE KING. 19:56 MATTER OF FACT HE ANOINTED JEHU. 19:58 AND THE OTHER GENERAL SAID, "WHAT DID HE TELL YOU 20:00 IN THE ROOM?" 20:00 AND HE SAYS, "WELL, HE TOLD ME THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE KING 20:03 AND HE ANOINTED ME WITH OIL." 20:04 AND JEHU'S GENERALS TOOK OFF THEIR CLOTHES AND PUT THEM DOWN 20:08 AT HIS FEET AND THEY SAID, "WE'RE WITH YOU." 20:11 AND SO THEY USED TO PUT DOWN THE CLOTHES. 20:13 YOU REMEMBER WALTER RALEIGH, HE THROUGH DOWN THIS CLOAK SO 20:15 THE QUEEN, WHAT WAS ONE THAT? 20:17 VICTORIA OR ELIZABETH RATHER, COULD STEP OVER A PUDDLE. 20:20 YOU KNOW HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE GALLANT AND CHIVALROUS AND 20:22 EVERYTHING BUT, I'M NOT THROWING MY SUIT ON THE GROUND, SORRY, 20:26 LADIES, IN A PUDDLE OF WATER. 20:29 BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY DID BACK THEN TO SYMBOLIZE YOUR LOYALTY. 20:33 AND SO THE PRIESTS WERE TERRIFIED. 20:37 HE WAS BEING BOLDLY PROCLAIMED AS THE KING OF THE JEWS RIGHT 20:41 HERE WHILE THEY'RE OCCUPIED BY THE ROMANS, AND THE PEOPLE WERE 20:44 SO EXCITED AND THEY KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT WHEN THEY CALLED 20:47 HIM THE SON OF DAVID. 20:48 HE IS MESSIAH. 20:50 THIS WAS THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. 20:54 "AND THEY SPREAD THEIR CLOTHES ON THE ROAD. 20:57 THEN AS HE WAS NOW DRAWING NEAR THE DESCENT OF THE MOUNT OF 21:00 OLIVES, THEY COULD SEE THE GOLDEN GATES IN THE DISTANCE. 21:03 THE MULTITUDE OF THE DISCIPLES BEGAN TO REJOICE AND TO PRAISE 21:06 GOD WITH A LOUD VOICE FOR ALL THE MIGHTY WORKS THEY HAD SEEN." 21:10 IT BECAME A MOUNTAIN OF PRAISE. 21:11 "BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. 21:16 PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST." 21:20 SOUNDS LIKE WHAT THEY SAID WHEN HE WAS BORN, RIGHT? 21:23 ALSO WHAT THEY SAID WHEN HE DIED. 21:25 "AND SOME OF PHARISEES CALLED FROM THE CROWD, 'TEACHER, 21:28 REBUKE YOUR DISCIPLES. 21:30 DON'T LET THEM SAY THIS, CALM THEM DOWN.'" 21:33 LISTEN TO WHAT JESUS SAID. 21:34 "HE ANSWERED AND SAID, 'I TELL YOU THAT IF THESE SHOULD KEEP 21:37 SILENT, THE STONES WOULD IMMEDIATELY CRY OUT.'" 21:41 WHY WOULD THE STONES CRY OUT? 21:43 BECAUSE THIS WAS A FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY AND THERE'S NOTHING 21:45 YOU CAN DO ON EARTH TO FULFILL A PROPHECY FROM HEAVEN. 21:49 IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 21:50 YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S INTERESTING ISAIAH 55:12, 21:55 "FOR YOU SHALL GO OUT WITH JOY AND BE LET OUT WITH PEACE. 21:58 THE MOUNTAINS AND THE HILLS SHALL BREAK FORTH INTO SINGING 22:01 BEFORE YOU AND ALL THE TREES OF THE FIELD SHALL CLAP 22:05 THEIR HANDS." 22:06 GOD SAYS IF NOTHING ELSE, THE ELEMENTS, THE MOUNTAINS, 22:09 THE ROCKS, THE TREES, THEY WILL GLORIFY GOD. 22:12 AND WHEN HE HUNG UPON THE CROSS, THE ROCKS RENT, THE SUN STOPPED 22:17 SHINING, THE CLOUDS GATHERED. 22:19 EVEN CREATION ACKNOWLEDGED HIM AS KING. 22:22 SO IF THE PEOPLE WERE SILENT, THE ROCKS WERE GOING TO CRY OUT. 22:26 AND THEN HE PAUSED ALONG THE WAY. 22:29 LUKE 19:41, "NOW AS HE DREW NEAR THE CITY, HE WEPT OVER IT." 22:38 AND THIS SEEMS SUCH A PARADOX BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S PRAISING HIM 22:42 AND EVERYBODY'S REJOICING AND EVERYONE'S SO EXCITED 22:45 AND THEY'RE TAKING PALM FRONDS. 22:47 THEY'RE A SYMBOL OF VICTORY AND THEY'RE PUTTING THOSE DOWN AND 22:50 THROWING CLOTHES IN THE ROAD AND SAYING, "HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST, 22:53 BLESSED IS HE THAT COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD." 22:55 AND THEY PAUSE AND JESUS, HE TUGS ON THE REINS. 22:58 THE DONKEY STOPS AND THEN HE BEGINS TO CRY, AND THEY 23:01 COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT. 23:03 THEY WERE HOPING IT WAS TEARS OF JOY BUT THEN HE WENT ON 23:06 AND HE UTTERED SOMETHING. 23:07 HE ALSO SAYS EARLIER IN THE BOOK OF LUKE, "IF YOU HAD KNOWN, 23:11 EVEN YOU--" HE'S SPEAKING TO THE CITY IN THE JEWISH NATION. 23:15 "ESPECIALLY IN THIS YOUR DAY THE THINGS THAT MAKE FOR YOU PEACE, 23:20 BUT NOW THEY'RE HIDDEN FROM YOUR EYES." 23:22 HERE HE HAD COME, THE JEWS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY, THE RELIGIOUS 23:24 LEADER--IF THEY HAD WELCOMED HIM AS KING, HE COULD HAVE BROUGHT 23:29 IN THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM AND THEY COULD HAVE BEEN FOREMOST 23:32 IN PROCLAIMING HIM AS A KING. 23:34 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NO THREAT TO THE ROMANS 'CAUSE IT WAS 23:36 A RELIGIOUS KINGDOM, HE BROUGHT IT FIRST. 23:40 "BUT THEY'RE HIDDEN FROM YOUR EYES FOR THE DAYS WILL COME UPON 23:43 YOU WHEN YOU'RE ENEMIES WILL BUILD AN EMBANKMENT AROUND YOU 23:46 AND SURROUND YOU AND CLOSE YOU IN ON EVERY SIDE AND LEVEL YOU 23:50 AND YOUR CHILDREN WITHIN YOU TO THE GROUND AND THEY WILL NOT 23:54 LEAVE IN YOU ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER BECAUSE YOU DID NOT KNOW 23:58 THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION." 24:00 YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHEN YOUR KING'S FIRST COMING WAS HAPPENING. 24:06 THEY MISAPPLIED THE PROPHECIES ABOUT THE FIRST COMING 24:09 AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THEY WERE DESTROYED. 24:13 COULD IT BE THAT GOD'S CHURCH IS AT RISK OF MAKING THE SAME 24:16 MISTAKE AGAIN? 