Alleluia
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Alleluia
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For our Lord God Almighty reigns
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Alleluia
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Alleluia
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For our Lord God Almighty reigns
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Alleluia
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Holy!
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holy
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Are You Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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You are Holy
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Holy
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Are You Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Amen
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Alleluia
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Alleluia
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For our Lord God Almighty reigns
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Alleluia
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Alleluia
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For our Load God Almighty reigns
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Alleluia
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Holy
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holy
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Are You Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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You are Holy
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Holy
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Are You Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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You are Holy
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Holy
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Are You Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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You are Holy
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Holy
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Are You Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Amen
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Oh, God, You are my God.
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Oh, God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise you
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Oh God
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Oh God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise you
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I will seek You in the morning
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And I will learn
to walk in Your ways
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And step by step You'll lead me
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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Let's sing that again.
Oh, God, You are my God.
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And I will ever praise you.
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Oh, God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise you
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Oh, God, You are my God
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And I will ever praise you
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I will seek.
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I will seek You in the morning
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And I will learn
to walk in Your ways
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And step by step You'll lead me
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And I will follow.
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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And step by step You'll lead me
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And I will follow
You all of my days
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Holy, holy,
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Holy
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Lord God
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Almighty
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Early in the morning
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Our song shall rise
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To thee
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Holy, holy,
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Holy
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Merciful
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And mighty
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God
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In Three persons
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Blessed Trinity
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Holy, holy, holy
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Angels adore thee,
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Casting down their bright crowns
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Around the glassy sea
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Thousands and ten thousands
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Worship low before thee
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Which wert, and art
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And evermore
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Shalt be
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Holy, holy, holy
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Though the darkness hide Thee
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Though the eye of sinful man
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Thy glory may not see
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Only Thou art holy
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There is none beside Thee
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Perfect in power,
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In love, and purity
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Let's stand together as
we sing this last verse.
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Holy, holy, holy
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Lord God Almighty
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All Thy works
shall praise Thy Name
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In earth, and sky, and sea
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Holy, holy, holy
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Merciful and mighty
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God in three Persons
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Blessed Trinity
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Kadosh kadosh
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Kadosh Kadosh
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Kadosh
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Kadosh
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Adonai
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Elohim tz'va'ot
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Adonai
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Elohim tz'va'ot
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Hallelujah hallelujah
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Hallelujah hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Holy Father,
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in Hebrew, in
Swahili, in English.
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When we lift up our hearts,
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our spirits to praise your name
the hallelujah sounds the same.
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It is an
expression of deep gratitude.
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We linger just a
little longer in Your presence
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now the holy
scripture affront the sinner.
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May the Holy Spirit
who inspire this teaching
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long, long ago be here
as Jesus said to guide us.
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Guide us into all
truth, we pray in His name.
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Amen.
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I hold here in my
hands in the poppet,
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my doggered copy
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of C.S. Lewis's
classic Mere Christianity.
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You know the--
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You know its dogger
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when you have to put
a rubber band around it
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to keep the pages inside.
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Some books are just
worth hanging on to.
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I'm gonna read a line
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from Mere
Christianity for two reasons.
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Number one, the
line sets up our--
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sets up our metaphor
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for this teaching
today called the invasion.
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And the number two, I have been
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cut by surprise
over the last few weeks
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just the last few weeks.
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As I had a four young adults
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to my prayer list,
my personal prayer list.
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Four young
adults who are wrestling
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over the existence of God.
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I need to tell you the
C S Lewis is a young man
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was an atheist.
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It's okay, it's okay to
have questions about faith,
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its okay to-- to have doubt,
it's not the end of the world.
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C S Lewis became a
believer as the young man.
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A believer in Christ.
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And when one to become
arguably the greatest apologist,
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the greatest
defender of Christianity
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in the 20th century.
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Great mind in writings.
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So, he gave these
talks actually over the BBC
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during World War II
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after the talks
were given, after the war
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collected it made
put into this books.
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So this is from page 50
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of the little
classic Mere Christianity,
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I freely admit, Lewis
writes "That real Christianity
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as distinct from
Christianity and water.
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All right water
down Christianity,
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"Real
Christianity goes much nearer
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to Dualism than people think."
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Dualism teaches
there're two eternal forces,
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good and evil,
they're both eternal.
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You just stuck
with them for ever.
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But it says, we
might be close to that
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"One of the
things-- One of the things
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that surprised
me when I first read
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the New Testament as a young man
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rather it seriously was that
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it talked so much about a
Dark Power in the universe,
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a mighty evil spirit
who was held to be the Power
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behind death and
disease, and sin.
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The difference is
that Christianity thinks
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this Dark Power
was created by God,
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and was good,
when he was created,
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and went wrong.
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Christianity agrees with Dualism
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that this universe is at war.
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But it does not
think this is a war
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between independent powers.
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It thinks it is a
civil war, a rebellion,
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and that we are living
in a part of the universe
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occupied by the rebel."
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Right on. I
agree with C S Lewis.
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And if not here comes the line.
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"Enemy-occupied territory
that is what this world is.
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Christianity is the story
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of how the
rightful king has landed,
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you might say
landed in disguise,
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and is calling
us all to take part
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in a great
campaign of sabotage."
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Landing behind
enemy lines like--
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I like the metaphor.
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Landing in
disguise, the invasion.
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A king or as
little baby in a village.
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2,000 years ago, who's the king?
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And by the way, what
in the world was that,
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does that have to do
with his teachings series
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we are in called the Sabbath.
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Do they fit,
what's the peaces fit,
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let's-- let's explore together.
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Open your Bible
please to two books,
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we've done-- we
gonna do something today
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we have never done before
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and that is we gonna
read two books simultaneously.
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Book of Genesis
and the book of John.
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So pull your Bible out,
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if you don't have a
Bible, grab the Pew Bible.
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We got to go.
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We're gonna fly through this,
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two Bibles-- two
books simultaneously,
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we gonna read just
their openings, their prologs.
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You gonna be amazed as I
was at the dramatic similarity
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between the opening
to the Old Testament
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and the opening
to the New Testament.
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Is there wait a minute,
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Pastor John is not the
opening to the New Testament,
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it's Mathew, no,
but John's prolog
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actually goes back
before Bethlehem, way before,
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so we could
call John effectively
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the prolog to the New Testament.
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So we got the Genesis and John.
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Now everybody knows where
Geneses 1 is where will be,
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but John if you have
ribbon in your Bible,
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take a ribbon right
now because you going--
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you going to
going back and forth.
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Put your ribbon in John 1,
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if you got a
Bible with a ribbon,
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if you don't, put
your both in John 1,
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we'll get a study
guide to you just a second.
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We want to know seven
strikingly dramatic parallels
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between Genesis and John.
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If I guess, let's do
the study guide right now.
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Let's put the
study guide, if you do--
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if you came in today
with out a study guide,
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you didn't get a
worship bulletin,
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assures thank you very much.
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Hold your hands up
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our friendly
assures will be by you
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in a just a moment all way
to the back of the balcony.
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I want to make sure the
choir has study guides as well.
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So hold your hand up,
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you want to get these
seven dramatic parallels
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and those who are watching
on television right now,
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we are very honored to have you,
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thank you for joining us.
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They'd give a website
put it on the screen for you,
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it's-- so you can find
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the study guide www.pmchurch.tv,
00:21:50.25\00:21:54.17
that's our website for
this new perceptions telecast.
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Go to that
website, you looking for
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the teachings series
in titled The Sabbath.
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This is part
four in that series.
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There are only six parts,
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so we are moving in
the second last half here.
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You are looking for
the Sabbath the teaching
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this one is in
titled The Invasion.
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So when you find The Invasion
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and it says, study
guide there, you got it.
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You click there, you'll
have the same study guide we do.
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Let make sure--
sure everybody gets one.
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As we gonna fly, you
keep your hand up in the back,
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while you are doing that
I'm gonna go ahead and start.
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All right seven
dramatic parallels,
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striking parallels
between Genesis and John.
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Which in it- what
you gonna need to do is,
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you gonna need to
write the numbers down.
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You gonna need to
write the references down.
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We put the books
into the study guide,
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let's put the first
that's on screen of Genesis 1:1,
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so you write that
in, and John 1:1-3.
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All right so the--
parallel number one.
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Here we go.
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Well, Genesis 1:1
that's not hard to find
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its page one of our Pew Bible.
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And it's
beginning of every Bible.
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So let's find Genesis 1:1.
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And then we gonna start flying.
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Okay, Genesis 1:1
here the familiar words
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"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth."
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When we get-- when
we began the series
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three times ago,
00:23:06.38\00:23:07.78
we remembered that
in Christmas eve 1968
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the Apollo Crew looking out
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the little space
portal of their capsule
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saw this
terrestrial blue green ball
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and they quoted these words
to a broad cast center the world
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"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth."
