Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021611A
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00:14 >>TODAY'S MESSAGE IS GOING TO BE THE SECOND 00:17 INSTALLMENT OF A MESSAGE THAT I BEGAN FOUR WEEKS AGO. 00:23 HENRY FORD WAS A VERY INTERESTING AND, AT SOME TIMES, 00:29 ECCENTRIC ENGINEER. HE REVOLUTIONIZED THE ASSEMBLY 00:34 LINE AND WAS - STARTED AS A FARM BOY BUT JUST HAD A KNACK FOR 00:42 ENGINEERING - OF COURSE, BECAME ONE OF THE FOUNDERS AND FATHERS 00:46 IN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. BUT HE HAD A LOT OF OTHER 00:49 VERY UNIQUE INTERESTS. HE WAS AN ORNITHOLOGIST AND HE 00:55 WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO FIX THE WORLD SOCIALLY, BUT ONE OF THE 01:02 THINGS THAT WAS INTERESTING IS THAT HE BUILT A HOME IN 01:06 DEERBORN, MICHIGAN, ON THE ROUGE RIVER, AND IT WAS QUITE 01:12 AN ENGINEERING FEAT. IT'S STILL THERE TODAY. 01:15 IT WAS ELABORATELY CARVED WITH WOODWORK AND TECHNICAL WONDERS. 01:19 HE HAD, FOR EXAMPLE, HE CHOSE 1,300 ACRES OVERLOOKING THE 01:23 RIVER, 56 ROOMS SPREAD OVER THREE FLOORS, 31,000 SQUARE-FOOT 01:29 HOME. HOW'D YOU LIKE TO CLEAN THAT? EIGHT FIREPLACES - ONE 01:33 WAS MARBLE, 13-FEET HIGH, BEAUTIFUL PERFECTION IN ITS 01:38 DESIGN - THE PRICE FOR BUILDING IT BACK THEN WAS 2 MILLION 01:41 DOLLARS. NOW THAT'S BACK WHEN BREAD WAS A NICKEL. 01:45 SO JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, HE SPARED NO EXPENSE. 01:50 IN ADDITION, THE RESIDENTS ON THE ESTATE INCLUDED A SUMMER 01:53 HOUSE, A MAN-MADE LAKE, A BOATHOUSE, STAFF COTTAGES, A 01:56 GATE HOUSE, PONY BARN, SKATEHOUSE, GREENHOUSE, MAPLE 02:02 SYRUP HOUSE, A ROOT CELLAR, VEGETABLE GARDEN, THOUSANDS OF 02:06 FLOWERS, 500 BIRD HOUSES - I TOLD YOU HE HAD AN INTEREST IN 02:10 BIRDS - AND HIS REAL INTEREST WAS IN DEVELOPING AN INDEPENDENT 02:16 POWER SUPPLY, SO HE BUILT A POWER PLANT THAT CAPTURED THE 02:21 RIVER WATER AND TURNED TURBINES AND, NOT ONLY POWERED THE ENTIRE 02:26 ESTATE, BUT HE HAD LEFTOVER POWER THAT HE COULD SELL BACK TO 02:30 THE CITY AND THIS WAS CONNECTED BY A TUNNEL 300-FEET LONG TO THE 02:34 HOUSE. 550 SWITCHES PROVIDED THE LIGHT 02:38 AT THE FLICK OF A FINGER - AND THIS WAS BUILT IN 1915 SO THAT'S 02:45 PRETTY FAR AHEAD OF YOUR TIMES TO HAVE THAT. 02:48 THE INTERESTING THING WAS, THE POWER PLANT WAS PERFECTLY 02:52 DEPENDABLE - IT NEVER FAILED FOR 30 YEARS UNTIL 1947, THERE WAS A 02:57 VERY HARD RAIN AND THE RIVER ROUGE WENT RAMPAGING DOWN, IT 03:04 FLOODED SOME OF THE BOILERS AND SHORTED OUT THE POWER SYSTEM AND 03:07 THE HOUSE WENT DARK. STRANGELY ENOUGH, IT WAS THE 03:10 SAME DAY THAT HENRY FORD LAY DYING AND HE ENDED UP DYING IN A 03:17 DARK, COLD HOUSE TWO MILES FROM THE PLACE HE WAS BORN - 03:21 THE ONLY DAY THE POWER FAILED. YOU KNOW, I HEAR ABOUT THAT AND 03:25 IT REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING IN THE BIBLE. 03:28 MATTHEW 27, VERSE 50, "AND JESUS CRIED OUT AGAIN WITH A LOUD 03:34 VOICE, AND YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT. 03:38 THEN, BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS TORN IN TWO FROM TOP 03:41 TO BOTTOM; AND THE EARTH QUAKED, AND THE ROCKS WERE SPLIT," - 03:46 JESUS DIED FOUR MILES FROM THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH IN THE CITY 03:52 THAT HE HAD CHOSEN TO BUILD THE TEMPLE. 03:55 HE HAD TAUGHT IN THE TEMPLE. AND YET, WHEN HE DIED, THE VEIL 03:59 IN THE TEMPLE, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WAS TORN 04:02 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. THIS WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT. 04:04 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN JESUS DIED THAT CHANGED THE 04:09 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EARTHLY TEMPLE. 04:12 NOW, IN OUR LAST STUDY - QUICK LITTLE REVIEW - WE'RE TALKING 04:15 ABOUT THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD AND THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU 04:20 FIND ONE OF THE PHRASES REFERRING TO THE TEMPLE OF THE 04:22 LORD - EITHER TEMPLE, TABERNACLE, SANCTUARY, HOUSE OF 04:26 THE LORD - ABOUT 700 - 800 TIMES IN THE BIBLE, SO IT'S OBVIOUSLY 04:30 SOMETHING THAT IS IMPORTANT TO THE LORD AND THE BIBLE. 04:33 WE LEARNED THERE WERE THREE PHYSICAL TEMPLES IN THE OLD 04:36 TESTAMENT: YOU HAD THE WILDERNESS TEMPLE THAT WAS THE 04:39 PORTABLE TABERNACLE. IT EXISTED FROM ABOUT 1447 B.C. 04:43 TO 1024 B.C. - AROUND THE TIME OF KING DAVID AND SOLOMON. 04:48 THEN SOLOMON BUILT HIS TEMPLE AND IT LASTED FROM 931 TO 587. 04:55 THEN YOU HAD THE TEMPLE BUILT DURING THE TIME OF NEHEMIAH AND 04:57 ZERUBBABEL - THE ONE LATER RESTORED BY KING HEROD THAT 05:01 JESUS TAUGHT IN, THAT WAS IN EXISTENCE DURING THE TIME OF 05:04 JESUS. YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ME MENTION 05:07 BEFORE, I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING THAT ON THE MOUNT OF 05:10 TRANSFIGURATION YOU HAD MOSES, JESUS, AND ELIJAH. 05:15 ONE TEMPLE DURING THE TIME OF MOSES, ONE TEMPLE DURING THE 05:18 TIME OF ELIJAH - SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, AND THEN THE THIRD 05:21 TEMPLE DURING THE TIME OF JESUS. PETER DIDN'T EVEN KNOW 05:24 WHAT HE SAID WHEN HE SAID, 'LET'S BUILD THREE TABERNACLES' 05:28 AND HE WAS REALLY TALKING ABOUT THOSE THREE TABERNACLES IN THE 05:31 OLD TESTAMENT. BUT THEN, WHEN JESUS DIED, AND 05:34 THE VEIL WAS RIPPED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM - IT WAS VERY HIGH - NO 05:38 MAN COULD REACH IT - SO IT WAS THE HAND OF AN ANGEL THAT TORE 05:42 THIS VEIL THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO KEEP ANY HUMAN EYES FROM LOOKING 05:45 INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES AND IT WAS SUDDENLY EXPOSED. 05:49 IT SYMBOLIZED THAT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EARTHLY 05:53 TABERNACLES, THOUGH IT WAS A DIVINE PLAN, HAD COME TO AN END. 05:57 NOW THE TEMPLE WAS GOING THROUGH A CHANGE. 06:00 YOU REMEMBER THAT WE READ - I HOPE YOU REMEMBER - IN OUR LAST 06:04 STUDY. JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE 06:07 MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL MAKE ONE WITHOUT 06:09 HANDS.' AND HE SPOKE OF HIS BODY. 06:12 MATTER OF FACT, THE ONLY TWO WITNESSES THAT THEY COULD GET TO 06:16 TESTIFY AGAINST JESUS, THAT WERE EVEN IN HARMONY IN ANY WAY, WERE 06:21 THE TWO THAT SAID, 'WE HEARD HIM SAY, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE AND IN 06:24 THREE DAYS I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.'' SO JESUS DID, 06:28 EVIDENTLY, SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 06:30 WHAT IS THIS TEMPLE MADE WITHOUT HANDS? 06:32 WELL, WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE. 06:34 THERE ARE MANY - FIRST, I'D LIKE TO JUST KIND OF MARCH THROUGH 06:36 SOME OF THE EXAMPLES OF WHAT THE MODERN TEMPLE IS AND WHY IT'S 06:40 IMPORTANT TO US TODAY. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REFERENCES 06:44 TO THE TEMPLE IN THE BIBLE AND EVEN IN PROPHECY. 06:47 A COUPLE I MIGHT MENTION, ISAIAH 6 AND THAT VISION OF ISAIAH'S 06:50 CONVERSION. IT SAYS, "IN THE YEAR THAT KING 06:53 UZZIAH DIED, I SAW THE LORD SITTING ON A THRONE, HIGH AND 06:57 LIFTED UP, AND THE TRAIN OF HIS ROBE FILLED THE TEMPLE." 07:01 NOW, IF THE LORD IS SITTING ON A THRONE IN THIS TEMPLE, WHAT 07:03 TEMPLE IS IT? NOT A TEMPLE ON EARTH - "ABOVE 07:06 IT STOOD SERAPHIM;" - THESE CHERUBS ON THE RIGHT AND THE 07:10 LEFT OF THE LORD - "EACH ONE HAD SIX WINGS: WITH TWO HE COVERED 07:14 HIS FACE, WITH TWO HE COVERED HIS FEET, AND WITH TWO HE FLEW." 07:18 - AND YOU REMEMBER THE MERCY SEAT WAS THOUGHT OF AS THE 07:21 PRESENCE OF GOD OR THE THRONE OF GOD AND THERE WERE ANGELS ON THE 07:24 RIGHT AND THE LEFT OF THIS GOLDEN BOX THAT HELD THE TEN 07:28 COMMANDMENTS. THERE ARE TWELVE REFERENCES TO 07:31 THE TEMPLE, JUST IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 07:33 EZEKIEL PROBABLY HAS 20 OR MORE REFERENCES. 07:37 ONE, FOR INSTANCE - GO TO JUST EZEKIEL 47, VERSE 1 - I'M GOING 07:41 TO GIVE YOU A LOT OF SCRIPTURE TODAY - EZEKIEL 47:1, "THEN HE 07:45 BROUGHT ME BACK TO THE DOOR OF THE TEMPLE; AND THERE WAS WATER, 07:48 FLOWING FROM UNDER THE THRESHOLD OF THE TEMPLE TOWARD THE EAST," 07:52 - IS EZEKIEL TALKING ABOUT THE EARTHLY TEMPLE? 