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>>GOOD EVENING FRIENDS.
WELCOME, AGAIN, TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. WE'D LIKE
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JOINING US AS WE CONTINUE
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BEFORE WE GET STARTED, THOUGH,
WE WANT TO INVITE GOD'S PRESENCE
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TO BE WITH US AND THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND
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OUR MINDS IN THIS
VERY IMPORTANT STUDY.
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DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE THANK
YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY
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YOUR WORD TOGETHER. WE
INVITE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
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COME AND LEAD OUR
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THIS IS AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT
SO WE ASK, IN A SPECIAL WAY, FOR
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YOUR PRESENCE TO BE WITH
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>>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS
AND GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY.
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IT'S EVENING HERE.
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GOOD MORNING TO MANY OF OUR
CLASS BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE
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WATCH THESE PROGRAMS IN
THE MORNING AND - THEN FOR THAT
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MATTER, ALL OVER THE
WORLD IT'S AT DIFFERENT HOURS.
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WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE JOINING US FOR
OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY TIME.
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AND WE'RE CONTINUING IN OUR
STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JAMES AND
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WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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THE LESSON IS JAMES - IT'S
LESSON #8 AND IT'S - THE MEMORY
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VERSE IS JAMES 4:10 AND IT'S
- WELL, I'LL LET YOU ALL SAY IT
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WITH ME. YOU READY? IF
YOU'VE GOT YOUR LESSON OPEN
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OR YOUR BIBLES OPEN, HERE WE GO.
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JAMES 4:10, "HUMBLE YOURSELF
IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD AND HE
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WILL LIFT YOU UP." THAT'S RIGHT.
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SOME OF YOU IT SAYS, 'HE WILL
EXALT YOU.' KING JAMES/NEW KING
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JAMES IT SAYS, 'HE WILL LIFT
YOU UP.' THIS LESSON IS TITLED
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'HUMILITY' - 'THE HUMILITY OF
HEAVEN' - LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN.
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THIS LESSON IS TITLED 'THE
HUMILITY OF HEAVENLY WISDOM.'
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AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME OF
YOU PARTICIPATE IN JUST A MOMENT
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- IN HELPING US READ ALONG.
YOU KNOW, IN PREPARATION FOR
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THIS LESSON I'M ACTUALLY,
YOU KNOW, JUST EVEN TEACHING AND
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PREACHING IT BLESSES ME BECAUSE
IN STUDYING TO TALK TO OTHERS,
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IT'S NOT AS THOUGH
I'M ONE WHO HAS ARRIVED.
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I'M CONVICTED OFTEN BY THE
THINGS I PREPARE IN THE STUDY
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TIME AND THIS LESSON THAT'S
DEALING WITH PRIDE AND HUMILITY
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- I'D READ IT YEARS BEFORE,
THERE'S A BOOK THAT'S SOMEWHAT
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OF A CLASSIC CALLED
'MERE CHRISTIANITY' BY C.S.
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LEWIS AND HE'S GOT A CHAPTER IN
THERE CALLED 'THE GREAT SIN' AND
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IN THAT CHAPTER, WHERE HE DEALS
WITH THE GREAT SIN, IT'S TALKING
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ABOUT PRIDE. I'LL
READ YOU ONE LITTLE EXCERPT
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FROM THAT, "ACCORDING
TO CHRISTIAN TEACHERS, THE
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ESSENTIAL VICE, THE
UTMOST EVIL, IS PRIDE.
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UNCHASTITY, ANGER, GREED,
DRUNKENNESS, AND ALL OF THAT ARE
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MERE FLEA BITES IN COMPARISON.
IT WAS THROUGH PRIDE THE DEVIL
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BECAME THE DEVIL.
PRIDE LEADS TO EVERY OTHER
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VICE. IT IS
COMPLETE ANTI-GOD STATE OF
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MIND - IT IS THE COMPLETE
ANTI-GOD STATE OF MIND."
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AND, YOU KNOW, AS I WAS
PONDERING THAT AND CONSIDERING
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THE LESSON, IT REALLY IS THE
FOUNDATION OF JUST ABOUT EVERY
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OTHER SIN BECAUSE PRIDE
REALLY LEADS TO THE HEART OF
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SELFISHNESS. PRIDE IS
WHAT TURNED SATAN INTO
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A DEVIL - OR LUCIFER, I
SHOULD SAY, INTO A DEVIL.
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HE WAS A GOOD ANGEL. AND
I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS JOHN
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KNOX - I FORGET WHICH ONE OF
THE REFORMERS IT WAS THAT SAID,
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'YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE THE
DEVIL THAN WHEN YOU'RE PROUD.'
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AND YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE JESUS
THAN WHEN YOU'RE HUMBLE BECAUSE
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THEY REPRESENT THE
TWO POLAR OPPOSITES.
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JESUS WAS - HE SAYS, 'COME UNTO
ME...FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY.'
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JESUS WAS THE EXHIBIT A OF
HUMILITY AND SO, IN THIS LESSON
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AND IN A NUMBER OF PLACES IN THE
BOOK OF JAMES HE APPEALS FOR US
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TO MODEL THE CHARACTERISTICS
OF CHRIST, WHICH IS THAT OF
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HUMILITY. NOW,
JUST TO START OUT, I
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THOUGHT IT'D BE GOOD TO LOOK
AT SOME OF THE EXAMPLES IN THE
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BIBLE THAT ILLUSTRATE THIS
POINT OF HOW DANGEROUS PRIDE IS.
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WHEN CHRIST FIRST BEGAN
TEACHING, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 5,
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HE TALKS ABOUT THE SCRIBES
AND THE PHARISEES, BUT IT'S NOT
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RESTRICTED TO THEM - IT HAPPENS
IN CHURCHES ALL THE TIME, THAT
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PRAY TO BE SEEN OF MEN.
YOU PRAY LONG PRAYERS THINKING
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THAT YOU'RE GOING TO IMPRESS
PEOPLE WITH HOW HOLY YOU ARE.
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WHAT IS THE ROOT
MOTIVE FOR DOING THAT? PRIDE.
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HE SAID THAT THEY FAST AND
DISFIGURE THEIR FACES SO THAT
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THEY LOOK HOLY AND TELL
EVERYBODY THEY'RE FASTING.
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WHAT IS THE MOTIVE
BEHIND THAT? PRIDE.
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IT'S, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO APPEAR
RELIGIOUS - THIS IS WHERE IT'S
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SO DANGEROUS -
IT'S RELIGIOUS PRIDE.
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AND HE SAID THAT - 'AND YOU BLOW
THE TRUMPET BEFORE YOU MAKE A
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DONATION' - YOU WANT TO MAKE
SURE THAT THEY NAME A PEW OR A
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WINDOW OR A BRICK AFTER
YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR DONATION.
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WHAT'S AT THE HEART OF THAT?
JESUS SAID, 'WHEN YOU GIFT,
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DON'T LET YOUR - WHEN YOU GIVE,
DON'T LET YOUR LEFT HAND KNOW
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WHAT YOUR RIGHT HAND DOES.
THAT WOULD BE HUMILITY, WHEN YOU
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QUIETLY GIVE THINGS AWAY. I
READ ABOUT THIS BILLIONAIRE -
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IT WAS ONE OF THE AMAZING
FACTS DURING OUR PROGRAM.
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I CAN'T REMEMBER HIS NAME
RIGHT NOW, BUT HE HAD OVER A
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BILLION DOLLARS AND HE GAVE AWAY
ALL OF IT BUT A COUPLE HUNDRED
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MILLION DOLLARS
AND HE DID IT QUIETLY.
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WITHOUT ANY FANFARE, HE
WOULD SECRETLY GO INTO THESE
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INSTITUTIONS - HE'D WRITE
LETTERS - HE'D SAY, 'HERE'S WHAT
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I HOPE YOU CAN USE THIS FOR' -
AND HE JUST - HE SAID, 'MY GOAL
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IS, I WANT TO PROVIDE FOR MY
FAMILY - WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO
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NEED - BECAUSE I WANT TO DIE
WITHOUT ANYTHING LEFT.' AND IT
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WAS - IT'S JUST AMAZING THAT HE
JUST GAVE AWAY HIS WEALTH AND HE
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WANTED NOBODY TO KNOW.
MATTER OF FACT, FOR THE LONGEST
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TIME, PEOPLE WERE WONDERING,
'WHERE'S ALL THIS MONEY COMING
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FROM FOR THESE PROJECTS?'
AND HE WOULD FLY COACH FARE -
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BILLIONAIRE - RIDE
THE BUS AND THE TRAIN.
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DIDN'T OWN A CAR.
DIDN'T OWN A HOME.
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IT'S QUITE A -
IT'S QUITE A STORY AND -
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BUT HE DIDN'T WANT
ANY CREDIT FOR DOING THAT.
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RELIGIOUS PRIDE - AND SINCE
WE'RE PRINCIPALLY TALKING TO
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PEOPLE THAT ARE STUDYING A
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON, I THOUGHT
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THAT'S AN
IMPORTANT CONTEXT FOR THIS.
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IT'S JUST AS DEADLY AS
ANY OTHER KIND OF PRIDE.
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YOU KNOW, YOU SEE A
FOOTBALL PLAYER GET A TOUCHDOWN.
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HE DOES HIS VICTORY
DANCE. WHAT'S BEHIND THAT?
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HE'S STOMPING AROUND, THROWING
THE BALL, AND IT'S JUST, YOU
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KNOW, IT'S AN ACT OF
HUMILITY? NO, IT'S PRIDE.
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BUT DO WE HAVE THAT
SOMETIMES, EVEN IN THE CHURCH?
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MAKE A DONATION, BLOW THE
TRUMPET. SAY A LONG PRAYER,
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TELL EVERYONE WE'RE FASTING.
WHY DID THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS
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CRUCIFY JESUS?
BECAUSE OF PRIDE AND ENVY.
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EVEN PILATE SAID - THE BIBLE
SAYS - HE KNEW THAT IT WAS FOR
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ENVY THAT THEY HAD
BROUGHT HIM TO PILATE.
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ENVY IS REALLY A - IT'S FALLOUT
FROM PRIDE - BEING JEALOUS THAT
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SOMEBODY ELSE IS GETTING
THE CREDIT THAT YOU WANT.
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SO PRIDE IS REALLY
STRIKING AT THE HEART.
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YOU CAN EVEN THINK OF SOME OF
THE GOOD PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE -
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GOOD KINGS - KING UZZIAH.
YOU READ ABOUT THE HISTORY OF
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UZZIAH, HE'S THE SECOND-LONGEST
REIGNING KING IN JUDEA -
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ACTUALLY, FOR ALL OF ISRAEL.
I THINK HE REIGNED FIFTY-TWO
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YEARS. THAT'S A LONG REIGN.
MANASSEH IS THE ONLY ONE THAT
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REIGNED LONGER. I
THINK THAT WAS FIFTY-FIVE
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YEARS. UZZIAH -
GOOD KING - HE BUILT -
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THE LORD WAS WITH HIM - MATTER
OF FACT, THE RECORD OF UZZIAH
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SAYS HE WALKED IN THE
COMMANDMENTS ACCORDING TO DAVID,
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HIS FATHER - OR
LIKE DAVID HIS FATHER.
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BUT ONE DAY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT
CAME OVER HIM, YOU KNOW, I GUESS
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THEY SAY THAT POWER CORRUPTS
AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS
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ABSOLUTELY AND WHEN YOU'RE
KING AND EVERYONE TELLS YOU HOW
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WONDERFUL YOU ARE BECAUSE THEY
WANT FAVORS, IT CAN START TO -
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YOU CAN START
BELIEVING IT AFTER AWHILE.
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AND SOMETHING POSSESSED HIM
AND ONE DAY UZZIAH THOUGHT, YOU
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KNOW, HOW COME I CAN'T GO INTO
THE HOLY PLACE AND BURN INCENSE
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LIKE A PRIEST? ALL OF
THESE OTHER PAGAN NATIONS
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AROUND ME, THE KINGS
ALSO GET TO ACT AS A PRIEST.
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WHY DON'T I GET TO
ACT LIKE A PRIEST?'
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- HE SAID - 'I SHOULD BE A' -
WHO KNOWS WHAT HE WAS THINKING?
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BUT HE TOOK A GOLDEN CENSOR IN
HIS HAND, HE THREW SOME INCENSE
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ON THE COALS AND HE WENT IN
AND STARTED TO WAVE IT BACK AND
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FORTH LIKE A PRIEST.
ALL THE PRIESTS SAW WHAT WAS
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HAPPENING AND LIKE EIGHTY
PRIESTS GOT TOGETHER AND THEY
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ALL CONFRONTED HIM AND THEY
SAID, 'YOUR MAJESTY, THIS IS NOT
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APPROPRIATE. THE
SCRIPTURES SAY IT IS ONLY
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FOR THE SONS OF AARON TO DO
THIS.' HE SAID, 'I'M THE KING.
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I CAN DO WHAT I WANT.' AND THEY
SAID, 'NO.' AND HE GOT ANGRY.
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WHY DID HE GET
ANGRY? PRIDE WAS OFFENDED.
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HE WANTED A POSITION ABOVE AND
AS HE BEGAN TO ARGUE AND SAY,
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'I'VE GOT MY RIGHTS AND I SHOULD
BE ABLE TO DO THIS' - AND WHO
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KNOWS WHAT HE SAID? IT
JUST SAYS HE BECAME ENRAGED.
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LEPROSY BROKE OUT ON HIS
FOREHEAD RIGHT AT THAT VERY
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MOMENT AND IT STAYED WITH
HIM UNTIL THE DAY HE DIED.
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WHAT IS LEPROSY A
TYPE OF IN THE BIBLE? SIN.
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AND YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE THE
DEVIL THAN WHEN YOU'RE PROUD.
