>>(CRICKETS) (SPRINKLERS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC) (DOG BARKING)
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(FIRE ALARM)
>>MOMMY, DADDY, HELP ME.
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>>NO, I DON'T THINK SO.
YOU DIDN'T DO VERY WELL ON YOUR
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REPORT CARD THIS
LAST QUARTER SO, NO.
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>>YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PULLING
YOUR WEIGHT AROUND HERE LATELY.
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YOU WANT HELP? WELL, I WANTED
HELP WITH THE DISHES LAST NIGHT.
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HELP YOURSELF. >>HUH?
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>>HONEY, DID YOU BRING THE
MARSHMALLOWS? (SIRENS) (MUSIC)
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>>EVERY NOW AND
THEN, IN THE PANORAMA OF
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HISTORY, WE HEAR ABOUT
INDIVIDUALS THAT GO FROM THE
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LOWEST DEPTHS TO THE
HIGHEST PINNACLES. THEY EMERGE
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FROM THE SHACKLES OF PRISON
TO LEAD AND INSPIRE A NATION.
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TAKE JOSEPH, FOR INSTANCE: HE'S
SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS AS A SLAVE,
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THEN FALSELY ACCUSED
AND THRUST INTO PRISON.
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YET, THROUGH A SERIES OF DIVINE
CIRCUMSTANCES, HE MIRACULOUSLY
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GOES FROM THE PRISON TO THE
PALACE, RULING THE ONES WHO ONCE
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IMPRISONED HIM.
SOUND FAR-FETCHED?
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IT'S HAPPENED IN
HISTORY MORE THAN YOU THINK.
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SOUTH AFRICA IS THE
HOME OF JUST SUCH A LEADER.
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NELSON MANDELA WORKED TIRELESSLY
TO ESTABLISH PEACE AND FREEDOM
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IN HIS COUNTRY AND HIS INFLUENCE
WAS FELT AROUND THE WORLD.
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BEFORE FREEDOM,
THERE MUST BE FORGIVENESS.
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LIKE JOSEPH, WHO WAS UNJUSTLY
ACCUSED OF A CRIME HE DID NOT
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COMMIT, NELSON MANDELA
WAS ACCUSED OF TERRORISM AND
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SENTENCED TO LIFE IN
PRISON ON ROBIN ISLAND.
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HE WAS OFTEN EXPOSED TO
CRUEL PUNISHMENT AND ABUSE.
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BUT EVEN IN THE MIDST
OF APPARENT FAILURE AND
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DISCOURAGEMENT, HE NEVER
LOST HEART AND HE NEVER GAVE UP.
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AFTER YEARS IN PRISON, A GROWING
NUMBER OF SUPPORTERS RALLIED FOR
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HIS RELEASE AND
EVENTUALLY IT TOOK PLACE.
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AND GOD USED HIM SO THAT HE
WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING TO
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ABOLISH RACIAL SEGREGATION
IN THE COUNTRY OF SOUTH AFRICA.
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INCREDIBLY, HE NOW WAS,
VIRTUALLY, THE ABSOLUTE LEADER
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IN THE COUNTRY
THAT HAD IMPRISONED HIM.
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HE HAD ALL THE TOOLS AND
THE POWER AT HIS DISPOSAL TO GET
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EVEN WITH THE PRISON GUARDS AND
OTHERS THAT HAD MISTREATED HIM.
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INSTEAD, MANDELA
CHOSE FORGIVENESS.
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IT REMINDS ME OF THAT VERSE IN
THE BIBLE IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER
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4, VERSE 31, "LET ALL
BITTERNESS, WRATH, ANGER,
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CLAMOR, AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT
AWAY FROM YOU, WITH ALL MALICE.
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AND BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER,
TENDERHEARTED, FORGIVING ONE
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ANOTHER, EVEN AS GOD
IN CHRIST FORGAVE YOU."
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I'M SO THANKFUL THAT NELSON
MANDELA, LIKE JOSEPH, CHOSE TO
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FORGIVE THOSE WHO WERE ONCE HIS
ENEMIES, AND TO SERVE HIS NATION
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WITH LOVE AND COURAGE.
YOU CAN FIND A NUMBER OF
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EXAMPLES OF THIS
HAPPENING IN THE BIBLE.
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YOU HAVE DANIEL, WHO WAS A
CAPTIVE FROM THE LAND OF JUDAH,
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AND YET GOD ARRANGED THINGS
WHERE HE BECOMES THE PRIME
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MINISTER IN THE KINGDOM OF
BABYLON. YOU HAVE ESTHER, WHO
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WAS A POOR ORPHAN GIRL IN
PERSIA, AND YET GOD WORKED
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THINGS OUT WHERE SHE BECOMES
THE QUEEN OF THAT COUNTRY.
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THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH ENDS WITH
AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF A YOUNG
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KING NAMED JEHOIACHIN, WHO WAS
IN A BABYLONIAN DUNGEON FOR 37
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YEARS AND THEN KING
EVIL-MERODACH HAS MERCY ON HIM
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AND HE HAD A NEW STATUS, GOING
FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE.
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THIS IS WHAT THE LORD WANTS
TO DO FOR YOU AND ME, FRIENDS.
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HE GIVES YOU THE BREAD OF LIFE.
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HE GIVES YOU THE ROBE
OF JESUS' RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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HE GIVES YOU A
SEAT AT HIS TABLE.
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IF YOU ACCEPT HIS FORGIVENESS
AND YOU'RE WILLING TO PASS IT
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ON, YOU AND I CAN
LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST.
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WOULDN'T YOU LIKE
THAT EXPERIENCE? (MUSIC)
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>>THIS MORNING WE'RE
CONTINUING WITH THE SERIES THAT
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WE BEGAN A FEW WEEKS AGO,
TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD.
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AND THIS WOULD REALLY BE THE
THIRD PRESENTATION, BUT TODAY
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WE'RE DEALING WITH
THE SECOND COMMANDMENT.
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WE HAD ONE SABBATH WE DEDICATED
TO AN INTRODUCTION, AND THEN WE
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TALKED ABOUT THE
FIRST COMMANDMENT.
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TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING
ABOUT THE SECOND COMMANDMENT AND
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IT DEALS WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE
IMAGE OF GOD - THAT'S THE TITLE
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THAT I'VE GIVEN
TO TODAY'S MESSAGE.
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NOW, I DID A LITTLE RESEARCH AND
FOUND OUT THAT THERE'S A REAL
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DANGER - MORE THAN I THOUGHT
- WITH TEXTING AND DRIVING.
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23-PERCENT - I HAD NO IDEA IT
WAS SO HIGH - 23-PERCENT OF AUTO
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COLLISIONS
INVOLVE CELL PHONES NOW.
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JUST THINK ABOUT THAT - TEXTING
WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING MAKES YOUR
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CRASH - SAME NUMBER -
23-PERCENT MORE LIKELY.
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13-PERCENT OF TEENS ADMITTED TO
TEXTING OR TALKING IMMEDIATELY
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BEFORE A WRECK - 13-PERCENT -
YET 77-PERCENT OF YOUNG ADULTS
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THINK THEY CAN TEXT
SAFELY WHILE DRIVING.
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WE ALL ARE SURE THAT
WE'RE - WE CAN DO IT SAFELY.
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YOU KNOW WHAT
THE REAL DANGER IS?
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WHEN YOU ARE TEXTING WHEN YOU'RE
DRIVING OR WHEN YOU'RE GIVING
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YOUR ATTENTION TO THE SCREEN
OF YOUR PHONE, EVEN IF IT'S JUST
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FOR A SECOND, IF YOU'RE DRIVING
55 MILES AN HOUR, YOU WILL COVER
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THE DISTANCE OF A FOOTBALL FIELD
IN THE TIME IT TAKES TO READ AND
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SEND A TEXT. A LOT
OF THINGS CAN HAPPEN
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DURING THAT TIME, WHERE SOMEONE
CHANGES LANES OR YOU CAN SWERVE
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OUT OF YOUR LANE
INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC.
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I READ THE TESTIMONY, LAST
NIGHT, OF A NEWS REPORTER IN
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TEXAS WHO SAID, 'I WAS ONE OF
THOSE PEOPLE WHO CONSTANTLY HAD
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MY PHONE.' EVEN WHEN HER KIDS
WERE IN THE CAR SHE'D BE TEXTING
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AND TALKING AND SENDING MESSAGES
AND RECEIVING THEM, KIND OF
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DRIVING ON THE SIDE WHILE
COMMUNICATING WITH HER DEVICE -
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WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION,
SWERVED, HIT A GUARDRAIL,
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FLIPPED, ROLLED UP AGAINST A
TREE, CAR CAUGHT ON FIRE, AND
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SHE WAS TWENTY MINUTES IN
THE CAR WHILE IT WAS ON FIRE.
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THEY FINALLY EXTINGUISHED
IT - SHE HAD SEVERE BURNS - SHE
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SURVIVED AND SHE'S GOING TO BE
OKAY, BUT NOW SHE DEDICATES THE
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REMAINDER OF HER LIFE TO -
OR SHE'S DEDICATING HER TIME TO
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EDUCATING PEOPLE ABOUT THE
DANGERS - SHE HAD NO IDEA - AND
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SHE SAID SHE WAS THANKFUL HER
KIDS WERE NOT IN THE CAR THAT
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DAY. SHE'S THANKFUL THAT
SHE DIDN'T HIT SOMEBODY ELSE.
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SHE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT SHE
WAS PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE.
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THE DANGER IS, THAT IF YOU'RE
TEXTING WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING,
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YOU LOSE YOUR SITUATIONAL
AWARENESS OF THE PANORAMA OF
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WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU.
TO BE A GOOD DRIVER YOU NEED TO
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HAVE YOUR HEAD UP AND YOU
NEED TO BE DRIVING FIVE CARS:
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>>AMEN. >>YOU NEED
TO BE DRIVING THE CAR
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IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU NEED TO
BE DRIVING THE CAR ON YOUR RIGHT
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AND ON YOUR LEFT, YOU NEED
TO BE LOOKING IN YOUR REAR-VIEW
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MIRROR AND DRIVING THE CAR
BEHIND YOU, AND YOU NEED TO
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DRIVE THE ONE
YOU'RE SITTING IN. >>AMEN.
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>>AND WHEN YOU, FOR A MOMENT,
PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN AND YOU LOOK
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AT THE PHONE, WELL, IT'S A FORM
OF IDOLATRY, BECAUSE YOU'VE LOST
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THE BIG PICTURE AND YOU'RE
FOCUSING ON SOMETHING VERY SMALL
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AND YOU LOSE THE BIG PERSPECTIVE
OF WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND YOU.
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>>AMEN. >>YOU
MIGHT THINK THAT'S A
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STRANGE ILLUSTRATION TO
INTRODUCE THE MESSAGE OF
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IDOLATRY, BUT I THINK IT
GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF THE RADICAL
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING FOCUSED
ON GOD, WHO IS A SPIRIT, AND
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BRINGING HIM DOWN TO A LITTLE
WOODEN OBJECT - OR PORCELAIN, OR
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PLASTIC JESUS ON YOUR DASHBOARD
- YOU KIND OF LOSE THE BIG
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PICTURE WHEN YOU GET
INVOLVED IN IDOLATRY.
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AND THAT'S WHAT IT TALKS
ABOUT THERE IN THAT COMMANDMENT.
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SO, IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES
- APPROPRIATE TO GO TO EXODUS
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CHAPTER 20 AND WE'LL READ
THAT COMMANDMENT TOGETHER.
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NOW THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
IS NOT THAT FAR AWAY FROM THE
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FIRST, OBVIOUSLY, BUT WHAT
I MEANT BY IT IS IN ITS THEME.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT HE TELLS US,
IN VERSE 2 OF EXODUS 20 "I AM
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THE LORD YOUR GOD, WHO BROUGHT
YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,
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OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE.
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YOU SHALL HAVE NO
OTHER GODS BEFORE ME."
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NOW THAT'S A
SEPARATE DISTINCT COMMANDMENT.
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THE SECOND COMMANDMENT THEN
SAYS, IN VERSE 4, "YOU SHALL NOT
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MAKE FOR YOURSELF A CARVED IMAGE
- ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING THAT
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IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS
IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS
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IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH;
YOU SHALL NOT BOW DOWN TO THEM
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NOR SERVE THEM. FOR
I, THE LORD YOUR GOD, AM
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A JEALOUS GOD, VISITING THE
INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE
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CHILDREN TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH
GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO HATE
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ME, BUT SHOWING MERCY TO
THOUSANDS, TO THOSE WHO LOVE
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ME AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS."
ONE THING UNIQUE ABOUT THIS
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COMMANDMENT IS THAT
IT USES THE WORD 'LOVE.'
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>>AMEN. >>IN THIS
SECOND COMMANDMENT YOU
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FIND WHERE GOD SAYS, 'LOVE ME
AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS' SO IN
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THIS COMMANDMENT IS THE KEY
TO THE WHOLE LAW, IN A SENSE.
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YOU CAN'T KEEP GOD'S
LAW UNLESS YOU LOVE HIM.
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AND IDOLATRY, BASICALLY, REDUCES
THE PICTURE OF WHO GOD IS.
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NOW, FOR EVERY NEGATIVE IN
THE BIBLE, IT'S FOLLOWED OR
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CONNECTED WITH A
POSITIVE. THE NEGATIVE IMPLIES
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THE POSITIVE. THE
COMMAND TO ABSTAIN FROM
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FALSE WORSHIP IS REALLY
ALSO A COMMAND TO PARTICIPATE
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IN TRUE WORSHIP. >>AMEN.
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>>SO WHEN GOD IS SAYING, 'DO NOT
WORSHIP IDOLS', IT'S IMPLIED 'SO
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THAT YOU CAN WORSHIP ME
IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.'
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GOD IS A LIVING GOD.