07:54 WAS THERE WATER FLOWING FROM THE EARTHLY TEMPLE? 07:58 BUT DO YOU REMEMBER READING IN REVELATION 'A RIVER FLOWS FROM 08:00 THE THRONE OF GOD'? SO WHAT TEMPLE IS EZEKIEL SEEING? 08:05 - "AND THERE WAS WATER, FLOWING FROM UNDER THE THRESHOLD OF THE 08:08 TEMPLE TOWARD THE EAST, FOR THE FRONT OF THE TEMPLE FACED EAST; 08:11 THE WATER WAS FLOWING FROM UNDER THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE 08:13 TEMPLE, SOUTH OF THE ALTAR." IT'S AN INTERESTING TEMPLE. 08:18 DANIEL ALSO MENTIONS IT - DANIEL 5:3, "THEN THEY BROUGHT THE GOLD 08:22 VESSELS THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM THE TEMPLE OF THE HOUSE OF GOD" 08:25 - AND YOU COULD GO THROUGH THE VARIOUS PROPHECIES. 08:28 THE TEMPLE IS VERY IMPORTANT - LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING 08:33 FORWARD. NOW, WE MENTIONED THAT THE EARTHLY TEMPLE, ITS 08:38 FUNCTION CAME TO AN END. EVEN THOUGH, AFTER JESUS DIED ON 08:41 THE CROSS AND THE VEIL WAS RENT, THEY SEWED IT UP. 08:45 THEY CONTINUED OFFERING SACRIFICES FOR A WHILE UNTIL THE 08:48 TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED, BUT IT WAS STILL THERE. 08:52 CHRIST RESPECTED THE PURPOSE OF THE EARTHLY TEMPLE UP UNTIL HE 08:56 DIED ON THE CROSS. HE WANTED IT TO BE REVERED. 09:03 YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 2:14, "AND FOUND IN THE TEMPLE THOSE THAT 09:09 SOLD OXEN AND SHEEP AND DOVES, AND THE CHANGERS OF MONEY 09:12 SITTING: AND WHEN HE HAD MADE A SCOURGE OF SMALL CORDS, HE DROVE 09:17 THEM ALL OUT OF THE TEMPLE, AND THE SHEEP, AND THE OXEN; AND 09:21 POURED OUT THE CHANGERS' MONEY, AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES; AND 09:24 SAID UNTO THEM THAT SOLD DOVES, 'TAKE THESE THINGS HENCE; MAKE 09:28 NOT MY FATHER'S HOUSE AN HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE." 09:34 NOW WHAT DOES HE SAY? "MY FATHER'S HOUSE". 09:37 I WANT YOU TO CATCH THAT. WHAT DID HE CALL THE TEMPLE? 09:41 "MY FATHER'S HOUSE". THAT CHANGES. HOW MANY TIMES DID 09:45 JESUS DRIVE PEOPLE OUT OF THE TEMPLE? THERE'S TWO TIMES - THAT 09:50 IT'S MENTIONED - ONCE - IT MENTIONS HERE IN THE GOSPEL OF 09:54 JOHN - IT SAYS IT'S THE SECOND MIRACLE - OR THE SECOND THING 09:57 THAT HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER THE MIRACLE IN CANA - IT'S A - AT 10:00 THE VERY BEGINNING OF HIS MINISTRY. 10:02 THE SECOND TIME IS AT THE END OF HIS MINISTRY FOLLOWING, WHAT 10:06 THEY CALLED 'THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY' - JUST BEFORE THE CROSS - 10:09 HE DOES IT AGAIN. THAT'S THE VERSE THAT WAS READ 10:11 DURING OUR VERSE READING - SCRIPTURE VERSE. 10:17 IT WAS FORETOLD THAT THIS EVENT WOULD HAPPEN. 10:21 IF YOU LOOK IN MALACHI CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1, "BEHOLD, I WILL SEND 10:26 MY MESSENGER, AND HE WILL PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE ME. 10:30 AND THE LORD, WHOM YE SEEK, WILL SUDDENLY COME TO HIS TEMPLE, 10:35 EVEN THE MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT, IN WHOM YOU 10:37 DELIGHT:" - THIS IS A PROPHECY OF THE MESSIAH - "...BUT WHO CAN 10:40 ENDURE THE DAY OF HIS COMING? AND WHO CAN STAND WHEN HE 10:44 APPEARS?" - FOR HE WOULD COME AS A REFINER. JESUS WAS COMING TO 10:47 PURGE - TO CLEANSE - THE TEMPLE. WHAT TEMPLE IS HE CLEANSING? 10:53 IT PROBABLY IS GOOD FOR US JUST TO TAKE A MOMENT AND REMEMBER 10:58 THAT GOD'S HOUSE IS TO BE A PLACE OF REVERENCE. 11:03 WE CALL THE CHURCH THE 'HOUSE OF THE LORD' AND WE CALL THIS ROOM 11:06 WHERE WE GATHER 'THE SANCTUARY' BECAUSE IT'S A PLACE WHERE WE 11:09 HAVE OUR FORMAL WORSHIP SERVICE. I THINK MOST OF US KNOW IT'S A 11:13 COMBINATION OF CONCRETE AND THE IRON AND VINYL AND CARPET. 11:18 IT'S NOT LIKE THE BIBLICAL TEMPLE, BUT IT IS A PLACE WE'VE 11:22 SET ASIDE FOR WORSHIP AND WE SHOULD TREAT IT WITH RESPECT. 11:26 WE OUGHT TO CONDUCT OURSELVES REVERENTLY IN THIS PLACE BECAUSE 11:30 IT'S A PLACE THAT IS DESIGNATED AS A SPOT WHERE WE WORSHIP THE 11:34 HOLY GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, AMEN? YOU'VE HEARD THE VERSES - 'THE 11:38 LORD IS IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE. LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENT.' 11:41 AND THERE SHOULD BE THIS AWE AND THIS REVERENCE. 11:44 JESUS WANTED THAT RESPECTED. WHEN SOLOMON BUILT THE FIRST 11:49 PERMANENT TEMPLE, IT'S AMAZING, IT SAYS THEY WOULDN'T EVEN 11:52 LIFT A HAMMER - THAT ALL THE CHISELING, ALL THE CARVING, ALL 11:56 THE POLISHING OF THE STONES WAS DONE BEFORE THEY GOT THERE AND 12:00 THEN THEY WERE BROUGHT AND SILENTLY MOVED INTO PLACE. 12:04 CAN YOU IMAGINE A CONSTRUCTION SITE WHERE ALL THESE STONES ARE 12:08 AND ALL YOU HEAR IS THE MUFFLED TONES OF THE MANAGERS TELLING 12:12 THE WORKERS WHERE TO PUSH THE STONES. THAT WAS PROBABLY PRETTY 12:17 - PRETTY STRANGE. BUT IT'S A PLACE THAT'S TO BE RESPECTED. 12:22 NOW GOD'S CHURCH IS A TEMPLE - WE'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THAT IN A 12:25 MINUTE - SOMETIMES IT TURNS INTO AN AUCTION BLOCK AND SOMETIMES 12:31 IT SEEMS LIKE SALVATION IS BEING SOLD. 12:34 WHAT THEY - DID IN THE TIME OF CHRIST IS, WHEN PEOPLE CAME TO 12:37 THE TEMPLE THEY NEEDED TO BRING THEIR SACRIFICES OR THEY NEEDED 12:39 TO BRING THEIR ANNUAL TEMPLE OFFERING AND THEY MIGHT BE 12:42 COMING FROM DIFFERENT KINGDOMS - THE PRIESTS SAID YOU CAN ONLY 12:46 PAY THAT - YOU COULDN'T USE ROMAN MONEY - YOU ONLY COULD PAY 12:50 THAT IN THE TEMPLE SHEKELS, SO THEY HAD AN EXCHANGE BOOTH 12:54 OUTSIDE - THAT THEY HAD BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE WHERE YOU 12:57 WOULD EXCHANGE YOUR MONEY - AND WHEN THEY THOUGHT 12:58 THE EXCHANGE RATE WAS TOO HIGH, THERE WERE COMPLAINTS 13:01 AND ARGUMENTS AND - I KNOW, WHEN I JUST WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA WE 13:04 NEEDED TO USE THE SOUTH AFRICAN RAND - THEIR MONEY - AND SO I 13:08 EXCHANGED IT AND IT KIND OF HURT TO SEE HOW BIG A BITE THEY TAKE 13:12 OUT OF IT WHEN YOU EXCHANGE IT WITH THEM. THE OTHER THING THEY 13:16 WERE DOING IS PEOPLE WERE BRINGING SACRIFICES AND THEY 13:18 MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO TRANSPORT THEIR SACRIFICES SO THEY'D BUY 13:21 THEM. YOU COULD - THEY SAID, 'YOU COULD GET THEM RIGHT 13:23 HERE.' BUT THEY WOULD CHARGE EXORBITANT PRICES AND SOME 13:27 PEOPLE OFFERED SHEEP AND SOME WERE POOR - THEY OFFERED DOVES. 13:30 WHEN JESUS WAS A BABY, IT SAYS, JOSEPH AND MARY COULD ONLY PAY 13:33 TWO TURTLE DOVES - THE POOR PEOPLE OFFERED DOVES - IT WAS 13:36 THE SMALLEST, LEAST EXPENSIVE, CLEAN OFFERING YOU COULD MAKE. 13:40 IF YOU WERE RICH - OXEN - BIG, YOU KNOW, BIG CLEAN OXEN. 13:45 AND SO, HERE YOU WALK IN THE TEMPLE AND IT SMELLS LIKE A 13:50 BARN. YOU CAN HEAR THE COOING OF THE 13:53 DOVES AND THE BLEATING OF THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS AND THE OXEN 13:56 AND PEOPLE ARE ARGUING SAYING, 'OH, I'LL GIVE YOU' - 'OKAY' 13:59 - 'NO, THAT'S TOO MUCH. HOW ABOUT TODAY - 14:00 SPECIAL DISCOUNT?' 'NO, WE SELL CHEAPER THAN ACROSS 14:02 THE COURTYARD.' 'OURS ARE BETTER!' AND, 14:04 I MEAN, IT WAS LIKE A CARNIVAL AND JESUS WENT INTO 14:08 THIS PLACE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PLACE OF WORSHIP AND HE SAW 14:11 THIS AND IT MADE HIM INDIGNANT. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PLACE 14:15 OF PRAYER, BUT IT TURNED INTO A PLACE OF MERCHANDISE AND PROFIT. 14:20 NOW, COULD THAT HAPPEN TO A CHURCH? 14:23 YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER HEARD IT OR SEEN IT, BUT 14:28 YOU WOULD BE AMAZED HOW MANY CHURCHES THERE ARE OUT THERE 14:32 THAT THINK SALVATION IS ALL ABOUT WHAT GOD IS GOING TO DO 14:36 FOR YOU AND IF YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH FAITH, YOU WILL HAVE MORE MONEY. 14:41 THEY CALL IT PROSPERITY PREACHING - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE 14:44 HEARD OF THAT? AND IF YOU'RE SICK, IT'S BECAUSE 14:47 YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH. AND IF YOU'RE POOR IT'S BECAUSE 14:49 YOU JUST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH. 14:50 AND THE WAY THAT YOU GET RICH IS YOU GIVE MORE MONEY TO THESE 14:53 TELEVANGELISTS AND THEIR MINISTRIES AND THEY CALL IT 14:56 'PLANTING A SEED' INTO THIS MINISTRY AND GOD IS GOING TO 14:58 BLESS YOU AND MULTIPLY - AND THERE'S - YOU KNOW, THEY ALWAYS 15:01 MIX SOME TRUTH WITH ERROR. BUT YOU FLIP THROUGH THE 15:05 CHRISTIAN CHANNELS AND IT'S JUST SHOCKING HOW MUCH MERCHANDISING 15:09 IS GOING ON IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. 