Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021440
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00:10 (MUSIC) 00:33 GREETING FRIENDS, I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO 00:35 THIS SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:39 MY NAME IS JEAN ROSS, I'M ONE OF THE PASTORS AT THE GRANITE BAY 00:42 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. NOW FOR THE PAST 18 YEARS THIS 00:46 PROGRAM HAS BEEN RECORDED AT THE SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY 00:50 ADVENTIST CHURCH, BUT EARLIER THIS YEAR PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR 00:53 JOINED THE PASTORAL STAFF HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH. 00:57 NOW THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH IS IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING TO A NEW 01:01 LOCATION WHERE WE'LL BE ABLE TO RECORD AND BROADCAST OUR WEEKLY 01:05 PROGRAMS, AND ALSO THIS SPECIAL STUDY HOUR, ON A REGULAR BASIS. 01:10 BUT IN THE MEANTIME, WE'RE RECORDING THIS HERE AT THE 01:13 AMAZING FACTS STUDIO IN ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA. 01:17 I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME OUR LOCAL CHURCH AUDIENCE, THOSE WHO 01:20 ARE JOINING US HERE IN THE STUDIO, THIS IS TYPICALLY OUR 01:23 PRAYER MEETING TIME - TUESDAY EVENING - BUT WE'RE DOING 01:26 SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT - SOMETHING A LITTLE SPECIAL. 01:29 OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS TOGETHER, WE'RE GOING TO BE 01:31 STUDYING THROUGH THE LESSON QUARTERLY ON THE BOOK OF JAMES. 01:35 SO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE THE LESSON QUARTERLY, YOU CAN FOLLOW 01:37 ALONG WITH US. THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, YOU CAN 01:41 DOWNLOAD THE LESSONS AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH WEBSITE. 01:44 THE WEB ADDRESS IS JUST SIMPLY 'GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG' AND YOU CAN 01:50 FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE LESSONS AS WE STUDY TOGETHER. 01:53 NOW, BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I'D JUST LIKE TO, ONCE AGAIN, 01:56 WELCOME YOU AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND LET'S BEGIN WITH 01:59 A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY 02:02 THAT WE HAVE TO GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD. 02:06 FATHER, WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE BIBLE IS YOUR BOOK AND SO WE 02:09 INVITE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR 02:12 MINDS AND LEAD US INTO A DEEPER AND A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF 02:15 YOUR WILL. THANK YOU, LORD, FOR THIS 02:17 OPPORTUNITY, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 02:21 I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR TO COME FORWARD 02:25 NOW AND LEAD US IN OUR STUDY FOR TODAY. THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG. 02:30 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. EVENING FRIENDS. 02:33 NORMALLY WE DO THIS IN THE MORNING. 02:35 THIS IS EVENING NOW, BUT IT IS A STUDY TIME AND, FOR THOSE WHO 02:38 ARE WATCHING, I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE BEEN 02:40 WATCHING FOR YEARS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. 02:43 WE HAVE AN EXTENDED CLASS AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE DOING 02:46 THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY TIME WITH YOU. 02:48 IN JUST A MOMENT WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THE BOOK OF JAMES AND 02:51 IT'LL BE OUR FIRST LESSON - I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT - BUT 02:54 BEFORE WE DO, WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO JUST 02:56 ROLL A LITTLE VIDEO FOR YOU AND EXPLAIN WHY THERE'S 03:00 A TRANSITION HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.(MUSIC) 03:04 >>FRIENDS, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO TAKE A FEW 03:06 MOMENTS AND EXPLAIN WHAT'S GOING ON DURING THIS TRANSITION 03:09 AND WHY. THE SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH IS 03:12 PROBABLY ONE OF THE OLDEST ADVENTIST CHURCHES IN CALIFORNIA 03:15 AND OVER ITS GREAT HISTORY, IT'S BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR PLANTING A 03:18 NUMBER OF OTHER CHURCHES IN THE AREA. 03:21 WELL, ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO, AS CENTRAL CHURCH ATTENDANCE 03:24 CONTINUED TO SWELL, WE DECIDED TO PLANT A NEW CHURCH IN A 03:28 COMMUNITY CALLED GRANITE BAY, WHERE THERE FORMERLY WAS NO 03:30 ADVENTIST CHURCH. WE STARTED OUT WITH ABOUT TWELVE 03:33 PEOPLE THAT WERE MEETING IN A HOME AND, AS THE LORD BLESSED 03:36 AND THE CHURCH GREW, THEY EVENTUALLY MOVED TO A SCHOOL 03:39 THAT WAS IN THE GRANITE BAY COMMUNITY. AND THEN THE LORD 03:42 CONTINUED TO BLESS. WE DID SOME EVANGELISTIC 03:44 MEETINGS AND THE CHURCH CONTINUED TO GROW. 03:47 SO A PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS KIND ENOUGH TO RENT THEIR 03:49 FACILITIES TO US FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS A WEEK. 03:52 WE'RE MEETING THERE CURRENTLY NOW, BUT WE'RE UNABLE TO 03:55 VIDEOTAPE THERE BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE IT FOR A FEW HOURS A COUPLE 03:58 OF DAYS A WEEK. AND SO, THAT'S WHY, RIGHT NOW, 04:00 WE'RE GOING TO BE VIDEOTAPING OUR SERVICES FOR SABBATH SCHOOL 04:04 AT THE AMAZING FACTS STUDIOS. NOW THE EXCITING NEWS IS GOD 04:08 PROVIDED A BUILDING JUST ABOUT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE 04:11 AMAZING FACTS OFFICES. IF I HAD A GOOD ARM AND COULD 04:14 THROW A FOOTBALL ABOUT 300 YARDS, OUR OFFICE, YOU'D SEE, 04:17 WOULD BE RIGHT BACK THAT DIRECTION. 04:19 AND SO THIS IS A VERY CONVENIENT LOCATION AND, WITH GOD'S 04:22 BLESSING, WE'RE GOING TO RENOVATE THIS AND THERE'LL BE A 04:25 CONGREGATION MEETING HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. 04:28 IT'S SOMETHING OF AN OFFICE WAREHOUSE BUILDING, BUT IT'S 04:30 CLEAN AND IT'S NEAT AND WE BELIEVE IT'S A PLACE WE'LL BE 04:33 ABLE TO RECORD THE NEW SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAMS AS WELL AS THE 04:36 WORSHIP SERVICES. SO PLEASE KEEP US IN YOUR PRAYERS AND WE 04:39 APPRECIATE YOUR STAYING WITH US DURING THIS TRANSITION TIME. 04:45 >>WELL, OKAY, FRIENDS, HOPEFULLY THAT GIVES YOU A BETTER PICTURE 04:47 OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AND HOW WE'RE IN A TRANSITION MODE, BUT 04:52 NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO OUR LESSON. 04:54 AS WE ALWAYS DO, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH EACH 04:57 STUDY AND THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO BE OFFERING 'LIFE IN THE 05:01 SPIRIT.' AND IF YOU'D LIKE A FREE COPY OF THIS, ALL YOU'VE 05:03 GOT TO DO IS CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. 05:05 THAT'S 866-788-3966. WHEN YOU CALL, ASK FOR OFFER #155. 05:12 THE NUMBER AGAIN - 866-STUDY-MORE, WHICH IS 05:15 866-788-3966. NOW I'M REALLY EXCITED TO GET 05:21 INTO THE BOOK OF JAMES AND TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH 05:24 LESSON #1. THE TITLE OF OUR NEW QUARTER IS 05:27 SIMPLY, 'THE BOOK OF JAMES.' AND THERE'S REALLY NO BOOK IN THE 05:30 BIBLE QUITE LIKE IT. IT'S VERY UNIQUE. 05:33 YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SOME OF THE BOOKS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - 05:36 YOU'VE GOT FIRST AND SECOND CORINTHIANS AND FIRST AND SECOND 05:39 THESSALONIANS, BUT JAMES IS REALLY A STAND-ALONE BOOK. 05:43 AND GETTING INTO THE INTRODUCTION OF THE LESSON, ONE 05:47 OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS WHO WROTE THE 05:51 BOOK OF JAMES? NOW JAMES IS A VERY 05:53 CONTROVERSIAL BOOK. MARTIN LUTHER, FOR INSTANCE, 05:58 WHEN HE DID THESE DEBATES DURING THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION WITH 06:02 JOHN ECK, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. 06:06 BUT THE BOOK OF JAMES OFTEN TALKS ABOUT OBEDIENCE, FAITH AND 06:10 WORKS, AND JOHN ECK KEPT THROWING THAT BACK AT MARTIN 06:15 LUTHER AND MARTIN LUTHER SORT OF DISMISSED THE BOOK OF JAMES THAT 06:19 MAYBE IT REALLY DIDN'T BELONG IN THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE. 06:22 AND, YOU KNOW, THAT SHOOK A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. 06:25 LATER IN HIS LIFE, LUTHER AFFIRMED THAT IT WAS PART OF THE 06:28 CANON - IT WAS PART OF THE SCRIPTURE. 