>>I LOVE THE QUOTE: "THE
GREATEST WANT OF THE WORLD IS
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THE WANT OF MEN ... MEN WHO WILL
STAND FOR THE RIGHT THOUGH THE
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HEAVENS FALL." YET
STUDIES ARE SHOWING, FOR
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SEVERAL YEARS NOW, THE SECULAR
MEDIA AND CULTURE HAVE SOUGHT
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TO PORTRAY MEN AS
THE FAMILY IDIOTS.
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SADLY, RESPECT FOR THE ROLE OF
FATHERS AND HUSBANDS HAS REACHED
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AN ALL-TIME LOW. SO
NOW, AS THE DISPIRITED MEN
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ABANDON THEIR ROLES OF GODLY
LEADERSHIP, IT'S NOT SURPRISING
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THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING A
MORAL FREE-FALL IN OUR COUNTRY.
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THAT'S WHY, STARTING SEPTEMBER
30TH I'LL BE PRESENTING A NEW
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PROGRAM CALLED
MIGHTY MEN OF GOD .
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USING BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES, THIS
ENCOURAGING FOUR-PART SERIES
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WILL ADDRESS HOW TO BE A LOVING
FATHER, FAITHFUL HUSBAND, AND
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ALL-AROUND MAN OF GOD IN
THE FAMILY CHURCH AND NATION.
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PLEASE PLAN NOW TO JOIN ME FOR
THIS LIVE EVENT AND LEARN FROM
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THE WORD HOW TO LIVE
COURAGEOUSLY FOR THE KING.
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(MUSIC)
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>>YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE
MAKES A PARTICULAR TRUTH VERY
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CLEAR, AND IT IS THIS: THAT
EVERYTHING WE DO IN OUR LIVES WE
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WILL SOMEDAY STAND BEFORE
GOD AND GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF.
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AND WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT
THIS LIFE IS REALLY THE STAGING
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GROUND - IT'S THE PLATFORM FOR
ETERNITY AND HOW WE WILL SPEND
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ETERNITY - EITHER ETERNAL LIFE
OR ETERNAL DEATH - AND THERE'LL
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BE AN EVALUATION AT THE END
OF THIS LIFE THAT MAKES THOSE
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DETERMINATIONS.
THAT'S AN AWESOME THOUGHT.
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YOU KNOW, WE KNOW WE'RE ALL HERE
- MOST OF US ARE AWARE THAT IT'S
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FOR A LIMITED OR TEMPORARY
PERIOD OF TIME - BUT DURING THIS
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TIME WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO
HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND
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TO BE PREPARED FOR
THAT DAY THAT WILL COME.
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WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT DAY WILL
COME, BUT THAT DAY THAT WILL
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COME WHERE OUR LIVES WILL
BE EVALUATED, HOW THEY WILL BE
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EVALUATED, AND WHAT
THE ETERNAL REWARD WILL BE.
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THAT, TO ME, IS A VERY IMPORTANT
AND AWESOME TRUTH THAT I THINK
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EVERYBODY SHOULD BE AWARE
OF. YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS A YOUNG
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MAN, TWO DIFFERENT TIMES I WENT
TO MILITARY SCHOOL AND, YOU'VE
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HEARD ME SAY THIS BEFORE, BUT
FIVE YEARS OLD I WAS IN A SCHOOL
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CALLED BLACK FOX MILITARY
ACADEMY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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AND THEN, AGAIN, I WENT TO
NEW YORK MILITARY ACADEMY WHEN I
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MOVED TO NEW YORK CITY - 11,
12, 13 - AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT
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HELPS ME OR HURTS ME TO
TELL YOU THAT I WAS THERE AND SO
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WAS DONALD TRUMP.
BUT HE WAS OLDER THAN ME.
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I WAS IN ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL WHEN HE WAS GRADUATING.
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BUT IN MILITARY SCHOOL WE HAD
DAILY INSPECTIONS OF THE ROOM -
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YOUR ROOM HAD TO BE IN ORDER.
EVERYTHING WAS CONSTANTLY BEING
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CHECKED. YOUR CLOTHES
HAD TO BE FOLDED RIGHT.
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YOUR CLOSET -
EVERYTHING NEEDED TO BE RIGHT.
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THE BOOKS NEEDED TO BE STACKED
CORRECTLY AND - BUT THEN THEY
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WOULD HAVE A WEEKLY INSPECTION -
BUT AT THE END OF THE YEAR, THE
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SUPREME INSPECTION WAS WHAT THEY
CALLED GOVERNMENT INSPECTION.
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AND BECAUSE IT WAS A MILITARY
SCHOOL AND OUR TEACHERS WERE
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ACTUALLY OFFICERS, WE HAD
MILITARY LEADERS - I REMEMBER
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ONE YEAR WE HAD GENERAL WILLIAM
WESTMORELAND CAME AND HE WAS
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PART OF THE, YOU KNOW,
U.S. MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND HE
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CAME TO ALL OF OUR ROOMS AND
INSPECTED US. AND THEY CHECKED
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YOUR SHOES. THEY CHECKED YOUR
GIG LINE - THAT IT WAS STRAIGHT
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- AND YOUR BELT BUCKLE HAD TO BE
SHINED WITH BRASSO - AND I STILL
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USE BRASSO TODAY AND I STILL
SHINE MY SHOES TODAY - AND JUST
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EVERYTHING - YOUR WINDOWS -
YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET ALL OF THE
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STREAKS OUT OF THE
WINDOWS WITH NEWSPAPER.
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BUT THIS INSPECTION TOOK A
LONG TIME BECAUSE HE WENT AND
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INSPECTED EVERY ROOM AND THERE
WERE HUNDREDS OF CADETS IN NEW
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YORK MILITARY ACADEMY -
WE CALLED IT NYMA - NEW YORK
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MILITARY ACADEMY - AND WE DIDN'T
KNOW WHAT ORDER HE WOULD GO TO
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INSPECT THE ROOMS AND I
WAS, YOU KNOW, YOU GET 11 OR
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12-YEAR-OLDS, THEY'RE STANDING
AT ATTENTION WAITING FOR THIS
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INSPECTION AND HOURS GO
BY AND THEY'D GET BORED.
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AND THEY'D START GOOFING OFF
- THEY'D PEEK OUT THE HALL AND
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THEY'D START
GIGGLING. THEY'D START TALKING:
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'DO YOU SEE ANYBODY YET?'
AND WE'RE ALL STANDING THERE IN
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OUR UNIFORMS AND WAITING FOR
THE INSPECTION OFFICIALS TO COME
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THROUGH AND - I REMEMBER ONE
YEAR THEY - SOME OF THE KIDS GOT
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REALLY BORED WAITING FOR
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTION.
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IT SEEMED LIKE IT LITERALLY
TOOK HOURS. YOU STAND THERE AT
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ATTENTION, YOU WAIT, YOU'RE
LOOKING UP THE HALL AND WE WAXED
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THE FLOORS. WE USED TO
BUFF AND WAX OUR FLOORS.
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WE USED TO PUT DOWN THIS -
WE CALLED IT BUTCHER'S WAX - AND
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THEN WE TOOK THIS MACHINE - THIS
BIG BUFFING MACHINE - IT WOULD
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GO BACK AND FORTH AND SOME OF
THE KIDS WOULD RIDE THE MACHINE
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- THEY'D SIT ON IT AND HANG
ON WHILE ANOTHER ONE WOULD DO IT
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AND YOU COULD GET THAT
THING GOING PRETTY QUICK.
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YOU GO DOWN IT GOES THIS WAY.
YOU LIFT UP IT GOES THIS WAY.
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ANY OF YOU EVER USE ONE OF
THOSE BUFFING MACHINES BEFORE?
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YEAH, SO WE GOT THE FLOORS
REALLY SHINY AND - BUT WE KNEW
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THAT WHEN YOU TOOK OFF YOUR
SHOES AND YOU RAN UP THAT FLOOR
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- THE LINOLEUM THERE IN THE HALL
- WITHOUT YOUR SHOES ON, IT WAS
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LIKE AN ICE RINK AND
YOU COULD JUST SKATE.
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AND WE USED TO HAVE FUN
RUNNING UP THE HALL AND THEN
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SLIDING - AND
HAVE A SLIDING CONTEST.
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AND I REMEMBER ONE YEAR, SOME
OF THE KIDS JUST GOT SO BORED -
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SOME OF THE YOUNGER KIDS -
WAITING, THEY BEGAN TO SLIDE
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AROUND THEIR ROOM AND WHEN THE
ROOM WAS TOO SMALL, THEY DECIDED
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TO SLIDE UP AND DOWN THE HALL
AND I - I REMEMBER THAT SOME OF
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THE KIDS ON OUR FLOOR - IT
WASN'T ME - NOT THIS TIME - SOME
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OF THE KIDS ON OUR FLOOR WERE
RUNNING UP THE HALL AND THEN
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SLIDING AND SEEING HOW FAR
THEY COULD SLIDE - AND THEY WERE
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GIGGLING. RIGHT AT
THE MOMENT WHEN WILLIAM
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WESTMORELAND, WITH THE SCHOOL
COMMANDANT AND THE PRINCIPAL
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AND EVERYBODY, STEPPED
ONTO THE FLOOR, SOME KIDS
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WENT SLIDING BY.
(LAUGHTER) THEY WERE SUPPOSED
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TO BE STANDING AT
ATTENTION IN THEIR ROOM.
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THEIR SHOES WERE OFF AND THEIR
CLOTHES WERE UNTUCKED AND I
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THOUGHT, 'BOY, ARE THEY
GOING TO GET IT!' AND THEY DID.
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AND NOT ONLY DID THE INSPECTION
AFFECT YOU - WHATEVER YOUR GRADE
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WAS - YOUR PASSING FOR YOUR
ROOM, IS THE DIFFERENT QUADRANTS
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OF THE SCHOOL AND CLASSES SORT
OF WERE IN COMPETITION WITH EACH
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OTHER - WE WERE IN DIFFERENT
BUILDINGS. WE WERE IN BINGLEY
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HALL - AND EVERYBODY
SUFFERED IF YOU CUT UP.
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SO HOW YOU DO IN THE JUDGMENT
USUALLY IS ALSO GOING TO BE
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CONNECTED WITH HOW DID YOU
INFLUENCE OTHERS AROUND YOU?
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BUT LET ME GET RIGHT INTO HERE.
THERE'S A LOT OF SCRIPTURE THAT
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TALKS ABOUT THIS SUBJECT AND
I'LL TRY AND TAKE IT THROUGH A
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LOGICAL WAY. FIRST OF ALL,
THE BIBLE'S CLEAR - THERE IS A
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JUDGMENT. HEBREWS 9:27, "AND AS
IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE
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ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE
JUDGMENT." WE HAVE A SUMMONS TO
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A COURT. THERE'S GOING TO BE
A TRIBUNAL. YOU KNOW, EVERY NOW
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AND THEN I GET CALLED TO JURY
DUTY AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO
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JURY DUTY BECAUSE I DIDN'T START
GETTING CALLED UNTIL I SETTLED
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DOWN, I HAD AN
ADDRESS, AND I BECAME A PASTOR.
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YOU DON'T GET A CALL TO
JURY DUTY IF YOU LIVE IN A CAVE.
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BUT ONCE I SETTLED DOWN, I
GOT AN ADDRESS - I GOT CALLED.
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BUT WHEN YOU'RE A PASTOR AND
YOU'RE INVOLVED IN, YOU KNOW,
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PEOPLE - THERE'S MARRIAGES AND
FUNERALS AND IMPORTANT THINGS -
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I'VE ALWAYS SAID, YOU KNOW,
'IT'S DIFFICULT FOR ME.' AND
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THEY ALWAYS GAVE ME A PASS.
I'VE NEVER BEEN TO JURY DUTY.
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BUT YOU DON'T GET A
PASS FOR THIS JUDGMENT.
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YOU CAN'T JUST PAY A
FINE AND GO ON AND IGNORE.
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YOU MUST APPEAR. WE MUST
ALL APPEAR, THE BIBLE SAYS.
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YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
ECCLESIASTES 11, "REJOICE, O
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YOUNG MAN, IN YOUR YOUTH, AND
LET YOUR HEART CHEER YOU IN THE
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DAYS OF YOUR YOUTH; WALK IN THE
WAYS OF YOUR HEART, AND IN THE
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SIGHT OF YOUR EYES; BUT
KNOW THAT FOR ALL THESE GOD WILL
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BRING YOU INTO JUDGMENT."
EVERYTHING WE DO, WHAT WE THINK,
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WHAT WE SAY, HOW WE SPEND
OUR TIME AND OUR MEANS, WHAT WE
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WEAR, HOW WE EAT - A MAN'LL GIVE
AN ACCOUNT OF THEMSELVES TO GOD.
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AND IT CAN MAKE US NERVOUS WHEN
WE THINK ABOUT IT. IT DOES ME.
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WE'LL BRING SOME GOOD NEWS
BEFORE IT'S OVER, BUT I THINK
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FIRST, TO RIGHTLY UNDERSTAND -
SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'IF PEOPLE DO
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NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF
THE JUDGMENT THEY'LL NEVER COME
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TO UNDERSTAND
THE MEANING OF GRACE.
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IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE
MEANING OF THE JUDGMENT, GRACE
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WILL MEAN NOTHING TO YOU.
FIRST YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND
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WHAT YOU'RE FACING.
THAT OUGHT TO MAKE US ALL
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TREMBLE A LITTLE BIT -
AND THAT'S NOT A BAD THING.
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THAT MAKES YOU REALLY
EMBRACE GRACE AND APPRECIATE IT.
