Hello, friends, grab your Bible
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and a friend and sit back as
we explore God's word together
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on this edition of House Calls.
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Well as they
say, there is no place
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like this place
anywhere near this place,
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so this must be the place.
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So thank you for
tuning into the place.
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My name is John Lomacang.
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I'm here with my
good friend John Stanton.
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And we're ready
to make a House Call.
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What do you say? We
are ready to dive in.
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That's a good thing John.
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I'm so glad to
have you here with me.
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You know, I always feel
protected you are 6'9 ½",
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you keep saying
that with shoes off.
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But you're never
with your shoes off,
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so you are 6'
10" and I'm 6' 2½",
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6'3" on a good
day. But I'm shrinking.
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You know, as I get older
I'm compressing a little bit.
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Many of our viewers understand.
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Well, anyway
don't compress too much,
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because we need to
compress into prayer.
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So before we dive into anything,
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let's have some
pray, let's pray.
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Gracious Father in heaven,
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we thank you so
much for this day of life
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and the opportunity we
have to come before You.
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We just pray that
You would pour out
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upon us Your Holy
Spirit and that we would be led
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and moved by Your hand
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as we go through the
scriptures to seek Your will,
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to seek Your wisdom
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in understanding,
in Jesus name, amen.
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Amen, well, friends
we always appreciate
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you tuning into House Calls.
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You know that you're so
much a part of the program,
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because you sent in questions.
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We've computer questions
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and we've questions
that people mail in.
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We still appreciate the mail,
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because we know that
some people don't like
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to type on the computer.
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It's just as well, if
you sent it by envelope.
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It kind of
connects us to the fact that
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we're not too far advanced
to still receive questions.
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And in the past I
refer to that a snail mail,
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only because it takes longer,
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but don't worry
about it, still send them,
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and we have some questions today
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from our friends
around the world.
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We've some from
Indiana, from North Dakota,
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some from
Virginia, some from Uganda.
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And we've some that
come in the form of a card.
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Yeah I've a neat
question here today.
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We have, okay,
well, what do you have?
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It's actually a
personal question, all right.
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A 90 year-old dear
lady, her name is Lolita.
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And she is asking,
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she says, "She
watches 3ABN all the time."
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And she said she's
got a question for me.
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She grew up in
Glendale, California,
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went to school there for years.
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Her brother Dr. Albert
Nelson was their doctor
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and was in practice
with Dr. Stanton in West,
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on West Adams Boulevard in LA.
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And then also when they
were up at St. Helena Hospital
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there was another Dr.
Stanton in the ER room there.
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And also a Walter Stanton,
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she brings up here
all three Stanton's
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just so 'cause she is asking,
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am I related all three Stanton's
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I'm closely related to? Wow!
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The one in LA,
was my grandfather.
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Okay. Dr. Louis Stanton.
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And my father who
was Dr. John Stanton,
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I'm junior was the
emergency room doctor
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at St. Helena
Hospital for years.
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And then Walter Stanton,
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who some still know from Napa,
California, he is my cousin.
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He is my dad's
oldest brother's son.
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So anyway
there's that connection
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so anyway just
want to let Lolita,
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know she is right
now on track there,
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there is a relation.
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You know, that's interesting,
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I got an email
yesterday on Facebook.
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And by the way for
those of you who don't know,
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we also have the Facebook page.
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We're trying to get techie too,
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even though Facebook is
such a drag on the engine.
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We don't use
Facebook here at 3ABN,
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'cause you know,
we try to stay on tap
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and some people come to work
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and just get
happy with Facebook.
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But we do have a House
Calls page on Facebook.
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And I got a message
from a lady who said,
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that she--her birthday
is the same day as mine.
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Her wedding anniversary
is the same day as mine.
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And she graduated the same year
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that I did from high school.
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And I thought wow!
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You know, and she says
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and at the end
of it she put wow!
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So there are
people that are watching
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and listening that
find some authenticity.
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But you know when
I'm driving sometimes
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I see towns I drive
through with the name Stanton,
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or Staunton, so I guess that's--
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What it says to you, yeah.
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Yeah, so which is kind
of like in the same vein
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of maybe the
European version or the--
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You know, it's English,
it's a very English name.
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Very English,
stanton, yeah, okay.
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But it's neat to know
that connections here that
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people have, seen my dad
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has passed away
for several year now.
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He died in 2003, but a
very well respected man.
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I love and I'll see him soon.
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That's right
whenever I saw you daddy
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is like the gentle giant, yeah.
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And we could see where
you got your height from.
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He is really big guy.
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Praise the Lord that we have
the hope that we have in Him.
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This is a good segue
to this question says,
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"Today at about 2:15
pm Central Standard Time,
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Michael Reagan,
Right-Wing talk show host
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and Ronald Reagan's adopted son
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told David Shuster on MSNBC
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that the Bible
says in Deuteronomy,
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that the children of
an illegitimate child
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for the next 15 generations
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cannot enter the
kingdom of heaven.
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Can you shed some light on this?
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We had to read that
question by the way.
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First thing watch
our program you watch,
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because it's on television,
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doesn't mean it has a
legitimate background.
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And let me just say this whether
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its right wing or left
wing, we need both wings to fly.
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I don't want to get
on the right wing plane
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or a left wing plane, I want
to get on the two wing plane.
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That's the other
thing and so much,
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there's so much controversy.
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But anyway let me
go ahead and give some,
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some clarification to this.
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You know if we
will gonna make heaven
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based on our
natural hereditary at all,
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none of us would make heaven,
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whether we were
born illegitimately
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that is outside of
wedlock, or whether we were born
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to two parents that come
from generations of married,
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family members
that stay together
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and never were divorced.
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So that's lesser the issue,
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but the thing that I
like to encourage you
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by is that our
salvation has little to do
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with our natural birth at all.
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Excuse me, that's
what the Bible says
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that we must be born again.
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And Jesus made it
clear to Nicodemus,
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you must be born again.
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Don't feel strange if I
say you must be born again.
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So this adoption part or
the illegitimacy of our birth
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is a factor in the reality
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that we're all
born as sons of Adam.
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Adam with a fallen nature
First Corinthians 15 verse 22.
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And here is the
fact about all of us,
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"For as in Adam all die,
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even so in Christ
all shall be made alive."
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So whether the person was born
on the front pew of a church,
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in the hospital room,
or in some abandoned home
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somewhere with no
father to be present
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when the baby was bron or
no marriage certificate to show
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that they were
connected to together.
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This has little to
do with your salvation
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because the Bible
says in John Chapter 1
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verse 12 and 13 and
listen to this brethren,
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this is the encouraging fact
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and truth about how we
have the right to heaven.
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If heaven was
based on family line,
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then Jesus had
nothing to do with anything.
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But it's not based on family
line, it's based on scripture.
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Listen to this, John
Chapter 1 verse 12 and 13,
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"But as many as
received him," John says,
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"to them he gave right
to become children of God,
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to those who
believe in His name.
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Who were born not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh,
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nor of the will of man,
but of God." Is that a amen?
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Amen, I mean that's the
beauty of the whole thing.
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So it doesn't
matter if you're born
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of the will of the flesh,
those who are naturally born
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can't make heaven anyway.
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But those who are born again
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who receive Christ,
I like the word here.
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You know the King
James Version says
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to them He gave His power
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that's what it says in
the King James Version.
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But I like here it says,
"But as many as received Him,
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to them He gave the right."
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So let me tell you why
this is important to me,
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because I was born, my
mom and dad were not married.
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And here I'm
preaching the gospel.
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And I'm just one
generation move from my parents.
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And I doubted by any
means that because I've not
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been born into a family
with both parents married,
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that somehow I'm
excluded from heaven,
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but this tells me
that I'm a son of God.
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And any propensity or tendency
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that might have been passed on,
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because we do know
that, that does happens
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from generation to
generation, exactly.
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You broke by the cycle,
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you broke that cycle
because of your faith.
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And that's really
what its saying here,
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that by faith
those cycles are broken.
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Praise the Lord.
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And so Romans 8 verse 15
is another beautiful text,
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"For you did not receive
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the spirit of
bondage again to fear,
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but you received
the Spirit of adoption
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by whom we cry
out, Abba, Father."
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Isn't that
wonderful? So we are adopted,
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Jesus is our
father, God our father,
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we are sons and
daughters of God.
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We have the right now and
because we have the right,
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makes it clear I like that,
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"Blessed are they
that keep His commandments
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that they may have the
right to the tree of life,
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that they may enter through
the gates into the city."
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So because we are
born again in Christ Jesus
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and our sons and daughters
of God we have the right.
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So much for the
Right-Wing talk show,
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this is the right answer.
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I appreciate that so much.
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You know, Ezekiel Chapter
18 verse 20 speaking of sin,
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you know, being passed on, yes.
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Because, the Israelites
were very, very strong in this.
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They believed that
sins where passed on
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and there was
this constant danger
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that if your father sinned
that you really had no hope
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and other things and so,
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Jesus as He came
to express in His law
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and in His ways and His will
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for the Israelites
clarified these issues.
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In Ezekiel
Chapter 18 verse 20 says,
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"The soul that sin shall die."
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See the issue is sin
and then He qualifies
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this a little further, He says,
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"The son shall not bear
the guilt of the father."
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Are you in
Ezekiel 14 or Ezekiel 20?
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Eighteen, oh, 18, okay, great.
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"The son shall not bear
the guilt of the father,
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nor the father bear
the guilt of the son.
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The
righteousness of the righteous
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shall be upon
himself, and wickedness
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of the wickedness
shall be upon himself."
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So the issue really is,
are you a committed sinner,
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one that practices sin
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and he is out
of the will of God,
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or you committed
to righteousness,
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one who practices righteousness,
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that's the way you live
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and are committed
to God in His way?
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Because in that case
by faith you're saved
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and it's very clear
in the Old Testament too.
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You just have to keep looking
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and pile on the
multitude of texts
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and teachings on that subject.
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That's right, each
person is responsible
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for his or her own sin or
his or her own righteousness.
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That's early
morning lip syndrome.
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Here is another
one in Ezekiel 14:14,
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"Even if these three
men, Noah, Daniel, and Job,
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were in it, they would deliver
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only themselves by
their righteousness."
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Verse 20 of Ezekiel 14.
