Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021503
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00:00 (MUSIC) >>HELLO FRIENDS, I'D LIKE TO
00:35 WELCOME YOU ONCE AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:38 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR AUDIENCE HERE IN SACRAMENTO, 00:41 CALIFORNIA - OUR GRANITE BAY CHURCH MEMBERS - THIS IS OUR 00:44 REGULAR TUESDAY EVENING PRAYER MEETING AND WE'VE ALL GATHERED 00:47 HERE AT THE AMAZING FACTS STUDIO TO CONTINUE OUR STUDY IN THE 00:51 BOOK OF PROVERBS. SO FOR OUR FRIENDS JOINING US, 00:53 ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD, YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG 00:56 WITH OUR STUDY TODAY. IT'S OUR LESSON QUARTERLY ON THE 00:59 BOOK OF PROVERBS AND WE'RE LOOKING AT LESSON #3. 01:02 SO YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE IF YOU DON'T HAVE 01:05 YOUR OWN LESSON QUARTERLY, AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TONIGHT'S STUDY 01:08 AND YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG WITH US. 01:10 WE ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER WE'D LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT, IT'S 01:12 A BOOK ENTITLED 'THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT.' WE'LL BE HAPPY TO 01:16 SEND THIS TO ANYONE WHO CALLS AND ASKS. 01:19 THE NUMBER TO CALL IS 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER 01:26 #792. AGAIN, THAT NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE - 788-3966. 01:35 ASK FOR THE BOOK 'THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT.' WE'LL BE HAPPY TO 01:38 SEND THAT TO YOU. NOW, BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH 01:40 OUR STUDY, AS ALWAYS, WE WANT TO ASK GOD'S BLESSING AS WE OPEN UP 01:43 HIS WORD, SO LET'S JUST BOW OUR HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER. 01:46 DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO 01:49 GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD AND TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE 01:53 BOOK OF PROVERBS - FILLED WITH WISDOM - PRACTICAL WISDOM FOR US 01:57 IN EVERYDAY LIFE. SO WE INVITE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO 02:00 COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AS WE STUDY TOGETHER. 02:04 WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 02:06 OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 02:10 THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG. >>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS. 02:15 EVENING. HOW IS EVERYBODY? I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS 02:19 THAT ARE WATCHING VIA SATELLITE OR INTERNET. 02:23 WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE FRIENDS THAT ARE PART OF THE CLASS FROM 02:26 AROUND THE WORLD AND WE'RE GLAD THAT WE COULD BE STUDYING 02:28 TOGETHER. AGAIN, GOING THROUGH OUR STUDY 02:31 ON PROVERBS AND WE'RE IN LESSON #3. 02:37 MY FATHER USED TO SAY, 'YOUTH IS WASTED ON THE YOUNG.' AND WHAT 02:42 HE MEANT BY THAT IS YOU SOMETIMES GET TOO WISE TOO LATE 02:47 AND BY THE TIME YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO FIGURE OUT WHAT LIFE'S 02:49 ALL ABOUT, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY STRENGTH LEFT TO LIVE IT. 02:52 SO PROVERBS IS REALLY A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OF 02:57 US, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT ARE YOUNGER - THERE'S SOME THINGS 03:00 THAT SOLOMON ESPECIALLY SAYS TO THE YOUNG MAN THAT WE CAN APPLY 03:05 TO OUR LIVES AND GIVE US A BETTER, MORE ABUNDANT LIFE. 03:09 NOW THIS LESSON, IN PARTICULAR, IS TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE 03:13 PRIORITIES BECAUSE IT'S TITLED, 'A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.' 03:16 AND SO, UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH, SOLOMON 03:20 TELLS US IT IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. 03:24 INSURANCE COMPANIES MAKE A LOT OF MONEY BY BEING ABLE TO 03:30 ESTIMATE AVERAGES OF WHO HAS GREATER RISK. 03:35 THEY'LL CHARGE YOU MORE PREMIUMS IF YOU'VE GOT GREATER RISK. 03:38 AND YOUR PREMIUMS WILL BE A LOT LOWER IF YOU FOLLOW PROVERBS. 03:46 YOU WILL LIVE A LOT LONGER. YOU'LL AVOID A LOT OF TROUBLE. 03:52 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES - I GUESS THEY SAY THAT YOUR BRAIN STOPS - 03:54 YOUR BRAIN FINALLY STOPS GROWING WHEN YOU'RE ABOUT 25. 