NOW, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW,
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RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS
SUBJECT ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
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AND ON IDOLATRY, IN PARTICULAR,
THAT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS, ALL CHURCHES AGREE
THAT THERE ARE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
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NOT ALL CHURCHES AGREE ON HOW
TO DIVIDE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
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I'VE GOT A PICTURE HERE,
FOR INSTANCE, OUT IN FRONT OF A
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CATHOLIC CHURCH, OF HOW THE
CATHOLICS OFFICIALLY DIVIDE THE
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TEN COMMANDMENTS - I WANT YOU
TO NOTICE SOMETHING: IN THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS THEY'VE GOT THE
FIRST ONE, 'I AM THE LORD YOUR
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GOD'. THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
SAYS, YOU'LL NOT TAKE THE NAME
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OF THE LORD YOUR GOD IN VAIN,
FOR THE LORD WILL NOT HOLD HIM
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GUILTLESS - AND
YOU'RE GOING, 'WAIT A SECOND.
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WHERE'S THE
COMMANDMENT ON IDOLATRY?'
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WELL, IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES,
THEY BELIEVE THAT THE FIRST
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COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS 'DON'T
HAVE OTHER GODS BEFORE ME' -
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THAT SORT OF ENCOMPASSES
EVERYTHING ELSE AND THEN THEY
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JUMP TO THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
AND THEY CALL IT THE SECOND.
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BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH
IDOLATRY AND THERE ARE SO MANY
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IMAGES AND IDOLS AND PRAYING TO
STATUES IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
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IT'S A LITTLE BIT EMBARRASSING
AND SO THEY SAY, 'WELL, THAT,
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SORT OF, IS COVERED IN A
SWEEPING WAY IN THE FIRST
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COMMANDMENT.' AND THEY'RE NOT
THE ONLY ONES. THERE ARE SOME
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OTHER CHURCHES - DENOMINATIONS -
THAT DIVIDE THE TEN THIS WAY AND
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YOU SAY, 'WELL, HOW DO THEY COME
UP WITH TEN COMMANDMENTS THEN?'
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WELL, WHAT THEY DO IS THEY
BASICALLY ELIMINATE THE SECOND
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COMMANDMENT AND THEY SPLIT
THE TENTH IN TWO - WHERE IT SAYS
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YOU'RE NOT TO COVET - THEY SAY,
'WELL, HALF OF IT'S 'DON'T COVET
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YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE AND YOUR
NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND THE OTHER
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HALF IS DON'T COVET HIS
DONKEY AND HIS OTHER THINGS.
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AND SO THEY SPLIT THAT IN TWO
AND THEY MAKE IT TWO DIFFERENT
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COMMANDMENTS, BUT I
THINK THAT DEFIES LOGIC.
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I THINK IT'S PRETTY
CLEAR THAT GOD SAYS,
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'FIRST, I AM THE
LORD' - IT TALKS ABOUT WHO.
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THE SECOND COMMANDMENT TELLS
ABOUT HOW - IT TELLS ABOUT HIS
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NAME, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE
THIRD COMMANDMENT, AND IT TELLS
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ABOUT WHEN, WHEN IT TALKS
ABOUT THE SABBATH FOR WORSHIP.
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SO EVERYTHING IS COVERED ABOUT
WORSHIPING GOD IN THOSE FIRST
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FOUR COMMANDMENTS. AND I
HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THE
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DIVISION OF THE LAW AT ANOTHER
TIME, BUT JUST SO YOU'LL KNOW,
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YOU MIGHT WONDER,
'WELL, I THOUGHT I SAW THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS POSTED SOMEWHERE
AND THIS PART ABOUT THE IDOLATRY
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DIDN'T APPEAR.' CHECK
YOUR BIBLE - IT'S IN THE BIBLE.
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IT'S NOT OUT IN FRONT OF
SOME CHURCHES AND THAT'S BECAUSE
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THERE'S SOME COMPROMISE
HAPPENING THERE AND IT'S
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EMBARRASSING SO THEY TRY TO
AVOID IT. NOW AGAIN, THESE ARE
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NOT THE TEN SUGGESTIONS,
THEY'RE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
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GOD COMMANDS US NOT TO
MAKE IDOLS AND BOW BEFORE THEM.
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REVELATION 22, VERSE 15,
SPEAKING OF THOSE WHO ARE SAVED
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AND THOSE WHO ARE LOST, IT
SAYS, 'OUTSIDE - OUTSIDE THE NEW
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JERUSALEM ARE DOGS AND
SORCERERS, SEXUALLY IMMORAL,
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MURDERERS, AND IDOLATERS, AND
WHOEVER LOVES AND PRACTICES A
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LIE. SO IDOLATRY
IS SANDWICHED RIGHT
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BETWEEN LYING AND MURDER.
IT OBVIOUSLY IS SOMETHING THAT
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GOD IS DISCOURAGING, SO
WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THAT IS.
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WHEN WE TALK ABOUT IDOLATRY
THERE'S TWO EXTREMES I OFTEN
00:13:42.12\00:13:44.59
FIND THAT PEOPLE GO TO. ONE
IS THEY READ THE COMMANDMENT
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PARTIALLY AND THEY THINK THIS
IS A MANDATE AGAINST MAKING A
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PHOTOGRAPH OR ANY KIND OF A
REPRESENTATION OF ANYTHING - ANY
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KIND OF A LIKENESS OF ANYTHING.
SO THEY TAKE IT TO THAT EXTREME.
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THEN OTHERS READ IT AND THEY
SAY, 'WELL, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW
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IT'S NOT REALLY MARY, I CAN PRAY
IN FRONT OF A STATUE OF MARY - I
00:14:02.27\00:14:06.61
KNOW IT'S NOT REALLY MARY,
IT JUST HELPS ME THINK OF MARY.'
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AND THAT'S THE OTHER ERROR.
THERE'S NOT A BUDDHIST IN THE
00:14:11.05\00:14:15.15
WORLD WHEN THEY BOW BEFORE A
STATUE OF BUDDHA, THAT REALLY
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THINKS THAT THAT GOLDEN OR
PORCELAIN OBJECT IS THE ACTUAL
00:14:19.52\00:14:23.76
BUDDHA. THEY ALL KNOW THAT
IT'S JUST A REPRESENTATION.
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AND THAT'S THE VERY THING
GOD FORBIDS US FROM DOING.
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IT DOESN'T MEAN IF YOU THINK
IT'S REALLY THAT BEING, BECAUSE
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EVEN AMONG THE PAGANS, WHEN THEY
HAD ALL THESE STATUES OF APOLLO
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ALL OVER THE KINGDOM, THEY KNEW
WHEN THEY WERE BOWING DOWN TO
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THOSE STATUES, THAT WASN'T
ACTUALLY THE SUN GOD BECAUSE
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THEIR NEIGHBOR HAD
ONE IN HIS LIVING ROOM.
00:14:45.11\00:14:47.18
AND SO, THEY KNEW IT
WAS A REPRESENTATION.
00:14:47.18\00:14:49.32
SO YOU HAVE SOME PEOPLE WHO WILL
ARGUE, 'WELL, I KNOW IT'S NOT
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ACTUALLY ST. PETER' OR 'I KNOW
IT'S NOT ACTUALLY MARY' - OR
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ST. JOSEPH OR ONE OF THE OTHER
SAINTS - BUT IF YOU'RE MAKING
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SOMETHING AND BOWING DOWN BEFORE
IT AND PRAYING IN FRONT OF IT,
00:14:59.43\00:15:02.96
THAT'S WHERE IT
TURNS INTO IDOLATRY.
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AND SO THOSE ARE
THE TWO EXTREMES.
00:15:04.77\00:15:07.50
NOW, I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO A
STORY IN THE BIBLE THAT HELPS
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SET THIS UP. TURN
WITH ME TO REVELATION - I'M
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SORRY, ACTS - ACTS CHAPTER 17,
VERSE 22 - ACTS 17:22 - THERE'S
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A STORY HERE THAT -
IDOLATRY IS A BIG PROBLEM.
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IF YOU READ THROUGH THE
OLD TESTAMENT, YOU'LL SEE THAT
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THAT'S WHERE ISRAEL
KEPT FALLING AND JUDAH.
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FOR JEWS, IT WAS EASIER FOR
PEOPLE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN EMPIRE
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TO ACCEPT A LOT OF
THE TEACHINGS OF JEWS.
00:15:36.03\00:15:39.33
THEY COULD GIVE UP THE UNKOSHER
FOODS, THEY WOULD SUBMIT TO
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CIRCUMCISION - ALL KINDS OF
THINGS THEY REALLY APPRECIATED
00:15:43.61\00:15:46.34
ABOUT JUDAISM. THE
THING THAT WAS ONE OF THE
00:15:46.34\00:15:48.81
HARDEST THINGS TO EMBRACE WAS TO
GIVE UP THEIR IDOLS BECAUSE THEY
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THOUGHT, HOW CAN YOU
WORSHIP A GOD THAT YOU CAN'T SEE
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- AN INVISIBLE GOD?'
SO PAUL DEALT WITH THIS
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EVERYWHERE HE WENT. ONE
OF THE PRINCIPLE BATTLES
00:16:01.26\00:16:03.43
THEY STRUGGLED WITH, WITH THE
CHRISTIAN RELIGION, WAS HELPING
00:16:03.43\00:16:06.09
PEOPLE GET THE
VICTORY OVER THEIR IDOLS.
00:16:06.09\00:16:08.46
IF YOU LOOK IN ACTS CHAPTER
17:22 IT SAYS, "THEN PAUL STOOD
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IN THE MIDST OF THE AREOPAGUS
AND SAID," - HERE HE IS IN
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ATHENS, GREECE. HE
SEES AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK
00:16:15.90\00:16:18.81
IN THE THEATER
THERE AND HE SEIZES THIS
00:16:18.81\00:16:21.48
OPPORTUNITY TO
PREACH. THEY FIGURE, 'HERE'S
00:16:21.48\00:16:23.58
A JEWISH PHILOSOPHER.
WHAT'S HE GOT TO SAY?'
00:16:23.58\00:16:26.55
HE SAID, "MEN OF ATHENS, I
PERCEIVE THAT IN ALL THINGS YOU
00:16:26.55\00:16:29.72
ARE VERY RELIGIOUS;" - OR
SUPERSTITIOUS - "FOR AS I WAS
00:16:29.72\00:16:32.72
PASSING THROUGH AND CONSIDERING
THE OBJECTS OF YOUR WORSHIP," -
00:16:32.72\00:16:35.82
LINING THE ROADS -
THE ROMAN ROADS IN ATHENS.
00:16:35.82\00:16:40.43
EVEN THOUGH ATHENS WAS GREEK,
THE ROMANS HAD BUILT THE ROADS
00:16:40.43\00:16:42.96
THERE. THEY HAD
THESE PEDESTALS AND
00:16:42.96\00:16:45.13
THEY HAD GODS DEDICATED ON ALL
THE PEDESTALS - THERE WERE MORE
00:16:45.13\00:16:48.54
GODS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE THAN
THERE WERE TREES IN THE FOREST.
00:16:48.54\00:16:52.37
THEY HAD GODS TO EVERYTHING AND
THEY HAD MULTIPLE COPIES OF THE
00:16:52.37\00:16:55.44
SAME GOD. AND AS PAUL WAS
PASSING DOWN HE SAID, 'I NOTICED
00:16:55.44\00:16:59.08
ONE THAT WAS DEDICATED TO -
AN INSCRIPTION: THE UNKNOWN GOD.
00:16:59.08\00:17:05.29
NOW I'VE ACTUALLY GOT A
PICTURE ON THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW.
00:17:05.29\00:17:07.72
YOU CAN SEE A PICTURE -
AN ARTIST'S DEPICTION OF PAUL
00:17:07.72\00:17:10.49
PREACHING THERE, IN ATHENS,
AND THEN THERE'S A PEDESTAL. NOW
00:17:10.49\00:17:13.53
THAT PEDESTAL YOU'RE LOOKING AT
IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF A VERY REAL
00:17:13.53\00:17:17.63
ALTAR THAT CAN BE FOUND ON THE
PALENTINE HILL IN ROME. IT WAS
00:17:17.63\00:17:23.47
AN AREA ONCE DEDICATED TO THE
CAESARS AND THE INSCRIPTION ON
00:17:23.47\00:17:26.47
THAT PEDESTAL SAYS, 'TO THE
UNKNOWN GOD'. NOW THIS ONE'S IN
00:17:26.47\00:17:30.08
ROME. THE ONE THAT PAUL IS
TALKING ABOUT WAS IN ATHENS, SO
00:17:30.08\00:17:33.11
I DOUBT IT'S THE SAME ONE, BUT
JUST TO SHOW YOU, THEY ACTUALLY
00:17:33.11\00:17:36.05
SAID, 'WE'RE TRYING TO WORSHIP
ALL THE GODS, BE WE DON'T WANT
00:17:36.05\00:17:39.12
TO OFFEND ANY.' YOU EVER HAD
SOMEONE STAND UP THEY'RE GETTING
00:17:39.12\00:17:42.19
READY TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR
WINNING AN AWARD AND THEY SAY,
00:17:42.19\00:17:45.69
'I'D LIKE TO THANK THIS PERSON.
I WANT TO THANK THAT PERSON.
00:17:45.69\00:17:47.83
I WANT TO THANK...AND IF I'VE
FORGOTTEN ANYONE ELSE, I WANT TO
00:17:47.83\00:17:51.87
THANK THEM TOO.' SO TO COVER ALL
THE BASES, THEY THOUGHT THERE
00:17:51.87\00:17:55.67
MIGHT BE A GOD OUT THERE
SOMEWHERE THAT WE'RE NEGLECTING
00:17:55.67\00:17:58.11
AND WE DON'T WANT TO
INCUR THE WRATH OF THAT GOD.
00:17:58.11\00:18:01.04
WE DON'T WANT TO OFFEND THAT GOD
THAT WE'RE NOT KNOWING ABOUT OR
00:18:01.04\00:18:04.61
WE'RE FORGETTING ABOUT.
AND SO THEY DEDICATED AN
00:18:04.61\00:18:06.58
ALTAR TO THE UNKNOWN
GOD. SO THERE WAS A PEDESTAL
00:18:06.58\00:18:10.35
WITH NO STATUE ON IT.
AND PAUL SAID, 'YOU'RE
00:18:10.35\00:18:13.19
WORSHIPING A GOD
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.
00:18:13.19\00:18:15.19
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THAT GOD.'
PAUL WAS VERY, VERY CLEVER.
