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(MUSIC)
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GREETING FRIENDS, I
WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO
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THIS SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF
THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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MY NAME IS JEAN ROSS, I'M ONE OF
THE PASTORS AT THE GRANITE BAY
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
NOW FOR THE PAST 18 YEARS THIS
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PROGRAM HAS BEEN RECORDED AT THE
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH, BUT EARLIER
THIS YEAR PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
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JOINED THE PASTORAL STAFF
HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
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NOW THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH IS IN
THE PROCESS OF MOVING TO A NEW
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LOCATION WHERE WE'LL BE ABLE TO
RECORD AND BROADCAST OUR WEEKLY
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PROGRAMS, AND ALSO THIS SPECIAL
STUDY HOUR, ON A REGULAR BASIS.
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BUT IN THE MEANTIME,
WE'RE RECORDING THIS HERE AT THE
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AMAZING FACTS STUDIO
IN ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA.
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I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME OUR
LOCAL CHURCH AUDIENCE, THOSE WHO
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ARE JOINING US HERE IN THE
STUDIO, THIS IS TYPICALLY OUR
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PRAYER MEETING TIME - TUESDAY
EVENING - BUT WE'RE DOING
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SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT
- SOMETHING A LITTLE SPECIAL.
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OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS
TOGETHER, WE'RE GOING TO BE
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STUDYING THROUGH THE LESSON
QUARTERLY ON THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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SO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE THE
LESSON QUARTERLY, YOU CAN FOLLOW
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ALONG WITH US. THOSE
WHO ARE WATCHING, YOU CAN
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DOWNLOAD THE LESSONS AT
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH WEBSITE.
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THE WEB ADDRESS IS JUST SIMPLY
'GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG' AND YOU CAN
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FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE
LESSONS AS WE STUDY TOGETHER.
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NOW, BEFORE WE GET STARTED,
I'D JUST LIKE TO, ONCE AGAIN,
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WELCOME YOU AND THANK YOU FOR
JOINING US AND LET'S BEGIN WITH
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A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER,
WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY
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THAT WE HAVE TO GATHER
TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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FATHER, WE RECOGNIZE THAT
THE BIBLE IS YOUR BOOK AND SO WE
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INVITE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME
AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR
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MINDS AND LEAD US INTO A DEEPER
AND A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF
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YOUR WILL. THANK
YOU, LORD, FOR THIS
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OPPORTUNITY, FOR WE ASK
THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR
DOUG BATCHELOR TO COME FORWARD
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NOW AND LEAD US IN OUR STUDY FOR
TODAY. THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR
ROSS. EVENING FRIENDS.
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NORMALLY WE DO
THIS IN THE MORNING.
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THIS IS EVENING NOW, BUT IT IS
A STUDY TIME AND, FOR THOSE WHO
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ARE WATCHING, I WANT TO WELCOME
OUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE BEEN
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WATCHING FOR YEARS
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
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WE HAVE AN EXTENDED CLASS AND
WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE DOING
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THE SABBATH SCHOOL
STUDY TIME WITH YOU.
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IN JUST A MOMENT WE'RE GOING TO
GET INTO THE BOOK OF JAMES AND
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IT'LL BE OUR FIRST LESSON - I'M
LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT - BUT
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BEFORE WE DO, WE THOUGHT IT
MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO JUST
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ROLL A LITTLE VIDEO FOR
YOU AND EXPLAIN WHY THERE'S
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A TRANSITION
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.(MUSIC)
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>>FRIENDS, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD
BE A GOOD IDEA TO TAKE A FEW
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MOMENTS AND EXPLAIN WHAT'S
GOING ON DURING THIS TRANSITION
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AND WHY. THE
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH IS
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PROBABLY ONE OF THE OLDEST
ADVENTIST CHURCHES IN CALIFORNIA
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AND OVER ITS GREAT HISTORY, IT'S
BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR PLANTING A
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NUMBER OF OTHER
CHURCHES IN THE AREA.
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WELL, ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO,
AS CENTRAL CHURCH ATTENDANCE
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CONTINUED TO SWELL, WE DECIDED
TO PLANT A NEW CHURCH IN A
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COMMUNITY CALLED GRANITE
BAY, WHERE THERE FORMERLY WAS NO
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ADVENTIST CHURCH. WE
STARTED OUT WITH ABOUT TWELVE
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PEOPLE THAT WERE MEETING IN
A HOME AND, AS THE LORD BLESSED
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AND THE CHURCH GREW, THEY
EVENTUALLY MOVED TO A SCHOOL
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THAT WAS IN THE GRANITE BAY
COMMUNITY. AND THEN THE LORD
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CONTINUED TO BLESS.
WE DID SOME EVANGELISTIC
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MEETINGS AND THE
CHURCH CONTINUED TO GROW.
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SO A PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
WAS KIND ENOUGH TO RENT THEIR
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FACILITIES TO US FOR
A COUPLE OF DAYS A WEEK.
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WE'RE MEETING THERE CURRENTLY
NOW, BUT WE'RE UNABLE TO
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VIDEOTAPE THERE BECAUSE WE ONLY
HAVE IT FOR A FEW HOURS A COUPLE
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OF DAYS A WEEK. AND
SO, THAT'S WHY, RIGHT NOW,
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WE'RE GOING TO BE VIDEOTAPING
OUR SERVICES FOR SABBATH SCHOOL
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AT THE AMAZING FACTS STUDIOS.
NOW THE EXCITING NEWS IS GOD
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PROVIDED A BUILDING JUST
ABOUT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE
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AMAZING FACTS OFFICES. IF
I HAD A GOOD ARM AND COULD
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THROW A FOOTBALL ABOUT 300
YARDS, OUR OFFICE, YOU'D SEE,
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WOULD BE RIGHT
BACK THAT DIRECTION.
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AND SO THIS IS A VERY CONVENIENT
LOCATION AND, WITH GOD'S
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BLESSING, WE'RE GOING TO
RENOVATE THIS AND THERE'LL BE A
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CONGREGATION MEETING
HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
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IT'S SOMETHING OF AN OFFICE
WAREHOUSE BUILDING, BUT IT'S
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CLEAN AND IT'S NEAT AND WE
BELIEVE IT'S A PLACE WE'LL BE
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ABLE TO RECORD THE NEW SABBATH
SCHOOL PROGRAMS AS WELL AS THE
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WORSHIP SERVICES. SO PLEASE
KEEP US IN YOUR PRAYERS AND WE
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APPRECIATE YOUR STAYING WITH
US DURING THIS TRANSITION TIME.
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>>WELL, OKAY, FRIENDS, HOPEFULLY
THAT GIVES YOU A BETTER PICTURE
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OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AND HOW
WE'RE IN A TRANSITION MODE, BUT
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NOW WE'RE GOING TO
GET INTO OUR LESSON.
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AS WE ALWAYS DO, WE HAVE A FREE
OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH EACH
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STUDY AND THIS TIME WE'RE GOING
TO BE OFFERING 'LIFE IN THE
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SPIRIT.' AND IF YOU'D LIKE A
FREE COPY OF THIS, ALL YOU'VE
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GOT TO DO IS CALL THE
NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN.
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THAT'S 866-788-3966. WHEN
YOU CALL, ASK FOR OFFER #155.
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THE NUMBER AGAIN -
866-STUDY-MORE, WHICH IS
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866-788-3966. NOW
I'M REALLY EXCITED TO GET
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INTO THE BOOK OF JAMES AND TODAY
WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH
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LESSON #1. THE TITLE
OF OUR NEW QUARTER IS
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SIMPLY, 'THE BOOK OF JAMES.' AND
THERE'S REALLY NO BOOK IN THE
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BIBLE QUITE LIKE
IT. IT'S VERY UNIQUE.
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YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SOME OF
THE BOOKS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT -
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YOU'VE GOT FIRST AND SECOND
CORINTHIANS AND FIRST AND SECOND
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THESSALONIANS, BUT JAMES
IS REALLY A STAND-ALONE BOOK.
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AND GETTING INTO THE
INTRODUCTION OF THE LESSON, ONE
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OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE WANT
TO TALK ABOUT IS WHO WROTE THE
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BOOK OF JAMES?
NOW JAMES IS A VERY
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CONTROVERSIAL BOOK.
MARTIN LUTHER, FOR INSTANCE,
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WHEN HE DID THESE DEBATES DURING
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION WITH
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JOHN ECK, HE WAS TALKING
ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.
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BUT THE BOOK OF JAMES OFTEN
TALKS ABOUT OBEDIENCE, FAITH AND
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WORKS, AND JOHN ECK KEPT
THROWING THAT BACK AT MARTIN
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LUTHER AND MARTIN LUTHER SORT OF
DISMISSED THE BOOK OF JAMES THAT
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MAYBE IT REALLY DIDN'T BELONG
IN THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE.
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AND, YOU KNOW, THAT SHOOK A LOT
OF PEOPLE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
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LATER IN HIS LIFE, LUTHER
AFFIRMED THAT IT WAS PART OF THE
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CANON - IT WAS
PART OF THE SCRIPTURE.
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I THINK THAT HE WAS JUST CAUGHT
AT A WEAK MOMENT AND HE WAS SO
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PASSIONATE ABOUT
TEACHING RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH,
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COMING OUT OF A CHURCH THAT
WAS REALLY STEEPED IN SALVATION
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BY WORKS, THAT
JAMES TROUBLED HIM.
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NOW YOU'VE PROBABLY NOTICED THAT
WHEN YOU READ PAUL - SOME OF
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PAUL'S LETTERS - HE'S DEALING
WITH PEOPLE THAT WERE SO - MANY
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OF THE JEWISH PHARISEES AND
RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE SO INTO
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STRAINING OUT A GNAT AND
SWALLOWING A CAMEL - THEY WERE
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PAYING TITHE ON THEIR MINT,
ANISE, AND CUMIN - AND THIS
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LEGALISM BEGAN TO INFLUENCE
THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
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AND SO PAUL, IN HIS WRITINGS,
HE'S OFTEN TRYING TO COUNTERACT
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THAT AND HE'S EMPHASIZING FAITH
AND GRACE WHEREAS, ON THE OTHER
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HAND, JAMES WAS
DEALING WITH ANOTHER GROUP.
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SOME OF THE JEWISH CONVERTS TO
CHRISTIANITY WERE THINKING, 'OH,
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WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE
CEREMONIAL LAW ANYMORE AND THEY
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WERE FORGETTING ABOUT
THE MORAL LAW AS WELL.
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SO HE WAS REALLY DEALING WITH A
DIFFERENT GROUP AND I THINK, IF
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ANY OF YOU ARE PARENTS AND WHEN
YOU'RE TALKING TO YOUR CHILDREN
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AND TRYING TO IMPRESS THEM WITH
THE LESSON, SOMETIMES YOU'LL
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OVER IMPRESS
THEM TO MAKE A POINT.
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AND SO, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU
CAN SEE JAMES IS TRYING TO SPEAK
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TO ONE GROUP SO HE
COMES ON VERY STRONG.
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PAUL WAS SPEAKING TO ANOTHER
GROUP. BUT THERE'S NO QUESTION
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ABOUT THE INSPIRATION
OF THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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I'VE NEVER HAD ANY DOUBTS
READING IT, THAT WHOEVER WROTE
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THIS BOOK - WE'LL GET TO THAT
IN JUST A MINUTE - THEY KNEW THE
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LORD AND IT IS A
VERY SPIRITUAL BOOK.
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BUT JUST FOR A LITTLE MORE
REINFORCEMENT, IT'S ONE OF THE
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BOOKS THAT HAS NOT BEEN
QUESTIONED BY THE VERY EARLY
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CHURCH FATHERS. THE
BOOK OF JAMES MAY HAVE BEEN
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THE FIRST LETTER IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT THAT WAS WRITTEN -
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PRECEDING PAUL'S LETTERS, WHICH
WAS MOST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT -
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AND EVEN THE LETTERS OF JOHN.
PROBABLY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 45
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AND 48 AD, WHICH IS NEW WHEN YOU
CONSIDER THAT JESUS DIED 31 AD.
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IRENAEUS, WHO LIVED IN THE
SECOND CENTURY, ABOUT 202 AD,
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SAID THAT JAMES WAS AN INSPIRED
BOOK AND PART OF THE CANON.
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TERTULLIAN - 160 - 225 AD -
HE BELIEVED IT WAS PART OF THE
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CANON. EUSEBIUS
- ORIGIN - EUSEBIUS
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SAID IT WAS PUBLICLY
READ IN MOST CHURCHES.
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ORIGIN PLACED IT AMONG THE
CANONICAL BOOKS OF SCRIPTURE, SO
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JUST IN CASE YOU RUN INTO ANYONE
THAT SAYS, 'WELL, WE'RE NOT SO
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SURE IT REALLY BELONGED IN THE
BIBLE.' BECAUSE JAMES SAYS SOME
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VERY DIRECT THINGS.
THROUGH THE HISTORY OF THE
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THEY'VE ALWAYS
EMBRACED THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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EVEN LUTHER'S RIGHT-HAND MAN
- ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT HIS NAME
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WAS? PASTOR ROSS?
MELANCTHON - YEAH, I KNOW SOME
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OF THE PASTORS HERE KNEW THAT.
MELANCTHON, HE SAID THE BOOK OF
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JAMES WAS PART OF
THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE.
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SO THAT ONE STATEMENT OF
LUTHER, THOUGH, IT SHOOK SOME
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PROTESTANTS UP ON THAT POINT.
SO THE QUESTION IS - BOOK OF
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JAMES - WHICH JAMES?
THERE ARE SEVERAL JAMESES.
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NOW, AS WE TYPICALLY DO DURING
OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR,
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I'VE GOT SOME VERSES
YOU'RE GOING TO HELP ME READ.
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FIRST VERSE IS GOING TO
BE MARK 6:3 - WHO'S GOT THAT?
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ALRIGHT, LET'S GET A MICROPHONE
OVER HERE TO CATHY AND, WHILE
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WE'RE SETTING UP FOR THAT, I'M
GOING TO READ ACTS 1 - IF YOU
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HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU CAN FOLLOW
- ACTS 1, VERSES 12 THROUGH 14.
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AND NOTICE, JUST IN THIS ONE
SECTION I'M GOING TO READ, "THEN
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THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM"
- THIS IS THE FIRST CHAPTER OF
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ACTS, VERSE 12 - "THEN THEY
RETURNED TO JERUSALEM FROM THE
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MOUNT CALLED OLIVET,
WHICH IS NEAR JERUSALEM,
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A SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY.