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THEY CHASED HIM OUT OF THE
SANCTUARY BECAUSE HE WAS UNCLEAN
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AND HE HAD TO FINISH OUT
HIS REIGN LIVING IN ISOLATION.
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WHAT ABOUT KING
HEZEKIAH? GOOD KING.
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WHO HERE WOULDN'T WANT HEZEKIAH?
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I MEAN, HE PRAYED AND GOD
SLEW A WHOLE ARMY. GOOD KING.
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HE PRAYED AND GOD
TURNED THE SUN BACKWARDS.
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DIDN'T JUST STOP IT LIKE HE DID
FOR JOSHUA, IT WENT BACKWARDS.
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HE WAS A GOOD KING.
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BUT WHEN THE AMBASSADORS
CAME FROM BABYLON AND HE SAID,
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'NOW WHERE ARE YOU
GUYS FROM? BABYLON?
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WOW.' THAT WAS THE
CENTER OF LEARNING IN THE WORLD.
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'FROM BABYLON - YOU'VE COME
TO ME? TO LEARN FROM ME? WOW!
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HEY, COMPARED TO BABYLON, I'M
A SMALL KING. I BETTER IMPRESS
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THESE GUYS.' AND SO INSTEAD
OF TELLING THEM ABOUT THE GOD
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THEY'VE COME TO INQUIRE ABOUT
- THE WONDER DONE WHEN THE LORD
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TURNED THE SUN BACK -
THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
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INSTEAD OF TALKING
TO THEM ABOUT GOD -
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WHAT A WASTED
MISSIONARY OPPORTUNITY.
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HE SAID, 'LET ME
SHOW YOU MY SPICES.
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LET ME SHOW YOU MY ARMORY.
LET ME SHOW YOU MY TREASURES.
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LET ME SHOW YOU' - AND 'MY, MY,
MY, ME, ME, ME.' AND THEN ISAIAH
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CAME AND HE SAID, 'THESE PEOPLE
CAME TO LEARN ABOUT THE LORD.
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WHAT DID THEY
SEE IN YOUR HOUSE?'
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HE SAID, 'WELL, YEAH, BABYLON.
I SHOWED THEM EVERYTHING.
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THEY WERE IMPRESSED.
YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THEM.
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THEIR EYES SPARKLED WHEN THEY
SAW ALL MY STUFF.' AND ISAIAH
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SAID, 'YEAH, WELL
HERE'S THE REST OF THE STORY.
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BECAUSE YOU WERE JUST THINKING
ABOUT YOURSELF' - THIS IS A
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PARAPHRASE - HE SAID, 'THE
BABYLONIANS ARE GOING TO COME
00:12:22.33\00:12:26.23
AND THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ALL
THE TREASURES YOU SHOWED THEM
00:12:26.23\00:12:28.86
BACK TO BABYLON AND THEY'LL
TAKE UP YOUR SONS AND MAKE THEM
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EUNUCHS IN THEIR PALACE.'
DANIEL, SHADRACH, MESHACH AND
00:12:31.83\00:12:34.93
ABEDNEGO - THEY WERE SOME OF THE
PRINCES OF JUDEA THAT WERE TAKEN
00:12:34.93\00:12:39.63
OFF. AND HE WAS
PROUD OF HIS STUFF.
00:12:39.63\00:12:45.23
I THINK IT WAS SPURGEON THAT
SAID, 'DON'T BE PROUD OF FACE OR
00:12:45.23\00:12:49.26
RACE OR PLACE.' -
MEANING YOUR POSITION.
00:12:49.26\00:12:53.06
BUT STAND AT THE DOOR AFTER
A SERMON, WHEN YOU'RE A PASTOR,
00:12:53.06\00:12:58.63
AND PEOPLE SAY
THE NICEST THINGS.
00:12:58.63\00:13:03.40
BUT I HAVE ALSO STOOD AT THE
DOOR KNOWING THAT I PREACHED A
00:13:03.40\00:13:11.13
TERRIBLE SERMON AND
PEOPLE STILL SAID NICE THINGS.
00:13:11.13\00:13:15.10
AND IT FINALLY OCCURRED TO ME
THAT PEOPLE ARE JUST BEING NICE
00:13:15.10\00:13:18.26
AND THEY JUST DON'T
KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY.
00:13:18.26\00:13:20.10
YOU START TO
BELIEVE ALL THAT STUFF.
00:13:20.10\00:13:22.20
I THINK, WHO WAS IT?
AGAIN, IT WAS JOHN KNOX.
00:13:22.20\00:13:25.83
SOMEONE SAID TO HIM, 'PASTOR
KNOX, YOU'RE THE BEST PREACHER
00:13:25.83\00:13:28.73
IN ALL OF SCOTLAND.' HE SAID,
'I KNOW, THE DEVIL TELLS ME THAT
00:13:28.73\00:13:31.03
ALL THE TIME.' SO AFTER A YEAR,
THE BIBLE SAYS IN DANIEL CHAPTER
00:13:31.03\00:13:38.23
4, VERSE 30, "THE KING SPAKE,
AND SAID," - HE'S WALKING ON HIS
00:13:38.23\00:13:42.33
BALCONY OVERLOOKING A BEAUTIFUL
SUNSET GLISTENING OFF THE
00:13:42.33\00:13:46.83
KINGDOM OF BABYLON - WHICH WAS
QUITE A KINGDOM - "IS NOT THIS
00:13:46.83\00:13:50.66
GREAT BABYLON, THAT I HAVE BUILT
FOR THE HOUSE OF THE KINGDOM BY
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THE MIGHT OF MY POWER, AND
FOR THE HONOR OF MY MAJESTY?
00:13:54.63\00:13:59.86
WHILE THE WORD WAS IN THE KING'S
MOUTH, THERE FELL A VOICE FROM
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HEAVEN, SAYING, 'O KING
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, TO THEE IT IS
00:14:03.06\00:14:05.56
SPOKEN; THE KINGDOM
IS DEPARTED FROM THEE."
00:14:05.56\00:14:08.13
JUST THAT QUICK HE TURNED
INTO JUST A RAVING ANIMAL.
00:14:08.13\00:14:14.26
HE DROPPED TO HIS KNEES AND
BEGAN TO PROWL AROUND AND PEOPLE
00:14:14.26\00:14:18.56
WONDERED, 'WHAT IN THE
WORLD IS WRONG WITH HIM?'
00:14:18.56\00:14:21.63
YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND - I THINK
IT WAS KING GEORGE, DURING THE
00:14:21.63\00:14:24.13
REVOLUTIONARY
WARY, LOST HIS MIND.
00:14:24.13\00:14:27.33
AND THEY ENDED UP FINDING IT WAS
- WELL, AT LEAST THE HISTORIANS
00:14:27.33\00:14:30.70
SPECULATE HE HAD SOME KIND OF
URIC ACID POISONING OR SOMETHING
00:14:30.70\00:14:35.06
- IT WAS A RARE DISEASE.
00:14:35.06\00:14:36.50
BUT HE ENDED UP GETTING HIS WITS
BACK BUT A LONG TIME THEY TRIED
00:14:36.50\00:14:40.86
TO HIDE THAT THE KING HAD
LOST HIS MIND - KING GEORGE.
00:14:40.86\00:14:45.53
AND, YOU KNOW, THE ORDERS THAT
HE GAVE HIS BRITISH TROOPS WERE
00:14:45.53\00:14:48.20
NOT VERY COHERENT AS AMERICA,
BEING INDEPENDENT TODAY, IS
00:14:48.20\00:14:53.36
EVIDENCE OF THAT. BUT
NEBUCHADNEZZAR LOST HIS MIND AND
00:14:53.36\00:14:58.86
- TALK ABOUT PUTTING HIM OUT TO
PASTURE - THEY, LITERALLY, DID.
00:14:58.86\00:15:02.46
THEY TRIED TO HIDE IT - I DON'T
KNOW - HIS CABINET TRIED TO RUN
00:15:02.46\00:15:07.06
THINGS FOR HIM, BUT FOR
SEVEN YEARS THEY KEPT WONDERING,
00:15:07.06\00:15:09.60
'WHERE'D HE GO?' HOW
MANY OF YOU HEARD IN THE
00:15:09.60\00:15:11.60
NEWS TODAY THAT FOLKS ARE ALL
SPECULATING WHAT'S WRONG WITH
00:15:11.60\00:15:15.13
THE DICTATOR OF NORTH KOREA JUST
SUDDENLY FELL OFF THE PUBLIC
00:15:15.13\00:15:21.13
SCENE FOR SIX WEEKS AND NOW
HE APPEARS - YOUNG GUY - YOUNGER
00:15:21.13\00:15:24.53
THAN ME - A LITTLE BIT HEAVY FOR
HIS AGE - HOBBLING AROUND WITH A
00:15:24.53\00:15:28.66
CANE AND THEY'RE THINKING -
THEY'RE JUST GUESSING - 'MAYBE
00:15:28.66\00:15:31.80
HE'S GOT GOUT.' - THEY DON'T
KNOW WHAT IT WAS, BUT THEY TRIED
00:15:31.80\00:15:35.23
TO HIDE IT BECAUSE IT
CAN CREATE INSTABILITY.
00:15:35.23\00:15:37.83
SO THEY TRIED TO HIDE IT FOR
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, BUT WHAT MADE
00:15:37.83\00:15:40.43
HIM LOSE HIS MIND? PRIDE.
NOW WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO
00:15:40.43\00:15:43.90
THIS THEME OF PRIDE
LATER IN OUR LESSON.
00:15:43.90\00:15:45.46
I JUST WANTED TO INTRODUCE THAT
- JUST FROM BOW TO STERN IN THE
00:15:45.46\00:15:49.63
BIBLE - WHY DID EVE EAT
FROM THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT?
00:15:49.63\00:15:53.86
THE DEVIL SAID, 'YOU WILL'
- AND WHAT DID THE DEVIL WANT?
00:15:53.86\00:15:58.33
'BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH. YOU
WILL BE LIKE GOD.' AND YEAH,
00:15:58.33\00:16:04.66
SO ALL THOSE THINGS.
YEAH, THAT'S ANOTHER GOOD POINT.
00:16:04.66\00:16:07.70
THE BIBLE SAYS, "LOVE NOT THE
WORLD" - THIS IS 1 JOHN CHAPTER
00:16:07.70\00:16:11.06
2, VERSE 15 - "NEITHER THE
THINGS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD.
00:16:11.06\00:16:13.90
IF ANY MAN LOVE THE WORLD,
THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT IN
00:16:13.90\00:16:16.13
HIM. FOR ALL
THAT IS IN THE WORLD,
00:16:16.13\00:16:18.16
THE LUST OF THE FLESH, AND THE
LUST OF THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE
00:16:18.16\00:16:21.46
OF LIFE, IS NOT OF THE
FATHER, BUT IS OF THE WORLD.
00:16:21.46\00:16:24.66
AND THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY, AND
THE LUST THEREOF: BUT HE THAT
00:16:24.66\00:16:27.10
DOETH THE WILL OF GOD..." SO
THE PRIDE IN THE WORLD IS THE
00:16:27.10\00:16:30.73
ANTITHESIS OF WHAT GOD IS.
AND SO, WHEN JAMES IS TALKING
00:16:30.73\00:16:34.93
ABOUT THIS, HE MENTIONS
PRIDE AND HUMILITY QUITE A BIT.
00:16:34.93\00:16:38.20
IT MUST HAVE BEEN A
PROBLEM IN THE CHURCH BACK THEN.
00:16:38.20\00:16:40.76
I'M GLAD WE DON'T HAVE THAT
PROBLEM IN OUR CHURCH TODAY.
00:16:40.76\00:16:45.43
YOUR LAUGH I'LL TAKE AS
TESTIMONY THAT YOU KNOW I WAS
00:16:45.43\00:16:48.00
BEING FACETIOUS.
ALRIGHT, 'THE MEEKNESS OF
00:16:48.00\00:16:50.56
WISDOM.' WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU
TO HELP US WITH A FEW VERSES.
00:16:50.56\00:16:52.96
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR
ME PROVERBS 27, VERSE 2.
00:16:52.96\00:16:55.96
WHO'S GOING TO HAVE THAT?
YOU'LL HAVE THAT ONE DICK - IN
00:16:55.96\00:16:57.60
JUST A MOMENT HERE - AND
I'M GOING TO READ JAMES 3:13.
00:16:57.60\00:17:02.03
"WHO IS WISE AND
UNDERSTANDING AMONG YOU?
00:17:02.03\00:17:05.13
LET HIM SHOW BY GOOD CONDUCT
THAT HIS WORKS ARE DONE IN THE
00:17:05.13\00:17:09.20
MEEKNESS OF WISDOM."
NOW YOU NOTICE, WE'RE STILL,
00:17:09.20\00:17:11.93
LITTLE BY LITTLE, PLODDING
THROUGH JAMES AND NOW WE'RE JUST
00:17:11.93\00:17:15.16
READING JAMES 3:13 - WE'RE
BREAKING THESE THINGS DOWN.
00:17:15.16\00:17:17.86
'IN THE MEEKNESS OF WISDOM.'
'THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE
00:17:17.86\00:17:23.10
BEGINNING OF WISDOM.' BUT HERE
HE'S CONNECTING MEEKNESS WITH
00:17:23.10\00:17:27.43
WISDOM. HOW MUCH WISER WAS
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHEN HE HAD AN
00:17:27.43\00:17:32.13
ERUPTION OF PRIDE? OR
DID HE LOSE ALL HIS WISDOM?
00:17:32.13\00:17:36.23
HE BECAME AN ANIMAL. SO
PRIDE, YOU KNOW - PEOPLE MAKE
00:17:36.23\00:17:40.73
A LOT OF RASH, BAD DECISIONS
WHEN THEY'RE DRIVEN BY PRIDE.
