Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021443
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00:34 >>GOOD EVENING, FRIENDS AND WELCOME BACK TO SABBATH SCHOOL 00:37 STUDY HOUR. WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE JOINING US. MY NAME IS JEAN 00:40 ROSS. I'M ONE OF THE PASTORS AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND IF 00:42 THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'RE JOINING US, THE GRANITE BAY 00:45 CHURCH IS IN TRANSITION TO A NEW LOCATION SO WE'RE ACTUALLY 00:49 RECORDING THIS HERE AT THE AMAZING FACTS STUDIOS. 00:52 I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME OUR LOCAL CHURCH MEMBERS FROM THE 00:55 GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND THE VISITORS. 00:57 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. 00:58 THIS IS ACTUALLY OUR REGULAR TUESDAY EVENING PRAYER MEETING 00:59 AND WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE LESSON. SO WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE 01:02 PART OF THE PROGRAM. 01:05 BEFORE WE GET STARTED, WE WANT TO ASK GOD'S SPECIAL BLESSING TO 01:07 BE WITH US AS WE STUDY HIS WORD, SO JOIN US FOR A WORD OF PRAYER. 01:11 DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU THAT WE CAN GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY 01:14 YOUR WORD. 01:15 WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE BIBLE IS YOUR BOOK SO WE ASK FOR THE HOLY 01:16 SPIRIT TO GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AS WE LOOK AT THIS 01:20 VERY IMPORTANT BOOK, THE BOOK OF JAMES. 01:23 THANK YOU, LORD, FOR BEING WITH US AND FOR BEING WITH THOSE WHO 01:25 ARE WATCHING, WHEREVER THEY MIGHT BE. 01:26 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 01:29 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT WE'D LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW OF; 01:32 IT'S A FREE BOOK WRITTEN BY PASTOR DOUG ENTITLED 01:35 'WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?' AND IT GOES ALONG WITH THE 01:38 SUBJECT THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE STUDYING THIS EVENING. 01:41 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS BOOK, CALL 866-788-3966 01:47 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #603. 01:48 AGAIN, THE BOOK IS CALLED 'WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?' 01:52 JUST CALL THAT NUMBER - 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR 01:55 THE BOOK BY NAME OR OFFER #603 AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND IT TO 02:02 YOU. 02:04 AS MENTIONED, WE'RE STUDYING THROUGH THE BOOK OF JAMES AND 02:06 TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON #4 ENTITLED, 'BEING AND 02:11 DOING.' AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH US, YOU CAN 02:14 DOWNLOAD - IF YOU DON'T HAVE A LESSON QUARTERLY - YOU CAN 02:16 DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON AT THE 'GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG' CHURCH 02:21 WEBSITE. THAT'S JUST SIMPLY 'GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG'. 02:25 CLICK ON THE LINK THAT SAYS 'SABBATH SCHOOL LESSONS' AND YOU 02:28 CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON. WELL, WITH THAT, PASTOR DOUG 02:31 WE'LL INVITE YOU TO COME FORWARD AND WE'LL BEGIN OUR STUDY. 02:35 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS AND GOOD EVENING FRIENDS. 02:40 WELCOME TO OUR EXTENDED CLASS THAT'S WATCHING WITH US. 02:44 WE KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD AND THAT'S 02:46 ESPECIALLY KEEN IN MY MIND RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I JUST CAME BACK 02:52 FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET DOING A LITTLE, I GUESS, 02:56 MISSION EXCURSION YOU MIGHT CALL IT. 02:58 SO WITH YOUR INDULGENCE I'M GOING TO USE JUST A FEW MOMENTS 03:01 AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR STUDY TIME ON THIS LESSON - I THINK 03:04 WE'LL STILL GET THROUGH MOST OF THIS LESSON - TO GIVE YOU A 03:06 BRIEF REPORT ON A TRIP TO AUSTRALIA. 03:09 AND IT WAS REALLY EXCITING BECAUSE WE FOUND A LOT OF PEOPLE 03:14 THERE THAT ARE PART OF OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY TIME AND, 03:17 TO BEGIN WITH, I THINK THAT WE'VE GOT A FEW SLIDES THAT 03:20 WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP HERE ON THE SCREEN AND - JUST TO GIVE 03:23 YOU KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE SAW. 03:25 SO THAT'S, OF COURSE, A PICTURE OF AUSTRALIA. 03:28 AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WELL YOU CAN SEE THE OUTLINE THERE, 03:31 BUT IT WAS REALLY EXCITING. 03:32 OUR FAMILY'S BEEN TO AUSTRALIA SEVERAL TIMES, BUT THIS TIME THE 03:35 MAIN REASON WE WENT WAS WE WENT TO A TERRITORY IN WESTERN 03:40 AUSTRALIA WHERE WE'D NEVER BEEN BEFORE. 03:41 THE FIRST WEEKEND WE SPENT IN SYDNEY AND I JUST DID A BRIEF 03:47 PROGRAM. YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN 'IT IS 03:48 WRITTEN' PROGRAM IN AUSTRALIA AND THAT'S GARY KENT. 03:50 WE WENT THERE AND DID SOME MEETINGS WITH HIM A COUPLE OF 03:52 YEARS AGO IN SYDNEY, SO WE TAPED AT LEAST ONE PROGRAM WITH THE 03:56 'IT IS WRITTEN' AUSTRALIA GROUP AND THAT WAS ENJOYABLE. 03:59 AND THEN THAT NEXT DAY WE BEGAN A SERIES IN ONE OF THE LARGEST 04:02 ADVENTIST CHURCHES IN SYDNEY, WHICH IS THE WAHROONGA - IT'S 04:06 ALWAYS FUN TO SAY - SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND IT WAS JUST 04:09 A BLESSING BECAUSE IT WAS PACKED. THEY HAD A REALLY GOOD 04:12 SERVICE FRIDAY - THREE TIMES ON SABBATH - OUTSTANDING MUSIC. 04:16 PASTOR LLOYD THERE ASKED ME BIBLE QUESTIONS AND IT WAS 04:20 REALLY JUST SORT OF A REVIVAL MEETING AND WE TALKED ABOUT HOW 04:23 TO SURVIVE THE COMING STORMS AND SO THAT WAS A REAL BLESSING. 04:28 LET'S SEE, WHAT DO WE HAVE UP NEXT THERE? 04:29 OH YEAH, AND THEY HAD - NOT ONLY WAS THE CHURCH FULL, THEY HAD 04:32 TWO OVERFLOW - THIS IS ONE OF THE OVERFLOW ROOMS - SO IT WAS 04:35 VERY WELL ATTENDED. AND THEN AFTER THAT MEETING WE 04:40 WENT - OH, I PUT THIS IN. THIS WAS SO FUNNY. 04:43 DURING THE MEETING, WHILE I WAS PREACHING, I HAD A CAMERA AND I 04:46 WANTED TO GET SOME PICTURES FOR THE OFFICE FOR WHEN I TRAVEL. 04:48 AND I HANDED IT TO A GIRL IN THE FRONT ROW AND I SAID, 'COULD YOU 04:51 TAKE A FEW PICTURES FOR ME?' AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HER NAME 04:53 AND SHE SAID 'SURE.' SO SHE AND HER GIRLFRIENDS TOOK A BUNCH OF 04:57 PICTURES AND THEY TOOK ONE PICTURE THAT SAID, 'HI FROM YOUR 04:59 PHOTOGRAPHERS' AND THEY GAVE THAT TO ME. 05:01 AND SO I THOUGHT, 'OH, THAT WAS REALLY SWEET.' WHEN I'M LOOKING 05:04 THROUGH THE PICTURES I SEE THAT ONE. 05:06 ANYWAY, OH AND I MET SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN REACHED BY AMAZING 05:10 FACTS AND THIS WAS A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF - WE'LL CALL HIM 05:13 JUNIOR - THAT'S WHAT HE GOES BY. BUT HAS AN INCREDIBLE TESTIMONY. 05:17 HE'D BEEN IN PRISON AND JUST HAD SOME REAL STRUGGLES. 05:20 HE WENT THROUGH THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDES, GAVE HIS 05:22 HEART TO THE LORD, AND NOW HE'S STUDYING FOR MINISTRY. 05:24 AND SO I ENJOYED HEARING SOME OF THE MANY TESTIMONIES THAT WERE 05:28 THERE. NEXT PICTURE. THEN, THE NEXT DAY - SUNDAY - I 05:33 FLEW OVER TO THE WEST SIDE OF AUSTRALIA. 05:35 THE IDEA WAS WE WERE DOING SOME WORK TO REACH SOME OF THE 05:39 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THERE - THE ABORIGINES THAT LIVE UP THERE - 05:42 BECAUSE WE HAD REPORTS THEY'D BEEN STUDYING THE AMAZING FACTS 05:45 MATERIAL AND SO WE WANTED TO GO AND DO A PROGRAM WITH THEM. 05:48 NEXT PICTURE. 05:49 SO WE DID SOME MEETINGS IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER IN A PLACE 05:52 CALLED DERBY AND - INDIGENOUS PEOPLE - THE ABORIGINES THAT 05:57 HAD BEEN WATCHING OUR PROGRAMS OR STUDYING THE MATERIAL - CAME 06:02 FROM - I'M NOT EXAGGERATING - OVER A THOUSAND MILES AWAY. 06:05 THEY CONTACTED THEIR FAMILY, THEY SAID, 'AMAZING FACTS IS 06:07 COMING TO DERBY.' THEY SAID, 'NO, THEY WOULD NEVER COME HERE. 06:10 THERE'S NOTHING HERE.' AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PART OF THE REASON 06:13 WE WENT IS BECAUSE IT WAS SO FAR AWAY. THAT KIND OF ATTRACTS ME 06:16 SOMETIMES. NEXT PICTURE. AND SO THE CHURCH LEADERS THAT 06:20 ORGANIZED IT WERE THRILLED. WE HAD OVER 210 THE FINAL NIGHT 06:24 OF THE PROGRAM AND MADE AN ALTAR CALL. 06:27 A LOT OF PEOPLE RESPONDED - ABOUT FORTY - TO COME FORWARD. 06:30 THEY WANT MORE BIBLE STUDIES TO PREPARE FOR BAPTISM. 