06:30 I THINK THAT HE WAS JUST CAUGHT AT A WEAK MOMENT AND HE WAS SO 06:33 PASSIONATE ABOUT TEACHING RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH, 06:37 COMING OUT OF A CHURCH THAT WAS REALLY STEEPED IN SALVATION 06:41 BY WORKS, THAT JAMES TROUBLED HIM. 06:45 NOW YOU'VE PROBABLY NOTICED THAT WHEN YOU READ PAUL - SOME OF 06:49 PAUL'S LETTERS - HE'S DEALING WITH PEOPLE THAT WERE SO - MANY 06:53 OF THE JEWISH PHARISEES AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE SO INTO 06:57 STRAINING OUT A GNAT AND SWALLOWING A CAMEL - THEY WERE 07:01 PAYING TITHE ON THEIR MINT, ANISE, AND CUMIN - AND THIS 07:04 LEGALISM BEGAN TO INFLUENCE THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 07:07 AND SO PAUL, IN HIS WRITINGS, HE'S OFTEN TRYING TO COUNTERACT 07:11 THAT AND HE'S EMPHASIZING FAITH AND GRACE WHEREAS, ON THE OTHER 07:17 HAND, JAMES WAS DEALING WITH ANOTHER GROUP. 07:20 SOME OF THE JEWISH CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY WERE THINKING, 'OH, 07:23 WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE CEREMONIAL LAW ANYMORE AND THEY 07:25 WERE FORGETTING ABOUT THE MORAL LAW AS WELL. 07:29 SO HE WAS REALLY DEALING WITH A DIFFERENT GROUP AND I THINK, IF 07:32 ANY OF YOU ARE PARENTS AND WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO YOUR CHILDREN 07:35 AND TRYING TO IMPRESS THEM WITH THE LESSON, SOMETIMES YOU'LL 07:38 OVER IMPRESS THEM TO MAKE A POINT. 07:40 AND SO, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU CAN SEE JAMES IS TRYING TO SPEAK 07:43 TO ONE GROUP SO HE COMES ON VERY STRONG. 07:45 PAUL WAS SPEAKING TO ANOTHER GROUP. BUT THERE'S NO QUESTION 07:48 ABOUT THE INSPIRATION OF THE BOOK OF JAMES. 07:50 I'VE NEVER HAD ANY DOUBTS READING IT, THAT WHOEVER WROTE 07:54 THIS BOOK - WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE - THEY KNEW THE 07:56 LORD AND IT IS A VERY SPIRITUAL BOOK. 07:59 BUT JUST FOR A LITTLE MORE REINFORCEMENT, IT'S ONE OF THE 08:02 BOOKS THAT HAS NOT BEEN QUESTIONED BY THE VERY EARLY 08:05 CHURCH FATHERS. THE BOOK OF JAMES MAY HAVE BEEN 08:09 THE FIRST LETTER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT WAS WRITTEN - 08:12 PRECEDING PAUL'S LETTERS, WHICH WAS MOST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT - 08:16 AND EVEN THE LETTERS OF JOHN. PROBABLY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 45 08:20 AND 48 AD, WHICH IS NEW WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT JESUS DIED 31 AD. 08:29 IRENAEUS, WHO LIVED IN THE SECOND CENTURY, ABOUT 202 AD, 08:33 SAID THAT JAMES WAS AN INSPIRED BOOK AND PART OF THE CANON. 08:38 TERTULLIAN - 160 - 225 AD - HE BELIEVED IT WAS PART OF THE 08:42 CANON. EUSEBIUS - ORIGIN - EUSEBIUS 08:46 SAID IT WAS PUBLICLY READ IN MOST CHURCHES. 08:48 ORIGIN PLACED IT AMONG THE CANONICAL BOOKS OF SCRIPTURE, SO 08:51 JUST IN CASE YOU RUN INTO ANYONE THAT SAYS, 'WELL, WE'RE NOT SO 08:55 SURE IT REALLY BELONGED IN THE BIBLE.' BECAUSE JAMES SAYS SOME 08:58 VERY DIRECT THINGS. THROUGH THE HISTORY OF THE 09:01 CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THEY'VE ALWAYS EMBRACED THE BOOK OF JAMES. 09:04 EVEN LUTHER'S RIGHT-HAND MAN - ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT HIS NAME 09:08 WAS? PASTOR ROSS? MELANCTHON - YEAH, I KNOW SOME 09:11 OF THE PASTORS HERE KNEW THAT. MELANCTHON, HE SAID THE BOOK OF 09:15 JAMES WAS PART OF THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE. 09:19 SO THAT ONE STATEMENT OF LUTHER, THOUGH, IT SHOOK SOME 09:21 PROTESTANTS UP ON THAT POINT. SO THE QUESTION IS - BOOK OF 09:25 JAMES - WHICH JAMES? THERE ARE SEVERAL JAMESES. 09:30 NOW, AS WE TYPICALLY DO DURING OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, 09:33 I'VE GOT SOME VERSES YOU'RE GOING TO HELP ME READ. 09:35 FIRST VERSE IS GOING TO BE MARK 6:3 - WHO'S GOT THAT? 09:39 ALRIGHT, LET'S GET A MICROPHONE OVER HERE TO CATHY AND, WHILE 09:41 WE'RE SETTING UP FOR THAT, I'M GOING TO READ ACTS 1 - IF YOU 09:45 HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU CAN FOLLOW - ACTS 1, VERSES 12 THROUGH 14. 09:49 AND NOTICE, JUST IN THIS ONE SECTION I'M GOING TO READ, "THEN 09:53 THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM" - THIS IS THE FIRST CHAPTER OF 09:56 ACTS, VERSE 12 - "THEN THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM FROM THE 09:59 MOUNT CALLED OLIVET, WHICH IS NEAR JERUSALEM, 10:02 A SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY. 10:03 AND WHEN THEY HAD ENTERED, THEY WENT UP INTO THE UPPER ROOM 10:06 WHERE THEY WERE STAYING: PETER, JAMES, JOHN, AND ANDREW; PHILIP, 10:12 THOMAS; BARTHOLOMEW AND MATTHEW; JAMES THE SON OF 10:14 ALPHAEUS AND SIMON THE ZEALOT; AND JUDAS THE SON OF JAMES. 10:19 THESE ALL CONTINUED WITH ONE ACCORD IN PRAYER AND 10:21 SUPPLICATION, WITH THE WOMEN AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS, 10:26 AND WITH HIS BROTHERS." WHOSE BROTHERS? JESUS' BROTHERS. 10:31 NOW NOTICE, WE JUST READ 'JAMES, JAMES, JAMES' SO WE'RE 10:35 WONDERING, WHO WROTE THIS BOOK? YOU'VE GOT THREE JAMESES THERE. 10:38 NOW LET'S LOOK AT THE BROTHERS OF JESUS. 10:39 GO AHEAD, CATHY, YOU CAN READ THAT FOR US. 10:41 >>"'IS THIS NOT THE CARPENTER, THE SON OF MARY, AND BROTHER OF 10:44 JAMES, JOSES, JUDAS, AND SIMON? AND ARE NOT HIS SISTERS HERE 10:50 WITH US?' SO THEY WERE OFFENDED AT HIM." 10:53 >>ALRIGHT, SO IT TELLS US JESUS HAD BROTHERS AND WE'RE FAIRLY 10:57 CERTAIN THAT THESE BROTHERS THAT JESUS HAD - AND SISTERS - IT 11:01 DOESN'T SAY HOW MANY SISTERS - IT NAMES FOUR BROTHERS - THAT 11:05 THESE WERE HALF BROTHERS. NOW THAT SHOCKS PEOPLE. 11:09 THEY THINK JESUS WAS THE FIRST BORN OF MARY AND THEN THIS OTHER 11:11 LITTER OF KIDS ALL CAME LATER AND JESUS WAS THE OLDEST 11:14 BROTHER. ACTUALLY, JOSEPH PROBABLY HAD 11:18 ANOTHER WIFE THAT HAD DIED BEFORE HE MARRIED MARY. 11:21 JOSEPH WAS, EVIDENTLY, OLDER THAN MARY. 11:24 YOU NOTICE, BY THE TIME JESUS BEGINS HIS MINISTRY JOSEPH IS 11:26 NEVER MENTIONED. THEY BELIEVE THAT HE HAD PASSED 11:29 AWAY AT THAT POINT. WHEN JESUS IS ON THE CROSS, 11:34 WHO DID HE GIVE THE CARE OF HIS MOTHER TO? 11:37 IF SHE'S GOT FOUR OTHER BLOOD CHILDREN, WHY WOULD YOU EVER 11:40 DELIVER THE CARE OF YOUR MOTHER TO A STRANGER? ALTHOUGH JOHN 11:45 MAY HAVE BEEN A DISTANT RELATIVE OF JESUS, SOME 11:48 HAVE ARGUED. THE OTHER THING - THE REASON THAT 11:50 WE BELIEVE THAT THE BROTHERS OF JESUS - AND THIS IS IMPORTANT IN 11:53 UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK - THE BROTHERS OF JESUS WERE OLDER AND 11:57 WERE HALF BROTHERS BY JOSEPH. WHEN JESUS BEGAN HIS MINISTRY IT 12:04 WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY UNUSUAL FOR THE ELDEST BROTHER TO LEAVE THE 12:08 FAMILY BUSINESS AND BECOME AN ITINERANT PREACHER. 12:11 IT'S ALWAYS THE ELDER BROTHER THAT TAKES OVER THE FAMILY. 12:14 HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ALL THE YOUNGER FAMILIES. 12:16 IN THAT CULTURE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DISRESPECTFUL - IT'S 12:18 USUALLY THE YOUNGER BROTHER THAT RUNS OFF - LIKE IN THE PARABLE 12:21 OF THE PRODIGAL SON. WHO RUNS OFF? IT'S THE YOUNGER BROTHER. 12:24 AND SO, FOR THOSE REASONS, MOST SCHOLARS ARE PRETTY SURE THAT 12:30 THIS IS A FAMILY THAT JOSEPH HAD WHEN HE MARRIED MARY. 12:34 SHE TOOK ON A LOT. TALK ABOUT A BLENDED FAMILY. 12:38 SHE MAY HAVE BEEN IN HER LATE TEENS AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN 12:41 SHE'S GOT AT LEAST SIX CHILDREN - FOUR BOYS AND 'SISTERS' - THAT 12:45 MEANS AT LEAST TWO - IT COULD HAVE BEEN TEN. 12:48 PROBABLY NOT, BUT HE HAD SISTERS. 12:51 BUT WHO IS THE FIRST ONE MENTIONED AMONG THE BROTHERS 12:54 THAT ARE NAMED? JAMES. 12:57 THEY USUALLY LISTED THEM ACCORDING TO THEIR AGE. 13:00 SO HE WAS THE OLDER BROTHER OF JESUS. 13:04 NOW, I'LL GIVE YOU MORE EVIDENCE FOR THIS, BUT WE BELIEVE THIS IS 13:08 WHO WROTE THE BOOK, RATHER THAN - YOU'VE GOT ONE JAMES WHO'S AN 13:13 APOSTLE - TWO JAMESES THAT ARE APOSTLES - JAMES THE SON OF 13:17 ALPHAEUS, JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN AND THE SON OF ZEBEDEE. 13:24 THE OTHER ONE IS JUST CALLED JUDAS, THE SON OF JAMES - 13:27 THAT WAS HIS FATHER. BUT THERE ARE REASONS, AS WE 13:30 READ ON, JAMES - THE BOOK OF JAMES - IS WRITTEN AFTER JAMES, 13:36 THE BROTHER OF JOHN, IS KILLED BY HEROD. ACTS CHAPTER 12. 