Hello, friends, grab
your Bible and a friend,
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and sit back as we
explore God's word together
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on this edition of House Calls.
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So glad to have you
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This is House Calls.
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You know, House
Calls is something that
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doctors used to do.
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Yes.
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House Calls are
something we still do.
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for the next 56
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But we don't do
anything until John has prayer,
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and after that we'll
talk about out Bible questions
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and how you can
send your questions
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and comments to both of us.
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So, John, begin
with the word of prayer.
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Let's do that.
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Dear Father in
heaven as we always do,
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we turn our hearts
towards You for guidance.
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And so we pray that You'd
pour out your spirit upon us,
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over this program
today in every aspect,
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and those that are
hearing and viewing this program
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as well that we may understand
Your Word more clearly
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and that we may hear Your voice
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as we go through the topics
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that we have to cover here today
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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Now we get Bible questions
from you wonderful people
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and I have a Bible question,
a series of them today.
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Well, what I'd
like you to know now,
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if you have any questions
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That's where we
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and we try to respond to
them from the Word of God,
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the best source of
answers for any question
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that you can come up with,
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whether it's a
scriptural question
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or a question
about ethics or life,
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what decisions you have to make,
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we believe the Word of
God has many of those answers
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if not all of them.
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And we try our best to
give you those answers.
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And, John, what
do we have today?
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What kind of
questions do we have?
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Well, we've got a question
here that comes from Kelly.
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And she is asking,
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she is having some
little bit struggle
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with the local
church that she has there.
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She's young and I'll tell you,
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I sympathize with
some of her situation here
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because I think some
of our rural churches
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really struggle
with how to integrate
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and adopt their
programming, their services
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and other things
to reach young people.
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It's a hard thing.
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And so, she's
talking about that here in,
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having some trouble
with the church issue
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but more that, she says,
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she is worrying lately about
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whether or not
she'll be in heaven.
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She says, she has
done things in my past,
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that I regret and
ask for forgiveness,
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but I don't feel like
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I have a true
relationship with Jesus yet.
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She has a family member
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who has been
mentioning a few things
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about the last days with her
and this has freaked her out.
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She says, "I am
freaked out about that,
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it's hard to concentrate,
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I feel like even
as I battle over this,
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Satan's probably putting
thoughts in my head like,
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is God even real, it's all fake,
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don't worry about it, but
she is worrying about that.
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And she says, she's not baptized
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and she gets nervous
that people focus on her
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and some of the things,
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the challenges that
she's going through.
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So, I bring this up
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and give what she is saying here
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'cause she is not alone,
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there are many who are
going through this struggle.
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And so, it is hard to know,
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to feel, I should say this,
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it's hard to feel
saved all the time.
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We're not perfect human beings
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and we struggle and
we have our challenges
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but we shouldn't be
gauging always our feelings
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on the situation,
the true situation
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that we are in our
relationship with the Lord.
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I will say this though,
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most of the time that I feel,
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and I used the
word feel deliberately
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that I'm sensing, feeling,
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little bit of distance from God,
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there is
usually a cause of that.
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You know, I need to find
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and get back to the
route and get back to basics,
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and get back in the word,
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get back in the
more prayer and things.
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And so I think that's
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one of the things
certainly that she can do.
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But the other
thing that she can do,
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in what I am sensing here,
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I'm trying to read a little
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between the lines is there is a,
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almost a withholding
of full surrender to God.
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This church is in the way
that it is not really adapted
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in providing an
environment conducive for her
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family experience,
you know, to church family
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and someone that's supportive
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and loving is
probably causing her
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to hold back a little bit.
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And so, we give a
couple of texts here,
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but I just want
to encourage her to,
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not look at just the
individual members of the family
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but understand
that her family of God
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is a worldwide family of God.
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And that she
should not feel like
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she needs to disconnect
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or she wants to
disconnect from the church
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but connect
with a body of Christ
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and let those who will in
that church minister to her
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and whether she
needs to be ministered too,
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to find connections
so that, that can happen.
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Did you bring something
up because I know that,
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we'll share a few
texts here and I have some.
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We'll go ahead and read
the one that you have there.
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One of the ones
that came to my mind.
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What is her name?
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Kelly Kelly.
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One of the ones
that came to my mind,
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Kelly is 1 John 4:18,
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and I want to
share this with you
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and make some application.
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"There is no fear in love,
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but perfect
love casts out fear."
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Before I go to the
next part of that...
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When you pray for a love,
relationship with the Lord,
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we got to first begin at
the point of relationship
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and I think some of
the points you made.
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Well, I'm not
sure God exists or not,
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was that included in that?
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Yeah. Okay.
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That was a temptation
that devil's putting in her.
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The temptation.
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Yeah, are you sure
that God even exist?
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Well, you know, let me show you
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one of the most evidentiary ways
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that you can get
it instant response
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to the fact that God
does exist is through prayer.
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Now, let me show you, prayer.
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Don't pray for
new car, new boat,
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new job, new cell phone,
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increase in salary,
pray this simple prayer.
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Lord, I want you to
make yourself known to me,
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and here is what
I want you to do.
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And when we put our
desires before Lord,
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if you say, Lord,
give me the desire.
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I am giving you the permission
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to awaken within me
the desire to know You.
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You know, that is the prayer
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that's can be
answered so quickly
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that you are going to wonder.
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Why didn't I asked
that long time ago.
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Think of it this way.
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And I'm going to use this
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in the context of a
young man, young lady.
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Sometimes a young man
will pursue a young lady
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that they just
are so enamored by,
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she is cute, she is gorgeous,
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whatever the case may
be, she is the ideal girl.
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Right now, it's just that
you're for a place in his life
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and he doesn't know
how to get her attention.
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So he looks at
her from a distance,
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and when she is
walking past his classroom,
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he kind of acts
like he is leaning
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or one they're in
the same classroom,
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he bends forward to do his notes
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but he looks over at her.
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He is doing
everything he possibly
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could to keep her in
his mind, in his view.
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You know, that is somehow,
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the Lord is
like that husband man
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trying to get the attention
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of the woman he
loves, his church.
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And, but until she
gives him her affection,
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until she says okay, all right.
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I am going to give
you the opportunity
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to have a relationship with me.
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I want to get to know you.
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And that's what the Bible says,
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and this is life
eternal that we know God.
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That we know, Him, yeah.
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That we know God
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and that we know
the only true God
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and Jesus Christ whom He sent.
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So, the doctrinal
part, that's going to come,
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if that's important,
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that is important,
let me rephrase that.
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But if you say, Lord,
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I am giving you the permission
to reveal Yourself to me,
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to give me the
desire to know You.
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You're going to find,
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He is going to
create opportunities,
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and then you say, Lord,
secondly in that desire,
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please awaken within me
a desire to read Your Word.
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Now, I've often said
the reading of God's Word
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should always begin
as a school assignment.
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Read the Word of
God because you have to
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and then you'll get to the point
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where you read the Word
of God because you want to.
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All these habits have a
cycle, when you apply yourself,
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ask the Lord to
awaken within you a desire
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for you to know Him,
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then secondly to be
want to read His Word.
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That is the prayer that's
going to be answered quickly,
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and the doubts, and the fears
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and the
pressures about the future
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and about the end time
events won't haunt you anymore.
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And it says here,
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"Because fear involves torment,"
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that's why, the fear is
bringing to you torment,
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"But he who fears has not
been made perfect in love."
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Lord, lead me in a
loving relationship with You
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and that fear would disappear
like hot water, like cold water
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that's being
warmed up in a tea kettle.
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It will just
evaporate away with no trace.
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And I would take
comparing verse to that
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from the Old
Testament is Psalm 34:4
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"I sought the
Lord, and He heard me,
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And delivered me
from all my fears."
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So in seeking God,
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he delivers us
from a fearful approach
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or fearful thought in regard
to where we stand with God.
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Is it 34:17 where it says,
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"Many are the
afflictions of the righteous."
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"The righteous cry
out, and the Lord hears,
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and delivers them out
of all their troubles."
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Okay, which one is this, 16?
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That was 16. Okay.
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Seventeen, excuse me. 34:17.
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And 16, is what?
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"The face of the lord is
against those who do evil."
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Okay. All right.
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Yeah.
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The other one I was thinking
about was Jeremiah 29:13,
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"And you will
seek Me and find Me
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when you search for
Me with all your heart."
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And I think sometimes you know,
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we've all as pastors,
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we had discussions
with someone or other
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who is atheist who just
doesn't believe that God exists.
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It's hard to find out
a way to kind of guide
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and kind of send them
in the right direction.
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And one of the
things I've come to say
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in some occasions where
I felt impressed is that
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you can't prove God
and you can't disprove God
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purely from some
evidentiary proof.
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But I have proved God
because I have experienced Him.
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So only by my experience,
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only by once experience
can you truly prove God...
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Okay. And His existence.
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And that's where it says,
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when you search
for Me, you'll find Me.
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When you search Me
with all your heart,
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He will manifest Himself,
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He will reveal
Himself in your search
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and in the act
of trusting in Him.
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I also like...
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What is this, Psalms 37:3?
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"Trust in the Lord and do good.
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Dwell in the land and
feed on his faithfulness.
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Delight yourself in the Lord,
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And He will give you
the desires of your heart.
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Commit your way to the
Lord, trust also in Him,
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and he shall bring it to pass."
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Let me use an
equation here really briefly,
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and I think that
somebody watching this program
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might benefit from it about...
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You don't really
need a lot of proof.
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You don't really
need a lot of evidence
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to prove that God exist.
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Let me just use
this quick exercise,
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say, you, you know,
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we often talk
about, well, I need proof.
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Let me use the word
atheist agnostic and believer.
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Let me use these three words,
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atheist, agnostic and believer.
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An atheist doesn't
believe in the existence of God
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and agnostic
doesn't know what to believe
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'cause they haven't...
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An agnostic is a
person who had...
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He has opened the
door for higher power
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but we can't know it.
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Right, but an atheist...