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"Even though Noah,
Daniel, and Job were in it,
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as I live," says the Lord God,
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"they would deliver
neither son nor daughter,
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they would
deliver only themselves
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by their righteousness."
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So you see
clearly, we are responsible,
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not my father, not my mother,
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because you've some
beautiful stories in the Bible.
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What do you do with
David and Bathsheba?
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Well, you know, couldn't get any
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more illegitimate than the
relationship that they had.
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And as a result, you know,
they passed on to their son,
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the judgment that
came to that family.
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But still the Lord
said as David repented.
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He's now man after my own heart.
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So God is the
God of forgiveness,
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praise God for that.
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What do you have for us
John, do you have another one?
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Yeah, I've got a
question here, okay.
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I like to know why,
if you know this answer.
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Samson's mother or
even his father didn't die
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when they saw Jesus
glory? Oh, good question.
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And this is a good question,
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because there are several people
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that we see in the Bible that,
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that Jesus appeared
to that God appear to,
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Jesus' been the God
of the Old Testament,
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appeared to they did
not perish, they didn't die.
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And I think the reference
is to what is it, Exodus 33:20.
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Let me see if I'm, Exodus 33:20,
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here we go, "But He said,"
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this is after Moses
requesting to see God's glory.
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He said that He is God,
"You cannot see My face,
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for no man shall
see Me, and live."
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So there is
clearly a reference here
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in the writing's of
Moses as He understood
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when God came to
Him and the requested
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that He would
see His glory that,
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God said you cannot see my face,
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you cannot come face
to face with me and live.
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Now I believe there is obviously
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some kind of
reconciling to do here
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between the appearance of God
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before these others who did live
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and what Moses was requesting
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and God's appearance to Moses
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on that day up on the mountain.
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Moses is asking to
see God in His full glory.
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He wants to see
everything about God.
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Everything that
God is and that means
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He wants to be
face to face with Him.
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And God understands
that if He would to come
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before Moses
unveiled in all His power
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and all His full glory,
that Moses just would not live
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he would perish right there.
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So when God approached others,
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I believe it wasn't in
this with this kind of intent
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to show all of His glory.
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But He came to each one
of them in a veiled presence,
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veiling His glory, veiling
the fullness of who He was.
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Because if He had appeared
to them as Moses requested,
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they also would have perished
if they saw Him face to face.
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So John, there
clearly is a difference
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in what Moses was requesting
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a face to face
fullness of God's glory
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and then how God when
He appeared before get in,
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He appeared
before Samson's parents,
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He appeared several,
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on several occasions to Abraham.
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He was veiled,
He veiled that glory
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so they would not perish.
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Yes, matter of fact
in Judges Chapter 13
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you find the story, I
was just going over since
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you to talked about that.
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And Manoah said to His wife,
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we surely, "we shall surely die,
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because we've seen God."
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But I like this part
here and this is so important,
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this is the key to the
story, why they didn't die?
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Because, you
know, as you pointed out
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so wonderfully
when Moses decided,
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when Moses desired to see God,
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He said, "No you can't."
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He wanted to see God's glory.
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In His fullness and
of course as I can't
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and by the way the
point is this mortal man
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cannot exist in the
presence of a immortal God.
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And our God is consuming fire.
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But God veiled
Himself in the same way
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that the angel of the Lord came,
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but let me just go
ahead and read the story.
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And hear is what Monoah's
wife responded by saying,
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but His wife said to Him.
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"If the Lord had
desired to kill us,
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He would not have
accepted a burnt offering
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and a grain
offering from our hands,
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nor would He have
shown us all these things,
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nor would He have told us
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such things as
these at this time."
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And so the desire of the
Lord when He came to Monoah
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and His wife was
not to kill them.
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But to bring them tied
into, to make it very clear.
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And you find over
and over in this story
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in Judges
Chapter 13 the reference,
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the angel of the
Lord, the angle of the Lord,
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the agnle of the Lord
so the Lord came to them
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in the form of an angel.
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He didn't come to them
in the form His full glory,
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because that would have
been too much for anyone.
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And definitely have,
would have consumed them.
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But she said it right,
that was not the Lord's desire.
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His desire was to
bring us a message,
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His desire was not
to consume us, right.
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Okay what do you have here?
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Any more on that one? No.
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Okay, well, let me
go to my next mail here.
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Okay, it's a good one here.
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By the way all
your questions are good.
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Thank you so much
for sending them in.
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Hi, John and John.
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Hey, this one is
from, of just a recent one.
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Why do many Christians look
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for a rebuilt
temple in Jerusalem?
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We are gonna have some,
its a really good question.
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Please show me in the Bible,
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are they returning,
are they referring to us?
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We are the temple
of the living God,
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thanks for
clearing this up for me.
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I love your Bible
studies, thank you very much.
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Thank you very much
Loret, thank you so much Loret.
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Well, you know, the
problem with this is,
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a lot of people
forget that Revelation.
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Let me just make this clear,
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this, the Middle East, Jerusalem
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and all the things that
are happening over there now.
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That's the Bible Lands.
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That's not the Holy Land.
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It's the Bible Lands.
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And by the way when
you look at this text
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in Revelation Chapter
21, you go there with me,
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John says, "Then I,
John, saw the holy city,
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New Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from God,
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prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband."
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So the beauty of this
is, we're not looking for,
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I'm not going to
the Middle East looking
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for this
rebuilt, right, the Haj.
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I'm looking for
brand new, New Jerusalem.
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That's gonna
descend from heaven,
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that's gonna come from heaven.
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God is gonna allow
that city to descend
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at the end of the 1000 years.
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So for those who are
going to the Middle East,
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their understanding of
the Jerusalem is skewed.
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The Lord is not going
to rebuilt the Middle East.
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He is not gonna
reestablish the temple services.
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And by the way when you look
at that old age, old controversy
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It's the Isaac, Ishmael,
Jacob, Esau controversy,
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that's continuing for millennia.
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You know, in Hebrew,
its pretty clear that was,
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I'm paraphrasing, but that
was for the present time, right.
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And it served its purpose,
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but now it was become obsolete
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in that the new covenant
has a high priest Jesus,
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who is ministering in
the heavenly sanctuary,
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not the earthly sanctuary.
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So there is no
foundation within scripture
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that there'll be
another earthly sanctuary.
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That time has passed.
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We're now to the time
where there is a High Priest
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Jesus ministering in
the heavenly sanctuary.
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And if it's the heavenly
sanctuary, He's ministering,
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why would He want
to have an earthly?
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This is no purpose in that.
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When I think the
reason that comes,
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the reason why
Christians are looking
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for that is their
focus is so much on the Jews
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and the Jews as the
people of God still.
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And that He is a covenant
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that He is going
to fulfill with them.
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When the covenant with Israel
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that He has is
not about the Jews,
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it's about the church.
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And I said this several times,
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and some people
kind of step back
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when they think about it,
may realize its right, right.
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Had the Jews accepted Christ,
and fulfilled their mission,
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there would have been no church.
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There would be no
reason for a church.
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Israel would
have been the church
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to share the everlasting
gospel with all the world.
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But because they rejected
it, and in fact Paul said,
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because you were not willing,
thus we turn to the Gentiles.
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The church was formed
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and now the church the Gentiles
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are sharing the
gospel with the world
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and are going to
finish that gospel.
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There was no foundation anywhere
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for a earthly
services or earthly temple.
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Matter of fact read Romans 9:6.
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That's a beautiful passage
when you think about that.
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So many people
get caught once again
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on this issue of nationality.
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And nationality is
simply is our earthly origin.
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It's our earthly description,
go to, is that the one?
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That's it. Okay.
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" For it is not that the
word of God has taken no effect.
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For they are not all
Israel who are of Israel,
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nor are they all children
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because they are
the seed of Abraham,
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but, "In Isaac your
seed shall be called."
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That is, those who are
the children of the flesh,
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these are not
the children of God;
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but the children of the promise
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are counted as the seed" okay.
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And so, when He
says that it's those
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by faith in Christ that
are the children of God,
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there He is
declaring them Israel.
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Clearly, He is
saying what was Israel
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by nationality by
race is no longer Israel.
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Exactly, and that's a
big part of the problem is
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that a lot of
people look to the nation
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rather than to the fact that
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and we talked about that
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in moment ago in
the adoption issue.
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The adoption issue is
not your natural birth.
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If you were saved naturally,
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then you really
wouldn't have to be born again.
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There will be no need for Jesus.
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Jesus would be a non entity.
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He would be an interruption
to the natural process,
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but Jesus is not an interruption
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to the natural
process, we need Jesus.
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"No man cometh unto
the Father but by me."
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There's one
mediator between God and man,
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the man Christ Jesus.
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There's no
other name given along
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where by we must be
save, than the name of Jesus.
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So Jesus is so
significantly important
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that we could not
be saved without Him.
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The problem with the Jews is
that they always thought that
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because their
father was Abraham.
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Even Jesus when He
came in John Chapter 5.
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John Chapter 8
sorry, when He came to them.
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I believe its
verse 32 check that
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I don't see what that says,
I don't want to misquote here.
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But John quoted the
story or recorded the story
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when Jesus came to the Jews
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and talked to
them about being saved
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and how important it was to
be to give their lives to Christ
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and to overcome sin
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and how they could
be free from slavery.
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And they said,
we're Abraham seed,
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we've never been slaves.
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And Jesus made
it very clear that
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anyone who sins is a
slave and then he said to them
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He who the Son sets
free is free indeed.
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Is that the passage?
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Yeah, if you are
little further on,
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that whole
passage there but it--
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they sum it up in verse 39.
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They said to Jesus
that, "Abraham is our father,
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Jesus said to them.
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If you are Abraham children's
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you would do the
works of Abraham,"right.
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"But now you seek to kill me,
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a man who has
told you the truth,
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which I heard from God.
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Abraham did not do this."
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So and then he goes on to say,
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that you do the deeds of
your father, which is the devil.
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So clearly they were
not the God's children.
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And even then that was beginning
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to past that God's
children were by race.
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You know, we've to be
very careful of this as well,
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because just because
Adventist had been blessed
00:23:28.93\00:23:31.76
with a special
truth for these last days
00:23:31.77\00:23:34.76
to usher in the
second coming of the Lord.
