Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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00:34 >>I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS TO ANOTHER 00:36 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:37 AND YOU NOTICE WE'RE BACK HOME AGAIN IN SACRAMENTO. 00:41 FOR THE LAST FEW PRESENTATIONS WE ACTUALLY DID IT FROM OUR 00:44 PLACE IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, WHERE WE WERE DOING THE 00:48 'LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY' BIBLE STUDIES. 00:50 I WANT TO THANK THE STUDIO AND THE CREW FOR GETTING EVERYTHING 00:53 SET BACK UP AGAIN SO THAT WE COULD STUDY TOGETHER. 00:57 TODAY WE ARE GOING TO BE GOING INTO OUR LAST STUDY ON THE BOOK 01:00 OF JAMES AND - BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN 01:04 WITH A WORD OF PRAYER. FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE'RE VERY 01:07 THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE FREEDOM WE HAVE TO COME 01:10 TOGETHER IN THIS PLACE AND BE ABLE TO STUDY YOUR WORD. 01:13 WE PRAY THAT THE POWER OF THE WORD WILL COME ALIVE ONCE AGAIN. 01:16 BE WITH US AS WE SHARE - BE WITH ME AS I SPEAK - AND I PRAY THAT 01:20 MY MIND WILL BE QUICKENED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WE'LL ALL BE 01:23 EDIFIED AND MADE MORE LIKE JESUS. 01:26 WE PRAY IN HIS NAME, AMEN. 01:29 AND AS I MENTIONED, IN JUST A MOMENT WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING 01:31 INTO OUR LAST STUDY ON THE BOOK OF JAMES. 01:34 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY, 01:38 DEALING WITH THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL, AND THE OFFER IS CALLED 01:41 'JUSTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE' - IT'S THE BOOK ON ASSURANCE. 01:45 IF YOU LIKE THIS, WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FREE. 01:47 YOU CAN CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. 01:48 THAT'S 866-788-3966 OR THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE AND WHEN YOU DO, 01:56 ASK FOR OFFER #727 - WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. 01:59 SOMETHING ELSE I SHOULD MENTION IS, BECAUSE THIS IS OUR LAST 02:04 STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JAMES, THAT MEANS WE'RE GETTING READY TO 02:07 ENTER A NEW QUARTER FOR THE YEAR AND I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD 02:10 TO THIS. IT'S GOING TO BE THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. 02:12 ALL THAT WISDOM FROM SOLOMON, WE'RE HOPING THAT SOME OF IT 02:15 WILL LEECH IN AND TAKE HOLD OF US. 02:18 AND SO, JUST - THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE PART OF A SABBATH SCHOOL 02:22 STUDY GROUP OR CHURCH WHERE WE STUDY THESE LESSONS, ASK YOUR 02:26 SABBATH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT OR THE CHURCH THAT HOSTS IT IF THEY 02:29 CAN GIVE YOU ONE OF THE QUARTERLIES SO YOU CAN BE READY 02:31 FOR OUR NEXT STUDY TOGETHER. YOU CAN ALSO FIND THESE ONLINE. 02:35 AND I DON'T KNOW IF I MENTIONED IT, BUT THIS BOOK - YOU CAN 02:38 REQUEST THE BOOK, WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY. 02:40 YOU CAN ALSO READ THAT ONLINE AS WELL - THE BOOK ON 'ASSURANCE - 02:44 JUSTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE.' WELL, WITH THAT LENGTHY 02:47 INTRODUCTION, WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO OUR FINAL STUDY FROM 02:51 THE BOOK OF JAMES AND I'M SORT OF SAD TO SEE IT END BECAUSE 02:54 JAMES IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS. I'VE LEARNED A LOT. 02:57 YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY, OTHER PEOPLE LEARNED, BUT I LEARNED 02:59 PREPARING FOR THESE STUDIES AND THIS HAS BEEN A REAL BLESSING TO 03:03 ME. YOU KNOW, I JUST THOUGHT THAT IT'S ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA TO 03:06 REVIEW A FEW THINGS WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO FINISH A BOOK. 03:09 WE SPENT THIRTEEN WEEKS NOW GOING OVER THE BOOK OF JAMES - 03:12 ONLY FIVE CHAPTERS - AND IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA FOR THOSE 03:15 WHO JOINED US SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY TO JUST COME IN AND DO A 03:19 LITTLE BIT OF REVIEW. JAMES IS NOT JAMES THE BROTHER 03:25 OF JOHN, THIS IS ACTUALLY JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JESUS. 03:29 AND WE'VE LEARNED THAT HE WAS A REAL PILLAR IN THE EARLY CHURCH. 03:33 MATTER OF FACT, IN JUST A MOMENT I'LL HAVE SOMEBODY READ ACTS 03:35 12:17, BUT I'M GOING TO START BY READING MARK 6:3 - MARK 6:3 - 03:41 WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND HE WAS DOING HIS 03:43 PREACHING MINISTRY THERE IN GALILEE, THEY SAID - OR, UP NEAR 03:48 NAZARETH - THEY SAID, "'IS THIS NOT THE CARPENTER, THE SON OF 03:52 MARY, AND BROTHER OF JAMES, JOSES, JUDAS, AND SIMON? 03:59 AND ARE NOT HIS SISTERS HERE WITH US?'" SO JESUS HAD AT LEAST 04:02 HALF BROTHERS AND SISTERS. USUALLY THEY LIST THEM IN ORDER 04:06 OF THEIR AGE. THE FIRST ONE LISTED IS JAMES. 04:09 SO JAMES WAS THE OLDER STEP-BROTHER OR HALF-BROTHER OF 04:14 JESUS - PROBABLY FROM AN EARLIER MARRIAGE OF JOSEPH. 04:18 THE OTHER INTERESTING THING IS JOSEPH, EVIDENTLY, DIES BEFORE 04:25 JESUS BEGINS HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY. 04:27 LAST WE HEAR OF JOSEPH, JESUS IS TWELVE YEARS OLD. 04:30 I'M SURE HE LIVED BEYOND THAT, BUT YOU NEVER HEAR HIM MENTIONED 04:32 AGAIN BEYOND THAT OCCASION WHEN MARY AND JOSEPH LOST HIM IN THE 04:36 TEMPLE. SO, BEING THE FIRST-BORN IN THE 04:39 FAMILY, JAMES WOULD HAVE BEEN THE OLDEST BECAUSE HE WAS FROM 04:42 JOSEPH'S FIRST LITTER, IF YOU WILL. 04:45 HE WOULD HAVE BEEN, BASICALLY, THE PATRIARCH OF EVEN THAT 04:49 FAMILY. NOT ONLY SOMETHING LIKE JESUS' 04:52 OLDER BROTHER, BUT SOMETIMES THAT OLDER BROTHER WAS REALLY 04:55 RESPECTED AS THE FATHER FIGURE OR THE LEADING FIGURE IN THE 04:59 FAMILY. SO HE WAS REALLY A PILLAR. 05:01 BUT EARLIER ON, WE LEARNED THAT THE BROTHERS OF JESUS, THEY 05:05 FIRST QUESTIONED WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS HE DOING? 05:08 AND THEY WONDERED IF HE HAD LOST HIS MIND. 05:10 HE SEEMED LIKE SUDDENLY HE HAD GONE FROM JUST A KIND OBSCURITY 05:15 TO THIS PUBLIC NATIONAL FIGURE THAT WAS SURROUNDED BY 05:19 CONTROVERSY AND THREATS OF DEATH AND - BUT LATER, THEY CAME 05:25 AROUND AND THEY WERE CONVERTED. NOW THAT SAYS A LOT FOR YOU. 05:28 YOU CAN FOOL A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT WHEN YOUR FAMILY SAYS, 'WE 05:34 BELIEVE HE WAS THE SON OF GOD.' AND THEY'VE WATCHED YOU FOR 05:37 THIRTY YEARS OR THIRTY-THREE AND A HALF YEARS, THAT'S PRETTY 05:40 STRONG TESTIMONY THAT YOU HAVE A CONSISTENT LIFE. 05:42 AND THEY TAUGHT THAT JESUS HAD LIVED A HOLY, SINLESS LIFE. 05:46 JAMES COULDN'T THINK - I MEAN, HOW MANY OF YOU HAD SIBLINGS? 05:48 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE DIRT ON YOUR SIBLINGS? 05:52 SO - I MEAN - BUT THEY BELIEVED THAT JESUS WAS HOLY AND SINLESS. 05:58 NOW GO AHEAD, READ FOR US ACTS 12:17. 06:02 >>"BUT MOTIONING TO THEM WITH HIS HAND TO KEEP SILENT, HE 06:05 DECLARED TO THEM HOW THE LORD HAD BROUGHT HIM OUT OF THE 06:07 PRISON. AND HE SAID, 'GO, TELL THESE 06:10 THINGS TO JAMES AND TO THE BRETHREN.' AND HE DEPARTED AND 06:13 WENT TO ANOTHER PLACE." >>THANK YOU. 06:16 YOU KNOW WHY I THINK THIS VERSE IS SO IMPORTANT? 06:18 THIS CHAPTER - CHAPTER 12 - OF ACTS, BEGINS BY TELLING THAT 06:24 HEROD KILLS JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JOHN. 06:28 IT ENDS WITH PETER ESCAPING FROM PRISON AND PETER GIVING 06:32 INSTRUCTION: 'GO TELL JAMES' - IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S A 06:37 TRANSITIONING HAPPENING AT THIS POINT. 06:40 JAMES ENDS UP BEING - HE'S RECOGNIZED AS REALLY AN APOSTLE 06:43 IN THE EARLY CHURCH, AND A LEADER. 06:46 AND PROBABLY, THE FIRST BOOK WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE - IT MAY 06:50 NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BEFORE THE BOOK OF MARK, BUT IT'S 06:53 CERTAINLY ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS OR LETTERS OF INSTRUCTION 06:56 WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE AND - EVEN THOUGH YOU FIND IT AT THE END - 06:59 REMEMBER, THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE ARE NOT NECESSARILY IN 07:02 CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. 07:03 NOW, NOTICE THIS, WHEN PAUL SAYS - 1 CORINTHIANS 15:3 - ABOUT 07:06 JAMES - "FOR I DELIVERED TO YOU FIRST OF ALL THAT WHICH I ALSO 07:10 RECEIVED: THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE 07:14 SCRIPTURES, AND THAT HE WAS BURIED, AND THAT HE ROSE AGAIN 07:17 THE THIRD DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, AND THAT HE WAS SEEN 07:20 BY CEPHAS," - THAT'S PETER - "THEN BY THE TWELVE" - THE OTHER 07:23 APOSTLES - "AFTER THAT HE WAS SEEN BY OVER FIVE HUNDRED 07:27 BRETHREN AT ONCE," - PROBABLY SOME TIME BEFORE HIS ASCENSION - 07:31 "OF WHOM THE GREATER PART REMAIN TO THE PRESENT, BUT SOME HAVE 07:33 FALLEN ASLEEP." - SOME HAVE DIED - "AFTER THAT 07:36 HE WAS SEEN BY JAMES, THEN BY ALL THE APOSTLES." 