Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG100001A
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00:14 >>WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD, 00:17 AND IN THIS NEW SERIES DEALING WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - I'VE 00:21 CALLED IT LAWS OF LOVE AND LIBERTY AND I THINK YOU'LL 00:25 UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR THE TITLE A LITTLE LATER ON IN THE 00:28 SERIES. BUT TO BEGIN WITH, I WANT TO 00:30 INVITE YOU TO OPEN YOUR BIBLES WITH ME TO THE BOOK OF 00:32 DEUTERONOMY - DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4 AND YOU CAN BEGIN IN 00:38 VERSE 9, "ONLY TAKE HEED TO YOURSELF, AND DILIGENTLY KEEP 00:46 YOURSELF, LEST YOU FORGET THE THINGS YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN, AND 00:50 LEST THEY DEPART FROM YOUR HEART ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. 00:53 AND TEACH THEM TO YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, 00:57 ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE DAY YOU STOOD BEFORE THE LORD YOUR 01:02 GOD IN HOREB, WHEN THE LORD SAID TO ME, 'GATHER THE PEOPLE TO ME, 01:09 AND I WILL LET THEM HEAR MY WORDS, THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO 01:11 FEAR ME ALL THE DAYS THEY LIVE ON EARTH, AND THAT THEY MAY 01:14 TEACH THEIR CHILDREN.' THEN YOU CAME NEAR AND STOOD AT THE FOOT 01:18 OF THE MOUNTAIN, AND THE MOUNTAIN BURNED WITH FIRE TO THE 01:22 MIDST OF HEAVEN, WITH DARKNESS, CLOUD, AND THICK DARKNESS. 01:26 AND THE LORD SPOKE TO YOU OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE. 01:29 YOU HEARD THE SOUND OF THE WORDS, BUT SAW NO FORM; YOU ONLY 01:33 HEARD A VOICE. SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS 01:36 COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, THE TEN 01:41 COMMANDMENTS; AND HE WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLES OF STONE." 01:46 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS REPRESENT THE VERY EPITOME OF THE WORD OF 01:51 GOD. IT IS GOOD AND IT IS APPROPRIATE 01:55 FOR US TO DEDICATE TIME TO TALK ABOUT THESE FOUNDATIONAL 01:59 PRINCIPLES THAT YOU FIND IN THE LAW OF GOD. 02:02 NOW, IT'S SAD THAT WE'RE LIVING IN A TIME WHERE, EVEN IN A 02:06 CHRISTIAN CHURCH, SOMEONE WHO IS A MINISTER, MIGHT NEED TO SOUND 02:10 APOLOGETIC ABOUT TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD. 02:13 SOME PEOPLE WILL NO DOUBT SAY THAT WE'RE LEGALISTIC BECAUSE 02:16 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD, BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT 02:19 JESUS SAID - MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, VERSE 19, "...WHOEVER DOES AND 02:24 TEACHES THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." 02:31 THE LORD TELLS US THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING IT AND TEACHING IT, SO 02:35 WE THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO DEDICATE TIME DURING THESE NEXT 02:38 FEW WEEKS TOGETHER, TO ESPECIALLY FOCUS ON 02:41 UNDERSTANDING THE INCREDIBLE POWER AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE 02:47 LAW OF GOD. THESE THINGS ARE GOING TO BE A BIG ISSUE IN THE 02:50 LAST DAYS. AND SO, I THINK IT'S ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT, AS GOD'S 02:54 CHILDREN, THAT WE GIVE THE LAW OF GOD THE EXALTED PLACE IT 02:58 DESERVES IN HIS WORD. >>AMEN. 03:00 >>REMIND YOURSELF THAT THE BIBLE, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN 03:05 PRINTED AND YOU HAVE MEN - HOLY MEN - THAT WERE INSPIRED AND 03:09 THEY WROTE, BUT WHEN GOD GAVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, HE SPOKE 03:12 AUDIBLY IN THE HEARING OF A WHOLE NATION. 03:15 HE WROTE IT WITH HIS OWN FINGER. IT RECEIVED SPECIAL ATTENTION, 03:19 SO WE SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED ABOUT SAYING WE ARE GOING 03:22 TO FOCUS ON THE LAW OF GOD. ATTITUDES, EVEN IN THE CHURCH, 03:26 ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD, HAVE CHANGED IN RECENT YEARS 03:29 AND IT'S INTERESTING. RIGHT ABOUT THE SAME TIME 03:31 THEY BEGAN TO TAKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DOWN OFF THE WALLS 03:36 IN THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND - I REMEMBER GOING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL 03:38 IN CALIFORNIA WHEN I WAS A KID, AND THEY HAD THE TEN 03:42 COMMANDMENTS IN MY PUBLIC SCHOOL. 03:44 DO ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT? >>YES. 03:47 >>I KNOW, NOW - WOO - WE WOULD THINK, 'HOW COULD THEY DO THAT?' 03:51 SOME OF US REMEMBER, A FEW YEARS AGO, A JUDGE WAS FINED AND THEY 03:56 TOOK AWAY HIS POSITION BECAUSE HE STOOD UP FOR THE TEN 03:59 COMMANDMENTS BEING IN THEIR COURTYARD AS A MONUMENT. 04:04 IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ON THE 04:07 SUPREME COURT BUILDING AND IN THE BUILDING TO THIS DAY. 04:11 THERE'S BEEN A BATTLE ABOUT THE PLACE OF THE LAW OF GOD. 04:14 NOW I'LL GIVE SOME TIME IN ANOTHER PRESENTATION, TALKING 04:17 ABOUT HOW DO WE RELATE, FROM A POLITICAL VIEW, WITH THE TEN 04:21 COMMANDMENTS - AND THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT TO UNDERSTAND. 04:24 BUT TODAY WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - THESE 04:28 LAWS OF LOVE AND LIBERTY. IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO START 04:32 WITH A DEFINITION OF WHAT IS LAW? 04:37 IF YOU LOOK IN THE DICTIONARY IT'LL TELL YOU: "LAW IS THE 04:41 SYSTEM OF RULES AND PRINCIPLES THAT A PARTICULAR COUNTRY OR 04:45 COMMUNITY RECOGNIZE AS REGULATING THE ACTIONS OF ITS 04:48 MEMBERS THAT MIGHT BE ENFORCED BY THE CONTROLLING AUTHORITY." 04:53 YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE, FOR A MOMENT, WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO OUR 04:55 CULTURE IF WE ALL WOKE UP AND DECIDED THAT WE WANTED TO DRIVE 04:59 ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE ROAD AS THEY DO IN ENGLAND OR IN 05:03 AUSTRALIA. WHAT KIND OF CHAOS WOULD WE HAVE? 05:06 WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT KIND OF CHAOS WE HAVE WHEN TRAFFIC 05:08 SIGNALS GO OUT. OUR LIVES ARE REGULATED EVERY 05:13 DAY BY LAW, BUT THAT LAW IS NOT THERE TO RESTRICT OR TAKE AWAY 05:17 OUR FREEDOM, YOU LOSE YOUR FREEDOM WHEN YOU HAVE NO LAW. 05:21 >>AMEN! >>THE LAW IS THERE TO 05:23 PROTECT YOUR LIBERTIES. >>AMEN. 05:26 >>IF ALL OF THE MURDERERS WOULD BE SET FREE RIGHT NOW, THAT 05:31 WOULD AFFECT YOUR LIBERTY AND YOUR PEACE. 05:34 AND IT'S ALSO TRUE OF THE LAW OF GOD. 05:36 IT'S NOT DESIGNED TO TAKE AWAY YOUR HAPPINESS, BUT TO GIVE YOU 05:39 REAL PEACE AND HAPPINESS - COMES FROM THE WORD OF GOD AND THE LAW 05:43 OF GOD. JESUS WARNED US IN THE LAST DAYS THAT THERE WOULD BE 05:48 GREAT LAWLESSNES. MATTER OF FACT, 'BECAUSE INIQUITY' - 05:53 LAWLESSNESS - 'WILL ABOUND, THE LOVE OF MANY WILL GROW 05:56 COLD' - MATTHEW CHAPTER 24. PAUL SAID, IN 2 TIMOTHY 3:13, 06:02 "BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS WILL GROW WORSE AND WORSE." 06:07 JESUS SAID JUST BEFORE HE COMES BACK IT WILL BE AS IT WAS IN THE 06:11 DAYS OF NOAH, AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT, AND THE BIBLE SAYS 06:16 THAT THERE WAS GREAT LAWLESSNESS. 06:18 WE ALL REMEMBER WHAT CONDITIONS WERE IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH - 06:22 THERE WAS A MOB MENTALITY AT THE DOOR OF LOT'S HOUSE. 06:25 IN THE TIME OF NOAH IT SAYS, 'THE THOUGHTS OF MEN'S HEARTS 06:28 WERE ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY.' SO THERE WAS GREAT LAWLESSNESS. 06:34 THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE. 06:37 WE NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD. 06:39 ULTIMATELY, IF YOU WOULD BE SAVED, YOU MUST HAVE THE NEW 06:42 COVENANT, WHICH IS THE LAW OF GOD WRITTEN IN YOUR HEARTS, 06:45 AMEN? >>AMEN. 06:46 >>AND SO, THIS IS A VERY RELEVANT AND A VERY IMPORTANT 06:48 SUBJECT. NOW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DID 06:52 NOT BEGIN AT MOUNT SINAI. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HAVE 06:57 EXISTED THROUGH ETERNITY. THAT'S RIGHT, THE PRINCIPLES 07:02 OF GOD'S LAW HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE. 07:04 LET ME PROVE THAT TO YOU FROM THE BIBLE, QUICKLY. 07:07 GENESIS 26, VERSE 5 - ABRAHAM - DID HE LIVE BEFORE OR AFTER 07:11 MOSES? >>BEFORE. 07:13 >>BEFORE MOSES. SO ABRAHAM LIVED BEFORE MOUNT 07:16 SINAI AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE CODIFIED, RIGHT? 