00:23:34.77\00:23:38.48
I believe that we can get
caught up in this thing of,
00:23:38.49\00:23:40.91
well, because we're Adventism,
we have all this truth.
00:23:40.92\00:23:43.98
That somehow there is some
kind of an advantage for us.
00:23:43.99\00:23:48.65
I think John, we
can't, that will be deceive,
00:23:48.66\00:23:52.24
we just received if
we were to think that.
00:23:52.25\00:23:54.57
The issue really is God's favor
00:23:54.58\00:23:57.98
doesn't put you
into the kingdom.
00:23:57.99\00:23:59.81
God's favor gives you
opportunity to accomplish work
00:23:59.82\00:24:03.92
that He has given for you to do.
00:24:03.93\00:24:05.66
And that's really what
the plan He had for Israel was
00:24:05.67\00:24:08.05
that they would be a
light to the Gentiles.
00:24:08.06\00:24:11.02
But they took that
light hold it didn't go out,
00:24:11.03\00:24:13.97
didn't do the
work, and the Lord said,
00:24:13.98\00:24:16.42
now its time that I
turn to the Gentiles
00:24:16.43\00:24:18.23
and do the work
through the church.
00:24:18.24\00:24:19.77
That's right, and the work
is the most important thing.
00:24:19.78\00:24:22.27
The work of saving
souls, bringing people
00:24:22.28\00:24:24.61
to a knowledge of
Christ is the real work.
00:24:24.62\00:24:27.46
Who does it is not the issue.
00:24:27.47\00:24:28.89
There are lot of people
think that they've specialized
00:24:28.90\00:24:31.53
appointments, because like
some people that are wealthy,
00:24:31.54\00:24:34.76
I was looking at an
article just few days ago.
00:24:34.77\00:24:36.95
Someone showed to me, I forgot
what magazine cover it was?
00:24:36.96\00:24:39.61
But I know that
Great Britain right now
00:24:39.62\00:24:41.13
is in financial
straits most of the world is.
00:24:41.14\00:24:44.80
How do you justify a
$40 million royal wedding?
00:24:44.81\00:24:50.01
When your nation is in
dire financial straits.
00:24:50.02\00:24:54.42
Do you just do that,
because you're royal family?
00:24:54.43\00:24:56.90
When you know that, that money,
00:24:56.91\00:24:58.25
and you know, lot of people say,
00:24:58.26\00:24:59.40
well, you know, they
probably have all these money
00:24:59.41\00:25:00.91
in inheritance and
that's probably true.
00:25:00.92\00:25:03.73
I could be very uninformed.
00:25:03.74\00:25:05.52
But I think it'll
be very self-serving
00:25:05.53\00:25:07.00
if our own
government decided well,
00:25:07.01\00:25:09.74
you know, I'm the
president of the United States,
00:25:09.75\00:25:11.41
or I'm the chief of whatever.
00:25:11.42\00:25:13.48
And I'm gonna go and
have a $40 million wedding,
00:25:13.49\00:25:15.76
while my nation is just
struggling to the nth degree.
00:25:15.77\00:25:19.48
And so what happened,
the reason I mentioned
00:25:19.49\00:25:21.08
that is because
sometimes people think
00:25:21.09\00:25:22.35
that because I have this sitting
00:25:22.36\00:25:24.52
or this
position as a birthright,
00:25:24.53\00:25:27.51
then I could do whatever I want.
00:25:27.52\00:25:28.96
And it doesn't really matter
00:25:28.97\00:25:29.96
how it impacts
other individuals.
00:25:29.97\00:25:31.70
Well, that's not the
case in the story of Israel.
00:25:31.71\00:25:33.73
They thought that
they had this birthright
00:25:33.74\00:25:35.47
and didn't really matter.
00:25:35.48\00:25:37.64
While you saw the
birthright is something
00:25:37.65\00:25:39.02
that people could squander,
thinking that the position
00:25:39.03\00:25:40.85
is more important
than the call on your life.
00:25:40.86\00:25:43.18
And the call in your
life is the most important,
00:25:43.19\00:25:44.70
Absolutely, not
just the position.
00:25:44.71\00:25:45.97
Absolutely, John, I'm
gonna have some fun here, okay.
00:25:45.98\00:25:51.33
You're ready for
this next question?
00:25:51.34\00:25:52.69
Yeah, this is funny, but
we have to read this one--
00:25:52.70\00:25:55.05
We did talk about this before,
00:25:55.06\00:25:56.23
so he knows that I'm about to
share this question here, okay
00:25:56.24\00:26:01.56
It's just kind
of along the lines
00:26:01.57\00:26:02.59
of some of the questions we get.
00:26:02.60\00:26:05.15
I want mention who
this question is from,
00:26:05.16\00:26:06.69
I'm not sure, there is even
a name attached to it, yeah.
00:26:06.70\00:26:09.23
May I suggest that
Pastor John Lomacang
00:26:09.24\00:26:12.29
purchase a bottle of hair color,
00:26:12.30\00:26:14.89
if 3ABN Wardrobe Department
does not see the importance
00:26:14.90\00:26:18.07
of maintaining a
proper appearance
00:26:18.08\00:26:19.69
on worldwide television?
00:26:19.70\00:26:21.73
Please we are to
represent God's last day
00:26:21.74\00:26:24.53
people who are of
a healthy appearance.
00:26:24.54\00:26:28.00
So the people can
consider that God blessed us.
00:26:28.01\00:26:31.26
We should not look as if we
are falling apart at the scene
00:26:31.27\00:26:36.34
Keep going, I'm taking
my-- I'm taking my rebuke.
00:26:36.35\00:26:40.20
If a man has no
hair, me, These are we.
00:26:40.21\00:26:46.68
I think we should be making sure
00:26:46.69\00:26:48.27
it's presented in
the best appearance.
00:26:48.28\00:26:51.07
Just my opinion, but I
hope Pastor John can see
00:26:51.08\00:26:54.05
the need of people being
able to focus on the program
00:26:54.06\00:26:56.66
and what is being said
instead of thinking oh,
00:26:56.67\00:26:59.15
that poor man,
just look at his hair.
00:26:59.16\00:27:01.59
Someone needs to tell
him to visit the barber shop
00:27:01.60\00:27:04.77
and ask his wife
how to color his hair.
00:27:04.78\00:27:07.67
Now some men have naturally salt
00:27:07.68\00:27:09.79
and pepper hair and
this is very attractive.
00:27:09.80\00:27:12.42
And anyway so he
goes on a little bit,
00:27:12.43\00:27:14.41
I'm just talking
about recommending
00:27:14.42\00:27:15.89
that you do
something to color your hair.
00:27:15.90\00:27:18.94
Okay, I appreciate that so much,
00:27:18.95\00:27:21.47
you know why, I
don't know if you,
00:27:21.48\00:27:24.32
you probably are
new to the program,
00:27:24.33\00:27:26.44
because if you
have been watching 3ABN
00:27:26.45\00:27:28.27
for any length of
time, you may have heard me
00:27:28.28\00:27:30.44
say a number of times,
00:27:30.45\00:27:32.14
how periodically
I hit the bottle,
00:27:32.15\00:27:34.59
"The hair color bottle,"
just to keep that in context.
00:27:34.60\00:27:38.89
And there are days, years
ago, John, this is a joke,
00:27:38.90\00:27:42.37
this is kind of like
a running thing on 3ABN.
00:27:42.38\00:27:44.67
Years ago, people,
it was even on e-mail,
00:27:44.68\00:27:47.03
it was on the
internet, people saying that,
00:27:47.04\00:27:49.00
"John's hair wasn't real,"
that he had on a hair piece,
00:27:49.01\00:27:52.72
because it was so
even, it was so black,
00:27:52.73\00:27:54.74
there was no gray,
and there was this joke,
00:27:54.75\00:27:57.77
that I mean,
people even saying that,
00:27:57.78\00:27:59.35
"John is processing his
hair, straitening his hair."
00:27:59.36\00:28:03.04
It's just my hair is some
fixation to the viewers of 3ABN
00:28:03.05\00:28:08.06
and I went overseas
and I've met people,
00:28:08.07\00:28:10.22
there was a little
boy, he said, "Mommy,
00:28:10.23\00:28:11.73
there's the man,
with the plastic hair."
00:28:11.74\00:28:16.02
And Doug Batchelor was there
doing the series of meetings
00:28:16.03\00:28:17.85
in the General
Conference there and he said,
00:28:17.86\00:28:20.75
"If I told you that there
was a person in the audience
00:28:20.76\00:28:22.65
that had hair like Darth Vader."
00:28:22.66\00:28:24.62
You know, so my hair
has been this fixation.
00:28:24.63\00:28:26.77
Well, let me
settle the record here.
00:28:26.78\00:28:28.60
First of all, I
don't process my hair.
00:28:28.61\00:28:32.74
The straightness you see
00:28:32.75\00:28:34.25
and the curls you
see, that's natural.
00:28:34.26\00:28:35.72
My Mom is Filipino, my
Father is African-American
00:28:35.73\00:28:38.66
and a native American-Indian.
00:28:38.67\00:28:40.86
And so that's where
all that comes from,
00:28:40.87\00:28:43.52
the salt and pepper
is a family heredity.
00:28:43.53\00:28:45.71
We start turning
gray at 16 years old.
00:28:45.72\00:28:47.88
Fortunately, I
didn't start at 16,
00:28:47.89\00:28:49.64
I started later in my mid 30s.
00:28:49.65\00:28:52.06
But let me encourage you,
00:28:52.07\00:28:53.87
because I believe that the glory
00:28:53.88\00:28:55.58
that God has given to
us should begin to show,
00:28:55.59\00:28:58.34
Proverbs 20:29, and you know,
00:28:58.35\00:29:00.22
if I fall off the wagon
00:29:00.23\00:29:01.24
and hit the bottle
again, you'll forgive me.
00:29:01.25\00:29:03.15
And that is, if I
hit the hair color bottle
00:29:03.16\00:29:05.88
you'll be happy, some of
the other viewers may complain.
00:29:05.89\00:29:08.89
But here is the text I found
00:29:08.90\00:29:10.02
because one of the young people
00:29:10.03\00:29:11.03
at our church said to me,
00:29:11.04\00:29:12.37
"Pastor, I really
like your gray hair,
00:29:12.38\00:29:14.48
really makes you
look distinguished."
