The harvest truly is plenteous
but the laborers are few.
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Pray ye, therefore,
the Lord of the harvest
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that He will... He will send
forth laborers into His harvest.
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Also, I heard the
voice of the Lord saying:
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"Who shall I send? "
"And who will go for us? "
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Then said I: "Here am
I... send me, send me. "
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Life on the Edge
will enable you to be
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and effective
harvester for the Lord.
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We now invite you
into our classroom
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to Come Experience Life.
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Hello. Welcome
again to Life on the Edge:
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the interactive Bible study
course where we're learning
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to give Bible studies to
not only one another here
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in the church but
also to other people
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that we come in
contact with whoever it may be:
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our friends, our
relatives, our neighbors.
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And we're going
through marking up our Bibles
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so that we can give a
Bible study on all of the...
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or actually we have 24
studies that we're doing here.
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And by the end of this, you
will actually have 24 studies
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marked up in your
Bible ready to use.
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Ready to share the Word of God
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with someone else. And as we
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we're just... seems like
we are just on a rollercoaster
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ride through this. To me...
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to us here at Pine Lake Retreat
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here in sunny Florida
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it seems like we
never see the sun shine.
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And we've been here in
class every day all day long.
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Um, some of us
here are losing our tans
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and wondering what we
came to Florida for, aren't we?
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But we're here to
study the Word of God.
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That's the main reason for
coming to Pine Lake Retreat,
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for coming here to the
Lay Institute for Evangelism:
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to learn how to study the Word
of God and share it with others.
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And we are on study
number... 20? Nineteen?
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That's right... number 19 today.
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Study number 19... so we
have like five more to go
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and we'll be done
with the entire series.
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Now I think everybody here...
I don't know about you at home,
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but I believe everybody
here has their Bibles marked
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all the way up
pretty much to number 19.
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They have like all the
way up to number 19 marked up.
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And they're ready to go
start sharing their faith
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with others. They're ready
to start sharing the Word of God
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and I hope you at home
are doing the same thing.
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If this is the first
time you're joining us,
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I want to encourage
you to go to our website
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www. ComeExperienceLife. com
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and download all the
studies prior to this one
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and this one as
well. You can just go
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on the website
there and find it.
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You can get the
notes - the study notes -
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that are just basically in...
They'll be in a Word document
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or a Pages
document if you have a Mac
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like you see
here at Pine Lake...
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at the Lay
Institute for Evangelism...
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everybody with their Macs. But
you'll be able to download that,
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print it out on your computer,
and then follow right along
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with us. And I want to encourage
you to mark your Bibles up.
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Not only is it good for
you to be able to share it with
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others but when you do
this what's you'll discover -
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what you'll find out -
is that it inspires you
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and it changes your life.
It draws you closer to the
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Lord Jesus... which
is the ultimate purpose
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of this whole thing anyway
is to help us to have a better
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walk with Him... that's Jesus.
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And now as we're getting
ready to get into today's study
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on the remnant church.
Some people are a little
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bothered at just that
statement "remnant church. "
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Are you aware of
that? Sometimes when you say
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the remnant church,
you know what comes to mind
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for some people? Oh, you think
that there's a church out there
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that's different
than all the rest of them
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that's God's chosen people.
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And my answer to
that is: "Of course I do
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or I would be
going somewhere else
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looking for another
church. " Isn't that right?
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You know, it's like you say
that there is a remnant church
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and it's God's chosen people
and you're probably going to say
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it's your church. No,
no, I wouldn't say that.
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It's somebody
else's... but I'm in this one.
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No, God does have a...
Prophetically in the Bible
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there is... there is an outline,
there is a layout in the Bible
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that tells us what the
description of God's remnant
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church will be. And then when
you think of the term remnant,
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what do you think of?
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The remainder. You
women know this, right?
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Like guys maybe should
too but it's the women...
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Like I tear my shirt or my pants
which I from time to time do
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and my wife may want to fix it,
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she'll go and try to find
the material to fix it with.
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And she'll go maybe to
the store where they sell the
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cloth or whatever. And
she's going to buy a whole bolt
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of cloth like 15
feet long, right?
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No, she doesn't
want the whole cloth.
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What she wants is if they
just have a little piece of it
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left somewhere of what
they originally made...
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the material they used,
she just needs a remnant of it.
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Now you know that the remnant
is just like the original.
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Right? The remnant is
just like the original.
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So basically what we're
going to be saying in this study
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and showing in this
study from the Bible
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is that God in the last days is
going to have a remnant people
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that's going to look
just like the original.
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Just like the original.
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And the original would be
the original church that you see
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apostles had and
things like that.
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So that's the basis of
this study. That's what we're
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going to be looking
for as we go through here.
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Now we're going to
go to the screen now
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and look at the
purpose of this study.
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And we kind of already
described it a little bit.
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I got a little ahead
of myself, but that's OK.
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We can repeat ourselves.
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The Word of God is leading
all of His sheep into one fold.
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God wants us all to be
together as one, doesn't He?
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You know, we have
a problem right now.
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You know what that problem is?
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We're scattered everywhere.
There's not just one faith,
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one Lord, one baptism
like the Bible teaches.
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There's just... everywhere.
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So we're going to be
discussing that as well today.
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So just like He had a
true church in the days of the
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apostles He's going to have one
all the way till He comes again.
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In the last days
He's going to have that.
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And what our goal is... what
we're going to be seeking to do
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is find out who
that true church is.
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Who is it? What's the
identifying characteristics?
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Just like we use the
Bible to identify the antichrist
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and had identifying character-
istics to identify that
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and we use the Bible
to identify many things
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by simply going: "OK, this is
what God says will be happening.
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Where do you find that? "
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You know, whatever
your topic is, you just say:
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"This is what God's Word says.
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How can we find
where that's being taught?
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Where that's
taking place at? " Right?
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Well in the remnant
church it's no different.
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God actually through the book
of Revelation and other places
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has identifying characteristics
of the remnant church.
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And so we're going to go
through six of these identifying
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characteristics, and I'll
probably throw in a few more
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just for good measure.
But we're going to be looking
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at these identifying
characteristics to see...
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How can we define
where we need to be?
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I mean, I don't want to be
in a church that's not really
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following what
God's teaching. Do you?
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I want to be in what
God would call in the Bible
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in the term remnant
church that's like meaning that
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the remainder or
just like the original.
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And so I want to be in
the church that's just like
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the original.
How do we find that?
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Now the texts we're going
to be studying as we go through
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this study is...
There's actually 13 of them
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starting in I
Corinthians chapter 14 verse 33.
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We have it on the screen
there. For those of you at home
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you can look at it.
You're not going to have time
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to write it down
before that slides goes away.
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It's getting ready to come back
to me probably about right now.
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And you just missed it on
the screen if you didn't see
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all that. But there's
actually 13 of these texts.
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And if you want to get
a copy of those, again you
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can go to our
website to see the whole list
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and you can
download it from there
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as well as these presentations.
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The presentations will
also be on the website.
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So if you're watching
this for the first time
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whether it's on DVD
or on one of the networks
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or something like
that and you're watching it
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for the first time and you want
now to see all the rest of them,
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you can get them
all on the website.
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Now before we get into
the main part of the study -
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actually opening the
Bible and reading it...
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Um, if you open the Bible
and try to read it with your own
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understanding, you
sometimes run into a problem.
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Many people will do that
and they come up with all kinds
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of crazy ideas. The same
Spirit that inspired the Bible
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can inspire us to
understand the Bible.
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So what we're going
to do now is ask God
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through His Spirit
to give us understanding
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as we study this important
topic of the remnant church.
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Let us pray. Father in Heaven,
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thank you so much that You have
given us time we can come apart
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and spend studying Your Word.
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I pray, Father, that
as we study this topic
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of the remnant church, that
You will give us understanding.
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And we ask this in
the name of Jesus. Amen.
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OK. Our first text that we're
going to be looking at here
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in the remnant
church on the slide here
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is... Oh, it's
missing. Nothing shows up.
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There it is. Hah!
I Corinthians 14:33.
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I Corinthians... Whew! You
know, one time I was preaching
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in a place. While you're
turning there, I'll tell you
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a quick story. One time
I was preaching at a place
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and it happened only one
time that I can remember.
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And you know you write
your sermon. You kind of have
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sermon notes you know
laid out there, you know?
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And the text I had them
turning to was the wrong text.
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And I didn't know what
the right text was, you know.
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And I just... I could
feel the sweat. I mean, I could
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like... I could just feel myself
breaking out in a cold, clammy
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sweat. You know, all
over my body... my forehead.
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I was scared to death. There
were a lot of people out there
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and I was
looking like such a fool.
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And God so humbled me.
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I felt so humble after that.
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I apologized to them and I said:
"I don't know where we're going
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but we're going to be
going to someplace else. "
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And they still loved me and let
me come back and preach again
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later on. Boy, I made
sure I had all my t's crossed
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and my i's
dotted after that one.
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Anyway, we've
almost done that again.
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When you look up at the
screen and you're getting ready
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to turn to your text
and it's not there...
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sometimes that
would make you panic.
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I Corinthians 14 verse 33.
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And what we're going
to be figuring out here...
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It's like confusing
in the world, isn't it?
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I mean, have you ever
like? How many people here
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are like raised in a church?
You were raised in a church?
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Anybody? I wasn't. I
wasn't raised in a church.
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But when you're getting ready...
So you kind of just stay...
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Most people were raised in a
church. They stay in a church.
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They never really think about
going through the confusing
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process of like: "If
I'm going to be a Christian
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and I want to follow
God, where do I go? "
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Right? I mean, if you
pick up the phone book today
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you can start looking
through the phone book
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and you start looking
in churches and you think
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church, church, church.
And it's page after page
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of these churches. It's
like "Which one do I go to? "
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"How can I be sure? " And
it's really confusing out there,
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isn't it? Now the reason
I open up saying like this
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as we're getting ready
to go to I Corinthians 14 is
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why is it so
confusing? Was it God's design
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for it to be like this?
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Did God mean for us to be
here in the last days of earth's
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history - as I believe like
Jesus is going to come soon -
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In the Bible we've
already covered those topics
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and those subjects to
realize that we are living
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in the last days. But
yet when you try to go find
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who is teaching what God
actually wants them to teach
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and who is following
God with all their heart
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and what churches are...
where the true church is,
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you can't go to the
phone book and look, can you?
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I mean, you start
in alphabetical order.
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Wouldn't be a bad thing
to do if you wanted to start
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in alphabetical order.
You could start with Adventist
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and then go to... No...
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I'm just kidding there.
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Right? But there is... There's
just all kinds of churches
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that are listed all
over... in the phone book
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or wherever you want to
go... and it's hard to know
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where to go... where to be.
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And there's a lot
of confusion out there.
