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>>HELLO FRIENDS, I WANT TO
WELCOME YOU TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR. AND, AS
YOU MAY KNOW, WE'RE IN
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TRANSITION RIGHT
NOW AS WE ARE MOVING.
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THIS IS THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
WE'RE DOING OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
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TIME, WHICH IS DURING OUR
NORMAL PRAYER MEETING TIME.
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AND, IN THE MEANTIME, WE'RE KIND
OF RETRO-FITTING A WAREHOUSE
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THAT'S GOING TO SERVE
AS OUR CHURCH FOR AWHILE.
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WE'LL MOVE THE
STUDIOS OVER THERE.
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BUT WE'RE REALLY GLAD WE
CAN CONTINUE STUDYING WITH OUR
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FRIENDS THAT ARE WATCHING
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
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I JUST CAME BACK FROM DOING A
PROGRAM IN ST. LOUIS WITH 3ABN.
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I MET A LOT OF OUR FRIENDS
THAT ARE IN MID-AMERICA THAT ARE
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PART OF OUR
SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS.
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WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU - WELCOME
THE CLASS HERE - MATTER OF FACT,
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I BELIEVE IN TRANSPARENCY SO
MAYBE WE'LL JUST GIVE YOU A SHOT
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OF WHAT'S
HAPPENING HERE IN THE STUDIO.
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THIS IS - THIS IS THE VAST
AMAZING FACTS STUDIOS HERE WHERE
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- THAT WE ARE USING FOR MULTIPLE
PURPOSES - WHERE IT'S SERVING AS
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OUR PRAYER
MEETING GROUP TONIGHT.
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AND I WANT TO THANK THE PRAYER
MEETING GROUP FOR LETTING US
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TURN IT INTO OUR SABBATH
SCHOOL CLASS IN THE MEANTIME.
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IN A MOMENT WE'LL GET INTO OUR
LESSON BUT, AS ALWAYS, WE LIKE
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TO START THE PROGRAM WITH A WORD
OF PRAYER AND JUST INVITE YOU TO
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JOIN ME. FATHER IN
HEAVEN, WE JUST THANK
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YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORD
AND, IN A SPECIAL SENSE, FOR THE
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STUDY TONIGHT,
DEALING WITH YOUR LOVE.
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I PRAY THAT YOUR
SPIRIT WILL BE PRESENT.
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JUST GUIDE US IN OUR
UNDERSTANDING AND WE PRAY, LORD,
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THAT THIS LESSON WILL BE A
TREMENDOUS BLESSING TO EVERYONE
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THAT'S WATCHING AND THE POWER
OF THE WORD WILL BE REALIZED.
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BE WITH ME AS I TEACH.
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I PRAY THAT YOU'LL QUICKEN ALL
OF OUR MINDS AND WE THANK YOU
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AND ASK THIS IN
JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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WELL, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE
IN OUR LESSON OF JAMES IN JUST A
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MOMENT. IT'LL BE LESSON #5.
AS OFTEN, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER
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THAT WE LIKE TO MAKE AVAILABLE
TO ANYBODY. JUST - ALL YOU HAVE
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TO DO IS CALL IN AND ASK FOR IT.
THIS PARTICULAR LESSON DEALING
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WITH 'IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?'
IT JUST STRIKES RIGHT AT THE
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HEART OF WHAT
OUR SUBJECT IS TODAY.
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YOU CAN ALSO GET IT AT
THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE.
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SO IF YOU THINK 'I'D REALLY LIKE
TO SEE THAT' OR USE IT - SOME OF
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YOU ACTUALLY WATCH THESE
PROGRAMS IN PREPARATION FOR
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HELPING WITH YOUR OWN
SABBATH SCHOOL CLASSES.
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YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS
WEBSITE AND JUST DOWNLOAD THIS
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LESSON AND READ IT FOR
FREE AND THAT WOULD JUST BE
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'AMAZINGFACTS.ORG'. AND
IF YOU WOULD LIKE A COPY
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WE'LL GIVE IT TO YOU. YOU
NEED TO READ IT, THOUGH AND
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SHARE IT WITH
SOMEBODY. IT'S OFFER #706.
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THE PHONE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966
OR 866-STUDY-MORE AND ASK FOR
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'IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?' - OFFER
#706 - WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU.
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WE'RE GETTING INTO LESSON #5 NOW
IN OUR STUDY FROM THE BOOK OF
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JAMES AND THE STUDY TONIGHT IS
DEALING WITH 'LOVE AND THE LAW.'
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IT'S JUST - IT'S REALLY A
TOP PRIORITY SUBJECT MATERIAL.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY
VERSE. THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM
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JAMES 13 - JAMES 2:13, SORRY.
JAMES CHAPTER 2, VERSE 13 AND IF
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YOU'D LIKE TO SAY THAT WITH ME,
THAT'D BE GREAT. ARE YOU READY?
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"FOR JUDGMENT IS WITHOUT MERCY
TO THE ONE WHO HAS SHOWN NO
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MERCY. MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER
JUDGMENT." NOW IN THE QUARTERLY
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THEY DID IT FROM THE NEW
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION AND
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THAT'S WHY YOU SAW A COUPLE OF
WORDS WERE IN DIFFERENT SPOTS.
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IT'S TALKING ABOUT MERCY AND
JUDGMENT HERE IN A SPECIAL SENSE
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AND, YOU KNOW, REALLY THE BIG
THEME OF THE BIBLE IS ABOUT GOD,
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OBVIOUSLY, AND GOD IS IDENTIFIED
- IF YOU WERE TO COALESCE WHO
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AND WHAT GOD IS,
WHAT WORD IS USED?
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GOD - THREE LETTERS -
THREE WORDS - GOD IS LOVE.
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AND SO, EVEN THE TITLE OF
THE LESSON CAN LEAD TO A COMMON
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MISUNDERSTANDING THAT PEOPLE
HAVE THAT, SOMEHOW, WHEN YOU
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TALK ABOUT LOVE AND YOU TALK
ABOUT LAW, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
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TWO DIAMETRIC OPPOSITES.
BUT THAT'S A MYTH BECAUSE WHO IS
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THE AUTHOR OF THE LAW?
GOD IS, AND GOD IS LOVE.
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IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GOD
IS LOVE BUT HIS LAW IS NOT?
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AND WHEN PARENTS GIVE ANY KIND
OF RULES TO THEIR CHILDREN, YOU
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KNOW, ASSUMING THAT THEY'RE
BEING GOOD PARENTS, THE RULES
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ARE ALL FOR THE BENEFIT OF
THE KIDS BECAUSE THEY LOVE THEM.
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AND THE BIBLE SAYS, 'NO GOOD
THING WILL GOD WITHHOLD FROM
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THOSE THAT WALK UPRIGHTLY.
SO GOD DOESN'T HAVE ANY OF HIS
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LAWS TO RESTRICT OUR FREEDOM,
ALL OF HIS LAWS ARE REALLY TO
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ENHANCE OUR LOVE
RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
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SO THERE'S REALLY NO CONFLICT
BETWEEN THE LAW OF GOD AND LOVE
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FOR GOD, BUT IT'S POSSIBLE TO BE
ERRING ON THE SIDE OF LAW, WHERE
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YOU FOCUS ON THE LAW WITHOUT
GOD AND THAT TURNS INTO LEGALISM
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BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T LOVE GOD
AND YOU'RE TRYING TO KEEP THE
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LAW, IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE
FOR YOU NOT TO GRAVITATE INTO A
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LEGALISTIC BEHAVIOR.
WILL THERE BE PEOPLE IN HEAVEN
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THAT - OH WAIT, LET ME SAY THIS
- YEAH, LET ME SAY IT THAT WAY.
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WILL THERE BE PEOPLE IN
HEAVEN THAT COMMITTED MURDER?
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>>YES. >>CAN YOU
THINK OF ANY FROM THE
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BIBLE? DAVID, PAUL, SAMPSON,
MOSES. THAT'S A GOOD START.
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WILL THERE BE PEOPLE IN
HEAVEN THAT COMMITTED ADULTERY?
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DAVID COMES TO THE TOP
OF THE LIST, USUALLY BECAUSE
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HIS WAS SUCH A -
WAS SUCH A SCANDAL.
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BUT THERE WERE
OTHERS, I MEAN, SAMPSON.
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ABRAHAM - I DON'T KNOW IF
I'D PUT THAT IN THE ADULTERY
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CATEGORY, THAT WAS
SORT OF - POLYGAMY.
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BUT I GUESS IF YOU HAVE
TWO WIVES, THAT'S TECHNICALLY
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BIGAMY, RIGHT? WHEN THERE'S
TWO. BUT, YEAH, AND THERE WERE
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OTHERS. WILL THERE
BE PEOPLE IN HEAVEN
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THAT, MAYBE, TOOK
GOD'S NAME IN VAIN?
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DID PETER CURSE AND
SWEAR AND DENY KNOWING JESUS?
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AND YOU CAN GO THROUGH THE
LITANY OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
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AND THERE WILL BE
PEOPLE WHO BROKE VARIOUS LAWS.
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SOME OF THEM BROKE THE
LAWS UNTIL THE DAY THEY DIED.
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TOO MANY WIVES OR, YOU KNOW,
THEY DIDN'T KNOW CERTAIN THINGS
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AND GOD WINKED AT THEIR
IGNORANCE. BUT WILL THERE BE
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ANYONE IN HEAVEN THAT
DIDN'T LEARN TO LOVE GOD?
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AND THAT, USUALLY, WILL PLAY OUT
IN ALSO LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR.
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THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS,
'THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT
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WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.'
THEY'RE NOT - THEY'RE NOT IN
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CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER.
AND JAMES TALKS ABOUT THAT.
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NOW HE - HE SHARES SOMETHING
IN JAMES 2, VERSE 1 - MATTER OF
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FACT, WE'LL GET THE NEXT
PERSON SET UP TO READ A VERSE.
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WE'VE GOT
PROVERBS 23. WHO HAS THAT?
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PROVERBS 23:4 AND 5.
YOU'LL BE NEXT, THEN.
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LET ME READ THIS FOR
YOU. JAMES 2:1 THROUGH 4.
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"MY BRETHREN, DO NOT HOLD THE
FAITH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,
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THE LORD OF
GLORY, WITH PARTIALITY.
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FOR IF THERE SHOULD COME INTO
YOUR ASSEMBLY A MAN WITH GOLD
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RINGS, IN FINE APPAREL, AND
THERE SHOULD ALSO COME IN A POOR
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MAN IN FILTHY CLOTHES, AND YOU
PAY ATTENTION TO THE ONE WEARING
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THE FINE CLOTHES AND SAY TO HIM,
'YOU SIT HERE IN A GOOD PLACE,'
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AND SAY TO THE POOR MAN, 'YOU
STAND THERE,' OR, 'SIT HERE AT
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MY FOOTSTOOL,' HAVE YOU
NOT SHOWN PARTIALITY AMONG
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YOURSELVES, AND BECOME
JUDGES WITH EVIL THOUGHTS?"
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NOW, IF I'M HONEST WITH MYSELF,
AND MAYBE YOU'RE NOT THIS WAY,
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BUT IF I'M HONEST WITH
MYSELF, I'VE CAUGHT MYSELF BEING
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PREFERENTIAL TO PEOPLE BECAUSE
OF A PERSON'S BEARING OR BECAUSE
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YOU KNOW THAT THEY HAPPEN TO BE
A PERSON OF INFLUENCE OR THEY'RE
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WEALTHY OR SOMETHING AND
YOU JUST FIND THAT WE'RE SORT OF
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TRAINED IN OUR SOCIETY TO PUT
THEM ON A NOTCH HIGHER, SOMEHOW,
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THAN OTHER PEOPLE. I
HEARD ABOUT A PASTOR ONCE -
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THIS MIGHT BE AN URBAN
MYTH, BUT IT'S A GOOD ONE -
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THAT HE DRESSED UP LIKE
A HOMELESS PERSON - PUT ON
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A BEARD AND EVERYTHING LIKE
THAT, AND THE SUNDAY MORNING,
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BEFORE THEIR CHURCH BEGAN,
HE WENT AT THE FOYER AND KIND OF
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HUNG OUT AND PANHANDLED A LITTLE
BIT AND FOLKS DIDN'T RECOGNIZE
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HIM AND EVERYBODY WENT IN
AND THEY JUST, YOU KNOW, KIND OF
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PUSHED HIM ASIDE AND SAID, YOU
KNOW, 'EW' AND NOBODY OFFERED TO
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HELP HIM. AND THEN
AFTER PEOPLE HAD ALL
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FILED IN FOR THE SERVICE, HE
WALKED DOWN FRONT AND HE PULLED
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OFF HIS DISGUISE AND IT WAS
THE PASTOR AND HE SAID - THEN HE
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READ TO THEM THE
PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
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AND IT JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU
DON'T KNOW. DOES THE BIBLE SAY
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THAT SOME OF US HAVE
ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARE?
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DO THE ANGELS ALWAYS WEAR
DESIGNER CLOTHING WHEN THEY
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APPEAR? SO WE'VE
GOT TO BE CAREFUL.
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YOU NEVER KNOW HOW YOU MIGHT BE
TREATING A PERSON AND THE LORD
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COMES IN THE GARB OF MANY
OTHERS. ALRIGHT, WHY DON'T YOU
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GO AHEAD AND READ FOR
US PROVERBS 23:4 AND 5?
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>>"DO NOT OVEROWRK TO BE
RICH; BECAUSE OF YOUR OWN
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UNDERSTANDING, CEASE!
WILL YOU SET YOUR EYES ON THAT
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WHICH IS NOT? FOR
RICHES CERTAINLY MAKE
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THEMSELVES WINGS; THEY FLY AWAY
LIKE AN EAGLE TOWARD HEAVEN.
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>>THANK YOU. THIS
IS SOLOMON SPEAKING.
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NOW DID SOLOMON KNOW WHAT HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT DISCUSSING RICHES?