00:29:14.49\00:29:16.56
And I went back to New
York to my former church
00:29:16.57\00:29:19.23
and some of them say, "Oh,
you look distinguished now,
00:29:19.24\00:29:21.64
we really believe you now,
00:29:21.65\00:29:23.45
you look like you
have some experience."
00:29:23.46\00:29:25.46
So there's some,
there's some benefit to that.
00:29:25.47\00:29:27.78
But Proverbs 20:29 says this,
00:29:27.79\00:29:30.43
"The glory of young
men is their strength,
00:29:30.44\00:29:33.91
And the splendor of old
men is their gray head."
00:29:33.92\00:29:38.99
John, got that salt
and pepper beard and--
00:29:39.00\00:29:40.51
Brane on the sides,
and, you know, people tend
00:29:40.52\00:29:45.44
when you go to things
like AYC or these Conventions
00:29:45.45\00:29:48.43
where there are
4,000 young people.
00:29:48.44\00:29:51.36
They look at you as
a person of experience,
00:29:51.37\00:29:53.81
rather than Yo a dude.
00:29:53.82\00:29:56.90
And we want to maintain
a little bit of edge there,
00:29:56.91\00:29:58.98
on some of the young guys
00:29:58.99\00:30:00.01
that are just
coming up in the ministry.
00:30:00.02\00:30:01.15
So I appreciate the comment,
00:30:01.16\00:30:02.86
but thank you for the question.
00:30:02.87\00:30:04.09
If you have any
one more comments
00:30:04.10\00:30:06.13
that are scriptural or opinion,
00:30:06.14\00:30:08.79
you can send those
questions to housecalls@3abn.org
00:30:08.80\00:30:12.27
that's housecalls@3abn.org.
00:30:12.28\00:30:14.94
We'll download them
if you chose to send them
00:30:14.95\00:30:18.01
in e-mail form, you can do so.
00:30:18.02\00:30:20.84
But if you chose to
send them by letter,
00:30:20.85\00:30:22.63
I think you know the
address, P.O. Box 220.
00:30:22.64\00:30:25.57
West Frankfort, Illinois, 62896.
00:30:25.58\00:30:28.91
Thank you for letting
us smile today, I think--
00:30:28.92\00:30:31.94
We have to read some of those,
00:30:31.95\00:30:33.02
I have, if some of our viewers
00:30:33.03\00:30:34.88
remember several years
ago, we had a question that
00:30:34.89\00:30:37.02
we did not read on
the air, that's right.
00:30:37.03\00:30:38.92
It was about my glasses.
00:30:38.93\00:30:40.05
Oh, yeah, I remember that.
00:30:40.06\00:30:41.06
And they said
that I should not be
00:30:41.07\00:30:42.41
wearing stylish glasses,
00:30:42.42\00:30:44.24
that they need to be a
little more plain, yeah.
00:30:44.25\00:30:46.74
And I can see
now that most people
00:30:46.75\00:30:49.11
are wearing stylish glasses,
00:30:49.12\00:30:50.58
so I guess I'm
fitting in now, so I'm plain.
00:30:50.59\00:30:53.23
But anyway just we do appreciate
00:30:53.24\00:30:55.29
the comments and the opinions.
00:30:55.30\00:30:56.88
Unfortunately there are opinions
00:30:56.89\00:30:58.48
sometimes we can
disagree on things
00:30:58.49\00:31:00.45
that are opinions, but
praise the Lord anyway.
00:31:00.46\00:31:03.02
You know, the only
problem with that question is
00:31:03.03\00:31:04.85
our listeners on
the radio can't get
00:31:04.86\00:31:07.44
the benefit of
the visual effect.
00:31:07.45\00:31:09.51
But I think what we've said,
00:31:09.52\00:31:11.69
may be draws a mental
picture, but thank you so much.
00:31:11.70\00:31:14.12
That's a great segue,
by the way to our topic
00:31:14.13\00:31:16.22
because we're
continuing the topic
00:31:16.23\00:31:17.90
dressing up for God.
00:31:17.91\00:31:19.46
And this is just
like not sacrilegious,
00:31:19.47\00:31:24.73
but you know, it
talks about God is,
00:31:24.74\00:31:26.45
and it talks about
the ancient of days
00:31:26.46\00:31:28.67
and his head is pure
white and hair of wool.
00:31:28.68\00:31:32.75
So, you know,
if it's good enough
00:31:32.76\00:31:35.78
for the Lord,
I'm in good company.
00:31:35.79\00:31:39.84
And, but yeah,
we have been talking
00:31:39.85\00:31:42.63
about the topic of
dressing up for God.
00:31:42.64\00:31:44.71
And we started
with the Midianites
00:31:44.72\00:31:46.97
and the Canaanites
and the Babylonians
00:31:46.98\00:31:49.26
and the promise that Abraham
had desired for his son Isaac.
00:31:49.27\00:31:54.32
He wanted Isaac to
marry someone who was--
00:31:54.33\00:31:57.42
in fact, a woman of integrity
00:31:57.43\00:32:00.25
and he married Rebekah.
00:32:00.26\00:32:02.11
We then transition to the fact
00:32:02.12\00:32:03.86
that Rachel and
Jacob, when they got married,
00:32:03.87\00:32:06.68
God called them to
dedicate themselves to the Lord.
00:32:06.69\00:32:10.00
And one of the
challenges found in Genesis
00:32:10.01\00:32:12.21
Chapter 35 verse 1 through
4 was the Lord said to them,
00:32:12.22\00:32:15.52
"Purify yourselves,
change your garments,
00:32:15.53\00:32:18.25
put away the foreign
God's that are among you.
00:32:18.26\00:32:20.41
And they remove
the foreign God's
00:32:20.42\00:32:21.78
in their hands, their
earrings in their ears,
00:32:21.79\00:32:25.60
and the clothing that
was not to God's glory
00:32:25.61\00:32:28.09
and they buried them
under the terebinth tree
00:32:28.10\00:32:30.53
or the oak tree,
which was by Shechem."
00:32:30.54\00:32:33.10
That's Genesis
Chapter 35 verse 1 to 4.
00:32:33.11\00:32:35.40
And so we're transitioned also
00:32:35.41\00:32:37.48
we went to the children of Egypt
00:32:37.49\00:32:39.76
that left the children of Israel
00:32:39.77\00:32:42.15
that left the land of Egypt.
00:32:42.16\00:32:43.86
How God had
plunder the Egyptians
00:32:43.87\00:32:46.28
and given the Israelites
all the gold and silver,
00:32:46.29\00:32:49.11
the precious stone,
the expensive clothing.
00:32:49.12\00:32:51.84
But they transgressed by
putting this jewellery on,
00:32:51.85\00:32:55.75
making themselves a God of gold.
00:32:55.76\00:32:57.87
And the Lord through
Moses challenged them
00:32:57.88\00:33:00.33
to rededicate
themselves and the Bible says,
00:33:00.34\00:33:02.60
"Those who had a willing heart,
00:33:02.61\00:33:04.73
gave the Lord all
the gold and jewels
00:33:04.74\00:33:07.19
and gave to the Lord the things
00:33:07.20\00:33:10.38
that he desired for the use
00:33:10.39\00:33:12.16
in the building
of the sanctuary.
00:33:12.17\00:33:13.82
And that transition
text was Genesis Chapter 35,
00:33:13.83\00:33:17.74
verse 22, we talked
about that yesterday.
00:33:17.75\00:33:20.91
And then one we ended
on was Numbers 31, verse 50
00:33:20.92\00:33:26.23
and I'll just-- I
want to just use it
00:33:26.24\00:33:27.76
as a springboard
today, is that okay?
00:33:27.77\00:33:29.62
So if you have your Bibles,
00:33:29.63\00:33:31.34
turn with us to
Numbers Chapter 31, verse 50.
00:33:31.35\00:33:34.34
And you're going to
see, this is another passage,
00:33:34.35\00:33:37.94
because a lot of
times people think
00:33:37.95\00:33:39.44
that the wearing of
jewellery is a topic.
00:33:39.45\00:33:43.96
And by the way,
let me just take this
00:33:43.97\00:33:46.68
show a break on
the interstate here.
00:33:46.69\00:33:49.48
The topic of adornment
is not an Adventist topic
00:33:49.49\00:33:52.93
or Seventh-day
Adventist topic at all,
00:33:52.94\00:33:54.37
it's a biblical topic.
00:33:54.38\00:33:55.91
Because I'm not reading
from the Adventist manual,
00:33:55.92\00:33:58.27
I'm reading from the Bible.
00:33:58.28\00:33:59.88
And it's within a
lot of churches as well,
00:33:59.89\00:34:01.65
it's not just an
Adventist church issue
00:34:01.66\00:34:03.29
either it's-- this is a issue
00:34:03.30\00:34:05.52
that many
churches have grappled with
00:34:05.53\00:34:08.03
over the years as
the world had begin
00:34:08.04\00:34:09.92
to come into the church.
00:34:09.93\00:34:11.31
As the world
influences the church so much,
00:34:11.32\00:34:13.64
I mean, there was
the time you'll never see
00:34:13.65\00:34:15.06
men wearing earrings,
00:34:15.07\00:34:16.35
let alone now
pastors wearing earrings.
00:34:16.36\00:34:21.14
Some of them-- it's
always gradual, yes.
00:34:21.15\00:34:23.34
You know, it's
one, it's the left ear,
00:34:23.35\00:34:25.99
they say it's a symbolic
about that left or right ear,
00:34:26.00\00:34:28.50
then it's now
two and, and then now
00:34:28.51\00:34:30.58
it's becoming
bigger and it's just,
00:34:30.59\00:34:31.78
it continues to advance.
00:34:31.79\00:34:34.34
The world does in the church.
00:34:34.35\00:34:37.55
I could see more, I can see more
00:34:37.56\00:34:39.20
the need of as the Bible
says, looking unto Jesus,
00:34:39.21\00:34:42.27
the author and
finisher of our faith.
00:34:42.28\00:34:44.09
When you look at Jesus,
you begin to see an example
00:34:44.10\00:34:46.37
that is far in contrast
00:34:46.38\00:34:49.53
to what the world talks about,
00:34:49.54\00:34:51.04
but let me go ahead
and read the text here
00:34:51.05\00:34:52.24
in Deuteronomy, I
mean, Numbers Chapter 31
00:34:52.25\00:34:55.83
of verse 50, is
that I what I said?
