Participants: Bill Santos
Series Code: IIWC
Program Code: IIWC201233
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00:02 >>Bill: A rabbi and a pompous woman who were attending a luncheon were
00:04 conversing. 00:06 "One of my ancestors," boasted the woman, "signed the Declaration of 00:10 Independence." 00:12 "Is that so?" 00:14 asked the rabbi. 00:15 "One of mine wrote the Ten commandments." 00:35 ANNOUNCER: It has stood the test of time. 00:37 God's book: the Bible, 00:41 still relevant in today's complex world. 00:45 It Is Written, 00:48 sharing the messages of hope around the world. 01:02 It was on Mount Sinai that Moses received the Ten commandments. 01:06 He didn''t write them. 01:09 He received them from God, and these commandments have become a reliable 01:13 guide to behavior for millions of people on this earth. 01:18 There is a story told of a church member who was going to visit Mount Sinai 01:24 where the Ten commandments were given by Almighty God to his servant Moses. 01:28 In fact, he told his Pastor that he planned to actually climb the 01:32 mountain and when he reached the top to read aloud the Ten 01:35 commandments. 01:38 Thinking this would please the Pastor, the church member was surprised to 01:43 hear his pastor say, "You know, I can think of something even better than 01:48 that." 01:49 The man responded, "You can, Pastor? 01:52 And what might that be?" 01:54 The Pastor replied rather bluntly, "Just this. 01:58 Instead of traveling thousands of miles to read the Ten commandments on 02:03 Mount Sinai, why not stay right here at home and keep them?" 02:09 It is believed by some Christians that God's Law - the Ten Commandments 02:12 given to Moses on Mt. 02:14 Sinai is not applicable to Christians. 02:19 Some have argued - that there were no Christians when God gave the law so 02:24 therefore it is not necessary to keep the Commandments today - I 02:28 wonder, what does the Bible say about keeping the Ten Commandments - 02:34 join me now as we Ask The Bible about the Ten Commandments. 02:41 In some of the saddest verses in the New Testament Jesus says . 02:44 Matthew 7: 21 - 23 03:20 What makes this passage so sad? 03:24 Well, the people Jesus is referring to in these verses They call Him 03:27 "Lord. 03:29 " They preach in God's name. 03:30 They cast out devils. 03:32 They do all kinds of wonderful things in the name of God - but Jesus 03:35 says He doesn't know them, because they are lawless. 03:38 They will not do the will of God. 03:42 They wouldn't trust God enough to actually just do what He says. 03:46 In the end, even though they played church and looked like Christians, 03:51 and they sounded like Christians, they were still lost. 03:55 Why? 03:56 Because they were lawless. 04:00 It turns out that situation ethics isn't just in the world, it's in 04:04 the church, too. 04:08 A Gallup Poll conducted a couple of years ago discovered that 04:21 Why does that matter? 04:24 Look at what John told us: 1 John 3: 4 04:43 But I thought the law was only for the Old Testament! 04:47 Ever heard that before? 04:49 Let me ask you a really easy question: Is the book of 1 John in the New 04:55 Testament or the Old Testament? 04:56 The New! 04:58 Let me ask you another question: Do we still have sin in our world tonight? 05:02 Of course. 05:05 So let's put two and two together - if there's sin in our world today, and 05:10 sin is the transgression of the law - does the moral law of God still 05:15 count? 05:17 Of course. 05:18 Or there would be no such thing as sin. 05:21 And nobody born in the New Testament era would need Jesus at all. 05:26 And we know that's not true. 05:28 Sin exists, and people still need Jesus - so therefore, according to 05:31 the Bible, the law of God must still exist, too. 05:37 "But I though that Jesus did away with the law! 05:43 Didn't Jesus nail the law to the cross? 05:46 " Yes and no. 05:50 Let me explain. 05:52 I have heard some Christians say that in the Old Testament people were 05:55 saved by keeping God's law, but now we're saved by grace. 06:01 Have you ever heard anything like that? 06:04 The Word of God is clear that everybody has always been saved in exactly the 06:10 same way - by grace through faith in what Jesus did for us at the 06:17 cross of Calvary. 06:19 Look at Acts 4: 12 06:34 The fact is that nobody has ever been saved by keeping the law. 06:40 Not even in the Old Testament. 06:42 It's always been by faith. 