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>>I WANT TO WELCOME
OUR FRIENDS TO ANOTHER
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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AND YOU NOTICE WE'RE
BACK HOME AGAIN IN SACRAMENTO.
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FOR THE LAST FEW PRESENTATIONS
WE ACTUALLY DID IT FROM OUR
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PLACE IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW
MEXICO, WHERE WE WERE DOING THE
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'LANDMARKS OF
PROPHECY' BIBLE STUDIES.
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I WANT TO THANK THE STUDIO AND
THE CREW FOR GETTING EVERYTHING
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SET BACK UP AGAIN SO
THAT WE COULD STUDY TOGETHER.
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TODAY WE ARE GOING TO BE GOING
INTO OUR LAST STUDY ON THE BOOK
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OF JAMES AND - BUT BEFORE WE
DO THAT WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN
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WITH A WORD OF PRAYER.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE'RE VERY
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THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY
AND THE FREEDOM WE HAVE TO COME
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TOGETHER IN THIS PLACE AND
BE ABLE TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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WE PRAY THAT THE POWER OF THE
WORD WILL COME ALIVE ONCE AGAIN.
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BE WITH US AS WE SHARE - BE WITH
ME AS I SPEAK - AND I PRAY THAT
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MY MIND WILL BE QUICKENED BY
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WE'LL ALL BE
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EDIFIED AND
MADE MORE LIKE JESUS.
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WE PRAY IN HIS NAME, AMEN.
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AND AS I MENTIONED, IN JUST A
MOMENT WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING
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INTO OUR LAST STUDY
ON THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT
GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY,
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DEALING WITH THE EVERLASTING
GOSPEL, AND THE OFFER IS CALLED
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'JUSTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE'
- IT'S THE BOOK ON ASSURANCE.
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IF YOU LIKE THIS,
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FREE.
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YOU CAN CALL THE
NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN.
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THAT'S 866-788-3966 OR THAT'S
866-STUDY-MORE AND WHEN YOU DO,
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ASK FOR OFFER #727 -
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU.
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SOMETHING ELSE I SHOULD MENTION
IS, BECAUSE THIS IS OUR LAST
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STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JAMES, THAT
MEANS WE'RE GETTING READY TO
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ENTER A NEW QUARTER FOR THE YEAR
AND I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD
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TO THIS. IT'S GOING TO
BE THE BOOK OF PROVERBS.
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ALL THAT WISDOM FROM SOLOMON,
WE'RE HOPING THAT SOME OF IT
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WILL LEECH IN
AND TAKE HOLD OF US.
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AND SO, JUST - THOSE OF YOU
WHO ARE PART OF A SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY GROUP OR CHURCH WHERE
WE STUDY THESE LESSONS, ASK YOUR
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SABBATH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT OR
THE CHURCH THAT HOSTS IT IF THEY
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CAN GIVE YOU ONE OF THE
QUARTERLIES SO YOU CAN BE READY
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FOR OUR NEXT STUDY TOGETHER.
YOU CAN ALSO FIND THESE ONLINE.
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AND I DON'T KNOW IF I MENTIONED
IT, BUT THIS BOOK - YOU CAN
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REQUEST THE BOOK,
WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY.
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YOU CAN ALSO READ THAT ONLINE AS
WELL - THE BOOK ON 'ASSURANCE -
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JUSTIFICATION MADE
SIMPLE.' WELL, WITH THAT LENGTHY
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INTRODUCTION, WE'RE GOING TO
GET INTO OUR FINAL STUDY FROM
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THE BOOK OF JAMES AND I'M SORT
OF SAD TO SEE IT END BECAUSE
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JAMES IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE
BOOKS. I'VE LEARNED A LOT.
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YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY, OTHER
PEOPLE LEARNED, BUT I LEARNED
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PREPARING FOR THESE STUDIES AND
THIS HAS BEEN A REAL BLESSING TO
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ME. YOU KNOW, I JUST THOUGHT
THAT IT'S ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA TO
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REVIEW A FEW THINGS WHEN
YOU'RE GOING TO FINISH A BOOK.
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WE SPENT THIRTEEN WEEKS NOW
GOING OVER THE BOOK OF JAMES -
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ONLY FIVE CHAPTERS - AND IT
MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA FOR THOSE
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WHO JOINED US SOMEWHERE ALONG
THE WAY TO JUST COME IN AND DO A
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LITTLE BIT OF REVIEW.
JAMES IS NOT JAMES THE BROTHER
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OF JOHN, THIS IS ACTUALLY
JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JESUS.
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AND WE'VE LEARNED THAT HE WAS A
REAL PILLAR IN THE EARLY CHURCH.
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MATTER OF FACT, IN JUST A MOMENT
I'LL HAVE SOMEBODY READ ACTS
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12:17, BUT I'M GOING TO START
BY READING MARK 6:3 - MARK 6:3 -
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WHEN THEY WERE TALKING
ABOUT JESUS AND HE WAS DOING HIS
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PREACHING MINISTRY THERE IN
GALILEE, THEY SAID - OR, UP NEAR
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NAZARETH - THEY SAID, "'IS THIS
NOT THE CARPENTER, THE SON OF
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MARY, AND BROTHER OF
JAMES, JOSES, JUDAS, AND SIMON?
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AND ARE NOT HIS SISTERS HERE
WITH US?'" SO JESUS HAD AT LEAST
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HALF BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
USUALLY THEY LIST THEM IN ORDER
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OF THEIR AGE. THE
FIRST ONE LISTED IS JAMES.
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SO JAMES WAS THE OLDER
STEP-BROTHER OR HALF-BROTHER OF
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JESUS - PROBABLY FROM AN
EARLIER MARRIAGE OF JOSEPH.
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THE OTHER INTERESTING THING IS
JOSEPH, EVIDENTLY, DIES BEFORE
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JESUS BEGINS
HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.
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LAST WE HEAR OF JOSEPH,
JESUS IS TWELVE YEARS OLD.
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I'M SURE HE LIVED BEYOND THAT,
BUT YOU NEVER HEAR HIM MENTIONED
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AGAIN BEYOND THAT OCCASION WHEN
MARY AND JOSEPH LOST HIM IN THE
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TEMPLE. SO, BEING
THE FIRST-BORN IN THE
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FAMILY, JAMES WOULD HAVE BEEN
THE OLDEST BECAUSE HE WAS FROM
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JOSEPH'S FIRST
LITTER, IF YOU WILL.
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HE WOULD HAVE BEEN, BASICALLY,
THE PATRIARCH OF EVEN THAT
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FAMILY. NOT ONLY
SOMETHING LIKE JESUS'
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OLDER BROTHER, BUT SOMETIMES
THAT OLDER BROTHER WAS REALLY
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RESPECTED AS THE FATHER FIGURE
OR THE LEADING FIGURE IN THE
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FAMILY. SO HE
WAS REALLY A PILLAR.
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BUT EARLIER ON, WE LEARNED
THAT THE BROTHERS OF JESUS, THEY
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FIRST QUESTIONED WHAT
IN THE WORLD WAS HE DOING?
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AND THEY WONDERED IF
HE HAD LOST HIS MIND.
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HE SEEMED LIKE SUDDENLY HE HAD
GONE FROM JUST A KIND OBSCURITY
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TO THIS PUBLIC NATIONAL
FIGURE THAT WAS SURROUNDED BY
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CONTROVERSY AND THREATS OF
DEATH AND - BUT LATER, THEY CAME
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AROUND AND THEY WERE CONVERTED.
NOW THAT SAYS A LOT FOR YOU.
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YOU CAN FOOL A LOT OF PEOPLE,
BUT WHEN YOUR FAMILY SAYS, 'WE
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BELIEVE HE WAS THE SON OF GOD.'
AND THEY'VE WATCHED YOU FOR
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THIRTY YEARS OR THIRTY-THREE
AND A HALF YEARS, THAT'S PRETTY
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STRONG TESTIMONY THAT
YOU HAVE A CONSISTENT LIFE.
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AND THEY TAUGHT THAT JESUS
HAD LIVED A HOLY, SINLESS LIFE.
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JAMES COULDN'T THINK - I MEAN,
HOW MANY OF YOU HAD SIBLINGS?
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HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
DIRT ON YOUR SIBLINGS?
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SO - I MEAN - BUT THEY BELIEVED
THAT JESUS WAS HOLY AND SINLESS.
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NOW GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US ACTS 12:17.
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>>"BUT MOTIONING TO THEM
WITH HIS HAND TO KEEP SILENT, HE
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DECLARED TO THEM HOW THE
LORD HAD BROUGHT HIM OUT OF THE
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PRISON. AND HE
SAID, 'GO, TELL THESE
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THINGS TO JAMES AND TO THE
BRETHREN.' AND HE DEPARTED AND
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WENT TO ANOTHER
PLACE." >>THANK YOU.
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YOU KNOW WHY I THINK
THIS VERSE IS SO IMPORTANT?
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THIS CHAPTER - CHAPTER 12 -
OF ACTS, BEGINS BY TELLING THAT
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HEROD KILLS JAMES,
THE BROTHER OF JOHN.
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IT ENDS WITH PETER ESCAPING
FROM PRISON AND PETER GIVING
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INSTRUCTION: 'GO TELL JAMES'
- IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S A
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TRANSITIONING
HAPPENING AT THIS POINT.
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JAMES ENDS UP BEING - HE'S
RECOGNIZED AS REALLY AN APOSTLE
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IN THE EARLY
CHURCH, AND A LEADER.
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AND PROBABLY, THE FIRST BOOK
WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE - IT MAY
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NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BEFORE
THE BOOK OF MARK, BUT IT'S
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CERTAINLY ONE OF THE FIRST
BOOKS OR LETTERS OF INSTRUCTION
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WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE AND - EVEN
THOUGH YOU FIND IT AT THE END -
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REMEMBER, THE BOOKS OF THE
BIBLE ARE NOT NECESSARILY IN
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CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
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NOW, NOTICE THIS, WHEN PAUL SAYS
- 1 CORINTHIANS 15:3 - ABOUT
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JAMES - "FOR I DELIVERED TO YOU
FIRST OF ALL THAT WHICH I ALSO
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RECEIVED: THAT CHRIST DIED
FOR OUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE
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SCRIPTURES, AND THAT HE WAS
BURIED, AND THAT HE ROSE AGAIN
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THE THIRD DAY ACCORDING TO THE
SCRIPTURES, AND THAT HE WAS SEEN
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BY CEPHAS," - THAT'S PETER -
"THEN BY THE TWELVE" - THE OTHER
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APOSTLES - "AFTER THAT HE
WAS SEEN BY OVER FIVE HUNDRED
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BRETHREN AT ONCE," - PROBABLY
SOME TIME BEFORE HIS ASCENSION -
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"OF WHOM THE GREATER PART REMAIN
TO THE PRESENT, BUT SOME HAVE
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FALLEN ASLEEP." - SOME
HAVE DIED - "AFTER THAT
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HE WAS SEEN BY JAMES,
THEN BY ALL THE APOSTLES."
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SEE, IT'S - JAMES IS SORT
OF LUMPED WITH AN APOSTLE.
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IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT
JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN.
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"THEN LAST OF ALL HE WAS SEEN BY
ME ALSO, AS BY ONE BORN OUT OF
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DUE TIME." AND SO,
WE CAN SEE - AND THEN
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I'LL GIVE YOU ONE MORE - THIS IS
STILL INTRODUCTION - JAMES WAS A
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LEADER IN THE EARLY CHURCH.
ACTS 15 - WHEN THEY CAME DOWN
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WITH PAUL AND BARNABAS AND THEY
HAD A PROBLEM ABOUT HOW MUCH OF
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THE CEREMONIAL LAWS ARE THEY TO
REQUIRE THE GENTILE CONVERTS TO
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KEEP AND HOW DO
THEY HANDLE THOSE ISSUES.
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IT SAYS, "AND AFTER THEY BECOME
SILENT, JAMES ANSWERED, SAYING,
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'MEN AND BRETHREN, LISTEN TO ME:
SIMON HAS DECLARED HOW GOD FIRST
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VISITED THE GENTILES TO TAKE OUT
OF THEM A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME.
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AND WITH THIS THE WORDS OF THE
PROPHETS AGREE, JUST AS IT IS
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WRITTEN." - AND HE GOES ON.
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SO JAMES REALLY, SORT OF,
BECOMES LIKE CHAIRMAN OF THE
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BOARD - THE BISHOP - THE LEADER
OF THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM,
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WHICH WAS - THAT WAS GROUND
ZERO FOR THE EARLY CHURCH.
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AND RIGHT NOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE
THINK OF ROME AS THE CENTER OF
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CHRISTIANITY, BUT IT WAS REALLY
IN JERUSALEM FOR THAT FIRST
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CENTURY ANYWAY. SO,
YOU KNOW, THAT'S SORT OF AN
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INTRODUCTION TO OUR FINAL
STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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THIS ONE IS DEALING
WITH THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL.
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NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN THE LAST
VERSES OF JAMES - I DON'T KNOW
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IF YOU - MAYBE WHAT WE OUGHT TO
DO FIRST - I DON'T THINK I EVEN
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MENTIONED OUR MEMORY
VERSE, DID I? LET'S DO THAT.
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OUR MEMORY VERSE IS JEREMIAH
CHAPTER 31, VERSE 3 - YOU CAN
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READ IT RIGHT OUT OF YOUR
BIBLE OR YOUR QUARTERLY THERE -
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JEREMIAH 31:3 AND IT'S HERE
IN THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION.
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DO YOU WANT TO SAY THAT WITH ME?
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"THE LORD HAS APPEARED OF OLD
TIME TO ME SAYING, 'YES, I HAVE
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LOVED YOU WITH AN
EVERLASTING LOVE; THEREFORE WITH
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LOVINGKINDNESS I
HAVE DRAWN YOU.'"
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NOW, OUR EMPHASIS IS GOING TO
BE SEEING THAT THE GOSPEL IS ALL
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THROUGH THE BIBLE,
INCLUDING THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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AND I UNDERSTAND WHY DR. WAHLEN,
WHEN HE WROTE THIS LESSON, HE
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WANTED TO EMPHASIZE THIS,
ESPECIALLY NEAR THE END, BECAUSE
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SOME PEOPLE, THEY READ THE
SECOND AND THIRD CHAPTERS OF
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JAMES, WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT
FAITH AND WORKS - SEEMS LIKE
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HE'S GIVING MORE ENCOURAGEMENT
TO WORKS BECAUSE HE'S DEALING
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WITH THOSE WHO SAY, 'OH, JUST
BELIEVE, BELIEVE, BELIEVE.' AND
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HE SAYS, 'LOOK, SHOW ME YOUR
FAITH WITHOUT YOUR WORKS, I'LL
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SHOW YOU MY FAITH BY MY WORKS.'
