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>>Eric Flickinger:
Welcome to "Sabbath School,"
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brought to you by It Is Written.
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We are glad that you are
joining us again this week
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as we continue our journey
through a fascinating subject:
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how to study Bible prophecy.
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We laid down some
foundations last week.
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We're going to continue
this week in lesson number 2,
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looking at "The
Genesis Foundation."
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How can we better understand
the prophecies of the Bible
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later in the story by going
back to the book of Genesis?
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We're going to
begin with prayer.
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Father, we thank You for giving
us an opportunity once again
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to learn more about You
through our study of Your Word
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and, specifically, the
prophecies in Your Word.
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We ask that You
would help us to gain
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a clearer understanding
of You and Your plan
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for all of our lives through
the book of Genesis today.
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We thank You, in
Jesus' name, amen.
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Well, we're happy to have back
with us, once again, this week
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the author of this quarter's
"Sabbath School" lesson,
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Pastor Shawn Boonstra.
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He is the speaker/director of
the Voice of Prophecy ministry.
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Shawn, welcome back.
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>>Shawn Boonstra: I'm surprised
I got a return invitation
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for a second week.
[laughing] >>Eric: Here we go.
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Let's see if you get
a third-week invitation.
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>>Shawn: Let's see what I can do
today to get myself disinvited.
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>>Eric: It all depends
on where we go from here.
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But knowing what this
quarter's lesson is about,
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and this week especially,
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I think you'd better make
some room in your schedule
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for episode number three.
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That's my feeling.
The Genesis Foundation--
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you refer to the book of Genesis
as kind of a survey course
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in Sunday's lesson,
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kind of a Bible Prophecy 101
or Understanding the Bible 101.
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What's the significance
of the book of Genesis
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as we are trying to
understand Bible prophecy?
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>>Shawn: Yeah, I'm
completely enraptured with--
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even when I was a
brand-new believer,
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or even pre-believer, the
first 11 chapters of Genesis
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in particular
always held my attention.
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Now, we've given
these first five books,
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the Torah, we've given
the Pentateuch Latin names--
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Genesis, Exodus. The
Hebrews didn't do that.
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They just lifted a
phrase out of the first verse:
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"in the beginning,"
"bereshit," "in the beginning."
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And it's the
beginning of everything.
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I'm convinced
that especially us,
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Seventh-day Adventist
Christians in particular,
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everything we teach
and believe can be found
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in the first 11
chapters of Genesis.
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It's in embryonic form,
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and you have to do a
little bit of homework,
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but it is all there.
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There's a lot of first-mentions.
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And I'm a big fan of
the-- the rule is too--
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law, people say the
law of first mention.
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That's too strict. It's
not a law. It's not a rule.
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It's a general
principle or pattern.
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The first time
something shows up in the Bible,
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pay very careful attention
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because God's
laying the foundation
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for how you should
understand that concept
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throughout the
rest of the Bible.
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So, think about what's in the
first 11 chapters of Genesis:
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creation, obviously,
the big one right there.
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God is the Creator.
The Sabbath shows up.
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It's Genesis, chapter 2.
It's right out of the gate.
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The origin of sin and
suffering, it's there.
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And that's a big, big question,
even for secular minds.
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"Why do I have to be
suffering in this world?"
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Plan of salvation
is there right away.
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You know, the seed of the woman
shows up in Genesis, chapter 3.
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The state of the dead is there.
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"If you eat from that
tree, you will surely die."
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It's weird how God doesn't say,
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float away to exist in,
you know, the Elysium Fields.
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But the state of the
dead-- health message is there.
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We see God's
original plan for humanity--
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every herb of the field, every--
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so we know the best--
the health message's there.
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The prophecy--the gift
of prophecy's on display--
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God communicating
directly with Noah, for example.
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The Incarnation is
there. I mean, everything,
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everything that's
important to believe shows up
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in those opening
chapters of the book of Genesis,
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absolutely
everything. So if you can master
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those first 11 chapters,
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you're well on your
way to understanding
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the rest of Scripture--
and prophecy in particular.
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>>Eric: And that's
very important for us
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to understand today
and to make sense of
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the many and
varied interpretations
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that are out there,
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to sift through them
and find what's accurate,
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what's right.
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One thing that's very
important for us to understand
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is God's love. >>Shawn: Right.
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>>Eric: And in Monday's
lesson you talk about God's love
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and how God's love is different
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from what maybe we
understand love to be.
