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>>HELLO FRIENDS AND THOSE HERE.
WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR. AND WE'RE
JUST VERY GLAD THAT
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YOU CAN TUNE IN AND
STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH US.
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FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT BE WONDERING
ABOUT THE LITTLE DIFFERENT LOOK
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AND FEEL HERE, LET ME
GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND.
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FOR THE LAST 18 YEARS OR
SO AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN
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CO-PRODUCING THE SABBATH SCHOOL
STUDY TIME WITH THE SACRAMENTO
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CENTRAL CHURCH. WELL
ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO,
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SACRAMENTO CENTRAL ACCEPTED THE
CHALLENGE TO PLANT A NEW CHURCH
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IN AN AREA WHERE THERE WAS
NO CHURCH, CALLED GRANITE BAY.
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IT'S SORT OF AN ADJOINING
COMMUNITY TO SACRAMENTO.
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AND THE LORD'S BLESSED AND
THAT CHURCH HAS FLOURISHED.
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IT'S A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE
AMAZING FACTS OFFICE AND FOR
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SEVERAL YEARS NOW WE HAVE BEEN
SHARING OR RENTING FACILITIES
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WITH A PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
BUT THE LOGISTICS HAVEN'T REALLY
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ALLOWED US TO
PRODUCE PROGRAMMING THERE.
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AND SO, RIGHT NOW, LIKE THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, OUR CHURCH
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IS SORT OF IN THE WILDERNESS
BETWEEN BUILDINGS SO WE'RE
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TRANSITIONING INTO ANOTHER
OFFICE/WAREHOUSE BUILDING WHERE
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THE CHURCH IS
GOING TO BE ABLE TO MEET.
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WE'LL HAVE IT SEVEN DAYS A
WEEK AND THAT'LL BE VERY NICE.
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WE'LL PRODUCE OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
PROGRAMS THERE, BUT IN THE
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MEANTIME, OUR MEMBERS HERE, AT
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND SOME
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VISITING FROM THE AREA,
ARE JOINING US FOR OUR SABBATH
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SCHOOL CLASS. WE'RE
RECORDING THIS DURING OUR
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REGULAR PRAYER MEETING TIME.
BUT TONIGHT, OUR TEACHER IS
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GOING TO BE ASSOCIATE PASTOR
OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH,
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PASTOR JËAN ROSS - YOU'RE
ALL FAMILIAR WITH. I ASKED JËAN
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IF HE COULD PLEASE TEACH
THE LESSON BECAUSE I WAS IN
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AUSTRALIA YESTERDAY - WELL,
I WAS ON THE PLANE YESTERDAY
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COMING BACK FROM AUSTRALIA AND
SO I'M AFRAID OF WHAT I MIGHT
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SAY AND SO WE'RE GOING TO
HAVE OUR PRAYER AND I'LL LET
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PASTOR ROSS INTRODUCE THE
LESSON AND OUR FREE OFFER.
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SO LET'S PRAY
TOGETHER AS WE BEGIN.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE'RE JUST
VERY THANKFUL FOR THE TRUTH.
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WE'RE VERY THANKFUL YOU HAVE
SPOKEN IN A WONDERFUL WAY - YOUR
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INSPIRED WORD - THROUGH
THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS.
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AND AS WE DIRECT OUR ATTENTION
NOW TO STUDY THIS LESSON ON THIS
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VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT, WE PRAY
THAT YOU WILL BE WITH US AND
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GUIDE US ALL TO
BE MORE LIKE CHRIST.
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WE ASK IN HIS NAME,
AMEN. THANK YOU. PASTOR ROSS.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG AND
WELCOME BACK. WELCOME FRIENDS,
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AGAIN, FOR JOINING US HERE AT
THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ALONG, WE'RE
GOING THROUGH THE BOOK OF JAMES,
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WHICH IS OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
QUARTERLY FOR THIS QUARTER AND
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TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON
LESSON #3 - IT IS PAGE 22 IN THE
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REGULAR SABBATH
SCHOOL QUARTERLY.
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AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE
JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD, IF YOU'D
LIKE TO FOLLOW ALONG, YOU CAN GO
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TO THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH
WEBSITE AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY
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DOWNLOAD THE LESSON THAT
WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT TODAY.
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THE WEB ADDRESS FOR THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH WEBSITE IS
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'GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG'. WE'RE
ON LESSON #3 AND THE LESSON IS
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ENTITLED 'ENDURING TEMPTATION.'
NOW, WE HAVE A MEMORY TEXT THAT
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I THINK IS FAIRLY FAMILIAR
TO MOST OF US, IT'S JAMES
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CHAPTER 1, VERSE 12. SO LET'S
BEGIN BY TAKING A LOOK AT THIS
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IMPORTANT MEMORY VERSE, JAMES
CHAPTER 1, VERSE 12. THE APOSTLE
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JAMES WRITES, "BLESSED IS THE
MAN THAT ENDURETH TEMPTATION:
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FOR WHEN HE IS TRIED, HE
SHALL RECEIVE THE CROWN OF LIFE,
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WHICH THE LORD HATH
PROMISED TO THEM THAT LOVE HIM."
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SO OUR ENTIRE STUDY FOR THIS
WEEK DEALS WITH THE SUBJECT OF
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TEMPTATION. HOW DO WE RESIST
TEMPTATION? THE APOSTLE JAMES
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HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT
HOW WE CAN BE VICTORIOUS.
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NOW, BEFORE I FORGET, WE HAVE
A FREE OFFER THAT WE'D LIKE TO
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MAKE AVAILABLE TO
ANYBODY WHO'S WATCHING US.
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IT'S A LITTLE BOOK CALLED
'TIPS FOR RESISTING TEMPTATION.'
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IT'S WRITTEN BY
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO
ANYONE WHO CALLS AND ASKS FOR IT
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AND THE NUMBER TO CALL FOR
OUR FREE OFFER IS 866-788-3966 -
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THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE AND
YOU WANT TO ASK FOR OFFER #708 -
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'TIPS FOR RESISTING TEMPTATION.'
NOW I'M GOING TO ACTUALLY BE
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REFERRING TO TWELVE TIPS FOR
RESISTING TEMPTATION THAT YOU
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FIND IN THIS LITTLE BOOK.
YOU CAN ALSO READ THIS BOOK
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ONLINE AT THE
AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST
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'AMAZINGFACTS.ORG' AND YOU
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GO TO THE TAB THAT SAYS 'FREE
ONLINE LIBRARY,' YOU CLICK ON
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THAT AND YOU'LL BE
ABLE TO READ ALONG.
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YOU'LL READ THE LITTLE BOOKS
- SOME GREAT, IMPORTANT INSIGHTS
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HERE IN THIS BOOK SO I
THINK YOU'LL ENJOY THAT.
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THE PRINCIPLE PASSAGE FOR OUR
STUDY TODAY IS JAMES CHAPTER 1
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AND IT'S VERSE 12 ALL
THE WAY THROUGH TO VERSE 21.
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SO I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING
JUST A LITTLE DIFFERENT TODAY.
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WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THESE
VERSES ONE BY ONE - TAKE SOME
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TIME TO TALK ABOUT
EACH OF THESE VERSES.
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SO WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW
FAR WE CAN GET THROUGH THE
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ALLOTTED TIME THAT
WE HAVE THIS EVENING.
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SO WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN WITH OUR
SCRIPTURE READING: JAMES CHAPTER
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1, VERSE 12, AND WE'VE GOT SOME
OF OUR CHURCH MEMBERS HERE WHO
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ARE GOING TO READ EACH OF THE
VERSES AS WE WORK OUR WAY ALONG.
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SO, DARREN, WHY DON'T WE
START WITH YOU? JAMES CHAPTER 1,
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VERSE 12. OH, ACTUALLY
IT'S KIM. THANK YOU, KIM.
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>>"BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO
ENDURES TEMPTATION, FOR WHEN HE
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HAS BEEN APPROVED, HE WILL
RECEIVE THE CROWN OF LIFE WHICH
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THE LORD HAS PROMISED
TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM."
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>>THANK YOU. NOW
NOTICE HOW THE VERSE BEGINS.
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WHAT'S THE FIRST WORD
THAT WE HAVE THERE IN VERSE 12?
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JAMES SAYS, "BLESSED
- BLESSED IS THE MAN."
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THE WORD 'BLESSED' THERE COULD
ALSO BE TRANSLATED AS 'HAPPY.'
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HAPPY IS THE MAN WHO ENDURES
TEMPTATION. WE DON'T ALWAYS
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ASSOCIATE TEMPTATION WITH HAPPY,
ESPECIALLY ENDURING TEMPTATION.
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NOW, WHEN YOU THINK OF THE
WORD 'BLESSED,' IS THERE ANOTHER
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PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE THAT COMES
TO MIND THAT'S FAIRLY WELL KNOWN
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FOR ALSO USING
THE WORD 'BLESSED?'
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IT'S MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES.
IT'S THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
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IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING
THAT JAMES OFTEN REFERS TO THE
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TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND, IN THIS
CASE, OF COURSE, WE'RE THINKING
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OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 AND VERSE 10,
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IN PARTICULAR, TALKS ABOUT THOSE
WHO ARE BLESSED WHEN THEY FACE
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TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES AND
TEMPTATIONS - OR IN THIS CASE,
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PERSECUTION. JESUS SAYS, IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, VERSE 10,
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"BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE
PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS'
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SAKE, FOR THEIRS IS
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
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YOU KNOW, WHEN WE FACE
TEMPTATION, SOMETIMES WE MIGHT
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FEEL AS THOUGH WE ARE BEING
PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS'
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SAKE, BUT THERE IS A PROMISE
- THERE IS A BLESSING PRONOUNCED
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UPON THOSE WHO ENDURE - THOSE
WHO HOLD FIRM AND ARE FAITHFUL.
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SO THE VERSE IS: "BLESSED IS THE
MAN THAT ENDURES TEMPTATION."
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THE WORD THERE 'ENDURE' MEANS
'TO HOLD ON; TO BE STEADFAST;
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TO STAND AND RESIST
SOMETHING COMING AGAINST YOU.'
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BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO ENDURES
- OR RESISTS - TEMPTATION.
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THE WORD 'TEMPTATION'
THERE CAN ALSO BE TRANSLATED AS
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'TRIALS' OR 'AFFLICTION' OR
'SORROW' OR 'PAIN' OR 'STRESS' -
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ANYTHING THAT COMES AGAINST US
FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISTRACTING
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US OR STEERING US AWAY FROM
GOD'S PURPOSE AND PLAN FOR OUR
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LIVES. ANYTHING
THAT WILL TRY AND MOVE
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US AWAY FROM OBEDIENCE
TO WHAT GOD ASKS US TO DO.
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THAT CAN FALL INTO THIS
CATEGORY OF TEMPTATIONS.
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MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, VERSE 13,
JESUS, TALKING ABOUT END-TIME
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EVENTS, SAID, "BUT HE
THAT ENDURETH UNTIL THE END,
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THE SAME SHALL BE SAVED."
YOU KNOW, IN ORDER TO SURVIVE
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THE LAST DAYS, GOD'S PEOPLE
NEED TO HAVE A HIGH DEGREE OF
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ENDURANCE. WE NEED TO ENDURE.
THE DEVIL IS GOING AROUND AS A
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ROARING LION SEEKING WHOM HE MAY
DEVOUR. HE'S DOING EVERYTHING
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HE CAN TO TRY AND BREAK THE
HOLD OF GOD'S PEOPLE ON CHRIST.
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AND, AS THE REMNANT,
WE NEED TO HAVE ENDURANCE.
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WE READ ABOUT THE REMNANT IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 12, VERSE 17
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- WE HAVE TWO CHARACTERISTICS
GIVEN ON THE REMNANT.
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REVELATION 12:17 SAYS, "AND
THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE
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WOMAN." IN BIBLE
PROPHECY, WHO DOES THE
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DRAGON REPRESENT? SATAN.
WHO DOES THE WOMAN REPRESENT?
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THE CHURCH. AND IT
SAYS, "HE WENT TO MAKE
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WAR WITH THE
REMNANT OF HER OFFSPRING.
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THAT'S WHY THE REMNANT NEED
ENDURANCE, BECAUSE THE DEVIL IS
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MAKING WAR WITH THEM AND THE
CHARACTERISTIC OF THE REMNANT AT
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THE END OF TIME, WHO KEEP
THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THEY
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HAVE THE
TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.
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REVELATION CHAPTER 10 - OR
CHAPTER 19, VERSE 10, DEFINES
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FOR US WHAT THE TESTIMONY
OF JESUS IS: IT'S THE SPIRIT OF
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PROPHECY. AND THEN,
IN REVELATION CHAPTER
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14, VERSE 12, WE HAD AN
ADDED IDENTIFYING MARK AS TO THE
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REMNANT. REVELATION
14:12 SAYS, "HERE IS
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THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS."
NOW THAT WORD 'PATIENCE' CAN
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ALSO BE TRANSLATED AS
'ENDURANCE.' SO GOD'S PEOPLE, AT
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THE END OF TIME,
NEED TO HAVE ENDURANCE.
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THEN THE VERSE GOES ON AND SAYS,
"HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE
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SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE THAT KEEP
THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THEY
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HAVE THE FAITH OF
JESUS." I THINK THERE'S A CLOSE
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CONNECTION BETWEEN HAVING
ENDURANCE, OR PATIENCE, AND THE
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FAITH OF JESUS.
NOTICE, THE REMNANT NOT ONLY
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HAVE FAITH IN JESUS, BUT HERE
IT SAYS THEY HAVE THE FAITH OF
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JESUS. DO YOU THINK THERE'S A
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING FAITH
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IN JESUS AND HAVING THE
FAITH OF JESUS? I THINK SO.
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HAVING FAITH IN JESUS IS
BELIEVING HIM TO BE THE SON OF
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GOD, TO BELIEVING THAT HE DIED
FOR OUR SINS, TO RECEIVE HIM AS
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OUR SAVIOR. BUT TO
HAVE THE FAITH OF JESUS
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IS TO HAVE THAT
ENDURANCE - THAT STEADFASTNESS.
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I THINK THE FAITH OF JESUS CAN
BEST BE DESCRIBED IN CHRIST'S
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PRAYER IN THE GARDEN OF
GETHSEMANE, WHEN HE PRAYED 'NOT
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MY WILL BE DONE, BUT THY WILL
BE DONE.' THE FAITH OF JESUS IS
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TRUSTING IN THE GOODNESS OF
GOD, NOT TRUSTING TO OUR OWN
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CIRCUMSTANCES OR OUR OWN
FEELINGS, BUT TRUSTING THAT GOD
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IS GOING TO DO WHAT
HE'S PROMISED HE WOULD DO.
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THAT'S THE FAITH OF JESUS.