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I CAN'T THINK OF A KING IN
ISRAEL'S HISTORY THAT HAD MORE -
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EVEN JESUS REFERENCED SOLOMON IN
ALL OF HIS GORGEOUS APPAREL THAT
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LEFT THE QUEEN
OF SHEBA BREATHLESS.
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YOU EVER HEARD THE
EXPRESSION 'BREATHTAKING?'
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THAT COMES FROM THE BIBLE WHEN
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA SAW ALL THAT
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SOLOMON HAD; IT SAYS, 'THERE WAS
NO MORE BREATH IN HER.' NO MORE
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'RUACH' IN HER. THAT
MEANS 'BREATH' AND THAT'S
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WHERE WE GET THE 'BREATHTAKING'
OR SOMEONE IS 'BREATHLESS' FROM
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THE SPLENDOR OF SOMETHING.
SO JESUS EVEN RECOGNIZES THAT.
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HE SAYS THE LILIES ARE ARRAYED
EVEN MORE BEAUTIFULLY THAN
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SOLOMON. BUT SOLOMON,
AT THE END, HE SAID WHAT?
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IT'S ALL VANITY. VANITY. VANITY.
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CAN YOU THINK, IN THE BIBLE, OF
PEOPLE THAT HAD VERY HIGH REGARD
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FROM GOD BUT WERE, BY THE
WORLD'S STANDARDS, VERY POOR?
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JOHN THE BAPTIST IS ONE.
THE GREATEST OF THE PROPHETS,
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WHERE DID HE LIVE? BY
TODAY'S STANDARDS WE WOULD
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HAVE SAID HE
WAS HOMELESS. RIGHT?
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AND JOHN WAS A TYPE OF
WHAT PROPHET? OLD TESTAMENT -
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ELIJAH. WHERE'D ELIJAH LIVE?
CREEK - FED BY UNCLEAN BIRDS -
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RAVENS. HE LIVED IN THE -
THE ATTIC OF A WIDOW DURING A
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FAMINE. HE LIVED IN A CAVE
FOR A LITTLE WHILE - OUT BY
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MOUNT SINAI AND - BUT WHO
DID GOD ESTEEM SO HIGHLY THAT HE
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TOOK HIM TO HEAVEN
IN A FIERY CHARIOT?
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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PERSON
AND YOU KIND OF PASS A MENTAL
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JUDGMENT ON THEM AND THEN YOU
GET TO TALKING TO THEM AND YOU
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THINK, 'WOW, I HAD NO IDEA HOW
SHARP AND DEEP AND BRIGHT THIS
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PERSON WAS.' AND SO YOU CAN'T
ALWAYS TELL BY WHAT A PERSON
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WEARS. WHEN I
LIVED ON THE STREET, I
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HAD A LOT OF FRIENDS
WHO WERE STREET PEOPLE.
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WHEN I - I WAS LIVING IN A CAVE
AND I ALSO LIVED ON THE STREETS
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SOMETIMES AND WE STAYED IN
ABANDONED BUILDINGS AND I JUST
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- I KNEW A LOT OF
THE STREET PEOPLE.
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AND WE PANHANDLED AND
IT WAS THAT WHOLE LIFE.
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AND I HAD ONE FRIEND THAT GOT
LUCKY ONE NIGHT PLAYING POOL.
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HE JUST - HE WASN'T AS - I DON'T
MEAN TO BE UNKIND, BUT HE WASN'T
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THE SHARPEST PERSON -
DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF EDUCATION.
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BUT HE GOT LUCKY PLAYING
POOL AND HE WON THREE HUNDRED
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DOLLARS, WHICH WAS A LOT OF
MONEY BACK THEN, AND HE WENT TO
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A PALM SPRINGS STORE AND HE
BOUGHT HIMSELF A THREE-PIECE
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GREEN SUIT. BUT,
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THAT WAS
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ACTUALLY IN STYLE - IT'S
HARD TO BELIEVE - AT THAT TIME.
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AND FOR A COUPLE OF
DAYS HE LOOKED REALLY SHARP.
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HE HAD BOUGHT LIKE, YOU KNOW,
THE NEW SHOES, THE NEW SOCKS AND
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HE JUST, YOU KNOW, HE HAD
NOWHERE TO LIVE BUT HE SPENT ALL
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HIS MONEY ON THIS SUIT BECAUSE
HE WANTED TO LOOK IMPORTANT AND
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PEOPLE THOUGHT, 'WOW, WHAT
A SMART GUY.' AND THEN THEY'D
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START TALKING TO HIM AND THEY'D
REALIZE, 'OH, HE'S REALLY NOT
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VERY EDUCATED.' AND HE WAS JUST
A, YOU KNOW, A STREET PERSON.
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AFTER ABOUT TWO WEEKS IN THAT
SUIT IT JUST WASN'T LOOKING SO
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GOOD ANYMORE BECAUSE THAT'S ALL
HE HAD. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S -
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SOMETIMES WE LOOK AT THE OUTSIDE
AND YOU CAN CHANGE THE OUTSIDE.
00:13:15.40\00:13:20.60
IT DOESN'T REALLY
CHANGE WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE.
00:13:20.60\00:13:22.53
SO I THINK WE OUGHT TO BE FAIR
WITH EVERYBODY AND, FIRST OF
00:13:22.53\00:13:24.66
ALL, HOW DOES THE
LORD LOVE EVERYBODY?
00:13:24.66\00:13:28.00
REGARDLESS OF THEIR IQ,
REGARDLESS OF THEIR BACKGROUND
00:13:28.00\00:13:32.16
OR EDUCATION, JESUS TREATED
EVERYBODY WITH RESPECT AND
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DIGNITY. AND,
YOU KNOW, THAT'S AN
00:13:35.30\00:13:39.53
IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE THAT
HE'S SHARING WITH US HERE.
00:13:39.53\00:13:41.33
I'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO
GRAVITATE INTO ALL THE VERSES IN
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THE BIBLE THAT TALK ABOUT
HOW DECEPTIVE RICHES CAN BE.
00:13:44.16\00:13:48.10
WE OFTEN TREAT PEOPLE - YOU
KNOW, JAMES IS TALKING ABOUT THE
00:13:48.10\00:13:51.50
PERSON WHO IS
OBVIOUSLY A PERSON OF INFLUENCE.
00:13:51.50\00:13:54.26
WE TREAT PEOPLE WITH MONEY
AND POSSESSIONS AND POSITION
00:13:54.26\00:13:59.96
DIFFERENTLY AND GOD
VALUES EVERY SOUL THE SAME.
00:13:59.96\00:14:05.03
YOU KNOW, THE WOMAN AT THE
WELL. WHY WAS SHE THERE ALONE?
00:14:05.03\00:14:09.53
SHE WAS, SORT OF - PROBABLY
AN OUTCAST IN HER OWN SOCIETY.
00:14:09.53\00:14:12.40
I MEAN, SHE SAYS - OR JESUS
SAID, 'YOU'VE HAD FIVE HUSBANDS'
00:14:12.40\00:14:16.86
- I MEAN, EVEN AMONG
THE SAMARITANS THAT WOULD BE
00:14:16.86\00:14:18.80
CONSIDERED INAPPROPRIATE -
'AND YOU'RE LIVING WITH SOMEONE
00:14:18.80\00:14:22.50
THAT'S NOT YOUR HUSBAND NOW' -
EVEN THE SAMARITANS BELIEVED IN
00:14:22.50\00:14:24.93
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
SO SHE'S COMING TO THE WELL
00:14:24.93\00:14:29.00
ALONE - THE WOMEN USED TO
GO TOGETHER FOR SAFETY AND THEY
00:14:29.00\00:14:31.76
USUALLY WENT IN THE MORNING.
SHE'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY -
00:14:31.76\00:14:33.56
SHE WAS SORT OF AN OUTCAST.
BUT THINK OF WHAT JESUS DID.
00:14:33.56\00:14:36.90
HE REVEALS TO HER THAT HE'S THE
MESSIAH AND SHE BECOMES THE BEST
00:14:36.90\00:14:40.96
INDIVIDUAL TO
ANNOUNCE IT TO THE COMMUNITY.
00:14:40.96\00:14:43.16
NOW SHE'S A GENTILE. HE
ALSO DOES THAT WITH A JEWISH
00:14:43.16\00:14:46.13
GIRL THAT HAD A BAD REPUTATION.
WHO WAS SHE? MARY MAGDALENE.
00:14:46.13\00:14:50.80
PROBABLY THE SAME AS MARY OF
BETHANY AND - DID SIMON JUDGE
00:14:50.80\00:14:56.43
HER FROM THE OUTSIDE WHEN
SHE WAS WASHING JESUS' FEET?
00:14:56.43\00:15:00.66
AND SAY, 'THIS MAN, IF HE WAS A
PROPHET, HE'D KNOW WHO AND WHAT
00:15:00.66\00:15:04.33
MANNER OF WOMAN THIS IS
THAT'S TOUCHING HIM, FOR SHE'S A
00:15:04.33\00:15:06.70
SINNER.' BUT JESUS
LOOKS ON THE INSIDE.
00:15:06.70\00:15:10.23
THAT, OF COURSE, THAT STATEMENT
COMES FROM WHEN, YEAH, SAMUEL IS
00:15:10.23\00:15:15.06
LOOKING FOR THE LORD'S ANOINTED
IN BETHLEHEM AND HE SEES THE
00:15:15.06\00:15:19.36
TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME SON OF
JESSE - ELIAB, I THINK IT WAS,
00:15:19.36\00:15:23.56
AND HE SAID, 'SURELY THE
LORD'S ANOINTED IS BEFORE ME.'
00:15:23.56\00:15:26.50
AND GOD SAID,
'DON'T LOOK ON HIS HEIGHT.
00:15:26.50\00:15:28.50
DON'T LOOK ON HIS
OUTWARD APPEARANCE.
00:15:28.50\00:15:30.66
GOD LOOKS ON THE HEART.'
SO WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL NOT
00:15:30.66\00:15:35.93
TO JUDGE BASED ON
OUTWARD APPEARANCE.
00:15:35.93\00:15:38.30
NOW, WHEN JAMES SAID THIS,
YOU REALIZE, THAT WAS REALLY
00:15:38.30\00:15:40.70
SURPRISING BECAUSE, IN THE GREEK
AND ROMAN CULTURES, STANDING
00:15:40.70\00:15:47.50
REALLY MEANT SOMETHING.
IF YOU MADE A DONATION TO THE
00:15:47.50\00:15:49.36
CHURCH IT MEANT THAT
YOU HAD PREMIER SEATING.
00:15:49.36\00:15:54.10
DO YOU KNOW THERE WAS ACTUALLY
A TIME, EARLIER IN AMERICA'S
00:15:54.10\00:15:56.13
HISTORY, WHERE YOU RESERVED A
PEW IN THE CHURCH BASED ON YOUR
00:15:56.13\00:16:00.63
DONATIONS, IN
SOME DENOMINATIONS?
00:16:00.63\00:16:03.80
I THINK ONE OF THE CHURCHES THAT
MOODY WENT TO, HE HAD TO RESERVE
00:16:03.80\00:16:06.20
A PEW AND YOU
HAD TO PAY FOR THEM.
00:16:06.20\00:16:08.93
AND THERE WERE EVEN
PEWS THAT HAD NAMES ON IT.
00:16:08.93\00:16:12.06
I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT KIND OF
RUCKUS THERE WAS IF SOME VISITOR
00:16:12.06\00:16:14.63
WENT AND SAT IN
SOMEONE ELSE'S PEW.
00:16:14.63\00:16:16.50
I MEAN, NOW WE THINK ABOUT
THAT AND YOU THINK, 'OH, WE WANT
00:16:16.50\00:16:18.53
EVERYBODY TO COME.' AND IN A
GOOD CHURCH YOU WOULD HOPE TO
00:16:18.53\00:16:22.40
GIVE THE FIRST-CLASS
SEATING TO YOUR VISITORS.
00:16:22.40\00:16:26.33
I KNOW, AT CENTRAL, FREQUENTLY
WHEN WE HAD EVENTS, WE ALWAYS
00:16:26.33\00:16:29.50
RAN OUT OF PARKING. WE
WOULD ASK STAFF AND MEMBERS,
00:16:29.50\00:16:33.80
'PLEASE PARK ACROSS THE STREET
AT THE EXTRA PARKING THAT WE
00:16:33.80\00:16:38.20
RESERVED AND LET OUR VISITORS
HAVE THE MOST CONVENIENT
00:16:38.20\00:16:41.13
PARKING.' AND THAT,
I THINK, SHOULD BE THE
00:16:41.13\00:16:43.96
- SHOULD BE THE
STANDARD OF CHRIST.
00:16:43.96\00:16:45.06
SO JAMES IS TALKING
ABOUT THAT PRINCIPLE OF LOVE.
00:16:45.06\00:16:47.83
LOVING EVERYBODY AND NOT
JUDGING PEOPLE BY THEIR OUTWARD
00:16:47.83\00:16:50.46
APPEARANCE. I CAN
PROMISE YOU SOMETHING, IF
00:16:50.46\00:16:55.40
YOU HAD SEEN ME BEFORE I WENT
INTO MINISTRY, THE WAY I - WHEN
00:16:55.40\00:16:59.66
I FIRST WENT TO CHURCH I
WAS REALLY ROUGH LOOKING.
00:16:59.66\00:17:04.90
I MEAN, JUST TORN CLOTHES AND
DIDN'T HAVE REGULAR BATHS AND I
00:17:04.90\00:17:12.96
WAS - I MEAN, I'M JUST BEING
HONEST WITH YOU - AND IF YOU HAD
00:17:12.96\00:17:17.23
TOLD THE PEOPLE IN THAT CHURCH,
'SEE THIS FELLA THAT JUST CAME
00:17:17.23\00:17:19.40
IN? HE'S GOING
TO BE YOUR PASTOR IN
00:17:19.40\00:17:21.76
A FEW YEARS.' THAT'S
HOW IT ENDED UP PLAYING OUT.