07:20 IT SAYS, "BECAUSE ABRAHAM OBEYED MY VOICE AND KEPT MY CHARGE, MY 07:24 COMMANDMENTS, MY STATUTES, AND MY LAWS." 07:27 BEFORE MOSES EVER CAME ALONG, GOD HAD COMMANDMENTS AND 07:31 STATUTES AND LAWS. HE MUST HAVE GIVEN SOME OF THESE 07:33 THINGS, AT LEAST ORALLY, TO ADAM AND EVE. 07:36 GENESIS 39, VERSE 9, WHEN JOSEPH WAS TEMPTED BY THE WIFE OF 07:42 POTIPHAR, HIS MASTER, JOSEPH KNEW ADULTERY WAS WRONG AND HE 07:46 SAID, "THERE'S NO ONE GREATER IN THIS HOUSE THAN I, NOR HAS HE 07:50 KEPT BACK ANYTHING FROM ME BUT YOU, BECAUSE YOU ARE HIS WIFE." 07:54 - YOU KNOW, THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT - "HOW THEN CAN I DO 07:57 THIS GREAT WICKEDNESS, AND SIN AGAINST GOD'" DID JOSEPH KNOW, 08:01 BACK THEN, THAT ADULTERY WAS A SIN? 08:03 >>YES. >>WHAT? 08:05 BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? I MEAN, CAN YOU REALLY IMAGINE 08:07 PEOPLE LIVING BACK THEN SAYING, 'OH, GOD GIVES THE TEN 08:12 COMMANDMENTS THERE AT MOUNT SINAI' AND THEY SAY - THEY ELBOW 08:14 EACH OTHER - 'YOU MEAN WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE COMMITTING 08:16 ADULTERY?' 'OH, WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO STEAL?' 'WE'RE NOT 08:19 SUPPOSED TO MURDER?' DON'T YOU THINK SOME OF THOSE WERE 08:21 SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS? >>AMEN. 08:23 >>GOD WAS PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER AND SUMMARIZING IT 08:26 FOR THEM. >>AMEN. 08:28 >>PSALM 111, VERSE 7, "...ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE SURE. 08:33 THEY STAND FAST FOREVER AND EVER." 08:37 GOD'S LAW IS FOREVER AND EVER. 08:39 AND, EVEN THERE, IN THE VERY BEGINNING, WHEN CAIN ENDED UP 08:42 KILLING HIS BROTHER ABEL, WHAT DID GOD SAY? 08:46 "IF YOU DO WELL, WILL YOU NOT BE ACCEPTED?" 08:48 - GENESIS 4:7 - "AND IF YOU DO NOT DO WELL, SIN LIES AT THE 08:53 DOOR." AND SO GOD WAS DESCRIBING THAT 08:56 IT WAS A SIN TO MURDER, WAY BACK THERE IN THE BEGINNING. 09:00 SO GOD'S LAW HAS ETERNAL PRINCIPLES. 09:03 THESE ARE NOT JEWISH LAWS. A COMMON MISUNDERSTANDING - A 09:08 MYTH - AMONG CHRISTIANS IS THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, SOMEHOW, 09:11 WERE JUST FOR ISRAELITES - THAT THEY ARE JEWISH LAWS. 09:15 THEY DON'T USUALLY SAY THAT FOR 90-PERCENT OF THEM. 09:18 THEY REALLY JUST START SAYING THEY'RE JEWISH LAWS WHEN THEY 09:21 GET TO ONE, IN PARTICULAR, AND THAT - THAT ALL, BY ITSELF, 09:25 SOUNDS INCONSISTENT. WE'LL GET TO THAT ANOTHER DAY. 09:29 NOW I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH ABOUT 16 POINTS, IF ANYONE'S 09:32 COUNTING, SO YOU CAN KIND OF COUNT DOWN TO THE END OF THE 09:35 SERMON - NOT THAT ANYONE EVER DOES THAT. 09:37 I'M SURE NOBODY LOOKS AT THEIR WATCH OR THE CLOCK ON THE WALL, 09:39 RIGHT? WHEN I'M PREACHING - BUT I'LL BE 09:42 DEALING WITH 16 QUICK POINTS. THERE ARE A LOT OF 09:45 SCRIPTURES IN THIS SERIES. IN THE FIRST PRESENTATION, 09:50 I'M NOT EVEN GOING INTO THE RESPECTIVE COMMANDMENTS. 09:53 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW AS A WHOLE - WHY IT IS 09:56 SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT. 10:00 FIRST POINT: CAN GOD'S MORAL LAW, OR THE DECALOGUE - THE TEN 10:04 COMMANDMENTS - BE AMENDED OR REPEALED? 10:07 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? JESUS SAID - LUKE 16, VERSE 17, 10:12 "AND IT IS EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS AWAY THAN FOR ONE 10:17 TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL." JESUS, WHEN HE SAID THAT, HE 10:23 WAS REFERENCING SOME OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - EASIER FOR 10:26 HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS AWAY. PSALM 89:34, "MY COVENANT WILL I 10:32 NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE THING THAT IS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS." 10:36 GOD SAYS HE WILL NOT BREAK HIS COVENANT - AND WE JUST READ IN 10:39 DEUTERONOMY 4, 'HE GAVE YOU HIS COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU 10:42 TO PERFORM, EVEN TEN COMMANDMENTS.' THE TEN 10:45 COMMANDMENTS ARE THE COVENANT GOD HAS MADE THROUGH WHICH WE 10:49 ARE SAVED. 'NOW, PASTOR DOUG, ARE YOU 10:51 SAYING WE'RE SAVED BY KEEPING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 10:54 NO, WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE. MALACHI 3, VERSE 6, GOD 10:59 SAYS, "FOR I AM THE LORD, I CHANGE NOT." 11:02 YOU KNOW WHY GOD CANNOT CHANGE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 11:05 BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE TO CHANGE HIMSELF. 11:08 JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER.' 11:13 'I AM THE LORD, I DO NOT CHANGE.' THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 11:15 ARE A PERFECT EXPRESSION OF GOD'S CHARACTER. 11:22 GOD IS GOOD. LUKE 18, VERSE 19 - WELL, DID 11:27 YOU KNOW IT ALSO SAYS THAT HIS LAW IS GOOD? 11:30 GOD AND HIS LAW ARE THE SAME. THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS HOLY. 11:34 YOU CAN FIND THAT IN ISAIAH 5:16 - IT'S ALSO IN ISAIAH 6 - THE 11:39 BIBLE SAYS THE LAW IS HOLY - ROMANS 7, VERSE 12. 11:43 THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS JUST - DEUTERONOMY 32, VERSE 4, IT SAYS 11:48 HIS LAW IS JUST. THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS 11:50 PERFECT - MATTHEW 5:48. PSALM 19:7 SAYS THE LAW OF THE 11:54 LORD IS PERFECT, CONVERTING THE SOUL. 11:56 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD IS LOVE - 1 JOHN 4:8 - TELLS US HIS 12:01 LAW IS LOVE - ROMANS 13:10. I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR ALL 12:05 THE REFERENCES, BUT THE BIBLE IS PRETTY CLEAR: GOD IS RIGHTEOUS, 12:09 HIS LAW IS RIGHTEOUS. GOD IS TRUTH, HIS LAW IS TRUTH. 12:11 GOD IS PURE - IT SAYS HIS LAW IS PURE. 12:13 GOD IS SPIRITUAL - HIS LAW IS SPIRITUAL. 12:15 GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE - HIS LAW IS UNCHANGEABLE. 12:17 GOD IS ETERNAL - HIS LAW IS ETERNAL. 12:19 AND THIS ISN'T ALL THE DEFINITIONS OF GOD'S CHARACTER, 12:22 THESE ARE JUST A FEW FACETS I CHOSE TO SHARE WITH YOU, BUT 12:25 YOU'LL FIND THAT EVERYTHING THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT GOD, IT SAYS 12:28 ABOUT HIS LAW BECAUSE THE LAW OF GOD IS THE PERFECT EXPRESSION OF 12:33 HIS WILL AND HIS CHARACTER. SO ANY ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THE 12:40 LAW OF GOD IS REALLY AN ASSAULT ON GOD'S VERY PERSON. 12:44 THE REASON IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO PREACH AND EXALT AND TEACH 12:48 THE LAW OF GOD IS YOU'RE LIFTING UP WHO GOD IS WHEN YOU DO IT. 12:53 AND SO, DON'T EVER BE ASHAMED ABOUT TALKING ABOUT THE TEN 12:56 COMMANDMENTS. THE DEVIL HAS INTIMIDATED 12:59 CHRISTIANS WITH THE WORD 'LEGALISM' AS THOUGH 13:02 OBEDIENCE IS LEGALISM. THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH 13:06 THAT OBEDIENCE IS LEGALISM. REAL OBEDIENCE IS COMING FROM 13:10 THE RIGHT MOTIVE - IT IS NOT OBEDIENT - IT IS NOT LEGALISM. 13:14 AND SO, THE LAW OF GOD MUST BE TAUGHT. 13:17 ONE REASON THE LAW OF GOD NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT IS BECAUSE WE WON'T 13:21 UNDERSTAND WHAT SIN IS WITHOUT IT. THAT'S MY SECOND POINT. 13:26 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN? 13:30 NOW THE MOST CLINICAL DEFINITION YOU FIND IN 1 JOHN 3, VERSE 4 - 13:35 SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 13:40 SO, THE DEVIL DOESN'T WANT US TALKING ABOUT SIN. 13:44 YOU KNOW WHY? WHEN YOU PREACH AND YOU TALK 13:46 ABOUT SIN, PEOPLE BECOME PAINFULLY AWARE THAT THEY HAVE 13:50 PROBLEMS - THAT THEY ARE SINNERS - AND WHEN THEY BECOME AWARE 13:54 THEY'RE SINNERS, THEN THEY START FEELING THE NEED FOR A SAVIOR. 13:59 SO IF YOU CAN JUST QUIET THE CHURCH DOWN WHERE THEY DON'T 14:01 TALK ABOUT THE LAW, PEOPLE WILL NOT FEEL A CONVICTION FOR SIN - 14:05 THEY WILL NOT SENSE THEIR NEED OF JESUS OR REPENTANCE AND WON'T 14:08 FIND SALVATION. THE LAW LEADS TO SALVATION. 14:14 WHILE WE ARE NOT SAVED BY THE LAW, YOU CANNOT BE CONVICTED OF 14:18 YOUR SIN WITHOUT KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAW. 14:23 AND SO, IT TELLS US THAT SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S LAW. 14:27 THAT'S WHY GOD SAID TO CAIN, 'SIN LIES AT THE DOOR.' HE WAS 14:31 GETTING READY TO MURDER HIS BROTHER. 14:33 ROMANS 3:20, "BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN." 14:37 GET RID OF THE LAW, YOU GET RID OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN; GET RID 14:40 OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN, NOBODY NEEDS A SAVIOR FROM SIN. 14:43 CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THE DEVIL'S STRATEGY? 14:45 >>YEP. >>HE'S ATTACKING THE LAW. 14:47 HE'S TRYING TO ECLIPSE, OBSCURE, HIDE THE LAW OF GOD - DOWNPLAY 14:51 THE LAW OF GOD - BECAUSE THEN PEOPLE WON'T KNOW THEY'RE 14:54 SINNERS AND THEY WON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THEY NEED JESUS. 14:56 THEY WON'T BE SAVED AND FORGIVEN OF THEIR SINS AND THEY WON'T 14:59 HAVE THE PEACE THAT COMES FROM THAT EXPERIENCE. 