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ACTS 24:25 AS PAUL WAS PREACHING
BEFORE FELIX, HIS JUDGE, "NOW AS
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HE REASONED ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS,
SELF-CONTROL, AND THE JUDGMENT
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TO COME, FELIX WAS AFRAID AND
ANSWERED, 'GO AWAY FOR NOW; WHEN
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I HAVE A CONVENIENT TIME I WILL
CALL FOR YOU.'" NOT EVERYBODY
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WANTS TO HEAR THE MESSAGE ABOUT
JUDGMENT, BUT IT IS A MESSAGE
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THAT IS TO BE
GIVEN IN THE LAST DAYS.
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YOU LOOK - DANIEL
ALLUDED TO THIS IN HIS PRAYER.
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IF YOU GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER
14 - YOU KNOW, THE THREE ANGELS'
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MESSAGES THAT GO TO THE
WORLD JUST BEFORE JESUS RETURNS?
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IF YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 14:14
IT SAYS, "THEN I LOOKED, AND
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BEHOLD, A WHITE CLOUD, AND ON
THE CLOUD SAT ONE LIKE THE SON
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OF MAN, HAVING ON HIS HEAD A
GOLDEN CROWN, AND IN HIS HAND A
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SHARP SICKLE." THIS IS
THE COMING OF THE LORD, RIGHT?
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JESUS COMING IN THE
CLOUDS. WHAT HAPPENS?
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WHAT MESSAGE GOES TO THE
WORLD BEFORE CHRIST COMES?
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YOU BACK UP A LITTLE BIT IT SAYS
IN VERSE 6 - REVELATION 14:6 -
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"THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING
IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING
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THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL" - THIS
GOOD NEWS - "TO PREACH TO THOSE
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WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH - TO
EVERY NATION, TRIBE, TONGUE, AND
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PEOPLE - SAYING" - NOW THIS IS
PART OF THAT GOOD NEWS MESSAGE -
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"...'FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY
TO HIM, FOR THE HOUR OF HIS
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JUDGMENT HAS COME; AND WORSHIP
HIM WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH,
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THE SEA AND SPRINGS OF WATER.'"
IT TELLS US THAT THERE WAS AN
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HOUR OF JUDGMENT. WE
JUST READ IN HEBREWS, IT
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SAID HE APPOINTED A
TIME. NOW THERE ARE SOME THINGS
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THAT WE DON'T KNOW. NO
MAN KNOWS THE DAY AND THE
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HOUR OF CHRIST'S COMING.
BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN KNOW
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SOMETHING ABOUT THE
TIMING OF THE JUDGMENT.
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PART OF THE JUDGMENT TAKES
PLACE BEFORE THE LORD COMES.
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YOU THINK ABOUT
IT JUST FOR A SECOND.
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IF THE BIBLE TELLS US, 'BEHOLD,
I COME AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME'
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- IF THE LORD'S REWARD IS WITH
HIM TO GIVE TO EVERY MAN WHEN HE
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COMES, SOME ASPECT OF THE
JUDGMENT MUST TAKE PLACE BEFORE
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HE COMES TO
RENDER A DETERMINATION.
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DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? >>YES.
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>>SO WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?
THE BIBLE SAYS JUDGMENT MUST
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BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD.
SO IF IT BEGINS AT US, WHAT WILL
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BE THE END OF THOSE
WHO KNOW NOT THE GOSPEL?
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THERE ARE SEVEN PHASES OF
CHURCH HISTORY THAT ARE GIVEN IN
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REVELATION FROM THE TIME OF
CHRIST'S FIRST COMING TO HIS
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SECOND COMING. THE
LAST PHASE OF CHURCH HISTORY
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IS A TIME CALLED LAODICEA.
THE WORD 'LAODICEA' ACTUALLY
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MEANS 'JUDGING OF THE PEOPLE'.
NOW WE BELIEVE THAT WE ENTERED
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THE LAST PHASE OF THE
CHURCH'S HISTORY IN 1844.
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AND A SPECIAL WORK OF CHRIST'S
BEGAN IN HEAVEN DURING THAT TIME
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CALLED THE INVESTIGATIVE
JUDGMENT, WHERE THE NAMES OF
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THOSE WHO HAVE PROFESSED TO
BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO WANTED THEIR
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NAMES IN THE BOOK OF LIFE, THEIR
LIVES ARE BEING EVALUATED BASED
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ON THEIR PROFESSION, AND SOME
DAY HE'LL FINISH WITH THE NAMES
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OF THOSE WHO ARE DEAD -
OBVIOUSLY YOU START WITH THOSE
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WHO ARE DECEASED AND IT'LL COME
TO THE NAME OF THOSE WHO ARE
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LIVING. AND THEN
WHEN THAT CONCLUDES,
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PROBATION CLOSES, JUDGMENT
CEASES, MICHAEL STANDS UP, AND
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THERE'S A TIME OF
TROUBLE SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS.
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WHEN THAT WILL BE - WHEN
THAT PART OF THE JUDGMENT ENDS -
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NOBODY KNOWS. MAYBE
I SHOULD PAUSE HERE AND
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SAY THERE ARE REALLY
THREE PARTS OF THE JUDGMENT.
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YOU'VE GOT WHAT YOU WOULD CALL
THE 'PRE-ADVENT' OR JUDGMENT
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PRIOR TO CHRIST'S COMING.
THAT'S THE TIME GOING ON NOW.
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THERE'S A JUDGMENT THAT GOES ON
DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS,
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WHICH SAYS THAT THE SAINTS
ARE INVOLVED IN A JUDGMENT WITH
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CHRIST. AND THEN
THERE'S THE EXECUTIVE
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WHITE-THRONE JUDGMENT THAT
HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE ONE
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THOUSAND YEARS WHEN ALL
THE WICKED ARE RESURRECTED AND
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EVERYBODY IS TOGETHER AGAIN.
THAT'S THAT TIME YOU READ ABOUT
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WHERE JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 25 -
HE WILL SEPARATE THE SHEEP FROM
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THE GOATS AND ALL THE NATIONS
WILL BE GATHERED BEFORE HIM.
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THAT'S THE GREAT
WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT.
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AND SO, THERE'S THE GOSPEL HERE
AND THEN IT SAYS, CONNECTED WITH
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THAT THERE'S A MESSAGE: 'FEAR
GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR
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THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS
COME.' NOW, I DON'T ASK YOU TO
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RAISE YOUR HAND NOW. I
DON'T RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO,
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BUT HAVE YOU EVER
HAD TO GO TO COURT?
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I'VE GONE BEFORE AS AN ADVOCATE
FOR OTHERS AND I'VE GONE BEFORE
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BECAUSE I WAS IN TROUBLE. I
COULD PROBABLY TEACH TRAFFIC
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SCHOOL BECAUSE I'VE - I'VE BEEN
TO TRAFFIC COURT ONCE OR TWICE
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TO APPEAL MY SENTENCE, AND WHILE
YOU'RE SITTING THERE IN COURT
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SOMETIMES, WHATEVER THE REASON,
THERE'S OFTEN A LOT OF CASES
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THAT YOU GET TO
SIT THROUGH AND LISTEN.
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THE JUDGE HAS USUALLY GOT THIS
BIG DOCKET OF CASES THAT HE'S
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DEALING WITH AND IT'S KIND OF
FUN TO SEE HOW SOME PEOPLE COME
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TO COURT. IT'S
AMAZING, WHEN I GO TO
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COURT, NO MATTER HOW I MIGHT
LOOK DURING THE WEEK, IF I'M
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GOING TO APPEAL TO THE
JUDGE FOR MERCY, I CLEAN UP.
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I - I USED TO COMB MY
HAIR. I TRY AND DRESS NICE.
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I WRECKED A MERCEDES BENZ
ONCE WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER - IT
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WASN'T EVEN MINE - AND I HAD TO
GO TO COURT AND I WAS A HIPPIE.
00:14:15.72\00:14:21.12
MY FATHER TOLD ME, 'YOU'RE GOING
TO BE LOOKING FOR MERCY,' HE
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SAID, 'YOU NEED TO CUT YOUR
HAIR,' HE SAID, 'YOU NEED TO PUT
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ON SOME DECENT CLOTHES AND
YOU'RE IN TROUBLE.' MY FATHER
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WAS GETTING FINED BECAUSE I
HAD WRECKED SOMEONE ELSE'S CAR
00:14:33.57\00:14:36.81
RUNNING IT INTO ANOTHER CAR AND
HE SAID, 'YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
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COURT LOOKING LIKE THAT.' SO
IF WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO COURT,
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DOES IT AFFECT OUR BEHAVIOR?
IF YOU'RE GOING TO APPEAR BEFORE
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THE KING, AND IF YOU'RE GOING
TO ANSWER FOR YOUR LIFE AND IF
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YOU'RE GOING TO HOPE FOR
MERCY, WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO FEAR
00:14:51.85\00:14:57.53
GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM?
AND SO, BECAUSE WE'RE LIVING IN
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THAT AWESOME TIME BEFORE JESUS
COMES, THAT OUGHT TO HAVE SOME
00:15:03.70\00:15:08.77
IMPACT ON OUR LIVES, AMEN?
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT
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JOB THIS WAS ONE THAT
FEARED GOD AND HE HATED EVIL.
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SO THERE'S A JUDGMENT THAT ALL
WILL FACE. SOME OF YOU ARE OLD
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ENOUGH TO REMEMBER A FAMOUS
COMEDIAN NAMED W.C. FIELDS.
00:15:21.52\00:15:26.32
HE ACTUALLY WAS A VERY
COORDINATED JUGGLER, AMONG OTHER
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THINGS, BUT HE WASN'T KNOWN
FOR HIS GODLINESS - HE DRANK AND
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SMOKE CIGARS AND DID A
LOT OF OFF-COLOR STORIES.
00:15:31.96\00:15:37.47
WHEN HE WAS DYING, HE WAS IN
A HOSPITAL AND A FRIEND CAME TO
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VISIT HIM IN THE HOSPITAL
AND HE WAS READING THE BIBLE.
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MAYBE THE GIDEONS HAD LEFT IT.
AND HIS FRIEND WAS SHOCKED AND
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SAID, 'BILL, WHAT ARE
YOU DOING READING THE BIBLE?'
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AND IN HIS FAMILIAR
DRAWL HE SAID, 'I'M LOOKING FOR
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LOOPHOLES.' BECAUSE HE KNEW HOW
HE HAD LIVED HIS LIFE AND HE WAS
00:15:56.65\00:16:01.36
HOPING THAT HE COULD FIND MAYBE
THERE WAS SOME WAY OUT BECAUSE
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HE KNEW THAT HE WOULD SOMEDAY
HAVE TO GIVE AN ANSWER TO GOD.
00:16:06.46\00:16:10.03
DANIEL WEBSTER SAID ONE TIME,
'MY GREATEST THOUGHT' - THIS IS
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A BRILLIANT MAN - HE SAID THE
GREATEST THOUGHT THAT AFFECTED
00:16:14.34\00:16:16.50
HIM WAS HIS
ACCOUNTABILITY TO GOD.
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WE ARE ALL ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD
FOR THE GIFT OF LIFE THAT HE'S
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GIVEN US - AND WE'LL GIVE
AN ACCOUNT. IN 1993 THE PEW
00:16:25.25\00:16:29.28
RESEARCH GROUP DID A POLL AND
THEY DETERMINED THAT FOUR OUT OF
00:16:29.28\00:16:32.82
FIVE AMERICANS AGREE THAT
WE WILL ALL BE CALLED TO STAND
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BEFORE GOD'S JUDGMENT SOMEDAY TO
ANSWER FOR OUR LIVES. SO WHO IS
00:16:37.09\00:16:44.10
GOING TO BE JUDGED? ROMANS 14,
VERSE 12 - PAUL SAYS, "SO THEN
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EACH OF US WILL GIVE AN ACCOUNT
OF HIMSELF TO GOD." IT'S A FINAL
00:16:49.50\00:16:54.31
EXAM THAT CANNOT BE SKIPPED.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:10, "FOR WE MUST
00:16:54.31\00:16:59.45
ALL APPEAR" - HOW MANY? >>ALL.
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>>"WE MUST ALL APPEAR BEFORE THE
JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, THAT
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EACH ONE MAY RECEIVE THE THINGS
DONE IN THE BODY, ACCORDING TO
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WHAT HE HAS DONE,
WHETHER GOOD OR BAD."
00:17:10.56\00:17:12.83
NOW, YOU NOTICE, DOES IT
SAY THAT ONLY THE BAD APPEAR?
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OR DOES HE SAY
THE GOOD AND THE BAD?
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WE MUST ALL - SHEEP AND GOATS
- ALL APPEAR BEFORE THE LORD IN
00:17:19.90\00:17:24.64
THAT JUDGMENT. WHO IS THE JUDGE?
00:17:24.64\00:17:28.58
PSALM 50, VERSE 6, "AND
THE HEAVENS SHALL DECLARE HIS
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RIGHTEOUSNESS: FOR
GOD IS JUDGE HIMSELF."
00:17:32.21\00:17:36.18
THAT'S THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF
GOD BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE KNOW
00:17:36.18\00:17:39.95
ABOUT GOD, WE KNOW THERE'S GOD
THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD
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THE SPIRIT. WHICH
MEMBER OF THE GODHEAD
00:17:43.56\00:17:46.86
IS INVOLVED IN THIS JUDGMENT?
JOHN 5:22 - JESUS SAID,
00:17:46.86\00:17:50.60
"FOR THE FATHER JUDGES NO ONE,
BUT HAS COMMITTED ALL JUDGMENT
00:17:50.60\00:17:54.30
TO THE SON." JESUS IS OUR JUDGE.
00:17:54.30\00:17:57.11
NOW, IF JESUS IS YOUR
FRIEND, THAT HELPS, DOESN'T IT?