06:33 AND WE WENT OUT INTO SOME OF THE COMMUNITY AND IN ALL THE 06:37 COMMUNITIES WE WENT TO A PLACE CALLED MOENGEN, WHICH IS - WE 06:41 WOULD CALL IT HERE LIKE A RESERVATION TOWN. 06:44 THERE, IT'S AN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY. 06:46 SEE THE SATELLITE DISHES ON THE ROOFS? AND I ASKED THEM. 06:49 I SAID, DO YOU GUYS GET THE CHRISTIAN PROGRAMMING? 06:51 'OH YEAH,' THEY SAID, - THEY SAID - 'WE GET 3ABN, WE GET HOPE 06:53 CHANNEL.' AND THEY HAD BEEN WATCHING OUR PROGRAMS AND SO 06:57 THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS. NEXT PICTURE. 07:00 SOMETHING ELSE ON THE SAME LINE. 07:02 NOW, THIS WAS NOT IN THE SAME AREA, BUT THE NEXT TOWN I WENT 07:05 INTO, SOME PEOPLE SAID, 'OUR TOWN IS IN A CAVE. 07:09 WE LIVE UNDERGROUND.' AND THERE'S A WHOLE CITY THAT - 07:12 HERE'S A CHURCH THAT IS GATHERING - YOU SAW THAT OTHER 07:14 SATELLITE DISH I SHOWED ON THE GROUND? 07:16 UNDERNEATH THAT SATELLITE DISH IS THIS CHURCH. 07:18 IT'S AN OPAL MINING COMMUNITY AND EVERYONE LIVES IN THE VACANT 07:22 MINES. THEY ALL LIVE UNDERGROUND. 07:24 THERE'S A WHOLE TOWN UNDER THERE AND SO THIS IS A CHURCH 07:26 THAT GATHERS AND I CAN'T - THE NEXT PICTURE, I THINK, HAS THE 07:28 NAME OF THE PLACE - YEAH, COOBER PEDY. 07:32 YOU'VE HEARD OF THAT BEFORE? YEAH. AND SO, YOU SEE, THERE'S 07:35 NOTHING THERE. NEXT PICTURE. THERE'S ACTUALLY A WHOLE CITY 07:38 UNDERNEATH THERE AND IT'S JUST COOLER AND SO, BECAUSE OF THE 07:43 CLIMATE AND THE INSULATION IT'S CHEAPER. 07:45 THEY DON'T EVER HAVE TO HEAT OR COOL - IT'S THE SAME TEMPERATURE 07:47 ALL YEAR LONG AND THEY JUST USUALLY HAVE ONE WALL THAT HAS A 07:51 WINDOW COMING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE AND THEY HAVE 07:53 ELECTRICITY AND EVERYTHING UNDERGROUND THERE. 07:55 NEXT PICTURE. AND SO WE HAD PEOPLE COME TO OUR 07:58 MEETINGS THAT HAD BEEN LIVING IN THAT COMMUNITY. 08:00 NOW THIS PERSON, THIS IS A DIFFERENT STORY. THIS IS PETER. 08:03 THIS IS PART OF THE REASON THAT WE WENT. 08:06 GOT A REPORT THROUGH E-MAIL, THEY SAID, 'WE HAVE A GENTLEMAN 08:10 HERE THAT, YOU KNOW, HAD SOME CHRISTIAN BACKGROUND, DRIFTED 08:16 FROM THE LORD, HIS SISTER GAVE HIM - HE WAS, YOU KNOW, SMOKING, 08:22 DRINKING, PLAYING HARD ROCK IN A BAND - 08:25 AND HE SAID HIS SISTER GAVE HIM A JUMP DRIVE WITH A BUNCH 08:28 OF AMAZING FACTS PROGRAMS ON THERE. 08:31 AND HE JUST SET IT ON THE SHELF FOR AWHILE AND THEN ONE DAY HE 08:33 WAS SURFING THROUGH TV AND IT WAS JUST ALL EMPTY GIBBERISH AND 08:36 HE THOUGHT, 'I WONDER WHAT'S ON THAT HARD DRIVE.' SO HE KNEW HOW 08:39 TO PLUG IT IN AND WATCH THE VIDEOS ON HIS TV AND HE WATCHED 08:43 THE FIRST 'MILLENNIUM OF PROPHECY' PROGRAM, WHICH ARE, 08:45 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE FOURTEEN YEARS OLD. 08:46 AND THEN HE WATCHED THE SECOND. AND THEN HE WATCHED THE THIRD. 08:50 AND HE SAID HE LOCKED HIMSELF UP FOR THREE DAYS. 08:52 HE COULDN'T STOP WATCHING. 08:53 AND HE WATCHED ALL TWENTY-FOUR PROGRAMS AND WHEN HE GOT TO THE 08:57 LAST PROGRAM ON THE TITANIC HE SAID HIS HEART JUST BROKE, HE 09:00 STARTED CRYING, AND HE GAVE HIS HEART TO THE LORD. AND WHEN I 09:02 HEARD THESE STORIES ABOUT FOLKS THAT ARE JUST SEEING THE 09:05 MATERIAL THERE AND ARE COMING INTO THE CHURCH, WE JUST WANTED 09:08 TO GO OUT AND MEET THEM AND DO SOME MEETINGS. NEXT PICTURE. 09:11 HERE'S A - LAST NIGHT, AFTER THE ALTAR CALL, I SAID, 'NOW SINCE 09:15 YOU'RE UP HERE I'D LIKE TO GET A PICTURE FOR MY WIFE.' THEY'RE 09:17 REALLY SHY BUT I SAID, 'THIS IS FOR MY WIFE.' 09:20 AND SO, HERE KAREN, THIS IS FOR YOU. 09:23 SO THIS IS - A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY CAME UP FRONT 09:26 THAT WERE AT THE MEETINGS. NEXT PICTURE. 09:28 AND THEN FROM - OH, WE HAD A BAPTISM. 09:31 SISTER DENISE WAS BAPTIZED IN THE COMMUNITY POOL AND SHE HAD 09:35 BEEN PREPARING BEFORE. NEXT PICTURE. 09:37 THEY ASKED ME TO PARTICIPATE AND I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T NEED 09:39 TO DO THAT.' 'OH, BUT IT'LL MEAN SO MUCH.' AND SO I - I DID. 09:43 THAT'S HER FAMILY. NEXT PICTURE. WENT TO ADELAIDE FROM BROOM, VIA 09:51 MELBOURNE AND THAT USED TO BE CALLED 'THE CITY OF CHURCHES.' 09:55 BUT THE CHURCHES ARE VIRTUALLY EMPTY NOW. 09:58 AND SO, EVEN IF YOU GO TO ONE OF THESE TRAVEL GUIDES, THEY SAY, 10:01 'IT'S THE CITY OF PUBS NOW BECAUSE THE PUBS ARE FULL AND 10:04 THE CHURCHES ARE EMPTY.' IT'S A VERY SECULAR TOWN. 10:07 AND SO WE DID SOME REVIVAL MEETINGS THERE BECAUSE THERE HAD 10:10 BEEN SOME PEOPLE WATCHING, VIA SATELLITE, THE PROGRAMS. 10:13 DID SOME TAPING IN THE CHURCHES. NEXT PICTURE. AND THEN WE DID 10:17 THREE MEETINGS ON SABBATH IN A COMMUNITY CENTER. 10:20 I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE PLACE, BUT IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL 10:23 PLACE AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY JAMMED. NEXT PICTURE. 10:26 THE PEOPLE THERE SAID, 'OH, THESE ARE TWO SISTERS. THEY'RE 10:30 NOT RELATED, BUT TWO SISTERS IN THE LORD THAT CAME UP TO ME. 10:36 I JUST - 'LET ME GET A PICTURE OF YOU.' ONE SAID SHE WAS A 10:38 PENTECOSTAL ALL HER LIFE, RAN INTO THE AMAZING FACTS MATERIAL 10:42 AND SAID SHE'D NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE SABBATH TRUTH. 10:44 JUST A LOVELY CHRISTIAN LADY. AND THE OTHER CAME FROM A GREEK 10:47 ORTHODOX BACKGROUND AND JUST AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN AND THEY 10:50 BOTH HAD COME TO THE LORD FROM THE STUDIES AND THE BROADCASTS. 10:55 NEXT PICTURE. AND THIS IS THE HALL. 10:59 IT WAS FULL AND OVERFLOW ROOMS AND THEY TOLD US IT WAS THE 11:02 LARGEST SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST GATHERING IN THEIR HISTORY IN 11:06 ADELAIDE. SO WE WERE VERY THRILLED AND ALL 11:09 DAY LONG WE MADE APPEALS AND - NEXT PICTURE. 11:12 I THINK WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF PICTURES. 11:14 I DON'T WANT TO KEEP IT GOING. YEAH, THEY STAYED ALL DAY. 11:17 YOU CAN JUST SEE THE FOLKS. THAT'S THE OTHER THING, SOME OF 11:19 THE CHURCH LEADERS THEY SAID, 'WOW, AND THEY EVEN STAYED FOR 11:22 THE AFTERNOON MEETING.' THEY WERE SURPRISED. 11:24 PEOPLE CAME IN FROM - SOME FLEW FROM NEW ZEALAND AND I KNOW 11:29 CATHY KNOWS - SHE TALKED TO ONE LADY AND SHE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO 11:31 COME FROM NEW ZEALAND.' OTHERS CAME FROM TAZMANIA. 11:33 THEY CAME FROM MELBOURNE - I MEAN, HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY. 11:36 AND SO THAT WAS 22,000 MILES - I SAT DOWN ONE NIGHT TO FIGURE IT 11:39 OUT - FORTY-SIX HOURS FLYING TIME AND - SO IF I AM STILL 11:46 RECOVERING FROM A LITTLE JET LAG, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND. 11:49 OKAY, I SPENT PLENTY OF TIME ON THE LESSON - WE'RE GETTING INTO 11:51 - NOW PASTOR ROSS, I THINK HE'S GOT MY LESSON. THANK YOU. 11:54 WE'RE IN LESSON #4 IN OUR STUDY ON THE BOOK OF JAMES AND WE DO 12:01 HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM JAMES 1:22 12:05 AND I'LL BE DELIGHTED IF YOU CAN ALL SAY THAT WITH ME, IF YOU 12:09 HAVE IT. JAMES 1:22, YOU READY? "BUT BE YE DOERS OF THE WORD AND 12:15 NOT HEARERS ONLY, DECEIVING YOUR OWN SELVES." 12:20 NOW JAMES SAYS SOME THINGS THAT YOU OFTEN DON'T HEAR PREACHERS 12:28 TALK ABOUT. THE LESSON TODAY ABOUT BEING AND 12:31 DOING IS NOT A VERY POPULAR LESSON THESE DAYS. 12:35 THERE'S A LOT OF EMPHASIS JUST ON THE FAITH AND THERE'S NOT 12:40 VERY MUCH EMPHASIS ON WHAT WE WOULD CALL WORKS. 12:42 NOW, WE HAVE OTHER LESSONS THAT TALK MORE ABOUT THAT. 12:44 BUT HERE HE TALKS ABOUT NOT JUST HEARING THE WORD, 12:48 BUT BEING A DOER OF THE WORD. 12:50 FIRST OF ALL, WHEN JESUS SAYS, FOR INSTANCE, IN REVELATION 12:53 CHAPTER 3, 'HE THAT HAS EARS, LET HIM HEAR.' IS JESUS JUST 13:00 SAYING MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE SITTING UP AND PAYING ATTENTION, 13:03 OR WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN WHEN HE SAYS 'HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT 13:06 SAYS?' IN THE JEWISH MIND, TO HEAR - IF 13:11 A PARENT SAYS TO A CHILD 'DO YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING?' 13:12 WHAT DO THEY MEAN? ARE THEIR EARS WORKING? 13:15 OR DO YOU MEAN, 'ARE YOU GOING TO LISTEN 13:18 AND FOLLOW WHAT I'M SAYING?' AND SO, A LOT OF TIMES IN THE 13:22 BIBLE WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT HEARING THE LORD, IT'S NOT 13:25 TALKING ABOUT JUST MAKING SURE THAT YOU'RE AUDITORY SENSES ARE 13:28 FUNCTIONING, IT MEANS, FOLLOWING THROUGH WITH WHAT YOU'VE HEARD. 13:34 NOW THE FIRST SECTION IN THIS SERIES IS 'KNOWING YOUR ENEMY.' 