15:03 IT ALSO TELLS US - ROMANS 7:7 - "...I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN, BUT BY 15:09 THE LAW: FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST, EXCEPT THE LAW HAD SAID, 15:12 'THOU SHALT NOT COVET.'" NOTICE THAT PAUL IS QUOTING FROM ONE OF 15:15 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. SO RIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD 15:18 IT'S REVEALING WHAT SIN IS AND THEREBY HELPING US KNOW 15:22 OUR NEED FOR A SAVIOR. NOW, A CHRISTIAN IS ULTIMATELY 15:26 A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. HOW DID JESUS FEEL 15:28 ABOUT THE LAW? DID HE UPHOLD IT? >>YES. 15:32 >>JOHN 15, VERSE 10 - DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 15:37 >>YES. >>THAT'S THE BIG QUESTION. 15:38 HE SAID - IF YOU BELIEVE JESUS - 'I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S 15:42 COMMANDMENTS.' SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT JESUS 15:45 CAME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW. 15:47 CHRIST SAID, 'DO NOT THINK' - IN MATTHEW - 'THINK NOT THAT I HAVE 15:51 COME TO DESTROY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 15:52 I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL' - AND THE WORD 15:56 'FULFILL' MEANT - THERE, MEANS TO FILL FULL. 15:59 JESUS CAME TO FILL UP THE LAW - KEEP IT IN HIS LIFE. 16:03 SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, HE CAME TO KEEP IT SO WE DON'T HAVE TO.' 16:05 NO, HE CAME TO KEEP IT AS AN EXAMPLE ON HOW WE CAN. 16:09 A CHRISTIAN IS A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. 16:12 WE DON'T NEED EXCUSES TO DISOBEY, WE'RE ALREADY REALLY 16:14 GOOD AT THAT. (LAUGHTER) 16:16 WE NEED - WE NEED AN EXAMPLE TO SHOW US HOW WE 16:19 OVERCOME. >>AMEN. 16:21 >>AND JESUS, THERE IN REVELATION, HE SAYS SEVEN TIMES 16:24 IN HIS MESSAGE TO THE CHURCHES - 'TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES' - 'TO 16:27 HIM THAT OVERCOMES' - 'TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES' - EACH TIME IT'S 16:30 ACCOMPANIED WITH GREAT PROMISES OF GOOD. 16:33 THE DEVIL WANTS US TO THINK THAT WE CAN ALL SIN BUT WE CAN'T 16:37 OBEY. AND REALLY WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE 16:40 HAVE MORE FAITH IN THE DEVIL'S ABILITY TO TEMPT US THAN JESUS' 16:44 ABILITY TO KEEP US FROM FALLING. >>AMEN. 16:47 >>SO WHAT'S BIGGER? YOUR GOD OR YOUR DEVIL? 16:51 IF YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS CAN TRANSFORM YOU - CAN THE LORD 16:54 HELP YOU IN ANY SIN? HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER EXPERIENCED 16:57 GOD GIVING YOU VICTORY OVER ANY SIN IN YOUR LIFE? 17:00 >>YES. >>AMEN. 17:02 >>WELL, IF HE CAN HELP YOU WITH ANYTHING, THEN HE CAN HELP YOU 17:05 WITH EVERYTHING. >>AMEN. 17:07 >>BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH 17:09 GOD, RIGHT? AND THE SAME WAY THAT HE GAVE 17:12 YOU VICTORY IN WHATEVER THAT AREA MIGHT BE, HE CAN GIVE YOU 17:15 VICTORY IN THE AREAS WHERE YOU MAY STILL BE STRUGGLING, BUT 17:17 DON'T FALL FOR THE DEVIL'S MARKETING PLAN THAT - 'OH WELL, 17:23 JESUS CAME AND OBEYED BECAUSE WE CAN'T.' NO, HE CAME AND 17:27 OBEYED TO SHOW US HOW WE CAN. >>AMEN. 17:30 >>BECAUSE WE - HE HAS GIVEN US AN EXAMPLE - THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 17:33 WE SHOULD WALK EVEN AS HE WALKED. 17:35 WE WALK IN HIS STEPS. HE'S AN EXAMPLE TO US. 17:38 YES YOU CAN OBEY. JESUS DID. 17:40 THE BIBLE SAYS HE DID NO SIN. HE KEPT HIS FATHER'S 17:43 COMMANDMENTS AND HE SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP 17:47 MY COMMANDMENTS. >>AMEN. 17:49 >>AMEN? >>AMEN. 17:50 >>IT'S - SO, WHO HAS SINNED? AND WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR SIN? 17:55 WE'RE JUST KIND OF LAYING A FOUNDATION RIGHT NOW FOR THIS 17:57 SUBJECT. YOU ALL KNOW ROMANS 3:23, 18:01 "FOR" - HOW MANY? - >>ALL. 18:03 >>"ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD." 18:07 EVERYBODY WHO HAS EVER LIVED, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF JESUS, HAS 18:12 SINNED. AND WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR SIN? 18:15 >>DEATH. >>ROMANS 6:23 - 18:16 >>DEATH. >>"FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS 18:19 DEATH." AND SO ALL OF US ARE GUILTY OF 18:23 BREAKING GOD'S LAW AND THE PENALTY FOR BREAKING GOD'S 18:26 PERFECT LAW IS DEATH. AND IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE 18:30 SERIOUS THAN THAT, DOES IT? >>NO. 18:32 >>SO WITHOUT HELP FROM THE LORD, WE ARE ALL UNDER A DEATH 18:36 PENALTY. NUMBER 7: SHOULD CHRISTIANS 18:42 KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? >>YES! 18:44 >>NO, NO, I MEAN NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS, SHOULD WE KEEP THE 18:47 TEN COMMANDMENTS? >>YES! 18:48 >>MATTHEW 19:17, JESUS SAID, "IF YOU WILL ENTER INTO LIFE, KEEP 18:52 THE COMMANDMENTS." IS THAT PLAIN? 18:55 SAY 'AMEN' IF THAT'S PLAIN. >>AMEN. 18:56 >>YOUR BIBLE HAS THAT IN RED LETTERS. 18:58 LET ME TELL YOU ONE MORE TIME - IT'S MATTHEW 19:17. 19:00 YOU'LL ALSO FIND THIS IN MARK CHAPTER 10, WHEN THE RICH YOUNG 19:03 RULER CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, 'GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THINGS 19:06 SHALL I DO THAT I MIGHT INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE?' 19:08 JESUS SAID, 'THOU KNOWEST THE COMMANDMENTS.' AND JESUS, THEN, 19:11 QUOTED NOT FROM CEREMONIAL LAWS, NOT FROM VARIOUS HEALTH 19:15 STATUTES, HE QUOTED FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 19:18 NOW, WE DON'T KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TO BE SAVED, BUT IF 19:22 WE HAVE ACCEPTED HIS SALVATION, WE WILL KEEP THE TEN 19:25 COMMANDMENTS. DON'T FORGET, GOD DID NOT SAVE 19:29 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM EGYPT BY SAYING, 'HERE'S MY LAW. 19:34 KEEP MY LAW AND I'LL GET YOU OUT OF EGYPT.' HE STARTED OUT BY 19:38 SAYING, 'HERE'S A LAMB. SACRIFICE THE LAMB, APPLY THE 19:43 BLOOD OF THE LAMB, AND WE WILL BEGIN A JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED 19:45 LAND. I'LL GET YOU OUT OF EGYPT AS SOON AS YOU ACCEPT THE LAMB.' 19:51 AFTER THEY ACCEPTED THE LAMB - AND YOU KNOW WHO THAT REPRESENTS 19:54 - THE LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD - 19:56 AFTER THEY ACCEPTED JESUS - THAT PASSOVER LAMB - THEY THEN BEGAN 20:01 THEIR JOURNEY. THEN THEY WENT TO MOUNT SINAI 20:04 AND HE DELIVERED THE LAW AND, OF COURSE, THE FIRST THING HE SAYS 20:06 IS: 'I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD THAT BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF 20:09 EGYPT OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE.' THAT'S PART OF THE TEN 20:11 COMMANDMENTS. YOU'LL FIND THAT RIGHT HERE - THIS IS REAL HEBREW 20:14 - AND THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS HERE IN THE FIRST LINE. 20:16 IT INCLUDES THE PART THAT SAYS, 'I AM THE LORD WHO SAVED YOU' - 20:20 HE BEGINS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BY SAYING, 'I HAVE SAVED YOU.' 20:23 YOU GOT THAT? >>AMEN. 20:24 >>SO WHAT COMES FIRST? OBEDIENCE OR SALVATION? 20:27 >>SALVATION. >>YOU CANNOT BE SAVED BY 20:29 OBEYING BECAUSE SALVATION MUST COME FIRST. 20:32 OTHERWISE IT'S - IF YOUR OBJECTIVE IS TO BE CLEAN, AND 20:38 YOU TELL YOUR CHILDREN, 'I WANT YOU TO CLEAN UP BEFORE YOU TAKE 20:41 A BATH.' ISN'T THAT BACKWARDS? YOU TAKE THE BATH TO CLEAN UP. 20:47 AND SO YOU FIRST MUST BE SAVED BEFORE YOU CAN OBEY. 20:51 YOU COME TO JESUS FIRST - AFTER THEY ACCEPTED THE LAMB AND THEY 20:57 WERE BAPTIZED IN THE SEA AND THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE PILLAR 20:59 OF FIRE - WE NEED THOSE BAPTISMS - HE BROUGHT THEM TO MOUNT SINAI 21:03 AND HE SAID, 'NOW, IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' ISN'T 21:06 THAT HOW IT WORKED? >>AMEN. 21:07 >>THEY WERE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW, BUT PLEASE, PLEASE 21:10 DON'T MISS THIS POINT. THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE POPULAR 21:13 AND SOME PEOPLE WILL TWIST IT. THEY WERE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING 21:16 THE LAW, BUT AFTER HE BROUGHT THEM TO MOUNT SINAI, THOSE WHO 21:19 HAD BEEN SAVED FROM EGYPT THAT REFUSED TO OBEY, NEVER MADE 21:22 IT TO THE PROMISED LAND. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 21:24 >>YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW, BUT YOU WILL DEFINITELY 21:27 BE LOST BY DELIBERATELY DISOBEYING IT. 21:29 >>AMEN. >>IF WE CONTINUE TO SIN 21:32 WILLFULLY - HEBREWS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 26 - "AFTER WE HAVE 21:36 RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE NO LONGER REMAINS A 21:39 SACRIFICE FOR SINS, BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL EXPECTATION OF 21:42 JUDGMENT" - AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THOSE THAT REFUSE 21:45 MOSES' LAW, THEY SUFFERED UNDER THAT WRATH AND IT WILL ALSO BE 21:50 TRUE OF THOSE WHO DELIBERATELY, WILFULLY DISOBEY GOD'S LAW. 21:54 SHOULD A CHRISTIAN KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 21:58 REVELATION 14:12 - SPEAKING OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS, 22:02 "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP 22:06 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD". AND AGAIN, REVELATION 22:14, 22:12 "BLESSED" - THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE, FRIENDS. 