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Okay, so we got that down
let's take a look at John.
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So I got ribbon so I
can go straight to John 1.
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Put your study
guide right in John 1
00:23:28.17\00:23:30.02
if you don't have a ribbon.
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Let's look at John 1:1. John 1.
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John 1:1 "In the
beginning" look at that,
00:23:35.55\00:23:38.69
"In the
beginning" different language
00:23:38.72\00:23:40.65
Greek and the New
Testament Hebrew New Testament
00:23:40.68\00:23:43.46
"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,"
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as there capital W
word "and the Word was God."
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verse 2 "He was in
the beginning with God."
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now notice the verse 3
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"All things were
made through Him,
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and without Him nothing
was made that was made."
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You know, that--
the Greek word for word
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is logos.
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From when it comes
to English word logo,
00:24:02.23\00:24:04.30
as they drop the S we got logo.
00:24:04.33\00:24:05.83
You know what a
logo is, don't you?
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A logo is that which becomes
00:24:07.25\00:24:08.66
a visual
representation of a reality
00:24:08.69\00:24:11.40
that you can't see,
but you have the logo.
00:24:11.43\00:24:13.55
And when you see
Andrews University's logo,
00:24:13.58\00:24:15.02
you say, ha, when
you see pioneers logo
00:24:15.05\00:24:16.74
on the cover of our bulletin up,
00:24:16.77\00:24:17.88
apple's the logo on
the back of a computer
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all lighted up in
white, apple you know the logo.
00:24:20.25\00:24:23.86
What it represents.
00:24:23.89\00:24:25.01
So the word is a
logo. It's a divine logo.
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See Him?
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He represents the reality
behind the logo, the logos.
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By the way John is the only
one of the New Testament writers
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to use this word logos
00:24:37.04\00:24:38.44
to refer to one of the
members of the God head.
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So it's the significant word.
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I like this Desire of Ages 19
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see in your
study guide fill it in.
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"By coming to dwell with us,
00:24:47.31\00:24:48.44
Jesus was to reveal God
both to men and to angels.
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He was the Word of God, he
was God's thought made audible."
00:24:51.05\00:24:54.36
Look it, You and I
look at each other right now
00:24:54.39\00:24:56.02
and neither of us--
neither of us speaks
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I have no idea
what you thinking,
00:24:58.00\00:24:59.59
you have no idea
of what I'm thinking.
00:24:59.62\00:25:00.95
I have to open my mouth,
00:25:00.98\00:25:02.06
once I put words to
it, you know my thoughts,
00:25:02.09\00:25:03.97
once you put words to
it, I know your thoughts.
00:25:04.00\00:25:06.28
That's what the word.
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Capital W word was.
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So what is
parallel-- parallel one
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between Genesis
and John 1 teaches?
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Write it down
Christ is the creator,
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Christ is a creator
of the world/ universe.
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No question.
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Genesis just says
God, John 1 comes on
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and says let me tell
you it was Christ Himself.
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By the way not
only John teaches that,
00:25:24.19\00:25:25.44
not only-- not only John
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but Paul teaches it,
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Hebrew, Hebrew
teaches it as well.
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In fact the New
Testament is unequivocal.
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Jap this down the
active divine agent,
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see there in your study
guide the active divine agent
00:25:36.77\00:25:38.59
who created the
earth in the beginning,
00:25:38.62\00:25:40.52
the God who personally shaped
00:25:40.55\00:25:42.28
Adam and Eve into existence
was the preincarnate Christ.
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Genesis 2: 7 when it says
00:25:45.68\00:25:46.72
"The Lord God made man
of the dust of the ground"
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that is Christ He became Jesus.
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That's Christ's over
that little hunk of clay,
00:25:52.38\00:25:55.37
we've got to personality.
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We can put to
the God of Genesis 1.
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That's Christ.
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In fact, John 1,
Colossians 1, Hebrews 1,
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and I tell you,
people, you wanted to know
00:26:03.25\00:26:04.30
where Christ is that created
00:26:04.33\00:26:05.36
John 1, Colossians 1, Hebrews 1,
00:26:05.39\00:26:06.64
let's go to Colossians 1
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"For by Him all
things were created
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that are in heaven
and that are on earth,
00:26:10.45\00:26:12.12
visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
00:26:12.15\00:26:14.39
or principalities or powers.
00:26:14.42\00:26:16.37
All things were created
through Him and for Him.
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And He is before all things,
and in Him all things consist.
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He is the activation of
creation. In the God head.
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Let's go to Hebrew's chapter
1 and take a look at this
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"God, who at various times and
in various ways spoke in time
00:26:27.41\00:26:31.20
past to the fathers and
mothers by the prophets,
00:26:31.23\00:26:34.55
God as in these last days
spoken to us by His Son, Jesus,
00:26:34.58\00:26:38.11
whom He has
appointed heir of all things,
00:26:38.14\00:26:39.88
through whom also
He made the worlds,
00:26:39.91\00:26:42.36
Christ is a creator, who being
the brightness of His glory
00:26:42.39\00:26:45.84
and the express
image of His person,
00:26:45.87\00:26:47.78
and upholding all things
by the word of His power,
00:26:47.81\00:26:50.46
when He had by Himself
a Calvary purged our sins,
00:26:50.49\00:26:53.53
sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty on high."
00:26:53.56\00:26:56.29
He is back on the thrown,
the creator of the universe,
00:26:56.32\00:26:58.98
was the baby born in Bethlehem.
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That's the point
ladies and gentlemen.
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Christ Himself, okay,
00:27:05.52\00:27:06.61
that's a longest
one of the parallels.
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The rest of fly by here
comes parallel number 2,
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here is the short one,
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jot the numbers
down first please,
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that would be Genesis 1: 3-4
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and John 1: 4, 5,
and verse-- verse 9.
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Okay, so you got
the ribbon in John
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so that means we
go back to Genesis
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you won't loose your place
00:27:22.69\00:27:23.73
put the study
guide there in John.
00:27:23.76\00:27:25.41
Because actually
use when you are right
00:27:25.44\00:27:26.47
as after the John reading.
00:27:26.50\00:27:28.30
Okay, so what is this
in Genesis 1:3, 4, okay,
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"Then God said,
'Let there be'" what?
00:27:32.21\00:27:34.80
"'light' and there was light."
00:27:34.83\00:27:36.20
Verse 4 "And God saw
the light, that it was good,
00:27:36.23\00:27:39.47
and God divided the
light from the darkness."
00:27:39.50\00:27:41.90
Very clear, the
creator immediately
00:27:41.93\00:27:44.21
He is immersed in light,
He is dealing with light.
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Is it true, in
the prolog of John.
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Take your ribbon,
00:27:48.95\00:27:49.98
now we go to John
1, let's find out.
00:27:50.01\00:27:53.55
Sure enough look
at this John 1: 4
00:27:53.58\00:27:55.86
"In Him" in Christ the
word, in the word "Was life,
00:27:55.89\00:27:58.70
and the life was
the light of men.
00:27:58.73\00:28:00.62
And the light
shines in the darkness,
00:28:00.65\00:28:02.58
and the darkness
did not comprehend it."
00:28:02.61\00:28:04.32
Now move your
finger down to verse 9
00:28:04.35\00:28:06.14
"He was the true Light
00:28:06.17\00:28:07.45
which gives light
to every man and women
00:28:07.48\00:28:09.32
coming into the world."
00:28:09.35\00:28:11.64
There it is
ladies and gentlemen,
00:28:11.67\00:28:13.14
Christ this is
parallel two, jot it down,
00:28:13.17\00:28:15.10
Christ is the
light of the world.
00:28:15.13\00:28:16.75
Unmistakably both prologs
move from announcing the creator
00:28:16.78\00:28:20.78
to associating
immediately the creator was like
00:28:20.81\00:28:23.94
and resists your darkness.
00:28:23.97\00:28:25.00
All right that's clear.
00:28:25.03\00:28:26.13
Parallel number
three here we go,
00:28:26.16\00:28:27.23
there are only seven of
these, parallel number three,
00:28:27.26\00:28:28.73
jot it down Genesis 1
now we go with verse 26,
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Genesis 1: 26,
jot it down John 1:12.
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All right, so
here we go back again,
00:28:35.45\00:28:36.95
point you glad we don't
have to do this every week,
00:28:36.98\00:28:38.51
this would take for ever.
00:28:38.54\00:28:40.85
All right we go
back to Genesis 1
00:28:40.88\00:28:42.29
we drop down to verse 26
00:28:42.32\00:28:45.11
"Then God said, 'Let Us
make man and women in Our image,
00:28:45.14\00:28:49.44
according to Our likeness,
00:28:49.47\00:28:50.99
and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
00:28:51.02\00:28:53.10
over the birds of the air,'"
00:28:53.13\00:28:54.17
but aren't those
animal or something,
00:28:54.20\00:28:55.61
in Maasai Mara, I tell you what?
