This is the everlasting
gospel, Revelation 14 verse 6
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and we've taken that phrase
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which is unique
to the whole Bible
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and we've traced it through
the New and the Old Testament
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and we have found...
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the Everlasting
Gospel is the only way
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anyone ever has been
saved or ever will be saved
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and that's why
it's such good news.
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This message has
to go to all the world
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we've still... we've...
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we've just begun
to understand it.
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Hmmm...
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Under the title of
the "Everlasting Gospel"
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comes a number of phrases that
we're going to really look into
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and understand, so, we
need to have a word of prayer
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for God's Holy Spirit to lead us
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and then we need to
jump right into this,
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Jason, you want to pray for us?
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Jason: Sure,
"Dear Heavenly Father,
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we thank you again to
afford us this opportunity
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to study your Word
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and as we learn about
the everlasting gospel,
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we hope that it
excites our Viewers
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and gets everybody wanting
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to share and spread
the everlasting gospel,
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we ask for your
Holy Spirit to be with us
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as we study, lead and
guide us into all truth
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in Jesus' name we pray, amen. "
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All: "Amen. "
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"Everlasting" goes all the
way back to the Garden of Eden.
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Adam and Eve covered
themselves with fig leaves...
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God clothed them
with animal skins.
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The sacrifice of the
animal from the very beginning
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pointed to the Lamb of God
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that takes away
the sins of the world.
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Cain and Abel... Cain brought
the fruits of his hands...
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the labor of his hands
and Abel brought the Lamb
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and the crisis has
from that time continued
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all the way
through every generation,
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are we going to
trust in the Lamb
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or the works of our hands?
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The Lamb... or the
works of our hands...
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so this is the
consummation in Revelation 14
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of the eternal
crisis... when I say, "eternal"
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I mean the crisis that
has gone all the way back
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to the very inception of sin...
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it goes all the
way back eternally
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to the Plan of Salvation.
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The Lamb slain before
the foundation of the world.
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It is a beautiful
picture that we're seeing here
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in the everlasting gospel...
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the good news of how
we're saved through the Lamb
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from beginning to end.
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and that's why I think
it's so important for us
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to make sure we understand
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this message in its context
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because it's going
to produce a people
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in verse 12 that keep
the commandments of God.
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Jesus said, "If you love
me, keep my commandments. "
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There's no way
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we're going to be able to
keep the commandments of God
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if we think that it's
through keeping the commandments
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that we're saved... it's
just not going to happen.
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The only way we're going
to actually be enabled...
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empowered to keep
the commandments of God,
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is realizing that we are
saved totally a 100 percent
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through the doing
and dying of Jesus Christ
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and that grabs the heart.
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He has saved us,
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He has purchased that as
a gift that He gives to us,
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and out of the
appreciation for that,
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we follow Him wherever He goes,
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we keep His commandments
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because we've
fallen in love with Him
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and that's the formula
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that we're seeing
here in Revelation 14...
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that's the basic
outline of the formula
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now it has details and we
want to look at the details,
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the first detail
that we see mentioned here
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after the everlasting gospel
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is... and by-the-way,
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the everlasting
gospel... Sanctuary...
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like someone would say,
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"Where's the everlasting
gospel in the Old Testament?"
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We looked in Exodus...
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we found it there right before
the commandments are given
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we have the blood of the Lamb
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that was put on the
doorposts... on the lintels...
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but... the sanctuary service...
what was that all about?
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Wasn't that a
picture of salvation?
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All the way through...
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in the Old Testament you have
the sacrifice of the lamb...
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the sacrifice... the
sacrifice, the sacrifice...
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pointing people to...
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in fact, if you look
at the sanctuary itself,
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you have a white linen wall
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that was about nine feet tall
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couldn't get under
it, couldn't get over it,
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"white"
representing righteousness,
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purity... there's no
way that we can get in
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and have that purity
unless we go to the gate,
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unless we go to the door
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then He says, "I am the
way, the truth and the life:
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I am the door...