00:17:40.73\00:17:44.43
MEEKNESS IS A
GOOD STARTING POINT.
00:17:44.43\00:17:47.00
MATTER OF FACT, WHY DON'T YOU GO
AHEAD AND READ THAT VERSE FOR US
00:17:47.00\00:17:49.70
NOW IN PROVERBS 27?
00:17:49.70\00:17:52.56
>>"LET ANOTHER MAN PRAISE
YOU AND NOT YOUR OWN MOUTH;
00:17:52.56\00:17:55.96
A STRANGER AND
NOT YOUR OWN LIPS."
00:17:55.96\00:17:59.30
>>NOW IF - NOW IS IT EVER
WRONG TO COMPLIMENT SOMEBODY?
00:17:59.30\00:18:05.20
IS IT EVER WRONG?
WELL, IT COULD BE.
00:18:05.20\00:18:08.53
DOES THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT
FLATTERING YOUR NEIGHBOR AND
00:18:08.53\00:18:10.40
SPREADING A NET FOR
THEIR FEET? IT COULD BE.
00:18:10.40\00:18:13.60
IT'S NOT ALWAYS WRONG.
00:18:13.60\00:18:14.70
I SAID, 'IS IT EVER
WRONG?' TRICK QUESTION, YEAH.
00:18:14.70\00:18:19.16
SOMEBODY SAID THAT
HUMILITY IS MIND OVER FLATTER.
00:18:19.16\00:18:28.16
AND SOMEONE ELSE SAID,
'COMPLIMENTS ARE LIKE PERFUME,
00:18:28.16\00:18:31.56
SNIFF BUT DO NOT SWALLOW.'
BECAUSE - THERE'S ANOTHER ONE.
00:18:31.56\00:18:38.06
HERE - I GOT ONE METAPHOR AFTER
ANOTHER, "MANY A BEE HAS DROWNED
00:18:38.06\00:18:41.73
IN ITS OWN HONEY.' HAVE
YOU EVER HEARD THAT ONE?
00:18:41.73\00:18:45.56
SO YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE THESE
THINGS TOO SERIOUS AND - IT'S
00:18:45.56\00:18:49.53
GOOD, WE SHOULD
SHOW APPRECIATION.
00:18:49.53\00:18:51.33
WE SHOULD COMPLIMENT, BUT
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A
00:18:51.33\00:18:53.60
COMPLIMENT AND FLATTERY?
WELL, SINCERITY - MOTIVATION.
00:18:53.60\00:19:00.16
I THINK SOMETIMES, WHEN SOMEONE
IS FLATTERING ANOTHER PERSON,
00:19:00.16\00:19:02.96
THEY'RE WANTING A FAVOR AND
THEY'RE BUTTERING A PERSON UP.
00:19:02.96\00:19:05.90
THEY'RE TRYING TO WIN
SOME KIND OF BENEFIT FROM THEM.
00:19:05.90\00:19:09.86
AND ANYWAY -
ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ALONG.
00:19:09.86\00:19:14.13
WE SHOULD - IN HEBREWS 13:7 - I
WANT YOU TO KNOW - WE JUST READ
00:19:14.13\00:19:19.06
JAMES 3:13 - IT TALKS ABOUT 'LET
HIM SHOW BY GOOD CONDUCT, THAT
00:19:19.06\00:19:24.66
HIS WORKS ARE DONE IN
RIGHTEOUSNESS.' THEN YOU GO TO
00:19:24.66\00:19:26.63
HEBREWS 13:7 - THAT WORD
'CONDUCT' IN THE GREEK, IS
00:19:26.63\00:19:30.56
REALLY TALKING
ABOUT A LIFE OF WISDOM.
00:19:30.56\00:19:34.03
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I
NOTICED ABOUT DAVID - KING DAVID
00:19:34.03\00:19:37.83
- HE'S ACTUALLY THE ONLY DAVID
IN THE BIBLE SO THAT'S NOT EASY
00:19:37.83\00:19:41.33
TO CONFUSE - WHEN HE WAS LIVING
IN THE PALACE WITH SAUL AND HE
00:19:41.33\00:19:47.73
KNEW THAT SAUL'S TEMPERAMENT
WAS VERY TENUOUS, IT SAYS, 'HE
00:19:47.73\00:19:51.73
CONDUCTED HIMSELF WISELY.'
WHY DID SAUL WANT TO KILL DAVID?
00:19:51.73\00:19:58.73
WHAT STARTED - WHAT
TRIGGERED THE WHOLE THING?
00:19:58.73\00:20:00.56
DO YOU REMEMBER? YEAH, YEAH,
YEAH, YEAH. THEY WERE COMING
00:20:00.56\00:20:06.16
BACK FROM A BATTLE AGAINST THE
PHILISTINES AND THE WOMEN USED
00:20:06.16\00:20:08.40
TO COME OUT AND MEET THE
SOLDIERS WHEN THEY CAME BACK.
00:20:08.40\00:20:10.46
AND THEY WOULD COME OUT WITH
SINGING AND TAMBOURINES AND THE
00:20:10.46\00:20:13.50
WOMEN WERE SINGING A SONG
AND SAUL LIKED THE FIRST VERSE.
00:20:13.50\00:20:19.60
IT SAID, 'SAUL HAS SLAIN HIS
THOUSANDS' - AND HE TOOK A BIG
00:20:19.60\00:20:24.43
CHESTFUL OF AIR AND LIFTED
HIS HEAD A LITTLE NOTCH AND THEN
00:20:24.43\00:20:28.40
THEY - HE HEARD VERSE 2,
'AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS.'
00:20:28.40\00:20:33.03
FROM THAT MOMENT HE
WANTED TO KILL DAVID.
00:20:33.03\00:20:35.40
IF THEY HAD SAID, 'SAUL HAS
KILLED HIS THOUSANDS AND DAVID
00:20:35.40\00:20:37.86
HIS HUNDREDS,' HE
WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY.
00:20:37.86\00:20:41.10
BUT BECAUSE THEY ASCRIBED MORE
VICTORIES TO DAVID THAN TO - AND
00:20:41.10\00:20:48.26
WHAT THEY MEANT WAS, WHEN DAVID
KILLED GOLIATH, HE SENT THE
00:20:48.26\00:20:51.00
WHOLE ARMY RUNNING.
THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT.
00:20:51.00\00:20:53.26
THAT DID NOT SET VERY WELL,
ESPECIALLY WITH THE YOUNG LADIES
00:20:53.26\00:20:59.26
SINGING. THAT
JUST RIGHT THERE WAS A
00:20:59.26\00:21:02.90
TIPPING POINT FOR HIM. WHY?
PRIDE. HOW DIFFERENT WAS THE
00:21:02.90\00:21:07.93
ATTITUDE OF SAUL'S SON
JONATHAN THAN HIS FATHER?
00:21:07.93\00:21:13.30
JONATHAN SAID, 'DAVID,
I KNOW GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU.
00:21:13.30\00:21:16.83
AND EVEN THOUGH I'M THE CROWN
PRINCE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE KING
00:21:16.83\00:21:18.93
IN MY PLACE.' AND HE SAID, 'I
JUST HOPE THAT YOU'LL NOT WIPE
00:21:18.93\00:21:21.70
OUT MY FAMILY WHEN I'M GONE AND
I'LL BE THERE TO HELP YOU.' AND
00:21:21.70\00:21:25.96
HE WAS SINCERE - A HUMBLE MAN.
AND YET HE HAD GREAT VICTORIES
00:21:25.96\00:21:29.33
IN BATTLE TOO. YOU
EVER WONDER SOMETIMES, WHEN
00:21:29.33\00:21:32.50
YOU GO THROUGH THE KINGS OF
ISRAEL, YOU GET A REALLY BAD,
00:21:32.50\00:21:34.90
WICKED KING AND HE HAS A
REALLY GOOD KING AS A SON.
00:21:34.90\00:21:39.66
AND IT'S LIKE JOSIAH'S FATHER
WAS WICKED BUT JOSIAH WAS GOOD.
00:21:39.66\00:21:44.20
AND THEN HIS SONS WERE WICKED.
AND HEZEKIAH WAS GOOD BUT
00:21:44.20\00:21:45.80
MANASSEH WAS WICKED. SAUL
WAS WICKED. JONATHAN WAS GOOD.
00:21:45.80\00:21:51.13
IT KIND OF GOES TO SHOW THAT THE
SONS WILL NOT BEAR THE SINS FOR
00:21:51.13\00:21:54.26
THE FATHERS AND THE FATHERS FOR
THE SONS - MOTHERS/DAUGHTERS -
00:21:54.26\00:21:56.66
SAME THING. ANYWAY, BUT HEBREWS
- I NEVER GOT TO IT, SORRY.
00:21:56.66\00:22:01.53
HEBREWS USES THE SAME WORD
- "REMEMBER THOSE" - THIS IS
00:22:01.53\00:22:04.03
HEBREWS 13:7 - "REMEMBER THOSE
WHO RULE OVER YOU, WHO HAVE
00:22:04.03\00:22:07.30
SPOKEN THE WORD OF GOD TO YOU,
WHOSE FAITH FOLLOW, CONSIDERING
00:22:07.30\00:22:11.80
THE OUTCOME OF THEIR CONDUCT."
ALRIGHT NOW, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
00:22:11.80\00:22:15.06
SOMEONE READ PROVERBS 16:19
- YOU'LL HAVE THAT KATRINA -
00:22:15.06\00:22:20.10
JUST A MOMENT, OKAY?
SPEAKING ABOUT - NOW WE'RE
00:22:20.10\00:22:24.26
TALKING ABOUT THE
MEEKNESS OF WISDOM.
00:22:24.26\00:22:26.00
IS WISDOM
DIFFERENT FROM KNOWLEDGE?
00:22:26.00\00:22:32.73
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE LOTS
OF KNOWLEDGE AND THERE'S SOME
00:22:32.73\00:22:38.00
PEOPLE THAT ARE GENIUSES -
THEY'LL FALL DOWN THREE TIMES ON
00:22:38.00\00:22:42.26
THEIR WAY TO THE PIANO, BUT ONCE
THEY GET THERE THEY JUST PLAY
00:22:42.26\00:22:44.60
LIKE A GENIUS. YOU
MIGHT BE ABLE TO BUILD A CAR
00:22:44.60\00:22:50.53
WITH KNOWLEDGE. IT
TAKES WISDOM TO KNOW HOW FAST
00:22:50.53\00:22:54.93
TO DRIVE THE CAR.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:22:54.93\00:22:57.93
IT'S DIFFERENT - IN DANIEL 12:3,
NOTICE THE USE OF THESE WORDS,
00:22:57.93\00:23:03.30
"THOSE WHO ARE WISE SHALL
SHINE LIKE THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE
00:23:03.30\00:23:07.76
FIRMAMENT, AND THOSE WHO TURN
MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE THE
00:23:07.76\00:23:11.23
STARS FOREVER AND EVER.
BUT YOU, DANIEL, SHUT UP THE
00:23:11.23\00:23:16.03
WORDS, AND SEAL THE BOOK UNTIL
THE TIME OF THE END; MANY SHALL
00:23:16.03\00:23:19.40
RUN TO AND FRO, AND
KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE."
00:23:19.40\00:23:22.16
HOW MANY WOULD AGREE THAT WE'RE
LIVING IN AN AGE THAT HAS MORE
00:23:22.16\00:23:25.86
KNOWLEDGE? I MEAN,
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PULL
00:23:25.86\00:23:30.63
THEM OUT RIGHT NOW, BUT ON
YOUR SMART PHONES YOU'RE ABLE TO
00:23:30.63\00:23:33.43
ACCESS THE INFORMATION OF THE
WORLD THROUGH GOOGLE OR YAHOO OR
00:23:33.43\00:23:39.56
BING OR WHATEVER YOUR FAVORITE
SEARCH ENGINE HAPPENS TO BE.
00:23:39.56\00:23:43.56
CAN YOU IMAGINE - JUST IMAGINE
TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT TO THE
00:23:43.56\00:23:48.23
APOSTLE PETER AS HE CLIMBS FROM
HIS FISHING BOAT 2,000 YEARS
00:23:48.23\00:23:51.73
AGO. SAY, 'YEAH,
I WANT TO SHOW YOU
00:23:51.73\00:23:53.46
SOMETHING,
PETER. COME OVER HERE.
00:23:53.46\00:23:54.73
SEE THIS THING? YOU
THINK IT'S A SHINY ROCK.
00:23:54.73\00:23:55.90
IT'S NOT. IT'S
CALLED A SMART PHONE.
00:23:55.90\00:23:58.33
LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT IT CAN DO.'
OF COURSE, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE
00:23:58.33\00:24:01.03
HAD THE SUPPORT
NETWORK BACK THEN, SO.
00:24:01.03\00:24:04.76
BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
JUST THINK ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE.
00:24:04.76\00:24:08.06
I'VE HEARD VARYING STATISTICS
THAT, YOU KNOW, IN THE LAST
00:24:08.06\00:24:11.10
TWENTY YEARS THE MAJORITY OF
KNOWLEDGE OF ALL OF HISTORY CAN
00:24:11.10\00:24:17.26
BE FOCUSED IN THE JUST LAST
TWENTY YEARS AND EVERY FEW YEARS
00:24:17.26\00:24:19.30
IT'S DOUBLING. YOU
JUST THINK ABOUT HOW - BUT
00:24:19.30\00:24:23.03
WITH ALL THAT KNOWLEDGE, DO WE
STILL HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST
00:24:23.03\00:24:26.63
BLOWING EACH OTHER UP IN
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD AND
00:24:26.63\00:24:29.13
DOING TERRIBLY VIOLENT
THINGS TO TOTAL STRANGERS?
