Hello friends, grab
your Bible and a friend and
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sit back as we
explore God's word
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together on this
edition of House Calls.
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Welcome friends,
I want to say today
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the doctors are in the house,
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doctors John and
John we're here today.
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Welcome to House Calls Program.
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We're excited that
you've chosen to tune
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in and we're
gonna make a House Call
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as the master physician,
leads us into His word
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where the
prescription for all the
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yields of life are written.
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And, we want you
to encourage you to
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just press the
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friends and your
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And just relax so God's spirit
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can speak to your heart.
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I'm in the studio
not by myself my good
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friend John Stanton
is here today with me.
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Yes, and you know as
they say I'm not a doctor
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but I play one on
TV, it's a joke, okay.
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So, we're just
playing, role playing, right,
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but you know what it's
always good when you're
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fulfilling a purpose
that the Lord has given you,
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that's right, and that
is to be the one who has
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a message of the
gospel for God's people so.
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You know it's nice
of having your name
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and having John
Dinzey also when I said
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in the beginning John is
with me, they didn't know
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which one, until I
unveiled the original copy.
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So, but John
have a prayer for us
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because we have
some Bible questions
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that are gonna be
a real doozy today.
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Let's do that,
Dear Father in Heaven,
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we're so grateful
that you provide us this
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time to open your
word and to study it.
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We just pray that
you will send us and
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empower us by the
Holy Spirit and lead and
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guide us into all truth
in Jesus name, amen, amen.
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As you all know
your Bible questions are
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important to us
and really we like
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downloading
those questions to see
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what's going on in your mind.
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If you have any
questions about anything we've
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talked about or
something that you
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want to know about,
send those questions
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and comments to
housecalls@3abn.org
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that's housecalls@3abn.org
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and we would
appreciate it so much.
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Your participation makes this
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program very interesting.
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And, you have sent
in some good questions
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and John, why don't
you go ahead and break
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open the seal and we
read our first question.
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This message comes
from Pat and she says
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Pastors John and
John help, alright, okay.
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Our Sabbath school class
is a little bit confused,
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can Satan read our
minds? Some say yes, some no,
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if not how else can
he influence us to sin.
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It has to be by
entering our minds with
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tempting
thoughts yes, no, maybe?
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He doesn't leave
us a note to read;
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he knows our weaknesses and uses
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this to causes to stumble.
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We are learning so much watching
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the program keep it going.
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So, thank you very much Pat
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for sending in your question.
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A question John
that is very popular,
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people just have asked
this question many a time,
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can Satan read our mind?
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Some suggested he can
some suggest that he can't.
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I believe the
scripture says just to give you
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the answer upfront
that he cannot, okay.
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And, I'll establish
the bases for why I believe
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that the Bible tells
us he cannot do that.
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And so, first of all I
think the thing we need to
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look at it the
most obvious sometimes.
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And, I think the
most obvious here is
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that Satan is a created being.
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God is the
creator, very good approach.
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I don't see any
evidence in scripture nor
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would I think that God
ever gave created beings
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the ability to
read each others minds.
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That's what our mouths
are for, to communicate.
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He gave us not
only freedom but he gave
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us privacy, okay
John. Now this is, I just,
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this jumped to my mind I
got to say this right now.
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It's amazing jumped in my mind.
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We've said this
to our wives before;
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I can't read your mind.
So we know that's the fact
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that we don't have
as created beings just
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emphasize the point
you made about, yeah,
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God created angels so
they don't have that ability.
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Yeah, angels can't
do that, I mean, can you
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imagine angels running around
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reading each others minds.
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How could Satan have
deceived the other angels
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that he brought with him,
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if they could read his mind?
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Very, very good, if
they could have read his mind
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they would have said no
he's trying to deceive me
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I'm not going with that,
good point, they couldn't
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read his mind nor can
he read anybody's mind.
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And therefore I believe
he cannot read our minds.
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But here is the
thing, you know some say
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well man he
designs these temptations
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just perfect at
the right time and
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how does he know how to do that?
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You know, I say
the easiest way to
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understand that
is we cannot see him,
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but he sees and he studies us.
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Men, come on, we're
visual, we know that,
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a pretty lady walks
into the room and we
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understand we can
look and we can see
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hey, she's pretty,
but I tell you Satan can
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discern the way
that you look at a woman.
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See he'll study that
and he'll say okay man,
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is this guy casually
observing she's beautiful,
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I mean that's God
gave us beauty where we're
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able to do that, but
can he see when a man
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looks a little
further and then as James says
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that thought turns
into a desire and then it
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gives birth to sin, it
goes to step by step further.
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And so, Satan can
see the strongholds as he
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begins to observe how
we are tempted by things,
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and he does tempt
us I believe through
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impressing us by a
voice, I mean if he's invisible
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can't he also be
inaudible, but we can
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still hear him, he
can still impact us,
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I believe that's
very, that's very possible.
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So, and we know
studies have shown,
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science has shown
that we're not only
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influenced by things
that we recognize that we hear
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but things that we
don't recognize yet our
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minds take in and so
it's very likely that
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Satan operates in that
realms suggesting to us,
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whispering to us,
causing us to think of things
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that we normally
maybe wouldn't think about.
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And also the other
one of the thing John
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I know you want a
way on this on in this
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as well, but one
other thing we don't always,
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we're not always
tempted by Satan or his voice.
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Sometimes things are
just there, we think of things
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and we run with
them, we take them
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to the next step
so it's not always
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Satan impressing us
with some temptation.
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I believe
sometimes we can be so caught
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in a mold, in a
prior temptation and we've
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repeatedly done it
we become, we develop
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habits out of it that
we can actually just go
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back to it and Satan
can step back and say
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you know what I've
already got them and those
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are things called
that we call bondage,
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those things that he
holds over us that we are so,
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that are so ingraining
our sins that the only one
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that can break them is
God, right and so we pray
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Lord break us from
those things, cleans us
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and part of the
cleansing is wiping us,
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wiping those ugly,
horrible habits from our lives,
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to give us a fresh start.
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And, so Satan
works in many ways,
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but back to the
original question he
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cannot read our minds.
He cannot read our minds,
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that's encouraging
to know because had he
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had that ability we
would all be in trouble.
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The first point I think you made
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which was really good,
had Satan had that ability
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to read our minds
he would have read
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the minds of the
angels and vice versa,
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they would have read his mind.
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They would have said, you're
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up to no good, I can tell.
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Now, let's go ahead
and add to this before
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I show you some
scriptures in the Bible.
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We can sometimes
tell what a person is
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thinking by their
very demeanor and by the
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very setting in which we're in.
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We can tell if a
person is angry or happy.
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Lets use the
football game for example,
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you're lined up,
you're on the offense,
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the football team
is on the defense,
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it doesn't take a
genius to look at the guy
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kneeling right in front
of you to think that he's
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thinking of
knocking you down flat.
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You know that's not
even a mind reader's
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forum that's an
obvious situation.
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In a basketball game,
it doesn't take a scientist
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to read Michael Jordan's
mind when he has the ball,
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okay, doesn't take
a scientist to read
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Kobe Bryant's mind
or, he's gonna put it
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in the hoop, he's
gonna do what he can.
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You know any
basketball player who has that
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ball who's known
for the great skills,
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it doesn't take a mind
reader to find out what
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Dirk Nowitzki is gonna
do when he has the ball and
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there's like ten
seconds on the clock, right.
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That's why we have
coaches, we're planning,
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we're thinking,
okay, I know what they are
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thinking they say but
they don't really know
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what they're
thinking, but they can tell by
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the situation and
by the circumstance
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what the possibilities are.
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And that's what
Satan does, he looks at our
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lives and he says okay
here he is, he's a drug
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addict, he's
hanging around a pharmacy,
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I know what he's thinking.
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Let me steal some drugs
whether over the counter,
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that's right, or
whether from behind the counter,
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okay he's a thief
he's hanging around a bank,
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don't need a mind
reader, what's he gonna do,
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he's gonna rob the
bank, that's right.
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He's a car thief,
where is he hanging around,
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the dealership or the mall,
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what's he wanna do, steal a car.
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You know, and the
simple application to with
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that is so Satan
comes by your ear and says
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you can take it,
yeah you could do it,
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you can take it
go ahead and do it.
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And that's all he
needs to say and your mind is
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already right
there and you go with it.
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But Jesus now on the
other hand, one of the
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reasons why being
on the side of the Lord
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is so powerful is
because he does know
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the thoughts and
intentions of our hearts.
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There were examples
in scriptures where Jesus
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stood before the Pharisees
and scribes and religious
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leaders and He knew
what they were thinking.
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Let me give you one example,
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Mark chapter 2 verse 8,
it says but immediately,
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when Jesus perceived
in His Spirit that they
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reasoned thus within
themselves He said to them,
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why do you reason about
these things in your heart.
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He said, why are you
thinking that? Right.
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He knew what they were thinking.
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You see, why you
thinking that, and so
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what happens is now
let me just build on
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this because the word of God.
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Hebrews 4 verse
12, let's show I'm add
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another purpose, another reason
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why the devil doesn't
like you to read the Bible
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is because the Bible
also has the same ability,
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that divinity has that
the Lord has and what is that,
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the Bible predicts it
great accuracy what we're
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going to do when we fall
into a particular category?
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Read Hebrews 4
verse 12 for us John.
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This is beautiful,
Hebrews 4, for the word of God
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is living and
powerful, and sharper than any
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two edged sword,
piercing even to the
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division of soul and
spirit and of the joints
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in marrow, for he
is a discerner of the
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thoughts and
intents of the heart.
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Okay, so when you
read the Bible, the Bible,
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one of the reasons why
Satan likes to keep you
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from reading it is
because sometimes you read
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the passage and you
say, thank you Lord,
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thank you for telling me not
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to do that, that's
right. Thank you Lord,
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thank you for
telling me to do that.
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And the word of God
is in fact a discerner of
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the thoughts and
intends of the heart.
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For example, it will say
the wages of sin is death.
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It's discerning the
thoughts and intends of
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the sin that you're
about to commit, and it says to
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you don't, don't do
it because the very next
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step you're gonna
to yield to them to the
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temptation, the sin
is going to be born and
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it's gonna bring forth death.