06:44 The Old Testament prophet Habakuk said: Habakuk 2: 4 06:58 Whether you lived in the Old Testament or the New Testament, you were saved 07:20 Whether you lived in the Old Testament or the New Testament, you were saved 07:24 exactly the same way - by faith in the Messiah. 07:28 The eleventh chapter of Hebrews is a list of Old Testament people who have 07:32 been saved by faith. 07:35 Why? 07:37 Because it's always been that way. 07:41 But still the Bible teaches that something changed when Jesus died on 07:46 the cross, right? 07:49 And if it wasn't the method of salvation, what was it? 07:52 In the Old Testament, there is more than one kind of law. 07:57 The Ten Commandments, or the moral law of God. 08:03 You shall not steal, you shall not commit adultery, and so on. 08:06 This is the law that John says it is a sin to break even to this day. 08:12 It is still wrong to worship other gods. 08:14 It is still wrong to murder. 08:17 It is still wrong to take God's name in vain. 08:20 The other is called the Law of Moses - And this law had to do with special 08:26 ceremonies, rites, rituals and ordinances. 08:30 It was the law that regulated the sacrificial system. 08:35 In the Old Testament, sinners would confess their sins over a lamb or 08:41 another animal, and their sins would be symbolically transferred to that lamb. 08:48 Then that lamb would symbolically die in their place. 08:54 Tell me - what did that represent? 08:58 Jesus Christ. 09:02 Through the sacrificial system, people looked forward to what the 09:07 Messiah would do for them when He came. 09:10 That's why John the Baptist called Jesus the "Lamb of God which takes 09:17 away the sins of the world. 09:20 " (John 1:29) every Hebrew mind thought, lamb of Go - that is what all those 09:24 little lambs represented. 09:27 Those little lambs were never able to save anybody. 09:31 They were just symbols. 09:34 They helped people look forward to the cross in faith, and that faith 09:37 saved them. 09:41 But when Jesus Himself came, we didn't need the symbols anymore, because 09:44 we had the real thing. 09:46 That's why, when Jesus died, the veil in the temple was torn in two. 09:51 We didn't need it anymore. 09:52 It was just a symbol. 09:54 Folks, salvation has always been by faith. 09:58 In the Old Testament, they used symbols to help them see the cross coming, and 10:02 by faith they were saved. 10:05 In the New Testament, we look back to that same cross in faith, and we are 10:11 saved. 10:13 What changed at the cross? 10:17 Not God's moral law. 10:19 It was the ceremonial law. 10:21 We don't need it anymore. 10:24 But the moral law - God's ten commandment law - it still applies. 10:27 How do I know? 10:29 Jesus said so: Matthew 5: 17 - 19 11:12 Jesus said that as long as the earth and sky are still there, so is His 11:17 law. 11:19 In fact, it has always been there. 11:22 It was there before Moses got it written on two tables of stone at Mt. 11:25 Sinai. 11:27 How do I know? 11:28 Because Abraham kept it: Genesis 26: 5 11:44 God's law still counts. 11:48 Satan hates it, the antichrist hates it, but God's people love it, and 11:52 God's people keep it. 11:55 How do I know? 11:57 The Bible tells me so: Look at 1 John 2: 3 - 4 12:23 That's how you can tell who the real Christians are in the last days. 12:26 They love to keep God's law. 12:30 They love to show the world that God is love through their behaviour: 12:34 God's people keep God's law. 12:38 Why? 12:39 Because it saves them? 12:40 No. 12:41 Because God asks them to do it. 12:46 John 14: 15 12:54 We do it because we love Him. 12:59 God's people keep God's law - speaking of God's Last Day people- those 13:07 that will be alive at the time of the return of Jesus - John writes: 13:10 Revelation 14:12 13:40 God's laws matter in God's kingdom, and they matter to God's people. 13:49 Roger Staubach who led the Dallas Cowboys to the Superbowl in '72 admitted 13:57 that his position as a quarterback who didn't call his own signals was a 14:01 source of trial for him. 14:05 Coach Landry sent in every play. 14:11 He told Roger when to pass, when to run and only in emergency situations 14:16 could he change the play (and he had better be right! 14:20 ). 14:22 Even though Roger considered coach Landry to have a "genius mind" when 14:28 it came to football strategy, pride said that he should be able to run 14:32 his own team. 14:33 Roger later said, 14:48 Some years ago, Erma Bombeck printed a piece about having the meanness 14:50 parents in all the world. 