00:34:55.84\00:34:58.72
Yeah, Numbers 31 verse 50.
00:34:58.73\00:35:00.80
And by the way I
have glasses here,
00:35:00.81\00:35:02.34
they used to be a
fashion statement,
00:35:02.35\00:35:03.57
but now they are no
longer a fashion statement,
00:35:03.58\00:35:06.30
they are in fact necessary
00:35:06.31\00:35:08.08
for this little
tiny Bible texts.
00:35:08.09\00:35:10.94
It says,
"Therefore we have brought
00:35:10.95\00:35:13.96
an offering for the Lord,
00:35:13.97\00:35:16.92
what every man found
of ornaments of gold,
00:35:16.93\00:35:20.32
armlets and
bracelets and signet rings
00:35:20.33\00:35:24.53
and earrings and necklaces,
00:35:24.54\00:35:26.62
to make atonement for
ourselves before the Lord."
00:35:26.63\00:35:30.73
Why make an
adornment of yourself.
00:35:30.74\00:35:32.98
The Lord called, the Lord called
00:35:32.99\00:35:35.57
the children of Israel
00:35:35.58\00:35:38.83
to bring their
atonement to the Lord
00:35:38.84\00:35:42.74
and in this sense many of them
00:35:42.75\00:35:44.97
instead of dividing the plunder,
00:35:44.98\00:35:47.11
they begin to use the plunder.
00:35:47.12\00:35:49.99
The word plunder
there simply means
00:35:50.00\00:35:52.57
what they got from
destroying their enemies,
00:35:52.58\00:35:54.54
now they find
adorning to themselves.
00:35:54.55\00:35:57.08
But God said, no, no,
that's not the purpose of it.
00:35:57.09\00:35:59.18
The purpose of the
articles that your enemies had
00:35:59.19\00:36:01.68
are not for your use now,
00:36:01.69\00:36:03.25
if it was not
acceptable on them,
00:36:03.26\00:36:05.21
is not gonna be
acceptable on you.
00:36:05.22\00:36:07.00
And so they
brought them to the Lord,
00:36:07.01\00:36:09.03
but that's just kind
of the transition of stage
00:36:09.04\00:36:11.59
where as God is looking
at our bodies as His temple
00:36:11.60\00:36:15.19
and not to be the
place of foreign gods
00:36:15.20\00:36:17.78
and strange ornaments, but--
00:36:17.79\00:36:19.41
Well, there and
there's a connection
00:36:19.42\00:36:20.54
to the adornment
and may be we'll get
00:36:20.55\00:36:22.10
into this a little bit later.
00:36:22.11\00:36:23.19
Yeah, go head and mention
because we reiterate that.
00:36:23.20\00:36:24.58
But the issue with regard
to the type and anti type,
00:36:24.59\00:36:29.17
the yearly festival
we talked about this,
00:36:29.18\00:36:31.06
I think answering a
question in the last program.
00:36:31.07\00:36:34.32
The yearly
ceremonies and festivals
00:36:34.33\00:36:36.90
and the cycle of
the Jewish system
00:36:36.91\00:36:39.80
was one that ended
in the Day of Atonement.
00:36:39.81\00:36:42.17
A complete atonement of oneness,
00:36:42.18\00:36:43.80
between the people and the Lord
00:36:43.81\00:36:45.14
through the
ministration of the high priest
00:36:45.15\00:36:47.26
in the most holy place, right.
00:36:47.27\00:36:49.08
And now we know
that Jesus from 1844 on
00:36:49.09\00:36:52.09
has entered into
the most holy place
00:36:52.10\00:36:53.88
to minister as
our high priest for us
00:36:53.89\00:36:57.16
to bring about a
finishing or completion
00:36:57.17\00:36:59.80
of the atonement of one man
bringing in into us together.
00:36:59.81\00:37:03.19
And you'll see a
connection here in the Bible
00:37:03.20\00:37:05.22
of the taking off of jewellery
00:37:05.23\00:37:08.49
to become one with the Lord.
00:37:08.50\00:37:10.96
And that was part of
the atonement process
00:37:10.97\00:37:13.71
even as we just
read in this verse
00:37:13.72\00:37:15.16
from Numbers 31 verse 50.
00:37:15.17\00:37:19.05
And so then if they did this
00:37:19.06\00:37:21.01
in the typical and
the type of the atonement,
00:37:21.02\00:37:24.62
then why not in the
anti-type during this process
00:37:24.63\00:37:27.49
how much more should
we be getting rid of all,
00:37:27.50\00:37:30.66
of our jewellery and making sure
00:37:30.67\00:37:32.60
that we're not
using it ourselves,
00:37:32.61\00:37:34.16
but building up God's kingdom
00:37:34.17\00:37:36.31
and allowing Him to
become at one with us.
00:37:36.32\00:37:38.63
So I think
there's a lot of parallels
00:37:38.64\00:37:40.66
and similarities
there that we can learn
00:37:40.67\00:37:44.41
from, from the Bible.
00:37:44.42\00:37:46.22
Not in just the
area of adornment,
00:37:46.23\00:37:48.13
but in the time
in which we live,
00:37:48.14\00:37:49.78
how much more important it is
00:37:49.79\00:37:51.48
to become one with Christ?
00:37:51.49\00:37:53.01
That's right, very good point.
00:37:53.02\00:37:54.18
And by the way you'll notice
00:37:54.19\00:37:55.21
as you made reference
of the temple services.
00:37:55.22\00:37:57.84
Only the high
priest wore these jewels,
00:37:57.85\00:37:59.91
the breastplate, he
had the 12 stones, Ephod.
00:37:59.92\00:38:04.50
So you clearly see
that the one who is in fact
00:38:04.51\00:38:09.43
standing as our
high priest is Christ.
00:38:09.44\00:38:12.00
The glory and the
adornment goes to Him.
00:38:12.01\00:38:13.76
He is the one who is
over all the tribes of Israel.
00:38:13.77\00:38:16.14
He is the one who is
over all the affairs of men,
00:38:16.15\00:38:19.28
which is so clearly
pointed out in the Bible.
00:38:19.29\00:38:21.65
And you'll also see
scriptures that are contrasts.
00:38:21.66\00:38:24.50
By the way go with us to Judges.
00:38:24.51\00:38:27.15
Judges Chapter 8
verse 24 down to verse 26.
00:38:27.16\00:38:31.04
You will find
another reference there.
00:38:31.05\00:38:37.38
Matter of fact,
if you read for us,
00:38:37.39\00:38:41.93
John, Judges
Chapter 8 verse 22 to 25.
00:38:41.94\00:38:45.98
Yeah, verse 22 to 25,
00:38:45.99\00:38:47.81
that's the context over there.
00:38:47.82\00:38:49.37
Okay, "Then the men of Israel
00:38:49.38\00:38:51.47
said to Gideon, "Rule over us,
00:38:51.48\00:38:54.17
both you and your son,
and your grandson also,
00:38:54.18\00:38:57.44
for you have delivered
us from the hand of Midian.
00:38:57.45\00:39:00.05
But Gideon said to them,
00:39:00.06\00:39:01.16
"I will not rule over you,
00:39:01.17\00:39:02.81
nor shall my son rule over you,
00:39:02.82\00:39:04.85
the Lord shall rule over you.
00:39:04.86\00:39:07.32
Then Gideon said to them,
00:39:07.33\00:39:09.34
"I would like to
make a request of you,
00:39:09.35\00:39:13.06
that each of you would give me
00:39:13.07\00:39:14.40
the earrings from his plunder.
00:39:14.41\00:39:16.69
For they had golden earrings,
00:39:16.70\00:39:18.94
because they also were
00:39:18.95\00:39:20.56
or they were Ishmaelites.
00:39:20.57\00:39:22.42
There you go.
00:39:22.43\00:39:23.83
So who had the
earrings and these things?
00:39:23.84\00:39:26.67
The Ishmaelites did.
00:39:26.68\00:39:27.73
Not Isaac, the Ishmael. Yeah.
00:39:27.74\00:39:29.99
Okay, Isaac the
son of the promise.
00:39:30.00\00:39:32.91
There you go, keep going.
00:39:32.92\00:39:34.36
"So they answered, "We
will gladly give them."
00:39:34.37\00:39:37.38
And they spread out a garment,
00:39:37.39\00:39:38.82
and each man threw into it
00:39:38.85\00:39:40.25
the earrings from his plunder."
00:39:40.26\00:39:41.87
Okay, and it talked
about the weight of it,
00:39:41.88\00:39:44.79
how heavy these earrings were.
00:39:44.80\00:39:45.97
Matter of fact,
nowadays if you see
00:39:45.98\00:39:47.63
some of these earrings,
I don't know how people,
00:39:47.64\00:39:50.53
I mean, I fear
for some of the people
00:39:50.54\00:39:52.70
when I see the
size of the earrings.
00:39:52.71\00:39:54.39
And if I was just
talking about woman,
00:39:54.40\00:39:56.79
I would say that, but nowadays
00:39:56.80\00:39:57.97
we're talking
about both genders, yeah.
00:39:57.98\00:39:59.81
Because sometimes,
let's just get frank about it,
00:39:59.82\00:40:03.80
sometimes you go to a store
00:40:03.81\00:40:05.35
or sometimes you
go out in society
00:40:05.36\00:40:07.14
and you see guys
they have this huge hole,
00:40:07.15\00:40:09.24
you could see
it from a distance.
00:40:09.25\00:40:10.80
It looks like a target.
00:40:10.81\00:40:12.27
And I'm trying
to be very frankly,
00:40:12.28\00:40:13.59
I'm not laughing at all.
00:40:13.60\00:40:14.85
But it looks like a
huge hole and you go,
00:40:14.86\00:40:18.49
and what you see
is that the ear lobe,
00:40:18.50\00:40:20.02
it has been stretched wide open.
00:40:20.03\00:40:22.29
And there is a
stainless steel ring
00:40:22.30\00:40:23.91
that has been placed in there,
00:40:23.92\00:40:25.19
whether it's small or sometimes
00:40:25.20\00:40:26.60
it's huge and
you, if you want to,
00:40:26.61\00:40:29.00
you could literally hook them.