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So you don't have to
get to the end result
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to figure out what
that very thought is.
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And the Lord
knows what our thoughts
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and our tensions,
our intensions are.
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And that's why He
says in Philippians,
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let this mind,
Philippians 2 verse 5,
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Let this mind be in you,
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which was also in Christ Jesus.
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Now what is that
saying, is that saying that
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if we have the mind
of Christ we can predict
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what the next
person is thinking?
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No, but it's says if
we have the mind of Christ
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and this is a gift that
a lot of people don't think
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about, the gift of discernment,
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and it's a gift we
can't, we don't naturally
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have it, there you go.
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Sometimes the
Lord says and have you,
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I mean John I'm
sure you've done this.
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And pastors when
they pray for the
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gift of discernment,
Peter had the gift discernment
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that's why when
Ananias and Sapphira came and
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lied to him, He said to
them why is that you've,
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that you've
planned in your heart,
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you've reason in
your heart to lie to God.
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You've not lied to just to
God but to the Holy Spirit,
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and the spirit
impressed him with that too.
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And so the
discernment sometimes pastors
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will look at their
church and they'll say
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you know what,
they'll look at their
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members and they'll
say, he did it I'm sure
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he did it, or boy I
could just tell by the
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way he's acting
today that he went ahead
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and did that or she did that
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or they're about to do that.
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That's the
spirit of discernment,
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we're not reading
their minds, we're reading
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the very motives
sometimes, why they
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do certain things
Jesus did the same thing
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with the widow
and the mite, with the
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widow and her
two mites, He said,
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the Pharisees may
give larger amounts but
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He said she's giving
from a heart of purity,
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a heart of faith.
Now, let me just add one
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more component I'm
gonna turn this back
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over to you because it's
a very powerful question.
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So how then can we
condition our minds so that
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Satan won't have
access to impressing us?
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Romans 12 verse 1
and 2, how can we have
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our minds conditioned so
that Satan would not have
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the power to just
make a suggestion by either
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circumstance or by
impressing our hearts or
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speaking into our
ears or whatever the case
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maybe because sometimes I know
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friends
sometimes you maybe saying
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I wasn't thinking
that, where did that thought
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come from? Hmm, we've
all had those, we've had,
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we've had I
wasn't thinking that,
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where did that
thought come from?
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That's not even me
sometimes you know,
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that's not even me I
never thought that before,
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right sometimes you're
in prayer and a thought
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comes to your mind
or sometimes you're in a
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situation and a
thought comes to your mind
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and you're
thinking, Lord, I know that
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you did not impress me, yeah.
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That's the evil
spirits working, those are the
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evil angels that
have fallen that have gone
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out to corrupt
man as the Holy Spirit
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and the holy angels
have gone out to minister
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to us, they've
gone out to corrupt us,
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the evil angels, but
here's the part we must
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play in guarding in our
minds and this is I think
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is the part of the
answer to that young lady,
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we had to renew our minds.
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Read that for us
John, Romans 12 verse 2;
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And do not be
conformed to this world,
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but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind,
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that ye may
prove what is that good
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and acceptable and
perfect will of God.
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Okay, so how do we
get our minds to be going
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in the right direction
so that Satan can't impress
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us to do wrong,
what we have to do?
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We have to be renewed
by the Spirit of Christ,
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okay, and we got
to pray for that,
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and you also
have to put the right,
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you have to put the
right media in here so that
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the actions come
out. A kid that's spending
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his day all day long
watching people get shot
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is himself going
to get the desire to
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probably shoot
something or somebody.
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A kid that spends all
his day watching commercials
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you know, have it
your way, he wants to have
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it his way, right. A
kid that what Sitcoms
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this is where all
these actions come.
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A kid that watches
Sitcoms that are suggestive,
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sexually suggestive or
suggest that the parents
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are dumb will come
away with sexual suggestions
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in his life or
come away with the idea
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that his parents
just don't understand.
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And that's how Satan
works, he impresses us
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from outside
impulses he tries to control
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our internal reaction,
but the Lord is saying,
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if you allow the
word of God to come
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into your mind, let
this mind be in you,
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it will determine what your
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outward
reactions are going to be.
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Christ works from the
inside out Satan works
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from the outside in.
Now, and this is what
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Second Corinthians
chapter 10 tells us
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about warfare, oh yeah,
verse 3 for though we walk
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in the flesh, we do not
war according to the flesh.
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For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal,
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but mighty in God for
pulling down strong holds.
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Then we're gonna
talking about those things
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that you habitually
just do, that's a strong hold
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that Satan has
in someone's life.
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You know you
know what your sin is,
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you know what gets to
you the most, that's right,
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and that can be a stronghold.
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And here's how it's
pulled, it's pulled down,
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casting down
arguments, and every high thing
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that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God,
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bringing every
thought into captivity
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to the obedience of Christ.
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So, we've got to one
person said it very well,
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I'm glad you started about this,
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it impressed me
to, when they said,
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you know we just
don't need to think like
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Christ and need to
be aware that Christ is
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with us and helping us
to transform our minds.
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Sometimes we need to
just step back and think
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about what we're thinking about.
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We are so busy,
that's right, say that again
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we have to step back
and think about that,
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so we're so busy
just rushing through life
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and even speaking,
talking about spiritual
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things and doing
what we should do,
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but sometimes we need
to step back and think
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about what we're
thinking about, oh good one.
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Be aware of what, how
your mind is processing
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what you're doing at
that moment, because a lot of
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times we aren't
aware of how we're just in
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autopilot and that's
where Satan can get us
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I think at times
where you struggle the most,
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step back and think
how am I processing this,
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what am I doing right
now, and am I bringing it
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under the thought
prosthesis that Christ
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has given me, and
then do it as he would.
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Oh, that's a very good
point John to think about
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what you're thinking about.
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You know
sometimes we don't do that,
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we want to respond so
quickly that's why the
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Lord says be slow to
speak, quick to listen.
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And so sometimes we
have to listen to the
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voice of God because
the thoughts that are
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foremost in the
frontal lobes of our mind
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may not always be
exalted thoughts, right,
00:18:01.41\00:18:04.13
or elevating
thoughts and if we don't think
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about what we're thinking
about we're not thinking,
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right. It's a good
one, you're not processing,
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you're not
manually checking things,
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you're just on
autopilot. You're on autopilot
00:18:14.18\00:18:16.01
you are letting oh I
like this one, not because
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I wanna say it but
because I heard this before,
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the reason why rivers
are crooked is because
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they follow the path
of least resistance, yeah.
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The life that's
crooked follows the
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path of least resistance.
And so for those of us
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who are not thinking about
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our path will end up crooked.
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Jesus even made it clear
in the book of Genesis 6,
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about how wickedness develops;
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He says that,
speaking about the old world
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He said that every
intent of the thoughts of
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His heart was only
evil continually. And John,
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is our society
pushing us in that direction?
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Yes, absolutely, in what ways?
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Well I mean we are on autopilot,
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one of the reasons
why people are pulled into
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Television so much is
because you go on autopilot.
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You don't have to
think about what you're
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thinking about,
right, you just you just
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taking it in, right, you know.
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But we can go
throughout our day and we can be
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end up responding and
reacting to individuals
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in everyday
situations of life without
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thinking about
how we're doing it.
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Now, I feel this, I
hear a sermon coming on,
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thinking about
thinking. Okay that's right.
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I have a sermon entitled,
you are what you think,
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not you are what you think you
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are but you are
what you think, and the
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Bible says, as a man
think of in his heart so is he.
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So that's in fact
the case, but getting
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back to the initial
question, Satan cannot
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read your mind, but he
can read your body language,
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he can see you are
hanging around where you should
00:19:43.16\00:19:45.13
be hanging around, he
could look at you the way
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you look at somebody else,
00:19:47.99\00:19:49.34
and know where you're headed.
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He's got, he's got
someone assigned to you
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24/7 knowing you better than you
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know yourself and
of course he's got a
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temptation,
designed for you as if he can
00:19:57.72\00:20:00.50
read your mind,
but he can't, he can't.
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He doesn't say you
know John likes basketball,
00:20:02.70\00:20:04.65
let me just send
him to a basketball camp
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and at the basket
ball camp I'll set a
00:20:07.49\00:20:10.09
temptation up for
him, because I also know
00:20:10.10\00:20:12.38
what else is, is a
challenge in his life.
00:20:12.39\00:20:14.06
So you got to be
careful, you got to
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think about what
you're thinking about,
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very, very good point
John. Anymore in that question?
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No. Okay, here's
another one, yes,
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proverbs 3 verse 9 and
10, turn in your Bibles
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with us there, a very
good question from Vanessa,
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it doesn't say
where Vanessa is from but
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the subject is about
first fruits and gossiping.
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Well that's quite a
connection, first fruits
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and gossiping and I
would probably connect it
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this way you know
the first thing that
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come out of your mouth could be
00:20:48.60\00:20:49.75
gossiping and it will
definitely produce fruit.
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Okay, you know strange
fruit or unusual fruit,
00:20:53.39\00:20:58.03
but proverbs 3 verse 9
and 10 reads as follows,
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Honor the Lord with
your possessions or your
00:21:01.74\00:21:04.04
substance, and
with the first fruits
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of all your increase. So
your barns will be filled
00:21:06.18\00:21:09.99
with plenty and your vats will
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overflow with new
wine. Here is the question,
00:21:12.66\00:21:16.05
I got an
increase in my salary and
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I want to give the
increase to the Lord.
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Does this church have a day that
00:21:22.11\00:21:24.72
honors God's first
fruits? What she is referring to
00:21:24.83\00:21:29.52
primarily is the
feast of first fruits,
00:21:29.53\00:21:32.10
she is referring
to the ceremonials
00:21:32.11\00:21:33.72
that were in the Old Testament.
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We are they brought
the way of sheep offering,
00:21:36.95\00:21:39.06
the first fruits,
the offering of the dove,
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all these various
offerings that were a
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part of the
ceremonial services. Now,
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how do you, the answer
to your question is, no.