00:17:21.76\00:17:24.86
BUT SOMEONE WOULD HAVE SAID, 'I
HOPE NOT.' BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE
00:17:24.86\00:17:30.86
GOT - WE'VE GOT TO SEE PEOPLE
THE WAY GOD SEES THEM - FOR WHAT
00:17:30.86\00:17:33.36
THEY CAN BE THROUGH CHRIST. AND
THAT'S THE PRINCIPLE OF LOVE.
00:17:33.36\00:17:37.53
HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THAT:
MARK 2, VERSES 16 AND 17, "AND
00:17:37.53\00:17:44.33
WHEN THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES
SAW HIM EATING WITH THE TAX
00:17:44.33\00:17:47.83
COLLECTORS AND SINNERS, THEY
SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, 'HOW IS
00:17:47.83\00:17:51.46
IT THAT HE EATS AND DRINKS WITH
TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS?'
00:17:51.46\00:17:54.70
WHEN JESUS HEARD IT, HE SAID TO
THEM, 'THOSE WHO ARE WELL HAVE
00:17:54.70\00:18:00.23
NO NEED OF A PHYSICIAN,
BUT THOSE WHO ARE SICK.
00:18:00.23\00:18:03.16
I DID NOT COME TO CALL
THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS, TO
00:18:03.16\00:18:06.30
REPENTANCE.'" AND, YOU KNOW,
THIS REALLY SHOULD BE - THE
00:18:06.30\00:18:09.06
PRIMARY MISSION OF EVERY
CHRISTIAN IS WE'RE TO GO INTO
00:18:09.06\00:18:12.30
THE WORLD AND REACH THOSE WHO
DON'T KNOW - TO SEEK AND TO SAVE
00:18:12.30\00:18:15.16
THE LOST. AND
SOMETIMES WE CONTINUE TO
00:18:15.16\00:18:18.60
SHOW OUR PRIMARY ATTENTION
TO PEOPLE OF MEANS AND INFLUENCE
00:18:18.60\00:18:23.53
AND WE FAWN FOR THOSE FOLKS.
BUT WHO TYPICALLY FOLLOWED
00:18:23.53\00:18:29.10
JESUS? THERE
WERE SOME EXCEPTIONS.
00:18:29.10\00:18:32.50
YOU DID HAVE JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA
AND YOU HAD NICODEMUS BUT,
00:18:32.50\00:18:38.36
PRINCIPALLY, IT WAS THE
SHEPHERDS, THE TAX COLLECTORS.
00:18:38.36\00:18:42.20
EVEN CHRIST SAID, 'THE TAX
COLLECTORS AND HARLOTS GO INTO
00:18:42.20\00:18:44.76
THE KINGDOM BEFORE YOU.' BECAUSE
THEY REPENTED - BAD AS THEIR
00:18:44.76\00:18:48.10
SINS WERE, THEY REPENTED
AT THE PREACHING OF JOHN.
00:18:48.10\00:18:50.86
AND SO WE'VE GO TO BE CAREFUL
NOT TO LOOK ON THE OUTSIDE.
00:18:50.86\00:18:53.53
IN THE WORLD, SUCCESS IS
MEASURED BY, YOU KNOW, THE KIND
00:18:53.53\00:18:59.06
OF HOUSE THAT
THE FAMILY LIVES IN.
00:18:59.06\00:19:02.66
IN GOD'S ECONOMY, IT'S NOT THE
KIND OF HOUSE, BUT IT'S THE KIND
00:19:02.66\00:19:07.43
OF FAMILY THAT
LIVES IN THE HOUSE.
00:19:07.43\00:19:09.93
IN THE WORLD THEY SOMETIMES
MEASURE SUCCESS BY THE DRESS
00:19:09.93\00:19:15.40
THAT THE WOMAN WEARS. AND
WHENEVER THEY HAVE ANY KIND
00:19:15.40\00:19:18.66
OF HOLLYWOOD EVENT, THEY
ALL DISSECT WHAT EVERYBODY WAS
00:19:18.66\00:19:21.96
WEARING. BUT WITH GOD, HE'S MORE
INTERESTED IN WHAT KIND OF WOMAN
00:19:21.96\00:19:25.43
IS WEARING THE DRESS. OR,
IN OUR SOCIETY, WHAT KIND OF
00:19:25.43\00:19:30.56
CAR THE MAN DRIVES.
DOESN'T THAT SAY SOMETHING?
00:19:30.56\00:19:33.36
I MEAN, AREN'T THERE CERTAIN
CARS I COULD RATTLE OFF AND I
00:19:33.36\00:19:36.16
WON'T DO THIS WITH BRAND NAMES
BECAUSE WE'RE ON TV AND WHO
00:19:36.16\00:19:38.93
KNOWS WHAT LAWSUITS MIGHT FLY?
BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN NAMES THAT
00:19:38.93\00:19:43.83
YOU COULD MENTION AND, YOU
KNOW, IT'S - IT EVOKES CLASS AND
00:19:43.83\00:19:50.33
STATUS. AND THERE'S
OTHER, YOU COULD SAY
00:19:50.33\00:19:53.93
THAT - THEY JUST
MEAN ECONOMY, YOU KNOW?
00:19:53.93\00:19:58.16
AND SO - BUT GOD'S MORE
INTERESTED IN WHAT KIND OF MAN
00:19:58.16\00:20:00.63
DRIVES THE CAR THAN WHAT
KIND OF CAR THE MAN DRIVES.
00:20:00.63\00:20:03.60
AND SO EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS.
YOU KNOW, THE SECTION WE'RE
00:20:03.60\00:20:06.00
STILL TALKING ABOUT
IS UNDER YOUR FIRST DAY.
00:20:06.00\00:20:08.86
IT SAYS, 'MAN IN GOLD.' AND
I COULDN'T READ THIS WITHOUT
00:20:08.86\00:20:12.06
REMEMBERING AN AMAZING
FACT THAT WE ENCOUNTERED.
00:20:12.06\00:20:14.90
WE SHARED THIS ON THE
RADIO PROGRAM A FEW YEARS AGO.
00:20:14.90\00:20:17.16
THERE'S A MAN IN INDIA,
HE'S CALLED 'THE GOLD MAN.'
00:20:17.16\00:20:19.93
HIS NAME IS
ACTUALLY DATTA PHUGE.
00:20:19.93\00:20:23.26
HE TAKES
EXTRAVAGANCE TO A NEW LEVEL.
00:20:23.26\00:20:26.26
HE RECENTLY ORDERED THE CREATION
OF THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE
00:20:26.26\00:20:29.00
SHIRT, MADE WITH MORE THAN
SEVEN POUNDS - YOU KNOW HOW MANY
00:20:29.00\00:20:32.70
OUNCES - 16 OUNCES IN A POUND
- YOU KNOW WHAT AN OUNCE OF GOLD
00:20:32.70\00:20:34.83
IS WORTH - SEVEN POUNDS OF
22-CARAT GOLD WORTH OVER TWO
00:20:34.83\00:20:39.46
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS - ONE SHIRT. AND HE
00:20:39.46\00:20:43.06
COULD HAVE GONE TO WALMART -
I SAID A NAME. MR. PHUGE, WHO'S
00:20:43.06\00:20:48.23
ALSO NICK-NAMED 'THE GOLD MAN'
- I CAN ONLY SAY THIS BECAUSE
00:20:48.23\00:20:51.20
IT'S ALREADY BEEN REPORTED
IN THE NEWS - IS COVERED WITH
00:20:51.20\00:20:55.43
CHUNKY GOLD BRACELETS, GAUDY
SIGNET RINGS AND A GIGANTIC
00:20:55.43\00:20:58.23
MEDALLION THAT ANY
OLYMPIC CONTENDER MIGHT ENVY.
00:20:58.23\00:21:02.63
HIS SPECTACULAR SHIRT IS COVERED
WITH FOURTEEN THOUSAND GOLD
00:21:02.63\00:21:06.00
FLOWERS INTERWOVEN WITH ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND GILDED SPANGLES
00:21:06.00\00:21:10.73
AND A LINING OF THE FINEST WHITE
VELVET. BECAUSE IT CAN'T BE
00:21:10.73\00:21:14.00
DRY CLEANED, HE MUST TAKE GREAT
CARE NOT TO GET IT DIRTY OR
00:21:14.00\00:21:17.50
SWEATY, WHICH IS HARD TO
AVOID IN THE INDIAN SUMMER.
00:21:17.50\00:21:20.40
GIVEN ITS IMPRACTICAL NATURE,
THE GLITTERING GARMENT IS ONLY
00:21:20.40\00:21:23.36
WORN ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS AND
MR PHUGE MUST HAVE HIS SECURITY
00:21:23.36\00:21:27.00
GUARDS WITH HIM
WHENEVER HE DOES.
00:21:27.00\00:21:28.96
HE BELIEVES GOLD IS A GOOD
INVESTMENT AND ADMITS HE LIKES
00:21:28.96\00:21:31.23
TO WEAR HIS MONEY. ONE
SHIRT - TWO HUNDRED AND
00:21:31.23\00:21:36.00
FIFTY THOUSAND - I - HOW COULD
YOU RELAX? AND IT'S GOT TO BE
00:21:36.00\00:21:40.00
HEAVY - A SEVEN-POUND
SHIRT? CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?
00:21:40.00\00:21:44.03
BUT THAT'S JUST A SAMPLE OF
- YOU KNOW, THE MIND SET IN THE
00:21:44.03\00:21:47.00
WORLD. STATUS.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
00:21:47.00\00:21:51.46
LUKE 11:43, "WOE
TO YOU PHARISEES!
00:21:51.46\00:21:54.73
FOR YOU LOVE THE BEST SEATS IN
THE SYNAGOGUES AND GREETINGS IN
00:21:54.73\00:21:57.66
THE
MARKETPLACES." THE BEST SEATS.
00:21:57.66\00:22:01.60
WHEN I'M ON AN AIRPLANE, WHICH
IS FREQUENTLY, I HAVE TO ADMIT,
00:22:01.60\00:22:05.83
I JOSTLE TO TRY TO BE,
WHENEVER MY ZONE IS CALLED,
00:22:05.83\00:22:10.23
I WANT TO BE FIRST IN LINE.
EVEN THIS LAST WEEK, I HAD TO
00:22:10.23\00:22:13.30
RUN BETWEEN FLIGHTS AND THEY
WERE ALREADY BOARDING AND THEY
00:22:13.30\00:22:15.90
HAD BOARDED MY ZONE AND I
WAS SO CONCERNED I WOULDN'T HAVE
00:22:15.90\00:22:19.23
OVERHEAD SPACE AND, YOU KNOW,
YOU ALL VIE FOR THE BEST SEATS.
00:22:19.23\00:22:24.50
IF YOU'RE ON SOUTHWEST YOU
DON'T GET A SEAT ASSIGNMENT SO
00:22:24.50\00:22:27.30
EVERYONE WANTS TO LINE UP
AND IT'S LIKE A CATTLE BRANDING
00:22:27.30\00:22:29.36
SESSION, YOU JUST CHARGE
IN. BUT, YOU KNOW, JESUS TELLS A
00:22:29.36\00:22:37.66
STORY ABOUT IF
YOU'RE INVITED TO A FEAST.
00:22:37.66\00:22:40.06
HE SAID - HAVE YOU BEEN, YOU
KNOW, LIKE A WEDDING AND STUFF,
00:22:40.06\00:22:44.56
THEY'VE GOT THE CENTER TABLE
WHERE THE HONORED GUESTS ARE AND
00:22:44.56\00:22:47.20
THEN THEY'VE GOT THE
FAMILY NEXT DOOR AND THEN,
00:22:47.20\00:22:49.20
YOU KNOW, AT THE
SEATING AT A WEDDING.
00:22:49.20\00:22:51.43
AND THEN IT, YOU KNOW, CONTINUES
TO GO UNTIL YOU'RE IN, YOU KNOW,
00:22:51.43\00:22:54.13
AS THEY CALL THE
NOSEBLEED SECTION.
00:22:54.13\00:22:57.13
HE SAID, 'IF YOU GO TO A FEAST,
IF IT'S OPEN SEATING,' - HE
00:22:57.13\00:22:59.93
SAID - 'TAKE THE LOWEST
SEAT AND LET SOMEONE SAY,
00:22:59.93\00:23:02.66
'OH NO, NO, NO.
YOU DON'T BELONG THERE.
00:23:02.66\00:23:05.30
YOU SHOULD BE UP HERE BY THIS
PLACE OF HONOR.' NOW, I WOULDN'T
00:23:05.30\00:23:09.46
TRY THAT ON SOUTHWEST BECAUSE I
DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO WORK.
00:23:09.46\00:23:13.43
BUT HE'S TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH
BETTER TO HAVE IT THAT WAY THAN
00:23:13.43\00:23:17.70
TO VIE AND JOSTLE FOR THE
PROMINENT SEAT AND SOMEONE SAY,
00:23:17.70\00:23:21.93
'I'M SORRY, THIS IS TAKEN.' AND
YOU, WITH SHAME, HAVE TO GET UP
00:23:21.93\00:23:25.33
AND GO SLINKING BACK
TO THE NOSEBLEED SECTION.
00:23:25.33\00:23:30.40
AND SO THIS WHOLE PRINCIPLE
IS SOMETHING THAT JESUS
00:23:30.40\00:23:33.06
AND JAMES ARE
TALKING ABOUT HERE.
00:23:33.06\00:23:35.23
PSALM 41, VERSE 1 - HE'S ALSO
TALKING ABOUT CONSIDERING THE
00:23:35.23\00:23:41.20
POOR AND THIS IS WHAT
THE LAW OF LOVE IS ALL ABOUT.
00:23:41.20\00:23:44.93
DAVID SAYS - PSALM 41:1,
"BLESSED IS HE WHO CONSIDERS THE
00:23:44.93\00:23:49.06
POOR;" - NOW HERE'S SOME
WONDERFUL PROMISES - "THE LORD
00:23:49.06\00:23:53.00
WILL DELIVER HIM
IN TIME OF TROUBLE."