00:18:15.19\00:18:19.03
PAUL SAID, 'I'M GOING TO
TALK TO YOU ABOUT JEHOVAH.
00:18:19.03\00:18:21.46
SINCE YOU'RE WORSHIPING A GOD
YOU DON'T KNOW, LET ME DECLARE
00:18:21.46\00:18:23.93
HIM TO YOU.' AND SO, I LOST
MY PLACE HERE - GO BACK TO ACTS
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CHAPTER 17 - HE SAYS IN
VERSE 23, "FOR AS I WAS PASSING
00:18:28.07\00:18:34.61
THROUGH AND CONSIDERING THE
OBJECTS OF YOUR WORSHIP, I EVEN
00:18:34.61\00:18:37.55
FOUND AN ALTAR WITH THIS
INSCRIPTION: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
00:18:37.55\00:18:40.65
THEREFORE, THE ONE WHOM YOU
WORSHIP WITHOUT KNOWING, HIM I
00:18:40.65\00:18:43.99
PROCLAIM TO YOU: 'GOD, WHO MADE
THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT,"
00:18:43.99\00:18:48.46
- LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT
THIS GOD YOU DON'T KNOW.
00:18:48.46\00:18:50.06
HE MADE THE WORLD
AND EVERYTHING IN IT.
00:18:50.06\00:18:52.23
AND "SINCE HE IS LORD OF HEAVEN
AND EARTH, DOES NOT DWELL IN
00:18:52.23\00:18:55.16
TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS."
- NOTICE, 'MADE WITH HANDS' -
00:18:55.16\00:18:58.73
"NOR IS HE WORSHIPED WITH
MEN'S HANDS, AS THOUGH HE NEEDED
00:18:58.73\00:19:02.30
ANYTHING, SINCE HE GIVES TO ALL
LIFE, BREATH, AND ALL THINGS.
00:19:02.30\00:19:06.81
AND HE HAS MADE FROM ONE BLOOD
EVERY NATION OF MEN TO DWELL ON
00:19:06.81\00:19:10.15
ALL THE FACE OF THE
EARTH, AND HAS DETERMINED THEIR
00:19:10.15\00:19:12.85
PRE-APPOINTED TIME AND THE
BOUNDARIES OF THEIR DWELLINGS,
00:19:12.85\00:19:15.52
SO THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK
THE LORD, IN THE HOPE THAT THEY
00:19:15.52\00:19:17.85
MIGHT GROPE FOR HIM AND FIND
HIM, THOUGH HE IS NOT FAR FROM
00:19:17.85\00:19:21.32
EACH ONE OF US; FOR IN HIM
WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR
00:19:21.32\00:19:24.69
BEING, AS ALSO SOME OF YOUR
OWN POETS HAVE SAID, 'FOR WE ARE
00:19:24.69\00:19:27.60
ALSO HIS OFFSPRING.' THEREFORE,
SINCE WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF
00:19:27.60\00:19:31.33
GOD, WE OUGHT NOT TO THINK THAT
THE DIVINE NATURE IS LIKE GOLD
00:19:31.33\00:19:34.84
OR SILVER OR STONE, SOMETHING
SHAPED BY ART AND MAN'S
00:19:34.84\00:19:38.14
DEVISING." HE
EMPHASIZES THREE TIMES,
00:19:38.14\00:19:40.98
'MADE BY MAN'S HANDS - BY MAN'S
DEVISING - BY MAN'S HANDS' - HE
00:19:40.98\00:19:44.78
SAID, 'YOU CAN'T MAKE A GOD.'
AND THAT'S WHAT IDOLATRY IS -
00:19:44.78\00:19:51.15
MAN-MADE RELIGION - AND
THAT'S WHY GOD FORBIDS IT.
00:19:51.15\00:19:54.96
IT REALLY TURNS THINGS AROUND SO
THAT WE START CREATING OUR GOD
00:19:54.96\00:19:57.69
INSTEAD OF GOD CREATING
US. SEE, RIGHT IN THE TEN
00:19:57.69\00:20:00.93
COMMANDMENTS IT SAYS, 'IN SIX
DAYS THE LORD MADE THE HEAVEN
00:20:00.93\00:20:04.80
AND THE EARTH AND WE WORSHIP
HIM BECAUSE HE CREATED US.
00:20:04.80\00:20:08.14
AS SOON AS WE START MAKING IDOLS
AND BRINGING FOOD AND FRUIT AND
00:20:08.14\00:20:11.97
BURNING CANDLES IN FRONT OF THE
IDOL, IT'S LIKE GOD'S SUDDENLY,
00:20:11.97\00:20:15.01
SOMEHOW DEPENDENT ON US AND WE
FORGET THAT WE ARE DEPENDENT ON
00:20:15.01\00:20:19.98
HIM FOR EVERYTHING AND WE CAN'T
MAKE ANYTHING TO SUSTAIN HIM,
00:20:19.98\00:20:26.86
HE'S THE ONE THAT
SUSTAINS ALL OF HIS CREATURES.
00:20:26.86\00:20:30.33
SO THERE YOU HAVE PAUL
DECLARING WHO THAT REAL GOD IS.
00:20:30.33\00:20:35.70
HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE ALTAR
AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO THE
00:20:35.70\00:20:38.57
UNKNOWN GOD WAS. THE
FIRST COMMANDMENT DEALS WITH
00:20:38.57\00:20:41.40
THE QUESTION 'WHO IS THE TRUE
GOD?' THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
00:20:41.40\00:20:44.11
DEALS WITH HOW HE'S TO BE
WORSHIPED. THE FIRST PROHIBITS
00:20:44.11\00:20:48.21
FALSE GODS, THE SECOND
FALSE FORMS OF WORSHIP.
00:20:48.21\00:20:52.58
IDOLATRY WILL ALWAYS TAKE
THE WORSHIPER AWAY FROM GOD.
00:20:52.58\00:20:56.62
ANOTHER CASE, WHERE YOU SEE PAUL
DEALING WITH THIS, WE JUMP FROM
00:20:56.62\00:20:59.22
ACTS CHAPTER 17 TO ACTS CHAPTER
19, YOU KNOW, WHERE PAUL AND HIS
00:20:59.22\00:21:06.43
FRIENDS WERE THROWN IN
PRISON - AND THAT WAS BECAUSE OF
00:21:06.43\00:21:10.47
IDOLATRY, AT ONE POINT - THAT
WAS ACTS 16 - AND THEN IN ACTS
00:21:10.47\00:21:14.27
19 THEY GOT UPSET BECAUSE PAUL'S
PREACHING WAS HURTING THE IDOL
00:21:14.27\00:21:19.64
BUSINESS. THEY HAD STORES
WHERE THEY SOLD THEIR IDOLS, BUT
00:21:19.64\00:21:23.58
BECAUSE PAUL WAS PREACHING
'WE DON'T NEED THESE THINGS AND
00:21:23.58\00:21:25.55
THESE ARE NOT REAL GODS AND
THEY'RE JUST WOODEN OR STONE
00:21:25.55\00:21:27.85
GODS' - IT CREATED A RIOT IN THE
TOWN. AND THERE THEY WERE, ALL
00:21:27.85\00:21:33.19
GATHERED IN THE STADIUM,
CHANTING, 'GREAT IS DIANA! GREAT
00:21:33.19\00:21:36.12
IS DIANA! GREAT IS DIANA OF
THE EPHESIANS! GREAT IS DIANA!'
00:21:36.12\00:21:39.53
AND IT WENT ON FOR TWO HOURS.
AND FINALLY THE LOCAL CONSTABLE
00:21:39.53\00:21:43.06
HAD TO GET EVERYONE TO SIMMER
DOWN AND HE SAID, 'WHAT'S THE
00:21:43.06\00:21:46.77
CAUSE FOR THIS CONCOURSE? LOOK,
IF YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM WITH
00:21:46.77\00:21:49.14
THESE JEWS WHO ARE PREACHING,
THE COURTS ARE OPEN, FILE A
00:21:49.14\00:21:51.54
CLAIM AND WE'LL
DEAL WITH IT THAT WAY.
00:21:51.54\00:21:53.64
BUT WE DON'T NEED A MOB RIOT.'
BUT THE PEOPLE GOT SO WORKED UP
00:21:53.64\00:21:56.98
AND HERE'S WHAT THE CONSTABLE
ALSO SAID - ACTS 19, VERSE 35,
00:21:56.98\00:22:00.82
"...'MEN OF EPHESUS, WHAT MAN IS
THERE WHO DOES NOT KNOW THAT THE
00:22:00.82\00:22:04.62
CITY OF THE EPHESIANS IS TEMPLE
GUARDIAN OF THE GREAT GODDESS
00:22:04.62\00:22:08.62
DIANA, AND OF THE IMAGE
WHICH FELL DOWN FROM ZEUS?'"
00:22:08.62\00:22:12.93
- AN IMAGE FROM HEAVEN -
NOW THERE YOU SEE - THIS IS A
00:22:12.93\00:22:16.26
PAINTING BY JOHN STEELE AND IN
THE BACKGROUND, HE GOT IT RIGHT.
00:22:16.26\00:22:19.83
YOU SEE, THERE'S A STATUE IN
THE BACKGROUND, OF THE GODDESS
00:22:19.83\00:22:22.40
DIANA. IT WAS THE
WORSHIP OF ARTEMUS
00:22:22.40\00:22:24.24
AND - YOU GO TO THE NEXT PICTURE
- YOU'LL SEE A LITTLE CLOSER
00:22:24.24\00:22:27.38
- VERY MUCH WHAT THESE IDOLS
LOOKED LIKE. THEY CLAIMED THAT
00:22:27.38\00:22:30.68
THEY FELL FROM HEAVEN. I
KNOW, IT LOOKS LIKE - IT LOOKS
00:22:30.68\00:22:35.68
LIKE A WOMAN COVERED
WITH A CLUSTER OF GRAPES, BUT
00:22:35.68\00:22:37.99
THOSE AREN'T REALLY
GRAPES. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE
00:22:37.99\00:22:40.96
ALL-NOURISHING MOTHER
OF THE PEOPLE - THAT SHE'S
00:22:40.96\00:22:44.66
ALL-SUPPLYING - IT WAS A
FERTILITY GODDESS AND THE
00:22:44.66\00:22:47.00
WORSHIP OF ARTEMIS - OR DIANA,
THE GODDESS OF THE EPHESIANS -
00:22:47.00\00:22:50.07
WAS VERY POPULAR
THERE IN ASIA MINOR.
00:22:50.07\00:22:52.80
AND THEY HAD ALL OF THESE
STATUES THAT THEY SAY WERE
00:22:52.80\00:22:56.67
MODELED AFTER THE
ORIGINAL THAT FELL FROM HEAVEN.
00:22:56.67\00:23:01.04
SOMEBODY MADE UP THIS STORY
THAT THEY'D FOUND A GOD AND THEY
00:23:01.04\00:23:04.25
SAID, 'THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKED
LIKE.' AND THEY SAID, 'OH!'
00:23:04.25\00:23:05.98
AND GOT ALL EXCITED AND CREATED
AN ICON AND A WHOLE CULT OUT OF
00:23:05.98\00:23:10.15
IT AND ALL THESE ARTISTS HAD
A BUSINESS - THEY SAID, 'IF OUR
00:23:10.15\00:23:13.49
IDOLS ARE GOING TO BE WORSHIPED
- FOR THEM TO HAVE THE POWER -
00:23:13.49\00:23:17.66
WE NEED TO BE ARTISTS THAT ARE
ABLE TO LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL AND
00:23:17.66\00:23:20.26
THESE ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT ARE
MADE AFTER THE ORIGINAL.' AND SO
00:23:20.26\00:23:23.06
THEY SORT OF HAD A
MONOPOLY ON THE IDOL BUSINESS.
00:23:23.06\00:23:26.67
BUT AFTER PAUL AND THE
CHRISTIANS CAME THROUGH TOWN,
00:23:26.67\00:23:28.74
THEIR BUSINESS DROPPED OFF THE
CLIFF BECAUSE THEY SAID, 'THESE
00:23:28.74\00:23:31.77
ARE WORTH NOTHING. YOU
CAN'T BE SAVED BY THESE.'
00:23:31.77\00:23:35.71
AND SO THEY HAD A RIOT. THEY
WERE MAKING THEM OUT OF SILVER
00:23:35.71\00:23:38.28
TOO - THESE ARE JUST OF MARBLE.
BUT THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT IT'S
00:23:38.28\00:23:43.39
NOT IDOLS THAT FALL FROM HEAVEN
WE'RE TO WORSHIP, THE IMAGE THAT
00:23:43.39\00:23:47.09
CAME FROM HEAVEN WE'RE TO
WORSHIP WAS A LIVING IMAGE.
00:23:47.09\00:23:51.96
GOD CAME DOWN FROM
HEAVEN IN THE FORM OF A MAN.
00:23:51.96\00:23:55.70
HIS NAME IS JESUS. HE'S
THE ONE WE'RE TO WORSHIP.
00:23:55.70\00:23:58.87
IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 3,
VERSE 13, "NO ONE HAS ASCENDED
00:23:58.87\00:24:04.01
TO HEAVEN BUT HE WHO CAME DOWN
FROM HEAVEN, THAT IS, THE SON OF
00:24:04.01\00:24:08.08
MAN WHO IS IN HEAVEN." YOU
SEE, FOR US TO WORSHIP GOD -
00:24:08.08\00:24:12.55
THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN REALLY SEE
GOD - BECAUSE GOD IS A SPIRIT
00:24:12.55\00:24:15.58
AND GOD IS INVISIBLE -
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T SEE LIGHT?
00:24:15.58\00:24:19.99
IF YOU'RE OUT IN SPACE AND YOU
SHINE A FLASHLIGHT YOU CAN'T SEE
00:24:19.99\00:24:22.36
ANYTHING. IF YOU'RE
IN THE HIGH DESERT AND
00:24:22.36\00:24:24.16
YOU SHINE ONE OF THESE POWERFUL
BEAMS, YOU CAN'T SEE ANYTHING.