14:53 It went something like this: I had the meanest parents in all the world. 14:58 When I was seven years old they dared to spank me just because I told them I 15:02 would not do what they asked me to do to help around the house. 15:07 My friend next door never got spanked. 15:10 He didn't have to help at home. 15:12 He had nice parents. 15:13 I had the meanest parents. 15:16 I had to eat all my broccoli and carrots before they would ever let 15:18 me have dessert. 15:20 My friend next door never had to eat vegetables. 15:23 He had fast food brought in with burgers and shakes and brownies with all 15:27 kinds of ice cream. 15:29 I had the meanest parents. 15:32 They made me go to church every Sunday as long as I lived under their roof, 15:35 sit there in that boring worship service. 15:38 My friend next door could do as he pleased. 15:41 He never went to church. 15:43 Sunday was a fun day for him. 15:44 I had the meanest parents. 15:48 They made me work for my allowance. 15:50 I had to get a job helping an elderly old man with chores around his house. 15:55 My friend next door never had to do anything and he was given four times as 15:58 much allowance as I could ever earn. 16:02 He had nice parents. 16:05 I had the meanest parents. 16:07 When I turned sixteen, they made me earn points before I could drive the 16:10 family car. 16:12 My friend next door was given a brand new luxury automobile. 16:16 My folks had bought an old jalopy for me to get back and forth to school, but 16:21 you think I'd drive that hunk of junk and park it beside those Jeep 16:25 Wagoneers, BMWs, Buicks and Mercedes? 16:29 My friend had it made. 16:32 Or so I once thought, but, when we reached age thirty, I had a change in 16:37 perspective. 16:39 I had learned that my parents were not so mean after all. 16:43 I was experiencing: the pleasure of work, the reward of recreation, the 16:47 strength of a healthy body, the bonds of a strong marriage, the 16:51 inward confidence that comes from faith and the wonderful supportive 16:55 fellowship that comes from the Church as a community of believers. 16:59 As for my friend, things were not going so well: he was not finding his niche 17:05 in the workplace, nothing seemed to satisfy him, he was having difficulty 17:10 getting along with people who were not willing to do everything just as he 17:14 thought he knew it ought to be done, his marriage had not lasted even two 17:18 years, his body was getting out of shape, and he evidenced a cynical 17:23 outlook without any under-girding that comes from the assurance of 17:26 faith. 17:28 Erma came to understand that obedience to her parents ways instilled in 17:34 her lasting, life giving values. 17:41 "If you love me, Jesus said, keep my commandments. 17:51 Until we give You first place 17:58 Until we let You begin 18:05 To fill us with your spirit 18:12 Renew us from within 18:21 Nothing matters 18:27 Nothing's gained 18:33 Without your Holy presence 18:41 Our lives are lived in vain 18:47 Lord we want to know You 18:54 Live our lives to show You 19:01 All the love we owe You 19:08 We're seekers of your heart 19:20 Because your heart was broken 19:26 Because You saw the need 19:34 Because You gave so freely 19:41 Because of Calvary 19:49 We can now be called... 19:56 Called your own 20:01 Complete creations 20:08 Filled with You alone 20:16 Lord we want to know You 20:23 Live our lives to show You 20:29 All the love we owe You 20:36 We're seekers of your heart 20:44 Lord we want to know You 20:50 Live our lives to show You 20:57 All the love we owe You 21:05 We're seekers of your heart 21:13 We'er seeking your heart o Lord 21:20 We'er seeking your heart o Lord 21:27 Show us your face o Lord 21:34 Lord we adore you 21:43 O Lord 21:53 >>Bill: Father in heaven, we want to thank you for your love and kindness. 21:55 Father I pray that as we contemplate the words of scripture, that you may 22:01 instill in everyone of us a heart for obedience. 22:07 As the old hymn says, may we "trust and obey". 22:13 In Jesus name, amen. 22:51 >>Bev: Hi, everyone! 22:53 If you love pears and persimmons, I have the easiest and yummiest raw 22:57 dessert recipe to share today: Pear Napoleon with Pistachio Crumble and 23:01 Persimmon Puree. 23:03 Sound scrumptious? 23:04 It is! 23:07 Pears are a good source of vitamin C and K, and the skin is a great source of 23:10 fibre and flavonoids. 