00:17:57.11\00:18:00.11
IF YOU GO TO COURT - YOU KNOW,
ONE THING I'VE OBSERVED IS, OVER
00:18:00.11\00:18:05.28
THE YEARS, BEING CONNECTED WITH
A FEW COURT CASES, TALKING TO
00:18:05.28\00:18:11.95
SOME DIFFERENT ATTORNEYS,
WHEN DIFFERENT ATTORNEYS REALIZE
00:18:11.95\00:18:16.73
THEY'RE GOING TO REPRESENT
A CLIENT AND THEY GET A COURT
00:18:16.73\00:18:18.46
DATE, THEY SAY,
'WHO IS THE JUDGE?'
00:18:18.46\00:18:21.70
AND I'D SAY,
'WELL, WILL THAT MATTER?
00:18:21.70\00:18:24.43
I MEAN, AREN'T THEY ALL
JUDGING BY THE SAME RULE BOOK?'
00:18:24.43\00:18:26.33
HE SAID, 'OH, IT MATTERS
TREMENDOUSLY.' THEY SAID, 'THIS
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JUDGE LEANS THIS WAY;
THIS JUDGE IS VERY IMPATIENT.
00:18:28.74\00:18:32.41
THIS JUDGE, HISTORICALLY, IS
VERY MERCIFUL FOR THESE CASES.
00:18:32.41\00:18:35.24
THIS JUDGE...' - AND IT'S
AMAZING TO ME HOW BIASED THE
00:18:35.24\00:18:39.18
ATTORNEYS KNOW
THAT THE JUDGES ARE.
00:18:39.18\00:18:42.85
AND SO, IF YOU'RE A FRIEND OF
THE JUDGE YOU THINK, 'WELL, THAT
00:18:42.85\00:18:48.86
WILL HELP ME OUT.' BUT THERE'S
STILL THE LAW, AND IF YOU HAVE A
00:18:48.86\00:18:53.03
JUST JUDGE, HE'S
GOT TO GO BY THE LAW.
00:18:53.03\00:18:56.00
AND SO GOD HAS THIS CONUNDRUM.
JESUS SAYS, 'I'M YOUR BROTHER.
00:18:56.00\00:19:00.14
I'M YOUR FRIEND. I'M
YOUR CREATOR. I'M YOUR SAVIOR.
00:19:00.14\00:19:05.74
I LOVE YOU. BUT
I'M A KING AND I CANNOT
00:19:05.74\00:19:09.38
GO AGAINST MY OWN LAW.' AND
YOU CAN EVEN LOOK IN ANCIENT
00:19:09.38\00:19:13.31
HISTORY AND YOU CAN SEE THAT
THERE'S A NUMBER OF EXAMPLES OF
00:19:13.31\00:19:16.15
KINGS THAT MADE LAWS THEY DID
NOT WANT TO KEEP, BUT BECAUSE
00:19:16.15\00:19:20.16
THEY WERE A KING, THEY
HAD TO GO BY THEIR WORD.
00:19:20.16\00:19:23.16
AHASUERUS MADE A LAW THAT ALL
THE JEWS WOULD BE ATTACKED ON A
00:19:23.16\00:19:25.96
CERTAIN DAY, THEN HE
FOUND OUT HIS WIFE WAS A JEW.
00:19:25.96\00:19:29.50
HE COULD NOT REVOKE THAT LAW, HE
COULD ONLY MAKE ANOTHER LAW THAT
00:19:29.50\00:19:32.43
GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TO
PRE-EMPTIVELY ATTACK THOSE WHO
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WERE THEIR ENEMIES.
KING DARIUS MADE A LAW THAT
00:19:35.04\00:19:38.74
EVERYBODY WHO PRAYED TO ANY GOD
OR MAN FOR 30 DAYS, EXCEPT HIM,
00:19:38.74\00:19:42.18
WAS GOING TO THE LION'S
DEN. THEN HE REALIZED THAT IT
00:19:42.18\00:19:44.71
WAS A TRAP FOR DANIEL. HE
DIDN'T WANT TO PUT DANIEL IN
00:19:44.71\00:19:47.32
THE LION'S DEN, BUT
A KING'S WORD WAS LAW.
00:19:47.32\00:19:50.19
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, KING HEROD,
HE TOLD HIS STEP-DAUGHTER, 'IF
00:19:50.19\00:19:53.09
YOU DANCE FOR ME, I'LL GIVE YOU
ANYTHING YOU WANT UP TO HALF THE
00:19:53.09\00:19:55.12
KINGDOM.' THE LAST THING HE
EXPECTED WAS THAT THEY WOULD
00:19:55.12\00:19:58.19
WANT TO KILL JOHN THE BAPTIST.
HE THOUGHT THAT SHE WAS GOING TO
00:19:58.19\00:20:01.13
ASK FOR A TRIP DOWN
TO EGYPT OR SOMETHING.
00:20:01.13\00:20:04.50
BUT HE HAD SPOKEN AND
THE KING'S WORD WAS LAW.
00:20:04.50\00:20:07.60
SO OUR GOD HAS SPOKEN FROM A
MOUNTAIN AND HE WROTE WITH HIS
00:20:07.60\00:20:10.87
FINGER AND HE HAS A
LAW. AND THERE'S A PENALTY
00:20:10.87\00:20:14.11
FOR BREAKING THAT LAW.
AND AS MUCH AS HE LOVES US, HE
00:20:14.11\00:20:17.91
CAN'T JUST LET YOU OFF THE
HOOK. HE MUST HAVE A JUST WAY OF
00:20:17.91\00:20:24.69
DEALING WITH TRANSGRESSION.
THERE IS SUCH A THING AS MERCY
00:20:24.69\00:20:30.03
AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT
THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:20:30.03\00:20:32.93
ACTS 17:31 - STILL TALKING ABOUT
WHO THE JUDGE IS - "BECAUSE HE
00:20:32.93\00:20:38.17
[GOD] HAS APPOINTED A DAY ON
WHICH HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD IN
00:20:38.17\00:20:42.00
RIGHTEOUSNESS" - HE'S A
RIGHTEOUS JUDGE - "BY THE MAN
00:20:42.00\00:20:45.77
WHOM HE HAS ORDAINED. HE
HAS GIVEN ASSURANCE OF THIS
00:20:45.77\00:20:49.48
TO ALL BY RAISING
HIM FROM THE DEAD."
00:20:49.48\00:20:51.85
SO HE'LL JUDGE THE WORLD BY THE
MAN HE ORDAINED AND ROSE FROM
00:20:51.85\00:20:54.82
THE DEAD. SO WHO IS
OUR JUDGE? JESUS, RIGHT?
00:20:54.82\00:20:59.15
SO WHAT IS
JUDGED IN THIS JUDGMENT?
00:20:59.15\00:21:02.16
ECCLESIASTES 12 - HERE'S THE
WISEST MAN - VERSES 13 AND 14 -
00:21:02.16\00:21:06.49
THE LAST VERSES IN ECCLESIASTES
- "LET US HEAR THE CONCLUSION OF
00:21:06.49\00:21:09.70
THE WHOLE MATTER: FEAR GOD AND
KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS," - THAT'S
00:21:09.70\00:21:13.07
LIKE THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE:
FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM -
00:21:13.07\00:21:16.50
"FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS
COMMANDMENTS FOR THIS IS MAN'S
00:21:16.50\00:21:18.97
ALL. FOR GOD
WILL BRING EVERY WORK
00:21:18.97\00:21:22.28
INTO JUDGMENT, INCLUDING
EVERY SECRET THING, WHETHER
00:21:22.28\00:21:26.25
GOOD OR EVIL."
EVERY SECRET THING?
00:21:26.25\00:21:30.65
DOES THAT MAKE YOU
SQUIRM A LITTLE BIT?
00:21:30.65\00:21:33.52
MATTHEW 12:36, JESUS SAID, "BUT
I SAY TO YOU THAT FOR EVERY IDLE
00:21:33.52\00:21:37.99
WORD MEN MAY SPEAK, THEY WILL
GIVE ACCOUNT OF IT IN THE DAY OF
00:21:37.99\00:21:41.90
JUDGMENT." DOES JESUS
TEACH THERE'S A DAY OF JUDGMENT?
00:21:41.90\00:21:44.93
DOES JESUS TEACH THAT
PARTICULAR THINGS ARE NOTED?
00:21:44.93\00:21:48.84
EVERY IDLE WORD THAT YOU SPEAK.
"FOR BY YOUR WORDS YOU WILL BE
00:21:48.84\00:21:52.17
JUSTIFIED, AND BY YOUR
WORDS YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED."
00:21:52.17\00:21:55.24
WELL THAT'S, AGAIN, IF IT WASN'T
FOR GRACE - MAN, I THINK ABOUT
00:21:55.24\00:21:59.78
ALL THE DUMB THINGS I'VE SAID;
ALL THE FRIVOLOUS THINGS; ALL -
00:21:59.78\00:22:03.32
MAYBE THE FOOLISH UNKIND THINGS
- ALL THE GOSSIP - ANYONE OUT
00:22:03.32\00:22:08.02
THERE? AM I ALONE? COME
ON. NO ONE WANTS TO ADMIT
00:22:08.02\00:22:13.83
TO BEING A GOSSIP.
MOST OF US ARE THOUGH.
00:22:13.83\00:22:19.17
LUKE 12 - BOY,
FACEBOOK IS GOSSIP ON STEROIDS.
00:22:19.17\00:22:22.77
(LAUGHTER) 'I'M JUST CHECKING UP
ON MY FRIENDS.' SOME OF THAT IS
00:22:22.77\00:22:27.91
JUST A SANCTIFIED WAY
OF TALKING ABOUT GOSSIP.
00:22:27.91\00:22:31.08
JUST SAYING THAT SOME PEOPLE
SPEND HOURS ON THAT STUFF, JUST
00:22:31.08\00:22:34.98
FINDING OUT WHAT
EVERBODY'S DOING.
00:22:34.98\00:22:39.39
LUKE 12:2 AND 3, "FOR THERE IS
NOTHING COVERED THAT WILL NOT BE
00:22:39.39\00:22:42.59
REVEALED," - NOTHING - "NOR
HIDDEN THAT WILL NOT BE KNOWN.
00:22:42.59\00:22:48.53
THEREFORE WHATEVER YOU HAVE
SPOKEN IN THE DARK WILL BE HEARD
00:22:48.53\00:22:51.40
IN THE LIGHT, AND WHAT YOU HAVE
SPOKEN IN THE EAR IN INNER ROOMS
00:22:51.40\00:22:54.20
WILL BE
PROCLAIMED ON THE HOUSETOPS."
00:22:54.20\00:22:58.51
AND SO, WOW,
WE'RE ALL IN FOR IT.
00:22:58.51\00:23:02.48
IF EVERY IDLE WORD AND EVERY
SECRET THING AND EVEN THE THINGS
00:23:02.48\00:23:06.25
THAT WE THINK - LOOK AT LUKE
2:35 "...THAT THE THOUGHTS OF
00:23:06.25\00:23:10.85
MANY HEARTS MAY BE REVEALED."
1 CORINTHIANS 4:5, "THEREFORE
00:23:10.85\00:23:16.16
JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME,
UNTIL THE LORD COMES, WHO WILL
00:23:16.16\00:23:19.73
BOTH BRING TO LIGHT THE HIDDEN
THINGS OF DARKNESS AND" - NOTICE
00:23:19.73\00:23:23.97
- "REVEAL THE COUNSELS OF THE
HEARTS." SO GOD IS NOT ONLY IN
00:23:23.97\00:23:27.77
THE JUDGMENT LOOKING AT WHAT WE
DO AND WHAT WE SAY AND WHAT WE
00:23:27.77\00:23:34.48
THINK, HOW WE GIVE, WHAT
WE WEAR, WHY WE WEAR IT -
00:23:34.48\00:23:44.02
THE VANITIES OF THE HEART - I
MEAN, JUST EVERYTHING ABOUT THE
00:23:44.02\00:23:47.56
REALITY - IT GETS RIGHT DOWN
TO JUST THE VERY RAW BASIC CORE
00:23:47.56\00:23:52.33
ELEMENT OF WHO YOU ARE.
AND UNLESS WE'RE CLEANSED AND
00:23:52.33\00:23:57.37
TRANSFORMED BY THE
LORD, WE'RE ALL IN TROUBLE.
00:23:57.37\00:24:02.50
NOW FIRST YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW
WHAT THE BAD NEWS IS BEFORE YOU
00:24:02.50\00:24:05.27
APPRECIATE THE GOOD
NEWS. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
00:24:05.27\00:24:07.71
JUDGMENT, YOU'LL
NEVER APPRECIATE GRACE.
00:24:07.71\00:24:10.35
SO, IF YOU'RE TREMBLING A
LITTLE BIT, LIKE FELIX, GOOD.
00:24:10.35\00:24:14.68
BECAUSE THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT
THAT. WE NEED TO BE AWARE THAT
00:24:14.68\00:24:17.99
WE'LL GIVE AN ACCOUNT FOR
EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE DONE.
00:24:17.99\00:24:22.09
WHAT'S IN THE
JUDGMENT? ALL THESE THINGS.
00:24:22.09\00:24:25.49
YOU CAN READ IN JUDE 14 AND 15,
"BEHOLD, THE LORD COMES WITH TEN
00:24:25.49\00:24:30.37
THOUSANDS OF HIS SAINTS,
TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ON ALL, TO
00:24:30.37\00:24:34.67
CONVICT ALL WHO ARE UNGODLY
AMONG THEM OF ALL THEIR UNGODLY
00:24:34.67\00:24:38.21
DEEDS WHICH THEY HAVE COMMITTED
IN AN UNGODLY WAY, AND OF ALL
00:24:38.21\00:24:41.84
THE HARSH THINGS WHICH UNGODLY
SINNERS HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST
00:24:41.84\00:24:45.18
HIM." DEEDS DONE,
WORDS SPOKEN, ALL -
00:24:45.18\00:24:48.05
AND IT SAYS - TO CONVICT
ALL - BEHOLD, THE LORD COMES.