22:15 I MEAN, IF THINGS ARE GOING TO CHANGE HE WOULD HAVE CHANGED IT 22:17 BY THEN. BUT WHAT DOES IT SAY THERE? 22:19 "BLESSED" - IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? >>GOOD. 22:22 >>"BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS THAT THEY MIGHT 22:26 HAVE A RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND ENTER IN THROUGH THE 22:29 GATES OF THE CITY." IF YOU WANT TO EAT FROM THE TREE 22:32 OF LIFE AND ENTER IN THROUGH THE GATES OF THE CITY, THEN YOU 22:34 NEED TO BE ONE OF THOSE BLESSED PEOPLE THAT KEEPS 22:37 HIS COMMANDMENTS. AMEN? >>AMEN. 22:40 >>BUT ISN'T HE ASKING US TO DO SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE? 22:42 >>NO. >>HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? 22:45 IT'S ONE THING TO SAY WE SHOULD DO IT - THAT'S CLEAR. 22:48 BUT HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS? 22:52 THE ANSWERS ARE GIVEN - PHILIPPIANS 4:13, "I CAN DO ALL 22:56 THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME." 23:00 JESUS WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH. HE NEVER SAYS IT'S EASY. 23:03 IT'S TOUGH SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE TEMPTED. 23:05 JESUS WENT THROUGH SOME TOUGH TEMPTATIONS IN THE WILDERNESS 23:08 WHEN HE WAS FASTING 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, BUT HE WILL GIVE YOU 23:12 STRENGTH TO DO WHAT HE ASKS YOU TO DO. NOW THERE'S THE POINT. 23:16 INHERENT IN EVERY COMMAND OF GOD, IT'S PRE-PACKAGED WITH THE 23:22 POWER TO OBEY. >>AMEN. 23:27 >>I BOUGHT A TRAILER HITCH FOR MY TRUCK YESTERDAY. 23:33 IT'S THE MOST EXCITING THING I DID YESTERDAY. 23:35 (LAUGHTER) I WANTED TO MAKE SURE TO GET THE RIGHT SIZE, BUT 23:40 THE TRAILER HITCH - IT'S GOT THE TRAILER BALL - IT'S GOT THE 23:43 HITCH, YOU KNOW, GUYS - THOSE DROP-DOWN HITCHES THAT YOU SLIDE 23:45 INTO THE RECEPTACLE THERE ON THE BACK OF THE TRUCKS - SQUARE 23:47 THING - AND WHEN I GOT IT, I THOUGHT, 'THIS IS GOING TO DO ME 23:52 NO GOOD IF I DON'T HAVE THE PIN THAT HOLDS IT IN PLACE." 23:55 BECAUSE YOU SLIDE THE THING IN AND YOU HOOK UP YOUR TRAILER, 23:59 YOU DRIVE AWAY - YOUR TRAILER'S GOING TO STAY THERE - 24:00 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO ANYWHERE. 24:01 (LAUGHTER) SO I THOUGHT, 'NOW WHERE DO YOU GET THE PIN?' 24:05 I WAS LOOKING ALL OVER THE SHELF. 24:06 AND I'M HOLDING THIS THING IN MY HAND AND I HEART IT - 'CLUNK!' 24:08 - AND I SHOOK IT AND I SAID, 'OH, THAT WAS VERY NICE.' 24:12 THEY PUT SOME TAPE OVER THE END, THEY DROPPED THE CONNECTING PIN 24:14 - I LOOKED AT THE LABEL, SURE ENOUGH IT SAYS, 'CONNECTING PIN 24:17 INCLUDED'. I THOUGHT, 'NOW THAT MAKES SENSE 24:19 BECAUSE THIS TRAILER HITCH WOULD BE NO GOOD AT ALL IF I HOOKED IT 24:22 UP TO THE TRAILER, I DROVE AWAY, AND NOTHING MOVED. 24:25 IT GIVES ME THE CONNECTING PIN. IN EVERY COMMAND OF GOD YOU 24:29 HAVE THE CONNECTING PIN. >>AMEN. 24:32 >>HE GIVES YOU THE POWER TO GO SOMEWHERE WITH IT. 24:35 IT GIVES YOU THE POWER TO MOVE OFF THE DIME. 24:38 YOU CAN DO WHAT GOD ASKS YOU TO DO BECAUSE WHEN GOD TELLS YOU TO 24:42 DO SOMETHING, WOULDN'T IT BE CRUEL FOR THE LORD TO PUNISH HIS 24:46 CHILDREN FOR NOT OBEYING A COMMAND THEY CANNOT OBEY? 24:49 >>AMEN. >>ARE SINNERS GOING 24:52 TO BE PUNISHED? >>YES. 24:54 >>DID JESUS TAKE A PUNISHMENT FOR SIN? 24:56 >>YES. >>HOW - WHAT RIGHT - HOW JUST 25:00 WOULD IT BE IF GOD WOULD PUNISH HIS CHILDREN - EVEN HIS OWN SON 25:06 - FOR PEOPLE BREAKING LAWS THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP? 25:09 >>AMEN. >>YOU SEE WHAT THE DEVIL IS 25:11 ACCUSING PEOPLE OF? AND I HEAR PASTORS SAY IT - OH, IT'S A 25:15 DOCTRINE OF DEVILS - I HEAR PASTORS SAY, 'WELL, NOBODY CAN 25:19 KEEP THE LAW. THAT'S WHY JESUS HAD TO DIE. WELL, IT'S TRUE NO 25:24 ONE CAN KEEP IT WITHOUT HIS POWER, BUT I BELIEVE, THROUGH 25:27 CHRIST, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. >>AMEN. 25:29 >>AND IF GOD IS GOING TO PUNISH SINNERS FOR SINNING WHEN THEY 25:33 CAN'T OBEY BECAUSE HE'S ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE OF THEM, WELL 25:37 THAT MAKES GOD A CRUEL TYRANT. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 25:40 >>BUT WITH HIS SPIRIT AND WITH HIS POWER, YOU CAN BE DIFFERENT. 25:44 YOU CAN OBEY. >>AMEN. 25:46 >>HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CHANGE SOCIETY BY TELLING THE 25:48 ALCOHOLIC, 'WELL, NOBODY CAN REALLY OBEY.' (LAUGHTER) 'WE'RE 25:53 JUST GOING TO, YOU KNOW, WE'LL SUBSIDIZE YOUR DRINKING. 25:56 WE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO CHANGE AND GIVE IT UP AND STOP BEATING 25:58 YOUR WIFE AND LOSING YOUR JOBS.' OR THE PERSON WHO'S ADDICTED TO 26:04 HEROIN OR CIGARETTES - I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE IS HARDER. 26:07 WHAT GOOD ARE YOU GOING TO DO IN THE WORLD IF WE DON'T TELL 26:10 SINNERS THAT THEY CAN GET THE VICTORY? 26:12 >>AMEN. >>CAN PEOPLE WHO 26:14 DRINK GET THE VICTORY? >>AMEN. 26:15 >>YES. >>DO YOU ALL KNOW 26:17 SOME THAT HAVE? >>YES. 26:18 >>CAN PEOPLE WHO SMOKE AND USE DRUGS AND - YOU JUST NAME YOUR 26:22 FAVORITE SINFUL ADDICTION. DO WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE CAN 26:25 CHANGE? >>YES! 26:26 >>AMEN! THAT'S WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS, IS 26:28 TO HEAR YOU CAN OBEY - YOU CAN GET THE VICTORY. 26:31 AND IT BREAKS MY HEART WHEN I HEAR PASTORS SAYING, 'WELL, 26:33 NOBODY CAN REALLY OBEY.' AND WE MAKE ALL THESE EXCUSES FOR SIN. 26:38 YES YOU CAN! YOU CAN BE DIFFERENT. 26:40 YOU CAN LIVE A NEW KIND OF LIFE. YOU CAN CHANGE. 26:43 IS IT A STRUGGLE? YES. DOES IT TAKE TIME? 26:45 SOMETIMES SANCTIFICATION - IT TAKES TIME. 26:47 >>AMEN. >>BUT DON'T - DON'T 26:50 UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF GOD. DON'T GIVE THE 26:52 CREDIT TO THE DEVIL. >>AMEN. 26:54 >>FOR ALL - REMAINING SLAVES - THEN YOU'RE LIKE THOSE SPIES 26:59 THAT CAME BACK. THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GIVE A 27:01 GLORIOUS REPORT OF THE PROMISED LAND AND THEY CAME BACK AND THEY 27:04 SAID, 'OH, THE GIANTS ARE TOO BIG. 27:08 THE WALLS ARE TOO BIG. OBSTACLES TOO BIG. 27:11 WE CAN'T CONQUER THE PROMISED LAND.' AND GOD SAID, 'IF YOU 27:14 DON'T THINK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE IT TO THE PROMISED LAND, 27:16 THEN YOU'RE GOING TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS. 27:18 JOSHUA AND CALEB SAID, 'WE ARE ABLE. 27:20 WE BELIEVE, WITH GOD'S HELP, WE CAN CONQUER THEM.' 27:22 >>AMEN. >>AND I'M GLAD DAVID 27:24 DIDN'T HAVE THAT ATTITUDE. 'OH, GOLIATH'S TOO BIG. 27:26 I'M GOING HOME.' (LAUGHTER) 27:29 YEAH, YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME SIN IN YOUR LIFE THAT SEEMS 27:31 LIKE A BIG UGLY GIANT, BUT THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD, 27:36 YOU CAN OVERCOME. >>AMEN. 27:38 >>ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH GOD, AMEN? 27:40 >>AMEN. >>HE THAT HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK 27:43 IN YOU WILL PERFORM IT UNTO THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST. 27:46 IF YOU FALL DON'T GIVE UP. HE'S BEGUN A WORK IN YOU. 27:49 HE'S THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF YOUR FAITH. 27:51 YES, YOU CAN BE AN OBEYER OF GOD'S LAW - NOT A HEARER ONLY, 27:55 BUT A DOER. >>AMEN. 27:57 >>POINT #9: WHAT ARE THE OLD AND THE NEW COVENANTS? 28:02 WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT. WELL, IF YOU LOOK IN 28:05 DEUTERONOMY, WE QUOTED IT ALREADY - CHAPTER 4, VERSE 13 - 28:08 HE SAYS, "SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED 28:10 YOU TO PERFORM, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS;" COVENANT - TEN 28:14 COMMANDMENTS - NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. OLD COVENANT - THE TEN 28:17 COMMANDMENTS - NOT EXACTLY. THE OLD COVENANT WAS BASED UPON 28:22 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BUT A COVENANT IS AN AGREEMENT. 28:25 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT AN AGREEMENT. 28:27 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE THE TERMS. 28:30 THE AGREEMENT WAS WHEN GOD SPOKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BEFORE HE 28:34 EVER WROTE IT DOWN, ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD AT THE MOUNTAIN, 28:36 THEY HEARD HIS VOICE THUNDER AND RUMBLE THROUGH THE LAND, AND 28:40 THEY SAID TO MOSES, 'YOU SPEAK TO US. 28:41 DON'T LET THE LORD SPEAK IT US, IT'S SCARING US HALF TO DEATH.' 28:44 BUT WHEN HE GAVE THEM THOSE LAWS, YOU KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE 28:47 SAID? 'ALL THAT THE LORD HAS SAID WE 28:50 WILL DO.' NOW, IF YOU AND I ARE GOING TO 28:53 DRAW UP A CONTRACT, THE WAY THAT IT'S DONE ALL THE TIME - WITH 28:56 LAWYERS STILL TODAY - FIRST YOU HAVE A VERBAL AGREEMENT. 