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but an agnostic hasn't,
not aware of the evidence
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because he is not
sure about the evidence
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and the believer is
the one who has decided,
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I do believe that God exist.
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But let me just go
ahead and use this equation
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very, very quickly, and show you
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how easy it is to
prove the existence of God.
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How easy it is to
prove the existence of God.
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Not to say, I think, okay,
now, I think He does exist,
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but to prove the
existence of God,
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let's use the most classic one.
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People say if God exist,
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why there is so
much pain and death.
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So the thesis says,
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if God did exist there
wouldn't be pain and death,
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there would be joy and pleasure.
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So pain and death.
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Do we have pain and death?
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So if we only
have pain and death,
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the atheist says
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that's evidence
that God does not exists,
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because if God exist,
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there wouldn't
be pain and death.
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But let me add
it to the equation,
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but there is joy, and
there is also pleasure.
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So if you
equate joy and pleasure
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to the existence of God
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and pain and death to
the non existence of God,
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the presence of joy and pleasure
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is evidence that God exists.
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But the presence
of pain and death
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is the evidence that Satan,
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there is a power
that comes from that,
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everything has its root.
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So because there
is joy and pleasure,
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God has to exist for
these things to occur,
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because the atheist
says, if He did exist,
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there would be joy and pleasure,
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there would not
be pain and death.
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But let me go to one last step.
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Say you had a 10 room
house and you came home,
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and you came from your garage
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to the foyer where
you took your coat off,
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you went to the
basement, turn the heat on,
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then you went to the
bedroom, change your clothes,
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then you went to the kitchen.
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And while you
were in the kitchen,
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you saw three little black
dots on the kitchen counter
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next to your toaster.
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Well, most of us
would may have concluded,
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"What are these
three black dots,
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let me look really
close and we think,
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oh no, it isn't.
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There's a mouse in our house.
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Three little dots,
three tiny little black dots,
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just about this little
bigger than black pepper.
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Three little tiny dots.
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So what they did now is they
go on this full investigation,
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they go to the
basement, to each bedroom,
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to each living
room, to the family room,
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to the dining room,
they see no more dots.
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And they come
back to that one spot,
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because there are no more
dots in all those other rooms,
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can they say there is
no mouse in this house?
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Can't say that, no.
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No, only those three
dots on that kitchen counter
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out of one of the ten
rooms is evidence enough
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to conclude that it
could not have gotten there
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except a mouse put it there.
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Everything that
exist in this world
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could not have gotten here
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except somebody put it here.
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You may not find it everywhere,
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but everything
that exist in the world,
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every tree,
every plant, every...
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And then
scientist said, sorry not...
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Scientists have concluded that
in order for all the properties
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of a single cell to be produced.
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Now they say just one of
the enzymes to be produced,
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if the Big Bang
theory really was true,
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they would have to
been 36 different enzymes
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present at the same
exact time for one single cell,
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for one single portion
of a cell to be created.
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How could that possibly be?
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They all have to be
there at the same exact time
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for that cell to be created.
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They say the chances
of that occurring are 10
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to the 33,333rd power.
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We have nothing to
equate to that at all.
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So in other words,
scientists are saying
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that it's virtually impossible
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that that single cell
could have been created
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except all the
properties needed to create it
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was there at
the same exact time,
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which proves that evolution
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could not have
created that particular cell.
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In other words, the
scientific probability
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is an impossibility.
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In connection with
what she writes here,
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I find that often
in the most times,
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most times when people
resist the idea of God,
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or try to find evidence of that
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is because they simply
don't want God to exist.
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Right.
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It's to enable them
to continue their life
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as it goes on
in some immoral act
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or something like that.
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And so, Satan does this,
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he tempts people
with this thought that,
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this doubt that God even exist,
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and it's always,
that's almost always
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in the context of just
allowing them to continue on
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as they are to not
worry about things.
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Right.
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And that's where
the battle comes in.
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Absolutely.
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My lifestyle is interrupting
my knowledge that God exists.
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I know God exists
and I had that battle
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when I was a young man,
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when I was involved
in the disc jockey world.
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I was looking for a church
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where I could still disc
jockey and still be saved.
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And God, I bounced around
to three different churches,
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I couldn't find
one, so here I am.
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He said "You cannot
hold on to the world
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and still be saved,
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just don't fool yourself."
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And I won't say
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the denominations
that I tested out.
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But here I am, because
I realized, I love this.
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My natural tendency is
to not want to do good.
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That's
everybody's natural tendency.
00:18:04.11\00:18:05.65
I don't want righteousness,
00:18:05.68\00:18:07.35
there is none
that seeks after good.
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We don't want to
surrender ourselves.
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Don't want to surrender,
don't want that stuff.
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My natural tendency is to,
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I'll go to dark,
that's who we are.
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So if I like
darkness, but I know God exists,
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that's where
the battle comes in.
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And the devil says,
00:18:22.40\00:18:23.73
eliminate God
and enjoy yourself.
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And that's the battle is going
on there but praise the Lord.
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Just ask for God to bring
it to that point of submission
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and believe me, you'll find it.
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This is a very quick
question from Billy, from Billy.
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There is a billion
Billys in the world.
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So I won't give his last name.
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Billion?
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Billys.
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Every sixth person is Billy.
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One out of every six
people is named Billy.
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Sorry, I was just trying
to chuckle a little over this.
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Which is a billion
Billys in the world.
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Okay, please, we are not
going to stop the program,
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we're going to get through this.
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But since there are
three commands, to go,
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rebuilt the city,
that is Jerusalem,
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Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes,
00:19:11.35\00:19:15.15
they put Xerxes,
Artaxerxes, they put Xerxes,
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what is your rationale
for using only the last one?
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Thank you for
asking the question.
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Let's go to
Daniel 9 very quickly.
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Let me keep my
book and answer here.
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Daniel 9, now, the
rationale behind accepting
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the one from Artaxerxes is this.
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I am at Daniel 9.
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Here it is,
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Daniel 9:24.
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Now, let me put
the context together.
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Let me read it
first of all, Daniel 9:24,
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"Seventy weeks are determined"
00:19:54.99\00:19:57.23
that is Daniel is in captivity,
00:19:57.26\00:20:01.46
he is asking the Lord
how long is it going to be
00:20:01.50\00:20:03.93
before these things
are about to be revealed,
00:20:03.97\00:20:05.87
they're gonna happen.
00:20:05.90\00:20:07.24
So the Lord said,
"Seventy weeks are determined"
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That means cut off
allotted for your people
00:20:09.34\00:20:12.94
and for your holy city,
for Daniel and for the Jews.
00:20:12.97\00:20:17.81
Here are the things that
the Lord wanted them to do,
00:20:17.85\00:20:20.18
to finish the transgression,
and to make an end of sins,
00:20:20.22\00:20:22.68
to make
reconciliation for iniquity,
00:20:22.72\00:20:25.29
to bring in
everlasting righteousness,
00:20:25.32\00:20:27.59
to seal up the
vision and prophecy,
00:20:27.62\00:20:29.66
and to anoint the most Holy.
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Those are the six
things that the Lord said,
00:20:32.79\00:20:34.76
they want them to do
within the 490-year period.
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So 70 weeks are 70
weeks, 70 times seven is 490.
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The Lord says Daniel, I'm
giving you and Israel 490,
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I am giving your
people 490 years to do this.
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Not you because you
can't live for 490 years
00:20:50.38\00:20:51.98
but I'm giving Israel
490 years to do these things,
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that is prepare themselves
to anoint the most holy.
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All these are preparatory
to accepting the Messiah
00:20:58.12\00:21:01.36
when He comes,
anointing the most holy.
00:21:01.39\00:21:03.76
Now in order to know
00:21:03.79\00:21:06.70
all the things
that are laid out.
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Let's go to the next
portion of this prophecy.
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Now, "Know therefore,"
verse 25, "and understand,
00:21:10.00\00:21:14.14
that from the going
forth of the command
00:21:14.17\00:21:16.54
to restore and build Jerusalem
until Messiah the Prince,
00:21:16.57\00:21:20.31
there shall be seven
weeks and sixty-two."
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Okay, seven and
sixty-two is sixty-nine.
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The street shall be
built again and the wall
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even in trouble
sometimes or troublous times.
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Now the reason why
the Bible breaks it down,
00:21:32.69\00:21:34.22
remember 70 weeks were
given but until Messiah,
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the 69 weeks will
bring you up to Messiah.
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So if you have 70 weeks
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and if you follow
those 69 weeks or 483 years
00:21:42.46\00:21:46.53
and the last one
brings you to the Messiah,
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you only have seven left.
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So the Lord is saying
seven weeks and sixty-two.
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Why seven and sixty-two?
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The Bible is
specific about its numerology.
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Jerusalem was built
within 7 weeks or 49 years
00:21:59.85\00:22:04.95
from the time it
began to the time
00:22:04.99\00:22:06.86
that Nehemiah went
and helped them finish it.
00:22:06.89\00:22:09.72
It took only 49
years, that's the 7 weeks.
00:22:09.76\00:22:13.90
Then you have the 62
weeks left after that,
00:22:13.93\00:22:18.30
which will bring the
total down to 483 years,
00:22:18.33\00:22:24.74
which means you only
have seven years left.
00:22:24.77\00:22:27.31
Now let's see
what's going to happen
00:22:27.34\00:22:28.68
to look at this timeframe.
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Look, so now verse 26.
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Now after 62 weeks, 7
and 62, after the 62 week
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Messiah shall be cut
off but not for Himself,
00:22:39.85\00:22:43.32
and the people of
the Prince who is to come
00:22:43.36\00:22:45.56
shall destroy the
city and the sanctuary.
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The end of it
shall be with the flood
00:22:48.63\00:22:50.87
and till the end of the
wars desolations are determined.
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Then he shall confirm a covenant
00:22:56.64\00:22:59.87
with many for one week.
00:22:59.91\00:23:01.28
But in the middle of the week,
00:23:01.31\00:23:02.64
he shall bring in to
sacrifice and offering.