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no man comes to the
Father, but by me. "
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You have to come
in through the door
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and in order to
come in through the door,
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you have to bring
with you a lamb...
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you have to have the
sacrifice the lamb...
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it's the blood of
the lamb that gets us in,
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that gets us back to God,
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it gets us reconnected with God
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so it's always
through the blood,
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always through the blood.
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Okay, what's the first phrase
of the everlasting gospel?
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Let's read Revelation,
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oh, Yvonne, why
don't you read for us
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Revelation 14 verse 7.
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"Saying with a loud voice,
Fear God, and give glory to him;
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for the hour of
his judgment has come:
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and worship him who
made heaven, and earth,
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the sea, and springs of water. "
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Now we touched on this a
little bit with the Sabbath,
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we're not going to get
to the Sabbath right now,
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though I want to
say, from the outset
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that Sabbath is part
of the everlasting gospel
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because it
causes to rest in Jesus.
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It causes to rest
everything Jesus has done for us
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and we'll look at
that in more detail.
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Yvonne: And what I just read is
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the first
angel's message, correct?
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James: Yes, the
first angel's message
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which includes the
everlasting gospel.
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So, you can't just read
verse 7 without verse 6,
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verse 6 actually tells
us what verse 7 means...
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what does it mean to fear God
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in the context of
the everlasting gospel.
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Now, we've defined
the everlasting gospel
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that's complete trust
in Jesus for our salvation.
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So, what does it mean to
fear God in that context?
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The word "fear"
actually means "to be afraid of"
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but it also means "to revere"
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or to be "in awe" of God,
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okay, so how do we define that
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in the context of
the everlasting gospel?
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Let me just give you two
verses that we can look at,
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the first one is in
Psalm 130 verses 3 and 4
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Jason, if you can
look up Psalm 130:3 and 4
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and then Yvonne, the second
one is Psalm 147 verses 11.
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Psalm 147 verse 11 and
these verses will instruct us
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or tell us what
it means to fear God,
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Psalm 130:3 and 4 and
then Psalm 147 verse 11.
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Jason: Okay, Psalm
130 verses 3 and 4,
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"If thou, LORD,
shouldest mark iniquities,
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O LORD, who shall stand?
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But there is
forgiveness with thee,
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that thou mayest be feared. "
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James: "Forgiveness with thee
that thou mayest be feared. "
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Okay, what does 147:11 say?
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Yvonne: "The LORD takes
pleasure in those who fear him,
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in those who
hope in his mercy. "
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James: Oh... everlasting gospel,
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hope in the mercy of God...
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everlasting gospel...
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God doesn't count
our sins against us
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that's what it
means to fear Him...
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to fear God is to know
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that He doesn't
count our sins against us
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otherwise we'd be destroyed,
it's the hope in His mercy
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so, in the context of
the everlasting gospel
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fearing God is to
hope in His mercy,
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look at this in
relation to Exodus 20,
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Exodus 20... it's
really interesting...
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we've looked at this already...
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it's relation to
the Ten Commandments
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but have you ever noticed
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that Exodus 20
closes in verse 20
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with this definition of fear,
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Exodus 20 verse 20 says...
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Moses speaks to
the people and he says,
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"Fear not... Moses
said unto the people,
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Fear not: for God
is come to prove you,
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that his fear may be
before your faces, that you... "
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Yvonne: "may not sin... "
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Do you notice that there's
two mentions of fear in there?
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Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
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the first one
is, "Don't fear... "
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and the second one is,
is what? "His fear... "
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there's a fear
that you ought to have
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and there's a fear
that you're not to have
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you go back to
the Garden of Eden
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Adam and Eve sinned
and what did they do?
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Jason: They hid.
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James: They hid... and
when God came looking for them,
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and he found
them, what did they say?
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God said, "Why were you
hiding?" And what did they say?
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Yvonne: "We were afraid. "
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There's a natural fear and
then there's a supernatural fear
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the natural fear
is our human fear
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and the supernatural
fear is God's fear...