00:24:29.13\00:24:34.66
WHEN IT COMES TO
WISDOM, WISDOM'LL TURN PEOPLE TO
00:24:34.66\00:24:37.63
RIGHTEOUSNESS. KNOWLEDGE
CAN JUST BE KNOWING THINGS.
00:24:37.63\00:24:40.93
AND IN THE LAST DAYS
PEOPLE WILL RUN TO AND FRO.
00:24:40.93\00:24:43.30
WE'RE RUNNING TO AND FRO FASTER
NOW THAN WE EVER HAVE IN THE
00:24:43.30\00:24:46.23
HISTORY OF MAN.
KNOWLEDGE WILL INCREASE, BUT NOT
00:24:46.23\00:24:50.10
NECESSARILY WISDOM.
WISDOM COMES FROM THE FEAR OF
00:24:50.10\00:24:54.33
THE LORD. 'WISE
MEN SPEAK BECAUSE THEY
00:24:54.33\00:24:58.46
HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY; FOOLS
BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING TO
00:24:58.46\00:25:01.40
SAY.' SOMEONE SAID, 'HE THAT
KNOWS LITTLE OFTEN REPEATS IT.'
00:25:01.40\00:25:09.46
YOU EVER READ WHAT SOLOMON SAYS
ABOUT THE WISE AND THE FOOLS?
00:25:09.46\00:25:13.93
I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO THROUGH
ALL THAT BUT, OF COURSE, BEING
00:25:13.93\00:25:17.40
FOOLISH IS SOMETHING
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT A LOT.
00:25:17.40\00:25:21.56
JESUS SAID WHEN WE DON'T
HAVE FAITH WE'RE FOOLISH.
00:25:21.56\00:25:24.76
'O FOOLS, SLOW OF HEART TO
BELIEVE, ALL THE PROPHETS HAVE
00:25:24.76\00:25:29.20
SPOKEN: THE FEAR OF THE LORD
IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.' GO
00:25:29.20\00:25:31.80
AHEAD, READ WITH US - READ
THAT NEXT VERSE FOR US THEN.
00:25:31.80\00:25:35.40
>>"BETTER IT IS TO BE OF AN
HUMBLE SPIRIT WITH THE LOWLY,
00:25:35.40\00:25:38.40
THAN TO DIVIDE THE
SPOIL WITH THE PROUD."
00:25:38.40\00:25:41.33
>>AND THIS IS WHAT
JAMES IS TALKING ABOUT.
00:25:41.33\00:25:42.86
BY THE WAY, THAT WAS PROVERBS
16:19, "AN HUMBLE SPIRIT WITH
00:25:42.86\00:25:47.30
THE LOWLY, THAN TO DIVIDE
THE SPOIL WITH THE PROUD."
00:25:47.30\00:25:51.46
AND, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE
JUST SOME OF THE - ALL THROUGH
00:25:51.46\00:25:55.40
PROVERBS IT TALKS
ABOUT HAVING A HUMBLE SPIRIT.
00:25:55.40\00:25:57.76
NOW HOW HUMBLE WAS SOLOMON?
IT DEPENDS UPON WHAT AGE OF HIS
00:25:57.76\00:26:02.73
LIFE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
WHEN SOLOMON WAS YOUNG, WHAT WAS
00:26:02.73\00:26:08.60
HIS PRAYER?
'LORD, I'M JUST A CHILD.
00:26:08.60\00:26:13.20
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO OUT OR
COME IN AND HERE YOU'VE MADE ME
00:26:13.20\00:26:16.50
RULER OF THIS PEOPLE
THAT'S LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA.
00:26:16.50\00:26:18.86
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING.'
AND BECAUSE HE HAD A HUMBLE
00:26:18.86\00:26:21.40
HEART HE SAID, 'LORD, PLEASE
GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING THAT I CAN
00:26:21.40\00:26:24.76
KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
GOOD AND EVIL.' BECAUSE HE HAD A
00:26:24.76\00:26:27.73
HUMBLE ATTITUDE, GOD ANSWERED
HIS PRAYER AND HE GAVE HIM ALL
00:26:27.73\00:26:31.60
THE THINGS THAT
PROUD PEOPLE PRAY FOR.
00:26:31.60\00:26:34.70
HE GAVE HIM RICHES
AND GLORY AND ALL OF THAT.
00:26:34.70\00:26:38.43
BUT LATER IN HIS LIFE, WHEN A
PROPHET CAME TO HIM AND TOLD HIM
00:26:38.43\00:26:42.46
HE WAS SINNING BECAUSE HE WAS
BEGINNING TO LET HIS PAGAN WIVES
00:26:42.46\00:26:46.46
MANIPULATE HIM AND HE WAS
PUTTING IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE OF
00:26:46.46\00:26:48.63
THE LORD. WHEN THE
PROPHET CONFRONTED HIM,
00:26:48.63\00:26:51.16
SOLOMON WANTED TO
PUNISH THE PROPHET.
00:26:51.16\00:26:54.23
HIS WHOLE ATTITUDE
CHANGED. HE BECAME PROUD.
00:26:54.23\00:26:57.10
HIS PRIDE WAS OFFENDED.
CAN YOU THINK OF OTHER STORIES
00:26:57.10\00:27:00.50
IN THE BIBLE WHERE A PROPHET
COMES TO TELL THE KING THE TRUTH
00:27:00.50\00:27:05.23
AND THE KING'S PRIDE IS OFFENDED
- HE WANTS TO TAKE IT OUT ON THE
00:27:05.23\00:27:07.56
PROPHET? HOW ABOUT JEROBOAM?
00:27:07.56\00:27:12.66
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE PROPHET
FROM JUDAH - IT DOESN'T TELL US
00:27:12.66\00:27:14.30
HIS NAME - CAME TO REBUKE
HIM FOR PUTTING UP IDOLS - THOSE
00:27:14.30\00:27:17.63
GOLDEN CALVES - AND
THE KING SAID, 'SEIZE HIM!'
00:27:17.63\00:27:20.86
- WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS
ARM? FROZE - HE COULDN'T PULL IT
00:27:20.86\00:27:24.40
BACK. IT JUST LOCKED UP.
AND THEN HE SAID TO THE PROPHET,
00:27:24.40\00:27:27.90
'PLEASE, PRAY FOR ME.' HIS PRIDE
WAS OFFENDED THAT THIS PROPHET
00:27:27.90\00:27:32.33
WOULD HAVE THE AUDACITY TO TELL
HIM THE TRUTH IN THE NAME OF THE
00:27:32.33\00:27:35.33
LORD. AND IT KIND
OF HUMBLED HIM THEM.
00:27:35.33\00:27:38.63
DO YOU REMEMBER, IN THE BIBLE,
WHEN MICAIAH WAS A PROPHET?
00:27:38.63\00:27:43.36
HE WENT AND HE TALKED TO AHAB
AND JEHOSHAPHAT AND HE SAID TO
00:27:43.36\00:27:46.56
AHAB, 'YOU'RE GOING TO DIE
IN BATTLE IF YOU GO FIGHT AT
00:27:46.56\00:27:49.53
RAMOTH GILEAD, BECAUSE OF WHAT
YOU'VE DONE TO THE PROPHETS OF
00:27:49.53\00:27:52.03
GOD.' AHAB SAID, 'PUT HIM IN
JAIL AND FEED HIM WITH THE BREAD
00:27:52.03\00:27:55.60
OF AFFLICTION AND THE WATER OF
AFFLICTION UNTIL I COME BACK IN
00:27:55.60\00:27:57.80
PEACE.' WHY? PRIDE WAS OFFENDED.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN OFFENDED WHEN
00:27:57.80\00:28:03.20
SOMEBODY TOLD YOU THE
TRUTH? YOU EVER HAVE SOMEONE SAY
00:28:03.20\00:28:06.66
SOMETHING TO YOU AND THEN
THEY SAY THEY'RE JUST KIDDING?
00:28:06.66\00:28:09.20
USUALLY THEY'RE NOT
KIDDING WHEN THEY SAY THAT.
00:28:09.20\00:28:13.63
ISN'T THAT TRUE? AND
WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, 'IT'S NOT
00:28:13.63\00:28:17.53
THE MONEY.' IT'S
USUALLY THE MONEY.
00:28:17.53\00:28:22.26
'THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
MONEY.' THAT'S NOT ALWAYS TRUE,
00:28:22.26\00:28:26.23
BUT OFTEN IT CAN BE TRUE.
WELL, WE'RE GETTING MORE THAN WE
00:28:26.23\00:28:30.86
PAID FOR NOW. LET'S
GET BACK INTO THE LESSON.
00:28:30.86\00:28:33.70
SOMEONE SAID ONCE, 'WISDOM
IS KNOWING WHAT TO DO NEXT.
00:28:33.70\00:28:38.23
SKILL IS KNOWING HOW TO DO IT.
00:28:38.23\00:28:40.33
- YOU MIGHT EVEN SAY KNOWLEDGE
IS KNOWING HOW TO DO IT - 'AND
00:28:40.33\00:28:42.56
VIRTUE IS DOING IT.' ALRIGHT,
LET'S GO TO 'TWO KINDS OF
00:28:42.56\00:28:46.30
WISDOM.' JAMES 3:15 AND 16 AND
SOMEONE'S GOING TO BE READING
00:28:46.30\00:28:52.36
COLOSSIANS 3:1 AND 2 -
AND WHO'S GOT THAT VERSE NEXT?
00:28:52.36\00:28:58.40
OH, OKAY, I
RECOGNIZE THAT YOUNG LADY.
00:28:58.40\00:29:00.53
ALRIGHT, JAMES
3, LET'S READ THAT.
00:29:00.53\00:29:02.93
"THIS WISDOM DOES NOT DESCEND
FROM ABOVE," - HE'S TALKING
00:29:02.93\00:29:06.60
ABOUT THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD
- "BUT IS EARTHLY, SENSUAL,
00:29:06.60\00:29:11.00
DEMONIC. FOR WHERE
ENVY AND SELF-SEEKING
00:29:11.00\00:29:13.80
EXIST, CONFUSION AND
EVERY EVIL THING ARE THERE."
00:29:13.80\00:29:17.93
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD STORIES
ABOUT A CHURCH THAT SPLIT?
00:29:17.93\00:29:21.40
TWO DIFFERENT CHURCH GROUPS FORM
- I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT A CHURCH
00:29:21.40\00:29:28.13
PLANT, I'M TALKING
ABOUT A CHURCH SPLIT.
00:29:28.13\00:29:30.50
DO YOU
UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE?
00:29:30.50\00:29:31.93
WHAT USUALLY IS AT THE
FOUNDATION OF A CHURCH SPLIT?
00:29:31.93\00:29:34.76
NOW GOD HAS TAKEN SOME CHURCH
SPLITS AND WORKED IT FOR GOOD
00:29:34.76\00:29:38.26
BUT, YOU KNOW, MORE TIMES
THAT NOT THERE ARE TWO WARRING
00:29:38.26\00:29:43.26
FACTIONS THAT ARE NOT BEING LED
BY THE SPIRIT BUT THEY'RE BEING
00:29:43.26\00:29:47.13
LED BY THE FLESH. IN
OTHER WORDS, THEY'RE JUST
00:29:47.13\00:29:49.56
ARGUING AMONG THEMSELVES
OVER SOME - IT MAY HAVE BEEN
00:29:49.56\00:29:53.00
ARCHITECTURAL PLANS - I
MENTION THAT BECAUSE I KNOW ONE
00:29:53.00\00:29:57.53
CHURCH, IN PARTICULAR, THAT WHEN
IT CAME TO THE ARCHITECTURAL
00:29:57.53\00:30:00.03
PLANS PEOPLE WERE SO ENTRENCHED
THEY HAD A FIGHT AND THEY SPLIT
00:30:00.03\00:30:03.30
AND THEY ENDED UP WITH
TWO CHURCHES BECAUSE OF THAT.
00:30:03.30\00:30:05.00
SOME IT COULD BE A
DECORATING COMMITTEE.
00:30:05.00\00:30:07.86
DO YOU KNOW WHAT
OFTEN CAUSES CHURCH SPLITS?
00:30:07.86\00:30:12.80
NOMINATING
COMMITTEE. WHY DO YOU THINK?
00:30:12.80\00:30:17.23
SOMEONE IS PASSED UP FOR A
POSITION OR THEY'RE REPLACED AND
00:30:17.23\00:30:23.96
THEY BECOME UPSET. THEY
START - THEY GET A GROUP
00:30:23.96\00:30:28.36
TOGETHER AND THEY SAY, 'OH,
THIS LEADERSHIP HERE, THEY DON'T
00:30:28.36\00:30:31.36
RECOGNIZE REAL TALENT.' OR
THEY MAY NOT SAY IT THAT WAY.
00:30:31.36\00:30:33.93
AND THEN THEY HAVE A BREAKAWAY.
BUT WHAT'S AT THE HEART OF THAT?
00:30:33.93\00:30:38.76
SPIRIT OF
CHRIST? ME, ME, ME. YEAH.
00:30:38.76\00:30:44.03
I'M SO GLAD JESUS' DISCIPLES
NEVER HAD PROBLEMS WITH THAT.
00:30:44.03\00:30:49.23
WHAT WERE THE DISCIPLES ARGUING
ABOUT EVEN UP UNTIL JUST BEFORE
00:30:49.23\00:30:53.36
THE LAST SUPPER?
YEAH, THEY - WELL, JAMES AND
00:30:53.36\00:30:59.43
JOHN CAME, WITH THE HELP OF A
GOOD JEWISH MOTHER THAT WENT TO
00:30:59.43\00:31:03.50
JESUS AND SAID, 'YOU KNOW, THESE
SONS OF MINE,' - YOU KNOW, SHE
00:31:03.50\00:31:07.76
WAS ACTUALLY A DISTANT RELATIVE
OF JESUS THROUGH MARY SO SHE WAS
00:31:07.76\00:31:11.26
ASKING FOR, YOU KNOW, FAMILY
FAVOR - 'BLOOD IS THICKER THAN
00:31:11.26\00:31:13.26
WATER, YOU KNOW. 'THEY
REALLY OUGHT TO BE SITTING
00:31:13.26\00:31:14.80
ON YOUR RIGHT
AND YOUR LEFT HAND.'
