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>>WE'RE GOING TO BE
TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD,
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AND IN THIS NEW SERIES DEALING
WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - I'VE
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CALLED IT LAWS OF LOVE
AND LIBERTY AND I THINK YOU'LL
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UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR THE
TITLE A LITTLE LATER ON IN THE
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SERIES. BUT TO
BEGIN WITH, I WANT TO
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INVITE YOU TO OPEN YOUR
BIBLES WITH ME TO THE BOOK OF
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DEUTERONOMY - DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTER 4 AND YOU CAN BEGIN IN
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VERSE 9, "ONLY TAKE HEED TO
YOURSELF, AND DILIGENTLY KEEP
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YOURSELF, LEST YOU FORGET THE
THINGS YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN, AND
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LEST THEY DEPART FROM YOUR
HEART ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.
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AND TEACH THEM TO YOUR
CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN,
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ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE DAY
YOU STOOD BEFORE THE LORD YOUR
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GOD IN HOREB, WHEN THE LORD SAID
TO ME, 'GATHER THE PEOPLE TO ME,
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AND I WILL LET THEM HEAR MY
WORDS, THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO
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FEAR ME ALL THE DAYS THEY
LIVE ON EARTH, AND THAT THEY MAY
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TEACH THEIR CHILDREN.' THEN YOU
CAME NEAR AND STOOD AT THE FOOT
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OF THE MOUNTAIN, AND THE
MOUNTAIN BURNED WITH FIRE TO THE
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MIDST OF HEAVEN, WITH DARKNESS,
CLOUD, AND THICK DARKNESS.
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AND THE LORD SPOKE TO YOU
OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE.
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YOU HEARD THE SOUND OF THE
WORDS, BUT SAW NO FORM; YOU ONLY
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HEARD A VOICE. SO
HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS
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COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED
YOU TO PERFORM, THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS; AND HE WROTE
THEM ON TWO TABLES OF STONE."
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS REPRESENT
THE VERY EPITOME OF THE WORD OF
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GOD. IT IS GOOD
AND IT IS APPROPRIATE
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FOR US TO DEDICATE TIME TO
TALK ABOUT THESE FOUNDATIONAL
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PRINCIPLES THAT YOU
FIND IN THE LAW OF GOD.
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NOW, IT'S SAD THAT WE'RE LIVING
IN A TIME WHERE, EVEN IN A
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH, SOMEONE WHO IS
A MINISTER, MIGHT NEED TO SOUND
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APOLOGETIC ABOUT
TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD.
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SOME PEOPLE WILL NO DOUBT SAY
THAT WE'RE LEGALISTIC BECAUSE
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW
OF GOD, BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT
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JESUS SAID - MATTHEW CHAPTER 5,
VERSE 19, "...WHOEVER DOES AND
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TEACHES THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED
GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
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THE LORD TELLS US THAT WE SHOULD
BE DOING IT AND TEACHING IT, SO
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WE THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO
DEDICATE TIME DURING THESE NEXT
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FEW WEEKS TOGETHER,
TO ESPECIALLY FOCUS ON
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UNDERSTANDING THE INCREDIBLE
POWER AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
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LAW OF GOD. THESE THINGS ARE
GOING TO BE A BIG ISSUE IN THE
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LAST DAYS. AND SO, I THINK IT'S
ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT, AS GOD'S
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CHILDREN, THAT WE GIVE THE
LAW OF GOD THE EXALTED PLACE IT
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DESERVES IN HIS WORD. >>AMEN.
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>>REMIND YOURSELF THAT
THE BIBLE, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN
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PRINTED AND YOU HAVE MEN - HOLY
MEN - THAT WERE INSPIRED AND
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THEY WROTE, BUT WHEN GOD GAVE
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, HE SPOKE
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AUDIBLY IN THE
HEARING OF A WHOLE NATION.
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HE WROTE IT WITH HIS OWN FINGER.
IT RECEIVED SPECIAL ATTENTION,
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SO WE SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED
ABOUT SAYING WE ARE GOING
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TO FOCUS ON THE LAW OF GOD.
ATTITUDES, EVEN IN THE CHURCH,
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ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD,
HAVE CHANGED IN RECENT YEARS
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AND IT'S INTERESTING.
RIGHT ABOUT THE SAME TIME
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THEY BEGAN TO TAKE THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS DOWN OFF THE WALLS
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IN THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND - I
REMEMBER GOING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL
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IN CALIFORNIA WHEN I WAS
A KID, AND THEY HAD THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS IN
MY PUBLIC SCHOOL.
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DO ANY OF YOU
REMEMBER THAT? >>YES.
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>>I KNOW, NOW - WOO - WE WOULD
THINK, 'HOW COULD THEY DO THAT?'
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SOME OF US REMEMBER, A FEW YEARS
AGO, A JUDGE WAS FINED AND THEY
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TOOK AWAY HIS POSITION
BECAUSE HE STOOD UP FOR THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS BEING IN
THEIR COURTYARD AS A MONUMENT.
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IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ON THE
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SUPREME COURT BUILDING AND
IN THE BUILDING TO THIS DAY.
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THERE'S BEEN A BATTLE ABOUT
THE PLACE OF THE LAW OF GOD.
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NOW I'LL GIVE SOME TIME IN
ANOTHER PRESENTATION, TALKING
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ABOUT HOW DO WE RELATE, FROM
A POLITICAL VIEW, WITH THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS - AND THAT'S A VERY
IMPORTANT SUBJECT TO UNDERSTAND.
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BUT TODAY WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - THESE
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LAWS OF LOVE AND LIBERTY. IT
MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO START
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WITH A
DEFINITION OF WHAT IS LAW?
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IF YOU LOOK IN THE DICTIONARY
IT'LL TELL YOU: "LAW IS THE
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SYSTEM OF RULES AND PRINCIPLES
THAT A PARTICULAR COUNTRY OR
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COMMUNITY RECOGNIZE AS
REGULATING THE ACTIONS OF ITS
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MEMBERS THAT MIGHT BE ENFORCED
BY THE CONTROLLING AUTHORITY."
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YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE, FOR A
MOMENT, WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO OUR
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CULTURE IF WE ALL WOKE UP AND
DECIDED THAT WE WANTED TO DRIVE
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ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE
ROAD AS THEY DO IN ENGLAND OR IN
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AUSTRALIA. WHAT KIND
OF CHAOS WOULD WE HAVE?
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WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT KIND
OF CHAOS WE HAVE WHEN TRAFFIC
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SIGNALS GO OUT. OUR
LIVES ARE REGULATED EVERY
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DAY BY LAW, BUT THAT LAW IS NOT
THERE TO RESTRICT OR TAKE AWAY
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OUR FREEDOM, YOU LOSE YOUR
FREEDOM WHEN YOU HAVE NO LAW.
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>>AMEN! >>THE LAW IS THERE TO
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PROTECT YOUR LIBERTIES. >>AMEN.
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>>IF ALL OF THE MURDERERS WOULD
BE SET FREE RIGHT NOW, THAT
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WOULD AFFECT YOUR
LIBERTY AND YOUR PEACE.
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AND IT'S ALSO
TRUE OF THE LAW OF GOD.
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IT'S NOT DESIGNED TO TAKE AWAY
YOUR HAPPINESS, BUT TO GIVE YOU
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REAL PEACE AND HAPPINESS - COMES
FROM THE WORD OF GOD AND THE LAW
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OF GOD. JESUS WARNED US IN THE
LAST DAYS THAT THERE WOULD BE
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GREAT LAWLESSNES. MATTER
OF FACT, 'BECAUSE INIQUITY' -
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LAWLESSNESS - 'WILL ABOUND,
THE LOVE OF MANY WILL GROW
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COLD' - MATTHEW CHAPTER 24.
PAUL SAID, IN 2 TIMOTHY 3:13,
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"BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS
WILL GROW WORSE AND WORSE."
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JESUS SAID JUST BEFORE HE COMES
BACK IT WILL BE AS IT WAS IN THE
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DAYS OF NOAH, AS IT WAS IN THE
DAYS OF LOT, AND THE BIBLE SAYS
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THAT THERE WAS
GREAT LAWLESSNESS.
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WE ALL REMEMBER WHAT CONDITIONS
WERE IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH -
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THERE WAS A MOB MENTALITY
AT THE DOOR OF LOT'S HOUSE.
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IN THE TIME OF NOAH IT SAYS,
'THE THOUGHTS OF MEN'S HEARTS
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WERE ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY.'
SO THERE WAS GREAT LAWLESSNESS.
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THAT SHOULD NOT
EXIST AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE.
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WE NEED TO KNOW
SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD.
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ULTIMATELY, IF YOU WOULD BE
SAVED, YOU MUST HAVE THE NEW
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COVENANT, WHICH IS THE LAW
OF GOD WRITTEN IN YOUR HEARTS,
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AMEN? >>AMEN.
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>>AND SO, THIS IS A VERY
RELEVANT AND A VERY IMPORTANT
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SUBJECT. NOW THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS DID
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NOT BEGIN AT MOUNT
SINAI. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HAVE
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EXISTED THROUGH ETERNITY.
THAT'S RIGHT, THE PRINCIPLES
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OF GOD'S LAW HAVE
ALWAYS BEEN THERE.
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LET ME PROVE THAT TO
YOU FROM THE BIBLE, QUICKLY.
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GENESIS 26, VERSE 5 - ABRAHAM
- DID HE LIVE BEFORE OR AFTER
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MOSES? >>BEFORE.
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>>BEFORE MOSES. SO
ABRAHAM LIVED BEFORE MOUNT
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SINAI AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
WERE CODIFIED, RIGHT?
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IT SAYS, "BECAUSE ABRAHAM OBEYED
MY VOICE AND KEPT MY CHARGE, MY
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COMMANDMENTS, MY
STATUTES, AND MY LAWS."
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BEFORE MOSES EVER CAME
ALONG, GOD HAD COMMANDMENTS AND
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STATUTES AND LAWS. HE
MUST HAVE GIVEN SOME OF THESE
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THINGS, AT LEAST
ORALLY, TO ADAM AND EVE.
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GENESIS 39, VERSE 9, WHEN JOSEPH
WAS TEMPTED BY THE WIFE OF
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POTIPHAR, HIS MASTER, JOSEPH
KNEW ADULTERY WAS WRONG AND HE
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SAID, "THERE'S NO ONE GREATER
IN THIS HOUSE THAN I, NOR HAS HE
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KEPT BACK ANYTHING FROM ME BUT
YOU, BECAUSE YOU ARE HIS WIFE."
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- YOU KNOW, THE SEVENTH
COMMANDMENT - "HOW THEN CAN I DO
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THIS GREAT WICKEDNESS, AND SIN
AGAINST GOD'" DID JOSEPH KNOW,
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BACK THEN, THAT
ADULTERY WAS A SIN?
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>>YES. >>WHAT?
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BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
I MEAN, CAN YOU REALLY IMAGINE
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PEOPLE LIVING BACK THEN
SAYING, 'OH, GOD GIVES THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS THERE AT MOUNT
SINAI' AND THEY SAY - THEY ELBOW
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EACH OTHER - 'YOU MEAN WE'RE
NOT SUPPOSED TO BE COMMITTING
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ADULTERY?' 'OH, WE'RE NOT
SUPPOSED TO STEAL?' 'WE'RE NOT
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SUPPOSED TO MURDER?' DON'T
YOU THINK SOME OF THOSE WERE
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SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS? >>AMEN.
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>>GOD WAS PULLING IT ALL
TOGETHER AND SUMMARIZING IT
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FOR THEM. >>AMEN.
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>>PSALM 111, VERSE 7, "...ALL
HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE.
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THEY STAND FAST
FOREVER AND EVER."
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GOD'S LAW IS FOREVER AND EVER.
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AND, EVEN THERE, IN THE VERY
BEGINNING, WHEN CAIN ENDED UP
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KILLING HIS BROTHER
ABEL, WHAT DID GOD SAY?
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"IF YOU DO WELL,
WILL YOU NOT BE ACCEPTED?"
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- GENESIS 4:7 - "AND IF YOU
DO NOT DO WELL, SIN LIES AT THE
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DOOR." AND SO GOD
WAS DESCRIBING THAT
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IT WAS A SIN TO MURDER, WAY
BACK THERE IN THE BEGINNING.
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SO GOD'S LAW HAS
ETERNAL PRINCIPLES.
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THESE ARE NOT JEWISH LAWS.
A COMMON MISUNDERSTANDING - A
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MYTH - AMONG CHRISTIANS IS THAT
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, SOMEHOW,
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WERE JUST FOR ISRAELITES
- THAT THEY ARE JEWISH LAWS.
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THEY DON'T USUALLY SAY
THAT FOR 90-PERCENT OF THEM.
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THEY REALLY JUST START SAYING
THEY'RE JEWISH LAWS WHEN THEY
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GET TO ONE, IN PARTICULAR,
AND THAT - THAT ALL, BY ITSELF,
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SOUNDS INCONSISTENT.
WE'LL GET TO THAT ANOTHER DAY.
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NOW I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH
ABOUT 16 POINTS, IF ANYONE'S
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COUNTING, SO YOU CAN KIND
OF COUNT DOWN TO THE END OF THE
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SERMON - NOT THAT
ANYONE EVER DOES THAT.
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I'M SURE NOBODY LOOKS AT THEIR
WATCH OR THE CLOCK ON THE WALL,
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RIGHT? WHEN I'M
PREACHING - BUT I'LL BE
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DEALING WITH 16 QUICK
POINTS. THERE ARE A LOT OF
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SCRIPTURES IN THIS SERIES.
IN THE FIRST PRESENTATION,
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I'M NOT EVEN GOING INTO
THE RESPECTIVE COMMANDMENTS.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT
THE LAW AS A WHOLE - WHY IT IS
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SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO
UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT.
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FIRST POINT: CAN GOD'S MORAL
LAW, OR THE DECALOGUE - THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS - BE
AMENDED OR REPEALED?
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WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?
JESUS SAID - LUKE 16, VERSE 17,
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"AND IT IS EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND
EARTH TO PASS AWAY THAN FOR ONE
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TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL."
JESUS, WHEN HE SAID THAT, HE
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WAS REFERENCING SOME OF THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS - EASIER FOR
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HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS AWAY.
PSALM 89:34, "MY COVENANT WILL I
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NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE THING
THAT IS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS."