00:28:55.64\00:28:58.14
Just let them have dominion
over the entire population,
00:28:58.17\00:29:01.49
of animals, birds and fish.
00:29:01.52\00:29:03.87
All right, that's Genesis 1,
00:29:03.90\00:29:05.43
now can we find a
parallel in John 1?
00:29:05.46\00:29:08.02
Take your ribbon
or your study guide
00:29:08.05\00:29:09.93
flips right back to John 1
00:29:09.96\00:29:11.73
and what are we looking for
here this would be a verse 12.
00:29:11.76\00:29:15.77
so in Genesis 1 let's
make a man in our image
00:29:15.80\00:29:18.24
and in verse 12
of John 1 it says
00:29:18.27\00:29:19.99
"But as many as
received Him, to them
00:29:20.02\00:29:23.11
He gave the right to
become children of God,
00:29:23.14\00:29:25.76
to those who
believe in His name."
00:29:25.79\00:29:27.69
Jot it down
parallel number three,
00:29:27.72\00:29:29.14
the inhabitants of earth
are to be the children of God.
00:29:29.17\00:29:32.47
Both prolog makes it clear.
00:29:32.50\00:29:34.21
Earth inhabitants are
children of the divine Father,
00:29:34.24\00:29:36.72
in His image.
00:29:36.75\00:29:37.98
Now it's true, John
comes along and says,
00:29:38.01\00:29:39.50
oh, oh, oh, wait
a minute time out,
00:29:39.53\00:29:41.11
you not born out automatically,
00:29:41.14\00:29:42.65
no, no, no you have to
choose now because of the fall,
00:29:42.68\00:29:45.73
you have to choose to
be a part of that family.
00:29:45.76\00:29:48.32
Nobody is forced
to be in God's family,
00:29:48.35\00:29:50.18
but if you'll
accept Christ? You are in.
00:29:50.21\00:29:53.74
All right parallel number
four, only seven of these.
00:29:53.77\00:29:55.64
Parallel number four,
Genesis 3, now write down here,
00:29:55.67\00:30:00.36
1-14 because
that's the whole story.
00:30:00.39\00:30:03.01
But we not gonna read 1-14
and then write down John 1:11.
00:30:03.04\00:30:06.82
Because the
moment you see Genesis 3
00:30:06.85\00:30:08.39
you remember it,
00:30:08.42\00:30:09.45
the people that
read Genesis say,
00:30:09.48\00:30:10.72
oh boy, that's a story of Eve.
00:30:10.75\00:30:13.15
That's a story
of Eve at the tree
00:30:13.18\00:30:15.79
and this is the awful meltdown,
00:30:15.82\00:30:18.54
you are right.
00:30:18.57\00:30:20.12
Let's go to Genesis 3.
00:30:20.15\00:30:21.65
Go to Genesis 3,
00:30:21.68\00:30:23.38
I want to look
at just one verse,
00:30:23.41\00:30:24.50
we gonna to verse 8.
00:30:24.53\00:30:26.24
The whole story you
know is-- is so tragic,
00:30:26.27\00:30:28.86
but this has to
be the heart breaker,
00:30:28.89\00:30:30.23
the heart breaker is verse 8.
00:30:30.26\00:30:32.12
Because remember Christ
is the one who shaped them.
00:30:32.15\00:30:34.27
Christ is the one who
breathed life into Adam
00:30:34.30\00:30:36.50
and then took a
ribbon, breathed life into Eve.
00:30:36.53\00:30:39.05
Christ is their forever
friend, He is their creator,
00:30:39.08\00:30:42.59
so this must
have broken His heart.
00:30:42.62\00:30:44.60
When you get down to verse 8,
00:30:44.63\00:30:45.74
after they both eaten of
the tree and verse 8 says,
00:30:45.77\00:30:48.98
"And they heard,
the Adam and Eve,
00:30:49.01\00:30:50.62
heard the sound of
the Lord God walking
00:30:50.65\00:30:52.82
in the garden, in
the cool of the day."
00:30:52.85\00:30:54.48
That's Christ,
00:30:54.51\00:30:55.72
that's Christ.
00:30:55.75\00:30:56.90
He says, I'm coming
down for my friends,
00:30:56.93\00:30:58.29
hey, guys, where are you?
00:30:58.32\00:30:59.91
It's kind of quite around here.
00:30:59.94\00:31:01.47
What's up with that?
00:31:01.50\00:31:02.56
You're usually here when I come.
00:31:02.59\00:31:03.62
You're here to welcome me.
00:31:03.65\00:31:04.69
Hey, anybody here?
00:31:04.72\00:31:07.16
And then He
sees the bush moving.
00:31:07.19\00:31:09.18
He said, I never
crated a moving bush,
00:31:09.21\00:31:12.09
must be something behind it.
00:31:12.12\00:31:15.41
So it says here, "And they
heard the sound of the Lord God
00:31:15.44\00:31:17.51
walking in the garden
in the cool of the day,
00:31:17.54\00:31:18.92
and Adam and his
wife... " Can you believe this?
00:31:18.95\00:31:21.16
"They hid
themselves from the presence
00:31:21.19\00:31:23.17
of the Lord God among
the trees of the garden."
00:31:23.20\00:31:27.46
I tell you what,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:31:27.49\00:31:28.84
sin tells the
lie, and we believe it,
00:31:28.87\00:31:32.27
God is not
somebody to be a friend of,
00:31:32.30\00:31:34.22
He is somebody to be afraid of.
00:31:34.25\00:31:35.80
God is not somebody to run to,
00:31:35.83\00:31:37.59
He is somebody to run from.
00:31:37.62\00:31:39.23
The serpent Lucifer has
spun that lie the very beginning
00:31:39.26\00:31:43.31
and the human race has bitten it
00:31:43.34\00:31:45.69
hook, line, and sinker.
00:31:45.72\00:31:48.75
Somebody to be afraid of.
00:31:48.78\00:31:51.44
It's what sin has done to us.
00:31:51.47\00:31:53.34
I tell you what? The heartache
of verse 8 in Chapter 3
00:31:53.37\00:31:56.82
can only be matched by
the heart break of verse 11.
00:31:56.85\00:32:01.12
Back in John 1,
00:32:01.15\00:32:02.46
you know, before I ever
looked at these parallels,
00:32:02.49\00:32:05.22
I've always-- I've always
gotten a lump in my throat,
00:32:05.25\00:32:07.35
when I read verse 11,
it's so sad in John 1,
00:32:07.38\00:32:09.91
do look at John
1 it's just so sad
00:32:09.94\00:32:11.65
that verse is
there but it's so sad.
00:32:11.68\00:32:14.54
Look at this John 1:11.
00:32:14.57\00:32:16.12
Isn't it something?
"He came to His own,"
00:32:16.15\00:32:19.49
He says, oh, this
is-- this is my family.
00:32:19.52\00:32:22.06
"He came to His own..."
00:32:22.09\00:32:23.35
And what happened?
00:32:23.38\00:32:25.37
"His own did not receive Him."
00:32:25.40\00:32:27.84
They didn't run to,
and they ran from Him.
00:32:27.87\00:32:29.60
You can't be, you can't be,
00:32:29.63\00:32:31.72
who you say you are.
00:32:31.75\00:32:33.15
He came to His own
and His own received Him.
00:32:33.18\00:32:35.45
Now jot it down
please, parallel number four,
00:32:35.48\00:32:37.43
sin, it's clear
in both prologues.
00:32:37.46\00:32:40.19
"Sin shatters our
relationship with our Creator
00:32:40.22\00:32:42.43
and instead of running to Him,
00:32:42.46\00:32:44.22
we run from Him."
00:32:44.25\00:32:48.10
Parallel number five,
00:32:48.13\00:32:50.00
just seven of
these, here come five,
00:32:50.03\00:32:51.91
Genesis 3:15 and
John 1:14 and then add 29.
00:32:51.94\00:32:56.04
All right, so now leave your
ribbon or study guide there,
00:32:56.07\00:32:58.02
you got to go back to Genesis 3,
00:32:58.05\00:33:00.62
so God says, hey,
guys, what's happening?
00:33:00.65\00:33:03.24
Why? Why are you
hiding from Me, Adam?
00:33:03.27\00:33:04.54
What's the problem, boy?
00:33:04.57\00:33:05.97
Hence this is why, I heard
you coming, and I was afraid.
00:33:06.00\00:33:07.82
Why are you
afraid? Because I'm naked.
00:33:07.85\00:33:11.29
What do you mean you're naked?
00:33:11.32\00:33:12.38
Who told you, you were naked?
00:33:12.41\00:33:14.14
Did you go near that...?
00:33:14.17\00:33:15.75
Did you eat from that tree?