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GOD'S PEOPLE AT THE END OF
TIME NEED TO HAVE THIS KIND OF
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ENDURANCE AND THIS
PERSISTENCE, THIS PATIENCE.
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THE NEXT PART OF THE VERSE SAYS,
"FOR WHEN HE HAS BEEN APPROVED,
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HE WILL RECEIVE
THE CROWN OF LIFE."
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SO TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS REVEAL
THE QUALITY OF OUR FAITH, OR OUR
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LOVE TOWARDS GOD. IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 3 WE HAVE
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CHRIST'S MESSAGE TO
THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA.
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AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JESUS
SAYS THE CHURCH NEEDS IN THE
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LAST DAYS IS GOLD.
NOW WHAT KIND OF GOLD?
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WHAT DOES JESUS SAY THERE IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 3 - IT'S GOLD
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REFINED IN THE FIRE.
NOW WHAT IS THAT GOLD?
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WHAT IS THE MOST PRECIOUS THING
THAT THE CHRISTIAN CAN HAVE?
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REALLY IT'S TWO: IT'S FAITH AND
LOVE. AND, OF COURSE, THE TWO
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WORK TOGETHER. IN
ORDER FOR US TO HAVE THIS
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ENDURANCE IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS
AND TEMPTATIONS, WE NEED TO HAVE
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THE LOVE OF JESUS IN OUR HEARTS
AND WE NEED TO HAVE FAITH.
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1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 13,
THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS, "AND NOW
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ABIDETH FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE,
THESE THREE, BUT THE GREATEST OF
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THESE IS" - WHAT?
"LOVE." THAT'S THIS GOLD
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REFINED IN THE FIRE.
THAT'S WHAT GIVES US STRENGTH TO
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STAND AGAINST THE TEMPTATIONS
OF THE ENEMY. IN MATTHEW
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CHAPTER 7:21 JESUS SAYS,
"NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS UNTO ME,
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'LORD, LORD' WILL ENTER INTO THE
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT HE THAT
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DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER
IN HEAVEN." SO IN THE LAST DAYS,
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IT'S MORE THAN JUST
CLAIMING TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
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GOD IS LOOKING FOR THOSE WHO ARE
WILLING TO SURRENDER THEMSELVES
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TO HIM - THOSE WHO HAVE THIS
GOAL, THIS FAITH AND LOVE IN
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THEIR HEARTS - THOSE WHO ARE
ABLE TO STAND FIRM AND ENDURE
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THE WRATH OF THE DRAGON IN
THE FINAL MOMENTS OF EARTH'S
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HISTORY. NOW, OF
COURSE, THERE'S MANY
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF STANDING FIRM
AND BEING FAITHFUL IN THE MIDST
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OF TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS.
WHAT OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTER
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COMES TO MIND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT
SOMEBODY WHO ENDURED TRIALS AND
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TEMPTATIONS? WE
THINK OF JOB, RIGHT?
00:12:08.36\00:12:11.56
AND, INDEED, HE'S A
GREAT EXAMPLE FOR US TO FOLLOW.
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HERE IS A MAN THAT IS RICHLY
BLESSED BY GOD, BUT THEN ONE DAY
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THERE IS THIS MEETING THAT TAKES
PLACE IN HEAVEN AND SATAN SHOWS
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UP AT THIS MEETING AND HE CLAIMS
TO BE THE REPRESENTATIVE OF
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EARTH. AND SO, GOD SAYS TO
SATAN, WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?
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AND SATAN SAYS, 'OH, FROM
WALKING UP AND DOWN UPON THE
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EARTH.' AND THEN GOD SAYS, 'HAVE
YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB?'
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NOW, I'VE OFTEN WONDERED,
WHY DID GOD EVEN BRING JOB UP?
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AFTER ALL, AFTER GOD SAYS, 'HAVE
YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB?'
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AND THEN SATAN SAYS, 'WELL, THE
REASON HE SERVES IS BECAUSE YOU
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BLESSED HIM WITH ALL OF THESE
THINGS.' AND THEN ALL THESE BAD
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THINGS HAPPEN TO JOB.
WHY DID GOD EVEN MENTION IT?
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WELL, PERHAPS, HERE'S A REASON:
SATAN CLAIMED THE EARTH WAS HIS
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- CLAIMED IT TO BE HIS KINGDOM -
AND, BY DEFAULT, HE CLAIMED THE
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PEOPLE ON THE EARTH TO
BE CITIZENS OF HIS KINGDOM.
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AND GOD WAS POINTING OUT TO
SATAN THAT THERE IS SOMEONE IN
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HIS KINGDOM THAT REALLY
BELONGS IN GOD'S KINGDOM.
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SATAN SAYS, 'OH, I'VE COME BACK
FROM WALKING UP AND DOWN ON THE
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EARTH - FROM SURVEYING MY
KINGDOM.' AND GOD SAYS, 'OH, BY
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THE WAY, DID YOU NOTICE THERE'S
SOMEBODY IN YOUR KINGDOM THAT
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REALLY BELONGS IN MY
KINGDOM? AND HIS NAME IS JOB.'
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SATAN SAYS, 'OH, THE REASON HE'S
DOING ALL THESE THINGS FOR YOU
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IS BECAUSE YOU
BLESSED HIM SO ABUNDANTLY.'
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WELL, YOU REMEMBER THE STORY?
GOD ALLOWED THESE BAD THINGS TO
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HAPPEN TO JOB: HE LOST, FIRST
OF ALL, HIS KIDS AND THEN ALL OF
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HIS POSSESSIONS AND STILL
HE REMAINED FAITHFUL TO GOD.
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THERE WAS ANOTHER MEETING THAT
TAKES PLACE IN HEAVEN AND SATAN
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IS THERE AGAIN AND HE'S COME
FROM WALKING UP AND DOWN ON THE
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EARTH AND GOD SAYS, 'WELL,
WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM?'
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AND AGAIN SATAN SAYS,
'FROM GOING UP AND DOWN UPON THE
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EARTH.' AND GOD SAYS, 'WELL,
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT
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JOB? THAT EVEN
THOUGH ALL OF THESE
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BAD THINGS HAPPENED TO HIM, HE
STILL REMAINS FAITHFUL TO ME.'
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WHAT DOES SATAN SAY? OH,
HE SAYS, 'FLESH FOR FLESH.
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YES, BUT JUST TOUCH
HIS BODY; LET HIM GET SICK.
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THEN HE WILL CURSE YOU.' AND GOD
SAYS, 'ALRIGHT, YOU CAN TOUCH
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HIS BODY BUT DON'T TAKE HIS
LIFE.' AND THEN JOB GETS THESE
00:14:00.86\00:14:04.16
TERRIBLE BOILS. NOW
I'VE NEVER HAD A BOIL
00:14:04.16\00:14:07.20
BEFORE, BUT I HAD A FRIEND WHO
HAD A COUPLE OF BOILS AND I KNOW
00:14:07.20\00:14:11.50
IT'S VERY PAINFUL AND HE WOULD
TELL ME HOW PAINFUL THESE BOILS
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ARE. AND HERE
JOB GETS THESE BOILS
00:14:14.76\00:14:17.10
FROM THE CROWN OF HIS
HEAD TO THE SOLE OF HIS FOOT.
00:14:17.10\00:14:20.60
HE CAN'T STAND WITHOUT
PAIN. HE CAN'T SIT WITHOUT PAIN.
00:14:20.60\00:14:23.50
HE CAN'T EVEN LIE DOWN WITHOUT
PAIN AND THEN, TO MAKE THINGS
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WORSE, HIS WIFE SAYS TO HIM,
'WHY DON'T YOU JUST CURSE GOD
00:14:26.80\00:14:29.93
AND DIE?' IN OTHER
WORDS, 'GIVE UP.' AND
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THEN HE GETS THESE FRIENDS THAT
COME AND, INSTEAD OF ENCOURAGING
00:14:32.33\00:14:35.00
JOB AND SYMPATHIZING WITH JOB,
THEY BEGIN TO SAY, 'JOB, WHAT'S
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THE MATTER WITH YOU?
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE HIDING
00:14:38.26\00:14:40.00
SOMETHING. WHAT
SIN ARE YOU GUILTY OF?
00:14:40.00\00:14:43.50
AND THEY'RE THERE TO
DISCOURAGE JOB EVEN MORE.
00:14:43.50\00:14:45.73
AND YET, DESPITE ALL OF
THESE THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO JOB,
00:14:45.73\00:14:48.63
HE STILL
REMAINS FAITHFUL TO GOD.
00:14:48.63\00:14:50.60
NOW, HE HAS A LOT OF QUESTIONS
AND HE SAYS, 'LORD, I DON'T KNOW
00:14:50.60\00:14:53.20
WHY THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING
TO ME.' FINALLY, GOD RESPONDS TO
00:14:53.20\00:14:56.70
JOB'S QUESTIONINGS -
AND I LIKE GOD'S RESPONSE.
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GOD DOESN'T SAY, 'WELL, JOB, YOU
SEE, THERE WAS THIS MEETING IN
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HEAVEN AND SATAN SHOWED UP AND
HE MADE THESE ACCUSATIONS.' NO.
00:15:02.80\00:15:06.36
INSTEAD, GOD RESPONDS WITH THE
WORDS - WHEN HE ANSWERS JOB - HE
00:15:06.36\00:15:10.03
SAYS, 'WHO IS THIS THAT DARKENS
COUNSEL, SPEAKING WORDS WITHOUT
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WISDOM?' GIRD
YOURSELF UP LIKE A MAN AND
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I WILL DEMAND OF
YOU AND YOU ANSWER ME.
00:15:17.40\00:15:19.90
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I LAID
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH?
00:15:19.90\00:15:23.20
TELL ME NOW IF YOU CAN.' AND
THEN GOD GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT
00:15:23.20\00:15:25.70
HIS POWER AND HIS GLORY AND HOW
HE SUSTAINS ALL OF NATURE AND
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HOW HE MADE EVERYTHING AND
HOW THAT HE IS IN CONTROL OF ALL
00:15:30.63\00:15:33.70
THINGS AND, BY THE TIME
GOD GETS THROUGH REVEALING HIS
00:15:33.70\00:15:37.73
GOODNESS AND HIS POWER AND
HOW HE SUSTAINS ALL THINGS, JOB
00:15:37.73\00:15:42.80
RESPONDS AND HE SAYS, 'I'VE
HEARD ABOUT YOU WITH MY HEARING
00:15:42.80\00:15:46.50
BUT NOW MY EYES HAVE SEEN YOU.
THEREFORE, I REPENT IN DUST AND
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ASHES.' YOU SEE, WHEN JOB GOT
A GLIMPSE OF GOD'S GOODNESS AND
00:15:50.23\00:15:53.86
HIS POWER, HE BEGAN TO
REALIZE, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:15:53.86\00:15:56.30
I DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT WHY
THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO
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ME. GOD KNOWS. GOD'S IN CHARGE.
GOD'S GOING TO TAKE CARE OF ME
00:16:00.36\00:16:06.06
BECAUSE GOD MADE ME AND HE LOVES
ME.' OF COURSE, YOU KNOW HOW THE
00:16:06.06\00:16:09.70
STORY ENDS: GOD
BLESSES JOB IN AN ABUNDANT WAY.
00:16:09.70\00:16:12.26
NOW, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE
INTERESTING ON THE RESURRECTION
00:16:12.26\00:16:14.73
MORNING - AS FAR AS WE KNOW,
JOB NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY THESE
00:16:14.73\00:16:18.03
THINGS REALLY HAPPENED TO HIM -
BUT ON THE RESURRECTION MORNING,
00:16:18.03\00:16:21.30
JOB GETS TO SEE
THE REST OF THE STORY.
00:16:21.30\00:16:23.93
GOD EXPLAINS OR WILL
REVEAL TO HIM WHAT HAPPENED.
00:16:23.93\00:16:26.36
AND WHAT AN HONOR, IF YOU
STOP AND THINK ABOUT IT, WHAT AN
00:16:26.36\00:16:29.80
HONOR GOD BESTOWED UPON
JOB. HERE ARE ACCUSATIONS MADE
00:16:29.80\00:16:33.83
AGAINST GOD BY SATAN AND GOD
STAKES HIS REPUTATION ON ONE MAN
00:16:33.83\00:16:40.76
- ON JOB. AND GOD SAYS, 'NO,
I KNOW JOB. HE'S GOT THAT FAITH,
00:16:40.76\00:16:45.40
HE'S GOT THAT LOVE, HE'S
GOT THAT GOLD. HE KNOWS ME.
00:16:45.40\00:16:49.03
HE CAN ENDURE WHATEVER COMES HIS
WAY.' AND JOB'S EXPERIENCE IS A
00:16:49.03\00:16:53.93
TYPE OF THE EXPERIENCE OF
GOD'S PEOPLE AT THE END OF TIME.
00:16:53.93\00:16:57.53
THEY NEED TO HAVE THAT SAME
LOVE, THAT SAME FAITH, THAT SAME
00:16:57.53\00:17:00.36
COMMITMENT WHERE THEY ARE
WILLING TO SAY, 'THOUGH HE SLAY
00:17:00.36\00:17:03.30
ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM.'
COMPLETE DEPENDENCE UPON GOD.
00:17:03.30\00:17:08.16
OF COURSE, THE PROMISE FOR
THE REDEEMED IS THAT THEY WILL
00:17:08.16\00:17:10.80
RECEIVE A CROWN OF LIFE.
THAT CROWN OF LIFE IS A SYMBOL
00:17:10.80\00:17:14.23
OF EVERLASTING LIFE. IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 2, WE HAVE
00:17:14.23\00:17:18.10
CHRIST'S MESSAGE TO
THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA.
00:17:18.10\00:17:20.83
NOW CHAPTER 2 AND CHAPTER 3
OF REVELATION TALK ABOUT SEVEN
00:17:20.83\00:17:25.10
CHURCHES AND EACH OF THESE
CHURCHES REPRESENT DIFFERENT
00:17:25.10\00:17:27.46
TIME PERIODS OF
THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
00:17:27.46\00:17:29.73
THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA REPRESENTS
A TIME OF SEVERE PERSECUTION
00:17:29.73\00:17:33.46
FROM ABOUT 100 TO 313 AD.
THIS IS A CHURCH THAT WAS FACING
00:17:33.46\00:17:38.26
PERSECUTION FROM THE PAGAN
ROMANS AND JESUS SAYS TO THE
00:17:38.26\00:17:42.53
CHURCH, REVELATION CHAPTER 2,
VERSE 10, HE SAYS, "DO NOT FEAR
00:17:42.53\00:17:45.80
ANY OF THOSE THINGS
WHICH YOU ARE ABOUT TO SUFFER.
00:17:45.80\00:17:48.06
INDEED, THE DEVIL IS ABOUT
TO THROW SOME OF YOU INTO PRISON
00:17:48.06\00:17:51.23
THAT YOU MIGHT BE TESTED."