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GOD SAYS HE WILL NOT BREAK HIS
COVENANT - AND WE JUST READ IN
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DEUTERONOMY 4, 'HE GAVE YOU HIS
COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU
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TO PERFORM, EVEN TEN
COMMANDMENTS.' THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS ARE THE COVENANT
GOD HAS MADE THROUGH WHICH WE
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ARE SAVED. 'NOW,
PASTOR DOUG, ARE YOU
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SAYING WE'RE SAVED BY
KEEPING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
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NO, WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A
MINUTE. MALACHI 3, VERSE 6, GOD
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SAYS, "FOR I AM THE
LORD, I CHANGE NOT."
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YOU KNOW WHY GOD CANNOT
CHANGE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
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BECAUSE HE WOULD
HAVE TO CHANGE HIMSELF.
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JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME
YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER.'
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'I AM THE LORD, I DO NOT
CHANGE.' THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
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ARE A PERFECT
EXPRESSION OF GOD'S CHARACTER.
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GOD IS GOOD. LUKE
18, VERSE 19 - WELL, DID
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YOU KNOW IT ALSO
SAYS THAT HIS LAW IS GOOD?
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GOD AND HIS LAW ARE THE SAME.
THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS HOLY.
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YOU CAN FIND THAT IN ISAIAH 5:16
- IT'S ALSO IN ISAIAH 6 - THE
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BIBLE SAYS THE LAW IS
HOLY - ROMANS 7, VERSE 12.
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THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS JUST -
DEUTERONOMY 32, VERSE 4, IT SAYS
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HIS LAW IS JUST.
THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS
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PERFECT - MATTHEW 5:48.
PSALM 19:7 SAYS THE LAW OF THE
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LORD IS PERFECT,
CONVERTING THE SOUL.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD IS
LOVE - 1 JOHN 4:8 - TELLS US HIS
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LAW IS LOVE - ROMANS 13:10. I
DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR ALL
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THE REFERENCES, BUT THE BIBLE IS
PRETTY CLEAR: GOD IS RIGHTEOUS,
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HIS LAW IS RIGHTEOUS. GOD
IS TRUTH, HIS LAW IS TRUTH.
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GOD IS PURE - IT
SAYS HIS LAW IS PURE.
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GOD IS SPIRITUAL -
HIS LAW IS SPIRITUAL.
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GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE -
HIS LAW IS UNCHANGEABLE.
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GOD IS ETERNAL -
HIS LAW IS ETERNAL.
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AND THIS ISN'T ALL THE
DEFINITIONS OF GOD'S CHARACTER,
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THESE ARE JUST A FEW FACETS
I CHOSE TO SHARE WITH YOU, BUT
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YOU'LL FIND THAT EVERYTHING THE
BIBLE SAYS ABOUT GOD, IT SAYS
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ABOUT HIS LAW BECAUSE THE LAW OF
GOD IS THE PERFECT EXPRESSION OF
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HIS WILL AND HIS CHARACTER.
SO ANY ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THE
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LAW OF GOD IS REALLY AN
ASSAULT ON GOD'S VERY PERSON.
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THE REASON IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR
US TO PREACH AND EXALT AND TEACH
00:12:44.73\00:12:48.10
THE LAW OF GOD IS YOU'RE LIFTING
UP WHO GOD IS WHEN YOU DO IT.
00:12:48.10\00:12:53.57
AND SO, DON'T EVER BE ASHAMED
ABOUT TALKING ABOUT THE TEN
00:12:53.57\00:12:56.84
COMMANDMENTS. THE
DEVIL HAS INTIMIDATED
00:12:56.84\00:12:59.37
CHRISTIANS WITH THE
WORD 'LEGALISM' AS THOUGH
00:12:59.37\00:13:02.74
OBEDIENCE IS LEGALISM.
THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH
00:13:02.74\00:13:06.98
THAT OBEDIENCE IS LEGALISM.
REAL OBEDIENCE IS COMING FROM
00:13:06.98\00:13:10.45
THE RIGHT MOTIVE - IT IS NOT
OBEDIENT - IT IS NOT LEGALISM.
00:13:10.45\00:13:14.09
AND SO, THE LAW OF
GOD MUST BE TAUGHT.
00:13:14.09\00:13:17.43
ONE REASON THE LAW OF GOD NEEDS
TO BE TAUGHT IS BECAUSE WE WON'T
00:13:17.43\00:13:21.06
UNDERSTAND WHAT SIN IS WITHOUT
IT. THAT'S MY SECOND POINT.
00:13:21.06\00:13:26.37
ACCORDING TO THE
BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN?
00:13:26.37\00:13:30.37
NOW THE MOST CLINICAL DEFINITION
YOU FIND IN 1 JOHN 3, VERSE 4 -
00:13:30.37\00:13:35.78
SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION
OF THE LAW, ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:13:35.78\00:13:40.78
SO, THE DEVIL DOESN'T
WANT US TALKING ABOUT SIN.
00:13:40.78\00:13:44.49
YOU KNOW WHY? WHEN
YOU PREACH AND YOU TALK
00:13:44.49\00:13:46.96
ABOUT SIN, PEOPLE BECOME
PAINFULLY AWARE THAT THEY HAVE
00:13:46.96\00:13:50.56
PROBLEMS - THAT THEY ARE SINNERS
- AND WHEN THEY BECOME AWARE
00:13:50.56\00:13:54.56
THEY'RE SINNERS, THEN THEY START
FEELING THE NEED FOR A SAVIOR.
00:13:54.56\00:13:59.17
SO IF YOU CAN JUST QUIET
THE CHURCH DOWN WHERE THEY DON'T
00:13:59.17\00:14:01.84
TALK ABOUT THE LAW, PEOPLE WILL
NOT FEEL A CONVICTION FOR SIN -
00:14:01.84\00:14:05.34
THEY WILL NOT SENSE THEIR NEED
OF JESUS OR REPENTANCE AND WON'T
00:14:05.34\00:14:08.78
FIND SALVATION. THE
LAW LEADS TO SALVATION.
00:14:08.78\00:14:14.48
WHILE WE ARE NOT SAVED BY THE
LAW, YOU CANNOT BE CONVICTED OF
00:14:14.48\00:14:18.95
YOUR SIN WITHOUT
KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAW.
00:14:18.95\00:14:23.39
AND SO, IT TELLS US THAT SIN IS
THE TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S LAW.
00:14:23.39\00:14:27.56
THAT'S WHY GOD SAID TO CAIN,
'SIN LIES AT THE DOOR.' HE WAS
00:14:27.56\00:14:31.30
GETTING READY TO
MURDER HIS BROTHER.
00:14:31.30\00:14:33.10
ROMANS 3:20, "BY THE LAW
IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN."
00:14:33.10\00:14:37.37
GET RID OF THE LAW, YOU GET RID
OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN; GET RID
00:14:37.37\00:14:40.61
OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN,
NOBODY NEEDS A SAVIOR FROM SIN.
00:14:40.61\00:14:43.95
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND
THE DEVIL'S STRATEGY?
00:14:43.95\00:14:45.81
>>YEP. >>HE'S ATTACKING THE LAW.
00:14:45.81\00:14:47.95
HE'S TRYING TO ECLIPSE, OBSCURE,
HIDE THE LAW OF GOD - DOWNPLAY
00:14:47.95\00:14:51.59
THE LAW OF GOD - BECAUSE
THEN PEOPLE WON'T KNOW THEY'RE
00:14:51.59\00:14:54.32
SINNERS AND THEY WON'T
KNOW HOW MUCH THEY NEED JESUS.
00:14:54.32\00:14:56.76
THEY WON'T BE SAVED AND FORGIVEN
OF THEIR SINS AND THEY WON'T
00:14:56.76\00:14:59.89
HAVE THE PEACE THAT
COMES FROM THAT EXPERIENCE.
00:14:59.89\00:15:03.57
IT ALSO TELLS US - ROMANS 7:7 -
"...I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN, BUT BY
00:15:03.57\00:15:09.04
THE LAW: FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN
LUST, EXCEPT THE LAW HAD SAID,
00:15:09.04\00:15:12.44
'THOU SHALT NOT COVET.'" NOTICE
THAT PAUL IS QUOTING FROM ONE OF
00:15:12.44\00:15:15.04
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
SO RIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD
00:15:15.04\00:15:18.11
IT'S REVEALING WHAT SIN IS
AND THEREBY HELPING US KNOW
00:15:18.11\00:15:22.78
OUR NEED FOR A SAVIOR.
NOW, A CHRISTIAN IS ULTIMATELY
00:15:22.78\00:15:26.45
A FOLLOWER OF
CHRIST. HOW DID JESUS FEEL
00:15:26.45\00:15:28.96
ABOUT THE LAW? DID
HE UPHOLD IT? >>YES.
00:15:28.96\00:15:32.99
>>JOHN 15, VERSE 10 - DID
JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:15:32.99\00:15:37.20
>>YES. >>THAT'S
THE BIG QUESTION.
00:15:37.20\00:15:38.50
HE SAID - IF YOU BELIEVE
JESUS - 'I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S
00:15:38.50\00:15:42.70
COMMANDMENTS.' SOME
PEOPLE THINK THAT JESUS
00:15:42.70\00:15:45.71
CAME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW.
00:15:45.71\00:15:47.54
CHRIST SAID, 'DO NOT THINK' - IN
MATTHEW - 'THINK NOT THAT I HAVE
00:15:47.54\00:15:51.21
COME TO DESTROY THE
LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
00:15:51.21\00:15:52.91
I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY
BUT TO FULFILL' - AND THE WORD
00:15:52.91\00:15:56.08
'FULFILL' MEANT -
THERE, MEANS TO FILL FULL.
00:15:56.08\00:15:59.55
JESUS CAME TO FILL UP THE
LAW - KEEP IT IN HIS LIFE.
00:15:59.55\00:16:03.39
SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, HE CAME
TO KEEP IT SO WE DON'T HAVE TO.'
00:16:03.39\00:16:05.99
NO, HE CAME TO KEEP IT
AS AN EXAMPLE ON HOW WE CAN.
00:16:05.99\00:16:09.70
A CHRISTIAN IS A
FOLLOWER OF CHRIST.
00:16:09.70\00:16:12.23
WE DON'T NEED EXCUSES TO
DISOBEY, WE'RE ALREADY REALLY
00:16:12.23\00:16:14.54
GOOD AT THAT. (LAUGHTER)
00:16:14.54\00:16:16.67
WE NEED - WE NEED AN
EXAMPLE TO SHOW US HOW WE
00:16:16.67\00:16:19.21
OVERCOME. >>AMEN.
00:16:19.21\00:16:21.78
>>AND JESUS, THERE IN
REVELATION, HE SAYS SEVEN TIMES
00:16:21.78\00:16:24.38
IN HIS MESSAGE TO THE CHURCHES
- 'TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES' - 'TO
00:16:24.38\00:16:27.15
HIM THAT OVERCOMES' - 'TO HIM
THAT OVERCOMES' - EACH TIME IT'S
00:16:27.15\00:16:30.09
ACCOMPANIED WITH
GREAT PROMISES OF GOOD.
00:16:30.09\00:16:33.15
THE DEVIL WANTS US TO THINK
THAT WE CAN ALL SIN BUT WE CAN'T
00:16:33.15\00:16:37.56
OBEY. AND REALLY
WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE
00:16:37.56\00:16:40.96
HAVE MORE FAITH IN THE DEVIL'S
ABILITY TO TEMPT US THAN JESUS'
00:16:40.96\00:16:44.90
ABILITY TO KEEP US
FROM FALLING. >>AMEN.
00:16:44.90\00:16:47.97
>>SO WHAT'S BIGGER?
YOUR GOD OR YOUR DEVIL?
00:16:47.97\00:16:51.47
IF YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS
CAN TRANSFORM YOU - CAN THE LORD
00:16:51.47\00:16:54.11
HELP YOU IN ANY SIN? HAVE
ANY OF YOU EVER EXPERIENCED
00:16:54.11\00:16:57.35
GOD GIVING YOU VICTORY
OVER ANY SIN IN YOUR LIFE?
00:16:57.35\00:17:00.35
>>YES. >>AMEN.
00:17:00.35\00:17:02.42
>>WELL, IF HE CAN HELP YOU WITH
ANYTHING, THEN HE CAN HELP YOU
00:17:02.42\00:17:05.39
WITH EVERYTHING. >>AMEN.
00:17:05.39\00:17:07.16
>>BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH
00:17:07.16\00:17:09.26
GOD, RIGHT? AND THE
SAME WAY THAT HE GAVE
00:17:09.26\00:17:12.33
YOU VICTORY IN WHATEVER THAT
AREA MIGHT BE, HE CAN GIVE YOU
00:17:12.33\00:17:15.03
VICTORY IN THE AREAS WHERE
YOU MAY STILL BE STRUGGLING, BUT
00:17:15.03\00:17:17.67
DON'T FALL FOR THE DEVIL'S
MARKETING PLAN THAT - 'OH WELL,
00:17:17.67\00:17:23.64
JESUS CAME AND OBEYED BECAUSE
WE CAN'T.' NO, HE CAME AND
00:17:23.64\00:17:27.58
OBEYED TO SHOW US
HOW WE CAN. >>AMEN.
00:17:27.58\00:17:30.08
>>BECAUSE WE - HE HAS GIVEN US
AN EXAMPLE - THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
00:17:30.08\00:17:33.18
WE SHOULD WALK
EVEN AS HE WALKED.
00:17:33.18\00:17:35.42
WE WALK IN HIS STEPS.
HE'S AN EXAMPLE TO US.
00:17:35.42\00:17:38.45
YES YOU CAN OBEY. JESUS DID.
00:17:38.45\00:17:40.62
THE BIBLE SAYS HE DID NO
SIN. HE KEPT HIS FATHER'S
00:17:40.62\00:17:43.59
COMMANDMENTS AND HE
SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP
00:17:43.59\00:17:47.86
MY COMMANDMENTS. >>AMEN.
00:17:47.86\00:17:49.46
>>AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:17:49.46\00:17:50.83
>>IT'S - SO, WHO HAS SINNED?
AND WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR SIN?
00:17:50.83\00:17:55.64
WE'RE JUST KIND OF LAYING A
FOUNDATION RIGHT NOW FOR THIS
00:17:55.64\00:17:57.67
SUBJECT. YOU ALL
KNOW ROMANS 3:23,
00:17:57.67\00:18:01.64
"FOR" - HOW MANY? - >>ALL.
00:18:01.64\00:18:03.88
>>"ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN
SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD."
00:18:03.88\00:18:07.98
EVERYBODY WHO HAS EVER LIVED,
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF JESUS, HAS
00:18:07.98\00:18:12.02
SINNED. AND WHAT IS
THE PENALTY FOR SIN?