00:24:48.05\00:24:53.49
WHY DOES IT SAY, 'THEN THEY WILL
SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE
00:24:53.49\00:24:57.43
CLOUDS OF HEAVEN - ALL THE
TRIBES OF THE EARTH WILL MOURN.'
00:24:57.43\00:25:01.03
WHY ARE THEY MOURNING?
BECAUSE HE'S COMING ON A THRONE.
00:25:01.03\00:25:05.37
HE IS OUR KING, HE IS OUR JUDGE
- ALL THINGS ARE NAKED AND OPEN
00:25:05.37\00:25:09.54
TO THE EYES OF HIM. JOHN
SAYS HE COULDN'T EVEN LOOK
00:25:09.54\00:25:12.07
INTO HIS EYES - THEY WERE
LIKE A BURNING FLAME OF A FIRE.
00:25:12.07\00:25:16.04
NOW, I WON'T GO INTO DETAIL, BUT
WHEN I LOOK AT JESUS AND WHEN I
00:25:16.04\00:25:22.82
LOOK AT MY LIFE, I THINK I'M IN
TROUBLE - LIKE ISAIAH, WHEN HE
00:25:22.82\00:25:27.86
GOT A LOOK AT THE
LORD, YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID?
00:25:27.86\00:25:29.79
'WOE IS ME.' THIS IS A PROPHET
THAT WE WOULD ALL WANT TO BE
00:25:29.79\00:25:34.20
ELDER IN OUR CHURCH.
BUT WHEN HE SAW GOD IN HIS
00:25:34.20\00:25:37.80
GLORY HE SAID,
'WOE IS ME. I AM UNDONE.
00:25:37.80\00:25:40.87
FOR I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS
AND I DWELL IN THE MIDST OF A
00:25:40.87\00:25:43.84
PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN LIPS.
FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE
00:25:43.84\00:25:46.51
KING.' AND THEN SOMETHING
HAPPENED: WHEN HE CONFESSED HIS
00:25:46.51\00:25:52.88
SIN AND HE REPENTED OF HIS SIN,
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'THEN GOD SENT
00:25:52.88\00:25:59.12
AN ANGEL WITH A COAL FROM
THE ALTAR AND TOUCHED HIS LIPS.
00:25:59.12\00:26:03.22
HE SAID, 'YOUR INIQUITY IS
TAKEN AWAY. YOUR SIN IS PURGED.'
00:26:03.22\00:26:07.76
WELL, THERE'S A GLIMMER
OF HOPE THERE, ISN'T THERE?
00:26:07.76\00:26:11.07
WHEN HE ACKNOWLEDGED HIS SIN AND
HE REPENTED OF HIS SIN, AND HE
00:26:11.07\00:26:15.57
CONFESSED HIS SIN, THE LORD
WANTED TO SAVE ISAIAH BECAUSE HE
00:26:15.57\00:26:20.01
HAD A WORK FOR HIM TO DO,
BUT HE HAD TO CLEAN HIM FIRST.
00:26:20.01\00:26:22.88
AND WHEN THE ANGEL TOOK A COAL
FROM THE ALTAR AND HE TOUCHED
00:26:22.88\00:26:25.68
HIS LIPS, HE SAID, 'YOUR SIN
IS TAKEN AWAY.' RIGHT AWAY, YOUR
00:26:25.68\00:26:29.28
SIN IS PURGED. SO
HE COULD STAND IN THE
00:26:29.28\00:26:31.72
PRESENCE OF A HOLY GOD.
INDEED, HE WAS COMMISSIONED TO
00:26:31.72\00:26:34.56
WORK AND GIVE A
MESSAGE FOR A HOLY GOD.
00:26:34.56\00:26:38.43
BUT UNTIL HE WAS CONVICTED,
HE COULD NOT BE CLEANSED OR
00:26:38.43\00:26:44.57
COMMISSIONED.
NOW, HOW MANY OF YOU
00:26:44.57\00:26:46.23
WANT TO WORK FOR
GOD? DON'T YOU WANT TO USE
00:26:46.23\00:26:48.20
YOUR LIVES TO SERVE
JESUS? I HOPE YOU ALL DO.
00:26:48.20\00:26:51.61
HOW MANY OF YOU - IF YOU DON'T
WANT TO - HOW MANY OF YOU WANT
00:26:51.61\00:26:53.48
TO WANT TO? HOW MANY OF YOU WANT
00:26:53.48\00:26:56.48
TO WANT TO MORE MAYBE?
THAT WOULD BE ALL OF US.
00:26:56.48\00:27:01.12
CONVICTION, CLEANSING,
CONVERSION, COMMISSIONING - WE
00:27:01.12\00:27:09.82
ALL NEED TO REALIZE WHAT'S
GOING ON AND THAT UNLESS WE ARE
00:27:09.82\00:27:13.90
CLEANSED - UNLESS WE CONFESS TO
THE LORD OUR SIN AND WE'RE AWARE
00:27:13.90\00:27:17.33
THAT WE WILL GIVE AN ANSWER TO
GOD FOR EVERY IMPURE THOUGHT -
00:27:17.33\00:27:21.84
ONLY THE PURE IN HEART WILL SEE
GOD - FOR THE MEAN THINGS WE'VE
00:27:21.84\00:27:26.11
SAID, THE IDLE GOSSIP,
THE - IF THERE'S ANY THEFT.
00:27:26.11\00:27:36.28
HAVE WE MURDERED IN OUR HEARTS?
00:27:36.28\00:27:39.35
KIND OF HEART HOMICIDE - YOU CAN
HAVE ADULTERY IN THE MIND - I
00:27:39.35\00:27:45.73
MEAN, YOU THINK ABOUT THE SPIRIT
OF THE LAW THAT JESUS TALKS AND
00:27:45.73\00:27:48.23
WE ALL STAND IN THE BLAZING
LIGHT OF CHRIST'S PURITY -
00:27:48.23\00:27:52.37
WE STAND CONDEMNED
BECAUSE HOW MANY HAVE SINNED?
00:27:52.37\00:27:55.27
>>ALL. >>ALL.
00:27:55.27\00:27:56.87
NOW SOME OF US ARE MAYBE
WORSE SINNERS THAN OTHERS.
00:27:56.87\00:27:59.71
SOME OF US ARE WORSE
SINNERS THAN WE THINK.
00:27:59.71\00:28:03.61
SOME OF US THINK THAT WE'RE
BETTER THAN OTHERS, WHICH REALLY
00:28:03.61\00:28:06.28
MAKES IT THE WORST
SIN, BECAUSE THAT'S PRIDE.
00:28:06.28\00:28:12.22
THE BIBLE SAYS TWO MEN WENT INTO
THE TEMPLE TO PRAY; ONE WAS A
00:28:12.22\00:28:16.12
PUBLICAN - YOU KNOW, THEY WERE
THE TAX COLLECTORS THAT HUNG OUT
00:28:16.12\00:28:19.26
WITH THE PEOPLE OF ILL REPUTE
- AND THE OTHER WAS A PHARISEE -
00:28:19.26\00:28:22.26
THEY WERE THE RELIGIOUS -
ZEALOUS PEOPLE - PAID TITHE -
00:28:22.26\00:28:24.77
AND THE PHARISEE STOOD AND
PRAYED THUS WITH HIMSELF, 'LORD,
00:28:24.77\00:28:28.44
I THANK YOU I'M NOT LIKE
OTHER MEN.' - HE'S THINKING
00:28:28.44\00:28:30.34
HORIZONTALLY - 'I PAY TITHE OF
ALL THAT I HAVE AND I FAST TWICE
00:28:30.34\00:28:34.48
A WEEK AND I'M GLAD I'M NOT LIKE
THE GUY IN THE BACK ROW THERE -
00:28:34.48\00:28:37.38
THE PUBLICAN' - AND THEN JESUS
GOES ON WITH THE PARABLE AND HE
00:28:37.38\00:28:41.05
SAYS, 'BUT THE PUBLICAN WOULDN'T
SO MUCH AS LIFT UP HIS EYES, BUT
00:28:41.05\00:28:43.72
HE SMOTE ON HIS BREAST AND
SAID, 'LORD, HAVE MERCY ON ME, A
00:28:43.72\00:28:46.99
SINNER.' HE WAS A SINNER.
HE CONFESSED HE WAS A SINNER.
00:28:46.99\00:28:52.49
AND THEN JESUS SAID, 'THAT
MAN - THE PUBLICAN - WENT HOME
00:28:52.49\00:28:56.33
FORGIVEN - JUSTIFIED - AND NOT
THE PHARISEE, WHO THOUGHT HE WAS
00:28:56.33\00:29:00.87
BETTER.' AND SO ONE OF THE MOST
DANGEROUS SINS IS THE SIN OF
00:29:00.87\00:29:05.34
PRIDE. YOU CAN FIND THAT IN THAT
00:29:05.34\00:29:07.38
BOOK STEPS TO CHRIST AS
WELL. SO EVERYTHING IS JUDGED.
00:29:07.38\00:29:11.45
WHAT IS THE STANDARD IN
THE JUDGMENT? JOHN 12:48,
00:29:11.45\00:29:17.92
IT SAYS, "HE WHO REJECTS ME,
AND DOES NOT RECEIVE MY WORDS,
00:29:17.92\00:29:23.66
HAS THAT WHICH JUDGES HIM -
THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN WILL
00:29:23.66\00:29:27.40
JUDGE HIM ON THE LAST DAY."
WELL, THAT WOULD BE THE WORD OF
00:29:27.40\00:29:30.80
GOD WE'RE JUDGED BY, BUT EVEN
MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE SUMMARY
00:29:30.80\00:29:34.37
OF IT IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- THE WORDS THAT GOD SPOKE.
00:29:34.37\00:29:38.11
JAMES 2:12, "SO SPEAK
AND SO DO AS THOSE WHO
00:29:38.11\00:29:43.61
WILL BE JUDGED BY
THE LAW OF LIBERTY."
00:29:43.61\00:29:46.55
AND HE HAD JUST GOT DONE QUOTING
TWO OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:29:46.55\00:29:49.42
YOU NOTICE THAT JUDE SAID 'THEIR
DEEDS THAT THEY'VE DONE, THE
00:29:49.42\00:29:53.76
WORDS THEY'VE SPOKEN.' JAMES
SAYS, 'SO SPEAK AND SO DO.'
00:29:53.76\00:29:58.13
WHY DOES IT MAKE SUCH
AN EMPHASIS ON YOUR WORDS?
00:29:58.13\00:30:01.50
JESUS SAID, 'OUT OF THE
ABUNDANCE...' - WE JUST READ
00:30:01.50\00:30:03.53
THAT THERE IN MATTHEW 12 - 'OUT
OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART
00:30:03.53\00:30:06.87
THE MOUTH SPEAKS.' SO ONE REASON
WE'RE JUDGED BY OUR WORDS AND
00:30:06.87\00:30:09.80
OUR DEEDS IS BECAUSE YOUR WORDS
REFLECT WHAT'S GOING ON ON THE
00:30:09.80\00:30:13.24
INSIDE. WHAT IS IT
THAT ISAIAH CONFESSED?
00:30:13.24\00:30:16.24
'LORD, I'M A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS
AND I DWELL IN THE MIDST OF A
00:30:16.24\00:30:19.51
PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN LIPS.'
UNCLEAN LIPS MEAN UNCLEAN HEART.
00:30:19.51\00:30:23.72
AND SO, IF GOD'S GOING TO CHANGE
YOUR WORDS, HE'S GOT TO CHANGE
00:30:23.72\00:30:26.79
YOUR HEART. BUT THE LAW OF GOD
IS THE STANDARD IN THE JUDGMENT.
00:30:26.79\00:30:32.76
NOW, I DON'T KNOW IF - DID YOU
EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE TEACHERS
00:30:32.76\00:30:35.50
THAT SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT A TEST
COMING. I'M GOING TO PUT ALL THE
00:30:35.50\00:30:38.63
ANSWERS UP ON THE BOARD FOR YOU:
IT'S FOUND BETWEEN THESE PAGES
00:30:38.63\00:30:43.27
OF YOUR BOOK. IF YOU
READ THESE PAGES IN YOUR
00:30:43.27\00:30:45.71
BOOK, THAT'S WHAT
THE TEST WILL BE ON.
00:30:45.71\00:30:48.44
IF YOU ARE ACQUAINTED WITH
THOSE PAGES, YOU WILL GET A GOOD
00:30:48.44\00:30:51.21
GRADE.' HAVEN'T YOU ALL HAD
TEACHERS THAT HAVE DONE THAT?
00:30:51.21\00:30:54.55
AND SOME OF THE KIDS THOUGHT,
'YEAH, EVENTUALLY I'LL READ
00:30:54.55\00:30:56.32
THAT.' AND THEN, YOU KIND OF
REMEMBER JUST BEFORE BEDTIME AND
00:30:56.32\00:30:59.89
YOU KIND OF SKIM THROUGH IT VERY
QUICKLY OR YOU GLANCE THROUGH IT
00:30:59.89\00:31:03.73
IN CLASS AND YOU FORGET TO BRUSH
UP ON IT AND THE TEST COMES AND
00:31:03.73\00:31:08.06
YOU PERFORM POORLY - YOU GET A C
WHERE YOU COULD HAVE HAD A B OR
00:31:08.06\00:31:12.70
AN A IF YOU HAD JUST ACTUALLY
PAID ATTENTION TO WHAT THE
00:31:12.70\00:31:15.30
TEACHER GAVE YOU.
FRIENDS, IT'S NOT A MYSTERY.
00:31:15.30\00:31:22.18
WE ARE BEING JUDGED BY THE LAW.
WE'RE NOT SAVED BY THE LAW, WE
00:31:22.18\00:31:26.88
ARE SAVED BY GRACE; BUT
THE LAW IS A REFLECTION OF
00:31:26.88\00:31:31.12
GOD'S PERFECT WILL. AND
SO, OUR LIVES - WHAT IS SIN?
