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>>FRIENDS, WOULD YOU WIN SOULS
IF YOU COULD? WELL, YOU CAN.
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PLEASE PLAN NOW TO JOIN ME
IN DOING SOME EVANGELISM THIS
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WINTER. IT'S
EASIER THAN YOU THINK.
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PROPHECY ENCOUNTER WILL BE A
MAJOR NEW 10-PART EVANGELISTIC
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PROGRAM THAT'LL BE BROADCAST BY
SATELLITE AND STREAMING ON THE
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INTERNET TO HOMES OR CHURCHES
NEAR YOU - HOPEFULLY YOUR HOME
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OR CHURCH. FROM
FEBRUARY 17 THROUGH 25,
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I'LL BE PREACHING AN ALL-NEW
OLD-FASHIONED EVANGELISM PROGRAM
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FROM SANFORD, FLORIDA AND WE'LL
BE USING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY
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AND FRESH ILLUSTRATIONS, SO
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS OPEN YOUR
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CHURCHES - YOUR HOMES - INVITE
FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BE FRIENDLY,
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PRAY, AND LET THE POWER
OF THE WORD DO THE WORK.
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THE PROGRAMS WILL BE AVAILABLE
ON 3ABN, AFTV, FACEBOOK, ROKU,
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AND MORE. YOU'LL BE SURPRISED.
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THERE ARE PEOPLE IN YOUR
COMMUNITY THAT ARE REALLY
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WORRIED ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING
IN THE WORLD AND THEY'RE LOOKING
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FOR ANSWERS. JESUS
SAID, 'THE HARVEST IS
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TRULY GREAT, BUT
THE LABORERS ARE FEW.
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SO PRAY, THEREFORE, THE LORD OF
THE HARVEST WILL SEND LABORERS
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OUT INTO HIS HARVEST.'
YOU CAN BE ONE OF THEM.
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SO I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO
JOIN US AND BE PRAYING FOR THE
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UPCOMING PROPHECY
ENCOUNTER MEETINGS.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CHECK
OUT WWW.PROPHECYENCOUNTER.COM
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AND WHO KNOWS? YOU MIGHT BE
REVIVED IN THE PROCESS. (MUSIC)
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>>FRIENDS, ARE
YOU AFRAID OF HEIGHTS?
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IF SO, YOU MIGHT WANT
TO LOOK AWAY RIGHT NOW.
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ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS
ATTRACTIONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO
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BAY AREA IS THE
ICONIC GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE.
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WHILE THIS WORLD-FAMOUS BRIDGE
WAS NAMED AS ONE OF THE SEVEN
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WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD,
FEW PEOPLE KNOW THE STORY OF THE
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BRAVE MEN WHO WERE INVOLVED
IN ITS CONSTRUCTION AND - ALSO
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KNOWN AS THE
HALFWAY TO HELL CLUB .
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DESIGNED BY A GROUP OF VISIONARY
ENGINEERS, AT 4200 FEET END TO
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END, THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
WAS, AT ONE TIME, THE LONGEST
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SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE WORLD.
DURING ITS CONSTRUCTION, FROM
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1933 TO 1937, THE GOLDEN
GATE BRIDGE HAD ONE OF THE BEST
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SAFETY CONSTRUCTION RECORDS
OF ANY PROJECT DURING THAT TIME.
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KEEP IN MIND, THEY WOULD FACTOR
IN AND CALCULATE THAT ONE MAN
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WOULD DIE FOR EVERY MILLION
DOLLARS THAT WAS SPENT, SO WITH
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A BUDGET OF 35 MILLION DOLLARS,
THEY KNEW THAT LOSS OF LIFE
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WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE.
THIS IS WHY THE CHIEF ENGINEER,
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JOSEPH P. STRAUSS, WAS
ABSOLUTELY ADAMANT ABOUT USING
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THE MOST RIGOROUS SAFETY
PRECAUTIONS THAT HAD EVER BEEN
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USED IN BRIDGE BUILDING.
HE HAD A LOCAL MANUFACTURER OF
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SAFETY EQUIPMENT DESIGN SPECIAL
HEADGEAR THAT HE INSISTED
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BE WORN ON EVERY JOB. THIS
BECAME THE PROTOTYPE FOR THE
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MODERN HARD HAT, WORN FOR THE
FIRST TIME EVER. BUT THE SAFETY
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PRECAUTIONS WENT EVEN FARTHER.
STRAUSS PROVIDED A SPECIAL HAND
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AND FACE CREAM TO PROTECT THEIR
SKIN FROM THE COLD, BITING WIND,
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AND GLARE-FREE
GOGGLES TO PROTECT THEIR EYES.
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IN ADDITION, THEY ALSO ATE A
SPECIAL DIET TO HELP WARD OFF
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DIZZINESS WHEN THEY WERE
WORKING AT THOSE EPIC HEIGHTS.
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BUT THE MOST CONSPICUOUS SAFETY
PRECAUTION WAS A GIGANTIC NET
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THAT WAS SUSPENDED FROM
END TO END UNDER THE ENTIRE
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CONSTRUCTION AREA OF
THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE.
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IN FACT, DURING CONSTRUCTION,
THIS NET SAVED THE LIVES OF 19
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MEN, WHO LATER BECAME KNOWN
AS THE HALFWAY TO HELL CLUB .
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NOW, YOU NEED TO KEEP IN MIND,
THESE WERE SOME OF THE MOST
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DANGEROUS CONSTRUCTION
CONDITIONS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
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THE WIND WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING.
THEY WERE WALKING AROUND ON IRON
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THAT SOMETIMES HAD
ICE FROM THE FREEZING FOG.
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IN PLACES, THEY WERE OVER
700 FEET ABOVE THE ICY WATERS.
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YET THE MEN, COMING FROM ALL
WALKS OF LIFE, WERE WILLING TO
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TAKE THESE RISKS BECAUSE IT WAS
DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND
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THEY WOULD GET PAID UP TO ELEVEN
DOLLARS A DAY, WHICH WAS A
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FORTUNE BACK THEN. ONE
OF THE OTHER BENEFITS OF THE
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NET WAS THEY DISCOVERED THAT THE
MEN WERE MUCH MORE COURAGEOUS -
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EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE WALKING
HIGH ON THOSE SLIPPERY SURFACES,
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BECAUSE THEY KNEW THERE
WAS A MECHANISM TO PROTECT
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THEM IF THEY SHOULD FALL.
THIS GAVE THEM THE CONFIDENCE
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AND THE COURAGE TO PRESS
ON AND GET THE BRIDGE BUILT
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IN RECORD TIME.
YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, AS
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CHRISTIANS, WE
HAVE A GREAT WORK TO DO.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT WE
GET TO PARTICIPATE WITH JESUS IN
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BUILDING A BRIDGE THAT CONNECTS
HEAVEN AND EARTH AND THERE ARE
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DANGERS ALONG THE WAY. THE
DEVIL WOULD LIKE TO PARALYZE
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US WITH FEAR THAT WE MIGHT FALL
OR MAKE A MISTAKE, BUT WE KNOW
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THAT JESUS PROVIDED A
SAFETY NET FOR US AND WE DON'T
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HAVE TO BE AFRAID. WE
CAN PRESS ON WITH CONFIDENCE
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BECAUSE IT PROMISES, IN THE BOOK
OF JUDE, VERSE 24, 'HE IS ABLE
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TO KEEP US FROM FALLING.'
BUT SOMETIMES WE MAKE MISTAKES.
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STILL, DON'T BE DISCOURAGED,
FRIENDS, IF YOU READ IN 1 JOHN
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CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1, THE BIBLE
SAYS, 'IF WE FALL...IF WE SIN WE
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HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE
FATHER, JESUS CHRIST.' SO LET'S
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PRESS ON TOGETHER AND
BUILD THAT BRIDGE WITH CHRIST.
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(MUSIC)
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>>OUR MESSAGE TODAY IS TITLED,
SNUBBING THE GREAT INVITATION.
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HAVE YOU EVER
BEEN SNUBBED BEFORE?
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MAYBE YOU'VE GONE OUT TO EAT AND
YOU'VE SEEN THIS PICTURE WHERE
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EITHER A YOUNG MAN OR A YOUNG
WOMAN, THEY'VE GONE TO A NICE
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RESTAURANT AND THEY'RE SITTING
THERE AT A TABLE BY THEMSELVES
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AND ONE OF THEM IS LIKE ON THE
PHONE TEXTING OR CHECKING THEIR
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MAIL OR THEIR FACEBOOK DIGITAL
GOSSIP AND THE OTHER ONE KIND OF
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FEELS, 'UH, HELLO...' AND NOBODY
APPRECIATES BEING IGNORED OR
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DISDAINED OR INSULTED.
AND THE BIBLE TELLS THE STORY
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- JESUS SHARES A PARABLE THAT
HELPS TO ILLUSTRATE THAT THIS
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IS, TO SOME EXTENT, WHAT THE
HUMAN RACE HAS DONE TO GOD IS
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WE'VE SAID, 'WE'RE REALLY TOO
BUSY FOR YOU.' IT'S BASED UPON
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A PARABLE ABOUT A GREAT WEDDING
FEAST THAT TAKES PLACE, BUT I
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THOUGHT I MIGHT GIVE YOU AN
AMAZING FACT: AS FAR AS I'VE
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SEEN, THE MOST EXPENSIVE WEDDING
INVITATION THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN
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OUT WAS GIVEN OUT BY A FORMER
NFL WIDE RECEIVER, KEYSHAWN
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JOHNSON, AND HIS
FIANCE JENNIFER CONRAD.
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WHEN THEY DECIDED TO INVITE
EVERYBODY TO THEIR WEDDING
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FEAST, INSTEAD OF GETTING THE
TYPICAL BEAUTIFUL CARD IN THE
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MAIL, THEY SENT ALL OF THE
PEOPLE A FREE IPAD - $400.00
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IPAD - $400.00 PER INVITATION.
THE IPAD WAS PRELOADED WITH
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THE INFORMATION REGARDING THE
WEDDING AND, CONVENIENTLY, HOW
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THEY COULD REGISTER TO
BUY THEM THEIR WEDDING GIFTS.
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(LAUGHTER) NOW, IF SOMEONE WENT
SO FAR AS TO GIVE YOU A NEW IPAD
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AS A WEDDING INVITATION, WOULD
YOU FEEL A LITTLE BIT OBLIGATED
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TO GO TO THE WEDDING
OR SEND BACK THE IPAD?
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THAT'S A PRETTY EXPENSIVE -
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY THEY SENT
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OUT, I TRIED TO FIND OUT BUT,
I THINK HUNDREDS OF IPADS FOR A
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WEDDING. EXPENSIVE INVITATION.
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I HOPE EVERYONE HERE KNOWS THAT
WE HAVE RECEIVED A VERY COSTLY
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INVITATION TO A GREAT FEAST.
THE PARABLE I'D LIKE TO TAKE
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APART WITH YOU,
TODAY, IS FOUND IN LUKE.
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NOW, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND IT A
COUPLE OF PLACES, BUT FIRST I'D
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LIKE YOU TO GO WITH ME TO THE
BOOK OF LUKE 14 - THE GOSPEL OF
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LUKE, CHAPTER 14, AND
WE'LL BE STARTING WITH VERSE 16.
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NOW THIS WHOLE PARABLE IS GIVEN
WHILE JESUS IS AT A WEDDING
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FEAST. AND HE
MAKES SOME COMMENTS ABOUT
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HOW HE OBSERVED THAT THEY WERE
SEEKING OUT THE CHIEF SEATS AND
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THEN HE TALKS ABOUT HOW YOU HAVE
A FEAST FOR YOUR RICH FRIENDS
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AND THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE GOING
TO RECIPROCATE AND HAVE A FEAST
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FOR YOU, AND SO, THE
WHOLE CHAPTER IS REALLY
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TALKING ABOUT FEASTS.
BUT AT SOME POINT THERE'S A
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LONG, AWKWARD SILENCE BECAUSE
JESUS IS GIVING THEM ALL THE
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STRAIGHT TRUTH AND SOME OF
THEM ARE A LITTLE CONVICTED.
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AND ONE OF THEM SAYS, IN A PIOUS
TONE, 'BLESSED IS HE THAT WILL
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EAT BREAD AND DRINK IN THE
KINGDOM OF GOD.' AND JESUS THEN
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GOES ON TO ILLUSTRATE A PARABLE.
HE SAYS, 'REALLY, YOU PLAN ON
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BEING IN THE
KINGDOM OF GOD?' LUKE 14:16.
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"THEN HE SAID TO HIM, 'A CERTAIN
MAN GAVE A GREAT SUPPER AND
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INVITED MANY,'" - DON'T MISS THE
PHRASE 'GREAT SUPPER' - IF A MAN
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CAN AFFORD A GREAT SUPPER AND
INVITE MANY, IT'S A GREAT MAN.
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SO, YOU'VE GOT A GREAT MAN,
HAVING A GREAT SUPPER, INVITING
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MANY - A GREAT NUMBER - "'AND
SENT HIS SERVANT AT SUPPER TIME
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TO SAY TO THOSE WHO WERE
INVITED, 'COME, FOR ALL THINGS
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ARE NOW READY.' BUT THEY ALL
WITH ONE ACCORD BEGAN TO MAKE
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EXCUSES.'" - NOW, JUST SO YOU
UNDERSTAND, IN BIBLE TIMES, I
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GUESS IT'S NOT THAT UNCOMMON
TODAY THAT, WHEN - YOU KNOW,
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THEY DIDN'T HAVE TELEPHONES BACK
THEN AND WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO
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HAVE A GREAT FEAST, FIRST YOU
WOULD RSVP - IF YOU'RE GOING TO
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HAVE A GREAT SUPPER, YOU WANT TO
KNOW HOW MANY ARE THERE BECAUSE
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YOU - THEY DIDN'T HAVE
REFRIGERATION - AND YOU'RE GOING
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TO BE - THEY'D SLAUGHTER ANIMALS
AND THEY'D PREPARE THIS GREAT
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PROVISION AND THEY'D COOK
FOOD ON THE COALS, AND SO THE
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SERVANTS WENT AROUND, THEY SAID,
'THERE'S A FEAST - A GREAT FEAST
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- A GREAT WEDDING FEAST - YOU'RE
INVITED - YOU'RE GOING TO COME?'