24:18 COULD IT BE THAT BECAUSE WE'RE MISAPPLYING THE PROPHECIES, AND 24:22 I'M SPEAKING NOW TO CHRISTIANITY IN GENERAL, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING 24:26 FOR A SECRET RAPTURE? 24:28 THEY'RE LOOKING FOR ALL THESE THINGS THAT THE BIBLE DOESN'T 24:30 REALLY TEACH. 24:33 AND BECAUSE WE'RE MISAPPLYING THE PROPHECIES, COULD IT BE 24:35 GOD'S PEOPLE ARE NOT GONNA BE READY FOR THE SECOND COMING 24:38 WHEN IT'S RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSE AND NOT RECOGNIZE 24:41 THE DAY OF VISITATION? 24:44 HE WEPT. 24:46 AND THEN, OF COURSE, HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND 24:48 HE DROVE OUT THE MONEY CHANGERS. 24:50 SO WE HAVE THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF JESUS ON THE MOUNTAIN. 24:57 AND THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING IN HERE. 25:01 HE WEEPS OVER JERUSALEM. 25:03 BUT A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY GOING BACK TO THE GEOGRAPHY, 25:05 WHEN JESUS PAUSED THERE AND HE LOOKED AT THE CITY, THE GATE 25:10 THAT HE WENT THROUGH WAS CALLED THE BEAUTIFUL GATE OR THE GOLDEN 25:14 GATE, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE BRIDGE OVER THERE 25:17 BY SAN FRANCISCO. 25:19 IT WAS CALLED THE GOLDEN GATE AND THE REASON THE JEWS CALLED 25:22 IT THE GOLDEN GATE--THERE YOU HAVE A PICTURE OF IT, 25:24 THE WAY IT APPEARS TODAY. 25:25 YOU'LL NOTICE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH IT. 25:27 IT DOES NOT HAVE DOORS. 25:28 IT IS ABSOLUTELY SEALED UP WITH MASONRY. 25:31 IT WAS CALLED THE GOLDEN GATE BECAUSE THE JEWS ALL BELIEVED 25:33 THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD ENTER JERUSALEM FROM THE EAST, 25:37 FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 25:39 BASED ON THE PROPHECY THAT YOU FIND IN ZECHARIAH 9:9, "REJOICE 25:44 GREATLY, O DAUGHTER OF ZION, SHOUT, O DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM. 25:48 BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU. 25:50 HE IS JUST IN HAVING SALVATION. 25:52 LOWLY AND RIDING ON A DONKEY, A COLT THE FOAL OF A DONKEY." 25:56 THAT WAS FULFILLED, WASN'T IT? 25:58 CHRIST CAME MEEK. 26:00 AND YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING ABOUT WHERE DOES MOUNT OF OLIVES COME 26:04 INTO THAT? 26:05 EZEKIEL 11:23, "AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD WENT UP FROM THE MIDST 26:10 OF THE CITY AND STOOD ON THE MOUNTAIN THAT IS EAST OF 26:14 THE CITY." 26:15 THEY BELIEVED THAT THE GLORY OF GOD WOULD COME FROM THE MOUNTAIN 26:18 THAT IS ON THE EAST OF THE CITY. 26:20 AND WE JUST LOOKED AT JERUSALEM. 26:21 WHAT MOUNTAIN WAS EAST OF THE CITY? 26:23 MOUNT OF OLIVES. 26:26 NOW THERE WAS A SULTAN IN 1541 WHO KNEW WHAT THE JEWISH 26:34 PROPHECIES SAID. 26:35 YOU PROBABLY HEARD OF SOLOMON I. 26:38 HE WAS ONE OF THE GREAT ARAB KINGS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST 26:42 THE CRUSADERS THAT CAME THAT OCCUPIED JERUSALEM. 26:45 HE SEALED UP THE GOTTEN GATE, WALLED UP THE CITY AND 26:48 FURTHERMORE, THEY PLANTED A CEMETERY IN FRONT OF IT 26:53 BECAUSE THEY SAID IT WOULD RENDER THE PLACE UNCLEAN. 26:56 "THE MESSIAH CANNOT COME THROUGH THE GOLDEN GATE NOW. 26:59 WE'RE GOING TO KEEP THE JEWISH MESSIAH FROM COMING BECAUSE 27:02 WE'VE SEALED THE GOLDEN GATE AND WE'VE MADE IT A DESECRATED 27:06 GROUND WITH A CEMETERY." 27:08 YOU CAN GO THERE TODAY AND YOU SEE THE TOMBSTONES 27:10 RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT? 27:11 THEY'VE NEVER MOVED THEM BECAUSE THEY FIGURE WELL, IT'S 27:13 A TOMBSTONE, CAN'T MOVE IT. 27:15 IT'S A GRAVE, THE MUSLIMS SAY IT'S SACRED TO THEM, BUT THEY'RE 27:17 THUMBING THEIR NOSES AT THE JEWS SAYING, "YOUR MESSIAH CAN'T COME 27:20 BECAUSE LOOK WHAT WE DID." 27:23 THE ONLY THING IS THEY WERE ABOUT 1,500 YEARS TOO LATE. 27:27 WHEN THEY DID IT, JESUS ALREADY WENT THROUGH THE GATE. 27:30 THE MESSIAH DID COME. 27:33 CHRIST PAUSED ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND HE WEPT OVER 27:36 THE CITY. 27:36 THAT'S STILL PART OF THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY SO I DON'T 27:38 COUNT THAT AS A SEPARATE ONE. 27:40 AND WE MAY NEED TO SPEND SOME TIME WEEPING ON THE MOUNTAIN. 27:43 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES IS A MOUNTAIN OF REVELATION. 27:48 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF THE OLIVETTE DISCOURSE? 27:53 IT'S CALLED THE--YOU'VE HEARD OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 27:56 YOU'VE HEARD OF THE BEATITUDES, OF COURSE. 27:58 THE DIFFERENT GREAT STATEMENTS OF CHRIST HAVE SOMETIMES 28:00 DIFFERENT PLACES. 28:02 THE SERMON BY THE SEA, THERE'S DIFFERENT PLACES ASSOCIATED 28:05 WITH IT. 28:06 THE SERMON IN THE UPPER ROOM. 28:08 THE OLIVETTE DISCOURSE YOU'LL FIND IN LUKE 21, PART OF IT'S 28:14 IN LUKE 17 'CAUSE LUKE GOT HIS GOSPEL THROUGH INTERVIEWS, 28:18 MATTHEW 24, MARK 13. 28:21 ONE OF THE DAYS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE, THE DISCIPLES HEARD 28:28 WHAT JESUS SAID WHEN HE REBUKED THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES AGAIN 28:31 THE LAST WEEK OF HIS LIFE. 28:33 AND THEY SAID, "LORD, I MEAN YOU KNOW YOU'RE CHURCH IS HERE 28:37 TO STAY. 28:38 YOU'VE GOT NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. 