07:39 SEE, IT'S - JAMES IS SORT OF LUMPED WITH AN APOSTLE. 07:42 IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN. 07:44 "THEN LAST OF ALL HE WAS SEEN BY ME ALSO, AS BY ONE BORN OUT OF 07:47 DUE TIME." AND SO, WE CAN SEE - AND THEN 07:50 I'LL GIVE YOU ONE MORE - THIS IS STILL INTRODUCTION - JAMES WAS A 07:53 LEADER IN THE EARLY CHURCH. ACTS 15 - WHEN THEY CAME DOWN 07:57 WITH PAUL AND BARNABAS AND THEY HAD A PROBLEM ABOUT HOW MUCH OF 08:01 THE CEREMONIAL LAWS ARE THEY TO REQUIRE THE GENTILE CONVERTS TO 08:05 KEEP AND HOW DO THEY HANDLE THOSE ISSUES. 08:08 IT SAYS, "AND AFTER THEY BECOME SILENT, JAMES ANSWERED, SAYING, 08:12 'MEN AND BRETHREN, LISTEN TO ME: SIMON HAS DECLARED HOW GOD FIRST 08:16 VISITED THE GENTILES TO TAKE OUT OF THEM A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME. 08:20 AND WITH THIS THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS AGREE, JUST AS IT IS 08:23 WRITTEN." - AND HE GOES ON. 08:24 SO JAMES REALLY, SORT OF, BECOMES LIKE CHAIRMAN OF THE 08:27 BOARD - THE BISHOP - THE LEADER OF THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM, 08:31 WHICH WAS - THAT WAS GROUND ZERO FOR THE EARLY CHURCH. 08:35 AND RIGHT NOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK OF ROME AS THE CENTER OF 08:39 CHRISTIANITY, BUT IT WAS REALLY IN JERUSALEM FOR THAT FIRST 08:42 CENTURY ANYWAY. SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SORT OF AN 08:45 INTRODUCTION TO OUR FINAL STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JAMES. 08:49 THIS ONE IS DEALING WITH THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 08:52 NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN THE LAST VERSES OF JAMES - I DON'T KNOW 08:55 IF YOU - MAYBE WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO FIRST - I DON'T THINK I EVEN 09:00 MENTIONED OUR MEMORY VERSE, DID I? LET'S DO THAT. 09:02 OUR MEMORY VERSE IS JEREMIAH CHAPTER 31, VERSE 3 - YOU CAN 09:07 READ IT RIGHT OUT OF YOUR BIBLE OR YOUR QUARTERLY THERE - 09:10 JEREMIAH 31:3 AND IT'S HERE IN THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. 09:14 DO YOU WANT TO SAY THAT WITH ME? 09:15 "THE LORD HAS APPEARED OF OLD TIME TO ME SAYING, 'YES, I HAVE 09:22 LOVED YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE; THEREFORE WITH 09:26 LOVINGKINDNESS I HAVE DRAWN YOU.'" 09:29 NOW, OUR EMPHASIS IS GOING TO BE SEEING THAT THE GOSPEL IS ALL 09:35 THROUGH THE BIBLE, INCLUDING THE BOOK OF JAMES. 09:38 AND I UNDERSTAND WHY DR. WAHLEN, WHEN HE WROTE THIS LESSON, HE 09:41 WANTED TO EMPHASIZE THIS, ESPECIALLY NEAR THE END, BECAUSE 09:45 SOME PEOPLE, THEY READ THE SECOND AND THIRD CHAPTERS OF 09:48 JAMES, WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT FAITH AND WORKS - SEEMS LIKE 09:51 HE'S GIVING MORE ENCOURAGEMENT TO WORKS BECAUSE HE'S DEALING 09:54 WITH THOSE WHO SAY, 'OH, JUST BELIEVE, BELIEVE, BELIEVE.' AND 09:57 HE SAYS, 'LOOK, SHOW ME YOUR FAITH WITHOUT YOUR WORKS, I'LL 10:00 SHOW YOU MY FAITH BY MY WORKS.' SO SOME THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS 10:03 DISMISSING THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITH. 10:05 IT'S REALLY NOT WHAT HE'S DOING. HE'S TALKING ABOUT THAT REAL 10:08 FAITH IS GOING TO BE EVIDENT WITH FRUIT IN THE LIFE. 10:13 BUT WHEN WE STUDY THE BOOK OF JAMES, ONE OF THE LAST THINGS 10:16 THAT YOU FIND IS WHERE YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 5 AND IT SAYS IN THE 10:20 LAST VERSE - LAST CHAPTER OF JAMES - "...LET HIM KNOW THAT HE 10:25 WHO TURNS A SINNER FROM THE ERROR OF HIS WAY WILL SAVE A 10:30 SOUL FROM DEATH AND COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS." 10:34 WOW, WHAT A PERFECT WAY TO PUNCTUATE THAT THE GOSPEL IS IN 10:39 THE BOOK OF JAMES. HIS CLOSING, CLOSING SALVO, AS 10:43 YOU WOULD SAY, IS TURNING A SINNER FROM THE ERROR OF HIS 10:47 WAYS, COVERING A MULTITUDE OF SINS. 10:51 NOW, ISN'T THAT WHAT EVERYBODY NEEDS IN THEIR LIFE? 10:53 ISN'T THAT THE GOSPEL - TO COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS? 10:56 SO AS WE DELVE INTO THE LESSON, WE'RE REALLY GOING TO TALK ABOUT 11:00 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL - HOW IT REALLY COVERS A WHOLE PANORAMA 11:03 OF THE BIBLE AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE GOSPEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 11:07 THE GOSPEL MADE FLESH, THE GOSPEL IN PAUL, THE GOSPEL IN 11:10 THE NEW COVENANT AND THE CLIMAX OF THE GOSPEL, SO THOSE ARE 11:13 THE SECTIONS THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING. 11:15 ALRIGHT, FIRST, THE GOSPEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 11:17 SOMEBODY'S GOING TO HAVE GENESIS 3:15 - ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE IN 11:21 JUST A MOMENT, THEN. WE'LL GET TO YOU. 11:23 AND I'M GOING TO BEGIN BY READING HEBREWS 4, VERSE 2 - 11:27 NOW I KNOW HEBREWS IS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 11:30 BUT HE'S POINTING BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. 11:33 "FOR INDEED THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO US AS WELL AS TO 11:38 THEM;" - WHO IS PAUL TALKING ABOUT IN HEBREWS? WHO'S THE 11:40 'THEM?' WHEN HE SAYS, 'THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED TO US' HE 11:44 MEANS THOSE PRESENT - THE APOSTLES, THE NEW TESTAMENT 11:46 CHRISTIANS, AS WELL AS THEM - HE'S POINTING BACK TO THE OLD 11:50 TESTAMENT. I THOUGHT 'GOSPEL' WAS ONLY A NEW TESTAMENT WORD. 11:53 WHAT'S THE WORD 'GOSPEL' MEAN? GOOD NEWS. 11:57 PAUL SAYS THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO THEM. 11:59 WHEN WAS THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 12:05 WELL, EVEN ALL THE PROPHETS, NOT ONLY IN THE SYMBOLS BUT ALL OF 12:10 THE PROPHETS AND - DOES IT SAY ENOCH WAS A PREACHER OF 12:14 RIGHTEOUSNESS? HE SAID, 'BEHOLD THE LORD 12:17 COMES.' ENOCH WAS PREACHING ABOUT THE ADVENT OF THE LORD, 12:22 SO ENOCH WAS AN ADVENTIST, WASN'T HE? 12:24 MATTER OF FACT, IT SAYS, 'ENOCH, THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM.' HE WAS A 12:27 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST. I'M SURE HE WAS A SABBATH KEEPER. 12:31 SO THE IDEA THAT THE GOSPEL DIDN'T SHOW UP UNTIL JESUS - 12:35 I'VE MET PEOPLE BEFORE AND I'VE RUN INTO THIS FREQUENTLY, THEY 12:39 SAY, 'WHAT ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT JESUS? 12:43 ARE THEY DOOMED TO BE LOST?' AND I WAS TALKING WITH A FELLOW 12:47 JUST IN NEW MEXICO DURING OUR LANDMARK PROGRAM AND HE SAID, 12:50 'YEAH, THE BIBLE SAYS THERE'S NO OTHER NAME GIVEN AMONG MEN 12:53 WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED, SO IF SOMEONE HASN'T HEARD ABOUT 12:56 JESUS, THEY'RE LOST.' I SAID, 'WAIT A SECOND. 12:58 BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU'RE SAYING BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS 13:01 ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WHO HADN'T HEARD ABOUT 13:04 JESUS ARE ALL LOST.' WELL, WE KNOW A LOT OF THEM ARE SAVED. 13:08 AND EVEN JESUS, HE KIND OF OUTRAGED HIS HOME TOWN WHEN HE 13:12 SAID, THERE WERE A LOT OF LEPERS IN THE LAND IN THE DAYS OF 13:15 NAAMAN, BUT NONE OF THEM WAS HEALED - FROM ISRAEL - 13:19 BUT NAAMAN THE SYRIAN WAS HEALED. 13:20 GOD DID A MIRACLE FOR HIM. SO DID GOD HAVE PEOPLE THERE? 13:24 AND THEN HE GOES ON AND SAYS THERE WERE MANY WIDOWS IN THE 13:27 LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE DAYS OF ELIJAH BUT NONE OF THEM WERE 13:32 ACCOMPANIED EXCEPT THE ONE FROM PHOENICIA - 13:35 THAT LADY OF TYRE THAT ELIJAH STAYED WITH. 13:38 REMEMBER, HE STAYED IN THE UPPER ROOM, RESURRECTED HER SON, DID A 13:40 MIRACLE FOR HER. AND SHE UNDERSTOOD WHAT SIN WAS. 13:44 YOU READ THAT WHOLE STORY SHE SAYS, 'HAVE YOU CALLED MY SIN TO 13:47 MY REMEMBRANCE?' SO GOD HAS HAD PEOPLE IN MANY 13:50 DIFFERENT AGES. NOBODY IS SAVED WITHOUT THE 13:53 SACRIFICE OF JESUS. BUT ALL THROUGH THE OLD 13:55 TESTAMENT, THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED. 13:57 WHEN I ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT - IN ONE WORD - CAN'T USE TWO 14:03 WORDS - IN ONE WORD, NAME SOME WORDS THAT YOU THINK ABOUT THAT 14:08 EXPLAIN THE GOSPEL. YOU CAN CALL THEM OUT, I'LL REPEAT THEM. 14:12 >>LOVE. JOY. >>LOVE. 14:13 ALRIGHT, LET'S TAKE THEM ONE AT A TIME - LOVE. 14:15 DO YOU FIND LOVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 14:19 WE JUST READ ONE, 'I'VE LOVED YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE.' 14:22 JOY - DO YOU FIND JOY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 14:26 YOU READ THROUGH ALL THE PSALMS - GREAT DEAL OF JOY. 14:29 WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD? >>TRUTH. 