00:23:02.68\00:23:06.28
And on the
weighing of abominations
00:23:06.31\00:23:08.45
shall be one who
makes distillate.
00:23:08.48\00:23:12.19
Even until the consummation,
00:23:12.22\00:23:13.79
which is determined is
poured out on the desolate.
00:23:13.82\00:23:17.59
Sounds like a lot of
unbelievable terminologies.
00:23:17.63\00:23:20.90
But let me just make it
very simple, here we are.
00:23:20.93\00:23:24.27
The Lord gave
the Jews 490 years.
00:23:24.30\00:23:30.31
Forty nine of those led
to the building of the temple
00:23:30.34\00:23:34.74
in Jerusalem.
00:23:34.78\00:23:36.11
I have it right in front of
me, so I will keep myself in.
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Forty nine years of those led
00:23:38.88\00:23:40.38
to the building of
the temple in Jerusalem.
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Then you had, out of the 49,
00:23:43.45\00:23:48.02
434 is left
00:23:48.06\00:23:50.93
to bring you to the time
that the Messiah shows up.
00:23:50.96\00:23:54.06
Jesus shows up in the year 27 AD
00:23:54.10\00:23:58.33
and then you have this
phrase, in the fifteenth year
00:23:58.37\00:24:03.04
of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
00:24:03.07\00:24:04.97
that's when Jesus was anointed.
00:24:05.01\00:24:06.71
Tiberius Caesar began to
co-reign in the year 12 AD.
00:24:06.74\00:24:10.81
Twelve and 15 are what.
00:24:10.85\00:24:15.08
Twenty seven, so
in the year 27 AD,
00:24:15.12\00:24:17.95
Jesus was anointed,
anointed means the Messiah,
00:24:17.99\00:24:21.69
the Messiah
means the anointed one.
00:24:21.72\00:24:23.73
So exactly in the year 27 AD,
00:24:23.76\00:24:26.56
Jesus was anointed
to begin His ministry.
00:24:26.59\00:24:28.46
But the Bible says,
in the middle of the week
00:24:28.50\00:24:31.07
He will be cut off.
00:24:31.10\00:24:32.77
So how many days are in a week?
00:24:32.80\00:24:34.44
Seven days.
00:24:34.47\00:24:36.17
How many days, so if you
go to the middle of the week,
00:24:36.20\00:24:38.04
how many days is that?
00:24:38.07\00:24:39.41
Three and half days later.
00:24:39.44\00:24:40.88
Three and half years
after Jesus began His ministry
00:24:40.91\00:24:44.18
in the year 31 AD,
00:24:44.21\00:24:45.81
He was crucified in
the middle of the week.
00:24:45.85\00:24:49.92
But how is it
going to confirm now.
00:24:49.95\00:24:51.49
Look at verse 27,
00:24:51.52\00:24:52.85
"But he shall confirm a covenant
00:24:52.89\00:24:54.96
with many for one week."
00:24:54.99\00:24:56.46
Well, how will Jesus confirm
this covenant for one week,
00:24:56.49\00:24:59.93
if He died in the
middle of the week?
00:24:59.96\00:25:02.00
Let's go to Hebrews 2.
00:25:02.03\00:25:04.33
Hebrews 2 very quickly.
00:25:04.37\00:25:08.87
Here we are, listen to this.
00:25:08.90\00:25:11.04
Okay, how is he
going to do this?
00:25:11.07\00:25:13.44
How is he going
to confirm a covenant
00:25:13.48\00:25:15.18
with many for one week?
00:25:15.21\00:25:16.61
Listen to this, Hebrews 2:3,
00:25:16.64\00:25:20.38
"How shall we escape,
00:25:20.42\00:25:22.75
if we neglect so
great a salvation,
00:25:22.78\00:25:26.82
which at the first began
to be spoken by the Lord..."
00:25:26.86\00:25:33.40
Who started it, John?
00:25:33.43\00:25:34.76
The Lord.
00:25:34.80\00:25:36.46
"And was confirmed to us
by those who that heard Him."
00:25:36.50\00:25:42.60
Who heard Him?
00:25:42.64\00:25:44.44
His disciples.
00:25:44.47\00:25:45.81
So three and half years,
Jesus does this confirming,
00:25:45.84\00:25:49.64
the disciples continue for
the next three and half years
00:25:49.68\00:25:52.28
and His covenant is
confirmed for the entire week.
00:25:52.31\00:25:55.88
Now let me get to the
answer of the question.
00:25:55.92\00:25:59.92
If you try the date of Cyrus,
00:25:59.95\00:26:03.39
to begin the rebuilding
00:26:03.43\00:26:04.86
and the
restoration of Jerusalem,
00:26:04.89\00:26:06.46
this prophecy never happens,
and you come up with a gap.
00:26:06.49\00:26:10.87
Nothing occurs,
then you start applying
00:26:10.90\00:26:13.20
different
people to this prophecy
00:26:13.23\00:26:14.94
rather than
applying the prophecy
00:26:14.97\00:26:16.71
particularly to the Messiah.
00:26:16.74\00:26:18.77
This prophecy is
all about the Most Holy,
00:26:18.81\00:26:20.88
the Messiah, the
Messiah, the Prince.
00:26:20.91\00:26:23.08
It's a Messianic Prophecy.
00:26:23.11\00:26:24.45
It's a Messianic Prophecy.
00:26:24.48\00:26:25.81
When you start with
the date that Cyrus gives,
00:26:25.85\00:26:27.95
Cyrus gave the
commission to build the walls.
00:26:27.98\00:26:31.39
Darius gave the
commission to build the temple.
00:26:31.42\00:26:34.59
Artaxerxes gave the commission
00:26:34.62\00:26:36.26
to completely
restore the whole city...
00:26:36.29\00:26:38.73
And send the Jews back.
00:26:38.76\00:26:41.23
And provide the Jews everything
00:26:41.26\00:26:42.63
they need to now go
back to their homeland.
00:26:42.66\00:26:45.13
So the command
was not to rebuilt
00:26:45.17\00:26:47.80
the temple, nor the city,
00:26:47.84\00:26:49.44
the command was to restore
and to rebuild Jerusalem.
00:26:49.47\00:26:52.67
I always add to that,
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.91
what is the city
without people in it.
00:26:54.94\00:26:56.78
Nothing.
00:26:56.81\00:26:58.15
And Artaxerxes is
the one that released
00:26:58.18\00:27:00.05
the people to go
back to their homeland.
00:27:00.08\00:27:01.85
And when you go to Ezra 7,
00:27:01.88\00:27:03.62
you see the
entire letter, Ezra 7.
00:27:03.65\00:27:06.15
You'll read that from verse
12 all the way down to verse 28,
00:27:06.19\00:27:09.56
you'll read the
letter and then Nehemiah,
00:27:09.59\00:27:12.49
when you go to Nehemiah 1-12,
00:27:12.53\00:27:15.00
you see the
Nehemiah made this appeal.
00:27:15.03\00:27:17.30
I need these supplies and yes,
00:27:17.33\00:27:19.47
and Artaxerxes
gives him the commission
00:27:19.50\00:27:21.94
to go and help
finish the building,
00:27:21.97\00:27:24.74
not only begin it but
to help finish the building
00:27:24.77\00:27:27.81
and the
restoration of Jerusalem.
00:27:27.84\00:27:29.21
So here is the reason
why we answered the question
00:27:29.24\00:27:30.85
or how I answered the question.
00:27:30.88\00:27:32.61
Cyrus didn't give
the complete commission,
00:27:32.65\00:27:34.88
Darius did not give
the complete commission,
00:27:34.92\00:27:37.02
only Artaxerxes and when you use
00:27:37.05\00:27:39.42
the year 457 BC
everything happens.
00:27:39.45\00:27:44.13
457 BC, 69 or 483 years later
00:27:44.16\00:27:49.30
take you to the year 27 AD.
00:27:49.33\00:27:53.70
Three and half years
later take you to 31 AD.
00:27:53.74\00:27:56.77
Three and half years
later take you to 34 AD
00:27:56.81\00:27:59.47
and the whole 490
year prophecy is fulfilled.
00:27:59.51\00:28:03.21
The reason why the secret
rapture exist today is because,
00:28:03.24\00:28:08.58
I'm going to say it again,
00:28:08.62\00:28:09.95
the reason why
the secret rapture
00:28:09.98\00:28:11.89
and the seven year
tribulation exist today,
00:28:11.92\00:28:15.59
is because
theologians have taken
00:28:15.62\00:28:18.43
the decree of Cyrus and Darius
00:28:18.46\00:28:21.50
and the prophecy
never had been fulfilled.
00:28:21.53\00:28:24.20
So they come up with a gap,
00:28:24.23\00:28:25.97
and that's where the
seven years of tribulation
00:28:26.00\00:28:28.60
have been created out off.
00:28:28.64\00:28:29.97
They come up with
an unfulfilled prophecy
00:28:30.01\00:28:32.14
and instead of
applying the prophecy
00:28:32.17\00:28:34.18
to the Messiah, the Prince.
00:28:34.21\00:28:37.25
Instead of
applying it to the Christ,
00:28:37.28\00:28:39.78
they apply it to the antichrist.
00:28:39.81\00:28:42.52
So now, here's the question.
00:28:42.55\00:28:43.95
That's even more sinister.
00:28:43.99\00:28:45.32
That's even more sinister.
00:28:45.35\00:28:46.69
So now, here's the question.
00:28:46.72\00:28:48.06
If Jesus was anointed,
if Jesus was crucified,
00:28:48.09\00:28:50.99
if Jesus did have
the gospel commission
00:28:51.03\00:28:53.56
finished by the
disciples in the year 34 AD,
00:28:53.60\00:28:57.10
when Steven was stoned,
if that really did happen.
00:28:57.13\00:28:59.67
Now, that's a
rhetorical statement,
00:28:59.70\00:29:03.81
because it did
happened, he did get anointed,
00:29:03.84\00:29:05.94
he was crucified
and the Jews did stoned
00:29:05.97\00:29:08.51
Steven in the year 34 AD.