00:31:14.80\00:31:17.16
AND THEN LATER THEY ARGUED ON
THE ROAD WHICH OF THEM WAS THE
00:31:17.16\00:31:22.06
GREATEST. NOW JAMES
AND JOHN, THEY WERE SO
00:31:22.06\00:31:24.63
MAD AT JAMES AND
JOHN WHEN THAT HAPPENED.
00:31:24.63\00:31:26.16
WHY DO YOU THINK THE DISCIPLES
WERE MAD AT JAMES AND JOHN?
00:31:26.16\00:31:29.03
BECAUSE THEY
THOUGHT OF IT FIRST.
00:31:29.03\00:31:31.66
THEY THOUGHT OF ASKING THAT
- THEY WERE ALL THINKING IT BUT
00:31:31.66\00:31:34.46
THEY THOUGHT, 'THEY ACTUALLY HAD
THE AUDACITY TO ASK AND THEY GOT
00:31:34.46\00:31:37.16
THEIR MOTHER TO DO IT FOR THEM.'
'WHO COULD BE MORE QUALIFIED
00:31:37.16\00:31:43.36
THAN MY SONS?'
DOESN'T EVERY MOTHER FEEL THAT
00:31:43.36\00:31:45.53
WAY? TALKING
ABOUT THE DISCIPLES.
00:31:45.53\00:31:52.40
DOESN'T THAT
ENCOURAGE YOU THOUGH?
00:31:52.40\00:31:54.93
THAT IF JESUS' DISCIPLES,
THAT ENDED UP TURNING THE WORLD
00:31:54.93\00:31:57.33
UPSIDE DOWN WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT, IF THEY HAD PROBLEMS
00:31:57.33\00:32:01.03
WITH PRIDE - WHEN WE LOOK IN OUR
HEARTS AND IN OUR MIRRORS - AND
00:32:01.03\00:32:06.13
I LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND IT
LENDS TO HUMILITY BUT - BUT YOU
00:32:06.13\00:32:11.13
KNOW WHAT I'M
TALKING ABOUT - AND WE SEE -
00:32:11.13\00:32:14.76
WE SEE THESE SAME
THINGS IN OUR OWN HEARTS.
00:32:14.76\00:32:17.46
WE THINK, 'HOW AM I EVER GOING
TO MAKE IT? YOU THINK, WELL,
00:32:17.46\00:32:20.83
JESUS WAS DEALING WITH THE
SAME SUBSTANCE IN THE DISCIPLES.
00:32:20.83\00:32:25.56
PAUL, BARNABAS - GOOD FRIENDS -
WAS THERE A LITTLE CHURCH SPLIT
00:32:25.56\00:32:31.86
AMONG THEM? MARK -
JOHN MARK - ON ONE OF
00:32:31.86\00:32:37.80
THEIR MISSIONARY ENDEAVORS,
HE JUST GOT DISCOURAGED AND JUST
00:32:37.80\00:32:41.26
GAVE - THREW IN THE TOWEL
AND WALKED AWAY AND LEFT THEM.
00:32:41.26\00:32:44.16
AND THEY REALLY NEEDED HIS HELP
AND THEN LATER WHEN THEY WERE
00:32:44.16\00:32:49.86
GOING TO GO ON ANOTHER
MISSIONARY EXCURSION, BARNABAS
00:32:49.86\00:32:52.70
SAID, 'LET'S BRING
MARK WITH US.' PAUL SAID,
00:32:52.70\00:32:54.60
'NOT ON YOUR LIFE. YOU
FORGOT WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME?
00:32:54.60\00:32:57.53
NO, THIS ISN'T BASEBALL - THREE
STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT.' HE
00:32:57.53\00:33:00.16
SAID, 'ONCE YOU'RE OUT.'
BARNABAS SAID, 'GIVE HIM ANOTHER
00:33:00.16\00:33:02.50
CHANCE.' HE SAID, 'NO, WE CAN'T
AFFORD TO RISK HIM JUST WALKING
00:33:02.50\00:33:05.93
OUT ON US AGAIN AND WE'RE GOING
TO TEACH HIM A LESSON.' WHO
00:33:05.93\00:33:08.20
KNOWS, BUT I BET THEY
SAID SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
00:33:08.20\00:33:10.86
AND IT SAYS THE CONTENTION
WAS SO GREAT BETWEEN THEM -
00:33:10.86\00:33:15.10
I'M SURE PRIDE HAD
NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
00:33:15.10\00:33:18.63
WHICH OF THEM WAS
RIGHT? - THAT THEY SPLIT?
00:33:18.63\00:33:22.66
AND THEY ENDED UP
WITH TWO MISSIONARY GROUPS.
00:33:22.66\00:33:26.06
BARNABAS WENT WITH JOHN
MARK - BY THE WAY, BARNABAS WAS
00:33:26.06\00:33:28.53
EVIDENTLY RIGHT BECAUSE LATER IN
PAUL'S WRITINGS HE SAID, 'SEND
00:33:28.53\00:33:31.06
MARK TO ME. HE'S
PROFITABLE FOR ME IN THE
00:33:31.06\00:33:33.76
GOSPEL.' BUT - AND
THEN SILAS WENT WITH PAUL.
00:33:33.76\00:33:38.00
SO YOU ENDED UP WITH
TWO MISSIONARY GROUPS.
00:33:38.00\00:33:39.50
GOD WORKED THINGS TOGETHER
FOR GOOD, BUT I DON'T THINK HE
00:33:39.50\00:33:41.96
WANTED THEM TO HAVE THAT KIND
OF CONTENTION. I THINK THERE'S
00:33:41.96\00:33:45.50
A LOT OF, SOMETIMES, UNNECESSARY
CONTENTION IN FAMILIES.
00:33:45.50\00:33:52.23
SOMETIMES IN FAMILIES PEOPLE SAY
THINGS WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A
00:33:52.23\00:33:55.76
CUTTING EDGE ON THEIR WORDS -
LITTLE SARCASM - A LITTLE BIT OF
00:33:55.76\00:34:00.93
A BITE. WHY?
SOMEONE'S BEEN OFFENDED AND
00:34:00.93\00:34:06.40
THEY'RE JUST LETTING YOU
KNOW WITH THEIR VERBIAGE.
00:34:06.40\00:34:11.00
'WELL, I CAN BE SHARP TOO.' AND
ALL KINDS OF CONFLICTS COME INTO
00:34:11.00\00:34:15.93
FAMILIES BECAUSE OF WHAT? 'I
HAVE NOT BEEN APPRECIATED THE
00:34:15.93\00:34:21.66
WAY I THINK I SHOULD BE
APPRECIATED.' 'MAN, HERE HE GOES
00:34:21.66\00:34:27.30
ON A BUSINESS TRIP AND WHILE
HE'S GONE I FILL HIS CAR WITH
00:34:27.30\00:34:31.60
GAS AND I WASH IT.'
>>EVERY TIME YOU LEAVE.
00:34:31.60\00:34:35.46
>>'AND HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING
TO THANK ME.' I WASN'T THINKING
00:34:35.46\00:34:39.13
OF ANYONE IN PARTICULAR.
>>EVERY TIME YOU LEAVE.
00:34:39.13\00:34:47.30
>>BUT SOMETIMES THOSE THINGS
HAPPEN WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE FEEL
00:34:47.30\00:34:51.70
LIKE WE'RE NOT APPRECIATED
OR WE FORGET TO APPRECIATE AND
00:34:51.70\00:34:55.86
PEOPLE'S FEELINGS ARE HURT.
AND - I DON'T THINK ABOUT US, I
00:34:55.86\00:35:02.20
WAS JUST THINKING - NOW YOU'RE
GOING TO READ YOUR SCRIPTURE.
00:35:02.20\00:35:07.10
>>ARE YOU READY?
COLOSSIANS 3:1 AND 2, "IF THEN
00:35:07.10\00:35:12.80
YOU WERE RAISED WITH CHRIST,
SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE
00:35:12.80\00:35:15.76
ABOVE, WHERE CHRIST IS, SITTING
AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.
00:35:15.76\00:35:19.46
SET YOUR MIND ON THINGS ABOVE,
NOT ON THINGS ON THE EARTH."
00:35:19.46\00:35:24.10
>>NOW THIS IS A COROLLARY OF THE
VERSE THAT WE JUST READ IN JAMES
00:35:24.10\00:35:27.93
WHERE IT SAID, 'THIS WISDOM
DOES NOT - THIS WISDOM DOES NOT
00:35:27.93\00:35:31.66
DESCEND FROM ABOVE' - TALKING
ABOUT THE SENSUAL WISDOM OF THE
00:35:31.66\00:35:33.96
WORLD. THERE'S
TWO KINDS OF WISDOM:
00:35:33.96\00:35:35.86
THERE'S A GODLY WISDOM
AND THERE'S A WORLDLY WISDOM.
00:35:35.86\00:35:38.86
AND THAT'S WHAT,
ALSO, PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT.
00:35:38.86\00:35:40.63
HE SAYS, 'IF YOU'VE BEEN RAISED
WITH CHRIST, SEEK THOSE THINGS
00:35:40.63\00:35:43.16
THAT ARE ABOVE.' YOU KNOW, MOST
OF THE TIME, IN OUR SPIRIT, WE
00:35:43.16\00:35:46.06
CAN JUST TELL. RIGHT
NOW WE'RE - BY THE TIME
00:35:46.06\00:35:50.56
THIS PROGRAM AIRS IT MIGHT BE
OVER, BUT WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF
00:35:50.56\00:35:54.83
ELECTION SEASON AND I BELIEVE
EVERYONE SHOULD BE PATRIOTIC.
00:35:54.83\00:36:00.76
IT'S GOOD TO VOTE. VOTE YOUR
CONSCIENCE. BUT LET'S FACE IT,
00:36:00.76\00:36:04.96
SOMETIMES YOU ALMOST HAVE
TO HOLD YOUR NOSE AND VOTE
00:36:04.96\00:36:07.00
AND WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE ADS
THAT ARE CONSTANTLY LAMBASTING
00:36:07.00\00:36:12.83
EACH OTHER AND - AND YOU WONDER
AND - BOY, BUT THE WISDOM THAT
00:36:12.83\00:36:18.56
GOES INTO SOME OF THE POLITICAL
JOSTLING - I MEAN, THEY GET THE
00:36:18.56\00:36:22.86
BEST MINDS IN THE WORLD.
IS THAT DIVINE WISDOM OR IS IT
00:36:22.86\00:36:28.13
WORLDLY WISDOM? ARE
THEY CLEVER, SHREWD, SHARP,
00:36:28.13\00:36:34.50
EVIL? ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
00:36:34.50\00:36:37.46
SO THERE'S AN EARTHLY WISDOM AND
THEN THERE'S A HEAVENLY WISDOM.
00:36:37.46\00:36:41.40
YOU KNOW, TO BE A GOOD
PEACEMAKER, IT TAKES WISDOM, BUT
00:36:41.40\00:36:45.03
IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF
WISDOM THAT'S FROM ABOVE.
00:36:45.03\00:36:47.53
THIS IS WHERE
JAMES IS HIGHLIGHTING.
00:36:47.53\00:36:49.30
JESUS TALKS ABOUT THIS
WISDOM THAT COMES FROM ABOVE.
00:36:49.30\00:36:52.43
JOHN 3 - WE ALL KNOW THIS - JOHN
3:3 - I'LL READ THROUGH VERSE 7.
00:36:52.43\00:36:57.56
THIS IS WHEN
NICODEMUS CAME TO CHRIST.
00:36:57.56\00:37:01.50
"JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM,
'MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU,
00:37:01.50\00:37:06.43
UNLESS ONE IS BORN AGAIN, HE
CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.'
00:37:06.43\00:37:10.56
NICODEMUS SAID TO HIM, 'HOW CAN
A MAN BE BORN WHEN HE IS OLD?
00:37:10.56\00:37:14.23
CAN HE ENTER A SECOND TIME INTO
HIS MOTHER'S WOMB AND BE BORN?'"
00:37:14.23\00:37:17.06
- OF COURSE THERE'S A LITTLE
SARCASM THERE - "JESUS ANSWERED,
00:37:17.06\00:37:21.26
'MOST ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU,
UNLESS ONE IS BORN OF WATER AND
00:37:21.26\00:37:24.86
THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:37:24.86\00:37:27.90
THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH
IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS BORN
00:37:27.90\00:37:31.10
OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.
DO NOT MARVEL THAT I SAID TO
00:37:31.10\00:37:33.83
YOU, 'YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.'"
I'VE HEARD IT SAID BEFORE AND
00:37:33.83\00:37:37.83
I'VE PROBABLY REPEATED IT
SEVERAL TIMES, 'IF YOU'RE ONLY
00:37:37.83\00:37:40.40
BORN ONCE YOU WILL
DIE TWICE - SECOND DEATH.
00:37:40.40\00:37:43.90
IF YOU'RE BORN TWICE, YOU ONLY
DIE ONCE.' YOU MIGHT NOT DIE AT
00:37:43.90\00:37:47.83
ALL IF YOU'RE ALIVE
WHEN JESUS COMES, RIGHT?
00:37:47.83\00:37:50.50
YOU NEED TO BE BORN AGAIN.
THE SECOND BIRTH, WHICH BRINGS
00:37:50.50\00:37:54.46
ABOUT THE
SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE SOUL.