- THERE'S THAT TESTING, THAT
00:17:51.23\00:17:54.43
TRYING - "AND YOU WILL
HAVE TRIBULATION TEN DAYS."
00:17:54.43\00:17:57.43
NOW, THOSE TEN DAYS - ONE
PROPHETIC DAY IS EQUAL TO ONE
00:17:57.43\00:18:00.06
LITERAL YEAR. THAT
REPRESENTS THE TIME PERIOD
00:18:00.06\00:18:02.66
FROM ABOUT 303 TO 313 AD
- A TIME PERIOD OF SEVERE
00:18:02.66\00:18:06.90
PERSECUTION THAT CAME
AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS.
00:18:06.90\00:18:10.13
BUT THEN THE VERSE
ENDS WITH A PROMISE.
00:18:10.13\00:18:11.80
JESUS SAYS, "BUT BE FAITHFUL
UNTO DEATH AND I WILL GIVE YOU A
00:18:11.80\00:18:15.40
CROWN OF LIFE." THERE'S THAT
PROMISE. IF WE HOLD ON AND WE
00:18:15.40\00:18:19.36
TRUST IN GOD, WE HAVE THE
PROMISE OF HIM GIVING US ETERNAL
00:18:19.36\00:18:23.66
LIFE, SYMBOLIZED BY
THAT CROWN OF GLORY.
00:18:23.66\00:18:26.56
WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK NOW
AT VERSE 13 - JAMES CHAPTER 1,
00:18:26.56\00:18:30.30
VERSE 13, THANK YOU DARREN.
>>"LET NO ONE SAY WHEN HE IS
00:18:30.30\00:18:34.63
TEMPTED, 'I AM TEMPTED BY GOD.'
FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED BY
00:18:34.63\00:18:38.73
EVIL, NOR DOES HE
HIMSELF TEMPT ANYONE."
00:18:38.73\00:18:42.40
>>SO JAMES WANTS US TO
UNDERSTAND THAT TEMPTATION DOES
00:18:42.40\00:18:45.06
NOT COME FROM GOD. GOD
DOES NOT TAKE PLEASURE IN
00:18:45.06\00:18:48.70
SEEING HIS CHILDREN SUFFER.
ACTUALLY, IT WAS A PAGAN IDEA.
00:18:48.70\00:18:52.56
THE PAGANS BELIEVED THAT THE
GODS WOULD BRING TEMPTATION UPON
00:18:52.56\00:18:56.73
PEOPLE IN ORDER TO WATCH THEM
SUFFER. AND JAMES IS MAKING IT
00:18:56.73\00:19:00.16
VERY CLEAR: TEMPTATION
DOESN'T FIND ITS SOURCE IN GOD.
00:19:00.16\00:19:04.06
DON'T SAY, WHEN YOU FACE TRIALS
AND DIFFICULTIES, 'WELL, GOD IS
00:19:04.06\00:19:07.40
BRINGING THIS UPON ME.' MATTER
OF FACT, THAT IDEA OF BLAMING
00:19:07.40\00:19:10.36
GOD FOR TEMPTATION FINDS ITS
CAUSE OR ITS ROOT WAY BACK IN
00:19:10.36\00:19:14.80
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE
BIBLE, THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
00:19:14.80\00:19:17.56
YOU READ IN GENESIS CHAPTER
3, VERSE 12, - THIS IS AFTER THE
00:19:17.56\00:19:20.76
FALL OF ADAM AND EVE - THE LORD
CAME LOOKING FOR THEM AND WHEN
00:19:20.76\00:19:23.83
THE LORD FOUND THEM GOD SAID TO
ADAM AND EVE, 'HAVE YOU EATEN OF
00:19:23.83\00:19:26.90
THE TREE THAT I
TOLD YOU NOT TO EAT OF?
00:19:26.90\00:19:28.83
AND THEN ADAM RESPONDS, IN
GENESIS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 12,
00:19:28.83\00:19:32.40
THEN THE MAN SAID, 'THE WOMAN,
WHOM YOU GAVE ME, SHE GAVE ME OF
00:19:32.40\00:19:36.86
THE TREE AND I DID EAT.' SO WHO
IS ADAM BLAMING? HE'S BLAMING
00:19:36.86\00:19:40.13
GOD - WELL, HE'S BLAMING
EVE BUT HE'S ALSO BLAMING GOD.
00:19:40.13\00:19:42.76
HE'S SAYING, 'WHY DID YOU GIVE
ME THIS WOMAN THAT GAVE ME THE
00:19:42.76\00:19:45.46
FRUIT AND I ATE?' AND,
OF COURSE, VERSE 13, "AND
00:19:45.46\00:19:47.63
THE LORD SAID TO THE WOMAN,
'WHAT IS THIS THAT YOU HAVE
00:19:47.63\00:19:49.16
DONE?' AND THE
WOMAN SAID, 'THE SERPENT
00:19:49.16\00:19:50.93
DECEIVED ME AND I ATE.'" IN
OTHER WORDS, WHY DID YOU ALLOW
00:19:50.93\00:19:53.86
THE SERPENT IN THE GARDEN?'
SO HERE WE FIND AT THE VERY
00:19:53.86\00:19:57.23
BEGINNING, AFTER THE FALL,
MAN BEGINS TO BLAME GOD FOR
00:19:57.23\00:20:01.53
TEMPTATION. JAMES
WANTS TO SET THE RECORD
00:20:01.53\00:20:03.90
STRAIGHT AND HE SAYS,
'TEMPTATION DOESN'T COME FROM
00:20:03.90\00:20:06.63
GOD.' AND THEN HE GOES ON AND HE
SAYS, "FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED
00:20:06.63\00:20:10.16
BY EVIL, NOR DOES HE HIMSELF
TEMPT ANYONE." NOW, IT IS TRUE,
00:20:10.16\00:20:14.53
GOD DOES PERMIT US TO FACE
TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS, BUT
00:20:14.53\00:20:18.16
HE IS NOT THE SOURCE OF THESE
TEMPTATIONS. IN LUKE CHAPTER 13,
00:20:18.16\00:20:22.66
VERSE 16, WE READ JESUS,
SPEAKING TO THE JEWISH LEADERS,
00:20:22.66\00:20:27.03
WHEN THE JEWISH LEADERS WERE
ACCUSING CHRIST OF BREAKING THE
00:20:27.03\00:20:30.00
SABBATH - CHRIST NEVER BROKE
THE SABBATH BUT HE HAD SET ASIDE
00:20:30.00\00:20:32.43
THEIR MAN-MADE TRADITIONS
BECAUSE HE WAS HEALING PEOPLE
00:20:32.43\00:20:35.40
ON THE SABBATH, SO THEY ACCUSED
JESUS OF BREAKING THE SABBATH
00:20:35.40\00:20:38.40
BECAUSE HE HEALED
THIS WOMAN ON THE SABBATH.
00:20:38.40\00:20:40.66
AND JESUS, RESPONDING TO THEM,
HE SAYS, "AND OUGHT NOT THIS
00:20:40.66\00:20:43.73
WOMAN, BEING A DAUGHTER OF
ABRAHAM, WHOM SATAN HAS BOUND LO
00:20:43.73\00:20:48.03
THESE 18 YEARS, BE LOOSED FROM
HER BOND ON THE SABBATH DAY."
00:20:48.03\00:20:51.76
SO JESUS MAKES IT CLEAR THAT
DISEASE AND SUFFERING COMES FROM
00:20:51.76\00:20:55.03
SATAN - COMES FROM THE DEVIL.
HE'S THE ONE THAT BOUND THIS
00:20:55.03\00:20:58.10
WOMAN WITH THIS
DISEASE FOR THESE 18 YEARS.
00:20:58.10\00:21:01.83
IN THE BOOK 'DESIRES OF
AGES' PAGE 471, WE HAVE THIS
00:21:01.83\00:21:05.20
STATEMENT: "SUFFERING IS
INFLICTED BY SATAN, BUT IT IS
00:21:05.20\00:21:09.56
OVERRULED BY GOD
FOR PURPOSES OF MERCY.
00:21:09.56\00:21:13.86
SO SATAN IS REALLY
THE SOURCE OF SUFFERING.
00:21:13.86\00:21:16.86
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 6, VERSE 13,
IN THE LORD'S PRAYER WE PRAY,
00:21:16.86\00:21:20.13
"AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION
BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL."
00:21:20.13\00:21:23.93
YOU SEE, GOD CAN'T BE THE SOURCE
OF TEMPTATION IF HE'S LEADING US
00:21:23.93\00:21:27.13
AWAY FROM TEMPTATION.
HE WILL GIVE US WISDOM AND
00:21:27.13\00:21:30.66
GUIDANCE AND STRENGTH TO
SEE THE DEVIL COMING WITH HIS
00:21:30.66\00:21:33.50
TEMPTATIONS AND LEAD US AWAY.
NOW LET ME SHARE WITH YOU A
00:21:33.50\00:21:36.96
COUPLE OF TIPS FOR
RESISTING TEMPTATION.
00:21:36.96\00:21:40.60
AND I'M GOING TO REFER TO
THIS LITTLE BOOK OVER HERE,
00:21:40.60\00:21:42.63
'TIPS FOR RESISTING TEMPTATION'
AND I'M GOING TO JUST GO
00:21:42.63\00:21:45.43
THROUGH A COUPLE
OF THESE KEY POINTS.
00:21:45.43\00:21:47.43
SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO
WRITE IT DOWN, YOU MIGHT WANT TO
00:21:47.43\00:21:50.13
GO TO THE WEBSITE AND YOU'LL BE
ABLE TO READ THE BOOK WITH SOME
00:21:50.13\00:21:52.50
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THAT
BUT TIP #1, REMEMBER THE REWARD.
00:21:52.50\00:21:56.56
REMEMBER WHAT JAMES SAID WHEN
YOU FACE TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS?
00:21:56.56\00:21:59.83
'IF YOU ENDURE YOU
WILL RECEIVE' WHAT?
00:21:59.83\00:22:02.23
'A CROWN OF LIFE.' SO WHEN
WE FACE TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS,
00:22:02.23\00:22:06.73
LET'S REMEMBER THE REWARD.
GOD HAS PROMISED A REWARD TO
00:22:06.73\00:22:09.73
THOSE WHO TRUST IN
HIM. THOSE WHO ENDURE.
00:22:09.73\00:22:12.56
SECONDLY, BELIEVING THE BADNESS
OF SIN. YOU KNOW, WE DON'T QUITE
00:22:12.56\00:22:17.60
UNDERSTAND HOW BAD SIN
IS UNTIL WE LOOK TO CALVARY.
00:22:17.60\00:22:20.90
AND WHEN WE UNDERSTAND WHAT
SIN DID TO JESUS - WHAT SIN COST
00:22:20.90\00:22:24.13
GOD, THEN WE BEGIN TO REALIZE,
'LORD, I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO
00:22:24.13\00:22:28.00
DO WITH THIS.' I DON'T WANT
ANYTHING THAT BROUGHT PAIN AND
00:22:28.00\00:22:31.90
SUFFERING TO THE HEART OF
JESUS. POINT NUMBER 3 - A VERY
00:22:31.90\00:22:35.86
PRACTICAL POINT HERE - 'DON'T
LOVE MONEY.' THE BIBLE TELLS US
00:22:35.86\00:22:40.10
THAT THE LOVE OF MONEY IS
WHAT? THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.
00:22:40.10\00:22:43.63
SO RIGHT FROM THE GET-GO, WE
NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT THAT IS A
00:22:43.63\00:22:46.43
HUMAN WEAKNESS THAT THE DEVIL IS
GOING TO TRY AND USE AGAINST US.
00:22:46.43\00:22:50.10
SO RATHER LET OUR LOVE BE
TOWARDS GOD AND OUR FELLOW MAN
00:22:50.10\00:22:53.43
VERSES THE LOVE OF MONEY.
NUMBER 4, GET READY TO FLEE.
00:22:53.43\00:22:58.56
REALIZE THAT THE DEVIL IS GOING
TO COME AGAINST US AT A TIME
00:22:58.56\00:23:01.26
WHEN WE LEAST EXPECT IT OR MAYBE
WHEN WE'RE AT A WEAK POINT.
00:23:01.26\00:23:05.20
YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST FLYING
UP FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THIS
00:23:05.20\00:23:07.43
WEEKEND AND, WHEN YOU GET ON THE
PLANE AND YOU TAKE YOUR SEAT AND
00:23:07.43\00:23:10.43
JUST BEFORE THE PLANE TAKES
OFF A FLIGHT ATTENDANT WILL GO
00:23:10.43\00:23:13.10
THROUGH THE VARIOUS, YOU KNOW,
THINGS ABOUT PUTTING UP YOUR
00:23:13.10\00:23:15.46
TRAY AND THERE'S THE
LIFE JACKET AND SO ON.
00:23:15.46\00:23:17.73
AND, TYPICALLY, THEY USUALLY
SAY, 'LOOK AROUND YOU AND FIND
00:23:17.73\00:23:20.80
THE CLOSEST EXIT IN CASE
OF EMERGENCY.' I ALWAYS DO.
00:23:20.80\00:23:24.93
I ALWAYS LOOK AROUND,
'WELL, WHERE IS THAT EXIT?'
00:23:24.93\00:23:26.63
JUST IN CASE SOMETHING GOES
WRONG I WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M
00:23:26.63\00:23:28.83
THE FIRST ONE BY THE
EXIT. I WANT TO GET OUT. WELL,
00:23:28.83\00:23:32.06
YOU KNOW, AS CHRISTIANS, WE
NEED TO KNOW WHERE THE EXIT IS.
00:23:32.06\00:23:35.26
WE NEED TO BE READY FOR
THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL.
00:23:35.26\00:23:38.43
WE NEED TO HAVE A PLAN THAT WE
CAN, YOU KNOW, RUN TO THE LORD
00:23:38.43\00:23:41.93
OR COME UP WITH A VERSE OF
SCRIPTURE THAT WE CAN QUOTE WHEN
00:23:41.93\00:23:46.36
THOSE TEMPTATIONS COME
OUR WAY. POINT #5 IT SAYS,
00:23:46.36\00:23:49.90
"DON'T FOLLOW THE CROWD."
JUST BECAUSE THE MAJORITY IS
00:23:49.90\00:23:53.70
DOING IT
DOESN'T MEAN IT'S RIGHT.
00:23:53.70\00:23:54.93
OF COURSE, AT THE TIME OF
JESUS, THE MAJORITY WAS WRONG.
00:23:54.93\00:23:57.70
EVEN IN THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY
THE MAJORITY WAS WRONG.
00:23:57.70\00:24:01.06
ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT -
POINT #6 PLAN TO STAY BUSY.