28:59 WHAT DO WE WANT THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT TO BE? 29:02 WE AGREE ON THE TERMS, WE SAY, 'OKAY, LET'S WRITE IT DOWN. 29:04 WRITE IT DOWN - YOU GET A COPY, I GET A COPY - WE SIGN IT. 29:08 BY THE WAY, JESUS SAID HEAVEN AND EARTH HAVE TO PASS AWAY FOR 29:14 ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE TO DROP FROM THE LAW. 29:17 SOME HAVE WONDERED IF THERE ARE TWO COPIES. 29:20 YOU KNOW, IT DOES SAY - YOU NEVER SEE IT AND ARTISTS CAN'T 29:22 SHOW IT - UNLESS YOU'VE GOT A THREE DIMENSIONAL, BUT IT SAYS, 29:25 'TWO TABLES OF STONE WRITTEN ON - 29:27 >>BOTH SIDES. >>BOTH SIDES. 29:29 >>AMEN. >>I'M NOT GOING TO FLIP THAT 29:31 AROUND FOR YOU RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE'VE ONLY GOT IT ONE SIDE. 29:33 JUST PRETEND IT'S ON BOTH SIDES. BUT SOME HAVE WONDERED IF YOU 29:37 HAD FOUR ON ONE SIDE AND THE OTHER SIX ON THE BACK; FOUR ON 29:41 ONE, SIX ON THE BACK - ONE WAS TO REPRESENT GOD'S COPY, ONE 29:43 WAS TO REPRESENT MAN'S COPY. HAVE - ANYONE - YOU EVER HAVE 29:47 A CONTRACT SOMEONE SENDS YOU? THEY SEND YOU TWO COPIES 29:49 AND THEY SAY, 'SIGN BOTH. SEND ONE BACK. 29:52 YOU'VE GOT A COPY, I'VE GOT A COPY. 29:53 WE'VE GOT A COVENANT.' SO GOD GAVE THEM THE LAW ORALLY. 29:57 THEY AGREED. HE WROTE IT DOWN. 29:58 THEY SAID, 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO.' THAT'S WHAT 30:01 THE COVENANT WAS: 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO.' 30:04 BUT DID THEY? >>NO. 30:06 >>AS SOON AS GOD GAVE IT TO MOSES, HE GOT DOWN THE MOUNTAIN, 30:09 THEY WERE HAVING A HOOTENANNY AROUND A GOLDEN CALF WITH HALF 30:15 THEIR CLOTHES GONE. THEY BROKE THE LAW. YEAH, SO GOD SAID 'YOU 30:22 DON'T HAVE THE KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE'? 30:23 MOSES THREW THEM OUT OF HIS HANDS. 30:25 GOD SAID, 'NO, CUT SOME MORE STONES. 30:27 I CUT THE FIRST ONES, MOSES, YOU CUT THESE. 30:29 YOU BROKE THEM. CUT - BRING 'EM BACK UP. 30:33 I'LL WRITE ON THEM THE WORDS OF THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS. 30:36 THE LAW DIDN'T CHANGE. THEY PUT IT BACK IN THE ARK, 30:38 THEY CARRIED IT AROUND, AND IT'S STILL PROBABLY HIDDEN IN ISRAEL 30:41 SOMEWHERE IN A CAVE TO THIS VERY DAY. 30:42 TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE ARK STILL IN EXISTENCE TODAY. 30:46 BUT THE NEW COVENANT - WHERE DOES THE NEW COVENANT FIRST 30:50 APPEAR? IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. THE FIRST TIME YOU FIND THE NEW 30:56 COVENANT IT'S NOT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 30:58 JEREMIAH 31:31, IT SAYS 'A NEW COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM 31:02 AFTER THESE DAYS.' BY THE WAY, HE DOES NOT MAKE A NEW COVENANT 31:05 WITH GENTILES, HE MAKES A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF 31:09 ISRAEL. >>AMEN. 31:10 >>'A NEW COVENANT WILL I MAKE AFTER THOSE DAYS WITH THE HOUSE 31:13 OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH:' THE NEW COVENANT GOD 31:16 SAYS, 'I WILL WRITE MY LAW IN THEIR HEARTS.' OLD COVENANT - 31:20 THE PEOPLE SAID, 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO.' NEW 31:22 COVENANT, GOD SAID, 'I WILL.' OLD COVENANT 'WE WILL.' 31:25 THEY FAILED. NEW COVENANT, GOD SAYS, 31:27 'I WILL.' WHAT WERE THE TERMS? THE EXACT SAME TERMS. 31:32 THE LAW IS THE SAME THING - IT'S WRITTEN ON A DIFFERENT PLACE. 31:36 IT'S WRITTEN ON THE HEART. IT'S BASED ON THE PROMISES OF 31:39 GOD BUT IT'S THE SAME LAW. >>AMEN. 31:42 >>AND IT'S SUMMED UP IN TWO COMMANDMENTS - TWO TABLES OF 31:47 STONE - WHY? BECAUSE THE FIRST TABLE IS DEALING WITH MAN'S 31:53 RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD - MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD. 31:58 NOW CHRIST SAID THE LAW IS SUMMED UP IN TWO GREAT 31:59 COMMANDMENTS - LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL 32:01 AND STRENGTH - LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. 32:04 THAT'S A SUMMARY OF THE TWO COMMANDMENTS. 32:07 GOD MADE ADAM - WHEN GOD FIRST MADE ADAM IT WAS GOVERNED BY 32:13 THIS TABLE - MAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. 32:16 AFTER GOD MADE EVE HE NEEDED ANOTHER TABLE BECAUSE NOW YOU'VE 32:19 GOT THE HORIZONTAL RELATIONSHIP. >>AMEN. 32:22 >>AND THIS WAS BROUGHT INTO PLAY AT THAT POINT. 32:25 BUT THE WHOLE LAW IS SUMMED UP IN 'LOVE FOR GOD AND LOVE FOR 32:29 YOUR NEIGHBOR' AND THAT'S THE ESSENCE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 32:33 IT'S ALL LOVE. SO THE NEW COVENANT IS THOSE LAWS 32:36 OF LOVE WRITTEN ON THE HEART, BASED ON THE PROMISES OF GOD. 32:40 AND HE SAYS, 'WITH MY POWER, I WILL CAUSE YOU' - MATTER OF 32:43 FACT, I'M SAYING IT, BUT I NEED TO READ IT TO YOU NOW. 32:47 HEBREWS 8, VERSE 8, "FOR FINDING FAULT WITH THEM" - THE FAULT WAS 32:51 NOT WITH THE LAW. THE REASON HE HAD A NEW COVENANT? 32:54 FINDING FAULT WITH THEM. WHO ARE THE THEM? 32:57 THE ISRAELITES WHO BROKE IT - "FOR FINDING FAULT WITH THEM, HE 33:01 SAYS: '...I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF 33:02 ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH.'" THERE IS NO COVENANT IN 33:05 THE BIBLE MADE WITH GENTILES TO SAVE. 33:09 WE BECOME SPIRITUAL JEWS. WE'RE GRAFTED INTO ISRAEL - 33:12 "'NOT ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS 33:14 IN THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF 33:16 THE LAND OF EGYPT; BECAUSE THEY CONTINUED NOT IN MY COVENANT, 33:19 AND I REGARDED THEM NOT, SAYS THE LORD. 33:22 FOR THIS'" - HEBREWS 8:10 - "'FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT 33:25 I WILL MAKE'...SAYS THE LORD: 'I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR MIND 33:28 AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS;'" - YOU ALSO FIND THAT 33:30 IN EZEKIEL. IT TALKS ABOUT PUTTING HIS LAW IN OUR HEARTS. 33:34 SO THE NEW COVENANT IS AN OLD TESTAMENT CONCEPT. 33:38 ARE YOU AWARE THAT NOBODY IN HISTORY IS SAVED BASED ON THE 33:42 OLD COVENANT? NOBODY'S SAVED BASED ON THEIR 33:46 DOING GOD'S LAW IN THEIR OWN WORKS. 33:49 EVERYBODY IS SAVED BY FAITH THROUGH GRACE - 33:51 >>AMEN. >>FROM GOD PUTTING THE LAW - 33:52 ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD AND HE COUNTED IT TO HIM FOR 33:54 RIGHTEOUSNESS. ABRAHAM WAS RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH. ABRAHAM 33:57 WASN'T SAVED BECAUSE HE GRUNTED AND STRAINED AND MANAGED TO KEEP 34:01 GOD'S LAW IN HIS OWN POWER. >>AMEN. 34:03 >>HE KEPT - MATTER OF FACT, HE FELL SEVERAL TIMES, TRYING TO DO 34:05 THINGS HIS OWN WAY, DIDN'T HE? THAT'S HOW ISHMAEL CAME ALONG. 34:10 IT WASN'T UNTIL HE TRUSTED IN GOD'S POWER THAT ISAAC CAME 34:13 ALONG. WE'RE ALL SAVED BY 34:15 GRACE THROUGH FAITH. >>AMEN. 34:18 >>MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S OUR NEXT VERSE. ARE PEOPLE SAVED BY 34:23 KEEPING THE LAW? >>NO. 34:25 >>YOU WON'T BE SAVED DELIBERATELY BREAKING IT, BUT NO 34:27 ONE IS SAVED BY KEEPING IT. WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE. 34:30 AND THAT'S EPHESIANS 2, VERSES 8 AND 9, "FOR BY GRACE YOU HAVE 34:33 BEEN SAVED THROUGH FAITH, AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS 34:35 THE GIFT OF GOD, NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST." 34:40 AND I PROBABLY WOULD BE FIRST IN LINE BOASTING IF I THOUGHT I 34:42 COULD SAVE MYSELF. YOU'D BE SECOND IN LINE. 34:46 WE'D ALL FIND A WAY TO TAKE CREDIT FOR IT, RIGHT? 34:48 BUT IT'S ONLY BY GOD'S GRACE THAT ANY OF US ARE SAVED, 34:51 BECAUSE IF GOD'S GOING TO GIVE US WHAT WE DESERVE, WHAT'S THE 34:55 PENALTY FOR SIN? >>DEATH. 34:56 >>YOU WOULDN'T EVEN SURVIVE YOUR PROBATION. AS SOON AS YOU 34:59 SINNED, YOU'D DIE. IT'S BECAUSE IT'S A GIFT. 35:03 NOW, SOME ARE SAYING TODAY THAT, WELL, BECAUSE WE'RE SAVED BY 35:07 GRACE, GOD'S GRACE NULLIFIES OR ABOLISHES THE LAW. DOES THE 35:12 GRACE OF GOD ABOLISH THE LAW? >>NO. 35:15 >>ROMANS 6 - LET'S SEE WHAT PAUL SAYS ABOUT THAT. I'M JUST GOING 35:18 TO READ PAUL BECAUSE PAUL IS THE ONE THEY ALWAYS QUOTE TO TRY TO 35:21 SAY THAT. ROMANS 6:15, "WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE 35:25 ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID." 35:30 MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO PAUSE HERE FOR JUST A SECOND 35:32 BEFORE I READ THE NEXT VERSE. UNDER THE LAW - ARE WE CURRENTLY 35:36 UNDER THE LAW? IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT. 35:40 WHEN PAUL TALKS ABOUT BEING UNDER THE LAW, HE'S TALKING 35:43 ABOUT BEING UNDER THE CURSE OR THE PENALTY OF THE LAW. 35:46 WHEN YOU BREAK A LAW - ANY GOOD LAW HAS GOT A PENALTY. 35:49 YOU FIND LAWS IN OUR CULTURE THAT EXIST AND THERE'S NO 35:53 CONSEQUENCE, THERE'S A LAW THAT'S BEING BROKEN. 