28:39 LOOK AT HOW MASSIVE THE WALLS ARE. 28:41 LOOK AT HOW BIG THESE STONES ARE." 28:42 THEY HAD SOME STONES THAT WERE LIKE 50 TONS. 28:46 AND THEY GOT JESUS TO LOOK AT THE STONES AND JESUS SAID TO 28:50 THEM, "VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU THAT THERE WILL NOT BE LEFT HERE 28:55 ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER THAT WILL NOT BE THROWN DOWN." 28:59 NOW WHEN THE TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 29:02 SOME OF THE OLD STONES REMAINED, ADD WHEN THEY REBUILT, THEY TOOK 29:06 SOME OF THOSE OLD STONES AND INCORPORATED THEM IN THE TEMPLE 29:08 DURING THE TIME OF EZRA, NEHEMIAH, LATER REFURBISHED 29:11 BY HEROD THE GREAT. 29:13 BUT CHRIST IS SAYING, "NEXT TIME, THERE WILL NOT BE 29:15 LEFT A SINGLE STONE; THAT TEMPLE WILL NEVER BE RE-BUILT 29:17 AGAIN BECAUSE I'M GONNA BUILD A NEW TEMPLE CALLED MY BODY 29:20 CALLED THE CHURCH." 29:23 THAT'S WHY HE SAID, "DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS. 29:25 IN 3 DAYS I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS." 29:28 AND THEY WERE FLABBERGASTED, THAT'S A HEBREW WORD FOR 29:35 DISMAYED, BY WHAT HE SAID. 29:39 THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. 29:41 AND SO HE WENT UP OUT OF THE CITY WHEN HE WAS DONE WITH 29:44 THE TEMPLE. 29:45 HE WENT THROUGH THE GOLDEN GATE AGAIN, WENT UP TO THE MOUNT OF 29:46 OLIVES TO ONE OF THE PLACES HE USED TO LIKE TO SIT AND LOOK 29:49 AT THE CITY AND THE SUN WOULD GO DOWN. 29:51 IT WAS JUST A BEAUTIFUL VIEW. 29:53 AND THEY DISCIPLES CAME TO HIM ALONE, THEY SAID, "LORD, 29:55 WHEN WILL THESE THINGS BE? 29:57 WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN OF YOUR COMING TO THE END OF THE WORLD?" 29:59 AND THEN HE LAUNCHED INTO THE DISCOURSE, THE OLIVETTE 30:01 DISCOURSE LOOKING AT JERUSALEM, GIVING THEM THE SIGNS OF 30:07 THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGNS OF HIS RETURN AND 30:11 DESCRIBING THE EVENTS OF THE SECOND COMING IN GREAT DETAIL. 30:15 THE GREATEST DETAIL YOU'LL FIND IN THE BIBLE, CHRIST REVEALED 30:19 THE SECRETS OF HIS RETURN FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 30:22 IT'S A MOUNT OF REVELATION. 30:24 YOU AND I NEED TO SPEND TIME ON THAT MOUNTAIN, DON'T WE? 30:26 STUDYING HIS WORD, STUDYING THE PROPHECIES, LETTING THE LORD 30:29 HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS. 30:34 HE REVEALED THE FUTURE FROM THAT MOUNTAIN. 30:36 I NEVER DID READ THE VERSE. 30:39 MARK 13:3, "NOW AS HE SAT ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES OPPOSITE THE 30:44 TEMPLE, PETER, JAMES, JOHN AND ANDREW, THE FOUR BROTHERS ASKED 30:48 HIM PRIVATELY, 'TELL US, WHEN WILL THESE THINGS BE? 30:52 WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN WHEN ALL THESE THINGS 30:54 WILL BE FULFILLED?'" WELL, OF COURSE, LATER ON THAT 30:58 WEEK HE TAUGHT IN THE TEMPLE EVERY DAY AND HE HAD SEVERAL 31:01 INTENSE SHOWDOWNS WITH THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES AND HE 31:05 DENOUNCED THEM AS HYPOCRITES AND PRETTY MUCH SEALED HIS FATE. 31:12 AS THE PASSOVER APPROACHED, HE DISTRICTED THE DISCIPLES TO GO 31:16 AND THE SAME THEY FOUND THE COLT AND THE DONKEY, THEY FOUND 31:20 AN UPPER ROOM THAT WAS GIVEN TO THEM, JUST DONATED, ALL PREPARED 31:23 MIRACULOUSLY WHERE THEY ATE THE LAST SUPPER. 31:26 AFTER HE INSTITUTED THE NEW COVENANT, THE LORD'S SUPPER, 31:32 THEY SANG A SONG THAT WENT OUT. 31:36 IT SAYS IN MATTHEW 26:30, "AND WHEN THEY HAD SUNG A HYMN, 31:40 THEY WENT OUT TO--" WHERE'D THEY GO? 31:44 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 31:47 AND JESUS CAME WITH THEM. 31:49 NOW I'M IN MATTHEW 26:36, "JESUS CAME WITH THEM TO A PLACE 31:54 CALLED GETHSEMANE AND SAID TO THE DISCIPLES, 'SIT HERE WHILE 31:59 I GO OVER THERE AND PRAY.'" THE WORD "GETHSEMANE" 32:02 MEANS OLIVE PRESS. 32:04 NOW WOULDN'T THAT BE A PRACTICAL PLACE? 32:06 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU GROW A LOT OF GRAPES IN NAPA, GOOD PLACE 32:10 FOR GRAPE PRESS WOULD BE NAPA. 32:12 YOU WOULDN'T PUT YOUR GRAPE PRESS IN IOWA WHERE THE CORN IS. 32:16 AND SO YOU'VE GOT YOUR OLIVE PRESS WHERE ALL THE OLIVE TREES 32:18 ARE, THAT MAKES SENSE. 32:21 AND THIS IS A PLACE WHERE CHRIST WENT THROUGH A CRUSHING. 32:24 YOU KNOW GETTING OLIVE OIL IS--TAKES MORE PRESSURE THAN 32:30 GETTING GRAPE JUICE. 32:33 YOU COULD THROW A BUNCH OF GRAPES IN A BARREL AND JUMP UP 32:35 AND DOWN AND YOU'LL GET GRAPE JUICE. 32:38 YOU CAN GET GRAPE JUICE BY SQUEEZING THEM IN YOUR HAND. 32:40 IN FACT THERE'S A VISION IN THE BIBLE ABOUT GRAPES BEING 32:43 SQUEEZED OUT OF THE HAND INTO A CUP. 32:46 I DARE YOU TO TRY AND GET OLIVE OIL THAT WAY. 32:50 NOW WE'VE GOT OLIVE TREES ALL AROUND OUR CHURCH. 32:54 THEY'RE BEAUTIFULLY MANICURED IN THE COURTYARD HERE. 32:57 THEY ALL LOOK LIKE POODLES TO ME. 33:00 AND THEN OUT FRONT WE'RE WORKING ON IT. 33:02 THERE'S SOME BIG ONES. 33:03 THEY'RE 40 YEARS OLD. 33:04 THEY'RE BIG OLIVE TREES. 33:07 I'VE BEEN TO THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. 33:08 THEY SAY SOME OF THE TREES THERE DATE BACK TO THE TIME OF CHRIST. 33:12 AND YOU KNOW, SUPPOSEDLY, ONE OF THE UNIVERSITIES DID A CORE 33:16 SAMPLING, THEY SAID YES, THERE ARE SOME TREES HERE THAT 33:18 ARE OVER 2,000 YEARS OLD. 33:20 OLIVE TREES ARE EXTREMELY DURABLE. 33:23 THEY'RE KIND OF LIKE THOSE BRISTLECONE PINE. 33:26 PART OF 'EM DIES AND PART OF 'EM STAYS ALIVE 33:28 AND STARTS LIVING AGAIN. 33:30 AND THEY'VE GOT SOME TREES THAT ARE JUST VERY WIDE AND SHORT 33:33 STUBBY TREES, VERY OLD ANCIENT TREES. 