00:24:01.06\00:24:05.33
I REMEMBER AS A KID MY PARENTS
WOULD OFTEN SAY TO ME, 'THE
00:24:05.33\00:24:08.23
DEVIL FINDS WORK FOR IDLE
HANDS.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT
00:24:08.23\00:24:10.86
BEFORE? SO WE NEED TO STAY BUSY.
00:24:10.86\00:24:13.13
STAY BUSY DOING
THE RIGHT THINGS.
00:24:13.13\00:24:15.16
STAY BUSY DOING THE
THINGS GOD IS ASKING US TO DO.
00:24:15.16\00:24:18.00
#7 - HAVE A PLAN. SO
BEFORE TEMPTATION COMES YOUR
00:24:18.00\00:24:22.26
WAY, YOU WANT TO
HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE.
00:24:22.26\00:24:24.40
OF COURSE, WHERE ARE WE TO GO
WHEN THE DEVIL COMES TO US AS A
00:24:24.40\00:24:27.70
ROARING LION?
WHO IS OUR DEFENSE?
00:24:27.70\00:24:30.16
WE NEED TO RUN TO JESUS.
THE POWER TO RESIST TEMPTATION
00:24:30.16\00:24:33.40
IS FOUND IN PRAYER. A
SOUL THAT IS HUMBLY PRAYING,
00:24:33.40\00:24:37.46
SURRENDERING TO GOD,
CANNOT BE OVERCOME BY THE DEVIL.
00:24:37.46\00:24:41.60
THE QUESTION IS SOMETIMES WE
DON'T FEEL LIKE PRAYING AND THEN
00:24:41.60\00:24:44.50
WE NEED TO PRAY EVEN MORE,
RIGHT? ASK GOD FOR STRENGTH.
00:24:44.50\00:24:47.63
AND THEN, KNOW YOURSELF.
RECOGNIZE YOUR STRENGTHS AND
00:24:47.63\00:24:50.13
YOUR WEAKNESSES.
THE DEVIL WILL USE OUR
00:24:50.13\00:24:51.73
WEAKNESSES AGAINST US.
OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD.
00:24:51.73\00:24:55.70
AGAIN, I THINK THE POWER OF
GOD'S WORD IS SO IMPORTANT HERE
00:24:55.70\00:24:58.46
- THE POWER OF BEING ABLE TO
QUOTE SCRIPTURE. THE SCRIPTURE
00:24:58.46\00:25:01.86
SAYS, 'THY WORD HAVE I HID
IN MY HEART THAT I SHOULD' WHAT?
00:25:01.86\00:25:05.40
'NOT SIN AGAINST YOU.' SO WHEN
THOSE TEMPTATIONS COME WE START
00:25:05.40\00:25:08.53
FILLING OUR MINDS
WITH THE WORD OF GOD.
00:25:08.53\00:25:10.73
THAT IS OUR DEFENSE
AGAINST THOSE TEMPTATIONS.
00:25:10.73\00:25:13.56
'CARE FOR YOUR HEALTH' -
POINT #10 - VERY PRACTICAL.
00:25:13.56\00:25:15.90
YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE FEELING
DOWN AND WE'RE FEELING SICK
00:25:15.90\00:25:18.23
THEN, OF COURSE, THE DEVIL IS
GOING TO TRY AND TAKE ADVANTAGE
00:25:18.23\00:25:20.30
OF THAT. SO DO
EVERYTHING WE CAN TO KEEP
00:25:20.30\00:25:22.46
OURSELVES IN GOOD HEALTH.
POINT #11: 'RECOGNIZE YOUR
00:25:22.46\00:25:26.26
ESCAPE' - RECOGNIZE THAT YOUR
HOPE IS IN JESUS BECAUSE HE'S
00:25:26.26\00:25:29.50
THE ONE THAT CAN
COME TO YOUR DELIVERANCE.
00:25:29.50\00:25:31.23
AND THEN POINT #12 'LEARN HOW
TO SURVIVE A FALL.' WE DO FALL.
00:25:31.23\00:25:36.73
WE MAKE MISTAKES.
BUT DON'T GIVE UP.
00:25:36.73\00:25:39.63
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HE IS ABLE
TO KEEP US FROM FALLING BUT IF
00:25:39.63\00:25:44.33
WE DO FALL WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE
WITH THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST.
00:25:44.33\00:25:47.96
AND WE CAN COME TO HIM, WE CAN
CONFESS OUR SINS AND WE CAN MAKE
00:25:47.96\00:25:51.26
THAT COMMITMENT ONCE AGAIN - TO
FOLLOW GOD AND DO THOSE THINGS
00:25:51.26\00:25:54.76
THAT WE KNOW TO BE RIGHT.
SO TAKE A LOOK AT THE BOOK -
00:25:54.76\00:25:57.36
I THINK YOU'LL ENJOY IT - 'TIPS
FOR RESISTING TEMPTATION' IT'S
00:25:57.36\00:25:59.90
SOME VERY GOOD,
PRACTICAL INFORMATION.
00:25:59.90\00:26:01.76
ALRIGHT, LET'S
TAKE A LOOK AT VERSE 14.
00:26:01.76\00:26:05.06
>>"BUT EACH ONE IS TEMPTED
WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY BY HIS OWN
00:26:05.06\00:26:08.63
DESIRES AND
ENTICED." >>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.
00:26:08.63\00:26:11.80
SO NOW JAMES, WHO TOLD US THAT
TEMPTATION DOESN'T COME FROM
00:26:11.80\00:26:15.26
GOD, IS NOW SHOWING US WHERE
TEMPTATION ACTUALLY COMES FROM
00:26:15.26\00:26:19.16
AND HE'S POINTING OUT THAT
TEMPTATION DOESN'T COME FROM
00:26:19.16\00:26:21.83
WITHOUT AS MUCH AS IT COMES FROM
WITHIN. HE SAYS, 'WE ARE DRAWN
00:26:21.83\00:26:26.76
AWAY BY OUR OWN DESIRES AND
ENTICED.' AS A FISH IS ENTICED
00:26:26.76\00:26:31.00
BY A WORM ON A HOOK, SO THE
HUMAN HEART IS ENTICED BY SIN.
00:26:31.00\00:26:37.56
I REMEMBER ON ONE OCCASION I HAD
A FRIEND WHO TOOK ME FISHING AND
00:26:37.56\00:26:40.40
WE WERE UP IN THE WATER
SEPARATING CANADA FROM THE
00:26:40.40\00:26:42.96
UNITED STATES ON THE EAST COAST
- BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO GO FISH -
00:26:42.96\00:26:46.23
AND HE HAD A BOAT AND WE WENT
OUT AND HE SAID, 'I'VE FISHED
00:26:46.23\00:26:48.73
THIS AREA, I KNOW WHERE THE FISH
BITE.' AND THEN HE SAID, 'THE
00:26:48.73\00:26:51.63
FISH OVER HERE, THEY LIKE THESE
WORMS SO MUCH' - AND HE HAD THIS
00:26:51.63\00:26:56.46
LITTLE BOX WITH WORMS THAT HE
PULLED OUT AND PUT ON THE HOOKS.
00:26:56.46\00:26:59.40
HE SAID, 'THESE FISH HERE LIKE
THESE WORMS SO MUCH THAT YOU
00:26:59.40\00:27:02.23
WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY'RE GOING
TO DO.' SO HE TOOK A WHOLE LOT
00:27:02.23\00:27:05.40
OF FISHING HOOKS AND HE PUT ONE
NEXT TO ANOTHER NEXT TO ANOTHER
00:27:05.40\00:27:09.06
- ABOUT FIVE, SIX, SEVEN OF
THESE FISHING HOOKS ON THE SAME
00:27:09.06\00:27:11.30
LINE AND THEN HE TOOK HIS WORMS
AND HE PUT THEM ON ALL THE HOOKS
00:27:11.30\00:27:14.63
AND HE SAID, 'YOU'D THINK THE
ONE FISH WOULD LEARN FROM THE
00:27:14.63\00:27:17.66
OTHER FISH BUT,' HE SAYS, 'WATCH
THIS.' AND THEN HE GAVE ME THE
00:27:17.66\00:27:20.93
FISHING ROD AND I THREW IT OUT
INTO THE WATER AND HE STARTED
00:27:20.93\00:27:23.40
THE BOAT AND HE JUST STARTED
MOVING THE BOAT JUST A LITTLE
00:27:23.40\00:27:25.53
WAYS AND, YOU KNOW, I - THE HOOK
BARELY HIT THE WATER IT SEEMED
00:27:25.53\00:27:30.03
AND SUDDENLY I FELT A TUG ON THE
HOOK AND I SAID, 'OH, I THINK I
00:27:30.03\00:27:32.96
GOT ONE!' HE SAID, 'DON'T PULL
IT IN YET! DON'T PULL IT IN YET!
00:27:32.96\00:27:35.20
WAIT! WAIT!' AND I
JUST HELD ON AND NEXT
00:27:35.20\00:27:37.80
MINUTE I FELT ANOTHER TUG
AND ANOTHER TUG AND ANOTHER TUG.
00:27:37.80\00:27:41.30
FINALLY HE SAID,
'ALRIGHT, I THINK IT'S TIME.
00:27:41.30\00:27:42.80
YOU CAN PULL IT IN.' AND
I REELED IT IN AND WHAT DO
00:27:42.80\00:27:44.90
YOU KNOW? THERE'S
ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE FISH
00:27:44.90\00:27:46.80
ON THE SAME LINE. THEY
EACH WENT FOR THE WORM.
00:27:46.80\00:27:51.10
AND YOU'D THINK, 'WELL,
WHY DIDN'T THEY LEARN FROM THE
00:27:51.10\00:27:52.86
OTHER?' WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S
JUST THE WAY IT IS WITH SIN.
00:27:52.86\00:27:55.80
YOU'D THINK PEOPLE WOULD LEARN
FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS.
00:27:55.80\00:27:59.66
AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S WHY WE
HAVE, IN THE SCRIPTURES, THESE
00:27:59.66\00:28:03.66
STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT - ALSO IN THE NEW -
00:28:03.66\00:28:06.66
THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS FOR US TO
LEARN FROM THEIR EXPERIENCE SO
00:28:06.66\00:28:10.23
WE DON'T REPEAT
THE SAME MISTAKE.
00:28:10.23\00:28:11.93
SO THE SOURCE OF SIN, TO A
LARGE DEGREE, HAS TO DO WITH OUR
00:28:11.93\00:28:15.43
ATTITUDE - OUR HEART. TRUE
VICTORY OVER SIN INVOLVES A
00:28:15.43\00:28:19.13
CHANGE OF HEART.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THE NEW
00:28:19.13\00:28:21.20
COVENANT PROMISE.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 36, VERSE 26 GOD
00:28:21.20\00:28:25.26
SAYS, "I WILL GIVE YOU"
- A WHAT? - "A NEW HEART.
00:28:25.26\00:28:29.03
I'LL PUT A NEW
SPIRIT WITHIN YOU."
00:28:29.03\00:28:31.06
LUKE CHAPTER 6, VERSE 45, JESUS
SAYS, "A GOOD MAN, OUT OF THE
00:28:31.06\00:28:34.73
GOOD TREASURE OF HIS HEART
BRINGS FORTH THAT WHICH IS GOOD
00:28:34.73\00:28:38.76
AND AN EVIL MAN, OUT OF THE EVIL
TREASURE OF HIS HEART BRINGS
00:28:38.76\00:28:42.00
FORTH THAT WHICH IS EVIL."
NOW WHEN WE THINK ABOUT SIN, THE
00:28:42.00\00:28:45.73
BIBLE DESCRIBES
SIN WITH THREE WORDS.
00:28:45.73\00:28:48.80
YOU HAVE THE WORD SIN, WHICH
LITERALLY MEANS 'TO MISS THE
00:28:48.80\00:28:52.96
MARK' OR 'TO FALL SHORT OF THE
STANDARD.' SO GOD'S GOT AN IDEAL
00:28:52.96\00:28:56.60
FOR US AND WHEN WE FALL SHORT OF
THAT STANDARD - WE MISS THE MARK
00:28:56.60\00:29:00.80
- WE'RE GUILTY OF SIN.
ANOTHER WORD THAT WE FIND IN
00:29:00.80\00:29:03.63
SCRIPTURE WITH REFERENCE TO SIN
IS THE WORD 'TRANSGRESSION' AND
00:29:03.63\00:29:07.10
TRANSGRESSION
THAT'S FAIRLY OBVIOUS.
00:29:07.10\00:29:08.96
THAT'S BREAKING
GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.
00:29:08.96\00:29:10.73
WE KNOW THAT SIN IS THE
TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
00:29:10.73\00:29:12.96
AND THEN THERE IS A THIRD
WORD, THE WORD 'INIQUITY.'
00:29:12.96\00:29:16.13
NOW THIS IS AN INTERESTING WORD.
00:29:16.13\00:29:17.56
THE ROOT FOR THE WORD INIQUITY
MEANS 'A BENT TOWARDS SELF' AND
00:29:17.56\00:29:23.00
IT COMES FROM THE NAME GIVEN TO
THE SHEPHERD'S STAFF THAT TURNS
00:29:23.00\00:29:28.63
BACK TOWARDS ITSELF - SORT OF
POINTING BACK TO SELF - SORT OF
00:29:28.63\00:29:32.66
THE ROOT FOR THE
MEANING OF THE WORD 'INIQUITY.'
00:29:32.66\00:29:35.46
IT'S REALLY SELFISHNESS.
00:29:35.46\00:29:36.96
THAT'S, SORT OF, THE CAUSE AND
GOD DOESN'T JUST WANT TO TAKE
00:29:36.96\00:29:39.93
CARE OF THE EXTERNAL IN OUR
LIVES, HE WANTS TO DEAL WITH THE
00:29:39.93\00:29:43.33
CAUSE. HE WANTS TO
DEAL WITH THE HEART.
00:29:43.33\00:29:45.13
THAT'S WHY THE NEW COVENANT
PROMISES A CHANGE OF HEART.
00:29:45.13\00:29:49.23
SOMETIMES IT TAKES US A WHILE
TO LEARN THIS IMPORTANT LESSON -
00:29:49.23\00:29:52.86
THAT WE NEED A CHANGE OF HEART.
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE DISCIPLES
00:29:52.86\00:29:56.53
THAT TOOK AWHILE TO
LEARN THIS WAS SIMON PETER.
00:29:56.53\00:29:59.43
NOW, PETER WAS
SOMEBODY THAT HAD STRENGTH.
00:29:59.43\00:30:01.80
HE HAD STRENGTH OF LEADERSHIP
- WHENEVER THE DISCIPLES ARE
00:30:01.80\00:30:04.10
LISTED IN SCRIPTURE, PETER'S
NAME IS ALWAYS LISTED FIRST.