00:29:08.54\00:29:10.38
The gospel then
went to the gentiles.
00:29:10.41\00:29:12.51
So the prophecy was
completely fulfilled.
00:29:12.55\00:29:14.68
Here's the point,
if that did happened.
00:29:14.72\00:29:16.99
Bulletin, I don't
want you to miss this.
00:29:17.02\00:29:19.29
There is no room
for a secret rapture.
00:29:19.32\00:29:22.56
There is no room for a
seven year tribulation.
00:29:22.59\00:29:26.06
And Francisco Ribera who
formulated the Rapture Theory,
00:29:26.09\00:29:32.70
by the commission of
the Roman Catholic Church
00:29:32.73\00:29:35.87
did that to get the eyes
of the Protestant reformers
00:29:35.90\00:29:39.61
off of the fact
that Rome fulfills
00:29:39.64\00:29:42.41
the fourth beast of Daniel.
00:29:42.44\00:29:43.81
They created
this whole gap theory,
00:29:43.85\00:29:45.91
this whole secret rapture
00:29:45.95\00:29:47.78
to get the eyes of
the reformers off of Rome,
00:29:47.82\00:29:51.02
bulletin nutshell.
00:29:51.05\00:29:53.09
There is no seven year
tribulation in the future.
00:29:53.12\00:29:54.96
There is no
secret rapture coming.
00:29:54.99\00:29:56.83
It's all a
misapplication of this prophecy.
00:29:56.86\00:29:59.59
When you begin with
Cyrus and begin with Darius,
00:29:59.63\00:30:02.63
the prophecy never is completed.
00:30:02.66\00:30:04.33
But when you
begin with Artaxerxes,
00:30:04.37\00:30:06.13
every single time
element is completely fulfilled.
00:30:06.17\00:30:10.11
So therefore, it's
already been fulfilled.
00:30:10.14\00:30:12.31
There is no gap of seven
years coming down in the future.
00:30:12.34\00:30:14.81
And I hear another
question echoing here,
00:30:14.84\00:30:17.55
and I think I would
just add this piece to it.
00:30:17.58\00:30:20.55
Well, how do you know
that the 70 weeks is 490 years?
00:30:20.58\00:30:25.42
Well we know that because
of the day you're principled
00:30:25.45\00:30:27.86
that commonly used
normally by Jews back then,
00:30:27.89\00:30:31.89
Israelites back then,
00:30:31.93\00:30:33.73
even some who are traditional
in their views today,
00:30:33.76\00:30:37.57
but it's
something that the Bible
00:30:37.60\00:30:39.13
wholeheartedly endorses.
00:30:39.17\00:30:40.97
The second thing
too you'll find is that
00:30:41.00\00:30:43.41
the 70 week prophecy
is only the beginning
00:30:43.44\00:30:46.21
of the longer
prophecy of 2300 days...
00:30:46.24\00:30:48.21
Thank you. Okay, great.
00:30:48.24\00:30:49.58
Which is in Daniel 8. Right.
00:30:49.61\00:30:52.08
And the reason why we know
00:30:52.11\00:30:53.45
they are part
and parcel is because
00:30:53.48\00:30:55.45
the Bible themselves goes back.
00:30:55.48\00:30:57.39
The angel that came to
Daniel the first time comes back
00:30:57.42\00:31:00.26
and helps him understand
the vision from the beginning.
00:31:00.29\00:31:02.92
In other words, the first vision
00:31:02.96\00:31:04.83
which was for Daniel
7 of the four kingdoms,
00:31:04.86\00:31:08.90
the rise and fall coming
to the little horn power.
00:31:08.93\00:31:10.70
Very good point.
00:31:10.73\00:31:12.07
Daniel 8 comes in and
he gives him the 2300 days
00:31:12.10\00:31:13.94
tying it back to that
and then Daniel 9 happens
00:31:13.97\00:31:16.30
which is a
revisit of the 2300 days,
00:31:16.34\00:31:19.64
all these comes together
00:31:19.67\00:31:21.68
and the way we
know it's day for years
00:31:21.71\00:31:23.65
because if you take 2300 days
00:31:23.68\00:31:25.18
which raptures
try to do from Cyrus,
00:31:25.21\00:31:28.18
they try to take literal days.
00:31:28.22\00:31:30.09
They basically, because it says
00:31:30.12\00:31:32.35
evenings and mornings,
00:31:32.39\00:31:33.72
they don't take
it as a whole day,
00:31:33.76\00:31:35.09
they take it as
half, so it becomes 1150,
00:31:35.12\00:31:39.06
then it gets them
kind of in the area
00:31:39.09\00:31:43.70
of the Titus epiphanies,
but they miss it by 15 days.
00:31:43.73\00:31:47.74
So they have to do just
kind of do a lot of maneuvering
00:31:47.77\00:31:50.44
and shifting to
make this thing fit.
00:31:50.47\00:31:53.04
And it's no longer
2300 days, it's 1150.
00:31:53.07\00:31:55.08
Right.
00:31:55.11\00:31:56.44
And what they miss entirely
00:31:56.48\00:31:58.41
as the prophecy
says several times,
00:31:58.45\00:32:00.55
this is a
prophecy that takes us down
00:32:00.58\00:32:02.75
to the later days,
to the end of time.
00:32:02.78\00:32:06.05
And the Titus
epiphanies was not involved
00:32:06.12\00:32:07.69
with the end of time.
00:32:07.72\00:32:09.06
The end of time
is our day today.
00:32:09.09\00:32:11.93
And so, John,
reason why those numbers...
00:32:11.96\00:32:13.73
It's got to be day for a year,
00:32:13.76\00:32:15.10
you can't have
just literal days.
00:32:15.13\00:32:17.17
And the Bible says
00:32:17.20\00:32:19.83
is one of the first
places you find the day
00:32:19.87\00:32:21.27
for the year principle,
00:32:21.30\00:32:22.64
the Lord when the
Israelites were in transgression
00:32:22.67\00:32:25.07
he says, for the 40 days
00:32:25.11\00:32:26.78
that you wandered
in the wilderness,
00:32:26.81\00:32:28.98
I'll give you a day for a year
00:32:29.01\00:32:30.35
and they wandered for 40 years.
00:32:30.38\00:32:31.75
Numbers 14:34m,
00:32:31.78\00:32:33.78
"For each ye shall
bear your guilt one year,
00:32:33.82\00:32:36.08
namely forty years."
00:32:36.12\00:32:38.22
And then also
you find in Ezekiel,
00:32:38.25\00:32:40.99
you find the day year
principle supported there,
00:32:41.02\00:32:42.42
but here's the point
that John brought out,
00:32:42.46\00:32:43.79
very, very important.
00:32:43.83\00:32:45.16
I'm glad you brought this out.
00:32:45.19\00:32:46.66
Whoo!
00:32:46.70\00:32:48.30
This 490 year period was cut off
00:32:48.33\00:32:53.27
from a larger period.
00:32:53.30\00:32:55.34
I'm going to try to put in.
00:32:55.37\00:32:56.71
This 490 year period was cut off
00:32:56.74\00:32:58.81
from a larger period.
00:32:58.84\00:33:00.18
And that cut off in
that is not part of it.
00:33:00.21\00:33:03.04
No, it was allocated.
00:33:03.08\00:33:04.41
We're talking about this
piece from the larger picture.
00:33:04.45\00:33:07.02
It was allocated
from a larger period.
00:33:07.05\00:33:10.55
This portion was
just for the Jews,
00:33:10.59\00:33:12.65
for Daniel's people.
00:33:12.69\00:33:14.22
Beyond that was
leading to the time of the end.
00:33:14.26\00:33:18.09
Now, here is the challenge now.
00:33:18.13\00:33:20.36
Here is the challenge.
00:33:20.40\00:33:21.83
If according to
the rapture theory,
00:33:21.86\00:33:23.57
this was never finished.
00:33:23.60\00:33:25.43
We have at least 1810 years
00:33:25.47\00:33:29.14
before we are living
in the time of the end.
00:33:29.17\00:33:31.71
Do you see the
deficit over there.
00:33:31.74\00:33:33.68
If according to the rapturous,
if this little small period,
00:33:33.71\00:33:37.21
now this is the 490 years,
00:33:37.25\00:33:39.01
let's bring it
down to the one week.
00:33:39.05\00:33:40.38
If the rapture
says this one week
00:33:40.42\00:33:41.82
of the 490 was
not yet completed.
00:33:41.85\00:33:43.92
Well, they're in essence saying,
00:33:43.95\00:33:45.29
after that's done,
00:33:45.32\00:33:46.65
then we still have 1810 left
00:33:46.69\00:33:49.76
before we get to
the time of the end,
00:33:49.79\00:33:51.19
so you see the deficit.
00:33:51.23\00:33:52.56
So this is pushing
the coming of the Lord
00:33:52.59\00:33:54.26
2000 more years
in the future almost.
00:33:54.30\00:33:57.53
But according to the
Bible, that was completed
00:33:57.57\00:34:00.54
and then this followed naturally
00:34:00.57\00:34:02.84
and we're now living
in the time of the end.
00:34:02.87\00:34:04.57
That's right.
00:34:04.61\00:34:05.94
So that's where
the deficit comes in.
00:34:05.97\00:34:07.31
So why do you choose Artaxerxes?
00:34:07.34\00:34:08.88
Artaxerxes completely
fulfills the prophecy to the,
00:34:08.91\00:34:13.05
iota to the date.
00:34:13.08\00:34:15.28
Where as Cyrus said,
just build the temple,
00:34:15.32\00:34:17.42
Darius said,
just build the walls,
00:34:17.45\00:34:19.45
Artaxerxes said
restore the whole city,
00:34:19.49\00:34:22.49
it's government,
it's monetary system
00:34:22.52\00:34:24.73
and send the Jews back home.
00:34:24.76\00:34:26.33
And finish the
wall. And finish the wall.
00:34:26.36\00:34:28.06
'Cause the walls
weren't quite done
00:34:28.10\00:34:29.43
even though they
started the walls.