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We go out here at LIFE -
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Lay Institute for Evangelism
- our students, we go out
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and we knock on doors to ask
people to start Bible studies.
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Part of what our curriculum
is. We do that 3 times a week
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in the evening. And it's funny
because if you go to the doors
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and you go to this door and
they'll say: "No, no, I'm not
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interested. I'm a... whatever. "
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Well you know, that's perfectly
fine. "I don't need to study
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the Bible because I
have my own church. "
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Have you heard people say
that? "I don't need to study
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the Bible. I
have my own church. "
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Well that doesn't make
sense. You mean your church
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doesn't like to study the Bible?
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Well what they're
actually saying is... is...
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"I'm perfectly
satisfied where I'm at
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and it doesn't
matter if I'm right or wrong
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just as long as I
follow my church. " You know?
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And just time and again,
you go to door after door
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and you'll hear these things.
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And it sounds awful confusing.
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You'd think at least they
would all live in the same
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neighborhood. We would all
like... OK, we're all going to
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agree on our religion and
live in the same neighborhood
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or something. But
it's not like that, is it?
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It's just confusing.
Everywhere you go it's confusing
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chaos. You have... You
have this guy parked here
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and this guy parked here.
And one church is up the street
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here and one church
is up the street here.
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This guy will pull out of
his driveway and go this way
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and this guy will
pull out and go this way.
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You know, and there's
churches all over the place.
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Myself, coming out a heathen
world and looking at this,
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I've got to admit it
was a little confusing.
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Like how can you be sure?
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And then I have
somebody come along and say:
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"Our church is
the true church. "
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"Really? " "Yeah. " "Why? "
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Because of the name... The
name of our church makes us
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"the true church. " You know?
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And I'll tell you a story
maybe as we get along into this
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of an
experience I had with that.
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And it's awful confusing.
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Isn't it confusing?
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I mean, how can we be
sure we're in the right place?
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So when I give this study I
don't usually take that much
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time. I'm just trying to
give you an overall thing
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where you'll
kind of have an idea
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whenever you want to
give a study on the remnant.
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You want the people to
start thinking along the lines
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"Is it God's intention
to have such confusion? "
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Well, let's find out.
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I Corinthians
chapter 14 and verse 33.
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Tom, would you like
to read that one there?
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I Corinthians 14 and verse 33.
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"For God is not
the author of confusion
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but of peace, as in all
the churches of the saints. "
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So according to the
Bible, what we just read so far,
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"God is not the
author of confusion. "
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So do you think
it's God's desire
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for it to be so
confusing right now?
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Do you think that He intended?
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And I think it's interesting
here because sometimes
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we might read this and it
says He is not the author of
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confusion as in all the
churches of the saints. "
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In other words it sounds like
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churches is plural and so
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therefore there
must be many churches.
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But it's not talking about
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different belief systems
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in churches. Right? It's talking
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about, you know, there
was a church in Corinth,
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there was a church in Ephesus.
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There was a church in Laodicea.
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You know, you've got
all these churches around
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and they're all
believing the same thing.
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Right? And God doesn't
want confusion in the churches.
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He wants us all to
believe the same thing.
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And.. But yet, even
though that's God's desire,
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it hasn't turned
out to be that way.
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All right? It's turned out
to be like Baskin and Robbins.
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You know, you've got
all these different flavors.
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You can find a church to
believe whatever you want.
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I've seen personally
some pretty interesting things
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happen as far as
churches starting up
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just based on strange beliefs.
Let me just put it that way.
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You know, they'll just branch
off here, and this church will
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branch off here, and then
that church will branch off.
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And it continues
to go just like that.
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So let us go on here
and ask the question here:
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Who is the designer
of all this confusion?
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If God is not the author of
confusion as we've learned here,
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who is the designer
of all this confusion?
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Jason: you got a Bible text?
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Say John 10. All
right. John 10:10-12.
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Let's look at John chapter
10 and verses 10 through 12.
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John the 10th chapter
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verses 10 through 12.
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And I'm going to ask Mike
if he would like to read that.
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John 10 verses 10 through 12.
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"The thief cometh not but to
kill and steal and to destroy.
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I am come that
they might have life
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and that they might
have it more abundantly.
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I am the Good Shepherd.
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The Good Shepherd
giveth His life for the sheep.
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But he that is the
hireling and not the shepherd
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whose own the sheep are
not seeth the wolf coming
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and leaveth the
sheep and fleeth.
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And the wolf catches
them and scatters the sheep. "
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So Jesus says: "I
am the Good Shepherd
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and the Good Shepherd will
give His life for the sheep. "
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And the sheep being - in this
context in the parable here -
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who are the sheep?
Who would be the sheep?
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It would be the church. It
would be God's people, right?
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And it's like He is willing
to give His life for the people.
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But the wolf... now who would
be represented by the wolf here?
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It would be Satan.
He comes and does what?
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Scatters the sheep, right?
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So the devil's whole
idea is to have God's sheep
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scattered all over the place.
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God's idea is to have
God's sheep in one fold.
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And the devil's
idea is to scatter them.
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And I think it's interesting
there because it talks about
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the hireling as well. Who
would the hireling represent?
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Maybe the leaders, the pastors,
and things like that, right?
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And what is it
that they're doing?
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They're just running.
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You know, like "get
away, get away, " right?
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And so Jesus
said: "It's My desire,
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it is My goal, to
have them as one fold.
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In the flock...
together. But the devil
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the wolf, is
coming to scatter them. "
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So if the churches of
God's people and God's church
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are all scattered
around in different flocks
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and different denominations
and scattered out like that,
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whose will is being done?
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Satan's will. Yeah.
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But now, we're getting into
some very sticky territory here,
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Bill. Because right
now what you're saying is
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that God expects us
to be together as one
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but which one are
we going to choose?
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Right? Which one
is the right one?
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If the devil has us scattered
and that's not God's will,
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one of these scattering
places has to be the right one.
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Right? There has to
be the true sheep there
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that we're all going to
come back together with.
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Who's got... who has it right?
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That's what we're going to
be studying through this study
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is like what's the Bible
description of who has it right?
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We know that God...
that Jesus does care
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and that God does care
about what's going on with the
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churches. He
loves His church, right?
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And He wants to bring it
together... He wants to bring
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it back into one fold.
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So... and we're
going to look at that next
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in John chapter and verse
16. That's exactly the statement
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we're going to be
seeing here that Jesus said.
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John 10:16. This is
the Remnant Church study.
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This is the third
part of this study.
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For those of you
joining this for the first time,
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I'm just going to
touch on this one more time.
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I think it doesn't
hurt for us to do this.
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About every time we do one
of these presentations for...
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for the video here because
somebody might just be seeing
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for the first time and
don't really understand what
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we're doing. We're going
through marking our Bibles.
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And what we're doing
is like at the text...
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You'll be at John 10:16 is the
text you're going to be at next
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or we're going to
that text to read it.
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And somewhere in and
around that text you're going to
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want to write 3RC because you're
on the 3rd Remnant Church study
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and the third part of
the Remnant Church study.
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And the text we just came from,
the reference we came from is
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John chapter 10 verses 11-12.
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And then we're going
to II Timothy chapter 3
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and verse 16 in our next
text. You'll put that in there.
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But I want to make a statement.
I heard a couple of our students
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here at LIFE just
yesterday as a matter of fact
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saying: "You know, when I try
to write in between the lines
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and I put that circle and
that long line out from it
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and try to write above it and
below it I run out of room. "
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And they said: "I
discovered something. "
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I thought: "Well, you know,
I guess I should have explained
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this earlier. " If you make
a little circle and write 3RC,
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and you put the... and
you kind of write the text
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at a little bit
of an angle there
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and then put the other line -
instead of putting it straight
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across this way you put
it at an angle like this
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then you have
more room to write.
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You have more room that
way because you're writing
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this way and then
the line goes this way
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and you're
writing this way again
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so you can write without
having to take up so much space.
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Are you following?
Is that making sense?
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Shelleta says "no. "
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Well, Shelleta, I'll tell
you what. If you'll look in your
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Bible right here like this
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in between right here - you see
how narrow that is right there
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in between? - I'm going to go
and get in front of the camera
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here. Can you
get this on camera?
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Right here. See how that white
line is there... the opening
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in between there.
There's really not room to write
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above and below a line if you
make a straight line in there.
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So what you do is if you
put a line in there at an angle
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you can write a text here and
then a text on the other side
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of it. Just put it in there as a
slash more than straight across.
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Like... like you
see on the screen there.
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And so you can actually get
more in there doing it that way.
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So... Just so you know
that's what we're doing.
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We're marking our Bibles up here
and we're in the Remnant Church
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study right now. Kind of got off
the subject there a little bit
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but I felt impressed to do that.
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Somebody is at home right now
saying: "I'm glad he did that! "
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The rest of them are
like: "I've heard this before. "
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All right. So we can't
please everybody all the time
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but we can please some of the
people some of the time, right?
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All right. John 10... John
the 10th chapter and verse 16.
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Um, I think we'll
have Dosung read that one
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if you don't mind. John
chapter 10 and verse 16.
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"And other sheep I have
which are not of this fold.
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Them also I must bring,
and they shall hear My voice.
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And there shall be one
fold and one Shepherd. "
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So what is God's plan
according to Jesus' own words?
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One fold and one Shepherd.
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He's not the
author of confusion.
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Do you see how this
study is leading so far?
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It's not God's desire for it
to be so confusing out there.
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It's not His desire for
us to be struggling saying:
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"Oh, I wish I
knew where to go. "
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Do you suppose if you spend
time praying and seeking God's
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Word and following Him
that... and ask Him to show you
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who His remnant
people are in the last days
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that He will lead you there?
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Or do you think it's God's will
that you continue in confusion
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not knowing where to
go? You know, absolutely the
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truth there is He wants to show
you where to do, doesn't He?
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You know, there's something that
just keeps coming in my mind.
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I can't quite think of it.
It's like right on the edge
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of my head. Is that I
remember an illustration about
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how to find... make sure
you're in the right church,
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in the remnant church.
You know, that kind of thing?
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And it's an illustration,
and I'm just praying in my mind
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as I'm talking right now
that He'll bring that back to me
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because it seems so important.
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You ever do that?
Well, I'm doing it right now.
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All right. So now we're going
to go to the next part of this.
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Um, how can we know God's voice?
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In other words, if you
want to be led into God's church
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you want to be following God's
people... not God's people but
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God... to be with His people,
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how is it that you can
know whether or not you're in...
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in the right place,
in the right church?
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By praying and seeking God.
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But you know, there's one
way you can know you're hearing
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His voice. Let us go to
our next text and look at that
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in II Timothy chapter 3. It's
in the T's in the New Testament.
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Can anybody tell me how to
get there from where we're at?
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We're in
John... John chapter 17.
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We're going to turn
to the right, we're told.
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Going to turn to the right.