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We put our own
somewhat twisted spin--
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maybe I'm speaking over myself--
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but a twisted
spin on what love is.
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But God gives us a
clearer picture in the Bible.
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What is--how do we
understand the love of God?
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>>Shawn: Do you know
what I find interesting?
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Obviously, the
love of God is huge.
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God's character is
defined by John as love, right?
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And Christians
know this instinctively.
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God is love. That's the
biggest part of who He is.
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Understanding what that love is,
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that's a little
more complicated.
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What I find fascinating--
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it's such a big
part of who God is,
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but it doesn't
show up for 22 chapters.
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The concept of
love doesn't show up
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until we get to the
story of Abraham and Isaac
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in Genesis, chapter 22.
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I think it's
Genesis 22 and verse 2
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is the first actual mention
of love in the Old Testament.
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"Take your son, your only
son Isaac, whom you love."
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And when you start
to dig into this story,
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you start to understand
what God understands by love.
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Now, Christians are familiar--
this has been done to death
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in almost every Bible
study you've ever gone to:
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"There's three words
for 'love' in Greek."
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There's actually four, I
think, but we've got "eros,"
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erotic love--it's where...
you know, husband and wife--
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"phileo," brotherly love--
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"Philadelphia," the
"city of brotherly love,"
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And "agape"--
we still sometimes,
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some churches will
refer to the Communion service
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as an "agape feast."
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That is the
self-giving, selfless love.
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And what do we find
when love first shows up
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in Genesis? "Here's
your son that you love.
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I'm asking you to
put him on an altar."
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And what I find
fascinating about this
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is that they go to the
mountains of Moriah for this.
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You'll notice Isaac carries
the wood for his own sacrifice.
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And mountains of
Moriah, that's where Golgotha--
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that's where Calvary is.
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Thousands of years in advance,
they're going to the very spot
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where God would put
His Son on the altar.
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And Jesus is
introduced in the Bible,
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"This is my beloved Son,
in whom I'm well pleased.
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I love this Son of mine."
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What kind of love is this?
The kind that would sacrifice.
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God loves His Son
because He was willing
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to suspend everything. The book
of Hebrews gets into detail.
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"I will follow Your
will. We will save humanity."
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"God so loved the world, that
He gave His only begotten Son."
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What's really fascinating--
you know, first mention
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is going to come
up in this quarterly--
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this is also the first mention
of a lamb anywhere in the Bible.
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"Father, here's
the wood for the fire.
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Where is the lamb?"
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God provides the ram
caught in the thicket.
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First time lamb
shows up in John's Gospel
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is John the Baptist
answering Isaac's question.
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"Behold, the Lamb
of God, who takes away
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the sin of the world!"
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This is a picture of
God's self-sacrificing love:
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not willing to spare
Himself if it means saving you.
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That's God's love.
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>>Eric: So that
gives us a clear picture.
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And as you mentioned,
that lamb is right there,
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just--the
parallels are incredible.
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One might say,
"What are the chances?"
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Well...zero,
exactly. >>Shawn: Zero.
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>>Eric: But God did this
for a reason, for us to be able
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to find it and learn more
about Him and the sacrificial--
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well, let me go on
to my next question,
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which is about the
sacrificial system.
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What about the
sanctuary service?
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Where do we find this,
or at least allusions to it
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or connections to
the sacrificial system?
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>>Shawn: All right,
this-- you're gonna have to get
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your Bible out for this one.
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This is gonna take a little bit
of thinking, but we know that,
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you know, the
sanctuary was designed by God.
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The book of Hebrews
says God told Moses,
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"Look, build
according to the pattern
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that I'm gonna to show you."
There was no creative leeway
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in the sanctuary because
everything in there was pointing
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to the ministry of
Christ in our behalf.
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And the most obvious element
would be the sacrificial lamb.
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Now, that
sanctuary, as you study it,
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it had an outer courtyard
where the lamb is sacrificed.
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The priest would carry the
blood inside the holy place
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and sprinkle it
against the veil.
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Behind the veil is
the most holy place,
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which is God's throne room.
He literally took up residence.
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The cloud would come
down during the Exodus
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and occupy the most holy place.
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Same thing happened when
Solomon dedicated the temple.
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We read the glory of God
filled the most holy place.
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There was only one article
of furniture inside there,
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and it was the
ark of the covenant,
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this acacia wood chest
covered with gold--two natures.
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There are angels,
cherubim specifically, on top.
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Six times the Old
Testament describes God as
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"the One who dwells
between the cherubim."