13:39 I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THE PHRASE BEFORE, 'WE 13:42 HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND IT IS US.' THAT ACTUALLY COMES FROM 13:48 COMMODORE OLIVER HAZARD PERRY DURING THE WAR OF 1812 AND WHAT 13:53 HE ACTUALLY SAID IS, 'WE'VE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY ARE OURS.' 13:57 AND WHAT IT REALLY MEANS IS - IT'S LIKE SOMEONE ELSE SAID, 'I 14:00 SEE THE ENEMY EVERY DAY WHEN I SHAVE.' WHAT IT MEANS IS THAT 14:04 SOMETIMES WE END UP BEING OUR OWN WORST ENEMY. 14:08 THAT'S NOT ONLY TRUE INDIVIDUALLY, SOMETIMES IT'S 14:10 TRUE IN THE CHURCH. WE'VE ALL HEARD ABOUT FRIENDLY FIRE. 14:17 IT'S OFTEN TRUE THAT THE BIGGEST ENEMY THAT THE CHURCH ENCOUNTERS 14:20 IS NOT SO MUCH FROM THE OUTSIDE AS FROM THE INSIDE. 14:22 WHO CAUSED THE FIRST MURDER? IT WAS A BROTHER. 14:28 AND WHAT HAPPENED TO JOSEPH? SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS - 14:33 CONFLICT WITH HIS BROTHERS. HOW ABOUT SAMSON? 14:36 HIS OWN PEOPLE TIED HIM UP AND HANDED HIM OVER TO THE 14:39 PHILISTINES. WHAT ABOUT DAVID? 14:43 RAN FROM HIS OWN KING, SAUL, AND THEN LATER HAD TO RUN FROM HIS 14:46 OWN SON. IT SEEMED LIKE DAVID WAS MORE THREATENED BY HIS OWN 14:50 FAMILY SOMETIMES THAN BY THE PHILISTINES. AND JESUS, TURNED 14:55 OVER BY ONE OF HIS OWN APOSTLES, HANDED OVER TO HIS OWN PEOPLE. 14:58 AND THEN LOOK AT THE APOSTLES - PAUL - AND HE SAID, 'DEMETRIUS 15:03 HAS DONE ME MUCH HARM.' AND SOMETIMES - PAUL EVEN SAID, 15:07 'BEWARE, FROM AMONG YOUR OWN SELVES GRIEVOUS WOLVES WILL 15:13 ARISE, NOT SPARING THE FLOCK.' SO WE'VE MET THE ENEMY AND IT IS 15:18 US, SOMETIMES, BUT IT'S EVEN MORE CLOSER TO HOME THAN THAT. 15:23 YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SOMETIMES WE DON'T 15:26 KNOW OURSELVES. 15:27 IT'S EASY TO BE HEARERS AND THEN NOT FOLLOW THROUGH. 15:30 HAVE YOU EVER CAUGHT YOURSELF POINTING OUT OR BEING CRITICAL 15:34 OF WHAT SOMEONE ELSE IS DOING OR NOT DOING AS A CHRISTIAN AND 15:38 THEN THE LORD OR THE HOLY SPIRIT SAYS, 'WHAT ABOUT YOU? 15:42 ARE THERE AREAS IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU'RE BEING INCONSISTENT? 15:45 IT MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT THE VERSE WHERE JESUS SAID, 'LET HE 15:49 WHO IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU CAST THE FIRST STONE.' SO JAMES 15:55 SAYS, IN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 23, "FOR IF ANY IS A HEARER OF THE 15:58 WORD AND NOT A DOER, HE IS LIKE A MAN WHO OBSERVES HIS NATURAL 16:02 FACE IN A MIRROR, FOR HE OBSERVES HIMSELF, GOES AWAY, AND 16:07 IMMEDIATELY FORGETS WHAT KIND OF MAN HE WAS." AND SO GOD WANTS 16:12 US TO LOOK - FIND OUT WHAT THE NEED IS - AND THEN ADDRESS IT. 16:16 HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN YOURSELF DRESSED, GONE OUT IN PUBLIC, AND 16:19 THEN FOUND OUT THAT YOU HAD A WARDROBE MALFUNCTION AFTERWARD? 16:25 AND IT CAN BE EMBARRASSING, SO MOST OF US, BEFORE WE HEAD OUT 16:31 THE DOOR, WE KIND OF DO A ONCE OVER IN THE MIRROR. 16:34 IF YOU'RE LOOKING TOO MUCH IN THE MIRROR THERE'S A PROBLEM - 16:36 DIFFERENT PROBLEM - BUT IT'S NORMAL TO DO KIND OF A ONCE OVER 16:39 TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE AT LEAST PRESENTABLE AND THAT 16:41 EVERYTHING'S TUCKED IN WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 16:43 BUT IF YOU LOOK AND YOU SEE THERE'S A PROBLEM AND YOU DON'T 16:47 DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, WELL, THAT'S LIKE THE LORD TELLING US 16:50 THERE'S PRACTICAL CHANGES YOU NEED TO MAKE IN YOUR LIFE AND WE 16:54 JUST SHRUG AND SAY, 'I'M SO THANKFUL FOR GOD'S GRACE.' THE 16:57 LORD WANTS US TO BE WILLING TO NOT ONLY HEAR BUT DO THESE 17:01 THINGS. NOW THERE'S SOME EXAMPLES THAT 17:03 ARE IN THE LESSON OF PEOPLE WHO HEARD BUT THEY DIDN'T REALLY 17:08 REALIZE THEMSELVES - THEY THOUGHT THEY KNEW THEMSELVES. 17:11 ONE IS GIVEN OF THE RICH YOUNG RULER AND THEN - THAT'S FOUND - 17:16 WELL, THERE'S SEVERAL VERSES. 17:17 ONE IS MATTHEW 19, VERSE 16 AND IT SAYS HERE, "NOW BEHOLD, ONE 17:22 CAME AND SAID TO HIM, 'GOOD TEACHER, WHAT GOOD THING SHALL 17:25 I DO THAT I MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?'" - HE RAN TO JESUS - 17:29 SO HE SAID TO HIM, 'WHY DO YOU CALL ME GOOD? 17:30 NO ONE IS GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD. 17:33 BUT IF YOU WANT TO ENTER INTO LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.' HE 17:37 SAID TO HIM, 'WHICH ONES?' JESUS SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT 17:40 MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU SHALL NOT 17:42 STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS,' 'HONOR YOUR 17:45 FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER,' AND, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS 17:47 YOURSELF.'' - THE YOUNG MAN, HE MAYBE DIDN'T EVEN LET JESUS 17:50 FINISH BECAUSE CHRIST DIDN'T COVER ALL THE COMMANDMENTS, HE 17:53 SAID, "'ALL THESE THINGS I HAVE KEPT FROM MY YOUTH. 17:56 WHAT DO I STILL LACK?' JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'IF YOU WANT 18:01 TO BE PERFECT, GO, SELL WHAT YOU HAVE AND GIVE TO THE POOR, AND 18:05 YOU WILL HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN; AND COME, FOLLOW ME.'" - 18:08 I BELIEVE IN LUKE IT SAYS, 'TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME.' - 18:11 "BUT WHEN THE YOUNG MAN HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WENT AWAY 18:14 SORROWFUL, FOR HE HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS." 18:17 HE CAME TO JESUS WITH THE MINDSET 'I AM READY AND WILLING 18:20 TO DO ANYTHING THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.' JESUS SAID, 18:23 'REALLY? THERE'S ONLY ONE THING LEFT. 18:25 ARE YOU REALLY WILLING TO DO THAT?' 18:26 AND HE SAID, 'I GUESS NOT. 18:30 I GUESS I DON'T WANT IT THAT BAD.' OR HE SAID, 'I'M GLAD TO 18:35 HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, NOW LET ME THINK ABOUT IT.' IT 18:39 DOESN'T SAY WHAT HIS COMMENT WAS, IT JUST SAYS HE WENT AWAY 18:41 SORROWFUL BECAUSE HE HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS. 18:43 BUT THERE'S NO RECORD IN THE BIBLE THAT HE EVER HAD A CHANGE 18:45 OF HEART. AND YOU REALIZE THAT CHRIST WAS 18:48 REALLY ASKING THAT YOUNG MAN TO BE AN APOSTLE. 18:53 IN OTHER WORDS, HE SAID THE SAME THING TO HIM THAT HE SAID TO 18:55 PETER, JAMES, JOHN, ANDREW, MATTHEW - TO FORSAKE EVERYTHING 19:00 AND TO FOLLOW ME - AND, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE A BOOK 19:05 IN THE BIBLE NAMED AFTER THAT MAN. 19:06 IT DOESN'T TELL WHAT HIS NAME WAS. 19:08 BUT HE HEARD BUT HE DIDN'T DO. HE WASN'T REALLY WILLING. 19:13 NOW PEOPLE GET NERVOUS WHEN I READ THIS VERSE AND THEY SAY, 19:16 'DOUG, IS THAT A COMMAND FOR EVERYBODY? 19:18 IS EVERYBODY SUPPOSED TO LIQUIDATE ALL OF THEIR EARTHLY 19:20 ASSETS, GET SOME SANDALS AND A ROBE AND FOLLOW JESUS?' 19:24 NO, IT MIGHT BE TELLING YOU THAT, I DON'T KNOW. 19:29 I THINK HE STILL DOES TELL PEOPLE THAT AND I MAY HAVE 19:33 MENTIONED TO YOU EARLIER - YOU'VE HEARD OF THE WALDENSIANS 19:35 AND THEY EXIST BECAUSE OF PETER WALDO WHO HEARD THIS VERSE AND 19:38 HE SOLD EVERYTHING. THIS MAN, HE HEARD BUT HE DIDN'T DO. 19:42 AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE WHO THOUGHT THEY KNEW 19:45 THEMSELVES. NOW, IN JUST A MOMENT, 19:47 I'M GOING TO GO - SOMEONE'S GOT MATTHEW 26:74 AND 75 - 19:51 WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT, OKAY? 19:53 IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW 26, VERSES 33 19:56 THROUGH 35, "PETER ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, 'EVEN IF ALL ARE 20:02 MADE TO STUMBLE BECAUSE OF YOU, I WILL NEVER BE MADE TO 20:06 STUMBLE.' JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU THAT 20:10 THIS NIGHT, BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS, YOU WILL DENY ME THREE 20:14 TIMES.' PETER SAID TO HIM, 'EVEN IF I HAVE TO DIE WITH YOU, I 20:18 WILL NOT DENY YOU!' AND SO SAID ALL THE DISCIPLES." 20:21 WERE THEY SINCERE? 20:23 I MEAN, PETER ACTUALLY PULLED OUT A SWORD LATER TO SHOW THAT 20:26 HE WAS WILLING TO DIE, BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW HIMSELF AS WELL AS 20:30 HE THOUGHT AND LATER THAT NIGHT, OF COURSE - I'LL LET SOMEONE 20:35 READ THAT. ALRIGHT, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO 20:37 GO TO MATTHEW 26, VERSES 74 AND 75. 20:41 >>"THEN HE BEGAN TO CURSE AND SWEAR SAYING, 20:43 'I DO NOT KNOW THE MAN!' IMMEDIATELY A ROOSTER CROWED. 20:46 AND PETER REMEMBERED THE WORD OF JESUS WHO HAD SAID TO HIM, 20:50 'BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS, YOU WILL DENY ME THREE TIMES.' 20:54 SO HE WENT OUT AND WEPT BITTERLY." 