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>> Would you stand with me as we
sing "Come Thou Almighty King"?
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[ "Come Thou
Almighty King" begins ]
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[ Congregation sings ]
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>> Amen. >>
Continue singing with me now
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as we sing "Shout to the Lord."
[ "Shout to the Lord" begins ]
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My Jesus. [ Congregation sings ]
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Let's sing it again. My Jesus.
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[ Congregation sings ]
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Amen. Isn't it a
blessing to be able
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to sing with the rest of God's
creation the praises to Him?
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He deserves it. He deserves it.
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And one of the things that
in recognizing and praising
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the Lord that we
realize is we need Jesus.
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We need him. There's
no getting around it.
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We need Jesus. So
sing with me this song,
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"Jesus, I Need You." You
may have heard it before,
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but it's very
simple. Follow along with us.
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[ "Jesus, I Need
You" begins ] Here we go.
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[ Congregation sings ]
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And Jesus.
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Beauty for ashes.
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Sing to your God.
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Jesus.
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And Jesus.
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One more time.
Jesus, I need you.
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Amen. This one I
know you all know.
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This is "The Air I Breathe."
Isn't that -- should be the
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anthem of our lives is, "Lord,
you are the very air that I
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breathe"? So sing along with me.
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This is "The Air I Breathe."
And in the middle of this song,
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there's another part that
says, "Falling on my knees."
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So we will be coming forward
at that time, but just kind of
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follow along with us and say
the words not to us, not to this
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crowd, but to
your Heavenly Father.
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Be ready to give Him your all.
This is "The Air I Breathe."
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[ "The Air I Breathe"
begins ] [ Congregation sings ]
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Yes.
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This is my daily bread.
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This is the air I breathe.
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This is the air I breathe.
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This is the air. One more time.
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This is the air.
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Falling on my knees.
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One more time. Falling.
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Falling on my knees.
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Some things I can't see.
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Some things I can't see.
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And this is your opportunity
to come forward and to lay your
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burdens down at
the foot of the throne.
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It's where we bow our knees.
It's where we give our all
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to the Lord. So
start coming forward now.
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And allow the Holy
Spirit to enter your heart.
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Let's sing,
"Falling on our knees."
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[ Congregation sings ]
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Some things I cannot see.
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Some things.
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Sing it with me.
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I understand better.
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I understand.
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This is the air.
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>> Good morning, boys and girls.
Nice to see you on this kind of
gray first official Sabbath
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of summer. Nice to have you.
Ooh, we got a great group here.
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And you know what? Pastor
John was absolutely right.
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I have a quiz today.
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School's out, but today
we're gonna have school again.
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And I want to see how well you
do on this quiz, so listen very
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carefully.
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Don't let anybody
around you talk right now. Shh.
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Listen very carefully. Because
here's what we're gonna do,
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okay? We're gonna play a sound.
You're gonna hear a sound. You
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won't see a thing. You'll hear a
sound. It's the sound of a bird.
The bird you need to guess.
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Okay? We're gonna play a
sound. It's the sound of a bird.
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Tell me who it is. First hand
up, I'll acknowledge you, okay?
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Shh. We got to hear this now.
These birds are hard to hear.
Shh. Okay. Sound number one.
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[ Duck quacking ] >> What?
[ Children shouting "duck" ]
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Ah! You're right.
You're absolutely right.
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Boy, you are a bright bunch. I'm
gonna make this harder. I'm
gonna make this harder.
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We're gonna hear another sound
right -- Oh, wait a minute. We
didn't put the picture of the
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duck up. Quack, quack, quack,
quack. That's a mallard, yup.
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That is. Okay. Sound number
two. Here it comes. Shh. [ Bird
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chirping ] [ Children shouting
"bird" ] What was it? Robin is
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right. Let's see a robin. Oh!
Hey, and by the way, don't miss
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next Sabbath. Shh. Next Sabbath
I got a real first-person
account story about
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a robin that happened just this
week. But we'll show you the
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pictures next Sabbath. Okay. So
far, you're doing very well, but
here comes one that's gonna
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stump you. Here it comes right
-- Now let's hear the sound,
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please. Shh. [ Bird singing ]
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[ Indistinct shouting ] I'm
sorry. You all lost. Let's put
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him on the screen, please.
That's a Baltimore oriole. And
they have been all over our
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community this week -- this
spring. Thank you, Jesus, for
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Baltimore orioles. Okay, teacher
needs it quiet for the quiz to
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continue. Shh. I think you might
get this one. I don't know.
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Let's play it. [ Birds squawking
] [ Indistinct shouting ]
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Sea gull. Let's see a sea gull
on the screen right behind you,
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Mom and Dad. Let's see
a sea gull on the screen.
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There we go. Very good.
Okay, this one is quiet. Shh.
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This one is harder, harder,
harder, but you have to listen
'cause it's kind of quiet.
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Listen. [ Bird cooing
] [ Indistinct shouting ]
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Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Do it
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again. Hey. [ Bird cooing ] [
Children shouting "owl" ] Wrong,
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wrong, wrong. I'm sorry, boys
and girls, but let's see the
picture of this one, please.
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It's a dove. Okay.
Final one. Okay, this is it.
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If you get this one right,
you've passed the entire quiz.
If you get this one.
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Don't tell anybody what it is
till you're really sure. Okay,
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final sound. Let us hear it now.
[ Rooster crowing ] [ Children
shouting "rooster" ]
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Okay. Everybody passes the quiz
because that was a
cock-a-doodle-doo rooster.