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And above that mercy seat--
in German, the "Gnadenstuhl"--
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I don't know why--
that's just a fun word.
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In Genesis,
chapter 3, it shows up--
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and people say it's
not there. Yeah, it is.
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Genesis 3, verse 24:
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"He drove out the man,
and at the east of the garden
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of Eden He placed the cherubim."
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Cherubim are only in association
with the most holy place
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in God's throne.
So there's cherubim.
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"A flaming sword that
turned every way to guard
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the way to the tree of
life." What do we have?
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We have a flaming presence and
cherubim at the gates of Eden.
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Now, I think if you look
at different commentaries
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like "Patriarchs and
Prophets," page 84, we know--
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and Hugh Martin, Calvinist
commentator from the 1800s,
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Hugh Martin in 1866 writes,
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look, it's pretty
obvious everybody gathered
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at the gates of
Eden, and they had
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the first
sanctuary service there.
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Why would they say that?
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Well, that word, "He
placed" the cherubim,
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in Hebrew is "shakan."
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It's the root
word for "shekinah."
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It literally
means "tabernacled."
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God tabernacled two cherubim,
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and there was a
brilliant presence,
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the sword of the--
right between them.
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This is the
earliest sanctuary service,
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and it's right here
in Genesis, chapter 3.
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In the original
languages in way back when,
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nobody was surprised
when they got to Leviticus
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and they were building
something that looked like this
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because they
already knew about it.
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>>Eric: So they were familiar.
As you've said, God's laid the--
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He's placed these seeds all the
way through the book of Genesis
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that are then going to germinate
through the rest of the Bible,
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and God wants us to be
able to trace these things back.
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>>Shawn: Right, where have
I heard this before, right?
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And it says in
Genesis, chapter 4, Cain,
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when he gets kicked out, he
leaves the presence of the Lord.
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Well, how can you do
that? Psalm 139 is pretty clear.
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And I think we're
going to look at this again
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when we get to
Jonah in a later lesson.
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But you--there's--you
can't hide from God.
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Psalm 139,
"Whither shall I flee?"
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You know, you
can't hide from God.
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Cain didn't know a
magical place on earth
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where God couldn't find him.
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He was literally
leaving the presence of God
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at the gates of
the Garden of Eden,
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walking away from
that sanctuary service,
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which foreshadowed
Christ's salvation of us
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as the Lamb of God.
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>>Eric: You know, you mentioned
Cain, which kind of draws us
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to another subject that you
cover in this week's lesson,
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and that is the
subject of death.
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And we wanna dig
into that subject
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because
understanding death, again,
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comes all the way
back here to Genesis,
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and the subject is
expanded, expounded upon,
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throughout the
rest of Scripture.
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And it's something that
we still deal with today
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in a very real way.
It's a painful subject.
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But before we dig into that--
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we're gonna take a
break here in just a second.
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As we mentioned last week,
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you've crammed
as much as you can
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into the little
study guide book itself.
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But there's more.
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>>Shawn: I think you
get 300 words per page
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or something like that.
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And I don't have a lot
of things about me that--
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you know, but I'm wordy.
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You know, like, 300
didn't seem like enough.
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So some of the stuff that
didn't end up in the quarterly
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ended up in a companion book.
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And some of it will show up
sitting here with you in studio.
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>>Eric: Yes, so the
companion book is gonna be more.
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It's going to dig deeper.
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It's going to give
some different perspectives
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or additional facets
of what we are looking at.
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And so if you are interested
in learning more about
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how to accurately, rightly
divide the word of truth,
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if you're wanting to understand
more the significance of Genesis
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and this law of first mention,
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or this
principle of first mention,
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that Shawn is talking about,
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make sure you pick
up that companion book
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to this quarter's
Sabbath school lesson.
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You will be glad
that you have done so
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because not only
are you going to learn
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more about these
subjects for yourself;
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you're going to be able to share
these concepts, these ideas,
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more effectively, more
efficiently with others
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so that they can have more
hope and more encouragement
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in this life as well.
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So you can go
and find that book.
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That is the companion
book to this quarter's
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"Sabbath School"
lesson at itiswritten.shop.
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Again, that's at
itiswritten.shop.
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Just scroll down.
You'll find it very quickly.
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The author, of course,
is Pastor Shawn Boonstra.
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So, easy to find,
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easy to pick up,
and fun and enjoyable
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and eye-opening to read.