13:39 THE FIRST OF THE APOSTLES, NEXT TO JUDAS, WHO KILLED HIMSELF - 13:42 THE FIRST OF THE APOSTLES TO DIE WAS JAMES, 13:45 THE BROTHER OF JOHN. HEROD BEHEADED HIM. 13:48 AND SO, ABOUT THE TIME THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN THERE'S ANOTHER 13:51 JAMES THAT ENDS UP SITTING AS, SORT OF, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE 13:56 BOARD FOR THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM. 13:58 AND THEY THINK HE WAS THE ELDER BROTHER OF JESUS. 14:01 HE WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED BUT HE DIDN'T START OUT THAT WAY. 14:06 THE BROTHERS OF JESUS WERE VERY CYNICAL AND QUESTIONING ABOUT 14:11 JESUS' MINISTRY WHEN HE BEGAN. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF 14:14 THESE - AND THIS IS THE SECTION UNDER THE - 'JAMES, THE BROTHER 14:18 OF JESUS.' SO IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN JOHN 7 - JOHN 7, 14:23 VERSE 2, "NOW THE JEWS' FEAST OF TABERNACLES WAS AT HAND. 14:27 HIS BROTHERS THEREFORE SAID TO HIM, 'DEPART FROM HERE AND GO 14:30 INTO JUDEA, THAT YOUR DISCIPLES ALSO MAY SEE THE WORKS THAT YOU 14:33 ARE DOING. FOR NO ONE DOES ANYTHING IN 14:35 SECRET WHILE HE HIMSELF SEEKS TO BE KNOWN OPENLY. 14:39 IF YOU DO THESE THINGS, SHOW YOURSELF TO THE WORLD.' FOR EVEN 14:43 HIS BROTHERS DID NOT BELIEVE IN HIM." - IS THE COMMENT THAT JOHN 14:47 MAKES. SO IT WASN'T THAT THEY TOTALLY 14:50 DIDN'T BELIEVE HIM, BUT THEY SURE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. 14:53 THEIR IDEA OF THE MESSIAH - AND EVEN THE APOSTLES WERE CONFUSED 14:57 - THEY THOUGHT WHEN THE MESSIAH CAME HE WOULD COME LIKE DAVID 15:01 WITH THE STRENGTH OF SAMPSON AND HE WAS GOING TO, YOU KNOW, GO 15:04 RAGING CHARIOTS, LEADING AN ARMY INTO JERUSALEM AND OVERTHROW THE 15:09 ROMANS AND SIT WITH HIS NEW POWER AND THEY WERE WONDERING, 15:13 'IF YOU'RE REALLY THE MESSIAH' - I MEAN, THEY'VE KNOWN THIS GOOD 15:16 BOY - MARY'S BOY - ALL OF THEIR LIFE. 15:20 HE'S ALWAYS BEEN WELL BEHAVED, HE ALWAYS SEEMED SO MEEK. 15:23 THEY'RE GOING, 'THE MESSIAH? WE ALWAYS PICTURED THE MESSIAH 15:26 AS A CONQUERING KING.' SO THEY REALLY STRUGGLED WITH HIS CLAIM. 15:34 YOU KNOW, IF YOU READ PSALMS 69, VERSE 8, ONE OF THE PROPHECIES 15:39 ABOUT THE MESSIAH - MATTER OF FACT, LET ME GET SET UP FOR THE 15:42 NEXT VERSE. WHO'S GOT GALATIANS 1:19? BRIAN? 15:45 WE'LL GET YOU THE MICROPHONE AND YOU'LL BE NEXT. 15:47 BUT IF YOU LOOK IN PSALMS 69:8 FIRST IT SAYS, "I HAVE BECOME A 15:52 STRANGER TO MY BROTHERS AND AN ALIEN TO MY MOTHER'S CHILDREN." 15:57 CAN YOU THINK OF ANY OTHER STORIES IN THE BIBLE WHERE 16:01 ESPECIALLY CHOSEN INDIVIDUALS WERE NOT RECOGNIZED BY THEIR 16:06 BROTHERS? JOSEPH. WHEN JOSEPH HAD THESE DREAMS 16:09 ABOUT A GREAT PLAN THAT GOD HAD FOR HIS LIFE, 16:12 DID HIS BROTHERS BUY INTO THAT? THEY THOUGHT HE WAS A KOOK. 16:15 MATTER OF FACT, WHEN THEY FINALLY THREW HIM IN THE PIT 16:17 THEY SAID, 'HERE COMES THAT DREAMER.' 16:19 AND THEY GOT SO TIRED OF HIS DREAMS. WHO ELSE? 16:22 WHEN DAVID CAME TO HIS BROTHERS AND STARTED ASKING ABOUT WHAT 16:24 GOLIATH WAS DOING DID HIS BROTHERS SAY, 'DAVID, WE BELIEVE 16:28 YOU'RE THE ONE. YOU CAN GO FIGHT HIM?' 16:29 OR DID THEY SAY, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? 16:30 YOU'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. 16:32 YOU JUST WANT TO SEE THE FIGHT.' DID THEY UNDERSTAND HIM? 16:36 NOT AT FIRST. NOTICE - 16:38 DID JOSEPH'S BROTHERS UNDERSTAND HIM LATER? 16:42 DID DAVID'S BROTHERS UNDERSTAND AND SUPPORT HIM LATER? 16:46 AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WITH JAMES - JESUS' BROTHERS. 16:48 WE BELIEVE THAT THEY ALL ENDED UP COMING AROUND BUT AT FIRST 16:52 THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. YOU KNOW, THERE'S A QUOTE AND 16:55 IT'S IN YOUR LESSON. IT'S IN THE BOOK 16:57 'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGES 485 AND 486. "IT WAS A FALSE 17:02 CONCEPT OF THE MESSIAH'S WORK AND A LACK OF FAITH IN THE 17:06 DIVINE CHARACTER OF JESUS THAT LED HIS BROTHERS TO URGE HIM TO 17:10 PRESENT HIMSELF PUBLICLY AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. 17:13 THEY HAD A WRONG CONCEPT OF WHAT THE MESSIAH WOULD DO AND THEY 17:16 DIDN'T REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT JESUS' CALLING WAS. 17:19 ALRIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO READ, I THINK BRIAN, GALATIANS 1:19. 17:23 >>"BUT I SAW NONE OF THE OTHER APOSTLES EXCEPT JAMES, 17:27 THE LORD'S BROTHER." 17:28 >>WAIT A SECOND NOW. HE'S TALKING ABOUT APOSTLES. 17:32 HOW MANY APOSTLES WERE THERE? 17:35 TWELVE IS WHAT THEY STARTED OUT WITH BUT, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN THE 17:40 FIRST GENERATION OF THE CHURCH AND THE DEATH OF THE APOSTLE 17:45 JOHN, OTHERS HAD THE NAME APOSTLE. 17:48 LET ME JUST GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES. FIRST OF ALL, 17:50 NOTICE THIS - I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS WAS VERY INTERESTING. 17:54 BEFORE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT, ONE THING HAPPENS BEFORE 17:57 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT IN ACTS CHAPTER 1. 18:00 PETER SAID - HE STANDS UP AND MAKES A SPEECH. 18:04 THEY'D BEEN PRAYING FOR TEN DAYS. 18:05 HE STANDS UP AND MAKES A SPEECH AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I FEEL 18:08 IMPRESSED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT JESUS CHOSE TWELVE APOSTLES 18:11 AND ONE OF US NOW IS GONE AT HIS OWN HAND, JUDAS. 18:14 IT WAS FORETOLD IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT HE WOULD TAKE 18:15 HIS LIFE.' AND HE QUOTES THE SCRIPTURE. 18:17 'IT HAPPENED JUST LIKE THAT. IT SEEMS LIKE WE SHOULD CHOOSE 18:20 ONE FROM AMONG THOSE WHO SAW JESUS FROM THE BEGINNING - 18:24 OF FAITHFUL DISCIPLES - THAT WILL FILL THAT SEAT. 18:29 SO THEY CAST LOTS AND THEY CHOSE MATTHIAS. 18:32 YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT MATTHIAS LATER IN THE BIBLE BUT 18:36 JESUS PERSONALLY APPEARS TO SOME INDIVIDUALS AND THEY ARE LATER 18:40 RECOGNIZED AS APOSTLES. FOR INSTANCE, DOES HE APPEAR 18:44 TO PAUL? IS PAUL CALLED AN APOSTLE? 18:48 IT SEEMS LIKE APOLLOS IS CATEGORIZED LATER AS AN APOSTLE. 18:53 I DON'T KNOW WHEN JESUS APPEARED TO HIM BUT IT SEEMS LIKE HE'S 18:56 LISTED WITH APOSTLES IN THE WRITINGS OF PAUL. 18:58 AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IT SAYS? 19:01 LET ME READ THIS TO YOU - GALATIANS 2, VERSE 9, "AND WHEN 19:05 JAMES, CEPHAS," - CEPHAS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING 'PETER' - 19:09 "WHEN JAMES, CEPHAS, AND JOHN, WHO SEEMED TO BE PILLARS," - 19:12 NOW, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT 19:15 SAID, 'PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN; PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN; PETER 19:18 JAMES AND JOHN?' DO YOU EVER SEE ANYWHERE WHERE 19:20 IT SAYS 'JAMES, JOHN, AND PETER?' NOT IN THE GOSPELS. 19:24 IT'S ALWAYS PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. WHY? 19:27 BUT THEY ALL - GOSPEL WRITERS GOT IT THAT WAY. 19:29 WHEN THAT LITTLE TRILOGY OF APOSTLES DID THINGS WITH JESUS - 19:33 WHEN HE RAISED THE DAUGHTER OF JARIUS, HE TOOK WITH HIM JUST 19:36 PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. HE WENT UP THE MOUNT OF 19:38 TRANSFIGURATION, HE TOOK PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. 19:40 HE ASKED FOR THREE OF THEM TO COME PRAY WITH HIM IN THE GARDEN 19:42 OF GETHSEMANE, HE TOOK PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. 19:44 SO THEY'RE OFTEN KIND OF PULLED ASIDE. 19:47 BUT HERE IT SAYS, 'JAMES, CEPHAS (PETER), AND JOHN. 19:53 IT SEEMS LIKE JAMES HAD EVEN ASCENDED, WITH THE CHURCH IN 19:56 JERUSALEM, ABOVE PETER. - "AND WHEN JAMES, CEPHAS, AND 20:02 JOHN, WHO SEEMED TO BE PILLARS, PERCEIVED THE GRACE THAT HAD 20:05 BEEN GIVEN TO ME, THEY GAVE ME AND BARNABAS THE RIGHT HAND OF 20:08 FELLOWSHIP," - AND THEN - IT MENTIONS THIS IN ACTS, WHEN 20:11 JAMES AND THE OTHER APOSTLES SENT OUT PAUL AND BARNABAS. 20:14 SO IT'S NOT JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JOHN, THAT DOES THAT. 20:17 - "THAT WE SHOULD GO TO THE GENTILES AND THEY TO THE 20:21 CIRCUMCISED." NOW PETER, WHEN IT SAYS THEY 20:24 WENT TO THE CIRCUMCISION, THAT MEANT THE JEWS. 20:26 REMEMBER WHEN CORNELIUS HAD HIS DREAM AND PETER PREACHED TO THE 20:32 GENTILES THERE? BUT MOST OF WHAT PETER DID IS HE 20:34 TRAVELED AND HE PREACHED TO THE JEWS. 20:36 IF YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK 'ACTS OF THE APOSTLES,' THIS IS A PRETTY 20:40 STRONG AFFIRMATION FOR THE POINT THAT IT WAS JAMES, 20:43 THE BROTHER OF JESUS, WHO WROTE THE BOOK. 20:45 'ACTS OF THE APOSTLES' P. 405, "WHEN WE THINK OF PAUL'S 20:49 GREAT DESIRE TO BE IN HARMONY WITH HIS BRETHREN, HIS 20:52 TENDERNESS TOWARDS THE WEAK, THE FAITH, HIS REVERENCE FOR THE 20:55 APOSTLES, WHO HAD BEEN WITH CHRIST, FOR JAMES, THE BROTHER 20:59 OF THE LORD." SHE SAYS APOSTLES THAT HAVE BEEN 21:02 WITH CHRIST AND FOR JAMES THE BROTHER OF THE LORD. 21:05 NOW THIS IS WHERE I THINK THINGS MAY HAVE CHANGED. 