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'I'M GOING TO COME.' 'OKAY,
WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN IT'S
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READY.' AND, YOU KNOW, THEY GAVE
THEM AN APPROXIMATE TIME - THEY
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DIDN'T WORRY ABOUT
TIME AS MUCH AS WE DO NOW.
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I KNOW ONE STORY IN THE BIBLE,
WHEN KING SAUL WAS GOING TO
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DELIVER A CITY HE SAID, 'ABOUT
TOMORROW WHEN THE SUN STARTS TO
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WAX WARM.' HE
DIDN'T SAY, 'TEN O'CLOCK'.
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THEY WERE A LITTLE BIT
VAGUE ABOUT THEIR TIMES.
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I KNOW WHEN WE WERE IN FIJI
EARLIER THIS YEAR, THEY'VE GOT
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SOMETHING THERE CALLED 'FIJI
TIME' WHERE EVERYBODY SORT OF
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SHOWS UP - THEY'VE GOT
'HAWAII TIME' TOO, HUH?
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(LAUGHTER) AND IN MEXICO THEY
CALL IT 'MAŅANA TIME' SO - BUT
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IN BIBLE TIMES THEY SAID, 'OH,
THERE'LL BE A FEAST IN ABOUT A
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WEEK. ARE YOU GOING TO COME?'
'I'LL COME.' HE SAID, 'OKAY,
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WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN
EVERYTHING IS READY.' YOU KNOW,
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THEY HAD TO GO COLLECT THE
ANIMALS AND DO ALL THIS COOKING
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AND - VERY LABOR
INTENSIVE TO PREPARE.
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AND SO THIS KING IS INVITING
MANY - WHOLE COMMUNITY IS BEING
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INVITED. AND
FINALLY, EVERYTHING'S READY.
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ALL THE SERVANTS ARE IN PLACE.
HE SAYS, 'OKAY, NOW GO - SEND
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OUT - TELL ALL THE PEOPLE TO
COME NOW.' BUT THEY ALL - ALL
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WITH ONE ACCORD BEGAN TO MAKE
EXCUSES. "THE FIRST SAID TO HIM,
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'I HAVE BOUGHT A PIECE OF
GROUND AND I MUST GO AND SEE IT.
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I ASK YOU TO HAVE ME EXCUSED.'
AND ANOTHER SAID, 'I HAVE BOUGHT
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FIVE YOKE OF OXEN, AND
I AM GOING TO TEST THEM.
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I ASK YOU TO HAVE ME EXCUSED.'
STILL ANOTHER SAID, 'I HAVE
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MARRIED A WIFE, AND THEREFORE
I CANNOT COME.' SO THAT SERVANT
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CAME AND REPORTED
THESE THINGS TO HIS MASTER.
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THEN THE MASTER OF THE
HOUSE, BEING ANGRY, SAID TO HIS
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SERVANT, 'GO OUT QUICKLY INTO
THE STREETS AND LANES OF THE
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CITY, AND BRING IN HERE THE POOR
AND THE MAIMED AND THE LAME AND
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THE BLIND.'" AND THE SERVANTS
DID THIS AND THEY CAME BACK AND
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REPORTED, "'MASTER, IT IS
DONE AS YOU COMMANDED, AND STILL
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THERE IS ROOM.' THEN THE MASTER
SAID TO THE SERVANT, 'GO OUT
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INTO THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES,
AND COMPEL THEM TO COME IN, THAT
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MY HOUSE MAY BE FILLED.
FOR I SAY TO YOU THAT NONE OF
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THOSE MEN WHO WERE INVITED SHALL
TASTE MY SUPPER.'" THE ONES WHO
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SPURN THE INVITATION, THEY DRAW
NEAR WITH THEIR MOUTHS BUT THEIR
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HEARTS ARE ACTUALLY FAR AWAY.
THEY DO NOT EAT THE SUPPER.
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NOW, BEFORE WE DELVE INTO THE
PARTICULARS OF THIS PARABLE, I
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WANT YOU TO NOTICE THAT I'VE
BEEN TELLING YOU IT'S A WEDDING
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FEAST. YOU NOTICE LUKE
NEVER SAYS A WEDDING FEAST.
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BUT TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO
MATTHEW 22, JESUS IS SHARING THE
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SAME PARABLE IN
A DIFFERENT TOWN.
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LET ME JUST STOP
THERE AND EXPLAIN SOMETHING.
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IF YOU SOMETIMES NOTICE A
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PARABLE IN
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MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, OR JOHN, OR
THE WAY CERTAIN THINGS - THESE
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STORIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS JESUS
TOLD - THAT'S BECAUSE JESUS WENT
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FROM TOWN TO TOWN - I THINK YOU
ALL KNOW THAT JESUS DID NOT HAVE
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ENTIRELY NEW
MATERIAL FROM TOWN TO TOWN.
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HE WOULD OFTEN REPEAT
HIS PARABLES, THAT'S WHY THE
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DISCIPLES REPEATED THEM.
BUT, AS HE'D LOOK AT THE PEOPLE
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OF THE VILLAGE OR THE TOWN, HE'D
EMPHASIZE DIFFERENT PARTS OF
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IT BASED ON WHAT HE
FELT THEIR NEEDS WERE.
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AND SO, WHEN YOU READ LUKE'S
ACCOUNT, THAT'S BECAUSE MAYBE IT
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WAS HEARD ONE WAY IN ONE TOWN
AND MATTHEW'S WAS HEARD ANOTHER
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WAY IN ANOTHER TOWN. NOW,
I RELATE TO THAT BECAUSE I
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HAVE PREACHED CERTAIN
SERMONS HUNDREDS OF TIMES
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AS I TRAVEL AROUND. I
SAY, 'HEY, THIS NEW CHURCH,
00:13:01.91\00:13:04.81
THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THIS ARRAY
OF SERMONS AND SO I'M GOING TO
00:13:04.81\00:13:07.28
PREACH THEM.' BUT THEY'RE A
LITTLE DIFFERENT EVERY TIME,
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ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE
PREACHING EXTEMPORANEOUSLY.
00:13:09.68\00:13:13.02
AND SO, THAT'S WHY YOU'RE
GOING TO SEE A LITTLE DIFFERENCE
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BETWEEN MATTHEW AND MARK.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THE BIBLE'S
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INCONSISTENT, IT MEANS HE
PREACHED IT IN ONE VILLAGE ONE
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WAY AND HE SHARED A LITTLE
DIFFERENT ASPECT IN ANOTHER.
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GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 22 - "AND
JESUS ANSWERED" - VERSE 1 - "AND
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SPOKE TO THEM AGAIN BY PARABLES
AND SAID: 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
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IS LIKE A CERTAIN KING" - THAT'S
THAT GREAT MAN - "WHO ARRANGED A
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MARRIAGE FOR HIS SON," - THIS
IS THE FEAST - "AND SENT OUT HIS
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SERVANTS TO CALL THOSE WHO WERE
INVITED" - THEY ACCEPTED THE
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[INVITATION] - "TO THE WEDDING;
AND THEY WERE NOT WILLING TO
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COME. AGAIN, HE SENT OUT OTHER
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SERVANTS, SAYING, 'TELL THOSE
WHO ARE INVITED, 'SEE, I HAVE
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PREPARED MY DINNER; MY OXEN AND
FATTED CATTLE ARE KILLED, AND
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ALL THINGS ARE READY.'" - THESE
THINGS ARE PERISHABLE, YOU'VE
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GOT TO COME NOW - "'COME TO
THE WEDDING.'" - "BUT THEY MADE
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LIGHT OF IT AND WENT
THEIR WAYS, ONE TO HIS OWN FARM,
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ANOTHER TO HIS BUSINESS.
AND THE REST SEIZED HIS
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SERVANTS, TREATED THEM
SPITEFULLY, AND KILLED THEM.
00:14:06.71\00:14:10.48
BUT WHEN THE KING HEARD
ABOUT IT, HE WAS FURIOUS.
00:14:10.48\00:14:14.02
AND HE SENT OUT HIS ARMIES, AND
DESTROYED THOSE MURDERERS, AND
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BURNED UP THEIR CITY.
THEN HE SAID TO HIS SERVANTS,
00:14:18.15\00:14:22.52
'THE WEDDING IS READY,
BUT THOSE WHO WERE INVITED
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ARE NOT WORTHY.
THEREFORE GO INTO THE HIGHWAYS,
00:14:24.56\00:14:27.40
AND AS MANY AS YOU FIND,
INVITE TO THE WEDDING.' SO THESE
00:14:27.40\00:14:31.03
SERVANTS WENT OUT INTO THE
HIGHWAYS AND GATHERED TOGETHER
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ALL WHOM THEY
FOUND, BOTH BAD AND GOOD.
00:14:33.20\00:14:35.94
AND THE WEDDING HALL
WAS FILLED WITH GUESTS.
00:14:35.94\00:14:39.17
BUT WHEN THE KING CAME IN TO SEE
THE GUESTS, HE SAW A MAN THERE
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WHO DID NOT HAVE
ON A WEDDING GARMENT.
00:14:42.24\00:14:44.28
SO HE SAID TO HIM, 'FRIEND, HOW
DID YOU COME IN HERE WITHOUT A
00:14:44.28\00:14:47.25
WEDDING GARMENT?'" -
BECAUSE HE WOULD PROVIDE THE
00:14:47.25\00:14:48.42
GARMENTS FOR ALL WHO
CAME - "AND HE WAS SPEECHLESS.
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THEN THE KING SAID TO THE
SERVANTS, 'BIND HIM HAND AND
00:14:52.85\00:14:54.82
FOOT, TAKE HIM AWAY, AND
CAST HIM INTO OUTER DARKNESS;
00:14:54.82\00:14:58.19
THERE WILL BE WEEPING
AND GNASHING OF TEETH.'
00:14:58.19\00:15:00.70
FOR MANY ARE
CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN."
00:15:00.70\00:15:03.43
OKAY, YOU SEE THE PARALLELS
BETWEEN THE TWO PARABLES.
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JESUS EXPANDS A LITTLE MORE AND
TALKS ABOUT THE WEDDING GARMENT
00:15:06.17\00:15:09.24
IN THE ONE THAT HE RELATED IN
THE GOSPEL, OR IS RELATED IN THE
00:15:09.24\00:15:13.21
GOSPEL OF MATTHEW. SO,
YOU'LL NOTICE THAT - ALL
00:15:13.21\00:15:17.31
THESE PEOPLE -
HOW MANY ARE INVITED?
00:15:17.31\00:15:19.01
MANY - MANY ARE CALLED -
MANY ARE INVITED - WHAT KIND OF
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FEAST? GREAT FEAST.
PEOPLE ORIGINALLY SAID, 'DO
00:15:22.25\00:15:26.19
YOU WANT TO BE AT
THE WEDDING FEAST?'
00:15:26.19\00:15:28.22
AND THEY SAID,
'YES, PUT MY NAME DOWN.
00:15:28.22\00:15:30.13
OF COURSE.' BUT THEY EITHER
DIDN'T MEAN IT OR THEY CHANGED
00:15:30.13\00:15:34.20
THEIR MIND BECAUSE, FINALLY WHEN
THE MESSAGE COMES, 'IT'S NOW
00:15:34.20\00:15:37.67
READY', THEY ALL BEGIN TO
MAKE EXCUSES WITH ONE ACCORD.
00:15:37.67\00:15:42.74
I HEARD ABOUT THIS LITTLE BOY
NAMED TOMMY, HE GETS TO SCHOOL
00:15:42.74\00:15:46.01
LATE ONE DAY - TEACHER SAYS,
'YOU'RE GOING TO NEED A NOTE
00:15:46.01\00:15:49.34
WRITTEN - AN EXCUSE FOR
BEING LATE - BY YOUR PARENTS.'
00:15:49.34\00:15:53.88
THE NEXT DAY HIS MOTHER GAVE
HIM A NOTE AND THE NOTE READ,
00:15:53.88\00:15:57.99
'YOU'LL REMEMBER YESTERDAY, WE
HAD 16 INCHES OF SNOW, TOMMY'S
00:15:57.99\00:16:03.09
LEGS ARE ONLY 15 INCHES.' THAT'S
A PRETTY GOOD EXCUSE, BUT SOME
00:16:03.09\00:16:08.10
OF THE EXCUSES THAT ARE GIVEN
IN THE STORY ARE NOT VERY GOOD
00:16:08.10\00:16:12.53
EXCUSES. LET'S
TAKE A LOOK AT THEM.
00:16:12.53\00:16:14.24
I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - YOU KNOW
WHAT A NOUN IS? WHAT'S A NOUN?
00:16:14.24\00:16:16.97
(INAUDIBLE) A
PERSON, PLACE, OR THING.
00:16:16.97\00:16:19.71
I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - THINK
NOUN - THE EXCUSES ARE PEOPLE,
00:16:19.71\00:16:26.15
PLACES, AND THINGS THAT KEEP
THEM FROM GOING TO THE WEDDING
00:16:26.15\00:16:29.88
FEAST. WHO IS THE ONE GETTING
MARRIED? IT'S THE WEDDING SUPPER
00:16:29.88\00:16:35.36
OF THE LAMB. WHO IS THE KING?
00:16:35.36\00:16:37.39
GOD - HAS INVITED ALL -
HE'S MADE THIS PROVISION: GOD SO
00:16:37.39\00:16:40.80
LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS SON
THAT WE MIGHT HAVE THIS FEAST.
00:16:40.80\00:16:44.90
NOW, THERE'S TWO
PARTS TO THE FEAST.
00:16:44.90\00:16:46.84
YOU'VE GOT THE ULTIMATE WEDDING
FEAST WHERE WE SIT DOWN IN THE
00:16:46.84\00:16:49.47
KINGDOM WITH ABRAHAM,
ISAAC, AND JACOB AND JESUS.
00:16:49.47\00:16:53.14
BUT THEN THERE'S, OF COURSE,
THE WEDDING FEAST - JESUS HAD A
00:16:53.14\00:16:55.81
SUPPER WITH HIS
DISCIPLES - IT'S THE GOSPEL.
00:16:55.81\00:16:59.15
JESUS IS THE BREAD OF
LIFE. HIS BLOOD IS THE WINE.