33:38 OUT IN THE COURTYARD HERE IF YOU PAUSE AFTER YOU LEAVE CHURCH, 33:43 YOU SNIFF A LITTLE BIT. 33:44 IF YOU'VE GOT A GOOD SENSE OF SMELL, YOU'RE GONNA THINK YOU 33:46 SMELL RANCID OIL. 33:49 AND WE'RE NOT PROUD OF THAT BUT AFTER THE OLIVES FALL AND YOU 33:52 ALL DRIVE OVER THEM BEFORE WE GET 'EM RAKED UP, VOILA, OLIVE 33:57 PRESS IN THE FRONT YARD OF THE CHURCH. 34:01 BUT TO GET THE OLIVE OIL REQUIRED A STONE, A HEAVY STONE 34:07 AND THEY LAY THE OLIVES DOWN IN THIS STONE TROUGH AND THEY'D 34:09 ROLL A STONE OVER 'EM AND THEY CRUSH OUT THE OIL. 34:13 AND THEY CONTINUED TO HEAT IT AND REFINE IT UNTIL THEY JUST 34:15 GOT THE PURE OLIVE OIL. 34:18 JESUS THERE IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, HE WENT THROUGH 34:22 A PRESS. 34:23 HE WAS REALLY CRUSHED TO THE POINT WHERE LUKE RECORDS 34:26 HE WAS SWEATING BLOOD. 34:30 IT WASN'T EVEN BLOOD THAT WAS EXTRACTED BY THE NAILS AND THE 34:34 SPEAR OR THE WHIP OR THE THORNS. 34:37 HE ALREADY BEGAN TO BLEED FOR US IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. 34:40 AND DON'T FORGET THAT, FRIENDS. 34:41 CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS DID NOT BEGIN ON THE CROSS. 34:46 CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS DID NOT BEGIN WHEN PILATE HAD HIM 34:50 FLOGGED OR WHEN HEROD HAD HIM WHIPPED OR WHEN HE WAS 34:53 ABUSED IN THE TRIAL. 34:56 CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS BEGAN AS AN OFFERING FROM HIMSELF IN 34:59 THE GARDEN WHEN HE SAID, "NOW IS THE HOUR." 35:03 BY THE WAY, WHEN HE SAYS 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS, IT'S 35:05 TALKING ABOUT HIS SUFFERINGS. 35:06 HEART OF THE EARTH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TOMB. 35:08 IT'S TALKING ABOUT WHEN CHRIST WAS IN THE CLUTCHES OF 35:11 THE WORLD, SUFFERING FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD. 35:13 THURSDAY NIGHT, FRIDAY NIGHT, SATURDAY, THREE DAYS 35:15 AND THREE NIGHTS. 35:16 IT BEGAN--HE BEGAN BLEEDING IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE THERE 35:20 ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 35:23 MATTER OF FACT, I THINK IT'S SIGNIFICANT THAT WHEN JESUS LEFT 35:26 THE TEMPLE AND CROSSED THE KIDRON VALLEY, HE HAD TO PASS 35:30 OVER THE BLOOD THAT WAS COMING FROM THE PASSOVER SACRIFICES TO 35:35 GO TO THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. 35:39 THERE'S NO WAY FOR HIM TO GET THERE. 35:41 WHEN GOING THROUGH THAT GATE, HE HAD TO STEP OVER WHERE THAT 35:44 BLOOD WAS RUNNING THROUGH THAT VALLEY TO GET THERE. 35:47 HE PASSED OVER THE BLOOD, CROSSED OVER. 35:49 IN THE GARDEN THERE HE BEGAN SUFFERING FOR THE SINS OF 35:50 THE WORLD. 35:52 EVERY OTHER TIME WHEN A MOB CAME TO ARREST JESUS AND CARRY HIM 35:54 AWAY, HE SLIPPED THROUGH THEIR FINGERS. 35:58 BUT THAT NIGHT WHEN HE TOLD HIM TO PRAY ON THE MOUNTAIN, 36:00 HE SAID, "NOW IS THE HOUR." 36:02 WHEN JUDAS CAME AND THE MOB GRABBED HIM AND HE WAS BETRAYED, 36:06 HE BEGAN SUFFERING FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE. 36:10 HE WAS PRAYING AND AGONIZING AND WEEPING AND SAYING, "NOT 36:14 MY WILL, THY WILL BE DONE." 36:16 BY THE WAY, PROBABLY OF THE EXPERIENCES THAT WE NEED TO 36:20 REPLICATE THAT CHRIST HAD ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 36:22 WHAT I JUST DESCRIBED IS THE MOST IMPORTANT EXPERIENCE. 36:24 YOU STILL WITH ME? 36:25 TO HAVE THAT PRAYER WITH CHRIST AND MEAN IT THE WAY HE MEANT 36:29 IT WHERE WE SAY, "LORD, NOT MY WILL, YOUR WILL BE DONE." 36:33 TO POUR OURSELVES OUT. 36:36 PETER TALKS ABOUT YOU'VE NOT RESISTED UNTO BLOOD. 36:40 HE TALKS ABOUT RESISTING THAT SELFISH NATURE. 36:44 IT'S JUST AGONIZING WITH THE LORD SAYING, "LORD, 36:46 NOT MY WILL, THY WILL BE DONE. 36:48 I'M TOTALLY YOURS, WHATEVER YOU WANT." 36:50 THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID THERE IN THE GARDEN, AND WE NEED TO HAVE 36:53 THAT EXPERIENCE IN THE GARDEN WITH HIM. 36:55 HE WEPT THERE. 36:56 YOU KNOW, I CAN'T READ THAT WITHOUT ALSO REMEMBERING TWICE 37:02 NOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT JESUS WEEPING ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 37:05 THERE'S REALLY THREE TIMES. 37:09 WHAT'S THE SHORTEST VERSE IN THE BIBLE? 37:11 I GOTTA ASK YOU QUESTIONS TO WAKE YOU UP? 37:13 SHORTEST VERSE. 37:14 IN HEBREW IT'S REJOICE EVERMORE. 37:18 NO, IN GREEK IT'S "REJOICE EVERMORE." 37:20 IN ENGLISH IT'S "JESUS WEPT." 37:23 WHEN DID JESUS SAY THAT OR WHEN IS THAT RECORDED? 37:28 WHEN HE RESURRECTS LAZARUS. 37:30 WHERE DID LAZARUS LIVE? 37:33 BETHANY. 37:35 I JUST WANT TO SEE IF YOU'RE HERE LISTENING TO ME. 37:37 WHERE WAS BETHANY? 37:38 IT'S ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 37:40 SO JESUS WEPT ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AT LAZARUS' TOMB. 37:44 BY THE WAY, JESUS CURSED THE FIG TREE ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 37:47 IT SAYS HE CAME OUT OF BETHANY, THAT'S WHERE HE SAW THE FIG TREE 37:52 'CAUSE IT WAS FRUITLESS. 37:54 JESUS WEPT OTHER JERUSALEM ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 37:59 JESUS WEPT IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE ON THE MOUNT OF 38:02 OLIVES. 38:04 AND WE MAY HAVE TO SPEND SOME TIME WEEPING AND PRAYING FOR 38:09 THE SPIRIT ON THAT MOUNTAIN WITH OUR LORD. 38:12 KING DAVID. 38:14 YOU KNOW, I WAS ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS WAS SIGNIFICANT. 38:17 JESUS WAS WEEPING OVER THE CITY BEING TAKEN BY THE ROMANS AND 38:22 BEING LEVELED BY AN ENEMY. 