20:56 >>YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE CAN LEARN FROM THE STORY OF 20:59 PETER HERE, IS THAT WE DON'T KNOW OURSELVES, MAYBE, AS WELL 21:04 AS WE THINK AND WE OUGHT TO HAVE A HUMBLE ATTITUDE WHEN WE THINK 21:08 ABOUT HOW PREPARED WE ARE WITH THE LORD. 21:12 PETER ALSO MADE A MISTAKE - YOU NOTICE, HE COMPARED HIMSELF TO 21:14 THE OTHER DISCIPLES. HE SAID, 'THOUGH ALL MEN FORSAKE 21:18 YOU - ALL THESE GUYS MIGHT FORSAKE YOU BUT NOT ME.' AND 21:21 THAT'S WHY, WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD, HE LOOKED AT PETER AND 21:25 HE SAID, 'PETER, DO YOU LOVE ME MORE THAN THESE? 21:29 - POINTING TO THE OTHER TEN BECAUSE JUDAS WAS GONE AT THIS 21:31 POINT, AND PETER WOULDN'T SAY, 'YEAH, I LOVE YOU MORE THAN 21:34 THEM.' HE JUST SAID, 'YEAH, I LOVE YOU. 21:36 I'M NOT GOING TO EVEN TRY AND GUESS BECAUSE I THOUGHT I KNEW 21:39 MYSELF - I DON'T.' IT'S LIKE PETER SAID, 'I'VE MET THE ENEMY 21:41 AND IT'S ME.' HOW MANY TIMES DID PETER RUN AHEAD AND SPEAK BEFORE 21:48 HE THOUGHT? I THINK WE ALL SORT OF IDENTIFY 21:51 WITH PETER BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE REALIZE THAT WE MAKE THAT SAME 21:56 MISTAKE. NEXT SECTION IS UNDER 'BEING A 22:00 DOER.' AND THAT GOES BACK TO THAT 22:02 VERSE THAT WAS OUR MEMORY VERSE - JAMES 1:22, "BUT BE YE DOERS 22:06 OF THE WORD AND NOT HEARERS ONLY, DECEIVING YOURSELVES." 22:11 CAN A PERSON GET TO THE PLACE WHERE THEY THINK THAT THERE IS 22:14 VIRTUE IN HEARING THE WORD AND NOT DOING? 22:17 YEAH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE THINK, 'I GO TO CHURCH AND I 22:20 LISTEN TO SERMONS AND NO, I DON'T DO WHAT I HEAR BUT I 22:26 SHOULD GET SOME CREDIT FOR AT LEAST BEING THERE AND, YOU KNOW, 22:30 HAVING ALL THE TRAPPINGS AROUND ME OF BEING A CHRISTIAN.' AND 22:33 REALLY, IT ACTUALLY MEANS YOU'RE MORE CULPABLE IF YOU'RE IN A 22:37 POSITION OF HEARING ALL THE TIME AND REJECTING DOING. 22:40 GOD WANTS US TO BE DOERS OF THE WORD, 22:43 OTHERWISE HE SAYS WE ARE DECEIVING OURSELVES. 22:46 ARE THERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SELF-DECEIVED ABOUT THEIR 22:49 CONDITION BEFORE GOD? WHO HAS MATTHEW 7:21 AND 22? 22:54 ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET TO YOU NEXT - YOU'LL BE NEXT. 22:57 I'M GOING TO READ - JESUS TELLS A PARABLE THAT TALKS ABOUT DOING 23:01 AND HEARING. 'BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK? 23:04 A MAN HAD TWO SONS AND HE CAME TO THE FIRST ONE AND HE SAID, 23:07 'SON, GO WORK TODAY IN MY VINEYARD.' AND HE ANSWERED AND 23:10 SAID, 'I WILL NOT.' WORK, WORK, WORK, THAT'S ALL YOU MAKE 23:13 ME DO.' BUT AFTERWARD HE REGRETTED IT AND HE WENT. 23:17 THEN HE CAME TO THE SECOND SON AND HE SAID, 'LIKEWISE, GO WORK 23:21 IN MY VINEYARD.' HE SAID, 'I'M GOING SIR.' HE NOT ONLY SAYS, 23:24 'I'M GOING,' HE SAYS IT RESPECTFULLY - 23:25 'BUT HE DID NOT GO. 23:28 WHICH OF THE TWO,' - JESUS SAID, 'DID THE WILL OF HIS FATHER?' 23:33 AND THEY ANSWERED AND SAID, 'THE FIRST.' AND JESUS SAID, 23:36 ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU THAT THE TAX COLLECTORS AND THE HARLOTS 23:39 WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD BEFORE YOU, FOR JOHN CAME TO YOU 23:43 IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND YOU DID NOT BELIEVE HIM, BUT THE 23:46 TAX COLLECTORS AND THE HARLOTS BELIEVED HIM. 23:48 AND WHEN YOU SAW IT, NEITHER DID YOU, AFTERWARD, RELENT - OR 23:52 REPENT, THAT MEANS - AND BELIEVE HIM. IN OTHER WORDS, 23:55 PEOPLE WHO HAD CLAIMED TO SAY, 'OH, WE'RE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. 23:58 WE KNOW THE TRUTH. WE HAVE THE SCRIPTURES. 24:00 WE'RE GOD'S PEOPLE.' WHEN THE MESSIAH CAME AND SAID, 'HERE'S 24:03 MY WILL.' THEY SAID, 'OH, WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.' BUT THE 24:06 ONES WHO MADE NO PRETENSE - THE TAX COLLECTORS AND THE HARLOTS, 24:10 OF - YOU KNOW, THAT ALWAYS SOUNDS STRANGE - IN OUR CULTURE 24:14 TODAY WE DON'T USUALLY THINK OF THE OFFSCOURING OF SOCIETY AS 24:18 BEING THE TAX COLLECTORS, BUT IN THE JEWISH SOCIETY, 24:20 THEY WERE THE MAFIA. WHAT THEY WERE IS JEWS WHO, 24:24 BASICALLY, EXTORTED THEIR OWN PEOPLE FOR GAIN 24:27 AND THEY USUALLY HAD A SMALL ENTOURAGE OF RUFFIANS THAT MADE 24:31 SURE YOU PAID YOUR TAXES AND THEY WERE NOT VERY APPRECIATED. 24:35 SO WHEN YOU SEE 'PUBLICAN' OR 'TAX COLLECTOR,' THINK 'MAFIOSO' 24:39 IN THE HEBREW CULTURE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE LIKE BACK 24:43 THEN. 'AND JESUS SAID, 'THEY'LL ENTER 24:47 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BEFORE YOU.' - BECAUSE THOUGH THEY 24:49 SAID, 'OH, I DON'T WANT TO BE RELIGIOUS' WHEN THEY FINALLY 24:51 HEARD JOHN THE BAPTIST AND THEY HEARD JESUS THEY REPENTED AND 24:54 THEY ACCEPTED THE TRUTH. ALRIGHT, LET'S LOOK AT THAT 24:57 VERSE NOW IN MATTHEW 7:21 AND 22. 25:00 >>"NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO ME, 'LORD,LORD,' SHALL ENTER THE 25:03 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT HE WHO DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER IN 25:08 HEAVEN." >>THAT'S THE MAIN ONE I WANT. 25:10 NOT EVERYONE WHO HEARS, NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS, 'LORD, LORD.' 25:14 BUT WHO? HE WHO DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER. 25:21 NOW ISN'T THAT A VERY IMPORTANT OPERATIVE WORD, 'DOING?' 25:24 YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU GET ACCUSED OF IN TODAY'S CHRISTIAN 25:28 CULTURE WHEN YOU TALK VERY MUCH ABOUT DOING? 25:33 WORKS AND LEGALISM, EXACTLY. WE ALL KNOW IT. 25:36 MATTER OF FACT, WE HAVE BEEN SO BADGERED WITH - I THINK 25:41 CHRISTIANS ARE SO INTIMIDATED ABOUT THE IDEA OF BEING CALLED A 25:46 LEGALIST, OR BEING WORKS ORIENTED, OR NOT BELIEVING IN 25:50 GRACE, THAT EVERYONE IS AFRAID TO EMPHASIZE WHAT THE BIBLE 25:54 EMPHASIZES IS THAT, WHILE GOD IS A GOD OF GRACE AND THERE IS 25:58 ABUNDANT MERCY, HE'S ALSO A GOD THAT WANTS US TO BE NOT ONLY 26:02 HEARERS BUT DOERS OF THE WORD. OTHERWISE, HE SAYS IF WE'RE JUST 26:06 HEARERS WE'RE DECEIVING OUR OWN SELVES. 26:08 NOW, THERE'S A LOT OF SCRIPTURES THAT TALK ABOUT THIS. 26:11 FOR INSTANCE, GO TO LUKE CHAPTER 11, VERSE 28 - 27 AND 28, "AND 26:18 IT HAPPENED, AS HE SPOKE THESE THINGS, THAT A CERTAIN WOMAN 26:20 FROM THE CROWD RAISED HER VOICE AND SAID TO HIM, 'BLESSED IS THE 26:24 WOMB THAT BORE YOU, AND THE BREASTS WHICH NURSED YOU!' 26:26 BUT HE SAID, 'MORE THAN THAT, BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR THE 26:30 WORD OF GOD...'" - AND THEN THERE'S MORE TO THAT VERSE. 26:34 JUST HEARING? - "'BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR 26:36 THE WORD OF GOD AND KEEP IT!'" IT'S NOT JUST HEARING. 26:40 IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION IN THE FIRST CHAPTER, IT PRONOUNCES A 26:45 BLESSING ON THOSE WHO HEAR AND KEEP THE THINGS THAT ARE WRITTEN 26:50 THEREIN. SO IT'S NOT JUST HEARING REVELATION. 26:53 A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE TO TALK ABOUT REVELATION AND I'VE MET 26:55 ALL KINDS OF VERY STRANGE PEOPLE THAT DON'T SEEM TO BE RELIGIOUS 26:58 AT ALL, THAT ARE FASCINATED WITH REVELATION. 27:01 THEY HAVE NO INTEREST IN KEEPING THE PART ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 27:03 KEEPING THEIR GARMENTS UNSPOTTED AND LIVING HOLY LIVES, THEY JUST 27:08 LIKE THE CHRONOLOGICAL PROPHETIC ASPECTS OF IT. 27:14 GOD WANTS US TO BE HEARERS AND KEEPERS OF IT. 27:17 MATTHEW 15, VERSE 8, JESUS SAID, 'THESE PEOPLE DRAW NEAR TO ME 27:22 WITH THEIR MOUTHS AND HONOR ME WITH THEIR LIPS BUT THEIR HEARTS 27:25 ARE FAR FROM ME.' SO HOW DO WE KNOW IF A PERSON IS SINCERE? 27:31 YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY THEIR PROFESSION? 27:33 YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS. 27:36 AND SO THAT MEANS YOU'LL SEE IN THEIR LIFE. 27:40 ARE WE SAVED BY OUR PROFESSION OR ARE WE JUDGED BY OUR WORKS? 27:47 REVELATION SAYS, 'BEHOLD, I COME. MY REWARD IS WITH ME 27:49 TO GIVE TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE. 27:52 WHY WOULD GOD SAVE US BY GRACE AND JUDGE US BY WORKS? 27:55 THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT GOES TOGETHER. 27:59 YOUR WORKS WILL DEMONSTRATE IF YOUR HEART HAS BEEN CHANGED. 28:07 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH 28:10 SPEAKS.' YOUR MOUTH DEMONSTRATES WHAT'S HAPPENED IN YOUR HEART. 28:15 PEOPLE TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY LOVE. 28:16 AND SO, IN EVERYTHING FROM THE WORDS THAT WE SPEAK - AND THAT'S 28:19 AN IMPORTANT PART OF GOOD WORKS, IS THAT OUR SPEECH IS SEASONED 28:23 WITH GRACE. THE BIBLE SAYS A CHRISTIAN OUGHT 28:25 TO TALK DIFFERENTLY, RIGHT? AND TO, YOU KNOW, HOW WE SPEND 28:31 OUR TIME AND OUR MEANS AND WHAT WE WEAR AND WHAT WE THINK ABOUT. 28:35 I MEAN, CHRISTIANITY SHOULD REALLY CHANGE THE WHOLE PERSON. 