00:24:24.16\00:24:27.30
SOME OF YOU MAYBE HAVE BEEN TO
LAS VEGAS - I WON'T ASK YOU WHAT
00:24:27.30\00:24:30.67
YOU WERE DOING THERE, BUT MAYBE
YOU'VE BEEN TO LAS VEGAS - THEY
00:24:30.67\00:24:32.70
DO HAVE LEGITIMATE CONVENTIONS
THERE - AND THERE AT THE TOP OF
00:24:32.70\00:24:36.91
THE LUXOR HOTEL, THEY'VE GOT THE
BRIGHTEST MAN-MADE LIGHT IN THE
00:24:36.91\00:24:40.41
WORLD AND IT SHOOTS
DIRECTLY STRAIGHT UP IN THE SKY.
00:24:40.41\00:24:44.91
THEY'VE GOT LIKE, I DON'T
KNOW, TWENTY-FIVE OF THESE XENON
00:24:44.91\00:24:47.25
LIGHTS - EACH ONE AS BIG AS
A WASHING MACHINE AND BOY THEIR
00:24:47.25\00:24:50.99
ELECTRIC METER JUST SPINS AROUND
AND IT SHOOTS THIS BEAM OF LIGHT
00:24:50.99\00:24:55.32
STRAIGHT UP IN THE SKY.
BUT SOMETIMES AFTER A RAIN IN
00:24:55.32\00:24:57.93
THE HIGH DESERT THERE,
THE AIR IS SO CLEAR YOU CAN'T
00:24:57.93\00:25:01.03
SEE THE BEAM OF LIGHT.
THE ONLY TIME YOU SEE THE BEAM
00:25:01.03\00:25:04.10
OF LIGHT IS WHEN THE
LIGHT HITS DUST PARTICLES -
00:25:04.10\00:25:07.24
OTHERWISE IT'S INVISIBLE.
AND THE WAY WE REALLY SEE GOD IS
00:25:07.24\00:25:10.97
AS GOD RICOCHETS AND
REFLECTS OFF OF PEOPLE.
00:25:10.97\00:25:15.44
AND IT WAS ESPECIALLY THROUGH
CHRIST - THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID,
00:25:15.44\00:25:18.95
'IF YOU'VE SEEN ME,
YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER.
00:25:18.95\00:25:21.45
IF WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT GOD
IS LIKE, HE IS REFLECTED IN THE
00:25:21.45\00:25:24.49
LIFE OF CHRIST. AND IF
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO FIND
00:25:24.49\00:25:26.89
OUT WHAT CHRIST IS LIKE - HIS
LIGHT - HE SAYS, 'YOU ARE THE
00:25:26.89\00:25:30.66
LIGHT OF THE WORLD.' HIS LIGHT
IS TO REFLECT OFF OF US, RIGHT?
00:25:30.66\00:25:34.10
AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH
IDOLATRY IS YOU TAKE YOUR EYES
00:25:34.10\00:25:37.03
OFF THE LIVING GOD THAT HE
SHOULD BE SEEN IN JESUS AND WE
00:25:37.03\00:25:40.77
WHO LOOK AT JESUS AND IT
SAYS WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THIS
00:25:40.77\00:25:44.51
STATUE - PIECE OF PLASTIC.
I ALWAYS SAY THAT BECAUSE, I
00:25:44.51\00:25:48.31
MEAN, IF GODS HAVE DIFFERENT
VALUE, CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW
00:25:48.31\00:25:51.11
CHEAP A PLASTIC GOD IS?
BUT HAVEN'T WE ALL SEEN PEOPLE
00:25:51.11\00:25:55.08
THAT'VE GOT LITTLE PLASTIC
FIGURINES OF JESUS OR MARY OR
00:25:55.08\00:25:58.62
SOMETHING LIKE
THAT THAT THEY PRAY TO?
00:25:58.62\00:26:00.59
AND WHAT DOES THAT DO TO YOUR
CONCEPT OF THE EVER-LIVING GOD?
00:26:00.59\00:26:05.36
ALL IT CAN DO IS
BRING IT DOWN AND LOWER IT.
00:26:05.36\00:26:08.56
MAKES ME THINK ABOUT THE STORY
IN THE BIBLE WHERE MOSES, AFTER
00:26:08.56\00:26:11.93
COMMUNING WITH GOD ON MANY
OCCASIONS, MOSES TALKED TO HIM
00:26:11.93\00:26:14.74
AT THE BURNING BUSH.
MOSES TALKED TO HIM AS HE WAS
00:26:14.74\00:26:16.84
LEADING THE PEOPLE OUT OF EGYPT.
FINALLY, AFTER THE EXODUS HAS
00:26:16.84\00:26:20.08
BEGUN, THE LORD IS COMMUNING
WITH MOSES AND MOSES SAYS THIS
00:26:20.08\00:26:24.31
- GO WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES
TO EXODUS 33 - EXODUS 33:18.
00:26:24.31\00:26:31.12
HERE'S WHERE MOSES
ASKS TO SEE GOD'S GLORY.
00:26:31.12\00:26:34.92
"THEN HE SAID" - MOSES IS
SPEAKING TO GOD - "'PLEASE, SHOW
00:26:34.92\00:26:39.13
ME YOUR GLORY.' THEN HE SAID, 'I
WILL MAKE ALL MY GOODNESS PASS
00:26:39.13\00:26:44.83
BEFORE YOU, AND I WILL PROCLAIM
THE NAME OF THE LORD BEFORE
00:26:44.83\00:26:48.34
YOU.' BUT HE SAID" - IN VERSE 20
- "'FOR NO MAN SHALL SEE ME, AND
00:26:48.34\00:26:55.28
LIVE.'" THE BIBLE SAYS NO MAN
HAS SEEN GOD'S FACE - NO MAN HAS
00:26:55.28\00:27:00.12
SEEN GOD IN HIS UNDIMINISHED
GLORY - AND THAT WOULD BE,
00:27:00.12\00:27:03.15
PRINCIPALLY, GOD THE FATHER.
"'YOU CANNOT SEE MY FACE; FOR NO
00:27:03.15\00:27:06.32
MAN SHALL SEE ME AND LIVE.' AND
THE LORD SAID, 'HERE IS A PLACE
00:27:06.32\00:27:10.56
BY ME, AND YOU
SHALL STAND ON THE ROCK.
00:27:10.56\00:27:14.00
SO IT SHALL BE, WHILE MY GLORY
PASSES BY, THAT I WILL PUT YOU
00:27:14.00\00:27:16.93
IN THE CLEFT OF THE ROCK,'"
- YOU KNOW THAT SONG WE SING?
00:27:16.93\00:27:19.97
HE HIDETH MY SOUL IN
THE CLEFT OF THE ROCK?
00:27:19.97\00:27:22.77
BASED ON THIS VERSE - "'I
WILL PUT YOU IN THE CLEFT OF THE
00:27:22.77\00:27:25.24
ROCK, AND WILL COVER YOU WITH
MY HAND'" - HOW BIG IS GOD IF HE
00:27:25.24\00:27:28.78
CAN COVER A MAN WITH
HIS HAND? BIGGER THAN YOU.
00:27:28.78\00:27:32.75
(LAUGHTER) >>AMEN.
00:27:32.75\00:27:35.18
>>"I WILL PUT YOU [HERE]" -
AND IT SAYS, "AND WILL COVER YOU
00:27:35.18\00:27:38.05
WITH MY HAND WHILE I PASS BY.
THEN I WILL TAKE AWAY MY HAND,
00:27:38.05\00:27:41.52
AND YOU SHALL SEE MY BACK;
BUT MY FACE SHALL NOT BE SEEN."
00:27:41.52\00:27:45.56
THEN YOU GO TO EXODUS 34 TO SEE
WHERE THIS STORY IS FULFILLED.
00:27:45.56\00:27:48.80
GO TO EXODUS 34:6 -
EXODUS 34:6 IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING.
00:27:48.80\00:27:54.04
AND IT SAYS, "AND THE
LORD PASSED BEFORE HIM AND
00:27:54.04\00:27:57.57
PROCLAIMED, 'THE LORD, THE
LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS,
00:27:57.57\00:28:03.75
LONGSUFFERING, AND ABOUNDING
IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH, KEEPING
00:28:03.75\00:28:07.55
MERCY FOR THOUSANDS, FORGIVING
INIQUITY AND TRANSGRESSION AND
00:28:07.55\00:28:11.45
SIN, BY NO MEANS CLEARING THE
GUILTY, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF
00:28:11.45\00:28:15.59
THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN
AND THE CHILDREN'S CHILDREN TO
00:28:15.59\00:28:17.46
THE THIRD AND THE
FOURTH GENERATION."
00:28:17.46\00:28:19.06
- OF THOSE THAT HATE HIM - BUT
REMEMBER, HE SAYS 'AND SHOWING
00:28:19.06\00:28:21.70
MERCY UNTO THOUSANDS THAT LOVE
ME AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
00:28:21.70\00:28:24.97
SO WHEN MOSES SAID, 'LORD, I
WANT TO SEE YOUR GLORY.' DID GOD
00:28:24.97\00:28:31.07
SAY, 'OKAY, WE'RE GOING
TO HAVE AN UNVEILING, MOSES.
00:28:31.07\00:28:34.61
AND I'LL UNVEIL IT AND YOU WILL
SEE THIS SHINING BURNISHED GOLD
00:28:34.61\00:28:39.85
PICTURE OF WHO I AM.' OR 'YOU'RE
GOING TO SEE - I'M SILVER' OR
00:28:39.85\00:28:45.45
'I'M BRONZE OR WOOD OR MARBLE
OR VARIEGATED HUMMINGBIRD' - I
00:28:45.45\00:28:50.09
MEAN, WHAT COULD YOU SEE WITH
YOUR EYES THAT WOULD MAKE GOD
00:28:50.09\00:28:53.06
THE GREATEST? DO YOU REALIZE
IT'S NOTHING THAT YOU SEE THAT
00:28:53.06\00:28:56.30
MAKES GOD GREAT?
IT'S WHO HE IS. >>AMEN.
00:28:56.30\00:29:00.70
>>I THINK IT'S DELIBERATE THAT
THE BIBLE SAYS VIRTUALLY NOTHING
00:29:00.70\00:29:03.51
ABOUT WHAT JESUS LOOKED LIKE. IT
DOESN'T TELL US HOW TALL HE WAS.
00:29:03.51\00:29:08.58
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT COLOR HIS
HAIR WAS. I, FRANKLY, THINK HE
00:29:08.58\00:29:11.25
WAS BALD. (LAUGHTER) BUT I
DON'T KNOW. NO, PROBABLY NOT.
00:29:11.25\00:29:17.35
HE MIGHT HAVE
BEEN. I CHALLENGE YOU
00:29:17.35\00:29:21.62
TO PROVE ME WRONG.
(LAUGHTER) IT SAYS THEY
00:29:21.62\00:29:24.83
PULLED OUT HIS
BEARD. I COULD GROW A BEARD.
00:29:24.83\00:29:29.13
BUT IT DOESN'T TELL US
WHAT COLOR HIS SKIN WAS.
00:29:29.13\00:29:32.07
HE WAS PROBABLY MEDITERRANEAN
LOOKING - IT SAYS HE WAS JEWISH.
00:29:32.07\00:29:34.94
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT COLOR HIS
EYES WERE - THERE ARE JEWS WITH
00:29:34.94\00:29:37.47
BROWN AND BLUE AND GREEN EYES.
WE DON'T KNOW HOW TALL HE WAS.
00:29:37.47\00:29:41.18
WE DON'T KNOW HOW WIDE HE WAS
OR HOW THIN HE WAS - PROBABLY
00:29:41.18\00:29:43.41
STRONG - HE WAS A CARPENTER -
BUT EVERYTHING IS SPECULATION.
00:29:43.41\00:29:46.25
IT SAYS, 'THERE'S NO OUTWARD
FORM THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM'
00:29:46.25\00:29:50.02
- IN ISAIAH 53. SO
PEOPLE WERE NOT ATTRACTED
00:29:50.02\00:29:52.59
TO JESUS BECAUSE OF HIS
MOVIE STAR-LIKE APPEARANCE.
00:29:52.59\00:29:55.82
IN FACT, HE FREQUENTLY HAD THE
ABILITY TO DISAPPEAR IN A CROWD
00:29:55.82\00:29:59.49
AND LOOK LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.
WHEN THEY CAME TO ARREST JESUS,
00:29:59.49\00:30:03.20
THEY HAD TO GET JUDAS TO SAY
WHICH ONE OF THEM IS HE BECAUSE
00:30:03.20\00:30:06.43
HE LOOKED LIKE ONE OF THE
OTHER GALILEAN SHEPHERDS, TAX
00:30:06.43\00:30:08.80
COLLECTORS OR FISHERMEN.
WE DON'T - HE DIDN'T WEAR
00:30:08.80\00:30:11.34
A WHITE UNIFORM LIKE
SOME CHARISMATIC PREACHER.
00:30:11.34\00:30:15.78
I KNOW WE ALWAYS PORTRAY
HIM THAT WAY IN SOME PRIESTLY
00:30:15.78\00:30:19.35
GARMENT. IT DOESN'T SAY THAT.
HE MAY HAVE BEEN VERY AVERAGE
00:30:19.35\00:30:24.99
OUTWARDLY - WHICH GIVES
YOU AND I HOPE OF GETTING
00:30:24.99\00:30:28.19
TO HEAVEN, RIGHT? >>AMEN.
00:30:28.19\00:30:30.43
>>YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK
LIKE A MOVIE STAR TO GET THERE.
00:30:30.43\00:30:32.26
>>AMEN. >>WHAT
CHANGED THE WORLD ABOUT
00:30:32.26\00:30:34.73
JESUS WAS NOT THE
VISUAL, IT WAS WHAT HE SAID.
00:30:34.73\00:30:38.83
>>AMEN. >>IT WAS THE MESSAGE.
00:30:38.83\00:30:40.90
MORE THAN THAT,
IT WAS THE CHARACTER.
00:30:40.90\00:30:43.24
>>AMEN. >>IDOLATRY
TAKES OUR ATTENTION
00:30:43.24\00:30:46.57
OFF THE CHARACTER OF GOD
AND THE NAME OF WHO HE IS.