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We're going to be back in just
a moment as we continue looking
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at the significance of
the book of Genesis here
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as we understand Bible prophecy.
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We'll be right back.
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>>Eric: Welcome
back to "Sabbath School,"
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brought to you by It Is Written.
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We're taking a look at
how to study Bible prophecy,
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specifically the significance
of the book of Genesis.
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Shawn, we left off
talking about, of all subjects,
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the subject of death.
But it's an important one.
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It's something that
everybody deals with,
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and it's something that
the vast majority of people
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completely understand.
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What's the significance of
understanding it correctly,
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and how does
Genesis help us with this?
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>>Shawn: It's
really our biggest problem,
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isn't it, death?
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I don't care how
secular somebody is.
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Death bothers them.
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And I find it
fascinating that even--
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oh, you go to a secular funeral.
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What's his name,
the guy who wrote
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"The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy"?
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Douglas Adams died, and
they had a funeral for him,
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and Dawkins is the speaker,
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and Dawkins is
like, "We've been cheated.
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He died too young."
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Wait a minute.
Push the pause button.
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You've been cheated?
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So this feels wrong
to you that he died.
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Is he not just
a living organism?
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I mean, we all die.
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It's just a matter of
when and how that we die.
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And you feel cheated?
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Do you feel that
there's been a moral wrong
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that somebody went young?
I mean, give your hand away.
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It's the thing that
bothers us the most.
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And Ecclesiastes 3,
verse 11, is very pointed:
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God "has put
eternity" in the heart.
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So you can stand by a grave,
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and I don't care
how reasonable you are,
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I don't care how many
biology courses you've taken--
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something inside of you screams,
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"This is not how
it's supposed to be."
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Why? Why?
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So we're wired
to fight against it.
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We all instinctively
know that it's not the way
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it's supposed to be. And of
course when we get to Genesis,
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we find the explanation
for why it ended up this way,
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and it's such a big subject.
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I don't know how we'll
conquer this in the time
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that we've got, folks,
but it's your biggest problem.
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It really is
your biggest problem.
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Why study? Why
think? Why work on yourself?
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Why develop yourself
for 80 years to do, what,
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rot in a casket?
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Pardon me, but
that's exactly what happens.
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It's that blunt.
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Why? Why are you
driven to do anything
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if you're just going to
punch the clock till it's over,
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and then you just
evaporate into the universe?
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And it's in Genesis that
we get the answer, right?
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Genesis 2, verse 17: "The
tree of the knowledge of good
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"and evil you shall not eat,
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for in [that] day...you eat
of it you shall surely die."
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You're going to die,
and then we get in Genesis
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the first death,
and it's backwards
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from what you'd expect.
You'd expect for Adam and Eve
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to get old and die, but
the first death is a murder.
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It's a fratricide, right?
It's Cain murdering his brother.
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It is our very
worst on open display.
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He goes and kills his brother,
and then we have God saying,
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"Look, the seed of
the woman's going to come
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and crush the serpent's head."
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We get the promise that this
is all going to be reversed.
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So we find the
gospel in its infancy,
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in embryonic form,
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in these same
chapters where we find death
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coming into being
in the first murder.
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And, of course, Paul tells
us later, in 1 Corinthians 15,
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Christ rose from the dead.
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"If He didn't," Paul
says, "then you are lost."
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It's all--he uses
the word "futile."
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It's all futile.
Our faith is in vain.
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There's nothing to hope for.
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And Paul has just described
what should happen in our brains
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if death is the end.
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If that's it, it's
like, "Okay, life is futile."
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That was the
philosophy of the 19th century.
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They came to the conclusion,
"I guess, live for the present."
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I mean, Camus said, don't live
in the past. That's depressing.
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The future--who knows
what that's going to bring?
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So just live in
this moment right now.
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And then when it
happens, it happens.
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We have something more.
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Revelation,
chapter 1, opens this way,
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and it opens with death.
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It's Jesus
introducing Himself in verse 18.
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He describes it--
well, it's verse 17:
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"Fear not, I am the first and
the last, and the living one.
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"I died, and behold
I am alive forevermore,
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and I have the keys
of Death and Hades."
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Hades, a reference
in the Greek there,
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just, to the grave.
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This is our biggest
problem. It bothers everybody.
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And Genesis has
got the answers to it.
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And you start here
understanding, you know,
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what death is, why it
happened. And why it happened--
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you know, there's
another question we could probe
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if we had the time. Why death?
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Doesn't that seem a little
severe for what we've done?