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AND WHEN THEY HAD ENTERED,
THEY WENT UP INTO THE UPPER ROOM
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WHERE THEY WERE STAYING: PETER,
JAMES, JOHN, AND ANDREW; PHILIP,
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THOMAS; BARTHOLOMEW AND
MATTHEW; JAMES THE SON OF
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ALPHAEUS AND SIMON THE ZEALOT;
AND JUDAS THE SON OF JAMES.
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THESE ALL CONTINUED
WITH ONE ACCORD IN PRAYER AND
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SUPPLICATION, WITH THE WOMEN
AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS,
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AND WITH HIS BROTHERS."
WHOSE BROTHERS? JESUS' BROTHERS.
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NOW NOTICE, WE JUST READ
'JAMES, JAMES, JAMES' SO WE'RE
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WONDERING, WHO WROTE THIS BOOK?
YOU'VE GOT THREE JAMESES THERE.
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NOW LET'S LOOK AT
THE BROTHERS OF JESUS.
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GO AHEAD, CATHY, YOU
CAN READ THAT FOR US.
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>>"'IS THIS NOT THE CARPENTER,
THE SON OF MARY, AND BROTHER OF
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JAMES, JOSES, JUDAS, AND SIMON?
AND ARE NOT HIS SISTERS HERE
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WITH US?' SO THEY
WERE OFFENDED AT HIM."
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>>ALRIGHT, SO IT TELLS US JESUS
HAD BROTHERS AND WE'RE FAIRLY
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CERTAIN THAT THESE BROTHERS THAT
JESUS HAD - AND SISTERS - IT
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DOESN'T SAY HOW MANY SISTERS
- IT NAMES FOUR BROTHERS - THAT
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THESE WERE HALF BROTHERS.
NOW THAT SHOCKS PEOPLE.
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THEY THINK JESUS WAS THE FIRST
BORN OF MARY AND THEN THIS OTHER
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LITTER OF KIDS ALL CAME
LATER AND JESUS WAS THE OLDEST
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BROTHER. ACTUALLY,
JOSEPH PROBABLY HAD
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ANOTHER WIFE THAT HAD
DIED BEFORE HE MARRIED MARY.
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JOSEPH WAS,
EVIDENTLY, OLDER THAN MARY.
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YOU NOTICE, BY THE TIME JESUS
BEGINS HIS MINISTRY JOSEPH IS
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NEVER MENTIONED. THEY
BELIEVE THAT HE HAD PASSED
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AWAY AT THAT POINT.
WHEN JESUS IS ON THE CROSS,
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WHO DID HE GIVE THE
CARE OF HIS MOTHER TO?
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IF SHE'S GOT FOUR OTHER BLOOD
CHILDREN, WHY WOULD YOU EVER
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DELIVER THE CARE OF YOUR MOTHER
TO A STRANGER? ALTHOUGH JOHN
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MAY HAVE BEEN A
DISTANT RELATIVE OF JESUS, SOME
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HAVE ARGUED. THE OTHER
THING - THE REASON THAT
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WE BELIEVE THAT THE BROTHERS OF
JESUS - AND THIS IS IMPORTANT IN
00:11:50.83\00:11:53.23
UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK - THE
BROTHERS OF JESUS WERE OLDER AND
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WERE HALF BROTHERS BY JOSEPH.
WHEN JESUS BEGAN HIS MINISTRY IT
00:11:57.53\00:12:04.76
WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY UNUSUAL FOR
THE ELDEST BROTHER TO LEAVE THE
00:12:04.76\00:12:08.16
FAMILY BUSINESS AND
BECOME AN ITINERANT PREACHER.
00:12:08.16\00:12:11.13
IT'S ALWAYS THE ELDER BROTHER
THAT TAKES OVER THE FAMILY.
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HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
ALL THE YOUNGER FAMILIES.
00:12:14.66\00:12:16.60
IN THAT CULTURE IT WOULD HAVE
BEEN VERY DISRESPECTFUL - IT'S
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USUALLY THE YOUNGER BROTHER THAT
RUNS OFF - LIKE IN THE PARABLE
00:12:18.66\00:12:21.73
OF THE PRODIGAL SON. WHO RUNS
OFF? IT'S THE YOUNGER BROTHER.
00:12:21.73\00:12:24.86
AND SO, FOR THOSE REASONS, MOST
SCHOLARS ARE PRETTY SURE THAT
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THIS IS A FAMILY THAT
JOSEPH HAD WHEN HE MARRIED MARY.
00:12:30.66\00:12:34.73
SHE TOOK ON A LOT.
TALK ABOUT A BLENDED FAMILY.
00:12:34.73\00:12:38.60
SHE MAY HAVE BEEN IN HER LATE
TEENS AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN
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SHE'S GOT AT LEAST SIX CHILDREN
- FOUR BOYS AND 'SISTERS' - THAT
00:12:41.83\00:12:45.80
MEANS AT LEAST TWO -
IT COULD HAVE BEEN TEN.
00:12:45.80\00:12:48.10
PROBABLY NOT,
BUT HE HAD SISTERS.
00:12:48.10\00:12:51.46
BUT WHO IS THE FIRST ONE
MENTIONED AMONG THE BROTHERS
00:12:51.46\00:12:54.30
THAT ARE NAMED? JAMES.
00:12:54.30\00:12:57.13
THEY USUALLY LISTED
THEM ACCORDING TO THEIR AGE.
00:12:57.13\00:13:00.50
SO HE WAS THE
OLDER BROTHER OF JESUS.
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NOW, I'LL GIVE YOU MORE EVIDENCE
FOR THIS, BUT WE BELIEVE THIS IS
00:13:04.43\00:13:08.36
WHO WROTE THE BOOK, RATHER THAN
- YOU'VE GOT ONE JAMES WHO'S AN
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APOSTLE - TWO JAMESES THAT
ARE APOSTLES - JAMES THE SON OF
00:13:13.66\00:13:17.20
ALPHAEUS, JAMES THE BROTHER
OF JOHN AND THE SON OF ZEBEDEE.
00:13:17.20\00:13:24.33
THE OTHER ONE IS JUST
CALLED JUDAS, THE SON OF JAMES -
00:13:24.33\00:13:27.50
THAT WAS HIS FATHER.
BUT THERE ARE REASONS, AS WE
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READ ON, JAMES - THE BOOK OF
JAMES - IS WRITTEN AFTER JAMES,
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THE BROTHER OF JOHN, IS KILLED
BY HEROD. ACTS CHAPTER 12.
00:13:36.10\00:13:39.36
THE FIRST OF THE APOSTLES, NEXT
TO JUDAS, WHO KILLED HIMSELF -
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THE FIRST OF THE
APOSTLES TO DIE WAS JAMES,
00:13:42.63\00:13:45.93
THE BROTHER OF
JOHN. HEROD BEHEADED HIM.
00:13:45.93\00:13:48.53
AND SO, ABOUT THE TIME THIS
BOOK WAS WRITTEN THERE'S ANOTHER
00:13:48.53\00:13:51.73
JAMES THAT ENDS UP SITTING
AS, SORT OF, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
00:13:51.73\00:13:56.03
BOARD FOR THE
CHURCH IN JERUSALEM.
00:13:56.03\00:13:58.90
AND THEY THINK HE WAS
THE ELDER BROTHER OF JESUS.
00:13:58.90\00:14:01.80
HE WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED BUT
HE DIDN'T START OUT THAT WAY.
00:14:01.80\00:14:06.10
THE BROTHERS OF JESUS WERE VERY
CYNICAL AND QUESTIONING ABOUT
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JESUS' MINISTRY WHEN HE BEGAN.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF
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THESE - AND THIS IS THE SECTION
UNDER THE - 'JAMES, THE BROTHER
00:14:14.53\00:14:18.20
OF JESUS.' SO IF YOU LOOK, FOR
INSTANCE, IN JOHN 7 - JOHN 7,
00:14:18.20\00:14:23.40
VERSE 2, "NOW THE JEWS' FEAST
OF TABERNACLES WAS AT HAND.
00:14:23.40\00:14:27.13
HIS BROTHERS THEREFORE SAID
TO HIM, 'DEPART FROM HERE AND GO
00:14:27.13\00:14:30.70
INTO JUDEA, THAT YOUR DISCIPLES
ALSO MAY SEE THE WORKS THAT YOU
00:14:30.70\00:14:33.40
ARE DOING. FOR NO
ONE DOES ANYTHING IN
00:14:33.40\00:14:35.46
SECRET WHILE HE HIMSELF
SEEKS TO BE KNOWN OPENLY.
00:14:35.46\00:14:39.06
IF YOU DO THESE THINGS, SHOW
YOURSELF TO THE WORLD.' FOR EVEN
00:14:39.06\00:14:43.26
HIS BROTHERS DID NOT BELIEVE IN
HIM." - IS THE COMMENT THAT JOHN
00:14:43.26\00:14:47.66
MAKES. SO IT
WASN'T THAT THEY TOTALLY
00:14:47.66\00:14:50.40
DIDN'T BELIEVE HIM, BUT
THEY SURE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.
00:14:50.40\00:14:53.40
THEIR IDEA OF THE MESSIAH - AND
EVEN THE APOSTLES WERE CONFUSED
00:14:53.40\00:14:57.90
- THEY THOUGHT WHEN THE MESSIAH
CAME HE WOULD COME LIKE DAVID
00:14:57.90\00:15:01.50
WITH THE STRENGTH OF SAMPSON AND
HE WAS GOING TO, YOU KNOW, GO
00:15:01.50\00:15:04.60
RAGING CHARIOTS, LEADING AN ARMY
INTO JERUSALEM AND OVERTHROW THE
00:15:04.60\00:15:09.43
ROMANS AND SIT WITH HIS NEW
POWER AND THEY WERE WONDERING,
00:15:09.43\00:15:13.33
'IF YOU'RE REALLY THE MESSIAH' -
I MEAN, THEY'VE KNOWN THIS GOOD
00:15:13.33\00:15:16.53
BOY - MARY'S BOY
- ALL OF THEIR LIFE.
00:15:16.53\00:15:20.50
HE'S ALWAYS BEEN WELL BEHAVED,
HE ALWAYS SEEMED SO MEEK.
00:15:20.50\00:15:23.36
THEY'RE GOING, 'THE MESSIAH?
WE ALWAYS PICTURED THE MESSIAH
00:15:23.36\00:15:26.90
AS A CONQUERING KING.' SO THEY
REALLY STRUGGLED WITH HIS CLAIM.
00:15:26.90\00:15:34.53
YOU KNOW, IF YOU READ PSALMS 69,
VERSE 8, ONE OF THE PROPHECIES
00:15:34.53\00:15:39.30
ABOUT THE MESSIAH - MATTER OF
FACT, LET ME GET SET UP FOR THE
00:15:39.30\00:15:42.10
NEXT VERSE. WHO'S GOT
GALATIANS 1:19? BRIAN?
00:15:42.10\00:15:45.00
WE'LL GET YOU THE
MICROPHONE AND YOU'LL BE NEXT.
00:15:45.00\00:15:47.60
BUT IF YOU LOOK IN PSALMS 69:8
FIRST IT SAYS, "I HAVE BECOME A
00:15:47.60\00:15:52.70
STRANGER TO MY BROTHERS AND AN
ALIEN TO MY MOTHER'S CHILDREN."
00:15:52.70\00:15:57.46
CAN YOU THINK OF ANY
OTHER STORIES IN THE BIBLE WHERE
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ESPECIALLY CHOSEN INDIVIDUALS
WERE NOT RECOGNIZED BY THEIR
00:16:01.06\00:16:06.03
BROTHERS? JOSEPH. WHEN
JOSEPH HAD THESE DREAMS
00:16:06.03\00:16:09.63
ABOUT A GREAT PLAN
THAT GOD HAD FOR HIS LIFE,
00:16:09.63\00:16:12.40
DID HIS BROTHERS BUY INTO THAT?
THEY THOUGHT HE WAS A KOOK.
00:16:12.40\00:16:15.93
MATTER OF FACT, WHEN THEY
FINALLY THREW HIM IN THE PIT
00:16:15.93\00:16:17.93
THEY SAID, 'HERE
COMES THAT DREAMER.'
00:16:17.93\00:16:19.90
AND THEY GOT SO TIRED
OF HIS DREAMS. WHO ELSE?
00:16:19.90\00:16:22.83
WHEN DAVID CAME TO HIS BROTHERS
AND STARTED ASKING ABOUT WHAT
00:16:22.83\00:16:24.96
GOLIATH WAS DOING DID HIS
BROTHERS SAY, 'DAVID, WE BELIEVE
00:16:24.96\00:16:28.03
YOU'RE THE ONE.
YOU CAN GO FIGHT HIM?'
00:16:28.03\00:16:29.66
OR DID THEY SAY,
'WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
00:16:29.66\00:16:30.86
YOU'RE ALWAYS
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.
00:16:30.86\00:16:32.16
YOU JUST WANT TO SEE THE
FIGHT.' DID THEY UNDERSTAND HIM?
00:16:32.16\00:16:36.63
NOT AT FIRST. NOTICE -
00:16:36.63\00:16:38.60
DID JOSEPH'S
BROTHERS UNDERSTAND HIM LATER?
00:16:38.60\00:16:42.26
DID DAVID'S BROTHERS UNDERSTAND
AND SUPPORT HIM LATER?
00:16:42.26\00:16:46.10
AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED
WITH JAMES - JESUS' BROTHERS.
00:16:46.10\00:16:48.96
WE BELIEVE THAT THEY ALL ENDED
UP COMING AROUND BUT AT FIRST
00:16:48.96\00:16:52.13
THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A QUOTE AND
00:16:52.13\00:16:55.06
IT'S IN YOUR
LESSON. IT'S IN THE BOOK
00:16:55.06\00:16:57.10
'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGES
485 AND 486. "IT WAS A FALSE
00:16:57.10\00:17:02.50
CONCEPT OF THE MESSIAH'S
WORK AND A LACK OF FAITH IN THE
00:17:02.50\00:17:06.20
DIVINE CHARACTER OF JESUS THAT
LED HIS BROTHERS TO URGE HIM TO
00:17:06.20\00:17:10.36
PRESENT HIMSELF PUBLICLY
AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
00:17:10.36\00:17:13.26
THEY HAD A WRONG CONCEPT OF WHAT
THE MESSIAH WOULD DO AND THEY
00:17:13.26\00:17:16.76
DIDN'T REALLY APPRECIATE
WHAT JESUS' CALLING WAS.