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so Moses says, "Don't
be afraid" natural fear
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God has come to
put His fear in you,
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if you're afraid of
God, you hide from God...
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if you have God's fear,
you obey God... you don't sin.
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Jason: You worship Him.
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James: Yes, God's fear
leads you away from sin...
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your fear leads
you away from God.
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You got that?
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God's fear leads
you away from sin...
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your fear leads
you away from God.
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Adam and Eve's fear
led them away from God
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but when God's fear is in them,
it leads them away from sin,
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so, the everlasting
gospel leads us away from sin
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because it puts the
fear of God in our hearts
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and that's a "God thing"
that's what God wants to do
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He wants to put
our fear... excuse me,
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His fear in our
hearts and take away our fear
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"perfect loves
casts out... " what?
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Yvonne: All fear.
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James: Yeah, 1st John chapter
4 and verse... what? 18...
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"Perfect love
casts out all fear... "
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so, how do you correlate
that with Revelation 14,
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"Fear God... "
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"Perfect love
casts out all fear... "
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it's the two kinds of fear,
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so, Revelation 20:20
gives us the two kinds of fear,
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the one fear that needs to go
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and the other fear
that needs to come in.
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Ivor: Yeah, I'm
going to add here
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because from our last program,
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we talked about
those four things
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right, from the beast,
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there was the
worship of the beast
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and to worship means to fear,
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"Fear God and worship Him"
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there's a worship of the
beast, there's his image,
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there's his name... and
then there's his mark...
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these are the four things
he's trying to deceive us on
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well, guess what?
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when you get to the
first angel's message,
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you find, four things,
fear God... give glory to Him...
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the hour of His judgment is come
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and worship Him that made
heaven, the earth, the sea...
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four things...
very interesting...
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and when you take
those four things,
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you look at those again,
fear of the Lord, fear God...
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that's what the first
commandment points us to,
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"Don't have... don't worship
any other gods before me...
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fear me... "
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Paul talks about it
in the book of Romans
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how instead of
giving glory to God,
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they give glory to idols...
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that's a direct violation
of the second commandment.
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"The hour of His
judgment is come... "
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well, what are we judged on?
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God is looking at
our characters, right,
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our character is our name
and what name are we taking on?
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We're taking on
the name of Christ
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so we're being judged...
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in other words... he's saying,
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"Look, as Christians, I don't
want you to take my name...
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you take my name upon
you, don't take it in vain. "
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So, the hour of
His judgment is come,
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He is judging you based
on... not just what you say...
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but on your very character
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and then the fourth,
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"Worship Him that made heaven,
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the earth, the sea
and the fountains... "
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points us right back
to the Sabbath Commandment
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so, what do you have?
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The beast in Revelation 13
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is trying to lead us to
break those four commandments,
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first four... the first angel's
message comes along and says,
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"Hey, you want to avoid this,
you want to avoid this section,
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this is what needs to happen"
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and the interesting
thing about the commandments...
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James... is that...
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when people say the
commandments are about works,
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and the Sabbath is about works,
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I mean, think about
how crazy that sounds,
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so, God says, the
Sabbath is about rest,
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what?
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"Because the
Sabbath is about rest
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so, how can it be about works?"
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James: Hmmm... Yvonne: Hmmm...
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Ivor: When you obey the Sabbath,
He says, "You are resting in me"
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and notice how the
commandments begin,
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"Thou shalt not... "
you know, "Don't... "
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right, it's not "Do
this... " or "Do this... "
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"or do this... " it's rest...
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it's... "Do
not... do not... do not"
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it's almost like...
after God saves us...
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and we're like,
"God... what can we...?"
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He says,
"Don't... don't do anything,
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just rest in me... " okay?
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"Just rest in me... "
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the commandments are
really about resting in Christ,
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not allowing our works, right,
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to overpower what
Christ is trying to do in us,
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so the "work" for the
Christian is really...