00:21:47.92\00:21:51.55
This church does not
have a day that honors
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God's first fruits,
but this church has a day
00:21:56.26\00:21:59.31
that honor God's command
to keep the Sabbath holy.
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That will be the time
that when you bring your
00:22:02.95\00:22:05.77
offering, whether
you bring it physically,
00:22:05.78\00:22:09.60
whether you
target it as some people
00:22:10.29\00:22:12.32
nowadays in this
direct deposit world.
00:22:12.33\00:22:14.29
Some people have even
links direct deposit to
00:22:14.74\00:22:16.74
their salaries and
they've directly deposited that
00:22:16.75\00:22:19.81
from their check right
into the account of the
00:22:19.82\00:22:22.13
church and they get a
receipt for that later on.
00:22:22.14\00:22:24.49
But, if you want to
give any offering to the Lord
00:22:25.10\00:22:26.98
that he's blessed you
with bring ye all the tithe
00:22:26.99\00:22:29.54
into the store house,
you see, you don't need
00:22:29.55\00:22:31.80
a particular day to do
that. You could do that on
00:22:31.81\00:22:34.25
any day on the week,
but the time that people
00:22:34.26\00:22:36.61
gathered together to
worship is how they follow
00:22:36.62\00:22:39.24
the examples in the
Bibles, they brought
00:22:39.25\00:22:40.94
their offerings to the
Lord at the appointed times.
00:22:40.95\00:22:44.06
And, you don't
need a day to do that.
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I would say that,
as you follow that
00:22:47.12\00:22:50.01
pattern the
blessings of God will continue,
00:22:50.02\00:22:52.43
because as God
sees that you become a
00:22:52.80\00:22:54.56
conduit to bless
others that conduit is always
00:22:54.57\00:22:57.32
flowing and there
is something always
00:22:57.33\00:22:59.30
passing through
that conduit, but no he
00:22:59.31\00:23:01.33
hasn't established a
first fruits giving day
00:23:01.34\00:23:04.42
for that to happen
in the New Testament.
00:23:04.71\00:23:06.45
Good, good, I
have one quick thing to
00:23:06.84\00:23:08.97
clarify, this isn't
so much of a question,
00:23:08.98\00:23:10.67
but we like to
read even your comments
00:23:11.35\00:23:13.47
sometimes and it
says here Pastor Lomacang
00:23:13.48\00:23:17.52
and Stanton, you've
been talking about the
00:23:17.53\00:23:20.07
true Israel, okay,
but it seems that you're
00:23:20.08\00:23:22.62
giving Israel no significance
00:23:22.63\00:23:24.74
whatsoever and I
think this is inappropriate,
00:23:24.75\00:23:26.61
the entire chapter
of Romans 11 addresses
00:23:26.98\00:23:29.48
this in particular
verses 13 to 15 clarifies there
00:23:29.49\00:23:32.05
is some importance to
the descendants of Jacob.
00:23:32.06\00:23:34.33
Verses 17 and 18 and
19 and 20 to 21 warns
00:23:34.68\00:23:38.73
us not to be boastful over them.
00:23:38.74\00:23:40.38
Verses 23 tells us that
God is powerful enough to
00:23:41.06\00:23:43.51
reinsert them or
graph them back in,
00:23:43.52\00:23:46.05
and then there is a
future salvation of Israel.
00:23:47.40\00:23:50.13
So anyway there's
several things here you know,
00:23:50.85\00:23:52.69
I don't think John,
you and I talked at all
00:23:53.61\00:23:55.25
with the intent of
excluding Israel, right.
00:23:55.26\00:23:57.86
One of the things
that we were coming out
00:23:58.32\00:24:00.53
in fact if it tends
to detected a strong
00:24:00.54\00:24:03.79
resistance there with
current teaching of the
00:24:04.86\00:24:07.12
day with regard to
Israel, the nation of Israel,
00:24:07.13\00:24:09.84
it's in regard to the covenant.
00:24:10.94\00:24:12.70
There is a teaching
going on out there right now
00:24:12.95\00:24:14.91
and it's growing
more and more steam
00:24:14.92\00:24:16.78
and it's really
causing a lot of confusion
00:24:16.79\00:24:19.56
among peoples minds as to
00:24:19.57\00:24:21.70
how to understand
who Israel is today.
00:24:21.71\00:24:23.83
And that is the
subject of the what's called
00:24:24.23\00:24:26.31
"Duel Covenants"
there are as a dual
00:24:26.32\00:24:29.20
covenant that God has
set up where the Jews,
00:24:29.21\00:24:33.71
the literal Jews, the
nation of Israel is under
00:24:34.55\00:24:39.26
the old covenant
obligations to keep their
00:24:39.27\00:24:41.36
laws and that's the
way that God saves them,
00:24:41.37\00:24:43.78
and that Christians in
the church under the new
00:24:44.49\00:24:46.99
covenant system
which is by faith and
00:24:47.00\00:24:49.93
they have a
separate covenant with God.
00:24:49.94\00:24:51.72
And that's the way
that God saves them
00:24:51.73\00:24:53.44
as if there's two
separate covenants
00:24:53.45\00:24:55.08
going simultaneously, right.
00:24:55.51\00:24:57.08
The Bible doesn't
teach a duel covenant
00:24:57.53\00:24:59.20
whatsoever and that's what we
00:24:59.21\00:25:00.97
were coming out
against strong. In fact,
00:25:00.98\00:25:03.83
the passage that
you mentioned here is
00:25:04.96\00:25:07.03
very clear that there
is one covenant and by
00:25:07.04\00:25:09.92
faith all are part of
that covenant and that
00:25:09.93\00:25:12.78
is through Jesus Christ.
The whole book of Hebrews
00:25:12.79\00:25:15.22
is dedicated to
the covenant, right,
00:25:15.69\00:25:17.65
the covenant of Jesus
Christ as the minister
00:25:17.66\00:25:19.80
of the heavenly
sanctuary and our high priest
00:25:19.81\00:25:22.71
and our intercessor
and all the other things
00:25:22.72\00:25:24.33
he does as the head
of that covenant, right,
00:25:24.34\00:25:26.45
but that is for
everyone that is Jews, Greeks,
00:25:27.30\00:25:30.65
male, female, I
don't care who you are
00:25:31.01\00:25:33.60
you are under that
one covenant but there are
00:25:33.61\00:25:35.59
some who teaching
duel covenant and that's
00:25:35.60\00:25:37.78
where all these things
of the battle of Armageddon,
00:25:37.79\00:25:40.23
a literal battle
with tanks and warfare and
00:25:40.54\00:25:43.43
that we're coming
over in the middle east and
00:25:43.44\00:25:45.32
Islam versus
Christianity and there's so many
00:25:45.68\00:25:47.56
different variations
of what people say are
00:25:47.57\00:25:49.89
gonna happen. It
all comes out of that
00:25:49.90\00:25:51.92
misunderstanding
of the duel covenants.
00:25:52.36\00:25:53.91
And so, you know
we apologize for being
00:25:54.30\00:25:56.89
strong against
Israel if any way we have
00:25:56.90\00:25:59.73
because they are
just as much, they have
00:26:00.01\00:26:02.55
just as much right
to the gospel through
00:26:02.56\00:26:04.91
Jesus Christ is
anybody does, because God
00:26:04.92\00:26:07.26
does make no difference
with regard to any person.
00:26:07.27\00:26:10.44
As a matter of fact
John and, and I reiterate
00:26:10.96\00:26:12.85
this in Christ Jesus
said there is neither
00:26:12.86\00:26:15.86
Jew no Greek, there is
neither male nor female
00:26:17.08\00:26:21.31
and so there is
neither Jew nor gentile,
00:26:21.93\00:26:25.15
bound nor free, male
nor female in Christ.
00:26:25.60\00:26:29.17
He is not this
exclusive God and understand
00:26:29.18\00:26:32.18
the reason why He
had chosen Israel,
00:26:32.19\00:26:34.25
Israel by the
way means over comer,
00:26:34.64\00:26:36.90
he changed Jacob's
name from Jacob to Israel
00:26:37.23\00:26:39.84
so when we say
the children of Israel
00:26:40.16\00:26:41.90
literally the
Bible's talking about the
00:26:42.24\00:26:43.62
children of
Jacob, his descendants.
00:26:43.63\00:26:45.48
Why did God choose
them, he chose them for the
00:26:45.80\00:26:47.98
same reason we
have the postal service
00:26:47.99\00:26:49.73
today, same reason
we have the UPS and
00:26:49.74\00:26:51.99
Federal Express
and DHL and all those
00:26:52.00\00:26:54.60
the other delivery services
00:26:54.61\00:26:56.21
he chose them
to carry a message.
00:26:56.22\00:26:57.84
They had no
different blood then we have,
00:26:58.39\00:27:00.16
they have no
different philosophical I mean
00:27:00.53\00:27:02.81
physiological make up
then we do, they all have
00:27:02.82\00:27:05.14
finger prints and
they die and they live.
00:27:05.15\00:27:06.75
God chose them for
a special purpose and
00:27:07.35\00:27:09.19
when they forfeited
that purpose the Lord chose
00:27:09.20\00:27:12.09
someone else, the
church, he chose the church.
00:27:12.10\00:27:14.62
The gospel went to the gentiles.
00:27:14.63\00:27:16.22
It now, many of the
Jewish Christians will
00:27:16.51\00:27:18.77
converse they were
proselytized they were
00:27:18.78\00:27:21.93
called out from this
form of dead works into
00:27:21.94\00:27:25.14
this walk of faith
with Christ and that's where
00:27:25.15\00:27:27.80
salvation is by grace through
00:27:27.81\00:27:29.34
faith in Jesus Christ alone.
00:27:29.35\00:27:30.76
Salvation is not
by, Salvation is not by
00:27:31.04\00:27:33.99
nationality,
Salvation is by grace though
00:27:34.33\00:27:37.33
faith alone, that's right.