14:31 >>TRUTH. DOES IT TALK ABOUT THE 14:33 IMPORTANCE OF TRUTH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 14:35 >>PEACE. >>PEACE. 14:37 YEAH, YOU CAN TALK ABOUT - THERE'S MANY, MANY VERSES THAT 14:42 TALK ABOUT THE PEACE OF THE LORD. 14:44 'A GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY WHICH LOVE THY LAW AND NOTHING WILL 14:46 OFFEND THEM.' WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD? 14:49 >>MERCY. LONGSUFFERING. >>ALRIGHT, SO I HEARD MERCY AND 14:51 LONGSUFFERING. LET'S START WITH MERCY. 14:53 DO YOU FIND MERCY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 14:55 'HIS MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY DAY. HIS COMPASSIONS FAIL NOT.' 14:59 LONGSUFFERING - YEAH, THE PATIENCE OF THE LORD - HIS MERCY 15:03 ENDURES FOREVER. IT TALKS ABOUT - I WAS WAITING 15:06 FOR SOMEBODY TO SAY 'GRACE.' DO YOU FIND GRACE IN THE OLD 15:11 TESTAMENT? WHO IS IT THAT FOUND GRACE IN 15:13 THE SIGHT OF THE LORD? NOAH, YEAH. 15:17 I'VE GOT A SONG ABOUT IT - 'NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE 15:18 LORD.' YOU REMEMBER? IS THAT OLD TESTAMENT? 15:24 YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALMOST LIKE - IT'S SORT OF AN URBAN MYTH THAT 15:28 THE GOD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS THE GOD OF LOVE. 15:31 THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THE GOD OF WRATH. 15:34 AND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THEY'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, THE PLAGUES AND 15:36 THE WAR AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS THE LOVE AND THE GOODNESS 15:39 AND - THAT'S REALLY NOT ACCURATE. 15:43 DO YOU FIND DEATH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? 15:48 DO YOU FIND PEOPLE BEING UNJUSTLY KILLED, LIKE JESUS? 15:51 PRETTY BRUTAL DEATH. STEPHEN BEING STONED? 15:53 ARE THERE PLAGUES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? 15:56 MATTER OF FACT, THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES ARE MORE UNIVERSAL AND 16:00 SEVERE THAN THE TEN PLAGUES THAT FELL ON THE EGYPTIANS. 16:05 SO, REALLY, IT'S THE SAME GOD ALL THE WAY THROUGH. 16:10 THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO THEM BACK THERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 16:14 ALRIGHT, WELL, LET'S GO AHEAD AND I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO READ 16:16 FOR US GENESIS 3:15. >>AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN 16:21 YOU AND THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED; HE SHALL 16:26 BRUISE YOUR HEAD, AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL." 16:29 >>NOW THIS IS REALLY THE FIRST PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE. 16:32 IT'S A LITTLE BIT ENIGMATIC. IT'S TALKING ABOUT THIS 16:35 ANIMOSITY, THIS RESISTANCE, THIS OPPOSITION BETWEEN THE WOMAN AND 16:42 THE SEED OF THE WOMAN AND THE SERPENT. 16:44 AND SO IT'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE SEED OF THE WOMAN AND THE 16:46 SERPENT. YOU'VE GOT THESE THREE CHARACTERS THAT ARE DESCRIBED 16:49 HERE: THE SERPENT WHO TEMPTED THE WOMAN AND IT SAYS THAT THE 16:52 SEED OF THE WOMAN WOULD BRUISE THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT AND THE 16:54 SERPENT WOULD BRUISE THE HEEL - MEANING, YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVER 16:58 HAVE AN INJURED HEEL IT MAKES YOU LIMP - IT'S SLOWS OR IMPEDES 17:01 THE PROGRESS OF THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. THE ULTIMATE 17:05 SEED OF THE WOMAN IS JESUS. HE IS THE PROMISED SEED. 17:09 AND YOU'VE GOT ALL THESE STORIES IN THE BIBLE WHERE YOU'VE GOT 17:13 THESE, YOU KNOW, MIRACULOUS BABIES THAT WERE BORN 17:16 AND THEY WERE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST. 17:18 AND THESE GREAT DELIVERERS LIKE JOSEPH AND MOSES AND DAVID. 17:22 AND THEN YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND YOU READ IN 17:26 REVELATION ABOUT THE DRAGON WANTING TO DESTROY THIS BABY 17:30 THAT THE WOMAN IS GOING TO BRING FORTH. 17:32 AND THAT'S BEEN HIS PLAN ALL THROUGH HISTORY. 17:34 THE DEVIL IS WANTING TO PREVENT THE SAVIOR FROM COMING. 17:37 AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THE GOSPEL ABOUT GOD SENDING SOMEONE 17:43 WHO WOULD BE A SUBSTITUTE TO SAVE OUR FIRST PARENTS FROM SIN 17:47 AND ALL OF THEIR PRODIGY, WHICH IS YOU AND ME, 17:51 THAT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING. 17:53 THAT WAS THE FIRST PROMISE THAT THERE'D BE THIS BATTLE BETWEEN 17:57 GOOD AND EVIL AND THE SEED OF THE WOMAN WOULD BRUISE THE HEAD 18:00 - THAT'S A MORTAL WOUND - OF THE SERPENT. BUT THE SERPENT WOULD 18:04 ONLY BRUISE THE HEEL OF JESUS - OR THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. 18:07 SOMEONE ELSE GET READY FOR PSALMS 130, VERSES 3 AND 4 AND 18:13 YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. 18:15 I WANT TO READ EXODUS 19 - THIS IS, OF COURSE, JUST BEFORE THE 18:18 TEN COMMANDMENTS - EXODUS 19:4, HE SAID, "'YOU HAVE SEEN WHAT I 18:24 DID TO THE EGYPTIANS, AND HOW I BORE YOU ON 18:26 EAGLES' WINGS AND BROUGHT YOU TO MYSELF. 18:29 NOW THEREFORE, IF YOU WILL INDEED OBEY MY VOICE AND KEEP MY 18:32 COVENANT, THEN YOU SHALL BE A SPECIAL TREASURE TO ME ABOVE ALL 18:37 PEOPLE; FOR ALL THE EARTH IS MINE. 18:40 AND YOU SHALL BE TO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND A HOLY NATION.' 18:44 THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH YOU SHALL SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF 18:47 ISRAEL." SO THE LORD'S DESIRE TO HAVE A 18:52 CALLED OUT PEOPLE - YOU KNOW WHAT THE CHURCH IS? 18:56 THE ENGLISH WORD THAT WE USE FOR CHURCH IS SORT OF A CORRUPTION 19:00 OF AN OLD ENGLISH WORD 'KIRK.' AND IT SOMEHOW ENDED UP BEING 19:06 'CHURCH.' BUT IT ACTUALLY COMES FROM THE WORD 'ECCLESIA,' WHICH 19:12 MEANS 'THE CALLED OUT ONES.' DID GOD ONLY HAVE A CALLED OUT GROUP 19:18 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT OR DID HE HAVE A GROUP HE CALLED OUT IN 19:23 THE OLD TESTAMENT? THAT'S WHAT THE CHURCH IS. 19:25 SO HIS WANTING A SPECIAL PEOPLE AND HIS HAVING A PLAN TO SAVE 19:29 THEM - GO AHEAD, READ FOR US - I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO READ PSALM 19:32 130, VERSES 3 AND 4. >>"IF YOU, LORD, SHOULD MARK 19:37 INIQUITIES, O LORD, WHO COULD STAND? 19:41 BUT THERE IS FORGIVENESS WITH YOU, THAT YOU MAY BE FEARED." 19:44 >>ALRIGHT, SO EVEN THERE IN THE PSALMS OF DAVID IT SAYS THAT IF 19:49 GOD WAS TO KEEP TALLY OF INIQUITY, WHO COULD STAND? 19:53 IT'S LIKE WHEN PETER SAID, 'HOW MANY TIMES SHALL I FORGIVE MY 19:56 BROTHER?' - KEEPING TALLY - 'SEVEN TIMES - 19:59 ONE, TWO, THREE' - YOU KNOW, KEEPING TRACK? 20:01 AND WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN. 20:05 WAS HE ACTUALLY SAYING I'M GOING TO COUNT OUT 490 TIMES? 20:09 OR WAS HE USING, SORT OF, A METAPHOR TO SAY IT'S MUCH MORE 20:14 THAN THAT? SO IT'S WHAT DAVID'S SAYING. 20:18 IF GOD KEEPS TABS ON OUR SIN THEN WHO COULD STAND? 20:22 SO THE ONLY WAY WE HAVE ANY HOPE IS LEANING ON HIS LONG-SUFFERING 20:27 AND HIS MERCY FOR US. THAT, AGAIN, IS AN OLD TESTAMENT 20:30 CONCEPT. YOU CAN READ IN PSALM 32 - BEAUTIFUL PSALM OF DAVID - 20:35 "BLESSED IS HE WHOSE TRANSGRESSION IS FORGIVEN, WHOSE 20:39 SIN IS COVERED. BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE 20:42 LORD DOES NOT IMPUTE INIQUITY, AND IN WHOSE SPIRIT THERE IS NO 20:46 DECEIT. WHEN I KEPT SILENT MY BONES GREW 20:49 OLD THROUGH MY GROANING ALL THE DAY LONG. 20:52 FOR DAY AND NIGHT YOUR HAND WAS HEAVY UPON ME;" - TALKING ABOUT 20:56 CONVICTION - "MY VITALITY WAS TURNED INTO THE DROUGHT OF 20:59 SUMMER. SELAH. I ACKNOWLEDGED MY SIN TO YOU, 21:03 AND MY INIQUITY I HAVE NOT HIDDEN. 21:06 I SAID, 'I WILL CONFESS MY TRANSGRESSIONS TO THE LORD,' AND 21:08 YOU FORGAVE THE INIQUITY OF MY SIN." SO THERE YOU'VE KIND OF 21:12 GOT A SUMMARY OF WHAT'S INVOLVED IN FORGIVENESS. 21:15 HE WAS WEIGHED DOWN WITH GUILT, HE'S OPENED UP, HE CONFESSED, 21:20 AND DAVID SAYS 'YOU HAVE FORGIVEN THE INIQUITY OF MY 21:24 SIN.' YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PROPHETS IN THE BIBLE 21:30 THAT DEALS WITH THESE SUBJECTS IS ISAIAH. 21:33 WHY DON'T YOU TURN TO ISAIAH 53 - THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON. 21:35 AND MANY OF YOU KNOW THESE PASSAGES. 