00:34:29.46\00:34:30.80
And they finished the walls,
00:34:30.83\00:34:32.17
they finished the whole project,
00:34:32.20\00:34:33.54
49 years after 457 BC
00:34:33.57\00:34:36.50
and then the rest of the time
led to the anointing of Jesus,
00:34:36.54\00:34:39.81
His crucifixion,
00:34:39.84\00:34:41.18
the gospel going to the gentiles
00:34:41.21\00:34:42.91
and then the
time of the judgment
00:34:42.94\00:34:44.28
beginning 1810 years later.
00:34:44.31\00:34:46.11
We're living in the
time of the judgment,
00:34:46.15\00:34:47.48
Jesus is soon to come.
00:34:47.52\00:34:48.85
You don't hear
00:34:48.88\00:34:50.22
and this is the
crazy part about it, John,
00:34:50.25\00:34:51.59
I know we spend a
little time with this.
00:34:51.62\00:34:52.95
But today, you
hear every preacher
00:34:52.99\00:34:55.12
and every denomination saying
00:34:55.16\00:34:56.56
Jesus is soon to come.
00:34:56.59\00:34:58.49
But those same denominations
embrace the rapture.
00:34:58.53\00:35:01.80
And they are talking
about different things.
00:35:01.83\00:35:03.16
Right, completely different.
00:35:03.20\00:35:04.53
When they say
Jesus is going to come.
00:35:04.57\00:35:05.90
They're all
thinking different things.
00:35:05.93\00:35:07.27
They're thinking the
church is going to be
00:35:07.30\00:35:08.64
snatched out of here.
00:35:08.67\00:35:10.01
The deficit with
that is it can happen
00:35:10.04\00:35:12.61
if this prophecy was fulfilled.
00:35:12.64\00:35:15.24
And so there is no room at all
00:35:15.28\00:35:17.31
for a seven year
decree with the antichrist,
00:35:17.35\00:35:21.78
the Jews are converted.
00:35:21.82\00:35:23.15
I heard it on the
news, I heard on the radio
00:35:23.18\00:35:25.72
this morning
when I was coming to,
00:35:25.75\00:35:28.02
it's only a two minute ride,
00:35:28.06\00:35:29.39
but I was listening
to one of the stations
00:35:29.42\00:35:31.29
where our
preachers on they talk about,
00:35:31.33\00:35:33.23
you know the church
could disappear any moment.
00:35:33.26\00:35:34.83
Now the rapture
could happen any moment.
00:35:34.86\00:35:36.20
Now when I'm thinking,
00:35:36.23\00:35:37.57
don't you know
that the Catholic Church
00:35:37.60\00:35:39.03
put this theory together
00:35:39.07\00:35:40.40
to just keep you
guys in the dark.
00:35:40.44\00:35:42.67
And lastly,
National Geographic's
00:35:42.70\00:35:46.54
five years ago did a
whole one hour special
00:35:46.57\00:35:50.81
on the secret rapture.
00:35:50.85\00:35:52.41
And they began
the program by saying,
00:35:52.45\00:35:54.95
this theory formulated
nearly 500 years ago by Rome,
00:35:54.98\00:36:01.26
has been embraced by
millions of Christians
00:36:01.29\00:36:03.39
and it's only a theory.
00:36:03.43\00:36:06.16
There you go.
00:36:06.19\00:36:07.53
It's crazy. And we agree.
00:36:07.56\00:36:09.26
And the entire Left
Behind Series of books put in,
00:36:09.30\00:36:12.57
put together by Tim
LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
00:36:12.60\00:36:14.67
Now if people would just
simply turn the book around
00:36:14.70\00:36:16.67
and look on the bottom
it says, it says fiction.
00:36:16.71\00:36:20.24
But it's all embraced
as though it's a doctrine.
00:36:20.28\00:36:22.81
It's amazing. Yeah.
00:36:22.84\00:36:24.18
Anyway thank you for
your questions and comments.
00:36:24.21\00:36:26.21
If you have any more,
00:36:26.25\00:36:27.58
send them to this
following email address,
00:36:27.62\00:36:29.78
housecalls@3abn.org,
that's housecalls@3abn.org.
00:36:29.82\00:36:34.26
We appreciate it.
00:36:34.29\00:36:35.62
Now we know the good
thing about this, John,
00:36:35.66\00:36:37.03
is we don't have to
finish the topic in one sitting.
00:36:37.06\00:36:40.56
But what's our topic for today.
00:36:40.60\00:36:42.56
The topic is Baptism. Wow.
00:36:42.60\00:36:44.50
And it's coming on the
heels of another program
00:36:44.53\00:36:46.57
we did very recently
and that is on repentance.
00:36:46.60\00:36:49.80
Baptism is one of the rites
of repentance you should say.
00:36:49.84\00:36:56.44
That starts with the
beginning of the life
00:36:56.48\00:36:58.01
as one dedicates
himself or herself to Jesus
00:36:58.05\00:37:01.18
and to live a life of holiness
instead of the former life,
00:37:01.22\00:37:04.55
that they repented
of evil, wickedness
00:37:04.59\00:37:08.02
and other things that are part
of our natural tendency to be,
00:37:08.06\00:37:11.56
so baptism is, it is a rite
00:37:11.59\00:37:15.16
but that word doesn't
describe all its meaning
00:37:15.20\00:37:18.33
until we get into the scriptures
00:37:18.37\00:37:19.70
and really understand
the fullness of baptism,
00:37:19.73\00:37:21.67
because it's a
beautiful service.
00:37:21.70\00:37:23.87
It's a beautiful institution.
00:37:23.91\00:37:25.24
Let me define the
word right though,
00:37:25.27\00:37:26.61
not right or write
00:37:26.64\00:37:29.34
but rite as in a rite.
00:37:29.38\00:37:32.28
And we don't want
to use the word ritual
00:37:32.31\00:37:33.78
because it's not a ritual.
00:37:33.82\00:37:35.22
It's a rite,
you know a practice,
00:37:35.25\00:37:36.89
an established rite.
00:37:36.92\00:37:38.55
The Lord says, this is something
00:37:38.59\00:37:39.92
that you need to do
00:37:39.95\00:37:41.29
and baptism is so
vitally important,
00:37:41.32\00:37:43.26
let me give a couple of texts.
00:37:43.29\00:37:44.89
Go first of all to Mark 16:16.
00:37:44.93\00:37:48.93
Look at Mark 16:156.
00:37:48.96\00:37:50.57
We're going to walk
through some of these things
00:37:50.60\00:37:51.93
and baptism is such
a powerful, beautiful,
00:37:51.97\00:37:54.07
but Mark 16:16 shows
in the words of Jesus,
00:37:54.10\00:37:58.87
how imperative baptism is.
00:37:58.91\00:38:02.68
And I want to lead
into that by saying,
00:38:02.71\00:38:05.91
it is so imperative that
without the merits of baptism,
00:38:05.95\00:38:09.42
no one will be saved.
00:38:09.45\00:38:11.02
Mark 16:16, read that, John.
00:38:11.05\00:38:13.66
"He who has believes and
is baptized will be saved,
00:38:13.69\00:38:16.32
but he who does not
believe will be condemned."
00:38:16.36\00:38:18.63
Okay, will be, will
be, will be, not might be.
00:38:18.66\00:38:22.46
Will be saved,
will be condemned.
00:38:22.50\00:38:24.90
It is so imperative, it
is so, it is like saying,
00:38:24.93\00:38:30.44
do I need tires for my car
00:38:30.47\00:38:33.11
or could I just
forego tires this week?
00:38:33.14\00:38:35.58
I got a nice car,
I don't need tires.
00:38:35.61\00:38:38.65
I mean tires.
00:38:38.68\00:38:40.75
You know, without
tires, a 100,000 dollar car,
00:38:40.78\00:38:44.32
a million dollar
car can't go anywhere.
00:38:44.35\00:38:47.72
Tires are
imperative to that vehicle
00:38:47.76\00:38:52.66
getting from point A to point B.
00:38:52.69\00:38:55.70
Baptism is
imperative for the Christian
00:38:55.73\00:38:57.97
to get from here to eternity.
00:38:58.00\00:39:00.44
And so, I use a
phrase the merits of baptism
00:39:00.47\00:39:03.97
because not
everybody is in the position
00:39:04.01\00:39:06.11
where they could physically
get down into the baptistery.
00:39:06.14\00:39:08.68
And there are some unique
situations throughout time,
00:39:08.71\00:39:11.25
but let's begin with
the most core scripture
00:39:11.28\00:39:14.82
that talks about
baptism and that's in Romans 6.
00:39:14.85\00:39:18.49
We're going to begin
with the most core scripture
00:39:18.52\00:39:21.06
that specifically
talks about baptism
00:39:21.09\00:39:23.53
and Romans 6 is where...
00:39:23.56\00:39:26.80
I'm gonna have John,
00:39:26.83\00:39:28.86
begin to read Romans 6
00:39:28.90\00:39:31.83
and we're going to
walk through this together
00:39:31.87\00:39:33.40
and your commentary
and my commentary together.
00:39:33.44\00:39:37.07
It first begins,
00:39:37.11\00:39:39.77
verse 3 actually
starts addressing it.
00:39:39.81\00:39:41.98
But I want the verse 1 and 2.
00:39:42.01\00:39:43.38
Yeah, one and two really
establishes the context here.
00:39:43.41\00:39:45.78
And I like the way
Paul starts it off.
00:39:45.81\00:39:47.85
Go ahead the way
he starts it off.
00:39:47.88\00:39:49.22
"What shall we say then?
00:39:49.25\00:39:51.02
Shall we continue in
sin that grace may abound?
00:39:51.05\00:39:54.12
Certainly not!
00:39:54.16\00:39:55.59
How shall we who died to
sin live any longer in it?"
00:39:55.62\00:39:58.96
Okay, that's right.
00:39:58.99\00:40:00.33
How shall we who died to
sin live any longer in it?