00:17:16.76\00:17:19.86
ALRIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO READ,
I THINK BRIAN, GALATIANS 1:19.
00:17:19.86\00:17:23.96
>>"BUT I SAW NONE OF THE
OTHER APOSTLES EXCEPT JAMES,
00:17:23.96\00:17:27.26
THE LORD'S BROTHER."
00:17:27.26\00:17:28.63
>>WAIT A SECOND NOW.
HE'S TALKING ABOUT APOSTLES.
00:17:28.63\00:17:32.76
HOW MANY APOSTLES WERE THERE?
00:17:32.76\00:17:35.60
TWELVE IS WHAT THEY STARTED OUT
WITH BUT, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN THE
00:17:35.60\00:17:40.83
FIRST GENERATION OF THE CHURCH
AND THE DEATH OF THE APOSTLE
00:17:40.83\00:17:45.33
JOHN, OTHERS HAD
THE NAME APOSTLE.
00:17:45.33\00:17:48.46
LET ME JUST GIVE YOU
SOME EXAMPLES. FIRST OF ALL,
00:17:48.46\00:17:50.23
NOTICE THIS - I ALWAYS THOUGHT
THIS WAS VERY INTERESTING.
00:17:50.23\00:17:54.50
BEFORE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED
OUT, ONE THING HAPPENS BEFORE
00:17:54.50\00:17:57.36
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS
POURED OUT IN ACTS CHAPTER 1.
00:17:57.36\00:18:00.60
PETER SAID - HE
STANDS UP AND MAKES A SPEECH.
00:18:00.60\00:18:04.06
THEY'D BEEN
PRAYING FOR TEN DAYS.
00:18:04.06\00:18:05.66
HE STANDS UP AND MAKES A SPEECH
AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I FEEL
00:18:05.66\00:18:08.60
IMPRESSED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
THAT JESUS CHOSE TWELVE APOSTLES
00:18:08.60\00:18:11.60
AND ONE OF US NOW IS
GONE AT HIS OWN HAND, JUDAS.
00:18:11.60\00:18:14.40
IT WAS FORETOLD IN THE
SCRIPTURES THAT HE WOULD TAKE
00:18:14.40\00:18:15.86
HIS LIFE.' AND HE
QUOTES THE SCRIPTURE.
00:18:15.86\00:18:17.86
'IT HAPPENED JUST LIKE THAT.
IT SEEMS LIKE WE SHOULD CHOOSE
00:18:17.86\00:18:20.80
ONE FROM AMONG THOSE WHO
SAW JESUS FROM THE BEGINNING -
00:18:20.80\00:18:24.46
OF FAITHFUL DISCIPLES -
THAT WILL FILL THAT SEAT.
00:18:24.46\00:18:29.26
SO THEY CAST LOTS
AND THEY CHOSE MATTHIAS.
00:18:29.26\00:18:32.96
YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT
MATTHIAS LATER IN THE BIBLE BUT
00:18:32.96\00:18:36.70
JESUS PERSONALLY APPEARS TO SOME
INDIVIDUALS AND THEY ARE LATER
00:18:36.70\00:18:40.86
RECOGNIZED AS APOSTLES.
FOR INSTANCE, DOES HE APPEAR
00:18:40.86\00:18:44.53
TO PAUL? IS PAUL
CALLED AN APOSTLE?
00:18:44.53\00:18:48.03
IT SEEMS LIKE APOLLOS IS
CATEGORIZED LATER AS AN APOSTLE.
00:18:48.03\00:18:53.90
I DON'T KNOW WHEN JESUS APPEARED
TO HIM BUT IT SEEMS LIKE HE'S
00:18:53.90\00:18:56.43
LISTED WITH APOSTLES
IN THE WRITINGS OF PAUL.
00:18:56.43\00:18:58.96
AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IT SAYS?
00:18:58.96\00:19:01.26
LET ME READ THIS TO YOU -
GALATIANS 2, VERSE 9, "AND WHEN
00:19:01.26\00:19:05.56
JAMES, CEPHAS," - CEPHAS IS JUST
ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING 'PETER' -
00:19:05.56\00:19:09.40
"WHEN JAMES, CEPHAS, AND JOHN,
WHO SEEMED TO BE PILLARS," -
00:19:09.40\00:19:12.33
NOW, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE
YOU HEARD IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT
00:19:12.33\00:19:15.56
SAID, 'PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN;
PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN; PETER
00:19:15.56\00:19:18.13
JAMES AND JOHN?' DO
YOU EVER SEE ANYWHERE WHERE
00:19:18.13\00:19:20.46
IT SAYS 'JAMES, JOHN, AND
PETER?' NOT IN THE GOSPELS.
00:19:20.46\00:19:24.06
IT'S ALWAYS PETER,
JAMES, AND JOHN. WHY?
00:19:24.06\00:19:27.66
BUT THEY ALL - GOSPEL
WRITERS GOT IT THAT WAY.
00:19:27.66\00:19:29.86
WHEN THAT LITTLE TRILOGY OF
APOSTLES DID THINGS WITH JESUS -
00:19:29.86\00:19:33.43
WHEN HE RAISED THE DAUGHTER
OF JARIUS, HE TOOK WITH HIM JUST
00:19:33.43\00:19:36.40
PETER, JAMES, AND
JOHN. HE WENT UP THE MOUNT OF
00:19:36.40\00:19:38.40
TRANSFIGURATION, HE
TOOK PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN.
00:19:38.40\00:19:40.56
HE ASKED FOR THREE OF THEM TO
COME PRAY WITH HIM IN THE GARDEN
00:19:40.56\00:19:42.96
OF GETHSEMANE, HE TOOK
PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN.
00:19:42.96\00:19:44.86
SO THEY'RE OFTEN
KIND OF PULLED ASIDE.
00:19:44.86\00:19:47.96
BUT HERE IT SAYS, 'JAMES,
CEPHAS (PETER), AND JOHN.
00:19:47.96\00:19:53.30
IT SEEMS LIKE JAMES HAD EVEN
ASCENDED, WITH THE CHURCH IN
00:19:53.30\00:19:56.70
JERUSALEM, ABOVE PETER. -
"AND WHEN JAMES, CEPHAS, AND
00:19:56.70\00:20:02.73
JOHN, WHO SEEMED TO BE PILLARS,
PERCEIVED THE GRACE THAT HAD
00:20:02.73\00:20:05.13
BEEN GIVEN TO ME, THEY GAVE ME
AND BARNABAS THE RIGHT HAND OF
00:20:05.13\00:20:08.10
FELLOWSHIP," - AND THEN -
IT MENTIONS THIS IN ACTS, WHEN
00:20:08.10\00:20:11.26
JAMES AND THE OTHER APOSTLES
SENT OUT PAUL AND BARNABAS.
00:20:11.26\00:20:14.76
SO IT'S NOT JAMES, THE
BROTHER OF JOHN, THAT DOES THAT.
00:20:14.76\00:20:17.80
- "THAT WE SHOULD GO TO
THE GENTILES AND THEY TO THE
00:20:17.80\00:20:21.23
CIRCUMCISED." NOW
PETER, WHEN IT SAYS THEY
00:20:21.23\00:20:24.56
WENT TO THE CIRCUMCISION,
THAT MEANT THE JEWS.
00:20:24.56\00:20:26.60
REMEMBER WHEN CORNELIUS HAD HIS
DREAM AND PETER PREACHED TO THE
00:20:26.60\00:20:32.26
GENTILES THERE? BUT
MOST OF WHAT PETER DID IS HE
00:20:32.26\00:20:34.63
TRAVELED AND HE
PREACHED TO THE JEWS.
00:20:34.63\00:20:36.23
IF YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK 'ACTS OF
THE APOSTLES,' THIS IS A PRETTY
00:20:36.23\00:20:40.46
STRONG AFFIRMATION FOR
THE POINT THAT IT WAS JAMES,
00:20:40.46\00:20:43.16
THE BROTHER OF
JESUS, WHO WROTE THE BOOK.
00:20:43.16\00:20:45.00
'ACTS OF THE APOSTLES' P.
405, "WHEN WE THINK OF PAUL'S
00:20:45.00\00:20:49.00
GREAT DESIRE TO BE IN
HARMONY WITH HIS BRETHREN, HIS
00:20:49.00\00:20:52.36
TENDERNESS TOWARDS THE WEAK,
THE FAITH, HIS REVERENCE FOR THE
00:20:52.36\00:20:55.80
APOSTLES, WHO HAD BEEN WITH
CHRIST, FOR JAMES, THE BROTHER
00:20:55.80\00:20:59.26
OF THE LORD." SHE SAYS
APOSTLES THAT HAVE BEEN
00:20:59.26\00:21:02.80
WITH CHRIST AND FOR
JAMES THE BROTHER OF THE LORD.
00:21:02.80\00:21:05.36
NOW THIS IS WHERE I
THINK THINGS MAY HAVE CHANGED.
00:21:05.36\00:21:09.56
IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SECTION
- NOW LET ME SEE - WHO HAS ACTS
00:21:09.56\00:21:12.43
12, VERSE 17? ALRIGHT, WE'LL
GET YOU THE MICROPHONE NEXT.
00:21:12.43\00:21:16.93
AND IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING
TO READ 1 CORINTHIANS 15 - PAUL
00:21:16.93\00:21:23.46
IS WRITING HERE - 1 CORINTHIANS
15:3-8, "FOR I DELIVERED TO YOU,
00:21:23.46\00:21:28.43
FIRST OF ALL," - JUST IN CASE
ANYONE'S WONDERING, THIS IS THE
00:21:28.43\00:21:32.16
BIBLE. I JUST
CUT AND PASTE ALL THE
00:21:32.16\00:21:34.26
VERSES IN HERE SO - PEOPLE
SAY, 'WELL, YOU'VE GOT A SMALL
00:21:34.26\00:21:37.10
BIBLE.' I JUST FIND IT SAVES
TIME SO I JUST PRINT OUT ALL THE
00:21:37.10\00:21:41.50
SCRIPTURES I KNOW
I'M GOING TO READ.
00:21:41.50\00:21:43.80
"FOR I DELIVERED TO YOU,
FIRST OF ALL, THAT WHICH I ALSO
00:21:43.80\00:21:46.60
RECEIVED; THAT CHRIST DIED
FOR OUR SINS, ACCORDING TO THE
00:21:46.60\00:21:49.66
SCRIPTURES, AND THAT HE WAS
BURIED, THAT HE ROSE AGAIN THE
00:21:49.66\00:21:52.56
THIRD DAY, ACCORDING TO THE
SCRIPTURES, THAT HE WAS SEEN BY
00:21:52.56\00:21:55.53
CEPHAS" - NOW
WHO'S CEPHAS? PETER. -
00:21:55.53\00:21:58.26
"BY THE TWELVE," - THAT
MEANS THE OTHER APOSTLES - YOU
00:21:58.26\00:22:01.46
REMEMBER IN THE UPPER ROOM WHEN
HE MET WITH - OF COURSE JUDAS
00:22:01.46\00:22:04.43
WASN'T THERE BUT THEY CALLED
THEM THE TWELVE. FIRST WEEK,
00:22:04.43\00:22:07.50
WHEN HE MET, SOMEONE ELSE
WAS MISSING - THOMAS, REMEMBER?
00:22:07.50\00:22:12.16
AND LATER, WHEN JESUS CAME BACK,
THOMAS WAS THERE WITH HIM SO HE
00:22:12.16\00:22:14.96
MET WITH ALL THE EXISTING TWELVE
THAT WERE ALIVE - "AFTER THAT HE
00:22:14.96\00:22:19.93
WAS SEEN BY OVER FIVE HUNDRED
BRETHREN AT ONCE, OF WHOM THE
00:22:19.93\00:22:22.86
GREATER PART REMAIN PRESENT,
THOUGH SOME HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP."
00:22:22.86\00:22:25.36
- WHAT DOES PAUL
MEAN BY 'FALLEN ASLEEP?'
00:22:25.36\00:22:27.66
SOME HAVE DIED.
00:22:27.66\00:22:28.96
BECAUSE HE'S WRITING THIS, YOU
KNOW, YEARS LATER - "AFTER THAT"
00:22:28.96\00:22:33.30
- LET ME SEE HERE - "AFTER
THAT HE WAS SEEN BY JAMES."
00:22:33.30\00:22:36.96
- NOW THAT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT
JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JOHN,
00:22:36.96\00:22:39.90
BECAUSE HE WAS
IN THE UPPER ROOM.
00:22:39.90\00:22:41.53
JESUS MADE A PERSONAL APPEARANCE
TO HIS OLDER BROTHER AND THE
00:22:41.53\00:22:49.96
SAME WAY HE REVEALED HIMSELF TO
PAUL AND PAUL BECAME AN APOSTLE.
00:22:49.96\00:22:52.83
PAUL TELLS US HE ALSO - WE
KNOW JESUS APPEARED TO SEVERAL.
00:22:52.83\00:22:56.36
DID HE APPEAR TO TWO
ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS?
00:22:56.36\00:22:59.26
EVIDENTLY HE APPEARED TO
PETER ALONE, AT ONE POINT.
00:22:59.26\00:23:02.80
HE APPEARED TO PAUL ALONE.
00:23:02.80\00:23:04.50
HE APPEARED TO JAMES,
HIS OLDER BROTHER, ALONE.
00:23:04.50\00:23:07.66
NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THINK
ABOUT BECAUSE DOES IT MAKE A
00:23:07.66\00:23:13.03
DIFFERENCE WHETHER IT WAS JAMES
THE BROTHER OF JOHN OR JAMES THE
00:23:13.03\00:23:16.43
BROTHER OF JESUS?
WHO KNEW JESUS LONGER?
00:23:16.43\00:23:21.50
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THREE AND A
00:23:21.50\00:23:24.03
HALF YEARS AND
THIRTY-THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:23:24.03\00:23:27.70
THIS JAMES KNEW JESUS FROM
INFANCY AND IF YOU KNOW OF ANY
00:23:27.70\00:23:33.10
MISTAKES - I WOULDN'T WANT MY
BROTHER TO TELL YOU WHAT HE KNEW
00:23:33.10\00:23:37.33
ABOUT ME. IF
YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW THAT
00:23:37.33\00:23:40.33
ANYBODY HAS MESSED UP IT'S GOING
TO BE YOUR SIBLINGS, RIGHT?
00:23:40.33\00:23:44.66
MAYBE EVEN MORE
THAN YOUR PARENTS.