00:18:12.02\00:18:15.06
>>DEATH. >>ROMANS 6:23 -
00:18:15.06\00:18:16.49
>>DEATH. >>"FOR
THE WAGES OF SIN IS
00:18:16.49\00:18:19.49
DEATH." AND SO ALL
OF US ARE GUILTY OF
00:18:19.49\00:18:23.20
BREAKING GOD'S LAW AND
THE PENALTY FOR BREAKING GOD'S
00:18:23.20\00:18:26.07
PERFECT LAW IS DEATH.
AND IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE
00:18:26.07\00:18:30.41
SERIOUS THAN
THAT, DOES IT? >>NO.
00:18:30.41\00:18:32.57
>>SO WITHOUT HELP FROM THE
LORD, WE ARE ALL UNDER A DEATH
00:18:32.57\00:18:36.68
PENALTY. NUMBER
7: SHOULD CHRISTIANS
00:18:36.68\00:18:42.12
KEEP THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS? >>YES!
00:18:42.12\00:18:44.39
>>NO, NO, I MEAN NEW TESTAMENT
CHRISTIANS, SHOULD WE KEEP THE
00:18:44.39\00:18:47.19
TEN COMMANDMENTS? >>YES!
00:18:47.19\00:18:48.69
>>MATTHEW 19:17, JESUS SAID, "IF
YOU WILL ENTER INTO LIFE, KEEP
00:18:48.69\00:18:52.83
THE
COMMANDMENTS." IS THAT PLAIN?
00:18:52.83\00:18:55.26
SAY 'AMEN' IF
THAT'S PLAIN. >>AMEN.
00:18:55.26\00:18:56.67
>>YOUR BIBLE HAS
THAT IN RED LETTERS.
00:18:56.67\00:18:58.33
LET ME TELL YOU ONE MORE
TIME - IT'S MATTHEW 19:17.
00:18:58.33\00:19:00.74
YOU'LL ALSO FIND THIS IN MARK
CHAPTER 10, WHEN THE RICH YOUNG
00:19:00.74\00:19:03.47
RULER CAME TO JESUS AND SAID,
'GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THINGS
00:19:03.47\00:19:06.01
SHALL I DO THAT I
MIGHT INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE?'
00:19:06.01\00:19:08.41
JESUS SAID, 'THOU KNOWEST THE
COMMANDMENTS.' AND JESUS, THEN,
00:19:08.41\00:19:11.51
QUOTED NOT FROM CEREMONIAL
LAWS, NOT FROM VARIOUS HEALTH
00:19:11.51\00:19:15.25
STATUTES, HE QUOTED
FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:19:15.25\00:19:18.62
NOW, WE DON'T KEEP THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS TO BE SAVED, BUT IF
00:19:18.62\00:19:22.99
WE HAVE ACCEPTED HIS
SALVATION, WE WILL KEEP THE TEN
00:19:22.99\00:19:25.83
COMMANDMENTS. DON'T
FORGET, GOD DID NOT SAVE
00:19:25.83\00:19:29.13
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM
EGYPT BY SAYING, 'HERE'S MY LAW.
00:19:29.13\00:19:34.80
KEEP MY LAW AND I'LL GET YOU
OUT OF EGYPT.' HE STARTED OUT BY
00:19:34.80\00:19:38.44
SAYING, 'HERE'S A LAMB.
SACRIFICE THE LAMB, APPLY THE
00:19:38.44\00:19:43.41
BLOOD OF THE LAMB, AND WE WILL
BEGIN A JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED
00:19:43.41\00:19:45.85
LAND. I'LL GET YOU OUT OF EGYPT
AS SOON AS YOU ACCEPT THE LAMB.'
00:19:45.85\00:19:51.02
AFTER THEY ACCEPTED THE LAMB -
AND YOU KNOW WHO THAT REPRESENTS
00:19:51.02\00:19:54.29
- THE LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES
AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD -
00:19:54.29\00:19:56.89
AFTER THEY ACCEPTED JESUS - THAT
PASSOVER LAMB - THEY THEN BEGAN
00:19:56.89\00:20:01.26
THEIR JOURNEY. THEN
THEY WENT TO MOUNT SINAI
00:20:01.26\00:20:04.10
AND HE DELIVERED THE LAW AND, OF
COURSE, THE FIRST THING HE SAYS
00:20:04.10\00:20:06.67
IS: 'I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD THAT
BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF
00:20:06.67\00:20:09.40
EGYPT OUT OF THE HOUSE OF
BONDAGE.' THAT'S PART OF THE TEN
00:20:09.40\00:20:11.84
COMMANDMENTS. YOU'LL FIND THAT
RIGHT HERE - THIS IS REAL HEBREW
00:20:11.84\00:20:14.21
- AND THAT'S WHAT IT
SAYS HERE IN THE FIRST LINE.
00:20:14.21\00:20:16.44
IT INCLUDES THE PART THAT SAYS,
'I AM THE LORD WHO SAVED YOU' -
00:20:16.44\00:20:20.95
HE BEGINS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
BY SAYING, 'I HAVE SAVED YOU.'
00:20:20.95\00:20:23.45
YOU GOT THAT? >>AMEN.
00:20:23.45\00:20:24.65
>>SO WHAT COMES FIRST?
OBEDIENCE OR SALVATION?
00:20:24.65\00:20:27.62
>>SALVATION.
>>YOU CANNOT BE SAVED BY
00:20:27.62\00:20:29.99
OBEYING BECAUSE
SALVATION MUST COME FIRST.
00:20:29.99\00:20:32.69
OTHERWISE IT'S - IF YOUR
OBJECTIVE IS TO BE CLEAN, AND
00:20:32.69\00:20:38.33
YOU TELL YOUR CHILDREN, 'I WANT
YOU TO CLEAN UP BEFORE YOU TAKE
00:20:38.33\00:20:41.14
A BATH.' ISN'T THAT BACKWARDS?
YOU TAKE THE BATH TO CLEAN UP.
00:20:41.14\00:20:47.24
AND SO YOU FIRST MUST BE
SAVED BEFORE YOU CAN OBEY.
00:20:47.24\00:20:51.88
YOU COME TO JESUS FIRST - AFTER
THEY ACCEPTED THE LAMB AND THEY
00:20:51.88\00:20:57.62
WERE BAPTIZED IN THE SEA AND
THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE PILLAR
00:20:57.62\00:20:59.92
OF FIRE - WE NEED THOSE BAPTISMS
- HE BROUGHT THEM TO MOUNT SINAI
00:20:59.92\00:21:03.66
AND HE SAID, 'NOW, IF YOU LOVE
ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' ISN'T
00:21:03.66\00:21:06.13
THAT HOW IT WORKED? >>AMEN.
00:21:06.13\00:21:07.86
>>THEY WERE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING
THE LAW, BUT PLEASE, PLEASE
00:21:07.86\00:21:10.87
DON'T MISS THIS POINT.
THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE POPULAR
00:21:10.87\00:21:13.40
AND SOME PEOPLE WILL TWIST IT.
THEY WERE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING
00:21:13.40\00:21:16.27
THE LAW, BUT AFTER HE BROUGHT
THEM TO MOUNT SINAI, THOSE WHO
00:21:16.27\00:21:19.47
HAD BEEN SAVED FROM EGYPT
THAT REFUSED TO OBEY, NEVER MADE
00:21:19.47\00:21:22.48
IT TO THE PROMISED
LAND. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
00:21:22.48\00:21:24.45
>>YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING
THE LAW, BUT YOU WILL DEFINITELY
00:21:24.45\00:21:27.38
BE LOST BY
DELIBERATELY DISOBEYING IT.
00:21:27.38\00:21:29.78
>>AMEN. >>IF WE CONTINUE TO SIN
00:21:29.78\00:21:32.59
WILLFULLY - HEBREWS CHAPTER
10, VERSE 26 - "AFTER WE HAVE
00:21:32.59\00:21:36.52
RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
TRUTH, THERE NO LONGER REMAINS A
00:21:36.52\00:21:39.56
SACRIFICE FOR SINS, BUT A
CERTAIN FEARFUL EXPECTATION OF
00:21:39.56\00:21:42.60
JUDGMENT" - AND THEN IT GOES
ON TO SAY THAT THOSE THAT REFUSE
00:21:42.60\00:21:45.97
MOSES' LAW, THEY SUFFERED UNDER
THAT WRATH AND IT WILL ALSO BE
00:21:45.97\00:21:50.31
TRUE OF THOSE WHO DELIBERATELY,
WILFULLY DISOBEY GOD'S LAW.
00:21:50.31\00:21:54.64
SHOULD A CHRISTIAN
KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:21:54.64\00:21:58.25
REVELATION 14:12 - SPEAKING OF
GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS,
00:21:58.25\00:22:02.78
"HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE
SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP
00:22:02.78\00:22:06.52
THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD".
AND AGAIN, REVELATION 22:14,
00:22:06.52\00:22:12.59
"BLESSED" - THIS IS THE LAST
CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE, FRIENDS.
00:22:12.59\00:22:15.03
I MEAN, IF THINGS ARE GOING TO
CHANGE HE WOULD HAVE CHANGED IT
00:22:15.03\00:22:17.00
BY THEN. BUT WHAT
DOES IT SAY THERE?
00:22:17.00\00:22:19.93
"BLESSED" - IS THAT
GOOD OR BAD? >>GOOD.
00:22:19.93\00:22:22.87
>>"BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT KEEP
HIS COMMANDMENTS THAT THEY MIGHT
00:22:22.87\00:22:26.74
HAVE A RIGHT TO THE TREE OF
LIFE, AND ENTER IN THROUGH THE
00:22:26.74\00:22:29.74
GATES OF THE CITY." IF
YOU WANT TO EAT FROM THE TREE
00:22:29.74\00:22:32.01
OF LIFE AND ENTER IN THROUGH
THE GATES OF THE CITY, THEN YOU
00:22:32.01\00:22:34.52
NEED TO BE ONE OF THOSE
BLESSED PEOPLE THAT KEEPS
00:22:34.52\00:22:37.19
HIS COMMANDMENTS. AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:22:37.19\00:22:40.26
>>BUT ISN'T HE ASKING US
TO DO SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE?
00:22:40.26\00:22:42.79
>>NO. >>HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?
00:22:42.79\00:22:45.86
IT'S ONE THING TO SAY WE
SHOULD DO IT - THAT'S CLEAR.
00:22:45.86\00:22:48.30
BUT HOW IS IT POSSIBLE
TO KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS?
00:22:48.30\00:22:52.30
THE ANSWERS ARE GIVEN -
PHILIPPIANS 4:13, "I CAN DO ALL
00:22:52.30\00:22:56.14
THINGS THROUGH
CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME."
00:22:56.14\00:23:00.11
JESUS WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH.
HE NEVER SAYS IT'S EASY.
00:23:00.11\00:23:03.58
IT'S TOUGH
SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE TEMPTED.
00:23:03.58\00:23:05.71
JESUS WENT THROUGH SOME TOUGH
TEMPTATIONS IN THE WILDERNESS
00:23:05.71\00:23:08.68
WHEN HE WAS FASTING 40 DAYS AND
40 NIGHTS, BUT HE WILL GIVE YOU
00:23:08.68\00:23:12.22
STRENGTH TO DO WHAT HE ASKS YOU
TO DO. NOW THERE'S THE POINT.
00:23:12.22\00:23:16.09
INHERENT IN EVERY COMMAND OF
GOD, IT'S PRE-PACKAGED WITH THE
00:23:16.09\00:23:22.40
POWER TO OBEY. >>AMEN.
00:23:22.40\00:23:27.50
>>I BOUGHT A TRAILER
HITCH FOR MY TRUCK YESTERDAY.
00:23:27.50\00:23:33.91
IT'S THE MOST
EXCITING THING I DID YESTERDAY.
00:23:33.91\00:23:35.48
(LAUGHTER) I WANTED TO MAKE
SURE TO GET THE RIGHT SIZE, BUT
00:23:35.48\00:23:40.52
THE TRAILER HITCH - IT'S GOT
THE TRAILER BALL - IT'S GOT THE
00:23:40.52\00:23:43.05
HITCH, YOU KNOW, GUYS - THOSE
DROP-DOWN HITCHES THAT YOU SLIDE
00:23:43.05\00:23:45.19
INTO THE RECEPTACLE THERE ON
THE BACK OF THE TRUCKS - SQUARE
00:23:45.19\00:23:47.92
THING - AND WHEN I GOT IT, I
THOUGHT, 'THIS IS GOING TO DO ME
00:23:47.92\00:23:52.89
NO GOOD IF I DON'T HAVE THE
PIN THAT HOLDS IT IN PLACE."
00:23:52.89\00:23:55.86
BECAUSE YOU SLIDE THE THING
IN AND YOU HOOK UP YOUR TRAILER,
00:23:55.86\00:23:59.03
YOU DRIVE AWAY - YOUR
TRAILER'S GOING TO STAY THERE -
00:23:59.03\00:24:00.47
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO ANYWHERE.
00:24:00.47\00:24:01.64
(LAUGHTER) SO I THOUGHT,
'NOW WHERE DO YOU GET THE PIN?'
00:24:01.64\00:24:05.04
I WAS LOOKING
ALL OVER THE SHELF.
00:24:05.04\00:24:06.27
AND I'M HOLDING THIS THING IN MY
HAND AND I HEART IT - 'CLUNK!'
00:24:06.27\00:24:08.78
- AND I SHOOK IT AND I
SAID, 'OH, THAT WAS VERY NICE.'
00:24:08.78\00:24:12.08
THEY PUT SOME TAPE OVER THE END,
THEY DROPPED THE CONNECTING PIN
00:24:12.08\00:24:14.42
- I LOOKED AT THE LABEL, SURE
ENOUGH IT SAYS, 'CONNECTING PIN
00:24:14.42\00:24:17.02
INCLUDED'. I
THOUGHT, 'NOW THAT MAKES SENSE
00:24:17.02\00:24:19.15
BECAUSE THIS TRAILER HITCH WOULD
BE NO GOOD AT ALL IF I HOOKED IT
00:24:19.15\00:24:22.19
UP TO THE TRAILER, I
DROVE AWAY, AND NOTHING MOVED.
00:24:22.19\00:24:25.16
IT GIVES ME THE CONNECTING
PIN. IN EVERY COMMAND OF GOD YOU
00:24:25.16\00:24:29.86
HAVE THE CONNECTING PIN. >>AMEN.
00:24:29.86\00:24:32.17
>>HE GIVES YOU THE
POWER TO GO SOMEWHERE WITH IT.