15:12 THEY'RE AUCTIONING SALVATION AND MAKING IT SOUND LIKE YOU CAN BUY 15:17 IT BY GIVING TO THEIR MINISTRY. AND IT'S REALLY AN INSULT. 15:22 PEOPLE GET SO DISTRACTED ABOUT 'WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?' 15:25 BUT THAT'S NOT - THAT'S NOT THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE. 15:31 "HO! EVERYONE WHO THIRSTS" - ISAIAH 55 - "COME TO THE WATERS; 15:36 AND YOU WHO HAVE NO MONEY, COME, BUY AND EAT." 15:40 GOD WILL FREELY GIVE. I WANT TO READ A QUOTE FROM 15:44 THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES P. 161 - "THE COURTS OF THE TEMPLE 15:49 AT JERUSALEM, FILLED WITH THE TUMULT OF UNHOLY TRAFFIC, 15:53 REPRESENTED ALL TOO TRULY THE TEMPLE OF THE HEART, DEFILED BY 15:57 THE PRESENCE OF SENSUAL PASSION AND UNHOLY THOUGHTS. 16:00 IN CLEANSING THE TEMPLE FROM THE WORLD'S BUYERS AND SELLERS, 16:04 JESUS ANNOUNCED HIS MISSION TO CLEANSE THE HEART FROM THE 16:08 DEFILEMENT OF SIN,--FROM THE EARTHLY DESIRES, THE SELFISH 16:12 LUSTS, THE EVIL HABITS, THAT CORRUPT THE SOUL...NO MAN CAN OF 16:17 HIMSELF CAST OUT THE EVIL THRONG THAT HAS TAKEN POSSESSION OF THE 16:20 HEART, ONLY CHRIST CAN CLEANSE THE SOUL TEMPLE. 16:24 BUT HE WILL NOT FORCE AN ENTRANCE." 16:27 - AS WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE TEMPLE THAT DAY AND HE CHASED 16:30 EVERYTHING OUT AND AFTER HE CHASED THEM OUT THE CHILDREN 16:32 WERE SINGING PRAISES TO GOD. GOD WANTS TO DO 16:36 THAT IN OUR TEMPLES. HE WANTS TO CHASE OUT ALL OF THE 16:39 DISTRACTIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE MATERIALISM AND THE 16:41 COVETOUSNESS AND THIS WAS A SYMBOL OF THAT. WE CAN'T DO IT 16:46 IN OUR OWN STRENGTH, BUT THE POWER AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD 16:48 CAN DISPLACE THE EVIL IN OUR LIVES. NOW BACK TO THE TEMPLE - 16:53 I JUST WANTED TO TALK A MOMENT ABOUT THE CLEANSING OF THE 16:55 TEMPLE. THE EARTHLY TEMPLE, AFTER JESUS 16:59 DIED, THEY CONTINUED WITH THEIR SERVICES, BUT IT WAS 17:02 ULTIMATELY DESTROYED. AND THE LORD FORETOLD 17:04 THIS WOULD HAPPEN. HE DID NOT WANT THE NATION TO 17:08 BE PUTTING THEIR STOCK IN A BUILDING BECAUSE THAT BUILDING 17:12 WAS ALL POINTING TO SOMETHING AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE 17:15 TALKING ABOUT IT TODAY. MATTHEW 24, VERSE 1, "AND JESUS 17:20 WENT OUT, AND DEPARTED FROM THE TEMPLE: AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME 17:23 UP TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE." 17:26 NOW IT WAS THEIR NATIONAL TREASURE, THIS TEMPLE. 17:29 AND I MAY HAVE TOLD YOU A FEW WEEKS AGO THAT THERE WERE SOME 17:34 STONES IN THE TEMPLE THAT WERE JUST AMAZING THAT WERE - ONE 17:37 STONE THAT THEY'VE DISCOVERED - STILL THERE TODAY - YOU CAN SEE 17:40 IN ISRAEL - I THINK IT WEIGHED LIKE A 150,000 TONS OR SOMETHING 17:46 - IT'S ENORMOUS. ALL I KNOW IS THAT IT IS HEAVIER 17:50 - ONE STONE IS HEAVIER THAN A FULLY LOADED 747 17:55 WITH ALL THE BAGGAGE. THAT WAS ONE STONE IN THE 17:59 TEMPLE, SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE NATIONAL PRIDE. 18:02 YOU CAN ALSO UNDERSTAND THE DISMAY AND DISBELIEF WHEN JESUS 18:05 SAID, 'SEE, NOT ALL THESE THINGS? 18:07 I SAY UNTO YOU THERE WILL NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER 18:11 THAT WILL NOT BE THROWN DOWN.' THEY THOUGHT, 'THAT MUST BE THE 18:14 END OF THE WORLD.' ANYTHING THAT'S GOING TO MOVE THESE 18:16 STONES MUST BE THE END OF THE WORLD. IT WASN'T THE END OF THE 18:21 WORLD YET, BUT IT WAS FOR THE NATION - IT SEEMED LIKE THE END. 18:25 AND THAT WAS, BY THE WAY, MATTHEW 24, 'THERE WILL NOT BE 18:28 LEFT ONE UPON ANOTHER, THAT WILL NOT BE THROWN DOWN.' LUKE 19 - 18:31 HE SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR, 'FOR THE DAYS WILL COME UPON YOU THAT 18:36 YOUR ENEMIES WILL CAST A TRENCH ABOUT YOU AND COMPASS THEE 18:40 ROUNDABOUT ON EVERY SIDE AND THEY'LL LAY YOU EVEN WITH THE 18:44 GROUND. EVEN THY CHILDREN WITHIN THEE' - AND - 'THEY WILL NOT 18:47 LEAVE IN THEE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER BECAUSE YOU KNEW NOT THE 18:51 TIME OF YOUR VISITATION.' HERE, JESUS IS MORE SPECIFICALLY 18:55 TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE ROMANS WERE GOING TO DO TO THE NATION 18:57 OF ISRAEL AND THEY DID - THE TEMPLE MOUNT - THEY LEVELED IT. 19:02 AND A LOT OF THE CITY HAD BEEN VIRTUALLY LEVELED BY THE ROMANS 19:05 BECAUSE THEY WERE SO OUTRAGED BY THE JEWISH REBELLION. 19:09 BUT DO YOU NOTICE - YOU GO TO MATTHEW 23 AND JESUS, WEEPING 19:13 OVER JERUSALEM - VERSE 37 - HE SAYS, "O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, 19:17 THE ONE WHO KILLS THE PROPHETS AND STONES THOSE WHO ARE SENT TO 19:21 HER! HOW OFTEN I WANTED TO GATHER 19:23 YOUR CHILDREN TOGETHER, AS A HEN GATHERS HER CHICKS UNDER HER 19:27 WINGS, BUT YOU WERE NOT WILLING! SEE! 19:31 YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO YOU DESOLATE;" - NOW, DO YOU NOTICE, 19:34 EARLIER JESUS SAID, 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE'? 19:37 NOW HE'S CHANGED HIS WORDING - 'YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO YOU 19:41 DESOLATE.' THIS WAS THE LAST TIME THAT HE LEFT. 19:46 YOU KNOW, MATTHEW 23, 24 IS ALL, SORT OF, ONE EVENT. 19:50 HE LEAVES THE TEMPLE. HE SAYS THERE'S NOT GOING TO 19:51 BE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER. HE DECLARES TO THE RELIGIOUS 19:54 LEADERS, 'YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO YOU DESOLATE.' HE'S NOT CALLING 19:58 IT 'MY (FATHER'S) HOUSE' ANYMORE - SOMETHING'S CHANGED. 20:00 WHEN HE LEFT THE TEMPLE FOR THE LAST TIME, THE WEEKEND BEFORE 20:04 THE CRUCIFIXION, HE SAID, 'YOUR HOUSE.' HE HAD CLEANSED IT TWICE 20:11 - EVERY TIME HE CLEANSED IT THEY JUST BROUGHT BACK ALL OF 20:13 THE BUSINESS AND THE DEFILEMENT - "FOR I SAY TO YOU, YOU SHALL 20:17 SEE ME NO MORE TILL YOU SAY, 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE 20:22 NAME OF THE LORD!'" SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT 20:26 ABOUT 'WHAT IS THE TEMPLE NOW?' - AND IS THERE MORE THAN ONE? 20:30 BEFORE IT'S OVER, I'M GOING TO SUGGEST TOTAL THERE'S SEVEN 20:32 TEMPLES. WE TALKED ABOUT THREE IN THE 20:34 OLD TESTAMENT - DO YOU REMEMBER STILL? 20:37 MOSES' TEMPLE - TABERNACLE, SOLOMON'S TEMPLE - THE ONE OF 20:40 NEHEMIAH AND ZERUBBABEL - THE THIRD TEMPLE THAT WAS REBUILT 20:43 THAT JESUS TAUGHT IN. OUR BODIES ARE A TEMPLE - 20:48 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16, "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF 20:52 GOD AND THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU? IF ANYONE DEFILES 20:57 THE TEMPLE OF GOD, GOD WILL DESTROY HIM. FOR THE TEMPLE OF 21:01 GOD IS HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YOU ARE." NOW, THAT'S IMPORTANT TO 21:05 UNDERSTAND: THE HOLY SPIRIT WANTS TO LIVE IN US. 21:09 GOD WANTS TO DWELL IN US - AS THE TEMPLE WAS A DWELLING PLACE, 21:13 OUR BODIES ARE A DWELLING PLACE FOR GOD. 21:16 IT'S GOT TO BE EVEN INTERESTING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 21:18 YOU LOOK AT THE FURNITURE IN THE TEMPLE AND THE TEMPLE HAD AN 21:22 ALTAR WHERE THERE WAS A FIRE BURNING. 21:26 WELL, YOUR BODY IS CONSTANTLY CONSUMING CALORIES - THERE'S A 21:28 FIRE BURNING INSIDE. THE TEMPLE HAD A CIRCULATORY 21:33 SYSTEM - THERE WAS WATER FOR CLEANSING AND YOU'VE GOT A 21:36 CLEANSING SYSTEM IN YOUR BODY. THERE WAS A LIGHT - JESUS SAYS 21:40 'THE LIGHT' - 'THE EYE IS THE LIGHT OF THE BODY'. 21:43 AND THERE WAS THE SPIRIT - THE ALTAR OF INCENSE AND YOU'VE GOT 21:47 THE MIND OR THE SPIRIT OF MAN. AND THE EARTHLY TEMPLE HAD BREAD 21:51 THAT WAS STORED THERE AND OUR BODIES STORE, RIGHT? 21:54 SOME STORE MORE THAN OTHERS, BUT THERE'S STORAGE AND SO YOU CAN 21:57 EVEN FIND SOME ANALOGIES HERE BETWEEN THE BODY AND THE TEMPLE 22:01 - VERY BASIC, BUT - CAN WE DEFILE THESE TEMPLES? 22:05 HOW DO YOU DEFILE? I MEAN, YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT 22:07 IT MEANS TO DEFILE THE TEMPLE BECAUSE IT SAYS, 'HE THAT 22:09 DEFILES THE TEMPLE, HIM WILL GOD DESTROY. 