21:38 IF YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, ISAIAH 53 - IT'S TELLING US TO 21:42 READ 4 THROUGH 11. I'M GOING TO READ VERSE 1, "WHO 21:48 HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE 21:51 LORD BEEN REVEALED? FOR HE SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM 21:56 AS A TENDER PLANT, AND AS A ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND. 21:59 HE HAS NO FORM OR COMELINESS; AND WHEN WE SEE HIM, THERE IS NO 22:02 BEAUTY THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM. 22:04 HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN, A MAN OF SORROWS AND 22:08 ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF. AND WE HID, AS IT WERE, OUR 22:11 FACES FROM HIM; HE WAS DESPISED, AND WE DID NOT ESTEEM HIM. 22:15 SURELY" - NOW HERE'S THE PASSAGE, IN PARTICULAR - "HE HAS 22:19 BORNE OUR GRIEFS AND CARRIED OUR SORROWS;" - IT SAYS, 'CAST YOUR 22:24 CARES UPON HIM BECAUSE HE CARES FOR YOU.' - "YET WE ESTEEMED HIM 22:27 STRICKEN, SMITTEN BY GOD, AND AFFLICTED. 22:29 BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS BRUISED 22:34 FOR OUR INIQUITIES; THE CHASTISEMENT FOR OUR PEACE WAS 22:37 UPON HIM, AND BY HIS STRIPES" - STRIPES, OF COURSE, MEANS WHEN 22:41 SOMEONE'S WHIPPED IT LEFT STRIPES ON THEIR BACK - "AND BY 22:44 HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED. ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE 22:48 ASTRAY; WE HAVE TURNED, EVERY ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY; AND THE 22:51 LORD HAS LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL." 22:55 - SO, WOW, DO YOU FIND THE GOSPEL IN THERE? 22:59 THE LORD LAID UPON HIM - ONE - THE INIQUITY OF HOW MANY? ALL. 23:04 SO ALL - THE SINS OF ALL THE WORLD WERE LAID UPON HIM - "HE 23:10 WAS OPPRESSED AND HE WAS AFFLICTED, YET HE OPENED NOT HIS 23:12 MOUTH;" - AT HIS TRIAL HE SAID NOTHING TO DEFEND HIMSELF - "HE 23:16 WAS LED AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, AND AS A SHEEP BEFORE 23:18 ITS SHEARERS IS SILENT, SO HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH. 23:21 HE WAS TAKEN FROM PRISON AND FROM JUDGMENT, AND WHO WILL 23:24 DECLARE HIS GENERATION? FOR HE WAS CUT OFF" - THAT'S THE 23:27 WORD THAT WAS USED IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 - THE MESSIAH WILL BE 23:31 CUT OFF - "HE WAS CUT OFF FROM THE LAND OF THE LIVING; FOR THE 23:35 TRANSGRESSIONS OF MY PEOPLE HE WAS STRICKEN. 23:38 AND THEY MADE HIS GRAVE WITH THE WICKED" - HE WAS EXECUTED 23:42 BETWEEN TWO THIEVES - "BUT WITH THE RICH AT HIS DEATH, BECAUSE 23:46 HE HAD DONE NO VIOLENCE, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT IN HIS MOUTH. 23:49 YET IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM; HE HAS PUT HIM TO 23:53 GRIEF. WHEN YOU MAKE HIS SOUL AN 23:56 OFFERING FOR SIN," - DO WE BRING A LAMB? 23:58 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THEY BROUGHT A LAMB. 24:00 WELL IN A SENSE - IT SAYS HE'S BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE 24:03 SLAUGHTER. WHEN YOU MAKE HIS SOUL AN 24:07 OFFERING FOR SIN, HE - GOD THE FATHER - "HE SHALL SEE HIS 24:11 SEED," - YOU'VE GOT THAT SEED - HE SHALL PROLONG HIS DAYS, AND 24:15 THE PLEASURE OF THE LORD SHALL PROSPER IN HIS HAND. 24:18 HE SHALL SEE THE LABOR OF HIS SOUL," - CHRIST'S - "AND BE 24:22 SATISFIED." - JESUS - THE FATHER LOOKS UPON 24:24 THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST IN OUR BEHALF AND HE'S SATISFIED - 24:28 JUSTICE IS SATISFIED. - "BY HIS KNOWLEDGE" - IT'S 24:31 THROUGH FAITH - "MY RIGHTEOUS SERVANT SHALL JUSTIFY MANY, FOR 24:36 HE SHALL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES." WOW, IS THAT CLEAR? 24:40 YOU KNOW, A LOT OF RABBIS TELL SOME OF THEIR JEWISH ADHERENTS, 24:47 'DO NOT READ ISAIAH 53.' THEY SAY, 'IT'S EASILY 24:52 MISUNDERSTOOD.' BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE 24:56 LIFE AND MINISTRY AND SUFFERINGS OF JESUS THAT PEOPLE READ IT AND 25:00 THEY GO, 'WOW, MAYBE JESUS WAS THE ONE.' SO DO WE SEE - JUST TO 25:05 TIE THIS PART OFF - DO WE SEE THE GOSPEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 25:08 IT'S ALL THROUGH THERE. 25:10 AND I CAN JUST DEDICATE THIS WHOLE TIME - YOU KNOW, A PLACE 25:13 FOR A SHAMELESS PLUG - THIS IS SUCH A PRECIOUS THEME TO ME, I 25:18 WROTE A BOOK CALLED 'SHADOWS OF LIGHT: SEEING CHRIST IN ALL THE 25:21 BIBLE' BUT PRINCIPALLY IT'S DEALING WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT 25:23 AND JUST GOING THROUGH THE CHARACTERS OF JESUS. 25:26 YOU SEE JESUS IN THE GOSPEL AND LIFE OF JOSEPH, RIGHT? 25:30 DYING FOR - OH, NOT DYING, BUT RATHER BEING SOLD BY HIS OWN 25:34 BROTHERS AND A BLOOD-STAINED ROBE IS BROUGHT TO THE FATHER, 25:38 JUST LIKE CHRIST LEFT HIS ROBE BEHIND. 25:40 JOSEPH IS AN INCREDIBLE TYPE OF CHRIST. 25:42 MOSES IS A TYPE OF CHRIST, BEING THE GREAT LIBERATOR WHO BRINGS 25:46 THE PEOPLE OUT OF SLAVERY AS JESUS BRINGS US FROM SLAVERY 25:49 INTO THE PROMISED LAND. DAVID IS A GREAT TYPE OF CHRIST. 25:54 HE'S THAT BELOVED SON WHO IS NOT AFRAID TO GO WITH A ROCK AGAINST 25:58 THE GIANT. JESUS USED THE WORD OF GOD 26:00 AGAINST THE DEVIL AND DAVID IS, YOU KNOW, 26:03 THE BELOVED ONE AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART. 26:05 HE HAD SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES TO GET EVEN WITH ENEMIES AND HE 26:07 FORGAVE THEM, EVEN THOUGH THE ENEMIES WERE TRYING TO KILL HIM. 26:11 I MEAN, JUST HOW DIFFERENT FROM THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. 26:15 AND SO YOU LOOK THROUGH GIDEON AND SAMPSON AND EVERYONE FROM 26:20 ESTHER TO RUTH AND YOU JUST - YOU SEE THE GOSPEL IN THE LIVES 26:25 AND IN THE STORIES ALL THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT. 26:27 SO THE REASON THE ANGEL IN REVELATION 14 CALLS IT THE 26:31 EVERLASTING GOSPEL IS BECAUSE IT DIDN'T JUST BEGIN IN NEW 26:34 TESTAMENT TIMES. IT'S THE SAME GOSPEL THAT NOAH 26:37 PREACHED, THAT ADAM AND SETH AND ENOCH AND METHUSELAH PREACHED 26:43 ALL THE WAY DOWN THROUGH HISTORY. 26:45 ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: 'GOD MADE FLESH.' NOW WHAT THE LESSON IS 26:51 ADDRESSING HERE IS THAT YOU CAN SEE THE GOSPEL EVEN IN THE 26:55 STORIES ILLUSTRATED - AND JESUS GIVES A COUPLE PARABLES. 27:00 THE FIRST ONE HERE IS IN LUKE 15, DEALING WITH THE PRODIGAL 27:04 SON. I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT STORY. 27:07 NOW YOU KNOW WHY THAT'S IMPORTANT? 27:10 AND WHY IT RELATES TO THE BOOK OF JAMES - IN BOTH THE PRODIGAL 27:13 SON - IN A MOMENT WE'LL LOOK AT THE PARABLE OF THE PHARISEE AND 27:17 THE TAX COLLECTOR - AND YOU FIND IT'S IN THE CHURCH TODAY - IT 27:23 WAS A PROBLEM, ESPECIALLY IN THE CHURCH IN BIBLE TIMES, THE 27:28 MISTAKE OF THINKING THAT YOU WERE RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE YOU KEPT 27:31 THE LAW, TO THE EXCLUSION OF OTHERS THAT NEEDED FORGIVENESS. 27:36 NOW, JUST TO LOOK AT THE PARABLE REAL QUICK - THERE'S A CERTAIN 27:39 MAN, HE HAD TWO SONS AND THE YOUNGER SAID - I'M PARAPHRASING, 27:42 SO - THE YOUNGER SON SAID TO HIS FATHER, 'GIVE ME MY INHERITANCE 27:46 THAT WOULD NATURALLY FALL TO ME.' NOT MANY DAYS AFTER HE 27:49 TAKES EVERYTHING AND HE GOES INTO A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND HE 27:52 SQUANDERS IT WITH RIOTOUS LIVING. 27:54 LATER HIS BROTHER SAYS WITH PROSTITUTES. 27:57 AND HE WAS LIVING IT UP UNTIL THE BANK ACCOUNT RAN OUT. 28:03 AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME, THERE WAS A FAMINE AND WORK DRIED UP. 28:06 THE ECONOMY WENT BAD AND THE ONLY WORK HE COULD GET WAS 28:09 FEEDING PIGS. NOW JESUS IS TELLING THIS TO, 28:12 YOU KNOW, A JEWISH AUDIENCE. THAT'S AS LOW AS YOU CAN GET. 28:15 HE'S IN A FAR COUNTRY - THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT CLEAN AND 28:17 UNCLEAN - THEY EAT PIGS - BUT HE'S A JEWISH BOY AND HE'S ENDED 28:21 UP FEEDING PIGS AND HE'S SO BAD OFF THAT, WHILE HE WOULDN'T EAT 28:25 THE PIGS, HE'S READY TO EAT THE SEED PODS AND THE HUSKS THAT THE 28:29 PIGS ARE EATING. FINALLY HE SAYS - HE COMES TO 28:33 HIS SENSES AND HE SAYS, 'MY FATHER'S SERVANTS ARE EATING 28:35 BETTER THAN I. I KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO. 28:38 I'M GOING TO WRITE TO MY FATHER AND I'LL SAY, 'FATHER, I HAVE 28:40 SINNED AGAINST HEAVEN AND AGAINST YOU. 28:41 I AM NO MORE WORTHY TO BE CALLED YOUR SON. 28:43 MAKE ME AS ONE OF YOUR HIRED SERVANTS.' HE SAYS, 'THERE IS 28:46 BREAD IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE.' NOW, DOES GOD HAVE BREAD IN HIS 28:50 HOUSE? SO HE ARISES AND HE GOES BACK. 28:53 IN THE MEANTIME, THE FATHER, WITH A BROKEN HEART - THE SON 28:55 HAS NO IDEA - WITH A BROKEN HEART, THE FATHER HAS BEEN 28:58 LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD ANXIOUSLY - WHATEVER HE'S DOING OUT IN THE 29:01 YARD OR IN THE FIELD, HE KEEPS GLANCING DOWN THE ROAD IN THE 29:04 DIRECTION WHERE HE LAST SAW THE SILHOUETTE OF HIS 29:06 SON DISAPPEARING OVER THE HORIZON. 