00:23:44.66\00:23:46.50
DON'T YOUR SIBLINGS KNOW ABOUT
STUFF THAT YOU GOT INTO THAT
00:23:46.50\00:23:48.90
YOUR PARENTS
NEVER FOUND OUT ABOUT?
00:23:48.90\00:23:51.33
SO THE FACT THAT JAMES
COULD BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS THE
00:23:51.33\00:23:55.86
SINLESS SON OF GOD, THAT'S
A VERY POWERFUL TESTIMONY.
00:23:55.86\00:24:01.56
SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
TO RECOGNIZE THAT THIS WAS THE
00:24:01.56\00:24:03.76
BROTHER. SO, OKAY,
WHO'S GOT ACTS 12:17?
00:24:03.76\00:24:08.00
I THINK YOU'RE
GOING TO READ THAT.
00:24:08.00\00:24:09.46
>>BUT HE, BECKONING UNTO THEM
WITH A HAND TO HOLD THEIR PEACE,
00:24:09.46\00:24:15.06
DECLARED UNTO THEM HOW THE
LORD HAD BROUGHT HIM OUT OF THE
00:24:15.06\00:24:19.30
PRISON AND HE SAID, 'GO SHOW
THESE THINGS UNTO JAMES, AND TO
00:24:19.30\00:24:26.33
THE BRETHREN.' AND HE DEPARTED
AND WENT INTO ANOTHER PLACE."
00:24:26.33\00:24:31.80
>>ALRIGHT, THIS IS WHEN PETER IS
LIBERATED FROM PRISON, IN ACTS
00:24:31.80\00:24:35.46
CHAPTER 12, BY THE ANGEL AND HE
APPEARS IN THE UPPER ROOM WHERE
00:24:35.46\00:24:39.36
ALL THE CHURCH IS
GATHERED PRAYING FOR HIM.
00:24:39.36\00:24:41.43
BUT, EVIDENTLY, NOT
ALL THE CHURCH IS THERE -
00:24:41.43\00:24:43.23
AND HE SAYS, 'GO TELL JAMES.'
THE FIRST THING PETER SAYS IS,
00:24:43.23\00:24:46.33
'YOU NEED TO GO TELL JAMES.
HE WAS THE RECOGNIZED LEADER OF
00:24:46.33\00:24:49.10
THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM. AS
NEAR AS WE CAN TELL HE STAYED
00:24:49.10\00:24:53.90
IN JERUSALEM. HE
OVERSAW THE CHURCH THERE.
00:24:53.90\00:24:55.86
HE WAS OLDER. HE
WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED.
00:24:55.86\00:24:58.26
HE WAS EDUCATED AND YOU
CAN TELL FROM HIS LETTER.
00:24:58.26\00:25:01.10
AS A MATTER OF FACT, HIS
LETTER, THEY SAY, IS ONE OF
00:25:01.10\00:25:03.86
THE MOST ELOQUENT EXAMPLES
OF JEWISH WRITING IN GREEK THAT
00:25:03.86\00:25:09.46
IS IN EXISTENCE. THE
METAPHORS THAT ARE USED ALL
00:25:09.46\00:25:12.90
THROUGH THE BOOK
- IT'S VERY CONCISE.
00:25:12.90\00:25:14.93
IT'S TO THE POINT.
IT'S VERY POWERFUL.
00:25:14.93\00:25:16.80
AND HE ACTUALLY DRAWS UPON A LOT
OF THE JEWISH WISDOM OF THE DAY,
00:25:16.80\00:25:21.83
IN ILLUSTRATIONS THAT
THEY WERE FAMILIAR WITH. PLUS,
00:25:21.83\00:25:24.80
HE REFERENCES - AND WE'LL GET
INTO THIS IN THE NEXT QUARTER.
00:25:24.80\00:25:27.76
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF
STUDIES LEFT ON JAMES.
00:25:27.76\00:25:29.26
I WANT TO BE CAREFUL
NOT TO SAY IT ALL NOW.
00:25:29.26\00:25:31.56
I'LL PROBABLY REPEAT MYSELF A
FEW TIMES BUT HE DRAWS A LOT ON
00:25:31.56\00:25:35.80
THE SCRIPTURE.
MEANING: HE READ THE BIBLE.
00:25:35.80\00:25:39.33
BUT THE FIRST THAT PETER SAYS
- HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT JAMES,
00:25:39.33\00:25:42.00
THE BROTHER OF JOHN, BECAUSE
CHAPTER 12 BEGINS BY SAYING,
00:25:42.00\00:25:44.16
'JAMES, THE BROTHER
OF JOHN, WAS BEHEADED.'
00:25:44.16\00:25:46.56
AND THEN HEROD
PUT PETER IN PRISON.
00:25:46.56\00:25:48.56
SO WHEN PETER SAYS, 'GO TELL
JAMES.' HE'S TALKING THEN ABOUT
00:25:48.56\00:25:51.43
THE HEAD OF THE
CHURCH IN JERUSALEM.
00:25:51.43\00:25:53.90
NOW, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING.
'HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S NOT JAMES,
00:25:53.90\00:25:57.66
THE SON OF
ALPHAEUS WHO'S AN APOSTLE?
00:25:57.66\00:25:59.56
YOU KNOW, HE DOESN'T SEEM
TO APPEAR, SIGNIFICANTLY, IN
00:25:59.56\00:26:04.56
ANYTHING THAT'S
HAPPENING IN THE GOSPELS.
00:26:04.56\00:26:07.23
AND THE OTHER THING IS WE DO
HAVE THAT ONE VERSE WHERE PAUL
00:26:07.23\00:26:10.36
REFERS TO JAMES,
THE BROTHER OF JESUS.
00:26:10.36\00:26:14.26
SO WE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS
THE ONE WHO WROTE THE BOOK.
00:26:14.26\00:26:17.33
ALRIGHT, AND THEN IF
WE'LL READ - LET ME SEE -
00:26:17.33\00:26:20.43
WHAT DID I PUT
HERE? MATTHEW 7:24.
00:26:20.43\00:26:23.00
JESUS SAYS, "THEREFORE, WHOEVER
HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF MINE, AND
00:26:23.00\00:26:26.53
DOES THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM TO A
WISE MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON
00:26:26.53\00:26:30.16
THE ROCK: AND THE RAIN
DESCENDED, THE FLOODS CAME, AND
00:26:30.16\00:26:34.10
THE WINDS BLEW AND BEAT ON THAT
HOUSE; AND IT DID NOT FALL, FOR
00:26:34.10\00:26:38.16
IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK."
NOW ONE OF THE POWERFUL THINGS
00:26:38.16\00:26:41.00
ABOUT THE WRITINGS OF JAMES IS
HE PUNCTUATES ALL OF HIS POINTS
00:26:41.00\00:26:45.06
THROUGH HIS BOOK, WITH
OTHER SCRIPTURE SO IT'S ACTUALLY
00:26:45.06\00:26:48.90
RIDDLED WITH AND
ENDORSED BY THE SCRIPTURES.
00:26:48.90\00:26:51.73
ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: 'JAMES
AND THE GOSPEL.' AND IN A MOMENT
00:26:51.73\00:26:56.16
WE'RE GOING TO GET DOWN TO -
SOMEONE'S GOING TO HELP ME READ
00:26:56.16\00:26:59.36
JAMES 2:22. WHO HAS THAT?
OH, YOU'RE ALL READY TO GO.
00:26:59.36\00:27:02.70
OKAY. ALRIGHT,
JAMES IS A UNIVERSAL
00:27:02.70\00:27:07.20
BOOK AND IT IT'S NOT
WRITTEN TO ONE PERSON.
00:27:07.20\00:27:09.33
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU'LL
READ, YOU KNOW, JOHN'LL SAY,
00:27:09.33\00:27:12.10
'JOHN, UNTO THE ELECT LADY'
OR PAUL WILL WRITE A BOOK TO
00:27:12.10\00:27:14.90
TIMOTHY OR SOMETIMES A BOOK
IS WRITTEN TO A TOWN - TO THE
00:27:14.90\00:27:18.26
CORINTHIANS; TO
THE THESSALONIANS.
00:27:18.26\00:27:20.40
BUT THE BOOK OF JAMES IS
WRITTEN, REALLY, TO EVERYBODY.
00:27:20.40\00:27:24.60
SO IT'S A BOOK THAT IS WRITTEN
TO THE CHURCH AT LARGE, THOUGH
00:27:24.60\00:27:27.60
HE'S PROBABLY ADDRESSING IT
MORE TO THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS.
00:27:27.60\00:27:31.96
AND YOU KNOW WHY I SAY THAT?
IF JAMES WAS WRITTEN AS EARLY AS
00:27:31.96\00:27:37.00
WE THINK IT MAY HAVE BEEN
WRITTEN, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF
00:27:37.00\00:27:40.53
CHRISTIANS WERE
JEWISH WHEN THE CHURCH BEGAN?
00:27:40.53\00:27:43.96
WHEN IT BEGAN, A
HUNDRED PERCENT, RIGHT?
00:27:43.96\00:27:48.00
THEN AT PENTECOST, WHEN THE HOLY
SPIRIT'S POURED OUT, IT SAYS IN
00:27:48.00\00:27:53.70
ACTS CHAPTER 2, 'NOW THERE WERE
GATHERED IN JERUSALEM, JEWS;
00:27:53.70\00:27:57.03
DEVOUT MEN FROM OUT OF EVERY
NATION UNDER HEAVEN.' PEOPLE KEY
00:27:57.03\00:28:00.50
IN ON THE 'OUT OF EVERY NATION
UNDER HEAVEN' AND THEY MISS THE
00:28:00.50\00:28:03.23
PART: 'JEWS' THAT HAD COME
TO JERUSALEM FOR PENTECOST.
00:28:03.23\00:28:07.20
THERE WERE SOME CONVERTS THAT
WERE THERE - PROSELYTES THEY
00:28:07.20\00:28:12.36
CALL THEM - PEOPLE THAT HAD
CONVERTED FROM BEING GENTILES TO
00:28:12.36\00:28:15.10
JEWS. I REMEMBER
WHEN I WAS GROWING UP
00:28:15.10\00:28:17.33
MY MOM WAS IN SHOW BUSINESS AND
SHE TOLD ME SAMMY DAVIS, JR.,
00:28:17.33\00:28:21.10
THAT BLACK
ENTERTAINER, WAS JEWISH.
00:28:21.10\00:28:24.10
AND I SAID - YOU KNOW I WAS
YOUNG - I SAID, 'HOW CAN HE BE
00:28:24.10\00:28:26.66
JEWISH?' BECAUSE,
YOU KNOW, ALL MY MOM'S
00:28:26.66\00:28:29.40
FAMILY WAS NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN.
AND SHE SAID HE CONVERTED.
00:28:29.40\00:28:35.00
AND SO THERE WERE SOME CONVERTS
FROM ALL OVER THE ROMAN EMPIRE
00:28:35.00\00:28:37.93
THAT WERE IMPRESSED WITH
THE MONOTHEISM - THE ONE GOD OF
00:28:37.93\00:28:42.30
ISRAEL. BUT THE
MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO
00:28:42.30\00:28:45.06
CAME TO
JERUSALEM, THEY WERE JEWS.
00:28:45.06\00:28:48.30
SO AT PENTECOST, WHEN IT SAYS
THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT AND
00:28:48.30\00:28:52.83
3,000 ARE BAPTIZED IN ONE DAY
AND YOU READ LATER IT SAYS 5,000
00:28:52.83\00:28:56.63
ARE BAPTIZED. 5,000
WHAT? ALMOST ALL JEWS.
00:28:56.63\00:29:01.46
MATTER OF FACT, IT WASN'T UNTIL
PETER HAD THAT VISION AND HE
00:29:01.46\00:29:04.90
WENT TO THE HOUSE OF CORNELIUS
AND GOD SAID, 'DO NOT CALL
00:29:04.90\00:29:08.46
UNCLEAN WHAT I HAVE CLEANSED.'
AND PETER SAID, 'GOD HAS TOLD ME
00:29:08.46\00:29:12.50
TO CALL NO MAN UNCLEAN.' THEY
THOUGHT ALL THE GENTILES WERE
00:29:12.50\00:29:15.70
UNCLEAN DOGS AND THEY WERE
WORKING THROUGH SOME CENTURIES-
00:29:15.70\00:29:20.13
OLD PREJUDICE THAT THEY
HAD AGAINST THE GENTILES.
00:29:20.13\00:29:24.06
YOU REMEMBER WHEN - EVEN JESUS
SAID - THIS CANAANITE WOMAN CAME
00:29:24.06\00:29:28.73
TO HIM AND SAID, 'LORD' - HE WAS
UP IN THE TYRE-SIDON REGION AND
00:29:28.73\00:29:32.23
THEY SAID, 'LORD, PLEASE COME
AND HEAL MY DAUGHTER.' AND JESUS
00:29:32.23\00:29:34.96
WANTED TO SHOW THE
DISCIPLES HOW THEY SOUNDED.
00:29:34.96\00:29:37.06
HE SAID, 'IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE
TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S FOOD AND
00:29:37.06\00:29:39.40
GIVE IT TO DOGS.' AND EVERYONE
SAID, 'HOW COULD HE BE SO
00:29:39.40\00:29:42.96
HARSH?' HE WAS
TRYING TO SHAME THE
00:29:42.96\00:29:44.60
DISCIPLES BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAID ABOUT
00:29:44.60\00:29:47.36
THE GENTILES. AND IT'S
LIKE THE PARABLE OF THE
00:29:47.36\00:29:50.80
RICH MAN AND LAZARUS - THAT POOR
MAN WAS OUTSIDE, COMFORTED ONLY
00:29:50.80\00:29:55.10
BY THE DOGS, EATING THE CRUMBS.
IT'S LIKE THAT WOMAN SAID, 'OH,
00:29:55.10\00:29:58.90
BUT EVEN THE DOGS GET
THE CRUMBS.' SO THEY SAW THE
00:29:58.90\00:30:01.56
GENTILES AS THEY
WERE ON THE OUTSIDE.
00:30:01.56\00:30:04.56
'WE ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.' NOW,
I KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO EVER
00:30:04.56\00:30:08.33
WORRY ABOUT THAT AS CHRISTIANS
OR MEMBERS OF OUR PARTICULAR
00:30:08.33\00:30:11.36
CHURCH, THAT WE SOMEHOW HAVE THE
TRUTH AND EVERYONE ELSE IS - YOU
00:30:11.36\00:30:16.36
KNOW, THE FIRST TIME AN ATTEMPT
WAS MADE ON JESUS' LIFE - WELL
00:30:16.36\00:30:22.20
SECOND, ACTUALLY - THE DEVIL
TRIED TO KILL HIM AS A BABY.