21:09 IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SECTION - NOW LET ME SEE - WHO HAS ACTS 21:12 12, VERSE 17? ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET YOU THE MICROPHONE NEXT. 21:16 AND IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING TO READ 1 CORINTHIANS 15 - PAUL 21:23 IS WRITING HERE - 1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-8, "FOR I DELIVERED TO YOU, 21:28 FIRST OF ALL," - JUST IN CASE ANYONE'S WONDERING, THIS IS THE 21:32 BIBLE. I JUST CUT AND PASTE ALL THE 21:34 VERSES IN HERE SO - PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, YOU'VE GOT A SMALL 21:37 BIBLE.' I JUST FIND IT SAVES TIME SO I JUST PRINT OUT ALL THE 21:41 SCRIPTURES I KNOW I'M GOING TO READ. 21:43 "FOR I DELIVERED TO YOU, FIRST OF ALL, THAT WHICH I ALSO 21:46 RECEIVED; THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS, ACCORDING TO THE 21:49 SCRIPTURES, AND THAT HE WAS BURIED, THAT HE ROSE AGAIN THE 21:52 THIRD DAY, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, THAT HE WAS SEEN BY 21:55 CEPHAS" - NOW WHO'S CEPHAS? PETER. - 21:58 "BY THE TWELVE," - THAT MEANS THE OTHER APOSTLES - YOU 22:01 REMEMBER IN THE UPPER ROOM WHEN HE MET WITH - OF COURSE JUDAS 22:04 WASN'T THERE BUT THEY CALLED THEM THE TWELVE. FIRST WEEK, 22:07 WHEN HE MET, SOMEONE ELSE WAS MISSING - THOMAS, REMEMBER? 22:12 AND LATER, WHEN JESUS CAME BACK, THOMAS WAS THERE WITH HIM SO HE 22:14 MET WITH ALL THE EXISTING TWELVE THAT WERE ALIVE - "AFTER THAT HE 22:19 WAS SEEN BY OVER FIVE HUNDRED BRETHREN AT ONCE, OF WHOM THE 22:22 GREATER PART REMAIN PRESENT, THOUGH SOME HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP." 22:25 - WHAT DOES PAUL MEAN BY 'FALLEN ASLEEP?' 22:27 SOME HAVE DIED. 22:28 BECAUSE HE'S WRITING THIS, YOU KNOW, YEARS LATER - "AFTER THAT" 22:33 - LET ME SEE HERE - "AFTER THAT HE WAS SEEN BY JAMES." 22:36 - NOW THAT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JOHN, 22:39 BECAUSE HE WAS IN THE UPPER ROOM. 22:41 JESUS MADE A PERSONAL APPEARANCE TO HIS OLDER BROTHER AND THE 22:49 SAME WAY HE REVEALED HIMSELF TO PAUL AND PAUL BECAME AN APOSTLE. 22:52 PAUL TELLS US HE ALSO - WE KNOW JESUS APPEARED TO SEVERAL. 22:56 DID HE APPEAR TO TWO ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS? 22:59 EVIDENTLY HE APPEARED TO PETER ALONE, AT ONE POINT. 23:02 HE APPEARED TO PAUL ALONE. 23:04 HE APPEARED TO JAMES, HIS OLDER BROTHER, ALONE. 23:07 NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THINK ABOUT BECAUSE DOES IT MAKE A 23:13 DIFFERENCE WHETHER IT WAS JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN OR JAMES THE 23:16 BROTHER OF JESUS? WHO KNEW JESUS LONGER? 23:21 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THREE AND A 23:24 HALF YEARS AND THIRTY-THREE AND A HALF YEARS. 23:27 THIS JAMES KNEW JESUS FROM INFANCY AND IF YOU KNOW OF ANY 23:33 MISTAKES - I WOULDN'T WANT MY BROTHER TO TELL YOU WHAT HE KNEW 23:37 ABOUT ME. IF YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW THAT 23:40 ANYBODY HAS MESSED UP IT'S GOING TO BE YOUR SIBLINGS, RIGHT? 23:44 MAYBE EVEN MORE THAN YOUR PARENTS. 23:46 DON'T YOUR SIBLINGS KNOW ABOUT STUFF THAT YOU GOT INTO THAT 23:48 YOUR PARENTS NEVER FOUND OUT ABOUT? 23:51 SO THE FACT THAT JAMES COULD BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS THE 23:55 SINLESS SON OF GOD, THAT'S A VERY POWERFUL TESTIMONY. 24:01 SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT THIS WAS THE 24:03 BROTHER. SO, OKAY, WHO'S GOT ACTS 12:17? 24:08 I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO READ THAT. 24:09 >>BUT HE, BECKONING UNTO THEM WITH A HAND TO HOLD THEIR PEACE, 24:15 DECLARED UNTO THEM HOW THE LORD HAD BROUGHT HIM OUT OF THE 24:19 PRISON AND HE SAID, 'GO SHOW THESE THINGS UNTO JAMES, AND TO 24:26 THE BRETHREN.' AND HE DEPARTED AND WENT INTO ANOTHER PLACE." 24:31 >>ALRIGHT, THIS IS WHEN PETER IS LIBERATED FROM PRISON, IN ACTS 24:35 CHAPTER 12, BY THE ANGEL AND HE APPEARS IN THE UPPER ROOM WHERE 24:39 ALL THE CHURCH IS GATHERED PRAYING FOR HIM. 24:41 BUT, EVIDENTLY, NOT ALL THE CHURCH IS THERE - 24:43 AND HE SAYS, 'GO TELL JAMES.' THE FIRST THING PETER SAYS IS, 24:46 'YOU NEED TO GO TELL JAMES. HE WAS THE RECOGNIZED LEADER OF 24:49 THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM. AS NEAR AS WE CAN TELL HE STAYED 24:53 IN JERUSALEM. HE OVERSAW THE CHURCH THERE. 24:55 HE WAS OLDER. HE WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED. 24:58 HE WAS EDUCATED AND YOU CAN TELL FROM HIS LETTER. 25:01 AS A MATTER OF FACT, HIS LETTER, THEY SAY, IS ONE OF 25:03 THE MOST ELOQUENT EXAMPLES OF JEWISH WRITING IN GREEK THAT 25:09 IS IN EXISTENCE. THE METAPHORS THAT ARE USED ALL 25:12 THROUGH THE BOOK - IT'S VERY CONCISE. 25:14 IT'S TO THE POINT. IT'S VERY POWERFUL. 25:16 AND HE ACTUALLY DRAWS UPON A LOT OF THE JEWISH WISDOM OF THE DAY, 25:21 IN ILLUSTRATIONS THAT THEY WERE FAMILIAR WITH. PLUS, 25:24 HE REFERENCES - AND WE'LL GET INTO THIS IN THE NEXT QUARTER. 25:27 WE'VE GOT A LOT OF STUDIES LEFT ON JAMES. 25:29 I WANT TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO SAY IT ALL NOW. 25:31 I'LL PROBABLY REPEAT MYSELF A FEW TIMES BUT HE DRAWS A LOT ON 25:35 THE SCRIPTURE. MEANING: HE READ THE BIBLE. 25:39 BUT THE FIRST THAT PETER SAYS - HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT JAMES, 25:42 THE BROTHER OF JOHN, BECAUSE CHAPTER 12 BEGINS BY SAYING, 25:44 'JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JOHN, WAS BEHEADED.' 25:46 AND THEN HEROD PUT PETER IN PRISON. 25:48 SO WHEN PETER SAYS, 'GO TELL JAMES.' HE'S TALKING THEN ABOUT 25:51 THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM. 25:53 NOW, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING. 'HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S NOT JAMES, 25:57 THE SON OF ALPHAEUS WHO'S AN APOSTLE? 25:59 YOU KNOW, HE DOESN'T SEEM TO APPEAR, SIGNIFICANTLY, IN 26:04 ANYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE GOSPELS. 26:07 AND THE OTHER THING IS WE DO HAVE THAT ONE VERSE WHERE PAUL 26:10 REFERS TO JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JESUS. 26:14 SO WE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE ONE WHO WROTE THE BOOK. 26:17 ALRIGHT, AND THEN IF WE'LL READ - LET ME SEE - 26:20 WHAT DID I PUT HERE? MATTHEW 7:24. 26:23 JESUS SAYS, "THEREFORE, WHOEVER HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF MINE, AND 26:26 DOES THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM TO A WISE MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON 26:30 THE ROCK: AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, THE FLOODS CAME, AND 26:34 THE WINDS BLEW AND BEAT ON THAT HOUSE; AND IT DID NOT FALL, FOR 26:38 IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK." NOW ONE OF THE POWERFUL THINGS 26:41 ABOUT THE WRITINGS OF JAMES IS HE PUNCTUATES ALL OF HIS POINTS 26:45 THROUGH HIS BOOK, WITH OTHER SCRIPTURE SO IT'S ACTUALLY 26:48 RIDDLED WITH AND ENDORSED BY THE SCRIPTURES. 26:51 ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: 'JAMES AND THE GOSPEL.' AND IN A MOMENT 26:56 WE'RE GOING TO GET DOWN TO - SOMEONE'S GOING TO HELP ME READ 26:59 JAMES 2:22. WHO HAS THAT? OH, YOU'RE ALL READY TO GO. 27:02 OKAY. ALRIGHT, JAMES IS A UNIVERSAL 27:07 BOOK AND IT IT'S NOT WRITTEN TO ONE PERSON. 27:09 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU'LL READ, YOU KNOW, JOHN'LL SAY, 27:12 'JOHN, UNTO THE ELECT LADY' OR PAUL WILL WRITE A BOOK TO 27:14 TIMOTHY OR SOMETIMES A BOOK IS WRITTEN TO A TOWN - TO THE 27:18 CORINTHIANS; TO THE THESSALONIANS. 27:20 BUT THE BOOK OF JAMES IS WRITTEN, REALLY, TO EVERYBODY. 27:24 SO IT'S A BOOK THAT IS WRITTEN TO THE CHURCH AT LARGE, THOUGH 27:27 HE'S PROBABLY ADDRESSING IT MORE TO THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS. 27:31 AND YOU KNOW WHY I SAY THAT? IF JAMES WAS WRITTEN AS EARLY AS 27:37 WE THINK IT MAY HAVE BEEN WRITTEN, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF 27:40 CHRISTIANS WERE JEWISH WHEN THE CHURCH BEGAN? 27:43 WHEN IT BEGAN, A HUNDRED PERCENT, RIGHT? 