SO SOME THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS
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DISMISSING THE
IMPORTANCE OF FAITH.
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IT'S REALLY NOT WHAT HE'S DOING.
HE'S TALKING ABOUT THAT REAL
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FAITH IS GOING TO BE
EVIDENT WITH FRUIT IN THE LIFE.
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BUT WHEN WE STUDY THE BOOK
OF JAMES, ONE OF THE LAST THINGS
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THAT YOU FIND IS WHERE YOU LOOK
IN CHAPTER 5 AND IT SAYS IN THE
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LAST VERSE - LAST CHAPTER OF
JAMES - "...LET HIM KNOW THAT HE
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WHO TURNS A SINNER FROM THE
ERROR OF HIS WAY WILL SAVE A
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SOUL FROM DEATH AND
COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS."
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WOW, WHAT A PERFECT WAY TO
PUNCTUATE THAT THE GOSPEL IS IN
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THE BOOK OF JAMES. HIS
CLOSING, CLOSING SALVO, AS
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YOU WOULD SAY, IS TURNING A
SINNER FROM THE ERROR OF HIS
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WAYS, COVERING A
MULTITUDE OF SINS.
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NOW, ISN'T THAT WHAT
EVERYBODY NEEDS IN THEIR LIFE?
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ISN'T THAT THE GOSPEL -
TO COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS?
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SO AS WE DELVE INTO THE LESSON,
WE'RE REALLY GOING TO TALK ABOUT
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THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL - HOW IT
REALLY COVERS A WHOLE PANORAMA
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OF THE BIBLE AND IT TALKS ABOUT
THE GOSPEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
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THE GOSPEL MADE FLESH, THE
GOSPEL IN PAUL, THE GOSPEL IN
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THE NEW COVENANT AND THE CLIMAX
OF THE GOSPEL, SO THOSE ARE
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THE SECTIONS THAT
WE'RE CONSIDERING.
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ALRIGHT, FIRST, THE
GOSPEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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SOMEBODY'S GOING TO HAVE GENESIS
3:15 - ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE IN
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JUST A MOMENT,
THEN. WE'LL GET TO YOU.
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AND I'M GOING TO BEGIN BY
READING HEBREWS 4, VERSE 2 -
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NOW I KNOW HEBREWS
IS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
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BUT HE'S POINTING
BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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"FOR INDEED THE GOSPEL WAS
PREACHED TO US AS WELL AS TO
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THEM;" - WHO IS PAUL TALKING
ABOUT IN HEBREWS? WHO'S THE
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'THEM?' WHEN HE SAYS, 'THE
GOSPEL IS PREACHED TO US' HE
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MEANS THOSE PRESENT - THE
APOSTLES, THE NEW TESTAMENT
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CHRISTIANS, AS WELL AS THEM
- HE'S POINTING BACK TO THE OLD
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TESTAMENT. I THOUGHT 'GOSPEL'
WAS ONLY A NEW TESTAMENT WORD.
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WHAT'S THE WORD
'GOSPEL' MEAN? GOOD NEWS.
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PAUL SAYS THE GOSPEL
WAS PREACHED TO THEM.
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WHEN WAS THE GOSPEL PREACHED
TO PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
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WELL, EVEN ALL THE PROPHETS, NOT
ONLY IN THE SYMBOLS BUT ALL OF
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THE PROPHETS AND - DOES IT
SAY ENOCH WAS A PREACHER OF
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RIGHTEOUSNESS? HE
SAID, 'BEHOLD THE LORD
00:12:14.96\00:12:17.80
COMES.' ENOCH WAS PREACHING
ABOUT THE ADVENT OF THE LORD,
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SO ENOCH WAS AN
ADVENTIST, WASN'T HE?
00:12:22.13\00:12:24.40
MATTER OF FACT, IT SAYS, 'ENOCH,
THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM.' HE WAS A
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST. I'M
SURE HE WAS A SABBATH KEEPER.
00:12:27.40\00:12:31.06
SO THE IDEA THAT THE GOSPEL
DIDN'T SHOW UP UNTIL JESUS -
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I'VE MET PEOPLE BEFORE AND I'VE
RUN INTO THIS FREQUENTLY, THEY
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SAY, 'WHAT ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE
WHO HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT JESUS?
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ARE THEY DOOMED TO BE LOST?'
AND I WAS TALKING WITH A FELLOW
00:12:43.70\00:12:47.00
JUST IN NEW MEXICO DURING OUR
LANDMARK PROGRAM AND HE SAID,
00:12:47.00\00:12:50.86
'YEAH, THE BIBLE SAYS THERE'S
NO OTHER NAME GIVEN AMONG MEN
00:12:50.86\00:12:53.76
WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED, SO
IF SOMEONE HASN'T HEARD ABOUT
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JESUS, THEY'RE LOST.'
I SAID, 'WAIT A SECOND.
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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU'RE SAYING
BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS
00:12:58.80\00:13:01.53
ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT WHO HADN'T HEARD ABOUT
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JESUS ARE ALL LOST.' WELL,
WE KNOW A LOT OF THEM ARE SAVED.
00:13:04.20\00:13:08.60
AND EVEN JESUS, HE KIND OF
OUTRAGED HIS HOME TOWN WHEN HE
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SAID, THERE WERE A LOT OF LEPERS
IN THE LAND IN THE DAYS OF
00:13:12.16\00:13:15.06
NAAMAN, BUT NONE OF THEM
WAS HEALED - FROM ISRAEL -
00:13:15.06\00:13:19.20
BUT NAAMAN THE
SYRIAN WAS HEALED.
00:13:19.20\00:13:20.86
GOD DID A MIRACLE FOR HIM.
SO DID GOD HAVE PEOPLE THERE?
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AND THEN HE GOES ON AND SAYS
THERE WERE MANY WIDOWS IN THE
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LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE DAYS
OF ELIJAH BUT NONE OF THEM WERE
00:13:27.03\00:13:32.73
ACCOMPANIED EXCEPT
THE ONE FROM PHOENICIA -
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THAT LADY OF TYRE
THAT ELIJAH STAYED WITH.
00:13:35.73\00:13:38.43
REMEMBER, HE STAYED IN THE UPPER
ROOM, RESURRECTED HER SON, DID A
00:13:38.43\00:13:40.23
MIRACLE FOR HER. AND
SHE UNDERSTOOD WHAT SIN WAS.
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YOU READ THAT WHOLE STORY SHE
SAYS, 'HAVE YOU CALLED MY SIN TO
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MY REMEMBRANCE?' SO
GOD HAS HAD PEOPLE IN MANY
00:13:47.23\00:13:50.80
DIFFERENT AGES.
NOBODY IS SAVED WITHOUT THE
00:13:50.80\00:13:53.40
SACRIFICE OF JESUS.
BUT ALL THROUGH THE OLD
00:13:53.40\00:13:55.70
TESTAMENT, THE
GOSPEL WAS PREACHED.
00:13:55.70\00:13:57.56
WHEN I ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT
- IN ONE WORD - CAN'T USE TWO
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WORDS - IN ONE WORD, NAME SOME
WORDS THAT YOU THINK ABOUT THAT
00:14:03.30\00:14:08.63
EXPLAIN THE GOSPEL. YOU CAN
CALL THEM OUT, I'LL REPEAT THEM.
00:14:08.63\00:14:12.46
>>LOVE. JOY. >>LOVE.
00:14:12.46\00:14:13.83
ALRIGHT, LET'S TAKE
THEM ONE AT A TIME - LOVE.
00:14:13.83\00:14:15.56
DO YOU FIND LOVE
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:14:15.56\00:14:19.60
WE JUST READ ONE, 'I'VE LOVED
YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE.'
00:14:19.60\00:14:22.13
JOY - DO YOU FIND
JOY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:14:22.13\00:14:26.20
YOU READ THROUGH ALL THE
PSALMS - GREAT DEAL OF JOY.
00:14:26.20\00:14:29.43
WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD? >>TRUTH.
00:14:29.43\00:14:31.40
>>TRUTH. DOES IT TALK ABOUT THE
00:14:31.40\00:14:33.13
IMPORTANCE OF TRUTH
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:14:33.13\00:14:35.16
>>PEACE. >>PEACE.
00:14:35.16\00:14:37.26
YEAH, YOU CAN TALK ABOUT -
THERE'S MANY, MANY VERSES THAT
00:14:37.26\00:14:42.56
TALK ABOUT THE
PEACE OF THE LORD.
00:14:42.56\00:14:44.66
'A GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY WHICH
LOVE THY LAW AND NOTHING WILL
00:14:44.66\00:14:46.93
OFFEND THEM.'
WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD?
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>>MERCY. LONGSUFFERING.
>>ALRIGHT, SO I HEARD MERCY AND
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LONGSUFFERING.
LET'S START WITH MERCY.
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DO YOU FIND MERCY
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:14:53.00\00:14:55.43
'HIS MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY
DAY. HIS COMPASSIONS FAIL NOT.'
00:14:55.43\00:14:59.76
LONGSUFFERING - YEAH, THE
PATIENCE OF THE LORD - HIS MERCY
00:14:59.76\00:15:03.66
ENDURES FOREVER. IT
TALKS ABOUT - I WAS WAITING
00:15:03.66\00:15:06.80
FOR SOMEBODY TO SAY 'GRACE.'
DO YOU FIND GRACE IN THE OLD
00:15:06.80\00:15:11.50
TESTAMENT? WHO IS
IT THAT FOUND GRACE IN
00:15:11.50\00:15:13.63
THE SIGHT OF THE
LORD? NOAH, YEAH.
00:15:13.63\00:15:17.10
I'VE GOT A SONG ABOUT IT - 'NOAH
FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE
00:15:17.10\00:15:18.70
LORD.' YOU REMEMBER?
IS THAT OLD TESTAMENT?
00:15:18.70\00:15:24.13
YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALMOST LIKE -
IT'S SORT OF AN URBAN MYTH THAT
00:15:24.13\00:15:28.40
THE GOD IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT IS THE GOD OF LOVE.
00:15:28.40\00:15:31.53
THE GOD OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT IS THE GOD OF WRATH.
00:15:31.53\00:15:34.40
AND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THEY'VE
GOT, YOU KNOW, THE PLAGUES AND
00:15:34.40\00:15:36.86
THE WAR AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
IS THE LOVE AND THE GOODNESS
00:15:36.86\00:15:39.76
AND - THAT'S
REALLY NOT ACCURATE.
00:15:39.76\00:15:43.93
DO YOU FIND DEATH
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT?
00:15:43.93\00:15:48.53
DO YOU FIND PEOPLE BEING
UNJUSTLY KILLED, LIKE JESUS?
00:15:48.53\00:15:51.36
PRETTY BRUTAL DEATH.
STEPHEN BEING STONED?
00:15:51.36\00:15:53.96
ARE THERE PLAGUES
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT?
00:15:53.96\00:15:56.23
MATTER OF FACT, THE SEVEN LAST
PLAGUES ARE MORE UNIVERSAL AND
00:15:56.23\00:16:00.60
SEVERE THAN THE TEN PLAGUES
THAT FELL ON THE EGYPTIANS.
00:16:00.60\00:16:05.70
SO, REALLY, IT'S THE
SAME GOD ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
00:16:05.70\00:16:10.06
THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO THEM
BACK THERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:16:10.06\00:16:14.23
ALRIGHT, WELL, LET'S GO AHEAD
AND I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO READ
00:16:14.23\00:16:16.63
FOR US GENESIS 3:15.
>>AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN
00:16:16.63\00:16:21.56
YOU AND THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN
YOUR SEED AND HER SEED; HE SHALL
00:16:21.56\00:16:26.00
BRUISE YOUR HEAD, AND
YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL."
00:16:26.00\00:16:29.23
>>NOW THIS IS REALLY THE
FIRST PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE.
00:16:29.23\00:16:32.40
IT'S A LITTLE BIT ENIGMATIC.
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THIS
00:16:32.40\00:16:35.70
ANIMOSITY, THIS RESISTANCE, THIS
OPPOSITION BETWEEN THE WOMAN AND
00:16:35.70\00:16:42.30
THE SEED OF THE
WOMAN AND THE SERPENT.
00:16:42.30\00:16:44.03
AND SO IT'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT
THE SEED OF THE WOMAN AND THE
00:16:44.03\00:16:46.63
SERPENT. YOU'VE GOT THESE THREE
CHARACTERS THAT ARE DESCRIBED
00:16:46.63\00:16:49.90
HERE: THE SERPENT WHO TEMPTED
THE WOMAN AND IT SAYS THAT THE
00:16:49.90\00:16:52.43
SEED OF THE WOMAN WOULD BRUISE
THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT AND THE
00:16:52.43\00:16:54.96
SERPENT WOULD BRUISE THE HEEL
- MEANING, YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVER
00:16:54.96\00:16:58.70
HAVE AN INJURED HEEL IT MAKES
YOU LIMP - IT'S SLOWS OR IMPEDES
00:16:58.70\00:17:01.40
THE PROGRESS OF THE SEED
OF THE WOMAN. THE ULTIMATE
00:17:01.40\00:17:05.40
SEED OF THE WOMAN IS
JESUS. HE IS THE PROMISED SEED.
00:17:05.40\00:17:09.83
AND YOU'VE GOT ALL THESE STORIES
IN THE BIBLE WHERE YOU'VE GOT
00:17:09.83\00:17:13.10
THESE, YOU KNOW,
MIRACULOUS BABIES THAT WERE BORN
00:17:13.10\00:17:16.16
AND THEY WERE
ALL TYPES OF CHRIST.
00:17:16.16\00:17:18.40
AND THESE GREAT DELIVERERS
LIKE JOSEPH AND MOSES AND DAVID.
00:17:18.40\00:17:22.40
AND THEN YOU GET TO THE
NEW TESTAMENT AND YOU READ IN
00:17:22.40\00:17:26.73
REVELATION ABOUT THE DRAGON
WANTING TO DESTROY THIS BABY
00:17:26.73\00:17:30.73
THAT THE WOMAN IS
GOING TO BRING FORTH.
00:17:30.73\00:17:32.76
AND THAT'S BEEN HIS
PLAN ALL THROUGH HISTORY.
00:17:32.76\00:17:34.70
THE DEVIL IS WANTING TO
PREVENT THE SAVIOR FROM COMING.