00:16:59.15\00:17:04.45
HE IS THE LIVING WATER. SO ALL
THESE THINGS THAT ARE TALKING
00:17:04.45\00:17:08.49
ABOUT, IN THE BIBLE, THAT
NOURISH US, THAT FEED OUR SOULS,
00:17:08.49\00:17:12.09
IT REPRESENTS THE GOSPEL. AND
PEOPLE SAY, 'OH YEAH, SIGN ME
00:17:12.09\00:17:14.83
UP. I WANT THAT FEAST.' BUT
WHEN IT REALLY COMES DOWN TO
00:17:14.83\00:17:18.93
PARTICIPATING,
THEY'RE NOT THAT INTERESTED.
00:17:18.93\00:17:22.80
TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE
EXCUSES THAT ARE GIVEN - I WANT
00:17:22.80\00:17:25.14
YOU TO NOTICE THAT THEY'RE KEPT
AWAY FROM THE FEAST BY PLACES,
00:17:25.14\00:17:29.21
BY POSSESSIONS AND BY PERSONS.
FIRST, IN LUKE 14:18, 'I'VE
00:17:29.21\00:17:37.49
BOUGHT A PIECE OF GROUND THAT
I NEED TO SEE' - I CAN'T COME
00:17:37.49\00:17:41.36
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I
BOUGHT THIS LAND.' HOW MANY BUY
00:17:41.36\00:17:44.89
LAND SIGHT UNSEEN?
HADN'T HE ALREADY SEEN IT?
00:17:44.89\00:17:48.93
HE'S SAYING, 'THERE'S
SOMEWHERE ELSE I'D RATHER BE.
00:17:48.93\00:17:51.50
THAT'S WHAT HE'S
REALLY SAYING IN THIS STORY.
00:17:51.50\00:17:54.64
WHAT KIND OF FOOL BUYS A
PIECE OF LAND SIGHT UNSEEN?
00:17:54.64\00:17:57.24
WHAT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN TO THE LAND?
00:17:57.24\00:17:59.01
IS IT'S VALUE GOING TO CHANGE
IF HE DOESN'T GO LOOK AT IT?
00:17:59.01\00:18:02.61
IS THE LAND GOING ANYWHERE?
I MEAN, THAT REALLY IS A PRETTY
00:18:02.61\00:18:07.45
FEEBLE EXCUSE WHEN YOU THINK
ABOUT IT, AND YET HE SAYS, 'OH,
00:18:07.45\00:18:11.02
I'VE GOT THIS PIECE OF
LAND - THERE'S SOMEWHERE
00:18:11.02\00:18:13.12
ELSE I NEED TO BE.
NOW'S NOT A GOOD TIME.
00:18:13.12\00:18:16.06
PLEASE EXCUSE ME, I CAN'T COME.'
REALLY, DIDN'T YOU KNOW THERE
00:18:16.06\00:18:21.16
WAS GOING TO BE A
WEDDING AND WEREN'T YOU INVITED?
00:18:21.16\00:18:24.17
'I'VE SPENT A GREAT DEAL TO MAKE
IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO COME.'
00:18:24.17\00:18:27.97
HE DOESN'T CARE. YOU
KNOW, IN BIBLE TIMES, WHEN A
00:18:27.97\00:18:33.44
KING INVITED YOU TO THE WEDDING
OF ROYALTY THAT WAS A GREAT
00:18:33.44\00:18:40.58
HONOR. AND WHEN YOU ACCEPT THE
INVITATION AND THEN YOU SNUB THE
00:18:40.58\00:18:44.15
KING, SOMETIMES THERE ARE -
THERE ARE ACCOUNTS IN HISTORY
00:18:44.15\00:18:48.19
WHERE THAT WAS GROUNDS FOR A
DECLARATION OF WAR - WHEN YOU
00:18:48.19\00:18:54.40
WOULD SHOW THAT
KIND OF AN INSULT.
00:18:54.40\00:18:56.03
I MEAN, I THINK WE ALL EVEN KNOW
IN OUR CULTURE, IF YOU ACCEPT AN
00:18:56.03\00:18:59.80
[INVITATION] AND PEOPLE HAVE
THEN PAID AT THE HOTEL FOR A
00:18:59.80\00:19:04.27
MEAL THAT'S OFTEN VERY EXPENSIVE
AND A SEAT FOR YOU AND,
00:19:04.27\00:19:07.21
SOMETIMES, YOUR FAMILY TO BE
THERE, AND THEN YOU JUST KIND OF
00:19:07.21\00:19:10.01
BLOW IT OFF AND YOU DON'T COME,
AND THEY SAY, 'WE REALLY MISSED
00:19:10.01\00:19:14.55
YOU AT THE WEDDING.' 'OH WELL,
YOU KNOW, THERE'S THIS PIECE OF
00:19:14.55\00:19:17.22
LAND I WANTED TO LOOK AT.' WHAT
MESSAGE DOES THAT TELEGRAPH?
00:19:17.22\00:19:22.86
'YOU'RE JUST NOT REALLY VERY
IMPORTANT AND I DON'T APPRECIATE
00:19:22.86\00:19:26.09
THE SACRIFICE YOU MADE FOR ME TO
BE THERE.' THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE
00:19:26.09\00:19:29.66
SAYING. NOW,
BEFORE I GO ANY FARTHER,
00:19:29.66\00:19:33.87
WHO ARE THE ONES WHO
ARE INITIALLY INVITED THAT
00:19:33.87\00:19:37.34
START MAKING EXCUSES?
WHO DOES THAT REPRESENT?
00:19:37.34\00:19:40.11
TWO THINGS: FIRST OF
ALL, IT'S THE JEWISH NATION.
00:19:40.11\00:19:43.28
THEY SAID, 'WE
ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED.
00:19:43.28\00:19:45.25
BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO'S GOING
TO EAT BREAD AND DRINK IN THE
00:19:45.25\00:19:48.72
KINGDOM OF GOD WITH ABRAHAM,
ISAAC, AND JACOB' - THIS IS WHAT
00:19:48.72\00:19:51.62
INITIATED THE WHOLE PARABLE
- AND THEY SAID, 'YES, WE ARE
00:19:51.62\00:19:56.32
WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH.
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
00:19:56.32\00:19:58.86
KINGDOM.' AND WHEN THE MESSIAH
CAME DID THEY REALLY WANT HIM?
00:19:58.86\00:20:02.90
NO, AS A NATION THEY
SPURNED THE GREAT INVITATION.
00:20:02.90\00:20:08.74
BUT IT GOES BEYOND THAT - THIS
IS NOT JUST WRITTEN FOR JEWS
00:20:08.74\00:20:11.64
BACK THEN, ARE THESE EXCUSES
STILL GIVEN BY CHRISTIANS TODAY?
00:20:11.64\00:20:16.48
ARE THERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO
SAY, 'SIGN ME UP, I WANT TO BE A
00:20:16.48\00:20:18.45
CHRISTIAN. I'M
GOING TO GO TO CHURCH.'
00:20:18.45\00:20:19.75
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO REALLY
COMING TO JESUS, THEY'VE GOT
00:20:19.75\00:20:24.82
OTHER THINGS THEY WANT TO
DO. THINGS KEEP THEM AWAY FROM
00:20:24.82\00:20:28.26
MAKING A COMPLETE
SURRENDER. THERE'S SOMEWHERE
00:20:28.26\00:20:31.26
ELSE THEY WANT TO
BE. THERE'S SOMEONE ELSE
00:20:31.26\00:20:33.86
THEY WANT TO BE WITH.
THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT
00:20:33.86\00:20:37.47
THEY WANT THAT KEEPS THEM AWAY.
THE SECOND ONE SAYS - VERSE 19 -
00:20:37.47\00:20:44.91
"I BOUGHT FIVE YOKE OF
OXEN AND I'M GOING TO TEST THEM.
00:20:44.91\00:20:48.18
I ASK YOU HAVE ME EXCUSED." NOW,
IT TOOK A LOT OF WEALTH TO BUY A
00:20:48.18\00:20:52.91
YOKE OF OXEN. I
MEAN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT
00:20:52.91\00:20:54.42
THEY USED FOR FARMING BACK THEN.
A PAIR OF OXEN WAS A PRETTY
00:20:54.42\00:20:57.79
EXPENSIVE FARM IMPLEMENT. IT
WAS THE EQUIVALENT OF HAVING,
00:20:57.79\00:21:00.62
YOU KNOW, A GREAT BIG JOHN
DEERE TRACTOR TO FARM YOUR LAND.
00:21:00.62\00:21:04.19
THIS MAN SAYS, 'LOOK,
I'M A VERY BUSY BUSINESSMAN.
00:21:04.19\00:21:07.40
I'VE GOT LANDS AND I'VE GOT
FIELDS AND I'VE GOT ALL THESE
00:21:07.40\00:21:10.43
OXEN AND I'VE JUST BOUGHT FIVE
MORE AND I'VE GOT TO GO TEST
00:21:10.43\00:21:13.44
THEM.' AGAIN, WAS HE NOT
THERE WHEN THEY WERE BOUGHT?
00:21:13.44\00:21:20.04
HE'S JUST TRYING
OUT HIS NEW TRACTORS.
00:21:20.04\00:21:23.65
HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'I'VE GOT
OTHER STUFF THAT KEEPS ME FROM
00:21:23.65\00:21:27.72
GOING.' IT'S INTERESTING
THAT JESUS CHOSE OXEN.
00:21:27.72\00:21:32.05
THESE PEOPLE WOULDN'T GO BECAUSE
THEIR OXEN WERE MORE IMPORTANT.
00:21:32.05\00:21:35.76
WELL, YOU READ IN MATTHEW,
IT SAYS THE KING SACRIFICED OXEN
00:21:35.76\00:21:38.79
TOO SO THAT THEY COULD BE THERE.
THIS MAN'S KEEPING HIS OXEN
00:21:38.79\00:21:42.13
ALIVE. THE KING
LOST HIS OXEN - THERE
00:21:42.13\00:21:44.80
WAS A DEATH OF OXEN - SO
THAT THEY COULD GO TO THE FEAST.
00:21:44.80\00:21:48.54
DO YOU REMEMBER? WE
JUST READ THAT IN MATTHEW.
00:21:48.54\00:21:50.54
THE OXEN'S SLAIN - COME NOW.
THEY USED TO WAIT TILL THE LAST
00:21:50.54\00:21:54.51
MINUTE TO KILL THE
FATTED CALF. YOU KNOW THE STORY
00:21:54.51\00:21:57.21
OF THE PRODIGAL SON? YOU
KNOW THE STORY WHEN THESE
00:21:57.21\00:22:00.18
VISITORS CAME TO ABRAHAM?
ONE OF THEM WAS THE LORD AND
00:22:00.18\00:22:02.75
HE WENT AND HE
SLEW THE FATTED CALF?
00:22:02.75\00:22:04.55
THAT WAS WHAT YOU
SAVED FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
00:22:04.55\00:22:06.99
IN AMERICA IT'S THE FATTED
TURKEY, BACK THEN IT WAS THE
00:22:06.99\00:22:10.46
FATTED CALF. AND
THEY'RE INVITED - THIS
00:22:10.46\00:22:14.03
IS AN IMPORTANT
DINNER. IT'S A GREAT FEAST.
00:22:14.03\00:22:16.30
IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS, YOU
KNOW, IT'S LIKE A STATE EVENT -
00:22:16.30\00:22:18.87
IT'S A GALA.
IT'S NOT LUNCH AT TACO
00:22:18.87\00:22:21.20
BELL WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND HE SAYS, 'NO, I'VE GOT THESE
00:22:21.20\00:22:24.74
OXEN I'D LIKE TO CHECK
OUT.' WELL, HE CAN'T WAIT A DAY?
00:22:24.74\00:22:28.41
IT'S INTERESTING, BECAUSE WHEN
ELIJAH CALLS ELIJAH - NO, WHEN
00:22:28.41\00:22:35.02
ELIJAH CALLS ELISHA TO PROPHETIC
MINISTRY, HE FINDS ELISHA -
00:22:35.02\00:22:41.06
ELIJAH IS COMING BACK FROM MOUNT
SINAI WHERE GOD HAD SAID, 'LOOK,
00:22:41.06\00:22:43.96
I WANT YOU TO ANOINT ELISHA THE
PROPHET TO BE PROPHET IN YOUR
00:22:43.96\00:22:47.13
PLACE.' AND ELIJAH SEES HIM
- AFTER THIS THREE AND A HALF
00:22:47.13\00:22:51.60
YEARS OF FAMINE, THERE'S BEEN
LOTS OF RAIN AND ALL THE FRESH
00:22:51.60\00:22:54.27
GRASSES SPROUTED AND THE SOIL IS
FINALLY SOFT, SO THEY'VE GOT TO
00:22:54.27\00:22:57.84
PLOW IT UP AND PLANT -
IT'S RIGHT AFTER THIS FAMINE.
00:22:57.84\00:23:00.68
AND SO, ELISHA IS OUT IN THE
FIELD AND EVERYBODY'S WORKING
00:23:00.68\00:23:03.61
LIKE CRAZY AND HE IS WITH HIS
FAMILY - SERVANTS OUT WORKING -
00:23:03.61\00:23:07.78
AND THERE ARE TWELVE YOKE OF
OXEN - THAT'S 24 OXEN, RIGHT?
00:23:07.78\00:23:13.25
AND ELISHA IS WITH THE TWELFTH
- AND ELIJAH WALKS UP TO ELISHA
00:23:13.25\00:23:17.79
AND HE THROWS HIS COAT -
HIS MANTLE - ON HIS SHOULDERS.
00:23:17.79\00:23:20.33
AND HE UNDERSTOOD THIS MEANT
'YOU ARE BEING CALLED TO BE
00:23:20.33\00:23:23.37
SERVANT IN MY PLACE.'
AND WHAT DOES ELISHA SAY?
00:23:23.37\00:23:27.44
HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT
A LOT GOING ON, I CAN'T DO IT.
00:23:27.44\00:23:30.31
I'VE GOT OTHER PLACES I NEED TO
BE, OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER THINGS.'
00:23:30.31\00:23:33.71
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ELISHA
SAYS, 'LET ME KISS MY MOTHER AND
00:23:33.71\00:23:37.05
FATHER GOODBYE.' HE KISSES THEM
GOODBYE AND THEN HE GOES AND HE
00:23:37.05\00:23:41.12
TAKES THE OXEN THAT HE HAD
BEEN PLOWING WITH - HE TAKES THE
00:23:41.12\00:23:43.85
PLOW, USES THE WOOD
FROM IT, MAKES A FIRE.