00:31:31.12\00:31:36.66
SIN IS TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
AND SO, HOW DOES GOD DETERMINE
00:31:36.66\00:31:40.00
WHETHER YOU'VE
SINNED? BY THE LAW.
00:31:40.00\00:31:43.30
SO WE NEED TO BE AWARE
THIS IS WHAT GOD WANTS.
00:31:43.30\00:31:46.60
PROBLEM IS, WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE
LAW, LIKE A MIRROR, AND WE SEE
00:31:46.60\00:31:49.00
THE SIN IN OUR
LIVES, WHAT DO YOU DO THEN?
00:31:49.00\00:31:53.11
YOU HAVE TO GO TO JESUS
FOR CLEANSING - THE SAME THING
00:31:53.11\00:31:55.28
ISAIAH DID. SO
GOD'S LAW IS THE STANDARD.
00:31:55.28\00:31:59.95
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TWO MILLION
LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES, AND
00:31:59.95\00:32:05.75
IF YOU COULD LEARN THEM AT A
RATE OF TWO A DAY, YOU COULD BE
00:32:05.75\00:32:09.96
QUALIFIED TO ACT AS A
LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN IN ABOUT
00:32:09.96\00:32:13.23
6,000 YEARS.
SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'THE MORE
00:32:13.23\00:32:17.37
LAWLESS A SOCIETY, THE MORE LAWS
THEY REQUIRE.' AND WHERE IS THE
00:32:17.37\00:32:28.48
INFORMATION - OR WHAT ARE WE
JUDGED OUT OF? THE DEEDS THAT
00:32:28.48\00:32:33.85
ARE DONE. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE
TELLS US THAT GOD NOT ONLY HAS A
00:32:33.85\00:32:38.89
BOOK OF LIFE, HE'S GOT A BOOK OF
DEEDS. I WAS READING AN AMAZING
00:32:38.89\00:32:42.82
FACT THIS WEEK ABOUT
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
00:32:42.82\00:32:48.53
AND THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS,
ACCORDING TO THE GUINNESS BOOK
00:32:48.53\00:32:52.97
OF WORLD RECORDS, IS THE
LARGEST LIBRARY IN THE WORLD.
00:32:52.97\00:32:56.40
IT CONTAINS MORE
THAN 151.8 MILLION ITEMS.
00:32:56.40\00:33:03.28
FIRST BUILT IN 1800, IT IS
NOW HOUSED IN THREE SEPARATE
00:33:03.28\00:33:06.25
BUILDINGS IN WASHINGTON D.C.,
AND CONTAINS - CATCH THIS - 838
00:33:06.25\00:33:11.65
MILES OF BOOKSHELVES
THAT HOLD 34 MILLION BOOKS.
00:33:11.65\00:33:15.99
IN ADDITION TO THE BOOKS, THIS
MEGA-LIBRARY HOUSES 3.3 MILLION
00:33:15.99\00:33:19.09
RECORDINGS, 13.4 MILLION
PHOTOGRAPHS, 5.4 MILLION MAPS,
00:33:19.09\00:33:24.60
6.5 MILLION PIECES OF SHEET
MUSIC, 66.6 MILLION MANUSCRIPTS,
00:33:24.60\00:33:31.27
AND THE INVENTORY GROWS BY ABOUT
10,000 NEW ITEMS EVERY WORKING
00:33:31.27\00:33:36.31
DAY. IT'S ALL BEEN DIGITIZED.
EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE IN
00:33:36.31\00:33:43.62
YOUR LIFE - YOU EVER HEARD A
PERSON SAY, 'I WAS ABOUT TO DIE.
00:33:43.62\00:33:47.52
I WAS, YOU KNOW, SAW THE TRUCK
COMING TOWARDS ME AND SUDDENLY
00:33:47.52\00:33:50.46
MY WHOLE LIFE
FLASHED BEFORE ME.'
00:33:50.46\00:33:53.13
EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY THAT?
00:33:53.13\00:33:54.46
I'VE ACTUALLY MEET PEOPLE - I
KNOW ONE BROTHER THAT HE WOKE UP
00:33:54.46\00:34:00.24
ONE NIGHT, HE JUST WAS IN A
SWEAT AND HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT
00:34:00.24\00:34:02.77
CAME OVER HIM, BUT HE
SAID, 'SUDDENLY, THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:34:02.77\00:34:05.11
CAME OVER HIM AND HE SAID GOD
REVEALED HIS WHOLE LIFE TO HIM
00:34:05.11\00:34:09.71
AND HE SAW HIMSELF IN
A WAY HE HAD NEVER SEEN.
00:34:09.71\00:34:12.41
HE SAW HIMSELF WITH, LIKE,
THROUGH THE EYES OF GOD - HE SAW
00:34:12.41\00:34:15.12
THE SELFISHNESS - HE SAW WHAT HE
HAD BEEN DOING TO OTHERS AND THE
00:34:15.12\00:34:18.15
DISHONESTY AND HE SAID, 'IT'S
LIKE THE WHOLE THING PASSED
00:34:18.15\00:34:20.32
BEFORE ME AND I
THOUGHT, 'AM I DYING?
00:34:20.32\00:34:21.86
WHY IS GOD SHOWING ME THIS?'
00:34:21.86\00:34:23.12
AND HE WAS SWEATING AND
HE'S PRAYING - HE SHOWED HIM, HE
00:34:23.12\00:34:26.03
SAYS, HOW HE WAS
TREATING HIS WIFE.
00:34:26.03\00:34:29.00
AND HE SAID, 'DOUG, I WANT
TO TELL YOU, I AM NEVER GOING TO
00:34:29.00\00:34:32.23
SAY AN UNKIND
THING TO MY WIFE AGAIN.
00:34:32.23\00:34:34.94
SHE CAN'T GET ME TO SAY ANYTHING
UNKIND TO HER AGAIN' HE SAYS,
00:34:34.94\00:34:38.11
'BECAUSE I SAW MYSELF THROUGH
GOD'S EYES AND IT SCARED ME.'
00:34:38.11\00:34:43.85
NOW MAYBE WE OUGHT TO PRAY
FOR AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THAT.
00:34:43.85\00:34:48.22
HE SAID IT CHANGED HIM -
WHOLE LIFE PASSED BEFORE HIM.
00:34:48.22\00:34:51.25
YOU KNOW, IN THE JUDGMENT, I
DON'T THINK EVERYBODY'S GOING TO
00:34:51.25\00:34:54.46
COME STAND BEFORE THE LORD ONE
BY ONE AND HAVE HIM, YOU KNOW,
00:34:54.46\00:34:57.66
ALL THESE BOOKS ARE OPEN AND
HE'LL SAY, 'GUILTY, INNOCENT,
00:34:57.66\00:34:59.46
GUILTY, INNOCENT'.
00:34:59.46\00:35:00.73
IF GOD COULD SAVE A THOUSAND
PEOPLE AT ONE TIME ON THE DAY OF
00:35:00.73\00:35:03.67
PENTECOST OR 3,000, THEN HE
CAN JUDGE THOUSANDS AT ONE TIME.
00:35:03.67\00:35:09.10
BUT PEOPLE'S LIVES WILL PASS
BEFORE THEM AND THAT'S PORTRAYED
00:35:09.10\00:35:12.37
THERE IN THAT GREAT
WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT.
00:35:12.37\00:35:14.58
DANIEL 7, "THE JUDGMENT WAS
SET AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED."
00:35:14.58\00:35:19.91
MALACHI 3:16, "THEN THEY THAT
FEARED THE LORD SPAKE OFTEN ONE
00:35:19.91\00:35:24.35
TO ANOTHER: AND THE LORD
HEARKENED, AND HEARD IT, AND A
00:35:24.35\00:35:26.92
BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE WAS WRITTEN
BEFORE HIM FOR THEM THAT FEARED
00:35:26.92\00:35:30.66
THE LORD, AND THAT
THOUGHT UPON HIS NAME."
00:35:30.66\00:35:32.63
BOOKS - REVELATION 20 - WE JUST
READ THIS: "AND I SAW THE DEAD,
00:35:32.63\00:35:37.77
SMALL AND GREAT, STAND BEFORE
GOD; AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED:
00:35:37.77\00:35:41.44
AND ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED,
WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE: AND
00:35:41.44\00:35:44.81
THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF
THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN
00:35:44.81\00:35:47.31
IN THE BOOKS,
ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS."
00:35:47.31\00:35:49.01
- PLURAL - SO YOU'VE GOT THE
BOOK OF LIFE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT
00:35:49.01\00:35:51.11
IN A MOMENT; YOU'VE GOT
THESE OTHER BOOKS - BOOK OF
00:35:51.11\00:35:53.58
REMEMBRANCE, BOOK OF RECORDS
- NOW, DOES GOD HAVE PAPER BOOKS
00:35:53.58\00:35:58.12
THAT ARE BOUND
WITH LEATHER IN HEAVEN?
00:35:58.12\00:36:02.82
PROBABLY NOT. SOME OF US
- REMEMBER CASSETTE TAPE?
00:36:02.82\00:36:10.37
AND THEN FOR AWHILE PEOPLE
TALKED ABOUT 8-TRACK TAPES -
00:36:10.37\00:36:14.27
ANYONE REMEMBER THE 8-TRACK?
AND THEY SORT OF HAD A SHORT
00:36:14.27\00:36:17.37
SHELF LIFE AND THEY WENT AWAY
- AND CASSETTE TAPES CAME BACK
00:36:17.37\00:36:20.18
BECAUSE THE CASSETTE
TAPE PLAYERS GOT BETTER.
00:36:20.18\00:36:23.24
AND THEN CAME THE CDS, DVDS -
NOW IT'S KIND OF ALL DIGITAL -
00:36:23.24\00:36:29.12
FIBER OPTIC.
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER
00:36:29.12\00:36:31.59
CUNEIFORM CLAY TABLETS?
(LAUGHTER) JUST CHECKING.
00:36:31.59\00:36:36.62
BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S HOW
- WE'VE GOT LOTS OF DIFFERENT
00:36:36.62\00:36:38.43
WAYS, IN THIS
WORLD, WE RECORD THINGS.
00:36:38.43\00:36:40.36
SO THE REASON THAT GOD SAYS
'BOOKS' IS IT'S JUST A WORD THAT
00:36:40.36\00:36:44.93
HELPS US
UNDERSTAND THERE'S A RECORD.
00:36:44.93\00:36:47.30
BUT I HAVE A FEELING THAT
WHEN THOSE BOOKS ARE OPENED IT'S
00:36:47.30\00:36:49.64
GOING TO SORT OF BE PLAYING
THREE-DIMENSIONAL WHERE IT'S
00:36:49.64\00:36:53.58
GOING TO BE RELIVED, ALMOST LIKE
A PROPHET'S VISION, WHERE HE
00:36:53.58\00:36:56.61
SEES THESE THINGS.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO JUST BE
00:36:56.61\00:36:59.15
READING IT OUT OF A
BOOK. SO GOD'S GOT A RECORD
00:36:59.15\00:37:02.42
OF ALL THESE THINGS. AND
THEN THERE'S ALSO, NOT ONLY
00:37:02.42\00:37:05.79
THE BOOK OF RECORDS,
THERE'S A BOOK OF LIFE.
00:37:05.79\00:37:09.09
AND THE QUESTION IS: IS
YOUR NAME WRITTEN THERE?
00:37:09.09\00:37:12.26
REVELATION 21:27, "AND THERE
SHALL IN NO WISE ENTER INTO IT
00:37:12.26\00:37:17.27
ANY THING THAT DEFILETH," -
SINNERS MUST BE CLEANSED FROM
00:37:17.27\00:37:21.34
THEIR SIN - "NEITHER WHATSOEVER
WORKETH ABOMINATION, OR MAKETH A
00:37:21.34\00:37:24.54
LIE: BUT THEY WHICH ARE WRITTEN
IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE."
00:37:24.54\00:37:28.68
NOTICE, HE CONTRASTS THE
DISOBEDIENCE AND SIN WITH THOSE
00:37:28.68\00:37:32.65
WHO ARE WRITTEN IN
THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE.
00:37:32.65\00:37:35.35
LUKE 10:20 - JESUS SAID TO THE
DISCIPLES, "NEVERTHELESS DO NOT
00:37:35.35\00:37:39.49
REJOICE IN THIS, THAT THE
SPIRITS ARE SUBJECT TO YOU," -
00:37:39.49\00:37:42.16
THEY CAME BACK FROM PREACHING
AND THEY CAST OUT DEVILS AND
00:37:42.16\00:37:44.09
THEY WERE EXCITED - JESUS SAYS
DON'T REJOICE ABOUT THAT - "BUT
00:37:44.09\00:37:46.76
RATHER REJOICE BECAUSE YOUR
NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.'"
00:37:46.76\00:37:50.30
DID HE SAY YOUR
NAMES WILL BE OR THEY ARE?
00:37:50.30\00:37:53.80
HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES 'YOUR
NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.'
00:37:53.80\00:37:56.94
WOULDN'T THAT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD
TO KNOW RIGHT NOW YOUR NAME IS
00:37:56.94\00:38:00.54
WRITTEN THERE?
PHILIPPIANS 4:3 - PAUL SAID,
00:38:00.54\00:38:05.75
"AND I URGE YOU ALSO, TRUE
COMPANION, HELP THESE WOMEN WHO
00:38:05.75\00:38:08.95
LABORED WITH ME IN THE GOSPEL,
WITH CLEMENT ALSO, AND THE REST
00:38:08.95\00:38:12.52
OF MY FELLOW WORKERS, WHOSE
NAMES ARE IN THE BOOK OF LIFE."
00:38:12.52\00:38:17.83
NOT 'WILL BE'. I'D
FEEL A LOT BETTER GOING TO
00:38:17.83\00:38:22.03
JUDGMENT KNOWING MY NAME IS
ENTERED IN THE BOOK OF LIFE.