00:17:34.70\00:17:37.40
AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THE
GOSPEL ABOUT GOD SENDING SOMEONE
00:17:37.40\00:17:43.03
WHO WOULD BE A SUBSTITUTE TO
SAVE OUR FIRST PARENTS FROM SIN
00:17:43.03\00:17:47.96
AND ALL OF THEIR
PRODIGY, WHICH IS YOU AND ME,
00:17:47.96\00:17:51.40
THAT GOES ALL THE WAY
BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
00:17:51.40\00:17:53.46
THAT WAS THE FIRST PROMISE THAT
THERE'D BE THIS BATTLE BETWEEN
00:17:53.46\00:17:57.10
GOOD AND EVIL AND THE SEED OF
THE WOMAN WOULD BRUISE THE HEAD
00:17:57.10\00:18:00.86
- THAT'S A MORTAL WOUND - OF THE
SERPENT. BUT THE SERPENT WOULD
00:18:00.86\00:18:04.43
ONLY BRUISE THE HEEL OF JESUS
- OR THE SEED OF THE WOMAN.
00:18:04.43\00:18:07.73
SOMEONE ELSE GET READY FOR
PSALMS 130, VERSES 3 AND 4 AND
00:18:07.73\00:18:13.60
YOU'LL HAVE THAT
IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:18:13.60\00:18:15.26
I WANT TO READ EXODUS 19 - THIS
IS, OF COURSE, JUST BEFORE THE
00:18:15.26\00:18:18.90
TEN COMMANDMENTS - EXODUS 19:4,
HE SAID, "'YOU HAVE SEEN WHAT I
00:18:18.90\00:18:24.03
DID TO THE
EGYPTIANS, AND HOW I BORE YOU ON
00:18:24.03\00:18:26.76
EAGLES' WINGS AND
BROUGHT YOU TO MYSELF.
00:18:26.76\00:18:29.73
NOW THEREFORE, IF YOU WILL
INDEED OBEY MY VOICE AND KEEP MY
00:18:29.73\00:18:32.96
COVENANT, THEN YOU SHALL BE A
SPECIAL TREASURE TO ME ABOVE ALL
00:18:32.96\00:18:37.53
PEOPLE; FOR ALL
THE EARTH IS MINE.
00:18:37.53\00:18:40.53
AND YOU SHALL BE TO ME A KINGDOM
OF PRIESTS AND A HOLY NATION.'
00:18:40.53\00:18:44.03
THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH YOU
SHALL SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF
00:18:44.03\00:18:47.73
ISRAEL." SO THE
LORD'S DESIRE TO HAVE A
00:18:47.73\00:18:52.26
CALLED OUT PEOPLE - YOU
KNOW WHAT THE CHURCH IS?
00:18:52.26\00:18:56.03
THE ENGLISH WORD THAT WE USE FOR
CHURCH IS SORT OF A CORRUPTION
00:18:56.03\00:19:00.56
OF AN OLD ENGLISH WORD 'KIRK.'
AND IT SOMEHOW ENDED UP BEING
00:19:00.56\00:19:06.80
'CHURCH.' BUT IT ACTUALLY COMES
FROM THE WORD 'ECCLESIA,' WHICH
00:19:06.80\00:19:12.90
MEANS 'THE CALLED OUT ONES.' DID
GOD ONLY HAVE A CALLED OUT GROUP
00:19:12.90\00:19:18.03
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT OR DID
HE HAVE A GROUP HE CALLED OUT IN
00:19:18.03\00:19:23.16
THE OLD TESTAMENT?
THAT'S WHAT THE CHURCH IS.
00:19:23.16\00:19:25.96
SO HIS WANTING A SPECIAL PEOPLE
AND HIS HAVING A PLAN TO SAVE
00:19:25.96\00:19:29.53
THEM - GO AHEAD, READ FOR US - I
THINK YOU'RE GOING TO READ PSALM
00:19:29.53\00:19:32.60
130, VERSES 3 AND 4.
>>"IF YOU, LORD, SHOULD MARK
00:19:32.60\00:19:37.86
INIQUITIES, O
LORD, WHO COULD STAND?
00:19:37.86\00:19:41.06
BUT THERE IS FORGIVENESS WITH
YOU, THAT YOU MAY BE FEARED."
00:19:41.06\00:19:44.36
>>ALRIGHT, SO EVEN THERE IN THE
PSALMS OF DAVID IT SAYS THAT IF
00:19:44.36\00:19:49.40
GOD WAS TO KEEP TALLY OF
INIQUITY, WHO COULD STAND?
00:19:49.40\00:19:53.36
IT'S LIKE WHEN PETER SAID, 'HOW
MANY TIMES SHALL I FORGIVE MY
00:19:53.36\00:19:56.30
BROTHER?' - KEEPING
TALLY - 'SEVEN TIMES -
00:19:56.30\00:19:59.03
ONE, TWO, THREE' -
YOU KNOW, KEEPING TRACK?
00:19:59.03\00:20:01.83
AND WHAT DOES JESUS
SAY? SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN.
00:20:01.83\00:20:05.56
WAS HE ACTUALLY SAYING I'M
GOING TO COUNT OUT 490 TIMES?
00:20:05.56\00:20:09.16
OR WAS HE USING, SORT OF, A
METAPHOR TO SAY IT'S MUCH MORE
00:20:09.16\00:20:14.30
THAN THAT? SO IT'S
WHAT DAVID'S SAYING.
00:20:14.30\00:20:18.43
IF GOD KEEPS TABS ON OUR
SIN THEN WHO COULD STAND?
00:20:18.43\00:20:22.46
SO THE ONLY WAY WE HAVE ANY HOPE
IS LEANING ON HIS LONG-SUFFERING
00:20:22.46\00:20:27.33
AND HIS MERCY FOR US.
THAT, AGAIN, IS AN OLD TESTAMENT
00:20:27.33\00:20:30.36
CONCEPT. YOU CAN READ IN PSALM
32 - BEAUTIFUL PSALM OF DAVID -
00:20:30.36\00:20:35.13
"BLESSED IS HE WHOSE
TRANSGRESSION IS FORGIVEN, WHOSE
00:20:35.13\00:20:39.86
SIN IS COVERED.
BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE
00:20:39.86\00:20:42.83
LORD DOES NOT IMPUTE INIQUITY,
AND IN WHOSE SPIRIT THERE IS NO
00:20:42.83\00:20:46.73
DECEIT. WHEN I KEPT
SILENT MY BONES GREW
00:20:46.73\00:20:49.60
OLD THROUGH MY
GROANING ALL THE DAY LONG.
00:20:49.60\00:20:52.26
FOR DAY AND NIGHT YOUR HAND WAS
HEAVY UPON ME;" - TALKING ABOUT
00:20:52.26\00:20:56.06
CONVICTION - "MY VITALITY
WAS TURNED INTO THE DROUGHT OF
00:20:56.06\00:20:59.60
SUMMER. SELAH. I
ACKNOWLEDGED MY SIN TO YOU,
00:20:59.60\00:21:03.53
AND MY INIQUITY
I HAVE NOT HIDDEN.
00:21:03.53\00:21:06.30
I SAID, 'I WILL CONFESS MY
TRANSGRESSIONS TO THE LORD,' AND
00:21:06.30\00:21:08.63
YOU FORGAVE THE INIQUITY OF
MY SIN." SO THERE YOU'VE KIND OF
00:21:08.63\00:21:12.46
GOT A SUMMARY OF WHAT'S
INVOLVED IN FORGIVENESS.
00:21:12.46\00:21:15.43
HE WAS WEIGHED DOWN WITH GUILT,
HE'S OPENED UP, HE CONFESSED,
00:21:15.43\00:21:20.03
AND DAVID SAYS 'YOU HAVE
FORGIVEN THE INIQUITY OF MY
00:21:20.03\00:21:24.56
SIN.' YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST
AMAZING PROPHETS IN THE BIBLE
00:21:24.56\00:21:30.36
THAT DEALS WITH
THESE SUBJECTS IS ISAIAH.
00:21:30.36\00:21:33.33
WHY DON'T YOU TURN TO ISAIAH
53 - THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON.
00:21:33.33\00:21:35.90
AND MANY OF YOU
KNOW THESE PASSAGES.
00:21:35.90\00:21:38.76
IF YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE,
ISAIAH 53 - IT'S TELLING US TO
00:21:38.76\00:21:42.73
READ 4 THROUGH 11. I'M
GOING TO READ VERSE 1, "WHO
00:21:42.73\00:21:48.80
HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?
AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE
00:21:48.80\00:21:51.90
LORD BEEN REVEALED? FOR
HE SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM
00:21:51.90\00:21:56.06
AS A TENDER PLANT, AND
AS A ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND.
00:21:56.06\00:21:59.06
HE HAS NO FORM OR COMELINESS;
AND WHEN WE SEE HIM, THERE IS NO
00:21:59.06\00:22:02.66
BEAUTY THAT WE
SHOULD DESIRE HIM.
00:22:02.66\00:22:04.50
HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED
BY MEN, A MAN OF SORROWS AND
00:22:04.50\00:22:08.76
ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF.
AND WE HID, AS IT WERE, OUR
00:22:08.76\00:22:11.60
FACES FROM HIM; HE WAS DESPISED,
AND WE DID NOT ESTEEM HIM.
00:22:11.60\00:22:15.83
SURELY" - NOW HERE'S THE
PASSAGE, IN PARTICULAR - "HE HAS
00:22:15.83\00:22:19.70
BORNE OUR GRIEFS AND CARRIED OUR
SORROWS;" - IT SAYS, 'CAST YOUR
00:22:19.70\00:22:24.23
CARES UPON HIM BECAUSE HE CARES
FOR YOU.' - "YET WE ESTEEMED HIM
00:22:24.23\00:22:27.50
STRICKEN, SMITTEN
BY GOD, AND AFFLICTED.
00:22:27.50\00:22:29.73
BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR
TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS BRUISED
00:22:29.73\00:22:34.30
FOR OUR INIQUITIES; THE
CHASTISEMENT FOR OUR PEACE WAS
00:22:34.30\00:22:37.83
UPON HIM, AND BY HIS STRIPES"
- STRIPES, OF COURSE, MEANS WHEN
00:22:37.83\00:22:41.43
SOMEONE'S WHIPPED IT LEFT
STRIPES ON THEIR BACK - "AND BY
00:22:41.43\00:22:44.73
HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED.
ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE
00:22:44.73\00:22:48.46
ASTRAY; WE HAVE TURNED, EVERY
ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY; AND THE
00:22:48.46\00:22:51.26
LORD HAS LAID ON HIM
THE INIQUITY OF US ALL."
00:22:51.26\00:22:55.93
- SO, WOW, DO YOU
FIND THE GOSPEL IN THERE?
00:22:55.93\00:22:59.10
THE LORD LAID UPON HIM - ONE
- THE INIQUITY OF HOW MANY? ALL.
00:22:59.10\00:23:04.26
SO ALL - THE SINS OF ALL THE
WORLD WERE LAID UPON HIM - "HE
00:23:04.26\00:23:10.23
WAS OPPRESSED AND HE WAS
AFFLICTED, YET HE OPENED NOT HIS
00:23:10.23\00:23:12.36
MOUTH;" - AT HIS TRIAL HE SAID
NOTHING TO DEFEND HIMSELF - "HE
00:23:12.36\00:23:16.03
WAS LED AS A LAMB TO THE
SLAUGHTER, AND AS A SHEEP BEFORE
00:23:16.03\00:23:18.56
ITS SHEARERS IS SILENT,
SO HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH.
00:23:18.56\00:23:21.50
HE WAS TAKEN FROM PRISON
AND FROM JUDGMENT, AND WHO WILL
00:23:21.50\00:23:24.73
DECLARE HIS GENERATION? FOR
HE WAS CUT OFF" - THAT'S THE
00:23:24.73\00:23:27.46
WORD THAT WAS USED IN DANIEL
CHAPTER 9 - THE MESSIAH WILL BE
00:23:27.46\00:23:31.50
CUT OFF - "HE WAS CUT OFF FROM
THE LAND OF THE LIVING; FOR THE
00:23:31.50\00:23:35.56
TRANSGRESSIONS OF MY
PEOPLE HE WAS STRICKEN.
00:23:35.56\00:23:38.76
AND THEY MADE HIS GRAVE WITH
THE WICKED" - HE WAS EXECUTED
00:23:38.76\00:23:42.80
BETWEEN TWO THIEVES - "BUT WITH
THE RICH AT HIS DEATH, BECAUSE
00:23:42.80\00:23:46.06
HE HAD DONE NO VIOLENCE,
NOR WAS ANY DECEIT IN HIS MOUTH.
00:23:46.06\00:23:49.93
YET IT PLEASED THE LORD TO
BRUISE HIM; HE HAS PUT HIM TO
00:23:49.93\00:23:53.46
GRIEF. WHEN YOU MAKE HIS SOUL AN
00:23:53.46\00:23:56.76
OFFERING FOR SIN,"
- DO WE BRING A LAMB?
00:23:56.76\00:23:58.83
IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT THEY BROUGHT A LAMB.
00:23:58.83\00:24:00.40
WELL IN A SENSE - IT SAYS
HE'S BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE
00:24:00.40\00:24:03.50
SLAUGHTER. WHEN
YOU MAKE HIS SOUL AN
00:24:03.50\00:24:07.73
OFFERING FOR SIN, HE - GOD
THE FATHER - "HE SHALL SEE HIS
00:24:07.73\00:24:11.33
SEED," - YOU'VE GOT THAT SEED
- HE SHALL PROLONG HIS DAYS, AND
00:24:11.33\00:24:15.90
THE PLEASURE OF THE LORD
SHALL PROSPER IN HIS HAND.
00:24:15.90\00:24:18.96
HE SHALL SEE THE LABOR OF
HIS SOUL," - CHRIST'S - "AND BE
00:24:18.96\00:24:22.06
SATISFIED." - JESUS
- THE FATHER LOOKS UPON
00:24:22.06\00:24:24.23
THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST IN
OUR BEHALF AND HE'S SATISFIED -
00:24:24.23\00:24:28.20
JUSTICE IS SATISFIED. -
"BY HIS KNOWLEDGE" - IT'S
00:24:28.20\00:24:31.73
THROUGH FAITH - "MY RIGHTEOUS
SERVANT SHALL JUSTIFY MANY, FOR
00:24:31.73\00:24:36.26
HE SHALL BEAR THEIR
INIQUITIES." WOW, IS THAT CLEAR?