00:37:54.46\00:37:57.40
AND THIS IS THAT WISDOM THAT
IS FROM ABOVE THAT JESUS TALKS
00:37:57.40\00:38:01.00
ABOUT. AND WHERE
DOES THE WISDOM COME
00:38:01.00\00:38:05.43
FROM? FROM THE FEAR OF THE LORD.
00:38:05.43\00:38:07.60
THE BIBLE ALSO TELLS US THAT
COMES FROM THE WORD OF THE LORD.
00:38:07.60\00:38:10.90
NOW I'M JUMPING
BACK TO DEUTERONOMY.
00:38:10.90\00:38:13.76
DEUTERONOMY 4, VERSES 5 AND 6,
MOSES - THIS IS THE LAST SERMON
00:38:13.76\00:38:17.66
OF MOSES, IS
WHAT DEUTERONOMY IS.
00:38:17.66\00:38:19.93
HE SAYS, "SURELY I HAVE TAUGHT
YOU STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS, JUST
00:38:19.93\00:38:24.40
AS THE LORD MY GOD COMMANDED ME,
THAT YOU SHOULD ACT ACCORDING TO
00:38:24.40\00:38:27.80
THEM IN THE LAND
WHICH YOU GO TO POSSESS.
00:38:27.80\00:38:30.10
THEREFORE BE CAREFUL TO OBSERVE
THEM; FOR THIS IS YOUR WISDOM
00:38:30.10\00:38:35.63
AND YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THE
SIGHT OF THE PEOPLES WHO WILL
00:38:35.63\00:38:39.10
HEAR ALL THESE STATUES, AND SAY,
'SURELY THIS GREAT NATION IS A
00:38:39.10\00:38:43.43
WISE AND UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE.'"
WHERE DOES THIS WISDOM COME
00:38:43.43\00:38:47.03
FROM? IT SAYS,
'WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE
00:38:47.03\00:38:49.96
STATUTES THAT I'VE GIVEN YOU
EVEN OTHER NATIONS WILL SAY THIS
00:38:49.96\00:38:53.40
IS A WISE AND
UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE.' CAN I
00:38:53.40\00:38:57.36
JUST, SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
POLITICS, I'LL JUST PUT IN MY
00:38:57.36\00:38:59.60
TWO CENTS - AND IT'S
JUST HAPPENING SO FAST.
00:38:59.60\00:39:05.90
WHILE I BELIEVE AMERICA WAS
FOUNDED WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF
00:39:05.90\00:39:11.10
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND
STATE - MEANING THAT IT WAS THE
00:39:11.10\00:39:16.23
INTENTION OF THE FOUNDERS
THAT THERE WAS NEVER TO BE A
00:39:16.23\00:39:19.20
DENOMINATION OR CHURCH, LIKE
THEY HAD IN ENGLAND, THAT RAN
00:39:19.20\00:39:22.26
THE STATE - OR
LIKE THEY HAD IN ROME.
00:39:22.26\00:39:24.83
IT WAS NEVER INTENDED BY THE
FOUNDERS - YOU CAN READ THEIR
00:39:24.83\00:39:27.53
LANGUAGE - TO MEAN THAT OUR
NATION WAS NOT TO BE GOVERNED
00:39:27.53\00:39:31.76
BY BIBLICAL
MORALS. THAT'S RIGHT.
00:39:31.76\00:39:35.70
AND BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN
THAT TOO FAR, NOW IT SEEMS LIKE
00:39:35.70\00:39:42.20
THEY'RE CHANGING EVERYTHING.
WE WERE ONCE - I'M STILL NOT
00:39:42.20\00:39:45.60
PLANNING ON MOVING - BUT WE WERE
ONCE A NATION THAT ALL THE OTHER
00:39:45.60\00:39:48.53
NATIONS WANTED TO BE LIKE
BECAUSE IT SAID, 'WHERE DO YOU
00:39:48.53\00:39:52.00
FIND SUCH A WISE NATION?'
BECAUSE BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES WERE
00:39:52.00\00:39:56.46
THE FOUNDATION
OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
00:39:56.46\00:39:59.03
AND, YOU KNOW, THESE WERE THE
PRINCIPLES THAT - IN PROVIDENCE
00:39:59.03\00:40:03.03
RHODE ISLAND - I STARTED WITH.
WHEN - WAS IT ROGER WILLIAMS?
00:40:03.03\00:40:08.66
HE SAID, 'WE ARE TO FOLLOW
THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS IN OUR
00:40:08.66\00:40:15.43
GOVERNMENT.' RATHER, I'M SORRY -
YEAH, BEGINNING WITH 'HONOR YOUR
00:40:15.43\00:40:19.06
FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER' - HE
SAYS, 'NO COUNTRY CAN SURVIVE
00:40:19.06\00:40:22.60
THAT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE
THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS.
00:40:22.60\00:40:25.10
WE WILL LET EVERY MAN DECIDE FOR
HIMSELF HOW TO APPLY THE FIRST
00:40:25.10\00:40:28.26
FOUR. WE WILL NOT TELL
YOU WHAT GOD TO WORSHIP.
00:40:28.26\00:40:31.03
WE WILL NOT TELL
YOU WHEN TO WORSHIP HIM.
00:40:31.03\00:40:32.76
WE WILL NOT TELL YOU WHO HE IS.
EVERYONE IS FREE TO DETERMINE
00:40:32.76\00:40:35.66
THAT. BUT YOU
CANNOT SURVIVE CIVILLY
00:40:35.66\00:40:38.13
IF YOU DON'T
RESPECT THE LAST SIX.
00:40:38.13\00:40:40.53
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT TAKES AWAY
PARENTAL RIGHTS, WHEN WE STOP
00:40:40.53\00:40:43.03
RESPECTING THE INSTITUTION
OF MARRIAGE OR SAY THAT MARRIAGE
00:40:43.03\00:40:45.93
CAN BE BETWEEN ANY NUMBER OF
PEOPLE OF ANY GENDER OR COMINGLE
00:40:45.93\00:40:50.43
IT ANY WAY, THAT'S - THEN
YOU STOP BEING THAT NATION THAT
00:40:50.43\00:40:55.40
OTHER NATIONS WILL LOOK
AT AND SAY, 'WHAT A WISE AND
00:40:55.40\00:40:57.73
UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE.' AND
THAT'S A REAL CONCERN OF MINE
00:40:57.73\00:41:01.56
BECAUSE I JUST - IT SEEMS
LIKE SOME OF THESE FUNDAMENTAL
00:41:01.56\00:41:04.33
PRINCIPLES THAT WERE THE
FOUNDATION OF THE COUNTRY - THIS
00:41:04.33\00:41:06.90
DIVINE WISDOM THAT WE ONCE
HAD - IS JUST LIKE FALLING LIKE
00:41:06.90\00:41:11.00
DOMINOES. AND A
COUNTRY CAN NOT LONG
00:41:11.00\00:41:14.00
SURVIVE THAT DOES THAT.
ANYWAY, ALRIGHT, GETTING BACK TO
00:41:14.00\00:41:18.30
- NOW I'M OFF MY
SOAPBOX, BUT IT FELT GOOD.
00:41:18.30\00:41:21.63
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
GALATIANS 5:17 - JUST A MINUTE -
00:41:21.63\00:41:24.93
WOULD THAT BE YOU, CANDACE,
SINCE YOU'RE HOLDING THE MIC?
00:41:24.93\00:41:27.23
OKAY, I'M GOING TO READ FIRST,
JAMES 4:1, "WHERE DO WARS AND
00:41:27.23\00:41:30.80
FIGHTS COME FROM AMONG
YOU? DO THEY NOT COME FROM YOUR
00:41:30.80\00:41:34.13
DESIRES FOR PLEASURE
THAT WAR IN YOUR MEMBERS?"
00:41:34.13\00:41:37.10
NOW WHEN HE SAYS 'DESIRE
FOR PLEASURES' - HE'S NOT JUST
00:41:37.10\00:41:39.86
TALKING ABOUT CENTRAL DESIRES,
HE'S TALKING ABOUT JUST THE
00:41:39.86\00:41:42.43
SELFISH EARTHLY DESIRES
AND THAT COULD BE PRIDE,
00:41:42.43\00:41:46.20
IT COULD BE ATTENTION.
00:41:46.20\00:41:47.46
AND IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW,
OUR - OUR SELFISH - SELFISHNESS.
00:41:47.46\00:41:53.26
AND THESE ARE ALL SO - YOU'VE
GOT TWO FRUITS THAT IT TALKS
00:41:53.26\00:41:56.36
ABOUT THERE IN GALATIANS
AND YOU'VE GOT THE FRUITS OF THE
00:41:56.36\00:42:01.00
FLESH AND THE FRUITS OF
THE SPIRIT AND THEY'RE JUST -
00:42:01.00\00:42:05.60
THEY'RE OPPOSITES FROM
EACH OTHER AND THEY - IT'S LIKE
00:42:05.60\00:42:08.56
THERE'S THAT WAR. PAUL
TALKS ABOUT THE WAR BETWEEN
00:42:08.56\00:42:10.70
THE SPIRIT AND THE
FLESH. WE ARE NOT TO BE CARNALLY
00:42:10.70\00:42:13.73
MINDED, WE ARE TO
BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED.
00:42:13.73\00:42:15.76
THAT'S ROMANS
CHAPTER 8 - TALKS ABOUT THAT.
00:42:15.76\00:42:19.96
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US GALATIANS 5:17.
00:42:19.96\00:42:23.06
>>FOR THE FLESH LUSTS AGAINST
THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT
00:42:23.06\00:42:27.20
AGAINST THE FLESH; AND THESE ARE
CONTRARY TO ONE ANOTHER, SO THAT
00:42:27.20\00:42:31.70
YOU DO NOT DO THE
THINGS THAT YOU WISH."
00:42:31.70\00:42:35.66
>>SO HE RECOGNIZED THAT THERE
IS THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THESE TWO
00:42:35.66\00:42:38.96
FORCES THAT WE ALL HAVE INSIDE,
BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE
00:42:38.96\00:42:42.23
FLESH. I FEEL IT EVERY DAY.
00:42:42.23\00:42:44.56
UNLESS I CONSCIOUSLY PRAY FOR
GOD'S SPIRIT AND THE SPIRIT IS
00:42:44.56\00:42:48.66
PRESENT TO GUIDE ME IN MY
THINKING, MY THINKING WILL BE
00:42:48.66\00:42:53.50
SELFISH. IT'S JUST
LIKE A COMPASS NEEDLE.
00:42:53.50\00:42:56.56
YOU CAN MOVE A COMPASS NEEDLE
BUT IT TAKES AN OUTSIDE FORCE.
00:42:56.56\00:42:59.33
LET TO ITSELF IT'S GOING
TO POINT TO THE SAME DIRECTION
00:42:59.33\00:43:01.40
EVERY TIME. AND
UNLESS WE HAVE THE HOLY
00:43:01.40\00:43:04.36
SPIRIT GIVING US THE MIND
OF CHRIST, WE WILL NATURALLY
00:43:04.36\00:43:08.16
INTERPRET EVERYTHING THAT
HAPPENS AROUND US IN A SELFISH
00:43:08.16\00:43:12.20
WAY. IT IS NOT
NORMAL FOR A BABY TO
00:43:12.20\00:43:16.20
BE LOVING. HAVE YOU
NOTICED THAT BABIES ARE
00:43:16.20\00:43:19.06
BORN - THEY'RE CUTE. GOD
MAKES THEM CUTE BECAUSE IF
00:43:19.06\00:43:21.83
THEY WEREN'T CUTE,
THEY WOULDN'T LAST LONG.
00:43:21.83\00:43:25.83
THEY'RE CUTE BUT THEY
ARE EXTREMELY SELFISH, RIGHT?
00:43:25.83\00:43:31.53
AND YOU HAVE TO
TEACH THEM TO LOVE.
00:43:31.53\00:43:35.23
IT COMES MORE
NATURALLY FOR SOME THAN OTHERS.
00:43:35.23\00:43:38.13
IF YOU OVERINDULGE THEM, YOU
END UP WITH A SELFISH MONSTER.
00:43:38.13\00:43:42.73
THAT'S RIGHT, THEY THINK
THE WHOLE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND
00:43:42.73\00:43:45.10
THEM. WHEN
THEY'RE LITTLE IT'S ALL
00:43:45.10\00:43:47.26
ABOUT ME, ME, ME. I
REMEMBER THERE'S A SONG WE
00:43:47.26\00:43:52.23
SANG IN CRADLE ROLL, 'JESUS
LOVES THE LITTLE ONES LIKE ME,
00:43:52.23\00:43:55.93
ME, ME.' FORTUNATELY, HE ALSO -
THERE'S ANOTHER VERSE THAT SAYS,
00:43:55.93\00:43:59.96
'HE ALSO LOVES PEOPLE LIKE YOU,
YOU, YOU.' ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:43:59.96\00:44:04.30
THAT FIRST PART COMES
REALLY EASY FOR THE LITTLE KIDS.
00:44:04.30\00:44:08.20
JAMES 4 - STILL READING - NOW
WE'RE READING JAMES 4, VERSE 2 -
00:44:08.20\00:44:12.33
WE JUST READ JAMES 4, VERSE
1, "YOU LUST AND DO NOT HAVE.
00:44:12.33\00:44:17.46
YOU MURDER AND COVET AND CANNOT
OBTAIN. YOU FIGHT AND WAR.
00:44:17.46\00:44:22.00
YET YOU DO NOT HAVE
BECAUSE YOU DO NOT ASK.
00:44:22.00\00:44:25.10
YOU ASK AND DO NOT RECEIVE,
BECAUSE YOU ASK AMISS, THAT YOU
00:44:25.10\00:44:28.96
MAY SPEND IT ON YOUR PLEASURES.
ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES!
00:44:28.96\00:44:33.36
DO YOU NOT" - BOY, HOW DID
HE EVER GET ELECTED TO OFFICE IN
00:44:33.36\00:44:36.50
THE CHURCH, TALKING
TO MEMBERS LIKE THAT?