00:30:04.10\00:30:07.53
HE WAS ONE OF THE INNER CIRCLE
OF DISCIPLES THAT GOT TO SHARE
00:30:07.53\00:30:10.43
SOME VERY SPECIAL
EXPERIENCES WITH JESUS.
00:30:10.43\00:30:13.06
THEY WERE THERE WHEN JESUS
RAISED THE LITTLE GIRL, TWELVE
00:30:13.06\00:30:15.90
YEARS OF AGE, BACK TO LIFE.
THEY WERE WITH JESUS ON THE
00:30:15.90\00:30:18.86
MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION.
YOU HAVE PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN
00:30:18.86\00:30:24.13
THAT WERE SEPARATED FROM THE
OTHER DISCIPLES IN THE GARDEN OF
00:30:24.13\00:30:26.03
GETHSEMANE AND JESUS SAID, 'COME
PRAY WITH ME.' SO HE HAD A LOT
00:30:26.03\00:30:30.06
OF GOOD LEADERSHIP QUALITIES.
HE ALSO HAD STRENGTH OF SPIRIT.
00:30:30.06\00:30:36.03
PETER WAS THE
SPOKESMAN IN THE GROUP.
00:30:36.03\00:30:39.23
SOMETIMES HE WOULD SAY
GOOD THINGS, LIKE THE TIME JESUS
00:30:39.23\00:30:42.33
ASKED THE DISCIPLES
'WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I AM?'
00:30:42.33\00:30:45.10
AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, SOME SAY
THAT YOU ARE JOHN THE BAPTIST.
00:30:45.10\00:30:47.56
OTHERS SAY THAT YOU ARE ELIJAH.
00:30:47.56\00:30:49.90
SOME SAY THAT YOU ARE JEREMIAH
OR ONE OF THE PROPHETS.' AND
00:30:49.90\00:30:52.16
THEN JESUS SAYS,
'BUT WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?'
00:30:52.16\00:30:54.43
AND IMMEDIATELY PETER
SAID, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST.
00:30:54.43\00:30:56.76
THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.'
AND THEN JESUS SAID, 'FLESH AND
00:30:56.76\00:30:59.96
BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO
YOU, BUT MY FATHER WHICH IS IN
00:30:59.96\00:31:02.50
HEAVEN.' SO HE
GAVE THE RIGHT ANSWER.
00:31:02.50\00:31:04.56
BUT THERE WERE OTHER TIMES
WHERE PETER SAID THINGS THAT
00:31:04.56\00:31:08.16
HE PROBABLY
SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID.
00:31:08.16\00:31:09.96
ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION,
WHERE MOSES AND ELIJAH APPEARED
00:31:09.96\00:31:13.43
WITH JESUS, PETER, FILLED WITH
FEAR, NOT QUITE KNOWING WHAT TO
00:31:13.43\00:31:16.66
SAY - HE SAID, 'LORD, IT'S GOOD
FOR US TO BE HERE BECAUSE NOW WE
00:31:16.66\00:31:19.56
CAN BUILD THREE TABERNACLES: ONE
FOR YOU, ONE FOR MOSES, AND ONE
00:31:19.56\00:31:22.63
FOR ELIJAH.' AND THERE WAS
A CLOUD THAT OVERSHADOWED THE
00:31:22.63\00:31:25.63
DISCIPLES AND GOD SAID TO
PETER, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON.
00:31:25.63\00:31:29.00
HEAR HIM.' IN OTHER
WORDS PETER, DON'T TALK
00:31:29.00\00:31:30.53
RIGHT NOW, JUST BE QUIET.
00:31:30.53\00:31:32.10
NOT A GOOD TIME TO TALK.' AND
THEN, OF COURSE, IN THE STORM ON
00:31:32.10\00:31:35.20
THE BOAT, PETER SEES JESUS
WALKING ON THE WATER AND PETER
00:31:35.20\00:31:38.16
SAYS, 'LORD, IF
IT'S YOU, CALL ME.
00:31:38.16\00:31:40.33
I WANT TO COME WALKING TO YOU ON
THE WATER.' I DON'T KNOW WHERE
00:31:40.33\00:31:43.16
PETER GOT THAT IDEA FROM
BUT NEVERTHELESS, THE LORD SAID
00:31:43.16\00:31:46.26
'COME' AND
PETER WALKED ON WATER.
00:31:46.26\00:31:48.23
SO PETER HAD A LOT OF
GOOD LEADERSHIP QUALITIES.
00:31:48.23\00:31:51.33
HE ALSO HAD STRENGTH OF BODY.
HE WAS A FISHERMAN AND HE WAS
00:31:51.33\00:31:53.53
USED TO ROWING
BOATS AND PULLING IN NETS.
00:31:53.53\00:31:55.56
YET, IN SPITE OF ALL OF THESE
GOOD QUALITIES, WE FIND PETER
00:31:55.56\00:31:59.26
DENYING JESUS THREE TIMES, EVEN
AFTER HE MAKES THE PROMISE - HE
00:31:59.26\00:32:03.30
SAYS, 'LORD, I'M READY TO
GO WITH YOU TO PRISON AND IN
00:32:03.30\00:32:05.46
DEATH.' BUT WHEN IT
REALLY MATTERED HE SAID,
00:32:05.46\00:32:08.56
'I DON'T KNOW HIM.' YOU
SEE, SATAN IS VERY GOOD AT
00:32:08.56\00:32:12.30
USING OUR WEAKNESSES AGAINST US.
00:32:12.30\00:32:15.23
PETER WAS STRONG WHEN HIS
FRIENDS WERE AROUND, BUT HE WAS
00:32:15.23\00:32:20.03
WEAK WHEN HE WAS
ALONE. AND SO IT IS WITH US.
00:32:20.03\00:32:23.30
YOU KNOW, IT'S EASY TO BE
A CHRISTIAN WHEN YOU COME TO
00:32:23.30\00:32:25.76
CHURCH AND YOU'RE FELLOWSHIPPING
WITH OTHER CHRISTIANS, BUT WHAT
00:32:25.76\00:32:29.66
ABOUT WHEN WE'RE ALONE OR
WHEN WE'RE NOT SURROUNDED BY
00:32:29.66\00:32:32.76
CHRISTIANS?
WHAT IS OUR ATTITUDE?
00:32:32.76\00:32:35.40
ARE WE STILL BEING FAITHFUL
TO GOD? ARE WE TRUSTING IN HIM?
00:32:35.40\00:32:38.46
1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, VERSE
12 SAYS, "THEREFORE, LET HIM WHO
00:32:38.46\00:32:41.83
THINKS HE STANDS
TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL.
00:32:41.83\00:32:46.30
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6, VERSE
12 SAYS, "FOR WE DO NOT WRESTLE
00:32:46.30\00:32:49.50
AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT
AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST
00:32:49.50\00:32:52.50
POWERS, AGAINST RULERS OF THE
DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AGAINST
00:32:52.50\00:32:55.70
SPIRITUAL
WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
00:32:55.70\00:32:58.33
AND SO WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT
WE DO HAVE AN ADVERSARY AND WE
00:32:58.33\00:33:02.56
NEED TO BE SURRENDERING
OURSELVES TO CHRIST.
00:33:02.56\00:33:05.60
JAMES CHAPTER 4, VERSE 7 SAYS,
"THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD, RESIST
00:33:05.60\00:33:08.86
THE DEVIL" -
AND WHAT WILL HE DO?
00:33:08.86\00:33:11.03
- HE WILL FLEE FROM US.
SOMETIMES THAT TAKES QUITE A BIT
00:33:11.03\00:33:14.53
OF WORK -
RESISTING AND SURRENDERING.
00:33:14.53\00:33:17.76
OF COURSE, TRUE RESISTING COMES
AFTER WE SUBMIT TO GOD AND WE
00:33:17.76\00:33:21.23
SAY, 'ALRIGHT, LORD, I WILL DO
WHAT YOU ASK ME TO DO.' AND THAT
00:33:21.23\00:33:25.30
COMES FROM TRUST - TRUSTING THAT
GOD KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR US.
00:33:25.30\00:33:29.16
TRUSTING HIM
WITH ALL OF OUR HEART.
00:33:29.16\00:33:31.23
WELL, LET'S TAKE
A LOOK AT VERSE 15.
00:33:31.23\00:33:33.03
WHO'S GOT VERSE
15 FOR US? THANK YOU.
00:33:33.03\00:33:35.26
>>THEN WHEN DESIRE HAS
CONCEIVED, IT GIVES BIRTH TO
00:33:35.26\00:33:38.90
SIN; AND SIN, WHEN IT IS
FULL GROWN, BRINGS FORTH DEATH."
00:33:38.90\00:33:43.50
>>THIS IS A SOBERING VERSE.
00:33:43.50\00:33:45.20
IT SAYS, 'DESIRE IS CONCEIVED,
THEN IT GIVES BIRTH TO SIN.
00:33:45.20\00:33:51.00
SIN WILL
ULTIMATELY LEAD TO DEATH.
00:33:51.00\00:33:54.93
YOU SEE, SIN, IF CHERISHED
IN THE HEART, WILL EVENTUALLY
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HARDEN OUR HEARTS
AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF
THAT AS THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.
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IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 12, VERSE 31,
JESUS SAID, 'THEREFORE, I SAY
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UNTO YOU EVERY SIN AND
BLASPHEMY WILL BE FORGIVEN MEN.
00:34:09.30\00:34:13.30
BUT THE BLASPHEMY AGAINST
THE SPIRIT WILL NOT BE FORGIVEN
00:34:13.30\00:34:16.60
MEN.' NOW, WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE
IT MEANS WHEN HE SAYS 'BLASPHEMY
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AGAINST THE SPIRIT?' IN
THE BIBLE, WHAT DOES THE WORD
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'BLASPHEMY' MEAN?
HOW IS IT DEFINED?
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WELL, YOU REMEMBER THEY ACCUSED
JESUS OF BLASPHEMY BECAUSE HE
00:34:27.26\00:34:30.03
FORGAVE PEOPLE
THEIR SINS, RIGHT?
00:34:30.03\00:34:32.46
AND THEY ALSO ACCUSED JESUS OF
BLASPHEMY BECAUSE HE CLAIMED TO
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BE EQUAL WITH GOD. SO
JESUS SAYS, 'EVERY SIN CAN BE
00:34:35.30\00:34:40.00
FORGIVEN BUT THE SIN OF
BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY
00:34:40.00\00:34:42.60
SPIRIT.' WELL, WHAT IS
THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?
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JESUS SAID IN JOHN 16, VERSE 8,
"BUT WHEN HE COMES" - SPEAKING
00:34:46.06\00:34:49.53
OF THE SPIRIT - "HE WILL
CONVINCE THE WORLD" - OR CONVICT
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THE WORLD - "OF SIN,
RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND JUDGMENT."
00:34:52.46\00:34:56.36
SO THE WORK OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT IS TO CONVICT US
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AS TO WHAT IS
RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG.
00:34:58.90\00:35:02.43
BUT WHEN WE COMMIT BLASPHEMY
AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT, WE'RE
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PUTTING OURSELVES IN THE
PLACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:35:06.00\00:35:09.56
WE'RE SAYING, 'WELL, WE DON'T
NEED GOD, THROUGH HIS WORD, TO
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REVEAL TO US WHAT IS RIGHT AND
WRONG, BUT WE CAN RELY UPON OUR
00:35:13.26\00:35:16.46
OWN WISDOM.' OKAY, TRYING TO PUT
OURSELVES IN THE PLACE OF GOD.
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IT'S ALSO EXCUSING SIN
AND THAT'S THE DEFINITION OF
00:35:20.03\00:35:24.10
BLASPHEMY. 'WELL,
THAT'S NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL.
00:35:24.10\00:35:26.16
GOD DOESN'T CARE. I CAN
ALWAYS ASK FOR FORGIVENESS.'
00:35:26.16\00:35:30.63
IF WE KEEP
HARDENING OUR HEARTS THROUGH
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BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY
SPIRIT - JESUS WARNS US BECAUSE
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IF THE SPIRIT CAN'T REACH US -
THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT IT'S THE
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GOODNESS OF GOD THAT
LEADS US TO REPENTANCE.
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WITHOUT REPENTANCE WE CAN'T
HAVE FORGIVENESS, BUT IF WE'VE
00:35:42.53\00:35:45.36
HARDENED OUR HEARTS AGAINST
THE HOLY SPIRIT, HOW DO WE COME
00:35:45.36\00:35:48.16
TO THE POINT OF
GENUINE REPENTANCE?
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THAT'S BLASPHEMY
AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:35:50.30\00:35:53.46
A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO I WORKED
AS A CAMP PASTOR FOR SOME YOUTH
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CAMPS AND THEY HAD VARIOUS
ACTIVITIES THAT THEY WOULD DO.
00:35:57.83\00:36:00.76
ONE OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT THE
YOUNG PEOPLE LIKED TO DO - THERE
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WAS A LITTLE SHACK AND THEY
CALLED IT THE CERAMICS SHACK AND
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PEOPLE WOULD GO DOWN THERE AND
THERE WOULD BE THESE BIG TUBS
00:36:08.63\00:36:11.16
WITH POWDERED CLAY AND THEY
WOULD ADD THE CLAY TO THE WATER
00:36:11.16\00:36:15.30
AND THEY WOULD MIX IT UP AND YOU
WOULD HAVE LIQUID CLAY AND THEN
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THE YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD PICK OUT
A MOLD - THESE PLASTIC MOLDS AND
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THEN THEY WOULD POUR THIS CLAY
MIXTURE INTO THESE MOLDS AND
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THEN THEY WOULD SET IT OVER
THERE AND THEY WOULD JUST WAIT
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FOR IT TO HARDEN. NOW,
OF COURSE, YOUNG PEOPLE,
00:36:27.70\00:36:29.70
BEING YOUNG PEOPLE, OFTEN THEY
WOULD CHOOSE A MOLD AND - MICKEY
00:36:29.70\00:36:32.46
MOUSE OR WHATEVER IT IS -
AND THEY WOULD POUR IT IN.
00:36:32.46\00:36:34.56
AFTER AWHILE THEY'D LOOK AT
THEIR FRIENDS AND, YOU KNOW,
00:36:34.56\00:36:37.50
THEY GOT A PONY AND THEY -
'OH, I DON'T WANT THIS ANYMORE.
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I WANT WHAT HE HAS.' NOW,
DEPENDING UPON HOW LONG THE CLAY
00:36:39.63\00:36:43.00
HAD BEEN IN THAT MOLD, EVEN
IF IT STARTED TO HARDEN JUST A
00:36:43.00\00:36:45.80
LITTLE BIT, IT WAS POSSIBLE TO
PEEL OFF THE MOLD, TAKE THE CLAY
00:36:45.80\00:36:49.96
AND PUT IT IN A CONTAINER AND
THEN ADD SOME WATER AND KIND OF
00:36:49.96\00:36:52.76
CRUSH IT A LITTLE BIT AND MIX
IT AND THEN IT WOULD GO BACK TO
00:36:52.76\00:36:55.33
THAT WATERY CONSISTENCY.