00:33:15.78\00:33:17.75
Yeah, Well, let me
tell you something,
00:33:17.78\00:33:18.83
the woman you made and
the one that you gave to me,
00:33:18.86\00:33:20.99
she is the one,
who got me into it.
00:33:21.02\00:33:22.33
Woman, Eve, is that
true? You ate from the tree?
00:33:22.36\00:33:24.67
Well, let me tell you something.
00:33:24.70\00:33:25.74
The serpent, you made is
the one that got me into it.
00:33:25.77\00:33:28.27
Serpent, is this true? It's sin.
00:33:28.30\00:33:32.11
Always self justification,
I never take the blame.
00:33:32.14\00:33:35.56
It's not my fault,
it's my parents fault,
00:33:35.59\00:33:38.81
it's my wife's faults,
it's my husband's fault,
00:33:38.84\00:33:40.75
it's society's
fault that I'm this way.
00:33:40.78\00:33:44.48
Always twisting
the blame turning in.
00:33:44.51\00:33:49.28
Is that you serpent?
00:33:49.31\00:33:50.94
And then God
speaks to the serpent,
00:33:50.97\00:33:52.00
that will be verse 14.
00:33:52.03\00:33:53.06
"So the Lord God
said to the serpent,
00:33:53.09\00:33:54.94
'Because you have done this,
00:33:54.97\00:33:56.79
Oh, my, you are
cursed more than all cattle,
00:33:56.82\00:34:00.64
And more than
every beast of the field,
00:34:00.67\00:34:02.44
On your belly you shall go,
00:34:02.47\00:34:03.96
And you will eat dust
All the days of your life."
00:34:03.99\00:34:07.44
And I'm gonna make
a promise right now
00:34:07.47\00:34:09.19
in this garden
to the three of you.
00:34:09.22\00:34:11.98
Here comes the promise,
00:34:12.01\00:34:13.04
this is
beautiful, code language.
00:34:13.07\00:34:15.63
Verse 15, "And I
will put enmity, serpent,
00:34:15.66\00:34:17.68
between you and the woman,
00:34:17.71\00:34:19.06
And between your
seed and her Seed."
00:34:19.09\00:34:21.03
Notice it's capital S
seed now. She is gonna have--
00:34:21.06\00:34:23.39
seeds gonna come
through her and he the seed,
00:34:23.42\00:34:25.60
"Shall bruise your head,
00:34:25.63\00:34:26.88
And you shall bruise His heel.'"
00:34:26.91\00:34:30.71
Now if somebody took it and
say we got a steamroller here,
00:34:30.74\00:34:33.30
we gonna give you
two places, you pick.
00:34:33.33\00:34:35.37
Two places we
gonna run over your body.
00:34:35.40\00:34:36.43
We'll either run over your head
or we'll run over your heel.
00:34:36.46\00:34:39.83
Which would you choose?
00:34:39.86\00:34:42.84
Please, go ahead.
00:34:42.87\00:34:45.23
It will kill me, but go ahead.
00:34:45.26\00:34:47.62
See the seed will come,
he will crush your head,
00:34:47.65\00:34:52.67
but you will be paying to
him, you will crush his heel.
00:34:52.70\00:34:57.03
Only one wins.
00:34:57.06\00:34:58.55
The seed of the woman.
00:34:58.58\00:35:00.91
Any parallel to that?
00:35:00.94\00:35:02.40
Somebody coming
into this human stream.
00:35:02.43\00:35:05.23
Any parallel? But of
course go back, quick, quick.
00:35:05.26\00:35:07.78
Take your ribbon,
go back to John 1.
00:35:07.81\00:35:09.75
The parallel is inescapable.
00:35:09.78\00:35:11.06
Look at this
verse 14. John 1:14.
00:35:11.09\00:35:16.32
"And the Word..."
00:35:16.35\00:35:18.89
Remember the
audible expression of God
00:35:18.92\00:35:20.80
became flesh, the visible now.
00:35:20.83\00:35:22.57
He is not only audible,
He is gonna become visible.
00:35:22.60\00:35:25.03
I'm the God of
the universe, I'm.
00:35:25.06\00:35:29.53
"And the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us,
00:35:29.56\00:35:32.58
pitched his tent right beside us
00:35:32.61\00:35:34.05
and we beheld His glory,
00:35:34.08\00:35:35.26
the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father,
00:35:35.29\00:35:38.02
full of grace and truth..."
00:35:38.05\00:35:39.74
And then just a few
moments later in the story
00:35:39.77\00:35:42.09
that begins in
verse 29 John the Baptist,
00:35:42.12\00:35:44.56
sees Jesus coming
and he cries out behold,
00:35:44.59\00:35:47.21
verse 29,
"Behold! The Lamb of God
00:35:47.24\00:35:49.14
who takes away
the sin of the world!"
00:35:49.17\00:35:51.26
The savior is here.
00:35:51.29\00:35:53.32
The promise of a
coming deliverer.
00:35:57.68\00:36:00.71
The word audible, flesh visible,
00:36:00.74\00:36:02.96
C.S. Lewis, jot this
down, this line we began with,
00:36:02.99\00:36:05.00
Lewis writing
"Christianity is the story
00:36:05.03\00:36:07.03
of how the
rightful king has landed,
00:36:07.06\00:36:09.24
you might say in disguise..."
00:36:09.27\00:36:12.03
That's the invasion,
guys, that's the invasion.
00:36:12.06\00:36:14.62
He has invaded our
space. He came in, in disguise.
00:36:14.65\00:36:20.25
"On this enemy-occupied
world, he did in human form."
00:36:20.28\00:36:24.40
And then I love
this from Desire of Ages.
00:36:24.43\00:36:25.68
Keep your pen there,
00:36:25.71\00:36:26.74
"So Christ set up His tabernacle
00:36:26.77\00:36:28.45
in the midst of
our human encampment.
00:36:28.48\00:36:30.10
He pitched His tent by the side
of the tents of men and women,
00:36:30.13\00:36:33.24
that He might dwell among us,
00:36:33.27\00:36:34.51
and make us familiar with
His divine character and life.
00:36:34.54\00:36:37.26
Since Christ, since
Jesus came to dwell with us,
00:36:37.29\00:36:39.70
we know that
God..." I love this.
00:36:39.73\00:36:41.18
"God is
acquainted with our trials,
00:36:41.21\00:36:42.64
and sympathizes with our griefs.
00:36:42.67\00:36:44.72
Every son and
daughter of Adam may understand
00:36:44.75\00:36:48.44
that our Creator is
the friend of sinners."
00:36:48.47\00:36:51.78
Write that in, our Creator.
00:36:51.81\00:36:53.82
Can you believe that?
Our creator is our friend.
00:36:53.85\00:36:57.79
"For in every..." This is good.
00:36:57.82\00:36:58.85
"For in every doctrine of grace,
00:36:58.88\00:37:00.28
every promise of
joy, every deed of love,
00:37:00.31\00:37:02.61
every divine attraction
00:37:02.64\00:37:03.79
presented in the
Savior's life on earth,
00:37:03.82\00:37:05.76
we see "God with us.'"
00:37:05.79\00:37:08.45
Write it down
please, parallel number five.
00:37:08.48\00:37:10.40
Our Creator came to
earth to become our savior.
00:37:10.43\00:37:16.00
Only seven of these,
00:37:16.03\00:37:17.55
we come to the next of the last,
00:37:17.58\00:37:18.87
parallel number
six, jot it down please,
00:37:18.90\00:37:20.83
Genesis 1:31 and then
write in 2:1, chapter 2:1,
00:37:20.86\00:37:25.30
that's for Genesis, and
then for John write down
00:37:25.33\00:37:27.16
oh, we gonna, we
gonna now fly to the end,
00:37:27.19\00:37:30.10
the mightiest, the mighty epic,
00:37:30.13\00:37:32.91
finale of John
19:30, so write that in.
00:37:32.94\00:37:36.60
Now it's still a
little bit of a review here,
00:37:36.63\00:37:38.28
we did this in our previous
teaching, in this series,
00:37:38.31\00:37:40.39
let's do the
readers digest version
00:37:40.42\00:37:41.67
of every 24 hour period.
00:37:41.70\00:37:43.54
Remember the creation hours,
00:37:43.57\00:37:45.01
the Hebrews clear
these are 24 hour periods.
00:37:45.04\00:37:47.29
So you tell me, day one,
00:37:47.32\00:37:48.83
24 hour day one,
what did God create?
00:37:48.86\00:37:51.58
Light, good.
00:37:51.61\00:37:52.94
24 hour day two,
what did God create?
00:37:52.97\00:37:56.11
Atmosphere, very good.
00:37:56.14\00:37:57.46
24 hour day three,
what did God create?
00:37:57.49\00:38:00.48
Earth and on top of the
earth, trees and flowers.
00:38:00.51\00:38:04.79
24 hour day four,
what did God create?
00:38:04.82\00:38:08.34
Solar system, yeah,
sun, moon, and the planets.