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Hey, listen, listen. Shh. When
you get to know a bird's voice,
you know who the bird is.
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When you get to know Jesus'
voice, you know who is speaking
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to you. That's why we have
children's stories at Sabbath
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school and school. And you have
family worship at home so that
you get to learn Jesus' voice,
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and you'll know who's speaking
to you. Aren't you glad that
Jesus wants us to recognize Him?
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Who wants to thank Jesus for us?
Thank Jesus for all these birds
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and for helping us learn His
voice. Okay, I need a young man
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because I had ladies last time.
Do I have a young man here?
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Right here? Come on up. What's
your first name? >> Martin.
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>> Which one? >> Martin.
>> Martin. I like that name,
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Martin. All right, we're gonna
close our eyes with Martin and
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fold our hands as Martin prays.
>> Dear Jesus, thank you for
knowing us and thank you for
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today is Saturday and for
loving us. In Jesus' name, amen.
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>> Amen. Thank you, Martin.
Beautiful prayer. As you go
quietly and reverently
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back to your seats, thank
you, Jesus. We hear your voice.
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Happy Sabbath.
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>> Come, Holy Spirit, dove
divine. Hover over me, Holy
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Spirit. Oh, I like the rain,
Father, torrential. That's what
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we need. We need a massive
global outpouring of the Holy
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Spirit's rain. We need it in our
hearts. So bless this moment in
teaching, make it clear.
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We humbly pray in
Jesus' name. Amen.
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Speaking of birds, did you
know that there is a bird at the
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beginning and at the
ending of the Gospel of Mark.
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Did you know that?
There is also a bird at the
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beginning, at the ending
of the Gospel of Matthew.
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There's also a bird at the
beginning and the ending of the
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Gospel of Luke. And
not to be left out, the
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fourth Gospel of John -- a bird
at the beginning and a bird at
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the ending. Amazing.
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Bookends for all four Gospels.
And guess what -- it's not the
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same bird. It's a different
bird. But it occurs to me that
if we can bring these two birds
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together, hopefully there might
emerge, in your mind and mine,
an unescapable truth.
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Let's start with the bird at
the end. It's a story the whole
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world knows. It's one of the
classic stories on what we call
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conscience. Ever hear of the
conscience? It's the one
metaphysical bond that every
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human being possesses. It's
what unites us as a human race.
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We all have a conscience. Peter
had a conscience. Let's go to
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that story. Open your Bible with
me, please, to the Gospel of
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Mark chapter 14. We'll start at
the end. We'll get to the
beginning, but let's start at
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the end. Mark chapter 14. I'm in
the New International version.
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Whatever translation you have is
fine by me. Grab the pew Bible
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if you didn't bring one and
follow along. It's page 686 in
your pew Bible. Mark chapter 14.
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Familiar story. It's early
Friday morning. Jesus is gagged
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and bound in Caiaphas' mansion
upstairs. And your friend and
mine Peter is out in the
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courtyard. Let's go.
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Mark 14:66. "And
while Peter was below in
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the courtyard, one of
the servant girls of the high
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priest came by. And
when she saw Peter warming
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himself," obviously by the fire,
"she looked closely at him.
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'Yo, you, you also were with
that Nazarene, Jesus,' she said.
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But he denied it. 'I don't
know or understand what you're
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talking about,' he said, and he
went out through the entryway."
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I have a collection of sermons
written by the great Scottish
preacher Peter Marshall.
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Title of the collection of
sermons, "Mr. Jones, Meet the
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Master." In one of his sermons,
he zeroes in to this very moment
when the young maiden and Peter
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are talking. And he suggests a
thought I, in all my life, have
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read nowhere else, and I'd like
you to ponder it for a moment.
He says, "What if -- What if
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this little maid girl has heard
about this famous Jesus? The
crowds have been thronging
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his name. What if she has heard
-- not only heard of him, but
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maybe, at a distance, saw him?
What if she senses there's
something unusual about this
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Jesus who's upstairs with the
high priest? And what if she's
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saying to herself, 'If I could
only find somebody that knows
this man, I need to ask about,
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'Who is he?' And she spots
somebody, 'Yo, you're a
Nazarene, aren't you?'" Hoping
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that he would pause and say,
"I am. What do you want to know
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about Jesus?" But Peter, so
consumed with his
self-preoccupation, his
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knee-jerk fear thinks that she
wants to turn him in. And so --
boom -- without thinking, he
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says, "I don't know what you're
talking about." And just like
me, how many times have I done
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it, to save myself embarrassment
or to be preoccupied with my own
self-focus, I miss a golden
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opportunity to give a testimony
for Jesus. That's all they
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wanted to know. The little girl
doesn't let up. Go back to the
account here. Verse 68.
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"But Peter denied it. 'I don't
know or understand what you're
talking about, girl,'
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he said, and he went out into
the entryway." But verse 69,
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"When the servant girl saw him
there, she said again to those
standing around, 'I'm telling
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you, guys, this fellow is one of
them.' And again he denied it,"
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verse 70. And "After after a
little while, those standing
near," obviously by the fire,
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"said to Peter, 'Come on, come
on, man. I know that accent.
You're from the North.
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Surely you are one of them, for
you are a Galilean.'" And now
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notice verse 71, "And he,"
Peter, "began to call down
curses, and he swore to them, 'I
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never knew this blankety, blank,
blank, blank man in my life.'"
The air is blue with fisherman
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obscenities. "I don't know
this man you're talking about."