00:24:32.17\00:24:35.57
IT GIVES YOU THE
POWER TO MOVE OFF THE DIME.
00:24:35.57\00:24:38.51
YOU CAN DO WHAT GOD ASKS YOU TO
DO BECAUSE WHEN GOD TELLS YOU TO
00:24:38.51\00:24:42.58
DO SOMETHING, WOULDN'T IT BE
CRUEL FOR THE LORD TO PUNISH HIS
00:24:42.58\00:24:46.18
CHILDREN FOR NOT OBEYING
A COMMAND THEY CANNOT OBEY?
00:24:46.18\00:24:49.95
>>AMEN. >>ARE SINNERS GOING
00:24:49.95\00:24:52.92
TO BE PUNISHED? >>YES.
00:24:52.92\00:24:54.92
>>DID JESUS TAKE A
PUNISHMENT FOR SIN?
00:24:54.92\00:24:56.62
>>YES. >>HOW -
WHAT RIGHT - HOW JUST
00:24:56.62\00:25:00.36
WOULD IT BE IF GOD WOULD PUNISH
HIS CHILDREN - EVEN HIS OWN SON
00:25:00.36\00:25:06.60
- FOR PEOPLE BREAKING LAWS
THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP?
00:25:06.60\00:25:09.64
>>AMEN. >>YOU
SEE WHAT THE DEVIL IS
00:25:09.64\00:25:11.84
ACCUSING PEOPLE OF? AND I
HEAR PASTORS SAY IT - OH, IT'S A
00:25:11.84\00:25:15.38
DOCTRINE OF DEVILS - I HEAR
PASTORS SAY, 'WELL, NOBODY CAN
00:25:15.38\00:25:19.35
KEEP THE LAW. THAT'S WHY JESUS
HAD TO DIE. WELL, IT'S TRUE NO
00:25:19.35\00:25:24.19
ONE CAN KEEP IT WITHOUT HIS
POWER, BUT I BELIEVE, THROUGH
00:25:24.19\00:25:27.26
CHRIST, ALL THINGS
ARE POSSIBLE. >>AMEN.
00:25:27.26\00:25:29.66
>>AND IF GOD IS GOING TO PUNISH
SINNERS FOR SINNING WHEN THEY
00:25:29.66\00:25:33.46
CAN'T OBEY BECAUSE HE'S ASKING
THE IMPOSSIBLE OF THEM, WELL
00:25:33.46\00:25:37.57
THAT MAKES GOD A CRUEL
TYRANT. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
00:25:37.57\00:25:40.97
>>BUT WITH HIS SPIRIT AND WITH
HIS POWER, YOU CAN BE DIFFERENT.
00:25:40.97\00:25:44.64
YOU CAN OBEY. >>AMEN.
00:25:44.64\00:25:46.07
>>HOW ARE YOU GOING TO
CHANGE SOCIETY BY TELLING THE
00:25:46.07\00:25:48.84
ALCOHOLIC, 'WELL, NOBODY CAN
REALLY OBEY.' (LAUGHTER) 'WE'RE
00:25:48.84\00:25:53.58
JUST GOING TO, YOU KNOW,
WE'LL SUBSIDIZE YOUR DRINKING.
00:25:53.58\00:25:56.25
WE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO CHANGE
AND GIVE IT UP AND STOP BEATING
00:25:56.25\00:25:58.39
YOUR WIFE AND LOSING YOUR JOBS.'
OR THE PERSON WHO'S ADDICTED TO
00:25:58.39\00:26:04.16
HEROIN OR CIGARETTES - I
DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE IS HARDER.
00:26:04.16\00:26:07.23
WHAT GOOD ARE YOU GOING TO
DO IN THE WORLD IF WE DON'T TELL
00:26:07.23\00:26:10.20
SINNERS THAT THEY
CAN GET THE VICTORY?
00:26:10.20\00:26:12.10
>>AMEN. >>CAN PEOPLE WHO
00:26:12.10\00:26:14.37
DRINK GET THE VICTORY? >>AMEN.
00:26:14.37\00:26:15.77
>>YES. >>DO YOU ALL KNOW
00:26:15.77\00:26:17.01
SOME THAT HAVE? >>YES.
00:26:17.01\00:26:18.24
>>CAN PEOPLE WHO SMOKE AND USE
DRUGS AND - YOU JUST NAME YOUR
00:26:18.24\00:26:22.31
FAVORITE SINFUL ADDICTION.
DO WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE CAN
00:26:22.31\00:26:25.45
CHANGE? >>YES!
00:26:25.45\00:26:26.78
>>AMEN! THAT'S
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS, IS
00:26:26.78\00:26:28.55
TO HEAR YOU CAN OBEY -
YOU CAN GET THE VICTORY.
00:26:28.55\00:26:31.49
AND IT BREAKS MY HEART WHEN
I HEAR PASTORS SAYING, 'WELL,
00:26:31.49\00:26:33.22
NOBODY CAN REALLY OBEY.' AND WE
MAKE ALL THESE EXCUSES FOR SIN.
00:26:33.22\00:26:38.09
YES YOU CAN! YOU
CAN BE DIFFERENT.
00:26:38.09\00:26:40.90
YOU CAN LIVE A NEW KIND
OF LIFE. YOU CAN CHANGE.
00:26:40.90\00:26:43.26
IS IT A STRUGGLE?
YES. DOES IT TAKE TIME?
00:26:43.26\00:26:45.43
SOMETIMES
SANCTIFICATION - IT TAKES TIME.
00:26:45.43\00:26:47.47
>>AMEN. >>BUT DON'T - DON'T
00:26:47.47\00:26:50.91
UNDERESTIMATE THE
POWER OF GOD. DON'T GIVE THE
00:26:50.91\00:26:52.84
CREDIT TO THE DEVIL. >>AMEN.
00:26:52.84\00:26:54.54
>>FOR ALL - REMAINING SLAVES
- THEN YOU'RE LIKE THOSE SPIES
00:26:54.54\00:26:59.08
THAT CAME BACK.
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GIVE A
00:26:59.08\00:27:01.65
GLORIOUS REPORT OF THE PROMISED
LAND AND THEY CAME BACK AND THEY
00:27:01.65\00:27:04.75
SAID, 'OH, THE
GIANTS ARE TOO BIG.
00:27:04.75\00:27:08.22
THE WALLS ARE TOO
BIG. OBSTACLES TOO BIG.
00:27:08.22\00:27:11.46
WE CAN'T CONQUER THE PROMISED
LAND.' AND GOD SAID, 'IF YOU
00:27:11.46\00:27:14.96
DON'T THINK THAT YOU'RE GOING
TO MAKE IT TO THE PROMISED LAND,
00:27:14.96\00:27:16.90
THEN YOU'RE GOING TO
DIE IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:27:16.90\00:27:18.23
JOSHUA AND CALEB
SAID, 'WE ARE ABLE.
00:27:18.23\00:27:20.24
WE BELIEVE, WITH GOD'S
HELP, WE CAN CONQUER THEM.'
00:27:20.24\00:27:22.40
>>AMEN. >>AND I'M GLAD DAVID
00:27:22.40\00:27:24.51
DIDN'T HAVE THAT ATTITUDE.
'OH, GOLIATH'S TOO BIG.
00:27:24.51\00:27:26.78
I'M GOING HOME.' (LAUGHTER)
00:27:26.78\00:27:29.48
YEAH, YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME
SIN IN YOUR LIFE THAT SEEMS
00:27:29.48\00:27:31.61
LIKE A BIG UGLY GIANT, BUT
THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD,
00:27:31.61\00:27:36.75
YOU CAN OVERCOME. >>AMEN.
00:27:36.75\00:27:38.72
>>ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE THROUGH GOD, AMEN?
00:27:38.72\00:27:40.49
>>AMEN. >>HE THAT
HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK
00:27:40.49\00:27:43.36
IN YOU WILL PERFORM IT
UNTO THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:27:43.36\00:27:46.19
IF YOU FALL DON'T GIVE
UP. HE'S BEGUN A WORK IN YOU.
00:27:46.19\00:27:49.40
HE'S THE AUTHOR AND
THE FINISHER OF YOUR FAITH.
00:27:49.40\00:27:51.57
YES, YOU CAN BE AN OBEYER OF
GOD'S LAW - NOT A HEARER ONLY,
00:27:51.57\00:27:55.57
BUT A DOER. >>AMEN.
00:27:55.57\00:27:57.71
>>POINT #9: WHAT ARE THE
OLD AND THE NEW COVENANTS?
00:27:57.71\00:28:02.28
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
THAT. WELL, IF YOU LOOK IN
00:28:02.28\00:28:05.35
DEUTERONOMY, WE QUOTED IT
ALREADY - CHAPTER 4, VERSE 13 -
00:28:05.35\00:28:08.72
HE SAYS, "SO HE DECLARED TO YOU
HIS COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED
00:28:08.72\00:28:10.95
YOU TO PERFORM, THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS;" COVENANT - TEN
00:28:10.95\00:28:14.52
COMMANDMENTS - NO QUESTION
ABOUT IT. OLD COVENANT - THE TEN
00:28:14.52\00:28:17.36
COMMANDMENTS - NOT EXACTLY.
THE OLD COVENANT WAS BASED UPON
00:28:17.36\00:28:22.40
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BUT
A COVENANT IS AN AGREEMENT.
00:28:22.40\00:28:25.53
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
ARE NOT AN AGREEMENT.
00:28:25.53\00:28:27.77
THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS ARE THE TERMS.
00:28:27.77\00:28:30.47
THE AGREEMENT WAS WHEN GOD SPOKE
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BEFORE HE
00:28:30.47\00:28:34.31
EVER WROTE IT DOWN, ALL THE
PEOPLE STOOD AT THE MOUNTAIN,
00:28:34.31\00:28:36.71
THEY HEARD HIS VOICE THUNDER
AND RUMBLE THROUGH THE LAND, AND
00:28:36.71\00:28:40.48
THEY SAID TO
MOSES, 'YOU SPEAK TO US.
00:28:40.48\00:28:41.98
DON'T LET THE LORD SPEAK IT US,
IT'S SCARING US HALF TO DEATH.'
00:28:41.98\00:28:44.85
BUT WHEN HE GAVE THEM THOSE
LAWS, YOU KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE
00:28:44.85\00:28:47.12
SAID? 'ALL THAT
THE LORD HAS SAID WE
00:28:47.12\00:28:50.56
WILL DO.' NOW, IF
YOU AND I ARE GOING TO
00:28:50.56\00:28:53.40
DRAW UP A CONTRACT, THE WAY THAT
IT'S DONE ALL THE TIME - WITH
00:28:53.40\00:28:56.93
LAWYERS STILL TODAY - FIRST
YOU HAVE A VERBAL AGREEMENT.
00:28:56.93\00:28:59.90
WHAT DO WE WANT THE
TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT TO BE?
00:28:59.90\00:29:02.17
WE AGREE ON THE TERMS, WE
SAY, 'OKAY, LET'S WRITE IT DOWN.
00:29:02.17\00:29:04.34
WRITE IT DOWN - YOU GET A
COPY, I GET A COPY - WE SIGN IT.
00:29:04.34\00:29:08.44
BY THE WAY, JESUS SAID HEAVEN
AND EARTH HAVE TO PASS AWAY FOR
00:29:08.44\00:29:14.68
ONE JOT OR ONE
TITTLE TO DROP FROM THE LAW.
00:29:14.68\00:29:17.12
SOME HAVE WONDERED
IF THERE ARE TWO COPIES.
00:29:17.12\00:29:20.06
YOU KNOW, IT DOES SAY - YOU
NEVER SEE IT AND ARTISTS CAN'T
00:29:20.06\00:29:22.46
SHOW IT - UNLESS YOU'VE GOT A
THREE DIMENSIONAL, BUT IT SAYS,
00:29:22.46\00:29:25.43
'TWO TABLES OF
STONE WRITTEN ON -
00:29:25.43\00:29:27.36
>>BOTH SIDES. >>BOTH SIDES.
00:29:27.36\00:29:29.30
>>AMEN. >>I'M NOT
GOING TO FLIP THAT
00:29:29.30\00:29:31.30
AROUND FOR YOU RIGHT NOW BECAUSE
WE'VE ONLY GOT IT ONE SIDE.
00:29:31.30\00:29:33.94
JUST PRETEND IT'S ON BOTH SIDES.
BUT SOME HAVE WONDERED IF YOU
00:29:33.94\00:29:37.64
HAD FOUR ON ONE SIDE AND THE
OTHER SIX ON THE BACK; FOUR ON
00:29:37.64\00:29:41.11
ONE, SIX ON THE BACK - ONE
WAS TO REPRESENT GOD'S COPY, ONE
00:29:41.11\00:29:43.71
WAS TO REPRESENT MAN'S COPY.
HAVE - ANYONE - YOU EVER HAVE
00:29:43.71\00:29:47.82
A CONTRACT SOMEONE SENDS
YOU? THEY SEND YOU TWO COPIES
00:29:47.82\00:29:49.85
AND THEY SAY, 'SIGN
BOTH. SEND ONE BACK.
00:29:49.85\00:29:52.15
YOU'VE GOT A
COPY, I'VE GOT A COPY.
00:29:52.15\00:29:53.56
WE'VE GOT A COVENANT.' SO
GOD GAVE THEM THE LAW ORALLY.
00:29:53.56\00:29:57.03
THEY AGREED. HE WROTE IT DOWN.
00:29:57.03\00:29:58.99
THEY SAID, 'ALL THE LORD HAS
SAID, WE WILL DO.' THAT'S WHAT
00:29:58.99\00:30:01.16
THE COVENANT WAS: 'ALL THE
LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO.'
00:30:01.16\00:30:04.20
BUT DID THEY? >>NO.
00:30:04.20\00:30:06.37
>>AS SOON AS GOD GAVE IT TO
MOSES, HE GOT DOWN THE MOUNTAIN,
00:30:06.37\00:30:09.84
THEY WERE HAVING A HOOTENANNY
AROUND A GOLDEN CALF WITH HALF
00:30:09.84\00:30:15.58
THEIR CLOTHES GONE. THEY BROKE
THE LAW. YEAH, SO GOD SAID 'YOU
00:30:15.58\00:30:22.18
DON'T HAVE THE KEEP THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE'?
00:30:22.18\00:30:23.79
MOSES THREW THEM
OUT OF HIS HANDS.
00:30:23.79\00:30:25.12
GOD SAID, 'NO,
CUT SOME MORE STONES.
00:30:25.12\00:30:27.66
I CUT THE FIRST
ONES, MOSES, YOU CUT THESE.