00:30:46.57\00:30:51.18
THE NAME - WE'LL GET TO THAT
IN OUR NEXT STUDY - IS REALLY
00:30:51.18\00:30:53.42
TALKING ABOUT THE REPUTATION
- AND IT FIXATES US ON SOMETHING
00:30:53.42\00:30:58.32
PHYSICAL AND TANGIBLE
THAT IS REALLY OF NO VALUE.
00:30:58.32\00:31:02.49
AND PEOPLE WORSHIP THOSE THINGS.
HE SAID, 'SHOW ME YOUR GLORY.'
00:31:02.49\00:31:05.89
JOHN 4:24, JESUS SAID, "GOD
IS SPIRIT, AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP
00:31:05.89\00:31:10.07
HIM MUST WORSHIP HIM
IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH."
00:31:10.07\00:31:13.70
GOD REVEALS HIMSELF THROUGH
CHRIST - IT'S THROUGH HIS
00:31:13.70\00:31:17.57
CHARACTER. HE'S
MEEK AND HE'S LOWLY AND
00:31:17.57\00:31:20.34
HE'S KIND AND HE'S STRONG AND
HE'S GOOD AND HE'S PATIENT AND
00:31:20.34\00:31:25.51
HE'S FAIR AND HE'S JUST AND
HE'S PATIENT, AMEN? IT'S THE
00:31:25.51\00:31:29.88
CHARACTER OF GOD. AND THEN
WE ARE FORBIDDEN FROM WORSHIPING
00:31:29.88\00:31:34.12
FOREIGN GODS. THAT LOWERS OUR
CONCEPT. JUST THINK ABOUT A GOD
00:31:34.12\00:31:38.69
YOU CAN PICK UP AND HOLD IN YOUR
HANDS. GENESIS CHAPTER 35 IN
00:31:38.69\00:31:43.23
YOUR BIBLES IT SAYS, "AND JACOB
SAID TO HIS HOUSEHOLD AND TO ALL
00:31:43.23\00:31:49.57
WHO WERE WITH HIM, 'PUT AWAY THE
FOREIGN GODS THAT ARE AMONG YOU,
00:31:49.57\00:31:54.18
PURIFY YOURSELVES,
AND CHANGE YOUR GARMENTS.
00:31:54.18\00:31:57.01
THEN LET US RISE AND GO UP TO
BETHEL; AND I WILL MAKE AN ALTAR
00:31:57.01\00:32:00.58
THERE TO GOD, WHO ANSWERED ME IN
THE DAY OF MY DISTRESS AND HAS
00:32:00.58\00:32:04.35
BEEN WITH ME IN THE WAY WHICH
I HAVE GONE.' SO THEY GAVE JACOB
00:32:04.35\00:32:07.86
ALL THE FOREIGN GODS WHICH WERE
IN THEIR HANDS, AND THE EARRINGS
00:32:07.86\00:32:10.89
WHICH WERE IN THEIR EARS;
AND JACOB HID THEM UNDER THE
00:32:10.89\00:32:13.80
TEREBINTH TREE" - AND THE WORD
'HID' THERE MEANS YOU COVERED
00:32:13.80\00:32:15.96
THEM OVER OR BURIED THEM -
"...UNDER THE TEREBINTH TREE
00:32:15.96\00:32:18.90
WHICH WAS BY
SHECHEM." AS THEY WERE DWELLING,
00:32:18.90\00:32:22.07
SURROUNDED BY ALL THE PAGANS
AROUND THEM - YOU REMEMBER, THEY
00:32:22.07\00:32:24.94
CONQUERED THE PEOPLE OF SHECHEM
- THEY TOOK A NUMBER OF THE
00:32:24.94\00:32:27.68
PEOPLE OF SHECHEM
INTO THEIR HOUSEHOLD.
00:32:27.68\00:32:29.84
IT TELLS US THAT THE SONS
OF JACOB SLAUGHTERED THE MEN OF
00:32:29.84\00:32:31.91
SHECHEM BECAUSE ONE OF THEM HAD
SLEPT WITH THEIR SISTER DINAH.
00:32:31.91\00:32:36.02
THE PROBLEM WAS, WHEN THEY
TOOK ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE INTO
00:32:36.02\00:32:37.99
THEIR HOUSEHOLD,
THEY BROUGHT THEIR GODS.
00:32:37.99\00:32:40.46
NOW, NOTICE
SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR GODS.
00:32:40.46\00:32:42.36
THEIR GODS ARE SOMETHING -
IT SAYS, 'THE GODS THAT WERE IN
00:32:42.36\00:32:44.29
THEIR HANDS.' DO YOU WANT A GOD
WHO YOU CAN HOLD IN YOUR HANDS,
00:32:44.29\00:32:48.33
OR DO YOU WANT A GOD
THAT'LL HOLD YOU IN HIS HANDS?
00:32:48.33\00:32:50.00
>>HIS HANDS. >>AND
SO THESE ARE IDOLS.
00:32:50.00\00:32:54.60
THESE ARE IDOLS THAT CAN BE
BURIED. THEY'RE HANDY GODS -
00:32:54.60\00:32:58.67
PORTABLE GODS. IF
YOU CAN PUT YOUR GOD IN A
00:32:58.67\00:33:04.88
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX OR
BURY IT SOMEWHERE, THEN YOU'VE
00:33:04.88\00:33:08.62
GOT THE WRONG GOD. >>AMEN.
00:33:08.62\00:33:10.79
>>YOUR GOD IS MUCH BIG - AND
YOU KNOW WHAT? THE BIBLE TELLS
00:33:10.79\00:33:14.36
US, ONE TIME, LABAN, RACHEL'S
FATHER, GOT UPSET BECAUSE HE
00:33:14.36\00:33:17.96
SAID, 'SOMEONE STOLE MY GODS.'
DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? IT'D BE
00:33:17.96\00:33:22.66
TERRIBLE TO HAVE A GOD SOMEONE
COULD STEAL. (LAUGHTER) SOME OF
00:33:22.66\00:33:26.94
YOU PROBABLY SAW THIS ON
THE NEWS YESTERDAY: SOME POOR
00:33:26.94\00:33:30.24
INDIVIDUAL - I DIDN'T GET
THE TOWN, BUT IN THE GREATER
00:33:30.24\00:33:32.37
SACRAMENTO AREA - HE'S HAD
PROBLEMS WITH BURGLARS. I GUESS
00:33:32.37\00:33:35.34
HE HAD A COIN SHOP OR SOMETHING
AND THEY KEPT BREAKING IN AND
00:33:35.34\00:33:38.75
STEALING AND FINALLY THEY BROKE
IN - HE THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE
00:33:38.75\00:33:41.48
BECAUSE HE KEPT IT ALL IN
THE SAFE - THEY STOLE HIS WHOLE
00:33:41.48\00:33:43.35
SAFE. AND HE - THE POOR FELLOW
WAS JUST TOTALLY DEJECTED - AND
00:33:43.35\00:33:48.42
I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY - BECAUSE
HE SAID, 'EVERYTHING THAT I'VE
00:33:48.42\00:33:50.43
SPENT YEARS SAVING IS
GONE.' STORE NOT FOR YOURSELVES
00:33:50.43\00:33:55.66
TREASURES ON EARTH WHERE
MEN CAN BREAK THROUGH AND STEAL.
00:33:55.66\00:33:58.33
IF YOUR GODS - AND LET'S FACE
IT, SOME OF US HAVE IDOLS THAT
00:33:58.33\00:34:01.00
ARE HERE ON EARTH. SOME OF US
HAVE IDOLS THAT ARE IN THE BANK.
00:34:01.00\00:34:05.47
SOME OF US HAVE IDOLS
THAT ARE IN THE GARAGE.
00:34:05.47\00:34:08.11
SOME OF THEM, THEY'RE HANGING IN
THE CLOSET ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT
00:34:08.11\00:34:11.01
HANGERS. (LAUGHTER) SOME
OF THEM, IT'S IN THE KITCHEN -
00:34:11.01\00:34:15.32
MIGHT BE IN THE REFRIGERATOR.
(LAUGHTER) WE - A LOT OF US HAVE
00:34:15.32\00:34:19.15
OUR GODS IN
STORAGE. SAY 'AMEN'. >>AMEN.
00:34:19.15\00:34:22.89
>>THEY'RE IDOLS.
WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT THEM.
00:34:22.89\00:34:25.23
WE'RE AFRAID SOMEONE'S GOING TO
STEAL THEM, WE'D BE - EVERYTHING
00:34:25.23\00:34:27.50
WE'D FEEL LIKE 'I'M RUINED.
THEY'VE STOLEN MY GODS.' JESUS
00:34:27.50\00:34:33.90
SAID, 'BUT PUT YOUR TREASURE
IN HEAVEN WHERE RUST AND MOTH
00:34:33.90\00:34:38.27
DOESN'T CORRUPT AND THIEVES
DO NOT BREAK THROUGH AND STEAL.
00:34:38.27\00:34:40.84
I CAN GUARANTEE YOU THAT IF YOUR
GOD IS THE LIVING GOD, THEN NO
00:34:40.84\00:34:44.18
ONE CAN STEAL
HIM FROM YOU. >>AMEN!
00:34:44.18\00:34:47.12
>>YOUR GOD IS SAFE.
YOU DON'T CARRY HIM IN YOUR
00:34:47.12\00:34:50.12
POCKET OR IN YOUR HANDS,
HE CARRIES YOU IN HIS HANDS.
00:34:50.12\00:34:53.66
AND HE'S BIGGER THAN ANY THIEF;
YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
00:34:53.66\00:34:56.16
IT. A.W. TOZIER SAID, 'DON'T TRY
TO IMAGINE GOD OR YOU'LL HAVE AN
00:34:56.16\00:35:00.83
IMAGINARY GOD.' GOD IS BIGGER
THAN WE CAN IMAGINE, THE BIBLE
00:35:00.83\00:35:04.80
TELLS US. NOW I TOLD
YOU THERE'S TWO EXTREMES.
00:35:04.80\00:35:07.74
ONE EXTREME IS MAKING EXCUSES
AND SAYING, 'WELL, I KNOW I
00:35:07.74\00:35:10.71
PRAY BEFORE THIS PICTURE OR THIS
IDOL, AND I KNOW IT'S NOT REALLY
00:35:10.71\00:35:14.18
GOD OR JESUS OR MARY, IT JUST
HELPS ME VISUALIZE THEM.' AND
00:35:14.18\00:35:19.98
THAT'S ONE EXTREME - GOD SAYS,
'DON'T MAKE THEM.' THE OTHER
00:35:19.98\00:35:22.22
EXTREME IS THE BIBLE DOES
NOT SAY IT IS WRONG TO MAKE A
00:35:22.22\00:35:26.25
FACSIMILE OF SOMETHING.
NOT EVERY STATUE IS AN IDOL.
00:35:26.25\00:35:31.29
NOT EVERY PHOTOGRAPH
OR PAINTING IS AN IDOL.
00:35:31.29\00:35:34.56
YOU CAN MAKE AN
IDOL OF ABOUT EVERYTHING.
00:35:34.56\00:35:37.83
NOT EVERY CAR YOU DRIVE IS
AN IDOL, BUT LET'S FACE IT, SOME
00:35:37.83\00:35:41.00
PEOPLE IDOLIZE
THEIR CARS, RIGHT?
00:35:41.00\00:35:43.47
SO IT'S NOT THAT GOD WAS
FORBIDDING MAKING A REPLICA OF
00:35:43.47\00:35:48.81
SOMETHING, BECAUSE
GOD TOLD THEM TO DO IT.
00:35:48.81\00:35:51.91
MOSES WAS COMMANDED TO MAKE
ENGRAVED AND EMBROIDERED FIGURES
00:35:51.91\00:35:55.22
OF ANGELS, OXEN, LIONS,
TREES, FRUIT, AND FLOWERS IN THE
00:35:55.22\00:35:58.89
TEMPLE. AND FURTHERMORE,
SOLOMON, WHEN HE DEDICATED THE
00:35:58.89\00:36:04.09
TEMPLE LATER - HIS VERSION
OF THE TEMPLE - UNDER THE
00:36:04.09\00:36:06.76
INSTRUCTION OF GOD, HE
CARVED OUT FIGURES OF ANGELS,
00:36:06.76\00:36:10.27
LIONS, OXEN, PALM TREES,
OPEN FLOWERS WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
00:36:10.27\00:36:13.77
AND, BY THE WAY,
THAT'S 1 KINGS 7:29.
00:36:13.77\00:36:16.24
FURTHERMORE, GOD TOLD MOSES TO
MAKE A BRONZE SERPENT AND HAVE
00:36:16.24\00:36:21.14
EVERYBODY LOOK TO THE SERPENT.
00:36:21.14\00:36:22.84
WAS THAT BECAUSE HE
WANTED THEM TO WORSHIP THE
00:36:22.84\00:36:24.75
SERPENT, OR WAS THAT BECAUSE
THEY HAD A SPECIFIC PROBLEM WITH
00:36:24.75\00:36:27.88
SERPENTS THAT DAY AND THAT WAS
A PICTURE - THAT WAS A GOLDEN
00:36:27.88\00:36:31.59
IMAGE OF A DEAD SERPENT ON A
POLE THAT WAS SHOWING THAT GOD
00:36:31.59\00:36:35.46
COULD DEFEAT - YOU KNOW, WHEN
A SHEPHERD LIFTED UP A SERPENT -
00:36:35.46\00:36:38.23
WHEN HE KILLED A SNAKE - HE
WHACKED IT AND HE CARRIED IT
00:36:38.23\00:36:39.69
AROUND, THE IDEA OF A SERPENT
LIFTED UP DIDN'T MEAN TO WORSHIP
00:36:39.69\00:36:43.06
THE SERVANT. SHEPHERDS LIFTED UP
SERPENTS ONCE THEY KILLED THEM
00:36:43.06\00:36:46.57
AND CARRIED THEM OFF FOR BURIAL.
SO IT'S JUST SAYING, 'THIS IS
00:36:46.57\00:36:48.94
A DEAD OR DEFEATED SERPENT.
GOD CAN DEFEAT THE VENOM OF THE
00:36:48.94\00:36:52.01
SERPENT IN YOUR
LIVES IF YOU LOOK IN FAITH.