BUT AFTER A CERTAIN PERIOD OF
00:36:55.33\00:36:58.63
TIME OF THE CLAY BEING IN THE
MOLD, IT WOULD HARDEN AND EVEN
00:36:58.63\00:37:02.36
IF YOU ADDED THE WATER OR
TRIED TO BREAK IT, IT WOULD STAY
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LUMPY. IT WOULDN'T DISSOLVE. YOU
00:37:05.56\00:37:07.70
COULDN'T USE IT AGAIN.
AND THE BIBLE WARNS US - IT
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SAYS, 'DON'T LET
THE WORLD SQUEEZE YOU.
00:37:10.30\00:37:14.03
DON'T BE
CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD.
00:37:14.03\00:37:15.90
DON'T LET THE WORLD SQUEEZE YOU
INTO ITS MOLD.' NOW, OF COURSE,
00:37:15.90\00:37:19.73
THE DEVIL IS DOING EVERYTHING HE
CAN TO SQUEEZE PEOPLE INTO HIS
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MOLD. NOW, JAMES
TELLS US, IN VERSE 16
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- WHY DON'T YOU READ
VERSES 16 AND 17, ALLEN?
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>>"DO NOT ERR MY
BELOVED BRETHREN.
00:37:30.33\00:37:32.33
EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY
PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE AND
00:37:32.33\00:37:35.63
COMETH DOWN FROM THE FATHER
OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM IS NO
00:37:35.63\00:37:38.76
VARIABLENESS,
NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING."
00:37:38.76\00:37:41.76
>>YOU KNOW WHY I LIKE VERSE 16?
00:37:41.76\00:37:43.50
JAMES IS SO EMPHATIC HE SAYS,
'DO NOT BE DECEIVED.' HE WANTS
00:37:43.50\00:37:48.00
US TO UNDERSTAND THE
SOURCE OF TEMPTATION.
00:37:48.00\00:37:50.40
HE FEELS LIKE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR
US TO REALIZE THAT TEMPTATION
00:37:50.40\00:37:52.56
DOESN'T COME FROM GOD BUT
IT COMES FROM OUR OWN SELFISH
00:37:52.56\00:37:55.63
INCLINATIONS
AND SELFISH DESIRES.
00:37:55.63\00:37:58.43
OF COURSE, THE
DEVIL PLAYS UP ON THAT.
00:37:58.43\00:38:00.36
NOW WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT
WHEN IT COMES TO A HUMAN BEING,
00:38:00.36\00:38:03.63
WE ARE COMPRISED OF THESE THREE
AREAS: YOU'VE GOT THE MIND,
00:38:03.63\00:38:07.20
WHICH SYMBOLIZES THE WILL - VERY
IMPORTANT - THE WILL AND THE
00:38:07.20\00:38:11.33
THOUGHTS. WE CAN
CONTROL OUR THOUGHTS -
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THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT - AND THE
WILL. THEN YOU'VE GOT THE HEART.
00:38:13.96\00:38:17.13
THE HEART CAN
SYMBOLIZE DESIRES AND FEELINGS.
00:38:17.13\00:38:20.33
AND THEN, OF COURSE, YOU'VE
GOT THE FLESH OR THE BODY.
00:38:20.33\00:38:23.03
SO WHEN A TEMPTATION COMES OUR
WAY AND EVEN THOUGH THE FEELINGS
00:38:23.03\00:38:27.30
MIGHT BE CONTRARY TO THE WILL OF
GOD, WE STILL HAVE THE FREEDOM
00:38:27.30\00:38:31.76
TO EXERCISE THE WILL,
THAT IS, THE POWER OF CHOICE.
00:38:31.76\00:38:35.50
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO
REALIZE THAT SOMETIMES WE FEEL
00:38:35.50\00:38:38.26
AS THOUGH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S
JUST NOTHING WE CAN DO AGAINST
00:38:38.26\00:38:40.66
TEMPTATION. THE
DEVIL IS TOO BIG FOR US.
00:38:40.66\00:38:43.00
THERE'S NO HOPE FOR US.
00:38:43.00\00:38:44.10
NO, GOD HAS GIVEN US THE
WILL, THE POWER OF CHOICE.
00:38:44.10\00:38:47.50
WHEN WE EXERCISE OUR WILL -
WHEN WE CHOOSE TO REDIRECT OUR
00:38:47.50\00:38:51.66
THOUGHTS, THAT ENABLES
GOD, THROUGH HIS SPIRIT, TO
00:38:51.66\00:38:54.86
STRENGTHEN US, TO GIVE
US COURAGE, TO STAND AGAINST
00:38:54.86\00:38:58.73
TEMPTATION. SO
EVERYTHING DEPENDS UPON THE
00:38:58.73\00:39:02.26
RIGHT ACTION OF THE
WILL - THE POWER OF CHOICE.
00:39:02.26\00:39:04.73
I LIKE THIS STATEMENT - YOU FIND
IT IN 'STEPS TO CHRIST' PAGE 47.
00:39:04.73\00:39:08.33
IT SAYS, 'EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON
THE RIGHT ACTION OF THE WILL.'
00:39:08.33\00:39:11.33
AND THEN IT'S DEFINED: "THE
POWER OF CHOICE GOD HAS GIVEN TO
00:39:11.33\00:39:15.20
MAN. IT IS THEIRS TO EXERCISE.
YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR HEART.
00:39:15.20\00:39:19.33
YOU CANNOT, OF YOURSELF, GIVE TO
GOD OF ITS AFFECTIONS, BUT YOU
00:39:19.33\00:39:23.53
CAN CHOOSE TO SERVE HIM.
YOU CAN GIVE HIM YOUR WILL.
00:39:23.53\00:39:27.50
HE WILL THEN WORK IN YOU TO WILL
AND TO DO ACCORDING TO HIS GOOD
00:39:27.50\00:39:31.93
PLEASURE. THUS,
YOUR WHOLE NATURE WILL BE
00:39:31.93\00:39:34.53
BROUGHT UNDER THE
CONTROL OF THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST.
00:39:34.53\00:39:36.86
YOUR AFFECTIONS WILL
BE CENTERED UPON HIM.
00:39:36.86\00:39:38.90
YOUR THOUGHTS WILL BE IN
HARMONY WITH HIS THOUGHTS.
00:39:38.90\00:39:42.53
SO WE CAN'T CHANGE OURSELVES
BUT WE CAN CHOOSE TO BE CHANGED,
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RIGHT? BY
CHANGING OUR THOUGHTS, BY
00:39:47.00\00:39:49.73
CHANGING OUR ATTITUDE,
BY RESISTING TEMPTATION, AND
00:39:49.73\00:39:52.93
HUMBLING OURSELVES
AND FOLLOWING GOD'S WAY.
00:39:52.93\00:39:55.93
YOU KNOW, I'M REMINDED OF A
STORY OF A LITTLE BOY WHO HAD A
00:39:55.93\00:40:00.13
NEIGHBOR AND THE NEIGHBOR
HAD SOME TOYS IN THE BACKYARD.
00:40:00.13\00:40:04.23
AND THE LITTLE BOY LOVED TO
CLIMB THROUGH THIS HOLE IN THE
00:40:04.23\00:40:06.93
FENCE AND GO PLAY
WITH THE NEIGHBOR'S TOYS.
00:40:06.93\00:40:10.10
WELL, THE NEIGHBORS WEREN'T THAT
EXCITED ABOUT HAVING THIS LITTLE
00:40:10.10\00:40:12.90
BOY OVER IN THEIR YARD ALL THE
TIME PLAYING WITH THE TOYS AND
00:40:12.90\00:40:15.70
SO THEY SPOKE TO THE LITTLE
BOY'S MOM AND ONE DAY MOM CALLED
00:40:15.70\00:40:19.00
JOHNNY AND SAID, 'YOU
KNOW JOHNNY, WE CAN'T HAVE YOU
00:40:19.00\00:40:21.06
CLIMBING THROUGH THAT HOLE IN
THE FENCE AND PLAYING WITH THE
00:40:21.06\00:40:23.10
NEIGHBOR'S TOYS.' AND
JOHNNY WAS, OF COURSE, JUST
00:40:23.10\00:40:25.40
DISAPPOINTED ABOUT THIS AND
THOUGHT ABOUT IT FOR AWHILE AND
00:40:25.40\00:40:28.30
HE SAID, 'WELL, ALRIGHT MOM,
I WON'T DO IT ANYMORE.' A LITTLE
00:40:28.30\00:40:32.23
WHILE LATER MOM WAS BUSY WASHING
THE DISHES AND SHE LOOKED OUT OF
00:40:32.23\00:40:34.60
THE WINDOW AND, SURE ENOUGH,
WHERE DO YOU SUPPOSE JOHNNY IS?
00:40:34.60\00:40:36.76
HE'S IN THE NEIGHBOR'S
YARD PLAYING WITH THE TOYS.
00:40:36.76\00:40:38.70
SHE GOES OUTSIDE, SHE CALLS HIM.
00:40:38.70\00:40:40.43
JOHNNY COMES AND HE SQUEEZES
THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE FENCE
00:40:40.43\00:40:42.46
AND HE STANDS THERE IN FRONT OF
HIS MOTHER AND HIS MOTHER SAID,
00:40:42.46\00:40:44.70
'JOHNNY, I THOUGHT I TOLD
YOU YOU SHOULDN'T BE GOING OVER
00:40:44.70\00:40:46.06
THERE AND
PLAYING WITH THE TOYS.'
00:40:46.06\00:40:47.33
AND JOHNNY THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND
HE SAID, 'WELL, MOM, THE DEVIL
00:40:47.33\00:40:49.73
MADE ME DO IT.' AND HIS
MOTHER SAID, 'OH, THE DEVIL MADE
00:40:49.73\00:40:53.83
YOU DO IT, HUH?' 'YEAH,
THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT.'
00:40:53.83\00:40:56.13
SHE GOES, 'WELL, I'LL TELL YOU
WHAT, NEXT TIME THE DEVIL TEMPTS
00:40:56.13\00:40:58.86
YOU TO GO NEXT DOOR, YOU JUST
TELL HIM TO GET BEHIND YOU.'
00:40:58.86\00:41:02.63
JOHNNY THOUGHT
ABOUT IT FOR AWHILE
00:41:02.63\00:41:04.43
- 'OKAY, MOM.' HALF AN HOUR
LATER MOM'S BUSY WORKING IN THE
00:41:04.43\00:41:07.50
KITCHEN, SHE LOOKS OUT OF
THE WINDOW AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
00:41:07.50\00:41:09.83
THERE JOHNNY IS IN
THE NEIGHBOR'S YARD AGAIN.
00:41:09.83\00:41:12.86
NOW SHE'S GETTING A LITTLE BIT
FRUSTRATED - A LITTLE BIT UPSET
00:41:12.86\00:41:15.00
WITH JOHNNY AND SHE CALLS HIM,
'JOHNNY, YOU GET OVER HERE RIGHT
00:41:15.00\00:41:17.53
NOW!' JOHNNY
COMES, CRAWLS THROUGH THE
00:41:17.53\00:41:19.16
HOLE IN THE FENCE AND HE
STANDS IN FRONT OF HIS MOTHER.
00:41:19.16\00:41:21.00
HIS MOTHER SAID, 'JOHNNY, I
TOLD YOU NOT TO GO OVER TO THE
00:41:21.00\00:41:23.83
NEIGHBOR'S YARD.' AND HE
SAID, 'WELL, MOM, I KNOW.
00:41:23.83\00:41:26.50
I KNOW.' 'DIDN'T I
TELL YOU WHAT TO SAY?'
00:41:26.50\00:41:28.73
'YEAH, I TOLD THE DEVIL 'GET
BEHIND ME.'' THE MOTHER SAID,
00:41:28.73\00:41:32.00
'AND?' 'WELL THEN
HE PUSHED ME THROUGH
00:41:32.00\00:41:34.23
THE HOLE IN THE FENCE.
IT'S NOT MY FAULT!' HE SAID
00:41:34.23\00:41:36.50
'THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT.' WELL
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE DEVIL
00:41:36.50\00:41:39.86
CAN'T FORCE US TO DO THAT WHICH
IS WRONG, RIGHT? HE CAN TEMPT US
00:41:39.86\00:41:43.73
BUT THE POWER OF CHOICE GOD
HAS GIVEN TO US. WE CAN USE IT.
00:41:43.73\00:41:48.56
WE CAN CHOOSE TO SERVE
GOD. WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT
00:41:48.56\00:41:52.06
VERSE 17 - JAMES CHAPTER 1,
VERSE 17 - OR VERSE 18, SORRY.
00:41:52.06\00:41:58.16
>>"OF HIS OWN WILL HE BROUGHT US
FORTH BY THE WORD OF TRUTH THAT
00:41:58.16\00:42:02.50
WE MIGHT BE A KIND OF
FIRSTFRUITS OF HIS CREATURES."
00:42:02.50\00:42:07.40
>>ALRIGHT NOW, JAMES IS SHIFTING
GEARS HERE JUST A LITTLE BIT.
00:42:07.40\00:42:10.46
HE'S SPOKEN ABOUT
THE SOURCE OF TEMPTATION.
00:42:10.46\00:42:12.83
HE'S ALSO TOLD US THAT
VICTORY IS FOUND IN JESUS.
00:42:12.83\00:42:16.00
WE CAN SUBMIT TO GOD, YOU KNOW,
THE DEVIL WILL FLEE FROM US -
00:42:16.00\00:42:19.50
HE SAYS THAT IN JAMES CHAPTER
4 - BUT NOW HE'S SHIFTING GEARS
00:42:19.50\00:42:22.60
AND HE'S DIRECTING OUR ATTENTION
TO WHERE WE CAN FIND STRENGTH
00:42:22.60\00:42:26.03
AND HELP IN OUR TIME OF NEED.
AND HE BEGINS BY SAYING 'WE ARE
00:42:26.03\00:42:30.23
BROUGHT FORTH OF GOD BY HIS
WORD THAT WE SHOULD BE A KIND OF
00:42:30.23\00:42:34.70
FIRSTFRUITS UNTO GOD.' SOMETIMES
GOD'S WILL IS NOT THE SAME AS
00:42:34.70\00:42:40.20
OUR WILL AND WE NEED TO LEARN
TO TRUST IN THE WILL OF GOD.
00:42:40.20\00:42:44.70
IT'S EASY FOR US TO KIND OF LOOK
AT THINGS FROM HUMAN PERSPECTIVE
00:42:44.70\00:42:47.96
AND THINK, 'WELL, LORD, THIS
DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A GOOD IDEA'
00:42:47.96\00:42:50.16
OR 'I DON'T KNOW' BUT WE NEED
TO RECOGNIZE GOD IS LOOKING AT
00:42:50.16\00:42:52.66
THINGS FROM AN
ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE.