00:38:22.03\00:38:26.97
EXODUS - MOSES IS TALKING
TO THE LORD - HE'S PLEADING AND
00:38:26.97\00:38:30.31
INTERCEDING FOR THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL WHO JUST DID THIS WHOLE
00:38:30.31\00:38:32.47
TERRIBLE DEBACLE WITH THE GOLDEN
CALF AND MOSES PRAYS AND HE
00:38:32.47\00:38:36.14
SAYS, 'YET NOW, LORD, IF YOU
WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN - BUT IF
00:38:36.14\00:38:39.65
NOT, I PRAY BLOT MY NAME OUT OF
YOUR BOOK THAT YOU'VE WRITTEN.'
00:38:39.65\00:38:44.92
MOSES KNEW HIS
NAME WAS IN GOD'S BOOK.
00:38:44.92\00:38:48.29
HE SAID, 'TAKE MY NAME OUT -
ERASE MY NAME - PUT THEIR NAMES
00:38:48.29\00:38:50.53
IN - CAN I BE THEIR SUBSTITUTE?
OF COURSE, ONE MAN COULD NOT DO
00:38:50.53\00:38:54.46
IT - ONLY THE SON
OF GOD COULD DO IT.
00:38:54.46\00:38:57.30
SO GOD HAS A BOOK. IS
YOUR NAME IN THE BOOK?
00:38:57.30\00:39:03.51
HOW DO YOU GET
YOUR NAME IN THE BOOK?
00:39:03.51\00:39:06.27
YOU ASK HIM. IF WE
COME TO JESUS AND DO WHAT
00:39:06.27\00:39:09.81
ISAIAH DID, AND WE REPENT
OF OUR SIN, WE REALIZE WE'RE IN
00:39:09.81\00:39:13.85
TROUBLE, BUT GOD
IS EXTENDING GRACE.
00:39:13.85\00:39:16.65
HE'S SAYING, 'I'VE WORKED THINGS
OUT WHERE SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR
00:39:16.65\00:39:21.86
WHAT YOU DID.
YOU'VE BROKEN THE LAW
00:39:21.86\00:39:23.69
AND IT MUST BE PUNISHED.
BUT I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, I'M
00:39:23.69\00:39:27.60
GOING TO BE YOUR SUBSTITUTE.
I WILL TAKE THE PENALTY YOU
00:39:27.60\00:39:30.63
NORMALLY WOULD GET IN
THE JUDGMENT, FOR YOUR SINS.'
00:39:30.63\00:39:34.54
HOW MANY OF YOUR
SINS? ALL OF YOUR SINS.
00:39:34.54\00:39:39.71
'YOU ASK ME AND TELL ME YOU
ACCEPT THIS TRANSACTION, I WILL
00:39:39.71\00:39:44.78
TAKE YOUR PLACE. BUT
I'M ASKING YOU, THEN, YOU
00:39:44.78\00:39:46.85
MUST GIVE ME - I'M
GIVING YOU EVERYTHING, YOU MUST
00:39:46.85\00:39:48.55
GIVE ME EVERYTHING.' THAT'S
RIGHT. WHOEVER DOESN'T FORSAKE
00:39:48.55\00:39:52.65
ALL CANNOT BE HIS DISCIPLE.
HE SAID, 'I WILL DIE FOR YOU.
00:39:52.65\00:39:56.93
I'LL TAKE ALL
OF YOUR PUNISHMENT.
00:39:56.93\00:39:58.99
YOU ACCEPT THAT, BELIEVE
IT, AND THEN LIVE FOR ME.
00:39:58.99\00:40:03.97
YOU SHOW THE
WORLD WHAT I'M LIKE.
00:40:03.97\00:40:06.50
YOU DO MY WILL IN YOUR LIFE.'
AND YOUR NAME - WHEN YOU AGREE
00:40:06.50\00:40:10.21
TO DO THAT AND SURRENDER YOUR
LIFE TO JESUS, HE PUTS YOUR NAME
00:40:10.21\00:40:13.74
IN THE BOOK OF LIFE.
NOW, DURING THE JUDGMENT THAT
00:40:13.74\00:40:16.64
TAKES PLACE BEFORE THE LORD
COMES BACK, THE REALITY OF THAT
00:40:16.64\00:40:20.32
PROFESSION WILL BE INVESTIGATED.
BECAUSE IT'S ONE THING TO SAY,
00:40:20.32\00:40:24.49
'LORD, LORD' AND
THEN NOT DO WHAT HE SAYS.
00:40:24.49\00:40:28.49
IT'LL BE THOSE WHO REALLY
ARE WILLING TO DO HIS WILL.
00:40:28.49\00:40:30.89
ONCE A NAME IS ENTERED IN THE
BOOK OF LIFE, CAN IT BE REMOVED?
00:40:30.89\00:40:35.40
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
THERE ARE SOME ENTIRE
00:40:35.40\00:40:37.53
DENOMINATIONS THAT THINK 'NO'.
THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
00:40:37.53\00:40:41.44
PSALMS 69:28, "LET THEM BE
BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE
00:40:41.44\00:40:45.74
LIVING, AND NOT BE
WRITTEN WITH THE RIGHTEOUS."
00:40:45.74\00:40:48.84
PRETTY CLEAR DAVID'S TALKING
ABOUT THE BOOK OF LIFE THERE.
00:40:48.84\00:40:51.41
IF YOU DOUBT THAT, LISTEN TO
JESUS - REVELATION 3:5, "HE WHO
00:40:51.41\00:40:54.52
OVERCOMES SHALL BE CLOTHED IN
WHITE GARMENTS, AND I WILL NOT
00:40:54.52\00:40:57.95
BLOT OUT HIS NAME FROM THE BOOK
OF LIFE; BUT I WILL CONFESS HIS
00:40:57.95\00:41:01.46
NAME BEFORE MY FATHER
AND BEFORE HIS ANGELS."
00:41:01.46\00:41:04.49
AND JESUS SAID IF WE ARE
ASHAMED OF HIM IN THIS EVIL AND
00:41:04.49\00:41:08.16
ADULTEROUS GENERATION, HE
WILL BE ASHAMED OF US; BUT IF WE
00:41:08.16\00:41:11.30
CONFESS HIM AND HIS NAME,
IN THIS EVIL AND ADULTEROUS
00:41:11.30\00:41:14.70
GENERATION, HE WILL CONFESS OUR
NAME BEFORE THE FATHER AND THE
00:41:14.70\00:41:19.01
ANGELS IN HEAVEN. CAN
YOU THINK OF A TIME IN THE
00:41:19.01\00:41:21.31
BIBLE WHERE THAT
HAPPENED? DO YOU REMEMBER
00:41:21.31\00:41:24.48
THE STORY OF JOB? JOB
WAS STANDING UP FOR GOD IN
00:41:24.48\00:41:27.78
THE WORLD AND THE DEVIL CAME AND
THERE'S OTHER SONS OF GOD AROUND
00:41:27.78\00:41:32.45
GOD AND THE DEVIL IS SAYING,
'I'VE COME FROM THE EARTH.
00:41:32.45\00:41:36.62
THIS IS MY DOMAIN.' AND
GOD SAYS, 'NOT ALL OF IT.
00:41:36.62\00:41:38.53
IT'S NOT ALL YOUR
DOMAIN. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED
00:41:38.53\00:41:40.10
MY SERVANT JOB?'
HERE'S GOD, IN HEAVEN, NAMING
00:41:40.10\00:41:43.47
SOMEONE ON EARTH, BEFORE GOD AND
THE ANGELS, WHO LIVES FOR HIM.
00:41:43.47\00:41:47.40
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO LIVE
THE KIND OF LIFE WHERE THE LORD
00:41:47.40\00:41:49.14
WOULD BRAG ABOUT
YOU TO THE ANGELS?
00:41:49.14\00:41:51.11
>>AMEN. >>LIKE JOB?
00:41:51.11\00:41:52.81
IS THERE A REASON THAT IF
JOB COULD DO IT, WE CAN'T DO IT?
00:41:52.81\00:41:56.71
OR IS THAT SAME GRACE
AVAILABLE? SO FOR WHOSE BENEFIT
00:41:56.71\00:42:01.42
IS THE
JUDGMENT? DOES GOD ALREADY
00:42:01.42\00:42:04.65
KNOW EVERYTHING? SO
WHY IS THERE A JUDGMENT?
00:42:04.65\00:42:09.66
BECAUSE, YOU SEE, THE ANGELS SEE
WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE ON EARTH.
00:42:09.66\00:42:13.86
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? >>YES.
00:42:13.86\00:42:16.46
>>THERE'S NOTHING
HIDDEN. THERE'S ANGELS THAT ARE
00:42:16.46\00:42:18.67
RECORDING EVERYTHING. AND
GOD IS TELLING THE ANGELS,
00:42:18.67\00:42:22.04
'SEE THESE CREATURES DOWN THERE?
I KNOW SATAN AND HIS ANGELS WERE
00:42:22.04\00:42:25.81
CAST OUT AND I KNOW THESE PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE DEVIL,
00:42:25.81\00:42:29.11
BUT WE'RE GOING TO FORGIVE THEM
AND LET THEM BACK IN.' AND SOME
00:42:29.11\00:42:31.51
OF THE ANGELS ARE
GOING, 'OH LORD, YOU THINK
00:42:31.51\00:42:33.58
THAT'S A GOOD IDEA? WE
SEE WHAT THEY'RE DOING DOWN
00:42:33.58\00:42:35.52
THERE.' AND THE LORD SAYS,
'LOOK, I'M GOING TO CHANGE THEM.
00:42:35.52\00:42:38.72
I'M GOING TO SEND MY SPIRIT.
I'M GOING TO CLEANSE THEM.
00:42:38.72\00:42:40.66
I'M GOING TO TRANSFORM THEM.
I AM GOING TO FIT THEM, THROUGH
00:42:40.66\00:42:43.06
THE GOSPEL, TO LIVE WITH YOU.'
SO PART OF THIS IS TO ILLUSTRATE
00:42:43.06\00:42:47.30
THAT WE HAVE BEEN
TRANSFORMED BY FAITH.
00:42:47.30\00:42:50.63
DANIEL 7:9 AND 10, "I WATCHED
TILL THRONES WERE PUT IN PLACE,
00:42:50.63\00:42:55.04
AND THE ANCIENT OF DAYS WAS
SEATED; HIS GARMENT WAS WHITE AS
00:42:55.04\00:42:58.44
SNOW, AND THE HAIR OF
HIS HEAD WAS LIKE PURE WOOL.
00:42:58.44\00:43:00.98
HIS THRONE WAS A FIERY FLAME,
ITS WHEELS A BURNING FIRE; A
00:43:00.98\00:43:05.05
FIERY STREAM ISSUED AND
CAME FORTH FROM BEFORE HIM; A
00:43:05.05\00:43:08.52
THOUSAND THOUSANDS MINISTERED
TO HIM;" - THESE WERE ANGELS -
00:43:08.52\00:43:12.49
TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND
STOOD BEFORE HIM." GO TO VERSE
00:43:12.49\00:43:16.93
13, "I WAS WATCHING IN THE NIGHT
VISIONS, AND BEHOLD, ONE LIKE
00:43:16.93\00:43:20.16
THE SON OF MAN," - WHO
WAS THAT? JESUS - "COMING WITH
00:43:20.16\00:43:23.83
THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN! HE
CAME TO THE ANCIENT OF DAYS,"
00:43:23.83\00:43:26.37
- THE FATHER - "AND THEY
BROUGHT HIM NEAR BEFORE HIM."
00:43:26.37\00:43:29.14
AND THE JUDGMENT WAS SET AND
THE BOOKS WERE OPENED...HERE'S A
00:43:29.14\00:43:31.87
PICTURE OF A HEAVENLY JUDGMENT -
TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND
00:43:31.87\00:43:35.34
THAT MINISTERED TO THE
LORD. THESE ARE HIS MINISTERING
00:43:35.34\00:43:38.01
SPIRITS - ANGELS - AND THEY'RE
LOOKING INTO WHAT'S HAPPENING
00:43:38.01\00:43:42.78
HERE BECAUSE THE WHOLE
UNIVERSE IS INTERESTED IN THIS
00:43:42.78\00:43:45.82
PLAN OF SALVATION.
REVELATION 15:4, "WHO SHALL NOT
00:43:45.82\00:43:52.96
FEAR THEE, O LORD,
AND GLORIFY THY NAME?
00:43:52.96\00:43:55.33
FOR THOU ONLY ART HOLY: FOR ALL
NATIONS SHALL COME AND WORSHIP
00:43:55.33\00:43:59.03
BEFORE THEE; FOR THY
JUDGMENTS ARE MADE MANIFEST."
00:43:59.03\00:44:03.20
SO ONE OF THE IMPORTANT
THINGS THAT'S HAPPENING IN THIS
00:44:03.20\00:44:05.31
JUDGMENT IS IT'S BEING MANIFEST
- IT'S BEING REVEALED - GOD
00:44:05.31\00:44:10.58
ALREADY KNOWS.
SO, WE'RE SAVED BY
00:44:10.58\00:44:14.98
FAITH, DO WE AGREE?
SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
00:44:14.98\00:44:19.82
- BUT WHAT ARE WE JUDGED BY?
OUR WORKS. IT'S NOT ME, THAT'S
00:44:19.82\00:44:26.36
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
JESUS SAID, MATTHEW 16:27, "FOR
00:44:26.36\00:44:31.70
THE SON OF MAN WILL COME IN
THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER WITH THE
00:44:31.70\00:44:34.57
ANGELS AND HE'LL REWARD
EACH ONE ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS.