00:23:53.00\00:23:55.56
- WE'VE GOT A
TIME OF TROUBLE AHEAD?
00:23:55.56\00:23:57.73
- "THE LORD WILL PRESERVE HIM
AND KEEP HIM ALIVE, AND HE WILL
00:23:57.73\00:24:01.90
BE BLESSED ON THE EARTH; YOU
WILL NOT DELIVER HIM TO THE WILL
00:24:01.90\00:24:05.70
OF HIS ENEMIES. THE
LORD WILL STRENGTHEN HIM ON
00:24:05.70\00:24:08.66
HIS BED OF ILLNESS; YOU WILL
SUSTAIN HIM ON HIS SICKBED."
00:24:08.66\00:24:12.80
THAT'S A LOT OF PROMISES JUST
FOR - HOW DOES THE LORD CARE
00:24:12.80\00:24:16.60
ABOUT US
CONSIDERING THE POOR? WOW.
00:24:16.60\00:24:20.83
IT MAKES YOU WANT TO HELP
THE PEOPLE STANDING AT THE
00:24:20.83\00:24:23.36
INTERSECTIONS A LITTLE
MORE FREQUENTLY, WITH ALL THOSE
00:24:23.36\00:24:25.40
PROMISES, RIGHT?
WHICH IS A GOOD SEGUE TO OUR
00:24:25.40\00:24:28.66
NEXT SECTION UNDER CLASS
STRUGGLE. ALRIGHT, WHO'S SET UP?
00:24:28.66\00:24:32.13
IN A MOMENT
YOU'LL READ LUKE 6:20.
00:24:32.13\00:24:35.16
I SORT OF ANNOUNCE IT TO
GIVE THE CAMERAS WARNING.
00:24:35.16\00:24:37.30
OKAY, I'M GOING TO
READ THE NEXT PART OF JAMES.
00:24:37.30\00:24:39.16
YOU NOTICE WE'RE MAKING OUR WAY
LITTLE BY LITTLE THROUGH JAMES?
00:24:39.16\00:24:41.83
WE'VE GOTTEN TO LESSON 5.
WE'RE NOW ON CHAPTER 2, VERSE 5,
00:24:41.83\00:24:46.86
"LISTEN, MY BELOVED BRETHREN:
HAS GOD NOT CHOSEN THE POOR OF
00:24:46.86\00:24:50.10
THIS WORLD TO BE RICH IN FAITH
AND HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM WHICH
00:24:50.10\00:24:54.16
HE PROMISED TO THOSE WHO LOVE
HIM?" - WHO GETS THE KINGDOM?
00:24:54.16\00:24:58.03
HE'S PROMISED IT TO THOSE THAT
LOVE HIM AND HE SAYS, 'IF YOU
00:24:58.03\00:25:03.03
LOVE ME, OBEY.' SO
THE TWO GO TOGETHER.
00:25:03.03\00:25:06.03
"BUT YOU HAVE
DISHONORED THE POOR MAN.
00:25:06.03\00:25:08.26
DO NOT THE RICH OPPRESS
AND DRAG YOU INTO THE COURTS?"
00:25:08.26\00:25:11.83
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD.
LET'S READ LUKE 6:20.
00:25:11.83\00:25:15.93
>>"THEN HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES
TOWARD HIS DISCIPLES, AND SAID:
00:25:15.93\00:25:19.93
'BLESSED ARE YOU POOR, FOR
YOURS IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD.'"
00:25:19.93\00:25:23.66
>>ALRIGHT, YOU KNOW WHY I PICKED
THAT VERSE IN LUKE AND NOT THE
00:25:23.66\00:25:26.03
TYPICAL ONE IN THE
BEATITUDES OF MATTHEW?
00:25:26.03\00:25:28.93
IN MATTHEW IT SAYS, 'BLESSED ARE
THE POOR IN SPIRIT' AND SO WE
00:25:28.93\00:25:35.16
LOVE TO REMIND OURSELVES THERE'S
NO VIRTUE IN BEING POOR, IT'S
00:25:35.16\00:25:38.43
JUST POOR IN SPIRIT.
IT'S KIND OF HARD TO MEASURE.
00:25:38.43\00:25:42.00
BUT LUKE IS INTERESTING;
HE DOESN'T SAY THAT.
00:25:42.00\00:25:44.30
HE SAYS, 'BLESSED ARE YOU POOR,
FOR YOURS IS THE KINGDOM OF
00:25:44.30\00:25:47.50
HEAVEN.' WELL, I THINK THAT'S
BECAUSE, PREDOMINANTLY, THOSE
00:25:47.50\00:25:52.00
WHO END UP FOLLOWING JESUS -
DOESN'T THE LORD SAY, IN MARK
00:25:52.00\00:25:55.73
CHAPTER 10 WHEN THE RICH YOUNG
RULER CAME AND WE TALKED ABOUT
00:25:55.73\00:26:00.63
THAT A COUPLE OF TIMES DURING
THE LESSON, THAT IT'S HARDER FOR
00:26:00.63\00:26:05.20
A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN THAN A CAMEL TO GO
00:26:05.20\00:26:08.50
THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE.
NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT GOD
00:26:08.50\00:26:12.23
DOESN'T WANT US TO WORK
HARD AND EARN AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
00:26:12.23\00:26:15.16
HOW MUCH IS THAT? HOW
MUCH IS ENOUGH? SOMEONE ASKED
00:26:15.16\00:26:24.16
ROCKEFELLER - I DON'T KNOW,
IT WASN'T NELSON ROCKEFELLER BUT
00:26:24.16\00:26:27.03
ONE OF THE ROCKEFELLERS
- SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
00:26:27.03\00:26:30.06
THEY SAID, 'YOU KNOW,
YOU'VE GOT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
00:26:30.06\00:26:33.06
HOW MUCH DOES IT TAKE?'
HE SAID, 'A LITTLE BIT MORE.'
00:26:33.06\00:26:37.66
IT'S ALWAYS JUST A LITTLE BIT
MORE. I'VE KNOWN A FEW PEOPLE
00:26:37.66\00:26:42.83
THAT ACTUALLY WERE VERY
SUCCESSFUL AND THEY MADE ENOUGH.
00:26:42.83\00:26:45.73
THEY SAID, 'I HAVE
ENOUGH NOW TO BE COMFORTABLE.
00:26:45.73\00:26:47.60
I WANT TO DEDICATE THE REST
OF MY LIFE TO SERVICE.' AND IT
00:26:47.60\00:26:52.26
TAKES COURAGE TO SAY, 'OKAY,
I'VE GOT PLENTY AND NOW I WANT
00:26:52.26\00:26:56.66
TO...' SOME OF YOU KNOW
THE STORY OF ALBERT SCHWEITZER.
00:26:56.66\00:27:00.23
HE SPENT THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS
OF HIS LIFE STUDYING - STUDIED
00:27:00.23\00:27:04.96
MEDICINE, STUDIED LAW,
MUSIC - AND THEN HE SAID,
00:27:04.96\00:27:09.83
'YOU KNOW, I'VE PROBABLY' -
LIFE SPAN BACK THEN WAS SIXTY -
00:27:09.83\00:27:13.56
AND HE SAID - AND THAT
WAS ACTUALLY THE HIGH END.
00:27:13.56\00:27:17.10
HE SAID, 'I'VE SPENT HALF MY
LIFE LIVING FOR MYSELF,' - HE
00:27:17.10\00:27:19.96
SAYS - 'I'M GOING TO SPEND THE
REST OF MY LIFE LIVING FOR GOD.'
00:27:19.96\00:27:22.60
AND HE WENT TO CENTRAL AFRICA
AND OPENED A MISSION THERE.
00:27:22.60\00:27:25.83
HE ENDED UP
LIVING INTO HIS NINETIES.
00:27:25.83\00:27:27.90
SO HE SPENT SIXTY YEARS USING
THE MEDICINE AND THE MUSIC AND
00:27:27.90\00:27:30.46
EVERYTHING HE LEARNED - HE
SAID, 'I WANT TO NOW LIVE FOR
00:27:30.46\00:27:33.60
OTHERS.' AND HE DEDICATED
HIS LIFE TO JUST SERVING OTHERS.
00:27:33.60\00:27:37.10
JAMES 2:7 - ANOTHER
VERSE HERE IN JAMES.
00:27:37.10\00:27:41.83
SPEAKING OF THE RICH STILL, "DO
THEY NOT BLASPHEME THAT NOBLE
00:27:41.83\00:27:46.06
NAME BY WHICH YOU ARE CALLED?"
NOW, JAMES IS ALSO REMEMBERING
00:27:46.06\00:27:50.80
THAT - WHO WERE THE PEOPLE OF
POWER AND INFLUENCE IN ISRAEL?
00:27:50.80\00:27:55.73
KEEP IN MIND, JAMES IS THE
HALF-BROTHER OF JESUS, HE IS
00:27:55.73\00:28:01.00
PRINCIPALLY THE BISHOP
IN THE CHURCH OF JERUSALEM.
00:28:01.00\00:28:04.86
WHAT WAS THE ATTITUDE OF THE
- WHO WERE THE POWERFUL PEOPLE,
00:28:04.86\00:28:08.26
I SHOULD SAY, IN JERUSALEM?
THEY OFTEN BELONGED TO A GROUP
00:28:08.26\00:28:11.70
CALLED THE SANHEDRIN.
THEY WERE THE - THEY WERE THE
00:28:11.70\00:28:15.90
SENATE AND CABINET AND CONGRESS
ALL WRAPPED UP IN ONE. AND THEY
00:28:15.90\00:28:19.43
WERE THE SUPREME COURT.
THOSE - BECAUSE OF THOSE
00:28:19.43\00:28:23.36
POSITIONS OF POWER, EVEN THOUGH
THEY WERE "RELIGIOUS" POSITIONS,
00:28:23.36\00:28:26.10
THEY OFTEN TOOK A LOT OF BRIBES.
DIDN'T JESUS SAY, 'YOU ROB
00:28:26.10\00:28:30.26
WIDOWS' HOUSES AND FOR
PRETENSE YOU MAKE LONG PRAYERS?'
00:28:30.26\00:28:34.10
THEY TALKED PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR
MONEY. THEY USED GUILT TO GET
00:28:34.10\00:28:40.23
MONEY FROM PEOPLE.
THEY'D SAY, 'LOOK, YOU DON'T
00:28:40.23\00:28:42.03
NEED TO LEAVE ANYTHING IN YOUR
WILL FOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER,
00:28:42.03\00:28:44.13
WE'VE GOT THIS NEW
PROGRAM CALLED CORBAN.
00:28:44.13\00:28:46.26
YOU DECLARE CORBAN OVER ALL YOUR
PROPERTY, GIVE IT TO THE CHURCH,
00:28:46.26\00:28:50.10
AND YOU'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE TO
TAKE CARE OF THEM IN THEIR OLD
00:28:50.10\00:28:53.36
AGE BECAUSE IT'S NOW GOD'S.
YOU CAN'T USE IT ANY OTHER WAY.
00:28:53.36\00:28:56.36
'YOU CAN USE IT AS LONG AS
YOU'RE ALIVE, BUT YOU HAVE TO
00:28:56.36\00:28:58.16
WILL IT TO US.' THEY HAD
ALL THESE LAWS THAT WERE JUST
00:28:58.16\00:29:01.00
DESIGNED TO ENRICH THEM.
SO THE PEOPLE THAT WERE RICH
00:29:01.00\00:29:04.60
BACK THEN WERE SOME OF THE
RELIGIOUS LEADERS THAT WERE THE
00:29:04.60\00:29:07.33
BIGGEST
ADVERSARIES OF THE CHURCH.
00:29:07.33\00:29:09.56
HE WASN'T SAYING AUTOMATICALLY
THAT RICH PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS
00:29:09.56\00:29:13.40
ENEMIES, BUT THEY WERE GETTING
THE BULK OF THEIR PERSECUTION
00:29:13.40\00:29:16.53
FROM THE PEOPLE IN POWER -
CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD AND MANY OF
00:29:16.53\00:29:20.13
THE LEADERS - THERE WERE A FEW
RARE EXCEPTIONS BUT HE SAID, 'DO
00:29:20.13\00:29:24.30
NOT THEY BLASPHEME THAT NOBLE
NAME BY WHICH YOU ARE CALLED.
00:29:24.30\00:29:27.33
EXODUS 23, VERSE 8 - HE'S VERY
CLEAR, "AND YOU SHALL TAKE NO
00:29:27.33\00:29:32.83
BRIBE, FOR A BRIBE BLINDS
THE DISCERNING AND PERVERTS THE
00:29:32.83\00:29:37.06
WORDS OF THE RIGHTEOUS."
DO WE SEE THIS IN OUR
00:29:37.06\00:29:41.30
GOVERNMENT? MATTER OF
FACT, LET ME WORD THAT
00:29:41.30\00:29:43.83
DIFFERENTLY: IS THERE ANY
GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD, THAT
00:29:43.83\00:29:47.16
YOU KNOW OF, WHERE THAT ISN'T
AN ISSUE? WHERE PEOPLE WHO HAVE
00:29:47.16\00:29:50.56
POSITIONS OF POWER IN THE
GOVERNMENT WHERE THEY CAN MAKE
00:29:50.56\00:29:52.80
LAWS, WHERE YOU DON'T EVER
HEAR ABOUT THEM TAKING FAVORS.
00:29:52.80\00:29:57.83
YOU KNOW WHY THE PEOPLE
OF ISRAEL ASKED FOR A KING?
00:29:57.83\00:30:01.10
I KNOW THIS IS REALLY STRANGE.
THEY WERE PERFECTLY HAPPY FOR A
00:30:01.10\00:30:04.86
WHILE WITH SAMUEL, BUT WHEN
SAMUEL'S SONS BEGAN TO TAKE HIS
00:30:04.86\00:30:08.26
PLACE IT SAID, YOU
KNOW, THEY'RE TAKING BRIBES.