So we're turning toward the back
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of the Bible toward
the book of Revelation.
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And you'll go and you'll
probably see Corinthians.
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And you'll probably see it right
away and you'll get into the T's
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and you'll see
Timothy or one of those
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and that's what we're
looking for. Over to the right
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into Timothy. If you see
Thessalonians, keep going.
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Remember, the T's in the New
Testament are in alphabetical
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order. So you have Thessalonians
Timothy and then Titus.
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And so we're actually
going to II Timothy chapter 3
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and verse 16. II Timothy 3:16.
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And Darlene, would you
like to read that for us?
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"All scripture is
given by inspiration of God
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and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof,
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and for
instruction in righteousness. "
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What's the Word of
God profitable for?
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For doctrine,
for reproof, and for
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instruction in righteousness.
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And it says here that
all scripture is given by
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inspiration of God. You
know what that literally means?
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God breathed.
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So God breathed, you
know, the... Like the inspir...
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The people that wrote the
Bible... they're inspired by
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the breath of God.
It's He who inspired them
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to write the Bible. And
that same breath - that same
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inspiration that led
people to write the Bible -
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also helps us to understand
what the Bible is saying
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and who His people
are... what His church is like.
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It's through the Bible that you
understand where you need to be.
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You understand this, right?
So it's the inspiration of God,
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the Spirit of God, that
comes in and it teaches us.
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Look what it teaches us here.
It's profitable for reproof
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and what's that
next word? Doctrine?
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Have you ever heard somebody
in a church say something
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like this? I've visited
many churches. I used to visit
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quite a few more than I do now.
But you visit around in churches
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and I've heard people say:
"You guys have your doctrine
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but we have Jesus. "
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Almost like they put themselves
aloof. Like: "Oh, yeah,
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we're holy and you're just
all about religion and things
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like that. But we have Jesus
and that's all that matters. "
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You know that's a doctrine?
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You know what a doctrine is?
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If you say your church
doesn't have doctrines,
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you know what
it's actually saying?
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We don't believe anything.
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Because a doctrine is a teaching
or something that we believe.
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You know, and so sometimes...
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sometimes I get a
little frustrated myself
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when I talk, trying to
witness to somebody and
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they say: "Well, I'm in a
non-denominational church. "
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I said: "Oh, really? What's
a non-denominational church? "
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It's like: "Well, we
don't have a denomination. "
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"But do not
denominations have beliefs? "
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"Yeah. " "So are you
saying you don't have beliefs? "
00:22:58.69\00:23:00.83
"Well, no, we have beliefs.
We just believe in Jesus. "
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"Well I am too. I'm in my church
and we're a denomination...
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you know, we believe in Jesus. "
00:23:08.10\00:23:09.22
"Yeah, but you have doctrines
and we don't have doctrines. "
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"Oh, so you really
don't have a belief? "
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So then doctrine is a teaching.
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It's kind of like search
your lines. I feel like I'm with
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Abbott and
Costello... "Who's on first? "
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"No, no. Who's on second. "
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You know? You
know, that kind of thing.
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I kind of feel like that
sometimes when I'm talking.
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But the Bible clearly
has a set of teachings
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and truths that are
laid out in the Bible.
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And whenever people
come together, they'll all
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believe that same truth.
Like in the early church...
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You know what the main issue for
most of the Jews and stuff was
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in the early
church? Believing in Jesus.
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And so the apostles were
going around teaching the people
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about Jesus. They already
believed things like we've
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learned here: the
truth about the Sabbath.
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You think the Jews
needed to learn about that?
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No. Most of them
understood that, didn't they?
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Even as you read
through the book of Acts -
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we covered this a little bit
when we covered the Sabbath...
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You go to Acts chapter 13
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where Paul was preaching in
the synagogue to both Jews and
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Gentiles. And then Acts
chapter 18 verse 4 says that
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specifically. He was
working on the Sabbath...
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He was preaching to
both Jews and Greeks it says,
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or Jews and Gentiles.
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So these people... do you
think they needed to understand
00:24:12.76\00:24:14.31
the truth about the
Sabbath in their day?
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No, the devil hadn't
had an opportunity to really
00:24:15.98\00:24:18.03
mess that one
all up yet, had he?
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But you know what
the main issue was?
00:24:19.81\00:24:21.12
Accepting Christ as the Messiah.
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Accepting Jesus as Savior.
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Basically, the basic principles
that we've learned here
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about what happens
when you die and, you know,
00:24:27.51\00:24:30.21
the truth about God not being
a tyrant and torturing people
00:24:30.31\00:24:33.49
forever and the
truth about the Sabbath.
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Some of the things that
people don't understand today
00:24:35.91\00:24:37.69
which has caused so many
fractions to break off...
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Some of those things they
didn't have to teach people
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in their day. You know, people
would come. They would learn
00:24:42.23\00:24:44.24
about Christ and
they would come together.
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Now listen... They would
be the same denomination.
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Oh, they didn't have
denominations back then.
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A denomination is
simply a group of people
00:24:50.84\00:24:53.03
coming together
with the same beliefs.
00:24:53.13\00:24:54.56
You would call that a
denomination. Just a word.
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You know, it doesn't
really mean like the connotation
00:24:58.17\00:25:01.62
sometimes it has today.
"Oh, a denomination. That means
00:25:01.72\00:25:04.17
that you're in with...
you've got a church name.
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You know, we don't
have church names. "
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But there are many churches
out there, aren't there?
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Even the non-denominational
churches are denominations.
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They have a set of beliefs
that they kind of hold by.
00:25:15.44\00:25:18.43
Certain ones. Sometimes they
just say "Just kind of believe
00:25:18.63\00:25:20.97
whatever you want as long
as you put in the money. "
00:25:21.09\00:25:22.62
That's a doctrine, though.
00:25:22.83\00:25:24.71
OK. Are you following what
we're going with here, huh?
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So, Jesus' idea of His church
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is being together in
one fold and one flock.
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And how do you tell
which that fold and flock is?
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How do you tell that?
Because it's the scriptures...
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it's the Bible that
tells us. And look what it says
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here again... what it says.
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Now, we went over this a
little more that we talked about
00:25:45.48\00:25:48.54
this text again. It
says: "All scripture is given
00:25:48.64\00:25:50.27
by inspiration of God. "
So it's the breath of God.
00:25:50.37\00:25:52.37
It's the Spirit of God
that comes in and gives the
00:25:52.47\00:25:54.13
inspiration for the Bible. And
it's "profitable for doctrine. "
00:25:54.23\00:25:56.85
So is doctrine an OK thing
according to the Bible? Right.
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"For reproof. " Reproof
is like you're messing up
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and the Bible
straightens you out.
00:26:03.67\00:26:05.41
"For correction. " We
need correction, right?
00:26:05.71\00:26:09.25
"And for instruction
on how to be righteous
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or instruction
in righteousness. "
00:26:12.42\00:26:13.94
Is that lacking in your church?
00:26:14.14\00:26:16.54
Maybe you're not part
of God's remnant church.
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Does that make sense?
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If you go to a church that
says "we don't have doctrine, "
00:26:22.45\00:26:24.44
"we're not about to preach
anything about correcting you
00:26:24.65\00:26:27.17
from your sins" and "we're not
also going to say anything about
00:26:27.37\00:26:29.96
you being unrighteous. "
00:26:30.06\00:26:31.13
Does that fit with what
the Bible description here in
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II Timothy 3:16?
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No. That's so... that's so
politically incorrect to say
00:26:35.95\00:26:38.25
that, isn't it?
00:26:38.36\00:26:40.34
But remember. We've looked
all along as we've gone through
00:26:41.26\00:26:44.20
these studies that the
devil... the devil's plan
00:26:44.30\00:26:46.85
is to bring deception
and to bring people...
00:26:47.06\00:26:49.91
scatter the flock and bring
deception so that we have no way
00:26:50.11\00:26:53.08
of understanding what truth is.
00:26:53.18\00:26:54.50
That's what his plan is.
00:26:54.70\00:26:55.84
He's been doing that all along
because he wants you to be lost.
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The devil wants you to be lost.
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All right, let's
continue on here.
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Now we're going to get
into the fun part of it.
00:27:03.32\00:27:05.05
There's actually... we're going
to look at the 6 identifying
00:27:05.35\00:27:08.18
characteristics of
God's remnant church.
00:27:08.28\00:27:09.72
We're going to go
through these in detail.
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What are the six
identifying characteristics
00:27:11.62\00:27:13.12
of God's remnant people?
00:27:13.32\00:27:14.44
And if your church
that you're in right now
00:27:14.64\00:27:17.19
doesn't fit one of these six,
00:27:17.39\00:27:19.49
you know I have a
suggestion for you:
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find one that does.
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All six of these, right?
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It has to fit all six of them.
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If it doesn't, then it
can't be God's remnant.
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Does that make sense?
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Now again, I know that
somebody's going to say:
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"Oh, you're going to
tell us it's your church. "
00:27:33.41\00:27:34.46
Of course I am!
00:27:34.57\00:27:35.67
If I didn't believe that
the church I was in was God's
00:27:35.88\00:27:37.84
remnant church, you
know what I would be doing?
00:27:37.94\00:27:39.19
I'd be finding another church.
00:27:40.26\00:27:41.64
I would be looking
for a group of people that
00:27:41.84\00:27:42.89
would worship the
way the Bible says
00:27:42.99\00:27:44.64
and have... and have
these six characteristics...
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what the Bible says here.
00:27:46.89\00:27:47.95
And these six
characteristics are pretty clear
00:27:48.15\00:27:49.83
and pretty...
they're just straight on.
00:27:50.03\00:27:52.32
You know, there's
no really missing it
00:27:52.53\00:27:53.87
as we go through this. So
let's look at the first one.
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It's in I Timothy.
We're in II Timothy.
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Does anybody have
any idea where we'd go to
00:27:57.78\00:27:59.51
to find I Timothy? To the
left. That's exactly right.
00:27:59.61\00:28:02.58
I Timothy and we're
going to be looking at...
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I'll put it on the
screen here for those at home
00:28:05.41\00:28:07.18
and for us here: I Timothy 3:15.
00:28:07.38\00:28:10.30
I Timothy 3 and verse 15.
00:28:10.60\00:28:13.42
Now, this text we're
getting ready to read here...
00:28:13.52\00:28:16.01
I could park here and
preach on it all morning.
00:28:16.21\00:28:18.25
You don't want me to
do that though, do you?
00:28:18.45\00:28:19.56
Scott's like "No! " He's
back there in a truck somewhere
00:28:21.08\00:28:24.14
listening saying:
"No! Don't do that. "
00:28:24.25\00:28:25.57
I tend to do that.