00:40:29.01\00:40:31.65
And honestly if you
put a hook in each ear
00:40:31.66\00:40:33.88
and brace them on a wall,
00:40:33.89\00:40:35.41
they're not
going anywhere because
00:40:35.42\00:40:36.42
they're not gonna
rip their ears off.
00:40:36.43\00:40:39.56
Got to smile on that one, yeah.
00:40:39.57\00:40:42.63
And you're asking
yourself like, okay,
00:40:42.64\00:40:46.69
can you tell me
the purpose for that?
00:40:46.70\00:40:48.90
Or you start
looking at the societies
00:40:48.91\00:40:50.70
that these things come
from in the ancient setting.
00:40:50.71\00:40:52.94
You go back to, I don't
want to just say Africa,
00:40:52.95\00:40:55.13
but you go back to
the Indian cultures.
00:40:55.14\00:40:57.15
You go back to
the Asian cultures,
00:40:57.16\00:40:58.36
you go to the African cultures,
00:40:58.37\00:41:00.16
you go to the
Native American cultures.
00:41:00.17\00:41:02.02
These were
practices that were prevalent
00:41:02.03\00:41:03.64
in a great degree,
00:41:03.65\00:41:04.98
but they had
significances to them.
00:41:04.99\00:41:07.11
Now in our society,
nowadays you have some shops
00:41:07.12\00:41:11.98
that sell all these
stainless steel studs
00:41:11.99\00:41:14.27
and needles and
earrings and literally, I mean,
00:41:14.28\00:41:19.50
I don't know if you even
know who Dennis Rodman is.
00:41:19.51\00:41:22.65
If you have access to
the internet just put,
00:41:22.66\00:41:24.19
Dennis
Rodman/Jewellery, and you'll see
00:41:24.20\00:41:27.44
what I'm talking
about, or just put,
00:41:27.45\00:41:29.73
what they do they
call them nowadays?
00:41:29.74\00:41:31.43
Spikes, what do you call? Studs.
00:41:31.44\00:41:34.61
Studs. All over the upper ear.
00:41:34.62\00:41:36.51
You know, the upper ears,
00:41:36.52\00:41:37.52
some people do it
all the way around.
00:41:37.53\00:41:39.50
Some of the guys do it here.
00:41:39.51\00:41:41.02
Some of the noses and literally,
00:41:41.03\00:41:43.11
I've seen some
people, you know, a Photoshop?
00:41:43.12\00:41:46.53
Photoshop is a drawing program.
00:41:46.54\00:41:48.31
It's in art program,
it's a graphic program.
00:41:48.32\00:41:50.96
If you were to use the tool
00:41:50.97\00:41:52.84
that merges one
picture to the other,
00:41:52.85\00:41:55.72
you could literally
merge a person's face
00:41:55.73\00:41:58.70
and merge it into
morph it into a cow's face.
00:41:58.71\00:42:02.04
Because, you know,
00:42:02.05\00:42:03.47
with the holes
right there like that,
00:42:03.48\00:42:04.88
you could actually see
what they do to the cows,
00:42:04.89\00:42:08.23
how they put
those clasps on the ear
00:42:08.24\00:42:10.46
and sometimes through the nose
00:42:10.47\00:42:12.21
to be a form of guiding them.
00:42:12.22\00:42:14.17
And when you look at
that perhaps you think,
00:42:14.18\00:42:16.17
whose body temple
are they doing that too?
00:42:16.18\00:42:19.77
And that's still
Lord's temple, yeah.
00:42:19.78\00:42:21.19
That's the big issue here.
00:42:21.20\00:42:22.36
And we don't
want to belittle this
00:42:22.37\00:42:24.64
or anyone who is
in this practicing,
00:42:24.65\00:42:26.51
you maybe, you maybe in that
00:42:26.52\00:42:28.94
and we're not judging
anyway you as a person.
00:42:28.95\00:42:34.10
But what we're saying
is that it's out of harmony
00:42:34.11\00:42:36.27
with the word of
God and God would ask
00:42:36.28\00:42:38.02
if you want to
draw close to Him,
00:42:38.03\00:42:40.02
that you take off earrings.
00:42:40.03\00:42:41.47
And I think
that's the point here
00:42:41.48\00:42:42.72
if you read this
and it's for context.
00:42:42.73\00:42:44.86
Gideon opens up and says,
00:42:44.87\00:42:47.32
"I will not rule over you,
00:42:47.33\00:42:48.81
nor shall my son rule over you,
00:42:48.82\00:42:50.34
the Lord shall rule over you."
00:42:50.35\00:42:52.54
And because He rules over you,
00:42:52.55\00:42:54.58
take off or get
rid off your earrings.
00:42:54.59\00:42:57.43
See, that's the issue.
00:42:57.44\00:42:58.62
It's who is the
Lord of your life?
00:42:58.63\00:43:00.74
A lot people, we said
this several times before.
00:43:00.75\00:43:03.07
A lot of people had
made Jesus their Savior,
00:43:03.08\00:43:06.19
but not their
Lord, that's right.
00:43:06.20\00:43:09.26
And so being your
Savior is one thing
00:43:09.27\00:43:12.01
that He provided His body,
00:43:12.02\00:43:14.77
His life as a sacrifice for you
00:43:14.78\00:43:16.42
and He made a way for you
00:43:16.43\00:43:17.65
to come before the Father
00:43:17.66\00:43:18.67
and accept His
sacrifice by faith
00:43:18.68\00:43:21.09
and that the penalty of sin
00:43:21.10\00:43:22.27
that was appointed for you
00:43:22.28\00:43:24.18
is now taking
care by Christ himself.
00:43:24.19\00:43:27.26
But then, have you made Jesus
00:43:27.27\00:43:29.62
the Lord of your life?
00:43:29.63\00:43:31.52
And that involves
ordering your life
00:43:31.53\00:43:33.60
in harmony with His will,
00:43:33.61\00:43:35.17
according to His word
and that can be some--
00:43:35.18\00:43:39.55
that really involve
some lifestyle changes.
00:43:39.56\00:43:43.15
And that's what they understood
00:43:43.16\00:43:44.48
as well in the Old Testament.
00:43:44.49\00:43:46.63
As a matter of fact,
00:43:46.64\00:43:48.83
there is a amazing
parallel in the Bible.
00:43:48.84\00:43:51.92
There is a contrast
between being set free
00:43:51.93\00:43:54.78
and being a slave or a servant.
00:43:54.79\00:43:57.55
As a matter of fact,
00:43:57.56\00:43:58.96
in the Bible you may
notice this as you read.
00:43:58.97\00:44:01.52
If you look up the word Hebrews,
00:44:01.53\00:44:04.11
oh, there is an
entire Book of Hebrews,
00:44:04.12\00:44:06.46
but the reason
for the word Hebrews,
00:44:06.47\00:44:09.70
it's often the very word used
00:44:09.71\00:44:12.23
when the Israelites
referred to themselves
00:44:12.24\00:44:14.95
at the time of slavery.
00:44:14.96\00:44:17.46
When other nations
referred to the Hebrews,
00:44:17.47\00:44:20.50
they were
referring to the Israel
00:44:20.51\00:44:22.48
at the time of their slavery.
00:44:22.49\00:44:24.72
That is, the word Hebrews
00:44:24.73\00:44:26.19
has a lot of connotation
to being a slave, a servant.
00:44:26.20\00:44:29.94
Either you were
bought, or you were sold,
00:44:29.95\00:44:32.82
or you were purchased.
00:44:32.83\00:44:34.03
And something
that was interesting
00:44:34.04\00:44:35.51
about that whole
context if you go back
00:44:35.52\00:44:37.74
to the law of the
servants, this is interesting.
00:44:37.75\00:44:42.28
You'll begin to see
that the contrast is,
00:44:42.29\00:44:44.49
when you are someone's
slave or someone's servant
00:44:44.50\00:44:49.26
or you are own by someone else.
00:44:49.27\00:44:51.28
You bare their,
you bare their stamp
00:44:51.29\00:44:56.02
or you bare their--
I'm looking for a word here
00:44:56.03\00:44:58.47
that connects with the ornament.
00:44:58.48\00:45:00.19
Well, they do branding
of their cattle and things,
00:45:00.20\00:45:03.83
which signify that
they belong to the owner
00:45:03.84\00:45:06.69
Right, some signet there.
00:45:06.70\00:45:07.74
But, they were also
doing some of that with people.
00:45:07.75\00:45:10.52
Right, so there is
some signet connection
00:45:10.53\00:45:12.36
between you and your owner.
00:45:12.37\00:45:13.48
And let's look at this
very quickly here in Exodus 21.
00:45:13.49\00:45:17.14
We are covering
something's that you may
00:45:17.15\00:45:18.46
not have considered before.
00:45:18.47\00:45:19.81
And once again the principle is,
00:45:19.82\00:45:21.31
the major
principle, I'll just go ahead
00:45:21.32\00:45:23.02
and share this with
you in a moment here.
00:45:23.03\00:45:24.79
But, Exodus Chapter 21
00:45:24.80\00:45:27.34
and we're going to read down to
00:45:27.35\00:45:29.25
read verse 6, but
let's just go ahead
00:45:29.26\00:45:32.91
and show you the
context, start with verse 2.
00:45:32.92\00:45:35.63
"If you buy a Hebrew servant,"
00:45:35.64\00:45:38.09
you'll not see the
word Israelite servant,
00:45:38.10\00:45:40.29
because Israel means overcomer.
00:45:40.30\00:45:42.31
"If you buy a Hebrew servant,
00:45:42.32\00:45:43.98
he shall serve six years,
00:45:43.99\00:45:45.88
and in the seventh
year he shall go out
00:45:45.89\00:45:47.71
free and pay nothing.
00:45:47.72\00:45:49.54
If he comes in by himself,
00:45:49.55\00:45:50.80
he shall go out by himself,
00:45:50.81\00:45:51.97
if he comes in married,
00:45:51.98\00:45:53.26
then his wife
shall go out with him.
00:45:53.27\00:45:55.49
If his master
has given him a wife,
00:45:55.50\00:45:57.15
and she has borne
him sons or daughters,
00:45:57.16\00:45:59.71
the wife and her
children shall be her master's,
00:45:59.72\00:46:02.81
and he shall go out by himself."