03:58 IT REACHES ITS MAXIMUM MATURITY. AND YOU KNOW WHEN IT IS THAT 04:01 INSURANCE COMPANIES FINALLY BEGIN TO LOWER YOUR DRIVING 04:04 INSURANCE? AGE 25. AND YOU KIND OF JUST SETTLE IN. 04:12 AND SO LEARNING SOME OF THESE WISE PRINCIPLES, I THINK, COULD 04:14 MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. NOW WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE, 04:17 PROVERBS 6:23. HERE WE GO. "FOR THE COMMANDMENT 04:21 IS A LAMP, AND THE LAW A LIGHT; REPROOFS OF 04:25 INSTRUCTION ARE THE WAY OF LIFE." 04:28 NOBODY WANTS TO GO AROUND AND REPROVE ANYBODY BUT, YOU KNOW, 04:33 SOMETIMES IF YOU LOVE A PERSON YOU NEED TO SAY, 'HEY, THAT IS 04:36 NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO RESPOND' OR 'THAT'S A DANGEROUS THING TO 04:39 DO' AND IT'S THE LOVING THING. 04:42 GOD GIVES US LOVING REPROOF IN HIS WORD TO KIND OF KEEP US OUT 04:45 OF TROUBLE BECAUSE IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. 04:48 IF YOU HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN, AT SOME POINT ALONG THE WAY, UNLESS 04:53 YOU RAISE THEM ON A LEASH, YOU'VE GOT TO TELL THEM HOW TO 04:55 STAY - WE'VE PROBABLY ALL GONE TO THE STORE AND SEEN KIDS ON 04:58 LEASHES, HAVEN'T WE? AND WE'VE SEEN KIDS THAT SHOULD 05:02 HAVE BEEN ON LEASHES. BUT IF YOU WANT THEM TO LEARN 05:07 HOW TO CONDUCT THEMSELVES WHEN THERE'S TRAFFIC OUT, YOU'VE GOT 05:11 TO TELL THEM TO STAY OUT OF THE STREET. 05:13 AND IF THEY DON'T LISTEN WHEN THEY'RE YOUNG, YOU HAVE TO DEAL 05:16 WITH THEM IN FIRM TERMS THAT THEY CAN UNDERSTAND. 05:20 WHY? TO MAKE THEIR LIVES DIFFICULT? TO BE OPPRESSIVE? 05:23 OR TO KEEP THEM ALIVE? IT'S BECAUSE YOU LOVE THEM. 05:26 AND SO THESE ARE THE APPEALS THAT SOLOMON IS MAKING HERE. 05:29 WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO OUR STUDY WITH A NUMBER OF 05:33 SCRIPTURES THAT TALK ABOUT ESPECIALLY THE IDEA OF THE LAW 05:37 IN OUR LIVES. AND HE USES SOME SYMBOLS AND 05:41 METAPHORS THROUGH - THROUGHOUT THIS TEACHING. 05:44 SOMEBODY, IN A MOMENT, IS GOING TO LOOK UP 11 - DEUTERONOMY 05:48 11:18 - AND WHO'S GOING TO HAVE THAT? OKAY. 05:51 WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT, RON. 05:53 AND I'M GOING TO START OUT PROVERBS 6:21, SPEAKING OF THE 06:00 LAWS OF WISDOM HE SAYS, "BIND THEM CONTINUALLY UPON THINE 06:04 HEART, AND TIE THEM ABOUT THY NECK." 06:08 NOW IS SOLOMON LITERALLY SAYING THAT THE - THE WORDS OF WISDOM 06:13 SHOULD BE TIED PHYSICALLY ON OUR HEART AND AROUND OUR NECK? 06:17 OR IS HE USING SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE? 06:22 BUT WHEN SOMETHING IS ON YOUR HEART, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? 06:28 IT'S CLOSE TO YOUR AFFECTIONS. JESUS SAID, 'OUT OF THE 06:32 ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS.' THAT MEANS PEOPLE TEND 06:36 TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY LOVE. YOU'VE PROBABLY MET FOLKS THAT 06:40 ARE - THEY MIGHT BE AN AVIATION ENTHUSIAST - 06:44 WHAT DO THEY TALK ABOUT? AIRPLANES. 06:47 OR YOU PROBABLY HAVE MET PEOPLE BEFORE THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, YOU 06:52 CAN'T HARDLY GET THEIR ATTENTION, BUT YOU BRING UP 06:53 FOOTBALL OR YOU BRING UP BASKETBALL OR YOU BRING UP 06:59 FISHING - PEOPLE GET ADDICTED ON THOSE THINGS. 07:03 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY WANT TO TALK TO YOU AND THEY KNOW ALL 07:07 THE LITTLE NUANCES AND - WHY? BECAUSE IT'S ON THEIR HEART. 07:10 AND WHEN SOMETHING'S AROUND YOUR NECK - IT'S NOT LIKE AROUND THE 07:14 NECK, SOMETHING CHOKING, IT MEANS - HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN 07:17 SOMEBODY THAT KIND OF KEPT THEIR KEYS AROUND THEIR NECK SO THEY'D 07:20 ALWAYS KNOW WHERE THEY WERE? IT MEANS 'CLOSE TO YOUR HEART' 07:22 OR 'YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FORGET IT.' YOU MIGHT DROP SOMETHING 07:26 FROM YOUR WRIST OR EVEN YOUR ANKLE, BUT WHEN YOU'VE GOT IT 07:28 AROUND YOUR NECK YOU INTEND TO HANG ONTO IT. 07:33 AND SO HE USES A NUMBER OF THESE SYMBOLS. 07:36 ANOTHER EXAMPLE WOULD BE PROVERBS 7, VERSE 3, "BIND THEM" 07:41 - THESE WORDS OF WISDOM - "BIND THEM ON YOUR FINGERS; WRITE THEM 07:45 ON THE TABLET OF YOUR HEART." WHERE IS THE NEW COVENANT 07:49 SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN? YEAH. 07:53 SO WHEN GOD IS TALKING - WHEN JESUS TELLS US THAT 'IF YOU LOVE 07:58 ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS' AND THE LORD SAYS, 'A NEW COVENANT I 08:02 WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. 