00:42:52.66\00:42:55.00
GOD'S ULTIMATE PURPOSE FOR
OUR LIVES IS FOR US TO BE IN THE
00:42:55.00\00:42:57.90
KINGDOM. SO GOD'LL
ALLOW CIRCUMSTANCES TO
00:42:57.90\00:43:00.56
COME OUR WAY BECAUSE HE'S
SHAPING US. HE'S MOLDING US.
00:43:00.56\00:43:03.63
HE WANTS US WITH HIM IN HEAVEN
AND WE WANT TO TRUST IN GOD'S
00:43:03.63\00:43:07.46
DEALING. SOMETIMES
YOU CAN'T ALWAYS SEE
00:43:07.46\00:43:09.83
GOD'S HAND LEADING IN
A PARTICULAR SITUATION.
00:43:09.83\00:43:12.96
IN THAT CASE, JUST TRUST HIS
HEART. THAT'S WHY HAVING THIS
00:43:12.96\00:43:16.23
LOVE FOR GOD AND THIS
FAITH IN GOD IS SO IMPORTANT.
00:43:16.23\00:43:19.50
THAT'S WHAT CARRIES US THROUGH
THOSE DARK MOMENTS WHERE WE'RE
00:43:19.50\00:43:22.33
ASKING, 'LORD, WHERE ARE YOU?'
'WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THIS TO
00:43:22.33\00:43:25.50
HAPPEN TO ME?' WE CAN
TRUST IN GOD BECAUSE HE
00:43:25.50\00:43:27.80
LOVES US. AND THEN,
ALSO, JAMES TELLS US
00:43:27.80\00:43:30.13
THE SOURCE OF STRENGTH
IS IN THE WORD OF TRUTH.
00:43:30.13\00:43:32.76
AS CHILDREN RESEMBLE THEIR
PARENTS, SO TRUE CHRISTIANS WILL
00:43:32.76\00:43:36.56
GROW UP TO REFLECT THE CHARACTER
OF THEIR HEAVENLY FATHER AND
00:43:36.56\00:43:40.66
JESUS WANTS US TO
REFLECT HIS CHARACTER.
00:43:40.66\00:43:43.53
THE PURPOSE OF SALVATION IS
REALLY NOT JUST TO SAVE US, THE
00:43:43.53\00:43:48.33
PURPOSE OF SALVATION IS TO
RESTORE THE IMAGE OF GOD IN MAN.
00:43:48.33\00:43:52.76
GENESIS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 26 IT
SAYS, SPEAKING OF GOD, "LET US
00:43:52.76\00:43:57.00
MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE
ACCORDING TO OUR LIKENESS."
00:43:57.00\00:44:02.03
SO THE IMAGE OF GOD IN WHICH
ADAM AND EVE WERE ORIGINALLY
00:44:02.03\00:44:04.93
CREATED WAS
MARRED BECAUSE OF SIN.
00:44:04.93\00:44:07.50
THE PURPOSE OF SALVATION,
THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION, IS TO
00:44:07.50\00:44:10.46
RESTORE THE IMAGE OF GOD IN MAN.
WHY? WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO
00:44:10.46\00:44:14.36
GOD THAT HIS
IMAGE BE RESTORED IN US?
00:44:14.36\00:44:16.96
BECAUSE GOD KNOWS THAT OUR TRUE
PURPOSE AND JOY IN LIFE CAN ONLY
00:44:16.96\00:44:21.46
BE FOUND IN BEING WHAT GOD
ORIGINALLY DESTINED US TO BE:
00:44:21.46\00:44:25.43
CREATED IN HIS IMAGE. SO
THE PURPOSE OF SALVATION IS
00:44:25.43\00:44:28.96
TO RECREATE THE IMAGE OF GOD IN
MAN. AND THEN THE VERSE GOES ON
00:44:28.96\00:44:33.56
AND SAYS THAT WE SHOULD BE
SOME KIND OF FIRSTFRUITS TO GOD.
00:44:33.56\00:44:38.33
NOW THIS IS AN INTERESTING
PHRASE, THIS 'FIRSTFRUITS.'
00:44:38.33\00:44:41.03
THE IDEA BEHIND FIRSTFRUITS
IS IF THE FIRST FRUITS ARE GOOD,
00:44:41.03\00:44:45.23
YOU CAN EXPECT THAT THE
HARVEST WILL BE GOOD AS WELL,
00:44:45.23\00:44:49.26
GIVEN ENOUGH TIME. SO WHAT
GOD WANTS US TO DO IS TO GROW
00:44:49.26\00:44:53.66
SPIRITUALLY IN REFLECTING THE
CHARACTER OF JESUS AND THEN HE
00:44:53.66\00:44:58.00
TALKS ABOUT US BEING FIRSTFRUITS
TO GOD. NOW REVELATION CHAPTER
00:44:58.00\00:45:02.13
14, FROM VERSES 1 THROUGH 4,
TALKS ABOUT A GROUP OF PEOPLE
00:45:02.13\00:45:05.26
WHO WILL BE ALIVE WHEN
JESUS COMES THE SECOND TIME.
00:45:05.26\00:45:09.03
WE REFER TO THIS GROUP BY THE
NAME OF 144,000. IT SAYS THAT
00:45:09.03\00:45:12.90
THEY HAD THEIR FATHER'S
NAME WRITTEN IN THEIR FOREHEADS.
00:45:12.90\00:45:15.40
QUITE SIGNIFICANT TO HAVE
THE FATHER'S NAME WRITTEN IN THE
00:45:15.40\00:45:17.76
FOREHEAD - THAT IS TO REFLECT
THE THOUGHTS OF THE FATHER.
00:45:17.76\00:45:21.50
THAT IS TO HAVE
THE CHARACTER OF JESUS.
00:45:21.50\00:45:24.10
AND OF THIS GROUP, IN VERSE 4 IT
SAYS, "THESE WERE REDEEMED FROM
00:45:24.10\00:45:27.66
AMONG MEN BEING THE FIRSTFRUITS
TO GOD AND TO THE LAMB."
00:45:27.66\00:45:31.73
IN OTHER WORDS, BEFORE JESUS
COMES HE WILL HAVE A GROUP OF
00:45:31.73\00:45:34.76
PEOPLE WHO ARE SO SURRENDERED TO
CHRIST THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS
00:45:34.76\00:45:39.40
ABLE TO TRANSFORM THEIR
CHARACTERS SO THEY REFLECT THE
00:45:39.40\00:45:42.96
CHARACTER OF JESUS. WE
KNOW THAT BEFORE JESUS COMES,
00:45:42.96\00:45:45.76
ACCORDING TO DANIEL CHAPTER
12, VERSE 1 AND ALSO REVELATION
00:45:45.76\00:45:49.36
CHAPTER 22, THAT THERE IS WHAT
WE CALL THE CLOSE OF PROBATION
00:45:49.36\00:45:53.20
WHERE JESUS FINISHES HIS WORK AS
OUR HIGH PRIEST AND HE REMOVES
00:45:53.20\00:45:56.96
HIS PRIESTLY ROBE AND HE PUTS
ON HIS KINGLY ROBE AND THEN HE
00:45:56.96\00:46:00.33
COMES BACK AS KING OF
KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
00:46:00.33\00:46:03.70
AND GOD IS LOOKING FOR A GROUP
OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SO FILLED WITH
00:46:03.70\00:46:06.76
LOVE FOR HIM, SO SURRENDERED TO
HIM, THAT THEY BECOME COMPLETE
00:46:06.76\00:46:12.86
REFLECTIONS OF HIS GOODNESS AT A
TIME WHEN THE WORLD IS JUST DARK
00:46:12.86\00:46:17.70
WITH THE MISAPPREHENSION
OF GOD'S CHARACTER.
00:46:17.70\00:46:20.40
WHEN THE WORLD IS FILLED WITH
SIN, HERE GOD HAS A GROUP OF
00:46:20.40\00:46:23.10
PEOPLE WHO LOVE HIM SUPREMELY,
WHO ARE FULLY SURRENDERED TO HIM
00:46:23.10\00:46:26.66
AND THEY ARE THESE
FIRSTFRUITS UNTO GOD.
00:46:26.66\00:46:29.86
THEY HAVE ALLOWED THE SPIRIT OF
GOD TO TRANSFORM THEM AND MAKE
00:46:29.86\00:46:32.83
THEM WHAT GOD WANTS THEM TO BE.
WELL, LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 19.
00:46:32.83\00:46:37.70
WHO'S GOT VERSE 19 FOR US?
00:46:37.70\00:46:39.70
>>"WHEREFORE, MY BELOVED
BRETHREN, LET EVERY MAN BE SWIFT
00:46:39.70\00:46:44.13
TO HEAR, SLOW TO
SPEAK, SLOW TO WRATH."
00:46:44.13\00:46:47.66
>>ALRIGHT, SO JAMES TELLS US
THAT WE NEED TO BE EAGER TO HEAR
00:46:47.66\00:46:51.50
THE WORD OF GOD. AS
CHRISTIANS WE WANT TO HEAR
00:46:51.50\00:46:54.56
THE WORD OF TRUTH. WE
RECOGNIZE THAT OUR CONNECTION
00:46:54.56\00:46:58.16
WITH GOD IS DEPENDENT
UPON US FEASTING UPON THE WORD.
00:46:58.16\00:47:01.56
JESUS SAID, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE
BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD
00:47:01.56\00:47:05.70
THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH
OF GOD.' AND THEN JESUS SAID, TO
00:47:05.70\00:47:09.13
THOSE WHO WERE LISTENING TO HIM,
'EXCEPT YOU EAT MY FLESH AND
00:47:09.13\00:47:12.66
DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO LIFE
IN YOU.' NOW THIS WAS A HARD
00:47:12.66\00:47:16.80
THING EVEN FOR THE DISCIPLES
AND THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE THAT
00:47:16.80\00:47:19.00
TURNED AND LEFT JESUS.
AND THEN JESUS SAID TO THE
00:47:19.00\00:47:21.23
DISCIPLES, 'ARE YOU
ALSO GOING TO LEAVE?'
00:47:21.23\00:47:22.80
AND THEY SAID, 'WELL,
LORD, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GO?
00:47:22.80\00:47:24.30
YOU HAVE THE WORDS OF TRUTH.'
BUT THIS WAS A HARD SAYING.
00:47:24.30\00:47:27.56
AND THEN JESUS
EXPLAINED WHAT HE MEANT.
00:47:27.56\00:47:30.06
HE SAID, 'THE FLESH PROFITS
NOTHING BUT THE WORDS THAT I
00:47:30.06\00:47:32.93
SPEAK UNTO YOU, THEY ARE SPIRIT
AND THEY ARE LIFE.' TO EAT THE
00:47:32.93\00:47:37.60
FLESH AND DRINK THE BLOOD OF
JESUS IS TO RECEIVE HIS WORD -
00:47:37.60\00:47:41.56
TO MAKE IT A PART OF OURS.
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 15, VERSE 16
00:47:41.56\00:47:45.06
SAYS, "THY WORDS WERE FOUND
AND I DID EAT THEM AND THEY WERE
00:47:45.06\00:47:48.50
UNTO ME THE JOY AND
THE REJOICING OF MY HEART."
00:47:48.50\00:47:52.16
AND THEN JAMES ALSO TELLS US
THAT WE NEED TO BE SLOW TO SPEAK
00:47:52.16\00:47:55.86
AND SLOW TO
WRATH OR SLOW TO ANGER.
00:47:55.86\00:47:59.33
PROVERBS CHAPTER 16, VERSE 32
SAYS, "HE WHO IS SLOW TO ANGER
00:47:59.33\00:48:03.43
IS BETTER THAN THE MIGHTY AND
HE WHO RULES HIS SPIRIT THAN HE
00:48:03.43\00:48:08.10
WHO TAKES A CITY."
ABOVE ALL OTHERS, CHRISTIANS
00:48:08.10\00:48:11.66
SHOULD BE ABLE TO
CONTROL THEIR TEMPERS.
00:48:11.66\00:48:15.03
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT VERSE
20. WHO'S GOT VERSE 20 FOR US?
00:48:15.03\00:48:18.60
>>"FOR THE WRATH OF MAN WORKETH
NOT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD."
00:48:18.60\00:48:22.66
>>NOW, THE WRATH OF GOD OR
RATHER, THE WRATH OF MAN HERE,
00:48:22.66\00:48:26.43
CAN ALSO BE TRANSLATED AS
'OUTBURSTS OF ANGER.' THESE
00:48:26.43\00:48:30.70
OUTBURSTS OF ANGER DON'T WORK
TOWARDS RIGHTEOUSNESS BUT WORK
00:48:30.70\00:48:35.76
TOWARDS UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
YOU SEE, THE CHARACTER OF GOD
00:48:35.76\00:48:39.60
CANNOT BE REFLECTED IN AN ANGRY
PERSON BECAUSE GOD'S NOT ANGRY.
00:48:39.60\00:48:44.36
GOD IS LOVE. IN THE
BOOK 'GOSPEL WORKERS'
00:48:44.36\00:48:47.36
PAGE 122 WE READ THIS: "A KIND,
COURTEOUS CHRISTIAN IS THE MOST
00:48:47.36\00:48:53.40
POWERFUL ARGUMENT THAT
CAN BE PRODUCED IN FAVOR OF
00:48:53.40\00:48:57.13
CHRISTIANITY." A
LOVING, LOVABLE CHRISTIAN.
00:48:57.13\00:49:00.66
YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER AN
EXPERIENCE THAT HAPPENED - MY
00:49:00.66\00:49:03.86
DAD'S A PASTOR AND THERE WAS A
WONDERFUL OLD LADY IN THE CHURCH
00:49:03.86\00:49:10.13
THAT LOVED THE LORD. SHE
CAME TO CHURCH SO REGULAR,
00:49:10.13\00:49:12.56
BUT HER HUSBAND
WAS JUST A RASCAL.
00:49:12.56\00:49:15.26
HE WOULD GIVE HER THE
HARDEST TIME HE COULD.
00:49:15.26\00:49:17.36
HE'D MAKE FUN OF HER RELIGION
AND SHE'D GO TO CHURCH AND HE'D
00:49:17.36\00:49:20.20
SAY, 'WELL,
NOW, YOU PRAY FOR ME.
00:49:20.20\00:49:21.63
PRAY FOR ME I'M A SINNER.' AND
HE'D BRING HIS FRIENDS OVER AND
00:49:21.63\00:49:24.83
THEY WOULD DRINK AND JUST -
BUT HIS WIFE WAS SO KIND AND SO
00:49:24.83\00:49:29.76
CARING AND SO GENTLE.
SHE KEPT PRAYING FOR HIM.