00:28:25.77\00:28:27.01
You know, here at the
Lay Institute for Evangelism
00:28:27.11\00:28:29.63
as we're going through
this interactive learning of the
00:28:29.83\00:28:33.91
Bible studies the guys
kind of get onto me a little bit
00:28:34.01\00:28:36.48
because I go from
teaching mode to preaching mode.
00:28:36.68\00:28:39.89
It's just in me.
It's the evangelist in me.
00:28:39.99\00:28:42.10
So... But I'm
going to try to resist.
00:28:42.30\00:28:44.68
I'm going to do my best.
And Shelleta, I'm going to hold
00:28:44.88\00:28:46.67
you responsible. You're going
to read the next text for us
00:28:46.77\00:28:49.03
but I'm also going to hold
you responsible. If I go into
00:28:49.14\00:28:50.63
preaching mode, you stop me. OK?
00:28:50.73\00:28:52.07
All right. Thank you so much.
00:28:52.37\00:28:53.90
All right, I Timothy 3:15.
00:28:54.10\00:28:55.59
You say: "Pastor,
now you're preaching. "
00:28:55.80\00:28:57.30
All right. Are
you ready for that?
00:28:57.51\00:28:59.33
Give her a microphone here.
00:28:59.43\00:29:00.83
Pay attention.
00:29:01.13\00:29:02.59
I Timothy 3:15.
00:29:02.89\00:29:06.82
"But if I tarry long
00:29:08.04\00:29:09.92
that thou mayest know
how thou oughtest to behave
00:29:10.12\00:29:14.11
thyself in the house of God
00:29:14.31\00:29:15.92
which is the
church of the living God
00:29:16.12\00:29:18.60
the pillar and
ground of truth. "
00:29:18.80\00:29:20.67
So Shelleta, according
to the text you just read,
00:29:20.87\00:29:23.54
what you just read
there, what is the description
00:29:23.74\00:29:26.00
we find here? I'm going to
put the pressure on you bad.
00:29:26.10\00:29:28.01
What is the description
we're looking for here
00:29:28.04\00:29:30.32
that makes something...
the church of the living God,
00:29:30.52\00:29:33.37
God's remnant church, what would
be the description here we find?
00:29:33.57\00:29:35.76
The pillar...
"pillar of truth. "
00:29:36.16\00:29:39.42
"Pillar and ground of
truth. " In other words,
00:29:39.53\00:29:41.09
the church - God's
remnant according to Paul here
00:29:41.29\00:29:43.35
as he's writing to the
young preacher Timothy -
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is that is has to have the
pillar and the ground of truth.
00:29:45.60\00:29:48.98
And how do you define truth?
00:29:49.94\00:29:51.47
By the Bible. Exactly right.
00:29:53.56\00:29:55.07
The Word of God. We've already
covered that, haven't we?
00:29:55.17\00:29:56.63
So it's going to have to be
the pillar and ground of truth.
00:29:56.83\00:29:58.16
Now I really
appreciate this here
00:29:58.26\00:29:59.54
and I'm almost hesitant to
say what I'm going to say...
00:29:59.74\00:30:01.74
but I'm going to say it anyway.
00:30:01.94\00:30:03.43
If they have to cut it
out then they can just do so.
00:30:04.33\00:30:06.26
But I had an experience
in my own personal life
00:30:06.46\00:30:09.47
as I'm going around to
churches and things like that
00:30:09.67\00:30:11.27
in visiting. You know I
said as you go around looking
00:30:11.47\00:30:14.34
for a church to be in or
just fellowshipping with others,
00:30:14.55\00:30:17.14
you want to see
how they believe -
00:30:17.34\00:30:18.52
one of the
things I discovered was:
00:30:18.72\00:30:19.84
I was in a church one time.
This is one of the main texts
00:30:19.94\00:30:22.82
they use. It says here:
"behave yourself in the house
00:30:22.92\00:30:26.15
of God which is the
church of the living God. "
00:30:26.25\00:30:28.37
And they said: "Therefore,
what the Bible says there
00:30:28.57\00:30:31.15
is when a church has the name
The Church of the Living God
00:30:31.26\00:30:34.45
or the Church of God, it
must be God's remnant church.
00:30:34.56\00:30:37.53
That's what they were teaching
one time where I was at.
00:30:37.74\00:30:39.43
And I was feeling a
little uncomfortable because
00:30:39.63\00:30:41.61
they were getting really harsh
and they were actually making
00:30:41.81\00:30:44.33
fun of other churches with what
he called "Mickey Mouse" names.
00:30:44.43\00:30:47.22
You know. And there's
nothing wrong with Mickey Mouse.
00:30:47.42\00:30:50.24
We have him down
here in Florida, don't we?
00:30:50.44\00:30:51.58
All right. But he was making fun
of people with "Mickey Mouse"
00:30:51.78\00:30:55.35
names... their
churches. And, uh, said:
00:30:55.45\00:30:57.06
"We know that we're
God's remnant church. "
00:30:57.16\00:30:59.10
That's what he was
saying, the pastor was saying,
00:30:59.30\00:31:00.84
at this time in a
prayer meeting setting.
00:31:00.94\00:31:02.43
"We know that we're
God's remnant church because we
00:31:02.63\00:31:04.17
have that name:
Church of the Living God. "
00:31:04.27\00:31:07.00
And I thought: "Well,
that's awful strange. "
00:31:07.30\00:31:10.14
And so he goes on and he spends
a whole like 25-30 minutes
00:31:10.24\00:31:12.79
just going on and on
making fun of other people
00:31:12.99\00:31:14.67
that don't have... In other
words, how can these people
00:31:14.77\00:31:16.61
think they're going to be saved
when they have another name
00:31:16.71\00:31:18.65
over their church door? He
actually said words like that.
00:31:18.75\00:31:19.72
And I'm really about
just to blow up in my seat.
00:31:19.95\00:31:22.93
You can imagine me
having to sit there.
00:31:23.03\00:31:25.35
And when he got to the
end of his little description
00:31:25.55\00:31:28.39
and there was about 15
minutes left to go in their
00:31:28.59\00:31:30.41
prayer meeting time, he
says: "Does anybody have any
00:31:30.51\00:31:32.06
questions? " There
were about 55 people there.
00:31:32.16\00:31:33.74
And my hand went up immediately.
00:31:33.94\00:31:34.99
And I said: "Yes,
sir, I have a question. "
00:31:35.19\00:31:36.70
And he says: "OK. " He
knows who I am and things.
00:31:37.01\00:31:39.76
He said: "Well, what is it? "
00:31:39.96\00:31:40.99
I said: Well, you know, I have
fellowship with some friends
00:31:41.10\00:31:43.97
of mine that
were Church of Christ.
00:31:44.07\00:31:46.33
Lovely people; nice people.
00:31:46.63\00:31:48.98
Some of them were
really nice people. "
00:31:49.08\00:31:50.16
Many people are nice
people in all denominations.
00:31:50.36\00:31:52.68
You realize that not
all denominations have
00:31:52.88\00:31:54.05
all nice people and
not all denominations have
00:31:54.15\00:31:55.78
all bad people. You understand
what I'm saying, right?
00:31:55.88\00:31:57.47
And I said: "But
you know they told me
00:31:57.67\00:31:59.35
that they're God's true
church, they're God's church,
00:31:59.56\00:32:01.79
because they have the
name Church of Christ. "
00:32:01.99\00:32:03.50
That's why... like the friends
I had... they're God's true
00:32:03.70\00:32:07.20
church because they have
the name Church of Christ.
00:32:07.30\00:32:08.68
After all, you read in
the New Testament, you read
00:32:08.78\00:32:11.14
the title Church of Christ
some places in the book of Acts
00:32:11.24\00:32:12.85
where it actually uses
that term Church of Christ.
00:32:13.05\00:32:14.71
Therefore, you've
got the correct name.
00:32:14.91\00:32:16.23
And then I know other
people that they're Catholic
00:32:16.54\00:32:20.65
and they say "we're God's
true church because the name
00:32:20.85\00:32:22.68
Catholic means universal. "
00:32:22.78\00:32:24.54
This is true. This is how
I talked to this guy here.
00:32:24.74\00:32:28.10
Everybody, as you can imagine,
I'm drawing in their attention
00:32:28.30\00:32:30.29
about like I'm drawing
in yours right now, right?
00:32:30.39\00:32:31.67
I said: "So they said they're
God's true church because
00:32:31.87\00:32:34.13
they have the name
Catholic that means universal. "
00:32:34.23\00:32:35.68
Then I have some Baptist friends
00:32:35.88\00:32:37.42
and my Baptist friend says:
"You know, we're God's true
00:32:37.62\00:32:39.59
church because it was
the Baptists - specifically
00:32:39.69\00:32:42.35
John the Baptist - that
first preached about Christ.
00:32:42.45\00:32:45.82
So we've got the name
Baptist and we were the ones
00:32:46.02\00:32:48.30
preaching about Christ first
so we're God's true church. "
00:32:48.40\00:32:50.31
"And now I'm here tonight
and you guys are telling me
00:32:50.52\00:32:53.40
that you're God's true
church because you have the name
00:32:53.60\00:32:55.79
Church of the Living
God over your door. "
00:32:55.90\00:32:57.60
And then I said this:
00:32:57.90\00:32:59.65
"It seems to me like
00:32:59.85\00:33:01.43
what would make
someone in God's remnant church
00:33:01.63\00:33:04.63
or His true church is
not the name over the door
00:33:04.73\00:33:07.52
but it's what's
taught behind the doors. "
00:33:07.72\00:33:10.08
And boy, they... a couple of
people or several people really
00:33:10.28\00:33:13.69
just got all mad and
they just got really angry
00:33:13.79\00:33:17.84
and started yelling, you
know, back and forth, fussing
00:33:17.94\00:33:19.80
and saying: "We know
we're God's true church because
00:33:19.90\00:33:21.72
the name... " And
one lady actually said:
00:33:21.82\00:33:23.54
"This is what I've
learned my whole life
00:33:23.64\00:33:24.69
so I know it's true. "
00:33:24.79\00:33:25.91
Because you've learned it your
whole life, you know it's true.
00:33:26.11\00:33:27.74
Well my parents taught
me there was a Santa Claus
00:33:27.87\00:33:29.65
my whole life...
so it must be true.
00:33:29.75\00:33:32.80
Until I found
out otherwise, right?
00:33:33.00\00:33:36.03
But I'll tell you what happened
at the end of that was...
00:33:36.23\00:33:38.09
After the end of that the
pastor had calmed everybody down
00:33:38.19\00:33:40.86
he asked me to
have closing prayer.
00:33:41.06\00:33:42.64
So I had the closing prayer.
00:33:42.84\00:33:44.57
I prayed that God
would lead us into His truth
00:33:44.77\00:33:46.22
and what was right.