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And what God's solution is,
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it's all there in the
opening, you know, verses.
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>>Eric: So we see
that there is a solution
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to the problem of death.
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And like you said, it's
something that everybody,
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regardless of your theological
or philosophical bent,
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it's a reality. >>Shawn: Yep.
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>>Eric: Unless we
happen to get translated,
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which, for the
vast majority of us,
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that's probably not
going to be the case.
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And most people
are going to die.
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>>Shawn: Yeah, I'm
getting closer and closer.
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>>Eric: We're getting
closer and closer by the moment.
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>>Shawn: You too, folks.
You're on a conveyor belt
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that ends with a
casket. [makes splat sound]
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You know, if the
Lord doesn't come--
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it's not if; it is when.
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And this is
something that everybody--
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it's one of our biggest
sources of existential angst is
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"I'm going to die," you know.
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And we struggle to
even think of the universe
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that existed before we
did. How did that go down?
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You know, people were
living and doing stuff,
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and I wasn't around? And
it's going to happen again.
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You die again, and
that drives us nuts,
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unless you can
find an answer to it.
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And there's a
reason it bothers you.
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God wants it to bother you.
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>>Eric: And we're
finding that there is a reason.
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And through the
Bible, we get hope,
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which a lot of people,
sadly, today don't have.
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Another big
subject that you've hit on
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in this week's
lesson is that of worship.
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Worship is going
to play a massive role
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at the very end of time.
It plays a huge role today.
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I don't wanna diminish
the importance of it today.
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But as we get
closer to the end of time,
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some of the issues that
are going to come to surface--
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worship is a big deal.
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Back in Genesis,
it was a big deal.
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Walk us through
the connection here.
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>>Shawn: Yeah, in Genesis,
you know, it's interesting that,
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as we get to Genesis 2,
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many people read the
six days of creation, stop.
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No, it continues into chapter 2.
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You know, the
chapters and verses
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were a late
addition to the Bible,
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Stephen Langton, 1200s.
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I mean, for 1,200 years--
in the New Testament period,
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we didn't have
chapters and verses.
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So we often stop at
the end of a chapter,
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but that creation story,
that first creation account,
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really ends in the
first part of chapter 2.
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And God blesses the
seventh day, makes it holy.
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It--here's what's fascinating.
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When they dedicated the temple--
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I believe the
temple in Solomon's time
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took seven years to build
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and then seven
days of dedication.
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And on the seventh
day the presence of God
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fills that sanctuary.
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On the seventh day, it's almost
as if God is taking His seat
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at the head of creation
and moving into the garden.
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"I am now enthroned as King."
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Revelation 4, verse 11
tells us the very reason
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we worship God is
because He's Creator.
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"For You are holy, for
You have made all things.
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By Your will they were created."
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Worship shows up here
at the very beginning.
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God is identified as the
one in whom we have our being.
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He is the reason we exist.
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God's existence
depends on nobody.
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He's self-existent.
We are dependent on Him.
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That's the reason for
this worship relationship.
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Six times, if
you get to the center
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of the book of Revelation,
the very heart of it--
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chapters 12, 13, and 14--
worship is mentioned six times.
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And only one of
those, I believe,
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is actually in the right sense.
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It's in Revelation 14:
"Worship Him who made"--
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it's a reference back
to the creation story.
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The other
references are the earth bowing
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before an inappropriate power,
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the summation of
all human ambition
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in the beast that
comes out of the sea,
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and there's someone else
commanding human worship.
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And it falls into
two camps at the end.
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And we can find that
right away in Genesis,
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where those two camps emerge;
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and in
Revelation, how they wrap up.
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It's like a sandwich board.
00:22:21.37\00:22:22.74
Genesis sets the
table for understanding
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what's wrong with us.
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Revelation shows how God is
going to wind that all down.
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>>Eric: So, again, we're
seeing samples in Genesis.
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It's the 101 course, but we
expound on it as we go through.
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You mentioned
something very significant,
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I think, in this week's
lesson. It's about cultures.
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Cultures change, but the
core issues don't change.
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How are the big
issues that we're looking at
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right now relevant today?
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>>Shawn: Yeah, who you are--
I mean, yeah, culture changes,
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and I know that
we have a tendency
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to make fun of our grandparents.
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In my day, we were
making fun of our grand--
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"They can't program a VCR."
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Yeah, but they went
through the Great Depression,
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and they went
through a world war,
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and they understood
the deep existential issues
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that human beings
face in very tangible ways.