22:12 THAT'S GOT TO BE BAD, RIGHT? SO HOW DO YOU DEFILE IT? 22:17 DANIEL WOULD NOT EAT THE KINGS FOOD - DANIEL CHAPTER 1 - HE 22:21 WOULDN'T DEFILE HIMSELF WITH THE PORTION OF MEAT THAT THE KING 22:25 HAD ALLOTTED FOR THE OTHER STUDENTS BECAUSE IT WAS UNCLEAN 22:28 FOOD, AND SO, HE WOULDN'T DEFILE HIMSELF WITH IT. 22:32 SOME WOULD ARGUE THAT IT'S BECAUSE IT WAS OFFERED TO 22:35 BABYLONIAN GODS. WELL, IT WAS PROBABLY 22:37 A LITTLE OF BOTH. EITHER WAY, IT WAS WHAT HE ATE. 22:41 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHATEVER YOU EAT, WHATEVER YOU DRINK, DO ALL 22:44 TO THE GLORY OF GOD.' SO YOU CAN EAT AND DRINK TO GOD'S GLORY, 22:48 BECAUSE YOUR BODY IS HIS TEMPLE, AND YOU CAN EAT AND DRINK IN A 22:50 WAY THAT DEFILES YOUR BODY TEMPLE. 'YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN; 22:54 YOU ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.' GOD WANTS US TO TAKE CARE OF OUR 22:56 BODIES, THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY. 23:01 AND SO, CHRISTIANS, YOU KNOW, YOU ALMOST NEVER HEAR THIS. 23:03 IT'S STARTING TO - YOU'RE STARTING TO HEAR IT A LITTLE BIT 23:06 - IN SOME CHURCHES NOW THEY'RE DISCOVERING THAT THERE IS A 23:09 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AND THE PHYSICAL BODY. 23:14 AND THEY'RE REALIZING THAT. 23:16 I HEARD THAT PASTOR RICK WARREN, HE HAD THIS WHOLE 'DANIEL' 23:19 PROGRAM BECAUSE HE REALIZED THAT SO MANY OF THE MEMBERS WERE SICK 23:22 AND DYING FROM THEIR LIVING HABITS. 23:24 HE SAID, 'THERE'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING IN THE WORD OF GOD 23:26 ABOUT TAKING CARE OF YOUR BODY.' AND OTHERS ARE DISCOVERING THIS, 23:30 BUT IT'S A VERY CLEAR BIBLE TEACHING. 23:34 YOU CAN DEFILE THE BODY BY EATING AND DRINKING 23:38 IRRESPONSIBLY AND THINGS THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE AS 23:42 UNCLEAN. BUT, EVEN MORE THAN THAT, YOU 23:44 KNOW WHAT PAUL'S TALKING ABOUT HERE IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 3? 23:49 HE'S TALKING ABOUT IDOLATRY AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT ADULTERY. 23:55 WHEN PEOPLE GET INVOLVED, IN THEIR THINKING OR WITH THEIR 23:59 ACTIONS, IN IMMORAL BEHAVIOR, PAUL SAYS YOU ARE DEFILING YOUR 24:05 BODY TEMPLE AND WE'RE TO KEEP THE BODY TEMPLE HOLY. 24:10 YOUR BODY IS HOLY. YOU'RE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE. 24:13 YOU BELONG TO GOD. AND SO, IT'S NOT JUST WHAT GOES 24:15 IN YOUR MOUTH, IT'S WHAT GOES IN YOUR MIND. 24:18 YOU CAN DEFILE YOUR BODY TEMPLE IN THAT WAY. 24:21 AND HE WANTS US TO BE - JESUS WANTS TO CLEANSE THE TEMPLE, 24:25 RIGHT? >>AMEN. 24:26 >>AND SO, WE SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM THOSE THINGS. 24:28 1 CORINTHIANS 6:19, "OR DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS THE" 24:33 - THIS IS ANOTHER VERSE - "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS 24:36 THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO IS IN YOU, WHOM YOU HAVE 24:39 FROM GOD, AND YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN? FOR YOU WERE BOUGHT AT A 24:42 PRICE; THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT," - 24:46 A LOT OF CHURCHES JUST FOCUS ON THE SPIRITUAL PART. 24:48 HE SAYS, 'DO IT IN YOUR BODY TOO.' - "WHICH ARE GOD'S." 24:52 IT BELONGS - NOW, I DON'T KNOW, SOME PEOPLE ARE FRIGHTENED WHEN 24:55 YOU SAY YOUR BODY'S A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, BECAUSE THEY'RE 24:57 THINKING, 'I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT WAS MINE AND 25:01 I'M NOT SURE THAT I WANT TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD FOR WHAT'S 25:03 HAPPENING WITH MY BODY' BUT, REALLY, IT'S A VERY EXCITING 25:07 THOUGHT TO THINK THAT GOD SAYS, 'I'M WILLING TO LIVE IN YOU.' 25:11 >>AMEN. >>'THAT YOUR BODY CAN BE MY 25:13 DWELLING PLACE THAT I WANT TO ABIDE IN YOU.' 25:16 IT'S LIKE JESUS SAID TO ZACCHEUS, 'LET ME ABIDE 25:18 IN YOUR HOUSE.' HE WANTS TO LIVE WITHIN US. 25:22 HE STANDS AT THE DOOR AND KNOCKS. 25:23 HE WANTS TO HAVE THAT LIGHT OF HIS SPIRIT ILLUMINATING FROM OUR 25:27 WINDOWS, SO TO SPEAK, GOD IN YOU. 25:31 THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS IN COLOSSIANS 1:27, "...CHRIST IN 25:34 YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY." THAT JESUS WOULD BE IN US. 25:40 HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO THE FATHER SO I CAN SEND THE HOLY 25:42 SPIRIT. I CAN BE WITH YOU BUT, THROUGH 25:44 THE HOLY SPIRIT, I CAN BE IN YOU.' AND YOUR BODY BECOMES A 25:47 TEMPLE - A DWELLING PLACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 25:52 2 PETER 1:13, "YEAH, I THINK IT MEET, AS LONG AS I AM IN THIS 25:57 TABERNACLE," - PETER REFERS TO HIS BODY AS A TABERNACLE - TENT 26:01 - "TO STIR YOU UP BY PUTTING YOU IN REMEMBRANCE; KNOW THAT 26:04 SHORTLY I MUST PUT OFF THIS MY TABERNACLE, EVEN AS OUR LORD 26:08 JESUS CHRIST HATH SHEWED ME." PAUL, PETER - THEY ALL 26:11 UNDERSTOOD OUR BODIES ARE A TEMPLE - A DWELLING PLACE OF 26:13 GOD. THE CHURCH IS A TEMPLE. NOT ONLY DOES THE BIBLE SAY YOU 26:21 ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD - OR YOUR BODY'S THE TEMPLE OF GOD, IT 26:23 SAYS, 'YE' COLLECTIVELY ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD. 26:27 JOHN 2:19, "JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, 'DESTROY THIS 26:31 TEMPLE, AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE IT UP." THE JEWS SAID 26:34 'IT'S TAKEN 46 YEARS TO BUILD THIS TEMPLE. WILL YOU RAISE IT 26:37 UP IN THREE DAYS?' HE WAS SPEAKING OF THE TEMPLE OF HIS 26:40 BODY. AND WHAT IS A CHURCH CALLED? THE BODY OF CHRIST. 26:45 1 CHRONICLES 17, IT SAYS THAT NATHAN THE PROPHET TOLD KING 26:50 DAVID, 'IT WILL BE, WHEN YOUR DAYS ARE FULFILLED, AND YOU MUST 26:54 BE WITH YOUR FATHERS THAT I WILL SET UP YOUR SEED AFTER YOU, WHO 26:59 WILL BE OF YOUR SONS; AND I WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM. 27:02 HE WILL BUILD ME A HOUSE AND I WILL ESTABLISH HIS THRONE 27:06 FOREVER.' SO WHO IS THIS SON OF DAVID THAT WAS TO BUILD THE 27:11 TEMPLE AND ESTABLISH - GOD WOULD ESTABLISH HIS THRONE FOREVER? 27:15 THIS IS AN EXAMPLE, IN THE BIBLE, OF WHAT YOU CALL A DUEL 27:18 PROPHECY. DID DAVID HAVE A SON NAMED 27:21 SOLOMON, SOMEONE NATHAN KNEW - MATTER OF FACT, NATHAN WAS 27:24 INVOLVED IN HIS CORONATION - THAT WOULD BUILD THE TEMPLE OF 27:27 THE LORD? YES, BUT IN ITS FULLEST SENSE, 27:31 IS THIS A PROPHECY ABOUT SOLOMON BUILDING THE EARTHLY TEMPLE OR 27:34 ABOUT JESUS, THE SON OF DAVID? NATHAN SAID, 'ONE OF 27:38 YOUR SONS OF YOUR SEED. HE WILL BUILD ME A HOUSE THAT 27:41 WILL LAST FOREVER.' SOLOMON'S TEMPLE DIDN'T LAST FOREVER. 27:45 JESUS IS THE ONE WHO IS GOING TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD - A 27:48 TEMPLE FOR GOD. ZECHARIAH 6 - HERE'S ANOTHER ONE 27:51 - ZECHARIAH 6:12, "THEN SPEAK TO HIM, SAYING, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD 27:56 OF HOSTS, SAYING: 'BEHOLD, THE MAN WHOSE NAME IS THE BRANCH!''" 28:01 - THAT'S ONE OF THE NAMES FOR THE MESSIAH, THE BRANCH - THE 28:04 ROOT OF THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID - THE ROOT OF JESSE - "''THE 28:07 BRANCH FROM HIS PLACE HE SHALL BRANCH OUT, AND HE SHALL BUILD 28:11 THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD; YES, HE SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE 28:15 LORD. HE SHALL BEAR THE GLORY, AND 28:17 SHALL SIT AND RULE ON HIS THRONE; SO HE SHALL BE A PRIEST 28:20 ON HIS THRONE, AND THE COUNSEL OF PEACE SHALL BE BETWEEN THEM 28:23 BOTH.''" GOD THE FATHER AND THE SON JESUS BUILT THE 28:27 TEMPLE OF THE LORD. HE IS A PRIEST. 28:29 HE IS THE MESSIAH THAT ZECHARIAH IS TALKING ABOUT. 28:31 ZECHARIAH WROTE THIS LONG AFTER SOLOMON WAS DEAD AND GONE, SO 28:35 HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT SOLOMON, HE'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS, WHO 28:38 WOULD BUILD THE TEMPLE. AND THE CHURCH IS A TEMPLE. 28:42 NOT ONLY IS IT, YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 28:46 'WHAT? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?' THE 28:50 BIBLE SAYS THAT YOU'RE LIVING STONES - A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD. 28:54 NOW, I'M GOING TO SAY MORE ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. 