00:23:43.85\00:23:47.09
HE SACRIFICES THE OXEN.
HE GIVES IT TO THE PEOPLE -
00:23:47.09\00:23:50.53
BASICALLY SAYING,
'I AM NOT TURNING BACK.
00:23:50.53\00:23:53.09
I HAVE DESTROYED THE PLOW AND
I'VE DESTROYED THE YOKE I WAS
00:23:53.09\00:23:55.66
PLOWING WITH.' AND THAT'S WHAT
JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE
00:23:55.66\00:23:58.87
SAID, 'IF ANY MAN PUTS HIS HAND
TO THE PLOW AND LOOKS BACK, HE'S
00:23:58.87\00:24:02.34
NOT WORTHY OF THE KINGDOM.
SO IN THE MINDS OF THE HEARERS
00:24:02.34\00:24:05.67
IS THE STORY OF ELISHA, WHO
WALKED AWAY FROM HIS OXEN SO
00:24:05.67\00:24:10.18
THAT HE COULD FOLLOW ELIJAH -
KIND OF LIKE PETER, JAMES, AND
00:24:10.18\00:24:15.15
JOHN WALKED AWAY FROM THEIR
FISHING NETS AND MATTHEW WALKED
00:24:15.15\00:24:17.82
AWAY FROM HIS TAX BOOTH AND SOME
OF THE APOSTLES PROBABLY WALKED
00:24:17.82\00:24:21.36
AWAY FROM THEIR FLOCKS
AND THEIR HERDS SO THEY
00:24:21.36\00:24:23.63
COULD FOLLOW JESUS. >>AMEN.
00:24:23.63\00:24:25.83
>>AND THESE PEOPLE ARE SAYING,
'I'VE GOT THESE OXEN I NEED TO
00:24:25.83\00:24:28.60
TEST.' THE THINGS ARE MORE
IMPORTANT AND THEY'RE NOT GOING
00:24:28.60\00:24:34.64
TO TASTE OF THE FEAST.
THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE - 'I'D
00:24:34.64\00:24:40.64
RATHER DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH
SOMETHING ELSE.' AND THEN LUKE
00:24:40.64\00:24:47.08
14:20, "STILL ANOTHER SAID,
'I HAVE MARRIED A WIFE, AND
00:24:47.08\00:24:52.05
THEREFORE I CANNOT COME.'"
NOW, OF ALL THE EXCUSES, YOU CAN
00:24:52.05\00:24:56.26
SORT OF IMAGINE
THAT THAT COULD HAPPEN.
00:24:56.26\00:24:59.83
YOU COULD PICTURE A SCENARIO
WHERE YOU'VE GOT THIS NEW WIFE
00:24:59.83\00:25:03.43
AND SHE SAYS, 'YOUR OLD
GIRLFRIEND'S GOING TO BE AT THAT
00:25:03.43\00:25:06.50
WEDDING. YOU'RE NOT
GOING' (LAUGHTER) 'TO
00:25:06.50\00:25:08.30
THAT WEDDING.' AND THERE WAS A
PROVISION, IN THE LAW - YOU CAN
00:25:08.30\00:25:12.01
READ IN DEUTERONOMY 24, "WHEN
A MAN" - VERSE 5 - DEUTERONOMY
00:25:12.01\00:25:15.38
24:5, "WHEN A MAN HAS TAKEN
A NEW WIFE, HE SHALL NOT GO OUT
00:25:15.38\00:25:19.91
TO WAR OR BE CHARGED WITH
ANY BUSINESS; HE SHALL BE FREE
00:25:19.91\00:25:23.32
AT HOME ONE YEAR, AND
BRING HAPPINESS TO HIS WIFE
00:25:23.32\00:25:25.59
WHOM HE HAS TAKEN." NOW
THAT'S IN THE EVENT OF WAR.
00:25:25.59\00:25:28.49
THIS IS A WEDDING FEAST.
THAT LAW DID NOT COVER THAT.
00:25:28.49\00:25:31.16
MATTER OF FACT, HOW MANY OF YOU
AGREE THAT THE KING, SINCE HE'S
00:25:31.16\00:25:34.30
INVITED MANY AND IT'S A GREAT
FEAST, IF THIS MAN SHOWED UP AND
00:25:34.30\00:25:37.23
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I REALIZE I
ACCEPTED THE INVITATION BUT NOW
00:25:37.23\00:25:39.97
I'VE GOT A WIFE, CAN I -
CAN SHE COME?' HE'D SAY, 'SURE'?
00:25:39.97\00:25:43.30
ALL THROUGH THE STORY THAT WE
READ, THE PROBLEM IS NEVER THAT
00:25:43.30\00:25:47.24
THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE
AT THE FEAST. DON'T MISS THAT.
00:25:47.24\00:25:50.95
THE PROBLEM IS THERE ARE
NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE AT THE FEAST.
00:25:50.95\00:25:54.52
THE KING WANTS TO INVITE MANY.
JESUS HAS MADE A PROVISION FOR
00:25:54.52\00:26:00.19
MANY. >>AMEN.
00:26:00.19\00:26:01.79
>>THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST - ALL
THE WORLD - THE SINS OF ALL THE
00:26:01.79\00:26:05.63
WORLD COULD BE
COVERED BY HIS SACRIFICE.
00:26:05.63\00:26:07.96
AND SO THERE'S NEVER A
SHORTAGE OF SEATS AT THE FEAST.
00:26:07.96\00:26:13.20
I ACTUALLY HAVE PEOPLE, FROM
TIME TO TIME, WHEN WE DO THE
00:26:13.20\00:26:15.47
PRESENTATION ON HEAVEN AND I
GIVE THEM THE DIMENSIONS OF THE
00:26:15.47\00:26:18.41
NEW JERUSALEM, THEY THINK, 'YOU
KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S JUST NOT
00:26:18.41\00:26:22.21
GOING TO BE ENOUGH ROOM IN THE
CITY FOR ME.' THEY LITERALLY ARE
00:26:22.21\00:26:25.75
CONCERNED THAT PHYSICALLY
THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH
00:26:25.75\00:26:27.98
ROOM FOR THEM IN THE CITY - THAT
IT'LL BE LIKE, YOU KNOW, HOUSING
00:26:27.98\00:26:31.75
IN HONG KONG AND
THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH SPACE.
00:26:31.75\00:26:34.82
ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN IN
AN APARTMENT IN HONG KONG?
00:26:34.82\00:26:37.63
HOTEL IN HONG KONG?
MAN, YOU'VE JUST GOT TO BACK
00:26:37.63\00:26:41.20
IN WHEN YOU OPEN THE
DOOR. IT'S JUST REALLY SMALL.
00:26:41.20\00:26:45.57
AND SOMEONE FIGURED, YOU KNOW,
THERE'S GOING TO BE BILLIONS OF
00:26:45.57\00:26:47.24
PEOPLE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM,
THERE JUST WON'T BE ROOM' KAREN
00:26:47.24\00:26:50.31
AND I ONCE GOT A ROOM IN HONG
KONG FOR SHE AND I AND THE TWO
00:26:50.31\00:26:53.94
BOYS - >>JAPAN.
00:26:53.94\00:26:55.48
>>JAPAN. (LAUGHTER)
00:26:55.48\00:26:59.08
OH YEAH, I DIDN'T
MEAN THAT ABOUT HONG KONG,
00:26:59.08\00:27:00.92
I MEANT JAPAN.
(LAUGHTER) JAPAN'S WORSE.
00:27:00.92\00:27:05.89
THAT WAS REALLY SMALL AND WE
WERE, QUITE LITERALLY, ON TOP OF
00:27:05.89\00:27:10.29
EACH OTHER. BUT I
HAD A ROOM - THE SMALLEST
00:27:10.29\00:27:12.19
ROOM I HAD WAS IN HONG
KONG. I COULD PUT MY ARMS OUT
00:27:12.19\00:27:14.83
AND TOUCH BOTH
WALLS. ABSOLUTELY SERIOUS.
00:27:14.83\00:27:18.90
SO PEOPLE ARE WORRIED THERE'S
NOT GOING TO BE ROOM ENOUGH, YOU
00:27:18.90\00:27:20.97
KNOW? IT'S NOT
GOING TO BE OVER CROWDED.
00:27:20.97\00:27:24.34
THAT'S - DO YOU REALIZE THAT THE
- THE CITY DIMENSIONS ARE AS BIG
00:27:24.34\00:27:29.71
AS THE STATE OF
OREGON? IT'S LIKE 375
00:27:29.71\00:27:32.78
MILES ON EACH SIDE. YOU
START THINKING ABOUT, IF YOU
00:27:32.78\00:27:35.72
THEN PUT PEOPLE IN A CITY AND
YOU START GOING UP - HERE'S AN
00:27:35.72\00:27:39.75
AMAZING FACT: THERE ARE MORE
PEOPLE THAT LIVE ABOVE THE 20TH
00:27:39.75\00:27:43.36
FLOOR IN NEW YORK CITY THAN LIVE
IN THE WHOLE STATE OF MONTANA.
00:27:43.36\00:27:47.60
(LAUGHTER) SO THERE'S
PLENTY OF ROOM IN THE CITY.
00:27:47.60\00:27:53.74
YOU'LL NEVER
FIND THAT'S A PROBLEM.
00:27:53.74\00:27:54.94
SO THIS GUY SAYS, 'I WANT TO
BRING MY WIFE.' THE KING WOULD
00:27:54.94\00:27:57.51
SAY, 'FINE'. BUT
NO, HE SAYS, 'I CAN'T GO
00:27:57.51\00:27:59.37
BECAUSE I GOT MARRIED AND
SHE PUT HER FOOT DOWN - PUT HER
00:27:59.37\00:28:02.24
SANDAL DOWN - AND SHE
SAID, 'WE'RE NOT GOING.
00:28:02.24\00:28:04.48
I'VE GOT OTHER PLANS.' DOES
THAT SOUND A LITTLE BIT LIKE AN
00:28:04.48\00:28:09.95
EXCUSE THAT ADAM MADE?
'LORD, I WOULD HAVE OBEYED YOU'
00:28:09.95\00:28:13.86
- GENESIS 3:12 - 'BUT THE WOMAN
YOU GAVE ME, SHE TOLD ME TO EAT
00:28:13.86\00:28:19.86
FROM THAT FORBIDDEN TREE AND
I ATE. LORD, IT'S YOUR FAULT.'
00:28:19.86\00:28:24.77
SO THEY'RE BLAMING OTHER PLACES,
THEY'RE BLAMING OTHER THINGS,
00:28:24.77\00:28:28.87
THEY'RE BLAMING OTHER
PEOPLE - THE EXCUSES FOR NOT
00:28:28.87\00:28:31.77
COMING TO THE
FEAST. WHAT DOES JESUS SAY?
00:28:31.77\00:28:35.18
SHOULD ANYBODY
KEEP US FROM THE FEAST?
00:28:35.18\00:28:37.81
LUKE 14 - IN THE SAME CHAPTER -
CHRIST SAYS, 'IF ANYONE COMES TO
00:28:37.81\00:28:41.15
ME AND HE DOESN'T HATE HIS
FATHER AND HIS MOTHER AND HIS
00:28:41.15\00:28:44.49
WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN AND HIS
BROTHERS AND HIS SISTER - YES
00:28:44.49\00:28:47.52
HIS OWN LIFE - HE CANNOT BE MY
DISCIPLE.' IN MATTHEW HE PUTS IT
00:28:47.52\00:28:52.09
THIS WAY: 'HE THAT LOVES FATHER
OR MOTHER MORE THAN ME IS NOT
00:28:52.09\00:28:54.93
WORTHY OF ME. AND
HE WHO LOVES HIS SON OR
00:28:54.93\00:28:56.83
DAUGHTER MORE THAN ME' - SO WHEN
IT SAYS 'HATE' IT DOESN'T MEAN
00:28:56.83\00:28:59.27
YOU HATE THEM, IT MEANS
IF - YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE THEM
00:28:59.27\00:29:01.90
LESS THAN YOU LOVE ME.
YOU'VE GOT TO BE WILLING TO TURN
00:29:01.90\00:29:06.24
FROM THEM IN ORDER TO FOLLOW ME.
AND THIS MAN SAYS, 'I CAN'T COME
00:29:06.24\00:29:12.05
BECAUSE I'VE MARRIED A WIFE.
HE'S PUTTING SOMEBODY AHEAD.
00:29:12.05\00:29:16.42
YOU KNOW, YOU THINK IN THE BIBLE
ABOUT URIAH - URIAH THE HITTITE
00:29:16.42\00:29:22.16
- YOU REMEMBER THE STORY?
HE CAME BACK FROM THE BATTLE -
00:29:22.16\00:29:26.46
DAVID HAD BEEN SLEEPING WITH HIS
WIFE AND SHE DISCOVERED SHE WAS
00:29:26.46\00:29:32.20
PREGNANT AND DAVID THOUGHT,
'WELL, IT'S GOING TO BE OBVIOUS
00:29:32.20\00:29:36.24
THAT SOMETHING WENT - WAS GOING
ON, BECAUSE URIAH'S BEEN OUT
00:29:36.24\00:29:39.37
OF TOWN FIGHTING A BATTLE.
AND SO, DAVID SUMMONS URIAH,
00:29:39.37\00:29:46.31
OFFERS HIM A FEAST, PRETENDS HE
WANTS A REPORT ON THE WAR AND HE
00:29:46.31\00:29:48.88
SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU LIVE
NEXT DOOR. I KNOW RIGHT WHERE
00:29:48.88\00:29:51.09
YOUR HOUSE IS.
THAT'S HOW I SAW YOUR WIFE
00:29:51.09\00:29:54.19
BATHING.' AND HE SAID, 'YOU
GO ON HOME.' HE SAID, 'HERE, I'M
00:29:54.19\00:29:58.09
GOING TO CATER A
NICE MEAL. YOU GO RELAX.