29:08 IT JUST BROKE HIS HEART TO SEE HIM GO. 29:09 HE KNEW HOW IT WOULD END. HE KNEW THE NATURE OF HIS SON. 29:12 AND HE KEPT WAITING AND PRAYING AND LONGING FOR THE DAY WHEN 29:16 HE'D COME HOME. FINALLY HE SEES THE FORM HE 29:19 RECOGNIZES OF HIS SON. DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME SPRING IN 29:23 HIS STEP - KIND OF SCHLEPPING HOME. 29:27 AND THE FATHER DOESN'T, YOU KNOW, PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HIP 29:30 AND TAP HIS FOOT AND FOLD HIS ARMS AND SHAKE HIS HEAD AND SAY 29:35 'I TOLD YOU SO. JUST LOOK AT YOU NOW. HERE YOU COME. 29:37 NOW WHAT DO YOU WANT?' INSTEAD, HE RUNS TO HIS SON. 29:40 HE EMBRACES HIS SON. HE SAYS, 'LET'S CELEBRATE - HE'S ALIVE!' 29:43 YOU KNOW? AND HE'S JUST GLAD HE'S ALIVE. 29:46 AND - BUT THE ELDER BROTHER, WHEN HE HEARS ABOUT THE PARTY IN 29:51 THE HOUSE, AND HE HEARS THAT THE FATHER WENT AND SLAUGHTERED THE 29:55 FATTED CALF. YOU ONLY DID THAT FOR HONORED COMPANY. 29:58 REMEMBER WHEN ABRAHAM TOOK THE FATTED CALF WHEN JESUS AND THE 30:00 ANGELS CAME OVER? AND SO THE FATTED CALF, THAT'S 30:03 WHAT YOU SAVED FOR, YOU KNOW, REAL SPECIAL GUESTS AND THEN A 30:05 FEAST. AND THE SON, INSTEAD OF BEING 30:09 GLAD HIS BROTHER'S COME HOME, HE'S OUTRAGED. 30:11 AND HE SAID, 'HERE I WORK FOR YOU AND I SLAVE AND I DO EXACTLY 30:16 WHAT YOU TELL ME TO DO AND I'VE STAYED ON THE FARM AND I'VE BEEN 30:18 GOOD.' - AGAIN, I'M PARAPHRASING, BUT THIS IS THE 30:21 ESSENCE OF WHAT'S BEING RELATED - AND HE SAID, 'YOU DON'T SO 30:25 MUCH AS SLAUGHTER A KID' - A LITTLE GOAT - FOR ME AND MY 30:27 FRIENDS AND NOW THIS SON OF YOURS' - IT'S LIKE HE'S 30:30 DISOWNING HIM - 'IT'S NOT MY BROTHER, HE'S YOUR SON.' HE 30:33 COMES HOME AND HERE YOU SLAUGHTERED THE FATTED CALF AND 30:37 YOU HAVE A FEAST AND HE SQUANDERED HIS INHERITANCE WITH 30:39 HARLOTS AND DRINKING AND' - AND THE FATHER SAYS, 'LOOK SON, ALL 30:45 THAT I HAVE IS YOURS - ALWAYS HAS BEEN. 30:48 YOU DIDN'T HAVE A FEAST FOR YOUR FRIENDS - MAYBE YOU DIDN'T ASK.' 30:52 AND HE SAID, 'THIS IS YOUR BROTHER. 30:54 HE WAS DEAD AND HE'S ALIVE. HE WAS LOST AND HE'S FOUND. 30:55 WE SHOULD REJOICE.' AND THE STORY ENDS THERE. 30:57 IT DOESN'T SAY WHAT THE BROTHER DID. 30:59 IT DOESN'T SAY HOW IT ENDS. WHY DID JESUS TELL THAT STORY? 31:03 COUPLE REASONS - ONE BIG REASON IS CHRIST KNEW THAT HIS 31:09 SACRIFICE WAS GOING TO BE THE PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR THE NATION OF 31:13 ISRAEL. THE APOSTLES WERE TO TAKE THE 31:16 GOSPEL NOT JUST TO JEWS, BUT TO THE WHOLE WORLD. 31:19 AND THE JEWISH NATION WAS GOING TO RESENT - AT LEAST SOME OF 31:22 THEM - WERE GOING TO RESIST AND RESENT THAT GOD WOULD - 'HERE 31:27 WE'VE BEEN THE GUARDIANS OF YOUR TRUTH FOR 2,000 YEARS AND ALL OF 31:32 A SUDDEN, THESE GENTILES WHO HAVE BEEN FOR THOUSANDS - THESE 31:35 NATIONS WHO'VE BEEN SERVING PAGAN GODS AND TERRIBLE THINGS 31:39 AND SACRIFICING THEIR CHILDREN, THEY'RE GOING TO JUST WALK INTO 31:41 OUR SYNAGOGUES AND GET THE SAME SALVATION WE GET? 31:43 IT'S NOT FAIR.' YOU SEE WHERE JESUS IS COMING FROM? 31:47 NOW YOU AND I KNOW THAT THAT STORY HAS TO DO WITH 31:50 REAL FAMILIES, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. 31:52 THAT VERY THING DOES HAPPEN IN SOME FAMILIES. 31:55 IT ALSO HAS TO DO WITH CHURCHES WHERE PEOPLE BACKSLIDE AND THEY 32:00 COME BACK AND THEY'RE EMBRACED AND SOMEONE SAYS, 'WHAT? 32:04 AFTER THE SCANDAL AND WHAT THEY DID? 32:05 WHY WOULD WE LET THEM THROUGH THE DOORS AGAIN?' 32:07 BUT YOU REALLY NEED TO LOOK AT IT HISTORICALLY AND REALIZE THAT 32:11 THEY'RE SAYING, 'HERE WE'VE BEEN DOING ALL THIS WORK' - THE OLDER 32:16 BROTHER - 'WE'VE BEEN DOING ALL THIS WORK, ALL THESE YEARS. 32:19 HE'S BEEN OUT PARTYING. YOU KNOW, JESUS SHARES THE 32:21 PARABLE OF THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD. 32:24 MAN GOES IN THE MORNING AND HE GETS - HE SAYS, 'I'LL PAY YOU A 32:27 PENNY TO GO WORK IN MY VINEYARD.' THROUGH THE DAY, ALL 32:29 DAY LONG, HE SAYS, 'YOU GO WORK I'LL GIVE YOU A PENNY. 32:32 GO WORK IN MY VINEYARD.' THE LAST TIME HE DOESN'T 32:34 EVEN TELL THEM WHAT HE GOING TO PAY. 32:35 HE SAYS, 'I'LL DO WHAT'S FAIR - ELEVENTH HOUR, YOU GO WORK IN MY 32:37 VINEYARD.' PAY TIME COMES, THEY ALL GET THE SAME THING. 32:40 AND THE ONES WHO'VE BEEN WORKING ALL DAY LONG, THEY SAY, 32:42 'THAT'S NOT FAIR.' HE SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT FAIR? 32:44 I'M PAYING YOU EXACTLY WHAT I PROMISED. I'M BEING FAIR. 32:47 I'M JUST BEING GENEROUS AND MERCIFUL TO THEM.' A LOT OF 32:51 THESE PARABLES WERE DESIGNED - JESUS WAS WANTING TO HELP THE 32:55 JEWISH NATION COPE WITH THE TRUTH THAT THE GOSPEL WAS NOW 32:58 GOING TO GO TO NOT JUST THEM, BUT TO WHOSOEVER. 33:02 AND THIS IS OUR NEXT ONE. OUR NEXT PARABLE IS DEALING WITH 33:05 THE SAME PRINCIPLE AND THAT'S IN LUKE 18, VERSE 9, "ALSO HE SPOKE 33:11 THIS PARABLE TO SOME WHO TRUSTED IN THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE 33:14 RIGHTEOUS, AND DESPISED OTHERS:" 33:16 - SO IT TELLS YOU RIGHT AWAY WHAT THE PARABLE'S ADDRESSING - 33:19 "TWO MEN WENT UP TO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY, ONE A PHARISEE AND THE 33:23 OTHER A TAX COLLECTOR." - NOW JESUS HAS JUST PICKED TWO 33:27 INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE THE ANTITHESIS OF EACH OTHER - 33:31 THEY'RE DIAMETRIC OPPOSITES - THEY'RE AT THE POLAR EXTREMES. 33:34 YOU'VE GOT THE ZEALOUS RIGHTEOUS FASTIDIOUS PHARISEE WHO EXAMINES 33:38 HOW MANY SEEDS HE'S GOT IN HIS, YOU KNOW, SQUASH PLANT AND HE'S 33:44 GOING TO GIVE A TITHE OF THAT TO THE LORD, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT 33:48 THE PUBLICAN WHO IS THE PARTY ANIMAL - 33:50 PART OF THE MAFIA BACK THEN - THEY WERE JUST CORRUPT, 33:52 HUNG OUT WITH ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE. 33:55 BUT THEY BOTH GO TO THE SAME CHURCH TO PRAY TO THE SAME GOD. 33:58 BUT LISTEN TO THE PRAYER OF ONE - "THE PHARISEE STOOD AND PRAYED 34:02 THUS WITH HIMSELF," - EVEN THE WORDING IS INTERESTING - HE 34:04 PRAYS WITH HIMSELF - "'GOD, I THANK YOU THAT I AM NOT LIKE 34:10 OTHER MEN" - RIGHT AWAY HIS PRAYER IS NOT A VERTICAL PRAYER, 34:14 IT'S A HORIZONTAL PRAYER - HE'S POINTING AT - LIKE THIS - HIS 34:19 PRAYER IS NOT THAT WAY, HIS PRAYER IS COMPARING HIMSELF 34:21 AMONG OTHERS - "'I THANK YOU THAT I AM NOT LIKE OTHER MEN - 34:24 EXTORTIONERS, UNJUST, ADULTERERS,'" - WHO DO YOU THINK 34:27 HE'S LOOKING AT? - "'OR EVEN AS THIS TAX COLLECTOR.'" - 34:30 I MEAN, TALK ABOUT LOOKING DOWN YOUR NOSE AT SOMEONE THAT COMES 34:33 IN THE CHURCH - "'I FAST TWICE A WEEK;'" - WHO'S HE TRUSTING IN 34:37 - GOD'S GRACE OR HIS WORKS? IT'S ALL ABOUT HIS WORKS, RIGHT? 34:42 - "'I FAST TWICE A WEEK; I GIVE TITHES OF ALL THAT I POSSESS.'" 34:46 - WAS HE TELLING THE TRUTH? I ASSUME SO - "AND THE TAX 34:53 COLLECTOR, STANDING AFAR OFF," - HE DIDN'T EVEN FEEL WORTHY. 34:55 HE KIND OF SLUNK IN THE BACK DOOR AND WENT IN THE SHADOWS - 34:58 "WOULD NOT SO MUCH AS RAISE HIS EYES" - HE FELL IN HUMBLE 35:01 ATTITUDE, HUMBLE SPIRIT, HUMBLE POSTURE - BOWED HIS HEAD -"BEAT 35:06 HIS BREAST, SAYING, 'GOD, BE MERCIFUL TO ME A SINNER!' 35:11 I TELL YOU, THIS MAN WENT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE JUSTIFIED RATHER 35:15 THAN THE OTHER; FOR EVERYONE WHO EXALTS HIMSELF WILL BE HUMBLED, 35:18 AND HE WHO HUMBLES HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED." 35:21 AGAIN, HE WAS SAYING YOU CAN'T TRUST IN - HAVE YOU EVER HEARD 35:26 SOMEONE SAY, 'OH YEAH, I'VE BEEN IN THE CHURCH FOR THIS MANY 35:29 GENERATIONS.' DO YOU GET EXTRA CREDIT FOR HOW MANY GENERATIONS 35:35 YOUR ANCESTORS HAVE BEEN IN THE CHURCH? 35:38 SOMETIMES IT COULD ACTUALLY WORK AGAINST YOU BECAUSE YOU 35:41 COULD START TAKING THINGS FOR GRANTED. 35:43 BUT TELL ME THE TRUTH, HAVE YOU HEARD PEOPLE SAY, 'I'M A THIRD' 35:46 'I'M A FOURTH' 'I'M A FIFTH - OH, I'M A MORE BONA FIDE 35:50 ADVENTIST THAN YOU BECAUSE I'M A FIFTH GENERATION.' KAREN IS A 35:55 FOURTH OR FIFTH - IT VARIES ON THE DIFFERENT SIDES OF HER 35:58 FAMILY, BUT YEAH SHE'S, AS YOU WOULD SAY, DYED IN THE WOOL AND 36:03 I'M A CONVERT - FIRST GENERATION, I GUESS YOU WOULD 36:07 SAY. DOES SHE GET MORE CREDIT IN JUDGMENT DAY? 36:12 IF ANYTHING, YOU'RE MORE ACCOUNTABLE YOU WOULD THINK. 36:16 I MEAN, IF THERE'S ANY DISTINCTION - YOU THINK 36:19 'TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED,' RIGHT? 36:21 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 36:23 SO THIS IDEA THAT SOMEHOW ONE GROUP IS BETTER - REALLY WHAT 36:30 THIS IS ALL ABOUT IS THE GOSPEL IS SEEN IN THESE REAL-LIFE 36:33 PARABLES AND STORIES THAT JESUS IS TELLING SO THAT WE CAN SEE 36:37 IT'S AN EVERLASTING GOSPEL, IT WAS NOT JUST FOR THE JEWS, AND 36:40 JAMES IS TALKING TO REALLY TWO GROUPS. 