00:27:37.34\00:27:38.98
It's not a, it's a gift
of God, it's not of works,
00:27:38.99\00:27:41.64
it's not of nationality,
even today in America
00:27:41.65\00:27:44.45
we have this Foreign
Policy and even though
00:27:44.46\00:27:47.18
Israel is one of our
strongest allies we almost
00:27:47.19\00:27:49.79
do that to the
exclusive of other nationality,
00:27:49.80\00:27:52.11
yeah, and that is
anger some people around the
00:27:52.12\00:27:54.44
world and we've said
but in our nation we'll
00:27:54.45\00:27:56.84
discover we have
multiple nationalities.
00:27:56.85\00:27:59.04
Now do we favor
Israel over Germany,
00:27:59.36\00:28:01.28
Israel over Italy,
Israel over you know
00:28:01.29\00:28:03.67
we go down the
list. Well, I would say
00:28:03.68\00:28:05.66
many in the
Christian world who teach
00:28:05.67\00:28:07.90
prophecy and stuff would
say that we should, yeah,
00:28:07.91\00:28:10.11
but it's from a
misunderstanding of this
00:28:10.12\00:28:11.84
duel covenant, right,
00:28:11.85\00:28:12.98
and it's just
not biblical, right.
00:28:13.15\00:28:15.38
And anybody who
stands for Christ in any
00:28:15.39\00:28:17.49
realm, we're not
a government that,
00:28:17.50\00:28:20.19
and that's amazing
how congress shall make
00:28:20.46\00:28:22.13
no laws in reference to religion
00:28:22.14\00:28:23.97
or but in fact we have.
00:28:23.98\00:28:25.63
And to some
degree we've favored some
00:28:26.31\00:28:27.96
over the others and
realistically a lot of
00:28:27.97\00:28:31.05
the conflict in our
world today is because we,
00:28:31.06\00:28:33.41
some people feel
they're more favored or less
00:28:33.42\00:28:36.32
favored then others,
but in Christ there is no
00:28:36.33\00:28:39.14
high platform, no
low platform we're all
00:28:39.15\00:28:40.99
in the same level
Jew, Greek, gentile, bound,
00:28:41.00\00:28:43.49
free, male nor
female, if you are son and
00:28:43.50\00:28:46.17
daughter of
Jesus Christ and of God
00:28:46.18\00:28:48.21
you in fact are saved
by grace through faith.
00:28:48.54\00:28:50.87
And the covenant of his faith
00:28:51.18\00:28:52.42
and promise
applies to you. Amen.
00:28:52.69\00:28:54.91
Wow, we've said a
lot there, but we've
00:28:55.51\00:28:57.32
covered quite a bit
and thank you for your
00:28:57.33\00:28:58.53
questions to House
Calls if you have any further
00:28:58.54\00:29:00.69
questions send
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00:29:02.85\00:29:08.08
and we will try out
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00:29:08.36\00:29:10.74
The answers that are
required and the answers
00:29:11.29\00:29:14.82
that you desire we
hope to get those to you.
00:29:14.83\00:29:17.29
In a former
program we've talked about
00:29:18.03\00:29:19.73
the first day
texts in the Bible.
00:29:19.74\00:29:22.87
John, I did my
homework and I found out
00:29:23.58\00:29:28.83
that in the New
Testament we were talking about
00:29:28.84\00:29:31.53
how the first
day of the week was
00:29:31.80\00:29:33.43
established is so popular now.
00:29:33.44\00:29:34.81
I did my homework
and discovered that there
00:29:35.51\00:29:37.85
are only 12 Bible
verses in the New Testament
00:29:37.86\00:29:41.73
that has the phrase first day.
00:29:41.74\00:29:43.19
But there are 60 that
have the word Sabbath.
00:29:44.57\00:29:49.39
Some people have the
idea that the New Testament
00:29:51.82\00:29:54.17
doesn't talk much about
the Sabbath they've been
00:29:54.18\00:29:56.20
told that, yeah, and
they've accepted that,
00:29:56.21\00:29:58.96
but if you any, if
you know anything about
00:29:59.30\00:30:00.67
fractions the
Sabbath is five times more
00:30:00.68\00:30:04.12
prevalent in the
New Testament than the
00:30:04.52\00:30:06.63
first day of the week is.
00:30:06.64\00:30:07.70
The first day of the
week is 1/5 as talked
00:30:08.09\00:30:11.46
about as the Sabbath is.
00:30:11.47\00:30:13.59
Yet that 1/5 is
given more prominence
00:30:14.09\00:30:16.30
then the 4/5 more that
referred to the Sabbath.
00:30:16.65\00:30:20.67
And so what
we're gonna to do today
00:30:21.11\00:30:22.08
is we're gonna talk
about the rest of the text,
00:30:22.09\00:30:23.75
we're gonna go to the
Book of Acts and see what
00:30:24.03\00:30:26.12
that has to say about
the first day and I think
00:30:26.13\00:30:28.98
we use one Acts 20 verse 7,
00:30:28.99\00:30:30.56
we'll looking at
another one, but we'll also
00:30:30.81\00:30:33.35
discover what the
New Testament says about
00:30:33.36\00:30:35.77
the Sabbath and we'll
begin in the Book of Acts.
00:30:35.78\00:30:37.58
Now the reason why
the book of acts John
00:30:38.19\00:30:39.72
is the book of Acts is
the acts of the apostles,
00:30:39.73\00:30:44.22
in other words if
you're gonna find anywhere
00:30:44.55\00:30:46.94
in the Bible
where new patterns were
00:30:46.95\00:30:49.71
established and
new patterns of worship
00:30:49.72\00:30:52.36
were developed and
new patterns of things
00:30:52.37\00:30:56.14
that were worship
were established you will
00:30:56.15\00:31:00.33
find them in the book of
acts, Acts of the apostles.
00:31:00.34\00:31:04.20
Let's begin with a text
we didn't mention in our
00:31:05.84\00:31:07.62
last program acts
20 and verse 18 and see
00:31:07.63\00:31:10.74
where on the side
of the fence does that
00:31:10.75\00:31:14.10
fall in reference to
a new day of worship.
00:31:14.11\00:31:16.70
We mentioned the ones
about the resurrection,
00:31:16.71\00:31:18.27
we mentioned Acts 20
verse 7, we mentioned
00:31:18.57\00:31:22.39
1st Corinthians
chapter 16 verse 1 and 2,
00:31:22.40\00:31:24.66
we mentioned Acts
another one in reference
00:31:26.09\00:31:28.02
to the
resurrection, John 20 verse 1,
00:31:28.03\00:31:32.67
but now this is the fourth one,
00:31:32.99\00:31:34.52
well let's look at this one.
00:31:35.38\00:31:36.35
Acts 2 and verse 18
and see if this has any
00:31:36.60\00:31:38.46
relevance to the
new day of worship,
00:31:38.47\00:31:39.96
but does it say John?
And when they had come
00:31:39.97\00:31:41.63
to him, he said to
them, you know from the
00:31:41.64\00:31:44.38
first day that I came
into Asia, in what manner
00:31:44.39\00:31:47.01
I have always lived among you.
00:31:47.02\00:31:48.27
Okay so what kind
of reference is that?
00:31:48.28\00:31:49.89
This is an, this is
not talking about the
00:31:50.83\00:31:53.60
first day of the week
at all, right, that just
00:31:53.61\00:31:55.78
the first day that
he, he had come to them.
00:31:55.79\00:31:57.50
He know, in other words you know
00:31:57.51\00:31:58.57
since I've arrived
here, that's another way you
00:31:58.58\00:32:00.36
could say it, the
first time I've seen you,
00:32:00.37\00:32:02.11
the first time I drove
your car, the first day
00:32:02.46\00:32:04.38
I came to your home,
that's not setting up
00:32:04.39\00:32:06.36
a first day of the
week that simply saying
00:32:06.63\00:32:08.40
my first incident my
first occurrence and that's all
00:32:08.41\00:32:11.21
that simply is, so you
can't use that either way
00:32:11.22\00:32:13.33
to give any sanction
to a new day of worship.
00:32:13.93\00:32:18.42
But John, let's go to
one of the more familiar
00:32:19.03\00:32:22.21
books in the New
Testament, Acts chapter 13,
00:32:22.22\00:32:25.87
we've read that before
but I would like you to
00:32:26.72\00:32:28.64
walk through this
beautiful illustration of
00:32:28.65\00:32:33.51
a number of
things we've talked about
00:32:34.37\00:32:35.74
one of the continued
existence of the Sabbath
00:32:35.75\00:32:39.30
that's one, and secondly
00:32:39.31\00:32:43.09
the gospel
going to the gentiles.
00:32:45.53\00:32:49.53
Look at that, I want
you to see that let's start
00:32:50.39\00:32:52.87
an Acts chapter 13
what do you feel comfortable
00:32:52.88\00:32:56.01
to begin in verse 40
let's see about Acts chapter 13
00:32:56.02\00:33:00.24
if we begin around verse 40, 41.
00:33:00.85\00:33:04.23
Yeah, well Paul well
let's give you a context you,
00:33:06.69\00:33:09.19
yeah, Paul is
preaching, right, okay so
00:33:09.20\00:33:11.63
Paul is preaching a
message and he is preaching to
00:33:11.64\00:33:14.96
many who had
gathered together to hear
00:33:16.50\00:33:18.18
this message and
this is from all people,
00:33:18.19\00:33:20.04
we're talking about
not just the Jews or
00:33:20.05\00:33:24.86
the just the
gentiles but there are several
00:33:24.87\00:33:26.82
who are gather
together to hear this
00:33:26.83\00:33:28.07
message and we
get to verse 42, 42,
00:33:28.08\00:33:30.50
yes here we go, which
is right as he begins,
00:33:30.51\00:33:33.10
he concludes his
message and here's the response.
00:33:33.11\00:33:35.57
It says, when the Jews
went out of the synagogue,
00:33:36.06\00:33:38.31
it's where he was
preaching, the gentiles
00:33:38.32\00:33:40.82
begged that these words might be
00:33:40.83\00:33:42.28
preached to them
the next Sabbath.