00:44:36.50\00:44:40.50
- "ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES!
DO YOU NOT KNOW" - NOW WAS HE
00:44:40.50\00:44:46.13
SAYING THAT EVERYBODY IN THE
CHURCH WAS COMMITTING ADULTERY?
00:44:46.13\00:44:49.96
OR DO YOU THINK THAT HE WAS ALSO
TALKING ABOUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING
00:44:49.96\00:44:52.36
ON THE INSIDE? THE
PURE IN HEART WILL SEE GOD.
00:44:52.36\00:44:56.43
ADULTERY, JESUS MADE IT
CLEAR, IS NOT JUST THE ACT,
00:44:56.43\00:44:58.83
IT CAN BE THE ATTITUDE.
00:44:58.83\00:45:00.20
HE SAID, AND - ONE MORE THING,
WHILE WE'RE ON THAT SUBJECT -
00:45:00.20\00:45:04.76
ADULTERY IN THE HEBREW MIND,
THEY REMEMBER THE BOOK OF HOSEA.
00:45:04.76\00:45:09.33
THERE'S A SPIRITUAL ADULTERY,
NOT JUST THINKING IT CARNALLY,
00:45:09.33\00:45:13.06
BUT AGAINST GOD, WHEN WE'RE
- WHEN A CHRISTIAN IS THINKING,
00:45:13.06\00:45:18.53
'HOW MUCH DO I HAVE TO
GIVE UP TO GET INTO HEAVEN?
00:45:18.53\00:45:22.16
HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD CAN I
STILL HAVE AND MANAGE TO SQUEEZE
00:45:22.16\00:45:24.93
IN THE GATES? THAT IS
THINKING LIKE THE WORLD.
00:45:24.93\00:45:29.03
THAT'S NOT
MOTIVATED BY LOVE FOR GOD.
00:45:29.03\00:45:30.76
THAT'S REALLY A KIND
OF SPIRITUAL ADULTERY.
00:45:30.76\00:45:34.50
CAN YOU IMAGINE A HUSBAND SAYING
TO HIS WIFE, 'CAN WE NEGOTIATE A
00:45:34.50\00:45:38.53
LITTLE BIT?' THERE YOU'RE
STANDING BEFORE THE PASTOR.
00:45:38.53\00:45:41.46
YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET MARRIED.
LET'S PUT IT IN THAT CONTEXT.
00:45:41.46\00:45:44.23
AND YOU SAY - PASTOR
COMES TO THE PART WHERE HE SAYS,
00:45:44.23\00:45:47.26
'FORSAKING ALL OTHERS, KEEP
YOURSELF SOLELY UNTO HIM OR HER.
00:45:47.26\00:45:51.53
'WAIT CAN I JUST GO ON A COUPLE
OF DATES A MONTH WITH THE OLD
00:45:51.53\00:45:57.53
GIRLFRIEND? JUST A
DATE - JUST DINNER.'
00:45:57.53\00:46:02.03
WHEN YOU START
THINKING LIKE THAT,
00:46:02.03\00:46:04.76
WOULD THE BRIDE-TO-BE SAY, 'WAIT
A SECOND NOW, I MIGHT HAVE THE
00:46:04.76\00:46:07.70
WRONG GUY?' - WOULDN'T YOU?
00:46:07.70\00:46:11.00
YOU'D THINK SOMETHING
IS WRONG IN THE HEART.
00:46:11.00\00:46:12.63
AND SO WHEN WE SAY, 'LORD, YOU
KNOW, I WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN BUT
00:46:12.63\00:46:16.06
I REALLY LIKE THE DEVIL TOO.
I REALLY LIKE THE WORLD TOO.'
00:46:16.06\00:46:20.90
THAT'S THE KIND OF ADULTERY
THAT, I THINK, JAMES IS TALKING
00:46:20.90\00:46:23.23
ABOUT HERE.
ALRIGHT, "DO YOU NOT KNOW
00:46:23.23\00:46:27.50
FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD" -
THAT'S WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT -
00:46:27.50\00:46:29.63
"IS ENMITY WITH GOD?"
WHERE DO YOU SEE THAT WORD
00:46:29.63\00:46:32.80
'ENMITY?' GENESIS
3 - IS IT VERSE 15?
00:46:32.80\00:46:37.80
YEAH, WHERE IT SAYS, "I WILL
PUT ENMITY BETWEEN THEE AND THE
00:46:37.80\00:46:40.26
WOMAN." THE WOMAN
IS A SYMBOL THERE OF
00:46:40.26\00:46:41.93
THE CHURCH, RIGHT?
"BETWEEN THY SEED AND HER SEED."
00:46:41.93\00:46:46.46
AND YOU'VE GOT THE SEED OF
THE SERPENT AND THE SEED OF THE
00:46:46.46\00:46:48.50
WOMAN. THAT ENMITY MEANS
POLAR OPPOSITES - THERE'S A
00:46:48.50\00:46:51.13
RESISTANCE. YOU EVER
TRYING AND PUSH THE SAME
00:46:51.13\00:46:53.60
END OF TWO MAGNETS TOGETHER
AND THEY JUST - PFFFT - THAT'S
00:46:53.60\00:46:56.10
WHAT'S GOING ON BETWEEN THESE
FORCES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS -
00:46:56.10\00:46:58.53
GOOD AND EVIL - IN THE WORLD.
"WHOEVER WANTS TO BE THE FRIEND
00:46:58.53\00:47:03.73
OF THE WORLD MAKES
HIMSELF AN ENEMY OF GOD."
00:47:03.73\00:47:07.43
WOW, I READ THAT AND I DON'T
KNOW ABOUT YOU - I MEAN, GOD SO
00:47:07.43\00:47:12.03
LOVED THE WORLD HE WANTS TO
SAVE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.
00:47:12.03\00:47:15.40
BUT SOMETIMES WE LOVE
THE STUFF IN THE WORLD.
00:47:15.40\00:47:18.03
AND WE WANT TO BE AS COMFORTABLE
AS WE CAN BE IN THIS WORLD AND
00:47:18.03\00:47:22.36
STILL GET INTO HEAVEN, RIGHT?
WE WANT TO BE AS LIKED AS WE CAN
00:47:22.36\00:47:26.90
BE IN THIS WORLD AND
STILL GET INTO HEAVEN.
00:47:26.90\00:47:29.93
BUT FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD,
JESUS SAID, 'WOE UNTO YOU WHEN
00:47:29.93\00:47:32.80
ALL MEN SPEAK WELL OF YOU.' AND
SO IT'S REALLY HARD TO LIVE A
00:47:32.80\00:47:36.56
GODLY LIFE AND PLEASE EVERYBODY.
USUALLY WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU'LL
00:47:36.56\00:47:41.06
END UP PLEASING NOBODY.
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO - TALKING
00:47:41.06\00:47:45.73
ABOUT FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD,
AND I JUST READ THAT VERSE IN
00:47:45.73\00:47:48.73
JAMES - THAT'S
UNDER THAT SECTION THERE.
00:47:48.73\00:47:51.73
JEREMIAH MAKES AN INTERESTING
STATEMENT IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 2,
00:47:51.73\00:47:57.30
"GO AND CRY IN THE HEARING
OF JERUSALEM, SAYING, 'THUS SAYS
00:47:57.30\00:48:00.83
THE LORD: 'I REMEMBER YOU, THE
KINDNESS OF YOUR YOUTH, THE LOVE
00:48:00.83\00:48:05.50
OF YOUR BETROTHAL, WHEN YOU WENT
AFTER ME IN THE WILDERNESS, IN A
00:48:05.50\00:48:09.53
LAND NOT SOWN.'" YOU
KNOW WHAT HE'S ALMOST SAYING?
00:48:09.53\00:48:13.16
IT SOUNDS LIKE REVELATION, WHERE
JESUS SAID TO THE CHURCH OF
00:48:13.16\00:48:16.13
EPHESUS - WHO
KNOWS WHERE I'M GOING?
00:48:16.13\00:48:18.36
'YOU'VE LOST YOUR FIRST LOVE.'
GOD IS SAYING TO ISRAEL, 'YOU
00:48:18.36\00:48:22.43
KNOW, BEFORE WE CAME INTO THE
PROMISED LAND' - THAT GENERATION
00:48:22.43\00:48:25.03
THAT ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND,
THEY WERE PRETTY FAITHFUL, FOR
00:48:25.03\00:48:27.43
THE MOST PART, AND SO 'YOU WERE
WILLING TO FOLLOW ME THROUGH THE
00:48:27.43\00:48:30.03
DESERT AND YOU
HAD THAT FIRST LOVE.
00:48:30.03\00:48:32.90
YOU WERE REJOICING WHEN I
BROUGHT YOU OUT OF EGYPT.'
00:48:32.90\00:48:35.60
HE SAID, 'I DON'T KNOW
WHAT HAPPENED BUT NOW IT'S LIKE,
00:48:35.60\00:48:39.26
'OH, JEHOVAH? WE STILL
HAVE TO SERVE JEHOVAH?'
00:48:39.26\00:48:42.40
BUT THAT WAS THE
SELFISHNESS IN THEIR HEARTS.
00:48:42.40\00:48:47.10
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO UNDER - I'M
LOOKING AT THE CLOCK - I WANT TO
00:48:47.10\00:48:51.86
TRY AND GET A NUMBER OF OTHER
THOUGHTS IN HERE BEFORE WE RUN
00:48:51.86\00:48:54.66
OUT OF TIME - STILL DEALING WITH
PRIDE AND HUMILITY - JAMES 4:7.
00:48:54.66\00:48:59.33
NOW THIS IS JUST
ONE OF THE GREAT VERSES.
00:48:59.33\00:49:01.36
YOU - YOU SHOULD HAVE, AT
LEAST PART OF THIS, MEMORIZED.
00:49:01.36\00:49:04.40
"THEREFORE, SUBMIT TO GOD"
- HERE'S A FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
00:49:04.40\00:49:07.13
RIGHT HERE - "SUBMIT TO GOD,
00:49:07.13\00:49:09.70
RESIST THE DEVIL AND
HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
00:49:09.70\00:49:12.86
DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND
HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU."
00:49:12.86\00:49:16.13
THAT RIGHT THERE
SHOULD BE UNDERLINED.
00:49:16.13\00:49:18.60
EVERY TIME YOU DRAW NEAR TO GOD,
WHETHER IT'S COMING TO A PRAYER
00:49:18.60\00:49:21.20
MEETING, WHEN YOU GO TO CHURCH,
YOU GO TO AN EVANGELISTIC
00:49:21.20\00:49:24.70
MEETING, WHEN YOU GO IN YOUR
CLOSET AND YOU READ YOUR BIBLE -
00:49:24.70\00:49:28.23
OR YOUR OFFICE OR WHEREVER
IT HAPPENS TO BE, AND YOU ARE
00:49:28.23\00:49:30.86
DRAWING NEAR TO GOD, GOD ALWAYS
SEES YOU DRAWING NEAR AND, LIKE
00:49:30.86\00:49:34.56
THE FATHER OF THE PRODIGAL,
AS SOON AS HE SAW HIS SON COMING
00:49:34.56\00:49:37.06
HOME, HE RAN TO MEET HIM.
WHEN GOD SEES US MAKING AN
00:49:37.06\00:49:40.30
EFFORT TO DRAW NEAR TO HIM,
HE WILL RESPOND - HE LOVES US.
00:49:40.30\00:49:44.43
HE'S WAITING FOR US TO REACH OUT
TO HIM. YOU REACH OUT TO HIM,
00:49:44.43\00:49:47.16
HE REACHES OUT TO
YOU. WHAT A GREAT PROMISE.
00:49:47.16\00:49:49.73
'DRAW NEAR TO GOD, HE'LL
DRAW NEAR' - YOU NOTICE IT SAYS
00:49:49.73\00:49:52.66
'RESIST THE DEVIL, HE'LL FLEE
FROM YOU.' IT MIGHT NOT BE FIRST
00:49:52.66\00:49:56.43
RESISTANCE OR SECOND RESISTANCE,
YOU KEEP RESISTING - JESUS HAD
00:49:56.43\00:49:59.73
THREE TEMPTATIONS AND
THEN THE DEVIL LEFT HIM, RIGHT?
00:49:59.73\00:50:03.10
SO YOU MIGHT GET A LITTLE
BLITZKRIEG OF TEMPTATION THAT
00:50:03.10\00:50:05.40
COMES - HOLD
FIRM. HE GETS TIRED.
00:50:05.40\00:50:08.03
THE DEVIL HAS NO PATIENCE.
HE GETS TIRED AND HE GOES AND
00:50:08.03\00:50:11.20
REGROUPS. 'RESIST
THE DEVIL AND HE'LL FLEE
00:50:11.20\00:50:14.10
FROM YOU.' WHAT GREAT
PROMISES - "CLEANSE YOUR HANDS,
00:50:14.10\00:50:18.30
YOU SINNERS"
CLEANSE THEM FROM WHAT? SIN?
00:50:18.30\00:50:23.06
- "PURIFY YOUR
HEARTS, YOU DOUBLE-MINDED."
00:50:23.06\00:50:25.73
- ANY OF YOU EVER
FEEL DOUBLE MINDED?
00:50:25.73\00:50:28.50
YOU LOVE THE LORD BUT YOU LOVE
YOURSELF AND YOU LOVE THE WORLD
00:50:28.50\00:50:32.66
BUT YOU LOVE THE CHURCH.
00:50:32.66\00:50:34.50
AND WE ALL FEEL A
LITTLE SCHIZOPHRENIC, DON'T WE?