00:38:08.37\00:38:11.03
24 hour day five,
00:38:11.06\00:38:12.52
what did God create in
the air, and in the sea?
00:38:12.55\00:38:17.07
And 24 hour day
six, what did God create?
00:38:17.10\00:38:22.35
All of them,
long neck, long trunk,
00:38:22.38\00:38:25.39
what a God of variety, huh?
00:38:25.42\00:38:27.55
He could have made
them all looking like us.
00:38:27.58\00:38:30.13
How sad?
00:38:30.16\00:38:32.47
Oh, by the way day six,
what else did God create?
00:38:32.50\00:38:35.10
You and me. all
right so now we were--
00:38:35.13\00:38:38.43
Genesis 1, day six is over,
00:38:38.46\00:38:41.07
I'm gonna read, read
that line again with you,
00:38:41.10\00:38:42.81
Genesis 1:31.
00:38:42.84\00:38:45.43
Genesis 1:31,
00:38:45.46\00:38:46.62
"Then God saw
everything that He had made,
00:38:46.65\00:38:49.48
and indeed it was very good.
00:38:49.51\00:38:53.48
So the evening and the
morning were the sixth day."
00:38:53.51\00:38:56.72
Now go to verse 1 of chapter 2,
00:38:56.75\00:38:58.78
"Thus the heavens and the earth,
00:38:58.81\00:39:00.67
and all the host of them,
00:39:00.70\00:39:02.34
were..." what?
Church, were what?
00:39:02.37\00:39:05.10
"Were finished." Were finished.
00:39:05.13\00:39:08.03
And it says parallel
in the gospel of John.
00:39:11.60\00:39:14.35
How does the passion we climax.
00:39:14.38\00:39:16.66
Okay, in spite of the
passion, we go to John 19,
00:39:16.69\00:39:19.43
John 19, we're out
of the prologue now,
00:39:19.46\00:39:21.82
we are at the huge
summation of the gospel of John,
00:39:21.85\00:39:25.34
this is passion
we, This is Friday,
00:39:25.37\00:39:29.74
the Lamb of God is about to
die for the sins of the world,
00:39:29.77\00:39:31.90
but just before He expires,
here we go, this is John 19.
00:39:31.93\00:39:36.71
Now it says verse 30, but
we gonna pick it up in verse 28
00:39:36.74\00:39:38.71
just to have the context,
after this Jesus knowing,
00:39:38.74\00:39:41.38
it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
00:39:41.41\00:39:42.81
"Knowing that all
things were now accomplished,
00:39:42.84\00:39:44.57
and that the
Scripture might be fulfilled,
00:39:44.60\00:39:46.06
He said, 'I thirst!'"
00:39:46.09\00:39:47.79
Now verse, they
the soldiers heard it,
00:39:47.82\00:39:49.91
"Now a vessel full of
sour wine was sitting there,
00:39:49.94\00:39:52.38
and they filled a sponge."
00:39:52.41\00:39:53.54
So they stick that
sponge in with a hyssop branch,
00:39:53.57\00:39:55.94
they get it soak and
then they hold the sponge up
00:39:55.97\00:39:58.20
to his broken cracked lips,
00:39:58.23\00:39:59.82
and they say, all right, drink.
00:39:59.85\00:40:01.29
And He could just lick
His tongue, as all He can do.
00:40:01.32\00:40:04.01
And then verse 30, now
here we go on the screen.
00:40:04.04\00:40:06.29
"So when Jesus had
received the sour wine."
00:40:06.32\00:40:09.98
What did He say? He
cried it like a trumpet call.
00:40:10.01\00:40:12.31
What did He cry
out? "It is finished!"
00:40:12.34\00:40:16.40
And then notice this,
00:40:16.43\00:40:17.46
"And bowing His head,
He gave up His spirit."
00:40:17.49\00:40:21.06
Ladies and gentlemen,
that's intentional death,
00:40:21.09\00:40:23.62
autonomic death
which means, you know,
00:40:23.65\00:40:25.23
all of a sudden
I quite breathing,
00:40:25.26\00:40:26.29
autonomic death
is I'm breathing here
00:40:26.32\00:40:27.85
and suddenly gone
and then my head drops.
00:40:27.88\00:40:30.16
Intentional death is,
00:40:30.19\00:40:32.09
you lower your head first
and then you stop breathing.
00:40:32.12\00:40:37.14
He came to the hour,
the moment of His sacrifice.
00:40:37.17\00:40:42.90
Jot it down,
ladies and gentlemen.
00:40:42.93\00:40:44.13
"Day 6 of the Creation week
00:40:44.16\00:40:45.45
and Day 6 of
the Passion week..."
00:40:45.48\00:40:47.16
Here's the parallel number six.
00:40:47.19\00:40:48.86
"Both end with the same
declaration, it is finished."
00:40:48.89\00:40:53.69
Thus the heavens and the earth,
00:40:53.72\00:40:54.76
and the host of
them, were finished."
00:40:54.79\00:40:56.09
That's Genesis.
00:40:56.12\00:40:57.16
Thus the plan of
salvation to save
00:40:57.19\00:40:58.50
the host of lost
sinners was completed.
00:40:58.53\00:41:00.47
That's John 19, our
creator becomes our savior
00:41:00.50\00:41:03.47
and finishes His work on
the sixth day of both weeks,
00:41:03.50\00:41:07.81
creation week and passion week.
00:41:07.84\00:41:10.74
Now we're ready
for number seven.
00:41:10.77\00:41:13.84
What's all this have
to do with the Sabbath?
00:41:13.87\00:41:15.38
Take a look at
this, final parallel,
00:41:15.41\00:41:17.27
parallel number seven.
00:41:17.30\00:41:19.76
We gonna go to
Genesis and John again
00:41:19.79\00:41:21.10
with a little help
of one of our Synoptics.
00:41:21.13\00:41:23.39
Let's do this first question.
00:41:23.42\00:41:26.26
What did the Creator do
after He finished His work
00:41:26.29\00:41:28.83
on the sixth day
of the Creation week?
00:41:28.86\00:41:31.03
Answer, the same thing He
did when He finished His work
00:41:31.06\00:41:33.90
on the sixth day
of the Passion week.
00:41:33.93\00:41:35.37
Write it in, He
rested, He rested.
00:41:35.40\00:41:39.14
Now we go back, one last
time to Genesis, Genesis 2 now.
00:41:43.21\00:41:48.29
Now you can write fill in
the parallel Genesis 2:2, 3.
00:41:48.32\00:41:53.35
Go back and by the way
I'm gonna read Christ into
00:41:53.38\00:41:55.33
because it's incontrovertibly
cleared it in New Testament.
00:41:55.36\00:41:59.03
So we can read Christ into this,
00:41:59.06\00:42:00.30
that's what I'm gonna do.
00:42:00.33\00:42:01.68
Genesis 2:2, "And on
the seventh day Christ..."
00:42:01.71\00:42:05.32
the active divine
agent of creation.
00:42:05.35\00:42:07.25
"And on the seventh day
00:42:07.28\00:42:08.32
Christ ended His
work which He had done,
00:42:08.35\00:42:09.79
and He rested on the seventh day
00:42:09.82\00:42:11.18
from all His work
which He had done."
00:42:11.21\00:42:13.06
Verse 3 "Then Christ
blessed the seventh day..."
00:42:13.09\00:42:15.86
Remember when we talked about
what that word means in Hebrew,
00:42:15.89\00:42:17.98
you turn your
face, you turn your face,
00:42:18.01\00:42:19.47
you were so caught up in it.
00:42:19.50\00:42:21.12
Blessing in Hebrew means
00:42:21.15\00:42:22.18
to turn your face
to it, and it says,
00:42:22.21\00:42:23.55
"He blessed it
and He sanctified it."
00:42:23.58\00:42:25.04
That means you infuse it
with your divine presence.
00:42:25.07\00:42:27.21
So He poured Himself
into that seventh day.
00:42:27.24\00:42:30.30
"And Christ
blessed the seventh day
00:42:30.33\00:42:31.74
and sanctified it,
00:42:31.77\00:42:32.82
because in it He
rested from all His work
00:42:32.85\00:42:35.59
which Christ had
created and made."
00:42:35.62\00:42:39.61
The Christ doing, His work
00:42:39.64\00:42:41.12
as creator was
finished, He rested.
00:42:41.15\00:42:43.16
What did Christ do when His
work of savior was completed?
00:42:43.19\00:42:47.41
What did He do?
00:42:47.44\00:42:49.41
Go back, John 19,
back to the story.
00:42:49.44\00:42:54.01
John 19, that where
our ribbon is, is it?
00:42:54.04\00:42:59.25
It's all right,
you got it, John 19.
00:42:59.28\00:43:01.90
Drop down to verse 41.