00:30:27.66\00:30:29.79
YOU BROKE THEM. CUT
- BRING 'EM BACK UP.
00:30:29.79\00:30:33.53
I'LL WRITE ON THEM THE
WORDS OF THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS.
00:30:33.53\00:30:36.00
THE LAW DIDN'T CHANGE.
THEY PUT IT BACK IN THE ARK,
00:30:36.00\00:30:38.80
THEY CARRIED IT AROUND, AND IT'S
STILL PROBABLY HIDDEN IN ISRAEL
00:30:38.80\00:30:41.14
SOMEWHERE IN A
CAVE TO THIS VERY DAY.
00:30:41.14\00:30:42.97
TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE
ARK STILL IN EXISTENCE TODAY.
00:30:42.97\00:30:46.47
BUT THE NEW COVENANT - WHERE
DOES THE NEW COVENANT FIRST
00:30:46.47\00:30:50.71
APPEAR? IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
THE FIRST TIME YOU FIND THE NEW
00:30:50.71\00:30:56.48
COVENANT IT'S NOT
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:30:56.48\00:30:58.49
JEREMIAH 31:31, IT SAYS 'A NEW
COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM
00:30:58.49\00:31:02.19
AFTER THESE DAYS.' BY THE WAY,
HE DOES NOT MAKE A NEW COVENANT
00:31:02.19\00:31:05.66
WITH GENTILES, HE MAKES A
NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF
00:31:05.66\00:31:09.60
ISRAEL. >>AMEN.
00:31:09.60\00:31:10.97
>>'A NEW COVENANT WILL I MAKE
AFTER THOSE DAYS WITH THE HOUSE
00:31:10.97\00:31:13.44
OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF
JUDAH:' THE NEW COVENANT GOD
00:31:13.44\00:31:16.57
SAYS, 'I WILL WRITE MY LAW
IN THEIR HEARTS.' OLD COVENANT -
00:31:16.57\00:31:20.58
THE PEOPLE SAID, 'ALL THE
LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO.' NEW
00:31:20.58\00:31:22.74
COVENANT, GOD SAID, 'I
WILL.' OLD COVENANT 'WE WILL.'
00:31:22.74\00:31:25.91
THEY FAILED. NEW
COVENANT, GOD SAYS,
00:31:25.91\00:31:27.75
'I WILL.' WHAT WERE THE
TERMS? THE EXACT SAME TERMS.
00:31:27.75\00:31:32.69
THE LAW IS THE SAME THING - IT'S
WRITTEN ON A DIFFERENT PLACE.
00:31:32.69\00:31:36.59
IT'S WRITTEN ON THE HEART.
IT'S BASED ON THE PROMISES OF
00:31:36.59\00:31:39.33
GOD BUT IT'S THE
SAME LAW. >>AMEN.
00:31:39.33\00:31:42.20
>>AND IT'S SUMMED UP IN TWO
COMMANDMENTS - TWO TABLES OF
00:31:42.20\00:31:47.34
STONE - WHY? BECAUSE THE FIRST
TABLE IS DEALING WITH MAN'S
00:31:47.34\00:31:53.84
RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD -
MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD.
00:31:53.84\00:31:58.05
NOW CHRIST SAID THE LAW
IS SUMMED UP IN TWO GREAT
00:31:58.05\00:31:59.61
COMMANDMENTS - LOVE THE LORD
WITH ALL YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL
00:31:59.61\00:32:01.82
AND STRENGTH - LOVE
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
00:32:01.82\00:32:04.59
THAT'S A SUMMARY OF
THE TWO COMMANDMENTS.
00:32:04.59\00:32:07.86
GOD MADE ADAM - WHEN GOD FIRST
MADE ADAM IT WAS GOVERNED BY
00:32:07.86\00:32:13.26
THIS TABLE - MAN'S
RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
00:32:13.26\00:32:16.60
AFTER GOD MADE EVE HE NEEDED
ANOTHER TABLE BECAUSE NOW YOU'VE
00:32:16.60\00:32:19.77
GOT THE HORIZONTAL
RELATIONSHIP. >>AMEN.
00:32:19.77\00:32:22.27
>>AND THIS WAS BROUGHT
INTO PLAY AT THAT POINT.
00:32:22.27\00:32:25.51
BUT THE WHOLE LAW IS SUMMED
UP IN 'LOVE FOR GOD AND LOVE FOR
00:32:25.51\00:32:29.51
YOUR NEIGHBOR' AND THAT'S THE
ESSENCE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:32:29.51\00:32:33.95
IT'S ALL LOVE. SO THE
NEW COVENANT IS THOSE LAWS
00:32:33.95\00:32:36.35
OF LOVE WRITTEN ON THE HEART,
BASED ON THE PROMISES OF GOD.
00:32:36.35\00:32:40.29
AND HE SAYS, 'WITH MY POWER,
I WILL CAUSE YOU' - MATTER OF
00:32:40.29\00:32:43.86
FACT, I'M SAYING IT, BUT I
NEED TO READ IT TO YOU NOW.
00:32:43.86\00:32:47.23
HEBREWS 8, VERSE 8, "FOR FINDING
FAULT WITH THEM" - THE FAULT WAS
00:32:47.23\00:32:51.50
NOT WITH THE LAW. THE
REASON HE HAD A NEW COVENANT?
00:32:51.50\00:32:54.60
FINDING FAULT WITH
THEM. WHO ARE THE THEM?
00:32:54.60\00:32:57.14
THE ISRAELITES WHO BROKE IT -
"FOR FINDING FAULT WITH THEM, HE
00:32:57.14\00:33:01.14
SAYS: '...I WILL MAKE A
NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF
00:33:01.14\00:33:02.78
ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF
JUDAH.'" THERE IS NO COVENANT IN
00:33:02.78\00:33:05.68
THE BIBLE MADE
WITH GENTILES TO SAVE.
00:33:05.68\00:33:09.05
WE BECOME SPIRITUAL JEWS.
WE'RE GRAFTED INTO ISRAEL -
00:33:09.05\00:33:12.05
"'NOT ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT
THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS
00:33:12.05\00:33:14.46
IN THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM
BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF
00:33:14.46\00:33:16.99
THE LAND OF EGYPT; BECAUSE THEY
CONTINUED NOT IN MY COVENANT,
00:33:16.99\00:33:19.93
AND I REGARDED
THEM NOT, SAYS THE LORD.
00:33:19.93\00:33:22.23
FOR THIS'" - HEBREWS 8:10 -
"'FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT
00:33:22.23\00:33:25.20
I WILL MAKE'...SAYS THE LORD: 'I
WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR MIND
00:33:25.20\00:33:28.40
AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR
HEARTS;'" - YOU ALSO FIND THAT
00:33:28.40\00:33:30.84
IN EZEKIEL. IT TALKS ABOUT
PUTTING HIS LAW IN OUR HEARTS.
00:33:30.84\00:33:34.14
SO THE NEW COVENANT IS
AN OLD TESTAMENT CONCEPT.
00:33:34.14\00:33:38.81
ARE YOU AWARE THAT NOBODY IN
HISTORY IS SAVED BASED ON THE
00:33:38.81\00:33:42.88
OLD COVENANT?
NOBODY'S SAVED BASED ON THEIR
00:33:42.88\00:33:46.39
DOING GOD'S LAW
IN THEIR OWN WORKS.
00:33:46.39\00:33:49.02
EVERYBODY IS SAVED
BY FAITH THROUGH GRACE -
00:33:49.02\00:33:51.16
>>AMEN. >>FROM
GOD PUTTING THE LAW -
00:33:51.16\00:33:52.96
ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD
AND HE COUNTED IT TO HIM FOR
00:33:52.96\00:33:54.93
RIGHTEOUSNESS. ABRAHAM WAS
RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH. ABRAHAM
00:33:54.93\00:33:57.80
WASN'T SAVED BECAUSE HE GRUNTED
AND STRAINED AND MANAGED TO KEEP
00:33:57.80\00:34:01.34
GOD'S LAW IN HIS
OWN POWER. >>AMEN.
00:34:01.34\00:34:03.51
>>HE KEPT - MATTER OF FACT, HE
FELL SEVERAL TIMES, TRYING TO DO
00:34:03.51\00:34:05.81
THINGS HIS OWN WAY, DIDN'T HE?
THAT'S HOW ISHMAEL CAME ALONG.
00:34:05.81\00:34:10.31
IT WASN'T UNTIL HE TRUSTED
IN GOD'S POWER THAT ISAAC CAME
00:34:10.31\00:34:13.55
ALONG. WE'RE ALL SAVED BY
00:34:13.55\00:34:15.88
GRACE THROUGH FAITH. >>AMEN.
00:34:15.88\00:34:18.82
>>MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S OUR
NEXT VERSE. ARE PEOPLE SAVED BY
00:34:18.82\00:34:23.02
KEEPING THE LAW? >>NO.
00:34:23.02\00:34:25.96
>>YOU WON'T BE SAVED
DELIBERATELY BREAKING IT, BUT NO
00:34:25.96\00:34:27.50
ONE IS SAVED BY KEEPING
IT. WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE.
00:34:27.50\00:34:30.33
AND THAT'S EPHESIANS 2, VERSES
8 AND 9, "FOR BY GRACE YOU HAVE
00:34:30.33\00:34:33.30
BEEN SAVED THROUGH FAITH, AND
THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS
00:34:33.30\00:34:35.94
THE GIFT OF GOD, NOT OF WORKS,
LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST."
00:34:35.94\00:34:40.21
AND I PROBABLY WOULD BE FIRST
IN LINE BOASTING IF I THOUGHT I
00:34:40.21\00:34:42.88
COULD SAVE MYSELF.
YOU'D BE SECOND IN LINE.
00:34:42.88\00:34:46.11
WE'D ALL FIND A WAY TO
TAKE CREDIT FOR IT, RIGHT?
00:34:46.11\00:34:48.82
BUT IT'S ONLY BY GOD'S
GRACE THAT ANY OF US ARE SAVED,
00:34:48.82\00:34:51.99
BECAUSE IF GOD'S GOING TO GIVE
US WHAT WE DESERVE, WHAT'S THE
00:34:51.99\00:34:55.06
PENALTY FOR SIN? >>DEATH.
00:34:55.06\00:34:56.93
>>YOU WOULDN'T EVEN SURVIVE
YOUR PROBATION. AS SOON AS YOU
00:34:56.93\00:34:59.96
SINNED, YOU'D DIE.
IT'S BECAUSE IT'S A GIFT.
00:34:59.96\00:35:03.90
NOW, SOME ARE SAYING TODAY THAT,
WELL, BECAUSE WE'RE SAVED BY
00:35:03.90\00:35:07.04
GRACE, GOD'S GRACE NULLIFIES
OR ABOLISHES THE LAW. DOES THE
00:35:07.04\00:35:12.64
GRACE OF GOD
ABOLISH THE LAW? >>NO.
00:35:12.64\00:35:15.78
>>ROMANS 6 - LET'S SEE WHAT PAUL
SAYS ABOUT THAT. I'M JUST GOING
00:35:15.78\00:35:18.55
TO READ PAUL BECAUSE PAUL IS THE
ONE THEY ALWAYS QUOTE TO TRY TO
00:35:18.55\00:35:21.65
SAY THAT. ROMANS 6:15, "WHAT
THEN? SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE
00:35:21.65\00:35:25.59
ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT
UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID."
00:35:25.59\00:35:30.03
MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING
TO PAUSE HERE FOR JUST A SECOND
00:35:30.03\00:35:32.23
BEFORE I READ THE NEXT VERSE.
UNDER THE LAW - ARE WE CURRENTLY
00:35:32.23\00:35:36.63
UNDER THE LAW? IT DEPENDS
ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT.
00:35:36.63\00:35:40.90
WHEN PAUL TALKS ABOUT BEING
UNDER THE LAW, HE'S TALKING
00:35:40.90\00:35:43.30
ABOUT BEING UNDER THE
CURSE OR THE PENALTY OF THE LAW.
00:35:43.30\00:35:46.61
WHEN YOU BREAK A LAW - ANY
GOOD LAW HAS GOT A PENALTY.
00:35:46.61\00:35:49.94
YOU FIND LAWS IN OUR CULTURE
THAT EXIST AND THERE'S NO
00:35:49.94\00:35:53.42
CONSEQUENCE, THERE'S A
LAW THAT'S BEING BROKEN.
00:35:53.42\00:35:56.08
>>AMEN. >>RIGHT?
MATTER OF FACT, MOST
00:35:56.08\00:35:58.99
LAWS EXIST TODAY
BECAUSE SOMEBODY BROKE THE LAW.
00:35:58.99\00:36:04.16
DO YOU KNOW, WE HAVE MORE
LAWS NOW IN OUR CULTURE THAN ANY
00:36:04.16\00:36:06.80
OTHER TIME IN
HISTORY? HAS IT MADE US A
00:36:06.80\00:36:09.73
MORE LAWFUL
PEOPLE? >>ABSOLUTELY NOT.
00:36:09.73\00:36:12.23
>>NO, MATTER OF FACT, SOMEBODY
SAID ONE TIME, THE FEWER LAWS A
00:36:12.23\00:36:16.24
JUST SOCIETY HAS, THE
MORE LAWFUL THE PEOPLE ARE. THE
00:36:16.24\00:36:20.58
PROLIFERATION OF LAWS USUALLY
INDICATES A LOT OF LAW BREAKING.
00:36:20.58\00:36:24.48
EVERY LAW THAT YOU EVER HEAR
IS BECAUSE SOMEONE DID SOMETHING
00:36:24.48\00:36:28.95
WRONG AND THEY HAD
TO MAKE A LAW ABOUT IT.
00:36:28.95\00:36:30.99
I SAW AN INTERESTING LIST -
YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN IT BEFORE -
00:36:30.99\00:36:33.92
SOME OF THE STRANGE
LAWS THAT THEY'VE GOT.
00:36:33.92\00:36:36.59
DO YOU KNOW THAT IT'S - THERE'S
A LAW THAT IT'S ILLEGAL TO CARRY
00:36:36.59\00:36:42.83
A VIOLIN IN A PAPER BAG
IN SALT LAKE COUNTY UTAH.
00:36:42.83\00:36:47.00
NOW, YOU WONDER WHAT THE
STORY IS BEHIND THAT LAW, RIGHT?
00:36:47.00\00:36:50.64
WAS SOMEONE - THEY THOUGHT -
THEY CARRIED IT INTO A BANK AND
00:36:50.64\00:36:53.71
THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD A MACHINE
GUN - IT WAS JUST A VIOLIN IN A
00:36:53.71\00:36:55.78
PAPER BAG? I MEAN, YOU
WONDER, WHAT'S BEHIND THAT?