00:40:00.36\00:40:03.93
So he evidently is
going to talk about,
00:40:03.97\00:40:07.40
how we can get to the place
where we don't continue in sin.
00:40:07.44\00:40:10.51
Because he says,
shall we continue in sin
00:40:10.54\00:40:13.11
that grace may abound.
00:40:13.14\00:40:14.84
Of course not, certainly not.
00:40:14.88\00:40:17.51
Okay, so what then, how
do we accomplish that Paul,
00:40:17.55\00:40:19.95
because the real issue is,
how do we discontinue in sin.
00:40:19.98\00:40:25.12
You can have a sermon
call, sin shall be discontinued,
00:40:25.15\00:40:29.56
okay, well how?
00:40:29.59\00:40:31.13
Go ahead and put
the formula, verse 3.
00:40:31.16\00:40:34.40
Verse 3, "Or do you
not know that as many of us
00:40:34.43\00:40:37.37
as were baptized
into Christ Jesus
00:40:37.40\00:40:39.53
were baptized into His death?
00:40:39.57\00:40:41.70
Therefore we
were buried with Him
00:40:41.74\00:40:44.04
through baptism into death,
00:40:44.07\00:40:46.61
that just as Christ
was raised from the dead
00:40:46.64\00:40:49.04
by the glory of the Father,
00:40:49.08\00:40:50.41
even so we also should
walk in the newness of life."
00:40:50.45\00:40:53.28
Go to all way to 6.
00:40:53.31\00:40:55.25
"For if we have
been united together
00:40:55.28\00:40:57.42
in the likeness of His death,
certainly we also shall be
00:40:57.45\00:41:00.52
in the likeness
of His resurrection.
00:41:00.56\00:41:03.06
Knowing this, that our old
man was crucified with Him,
00:41:03.09\00:41:06.29
that the body of sin
might be done away with,
00:41:06.33\00:41:08.96
so that we should no
longer be slaves of sin."
00:41:09.00\00:41:13.54
That's right.
00:41:13.57\00:41:14.90
So now when you look at this,
00:41:14.94\00:41:16.27
you have a couple of components
that are very important.
00:41:16.30\00:41:17.64
What do you see
jumping out immediately
00:41:17.67\00:41:19.61
in this particular passage?
00:41:19.64\00:41:20.98
Well, there's a
direct link between baptism
00:41:21.01\00:41:24.31
and the two parts of it
going down into the water
00:41:24.35\00:41:27.78
and coming up from the water.
00:41:27.82\00:41:29.32
Okay.
00:41:29.35\00:41:30.69
Going down into the water
00:41:30.72\00:41:32.05
is the ceasing
from the old life.
00:41:32.09\00:41:33.56
It's being buried to self,
00:41:33.59\00:41:37.23
dying to self and
the old sinful habits.
00:41:37.26\00:41:40.10
And then they're coming up
00:41:40.13\00:41:41.46
from the water
is being resurrected
00:41:41.50\00:41:43.50
into the newness of life.
00:41:43.53\00:41:45.10
So baptism, the reason
why it's by immersion...
00:41:45.13\00:41:49.70
Let me say it again,
it's by what, John, immersion.
00:41:49.74\00:41:52.74
In other words,
completely immersed in waters
00:41:52.77\00:41:54.51
because the symbol doesn't have
00:41:54.54\00:41:56.31
a fall effect if just sprinkled.
00:41:56.34\00:41:59.01
Because the
reasoning behind the rite,
00:41:59.05\00:42:01.75
what it's
portraying is a complete death
00:42:01.78\00:42:05.69
which people, when you die,
00:42:05.72\00:42:07.52
you are buried in the ground,
00:42:07.56\00:42:08.89
a complete death to
sin going into the water
00:42:08.92\00:42:11.93
and then resurrection
into a newness of life,
00:42:11.96\00:42:14.83
which is of the spiritual
life that we can now trust
00:42:14.86\00:42:18.03
and rely on in
Jesus through His spirit
00:42:18.07\00:42:20.37
to live on from
that point going forward.
00:42:20.40\00:42:23.04
And you know.
00:42:23.07\00:42:24.41
So there's a clear link
there, that's what I'm saying,
00:42:24.44\00:42:25.97
that's what
jumps out of me first.
00:42:26.01\00:42:27.74
And you know, let start with it.
00:42:27.78\00:42:29.11
I want to start with that,
00:42:29.14\00:42:30.48
they're going
down and coming up part
00:42:30.51\00:42:31.85
and I want to do
that by going to the story
00:42:31.88\00:42:33.75
where the baptism that
matter the most occurred.
00:42:33.78\00:42:39.12
Matthew 3.
00:42:39.15\00:42:41.92
The baptism that
mattered the most occurred
00:42:41.96\00:42:46.26
in Matthew 3.
00:42:46.29\00:42:49.13
All right.
00:42:49.16\00:42:51.53
Matthew 3,
00:42:51.57\00:42:53.30
we are going to
look at verse 13.
00:42:53.34\00:42:57.21
"Then Jesus came
from Galilee to John,
00:42:57.24\00:43:03.11
at the Jordon to
be baptized by him.
00:43:03.14\00:43:06.58
And John tried to prevent him,
00:43:06.61\00:43:09.72
saying, I have need
to be baptized by you,
00:43:09.75\00:43:13.72
and now you coming to me?
00:43:13.76\00:43:15.92
But Jesus
answered and said to him,
00:43:15.96\00:43:18.23
'Permit it be so now,
00:43:18.26\00:43:20.16
for thus it is fitting for us
00:43:20.20\00:43:24.07
to fulfill all righteousness.'
00:43:24.10\00:43:27.84
'' Then he allowed him.
00:43:27.87\00:43:29.54
I'm gonna stop there
and let me go to verse 16.
00:43:29.57\00:43:32.31
"Then Jesus, when he
had been baptized, came up.
00:43:32.34\00:43:36.11
See, he would have
to go down to came up.
00:43:36.14\00:43:38.61
Came up
immediately from the water.
00:43:38.65\00:43:41.32
And behold the
heavens opened to him
00:43:41.35\00:43:43.85
and he saw the Spirit of God
00:43:43.89\00:43:45.25
descending like a dove
and alighting upon Him.
00:43:45.29\00:43:47.46
And I'll just finish
verse 17, that make application.
00:43:47.49\00:43:50.09
And suddenly a voice
came from heaven saying,
00:43:50.13\00:43:53.83
"This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased."
00:43:53.86\00:43:58.80
Now, I want to
focus on verse 15.
00:43:58.83\00:44:01.40
Just so, we could find out...
00:44:01.44\00:44:02.80
Just so we could know
why he said, what he said.
00:44:02.84\00:44:06.88
Because if baptism
is the symbolization
00:44:06.91\00:44:09.38
of the end of the sinful life,
00:44:09.41\00:44:11.31
and the beginning
of righteous life.
00:44:11.35\00:44:14.12
Was Jesus ending a sinful life?
00:44:14.15\00:44:16.99
And the answer is yes.
00:44:17.02\00:44:19.35
But not His sinful life.
00:44:19.39\00:44:21.72
Right. Okay.
00:44:21.76\00:44:23.09
Isaiah 53:6 Go there quickly,
00:44:23.12\00:44:25.09
read that for us,
John, Isaiah 53:6.
00:44:25.13\00:44:27.70
We got to
understand, why he said,
00:44:27.73\00:44:31.20
"Permit it to be so now,
for thus it is fitting for us
00:44:31.23\00:44:34.30
to fulfill all righteousness."
00:44:34.34\00:44:36.14
Well, how do you
fulfill righteousness
00:44:36.17\00:44:38.17
except you get rid of sin.
00:44:38.21\00:44:40.74
What was he doing?
00:44:40.78\00:44:42.11
Why did he say that?
00:44:42.14\00:44:43.48
If this has to
happen for righteousness
00:44:43.51\00:44:46.15
to be fulfilled in other words,
00:44:46.18\00:44:47.95
for
righteousness to come to pass,
00:44:47.98\00:44:49.72
I got to do this.
00:44:49.75\00:44:51.75
Look at what he was
doing, Why was he baptizing?
00:44:51.79\00:44:54.79
Why was he getting baptized?
00:44:54.82\00:44:56.52
Look at what He did.
00:44:56.56\00:44:57.89
Look what happened, Isaiah 53:6.
00:44:57.93\00:44:59.93
"All we like
sheep have gone astray,
00:44:59.96\00:45:02.96
we have turned
every one to his own way,
00:45:03.00\00:45:05.73
and the Lord has laid on
him the iniquity of us all."
00:45:05.77\00:45:08.87
Oh now, you want to get
that, you want to get this.
00:45:08.90\00:45:12.17
What was laid on Him?
00:45:12.21\00:45:15.04
The iniquity of all of us.
00:45:15.08\00:45:16.44
Okay, so laid on him now,
00:45:16.48\00:45:18.81
he became sin for us,
00:45:18.85\00:45:22.48
that we might become
00:45:22.52\00:45:23.85
the righteousness of
God through Christ Jesus.
00:45:23.89\00:45:26.55
So now, He is
going into the water
00:45:26.59\00:45:28.69
with whose sin on Him?
00:45:28.72\00:45:32.56
The world's. The world's.
00:45:32.59\00:45:34.43
He's fulfilling the
plan of salvation in stages.
00:45:34.46\00:45:38.03
He's saying, okay,
I'm taking this sin,
00:45:38.07\00:45:40.70
we're going into
this baptismal pool,
00:45:40.74\00:45:42.67
I'm coming up now to
walk, and as Paul says,
00:45:42.70\00:45:47.34
Jesus Christ, he came to
walk in the newness of life.
00:45:47.38\00:45:50.31
Not only that, from
the resurrectional point,
00:45:50.35\00:45:53.08
but he is now taking our sin,
00:45:53.11\00:45:55.42
He is going into
this watery grave,
00:45:55.45\00:45:56.89
He said, this is the rite
00:45:56.92\00:45:58.25
by which all
righteousness is fulfilled.