35:56 >>AMEN. >>RIGHT? MATTER OF FACT, MOST 35:58 LAWS EXIST TODAY BECAUSE SOMEBODY BROKE THE LAW. 36:04 DO YOU KNOW, WE HAVE MORE LAWS NOW IN OUR CULTURE THAN ANY 36:06 OTHER TIME IN HISTORY? HAS IT MADE US A 36:09 MORE LAWFUL PEOPLE? >>ABSOLUTELY NOT. 36:12 >>NO, MATTER OF FACT, SOMEBODY SAID ONE TIME, THE FEWER LAWS A 36:16 JUST SOCIETY HAS, THE MORE LAWFUL THE PEOPLE ARE. THE 36:20 PROLIFERATION OF LAWS USUALLY INDICATES A LOT OF LAW BREAKING. 36:24 EVERY LAW THAT YOU EVER HEAR IS BECAUSE SOMEONE DID SOMETHING 36:28 WRONG AND THEY HAD TO MAKE A LAW ABOUT IT. 36:30 I SAW AN INTERESTING LIST - YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN IT BEFORE - 36:33 SOME OF THE STRANGE LAWS THAT THEY'VE GOT. 36:36 DO YOU KNOW THAT IT'S - THERE'S A LAW THAT IT'S ILLEGAL TO CARRY 36:42 A VIOLIN IN A PAPER BAG IN SALT LAKE COUNTY UTAH. 36:47 NOW, YOU WONDER WHAT THE STORY IS BEHIND THAT LAW, RIGHT? 36:50 WAS SOMEONE - THEY THOUGHT - THEY CARRIED IT INTO A BANK AND 36:53 THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD A MACHINE GUN - IT WAS JUST A VIOLIN IN A 36:55 PAPER BAG? I MEAN, YOU WONDER, WHAT'S BEHIND THAT? 37:01 NASHVILLE - THERE'S A LAW - NO BATHING IN CITY FOUNTAINS. 37:06 DO YOU THINK THE COUNCIL CITY FATHERS WERE SITTING AROUND ONE 37:09 DAY AND SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE PROBABLY OUGHT TO MAKE A LAW 37:11 ABOUT NOT BATHING IN THE FOUNTAINS.' NO, YOU KNOW HOW 37:14 THAT LAW GOT MADE. SOMEBODY STARTED BATHING IN THE 37:17 FOUNTAINS AND THERE WERE A LOT OF SUDS IN THE FOUNTAIN ONE DAY. 37:22 IN CANADA, IT'S UNLAWFUL TO LEND YOUR VACUUM CLEANER TO YOUR 37:25 NEIGHBOR. >>WHAT? 37:27 >>THEY'VE GOT LAWS ABOUT EVERYTHING IN CANADA, BUT 37:29 I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT BROUGHT THAT ABOUT. 37:31 (LAUGHTER) BUT THERE MUST - SOMETHING MUST HAVE GONE WRONG. 37:35 SOME NEIGHBOR LENT THEIR NEIGHBOR THEIR VACUUM AND 37:38 SOMETHING WENT WRONG AND SO THEY SAID, 'WE BETTER MAKE A LAW 37:40 ABOUT THAT.' NOW THIS ONE YOU CAN FIGURE OUT: IN MICHIGAN IT'S 37:45 ILLEGAL TO PLACE A SKUNK INSIDE YOUR BOSS' DESK. 37:48 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT LAW WAS FORMED, RIGHT? 37:53 WHAT WAS THE GENESIS OF THAT? IT DOESN'T SAY WHETHER THE SKUNK 37:56 WAS ALIVE OR DEAD. I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT THIS ONE: IN KENTUCKY 38:02 IT'S ILLEGAL TO CARRY ICE CREAM IN YOUR BACK POCKET. 38:06 BUT SOMEHOW I THINK SOMEONE WAS CARRYING ICE CREAM IN THEIR BACK 38:10 POCKET AND THEY SAT DOWN IN THE THEATER OR SOME PUBLIC PLACE - 38:12 THAT'S THE ONLY - BUT SOMEBODY DID SOMETHING REALLY DUMB WHERE 38:15 THEY WEREN'T FOLLOWING A PRINCIPLE OF LOVING GOD AND 38:18 LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR. IT CAUSED A PROBLEM - OBVIOUSLY, 38:20 IF YOU PUT YOUR SKUNK IN YOUR BOSS' DESK, YOU DON'T 38:23 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. (LAUGHTER) RIGHT? 38:26 SO YOU'RE VIOLATING A PRINCIPLE WHENEVER YOU BREAK ONE OF THESE. 38:30 AND THAT'S WHAT BECOMES THE GENESIS OF THE LAW. SO, PAUL IS 38:36 ASKING, 'DOES GRACE ABOLISH THE LAW?' HE SAID, 'GOD FORBID.' 38:41 ROMANS 3:31, "DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? GOD 38:45 FORBID: YEAH, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW." WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'I'VE GOT 38:48 FAITH, I DON'T NEED THE LAW.' WHO ARE YOU KIDDING? 38:51 IF YOU'VE GOT REAL FAITH, YOU KEEP THE LAW. 38:53 >>AMEN. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 38:54 >>AND AGAIN, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THOSE TWO, HOW ABOUT 38:57 ROMANS 2:13 - THIS IS PAUL - NOTICE - THIS IS PAUL - CAN'T BE 39:00 ANY MORE CLEAR THAN THAT, "FOR THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST 39:05 IN THE SIGHT OF GOD" - NO, NO, I SAID THAT WRONG - "FOR NOT THE 39:09 HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, BUT THE DOERS 39:13 OF THE LAW WILL BE JUSTIFIED." >>AMEN. 39:16 >>WHAT? THE DOERS OF THE LAW WILL BE JUST - I THOUGHT WE WERE 39:19 JUST THROUGH FAITH? YES, AND IF YOU ARE JUST THROUGH FAITH, YOU 39:22 WILL BE DOING THE LAW. >>AMEN. 39:23 >>SEE HOW THAT WORKS? NOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE THE 39:26 MOTIVE FOR OBEYING GOD'S LAW? >>LOVE. 39:31 >>LOVE IS THE MOTIVE. ROMANS 13:10, "...THEREFORE LOVE IS 39:36 THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW." WHEN WE LOVE GOD WE'LL WANT TO OBEY. 39:42 WE'LL LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR. WE'LL NATURALLY KEEP THESE LAWS. 39:45 MATTHEW 22, VERSE 37, "JESUS SAID, 'YOU SHOULD LOVE THE LORD 39:49 YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, WITH ALL 39:51 YOUR MIND. THIS IS THE FIRST AND 39:53 THE GREAT COMMANDMENT. THE SECOND IS LIKE UNTO IT. 39:56 YOU SHOULD LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. 39:58 ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.' 40:03 AND I HEARD OF A PREACHER, ONE DAY HE QUOTED THAT VERSE AND 40:05 SAID, 'SEE, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HAVE BEEN HUNG. 40:08 THEY'RE HUNG AND ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO NOW' - IT'S LIKE THEY'VE 40:11 BEEN STRANGLED - 'ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO NOW IS KEEP THOSE TWO 40:14 COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE.' OH, WHEN IT SAYS JESUS SAID, 'ON THESE 40:18 TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG' - IT MEANS ALL THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 40:22 ARE SUMMARIZED - THEY'RE SUPPORTED BY LOVING THE LORD AND 40:26 LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR. MATTER OF FACT, YOU COULD SUMMARIZE THOSE 40:28 TWO IN ONE WORD: GOD IS LOVE. >>AMEN. 40:30 >>AND THAT'S WHY THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD - IF THE 40:34 COMMANDMENTS WERE ALL SUMMARIZED IN LOVE, AND THE COMMANDMENTS 40:36 ARE AN EXPRESSION OF GOD'S CHARACTER, IF GOD IS LOVE, WHEN 40:41 YOU LOOK AT THESE TABLES OF STONE, DON'T THINK OF COLD ROCK, 40:46 THINK OF JESUS. JESUS IS THE ROCK. 40:51 DIDN'T JESUS SAY, 'HE THAT HEARS THESE WORDS OF MINE AND DOES 40:53 THEM IS LIKE A WISE MAN WHO BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON A ROCK'? 40:57 AND HE SAID, 'HE THAT HEARS THESE WORDS OF MINE AND DOES 41:01 THEM' - WHOSE FINGER DO YOU THINK IT WAS THAT WAS ENGRAVING 41:05 THE LETTERS ON THE STONE TABLET? >>GOD. 41:09 >>LET ME QUOTE YOU A VERSE: 'ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE 41:12 BY HIM AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE.' 41:15 GOD THE FATHER OR GOD THE SON? 41:18 I BELIEVE - I KNOW YOU'VE ALL GOT THESE PICTURES OF GOD THE 41:20 FATHER THERE WITH HIS LONG BEARD. 41:22 I WANT - YOU NEED A PICTURE NOW OF JESUS WITH HIS BEARD. 41:26 JESUS - WHEN JESUS WROTE ON THE FLOOR OF THE TEMPLE AND MARY 41:31 MAGDALENE WAS FORGIVEN, HE WAS PROBABLY WRITING THE SINS OF HER 41:35 ACCUSERS. THAT SAME FINGER THAT WAS WRITING ON THE JUDGMENT HALL 41:39 - JUDGMENT ON THE WALLS OF THE HALLS OF BABYLON. 41:43 AND IT'S THAT SAME FINGER THAT WROTE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND 41:47 HANDED THEM TO MOSES. CHRIST WAS, THE BIBLE TELLS US, 41:51 THAT ANGEL THAT LED THEM THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 41:54 AND SO, DON'T THINK OF THE LAW OF GOD AS SOMETHING DIFFERENT OR 41:57 ALIEN FROM JESUS; IT'S THE EMBODIMENT OF WHO CHRIST IS. 42:01 HE IS THE ROCK OF AGES. HE IS THE STONE THAT 42:06 BROUGHT DOWN GOLIATH. HE IS THE CORNERSTONE UPON 42:10 WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT. THIS LAW WAS WRITTEN 42:13 ON STONE FOR A REASON. NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS ETERNAL 42:15 NATURE, BUT IT HELPS US THINK OF CHRIST, THE ROCK OF AGES, AMEN? 42:21 SO THE MOTIVE FOR OBEYING GOD'S LAW? 42:25 'HEAR, O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE. 42:28 THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, ALL THY 42:31 MIND, ALL THY SOUL, ALL THY STRENGTH AND THESE WORDS THAT I 42:34 COMMAND YOU THIS DAY SHALL BE IN YOUR HEART.' 42:37 WHAT WORDS? HE HAD JUST, IN DEUTERONOMY 5, 42:40 QUOTED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. IN DEUTERONOMY 6 HE SAYS, 'YOU 42:44 SHALL LOVE THE LORD AND THESE WORDS SHALL BE IN YOUR HEART'. 42:48 CAN THE LAW OF GOD BE IN OUR HEART? 42:50 >>AMEN. >>WHEN YOU LOVE THE LORD, ARE 42:52 YOU GOING TO WANT TO USE HIS NAME IN A DISRESPECTFUL WAY? 42:56 DO YOU CRINGE SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HEAR PEOPLE USE GOD'S THAT WAY? 43:00 BECAUSE YOU LOVE GOD. YOU LOVE HIM SO MUCH YOU DON'T 43:03 WANT TO HEAR PEOPLE USE HIS NAME DISRESPECTFULLY. 