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in resting in Christ.
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He said, "When you rest in me...
I do the work through you. "
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Right, "I'm the One that enables
you to follow my commandments,
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to do these
things... it's not you...
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it's Christ in you. "
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But in order
for us to have that,
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we have to learn
how to "rest in Him. "
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And that's basically
what He's calling us to...
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so when it goes
back to Cain and Abel,
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one trusting in
the works of his hands,
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the other trusting in
the blood of the Lamb,
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it's the same battle
that comes right back
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to the very end of time.
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Right, it's interesting because
Ezekiel chapter 20 verse 12,
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where God says, "I
want you to keep my Sabbath
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that you might know that I am
the Lord that sanctifies you. "
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Right, and that verse
is very powerful because
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remember what Lucifer
wanted to do in heaven?
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Lucifer wanted to push this
concept of self-sanctification.
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"I can sanctify... I
don't need you to sanctify me,
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I can determine for
myself what is holy. "
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So God gives man
the Sabbath and says,
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"Listen, the Sabbath is to
be a sign that you remember
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that you don't
sanctify yourself...
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I sanctify you...
your works can't fix you...
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the things you do can't... "
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so, I want you to
remember in resting...
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that it's not your
works, I sanctify you...
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anything else is
self-sanctification
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which means I'm going to take
righteousness into my own hands
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and I'm going to
determine for myself
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what is right and what is wrong.
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Jason: Which is scary
because today you see...
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I've heard and I've seen
different posts and stuff,
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where people say...
"Determine your truth... "
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or something...
"Live by your truth... "
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like, if you're
living by your own truth,
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you're not living
by the Word of God,
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you're... how can you
have all these different...
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your own variation of truth?
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Would this... needs to be
the standard... the Bible...
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the Word of God
needs to be the standard,
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it can determine your truth
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and that's along the lines
of that self-sanctification.
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Ivor: That's right,
yeah, "I sanctify myself. "
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James: That's why Jesus said,
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"Except your
righteousness exceeds
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the righteousness of
the scribes and Pharisees,
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you can no wise enter
the kingdom of heaven. "
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He wasn't trying to
lay the standard higher,
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in the sense of... "You
need to do more than them
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they're not doing enough...
you need to do more than them,
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you got to exceed
their righteousness... "
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He was setting the standard
so high that it was unattainable
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and He's basically saying,
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"Unless you have
my righteousness...
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which is perfect righteousness,
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you're not going to make
it to the kingdom of heaven. "
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Because their
righteousness is just outward...
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it's their own standard...
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they've set a
certain standard up
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and that's the standard that
they are laying out to attain to
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and that standard is
not going to make it...
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the only standard
that's going to make it
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is the perfect standard... and
only Christ has that to offer.
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Jason: Yeah. Yvonne: Right.
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Ivor: So, it's... it's...
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we have to remember that
we're not saved by our works...
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"Okay, I kept the
commandments really good
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so, God's going to save me... "
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no, we are only
saved by mercy, right,
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and you go into the
Sanctuary and what do you find
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in the Most Holy Place,
you find a Mercy Seat...
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that is the Mercy Seat...
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the throne of
grace, if you will,
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so, guess what? I
want to be under mercy
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right, and Satan knows
that those who are under mercy
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are the ones that
are going to be saved,
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so, in order for me to
be under the Mercy Seat,
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guess where I'm standing?
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Right in the midst of His law,
because His law is right there
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under the Mercy Seat,
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if I'm standing
in... under Mercy...
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that means, I'm
standing in His law
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and what does he say,
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"Showing mercy unto
thousands of them that love me
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and keep my commandments. "
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So we're not saved because
we keep the commandments,
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we're saved because
we're under His mercy,
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but being under His mercy...
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we're walking in
His commandments.
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Why? Because He
says, "If you love me... "
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right, "If you are grateful for
what I have done in your life,
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then, this is the
appropriate response. "
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James: And if
we're walking in the law
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and we're standing in
the law, we need His mercy.