00:24:36.26\00:24:40.60
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF RABBIS TELL
SOME OF THEIR JEWISH ADHERENTS,
00:24:40.60\00:24:47.96
'DO NOT READ ISAIAH
53.' THEY SAY, 'IT'S EASILY
00:24:47.96\00:24:52.20
MISUNDERSTOOD.' BECAUSE IT IS
SUCH A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE
00:24:52.20\00:24:56.20
LIFE AND MINISTRY AND SUFFERINGS
OF JESUS THAT PEOPLE READ IT AND
00:24:56.20\00:25:00.46
THEY GO, 'WOW, MAYBE JESUS WAS
THE ONE.' SO DO WE SEE - JUST TO
00:25:00.46\00:25:05.50
TIE THIS PART OFF - DO WE SEE
THE GOSPEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:25:05.50\00:25:08.66
IT'S ALL THROUGH THERE.
00:25:08.66\00:25:10.10
AND I CAN JUST DEDICATE THIS
WHOLE TIME - YOU KNOW, A PLACE
00:25:10.10\00:25:13.56
FOR A SHAMELESS PLUG - THIS IS
SUCH A PRECIOUS THEME TO ME, I
00:25:13.56\00:25:18.06
WROTE A BOOK CALLED 'SHADOWS OF
LIGHT: SEEING CHRIST IN ALL THE
00:25:18.06\00:25:21.40
BIBLE' BUT PRINCIPALLY IT'S
DEALING WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT
00:25:21.40\00:25:23.80
AND JUST GOING THROUGH
THE CHARACTERS OF JESUS.
00:25:23.80\00:25:26.50
YOU SEE JESUS IN THE GOSPEL
AND LIFE OF JOSEPH, RIGHT?
00:25:26.50\00:25:30.26
DYING FOR - OH, NOT DYING,
BUT RATHER BEING SOLD BY HIS OWN
00:25:30.26\00:25:34.00
BROTHERS AND A BLOOD-STAINED
ROBE IS BROUGHT TO THE FATHER,
00:25:34.00\00:25:38.03
JUST LIKE CHRIST
LEFT HIS ROBE BEHIND.
00:25:38.03\00:25:40.06
JOSEPH IS AN
INCREDIBLE TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:25:40.06\00:25:42.50
MOSES IS A TYPE OF CHRIST, BEING
THE GREAT LIBERATOR WHO BRINGS
00:25:42.50\00:25:46.66
THE PEOPLE OUT OF SLAVERY
AS JESUS BRINGS US FROM SLAVERY
00:25:46.66\00:25:49.86
INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
DAVID IS A GREAT TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:25:49.86\00:25:54.20
HE'S THAT BELOVED SON WHO IS NOT
AFRAID TO GO WITH A ROCK AGAINST
00:25:54.20\00:25:58.16
THE GIANT. JESUS
USED THE WORD OF GOD
00:25:58.16\00:26:00.26
AGAINST THE DEVIL
AND DAVID IS, YOU KNOW,
00:26:00.26\00:26:03.63
THE BELOVED ONE
AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART.
00:26:03.63\00:26:05.20
HE HAD SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES
TO GET EVEN WITH ENEMIES AND HE
00:26:05.20\00:26:07.96
FORGAVE THEM, EVEN THOUGH THE
ENEMIES WERE TRYING TO KILL HIM.
00:26:07.96\00:26:11.63
I MEAN, JUST HOW DIFFERENT
FROM THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.
00:26:11.63\00:26:15.73
AND SO YOU LOOK THROUGH GIDEON
AND SAMPSON AND EVERYONE FROM
00:26:15.73\00:26:20.86
ESTHER TO RUTH AND YOU JUST -
YOU SEE THE GOSPEL IN THE LIVES
00:26:20.86\00:26:25.26
AND IN THE STORIES ALL
THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:26:25.26\00:26:27.66
SO THE REASON THE ANGEL
IN REVELATION 14 CALLS IT THE
00:26:27.66\00:26:31.13
EVERLASTING GOSPEL IS BECAUSE
IT DIDN'T JUST BEGIN IN NEW
00:26:31.13\00:26:34.80
TESTAMENT TIMES. IT'S
THE SAME GOSPEL THAT NOAH
00:26:34.80\00:26:37.86
PREACHED, THAT ADAM AND SETH AND
ENOCH AND METHUSELAH PREACHED
00:26:37.86\00:26:43.50
ALL THE WAY
DOWN THROUGH HISTORY.
00:26:43.50\00:26:45.16
ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: 'GOD MADE
FLESH.' NOW WHAT THE LESSON IS
00:26:45.16\00:26:51.60
ADDRESSING HERE IS THAT YOU
CAN SEE THE GOSPEL EVEN IN THE
00:26:51.60\00:26:55.36
STORIES ILLUSTRATED - AND
JESUS GIVES A COUPLE PARABLES.
00:26:55.36\00:27:00.40
THE FIRST ONE HERE IS IN LUKE
15, DEALING WITH THE PRODIGAL
00:27:00.40\00:27:04.30
SON. I THINK WE
ALL KNOW THAT STORY.
00:27:04.30\00:27:07.10
NOW YOU KNOW WHY
THAT'S IMPORTANT?
00:27:07.10\00:27:10.10
AND WHY IT RELATES TO THE BOOK
OF JAMES - IN BOTH THE PRODIGAL
00:27:10.10\00:27:13.96
SON - IN A MOMENT WE'LL LOOK AT
THE PARABLE OF THE PHARISEE AND
00:27:13.96\00:27:17.53
THE TAX COLLECTOR - AND YOU FIND
IT'S IN THE CHURCH TODAY - IT
00:27:17.53\00:27:23.20
WAS A PROBLEM, ESPECIALLY IN
THE CHURCH IN BIBLE TIMES, THE
00:27:23.20\00:27:28.86
MISTAKE OF THINKING THAT YOU
WERE RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE YOU KEPT
00:27:28.86\00:27:31.50
THE LAW, TO THE EXCLUSION OF
OTHERS THAT NEEDED FORGIVENESS.
00:27:31.50\00:27:36.06
NOW, JUST TO LOOK AT THE PARABLE
REAL QUICK - THERE'S A CERTAIN
00:27:36.06\00:27:39.23
MAN, HE HAD TWO SONS AND THE
YOUNGER SAID - I'M PARAPHRASING,
00:27:39.23\00:27:42.40
SO - THE YOUNGER SON SAID TO HIS
FATHER, 'GIVE ME MY INHERITANCE
00:27:42.40\00:27:46.76
THAT WOULD NATURALLY FALL
TO ME.' NOT MANY DAYS AFTER HE
00:27:46.76\00:27:49.40
TAKES EVERYTHING AND HE GOES
INTO A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND HE
00:27:49.40\00:27:52.63
SQUANDERS IT
WITH RIOTOUS LIVING.
00:27:52.63\00:27:54.96
LATER HIS BROTHER
SAYS WITH PROSTITUTES.
00:27:54.96\00:27:57.33
AND HE WAS LIVING IT UP
UNTIL THE BANK ACCOUNT RAN OUT.
00:27:57.33\00:28:03.03
AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME, THERE
WAS A FAMINE AND WORK DRIED UP.
00:28:03.03\00:28:06.76
THE ECONOMY WENT BAD AND
THE ONLY WORK HE COULD GET WAS
00:28:06.76\00:28:09.93
FEEDING PIGS. NOW
JESUS IS TELLING THIS TO,
00:28:09.93\00:28:12.40
YOU KNOW, A JEWISH AUDIENCE.
THAT'S AS LOW AS YOU CAN GET.
00:28:12.40\00:28:15.23
HE'S IN A FAR COUNTRY -
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT CLEAN AND
00:28:15.23\00:28:17.00
UNCLEAN - THEY EAT PIGS - BUT
HE'S A JEWISH BOY AND HE'S ENDED
00:28:17.00\00:28:21.33
UP FEEDING PIGS AND HE'S SO BAD
OFF THAT, WHILE HE WOULDN'T EAT
00:28:21.33\00:28:25.26
THE PIGS, HE'S READY TO EAT THE
SEED PODS AND THE HUSKS THAT THE
00:28:25.26\00:28:29.03
PIGS ARE EATING.
FINALLY HE SAYS - HE COMES TO
00:28:29.03\00:28:33.50
HIS SENSES AND HE SAYS, 'MY
FATHER'S SERVANTS ARE EATING
00:28:33.50\00:28:35.83
BETTER THAN I. I
KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO.
00:28:35.83\00:28:38.10
I'M GOING TO WRITE TO MY FATHER
AND I'LL SAY, 'FATHER, I HAVE
00:28:38.10\00:28:40.63
SINNED AGAINST
HEAVEN AND AGAINST YOU.
00:28:40.63\00:28:41.93
I AM NO MORE WORTHY
TO BE CALLED YOUR SON.
00:28:41.93\00:28:43.46
MAKE ME AS ONE OF YOUR HIRED
SERVANTS.' HE SAYS, 'THERE IS
00:28:43.46\00:28:46.70
BREAD IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE.'
NOW, DOES GOD HAVE BREAD IN HIS
00:28:46.70\00:28:50.20
HOUSE? SO HE
ARISES AND HE GOES BACK.
00:28:50.20\00:28:53.00
IN THE MEANTIME, THE FATHER,
WITH A BROKEN HEART - THE SON
00:28:53.00\00:28:55.60
HAS NO IDEA - WITH A BROKEN
HEART, THE FATHER HAS BEEN
00:28:55.60\00:28:58.90
LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD ANXIOUSLY
- WHATEVER HE'S DOING OUT IN THE
00:28:58.90\00:29:01.76
YARD OR IN THE FIELD, HE KEEPS
GLANCING DOWN THE ROAD IN THE
00:29:01.76\00:29:04.43
DIRECTION WHERE HE LAST
SAW THE SILHOUETTE OF HIS
00:29:04.43\00:29:06.96
SON DISAPPEARING
OVER THE HORIZON.
00:29:06.96\00:29:08.46
IT JUST BROKE HIS
HEART TO SEE HIM GO.
00:29:08.46\00:29:09.93
HE KNEW HOW IT WOULD END.
HE KNEW THE NATURE OF HIS SON.
00:29:09.93\00:29:12.66
AND HE KEPT WAITING AND PRAYING
AND LONGING FOR THE DAY WHEN
00:29:12.66\00:29:16.33
HE'D COME HOME.
FINALLY HE SEES THE FORM HE
00:29:16.33\00:29:19.33
RECOGNIZES OF HIS SON.
DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME SPRING IN
00:29:19.33\00:29:23.10
HIS STEP - KIND
OF SCHLEPPING HOME.
00:29:23.10\00:29:27.00
AND THE FATHER DOESN'T, YOU
KNOW, PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HIP
00:29:27.00\00:29:30.80
AND TAP HIS FOOT AND FOLD HIS
ARMS AND SHAKE HIS HEAD AND SAY
00:29:30.80\00:29:35.13
'I TOLD YOU SO. JUST LOOK
AT YOU NOW. HERE YOU COME.
00:29:35.13\00:29:37.36
NOW WHAT DO YOU WANT?'
INSTEAD, HE RUNS TO HIS SON.
00:29:37.36\00:29:40.76
HE EMBRACES HIS SON. HE SAYS,
'LET'S CELEBRATE - HE'S ALIVE!'
00:29:40.76\00:29:43.83
YOU KNOW? AND HE'S
JUST GLAD HE'S ALIVE.
00:29:43.83\00:29:46.46
AND - BUT THE ELDER BROTHER,
WHEN HE HEARS ABOUT THE PARTY IN
00:29:46.46\00:29:51.86
THE HOUSE, AND HE HEARS THAT THE
FATHER WENT AND SLAUGHTERED THE
00:29:51.86\00:29:55.70
FATTED CALF. YOU ONLY
DID THAT FOR HONORED COMPANY.
00:29:55.70\00:29:58.63
REMEMBER WHEN ABRAHAM TOOK THE
FATTED CALF WHEN JESUS AND THE
00:29:58.63\00:30:00.73
ANGELS CAME OVER? AND
SO THE FATTED CALF, THAT'S
00:30:00.73\00:30:03.16
WHAT YOU SAVED FOR, YOU KNOW,
REAL SPECIAL GUESTS AND THEN A
00:30:03.16\00:30:05.46
FEAST. AND THE
SON, INSTEAD OF BEING
00:30:05.46\00:30:09.03
GLAD HIS BROTHER'S
COME HOME, HE'S OUTRAGED.
00:30:09.03\00:30:11.70
AND HE SAID, 'HERE I WORK FOR
YOU AND I SLAVE AND I DO EXACTLY
00:30:11.70\00:30:16.06
WHAT YOU TELL ME TO DO AND I'VE
STAYED ON THE FARM AND I'VE BEEN
00:30:16.06\00:30:18.53
GOOD.' - AGAIN, I'M
PARAPHRASING, BUT THIS IS THE
00:30:18.53\00:30:21.16
ESSENCE OF WHAT'S BEING RELATED
- AND HE SAID, 'YOU DON'T SO
00:30:21.16\00:30:25.03
MUCH AS SLAUGHTER A KID' -
A LITTLE GOAT - FOR ME AND MY
00:30:25.03\00:30:27.26
FRIENDS AND NOW THIS SON
OF YOURS' - IT'S LIKE HE'S
00:30:27.26\00:30:30.53
DISOWNING HIM - 'IT'S NOT
MY BROTHER, HE'S YOUR SON.' HE
00:30:30.53\00:30:33.43
COMES HOME AND HERE YOU
SLAUGHTERED THE FATTED CALF AND
00:30:33.43\00:30:37.20
YOU HAVE A FEAST AND HE
SQUANDERED HIS INHERITANCE WITH
00:30:37.20\00:30:39.53
HARLOTS AND DRINKING AND' - AND
THE FATHER SAYS, 'LOOK SON, ALL
00:30:39.53\00:30:45.50
THAT I HAVE IS
YOURS - ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
00:30:45.50\00:30:48.30
YOU DIDN'T HAVE A FEAST FOR YOUR
FRIENDS - MAYBE YOU DIDN'T ASK.'
00:30:48.30\00:30:52.53
AND HE SAID,
'THIS IS YOUR BROTHER.
00:30:52.53\00:30:54.16
HE WAS DEAD AND HE'S ALIVE.
HE WAS LOST AND HE'S FOUND.
00:30:54.16\00:30:55.90
WE SHOULD REJOICE.'
AND THE STORY ENDS THERE.
00:30:55.90\00:30:57.76
IT DOESN'T SAY
WHAT THE BROTHER DID.
00:30:57.76\00:30:59.23
IT DOESN'T SAY HOW IT ENDS.
WHY DID JESUS TELL THAT STORY?
