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>>GOOD EVENING, FRIENDS AND
WELCOME BACK TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR. WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE
JOINING US. MY NAME IS JEAN
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ROSS. I'M ONE OF THE PASTORS
AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND IF
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THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'RE
JOINING US, THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH IS IN TRANSITION TO A
NEW LOCATION SO WE'RE ACTUALLY
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RECORDING THIS HERE AT
THE AMAZING FACTS STUDIOS.
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I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME OUR
LOCAL CHURCH MEMBERS FROM THE
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GRANITE BAY
CHURCH AND THE VISITORS.
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THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
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THIS IS ACTUALLY OUR REGULAR
TUESDAY EVENING PRAYER MEETING
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AND WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE
LESSON. SO WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE
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PART OF THE PROGRAM.
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BEFORE WE GET STARTED, WE WANT
TO ASK GOD'S SPECIAL BLESSING TO
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BE WITH US AS WE STUDY HIS WORD,
SO JOIN US FOR A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU THAT
WE CAN GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY
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YOUR WORD.
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WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE BIBLE IS
YOUR BOOK SO WE ASK FOR THE HOLY
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SPIRIT TO GUIDE OUR HEARTS
AND OUR MINDS AS WE LOOK AT THIS
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VERY IMPORTANT
BOOK, THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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THANK YOU, LORD, FOR BEING WITH
US AND FOR BEING WITH THOSE WHO
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ARE WATCHING,
WHEREVER THEY MIGHT BE.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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'WHO DO YOU THINK YOU
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SUBJECT THAT WE'RE GOING
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AS MENTIONED, WE'RE STUDYING
THROUGH THE BOOK OF JAMES AND
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TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON
LESSON #4 ENTITLED, 'BEING AND
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DOING.' AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE
TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH US, YOU CAN
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DOWNLOAD - IF YOU DON'T HAVE
A LESSON QUARTERLY - YOU CAN
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DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON AT
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CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON.
WELL, WITH THAT, PASTOR DOUG
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WE'LL INVITE YOU TO COME FORWARD
AND WE'LL BEGIN OUR STUDY.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS
AND GOOD EVENING FRIENDS.
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WELCOME TO OUR EXTENDED
CLASS THAT'S WATCHING WITH US.
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WE KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT FRIENDS
AROUND THE WORLD AND THAT'S
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ESPECIALLY KEEN IN MY MIND RIGHT
NOW BECAUSE I JUST CAME BACK
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FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
PLANET DOING A LITTLE, I GUESS,
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MISSION EXCURSION
YOU MIGHT CALL IT.
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SO WITH YOUR INDULGENCE I'M
GOING TO USE JUST A FEW MOMENTS
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AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR STUDY
TIME ON THIS LESSON - I THINK
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WE'LL STILL GET THROUGH MOST
OF THIS LESSON - TO GIVE YOU A
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BRIEF REPORT ON A
TRIP TO AUSTRALIA.
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AND IT WAS REALLY EXCITING
BECAUSE WE FOUND A LOT OF PEOPLE
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THERE THAT ARE PART OF OUR
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY TIME AND,
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TO BEGIN WITH, I THINK
THAT WE'VE GOT A FEW SLIDES THAT
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WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP HERE
ON THE SCREEN AND - JUST TO GIVE
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YOU KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE SAW.
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SO THAT'S, OF COURSE,
A PICTURE OF AUSTRALIA.
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AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WELL
YOU CAN SEE THE OUTLINE THERE,
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BUT IT WAS REALLY EXCITING.
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OUR FAMILY'S BEEN TO AUSTRALIA
SEVERAL TIMES, BUT THIS TIME THE
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MAIN REASON WE WENT WAS WE
WENT TO A TERRITORY IN WESTERN
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AUSTRALIA WHERE
WE'D NEVER BEEN BEFORE.
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THE FIRST WEEKEND WE SPENT
IN SYDNEY AND I JUST DID A BRIEF
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PROGRAM. YOU
KNOW, THERE'S AN 'IT IS
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WRITTEN' PROGRAM IN
AUSTRALIA AND THAT'S GARY KENT.
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WE WENT THERE AND DID SOME
MEETINGS WITH HIM A COUPLE OF
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YEARS AGO IN SYDNEY, SO WE TAPED
AT LEAST ONE PROGRAM WITH THE
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'IT IS WRITTEN' AUSTRALIA
GROUP AND THAT WAS ENJOYABLE.
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AND THEN THAT NEXT DAY WE BEGAN
A SERIES IN ONE OF THE LARGEST
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ADVENTIST CHURCHES IN SYDNEY,
WHICH IS THE WAHROONGA - IT'S
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ALWAYS FUN TO SAY - SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH AND IT WAS JUST
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A BLESSING BECAUSE IT WAS
PACKED. THEY HAD A REALLY GOOD
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SERVICE FRIDAY - THREE TIMES
ON SABBATH - OUTSTANDING MUSIC.
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PASTOR LLOYD THERE ASKED
ME BIBLE QUESTIONS AND IT WAS
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REALLY JUST SORT OF A REVIVAL
MEETING AND WE TALKED ABOUT HOW
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TO SURVIVE THE COMING STORMS
AND SO THAT WAS A REAL BLESSING.
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LET'S SEE, WHAT DO
WE HAVE UP NEXT THERE?
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OH YEAH, AND THEY HAD - NOT ONLY
WAS THE CHURCH FULL, THEY HAD
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TWO OVERFLOW - THIS IS ONE OF
THE OVERFLOW ROOMS - SO IT WAS
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VERY WELL ATTENDED. AND
THEN AFTER THAT MEETING WE
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WENT - OH, I PUT THIS
IN. THIS WAS SO FUNNY.
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DURING THE MEETING, WHILE I WAS
PREACHING, I HAD A CAMERA AND I
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WANTED TO GET SOME PICTURES FOR
THE OFFICE FOR WHEN I TRAVEL.
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AND I HANDED IT TO A GIRL IN THE
FRONT ROW AND I SAID, 'COULD YOU
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TAKE A FEW PICTURES FOR ME?'
AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HER NAME
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AND SHE SAID 'SURE.' SO SHE AND
HER GIRLFRIENDS TOOK A BUNCH OF
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PICTURES AND THEY TOOK ONE
PICTURE THAT SAID, 'HI FROM YOUR
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PHOTOGRAPHERS' AND
THEY GAVE THAT TO ME.
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AND SO I THOUGHT, 'OH, THAT WAS
REALLY SWEET.' WHEN I'M LOOKING
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THROUGH THE
PICTURES I SEE THAT ONE.
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ANYWAY, OH AND I MET SOME PEOPLE
WHO HAVE BEEN REACHED BY AMAZING
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FACTS AND THIS WAS A YOUNG MAN
BY THE NAME OF - WE'LL CALL HIM
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JUNIOR - THAT'S WHAT HE GOES BY.
BUT HAS AN INCREDIBLE TESTIMONY.
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HE'D BEEN IN PRISON AND
JUST HAD SOME REAL STRUGGLES.
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HE WENT THROUGH THE AMAZING
FACTS STUDY GUIDES, GAVE HIS
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HEART TO THE LORD, AND NOW
HE'S STUDYING FOR MINISTRY.
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AND SO I ENJOYED HEARING SOME OF
THE MANY TESTIMONIES THAT WERE
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THERE. NEXT PICTURE.
THEN, THE NEXT DAY - SUNDAY - I
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FLEW OVER TO THE
WEST SIDE OF AUSTRALIA.
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THE IDEA WAS WE WERE DOING
SOME WORK TO REACH SOME OF THE
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THERE - THE
ABORIGINES THAT LIVE UP THERE -
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BECAUSE WE HAD REPORTS THEY'D
BEEN STUDYING THE AMAZING FACTS
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MATERIAL AND SO WE WANTED TO
GO AND DO A PROGRAM WITH THEM.
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NEXT PICTURE.
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SO WE DID SOME MEETINGS IN
THE COMMUNITY CENTER IN A PLACE
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CALLED DERBY AND - INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE - THE ABORIGINES THAT
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HAD BEEN WATCHING OUR PROGRAMS
OR STUDYING THE MATERIAL - CAME
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FROM - I'M NOT EXAGGERATING
- OVER A THOUSAND MILES AWAY.
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THEY CONTACTED THEIR FAMILY,
THEY SAID, 'AMAZING FACTS IS
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COMING TO DERBY.' THEY SAID,
'NO, THEY WOULD NEVER COME HERE.
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THERE'S NOTHING HERE.' AND, YOU
KNOW, THAT'S PART OF THE REASON
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WE WENT IS BECAUSE IT WAS SO FAR
AWAY. THAT KIND OF ATTRACTS ME
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SOMETIMES. NEXT PICTURE.
AND SO THE CHURCH LEADERS THAT
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ORGANIZED IT WERE THRILLED.
WE HAD OVER 210 THE FINAL NIGHT
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OF THE PROGRAM AND
MADE AN ALTAR CALL.
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A LOT OF PEOPLE RESPONDED -
ABOUT FORTY - TO COME FORWARD.
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THEY WANT MORE BIBLE
STUDIES TO PREPARE FOR BAPTISM.
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AND WE WENT OUT INTO SOME
OF THE COMMUNITY AND IN ALL THE
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COMMUNITIES WE WENT TO A PLACE
CALLED MOENGEN, WHICH IS - WE
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WOULD CALL IT HERE
LIKE A RESERVATION TOWN.
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THERE, IT'S AN
ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY.
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SEE THE SATELLITE DISHES ON
THE ROOFS? AND I ASKED THEM.
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I SAID, DO YOU GUYS GET
THE CHRISTIAN PROGRAMMING?
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'OH YEAH,' THEY SAID, - THEY
SAID - 'WE GET 3ABN, WE GET HOPE
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CHANNEL.' AND THEY HAD BEEN
WATCHING OUR PROGRAMS AND SO
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THIS IS ONE OF THE
REASONS. NEXT PICTURE.
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SOMETHING ELSE ON THE SAME LINE.
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NOW, THIS WAS NOT IN THE SAME
AREA, BUT THE NEXT TOWN I WENT
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INTO, SOME PEOPLE
SAID, 'OUR TOWN IS IN A CAVE.
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WE LIVE UNDERGROUND.' AND
THERE'S A WHOLE CITY THAT -
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HERE'S A CHURCH THAT IS
GATHERING - YOU SAW THAT OTHER
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SATELLITE DISH I
SHOWED ON THE GROUND?
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UNDERNEATH THAT
SATELLITE DISH IS THIS CHURCH.
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IT'S AN OPAL MINING COMMUNITY
AND EVERYONE LIVES IN THE VACANT
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MINES. THEY ALL
LIVE UNDERGROUND.
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THERE'S A WHOLE TOWN UNDER
THERE AND SO THIS IS A CHURCH
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THAT GATHERS AND I CAN'T - THE
NEXT PICTURE, I THINK, HAS THE
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NAME OF THE PLACE
- YEAH, COOBER PEDY.
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YOU'VE HEARD OF THAT BEFORE?
YEAH. AND SO, YOU SEE, THERE'S
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NOTHING THERE. NEXT PICTURE.
THERE'S ACTUALLY A WHOLE CITY
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UNDERNEATH THERE AND IT'S JUST
COOLER AND SO, BECAUSE OF THE
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CLIMATE AND THE
INSULATION IT'S CHEAPER.
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THEY DON'T EVER HAVE TO HEAT OR
COOL - IT'S THE SAME TEMPERATURE
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ALL YEAR LONG AND THEY JUST
USUALLY HAVE ONE WALL THAT HAS A
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WINDOW COMING IN FROM
THE OUTSIDE AND THEY HAVE
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ELECTRICITY AND
EVERYTHING UNDERGROUND THERE.
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NEXT PICTURE. AND SO
WE HAD PEOPLE COME TO OUR
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MEETINGS THAT HAD BEEN
LIVING IN THAT COMMUNITY.
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NOW THIS PERSON, THIS IS A
DIFFERENT STORY. THIS IS PETER.
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THIS IS PART OF THE
REASON THAT WE WENT.
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GOT A REPORT THROUGH E-MAIL,
THEY SAID, 'WE HAVE A GENTLEMAN
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HERE THAT, YOU KNOW, HAD SOME
CHRISTIAN BACKGROUND, DRIFTED
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FROM THE LORD, HIS SISTER GAVE
HIM - HE WAS, YOU KNOW, SMOKING,
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DRINKING, PLAYING
HARD ROCK IN A BAND -
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AND HE SAID HIS SISTER GAVE
HIM A JUMP DRIVE WITH A BUNCH
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OF AMAZING FACTS
PROGRAMS ON THERE.
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AND HE JUST SET IT ON THE SHELF
FOR AWHILE AND THEN ONE DAY HE
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WAS SURFING THROUGH TV AND IT
WAS JUST ALL EMPTY GIBBERISH AND
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HE THOUGHT, 'I WONDER WHAT'S ON
THAT HARD DRIVE.' SO HE KNEW HOW
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TO PLUG IT IN AND WATCH THE
VIDEOS ON HIS TV AND HE WATCHED
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THE FIRST 'MILLENNIUM OF
PROPHECY' PROGRAM, WHICH ARE,
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YOU KNOW, THEY'RE
FOURTEEN YEARS OLD.
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AND THEN HE WATCHED THE SECOND.
AND THEN HE WATCHED THE THIRD.
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AND HE SAID HE LOCKED
HIMSELF UP FOR THREE DAYS.
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HE COULDN'T STOP WATCHING.
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AND HE WATCHED ALL TWENTY-FOUR
PROGRAMS AND WHEN HE GOT TO THE
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LAST PROGRAM ON THE TITANIC
HE SAID HIS HEART JUST BROKE, HE
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STARTED CRYING, AND HE GAVE HIS
HEART TO THE LORD. AND WHEN I
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HEARD THESE STORIES ABOUT
FOLKS THAT ARE JUST SEEING THE
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MATERIAL THERE AND ARE COMING
INTO THE CHURCH, WE JUST WANTED
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TO GO OUT AND MEET THEM AND
DO SOME MEETINGS. NEXT PICTURE.