00:29:58.09\00:29:59.93
ENJOY YOURSELF.' AND HE'S
FIGURING THAT WHEN URIAH FINDS
00:29:59.93\00:30:02.93
OUT THAT BATHSHEBA'S PREGNANT,
THAT NOBODY WILL SUSPECT BECAUSE
00:30:02.93\00:30:06.87
HE DID COME HOME ON AN R&R
LEAVE, EVEN THOUGH THAT FIRST
00:30:06.87\00:30:10.51
ONE DID COME
EARLY. YOU STILL WITH ME?
00:30:10.51\00:30:16.11
BUT IT DOESN'T
WORK. URIAH DOESN'T GO.
00:30:16.11\00:30:19.81
AND DAVID CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT
AND HE TRIES TO GET HIM DRUNK
00:30:19.81\00:30:23.65
THE NEXT DAY AND SAYS, 'HERE,
YOU KNOW, JUST RELAX.' AND HE
00:30:23.65\00:30:26.76
DOESN'T GO. HE
SLEEPS WITH THE SERVANTS.
00:30:26.76\00:30:28.46
THEN FINALLY, DAVID'S JUST
AMAZED, HE SAYS - AND THIS GUY'S
00:30:28.46\00:30:31.09
MARRIED TO BATHSHEBA - THIS IS
- THIS WAS A VERY PRETTY WOMAN.
00:30:31.09\00:30:37.87
AND DAVID IS
WONDERING, 'URIAH, ARE YOU WELL?
00:30:37.87\00:30:41.77
WHAT'S GOING ON? YOU
CAME FROM THE BATTLE; YOU
00:30:41.77\00:30:44.27
DIDN'T GO HOME.' AND URIAH SAYS,
'THE ARK OF GOD AND THE ARMY OF
00:30:44.27\00:30:49.11
GOD ARE OUT IN THE OPEN FIELDS
FIGHTING THE ENEMIES OF GOD.
00:30:49.11\00:30:52.25
HOW CAN I GO BACK TO MY MEN AND
SAY I WENT HOME AND I ATE AND
00:30:52.25\00:30:55.28
DRANK AND SLEPT WITH MY WIFE?'
HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT GOING TO
00:30:55.28\00:30:57.85
RELAX UNTIL THE WAR IS
WON. NOW, YOU'VE GOT TO ADMIRE
00:30:57.85\00:31:02.76
SOMETHING ABOUT THAT GUY. I
KNOW, I ALWAYS GET LOOKS LIKE
00:31:02.76\00:31:05.46
LASERS FROM THE LADIES
WHEN I SAY THIS, BUT I THINK
00:31:05.46\00:31:09.13
URIAH DID THE RIGHT THING.
I THINK THAT HE DID SOMETHING
00:31:09.13\00:31:13.00
UNUSUALLY HEROIC
WITH SELF-CONTROL.
00:31:13.00\00:31:17.84
HE PUT THE INTEREST OF
GOD ABOVE HIS OWN INTERESTS.
00:31:17.84\00:31:23.45
AND SINCE URIAH WAS ONE OF
DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN - HE HAD MEN
00:31:23.45\00:31:26.01
UNDER HIS AUTHORITY AND HE
DIDN'T WANT TO DEMORALIZE THEM
00:31:26.01\00:31:29.32
AND HE SAID, 'LOOK, I - MY HEART
IS WITH YOU IN THE BATTLE - IT'S
00:31:29.32\00:31:32.49
IN THE FIELD.' AND SO THIS
MAN SAID, 'I AM GOING TO PUT THE
00:31:32.49\00:31:36.42
WEDDING FEAST AHEAD OF EVEN MY
OWN WIFE.' DAVID COULDN'T FIGURE
00:31:36.42\00:31:41.16
THAT OUT. THAT
TAKES UNUSUAL DEDICATION.
00:31:41.16\00:31:48.37
SO WHEN YOU'VE ACCEPTED THE
INVITATION TO THE FEAST, JESUS
00:31:48.37\00:31:52.11
SAYS, 'SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM
OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
00:31:52.11\00:31:56.21
ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED.'
BUT A LOT OF TIMES WE BLAME
00:31:56.21\00:31:58.41
OTHER PEOPLE FOR
NOT GOING TO THE FEAST.
00:31:58.41\00:32:00.35
'IT'S MY WIFE'S FAULT.
AND IF IT'S NOT MY WIFE' - DO
00:32:00.35\00:32:03.85
YOU REMEMBER
KING SAUL, HIS EXCUSE?
00:32:03.85\00:32:07.22
SAUL - SAMUEL THE PROPHET
SAID TO SAUL, 'GO DESTROY THE
00:32:07.22\00:32:09.89
AMALEKITES AND DESTROY ALL OF
THEIR CATTLE AND THEIR ANIMALS.
00:32:09.89\00:32:12.76
DO NOT SPARE ANYTHING. THEY HAVE
BEEN YOUR ENEMIES FOR YEARS.
00:32:12.76\00:32:15.53
THEY ARE TO BE ANNIHILATED.' AND
SAUL COMES BACK FROM THE BATTLE
00:32:15.53\00:32:19.00
AND HE'S GOT THIS PARADE WITH
SHEEP AND OXEN AND GOATS AND ALL
00:32:19.00\00:32:21.80
THESE CRITTERS,
AND SAMUEL SAYS, 'WHAT?
00:32:21.80\00:32:25.17
WHAT'S WITH THIS? GOD TOLD
YOU TO DESTROY EVERYTHING!'
00:32:25.17\00:32:27.71
'OH, WE DID, WE DESTROYED THE
WORST OF THEM.' 'SO WHAT'S THE
00:32:27.71\00:32:30.55
SOUND OF LOWING I HEAR?' HE
SAYS, 'WELL, THE PEOPLE - YOU
00:32:30.55\00:32:33.68
KNOW, THE PEOPLE - THE PEOPLE -
PEOPLE COMPLAINED AND THEY MADE
00:32:33.68\00:32:38.12
ME TAKE THE BEST OF THE ANIMALS,
BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO OFFER
00:32:38.12\00:32:40.76
THEM AS SACRIFICE.' THAT'S WHAT
YOU CALL AN EXCUSE AND YOU BLAME
00:32:40.76\00:32:44.96
EVERYBODY ELSE -
EXCUSES - LAME EXCUSES.
00:32:44.96\00:32:49.63
I WAS TEMPTED TO CALL
THE MESSAGE LAME EXCUSES .
00:32:49.63\00:32:52.27
(LAUGHTER) THEY REALLY HAD NO
INTEREST IN THE KING'S FOOD, OR
00:32:52.27\00:32:57.64
THE KING. THAT WAS THE TRUTH.
00:32:57.64\00:33:00.31
THE REASON THEY CAME
UP WITH ALL THE EXCUSES?
00:33:00.31\00:33:02.04
THEY DIDN'T WANT TO
FEAST WITH THE KING.
00:33:02.04\00:33:07.42
DO WE SOMETIMES MAKE
EXCUSES? WHAT'S AN EXCUSE?
00:33:07.42\00:33:10.49
AN EXCUSE IS AN ATTEMPT TO
RELEASE OR FREE YOU FROM AN
00:33:10.49\00:33:13.79
OBLIGATION OR DUTY BY MITIGATING
CIRCUMSTANCES; AN EXCUSE IS AN
00:33:13.79\00:33:19.89
APOLOGY USED TO GAIN AN
EXEMPTION FOR SERVICE; IT'S TO
00:33:19.89\00:33:25.57
SEEK TO REMOVE THE BLAME FROM,
OR TO SERVE AS A JUSTIFICATION
00:33:25.57\00:33:30.27
FOR A REASON TO PUT FORWARD OR
JUSTIFY AN OFFENSE.' AN EXCUSE
00:33:30.27\00:33:35.68
IS USUALLY SOME REASON TO FIND
A WAY OUT OF AN OBLIGATION; A
00:33:35.68\00:33:40.25
RESPONSIBILITY; A DUTY.
SOMEONE SAID, 'AN EXCUSE IS THE
00:33:40.25\00:33:44.25
SKIN OF A REASON
STUFFED WITH A LIE.' (LAUGHTER)
00:33:44.25\00:33:49.16
D.L. MOODY SAID, 'EXCUSES ARE
THE CRADLE THAT SATAN USES TO
00:33:49.16\00:33:53.63
ROCK MEN TO SLEEP.' WHEN
GOD SAYS, 'TURN FROM THE PLACES,
00:33:53.63\00:34:01.20
TURN FROM THE POSSESSIONS, AND
TURN FROM THE PEOPLE THAT ARE
00:34:01.20\00:34:04.54
KEEPING YOU FROM THE
FEAST', DO YOU MAKE EXCUSES?
00:34:04.54\00:34:07.51
'I WOULD, BUT NOT NOW.' DO YOU
REALIZE THAT VIRTUALLY ALL OF
00:34:07.51\00:34:10.71
THEIR EXCUSES WERE BASED ON
'THIS IS JUST NOT A CONVENIENT
00:34:10.71\00:34:14.55
TIME'? 'I WOULD HAVE COME TO
THAT FEAST IF IT HAD BEEN, YOU
00:34:14.55\00:34:18.45
KNOW, IF IT WASN'T FOR THE OXEN.
BUT RIGHT NOW I'VE GOT TO CHECK
00:34:18.45\00:34:21.96
THE OXEN.' 'I WOULD HAVE COME,
BUT I'VE GOT THAT PIECE OF LAND
00:34:21.96\00:34:25.09
AND RIGHT NOW I'VE GOT
SOMETHING ELSE I'VE GOT TO DO.
00:34:25.09\00:34:27.40
TIMING'S NOT GOOD.' 'I WOULD
HAVE COME IF IT WAS BEFORE I
00:34:27.40\00:34:30.83
MARRIED MY WIFE OR AFTER OUR
ONE-YEAR HONEYMOON, BUT RIGHT
00:34:30.83\00:34:33.34
NOW IS NOT A GOOD TIME.' AND I
THINK IF WE'RE ALL HONEST, WE'D
00:34:33.34\00:34:36.94
ADMIT THAT, IN VARYING FORMS,
WE OFTEN SAY, 'NOW IS NOT A GOOD
00:34:36.94\00:34:43.61
TIME TO MAKE A COMPLETE
SURRENDER OR WE'RE TELLING
00:34:43.61\00:34:46.48
OURSELVES, 'I KNOW I'VE GOT TO
GET REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT BEING
00:34:46.48\00:34:51.19
COMMITTED TO THE LORD AND BEING
A GENUINE CHRISTIAN AND COMING
00:34:51.19\00:34:54.09
TO THE FEAST...ONE OF THESE
DAYS.' DO YOU REALIZE 'ONE OF
00:34:54.09\00:34:58.23
THESE DAYS' IS AN EXCUSE?
WHATEVER THE EXCUSE IS, YOU JUST
00:34:58.23\00:35:01.73
SAY, 'I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT NOW.'
OR 'I'M AFRAID TO DO IT NOW.' OR
00:35:01.73\00:35:05.67
'I'VE GOT TOO MUCH STRESS RIGHT
NOW.' OR 'IT'LL BE HARDER NOW.'
00:35:05.67\00:35:08.67
BUT WE'RE DOING THE SAME THING.
WE'RE SAYING, 'I WANT TO BE A
00:35:08.67\00:35:11.87
CHRISTIAN, BUT I DON'T
WANT TO GO ALL THE WAY.
00:35:11.87\00:35:14.81
I'LL ACCEPT THE [INVITATION],
BUT WHEN YOU ASK ME TO REALLY
00:35:14.81\00:35:17.48
LEAVE BEHIND AND COME TO FEAST
WITH YOU, UH, NO.' AND WE DON'T
00:35:17.48\00:35:25.59
DO IT. AND WE MISS
OUT ON ETERNAL LIFE.
00:35:25.59\00:35:31.63
SOMEONE ELSE WROTE, 'EXCUSES ARE
THE NAILS USED TO BUILD A HOUSE
00:35:31.63\00:35:35.00
OF FAILURE.' JUST NOT IN
SPIRITUAL THINGS - 'AN EXCUSE IS
00:35:35.00\00:35:41.40
A THIN SLICE OF FALSEHOOD
STRETCHED TIGHTLY OVER A
00:35:41.40\00:35:44.17
BOLD-FACED LIE.' THAT'S
SIMILAR TO THAT OTHER ONE.
00:35:44.17\00:35:48.51
A PERSON WHO REALLY WANTS TO GET
SOMETHING DONE FINDS A WAY, THE
00:35:48.51\00:35:51.48
OTHER WILL FIND AN EXCUSE.
ROMANS - PAUL SAYS - ROMANS
00:35:51.48\00:35:55.68
1:20, "FOR SINCE THE CREATION
OF THE WORLD HIS INVISIBLE
00:35:55.68\00:35:59.45
ATTRIBUTES ARE CLEARLY SEEN,
BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS
00:35:59.45\00:36:02.99
THAT ARE MADE, EVEN HIS ETERNAL
POWER AND GODHEAD, SO THAT
00:36:02.99\00:36:07.56
THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE."
YOU REMEMBER WHEN HE CAME INTO
00:36:07.56\00:36:12.00
THE WEDDING FEAST AND HE
SAID, 'HOW COME YOU DON'T HAVE
00:36:12.00\00:36:14.54
THE WEDDING GARMENT ON?
AND SUDDENLY HE HAD NO EXCUSE.
00:36:14.54\00:36:20.44
HE HAD NO ANSWER - WHY?
BECAUSE CHRIST HAS PURCHASED A
00:36:20.44\00:36:23.85
GARMENT OF HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR EVERYBODY.
00:36:23.85\00:36:28.25
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID,
'WHOSOEVER WILL' - EVERYBODY
00:36:28.25\00:36:31.22
CAN. NOW, YOU NOTICE, HE WANTS
00:36:31.22\00:36:33.05
EVERYBODY TO BE
THERE. THE LORD DOESN'T WANT
00:36:33.05\00:36:36.22
ANYONE TO BE
LOST. ALL ARE INVITED.
00:36:36.22\00:36:40.63
NOW, IN THIS STORY, KEEP IN
MIND, IT'S NOT SAYING THAT THE
00:36:40.63\00:36:46.13
KING MADE A GREAT FEAST
AND THREE PEOPLE DIDN'T SHOW.
00:36:46.13\00:36:51.54
THOSE THREE PEOPLE REPRESENT ALL
OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY
00:36:51.54\00:36:55.84
THAT SAID, 'WE WANT TO GO'
THAT DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO GO.