28:38 WE SHOULD DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY. 28:40 AND IT'S THE GRACE OF GOD THAT FORGIVES OUR SINS, BUT HE GIVES 28:45 US POWER - THAT SAME SPIRIT - TO BE DIFFERENT CREATURES. 28:48 MARK 3, VERSE 32 - SIMILAR PASSAGE - "AND A MULTITUDE WAS 28:54 SITTING AROUND HIM AND THEY SAID TO HIM, 'LOOK, YOUR MOTHER AND 28:57 YOUR BROTHERS ARE OUTSIDE SEEKING YOU.'" - AND WHAT DID 29:00 JESUS SAY? - "WHO IS MY MOTHER, OR MY BROTHERS?" 29:03 - HE WASN'T BEING DISRESPECTFUL. BY THE WAY, JAMES WAS A BROTHER, 29:06 WASN'T HE? "'WHO IS MY MOTHER, OR MY BROTHERS?' 29:09 AND HE LOOKED AROUND IN A CIRCLE AT THOSE WHO SAT ABOUT HIM, AND 29:12 SAID, 'HERE ARE MY MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS! 29:15 FOR WHOEVER DOES THE WILL OF GOD IS MY BROTHER AND MY SISTER AND 29:20 MOTHER.'" WHAT WAS JESUS INTERESTED IN? 29:23 IT SAYS, 'WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM WILL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE 29:27 EVERLASTING LIFE.' WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BELIEVE IN GOD? 29:33 WHEN DANIEL WENT TO THE LION'S DEN BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T STOP 29:37 PRAYING AND THE KING CAME THE NEXT MORNING AND PULLED HIM OUT 29:43 AND SAID NO MANNER OF HARM HAD COME TO HIM BECAUSE HE BELIEVED 29:46 HIS GOD. HOW DID DANIEL SHOW HIS BELIEF 29:50 IN GOD? DID HE DO SOMETHING? 29:56 HE KNELT WHEN HE COULD HAVE STOOD. 29:58 HE OPENED HIS WINDOWS WHEN HE COULD HAVE CLOSED THEM. 30:00 HE PRAYED OUT LOUD WHEN HE COULD HAVE PRAYED IN HIS HEART. 30:03 HE SHOWED HIS BELIEF IN WHAT HE DID. 30:06 SO I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD - ONE 30:09 OF THE MOST MEMORIZED AND ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD VERSES IN 30:12 THE BIBLE IS JOHN 3:16 - 'WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM' - 30:16 YOU KNOW WHAT BELIEVE MEANS? IT MEANS TO BE LIVE. 30:18 WHOEVER BE LIVES IN HIM WILL NOT PERISH. 30:23 IF A PERSON SAYS, 'RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! THERE'S A TSUNAMI COMING!' 30:28 AND YOU SAY, 'I BELIEVE IT, BROTHER.' AND YOU DON'T BUDGE, 30:30 YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 30:33 IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE, YOU ACT UPON WHAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE. 30:37 AND THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT SAY, 'I BELIEVE THAT 30:40 JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS.' JAMES SAYS THE DEVILS BELIEVE AND 30:45 TREMBLE. I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF 30:46 BECAUSE I THINK THAT COMES UP IN ANOTHER LESSON. 30:49 SO YOU CAN SAY, 'WELL, I BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED FOR MY SINS.' 30:53 DOES THE DEVIL KNOW THAT JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS? 30:55 HE BELIEVES IT BETTER THAN YOU BECAUSE HE SAW IT. 30:57 HE WAS THERE. IS THAT GOING TO SAVE HIM? 31:00 SO RECOGNIZING AND ACKNOWLEDGING THAT GOD IS REAL - THAT HE DIED 31:05 FOR OUR SINS - JUDAS SAW ALL THAT FIRST HAND. 31:09 BE LIVING IN HIM MEANS DOING THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS. 31:14 A CHRISTIAN IS A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. 31:16 AND SO, THERE'S A LOT OF EMPHASIS IN THE BIBLE ON NOT 31:18 JUST ACCEPTING THE GRACE OF JUSTIFICATION, BUT THEN 31:22 FOLLOWING THE LIFE AND EXAMPLE AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND 31:25 SANCTIFICATION THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT. 31:28 GOD NOT ONLY GIVES US GRACE TO FORGIVE THE PAST, GOD GIVE US 31:30 GRACE TO OBEY. WE DON'T EVER HEAR ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF GRACE. 31:34 HE GIVES US GRACE TO BE DOERS OF THE WORD AND NOT JUST HEARERS. 31:40 AND THEN, OF COURSE, AFTER JESUS PREACHES HIS SERMON ON THE MOUNT 31:44 - NOTICE THAT VERY IMPORTANT PARABLE - LET ME SEE HERE, I 31:47 THINK I'M GETTING TO ANOTHER VERSE HERE IN A MINUTE. 31:49 I'VE GOT A MOMENT OR TWO. MATTHEW 7, VERSE 24, "THEREFORE, 31:53 WHOEVER HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOES THEM, I WILL 31:59 LIKEN HIM TO A WISE MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON THE ROCK: 32:02 AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, THE FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW 32:05 AND BEAT ON THAT HOUSE; AND IT DID NOT FALL, 32:08 FOR IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK. BUT EVERYONE WHO HEARS THESE 32:11 SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOES NOT DO THEM," - NOW, ISN'T THAT CLEAR? 32:16 WHAT SEPARATES THE WISE MAN FROM THE FOOL? 32:19 DOES THE WISE MAN BUILD A HOUSE? DOES THE FOOL BUILD A HOUSE? 32:25 ALRIGHT, SO THEY'RE THE SAME IN THAT RESPECT. 32:27 DOES THE STORM COME TO THE WISE MAN? 32:31 DOES THE STORM COME TO THE FOOL? 32:34 DOES THE WISE MAN HEAR THE WORDS OF JESUS? 32:37 DOES THE FOOL HEAR THE WORDS OF JESUS? 32:41 WHAT IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WISE MAN AND THE 32:42 FOOL? THE FOOLISH MAN DOES NOT DO THEM. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 32:49 THAT'S WHAT SEPARATES THE HOUSE ON THE ROCK THAT'S GOING TO 32:52 SURVIVE, FROM THE HOUSE ON THE SAND THAT'S GOING TO PERISH. 32:54 ONE IS A HEARER AND A DOER AND ONE IS JUST A HEARER AND HE 32:58 DOESN'T DO. NOW, WHEN I READ THIS, I'M 33:01 ALWAYS CONVICTED BECAUSE, IT'S LIKE MARK TWAIN SAID - NOT THAT 33:04 HE'S THE BEST ONE TO QUOTE; HE WAS A CLEVER MAN BUT HE WAS ALSO 33:07 NOT VERY RELIGIOUS. BUT HE DID SAY, 'IT'S NOT ALL 33:10 THE MYSTERIES IN THE BIBLE THAT TROUBLE ME, IT'S THE GOOD I KNOW 33:12 I SHOULD DO THAT CAUSES ME SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. 33:15 PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY, 'YOU KNOW, THERE'S SO MUCH IN THE BIBLE I 33:17 DON'T UNDERSTAND.' MY PROBLEM IS I'M WORRIED ABOUT WHAT I DO 33:20 UNDERSTAND. AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES, YOU 33:24 KNOW, WE'RE USUALLY PRETTY GENTLE ON OUR KIDS IF THEY DON'T 33:27 DO SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT. BUT WE'RE A LITTLE MORE 33:31 SEVERE WHEN THEY IGNORE WHAT THEY DID KNOW ABOUT. 33:34 AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO BE NOT ONLY HEARING. 33:38 ONCE WE'VE HEARD WE WANT TO BE DOING. THERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE 33:42 OF THIS IN THE BIBLE IN THE STORY OF - NOW THIS IS NOT IN 33:47 THE LESSON BUT I THOUGHT IT'S A GOOD EXAMPLE. 33:48 KING SAUL, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, STARTED OUT A GOOD KING; HEAD 33:54 AND SHOULDERS TALLER THAN ANYONE ELSE, FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT, 33:57 ANOINTED BY GOD AND - BUT GOD SENDS HIM ON A MISSION TO GO 34:01 FIGHT THE ENEMIES, THE AMALEKITES, AND HE GIVES HIM 34:03 VERY CLEAR ORDERS NOT TO TAKE ANY PLUNDER OR SURVIVORS. 34:07 THIS IS A WICKED WAR-LIKE PEOPLE AND NO MATTER WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS 34:11 ARE ABOUT HOW BRUTAL WAR WAS IN THE BIBLE, 34:13 THE FACT IS GOD GAVE HIM A VERY CLEAR COMMAND. 34:16 SAUL DIDN'T THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA AND SO HIS MEN KIND OF FLEW 34:19 UPON THE PLUNDER OF THE AMALEKITES AND TOOK THE BEST OF 34:22 THE SHEEP AND THE OXEN AND THE CAMELS AND EVERYTHING ELSE AND 34:25 WHEN SAUL COMES BACK FROM THE BATTLE AND HE'S GOT THIS PARADE 34:29 OF PRISONERS AND THIS PARADE OF BOOTY THAT THEY'VE TAKEN FROM 34:31 THE ENEMY, HE GOES OUT - HE SEES SAMUEL THE PROPHET AND SAMUEL 34:37 SAYS, 'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?' HE SAYS, 'OH, I'VE COME BACK 34:39 FROM OBEYING THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD.' HE SAYS, 'WELL IF 34:41 THAT'S TRUE, WHAT IS ALL THIS BLEATING OF THE SHEEP AND LOWING 34:44 OF THE OXEN THAT I HEAR?' HE SAID, 'OH WELL, YOU KNOW, THE 34:47 PEOPLE, THEY WANTED TO SAVE THE BEST TO SACRIFICE TO THE LORD. 34:51 WE'RE GOING TO MAKE AN OFFERING OF IT.' YOU KNOW, HE TRIED TO 34:54 FIND A RELIGIOUS EXCUSE FOR DISOBEDIENCE. 34:56 IT'S AMAZING SOME OF THE CREATIVE WAYS I HEAR PEOPLE 34:59 JUSTIFY THEIR DISOBEDIENCE. 35:01 THEY SAY, 'OH, IT WAS AN OX IN THE DITCH.' OR THERE ARE ALL 35:06 KINDS OF DIFFERENT STORIES THAT YOU'LL HEAR. 35:08 THEN THERE'S THIS - JUST THIS CLASSIC VERSE WHERE SAMUEL SAID 35:13 - AND THIS IS 1 SAMUEL 15:22 - HE SAYS TO SAUL, "HAS THE LORD 35:18 AS GREAT DELIGHT IN BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES, AS IN 35:23 OBEYING THE VOICE OF THE LORD? BEHOLD, TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN 35:27 SACRIFICE, AND TO HEED THAN THE FAT OF RAMS." - THE FAT OF RAMS 35:30 WAS SOMETHING THEY WOULD GIVE AS A SACRIFICE TO THE LORD TOO. 35:33 WHAT WOULD THE LORD RATHER HAVE FROM YOU? FIFTY-PERCENT OF YOUR 35:37 WEALTH OR A HUNDRED PERCENT OF YOUR OBEDIENCE? 