00:30:22.20\00:30:25.40
BUT WHEN HE BEGAN HIS
MINISTRY - THE FIRST ATTEMPT WAS
00:30:25.40\00:30:28.43
WHEN HE WENT TO
HIS HOMETOWN CHURCH.
00:30:28.43\00:30:31.33
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE
SAID DURING HIS SERMON?
00:30:31.33\00:30:34.26
HE SAID, 'THERE WERE MANY WIDOWS
IN THE LAND IN THE DAYS OF
00:30:34.26\00:30:37.43
ELIJAH, WHEN THE HEAVENS WERE
SHUT UP FOR THREE AND A HALF
00:30:37.43\00:30:40.03
YEARS, BUT GOD DID NOT
SEND ELIJAH TO ANY OF THE JEWISH
00:30:40.03\00:30:44.56
WIDOWS, HE SENT
HIM TO A GENTILE.
00:30:44.56\00:30:48.26
AND THERE WERE MANY LEPERS IN
THE LAND IN THE DAYS OF NAAMAN,
00:30:48.26\00:30:51.73
BUT ELISHA ONLY HEALED NAAMAN
THE SYRIAN.' AND THEY WERE SO
00:30:51.73\00:30:56.46
OUTRAGED THAT HE WOULD SAY
GOD WOULD SHOW FAVOR TO THE
00:30:56.46\00:30:58.90
GENTILES, THEY TRIED TO TAKE HIM
AND THROW HIM OFF OF A CLIFF.
00:30:58.90\00:31:02.50
HOW MANY REMEMBER READING THAT?
SO THIS WAS THE ATTITUDE FOR THE
00:31:02.50\00:31:05.86
FIRST EIGHT OR TEN YEARS
RIGHT AFTER CHRISTIANITY AND THE
00:31:05.86\00:31:09.63
DISCIPLES - THE FIRST
MISSIONARIES THAT WENT OUT - AS
00:31:09.63\00:31:12.23
THEY WENT OUT, YOU
KNOW WHERE THEY WENT?
00:31:12.23\00:31:13.83
THEY WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUES AND
THEY TOLD THE JEWS ABOUT JESUS
00:31:13.83\00:31:17.70
BEING THE MESSIAH. AND,
YES, PHILIP TALKED TO THAT
00:31:17.70\00:31:20.96
ETHIOPIAN BUT HE WAS A JEWISH
CONVERT SO HE COULD TALK TO HIM.
00:31:20.96\00:31:25.13
AND EVEN PAUL HAD TO CHASTISE
PETER. AFTER THE GOSPEL WENT TO
00:31:25.13\00:31:29.80
THE GENTILES,
PAUL SAYS IN GALATIANS,
00:31:29.80\00:31:31.63
'PETER WAS TO BE BLAMED BECAUSE
BEFORE THE DELEGATION CAME FROM
00:31:31.63\00:31:35.90
JERUSALEM HE WAS HOB-KNOBBING
WITH THE GENTILES, BUT WHEN THEY
00:31:35.90\00:31:38.60
CAME HE DIDN'T WANT TO LOOK
LIKE HE WAS GETTING TOO CLOSE TO
00:31:38.60\00:31:41.03
THOSE - THE UNCLEAN GENTILES.
AND SO IT WAS JUST DEEPLY
00:31:41.03\00:31:46.63
INGRAINED IN THEM THAT ALL
OF THE GENTILES WERE UNCLEAN.
00:31:46.63\00:31:50.63
SO JAMES' BOOK IS PROBABLY
BEING ADDRESSED LARGELY TO THESE
00:31:50.63\00:31:55.33
JEWISH CONVERTS IN THE EARLY
CHURCH BUT IT WAS JUST BEGINNING
00:31:55.33\00:31:59.46
TO GO BEYOND THAT TIME.
IT WAS PROBABLY CLOSELY AFTER
00:31:59.46\00:32:02.40
THE TIME WHEN
PETER HAD HIS VISION.
00:32:02.40\00:32:04.40
ANYWAY, SO THEY WERE
GRAPPLING WITH THOSE THINGS.
00:32:04.40\00:32:07.53
BUT DO YOU FIND THE GOSPEL, IN
THE BOOK OF JAMES, OR WAS MARTIN
00:32:07.53\00:32:12.00
LUTHER'S ACCUSATION TRUE - THAT
IT'S A BOOK OF JUST LEGAL LAWS?
00:32:12.00\00:32:16.30
ALRIGHT, LET ME SEE
HERE. GO TO ACTS 15, VERSE 13.
00:32:16.30\00:32:20.80
WHEN PAUL AND BARNABAS - THEY
CAME DOWN AND THEY REPORTED HOW
00:32:20.80\00:32:23.76
THE LORD HAD WORKED MARVELOUSLY
IN RAISING UP CHURCHES IN THESE
00:32:23.76\00:32:27.50
GENTILE TOWNS AMONG THE
GENTILES - AS WELL AS JEWS.
00:32:27.50\00:32:31.76
IT SAYS, AFTER THEY'D COME -
"AFTER THEY HAD BECOME SILENT" -
00:32:31.76\00:32:35.86
ACTS 15:13 - "JAMES ANSWERED,
SAYING, 'MEN AND BRETHREN,
00:32:35.86\00:32:40.83
LISTEN TO ME: SIMON HAS DECLARED
HOW GOD AT THE FIRST VISITED THE
00:32:40.83\00:32:44.56
GENTILES TO TAKE OUT OF
THEM A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME.
00:32:44.56\00:32:48.16
AND WITH THIS THE WORDS OF THE
PROPHETS AGREE, JUST AS IT IS
00:32:48.16\00:32:51.63
WRITTEN:'" - AND NOTICE, JAMES
IS SUPPORTING THE GOSPEL IS
00:32:51.63\00:32:54.00
SUPPOSED TO GO THE GENTILES -
"'AFTER THIS I WILL RETURN AND
00:32:54.00\00:32:56.93
REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID,
WHICH HAS FALLEN DOWN; I WILL
00:32:56.93\00:32:59.93
REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL
SET IT UP; SO THAT THE REST OF
00:32:59.93\00:33:02.80
MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, EVEN
ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED
00:33:02.80\00:33:07.00
BY MY NAME, SAYS THE LORD
WHO DOES ALL THESE THINGS.'" -
00:33:07.00\00:33:10.80
JAMES KNEW HIS BIBLE.
HE'S QUOTING OLD TESTAMENT
00:33:10.80\00:33:13.66
PROPHECIES TO SAY THE GOSPEL IS
SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE GENTILES.
00:33:13.66\00:33:16.70
SO HE UNDERSTOOD THE GOSPEL
AND, LET'S SEE, READ JAMES,
00:33:16.70\00:33:20.66
FOR INSTANCE,
CHAPTER 1, VERSE 3.
00:33:20.66\00:33:22.13
"KNOWING THAT THE TESTING OF
YOUR FAITH PRODUCES PATIENCE."
00:33:22.13\00:33:27.20
WHAT WAS MARTIN LUTHER'S
CONCERN ABOUT THE BOOK OF JAMES?
00:33:27.20\00:33:31.06
HE THOUGHT IT WAS TOO
MUCH LAW AND NOT ENOUGH FAITH.
00:33:31.06\00:33:33.30
BUT YOU'LL FIND THAT HE
SAYS QUITE A BIT ABOUT FAITH.
00:33:33.30\00:33:38.23
MATTER OF FACT YOU CAN GO AHEAD
00:33:38.23\00:33:39.83
- DICK, WHY DON'T
YOU READ JAMES 2:22?
00:33:39.83\00:33:42.40
>>"DO YOU SEE THAT FAITH WAS
WORKING TOGETHER WITH HIS WORKS,
00:33:42.40\00:33:45.70
AND BY WORKS,
FAITH WAS MADE PERFECT?"
00:33:45.70\00:33:48.63
>>SO IS HE IGNORING FAITH
AND EMPHASIZING WORK OR WAS HE
00:33:48.63\00:33:52.60
SHOWING A BALANCE
BETWEEN FAITH AND WORKS?
00:33:52.60\00:33:55.40
WHAT JAMES IS SAYING IS REALLY
WHAT EVERY CHRISTIAN BELIEVES
00:33:55.40\00:33:57.80
AND WE HAVE WHOLE LESSONS
THAT WILL DELVE INTO THIS MUCH
00:33:57.80\00:34:00.43
DEEPER, BUT THAT REAL FAITH -
WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH, BUT REAL
00:34:00.43\00:34:04.66
FAITH WILL BE EVIDENT BY THE
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AND, AMONG
00:34:04.66\00:34:09.10
THOSE FRUITS, PAUL EVEN SAYS 'WE
ARE SAVED UNTO GOOD WORKS.' AND
00:34:09.10\00:34:14.26
SO THERE'S PERFECT AGREEMENT
BETWEEN WHAT JAMES SAYS AND WHAT
00:34:14.26\00:34:18.16
PAUL SAYS. LET ME
READ JAMES 2, VERSE 5,
00:34:18.16\00:34:20.93
"LISTEN, MY BELOVED BRETHREN:
HAS GOD NOT CHOSEN THE POOR OF
00:34:20.93\00:34:24.90
THIS WORLD TO BE RICH IN FAITH
AND HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM WHICH
00:34:24.90\00:34:29.73
HE PROMISED TO
THOSE WHO LOVE HIM?"
00:34:29.73\00:34:32.50
NOTICE THE
EMPHASIS ON FAITH AND LOVE.
00:34:32.50\00:34:35.56
HE'S PROMISED THE
KINGDOM TO THOSE THAT LOVE HIM.
00:34:35.56\00:34:38.93
AND SO, THE GOOD WORKS THAT
JAMES TALKS ABOUT LATER IN THE
00:34:38.93\00:34:41.13
BOOK SPRING OUT OF WHAT?
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE OUT OF LOVE.
00:34:41.13\00:34:45.30
ANYTHING OTHER THAN
THAT, IT'S JUST NOT RIGHT.
00:34:45.30\00:34:47.80
AND WE CAN READ JAMES 5:15 -
WE'RE JUST KIND OF - OF COURSE,
00:34:47.80\00:34:51.26
THERE'S ONLY FIVE CHAPTERS SO
WE'RE JUST JUMPING THROUGH THE
00:34:51.26\00:34:53.80
BOOK HERE TO SHOW THAT
THERE IS A BALANCE HERE.
00:34:53.80\00:34:57.90
JAMES 5:15, "AND THE PRAYER
OF FAITH WILL SAVE THE SICK,
00:34:57.90\00:35:03.13
AND THE LORD WILL RAISE HIM UP.
00:35:03.13\00:35:04.60
AND IF HE HAS COMMITTED
SINS, HE WILL BE FORGIVEN."
00:35:04.60\00:35:07.20
AND SO, THERE'S AN EMPHASIS
ON FORGIVENESS THROUGH THE BOOK.
00:35:07.20\00:35:11.20
THERE'S AN EMPHASIS ON FAITH.
THERE'S AN EMPHASIS ON PRAYER.
00:35:11.20\00:35:16.33
TRUE FAITH CARRIES CERTAIN
RECOGNIZABLE CREDENTIALS AND
00:35:16.33\00:35:20.50
THIS'LL BE REVEALED IN THE LIFE
AND CHARACTER OF THE BELIEVER.
00:35:20.50\00:35:23.56
NOW THERE IS A QUOTE FROM THAT
BOOK CALLED 'LIFE SKETCHES OF
00:35:23.56\00:35:28.06
PAUL' - 'SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE
OF PAUL' AND THIS IS PAGES 208
00:35:28.06\00:35:32.56
AND 209, "THESE BRETHREN WERE
NOW CALLED FORWARD AND ONE BY
00:35:32.56\00:35:37.56
ONE THEY LAID AT THE FEET OF
JAMES, THE OFFERINGS WHICH THE
00:35:37.56\00:35:41.86
GENTILE CHURCHES HAD FREELY
GIVEN, ALTHOUGH OFTEN FROM
00:35:41.86\00:35:45.76
THEIR DEEPEST POVERTY. AND
SO, YOU REMEMBER WHEN THERE
00:35:45.76\00:35:48.76
WAS A FAMINE IN JERUSALEM?
IF YOU READ THE BOOK OF ACTS YOU
00:35:48.76\00:35:51.10
REMEMBER PAUL, AND IN
HIS WRITINGS HE REFERS TO IT.
00:35:51.10\00:35:54.33
HE WENT AMONG SOME OF THE
DIFFERENT CHURCHES IN ASIA.
00:35:54.33\00:35:56.93
THERE WAS A DROUGHT AND A FAMINE
BECAUSE OF THE DROUGHT, IN
00:35:56.93\00:35:59.46
JERUSALEM, AND THE GENTILES WERE
MAKING THIS GENEROUS OFFERING TO
00:35:59.46\00:36:05.83
HELP THE HUNGRY JEWISH
CHRISTIANS THAT WERE DOWN IN
00:36:05.83\00:36:08.63
JERUSALEM. AND SO,
THEY WERE BASICALLY
00:36:08.63\00:36:11.46
SHOWING, 'WELL, HERE, YOU
TREATED US LIKE DOGS BUT WE'RE
00:36:11.46\00:36:14.50
GOING TO SHOW LOVE TO YOU
BECAUSE THE GOSPEL CAME THROUGH
00:36:14.50\00:36:18.30
YOU TO US.' DOESN'T PAUL SAY,
'TO THE JEW FIRST AND AFTER THAT
00:36:18.30\00:36:21.70
THE GREEK?' THE
GOSPEL CAME TO THE JEW FIRST
00:36:21.70\00:36:25.93
AND THEN AFTER THAT
IT GOES TO THE GREEKS.
00:36:25.93\00:36:28.26
AND SO THEY WERE SHOWING THIS,
BUT WHOSE FEET DID THEY LAY THE
00:36:28.26\00:36:30.86
OFFERINGS AT?
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:36:30.86\00:36:34.36
NOW, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING,
'WERE THEY WORSHIPING HIM LIKE A
00:36:34.36\00:36:36.10
POPE OR A GOD?' IF
YOU READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 5
00:36:36.10\00:36:39.83
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED
OUT ON THE CHURCH AND PEOPLE
00:36:39.83\00:36:43.03
WERE SELLING THEIR PROPERTY,
THEY'D BRING THE PROCEEDS FROM
00:36:43.03\00:36:46.00
THEIR SOLD LAND TO THE APOSTLES
AND THEY'D LAY IT AT THEIR FEET.