00:36:55.78\00:37:01.28
NASHVILLE - THERE'S A LAW -
NO BATHING IN CITY FOUNTAINS.
00:37:01.28\00:37:06.15
DO YOU THINK THE COUNCIL CITY
FATHERS WERE SITTING AROUND ONE
00:37:06.15\00:37:09.49
DAY AND SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE
PROBABLY OUGHT TO MAKE A LAW
00:37:09.49\00:37:11.63
ABOUT NOT BATHING IN THE
FOUNTAINS.' NO, YOU KNOW HOW
00:37:11.63\00:37:14.30
THAT LAW GOT MADE.
SOMEBODY STARTED BATHING IN THE
00:37:14.30\00:37:17.20
FOUNTAINS AND THERE WERE A LOT
OF SUDS IN THE FOUNTAIN ONE DAY.
00:37:17.20\00:37:22.64
IN CANADA, IT'S UNLAWFUL TO
LEND YOUR VACUUM CLEANER TO YOUR
00:37:22.64\00:37:25.64
NEIGHBOR. >>WHAT?
00:37:25.64\00:37:27.88
>>THEY'VE GOT LAWS ABOUT
EVERYTHING IN CANADA, BUT
00:37:27.88\00:37:29.14
I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE
WHAT BROUGHT THAT ABOUT.
00:37:29.14\00:37:31.85
(LAUGHTER) BUT THERE MUST -
SOMETHING MUST HAVE GONE WRONG.
00:37:31.85\00:37:35.62
SOME NEIGHBOR LENT THEIR
NEIGHBOR THEIR VACUUM AND
00:37:35.62\00:37:38.02
SOMETHING WENT WRONG AND SO
THEY SAID, 'WE BETTER MAKE A LAW
00:37:38.02\00:37:40.62
ABOUT THAT.' NOW THIS ONE YOU
CAN FIGURE OUT: IN MICHIGAN IT'S
00:37:40.62\00:37:45.03
ILLEGAL TO PLACE A
SKUNK INSIDE YOUR BOSS' DESK.
00:37:45.03\00:37:48.26
(RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) WE ALL KNOW
HOW THAT LAW WAS FORMED, RIGHT?
00:37:48.26\00:37:53.54
WHAT WAS THE GENESIS OF THAT?
IT DOESN'T SAY WHETHER THE SKUNK
00:37:53.54\00:37:56.74
WAS ALIVE OR DEAD. I COULDN'T
FIGURE OUT THIS ONE: IN KENTUCKY
00:37:56.74\00:38:02.28
IT'S ILLEGAL TO CARRY ICE
CREAM IN YOUR BACK POCKET.
00:38:02.28\00:38:06.88
BUT SOMEHOW I THINK SOMEONE WAS
CARRYING ICE CREAM IN THEIR BACK
00:38:06.88\00:38:10.22
POCKET AND THEY SAT DOWN IN THE
THEATER OR SOME PUBLIC PLACE -
00:38:10.22\00:38:12.95
THAT'S THE ONLY - BUT SOMEBODY
DID SOMETHING REALLY DUMB WHERE
00:38:12.95\00:38:15.76
THEY WEREN'T FOLLOWING A
PRINCIPLE OF LOVING GOD AND
00:38:15.76\00:38:18.09
LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR. IT
CAUSED A PROBLEM - OBVIOUSLY,
00:38:18.09\00:38:20.73
IF YOU PUT YOUR SKUNK IN
YOUR BOSS' DESK, YOU DON'T
00:38:20.73\00:38:23.57
LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR. (LAUGHTER) RIGHT?
00:38:23.57\00:38:26.20
SO YOU'RE VIOLATING A PRINCIPLE
WHENEVER YOU BREAK ONE OF THESE.
00:38:26.20\00:38:30.04
AND THAT'S WHAT BECOMES THE
GENESIS OF THE LAW. SO, PAUL IS
00:38:30.04\00:38:36.31
ASKING, 'DOES GRACE ABOLISH
THE LAW?' HE SAID, 'GOD FORBID.'
00:38:36.31\00:38:41.22
ROMANS 3:31, "DO WE THEN MAKE
VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? GOD
00:38:41.22\00:38:45.89
FORBID: YEAH, WE ESTABLISH THE
LAW." WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'I'VE GOT
00:38:45.89\00:38:48.49
FAITH, I DON'T NEED THE
LAW.' WHO ARE YOU KIDDING?
00:38:48.49\00:38:51.46
IF YOU'VE GOT REAL
FAITH, YOU KEEP THE LAW.
00:38:51.46\00:38:53.13
>>AMEN. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
00:38:53.13\00:38:54.36
>>AND AGAIN, IF YOU DON'T
BELIEVE THOSE TWO, HOW ABOUT
00:38:54.36\00:38:57.07
ROMANS 2:13 - THIS IS PAUL -
NOTICE - THIS IS PAUL - CAN'T BE
00:38:57.07\00:39:00.74
ANY MORE CLEAR THAN THAT, "FOR
THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST
00:39:00.74\00:39:05.31
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD" - NO, NO,
I SAID THAT WRONG - "FOR NOT THE
00:39:05.31\00:39:09.41
HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST IN
THE SIGHT OF GOD, BUT THE DOERS
00:39:09.41\00:39:13.48
OF THE LAW WILL BE
JUSTIFIED." >>AMEN.
00:39:13.48\00:39:16.58
>>WHAT? THE DOERS OF THE LAW
WILL BE JUST - I THOUGHT WE WERE
00:39:16.58\00:39:19.25
JUST THROUGH FAITH? YES, AND IF
YOU ARE JUST THROUGH FAITH, YOU
00:39:19.25\00:39:22.02
WILL BE DOING THE LAW. >>AMEN.
00:39:22.02\00:39:23.96
>>SEE HOW THAT WORKS?
NOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE THE
00:39:23.96\00:39:26.83
MOTIVE FOR
OBEYING GOD'S LAW? >>LOVE.
00:39:26.83\00:39:31.23
>>LOVE IS THE MOTIVE. ROMANS
13:10, "...THEREFORE LOVE IS
00:39:31.23\00:39:36.57
THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW." WHEN
WE LOVE GOD WE'LL WANT TO OBEY.
00:39:36.57\00:39:42.24
WE'LL LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR.
WE'LL NATURALLY KEEP THESE LAWS.
00:39:42.24\00:39:45.15
MATTHEW 22, VERSE 37, "JESUS
SAID, 'YOU SHOULD LOVE THE LORD
00:39:45.15\00:39:49.42
YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART,
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, WITH ALL
00:39:49.42\00:39:51.79
YOUR MIND. THIS IS THE FIRST AND
00:39:51.79\00:39:53.72
THE GREAT COMMANDMENT.
THE SECOND IS LIKE UNTO IT.
00:39:53.72\00:39:56.12
YOU SHOULD LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
00:39:56.12\00:39:58.33
ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG
ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.'
00:39:58.33\00:40:03.43
AND I HEARD OF A PREACHER,
ONE DAY HE QUOTED THAT VERSE AND
00:40:03.43\00:40:05.97
SAID, 'SEE, THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS HAVE BEEN HUNG.
00:40:05.97\00:40:08.97
THEY'RE HUNG AND ALL YOU'VE GOT
TO DO NOW' - IT'S LIKE THEY'VE
00:40:08.97\00:40:11.77
BEEN STRANGLED - 'ALL YOU'VE
GOT TO DO NOW IS KEEP THOSE TWO
00:40:11.77\00:40:14.81
COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE.' OH, WHEN
IT SAYS JESUS SAID, 'ON THESE
00:40:14.81\00:40:18.65
TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG' - IT
MEANS ALL THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
00:40:18.65\00:40:22.95
ARE SUMMARIZED - THEY'RE
SUPPORTED BY LOVING THE LORD AND
00:40:22.95\00:40:26.19
LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR. MATTER OF
FACT, YOU COULD SUMMARIZE THOSE
00:40:26.19\00:40:28.49
TWO IN ONE WORD:
GOD IS LOVE. >>AMEN.
00:40:28.49\00:40:30.99
>>AND THAT'S WHY THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD - IF THE
00:40:30.99\00:40:34.36
COMMANDMENTS WERE ALL SUMMARIZED
IN LOVE, AND THE COMMANDMENTS
00:40:34.36\00:40:36.97
ARE AN EXPRESSION OF GOD'S
CHARACTER, IF GOD IS LOVE, WHEN
00:40:36.97\00:40:41.50
YOU LOOK AT THESE TABLES OF
STONE, DON'T THINK OF COLD ROCK,
00:40:41.50\00:40:46.64
THINK OF JESUS.
JESUS IS THE ROCK.
00:40:46.64\00:40:51.05
DIDN'T JESUS SAY, 'HE THAT HEARS
THESE WORDS OF MINE AND DOES
00:40:51.05\00:40:53.78
THEM IS LIKE A WISE MAN WHO
BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON A ROCK'?
00:40:53.78\00:40:57.79
AND HE SAID, 'HE THAT HEARS
THESE WORDS OF MINE AND DOES
00:40:57.79\00:41:01.12
THEM' - WHOSE FINGER DO YOU
THINK IT WAS THAT WAS ENGRAVING
00:41:01.12\00:41:05.86
THE LETTERS ON THE
STONE TABLET? >>GOD.
00:41:05.86\00:41:09.80
>>LET ME QUOTE YOU A VERSE: 'ALL
THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE
00:41:09.80\00:41:12.20
BY HIM AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT
ANYTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE.'
00:41:12.20\00:41:15.50
GOD THE FATHER OR GOD THE SON?
00:41:15.50\00:41:18.44
I BELIEVE - I KNOW YOU'VE ALL
GOT THESE PICTURES OF GOD THE
00:41:18.44\00:41:20.44
FATHER THERE
WITH HIS LONG BEARD.
00:41:20.44\00:41:22.14
I WANT - YOU NEED A PICTURE
NOW OF JESUS WITH HIS BEARD.
00:41:22.14\00:41:26.08
JESUS - WHEN JESUS WROTE ON
THE FLOOR OF THE TEMPLE AND MARY
00:41:26.08\00:41:31.32
MAGDALENE WAS FORGIVEN, HE WAS
PROBABLY WRITING THE SINS OF HER
00:41:31.32\00:41:35.46
ACCUSERS. THAT SAME FINGER THAT
WAS WRITING ON THE JUDGMENT HALL
00:41:35.46\00:41:39.16
- JUDGMENT ON THE WALLS
OF THE HALLS OF BABYLON.
00:41:39.16\00:41:43.23
AND IT'S THAT SAME FINGER THAT
WROTE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND
00:41:43.23\00:41:47.07
HANDED THEM TO MOSES.
CHRIST WAS, THE BIBLE TELLS US,
00:41:47.07\00:41:51.37
THAT ANGEL THAT LED
THEM THROUGH THE WILDERNESS.
00:41:51.37\00:41:54.41
AND SO, DON'T THINK OF THE LAW
OF GOD AS SOMETHING DIFFERENT OR
00:41:54.41\00:41:57.05
ALIEN FROM JESUS; IT'S THE
EMBODIMENT OF WHO CHRIST IS.
00:41:57.05\00:42:01.85
HE IS THE ROCK OF
AGES. HE IS THE STONE THAT
00:42:01.85\00:42:06.09
BROUGHT DOWN GOLIATH.
HE IS THE CORNERSTONE UPON
00:42:06.09\00:42:10.26
WHICH THE CHURCH IS
BUILT. THIS LAW WAS WRITTEN
00:42:10.26\00:42:13.09
ON STONE FOR A REASON. NOT
ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS ETERNAL
00:42:13.09\00:42:15.63
NATURE, BUT IT HELPS US THINK OF
CHRIST, THE ROCK OF AGES, AMEN?
00:42:15.63\00:42:21.70
SO THE MOTIVE FOR
OBEYING GOD'S LAW?
00:42:21.70\00:42:25.27
'HEAR, O ISRAEL,
THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE.
00:42:25.27\00:42:28.08
THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY
GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, ALL THY
00:42:28.08\00:42:31.25
MIND, ALL THY SOUL, ALL THY
STRENGTH AND THESE WORDS THAT I
00:42:31.25\00:42:34.52
COMMAND YOU THIS DAY
SHALL BE IN YOUR HEART.'
00:42:34.52\00:42:37.15
WHAT WORDS? HE HAD
JUST, IN DEUTERONOMY 5,
00:42:37.15\00:42:40.46
QUOTED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
IN DEUTERONOMY 6 HE SAYS, 'YOU
00:42:40.46\00:42:44.43
SHALL LOVE THE LORD AND THESE
WORDS SHALL BE IN YOUR HEART'.
00:42:44.43\00:42:48.20
CAN THE LAW OF
GOD BE IN OUR HEART?
00:42:48.20\00:42:50.43
>>AMEN. >>WHEN
YOU LOVE THE LORD, ARE
00:42:50.43\00:42:52.97
YOU GOING TO WANT TO USE
HIS NAME IN A DISRESPECTFUL WAY?
00:42:52.97\00:42:56.84
DO YOU CRINGE SOMETIMES WHEN YOU
HEAR PEOPLE USE GOD'S THAT WAY?
00:42:56.84\00:43:00.78
BECAUSE YOU LOVE GOD. YOU
LOVE HIM SO MUCH YOU DON'T
00:43:00.78\00:43:03.21
WANT TO HEAR PEOPLE USE
HIS NAME DISRESPECTFULLY.
00:43:03.21\00:43:06.61
IF YOU LOVE YOUR SPOUSE, ARE
YOU GOING TO WANT TO BREAK THEIR
00:43:06.61\00:43:09.18
HEART BY GIVING THAT
INTIMATE LOVE TO SOMEONE ELSE?
00:43:09.18\00:43:11.92
>>NO. >>THAT'S
WHY GOD SAYS, 'I'M A
00:43:11.92\00:43:13.66
JEALOUS GOD.' YEAH, HE DESERVES
OUR FIRST PLACE. THAT'S WHY HE
00:43:13.66\00:43:17.46
SAID, 'DON'T HAVE OTHER GOD'S
BEFORE ME.' AND SO HE'S GOT A
00:43:17.46\00:43:21.16
RIGHT TO ASK FOR THAT.
IT'S ALL SUMMED UP IN LOVE.