36:43 MOST OF THE EARLY CHURCH WAS JEWISH. 36:47 WHEN JAMES FIRST BEGAN TO WRITE, BY THE TIME PAUL STARTS WRITING, 36:52 THEY HAD ACTUALLY OUTGROWN - THE CHURCH HAD SPREAD LIKE FIRE 36:58 THROUGH ASIA AMONG THE GENTILES AND BEFORE PAUL DIED, I THINK 37:02 THERE WERE MORE GENTILES IN THE CHURCH THAN JEWS. 37:05 AT PENTECOST, WHEN 3,000 WERE BAPTIZED, IT SAYS THAT THERE 37:09 WERE DEVOUT JEWS OUT OF EVERY NATION THAT WERE THERE THAT HAD 37:11 COME TO WORSHIP. AND A FEW CHAPTERS LATER IT SAYS 37:14 ANOTHER 5,000 WERE BAPTIZED - ANOTHER 5,000 WHAT? 37:16 IT'S NOT UNTIL YOU GET TO ACTS 10 THAT PETER GOES TO 37:19 THE GENTILES AT CORNELIUS' HOUSE. 37:21 LATER PAUL SAYS TO THE JEWS - HE FELT THEY WERE BEING SO STUBBORN 37:25 - AND I'M NOT TRYING TO BE HARD ON THE JEWS LISTENING, I'M JUST 37:27 TELLING YOU WHAT HAPPENED HISTORICALLY - LATER PAUL SAYS - 37:30 HE'S PREACHING TO THE JEWS IN THE SYNAGOGUE AND HE SAYS, 'LO, 37:33 IF YOU REJECT THE WORD OF GOD YOU PROVE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY. 37:36 WE'RE TURNING TO THE GENTILES.' AND THEN - THEY'D ALWAYS START 37:40 WITH THE SYNAGOGUE BUT THEN THEY JUST STARTED GOING DIRECTLY TO 37:42 THE GENTILES. SO JAMES IS - HE'S TALKING A LITTLE MORE TO THE 37:48 JEWS AND HE WAS, I THINK, CONCERNED THEY WERE PUTTING SO 37:53 MUCH EMPHASIS ON FAITH THAT THEY HAD GIVEN UP ON HOLY LIVING. 37:57 SO HE'S ADDRESSING THAT ERROR. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT 37:59 SECTION: 'GOSPEL IN PAUL.' SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ ROMANS 38:03 1:16 - ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE UP IN JUST A MOMENT THEN. AND THIS IS 38:07 2 CORINTHIANS 3, VERSES 13 THROUGH 16 AND PAUL IS WRITING 38:13 HERE. HE SAYS, "UNLIKE MOSES, WHO PUT A VEIL OVER HIS FACE SO 38:17 THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL COULD NOT LOOK STEADILY AT THE 38:21 END OF WHAT WAS PASSING AWAY. BUT THEIR MINDS WERE BLINDED. 38:25 FOR UNTIL THIS DAY THE SAME VEIL REMAINS UNLIFTED IN THE READING 38:29 OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, BECAUSE THE VEIL IS TAKEN AWAY IN 38:33 CHRIST. BUT EVEN TO THIS DAY, WHEN MOSES 38:36 IS READ, A VEIL LIES ON THEIR HEART. 38:39 NEVERTHELESS WHEN ONE TURNS TO THE LORD, THE VEIL IS TAKEN 38:42 AWAY." WHAT'S PAUL TALKING ABOUT? 38:45 PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT A TRANSITION THAT HAPPENS. 38:49 FIRST, HE'S ALLUDING TO A STORY. MOSES, WHEN HE TALKED TO GOD 38:54 FACE TO FACE ON THE MOUNTAIN - NOT JUST THE FORTY DAYS AND 38:57 FORTY NIGHTS WHEN HE GOT THE LAW, BUT HE WENT UP AND DOWN THE 38:59 MOUNTAIN SEVERAL TIMES - TALKED TO THE LORD - HE WOULD COME DOWN 39:02 AND HE HAD A HANDICAP WHEN HE CAME DOWN - WHAT WAS THAT? 39:06 >>HIS FACE WAS SHINING. >>HIS FACE WAS GLOWING. 39:08 I MEAN, THAT'S REALLY SOMETHING - IT'S NOT LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU 39:13 CAN PUT CERTAIN OINTMENTS AND CREAMS ON YOUR FACE AND MAKE 39:15 YOUR FACE GLOW. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT. 39:18 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RADIOACTIVE OINTMENT BECAUSE THE LIGHT IS 39:22 LOOKING LIKE IT'S COMING FROM THE INSIDE OUT. 39:25 AND IT WAS SO BAD - IT'S SO REAL - THEY SAID, 'MOSES, CAN YOU - 39:31 WE CAN'T LOOK AT YOU.' THEY DIDN'T HAVE SUNGLASSES BACK THEN 39:34 OR THEY WOULD HAVE ALL HAD TO PUT ON SUNGLASSES TO TALK TO 39:37 MOSES. SO TO COMPENSATE THEY SAID, 39:38 'MOSES, PLEASE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO OUT IN PUBLIC CAN YOU DROP 39:44 A VEIL?' THEY HAD - THEY KNEW HOW TO 39:46 WEAVE FINE CLOTH THIN THAT WOULD STILL - YOU COULD KIND OF 39:49 SEE THROUGH IT, BUT IT WOULD OBSCURE THE LIGHT A LITTLE BIT. 39:52 BUT HIS FACE WASN'T QUITE AS DISTINCT AND SO THE VEIL MAKES 39:58 IT WHERE YOU COULD SEE HIM, BUT IT'S LIKE PAUL SAYS, 'NOW WE 40:01 LOOK THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY.' GLASS, IN BIBLE TIMES, WAS STILL 40:05 A PRIMITIVE ART AND IT ALL WAS A LITTLE BIT WARPED AND IT WASN'T 40:09 CLEAR SO THINGS WERE SLIGHTLY DISTORTED AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE 40:12 THE WAYS TO GET IT AS CRYSTAL CLEAR AS WE DO NOW SO IT WAS 40:15 OFTEN A LITTLE SMOKEY COLORED - IT COULD HAVE GREENS OR BROWNS 40:18 IN IT LIKE THE OLD BEER BOTTLES - I GUESS SOME OF THE NEW BEER 40:21 BOTTLES TOO. SO - BUT YOU COULD SEE THROUGH IT, BUT IT'S 40:25 OBSCURED. AND SO PAUL IS SAYING THAT NOT KNOWING THAT JESUS WAS 40:30 THE CHRIST - WHEN THE JEWISH NATION WAS READING THE LAW, 40:33 WITHOUT SEEING CHRIST WAS THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL, THEY HAD A 40:36 VEIL OVER THEIR FACE AND THE ONLY WAY THAT VEIL WAS TAKEN 40:39 AWAY IS WHEN THEN RECOGNIZE THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH - 40:43 HE WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL THAT. 40:44 THEY COULD STILL SORT OF SEE, BUT THEIR VISION WAS OBSCURED 40:48 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T EMBRACE WHAT IT ALL POINTED TO. 40:52 WHAT A TRAGEDY. ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO READ - 40:54 TALK ABOUT THE GOSPEL AND PAUL - ROMANS 1:16 PLEASE. 40:58 >>"FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, FOR IT IS THE 41:03 POWER OF GOD TO SALVATION FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES, FOR THE 41:07 JEW FIRST, BUT ALSO FOR THE GREEK." 41:10 >>THANK YOU. NOW, AGAIN, IT'S REITERATING 41:12 THAT POINT. WHY DOES PAUL SAY FOR THE JEW FIRST? DOES THAT 41:15 MEAN THE JEWS HAVE, YOU KNOW, FIRST OPTION FOR SALVATION? 41:21 OR IS HE SAYING SEQUENTIALLY THE JEWS HAD THE WORD OF GOD FIRST 41:27 AND - BUT IT'S ALSO FOR THE GENTILES. 41:32 HE SAYS THE WORD 'GREEK' THERE BUT THAT'S - THEY SPOKE 41:35 PRINCIPALLY GREEK BACK THEN BECAUSE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S 41:38 INFLUENCE AND EVEN THE ROMANS UNDERSTOOD GREEK. 41:42 SO HE'S SAYING THE GOSPEL'S FOR EVERYBODY. NOTICE: "...THE POWER 41:48 OF GOD TO SALVATION FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES, FOR THE JEW FIRST, 41:52 BECAUSE THEY GOT THE FOUNDATION, BUT ALSO FOR THE GREEK." 41:55 THE WAY I LOOK AT THIS IS WHEN I GO INTO A NEW TOWN AND I DO AN 41:58 EVANGELISTIC MEETING AND I ADVERTISE, YOU KNOW WHO ARE THE 42:02 MOST LIKELY TO ACCEPT THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE? 42:06 PEOPLE WHO AT LEAST BELIEVE THE BIBLE'S TRUE THAT HAVE SOME 42:09 BACKGROUND AND THEY MIGHT BE FROM, YOU KNOW, ALL DIFFERENT 42:13 KINDS OF CHRISTIAN PERSUASIONS, BUT AT LEAST PEOPLE THAT HAVE 42:16 SOME BIBLE BACKGROUND - THEY'RE THE FIRST - THEY'RE THE LOST 42:18 SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL THAT YOU GO TO FIRST. 42:22 AND YOU - YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T TAKE NEAR AS LONG. 42:26 YOU GIVE BAPTISMAL STUDIES TO SOMEBODY WHO IS A JEW, HOW LONG 42:31 WAS IT FROM THE TIME THEY HEARD ABOUT CHRIST UNTIL THEY COULD 42:34 GET BAPTIZED - IF THEY WERE A JEW? 42:36 SAME DAY, I MEAN, PHILIP TALKS TO THE ETHIOPIAN TREASURER - HE 42:43 GIVES HIM A BIBLE STUDY THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST. 42:46 DID PHILIP NEED TO TELL HIM WHAT DAY WAS THE SABBATH? 42:48 DID PHILIP NEED TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN 42:50 CLEAN AND UNCLEAN MEATS? DID HE HAVE TO EXPLAIN 42:53 WHAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE? HE KNEW ALL THAT. 42:57 HE DIDN'T HAVE TO TELL HIM ALL - HE KNEW ALL THAT. 42:58 THERE WAS JUST ONE KEY THING HE NEEDED TO GET SQUARED AND HE WAS 43:00 READY TO GO. BUT WHEN PAUL WENT TO THE GREEKS 43:03 HE HAD TO START FROM GROUND ZERO AND START SAYING, 'LET'S TALK 43:08 ABOUT THERE'S ONE GOD. YOU CAN'T BE PRAYING TO IDOLS. 43:11 YOU'VE GOT TO GIVE UP YOUR ADULTERY.' YOU READ THE LETTER 43:13 PAUL WRITES TO THE CORINTHIANS AND IT'S SO VERY DIFFERENT FROM 43:16 THE LETTERS THAT YOU SEE GOING TO THE HEBREWS. 43:19 THE HEBREWS ARE DEALING WITH MUCH LOFTIER THEMES FROM THE 43:22 LAW. CORINTHIANS IT'S SAYING, 'NO, 43:25 YOU CAN'T BE SLEEPING WITH YOUR FATHER'S WIFE.' YOU KNOW? 43:29 HE'S JUST - BECAUSE THESE ARE PAGANS, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE SO 43:33 FAR AWAY, IT TOOK A LOT MORE BIBLE STUDIES. 43:36 SO WHEN PAUL SAYS 'TO THE JEW FIRST' WELL, THEY HAD THE 43:39 FOUNDATION AND SO, OBVIOUSLY, THEY WOULD START WITH THEM. 43:42 ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE NEW COVENANT AND THIS 43:46 IS ALSO ALLUDED TO IN THE BOOK OF JAMES. 