38:24 DAVID LEFT JERUSALEM, HE WENT THROUGH THAT GATE, HE WALKED UP 38:28 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND HE WEPT OVER JERUSALEM BECAUSE IT 38:32 HAD BEEN TAKEN BY HIS SON WHO HAD BECOME HIS ENEMY. 38:35 YOU READ THAT IN 2 SAMUEL 15. 38:38 "SO DAVID WENT UP BY THE ASSENT OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES 38:40 AND HE WEPT AS HE WENT." 38:43 JUST LIKE JESUS. 38:45 ALL RIGHT, BACK TO GETHSEMANE. 38:49 LUKE 22:39, "COMING OUT, HE WENT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES 38:52 AS HE WAS ACCUSTOMED. 38:53 HIS DISCIPLES FOLLOWED HIM. 38:55 WHEN HE CAME TO THE PLACE HE SAID, 'PRAY THAT YOU MAY NOT 38:58 ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.'" SO WE PRAY WITH HIM 39:02 ON THAT MOUNTAIN. 39:04 THE DISCIPLES WENT TO SLEEP ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WHEN THEY 39:06 SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWAKE AND PRAYING, SLEEPING WHEN THEY 39:11 SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRAYING. 39:13 NOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH. 39:17 GEOGRAPHICALLY HE'S ARRESTED THERE, TAKEN BACK THROUGH THE 39:23 GOLDEN GATE, NOT NOW AS A KING BUT HE'S CARRIED THROUGH THE 39:26 GOLDEN GATE NOW AS A PRISONER. 39:28 AND HE GOES THROUGH A CIRCUITOUS ROUTE THROUGH THE CITY FROM 39:32 TRIAL TO TRIAL FROM THE HOUSE OF ANNAS TO CAIAPHAS TO PILATE AND 39:36 HEROD AND ALL AROUND THE CITY. 39:38 HE ENDS UP GOING OUT OF THE NORTHERN GATE WHERE HE'S 39:42 CRUCIFIED. 39:45 WONDER WHAT KIND OF TREE JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED ON? 39:49 TYPICALLY WE SEE A PIECE OF LUMBER THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING 39:53 YOU'D SEE AT HOME DEPOT, EXCEPT IT'S MORE LIKE A 6 BY 6 THAN 39:55 4 BY 4, ROUGH CUT. 39:59 I'M ALWAYS ANNOYED WHEN I SEE PEOPLE MAKE DEPICTIONS OF 40:04 THE CROSS AND THEY GET PLANED LUMBER. 40:08 THEY DIDN'T START PLANING LUMBER UNTIL THE LAST CENTURY. 40:12 THE LUMBER CAME FROM A SAW, IT WAS WHAT THEY CALLED ROUGH CUT. 40:14 YOU MEN KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 40:16 FULL DIMENSION ROUGH CUT. 40:17 SOME OF YOU STILL HAVE IT IN YOUR HOUSES, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW 40:18 IT. 40:19 IT'S GOOD IF YOU GOT A HOUSE BUILT WITH ROUGHER-CUT LUMBER. 40:22 THERE'S MORE TO IT. 40:23 YOU GET A 2 BY 4, TODAY IT'S NOT EVEN 2 BY 4 ANYMORE. 40:27 IT'S 1 1/2 BY 2 3/4. 40:31 IS THAT RIGHT, MEN? 40:33 SOMETHING LIKE THAT OR 1 3/4 BY 2 3/4. 40:35 IT'S CAUSE IT'S BEEN PLANED, SMOOTHED. 40:38 JESUS WAS NOT CRUCIFIED ON A SMOOTH PIECE OF BOARD, 40:41 IT WAS ROUGH. 40:42 AND I DON'T THINK IT WAS FROM THE CEDARS OF LEBANON. 40:47 YOU KNOW THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE WITH THE MOUNTAIN OF OLIVES 40:50 RIGHT THERE AND THOSE OLIVE TREES FLOURISHING. 40:53 HAVE YOU SEEN HOW TALL OUR OLIVE TREES ARE OUT BACK, OUT FRONT? 40:56 YOU CAN EASILY MAKE A LONG CROSS OUT OF ANY OF THOSE LIMBS. 41:00 VERY POSSIBLE THAT JESUS WAS EVEN CRUCIFIED ON AN OLIVE TREE. 41:05 AND IF YOU GO TO ISRAEL TODAY, YOU'LL BE SURPRISED HOW MUCH 41:08 THEY DO WITH OLIVE WOOD. 41:12 SO THEY BURY HIM AND WE KNOW THE STORY. 41:17 MARY COMES. 41:18 AND I'M NOT TRYING TO MINIMIZE ONE OF THE GREAT EVENTS IN 41:21 THE BIBLE, BUT I WANT TO GET TO THE NEXT EVENT OF 41:23 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 41:25 HE ASCENDS TO HEAVEN, COMES BACK DOWN, APPEARS TO THE DISCIPLES 41:29 OVER A PERIOD OF 40 DAYS TO ENCOURAGE THEM, OPENS 41:33 THE WORD TO THEM. 41:34 AND AS JESUS PREPARES FOR HIS LAST JOURNEY UP, AT ONE POINT HE 41:39 SAYS, "MEET ME IN GALILEE." 41:41 HAVE YOU READ ABOUT THIS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15? 41:43 HE TOLD THEM HE WAS GONNA MEET WITH THEM AND 500 DISCIPLES 41:47 GATHERED. 41:48 AND NOT ONLY DID HE APPEAR TO THE TWO ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, 41:51 AND HE APPEARED TO MARY AND THE WOMEN AT THE TOMB 41:53 AND HE APPEARED TO PETER ALONE, EVIDENTLY. 41:55 HE APPEARED TO PAUL LATER ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS, BUT THERE WAS 41:59 ANOTHER TIME THAT IT SAYS HE APPEARED TO OVER 500 AT ONE TIME 42:04 THAT'S 'CAUSE HE HAD TOLD THEM "I'LL MEET YOU UP IN GALILEE." 42:07 HE APPEARED TO THEM UP ON A MOUNTAIN THERE IN GALILEE, 42:10 AND HE COULD HAVE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN FROM THAT MOUNTAIN 42:11 BUT HE DIDN'T. 42:13 HE CAME BACK DOWN TO JERUSALEM, HE APPEARED TO THEM ONE MORE 42:15 TIME IN JERUSALEM. 42:18 THAT'S WHERE HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN. 42:21 WHERE DO YOU THINK IT WAS? 42:22 LUKE 24:50, "AND HE LED THEM OUT AS FAR AS BETHANY AND HE LIFTED 42:32 UP HIS HANDS AND HE BLESSED THEM. 42:35 NOW IT CAME TO PASS WHILE HE BLESSED THEM THAT HE WAS PARTED 42:39 FROM THEM AND CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN." 42:43 IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT WHERE THAT WAS, YOU'VE GOTTA 42:46 GO TO THE BOOK OF ACTS. 42:47 LUKE ALSO WROTE THE BOOK OF ACTS. 42:49 ACTS 1:4-5, "AND BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM, HE COMMANDED 42:55 THEM NOT TO DEPART FROM JERUSALEM." 42:57 SO WHERE ARE THEY? 42:59 THEY'RE NEAR JERUSALEM, RIGHT? 