00:36:52.01\00:36:54.21
JESUS REFERS TO THAT BEFORE YOU
READ JOHN 3:16, "AND AS MOSES
00:36:54.21\00:36:58.85
LIFTED UP THE SERPENT IN
THE WILDERNESS, EVEN SO MUST THE
00:36:58.85\00:37:01.92
SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP, THAT
WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD
00:37:01.92\00:37:04.55
NOT PERISH BUT
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
00:37:04.55\00:37:06.32
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD" -
PEOPLE ALWAYS KNOW JOHN 3:16 -
00:37:06.32\00:37:09.36
THEY FORGET JOHN 3:15 - SO JESUS
EVEN REFERS TO AS MOSES LIFTED
00:37:09.36\00:37:14.36
UP THIS BRONZE REPLICA -
IDOL, YOU MIGHT CALL IT - OF A
00:37:14.36\00:37:20.07
SERPENT, BUT THEY
WEREN'T TO WORSHIP IT.
00:37:20.07\00:37:23.54
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU READ
IN YOUR BIBLE IN 2 KINGS 18:4,
00:37:23.54\00:37:27.54
SPEAKING OF HEZEKIAH AND
THE REVIVAL THAT HE EFFECTED.
00:37:27.54\00:37:31.58
"HE REMOVED THE HIGH PLACES AND
BROKE THE SACRED PILLARS, CUT
00:37:31.58\00:37:36.79
DOWN THE WOODEN IMAGE" - THE
PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN IDOLATRY
00:37:36.79\00:37:40.92
SEVERAL TIMES IN THE HISTORY
OF GOD'S PEOPLE THEY WOULD
00:37:40.92\00:37:43.79
AUTOMATICALLY DRIFT TO IDOLATRY
- "AND BROKE IN PIECES THE
00:37:43.79\00:37:48.26
BRONZE SERPENT THAT MOSES
HAD MADE;" - NOW WAS THERE A
00:37:48.26\00:37:51.03
DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN WHAT
HEZEKIAH DID AND WHAT MOSES DID?
00:37:51.03\00:37:54.10
>>NO. >>NO, MOSES WOULD HAVE
00:37:54.10\00:37:55.44
SUPPORTED WHAT HEZEKIAH DID.
WHEN MOSES MADE THE SERPENT HE
00:37:55.44\00:37:59.27
NEVER INTENDED - NOR DID GOD
INTEND - FOR PEOPLE TO WORSHIP
00:37:59.27\00:38:02.38
IT. THEY - IT WAS FOR THAT
00:38:02.38\00:38:05.11
PURPOSE THAT DAY TO HELP THEM
UNDERSTAND, VISUALLY, THAT GOD
00:38:05.11\00:38:07.88
WOULD DESTROY THE POWER OF
THE SERPENT. AND AFTER THEY
00:38:07.88\00:38:09.92
DID THAT THEY TOOK IT OFF
THE POLE AND THEY THREW IT
00:38:09.92\00:38:11.72
IN A CHAMBER SOMEWHERE. IT
WAS LAID THERE, IN A CHAMBER, IN
00:38:11.72\00:38:14.46
THE TEMPLE - SOMEONE DUG IT OUT
AND THEY MADE A GOD, A RELIC OUT
00:38:14.46\00:38:17.19
OF IT AND THEY WERE PRAYING
TO IT. AND IT TELLS US THAT
00:38:17.19\00:38:20.40
HEZEKIAH BROKE IT INTO PIECES
AND CALLED IT NEHUSHTAN, WHICH
00:38:20.40\00:38:24.37
MEANS, 'THING OF BRONZE' - IT'S
JUST A PIECE OF BRONZE - THAT'S
00:38:24.37\00:38:27.27
WHAT HE WAS SAYING.
IT'S JUST NEHUSHTAN AND
00:38:27.27\00:38:30.17
YOU'RE PRAYING TO IT.
WHY WOULD YOU TAKE YOUR
00:38:30.17\00:38:32.84
EYES OFF THE ROAD AND
TEXT? THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING.
00:38:32.84\00:38:36.41
YOU'RE MISSING THE PICTURE
OF THE LIVING GOD AND YOU'RE
00:38:36.41\00:38:38.38
LOOKING AT A PIECE OF
BRASS. SOME PEOPLE GET INSPIRED.
00:38:38.38\00:38:43.85
THEY LOOK AT - I MEAN, I ADMIT,
I'VE SEEN SOME INCREDIBLE WORKS
00:38:43.85\00:38:49.39
OF ART, BOTH PAINTINGS AND
ARTWORK AND, YOU KNOW, IF I SEE
00:38:49.39\00:38:52.93
THE SCULPTURES OF DAVID BY
MICHELANGELO AND THINGS LIKE
00:38:52.93\00:38:58.63
THAT, YOU HAVE TO SAY, 'WOW,
THAT IS AN INCREDIBLE SKILL OF
00:38:58.63\00:39:01.70
THE ARTIST.' BUT IT'S SOMETHING
ELSE WHEN YOU START BOWING DOWN
00:39:01.70\00:39:05.07
BEFORE THEM. ISN'T THAT
WHAT THE COMMANDMENT SAYS?
00:39:05.07\00:39:07.44
LET'S LOOK AT THAT ONE
MORE TIME, JUST TO MAKE SURE -
00:39:07.44\00:39:09.91
'YOU'LL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF AN
IMAGE THE LIKENESS OF ANYTHING
00:39:09.91\00:39:12.91
IN THE HEAVEN ABOVE, OR
THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THE WATER
00:39:12.91\00:39:15.02
UNDER THE EARTH' - BUT THE
COMMANDMENT DOESN'T STOP THERE.
00:39:15.02\00:39:18.55
DON'T MAKE THOSE THINGS - 'YOU
SHALL NOT BOW DOWN YOURSELF TO
00:39:18.55\00:39:22.52
THEM AND SERVE THEM' - THAT'S
THE BIG ISSUE. IT DOESN'T MEAN
00:39:22.52\00:39:26.93
THAT IF YOUR KID IS AT HOME
WITH PLAY DOUGH AND HE MAKES A
00:39:26.93\00:39:31.07
SNOWMAN, THAT ALL OF A
SUDDEN HE'S AN IDOLATER.
00:39:31.07\00:39:34.17
DOES EVERYONE UNDERSTAND?
OR IF YOU GO AND YOU EAT IN A
00:39:34.17\00:39:38.87
RESTAURANT - CHINESE FOOD - AND
THERE'S A LITTLE BUDDHA AT THE
00:39:38.87\00:39:42.34
ENTRANCE, THAT BY EATING THAT
CHOP SUEY, YOU SUDDENLY HAVE
00:39:42.34\00:39:46.55
PARTICIPATED IN IDOLATRY.
NOW THE REASON I SAY THAT IS
00:39:46.55\00:39:50.45
THAT WAS A PROBLEM FOR
THE JEWS IN THE TIME OF PAUL -
00:39:50.45\00:39:54.09
AND FOR THE CHRISTIANS.
ALL OVER THE ROMAN EMPIRE THEY
00:39:54.09\00:39:57.66
DID NOT BUTCHER AN ANIMAL, CLEAN
OR UNCLEAN, WITHOUT DOING IT
00:39:57.66\00:40:00.76
- THE SLAUGHTERHOUSES ALL HAD
IDOLS AND THEY WOULD DEDICATE
00:40:00.76\00:40:03.40
EVERYONE - THEY THOUGHT, 'WE'LL
GET ALL THE CREDIT WE CAN OUT OF
00:40:03.40\00:40:05.53
THESE SLAUGHTERS, WE'LL DEDICATE
IT TO DIFFERENT GODS.' AND SOME
00:40:05.53\00:40:08.70
OF THE VERY STRICT JEWS SAID,
'YOU CAN'T EAT ANYTHING THAT'S
00:40:08.70\00:40:11.37
SOLD IN THE
REGULAR MARKET PLACES.
00:40:11.37\00:40:12.97
IT ONLY MUST BE BOUGHT IN
THE KOSHER - KOSHER SALESMEN -
00:40:12.97\00:40:16.88
MEANING IT HASN'T BEEN OFFERED
TO AN IDOL BECAUSE OTHERWISE
00:40:16.88\00:40:20.08
YOU'RE
PARTICIPATING IN IDOLATRY.
00:40:20.08\00:40:22.38
YOU RUN INTO THIS A
LOT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:40:22.38\00:40:24.52
THAT'S WHY PAUL SAID, IN ROMANS
14, 'HE THAT'S WEAK EATS ONLY
00:40:24.52\00:40:26.72
VEGETABLES.' IT HAS NOTHING TO
DO WITH FOOD, IT MEANS HE WHO IS
00:40:26.72\00:40:30.29
WEAK IN FAITH WILL NOT EAT
ANYTHING THAT - BECAUSE HE'S
00:40:30.29\00:40:34.00
AFRAID IT'S BEEN
OFFERED TO A GOD.
00:40:34.00\00:40:36.83
AND SO PAUL SAID, 'WHAT YOU BUY
IN THE MARKETPLACE, EAT ASKING
00:40:36.83\00:40:41.14
NO QUESTIONS FOR CONSCIENCE
SAKE.' HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT
00:40:41.14\00:40:43.81
CLEAN OR UNCLEAN FOOD -
NEVER MENTIONS ANY KIND OF FOOD.
00:40:43.81\00:40:46.98
IT MEANS IF YOU'RE BUYING SHEEP
OR GOAT OR CHICKEN DON'T SAY,
00:40:46.98\00:40:50.75
'WAS THIS OFFERED
TO A GOD?' DON'T ASK.
00:40:50.75\00:40:52.91
IF YOU DON'T KNOW - PFFFT.
IF YOU WALK PAST THAT LITTLE
00:40:52.91\00:40:55.92
BUDDHA IN THE CHINESE
RESTAURANT, DON'T GET NERVOUS.
00:40:55.92\00:40:58.12
IF IT BOTHERS YOUR CONSCIENCE,
THEN DON'T EAT THERE.
00:40:58.12\00:41:00.82
THAT'S WHAT PAUL SAID.
IF IT'S GOING TO MAKE YOUR
00:41:00.82\00:41:02.29
BROTHER STUMBLE, GO SOMEWHERE
WITHOUT THE PORCELAIN BUDDHA.
00:41:02.29\00:41:06.53
ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE MESSAGES
THAT GOD HAS IN THE BIBLE IS ALL
00:41:06.53\00:41:12.30
IDOLS AND
IDOLATERS WILL BE DESTROYED.
00:41:12.30\00:41:15.24
YOU FIND THE
IDOLS ALL GET DESTROYED.
00:41:15.24\00:41:17.81
YOU REMEMBER IN DANIEL CHAPTER
2, NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM - WHAT
00:41:17.81\00:41:21.38
IS THE DREAM OF? >>IDOL.
00:41:21.38\00:41:23.68
>>IT'S A DREAM - IT'S A BIG
IDOL - IT'S A GIGANTIC IDOL.
00:41:23.68\00:41:26.38
AND YEAH, ITS FEET ARE IRON AND
CLAY - IT'S GOT LEGS OF IRON AND
00:41:26.38\00:41:31.12
THIGHS OF BRASS AND CHEST OF
SILVER AND HEAD OF GOLD AND -
00:41:31.12\00:41:35.32
AND WHAT'S IT DESTROYED BY?
IT SAYS, 'YOU WATCHED IN THE
00:41:35.32\00:41:39.16
VISION UNTIL YOU SAW A STONE
THAT WAS CUT FROM THE MOUNTAIN
00:41:39.16\00:41:43.30
WITHOUT MAN'S HANDS.' NOW WHY
DID IT SAY THAT - WITHOUT MAN'S
00:41:43.30\00:41:48.37
- A STONE THAT WAS CUT WITHOUT
HANDS STRIKES THIS IMAGE ON
00:41:48.37\00:41:51.97
ITS FEET AND IT BLASTS IT TO
SMITHEREENS AND IT BLOWS AWAY
00:41:51.97\00:41:54.81
AND NO TRACE OF IT IS FOUND
ANYMORE. IT'S GROUND TO POWDER
00:41:54.81\00:41:57.31
AND IT BLOWS AWAY.
WHAT DID MOSES DO WITH THE
00:41:57.31\00:42:00.08
GOLDEN CALF? DIDN'T
HE GRIND IT UP SO - YOU
00:42:00.08\00:42:03.62
KNOW, IF THERE WAS ONLY
A LITTLE PIECE OF IT LEFT
00:42:03.62\00:42:05.65
THEY'D WORSHIP THAT. >>RIGHT.
00:42:05.65\00:42:08.09
>>HAVEN'T YOU SEEN A LOT
OF BROKEN STATUES IN MUSEUMS?
00:42:08.09\00:42:12.33
SOMETIMES THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE A
HEAD. PEOPLE STOP AND SAY, 'AH,
00:42:12.33\00:42:15.76
LOOK AT THE ART.' (LAUGHTER) YOU
SEE IT'S GOT HALF ITS ARMS - NO
00:42:15.76\00:42:18.97
HEAD. 'WHAT EXQUISITE ART.'
YEAH, SO HE THOUGHT, 'THERE'S
00:42:18.97\00:42:23.37
NOT GOING TO BE ANYTHING LEFT.'
THEY COMPLETELY GROUND IT.
00:42:23.37\00:42:25.61
BUT THIS STONE THAT GRINDS THEM
WAS CUT WITHOUT MAN'S HANDS.
00:42:25.61\00:42:28.78
LET ME TELL YOU WHY THAT IS.
IF YOU LOOK IN EXODUS 20, VERSE
00:42:28.78\00:42:31.78
25, NOTICE THIS IS RIGHT AFTER
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - EXODUS 20
00:42:31.78\00:42:36.72
IS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - LOOK
AT VERSE 25, "AND IF YOU MAKE ME
00:42:36.72\00:42:41.09
AN ALTAR OF STONE, YOU SHALL NOT
BUILD IT OF HEWN STONE;" - DON'T
00:42:41.09\00:42:46.19
USE CARVED STONE - "FOR IF YOU
USE YOUR TOOL ON IT, YOU HAVE
00:42:46.19\00:42:51.20
PROFANED IT." DO NOT LIFT UP
MAN'S HANDS ON AN ALTAR THAT YOU
00:42:51.20\00:42:55.10
MAKE. YOU NOTICE THAT WHEN
ELIJAH BUILT THE ALTAR OF THE
00:42:55.10\00:42:58.84
LORD HE TOOK STONES
- HE PILED THEM UP -
00:42:58.84\00:43:00.81
TWELVE OF THEM - JUST
STONES RIGHT OUT OF THE FIELD.