00:30:08.26\00:30:12.60
THEY SAID, 'GIVE US A KING.
HE'S JUST GOT ABSOLUTE POWER.
00:30:12.60\00:30:16.33
YOU CAN'T BRIBE HIM.
HE'S GOT EVERYTHING.' AND THEY
00:30:16.33\00:30:18.46
THOUGHT THAT WAS
GOING TO BE THE SOLUTION.
00:30:18.46\00:30:20.63
IT DIDN'T WORK
VERY WELL, DID IT?
00:30:20.63\00:30:24.33
PROVERBS 22:2, "THE RICH
AND THE POOR MEET TOGETHER:
00:30:24.33\00:30:28.40
THE LORD IS THE
MAKER OF THEM ALL."
00:30:28.40\00:30:31.06
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE LORD
IS TELLING US, SOLOMON HERE, HE
00:30:31.06\00:30:34.26
WOULD KNOW, HE SAID THAT
ULTIMATELY GOD IS THE MAKER OF
00:30:34.26\00:30:38.20
ALL - THE RICH AND THE
POOR - AND THAT THERE IS NO
00:30:38.20\00:30:40.46
PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT
IN GOD'S ECONOMY. ALRIGHT,
00:30:40.46\00:30:43.06
'LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS.' LET'S
GO ON TO THE NEXT SECTION HERE.
00:30:43.06\00:30:46.00
JAMES CHAPTER 2, VERSES 8 AND 9,
"IF YOU REALLY FULFILL THE ROYAL
00:30:46.00\00:30:53.86
LAW ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE,
'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
00:30:53.86\00:30:57.10
YOURSELF,' YOU DO WELL; BUT IF
YOU SHOW PARTIALITY, YOU COMMIT
00:30:57.10\00:31:02.40
SIN, AND ARE CONVICTED BY
THE LAW AS TRANSGRESSORS."
00:31:02.40\00:31:06.66
SO NOT ONLY IS IT A QUESTION
OF BEING UNFAIR, BUT WHEN WE ARE
00:31:06.66\00:31:10.10
PARTIAL TO PEOPLE
WHAT DOES HE CALL IT?
00:31:10.10\00:31:13.60
>>YEAH, THAT'S
PRETTY SERIOUS BUSINESS.
00:31:13.60\00:31:17.73
AND SO, WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO MAKE
A CONSCIOUS EFFORT, I THINK, TO
00:31:17.73\00:31:21.06
EXAMINE OUR HEARTS SOMETIMES AND
SEE, ARE WE BEING UNFAIR WITH
00:31:21.06\00:31:24.83
PEOPLE? ARE WE BEING PARTIAL?
YOU KNOW WHEN IT'S REALLY TOUGH?
00:31:24.83\00:31:29.26
IF YOUR KIDS GET INTO A CONFLICT
AT SCHOOL WITH ANOTHER KID AND
00:31:29.26\00:31:34.73
YOU GET PARENTS INVOLVED, HAVE
YOU EVER GONE INTO A SITUATION
00:31:34.73\00:31:38.00
WHERE YOU TRIED TO BE
NON-PARTIAL AND OBJECTIVE AS A
00:31:38.00\00:31:41.36
PARENT? YOU'RE
HEARING TWO SIDES OF A
00:31:41.36\00:31:43.13
STORY - THERE'S BEEN SOME
CONFLICT - THE BOYS GOT INTO A
00:31:43.13\00:31:46.00
FIGHT ON THE PLAYGROUND AND THE
PARENTS ARE CALLED IN AND BOTH
00:31:46.00\00:31:50.73
BOYS HAVE A VERSION OF HOW
THEY WERE JUST MINDING THEIR OWN
00:31:50.73\00:31:54.10
BUSINESS. WHO DO YOU
AUTOMATICALLY SIDE WITH? WHY?
00:31:54.10\00:32:02.06
WELL, YOU LOVE THEM.
BUT IT'S EASY TO BE PARTIAL.
00:32:02.06\00:32:07.23
YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID YOU SHOULD
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES AND DO KIND TO
00:32:07.23\00:32:10.73
STRANGERS. HE SAID,
IF YOU LOVE THOSE WHO
00:32:10.73\00:32:13.06
LOVE YOU, WHAT GOOD IS THAT?
EVERYBODY DOES THAT. IF YOU LOVE
00:32:13.06\00:32:17.06
YOUR KIDS WHAT GOOD IS
THAT? EVERYBODY DOES THAT.
00:32:17.06\00:32:20.03
HE SAID IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE
LIKE THE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER
00:32:20.03\00:32:22.93
IN HEAVEN THEN YOU NEED TO SHOW
LOVE AND FAIRNESS AND MERCY TO
00:32:22.93\00:32:26.16
EVEN YOUR ENEMIES.
NOW THAT'S REALLY TOUGH.
00:32:26.16\00:32:31.90
LEVITICUS 19, VERSES 17 AND 18
- AND THIS, OF COURSE, IS ONE OF
00:32:31.90\00:32:35.13
THOSE FAMOUS VERSES, "YOU SHALL
NOT HATE YOUR BROTHER IN YOUR
00:32:35.13\00:32:39.60
HEART." HOW DOES
IT DO WHEN SOMEONE
00:32:39.60\00:32:43.33
SHAKES THEIR FINGER AT YOU
AND SAYS, 'YOU SHALL NOT HATE?'
00:32:43.33\00:32:46.83
CAN YOU DO THAT? CAN
YOU SHAKE YOUR FINGER AT
00:32:46.83\00:32:49.56
SOMEONE AND SAY, 'THOU SHALT
LOVE ME.' YOU EVER SEEN A GUY
00:32:49.56\00:32:53.66
PROPOSE THAT WAY? IS
THAT WHAT GOD'S SAYING?
00:32:53.66\00:32:58.16
I MEAN, DOES HE COMMAND
US TO LOVE HIM? HE DOES.
00:32:58.16\00:33:03.66
'HEAR, O ISRAEL,
THE LORD THY GOD IS ONE.
00:33:03.66\00:33:06.70
THOU SHALT LOVE THE
LORD.' SOUNDS LIKE A COMMAND.
00:33:06.70\00:33:12.73
WHY DOES GOD SAY IT LIKE THAT?
00:33:12.73\00:33:15.26
IS HE ORDERING US TO LOVE HIM?
I SEE THERE'S SOME LADIES HERE.
00:33:15.26\00:33:18.30
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL ABOUT, YOU
KNOW, IF YOU WERE IN THAT STAGE
00:33:18.30\00:33:27.70
IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU WERE
PURSUING A SIGNIFICANT OTHER AND
00:33:27.70\00:33:30.80
SOMEONE SAID, 'THOU SHALT LOVE
ME.' WOULD THAT BE A VERY GOOD
00:33:30.80\00:33:36.26
INTRODUCTION OR DO THEY
HAVE TO KIND OF WIN YOUR LOVE?
00:33:36.26\00:33:40.23
WHY DOES GOD
SAY IT AS A COMMAND?
00:33:40.23\00:33:45.56
I THINK THAT THE LORD IS TELLING
US THAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE
00:33:45.56\00:33:48.40
IT, AS FAR AS
OBEYING, UNLESS YOU LOVE.
00:33:48.40\00:33:52.33
AND SO WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE
OUT 'WHAT DO WE DO TO LOVE GOD?'
00:33:52.33\00:33:56.00
NOW, IF I WANT TO WIN KAREN, I
DIDN'T SAY TO HER, 'HI, YOU KNOW
00:33:56.00\00:34:04.60
YOU'VE TAKEN MY
FANCY. YOU NEED TO LOVE ME.
00:34:04.60\00:34:07.53
YOU HEAR ME?'
>>IT WAS CLOSE TO THAT.
00:34:07.53\00:34:13.96
>>BUT WHAT I HAD TO DO IS I HAD
TO SHOW HER HOW LOVABLE I REALLY
00:34:13.96\00:34:19.40
WAS. ISN'T THAT THE IDEA?
00:34:19.40\00:34:21.90
YOU TRY TO REVEAL YOURSELF
TO THE PERSON AND SHOW THEM
00:34:21.90\00:34:24.30
WHATEVER YOUR ATTRIBUTES ARE
THAT YOU'RE HOPING THEY'LL FIND
00:34:24.30\00:34:26.30
ATTRACTIVE AND IRRESISTIBLE.
AND SHE DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE.
00:34:26.30\00:34:31.93
BUT - BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
EVANGELISTS ARE BORN WITH THAT
00:34:31.93\00:34:35.66
GIFT OF PERSUASION. BUT
THIS IS WHAT GOD IS SAYING
00:34:35.66\00:34:41.20
WHEN HE SAYS, 'YOU SHOULD LOVE
ME.' HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE GOING TO
00:34:41.20\00:34:42.60
NEED TO LOVE ME TO OBEY ME.'
BECAUSE IT'S NOT NORMAL FOR US
00:34:42.60\00:34:45.83
IN, YOU KNOW,
OUR SINFUL NATURES.
00:34:45.83\00:34:47.66
BUT TO KNOW GOD IS TO LOVE HIM.
00:34:47.66\00:34:51.16
THAT'S ACTUALLY A STATEMENT
YOU'LL FIND IN 'DESIRE OF AGES.'
00:34:51.16\00:34:53.33
IF YOU KNOW
GOD, YOU'LL LOVE HIM.
00:34:53.33\00:34:56.23
AND SO WHAT HE'S SAYING IS 'YOU
MUST LOVE ME.' MEANING 'YOU NEED
00:34:56.23\00:34:59.03
TO KNOW ME, AND IF YOU
KNOW ME, YOU'LL LOVE ME.
00:34:59.03\00:35:01.80
NOW WHEN GOD COMMANDS THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO LOVE HIM,
00:35:01.80\00:35:04.86
HAD HE ALREADY GIVEN
THEM EVIDENCE OF WHO HE WAS?
00:35:04.86\00:35:08.16
>>YES. >>WHEN HE BEGINS THE TEN
00:35:08.16\00:35:10.33
COMMANDMENTS, WHAT'S
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT?
00:35:10.33\00:35:18.73
YEAH, THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
ACTUALLY BEGINS WITH A PREAMBLE
00:35:18.73\00:35:22.96
BECAUSE IT SAYS IN EXODUS 20,
'AND GOD SPOKE ALL THESE WORDS
00:35:22.96\00:35:26.83
SAYING:" SO HERE'S WHERE THE
ETCHING IN THE STONE BEGINS, "I
00:35:26.83\00:35:30.93
AM THE LORD YOUR GOD THAT
BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF
00:35:30.93\00:35:33.13
EGYPT; OUT OF THE
HOUSE OF BONDAGE."
00:35:33.13\00:35:35.30
WHY DOES HE START WITH THAT?
AND THEN HE SAYS YOU'RE NOT TO
00:35:35.30\00:35:38.70
HAVE OTHER GODS. HE'S
SAYING, 'I AM THE GOD WHO
00:35:38.70\00:35:42.60
JUST SHOWED YOU
HOW MUCH I LOVED YOU.
00:35:42.60\00:35:44.86
I SAVED YOU WITH THESE SIGNS AND
WONDERS UNLIKE ANY NATION HAS
00:35:44.86\00:35:47.70
EVER SEEN. YOU KNOW, I'M
GOING TO TAKE CARE OF YOU.
00:35:47.70\00:35:50.53
I'M GOING TO
PROTECT YOU. I LOVE YOU.
00:35:50.53\00:35:52.40
IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY
COMMANDMENTS.' DOES THE LORD
00:35:52.40\00:35:54.43
SAY THAT OTHER
PLACES IN THE BIBLE?
00:35:54.43\00:35:56.66
YOU READ IN EZEKIEL, YOU READ IN
HOSEA, GOD TALKS ABOUT HOW 'WHEN
00:35:56.66\00:36:00.16
I FOUND YOU, YOU WERE DYING
AND I RESCUED YOU.' AND HE TALKS
00:36:00.16\00:36:03.06
ABOUT LIKE A BABY, LIKE A BRIDE
- HE USES EVERY ANALOGY HE CAN
00:36:03.06\00:36:06.46
THINK OF AND HE'S SAYING, 'I'VE
SHOWN YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU.
00:36:06.46\00:36:09.50
YOU NEED TO LOVE ME BACK.
AND THEN JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU
00:36:09.50\00:36:12.56
LOVE ME.' LOVE IS THE
FULFILLING OF THE LAW.
00:36:12.56\00:36:19.73
ALRIGHT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
STATEMENT IN YOUR LESSON FROM
00:36:19.73\00:36:23.86
THE BOOK 'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE
504 THAT I'M GOING TO REPEAT.
00:36:23.86\00:36:28.30
YOU'LL FIND THIS IN YOUR LESSON.
"SIN IS THE GREATEST OF ALL
00:36:28.30\00:36:31.56
EVILS AND IT IS OURS TO
PITY AND TO HELP THE SINNER.
00:36:31.56\00:36:35.50
THERE ARE MANY WHO ERR WHO FEEL
THEIR SHAME AND THEIR FOLLY.
00:36:35.50\00:36:38.63
THEY ARE HUNGRY FOR
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
00:36:38.63\00:36:41.20
THEY LOOK UPON THEIR MISTAKES
AND ERRORS UNTIL THEY ARE DRIVEN
00:36:41.20\00:36:43.73
TO ALMOST DESPERATION. THESE
SOULS WE ARE NOT TO NEGLECT.