43:00 "BUT TO WAIT FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER WHICH HE HAS SAID, 43:04 'YOU'VE HEARD FROM ME, FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED YOU WITH WATER 43:08 BUT YOU SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT NOT MANY DAYS 43:11 FROM NOW.' THEN THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM 43:14 FROM THE MOUNT CALLED OLIVETTE." 43:16 SO WHERE DID JESUS MAKE THE STATEMENT TO THEM? 43:19 IT SAYS THEY'RE NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM. 43:22 HE POINTS TO JERUSALEM, HE SAYS, "NOW DON'T LEAVE JERUSALEM AND 43:24 START PREACHING EVERYWHERE UNTIL YOU GET THE HOLY SPIRIT." 43:27 IT WAS ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES THAT HE ASCENDED, BUT I THINK 43:29 IT'S INTERESTING IT WAS ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 43:31 WHAT DOES OLIVE OIL REPRESENT? 43:34 HE SAYS, "DON'T LEAVE UNTIL YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT." 43:39 HE WANTED THEM TO HAVE THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT 43:41 AND THEN HE ASCENDS TO HEAVEN. 43:42 JUST BEFORE HE ASCENDS, HE GIVES THEM THE GREAT COMMISSION. 43:47 "GO YE THEREFORE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING THEM IN 43:52 THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT. 43:55 ALL AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN UNTO ME." 43:57 AND HE GIVES THEM THE GREAT COMMISSION. 43:59 WHERE IS HE STANDING WHEN HE GIVES THAT? 44:01 IT'S JUST BEFORE HE ASCENDS. 44:03 YOU CAN READ MARK'S VERSION, IT TALKS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 44:05 THE MIRACLES THAT WILL ATTEND THE MINISTRY OF THE DISCIPLES. 44:09 ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 44:11 WHY? 44:13 JUST 'CAUSE IT WAS A CONVENIENT REST STOP ON THE ROAD THROUGH 44:15 JERUSALEM OR IS THERE A REASON FOR EVERYTHING THAT GOD DOES? 44:19 I BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A REASON. 44:21 I THINK THAT MOUNTAIN FROM WHICH OIL FLOWED, THAT MOUNTAIN OF 44:26 THREE LIGHTS LIKE THE FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT. 44:29 THAT MOUNTAIN THAT OVERLOOKED JERUSALEM IS A MOUNTAIN THAT HE 44:34 CHOSE DELIBERATELY TO HELP US THINK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF 44:38 THE SPIRIT IN EVERYTHING WE DO. 44:41 IF THERE'S ANY ONE THING WE SHOULD PRAY FOR, IT'S MOUNTAIN 44:44 OF OLIVES IN OUR LIVES. 44:45 THAT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT. 44:48 IT'S THE LIGHT OF GOD'S SPIRIT IN OUR LIFE. 44:50 NOW YOU MIGHT SPEND TIME ON A MOUNTAIN WEEPING. 44:54 YOU MIGHT BE ON THAT MOUNTAIN CROWNED AS KING REJOICING. 44:59 YOU MIGHT BE ON THE MOUNTAIN BEING ANOINTED. 45:02 THERE WAS ALL KINDS OF THINGS JESUS TAUGHT THEM. 45:05 HE REVEALED THE FUTURE TO THEM ON THAT MOUNTAIN. 45:07 ALL THESE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES HAPPEN ON THAT MOUNTAIN. 45:09 THEY WERE CHARGED AND COMMISSIONED AND COMFORTED 45:11 AND TAUGHT. 45:12 THEY SLEPT, THEY PRAYED ALL ON THIS MOUNTAIN. 45:15 AND ALL OF THE THOSE THINGS THAT WE'RE DESCRIBING ARE MOUNTAINTOP 45:20 EXPERIENCES WE HAVE IF THEY'RE BAPTIZED IN THE SPIRIT. 45:24 IF THERE'S ANY SINGLE POINT THAT I WOULD WANT YOU TO GRASP 45:27 FROM THAT, IT WOULD BE WE NEED THAT BAPTISM. 45:30 NOW WE'RE NOT DONE WITH THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 45:32 IT'S STILL GONNA COME ONE MORE TIME IN THE BIBLE. 45:35 PART OF THE BIBLE IS NOT FULFILLED YET. 45:39 GO WITH ME--OH, I BY THE WAY, IF YOU GO TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 45:44 I'VE BEEN THERE, TODAY THEY'VE ACTUALLY GOT A DOME THERE. 45:47 THEY'VE GOT TWO OR THREE CHURCHES ON THE SUMMITS AND 45:49 HERE'S ONE CALLED THE DOME OF THE ASCENSION BECAUSE THEY KNOW 45:52 THIS IS WHERE HE ASCENDED. 45:53 A LOT OF PEOPLE GO AND THEY MAKE PILGRIMAGES HERE. 45:55 THEY SAY THIS WAS THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH WHERE JESUS BE TOUCHED. 46:00 AND IT'S A SACRED PLACE FOR THEM. 46:03 IT WAS ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AS HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN WHERE 46:06 HE PROMISED THAT HE WOULD COME BACK AGAIN. 46:09 REMEMBER WHEN THEY--THE DISCIPLES WERE LOOKING UP 46:11 AND JESUS DISAPPEARED OUT OF THEIR SIGHT? 46:13 TWO ANGELS SUDDENLY APPEARED, RIGHT? 46:16 THEY SAID, "MEN OF GALILEE, WHY DO YOU STAND HERE GAZING UP 46:18 INTO THE HEAVENS? 46:19 THIS SAME JESUS THAT ASCENDED FROM HEAVEN INTO HEAVEN WILL 46:23 RETURN IN LIKE MANNER AS YOU HAVE SEEN HIM GO." 46:27 WHERE, WHERE DID THEY HEAR THOSE WORDS? 46:30 PROMISE OF HIS RETURN. 46:31 THOSE ANGELS CAME, RIGHT THERE THEY'RE ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES 46:34 GAZING UP INTO THE SKY. 46:35 NOT ONLY DOES THE PROMISE OF HIS RETURN NOT ONLY HAPPEN THERE ON 46:40 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES--AND I WANT YOU TO SEE THAT PICTURE. 46:44 THERE WE GO. 46:46 THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL PAINTING BY HARRY ANDERSON, THE DISCIPLES 46:48 GAZING UP INTO THE SKY. 46:50 AND THE LAST TIME THEY SAW HIM, HE WENT UP FROM 46:55 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 46:56 WHERE DO YOU THINK HIS FEET WILL TOUCH AGAIN NEXT WHEN HE 46:58 COMES BACK TO THIS WORLD? 47:00 TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO ZECHARIAH 14. 