00:43:21.16\00:43:24.33
MATTER OF FACT, IF A HUSBAND OR
WIFE DOES NOT GET JEALOUS WHEN
00:43:24.33\00:43:31.31
THEIR SPOUSE IS SPENDING A LOT
OF TIME WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX,
00:43:31.31\00:43:35.08
YOU WONDER, 'DON'T THEY CARE?
DON'T THEY LOVE?' IF THEY LOVE,
00:43:35.08\00:43:39.85
NATURAL RESPONSE IS A LITTLE BIT
OF CONCERN, BECAUSE 'THAT LOVE
00:43:39.85\00:43:44.79
BELONGS TO ME.' RIGHT? >>AMEN.
00:43:44.79\00:43:47.99
>>IF THERE'S NO CONCERN YOU'D
BE THINKING, 'DON'T YOU CARE?'
00:43:47.99\00:43:50.89
GOD LOVES US AND
THAT'S WHY HIS LAW IS THERE.
00:43:50.89\00:43:54.13
SO THE MOTIVE
FOR OBEYING IS LOVE.
00:43:54.13\00:43:57.00
1 JOHN 5:3, "FOR THIS IS THE
LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS
00:43:57.00\00:44:02.50
COMMANDMENTS". WHY DO
WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS?
00:44:02.50\00:44:04.84
'THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD.'
1 JOHN 2, VERSES 3 AND 4, "AND
00:44:04.84\00:44:08.31
HEREBY WE DO KNOW" -
AND THIS ONE IS A SLAM DUNK.
00:44:08.31\00:44:10.85
THIS PUTS TO SILENCE ALL OF
THE HYPOCRITES OUT THERE - "AND
00:44:10.85\00:44:14.18
HEREBY DO WE KNOW THAT
WE KNOW HIM, IF WE KEEP HIS
00:44:14.18\00:44:16.69
COMMANDMENTS. HE THAT
SAITH, 'I KNOW HIM,' AND
00:44:16.69\00:44:19.12
KEEPETH NOT HIS
COMMANDMENTS, IS A LIAR, AND THE
00:44:19.12\00:44:21.22
TRUTH IS NOT IN
HIM." THAT'S NEW TESTAMENT.
00:44:21.22\00:44:24.33
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID,
'NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS UNTO ME,
00:44:24.33\00:44:26.49
'LORD, LORD,' IS GOING TO ENTER
THE KINGDOM OF GOD, BUT THEY
00:44:26.49\00:44:29.63
THAT DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER
IN HEAVEN.' WHAT IS THE WILL OF
00:44:29.63\00:44:33.60
GOD? PSALM 40 TELLS US, 'I LOVE
TO DO YOUR WILL...YOUR LAW IS
00:44:33.60\00:44:40.91
WITHIN MY HEART'. >>AMEN.
00:44:40.91\00:44:43.08
>>THE LAW OF GOD IS A PERFECT
EXPRESSION OF HIS CHARACTER AND
00:44:43.08\00:44:46.75
HIS WILL. AND JESUS WILL DECLARE
TO EVERYONE ELSE, 'I DON'T KNOW
00:44:46.75\00:44:51.39
YOU.' SO IF SOMEONE SAYS,
'OH, I LOVE THE LORD. I - I'M
00:44:51.39\00:44:54.42
FOLLOWING THE LORD. I KNOW THE
LORD. NO, I DON'T KEEP THE LAW
00:44:54.42\00:44:56.73
BECAUSE I'M UNDER GRACE.'
JOHN SAYS, 'YOU'RE A LIAR.
00:44:56.73\00:45:00.46
IF YOU SAY, 'LORD, LORD, I LOVE
YOU LORD' CHRIST'LL DECLARE TO
00:45:00.46\00:45:04.97
THOSE PEOPLE, 'DEPART FROM
ME YOU WORKERS OF INIQUITY.'
00:45:04.97\00:45:08.40
AND THAT WORD IS 'LAWLESSNESS'
- PEOPLE WITHOUT LAW.
00:45:08.40\00:45:11.97
SO IT - IT DOES MATTER,
FRIENDS. THIS IS IMPORTANT BASIC
00:45:11.97\00:45:15.38
FOUNDATIONAL
CHRISTIAN TEACHING. >>AMEN.
00:45:15.38\00:45:17.85
>>WHO DOES THE
DEVIL ESPECIALLY HATE?
00:45:17.85\00:45:22.48
IN THE LAST DAYS HE MAKES
IT PRETTY CLEAR, BECAUSE OF THE
00:45:22.48\00:45:26.32
LAWS, TO
WORSHIP THE BEAST POWER.
00:45:26.32\00:45:28.96
YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE THERE OF
NEBUCHADNEZZAR - HE GOT SO MAD -
00:45:28.96\00:45:32.16
IT SAYS HE WAS -
WENT INTO A RAGE.
00:45:32.16\00:45:35.10
HE WAS FILLED WITH FURY AND
WRATH WHEN THEY WOULD NOT BOW
00:45:35.10\00:45:37.67
DOWN AND WORSHIP HIS
IDOLS AND KEEP HIS LAWS.
00:45:37.67\00:45:42.34
KIND OF LIKE THE
DEVIL IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:45:42.34\00:45:44.84
IT SAYS THE DRAGON WAS WROTH
WITH THE WOMAN - REVELATION
00:45:44.84\00:45:47.31
12:17 - AND HE GOES TO MAKE
WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED
00:45:47.31\00:45:51.98
THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF
00:45:51.98\00:45:55.85
JESUS. WHY ARE WE
DOING THIS SERIES?
00:45:55.85\00:45:58.85
IS THIS RELEVANT
FOR OUR DAY AND AGE?
00:45:58.85\00:46:00.76
IS THIS IMPORTANT NOW? >>AMEN.
00:46:00.76\00:46:02.16
>>WHO IS THE
DEVIL ANGRY AT? >>US.
00:46:02.16\00:46:04.29
>>THOSE WHO KEEP
THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.
00:46:04.29\00:46:06.83
HE ESPECIALLY
FOCUSES HIS ATTENTION.
00:46:06.83\00:46:09.16
OH, AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, AS
LONG AS WE KEEP MOST OF THEM.'
00:46:09.16\00:46:11.83
THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS:
'WHOEVER IS GUILTY OF ONE IS
00:46:11.83\00:46:14.44
GUILTY OF ALL'
JAMES TELLS US. >>AMEN.
00:46:14.44\00:46:17.97
>>LORD SAYS, IN DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTER 5, VERSE 39 - VERSE 29,
00:46:17.97\00:46:23.65
"O THAT THERE WERE SUCH AN HEART
IN THEM THAT THEY WOULD FEAR ME,
00:46:23.65\00:46:26.98
AND KEEP ALL MY COMMANDMENTS
ALWAYS, THAT IT MIGHT BE WELL
00:46:26.98\00:46:30.35
WITH THEM, AND WITH
THEIR CHILDREN FOR EVER!"
00:46:30.35\00:46:32.62
HE WANTS IT TO BE WELL WITH US.
BUT HE SAYS, 'KEEP ALL OF THEM'.
00:46:32.62\00:46:35.92
I MEAN, HOW WOULD YOU RESPOND
IF YOUR SPOUSE ASKED FOR A TEN
00:46:35.92\00:46:41.73
PERCENT DISCOUNT ON THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THAT ONE
00:46:41.73\00:46:43.83
COMMANDMENT THEY WANTED
TO BREAK WAS THE SEVENTH?
00:46:43.83\00:46:47.24
WOULD YOU GO FOR THAT? >>NO.
00:46:47.24\00:46:49.40
>>NO ALL OF THEM MATTER WHEN YOU
LOVE GOD - A HUNDRED PERCENT.
00:46:49.40\00:46:54.91
SO THE DEVIL HATES THOSE
THAT ARE KEEPING GOD'S LAW.
00:46:54.91\00:46:57.71
POINT #15: WHAT ARE THE
REWARDS FOR KEEPING GOD'S LAW?
00:46:57.71\00:47:03.45
THIS IS THE GOOD PART.
JOHN 15:11, "THESE THINGS I HAVE
00:47:03.45\00:47:08.76
SPOKEN UNTO YOU...THAT
YOUR JOY MIGHT BE FULL."
00:47:08.76\00:47:12.43
HE WANTS US TO HAVE JOY -
AND IT COMES IN OBEYING GOD.
00:47:12.43\00:47:16.50
PROVERBS 29:18, "...BUT HE THAT
KEEPETH THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE."
00:47:16.50\00:47:22.30
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? >>YES.
00:47:22.30\00:47:24.41
>>JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU KNOW THESE
THINGS, HAPPY ARE YE IF YOU DO
00:47:24.41\00:47:26.81
THEM.' HE WANTS US TO HAVE JOY
AND HAPPINESS - NOT ONLY JOY AND
00:47:26.81\00:47:30.98
HAPPINESS, HE
WANTS US TO HAVE PEACE.
00:47:30.98\00:47:33.11
PSALM 119:165, "GREAT PEACE HAVE
THEY WHICH LOVE THY LAW: AND
00:47:33.11\00:47:39.99
NOTHING SHALL OFFEND
THEM." I NOT ONLY WANT PEACE, I
00:47:39.99\00:47:41.99
WANT GREAT PEACE,
DON'T YOU? >>AMEN.
00:47:41.99\00:47:44.19
>>WHEN WE SUBMIT OUR LIVES
INTO GOD'S HANDS AND ARE SAYING,
00:47:44.19\00:47:47.30
'LORD, WE'RE WILLING
TO BE DOERS OF YOUR WORD.'
00:47:47.30\00:47:49.70
YOU'LL HAVE A GREAT PEACE.
AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU KNOW
00:47:49.70\00:47:54.27
THERE'S SOME AREA IN YOUR LIFE
WHERE YOU ARE DIVERGING FROM THE
00:47:54.27\00:47:58.07
WILL OF GOD AND THE LAW OF
GOD, YOU SHOULD BE TROUBLED.
00:47:58.07\00:48:02.58
DON'T GET COMFORTABLE IN
DISOBEDIENCE. THAT'S DANGEROUS.
00:48:02.58\00:48:06.58
THAT'S WHERE YOU GET TO WHERE
YOU SEAR YOUR CONSCIENCE AND,
00:48:06.58\00:48:09.18
ULTIMATELY, YOU CAN COME TO
THE PLACE WHERE YOU COMMIT THE
00:48:09.18\00:48:11.29
UNPARDONABLE SIN BECAUSE YOU
DON'T HEAR GOD'S VOICE ANYMORE.
00:48:11.29\00:48:14.69
IF YOU CAN CONVINCE YOURSELF
THAT IT'S OKAY TO LIVE IN
00:48:14.69\00:48:17.79
DISOBEDIENCE TO THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS KNOWINGLY, AND THAT
00:48:17.79\00:48:21.66
EVERYTHING'S GOING TO SOMEHOW BE
OKAY, THAT IS A DEADLY PLACE TO
00:48:21.66\00:48:25.40
BE IN - THAT'S LIKE
LEPROSY - SPIRITUAL LEPROSY.
00:48:25.40\00:48:30.27
BUT THERE'S GREAT PEACE.
ISAIAH 48:18, "OH, THAT YOU
00:48:30.27\00:48:34.04
HAD HEEDED MY COMMANDMENTS!
THEN YOUR PEACE WOULD HAVE BEEN
00:48:34.04\00:48:37.58
LIKE A RIVER," - YOU
KNOW THAT SONG WE SING - I'VE
00:48:37.58\00:48:39.28
GOT PEACE LIKE A RIVER ?
IT'S BASED ON THIS VERSE.
00:48:39.28\00:48:41.85
WHERE'S IT COME FROM?
OH THAT WE HAD HEEDED HIS
00:48:41.85\00:48:44.42
COMMANDMENTS, THEN YOU
WOULD HAVE PEACE LIKE A RIVER.
00:48:44.42\00:48:47.76
DO YOU WANT PEACE AND JOY
AND BLESSEDNESS AND HAPPINESS?
00:48:47.76\00:48:51.43
IT COMES FROM OBEDIENCE. IF
YOU'RE OBEYING GOD, IT'S LIKE
00:48:51.43\00:48:55.56
SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO
SAID, 'WE MIGHT GO TO A FIERY
00:48:55.56\00:48:58.80
FURNACE, BUT WE
KNOW WE'RE OBEYING GOD.
00:48:58.80\00:49:00.84
WE HAVE NOTHING
TO FEAR.' >>AMEN.
00:49:00.84\00:49:03.14
>>JESUS SAID, 'DON'T FEAR HIM
WHO CAN DESTROY YOUR BODY BUT HE
00:49:03.14\00:49:06.04
CAN'T TOUCH YOUR SOUL.
RATHER, FEAR HIM WHO CAN DESTROY
00:49:06.04\00:49:08.58
SOUL AND BODY IN HELL.'
NOW THE TITLE FOR OUR SERIES
00:49:08.58\00:49:12.31
WE'VE JUST STARTED IS CALLED
LAWS OF LOVE AND LIBERTY .
00:49:12.31\00:49:17.92
WHY THE LIBERTY PART? IF
YOU LOOK IN JAMES 1, VERSE
00:49:17.92\00:49:23.06
22, "BUT BE DOERS OF THE
WORD, AND NOT HEARERS ONLY,
00:49:23.06\00:49:28.13
DECEIVING YOURSELVES. FOR
IF ANYONE IS A HEARER OF THE
00:49:28.13\00:49:31.17
WORD AND NOT A DOER, HE IS LIKE
A MAN OBSERVING HIS NATURAL FACE
00:49:31.17\00:49:35.00
IN A MIRROR; FOR HE
OBSERVES HIMSELF, GOES AWAY, AND
00:49:35.00\00:49:38.64
IMMEDIATELY FORGETS
WHAT KIND OF MAN HE WAS.
00:49:38.64\00:49:41.88
BUT HE" - IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN
YOU READ AND YOU'RE CONVICTED,
00:49:41.88\00:49:45.11
DON'T SAY, 'OH, THAT WAS GOOD.
THAT'S CONVICTING.' AND WALK
00:49:45.11\00:49:46.85
AWAY AND DON'T MAKE ANY CHANGES.
HOW OFTEN HAVE WE HEARD SERMONS
00:49:46.85\00:49:49.72
AND WE THOUGHT, 'OH, WHAT A
GOOD SERMON' - WE GO HOME AND
00:49:49.72\00:49:51.22
WE DO NOTHING ABOUT
IT? JUST HEARERS ONLY?
00:49:51.22\00:49:54.89
BUT IF WE HEAR SOMETHING DURING
A MESSAGE AND WE THINK, 'YEAH, I
00:49:54.89\00:49:59.29
OUGHT TO MAKE SOME CHANGES.'