00:45:58.29\00:46:00.72
When we go into
the watery grave,
00:46:00.76\00:46:02.76
we are going into the death.
00:46:02.79\00:46:05.53
We are now
through the same rite,
00:46:05.56\00:46:07.30
baptism as Jesus participated,
00:46:07.33\00:46:09.73
we're going into the same
rite as Jesus participated.
00:46:09.76\00:46:14.10
He took with him
the iniquity of a soul.
00:46:14.14\00:46:17.11
He took that,
00:46:17.14\00:46:18.47
he was carrying
that in human form.
00:46:18.51\00:46:20.48
He carried that from
his baptism to the cross.
00:46:20.51\00:46:24.08
And then, look what happened.
00:46:24.11\00:46:25.45
Let's go back to Romans 6.
00:46:25.48\00:46:27.12
What was he carrying?
00:46:27.15\00:46:29.45
Verse 4, Romans 6:4,
00:46:29.48\00:46:31.89
"Therefore we
are buried with Him
00:46:31.92\00:46:33.89
through baptism into death,
00:46:33.92\00:46:36.66
that just as Christ
was raised from the dead
00:46:36.69\00:46:39.39
by the glory of the Father,
00:46:39.43\00:46:41.00
even so we also should
walk in newness of life."
00:46:41.03\00:46:43.67
Now, I want you to get this.
00:46:43.70\00:46:45.67
He was raised
from spiritual death
00:46:45.70\00:46:52.27
at baptism from
physical death at the cross.
00:46:52.31\00:46:57.65
Follow this carefully.
00:46:57.68\00:47:00.22
At the baptismal pool
00:47:00.25\00:47:02.68
that is that
death to the old man.
00:47:02.72\00:47:04.99
He has been put to death there.
00:47:05.02\00:47:07.19
Jesus went into that grave,
00:47:07.22\00:47:09.99
then He went into
the physical grave
00:47:10.03\00:47:11.96
and he survived them both.
00:47:11.99\00:47:13.90
He came up to show that
00:47:13.93\00:47:15.26
we come forth
anointed now at our baptism
00:47:15.30\00:47:17.77
to walk in this new life
00:47:17.80\00:47:19.50
and He came forth
from the grave to say,
00:47:19.53\00:47:21.50
"Now I've
conquered sin completely.
00:47:21.54\00:47:24.21
Now you can have new life.
00:47:24.24\00:47:26.07
New life after baptism
00:47:26.11\00:47:27.54
and new life in
the kingdom eternally.
00:47:27.58\00:47:29.71
So baptism here is the
entrance into a new life.
00:47:29.74\00:47:35.38
But I want to go on further.
00:47:35.42\00:47:36.75
So let's look at
00:47:36.79\00:47:38.12
what are the
passages do we have here.
00:47:38.15\00:47:40.76
Mark 16:16,
00:47:40.79\00:47:42.72
what happens in this
deliverance from sin,
00:47:42.76\00:47:46.39
We're delivered from sin,
but what are we delivered to?
00:47:46.43\00:47:50.77
To salvation.
00:47:50.80\00:47:52.13
Okay, let's go
ahead and do that one,
00:47:52.17\00:47:55.14
1 Peter 2:9 and 10.
00:47:55.17\00:47:57.67
Okay, "But you are
a chosen generation,
00:47:57.71\00:48:00.04
a royal
priesthood, a holy nation,
00:48:00.08\00:48:02.34
His own special people;
00:48:02.38\00:48:03.71
that you may
proclaim the praises of him
00:48:03.75\00:48:05.91
who called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light."
00:48:05.95\00:48:08.65
Okay.
00:48:08.68\00:48:10.02
"Who once were not a people,
but are now the people of God;
00:48:10.05\00:48:13.86
Who had not obtained mercy,
but now have obtained mercy."
00:48:13.89\00:48:17.53
Okay, so what's happening here
is in the mercy of the Lord,
00:48:17.56\00:48:22.63
you find that He is calling us
00:48:22.66\00:48:24.83
out of something into something.
00:48:24.87\00:48:26.37
He is calling us
out of what into what,
00:48:26.40\00:48:28.20
according to this
verse? Darkness into light.
00:48:28.24\00:48:30.04
Out of darkness into light.
00:48:30.07\00:48:31.54
So now, prior to
baptism, you were in darkness.
00:48:31.57\00:48:37.31
Post baptism, you
are now walking in...
00:48:37.35\00:48:40.08
To light.
00:48:40.12\00:48:41.45
Okay, any evidence of that?
00:48:41.48\00:48:42.82
Go to 1 John.
00:48:42.85\00:48:44.49
Look at 1 John 1.
00:48:44.52\00:48:48.42
1 John 1:6.
00:48:48.46\00:48:51.33
Okay.
00:48:51.36\00:48:52.69
"If we say that we
have fellowship with Him,
00:48:52.73\00:48:54.20
and walk in darkness,
00:48:54.23\00:48:56.77
we lie and do not
practice the truth."
00:48:56.80\00:48:59.17
Okay, and then
in the next verse,
00:48:59.20\00:49:01.50
"But if we walk in the
light as He is in the light,
00:49:01.54\00:49:04.54
we have
fellowship with one another,
00:49:04.57\00:49:06.54
and the blood of Jesus Christ,
00:49:06.57\00:49:08.21
His Son cleanses
us from all sin."
00:49:08.24\00:49:12.71
So the fellowship with darkness
is what we have before Christ,
00:49:12.75\00:49:17.62
the fellowship in light
is what we have after Christ.
00:49:17.65\00:49:20.42
If we walk in the
light as he is in the light,
00:49:20.46\00:49:22.62
we have
fellowship with one another.
00:49:22.66\00:49:25.26
But what I want to
bring out is 1 John 1:9.
00:49:25.29\00:49:29.00
Are you thinking?
00:49:29.03\00:49:30.37
No, you just go
ahead and read this
00:49:30.40\00:49:31.97
and then I'll come in,
00:49:32.00\00:49:33.34
and I'm going to
go back to Romans.
00:49:33.37\00:49:34.70
Okay, well, 1 John 1:9,
00:49:34.74\00:49:36.27
"If we confess our sins..."
00:49:36.30\00:49:37.97
"He is faithful and just..."
00:49:38.01\00:49:39.34
"To forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us
00:49:39.37\00:49:41.58
from all unrighteousness."
00:49:41.61\00:49:45.18
So that process of baptism,
00:49:45.21\00:49:48.22
the unrighteousness that existed
00:49:48.25\00:49:50.69
prior to baptism
has been cleansed away
00:49:50.72\00:49:53.32
through the rite of baptism.
00:49:53.36\00:49:56.42
That's what that whole death,
00:49:56.46\00:49:58.99
burial and
resurrection is all about.
00:49:59.03\00:50:01.33
You want to go back to Romans 6.
00:50:01.36\00:50:02.93
Well, the reason why is because
00:50:02.96\00:50:04.30
Romans is Paul's thesis,
00:50:04.33\00:50:08.57
his thesis on
salvation, redemption.
00:50:08.60\00:50:14.11
And baptism is right
at the forefront of that.
00:50:14.14\00:50:17.25
I mean, that's a
key part of it and so,
00:50:17.28\00:50:19.48
we just read from Romans 6
00:50:19.51\00:50:22.22
and as he describes coming up
00:50:22.25\00:50:25.05
out of the watery
grave into new life,
00:50:25.09\00:50:27.86
he then begins to talk about
the new life experiences about.
00:50:27.89\00:50:30.59
Right.
00:50:30.63\00:50:32.09
And Chapter 7, he
talks about the battle,
00:50:32.13\00:50:34.90
that even though
we come in a new life,
00:50:34.93\00:50:36.36
the old life
wants to get us back.
00:50:36.40\00:50:39.10
So you have this
constantly going back and forth,
00:50:39.13\00:50:41.04
what I want to do, I don't do
00:50:41.07\00:50:42.97
but yet what I desire to do,
00:50:43.00\00:50:45.07
I don't find the
will in myself to do it.
00:50:45.11\00:50:47.58
And then in Chapter 8,
00:50:47.61\00:50:49.14
he describes how it can be done,
00:50:49.18\00:50:51.31
which is walking in the
spirit not in the flesh.
00:50:51.35\00:50:54.78
In our recent program we said,
00:50:54.82\00:50:56.18
if you want to know
what that word flesh means,
00:50:56.22\00:50:57.65
take off the H and read
it backwards, it's self.
00:50:57.69\00:51:01.36
And so they are
walking in the newness of life
00:51:01.39\00:51:06.86
when we come up out of baptism,
00:51:06.90\00:51:08.66
is being
described here in Chapter 8,
00:51:08.70\00:51:10.97
as a walk in the
spirit now, not in the flesh
00:51:11.00\00:51:15.50
or in the propensity that
self just drives us to sin,
00:51:15.54\00:51:22.08
that old self,
which is always there.
00:51:22.11\00:51:24.58
So if I am reading here then,
00:51:24.61\00:51:26.82
because we've connected
the old man and the new man
00:51:26.85\00:51:29.42
with baptism being in between.
00:51:29.45\00:51:31.82
We can read
baptism into everything
00:51:31.85\00:51:33.82
that is coming and what
follows Chapter 6, right?
00:51:33.86\00:51:36.36
True, we can.
00:51:36.39\00:51:37.73
So if we read then,
Romans 8, listen to this.
00:51:37.76\00:51:40.30
"There is
therefore now no condemnation
00:51:40.33\00:51:42.23
to those who are
in Christ Jesus."
00:51:42.26\00:51:44.17
Now, Paul uses this
over and over again,
00:51:44.20\00:51:46.13
in Christ, in Christ.
00:51:46.17\00:51:47.94
It is repeated by
him over and over again,
00:51:47.97\00:51:49.94
describing those who have
come out of the watery grave
00:51:49.97\00:51:52.91
from baptism into the new life.
00:51:52.94\00:51:54.98
Right, you're in
Christ, that's right.
00:51:55.01\00:51:57.28
"Who do not walk
according to the flesh
00:51:57.31\00:51:58.91
but according to the spirit.