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HERE'S A - LAST NIGHT, AFTER THE
ALTAR CALL, I SAID, 'NOW SINCE
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YOU'RE UP HERE I'D LIKE TO GET
A PICTURE FOR MY WIFE.' THEY'RE
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REALLY SHY BUT I
SAID, 'THIS IS FOR MY WIFE.'
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AND SO, HERE
KAREN, THIS IS FOR YOU.
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SO THIS IS - A NUMBER OF PEOPLE
IN THE COMMUNITY CAME UP FRONT
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THAT WERE AT THE
MEETINGS. NEXT PICTURE.
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AND THEN FROM -
OH, WE HAD A BAPTISM.
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SISTER DENISE WAS BAPTIZED IN
THE COMMUNITY POOL AND SHE HAD
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BEEN PREPARING
BEFORE. NEXT PICTURE.
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THEY ASKED ME TO PARTICIPATE AND
I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T NEED
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TO DO THAT.' 'OH, BUT IT'LL
MEAN SO MUCH.' AND SO I - I DID.
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THAT'S HER FAMILY. NEXT PICTURE.
WENT TO ADELAIDE FROM BROOM, VIA
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MELBOURNE AND THAT USED TO BE
CALLED 'THE CITY OF CHURCHES.'
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BUT THE CHURCHES
ARE VIRTUALLY EMPTY NOW.
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AND SO, EVEN IF YOU GO TO ONE OF
THESE TRAVEL GUIDES, THEY SAY,
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'IT'S THE CITY OF PUBS NOW
BECAUSE THE PUBS ARE FULL AND
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THE CHURCHES ARE EMPTY.'
IT'S A VERY SECULAR TOWN.
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AND SO WE DID SOME REVIVAL
MEETINGS THERE BECAUSE THERE HAD
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BEEN SOME PEOPLE WATCHING,
VIA SATELLITE, THE PROGRAMS.
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DID SOME TAPING IN THE CHURCHES.
NEXT PICTURE. AND THEN WE DID
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THREE MEETINGS ON
SABBATH IN A COMMUNITY CENTER.
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I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE
PLACE, BUT IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL
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PLACE AND IT WAS
ABSOLUTELY JAMMED. NEXT PICTURE.
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THE PEOPLE THERE SAID, 'OH,
THESE ARE TWO SISTERS. THEY'RE
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NOT RELATED, BUT TWO SISTERS
IN THE LORD THAT CAME UP TO ME.
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I JUST - 'LET ME GET A PICTURE
OF YOU.' ONE SAID SHE WAS A
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PENTECOSTAL ALL HER LIFE, RAN
INTO THE AMAZING FACTS MATERIAL
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AND SAID SHE'D NEVER
UNDERSTOOD THE SABBATH TRUTH.
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JUST A LOVELY CHRISTIAN LADY.
AND THE OTHER CAME FROM A GREEK
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ORTHODOX BACKGROUND AND JUST AN
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN AND THEY
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BOTH HAD COME TO THE LORD FROM
THE STUDIES AND THE BROADCASTS.
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NEXT PICTURE.
AND THIS IS THE HALL.
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IT WAS FULL AND OVERFLOW ROOMS
AND THEY TOLD US IT WAS THE
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LARGEST SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
GATHERING IN THEIR HISTORY IN
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ADELAIDE. SO WE WERE
VERY THRILLED AND ALL
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DAY LONG WE MADE
APPEALS AND - NEXT PICTURE.
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I THINK WE'RE
RUNNING OUT OF PICTURES.
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I DON'T WANT TO KEEP IT GOING.
YEAH, THEY STAYED ALL DAY.
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YOU CAN JUST SEE THE FOLKS.
THAT'S THE OTHER THING, SOME OF
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THE CHURCH LEADERS THEY SAID,
'WOW, AND THEY EVEN STAYED FOR
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THE AFTERNOON
MEETING.' THEY WERE SURPRISED.
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PEOPLE CAME IN FROM - SOME
FLEW FROM NEW ZEALAND AND I KNOW
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CATHY KNOWS - SHE TALKED TO ONE
LADY AND SHE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO
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COME FROM NEW ZEALAND.'
OTHERS CAME FROM TAZMANIA.
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THEY CAME FROM MELBOURNE - I
MEAN, HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY.
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AND SO THAT WAS 22,000 MILES - I
SAT DOWN ONE NIGHT TO FIGURE IT
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OUT - FORTY-SIX HOURS FLYING
TIME AND - SO IF I AM STILL
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RECOVERING FROM A LITTLE
JET LAG, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND.
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OKAY, I SPENT PLENTY OF TIME ON
THE LESSON - WE'RE GETTING INTO
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- NOW PASTOR ROSS, I THINK
HE'S GOT MY LESSON. THANK YOU.
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WE'RE IN LESSON #4 IN OUR STUDY
ON THE BOOK OF JAMES AND WE DO
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HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE
MEMORY VERSE IS FROM JAMES 1:22
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AND I'LL BE DELIGHTED IF YOU
CAN ALL SAY THAT WITH ME, IF YOU
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HAVE IT. JAMES 1:22, YOU READY?
"BUT BE YE DOERS OF THE WORD AND
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NOT HEARERS ONLY,
DECEIVING YOUR OWN SELVES."
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NOW JAMES SAYS SOME THINGS THAT
YOU OFTEN DON'T HEAR PREACHERS
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TALK ABOUT. THE
LESSON TODAY ABOUT BEING AND
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DOING IS NOT A VERY
POPULAR LESSON THESE DAYS.
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THERE'S A LOT OF EMPHASIS JUST
ON THE FAITH AND THERE'S NOT
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VERY MUCH EMPHASIS ON
WHAT WE WOULD CALL WORKS.
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NOW, WE HAVE OTHER LESSONS
THAT TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.
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BUT HERE HE TALKS ABOUT
NOT JUST HEARING THE WORD,
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BUT BEING A DOER OF THE WORD.
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FIRST OF ALL, WHEN JESUS SAYS,
FOR INSTANCE, IN REVELATION
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CHAPTER 3, 'HE THAT HAS EARS,
LET HIM HEAR.' IS JESUS JUST
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SAYING MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE
SITTING UP AND PAYING ATTENTION,
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OR WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN WHEN
HE SAYS 'HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT
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SAYS?' IN THE
JEWISH MIND, TO HEAR - IF
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A PARENT SAYS TO A CHILD
'DO YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING?'
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WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
ARE THEIR EARS WORKING?
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OR DO YOU MEAN,
'ARE YOU GOING TO LISTEN
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AND FOLLOW WHAT I'M SAYING?'
AND SO, A LOT OF TIMES IN THE
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BIBLE WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT
HEARING THE LORD, IT'S NOT
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TALKING ABOUT JUST MAKING SURE
THAT YOU'RE AUDITORY SENSES ARE
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FUNCTIONING, IT MEANS, FOLLOWING
THROUGH WITH WHAT YOU'VE HEARD.
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NOW THE FIRST SECTION IN THIS
SERIES IS 'KNOWING YOUR ENEMY.'
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I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE
HEARD THE PHRASE BEFORE, 'WE
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HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND IT IS
US.' THAT ACTUALLY COMES FROM
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COMMODORE OLIVER HAZARD PERRY
DURING THE WAR OF 1812 AND WHAT
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HE ACTUALLY SAID IS, 'WE'VE MET
THE ENEMY AND THEY ARE OURS.'
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AND WHAT IT REALLY MEANS IS -
IT'S LIKE SOMEONE ELSE SAID, 'I
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SEE THE ENEMY EVERY DAY WHEN
I SHAVE.' WHAT IT MEANS IS THAT
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SOMETIMES WE END UP
BEING OUR OWN WORST ENEMY.
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THAT'S NOT ONLY TRUE
INDIVIDUALLY, SOMETIMES IT'S
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TRUE IN THE CHURCH. WE'VE
ALL HEARD ABOUT FRIENDLY FIRE.
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IT'S OFTEN TRUE THAT THE BIGGEST
ENEMY THAT THE CHURCH ENCOUNTERS
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IS NOT SO MUCH FROM THE
OUTSIDE AS FROM THE INSIDE.
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WHO CAUSED THE FIRST
MURDER? IT WAS A BROTHER.
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AND WHAT HAPPENED TO
JOSEPH? SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS -
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CONFLICT WITH HIS
BROTHERS. HOW ABOUT SAMSON?
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HIS OWN PEOPLE TIED HIM
UP AND HANDED HIM OVER TO THE
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PHILISTINES. WHAT ABOUT DAVID?
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RAN FROM HIS OWN KING, SAUL, AND
THEN LATER HAD TO RUN FROM HIS
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OWN SON. IT SEEMED LIKE DAVID
WAS MORE THREATENED BY HIS OWN
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FAMILY SOMETIMES THAN BY THE
PHILISTINES. AND JESUS, TURNED
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OVER BY ONE OF HIS OWN APOSTLES,
HANDED OVER TO HIS OWN PEOPLE.
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AND THEN LOOK AT THE APOSTLES
- PAUL - AND HE SAID, 'DEMETRIUS
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HAS DONE ME MUCH HARM.'
AND SOMETIMES - PAUL EVEN SAID,
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'BEWARE, FROM AMONG YOUR
OWN SELVES GRIEVOUS WOLVES WILL
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ARISE, NOT SPARING THE FLOCK.'
SO WE'VE MET THE ENEMY AND IT IS
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US, SOMETIMES, BUT IT'S EVEN
MORE CLOSER TO HOME THAN THAT.
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YOU LOOK IN THE
MIRROR AND SOMETIMES WE DON'T
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KNOW OURSELVES.
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IT'S EASY TO BE HEARERS
AND THEN NOT FOLLOW THROUGH.
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HAVE YOU EVER CAUGHT YOURSELF
POINTING OUT OR BEING CRITICAL
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OF WHAT SOMEONE ELSE IS DOING
OR NOT DOING AS A CHRISTIAN AND
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THEN THE LORD OR THE HOLY
SPIRIT SAYS, 'WHAT ABOUT YOU?
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ARE THERE AREAS IN YOUR LIFE
WHERE YOU'RE BEING INCONSISTENT?
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IT MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT THE
VERSE WHERE JESUS SAID, 'LET HE
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WHO IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU
CAST THE FIRST STONE.' SO JAMES
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SAYS, IN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 23,
"FOR IF ANY IS A HEARER OF THE
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WORD AND NOT A DOER, HE IS LIKE
A MAN WHO OBSERVES HIS NATURAL
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FACE IN A MIRROR, FOR HE
OBSERVES HIMSELF, GOES AWAY, AND
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IMMEDIATELY FORGETS WHAT KIND
OF MAN HE WAS." AND SO GOD WANTS
00:16:07.50\00:16:12.36
US TO LOOK - FIND OUT WHAT THE
NEED IS - AND THEN ADDRESS IT.
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HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN YOURSELF
DRESSED, GONE OUT IN PUBLIC, AND
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THEN FOUND OUT THAT YOU HAD A
WARDROBE MALFUNCTION AFTERWARD?
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AND IT CAN BE EMBARRASSING, SO
MOST OF US, BEFORE WE HEAD OUT
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THE DOOR, WE KIND OF DO
A ONCE OVER IN THE MIRROR.
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IF YOU'RE LOOKING TOO MUCH IN
THE MIRROR THERE'S A PROBLEM -
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DIFFERENT PROBLEM - BUT IT'S
NORMAL TO DO KIND OF A ONCE OVER
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TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE AT
LEAST PRESENTABLE AND THAT
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EVERYTHING'S TUCKED IN
WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE.
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BUT IF YOU LOOK AND YOU SEE
THERE'S A PROBLEM AND YOU DON'T
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DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, WELL,
THAT'S LIKE THE LORD TELLING US
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THERE'S PRACTICAL CHANGES YOU
NEED TO MAKE IN YOUR LIFE AND WE
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JUST SHRUG AND SAY, 'I'M SO
THANKFUL FOR GOD'S GRACE.' THE
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LORD WANTS US TO BE WILLING
TO NOT ONLY HEAR BUT DO THESE
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THINGS. NOW
THERE'S SOME EXAMPLES THAT
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ARE IN THE LESSON OF PEOPLE
WHO HEARD BUT THEY DIDN'T REALLY
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REALIZE THEMSELVES - THEY
THOUGHT THEY KNEW THEMSELVES.
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ONE IS GIVEN OF THE RICH YOUNG
RULER AND THEN - THAT'S FOUND -
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WELL, THERE'S SEVERAL VERSES.
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ONE IS MATTHEW 19, VERSE 16 AND
IT SAYS HERE, "NOW BEHOLD, ONE
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CAME AND SAID TO HIM, 'GOOD
TEACHER, WHAT GOOD THING SHALL
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I DO THAT I MAY HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE?'" - HE RAN TO JESUS -
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SO HE SAID TO HIM,
'WHY DO YOU CALL ME GOOD?
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NO ONE IS GOOD
BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD.
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BUT IF YOU WANT TO ENTER INTO
LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.' HE
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SAID TO HIM, 'WHICH ONES?'
JESUS SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT
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MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL NOT
COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU SHALL NOT
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STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT
BEAR FALSE WITNESS,' 'HONOR YOUR
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FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER,' AND,
'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
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YOURSELF.'' - THE YOUNG MAN,
HE MAYBE DIDN'T EVEN LET JESUS
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FINISH BECAUSE CHRIST DIDN'T
COVER ALL THE COMMANDMENTS, HE
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SAID, "'ALL THESE THINGS
I HAVE KEPT FROM MY YOUTH.