GET OUT YOUR PENCIL AND PAPER
00:49:59.29\00:50:01.63
AND MAKE A NOTE TO SELF. SAY,
'LET'S START BEING DIFFERENT IN
00:50:01.63\00:50:05.83
THIS AREA. DON'T JUST
BE HEARERS AND NOT DOERS.
00:50:05.83\00:50:10.67
'HE'S LIKE A MAN WHO OBSERVES
HIS FACE IN A MIRROR; FOR HE
00:50:10.67\00:50:14.44
OBSERVES HIMSELF, GOES AWAY, AND
IMMEDIATELY FORGETS WHAT KIND OF
00:50:14.44\00:50:17.21
MAN HE WAS. BUT
WHOEVER LOOKS INTO THE
00:50:17.21\00:50:19.88
PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AND
CONTINUES IN IT, NOT BEING A
00:50:19.88\00:50:25.42
FORGETFUL HEARER BUT A DOER
OF THE WORK, THIS ONE WILL BE
00:50:25.42\00:50:28.99
BLESSED IN WHAT HE DOES.'
WHAT IS THAT LAW OF LIBERTY?
00:50:28.99\00:50:34.03
JAMES TELLS US
IN THE NEXT CHAPTER.
00:50:34.03\00:50:36.23
"FOR WHOEVER SHALL KEEP THE
WHOLE LAW, AND YET STUMBLE IN
00:50:36.23\00:50:39.53
ONE POINT," - THEY'RE TRYING TO
DO THE 90-PERCENT DISCOUNT THING
00:50:39.53\00:50:42.77
WITH GOD - "HE IS GUILTY OF
ALL." 'OH, I KEEP ALL THE LAW, I
00:50:42.77\00:50:46.94
JUST SHOPLIFT A LITTLE BIT.'
OR IF YOU GO TO A JUDGE AND YOU
00:50:46.94\00:50:52.35
SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I'M A GOOD
LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN, YOUR HONOR.
00:50:52.35\00:50:55.52
I JUST COMMIT A LITTLE
TEENY BIT OF MURDER.' (LAUGHTER)
00:50:55.52\00:50:59.89
NO, YOU'RE A LAWBREAKER
AND THE PENALTY IS DEATH.
00:50:59.89\00:51:05.03
"FOR WHOEVER SHALL KEEP THE
WHOLE LAW, AND YET STUMBLE IN
00:51:05.03\00:51:07.20
ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL.
FOR HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT
00:51:07.20\00:51:10.43
ADULTERY,'" - NOW
WHAT LAW IS THAT PART OF?
00:51:10.43\00:51:13.37
IS THAT PART OF THE CEREMONIAL
LAW OR ORDINANCE OR ONE OF THE
00:51:13.37\00:51:17.64
RITUALISTIC LAWS, OR
IS IT THE DECALOGUE -
00:51:17.64\00:51:20.18
THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS? >>THE DECALOGUE.
00:51:20.18\00:51:22.71
>>DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY - "ALSO
SAID, 'DO NOT MURDER'" - ANOTHER
00:51:22.71\00:51:25.95
LAW PART OF THE
DECALOGUE, RIGHT?
00:51:25.95\00:51:27.68
>>YES. >>"'NOW,
IF YOU DO NOT COMMIT
00:51:27.68\00:51:28.92
ADULTERY, BUT YOU MURDER, YOU
HAVE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF
00:51:28.92\00:51:31.35
THE LAW.'" YOU NOTICE HOW HE
TIES THIS OFF? THIS IS JAMES 2,
00:51:31.35\00:51:34.46
VERSE 12 - "SO SPEAK AND SO
DO" - DON'T BE HEARERS ONLY.
00:51:34.46\00:51:38.73
SPEAK AND DO AS THOSE WHO WILL
BE JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY.
00:51:38.73\00:51:44.50
WHEN WE ARE HEARERS AND DOERS
OF GOD'S LAW, WE HAVE LIBERTY.
00:51:44.50\00:51:50.17
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT LIBERTY IN
CHRIST AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE
00:51:50.17\00:51:52.37
WANTED TO ABUSE WHAT THAT
LIBERTY REALLY LOOKS LIKE.
00:51:52.37\00:51:55.58
WHAT THEY WANT IS
THE LIBERTY TO SIN.
00:51:55.58\00:51:58.08
LIBERTY IN CHRIST IS A LIBERTY
THAT COMES FROM SURRENDERING AND
00:51:58.08\00:52:01.68
BEING WILLING TO OBEY. YOU
HAVE GREAT FREEDOM IN THE LORD.
00:52:01.68\00:52:06.62
PSALM 119:44, "SO SHALL I KEEP
YOUR LAW CONTINUALLY, FOREVER
00:52:06.62\00:52:12.16
AND EVER. AND I WILL WALK
AT LIBERTY, FOR I SEEK YOUR
00:52:12.16\00:52:16.10
PRECEPTS." DO YOU WANT TO HAVE
THAT FREEDOM? DO YOU WANT TO
00:52:16.10\00:52:19.77
HAVE THAT LIBERTY? WELL,
FRIENDS, THERE'S - OH BOY,
00:52:19.77\00:52:23.47
I COULD JUST - I COULD DO
AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS SERIES.
00:52:23.47\00:52:26.64
I COULD READ PSALM 119
AND BE HERE FOR 40 MINUTES.
00:52:26.64\00:52:29.74
AND THAT'S ALL
ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD.
00:52:29.74\00:52:31.51
HAVE YOU READ
IT? I HOPE YOU HAVE.
00:52:31.51\00:52:34.15
WE'RE REALLY DEALING
WITH A BOTTOM-LINE ISSUE HERE.
00:52:34.15\00:52:37.39
THE WISEST MAN WHO EVER
LIVED, HE SAID, 'LET US HEAR THE
00:52:37.39\00:52:40.76
CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER:'
- ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 12 -
00:52:40.76\00:52:44.09
'FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS
COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE
00:52:44.09\00:52:46.63
WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. FOR
GOD'LL BRING EVERY THING
00:52:46.63\00:52:50.40
INTO JUDGMENT, INCLUDING
EVERY SECRET WORK, WHETHER IT
00:52:50.40\00:52:52.50
BE GOOD OR EVIL.' >>AMEN.
00:52:52.50\00:52:54.07
>>FEAR GOD AND
KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
00:52:54.07\00:52:55.34
LAST THING YOU FIND IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT - MALACHI CHAPTER 4 -
00:52:55.34\00:52:59.61
"REMEMBER YE THE LAW OF MOSES MY
SERVANT, WHICH I COMMANDED UNTO
00:52:59.61\00:53:03.21
HIM IN HOREB FOR ALL ISRAEL,
WITH THE STATUES AND JUDGMENTS."
00:53:03.21\00:53:06.45
REMEMBER THE LAW.
THEN YOU GET TO REVELATION,
00:53:06.45\00:53:09.35
'BLESSED ARE THOSE
THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS.
00:53:09.35\00:53:11.59
FRANKLY, I DON'T THINK
CHRISTIANS AND PASTORS ARE
00:53:11.59\00:53:14.39
TALKING ENOUGH ABOUT
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:53:14.39\00:53:16.93
>>AMEN. >>I HAVE BEEN CONVICTED
00:53:16.93\00:53:19.23
PERSONALLY - THIS IS THE FIRST
TIME IN MY MINISTRY I HAVE DONE
00:53:19.23\00:53:22.23
A COMPLETE SERIES JUST DEALING
WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:53:22.23\00:53:26.57
AND I HOPE YOU'LL
PRAY DURING THIS TIME.
00:53:26.57\00:53:29.44
NOT ONLY PRAY FOR ME AS I
PREPARE THESE PRESENTATIONS,
00:53:29.44\00:53:33.21
PRAY FOR OURSELVES THAT WE WILL
BE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THAT PEACE,
00:53:33.21\00:53:37.11
THAT JOY, THAT LIBERTY IN CHRIST
BECAUSE WE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO
00:53:37.11\00:53:40.65
BE HEARERS OF THE WORD,
WE'RE GOING TO BE DOERS ALSO.
00:53:40.65\00:53:44.45
>>AMEN. >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH
00:53:44.45\00:53:46.45
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>>I'M HERE IN THE
BEAUTIFUL ISLAND NATION OF FIJI
00:54:26.26\00:54:29.26
THAT'S FILLED WITH EXOTIC
ANIMALS, BEAUTIFUL VEGETATION,
00:54:29.26\00:54:32.87
AND SPECTACULAR SCENERY.
THE PEOPLE HERE ARE SOME OF THE
00:54:32.87\00:54:35.97
NICEST IN THE WORLD, BUT IT
HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY.
00:54:35.97\00:54:39.37
THIS WAS ONCE KNOWN
AS THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS.
00:54:39.37\00:54:43.85
THE FIJIAN WARRIORS WERE SOME
OF THE FIERCEST IN THE SOUTH
00:54:43.85\00:54:46.18
PACIFIC AND GREATLY FEARED
- YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY -
00:54:46.18\00:54:49.12
THIS IS ONE OF THE
WEAPONS THAT THEY USED FOR
00:54:49.12\00:54:51.72
BREAKING THE NECK
OF THEIR ADVERSARIES.
00:54:51.72\00:54:54.49
AND, LONG BEFORE THEY WERE
KILLING AND EATING MISSIONARIES,
00:54:54.49\00:54:56.66
THEY WERE FIGHTING WITH AND
KILLING AND EATING EACH OTHER.
00:54:56.66\00:55:00.13
IN FACT, AS YOU GO TO THE
DIFFERENT TOURIST LOCATIONS ON
00:55:00.13\00:55:02.16
THE ISLAND, THEY'LL SELL
YOU REMAKES OF SOME OF THE FORKS
00:55:02.16\00:55:06.10
THEY USED FOR
EATING HUMAN BRAINS.
00:55:06.10\00:55:10.01
IN FACT, THERE WAS ONE CANNIBAL
CHIEF, RATU UDRE UDRE, DURING
00:55:10.01\00:55:14.31
THE 1800S THAT IS IN THE
GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS
00:55:14.31\00:55:17.28
FOR HAVING KILLED AND
EATEN THE MOST VICTIMS.
00:55:17.28\00:55:20.28
HE BRAGGED THAT EVERY TIME
HE KILLED SOMEONE HE SET A STONE
00:55:20.28\00:55:22.75
ASIDE AND BY THE END OF HIS
LIFE HE HAD A PRETTY BIG PILE OF
00:55:22.75\00:55:25.85
STONES. IT'S
ESTIMATED HE ATE SOMEWHERE
00:55:25.85\00:55:28.12
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
OF 900 PEOPLE - OH MY.
00:55:28.12\00:55:34.00
YOU KNOW, THE FIJIANS WERE NOT
THE ONLY ONES WHO HAD A MONOPOLY
00:55:34.00\00:55:36.33
ON CANNIBALISM, IN FACT,
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE ARE ALL
00:55:36.33\00:55:39.67
CAPABLE OF BEING CANNIBALS.
GALATIANS 5:15 SAYS IF WE BITE
00:55:39.67\00:55:44.31
AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, WE MAY
END UP CONSUMING ONE ANOTHER.
00:55:44.31\00:55:47.91
THAT'S TALKING ABOUT DESTROYING
PEOPLE'S REPUTATION BY MEAN
00:55:47.91\00:55:50.75
GOSSIP. ONE
FAMOUS MISSIONARY NAMED
00:55:50.75\00:55:53.25
PATTON, WHEN HE WAS PREPARING
TO GO TO THE CANNIBAL ISLES, HIS
00:55:53.25\00:55:56.69
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
BEGGED HIM NOT TO GO.
00:55:56.69\00:55:58.92
THEY SAID, 'YOU'LL BE EATEN.' HE
SAID, 'IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME
00:55:58.92\00:56:01.59
IF I DIE AND AM EATEN BY WORMS
OR IF GOD WILLS THAT I'M EATEN
00:56:01.59\00:56:04.99
BY CANNIBALS, AS LONG AS
I'M DOING THE WILL OF GOD.
00:56:04.99\00:56:08.03
WELL, HE WENT TO THE CANNIBAL
ISLES AND BROUGHT MANY TO CHRIST
00:56:08.03\00:56:11.23
AND DIED
PEACEFULLY IN HIS OLD AGE.
00:56:11.23\00:56:13.64
SOME OF THE ANCIENT CANNIBAL
CULTURES BELIEVED THAT WHEN YOU
00:56:13.64\00:56:16.14
KILLED AND WHEN YOU DEVOURED
YOUR ENEMY, YOU WOULD SOMEHOW
00:56:16.14\00:56:18.84
TAKE WITHIN YOU THEIR
SPIRITUAL STRENGTHS OR POWERS.
00:56:18.84\00:56:22.11
BUT THAT'S REALLY ABSURD - BUT
THERE IS A KIND OF CANNIBALISM
00:56:22.11\00:56:25.85
ENDORSED IN SCRIPTURE.
THAT'S RIGHT, JESUS SAID, IN
00:56:25.85\00:56:29.05
JOHN CHAPTER 6, VERSE 53,
"EXCEPT YOU EAT MY FLESH AND
00:56:29.05\00:56:32.92
DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU
HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.
00:56:32.92\00:56:35.52
AND YOU DON'T NEED
THESE TOOLS TO DO IT.
00:56:35.52\00:56:37.63
WHAT YOU NEED IS TO READ HIS
WORD AND LEARN ABOUT HIS LIFE.
00:56:37.63\00:56:41.03
ACCEPT BY FAITH HIS SACRIFICE
IN YOUR PLACE AND YOU CAN HAVE A
00:56:41.03\00:56:44.00
NEW HEART AND BE A NEW CREATURE.
YOU CAN EVEN DO IT RIGHT NOW.
00:56:44.00\00:56:52.84
(MUSIC) >>AMAZING
FACTS BEGAN IN 1965
00:56:52.84\00:57:01.52
WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
00:57:01.52\00:57:05.89
THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST,
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
00:57:05.89\00:57:09.26
>>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
00:57:09.26\00:57:13.06
SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
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00:57:13.06\00:57:16.93
TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
00:57:16.93\00:57:20.77
THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
00:57:20.77\00:57:24.44
BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
00:57:24.44\00:57:27.48
IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
00:57:27.48\00:57:32.01
GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
00:57:32.01\00:57:35.18
EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:35.18\00:57:39.39
IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
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GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
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WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
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SEE A RICH HARVEST
OF SOULS. AMAZING FACTS:
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GOD'S MESSAGE, OUR MISSION.
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(MUSIC)
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