00:44:34.57\00:44:39.14
ROMANS 2:5 AND 6, "BUT IN
ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR HARDNESS
00:44:39.14\00:44:42.34
AND YOUR IMPENITENT HEART YOU
ARE TREASURING UP FOR YOURSELF
00:44:42.34\00:44:45.75
WRATH IN THE DAY OF WRATH
AND REVELATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS
00:44:45.75\00:44:49.18
JUDGMENT OF GOD, WHO 'WILL
RENDER TO EACH ONE ACCORDING TO
00:44:49.18\00:44:52.85
HIS DEEDS'." AND, YOU KNOW,
DEEDS AND WORKS - SAME WORD.
00:44:52.85\00:44:56.36
REVELATION 20, "AND THE DEAD
WERE JUDGED ACCORDING TO THEIR
00:44:56.36\00:44:59.43
WORKS, BY THE THINGS WHICH WERE
WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS...AND THEY
00:44:59.43\00:45:01.56
WERE JUDGED, EACH ONE
ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS."
00:45:01.56\00:45:04.83
SO DOESN'T THAT SOUND LIKE A
CONFLICT? WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH
00:45:04.83\00:45:08.57
AND GRACE; JUDGED BY OUR WORKS.
YOUR WORKS ILLUSTRATE WHETHER
00:45:08.57\00:45:14.51
OR NOT YOU HAVE
BEEN SAVED BY GRACE.
00:45:14.51\00:45:18.58
IF YOU HAVE BEEN BORN AGAIN AND
IF YOU HAVE ACCEPTED, BY FAITH,
00:45:18.58\00:45:23.92
THE GRACE OF GOD - GRACE ISN'T
JUST A COVER UP, GRACE IS A
00:45:23.92\00:45:27.56
TRANSFORMING POWER THAT GIVES
YOU A NEW HEART AND YOU BECOME A
00:45:27.56\00:45:31.03
NEW CREATURE AND
YOU ACT DIFFERENTLY.
00:45:31.03\00:45:34.13
AND SO, WHEN THE LORD LOOKS AT
HOW THEY'VE LIVED AFTER THEY'VE
00:45:34.13\00:45:37.33
COME TO HIM, IT DEMONSTRATES
IF THEY'RE DIFFERENT CREATURES.
00:45:37.33\00:45:43.00
AND WHERE DOES
THAT JUDGMENT BEGIN?
00:45:43.00\00:45:46.64
1 PETER 4:17, "FOR THE TIME HAS
COME FOR JUDGMENT TO BEGIN AT
00:45:46.64\00:45:50.71
THE HOUSE OF GOD."
EZEKIEL 9 TALKS ABOUT THIS
00:45:50.71\00:45:54.58
JUDGMENT THAT
BEGINS AT THE TEMPLE.
00:45:54.58\00:45:56.99
GOD, IN HIS MERCY, IS GOING
TO BEGIN THE JUDGMENT WITH THOSE
00:45:56.99\00:45:59.55
WHO KNOW, INSTEAD OF GOING
TO THE ONES WHO DON'T KNOW.
00:45:59.55\00:46:03.32
THOSE WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER -
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER IN THE
00:46:03.32\00:46:06.19
STORY WHEN JESUS WAS IN THE
TEMPLE AND HE BEGAN TO WRITE ON
00:46:06.19\00:46:09.03
THE DUST OF THE TEMPLE FLOOR
WHEN THOSE - THEY WERE ACCUSING
00:46:09.03\00:46:11.50
THAT WOMAN - SOME BELIEVE IT
WAS MARY MAGDALENE - THAT WOMAN
00:46:11.50\00:46:14.14
CAUGHT IN ADULTERY AND JESUS
IS WRITING AND HE STANDS UP AND
00:46:14.14\00:46:17.84
SAYS, 'HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN
AMONG YOU CAST THE FIRST STONE.
00:46:17.84\00:46:21.21
THIS IS LIKE A SCENE OF A
JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE OF GOD.
00:46:21.21\00:46:23.68
AND HE STOOPS DOWN AND HE
CONTINUES WRITING. AND THEY
00:46:23.68\00:46:26.72
LOOKED AT WHAT HE WROTE
AND, EVIDENTLY, HE WAS WRITING
00:46:26.72\00:46:29.32
THEIR SINS OR THE LAWS THEY'D
BEEN BREAKING BECAUSE ONE BY
00:46:29.32\00:46:32.22
ONE, BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST,
EVEN UNTO THE LEAST THEY WENT
00:46:32.22\00:46:36.46
OUT CONVICTED. YOU
KNOW, IT SAYS IN EZEKIEL,
00:46:36.46\00:46:39.26
'BEGIN WITH THE ANCIENT
MEN IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.'
00:46:39.26\00:46:42.26
BEGINNING AT THOSE - YOU WOULD
WANT TO SAY, 'I'M GOING TO START
00:46:42.26\00:46:44.97
WITH THE ONES WHO'VE HAD
THE LONGEST OPPORTUNITY' -
00:46:44.97\00:46:46.77
THE OLDEST - 'AND THEN
MAKE MY WAY TO THE YOUNGEST' -
00:46:46.77\00:46:49.74
AND GIVE
EVERYONE AN OPPORTUNITY.
00:46:49.74\00:46:53.04
SO, YOU'RE GOING
TO GO TO JUDGMENT.
00:46:53.04\00:46:56.71
ARE YOU GOING TO BE YOUR OWN
DEFENSE ATTORNEY OR DO YOU HAVE
00:46:56.71\00:46:59.75
A DEFENSE ATTORNEY? WHO IS
OUR ADVOCATE IN THE JUDGMENT?
00:46:59.75\00:47:05.49
1 JOHN 2:1, "MY LITTLE CHILDREN,
THESE THINGS I WRITE TO YOU, SO
00:47:05.49\00:47:09.69
THAT YOU MAY NOT SIN. AND
IF ANYONE SINS, WE HAVE AN
00:47:09.69\00:47:12.76
ADVOCATE" - HE'S OUR PARACLETE,"
- HE'S OUR DEFENSE ATTORNEY WITH
00:47:12.76\00:47:17.37
THE FATHER - "JESUS
CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS.
00:47:17.37\00:47:20.10
WHEN IS HE BEGINNING
HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY WORK?
00:47:20.10\00:47:24.01
ONCE WE DIE AND STAND
BEFORE THAT WHITE THRONE?
00:47:24.01\00:47:27.98
OR IS THAT HAPPENING
NOW? DOES HE LIVE NOW TO MAKE
00:47:27.98\00:47:31.81
INTERCESSION FOR US? >>YES.
00:47:31.81\00:47:33.75
>>DO WE PLEAD WITH HIM NOW
TO TRANSFORM US AND FORGIVE US?
00:47:33.75\00:47:37.25
HEBREWS 7:25, "...HE IS ALSO
ABLE TO SAVE TO THE UTTERMOST
00:47:37.25\00:47:42.29
THOSE WHO COME TO GOD THROUGH
HIM, SINCE HE ALWAYS LIVES TO
00:47:42.29\00:47:46.09
MAKE INTERCESSION FOR THEM."
00:47:46.09\00:47:47.86
CHRIST HAS NOT ENTERED -
AND THIS IS HEBREWS 9:24, "FOR
00:47:47.86\00:47:51.63
CHRIST HAS NOT ENTERED THE HOLY
PLACES MADE WITH HANDS, WHICH
00:47:51.63\00:47:54.47
ARE COPIES OF THE TRUE, BUT INTO
HEAVEN ITSELF, NOW TO APPEAR IN
00:47:54.47\00:47:58.87
THE PRESENCE OF GOD FOR US;"
- NOW, PRESENCE OF GOD, FOR US -
00:47:58.87\00:48:05.05
SO RIGHT NOW WHAT IS HE
DOING? RIGHT NOW HE'S IN THE
00:48:05.05\00:48:09.98
PRESENCE OF GOD FOR US.
NOW WE COME BOLDLY BEFORE THE
00:48:09.98\00:48:13.15
THRONE THROUGH JESUS
WHO IS OUR INTERCESSOR.
00:48:13.15\00:48:16.32
THAT'S A - THAT'S AN AWESOME
THOUGHT THAT THESE THINGS ARE
00:48:16.32\00:48:19.29
TRANSPIRING NOW BEFORE US.
SO THIS IS ACTUALLY GOOD NEWS
00:48:19.29\00:48:24.00
ABOUT THE JUDGMENT THAT
WE CAN HAVE MERCY AND WE
00:48:24.00\00:48:27.70
CAN HAVE FORGIVENESS. HOW?
00:48:27.70\00:48:31.04
IF THE LORD - IF YOU'VE ACCEPTED
HIS SACRIFICE IN YOUR PLACE,
00:48:31.04\00:48:34.84
THEN ALL OF THE PUNISHMENT - ALL
OF THE WRATH OF GOD THAT SHOULD
00:48:34.84\00:48:37.95
FALL UPON YOU IN THE JUDGMENT
- EVERYTHING YOU'VE SAID/DONE IN
00:48:37.95\00:48:42.25
YOUR LIFE, ALL THE DEEDS THAT
WERE BAD, HE SUFFERED FOR THOSE.
00:48:42.25\00:48:46.45
AND, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO PAUSE
RIGHT HERE AND JUST REMIND YOU
00:48:46.45\00:48:48.36
IT ALSO SAID IN HEBREWS, 'HOW
SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT SO
00:48:48.36\00:48:53.09
GREAT A SALVATION?'
WILL WE CONTINUE TO CRUCIFY
00:48:53.09\00:48:56.90
THE SON OF GOD AFRESH? IF
WE KNOW THAT THERE'S NOTHING
00:48:56.90\00:49:00.60
BAD THAT YOU CAN DO THAT
WILL NOT RECEIVE PUNISHMENT, THE
00:49:00.60\00:49:04.44
QUESTION IS: WILL YOU
BE PUNISHED FOR IT OR IS
00:49:04.44\00:49:07.88
HE PUNISHED FOR
IT? WOULDN'T THAT BE A
00:49:07.88\00:49:10.45
DETERRENT TO DISOBEDIENCE?
DID YOU GET WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:49:10.45\00:49:15.58
IF YOU KNEW EVERY BAD THING
THAT YOU DID IS GOING TO GET A
00:49:15.58\00:49:18.25
PUNISHMENT - EITHER YOU GET
PUNISHED OR YOUR SAVIOR GETS
00:49:18.25\00:49:21.29
PUNISHED - YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE
KINGS - I HEARD THE KINGS, YEARS
00:49:21.29\00:49:24.79
AGO, THEY'D HAVE A CROWN PRINCE
AND PRINCES, THEY WERE CHILDREN
00:49:24.79\00:49:29.33
LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, SOMETIMES
THEY'D MISBEHAVE AND THEY'D NEED
00:49:29.33\00:49:32.70
TO BE PUNISHED. BUT
YOU CAN'T STRIKE THE PRINCE
00:49:32.70\00:49:35.70
BECAUSE HE'S ROYALTY SO THEY HAD
A WHIPPING BOY WHO WAS USUALLY
00:49:35.70\00:49:40.14
A PLAY-FRIEND OF THE PRINCE.
AND SO WHENEVER THE PRINCE
00:49:40.14\00:49:43.65
DISOBEYED AND HE DESERVED
PUNISHMENT, THEY WOULD TAKE HIS
00:49:43.65\00:49:46.45
FRIEND AND BEAT AND SPANK HIS
FRIEND IN FRONT OF THE PRINCE.
00:49:46.45\00:49:52.92
AND THAT MADE THE PRINCE WANT
TO BE GOOD BECAUSE HE SAW HIS
00:49:52.92\00:49:54.62
FRIEND GET BEAT UP
FOR HIS BAD BEHAVIOR.
00:49:54.62\00:49:57.79
I KNOW, IT SOUNDS CRAZY. BUT
IT'S KIND OF - WHAT'S HAPPENING
00:49:57.79\00:50:01.10
IS WE KNOW THAT OUR DEEDS -
JESUS SUFFERS FOR THOSE THINGS.
00:50:01.10\00:50:06.74
AND YOU WOULD THINK THAT WOULD
BE A - WHAT YOU CALL A DETERRENT
00:50:06.74\00:50:10.94
- THE HEART HAS TO BE THE
BEST REASON TO OBEY, RIGHT?
00:50:10.94\00:50:14.88
LOVE FOR GOD - WELL, IF YOU'VE
ACCEPTED CHRIST YOU DON'T NEED
00:50:14.88\00:50:18.68
TO BE AFRAID OF THE JUDGMENT
BECAUSE HE TOOK, IN HIS BODY,
00:50:18.68\00:50:23.45
THE PENALTY FOR ALL THE
SINS OF THE WORLD. YEARS AGO,
00:50:23.45\00:50:27.69
I HEARD A STORY THAT THESE
PILGRIMS - TRAVELERS WERE GOING
00:50:27.69\00:50:33.09
ACROSS THE PRAIRIES - THEY'D
LEFT THE MISSOURI RIVER THEN GOT
00:50:33.09\00:50:35.73
INTO THE GREAT PLAINS AND THEY
WERE SLOWLY MAKING THEIR WAY
00:50:35.73\00:50:38.80
ACROSS THESE ENDLESS FIELDS OF
DRY GRASS AND - COMING FROM THE
00:50:38.80\00:50:43.97
EAST COAST, THEY'D NEVER SEEN
ANYTHING LIKE IT, BUT IT JUST
00:50:43.97\00:50:46.14
WENT ON FOR MILE AFTER ENDLESS
MILE. MAKING SLOW PROGRESS
00:50:46.14\00:50:50.41
BECAUSE THEY HAD OXEN PULLING
THEIR WAGONS AND THEN THEY SAW
00:50:50.41\00:50:54.48
SOMETHING THAT JUST SENT REAL
FEAR INTO THEIR HEARTS: COMING
00:50:54.48\00:50:57.65
FROM THE WEST TOWARDS THEM, THE
WIND WAS BLOWING SMOKE - THEY
00:50:57.65\00:51:02.16
COULD SEE THERE
WAS A PRAIRIE FIRE.