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And "Immediately" -- verse 72 --
"Immediately" -- Mark's favorite
word -- "the rooster crowed" --
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cock-a-doodle-doo -- "the second
time. Then Peter remembered the
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word that Jesus had spoken to
him. 'Before the rooster crows
twice you will disown me three
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times.' And Peter broke down and
wept." The translation reads,
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"Wept bitterly." Now, Dr. Luke,
God bless him, captures a split
second that no other Gospel
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records. And that is between
Peter's obscenity-laden denial
and the cock-a-doodle-doo of the
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rooster. In that split second,
Jesus is being led across the
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portico. Jesus hears what Peter
has just said. Jesus' hurt eyes
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turn to the big fisherman and
when the cock crows, Peter
instinctiv-- of course,
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instinctively -- You know,
sometimes somebody is staring at
you and you know they're staring
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at you and -- but you don't know
who it -- and you turn. And
their eyes meet, and Peter's
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conscience and heart broke.
"Desire of Ages" describes this
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moment. You have it in your
take-home study guide today. Let
me put it on the screen for
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you -- "In that gentle
countenance, Peter read deep
pity and sorrow, but there's no
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anger there in Jesus' face.
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There's that word.
"Conscience was aroused.
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Memory was active...Once more he
looked at his Master, and saw a
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sacrilegious hand raised
to slap him across the face.
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Unable longer to endure the
scene, he rushes out,
heartbroken, from the hall."
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Conscience, a broken heart, but
it was not the rooster that
broke Peter's heart.
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It was the dove. And therein
lies the difference between the
rooster and the dove
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when it comes to the conscience.
So we turn to the dove now at
the beginning of the book.
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Go back just a few pages to
Mark chapter 1. All four Gospels
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bookended with these two birds.
Mark chapter 1. Drop down to
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verse 9 and, "At that time Jesus
came from Nazareth in Galilee
and was baptized by John in the
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Jordan. Just as Jesus was coming
up out of the water, he saw
heaven being torn open."
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The Greek word is "schizo,"
which is from the word "schism"
or "scism," where it's just
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ripped. "He saw heaven
being ripped open and the Spirit
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descending on him like a dove."
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Look, if the rooster represents
an awakened conscience and the
dove represents the Holy Spirit,
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as all four Gospels attest to,
that means there is some sort of
profound linkage going on here
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between the birds that begin and
end all four Gospels. Some kind
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of linkage here. In fact, in a
cryptic line that Jesus once
spoke to His disciples, sage
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counsel, by the way. Don't even
look it up. We'll put it on the
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screen. Matthew 10:16. On
the screen, please. You see it
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there? Jesus says, "Hey, guys,
ladies, I'm sending you out like
sheep among wolves."
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This is no picnic. This isn't
a garden party. I'm sending you
00:31:51.37\00:31:57.31
into war like sheep among
wolves. "Therefore" -- Now here
comes the sage counsel -- "be as
00:31:57.31\00:32:01.32
shrewd as snakes and as
innocent as doves." Hmm.
00:32:01.32\00:32:11.46
Be as shrewd as snakes. Now, let
me ask you a question. Who's the
00:32:11.46\00:32:17.80
shrewdest snake, serpent you
have ever heard of in the entire
world? Who would it be?
00:32:17.80\00:32:23.20
Of course, of course. Revelation
12:9. How does it put it?
00:32:23.20\00:32:25.87
"That ancient serpent called the
devil or Satan who leads the
whole world astray."
00:32:25.87\00:32:30.01
And so, hold on, hold on. The
only way we who follow Jesus can
be as shrewd and as wise as
00:32:30.01\00:32:36.18
our mortal enemy is if we are
somehow tipped off in advance
and prepared for his diabolical
00:32:36.18\00:32:42.59
assaults. That's the only
way we get out of this place.
00:32:42.59\00:32:48.70
Otherwise we're dead meat.
Here's a verse you grew up with
00:32:48.70\00:32:52.33
as a kid. Let me put it on the
screen for you. I hope you'll go
00:32:52.33\00:32:56.10
home and mark all these in your
Bible. Come on, there's a chain
here of a Bible study that you
00:32:56.10\00:33:00.48
can brood over for a long time.
Put it on the screen, please.
00:33:00.48\00:33:02.68
1 Corinthians 10:13. Paul
writing, "No temptation has
00:33:02.84\00:33:07.35
overtaken you except
what is common to mankind.
00:33:07.35\00:33:10.59
And God is
faithful." Oh, yes, He is.
00:33:10.59\00:33:13.62
"He will not let you be tempted
beyond what you can bear."
00:33:13.62\00:33:18.59
Keep reading.
00:33:18.59\00:33:19.49
I'm gonna tell you something. I
don't know if you got it, but
there is some powerful good news
00:33:28.04\00:33:32.11
wrapped up in that line we
just shared. Powerful good news.
00:33:32.11\00:33:34.84
You said, "What's the good news
there, Dwight?" Well, I'll tell
00:33:34.84\00:33:38.15
you what. Do you realize that
every temptation you face -- any
temptation, every temptation you
00:33:38.15\00:33:44.95
face has been pre-tested? Get
this -- It has been pre-tested
00:33:44.95\00:33:51.89
before it comes to you.