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WHAT DO I STILL LACK?'
JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'IF YOU WANT
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TO BE PERFECT, GO, SELL WHAT YOU
HAVE AND GIVE TO THE POOR, AND
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YOU WILL HAVE TREASURE IN
HEAVEN; AND COME, FOLLOW ME.'" -
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I BELIEVE IN LUKE IT SAYS, 'TAKE
UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME.' -
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"BUT WHEN THE YOUNG MAN
HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WENT AWAY
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SORROWFUL, FOR HE
HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS."
00:18:14.03\00:18:17.00
HE CAME TO JESUS WITH THE
MINDSET 'I AM READY AND WILLING
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TO DO ANYTHING THAT I MIGHT HAVE
EVERLASTING LIFE.' JESUS SAID,
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'REALLY? THERE'S
ONLY ONE THING LEFT.
00:18:23.70\00:18:25.23
ARE YOU REALLY
WILLING TO DO THAT?'
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AND HE SAID, 'I GUESS NOT.
00:18:26.90\00:18:30.00
I GUESS I DON'T WANT IT THAT
BAD.' OR HE SAID, 'I'M GLAD TO
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HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY,
NOW LET ME THINK ABOUT IT.' IT
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DOESN'T SAY WHAT HIS COMMENT
WAS, IT JUST SAYS HE WENT AWAY
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SORROWFUL BECAUSE HE
HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS.
00:18:41.30\00:18:43.53
BUT THERE'S NO RECORD IN THE
BIBLE THAT HE EVER HAD A CHANGE
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OF HEART. AND YOU
REALIZE THAT CHRIST WAS
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REALLY ASKING THAT
YOUNG MAN TO BE AN APOSTLE.
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IN OTHER WORDS, HE SAID THE SAME
THING TO HIM THAT HE SAID TO
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PETER, JAMES, JOHN, ANDREW,
MATTHEW - TO FORSAKE EVERYTHING
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AND TO FOLLOW ME - AND,
YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE A BOOK
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IN THE BIBLE
NAMED AFTER THAT MAN.
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IT DOESN'T TELL
WHAT HIS NAME WAS.
00:19:06.86\00:19:08.43
BUT HE HEARD BUT HE DIDN'T
DO. HE WASN'T REALLY WILLING.
00:19:08.43\00:19:13.63
NOW PEOPLE GET NERVOUS WHEN
I READ THIS VERSE AND THEY SAY,
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'DOUG, IS THAT A
COMMAND FOR EVERYBODY?
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IS EVERYBODY SUPPOSED TO
LIQUIDATE ALL OF THEIR EARTHLY
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ASSETS, GET SOME SANDALS
AND A ROBE AND FOLLOW JESUS?'
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NO, IT MIGHT BE
TELLING YOU THAT, I DON'T KNOW.
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I THINK HE STILL DOES
TELL PEOPLE THAT AND I MAY HAVE
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MENTIONED TO YOU EARLIER -
YOU'VE HEARD OF THE WALDENSIANS
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AND THEY EXIST BECAUSE OF PETER
WALDO WHO HEARD THIS VERSE AND
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HE SOLD EVERYTHING. THIS
MAN, HE HEARD BUT HE DIDN'T DO.
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AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE
OF SOMEONE WHO THOUGHT THEY KNEW
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THEMSELVES. NOW,
IN JUST A MOMENT,
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I'M GOING TO GO - SOMEONE'S
GOT MATTHEW 26:74 AND 75 -
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WE'LL GET TO YOU IN
JUST A MOMENT, OKAY?
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IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING
TO READ MATTHEW 26, VERSES 33
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THROUGH 35, "PETER ANSWERED AND
SAID TO HIM, 'EVEN IF ALL ARE
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MADE TO STUMBLE BECAUSE OF
YOU, I WILL NEVER BE MADE TO
00:20:02.70\00:20:06.16
STUMBLE.' JESUS SAID TO HIM,
'ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU THAT
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THIS NIGHT, BEFORE THE ROOSTER
CROWS, YOU WILL DENY ME THREE
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TIMES.' PETER SAID TO HIM, 'EVEN
IF I HAVE TO DIE WITH YOU, I
00:20:14.33\00:20:18.30
WILL NOT DENY YOU!' AND
SO SAID ALL THE DISCIPLES."
00:20:18.30\00:20:21.36
WERE THEY SINCERE?
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I MEAN, PETER ACTUALLY PULLED
OUT A SWORD LATER TO SHOW THAT
00:20:23.56\00:20:26.80
HE WAS WILLING TO DIE, BUT HE
DIDN'T KNOW HIMSELF AS WELL AS
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HE THOUGHT AND LATER THAT NIGHT,
OF COURSE - I'LL LET SOMEONE
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READ THAT. ALRIGHT,
I THINK WE'RE GOING TO
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GO TO MATTHEW
26, VERSES 74 AND 75.
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>>"THEN HE BEGAN TO
CURSE AND SWEAR SAYING,
00:20:41.03\00:20:43.36
'I DO NOT KNOW THE MAN!'
IMMEDIATELY A ROOSTER CROWED.
00:20:43.36\00:20:46.83
AND PETER REMEMBERED THE WORD
OF JESUS WHO HAD SAID TO HIM,
00:20:46.83\00:20:50.80
'BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS,
YOU WILL DENY ME THREE TIMES.'
00:20:50.80\00:20:54.03
SO HE WENT OUT
AND WEPT BITTERLY."
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>>YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S ANYTHING
WE CAN LEARN FROM THE STORY OF
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PETER HERE, IS THAT WE DON'T
KNOW OURSELVES, MAYBE, AS WELL
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AS WE THINK AND WE OUGHT TO HAVE
A HUMBLE ATTITUDE WHEN WE THINK
00:21:04.06\00:21:08.23
ABOUT HOW PREPARED
WE ARE WITH THE LORD.
00:21:08.23\00:21:12.06
PETER ALSO MADE A MISTAKE - YOU
NOTICE, HE COMPARED HIMSELF TO
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THE OTHER DISCIPLES. HE
SAID, 'THOUGH ALL MEN FORSAKE
00:21:14.86\00:21:18.16
YOU - ALL THESE GUYS MIGHT
FORSAKE YOU BUT NOT ME.' AND
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THAT'S WHY, WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM
THE DEAD, HE LOOKED AT PETER AND
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HE SAID, 'PETER, DO YOU
LOVE ME MORE THAN THESE?
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- POINTING TO THE OTHER TEN
BECAUSE JUDAS WAS GONE AT THIS
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POINT, AND PETER WOULDN'T
SAY, 'YEAH, I LOVE YOU MORE THAN
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THEM.' HE JUST
SAID, 'YEAH, I LOVE YOU.
00:21:34.66\00:21:36.66
I'M NOT GOING TO EVEN TRY AND
GUESS BECAUSE I THOUGHT I KNEW
00:21:36.66\00:21:39.13
MYSELF - I DON'T.' IT'S LIKE
PETER SAID, 'I'VE MET THE ENEMY
00:21:39.13\00:21:41.66
AND IT'S ME.' HOW MANY TIMES DID
PETER RUN AHEAD AND SPEAK BEFORE
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HE THOUGHT? I THINK
WE ALL SORT OF IDENTIFY
00:21:48.63\00:21:51.23
WITH PETER BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE
REALIZE THAT WE MAKE THAT SAME
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MISTAKE. NEXT
SECTION IS UNDER 'BEING A
00:21:56.56\00:22:00.83
DOER.' AND THAT
GOES BACK TO THAT
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VERSE THAT WAS OUR MEMORY VERSE
- JAMES 1:22, "BUT BE YE DOERS
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OF THE WORD AND NOT HEARERS
ONLY, DECEIVING YOURSELVES."
00:22:06.90\00:22:11.23
CAN A PERSON GET TO THE PLACE
WHERE THEY THINK THAT THERE IS
00:22:11.23\00:22:14.23
VIRTUE IN HEARING
THE WORD AND NOT DOING?
00:22:14.23\00:22:17.43
YEAH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
WE THINK, 'I GO TO CHURCH AND I
00:22:17.43\00:22:20.36
LISTEN TO SERMONS AND NO,
I DON'T DO WHAT I HEAR BUT I
00:22:20.36\00:22:26.33
SHOULD GET SOME CREDIT FOR AT
LEAST BEING THERE AND, YOU KNOW,
00:22:26.33\00:22:30.00
HAVING ALL THE TRAPPINGS AROUND
ME OF BEING A CHRISTIAN.' AND
00:22:30.00\00:22:33.10
REALLY, IT ACTUALLY MEANS YOU'RE
MORE CULPABLE IF YOU'RE IN A
00:22:33.10\00:22:37.16
POSITION OF HEARING ALL
THE TIME AND REJECTING DOING.
00:22:37.16\00:22:40.83
GOD WANTS US TO
BE DOERS OF THE WORD,
00:22:40.83\00:22:43.56
OTHERWISE HE SAYS WE
ARE DECEIVING OURSELVES.
00:22:43.56\00:22:46.30
ARE THERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO
ARE SELF-DECEIVED ABOUT THEIR
00:22:46.30\00:22:49.06
CONDITION BEFORE GOD?
WHO HAS MATTHEW 7:21 AND 22?
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ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET TO
YOU NEXT - YOU'LL BE NEXT.
00:22:54.60\00:22:57.26
I'M GOING TO READ - JESUS TELLS
A PARABLE THAT TALKS ABOUT DOING
00:22:57.26\00:23:01.06
AND HEARING. 'BUT
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
00:23:01.06\00:23:04.43
A MAN HAD TWO SONS AND HE CAME
TO THE FIRST ONE AND HE SAID,
00:23:04.43\00:23:07.93
'SON, GO WORK TODAY IN MY
VINEYARD.' AND HE ANSWERED AND
00:23:07.93\00:23:10.63
SAID, 'I WILL NOT.' WORK,
WORK, WORK, THAT'S ALL YOU MAKE
00:23:10.63\00:23:13.93
ME DO.' BUT AFTERWARD HE
REGRETTED IT AND HE WENT.
00:23:13.93\00:23:17.00
THEN HE CAME TO THE SECOND SON
AND HE SAID, 'LIKEWISE, GO WORK
00:23:17.00\00:23:21.00
IN MY VINEYARD.' HE SAID, 'I'M
GOING SIR.' HE NOT ONLY SAYS,
00:23:21.00\00:23:24.26
'I'M GOING,' HE
SAYS IT RESPECTFULLY -
00:23:24.26\00:23:25.83
'BUT HE DID NOT GO.
00:23:25.83\00:23:28.10
WHICH OF THE TWO,' - JESUS SAID,
'DID THE WILL OF HIS FATHER?'
00:23:28.10\00:23:33.00
AND THEY ANSWERED AND SAID,
'THE FIRST.' AND JESUS SAID,
00:23:33.00\00:23:36.20
ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU THAT THE
TAX COLLECTORS AND THE HARLOTS
00:23:36.20\00:23:39.63
WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD
BEFORE YOU, FOR JOHN CAME TO YOU
00:23:39.63\00:23:43.30
IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
YOU DID NOT BELIEVE HIM, BUT THE
00:23:43.30\00:23:46.40
TAX COLLECTORS AND
THE HARLOTS BELIEVED HIM.
00:23:46.40\00:23:48.86
AND WHEN YOU SAW IT, NEITHER
DID YOU, AFTERWARD, RELENT - OR
00:23:48.86\00:23:52.16
REPENT, THAT MEANS - AND
BELIEVE HIM. IN OTHER WORDS,
00:23:52.16\00:23:55.03
PEOPLE WHO HAD CLAIMED TO SAY,
'OH, WE'RE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.
00:23:55.03\00:23:58.70
WE KNOW THE TRUTH.
WE HAVE THE SCRIPTURES.
00:23:58.70\00:24:00.50
WE'RE GOD'S PEOPLE.' WHEN THE
MESSIAH CAME AND SAID, 'HERE'S
00:24:00.50\00:24:03.20
MY WILL.' THEY SAID, 'OH, WE
DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.' BUT THE
00:24:03.20\00:24:06.46
ONES WHO MADE NO PRETENSE - THE
TAX COLLECTORS AND THE HARLOTS,
00:24:06.46\00:24:10.73
OF - YOU KNOW, THAT ALWAYS
SOUNDS STRANGE - IN OUR CULTURE
00:24:10.73\00:24:14.13
TODAY WE DON'T USUALLY THINK
OF THE OFFSCOURING OF SOCIETY AS
00:24:14.13\00:24:18.23
BEING THE TAX COLLECTORS,
BUT IN THE JEWISH SOCIETY,
00:24:18.23\00:24:20.53
THEY WERE THE MAFIA.
WHAT THEY WERE IS JEWS WHO,
00:24:20.53\00:24:24.10
BASICALLY, EXTORTED
THEIR OWN PEOPLE FOR GAIN
00:24:24.10\00:24:27.36
AND THEY USUALLY HAD A SMALL
ENTOURAGE OF RUFFIANS THAT MADE
00:24:27.36\00:24:31.33
SURE YOU PAID YOUR TAXES AND
THEY WERE NOT VERY APPRECIATED.
00:24:31.33\00:24:35.40
SO WHEN YOU SEE 'PUBLICAN' OR
'TAX COLLECTOR,' THINK 'MAFIOSO'
00:24:35.40\00:24:39.36
IN THE HEBREW CULTURE BECAUSE
THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE LIKE BACK
00:24:39.36\00:24:43.20
THEN. 'AND JESUS
SAID, 'THEY'LL ENTER
00:24:43.20\00:24:47.16
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BEFORE
YOU.' - BECAUSE THOUGH THEY
00:24:47.16\00:24:49.26
SAID, 'OH, I DON'T WANT TO
BE RELIGIOUS' WHEN THEY FINALLY
00:24:49.26\00:24:51.80
HEARD JOHN THE BAPTIST AND THEY
HEARD JESUS THEY REPENTED AND
00:24:51.80\00:24:54.50
THEY ACCEPTED THE TRUTH.