00:51:02.16\00:51:04.36
THE GRASS WAS FIVE FEET HIGH AND
THEY KNEW THEY COULDN'T OUTRUN
00:51:04.36\00:51:08.20
IT AND THEY ALL BEGAN TO PANIC
AND THINK, 'WHAT WILL WE DO?'
00:51:08.20\00:51:12.03
AND ONE, WHO UNDERSTOOD THE
CIRCUMSTANCES, HE WENT BEHIND
00:51:12.03\00:51:16.00
THEM, WHERE THEY HAD JUST COME
FROM AND HE LIT A FIRE THAT THE
00:51:16.00\00:51:21.58
WIND WAS CARRYING AWAY FROM
THEM BACK TOWARDS THE MISSOURI.
00:51:21.58\00:51:24.55
NOW THEY'RE SURROUNDED - THEY'VE
GOT A FIRE COMING TOWARDS THEM
00:51:24.55\00:51:27.15
AND THEY'VE GOT A FIRE GOING
AWAY FROM THEM AND HE SAID,
00:51:27.15\00:51:30.89
'DON'T WORRY,
JUST WAIT A LITTLE BIT.
00:51:30.89\00:51:32.15
WHEN THE EMBERS OF THIS GRASS
DIE DOWN, WE WILL MOVE ONTO THE
00:51:32.15\00:51:36.52
BLACKENED GROUND THAT IS BURNED
AND WE'LL BE SAFE.' AND THEY DID
00:51:36.52\00:51:42.03
THIS AND THEY HAD, YOU KNOW,
DUST AND SOOT AND - ALL OVER
00:51:42.03\00:51:44.77
THEIR FEET, BUT THEN THEY SAW
THE OTHER FIRE COMING FROM THE
00:51:44.77\00:51:47.24
WEST TOWARDS THEM AND A LITTLE
GIRL CRIED OUT AND SAID, 'WE'RE
00:51:47.24\00:51:49.40
GOING TO BE BURNED.' HE SAYS,
'WE CAN'T BE BURNED' - HE SAID -
00:51:49.40\00:51:52.81
'WE'RE STANDING WHERE IT'S
ALREADY BEEN BURNED.' AND IF WE
00:51:52.81\00:51:57.58
ARE STANDING AT THE FOOT OF THE
CROSS - IF WE'VE ACCEPTED JESUS
00:51:57.58\00:52:02.08
- IF OUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN
IN THE BOOK OF LIFE THEN, YES,
00:52:02.08\00:52:05.72
THERE'S A JUDGMENT BUT HE STANDS
IN OUR PLACE IN THAT JUDGMENT
00:52:05.72\00:52:09.72
AND HE PLEADS HIS BLOOD AND
HE OFFERS US HIS FORGIVENESS,
00:52:09.72\00:52:14.03
ISN'T THAT - THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
00:52:14.03\00:52:16.16
TO REALLY UNDERSTAND GRACE AND
THE GOSPEL, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND
00:52:16.16\00:52:20.44
JUDGMENT BECAUSE IT HELPS US
KNOW WHAT HE'S TAKING - HOW MUCH
00:52:20.44\00:52:25.34
HE MUST LOVE US AND
WHAT HE'S TAKEN IN OUR PLACE.
00:52:25.34\00:52:27.68
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, FRIENDS,
BUT I WANT TO ACCEPT THE
00:52:27.68\00:52:31.31
SACRIFICE - I WANT MY NAME
WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE AND
00:52:31.31\00:52:33.45
I WANT TO KEEP IT
THERE, BY HIS GRACE.
00:52:33.45\00:52:35.45
IS THAT YOUR DESIRE? >>YES.
00:52:35.45\00:52:37.12
>>I WANT TO COME BEFORE THE LORD
DAILY - IF WE SIN - WE MAY STILL
00:52:37.12\00:52:40.82
SIN - WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE - JOHN
SAYS 'DON'T BE DISCOURAGED' - HE
00:52:40.82\00:52:43.49
WILL DEAL WITH THAT. KEEP A
SHORT ACCOUNT WITH THE LORD.
00:52:43.49\00:52:46.43
AS SOON AS YOU MAKE A MISTAKE,
RECOGNIZE IT, CONFESS YOUR SIN,
00:52:46.43\00:52:49.73
AND THEN HE PROMISES TO CLEANSE
US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:52:49.73\00:52:55.30
>>CAN'T GET ENOUGH
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>>I LOVE THE QUOTE: "THE
GREATEST WANT OF THE WORLD IS
00:53:26.00\00:53:28.84
THE WANT OF MEN ... MEN WHO WILL
STAND FOR THE RIGHT THOUGH THE
00:53:28.84\00:53:32.14
HEAVENS FALL." YET
STUDIES ARE SHOWING, FOR
00:53:32.14\00:53:35.08
SEVERAL YEARS NOW, THE SECULAR
MEDIA AND CULTURE HAVE SOUGHT
00:53:35.08\00:53:38.88
TO PORTRAY MEN AS
THE FAMILY IDIOTS.
00:53:38.88\00:53:41.78
SADLY, RESPECT FOR THE ROLE OF
FATHERS AND HUSBANDS HAS REACHED
00:53:41.78\00:53:46.29
AN ALL-TIME LOW. SO
NOW, AS THE DISPIRITED MEN
00:53:46.29\00:53:50.16
ABANDON THEIR ROLES OF GODLY
LEADERSHIP, IT'S NOT SURPRISING
00:53:50.16\00:53:53.80
THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING A
MORAL FREE-FALL IN OUR COUNTRY.
00:53:53.80\00:53:57.23
THAT'S WHY, STARTING SEPTEMBER
30TH I'LL BE PRESENTING A NEW
00:53:57.23\00:54:00.47
PROGRAM CALLED
MIGHTY MEN OF GOD .
00:54:00.47\00:54:03.44
USING BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES, THIS
ENCOURAGING FOUR-PART SERIES
00:54:03.44\00:54:07.01
WILL ADDRESS HOW TO BE A LOVING
FATHER, FAITHFUL HUSBAND, AND
00:54:07.01\00:54:10.61
ALL-AROUND MAN OF GOD IN
THE FAMILY CHURCH AND NATION.
00:54:10.61\00:54:14.35
PLEASE PLAN NOW TO JOIN ME FOR
THIS LIVE EVENT AND LEARN FROM
00:54:14.35\00:54:17.95
THE WORD HOW TO LIVE
COURAGEOUSLY FOR THE KING.
00:54:17.95\00:54:26.03
(MUSIC)
00:54:26.03\00:54:36.27
>>AMONG THE PEOPLE
LIVING IN THE TROPICS, FOR
00:54:36.27\00:54:38.14
THOUSANDS OF YEARS, THE COCONUT
HAS BEEN A VIRTUAL TREE OF LIFE.
00:54:38.14\00:54:42.58
THE PEOPLE USE IT FOR FOOD, FOR
CLOTHING, FOR WATER, FOR TOOLS,
00:54:42.58\00:54:47.08
FOR SOAP - IT DOES
JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING.
00:54:47.08\00:54:50.79
THE COCONUT HAS ALSO
SAVED A LOT OF LIVES.
00:54:50.79\00:54:54.76
DURING WORLD WAR II, PILOTS THAT
WERE SHOT DOWN OR SAILORS THAT
00:54:54.76\00:54:57.93
WERE STRANDED ON PACIFIC
ISLANDS, THEY LIVED FOR MANY
00:54:57.93\00:55:00.50
MONTHS ON NOTHING OTHER THAN THE
COCONUT TREES THAT WERE ON THEIR
00:55:00.50\00:55:03.83
ISLANDS. YESSIR, THE
COCONUT IS A TREE OF LIFE.
00:55:03.83\00:55:08.50
ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS ABOUT
THE COCONUT IS THEY'RE DESIGNED
00:55:08.50\00:55:11.31
SO THEY'RE ACTUALLY
ABLE TO FLOAT ACROSS OCEANS.
00:55:11.31\00:55:14.74
COCONUTS CAN GO THOUSANDS
OF MILES AFTER MANY MONTHS, BE
00:55:14.74\00:55:17.45
WASHED UP ON SOME DESERTED SANDY
BEACH, THEN THEY TAKE ROOT,
00:55:17.45\00:55:23.02
SPROUT, COME TO LIFE, AND
THEY'LL DEVELOP A WHOLE NEW
00:55:23.02\00:55:26.12
ECOSYSTEM, HOLDING ISLANDS
IN PLACE THROUGH A HURRICANE.
00:55:26.12\00:55:30.06
WHEN THE ANCIENT POLYNESIAN
TRAVELERS CROSSING OCEANS SAW AN
00:55:30.06\00:55:33.53
ISLAND WITH COCONUT
TREES, THEY KNEW THERE WAS HOPE.
00:55:33.53\00:55:36.77
IT'S AMAZING HOW, IN VIRTUALLY
NO TIME AT ALL, THOSE LIVING ON
00:55:36.77\00:55:40.40
PACIFIC ISLANDS KNOW HOW TO MAKE
BASKETS AND ALL KINDS OF TOOLS
00:55:40.40\00:55:43.87
FROM THE LEAVES
OF THE COCONUT TREE.
00:55:43.87\00:55:48.84
THE COCONUTS EVEN SERVE
DIFFERENT PURPOSES AT DIFFERENT
00:55:48.84\00:55:51.48
TIMES IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT.
THE YOUNGER, GREEN COCONUTS,
00:55:51.48\00:55:54.45
THEY'RE FULL OF WATER AND
THAT'LL KEEP YOU ALIVE. MMMM.
00:55:54.45\00:55:58.75
YOU CAN EVEN MAKE YOUR
UTENSILS FROM THE COCONUT.
00:55:58.75\00:56:01.76
MY SPOON IS PART OF THE
GREEN SHELL AND HERE, THIS IS A
00:56:01.76\00:56:06.86
COCONUT JELLY -
MAKES GOOD FOR BREAKFAST.
00:56:06.86\00:56:12.23
THE MORE MATURE COCONUTS, THAT'S
WHERE YOU GET THE MEAT - BUT YOU
00:56:12.23\00:56:15.17
WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE
NOT BAD AND THE WAY THAT YOU
00:56:15.17\00:56:16.84
TEST THIS IS YOU CAN HEAR THE
WATER INSIDE. HERE, BRING THAT
00:56:16.84\00:56:19.67
MIC OVER HERE. CAN YOU HEAR IT?
(SLOSHING SOUND) THAT'S A GOOD
00:56:19.67\00:56:23.61
ONE. HOW ABOUT WE TAKE A BITE?
NOW THAT MAKES A MEAL THAT WILL
00:56:23.61\00:56:26.98
REALLY FILL YOU UP AND IT CLEANS
YOUR TEETH AT THE SAME TIME.
00:56:26.98\00:56:33.02
THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, JESUS USES
A NUMBER OF METAPHORS TO REMIND
00:56:33.02\00:56:36.36
US THAT EVERYTHING WE
NEED TO SURVIVE COMES FROM HIM.
00:56:36.36\00:56:39.43
HE SAYS THAT
HE'S THE LIVING WATER.
00:56:39.43\00:56:41.30
JESUS TELLS US THAT
HE IS THE BREAD OF LIFE.
00:56:41.30\00:56:43.70
HIS ROBE COVERS US
WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:56:43.70\00:56:46.84
HE IS OUR GOOD
SHEPHERD THAT PROTECTS US.
00:56:46.84\00:56:49.47
JESUS IS THE LIVING VINE THROUGH
WHICH WE GET OUR LIFE AND OUR
00:56:49.47\00:56:52.61
NOURISHMENT. YOU
MIGHT SAY JESUS IS LIKE THE
00:56:52.61\00:56:55.84
COCONUT TREE - A TREE OF LIFE.
YOU KNOW, THE FIRST FEW VERSES
00:56:55.84\00:56:59.48
IN THE BIBLE TELL THAT GOD
PROVIDED A TREE OF LIFE FOR MAN
00:56:59.48\00:57:02.55
SO THAT HE COULD LIVE FOREVER.
BUT, BECAUSE OF SIN, MAN WAS
00:57:02.55\00:57:06.05
SEPARATED FROM THAT
TREE AND FROM THE GARDEN.
00:57:06.05\00:57:08.79
BUT THROUGH TRUSTING IN JESUS
AND TRUSTING IN HIS SACRIFICE ON
00:57:08.79\00:57:11.66
THE CROSS, WE ONCE AGAIN WILL
HAVE ACCESS TO THE TREE OF LIFE
00:57:11.66\00:57:15.36
AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE
WITH HIM IN THE KINGDOM.
00:57:15.36\00:57:18.23
BUT THIS IS ALL MADE POSSIBLE
BECAUSE WE TRUST IN JESUS,
00:57:18.23\00:57:20.97
WHO IS THE REAL TREE OF LIFE.
00:57:20.97\00:57:22.97
JESUS SAID, 'UNLESS YOU EAT
MY FLESH AND DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU
00:57:22.97\00:57:25.64
HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.' BUT
WHEN WE ACCEPT CHRIST AS OUR
00:57:25.64\00:57:28.38
SACRIFICE, AND WE ALLOW HIM TO
CLEANSE US AND FILL US WITH HIS
00:57:28.38\00:57:31.38
SPIRIT, WE BECOME NEW CREATURES
AND WE CAN BE WITH HIM IN
00:57:31.38\00:57:34.78
SHARING THE GIFT OF
EVERLASTING LIFE WITH OTHERS.
00:57:34.78\00:57:37.72
MATTER OF FACT, WE COULD DO THAT
RIGHT NOW BY TOSSING A COCONUT
00:57:37.72\00:57:40.66
OUT AND PRAYING THAT IT
LANDS ON A DESERTED BEACH.
00:57:40.66\00:57:49.33
(MUSIC)
00:57:49.33\00:58:04.41