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Ivor: That's right.
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James: It's when
we discard the law
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that we no longer
really need the mercy of God
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because there's no
standard by which we're judged,
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there's no feeling of guilt,
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there's no... there's no sense
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in which we feel a need
for mercy we've attained
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so, when we're
standing in the law...
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we are feeling a need of mercy
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because that law
magnifies who we are
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and our
weakness and our failures
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and when we're standing under
mercy, we're standing in the law
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so it works both ways.
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Under mercy, we
stand in the law...
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saying, "law... we need mercy"
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it's... it's this
circle of beneficence.
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Ivor: That's
right. James: Good will...
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and that's why
the law is so vital,
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Paul says, "Without the
law, I didn't know sin...
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it was the law that
showed me how sinful I was...
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and that law that
showed me how sinful I was,
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drove me to the
Messiah... drove me to Jesus. "
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When Paul had his own standard,
he wasn't driven to Christ
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but when he realized
the standard of the law,
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it drove him to put his
dependence on Jesus Christ.
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Ivor: So, what's
important about that?
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Is that the law is
what drives us to Christ
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okay, if we don't have the law
or we have a counterfeit law,
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it's going to drive
us to the wrong "Christ"
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and remember the context
of the three angels' messages,
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is preparing us
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for that delusion that's
coming up on the world, right,
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so, if I'm thinking one
thing, "I can sanctify myself...
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I don't need a law
in order to be holy... "
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because remember, that was
his argument in heaven, right,
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"I don't need a law to be like
God... I can be holy by myself,
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I don't need some written thing
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telling me what is
right and what is wrong... "
00:17:49.86\00:17:52.03
that argument actually leads us
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to reject the
righteousness of Christ
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and prepares us to be deceived
by the unrighteousness of Satan
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and so that is what
the importance of this...
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three angels' messages...
is again designed to shield us
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from the delusion
coming upon the world
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that's why the
2nd angels' message
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comes right after the first,
00:18:15.69\00:18:17.23
right, "Hey, beware of
Babylon, it has a false gospel,
00:18:17.26\00:18:20.53
false covenant... "
we talked about the wine
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these things are a
counterfeit of the genuine,
00:18:24.70\00:18:28.74
and so, the
first angel's message
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opens our eyes...
not only to the truth
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but also to the counterfeit.
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James: Okay, two verses...
someone has... no... yeah... no,
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two verses, "Fear God
and give glory to Him"
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what does it mean
to give glory to God
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in the context of
the everlasting gospel,
00:18:44.15\00:18:45.75
now we've defined the
everlasting gospel as salvation,
00:18:45.79\00:18:48.06
Old and New
Testament... in Christ...
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the doing and
dying of Jesus Christ
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so what does it mean to give
glory to him in that context?
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Ephesians 2 verse
8... Ephesians 2 verse 8
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and Yvonne, 1st Corinthians
chapter 1 verses 30 and 31
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I think it might be
29... but I'm going to say,
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Ephesians 2 verse 8
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and then 1st
Corinthians chapter 1 verse 30.
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When I get there,
I'll see if it's verse 29
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but I think it's verse 30.
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Jason:
Ephesians 2 verse 8 reads,
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"For by grace are
ye saved through faith;
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and that not of yourselves... "
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let me start over...
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"For by grace are
ye saved through faith;
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and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God... "
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James: Read verse 9... sorry...
00:19:30.50\00:19:33.74
Jason: Nine... "Not of works,
lest any man should boast. "
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James: Okay, you know
what that word, "boast" means
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in the Greek?
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It means to glory...
to boast... to glory...
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so, this is the...
this is the key verse
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in the New Testament
that most people turn to
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when they say that
we're saved by grace...
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we're not under
the Old Testament...
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we're not under the law...
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we don't have to
keep the law anymore,
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right here, Ephesians
says, we're saved by grace...