08:03 I WILL WRITE MY LAWS ON THEIR HEARTS' ISN'T THAT SAYING THAT 08:08 IT'S IN OUR AFFECTIONS? 08:10 HOW MUCH EASIER IS IT TO DO THE WILL OF GOD AND OBEY THE LAW OF 08:14 GOD WHEN YOU LOVE GOD? WHEN HE'S GOT YOUR HEART? 08:19 AND THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON IS SAYING IS LEARN THAT GOD GAVE 08:22 YOU THESE LAWS BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU AND WANTS YOU TO BE SAVED. 08:26 SO AGAIN, BIND THEM ON YOUR FINGERS. 08:28 YOU EVER SEEN SOMEBODY - THEY HEAR A NUMBER OR SOMETHING AND 08:32 THEY DON'T WANT TO FORGET, THEY TAKE THE PEN OUT AND JUST START 08:34 WRITING ON THEIR HAND SO THEY WON'T FORGET IT? 08:37 ANY OF YOU EVER DONE THAT? 08:39 THEY USED TO SAY - I'VE SEEN ONE OR TWO PEOPLE DO THIS BEFORE, 08:46 WHERE THEY ACTUALLY TAKE A RIBBON OR A PIECE OF YARN AND 08:49 THEY'D TIE IT AROUND THEIR FINGER AND YOU'D SAY, 'WHAT'S 08:51 THAT FOR?' 'IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING 08:52 I DON'T WANT TO FORGET AND I'M ABSENT MINDED AND EVERY TIME I 08:55 LOOK I THINK 'OH YEAH, THAT'S WHAT THAT'S FOR.'' AND I HAVEN'T 08:58 SEEN THAT IN A LONG TIME, BUT I REMEMBER KNOWING A GRANDMA, IT 09:01 WASN'T MY GRANDMA, THAT DID THAT. 09:03 I SAID, 'WHAT IS THAT?' THEY SAID, 'IT'S SOMETHING I'VE 09:05 GOT TO REMEMBER AND WHENEVER I SEE IT, I REMEMBER.' WELL, 09:09 THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING. AND DID THE LAW OF MOSES ALSO 09:14 HAVE MEMORIALS TO HELP THEM REMEMBER? 09:19 WHAT WERE THE PRIESTS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ON THE BORDERS OF THEIR 09:22 GARMENT? A HEM OF WHAT COLOR? BLUE. 09:29 THEY WERE TO PUT TASSELS AND BORDERS OF BLUE ON THEIR 09:32 GARMENTS AND YOU LOOK, YOU'LL SEE MANY OF THE PICTURES OF 09:35 JESUS - HE'S OFTEN GOT A HEM OF BLUE. 09:38 SOME OF THE ARTISTS KNEW THAT. 09:39 AND YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THE JEWISH PRAYER CLOTHS. 09:42 THEY'RE ALMOST ALWAYS STRIPED WITH BLUE AND IT'S BECAUSE THIS 09:46 WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A REMINDER TO THEM OF THE LAW OF GOD. 09:50 WHENEVER THEY'D SEE IT, THEY'D REMEMBER HAVING THESE MEMORIALS. 09:53 AS THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TRAVELED - SOMETIMES WHEN THINGS 09:56 HAPPENED THEY'D SET UP A PILE OF STONES, YOU KNOW, IT JUST LOOKED 10:02 LIKE A PILE OF ROCKS BUT IT MEANT SOMETHING. 10:04 AND WHEN THEY CROSSED THE JORDAN RIVER, THEY HAD TWELVE OF THE 10:08 STRONGEST MEN TAKE ROCKS FROM IN THE RIVER - PROBABLY WATER-WORN 10:11 AND SMOOTH, MAYBE CAREFULLY CHOSEN TO BE PRETTY ROCKS - THEY 10:16 PUT THEM ON THEIR SHOULDERS - THEY'RE HEAVY ROCKS - THEY'RE 10:18 NOT CARRYING THEM WITH ONE HAND - AND THEY BROUGHT THEM OUT AND 10:20 THEY MADE A STACK OF TWELVE STONES THERE AND THAT WAS TO BE 10:23 A MEMORIAL ABOUT THE TIME GOD PARTED THE JORDAN RIVER AND THEY 10:26 CROSSED OVER. SO THEY'D SEE IT AND IT WOULD 10:28 VISUALLY REMIND THEM. WHAT WERE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 10:31 SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THE LAW OF GOD TO HELP THEM REMEMBER? 10:35 DEUTERONOMY 6, VERSE 6 - NOW WHO KNOWS, WITHOUT PEEKING, WHAT'S 10:42 IN DEUTERONOMY FIVE? THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 10:48 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS YOU FIND IN EXODUS CHAPTER 20 ARE REPEATED 10:51 ALMOST VERBATIM - THERE'S A LITTLE DIFFERENCE - 10:53 IN DEUTERONOMY 5. DEUTERONOMY 5 - 10:55 MOSES IS PARAPHRASING A LITTLE BIT - HE DOES A LITTLE 10:58 COMMENTARY IN SOME OF THE COMMANDMENTS - BUT IT'S A 11:00 REPEAT - MATTER OF FACT, THE WORD 'DEUTERONOMY' MEANS 'A 11:03 REPEATING OF THE LAW' AND SO HE REPEATS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 11:06 SO CHAPTER 5 - REMEMBER, THERE'S NO CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE. 11:08 DEUTERONOMY IS LIKE THE FINAL SERMON OF MOSES BEFORE HE DIES 11:12 AND HE'S REHEARSING HOW GOD HAS LED THEM. 11:15 SO HE'S JUST FINISHED SAYING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN CHAPTER 5 11:18 AND YOU GET TO CHAPTER 6 WHEN HE SAYS, 'AND THESE WORDS THAT I 11:22 COMMAND YOU TODAY' - WHAT WORDS IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 11:25 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD. 11:27 "AND THESE WORDS WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY SHALL BE IN YOUR 11:30 HEART." NOW, AGAIN, IS THAT PHYSICALLY 11:34 OR IS IT A SYMBOL? SYMBOL. 