00:36:43.73\00:36:48.66
IF WE ARE CHRISTIANS, WE'RE NOT
TO PASS BY ON THE OTHER SIDE,
00:36:48.66\00:36:51.66
KEEPING AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM
THE VERY ONES WHO MOST NEED OUR
00:36:51.66\00:36:54.13
HELP. WHEN WE SEE HUMAN BEINGS
IN DISTRESS, WHETHER THROUGH
00:36:54.13\00:36:57.83
AFFLICTION OR THROUGH SIN"
- IT MIGHT EVEN BE THEIR OWN
00:36:57.83\00:36:59.96
PROBLEM - THEIR
CHOICES - "WE SHOULD NEVER SAY,
00:36:59.96\00:37:03.33
'THIS DOES NOT
CONCERN ME.'" WOW, THAT'S A -
00:37:03.33\00:37:07.06
AND YOU KNOW
WHAT SHE'S ALLUDING TO
00:37:07.06\00:37:09.30
HERE IS THE PARABLE
OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
00:37:09.30\00:37:13.20
THIS MAN FALLS AMONG THIEVES AND
BY THE TIME THE PRIEST COMES BY
00:37:13.20\00:37:20.40
IT SAYS HE'S STRIPPED AND
WOUNDED AND HALF DEAD AND HE
00:37:20.40\00:37:24.33
JUST PASSES BY
ON THE OTHER SIDE.
00:37:24.33\00:37:27.06
IF HE HAD BEEN WEARING REALLY
NICE CLOTHES HE MIGHT HAVE
00:37:27.06\00:37:31.33
STOPPED TO HELP HIM,
BUT HE'D BEEN STRIPPED.
00:37:31.33\00:37:34.83
OR IF HE HAD A NICE GOLDEN
CHARIOT, BUT HE'S BEEN ROBBED.
00:37:34.83\00:37:39.16
AND SO THE PERSON SAYS, 'YOU
KNOW, THIS IS GOING TO BE AN
00:37:39.16\00:37:42.70
EXPENSIVE VENTURE TO TAKE
CARE OF HIM FOR TIME AND MEANS.'
00:37:42.70\00:37:45.83
AND HE LEAVES HIM. THEN
A LEVITE COMES BY AND HE AT
00:37:45.83\00:37:49.60
LEAST STOPS AND LOOKS AND
MAYBE SAYS A PRAYER, BUT THEN HE
00:37:49.60\00:37:53.13
LEAVES. HE MAYBE
TAKES DOWN HIS LICENSE
00:37:53.13\00:37:55.16
NUMBER AND SAYS, 'I'LL CALL A
TOW TRUCK.' BUT HE LEAVES HIM.
00:37:55.16\00:37:58.40
BUT, ULTIMATELY, IT'S THE
SAMARITAN THAT SHOWS MERCY ON
00:37:58.40\00:38:03.43
HIM JUST BECAUSE - NOT BECAUSE
THEY HAD ANYTHING IN COMMON -
00:38:03.43\00:38:07.83
THEY WERE DIFFERENT CULTURALLY.
THEY WERE DIFFERENT RACIALLY.
00:38:07.83\00:38:10.73
THEY SPOKE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
THEY WERE, ACTUALLY, TWO NATIONS
00:38:10.73\00:38:14.46
THAT HAD GREAT ANIMOSITY FOR ONE
ANOTHER - TWO PEOPLE - AND HE
00:38:14.46\00:38:20.23
SHOWS LOVE JUST
BECAUSE HE'S ANOTHER PERSON.
00:38:20.23\00:38:22.80
THE LORD SAYS, 'IF YOUR ENEMY'S
OX OR DONKEY - IF YOU FIND IT
00:38:22.80\00:38:28.20
AND IT'S WANDERING, YOU'RE
SUPPOSED TO TRIP IT UP OR SELL
00:38:28.20\00:38:33.43
IT - WHAT DOES HE
SAY? >>BRING IT BACK.
00:38:33.43\00:38:36.33
>>TAKE IT BACK TO HIM.
IT'S LOVING YOUR ENEMY.
00:38:36.33\00:38:40.26
SHOWING KINDNESS.
00:38:40.26\00:38:42.86
PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY
USE YOU AND PERSECUTE YOU.
00:38:42.86\00:38:47.20
MATTHEW SAYS - OR JESUS SAYS
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, VERSE 43,
00:38:47.20\00:38:51.40
"YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT
WAS SAID, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR
00:38:51.40\00:38:53.43
NEIGHBOR AND HATE YOUR ENEMY.'
BUT I SAY TO YOU, LOVE YOUR
00:38:53.43\00:38:57.76
ENEMIES, BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE
YOU, DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE
00:38:57.76\00:39:02.03
YOU, AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO
SPITEFULLY USE YOU AND PERSECUTE
00:39:02.03\00:39:05.36
YOU, THAT YOU MAY BE SONS OF
YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN; FOR HE
00:39:05.36\00:39:09.30
MAKES HIS SUN RISE ON THE EVIL
AND ON THE GOOD, AND SENDS RAIN
00:39:09.30\00:39:13.33
ON THE JUST AND ON THE UNJUST."
NOW THIS IS SOMETHING - NOW
00:39:13.33\00:39:16.66
THAT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT VERSE
TO REMEMBER BECAUSE SUN AND RAIN
00:39:16.66\00:39:19.20
CAN BE OPPOSITES. IT
DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
00:39:19.20\00:39:22.13
IF YOU'RE FARMING YOU WANT RAIN
AT CERTAIN TIMES AND IF YOU'RE
00:39:22.13\00:39:23.96
ON A PICNIC YOU WANT SUN.
THE CHURCH WENT ON A PICNIC LAST
00:39:23.96\00:39:26.80
WEEKEND, YOU HAD
A LITTLE RAIN, HUH?
00:39:26.80\00:39:29.40
BUT GOD'S SAYING BLESSINGS
AND CURSINGS, WHATEVER IT IS,
00:39:29.40\00:39:33.40
EVERYBODY GETS THEIR
FAIR SHARE. JOB SAYS THIS.
00:39:33.40\00:39:36.26
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE OUGHT TO
- WE OUGHT TO BE SHOWING GOD'S
00:39:36.26\00:39:40.66
LOVE TO EVERYBODY.
NOW, UNDER THE NEXT SECTION,
00:39:40.66\00:39:44.10
UNDER THE WHOLE LAW - IN A
MOMENT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO BE
00:39:44.10\00:39:47.60
READING GALATIANS 5:14, SO I
DON'T KNOW WHO'S GOT THAT ONE.
00:39:47.60\00:39:52.20
OKAY, IS THAT -
WHO'S GOT GALATIANS 5?
00:39:52.20\00:39:55.43
ALRIGHT, YOU'VE GOT A MOMENT
BECAUSE I'M GOING TO READ SOME
00:39:55.43\00:39:56.86
STUFF HERE. JAMES 2,
VERSES 10 AND 11, "FOR
00:39:56.86\00:40:01.20
WHOEVER SHALL KEEP" - NOW WE'RE
STILL MOVING THROUGH JAMES HERE,
00:40:01.20\00:40:03.70
WE'RE ON VERSE 10, "FOR WHOEVER
SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND
00:40:03.70\00:40:07.20
YET STUMBLE IN ONE
POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL.
00:40:07.20\00:40:10.40
FOR HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT
ADULTERY,' ALSO SAID, 'DO NOT
00:40:10.40\00:40:13.73
COMMIT MURDER.' NOW IF YOU DO
NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, BUT YOU DO
00:40:13.73\00:40:16.66
MURDER, YOU HAVE BECOME
A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW."
00:40:16.66\00:40:23.00
I THINK KATRINA WAS TELLING
ME THIS WEEK THAT THE TEN
00:40:23.00\00:40:25.06
COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT MULTIPLE
CHOICE AND GOD DOES NOT GIVE US
00:40:25.06\00:40:28.83
A TWENTY PERCENT DISCOUNT.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE
00:40:28.83\00:40:32.63
LAWS OF LOVE AND ANY VIOLATION
- IT'S LIKE A SPACESHIP.
00:40:32.63\00:40:38.43
THINK OF THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS LIKE A SPACESHIP.
00:40:38.43\00:40:40.70
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PART OF
THE SPACE STATION HAS A RUPTURE,
00:40:40.70\00:40:45.60
THE AIR RUNS OUT AND
PEOPLE DIE IF THERE'S A VACUUM.
00:40:45.60\00:40:50.00
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
AND SO BY HAVING A - IT'S LIKE A
00:40:50.00\00:40:54.63
CHAIN - YOU'VE
GOT TEN LINKS IN IT.
00:40:54.63\00:40:58.36
IT'S ONLY AS STRONG
AS ITS WEAKEST LINK.
00:40:58.36\00:41:01.40
AND SO, IF SOMEONE SAYS, 'LOOK,
I REALIZE THAT' - THEY GO TO
00:41:01.40\00:41:06.20
COURT AND THEY SAY, 'LOOK, I
DID COMMIT MURDER, BUT I DON'T
00:41:06.20\00:41:11.40
WORSHIP IDOLS, I DON'T USE
GOD'S NAME IN VAIN, I KEEP THE
00:41:11.40\00:41:15.30
SABBATH, I DON'T STEAL.' WHAT
JUDGE IS GOING TO ACCEPT THAT AS
00:41:15.30\00:41:19.96
A DEFENSE? NOW, FOR
PETTY CRIME, IF YOU'RE
00:41:19.96\00:41:25.50
A GOOD CITIZEN AND YOU
HAVE NO PRIOR RECORD, THAT MIGHT
00:41:25.50\00:41:28.23
ACTUALLY HELP YOU, BUT
GOD DOESN'T OPERATE THAT WAY.
00:41:28.23\00:41:32.46
SIN IS SIN AND ALL OF
IT IS OFFENSIVE TO HIM.
00:41:32.46\00:41:37.53
SOMETHING ELSE TO NOTICE HERE,
YOU REMEMBER WE JUST READ IN
00:41:37.53\00:41:41.53
VERSES 8 AND 9 IN JAMES, 'IF YOU
FULFILL THE ROYAL LAW - YOU LOVE
00:41:41.53\00:41:46.60
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF - AND
THEN HE SAYS, IN THE NEXT VERSE,
00:41:46.60\00:41:49.56
'FOR HE THAT SAID 'KEEP
THE WHOLE LAW - IF YOU KEEP THE
00:41:49.56\00:41:52.23
WHOLE LAW AND
STUMBLE IN ONE POINT'
00:41:52.23\00:41:54.10
AND THEN HE MENTIONS TWO LAWS.
WHAT GROUP OF LAWS ARE THOSE
00:41:54.10\00:41:58.80
TWO COMMANDMENTS FROM?
>>THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:41:58.80\00:42:01.20
>>YEAH, 'DO NOT MURDER,
DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.'
00:42:01.20\00:42:04.00
YOU KNOW, I WAS SURPRISED,
I WATCHED A DEBATE THIS WEEK
00:42:04.00\00:42:09.63
THAT'S UP ON YOUTUBE. IT
WAS A SABBATH DEBATE AND I
00:42:09.63\00:42:13.06
WAS AMAZED THAT THE ARGUMENTS
THAT WERE BEING BROUGHT FORTH BY
00:42:13.06\00:42:19.70
THE ONE PRESENTER IN THE DEBATE
THAT WAS AGAINST THE SABBATH
00:42:19.70\00:42:25.56
TRUTH, HE BASICALLY HAD
TO THROW OUT THE WHOLE LAW.
00:42:25.56\00:42:29.63
AND, OF COURSE, THE ONE WHO WAS
SUPPORTING THE SABBATH TRUTH, HE
00:42:29.63\00:42:31.73
SAID, 'WHAT ABOUT
THE OTHER COMMANDMENTS?
00:42:31.73\00:42:34.63
AND HE SAID, 'WELL, IT'S JUST
THE SPIRIT NOW WHERE, YOU KNOW,
00:42:34.63\00:42:38.06
IF WE LOVE WE KEEP THE SPIRIT
OF THE LAW.' AND HE SAID, 'YOU
00:42:38.06\00:42:41.20
KNOW, WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE
LITERAL SABBATH BECAUSE WHEN WE
00:42:41.20\00:42:44.56
COME TO JESUS HE SAID, 'COME TO
ME AND I'LL GIVE YOU REST.' SO
00:42:44.56\00:42:48.13
WE'RE RESTING IN THE LORD AND
THAT'S ALL THAT YOU REALLY NEED
00:42:48.13\00:42:50.70
NOW.' BUT THERE IS A SPIRIT OF
THE LAW AND THERE IS A LETTER OF
00:42:50.70\00:42:54.50
THE LAW. NOW FOLLOW ME.
00:42:54.50\00:42:56.60
THE LETTER OF THE LAW SAYS
'DON'T KILL.' THE SPIRIT OF THE
00:42:56.60\00:43:01.86
LAW, JESUS SAID, IS 'DO NOT BE
ANGRY WITH YOUR BROTHER WITHOUT
00:43:01.86\00:43:05.90
A CAUSE OR YOU'RE
GUILTY OF MURDER.'
00:43:05.90\00:43:08.30
SO IF YOU'RE KEEPING THE SPIRIT
OF THE LAW ABOUT KILLING AND
00:43:08.30\00:43:13.33
YOU'RE NOT ANGRY WITH YOUR
BROTHER OR SISTER WITHOUT CAUSE
00:43:13.33\00:43:15.93
- YOU'RE NOT COMMITTING
SPIRITUAL MURDER, WILL YOU EVER
00:43:15.93\00:43:17.90
COMMIT LITERAL MURDER IF YOU'RE
NOT COMMITTING, FIRST, MURDER IN
00:43:17.90\00:43:21.30
YOUR HEART? RIGHT? THE
LAW SAYS 'DO NOT COMMIT
00:43:21.30\00:43:25.80
ADULTERY.' THAT'S
THE LETTER OF THE LAW.
00:43:25.80\00:43:27.93
SPIRIT OF THE LAW SAYS, 'YOU'RE
NOT TO LOOK ON A WOMAN' - IT
00:43:27.93\00:43:30.73
WORKS BOTH WAYS - 'OR A
MAN AND LUST IN YOUR HEART.'
00:43:30.73\00:43:34.30
THAT'S BREAKING THE SPIRIT OF
THE LAW. YOU MIGHT NOT LITERALLY
00:43:34.30\00:43:37.90
BE COMMITTING ADULTERY BUT YOU
NEED TO KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE
00:43:37.90\00:43:40.20
LAW, IT NEEDS TO BE PURITY
OF MIND - PURITY OF HEART.