00:19:56.52\00:19:57.86
well, yeah, that's true,
00:19:57.89\00:19:59.23
we're saved by
grace through faith...
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and not of ourselves...
it's the gift of God...
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not of works... that's
the way man showeth glory...
00:20:02.63\00:20:04.67
"Fear God and you give
glory to Him... " means...
00:20:04.70\00:20:06.74
to believe that
we're saved by grace.
00:20:06.77\00:20:08.37
We can own this verse...
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as commandment-keepers,
we can own this verse.
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This is a good verse for us
00:20:13.44\00:20:15.18
because it shows us what
it means to give glory to God,
00:20:15.21\00:20:18.61
what it means,
"to give glory to God"
00:20:18.65\00:20:19.98
is to believe we're
saved completely by grace.
00:20:20.02\00:20:21.62
We are saved
completely by grace,
00:20:21.65\00:20:23.49
okay, 1st Corinthians chapter
1 beginning with verse 29,
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"That no flesh should
glory in his presence... "
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start there?
James: Hmmm... hmmm...
00:20:30.13\00:20:32.03
"But of him you
are in Christ Jesus
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who became for us wisdom
from God, and righteousness,
00:20:33.96\00:20:37.57
and
sanctification, and redemption:
00:20:37.60\00:20:39.47
That, as it is written,
00:20:39.50\00:20:41.37
He who glories, let
him glory in the Lord. "
00:20:41.40\00:20:43.91
James: Christ is
everything, He's our wisdom...
00:20:43.94\00:20:47.81
He's our righteousness,
He's our sanctification,
00:20:47.84\00:20:51.71
and He's our redemption.
00:20:51.75\00:20:53.08
Justification,
sanctification, glorification.
00:20:53.11\00:20:56.38
He's everything, why?
So that we don't glory.
00:20:56.42\00:20:59.85
So that we give glory to God,
00:20:59.89\00:21:01.42
we're saved by grace so
we can give glory to God,
00:21:01.49\00:21:03.79
Jesus is everything, so
we can give glory to God,
00:21:03.83\00:21:06.09
we don't get any
glory, we get zero glory...
00:21:06.16\00:21:09.26
you remember when
the Jews came to Jesus
00:21:09.30\00:21:11.93
and they said,
"Hey... " they said...
00:21:11.97\00:21:14.54
"there's a centurion
who has a servant who's sick
00:21:14.60\00:21:18.47
and he's worthy because
he's built us a synagogue
00:21:18.51\00:21:22.38
could you go and heal his
servant... he's worthy... "
00:21:22.44\00:21:25.15
that's when the Jews said,
00:21:25.18\00:21:26.51
"he's worthy... he's
built us a synagogue...
00:21:26.55\00:21:27.88
see what he's done
for us, he's worthy. "
00:21:27.92\00:21:29.25
Do you remember
what the centurion said,
00:21:29.28\00:21:30.82
when the centurion... who
wouldn't even go to Jesus,
00:21:30.85\00:21:32.62
when the centurion heard that
Jesus was coming to his place,
00:21:32.65\00:21:35.59
do you know what he said?
00:21:35.62\00:21:36.96
Yvonne: He wasn't worthy.
00:21:36.99\00:21:38.33
James: He said,
"I'm not worthy... "
00:21:38.36\00:21:39.69
now, I want to
ask you a question,
00:21:39.73\00:21:41.06
who is telling the truth?
00:21:41.10\00:21:42.43
Because think about this,
the Pharisees said he was worthy
00:21:42.46\00:21:44.77
the Jews said he was worthy
00:21:44.80\00:21:46.17
and the centurion
said... he wasn't worthy.
00:21:46.20\00:21:48.30
They were religious,
00:21:48.34\00:21:49.80
he was a
centurion... he was a soldier.
00:21:49.84\00:21:51.37
Who was telling the
truth on a religious basis?
00:21:51.41\00:21:53.78
The centurion was
telling the truth.