11:37 "YOU SHALL TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY TO YOUR CHILDREN." 11:41 NOW DOES HE JUST SAY TEACH THEM? OR TEACH THEM HOW? 11:45 >>DILIGENTLY. >>WHAT DOES 'DILIGENTLY' MEAN? 11:51 'ENTHUSIASTICALLY; FAITHFULLY; RIGOROUSLY; CAREFULLY' - MAKE 11:57 SURE THAT YOU DON'T FORGET. TEACH THESE WORDS DILIGENTLY 12:01 TO YOUR CHILDREN. WHY? 12:04 BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE - THAT'S WHEN THE CONCRETE'S SOFT 12:08 AND YOU CAN MAKE IMPRESSIONS THAT WILL LAST THROUGH THEIR 12:12 LIVES. THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE DEVELOPING THEIR CHARACTERS. 12:15 "TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY TO YOUR CHILDREN, AND SHALL TALK OF THEM 12:18 WHEN YOU SIT IN YOUR HOUSE, WHEN YOU WALK BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU 12:22 LIE DOWN, AND WHEN YOU RISE UP." THEY WERE TO SURROUND THEMSELVES 12:28 WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND THE WORDS OF GOD AND THE LAWS 12:32 OF GOD. WHY DID THEY GET? 12:34 - I MEAN, I BET SEVERAL OF YOU COULD PROBABLY QUOTE THE TEN 12:37 COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE YOU'RE GOOD GRANITE BAY CHURCH MEMBERS BUT, 12:42 YOU KNOW, THE AVERAGE CHRISTIAN - REALLY, THE AVERAGE CHRISTIAN 12:45 CAN'T QUOTE HALF OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 12:47 THE AVERAGE CHRISTIAN COULDN'T NAME THEM - EVEN SUMMARIZE - 12:51 SAY, 'NAME THE TEN COMMANDMENTS' - I MEAN, EVEN THE ABBREVIATED 12:53 VERSIONS LIKE 'REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY' - IF THAT'S ALL 12:55 THEY HAD TO REMEMBER. A LOT OF THEM WOULD END UP WITH 12:58 SEVEN OR EIGHT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. BUT THAT'S WHY MOSES SAID, 13:05 'LAY DOWN' - EVENING WORSHIP; 'RISE UP' - MORNING WORSHIP; 13:10 'WALKING BY THE WAY' - WORSHIP ON VACATION - 13:13 JUST ALL THE TIME SURROUND YOURSELF WITH THE WORD OF GOD. 13:16 AND THEN HE GOES ON AND SAYS, "YOU SHALL BIND THEM AS A SIGN 13:19 ON YOUR HAND, AND THEY SHALL BE AS FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR EYES. 13:24 YOU SHALL WRITE THEM ON THE DOORPOSTS OF YOUR HOUSE AND ON 13:28 YOUR GATES." NOW, DID HE LITERALLY MEAN WRITE 13:32 THEM ON THE GATES OR WAS HE SAYING JUST SURROUND YOURSELF 13:36 WITH THEM SO YOU WON'T FORGET? YOU'LL FIND A LOT OF JEWISH 13:43 HOMES HAVE A LITTLE PLACARD WITH SCRIPTURES ROLLED UP - 13:48 I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER WHAT IT'S CALLED RIGHT NOW. 13:49 >>MEZUZAH. >>YEAH, ON THE DOORPOSTS 13:55 THEY'D PUT THEIR HAND ON IT AND KISS IT WHEN THEY'D WALK IN THE 13:57 DOOR. OR YOU'VE SEEN THE JEWISH - SOME OF THE ORTHODOX JEWS THEY 14:05 HAVE THE PHYLACTERIES - THEY HAVE A LITTLE 14:07 BOX WITH SCRIPTURE ON THEIR WRISTS. 14:09 IT'S WRAPPED WITH LEATHER A CERTAIN NUMBER OF TIMES AND 14:12 THEY'LL HAVE ONE HANGING ON THEIR FOREHEAD. 14:14 AND WHEN IT SAYS 'BETWEEN YOUR EYES AND IN YOUR HAND' MOSES 14:19 MEANT IN YOUR ACTIONS - IN YOUR THOUGHTS - BECAUSE DIDN'T HE 14:23 ALSO SAY, 'IN YOUR HEART?' SO IF IN YOUR HEART'S A SYMBOL, 14:26 PUTTING THEM IN YOUR HAND AND PUTTING THEM ON YOUR FOREHEAD, 14:31 THAT OBVIOUSLY MEANT IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND IN YOUR ACTIONS. 14:34 NOW, I THINK RON'S GOING TO READ THIS NEXT VERSE AND THAT KIND OF 14:37 HELPS ILLUSTRATE THAT POINT. DEUTERONOMY 11:18. 14:41 >>IT SAYS, "THEREFORE YOU SHALL LAY UP THESE WORDS OF MINE IN 14:44 YOUR HEART AND IN YOUR SOUL, AND BIND THEM AS A SIGN ON YOUR 14:48 HAND, AND THEY SHALL BE AS FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR EYES." 14:52 >>NOW THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN, A SIGN ON YOUR HAND - 14:56 FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR EYES. 14:58 I'M GOING TO READ YOU ONE MORE - THIS IS ACTUALLY COMING FROM 15:00 EXODUS - EXODUS 8 - 13, VERSES 8 AND 9 - EXODUS 13:8 AND 9, "AND 15:07 YOU SHALL TELL YOUR SON IN THAT DAY, SAYING, 'THIS IS DONE 15:10 BECAUSE OF WHAT THE LORD DID FOR ME WHEN I CAME UP FROM EGYPT.'" 