00:33:42.29\00:33:44.11
So we had the Jews in
the synagogue it was a
00:33:44.75\00:33:46.44
Jewish synagogue
but some gentiles were
00:33:46.45\00:33:48.36
there and there were at
least hearing the message
00:33:48.37\00:33:49.90
and he said you know we want to
00:33:50.24\00:33:51.46
hear that message next Sabbath.
00:33:51.47\00:33:52.75
Now two things to
point out Jew and gentile,
00:33:53.66\00:33:55.84
yep, secondly Sabbath.
00:33:56.22\00:33:58.40
Paul, now is
converted, he is not Saul,
00:33:59.22\00:34:03.83
he is converted now, if
the change of the Sabbath
00:34:03.84\00:34:06.43
were to happen he
would have happened before
00:34:06.44\00:34:09.25
that time, because
now Saul is powerless,
00:34:09.26\00:34:11.87
Paul, sorry, is
powerless to make the change,
00:34:11.88\00:34:14.26
right, he's just
simply following what God had
00:34:14.27\00:34:16.10
already established.
So, it's on the Sabbath
00:34:16.11\00:34:18.11
when this incident
takes place now continue.
00:34:18.12\00:34:19.91
Now when the
congregation had broken up,
00:34:20.57\00:34:22.24
many of the Jews and
devote proselytes followed
00:34:22.25\00:34:24.59
Paul and Barnabas,
who speaking to them,
00:34:24.60\00:34:27.12
persuaded them to
continue in the grace of God.
00:34:27.13\00:34:29.43
In other words good
message, good message,
00:34:30.15\00:34:31.57
absolutely and so then
we shift to, in verse 44
00:34:31.58\00:34:34.78
the next Sabbath, okay.
It says the, and the next
00:34:34.79\00:34:37.08
Sabbath almost the
whole city came together
00:34:37.09\00:34:39.73
to hear the word of God.
00:34:39.74\00:34:40.89
Wow, well what a blessing.
The whole city impacted
00:34:40.90\00:34:44.31
by Paul's ministry and
they are hearing the message.
00:34:44.32\00:34:46.64
Would you like that
if the whole city came
00:34:46.65\00:34:48.27
together to, it
might be awesome.
00:34:48.28\00:34:49.62
The church would be inundated,
00:34:50.44\00:34:52.58
that's right, that's right.
00:34:52.59\00:34:54.34
It's amazing, we be
the outdoor service,
00:34:54.35\00:34:56.37
that's right.
Wow, amazing thing.
00:34:56.38\00:34:59.32
Well we find here now
two Sabbaths in a row,
00:34:59.33\00:35:02.12
this seems to be a
habit that Paul has
00:35:02.13\00:35:05.68
with preaching the word
of God on the Sabbath day.
00:35:05.69\00:35:09.15
You know and some
would say John some
00:35:09.90\00:35:11.05
have said this
argument, given this argument.
00:35:11.06\00:35:12.88
Well, okay even if the
Sabbath day is a holy days
00:35:12.89\00:35:15.28
it's not necessarily a
day you have to you know
00:35:15.29\00:35:16.73
that God says
you need to worship
00:35:16.74\00:35:17.88
on like you have church on.
00:35:17.89\00:35:19.18
It doesn't keep it
holy, I go to church on Sunday
00:35:19.55\00:35:21.79
but I keep holy
God's Sabbath day, right.
00:35:22.55\00:35:24.80
Well you know what we
find here is that wasn't
00:35:25.16\00:35:28.08
the custom of the church, right.
00:35:28.09\00:35:30.16
The message was
preached on the God's
00:35:30.17\00:35:33.05
special holy day,
the Seventh day Sabbath
00:35:33.06\00:35:36.13
and evidently here is
what I'm trying to get to
00:35:36.80\00:35:38.77
evidently God
brings about a blessing
00:35:38.78\00:35:41.94
for the
preaching on his holy day.
00:35:42.64\00:35:45.52
Oh, and so when we
say I don't have to come
00:35:45.95\00:35:49.28
together to hear
preaching on or to
00:35:49.29\00:35:50.75
come to a church
to hear the message
00:35:50.76\00:35:52.24
on or whatever referring to the
00:35:52.25\00:35:54.08
Sabbath I can do
that on other days.
00:35:54.09\00:35:55.85
We miss that God has
a blessing for people
00:35:56.50\00:35:59.70
who come together
on his holy day in
00:35:59.71\00:36:01.46
honor of him that
isn't there at other times.
00:36:01.47\00:36:05.17
And the way to illustrate
that, I think that's a
00:36:05.55\00:36:07.65
good point you made
the way to illustrate
00:36:07.66\00:36:09.51
that and so make it
significant is that,
00:36:09.52\00:36:11.65
we are greater
benefactors in a relationship
00:36:12.76\00:36:16.26
blessed by God. You
can have relationships,
00:36:16.27\00:36:19.43
but if God hasn't
blessed that relationship
00:36:19.44\00:36:21.21
it's a relationship
that could be a hindrance
00:36:21.22\00:36:22.98
to your downfall
because the relationship
00:36:22.99\00:36:25.16
is not necessarily
the blessing but a blessed
00:36:25.17\00:36:27.97
relationship always
brings with it with a blessing.
00:36:27.98\00:36:30.28
My wife and I have a
blessed relationship,
00:36:30.29\00:36:32.05
I can't have a
relationship with any woman
00:36:32.41\00:36:35.05
other than my wife to
expect that relationship
00:36:35.43\00:36:37.71
to be a blessed
relationship in the sense
00:36:37.72\00:36:40.19
of what God established for
00:36:40.20\00:36:41.70
husband and wife
to experience you see.
00:36:41.71\00:36:44.12
That's the only
context of the blessing.
00:36:44.45\00:36:46.19
We could have
spiritual relationships,
00:36:46.80\00:36:48.61
we could have
worship relationships with
00:36:48.62\00:36:50.03
other people, but
the blessed relationship
00:36:50.04\00:36:52.42
that you find that in
that blessing that's where God
00:36:52.43\00:36:56.23
is going to give you
the greatest benefit.
00:36:56.70\00:36:58.55
And the Sabbath is a
special time of worship
00:36:58.56\00:37:00.67
and I know this is
an Old Testament text
00:37:00.68\00:37:02.27
and we're trying,
we're going through the
00:37:02.28\00:37:03.70
Sabbath texts in
the New Testament,
00:37:03.71\00:37:06.09
but if you look here at
00:37:06.10\00:37:08.05
Isaiah the very last
chapter, we find that
00:37:08.06\00:37:12.65
when all is said and
done, when sin is no more,
00:37:14.12\00:37:17.29
when we are with
Christ in his kingdom,
00:37:17.30\00:37:19.26
it says here in verse
23 of Isaiah 66 that from
00:37:20.49\00:37:24.21
one Sabbath to another
all flesh shall come to
00:37:24.22\00:37:27.64
worship before me says
the Lord, that's right.
00:37:27.65\00:37:30.41
So part of God's design
with regard to Sabbath is
00:37:30.91\00:37:35.13
convocating people,
a coming together of
00:37:35.52\00:37:37.82
the people to worship him,
00:37:37.83\00:37:39.27
to connect act,
it's an act of worship.
00:37:39.28\00:37:41.05
So we can't say well
I'll honor God's holy day
00:37:41.43\00:37:44.93
without including
worship with God's people
00:37:44.94\00:37:47.50
in that context,
you know on that day.
00:37:47.51\00:37:50.63
I like that,
all flesh shall come
00:37:50.64\00:37:53.94
to worship before me.
00:37:53.95\00:37:55.37
Not all Jews,
another good connection, yes.
00:37:55.38\00:37:59.69
Not all Jews, all
flesh, and what are they doing?
00:37:59.70\00:38:03.16
They are congregating,
they are assembling.
00:38:03.17\00:38:06.30
Hebrews 9:25, do not
for sake the assembling of
00:38:07.21\00:38:11.27
ourselves
together. And when you follow
00:38:11.28\00:38:13.37
the patterns and
scripture you'll find in
00:38:13.38\00:38:14.92
the New Testament
in the book of Acts,
00:38:14.93\00:38:16.30
the assemblies took
place as a congregation on
00:38:16.72\00:38:21.26
the Sabbath day,
that's the custom but that's
00:38:21.27\00:38:24.87
not just the custom,
that custom was supported
00:38:24.88\00:38:28.07
by a command,
that custom was not
00:38:28.08\00:38:31.24
supported by
tradition, that custom was
00:38:31.25\00:38:33.25
supported by a command.
And there are ceremonial
00:38:33.26\00:38:35.99
Sabbaths we know in
the Old Testament as well.
00:38:36.00\00:38:37.86
And God referred to those as
00:38:37.87\00:38:39.46
holy convocations, right.
00:38:39.47\00:38:42.32
It's a holy coming
together, so part of the
00:38:42.33\00:38:44.54
meaning of Sabbath
worship is a coming together.
00:38:44.55\00:38:47.47
Convocation, you can't miss it,
00:38:47.91\00:38:49.42
it's a coming together.
So, that is what's happening
00:38:49.43\00:38:52.63
back to Acts 13 here
among Jews and gentiles
00:38:52.64\00:38:56.16
alike, they're
coming together on God's
00:38:56.17\00:38:57.62
holy Sabbath day
to hear Paul preach
00:38:57.63\00:38:59.44
and I would say to hear
God preach through Paul.
00:38:59.79\00:39:01.84
And read verse 46 and 47
this is really interesting
00:39:02.29\00:39:05.50
because notice
we're actually verse 45
00:39:05.51\00:39:07.62
you begin to see
the transition here,
00:39:08.05\00:39:09.40
now this is significant,
this was the reason why
00:39:09.41\00:39:12.10
God had chosen the
Jews, he chose them
00:39:12.11\00:39:13.89
to be depositors, he
chose them to get the
00:39:13.90\00:39:16.16
message out, but
listen to what happened here.
00:39:16.17\00:39:17.82
But when the Jews
saw the multitudes,
00:39:18.60\00:39:20.35
they were filled with
envy, and contradicting
00:39:20.36\00:39:23.44
and blaspheming, they apposed
00:39:23.45\00:39:25.65
the things spoken by
Paul. Then Paul and Barnabas
00:39:25.66\00:39:29.09
grew bold and said,
it was necessary that the
00:39:29.10\00:39:32.45
word of God should
be spoken to you first,
00:39:32.46\00:39:34.75
but since you
reject it judge yourselves
00:39:35.75\00:39:38.35
unworthy of everlasting life,
00:39:38.36\00:39:40.28
behold we turn to the Gentiles.