ALRIGHT, LET'S LOOK AT THAT
00:24:54.50\00:24:57.23
VERSE NOW IN
MATTHEW 7:21 AND 22.
00:24:57.23\00:25:00.76
>>"NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO
ME, 'LORD,LORD,' SHALL ENTER THE
00:25:00.76\00:25:03.93
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT HE WHO
DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER IN
00:25:03.93\00:25:08.16
HEAVEN." >>THAT'S
THE MAIN ONE I WANT.
00:25:08.16\00:25:10.16
NOT EVERYONE WHO HEARS, NOT
EVERYONE WHO SAYS, 'LORD, LORD.'
00:25:10.16\00:25:14.00
BUT WHO? HE WHO DOES
THE WILL OF MY FATHER.
00:25:14.00\00:25:21.06
NOW ISN'T THAT A VERY IMPORTANT
OPERATIVE WORD, 'DOING?'
00:25:21.06\00:25:24.93
YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU GET
ACCUSED OF IN TODAY'S CHRISTIAN
00:25:24.93\00:25:28.93
CULTURE WHEN YOU TALK
VERY MUCH ABOUT DOING?
00:25:28.93\00:25:33.83
WORKS AND LEGALISM,
EXACTLY. WE ALL KNOW IT.
00:25:33.83\00:25:36.53
MATTER OF FACT, WE HAVE
BEEN SO BADGERED WITH - I THINK
00:25:36.53\00:25:41.73
CHRISTIANS ARE SO INTIMIDATED
ABOUT THE IDEA OF BEING CALLED A
00:25:41.73\00:25:46.13
LEGALIST, OR BEING WORKS
ORIENTED, OR NOT BELIEVING IN
00:25:46.13\00:25:50.40
GRACE, THAT EVERYONE IS AFRAID
TO EMPHASIZE WHAT THE BIBLE
00:25:50.40\00:25:54.10
EMPHASIZES IS THAT, WHILE GOD
IS A GOD OF GRACE AND THERE IS
00:25:54.10\00:25:58.56
ABUNDANT MERCY, HE'S ALSO A
GOD THAT WANTS US TO BE NOT ONLY
00:25:58.56\00:26:02.13
HEARERS BUT DOERS OF THE WORD.
OTHERWISE, HE SAYS IF WE'RE JUST
00:26:02.13\00:26:06.46
HEARERS WE'RE
DECEIVING OUR OWN SELVES.
00:26:06.46\00:26:08.40
NOW, THERE'S A LOT OF
SCRIPTURES THAT TALK ABOUT THIS.
00:26:08.40\00:26:11.53
FOR INSTANCE, GO TO LUKE CHAPTER
11, VERSE 28 - 27 AND 28, "AND
00:26:11.53\00:26:18.53
IT HAPPENED, AS HE SPOKE THESE
THINGS, THAT A CERTAIN WOMAN
00:26:18.53\00:26:20.83
FROM THE CROWD RAISED HER VOICE
AND SAID TO HIM, 'BLESSED IS THE
00:26:20.83\00:26:24.73
WOMB THAT BORE YOU, AND
THE BREASTS WHICH NURSED YOU!'
00:26:24.73\00:26:26.63
BUT HE SAID, 'MORE THAN THAT,
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR THE
00:26:26.63\00:26:30.10
WORD OF GOD...'" - AND
THEN THERE'S MORE TO THAT VERSE.
00:26:30.10\00:26:34.36
JUST HEARING? -
"'BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR
00:26:34.36\00:26:36.86
THE WORD OF GOD AND KEEP
IT!'" IT'S NOT JUST HEARING.
00:26:36.86\00:26:40.63
IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION IN THE
FIRST CHAPTER, IT PRONOUNCES A
00:26:40.63\00:26:45.13
BLESSING ON THOSE WHO HEAR AND
KEEP THE THINGS THAT ARE WRITTEN
00:26:45.13\00:26:50.13
THEREIN. SO IT'S NOT
JUST HEARING REVELATION.
00:26:50.13\00:26:53.03
A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE TO TALK
ABOUT REVELATION AND I'VE MET
00:26:53.03\00:26:55.96
ALL KINDS OF VERY STRANGE PEOPLE
THAT DON'T SEEM TO BE RELIGIOUS
00:26:55.96\00:26:58.26
AT ALL, THAT ARE
FASCINATED WITH REVELATION.
00:26:58.26\00:27:01.20
THEY HAVE NO INTEREST IN KEEPING
THE PART ABOUT, YOU KNOW,
00:27:01.20\00:27:03.83
KEEPING THEIR GARMENTS UNSPOTTED
AND LIVING HOLY LIVES, THEY JUST
00:27:03.83\00:27:08.73
LIKE THE CHRONOLOGICAL
PROPHETIC ASPECTS OF IT.
00:27:08.73\00:27:14.16
GOD WANTS US TO BE
HEARERS AND KEEPERS OF IT.
00:27:14.16\00:27:17.10
MATTHEW 15, VERSE 8, JESUS SAID,
'THESE PEOPLE DRAW NEAR TO ME
00:27:17.10\00:27:22.20
WITH THEIR MOUTHS AND HONOR ME
WITH THEIR LIPS BUT THEIR HEARTS
00:27:22.20\00:27:25.63
ARE FAR FROM ME.' SO HOW DO
WE KNOW IF A PERSON IS SINCERE?
00:27:25.63\00:27:31.30
YOU'LL KNOW THEM
BY THEIR PROFESSION?
00:27:31.30\00:27:33.70
YOU'LL KNOW
THEM BY THEIR FRUITS.
00:27:33.70\00:27:36.70
AND SO THAT MEANS
YOU'LL SEE IN THEIR LIFE.
00:27:36.70\00:27:40.43
ARE WE SAVED BY OUR PROFESSION
OR ARE WE JUDGED BY OUR WORKS?
00:27:40.43\00:27:47.16
REVELATION SAYS, 'BEHOLD,
I COME. MY REWARD IS WITH ME
00:27:47.16\00:27:49.53
TO GIVE TO EVERY MAN
ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE.
00:27:49.53\00:27:52.90
WHY WOULD GOD SAVE US BY
GRACE AND JUDGE US BY WORKS?
00:27:52.90\00:27:55.80
THAT DOESN'T SOUND
LIKE IT GOES TOGETHER.
00:27:55.80\00:27:59.83
YOUR WORKS WILL DEMONSTRATE
IF YOUR HEART HAS BEEN CHANGED.
00:27:59.83\00:28:07.33
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'OUT OF THE
ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH
00:28:07.33\00:28:10.80
SPEAKS.' YOUR MOUTH DEMONSTRATES
WHAT'S HAPPENED IN YOUR HEART.
00:28:10.80\00:28:15.00
PEOPLE TALK
ABOUT WHAT THEY LOVE.
00:28:15.00\00:28:16.66
AND SO, IN EVERYTHING FROM THE
WORDS THAT WE SPEAK - AND THAT'S
00:28:16.66\00:28:19.83
AN IMPORTANT PART OF GOOD WORKS,
IS THAT OUR SPEECH IS SEASONED
00:28:19.83\00:28:23.03
WITH GRACE. THE BIBLE
SAYS A CHRISTIAN OUGHT
00:28:23.03\00:28:25.23
TO TALK DIFFERENTLY, RIGHT?
AND TO, YOU KNOW, HOW WE SPEND
00:28:25.23\00:28:31.46
OUR TIME AND OUR MEANS AND WHAT
WE WEAR AND WHAT WE THINK ABOUT.
00:28:31.46\00:28:35.26
I MEAN, CHRISTIANITY SHOULD
REALLY CHANGE THE WHOLE PERSON.
00:28:35.26\00:28:38.50
WE SHOULD DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY.
00:28:38.50\00:28:40.43
AND IT'S THE GRACE OF GOD THAT
FORGIVES OUR SINS, BUT HE GIVES
00:28:40.43\00:28:45.43
US POWER - THAT SAME SPIRIT
- TO BE DIFFERENT CREATURES.
00:28:45.43\00:28:48.50
MARK 3, VERSE 32 - SIMILAR
PASSAGE - "AND A MULTITUDE WAS
00:28:48.50\00:28:54.70
SITTING AROUND HIM AND THEY SAID
TO HIM, 'LOOK, YOUR MOTHER AND
00:28:54.70\00:28:57.90
YOUR BROTHERS ARE OUTSIDE
SEEKING YOU.'" - AND WHAT DID
00:28:57.90\00:29:00.30
JESUS SAY? - "WHO IS MY
MOTHER, OR MY BROTHERS?"
00:29:00.30\00:29:03.00
- HE WASN'T BEING DISRESPECTFUL.
BY THE WAY, JAMES WAS A BROTHER,
00:29:03.00\00:29:06.33
WASN'T HE? "'WHO IS MY
MOTHER, OR MY BROTHERS?'
00:29:06.33\00:29:09.90
AND HE LOOKED AROUND IN A CIRCLE
AT THOSE WHO SAT ABOUT HIM, AND
00:29:09.90\00:29:12.33
SAID, 'HERE ARE MY
MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS!
00:29:12.33\00:29:15.03
FOR WHOEVER DOES THE WILL OF GOD
IS MY BROTHER AND MY SISTER AND
00:29:15.03\00:29:20.56
MOTHER.'" WHAT WAS
JESUS INTERESTED IN?
00:29:20.56\00:29:23.76
IT SAYS, 'WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH
IN HIM WILL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE
00:29:23.76\00:29:27.76
EVERLASTING LIFE.' WHAT
DOES IT MEAN TO BELIEVE IN GOD?
00:29:27.76\00:29:33.53
WHEN DANIEL WENT TO THE LION'S
DEN BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T STOP
00:29:33.53\00:29:37.33
PRAYING AND THE KING CAME THE
NEXT MORNING AND PULLED HIM OUT
00:29:37.33\00:29:43.03
AND SAID NO MANNER OF HARM HAD
COME TO HIM BECAUSE HE BELIEVED
00:29:43.03\00:29:46.86
HIS GOD. HOW DID
DANIEL SHOW HIS BELIEF
00:29:46.86\00:29:50.73
IN GOD? DID HE DO SOMETHING?
00:29:50.73\00:29:56.20
HE KNELT WHEN HE
COULD HAVE STOOD.
00:29:56.20\00:29:58.46
HE OPENED HIS WINDOWS
WHEN HE COULD HAVE CLOSED THEM.
00:29:58.46\00:30:00.80
HE PRAYED OUT LOUD WHEN HE
COULD HAVE PRAYED IN HIS HEART.
00:30:00.80\00:30:03.40
HE SHOWED HIS
BELIEF IN WHAT HE DID.
00:30:03.40\00:30:06.80
SO I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY ONE
OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD - ONE
00:30:06.80\00:30:09.73
OF THE MOST MEMORIZED AND ONE OF
THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD VERSES IN
00:30:09.73\00:30:12.46
THE BIBLE IS JOHN 3:16 -
'WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM' -
00:30:12.46\00:30:16.20
YOU KNOW WHAT BELIEVE
MEANS? IT MEANS TO BE LIVE.
00:30:16.20\00:30:18.96
WHOEVER BE LIVES IN
HIM WILL NOT PERISH.
00:30:18.96\00:30:23.60
IF A PERSON SAYS, 'RUN FOR YOUR
LIFE! THERE'S A TSUNAMI COMING!'
00:30:23.60\00:30:28.23
AND YOU SAY, 'I BELIEVE IT,
BROTHER.' AND YOU DON'T BUDGE,
00:30:28.23\00:30:30.40
YOU DON'T BELIEVE
IT. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:30:30.40\00:30:33.93
IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE, YOU ACT
UPON WHAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE.
00:30:33.93\00:30:37.60
AND THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE OUT
THERE THAT SAY, 'I BELIEVE THAT
00:30:37.60\00:30:40.63
JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS.' JAMES
SAYS THE DEVILS BELIEVE AND
00:30:40.63\00:30:45.10
TREMBLE. I'M
GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF
00:30:45.10\00:30:46.96
BECAUSE I THINK THAT
COMES UP IN ANOTHER LESSON.
00:30:46.96\00:30:49.13
SO YOU CAN SAY, 'WELL, I BELIEVE
THAT JESUS DIED FOR MY SINS.'
00:30:49.13\00:30:53.16
DOES THE DEVIL KNOW
THAT JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS?
00:30:53.16\00:30:55.30
HE BELIEVES IT BETTER
THAN YOU BECAUSE HE SAW IT.
00:30:55.30\00:30:57.23
HE WAS THERE. IS
THAT GOING TO SAVE HIM?
00:30:57.23\00:31:00.40
SO RECOGNIZING AND ACKNOWLEDGING
THAT GOD IS REAL - THAT HE DIED
00:31:00.40\00:31:05.70
FOR OUR SINS - JUDAS
SAW ALL THAT FIRST HAND.
00:31:05.70\00:31:09.63
BE LIVING IN HIM MEANS
DOING THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
00:31:09.63\00:31:14.23
A CHRISTIAN IS A
FOLLOWER OF CHRIST.
00:31:14.23\00:31:16.13
AND SO, THERE'S A LOT OF
EMPHASIS IN THE BIBLE ON NOT
00:31:16.13\00:31:18.46
JUST ACCEPTING THE GRACE
OF JUSTIFICATION, BUT THEN
00:31:18.46\00:31:22.30
FOLLOWING THE LIFE AND EXAMPLE
AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND
00:31:22.30\00:31:25.83
SANCTIFICATION THROUGH
THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT.