00:46:02.82\00:46:04.73
Strange isn't it?
00:46:04.74\00:46:06.57
"But if the
servant plainly says,
00:46:06.58\00:46:08.31
'I love my master, my
wife, and my children,
00:46:08.32\00:46:11.09
I will not go out
free," look at this.
00:46:11.10\00:46:14.50
"Then his master shall
bring him to the judges.
00:46:14.51\00:46:18.95
He shall also
bring him to the door,
00:46:18.96\00:46:21.90
or to the doorpost,
00:46:21.91\00:46:23.43
and his master shall
pierce his ear with an awl,
00:46:23.44\00:46:26.74
and he shall serve him forever."
00:46:26.75\00:46:30.47
Notice that
what's happened in here
00:46:30.48\00:46:32.56
and by the way the word servant
00:46:32.57\00:46:33.84
forever means till he
dies, till they day he dies.
00:46:33.85\00:46:37.45
But notice what they did
00:46:37.46\00:46:38.54
as a symbol of servant hood.
00:46:38.55\00:46:40.69
"They pierced the ear,"
00:46:40.70\00:46:42.96
which says simply, now
you're this man's property
00:46:42.97\00:46:45.39
for the rest of your life.
00:46:45.40\00:46:47.04
But you know, when
you look at the context
00:46:47.05\00:46:51.09
and I heard this, I don't know
00:46:51.10\00:46:52.47
if this is true or not,
00:46:52.48\00:46:53.92
but I heard
this and I don't know
00:46:53.93\00:46:55.51
how many preachers
preach things that are not true,
00:46:55.52\00:46:56.84
but it was an Adventist preacher
00:46:56.85\00:46:57.84
that said this, not so much
00:46:57.85\00:46:59.89
the reason why I know
it's necessarily true,
00:46:59.90\00:47:02.28
but, here is the point.
00:47:02.29\00:47:04.27
One person said that when Jesus
00:47:04.28\00:47:05.56
put the Romans Centurions
00:47:05.57\00:47:08.59
ear back on that Peter cut off.
00:47:08.60\00:47:10.95
The Roman Centurions
ear had a hole in it before,
00:47:10.96\00:47:13.95
when he put it back on
the hole was no longer there.
00:47:13.96\00:47:17.33
I heard that and
I've to look that up,
00:47:17.34\00:47:18.94
but I thought to myself
now the story make sense,
00:47:18.95\00:47:22.65
because the hole in the ear
00:47:22.66\00:47:24.15
was a symbol of ownership
00:47:24.16\00:47:25.79
and that's what the symbol was
00:47:25.80\00:47:27.32
when you now was
the property of someone
00:47:27.33\00:47:29.22
for the rest of your life.
00:47:29.23\00:47:30.66
But after, if
that were not the case
00:47:30.67\00:47:32.09
then there was no
need for a hole there.
00:47:32.10\00:47:34.19
Here's the connection, if
we are servants of Christ,
00:47:34.20\00:47:37.51
if we are children of the Lord,
00:47:37.52\00:47:39.16
we are not the
property of someone else.
00:47:39.17\00:47:41.01
There should be no
holes in the Lord's temple
00:47:41.02\00:47:43.89
and the
overruling factor is our body
00:47:43.90\00:47:45.92
is the temple of the Lord.
00:47:45.93\00:47:47.12
And also makes sense
in reference to the fact
00:47:47.13\00:47:49.49
that when Jesus delivers us,
00:47:49.50\00:47:50.80
he sets us free.
00:47:50.81\00:47:52.18
He sets us free
from the bondage of sin,
00:47:52.19\00:47:54.59
the sin of the
world, that's right.
00:47:54.60\00:47:56.10
So in many respects
coming out of the world
00:47:56.11\00:47:59.71
part of that
coming out of the world is
00:47:59.72\00:48:01.74
to taking off the
jewelry and the earrings,
00:48:01.75\00:48:04.12
and other things that
are a symbol of the world
00:48:04.13\00:48:06.97
Yes, that's right, very much so.
00:48:06.98\00:48:10.17
But, the question
that I want to raise
00:48:10.18\00:48:11.65
and John if we
go down to point K.
00:48:11.66\00:48:13.78
The question we
want to raise here is,
00:48:13.79\00:48:17.99
why is it that
there are certain things
00:48:18.00\00:48:19.89
that the church
struggles with today?
00:48:19.90\00:48:22.73
One of the big issues
in the church is music.
00:48:22.74\00:48:26.15
People fight over that,
that's just like politics.
00:48:26.16\00:48:29.64
And another issue in
the church is politics.
00:48:29.65\00:48:31.61
Keep politics out of,
politics out of religion.
00:48:31.62\00:48:34.46
But some people
fight with music,
00:48:34.47\00:48:37.38
or the beat, the coda.
00:48:37.39\00:48:40.16
Drums or no
drums, beat or no beat,
00:48:40.17\00:48:43.10
you know horns or no horns,
00:48:43.11\00:48:44.92
all kinds of ridiculous issues.
00:48:44.93\00:48:47.07
In fact when you boil it down,
00:48:47.08\00:48:48.96
you really can't fill
a cup of water with it,
00:48:48.97\00:48:51.05
because it sometimes
has so little weight to it.
00:48:51.06\00:48:54.08
But, the reason why,
00:48:54.09\00:48:55.76
I asked that
question is because,
00:48:55.77\00:48:57.21
when you look at, when
you look at the entrance
00:48:57.22\00:48:59.58
of a lot of
things that are an issue,
00:48:59.59\00:49:01.13
you tie it back to Satan
who was once was Lucifer.
00:49:01.14\00:49:05.09
The Garden of
Eden, why is death,
00:49:05.10\00:49:06.90
the topic of death
such an issue nowadays?
00:49:06.91\00:49:08.92
Because Satan
told the first lie,
00:49:08.93\00:49:10.35
you'll not surely die.
00:49:10.36\00:49:12.09
Why is the issue of
music such a big deal?
00:49:12.10\00:49:14.05
Because one of Satan's
gifts before the fall was,
00:49:14.06\00:49:16.83
he was a master musician.
00:49:16.84\00:49:19.28
So that's the
tool he uses nowadays
00:49:19.29\00:49:21.27
to create controversy
even in the Christian church.
00:49:21.28\00:49:24.31
But there is something else.
00:49:24.32\00:49:26.01
Ezekiel Chapter 28 and
read those verses for us, John.
00:49:26.02\00:49:29.80
Look at how he was-- look at
00:49:29.81\00:49:31.24
how he was made in
the very beginning.
00:49:31.25\00:49:33.62
Ezekiel, 28, verse 12-- verse 12
00:49:33.63\00:49:36.61
and I think part of
13, okay, go for it.
00:49:36.62\00:49:39.57
"Son of man,
take up a lamentation
00:49:39.58\00:49:41.30
for the king of
Tyre, and say to him,
00:49:41.31\00:49:43.46
Thus says the Lord God,
00:49:43.47\00:49:45.31
you were the seal on
perfection full of wisdom,
00:49:45.32\00:49:48.16
and perfect in beauty.
00:49:48.17\00:49:50.09
You were in Eden,
the garden of God,
00:49:50.10\00:49:52.69
every precious
stone was your covering,
00:49:52.70\00:49:55.19
sardius, topaz,
diamond, beryl, onyx and jasper,
00:49:55.20\00:49:58.47
sapphire, turquoise,
and emerald with gold.
00:49:58.48\00:50:01.51
The workmanship of
your timbrels and pipes
00:50:01.52\00:50:03.52
was prepared before
you, prepared for you
00:50:03.53\00:50:05.74
on the day you were created.
00:50:05.75\00:50:08.42
And what happened as a
result of his wonderful beauty
00:50:08.43\00:50:11.04
look in verse 17.
00:50:11.05\00:50:12.32
"Your heart was lifted
up because of your beauty,
00:50:12.33\00:50:15.09
You corrupted your wisdom
00:50:15.10\00:50:16.35
for the sake of your splendor."
00:50:16.36\00:50:17.93
That is for your glory.
00:50:17.94\00:50:19.46
And what happens here now,
00:50:19.47\00:50:21.11
we have to really handle
this in the right context,
00:50:21.12\00:50:24.21
because Lucifer
didn't adorn himself, right.
00:50:24.22\00:50:27.61
That's how God made him.
00:50:27.62\00:50:29.76
God covered him in that sense.
00:50:29.77\00:50:31.98
And so before his fall
that every precious stone
00:50:31.99\00:50:35.27
was his covering God believes,
00:50:35.28\00:50:37.35
God believes in jewellery,
00:50:37.36\00:50:40.48
but God believes in
the proper use of it
00:50:40.49\00:50:43.63
and the divine use of it.
00:50:43.64\00:50:45.15
Heaven is gonna
be streets of gold,
00:50:45.16\00:50:47.33
12 foundations, the
gates made of pearl,
00:50:47.34\00:50:51.59
the walls made of
gold, clear as jasper,
00:50:51.60\00:50:54.42
the walls are clear as
crystal clear as jasper.
00:50:54.43\00:50:57.16
And you find all the foundations
00:50:57.17\00:50:58.46
with all the
precious stones there.
00:50:58.47\00:51:00.19
But in the fallen sense,
00:51:00.20\00:51:01.63
His glory was no
longer preserved.
00:51:01.64\00:51:04.12
God put these things
there and some people ask then.
00:51:04.13\00:51:06.66
Why would these
things have been put there,
00:51:06.67\00:51:11.15
if God did not intend
for us to wear it down here?
00:51:11.16\00:51:15.46
Why would he
make Lucifer that way?
00:51:15.47\00:51:17.39
Why would the New
Jerusalem be adorned that way,
00:51:17.40\00:51:20.05
if God did not intend
for us to wear it down here?
00:51:20.06\00:51:24.44
And the beauty of the story is
00:51:24.45\00:51:25.62
God is the one that adorns us.
00:51:25.63\00:51:28.01
So you have to
look at the comparison
00:51:28.02\00:51:29.98
in scripture to how
God adorns the sinful man?
00:51:29.99\00:51:33.41
Does God adorn the sinful man
00:51:33.42\00:51:34.74
for the glory of the sinful man,
00:51:34.75\00:51:36.58
or does God adorn
00:51:36.59\00:51:37.73
the sinful man for God's glory.