00:39:40.66\00:39:42.68
And then of course
it says for the Lord has
00:39:44.61\00:39:45.98
commanded us I have set
you a light to the gentiles
00:39:45.99\00:39:48.13
that you should be for salvation
00:39:48.53\00:39:49.82
to the ends of the earth.
00:39:49.83\00:39:50.80
God's original plan
was that this message would
00:39:51.05\00:39:53.79
be given through
the church Israel,
00:39:53.80\00:39:57.12
that's right, to all gentiles or
00:39:57.61\00:40:00.13
to all nations to all people.
00:40:00.14\00:40:01.65
They rejected that,
they didn't want that part,
00:40:02.03\00:40:04.09
they were very
sectarian, they saw them as
00:40:04.10\00:40:06.98
the cast offs, they
saw them as one's not
00:40:07.63\00:40:10.50
worthy of salvation and God just
00:40:10.51\00:40:12.41
simply couldn't use
them So he chose the gentiles
00:40:12.42\00:40:15.64
to bring that
message to the gentiles.
00:40:16.03\00:40:17.75
And so today the gospel
is not close to the Jews
00:40:17.76\00:40:21.07
but everyone whether
Jew or Greek or German
00:40:21.49\00:40:24.60
or Italian or Russian
or Indian or Pakistani
00:40:24.61\00:40:30.47
or from Saudi Arabia,
we're all in the family
00:40:30.48\00:40:33.90
of God by grace through faith we
00:40:33.91\00:40:35.89
are all sons and
daughters of God.
00:40:35.90\00:40:37.82
Why did God talk
about the fact that he could
00:40:38.20\00:40:41.14
graph Israel back in,
he says of course they
00:40:41.15\00:40:44.23
can come back in if
they accept the Messiah
00:40:44.24\00:40:46.50
and that's part of
the challenge today.
00:40:47.56\00:40:48.95
A very famous preacher,
I won't say his first name,
00:40:49.34\00:40:52.73
but his I think
his last name is Hagee,
00:40:52.74\00:40:55.11
won't say his first name.
00:40:55.52\00:40:56.73
Yeah, like that's
gonna help. He made this
00:40:57.36\00:41:01.83
comment which
was surprising to me
00:41:01.84\00:41:03.62
outside of this
church I understand he has a
00:41:03.63\00:41:05.38
welling wall, and
he says, because he
00:41:05.39\00:41:07.50
believes this,
that there should be a
00:41:07.51\00:41:08.79
common connection
between he and his
00:41:08.83\00:41:10.17
brothers, brothers
that are Jewish but he said
00:41:10.18\00:41:13.32
when Jesus
comes, when the messiah
00:41:13.33\00:41:15.19
comes he says one of
us is gonna to change
00:41:15.20\00:41:17.75
our mind and it's
not gonna be me he said
00:41:17.76\00:41:20.76
and I thought
okay he speaks of being
00:41:21.49\00:41:24.21
unified now with
someone who doesn't
00:41:24.22\00:41:26.04
accept the
messiah, right. Unity cannot
00:41:26.05\00:41:28.55
exist on the basis
of division can two walk
00:41:28.56\00:41:30.91
together except
they be agreed and the
00:41:30.92\00:41:32.85
Bible says absolutely not,
00:41:32.86\00:41:34.03
and the point of
unity is Jesus Christ.
00:41:34.34\00:41:37.09
Not availing wall,
not a sanctuary, not a
00:41:37.95\00:41:41.63
synagogue, not a
temple, not a stadium
00:41:41.64\00:41:44.00
not a church, the
unity is in Christ, the place
00:41:44.23\00:41:47.48
you go to worship
is where the believers
00:41:47.49\00:41:49.40
collectively come together
to worship the one Lord,
00:41:49.41\00:41:52.37
one faith. And
that's the beauty of what
00:41:52.38\00:41:55.83
Christ has given to us.
Now John, Acts chapter 17
00:41:55.84\00:41:58.87
tells us a little
bit about Paul's habits,
00:41:58.88\00:42:02.44
his customs, you know
what he typically did.
00:42:02.45\00:42:03.42
Okay let's go down
there, and I am reading from
00:42:03.43\00:42:07.12
chapter 17 verse
2 it says then Paul,
00:42:07.58\00:42:09.95
as his custom was, went
into them, and for three
00:42:10.44\00:42:14.25
Sabbaths reasoned
with them from scriptures.
00:42:14.26\00:42:17.24
So we see Paul isn't
just, he didn't do this
00:42:17.66\00:42:19.66
just two times before
which we find recorded in
00:42:19.67\00:42:22.53
Acts chapter 13, we
get to 17 and here he
00:42:22.54\00:42:25.37
continues to repeat
this habit of coming in to
00:42:25.38\00:42:28.24
preach in the
synagogue or preach
00:42:28.25\00:42:29.83
in the church
on the Sabbath day.
00:42:29.84\00:42:32.34
And you know it's says
in verse 4 and some of them
00:42:32.81\00:42:35.89
were persuaded and
the great multitude of
00:42:35.90\00:42:38.32
the devout Greeks
and not a few of the
00:42:38.33\00:42:41.52
leading women joined
Paul and Silos, but the
00:42:41.53\00:42:45.07
Jews who were not persuaded,
00:42:45.08\00:42:47.36
becoming envious,
took some of the evil men
00:42:47.79\00:42:51.04
from the marketplace,
and gathering a mob,
00:42:51.58\00:42:53.72
set all the city in
an uproar and attacked
00:42:54.52\00:42:57.07
the house of
Jason, and sought to
00:42:57.44\00:42:59.44
bring them out to the people.
00:42:59.45\00:43:01.18
So as in essence,
these who felt that they
00:43:01.81\00:43:03.22
were just exclusively accessed,
00:43:03.23\00:43:05.27
who had exclusive
access to the gospel
00:43:05.63\00:43:07.60
said I don't want you to
do that, I don't want you
00:43:07.99\00:43:09.64
to share this and John, I
need to say this but today
00:43:09.65\00:43:12.42
there is a division
among some who are practicing
00:43:12.77\00:43:18.33
their religion and
specifically in Judaism.
00:43:18.34\00:43:21.00
There's a mindset
that you cannot possibly
00:43:21.95\00:43:24.60
be saved 'cause
you're not a Jew.
00:43:24.61\00:43:26.35
So there's this,
there's a wall of almost I can't
00:43:26.76\00:43:29.32
even hear you, I
don't want to even listen
00:43:29.33\00:43:31.59
to you, because
you're not a Jew.
00:43:31.60\00:43:33.32
Very, very strong, I
was raised in New York in
00:43:33.71\00:43:36.17
Brooklyn
specifically, where we have a
00:43:36.18\00:43:37.98
strong and still
today very, very strong
00:43:37.99\00:43:40.39
religious
community made of Jews and
00:43:40.40\00:43:43.48
wonderful
people when it comes to
00:43:43.91\00:43:45.50
business but you
cannot talk Jesus,
00:43:45.51\00:43:47.95
you cannot religion
because there is not
00:43:48.33\00:43:50.28
this common agreeance
that the message of Christ
00:43:50.29\00:43:53.15
is the message of
the present Christ.
00:43:53.56\00:43:55.26
It's a message to
them of the future Christ
00:43:55.66\00:43:57.61
to come, but notice
we've started so far
00:43:57.62\00:43:59.99
to see that clearly
there is an establishment
00:44:00.00\00:44:01.78
in the New
Testament in the practices of
00:44:01.79\00:44:03.33
Paul the Apostle
and Silos and Paul,
00:44:03.34\00:44:06.03
you know Paul and
Barnabas and Silos,
00:44:06.04\00:44:07.82
now they continue to
get back to this idea
00:44:08.51\00:44:10.69
that they are
honoring the Sabbath.
00:44:10.70\00:44:13.22
Look at another
one, Acts chapter 15,
00:44:14.27\00:44:17.04
look at another one
Acts chapter 15 verse 21 so
00:44:18.57\00:44:21.86
far we've read Acts
chapter 13 verse 42 to 46
00:44:21.87\00:44:26.50
but now let's go Acts
chapter 15 and look at
00:44:27.23\00:44:30.36
verse 21 Acts
chapter 15, For Moses has had
00:44:30.37\00:44:37.47
throughout many
generations those who
00:44:37.48\00:44:39.73
preached him in
every city being read
00:44:39.74\00:44:43.20
in the synagogues every Sabbath.
00:44:43.21\00:44:45.01
Okay notice how,
notice when it was read,
00:44:45.43\00:44:47.57
it was read in the
synagogues every Sabbath.
00:44:48.32\00:44:50.41
He's
establishing historical fact
00:44:50.77\00:44:52.61
Moses continued, Moses
had this, but this was done
00:44:52.96\00:44:58.17
every Sabbath in the synagogues,
00:44:58.18\00:44:59.92
but then you go
to Acts chapter 16,
00:45:00.28\00:45:02.08
Acts chapter 16 and
you look down at verse 13
00:45:02.86\00:45:05.72
and you begin to
see something developing
00:45:05.73\00:45:07.67
here, not just an
Old Testament practice
00:45:07.68\00:45:10.48
but also a New
Testament practice.