00:30:59.23\00:31:03.53
COUPLE REASONS - ONE BIG
REASON IS CHRIST KNEW THAT HIS
00:31:03.53\00:31:09.00
SACRIFICE WAS GOING TO BE THE
PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR THE NATION OF
00:31:09.00\00:31:13.46
ISRAEL. THE
APOSTLES WERE TO TAKE THE
00:31:13.46\00:31:16.73
GOSPEL NOT JUST TO
JEWS, BUT TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:31:16.73\00:31:19.83
AND THE JEWISH NATION WAS GOING
TO RESENT - AT LEAST SOME OF
00:31:19.83\00:31:22.83
THEM - WERE GOING TO RESIST AND
RESENT THAT GOD WOULD - 'HERE
00:31:22.83\00:31:27.76
WE'VE BEEN THE GUARDIANS OF YOUR
TRUTH FOR 2,000 YEARS AND ALL OF
00:31:27.76\00:31:32.86
A SUDDEN, THESE GENTILES WHO
HAVE BEEN FOR THOUSANDS - THESE
00:31:32.86\00:31:35.96
NATIONS WHO'VE BEEN SERVING
PAGAN GODS AND TERRIBLE THINGS
00:31:35.96\00:31:39.20
AND SACRIFICING THEIR CHILDREN,
THEY'RE GOING TO JUST WALK INTO
00:31:39.20\00:31:41.40
OUR SYNAGOGUES AND GET
THE SAME SALVATION WE GET?
00:31:41.40\00:31:43.73
IT'S NOT FAIR.' YOU SEE
WHERE JESUS IS COMING FROM?
00:31:43.73\00:31:47.23
NOW YOU AND I KNOW THAT
THAT STORY HAS TO DO WITH
00:31:47.23\00:31:50.46
REAL FAMILIES,
BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
00:31:50.46\00:31:52.36
THAT VERY THING DOES
HAPPEN IN SOME FAMILIES.
00:31:52.36\00:31:55.46
IT ALSO HAS TO DO WITH CHURCHES
WHERE PEOPLE BACKSLIDE AND THEY
00:31:55.46\00:32:00.80
COME BACK AND THEY'RE EMBRACED
AND SOMEONE SAYS, 'WHAT?
00:32:00.80\00:32:04.00
AFTER THE SCANDAL
AND WHAT THEY DID?
00:32:04.00\00:32:05.70
WHY WOULD WE LET THEM
THROUGH THE DOORS AGAIN?'
00:32:05.70\00:32:07.46
BUT YOU REALLY NEED TO LOOK AT
IT HISTORICALLY AND REALIZE THAT
00:32:07.46\00:32:11.10
THEY'RE SAYING, 'HERE WE'VE BEEN
DOING ALL THIS WORK' - THE OLDER
00:32:11.10\00:32:16.00
BROTHER - 'WE'VE BEEN DOING
ALL THIS WORK, ALL THESE YEARS.
00:32:16.00\00:32:19.43
HE'S BEEN OUT PARTYING.
YOU KNOW, JESUS SHARES THE
00:32:19.43\00:32:21.63
PARABLE OF THE
LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD.
00:32:21.63\00:32:24.06
MAN GOES IN THE MORNING AND HE
GETS - HE SAYS, 'I'LL PAY YOU A
00:32:24.06\00:32:27.06
PENNY TO GO WORK IN MY
VINEYARD.' THROUGH THE DAY, ALL
00:32:27.06\00:32:29.76
DAY LONG, HE SAYS, 'YOU GO
WORK I'LL GIVE YOU A PENNY.
00:32:29.76\00:32:32.26
GO WORK IN MY VINEYARD.'
THE LAST TIME HE DOESN'T
00:32:32.26\00:32:34.23
EVEN TELL THEM
WHAT HE GOING TO PAY.
00:32:34.23\00:32:35.56
HE SAYS, 'I'LL DO WHAT'S FAIR -
ELEVENTH HOUR, YOU GO WORK IN MY
00:32:35.56\00:32:37.40
VINEYARD.' PAY TIME COMES,
THEY ALL GET THE SAME THING.
00:32:37.40\00:32:40.60
AND THE ONES WHO'VE BEEN
WORKING ALL DAY LONG, THEY SAY,
00:32:40.60\00:32:42.46
'THAT'S NOT FAIR.' HE SAID,
'WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT FAIR?
00:32:42.46\00:32:44.60
I'M PAYING YOU EXACTLY
WHAT I PROMISED. I'M BEING FAIR.
00:32:44.60\00:32:47.00
I'M JUST BEING GENEROUS
AND MERCIFUL TO THEM.' A LOT OF
00:32:47.00\00:32:51.30
THESE PARABLES WERE DESIGNED
- JESUS WAS WANTING TO HELP THE
00:32:51.30\00:32:55.26
JEWISH NATION COPE WITH THE
TRUTH THAT THE GOSPEL WAS NOW
00:32:55.26\00:32:58.83
GOING TO GO TO NOT
JUST THEM, BUT TO WHOSOEVER.
00:32:58.83\00:33:02.36
AND THIS IS OUR NEXT ONE.
OUR NEXT PARABLE IS DEALING WITH
00:33:02.36\00:33:05.93
THE SAME PRINCIPLE AND THAT'S IN
LUKE 18, VERSE 9, "ALSO HE SPOKE
00:33:05.93\00:33:11.53
THIS PARABLE TO SOME WHO TRUSTED
IN THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE
00:33:11.53\00:33:14.93
RIGHTEOUS, AND DESPISED OTHERS:"
00:33:14.93\00:33:16.80
- SO IT TELLS YOU RIGHT AWAY
WHAT THE PARABLE'S ADDRESSING -
00:33:16.80\00:33:19.86
"TWO MEN WENT UP TO THE TEMPLE
TO PRAY, ONE A PHARISEE AND THE
00:33:19.86\00:33:23.90
OTHER A TAX COLLECTOR." -
NOW JESUS HAS JUST PICKED TWO
00:33:23.90\00:33:27.50
INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE THE
ANTITHESIS OF EACH OTHER -
00:33:27.50\00:33:31.26
THEY'RE DIAMETRIC OPPOSITES -
THEY'RE AT THE POLAR EXTREMES.
00:33:31.26\00:33:34.30
YOU'VE GOT THE ZEALOUS RIGHTEOUS
FASTIDIOUS PHARISEE WHO EXAMINES
00:33:34.30\00:33:38.86
HOW MANY SEEDS HE'S GOT IN HIS,
YOU KNOW, SQUASH PLANT AND HE'S
00:33:38.86\00:33:44.93
GOING TO GIVE A TITHE OF THAT
TO THE LORD, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
00:33:44.93\00:33:48.03
THE PUBLICAN WHO
IS THE PARTY ANIMAL -
00:33:48.03\00:33:50.06
PART OF THE MAFIA BACK
THEN - THEY WERE JUST CORRUPT,
00:33:50.06\00:33:52.96
HUNG OUT WITH
ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE.
00:33:52.96\00:33:55.30
BUT THEY BOTH GO TO THE SAME
CHURCH TO PRAY TO THE SAME GOD.
00:33:55.30\00:33:58.96
BUT LISTEN TO THE PRAYER OF ONE
- "THE PHARISEE STOOD AND PRAYED
00:33:58.96\00:34:02.40
THUS WITH HIMSELF," - EVEN
THE WORDING IS INTERESTING - HE
00:34:02.40\00:34:04.96
PRAYS WITH HIMSELF - "'GOD,
I THANK YOU THAT I AM NOT LIKE
00:34:04.96\00:34:10.03
OTHER MEN" - RIGHT AWAY HIS
PRAYER IS NOT A VERTICAL PRAYER,
00:34:10.03\00:34:14.36
IT'S A HORIZONTAL PRAYER - HE'S
POINTING AT - LIKE THIS - HIS
00:34:14.36\00:34:19.60
PRAYER IS NOT THAT WAY,
HIS PRAYER IS COMPARING HIMSELF
00:34:19.60\00:34:21.43
AMONG OTHERS - "'I THANK YOU
THAT I AM NOT LIKE OTHER MEN -
00:34:21.43\00:34:24.40
EXTORTIONERS, UNJUST,
ADULTERERS,'" - WHO DO YOU THINK
00:34:24.40\00:34:27.26
HE'S LOOKING AT? - "'OR
EVEN AS THIS TAX COLLECTOR.'" -
00:34:27.26\00:34:30.50
I MEAN, TALK ABOUT LOOKING DOWN
YOUR NOSE AT SOMEONE THAT COMES
00:34:30.50\00:34:33.13
IN THE CHURCH - "'I FAST TWICE
A WEEK;'" - WHO'S HE TRUSTING IN
00:34:33.13\00:34:37.73
- GOD'S GRACE OR HIS WORKS?
IT'S ALL ABOUT HIS WORKS, RIGHT?
00:34:37.73\00:34:42.16
- "'I FAST TWICE A WEEK; I GIVE
TITHES OF ALL THAT I POSSESS.'"
00:34:42.16\00:34:46.10
- WAS HE TELLING THE TRUTH?
I ASSUME SO - "AND THE TAX
00:34:46.10\00:34:53.00
COLLECTOR, STANDING AFAR OFF,"
- HE DIDN'T EVEN FEEL WORTHY.
00:34:53.00\00:34:55.60
HE KIND OF SLUNK IN THE BACK
DOOR AND WENT IN THE SHADOWS -
00:34:55.60\00:34:58.30
"WOULD NOT SO MUCH AS RAISE
HIS EYES" - HE FELL IN HUMBLE
00:34:58.30\00:35:01.76
ATTITUDE, HUMBLE SPIRIT, HUMBLE
POSTURE - BOWED HIS HEAD -"BEAT
00:35:01.76\00:35:06.53
HIS BREAST, SAYING, 'GOD,
BE MERCIFUL TO ME A SINNER!'
00:35:06.53\00:35:11.26
I TELL YOU, THIS MAN WENT DOWN
TO HIS HOUSE JUSTIFIED RATHER
00:35:11.26\00:35:15.13
THAN THE OTHER; FOR EVERYONE WHO
EXALTS HIMSELF WILL BE HUMBLED,
00:35:15.13\00:35:18.80
AND HE WHO HUMBLES
HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED."
00:35:18.80\00:35:21.30
AGAIN, HE WAS SAYING YOU CAN'T
TRUST IN - HAVE YOU EVER HEARD
00:35:21.30\00:35:26.06
SOMEONE SAY, 'OH YEAH, I'VE
BEEN IN THE CHURCH FOR THIS MANY
00:35:26.06\00:35:29.33
GENERATIONS.' DO YOU GET EXTRA
CREDIT FOR HOW MANY GENERATIONS
00:35:29.33\00:35:35.40
YOUR ANCESTORS
HAVE BEEN IN THE CHURCH?
00:35:35.40\00:35:38.33
SOMETIMES IT COULD ACTUALLY
WORK AGAINST YOU BECAUSE YOU
00:35:38.33\00:35:41.70
COULD START TAKING
THINGS FOR GRANTED.
00:35:41.70\00:35:43.93
BUT TELL ME THE TRUTH, HAVE YOU
HEARD PEOPLE SAY, 'I'M A THIRD'
00:35:43.93\00:35:46.86
'I'M A FOURTH' 'I'M A
FIFTH - OH, I'M A MORE BONA FIDE
00:35:46.86\00:35:50.46
ADVENTIST THAN YOU BECAUSE I'M
A FIFTH GENERATION.' KAREN IS A
00:35:50.46\00:35:55.23
FOURTH OR FIFTH - IT VARIES
ON THE DIFFERENT SIDES OF HER
00:35:55.23\00:35:58.16
FAMILY, BUT YEAH SHE'S, AS YOU
WOULD SAY, DYED IN THE WOOL AND
00:35:58.16\00:36:03.43
I'M A CONVERT - FIRST
GENERATION, I GUESS YOU WOULD
00:36:03.43\00:36:07.30
SAY. DOES SHE GET MORE
CREDIT IN JUDGMENT DAY?
00:36:07.30\00:36:12.30
IF ANYTHING, YOU'RE MORE
ACCOUNTABLE YOU WOULD THINK.
00:36:12.30\00:36:16.83
I MEAN, IF THERE'S ANY
DISTINCTION - YOU THINK
00:36:16.83\00:36:19.53
'TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN,
MUCH IS REQUIRED,' RIGHT?
00:36:19.53\00:36:21.56
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:36:21.56\00:36:23.50
SO THIS IDEA THAT SOMEHOW ONE
GROUP IS BETTER - REALLY WHAT
00:36:23.50\00:36:30.06
THIS IS ALL ABOUT IS THE GOSPEL
IS SEEN IN THESE REAL-LIFE
00:36:30.06\00:36:33.36
PARABLES AND STORIES THAT JESUS
IS TELLING SO THAT WE CAN SEE
00:36:33.36\00:36:37.23
IT'S AN EVERLASTING GOSPEL, IT
WAS NOT JUST FOR THE JEWS, AND
00:36:37.23\00:36:40.36
JAMES IS TALKING
TO REALLY TWO GROUPS.
00:36:40.36\00:36:43.80
MOST OF THE EARLY
CHURCH WAS JEWISH.
00:36:43.80\00:36:47.90
WHEN JAMES FIRST BEGAN TO WRITE,
BY THE TIME PAUL STARTS WRITING,
00:36:47.90\00:36:52.80
THEY HAD ACTUALLY OUTGROWN -
THE CHURCH HAD SPREAD LIKE FIRE
00:36:52.80\00:36:58.00
THROUGH ASIA AMONG THE GENTILES
AND BEFORE PAUL DIED, I THINK
00:36:58.00\00:37:02.73
THERE WERE MORE GENTILES
IN THE CHURCH THAN JEWS.
00:37:02.73\00:37:05.16
AT PENTECOST, WHEN 3,000 WERE
BAPTIZED, IT SAYS THAT THERE
00:37:05.16\00:37:09.30
WERE DEVOUT JEWS OUT OF EVERY
NATION THAT WERE THERE THAT HAD
00:37:09.30\00:37:11.70
COME TO WORSHIP. AND A
FEW CHAPTERS LATER IT SAYS
00:37:11.70\00:37:14.06
ANOTHER 5,000 WERE
BAPTIZED - ANOTHER 5,000 WHAT?
00:37:14.06\00:37:16.53
IT'S NOT UNTIL YOU GET TO
ACTS 10 THAT PETER GOES TO
00:37:16.53\00:37:19.90
THE GENTILES AT
CORNELIUS' HOUSE.