00:36:55.84\00:36:58.35
THAT FIRST GROUP THERE SORT
OF REPRESENTS THE JEWISH NATION.
00:36:58.35\00:37:01.18
OF COURSE, MANY OF THE JEWS WERE
SAVED - THE WHOLE EARLY CHURCH
00:37:01.18\00:37:04.19
WAS JEWISH - AND THAT BRINGS
US TO THE NEXT PART OF WHAT
00:37:04.19\00:37:07.56
HAPPENS. WHEN THE
KING FINDS OUT THOSE
00:37:07.56\00:37:09.29
PEOPLE SAID THEY WERE GOING
TO COME AND THEY DIDN'T COME,
00:37:09.29\00:37:12.56
WHAT'S HIS RESPONSE?
WELL, HE SAID, 'BRING IN THE
00:37:12.56\00:37:18.93
LAME AND THE BLIND.' THE MASTER
OF THE HOUSE, BEING ANGRY,
00:37:18.93\00:37:23.00
SAID TO HIS SERVANTS, 'GO
OUT QUICKLY' - WHY QUICKLY?
00:37:23.00\00:37:26.01
BECAUSE EVERYTHING'S READY.
THERE'S A TIME CONSTRAINT.
00:37:26.01\00:37:28.71
WHEN JESUS CALLED LAZARUS HE
SAID, 'COME DOWN QUICKLY.' WHEN
00:37:28.71\00:37:33.15
THE LORD CALLS US TO
COME TO HIM, DOES HE EVER SAY,
00:37:33.15\00:37:36.12
'WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT'?
NO, COME NOW, TODAY.
00:37:36.12\00:37:41.19
GO OUT QUICKLY INTO THE
STREETS AND THE LANES, GO.
00:37:41.19\00:37:45.13
WHAT IS THE MESSAGE
OF THE GREAT COMMISSION?
00:37:45.13\00:37:47.13
>>GO. >>GO AND TELL ALL PEOPLE.
00:37:47.13\00:37:50.40
YOU NOTICE WHAT HE
SAID TO THE FIRST GROUP?
00:37:50.40\00:37:52.10
'COME NOW, FOR ALL THINGS ARE
READY.' GO TELL ALL THESE POOR
00:37:52.10\00:37:57.04
AND THESE LAME AND THE BLIND,
COME INTO THE STREETS AND THE
00:37:57.04\00:38:02.28
LANES OF THE CITY. TELL
THE POOR AND THE MAIMED AND
00:38:02.28\00:38:06.68
THE LAME AND THE BLIND - AND
THEY DID. NOW, WHEN IT SAYS 'GO
00:38:06.68\00:38:13.72
INTO THE STREETS AND THE LANES,
TELL THEM ALL TO COME IN', THIS
00:38:13.72\00:38:17.09
IS FIRST TALKING NOW WHEN IT
SAYS 'THE LAME AND THE BLIND'.
00:38:17.09\00:38:21.46
THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE
JEWS WHO THE PHARISEES AND THE
00:38:21.46\00:38:24.27
SCRIBES DID NOT
FEEL WERE WORTHY.
00:38:24.27\00:38:26.87
THE POOR IN SPIRIT, THE
SHEPHERDS, THE TAX COLLECTORS,
00:38:26.87\00:38:30.77
THE FISHERMEN - THEY WERE JEWS,
BUT THEY WERE CRIPPLED JEWS.
00:38:30.77\00:38:34.44
THESE WERE PEOPLE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WERE THE
00:38:34.44\00:38:36.48
RIFF-RAFF - THEY WERE THE MOTLEY
CREW - THEY WERE THE UNWORTHY.
00:38:36.48\00:38:43.22
YOU REMEMBER WHAT PETER
SAID? 'DEPART FROM ME, LORD.
00:38:43.22\00:38:45.75
I AM A SINFUL MAN.' HE
WAS - AND YOU REMEMBER WHEN
00:38:45.75\00:38:48.69
HE WAS TEMPTED TO DENY CHRIST,
IT DIDN'T TAKE PETER LONG AT ALL
00:38:48.69\00:38:51.83
TO REMEMBER HIS OLD
VOCABULARY. HE COULD SWEAR AND
00:38:51.83\00:38:53.93
CURSE VERY QUICKLY.
AND SO, WHEN JESUS LEFT THE
00:38:53.93\00:38:59.33
SEMINARY AT JERUSALEM, THEY
SAID, 'OH, WE'RE GOING TO THE
00:38:59.33\00:39:02.74
FEAST.' BUT THEY
REALLY WEREN'T INTERESTED.
00:39:02.74\00:39:05.11
WHO WAS IT THAT WENT TO
HEAR JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACH?
00:39:05.11\00:39:08.78
IT WAS A LOT OF THE POOR.
AND SO, JESUS THEN FOUND AN
00:39:08.78\00:39:13.01
AUDIENCE UP AROUND
GALILEE. IT WAS THE FISHERMEN.
00:39:13.01\00:39:16.69
IT WAS THE COMMON WORKING FOLK
THAT THE RELIGIOUS LEADER SAYS,
00:39:16.69\00:39:22.99
'THESE - THESE
PEOPLE, THEY'RE SINNERS.
00:39:22.99\00:39:26.06
THEY DON'T KNOW THE LAW.
THEY SHOULDN'T - THEY DON'T KNOW
00:39:26.06\00:39:28.30
ANY BETTER - THEY'RE CRIPPLED.'
WHO DID JESUS SAY IS WORTHY?
00:39:28.30\00:39:32.13
BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN
SPIRIT. THEY'RE THE ONES WHO
00:39:32.13\00:39:37.07
ARE GOING TO HEAR IT. AND
SO, THEY GO AND THEY GATHER
00:39:37.07\00:39:38.97
AS MANY AS THEY CAN,
BUT THERE'S STILL ROOM.
00:39:38.97\00:39:41.88
AND HE SAYS, 'WHAT NOW?'
AND THE MASTER SAID TO HIM,
00:39:41.88\00:39:45.11
"GO INTO THE
HIGHWAYS AND THE HEDGES."
00:39:45.11\00:39:47.32
NOW, SOME OF YOU, IN YOUR
BIBLES, IT'LL SAY 'INTO THE
00:39:47.32\00:39:49.95
STREETS AND THE LANES'.
HEDGES IS ACTUALLY A WORD THAT
00:39:49.95\00:39:53.12
IT MEANT 'FENCES' AND PROBABLY
THE BEST TRANSLATION THAT WOULD
00:39:53.12\00:39:56.49
BE, 'GO INTO THE
HIGHWAYS AND THE YARDS.
00:39:56.49\00:39:59.89
ENTER INTO THE PRIVATE YARDS
OF PEOPLE, KNOCK ON THEIR DOORS.
00:39:59.89\00:40:03.06
DON'T JUST GO UP AND DOWN AND
TALK TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN
00:40:03.06\00:40:05.53
THE PUBLIC PLACES THAT ARE ON
THE STREETS, GO INTO THEIR YARDS
00:40:05.53\00:40:08.60
AND KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND SAY,
'COME TO THE FEAST.'' AND SO,
00:40:08.60\00:40:12.04
IT'S REALLY A GOOD ARGUMENT FOR
DOOR-TO-DOOR WORK AND BIBLE WORK
00:40:12.04\00:40:14.64
AND PERSONAL EVANGELISM
AND HOME BIBLE STUDIES.
00:40:14.64\00:40:17.88
GO TELL PEOPLE WHERE THEY
LIVE. GO INTO THEIR HEDGES
00:40:17.88\00:40:20.92
- THEIR YARDS. PEOPLE
USED TO HAVE A HEDGE IN
00:40:20.92\00:40:22.58
THEIR YARD TO
KEEP THEIR ANIMALS IN.
00:40:22.58\00:40:25.42
THEY DIDN'T ALL LIVE IN LITTLE
MATCHBOX HOUSES AS THEY DO IN
00:40:25.42\00:40:29.16
THE TYPICAL AMERICAN SUBURBS.
THIS IS TALKING ABOUT, NOW,
00:40:29.16\00:40:33.03
GOING BEYOND OUT IN
- AMONG THE GENTILES.
00:40:33.03\00:40:36.63
SO THE MESSAGE - FIRST IT
WENT TO THE JEWS - THE RELIGIOUS
00:40:36.63\00:40:40.70
LEADERS - THE ONES WHO WERE
CONSIDERED SOCIALLY RESPECTABLE.
00:40:40.70\00:40:44.47
THEY WERE AT THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY
WEEK SAYING, 'LORD, I THANK YOU
00:40:44.47\00:40:46.81
THAT I'M NOT LIKE OTHER MEN.'
BUT WHEN THEY DIDN'T COME, THEN
00:40:46.81\00:40:51.05
THE MESSAGE GOES OUT TO THE
PUBLICANS, THE ONES WHO SMITE ON
00:40:51.05\00:40:54.55
THEIR BREASTS AND SAY, 'LORD,
HAVE MERCY ON ME, A SINNER.' AND
00:40:54.55\00:40:59.29
HE SAID, 'CONTINUE TO GO AND TO
BRING THEM IN.' SO THE MESSAGE,
00:40:59.29\00:41:03.22
AFTER IT WENT TO THE - THE POOR
- THE GOSPEL FIRST - JESUS WAS
00:41:03.22\00:41:10.73
BORN IN BETHLEHEM, HE WAS
BROUGHT TO JERUSALEM, BUT THE
00:41:10.73\00:41:14.80
GOSPEL THEN WAS
PREACHED AMONG THE POOR.
00:41:14.80\00:41:17.44
AND THEN HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES,
'GO FIRST TO THE LOST SHEEP OF
00:41:17.44\00:41:20.31
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.' AND
'WHOSOEVER WILL' BUT THEN THE
00:41:20.31\00:41:25.05
GOSPEL WENT OUT TO THE WORLD
AFTER THE STONING OF STEPHEN,
00:41:25.05\00:41:28.15
WHEN PROBATION WAS CLOSED,
AS FOR THE NATION, AND THEN
00:41:28.15\00:41:34.42
ANYBODY - JEW OR
GENTILE - COULD BE SAVED.
00:41:34.42\00:41:36.96
THE GOSPEL WENT OUT INTO
THE HIGHWAYS AND THE HEDGES
00:41:36.96\00:41:38.96
EVERYWHERE. NOW,
SOME PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH
00:41:38.96\00:41:41.10
THIS PART OF THE PARABLE.
AND YOU'LL NOTICE, IN MATTHEW,
00:41:41.10\00:41:44.73
AND IN LUKE, IT SAYS, 'THE KING
WAS ANGRY.' IS IT POPULAR TODAY
00:41:44.73\00:41:51.84
TO TALK ABOUT THE ANGER
OF GOD? WE ONLY TALK ABOUT
00:41:51.84\00:41:55.94
THE LOVE OF GOD.
WE ONLY TALK ABOUT THE
00:41:55.94\00:41:58.91
COMPASSION OF GOD AND WE ONLY
TALK ABOUT THE MERCY OF GOD.
00:41:58.91\00:42:01.98
WELL, YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR
MARKER AND MARK OUT A LOT OF
00:42:01.98\00:42:05.92
YOUR BIBLE, UNLESS YOU'RE GOING
TO ALSO SAY THE BIBLE DOES TALK
00:42:05.92\00:42:09.92
ABOUT THE ANGER OF GOD.
LET ME GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO
00:42:09.92\00:42:11.69
THINK ABOUT: GOD ONLY HAS TWO
FACES - NOT THAT HE'S TWO-FACED
00:42:11.69\00:42:18.50
- HE'S GOT THE LOVE, THE MERCY,
THE ACCEPTANCE FOR THE REDEEMED;
00:42:18.50\00:42:26.88
WRATH FOR THOSE WHO
HAVE CLUNG TO THEIR SINS.
00:42:26.88\00:42:32.38
GOD IS MERCIFUL
AND LONG-SUFFERING.
00:42:32.38\00:42:34.82
BUT, IN THE BIBLE, YOU'LL
FIND THERE'S NO SWITZERLAND.
00:42:34.82\00:42:38.65
THERE'S NO NEUTRAL TERRITORY.
YOU KNOW, DURING WORLD WAR I
00:42:38.65\00:42:41.19
AND WORLD WAR II,
SWITZERLAND MAINTAINED SOME
00:42:41.19\00:42:43.49
KIND OF NEUTRALITY.
THERE'S NO NEUTRAL TERRITORY.
00:42:43.49\00:42:46.53
JESUS SAID, 'IF
YOU'RE NOT WITH ME YOU'RE' -
00:42:46.53\00:42:48.30
WHAT? >>AGAINST ME.
00:42:48.30\00:42:49.53
>>'YOU'RE AGAINST ME.' AND HE
SAID, 'YOU'RE EITHER CHILDREN OF
00:42:49.53\00:42:52.27
GOD OR YOU'RE
CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL.
00:42:52.27\00:42:54.04
HE DIDN'T HAVE - THE LORD DIDN'T
HAVE, SORT OF, THIS AMBIVALENT
00:42:54.04\00:42:56.84
GROUP. I MEAN, DO
YOU FIND ANYWHERE IN
00:42:56.84\00:42:58.94
THE BIBLE WHERE HE SAID, 'OH,
YEAH, THEY'RE NOT WITH ME AND
00:42:58.94\00:43:00.98
THEY'RE NOT AGAINST ME, THEY'RE
JUST - UH.' GOD ISN'T LIKE THAT.
00:43:00.98\00:43:05.05
GOD SAID WE'RE EITHER COMING
TO HIM OR WE'RE GOING AWAY FROM
00:43:05.05\00:43:07.78
HIM. HOW MANY ROADS ARE THERE?
THERE'S THE NARROW ROAD THAT
00:43:07.78\00:43:11.59
LEADS TO LIFE; THERE'S THE BROAD
ROAD THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION.
00:43:11.59\00:43:14.32
YOU FIND THAT THIRD ROAD -
I DON'T SEE IT IN THE BIBLE.
00:43:14.32\00:43:18.09
AND SO, THOSE THAT REFUSE
THE LOVE AND COMPASSION OF THE
00:43:18.09\00:43:22.30
INVITATION AND, ESPECIALLY
- YOU KNOW WHAT'S REALLY SAD?
00:43:22.30\00:43:25.63
IS BY THEIR NOT
COMING, OTHERS AREN'T GOING.