00:43:01.93\00:43:04.30
"Now in the place
where Jesus was crucified
00:43:04.33\00:43:07.09
there was a garden, and
in the garden a new tomb
00:43:07.12\00:43:10.10
in which no one
had yet been laid.
00:43:10.13\00:43:12.81
So they laid Jesus, because
of the Jews' Preparation Day,
00:43:12.84\00:43:16.59
for the tomb was nearby."
00:43:16.62\00:43:19.52
He is sleeping now.
00:43:19.55\00:43:21.41
Now we need our help
from Dr. Luke, the physician
00:43:21.44\00:43:23.80
because he paints in a
little bit more of a detail
00:43:23.83\00:43:26.16
and so just-- just
turn back to Luke 23,
00:43:26.19\00:43:28.26
this will be our last text.
00:43:28.29\00:43:29.32
Luke 23.
00:43:29.35\00:43:31.60
This is Luke's Calvary account
00:43:31.63\00:43:34.45
and let's drop down to the end
of 23, pick it up in verse 52,
00:43:34.48\00:43:37.50
Luke's talking,
describing the moment,
00:43:37.53\00:43:39.08
when Joseph of Arimathea,
00:43:39.11\00:43:40.26
you remember that
Joseph comes to Roman Governor,
00:43:40.29\00:43:42.05
Pilate I want the body.
00:43:42.08\00:43:43.25
What do you want the body for?
00:43:43.28\00:43:44.31
The guy is
quick, I want the body,
00:43:44.34\00:43:46.26
Can I have it,
sir? You may have it.
00:43:46.29\00:43:49.57
All right so
that's verse 52 and so
00:43:49.60\00:43:51.94
"This man went to Pilate
and asked for the body of Jesus.
00:43:51.97\00:43:54.52
Then he, Joseph took it
down, wrapped it in linen,
00:43:54.55\00:43:57.36
and laid it in a tomb
that was hewn out of the rock,
00:43:57.39\00:44:00.45
where no one had
ever lain before."
00:44:00.48\00:44:02.39
Scholars are
thinking you know what?
00:44:02.42\00:44:03.68
That's his own tomb,
00:44:03.71\00:44:04.84
He was gonna to be buried there.
00:44:04.87\00:44:06.49
He gave up His Sepulchre,
His family plot for His master.
00:44:06.52\00:44:13.30
Now what day was
that? Verse 54 now,
00:44:13.33\00:44:15.42
"That day was the Preparation,
and the Sabbath drew near."
00:44:15.45\00:44:19.97
So it's Friday,
Sabbath is drawing near.
00:44:20.00\00:44:22.93
Now we all call it Good Friday.
00:44:22.96\00:44:24.08
We know it's Friday,
00:44:24.11\00:44:25.14
it's Good Friday,
the day Jesus died.
00:44:25.17\00:44:27.21
And the Sabbath
drew near, verse 55
00:44:27.24\00:44:29.31
"And the women
who had come with Him
00:44:29.34\00:44:30.65
from Galilee followed after,
00:44:30.68\00:44:32.00
and they observed the
tomb and how His body was laid.
00:44:32.03\00:44:34.49
Then they returned and prepared
spices and fragrant oils.
00:44:34.52\00:44:37.18
And they..." By the way
that they is not just the woman,
00:44:37.21\00:44:39.63
that's Joseph and Jesus,
everybody in this paragraph.
00:44:39.66\00:44:43.29
"And they rested on the Sabbath
according to the commandment."
00:44:43.32\00:44:48.08
Now what
commandment would that be?
00:44:48.11\00:44:49.56
That would be the fourth
commandment of the Decalogue.
00:44:49.59\00:44:51.82
Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:44:51.85\00:44:54.46
They rested
according to the commandment.
00:44:54.49\00:44:58.46
Write it down, will you
please, ladies and gentlemen?
00:44:58.49\00:45:00.29
They all of them,
Joseph of Arimathea,
00:45:00.32\00:45:02.35
the women, and the
Jesus rested on the Sabbath,
00:45:02.38\00:45:05.31
according to the
fourth commandment."
00:45:05.34\00:45:08.11
Isn't that amazing?
00:45:08.14\00:45:09.35
Even as he did on the
seventh day of the creation,
00:45:09.38\00:45:11.12
we saw the creator turn savior
00:45:11.15\00:45:13.50
now does on the seventh day
of the passion week, He rest.
00:45:13.53\00:45:18.81
He who is Lord of
the seventh day Sabbath,
00:45:18.84\00:45:21.88
becomes He who
is Lord of Salvation
00:45:21.91\00:45:24.60
and when He became, not
only Lord of the Sabbath,
00:45:24.63\00:45:26.87
but now when he
becomes Lord of salvation,
00:45:26.90\00:45:29.66
He does as He
did in the beginning.
00:45:29.69\00:45:33.57
He keeps, He keeps the
Sabbath, that He is Lord of.
00:45:33.60\00:45:39.98
Other way it's the Sabbath that
He wrote with His own finger.
00:45:40.01\00:45:43.55
Didn't He write?
00:45:43.58\00:45:44.66
You say how do you
know that was Jesus on the--
00:45:44.69\00:45:46.15
that was the
preincarnate Christ.
00:45:46.18\00:45:47.21
Well, piece of cake.
00:45:47.24\00:45:48.52
John 8, Jesus said
before Abraham was,
00:45:48.55\00:45:50.83
I'm and is very
clear that I'm is the one
00:45:50.86\00:45:53.80
who stepped out of
that cloud of glory
00:45:53.83\00:45:55.40
and with his own finger carved
00:45:55.43\00:45:57.30
all Ten
Commandments into granite.
00:45:57.33\00:45:59.84
Wouldn't you expect the one
who wrote the Ten Commandments
00:45:59.87\00:46:03.93
to honor the day
that He is Lord of?
00:46:03.96\00:46:08.57
In fact, jot
this down, will you?
00:46:08.60\00:46:10.46
This is quoting
Mathew 12 and Mark 2
00:46:10.49\00:46:12.99
"After all, did not
Jesus declared..." Jot it down.
00:46:13.02\00:46:14.76
"The son of man is
Lord of the Sabbath."
00:46:14.79\00:46:17.13
The gospels are clear.
00:46:17.16\00:46:18.50
He is Lord of the Sabbath,
00:46:18.53\00:46:19.56
which by the way
keep your pen moving,
00:46:19.59\00:46:20.98
"Makes the seventh
day the Lord's Day."
00:46:21.01\00:46:24.79
What day of the
week is the Lord's Day?
00:46:24.82\00:46:25.87
It's the day He is Lord of.
00:46:25.90\00:46:26.94
What's He Lord
of? Bible's clear,
00:46:26.97\00:46:28.44
He is Lord of the Sabbath.
00:46:28.47\00:46:30.86
Of course He is the
Lord, He is the one who made it
00:46:30.89\00:46:32.27
and gave it to the
human race in the beginning.
00:46:32.30\00:46:34.07
Why wouldn't He be Lord? Please.
00:46:34.10\00:46:37.89
It's the day He sanctified,
00:46:37.92\00:46:39.02
it's a day He
blessed, it's a day He rested.
00:46:39.05\00:46:41.39
Which ladies and gentlemen
00:46:41.42\00:46:42.45
leads us to the
concluding point,
00:46:42.48\00:46:43.83
it is a compelling point
and I wish you'd write it down.
00:46:43.86\00:46:46.31
"These seventh parallels
between Genesis and John
00:46:46.34\00:46:49.70
provide
incontrovertible evidence
00:46:49.73\00:46:51.67
that the
Creator's universal gift
00:46:51.70\00:46:53.97
of the seventh day
Sabbath at Creation remains,
00:46:54.00\00:46:57.30
remains his universal
gift in Redemption today."
00:46:57.33\00:47:02.44
Malachi 3:6, " I'm the
Lord and I change not."
00:47:02.47\00:47:09.75
I don't change.
00:47:09.78\00:47:12.83
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
this is not rocket science,
00:47:12.86\00:47:16.65
this is
prayerful, logical thinking.
00:47:16.68\00:47:19.01
I need to ask a
series of questions here.
00:47:19.04\00:47:22.94
Were Christ to
have changed His mind?
00:47:22.97\00:47:24.56
Okay, okay, I change my mind.
00:47:24.59\00:47:26.93
I change my mind,
I'm changing the day,
00:47:26.96\00:47:28.48
were Christ to
have changed His mind?
00:47:28.51\00:47:30.69
Should we not expect to
hear something from Jesus
00:47:30.72\00:47:34.29
indicating the fact
that He has done so?
00:47:34.32\00:47:37.04
I mean somewhere between
00:47:37.07\00:47:38.12
the resurrection
and the ascension,
00:47:38.15\00:47:40.02
He say, hey, timeout, guys,
00:47:40.05\00:47:41.10
I just needed to tell
you, things have been changed.