00:37:19.90\00:37:21.96
LATER PAUL SAYS TO THE JEWS - HE
FELT THEY WERE BEING SO STUBBORN
00:37:21.96\00:37:25.13
- AND I'M NOT TRYING TO BE HARD
ON THE JEWS LISTENING, I'M JUST
00:37:25.13\00:37:27.06
TELLING YOU WHAT HAPPENED
HISTORICALLY - LATER PAUL SAYS -
00:37:27.06\00:37:30.50
HE'S PREACHING TO THE JEWS IN
THE SYNAGOGUE AND HE SAYS, 'LO,
00:37:30.50\00:37:33.23
IF YOU REJECT THE WORD OF GOD
YOU PROVE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY.
00:37:33.23\00:37:36.16
WE'RE TURNING TO THE GENTILES.'
AND THEN - THEY'D ALWAYS START
00:37:36.16\00:37:40.16
WITH THE SYNAGOGUE BUT THEN THEY
JUST STARTED GOING DIRECTLY TO
00:37:40.16\00:37:42.60
THE GENTILES. SO JAMES IS - HE'S
TALKING A LITTLE MORE TO THE
00:37:42.60\00:37:48.96
JEWS AND HE WAS, I THINK,
CONCERNED THEY WERE PUTTING SO
00:37:48.96\00:37:53.56
MUCH EMPHASIS ON FAITH THAT THEY
HAD GIVEN UP ON HOLY LIVING.
00:37:53.56\00:37:57.16
SO HE'S ADDRESSING THAT ERROR.
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT
00:37:57.16\00:37:59.56
SECTION: 'GOSPEL IN PAUL.'
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ ROMANS
00:37:59.56\00:38:03.10
1:16 - ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE UP IN
JUST A MOMENT THEN. AND THIS IS
00:38:03.10\00:38:07.30
2 CORINTHIANS 3, VERSES 13
THROUGH 16 AND PAUL IS WRITING
00:38:07.30\00:38:13.73
HERE. HE SAYS, "UNLIKE MOSES,
WHO PUT A VEIL OVER HIS FACE SO
00:38:13.73\00:38:17.86
THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
COULD NOT LOOK STEADILY AT THE
00:38:17.86\00:38:21.56
END OF WHAT WAS PASSING AWAY.
BUT THEIR MINDS WERE BLINDED.
00:38:21.56\00:38:25.70
FOR UNTIL THIS DAY THE SAME VEIL
REMAINS UNLIFTED IN THE READING
00:38:25.70\00:38:29.70
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, BECAUSE
THE VEIL IS TAKEN AWAY IN
00:38:29.70\00:38:33.23
CHRIST. BUT EVEN TO
THIS DAY, WHEN MOSES
00:38:33.23\00:38:36.00
IS READ, A VEIL
LIES ON THEIR HEART.
00:38:36.00\00:38:39.16
NEVERTHELESS WHEN ONE TURNS
TO THE LORD, THE VEIL IS TAKEN
00:38:39.16\00:38:42.43
AWAY." WHAT'S
PAUL TALKING ABOUT?
00:38:42.43\00:38:45.53
PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT A
TRANSITION THAT HAPPENS.
00:38:45.53\00:38:49.66
FIRST, HE'S ALLUDING TO A STORY.
MOSES, WHEN HE TALKED TO GOD
00:38:49.66\00:38:54.36
FACE TO FACE ON THE MOUNTAIN
- NOT JUST THE FORTY DAYS AND
00:38:54.36\00:38:57.13
FORTY NIGHTS WHEN HE GOT THE
LAW, BUT HE WENT UP AND DOWN THE
00:38:57.13\00:38:59.26
MOUNTAIN SEVERAL TIMES - TALKED
TO THE LORD - HE WOULD COME DOWN
00:38:59.26\00:39:02.10
AND HE HAD A HANDICAP WHEN
HE CAME DOWN - WHAT WAS THAT?
00:39:02.10\00:39:06.83
>>HIS FACE WAS
SHINING. >>HIS FACE WAS GLOWING.
00:39:06.83\00:39:08.93
I MEAN, THAT'S REALLY SOMETHING
- IT'S NOT LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU
00:39:08.93\00:39:13.26
CAN PUT CERTAIN OINTMENTS
AND CREAMS ON YOUR FACE AND MAKE
00:39:13.26\00:39:15.40
YOUR FACE GLOW. WE'RE
NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT.
00:39:15.40\00:39:18.80
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RADIOACTIVE
OINTMENT BECAUSE THE LIGHT IS
00:39:18.80\00:39:22.80
LOOKING LIKE IT'S
COMING FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
00:39:22.80\00:39:25.86
AND IT WAS SO BAD - IT'S SO REAL
- THEY SAID, 'MOSES, CAN YOU -
00:39:25.86\00:39:31.30
WE CAN'T LOOK AT YOU.' THEY
DIDN'T HAVE SUNGLASSES BACK THEN
00:39:31.30\00:39:34.40
OR THEY WOULD HAVE ALL HAD
TO PUT ON SUNGLASSES TO TALK TO
00:39:34.40\00:39:37.03
MOSES. SO TO
COMPENSATE THEY SAID,
00:39:37.03\00:39:38.80
'MOSES, PLEASE, IF YOU'RE GOING
TO GO OUT IN PUBLIC CAN YOU DROP
00:39:38.80\00:39:44.03
A VEIL?' THEY HAD
- THEY KNEW HOW TO
00:39:44.03\00:39:46.16
WEAVE FINE CLOTH THIN THAT
WOULD STILL - YOU COULD KIND OF
00:39:46.16\00:39:49.23
SEE THROUGH IT, BUT IT WOULD
OBSCURE THE LIGHT A LITTLE BIT.
00:39:49.23\00:39:52.53
BUT HIS FACE WASN'T QUITE AS
DISTINCT AND SO THE VEIL MAKES
00:39:52.53\00:39:58.66
IT WHERE YOU COULD SEE HIM,
BUT IT'S LIKE PAUL SAYS, 'NOW WE
00:39:58.66\00:40:01.13
LOOK THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY.'
GLASS, IN BIBLE TIMES, WAS STILL
00:40:01.13\00:40:05.93
A PRIMITIVE ART AND IT ALL WAS A
LITTLE BIT WARPED AND IT WASN'T
00:40:05.93\00:40:09.40
CLEAR SO THINGS WERE SLIGHTLY
DISTORTED AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE
00:40:09.40\00:40:12.26
THE WAYS TO GET IT AS CRYSTAL
CLEAR AS WE DO NOW SO IT WAS
00:40:12.26\00:40:15.26
OFTEN A LITTLE SMOKEY COLORED
- IT COULD HAVE GREENS OR BROWNS
00:40:15.26\00:40:18.56
IN IT LIKE THE OLD BEER BOTTLES
- I GUESS SOME OF THE NEW BEER
00:40:18.56\00:40:21.36
BOTTLES TOO. SO - BUT YOU
COULD SEE THROUGH IT, BUT IT'S
00:40:21.36\00:40:25.13
OBSCURED. AND SO PAUL IS SAYING
THAT NOT KNOWING THAT JESUS WAS
00:40:25.13\00:40:30.73
THE CHRIST - WHEN THE JEWISH
NATION WAS READING THE LAW,
00:40:30.73\00:40:33.16
WITHOUT SEEING CHRIST WAS
THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL, THEY HAD A
00:40:33.16\00:40:36.33
VEIL OVER THEIR FACE AND
THE ONLY WAY THAT VEIL WAS TAKEN
00:40:36.33\00:40:39.80
AWAY IS WHEN THEN RECOGNIZE
THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH -
00:40:39.80\00:40:43.10
HE WAS THE
FULFILLMENT OF ALL THAT.
00:40:43.10\00:40:44.56
THEY COULD STILL SORT OF SEE,
BUT THEIR VISION WAS OBSCURED
00:40:44.56\00:40:48.26
BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T
EMBRACE WHAT IT ALL POINTED TO.
00:40:48.26\00:40:52.60
WHAT A TRAGEDY.
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO READ -
00:40:52.60\00:40:54.73
TALK ABOUT THE GOSPEL AND
PAUL - ROMANS 1:16 PLEASE.
00:40:54.73\00:40:58.73
>>"FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE
GOSPEL OF CHRIST, FOR IT IS THE
00:40:58.73\00:41:03.00
POWER OF GOD TO SALVATION FOR
EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES, FOR THE
00:41:03.00\00:41:07.10
JEW FIRST, BUT
ALSO FOR THE GREEK."
00:41:07.10\00:41:10.23
>>THANK YOU. NOW,
AGAIN, IT'S REITERATING
00:41:10.23\00:41:12.50
THAT POINT. WHY DOES PAUL
SAY FOR THE JEW FIRST? DOES THAT
00:41:12.50\00:41:15.83
MEAN THE JEWS HAVE, YOU KNOW,
FIRST OPTION FOR SALVATION?
00:41:15.83\00:41:21.40
OR IS HE SAYING SEQUENTIALLY THE
JEWS HAD THE WORD OF GOD FIRST
00:41:21.40\00:41:27.56
AND - BUT IT'S
ALSO FOR THE GENTILES.
00:41:27.56\00:41:32.10
HE SAYS THE WORD 'GREEK'
THERE BUT THAT'S - THEY SPOKE
00:41:32.10\00:41:35.76
PRINCIPALLY GREEK BACK THEN
BECAUSE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S
00:41:35.76\00:41:38.60
INFLUENCE AND EVEN THE
ROMANS UNDERSTOOD GREEK.
00:41:38.60\00:41:42.53
SO HE'S SAYING THE GOSPEL'S FOR
EVERYBODY. NOTICE: "...THE POWER
00:41:42.53\00:41:48.86
OF GOD TO SALVATION FOR EVERYONE
WHO BELIEVES, FOR THE JEW FIRST,
00:41:48.86\00:41:52.46
BECAUSE THEY GOT THE FOUNDATION,
BUT ALSO FOR THE GREEK."
00:41:52.46\00:41:55.16
THE WAY I LOOK AT THIS IS WHEN
I GO INTO A NEW TOWN AND I DO AN
00:41:55.16\00:41:58.73
EVANGELISTIC MEETING AND I
ADVERTISE, YOU KNOW WHO ARE THE
00:41:58.73\00:42:02.50
MOST LIKELY TO ACCEPT
THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE?
00:42:02.50\00:42:06.76
PEOPLE WHO AT LEAST BELIEVE
THE BIBLE'S TRUE THAT HAVE SOME
00:42:06.76\00:42:09.43
BACKGROUND AND THEY MIGHT BE
FROM, YOU KNOW, ALL DIFFERENT
00:42:09.43\00:42:13.16
KINDS OF CHRISTIAN PERSUASIONS,
BUT AT LEAST PEOPLE THAT HAVE
00:42:13.16\00:42:16.16
SOME BIBLE BACKGROUND - THEY'RE
THE FIRST - THEY'RE THE LOST
00:42:16.16\00:42:18.96
SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF
ISRAEL THAT YOU GO TO FIRST.
00:42:18.96\00:42:22.13
AND YOU - YOU KNOW, IT
DOESN'T TAKE NEAR AS LONG.
00:42:22.13\00:42:26.13
YOU GIVE BAPTISMAL STUDIES TO
SOMEBODY WHO IS A JEW, HOW LONG
00:42:26.13\00:42:31.63
WAS IT FROM THE TIME THEY HEARD
ABOUT CHRIST UNTIL THEY COULD
00:42:31.63\00:42:34.53
GET BAPTIZED -
IF THEY WERE A JEW?
00:42:34.53\00:42:36.63
SAME DAY, I MEAN, PHILIP TALKS
TO THE ETHIOPIAN TREASURER - HE
00:42:36.63\00:42:43.63
GIVES HIM A BIBLE STUDY
THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST.
00:42:43.63\00:42:46.10
DID PHILIP NEED TO TELL
HIM WHAT DAY WAS THE SABBATH?
00:42:46.10\00:42:48.40
DID PHILIP NEED TO TALK TO HIM
ABOUT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN
00:42:48.40\00:42:50.76
CLEAN AND UNCLEAN
MEATS? DID HE HAVE TO EXPLAIN
00:42:50.76\00:42:53.66
WHAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
WERE? HE KNEW ALL THAT.
00:42:53.66\00:42:57.23
HE DIDN'T HAVE TO TELL
HIM ALL - HE KNEW ALL THAT.
00:42:57.23\00:42:58.56
THERE WAS JUST ONE KEY THING HE
NEEDED TO GET SQUARED AND HE WAS
00:42:58.56\00:43:00.70
READY TO GO. BUT WHEN
PAUL WENT TO THE GREEKS
00:43:00.70\00:43:03.63
HE HAD TO START FROM GROUND ZERO
AND START SAYING, 'LET'S TALK
00:43:03.63\00:43:08.40
ABOUT THERE'S ONE GOD.
YOU CAN'T BE PRAYING TO IDOLS.
00:43:08.40\00:43:11.30
YOU'VE GOT TO GIVE UP YOUR
ADULTERY.' YOU READ THE LETTER
00:43:11.30\00:43:13.26
PAUL WRITES TO THE CORINTHIANS
AND IT'S SO VERY DIFFERENT FROM
00:43:13.26\00:43:16.66
THE LETTERS THAT YOU
SEE GOING TO THE HEBREWS.
00:43:16.66\00:43:19.16
THE HEBREWS ARE DEALING WITH
MUCH LOFTIER THEMES FROM THE
00:43:19.16\00:43:22.06
LAW. CORINTHIANS
IT'S SAYING, 'NO,
00:43:22.06\00:43:25.26
YOU CAN'T BE SLEEPING WITH
YOUR FATHER'S WIFE.' YOU KNOW?
00:43:25.26\00:43:29.70
HE'S JUST - BECAUSE THESE ARE
PAGANS, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE SO
00:43:29.70\00:43:33.13
FAR AWAY, IT TOOK A
LOT MORE BIBLE STUDIES.
00:43:33.13\00:43:36.36
SO WHEN PAUL SAYS 'TO THE
JEW FIRST' WELL, THEY HAD THE
00:43:36.36\00:43:39.13
FOUNDATION AND SO, OBVIOUSLY,
THEY WOULD START WITH THEM.
00:43:39.13\00:43:42.10
ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO TALK
ABOUT THE NEW COVENANT AND THIS
00:43:42.10\00:43:46.03
IS ALSO ALLUDED TO
IN THE BOOK OF JAMES.
00:43:46.03\00:43:49.10
WHERE DO YOU FIRST FIND THE NEW
COVENANT? IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:43:49.10\00:43:57.00
IF YOU LOOK IN JEREMIAH 31:31
- THAT'S EASY TO REMEMBER -
00:43:57.00\00:44:00.90
JEREMIAH 31:31 - IT'S KIND
OF LIKE BASKIN ROBBINS, RIGHT?