00:43:00.81\00:43:03.88
THEY WERE ALL KIND OF HAPHAZARD,
BUMPY, IRREGULAR STONES - AND
00:43:03.88\00:43:08.92
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT YOU
AND I ARE LIVING STONES.
00:43:08.92\00:43:11.52
WE'RE ALL KIND OF
BUMPY AND IRREGULAR TOO.
00:43:11.52\00:43:13.92
AND THIS IS HOW YOU
MAKE UP THE CHURCH OF GOD.
00:43:13.92\00:43:16.32
AS SOON AS YOU START TO PUT
MAN'S WORKS INTO IT, YOU POLLUTE
00:43:16.32\00:43:20.16
IT. YOU'LL START WORSHIPING WHAT
YOU DID - 'LOOK AT MY EXQUISITE
00:43:20.16\00:43:24.53
ARTMANSHIP' INSTEAD OF WHO I AM.
THE ONLY TIME THEY WERE REALLY
00:43:24.53\00:43:27.67
GIVEN PERMISSION TO DO
THIS - IN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON.
00:43:27.67\00:43:30.74
IT WAS A UNIQUE SITUATION.
IT WAS TO REPRESENT THE GOD OF
00:43:30.74\00:43:34.04
HEAVEN AND IT WAS - IT
WAS A DIFFERENT CATEGORY.
00:43:34.04\00:43:36.24
ALL THE OTHER ALTARS THAT
JACOB AND ABRAHAM AND THE OTHERS
00:43:36.24\00:43:38.68
BUILT, THEY JUST TOOK ROUGH
STONES. WHEN JACOB SAW THAT
00:43:38.68\00:43:42.48
LADDER REACHING TO HEAVEN, HE
TIPPED A STONE UP, POURED OIL ON
00:43:42.48\00:43:45.89
IT, MADE A VOW AND SAID, 'THIS
IS AN ALTAR TO GOD.' BUT HE
00:43:45.89\00:43:49.89
DIDN'T LIFT UP A
CHISEL AND A HAMMER ON IT.
00:43:49.89\00:43:52.33
AND SO THAT'S ONE REASON - THAT
STONE CUT WITHOUT MAN'S HANDS
00:43:52.33\00:43:55.83
THAT DESTROYS EVERYTHING, IT
REPRESENTS CHRIST AND THE PEOPLE
00:43:55.83\00:43:59.00
OF CHRIST - THE COMING OF
CHRIST. ALRIGHT, GO ON HERE,
00:43:59.00\00:44:02.77
IT'S NOT ONLY NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S
DREAMS, IT SAYS ALL THE IDOLS
00:44:02.77\00:44:07.28
ULTIMATELY GET DESTROYED.
TOWER OF BABEL, WHAT HAPPENED?
00:44:07.28\00:44:12.41
IT GOT DESTROYED. THE
GOLDEN CALVES THAT WERE UP
00:44:12.41\00:44:17.45
IN BETHEL AND DAN IN THE
KINGDOM OF THE NORTH - YOU
00:44:17.45\00:44:19.99
REMEMBER KING JOSIAH?
CHILDREN'S STORY - TALKED ABOUT
00:44:19.99\00:44:22.39
KING JOSIAH - HE DESTROYED
THEM. THEY WERE ALL GROUND DOWN.
00:44:22.39\00:44:27.23
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER
THE STORY OF THE ALTAR OF DAGON?
00:44:27.23\00:44:30.43
AND YOU FIND THIS IN 1 SAMUEL
5:2 - IT TELLS US THAT THEY
00:44:30.43\00:44:38.21
CAPTURED - THE PHILISTINES
CAPTURED THE ARK OF GOD AND THEY
00:44:38.21\00:44:43.01
BROUGHT IT AND THEY PUT IT IN
THE TEMPLE OF DAGON, BASICALLY
00:44:43.01\00:44:45.01
TO SAY 'OUR GOD IS BIGGER
THAN JEHOVAH BECAUSE OUR GOD
00:44:45.01\00:44:48.08
CONQUERED THEIR GOD.' WELL, WHEN
THE PRIEST GOT UP IN THE MORNING
00:44:48.08\00:44:51.69
TO GO CHECK ON HIS IDOL, THIS
GREAT BIG STATUE OF DAGON HAD
00:44:51.69\00:44:57.23
TOPPLED OVER - MATTER OF FACT, I
THINK I'VE GOT A PICTURE OF THAT
00:44:57.23\00:45:00.40
- YEAH, THERE IT IS. THERE'S THE
TEMPLE - ANCIENT TEMPLE OF DAGON
00:45:00.40\00:45:02.86
AND THERE'S KIND OF WHAT
THE GOD DAGON LOOKED LIKE.
00:45:02.86\00:45:05.63
IT TOPPLED OVER AND
THAT WAS A BAD OMEN.
00:45:05.63\00:45:09.04
THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND
THE ONLY THING THEY COULD DO IS
00:45:09.04\00:45:10.71
THEY GOT ALL THE PRIESTS
TOGETHER AND THEY WORKED AND
00:45:10.71\00:45:12.64
HOISTED - IT WAS PROBABLY AS BIG
AS ONE OF THESE EASTER ISLAND
00:45:12.64\00:45:15.01
STATUES - IT WAS BIG.
THEY HOISTED IT BACK UP INTO
00:45:15.01\00:45:18.05
PLACE AGAIN AND THEY THOUGHT,
'WELL, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME
00:45:18.05\00:45:20.58
SEISMIC ACTIVITY DURING THE
NIGHT. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT CAUSED
00:45:20.58\00:45:22.78
THAT BUT WE'LL JUST
PRETEND IT WAS A FLUKE.
00:45:22.78\00:45:26.62
THE NEXT DAY THEY CAME BACK AND
THE IDOL OF DAGON WAS FALLEN OFF
00:45:26.62\00:45:31.63
HIS PEDESTAL AGAIN AND THIS
TIME HIS HEAD AND HIS HANDS HAD
00:45:31.63\00:45:35.10
BROKEN OFF ON THE THRESHOLD AND
IT HAD FALLEN DOWN BEFORE THE
00:45:35.10\00:45:38.70
ALTAR OF GOD, AS IF TO SAY, 'ALL
THESE GODS ARE MADE OUT OF STUFF
00:45:38.70\00:45:44.17
MADE BY THE GOD THAT'S IN THAT
BOX THERE' - THE GOD JEHOVAH -
00:45:44.17\00:45:48.34
OR AT LEAST WHO IT
REPRESENTS. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS
00:45:48.34\00:45:52.35
INTERESTING, HIS HEAD
AND HIS HANDS BROKE OFF.
00:45:52.35\00:45:54.42
WHERE'S THE MARK OF THE
BEAST? >>HEAD AND HANDS.
00:45:54.42\00:45:56.89
>>IS THAT GOING TO BE AN
ISSUE? IS IDOLATRY AN ISSUE
00:45:56.89\00:45:59.95
IN THE LAST DAYS? >>YES.
00:45:59.95\00:46:01.86
AMEN! >>DON'T WE
READ IN THE BIBLE
00:46:01.86\00:46:05.19
THAT IT'S SOMETHING
CONNECTED WITH THE FINAL TEST?
00:46:05.19\00:46:08.36
YOU REMEMBER WHEN KING
NEBUCHADNEZZAR TOLD THEM, IN
00:46:08.36\00:46:10.20
DANIEL 3:6, "AND WHOEVER DOES
NOT FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP SHALL
00:46:10.20\00:46:14.30
BE CAST IMMEDIATELY INTO
THE MIDST OF A BURNING FIERY
00:46:14.30\00:46:17.24
FURNACE." WORSHIP WHAT?
00:46:17.24\00:46:18.57
WORSHIP THE BIG IDOL THAT
NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD SET UP.
00:46:18.57\00:46:21.24
THEN YOU JUMP - WITH THAT IN
MIND, YOU JUMP TO REVELATION 13
00:46:21.24\00:46:25.15
- AND IT SAYS "HE" - THE BEAST
POWER - "DECEIVES THOSE WHO
00:46:25.15\00:46:29.25
DWELL ON THE EARTH BY THOSE
SIGNS WHICH HE WAS GRANTED TO DO
00:46:29.25\00:46:32.12
IN THE SIGHT OF THE BEAST," -
THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE SECOND
00:46:32.12\00:46:34.36
BEAST IN REVELATION 13 -
"TELLING THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE
00:46:34.36\00:46:37.06
EARTH TO MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE
BEAST" - THAT'S THE FIRST BEAST
00:46:37.06\00:46:40.50
- "WHO WAS WOUNDED
BY THE SWORD AND LIVED.
00:46:40.50\00:46:43.00
HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO
GIVE BREATH TO THE IMAGE OF THE
00:46:43.00\00:46:44.90
BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF
THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK AND
00:46:44.90\00:46:47.27
CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT
WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST
00:46:47.27\00:46:49.54
TO BE KILLED." NOW
THAT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF IDOL.
00:46:49.54\00:46:53.94
YOU KNOW WHEN THEY - IF YOU GO
TO POMPEII - I'VE BEEN THERE -
00:46:53.94\00:46:57.21
THEY'VE GOT THIS STATUE TO A GOD
AND BEHIND THE STATUE TO THE GOD
00:46:57.21\00:47:00.78
THEY'VE GOT SOME PIPES COMING
OUT OF THE GOD'S MOUTH THAT LEAD
00:47:00.78\00:47:03.32
BACK BEHIND THE WALL. PEOPLE
WOULD COME TO THIS GOD AND
00:47:03.32\00:47:06.02
THEY'D PRAY AND PAY MONEY TO THE
PRIESTS AND ASK FOR A MESSAGE
00:47:06.02\00:47:08.69
AND THERE WOULD BE A PRIEST THAT
WAS TALKING THROUGH A PIPE AND
00:47:08.69\00:47:11.03
THEY HEARD THIS NOISE COMING OUT
THE STATUE'S MOUTH AND SO THEY
00:47:11.03\00:47:14.20
WOULD MAKE IT SOUND
LIKE IT COULD SPEAK.
00:47:14.20\00:47:16.50
AND THEY'VE ALL - THERE WERE ALL
KINDS OF ANTICS AND CRAZY THINGS
00:47:16.50\00:47:18.90
THAT THEY DID THROUGHOUT THE
ROMAN AND THE EGYPTIANS AND THE
00:47:18.90\00:47:23.07
BABYLONIANS - WE KNOW NOW, FROM
ANTIQUITY, THAT THE PRIESTS -
00:47:23.07\00:47:27.08
THERE WAS ONE GOD THAT WAS FULL
OF RATS AND THEY ALWAYS HEARD
00:47:27.08\00:47:31.38
ALL THIS MOTION - THESE SOUNDS
COMING FROM INSIDE THE GOD AND
00:47:31.38\00:47:35.92
IT WAS ACTUALLY JUST THE
RATS THAT WERE RUNNING AROUND IN
00:47:35.92\00:47:37.42
THERE. BUT THEY
MADE THE MOST OF IT.
00:47:37.42\00:47:39.99
THEY HAD GODS THAT WOULD CRY AND
THEY WOULD SQUEEZE SOMETHING AND
00:47:39.99\00:47:42.62
THE WATER WOULD COME OUT - THERE
WERE THESE ARTIFICIAL TEAR DUCTS
00:47:42.62\00:47:45.33
- THEY DID EVERYTHING THEY COULD
TO MAKE THEIR GODS LOOK LIKE
00:47:45.33\00:47:47.40
THEY'RE ALIVE. BUT
THE BIBLE TELLS US THE
00:47:47.40\00:47:50.43
DEVIL'S GOING TO HAVE A
REAL DECEPTION IN THE LAST DAYS
00:47:50.43\00:47:53.27
BECAUSE HE'LL HAVE POWER
TO CAUSE THE IMAGE TO SPEAK.
00:47:53.27\00:47:57.07
>>AMEN. >>AND
WE'VE GOT A WHOLE SET OF
00:47:57.07\00:48:00.28
BIBLE STUDIES ON WHAT THAT IS.
IT MAY NOT BE EXACTLY WHAT YOU
00:48:00.28\00:48:02.71
THINK, BUT DOES IDOLATRY
PLAY INTO THE LAST SCENARIO?
00:48:02.71\00:48:08.52
WE NEED TO KNOW THAT WE DON'T
HAVE THESE IDOLS IN OUR LIFE.
00:48:08.52\00:48:11.59
IT'S PRETTY SERIOUS.
REVELATION 14, VERSE 11, IT
00:48:11.59\00:48:15.49
SAYS, " AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR
TORMENT ASCENDS FOREVER AND
00:48:15.49\00:48:18.36
EVER; AND THEY HAVE NO REST DAY
OR NIGHT, WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST
00:48:18.36\00:48:22.13
AND HIS IMAGE, AND WHOEVER
RECEIVES THE MARK OF HIS NAME."
00:48:22.13\00:48:26.77
YOU KNOW, I'M OUT OF
TIME. I'M NOT OUT OF SERMON.
00:48:26.77\00:48:29.87
THERE'S SO MUCH MORE I COULD SAY
ABOUT IDOLATRY, BUT I THINK YOU
00:48:29.87\00:48:32.61
GET THE IDEA THAT
OUR GOD IS A SPIRIT.
00:48:32.61\00:48:34.88
HE WANTS US TO WORSHIP
HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
00:48:34.88\00:48:37.31
LET ME TELL YOU, PRINCIPALLY,
WHY I THINK IT'S A DANGER TO
00:48:37.31\00:48:41.08
DRIFT - AND, YOU
KNOW, WE ALWAYS NEED TO
00:48:41.08\00:48:43.22
BE REMINDED ABOUT IDOLATRY
AND GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE OLD
00:48:43.22\00:48:46.02
TESTAMENT AND NEW TESTAMENT.