00:31:25.83\00:31:28.13
GOD NOT ONLY GIVES US GRACE
TO FORGIVE THE PAST, GOD GIVE US
00:31:28.13\00:31:30.93
GRACE TO OBEY. WE DON'T EVER
HEAR ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF GRACE.
00:31:30.93\00:31:34.80
HE GIVES US GRACE TO BE DOERS OF
THE WORD AND NOT JUST HEARERS.
00:31:34.80\00:31:40.30
AND THEN, OF COURSE, AFTER JESUS
PREACHES HIS SERMON ON THE MOUNT
00:31:40.30\00:31:44.00
- NOTICE THAT VERY IMPORTANT
PARABLE - LET ME SEE HERE, I
00:31:44.00\00:31:47.16
THINK I'M GETTING TO
ANOTHER VERSE HERE IN A MINUTE.
00:31:47.16\00:31:49.20
I'VE GOT A MOMENT OR TWO.
MATTHEW 7, VERSE 24, "THEREFORE,
00:31:49.20\00:31:53.66
WHOEVER HEARS THESE SAYINGS
OF MINE, AND DOES THEM, I WILL
00:31:53.66\00:31:59.63
LIKEN HIM TO A WISE MAN WHO
BUILT HIS HOUSE ON THE ROCK:
00:31:59.63\00:32:02.43
AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, THE
FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW
00:32:02.43\00:32:05.30
AND BEAT ON THAT
HOUSE; AND IT DID NOT FALL,
00:32:05.30\00:32:08.10
FOR IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK.
BUT EVERYONE WHO HEARS THESE
00:32:08.10\00:32:11.70
SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOES NOT DO
THEM," - NOW, ISN'T THAT CLEAR?
00:32:11.70\00:32:16.50
WHAT SEPARATES THE
WISE MAN FROM THE FOOL?
00:32:16.50\00:32:19.43
DOES THE WISE MAN BUILD A HOUSE?
DOES THE FOOL BUILD A HOUSE?
00:32:19.43\00:32:25.13
ALRIGHT, SO THEY'RE
THE SAME IN THAT RESPECT.
00:32:25.13\00:32:27.43
DOES THE STORM
COME TO THE WISE MAN?
00:32:27.43\00:32:31.96
DOES THE STORM COME TO THE FOOL?
00:32:31.96\00:32:34.00
DOES THE WISE MAN
HEAR THE WORDS OF JESUS?
00:32:34.00\00:32:37.70
DOES THE FOOL HEAR
THE WORDS OF JESUS?
00:32:37.70\00:32:41.16
WHAT IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE WISE MAN AND THE
00:32:41.16\00:32:42.93
FOOL? THE FOOLISH MAN DOES
NOT DO THEM. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:32:42.93\00:32:49.40
THAT'S WHAT SEPARATES THE HOUSE
ON THE ROCK THAT'S GOING TO
00:32:49.40\00:32:52.30
SURVIVE, FROM THE HOUSE ON
THE SAND THAT'S GOING TO PERISH.
00:32:52.30\00:32:54.96
ONE IS A HEARER AND A DOER
AND ONE IS JUST A HEARER AND HE
00:32:54.96\00:32:58.33
DOESN'T DO. NOW,
WHEN I READ THIS, I'M
00:32:58.33\00:33:01.00
ALWAYS CONVICTED BECAUSE, IT'S
LIKE MARK TWAIN SAID - NOT THAT
00:33:01.00\00:33:04.66
HE'S THE BEST ONE TO QUOTE; HE
WAS A CLEVER MAN BUT HE WAS ALSO
00:33:04.66\00:33:07.60
NOT VERY RELIGIOUS. BUT
HE DID SAY, 'IT'S NOT ALL
00:33:07.60\00:33:10.23
THE MYSTERIES IN THE BIBLE THAT
TROUBLE ME, IT'S THE GOOD I KNOW
00:33:10.23\00:33:12.93
I SHOULD DO THAT
CAUSES ME SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
00:33:12.93\00:33:15.66
PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY, 'YOU KNOW,
THERE'S SO MUCH IN THE BIBLE I
00:33:15.66\00:33:17.86
DON'T UNDERSTAND.' MY PROBLEM
IS I'M WORRIED ABOUT WHAT I DO
00:33:17.86\00:33:20.60
UNDERSTAND. AND,
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES, YOU
00:33:20.60\00:33:24.10
KNOW, WE'RE USUALLY PRETTY
GENTLE ON OUR KIDS IF THEY DON'T
00:33:24.10\00:33:27.60
DO SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T KNOW
ABOUT. BUT WE'RE A LITTLE MORE
00:33:27.60\00:33:31.43
SEVERE WHEN THEY IGNORE
WHAT THEY DID KNOW ABOUT.
00:33:31.43\00:33:34.76
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE
NEED TO BE NOT ONLY HEARING.
00:33:34.76\00:33:38.63
ONCE WE'VE HEARD WE WANT TO BE
DOING. THERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE
00:33:38.63\00:33:42.46
OF THIS IN THE BIBLE IN THE
STORY OF - NOW THIS IS NOT IN
00:33:42.46\00:33:47.20
THE LESSON BUT I
THOUGHT IT'S A GOOD EXAMPLE.
00:33:47.20\00:33:48.86
KING SAUL, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
STARTED OUT A GOOD KING; HEAD
00:33:48.86\00:33:54.26
AND SHOULDERS TALLER THAN ANYONE
ELSE, FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT,
00:33:54.26\00:33:57.20
ANOINTED BY GOD AND - BUT
GOD SENDS HIM ON A MISSION TO GO
00:33:57.20\00:34:01.50
FIGHT THE ENEMIES, THE
AMALEKITES, AND HE GIVES HIM
00:34:01.50\00:34:03.66
VERY CLEAR ORDERS NOT TO
TAKE ANY PLUNDER OR SURVIVORS.
00:34:03.66\00:34:07.53
THIS IS A WICKED WAR-LIKE PEOPLE
AND NO MATTER WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS
00:34:07.53\00:34:11.10
ARE ABOUT HOW BRUTAL
WAR WAS IN THE BIBLE,
00:34:11.10\00:34:13.26
THE FACT IS GOD GAVE
HIM A VERY CLEAR COMMAND.
00:34:13.26\00:34:16.00
SAUL DIDN'T THINK IT WAS A GOOD
IDEA AND SO HIS MEN KIND OF FLEW
00:34:16.00\00:34:19.63
UPON THE PLUNDER OF THE
AMALEKITES AND TOOK THE BEST OF
00:34:19.63\00:34:22.33
THE SHEEP AND THE OXEN AND THE
CAMELS AND EVERYTHING ELSE AND
00:34:22.33\00:34:25.13
WHEN SAUL COMES BACK FROM THE
BATTLE AND HE'S GOT THIS PARADE
00:34:25.13\00:34:29.30
OF PRISONERS AND THIS PARADE
OF BOOTY THAT THEY'VE TAKEN FROM
00:34:29.30\00:34:31.70
THE ENEMY, HE GOES OUT - HE SEES
SAMUEL THE PROPHET AND SAMUEL
00:34:31.70\00:34:37.43
SAYS, 'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?'
HE SAYS, 'OH, I'VE COME BACK
00:34:37.43\00:34:39.06
FROM OBEYING THE COMMANDMENT
OF THE LORD.' HE SAYS, 'WELL IF
00:34:39.06\00:34:41.73
THAT'S TRUE, WHAT IS ALL THIS
BLEATING OF THE SHEEP AND LOWING
00:34:41.73\00:34:44.96
OF THE OXEN THAT I HEAR?' HE
SAID, 'OH WELL, YOU KNOW, THE
00:34:44.96\00:34:47.60
PEOPLE, THEY WANTED TO SAVE THE
BEST TO SACRIFICE TO THE LORD.
00:34:47.60\00:34:51.80
WE'RE GOING TO MAKE AN OFFERING
OF IT.' YOU KNOW, HE TRIED TO
00:34:51.80\00:34:54.06
FIND A RELIGIOUS
EXCUSE FOR DISOBEDIENCE.
00:34:54.06\00:34:56.73
IT'S AMAZING SOME OF THE
CREATIVE WAYS I HEAR PEOPLE
00:34:56.73\00:34:59.06
JUSTIFY THEIR DISOBEDIENCE.
00:34:59.06\00:35:01.13
THEY SAY, 'OH, IT WAS AN OX
IN THE DITCH.' OR THERE ARE ALL
00:35:01.13\00:35:06.20
KINDS OF DIFFERENT
STORIES THAT YOU'LL HEAR.
00:35:06.20\00:35:08.93
THEN THERE'S THIS - JUST THIS
CLASSIC VERSE WHERE SAMUEL SAID
00:35:08.93\00:35:13.86
- AND THIS IS 1 SAMUEL 15:22
- HE SAYS TO SAUL, "HAS THE LORD
00:35:13.86\00:35:18.76
AS GREAT DELIGHT IN BURNT
OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES, AS IN
00:35:18.76\00:35:23.23
OBEYING THE VOICE OF THE LORD?
BEHOLD, TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN
00:35:23.23\00:35:27.20
SACRIFICE, AND TO HEED THAN THE
FAT OF RAMS." - THE FAT OF RAMS
00:35:27.20\00:35:30.70
WAS SOMETHING THEY WOULD GIVE
AS A SACRIFICE TO THE LORD TOO.
00:35:30.70\00:35:33.76
WHAT WOULD THE LORD RATHER HAVE
FROM YOU? FIFTY-PERCENT OF YOUR
00:35:33.76\00:35:37.56
WEALTH OR A HUNDRED
PERCENT OF YOUR OBEDIENCE?
00:35:37.56\00:35:41.10
WOULD THE LORD WANT NINETY
PERCENT OF YOUR SUBSTANCE?
00:35:41.10\00:35:46.73
I MEAN, PEOPLE THINK, SOMETIMES,
THAT 'I'LL JUST MAKE A BIG
00:35:46.73\00:35:49.83
OFFERING THIS WEEK TO, YOU KNOW,
BUY AN INDULGENCE FOR MY SINS'
00:35:49.83\00:35:53.80
OR SOMETHING. IT
DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
00:35:53.80\00:35:55.90
GOD IS NOT
LOOKING FOR SACRIFICE.
00:35:55.90\00:35:57.36
HE WANTS US TO OBEY AND HE
SAYS DISOBEDIENCE IS WORSE THAN
00:35:57.36\00:36:01.00
WITCHCRAFT. AND SO
HE SAYS, 'DON'T DECEIVE
00:36:01.00\00:36:04.53
YOURSELVES JUST BEING A HEARER
AND NOT A DOER OF THE WORD.
00:36:04.53\00:36:08.53
AND THEN, IF YOU LOOK AT SOME
OF THE - WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
00:36:08.53\00:36:12.16
THINGS GOD WANTS US TO DO?
00:36:12.16\00:36:13.93
JESUS OUTLINES AND - SORT
OF RULES FOR THE KINGDOM LIFE.
00:36:13.93\00:36:18.40
LUKE 6:27, "BUT I SAY TO YOU WHO
HEAR: LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD
00:36:18.40\00:36:24.33
TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU," - NOW
RIGHT THERE I'VE GOT MY HANDS
00:36:24.33\00:36:26.40
FULL - "BLESS THOSE WHO
CURSE YOU," - THAT'S NOT EASY.
00:36:26.40\00:36:32.10
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED
THAT? - "AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO
00:36:32.10\00:36:34.46
SPITEFULLY USE YOU. TO
HIM WHO STRIKES YOU ON THE
00:36:34.46\00:36:37.83
ONE CHEEK,
OFFER THE OTHER ALSO."
00:36:37.83\00:36:40.23
- I'VE NOT BEEN
TESTED ON THAT YET.
00:36:40.23\00:36:41.63
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'LL DO -
"AND TO HIM WHO TAKES AWAY YOUR
00:36:41.63\00:36:44.80
CLOAK, DO NOT
WITHHOLD YOUR TUNIC EITHER.
00:36:44.80\00:36:47.76
GIVE TO EVERYONE
WHO ASKS OF YOU."
00:36:47.76\00:36:49.90
- TRY AND LIVE THAT ONE
OUT. IT'S HARD TO EVEN GET HOME
00:36:49.90\00:36:53.80
WITHOUT BEING TESTED ON THAT
POINT - THE ROUTE THAT WE DRIVE
00:36:53.80\00:36:58.73
- GIVE TO EVERYONE WHO ASKS OF
YOU AND FROM HIM WHO TAKES AWAY
00:36:58.73\00:37:02.33
YOUR GOODS DO
NOT ASK THEM BACK."
00:37:02.33\00:37:04.26
- HOW MANY OF YOU, WHEN SOMEONE
TRIES TO SEIZE YOUR PROPERTY,
00:37:04.26\00:37:07.96
JUST SAY, 'GO AHEAD.' - "AND
JUST AS YOU WANT MEN TO DO YOU
00:37:07.96\00:37:16.03
ALSO DO TO THEM LIKEWISE."
NOW, I DON'T' THINK JESUS IS
00:37:16.03\00:37:18.53
SAYING, YOU KNOW, JUST LET
EVERYBODY STEAMROLL YOU HERE.
00:37:18.53\00:37:20.96
HE WAS TALKING ABOUT A TIME WHEN
YOU WERE GOING TO BE PERSECUTED
00:37:20.96\00:37:24.90
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE AND SO,
IN DEFENSE OF SHOWING WHAT THE
00:37:24.90\00:37:30.36
CHRIST-LIKE KINGDOM WAS LIKE,
THEY WOULD GO THE SECOND MILE
00:37:30.36\00:37:33.13
BACK THEN. THEY
WOULD TURN THEIR CHEEKS AND
00:37:33.13\00:37:36.23
- BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE IS ONE
PLACE WHERE PAUL GOT STRUCK ON
00:37:36.23\00:37:38.00
THE CHEEK. DID HE
TURN THE OTHER CHEEK?