35:41 WOULD THE LORD WANT NINETY PERCENT OF YOUR SUBSTANCE? 35:46 I MEAN, PEOPLE THINK, SOMETIMES, THAT 'I'LL JUST MAKE A BIG 35:49 OFFERING THIS WEEK TO, YOU KNOW, BUY AN INDULGENCE FOR MY SINS' 35:53 OR SOMETHING. IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY. 35:55 GOD IS NOT LOOKING FOR SACRIFICE. 35:57 HE WANTS US TO OBEY AND HE SAYS DISOBEDIENCE IS WORSE THAN 36:01 WITCHCRAFT. AND SO HE SAYS, 'DON'T DECEIVE 36:04 YOURSELVES JUST BEING A HEARER AND NOT A DOER OF THE WORD. 36:08 AND THEN, IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE - WHAT ARE SOME OF THE 36:12 THINGS GOD WANTS US TO DO? 36:13 JESUS OUTLINES AND - SORT OF RULES FOR THE KINGDOM LIFE. 36:18 LUKE 6:27, "BUT I SAY TO YOU WHO HEAR: LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD 36:24 TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU," - NOW RIGHT THERE I'VE GOT MY HANDS 36:26 FULL - "BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU," - THAT'S NOT EASY. 36:32 HAVE YOU EVER TRIED THAT? - "AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO 36:34 SPITEFULLY USE YOU. TO HIM WHO STRIKES YOU ON THE 36:37 ONE CHEEK, OFFER THE OTHER ALSO." 36:40 - I'VE NOT BEEN TESTED ON THAT YET. 36:41 I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'LL DO - "AND TO HIM WHO TAKES AWAY YOUR 36:44 CLOAK, DO NOT WITHHOLD YOUR TUNIC EITHER. 36:47 GIVE TO EVERYONE WHO ASKS OF YOU." 36:49 - TRY AND LIVE THAT ONE OUT. IT'S HARD TO EVEN GET HOME 36:53 WITHOUT BEING TESTED ON THAT POINT - THE ROUTE THAT WE DRIVE 36:58 - GIVE TO EVERYONE WHO ASKS OF YOU AND FROM HIM WHO TAKES AWAY 37:02 YOUR GOODS DO NOT ASK THEM BACK." 37:04 - HOW MANY OF YOU, WHEN SOMEONE TRIES TO SEIZE YOUR PROPERTY, 37:07 JUST SAY, 'GO AHEAD.' - "AND JUST AS YOU WANT MEN TO DO YOU 37:16 ALSO DO TO THEM LIKEWISE." NOW, I DON'T' THINK JESUS IS 37:18 SAYING, YOU KNOW, JUST LET EVERYBODY STEAMROLL YOU HERE. 37:20 HE WAS TALKING ABOUT A TIME WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO BE PERSECUTED 37:24 FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE AND SO, IN DEFENSE OF SHOWING WHAT THE 37:30 CHRIST-LIKE KINGDOM WAS LIKE, THEY WOULD GO THE SECOND MILE 37:33 BACK THEN. THEY WOULD TURN THEIR CHEEKS AND 37:36 - BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE IS ONE PLACE WHERE PAUL GOT STRUCK ON 37:38 THE CHEEK. DID HE TURN THE OTHER CHEEK? 37:40 NO, NO, DO YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY? 37:43 PAUL WAS BEING TRIED AND THE GUARD FOR THE HIGH PRIEST WAS 37:48 STANDING NEXT TO HIM AND THE GUARD SAID SOMETHING ABOUT - 37:51 PAUL HAD MADE A STATEMENT AND THE HIGH PRIEST SAID, 'STRIKE 37:55 HIM!' AND HE STRUCK PAUL ON THE MOUTH AND PAUL SAYS TO THE 37:58 HIGH PRIEST, 'GO AHEAD, STRIKE THE OTHER SIDE.' 38:01 NO, HE DIDN'T SAY THAT. HE SAID, 'YOU WHITED SEPULCHER. 38:04 HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU SIT TO JUDGE ME ACCORDING TO THE LAW 38:08 AND YOU NOW, CONTRARY TO THE LAW, HAVE JUST COMMANDED ME TO 38:10 BE STRUCK.' AND I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE REACTED LIKE PAUL. 38:16 SO JESUS GIVES THE - BUT DID JESUS TURN THE OTHER CHEEK WHEN 38:19 HE WAS STRUCK? WHEN THEY TOOK AWAY HIS CLOTHES DID HE PROTEST? 38:23 NO, SO THE IDEAL FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING'S A PRETTY - IT'S THE 38:27 PERFECT IDEAL. ALRIGHT, 'LAWS OF FREEDOM.' 38:32 ALRIGHT, IN JAMES 1:25 - WE'RE STILL IN THE FIRST CHAPTER. 38:36 HE SAYS, "BUT HE WHO LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AND 38:41 CONTINUES IN IT, AND IS NOT A FORGETFUL HEARER BUT A DOER OF 38:45 THE WORK, THIS ONE WILL BE BLESSED IN WHAT HE DOES." 38:49 SO GOD TALKS ABOUT THIS PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY. 38:53 WHAT IS THAT PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY? 38:54 MATTER OF FACT, I'VE GOT TO TURN HERE - JAMES 1, VERSE 25 - YOU 39:04 KNOW, IN THAT SAME PASSAGE HE TALKS ABOUT TWO OF THE 39:07 TEN COMMANDMENTS. HERE WE GO. LET ME SEE, IS IT CHAPTER 2 NOW? 39:22 2, VERSE 12 - YEAH - "SO SPEAK" - NO, WAIT, I WANT TO READ 39:25 VERSE 11. JAMES CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11 - OH, 39:30 GO TO VERSE 10, "FOR WHOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND 39:34 YET STUMBLE IN ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL. 39:36 FOR HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,'" - NOW WHAT KIND OF 39:39 LAW IS THAT CONNECTED TO? PART OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - 39:43 "ALSO SAID, 'DO NOT MURDER.'" - IN CASE YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS, 39:45 WHAT LAW IS THAT CONNECTED TO? TEN COMMANDMENTS. 39:48 "NOW IF YOU DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, BUT YOU DO MURDER, YOU 39:51 HAVE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW." - THEN HE SAYS, 39:53 "SO SPEAK AND SO DO AS THOSE WHO 39:55 WILL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY." 39:58 SO THERE YOU'VE GOT THE LAW OF LIBERTY MENTIONED AGAIN. 40:01 AND HE CALLS IT, IN VERSE 8, "IF YOU REALLY FULFILL THE ROYAL LAW 40:04 ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS 40:07 YOURSELF,'" IS THERE A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE 40:09 TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE LAW OF LIBERTY? 40:11 WHEN YOU KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IT IS A LAW OF 40:15 LIBERTY FOR YOU. IT'S CALLED THE LAW OF FREEDOM. 40:18 NOW LOOK, FOR INSTANCE IN - SOMEBODY LOOK UP 2 CORINTHIANS 40:21 3:17 - WHO'S GOT THAT ONE COMING UP? YOU'LL BE NEXT, ALRIGHT? 40:24 I'M GOING TO GO TO PSALM 119, VERSES 44 AND 45. 40:31 "SO SHALL I KEEP YOUR LAW CONTINUALLY, FOREVER AND EVER. 40:36 AND I WILL WALK AT LIBERTY, FOR I SEEK YOUR PRECEPTS." 40:40 NOW, HAVEN'T YOU HEARD BEFORE THAT THOSE WHO KEEP THE LAW ARE 40:44 UNDER BONDAGE? I'VE DONE EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS 40:48 MORE THAN ONCE WHERE PEOPLE CAME WHO WERE OF, MAYBE, ANOTHER 40:53 RELIGIOUS PERSUASION AND THEY'D COME TO ME LATER, AFTER I'D 40:55 PREACHED ON THE LAW, AND I'M, YOU KNOW, I'M ONE OF THESE 40:59 PEOPLE THAT THINK THEY'RE NOT THE TEN SUGGESTIONS. 41:02 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD ME SAY THIS AD NAUSEAM, THEY'RE NOT THE 41:05 TEN RECOMMENDATIONS, THEY'RE NOT THE TEN GOOD IDEAS, THE FACT 41:10 THAT THEY'RE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD - THERE'S NO STRONGER 41:13 LANGUAGE THAT GOD CAN USE BY TELLING US THESE ARE LAWS OF THE 41:17 HIGHEST ORDER. THERE IS NO LAW. 41:19 THEY'RE NOT RECOMMENDATIONS. THIS IS THE COMMANDMENTS. 41:22 AND SO I'D PREACH ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND SOMEONE WOULD 41:25 COME TO ME AFTER AND SAY, 'BROTHER DOUG, JESUS CAME 41:28 TO SET US FREE FROM THE LAW. 41:30 YOU ARE PUTTING THESE PEOPLE UNDER A BURDEN. 41:32 YOU'RE PUTTING THEM UNDER BONDAGE.' NOW, IS IT THE ONE WHO 41:36 BREAKS THE LAW THAT'S FREE OR IS IT THE ONE WHO BREAKS THE LAW 41:40 THAT IS BOUND, ACCORDING TO JESUS? IF YOU LOOK IN - 41:44 OH, WELL, I WAS ABOUT TO STEAL SOMEBODY'S VERSE. 41:48 I WAS RUNNING AHEAD OF MYSELF. 41:50 I TELL YOU WHAT, WHO'S GOT JOHN 8:34? 41:55 ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU - WE'LL GIVE THAT TO YOU RIGHT 41:57 NOW AND I KNOW I DIDN'T GIVE MUCH WARNING, BUT I WANT TO TALK 42:01 ABOUT WHO IS THE ONE THAT'S UNDER BONDAGE. 42:04 ALRIGHT, YOU GO AHEAD AND READ THAT FOR US. 42:06 >>"JESUS ANSWERED THEM, 'MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER 42:11 COMMITS SIN IS A SLAVE OF SIN. AND A SLAVE DOES NOT ABIDE IN 42:16 THE HOUSE FOREVER, BUT A SON ABIDES FOREVER. 42:20 THEREFORE IF THE SON MAKES YOU FREE, YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED." 42:25 >>ALRIGHT, SO IS IT THE ONE KEEPING THE LAW THAT'S UNDER 42:28 BONDAGE OR IS IT THE ONE BREAKING THE LAW - SIN IS THE 42:30 TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW - IS IT THE ONE BREAKING THE LAW 42:33 THAT IS UNDER BONDAGE? IS THE ONE KEEPING THE LAW 42:35 BOUND OR IS HE FREE? DOES JESUS SAVE US TO DISOBEY OR 42:39 SAVE US TO OBEY? 'YOU'LL CALL HIS NAME JESUS FOR 42:43 HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FOR MORE THOROUGH SINS.' 'FOR GREATER 42:50 INTENSITY OF SIN.' OR DID HE SAVE US FROM OUR SINS? 42:53 AND SO, HE SAVES US TO BE FREE. THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA. 42:57 YOU'RE - PART OF THE REASON THAT YOU'RE ALL ABLE TO COME AND GO 43:01 TO THIS MEETING TONIGHT IS BECAUSE, I'M ASSUMING, THAT 43:03 YOU'RE LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS, HOPEFULLY IN EVERY AREA OF YOUR 43:08 LIFE. OR AT LEAST YOU HAVEN'T BEEN CAUGHT. 