27:48 THEN AT PENTECOST, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT, IT SAYS IN 27:53 ACTS CHAPTER 2, 'NOW THERE WERE GATHERED IN JERUSALEM, JEWS; 27:57 DEVOUT MEN FROM OUT OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.' PEOPLE KEY 28:00 IN ON THE 'OUT OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN' AND THEY MISS THE 28:03 PART: 'JEWS' THAT HAD COME TO JERUSALEM FOR PENTECOST. 28:07 THERE WERE SOME CONVERTS THAT WERE THERE - PROSELYTES THEY 28:12 CALL THEM - PEOPLE THAT HAD CONVERTED FROM BEING GENTILES TO 28:15 JEWS. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS GROWING UP 28:17 MY MOM WAS IN SHOW BUSINESS AND SHE TOLD ME SAMMY DAVIS, JR., 28:21 THAT BLACK ENTERTAINER, WAS JEWISH. 28:24 AND I SAID - YOU KNOW I WAS YOUNG - I SAID, 'HOW CAN HE BE 28:26 JEWISH?' BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ALL MY MOM'S 28:29 FAMILY WAS NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN. AND SHE SAID HE CONVERTED. 28:35 AND SO THERE WERE SOME CONVERTS FROM ALL OVER THE ROMAN EMPIRE 28:37 THAT WERE IMPRESSED WITH THE MONOTHEISM - THE ONE GOD OF 28:42 ISRAEL. BUT THE MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO 28:45 CAME TO JERUSALEM, THEY WERE JEWS. 28:48 SO AT PENTECOST, WHEN IT SAYS THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT AND 28:52 3,000 ARE BAPTIZED IN ONE DAY AND YOU READ LATER IT SAYS 5,000 28:56 ARE BAPTIZED. 5,000 WHAT? ALMOST ALL JEWS. 29:01 MATTER OF FACT, IT WASN'T UNTIL PETER HAD THAT VISION AND HE 29:04 WENT TO THE HOUSE OF CORNELIUS AND GOD SAID, 'DO NOT CALL 29:08 UNCLEAN WHAT I HAVE CLEANSED.' AND PETER SAID, 'GOD HAS TOLD ME 29:12 TO CALL NO MAN UNCLEAN.' THEY THOUGHT ALL THE GENTILES WERE 29:15 UNCLEAN DOGS AND THEY WERE WORKING THROUGH SOME CENTURIES- 29:20 OLD PREJUDICE THAT THEY HAD AGAINST THE GENTILES. 29:24 YOU REMEMBER WHEN - EVEN JESUS SAID - THIS CANAANITE WOMAN CAME 29:28 TO HIM AND SAID, 'LORD' - HE WAS UP IN THE TYRE-SIDON REGION AND 29:32 THEY SAID, 'LORD, PLEASE COME AND HEAL MY DAUGHTER.' AND JESUS 29:34 WANTED TO SHOW THE DISCIPLES HOW THEY SOUNDED. 29:37 HE SAID, 'IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S FOOD AND 29:39 GIVE IT TO DOGS.' AND EVERYONE SAID, 'HOW COULD HE BE SO 29:42 HARSH?' HE WAS TRYING TO SHAME THE 29:44 DISCIPLES BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAID ABOUT 29:47 THE GENTILES. AND IT'S LIKE THE PARABLE OF THE 29:50 RICH MAN AND LAZARUS - THAT POOR MAN WAS OUTSIDE, COMFORTED ONLY 29:55 BY THE DOGS, EATING THE CRUMBS. IT'S LIKE THAT WOMAN SAID, 'OH, 29:58 BUT EVEN THE DOGS GET THE CRUMBS.' SO THEY SAW THE 30:01 GENTILES AS THEY WERE ON THE OUTSIDE. 30:04 'WE ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.' NOW, I KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO EVER 30:08 WORRY ABOUT THAT AS CHRISTIANS OR MEMBERS OF OUR PARTICULAR 30:11 CHURCH, THAT WE SOMEHOW HAVE THE TRUTH AND EVERYONE ELSE IS - YOU 30:16 KNOW, THE FIRST TIME AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE ON JESUS' LIFE - WELL 30:22 SECOND, ACTUALLY - THE DEVIL TRIED TO KILL HIM AS A BABY. 30:25 BUT WHEN HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY - THE FIRST ATTEMPT WAS 30:28 WHEN HE WENT TO HIS HOMETOWN CHURCH. 30:31 AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID DURING HIS SERMON? 30:34 HE SAID, 'THERE WERE MANY WIDOWS IN THE LAND IN THE DAYS OF 30:37 ELIJAH, WHEN THE HEAVENS WERE SHUT UP FOR THREE AND A HALF 30:40 YEARS, BUT GOD DID NOT SEND ELIJAH TO ANY OF THE JEWISH 30:44 WIDOWS, HE SENT HIM TO A GENTILE. 30:48 AND THERE WERE MANY LEPERS IN THE LAND IN THE DAYS OF NAAMAN, 30:51 BUT ELISHA ONLY HEALED NAAMAN THE SYRIAN.' AND THEY WERE SO 30:56 OUTRAGED THAT HE WOULD SAY GOD WOULD SHOW FAVOR TO THE 30:58 GENTILES, THEY TRIED TO TAKE HIM AND THROW HIM OFF OF A CLIFF. 31:02 HOW MANY REMEMBER READING THAT? SO THIS WAS THE ATTITUDE FOR THE 31:05 FIRST EIGHT OR TEN YEARS RIGHT AFTER CHRISTIANITY AND THE 31:09 DISCIPLES - THE FIRST MISSIONARIES THAT WENT OUT - AS 31:12 THEY WENT OUT, YOU KNOW WHERE THEY WENT? 31:13 THEY WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUES AND THEY TOLD THE JEWS ABOUT JESUS 31:17 BEING THE MESSIAH. AND, YES, PHILIP TALKED TO THAT 31:20 ETHIOPIAN BUT HE WAS A JEWISH CONVERT SO HE COULD TALK TO HIM. 31:25 AND EVEN PAUL HAD TO CHASTISE PETER. AFTER THE GOSPEL WENT TO 31:29 THE GENTILES, PAUL SAYS IN GALATIANS, 31:31 'PETER WAS TO BE BLAMED BECAUSE BEFORE THE DELEGATION CAME FROM 31:35 JERUSALEM HE WAS HOB-KNOBBING WITH THE GENTILES, BUT WHEN THEY 31:38 CAME HE DIDN'T WANT TO LOOK LIKE HE WAS GETTING TOO CLOSE TO 31:41 THOSE - THE UNCLEAN GENTILES. AND SO IT WAS JUST DEEPLY 31:46 INGRAINED IN THEM THAT ALL OF THE GENTILES WERE UNCLEAN. 31:50 SO JAMES' BOOK IS PROBABLY BEING ADDRESSED LARGELY TO THESE 31:55 JEWISH CONVERTS IN THE EARLY CHURCH BUT IT WAS JUST BEGINNING 31:59 TO GO BEYOND THAT TIME. IT WAS PROBABLY CLOSELY AFTER 32:02 THE TIME WHEN PETER HAD HIS VISION. 32:04 ANYWAY, SO THEY WERE GRAPPLING WITH THOSE THINGS. 32:07 BUT DO YOU FIND THE GOSPEL, IN THE BOOK OF JAMES, OR WAS MARTIN 32:12 LUTHER'S ACCUSATION TRUE - THAT IT'S A BOOK OF JUST LEGAL LAWS? 32:16 ALRIGHT, LET ME SEE HERE. GO TO ACTS 15, VERSE 13. 32:20 WHEN PAUL AND BARNABAS - THEY CAME DOWN AND THEY REPORTED HOW 32:23 THE LORD HAD WORKED MARVELOUSLY IN RAISING UP CHURCHES IN THESE 32:27 GENTILE TOWNS AMONG THE GENTILES - AS WELL AS JEWS. 32:31 IT SAYS, AFTER THEY'D COME - "AFTER THEY HAD BECOME SILENT" - 32:35 ACTS 15:13 - "JAMES ANSWERED, SAYING, 'MEN AND BRETHREN, 32:40 LISTEN TO ME: SIMON HAS DECLARED HOW GOD AT THE FIRST VISITED THE 32:44 GENTILES TO TAKE OUT OF THEM A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME. 32:48 AND WITH THIS THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS AGREE, JUST AS IT IS 32:51 WRITTEN:'" - AND NOTICE, JAMES IS SUPPORTING THE GOSPEL IS 32:54 SUPPOSED TO GO THE GENTILES - "'AFTER THIS I WILL RETURN AND 32:56 REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID, WHICH HAS FALLEN DOWN; I WILL 32:59 REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL SET IT UP; SO THAT THE REST OF 33:02 MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, EVEN ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED 33:07 BY MY NAME, SAYS THE LORD WHO DOES ALL THESE THINGS.'" - 33:10 JAMES KNEW HIS BIBLE. HE'S QUOTING OLD TESTAMENT 33:13 PROPHECIES TO SAY THE GOSPEL IS SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE GENTILES. 33:16 SO HE UNDERSTOOD THE GOSPEL AND, LET'S SEE, READ JAMES, 33:20 FOR INSTANCE, CHAPTER 1, VERSE 3. 33:22 "KNOWING THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH PRODUCES PATIENCE." 33:27 WHAT WAS MARTIN LUTHER'S CONCERN ABOUT THE BOOK OF JAMES? 33:31 HE THOUGHT IT WAS TOO MUCH LAW AND NOT ENOUGH FAITH. 33:33 BUT YOU'LL FIND THAT HE SAYS QUITE A BIT ABOUT FAITH. 33:38 MATTER OF FACT YOU CAN GO AHEAD 33:39 - DICK, WHY DON'T YOU READ JAMES 2:22? 33:42 >>"DO YOU SEE THAT FAITH WAS WORKING TOGETHER WITH HIS WORKS, 33:45 AND BY WORKS, FAITH WAS MADE PERFECT?" 33:48 >>SO IS HE IGNORING FAITH AND EMPHASIZING WORK OR WAS HE 33:52 SHOWING A BALANCE BETWEEN FAITH AND WORKS? 33:55 WHAT JAMES IS SAYING IS REALLY WHAT EVERY CHRISTIAN BELIEVES 33:57 AND WE HAVE WHOLE LESSONS THAT WILL DELVE INTO THIS MUCH 34:00 DEEPER, BUT THAT REAL FAITH - WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH, BUT REAL 34:04 FAITH WILL BE EVIDENT BY THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AND, AMONG 34:09 THOSE FRUITS, PAUL EVEN SAYS 'WE ARE SAVED UNTO GOOD WORKS.' AND 34:14 SO THERE'S PERFECT AGREEMENT BETWEEN WHAT JAMES SAYS AND WHAT 34:18 PAUL SAYS. LET ME READ JAMES 2, VERSE 5, 34:20 "LISTEN, MY BELOVED BRETHREN: HAS GOD NOT CHOSEN THE POOR OF 34:24 THIS WORLD TO BE RICH IN FAITH AND HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM WHICH 34:29 HE PROMISED TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM?" 34:32 NOTICE THE EMPHASIS ON FAITH AND LOVE. 34:35 HE'S PROMISED THE KINGDOM TO THOSE THAT LOVE HIM. 34:38 AND SO, THE GOOD WORKS THAT JAMES TALKS ABOUT LATER IN THE 34:41 BOOK SPRING OUT OF WHAT? IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE OUT OF LOVE. 34:45 ANYTHING OTHER THAN THAT, IT'S JUST NOT RIGHT. 34:47 AND WE CAN READ JAMES 5:15 - WE'RE JUST KIND OF - OF COURSE, 34:51 THERE'S ONLY FIVE CHAPTERS SO WE'RE JUST JUMPING THROUGH THE 34:53 BOOK HERE TO SHOW THAT THERE IS A BALANCE HERE. 34:57 JAMES 5:15, "AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH WILL SAVE THE SICK, 35:03 AND THE LORD WILL RAISE HIM UP. 35:04 AND IF HE HAS COMMITTED SINS, HE WILL BE FORGIVEN." 