43:06 IF YOU LOVE YOUR SPOUSE, ARE YOU GOING TO WANT TO BREAK THEIR 43:09 HEART BY GIVING THAT INTIMATE LOVE TO SOMEONE ELSE? 43:11 >>NO. >>THAT'S WHY GOD SAYS, 'I'M A 43:13 JEALOUS GOD.' YEAH, HE DESERVES OUR FIRST PLACE. THAT'S WHY HE 43:17 SAID, 'DON'T HAVE OTHER GOD'S BEFORE ME.' AND SO HE'S GOT A 43:21 RIGHT TO ASK FOR THAT. IT'S ALL SUMMED UP IN LOVE. 43:24 MATTER OF FACT, IF A HUSBAND OR WIFE DOES NOT GET JEALOUS WHEN 43:31 THEIR SPOUSE IS SPENDING A LOT OF TIME WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX, 43:35 YOU WONDER, 'DON'T THEY CARE? DON'T THEY LOVE?' IF THEY LOVE, 43:39 NATURAL RESPONSE IS A LITTLE BIT OF CONCERN, BECAUSE 'THAT LOVE 43:44 BELONGS TO ME.' RIGHT? >>AMEN. 43:47 >>IF THERE'S NO CONCERN YOU'D BE THINKING, 'DON'T YOU CARE?' 43:50 GOD LOVES US AND THAT'S WHY HIS LAW IS THERE. 43:54 SO THE MOTIVE FOR OBEYING IS LOVE. 43:57 1 JOHN 5:3, "FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS 44:02 COMMANDMENTS". WHY DO WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS? 44:04 'THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD.' 1 JOHN 2, VERSES 3 AND 4, "AND 44:08 HEREBY WE DO KNOW" - AND THIS ONE IS A SLAM DUNK. 44:10 THIS PUTS TO SILENCE ALL OF THE HYPOCRITES OUT THERE - "AND 44:14 HEREBY DO WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM, IF WE KEEP HIS 44:16 COMMANDMENTS. HE THAT SAITH, 'I KNOW HIM,' AND 44:19 KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IS A LIAR, AND THE 44:21 TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM." THAT'S NEW TESTAMENT. 44:24 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS UNTO ME, 44:26 'LORD, LORD,' IS GOING TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD, BUT THEY 44:29 THAT DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.' WHAT IS THE WILL OF 44:33 GOD? PSALM 40 TELLS US, 'I LOVE TO DO YOUR WILL...YOUR LAW IS 44:40 WITHIN MY HEART'. >>AMEN. 44:43 >>THE LAW OF GOD IS A PERFECT EXPRESSION OF HIS CHARACTER AND 44:46 HIS WILL. AND JESUS WILL DECLARE TO EVERYONE ELSE, 'I DON'T KNOW 44:51 YOU.' SO IF SOMEONE SAYS, 'OH, I LOVE THE LORD. I - I'M 44:54 FOLLOWING THE LORD. I KNOW THE LORD. NO, I DON'T KEEP THE LAW 44:56 BECAUSE I'M UNDER GRACE.' JOHN SAYS, 'YOU'RE A LIAR. 45:00 IF YOU SAY, 'LORD, LORD, I LOVE YOU LORD' CHRIST'LL DECLARE TO 45:04 THOSE PEOPLE, 'DEPART FROM ME YOU WORKERS OF INIQUITY.' 45:08 AND THAT WORD IS 'LAWLESSNESS' - PEOPLE WITHOUT LAW. 45:11 SO IT - IT DOES MATTER, FRIENDS. THIS IS IMPORTANT BASIC 45:15 FOUNDATIONAL CHRISTIAN TEACHING. >>AMEN. 45:17 >>WHO DOES THE DEVIL ESPECIALLY HATE? 45:22 IN THE LAST DAYS HE MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR, BECAUSE OF THE 45:26 LAWS, TO WORSHIP THE BEAST POWER. 45:28 YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE THERE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR - HE GOT SO MAD - 45:32 IT SAYS HE WAS - WENT INTO A RAGE. 45:35 HE WAS FILLED WITH FURY AND WRATH WHEN THEY WOULD NOT BOW 45:37 DOWN AND WORSHIP HIS IDOLS AND KEEP HIS LAWS. 45:42 KIND OF LIKE THE DEVIL IN THE LAST DAYS. 45:44 IT SAYS THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN - REVELATION 45:47 12:17 - AND HE GOES TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED 45:51 THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF 45:55 JESUS. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS SERIES? 45:58 IS THIS RELEVANT FOR OUR DAY AND AGE? 46:00 IS THIS IMPORTANT NOW? >>AMEN. 46:02 >>WHO IS THE DEVIL ANGRY AT? >>US. 46:04 >>THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 46:06 HE ESPECIALLY FOCUSES HIS ATTENTION. 46:09 OH, AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, AS LONG AS WE KEEP MOST OF THEM.' 46:11 THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS: 'WHOEVER IS GUILTY OF ONE IS 46:14 GUILTY OF ALL' JAMES TELLS US. >>AMEN. 46:17 >>LORD SAYS, IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 5, VERSE 39 - VERSE 29, 46:23 "O THAT THERE WERE SUCH AN HEART IN THEM THAT THEY WOULD FEAR ME, 46:26 AND KEEP ALL MY COMMANDMENTS ALWAYS, THAT IT MIGHT BE WELL 46:30 WITH THEM, AND WITH THEIR CHILDREN FOR EVER!" 46:32 HE WANTS IT TO BE WELL WITH US. BUT HE SAYS, 'KEEP ALL OF THEM'. 46:35 I MEAN, HOW WOULD YOU RESPOND IF YOUR SPOUSE ASKED FOR A TEN 46:41 PERCENT DISCOUNT ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THAT ONE 46:43 COMMANDMENT THEY WANTED TO BREAK WAS THE SEVENTH? 46:47 WOULD YOU GO FOR THAT? >>NO. 46:49 >>NO ALL OF THEM MATTER WHEN YOU LOVE GOD - A HUNDRED PERCENT. 46:54 SO THE DEVIL HATES THOSE THAT ARE KEEPING GOD'S LAW. 46:57 POINT #15: WHAT ARE THE REWARDS FOR KEEPING GOD'S LAW? 47:03 THIS IS THE GOOD PART. JOHN 15:11, "THESE THINGS I HAVE 47:08 SPOKEN UNTO YOU...THAT YOUR JOY MIGHT BE FULL." 47:12 HE WANTS US TO HAVE JOY - AND IT COMES IN OBEYING GOD. 47:16 PROVERBS 29:18, "...BUT HE THAT KEEPETH THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE." 47:22 DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? >>YES. 47:24 >>JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU KNOW THESE THINGS, HAPPY ARE YE IF YOU DO 47:26 THEM.' HE WANTS US TO HAVE JOY AND HAPPINESS - NOT ONLY JOY AND 47:30 HAPPINESS, HE WANTS US TO HAVE PEACE. 47:33 PSALM 119:165, "GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY WHICH LOVE THY LAW: AND 47:39 NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM." I NOT ONLY WANT PEACE, I 47:41 WANT GREAT PEACE, DON'T YOU? >>AMEN. 47:44 >>WHEN WE SUBMIT OUR LIVES INTO GOD'S HANDS AND ARE SAYING, 47:47 'LORD, WE'RE WILLING TO BE DOERS OF YOUR WORD.' 47:49 YOU'LL HAVE A GREAT PEACE. AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU KNOW 47:54 THERE'S SOME AREA IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU ARE DIVERGING FROM THE 47:58 WILL OF GOD AND THE LAW OF GOD, YOU SHOULD BE TROUBLED. 48:02 DON'T GET COMFORTABLE IN DISOBEDIENCE. THAT'S DANGEROUS. 48:06 THAT'S WHERE YOU GET TO WHERE YOU SEAR YOUR CONSCIENCE AND, 48:09 ULTIMATELY, YOU CAN COME TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU COMMIT THE 48:11 UNPARDONABLE SIN BECAUSE YOU DON'T HEAR GOD'S VOICE ANYMORE. 48:14 IF YOU CAN CONVINCE YOURSELF THAT IT'S OKAY TO LIVE IN 48:17 DISOBEDIENCE TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS KNOWINGLY, AND THAT 48:21 EVERYTHING'S GOING TO SOMEHOW BE OKAY, THAT IS A DEADLY PLACE TO 48:25 BE IN - THAT'S LIKE LEPROSY - SPIRITUAL LEPROSY. 48:30 BUT THERE'S GREAT PEACE. ISAIAH 48:18, "OH, THAT YOU 48:34 HAD HEEDED MY COMMANDMENTS! THEN YOUR PEACE WOULD HAVE BEEN 48:37 LIKE A RIVER," - YOU KNOW THAT SONG WE SING - I'VE 48:39 GOT PEACE LIKE A RIVER ? IT'S BASED ON THIS VERSE. 48:41 WHERE'S IT COME FROM? OH THAT WE HAD HEEDED HIS 48:44 COMMANDMENTS, THEN YOU WOULD HAVE PEACE LIKE A RIVER. 48:47 DO YOU WANT PEACE AND JOY AND BLESSEDNESS AND HAPPINESS? 48:51 IT COMES FROM OBEDIENCE. IF YOU'RE OBEYING GOD, IT'S LIKE 48:55 SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO SAID, 'WE MIGHT GO TO A FIERY 48:58 FURNACE, BUT WE KNOW WE'RE OBEYING GOD. 49:00 WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR.' >>AMEN. 49:03 >>JESUS SAID, 'DON'T FEAR HIM WHO CAN DESTROY YOUR BODY BUT HE 49:06 CAN'T TOUCH YOUR SOUL. RATHER, FEAR HIM WHO CAN DESTROY 49:08 SOUL AND BODY IN HELL.' NOW THE TITLE FOR OUR SERIES 49:12 WE'VE JUST STARTED IS CALLED LAWS OF LOVE AND LIBERTY . 49:17 WHY THE LIBERTY PART? IF YOU LOOK IN JAMES 1, VERSE 49:23 22, "BUT BE DOERS OF THE WORD, AND NOT HEARERS ONLY, 49:28 DECEIVING YOURSELVES. FOR IF ANYONE IS A HEARER OF THE 49:31 WORD AND NOT A DOER, HE IS LIKE A MAN OBSERVING HIS NATURAL FACE 49:35 IN A MIRROR; FOR HE OBSERVES HIMSELF, GOES AWAY, AND 49:38 IMMEDIATELY FORGETS WHAT KIND OF MAN HE WAS. 49:41 BUT HE" - IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN YOU READ AND YOU'RE CONVICTED, 49:45 DON'T SAY, 'OH, THAT WAS GOOD. THAT'S CONVICTING.' AND WALK 49:46 AWAY AND DON'T MAKE ANY CHANGES. HOW OFTEN HAVE WE HEARD SERMONS 49:49 AND WE THOUGHT, 'OH, WHAT A GOOD SERMON' - WE GO HOME AND 49:51 WE DO NOTHING ABOUT IT? JUST HEARERS ONLY? 49:54 BUT IF WE HEAR SOMETHING DURING A MESSAGE AND WE THINK, 'YEAH, I 49:59 OUGHT TO MAKE SOME CHANGES.' GET OUT YOUR PENCIL AND PAPER 50:01 AND MAKE A NOTE TO SELF. SAY, 'LET'S START BEING DIFFERENT IN 50:05 THIS AREA. DON'T JUST BE HEARERS AND NOT DOERS. 50:10 'HE'S LIKE A MAN WHO OBSERVES HIS FACE IN A MIRROR; FOR HE 50:14 OBSERVES HIMSELF, GOES AWAY, AND IMMEDIATELY FORGETS WHAT KIND OF 50:17 MAN HE WAS. BUT WHOEVER LOOKS INTO THE 50:19 PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AND CONTINUES IN IT, NOT BEING A 50:25 FORGETFUL HEARER BUT A DOER OF THE WORK, THIS ONE WILL BE 50:28 BLESSED IN WHAT HE DOES.' WHAT IS THAT LAW OF LIBERTY? 50:34 JAMES TELLS US IN THE NEXT CHAPTER. 50:36 "FOR WHOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND YET STUMBLE IN 50:39 ONE POINT," - THEY'RE TRYING TO DO THE 90-PERCENT DISCOUNT THING 50:42 WITH GOD - "HE IS GUILTY OF ALL." 'OH, I KEEP ALL THE LAW, I 50:46 JUST SHOPLIFT A LITTLE BIT.' OR IF YOU GO TO A JUDGE AND YOU 50:52 SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I'M A GOOD LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN, YOUR HONOR. 50:55 I JUST COMMIT A LITTLE TEENY BIT OF MURDER.' (LAUGHTER) 50:59 NO, YOU'RE A LAWBREAKER AND THE PENALTY IS DEATH. 