00:47:41.13\00:47:42.77
I know I wrote it
in rock, but forget it.
00:47:42.80\00:47:44.95
I'm changing it now.
00:47:44.98\00:47:46.04
Wouldn't He say something,
just a hint, may be a breath,
00:47:46.07\00:47:50.72
just a suggestion,
zero, not even a breath.
00:47:50.75\00:47:57.58
What's up with that?
00:48:01.69\00:48:05.94
Instead it's clear.
00:48:05.97\00:48:09.98
In fact M.L. Andreasen in
his carefully reasoned book
00:48:10.01\00:48:12.22
The Sabbath, he
puts it this way,
00:48:12.25\00:48:14.24
and you have it
in your study guide,
00:48:14.27\00:48:15.30
let me read it in
your hearing "God Himself."
00:48:15.33\00:48:18.24
This is careful logic here.
00:48:18.27\00:48:19.30
"God Himself led the way
00:48:19.33\00:48:20.70
in the observance of
the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:48:20.73\00:48:23.97
Did it in the beginning,
did it on Mount Sinai.
00:48:24.00\00:48:25.51
"He Himself proclaimed it in
flaming fire from the mount."
00:48:25.54\00:48:28.05
That would be Mount Sinai.
00:48:28.08\00:48:29.25
"He Himself wrote
it in enduring stone.
00:48:29.28\00:48:31.44
Millions of God's
people were witnesses
00:48:31.47\00:48:33.27
at the base of Mount Sinai,
00:48:33.30\00:48:34.79
and they heard the proclamation,
00:48:34.82\00:48:35.89
and myriads of
angels were there.
00:48:35.92\00:48:38.90
Psalm 68:17.
00:48:38.93\00:48:40.66
None of these conditions
was present at the time
00:48:40.69\00:48:43.32
when the first day of the week
00:48:43.35\00:48:44.98
was supposed to
have been instituted.
00:48:45.01\00:48:47.39
Sunday came in unannounced,
unheralded, unnoticed,
00:48:47.42\00:48:51.96
in every way an anticlimax
to the original institution
00:48:51.99\00:48:56.40
and inauguration of
the Sabbath of the Lord."
00:48:56.43\00:48:59.10
Now he goes on,
00:48:59.13\00:49:00.18
"If God had anything to do
with the first day of the week,
00:49:00.21\00:49:04.39
we must draw the conclusion
that He wanted the change
00:49:04.42\00:49:07.12
to be made in the most secret
and inconspicuous way possible,
00:49:07.15\00:49:11.50
for on the first Sunday."
00:49:11.53\00:49:13.43
My talents are his.
00:49:13.46\00:49:14.49
"Nobody knew that
any change had been made,
00:49:14.52\00:49:17.99
not even the disciples,
who some say were the ones
00:49:18.02\00:49:20.58
who were supposed
to have changed it!
00:49:20.61\00:49:22.00
They were in as
complete ignorance as the rest,
00:49:22.03\00:49:24.73
having locked themselves in
a room for fear of the Jews."
00:49:24.76\00:49:29.09
The fact remains,
there is not a solitary hint,
00:49:36.30\00:49:42.13
there is a not a single
word in all the New Testament
00:49:42.16\00:49:46.56
indicating that Christ
changed His mind as Creator
00:49:46.59\00:49:51.59
and changed the day.
00:49:51.62\00:49:53.43
No where, no where,
00:49:53.46\00:49:55.83
not from the
apostles, not from the Savior.
00:49:55.86\00:50:00.77
I mean come on,
just think with me,
00:50:00.80\00:50:02.17
would Jesus,
had declared Himself
00:50:02.20\00:50:04.02
to be the Lord of the Sabbath,
00:50:04.05\00:50:05.15
knowing in that
in just a few days
00:50:05.18\00:50:06.58
the whole thing's over.
00:50:06.61\00:50:07.92
Then would He say,
I'm Lord of the Sabbath,
00:50:07.95\00:50:09.28
and few days later it's gone.
00:50:09.31\00:50:12.99
To the contrary, do
you know what Jesus did?
00:50:13.02\00:50:15.78
He told His disciples
40 years after I'm gone.
00:50:15.81\00:50:18.21
40 years after
I'm back in heaven,
00:50:18.24\00:50:19.80
you will still be worshiping
on the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:50:19.83\00:50:22.83
He told them.
00:50:22.86\00:50:23.91
It's in the great chapter of
prophecy, Christ's predictions.
00:50:23.94\00:50:27.21
Look at this Matthew 24:15
00:50:27.24\00:50:29.44
"Therefore Jesus
says, when you see
00:50:29.47\00:50:30.89
the
''abomination of desolation,''
00:50:30.92\00:50:32.96
that would be the Romans
00:50:32.99\00:50:34.06
"Spoken of by
Daniel the prophet,
00:50:34.09\00:50:35.27
standing in the holy place..."
00:50:35.30\00:50:36.34
When the Romans
invade this city,
00:50:36.37\00:50:37.82
I want to tell you something.
00:50:37.85\00:50:38.94
"Whoever reads,
let him understand,
00:50:38.97\00:50:41.02
then let those
who are in Judea..."
00:50:41.05\00:50:42.94
Guys, just get out of the land.
00:50:42.97\00:50:44.84
"Flee to the mountains."
00:50:44.87\00:50:45.91
Now notice verse 20
"And pray that your flight
00:50:45.94\00:50:48.77
may not be in
winter or on the Sabbath."
00:50:48.80\00:50:51.95
Christ is predicting
00:50:51.98\00:50:53.06
the destruction of
Jerusalem's temple in 70 AD
00:50:53.09\00:50:56.69
and He says you will be
celebrating the Sabbath then,
00:50:56.72\00:50:59.64
pray to the Lord of the Sabbath
00:50:59.67\00:51:01.84
to be your
defense, your deliverer,
00:51:01.87\00:51:04.07
call up on me, call up on me,
00:51:04.10\00:51:07.58
when the city melts
down and burns the temple.
00:51:07.61\00:51:14.09
The evidence is clear
and compelling. Jot it down.
00:51:14.12\00:51:17.94
"The Seventh-day Sabbath
remains the Lord's Day today."
00:51:17.97\00:51:23.80
It's it.
00:51:23.83\00:51:25.28
Neither Christ nor the apostles
knew or taught any other,
00:51:25.31\00:51:28.10
their silence is
deafening, deafening.
00:51:28.13\00:51:34.99
And any scholar
00:51:35.02\00:51:37.26
of the New
Testament will tell you,
00:51:37.29\00:51:39.70
that in fact this is true.
00:51:39.73\00:51:44.11
Then how can be, you
ask? Come on, come on, Dwight.
00:51:44.14\00:51:45.72
Please nearly all
of Christendom today
00:51:45.75\00:51:47.11
is worshiping on the
first day of the week
00:51:47.14\00:51:48.99
rather than the
Bible seventh-day Sabbath.
00:51:49.02\00:51:50.28
How can it be, You can't tell me
00:51:50.31\00:51:51.34
that all these
churches are wrong.
00:51:51.37\00:51:54.06
I want to share
with you next week,
00:51:54.09\00:51:55.12
I want to share with you
00:51:55.15\00:51:56.18
one of the most
fascinating studies, stories.
00:51:56.21\00:51:59.37
We'll call it
the Case of Dr, Eck.
00:51:59.40\00:52:03.46
I just found
this, I never knew this.
00:52:03.49\00:52:05.84
Just reading couple months ago
00:52:05.87\00:52:07.68
came across the story
of Martin Luther's trial,
00:52:07.71\00:52:09.83
Dr. Eck by the way was
the Roman Catholic protagonist
00:52:09.86\00:52:13.15
for Martin Luther
in that great trial.
00:52:13.18\00:52:16.45
Stunning bit of
logic that Dr. Eck uses.
00:52:16.48\00:52:21.90
I want to share that
with you next week, please,
00:52:21.93\00:52:23.96
wherever you are,
just get back here,
00:52:23.99\00:52:25.79
get back here for next week.
00:52:25.82\00:52:27.77
If you're
watching on television,
00:52:27.80\00:52:28.93
join us next week.
00:52:28.96\00:52:30.26
Listen on the
radio, turn on the radio,
00:52:30.29\00:52:32.95
please join us,
fascinating study.
00:52:32.98\00:52:35.48
Listen, got to end.
00:52:35.51\00:52:36.54
We began with C.S. Lewis's
classic Mere Christianity.
00:52:36.57\00:52:38.94
Let me close now
with another classic
00:52:38.97\00:52:40.92
written by Charles Sheldon,
it's the book "In His Steps."
00:52:40.95\00:52:44.33
Written a century
ago, the book became
00:52:44.36\00:52:45.67
an international best seller.
00:52:45.70\00:52:47.61
If you don't have the
book, any bookstore on earth,
00:52:47.64\00:52:51.33
particularly
Christian bookstores
00:52:51.36\00:52:53.26
will carry
Sheldon's book "In His Steps."