00:36:46.00\00:36:50.26
NOW, THE APOSTLES
DID NOT WANT WORSHIP.
00:36:50.26\00:36:53.80
THEY RECOGNIZED THIS MEANT
THEY WERE GIVING IT TO THE LORD.
00:36:53.80\00:36:56.56
THE APOSTLES SORT OF REPRESENTED
THE EARTHLY MESSENGERS OF THE
00:36:56.56\00:36:59.23
LORD. WHEN THEY
TRIED TO WORSHIP PAUL
00:36:59.23\00:37:02.56
AND SILAS - I FORGET WHAT TOWN
THAT WAS IN - AND THEY WANTED TO
00:37:02.56\00:37:05.36
MAKE OFFERINGS TO THEM
AFTER THEY DID A MIRACLE.
00:37:05.36\00:37:07.56
IT MAY HAVE BEEN PHILIPPI AND
PAUL AND SILAS SAID, 'DON'T DO
00:37:07.56\00:37:11.40
THAT!' AND THEY
TORE THEIR CLOTHES.
00:37:11.40\00:37:13.80
THE APOSTLES
DIDN'T WANT WORSHIP.
00:37:13.80\00:37:15.70
AND WHEN PETER AND JOHN HEALED
THE MAN WHO WAS PARALYZED, AT
00:37:15.70\00:37:20.06
THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, ACTS CHAPTER
3, THE PEOPLE WANTED TO ACT LIKE
00:37:20.06\00:37:23.96
PETER AND JOHN, THESE
APOSTLES, WERE DIVINE.
00:37:23.96\00:37:26.63
AND THEY SAID,
'WE'RE MEN JUST LIKE YOU.
00:37:26.63\00:37:27.96
IT'S THE NAME OF JESUS THAT DID
THIS.' BUT WHEN THEY SOLD THEIR
00:37:27.96\00:37:31.53
PROPERTY AND THEY WANTED TO GIVE
IT TO THE LORD - AND THEY DIDN'T
00:37:31.53\00:37:33.60
HAVE REGULAR CHURCHES TO MEET
IN - THEY'D COME TO WHEREVER THE
00:37:33.60\00:37:36.30
APOSTLES GATHERED AND THEY'D
PUBLICLY SAY, 'THIS IS A GIFT TO
00:37:36.30\00:37:38.73
THE LORD.' AND THEY'D
PUT IT DOWN AT THEIR FEET.
00:37:38.73\00:37:40.46
THAT WAS JUST OF WAY OF SAYING,
'WE'RE GIVING THIS TO THE LORD.'
00:37:40.46\00:37:43.73
BUT IT'S INTERESTING, THE
PROMINENT POSITION THAT JAMES
00:37:43.73\00:37:48.03
ROSE TO IN THE CHURCH, GOING
FROM A SKEPTICAL OLDER BROTHER
00:37:48.03\00:37:53.30
TO, BASICALLY - I KNOW THIS MAY
SOUND STRANGE BUT HE WAS KNOWN
00:37:53.30\00:37:57.86
AS 'THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.'
AND BISHOP IS A BIBLICAL WORD.
00:37:57.86\00:38:01.33
IT MEANS 'THE OVER SHEPHERD
OF THE CHURCH.' HE WAS PROBABLY
00:38:01.33\00:38:04.66
OLDER THAN PETER AND
JOHN. THEY WERE YOUNGER WHEN
00:38:04.66\00:38:07.36
JESUS CALLED THEM. HE
WAS OLDER THAN JESUS AND IF
00:38:07.36\00:38:11.53
HE'S THE OLDEST OF AT LEAST SIX
CHILDREN, HE MAY HAVE BEEN, YOU
00:38:11.53\00:38:15.70
KNOW, TWELVE, FIFTEEN
YEARS OLDER THAN JESUS.
00:38:15.70\00:38:18.73
AND SO, HE WAS FIFTY,
SIXTY - HE WAS THE PATRIARCH.
00:38:18.73\00:38:22.26
A LOT OF THE CONVERTS WERE
VERY YOUNG - THAT FIRST FOLLOWED
00:38:22.26\00:38:25.16
JESUS. ALRIGHT, SO
THE GOSPEL IS IN THE
00:38:25.16\00:38:27.83
STORY OF JAMES. NOW,
IT SAYS HERE, IN THE NEXT
00:38:27.83\00:38:30.00
SECTION, "TO THE TWELVE TRIBES
SCATTERED ABROAD." AND - LET'S
00:38:30.00\00:38:36.86
SEE HERE - IF WE LOOK IN JAMES
1:1 - THIS IS THE - NOW WE'RE
00:38:36.86\00:38:39.96
FINALLY GETTING INTO THE
BOOK. SORRY IT'S TAKEN SO LONG.
00:38:39.96\00:38:42.70
JAMES 1:1 - WELL,
WE'VE BEEN QUOTING EXCERPTS.
00:38:42.70\00:38:45.96
"JAMES, A BONDSERVANT OF GOD AND
OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, TO THE
00:38:45.96\00:38:51.63
TWELVE TRIBES WHICH ARE
SCATTERED ABROAD: GREETINGS."
00:38:51.63\00:38:55.60
NOW DOES THAT MEAN THIS BOOK IS
JUST WRITTEN TO TWELVE TRIBES OR
00:38:55.60\00:38:59.73
IS HE USING THE WORDS 'TWELVE
TRIBES' IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE?
00:38:59.73\00:39:04.76
I'LL GIVE YOU A
LITTLE TRIBAL HISTORY.
00:39:04.76\00:39:10.26
HOW MANY TRIBES WERE THERE - OF
ISRAEL? IT'S A TRICK QUESTION.
00:39:10.26\00:39:18.23
IT STARTED OUT THAT JACOB HAD
TWELVE SONS, BUT BECAUSE JOSEPH
00:39:18.23\00:39:22.96
WAS SOLD AND WENT
INTO EGYPT, WHILE THERE,
00:39:22.96\00:39:25.50
JOSEPH GAVE BIRTH TO TWO SONS.
00:39:25.50\00:39:28.10
BUT JOSEPH HAD BEEN SEPARATED
FOR MANY YEARS FROM THE FAMILY.
00:39:28.10\00:39:31.53
SO JACOB, HE SAID, VIRTUALLY ON
HIS DEATH BED, THAT THE SONS OF
00:39:31.53\00:39:37.26
JOSEPH WOULD BE GIVEN A NAME
AND AN INHERITANCE EQUAL WITH A
00:39:37.26\00:39:41.86
BROTHER, BECAUSE
OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
00:39:41.86\00:39:44.23
AND SO THEIR NAMES
WERE EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH.
00:39:44.23\00:39:47.43
BUT THEN, IF YOU DO THE MATH AND
YOU COUNT EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
00:39:47.43\00:39:51.50
AND ALL THE TRIBES,
YOU END UP WITH THIRTEEN.
00:39:51.50\00:39:53.76
YOU DON'T COUNT JOSEPH, YOU
COUNT THE TWO SONS OF JOSEPH,
00:39:53.76\00:39:56.86
RIGHT? BUT THEY ALWAYS
TALK ABOUT THE TWELVE TRIBES.
00:39:56.86\00:39:59.83
LET ME TELL YOU
HOW THAT HAPPENED.
00:39:59.83\00:40:01.93
THAT ONLY LASTED
WHILE THEY WERE IN EXODUS -
00:40:01.93\00:40:04.50
THEY HAD THIRTEEN
TRIBES - IN EGYPT, RATHER.
00:40:04.50\00:40:06.96
AFTER THE EXODUS - SHORTLY AFTER
MOUNT SINAI, GOD SAID THAT THE
00:40:06.96\00:40:12.33
SONS OF LEVI - THE DESCENDENTS
OF LEVI - THEY WOULD NOT GET AN
00:40:12.33\00:40:16.73
INHERITANCE IN THE PROMISED LAND
LIKE THE OTHER TWELVE TRIBES,
00:40:16.73\00:40:20.26
BUT THEY WOULD BE THE PRIESTS
FOR THE OTHER TWELVE TRIBES.
00:40:20.26\00:40:23.70
SO IF YOU COUNT LEVI AND EPHRAIM
AND MANASSEH AND ISSACHAR AND
00:40:23.70\00:40:27.60
ZEBULUN AND THE REST OF
THEM, YOU END UP WITH THIRTEEN.
00:40:27.60\00:40:32.30
HOW MANY WERE
AT THE LAST SUPPER?
00:40:32.30\00:40:35.13
>>THIRTEEN.
>>UNTIL JUDAS LEFT THE ROOM
00:40:35.13\00:40:37.03
THERE WERE THIRTEEN. SO THEY
CALL THEM THE TWELVE TRIBES.
00:40:37.03\00:40:40.63
NOW, EVEN WHEN THEY CAME BACK
- LET ME SEE - YEAH, EZRA - I'M
00:40:40.63\00:40:45.40
JUMPING AHEAD HERE BECAUSE I
THOUGHT ABOUT IT - EZRA 6:17.
00:40:45.40\00:40:48.23
TEN OF THE TRIBES - OH - YOU
JUST - GIVE YOU THE HISTORY -
00:40:48.23\00:40:53.93
EVERYTHING WAS HUNKY DOREY WITH
THE TWELVE TRIBES AFTER - WHEN
00:40:53.93\00:40:57.66
SAUL BECAME KING - THERE WERE
REALLY ONLY THREE KINGS OVER THE
00:40:57.66\00:41:00.40
UNITED KINGDOM: SAUL, DAVID,
SOLOMON. IT'S INTERESTING, THEY
00:41:00.40\00:41:04.76
ALL REIGNED EXACTLY FORTY
YEARS. FORTY - FORTY - FORTY.
00:41:04.76\00:41:09.00
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS,
BUT THE LIFE OF MOSES IS DIVIDED
00:41:09.00\00:41:11.53
UP INTO THREE
FORTIES ALSO, RIGHT?
00:41:11.53\00:41:14.16
FORTY IN EGYPT. FORTY IN THE
WILDERNESS. FORTY LEADING THEM
00:41:14.16\00:41:17.23
FROM EGYPT
THROUGH THE WILDERNESS.
00:41:17.23\00:41:19.20
AND SO YOU HAD THREE KINGS
OF ISRAEL WHERE THERE WERE THE
00:41:19.20\00:41:21.90
TWELVE TRIBES OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM, BUT THEN, WHEN SOLOMON
00:41:21.90\00:41:25.73
CAME ALONG - AFTER HE DIED THERE
WAS A REBELLION. JEROBOAM SPLIT
00:41:25.73\00:41:30.80
OFF - HE WAS A SERVANT OF
SOLOMON - THE KINGDOM SPLIT.
00:41:30.80\00:41:33.96
REHOBOAM AND JEROBOAM -
REHOBOAM, SON OF SOLOMON.
00:41:33.96\00:41:38.13
TEN OF THE TRIBES IN THE NORTH
SAID, 'WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR
00:41:38.13\00:41:40.20
OWN RELIGION.' THEY
SET UP THEIR OWN ALTARS.
00:41:40.20\00:41:42.70
THEY DIDN'T 'WANT THE PEOPLE
GOING DOWN TO THE TEMPLE IN
00:41:42.70\00:41:44.56
JERUSALEM. AND SO IT
WAS A GREAT APOSTASY.
00:41:44.56\00:41:47.60
THEY GOT INTO IDOLATRY.
00:41:47.60\00:41:48.63
THEY HAD GOLDEN
CALVES AT DAN AND BETHEL.
00:41:48.63\00:41:51.03
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM TRIED
TO STAY TRUE TO THE LORD AND THE
00:41:51.03\00:41:54.33
SOUTHERN KINGDOM WAS COMPRISED
OF MOST OF THE LEVITES BECAUSE
00:41:54.33\00:41:57.50
THE NORTHERN KINGDOM
HAD CORRUPTED WORSHIP.
00:41:57.50\00:42:00.53
MOST OF THE LEVITES, THE TRIBE
OF BENJAMIN - BUT THE BIG TRIBE
00:42:00.53\00:42:03.73
WAS JUDAH. IT WAS
OFTEN CALLED JUDAH,
00:42:03.73\00:42:05.73
BECAUSE THEY WERE
THE BIGGEST TRIBE.
00:42:05.73\00:42:07.20
THE NORTHERN KINGDOM
WAS OFTEN CALLED EPHRAIM,
00:42:07.20\00:42:09.70
BECAUSE THEY WERE
THE BIGGEST TRIBE.
00:42:09.70\00:42:11.23
BUT IT WAS EPHRAIM
AND THE OTHER NINE.
00:42:11.23\00:42:13.46
SO THERE'S A CIVIL WAR THAT
LASTED UNTIL THE END AND, AROUND
00:42:13.46\00:42:19.76
THE TIME HEZEKIAH WAS KING OF
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM, JUDAH, THE
00:42:19.76\00:42:24.96
KING OF ASSYRIA CAME AND HE
CONQUERED THE NORTHERN KINGDOM.
00:42:24.96\00:42:27.73
THEY HAD GONE
THROUGH LOTS OF BAD KINGS.
00:42:27.73\00:42:30.30
I MEAN, ELIJAH DEALT WITH
AHAB AND ALL OF HIS PROBLEMS.
00:42:30.30\00:42:34.36
AND YOU'VE GOT ELISHA DEALING
WITH JEHU AND THEY JUST HAD A
00:42:34.36\00:42:38.63
LOT OF BAD KINGS AND DID A
LOT OF VIOLENT THINGS AND THE
00:42:38.63\00:42:42.06
DYNASTIES KEPT
GETTING OVERTHROWN.
00:42:42.06\00:42:43.83
THOSE TEN TRIBES WERE CARRIED
OFF, HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE
00:42:43.83\00:42:47.63
JESUS WAS BORN, TO ASSYRIA.
MOST OF THEM INTERMARRIED.
00:42:47.63\00:42:52.30
THEY BECAME VERY
INDISTINCT AS A UNIQUE PEOPLE.
00:42:52.30\00:42:56.46
NOW YOU CAN GO TO ASSYRIA TODAY
AND YOU'LL FIND A FEW, VAGUE
00:42:56.46\00:43:01.36
REMNANTS OF PEOPLE THAT SAY THEY
ARE JEWS THAT CAN BE TRACED BACK
00:43:01.36\00:43:04.70
- THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY ARABS.
THEY'VE INTERMARRIED WITH ARABS,
00:43:04.70\00:43:08.86
BUT THEY STILL
MAINTAIN THEIR JEWISH RELIGION.