51:05 "FOR WHOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND YET STUMBLE IN 51:07 ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL. FOR HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT 51:10 ADULTERY,'" - NOW WHAT LAW IS THAT PART OF? 51:13 IS THAT PART OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW OR ORDINANCE OR ONE OF THE 51:17 RITUALISTIC LAWS, OR IS IT THE DECALOGUE - 51:20 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? >>THE DECALOGUE. 51:22 >>DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY - "ALSO SAID, 'DO NOT MURDER'" - ANOTHER 51:25 LAW PART OF THE DECALOGUE, RIGHT? 51:27 >>YES. >>"'NOW, IF YOU DO NOT COMMIT 51:28 ADULTERY, BUT YOU MURDER, YOU HAVE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF 51:31 THE LAW.'" YOU NOTICE HOW HE TIES THIS OFF? THIS IS JAMES 2, 51:34 VERSE 12 - "SO SPEAK AND SO DO" - DON'T BE HEARERS ONLY. 51:38 SPEAK AND DO AS THOSE WHO WILL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY. 51:44 WHEN WE ARE HEARERS AND DOERS OF GOD'S LAW, WE HAVE LIBERTY. 51:50 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT LIBERTY IN CHRIST AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE 51:52 WANTED TO ABUSE WHAT THAT LIBERTY REALLY LOOKS LIKE. 51:55 WHAT THEY WANT IS THE LIBERTY TO SIN. 51:58 LIBERTY IN CHRIST IS A LIBERTY THAT COMES FROM SURRENDERING AND 52:01 BEING WILLING TO OBEY. YOU HAVE GREAT FREEDOM IN THE LORD. 52:06 PSALM 119:44, "SO SHALL I KEEP YOUR LAW CONTINUALLY, FOREVER 52:12 AND EVER. AND I WILL WALK AT LIBERTY, FOR I SEEK YOUR 52:16 PRECEPTS." DO YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT FREEDOM? DO YOU WANT TO 52:19 HAVE THAT LIBERTY? WELL, FRIENDS, THERE'S - OH BOY, 52:23 I COULD JUST - I COULD DO AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS SERIES. 52:26 I COULD READ PSALM 119 AND BE HERE FOR 40 MINUTES. 52:29 AND THAT'S ALL ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD. 52:31 HAVE YOU READ IT? I HOPE YOU HAVE. 52:34 WE'RE REALLY DEALING WITH A BOTTOM-LINE ISSUE HERE. 52:37 THE WISEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED, HE SAID, 'LET US HEAR THE 52:40 CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER:' - ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 12 - 52:44 'FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE 52:46 WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. FOR GOD'LL BRING EVERY THING 52:50 INTO JUDGMENT, INCLUDING EVERY SECRET WORK, WHETHER IT 52:52 BE GOOD OR EVIL.' >>AMEN. 52:54 >>FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 52:55 LAST THING YOU FIND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - MALACHI CHAPTER 4 - 52:59 "REMEMBER YE THE LAW OF MOSES MY SERVANT, WHICH I COMMANDED UNTO 53:03 HIM IN HOREB FOR ALL ISRAEL, WITH THE STATUES AND JUDGMENTS." 53:06 REMEMBER THE LAW. THEN YOU GET TO REVELATION, 53:09 'BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS. 53:11 FRANKLY, I DON'T THINK CHRISTIANS AND PASTORS ARE 53:14 TALKING ENOUGH ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 53:16 >>AMEN. >>I HAVE BEEN CONVICTED 53:19 PERSONALLY - THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN MY MINISTRY I HAVE DONE 53:22 A COMPLETE SERIES JUST DEALING WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 53:26 AND I HOPE YOU'LL PRAY DURING THIS TIME. 53:29 NOT ONLY PRAY FOR ME AS I PREPARE THESE PRESENTATIONS, 53:33 PRAY FOR OURSELVES THAT WE WILL BE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THAT PEACE, 53:37 THAT JOY, THAT LIBERTY IN CHRIST BECAUSE WE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO 53:40 BE HEARERS OF THE WORD, WE'RE GOING TO BE DOERS ALSO. 53:44 >>AMEN. >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH 53:46 AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 53:49 NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT 53:53 THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 53:58 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS 54:03 WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 54:07 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 54:11 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. (MUSIC) 54:26 >>I'M HERE IN THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND NATION OF FIJI 54:29 THAT'S FILLED WITH EXOTIC ANIMALS, BEAUTIFUL VEGETATION, 54:32 AND SPECTACULAR SCENERY. THE PEOPLE HERE ARE SOME OF THE 54:35 NICEST IN THE WORLD, BUT IT HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY. 54:39 THIS WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS. 54:43 THE FIJIAN WARRIORS WERE SOME OF THE FIERCEST IN THE SOUTH 54:46 PACIFIC AND GREATLY FEARED - YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY - 54:49 THIS IS ONE OF THE WEAPONS THAT THEY USED FOR 54:51 BREAKING THE NECK OF THEIR ADVERSARIES. 54:54 AND, LONG BEFORE THEY WERE KILLING AND EATING MISSIONARIES, 54:56 THEY WERE FIGHTING WITH AND KILLING AND EATING EACH OTHER. 55:00 IN FACT, AS YOU GO TO THE DIFFERENT TOURIST LOCATIONS ON 55:02 THE ISLAND, THEY'LL SELL YOU REMAKES OF SOME OF THE FORKS 55:06 THEY USED FOR EATING HUMAN BRAINS. 55:10 IN FACT, THERE WAS ONE CANNIBAL CHIEF, RATU UDRE UDRE, DURING 55:14 THE 1800S THAT IS IN THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS 55:17 FOR HAVING KILLED AND EATEN THE MOST VICTIMS. 55:20 HE BRAGGED THAT EVERY TIME HE KILLED SOMEONE HE SET A STONE 55:22 ASIDE AND BY THE END OF HIS LIFE HE HAD A PRETTY BIG PILE OF 55:25 STONES. IT'S ESTIMATED HE ATE SOMEWHERE 55:28 IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 900 PEOPLE - OH MY. 55:34 YOU KNOW, THE FIJIANS WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES WHO HAD A MONOPOLY 55:36 ON CANNIBALISM, IN FACT, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE ARE ALL 55:39 CAPABLE OF BEING CANNIBALS. GALATIANS 5:15 SAYS IF WE BITE 55:44 AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, WE MAY END UP CONSUMING ONE ANOTHER. 55:47 THAT'S TALKING ABOUT DESTROYING PEOPLE'S REPUTATION BY MEAN 55:50 GOSSIP. ONE FAMOUS MISSIONARY NAMED 55:53 PATTON, WHEN HE WAS PREPARING TO GO TO THE CANNIBAL ISLES, HIS 55:56 FRIENDS AND FAMILY BEGGED HIM NOT TO GO. 55:58 THEY SAID, 'YOU'LL BE EATEN.' HE SAID, 'IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME 56:01 IF I DIE AND AM EATEN BY WORMS OR IF GOD WILLS THAT I'M EATEN 56:04 BY CANNIBALS, AS LONG AS I'M DOING THE WILL OF GOD. 56:08 WELL, HE WENT TO THE CANNIBAL ISLES AND BROUGHT MANY TO CHRIST 56:11 AND DIED PEACEFULLY IN HIS OLD AGE. 56:13 SOME OF THE ANCIENT CANNIBAL CULTURES BELIEVED THAT WHEN YOU 56:16 KILLED AND WHEN YOU DEVOURED YOUR ENEMY, YOU WOULD SOMEHOW 56:18 TAKE WITHIN YOU THEIR SPIRITUAL STRENGTHS OR POWERS. 56:22 BUT THAT'S REALLY ABSURD - BUT THERE IS A KIND OF CANNIBALISM 56:25 ENDORSED IN SCRIPTURE. THAT'S RIGHT, JESUS SAID, IN 56:29 JOHN CHAPTER 6, VERSE 53, "EXCEPT YOU EAT MY FLESH AND 56:32 DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU. 56:35 AND YOU DON'T NEED THESE TOOLS TO DO IT. 56:37 WHAT YOU NEED IS TO READ HIS WORD AND LEARN ABOUT HIS LIFE. 56:41 ACCEPT BY FAITH HIS SACRIFICE IN YOUR PLACE AND YOU CAN HAVE A 56:44 NEW HEART AND BE A NEW CREATURE. YOU CAN EVEN DO IT RIGHT NOW. 56:52 (MUSIC) >>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965 57:01 WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT. >>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND 57:05 THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST, FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU. 57:09 >>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM 57:13 SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY, FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT 57:16 TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE. 57:20 THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON 57:24 BEGAN EXPANDING TO INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS. 57:27 IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS 57:32 GROWING OUTREACH EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING 57:35 EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD. 57:39 IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE 57:43 MINISTRY, ADDING THE BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO 57:46 PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON 57:50 MULTIPLE NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD. 57:53 FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE 57:58 BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A 58:02 TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND 58:05 WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF 58:08 EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH 58:13 SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS. 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