43:11 AND SO THAT GIVE YOU FREEDOM, RIGHT? WHEN YOU DISOBEY, 43:16 WHETHER IT'S SPEEDING, YOU GET PULLED OVER, YOUR FREEDOM IS 43:18 RESTRICTED WHEN YOU DISOBEY. YOUR LIBERTY IS RESTRICTED. 43:22 AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE INCARCERATED TONIGHT, ASSUMING 43:24 YOU'RE LIVING IN A JUST COUNTRY - I KNOW IT'S NOT THAT WAY 43:26 EVERYWHERE - THEY'RE INCARCERATED BECAUSE THEY'VE 43:29 BROKEN THE LAW. THEY HAVE LOST THEIR LIBERTY. 43:32 AND SO THROUGH OBEDIENCE YOU GET THE GREATEST LIBERTY. 43:35 AND SO, THIS IS JUST WHAT JAMES IS SAYING: IT'S THE ROYAL LAW OF 43:39 LIBERTY. OKAY, I THINK YOU'RE NEXT. GO AHEAD, DICK, 43:44 WHY DON'T YOU READ - WHAT IS IT 2 CORINTHIANS 3:17? 43:47 >>NOW THE LORD IS THE SPIRIT; AND WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD 43:50 IS, THERE IS LIBERTY." 43:52 >>ALRIGHT, SO THE SPIRIT OF GOD GIVES US LIBERTY. 43:56 NOW SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT MEANS LIBERTY FROM THE LAW. 43:59 WE'VE ALL HEARD THE STATEMENT BEFORE, 'FOR I'M NOT UNDER THE 44:03 LAW, I AM UNDER GRACE.' WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 44:06 'I'M NOT UNDER THE LAW, I AM UNDER GRACE.' DOES NOT BEING 44:10 UNDER THE LAW MEAN THAT YOU'RE NO LONGER UNDER AN OBLIGATION TO 44:14 KEEP THE LAW? OR, WHEN A PERSON BREAKS THE 44:17 LAW, ARE THEY UNDER THE SENTENCE OF THE LAW? 44:20 THERE'S A PENALTY FOR BREAKING THE LAW. 44:22 WHAT'S THE PENALTY FOR SIN? HOW MANY HAVE SINNED? 44:25 >>ALL. >>SO WHO ARE ALL UNDER THAT 44:27 DEATH PENALTY WITHOUT JESUS? >>ALL. 44:30 >>EVERYONE. CHRIST SAVES US OUT FROM UNDER 44:33 THE PENALTY OF THE LAW. BUT HE DOESN'T SAVE US UNDER THE 44:39 OBLIGATION SO WE DON'T HAVE TO OBEY ANYMORE. 44:42 THINK ABOUT HOW ABSURD THAT REALLY WOULD BE. 44:44 AND, YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE LAW 44:46 UNTIL YOU GET TO ONE OR TWO SPECIFIC COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT? 44:51 NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF THE CHURCHES HERE IN TOWN - OR 44:54 VIRTUALLY ANY TOWN THAT'S WATCHING - I COULD PROBABLY GO 44:58 AND PREACH A SERMON ON HONOR YOUR PARENTS OR BE HONEST OR 45:05 DON'T KILL YOUR NEIGHBOR, OR - YEAH, DON'T COMMIT ADULTERY - 45:09 PEOPLE WOULD BE RESTLESS BUT THEY'D AGREE THAT IT IS 45:11 BIBLICAL. AND YOU COULD GO THROUGH DON'T 45:14 STEAL AND SO FORTH AND EVERYBODY WOULD SAY, 'YEAH, AMEN.' YOU 45:17 KNOW, BUT YOU GET TO ONE LAW IN PARTICULAR AND SAY 'REMEMBER THE 45:21 SABBATH DAY' AND PEOPLE START TO - 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, 45:24 WE'RE UNDER GRACE.' YOU KNOW, IT IS TRUE THAT THE SABBATH TRUTH, 45:29 COMING BACK INTO THE FOREFRONT IN THE LAST HUNDRED AND FIFTY 45:33 YEARS, HAS ACTUALLY CHANGED THE THEOLOGY IN SUNDAY CHURCHES. 45:38 I REMEMBER DOING A MEETING IN A SMALL TOWN AND, YOU KNOW, WE 45:42 WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING 45:44 AND THE LAW, AND THIS PASTOR CAME AND I'D BEEN TO THAT 45:51 PASTOR'S CHURCH BEFORE, VISITING. 45:54 THEY HAD THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE WALL IN THEIR CHURCH. 45:58 THEY HAD THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE WALL IN THEIR SUNDAY SCHOOL. 46:01 AND THEY CAME TO OUR MEETINGS AND WE HAD A LITTLE DEBATE ABOUT 46:06 THAT SUBJECT AND HE SAID, 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, WE'RE UNDER 46:09 GRACE.' AND ONE OF HIS MEMBERS, WHO WAS ALSO ATTENDING OUR 46:12 MEETINGS SAID, 'PASTOR SO AND SO, WHY THEN DO WE HAVE THEM ON 46:16 THE WALL IN OUR CHURCH?' THE PASTOR TOOK THEM DOWN. 46:20 SO CAN YOU SEE HOW THAT WOULD CREATE A CONFLICT? 46:24 AND THEN SOME TAKE THE ARGUMENT - YOU KNOW, IT'S A LOT MORE 46:28 DIFFICULT, THEY SAY, 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW. 46:32 GOD WIPED AWAY THE LAW BUT HE KIND OF RE-ADDED NINE OF THEM IN 46:36 THE NEW TESTAMENT.' AND THAT'S LIKE A PERSON WHO SAYS, 'I'VE 46:38 GOT ONE FINGER THAT MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE SO I'M GOING TO 46:41 CUT OFF TEN OF THEM AND SEW NINE BACK ON TO GET RID OF ONE.' 46:45 THAT'D BE THE WRONG WAY TO DO IT. BUT REALLY, THAT'S WHAT 46:48 THEY'RE DOING AND IF YOU ASK THEM, 'SO, WHICH COMMANDMENT 46:54 IS IT?' THEY'LL SAY, 'WELL, THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT IS NOT 46:57 REPEATED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. THAT IS A MYTH. 47:00 I'VE HEARD THAT SO MANY TIMES AND WHEN YOU PRESS PEOPLE ON IT, 47:02 IT'S ABSOLUTELY AND CATEGORICALLY NOT TRUE. 47:04 THE SABBATH IS MENTIONED MANY TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND 47:07 IN IT WE'RE TOLD TO REMEMBER IT - IT SAYS IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 4, 47:10 'THERE REMAINETH, THEREFORE, THE KEEPING OF THE SABBATH FOR THE 47:12 PEOPLE OF GOD.' THE ONE COMMANDMENT THAT YOU HAVE A HARD 47:15 TIME FINDING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS THE COMMANDMENT 47:17 'THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN.' WHERE 47:21 DOES IT SAY THAT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? 47:23 BUT WHAT CHRISTIAN, OF ANY DENOMINATION, IS GOING TO SAY, 47:27 'IT'S OKAY NOW TO TAKE GOD'S NAME IN VAIN?' 47:30 OF COURSE WE CAN'T DO THAT, RIGHT? 47:33 SO ARE THEY TEN SUGGESTIONS OR TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT THE LORD 47:37 WANTS US TO BE DOERS OF? RIGHT? KEEPERS OF THE WORD. 47:41 SO, LET ME SEE, DID WE COVER ALL THAT ABOUT THE LIBERTY? 47:46 ROMANS 8, VERSE 2, "FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST 47:52 JESUS HAS MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF GOD." 47:56 NO, WHAT LAW ARE WE FREE FROM? THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. 48:01 HE SAVES US FROM THE LAW OF SIN THAT CONTROLS OUR LIVES. 48:06 THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS IN ROMANS 8. THANK GOD WE NO LONGER HAVE TO 48:08 WALK AFTER THE FLESH, I CAN NOW WALK AFTER THE SPIRIT. 48:11 DON'T HAVE TO BE CARNALLY MINDED, YOU CAN BE SPIRITUALLY 48:14 MINDED. YOU BECOME A NEW CREATURE. 48:16 OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY, ALL THINGS ARE MADE NEW. 48:19 AND THIS IS THE WHOLE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL. 48:20 I'VE GOT A FEW QUOTES HERE I JUST THREW IN ON THIS SUBJECT OF 48:23 DOING AND HEARING. 48:26 THIS ONE'S FROM DWIGHT MOODY - EXPECT TO SEE HIM IN HEAVEN - 48:30 "NEVER THINK THAT JESUS COMMANDED A TRIFLE NOR DARE TO 48:35 TRIFLE WITH ANYTHING HE COMMANDED." 48:37 - BECAUSE WHEN HE COMMANDED IT HE EXPECTS US TO DO IT - 48:41 "OBEDIENCE IS THE KEY THAT UNLOCKS THE DOOR TO EVERY 48:44 PROFOUND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE." IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM? 48:50 THE WAY SOME PEOPLE ARE PREACHING THE GOSPEL - THAT'S A 48:51 DOCTRINE OF DEVILS, BUT I'VE HEARD IT. 48:53 THEY ALMOST MAKE IT SOUND LIKE IF YOU TEACH OBEDIENCE YOU'RE A 48:57 LEGALIST. BUT JESUS TAUGHT OBEDIENCE. 49:00 THE APOSTLES TAUGHT OBEDIENCE. GOD, THE FATHER - IN THE OLD 49:04 TESTAMENT - I BELIEVE IT'S JESUS THERE TOO - TEACHES OBEDIENCE. 49:09 SAMUEL DICKEY GORDON SAID, "OBEDIENCE IS THE EYE OF THE 49:13 SPIRIT. FAILURE TO OBEY DIMS AND DULLS 49:16 THE SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING." IF WE KNOW GOD'S WILL AND WE 49:20 FAIL TO DO IT, IT WILL ACTUALLY DULL YOUR SPIRITUAL PERCEPTIONS 49:22 OVER TIME. AND THEN WARREN W. WIERSBE - 49:27 HE WROTE THAT COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE - 49:29 "FREEDOM DOES NOT MEAN I AM ABLE TO DO WHATEVER I WANT TO DO. 49:34 THAT'S THE WORST KIND OF BONDAGE. 49:36 FREEDOM MEANS I HAVE BEEN SET FREE TO BECOME ALL THAT GOD 49:40 WANTS ME TO BE - TO ACHIEVE ALL THAT GOD WANTS ME TO ACHIEVE - 49:45 TO ENJOY ALL THAT GOD WANTS ME TO ENJOY." I LIKE THAT. 49:49 WE'RE FREE TO HAVE THE ABUNDANT LIFE IN THE LORD. 49:52 ALRIGHT, LAST - OH, I'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE SECTIONS. 49:54 'USEFUL OR USELESS?' JAMES 1:26 AND 27, "IF ANYONE 49:59 AMONG YOU THINKS HE IS RELIGIOUS, AND DOES NOT BRIDLE 50:02 HIS TONGUE BUT DECEIVES HIS OWN HEART, 50:05 THIS ONE'S RELIGION IS USELESS." 