00:52:53.29\00:52:55.62
Now it's a fictionalized story
00:52:55.65\00:52:57.99
of a pastor named Henry
Maxwell and this church,
00:52:58.02\00:53:00.17
the first church of Raymond,
00:53:00.20\00:53:01.49
so it's Sunday and the
pastor's waxing eloquent,
00:53:01.52\00:53:04.81
his preaching was
just about to ready to move
00:53:04.84\00:53:06.88
toward the summation of a sermon
00:53:06.91\00:53:08.53
when down the
center aisle of the church
00:53:08.56\00:53:12.11
is a tramp but now we
don't call him tramps,
00:53:12.14\00:53:13.62
we call him a
homeless man, a homeless man
00:53:13.65\00:53:15.50
is just stumbling
down the center aisle,
00:53:15.53\00:53:17.89
he gets down to the
front and he looks up
00:53:17.92\00:53:19.62
with the preacher
asking for permission
00:53:19.65\00:53:22.17
and the distressed
pastor, what else can I do?
00:53:22.20\00:53:24.41
Go ahead.
00:53:24.44\00:53:25.48
The beggar turns around
and addresses the congregation,
00:53:25.51\00:53:28.62
"I've been out of
work from New York City.
00:53:28.65\00:53:31.74
I've been out of work.
00:53:31.77\00:53:34.41
I came to your
city a few days ago.
00:53:34.44\00:53:37.39
I've been going from--
I'm a printer by trade,
00:53:37.42\00:53:39.73
I've been going from store--
establishment to establishment,
00:53:39.76\00:53:42.29
store to store to
store, seen some of you,
00:53:42.32\00:53:44.96
not a single word
of sympathy from you.
00:53:44.99\00:53:48.32
My wife's dead, I
got a little girl left
00:53:48.35\00:53:49.88
with the printer
back in New York.
00:53:49.91\00:53:52.60
You know what? I've been
listening to your preaching,
00:53:52.63\00:53:53.88
the man had been
sitting up in the balcony,
00:53:53.91\00:53:55.19
I've been
listening to your preaching,
00:53:55.22\00:53:56.26
he is talking
about following Jesus.
00:53:56.29\00:53:57.90
I'm wondering what you
mean about following Jesus.
00:53:57.93\00:53:59.66
Does that mean
you ask the question,
00:53:59.69\00:54:01.16
what would Jesus do?
00:54:01.19\00:54:03.82
Your intent about
walking in His steps?"
00:54:03.85\00:54:07.34
The beggar half
turned and collapsed.
00:54:07.37\00:54:11.19
They carried him
over to the parson,
00:54:11.22\00:54:12.31
and three days later he
dies in the pastor's home.
00:54:12.34\00:54:16.23
Charles
Sheldon's brilliant story
00:54:16.26\00:54:20.31
is the struggle
00:54:20.34\00:54:21.85
of a
congregation to come to grips,
00:54:21.88\00:54:23.78
well, how do we
live with the question,
00:54:23.81\00:54:25.43
what would Jesus do?
00:54:25.46\00:54:29.91
You know what?
00:54:29.94\00:54:30.98
That is the
perfect question to ask
00:54:31.01\00:54:32.88
when it comes to
the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:54:32.91\00:54:35.13
Lot of people when it
comes to seventh-day Sabbath,
00:54:35.16\00:54:36.78
they don't ask of Him, Jesus
is the last example we turn to.
00:54:36.81\00:54:39.45
Listen, what
would my friends do?
00:54:39.48\00:54:40.55
What would my family do?
00:54:40.58\00:54:41.99
What would my church do?
00:54:42.02\00:54:43.98
Now, we need to
learn as Christians
00:54:44.01\00:54:45.23
that the question to
ask is what would Jesus do?
00:54:45.26\00:54:48.30
What would Jesus do
00:54:48.33\00:54:49.36
when it comes to
the seventh-day Sabbath?
00:54:49.39\00:54:51.16
You know what?
We know what He did.
00:54:51.19\00:54:53.16
Let me put a line
on the screen for you,
00:54:53.19\00:54:54.33
this is the gospel of Luke 4:16.
00:54:54.36\00:54:56.66
You know what it
says? Look at it.
00:54:56.69\00:54:57.95
"And as His
custom was, Jesus went in
00:54:57.98\00:55:02.80
on the Sabbath day to worship."
00:55:02.83\00:55:07.36
What would Jesus do?
00:55:07.39\00:55:08.42
I mean look at it,
what else would we expect
00:55:08.45\00:55:10.21
the Creator to do on His day?
00:55:10.24\00:55:12.78
And by the way what else would
He expect us to do on His day?
00:55:16.96\00:55:24.19
So the question really
is not what would Jesus do?
00:55:24.22\00:55:28.02
The more pressing
question is what shall we do?
00:55:28.05\00:55:33.55
What shall we do
given the lordship
00:55:33.58\00:55:38.37
we who call Him Lord,
00:55:38.40\00:55:39.85
given the
lordship of Jesus Christ?
00:55:39.88\00:55:44.73
I want to pray with you.
00:55:44.76\00:55:46.65
Let's bow together.
00:55:46.68\00:55:47.96
Oh, God...
00:55:47.99\00:55:49.02
whatever we do,
we who follow Jesus,
00:55:53.01\00:55:57.89
some people are hearing
this for the first time,
00:55:57.92\00:55:59.96
wondering what I'm
supposed to do with this,
00:55:59.99\00:56:02.80
some have heard
it for a long time,
00:56:02.83\00:56:05.58
but all of us are
hearing the same invitation
00:56:05.61\00:56:08.99
come, follow Me
00:56:09.02\00:56:14.18
and so Holy Father,
because we call Jesus Lord,
00:56:14.21\00:56:20.53
we want to follow
00:56:20.56\00:56:24.43
which is why I humbly pray
00:56:24.46\00:56:27.32
that You'll grant both
Your grace and Your courage
00:56:27.35\00:56:32.40
to men and
women and young adults
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who with this
teaching know in their hearts
00:56:36.32\00:56:41.65
what Christ
would have them to do.
00:56:41.68\00:56:45.22
He is the Lord of the Sabbath.
00:56:45.25\00:56:48.43
We've embraced him as
the Lord of salvation,
00:56:48.46\00:56:50.71
may He be both for us always.
00:56:50.74\00:56:55.10
We pray in His name, amen.
00:56:55.13\00:57:01.78
I wanted to take
one more moment here
00:57:01.81\00:57:03.33
at the end of the
telecast to let you know
00:57:03.36\00:57:05.12
how grateful I'm for
your journey with us,
00:57:05.15\00:57:08.24
with our New
Perceptions Ministry.
00:57:08.27\00:57:10.04
You may think
that New Perceptions
00:57:10.07\00:57:11.12
is only about television,
00:57:11.15\00:57:12.92
but I need to tell
you we do have a website
00:57:12.95\00:57:15.44
which is more than
just the study guide.
00:57:15.47\00:57:17.28
I know we go to the
study guide every week
00:57:17.31\00:57:18.99
but if you go to our website,
00:57:19.02\00:57:20.05
let me put the
address on the screen again,
00:57:20.08\00:57:21.70
www.pmchurch.tv,
00:57:21.73\00:57:26.15
you will find at
that website a blog.
00:57:26.18\00:57:28.04
I write every Wednesday,
I sit down on my laptop
00:57:28.07\00:57:29.95
and write up a blog something
as commenting on world events,
00:57:29.98\00:57:32.89
something local,
something national,
00:57:32.92\00:57:34.67
you get the blog.
00:57:34.70\00:57:36.03
You want a archive,
00:57:36.06\00:57:37.31
previous teachings from
here in the Pioneer pulpit,
00:57:37.34\00:57:39.44
you go to that
annotated archive,
00:57:39.47\00:57:42.13
you can pick out a
message, it will be sent to you.
00:57:42.16\00:57:44.81
You want to get into
the podcast business,
00:57:44.84\00:57:48.00
I'm not real hi-techy on
this but if you click podcast,
00:57:48.03\00:57:51.50
you will be able
to connect instantly
00:57:51.53\00:57:52.89
with every new teaching that
comes from the Pioneer pulpit.
00:57:52.92\00:57:55.42
The point is
we're trying to connect
00:57:55.45\00:57:57.11
with the generation
on the move, on the go.
00:57:57.14\00:57:59.96
Thanks for being a part of it.
00:57:59.99\00:58:01.10
Thanks for your
prayer partnership.
00:58:01.13\00:58:02.36
We have got to
connect with this generation
00:58:02.39\00:58:04.94
at this time in earth's history
00:58:04.97\00:58:07.10
and I'm grateful you and
I are sharing the mission.
00:58:07.13\00:58:09.47
God bless you, until next time.
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