00:44:00.90\00:44:06.86
"BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING,
SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL MAKE
00:44:06.86\00:44:10.13
A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE
OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF
00:44:10.13\00:44:13.16
JUDAH-" NOW, I
ALWAYS LIKE TO PAUSE THERE.
00:44:13.16\00:44:16.13
I REMEMBER WHEN A PREACHER FIRST
BROUGHT THIS TO MY ATTENTION, I
00:44:16.13\00:44:20.56
THOUGHT, 'WOW, THAT'S PRETTY
PROFOUND.' BECAUSE I WAS NOT A
00:44:20.56\00:44:24.26
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST AND I WAS
WORSHIPING WITH SUNDAY-KEEPING
00:44:24.26\00:44:28.70
CHRISTIANS AND WE HAD A LOT OF
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE COVENANT
00:44:28.70\00:44:31.23
BECAUSE I WAS BEING TOLD
'SABBATH, TEN COMMANDMENTS -
00:44:31.23\00:44:36.26
OLD COVENANT. WE'RE
NEW COVENANT CHRISTIANS.
00:44:36.26\00:44:38.96
WE'RE THE GENTILES.
WE'RE A DIFFERENT DISPENSATION.
00:44:38.96\00:44:42.13
WE LIVE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT.
OLD COVENANT'S FOR THE JEWS.'
00:44:42.13\00:44:46.00
HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE?
BUT YOU NOTICE WHO THE NEW
00:44:46.00\00:44:49.16
COVENANT IS MADE
WITH? >>THE JEWS.
00:44:49.16\00:44:52.50
>>YES, THERE'S NO COVENANT
THAT'S MADE WITH THE GENTILES.
00:44:52.50\00:44:55.13
THE COVENANT OF
SALVATION IS MADE WITH ISRAEL.
00:44:55.13\00:44:58.33
THAT'S WHY PAUL SAYS, 'IF WE
WOULD BE SAVED' - IN ROMANS -
00:44:58.33\00:45:01.40
GENTILES ARE GRAFTED
INTO THE STOCK OF ISRAEL.
00:45:01.40\00:45:05.63
THAT'S WHY ALL THE PROMISES
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT DON'T JUST
00:45:05.63\00:45:07.56
BELONG TO THE JEWS. NEW
TESTAMENT PROMISES ARE FOR
00:45:07.56\00:45:09.70
THE GENTILES. THE
WHOLE BIBLE IS MADE FOR US -
00:45:09.70\00:45:13.63
WHETHER YOU'RE A
LITERAL OR SPIRITUAL JEW.
00:45:13.63\00:45:15.86
SO YOU CAN'T DISSECT IT THAT
WAY. ANYWAY, SO HERE YOU ARE,
00:45:15.86\00:45:20.53
JEREMIAH 31, AND HE'S
GIVING THE NEW COVENANT.
00:45:20.53\00:45:24.00
NOW YOU CAN JUMP AHEAD AND IF
YOU READ IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 8 -
00:45:24.00\00:45:30.10
AND I'M GOING TO READ - I'LL
START WITH VERSE 7 - "FOR IF
00:45:30.10\00:45:35.43
THAT FIRST COVENANT HAD BEEN
FAULTLESS, THEN NO PLACE WOULD
00:45:35.43\00:45:38.20
HAVE BEEN SOUGHT FOR A SECOND.
BECAUSE FINDING FAULT WITH
00:45:38.20\00:45:41.00
THEM," - ALRIGHT, LET'S STOP
THERE. WHAT WAS THE FAULT WITH
00:45:41.00\00:45:44.13
THE FIRST COVENANT? DO
YOU KNOW WHAT A COVENANT IS?
00:45:44.13\00:45:46.60
A COVENANT IS AN AGREEMENT.
YEAH. IT'S A CONTRACT.
00:45:46.60\00:45:50.80
AND USUALLY, BEFORE YOU MAKE AN
AGREEMENT, IF I SAY, 'ALRIGHT,
00:45:50.80\00:45:54.86
I'D LIKE TO BUY YOUR HOUSE.'
YOU'D SAY, 'ALRIGHT, WELL HERE'S
00:45:54.86\00:45:56.30
WHAT I WANT FOR IT.' AND I SAY,
'WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LITTLE
00:45:56.30\00:45:59.26
HIGH. HOW ABOUT THIS?'
AND YOU COME BACK AND YOU
00:45:59.26\00:46:01.30
COUNTER OFFER AND SAY, 'ALRIGHT,
LET'S SHAKE ON IT.' FIRST WHAT
00:46:01.30\00:46:06.43
YOU DO IS YOU HAVE A VERBAL
AGREEMENT - SAY 'OKAY' - YOU GET
00:46:06.43\00:46:09.23
THE TERMS DOWN BECAUSE YOU
CAN SPEND A LOT OF LETTERS GOING
00:46:09.23\00:46:11.26
BACK AND FORTH WHEN
YOU'RE DOING ALL YOUR DICKERING.
00:46:11.26\00:46:13.83
YOU GET YOUR AGREEMENT AND THEN
YOU SAY, 'NOW LET'S WRITE IT
00:46:13.83\00:46:15.23
DOWN SO THAT IT'S CODIFIED AND
THERE'S NO CHANGING IT WHEN IT'S
00:46:15.23\00:46:19.10
WRITTEN DOWN. BUT IF YOU VIOLATE
YOUR PART OF THE AGREEMENT, THE
00:46:19.10\00:46:25.16
ENTIRE COVENANT BETWEEN US, I'M
NOT REQUIRED TO KEEP MY SIDE OF
00:46:25.16\00:46:27.93
THE COVENANT IF
YOU'VE BROKEN YOUR PART.
00:46:27.93\00:46:30.03
THE WHOLE COVENANT BECOMES
VOID. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:46:30.03\00:46:33.70
SO GOD GIVES THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS TO THE CHILDREN OF
00:46:33.70\00:46:35.90
ISRAEL. HE SPEAKS THEM AUDIBLY.
THEY SAY, 'ALL THE LORD HAS
00:46:35.90\00:46:38.70
SAID, WE WILL DO.'
THEN HE WRITES THEM DOWN.
00:46:38.70\00:46:41.56
NOTICE IT'S ON THE FRONT AND
THE BACK - TWO TABLES OF STONE -
00:46:41.56\00:46:46.10
THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.
I'VE KIND OF WONDERED IF THERE
00:46:46.10\00:46:48.90
WERE TWO COPIES - ONE
FOR GOD AND ONE FOR MAN.
00:46:48.90\00:46:51.50
I DON'T - WE'LL HAVE TO
WAIT AND FIND OUT ABOUT THAT.
00:46:51.50\00:46:53.93
BUT SO THEY BROKE IT AND
GOD TELLS MOSES, 'WRITE IT DOWN
00:46:53.93\00:47:01.76
AGAIN.' AND SO THEY WERE
STILL LIVING UNDER THIS ORIGINAL
00:47:01.76\00:47:05.00
AGREEMENT BUT
THERE WAS A PROBLEM.
00:47:05.00\00:47:07.36
THEY JUST REFUSED TO KEEP IT.
I MEAN, HOW MANY TIMES DID GOD
00:47:07.36\00:47:09.83
ASK THEM TO KEEP THE
TERMS OF THE COVENANT?
00:47:09.83\00:47:11.83
THEY'D BACKSLIDE AND HE'D
FORGIVE THEM AND THEY'D COME
00:47:11.83\00:47:14.36
BACK AGAIN. WHAT WAS
THE FAULT WITH THE COVENANT?
00:47:14.36\00:47:16.96
NOTICE: "BECAUSE FINDING FAULT
WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" -
00:47:16.96\00:47:20.40
THAT'S NOT WHAT IT SAYS -
"FINDING FAULT WITH THEM."
00:47:20.40\00:47:23.63
IT WAS THEIR FAILED PROMISES.
00:47:23.63\00:47:26.76
HE MADE A NEW COVENANT -
"HE SAYS: 'BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE
00:47:26.76\00:47:29.63
COMING,' SAYS THE LORD, 'WHEN
I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH
00:47:29.63\00:47:32.43
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE
HOUSE OF JUDAH - NOT ACCORDING
00:47:32.43\00:47:36.10
TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH
THEIR FATHERS IN THE DAY WHEN I
00:47:36.10\00:47:38.23
TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD
THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT;
00:47:38.23\00:47:41.90
BECAUSE THEY DID" - THEY - "DID
NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND
00:47:41.90\00:47:45.26
I DISREGARDED
THEM,' SAYS THE LORD.
00:47:45.26\00:47:47.06
'FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT
I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF
00:47:47.06\00:47:49.33
ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS,' SAYS
THE LORD: 'I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN
00:47:49.33\00:47:51.96
THEIR MIND AND WRITE THEM
ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE
00:47:51.96\00:47:54.36
THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE
MY PEOPLE.'" SO, WHAT WERE THE
00:47:54.36\00:47:58.33
TERMS OF THE OLD
COVENANT? IT'S THE LAW OF GOD.
00:47:58.33\00:48:01.33
WHAT ARE THE TERMS OF
THE NEW COVENANT? LAW OF GOD.
00:48:01.33\00:48:05.50
WHERE'S THE NEW COVENANT
WRITE THE LAW? IN THE HEART.
00:48:05.50\00:48:09.76
NOW SOME WILL BE QUICK TO SAY,
'WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S JUST
00:48:09.76\00:48:11.43
NOW LAWS OF LOVE.'
THE OLD COVENANT WAS LOVE.
00:48:11.43\00:48:14.66
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE LOVE -
FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS: LOVE TO
00:48:14.66\00:48:17.30
GOD; LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS:
LOVE TO YOUR FELLOW MAN. AND IT
00:48:17.30\00:48:20.66
WASN'T THAT THEY WERE SAVED BY
WORKS BACK THEN AND WE'RE SAVED
00:48:20.66\00:48:23.53
BY GRACE NOW. THEY WERE SAVED
BY GRACE. WE ALREADY READ THAT -
00:48:23.53\00:48:27.80
MANY, MANY PLACES -
IT'S THE MERCY OF GOD.
00:48:27.80\00:48:30.10
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ABRAHAM
BELIEVED GOD AND HE COUNTED IT
00:48:30.10\00:48:32.73
TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS
- RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.
00:48:32.73\00:48:35.83
IT'S AN OLD TESTAMENT CONCEPT.
NEW TESTAMENT - WE'RE SAVED BY
00:48:35.83\00:48:38.90
FAITH. THE
PEOPLE SAVED IN THE OLD
00:48:38.90\00:48:41.03
TESTAMENT HAD THE LAW
OF GOD IN THEIR HEARTS.
00:48:41.03\00:48:43.06
PEOPLE TODAY ARE SAVED BY
THE LAW WRITTEN IN THEIR HEARTS.
00:48:43.06\00:48:47.30
BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL CHRIST CAME
AND WE REALLY SAW GOD AND WE
00:48:47.30\00:48:52.16
UNDERSTOOD THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF
THE LAW THAT IT FINALLY SANK IN.
00:48:52.16\00:48:56.40
SO WHEN JESUS SAID, 'A NEW
COVENANT I GIVE YOU' - OR 'A NEW
00:48:56.40\00:48:59.80
COMMANDMENT I GIVE YOU, LOVE THE
LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, LOVE
00:48:59.80\00:49:02.26
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' WHEN
JESUS SAID A NEW COMMANDMENT,
00:49:02.26\00:49:06.43
WHERE DID HE GET THAT?
WHERE DOES IT SAY LOVE THE LORD
00:49:06.43\00:49:11.63
WITH ALL YOUR HEART,
MIND, SOUL, AND STRENGTH?
00:49:11.63\00:49:13.90
IS THAT PAUL,
PETER, JAMES, OR MOSES?
00:49:13.90\00:49:17.83
>>MOSES >>IT'S OLD TESTAMENT.
00:49:17.83\00:49:19.13
AND WHEN JESUS SAID YOU SHOULD
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,
00:49:19.13\00:49:21.53
WHERE DOES HE GET
THAT? OLD TESTAMENT.
00:49:21.53\00:49:24.66
SO THE CONCEPT OF THE WHOLE
LAW BEING SUMMARIZED BY LOVE, IS
00:49:24.66\00:49:28.10
THAT A NEW TESTAMENT CONCEPT
OR AN OLD TESTAMENT CONCEPT?
00:49:28.10\00:49:31.20
THAT'S WHY I - I GET SO
FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I SEE SO MANY
00:49:31.20\00:49:33.90
CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE THIS IDEA -
SOME PASTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
00:49:33.90\00:49:38.26
GIVING THEM THIS IDEA - THAT IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT IT WAS WORKS -
00:49:38.26\00:49:42.80
THAT THEY SOMEHOW WORKED THEIR
WAY TO HEAVEN. IS ANYONE GOING
00:49:42.80\00:49:45.63
TO BE IN HEAVEN BECAUSE
THEY WORKED THEIR WAY TO HEAVEN?
00:49:45.63\00:49:48.13
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IT'S GRACE
- THEY'RE ALL SAVED BY GRACE.
00:49:48.13\00:49:52.30
BUT JAMES IS SO IMPORTANT
BECAUSE HE REITERATES THAT SAME
00:49:52.30\00:49:57.30
PRINCIPLE YOU FIND IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT - THAT IF YOU LOVE
00:49:57.30\00:49:59.90
GOD, DON'T JUST
HONK YOUR HORN, PROVE IT.
00:49:59.90\00:50:03.20
IF YOU'RE SAVED BY GRACE, DON'T
BE JUST A TALKER OF THE WORD, BE
00:50:03.20\00:50:08.63
A DOER OF THE WORD. AND
THIS IS WHAT CHRIST SAID.
00:50:08.63\00:50:10.86
'NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS, 'LORD,
LORD,' WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM,
00:50:10.86\00:50:13.43
BUT THEY THAT DO.' WHO KNEW THE
TEACHINGS OF JESUS BETTER, JAMES
00:50:13.43\00:50:18.06
OR PETER? I KNOW
THAT'S A LOADED QUESTION.
00:50:18.06\00:50:22.10
HOW MANY YEARS DID
PETER HEAR JESUS TEACH?
00:50:22.10\00:50:26.50
>>THREE >>THREE
- THREE AND A HALF.
00:50:26.50\00:50:29.90
HOW LONG DID JAMES GET TO
HEAR JESUS? HIS ENTIRE LIFE.