00:37:38.00\00:37:40.56
NO, NO, DO YOU
REMEMBER THAT STORY?
00:37:40.56\00:37:43.50
PAUL WAS BEING TRIED AND THE
GUARD FOR THE HIGH PRIEST WAS
00:37:43.50\00:37:48.23
STANDING NEXT TO HIM AND
THE GUARD SAID SOMETHING ABOUT -
00:37:48.23\00:37:51.53
PAUL HAD MADE A STATEMENT AND
THE HIGH PRIEST SAID, 'STRIKE
00:37:51.53\00:37:55.80
HIM!' AND HE STRUCK PAUL ON
THE MOUTH AND PAUL SAYS TO THE
00:37:55.80\00:37:58.66
HIGH PRIEST, 'GO
AHEAD, STRIKE THE OTHER SIDE.'
00:37:58.66\00:38:01.30
NO, HE DIDN'T SAY THAT. HE
SAID, 'YOU WHITED SEPULCHER.
00:38:01.30\00:38:04.93
HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU SIT
TO JUDGE ME ACCORDING TO THE LAW
00:38:04.93\00:38:08.16
AND YOU NOW, CONTRARY TO THE
LAW, HAVE JUST COMMANDED ME TO
00:38:08.16\00:38:10.56
BE STRUCK.' AND I PROBABLY
WOULD HAVE REACTED LIKE PAUL.
00:38:10.56\00:38:16.63
SO JESUS GIVES THE - BUT DID
JESUS TURN THE OTHER CHEEK WHEN
00:38:16.63\00:38:19.60
HE WAS STRUCK? WHEN THEY TOOK
AWAY HIS CLOTHES DID HE PROTEST?
00:38:19.60\00:38:23.83
NO, SO THE IDEAL FOR CHRISTIAN
LIVING'S A PRETTY - IT'S THE
00:38:23.83\00:38:27.80
PERFECT IDEAL.
ALRIGHT, 'LAWS OF FREEDOM.'
00:38:27.80\00:38:32.80
ALRIGHT, IN JAMES 1:25 - WE'RE
STILL IN THE FIRST CHAPTER.
00:38:32.80\00:38:36.90
HE SAYS, "BUT HE WHO LOOKS INTO
THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AND
00:38:36.90\00:38:41.13
CONTINUES IN IT, AND IS NOT A
FORGETFUL HEARER BUT A DOER OF
00:38:41.13\00:38:45.40
THE WORK, THIS ONE WILL
BE BLESSED IN WHAT HE DOES."
00:38:45.40\00:38:49.53
SO GOD TALKS ABOUT
THIS PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY.
00:38:49.53\00:38:53.00
WHAT IS THAT
PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY?
00:38:53.00\00:38:54.73
MATTER OF FACT, I'VE GOT TO TURN
HERE - JAMES 1, VERSE 25 - YOU
00:38:54.73\00:39:04.63
KNOW, IN THAT SAME PASSAGE
HE TALKS ABOUT TWO OF THE
00:39:04.63\00:39:07.46
TEN COMMANDMENTS. HERE WE GO.
LET ME SEE, IS IT CHAPTER 2 NOW?
00:39:07.46\00:39:22.23
2, VERSE 12 - YEAH - "SO SPEAK"
- NO, WAIT, I WANT TO READ
00:39:22.23\00:39:25.80
VERSE 11. JAMES
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11 - OH,
00:39:25.80\00:39:30.20
GO TO VERSE 10, "FOR WHOEVER
SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND
00:39:30.20\00:39:34.43
YET STUMBLE IN ONE
POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL.
00:39:34.43\00:39:36.83
FOR HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT
ADULTERY,'" - NOW WHAT KIND OF
00:39:36.83\00:39:39.26
LAW IS THAT CONNECTED TO?
PART OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS -
00:39:39.26\00:39:43.20
"ALSO SAID, 'DO NOT MURDER.'"
- IN CASE YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS,
00:39:43.20\00:39:45.63
WHAT LAW IS THAT
CONNECTED TO? TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:39:45.63\00:39:48.40
"NOW IF YOU DO NOT COMMIT
ADULTERY, BUT YOU DO MURDER, YOU
00:39:48.40\00:39:51.76
HAVE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR
OF THE LAW." - THEN HE SAYS,
00:39:51.76\00:39:53.93
"SO SPEAK AND SO DO AS THOSE WHO
00:39:53.93\00:39:55.36
WILL BE JUDGED BY
THE LAW OF LIBERTY."
00:39:55.36\00:39:58.13
SO THERE YOU'VE GOT THE
LAW OF LIBERTY MENTIONED AGAIN.
00:39:58.13\00:40:01.13
AND HE CALLS IT, IN VERSE 8, "IF
YOU REALLY FULFILL THE ROYAL LAW
00:40:01.13\00:40:04.76
ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE,
'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
00:40:04.76\00:40:07.10
YOURSELF,'" IS THERE
A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE
00:40:07.10\00:40:09.40
TEN COMMANDMENTS
AND THE LAW OF LIBERTY?
00:40:09.40\00:40:11.93
WHEN YOU KEEP THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS IT IS A LAW OF
00:40:11.93\00:40:15.33
LIBERTY FOR YOU. IT'S
CALLED THE LAW OF FREEDOM.
00:40:15.33\00:40:18.50
NOW LOOK, FOR INSTANCE IN -
SOMEBODY LOOK UP 2 CORINTHIANS
00:40:18.50\00:40:21.26
3:17 - WHO'S GOT THAT ONE COMING
UP? YOU'LL BE NEXT, ALRIGHT?
00:40:21.26\00:40:24.43
I'M GOING TO GO TO
PSALM 119, VERSES 44 AND 45.
00:40:24.43\00:40:31.56
"SO SHALL I KEEP YOUR LAW
CONTINUALLY, FOREVER AND EVER.
00:40:31.56\00:40:36.03
AND I WILL WALK AT LIBERTY,
FOR I SEEK YOUR PRECEPTS."
00:40:36.03\00:40:40.66
NOW, HAVEN'T YOU HEARD BEFORE
THAT THOSE WHO KEEP THE LAW ARE
00:40:40.66\00:40:44.23
UNDER BONDAGE? I'VE
DONE EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS
00:40:44.23\00:40:48.96
MORE THAN ONCE WHERE PEOPLE
CAME WHO WERE OF, MAYBE, ANOTHER
00:40:48.96\00:40:53.43
RELIGIOUS PERSUASION AND THEY'D
COME TO ME LATER, AFTER I'D
00:40:53.43\00:40:55.86
PREACHED ON THE LAW, AND
I'M, YOU KNOW, I'M ONE OF THESE
00:40:55.86\00:40:59.60
PEOPLE THAT THINK
THEY'RE NOT THE TEN SUGGESTIONS.
00:40:59.60\00:41:02.20
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD ME SAY
THIS AD NAUSEAM, THEY'RE NOT THE
00:41:02.20\00:41:05.83
TEN RECOMMENDATIONS, THEY'RE
NOT THE TEN GOOD IDEAS, THE FACT
00:41:05.83\00:41:10.16
THAT THEY'RE TEN COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD - THERE'S NO STRONGER
00:41:10.16\00:41:13.23
LANGUAGE THAT GOD CAN USE BY
TELLING US THESE ARE LAWS OF THE
00:41:13.23\00:41:17.16
HIGHEST ORDER. THERE IS NO LAW.
00:41:17.16\00:41:19.40
THEY'RE NOT RECOMMENDATIONS.
THIS IS THE COMMANDMENTS.
00:41:19.40\00:41:22.93
AND SO I'D PREACH ON THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS AND SOMEONE WOULD
00:41:22.93\00:41:25.23
COME TO ME AFTER AND
SAY, 'BROTHER DOUG, JESUS CAME
00:41:25.23\00:41:28.23
TO SET US FREE FROM THE LAW.
00:41:28.23\00:41:30.16
YOU ARE PUTTING THESE
PEOPLE UNDER A BURDEN.
00:41:30.16\00:41:32.46
YOU'RE PUTTING THEM UNDER
BONDAGE.' NOW, IS IT THE ONE WHO
00:41:32.46\00:41:36.53
BREAKS THE LAW THAT'S FREE OR
IS IT THE ONE WHO BREAKS THE LAW
00:41:36.53\00:41:40.03
THAT IS BOUND, ACCORDING
TO JESUS? IF YOU LOOK IN -
00:41:40.03\00:41:44.90
OH, WELL, I WAS ABOUT
TO STEAL SOMEBODY'S VERSE.
00:41:44.90\00:41:48.93
I WAS RUNNING AHEAD OF MYSELF.
00:41:48.93\00:41:50.50
I TELL YOU WHAT,
WHO'S GOT JOHN 8:34?
00:41:50.50\00:41:55.33
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU
- WE'LL GIVE THAT TO YOU RIGHT
00:41:55.33\00:41:57.36
NOW AND I KNOW I DIDN'T GIVE
MUCH WARNING, BUT I WANT TO TALK
00:41:57.36\00:42:01.76
ABOUT WHO IS THE ONE
THAT'S UNDER BONDAGE.
00:42:01.76\00:42:04.53
ALRIGHT, YOU GO
AHEAD AND READ THAT FOR US.
00:42:04.53\00:42:06.43
>>"JESUS ANSWERED THEM, 'MOST
ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER
00:42:06.43\00:42:11.00
COMMITS SIN IS A SLAVE OF SIN.
AND A SLAVE DOES NOT ABIDE IN
00:42:11.00\00:42:16.33
THE HOUSE FOREVER,
BUT A SON ABIDES FOREVER.
00:42:16.33\00:42:20.10
THEREFORE IF THE SON MAKES YOU
FREE, YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED."
00:42:20.10\00:42:25.33
>>ALRIGHT, SO IS IT THE ONE
KEEPING THE LAW THAT'S UNDER
00:42:25.33\00:42:28.30
BONDAGE OR IS IT THE ONE
BREAKING THE LAW - SIN IS THE
00:42:28.30\00:42:30.53
TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW -
IS IT THE ONE BREAKING THE LAW
00:42:30.53\00:42:33.13
THAT IS UNDER BONDAGE?
IS THE ONE KEEPING THE LAW
00:42:33.13\00:42:35.20
BOUND OR IS HE FREE? DOES
JESUS SAVE US TO DISOBEY OR
00:42:35.20\00:42:39.90
SAVE US TO OBEY?
'YOU'LL CALL HIS NAME JESUS FOR
00:42:39.90\00:42:43.73
HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FOR MORE
THOROUGH SINS.' 'FOR GREATER
00:42:43.73\00:42:50.26
INTENSITY OF SIN.' OR
DID HE SAVE US FROM OUR SINS?
00:42:50.26\00:42:53.16
AND SO, HE SAVES US TO BE
FREE. THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA.
00:42:53.16\00:42:57.60
YOU'RE - PART OF THE REASON THAT
YOU'RE ALL ABLE TO COME AND GO
00:42:57.60\00:43:01.56
TO THIS MEETING TONIGHT IS
BECAUSE, I'M ASSUMING, THAT
00:43:01.56\00:43:03.73
YOU'RE LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS,
HOPEFULLY IN EVERY AREA OF YOUR
00:43:03.73\00:43:08.40
LIFE. OR AT LEAST
YOU HAVEN'T BEEN CAUGHT.
00:43:08.40\00:43:11.46
AND SO THAT GIVE YOU FREEDOM,
RIGHT? WHEN YOU DISOBEY,
00:43:11.46\00:43:16.66
WHETHER IT'S SPEEDING, YOU
GET PULLED OVER, YOUR FREEDOM IS
00:43:16.66\00:43:18.90
RESTRICTED WHEN YOU DISOBEY.
YOUR LIBERTY IS RESTRICTED.
00:43:18.90\00:43:22.46
AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
INCARCERATED TONIGHT, ASSUMING
00:43:22.46\00:43:24.60
YOU'RE LIVING IN A JUST COUNTRY
- I KNOW IT'S NOT THAT WAY
00:43:24.60\00:43:26.73
EVERYWHERE - THEY'RE
INCARCERATED BECAUSE THEY'VE
00:43:26.73\00:43:29.23
BROKEN THE LAW. THEY
HAVE LOST THEIR LIBERTY.
00:43:29.23\00:43:32.73
AND SO THROUGH OBEDIENCE
YOU GET THE GREATEST LIBERTY.
00:43:32.73\00:43:35.93
AND SO, THIS IS JUST WHAT JAMES
IS SAYING: IT'S THE ROYAL LAW OF
00:43:35.93\00:43:39.33
LIBERTY. OKAY, I THINK
YOU'RE NEXT. GO AHEAD, DICK,
00:43:39.33\00:43:44.43
WHY DON'T YOU READ -
WHAT IS IT 2 CORINTHIANS 3:17?
00:43:44.43\00:43:47.53
>>NOW THE LORD IS THE SPIRIT;
AND WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD
00:43:47.53\00:43:50.36
IS, THERE IS LIBERTY."
00:43:50.36\00:43:52.90
>>ALRIGHT, SO THE
SPIRIT OF GOD GIVES US LIBERTY.
00:43:52.90\00:43:56.20
NOW SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT
MEANS LIBERTY FROM THE LAW.
00:43:56.20\00:43:59.56
WE'VE ALL HEARD THE STATEMENT
BEFORE, 'FOR I'M NOT UNDER THE
00:43:59.56\00:44:03.10
LAW, I AM UNDER
GRACE.' WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:44:03.10\00:44:06.20
'I'M NOT UNDER THE LAW, I
AM UNDER GRACE.' DOES NOT BEING
00:44:06.20\00:44:10.06
UNDER THE LAW MEAN THAT YOU'RE
NO LONGER UNDER AN OBLIGATION TO
00:44:10.06\00:44:14.20
KEEP THE LAW? OR,
WHEN A PERSON BREAKS THE
00:44:14.20\00:44:17.46
LAW, ARE THEY UNDER
THE SENTENCE OF THE LAW?