00:21:53.81\00:21:56.85
The religious leaders were
off, the church guys were off,
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"he built us a church... but
we don't even know the gospel"
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but the centurion
knows the gospel...
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the gospel is, "I'm not
worthy, I'm not worthy... "
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"But he built you a church... "
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"But that doesn't
make me worthy... "
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it doesn't matter how much
money you give to the church,
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it doesn't matter
if you build churches,
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you can build churches for
God and you're still not worthy.
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Jason: Another
thing is... I mean...
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you can do great things
with the wrong motives...
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if you don't have
pure motives behind it...
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if you're doing it for...
if you have ulterior motives...
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basically... those good works...
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I mean... it
doesn't mean anything.
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James: It
doesn't but now, Jason,
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I want to take you one
step further than that...
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let's say you do good
things for the right motives...
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Jason: Still
not saved by your...
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James: It's not
going to save you, is it?
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Yeah... See that?
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Even if you do good things...
now... good works are good
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they're great...
they're fantastic...
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but they don't save you,
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you never move
into "savable character"
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because of your works.
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"Savable" is always Christ...
always ever will be Christ...
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now your works testified
you're trusting in Him.
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Yvonne: Isn't Christianity the
only religion that teaches that?
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James: Yes.
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Yvonne: Because most other
religions... it's what you do...
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be a good person... I
heard so many people say,
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"I'm a good person...
why wouldn't I be saved?
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I'm a good person... "
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Well, it's not
about how "good" we are...
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we can do X, Y, Z's for people
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and all that stuff...
it's about what Jesus did...
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James: Right...
you just nailed it...
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you just nailed it... yeah...
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C.S. Lewis talked about this,
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he once walked into a room
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where they were all
trying to figure out...
00:23:35.04\00:23:36.54
where these theologians
were trying to figure out
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what unique contribution
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Christianity gave
to the world religions?
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And they were
saying, "Well, no, you know,
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Judaism offers this...
that's just what Christianity...
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you know... the Muslims offer...
00:23:46.89\00:23:49.29
that's just Christianity...
oh, what's unique?
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And C.S. Lewis said,
"That's easy... grace... "
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Christianity is
the only religion
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that offers
salvation through grace... "
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No creature merit whatsoever...
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every other religions has
the... the "works" mentality
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it's built into the System...
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Christianity is
the only religion
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that you're
saved totally by grace.
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Yvonne: Hmmm...
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Ivor: This statement,
"Give glory to Him... "
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is... in an end-time
context... absolutely crucial...
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because what God is saying is,
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"I don't want you
to glorify yourself...
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I don't want you to
glorify anybody else
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I want you to
give glory to me. "
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And the reason He's
saying is because...
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to glorify, of
course, means to lift up,
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we're into
glorifying self or others
00:24:37.71\00:24:40.28
because as humans we like glory,
00:24:40.31\00:24:42.68
we like glory... and
if we don't see glory,
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we're not attracted to glory,
00:24:47.52\00:24:49.45
that's why Jesus was rejected
because he did not come in glory
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He came and those who liked
glory were like... "Hmmm... "
00:24:53.76\00:24:59.03
when they saw
Him there was nothing
00:24:59.09\00:25:01.00
that they should desire Him
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so it was like, "Hmmm... "
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and the reason Jesus is giving
us this message at this time
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is because He knows
that there is One coming
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who is going to
look full of glory
00:25:11.47\00:25:14.51
and those who are
into glorifying self,
00:25:14.54\00:25:17.35
and glorifying
other... "Oh! glory...
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look at that glory...
00:25:20.22\00:25:22.18
ooooh... Man!"
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So Jesus is like,
00:25:23.59\00:25:24.92
"Look, you need to
be prepared for this
00:25:24.95\00:25:28.22
so I want you to learn
how to give glory to me.
00:25:28.26\00:25:32.93
don't glorify
others... don't... "
00:25:32.96\00:25:35.56
and I think that's
what Satan is doing today,
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he's training us how to love
00:25:37.67\00:25:41.80
glorifying self
and glorifying others
00:25:41.84\00:25:44.84
and the more we get into glory,
00:25:44.87\00:25:46.88
yeah, glory... you know...