00:43:25.63\00:43:27.94
THAT MAN COULD
HAVE BROUGHT HIS WIFE.
00:43:27.94\00:43:31.77
AND HE SACRIFICED SO MUCH
TO MAKE THE DINNER AVAILABLE.
00:43:31.77\00:43:34.48
HOW MUCH DID GOD GIVE TO
MAKE THE DINNER AVAILABLE?
00:43:34.48\00:43:37.98
HE SO LOVED THE
WORLD HE GAVE HIS SON.
00:43:37.98\00:43:39.48
HE GAVE EVERYTHING - AND TO
REFUSE THAT - AND THE BIBLE SAYS
00:43:39.48\00:43:44.49
YEAH, HE'S ANGRY. "THE
MASTER OF THE HOUSE BEING
00:43:44.49\00:43:47.86
ANGRY" - LUKE 14:21 - MATTHEW
22:7 - "BUT WHEN THE KING HEARD
00:43:47.86\00:43:52.13
ABOUT IT, HE WAS FURIOUS."
YOU FIND THAT YOU CAN'T REALLY
00:43:52.13\00:43:57.53
GET MAD AT HIM BEING FURIOUS
- "AND HE SENT OUT HIS ARMIES,
00:43:57.53\00:44:01.57
DESTROYED THOSE MURDERERS,"
- YOU REMEMBER IN MATTHEW'S
00:44:01.57\00:44:05.97
PARABLE, NOT ONLY DID THEY SPURN
THE INVITATION, THEY KILLED SOME
00:44:05.97\00:44:10.45
OF THE MESSENGERS IN THE
PROCESS. IT'S THE HIGHEST FORM
00:44:10.45\00:44:13.48
OF INSULT. JOHN 3 -
WHEN YOU SAY JOHN 3, WHAT -
00:44:13.48\00:44:19.49
WHAT VERSE DO YOU THINK OF NEXT?
00:44:19.49\00:44:21.56
>>SIXTEEN. >>JOHN 3:16?
00:44:21.56\00:44:23.19
NOW, I WANT YOU TO READ JOHN
3:36, "HE WHO BELIEVES IN THE
00:44:23.19\00:44:27.30
SON HAS EVERLASTING
LIFE;" - WE LIKE THAT PART?
00:44:27.30\00:44:30.13
I LIKE THAT PART - "AND HE WHO
DOES NOT BELIEVE THE SON SHALL
00:44:30.13\00:44:35.24
NOT SEE LIFE, BUT THE
WRATH OF GOD ABIDES ON HIM."
00:44:35.24\00:44:40.14
OKAY, SO WAS THIS PASTOR
DOUG SAYING IT, OR WAS IT JESUS?
00:44:40.14\00:44:44.01
YOU'VE GOT TWO CHOICES: LOVE
AND MERCY OF GOD - YOU DO NOT
00:44:44.01\00:44:49.72
BELIEVE JESUS SAID 'THE WRATH
OF GOD ABIDES ON HIM' - WHY?
00:44:49.72\00:44:53.02
BECAUSE THE WRATH OF GOD IS
GOING TO BE REVEALED FROM HEAVEN
00:44:53.02\00:44:55.32
AGAINST SIN, AND IF YOU ARE NOT
SAVED FROM YOUR SINS THEN THE
00:44:55.32\00:44:59.33
WRATH OF GOD COMES AGAINST
US. AND IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO
00:44:59.33\00:45:04.03
FALL INTO THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY
GOD. REVELATION 6:16 AND 17,
00:45:04.03\00:45:10.07
"FALL ON US AND HIDE US FROM
THE FACE OF HIM WHO SITS ON THE
00:45:10.07\00:45:14.24
THRONE AND FROM THE WRATH OF THE
LAMB!" - LAMB - IT ALMOST SOUNDS
00:45:14.24\00:45:19.65
LIKE IT'S A PARADOX.
IT'S A CONTRADICTION OF TERMS.
00:45:19.65\00:45:22.95
ANY OF YOU EVER
BEEN KILLED BY A LAMB?
00:45:22.95\00:45:25.99
I MEAN, LAMB IS CONSIDERED TO BE
ONE OF THE MEEKEST MOST HARMLESS
00:45:25.99\00:45:28.76
CREATURES - NOW, A RAM, YOU
BETTER NOT TURN YOUR BACK, BUT
00:45:28.76\00:45:33.33
SOMETHING ABOUT A LAMB, IT'S
JUST AN INNOCENT YOUNG LITTLE
00:45:33.33\00:45:35.70
LAMB. THE WRATH OF THE LAMB.
00:45:35.70\00:45:38.43
SEE, THIS IS NOT PART OF GOD'S
NATURAL DESIRE, BUT IF WE ARE
00:45:38.43\00:45:43.27
REJECTING THE INVITATION,
THEN WE'RE INSULTING - IT'S THE
00:45:43.27\00:45:47.58
HIGHEST INSULT - IT'S
A WASTE OF HIS SACRIFICE.
00:45:47.58\00:45:51.08
NOW, WHEN JESUS ASKS US
TO SACRIFICE SOMEWHERE ELSE,
00:45:51.08\00:45:57.15
SOMETHING ELSE, AND SOMEONE
ELSE FOR HIM, DID HE DO LESS?
00:45:57.15\00:46:03.06
HOW MANY TEMPTATIONS ARE
THERE? ONLY THREE TEMPTATIONS -
00:46:03.06\00:46:07.73
EVERYTHING SORT OF FALLS
INTO LUST OF THE FLESH, LUST OF
00:46:07.73\00:46:10.00
THE EYES, AND PRIDE OF LIFE.
JESUS, IN THE WILDERNESS, HE WAS
00:46:10.00\00:46:13.60
TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL IN
THOSE THREE PRINCIPLE AREAS.
00:46:13.60\00:46:17.04
IN THE PARABLE THERE'S THREE
THINGS THAT KEEP THEM FROM THE
00:46:17.04\00:46:19.64
FEAST: SOMEONE ELSE,
SOMEWHERE ELSE, SOMETHING ELSE.
00:46:19.64\00:46:25.91
DID JESUS SET AN
EXAMPLE FOR US? >>AMEN.
00:46:25.91\00:46:29.62
>>YEAH, JESUS GAVE UP
HIS SOMEWHERE, SOMETHING, AND
00:46:29.62\00:46:32.29
SOMEONE FOR US. DID
HE GIVE UP HIS SOMEWHERE?
00:46:32.29\00:46:37.09
CHRIST SAID, IN MATTHEW 8:20,
"FOXES HAVE HOLES AND BIRDS OF
00:46:37.09\00:46:41.00
THE AIR HAVE NESTS, BUT THE SON
OF MAN HAS NOWHERE TO LAY HIS
00:46:41.00\00:46:44.30
HEAD." JESUS, HE
STAYED IN PETER'S
00:46:44.30\00:46:47.97
HOUSE, HE STAYED IN
MARTHA'S HOUSE AND MATTHEW'S
00:46:47.97\00:46:51.14
HOUSE FOR FEASTS. HE
HAD NOWHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD.
00:46:51.14\00:46:54.58
HE GAVE UP
SOMEWHERE HERE ON THIS EARTH.
00:46:54.58\00:46:56.44
IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN, THE BIBLE
SAYS YOU ARE A PILGRIM AND YOU
00:46:56.44\00:46:59.61
ARE LOOKING FOR A
BETTER INHERITANCE.
00:46:59.61\00:47:01.92
THIS IS NOT MY HOME. >>AMEN.
00:47:01.92\00:47:04.02
>>WE'RE JUST PASSING
THROUGH. THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID.
00:47:04.02\00:47:06.82
JESUS SAID HE DOES HAVE A PLACE
- 'IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY
00:47:06.82\00:47:10.89
MANSIONS AND I
GO TO PREPARE WHAT?
00:47:10.89\00:47:13.03
A PLACE FOR YOU THERE.' BUT OUR
PLACE IS NOT HERE SO DON'T LET
00:47:13.03\00:47:17.23
ANOTHER PLACE - I'VE GOT A PIECE
OF LAND I'VE GOT TO GO LOOK AT.
00:47:17.23\00:47:21.57
HAVE ME
EXCUSED.' SOMETHING ELSE.
00:47:21.57\00:47:26.51
WHAT DID JESUS HAVE?
TELL ME ABOUT HIS POSSESSIONS.
00:47:26.51\00:47:32.55
2 CORINTHIANS 8:9, "FOR YOU
KNOW THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS
00:47:32.55\00:47:36.18
CHRIST, THAT THOUGH HE WAS RICH,
YET FOR YOUR SAKES HE BECAME
00:47:36.18\00:47:39.69
POOR, THAT YOU THROUGH HIS
POVERTY MIGHT BECOME RICH."
00:47:39.69\00:47:43.32
WHEN JESUS WANTED TO MAKE AN
ILLUSTRATION HE HAD TO BORROW A
00:47:43.32\00:47:46.26
COIN. 'DOES ANYONE HAVE A COIN?
00:47:46.26\00:47:48.36
I WANT TO TEACH' - HE
COULDN'T PICK IN HIS OWN POCKET
00:47:48.36\00:47:50.27
AND GET HIS OWN COIN.
AND THERE AT THE CROSS
00:47:50.27\00:47:52.53
THEY TOOK AWAY HIS ROBE.
THAT WAS HIS ONLY EARTHLY
00:47:52.53\00:47:55.37
POSSESSION WAS THE
CLOTHES HE WORE ON HIS BACK.
00:47:55.37\00:47:59.24
HE DIDN'T HAVE SOMEWHERE ELSE,
HE DIDN'T HAVE SOMETHING ELSE,
00:47:59.24\00:48:02.38
AND HE DIDN'T HAVE SOMEONE ELSE.
MATTHEW 12:48, JESUS ANSWERED
00:48:02.38\00:48:08.72
AND SAID TO THE ONE WHO TOLD
HIM - JESUS GOT A MESSAGE: 'YOUR
00:48:08.72\00:48:11.52
MOTHER AND YOUR BROTHERS WANT
TO SEE YOU.' HE WAS PREACHING.
00:48:11.52\00:48:15.29
JESUS SAID, 'NO, THIS IS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVEN MY OWN
00:48:15.29\00:48:17.19
MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS.' CHRIST
SAID, 'WHO IS MY MOTHER AND WHO
00:48:17.19\00:48:22.06
ARE MY BROTHERS? AND
HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND
00:48:22.06\00:48:24.63
TOWARD THE DISCIPLES AND SAID,
'HERE ARE MY MOTHERS AND MY
00:48:24.63\00:48:27.90
BROTHERS. WHOEVER DOES THE WILL
OF MY FATHER IN HEAVEN, HE IS MY
00:48:27.90\00:48:32.14
MOTHER AND MY BROTHER AND MY
SISTER.' AND EVEN HIS OWN FRIEND
00:48:32.14\00:48:36.14
PETER, WHEN PETER TRIED TO TURN
JESUS OFF THE MISSION OF THE
00:48:36.14\00:48:40.32
FEAST, JESUS TURNED TO PETER AND
SAID, 'GET BEHIND ME, SATAN.'
00:48:40.32\00:48:44.99
THIS IS HIS FAVORITE
APOSTLE - WELL, HIM OR JOHN.
00:48:44.99\00:48:48.72
'GET BEHIND ME, SATAN.' NOBODY
WOULD COME BETWEEN JESUS AND
00:48:48.72\00:48:54.23
GOD'S WILL. THE
BIBLE SAYS HE CAME UNTO HIS
00:48:54.23\00:48:57.20
OWN - JOHN 1:11 - 'AND HIS
OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT.' THEY WERE
00:48:57.20\00:49:00.90
NOT READY FOR THE MESSIAH.
YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD FOR US TO
00:49:00.90\00:49:06.54
COMPREHEND WHAT'S REALLY
BEING SAID IN THIS PARABLE.
00:49:06.54\00:49:11.51
THE CLOSEST THING I CAN THINK
OF IS IT'S LIKE - IT'S LIKE
00:49:11.51\00:49:15.88
SOMEBODY - YOU KNOW, I HEAR
ABOUT PEOPLE WHO MEET THROUGH
00:49:15.88\00:49:18.49
ONLINE SOMEHOW, AND A GUY IN
AMERICA FINDS A GIRLFRIEND THAT
00:49:18.49\00:49:30.30
SPEAKS ENGLISH IN RUSSIA AND
THEY BEGIN TO TALK AND THEY FALL
00:49:30.30\00:49:36.40
IN LOVE ONLINE AND THEY E-MAIL
A PHOTOGRAPH OF EACH OTHER AND
00:49:36.40\00:49:42.34
THEY TALK AND THEY
THINK, 'OH, SHE'S SO ELOQUENT.
00:49:42.34\00:49:44.61
SHE'S SO LOVING.
SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL.
00:49:44.61\00:49:46.35
AND WHO CAN FIND WORDS? IT
MELTS MY HEART WHEN I SEE THE
00:49:46.35\00:49:49.18
WAY SHE COMMUNICATES AND HEAR
ABOUT WHAT SHE DOES AND I THINK
00:49:49.18\00:49:53.46
I'D LIKE TO MARRY HER.' SO HE
PROPOSES ONLINE AND SHE ACCEPTS.
00:49:53.46\00:50:01.83
AND HE SAYS, 'WHEN
CAN YOU COME TO AMERICA?'
00:50:01.83\00:50:05.03
AND SHE SAYS,
'WELL, I CAN'T COME.
00:50:05.03\00:50:06.97
YOU'VE GOT TO COME HERE.' AND
HE SAID, 'WELL, I'LL LOSE MY JOB
00:50:06.97\00:50:10.91
AND I'VE BEEN WORKING HERE FOR
15 YEARS AND I'LL LOSE MY HOME
00:50:10.91\00:50:14.08
AND HE SAID, 'I CAN'T' - SHE
SAYS, 'WELL, IF YOU LOVE ME -
00:50:14.08\00:50:19.65
BUT I CAN'T LEAVE MY FAMILY.
I COULD NEVER LEAVE MY HOME
00:50:19.65\00:50:22.12
TOWN.' AND HE LOVES HER SO MUCH
HE QUITS HIS JOB AND HE SELLS
00:50:22.12\00:50:27.46
HIS HOUSE, FLIES TO RUSSIA
AND SHE DOESN'T SHOW UP TO
00:50:27.46\00:50:31.13
MEET HIM AT THE AIRPORT.