00:43:08.86\00:43:11.36
AND SO, THERE ARE STILL SOME
REMNANTS OF JEWISH PEOPLE IN
00:43:11.36\00:43:14.76
THAT PART, BUT THEY DID NOT
COME BACK FROM THE CAPTIVITY.
00:43:14.76\00:43:18.53
WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR CARRIED OFF
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF JUDAH,
00:43:18.53\00:43:22.26
SEVENTY YEARS
LATER THEY CAME BACK.
00:43:22.26\00:43:25.16
BUT EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE
REALLY ONLY THREE TRIBES: JUDAH,
00:43:25.16\00:43:28.86
BENJAMIN, AND LEVI,
LISTEN TO WHAT EZRA SAYS.
00:43:28.86\00:43:31.63
THIS IS A LONG
INTRODUCTION INTO ONE VERSE.
00:43:31.63\00:43:33.96
"AND THEY OFFERED SACRIFICES AT
THE DEDICATION OF THIS HOUSE OF
00:43:33.96\00:43:37.50
GOD, ONE HUNDRED BULLS,
TWO HUNDRED RAMS, FOUR HUNDRED
00:43:37.50\00:43:39.73
LAMBS, AND AS A SIN OFFERING FOR
ALL ISRAEL, TWELVE MALE GOATS,
00:43:39.73\00:43:44.90
ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER
OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL."
00:43:44.90\00:43:47.46
SO EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T
HAVE TWELVE TRIBES ANYMORE, IN
00:43:47.46\00:43:50.30
ISRAEL, THEY STILL REFERRED
TO THEM AS THE TWELVE TRIBES.
00:43:50.30\00:43:54.46
AND THEY ALSO BELIEVE THAT SOME
OF THE TRIBES HAD INTERMARRIED,
00:43:54.46\00:44:00.06
THEY SHARED THEIR FAITH,
THEY KIND OF LOST THEIR DISTINCT
00:44:00.06\00:44:02.66
IDENTITY, BUT THEY WERE
SCATTERED. THEY WERE BLENDED.
00:44:02.66\00:44:06.60
THEY, SORT OF, MINGLED
INTO THE OTHER NATIONS.
00:44:06.60\00:44:12.06
THE JEWS ARE THE GREATEST
EVIDENCE OF THE BIBLE BEING
00:44:12.06\00:44:16.73
TRUE, OF JUST ABOUT ANYTHING.
WELL, I SHOULDN'T SAY THE
00:44:16.73\00:44:19.90
GREATEST - ONE OF THE GREATEST
EVIDENCES. THERE IS NO OTHER
00:44:19.90\00:44:23.03
NATION IN THE WORLD THAT HAS
BEEN CONQUERED, SCATTERED AMONG
00:44:23.03\00:44:28.90
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, THAT REMAINS
WITH A DISTINCT LANGUAGE.
00:44:28.90\00:44:33.53
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT A LOT OF
COUNTRIES - NATIVE AMERICANS -
00:44:33.53\00:44:39.40
I'VE LIVED ON SEVERAL
RESERVATIONS. KAREN AND I LIVE
00:44:39.40\00:44:41.50
BY FIVE TRIBES UP IN COVELO.
I DON'T KNOW ONE OF THEM THAT
00:44:41.50\00:44:44.20
CAN SPEAK THEIR
ANCIENT TONGUE ANYMORE.
00:44:44.20\00:44:46.76
I USED TO, WHEN I FIRST MOVED
THERE, BUT THEY SLOWLY DIED OFF.
00:44:46.76\00:44:49.33
I LIVED WITH THE NAVAJOS FOR
YEARS. WHEN I FIRST WENT THERE,
00:44:49.33\00:44:51.86
THEY ALL SPOKE FLUENT NAVAJO.
IT'S BECOMING LESS AND LESS
00:44:51.86\00:44:55.10
PROMINENT. NAVAJO
IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE
00:44:55.10\00:44:56.46
STRONGEST NATIVE AMERICAN
LANGUAGES. BUT YOU GO AROUND -
00:44:56.46\00:44:59.30
AND THAT'S JUST AFTER A FEW
HUNDRED YEARS. THE JEWS WERE
00:44:59.30\00:45:02.90
CONQUERED AND SCATTERED
FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS.
00:45:02.90\00:45:06.30
AND TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THEIR
LANGUAGE AND THEN COME BACK TO
00:45:06.30\00:45:08.90
THEIR LAND THREE TIMES.
THEY WERE CARRIED OFF TO EGYPT.
00:45:08.90\00:45:12.36
THEY CAME BACK. CARRIED
OFF TO BABYLON. THEY CAME BACK.
00:45:12.36\00:45:16.06
SCATTERED BY THE ROMANS FOR
OVER A THOUSAND YEARS - NINETEEN
00:45:16.06\00:45:18.53
HUNDRED YEARS - AND THEY
CAME BACK. IT'S JUST PHENOMENAL
00:45:18.53\00:45:21.80
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. SO
WHEN JAMES IS SAYING, 'TO THE
00:45:21.80\00:45:24.46
TWELVE TRIBES'
WHO'S HE TALKING TO?
00:45:24.46\00:45:27.83
HE'S TALKING TO
EVERY BELIEVER IN JEHOVAH.
00:45:27.83\00:45:31.30
AND IT WAS A TERM THAT WAS USED
TO JUST TALK ABOUT ALL OF GOD'S
00:45:31.30\00:45:35.40
PEOPLE. THE NEW JERUSALEM
HAS HOW MANY FOUNDATIONS?
00:45:35.40\00:45:38.56
HOW MANY GATES? TWELVE.
HOW MANY KINDS OF FRUIT ON THE
00:45:38.56\00:45:43.53
TREE OF LIFE? TWELVE?
TWELVE DIFFERENT KINDS -
00:45:43.53\00:45:48.03
TWELVE TIMES A YEAR.
THAT COULD MEAN A HUNDRED AND
00:45:48.03\00:45:51.16
FORTY-FOUR DIFFERENT -
BETTER THAN BASKIN ROBINS, HUH?
00:45:51.16\00:45:53.93
A HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR
DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT.
00:45:53.93\00:45:56.16
AND SO TWELVE IS A NUMBER
THAT IS JUST - THE WOMAN IN
00:45:56.16\00:45:58.76
REVELATION 12 - NOT THAT THE
CHAPTER MEANS ANYTHING, CHAPTER
00:45:58.76\00:46:01.60
12 - HAS HOW MANY
STARS ABOVE HER HEAD? TWELVE.
00:46:01.60\00:46:05.13
SO THAT WAS A NUMBER THAT
REPRESENTED THE LEADERSHIP.
00:46:05.13\00:46:07.70
OLD TESTAMENT - TWELVE TRIBES.
YOU HAD PEOPLE INCLUDE SAMUEL.
00:46:07.70\00:46:12.36
THEY ARGUE TWELVE
JUDGES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:46:12.36\00:46:15.36
AND THEN YOU HAVE
THE TWELVE APOSTLES.
00:46:15.36\00:46:17.83
PETER THOUGHT THE
NUMBER WAS IMPORTANT.
00:46:17.83\00:46:19.50
THEY REPLACED - OH YEAH, WERE
THE TWELVE APOSTLES ALL FROM
00:46:19.50\00:46:23.23
TWELVE DIFFERENT TRIBES?
NO, MOST OF THE APOSTLES WERE
00:46:23.23\00:46:26.93
PROBABLY FROM
BENJAMIN, JUDAH, LEVI.
00:46:26.93\00:46:31.73
MATTHEW LEVI WAS FROM
WHAT TRIBE DO YOU THINK?
00:46:31.73\00:46:34.20
LEVI. WHAT TRIBE WAS PAUL FROM?
00:46:34.20\00:46:37.23
PAUL SAID, 'I'M A BENJAMITE.'
YEAH, SO WHY DID JESUS PICK
00:46:37.23\00:46:43.46
TWELVE TRIBES IF THEY WEREN'T
FROM - OR TWELVE APOSTLES IF
00:46:43.46\00:46:45.83
THEY WEREN'T FROM DIFFERENT
TRIBES? THE NUMBER MEANT
00:46:45.83\00:46:48.26
SOMETHING TO THE JEWISH
PEOPLE. IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:46:48.26\00:46:50.73
THEY ALWAYS FELT BAD THAT THEY'D
BEEN DECIMATED BY APOSTASY AND
00:46:50.73\00:46:54.66
BY OTHER NATIONS, SO
THEY CLAIMED THAT 'WE'RE STILL
00:46:54.66\00:46:57.43
TWELVE.' AND SO, WHEN HE SAYS
'TO THE TWELVE TRIBES,' HE'S
00:46:57.43\00:47:00.56
SPEAKING MORE IN
A SPIRITUAL SENSE.
00:47:00.56\00:47:03.10
NOW YOU KNOW WHY
THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR US?
00:47:03.10\00:47:05.73
WHEN YOU GET TO REVELATION AND
IT TALKS ABOUT TWELVE THOUSAND
00:47:05.73\00:47:11.23
FROM THE TWELVE TRIBES - IT
SAYS, 'FROM THE TRIBES OF JUDAH,
00:47:11.23\00:47:16.96
BENJAMIN, ISSACHAR, LEVI
- ALL THE DIFFERENT TRIBES.
00:47:16.96\00:47:22.26
YOU KNOW MANY CHRISTIANS TODAY,
THEY BELIEVE THAT THE HOLY
00:47:22.26\00:47:26.96
SPIRIT IS A SPECIAL OUTPOURING
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT GOD IS
00:47:26.96\00:47:30.46
GOING TO RAISE UP A HUNDRED AND
FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND LITERAL JEWS
00:47:30.46\00:47:34.66
WITH TWELVE THOUSAND LITERAL
JEWS FROM THESE LITERAL TRIBES.
00:47:34.66\00:47:39.30
BUT IF THEY KNOW THEIR BIBLE
HISTORY, MOST OF THOSE TRIBES
00:47:39.30\00:47:42.90
WERE SCATTERED AND SO BLENDED
THAT ALL OF YOU HERE MIGHT HAVE
00:47:42.90\00:47:45.66
A LITTLE JEWISH
BLOOD - IF YOU'RE LUCKY.
00:47:45.66\00:47:48.66
SORRY. BUT, I MEAN, REALLY.
00:47:48.66\00:47:51.96
SO THE IDEA THAT THERE ARE GOING
TO BE TWELVE THOUSAND LITERAL
00:47:51.96\00:47:55.30
PEOPLE FROM ZEBULON OUT
PREACHING THE GOSPEL, IT'S JUST
00:47:55.30\00:47:59.50
BIBLE IGNORANCE. THEY
DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY.
00:47:59.50\00:48:01.83
THOSE TRIBES HAVE BEEN SCATTERED
AND DISPERSED AND WATERED DOWN
00:48:01.83\00:48:06.33
TWO THOUSAND YEARS
AGO. SO WHEN IT SAYS THE
00:48:06.33\00:48:10.60
TWELVE TRIBES HERE, I
THINK THAT'S A SPIRITUAL NUMBER
00:48:10.60\00:48:14.36
THAT HE'S TALKING
ABOUT. SO WHAT DOES PETER SAY?
00:48:14.36\00:48:16.43
IF YOU LOOK IN - LET ME SEE HERE
- 1 PETER 2:9, "BUT YOU ARE A
00:48:16.43\00:48:23.43
CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, HIS
00:48:23.43\00:48:27.06
OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY
PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO
00:48:27.06\00:48:30.86
CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO
HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT;" PETER IS
00:48:30.86\00:48:33.80
REFERRING TO THE CHURCH AT
LARGE - AS A NATION - AND SO THE
00:48:33.80\00:48:37.86
TWELVE TRIBES WAS SORT OF -
AND, YOU KNOW, PETER ALSO SAYS -
00:48:37.86\00:48:41.06
1 PETER 5:13? PETER
WRITES A LETTER AND HE
00:48:41.06\00:48:43.93
SAYS, "SHE WHO IS IN BABYLON,
ELECT TOGETHER WITH YOU, GREETS
00:48:43.93\00:48:47.10
YOU; AND SO DOES MARK MY SON."
PETER'S WRITING A LETTER TO
00:48:47.10\00:48:51.26
BABYLON? OR WAS
PETER REFERRING TO ROME
00:48:51.26\00:48:54.46
AS BABYLON EVEN
BACK THAT FAR AGO.
00:48:54.46\00:48:58.00
HE'S USING BABYLON IN
A SPIRITUAL SENSE THERE.
00:48:58.00\00:49:01.10
THEY DID HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT
LIVED NEAR BABYLON DURING THE
00:49:01.10\00:49:04.63
TIME OF PETER, BUT THERE WAS
NO SPECIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN
00:49:04.63\00:49:07.66
BABYLON THAT WE KNOW
ABOUT FROM HISTORY. PETER -
00:49:07.66\00:49:09.90
THEY USED THESE WORDS
SORT OF INTERCHANGEABLY WITH
00:49:09.90\00:49:12.63
THEIR SPIRITUAL SENSE.
00:49:12.63\00:49:13.83
LUKE 22 - JESUS SAYS - VERSE
29, "AND I BESTOW UPON YOU A
00:49:13.83\00:49:19.00
KINGDOM, JUST AS MY FATHER
BESTOWED ONE UPON ME, THAT YOU
00:49:19.00\00:49:22.73
MAY EAT AND DRINK AT MY TABLE IN
MY KINGDOM, AND SIT ON THRONES
00:49:22.73\00:49:28.33
JUDGING THE
TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL."
00:49:28.33\00:49:31.96
SO HOW DOES JESUS USE
THE TERM 'TWELVE TRIBES?'
00:49:31.96\00:49:34.96
IS HE EXCLUDING CHRISTIANS WHEN
HE SAYS 'YOU'LL BE JUDGING THE
00:49:34.96\00:49:37.36
TWELVE TRIBES?' OR IS HE
TALKING ABOUT ALL HIS BELIEVERS?
00:49:37.36\00:49:40.66
YOU SEE, WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND
THAT - I BELIEVE GOD HAS A
00:49:40.66\00:49:43.63
SPECIAL WORK FOR
LITERAL JEWS - I DO.
00:49:43.63\00:49:46.06
AND I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE
A GREAT REVIVAL BEFORE THE END.