00:33:46.32\00:33:47.43
And after that the... some
of the elders and other members
00:33:47.64\00:33:50.87
of the church came up to
me and they said: "You know,
00:33:50.98\00:33:52.35
we don't really believe that. "
00:33:52.55\00:33:53.85
"We don't really believe
that the name over the door
00:33:54.05\00:33:56.08
makes us the true church.
00:33:56.18\00:33:57.28
You know, please don't be
00:33:57.29\00:33:58.38
offended and not come back
00:33:58.48\00:34:00.55
to our church because that
was said and done like that
00:34:00.65\00:34:02.42
because that was
wrong. We know it's what's in
00:34:02.52\00:34:04.54
God's Word and what's in
your heart that makes you
00:34:04.64\00:34:06.14
whether or not you are
in God's true church. "
00:34:06.24\00:34:08.45
So even in their very own
churches there's confusion
00:34:08.65\00:34:12.21
as to whether or not
they're teaching right
00:34:12.41\00:34:16.69
or teaching wrong...
you know, things like that.
00:34:16.79\00:34:18.09
Even in churches, even
in the same denomination,
00:34:18.19\00:34:20.34
there's factions
and stuff in there.
00:34:20.54\00:34:23.58
As a matter of fact,
after I left that church
00:34:23.68\00:34:25.59
I didn't go back any more
even if they wanted me to come
00:34:25.79\00:34:28.27
back. And I didn't want to
cause any more trouble really.
00:34:28.37\00:34:29.73
I had caused enough, I guess.
00:34:29.93\00:34:31.35
Some of the members actually
left the church after that.
00:34:31.56\00:34:35.00
Now listen to this: they were
in the Church of the Living God
00:34:35.20\00:34:36.93
there, right? They left
the church and became Baptists.
00:34:37.03\00:34:39.24
You know, no big deal.
They just went: "Next Sunday
00:34:41.26\00:34:43.83
we'll start going to
a different church. "
00:34:43.93\00:34:45.62
Is that God's plan
00:34:45.82\00:34:47.56
for it to be so
confusing and it doesn't matter?
00:34:47.86\00:34:49.56
We can just go
wherever and whatever.
00:34:49.66\00:34:50.80
Or does He have a people
out there that's teaching
00:34:50.90\00:34:53.42
what truth is that we
can all go to and find
00:34:53.52\00:34:55.85
and all be in agreement. Is
it possible for God's people
00:34:55.96\00:34:57.76
to all be in agreement?
00:34:57.86\00:34:59.16
According to Jesus, He
wants that to be the case.
00:34:59.36\00:35:01.06
He wants it to be the case.
00:35:01.26\00:35:02.96
And so even among churches
in different denominations
00:35:03.16\00:35:07.19
you're going to have certain
people that are going to be
00:35:07.29\00:35:08.89
there. Remember that Jesus
says in the parable of Matthew
00:35:08.99\00:35:11.49
chapter 13 that there's going
to be the wheat and the tares
00:35:11.59\00:35:14.22
and they're going to grow
together until the harvest?
00:35:14.33\00:35:15.75
They're all going to grow
together until the harvest.
00:35:15.95\00:35:17.73
You remember that?
00:35:17.93\00:35:19.19
Well, we know that's
going to be the case.
00:35:19.39\00:35:20.86
Even in God's remnant church
you're going to have tares
00:35:21.06\00:35:23.89
in there. But in general,
from the leadership down,
00:35:23.99\00:35:27.21
if you're looking
for the remnant church
00:35:27.41\00:35:29.52
you should be able to
go anywhere in the world
00:35:29.72\00:35:31.32
with that church and
they all teach the same thing.
00:35:31.62\00:35:34.51
Does that make any sense?
00:35:35.59\00:35:36.70
You shouldn't have to
go... Like, if you go to one
00:35:36.90\00:35:39.14
Methodist church here
and they teach one thing
00:35:39.34\00:35:40.89
and a Methodist church
here teaches something else
00:35:41.09\00:35:42.37
and a Methodist church
here teaches something else.
00:35:42.57\00:35:43.85
They all kind of
teach the same thing.
00:35:43.95\00:35:45.34
Isn't that how
most of them work?
00:35:45.54\00:35:46.83
You see why this is a
very difficult subject?
00:35:47.03\00:35:49.24
'Cause you're
naming denominations.
00:35:49.54\00:35:51.18
But that's OK. I'm not
slamming anybody's denomination.
00:35:51.38\00:35:54.75
We're just using as examples.
00:35:55.05\00:35:57.37
And if I've named
yours, you can feel honored
00:35:57.57\00:35:59.88
that your church
denomination had advertisement
00:36:00.08\00:36:02.51
all over the world.
00:36:02.61\00:36:04.43
All right. So I Timothy 3:15.
It says that God's true church
00:36:04.63\00:36:08.27
will be the "pillar
and the ground of truth. "
00:36:08.47\00:36:12.07
And where are we
learning we find truth at?
00:36:12.27\00:36:14.42
From the
Bible... from God's Word.
00:36:15.47\00:36:16.79
All right, so that's identifying
characteristic number 1.
00:36:16.99\00:36:18.52
It's going to be teaching
the truth from God's Word.
00:36:18.62\00:36:20.25
Let's look at identifying
characteristic number 2.
00:36:20.35\00:36:23.38
As we go on to the next
text here, and it's found in
00:36:23.58\00:36:25.98
Revelation
chapter 12 and verse 1.
00:36:26.08\00:36:28.50
Revelation 12:1.
00:36:28.70\00:36:29.72
Let us go there.
00:36:29.92\00:36:31.51
This is not
actually a literal sign here
00:36:33.38\00:36:36.39
as far as identifying mark.
We're going to have to hear
00:36:36.59\00:36:38.71
a couple texts here to
show this identifying mark.
00:36:38.81\00:36:40.74
Revelation
chapter 12 and verse 1.
00:36:40.94\00:36:44.38
And I think Vanessa would like
to read that one, wouldn't you?
00:36:44.59\00:36:47.20
Revelation 12:1. She looked
like she was volunteering there
00:36:49.11\00:36:51.23
right just now.
00:36:51.33\00:36:52.41
Pick your microphone up there.
00:36:58.63\00:37:01.21
Revelation 12:1...
go ahead and read it.
00:37:01.41\00:37:05.13
"And there appeared a
great wonder in heaven:
00:37:05.53\00:37:08.33
a woman clothed with the
sun and the moon under her feet
00:37:08.53\00:37:11.97
and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars. "
00:37:12.17\00:37:14.86
Yeah. You know,
it's interesting here.
00:37:15.06\00:37:16.91
You read it out of the King
James. It says there appeared
00:37:17.11\00:37:19.58
a great what?
00:37:19.68\00:37:20.74
Wonder. You know what
that word better translated is?
00:37:20.94\00:37:23.91
A sign. There was a
great sign in heaven.
00:37:24.22\00:37:26.80
So we're talking
symbolism here, right?
00:37:27.00\00:37:28.80
Sign or symbolism.
00:37:29.00\00:37:30.06
"And a woman
clothed with the sun
00:37:30.27\00:37:32.29
and the moon under her feet
00:37:32.49\00:37:34.54
and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars. "
00:37:34.74\00:37:37.23
This woman that
we're looking at here...
00:37:37.53\00:37:39.51
This is what... I'm just going
to be straight up with you.
00:37:39.71\00:37:42.26
In Bible prophecy a
woman represents a church.
00:37:42.36\00:37:45.04
We know that a woman represents
a church in Bible prophecy.
00:37:45.24\00:37:46.82
We're going to go show that
next as we go to the next text
00:37:47.02\00:37:49.74
but I just want to
make an explanation first.
00:37:49.94\00:37:51.39
So this woman here we're
looking at - this church - is
00:37:51.63\00:37:53.65
going to be God's true church.
00:37:53.75\00:37:55.49
You'll notice
some things about her.
00:37:55.69\00:37:56.87
And how am I going to know
that she's God's true church?
00:37:56.97\00:37:59.19
Because as we read through here
00:37:59.39\00:38:00.85
you're going to find that the
devil - the dragon - hates her.
00:38:01.05\00:38:02.99
If the dragon hates a woman,
00:38:03.29\00:38:05.65
that's the church
you want to be in, right?
00:38:05.85\00:38:08.29
You know that it's God's
true church because the devil
00:38:08.50\00:38:11.02
hates her and
wants to try to kill her.
00:38:11.12\00:38:12.14
He wouldn't try to kill a
church that he loved, would he?
00:38:12.34\00:38:15.01
You know the devil does love?
00:38:15.21\00:38:16.85
He loves evil,
right? He loves evil.
00:38:18.35\00:38:20.62
He loves himself. And he's
not going to try to destroy
00:38:20.72\00:38:23.29
his church, right?
00:38:23.39\00:38:25.90
And so he's trying
to destroy this woman.
00:38:26.10\00:38:28.04
We're going to see
that as we go along.
00:38:28.07\00:38:29.04
But how do we know a woman
represented here when looking in
00:38:29.15\00:38:31.34
Bible prophecy, how do
we know it's the church or
00:38:31.44\00:38:33.11
God's church particularly?
00:38:33.21\00:38:34.39
Well, we're just going
to go through a few texts
00:38:34.42\00:38:35.91
and look at that. And the
text we're going to go to next
00:38:36.01\00:38:38.04
is in II Corinthians chapter 11.
00:38:38.24\00:38:41.49
II Corinthians
chapter 11 and verse 2.
00:38:41.89\00:38:44.14
Now which way are we going
to go to get to II Corinthians?
00:38:44.34\00:38:46.26
To the left. How far?
00:38:46.46\00:38:48.60
Still in the New Testament.
It's still in the New Testament.
00:38:48.81\00:38:51.54
You know, it may be easier
for some people if you just go
00:38:51.74\00:38:53.38
to the New Testament and
go Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
00:38:53.48\00:38:55.86
Acts, Romans, Corinthians.
00:38:56.06\00:38:58.08
So that's the easiest
way to do it for some people
00:38:58.28\00:39:00.67
is just start at
the book of Matthew.
00:39:00.77\00:39:02.12
Go to Matthew, Mark,
Luke, John, Acts, Romans,
00:39:02.32\00:39:04.07
and then the Corinthians.
00:39:04.17\00:39:05.34
And we're going to II
Corinthians so you have to
00:39:05.44\00:39:06.93
go through the whole
first book of Corinthians
00:39:07.03\00:39:08.50
and get into the
second book of Corinthians.
00:39:08.70\00:39:10.44
II Corinthians chapter 11
00:39:10.74\00:39:15.57
and verse 2.
00:39:15.87\00:39:17.86
This is... this is
Paul speaking here:
00:39:18.16\00:39:19.92
Um, Tim, go ahead brother.
00:39:20.12\00:39:24.22
Have I already
picked on you yet today? No.
00:39:24.42\00:39:26.29
OK, I didn't
think I had so you read
00:39:26.49\00:39:27.96
II Corinthians
chapter 11 and verse 2 for us.