28:55 NOW, WITH THIS IN MIND - THAT THE CHURCH IS A TEMPLE - I WANT 28:59 TO READ YOU A PROPHECY - NEW TESTAMENT PROPHECY. SO MANY 29:04 PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND THIS. THERE'S ONLY ONE PROPHECY LIKE 29:06 THIS, ABOUT THE TEMPLE, BUT IT CONFUSES A LOT OF THE CHRISTIAN 29:09 WORLD. 2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 3 AND 4 - SPEAKING OF 29:14 THE ANTICHRIST - "LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS; FOR 29:19 THAT DAY WILL NOT COME" - SPEAKING OF THE SECOND COMING - 29:22 "THAT DAY WILL NOT COME UNLESS THE FALLING AWAY COMES FIRST, 29:26 AND THE MAN OF SIN IS REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION, WHO 29:30 OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS 29:33 CALLED GOD OR THAT IS WORSHIPED, SO THAT HE SITS AS GOD IN THE 29:36 TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD." 29:39 NOW, I'VE GOT A PICTURE THERE ON THE SCREEN - I DON'T KNOW HOW 29:42 WELL YOU CAN SEE IT, BUT YOU CAN GET PICTURES OF SEVERAL POPES - 29:45 THEY SIT ON A THRONE FLANKED BY TWO ANGELS THAT ARE THE CHERUBS. 29:48 WHAT'S NORMALLY BETWEEN THE TWO ANGELS IN THE EARTHLY 29:50 TABERNACLE? IT WAS THE SHEKINAH GLORY, THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 29:54 I JUST THOUGHT THAT'S AN INTERESTING PICTURE. NOW, I'LL 29:57 TELL YOU WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT. MOST OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD, 30:01 I THINK, MISUNDERSTANDS THIS VERSE. 30:03 WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST POWER SITTING IN THE 30:06 TEMPLE OF GOD, IMMEDIATELY THEY THINK, 'WELL, THEY'LL HAVE TO 30:11 REBUILD THE TEMPLE FOR THIS ANTICHRIST TO SIT IN THE TEMPLE 30:16 AND DECLARE HIMSELF TO BE GOD.' AND THEY ARE WAITING FOR 30:19 SOMETHING THAT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU I DON'T BELIEVE WILL EVER 30:21 HAPPEN. THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE 30:24 JEWISH TEMPLE TO BE REBUILT. NOW, YOU KNOW A FEW REASONS 30:28 WHY I DON'T THINK THAT'LL EVER HAPPEN? 30:30 FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T THINK THE PROPHECY TALKS ABOUT THAT 30:31 BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT'S TALKING ABOUT A PHYSICAL TEMPLE. 30:34 FOR ONE THING, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU MET A JEW SACRIFICING A 30:38 LAMB? MY - THERE MAY SOME THAT DO THAT, AND I KNOW THE MUSLIMS 30:45 WILL DO IT, BUT I DON'T KNOW ANY JEWS THAT SACRIFICE LAMBS THAT 30:50 CUT THE THROAT OF A LAMB FOR PASSOVER. 30:52 THEY GO TO THE SUPERMARKET AND THEY BUY SOME LAMB. 30:56 THE WHOLE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM HAS BEEN MODIFIED SO THEY'VE NOT 31:00 BEEN SACRIFICING LAMBS FOR 1900 YEARS NOW. 31:04 CAN YOU IMAGINE, AS VOLATILE AS THE MIDDLE EAST IS RIGHT NOW, DO 31:08 YOU KNOW WHERE THE JEWS WOULD HAVE TO BUILD THE TEMPLE? 31:09 THEY ALL AGREE. THEY'VE GOT TO PUT IT WHERE THE 31:11 OLD LOCATION WAS. YOU KNOW WHAT'S THERE NOW IS A MUSLIM 31:16 SHRINE CALLED THE DOME OF THE ROCK. I'VE BEEN IN THERE. 31:19 CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE LEADERS OF ISRAEL 31:23 BROUGHT A D-9 UP TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND STARTED TO BULLDOZE 31:29 THE MOSQUE OF OMAR - THE DOME OF THE ROCK? 31:33 IT'S THE THIRD HOLIEST SITE IN ISLAM. 31:36 AND SAY, 'WE'RE GOING TO PUT A NEW TEMPLE HERE. 31:38 YOU GUYS DON'T MIND IF WE JUST BULLDOZE THIS OR BLOW IT UP?' 31:42 THAT WOULD CAUSE SUCH AN INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY AND - AND 31:49 YET I HEAR ALL THE TIME PASTORS ON THE RADIO SAY, 'SOON THEY'RE 31:56 GOING TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE.' AND THERE'S EVEN GROUPS THAT ARE 31:59 SAYING, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ACTUALLY MAKING NEW GARMENTS FOR 32:02 THE PRIESTS AND - AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, BUILDING SOME OF THE 32:05 FURNITURE. OF COURSE, I DON'T THINK THEY'VE 32:06 GOT ALL THE GOLD THAT SOLOMON HAD AND MOSES HAD WHEN THEY 32:10 BUILT THE ARK AND BUILT THEIR TEMPLE. 32:12 THAT'D BE PRETTY EXPENSIVE TO DUPLICATE THE AMOUNT OF GOLD 32:14 THAT THEY HAD. BUT THE CHRISTIAN WORLD IS 32:18 WAITING FOR SOMETHING THAT IS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. 32:20 AND WHILE THEY'RE LOOKING IN THIS DIRECTION FOR THE JEWISH 32:22 TEMPLE TO BE REBUILT, THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT THE ANTICHRIST IS 32:26 ALREADY SITTING IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD SHOWING HIMSELF HE IS GOD, 32:30 BECAUSE THE CHURCH IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND WHEN A MAN SITS AND 32:34 SAYS, 'I AM THE REPRESENTATIVE BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND GOD. 32:40 I AM THE LEADER.' AND HE'S PUTTING HIMSELF IN THE POSITION 32:43 OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF HE IS GOD. 32:44 THAT'S THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT. IT'S NOT SOMETHING GOING TO 32:47 HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE WITH THE REBUILDING OF A TEMPLE. 32:50 CAN YOU SEE WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT? 32:52 BECAUSE THE WHOLE WORLD IS LOOKING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION 32:54 FOR SOMETHING THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN WHILE THE END IS 32:56 CREEPING UP BEHIND THEM. SO, SITS IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD 33:03 SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. NO, YOU KNOW, POPE FRANCIS 33:06 SEEMS LIKE A VERY NICE GUY. I DON'T THINK THAT IF YOU ASKED 33:09 HIM, 'DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOD?' - HE WOULD SAY, 33:10 'NO, OF COURSE NOT. EVEN THOUGH I AM SITTING ON A 33:13 GOLDEN THRONE BETWEEN TWO GOLDEN ANGELS. 33:16 THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.' THE CHURCH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST. 33:22 EPHESIANS 1:22, "AND HE PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET, AND GAVE 33:26 HIM TO BE HEAD OVER ALL THINGS TO THE CHURCH, WHICH IS HIS 33:28 BODY, THE FULLNESS OF HIM WHO FILLS ALL IN ALL." 33:33 EPHESIANS 5:30, "FOR WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY, OF HIS 33:37 FLESH AND OF HIS BONES." WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT PARTS. 33:40 SOME ARE THE EYES AND THE EARS AND THE FEET OF THE BODY OF 33:43 CHRIST. EPHESIANS 4:12, "FOR THE 33:49 EQUIPPING OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WORK OF MINISTRY, FOR THE 33:51 EDIFYING OF THE BODY OF CHRIST," - YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD. 33:56 COLOSSIANS 1:24, "I NOW REJOICE IN MY SUFFERINGS FOR YOU, AND 33:59 FILL UP IN MY FLESH WHAT IS LACKING IN THE AFFLICTIONS OF 34:02 CHRIST, FOR THE SAKE OF HIS BODY, WHICH IS THE CHURCH." 34:06 NOW, WHY IS THIS - WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND? 34:09 WHAT IS JESUS DOING RIGHT NOW? WHERE IS JESUS? 34:14 HE'S IN THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE AND HE'S CLEANSING THE SANCTUARY. 34:18 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE HEAVENLY IN JUST A MOMENT. 34:20 AND WHEN HE'S DONE CLEANSING THE SANCTUARY HE WILL COME. 34:25 HE'S GOING THROUGH THE LAST PHASE OF THE HEAVENLY EQUIVALENT 34:30 OF WHAT THE PRIESTS DID ON EARTH, CALLED THE INVESTIGATIVE 34:33 JUDGMENT - THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY. 34:35 WHAT IS IT BEING CLEANSED FROM? WELL, IF YOU READ THE PROPHECY 34:39 IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8, IT SAYS THE BEAST POWER WOULD CAST THE TRUTH 34:44 TO THE GROUND AND PRACTICE AND PROSPER. 34:48 AND THEN DANIEL HEARS THESE ANGELS SAYING, 'HOW LONG?' 34:54 'UNTO TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS, THEN THE SANCTUARY WILL BE 34:57 CLEANSED.' WHAT SANCTUARY WOULD BE CLEANSED 35:00 AFTER 2,300 DAYS? HEAVENLY OR THE EARTHLY? 35:04 >>EARTHLY. >>BOTH. 35:06 LISTEN, IN 1844, AT THE END OF THAT TIME PERIOD, CHRIST ENTERED 35:15 INTO THE FINAL PHASE OF HIS HEAVENLY MINISTRY IN THE HOLY OF 35:19 HOLIES BEFORE GOD, BETTER KNOWN AS THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT. 35:22 VERY SIMPLY, WHEN JESUS COMES, IS HE DISTRIBUTING REWARDS? 