God pre-tests every one of our
00:33:51.89\00:33:56.80
temptations. Now, we just had
Kirk and Chelsea with us, and
we've had a wonderful time with
00:33:56.80\00:34:01.34
our little Ella and her younger
sister. Ella's 4 and Isabel is 4
months. But you know when mother
00:34:01.34\00:34:07.24
Chelsea bathes Isabel, the baby,
you know what she does? She puts
some hot water in the
00:34:07.24\00:34:11.38
sink or hot water in the bathtub
or the little tiny tub -- she'll
put hot water in and you know
00:34:11.38\00:34:15.82
the next thing she does? She
puts her hand in. You know why
00:34:15.82\00:34:21.19
she's doing that? She wants to
make sure that this water's not
too hot. Once she determines
00:34:21.19\00:34:25.36
it's not too hot, then she'll
lower the little baby into that
water. That's exactly what God
00:34:25.36\00:34:29.46
does with you and me. He puts
His hand into that temptation.
00:34:29.46\00:34:33.64
I see what's coming. And he
pre-- he pre-tests. He
pre-checks the temptation.
00:34:33.64\00:34:42.24
Because as the way God has it
figured, if He doesn't do it in
advance, if He doesn't learn in
00:34:42.24\00:34:49.15
advance, we're all gone. How
you do that, God? That's a great
00:34:49.15\00:34:54.96
question to ask. I'll tell you
how He does it. I love this
story in the Old Testament.
00:34:54.96\00:34:58.03
It's one of my favorites. It's
in the time of Elijah and the
mortal enemy king of Israel.
00:34:58.03\00:35:03.83
Okay, the Nation of Israel. The
mortal enemy king has begun to
00:35:03.83\00:35:08.30
notice a pattern. Every time he
plans a strategic, secret
assault, when he brings his army
00:35:08.30\00:35:14.98
there, guess what -- either
Israel is prepared and fully
armed or they're gone. This
00:35:14.98\00:35:21.95
happens time after time after
time, and finally, one day, you
can just hear this king in his
00:35:21.95\00:35:26.89
war counsel room, he says,
"Guys, I have had it. There is a
snitch in this circle.
00:35:26.89\00:35:30.59
Which one of you is the mole?
Who is leaking our strategies?"
00:35:30.59\00:35:38.00
"Not me. Not me. Not me. Not
me." And then, God bless this
little officer, he said,
00:35:38.00\00:35:41.94
"[ Clears throat ] Excuse me,
royal highness." And I love his
00:35:41.94\00:35:45.61
words. Put it on the screen,
please. This is 2 Kings 6:12.
00:35:45.61\00:35:48.18
On the screen. "'None
of us, my lord the king,'
00:35:48.34\00:35:52.11
says this officer, 'but
I'll tell you who it is.
00:35:52.11\00:35:55.65
It's Elisha the prophet who is
in Israel, he tells the king of
00:35:55.65\00:35:58.85
Israel the very words
you speak in your bedroom.'"
00:35:58.85\00:36:03.12
Embarrassing.
00:36:03.12\00:36:07.13
What's going on here? That
little dove, that little dove
apparently can fly up into
00:36:07.30\00:36:14.34
the tiniest corner of the room
and, in that corner, overhear
every conversation and monitor
00:36:14.34\00:36:22.74
every thought in that space.
Unrecognized, unnoticed, but
there he is in the war room of
00:36:22.74\00:36:32.65
the dastardly, the dark, the
dark, despicable enemy of you
and me, in the war room of Satan
00:36:32.65\00:36:41.10
himself. There's a third person
that got it, unseen, recording
00:36:41.10\00:36:47.30
it all. Oh, you're going after
Dwight today. Hmm, they're going
00:36:47.30\00:36:52.01
after Dwight today. To my
guardian angel comes the word,
00:36:52.01\00:36:58.75
"Look out." I just heard
it. They're going for your human
00:36:58.75\00:37:03.25
charge. When he walks around
that corner, when she steps into
that room, she will be hit in
00:37:03.25\00:37:10.69
the face with a blitz. God has
two choices -- don't let her in
00:37:10.69\00:37:16.60
there. They'll kill her. They
will destroy her. Keep her out
00:37:16.60\00:37:22.04
of that room. Don't let her go.
Or he can handle this. He can
00:37:22.04\00:37:27.81
handle this. If he's relying on
me, stay with him, be prepared.
It will be an assault like no
00:37:27.81\00:37:33.88
other assault he's experienced.
That's how he does it. How's he
00:37:33.88\00:37:39.82
do this? He did it just like
that. He's there in the war
counsels, and he's listening,
00:37:39.82\00:37:45.99
and he's reading every thought.
Wow. Oh, no wonder God says,
00:37:45.99\00:37:52.97
Psalm 50:15. Here's your
text. Put it on the screen.
00:37:52.97\00:37:55.80
God says... You know
why? Because I've already made
00:37:55.80\00:38:00.91
provision for that moment. Now,
if you don't call on me, I'm not
00:38:00.91\00:38:04.15
intervening. Free choice, your
choice. But if you want me, ask
me for help and I will deliver
00:38:04.15\00:38:11.39
you. I'll save you if you want
it. If you don't want it, okay.
No temptation comes to you
00:38:11.39\00:38:18.23
without a way of escape and a
path to certain victory. Ahh,
then what's the moral
00:38:18.23\00:38:22.46
mechanism by which God
orchestrates your deliverance?
Go back to that line,
00:38:22.46\00:38:26.13
Matthew 10:16, on the screen.
00:38:26.13\00:38:28.27
The serpent we know, the dove we
know, and it is the dove, the
Holy Spirit who preserves our
00:38:32.01\00:38:37.68
innocence. In fact, do you
know that Jesus once told us, "A
00:38:37.68\00:38:42.65
vital function of the Holy
Spirit is to know what's coming
before it comes." I've always
00:38:42.65\00:38:48.76
looked at this text. I'm gonna
put it on the screen for you
00:38:48.92\00:38:50.89
right now. John 16:13.