15:13 - HE'S SPEAKING OF THE PASSOVER - "IT SHALL BE AS A SIGN TO YOU 15:16 ON YOUR HAND AND AS A MEMORIAL BETWEEN YOUR EYES, THAT THE 15:20 LORD'S LAW MAY BE IN YOUR MOUTH;" - NOW THERE'S A CLUE - 15:24 OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE WHAT? THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS 15:29 - "FOR WITH A STRONG HAND THE LORD HAS BROUGHT YOU OUT OF 15:31 EGYPT." NOW THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT 15:33 BECAUSE EVERYONE IN THE WORLD, WHEN THEY HEAR ABOUT THE MARK OF 15:37 THE BEAST IN THE FOREHEAD OR IN THE HAND. WHAT DO THEY THINK OF? 15:42 HAVE YOU HEARD IT SAID BEFORE THAT THAT MEANS 'WATCH OUT, IN 15:44 THE LAST DAYS THE BEAST POWER'S GOING TO GET EVERYONE TO LINE UP 15:47 AND THEY'RE GOING TO TATTOO YOU ON YOUR HAND OR ON YOUR FOREHEAD 15:51 - AND EVERYONE WONDERS, 'IS IT A BAR CODE? 15:55 IS IT THE NUMBER 666? IS IT A TATTOO? 15:58 IS IT ONE OF THOSE COMPUTER CHIPS?' 16:01 - WHAT DO THEY CALL THOSE? >>MICROCHIPS. 16:05 >>MICROCHIPS. THERE'S ANOTHER WORD THEY USE FOR THEM. 16:07 >>NANOCHIPS. >>WELL, YEAH, MICROCHIPS, BUT 16:09 IT'S A CHIP - AN I.D. CHIP - THEY PUT THEM IN PETS. 16:12 NOW WHEN YOU LOCATE - I GUESS IT'S HELPFUL - YOU'LL GET A 16:15 STRAY DOG AND THEY JUST SCAN IT AND SAY, 'OH, WE KNOW WHOSE 16:17 DOG THIS IS.' SO BIG BROTHER IS EVEN WATCHING THE DOGS - NO. 16:23 AND SO PEOPLE ARE WONDERING, 'IS THAT WHAT IT MEANS - IN THE HAND 16:26 - IN THE FOREHEAD' - 'HOW ARE THEY GOING TO DO THAT?' 16:27 - OR 'MAYBE IT'LL BE ULTRAVIOLET' OR 'WHAT KIND OF - 16:29 IS IT A VISIBLE TATTOO?' OR - THEY'RE TOTALLY MISSING THE 16:32 POINT. WHEN IT SAYS, SEVERAL TIMES - 16:35 I READ YOU THREE, RIGHT NOW, TIMES IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT SAYS 16:38 'IN THE HAND AND IN THE FOREHEAD.' IN REVELATION, 16:42 WHERE'S THE SEAL OF GOD? THEY HAVE THEIR FATHER'S NAME 16:48 WRITTEN WHERE? IN THEIR FOREHEAD. 16:50 WHERE DOES 'MYSTERY, BABYLON, MOTHER OF HARLOTS' APPEAR? 16:55 IT'S ON THE FOREHEAD OF THAT WOMAN IN REVELATION, RIGHT? 16:59 WHERE DID GOLIATH GET STRUCK WITH THE STONE? 17:04 >>IN THE FOREHEAD. >>IN THE FOREHEAD. 17:07 IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING. WHAT WAS THE ONLY THING LEFT OF 17:10 JEZEBEL AFTER THEY WENT TO CHECK ON HER? 17:14 HER SKULL AND THE PALMS OF HER HANDS. 17:17 'IN THE HAND AND IN THE FOREHEAD' - IT'S KIND OF 17:19 INTERESTING. IT'S A SYMBOL. 17:21 SO WHEN IT SAYS, IN REVELATION, THE BEAST IS GOING TO MARK 17:24 PEOPLE IN THE HAND OR IN THE FOREHEAD, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 17:29 EVERYBODY'S MARKED IN REVELATION - THOSE THAT HAVE THE LAW OF GOD 17:33 - THE NEW COVENANT - IN THEIR HEARTS. 17:35 THAT WOULD, OF COURSE, INCLUDE THAT COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS, 'BE 17:39 HOLY' - WHICH YOU ONLY FIND IN THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT. 17:45 IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE LAW OF GOD, YOU'VE GOT THE LAW OF THE 17:47 BEAST, RIGHT? THERE'S ONLY TWO GROUPS IN THE LAST DAYS. 17:50 AND SO, WHEN IT SAYS 'IN THE HAND AND THE FOREHEAD' IT'S NOT 17:53 TALKING ABOUT A TATTOO NO MORE THAN IT MEANS THAT GOD IS GOING 17:56 TO TATTOO THE SEAL OF GOD IN PEOPLE'S FOREHEADS. 17:59 IT'S A SYMBOL OF WHO YOU WORSHIP AND YOUR WORKS. 18:03 SO SOLOMON'S TALKING ABOUT THESE KIND OF METAPHORS, WHEN YOU - 18:11 NOT ONLY DO THE JEWS HAVE - THEY HAVE THE SCRIPTURES ON THE 18:15 PHYLACTERIES ON THEIR FOREHEAD AND THEIR HANDS, ARE THERE 18:19 CHURCHES, BOTH MUSLIM AND CATHOLIC, THAT PRAY WITH BEADS? 18:25 JUST ALL THESE OUTWARD SYMBOLS AND DO SOME CHRISTIANS WEAR 18:28 CROSSES? NOW SOME MIGHT DO IT ORNAMENTALLY OR AS AN ACCESSORY 18:35 TO THEIR DRESS, BUT I THINK WE'VE ALL KNOWN THAT THAT CROSS 18:38 HOLDS SOME KIND OF ALMOST SUPERNATURAL SIGNIFICANCE OR 18:41 GOOD LUCK, EVEN. I HAD A FRIEND THAT HE DRANK AND 18:46 PARTIED AND I JUST - HE - YOU KNOW, THIS IS BACK BEFORE I WAS 18:49 A CHRISTIAN AND I GOT IN HIS CAR ONE DAY AND HE HAD A CROSS 18:51 HANGING FROM HIS MIRROR. I SAID, 'RICK, I DIDN'T KNOW YOU 18:54 WERE A CHRISTIAN.' HE SAID, 'I'M NOT. THAT'S SO I'LL BE SAFE WHEN 18:57 I'M DRIVING.' IT'S LIKE IT WAS A GOOD LUCK CHARM. 19:00 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN OUR CULTURE ARE TRAINED IF YOU RUN 19:03 INTO VAMPIRES HOLD UP A CROSS. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO BE A 19:05 BELIEVER. IT'S CONSIDERED - AND SO, THIS 19:09 IS NOT WHAT SOLOMON IS TALKING ABOUT. 