00:39:28.07\00:39:29.96
OK. "For I am jealous
over you with godly jealousy.
00:39:30.17\00:39:34.30
For I have
espoused you to one husband
00:39:34.60\00:39:38.27
that I may present you as
a chaste virgin to Christ. "
00:39:38.47\00:39:41.24
So Paul here...
speaking to the Corinthians...
00:39:41.44\00:39:44.73
he's really
jealous over them, right?
00:39:44.93\00:39:47.21
He wants them to
be pure, be ready,
00:39:47.41\00:39:49.26
and to be prepared
for Christ when He comes.
00:39:49.47\00:39:51.83
He wants them to
be true to Christ.
00:39:52.03\00:39:54.22
And he says: "I am jealous over
you as like a chaste virgin. "
00:39:54.42\00:39:57.60
In other words, you're going
to be the spouse of Jesus Christ
00:39:57.80\00:40:00.20
and I want you to be pure. I
want you to have the truth of
00:40:00.30\00:40:02.12
God's Word and I
want you to be pure.
00:40:02.23\00:40:04.22
So I have
espoused you to the husband
00:40:04.42\00:40:07.41
and I want to
present you to Christ.
00:40:07.61\00:40:09.35
So he's representing
the church here as a woman
00:40:09.65\00:40:11.46
who is pure and
ready for Christ.
00:40:11.66\00:40:13.98
And just this morning
in our morning worship here
00:40:14.18\00:40:16.56
you remember we looked at the
parable in Matthew chapter 25
00:40:16.76\00:40:19.17
of the 10 virgins.
00:40:19.37\00:40:21.35
Right? And they were pure
and they all had the truth
00:40:21.55\00:40:23.87
there with God's Word, in
other words, in the parable.
00:40:24.07\00:40:25.65
They had God's truth because
they were pure with no...
00:40:25.85\00:40:28.25
Undefiled. They didn't have
any defilement in their doctrine
00:40:28.45\00:40:30.77
because they were the virgins.
00:40:30.97\00:40:32.14
And they took the lamps
with them which is the Bible.
00:40:32.17\00:40:34.32
They had the oil
- the Holy Spirit.
00:40:34.52\00:40:35.91
Right? And they went
out to meet the bridegroom.
00:40:36.11\00:40:37.91
And so he's comparing God's
people or those following God
00:40:38.11\00:40:41.52
even there to women going
out to meet the bridegroom.
00:40:41.62\00:40:44.16
And you find that
illustration time and again.
00:40:44.36\00:40:47.10
Another text you can go
to if you want to just make
00:40:47.30\00:40:49.39
a little note here is
in Ephesians chapter 5.
00:40:49.49\00:40:50.98
I'll go ahead and read that one.
00:40:51.08\00:40:52.08
From Corinthians how
do we find Ephesians?
00:40:52.29\00:40:53.76
Two more books over, isn't it?
00:40:54.89\00:40:56.68
Corinthians and then
Galatians and then Ephesians.
00:40:56.89\00:41:00.16
Galtians, Ephesians,
Philippians, Colossians
00:41:00.36\00:41:02.79
after that. So we're
going to now to Ephesians
00:41:02.89\00:41:05.84
and we're going
to look at chapter 5
00:41:06.04\00:41:08.32
verses 31 through
33. And we're going to
00:41:08.52\00:41:11.14
look this through
just a little bit more now.
00:41:11.34\00:41:13.03
This is just an alternate
text you can use in the study.
00:41:13.23\00:41:16.68
It's not one that's like in
the study or anything like that.
00:41:16.88\00:41:19.68
It's just something extra
to show a little more about
00:41:19.88\00:41:22.23
a woman and what the
relationship of God is
00:41:22.33\00:41:24.94
to the church or the woman.
00:41:25.04\00:41:26.31
Does that make any sense?
00:41:26.51\00:41:27.63
So let's look at this relation-
ship and how it plays out.
00:41:27.83\00:41:30.03
Ephesians chapter 5
and verses 31 through 33.
00:41:30.23\00:41:34.80
He says: "For this cause...
" I'll go ahead and read it...
00:41:37.26\00:41:39.83
"For this cause shall a man
leave his father and his mother
00:41:40.03\00:41:42.79
and shall be
joined to his wife. "
00:41:42.99\00:41:45.33
He'll leave his father
and mother and be joined
00:41:45.53\00:41:46.84
to his wife. "And they
two shall be one flesh.
00:41:46.94\00:41:50.94
This is a great mystery... "
00:41:51.44\00:41:53.18
But look what he says:
"but I speak concerning
00:41:53.38\00:41:55.55
Christ and the church. "
00:41:55.75\00:41:57.33
So he compares the
marriage of a man and a woman
00:41:57.63\00:41:59.68
to the marriage of
Christ with His church.
00:41:59.88\00:42:01.55
Look at the next verse:
00:42:01.85\00:42:03.26
"Nevertheless let every
one of you in particular
00:42:03.46\00:42:08.12
so love his wife even as himself
00:42:08.32\00:42:10.25
and the wife see she
reverence her husband. "
00:42:10.45\00:42:12.44
So he says this is a comparison
to Christ and His church.
00:42:12.64\00:42:15.10
And he says: "Let the
wife reverence her husband. "
00:42:15.30\00:42:18.07
Right? Isn't that interesting?
00:42:18.28\00:42:20.44
And then let the church
reverence her husband who is...
00:42:20.64\00:42:23.55
You see the comparison there?
00:42:23.75\00:42:25.67
The woman as compared
to the church once again
00:42:25.97\00:42:28.86
reverencing her
husband... Christ.
00:42:29.06\00:42:30.99
Just like the woman, you know,
in the home should be that way.
00:42:31.29\00:42:33.76
And I know that's another
subject all together again,
00:42:33.96\00:42:36.10
you know. But you know
what? God's true church -
00:42:36.24\00:42:39.28
God's remnant - will also be
teaching these very same truths
00:42:39.49\00:42:43.24
that seem so
politically incorrect today.
00:42:43.44\00:42:45.43
Stepping on some
dangerous ground, aren't I?
00:42:46.90\00:42:48.93
I'll just keep my foot out
of my mouth and we'll move on.
00:42:49.23\00:42:51.41
All right. So according
to what we looked at here in
00:42:51.61\00:42:54.07
II Corinthians 11 and verse 2
00:42:54.17\00:42:56.09
Christ compares His
church to a chaste virgin.
00:42:56.30\00:43:00.10
Totally pure. You know,
you think of the purity...
00:43:00.30\00:43:02.87
When you think
of a wedding, the...
00:43:02.90\00:43:07.04
the woman, what's
her name? the bride.
00:43:07.24\00:43:08.96
The bride, yeah. The
bride... she wears white
00:43:09.06\00:43:10.82
in the wedding,
doesn't she? Right?
00:43:11.02\00:43:12.36
Unless it's her second marriage
and then it's not appropriate
00:43:12.50\00:43:15.34
to wear white, is it?
00:43:15.44\00:43:16.57
And you notice that, right?
00:43:16.67\00:43:18.45
Like in our culture here
that when a woman gets married
00:43:18.55\00:43:21.63
a second time she's not
supposed to wear the white.
00:43:21.73\00:43:23.50
You know, somebody's out
there going: "Well I did when I
00:43:23.70\00:43:24.92
got married again. "
Well maybe you didn't know
00:43:25.02\00:43:26.20
or maybe you just were
going against tradition.
00:43:26.30\00:43:27.61
But traditionally
you don't because...
00:43:27.81\00:43:29.71
the white represents the
purity of the woman as she's
00:43:29.91\00:43:33.23
coming into the marriage
relationship with her husband,
00:43:33.33\00:43:35.45
you know, with the first
husband. It was the first time.
00:43:35.55\00:43:37.45
That's why they wear the white.
00:43:37.55\00:43:38.96
And so Jesus here... Paul
here reflecting on the church
00:43:39.16\00:43:42.23
says: "This church needs
to be like that pure virgin,
00:43:42.33\00:43:44.92
that pure bride that's going
to get married to Christ. "
00:43:45.02\00:43:49.12
There's no defilement.
00:43:49.22\00:43:50.28
There's no defilement of
doctrines or anything like that.
00:43:50.38\00:43:52.93
Are you following?
00:43:53.33\00:43:54.89
OK. Well, let's continue on.
00:43:55.09\00:43:56.91
Now that we've
looked here in Revelation
00:43:57.11\00:44:00.23
over in the book of Revelation
chapter 12 and verse 1
00:44:00.43\00:44:05.43
we read and studied there
that God compared His church
00:44:05.63\00:44:08.85
to a woman - this
woman - that, that...
00:44:09.05\00:44:10.89
And by the way, you look at this
woman and she has on nothing
00:44:11.09\00:44:13.28
other than the things, the
beauty that God has given her.
00:44:13.38\00:44:15.33
God created the moon;
she is standing on the moon.
00:44:15.63\00:44:17.99
God created the stars; she
has this crown of stars, right?
00:44:18.29\00:44:20.82
And God created the
sun; the sun's shining.
00:44:21.06\00:44:22.90
All this stuff is natural
beauty from God's nature...
00:44:23.10\00:44:26.91
what God has given her, right?
00:44:27.01\00:44:28.27
So she's reflecting the light
of God's truth and God's purity.
00:44:28.47\00:44:32.60
That's this woman.
00:44:32.81\00:44:34.65
So if we're looking
at the remnant church,
00:44:34.85\00:44:36.18
what are we going
to be looking for here?
00:44:36.29\00:44:37.54
We're going to be looking
for those that are reflecting
00:44:37.84\00:44:40.38
the character of God.
00:44:40.48\00:44:41.60
We're going to be looking
for a church that's teaching
00:44:41.80\00:44:43.99
the purity of the gospel,
the purity of God's Word.
00:44:44.09\00:44:47.15
And so let us carry
on to our next text.
00:44:47.36\00:44:50.17
And our next one is
in Revelation chapter 12
00:44:50.37\00:44:51.89
and we're just
continuing on with what we read
00:44:52.09\00:44:53.42
starting in verse 2.
00:44:53.52\00:44:54.64
Revelation
chapter 12. Now from...
00:44:54.74\00:44:57.04
That's just the
last book of the Bible;
00:44:57.24\00:44:58.75
we should all be able to find
that one by now, shouldn't we?
00:44:58.85\00:45:00.55
Revelation chapter 12, and we're
going to read verses 2 through 6
00:45:00.75\00:45:04.26
and then verse 13.
00:45:04.46\00:45:05.84
Now speaking of this woman...
Now remember, this is symbolism
00:45:06.14\00:45:08.78
here. We know it's symbolism
because what is said in verse 1
00:45:08.88\00:45:11.75
that there "appeared a great
wonder or a sign in heaven. "
00:45:11.96\00:45:14.85
Sign means that it was
a great... It's a vision
00:45:15.05\00:45:18.14
or it's a symbol
of all these things.