35:27 DOES SOME JUDGMENT TAKE PLACE BEFORE HE COMES? 35:31 IT'S CALLED THE PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT. 35:32 IS IT OBVIOUS TO YOU THAT SOME KIND OF JUDGMENT TAKES PLACE 35:35 BEFORE HE COMES, IF HE'S REWARDING PEOPLE WHEN HE DOES 35:37 COME? OKAY, BUT DID HE ALSO START 35:43 DOING SOMETHING ON EARTH IN 1844? 35:46 HE'S GOT A SANCTUARY ON EARTH. DO YOU REALIZE THAT A GROUP 35:49 CAME TOGETHER FOLLOWING A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT? 35:52 THEY HAD MISUNDERSTOOD THE PROPHECIES AND HE ROSE UP A NEW 35:56 MOVEMENT. JUST LIKE THE DISCIPLES - THE 36:00 APOSTLES MISUNDERSTOOD THE PROPHECIES OF CHRIST'S FIRST 36:03 COMING, BUT OUT OF THAT GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT, THE CHURCH GREW. 36:08 THERE WAS A GREAT MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE 36:10 PROPHECIES ABOUT THE SECOND COMING. 36:11 MANY CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD THOUGHT JESUS WAS COMING. 36:14 WHEN HE DIDN'T COME, THEY STARTED STUDYING THE BIBLE AND 36:17 IN ONE YEAR THAT GROUP ON EARTH, THEY LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT THE 36:21 SABBATH, BAPTISM BY IMMERSION, SALVATION BY GRACE, THE BODY 36:26 BEING THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE STATE OF THE DEAD - 36:29 ALL OF THE PILLARS OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST MOVEMENT 36:34 WERE IN PLACE, THOUGH NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED, THEY WERE 36:37 ALL IN PLACE IN 1844 HE BEGAN CLEANSING HIS SANCTUARY ON 36:43 EARTH. NOW, IS HE DONE CLEANSING THE SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN YET? NO. 36:47 IS HE DONE CLEANSING DOWN HERE? IS THE LORD GOING TO PREPARE 36:50 A PEOPLE DOWN HERE BEFORE HE COMES? 36:53 JUST AS CHRIST CLEANSED THAT EARTHLY SANCTUARY AND HE'S 36:56 CLEANSING THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY, HE'S GOING TO CLEANSE 36:58 THE CHURCH. THERE IS GOING TO BE TRIALS - 37:02 FIERY TRIALS - AND THERE'S GOING TO BE A PURIFYING AND A SHAKING 37:05 AND HE'S GOING TO PURGE AND REFINE GOD'S PEOPLE SO CHRIST IS 37:08 GOING TO COME FOR A BRIDE THAT IS WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE. 37:12 NOW, WHEN WE ARGUE AND TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN 1844, IT 37:16 IS REALLY DIFFICULT TO POINT TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN HEAVEN. 37:20 I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE ANY PHOTOGRAPHS OF WHAT CHRIST 37:23 IS DOING IN THE HEAVENLY - IT'S REALLY HARD TO PROVE THAT 37:26 UNLESS YOU'VE GOT VIDEO OR SOMETHING. 37:28 THERE'S CAMERAS ALMOST EVERYWHERE TODAY, BUT I HAVEN'T 37:30 SEEN ANY FOOTAGE OF WHAT JESUS IS DOING, BUT CAN WE PROVE 37:33 SOMETHING HAPPENED ON EARTH IN 1844? 37:37 ABSOLUTELY. HISTORY CHANGED. QUICKEST GROWING PROTESTANT 37:40 DENOMINATION IN THE WORLD TODAY. THE LARGEST PUBLISHING WORK - 37:44 SECOND LARGEST MEDICAL WORK - TO THE CATHOLICS. 37:47 BUT, I MEAN, SOMETHING HAPPENED ON EARTH YOU CAN'T DENY. 37:50 HE BEGAN A MOVEMENT ON EARTH BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ONLY A 37:54 CHURCH IN HEAVEN, THERE'S A CHURCH ON EARTH. 37:56 THAT'S WHY I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT. 37:58 A LOT OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS, THEY GET ALL TIED UP 38:02 IN KNOTS TRYING TO PROVE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN HEAVEN - IT'S 38:05 IMPORTANT TO STATE AND UNDERSTAND, BUT DON'T FORGET 38:07 SOMETHING HAPPENING ON EARTH TOO THAT YOU CAN PROVE AND YOU CAN 38:10 POINT TO AND WE KNOW WHEN IT STARTED. 38:14 SO THE CHURCH IS A TEMPLE. 38:21 ALRIGHT, WHO IS THE CORNERSTONE IN THIS EARTHLY TEMPLE? 38:26 YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN INTERESTING STATEMENT THAT YOU FIND READ ALL 38:29 THROUGH THE BIBLE, PSALM 118:22, "THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS 38:35 REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. 38:38 THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING; IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES." 38:42 JESUS QUOTES KING DAVID - IT'S ACTUALLY NOT ONE OF THE DAVIDIC 38:46 PSALMS, IT MIGHT BE A PSALM OF ASAPH BECAUSE IT HAPPENS AFTER 38:48 DAVID. JESUS QUOTES IT IN MARK 12:10, 38:52 "HAVE YOU NOT EVEN READ THIS SCRIPTURE: 'THE STONE WHICH THE 38:55 BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE'?" 38:58 WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? WHAT IS THE STONE THAT THE 39:01 BUILDERS REJECTED THAT IT'S BEING TALKED ABOUT IN PSALMS? 39:05 THIS IS A STORY THAT IS NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE, BUT IT IS 39:09 VERY CLEAR IN HEBREW HISTORY AND TRADITION. 39:14 DURING THE TIME THEY WERE BUILDING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, 39:17 BECAUSE THE STONES WERE CUT AT THE QUARRY - AND THEY'VE 39:20 DISCOVERED THE QUARRY - THEY CAN FIND - I THINK IT'S LIKE FIVE OR 39:22 EIGHT MILES AWAY - WHERE THEY CUT THE STONES FOR SOLOMON'S 39:24 TEMPLE. THEY'VE MATCHED THE STONES WITH 39:27 THIS QUARRY THAT THEY FOUND. AND THEY MOVED THE STONES 39:30 SILENTLY TO THE TEMPLE. YOU'VE GOT ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE - 39:33 THEY HAD NO WALKIE-TALKIES, NO CELL PHONES, THEY COULDN'T TEXT 39:35 EACH OTHER - AND THEY WOULD MAKE MARKINGS ON THE STONE - THIS 39:39 STONE GOES HERE; THIS STONE GOES THERE - WITH CHALK. 39:41 AND THEY MOVED THEM ALL TO THE PLACE, BUT SOMEHOW, IN MOVING 39:44 THIS STONE, THE MARKING GOT BRUSHED OFF IT. 39:48 THIS CORNERSTONE WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT STONE BEFORE THEY 39:52 STARTED BUILDING THE TEMPLE ITSELF, BECAUSE MOUNT MORIAH IS 39:55 A ROCK ON THE TOP. THAT'S WHY YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPLE THERE 39:58 CALLED THE DOME OF THE ROCK. THERE'S A BIG ROCK THERE TODAY. 40:03 AND THE STONE WAS - IT WAS AN UNEVEN SURFACE, BUT PART OF THE 40:06 STONE HAD TO BE CUT TO PERFECTLY FIT THAT ROCK AND YET BE SQUARE. 40:11 ANY OF YOU MEN, MAYBE LADIES - YOU'VE DONE MASONRY BEFORE? 40:15 IF YOU'RE GOING TO BUILD A WALL, ESPECIALLY AT THE CORNER, IF YOU 40:18 DON'T GET YOUR COURSE STRAIGHT WITH YOUR CORNERSTONE - THAT 40:22 FIRST STONE, IF IT'S NOT STRAIGHT AND SQUARE, THE WALL 40:25 GETS CROOKED GOING THIS WAY, THE WALL GETS CROOKED GOING THIS 40:28 WAY, AND THE WALL WILL BE CROOKED GOING THAT WAY. 40:31 YOU'VE GOT ALL THOSE SIDES THAT WILL BE GOVERNED - YOU KNOW, YOU 40:34 GET A RAILROAD TRACK THAT'S NOT PERFECTLY PARALLEL BY A QUARTER 40:38 OF AN INCH, IT'LL BE A MILE - THOSE TRACKS'LL BE A MILE APART 40:42 WHEN YOU GET A MILE DOWN THE ROAD. 40:44 AND SO, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE IT SQUARE. 40:47 IT HAD TO BE A PERFECT STONE. WELL, THEY BROUGHT THE STONE 40:49 THERE BUT IT WAS A LITTLE ODD SHAPED AND, AS THE WORKERS 40:52 AT THE ACTUAL WORK SITE WERE BUILDING, THEY KEPT GRABBING THE 40:56 WRONG STONE AND PUTTING IT IN POSITION. 40:59 AND THEY'D START BUILDING AND SAY, 'THIS IS ALL CROOKED.' AND 41:01 THEY'D HAVE TO BREAK IT DOWN - AND THEY KEPT TRIPPING OVER THIS 41:03 BIG STONE IN THE MIDDLE SAYING, 'WHY DID THE GUYS AT THE QUARRY 41:06 LEAVE THIS ODD, BROKEN STONE HERE?' BECAUSE IT SEEMED SO 41:10 STRANGE TO THEM. IT WAS ODD LOOKING. 41:13 THEY KEPT BUMPING INTO IT AND TRIPPING OVER IT AND THEY'RE - 41:15 THEY KEPT BUILDING WITH THE WRONG CORNERSTONE AND THINGS 41:17 WERE CROOKED OR THEY HAD CRACKED UNDER THE WEIGHT. 41:20 IN THE MEANTIME, SOME OF THEM SAID, 'GET THIS THING OUT OF THE 41:22 WAY.' THEY TOOK THIS BIG STONE, MADE OUT OF THE BEST QUALITY 41:26 ROCK, THEY ROLLED IT OFF THE WORK SITE DOWN INTO THE KIDRON 41:29 VALLEY. AND, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, FINALLY 41:33 THEY DECIDED TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE QUARRY AND SAID, 'WHICH 41:36 STONE IS IT THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE CORNERSTONE?' 41:38 THEY SAID, 'WE SENT THAT TO YOU FIRST THING.' THEY DESCRIBED IT; 41:41 THEY SAID, 'THAT WAS THE STONE?' AND IT WAS JUST - IT BECAME A 41:46 BIG PROVERB IN ISRAEL - THE STONE THAT WAS REJECTED BECAME 41:51 THE CORNERSTONE BECAUSE IT WAS - FINALLY THEY BROUGHT THE STONE 41:56 OUT OF THE KIDRON - IT HAD BEEN UNHARMED. 