19:11 HE'S USING THESE AS SYMBOLS FOR JUST HAVING THE WORD OF GOD AND 19:14 THE LAW OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE. ALRIGHT, NOW SOMEBODY'S GOT 19:18 ROMANS 7:7 - WHO - WE'LL HAVE YOU READ THAT IN JUST A SECOND. 19:23 I'VE GOT ONE MORE VERSE HERE, PROVERBS 3:3, "LET NOT MERCY AND 19:27 TRUTH FORSAKE YOU; BIND THEM AROUND YOUR NECK, WRITE THEM ON 19:31 THE TABLET OF YOUR HEART." 19:33 THERE YOU HAVE THOSE SAME METAPHORS AGAIN. 19:36 SO WE'RE TO SURROUND OURSELVES WITH THE WORD OF GOD AND JUST 19:39 KEEP IT EVER PRESENT AS A PRIORITY IN OUR LIVES. 19:42 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD.' 19:45 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD. PLEASE READ FOR US ROMANS 7:7. 19:49 >>ROMANS 7:7, "WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? IS THE LAW SIN? 19:54 CERTAINLY NOT! ON THE CONTRARY, I WOULD NOT 19:57 HAVE KNOWN SIN EXCEPT THROUGH THE LAW. 19:59 FOR I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN COVETOUSNESS UNLESS THE LAW HAD 20:02 SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT COVET.'" >>NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE 20:06 AS WE TIE OFF THIS SECTION IN PROVERBS - THIS IS OUR FIRST 20:10 STUDY - WE JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT 20:14 WE'RE SAVED BY THE LAW, BUT HAVING THE LAW AROUND US AS A 20:18 REMINDER - IT'S LIKE THAT MIRROR THAT JAMES REFERRED TO THAT WE 20:23 LOOK INTO THAT LEADS US INTO THE TRUTH AND HELPS US BE AWARE. 20:29 SOMETIMES CONVICTION IS A HEALTHY THING AND, YOU KNOW, 20:37 IT'S HARD TO LITTER RIGHT IN FRONT OF A SIGN THAT SAYS, 'DO 20:39 NOT LITTER.' SO EVEN THOUGH THE BEST THING WOULD BE NOT TO 20:43 LITTER ANYWHERE, HAVING THOSE SIGNS AROUND US ARE GOOD 20:47 REMINDERS. ALRIGHT, MOVING ON TO MONDAY. 20:51 AND HERE - BY THE WAY, DURING THIS LESSON, OUR MISSION IS 20:54 WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING FROM PROVERBS 6:21 AND, GOD WILLING, 20:59 WE'RE GOING TO GET THROUGH PROVERBS 7:27 SO THAT'S KIND OF 21:02 THE SECTION OF VERSES WE'RE GOING TO HOPE TO COVER. 21:05 ALRIGHT, PROVERBS 6:23, "FOR THE COMMANDMENT IS A LAMP, AND THE 21:10 LAW A LIGHT; REPROOFS OF INSTRUCTION ARE THE WAY OF 21:14 LIFE," - HERE SOLOMON, AGAIN, IS EMPLOYING ANOTHER METAPHOR OF 21:20 HOW THE LAW OF GOD IS A LIGHT. WHAT COULD BE A BETTER SYMBOL? 21:27 IS JESUS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS A LIGHT? 21:30 THERE WERE THREE PIECES OF FURNITURE IN THE SANCTUARY, WHAT 21:34 WERE THEY? >>TABLE OF SHOW BREAD. 21:36 LAMPSTAND. >>YEAH. 21:40 THAT LAMP - LIGHT - THE BIBLE TELLS US JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE 21:46 LIGHT OF WORLD.' BUT YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE HE SAID? 21:48 'YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD' - AS WE REFLECT HIS LIGHT. 21:52 AND SO WITHOUT LIGHT, WHAT DO YOU HAVE? DARKNESS. 21:57 CAN DARKNESS PUT OUT LIGHT? YOU KNOW, YOU CAN NEVER REALLY 22:02 TURN UP DARKNESS? THE ONLY WAY DARKNESS INCREASES 22:06 IS BECAUSE LIGHT FAILS. AND THE ONLY REASON THAT 22:09 DARKNESS INCREASES IN THE WORLD IS BECAUSE THE LIGHT AND THE 22:14 SALT THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE IS FAILING? 22:17 AND SO HE SAYS KEEPING THE LAW BEFORE PEOPLE, THIS IS WHAT 22:21 BRINGS THE LIGHT INTO THEIR LIVES. 22:23 HE GIVES US ANOTHER ONE, PSALM - AND THIS IS, OF COURSE, FROM 22:27 DAVID, WHICH PROBABLY INFLUENCED WHAT SOLOMON WROTE - PSALM 22:31 119:105 - WE ALL KNOW THIS, "YOUR WORD IS A LAMP TO MY FEET 22:37 AND A LIGHT TO MY PATH." PSALM 119 - WHAT'S THE PRINCIPLE 22:40 MESSAGE IN THAT CHAPTER - THE LONGEST CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE? 22:43 THE LAW. YEAH, IT'S THE WORD OF GOD. 22:47 THERE'S PROBABLY MORE REFERENCES TO THE LAW OF GOD IN PSALMS 119 22:51 - SOMEDAY I'D LIKE TO PREACH JUST ON PSALM 119, BUT YOU'D 22:54 ALMOST NEED TO MAKE LIKE A THREE-WEEK SERIES OR SOMETHING 22:57 BECAUSE IT'S GOT A LOT OF VERSES IN IT. 22:59 BUT SO HE'S NOT ONLY SAYING, 'THY WORD IS A LAMP, EVERYTHING 23:03 DAVID SAYS AROUND THAT VERSE IS TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD, IT 23:06 ILLUMINATES OUR FEET. IT'S A LIGHT TO MY PATH. 23:11 PROVERBS 7:2, "KEEP MY COMMANDS AND LIVE, AND MY LAW AS THE 23:17 APPLE OF YOUR EYE." THE APPLE OF YOUR EYE - IT'S 23:20 TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING - I THINK IT'S JUST - SOMETIMES 23:24 THAT'S TRANSLATED 'THE PUPIL OF YOUR EYE.' IT'S