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Those don't change.
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"Who am I? What
does my life mean?"
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None of that changes.
"Why do I have to die?
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"Why is there
suffering in this world?
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What's keeping chaos
from taking over the world?"
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You know, "who's gonna
hold the future for us?"
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Those don't change at all.
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And one of the
biggest issues that you find
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in the book of Genesis--
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we'll only have time for
half a second to look at this,
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but maybe you can take
this ball and run with it.
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If you look at the
temptation of the devil
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in Genesis, chapter 3,
where it says, you know--
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this is verse 1:
"Did God actually say,
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'You shall not eat of
any tree in the garden'?"
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I was reading a Hebrew rabbi
and some of the medieval rabbis
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a while ago, and
they are in concurrence
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that that's not the best
translation in the English.
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The best
translation is "Even if,"
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not "Did God actually say?"
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Yeah, he's raising questions.
It's the devil's tactic.
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But a literal translation
of what the devil says
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would be, "Even if God said,
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'Do not eat from the trees
of the garden'"--that's it.
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Dot, dot, dot,
and it trails off.
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"Even if God said that."
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In other words, God said,
"Do not eat from the tree."
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So what? And the
devil's looking around.
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It's like, "Look, animals
are eating from the tree."
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Remember, we just had a
scene where Adam is saying--
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God says to Adam,
"Go find a spouse."
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Here's a hippo. Here's a zebra.
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Here's a--that makes
no sense, that story,
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except for the fact
that God has Adam realize,
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"There's no partner for me here.
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I am not like the animals.
We function differently."
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And the devil shows
up as an animal and says,
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"Well, even if God said,
'Don't eat from the tree,'
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"look at these
animals. They'd eat from it.
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Their passions say, 'Do that.'
Didn't God also make them?"
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Yeah, but human beings
stand apart from the animals.
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They get to operate by instinct.
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They don't have to plan
for the future. They don't have
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to operate within the
confines of God's moral law.
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God says, "Yeah, you also
get to operate by passion."
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And I'm glad because, you know,
I'd probably starve to death
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and never have children
if passion wasn't a part
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of who I am.
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But God expects human beings
to temper it with what He said.
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We don't operate on our gut.
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We don't operate
just on our reason,
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just on our gathered
data through our senses.
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God says, "Don't
eat from that tree.
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My word trumps your passions."
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There is nothing wrong
with an animal eating from that.
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It wasn't poisonous.
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God is setting the table,
saying, "You're not an animal."
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Now, look at the
world we live in today.
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That suddenly
makes a lot of sense.
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What do we do? We're
entirely driven by passion.
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"I am what I feel
like I am." No, you're not.
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You are what God says you
are. You were made in His image.
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"My gut tells me to do
this, and I find my own truth.
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I have my own narrative"--
the postmodern anthem.
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No, you don't. No, you don't.
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Your reason is important,
but it needs to be tempered
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by what God has revealed,
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and you build your experience of
this world on what He has said.
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That issue has
not only not changed;
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it's become more
obvious as we get down
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into the 21st century.
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We're driven
entirely by our passions.
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>>Eric: And we're
seeing the results of that.
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And it's frightening,
to say the very least.
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We don't have much time at
all. >>Shawn: No, we don't.
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>>Eric: But touch
very quickly on this idea
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of we look for things new
and exciting and so forth,
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but how do we stay excited
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without abandoning
what's tried and true?
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>>Shawn: Yeah, and
we only have seconds,
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but some people might
remember "The Bible Code."
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You know, the book came out--
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hey, equidistant lettering,
and they're digging in,
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like, "If you just
take every 13th letter,
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you get a special
message from God"--
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except that you can
do that with "Moby Dick."
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Somebody ran that
book through a computer,
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and it also generated results.
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There's plenty in here
that is new and exciting
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if you get a
good foundation first.
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Get the good foundation.
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Then what's new and exciting
agrees with what is old.
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If you're after just
what is novel and exciting,
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trying to turn heads,
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then you're not much
better than the addict
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who needs something
new and exciting every day
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to get, you know,
the serotonin and the--
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and all the
other hormones spiking.
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No, no, stick with what is tried
and true, and there's plenty.
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You will not
finish, I promise you,
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You will not finish
exploring who God is.
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>>Eric: Shawn, thank
you for helping lead us
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through today's lesson,
and thank you for joining us.
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We look forward to
seeing you again as we continue
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this journey through
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