00:45:18.34\00:45:19.67
We know this
woman is a symbol...
00:45:19.87\00:45:21.21
not literally a real
woman. How do we know that?
00:45:21.32\00:45:23.49
Because she's
standing on the moon.
00:45:23.79\00:45:26.41
Because she has
stars around her head.
00:45:27.60\00:45:29.12
You know, a literal
woman... I mean, I guess
00:45:29.22\00:45:31.46
we could send a woman to the
moon and she could stand there
00:45:31.57\00:45:33.14
and we could claim
fulfillment of that.
00:45:33.24\00:45:34.44
But obviously this is
symbolism as we'll find out.
00:45:34.65\00:45:38.18
As we read the rest of it, you
can see the rest of the symbols.
00:45:38.38\00:45:40.18
Let us start, pick
it up now in verse 2.
00:45:40.48\00:45:42.98
Um, I'm going to pick somebody
to read that hasn't read yet.
00:45:43.18\00:45:47.14
Mike, have you read today? OK.
Darlene, have you read today?
00:45:47.34\00:45:50.02
How about Bill? OK, Bill.
00:45:50.22\00:45:52.07
Revelation chapter 12.
00:45:53.35\00:45:54.70
Bill, I want you to
read verses 2 through 6
00:45:54.90\00:45:56.44
and I may, it's possible,
00:45:56.54\00:45:58.05
get inspired and stop you
00:45:58.15\00:46:00.12
at some point. yeah.
So don't be angry with me.
00:46:00.22\00:46:03.37
All right, go ahead.
00:46:03.67\00:46:05.14
"Then being with
child she cried out in labor
00:46:05.34\00:46:07.87
and in pain to give birth.
00:46:08.08\00:46:09.77
And another sign
appeared in heaven... "
00:46:09.97\00:46:11.83
Another what? Sign. There
was another sign in heaven.
00:46:12.03\00:46:14.32
OK. A Sign or a
symbol, right? Carry on.
00:46:14.52\00:46:16.71
"Behold, a great fiery
red dragon having seven heads,
00:46:16.85\00:46:20.25
ten horns, and seven
diadems on his heads... "
00:46:20.45\00:46:23.92
All right, Bill. I
want to ask you a question.
00:46:24.02\00:46:25.23
Can I ask you a question. Yes.
00:46:25.53\00:46:26.95
Do you think that
this great red dragon
00:46:27.15\00:46:30.14
with the seven
heads and the ten horns
00:46:30.34\00:46:31.58
is literal or symbolic?
00:46:31.68\00:46:32.96
Symbolic. So it's likely since
we're listing all these things,
00:46:33.16\00:46:36.79
as we're reading through
these symbolic... that the woman
00:46:36.99\00:46:38.93
would be symbolic also. Right.
00:46:39.04\00:46:40.32
OK. The reason I'm
dragging this out right here
00:46:40.52\00:46:43.37
at point because some people
do have an issue with this.
00:46:43.48\00:46:45.23
They say: "No,
this is literally Mary.
00:46:45.43\00:46:46.66
and Mary was standing on
the moon. " That kind of thing.
00:46:46.86\00:46:49.05
But we're seeing the
symbolism all through.
00:46:49.08\00:46:50.46
You can't have part of
a vision being symbolic
00:46:50.59\00:46:52.58
and part of it being literal.
00:46:52.69\00:46:53.98
You know, it's
either symbolic or literal
00:46:54.18\00:46:55.89
as it goes
through here. Carry on.
00:46:55.99\00:46:57.75
"And another sign
appeared in heaven.
00:46:57.95\00:47:00.43
Behold... " I already read that.
00:47:00.63\00:47:02.66
"His tail drew a
third of the stars of heaven
00:47:02.86\00:47:04.96
and threw them to the earth.
00:47:05.06\00:47:06.30
And the dragon
stood before the woman
00:47:06.50\00:47:08.22
who was ready to give
birth to devour the child
00:47:08.42\00:47:10.73
as soon as it was born.
00:47:10.93\00:47:12.73
She bore a male child
who was to rule all nations
00:47:13.03\00:47:16.75
with a rod of iron, and
her child was caught up to God
00:47:16.95\00:47:19.76
and His throne. " I
want to stop you there again.
00:47:19.96\00:47:22.02
Did he succeed in ruling
all nations with a rod of iron?
00:47:23.15\00:47:25.66
The man child? No.
00:47:26.06\00:47:28.46
Not yet He hasn't, has He?
00:47:28.66\00:47:29.89
'Cause that's speaking of
who? That child being born...
00:47:30.09\00:47:33.71
who is it speaking of? Has
been speaking of Jesus, right?
00:47:33.91\00:47:36.21
And so Jesus just
comes... He comes out to deliver
00:47:36.24\00:47:39.86
and He delivers the captives,
right? But He's not ruling
00:47:40.06\00:47:41.86
with a rod of iron.
When does Jesus rule?
00:47:41.96\00:47:44.72
At the second coming.
00:47:45.02\00:47:47.04
Right. At the second
coming He destroys the wicked
00:47:47.24\00:47:49.26
and the righteous reign with
Him. We read that in the Bible.
00:47:49.36\00:47:52.00
They'll be reigning
with Him then, but right now
00:47:52.14\00:47:54.19
we're still in this
battle. The war is going on.
00:47:54.39\00:47:56.73
So the fight is going on.
That's what we're going to find
00:47:56.93\00:47:58.51
as you go through this symbolism
here as you read through this:
00:47:58.61\00:48:00.36
that this battle is still
raging between the serpent...
00:48:00.56\00:48:02.83
And after the man
child... As you will read here,
00:48:03.03\00:48:04.87
the man child is
taken up to heaven.
00:48:04.97\00:48:06.79
Then the serpent attacks who?
00:48:06.89\00:48:08.40
The woman. He
attacks the woman...
00:48:08.60\00:48:11.01
and that would be God's people.
Because he can no longer reach
00:48:11.22\00:48:12.98
the man, now he's going
to be attacking the woman.
00:48:13.08\00:48:15.97
Keep reading. All right.
00:48:16.17\00:48:17.37
"Then the woman
fled into the wilderness
00:48:17.57\00:48:19.47
where she had a
place prepared by God
00:48:19.67\00:48:22.39
that she should
feed her 1,260 days. "
00:48:22.60\00:48:26.14
OK. Now, how long would
she have a place prepared
00:48:26.34\00:48:29.60
and be fed for? 1,260 days.
00:48:29.70\00:48:32.00
Do you remember how our
study that we had back in
00:48:32.10\00:48:33.55
Daniel about the 1,260 days?
00:48:33.75\00:48:35.45
That's the time...
what we call the Dark Ages.
00:48:35.55\00:48:37.16
From what time
frame? 538 AD to 1798 AD.
00:48:37.36\00:48:41.46
During that time frame, the
church would be into hiding.
00:48:41.66\00:48:44.21
You notice that the
church is in the wilderness.
00:48:44.31\00:48:46.45
The wilderness would
indicate that that would be a...
00:48:46.65\00:48:48.91
hiding place.
Like if I go out and I
00:48:49.11\00:48:50.64
run out here in one of
these orange groves here
00:48:50.75\00:48:53.30
and I'm out there hiding in
the wilderness area out there
00:48:53.50\00:48:55.17
and it is like a wilderness.
If you've seen... I've seen
00:48:55.27\00:48:57.02
wild boars out there
and alligators and things.
00:48:57.12\00:48:59.24
I wouldn't want to be out there
tonight especially alone, right?
00:48:59.35\00:49:01.91
But if I'm hiding in the wilder-
ness, likely you can't find me.
00:49:02.11\00:49:04.45
And if actually I went and
did it you'd probably never
00:49:04.55\00:49:06.29
find me again.
00:49:06.39\00:49:07.47
I'd probably disappear
and be eaten by something.
00:49:07.67\00:49:09.19
But this church...
God's church here...
00:49:09.39\00:49:11.34
it's going to be hiding in
the wilderness for 1,260 years.
00:49:11.44\00:49:14.13
Here's the question
I want to pose to you,
00:49:14.23\00:49:15.58
I want you to think
about: God's remnant church -
00:49:15.68\00:49:17.86
His people - are they
going to be visibly on the scene
00:49:17.96\00:49:20.39
during the Dark Ages?
No, they're going to be,
00:49:20.59\00:49:23.22
according to the text we
looked at, for 1,260 years
00:49:23.42\00:49:25.77
they're going to be in hiding.
00:49:25.87\00:49:27.61
OK. Now some people
may be saying: "How do you
00:49:27.82\00:49:30.01
get out of the one thousand
two hundred and three score days
00:49:30.21\00:49:33.83
how can you say
that that's 1,260 years?
00:49:34.03\00:49:36.73
And we went over this before
and we'll go over it again
00:49:36.93\00:49:38.51
in the study. When you look
at the Bible, in Bible prophecy
00:49:38.61\00:49:41.10
you have a day is equal
to a year in Bible prophecy
00:49:41.30\00:49:43.72
when you look at the...
when Bible prophecy is symbolic
00:49:43.82\00:49:47.30
and you have the
symbolism going on there.
00:49:47.50\00:49:48.79
You can take a day -
an actual day in prophecy
00:49:48.99\00:49:51.59
is a literal year in reality.
00:49:51.79\00:49:53.78
And we'll show you the
examples of that again.
00:49:53.98\00:49:55.42
We'll go to that
in just a minute.
00:49:55.45\00:49:56.58
But I want you to
be thinking about this.
00:49:56.79\00:49:58.11
Think about
what's taking place here.
00:49:58.31\00:50:00.18
The church is in
hiding for 1,260 years.
00:50:00.38\00:50:05.76
It's not on the scene.
00:50:05.96\00:50:07.19
It's not going to be
where everybody knows it's there
00:50:07.49\00:50:09.62
and sees it. So God's remnant
church is going to have to
00:50:09.82\00:50:12.23
come up sometimes
after... onto the scene...
00:50:12.34\00:50:15.90
some time after 1798 AD.
00:50:16.10\00:50:17.45
Are you following that?
That's going to be one of the
00:50:17.75\00:50:19.11
identifying characteristics.
Now let us go to right now
00:50:19.21\00:50:21.79
and look. Where do we get the
day for a year in Bible prophecy
00:50:21.99\00:50:24.63
at? I want to go over this
again for a couple of reasons.
00:50:24.74\00:50:27.27
One is we've only done
it once in this whole series
00:50:27.47\00:50:29.92
and if somebody's
missed that part of the DVD
00:50:30.12\00:50:32.52
or that part of the
series they may wonder
00:50:32.62\00:50:33.93
what in the world
we're talking about.