35:07 AND SO, THERE'S AN EMPHASIS ON FORGIVENESS THROUGH THE BOOK. 35:11 THERE'S AN EMPHASIS ON FAITH. THERE'S AN EMPHASIS ON PRAYER. 35:16 TRUE FAITH CARRIES CERTAIN RECOGNIZABLE CREDENTIALS AND 35:20 THIS'LL BE REVEALED IN THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE BELIEVER. 35:23 NOW THERE IS A QUOTE FROM THAT BOOK CALLED 'LIFE SKETCHES OF 35:28 PAUL' - 'SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE OF PAUL' AND THIS IS PAGES 208 35:32 AND 209, "THESE BRETHREN WERE NOW CALLED FORWARD AND ONE BY 35:37 ONE THEY LAID AT THE FEET OF JAMES, THE OFFERINGS WHICH THE 35:41 GENTILE CHURCHES HAD FREELY GIVEN, ALTHOUGH OFTEN FROM 35:45 THEIR DEEPEST POVERTY. AND SO, YOU REMEMBER WHEN THERE 35:48 WAS A FAMINE IN JERUSALEM? IF YOU READ THE BOOK OF ACTS YOU 35:51 REMEMBER PAUL, AND IN HIS WRITINGS HE REFERS TO IT. 35:54 HE WENT AMONG SOME OF THE DIFFERENT CHURCHES IN ASIA. 35:56 THERE WAS A DROUGHT AND A FAMINE BECAUSE OF THE DROUGHT, IN 35:59 JERUSALEM, AND THE GENTILES WERE MAKING THIS GENEROUS OFFERING TO 36:05 HELP THE HUNGRY JEWISH CHRISTIANS THAT WERE DOWN IN 36:08 JERUSALEM. AND SO, THEY WERE BASICALLY 36:11 SHOWING, 'WELL, HERE, YOU TREATED US LIKE DOGS BUT WE'RE 36:14 GOING TO SHOW LOVE TO YOU BECAUSE THE GOSPEL CAME THROUGH 36:18 YOU TO US.' DOESN'T PAUL SAY, 'TO THE JEW FIRST AND AFTER THAT 36:21 THE GREEK?' THE GOSPEL CAME TO THE JEW FIRST 36:25 AND THEN AFTER THAT IT GOES TO THE GREEKS. 36:28 AND SO THEY WERE SHOWING THIS, BUT WHOSE FEET DID THEY LAY THE 36:30 OFFERINGS AT? ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 36:34 NOW, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WERE THEY WORSHIPING HIM LIKE A 36:36 POPE OR A GOD?' IF YOU READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 5 36:39 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT ON THE CHURCH AND PEOPLE 36:43 WERE SELLING THEIR PROPERTY, THEY'D BRING THE PROCEEDS FROM 36:46 THEIR SOLD LAND TO THE APOSTLES AND THEY'D LAY IT AT THEIR FEET. 36:50 NOW, THE APOSTLES DID NOT WANT WORSHIP. 36:53 THEY RECOGNIZED THIS MEANT THEY WERE GIVING IT TO THE LORD. 36:56 THE APOSTLES SORT OF REPRESENTED THE EARTHLY MESSENGERS OF THE 36:59 LORD. WHEN THEY TRIED TO WORSHIP PAUL 37:02 AND SILAS - I FORGET WHAT TOWN THAT WAS IN - AND THEY WANTED TO 37:05 MAKE OFFERINGS TO THEM AFTER THEY DID A MIRACLE. 37:07 IT MAY HAVE BEEN PHILIPPI AND PAUL AND SILAS SAID, 'DON'T DO 37:11 THAT!' AND THEY TORE THEIR CLOTHES. 37:13 THE APOSTLES DIDN'T WANT WORSHIP. 37:15 AND WHEN PETER AND JOHN HEALED THE MAN WHO WAS PARALYZED, AT 37:20 THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, ACTS CHAPTER 3, THE PEOPLE WANTED TO ACT LIKE 37:23 PETER AND JOHN, THESE APOSTLES, WERE DIVINE. 37:26 AND THEY SAID, 'WE'RE MEN JUST LIKE YOU. 37:27 IT'S THE NAME OF JESUS THAT DID THIS.' BUT WHEN THEY SOLD THEIR 37:31 PROPERTY AND THEY WANTED TO GIVE IT TO THE LORD - AND THEY DIDN'T 37:33 HAVE REGULAR CHURCHES TO MEET IN - THEY'D COME TO WHEREVER THE 37:36 APOSTLES GATHERED AND THEY'D PUBLICLY SAY, 'THIS IS A GIFT TO 37:38 THE LORD.' AND THEY'D PUT IT DOWN AT THEIR FEET. 37:40 THAT WAS JUST OF WAY OF SAYING, 'WE'RE GIVING THIS TO THE LORD.' 37:43 BUT IT'S INTERESTING, THE PROMINENT POSITION THAT JAMES 37:48 ROSE TO IN THE CHURCH, GOING FROM A SKEPTICAL OLDER BROTHER 37:53 TO, BASICALLY - I KNOW THIS MAY SOUND STRANGE BUT HE WAS KNOWN 37:57 AS 'THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.' AND BISHOP IS A BIBLICAL WORD. 38:01 IT MEANS 'THE OVER SHEPHERD OF THE CHURCH.' HE WAS PROBABLY 38:04 OLDER THAN PETER AND JOHN. THEY WERE YOUNGER WHEN 38:07 JESUS CALLED THEM. HE WAS OLDER THAN JESUS AND IF 38:11 HE'S THE OLDEST OF AT LEAST SIX CHILDREN, HE MAY HAVE BEEN, YOU 38:15 KNOW, TWELVE, FIFTEEN YEARS OLDER THAN JESUS. 38:18 AND SO, HE WAS FIFTY, SIXTY - HE WAS THE PATRIARCH. 38:22 A LOT OF THE CONVERTS WERE VERY YOUNG - THAT FIRST FOLLOWED 38:25 JESUS. ALRIGHT, SO THE GOSPEL IS IN THE 38:27 STORY OF JAMES. NOW, IT SAYS HERE, IN THE NEXT 38:30 SECTION, "TO THE TWELVE TRIBES SCATTERED ABROAD." AND - LET'S 38:36 SEE HERE - IF WE LOOK IN JAMES 1:1 - THIS IS THE - NOW WE'RE 38:39 FINALLY GETTING INTO THE BOOK. SORRY IT'S TAKEN SO LONG. 38:42 JAMES 1:1 - WELL, WE'VE BEEN QUOTING EXCERPTS. 38:45 "JAMES, A BONDSERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, TO THE 38:51 TWELVE TRIBES WHICH ARE SCATTERED ABROAD: GREETINGS." 38:55 NOW DOES THAT MEAN THIS BOOK IS JUST WRITTEN TO TWELVE TRIBES OR 38:59 IS HE USING THE WORDS 'TWELVE TRIBES' IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE? 39:04 I'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE TRIBAL HISTORY. 39:10 HOW MANY TRIBES WERE THERE - OF ISRAEL? IT'S A TRICK QUESTION. 39:18 IT STARTED OUT THAT JACOB HAD TWELVE SONS, BUT BECAUSE JOSEPH 39:22 WAS SOLD AND WENT INTO EGYPT, WHILE THERE, 39:25 JOSEPH GAVE BIRTH TO TWO SONS. 39:28 BUT JOSEPH HAD BEEN SEPARATED FOR MANY YEARS FROM THE FAMILY. 39:31 SO JACOB, HE SAID, VIRTUALLY ON HIS DEATH BED, THAT THE SONS OF 39:37 JOSEPH WOULD BE GIVEN A NAME AND AN INHERITANCE EQUAL WITH A 39:41 BROTHER, BECAUSE OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED. 39:44 AND SO THEIR NAMES WERE EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH. 39:47 BUT THEN, IF YOU DO THE MATH AND YOU COUNT EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH 39:51 AND ALL THE TRIBES, YOU END UP WITH THIRTEEN. 39:53 YOU DON'T COUNT JOSEPH, YOU COUNT THE TWO SONS OF JOSEPH, 39:56 RIGHT? BUT THEY ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE TWELVE TRIBES. 39:59 LET ME TELL YOU HOW THAT HAPPENED. 40:01 THAT ONLY LASTED WHILE THEY WERE IN EXODUS - 40:04 THEY HAD THIRTEEN TRIBES - IN EGYPT, RATHER. 40:06 AFTER THE EXODUS - SHORTLY AFTER MOUNT SINAI, GOD SAID THAT THE 40:12 SONS OF LEVI - THE DESCENDENTS OF LEVI - THEY WOULD NOT GET AN 40:16 INHERITANCE IN THE PROMISED LAND LIKE THE OTHER TWELVE TRIBES, 40:20 BUT THEY WOULD BE THE PRIESTS FOR THE OTHER TWELVE TRIBES. 40:23 SO IF YOU COUNT LEVI AND EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH AND ISSACHAR AND 40:27 ZEBULUN AND THE REST OF THEM, YOU END UP WITH THIRTEEN. 40:32 HOW MANY WERE AT THE LAST SUPPER? 40:35 >>THIRTEEN. >>UNTIL JUDAS LEFT THE ROOM 40:37 THERE WERE THIRTEEN. SO THEY CALL THEM THE TWELVE TRIBES. 40:40 NOW, EVEN WHEN THEY CAME BACK - LET ME SEE - YEAH, EZRA - I'M 40:45 JUMPING AHEAD HERE BECAUSE I THOUGHT ABOUT IT - EZRA 6:17. 40:48 TEN OF THE TRIBES - OH - YOU JUST - GIVE YOU THE HISTORY - 40:53 EVERYTHING WAS HUNKY DOREY WITH THE TWELVE TRIBES AFTER - WHEN 40:57 SAUL BECAME KING - THERE WERE REALLY ONLY THREE KINGS OVER THE 41:00 UNITED KINGDOM: SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMON. IT'S INTERESTING, THEY 41:04 ALL REIGNED EXACTLY FORTY YEARS. FORTY - FORTY - FORTY. 41:09 I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS, BUT THE LIFE OF MOSES IS DIVIDED 41:11 UP INTO THREE FORTIES ALSO, RIGHT? 41:14 FORTY IN EGYPT. FORTY IN THE WILDERNESS. FORTY LEADING THEM 41:17 FROM EGYPT THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 41:19 AND SO YOU HAD THREE KINGS OF ISRAEL WHERE THERE WERE THE 41:21 TWELVE TRIBES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, BUT THEN, WHEN SOLOMON 41:25 CAME ALONG - AFTER HE DIED THERE WAS A REBELLION. JEROBOAM SPLIT 41:30 OFF - HE WAS A SERVANT OF SOLOMON - THE KINGDOM SPLIT. 41:33 REHOBOAM AND JEROBOAM - REHOBOAM, SON OF SOLOMON. 41:38 TEN OF THE TRIBES IN THE NORTH SAID, 'WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR 41:40 OWN RELIGION.' THEY SET UP THEIR OWN ALTARS. 41:42 THEY DIDN'T 'WANT THE PEOPLE GOING DOWN TO THE TEMPLE IN 41:44 JERUSALEM. AND SO IT WAS A GREAT APOSTASY. 41:47 THEY GOT INTO IDOLATRY. 41:48 THEY HAD GOLDEN CALVES AT DAN AND BETHEL. 41:51 THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM TRIED TO STAY TRUE TO THE LORD AND THE 41:54 SOUTHERN KINGDOM WAS COMPRISED OF MOST OF THE LEVITES BECAUSE 41:57 THE NORTHERN KINGDOM HAD CORRUPTED WORSHIP. 42:00 MOST OF THE LEVITES, THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN - BUT THE BIG TRIBE 42:03 WAS JUDAH. IT WAS OFTEN CALLED JUDAH, 42:05 BECAUSE THEY WERE THE BIGGEST TRIBE. 42:07 THE NORTHERN KINGDOM WAS OFTEN CALLED EPHRAIM, 42:09 BECAUSE THEY WERE THE BIGGEST TRIBE. 