I've always looked at this text,
00:38:50.89\00:38:52.96
just on the eve of his
execution, as the Holy Spirit
00:38:52.96\00:38:55.43
one day will be able to tell
us what's coming down the pike.
00:38:55.43\00:38:58.27
I now see this
in a fresh new way.
00:38:58.27\00:39:01.04
Watch this. But
Jesus speaking...
00:39:01.04\00:39:04.41
God wants to help you. He speaks
what He hears. He's in the war
00:39:16.25\00:39:22.16
room chambers of the enemy and
then He will tell you, He will
alert you what is yet to come
00:39:22.16\00:39:27.30
just like he did with Israel
against the enemy king. You're
about to be attacked.
00:39:27.30\00:39:31.07
Hey, listen to me. You're
about to be attacked today.
00:39:31.07\00:39:35.20
You have no idea. I see that
you're planning on a little time
00:39:35.20\00:39:38.67
with me. I'm telling you what, I
wouldn't go out there half
dressed. I wouldn't go out there
00:39:38.67\00:39:42.24
half naked. I would not go
out there without armor on.
00:39:42.24\00:39:45.51
Boy, stay here a little longer.
I have to get you prepared.
They're gonna kill you.
00:39:45.51\00:39:51.25
He has a battalion that will
slaughter you unless you and me
are together on this one --
00:39:51.25\00:40:01.63
on any one. Yeah.
What's going on here?
00:40:01.63\00:40:06.20
It's this -- It's this -- It's
this...moral command center. You
say, "Dwight, you're making
00:40:06.20\00:40:13.78
this up." I am not. In
fact, I want you to check a
00:40:13.78\00:40:16.54
text. I don't want you
to read it off the screen.
00:40:16.54\00:40:18.75
You just go back to the Book
of Isaiah. I'm gonna show you
00:40:18.75\00:40:21.65
something that you'll never
forget this text. I hope it gets
00:40:21.65\00:40:24.55
marked in your Bible eventually.
Isaiah 30. Go to Isaiah 30,
00:40:24.55\00:40:26.99
okay? So you have your Bible.
Go back to the Old Testament.
00:40:26.99\00:40:30.19
Isaiah 30. One line. Take a look
at this. Isaiah 30. Drop down to
00:40:30.19\00:40:39.13
verse 21. God's speaking,
"Whether you turn to the right
or to the left, your ears will
00:40:39.13\00:40:47.04
hear a voice behind you, saying,
'Unh-unh-unh-unh-unh-unh-unh.
This -- This is the way; walk in
00:40:47.04\00:40:58.09
it.'" It's called the
conscience. Put it on the
00:40:58.09\00:41:01.32
screen. Let's just look at that
word for a moment. It's called
00:41:01.32\00:41:04.63
the conscience. Every
human being has a conscience.
00:41:04.63\00:41:12.03
It's that inner voice
that belongs to the dove, the
00:41:12.20\00:41:15.64
Holy Spirit who engages your
moral control center through his
00:41:15.64\00:41:20.34
voice that
instructs you your next moves.
00:41:20.34\00:41:24.31
It's called the conscience.
Jesus said when he was
00:41:24.31\00:41:27.28
describing the Holy Spirit
a little earlier in the upper
00:41:27.28\00:41:29.42
room, he says,
"He will be in you."
00:41:29.42\00:41:31.55
This says you'll
hear a voice behind you.
00:41:31.55\00:41:33.52
Guess what --
it's actually in you.
00:41:33.52\00:41:35.16
It'll come from inside of
you. It'll be inside your mind.
00:41:35.16\00:41:37.69
And if you've been listening to
that voice, you'll recognize it.
00:41:37.69\00:41:40.43
You'll recognize it immediately
and you'll know who's speaking
00:41:40.43\00:41:42.36
to you. That's
how you learn a voice.
00:41:42.36\00:41:46.10
You have to just keep hearing it
and heeding it, and it will keep
00:41:46.10\00:41:49.37
coming back to you.
00:41:49.37\00:41:50.41
You'll have it memorized. You
know the sound of His voice. I
00:41:50.57\00:41:55.98
do. And guess what -- you can be
a Fuzzy Wuzzy in the heart of
the Eastern Highlands of
00:41:55.98\00:42:00.15
Papua New Guinea. You can be
a business-suited millennial on
00:42:00.15\00:42:04.89
the streets of the windy city of
Chicago. You can be a retiree in
00:42:04.89\00:42:08.46
Berrien County. It doesn't
matter who you are. It doesn't
matter where you live.
00:42:08.46\00:42:11.36
It doesn't matter what you do.
You have a conscience unless you
are totally insane.
00:42:11.36\00:42:16.63
You have a conscience. You were
born with this internal
direct-connect from God
00:42:16.63\00:42:25.01
to your conscience. It is
the moral authority of your life
00:42:25.01\00:42:28.74
night and day. And some of you
are saying, "Yeah, but, Dwight,
can the conscience be wrong?"
00:42:28.74\00:42:34.78
Great question. Of course
it can. Let me give you an
00:42:34.78\00:42:39.79
illustration. A little boy grows
up in a home where, let's say,
drinking soy milk is the gospel
00:42:39.79\00:42:48.33
truth. One day he visits his
little friend's house and his
friend's mother comes out
00:42:48.33\00:42:52.90
eventually with a plate of
steaming chocolate chip cookies
and two filled-to-the-rim
00:42:52.90\00:42:58.17
glasses of whole milk -- white.