ONE OF THE LAST THINGS THAT JOHN
00:48:46.02\00:48:48.46
SAYS, 'MY LITTLE CHILDREN,
KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS.'
00:48:48.46\00:48:52.06
OVER AND OVER THEY HAD TO REMIND
THE PEOPLE OF GOD ABOUT THIS.
00:48:52.06\00:48:55.30
GOD IS ALL KNOWING, GOD IS ALL
FEELING, HE'S ALL POWERFUL, HE'S
00:48:55.30\00:49:01.97
UNIVERSAL, AND
HE'S ETERNAL. >>AMEN.
00:49:01.97\00:49:04.54
>>AN IDOL KNOWS NOTHING,
FEELS NOTHING, IT'S POWERLESS,
00:49:04.54\00:49:07.94
TEMPORARY, STATIONARY.
AN IDOL IS THE ANTITHESIS OF
00:49:07.94\00:49:12.71
WHAT GOD IS. IT IS THE ULTIMATE
OPPOSITE OF WHAT GOD IS.
00:49:12.71\00:49:16.58
AND SO WHENEVER WE TRY TO LOOK
AT SOMETHING IN ORDER TO THINK
00:49:16.58\00:49:20.39
OF GOD - IT'S ONE THING TO LOOK
AT HIS CREATION, BUT SOMETHING
00:49:20.39\00:49:23.36
MAN-MADE - WE'RE STARTING
TO REALLY PUT OUR TRUST IN MAN.
00:49:23.36\00:49:27.93
IT THEN STARTS TO BE
RIGHTEOUSNESS BY WORKS AND
00:49:27.93\00:49:30.27
TRUSTING IN THE
CREATION OF THE ARTIST.
00:49:30.27\00:49:32.47
AND INSTEAD OF GIVING GLORY TO
THE LIVING GOD WHO IS UNSEEN, WE
00:49:32.47\00:49:35.37
GIVE IT TO THAT WHICH IS SEEN.
AND SO THIS IS MUCH DEEPER AND
00:49:35.37\00:49:39.14
WIDER THAN IT APPEARS ON THE
SURFACE. IDOLATRY REALLY CAN BE
00:49:39.14\00:49:46.18
ANYTHING THAT YOU PUT IN THE
PLACE OF GOD THAT YOU WORSHIP -
00:49:46.18\00:49:49.68
THAT TAKES YOUR TIME.
WE'RE PRAYING THAT YOU'RE NOT
00:49:49.68\00:49:52.69
DISTRACTED WITH THE MATERIAL -
MATERIALISM IS A GOD, ISN'T IT?
00:49:52.69\00:49:57.06
WE ARE LIVING, RIGHT NOW - DO
WE ALL KNOW THAT WE'RE LIVING IN
00:49:57.06\00:49:59.53
THE MOST MATERIALISTIC AGE?
THERE ARE MORE THINGS THAT YOU
00:49:59.53\00:50:03.03
CAN BUY THAN AT ANY
OTHER TIME IN HISTORY.
00:50:03.03\00:50:05.97
THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT WE
DON'T GET DISTRACTED WITH THE
00:50:05.97\00:50:08.17
THINGS - THE TANGIBLE -
AND NEGLECT THE SPIRITUAL.
00:50:08.17\00:50:13.21
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>>AMAZING FACTS. CHANGED LIVES.
00:50:46.37\00:50:54.88
>>YOU KNOW, WE GREW UP IN A
NEIGHBORHOOD UP IN THE MIDWEST
00:50:54.88\00:50:57.95
THAT WAS A PRETTY BAD
NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHEN I BECAME A
00:50:57.95\00:51:00.89
TEENAGER I STARTED USING DRUGS.
I WAS ON - I STARTED USING METH
00:51:00.89\00:51:05.59
WHEN I WAS LIKE, I THINK,
16 - 15 - SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
00:51:05.59\00:51:09.53
I WAS HAVING SOME PROBLEMS IN MY
LIFE I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO
00:51:09.53\00:51:12.43
DEAL WITH. THE ONLY
THING I REALLY KNEW WAS
00:51:12.43\00:51:16.24
VIOLENCE SO THIS NIGHT
HERE I WAS GOING TO INFLICT
00:51:16.24\00:51:20.31
VIOLENCE ON MYSELF. I
WAS REALLY HIGH AND REALLY
00:51:20.31\00:51:23.75
DEPRESSED SO I TOOK, YOU
KNOW, I HAD THIS .40 CALIBER.
00:51:23.75\00:51:26.48
SO I REMEMBER I PUT ONE IN THE
CHAMBER AND I STUCK IT TO THE
00:51:26.48\00:51:29.18
SIDE OF MY HEAD LIKE THIS AND
THAT GUN HAD A HAIR TRIGGER, YOU
00:51:29.18\00:51:35.92
KNOW? I
REMEMBER I WAS TAPPING IT
00:51:35.92\00:51:39.09
'CAUSE A PART OF ME SAID
'NO, I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS.'
00:51:39.09\00:51:43.77
BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY
EVIL PRESENT THERE SAYING 'DO
00:51:43.77\00:51:46.53
IT.' I JUST SAID TO MYSELF, I
SAID, 'GOD, IF YOU'RE REAL SHOW
00:51:46.53\00:51:53.68
YOURSELF TO ME.' MY MOTHER TOOK
ME TO CHURCH WHEN I WAS A LITTLE
00:51:53.68\00:51:57.15
KID AND WE USED TO SING 'JESUS
LOVES ME' AND I REMEMBERED THAT
00:51:57.15\00:52:02.32
SONG. IT STARTED
PLAYING IN MY MIND.
00:52:02.32\00:52:06.19
I ALMOST HAD, LIKE, A VISION
OF ME AS A LITTLE KID, YOU KNOW?
00:52:06.19\00:52:13.19
IN SABBATH SCHOOL WE USED TO
BANG THOSE STICKS TOGETHER AND
00:52:13.19\00:52:20.80
SING 'JESUS LOVES ME'
AND I HEARD THAT IN MY MIND.
00:52:20.80\00:52:27.41
SO I SAID, 'WOW.' SO I JUST,
KIND OF LIKE, PUT THE GUN DOWN
00:52:27.41\00:52:34.15
AND I KIND OF FELL ON MY BEDSIDE
THERE AND I SAID, 'LORD,' - I
00:52:34.15\00:52:38.75
JUST BASICALLY JUST
PRAYED THIS CRAZY PRAYER.
00:52:38.75\00:52:41.39
I SAYS - I TOLD HIM EVERYTHING
THAT WAS WRONG WITH ME.
00:52:41.39\00:52:44.89
AND I REMEMBER, ONE DAY, I
WAS DRIVING AROUND AND I KIND OF
00:52:44.89\00:52:46.63
FELT LOST, AND I DROVE BY THIS
CHURCH AND I SEEN TOM OUT THERE.
00:52:46.63\00:52:50.87
TOM WAS JUST OUT THERE
WATERING THE FLOWERS, YOU KNOW?
00:52:50.87\00:52:54.70
>>SO I CAUGHT A VISION OUT OF
THE SIDE OF MY EYE OF THIS BIG
00:52:54.70\00:52:58.94
HUSKY GUY WITH TATTOOS
WALKING UP AND SAYING HELLO.
00:52:58.94\00:53:05.08
AND I - SO I ASKED HIM IF I
COULD HELP HIM AND HE TOLD ME
00:53:05.08\00:53:10.19
THAT HE DRIVES BY THE CHURCH ON
OCCASION AND EVERY TIME HE GOES
00:53:10.19\00:53:15.96
BY HE'S THINKING
THAT HE SHOULD STOP IN.
00:53:15.96\00:53:18.73
>>AFTER HE SHOWED ME AROUND THE
CHURCH, YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE,
00:53:18.73\00:53:23.26
'OKAY, MAN, IT'S NICE MEETING
YOU.' AND THIS AND THAT - SO I
00:53:23.26\00:53:27.74
JUMPED IN MY CAR AND I STARTED
HEADING DOWN THE DRIVEWAY AND
00:53:27.74\00:53:31.87
THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW IN,
LIKE, MY PERIPHERAL VISION, I
00:53:31.87\00:53:35.44
SEE HIM COMING AROUND THE
CORNER LIKE JERRY RICE RUNNING A
00:53:35.44\00:53:39.45
FOOTBALL - NO, NOT THAT FAST,
BUT, YOU KNOW, HE WAS TAKING OFF
00:53:39.45\00:53:44.59
AFTER ME AND HE SAYS, 'HEY,
HEY, HEY! HOLD ON, HOLD ON.'
00:53:44.59\00:53:47.69
>>I ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD LIKE
TO HAVE SOME BIBLE STUDIES AND
00:53:47.69\00:53:50.13
HE SAID, 'YEAH.' >>HE
WOULD COME BY THE HOUSE.
00:53:50.13\00:53:53.13
WE'D ALL START - WE'D START
HIDING THE BEER CANS AND TRYING
00:53:53.13\00:53:57.03
TO AIR OUT THE WEED SMELL.
THERE WAS A PRESENCE THAT CAME
00:53:57.03\00:54:00.40
WITH TOM THAT WAS COMFORTING,
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:54:00.40\00:54:05.57
EVEN THOUGH I WASN'T TAKING THE
BIBLE STUDIES AS SERIOUS AS I
00:54:05.57\00:54:08.64
SHOULD HAVE, LOOKING BACK, THERE
WAS JUST A PRESENCE ABOUT HIM
00:54:08.64\00:54:13.21
BEING THERE IN THE
HOUSE THAT WAS COMFORTING.
00:54:13.21\00:54:17.15
I TOLD TOM, I SAID, 'TOM, YOU
KNOW, YOU CAN'T WIN EVERYBODY.'
00:54:17.15\00:54:20.29
>>I LOOKED AT HIM AND I KNEW -
I SAID TO HIM, 'RUEBEN, I NEVER
00:54:20.29\00:54:25.13
GET ANYBODY.' I SAYS, 'THE HOLY
SPIRIT WILL DO THAT.' AND I,
00:54:25.13\00:54:31.93
KIND OF, IN MY HEART, KNEW THAT
THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS GOING TO
00:54:31.93\00:54:34.47
WORK ON RUEBEN. >>SO
THEN TOM KIND OF LEFT THE
00:54:34.47\00:54:37.37
PICTURE FOR AWHILE AND I THINK
ONE DAY, AT MY MOTHER'S HOUSE,
00:54:37.37\00:54:41.48
THEY WERE WATCHING THE
FINAL EVENTS OF BIBLE PROPHECY .
00:54:41.48\00:54:44.65
SO I WATCHED THAT AND I REMEMBER
THE SCENE WHERE THEY HAD THE
00:54:44.65\00:54:51.79
HELLFIRE AND STUFF, YOU KNOW,
THEY'RE OUTSIDE THE CITY AND IT
00:54:51.79\00:54:56.32
SHOWED THE HELLFIRE COMING DOWN
AND BURNING PEOPLE AND STUFF.
00:54:56.32\00:55:02.80
I REMEMBER SAYING TO MYSELF,
'THAT'S WHERE I WOULD BE RIGHT
00:55:02.80\00:55:06.37
THERE.' AFTER THE HELLFIRE SCENE
I SAW THE SAINTS IN THE CITY -
00:55:06.37\00:55:13.01
IN THE NEW JERUSALEM - AND JESUS
RECREATING THE EARTH AND I SAID,
00:55:13.01\00:55:21.98
'I WANT THAT TO BE MY - ME AND
MY FAMILY.' THERE WAS SOMETHING
00:55:21.98\00:55:26.59
ABOUT THE WAY DOUG PREACHED AND
THINGS THAT I FELT THAT TOUCHED
00:55:26.59\00:55:29.66
ME BECAUSE HE'S KIND OF
LIKE MYSELF, YOU KNOW, HE'S - HE
00:55:29.66\00:55:35.76
DIDN'T GROW UP
LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW?
00:55:35.76\00:55:38.33
HE - HE DONE DRUGS AND THINGS
SO I KIND OF FOUND THESE COMMON
00:55:38.33\00:55:42.27
GROUNDS THAT I HAD WITH HIM AND
I LIKED HOW HE JUST, KIND OF,
00:55:42.27\00:55:46.17
LIKE, KEPT IT REAL
WITH HIS PREACHING.
00:55:46.17\00:55:47.91
AND THEN PASTOR RODLEY CAME TO
THE CHURCH AND I GOT TO KNOW HIM
00:55:47.91\00:55:53.48
VERY WELL AND WE STARTED
DOING SOME FINISHING STUDIES.
00:55:53.48\00:55:57.92
HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE I
UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS DOING AND
00:55:57.92\00:56:01.52
THINGS. HE BAPTIZED
ME, MY WIFE, MY BROTHER.
00:56:01.52\00:56:05.76
NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE
DONE, WHERE YOU COME FROM, WHERE
00:56:05.76\00:56:11.03
YOU'VE BEEN, NO MATTER HOW BAD
OF A SINNER YOU THINK YOU ARE,
00:56:11.03\00:56:16.47
THE LORD JESUS LOVES YOU
NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE.
00:56:16.47\00:56:20.21
>>FRIENDS, IT'S BECAUSE OF
GOD'S BLESSING AND YOUR SUPPORT
00:56:20.21\00:56:23.51
THOUSANDS OF OTHERS, JUST LIKE
RUEBEN, HAVE FOUND JESUS AND
00:56:23.51\00:56:27.35
ETERNAL LIFE. (MUSIC)
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>>AMAZING FACTS
BEGAN IN 1965 WITH A
00:56:44.03\00:56:47.84
GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
00:56:47.84\00:56:51.74
THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
00:56:51.74\00:56:55.04
>>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
00:56:55.04\00:56:58.81
SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
00:56:58.81\00:57:02.95
TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
00:57:02.95\00:57:06.89
THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
00:57:06.89\00:57:10.49
BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
00:57:10.49\00:57:13.63
IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
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GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
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EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:21.20\00:57:25.37
IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
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PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
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MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:36.85\00:57:39.72
FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
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BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
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TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
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WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE -
THE MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S
00:57:54.54\00:57:58.71
CHURCH SEE A
RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
00:57:58.71\00:58:02.81
AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S
MESSAGE, OUR MISSION.
00:58:02.81\00:58:09.42
>>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN
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