42:11 BUT IT WAS EPHRAIM AND THE OTHER NINE. 42:13 SO THERE'S A CIVIL WAR THAT LASTED UNTIL THE END AND, AROUND 42:19 THE TIME HEZEKIAH WAS KING OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM, JUDAH, THE 42:24 KING OF ASSYRIA CAME AND HE CONQUERED THE NORTHERN KINGDOM. 42:27 THEY HAD GONE THROUGH LOTS OF BAD KINGS. 42:30 I MEAN, ELIJAH DEALT WITH AHAB AND ALL OF HIS PROBLEMS. 42:34 AND YOU'VE GOT ELISHA DEALING WITH JEHU AND THEY JUST HAD A 42:38 LOT OF BAD KINGS AND DID A LOT OF VIOLENT THINGS AND THE 42:42 DYNASTIES KEPT GETTING OVERTHROWN. 42:43 THOSE TEN TRIBES WERE CARRIED OFF, HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE 42:47 JESUS WAS BORN, TO ASSYRIA. MOST OF THEM INTERMARRIED. 42:52 THEY BECAME VERY INDISTINCT AS A UNIQUE PEOPLE. 42:56 NOW YOU CAN GO TO ASSYRIA TODAY AND YOU'LL FIND A FEW, VAGUE 43:01 REMNANTS OF PEOPLE THAT SAY THEY ARE JEWS THAT CAN BE TRACED BACK 43:04 - THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY ARABS. THEY'VE INTERMARRIED WITH ARABS, 43:08 BUT THEY STILL MAINTAIN THEIR JEWISH RELIGION. 43:11 AND SO, THERE ARE STILL SOME REMNANTS OF JEWISH PEOPLE IN 43:14 THAT PART, BUT THEY DID NOT COME BACK FROM THE CAPTIVITY. 43:18 WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR CARRIED OFF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF JUDAH, 43:22 SEVENTY YEARS LATER THEY CAME BACK. 43:25 BUT EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE REALLY ONLY THREE TRIBES: JUDAH, 43:28 BENJAMIN, AND LEVI, LISTEN TO WHAT EZRA SAYS. 43:31 THIS IS A LONG INTRODUCTION INTO ONE VERSE. 43:33 "AND THEY OFFERED SACRIFICES AT THE DEDICATION OF THIS HOUSE OF 43:37 GOD, ONE HUNDRED BULLS, TWO HUNDRED RAMS, FOUR HUNDRED 43:39 LAMBS, AND AS A SIN OFFERING FOR ALL ISRAEL, TWELVE MALE GOATS, 43:44 ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL." 43:47 SO EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T HAVE TWELVE TRIBES ANYMORE, IN 43:50 ISRAEL, THEY STILL REFERRED TO THEM AS THE TWELVE TRIBES. 43:54 AND THEY ALSO BELIEVE THAT SOME OF THE TRIBES HAD INTERMARRIED, 44:00 THEY SHARED THEIR FAITH, THEY KIND OF LOST THEIR DISTINCT 44:02 IDENTITY, BUT THEY WERE SCATTERED. THEY WERE BLENDED. 44:06 THEY, SORT OF, MINGLED INTO THE OTHER NATIONS. 44:12 THE JEWS ARE THE GREATEST EVIDENCE OF THE BIBLE BEING 44:16 TRUE, OF JUST ABOUT ANYTHING. WELL, I SHOULDN'T SAY THE 44:19 GREATEST - ONE OF THE GREATEST EVIDENCES. THERE IS NO OTHER 44:23 NATION IN THE WORLD THAT HAS BEEN CONQUERED, SCATTERED AMONG 44:28 FOREIGN COUNTRIES, THAT REMAINS WITH A DISTINCT LANGUAGE. 44:33 HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT A LOT OF COUNTRIES - NATIVE AMERICANS - 44:39 I'VE LIVED ON SEVERAL RESERVATIONS. KAREN AND I LIVE 44:41 BY FIVE TRIBES UP IN COVELO. I DON'T KNOW ONE OF THEM THAT 44:44 CAN SPEAK THEIR ANCIENT TONGUE ANYMORE. 44:46 I USED TO, WHEN I FIRST MOVED THERE, BUT THEY SLOWLY DIED OFF. 44:49 I LIVED WITH THE NAVAJOS FOR YEARS. WHEN I FIRST WENT THERE, 44:51 THEY ALL SPOKE FLUENT NAVAJO. IT'S BECOMING LESS AND LESS 44:55 PROMINENT. NAVAJO IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE 44:56 STRONGEST NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES. BUT YOU GO AROUND - 44:59 AND THAT'S JUST AFTER A FEW HUNDRED YEARS. THE JEWS WERE 45:02 CONQUERED AND SCATTERED FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS. 45:06 AND TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THEIR LANGUAGE AND THEN COME BACK TO 45:08 THEIR LAND THREE TIMES. THEY WERE CARRIED OFF TO EGYPT. 45:12 THEY CAME BACK. CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON. THEY CAME BACK. 45:16 SCATTERED BY THE ROMANS FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS - NINETEEN 45:18 HUNDRED YEARS - AND THEY CAME BACK. IT'S JUST PHENOMENAL 45:21 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. SO WHEN JAMES IS SAYING, 'TO THE 45:24 TWELVE TRIBES' WHO'S HE TALKING TO? 45:27 HE'S TALKING TO EVERY BELIEVER IN JEHOVAH. 45:31 AND IT WAS A TERM THAT WAS USED TO JUST TALK ABOUT ALL OF GOD'S 45:35 PEOPLE. THE NEW JERUSALEM HAS HOW MANY FOUNDATIONS? 45:38 HOW MANY GATES? TWELVE. HOW MANY KINDS OF FRUIT ON THE 45:43 TREE OF LIFE? TWELVE? TWELVE DIFFERENT KINDS - 45:48 TWELVE TIMES A YEAR. THAT COULD MEAN A HUNDRED AND 45:51 FORTY-FOUR DIFFERENT - BETTER THAN BASKIN ROBINS, HUH? 45:53 A HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT. 45:56 AND SO TWELVE IS A NUMBER THAT IS JUST - THE WOMAN IN 45:58 REVELATION 12 - NOT THAT THE CHAPTER MEANS ANYTHING, CHAPTER 46:01 12 - HAS HOW MANY STARS ABOVE HER HEAD? TWELVE. 46:05 SO THAT WAS A NUMBER THAT REPRESENTED THE LEADERSHIP. 46:07 OLD TESTAMENT - TWELVE TRIBES. YOU HAD PEOPLE INCLUDE SAMUEL. 46:12 THEY ARGUE TWELVE JUDGES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 46:15 AND THEN YOU HAVE THE TWELVE APOSTLES. 46:17 PETER THOUGHT THE NUMBER WAS IMPORTANT. 46:19 THEY REPLACED - OH YEAH, WERE THE TWELVE APOSTLES ALL FROM 46:23 TWELVE DIFFERENT TRIBES? NO, MOST OF THE APOSTLES WERE 46:26 PROBABLY FROM BENJAMIN, JUDAH, LEVI. 46:31 MATTHEW LEVI WAS FROM WHAT TRIBE DO YOU THINK? 46:34 LEVI. WHAT TRIBE WAS PAUL FROM? 46:37 PAUL SAID, 'I'M A BENJAMITE.' YEAH, SO WHY DID JESUS PICK 46:43 TWELVE TRIBES IF THEY WEREN'T FROM - OR TWELVE APOSTLES IF 46:45 THEY WEREN'T FROM DIFFERENT TRIBES? THE NUMBER MEANT 46:48 SOMETHING TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE. IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. 46:50 THEY ALWAYS FELT BAD THAT THEY'D BEEN DECIMATED BY APOSTASY AND 46:54 BY OTHER NATIONS, SO THEY CLAIMED THAT 'WE'RE STILL 46:57 TWELVE.' AND SO, WHEN HE SAYS 'TO THE TWELVE TRIBES,' HE'S 47:00 SPEAKING MORE IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE. 47:03 NOW YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR US? 47:05 WHEN YOU GET TO REVELATION AND IT TALKS ABOUT TWELVE THOUSAND 47:11 FROM THE TWELVE TRIBES - IT SAYS, 'FROM THE TRIBES OF JUDAH, 47:16 BENJAMIN, ISSACHAR, LEVI - ALL THE DIFFERENT TRIBES. 47:22 YOU KNOW MANY CHRISTIANS TODAY, THEY BELIEVE THAT THE HOLY 47:26 SPIRIT IS A SPECIAL OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT GOD IS 47:30 GOING TO RAISE UP A HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND LITERAL JEWS 47:34 WITH TWELVE THOUSAND LITERAL JEWS FROM THESE LITERAL TRIBES. 47:39 BUT IF THEY KNOW THEIR BIBLE HISTORY, MOST OF THOSE TRIBES 47:42 WERE SCATTERED AND SO BLENDED THAT ALL OF YOU HERE MIGHT HAVE 47:45 A LITTLE JEWISH BLOOD - IF YOU'RE LUCKY. 47:48 SORRY. BUT, I MEAN, REALLY. 47:51 SO THE IDEA THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE TWELVE THOUSAND LITERAL 47:55 PEOPLE FROM ZEBULON OUT PREACHING THE GOSPEL, IT'S JUST 47:59 BIBLE IGNORANCE. THEY DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY. 48:01 THOSE TRIBES HAVE BEEN SCATTERED AND DISPERSED AND WATERED DOWN 48:06 TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. SO WHEN IT SAYS THE 48:10 TWELVE TRIBES HERE, I THINK THAT'S A SPIRITUAL NUMBER 48:14 THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. SO WHAT DOES PETER SAY? 48:16 IF YOU LOOK IN - LET ME SEE HERE - 1 PETER 2:9, "BUT YOU ARE A 48:23 CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, HIS 48:27 OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO 48:30 CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT;" PETER IS 48:33 REFERRING TO THE CHURCH AT LARGE - AS A NATION - AND SO THE 48:37 TWELVE TRIBES WAS SORT OF - AND, YOU KNOW, PETER ALSO SAYS - 48:41 1 PETER 5:13? PETER WRITES A LETTER AND HE 48:43 SAYS, "SHE WHO IS IN BABYLON, ELECT TOGETHER WITH YOU, GREETS 48:47 YOU; AND SO DOES MARK MY SON." PETER'S WRITING A LETTER TO 48:51 BABYLON? OR WAS PETER REFERRING TO ROME 48:54 AS BABYLON EVEN BACK THAT FAR AGO. 48:58 HE'S USING BABYLON IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE THERE. 49:01 THEY DID HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT LIVED NEAR BABYLON DURING THE 49:04 TIME OF PETER, BUT THERE WAS NO SPECIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN 49:07 BABYLON THAT WE KNOW ABOUT FROM HISTORY. PETER - 49:09 THEY USED THESE WORDS SORT OF INTERCHANGEABLY WITH 49:12 THEIR SPIRITUAL SENSE. 49:13 LUKE 22 - JESUS SAYS - VERSE 29, "AND I BESTOW UPON YOU A 49:19 KINGDOM, JUST AS MY FATHER BESTOWED ONE UPON ME, THAT YOU 49:22 MAY EAT AND DRINK AT MY TABLE IN MY KINGDOM, AND SIT ON THRONES 49:28 JUDGING THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL." 49:31 SO HOW DOES JESUS USE THE TERM 'TWELVE TRIBES?' 