00:51:37.74\00:51:40.07
And that's where
the transition comes in,
00:51:40.08\00:51:41.64
want text before you.
00:51:41.65\00:51:42.97
No good point.
00:51:42.98\00:51:44.35
Let's go to Isaiah Chapter 60,
00:51:44.36\00:51:51.14
then we're gonna
go back to Ezekiel,
00:51:51.15\00:51:52.42
so don't loose that.
00:51:52.43\00:51:53.90
Isaiah Chapter 61 verse
10, Isaiah Chapter 61 verse 10.
00:51:53.91\00:52:00.40
And much of the Bible, friends,
00:52:00.41\00:52:01.54
is written in the
affect of the orient,
00:52:01.55\00:52:05.27
in the Asian context.
00:52:05.28\00:52:08.46
So, when you look at the
bride adorned for her husband.
00:52:08.47\00:52:12.29
Okay, read verse 10
of Isaiah Chapter 61,
00:52:12.30\00:52:16.14
Isaiah 61, verse 10, John.
00:52:16.15\00:52:18.34
"I will greatly
rejoice in the Lord,
00:52:18.35\00:52:20.34
My soul shall be
joyful in my God,
00:52:20.35\00:52:23.12
For He has clothed me
00:52:23.13\00:52:24.32
with the garments of salvation,
00:52:24.33\00:52:26.20
He has covered me with
the robe of righteousness,
00:52:26.21\00:52:29.19
as a bridegroom decks
himself with ornaments,
00:52:29.20\00:52:33.14
and as a bride adorns
herself with her jewels."
00:52:33.15\00:52:36.37
Okay, and he has
given the picture here
00:52:36.38\00:52:38.68
of the oriental wedding.
00:52:38.69\00:52:40.66
I've been to some
oriental weddings.
00:52:40.67\00:52:42.56
It's a feast to behold,
the eyes are just dazzled.
00:52:42.57\00:52:45.25
The bride changes so many times
00:52:45.26\00:52:46.84
during the wedding,
00:52:46.85\00:52:47.84
from one gloriously
stunning outfit to the other.
00:52:47.85\00:52:51.70
I mean when she walks
into the room is like,
00:52:51.71\00:52:53.42
oh, and everybody claps because
00:52:53.43\00:52:54.92
she brings this another brides,
00:52:54.93\00:52:56.57
with this bride
satin, or bride silk
00:52:56.58\00:52:58.93
and yellow and blue
and every color seems like
00:52:58.94\00:53:02.43
it's been vividly recreated
00:53:02.44\00:53:05.42
and studded with
things that are glittering.
00:53:05.43\00:53:08.01
But that's the
glory of the bride,
00:53:08.02\00:53:09.59
that's why you find
the very same picture
00:53:09.60\00:53:11.80
as a bridegroom decks
himself with ornaments,
00:53:11.81\00:53:15.50
as a bride adorns
herself with her jewels.
00:53:15.51\00:53:19.62
That's the oriental wedding.
00:53:19.63\00:53:21.35
And that's the picture you find
00:53:21.36\00:53:22.43
in Revelation of
the New Jerusalem.
00:53:22.44\00:53:24.54
As a bride adorns
herself for her husband.
00:53:24.55\00:53:28.95
So, you see clearly here,
00:53:28.96\00:53:31.50
the Lord makes a comparison
00:53:31.51\00:53:33.11
between the glory that is
seen in the New Jerusalem.
00:53:33.12\00:53:36.58
The glory that is
seen in the oriental bride,
00:53:36.59\00:53:40.34
as he makes reference to
it and then His righteousness.
00:53:40.35\00:53:43.87
In other words,
if you think that,
00:53:43.88\00:53:45.05
that's beautiful, you
put on my righteousness,
00:53:45.06\00:53:48.04
you put on my salvation,
00:53:48.05\00:53:49.41
and you will
really see my glory.
00:53:49.42\00:53:51.35
So, we're going
to what passage now,
00:53:51.36\00:53:53.63
John, where are you?
00:53:53.64\00:53:55.06
Well, I was turning to Ezekiel.
00:53:55.07\00:53:57.66
Okay, Ezekiel 16. Yeah.
00:53:57.67\00:54:00.23
This is an amazing passage
00:54:00.24\00:54:01.72
and I think we have probably
00:54:01.73\00:54:03.71
one more program on this topic,
00:54:03.72\00:54:05.53
because it goes by so quickly.
00:54:05.54\00:54:07.51
But Ezekiel 16, and look
at some of the passages here.
00:54:07.52\00:54:11.08
We're gonna see the
picture come out again.
00:54:11.09\00:54:13.14
God's love for his children,
God's love for his people.
00:54:13.15\00:54:17.98
Okay, verse one and two.
00:54:17.99\00:54:21.59
"Again the word of the
Lord came to me, saying,
00:54:21.60\00:54:23.65
"Son of man,
cause Jerusalem to know
00:54:23.66\00:54:26.05
her abominations, and say,
00:54:26.06\00:54:28.77
'Thus says the
Lord God to Jerusalem,
00:54:28.78\00:54:31.05
"Your birth and your nativity
are from the land of Canaan,
00:54:31.06\00:54:34.78
your father was an Amorite
00:54:34.79\00:54:36.33
and your mother
a Hittite," okay.
00:54:36.34\00:54:38.60
"As for your nativity,
00:54:38.61\00:54:40.36
on the day you were born
your navel cord was not cut,
00:54:40.37\00:54:44.53
nor were you washed
in water to cleanse you,
00:54:44.54\00:54:47.15
you were not rubbed with salt
00:54:47.16\00:54:48.80
nor wrapped in
swaddling cloths."
00:54:48.81\00:54:51.80
He goes on and talks about,
00:54:51.81\00:54:54.14
but then he talks
about the transition
00:54:54.15\00:54:57.87
and then you
find this transition
00:54:57.88\00:54:59.32
down in verse 7.
00:54:59.33\00:55:01.40
"And I made you thrive
like a plant in the field,
00:55:01.41\00:55:04.61
and you grew, matured,
and became very beautiful."
00:55:04.62\00:55:07.66
And then he describes.
00:55:07.67\00:55:09.48
"Your breasts were
formed, your hair grew,
00:55:09.49\00:55:12.57
but you were naked and bare.
00:55:12.58\00:55:14.41
When I passed by you
again and looked upon you,
00:55:14.42\00:55:17.47
indeed your time
was the time of love,
00:55:17.48\00:55:19.82
so I spread My wing over
you and covered your nakedness.
00:55:19.83\00:55:22.99
Yes, I swore an oath to you
00:55:23.00\00:55:24.98
and entered into
a covenant with you,
00:55:24.99\00:55:27.10
and you became
Mine," says the Lord God."
00:55:27.11\00:55:29.70
You know, notice
the symbolism here,
00:55:29.71\00:55:31.36
its literal being naked?
00:55:31.37\00:55:34.19
This is in a literal
you know, of anything here.
00:55:34.20\00:55:37.74
He is speaking very spiritually
00:55:37.75\00:55:39.33
in very spiritual terms.
00:55:39.34\00:55:40.89
That's right,
and I want to almost,
00:55:40.90\00:55:43.73
and so what
you're going to see here,
00:55:43.74\00:55:45.64
as we continue
and we're gonna go
00:55:45.65\00:55:47.49
to the next
program and cover this
00:55:47.50\00:55:50.14
in an upcoming program.
00:55:50.15\00:55:51.43
So, we're just
laying the foundation,
00:55:51.44\00:55:53.21
so to speak this
is kind of the hook,
00:55:53.22\00:55:55.42
to go to the next stage.
00:55:55.43\00:55:56.91
You don't want to
miss the next stage,
00:55:56.92\00:55:57.99
because this is
gonna be amazing.
00:55:58.00\00:55:59.39
How God talks
about, how He looked
00:55:59.40\00:56:01.48
at His bride and changed the way
00:56:01.49\00:56:03.79
she was to the
way she has become.
00:56:03.80\00:56:07.55
And He uses some
amazingly beautiful language
00:56:07.56\00:56:10.50
to talk about the
glory of His church,
00:56:10.51\00:56:13.46
the beauty of His bride.
00:56:13.47\00:56:15.81
How she has become by the work
00:56:15.82\00:56:18.65
that He is carried
forward in her life.
00:56:18.66\00:56:20.90
You know, the next program
00:56:20.91\00:56:22.11
I think when we come back.
00:56:22.12\00:56:24.28
We're gonna begin to transition
00:56:24.29\00:56:25.58
to some New Testament-- exactly.
00:56:25.59\00:56:27.45
For existing things and
we will finish up on that.
00:56:27.46\00:56:29.17
All the way down in Revelation
00:56:29.18\00:56:30.82
we'll finish up on, oh, yes.
00:56:30.83\00:56:32.04
You see a picture
of the two churches
00:56:32.05\00:56:33.80
and what they were dressed in.
00:56:33.81\00:56:35.32
And you're gonna
see a lot of parallels
00:56:35.33\00:56:36.74
in those two
churches to what we find here
00:56:36.75\00:56:39.06
in the Old Testament
00:56:39.07\00:56:40.64
in the Book of
Ezekiel, Chapter 16
00:56:40.65\00:56:42.65
And by the way, we
didn't finish this reading yet,
00:56:42.66\00:56:45.13
because the rest of the verses
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that come after
this are just tremendous.
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And what God is
gonna show us here,
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is how much He loves His people.
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How much He glories in them
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being the representatives
of His righteousness,
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His salvation,
His message, His hope.
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And John, there's lot of hope
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that people need nowadays.
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Yeah, they do,
because we are putting hope
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in things too
often and those things
00:57:03.97\00:57:06.63
we're finding
bring about emptiness.
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They are not
giving us the fullness.
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One of the reasons,
why I'm in ministry today,
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those things did not satisfy,
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but the Lord
always satisfies you.
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That's right friends, and
so, you know at House Calls,
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we believe in presenting Jesus
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in His most glorious
and most beautiful form.
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Why accept a substitute
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when the real
picture of Jesus is there
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for every one of us to see.
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If you want to
have Christ in your life
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and reflect His beauty,
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accept Him in your life today.
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God bless you.
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