He eats a few cookies and gulps
down that glass of milk.
00:42:58.17\00:43:07.78
And moments later -- bop, bop,
bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
You just violated your
00:43:07.78\00:43:17.06
conscience. His parents
told him to drink only soy milk.
00:43:17.06\00:43:22.43
Question -- is that boy's
conscience right or wrong?
00:43:22.43\00:43:31.57
Answer -- yes. [ Laughter
] That's it. Yes. Come on.
00:43:31.57\00:43:39.25
Yes, we are to obey our
consciences, and, yes, our
consciences can be wrong.
00:43:39.25\00:43:44.32
What is this, a little bit of
double-talk from Paul? No, it's
00:43:44.32\00:43:47.52
not. I want to show you this.
Put it on the screen, please.
Two verses that you've probably
00:43:47.52\00:43:52.36
labored through before and
couldn't make much sense out of
them, and I'm gonna show you
00:43:52.36\00:43:56.26
what, they're telling you
something big deal right now. On
00:43:56.26\00:43:59.93
the screen -- 1 Corinthians
8:4,7. Let's start with verse 4.
"So then" -- So, Paul's writing
00:43:59.93\00:44:05.41
to a bunch of pagans who have
just been baptized into Christ
00:44:05.41\00:44:08.68
Jesus. They're brand-new baby
Christians. So he's writing to
00:44:08.68\00:44:11.91
them. "So then, about eating
food sacrificed to idols" -- Hit
the pause button right
00:44:11.91\00:44:15.58
there. You see, there's a debate
going on in this church that's
00:44:15.58\00:44:18.85
just been planted. The debate
is, we all grew up eating the
meat sold in the meat
00:44:18.85\00:44:22.62
market. Nothing wrong with that.
But we remember now that all of
00:44:22.62\00:44:27.00
this meat was first placed
before the idols, it was
dedicated to the god that the
00:44:27.00\00:44:31.53
idol represents, and then it's
brought down. Therefore, we can
00:44:31.53\00:44:35.90
no longer eat that meat. Now,
watch what Paul does here. "So
then, about eating food
00:44:35.90\00:44:41.44
sacrificed to idols" -- Here he
goes now -- "We know that an
idol is nothing at all in the
00:44:41.44\00:44:47.78
world." It's just a hunk
of rock. It's a slab of stone.
00:44:47.78\00:44:51.15
It's a piece of wood. It's
an overlaid bit of fake gold.
00:44:51.15\00:44:54.62
That's all it is. "We know that
an idol is nothing at all in the
00:44:54.62\00:44:59.16
world and that there is no God
but one." There's only one God
00:44:59.16\00:45:02.76
in this universe. Hallelujah.
That's what Paul's writing.
00:45:02.76\00:45:05.03
"But" -- Now drop down to verse
7 -- "not everyone knows this."
00:45:05.20\00:45:11.34
When they eat the food offered
to a no nothing, worthless,
piece of wood, they're
00:45:21.12\00:45:29.06
condemned. Poof.
Apparently, a conscience can be
00:45:29.06\00:45:37.10
weak or even wrong, but when we
violate that weak or wrong
conscience, we defile
00:45:37.10\00:45:43.91
ourselves. He says, "You're
defiled now." We defile
ourselves, and guess
00:45:43.91\00:45:48.98
what -- that is a sin. Paul
-- Romans 14:23. You have all of
00:45:48.98\00:45:55.72
these verses in
your study guide.
00:45:55.72\00:45:56.62
Notice Paul writing.
Speaking of eating, "Whoever
00:45:56.79\00:46:00.99
has doubts is
condemned if they eat."
00:46:00.99\00:46:04.29
So, you've got
questions, you're not sure?
00:46:04.29\00:46:06.39
You go ahead and eat it.
"You are condemned if you eat
00:46:06.39\00:46:09.60
because your eating is not from
faith, and everything that does
00:46:09.60\00:46:13.94
not come from faith is sin."
00:46:13.94\00:46:16.64
That's one of the most
comprehensive definiti-- It is
the most comprehensive
00:46:16.81\00:46:19.74
definition in all of
scripture for sin. What is sin?
00:46:19.74\00:46:22.54
It's what you know is wrong. You
can be wrong about the wrong,
but it's still a sin
00:46:22.54\00:46:28.12
to you. Isn't that something?
To violate your conscience.
00:46:28.12\00:46:34.52
When this moral command center
inside of you is flashing red --
beep, beep, beep, beep, beep --
00:46:34.52\00:46:40.50
whatever it is, it's warning
you about, do not do it. Don't!
00:46:40.50\00:46:52.84
If it's going off, stop. Because
when you disobey your
conscience, no matter how weak
00:46:52.84\00:47:01.48
or how wrong it may be, like the
little boy drinking soy milk,
00:47:01.48\00:47:06.25
you deaden it. And a deadened
conscience can eventually become
a dead conscience, and you are
00:47:06.25\00:47:15.93
lost. It's shut down. It's
gone. Paul describes these dead
00:47:15.93\00:47:22.37
consciences. He uses the
word in 1 Timothy 4, "sear."
00:47:22.37\00:47:25.94
So you take a hot iron on my
skin, and I have all these
little holes here, my pores.