41:58 THEY SET IT DOWN, IT WAS A PERFECT FIT, IT STOOD THE TEST 42:03 OF ALL THE WEATHER, THE PRESSURE, AND THE WHOLE TEMPLE 42:08 ROSE FROM THAT ONE STONE. IT WAS THE CORNERSTONE. 42:12 YOU EVER SEE WHEN THEY BEGIN A BUILDING AND THEY'LL LAY THE 42:14 FIRST STONE? AND SO CHRIST SAID, 'THE STONE 42:18 THAT THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF OF THE CORNER. 42:21 CHRIST IS THE CORNERSTONE. DOES EVERYONE UNDERSTAND THAT? 42:25 AND YET, HERE HE CAME TO HIS OWN PEOPLE AND THEY REJECTED HIM. 42:30 AND HE WAS THE FOUNDATION FOR EVERYTHING THEY STOOD FOR. 42:34 HERE HE DIES OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE AND HE'S THE ONE WHO REPRESENTED 42:38 THE TEMPLE. WHAT WAS IT THAT BROUGHT DOWN GOLIATH? STONE. 42:47 AND WHAT IS IT THAT BRINGS DOWN THE IDOL IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2? 42:51 A STONE CUT WITHOUT MAN'S HANDS. WHAT ARE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 42:54 WRITTEN ON? A STONE CUT WITHOUT MAN'S HANDS 42:57 - AT LEAST THE FIRST SET - CUT BY THE HANDS OF GOD. 43:00 AND THIS ALL REPRESENTS CHRIST WHO IS THE - THE ROCK OF AGES, 43:06 AS THEY SAY. HE'S THE CORNERSTONE. 43:08 LET ME READ YOU - FROM PETER - 1 PETER CHAPTER 2, "YOU ALSO, AS 43:12 LIVING STONES, ARE BEING BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE" - SEE, 43:18 THERE'S NOT ONLY THE TEMPLE IN HEAVEN, THERE'S THE TEMPLE ON 43:20 EARTH AND WE'RE LIVING STONES - "...TO OFFER SPIRITUAL 43:24 SACRIFICES ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST." 43:27 DO WE NEED THE OLD SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM OR IS IT A SPIRITUAL 43:29 HOUSE? DO WE NEED THE OLD PRIEST SYSTEM 43:32 OR IS IT A SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD? YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 43:37 'WHEREFORE IT IS CONTAINED IN SCRIPTURE, BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION 43:41 A CHIEF CORNER STONE, ELECT, PRECIOUS: AND HE THAT 43:44 BELIEVES ON HIM WILL NOT BE CONFOUNDED. 43:46 UNTO YOU THAT BELIEVE HE IS PRECIOUS: BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE 43:49 DISOBEDIENT, THE STONE THAT THE BUILDERS DISALLOWED, THE SAME IS 43:53 MADE THE HEAD OF THE CORNER, AND A STONE OF STUMBLING, AND A ROCK 43:56 OF OFFENSE, EVEN TO THOSE THAT STUMBLE AT THE WORD,' - JESUS IS 44:00 THE WORD - 'BEING DISOBEDIENT: WHEREUNTO ALSO THEY WERE 44:04 APPOINTED.' I REMEMBER HEARING A STORY ABOUT A BOY NAMED CONRAD 44:09 REED. YOU KNOW, WE HEAR ABOUT THE GOLD 44:12 RUSH HERE IN SACRAMENTO IN 1849, BUT THAT WAS NOT THE 44:15 FIRST AMERICAN GOLD RUSH. THE FIRST AMERICAN GOLD RUSH 44:18 HAPPENED IN ABOUT 17 - OR, SORRY, 1803 AND IT WAS BECAUSE 44:23 A BOY NAMED CONRAD REED WAS PLAYING HOOKY ONE DAY. 44:27 HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL BUT, INSTEAD OF GOING, HE 44:30 WENT FISHING ON A CREEK ON THEIR FARM. 44:34 AND WHILE FISHING, HE SAW A VERY ODD, LARGE ROCK IN THE CREEK - A 44:39 BLACK ROCK - AND WHEN HE PICKED IT UP, IT WAS SO HEAVY - HE KNEW 44:43 HE HAD NEVER PICKED A ROCK THAT WAS SO HEAVY FOR ITS SIZE - HE 44:46 BROUGHT IT HOME AND SHOWED IT TO HIS FATHER. 44:47 HE SAID, 'I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT IS, BUT IT'LL BE GREAT FOR 44:49 HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN.' 17 POUNDS AND THEY USED IT TO HOLD 44:55 OPEN THE DOOR. THREE YEARS LATER, SOMEONE CAME BY THE 44:59 REED'S AND HE SAW THE ROCK - HE WAS A JEWELER. HE SAID, 'HOW 45:01 MUCH WOULD YOU TAKE FOR THAT ROCK?' AND THEY FINALLY SETTLED 45:04 FOR $3.50, WHICH WAS WORTH MORE BACK THEN, BUT IT WASN'T WORTH 45:08 NEARLY WHAT THE ROCK WAS WORTH. IT TURNS OUT IT WAS ONE OF THE 45:11 LARGEST GOLD NUGGETS - IT WAS FOUND IN NORTH CAROLINA - EVER 45:16 DISCOVERED ON THE EAST COAST. AND HERE, THEY HAD BEEN TRIPPING 45:19 OVER THAT STONE, USING IT AS A DOOR STOP, FOR FOUR YEARS. IT 45:26 WAS A GOLD NUGGET. YOU KNOW, NOT ALL GOLD LOOKS LIKE GOLD WHEN 45:29 IT'S BEEN IN A CREEK OR SOMETHING. 45:31 IT SOMETIMES TAKES ON SOME OTHER MATERIAL OXIDIZING IT. 45:35 EPHESIANS 2:19, "NOW THEREFORE YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND 45:40 FOREIGNERS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS, AND OF THE 45:43 HOUSEHOLD OF GOD; AND ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE 45:47 APOSTLES AND THE PROPHETS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF 45:51 CORNER STONE; IN WHOM ALL THE BUILDING FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER 45:56 GROWETH UNTO AN HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD: IN WHOM YE ALSO ARE 46:00 BUILDED TOGETHER FOR AN HABITATION OF GOD THROUGH THE 46:03 SPIRIT." GOD DWELLS IN YOU INDIVIDUALLY - 46:07 YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE - AND HE DWELLS IN US COLLECTIVELY - 46:11 BECAUSE WE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD. 46:14 THE WORLD IS TO SEE THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 46:16 YOU KNOW HOW IT SAYS ALL NATIONS WOULD FLOW TO THE TEMPLE OF GOD? 46:19 THAT WAS HIS PLAN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - THAT THE UNBELIEVERS 46:21 WOULD COME. IT'S LIKE THE QUEEN OF SHEBA - 46:24 AND YOU AND I ARE TO REPRESENT GOD - THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD, 46:27 IN THE COMMUNITY AND IN THE WORLD. 46:30 WE'RE LIVING STONES - WE'RE CALLED TO BE HOLY. 46:33 JESUS IS THE CORNER STONE. ONE MORE - 1 CORINTHIANS 3:9 - 46:37 THERE ARE SO MANY VERSES I COULD SHARE ON THIS - "FOR WE ARE 46:40 GOD'S FELLOW WORKERS; YOU ARE GOD'S FIELD, YOU 46:43 ARE GOD'S BUILDING. ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD 46:46 WHICH WAS GIVEN TO ME, AS A WISE MASTER BUILDER I HAVE LAID THE 46:50 FOUNDATION, AND ANOTHER BUILDS ON IT. 46:52 BUT LET EACH ONE TAKE HEED HOW HE BUILDS ON IT. 46:55 FOR NO OTHER FOUNDATION CAN ANYONE LAY THAN THAT WHICH IS 46:58 LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST." SO THERE IS A TEMPLE ON EARTH. 47:04 YOU ARE THE TEMPLE - THE CHURCH. NOW THERE'S A TEMPLE IN HEAVEN. 47:09 I TOUCHED ON IT, BUT LET ME GIVE YOU SOME VERSES: HEBREWS 1 - I'M 47:14 SORRY, HEBREWS 8:1, "NOW THIS IS THE MAIN POINT OF THE THINGS WE 47:18 ARE SAYING: WE HAVE SUCH A HIGH PRIEST, WHO IS SEATED AT THE 47:22 RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF THE MAJESTY IN THE HEAVENS, A 47:25 MINISTER OF THE SANCTUARY AND OF THE TRUE TABERNACLE WHICH THE 47:30 LORD ERECTED, AND NOT MAN." NOW, IF IT'S THE TRUE 47:32 TABERNACLE, WHAT DOES THAT MAKE EVERY OTHER TABERNACLE? 47:35 IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE IT FALSE, BUT IT MAKES IT AT LEAST 47:37 A MODEL OR A FACSIMILE, BUT THE ORIGINAL - THE TRUE TABERNACLE - 47:42 IS THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD. YOU SEE, THE EARTHLY TEMPLES 47:46 WERE ALL MAN-MADE FACSIMILES THAT HELPED US PICTURE THE 47:52 DWELLING PLACE OF GOD - OF A VERY REAL DWELLING PLACE. 47:56 FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE EARTHLY TEMPLE THEY WERE INSTRUCTED TO 48:00 WEAVE ANGELS INTO THE VEIL AND TO CARVE GOLDEN ANGELS INTO THE 48:04 WALLPAPER OF THE HOLY OF HOLIES. DO YOU THINK THAT IN THE 48:07 HEAVENLY SANCTUARY GOD HAS GOLDEN WALLPAPER WITH ANGELS, OR 48:12 COULD IT BE THAT GOD HAS REAL ANGELS? JUST LIKE THERE WAS A 48:17 GOLDEN BOX THAT REPRESENTED THE THRONE OR DWELLING PLACE OF GOD 48:20 WITH TWO LITTLE - COMPARATIVELY LITTLE - GOLDEN ANGELS ON THIS 48:24 BOX. DO YOU THINK GOD SITS BY GOLDEN STATUES OF 48:27 ANGELS, OR ARE THOSE GOLDEN ANGELS REPRESENTING REAL ANGELS? 48:31 AND THE SCALE - DON'T THINK FOR A MINUTE THAT GOD IS LIVING IN A 48:35 BUILDING THAT IS, YOU KNOW, 75 FEET BY 50 FEET. 48:39 IN HEAVEN, YOU'VE GOT TO THINK IN LIGHT YEARS ABOUT THE 48:43 DWELLING PLACE OF GOD. IF YOU'VE DONE ANY ASTRONOMY, YOU KNOW HOW 48:46 BIG THE COSMOS IS. I MEAN, WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW BIG BUT, I 48:49 MEAN, EVERY TELESCOPE THEY BUILD THEY THINK THESE PINPOINTS OF 48:53 LIGHT ARE STARS - THEY FIND OUT THEY'RE GALAXIES 48:55 WITH A MILLION STARS APIECE. I MEAN, THE UNIVERSE IS SO VAST, 48:59 IF YOU COULD GO INTO THE TEMPLE OF GOD IN HEAVEN YOU WOULD SEE 49:03 THIS LIVING, SHIMMERING WALL OF ANGELS AROUND GOD. 49:07 I DON'T THINK HE'S GOT TWO-BY-FOURS. I THINK HE'S GOT A WALL 49:11 OF ANGELS. HE'S SURROUNDED BY TEN THOUSAND 49:13 TIMES TEN THOUSAND AND THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS - THAT'S WHAT THE 49:16 BIBLE SAYS - AND THEY'RE ALL SINGING. 