47:07 ZECHARIAH 14:4, SPEAKING OF THE DAY OF THE LORD, "AND IN 47:15 THAT DAY, HIS FEET WILL STAND ON THE," SAY IT WITH ME, "MOUNT 47:20 OF OLIVES WHICH FACES JERUSALEM ON THE EAST." 47:25 WHY DO YOU THINK MOST CEMETERIES IN NORTH AMERICA ARE MADE 47:28 SO THAT THEY FACE THE EAST? 47:31 FROM WHAT DIRECTION DOES JESUS COME? 47:33 SUPPOSED TO COME FROM THE EAST. 47:37 "MAKING A VERY LARGE VALLEY. 47:41 HALF OF THE MOUNTAIN SHALL MOVE TOWARD THE NORTH AND HALF OF IT 47:43 SHALL MOVE TOWARD THE SOUTH." 47:45 THIS VALLEY'S GONNA BE ABOUT 375 MILES WIDE. 47:51 TALK ABOUT A GRAND CANYON. 47:53 "THE VALLEY SHALL REACH FROM AZIEL. 47:56 YES, IT SHALL FLEE AS YOU FLED FROM THE EARTHQUAKE 47:58 IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH THE KING. 48:00 THUS SAYS THE LORD, MY GOD WILL COME AND ALL THE SAINTS 48:03 WITH YOU." 48:03 SO HERE IT SAYS WHEN HE COMES WITH ALL THE REDEEMED AFTER 48:07 THE 1,000 YEARS OF LIVING AND REIGNING WITH HIM 48:09 AND GLORY IN OUR MANSIONS, HE WILL COME DOWN TO EARTH. 48:13 THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL BE FOLLOWING THROUGH THE HEAVENS. 48:16 THE FIRST PLACE HIS FEET TOUCH ON THIS DEVASTATED PLANET, 48:20 THE WHOLE PLANET IS GONNA BE IN DARKNESS FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, 48:24 IT'S GONNA BE DESOLATED. 48:25 HIS FEET ARE GONNA TOUCH THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 48:27 WHEN HIS FEET TOUCH, IT'S GONNA FORM A VERY GREAT VALLEY 48:31 AND INTO THAT VALLEY THE NEW JERUSALEM NESTLES DOWN. 48:35 SO WHEN THE ANGEL SAID CHRIST IS COMING BACK THE SAME WAY YOU 48:38 SAW HIM GO, WELL, NEXT TIME HE TOUCHES THE GROUND, 48:40 IS IT EVEN GONNA BE THE VERY SAME PLACE HE LAST LEFT? 48:45 AND THEN OF COURSE GOD WILL CREATE A NEW HEAVENS 48:46 AND A NEW EARTH. 48:47 YOU KNOW EVEN THE JEWS KNOW THAT WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES, 48:50 THE MOUNTAIN OF OLIVES IS THE MOST SACRED PLACE. 48:53 ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE CEMETERIES IN THE WORLD IS NOT 48:56 FOREST LAWN DOWN THERE IN LOS ANGELES, IT'S IN JERUSALEM. 49:00 IT'S--LOOK AT ALL THOSE GRAVES AND PUT 'EM ABOVE GROUND IN 49:03 THESE JEWISH CRYPTS, THAT'S ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 49:08 MATTER OF FACT ABOUT HALF THE MOUNT IS COVERED ALMOST ELBOW 49:11 TO ELBOW WITH THESE GRAVES. 49:13 THEY'VE JUST ABOUT RUN OUT OF ROOM TO PUT ANY OF THEIR GREAT 49:15 DIGNITARIES TO DIE. 49:17 AND BECAUSE IT'S CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST SACRED PLACE, 49:21 THEY BELIEVE THE MESSIAH WILL COME TO THIS MOUNTAIN. 49:24 AND SO THEY EVEN KNOW THAT, IT'S IN THEIR LITERATURE. 49:26 WELL, WE JUST READ IT HERE. 49:28 BY THE WAY, LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY, HE SPOKE HERE IN 49:33 ZECHARIAH ABOUT THE EARTHQUAKE AND THE DAYS OF UZZIAH THE KING. 49:37 JOSEPHUS THE HISTORIAN TELLS US THAT WHEN UZZIAH WENT INTO 49:42 THE TEMPLE TO BURN INCENSE AND HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO 49:45 AND THE PRIEST SAID, "YOU NEED TO LEAVE." 49:46 AND HE BEGAN TO GET ANGRY WITH HIM AND HE THREATENED THEM. 49:50 THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE. 49:51 HE WAS STRUCK. 49:52 THERE WAS A CRACK IN THE TEMPLE. 49:54 LIGHT CAME DOWN AND SHOWN ON HIS FACE AND HE BECAME LEPROUS. 49:58 THAT SAME EARTHQUAKE THAT HIT JERUSALEM THAT DAY--BY THE WAY, 50:02 THAT EARTHQUAKE IS WELL SUBSTANTIATED SEVERAL TIMES IN 50:04 THE BIBLE AND IN HISTORY. 50:06 THAT EARTHQUAKE THAT STRUCK THAT DAY, THERE WAS A SPLIT IN 50:09 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND A BIG LANDSLIDE THAT WENT DOWN AND 50:11 COVERED UP THE ROAD AND COVERED UP THE KING'S GARDEN. 50:15 AND SO THEY HAD THESE IMAGES IN THEIR MIND WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT 50:19 AS YOU FLED BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE IN THE DAYS OF KING 50:22 UZZIAH, THEY WERE RUNNING BEFORE THIS MASSIVE LANDSLIDE THAT 50:25 HAPPENED DURING THE TIME EARTHQUAKE OF UZZIAH. 50:29 WELL, YOU KNOW THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY ABOUT THE MOUNTAIN, 50:32 I TOLD YOU TO BEGIN WITH THE MOUNT OF OLIVES HAS THREE HILLS 50:35 ON IT, THREE PARTS OF SALVATION: JUSTIFICATION, SANCTIFICATION, 50:40 GLORIFICATION. 50:42 GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT. 50:45 THERE ARE THREE PEAKS ON EACH OF THOSE PEAKS IS A TOWER AND ALL 50:48 THROUGH HISTORY, BECAUSE THE MOUNT OF OLIVES IS HIGHER THAN 50:52 MOUNT ZION, MOUNT MORIAH WHERE JERUSALEM IS, IT WAS THE LOOKOUT 50:57 MOUNTAIN FOR ALL THE ARMIES. 51:00 THEY ALWAYS SPENT TIME UP ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES ON THOSE TOWERS 51:03 BECAUSE THAT GAVE THEM THE BEST VANTAGE POINT FROM WHICH TO SEE 51:07 WHAT WAS COMING AND TO BE PREPARED. 51:11 WELL, WE NEED TO TELL SOME TIME ON THAT MOUNTAIN LOOKING 51:14 FOR OUR LORD, AMEN? 51:17 KIND OF A LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. 51:18 I THINK THAT'S WHY JESUS GIVE US MATTHEW 24 ON THE MOUNT OF 51:21 OLIVES, ALL THE SIGNS OF HIS RETURN. 51:23 NEED TO SPEND TIME LOOKING FOR HIS COMING. 51:26 FRIENDS, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I SEE THE WORLD CHANGING 51:29 VERY FAST. 51:31 AND THE CHANGES WE'RE SEEING NOW ARE NOT JUST CHANGES IN A 51:33 STATE OR CHANGES IN THE COUNTRY, THINGS ARE HAPPENING ON A GLOBAL 51:36 SCALE. 51:37 EVERYTHING IS ALL INTERTWINED WITH THE COMPUTERS AND THE 51:41 ECONOMY. 