00:49:46.06\00:49:48.93
BUT PAUL SAYS,'HE IS NOT A JEW
WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY, HE IS A
00:49:48.93\00:49:53.46
JEW WHICH IS ONE INWARDLY.' PAUL
SAYS, 'IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S, THEN
00:49:53.46\00:49:57.53
YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED.' PAUL
SAYS THAT WE ARE GRAFTED INTO
00:49:57.53\00:50:02.13
THE STOCK OF ABRAHAM - THAT THE
GENTILES ARE GRAFTED INTO THE
00:50:02.13\00:50:05.50
HEBREW STOCK. WE DRAW
OUR SAP FROM THE BIBLE
00:50:05.50\00:50:08.43
WE READ - THE
JEWISH BOOK, RIGHT?
00:50:08.43\00:50:10.53
AND SO THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD THIS.
SO REALLY, WHAT'S HAPPENING IS
00:50:10.53\00:50:14.63
THE - THE EARLY CHRISTIANS,
INCLUDING JAMES, THEY UNDERSTOOD
00:50:14.63\00:50:21.76
THAT ALL THE GENTILES
WERE SORT OF CONVERTING.
00:50:21.76\00:50:25.93
WHEN THEY BECAME CHRISTIANS
THAT THEY WERE, IN A SENSE,
00:50:25.93\00:50:27.80
CONVERTING TO BEING SPIRITUAL
JEWS. THAT TROUBLES SOME PEOPLE.
00:50:27.80\00:50:32.56
IF SOMEONE'S GOT A LITTLE BIT OF
ANTISEMITISM THEY KIND OF CHAFF
00:50:32.56\00:50:35.10
AT THAT IDEA. BUT IS A VERY
CLEARLY TAUGHT THEME, IN THE
00:50:35.10\00:50:39.83
BIBLE, THAT CHRISTIANS
REALLY ARE STANDING ON THE
00:50:39.83\00:50:42.53
FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES
AND PROPHETS, WHICH IS A LARGELY
00:50:42.53\00:50:46.90
JEWISH BOOK. THEN WE GO
TO 'JAMES AND JESUS' HERE.
00:50:46.90\00:50:52.96
THIS IS THE LAST SECTION AND HOW
DOES HE REFER TO HIMSELF IN THE
00:50:52.96\00:50:57.13
OPENING VERSE? THE BONDSERVANT.
00:50:57.13\00:51:01.06
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN AN OLDER
BROTHER THAT WOULD TELL THE
00:51:01.06\00:51:04.13
YOUNGER BROTHER THAT
'I'LL BE YOUR BONDSERVANT?'
00:51:04.13\00:51:09.26
JESUS MUST HAVE MADE A PRETTY
STRONG IMPRESSION ON JAMES.
00:51:09.26\00:51:12.73
I MEAN, AFTER ALL, WAS JAMES
AT THE CROSS WHEN JESUS WAS
00:51:12.73\00:51:15.26
CRUCIFIED? MARY
WAS THERE WITH HIS
00:51:15.26\00:51:17.53
BRETHREN. I'M
SURE THEY SAW THAT.
00:51:17.53\00:51:20.06
WHEN JESUS THEN APPEARS AFTER
HIS RESURRECTION, PERSONALLY, TO
00:51:20.06\00:51:24.16
JAMES, WOULD THAT CONVINCE YOU,
EVEN AS AN OLDER BROTHER, IF
00:51:24.16\00:51:27.56
YOUR YOUNGER BROTHER GETS
RESURRECTED AND SAYS, 'I'VE JUST
00:51:27.56\00:51:30.36
COME FROM THE FATHER.'
ESPECIALLY IF THEY WERE ALWAYS
00:51:30.36\00:51:33.66
CALLED 'LITTLE ANGEL.' MY
BROTHER - YOU KNOW I HAD A
00:51:33.66\00:51:37.26
STEP-BROTHER, JOHN AND I - JOHN
WAS OLDER AND MY BROTHER FALCON,
00:51:37.26\00:51:40.20
HE WAS OLDER THAN ME BUT FALCON
HAD CYSTIC FIBROSIS - HIS HEALTH
00:51:40.20\00:51:43.10
WASN'T THAT GOOD SO WHEN WE'D GO
GET IN TROUBLE - JOHN AND I WERE
00:51:43.10\00:51:46.06
ALWAYS IN ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE
- FALCON, HIS HEALTH WASN'T AS
00:51:46.06\00:51:48.63
GOOD AND HE DIDN'T PARTICIPATE
IN ALL OF OUR ANTICS AND WE
00:51:48.63\00:51:53.60
ALWAYS CALLED HIM 'LITTLE
ANGEL', 'GOODY GOODY' - IT
00:51:53.60\00:51:56.66
WASN'T A FLATTERING TERM.
BUT THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT JESUS
00:51:56.66\00:51:59.56
GOT CALLED BY HIS BRETHREN.
THEY'D GET INTO SOME KIND OF
00:51:59.56\00:52:02.26
MISCHIEF, YOU KNOW,
'COME ON JESUS, LET'S GO...'
00:52:02.26\00:52:04.20
'NO, THAT'S NOT RIGHT. I
CAN'T DO THAT.' 'LITTLE ANGEL'
00:52:04.20\00:52:07.26
YOU KNOW AND - JAMES
1 VERSES 9 THROUGH 11.
00:52:07.26\00:52:13.60
JAMES SAYS, "LET THE LOWLY
BROTHER GLORY IN HIS EXALTATION,
00:52:13.60\00:52:19.00
BUT THE RICH IN HIS HUMILIATION,
BECAUSE AS A FLOWER OF THE FIELD
00:52:19.00\00:52:23.80
HE WILL PASS AWAY. FOR
NO SOONER HAS THE SUN RISEN
00:52:23.80\00:52:26.66
WITH A BURNING HEAT THAN IT
WITHERS THE GRASS; ITS FLOWER
00:52:26.66\00:52:29.96
FALLS, AND ITS
BEAUTIFUL APPEARANCE PERISHES.
00:52:29.96\00:52:33.43
SO THE RICH MAN ALSO WILL
FADE AWAY IN HIS PURSUITS."
00:52:33.43\00:52:35.63
HE EMPHASIZES
HUMILITY AND, KNOWING JESUS,
00:52:35.63\00:52:39.00
JESUS WAS VERY HUMBLE.
00:52:39.00\00:52:40.83
BY THE WAY, HERE'S ANOTHER
EXAMPLE - HE'S QUOTING, YOU KNOW
00:52:40.83\00:52:43.83
WHERE JAMES IS
QUOTING FROM HERE?
00:52:43.83\00:52:46.23
IN ISAIAH WHERE HE SAYS,
'THE FLOWER FADES AND THE GRASS
00:52:46.23\00:52:49.10
WITHERS?' IT'S ALSO
- PSALMS TALKS ABOUT
00:52:49.10\00:52:50.66
THAT. ALRIGHT, GO
AHEAD. READ FOR US JAMES 1:21.
00:52:50.66\00:52:55.40
>>"THEREFORE LAY ASIDE
ALL FILTHINESS AND OVERFLOW OF
00:52:55.40\00:52:58.10
WICKEDNESS, AND RECEIVE WITH
MEEKNESS THE IMPLANTED WORD,
00:52:58.10\00:53:02.46
WHICH IS ABLE TO
SAVE YOUR SOULS."
00:53:02.46\00:53:05.06
>>MEEKNESS. WHAT WAS ONE OF
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MOSES?
00:53:05.06\00:53:10.56
MEEKEST MAN WHO HAD EVER LIVED.
00:53:10.56\00:53:12.03
MOSES SAID, 'THE LORD, YOUR
GOD'LL RAISE UP A PROPHET TO YOU
00:53:12.03\00:53:14.50
LIKE ME.' AND JESUS SAID, 'FOR I
AM MEEK AND LOWLY.' AND SO JAMES
00:53:14.50\00:53:20.46
SAYS, 'LAY ASIDE ALL FILTHINESS
AND RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS, THE
00:53:20.46\00:53:25.03
IMPLANTED WORD, WHICH IS ABLE
TO SAVE YOUR SOULS.' AND WHAT IS
00:53:25.03\00:53:28.46
JESUS CALLED BY
JOHN? JESUS IS THE WORD.
00:53:28.46\00:53:32.20
LET'S GO TO JAMES 4:6-10,
"BUT HE GIVES MORE GRACE.
00:53:32.20\00:53:37.43
THEREFORE HE SAYS: 'GOD RESISTS
THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO
00:53:37.43\00:53:41.90
THE HUMBLE.'
THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD.
00:53:41.90\00:53:45.33
RESIST THE DEVIL AND
HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
00:53:45.33\00:53:48.10
DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND
HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU."
00:53:48.10\00:53:50.76
- THESE ARE WONDERFUL PROMISES
- "CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YOU
00:53:50.76\00:53:53.03
SINNERS; AND PURIFY YOUR
HEARTS, YOU DOUBLE-MINDED.
00:53:53.03\00:53:55.76
LAMENT AND MOURN AND WEEP!"
- WHY? SO YOU CAN STAY IN SELF
00:53:55.76\00:54:00.26
HUMILIATION AND DEPRESSION?
- "LAMENT AND MOURN AND WEEP!
00:54:00.26\00:54:06.26
LET YOUR LAUGHTER BE TURNED TO
MOURNING AND YOUR JOY TO GLOOM."
00:54:06.26\00:54:09.00
- NOTICE - "HUMBLE YOURSELVES
IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD AND HE
00:54:09.00\00:54:12.43
WILL LIFT YOU UP.'" IN OTHER
WORDS, JAMES SAYS YOU NEED TO
00:54:12.43\00:54:15.70
THOROUGHLY REPENT AND HUMBLE
YOURSELF SO GOD CAN GIVE YOU THE
00:54:15.70\00:54:19.36
JOY AND LIFT YOU UP. YOU
KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE
00:54:19.36\00:54:22.80
- THEY WANT TO HAVE THE JOY
OF THE LORD AND THEY DON'T FIRST
00:54:22.80\00:54:25.30
HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND
SORROW OVER THEIR SIN.
00:54:25.30\00:54:28.36
JAMES SAYS SOME VERY STRONG
THINGS. NOW, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT
00:54:28.36\00:54:33.23
ALTOGETHER SURE WHAT
HAPPENED TO JAMES IN HISTORY.
00:54:33.23\00:54:37.13
THERE - THE CLOSEST HISTORICAL
QUOTE WE HAVE IS ACTUALLY FROM
00:54:37.13\00:54:40.96
THE WRITINGS OF JOSEPHUS AND
THIS IS IN THE BOOK 'JOSEPHUS -
00:54:40.96\00:54:44.43
JEWISH ANTIQUITIES
BOOK 20' AND IT'S VERSE 9.1.
00:54:44.43\00:54:49.43
AND I'LL READ TO YOU, WORD
FOR WORD, WHAT IT SAYS HERE.
00:54:49.43\00:54:52.56
"THEREFORE ANNAS" - NOW YOU KNOW
WHAT ANNAS IS? THIS IS THE SON
00:54:52.56\00:54:55.93
OF ANNAS THE HIGH PRIEST
THAT CONDEMNED JESUS - HE HAD A
00:54:55.93\00:54:58.80
SON BY THE SAME NAME THAT
ALSO ENDED UP BEING IN THE SAME
00:54:58.80\00:55:01.80
POSITION - THIS IS MANY YEARS
LATER - BECAUSE THE ANNAS WHO
00:55:01.80\00:55:04.63
CONDEMNED JESUS
ACTUALLY LIVED FOR QUITE AWHILE.
00:55:04.63\00:55:07.53
"THEREFORE ANNAS WAS OF
THIS DISPOSITION. HE THOUGHT HE
00:55:07.53\00:55:11.43
NOW HAD PROPER OPPORTUNITY
TO EXERCISE HIS AUTHORITY.
00:55:11.43\00:55:14.96
FESTUS WAS NOW DEAD AND
ALBINIUS WAS BUT UPON THE ROAD.
00:55:14.96\00:55:19.20
SO" - BEFORE ALBINIUS GOT THERE
TO JERUSALEM - "HE ASSEMBLED THE
00:55:19.20\00:55:23.10
SANHEDRIN OF JUDGES AND BROUGHT
BEFORE THEM THE BROTHER OF
00:55:23.10\00:55:26.63
JESUS, WHO IS CALLED
CHRIST, WHOSE NAME WAS JAMES."
00:55:26.63\00:55:30.60
THERE YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER
HISTORICAL REFERENCE TO WHAT THE
00:55:30.60\00:55:32.60
BROTHER - AND HE WAS, EVIDENTLY,
A LEADER IN THE CHURCH - "AND
00:55:32.60\00:55:35.53
SOME OTHERS OR SOME OF HIS
COMPANIONS AND WHEN HE FORMED AN
00:55:35.53\00:55:39.03
ACCUSATION AGAINST THEM" - DID
THEY HAVE ANY PROBLEM GETTING
00:55:39.03\00:55:41.73
FALSE WITNESSES? "WHEN
HE FORMED AN ACCUSATION
00:55:41.73\00:55:44.80
AGAINST THEM" - DID THEY
GET FALSE WITNESSES FOR JESUS?
00:55:44.80\00:55:48.23
FOR STEPHEN? FOR NABOTH?
THEY ALWAYS WERE ABLE TO FIND
00:55:48.23\00:55:51.76
FALSE WITNESSES - "AS BREAKERS
OF THE LAW HE DELIVERED THEM TO
00:55:51.76\00:55:56.86
BE STONED." THAT'S ALL HE SAYS.
00:55:56.86\00:55:58.56
THEN HE MOVES ON
TO ANOTHER THING.
00:55:58.56\00:55:59.96
SO JAMES, EVIDENTLY, WAS STONED
IN JERUSALEM WITH SOME OTHERS
00:55:59.96\00:56:02.80
DURING ONE OF THE PERSECUTIONS
OF THE EARLY CHURCH.
00:56:02.80\00:56:07.00
SO I THINK WE CAN BE FAIRLY
CERTAIN WHO THE AUTHOR OF THIS
00:56:07.00\00:56:10.50
BOOK IS. AND IT'S
SOMEONE WHO KNEW JESUS
00:56:10.50\00:56:13.46
ABOUT AS WELL AS ANYBODY IN
THE BIBLE. NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE
00:56:13.46\00:56:17.56
IN THE BIBLE SAY, 'I KNEW
HIM FOR THIRTY-THREE AND A HALF
00:56:17.56\00:56:20.40
YEARS AND I STILL
BELIEVE HE WAS THE SON OF GOD'
00:56:20.40\00:56:23.53
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FORWARD TO OUR STUDY TOGETHER.
00:56:23.53\00:56:25.56
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