00:47:25.94\00:47:30.08
[ Imitating sizzling ] No more
holes, no more anything. It's
00:47:30.08\00:47:35.42
just scar tissue. Seared
consciences. Wow. Listen, even
00:47:35.42\00:47:47.96
if your conscience is wrong --
Now, listen very carefully to
this. Even if your conscience is
00:47:47.96\00:47:53.90
wrong and all your family and
friends are telling you it is
wrong, do not violate your moral
00:47:53.90\00:48:02.11
command center's communication
to you. Do not violate that
conscience. The clearest -- I've
00:48:02.11\00:48:09.18
never preached on the conscience
before. The clearest statement
00:48:09.18\00:48:12.25
I've ever read is this that's
gonna appear on the screen now.
I've never seen a clearer
00:48:12.25\00:48:18.26
statement. Put it
on the screen for you.
00:48:18.26\00:48:20.20
"The Christian" -- This is from
a commentary -- "The Christian
00:48:20.36\00:48:25.43
should never
violate his conscience.
00:48:25.43\00:48:28.67
Oh, yes, it may
require educating.
00:48:28.67\00:48:31.34
It may tell him that
certain things are wrong that in
00:48:31.34\00:48:34.08
themselves turns out may not be
wrong, but" -- Hold on -- "until
00:48:34.08\00:48:38.35
convinced by the Word of God and
the Spirit of God that a certain
00:48:38.35\00:48:42.88
course is proper for her, she
ought not to -- he ought not to
00:48:42.88\00:48:47.16
pursue that course. He
must not make others the
00:48:47.16\00:48:50.53
criterion for his conduct;
he must go -- we must go to the
00:48:50.53\00:48:54.46
Scriptures and learn for
ourselves our duty in the
00:48:54.46\00:48:57.83
matter."
00:48:57.83\00:48:58.87
If the conscience is
going off, obey it. Obey it.
00:48:59.03\00:49:06.51
Or, for you, it's a sin. Even
though it's wrong, it's a sin.
00:49:06.51\00:49:11.35
Ooh. Yeah, but come on, Dwight.
This isn't right of God to hold
00:49:11.35\00:49:17.02
me accountable to something
that's weak or wrong. Why
doesn't he just wink
00:49:17.02\00:49:21.76
at my ignorance? The Bible says
he does that. Ah! But think a
00:49:21.76\00:49:26.26
minute. Think, think.
Unfortunately, the conscience is
too extremely fine-tuned
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an instrument. So fine-tuned
that it is seriously damaged
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when it is ignored or when it is
disobeyed. If we keep saying,
"No, I'm not gonna listen to
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you." Whenever it flashes red,
we dim the subsequent flashings.
We muffle the voice of
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the Holy Spirit to the place
Jesus once warned, "You keep
this up, you have committed
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the unpardonable sin."
Yup, you have. You keep this up.
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Wow. It's like Chrissy, our
little girl, she came home from
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school one day, Ruth Murdoch,
and I asked her to do something.
And I'd never heard this before.
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I asked her to do something and
she goes like this, "Talk to my
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hand. My face ain't listening."
[ Laughter ] Did you learn that
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in church school? Where'd
you get -- Some kid on the
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playground. "Talk to my hand. My
face ain't listening." It's like
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a little boy whose mother's
admonishing, "I can't hear you,
Mommy. I can't hear you.
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I really can't. I really
can't hear you, Mom. Sorry."
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Eventually the voice grows
silent. Not because God is mad
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at you. Are you kidding? But
because you can no longer hear
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His voice. You have switched
frequencies. Your conscience is
no longer tuned to the frequency
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of His voice. Jesus called it
the unpardonable sin, which in
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essence is the one sin that you
don't want to have pardoned. You
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know why? Because you don't
want to let it go. That's the
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unpardonable sin. Whatever it
is, you keep saying no to him
and finally he says, "I got it.
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N-O." Adios. Talk to my
hand. My face ain't listening.
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I can't hear you, Jesus. I can't
hear you at all. Isn't this
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weird? I can't hear you. The
dove of the Holy Spirit and the
rooster of your conscience,
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two gifts from God. Two birds,
two gifts, one voice to save
you, and that's the
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truth. Two birds, two
gifts, one voice to save you.
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From a century ago, listen to
this. Put it up on the screen.
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Wow. "As we yield to the
influence of the Spirit of God"
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-- That would be the dove --
"our conscience" -- That's the
rooster -- "becomes tender" --
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See what happens? "The
conscience becomes tender and
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sensitive and sin that we would
have passed by with little
thought, becomes exceeding
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sinful." The more you open up
yourself to the Holy Spirit, the
more perceptive you become and
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more sensitive your conscience
becomes to the poison of the
serpent called sin.
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And when you daily seek the
baptism, when you daily seek the
infilling of the Holy Spirit,
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guess what. Now, I want you to
just hold on to your pew right
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now. Guess what -- stuff you
used to laugh off suddenly
matters. Stuff you used to shrug
00:52:29.28\00:52:40.59
off suddenly matters. Stuff
you used to wave off suddenly
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matters. You know why? Because
it matters what you watch.
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How long have you been watching
that stuff? How long are you
00:52:49.36\00:52:54.70
gonna keep watching that stuff?
There's a point where the bar
gets raised and you go up with
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the dove. You don't
go down with the serpent.
00:53:01.84\00:53:05.68
How long you gonna keep
listening to that stuff? You
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know what it does. You know the
red alert in your mind. Every
time there's something
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down, you push it down. Turn the
music louder. How long will you
00:53:12.02\00:53:18.66
say no to that flashing red
light? How long you gonna keep
drinking that stuff?