23:13 Persimmons are abundant in winter and, if you wait until they are ooey, gooey 23:15 ripe, they are especially delicious! 23:19 Pistachios are a lovely, buttery nut. 23:22 They are high in healthy fats and, thus, in calories. 23:25 A quarter cup of raw, unsalted pistachios has about 170 calories, 6 23:29 grams of protein, and around 14 grams of fat. 23:33 Plus, fibre, vitamins, and minerals. 23:37 This recipe is from the Bella Vita Lifestyle Education Home in 23:41 California, where I had the wonderful privilege to attend a 10-day 23:44 therapeutic detox/cleansingprogram. 23:47 It was an over-the-top-fantastic experience physically, 23:51 mentally, and spiritually! 23:54 This raw Pear Napoleon is just one of the delicious raw recipes we enjoyed, 23:58 and I'm adapting it just a little bit. 24:01 All you'll need for one portion of this lovely, raw dessert is: one pear, 24:06 one ripe persimmon, 1/4 cup of chopped pistachios 1 Tablespoon of 24:11 sweetener, I'm maple syrup and a 1/4 teaspoon of ground cardamom or pumpkin 24:14 spice. 24:17 Now, look how easy this is! 24:19 And how gorgeous! 24:21 I've sliced up a pear and I'm going to put one there and then I'm going to take 24:26 the pistachios that I already crumbled and I've already added the 24:31 sweetener to them. 24:33 So we are going to put them there. 24:37 And then we are going to put some of this delicious persimmon on top. 24:41 And then we are going to take another slice of pear and we are going to do 24:45 that whole thing all over again. 24:49 Put the crumble -- I can't even tell you how delicious it is -- put 24:53 some more of the crumble. 24:56 And then some more of the persimmon -- and for the persimmon, all I did was I 25:01 chopped it up and one of them was really really mushy so I mashed that one 25:04 and then mixed the two together. 25:06 And then, take another slice of pear, see how it's building beautifully 25:11 and how it's all raw. 25:14 So we put some more of the crumble and then we put some more of the 25:18 persimmon. 25:21 And isn't that georgous, isn't that beautiful. 25:27 And then I made a cashew/ persimmon cream -- and you can just kind-of put that 25:31 on top and drizzle it down the side. 25:34 Isn't that beautiful. 25:37 If you'd like information about attending a therapeutic 25:41 detox/cleansing program at Bella Vita, their website is modernmanna.org. 25:46 I highly, highly recommend them. 25:48 Tell them Bev sent you! 25:50 I'll see you next time! 25:59 >>Bill: For those that would like to do more studying on today's topic, 26:02 we have some resources available to help you. 26:05 One is a study guide that has been prepared specifically on today's 26:09 subject -- it is available for download free of charge at our web-site 26:13 www.itiswrittencanada.ca. 26:16 Besides that I'd like to offer you two publications. 26:20 One is this small booklet called "certainty in and uncertain world" and the 26:24 other is a special edition of the "signs of the times" magazine "who are 26:28 the Adventist's?" 26:31 . 26:33 Both of these publications are free of charge, they are our gift to you, our 26:36 viewer. 26:38 Here is the information you need to get your copies. 27:24 >>Bill: Well we have come to the end of another It Is Written program. 27:26 I want to thank you very much for spending this time with us. 27:31 I hope you will be back again with us next week. 27:34 Now, between now and then you can always visit the web-site www. 27:37 ItIsWrittenCanada.ca. 27:40 All of the programs are there, they are archived. 27:43 You can send prayer requests, we have a very dedicated team of 27:47 professionals at the office that gather every single morning to pray 27:50 over all of the requests that arrive. 27:54 So if you would life us to be praying for you, send your request in. 27:58 You can send that via the web-site. 28:01 You can also make an online donation to the It Is Written ministry, and 28:05 that donation will go a long way to help us remain on the air. 28:08 You can visit our you tube channel, youtube.com/IIWCanada, and 28:14 you can follow us on Twitter. 28:18 Well, let's pray that we can be back again together next week to once again 28:22 open God's word and study it together. 28:25 Until then remember, It Is Written, man shall not live by bread alone, but 28:31 by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. 28:37 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ |
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