43:49 WHERE DO YOU FIRST FIND THE NEW COVENANT? IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 43:57 IF YOU LOOK IN JEREMIAH 31:31 - THAT'S EASY TO REMEMBER - 44:00 JEREMIAH 31:31 - IT'S KIND OF LIKE BASKIN ROBBINS, RIGHT? 44:06 "BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL MAKE 44:10 A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF 44:13 JUDAH-" NOW, I ALWAYS LIKE TO PAUSE THERE. 44:16 I REMEMBER WHEN A PREACHER FIRST BROUGHT THIS TO MY ATTENTION, I 44:20 THOUGHT, 'WOW, THAT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.' BECAUSE I WAS NOT A 44:24 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST AND I WAS WORSHIPING WITH SUNDAY-KEEPING 44:28 CHRISTIANS AND WE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE COVENANT 44:31 BECAUSE I WAS BEING TOLD 'SABBATH, TEN COMMANDMENTS - 44:36 OLD COVENANT. WE'RE NEW COVENANT CHRISTIANS. 44:38 WE'RE THE GENTILES. WE'RE A DIFFERENT DISPENSATION. 44:42 WE LIVE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT. OLD COVENANT'S FOR THE JEWS.' 44:46 HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE? BUT YOU NOTICE WHO THE NEW 44:49 COVENANT IS MADE WITH? >>THE JEWS. 44:52 >>YES, THERE'S NO COVENANT THAT'S MADE WITH THE GENTILES. 44:55 THE COVENANT OF SALVATION IS MADE WITH ISRAEL. 44:58 THAT'S WHY PAUL SAYS, 'IF WE WOULD BE SAVED' - IN ROMANS - 45:01 GENTILES ARE GRAFTED INTO THE STOCK OF ISRAEL. 45:05 THAT'S WHY ALL THE PROMISES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT DON'T JUST 45:07 BELONG TO THE JEWS. NEW TESTAMENT PROMISES ARE FOR 45:09 THE GENTILES. THE WHOLE BIBLE IS MADE FOR US - 45:13 WHETHER YOU'RE A LITERAL OR SPIRITUAL JEW. 45:15 SO YOU CAN'T DISSECT IT THAT WAY. ANYWAY, SO HERE YOU ARE, 45:20 JEREMIAH 31, AND HE'S GIVING THE NEW COVENANT. 45:24 NOW YOU CAN JUMP AHEAD AND IF YOU READ IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 8 - 45:30 AND I'M GOING TO READ - I'LL START WITH VERSE 7 - "FOR IF 45:35 THAT FIRST COVENANT HAD BEEN FAULTLESS, THEN NO PLACE WOULD 45:38 HAVE BEEN SOUGHT FOR A SECOND. BECAUSE FINDING FAULT WITH 45:41 THEM," - ALRIGHT, LET'S STOP THERE. WHAT WAS THE FAULT WITH 45:44 THE FIRST COVENANT? DO YOU KNOW WHAT A COVENANT IS? 45:46 A COVENANT IS AN AGREEMENT. YEAH. IT'S A CONTRACT. 45:50 AND USUALLY, BEFORE YOU MAKE AN AGREEMENT, IF I SAY, 'ALRIGHT, 45:54 I'D LIKE TO BUY YOUR HOUSE.' YOU'D SAY, 'ALRIGHT, WELL HERE'S 45:56 WHAT I WANT FOR IT.' AND I SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LITTLE 45:59 HIGH. HOW ABOUT THIS?' AND YOU COME BACK AND YOU 46:01 COUNTER OFFER AND SAY, 'ALRIGHT, LET'S SHAKE ON IT.' FIRST WHAT 46:06 YOU DO IS YOU HAVE A VERBAL AGREEMENT - SAY 'OKAY' - YOU GET 46:09 THE TERMS DOWN BECAUSE YOU CAN SPEND A LOT OF LETTERS GOING 46:11 BACK AND FORTH WHEN YOU'RE DOING ALL YOUR DICKERING. 46:13 YOU GET YOUR AGREEMENT AND THEN YOU SAY, 'NOW LET'S WRITE IT 46:15 DOWN SO THAT IT'S CODIFIED AND THERE'S NO CHANGING IT WHEN IT'S 46:19 WRITTEN DOWN. BUT IF YOU VIOLATE YOUR PART OF THE AGREEMENT, THE 46:25 ENTIRE COVENANT BETWEEN US, I'M NOT REQUIRED TO KEEP MY SIDE OF 46:27 THE COVENANT IF YOU'VE BROKEN YOUR PART. 46:30 THE WHOLE COVENANT BECOMES VOID. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 46:33 SO GOD GIVES THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TO THE CHILDREN OF 46:35 ISRAEL. HE SPEAKS THEM AUDIBLY. THEY SAY, 'ALL THE LORD HAS 46:38 SAID, WE WILL DO.' THEN HE WRITES THEM DOWN. 46:41 NOTICE IT'S ON THE FRONT AND THE BACK - TWO TABLES OF STONE - 46:46 THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS. I'VE KIND OF WONDERED IF THERE 46:48 WERE TWO COPIES - ONE FOR GOD AND ONE FOR MAN. 46:51 I DON'T - WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND FIND OUT ABOUT THAT. 46:53 BUT SO THEY BROKE IT AND GOD TELLS MOSES, 'WRITE IT DOWN 47:01 AGAIN.' AND SO THEY WERE STILL LIVING UNDER THIS ORIGINAL 47:05 AGREEMENT BUT THERE WAS A PROBLEM. 47:07 THEY JUST REFUSED TO KEEP IT. I MEAN, HOW MANY TIMES DID GOD 47:09 ASK THEM TO KEEP THE TERMS OF THE COVENANT? 47:11 THEY'D BACKSLIDE AND HE'D FORGIVE THEM AND THEY'D COME 47:14 BACK AGAIN. WHAT WAS THE FAULT WITH THE COVENANT? 47:16 NOTICE: "BECAUSE FINDING FAULT WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" - 47:20 THAT'S NOT WHAT IT SAYS - "FINDING FAULT WITH THEM." 47:23 IT WAS THEIR FAILED PROMISES. 47:26 HE MADE A NEW COVENANT - "HE SAYS: 'BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE 47:29 COMING,' SAYS THE LORD, 'WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH 47:32 THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH - NOT ACCORDING 47:36 TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE DAY WHEN I 47:38 TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; 47:41 BECAUSE THEY DID" - THEY - "DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND 47:45 I DISREGARDED THEM,' SAYS THE LORD. 47:47 'FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF 47:49 ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS,' SAYS THE LORD: 'I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN 47:51 THEIR MIND AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE 47:54 THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.'" SO, WHAT WERE THE 47:58 TERMS OF THE OLD COVENANT? IT'S THE LAW OF GOD. 48:01 WHAT ARE THE TERMS OF THE NEW COVENANT? LAW OF GOD. 48:05 WHERE'S THE NEW COVENANT WRITE THE LAW? IN THE HEART. 48:09 NOW SOME WILL BE QUICK TO SAY, 'WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S JUST 48:11 NOW LAWS OF LOVE.' THE OLD COVENANT WAS LOVE. 48:14 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE LOVE - FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS: LOVE TO 48:17 GOD; LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS: LOVE TO YOUR FELLOW MAN. AND IT 48:20 WASN'T THAT THEY WERE SAVED BY WORKS BACK THEN AND WE'RE SAVED 48:23 BY GRACE NOW. THEY WERE SAVED BY GRACE. WE ALREADY READ THAT - 48:27 MANY, MANY PLACES - IT'S THE MERCY OF GOD. 48:30 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD AND HE COUNTED IT 48:32 TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS - RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. 48:35 IT'S AN OLD TESTAMENT CONCEPT. NEW TESTAMENT - WE'RE SAVED BY 48:38 FAITH. THE PEOPLE SAVED IN THE OLD 48:41 TESTAMENT HAD THE LAW OF GOD IN THEIR HEARTS. 48:43 PEOPLE TODAY ARE SAVED BY THE LAW WRITTEN IN THEIR HEARTS. 48:47 BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL CHRIST CAME AND WE REALLY SAW GOD AND WE 48:52 UNDERSTOOD THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF THE LAW THAT IT FINALLY SANK IN. 48:56 SO WHEN JESUS SAID, 'A NEW COVENANT I GIVE YOU' - OR 'A NEW 48:59 COMMANDMENT I GIVE YOU, LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, LOVE 49:02 YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' WHEN JESUS SAID A NEW COMMANDMENT, 49:06 WHERE DID HE GET THAT? WHERE DOES IT SAY LOVE THE LORD 49:11 WITH ALL YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL, AND STRENGTH? 49:13 IS THAT PAUL, PETER, JAMES, OR MOSES? 49:17 >>MOSES >>IT'S OLD TESTAMENT. 49:19 AND WHEN JESUS SAID YOU SHOULD LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF, 49:21 WHERE DOES HE GET THAT? OLD TESTAMENT. 49:24 SO THE CONCEPT OF THE WHOLE LAW BEING SUMMARIZED BY LOVE, IS 49:28 THAT A NEW TESTAMENT CONCEPT OR AN OLD TESTAMENT CONCEPT? 49:31 THAT'S WHY I - I GET SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I SEE SO MANY 49:33 CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE THIS IDEA - SOME PASTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 49:38 GIVING THEM THIS IDEA - THAT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IT WAS WORKS - 49:42 THAT THEY SOMEHOW WORKED THEIR WAY TO HEAVEN. IS ANYONE GOING 49:45 TO BE IN HEAVEN BECAUSE THEY WORKED THEIR WAY TO HEAVEN? 49:48 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IT'S GRACE - THEY'RE ALL SAVED BY GRACE. 49:52 BUT JAMES IS SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE HE REITERATES THAT SAME 49:57 PRINCIPLE YOU FIND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - THAT IF YOU LOVE 49:59 GOD, DON'T JUST HONK YOUR HORN, PROVE IT. 50:03 IF YOU'RE SAVED BY GRACE, DON'T BE JUST A TALKER OF THE WORD, BE 50:08 A DOER OF THE WORD. AND THIS IS WHAT CHRIST SAID. 50:10 'NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS, 'LORD, LORD,' WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM, 50:13 BUT THEY THAT DO.' WHO KNEW THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS BETTER, JAMES 50:18 OR PETER? I KNOW THAT'S A LOADED QUESTION. 50:22 HOW MANY YEARS DID PETER HEAR JESUS TEACH? 50:26 >>THREE >>THREE - THREE AND A HALF. 50:29 HOW LONG DID JAMES GET TO HEAR JESUS? HIS ENTIRE LIFE. 50:35 SO - AND I BELIEVE ALL - I BELIEVE PETER IS INSPIRED. 