00:43:40.20\00:43:42.70
SO IF A PERSON SAYS, 'I
REALIZE THAT ADULTERY IS A SIN.
00:43:42.70\00:43:47.80
I'M BEING PURE IN MY MIND
REGARDING ADULTERY BUT I'M
00:43:47.80\00:43:51.60
ACTUALLY GOING TO BREAK THE
LETTER OF THE LAW AND COMMIT
00:43:51.60\00:43:53.60
ADULTERY.' IS IT POSSIBLE
FOR YOU TO BREAK THE LETTER OF
00:43:53.60\00:43:56.70
THE LAW AND BE
KEEPING THE SPIRIT?
00:43:56.70\00:43:59.13
OKAY, GO THROUGH
ALL THE COMMANDMENTS.
00:43:59.13\00:44:00.76
YOU'LL FIND THAT WHATEVER
THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF THAT
00:44:00.76\00:44:02.33
COMMANDMENT IS, YOU'LL ALWAYS
BE KEEPING THE LETTER IF YOU'RE
00:44:02.33\00:44:05.40
KEEPING THE SPIRIT. BUT
WHEN IT COMES TO THE SABBATH
00:44:05.40\00:44:08.10
COMMANDMENT THEY SAY, 'WE KEEP
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, WHICH
00:44:08.10\00:44:10.53
MEANS YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE
LETTER ANYMORE.' WOULD ANYONE
00:44:10.53\00:44:13.66
ACCEPT THAT ARGUMENT WITH
ANY OF THE OTHER COMMANDMENTS?
00:44:13.66\00:44:17.13
YOU SEE HOW ABSURD THAT IS?
ANYWAY, SO JAMES IS SAYING, 'THE
00:44:17.13\00:44:21.06
ROYAL LAW IS THE LAW OF LOVE
AND YOU'VE ALL HEARD PEOPLE SAY.
00:44:21.06\00:44:25.86
'JESUS NOW GAVE US THE NEW
COMMANDMENT.' 'A NEW COMMANDMENT
00:44:25.86\00:44:29.63
I GIVE UNTO YOU THAT YOU SHOULD
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
00:44:29.63\00:44:33.23
LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL
YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL, AND
00:44:33.23\00:44:34.83
STRENGTH.' DOES THAT MEAN
THAT YOU NO LONGER KEEP THE TEN?
00:44:34.83\00:44:38.86
DOES ONE REPLACE THE OTHER?
00:44:38.86\00:44:41.20
ALRIGHT, LET'S LOOK AT
SOME OF THE EXAMPLES OF THIS.
00:44:41.20\00:44:42.96
ALRIGHT, READ FOR ME - WHOEVER
HAS GALATIANS 5:14 AND 15.
00:44:42.96\00:44:47.66
>>"FOR ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED
IN ONE WORD, EVEN IN THIS: 'YOU
00:44:47.66\00:44:51.80
SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
YOURSELF. BUT IF YOU BITE AND
00:44:51.80\00:44:55.33
DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, BEWARE LEST
YOU BE CONSUMED BY ONE ANOTHER!"
00:44:55.33\00:44:59.80
>>YOU KNOW, I WAS - AS I WAS
LOOKING AT THAT VERSE WHEN HE
00:44:59.80\00:45:03.66
SAYS, 'BUT IF YOU BITE AND
DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER' - THAT'S -
00:45:03.66\00:45:06.76
WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? IS
HE TALKING ABOUT CANNIBALISM?
00:45:06.76\00:45:10.90
IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE
VEGETARIAN CANNIBALS? IT IS WHEN
00:45:10.90\00:45:15.20
IT COMES TO BITING AND DEVOURING
EACH OTHER WITH OUR WORDS.
00:45:15.20\00:45:19.40
AND HE SAID, 'SO IF YOU FULFILL
- ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED IN
00:45:19.40\00:45:23.00
THIS WORD, LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.'
NOW THERE'S SEVERAL TIMES THAT
00:45:23.00\00:45:25.80
THIS PRINCIPLE
APPEARS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:45:25.80\00:45:28.26
I'VE READ YOU ALREADY
DEUTERONOMY 6:4, "THOU SHALT
00:45:28.26\00:45:31.63
LOVE THE LORD
WITH ALL YOUR HEART."
00:45:31.63\00:45:33.16
SO WHEN IT SAYS THAT ALL THE
COMMANDMENTS ARE FULFILLED IN
00:45:33.16\00:45:36.83
THIS, DOES THAT MEAN IF YOU
LOVE THE LORD AND YOU LOVE YOUR
00:45:36.83\00:45:40.23
NEIGHBOR THAT TRUMPS
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:45:40.23\00:45:44.03
OR IS HE SAYING IT
SUMMARIZES THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:45:44.03\00:45:47.46
THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE.
00:45:47.46\00:45:48.83
SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'I'M NOT UNDER
THE OLD LAW ANYMORE BECAUSE NOW
00:45:48.83\00:45:51.56
WE'RE JUST UNDER THE LAW
OF LOVE.' WELL, IF YOU SAY, 'I
00:45:51.56\00:45:56.43
REALLY LOVE MY NEIGHBOR BUT
I'M KILLING HIM,' YOU DON'T.
00:45:56.43\00:45:59.83
OR 'I LOVE MY NEIGHBOR BUT I'M
STEALING FROM THEM' OR COVETING
00:45:59.83\00:46:02.36
WHAT THEY HAVE - OR YOU CAN
GO THROUGH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:46:02.36\00:46:04.86
HOW CAN YOU SAY 'I LOVE THE
LORD' AND WORSHIP IDOLS, USE HIS
00:46:04.86\00:46:08.46
NAME IN VAIN, DON'T TAKE THAT
HOLY TIME WITH HIM THAT HE'S
00:46:08.46\00:46:11.00
RESERVED. IT ALL -
IT'S A PACKAGE DEAL.
00:46:11.00\00:46:14.56
AGAIN, PAUL SAYS THIS IN
ROMANS 13:9 AND 10, "FOR THE
00:46:14.56\00:46:19.56
COMMANDMENTS, 'YOU SHALL NOT
COMMIT ADULTERY,' ' YOU SHALL
00:46:19.56\00:46:22.63
NOT MURDER,' ' YOU SHALL
NOT STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR
00:46:22.63\00:46:25.80
FALSE WITNESS,' 'YOU SHALL
NOT COVET,' AND IF THERE IS ANY
00:46:25.80\00:46:28.60
OTHER COMMANDMENT," - IN OTHER
WORDS HE'S SAYING ANY OF THE
00:46:28.60\00:46:31.36
OTHER TEN - ARE ALL SUMMED UP IN
THIS SAYING, NAMELY, 'YOU SHALL
00:46:31.36\00:46:36.76
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
YOURSELF.'" - YOU REALIZE HE'S
00:46:36.76\00:46:38.60
TALKING ABOUT THE COMMANDMENTS
BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBOR,
00:46:38.60\00:46:41.60
PRINCIPALLY - VERSE 10, "LOVE
DOES NO HARM TO A NEIGHBOR;
00:46:41.60\00:46:46.16
THEREFORE LOVE IS THE
FULFILLMENT OF THE LAW."
00:46:46.16\00:46:49.16
FULFILLMENT DOESN'T MEAN IT
ABOLISHES, FULFILLMENT MEANS IT
00:46:49.16\00:46:52.66
FILLS IT FULL. THE
BEST WAY TO SHOW OUR LOVE
00:46:52.66\00:46:55.73
FOR GOD IS BY TRUSTING HIM
ENOUGH TO DO WHAT HE SAYS AND
00:46:55.73\00:46:59.46
OBEYING HIM. NOW
'JUDGED BY THE LAW' IS THIS
00:46:59.46\00:47:04.36
SECTION HERE.
SOMEBODY IS GOING TO HAVE JOHN
00:47:04.36\00:47:08.23
12:48 IN JUST A MOMENT,
OKAY? JOLYNE, YOU'LL BE NEXT.
00:47:08.23\00:47:12.30
NOW WE'RE READING JAMES 2,
VERSES 12 AND 13, "SO SPEAK AND
00:47:12.30\00:47:17.53
SO DO AS THOSE WHO WILL BE
JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY.
00:47:17.53\00:47:22.13
FOR JUDGMENT IS WITHOUT MERCY TO
THE ONE WHO HAS SHOWN NO MERCY."
00:47:22.13\00:47:26.36
NOW YOU REMEMBER LAST WEEK
WE READ IN PSALM 119, VERSES - I
00:47:26.36\00:47:30.56
THINK - IT'S 44 AND 45,
IT SAYS,'SO I'LL KEEP YOUR
00:47:30.56\00:47:34.63
COMMANDMENTS FOREVER AND
EVER AND I WILL WALK AT LIBERTY
00:47:34.63\00:47:38.20
BECAUSE I SEEK YOUR PRECEPTS.'
SO THE LAW OF LIBERTY THAT HE'S
00:47:38.20\00:47:41.20
REFERRING TO IS
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:47:41.20\00:47:43.66
THAT'S WHAT GIVES US FREEDOM.
00:47:43.66\00:47:45.00
THOSE WHO ARE KEEPING
THE LAW ARE FREE RIGHT NOW.
00:47:45.00\00:47:48.33
"AND MERCY
TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT."
00:47:48.33\00:47:52.13
THE ONE WHO HAS A JUDGMENT - I'M
SORRY, I WANT TO SAY THAT AGAIN.
00:47:52.13\00:47:56.23
VERSE 13 - JAMES 2:13 - "FOR
JUDGMENT IS WITHOUT MERCY TO THE
00:47:56.23\00:48:00.20
ONE WHO HAS SHOWN NO MERCY.
MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT."
00:48:00.20\00:48:05.40
WHAT DOES JESUS SAY IN
THE BEATITUDES ABOUT MERCY?
00:48:05.40\00:48:08.90
BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL,
THEY WILL OBTAIN MERCY.
00:48:08.90\00:48:17.96
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT THAT
- 'WOW, I WANT TO BE REALLY
00:48:17.96\00:48:22.00
FORGIVING WITH PEOPLE?'
SOMETIMES, IN OUR HEARTS,
00:48:22.00\00:48:24.83
WE DON'T FORGIVE PEOPLE.
00:48:24.83\00:48:26.46
I WANT TO BE FORGIVING TO PEOPLE
BECAUSE, AS BAD AS WHAT I THINK
00:48:26.46\00:48:29.96
THEY MAY HAVE DONE IS, LOOK
AT HOW MUCH GOD FORGIVES ME.
00:48:29.96\00:48:35.30
AND SOMETIMES WE'RE NOT VERY
FORGIVING TO PEOPLE BY - IF YOU
00:48:35.30\00:48:40.40
REHEARSE THEIR MISTAKES - THAT'S
JUST ANOTHER WAY OF KIND OF
00:48:40.40\00:48:44.46
KEEPING IT ALIVE BUT IF YOU
FORGIVE YOU MAY NOT FORGET BUT
00:48:44.46\00:48:47.20
YOU DON'T HAVE TO
CHEW ON IT ALL THE TIME.
00:48:47.20\00:48:51.63
YOU KNOW WHAT SEPARATES THE
CLEAN ANIMALS FROM THE UNCLEAN
00:48:51.63\00:48:54.40
ANIMALS? PARTED
HOOF AND CHEWING THE CUD.
00:48:54.40\00:48:58.56
YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
A COW OR DEER CHEWS THE CUD?
00:48:58.56\00:49:02.10
THEY SWALLOW SOMETHING BUT LATER
ON THEY BRING IT BACK UP AGAIN
00:49:02.10\00:49:05.93
AND CHEW ON IT. AND SOME PEOPLE
DO THAT WITH THINGS THEY SAY
00:49:05.93\00:49:09.90
THEY'VE FORGIVEN.
ALRIGHT, READ FOR US JOHN 12:48.
00:49:09.90\00:49:15.66
>>"HE WHO REJECTS ME, AND DOES
NOT RECEIVE MY WORDS, HAS THAT
00:49:15.66\00:49:21.16
WHICH JUDGES HIM - THE
WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN
00:49:21.16\00:49:24.43
WILL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY."
00:49:24.43\00:49:27.16
>>WORDS ARE GOING TO PLAY A VERY
IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE JUDGMENT.
00:49:27.16\00:49:33.13
FIRST OF ALL, JESUS SAYS, 'THE
WORDS THAT I'VE SPOKEN.' GOD
00:49:33.13\00:49:36.56
KNOWS WHAT WORDS
THAT WE'VE HEARD, RIGHT?
00:49:36.56\00:49:39.03
AND MAN DOESN'T LIVE BY BREAD
ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT
00:49:39.03\00:49:44.30
PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.
00:49:44.30\00:49:45.56
GOD WANTS US TO
LIVE BY HIS WORDS.
00:49:45.56\00:49:47.26
BUT HE ALSO SAYS, 'OUT OF THE
ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH
00:49:47.26\00:49:52.10
SPEAKS.' AND EVERY IDLE WORD
THAT WE SPEAK, WE'LL GIVE AN
00:49:52.10\00:49:55.93
ACCOUNT THEREOF IN
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.
00:49:55.93\00:49:58.36
'FOR BY YOUR WORDS YOU'LL
BE JUSTIFIED AND BY YOUR WORDS
00:49:58.36\00:50:02.33
YOU'LL BE CONDEMNED.' SO, FOR
ONE THING, WE'RE JUDGED BY THE
00:50:02.33\00:50:05.86
WORD OF GOD - THAT WE'RE
AWARE OF - IN THE JUDGMENT AND,
00:50:05.86\00:50:09.33
ADDITIONALLY, THE WORDS THAT
COME OUT OF OUR MOUTHS - WE'VE
00:50:09.33\00:50:12.70
GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT WE SAY.
CAN YOU THINK OF A TIME IN THE
00:50:12.70\00:50:15.46
BIBLE WHEN SOMEONE PRAYED
FOR SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T REALLY
00:50:15.46\00:50:18.33
WANT BUT THEY GOT IT
BECAUSE THEY SAID IT?