00:50:29.90\00:50:35.20
SO - AND I BELIEVE ALL -
I BELIEVE PETER IS INSPIRED.
00:50:35.20\00:50:38.16
I BELIEVE JAMES IS
INSPIRED - DON'T MISUNDERSTAND.
00:50:38.16\00:50:39.93
BUT I'M SAYING BE CAREFUL NOT
TO MAKE THE MISTAKE THAT SOME -
00:50:39.93\00:50:43.23
MARTIN LUTHER ALMOST MADE THE
MISTAKE OF DISMISSING JAMES AS
00:50:43.23\00:50:47.06
TOO MUCH WORKS IN THERE TO
BE PART OF THE REAL GOSPEL -
00:50:47.06\00:50:52.30
THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. OH
JAMES, HE KNEW JESUS AND HE
00:50:52.30\00:50:55.76
KNEW JESUS VERY WELL, AND HE
KNEW JESUS BELIEVED IN NOT JUST
00:50:55.76\00:50:59.23
BEING A TALKER OR A HEARER,
BUT BEING A DOER OF THE WORD.
00:50:59.23\00:51:04.00
AND THIS IS THE
TEACHING OF CHRIST.
00:51:04.00\00:51:05.73
SO THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL IS
ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF JAMES AS
00:51:05.73\00:51:08.53
WELL. ALRIGHT, SO
THE NEW COVENANT IS
00:51:08.53\00:51:12.96
THE LAW OF GOD
WRITTEN IN OUR HEARTS.
00:51:12.96\00:51:14.23
HEBREWS 7:22, "BY SO MUCH MORE
JESUS HAS BECOME A SURETY OF A
00:51:14.23\00:51:20.03
BETTER COVENANT. ALSO
THERE WERE MANY PRIESTS,
00:51:20.03\00:51:22.93
BECAUSE THEY WERE PREVENTED
BY DEATH FROM CONTINUING.
00:51:22.93\00:51:25.93
BUT HE, BECAUSE HE CONTINUES
FOREVER, HAS AN UNCHANGEABLE
00:51:25.93\00:51:30.03
PRIESTHOOD." YOU
KNOW, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
00:51:30.03\00:51:32.30
IF YOU RAN TO A CITY OF REFUGE,
YOU COULD HOLD OUT THERE.
00:51:32.30\00:51:35.73
YOU KNOW, IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY
KILLED SOMEBODY, IF YOU COULD
00:51:35.73\00:51:39.76
GET TO A CITY OF REFUGE AND THEY
SAID, 'ALRIGHT, LOOK, YOU KNOW,
00:51:39.76\00:51:42.30
YOU'RE PROTECTED NOW UNTIL
THE DEATH OF THE HIGH PRIEST.'
00:51:42.30\00:51:45.76
THEY LIVED A LONG
TIME SOME OF THEM,
00:51:45.76\00:51:48.06
BUT THEY GOT OLD AND
DIED LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.
00:51:48.06\00:51:50.03
AND THEN THEY'D GO TO THE NEXT
GENERATION OF PRIESTS AND - CAN
00:51:50.03\00:51:54.20
YOU IMAGINE HAVING THE
SAME PRESIDENT FOR FIFTY YEARS?
00:51:54.20\00:51:58.13
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN
ROOSEVELT WAS PRESIDENT AND HE
00:51:58.13\00:52:01.13
HAD FOUR TERMS.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?
00:52:01.13\00:52:02.93
NOW HE DIDN'T COMPLETE HIS
FOURTH TERM, BUT SOME PEOPLE
00:52:02.93\00:52:05.90
GREW UP AND THEY ONLY KNEW ONE
PRESIDENT DURING THAT TIME FROM
00:52:05.90\00:52:08.53
THE DEPRESSION. BUT YOU COULD
HAVE A PRIEST FOR SIXTY YEARS.
00:52:08.53\00:52:16.90
ELI, YOU KNOW, HE WAS A GREAT
AGE. SO - BUT JESUS, IT SAYS
00:52:16.90\00:52:21.96
HE'S A PRIEST FOREVER.
THAT PRIESTHOOD DOESN'T CHANGE.
00:52:21.96\00:52:24.30
"HE IS ABLE TO SAVE TO THE
UTTERMOST OF THOSE WHO COME TO
00:52:24.30\00:52:29.03
GOD THROUGH HIM, SINCE HE ALWAYS
LIVES TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR
00:52:29.03\00:52:32.50
THEM." SO PAUL IS
SHOWING, FROM THE OLD
00:52:32.50\00:52:34.13
TESTAMENT PRIESTHOOD,
WE STILL HAVE INTERCESSION.
00:52:34.13\00:52:36.36
ALRIGHT, LAST SECTION -
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME
00:52:36.36\00:52:39.66
REVELATION 12:17.
OKAY, IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:52:39.66\00:52:43.00
AND I'LL BEGIN WITH REVELATION
10:7 - THIS IS THE CLIMAX OF THE
00:52:43.00\00:52:47.10
GOSPEL - THE
CRESCENDO OF THE GOSPEL.
00:52:47.10\00:52:49.90
REVELATION 10:7, "BUT IN
THE DAYS OF THE SOUNDING OF THE
00:52:49.90\00:52:53.93
SEVENTH ANGEL, WHEN HE IS ABOUT
TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD
00:52:53.93\00:52:58.06
WOULD BE FINISHED, AS HE
DECLARED TO HIS SERVANTS THE
00:52:58.06\00:53:00.56
PROPHETS." NOW
REVELATION'S GOT A LOT OF
00:53:00.56\00:53:03.40
SEVENS IN IT. YOU MIGHT HELP ME.
00:53:03.40\00:53:05.66
THERE'S SEVEN CHURCHES, SEVEN
THUNDERS, SEVEN VOICES, SEVEN
00:53:05.66\00:53:11.40
PLAGUES - >>CANDLES.
00:53:11.40\00:53:13.66
>>SEVEN CANDLES. THERE'S A
LAMB WITH SEVEN EYES. SEVEN
00:53:13.66\00:53:18.83
SPIRITS AROUND
THE THRONE - >>TRUMPS.
00:53:18.83\00:53:21.83
>>SEVEN TRUMPETS -
YEAH, WE MENTIONED THAT -
00:53:21.83\00:53:24.33
AND LOTS OF SEVENS.
BUT WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE
00:53:24.33\00:53:27.73
SEVENTH, WHICH CHURCH
IS THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA?
00:53:27.73\00:53:30.50
SEVENTH - BUT IT'S
THE LAST TOO, ISN'T IT?
00:53:30.50\00:53:33.00
IT'S THE LAST AND
WHAT ABOUT THE LAST PLAGUE?
00:53:33.00\00:53:37.00
IT'S CHRIST COMING AND YOU'VE
GOT THE VIALS THAT ARE POURED
00:53:37.00\00:53:42.30
OUT. SO WHEN
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
00:53:42.30\00:53:45.66
SEVENTH ANGEL, HE'S ABOUT TO
SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD WOULD
00:53:45.66\00:53:50.56
BE FINISHED. ALL
OF THE GOSPEL - THE
00:53:50.56\00:53:53.70
EVERLASTING GOSPEL
- IT REACHES AN END.
00:53:53.70\00:53:56.73
YOU KNOW, I WAS POSTING
SOMETHING ONLINE ABOUT SO MUCH
00:53:56.73\00:54:02.56
IS HAPPENING IN THE NEWS WITH
DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS LEADERS -
00:54:02.56\00:54:07.10
POPE FRANCIS IS - HE'S GOT
HIS BLACK BELT IN THIS SAYING WE
00:54:07.10\00:54:10.56
NEED TO BRING ALL
THE CHRISTIANS TOGETHER.
00:54:10.56\00:54:12.10
I'VE GOT SEVERAL QUOTES, JUST IN
THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS, OF HIS
00:54:12.10\00:54:15.03
PUBLICLY SAYING WE NEED
UNITY AMONG THE CHRISTIANS.
00:54:15.03\00:54:17.80
AND THEN THERE'S OTHER CHRISTIAN
LEADERS - BIG LEADERS OF LARGE
00:54:17.80\00:54:21.53
DENOMINATIONS THAT ARE ALL
CALLING FOR UNITY - THAT WE PUT
00:54:21.53\00:54:24.66
ASIDE ALL OUR DOCTRINAL
DIFFERENCES AND - THAT SOUNDS
00:54:24.66\00:54:27.20
BEAUTIFUL BUT IF YOU
KNOW PROPHECY, YOU KNOW THAT'S
00:54:27.20\00:54:29.70
EXACTLY WHAT IS BEING FORETOLD
WOULD HAPPEN IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:54:29.70\00:54:33.20
AND I HAD SOMEONE WROTE ME AND
SAID, 'OH, YOU PREACHERS HAVE
00:54:33.20\00:54:37.13
BEEN SAYING THAT FOR YEARS.'
AND 'WHY DO YOU GET PEOPLE
00:54:37.13\00:54:42.50
ALL STIRRED UP
WITH THESE THINGS?
00:54:42.50\00:54:43.60
YOU JUST GET THEM
STIRRED UP FOR NOTHING.
00:54:43.60\00:54:45.33
IT'S SENSATIONALISM.' AND I
THINK, 'YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID
00:54:45.33\00:54:48.43
'WHEN YOU SEE THESE
THINGS HAPPEN, KNOW THAT YOUR
00:54:48.43\00:54:50.83
REDEMPTION DRAWS NIGH.'
AND I ALWAYS LIKE TO TEASE.
00:54:50.83\00:54:53.53
I KNOW PREACHERS HAVE BEEN
TALKING ABOUT THE COMING OF THE
00:54:53.53\00:54:55.36
LORD FOR A LONG TIME AND ONE OF
THESE DAYS, ONE OF US IS GOING
00:54:55.36\00:54:58.33
TO BE RIGHT. AND
LET'S SUPPOSE THAT JESUS
00:54:58.33\00:55:02.80
DOES COME IN FIVE YEARS.
WOULD ANYBODY CRITICIZE A PASTOR
00:55:02.80\00:55:07.36
FOR TWENTY YEARS AGO
SAYING THE LORD IS COMING SOON.
00:55:07.36\00:55:09.73
IF YOU LIVE AND YOU'RE CAUGHT UP
IN THE AIR - IF THE LORD COMES
00:55:09.73\00:55:13.46
IN FIVE YEARS - WOULD ANYBODY
DARE SAY, 'YOU KNOW THOSE
00:55:13.46\00:55:15.90
PREACHERS TWENTY YEARS AGO, THAT
TALKED ABOUT THE LORD COMING
00:55:15.90\00:55:17.76
SOON? THEY SHOULDN'T
HAVE SAID IT SO SOON.
00:55:17.76\00:55:19.73
THEY SHOULD HAVE WAITED UNTIL
JUST ONE YEAR BEFORE HE ACTUALLY
00:55:19.73\00:55:23.60
CAME AND NOT GET PEOPLE STIRRED
UP.' OR SHOULD WE LIVE IN AN
00:55:23.60\00:55:26.80
EXPECTANCY OF THE
LORD'S SOON COMING?
00:55:26.80\00:55:29.13
THERE'S GOING TO BE A CRESCENDO.
00:55:29.13\00:55:30.86
OKAY, GO AHEAD AND READ
REVELATION - THIS IS A VERSE
00:55:30.86\00:55:32.96
THAT EVERY ADVENTIST
SHOULD KNOW - REVELATION 12:17.
00:55:32.96\00:55:36.00
>>"AND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED
WITH THE WOMAN, AND HE WENT TO
00:55:36.00\00:55:39.16
MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF
HER OFFSPRING, WHO KEEP THE
00:55:39.16\00:55:41.90
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE
THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST."
00:55:41.90\00:55:45.03
>>THAT SOUNDS VERY MUCH LIKE
WHAT JAMES HAS BEEN SAYING, THAT
00:55:45.03\00:55:48.20
YOU'VE GOT THAT BALANCE BETWEEN
YOUR LIVING A GODLY LIFE THAT
00:55:48.20\00:55:51.66
THREATENS THE DEVIL AND YOU KEEP
THE COMMANDMENTS AND YOU HAVE
00:55:51.66\00:55:55.86
THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS.
THAT'S THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
00:55:55.86\00:55:58.70
THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY
AND THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.
00:55:58.70\00:56:01.53
YOU CAN ALSO READ REVELATION
14:12, "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF
00:56:01.53\00:56:06.06
THE SAINTS. HERE
ARE THOSE THAT KEEP THE
00:56:06.06\00:56:08.46
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
AND THE FAITH OF JESUS."
00:56:08.46\00:56:13.36
NOW THAT'S WHAT
JAMES IS REALLY SAYING.
00:56:13.36\00:56:15.50
HE SAID, 'SHOW ME YOUR FAITH
WITHOUT YOUR WORKS; I'LL SHOW
00:56:15.50\00:56:18.30
YOU MY FAITH BY MY WORKS.'
THAT WHOLE SECTION THERE.
00:56:18.30\00:56:21.16
WHO WROTE REVELATION?
JOHN IS ACCUSED OF BEING THE
00:56:21.16\00:56:25.10
APOSTLE OF LOVE AND
I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS.
00:56:25.10\00:56:28.73
BUT DOES HE STILL SEE
THAT THERE'S A BALANCE BETWEEN
00:56:28.73\00:56:31.63
OBEDIENCE AND FAITH? AND
THEN, LAST CHAPTER OF THE
00:56:31.63\00:56:35.70
BIBLE, VERSE 14 -
REVELATION 22 - "BLESSED"
00:56:35.70\00:56:40.23
- NOW IS BLESSED
A GOOD THING? >>YES.
00:56:40.23\00:56:42.40
>>"BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO DO HIS
COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MIGHT
00:56:42.40\00:56:45.46
HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE
TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER
00:56:45.46\00:56:47.96
THROUGH THE
GATES INTO THE CITY."
00:56:47.96\00:56:49.80
AND SO THIS THEME OF HAVING
FAITH AND LOVE, BUT ALSO LIVING
00:56:49.80\00:56:55.10
LIVES OF SURRENDER AND
OBEDIENCE, THAT'S THE STORY OF
00:56:55.10\00:56:58.36
WHAT JAMES IS TRYING TO SAY AND
IT'S REALLY ALL THE WAY THROUGH
00:56:58.36\00:57:01.00
THE BIBLE AND IT IS
THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL.
00:57:01.00\00:57:04.13
WELL FRIENDS, I THINK WE
GOT THROUGH THE BOOK OF JAMES.
00:57:04.13\00:57:05.90
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00:57:05.90\00:57:07.56
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