TALKING ABOUT 23:26 JUST AS THE MIDDLE - THE FOCUS OF YOUR EYE. 23:29 YOU GO TO THE EYE DOCTOR AND YOU HAVE AN EXAM, ONE OF THE THINGS 23:31 THEY'LL DO IS THEY'LL SAY, 'LOOK AT THAT DOT.' AND THEN THEY'LL 23:33 TAKE THIS LIGHT AND GO OVER HERE AND YOU WANT TO LOOK AND HE 23:35 SAYS, 'NO, I DIDN'T SAY LOOK OVER HERE.' HE SAYS, 'I WANT YOU 23:36 TO LOOK AT THE DOT.' I SAID, 'WHY DO YOU WANT IT OVER HERE?' 23:38 HE SAID, 'I WAS CHECKING YOUR PERIPHERAL VISION.' AND HE'LL 23:41 TAKE - AND THEY'LL WAVE A PEN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND SAY, 23:44 'TELL ME, CAN YOU SEE IT? CAN YOU SEE IT? CAN YOU SEE IT?' 23:47 AND AT SOME POINT OUT HERE - I CAN SEE RIGHT NOW - I CAN'T SEE 23:52 WITH MY LEFT EYE BECAUSE MY NOSE IS IN THE WAY, BUT WITH MY RIGHT 23:54 EYE I CAN. BUT THAT'S YOUR PERIPHERY. 24:01 WHEN IT COMES TO THE LAW, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE 24:04 PERIPHERY, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE APPLE OF YOUR EYE. 24:07 IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A CENTRAL POINT OF FOCUS IN YOUR LIFE AND 24:11 - THAT'S GUIDING YOU. IT'S YOUR - IT'S THE CORE OF YOUR WORLD 24:16 VIEW THAT CALIBRATES ALL OF YOUR DECISIONS, IS HAVING 24:22 THAT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. AND GO AHEAD, READ FOR US PSALM 24:25 19:8. >>"...THE COMMANDMENT OF THE 24:29 LORD IS PURE, ENLIGHTENING THE EYES;" 24:32 >>SO HERE IT'S KEEPING THE LAW BEFORE YOU AS THE APPLE 24:36 OF YOUR EYE, BUT IT EVEN TELLS US THAT THE LAW ITSELF 24:39 ENLIGHTENS OUR EYES. IT HAS AN ILLUMINATING PROPERTY TO IT. 24:45 2 PETER 1:19 AND IT SAYS, "AND SO WE HAVE THE PROPHETIC WORD 24:53 CONFIRMED, WHICH YOU DO WELL TO HEED AS A LIGHT THAT SHINES IN A 24:57 DARK PLACE, UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS AND THE MORNING STAR RISES IN 25:03 YOUR HEARTS;" HERE HE'S TALKING ABOUT JUST A 25:05 LIGHT THAT KEEPS GETTING BRIGHTER. 25:07 SO AS WE FOCUS ON THE LAW, DO YOU EVER REACH THE BOTTOM? 25:11 IF A PERSON IS TO STUDY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR A YEAR - I KNOW 25:17 IT SEEMS - IT'S ONLY ABOUT THREE HUNDRED WORDS - ABOUT THE LENGTH 25:20 OF THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS - IF YOU WERE TO STUDY THE TEN 25:24 COMMANDMENTS FOR A YEAR, COULD YOU EVER GET TO THE PLACE WHERE 25:26 YOU SAY, 'I'VE FINALLY PLUMBED THE DEPTHS OF GOD'S LAW?' 25:32 THERE'S - YOU KNOW, I DID A SERIES JUST LAST YEAR, ON THE 25:35 TEN COMMANDMENTS, AND I KEPT FINDING ALL OF THESE THINGS I 25:39 WISHED I HAD SAID. I COULD HAVE GONE WEEKS ON ANY 25:42 ONE COMMANDMENT BECAUSE I KEPT FINDING MORE AND MORE AND I'D 25:45 SAY, 'OH I LEFT THIS OUT.' AND 'I LEFT THAT OUT.' AND THERE WAS 25:46 SO MUCH, EVERY TIME YOU'D READ IT YOU'D SAY, 'HOW DID I MISS 25:48 THAT?' AND IT JUST - IT'S SO DEEP AND IT ENLIGHTENS YOUR EYES 25:53 AND IT GUIDES YOU. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS IS 25:56 WHEN YOU JUST STUDY THE LAW OF GOD, IT SEEMS SO SIMPLE, BUT THE 26:01 LONGER YOU LOOK AT IT, YOU REALIZE IT IS A SUPERNATURAL 26:05 GENIUS IN THE WORDING AND THE ORGANIZATION AND ALL THE LITTLE 26:10 NUANCES OF WHAT'S IN JUST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND, OF COURSE, 26:13 THE LAW OF GOD IS BIGGER THAN THAT. 26:15 NOW, WHILE WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THAT SUBJECT, LET ME JUMP 26:20 TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND JESUS HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS. 26:24 IF WE LOOK IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, VERSE 17 - AND I THINK IT'S 26:31 IMPORTANT JUST TO PAUSE - WE HAVE, MOST OF US HERE BELIEVE 26:36 THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ETERNAL. THEY DON'T CHANGE. 