HE GETS A TAXI AND GOES TO HER
00:50:31.13\00:50:34.36
HOUSE AND FINDS OUT - 'ARE YOU
- I THOUGHT YOU WERE KIDDING.
00:50:34.36\00:50:37.63
YOU REALLY CAME? I'VE ACTUALLY
GOT A PRETTY BUSY LIFE HERE.
00:50:37.63\00:50:40.60
I DON'T WANT TO GET MARRIED.
00:50:40.60\00:50:41.74
I THOUGHT THIS WAS
JUST ROMANCE ONLINE.
00:50:41.74\00:50:43.94
YOU'RE NOT - YOU
WEREN'T SERIOUS, WERE YOU?'
00:50:43.94\00:50:47.51
NOW THIS GUY HAS JUST SACRIFICED
EVERYTHING BECAUSE SHE ACCEPTED
00:50:47.51\00:50:50.71
THE INVITATION. AND
TO BE SPURNED LIKE THAT -
00:50:50.71\00:50:56.35
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF
LOVE THAT TURNS TO HATE?
00:50:56.35\00:51:01.59
WELL, THIS IS WHAT A LOT
OF PEOPLE HAVE DONE TO JESUS.
00:51:01.59\00:51:05.69
GOD SO LOVES THE
WORLD, HE GIVES HIS SON.
00:51:05.69\00:51:08.23
I MEAN, HE SACRIFICES MORE THAN
HIS HOUSE AND HIS JOB, HE COMES
00:51:08.23\00:51:12.17
FROM THE OTHER END OF THE
UNIVERSE TO THIS DARK PLANET.
00:51:12.17\00:51:16.20
YOU'LL NEVER KNOW HOW DARK IT IS
UNTIL YOU SEE THE OTHER WORLD.
00:51:16.20\00:51:19.37
AND HE DOES IT TO SAVE US
AND THEN HIS PEOPLE - HIS CHURCH
00:51:19.37\00:51:22.58
SAYS, 'WE LOVE YOU, LORD.
WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW YOU.' BUT
00:51:22.58\00:51:26.28
WHEN IT REALLY COMES DOWN
TO SURRENDERING EVERYTHING TO
00:51:26.28\00:51:29.55
FOLLOW JESUS, IT DOESN'T
HAPPEN. IT'S ALL IN NAME ONLY.
00:51:29.55\00:51:34.49
WE DRAW NEAR WITH OUR MOUTHS,
BUT OUR HEARTS ARE FAR AWAY.
00:51:34.49\00:51:39.76
AND MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING
YOU'RE STRUGGLING WITH.
00:51:39.76\00:51:41.80
MAYBE THERE'S ANOTHER PERSON
- MAYBE THERE'S ANOTHER PLACE
00:51:41.80\00:51:46.43
SOMEWHERE ELSE YOU WANT TO BE
- SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S KEEPING
00:51:46.43\00:51:50.84
YOU FROM MAKING A COMPLETE
SURRENDER AND SAYING, 'I WANT TO
00:51:50.84\00:51:54.68
BE IN THAT
WEDDING FEAST. (MUSIC)
00:51:54.68\00:52:00.68
>>FRIENDS, WOULD YOU WIN SOULS
IF YOU COULD? WELL, YOU CAN.
00:52:00.68\00:52:04.95
PLEASE PLAN NOW TO JOIN ME
IN DOING SOME EVANGELISM THIS
00:52:04.95\00:52:08.06
WINTER. IT'S
EASIER THAN YOU THINK.
00:52:08.06\00:52:10.59
PROPHECY ENCOUNTER WILL BE A
MAJOR NEW 10-PART EVANGELISTIC
00:52:10.59\00:52:14.20
PROGRAM THAT'LL BE BROADCAST BY
SATELLITE AND STREAMING ON THE
00:52:14.20\00:52:18.00
INTERNET TO HOMES OR CHURCHES
NEAR YOU - HOPEFULLY YOUR HOME
00:52:18.00\00:52:21.60
OR CHURCH. FROM
FEBRUARY 17 THROUGH 25,
00:52:21.60\00:52:25.41
I'LL BE PREACHING AN ALL-NEW
OLD-FASHIONED EVANGELISM PROGRAM
00:52:25.41\00:52:29.21
FROM SANFORD, FLORIDA AND WE'LL
BE USING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY
00:52:29.21\00:52:32.31
AND FRESH ILLUSTRATIONS, SO
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS OPEN YOUR
00:52:32.31\00:52:35.85
CHURCHES - YOUR HOMES - INVITE
FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BE FRIENDLY,
00:52:35.85\00:52:39.89
PRAY, AND LET THE POWER
OF THE WORD DO THE WORK.
00:52:39.89\00:52:43.66
THE PROGRAMS WILL BE AVAILABLE
ON 3ABN, AFTV, FACEBOOK, ROKU,
00:52:43.66\00:52:48.30
AND MORE. YOU'LL BE SURPRISED.
00:52:48.30\00:52:50.97
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN YOUR
COMMUNITY THAT ARE REALLY
00:52:50.97\00:52:52.97
WORRIED ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING
IN THE WORLD AND THEY'RE LOOKING
00:52:52.97\00:52:55.47
FOR ANSWERS. JESUS
SAID, 'THE HARVEST IS
00:52:55.47\00:52:58.37
TRULY GREAT, BUT
THE LABORERS ARE FEW.
00:52:58.37\00:53:00.98
SO PRAY, THEREFORE, THE LORD OF
THE HARVEST WILL SEND LABORERS
00:53:00.98\00:53:03.81
OUT INTO HIS HARVEST.'
YOU CAN BE ONE OF THEM.
00:53:03.81\00:53:07.25
SO I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO
JOIN US AND BE PRAYING FOR THE
00:53:07.25\00:53:10.65
UPCOMING PROPHECY
ENCOUNTER MEETINGS.
00:53:10.65\00:53:13.05
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CHECK
OUT WWW.PROPHECYENCOUNTER.COM
00:53:13.05\00:53:18.76
AND WHO KNOWS? YOU MIGHT
BE REVIVED IN THE PROCESS.
00:53:18.76\00:53:21.90
(MUSIC)
00:53:21.90\00:53:35.91
>>YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD
THE EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'IF YOU
00:53:35.91\00:53:37.81
DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER IN TEXAS,
JUST WAIT; IT'LL CHANGE.' AND
00:53:37.81\00:53:41.55
YOU'VE ALSO HEARD, 'EVERYTHING
IS BIGGER IN TEXAS - THE
00:53:41.55\00:53:44.42
RANCHES, THE BELT BUCKLES,
THE COWBOY HATS...' BUT THE MOST
00:53:44.42\00:53:48.39
FAMOUS SLOGAN ABOUT
TEXAS IS 'REMEMBER THE ALAMO!'
00:53:48.39\00:53:56.16
THE VIOLENT BATTLES AND BRAVERY
OF ICONIC HEROES, HAVE BEEN THE
00:53:56.16\00:53:59.40
STUFF OF LEGENDS, THROUGHOUT
WHICH ENTIRE CULTURES OFTEN DRAW
00:53:59.40\00:54:02.74
THEIR IDENTITY AND PRIDE,
EVEN LONG AFTER CENTURIES HAVE
00:54:02.74\00:54:06.68
PASSED. AND IN TEXAS, THE STORY
OF THE ALAMO HAS BEEN A RALLYING
00:54:06.68\00:54:09.54
CRY OF TEXAS
INDEPENDENCE FOR 200 YEARS.
00:54:09.54\00:54:13.55
ONE REASON THAT TEXANS LOVE TO
BRAG THAT EVERYTHING IS BIGGER
00:54:13.55\00:54:16.28
IN TEXAS IS, OF COURSE, BECAUSE
TEXAS IS THE LARGEST OF THE
00:54:16.28\00:54:19.79
LOWER 48 U.S. STATES.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS
00:54:19.79\00:54:23.39
MASSIVE STATE GOT ITS BEGINNING
IN A VERY SMALL CHRISTIAN
00:54:23.39\00:54:27.13
MISSION DURING THE
BATTLE OF THE ALAMO.
00:54:27.13\00:54:30.27
EVERY YEAR THIS FAMOUS MISSION
MUSEUM RECEIVES OVER TWO AND A
00:54:30.27\00:54:33.84
HALF MILLION VISITORS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE PLANET, THAT ARE
00:54:33.84\00:54:36.87
EAGER TO GET A GOOD
LOOK AT THIS LEGENDARY SITE.
00:54:36.87\00:54:40.51
THE ALAMO PLAYED A CRITICAL
ROLE IN THE TEXAS REVOLUTION.
00:54:40.51\00:54:44.28
IN DECEMBER 1835, TEXANS
AND TEJANO VOLUNTEERS BATTLED
00:54:44.28\00:54:48.58
MEXICAN TROOPS QUARTERED IN
THE CITY, FORCING GENERAL MARTIN
00:54:48.58\00:54:51.62
PERFECTO DE COS TO SURRENDER.
THE VICTORIOUS VOLUNTEERS
00:54:51.62\00:54:55.02
THEN OCCUPIED THE ALAMO
AND STRENGTHENED ITS DEFENSES.
00:54:55.02\00:54:59.13
FAMOUS AMERICANS LIKE DAVY
CROCKETT, JIM BOWIE, AND COLONEL
00:54:59.13\00:55:02.60
WILLIAM TRAVIS MADE THIS
LOCATION - THIS ANCIENT MISSION
00:55:02.60\00:55:06.37
- THE BEACHHEAD - THE LAST
STAND IN AN EPIC BATTLE TO WIN
00:55:06.37\00:55:10.17
INDEPENDENCE OF
TEXAS FROM MEXICO.
00:55:10.17\00:55:13.58
ON FEBRUARY 23, 1836, THE
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ
00:55:13.58\00:55:18.58
SANTA ANA NEARLY
CAUGHT THEM BY SURPRISE.
00:55:18.58\00:55:21.55
UNDAUNTED, THE TEXANS AND
TEJANOS PREPARED TO DEFEND THE
00:55:21.55\00:55:24.75
ALAMO. FOR THIS
SMALL RAG-TAG GROUP OF
00:55:24.75\00:55:27.36
REBELS, THE YOUNGEST OF WHOM
WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN AND THE OLDEST
00:55:27.36\00:55:30.13
SEVENTY-FIVE, WAS AGAINST
THE WELL-TRAINED AND ORGANIZED
00:55:30.13\00:55:33.43
MEXICAN ARMY OF SIX
THOUSAND-PLUS SOLDIERS.
00:55:33.43\00:55:36.63
IT WAS A FIERCE AND LOPSIDED
BATTLE, YET THE SMALL FORCE OF
00:55:36.63\00:55:39.83
REBELS WAS ABLE TO REPEL
THE TROOPS FOR THIRTEEN DAYS.
00:55:39.83\00:55:45.11
LEGEND HOLDS THAT WITH THE
POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL HELP
00:55:45.11\00:55:47.98
FADING, COLONEL TRAVIS DREW A
LINE IN THE GROUND WITH A SWORD
00:55:47.98\00:55:51.61
AND ASKED ANY MAN WILLING TO
STAY AND FIGHT TO STEP OVER THE
00:55:51.61\00:55:55.18
LINE. ALL EXCEPT
ONE CROSSED OVER.
00:55:55.18\00:55:58.99
THE FINAL ASSAULT
CAME BEFORE DAYBREAK.
00:55:58.99\00:56:01.56
ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 6, 1836,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE SIEGE,
00:56:01.56\00:56:06.53
CANON AND SMALL ARMS FIRE
FROM INSIDE THE ALAMO BEAT BACK
00:56:06.53\00:56:09.93
SEVERAL MEXICAN ATTACKS.
REGROUPING, SANTA ANA'S SOLDIERS
00:56:09.93\00:56:14.00
SCALED THE WALLS AND
RUSHED INTO THE COMPOUND.
00:56:14.00\00:56:17.47
THE DESPERATE STRUGGLE CONTINUED
UNTIL THE DEFENDERS WERE
00:56:17.47\00:56:19.97
OVERWHELMED. BY
SUNRISE, THE BATTLE HAD ENDED
00:56:19.97\00:56:23.55
AND THE GARRISON WAS SLAIN.
YOU KNOW, HISTORIANS MAY DEBATE
00:56:23.55\00:56:26.98
SOME OF THE DETAILS REGARDING
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO, BUT
00:56:26.98\00:56:30.05
NONE OF THEM QUESTION THE
INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE THAT WAS
00:56:30.05\00:56:32.52
MADE AND THE COURAGE
THAT WAS DISPLAYED DURING THAT
00:56:32.52\00:56:34.59
INTENSE CONFLICT. THEY
MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
00:56:34.59\00:56:38.83
- GIVING THEIR LIVES - AND THIS
IS WHY THE STORY OF THE ALAMO IS
00:56:38.83\00:56:41.70
SO INSPIRING AND SO
ENCOURAGING, YOU KNOW,
00:56:41.70\00:56:44.87
AND THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE IS
SO INSPIRING, FRIENDS, BECAUSE
00:56:44.87\00:56:47.14
SOMEONE WAS WILLING TO MAKE THE
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND GIVE HIS
00:56:47.14\00:56:49.97
LIFE SO THAT YOU COULD
HAVE FREEDOM AND ETERNAL LIFE.
00:56:49.97\00:56:53.68
DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD TRUST
YOUR LIFE TO A FRIEND LIKE THAT,
00:56:53.68\00:56:56.58
THAT WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING?
THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS A
00:56:56.58\00:56:59.28
STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE.
IT'S THE STORY OF GOD WHO WILL
00:56:59.28\00:57:02.15
NEVER LEAVE YOU
WITHOUT DEFENSE AND SUPPORT.
00:57:02.15\00:57:05.05
JESUS IS THE GOOD NEWS AND
THE GOSPEL IS A STORY WORTH
00:57:05.05\00:57:08.82
REMEMBERING. (MUSIC)
00:57:08.82\00:57:26.17
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:26.17\00:57:29.51
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:29.51\00:57:33.62
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:57:33.62\00:57:36.92
FROM THE CREATION OF THE
WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF
00:57:36.92\00:57:39.72
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WORD. GO DEEPER.
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CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT
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