00:44:17.46\00:44:20.43
THERE'S A PENALTY
FOR BREAKING THE LAW.
00:44:20.43\00:44:22.16
WHAT'S THE PENALTY FOR
SIN? HOW MANY HAVE SINNED?
00:44:22.16\00:44:25.06
>>ALL. >>SO WHO
ARE ALL UNDER THAT
00:44:25.06\00:44:27.46
DEATH PENALTY
WITHOUT JESUS? >>ALL.
00:44:27.46\00:44:30.30
>>EVERYONE. CHRIST
SAVES US OUT FROM UNDER
00:44:30.30\00:44:33.26
THE PENALTY OF THE LAW. BUT
HE DOESN'T SAVE US UNDER THE
00:44:33.26\00:44:39.76
OBLIGATION SO WE
DON'T HAVE TO OBEY ANYMORE.
00:44:39.76\00:44:42.50
THINK ABOUT HOW
ABSURD THAT REALLY WOULD BE.
00:44:42.50\00:44:44.86
AND, YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE DON'T
HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE LAW
00:44:44.86\00:44:46.93
UNTIL YOU GET TO ONE OR TWO
SPECIFIC COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT?
00:44:46.93\00:44:51.26
NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF
THE CHURCHES HERE IN TOWN - OR
00:44:51.26\00:44:54.50
VIRTUALLY ANY TOWN THAT'S
WATCHING - I COULD PROBABLY GO
00:44:54.50\00:44:58.06
AND PREACH A SERMON ON HONOR
YOUR PARENTS OR BE HONEST OR
00:44:58.06\00:45:05.06
DON'T KILL YOUR NEIGHBOR, OR
- YEAH, DON'T COMMIT ADULTERY -
00:45:05.06\00:45:09.53
PEOPLE WOULD BE RESTLESS
BUT THEY'D AGREE THAT IT IS
00:45:09.53\00:45:11.40
BIBLICAL. AND YOU
COULD GO THROUGH DON'T
00:45:11.40\00:45:14.73
STEAL AND SO FORTH AND EVERYBODY
WOULD SAY, 'YEAH, AMEN.' YOU
00:45:14.73\00:45:17.20
KNOW, BUT YOU GET TO ONE LAW IN
PARTICULAR AND SAY 'REMEMBER THE
00:45:17.20\00:45:21.26
SABBATH DAY' AND PEOPLE START
TO - 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW,
00:45:21.26\00:45:24.06
WE'RE UNDER GRACE.' YOU KNOW, IT
IS TRUE THAT THE SABBATH TRUTH,
00:45:24.06\00:45:29.86
COMING BACK INTO THE FOREFRONT
IN THE LAST HUNDRED AND FIFTY
00:45:29.86\00:45:33.20
YEARS, HAS ACTUALLY CHANGED
THE THEOLOGY IN SUNDAY CHURCHES.
00:45:33.20\00:45:38.86
I REMEMBER DOING A MEETING IN
A SMALL TOWN AND, YOU KNOW, WE
00:45:38.86\00:45:42.16
WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS
SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING
00:45:42.16\00:45:44.40
AND THE LAW, AND THIS
PASTOR CAME AND I'D BEEN TO THAT
00:45:44.40\00:45:51.86
PASTOR'S CHURCH
BEFORE, VISITING.
00:45:51.86\00:45:54.83
THEY HAD THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
ON THE WALL IN THEIR CHURCH.
00:45:54.83\00:45:58.63
THEY HAD THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON
THE WALL IN THEIR SUNDAY SCHOOL.
00:45:58.63\00:46:01.76
AND THEY CAME TO OUR MEETINGS
AND WE HAD A LITTLE DEBATE ABOUT
00:46:01.76\00:46:06.16
THAT SUBJECT AND HE SAID, 'WE'RE
NOT UNDER THE LAW, WE'RE UNDER
00:46:06.16\00:46:09.53
GRACE.' AND ONE OF HIS MEMBERS,
WHO WAS ALSO ATTENDING OUR
00:46:09.53\00:46:12.36
MEETINGS SAID, 'PASTOR SO AND
SO, WHY THEN DO WE HAVE THEM ON
00:46:12.36\00:46:16.53
THE WALL IN OUR CHURCH?'
THE PASTOR TOOK THEM DOWN.
00:46:16.53\00:46:20.50
SO CAN YOU SEE HOW THAT
WOULD CREATE A CONFLICT?
00:46:20.50\00:46:24.93
AND THEN SOME TAKE THE ARGUMENT
- YOU KNOW, IT'S A LOT MORE
00:46:24.93\00:46:28.13
DIFFICULT, THEY SAY,
'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW.
00:46:28.13\00:46:32.33
GOD WIPED AWAY THE LAW BUT HE
KIND OF RE-ADDED NINE OF THEM IN
00:46:32.33\00:46:36.46
THE NEW TESTAMENT.' AND THAT'S
LIKE A PERSON WHO SAYS, 'I'VE
00:46:36.46\00:46:38.90
GOT ONE FINGER THAT MAKES ME
UNCOMFORTABLE SO I'M GOING TO
00:46:38.90\00:46:41.00
CUT OFF TEN OF THEM AND SEW
NINE BACK ON TO GET RID OF ONE.'
00:46:41.00\00:46:45.23
THAT'D BE THE WRONG WAY TO
DO IT. BUT REALLY, THAT'S WHAT
00:46:45.23\00:46:48.06
THEY'RE DOING AND IF YOU
ASK THEM, 'SO, WHICH COMMANDMENT
00:46:48.06\00:46:54.16
IS IT?' THEY'LL SAY, 'WELL,
THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT IS NOT
00:46:54.16\00:46:57.30
REPEATED IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT. THAT IS A MYTH.
00:46:57.30\00:47:00.16
I'VE HEARD THAT SO MANY TIMES
AND WHEN YOU PRESS PEOPLE ON IT,
00:47:00.16\00:47:02.03
IT'S ABSOLUTELY AND
CATEGORICALLY NOT TRUE.
00:47:02.03\00:47:04.66
THE SABBATH IS MENTIONED MANY
TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND
00:47:04.66\00:47:07.10
IN IT WE'RE TOLD TO REMEMBER IT
- IT SAYS IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 4,
00:47:07.10\00:47:10.16
'THERE REMAINETH, THEREFORE, THE
KEEPING OF THE SABBATH FOR THE
00:47:10.16\00:47:12.60
PEOPLE OF GOD.' THE ONE
COMMANDMENT THAT YOU HAVE A HARD
00:47:12.60\00:47:15.03
TIME FINDING IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT IS THE COMMANDMENT
00:47:15.03\00:47:17.60
'THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF
THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN.' WHERE
00:47:17.60\00:47:21.43
DOES IT SAY THAT
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT?
00:47:21.43\00:47:23.63
BUT WHAT CHRISTIAN, OF ANY
DENOMINATION, IS GOING TO SAY,
00:47:23.63\00:47:27.10
'IT'S OKAY NOW TO
TAKE GOD'S NAME IN VAIN?'
00:47:27.10\00:47:30.96
OF COURSE WE
CAN'T DO THAT, RIGHT?
00:47:30.96\00:47:33.53
SO ARE THEY TEN SUGGESTIONS OR
TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT THE LORD
00:47:33.53\00:47:37.06
WANTS US TO BE DOERS OF?
RIGHT? KEEPERS OF THE WORD.
00:47:37.06\00:47:41.93
SO, LET ME SEE, DID WE COVER
ALL THAT ABOUT THE LIBERTY?
00:47:41.93\00:47:46.13
ROMANS 8, VERSE 2, "FOR THE LAW
OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST
00:47:46.13\00:47:52.13
JESUS HAS MADE ME
FREE FROM THE LAW OF GOD."
00:47:52.13\00:47:56.50
NO, WHAT LAW ARE WE FREE
FROM? THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH.
00:47:56.50\00:48:01.36
HE SAVES US FROM THE LAW OF
SIN THAT CONTROLS OUR LIVES.
00:48:01.36\00:48:06.13
THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS IN ROMANS 8.
THANK GOD WE NO LONGER HAVE TO
00:48:06.13\00:48:08.96
WALK AFTER THE FLESH, I
CAN NOW WALK AFTER THE SPIRIT.
00:48:08.96\00:48:11.63
DON'T HAVE TO BE CARNALLY
MINDED, YOU CAN BE SPIRITUALLY
00:48:11.63\00:48:14.20
MINDED. YOU
BECOME A NEW CREATURE.
00:48:14.20\00:48:16.56
OLD THINGS ARE PASSED
AWAY, ALL THINGS ARE MADE NEW.
00:48:16.56\00:48:19.40
AND THIS IS THE WHOLE
MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL.
00:48:19.40\00:48:20.80
I'VE GOT A FEW QUOTES HERE I
JUST THREW IN ON THIS SUBJECT OF
00:48:20.80\00:48:23.73
DOING AND HEARING.
00:48:23.73\00:48:26.63
THIS ONE'S FROM DWIGHT MOODY
- EXPECT TO SEE HIM IN HEAVEN -
00:48:26.63\00:48:30.53
"NEVER THINK THAT JESUS
COMMANDED A TRIFLE NOR DARE TO
00:48:30.53\00:48:35.33
TRIFLE WITH
ANYTHING HE COMMANDED."
00:48:35.33\00:48:37.66
- BECAUSE WHEN HE COMMANDED
IT HE EXPECTS US TO DO IT -
00:48:37.66\00:48:41.43
"OBEDIENCE IS THE KEY
THAT UNLOCKS THE DOOR TO EVERY
00:48:41.43\00:48:44.50
PROFOUND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE."
IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?
00:48:44.50\00:48:50.06
THE WAY SOME PEOPLE ARE
PREACHING THE GOSPEL - THAT'S A
00:48:50.06\00:48:51.83
DOCTRINE OF
DEVILS, BUT I'VE HEARD IT.
00:48:51.83\00:48:53.66
THEY ALMOST MAKE IT SOUND LIKE
IF YOU TEACH OBEDIENCE YOU'RE A
00:48:53.66\00:48:57.13
LEGALIST. BUT
JESUS TAUGHT OBEDIENCE.
00:48:57.13\00:49:00.76
THE APOSTLES TAUGHT OBEDIENCE.
GOD, THE FATHER - IN THE OLD
00:49:00.76\00:49:04.43
TESTAMENT - I BELIEVE IT'S JESUS
THERE TOO - TEACHES OBEDIENCE.
00:49:04.43\00:49:09.63
SAMUEL DICKEY GORDON SAID,
"OBEDIENCE IS THE EYE OF THE
00:49:09.63\00:49:13.66
SPIRIT. FAILURE TO
OBEY DIMS AND DULLS
00:49:13.66\00:49:16.90
THE SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING."
IF WE KNOW GOD'S WILL AND WE
00:49:16.90\00:49:20.10
FAIL TO DO IT, IT WILL ACTUALLY
DULL YOUR SPIRITUAL PERCEPTIONS
00:49:20.10\00:49:22.93
OVER TIME. AND
THEN WARREN W. WIERSBE -
00:49:22.93\00:49:27.20
HE WROTE THAT
COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE -
00:49:27.20\00:49:29.86
"FREEDOM DOES NOT MEAN I AM ABLE
TO DO WHATEVER I WANT TO DO.
00:49:29.86\00:49:34.00
THAT'S THE
WORST KIND OF BONDAGE.
00:49:34.00\00:49:36.30
FREEDOM MEANS I HAVE BEEN
SET FREE TO BECOME ALL THAT GOD
00:49:36.30\00:49:40.76
WANTS ME TO BE - TO ACHIEVE ALL
THAT GOD WANTS ME TO ACHIEVE -
00:49:40.76\00:49:45.00
TO ENJOY ALL THAT GOD
WANTS ME TO ENJOY." I LIKE THAT.
00:49:45.00\00:49:49.13
WE'RE FREE TO HAVE THE
ABUNDANT LIFE IN THE LORD.
00:49:49.13\00:49:52.13
ALRIGHT, LAST - OH, I'VE
GOT A COUPLE MORE SECTIONS.
00:49:52.13\00:49:54.70
'USEFUL OR USELESS?'
JAMES 1:26 AND 27, "IF ANYONE
00:49:54.70\00:49:59.90
AMONG YOU THINKS HE IS
RELIGIOUS, AND DOES NOT BRIDLE
00:49:59.90\00:50:02.36
HIS TONGUE BUT
DECEIVES HIS OWN HEART,
00:50:02.36\00:50:05.30
THIS ONE'S RELIGION IS USELESS."
00:50:05.30\00:50:07.73
- AND THEN HE GOES ON - AND
WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THE TONGUE
00:50:07.73\00:50:10.33
IN OTHER LESSONS - "PURE AND
UNDEFILED RELIGION BEFORE GOD
00:50:10.33\00:50:14.30
AND THE FATHER IS THIS: TO VISIT
ORPHANS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR
00:50:14.30\00:50:17.90
TROUBLE, AND TO KEEP ONESELF
UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD."
00:50:17.90\00:50:23.10
NOW, I DON'T WANT TO
HYPERSPIRITUALIZE THIS BUT NOT
00:50:23.10\00:50:27.93
ONLY ARE WE TO CARE FOR ORPHANS
AND WIDOWS - AND, YOU KNOW, NOW
00:50:27.93\00:50:32.16
THAT DOESN'T MEAN TO US WHAT
IT MEANT IN BIBLE TIMES - IT WAS
00:50:32.16\00:50:35.83
VERY HARD TO EKE A LIVING
OUT OF THE LAND FOR JUST A WOMAN
00:50:35.83\00:50:39.83
BECAUSE, TALK ABOUT PLOWING
BEHIND THE SOUTH END OF A DONKEY
00:50:39.83\00:50:44.00
OR AN OXEN AND TRYING TO
MAKE A LIVING OUT OF THAT,
00:50:44.00\00:50:46.90
THAT WAS REALLY HARD WORK.