00:51:58.95\00:52:00.28
For the law of spirit
of life in Christ Jesus
00:52:00.32\00:52:02.85
has made me free from
the law of sin and death.
00:52:02.88\00:52:06.76
For what the law could not do,
00:52:06.79\00:52:08.39
and that it was
weak through the flesh,
00:52:08.42\00:52:09.76
God did by sending his Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh
00:52:09.79\00:52:12.43
and for sin, he
condemned sin in the flesh."
00:52:12.46\00:52:14.83
That's right. So...
00:52:14.86\00:52:17.83
This is an amazing,
00:52:17.87\00:52:19.20
this whole
description here of this walk.
00:52:19.23\00:52:22.20
He is really
describing pre-baptism,
00:52:22.24\00:52:24.97
post-baptism
spiritual experience.
00:52:25.01\00:52:28.24
Everything Paul has here
in the following chapters
00:52:28.28\00:52:31.98
after six is initiated,
00:52:32.01\00:52:35.72
it's the right that initiates
this experience is baptism.
00:52:35.75\00:52:40.62
That's why I like
to clarify something
00:52:40.66\00:52:43.36
that often gets misconstrued.
00:52:43.39\00:52:47.00
Let me go ahead and
look at here, Romans 6.
00:52:47.03\00:52:50.63
Look at Romans 6.
00:52:50.67\00:52:53.84
And I want to just
go ahead and answer this
00:52:53.87\00:52:58.07
because this text in
the midst of the baptism,
00:52:58.11\00:53:01.44
the practice of the believers.
00:53:01.48\00:53:02.81
This text has
been used by so many,
00:53:02.84\00:53:07.45
so falsely and so unjustly
00:53:07.48\00:53:09.65
to kind of make it appear...
00:53:09.68\00:53:11.19
Let me just set it up.
00:53:11.22\00:53:12.75
Why do we need to be saved?
00:53:12.79\00:53:15.49
Because we are lost.
00:53:15.52\00:53:17.33
What are we being saved from?
00:53:17.36\00:53:19.69
The penalty of sin.
00:53:19.73\00:53:21.33
What is sin?
00:53:21.36\00:53:22.70
The violation of God's law.
00:53:22.73\00:53:24.43
So now let's go ahead
and put this together.
00:53:24.47\00:53:26.84
If there is no
law, there is no sin.
00:53:26.87\00:53:30.11
If there is no sin,
there is no need for salvation.
00:53:30.14\00:53:33.74
So then, baptism
needs to be cancelled.
00:53:33.78\00:53:35.91
So if your church teaches
00:53:35.94\00:53:37.95
that God's law has
been done away with,
00:53:37.98\00:53:40.82
you don't need to be baptized,
you're already righteous,
00:53:40.85\00:53:43.69
'cause there's no law.
00:53:43.72\00:53:45.55
If there is no
law, there is no sin.
00:53:45.59\00:53:47.96
So if they say that God's
law has been done away with,
00:53:47.99\00:53:51.33
and you're free from the law,
00:53:51.36\00:53:52.86
then you don't
need to be baptized.
00:53:52.89\00:53:54.53
And matter of fact, you
don't need to be Christian
00:53:54.56\00:53:57.00
because everybody else
then now since there is no law,
00:53:57.03\00:53:59.03
and nobody is a sinner.
00:53:59.07\00:54:00.40
In fact I would
even suggest that,
00:54:00.44\00:54:01.80
Jesus would never have
initiated the right of baptism,
00:54:01.84\00:54:04.14
had there been a
doing away with the law.
00:54:04.17\00:54:07.38
So now, I want to read this text
00:54:07.41\00:54:08.94
and put it in
the proper context.
00:54:08.98\00:54:11.91
Romans 6:14.
00:54:11.95\00:54:16.52
And then I'm gonna
put it in the context.
00:54:16.55\00:54:18.62
"For sin shall not
have dominion over you,
00:54:18.65\00:54:24.29
for you are not under
the law but under grace.
00:54:24.33\00:54:28.06
What then?
00:54:28.10\00:54:29.43
Shall we sin because
we are not under the law
00:54:29.46\00:54:32.23
but under grace?
00:54:32.27\00:54:33.67
Certainly not."
00:54:33.70\00:54:35.80
Okay, so now get this.
00:54:35.84\00:54:38.24
We are not under the
law, but under grace.
00:54:38.27\00:54:40.98
What a lot of
people don't understand,
00:54:41.01\00:54:42.44
is Paul is talking
about the condemnation.
00:54:42.48\00:54:46.05
You look at the law,
and you say I am a sinner,
00:54:46.08\00:54:50.25
it condemns me,
00:54:50.29\00:54:51.95
but now when you are in Christ,
the condemnation is gone.
00:54:51.99\00:54:57.03
You just read Romans 8.
00:54:57.06\00:54:58.73
Read it again in
the context of it.
00:54:58.76\00:55:00.10
There is
therefore no condemnation
00:55:00.13\00:55:01.56
to those in Christ Jesus.
00:55:01.60\00:55:02.93
So we are not under the
law but we are under grace.
00:55:02.96\00:55:06.47
The law no longer condemns us.
00:55:06.50\00:55:08.50
What do you think
the rest of that verse
00:55:08.54\00:55:09.97
at least in the New
King James Version is
00:55:10.01\00:55:12.34
"Who walk not
according to the flesh
00:55:12.37\00:55:13.91
but according to the spirit."
00:55:13.94\00:55:15.28
Right.
00:55:15.31\00:55:16.64
Is 'cause the condemnation
00:55:16.68\00:55:18.01
is there when you
walk in the flesh.
00:55:18.05\00:55:19.38
That's right.
00:55:19.41\00:55:20.75
Because the law is in
force, and it condemns you.
00:55:20.78\00:55:24.92
But you are no longer
under that condemnation
00:55:24.95\00:55:27.36
because the law
although it is enforced
00:55:27.39\00:55:29.22
and doesn't condemn you
because you're in Christ.
00:55:29.26\00:55:31.89
That's what Paul is saying.
00:55:31.93\00:55:33.26
Powerful, when
you are in Christ,
00:55:33.29\00:55:35.20
the condemnation is
no longer over you head.
00:55:35.23\00:55:37.17
Let me use one
beautiful illustration.
00:55:37.20\00:55:39.00
Being on death row,
00:55:39.03\00:55:40.37
if anybody has
ever heard the phrase
00:55:40.40\00:55:42.27
death row or being imprisoned,
00:55:42.30\00:55:43.64
or let's use death row,
00:55:43.67\00:55:45.01
that's the most
appropriate example here.
00:55:45.04\00:55:48.41
And all the sudden
your sentence is commuted
00:55:48.44\00:55:51.31
and you are now set
free, you have been justified,
00:55:51.35\00:55:54.18
you've been set
free, you've been let go.
00:55:54.22\00:55:57.25
Has the laws of the land,
00:55:57.29\00:55:58.62
all been just eliminated
to get you out of there?
00:55:58.65\00:56:01.29
No.
00:56:01.32\00:56:02.66
The laws of the land
had not been eliminated
00:56:02.69\00:56:04.26
to get you out of there.
00:56:04.29\00:56:05.63
You have been set free
00:56:05.66\00:56:07.00
but the laws of
land still apply.
00:56:07.03\00:56:08.46
You cannot get off the death row
00:56:08.50\00:56:10.03
and now go commit murder.
00:56:10.07\00:56:11.60
Because you instantly remember,
00:56:11.63\00:56:14.60
oh, I just got set
free from death row
00:56:14.64\00:56:16.67
and I just kill somebody.
00:56:16.71\00:56:18.04
The law is still in effect.
00:56:18.07\00:56:19.41
When you get
out, you are no longer
00:56:19.44\00:56:21.61
under the
condemnation of the law.
00:56:21.64\00:56:25.18
You've been set free
but if you violate it,
00:56:25.21\00:56:28.22
you'll be back under
its condemnation again
00:56:28.25\00:56:30.65
and you'll be back, it's
called the recidivism rate.
00:56:30.69\00:56:33.66
And it even goes
further than that.
00:56:33.69\00:56:35.26
The law in respect to
how we view it has changed.
00:56:35.29\00:56:40.30
Because in Romans 8:2 it says,
00:56:40.33\00:56:42.26
"For the law of
the spirit of life
00:56:42.30\00:56:44.43
in Christ Jesus has made me free
00:56:44.47\00:56:46.03
from the law of sin and death."
00:56:46.07\00:56:47.40
Same law but before Christ
00:56:47.44\00:56:49.94
it was a law that
was of sin and death.
00:56:49.97\00:56:52.24
After Christ,
00:56:52.27\00:56:53.61
it's the law of the
spirit that sets me free.
00:56:53.64\00:56:56.24
It's a same law, but
it's a different effect
00:56:56.28\00:56:59.61
is to how it is
viewed by the individual
00:56:59.65\00:57:01.95
in Christ versus not in Christ.
00:57:01.98\00:57:03.32
Right, because the
commandments of Lord
00:57:03.35\00:57:05.29
no longer becomes offensive
after because you're free.
00:57:05.32\00:57:07.99
You can look at us and tell,
00:57:08.02\00:57:09.36
Hey, I'm living in harmony
with the commandments of God,
00:57:09.39\00:57:11.53
but the law of sin and death
00:57:11.56\00:57:13.53
and the law of
the spirit of life,
00:57:13.56\00:57:15.63
we're gonna deal
with that in specific,
00:57:15.66\00:57:17.00
so you know exactly
what that is in particular
00:57:17.03\00:57:19.33
but friends, what an
exciting topic to know
00:57:19.37\00:57:21.34
that through baptism,
00:57:21.37\00:57:23.47
we can be all that the
Lord intends for us to be.
00:57:23.51\00:57:26.34
So when the House
Calls comes to you,
00:57:26.37\00:57:28.11
respond by asking
Christ into your life.
00:57:28.14\00:57:30.85
God bless you.
00:57:30.88\00:57:32.21