00:53:18.66\00:53:23.73
Oh, I know all your friends
drink it. I know it's kind of
00:53:23.73\00:53:28.37
socially -- You know, you're
nothing if you don't. How long
00:53:28.37\00:53:33.38
are you gonna keep drinking
that? There comes a point where
the bar gets raised because we
00:53:33.38\00:53:38.61
got to make ready a people,
prepare for the Lord, Jesus is
coming. How long you gonna keep
00:53:38.61\00:53:44.19
eating that? You've known all
your life. You've had a little
00:53:44.19\00:53:48.29
-- You've had a little gnawing
inside of that conscience.
You've seen that little flashing
00:53:48.29\00:53:52.39
red light. How long are
you gonna keep eating this and
00:53:52.39\00:53:55.93
expect to grow in me? How long
you gonna keep wearing that?
00:53:55.93\00:53:59.13
Hmm? Would you wear that
with an audience with God?
00:53:59.13\00:54:05.67
How long are you gonna keep
thinking those thoughts? I know
what you're thinking.
00:54:05.67\00:54:09.18
I know what you're thinking. Why
do you keep thinking that way?
00:54:09.18\00:54:13.75
Ladies and gentlemen, it's the
moral command center of the
human mind and life.
00:54:13.75\00:54:19.59
The dove coos and woos through
that command center, and in a
silent voice, let it go.
00:54:19.59\00:54:28.63
You're growing up. You can't
quit being a teenager. Act like
00:54:28.63\00:54:37.14
we've been walking together for
a while. The dove and the
rooster -- two birds, two gifts,
00:54:37.14\00:54:46.85
but they combine into one voice
that is always right. One voice,
00:54:46.85\00:54:57.59
always right. Which is why we
need to ask for both gifts every
00:54:57.76\00:55:01.46
day. I'm serious.
I'm gonna be doing this.
00:55:01.46\00:55:04.10
We've got to ask every day,
"God, I need a clean conscience
00:55:04.10\00:55:07.00
today, and I need the baptism
of the Holy Spirit today.
00:55:07.00\00:55:10.01
I have to have both gifts. I
want the rooster and the dove
00:55:10.01\00:55:12.14
today. I have to have it today.
00:55:12.14\00:55:14.31
I'm telling you, God, I don't
want to drink the Kool-Aid.
00:55:14.31\00:55:18.08
I don't want to
suck that poison.
00:55:18.08\00:55:20.35
Every time I suck it, there's
a red light that goes off,
00:55:20.35\00:55:23.42
flashing, I know it's happening.
I'm tired of living with that
00:55:23.42\00:55:26.55
flashing red light.
I'm gonna cut it out.
00:55:26.55\00:55:29.02
I'm gonna quit.
00:55:29.02\00:55:30.39
I'm asking you, Jesus, even as
you were baptized in that water
and you came up and
00:55:30.56\00:55:34.50
the Holy Spirit came down
on you, I'm begging you, Lord
00:55:34.50\00:55:38.07
Jesus, I want the Holy Spirit to
come into me not just when I'm
baptized. I need to have it
00:55:38.07\00:55:42.37
every morning of my life. Fill
me anew. Please send the dove.
00:55:42.37\00:55:46.27
Don't withhold your Spirit from
me." David says in Psalms 51, "I
00:55:46.27\00:55:49.38
don't care what you take, but do
not take your Spirit from me. I
can't live without His
00:55:49.38\00:55:54.42
friendship. I can't
live without His Lordship.
00:55:54.42\00:55:57.79
I need Him in me." You have
to ask. I don't care how you ask
00:55:57.79\00:56:03.12
it, but you've got to ask. You
don't want to keep going. You
don't want to keep going at
00:56:03.12\00:56:09.70
the pace you're going. Stuff
is ratcheting up. Just ask.
00:56:09.70\00:56:19.21
The dove and the rooster -- two
birds, two gifts, one voice. And
thank God it's the loving
00:56:19.21\00:56:26.58
voice of our Savior. Hmm?
Thank God it's the loving voice
00:56:26.58\00:56:30.75
of our Savior. There's an
ancient tradition that asserts
00:56:30.75\00:56:34.76
that for the rest of his life,
Peter -- After that fateful
night of denial, Peter could
00:56:34.76\00:56:41.30
never hear a rooster crowing
without falling to his knees and
weeping. Two birds, two gifts,
00:56:41.30\00:56:53.17
one voice. Thank God it's
the loving voice of our Savior.
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Amen. Amen. >> Thank you for
taking the time to join us in
worship today. I'd like to spend
00:57:04.52\00:57:08.19
another moment with you here at
the end of our program to share
a word of hope. In fact, that's
00:57:08.19\00:57:11.96
what this little book is all
about. In these uncertain times,
and let's face it, they're
00:57:11.96\00:57:15.76
uncertain all over this planet.
This book entitled, "The Great
Hope," will help you
00:57:15.76\00:57:19.40
understand not just what God has
planned for your future, but for
the future of the entire human
00:57:19.40\00:57:23.97
race. Light keeps shining
on this dark old world and new
00:57:23.97\00:57:28.14
truths long forgotten are
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If you need a fresh dose of hope
for your life these days or you
00:57:31.01\00:57:33.88
know somebody else who could
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I'd like to invite you to grab
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And at no charge to you, we'll
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right way. Till the
next time we meet, may
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the peace and hope of the
Lord Jesus be with you 24/7.
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