50:38 I BELIEVE JAMES IS INSPIRED - DON'T MISUNDERSTAND. 50:39 BUT I'M SAYING BE CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE THE MISTAKE THAT SOME - 50:43 MARTIN LUTHER ALMOST MADE THE MISTAKE OF DISMISSING JAMES AS 50:47 TOO MUCH WORKS IN THERE TO BE PART OF THE REAL GOSPEL - 50:52 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. OH JAMES, HE KNEW JESUS AND HE 50:55 KNEW JESUS VERY WELL, AND HE KNEW JESUS BELIEVED IN NOT JUST 50:59 BEING A TALKER OR A HEARER, BUT BEING A DOER OF THE WORD. 51:04 AND THIS IS THE TEACHING OF CHRIST. 51:05 SO THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL IS ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF JAMES AS 51:08 WELL. ALRIGHT, SO THE NEW COVENANT IS 51:12 THE LAW OF GOD WRITTEN IN OUR HEARTS. 51:14 HEBREWS 7:22, "BY SO MUCH MORE JESUS HAS BECOME A SURETY OF A 51:20 BETTER COVENANT. ALSO THERE WERE MANY PRIESTS, 51:22 BECAUSE THEY WERE PREVENTED BY DEATH FROM CONTINUING. 51:25 BUT HE, BECAUSE HE CONTINUES FOREVER, HAS AN UNCHANGEABLE 51:30 PRIESTHOOD." YOU KNOW, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 51:32 IF YOU RAN TO A CITY OF REFUGE, YOU COULD HOLD OUT THERE. 51:35 YOU KNOW, IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY KILLED SOMEBODY, IF YOU COULD 51:39 GET TO A CITY OF REFUGE AND THEY SAID, 'ALRIGHT, LOOK, YOU KNOW, 51:42 YOU'RE PROTECTED NOW UNTIL THE DEATH OF THE HIGH PRIEST.' 51:45 THEY LIVED A LONG TIME SOME OF THEM, 51:48 BUT THEY GOT OLD AND DIED LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. 51:50 AND THEN THEY'D GO TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF PRIESTS AND - CAN 51:54 YOU IMAGINE HAVING THE SAME PRESIDENT FOR FIFTY YEARS? 51:58 SOME OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN ROOSEVELT WAS PRESIDENT AND HE 52:01 HAD FOUR TERMS. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? 52:02 NOW HE DIDN'T COMPLETE HIS FOURTH TERM, BUT SOME PEOPLE 52:05 GREW UP AND THEY ONLY KNEW ONE PRESIDENT DURING THAT TIME FROM 52:08 THE DEPRESSION. BUT YOU COULD HAVE A PRIEST FOR SIXTY YEARS. 52:16 ELI, YOU KNOW, HE WAS A GREAT AGE. SO - BUT JESUS, IT SAYS 52:21 HE'S A PRIEST FOREVER. THAT PRIESTHOOD DOESN'T CHANGE. 52:24 "HE IS ABLE TO SAVE TO THE UTTERMOST OF THOSE WHO COME TO 52:29 GOD THROUGH HIM, SINCE HE ALWAYS LIVES TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR 52:32 THEM." SO PAUL IS SHOWING, FROM THE OLD 52:34 TESTAMENT PRIESTHOOD, WE STILL HAVE INTERCESSION. 52:36 ALRIGHT, LAST SECTION - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME 52:39 REVELATION 12:17. OKAY, IN JUST A MOMENT. 52:43 AND I'LL BEGIN WITH REVELATION 10:7 - THIS IS THE CLIMAX OF THE 52:47 GOSPEL - THE CRESCENDO OF THE GOSPEL. 52:49 REVELATION 10:7, "BUT IN THE DAYS OF THE SOUNDING OF THE 52:53 SEVENTH ANGEL, WHEN HE IS ABOUT TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD 52:58 WOULD BE FINISHED, AS HE DECLARED TO HIS SERVANTS THE 53:00 PROPHETS." NOW REVELATION'S GOT A LOT OF 53:03 SEVENS IN IT. YOU MIGHT HELP ME. 53:05 THERE'S SEVEN CHURCHES, SEVEN THUNDERS, SEVEN VOICES, SEVEN 53:11 PLAGUES - >>CANDLES. 53:13 >>SEVEN CANDLES. THERE'S A LAMB WITH SEVEN EYES. SEVEN 53:18 SPIRITS AROUND THE THRONE - >>TRUMPS. 53:21 >>SEVEN TRUMPETS - YEAH, WE MENTIONED THAT - 53:24 AND LOTS OF SEVENS. BUT WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE 53:27 SEVENTH, WHICH CHURCH IS THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA? 53:30 SEVENTH - BUT IT'S THE LAST TOO, ISN'T IT? 53:33 IT'S THE LAST AND WHAT ABOUT THE LAST PLAGUE? 53:37 IT'S CHRIST COMING AND YOU'VE GOT THE VIALS THAT ARE POURED 53:42 OUT. SO WHEN IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE 53:45 SEVENTH ANGEL, HE'S ABOUT TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD WOULD 53:50 BE FINISHED. ALL OF THE GOSPEL - THE 53:53 EVERLASTING GOSPEL - IT REACHES AN END. 53:56 YOU KNOW, I WAS POSTING SOMETHING ONLINE ABOUT SO MUCH 54:02 IS HAPPENING IN THE NEWS WITH DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS LEADERS - 54:07 POPE FRANCIS IS - HE'S GOT HIS BLACK BELT IN THIS SAYING WE 54:10 NEED TO BRING ALL THE CHRISTIANS TOGETHER. 54:12 I'VE GOT SEVERAL QUOTES, JUST IN THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS, OF HIS 54:15 PUBLICLY SAYING WE NEED UNITY AMONG THE CHRISTIANS. 54:17 AND THEN THERE'S OTHER CHRISTIAN LEADERS - BIG LEADERS OF LARGE 54:21 DENOMINATIONS THAT ARE ALL CALLING FOR UNITY - THAT WE PUT 54:24 ASIDE ALL OUR DOCTRINAL DIFFERENCES AND - THAT SOUNDS 54:27 BEAUTIFUL BUT IF YOU KNOW PROPHECY, YOU KNOW THAT'S 54:29 EXACTLY WHAT IS BEING FORETOLD WOULD HAPPEN IN THE LAST DAYS. 54:33 AND I HAD SOMEONE WROTE ME AND SAID, 'OH, YOU PREACHERS HAVE 54:37 BEEN SAYING THAT FOR YEARS.' AND 'WHY DO YOU GET PEOPLE 54:42 ALL STIRRED UP WITH THESE THINGS? 54:43 YOU JUST GET THEM STIRRED UP FOR NOTHING. 54:45 IT'S SENSATIONALISM.' AND I THINK, 'YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID 54:48 'WHEN YOU SEE THESE THINGS HAPPEN, KNOW THAT YOUR 54:50 REDEMPTION DRAWS NIGH.' AND I ALWAYS LIKE TO TEASE. 54:53 I KNOW PREACHERS HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE COMING OF THE 54:55 LORD FOR A LONG TIME AND ONE OF THESE DAYS, ONE OF US IS GOING 54:58 TO BE RIGHT. AND LET'S SUPPOSE THAT JESUS 55:02 DOES COME IN FIVE YEARS. WOULD ANYBODY CRITICIZE A PASTOR 55:07 FOR TWENTY YEARS AGO SAYING THE LORD IS COMING SOON. 55:09 IF YOU LIVE AND YOU'RE CAUGHT UP IN THE AIR - IF THE LORD COMES 55:13 IN FIVE YEARS - WOULD ANYBODY DARE SAY, 'YOU KNOW THOSE 55:15 PREACHERS TWENTY YEARS AGO, THAT TALKED ABOUT THE LORD COMING 55:17 SOON? THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID IT SO SOON. 55:19 THEY SHOULD HAVE WAITED UNTIL JUST ONE YEAR BEFORE HE ACTUALLY 55:23 CAME AND NOT GET PEOPLE STIRRED UP.' OR SHOULD WE LIVE IN AN 55:26 EXPECTANCY OF THE LORD'S SOON COMING? 55:29 THERE'S GOING TO BE A CRESCENDO. 55:30 OKAY, GO AHEAD AND READ REVELATION - THIS IS A VERSE 55:32 THAT EVERY ADVENTIST SHOULD KNOW - REVELATION 12:17. 55:36 >>"AND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN, AND HE WENT TO 55:39 MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, WHO KEEP THE 55:41 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST." 55:45 >>THAT SOUNDS VERY MUCH LIKE WHAT JAMES HAS BEEN SAYING, THAT 55:48 YOU'VE GOT THAT BALANCE BETWEEN YOUR LIVING A GODLY LIFE THAT 55:51 THREATENS THE DEVIL AND YOU KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS AND YOU HAVE 55:55 THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS. THAT'S THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 55:58 THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY AND THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 56:01 YOU CAN ALSO READ REVELATION 14:12, "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF 56:06 THE SAINTS. HERE ARE THOSE THAT KEEP THE 56:08 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS." 56:13 NOW THAT'S WHAT JAMES IS REALLY SAYING. 56:15 HE SAID, 'SHOW ME YOUR FAITH WITHOUT YOUR WORKS; I'LL SHOW 56:18 YOU MY FAITH BY MY WORKS.' THAT WHOLE SECTION THERE. 56:21 WHO WROTE REVELATION? JOHN IS ACCUSED OF BEING THE 56:25 APOSTLE OF LOVE AND I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS. 56:28 BUT DOES HE STILL SEE THAT THERE'S A BALANCE BETWEEN 56:31 OBEDIENCE AND FAITH? AND THEN, LAST CHAPTER OF THE 56:35 BIBLE, VERSE 14 - REVELATION 22 - "BLESSED" 56:40 - NOW IS BLESSED A GOOD THING? >>YES. 56:42 >>"BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MIGHT 56:45 HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER 56:47 THROUGH THE GATES INTO THE CITY." 56:49 AND SO THIS THEME OF HAVING FAITH AND LOVE, BUT ALSO LIVING 56:55 LIVES OF SURRENDER AND OBEDIENCE, THAT'S THE STORY OF 56:58 WHAT JAMES IS TRYING TO SAY AND IT'S REALLY ALL THE WAY THROUGH 57:01 THE BIBLE AND IT IS THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 57:04 WELL FRIENDS, I THINK WE GOT THROUGH THE BOOK OF JAMES. 57:05 I THINK WE GOT THROUGH OUR LESSON. 57:07 I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE DO HAVE AN OFFER, I BURIED HERE 57:09 SOMEWHERE, THAT WE'LL SEND YOU FOR FREE. 57:12 IF YOU'D LIKE A COPY, IT'S CALLED 'ASSURANCE: JUSTIFICATION 57:14 MADE SIMPLE' - IT TALKS ABOUT THE ASSURANCE OF 57:16 THE GOSPEL, WRITTEN BY YOURS TRULY. 57:19 AND IT'S - IF YOU WANT IT, THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND 57:25 THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE AND ASK FOR OFFER #727. 57:29 YOU CAN ALSO READ IT BY GOING TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE. 57:32 THAT'S SIMPLY 'AMAZINGFACTS.ORG' AND YOU CAN READ IT FOR FREE 57:37 ONLINE. 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