50:07 - AND THEN HE GOES ON - AND WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THE TONGUE 50:10 IN OTHER LESSONS - "PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION BEFORE GOD 50:14 AND THE FATHER IS THIS: TO VISIT ORPHANS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR 50:17 TROUBLE, AND TO KEEP ONESELF UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD." 50:23 NOW, I DON'T WANT TO HYPERSPIRITUALIZE THIS BUT NOT 50:27 ONLY ARE WE TO CARE FOR ORPHANS AND WIDOWS - AND, YOU KNOW, NOW 50:32 THAT DOESN'T MEAN TO US WHAT IT MEANT IN BIBLE TIMES - IT WAS 50:35 VERY HARD TO EKE A LIVING OUT OF THE LAND FOR JUST A WOMAN 50:39 BECAUSE, TALK ABOUT PLOWING BEHIND THE SOUTH END OF A DONKEY 50:44 OR AN OXEN AND TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING OUT OF THAT, 50:46 THAT WAS REALLY HARD WORK. 50:48 AND WITHOUT THE MAN IN THE HOUSE - THEY HAD NO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE 50:52 BACK THEN. THEY HAD NO WELFARE PROGRAM. 50:54 THEY HAD NO SOCIAL SECURITY AND A LOT OF WIDOWS WERE OUT THERE 50:57 BEGGING AND IT WAS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT. 51:00 AND SO HE SAID, 'DON'T FORGET THEM. REMEMBER THE FATHERLESS 51:02 AND THE WIDOW.' BUT THERE'S A SPIRITUAL SIDE TO THAT. 51:05 PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW JESUS, THEY ARE SORT OF ORPHANS. 51:08 THEY NEED TO BE INTRODUCED TO THEIR HEAVENLY FATHER. 51:11 PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW CHRIST AS THE BRIDEGROOM - THE CHURCH IS 51:15 THE BRIDE OF CHRIST - THEY NEED TO BE INTRODUCED TO THE HUSBAND, 51:18 SO TO SPEAK. AND SO, IT'S ALSO BRINGING PEOPLE TO CHRIST. 51:21 MATTHEW 25, VERSE 35 - IN THAT GREAT PARABLE OF THE JUDGMENT 51:26 DAY, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SAVED AND THE LOST? 51:31 "I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME FOOD; I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE 51:34 ME DRINK; I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN; I WAS NAKED AND 51:38 YOU CLOTHED ME; I WAS SICK AND YOU VISITED ME; I WAS IN PRISON 51:41 AND YOU CAME TO ME." PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION 51:44 BEFORE GOD AND THE FATHER IS THIS. 51:46 IT TALKS ABOUT LOVING THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED - CARING FOR PEOPLE 51:50 WHEN YOU SEE SOME PRACTICAL NEED. 51:52 ROMANS 12:9-13, "LET LOVE BE WITHOUT HYPOCRISY. 52:00 ABHOR WHAT IS EVIL. CLING TO WHAT IS GOOD. 52:02 BE KINDLY AFFECTIONATE TO ONE ANOTHER WITH BROTHERLY LOVE, IN 52:07 HONOR GIVING PREFERENCE TO ONE ANOTHER; NOT LAGGING IN 52:09 DILIGENCE, FERVENT IN SPIRIT, SERVING THE LORD; REJOICING IN 52:13 HOPE, PATIENT IN TRIBULATION, CONTINUING STEADFASTLY IN 52:17 PRAYER; DISTRIBUTING TO THE NEEDS OF THE SAINTS GIVEN TO 52:21 HOSPITALITY." SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT TALKS 52:25 ABOUT CHRISTIANS GIVING? YOU KNOW WHAT IT USUALLY SAYS WE 52:27 SHOULD BE CAREFUL TO GIVE TO FIRST? 52:29 IT SAYS, 'THEY OF YOUR OWN HOUSEHOLD.' AND THEN THAT GOES 52:33 TO THE SPIRITUAL HOUSEHOLD. THEY WERE TO CARE FOR THOSE IN 52:37 THE CHURCH AND THEN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. 52:40 ALRIGHT, NOW THE LAST SECTION: 'UNLIKE THE WORLD.' JAMES 1:27 - 52:45 HE GOES ON AND SAYS IN THAT SAME VERSE, "AND TO KEEP 52:48 ONESELF UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD." 52:51 NOW THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF OUR LAST VERSES. 52:54 1 JOHN 2:15-17 - I'VE PRETTY MUCH MEMORIZED THIS VERSE. 53:01 "DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD OR THE THINGS IN THE WORLD. 53:04 IF ANYONE LOVES THE WORLD, THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT IN 53:08 HIM. FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD - 53:10 THE LUST OF THE FLESH, THE LUST OF THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE OF 53:13 LIFE - IS NOT OF THE FATHER BUT IS OF THE WORLD. 53:16 AND THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY AND THE LUST OF IT; BUT HE WHO 53:22 DOES" - HEARS? - "HE THAT DOES THE WILL OF GOD ABIDES FOREVER." 53:27 NOW THE BIBLE TELLS US DON'T LOVE THE WORLD AND JESUS SAID, 53:33 'FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD.' PEOPLE GET MIXED UP ON THAT WORD 53:36 'WORLD.' ARE WE TO LOVE THE WORLD? 53:39 IT'S KIND OF A LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP - WHICH IS IT? 53:42 WELL, WHEN IT SAYS - IT TALKS ABOUT WORLDLINESS IN THE BIBLE - 53:46 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS IN THE WORLD - THE LUST OF THE 53:49 FLESH AND THE LUST OF THE EYES AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE AND THINGS 53:51 THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, JUST ALL THE EVIL SEEDY BAD THINGS IN THE 53:56 WORLD. WE KNOW WHAT WORLDLINESS IS, BUT 53:58 WHEN IT SAYS 'LOVING THE WORLD' IT'S LIKE LOVING THE PLANET. 54:01 I MEAN, CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO LOVE THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND WANT 54:04 TO, YOU KNOW, BE WILLING TO REACH HUMANITY AND CARE FOR 54:08 THEM. BUT THERE'S A BALANCE. HOW CAN YOU KEEP YOURSELF 54:13 UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD WHEN YOU'RE IN THE WORLD? 54:16 I HEARD SOMEONE SAY ONE TIME THAT A CHRISTIAN IN THE CHURCH 54:21 IS SOMETHING LIKE A BOAT IN THE WATER WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH WHERE 54:25 A BOAT BELONGS. BOAT'S ALWAYS LOOK A LITTLE BIT 54:27 POWERLESS ON LAND, DON'T THEY? THEY LOOK OUT OF PLACE. 54:31 BUT YOU, AT THE SAME TIME, HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN WATER IS IN 54:34 THE BOAT AND THEN IT GOES DOWN. CHRISTIANS BELONG IN THE WORLD - 54:39 EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU'VE GOT TO SCRUB THE BARNACLES OFF THE BOAT 54:42 - BUT YOU BELONG IN THE WORLD TO HAVE AN INFLUENCE - SO YOU CAN 54:45 SAVE PEOPLE FROM THE WORLD INTO THE BOAT - BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO 54:50 GET IN THE WATER OR YOU END UP LIKE JONAH, RIGHT? 54:56 YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO BRING PEOPLE OUT OF THAT. 54:59 AND THEN, JESUS SAYS, 'IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS 55:02 AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER AND GIVE YOU ANOTHER HELPER.' GOD 55:06 DOESN'T JUST WANT US TO BE HEARERS OF THE WORD, HE WANTS US 55:08 TO BE DOERS OF THE WORD. HE WANTS US TO BE USEFUL. 55:12 THIS IS A LESSON - MATTER OF FACT, THE WHOLE BOOK OF JAMES IS 55:14 JUST A WONDERFUL BOOK BECAUSE IT REALLY TALKS ABOUT THE PRACTICAL 55:18 THEMES OF LIVING REAL CHRISTIANITY. 55:20 YOU'LL FIND, WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK OF JAMES AND THE BOOK OF 55:23 PAUL - BOOKS OF PAUL, I SHOULD SAY - THAT THEY ALMOST 55:27 SOUND LIKE THEY OPPOSE EACH OTHER. 55:30 PAUL, HIS EMPHASIS IS SO MUCH ON GRACE - WHY? 55:34 PAUL IS TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO HAD DRIFTED INTO LEGALISM SO HE 55:38 HAD TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME EMPHASIZING THE GRACE. 55:41 JAMES IS NOW TALKING TO SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE PRESUMING ON THE 55:46 GRACE OF GOD AND THEY'RE BECOMING SLOPPY ABOUT LIVING 55:49 GODLY LIVES. HE, THEN, HAS TO ALMOST GO TO 55:52 THE OTHER EXTREME AND SAY FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. 55:55 AND SO, YOU KNOW, BOTH OF THE WRITERS ARE TRUE BUT IT'S 55:59 INTERESTING THAT PETER DOES SAY, IN CHAPTER 3 OF 2 PETER, 'OUR 56:05 BELOVED BROTHER PAUL SAYS SOME THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO 56:08 UNDERSTAND, WHICH THOSE THAT ARE UNSTABLE WREST, AS THEY DO THE 56:13 OTHER SCRIPTURES, TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION. 56:15 SO PEOPLE OFTEN TOOK THE THINGS PAUL SAID ABOUT GRACE AND THEY 56:17 TWISTED THEM AND MISUNDERSTOOD THEM. 56:19 THAT'S HAPPENING IN A LOT OF CHRISTENDOM TODAY BECAUSE WE ALL 56:23 NEED THE GRACE OF GOD AND GRACE FEELS SO GOOD WHEN YOU COME JUST 56:26 AS YOU ARE AND GOD WASHES AWAY YOUR SINS. 56:28 THAT NEW BEGINNING IS SO WONDERFUL THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE 56:32 ARE LEFT THERE AND THEY NEVER EXPERIENCE THE SANCTIFICATION OF 56:35 SAYING, 'OKAY, I'M GOING TO NOW BE A FOLLOWER OF JESUS AND DO 56:38 WHAT HE TELLS ME TO DO.' THAT'S WHY THE BOOK OF JAMES 56:41 IS SO IMPORTANT, BECAUSE IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE PRACTICAL 56:44 SIDE OF CHRISTIANITY. WELL, I THINK WE'RE OUT OF 56:46 LESSON TIME FOR NOW, BUT BEFORE WE CLOSE, I JUST WANT TO REMIND 56:49 EVERYBODY WE DO HAVE A FREE BOOK AND IT'S CALLED 'WHO DO YOU 56:51 THINK YOU ARE?' IT TALKS ABOUT THE BALANCE 56:53 BETWEEN KNOWING WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST, FAITH, AND WORKS AND 56:57 FROM, I HOPE, A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE AND IF YOU WANT A 57:00 FREE COPY WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. 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