00:50:18.33\00:50:21.80
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,
AFTER THEY LOST FAITH - IN
00:50:21.80\00:50:26.53
NUMBERS 13 - I GUESS IT'S
NUMBERS 14 - AT THE BORDERS OF
00:50:26.53\00:50:29.93
THE PROMISED LAND. THEY BELIEVED
THE EVIL REPORT OF THE SPIES.
00:50:29.93\00:50:34.10
THEY SAID, 'WOULD GOD THAT
WE DIED IN THIS WILDERNESS.' AND
00:50:34.10\00:50:39.60
THE LORD HAD HEARD THEM
SAY THAT SO MANY TIMES HE SAID,
00:50:39.60\00:50:41.30
'OKAY, IS THAT
WHAT YOU REALLY WANT?
00:50:41.30\00:50:43.36
THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE
GOING TO GET.' BY YOUR WORDS.
00:50:43.36\00:50:46.56
AND SO WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
WHAT WE SAY AND WHAT WE PRAY FOR
00:50:46.56\00:50:50.53
BECAUSE THOSE - EVERY IDLE WORD
THAT WE SPEAK IS RECORDED AND
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THESE THINGS ARE GOING
TO COME UP IN THE JUDGMENT.
00:50:55.60\00:50:59.40
HEBREWS 4, VERSES 12 AND 13
- SPEAKING, AGAIN, ABOUT BEING
00:50:59.40\00:51:04.40
JUDGED BY THE LAW, "FOR THE WORD
OF GOD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL,
00:51:04.40\00:51:09.50
AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED
SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE
00:51:09.50\00:51:12.86
DIVISION OF SOUL AND SPIRIT, AND
OF JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS A
00:51:12.86\00:51:17.16
DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS
AND INTENTS OF THE HEART.
00:51:17.16\00:51:20.36
AND THERE IS NO CREATURE HIDDEN
FROM HIS SIGHT, BUT ALL THINGS
00:51:20.36\00:51:23.46
ARE NAKED AND OPEN TO THE
EYES OF HIM TO WHOM WE MUST GIVE
00:51:23.46\00:51:27.43
ACCOUNT." NOW HEBREWS
IS WRITTEN TO HEBREWS.
00:51:27.43\00:51:32.63
HEBREWS TALKS A LOT
ABOUT THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM.
00:51:32.63\00:51:36.16
IN THE SACRIFICIAL
SYSTEM THEY OFFERED ANIMALS.
00:51:36.16\00:51:40.26
IN THE OFFERING OF ANIMALS THEY
HAD VERY SHARP KNIVES AND HE IS
00:51:40.26\00:51:45.93
ALLUDING TO THAT WHEN HE TALKS
ABOUT SEVERING THE JOINTS AND
00:51:45.93\00:51:50.76
THE MARROW AND THEY HAD
OFTEN SEEN THE PRIESTS WERE THE
00:51:50.76\00:51:55.10
BUTCHERS IN THE SANCTUARY
AND THEY WOULD CARVE UP THOSE
00:51:55.10\00:51:59.16
SACRIFICES AND LAY
THEM IN ORDER ON THE ALTARS.
00:51:59.16\00:52:02.56
AND THE WORD OF GOD CAN CUT.
00:52:02.56\00:52:07.00
IT'S SOMETIMES - WHEN
PETER PREACHED ON THE DAY OF
00:52:07.00\00:52:09.93
PENTECOST, AND WHEN HE GOT DONE
WITH HIS SERMON, YOU CAN JUST
00:52:09.93\00:52:13.26
BARELY IMAGINE - HERE YOU'VE GOT
THESE DEVOUT JEWS WHO HAVE COME
00:52:13.26\00:52:16.86
FROM EVERY NATION - THEY'RE IN
JERUSALEM - THEY'VE COME A FEW
00:52:16.86\00:52:20.96
WEEKS AFTER JESUS
HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED.
00:52:20.96\00:52:23.86
HE'S SUPPOSEDLY APPEARED ALIVE
AND NOW PETER SAYS, 'THE MESSIAH
00:52:23.86\00:52:28.56
FINALLY CAME. WE'VE
WAITED FOR 2,000 YEARS.
00:52:28.56\00:52:30.76
THE MESSIAH CAME. GUESS WHAT
HAPPENED? WE CRUCIFIED HIM LIKE
00:52:30.76\00:52:34.53
WE DID ALL THE PROPHETS OF
OLD.' AND THE PEOPLE WERE SO
00:52:34.53\00:52:39.30
OVERWHELMED, WHEN PETER PREACHED
THAT WORD TO THEM, IT SAYS THAT
00:52:39.30\00:52:43.30
THEY WERE CUT TO THE HEART AND
THEY SAID, 'MEN AND BRETHREN,
00:52:43.30\00:52:47.93
WHAT SHALL WE DO?' AND SO
THERE WAS GREAT REPENTANCE.
00:52:47.93\00:52:51.10
WHAT BROUGHT ABOUT THAT
REPENTANCE? THE WORD OF GOD.
00:52:51.10\00:52:54.56
AND THIS IS THE WORD WE'LL ALL
BE JUDGED BY IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:52:54.56\00:52:59.13
JUDGMENT IS WITHOUT MERCY TO
THE ONE WHO'S SHOWN NO MERCY AND
00:52:59.13\00:53:02.26
MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT.'
'BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL; THEY
00:53:02.26\00:53:06.46
WILL OBTAIN MERCY.' WHEN
LOT INVITED THE ANGELS INTO HIS
00:53:06.46\00:53:13.30
HOME, DO YOU
REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED?
00:53:13.30\00:53:16.16
THE CROWD IN THE CITY
WANTED TO HURT THE ANGELS.
00:53:16.16\00:53:18.50
BY INVITING THE ANGELS
INTO HIS HOME IT SAVED HIM.
00:53:18.50\00:53:25.86
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE
THAT, YOU KNOW, MANY TIMES GOD
00:53:25.86\00:53:29.43
HAS PRESERVED BECAUSE
THEY'VE SHOWN MERCY TO OTHERS.
00:53:29.43\00:53:34.20
WHEN REBEKKAH SAW THIS DUSTY
TRAVELER AND ALL OF HIS CAMELS
00:53:34.20\00:53:39.23
WITH A CARAVAN STANDING BY THE
WELL AND SHE SAID, 'LET ME WATER
00:53:39.23\00:53:42.86
YOUR CAMELS FOR YOU.' SHE SAW
THIS POOR GUY - DID SHE HAVE ANY
00:53:42.86\00:53:47.03
IDEA THAT HE HAD JUST PRAYED AND
SAID, 'LORD, I DON'T KNOW WHO IS
00:53:47.03\00:53:51.70
THE APPROPRIATE ONE TO BE THE
WIFE FOR THIS PRINCE, ISAAC -
00:53:51.70\00:53:55.80
VERY WEALTHY - HE'S GOING TO
BE THE FATHER OF THE MESSIAH AND
00:53:55.80\00:54:01.46
THE NATION - PEOPLE OF GOD -
THIS HAS TO BE THE RIGHT WOMAN.
00:54:01.46\00:54:05.13
WHAT'S THE TEST
THAT HE GAVE HER?
00:54:05.13\00:54:07.83
HE SAID, 'WHOEVER IT IS, WHEN I
SAY, 'CAN YOU GIVE ME A DRINK OF
00:54:07.83\00:54:10.70
WATER?' ALSO OFFERS
TO WATER THE CAMELS.
00:54:10.70\00:54:13.33
I'LL TAKE THAT AS A
SIGN.' SHE HAD MERCY ON HIM.
00:54:13.33\00:54:17.53
HE DIDN'T EVEN SAY,
'COULD YOU WATER MY CAMELS?'
00:54:17.53\00:54:19.63
SHE SAW THAT HE HAD A
NEED AND SHE DECIDED TO SERVE.
00:54:19.63\00:54:23.53
WHAT WAS THE REWARD
FOR HER PASSING THAT TEST?
00:54:23.53\00:54:28.23
SHE ENDS UP BECOMING,YOU
KNOW, A VIRTUAL QUEEN IN ISRAEL.
00:54:28.23\00:54:31.76
I MEAN, SHE BECOMES THE
MOTHER OF ISRAEL, SO TO SPEAK.
00:54:31.76\00:54:34.26
AND THE PARABLE JESUS SHARES IN
MATTHEW 25 - I THINK IT'S VERSE
00:54:34.26\00:54:38.90
31 - OF THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS
- AND THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY
00:54:38.90\00:54:43.83
WILL BE AS WHEN A SHEPHERD
SEPARATES THE SHEEP FROM THE
00:54:43.83\00:54:47.00
GOATS AND HE'LL TURN TO
THE SHEEP ON THE RIGHT HAND AND
00:54:47.00\00:54:50.20
HE'LL SAY 'BLESSED ARE
YOU, CHILDREN OF MY FATHER, COME
00:54:50.20\00:54:53.33
INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR
YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE
00:54:53.33\00:54:55.70
WORLD BECAUSE I WAS
HUNGRY AND YOU FED ME.
00:54:55.70\00:54:58.63
I WAS THIRSTY AND
YOU GAVE ME DRINK.
00:54:58.63\00:55:00.76
I WAS NAKED AND YOU CLOTHED ME.
I WAS ALONE AND YOU CAME TO ME.
00:55:00.76\00:55:06.20
I WAS SICK OR IN
PRISON AND YOU VISITED ME.
00:55:06.20\00:55:08.80
AND THEN THEY'LL SAY TO THE LORD
- I'M DOING A LOOSE PARAPHRASE
00:55:08.80\00:55:11.83
HERE - 'LORD, WHEN DID WE SEE
YOU HUNGRY OR THIRSTY OR NAKED
00:55:11.83\00:55:16.66
OR A STRANGER SICK OR
IN PRISON AND COME TO YOU?'
00:55:16.66\00:55:19.10
AND HE'LL SAY, 'INASMUCH AS YOU
DID IT TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF
00:55:19.10\00:55:22.63
THESE.' HOW DID OUR STUDY BEGIN?
00:55:22.63\00:55:24.73
IF A MAN COMES IN AND YOU SEE
HE'S POOR AND YOU TELL HIM TO
00:55:24.73\00:55:26.96
SIT ON THE FLOOR - 'INASMUCH AS
YOU'VE DONE IT UNTO THE ONE OF
00:55:26.96\00:55:29.76
THE LEAST OF THESE, YOU'VE DONE
IT TO - TO ME.' SO THINK OF THE
00:55:29.76\00:55:35.63
MOST POWERFUL, RICH,
INFLUENTIAL, FAMOUS, BEAUTIFUL
00:55:35.63\00:55:39.70
PERSON YOU CAN THINK OF AND IF
THEY SHOULD KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR
00:55:39.70\00:55:45.26
OR SHOW UP IN YOUR CHURCH,
HOW WOULD YOU TREAT THEM? WOULD
00:55:45.26\00:55:48.96
YOU TREAT THEM DIFFERENT FROM
SOMEBODY THAT MAYBE WAS POOR?
00:55:48.96\00:55:55.43
JESUS IS SAYING 'THERE'S NOBODY
IN THIS WORLD RICHER AND MORE
00:55:55.43\00:56:00.06
POWERFUL OR INTELLIGENT
OR BETTER LOOKING THAN ME.'
00:56:00.06\00:56:04.90
INASMUCH AS YOU'VE DONE IT TO
THE LEAST OF THEM, YOU'RE DOING
00:56:04.90\00:56:07.36
IT TO CHRIST. SO
REALLY, THROUGH THIS PARABLE,
00:56:07.36\00:56:11.13
EVERYBODY SHOULD BE GETTING
FIRST-CLASS TREATMENT IF YOU'RE
00:56:11.13\00:56:14.63
A CHRISTIAN AND
YOU LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.
00:56:14.63\00:56:18.23
AND THEN IT GOES ON AND IT SAYS
IN ROMANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 12,
00:56:18.23\00:56:22.73
"FOR AS MANY AS HAVE SINNED
WITHOUT LAW WILL ALSO PERISH
00:56:22.73\00:56:26.40
WITHOUT LAW, AND AS MANY AS HAVE
SINNED IN THE LAW WILL BE JUDGED
00:56:26.40\00:56:31.20
BY THE LAW." AND THIS IS - BOY,
THIS IS A VERSE YOU ALMOST NEVER
00:56:31.20\00:56:34.13
HEAR SOME PEOPLE QUOTE -
PAUL, ROMANS 3 - ROMANS 2:13,
00:56:34.13\00:56:40.40
"(FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW
ARE JUST IN THE SIGHT OF GOD,
00:56:40.40\00:56:44.43
BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW WILL
BE JUSTIFIED;" ARE WE SAVED?
00:56:44.43\00:56:48.96
ARE WE JUSTIFIED BY
THE LAW? WELL, YOU ARE.
00:56:48.96\00:56:54.16
WHAT IS THE ROYAL LAW?
>>THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:56:54.16\00:56:57.56
>>AND LOVE. SO IF YOU
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AND
00:56:57.56\00:57:02.40
IF YOU LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL
YOUR HEART, THE FINAL CRITERIA
00:57:02.40\00:57:06.16
IS GOING TO BE 'HE THAT HAS
MERCY WILL RECEIVE MERCY.' HE
00:57:06.16\00:57:09.46
THAT LOVES GOD, HE THAT LOVES
HIS NEIGHBOR IS GOING TO FIND
00:57:09.46\00:57:12.63
SALVATION. OF
COURSE, IT'S THROUGH TRUST IN
00:57:12.63\00:57:15.00
CHRIST. BUT THE WAY
WE SHOW OUR LOVE FOR
00:57:15.00\00:57:16.80
CHRIST - ANYWAY, WELL WE MADE IT
ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE LESSON.
00:57:16.80\00:57:20.06
I THINK I STILL HAVE A MINUTE
HERE TO REMIND YOU, IF YOU
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00:57:28.90\00:57:30.76
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