00:45:10.83\00:45:12.59
Acts 16 and verse 13,
And on the Sabbath day,
00:45:12.92\00:45:17.63
we went out of the
city to the river side,
00:45:17.64\00:45:19.67
where prayer was
customarily made;
00:45:20.05\00:45:22.14
and we sat down,
and spoke to the women
00:45:22.46\00:45:24.40
who met there. Now
do you know why he went
00:45:24.41\00:45:26.74
outside of the city by
the river side is because
00:45:26.75\00:45:29.29
in this particular
city, I did this research
00:45:29.30\00:45:31.14
it was understood
that they had to have
00:45:31.91\00:45:33.64
at least nine men
in the congregation to
00:45:33.65\00:45:36.69
established a
congregation and they
00:45:36.70\00:45:38.59
didn't have nine
men. So the women didn't
00:45:38.60\00:45:40.74
have a place to
gather to worship, they could
00:45:40.75\00:45:42.51
not established
as it were a company,
00:45:42.52\00:45:44.79
they could not established
as it were a building
00:45:45.48\00:45:47.32
a place of worship,
so they gathered by the
00:45:47.33\00:45:49.20
river side and it
didn't really matter where they
00:45:49.21\00:45:51.80
gathered but
they gathered meaning
00:45:51.81\00:45:53.91
there was a congregation.
Well and it says here
00:45:53.92\00:45:55.63
they gathered in a
place where prayer was
00:45:55.64\00:45:57.84
often made so, okay,
they went back to a place
00:45:57.85\00:46:00.18
that was familiar to
them. And they're obviously
00:46:00.19\00:46:02.78
meeting here and talking here
00:46:02.79\00:46:05.04
and worshiping on the Sabbath.
00:46:05.48\00:46:06.54
And, that's what they met Lydia,
00:46:07.00\00:46:08.65
Lydia was a very
wealthy lady who's
00:46:09.58\00:46:11.13
suggested to be a
widower, but she was
00:46:11.14\00:46:13.67
left very wealthy
and she financed as also
00:46:13.68\00:46:17.18
Nicodemus did many
of the activities of the
00:46:17.19\00:46:19.34
New Testament church
they became strong by
00:46:19.35\00:46:21.29
these people of great means
00:46:21.30\00:46:22.65
and people of great industry.
00:46:23.03\00:46:24.22
But once you can
you see here down by
00:46:24.60\00:46:26.93
the river side
on the Sabbath day.
00:46:26.94\00:46:29.57
They were there
again, don't make me
00:46:29.93\00:46:32.12
sing with you I
won't, okay John, we don't,
00:46:32.13\00:46:34.29
we want this to be House Call.
00:46:34.30\00:46:35.89
We don't want a
doctor to have to show up
00:46:36.12\00:46:38.63
on the set, no. John
does sing, he sings very well,
00:46:38.64\00:46:42.49
I can keep it but I'm
not a soloist by any means,
00:46:42.50\00:46:45.17
and you know John
you used to play piano,
00:46:45.18\00:46:47.13
you got to get
back to that, I don't
00:46:47.48\00:46:48.77
remind people of that, okay.
00:46:48.78\00:46:50.25
They'll ask me to
play, if you will invite them
00:46:51.16\00:46:52.23
invite them to preach and
00:46:52.24\00:46:53.21
teach but do not
invite them to sing.
00:46:53.22\00:46:55.09
My wife will play
the piano for you,
00:46:55.10\00:46:56.46
she is a great pianist so,
00:46:56.47\00:46:58.26
John will sing
in the key of glee.
00:46:58.27\00:47:00.95
Oh let's go to
Acts chapter 18 John,
00:47:01.73\00:47:03.99
this is probably it
seems like the, the momentum
00:47:04.00\00:47:09.59
builds doesn't it
yeah that's a good work.
00:47:09.60\00:47:12.91
Momentum builds
here, Acts chapter 18
00:47:12.92\00:47:15.03
we find Sabbath
meanings continuing
00:47:15.04\00:47:18.05
throughout the
New Testament church,
00:47:18.06\00:47:19.94
the early church
and I'm reading from
00:47:19.95\00:47:22.37
Acts chapter 18 verse
4 it says and he reasoned
00:47:22.38\00:47:25.80
in the synagogue
every Sabbath, and persuaded
00:47:25.81\00:47:28.79
both Jews and the
Greeks. Did you say Greeks?
00:47:28.80\00:47:32.52
I said Greeks. Now
how do they fit into
00:47:32.90\00:47:35.20
this whole thing?
They're worshiping on the
00:47:35.21\00:47:36.76
Sabbath like their
Jewish brothers and sisters.
00:47:36.77\00:47:40.00
And who did this
persuading? Paul,
00:47:40.01\00:47:42.90
in fact you know what he
spend a lot of time there.
00:47:44.22\00:47:47.01
Because if you look
down in verse 11 it says
00:47:47.78\00:47:49.70
he continued there
a year and six months
00:47:49.71\00:47:51.85
teaching the word
of God among them.
00:47:52.22\00:47:53.83
Do you know how many
Sabbaths that is in a row,
00:47:54.26\00:47:55.50
if we do that
everything, 78 I think it is,
00:47:56.43\00:47:58.38
that's right, 78, 52
and 26, so friends you have
00:47:58.39\00:48:03.39
right here
documented new testament
00:48:03.56\00:48:05.81
practice now, 78
weeks in a row that
00:48:05.82\00:48:10.24
Paul is preaching
and it says every Sabbath
00:48:10.25\00:48:13.69
he's persuading Jews and Greeks.
00:48:14.50\00:48:16.97
And by the way, he
may or may not understand
00:48:16.98\00:48:18.96
this but you may
remember the story of
00:48:18.97\00:48:20.80
man by the name of
Agrippa, King Agrippa
00:48:20.81\00:48:23.00
he said to Paul you
almost persuaded me.
00:48:23.73\00:48:27.21
So, that the presentation
of the gospel is the
00:48:27.62\00:48:30.71
presentation of an
argument in favor of
00:48:30.72\00:48:32.95
the blood of Christ,
in favor of accepting
00:48:32.96\00:48:35.79
the Messiah, in
favor of choosing
00:48:35.80\00:48:38.22
Jesus as your Lord and savior.
00:48:38.23\00:48:39.80
And so that's what he
did, he preached Jesus,
00:48:40.21\00:48:43.40
he preached the
gospel message, and those
00:48:44.94\00:48:46.91
who are becoming
converts, those who were being
00:48:46.92\00:48:49.79
persuaded were Jews and Greeks.
00:48:49.80\00:48:54.10
Now John at the last
part of this program,
00:48:55.23\00:48:57.83
did the Lord know that
somewhere along the way,
00:48:58.51\00:49:02.36
there was gonna be some kind of
00:49:03.57\00:49:04.96
attempt to change
his law. Yeah he did,
00:49:04.97\00:49:08.18
and we're gonna go
into that in just a second
00:49:09.47\00:49:11.76
because the Bible
is clear on that, okay,
00:49:11.77\00:49:14.02
and the temple is
changed, but let's catch
00:49:14.03\00:49:16.81
this here real quickly,
okay, but just to kind of
00:49:16.82\00:49:18.66
conclude that, the
topic we were talking them on.
00:49:18.67\00:49:20.38
The one thing that
we often miss when we
00:49:20.75\00:49:23.99
read the scriptures
is the most obvious,
00:49:24.00\00:49:26.63
you know sometimes
you look so deep that you
00:49:27.53\00:49:29.05
some times you just
miss the most obvious,
00:49:29.06\00:49:30.58
one of the most
obvious arguments
00:49:31.79\00:49:33.53
or the convictions in
me that the Sabbath was
00:49:33.93\00:49:38.30
something that the
early church and the
00:49:38.31\00:49:39.94
church even today
continues to honor
00:49:39.95\00:49:43.31
as far as the
fourth commandment is,
00:49:43.32\00:49:44.99
the fact that
Sabbath and first day are two
00:49:46.21\00:49:50.40
different words.
Okay, I'm following,
00:49:50.41\00:49:54.61
there are two
different words, Paul clearly
00:49:54.62\00:49:57.90
distinguishes
Luke who write the,
00:49:57.91\00:50:00.06
wrote the book of
Acts clearly distinguishes
00:50:00.07\00:50:01.91
between first day
and Sabbath that means
00:50:01.92\00:50:05.64
on the surface there
are two different days.
00:50:06.43\00:50:09.22
Very good analogy,
you cannot say I worship
00:50:09.61\00:50:13.12
the Sabbath on Sunday,
oxymoron, the Sunday is,
00:50:13.13\00:50:17.06
Sunday is the
first day of the week,
00:50:17.07\00:50:18.50
the Sabbath is the
Seventh day. Yeah right.
00:50:18.91\00:50:20.82
I'm like I am
following you; you can't say
00:50:20.90\00:50:23.22
I am honoring the Sabbath on
00:50:23.23\00:50:24.54
the first day of the week.
00:50:24.55\00:50:25.52
You can't, got to
keep two different days,
00:50:25.53\00:50:27.32
is there any more than
saying that I'm honoring
00:50:27.33\00:50:29.79
Christmas on
December or January 1st,
00:50:29.80\00:50:33.47
right it doesn't
work, if we go ha and then
00:50:33.48\00:50:36.96
and you wonder why we
talk about this subject
00:50:36.97\00:50:39.17
and by the way we're
not talking it just because
00:50:39.18\00:50:40.76
we want to we
get questions on this
00:50:40.77\00:50:42.64
constantly, oh yeah
it's seems to be the
00:50:42.65\00:50:44.46
most
reoccurring. This is the most
00:50:44.47\00:50:45.94
reoccurring
question and because people
00:50:45.95\00:50:47.53
have an interest in
it. They wanted to do
00:50:47.54\00:50:49.24
what God wants
them to do, right.
00:50:49.25\00:50:50.84
And so we're talking
about this because sometimes
00:50:51.20\00:50:53.97
we just turn our
heads and we say first day
00:50:53.98\00:50:57.78
of the week Sabbath
huh? Because they are two
00:50:57.79\00:51:00.88
different words, there
are two different days,
00:51:00.89\00:51:03.38
there are just
completely different
00:51:03.39\00:51:04.76
and here it's how I
want to tie this into
00:51:04.77\00:51:06.78
where we are
going, okay. We've already
00:51:06.79\00:51:08.99
said at the
Sabbath involves worship,
00:51:09.00\00:51:10.79
coming together to
worship God, alright,
00:51:10.80\00:51:13.07
it's gonna be that
way in the new worth,
00:51:13.73\00:51:15.17
if the Sabbath is
connected to worship
00:51:15.94\00:51:17.60
then would we say
or could we say that
00:51:19.00\00:51:22.44
loyalty to God,
worship of him as
00:51:22.45\00:51:26.79
above any other thing
is connected to keeping
00:51:26.80\00:51:32.83
his holy day and by
the way just a quick
00:51:32.84\00:51:35.50
synopsis here, God
refers to the seventh day
00:51:35.51\00:51:38.25
of the week end in the
Old Testament as my holy day.