00:50:34.04\00:50:35.09
And another is I
just like doing it.
00:50:35.29\00:50:36.64
And so Ezekiel 4:6
00:50:36.84\00:50:40.48
is one of those or
are one of those places...
00:50:40.68\00:50:42.93
is one of those places.
Am I saying that correctly?
00:50:43.07\00:50:44.64
It doesn't matter in Kentucky.
00:50:44.85\00:50:46.11
Ezekiel 4:6.
00:50:46.31\00:50:50.81
That's one of those.
00:50:51.11\00:50:52.77
And that's the only
one I have on the screen.
00:50:53.94\00:50:55.19
I'm going to ask the class
here to give me the other two.
00:50:55.29\00:50:57.24
That's why that's left off.
00:50:57.44\00:50:58.57
Yeah, I'm going to ask the
class to give me the other two
00:50:58.77\00:51:00.75
that we have. One's
in the New Testament;
00:51:00.86\00:51:01.99
another one in the
Old Testament. Let us read
00:51:02.20\00:51:03.53
Ezekiel 4:6 first to
show that when you're talking
00:51:03.63\00:51:06.56
prophetically that one day
is equal to a literal year.
00:51:06.66\00:51:10.00
And Robert, would you
like to read that one?
00:51:10.20\00:51:13.51
OK.
00:51:13.71\00:51:15.11
"And when you have completed
them, lie again on your right
00:51:22.04\00:51:25.38
side. Then you shall bear the
iniquity of the house of Judah
00:51:25.48\00:51:30.50
40 days, and I have laid
on you a day for each year. "
00:51:30.71\00:51:36.08
So He says because
of what's going on here,
00:51:36.39\00:51:39.04
because of what you've done,
00:51:39.24\00:51:41.68
I'm going to give you for
each day that I've talked to you
00:51:41.88\00:51:44.90
about here you're going
to also have to spend a year.
00:51:45.01\00:51:47.14
Each day for a year.
Now if you want another one
00:51:47.34\00:51:48.86
that I like really
well in the Old Testament -
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one that is a story in a story
that I like preaching about -
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is when the children of
Israel were getting ready to go
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into the Promised Land
and Moses sent out the spies.
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And he sent them out.
How long did the spies go out
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into the land? Forty days.
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And they come back and they're
getting ready to go into the
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Promised Land; getting
ready to take the Promised Land.
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Obviously they're going
to be ready to go, right?
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Well there were a
couple of them that were ready.
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You had Moses,
Aaron, Joshua, and Caleb.
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And the rest of the congregation
said: "No, we don't want to go
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into the Promised
Land... it's too hard. "
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And they rebelled.
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And God said:
"Because of your rebellion... "
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Numbers chapter 14...
"Because of your rebellion
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you spent 40 days
spying out the land...
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now you can go into the
wilderness for 40 years...
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each day for a year. "
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So He's giving
symbolism there, right?
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For every day you actually
spent there, now you're going to
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spend a year in the wilderness
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waiting before you can
go into the Promised Land.
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How disheartening
that would have been.
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And that was
found in Numbers 14:34.
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If you want to
read it, from Ezekiel
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which direction would we go?
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To the left. How far?
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Actually, to find the book
of Numbers it's easier to start
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at the beginning of
your Bible, isn't it?
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Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers.
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OK, you got it.
Numbers chapter 14
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and verse 34.
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Numbers chapter 14 verse 34.
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And Danielle, would you
like to read that one for us?
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You haven't read yet, have you?
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I didn't think so.
Numbers 14:34 please.
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"After the number of the days
in which ye searched the land,
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even 40 days -
each day for a year -
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shall ye bear your
iniquities... even 40 years.
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And ye shall know
My breach of promise. "
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Very good. So
each day for a year.
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Now somebody... some of you
guys are going to be saying:
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"Why are we going
over this again? "
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You know what repetition does?
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It deepens impression.
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Like, you'll remember
this. You'll start remembering
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where these texts
are and everything.
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And the more you go
over it the better you'll be
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at remembering it.
And it's very key because
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this is one of the foundational
understandings of how to
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understand Bible prophecy
is the fact that you're able to
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find the texts and understand
why we believe what we believe.
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Why do you believe each day
for a year in Bible prophecy?
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It's because we
have the Bible principle.
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What's the other Bible
principle? Where's it at?
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Does anybody remember?
It's in the New Testament.
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Luke chapter 13 and verse 31.
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Jesus Himself uses a day
for a year in Bible prophecy.
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And I think we're going to have
time to get through this one
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before we have to take a break.
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And then we'll pick up in the
2nd half of the Remnant Church
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and look at the rest of the
identifying characteristics.
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Luke chapter 13. I
love this one very much.
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Starting in verse 31.
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I'm going to read this
one because I like putting the
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emphasis in.
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Sometimes when you read
the stories in the Bible
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you kind of
imagine what's going on.
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It adds something
to... to it for yourself.
00:54:26.75\00:54:30.05
You know? You
really put yourself there,
00:54:30.15\00:54:31.55
and I can picture this
happening almost, you know.
00:54:31.65\00:54:33.51
John the Baptist
had lost his head
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and so everybody was kind of
afraid that Jesus was going to
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happen... the same thing
was going to happen to Him.
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That Herod was going to
have His head taken off, too.
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And so it says in verse 31:
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"The same day there
came certain Pharisees
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saying unto Him: " Jesus...
00:54:45.54\00:54:47.15
"Get out and depart because
Herod's going to kill you. "
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"And Jesus said to them:
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you go tell that fox... "
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Is this literal or symbolic?
00:54:54.04\00:54:56.01
How do you know? Because
Herod is not really a fox.
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So Jesus here is speaking
like in prophetic terms.
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Isn't He? So...
"You go tell that fox
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'Behold, I cast out devils
00:55:04.26\00:55:05.93
and I do cures today and
tomorrow and the third day
00:55:06.13\00:55:10.11
I shall be perfected.
00:55:10.31\00:55:11.63
Nevertheless, I must walk today,
00:55:11.93\00:55:13.54
and tomorrow,
and the day following
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for it cannot be that a prophet
perish outside of Jerusalem. ' "
00:55:15.71\00:55:18.10
Specifically, what was it
that Jesus was talking about
00:55:18.30\00:55:21.26
happening to Him here
when He said that it cannot be
00:55:21.36\00:55:23.45
that a prophet
perish outside of Jerusalem?
00:55:23.55\00:55:25.07
He's talking about His death.
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Now from this point, did
Jesus' ministry last only
00:55:26.65\00:55:29.84
3-1/2 more...
the rest of that day,
00:55:29.94\00:55:31.95
the next day, and then
He perished the next day?
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Is that how long His
ministry lasted from this point?
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No. And if you do a
little research here...
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you know, you find in the
gospels of Matthew, Mark and
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Luke, they're
not really in order.
00:55:41.29\00:55:44.03
You know what I'm saying?
They're not really in order
00:55:44.23\00:55:45.30
of... as the way the events
happened... but John's is.
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When you get to the gospel
of John it's kind of in order.
00:55:48.09\00:55:49.63
It shows like this year,
this year, this year, this year.
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But these first three gospels
here aren't really like that.
00:55:51.59\00:55:54.58
So it's interesting.
The estimate here, I mean,
00:55:54.78\00:55:56.86
you just kind of figure by the
stories that are taking place
00:55:57.06\00:55:58.61
what happens after
this and before this
00:55:58.81\00:56:00.26
that He was about
toward the end of His fir...
00:56:00.46\00:56:04.05
Let's see, would it be
like the rest of that year...
00:56:04.25\00:56:05.98
the end of the
second year of His ministry
00:56:06.18\00:56:09.30
or toward the end of it.
00:56:09.50\00:56:10.60
So it would have been the rest
of that year - His 2nd year.
00:56:10.80\00:56:12.52
It would have been
all of His 3rd year;
00:56:12.55\00:56:14.55
and then as you go into the 4th
year, what happened to Jesus?
00:56:14.76\00:56:17.39
He was crucified, right?
00:56:18.34\00:56:19.56
So it was the rest
of this year, today.
00:56:19.76\00:56:22.32
Next year... tomorrow.
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And then the third day He
says "I'll be perfected. "
00:56:24.90\00:56:27.48
And He's talking
about His crucifixion.
00:56:27.68\00:56:28.97
Obviously His ministry didn't
last just a couple more days
00:56:29.17\00:56:31.57
from this point but it
lasted a couple more years.
00:56:31.77\00:56:33.70
So it's interesting that He
uses that statement, isn't it?
00:56:34.00\00:56:36.42
Jesus Himself uses a
day for a year when talking
00:56:36.52\00:56:38.33
about Bible prophecy. And so
00:56:38.43\00:56:40.08
my saying is with this:
00:56:40.28\00:56:42.04
"If it's good enough for Jesus
00:56:42.24\00:56:43.45
it's good enough for me. "
00:56:43.65\00:56:44.90
And so we have those examples
00:56:45.20\00:56:46.61
when we're talking prophetically
00:56:46.81\00:56:48.51
or we're talking symbolically
00:56:48.61\00:56:49.74
of using a day for a
year in Bible prophecy.
00:56:49.94\00:56:51.49
Now we're going
to cut it right here
00:56:51.59\00:56:52.82
and we're going to come
back. After our break here
00:56:53.02\00:56:55.17
we're going to come back and
do part 2 of the Remnant Church
00:56:55.37\00:56:56.99
when we get into the rest of
the identifying characteristics.
00:56:57.19\00:56:59.35
And we're going to find out
that God does have a remnant
00:56:59.55\00:57:01.33
church in these last days.
00:57:01.44\00:57:02.82
Now if you would like
to get more information
00:57:03.02\00:57:05.11
and you would like to
catch up with this study
00:57:05.31\00:57:06.95
or you're picking up
right in the middle of this
00:57:07.05\00:57:08.02
or you want to find out
more information just about
00:57:08.16\00:57:10.93
the Lay Institute for Evangelism
00:57:11.03\00:57:12.46
you can visit our website
at www.ComeExperienceLife.com
00:57:12.56\00:57:17.16
where you can actually
download the study guides here
00:57:17.36\00:57:20.53
or you can watch the
videos of any of these classes
00:57:20.73\00:57:24.02
that are going on here. By
the time you are watching this
00:57:24.12\00:57:26.76
we're probably... the classes
have ended for the fall session
00:57:26.97\00:57:30.11
of 2009. But we'll also
have the spring session coming
00:57:30.21\00:57:33.12
in 2010, and you're
welcome to come to that.
00:57:33.22\00:57:34.97
So I just want to thank you
all for being with us here today
00:57:35.18\00:57:37.26
and we hope to see
you again next time here
00:57:37.46\00:57:39.63
at LIFE: The Lay
Institute for Evangelism.
00:57:39.83\00:57:43.65