51:42 THE FINAL EVENTS ARE TRANSPIRING UNDER OUR NOSE, AND I HOPE THAT 51:45 WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE THE ONES JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE 51:49 SAYS THAT THAT DAY CAME UPON US UNAWARE, THAT YOU DID NOT KNOW 51:54 THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION. 51:56 WE MIGHT NEED TO GET OUT OF THE VALLEY AND CLIMB UP ON THE 51:58 MOUNTAIN THERE AND SEE WHAT THE LORD IS TRYING TO SHOW US, AMEN? 52:02 WE NEED TO SPEND TIME IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE AND ASK FOR 52:05 THE FILLING OF GOD'S SPIRIT AND THEN TAKE UP OUR OLIVE TREE AND 52:09 BE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST AND FOLLOW HIM WHEREVER HE LEADS. 52:14 IS THAT YOUR DESIRE, FRIENDS? 52:17 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU IF YOU'D DO ME A FAVOR, WOULD YOU BOW 52:20 YOUR HEADS FOR A MOMENT? 52:22 JUST FORGET EVERYBODY ELSE THAT MIGHT BE AROUND YOU. 52:27 FORGET LOOKING AT YOUR CLOCK AND WONDERING WHAT'S HAPPENING 52:30 TO THE FOOD IN THE OVEN AT HOME AND JUST RECOGNIZE WE'RE 52:35 IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. 52:37 WE LOOKED TODAY AT SOME VERY IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT HAPPENED 52:41 ON A HUMBLE MOUNTAIN, BUT THAT MOUNTAIN REPRESENTS A PLACE OF 52:45 THE SPIRIT, A DWELLING PLACE OF GOD, AN ABIDING PLACE OF JESUS. 52:49 AND HE'S INVITING US TO SHARE WITH HIM IN THOSE EXPERIENCES, 52:54 TO FOLLOW HIM THERE AND LEARN WHAT HE WANTS US TO LEARN. 52:59 IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR EACH ONE OF US TO BE FILLED WITH THE OIL 53:04 OF HIS SPIRIT, THAT WE LET OUR LIGHTS SHINE. 53:07 AND MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT'S OBSCURING THAT 53:11 LIGHT OR SNUFFING IT OUT OR MAYBE YOUR LIGHT'S BEEN UNDER 53:14 A BUSH AND YOU REALLY WANT IT TO SHINE. 53:16 YOU'RE WILLING TO FOLLOW WHEREVER JESUS LEADS. 53:19 IF THE HOLY SPIRIT'S SPEAKING TO YOU RIGHT NOW AND YOU'D JUST 53:22 LIKE TO SAY, LORD, ESPECIALLY DURING THIS TIME OF YEAR WHEN 53:27 WE'RE LIVING IN THE MOMENTS OF THE PASSOVER, IF WE GO BACK 53:32 2,000 YEARS RIGHT NOW, JESUS IS 14 YEARS OLD. 53:36 HE'S ALREADY BEEN TO THE TEMPLE AND WE'RE LIVING IN THE DAYS 53:39 JUST BEFORE HIS RETURN. 53:41 YOU WANT TO BE READY. 53:43 YOU WANT TO BE TOTALLY CONSECRATED. 53:46 YOU'RE WILLING TO FOLLOW HIM AND STAY AWAKE AND PRAY. 53:49 IF YOU'D SAY, "LORD, HELP ME TO BE 100% CHRISTIAN, NOT A 50% 53:54 OR 70% BUT 100% CHRISTIAN." 53:57 IS THAT YOUR DESIRE, FRIENDS? 53:59 WOULD YOU LIFT YOUR HANDS BEFORE HIM AND SAY, "LORD, HELP ME. 54:01 I WANT TO SHARE THOSE EXPERIENCES WITH YOU AND I WANT 54:04 TO BE READY FOR YOUR COMING SPENDING TIME ON LOOKOUT 54:06 MOUNTAIN THERE WAITING FOR HIM TO COME IN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD 54:12 THE FATHER, GOD THE SON AND GOD THE SPIRIT." 54:14 THOSE ARE THOSE THREE PEAKS ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 54:17 ALL RIGHT, IF THAT'S YOUR DESIRE, THEN LET'S TAKE OUR 54:20 HYMNALS. 54:21 LET'S TURN TO 604, OUR CLOSING HYMN AND LET'S STAND TOGETHER 54:24 AS WE SING. 54:29 [MUSIC] 54:44 ♪ WE KNOW NOT THE HOUR OF ♪ ♪ THE MASTER'S APPEARING, ♪ 54:51 ♪ YET SIGNS ALL FORETELL ♪ ♪ THAT THE MOMENT IS NEARING. ♪ 54:59 ♪ WHEN HE SHALL RETURN 'TIS ♪ ♪ THE PROMISE MOST CHEERING. ♪ 55:06 ♪ BUT WE KNOW NOT THE HOUR. ♪ ♪ HE WILL COME, LET US WATCH ♪ 55:18 ♪ AND BE READY. ♪ ♪ HE WILL COME, HALLELUJAH! ♪ 55:25 ♪ HALLELUJAH! ♪ ♪ HE WILL COME ♪ 55:28 ♪ IN THE CLOUDS OF ♪ ♪ HIS FATHER'S BRIGHT GLORY ♪ 55:35 ♪ BUT WE KNOW NOT THE HOUR. ♪ 55:43 >> THIS IS A GREAT SONG 'CAUSE IT REMINDS US OF THE EMINENCE OF 55:47 JESUS COMING. 55:48 WE MAY NOT KNOW THE DAY AND THE HOUR, BUT WE CAN KNOW 55:50 WHEN IT'S NEAR. 55:52 BUT THIS SONG IS ONLY REALLY GREAT IF WE SING IT TRIUMPHANTLY 55:56 AS IT IS A PROCLAMATION THAT JESUS IS COMING. 56:00 AND SO I'D LIKE TO HEAR EVERYBODY. 56:02 WE'RE GONNA SING THE LAST VERSE. 56:03 I'VE GONE A LITTLE OVER TODAY, BUT I WANT TO HEAR YOU'RE REALLY 56:05 COMPENSATING BY SINGING WITH ALL YOUR HEARTS, AMEN? 56:07 VERSE 3. 56:12 ♪ WE'LL WATCH AND WE'LL PRAY, ♪ ♪ WITH OUR LAMPS TRIMMED ♪ 56:19 ♪ AND BURNING. ♪ ♪ WE'LL WORK AND WE'LL WAIT ♪ 56:23 ♪ 'TIL THE MASTER'S RETURNING. ♪ ♪ WE'LL SING AND REJOICE, ♪ 56:31 ♪ EVERY OMEN DISCERNING, ♪ ♪ BUT WE KNOW NOT THE HOUR. ♪ 56:43 ♪ HE WILL COME, LET US ♪ ♪ WATCH AND BE READY. ♪ 56:50 ♪ HE WILL COME, HALLELUJAH! ♪ ♪ HALLELUJAH! ♪ 56:57 ♪ HE WILL COME IN THE CLOUDS ♪ ♪ OF HIS FATHER'S BRIGHT GLORY ♪ 57:06 ♪ BUT WE KNOW NOT THE HOUR. ♪ 57:15 >> AMEN. 57:17 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT HE'S COMING SOON? 57:20 THAT MEANS YOU'RE AN ADVENTIST. 57:22 LET'S PRAY. 57:25 LOVING LORD, WE INVITE YOUR BLESSING TO BE ON EVERY LIFE 57:30 REPRESENTED HERE, EVEN THOSE WHO MAY BE LISTENING NOW THROUGH 57:34 A CD OR A TAPE. 57:37 AND I PRAY THAT WE CAN TRACK JESUS THROUGH THE BIBLE AND JOIN 57:42 HIM ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, THAT WE MIGHT HAVE A SPIRIT-FILLED 57:46 EXPERIENCE. 57:48 LORD, I PRAY THAT WE CAN BE CHRISTIANS, 57:51 NOT JUST IN OUR PROFESSION. 57:53 WE DON'T WANT TO BE SIMPLY NOMINAL CHRISTIANS IN NAME, BUT 57:56 WHEN YOU LOOK FROM HEAVEN ON OUR HEARTS, HELP US TO BE GENUINE 57:59 AND WE PRAY FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT. 58:02 AS WE GO FROM THIS PLACE, BE WITH US AND HELP US 58:05 TO REPRESENT YOU. 58:06 WE PRAY IN CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN. |
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