00:49:29.76\00:49:32.20
SHE KEPT WITNESSING.
WELL, ONE DAY THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:49:32.20\00:49:34.63
GOT THROUGH TO HIM AND TOUCHED
HIS HEART AND HE WAS INTERESTED
00:49:34.63\00:49:38.26
IN STUDYING
MORE ABOUT THE BIBLE.
00:49:38.26\00:49:39.73
SO MY DAD CAME AND HAD BIBLE
STUDIES AND THE MAN GREW IN HIS
00:49:39.73\00:49:43.46
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD AND
FINALLY MADE THAT COMMITMENT HE
00:49:43.46\00:49:45.96
WANTED TO BE BAPTIZED. AND I
REMEMBER THE DAY OF THE BAPTISM.
00:49:45.96\00:49:48.73
MY FATHER WAS IN THE BAPTISTERY
WITH THIS MAN AND HE WAS JUST
00:49:48.73\00:49:52.36
ABOUT READY TO BAPTIZE THE MAN
AND THE MAN STOPPED AND SAID,
00:49:52.36\00:49:56.06
'PASTOR, CAN I
JUST SAY A FEW WORDS?'
00:49:56.06\00:49:57.96
AND MY FATHER SAID, 'SURE.' AND
HE TURNED TO THE CONGREGATION
00:49:57.96\00:50:02.60
AND THERE'S HIS WIFE SITTING AND
SHE'S JUST BEAMING FROM EAR TO
00:50:02.60\00:50:06.33
EAR AND HE SAYS, 'FRIENDS, I
WANT YOU TO KNOW' - HE SAYS - 'I
00:50:06.33\00:50:10.30
HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE HUSBAND.' -
HE SAYS - 'I GAVE MY WIFE SUCH A
00:50:10.30\00:50:14.26
HARD TIME. I MOCKED HER
RELIGION. I MADE FUN OF HER.
00:50:14.26\00:50:17.63
I TRIED TO MAKE HER LIFE AS HARD
AS I COULD BUT SHE WAS ALWAYS SO
00:50:17.63\00:50:21.80
KIND, SO LOVING, I SAW JESUS
IN MY WIFE AND I JUST COULDN'T
00:50:21.80\00:50:28.40
RESIST IT AND I FINALLY
GAVE IN.' BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE.
00:50:28.40\00:50:31.93
HE WAS BAPTIZED AND JUST
A FEW MONTHS LATER HE DIED.
00:50:31.93\00:50:37.03
AND YET, SHE HAD HOPE. SHE
LIVED THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN.
00:50:37.03\00:50:41.86
SHE REVEALED THE LOVE OF
CHRIST AND IT WASN'T IN VAIN.
00:50:41.86\00:50:46.36
SHE'S LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING
HIM IN HEAVEN WHEN JESUS COMES
00:50:46.36\00:50:49.56
AGAIN. THE REDEEMED
GET TO BE WITH HIM FOREVER.
00:50:49.56\00:50:53.33
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT
OUR LAST VERSE, VERSE 21.
00:50:53.33\00:50:56.16
WHO'S GOT THAT
FOR US? JAMES 1:21.
00:50:56.16\00:50:58.56
>>"THEREFORE, LAY ASIDE
ALL FILTHINESS AND OVERFLOW OF
00:50:58.56\00:51:02.10
WICKEDNESS AND RECEIVE
WITH MEEKNESS THE IMPLANTED WORD
00:51:02.10\00:51:05.73
WHICH IS ABLE TO
SAVE YOUR SOULS."
00:51:05.73\00:51:08.96
>>YOU KNOW, HERE JAMES TALKS
ABOUT THE WORD BEING AS A SEED
00:51:08.96\00:51:12.76
AND THAT THAT WORD OF
TRUTH IS ABLE TO SAVE THE SOUL.
00:51:12.76\00:51:16.40
OFTEN IN SCRIPTURE THE
GOSPEL IS LIKENED UNTO A SEED -
00:51:16.40\00:51:19.66
A SEED PLANTED IN THE SOIL.
NOW THE SOIL CAN'T PRODUCE THE
00:51:19.66\00:51:24.50
SEED, BUT IT CAN RECEIVE THE
SEED. SO IT IS WITH OUR HEARTS.
00:51:24.50\00:51:30.06
WE CAN'T CHANGE OUR HEARTS BUT
WE CAN RECEIVE THE SEED OF THE
00:51:30.06\00:51:34.03
WORD OF GOD THAT
DOES CHANGE OUR HEART.
00:51:34.03\00:51:37.03
WE CAN SURRENDER OURSELVES
TO JESUS EVERY DAY AND ALLOW THE
00:51:37.03\00:51:40.03
LORD TO WORK WITHIN US.
YOU KNOW, THE PROMISE IS THAT
00:51:40.03\00:51:43.53
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT WILL
BE MANIFEST IN OUR LIFE IF WE
00:51:43.53\00:51:46.70
SURRENDER OURSELVES TO JESUS.
WHAT IS THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT?
00:51:46.70\00:51:50.46
IT IS LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE AND
LONGSUFFERING AND KINDNESS AND
00:51:50.46\00:51:54.40
GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS,
GENTLENESS AND SELF CONTROL.
00:51:54.40\00:51:58.26
HOW CAN WE HAVE THE FRUIT
OF THE SPIRIT IN OUR LIVES?
00:51:58.26\00:52:00.46
JESUS TELLS US IN
JOHN 15, VERSES 4 AND 5,
00:52:00.46\00:52:04.36
"ABIDE IN ME AND I IN YOU.
00:52:04.36\00:52:06.90
AS THE BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT
OF ITSELF EXCEPT THAT IT ABIDE
00:52:06.90\00:52:09.83
IN THE VINE, NO MORE CAN
YOU EXCEPT YOU ABIDE IN ME.
00:52:09.83\00:52:14.10
HE THAT ABIDES IN ME" - JESUS
SAYS - "AND I IN HIM, THE SAME
00:52:14.10\00:52:17.06
BRINGS FORTH MUCH FRUIT FOR
WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING."
00:52:17.06\00:52:22.03
THE KEY TO LIVING A VICTORIOUS
CHRISTIAN LIFE IS ABIDING IN
00:52:22.03\00:52:25.90
JESUS MOMENT BY
MOMENT, DAY BY DAY.
00:52:25.90\00:52:29.16
NOW YOU MIGHT WONDER, 'WELL, HOW
DO WE ABIDE IN JESUS FROM A VERY
00:52:29.16\00:52:32.53
PRACTICAL STANDPOINT?'
LET ME CLOSE BY SHARING THIS
00:52:32.53\00:52:35.76
STATEMENT FROM THE BOOK 'MIND,
CHARACTER, AND PERSONALITY' PAGE
00:52:35.76\00:52:39.60
69 - LISTEN TO THIS:
"EVIL THOUGHTS DESTROY THE SOUL.
00:52:39.60\00:52:45.40
THE CONVERTING POWER OF GOD
CHANGES THE HEART, REFINING AND
00:52:45.40\00:52:49.83
PURIFYING THE THOUGHTS.
UNLESS A DETERMINED EFFORT IS
00:52:49.83\00:52:54.26
MADE TO KEEP THE THOUGHTS
CENTERED ON CHRIST, GRACE CANNOT
00:52:54.26\00:52:58.93
REVEAL ITSELF IN THE LIFE.
THE MIND MUST BE ENGAGED IN
00:52:58.93\00:53:04.03
SPIRITUAL WARFARE.
EVERY THOUGHT MUST BE BROUGHT
00:53:04.03\00:53:07.76
INTO THE CAPTIVITY TO OBEDIENCE
OF CHRIST." SO THERE'S THE KEY.
00:53:07.76\00:53:13.16
CHOOSING CAREFULLY
WHAT WE THINK ABOUT.
00:53:13.16\00:53:16.46
TURNING THE
THOUGHTS TOWARDS GOD.
00:53:16.46\00:53:18.66
FILLING OUR MIND WITH THE WORD
OF GOD - THAT IS GOING TO BE THE
00:53:18.66\00:53:21.70
SOURCE OF STRENGTH THAT WHEN
TEMPTATION COMES OUR WAY WE CAN
00:53:21.70\00:53:25.16
CRY OUT TO JESUS AND HE
WILL COME TO OUR DELIVERANCE.
00:53:25.16\00:53:29.33
YOU KNOW, JESUS GIVES US
WORDS OF COMFORT AND HOPE.
00:53:29.33\00:53:31.86
HE SAYS, 'FEAR NOT, FOR I
HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.' HE'S
00:53:31.86\00:53:36.16
ALREADY WON THE VICTORY AND
WE CAN, BY FAITH, RECEIVE THE
00:53:36.16\00:53:39.50
VICTORY THAT HE
WANTS TO GIVE US.
00:53:39.50\00:53:42.13
IS THAT YOUR DESIRE TODAY
- SAYING, 'LORD, GIVE ME THE
00:53:42.13\00:53:43.90
VICTORY?' AMEN. LET
US CLOSE WITH PRAYER.
00:53:43.90\00:53:47.56
DEAR FATHER, WE
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORD.
00:53:47.56\00:53:49.30
WE THANK YOU FOR THESE VERSES
IN JAMES THAT GIVE US PRACTICAL
00:53:49.30\00:53:52.80
ADVICE AND GUIDANCE AS TO HOW
WE CAN BE SUCCESSFUL, OVERCOMING
00:53:52.80\00:53:59.23
CHRISTIANS. LORD,
WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE
00:53:59.23\00:54:01.73
SECRET OF SUCCESS
DEPENDS UPON US ABIDING IN YOU.
00:54:01.73\00:54:05.36
ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO YOU.
YOU'RE ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS.
00:54:05.36\00:54:08.53
FATHER, GIVE US FAITH AND
LOVE TO TRUST IN YOU IN EVERY
00:54:08.53\00:54:11.50
SITUATION. AND
LORD, WE HAVE CONFIDENCE
00:54:11.50\00:54:14.00
THAT YOU WILL FINISH THE GOOD
WORK THAT YOU STARTED IN US.
00:54:14.00\00:54:17.13
THANK YOU, LORD, FOR HEARING OUR
PRAYER. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:54:17.13\00:54:21.46
AGAIN, THOSE OF US - THOSE
OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING US, WE'D
00:54:21.46\00:54:23.93
LIKE TO REMIND YOU ABOUT THE
BOOK THAT WE HAVE TODAY, 'TIPS
00:54:23.93\00:54:26.16
FOR RESISTING TEMPTATION.' IF
YOU'D LIKE TO READ IT, GO TO THE
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>>SPANNING THE TIMELINE OF
HUMAN HISTORY GOD HAS PROVIDED
00:54:45.56\00:54:49.26
PROPHETIC LANDMARKS SIGNALING
THAT HIS COMING IS NEAR.
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ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT
BIG LEAP IN BIBLE PROPHECY?
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JOIN PASTOR DOUG
BATCHELOR AS HE PRESENTS
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>>AMAZING FACTS. CHANGED LIVES.
00:55:18.23\00:55:27.26
>>I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND JUST
BUYING ANY KIND OF DRUGS JUST TO
00:55:27.26\00:55:30.00
DO FOR MYSELF BECAUSE IT
JUST MADE SENSE TO INVEST IT IN
00:55:30.00\00:55:33.56
SOMETHING ELSE AND THEN I COULD
MAKE ALL THE MONEY BACK AND HAVE
00:55:33.56\00:55:37.60
WEED THAT I
COULD SMOKE FOR FREE.
00:55:37.60\00:55:39.90
I WAS HAVING A LOT OF
FUN - AT LEAST AT FIRST.
00:55:39.90\00:55:45.50
I WAS MAKING MORE MONEY
THAN ANYBODY THAT I KNEW.
00:55:45.50\00:55:49.20
I'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, POUNDS AND
POUNDS OF WEED IN THE CLOSET.
00:55:49.20\00:55:52.46
I'VE GOT A BEAUTIFUL
FULLY FURNISHED APARTMENT, A
00:55:52.46\00:55:56.46
CHANDELIER
HANGING IN MY LIVING ROOM.
00:55:56.46\00:55:58.16
I'VE GOT A LUXURY CAR
- ALL LEATHER INTERIOR.
00:55:58.16\00:56:00.86
I'VE GOT THE HOTTEST GIRLFRIEND.
00:56:00.86\00:56:02.50
I HAVE EVERY SINGLE THING THAT
THIS WORLD TELLS ME THAT I NEED
00:56:02.50\00:56:09.06
AND THAT'S WHEN I
REALIZED HOW EMPTY I REALLY WAS.
00:56:09.06\00:56:13.93
EVENTUALLY SMOKING
WEED DIDN'T DO IT ANYMORE.
00:56:13.93\00:56:18.23
I STARTED GOING TO DOING A
LOT OF ACID - LSD - AND ECSTASY.
00:56:18.23\00:56:23.90
OF COURSE, OTHER HARD
DRUGS CAME INTO THE PICTURE.
00:56:23.90\00:56:26.96
I FOUND OUT THAT YOU CAN'T RUN
AWAY FROM YOURSELF AND NO MATTER
00:56:26.96\00:56:31.90
WHERE YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE.
00:56:31.90\00:56:34.10
IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO
RECONCILE A FAITH IN GOD AND
00:56:34.10\00:56:36.66
THEN THIS LIFESTYLE
THAT I WAS CHOOSING TO LEAD.
00:56:36.66\00:56:39.93
AND, AT THIS POINT, I HAD
MADE THAT CHOICE TO LEAD THAT
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LIFESTYLE BUT I
COULDN'T REVERSE IT.
00:56:41.83\00:56:44.93
EVEN THOUGH I WANTED TO STOP
OR AT LEAST SLOW DOWN, I HAD NO
00:56:44.93\00:56:49.96
POWER. I SAID,
'GOD, DO WHATEVER IT IS
00:56:49.96\00:56:53.00
YOU'VE GOT TO DO TO CHANGE
ME.' I GET ARRESTED FOR A DUI.
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I'D BEEN TO JAIL MANY TIMES
BEFORE BUT I USED TO THINK THAT
00:56:57.13\00:57:01.06
THE REASON THAT I WENT TO JAIL
IS BECAUSE GOD WAS SICK OF ME -
00:57:01.06\00:57:04.23
THAT GOD HATED ME.
THERE I AM IN JAIL AND I'M
00:57:04.23\00:57:08.00
STARTING TO SEE THE
FACT THAT GOD LOVES ME.
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TO KNOW THE EMPTINESS OF THIS
WORLD, TO KNOW THAT THIS LIFE
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REALLY STINKS, BUT THERE'S HOPE
AND THE HOPE THAT I FOUND CAN
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ONLY BE SEEN OR
KNOWN IN CHRIST JESUS.
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>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
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00:57:41.46\00:57:45.43
PROBABLY TELLING
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