49:19 CAN YOU IMAGINE A WALL OF SINGING ANGELS AS A CHOIR? 49:22 HE'S SURROUNDED BY THESE ANGELS AND HE'S ON A THRONE OF GLORY 49:25 AND IT'S JUST SOMETHING WE CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE, BUT HE TRIED TO 49:29 GIVE US SOMETHING PRACTICAL THAT WE COULD RELATE TO, TO TEACH US 49:32 WHO HE IS. THERE'S A TEMPLE IN HEAVEN. 49:36 HEBREWS 8:5 - THESE EARTHLY THINGS ARE COPIES AND SHADOWS OF 49:41 HEAVENLY THINGS. THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR. 49:44 AND EVEN WHEN YOU READ REVELATION CHAPTER 1 - SEVEN 49:47 GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS. REVELATION 8 IT TALKS ABOUT A 49:52 GOLDEN ALTAR BEFORE THE THRONE - THAT'S THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 49:57 REVELATION 11, 'AND I SAW HEAVEN OPEN AND THE ARK OF HIS COVENANT 50:01 WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE AND THERE WERE LIGHTNINGS AND NOISES AND 50:05 THUNDERINGS AND AN EARTHQUAKE AND A GREAT HAIL.' AND, BY THE 50:09 WAY, REVELATION 11 SAYS THE ARK OF HIS COVENANT - WHAT WAS IN 50:13 THE ARK? >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. 50:16 >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. HE'S GOT A COPY IN HEAVEN. 50:20 COULD IT BE THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL 50:22 PASS AWAY BEFORE ONE JOT OR TITTLE PASSES FROM MY LAW.' IN 50:27 OTHER WORDS, YOU COULD DESTROY ALL THE EARTH, YOU'RE STILL NOT 50:29 GOING TO DESTROY HIS LAW BECAUSE HE'S GOT A COPY UP THERE. 50:32 YOU'VE GOT TO DESTROY HEAVEN AND EARTH. 50:35 ARE ALL TEN COMMANDMENTS STILL INSIDE THE ARK? 50:38 >>YES. >>EVEN THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT? 50:40 STILL WRITTEN THERE? THAT'S WHY HEAVEN AND EARTH WOULD HAVE TO 50:43 PASS AWAY BEFORE THE SMALLEST LAW CHANGED. THAT'S WHY JESUS 50:47 SAID, 'THINK NOT THAT I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE LAW. 50:51 WHOEVER, THEREFORE, SHALL BREAK THE LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS 50:53 AND TEACH MEN SO, HE'LL BE CALLED LEAST IN THE KINGDOM. 50:57 BUT WHOEVER DOES THEM AND TEACHES THEM WILL BE CALLED 50:59 GREAT IN THE KINGDOM. WELL, WE'VE GOT TO WRAP THIS UP. 51:02 THIS IS A BIG SUBJECT. THERE WON'T BE A PART THREE. 51:06 I TOLD YOU THERE'S SEVEN TEMPLES - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE BEEN 51:10 COUNTING - GOD IS OUR TEMPLE. 51:14 THAT'S RIGHT, REVELATION 21, VERSE 3, "AND I HEARD A LOUD 51:19 VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING, 'BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD 51:23 IS WITH MEN," - THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD IS WITH MEN - "AND 51:26 HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE. 51:28 GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD." 51:31 AND THEN YOU GO TO VERSE 22 - SECOND TO THE LAST CHAPTER IN 51:34 THE BIBLE - "BUT I SAW NO TEMPLE IN IT, FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY 51:40 AND THE LAMB ARE ITS TEMPLE." IN HEAVEN, IF YOU TAKE GOD OUT 51:46 OF THE TEMPLE, WHAT DO YOU HAVE LEFT? 51:48 THERE'S NO TEMPLE - BECAUSE GOD WAS AT THE VERY HEART OF THE 51:52 EARTHLY TEMPLE, HIS DWELLING PLACE. 51:54 IT'S LIKE WHEN THE PHILISTINE'S GOT THE ARK THEY SAID, 'ICHABOD, 51:57 THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED.' GOD IS A TEMPLE. 52:01 WE DWELL IN HIM. IT'S NOT ONLY HE'S IN US, WE'RE IN HIM. 52:06 SO LET'S COUNT THEM: YOU'VE GOT MOSES' TEMPLE, YOU'VE GOT 52:11 SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, YOU'VE GOT NEHEMIAH/ZERUBBABEL'S TEMPLE, 52:16 YOU'VE GOT YOUR BODY TEMPLE, YOU'VE GOT THE CHURCH TEMPLE, 52:23 YOU'VE GOT THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE, AND NUMBER SEVEN WOULD BE GOD 52:26 HIMSELF IS A TEMPLE. WHEN WE GO TO HEAVEN, GOD 52:31 HIMSELF WILL DWELL WITH US. THERE'S NO TEMPLE - WE'RE NOT 52:33 GOING TO GO TO CHURCH, WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO THE 52:36 PRESENCE OF JESUS. AND IT'S NOT JUST ONE - YOU 52:38 NOTICE IT SAYS, 'THE LORD GOD AND THE LAMB' - BOTH - GOD THE 52:42 FATHER, SON, AND THE SPIRIT, OBVIOUSLY, ARE IN THAT TEMPLE. 52:47 SO WHERE IS THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD? 52:51 WELL, HE WANTS TO BE IN YOU. HE WANTS TO BE IN THE WORLD 52:55 THROUGH THE CHURCH, AND HE WANTS US TO BE IN HIM IN THE TEMPLE. 53:00 AND CHRIST IS THAT CORNERSTONE. HE IS THAT ROCK OF AGES, AMEN? - 53:05 >>AMEN. >>THAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. 53:06 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TEMPLE IT WAS ALL BUILT AROUND TWO STONES 53:09 - IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. THAT ROCK REPRESENTED CHRIST. 53:12 THE BREAD REPRESENTED CHRIST, THE LIGHT REPRESENTED CHRIST, 53:15 THE ALTAR OF PRAYER REPRESENTED CHRIST. IT WAS ALL TRYING TO 53:18 TEACH US SOMETHING ABOUT JESUS. (MUSIC) 53:31 >>I'M HERE IN THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND NATION OF FIJI 53:34 THAT'S FILLED WITH EXOTIC ANIMALS, BEAUTIFUL VEGETATION, 53:37 AND SPECTACULAR SCENERY. THE PEOPLE HERE ARE SOME OF THE 53:41 NICEST IN THE WORLD, BUT IT HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY. 53:44 THIS WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS. THE FIJIAN 53:49 WARRIORS WERE SOME OF THE FIERCEST IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC 53:52 AND GREATLY FEARED - YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY - THIS IS ONE 53:54 OF THE WEAPONS THEY USED FOR BREAKING THE NECK OF THEIR 53:58 ADVERSARIES. AND, LONG BEFORE THEY WERE KILLING AND EATING 54:01 MISSIONARIES, THEY WERE FIGHTING WITH AND KILLING AND EATING EACH 54:04 OTHER. IN FACT, AS YOU GO TO THE DIFFERENT TOURIST LOCATIONS ON 54:07 THE ISLAND, THEY'LL SELL YOU REMAKES OF SOME OF THE FORKS 54:11 THEY USED FOR EATING HUMAN BRAINS. 54:15 IN FACT, THERE WAS ONE CANNIBAL CHIEF, RATU UDRE UDRE, DURING 54:19 THE 1800S THAT IS IN THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS 54:22 FOR HAVING KILLED AND EATEN THE MOST VICTIMS. 54:25 HE BRAGGED THAT EVERY TIME HE KILLED SOMEONE HE SET A STONE 54:27 ASIDE AND BY THE END OF HIS LIFE HE HAD A PRETTY BIG PILE OF 54:31 STONES. IT'S ESTIMATED HE ATE SOMEWHERE 54:33 IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 900 PEOPLE - OH MY. 54:39 YOU KNOW, THE FIJIANS WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES WHO HAD A MONOPOLY 54:41 ON CANNIBALISM, IN FACT, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE ARE ALL 54:44 CAPABLE OF BEING CANNIBALS. GALATIANS 5:15 SAYS IF WE BITE 54:49 AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, WE MAY END UP CONSUMING ONE ANOTHER. 54:53 THAT'S TALKING ABOUT DESTROYING PEOPLE'S REPUTATION BY MEAN 54:55 GOSSIP. ONE FAMOUS MISSIONARY NAMED 54:58 PATTON, WHEN HE WAS PREPARING TO GO TO THE CANNIBAL ISLES, HIS 55:01 FRIENDS AND FAMILY BEGGED HIM NOT TO GO. 55:03 THEY SAID, 'YOU'LL BE EATEN.' HE SAID, 'IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME 55:06 IF I DIE AND AM EATEN BY WORMS OR IF GOD WILLS THAT I'M EATEN 55:10 BY CANNIBALS, AS LONG AS I'M DOING THE WILL OF GOD. 55:13 WELL, HE WENT TO THE CANNIBAL ISLES AND BROUGHT MANY TO CHRIST 55:16 AND DIED PEACEFULLY IN HIS OLD AGE. 55:18 SOME OF THE ANCIENT CANNIBAL CULTURES BELIEVED THAT WHEN YOU 55:21 KILLED AND WHEN YOU DEVOURED YOUR ENEMY, YOU WOULD SOMEHOW 55:24 TAKE WITHIN YOU THEIR SPIRITUAL STRENGTHS OR POWERS. 55:27 BUT THAT'S REALLY ABSURD - BUT THERE IS A KIND OF CANNIBALISM 55:30 ENDORSED IN SCRIPTURE. THAT'S RIGHT, JESUS SAID, 'IN 55:34 JOHN CHAPTER 6, VERSE 53, "EXCEPT YOU EAT MY FLESH AND 55:38 DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU." AND YOU DON'T NEED 55:41 THESE TOOLS TO DO IT. WHAT YOU NEED IS TO READ HIS WORD AND 55:44 LEARN ABOUT HIS LIFE. ACCEPT BY FAITH HIS SACRIFICE IN YOUR 55:47 PLACE AND YOU CAN HAVE A NEW HEART AND BE A NEW CREATURE. 55:51 YOU CAN EVEN DO IT RIGHT NOW. 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