00:50:34.50\00:50:37.73
IF YOU'RE HONEST WITH ME, YOU'RE
HERE - THE VERY FACT YOU'RE HERE
00:50:37.73\00:50:40.80
IS EVIDENCE OF YOUR BEING A
LITTLE SPIRITUALLY BIPOLAR -
00:50:40.80\00:50:45.93
MAYBE I SHOULDN'T SAY IT THAT
WAY - BECAUSE WE WERE ALL LOST
00:50:45.93\00:50:50.16
IN THE WORLD BUT WE WEREN'T
SATISFIED AND WE SAID, 'I WANT
00:50:50.16\00:50:52.93
THE LORD.' BUT YOU PROBABLY ALSO
STILL FEEL THE TUG OF THE WORLD
00:50:52.93\00:50:55.83
BECAUSE THERE'S STILL A
DEVIL. IF YOU FEEL NO TUG THEN
00:50:55.83\00:51:00.93
SOMETHING'S
WRONG - OF THE WORLD.
00:51:00.93\00:51:03.03
BECAUSE BEING A CHRISTIAN,
YOU ARE GOING AGAINST THE WIND.
00:51:03.03\00:51:07.40
BEING A CHRISTIAN YOU'RE
SWIMMING AGAINST THE CURRENT AND
00:51:07.40\00:51:10.30
YOU'RE GOING TO
MEET THAT RESISTANCE.
00:51:10.30\00:51:11.90
YOU'RE GOING TO
FEEL DOUBLE MINDED.
00:51:11.90\00:51:13.93
"LAMENT AND MOURN AND WEEP!
00:51:13.93\00:51:17.86
LET YOUR LAUGHTER BE TURNED TO
MOURNING AND YOUR JOY TO GLOOM.
00:51:17.86\00:51:20.70
HUMBLE YOURSELVES" - AREN'T YOU
GLAD THE VERSE DOESN'T END THAT
00:51:20.70\00:51:23.80
WAY? IT JUST
SAYS, "LET YOUR LAUGHTER
00:51:23.80\00:51:27.26
BE TURNED TO MOURNING
AND YOUR JOY TO GLOOM."
00:51:27.26\00:51:30.03
WOW, DOESN'T THE BIBLE
SAY WE SHOULD HAVE JOY?
00:51:30.03\00:51:33.56
THIS IS KIND OF TALKING ABOUT
REPENTANCE - THAT THERE NEEDS TO
00:51:33.56\00:51:37.03
BE A HUMBLING OF YOURSELF -
"HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT
00:51:37.03\00:51:40.73
OF THE LORD, AND
HE WILL LIFT YOU UP."
00:51:40.73\00:51:42.60
HE DOESN'T LEAVE
YOU IN THE CLOUDS.
00:51:42.60\00:51:45.86
HE DOESN'T LEAVE
YOU IN THE GLOOM.
00:51:45.86\00:51:47.16
HE SAYS, 'DON'T BE
JOYFUL ABOUT BEING LOST.
00:51:47.16\00:51:50.80
HUMBLE YOURSELF ABOUT
YOUR SINS. REPENT OF YOUR SINS.
00:51:50.80\00:51:52.86
TURN FROM YOUR SINS AND THEN
GOD'LL LIFT YOU UP AND GIVE YOU
00:51:52.86\00:51:55.43
THE REAL JOY. IT'S NOT
THE JOY THAT SOLOMON TALKS
00:51:55.43\00:51:58.53
ABOUT WHEN PEOPLE GO TO THE
HOUSE OF FEASTING INSTEAD OF THE
00:51:58.53\00:52:01.40
HOUSE OF MOURNING. HE
SAYS, 'YOU'RE BETTER OFF IN
00:52:01.40\00:52:03.03
THE HOUSE OF MOURNING THAN
THE HOUSE OF WORLDLY FEASTING' -
00:52:03.03\00:52:06.40
BECAUSE PEOPLE FORGET.
THERE, AGAIN, YOU HAVE THE WORD
00:52:06.40\00:52:12.03
'HUMBLE.' 'BLESSED
ARE THE MEEK FOR' - WHAT?
00:52:12.03\00:52:19.43
- 'THEY'LL INHERIT' - MATTER
OF FACT, WHO HAS PSALM 37:11?
00:52:19.43\00:52:23.53
I'M GOING TO HAVE YOU
READ THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:52:23.53\00:52:25.63
MATTER OF FACT - YOU GUYS
- I'LL LET THEM GET READY.
00:52:25.63\00:52:28.16
I WANT YOU TO READ THAT
NEXT BECAUSE OF THE VERSE I JUST
00:52:28.16\00:52:30.36
QUOTED. YOU READY FOR THAT?
HOLD. HOLD. JUST ABOUT READY.
00:52:30.36\00:52:37.40
THUMBS UP. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD.
00:52:37.40\00:52:39.50
>>"BUT THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT
THE EARTH, AND SHALL DELIGHT
00:52:39.50\00:52:41.80
THEMSELVES IN THE
ABUNDANCE OF PEACE."
00:52:41.80\00:52:44.30
>>SO WHEN JESUS SAYS, IN
MATTHEW, 'BLESSED ARE THE MEEK
00:52:44.30\00:52:46.40
FOR THEY'LL INHERIT THE
EARTH,' WHO IS HE QUOTING?
00:52:46.40\00:52:50.50
HE'S QUOTING FROM DAVID,
ASSUMING THIS IS A PSALM OF
00:52:50.50\00:52:53.30
DAVID. TEN PERCENT
OF EVERYTHING JESUS
00:52:53.30\00:52:55.90
SAID WAS QUOTING
THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:52:55.90\00:53:00.76
WHEN THE - WHEN JESUS SAID, 'MAN
WILL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE,
00:53:00.76\00:53:04.30
BUT EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS
FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' DO YOU
00:53:04.30\00:53:08.53
KNOW THAT PART OF THAT VERSE
SAYS THAT GOD ALLOWED YOU TO GO
00:53:08.53\00:53:11.20
INTO THE WILDERNESS THAT HE
MIGHT HUMBLE YOU AND TEACH YOU
00:53:11.20\00:53:15.86
THAT MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD
ALONE BUT' - BY EVEN THAT VERY
00:53:15.86\00:53:19.33
VERSE, JESUS QUOTED
TO THE DEVIL. YOU KNOW,
00:53:19.33\00:53:23.36
I READ STORIES IN THE BIBLE
ABOUT PRIDE AND HUMILITY AND I'M
00:53:23.36\00:53:26.83
AMAZED AT HOW POWERFUL HUMILITY
IS, BUT HUMILITY IS SOMETHING
00:53:26.83\00:53:32.36
YOU MUST CHOOSE.
00:53:32.36\00:53:34.46
THE BIBLE SAYS 'YOU HUMBLE
YOURSELF.' WHEN GOD FORCES A
00:53:34.46\00:53:38.50
PERSON - YOU CAN'T FORCE A
PERSON REALLY, TO BE HUMBLE.
00:53:38.50\00:53:41.30
GOD CAN MAKE A PERSON GO THROUGH
A HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE, BUT
00:53:41.30\00:53:44.90
YOU STILL DON'T
HAVE TO BE HUMBLE.
00:53:44.90\00:53:47.20
I'VE SEEN PEOPLE THAT HAVE JUST
BEEN SO EMBARRASSED, BUT INSTEAD
00:53:47.20\00:53:50.96
OF HUMBLING THEMSELVES,
THEY JUST HARDEN THEIR HEARTS.
00:53:50.96\00:53:55.43
HERE'S FROM TESTIMONIES 9, VERSE
189 - GOOD REASON TO PRACTICE
00:53:55.43\00:54:02.73
THE THINGS JAMES WAS TALKING
ABOUT, "IF WE WOULD HUMBLE
00:54:02.73\00:54:04.93
OURSELVES BEFORE THE LORD AND
BE KIND AND COURTEOUS AND TENDER
00:54:04.93\00:54:08.76
HEARTED AND PITIFUL, THERE WOULD
BE ONE HUNDRED CONVERSIONS TO
00:54:08.76\00:54:12.53
THE TRUTH WHERE
NOW THERE IS ONLY ONE."
00:54:12.53\00:54:15.63
IF WE WOULD HUMBLE
OURSELVES BEFORE THE LORD.
00:54:15.63\00:54:19.56
'IF MY PEOPLE, WHO ARE CALLED BY
MY NAME, WOULD HUMBLE THEMSELVES
00:54:19.56\00:54:24.63
AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE" -
DRAW NEAR TO ME, I'LL DRAW NEAR
00:54:24.63\00:54:28.73
TO YOU - "TURN FROM THEIR WICKED
WAYS, THEN I WILL HEAR FROM
00:54:28.73\00:54:32.66
HEAVEN. I WILL
FORGIVE THEIR SIN."
00:54:32.66\00:54:35.53
- THAT WAS A PRE-REQUISITE FOR
FORGIVENESS, HUMBLE YOURSELF AND
00:54:35.53\00:54:38.30
HE WILL LIFT YOU UP.
00:54:38.30\00:54:39.60
'CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YOU
SINNERS.' GOING BACK TO JAMES,
00:54:39.60\00:54:42.16
"I WILL FORGIVE THEIR
SIN AND HEAL THEIR LAND."
00:54:42.16\00:54:46.00
GOD CAN'T FORGIVE AND HEAL
US UNTIL WE HUMBLE OURSELVES.
00:54:46.00\00:54:49.53
IN THE BIBLE, YOU CAN EVEN FIND
WICKED KINGS, LIKE AHAB - AFTER
00:54:49.53\00:54:54.70
AHAB KILLED NABOTH - OR ACTUALLY
HIS WIFE DID THE DIRTY WORK BUT
00:54:54.70\00:54:58.13
HE WAS AN ACCOMPLICE -
AND ELIJAH CONFRONTED HIM.
00:54:58.13\00:55:01.60
AHAB REALIZED THAT ELIJAH WAS
RIGHT AND HE HUMBLED HIMSELF.
00:55:01.60\00:55:06.60
THIS IS AHAB THAT HAD DONE
ALL KINDS OF TERRIBLE THINGS.
00:55:06.60\00:55:09.00
THEY SAID HE
WAS A TERRIBLE KING.
00:55:09.00\00:55:10.33
LISTEN TO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS -
GOD IS SPEAKING, HE'S TALKING TO
00:55:10.33\00:55:13.13
ELIJAH - GOD SAYS, "SEE HOW AHAB
HAS HUMBLED HIMSELF BEFORE ME?
00:55:13.13\00:55:17.50
BECAUSE HE HAS HUMBLED HIMSELF,
I WILL NOT BRING THE CALAMITY IN
00:55:17.50\00:55:21.03
HIS DAYS, BUT
IN HIS SON'S DAYS."
00:55:21.03\00:55:23.50
BECAUSE HE HUMBLED HIMSELF.
00:55:23.50\00:55:25.90
2 CHRONICLES 32:26, "THEN
HEZEKIAH HUMBLED HIMSELF FOR THE
00:55:25.90\00:55:31.66
PRIDE OF HIS HEART, HE AND
THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, SO
00:55:31.66\00:55:35.03
THAT THE WRATH OF THE LORD DID
NOT COME UPON THEM IN THE DAYS
00:55:35.03\00:55:37.56
OF HEZEKIAH."
BECAUSE HE HUMBLED HIMSELF.
00:55:37.56\00:55:41.56
2 CHRONICLES 12:6, "SO THE
LEADERS OF ISRAEL AND THE KING
00:55:41.56\00:55:44.93
HUMBLED THEMSELVES; AND THEY
SAID, 'THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS.'
00:55:44.93\00:55:47.70
NOW WHEN THE LORD SAW THAT THEY
HUMBLED THEMSELVES, THE WORD OF
00:55:47.70\00:55:51.96
THE LORD CAME TO SHEMAIAH
SAYING, 'THEY HAVE HUMBLED
00:55:51.96\00:55:54.90
THEMSELVES; THEREFORE I WILL NOT
DESTROY THEM, BUT I WILL GRANT
00:55:54.90\00:55:58.13
THEM SOME DELIVERANCE.'"
WOW, THAT'S A POWERFUL LESSON,
00:55:58.13\00:56:01.76
DON'T YOU THINK? WE
NEED TO HUMBLE OURSELVES AND
00:56:01.76\00:56:04.46
I JUST READ THIS AND AS I WENT
THROUGH THE STUDY - NO, THERE'S
00:56:04.46\00:56:07.46
MUCH MORE - LET ME READ YOU ONE
MORE THING AND WE'LL CLOSE WITH
00:56:07.46\00:56:09.16
THIS. "THE EVIL
THAT LED TO PETER'S
00:56:09.16\00:56:13.76
FALL, THAT SHUT THE PHARISEE
OUT FROM COMMUNION WITH GOD, IS
00:56:13.76\00:56:18.86
PROVING THE RUIN
OF THOUSANDS TODAY.
00:56:18.86\00:56:20.80
THERE IS NOTHING SO OFFENSIVE TO
GOD, NOTHING SO DANGEROUS TO THE
00:56:20.80\00:56:23.73
HUMAN SOUL AS PRIDE
AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
00:56:23.73\00:56:27.20
OF ALL SINS, IT IS THE
MOST HOPELESS AND INCURABLE."
00:56:27.20\00:56:31.00
THAT'S FROM 'CHRIST'S
OBJECT LESSONS' PAGE 154.
00:56:31.00\00:56:34.76
YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S THE
SINGLE THING WE SHOULD PRAY FOR,
00:56:34.76\00:56:37.43
IT'S THE MIND OF CHRIST.
00:56:37.43\00:56:39.10
JESUS, WHO LAID ASIDE HIS
THRONE, THE ONE WHO HUMBLED
00:56:39.10\00:56:44.36
HIMSELF THE MOST IS
GOING TO BE EXALTED THE MOST.
00:56:44.36\00:56:47.40
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OF NO REPUTATION BUT TOOK UPON
00:56:47.40\00:56:49.96
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