49:34 IS HE EXCLUDING CHRISTIANS WHEN HE SAYS 'YOU'LL BE JUDGING THE 49:37 TWELVE TRIBES?' OR IS HE TALKING ABOUT ALL HIS BELIEVERS? 49:40 YOU SEE, WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT - I BELIEVE GOD HAS A 49:43 SPECIAL WORK FOR LITERAL JEWS - I DO. 49:46 AND I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE A GREAT REVIVAL BEFORE THE END. 49:48 BUT PAUL SAYS,'HE IS NOT A JEW WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY, HE IS A 49:53 JEW WHICH IS ONE INWARDLY.' PAUL SAYS, 'IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S, THEN 49:57 YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED.' PAUL SAYS THAT WE ARE GRAFTED INTO 50:02 THE STOCK OF ABRAHAM - THAT THE GENTILES ARE GRAFTED INTO THE 50:05 HEBREW STOCK. WE DRAW OUR SAP FROM THE BIBLE 50:08 WE READ - THE JEWISH BOOK, RIGHT? 50:10 AND SO THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD THIS. SO REALLY, WHAT'S HAPPENING IS 50:14 THE - THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, INCLUDING JAMES, THEY UNDERSTOOD 50:21 THAT ALL THE GENTILES WERE SORT OF CONVERTING. 50:25 WHEN THEY BECAME CHRISTIANS THAT THEY WERE, IN A SENSE, 50:27 CONVERTING TO BEING SPIRITUAL JEWS. THAT TROUBLES SOME PEOPLE. 50:32 IF SOMEONE'S GOT A LITTLE BIT OF ANTISEMITISM THEY KIND OF CHAFF 50:35 AT THAT IDEA. BUT IS A VERY CLEARLY TAUGHT THEME, IN THE 50:39 BIBLE, THAT CHRISTIANS REALLY ARE STANDING ON THE 50:42 FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, WHICH IS A LARGELY 50:46 JEWISH BOOK. THEN WE GO TO 'JAMES AND JESUS' HERE. 50:52 THIS IS THE LAST SECTION AND HOW DOES HE REFER TO HIMSELF IN THE 50:57 OPENING VERSE? THE BONDSERVANT. 51:01 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN AN OLDER BROTHER THAT WOULD TELL THE 51:04 YOUNGER BROTHER THAT 'I'LL BE YOUR BONDSERVANT?' 51:09 JESUS MUST HAVE MADE A PRETTY STRONG IMPRESSION ON JAMES. 51:12 I MEAN, AFTER ALL, WAS JAMES AT THE CROSS WHEN JESUS WAS 51:15 CRUCIFIED? MARY WAS THERE WITH HIS 51:17 BRETHREN. I'M SURE THEY SAW THAT. 51:20 WHEN JESUS THEN APPEARS AFTER HIS RESURRECTION, PERSONALLY, TO 51:24 JAMES, WOULD THAT CONVINCE YOU, EVEN AS AN OLDER BROTHER, IF 51:27 YOUR YOUNGER BROTHER GETS RESURRECTED AND SAYS, 'I'VE JUST 51:30 COME FROM THE FATHER.' ESPECIALLY IF THEY WERE ALWAYS 51:33 CALLED 'LITTLE ANGEL.' MY BROTHER - YOU KNOW I HAD A 51:37 STEP-BROTHER, JOHN AND I - JOHN WAS OLDER AND MY BROTHER FALCON, 51:40 HE WAS OLDER THAN ME BUT FALCON HAD CYSTIC FIBROSIS - HIS HEALTH 51:43 WASN'T THAT GOOD SO WHEN WE'D GO GET IN TROUBLE - JOHN AND I WERE 51:46 ALWAYS IN ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE - FALCON, HIS HEALTH WASN'T AS 51:48 GOOD AND HE DIDN'T PARTICIPATE IN ALL OF OUR ANTICS AND WE 51:53 ALWAYS CALLED HIM 'LITTLE ANGEL', 'GOODY GOODY' - IT 51:56 WASN'T A FLATTERING TERM. BUT THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT JESUS 51:59 GOT CALLED BY HIS BRETHREN. THEY'D GET INTO SOME KIND OF 52:02 MISCHIEF, YOU KNOW, 'COME ON JESUS, LET'S GO...' 52:04 'NO, THAT'S NOT RIGHT. I CAN'T DO THAT.' 'LITTLE ANGEL' 52:07 YOU KNOW AND - JAMES 1 VERSES 9 THROUGH 11. 52:13 JAMES SAYS, "LET THE LOWLY BROTHER GLORY IN HIS EXALTATION, 52:19 BUT THE RICH IN HIS HUMILIATION, BECAUSE AS A FLOWER OF THE FIELD 52:23 HE WILL PASS AWAY. FOR NO SOONER HAS THE SUN RISEN 52:26 WITH A BURNING HEAT THAN IT WITHERS THE GRASS; ITS FLOWER 52:29 FALLS, AND ITS BEAUTIFUL APPEARANCE PERISHES. 52:33 SO THE RICH MAN ALSO WILL FADE AWAY IN HIS PURSUITS." 52:35 HE EMPHASIZES HUMILITY AND, KNOWING JESUS, 52:39 JESUS WAS VERY HUMBLE. 52:40 BY THE WAY, HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE - HE'S QUOTING, YOU KNOW 52:43 WHERE JAMES IS QUOTING FROM HERE? 52:46 IN ISAIAH WHERE HE SAYS, 'THE FLOWER FADES AND THE GRASS 52:49 WITHERS?' IT'S ALSO - PSALMS TALKS ABOUT 52:50 THAT. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD. READ FOR US JAMES 1:21. 52:55 >>"THEREFORE LAY ASIDE ALL FILTHINESS AND OVERFLOW OF 52:58 WICKEDNESS, AND RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS THE IMPLANTED WORD, 53:02 WHICH IS ABLE TO SAVE YOUR SOULS." 53:05 >>MEEKNESS. WHAT WAS ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MOSES? 53:10 MEEKEST MAN WHO HAD EVER LIVED. 53:12 MOSES SAID, 'THE LORD, YOUR GOD'LL RAISE UP A PROPHET TO YOU 53:14 LIKE ME.' AND JESUS SAID, 'FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY.' AND SO JAMES 53:20 SAYS, 'LAY ASIDE ALL FILTHINESS AND RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS, THE 53:25 IMPLANTED WORD, WHICH IS ABLE TO SAVE YOUR SOULS.' AND WHAT IS 53:28 JESUS CALLED BY JOHN? JESUS IS THE WORD. 53:32 LET'S GO TO JAMES 4:6-10, "BUT HE GIVES MORE GRACE. 53:37 THEREFORE HE SAYS: 'GOD RESISTS THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO 53:41 THE HUMBLE.' THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD. 53:45 RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU. 53:48 DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU." 53:50 - THESE ARE WONDERFUL PROMISES - "CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YOU 53:53 SINNERS; AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, YOU DOUBLE-MINDED. 53:55 LAMENT AND MOURN AND WEEP!" - WHY? SO YOU CAN STAY IN SELF 54:00 HUMILIATION AND DEPRESSION? - "LAMENT AND MOURN AND WEEP! 54:06 LET YOUR LAUGHTER BE TURNED TO MOURNING AND YOUR JOY TO GLOOM." 54:09 - NOTICE - "HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD AND HE 54:12 WILL LIFT YOU UP.'" IN OTHER WORDS, JAMES SAYS YOU NEED TO 54:15 THOROUGHLY REPENT AND HUMBLE YOURSELF SO GOD CAN GIVE YOU THE 54:19 JOY AND LIFT YOU UP. YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE 54:22 - THEY WANT TO HAVE THE JOY OF THE LORD AND THEY DON'T FIRST 54:25 HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND SORROW OVER THEIR SIN. 54:28 JAMES SAYS SOME VERY STRONG THINGS. NOW, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT 54:33 ALTOGETHER SURE WHAT HAPPENED TO JAMES IN HISTORY. 54:37 THERE - THE CLOSEST HISTORICAL QUOTE WE HAVE IS ACTUALLY FROM 54:40 THE WRITINGS OF JOSEPHUS AND THIS IS IN THE BOOK 'JOSEPHUS - 54:44 JEWISH ANTIQUITIES BOOK 20' AND IT'S VERSE 9.1. 54:49 AND I'LL READ TO YOU, WORD FOR WORD, WHAT IT SAYS HERE. 54:52 "THEREFORE ANNAS" - NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ANNAS IS? THIS IS THE SON 54:55 OF ANNAS THE HIGH PRIEST THAT CONDEMNED JESUS - HE HAD A 54:58 SON BY THE SAME NAME THAT ALSO ENDED UP BEING IN THE SAME 55:01 POSITION - THIS IS MANY YEARS LATER - BECAUSE THE ANNAS WHO 55:04 CONDEMNED JESUS ACTUALLY LIVED FOR QUITE AWHILE. 55:07 "THEREFORE ANNAS WAS OF THIS DISPOSITION. HE THOUGHT HE 55:11 NOW HAD PROPER OPPORTUNITY TO EXERCISE HIS AUTHORITY. 55:14 FESTUS WAS NOW DEAD AND ALBINIUS WAS BUT UPON THE ROAD. 55:19 SO" - BEFORE ALBINIUS GOT THERE TO JERUSALEM - "HE ASSEMBLED THE 55:23 SANHEDRIN OF JUDGES AND BROUGHT BEFORE THEM THE BROTHER OF 55:26 JESUS, WHO IS CALLED CHRIST, WHOSE NAME WAS JAMES." 55:30 THERE YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER HISTORICAL REFERENCE TO WHAT THE 55:32 BROTHER - AND HE WAS, EVIDENTLY, A LEADER IN THE CHURCH - "AND 55:35 SOME OTHERS OR SOME OF HIS COMPANIONS AND WHEN HE FORMED AN 55:39 ACCUSATION AGAINST THEM" - DID THEY HAVE ANY PROBLEM GETTING 55:41 FALSE WITNESSES? "WHEN HE FORMED AN ACCUSATION 55:44 AGAINST THEM" - DID THEY GET FALSE WITNESSES FOR JESUS? 55:48 FOR STEPHEN? FOR NABOTH? THEY ALWAYS WERE ABLE TO FIND 55:51 FALSE WITNESSES - "AS BREAKERS OF THE LAW HE DELIVERED THEM TO 55:56 BE STONED." THAT'S ALL HE SAYS. 55:58 THEN HE MOVES ON TO ANOTHER THING. 55:59 SO JAMES, EVIDENTLY, WAS STONED IN JERUSALEM WITH SOME OTHERS 56:02 DURING ONE OF THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE EARLY CHURCH. 56:07 SO I THINK WE CAN BE FAIRLY CERTAIN WHO THE AUTHOR OF THIS 56:10 BOOK IS. AND IT'S SOMEONE WHO KNEW JESUS 56:13 ABOUT AS WELL AS ANYBODY IN THE BIBLE. NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE 56:17 IN THE BIBLE SAY, 'I KNEW HIM FOR THIRTY-THREE AND A HALF 56:20 YEARS AND I STILL BELIEVE HE WAS THE SON OF GOD' 56:23 SO I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR STUDY TOGETHER. 56:25 BEFORE WE RUN OUT OF TIME I JUST WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS WHO 56:28 ARE WATCHING THAT WE WILL SEND YOU THE FREE BOOK, 'LIFE IN THE 56:31 SPIRIT.' 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