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what? look... the
more we get into glory...
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the more we are being
set up to receive the one
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who will
counterfeit the glory of Christ
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as he is described in
Revelation chapter 1 verse 10
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because that will be one
of the most "glorious" things
00:26:02.69\00:26:06.63
that human eyes behold
00:26:06.66\00:26:08.00
and if we're not
used to shunning glory,
00:26:08.03\00:26:10.87
you see, so
again when the Jews...
00:26:10.90\00:26:13.17
when Christ
came... they weren't...
00:26:13.20\00:26:14.97
they were like,
"Where is the glory?"
00:26:15.00\00:26:16.74
Well, you know, He was like,
00:26:16.77\00:26:20.18
"Do you want to
know what glory is?
00:26:20.21\00:26:21.54
The glory is in my
death, burial and resurrection
00:26:21.58\00:26:24.51
and if that's not
glory enough for you,
00:26:24.55\00:26:26.58
the sign of Jonah is
not good enough for you,
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you're not going to be
given any other signs... "
00:26:30.12\00:26:31.89
a wicked
generation looks for a sign
00:26:31.92\00:26:36.29
looks for glory... and
guess what they're going to get,
00:26:36.32\00:26:38.63
they're going to get the sign
00:26:38.66\00:26:40.16
but it's not
going to be God's sign,
00:26:40.20\00:26:42.26
that's the importance
of giving glory to God.
00:26:42.30\00:26:45.83
Jason: That's crazy because
00:26:45.87\00:26:47.47
the devil has just
been doing the same thing
00:26:47.50\00:26:49.10
over and over again,
self-exaltation in heaven...
00:26:49.14\00:26:53.01
self-exaltation in the
Garden... "You eat this fruit...
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and you will be like gods
knowing good from evil... "
00:26:56.21\00:27:00.05
I mean, he just repeats
the same thing over and over
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and maybe packages it a
little bit differently...
00:27:03.22\00:27:06.25
James: Yeah, for every age...
00:27:06.29\00:27:07.62
Jason: And people buy it.
00:27:07.66\00:27:08.99
Ivor: Yeah. James: Yeah.
00:27:09.02\00:27:10.36
Why? because our fallen
nature, like Ivor was saying,
00:27:10.39\00:27:12.96
we naturally tend to
want to glorify self,
00:27:12.99\00:27:15.86
we naturally tend
to want to do that
00:27:15.90\00:27:18.20
and Christ came
to reveal the Father
00:27:18.23\00:27:20.47
it wasn't... He was
putting on an act...
00:27:20.50\00:27:23.00
He was revealing
what God is really like
00:27:23.04\00:27:25.47
and retrospectively,
He was revealing what...
00:27:25.51\00:27:28.78
the image we were created in
00:27:28.81\00:27:30.18
how we were actually created.
00:27:30.21\00:27:31.55
Ivor: He didn't exalt
Himself, He humbled Himself
00:27:31.58\00:27:34.02
and became...
00:27:34.05\00:27:35.38
"Let this mind be in you. "
00:27:35.42\00:27:37.15
James: This is the
way we were created...
00:27:37.19\00:27:38.75
this is what we
were created to reveal
00:27:38.79\00:27:40.66
in that sense,
we're giving glory...
00:27:40.69\00:27:42.52
that is glorious...
00:27:42.56\00:27:43.89
but it's a glory
that's totally different...
00:27:43.93\00:27:45.99
reversal from the
way we think naturally,
00:27:46.03\00:27:47.86
our human
tendency isn't that way
00:27:47.90\00:27:49.63
when you see a person you like,
00:27:49.66\00:27:51.33
"Wow! that's
cool... that's glorious... "
00:27:51.37\00:27:54.20
so that's it...
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we're out of time... but we're
going to continue with this
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in our next session together.
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