00:51:38.26\00:51:40.59
He repeatedly
calls it his own, right
00:51:41.08\00:51:43.39
he written okay.
But the other ceremonial
00:51:43.40\00:51:46.34
Sabbaths he refers to
as the Sabbath of Israel
00:51:46.35\00:51:49.69
not God's Sabbath
day, yeah. So it's His day
00:51:49.70\00:51:52.52
my holy day so if it's
his holy day and we worship
00:51:52.53\00:51:55.47
him in that isn't
Sabbath, isn't coming together
00:51:55.48\00:51:58.51
on the Sabbath part of
worship I believe it is,
00:51:58.52\00:52:00.76
and so if put
yourself in Satan's mind real
00:52:01.30\00:52:03.65
quick here if
Satan wants to command
00:52:03.66\00:52:06.75
warship which we
know he does, right,
00:52:06.76\00:52:08.76
wouldn't he had to
change the day that
00:52:09.11\00:52:12.57
points to
worshiping the creator.
00:52:12.58\00:52:14.25
You know that was
seem the most elementary
00:52:15.19\00:52:17.14
and first thing to do
let me get my own day,
00:52:17.15\00:52:20.23
let my find a way
to establish something
00:52:21.02\00:52:23.66
kind a like a new
holiday. God has his day
00:52:23.67\00:52:27.28
and I need to get
my own day, right.
00:52:28.01\00:52:29.69
That's true, and
friends I know that
00:52:30.43\00:52:33.90
some of you are
a way ahead on this
00:52:33.91\00:52:35.52
comment or this very
statement but John in fact
00:52:35.53\00:52:39.35
throughout recorded
the history attempts
00:52:39.72\00:52:42.79
have been made and even today
00:52:42.80\00:52:44.77
I think it's call
on very, very well.
00:52:44.78\00:52:46.66
Before we refer to
Daniel chapter 7 which is gonna
00:52:46.67\00:52:49.69
be a our concluding text
for this particular topic,
00:52:49.70\00:52:51.80
you will see that in
Daniel 7 this did not come
00:52:52.53\00:52:56.89
as a surprise to God he knew,
00:52:56.90\00:52:59.11
he knew before it
even occurred that
00:52:59.46\00:53:02.32
somebody would make the attempt.
00:53:02.33\00:53:04.28
Another reason I
say the attempt is,
00:53:04.29\00:53:06.12
my wife and I,
Angela, sometimes we want to
00:53:07.12\00:53:10.10
buy a specific
items but we look at the
00:53:10.11\00:53:12.30
newspapers circular
and it says Saturday only,
00:53:12.31\00:53:16.46
you know 10.00 AM then
what, 3.00 PM or Friday
00:53:18.08\00:53:21.98
evening to Saturday
evening only you know
00:53:21.99\00:53:25.20
and we say that's not
fair because they have
00:53:25.21\00:53:27.77
locked out any
chance of us going to Macy's
00:53:27.78\00:53:31.12
or Bamberg or
whatever, no Bamberg is so old,
00:53:31.13\00:53:33.47
Macy's or Sears,
they've locked out any
00:53:33.82\00:53:36.20
possibilities
because we don't do business
00:53:36.21\00:53:38.24
transactions on the Sabbath.
00:53:38.25\00:53:39.25
We're just not gonna to
do that so they closed the
00:53:39.99\00:53:41.78
door on us but this
is not a surprise to God.
00:53:41.79\00:53:44.49
John read that text to
us how the Lord made it
00:53:45.29\00:53:47.45
clear that he knew
somebody would do it.
00:53:47.46\00:53:49.49
And I would haste to
say you just even eluted to
00:53:49.84\00:53:51.88
just a moment ago
matter of fact he didn't
00:53:51.89\00:53:53.15
eluted to you said
it, who would be the one
00:53:53.16\00:53:55.73
that would want to
be honor above God,
00:53:55.74\00:53:57.29
who would want to
take his place, who would
00:53:58.00\00:54:00.12
want something
established to his legions
00:54:00.13\00:54:01.98
as God
established one to his only.
00:54:02.42\00:54:04.22
Read Isaiah 14: 12
the 14 Satan himself
00:54:04.23\00:54:06.99
wants to be like the
most high he wants to
00:54:07.00\00:54:09.10
be worshiped, that's right,
00:54:09.11\00:54:10.30
and we find in
Revelation chapter 13 that
00:54:10.66\00:54:12.93
he is still working
through other agencies
00:54:12.94\00:54:14.89
to bring about that
worship to him, that's right,
00:54:14.90\00:54:17.07
and those agencies
one of those agencies are
00:54:17.44\00:54:19.95
talked about here
in Daniel chapter 7,
00:54:19.96\00:54:21.90
read that for us,
and do we find here in
00:54:21.91\00:54:24.16
Daniel 7 verse 25,
part of with this entity,
00:54:24.17\00:54:27.56
what this system is
doing to command worship
00:54:27.57\00:54:31.26
it says he
speaks promptest words
00:54:31.27\00:54:33.26
against the most
High, shall persecute the
00:54:33.61\00:54:36.20
saints the most
High, and shall intent
00:54:36.21\00:54:38.63
or think to change
times and law. Wow!
00:54:38.64\00:54:43.13
Now the only thing
with regard to God's law
00:54:43.14\00:54:45.97
is ten commandments
that involves an element of
00:54:45.98\00:54:48.94
time is the forth.
And it's also a law,
00:54:48.95\00:54:53.16
and it's also
one of the laws yes.
00:54:53.52\00:54:55.41
The time and law, so
clearly this entity is
00:54:55.42\00:54:59.69
going to try or make
an attempt to change it.
00:54:59.70\00:55:02.10
Can he really
change it, no he can't,
00:55:02.11\00:55:04.63
because God set up
the day, but yet he thinks
00:55:05.02\00:55:08.32
or makes an attempt
to change that day and we
00:55:08.33\00:55:10.82
do fine that in fact
that's where the change
00:55:10.83\00:55:13.45
comes from, take us
there. You know what
00:55:13.46\00:55:15.67
friends, if you have
an Internet and chances
00:55:15.68\00:55:19.63
are if you've send
us an email you have
00:55:19.64\00:55:21.17
access to the
Internet, I said if you have an
00:55:21.18\00:55:23.73
internet, if you have
access to the internet
00:55:23.74\00:55:25.80
he may want to look
up this phrase change
00:55:26.25\00:55:29.46
of the Sabbath, just
type it in, just type it
00:55:29.47\00:55:31.93
in there in your
Google search or whatever
00:55:31.94\00:55:33.43
engine you know Yahoo
or whatever whatsoever
00:55:33.44\00:55:35.57
want to use just
type in that search engine
00:55:35.58\00:55:38.06
Change of the
Sabbath. And you will see
00:55:38.07\00:55:41.38
what historically
has been recorded as
00:55:41.80\00:55:43.98
an attempt to traditionally
transfer something that
00:55:43.99\00:55:47.68
the ones who change
it give no credit to the
00:55:48.09\00:55:50.34
Bible whatsoever
they don't' say the Bible
00:55:50.35\00:55:52.87
has anything to do
with it, because they
00:55:52.88\00:55:55.04
know it doesn't, it
began they say tradition,
00:55:55.05\00:55:58.86
it began as a slide
observants, it began as a
00:55:59.31\00:56:02.18
festival and so today
many sincere Christians
00:56:02.62\00:56:05.89
have fallen them
to the, as I would say
00:56:06.30\00:56:08.58
here fallen into
the gap of honoring
00:56:08.59\00:56:11.81
something while
they carry their Bibles
00:56:11.82\00:56:14.09
under their arms and
in their hands they're
00:56:14.10\00:56:16.57
honoring
something that can't even be
00:56:16.58\00:56:18.29
found on in this
map. So, we challenge you
00:56:18.30\00:56:22.04
to go and look that
up and I did this before
00:56:22.05\00:56:23.66
here five words look
at very quickly Sabbath,
00:56:24.03\00:56:26.51
Sunday, first day,
seventh day, and Saturday.
00:56:27.01\00:56:32.39
Sabbath, Sunday,
first day, seventh day and
00:56:33.13\00:56:36.03
Sabbath look them
up and see which you
00:56:36.04\00:56:37.50
come up with.
John I want to end just
00:56:37.51\00:56:39.40
quickly we get just
less than a minute here but,
00:56:40.71\00:56:42.43
if you look here in
Revelation chapter, oh,
00:56:42.84\00:56:46.15
the continuation of
what this beast power will
00:56:46.16\00:56:48.32
do at the end of
time, you will find that he
00:56:48.33\00:56:51.04
seeks to impose a
mark, oh yes, on the
00:56:51.05\00:56:54.51
forehead or on the hand.
00:56:54.52\00:56:56.41
Doing proper biblical
interpretation going back
00:56:57.60\00:57:00.36
to the Old Testament
to define with the newest
00:57:00.37\00:57:02.29
to define those
symbols the one thing that you
00:57:02.67\00:57:06.00
find that is impose
on foreheads or on hands
00:57:06.01\00:57:08.75
always refers and
always is connected to
00:57:09.20\00:57:11.33
God's law, okay, I
see so the mark then
00:57:11.34\00:57:16.08
being imposed at the
end mush have something
00:57:16.09\00:57:18.40
to do with God's law
verses someone else's law.
00:57:18.41\00:57:20.89
Or leave it with there because
00:57:21.27\00:57:22.48
we got a few
seconds. Wow friends continue
00:57:22.49\00:57:25.01
studying your
Bible here at house calls
00:57:25.02\00:57:26.66
we believe that Jesus
is coming soon give him
00:57:26.67\00:57:29.41
your life today as you
have a great day in Christ.
00:57:29.42\00:57:32.93