00:50:46.90\00:50:48.96
AND WITHOUT THE MAN IN THE HOUSE
- THEY HAD NO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
00:50:48.96\00:50:52.56
BACK THEN. THEY
HAD NO WELFARE PROGRAM.
00:50:52.56\00:50:54.43
THEY HAD NO SOCIAL SECURITY AND
A LOT OF WIDOWS WERE OUT THERE
00:50:54.43\00:50:57.30
BEGGING AND IT WAS
VERY, VERY DIFFICULT.
00:50:57.30\00:51:00.40
AND SO HE SAID, 'DON'T FORGET
THEM. REMEMBER THE FATHERLESS
00:51:00.40\00:51:02.80
AND THE WIDOW.' BUT THERE'S
A SPIRITUAL SIDE TO THAT.
00:51:02.80\00:51:05.06
PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW
JESUS, THEY ARE SORT OF ORPHANS.
00:51:05.06\00:51:08.63
THEY NEED TO BE INTRODUCED
TO THEIR HEAVENLY FATHER.
00:51:08.63\00:51:11.66
PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW CHRIST AS
THE BRIDEGROOM - THE CHURCH IS
00:51:11.66\00:51:15.06
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST - THEY NEED
TO BE INTRODUCED TO THE HUSBAND,
00:51:15.06\00:51:18.10
SO TO SPEAK. AND SO, IT'S
ALSO BRINGING PEOPLE TO CHRIST.
00:51:18.10\00:51:21.23
MATTHEW 25, VERSE 35 - IN THAT
GREAT PARABLE OF THE JUDGMENT
00:51:21.23\00:51:26.23
DAY, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE SAVED AND THE LOST?
00:51:26.23\00:51:31.66
"I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME
FOOD; I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE
00:51:31.66\00:51:34.76
ME DRINK; I WAS A STRANGER AND
YOU TOOK ME IN; I WAS NAKED AND
00:51:34.76\00:51:38.06
YOU CLOTHED ME; I WAS SICK AND
YOU VISITED ME; I WAS IN PRISON
00:51:38.06\00:51:41.23
AND YOU CAME TO ME."
PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION
00:51:41.23\00:51:44.33
BEFORE GOD AND
THE FATHER IS THIS.
00:51:44.33\00:51:46.43
IT TALKS ABOUT LOVING THOSE WHO
ARE IN NEED - CARING FOR PEOPLE
00:51:46.43\00:51:50.46
WHEN YOU SEE
SOME PRACTICAL NEED.
00:51:50.46\00:51:52.73
ROMANS 12:9-13, "LET
LOVE BE WITHOUT HYPOCRISY.
00:51:52.73\00:52:00.16
ABHOR WHAT IS EVIL.
CLING TO WHAT IS GOOD.
00:52:00.16\00:52:02.76
BE KINDLY AFFECTIONATE TO ONE
ANOTHER WITH BROTHERLY LOVE, IN
00:52:02.76\00:52:07.20
HONOR GIVING PREFERENCE TO
ONE ANOTHER; NOT LAGGING IN
00:52:07.20\00:52:09.96
DILIGENCE, FERVENT IN SPIRIT,
SERVING THE LORD; REJOICING IN
00:52:09.96\00:52:13.83
HOPE, PATIENT IN TRIBULATION,
CONTINUING STEADFASTLY IN
00:52:13.83\00:52:17.66
PRAYER; DISTRIBUTING TO THE
NEEDS OF THE SAINTS GIVEN TO
00:52:17.66\00:52:21.86
HOSPITALITY." SO,
YOU KNOW, WHEN IT TALKS
00:52:21.86\00:52:25.30
ABOUT CHRISTIANS GIVING?
YOU KNOW WHAT IT USUALLY SAYS WE
00:52:25.30\00:52:27.50
SHOULD BE
CAREFUL TO GIVE TO FIRST?
00:52:27.50\00:52:29.63
IT SAYS, 'THEY OF YOUR OWN
HOUSEHOLD.' AND THEN THAT GOES
00:52:29.63\00:52:33.56
TO THE SPIRITUAL HOUSEHOLD.
THEY WERE TO CARE FOR THOSE IN
00:52:33.56\00:52:37.06
THE CHURCH AND THEN
THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
00:52:37.06\00:52:40.16
ALRIGHT, NOW THE LAST SECTION:
'UNLIKE THE WORLD.' JAMES 1:27 -
00:52:40.16\00:52:45.73
HE GOES ON AND SAYS IN
THAT SAME VERSE, "AND TO KEEP
00:52:45.73\00:52:48.06
ONESELF
UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD."
00:52:48.06\00:52:51.30
NOW THIS IS GOING TO
BE ONE OF OUR LAST VERSES.
00:52:51.30\00:52:54.73
1 JOHN 2:15-17 - I'VE PRETTY
MUCH MEMORIZED THIS VERSE.
00:52:54.73\00:53:01.30
"DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD
OR THE THINGS IN THE WORLD.
00:53:01.30\00:53:04.66
IF ANYONE LOVES THE WORLD,
THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT IN
00:53:04.66\00:53:08.33
HIM. FOR ALL
THAT IS IN THE WORLD -
00:53:08.33\00:53:10.36
THE LUST OF THE FLESH, THE LUST
OF THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE OF
00:53:10.36\00:53:13.73
LIFE - IS NOT OF THE
FATHER BUT IS OF THE WORLD.
00:53:13.73\00:53:16.13
AND THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY
AND THE LUST OF IT; BUT HE WHO
00:53:16.13\00:53:22.20
DOES" - HEARS? - "HE THAT DOES
THE WILL OF GOD ABIDES FOREVER."
00:53:22.20\00:53:27.63
NOW THE BIBLE TELLS US DON'T
LOVE THE WORLD AND JESUS SAID,
00:53:27.63\00:53:33.86
'FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD.'
PEOPLE GET MIXED UP ON THAT WORD
00:53:33.86\00:53:36.73
'WORLD.' ARE WE
TO LOVE THE WORLD?
00:53:36.73\00:53:39.53
IT'S KIND OF A LOVE/HATE
RELATIONSHIP - WHICH IS IT?
00:53:39.53\00:53:42.16
WELL, WHEN IT SAYS - IT TALKS
ABOUT WORLDLINESS IN THE BIBLE -
00:53:42.16\00:53:46.00
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS
IN THE WORLD - THE LUST OF THE
00:53:46.00\00:53:49.10
FLESH AND THE LUST OF THE EYES
AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE AND THINGS
00:53:49.10\00:53:51.60
THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, JUST ALL
THE EVIL SEEDY BAD THINGS IN THE
00:53:51.60\00:53:56.03
WORLD. WE KNOW
WHAT WORLDLINESS IS, BUT
00:53:56.03\00:53:58.30
WHEN IT SAYS 'LOVING THE WORLD'
IT'S LIKE LOVING THE PLANET.
00:53:58.30\00:54:01.26
I MEAN, CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO LOVE
THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND WANT
00:54:01.26\00:54:04.36
TO, YOU KNOW, BE WILLING
TO REACH HUMANITY AND CARE FOR
00:54:04.36\00:54:08.00
THEM. BUT THERE'S A BALANCE.
HOW CAN YOU KEEP YOURSELF
00:54:08.00\00:54:13.30
UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD
WHEN YOU'RE IN THE WORLD?
00:54:13.30\00:54:16.20
I HEARD SOMEONE SAY ONE TIME
THAT A CHRISTIAN IN THE CHURCH
00:54:16.20\00:54:21.46
IS SOMETHING LIKE A BOAT IN THE
WATER WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH WHERE
00:54:21.46\00:54:25.46
A BOAT BELONGS. BOAT'S
ALWAYS LOOK A LITTLE BIT
00:54:25.46\00:54:27.60
POWERLESS ON LAND, DON'T
THEY? THEY LOOK OUT OF PLACE.
00:54:27.60\00:54:31.33
BUT YOU, AT THE SAME TIME,
HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN WATER IS IN
00:54:31.33\00:54:34.93
THE BOAT AND THEN IT GOES DOWN.
CHRISTIANS BELONG IN THE WORLD -
00:54:34.93\00:54:39.76
EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU'VE GOT TO
SCRUB THE BARNACLES OFF THE BOAT
00:54:39.76\00:54:42.40
- BUT YOU BELONG IN THE WORLD TO
HAVE AN INFLUENCE - SO YOU CAN
00:54:42.40\00:54:45.83
SAVE PEOPLE FROM THE WORLD INTO
THE BOAT - BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO
00:54:45.83\00:54:50.46
GET IN THE WATER OR YOU
END UP LIKE JONAH, RIGHT?
00:54:50.46\00:54:56.30
YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO
BRING PEOPLE OUT OF THAT.
00:54:56.30\00:54:59.66
AND THEN, JESUS SAYS, 'IF YOU
LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS
00:54:59.66\00:55:02.83
AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER AND
GIVE YOU ANOTHER HELPER.' GOD
00:55:02.83\00:55:06.00
DOESN'T JUST WANT US TO BE
HEARERS OF THE WORD, HE WANTS US
00:55:06.00\00:55:08.50
TO BE DOERS OF THE WORD.
HE WANTS US TO BE USEFUL.
00:55:08.50\00:55:12.16
THIS IS A LESSON - MATTER OF
FACT, THE WHOLE BOOK OF JAMES IS
00:55:12.16\00:55:14.63
JUST A WONDERFUL BOOK BECAUSE IT
REALLY TALKS ABOUT THE PRACTICAL
00:55:14.63\00:55:18.06
THEMES OF LIVING
REAL CHRISTIANITY.
00:55:18.06\00:55:20.66
YOU'LL FIND, WHEN YOU READ THE
BOOK OF JAMES AND THE BOOK OF
00:55:20.66\00:55:23.66
PAUL - BOOKS OF PAUL, I
SHOULD SAY - THAT THEY ALMOST
00:55:23.66\00:55:27.50
SOUND LIKE THEY
OPPOSE EACH OTHER.
00:55:27.50\00:55:30.13
PAUL, HIS EMPHASIS IS
SO MUCH ON GRACE - WHY?
00:55:30.13\00:55:34.06
PAUL IS TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO
HAD DRIFTED INTO LEGALISM SO HE
00:55:34.06\00:55:38.06
HAD TO SPEND A LOT OF
TIME EMPHASIZING THE GRACE.
00:55:38.06\00:55:41.23
JAMES IS NOW TALKING TO SOME
PEOPLE WHO ARE PRESUMING ON THE
00:55:41.23\00:55:46.46
GRACE OF GOD AND THEY'RE
BECOMING SLOPPY ABOUT LIVING
00:55:46.46\00:55:49.60
GODLY LIVES. HE,
THEN, HAS TO ALMOST GO TO
00:55:49.60\00:55:52.26
THE OTHER EXTREME AND SAY
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD.
00:55:52.26\00:55:55.86
AND SO, YOU KNOW, BOTH OF
THE WRITERS ARE TRUE BUT IT'S
00:55:55.86\00:55:59.56
INTERESTING THAT PETER DOES SAY,
IN CHAPTER 3 OF 2 PETER, 'OUR
00:55:59.56\00:56:05.66
BELOVED BROTHER PAUL SAYS
SOME THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO
00:56:05.66\00:56:08.40
UNDERSTAND, WHICH THOSE THAT ARE
UNSTABLE WREST, AS THEY DO THE
00:56:08.40\00:56:13.20
OTHER SCRIPTURES, TO
THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION.
00:56:13.20\00:56:15.30
SO PEOPLE OFTEN TOOK THE THINGS
PAUL SAID ABOUT GRACE AND THEY
00:56:15.30\00:56:17.96
TWISTED THEM AND
MISUNDERSTOOD THEM.
00:56:17.96\00:56:19.56
THAT'S HAPPENING IN A LOT OF
CHRISTENDOM TODAY BECAUSE WE ALL
00:56:19.56\00:56:23.46
NEED THE GRACE OF GOD AND GRACE
FEELS SO GOOD WHEN YOU COME JUST
00:56:23.46\00:56:26.26
AS YOU ARE AND GOD
WASHES AWAY YOUR SINS.
00:56:26.26\00:56:28.76
THAT NEW BEGINNING IS SO
WONDERFUL THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE
00:56:28.76\00:56:32.40
ARE LEFT THERE AND THEY NEVER
EXPERIENCE THE SANCTIFICATION OF
00:56:32.40\00:56:35.46
SAYING, 'OKAY, I'M GOING TO NOW
BE A FOLLOWER OF JESUS AND DO
00:56:35.46\00:56:38.83
WHAT HE TELLS ME TO DO.'
THAT'S WHY THE BOOK OF JAMES
00:56:38.83\00:56:41.76
IS SO IMPORTANT, BECAUSE
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE PRACTICAL
00:56:41.76\00:56:44.03
SIDE OF CHRISTIANITY.
WELL, I THINK WE'RE OUT OF
00:56:44.03\00:56:46.13
LESSON TIME FOR NOW, BUT BEFORE
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00:56:46.13\00:56:49.06
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00:56:49.06\00:56:51.90
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00:56:51.90\00:56:53.30
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IN CHRIST, FAITH, AND WORKS AND
00:56:53.30\00:56:57.26
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00:57:11.53\00:57:14.43
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00:57:14.43\00:57:18.30
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00:57:42.76\00:57:46.93
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WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:57:46.93\00:57:50.53
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK MILLIONS OF
00:57:50.53\00:57:53.46
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:53.46\00:57:57.06
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00:57:57.06\00:57:59.50
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MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:59.50\00:58:02.56
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