26:40 THEY'VE NOT BEEN ABROGATED BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF 26:43 CHRISTIANS - IT JUST ALWAYS SHOCKS ME TO THINK IT AND SAY IT 26:45 - THERE ARE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS OUT THERE THAT SOMEHOW THINK 26:48 THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - JESUS CAME TO FULFILL THEM AND 26:54 WHAT'S MEANT BY THAT IS TO DO AWAY WITH THEM. 26:57 AND WHEN YOU REALLY DRILL DOWN AND ASK A PERSON 'WHAT DO YOU 27:01 MEAN BY THAT?' AND YOU SAY, 'DOES THAT MEAN, THEN, IS IT 27:05 OKAY FOR A CHRISTIAN TO LIE?' THEY SAY, 'NO, NO, OF COURSE 27:09 NOT.' CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE EVEN MORE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT. 27:13 IS IT OKAY FOR A CHRISTIAN TO STEAL OR TO COMMIT ADULTERY OR 27:18 IS IT OKAY FOR A CHRISTIAN TO USE GOD'S NAME IN VAIN? 27:22 THEY'LL SAY, 'OH NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, IF YOU'VE GOT THE LOVE AND 27:24 THE SPIRIT WE DON'T NEED THE LETTER OF THE LAW, WE JUST NEED 27:26 THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW.' BUT, IN REALITY, THE WHOLE THEOLOGY 27:31 ABOUT ELIMINATING THE LAW OF GOD IS USUALLY BECAUSE THERE'S ONE 27:35 COMMANDMENT, IN PARTICULAR, THAT IS ANNOYING. IT'S TRUE. 27:40 NOBODY - YOU GO BACK FIFTY YEARS AGO, I CAN SHOW YOU BILLY GRAHAM 27:43 SERMONS AND A LOT OF SERMONS FROM SUNDAY PASTORS AND THEY ALL 27:47 ARE TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 27:50 AND THEY USED TO BE ON THE WALLS IN ALL THE CHURCHES AND A NEW 27:53 THEOLOGY STARTED TO COME IN BASICALLY SAYING, BECAUSE OF 27:58 SOME VERSES IN GALATIANS AND A COUPLE OF OTHER PLACES THAT, YOU 28:01 KNOW, 'WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE LAW ANYMORE.' AND PAUL IS 28:05 USUALLY TALKING THERE ABOUT CEREMONIAL LAWS. OR EVEN THOSE 28:08 WHO THINK WE'RE SAVED BY THE LAW, WHICH WE'RE NOT. BUT WHAT 28:10 DID JESUS SAY IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, VERSE 17? "DO NOT THINK" - 28:15 NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? SIMPLY, DON'T THINK THIS. 28:20 - "DO NOT THINK THAT I CAME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS. 28:25 I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL." 28:28 NOW IF FULFILL MEANS 'DO AWAY WITH' - AS SOME PEOPLE INTERPRET 28:34 THAT - THAT WOULD MEAN JESUS IS SAYING, 'DON'T THINK I CAME TO 28:38 DESTROY THE LAW, I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY IT BUT TO DO AWAY 28:40 WITH IT.' WOULD THAT MAKE ANY SENSE? NO. 28:45 FULFILL MEANS TO FILL FULL - KEEP IT - TO SHOW US HOW TO 28:48 KEEP IT - TO LIVE IT OUT IN HIS LIFE. 28:51 NOT SO WE DON'T HAVE TO, BUT AS AN EXAMPLE. 28:53 THE BIBLE SAYS HE'S WALKED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN HIS STEPS. 28:56 "FOR ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY, 29:01 ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL BY NO MEANS PASS FROM THE LAW" - HE 29:06 DIDN'T SAY 'UNTIL I DIE ON THE CROSS.' HE SAID, "TILL ALL IS 29:10 FULFILLED." WHAT HE MEANS BY THAT IS 'ALL IS 29:13 KEPT.' IT'S ETERNAL IN NATURE. THEN HE GOES ON LEST THERE'S 29:17 SOME WHO STILL MAY MISUNDERSTAND. 29:19 JESUS NOW IS IN VERSE 19 - MATTHEW 5:19 - "WHOEVER 29:23 THEREFORE BREAKS ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, AND 29:26 TEACHES MEN SO, SHALL BE CALLED LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; 29:29 BUT WHOEVER DOES AND TEACHES THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED GREAT 29:33 IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." NOW, IF ANYONE MISUNDERSTANDS 29:39 EVEN THAT, HE SAYS IN VERSE 20, "FOR I SAY TO YOU, THAT UNLESS 29:44 YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEEDS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND 29:49 PHARISEES, YOU WILL BY NO MEANS ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." 29:53 NOW THEY WERE THE MOST FASTIDIOUS, LEGALISTIC - GOD 29:57 ISN'T TELLING US WE SHOULD BE EVEN MORE LEGALISTIC THAN THE 30:00 PHARISEES, HE'S SAYING, 'YOU NEED A HIGHER QUALITY OF 30:02 RIGHTEOUSNESS THAN THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES.' THEY WOULD 30:06 SAY IT BUT THEY WOULDN'T DO IT. JESUS SAID, 'YOU'LL BIND BURDENS 30:10 ON MEN THAT YOU WON'T LIFT WITH ONE OF YOUR FINGERS.' 30:13 HE CALLED THEM HYPOCRITES. THEY PRAYED LONG PRAYERS THEN THEY 30:16 ROBBED WIDOWS' HOUSES. HE SAID, 'YOU NEED THE KIND OF 30:18 RIGHTEOUSNESS WHERE YOU'RE NOT JUST SAYING, 'LORD, LORD' BUT 30:20 YOU'RE DOING IT IN YOUR LIFE.' - YOU'RE LIVING OUT THE LAW OF 30:24 THE LORD, WHICH IS ALL SUMMARIZED, REALLY, IN LOVE. 30:27 AND THEN HE GOES ON AND SAYS IN VERSE 21, "YOU HAVE HEARD THAT 30:31 IT WAS SAID TO THOSE OF OLD, 'YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, AND 30:34 WHOEVER MURDERS WILL BE IN DANGER OF THE JUDGMENT.' BUT I 30:37 SAY TO YOU THAT WHOEVER IS ANGRY WITH HIS BROTHER WITHOUT A CAUSE 30:41 SHALL BE IN DANGER OF THE JUDGMENT. AND WHOEVER SAYS TO 30:43 HIS BROTHER, 'RACA!' SHALL BE IN DANGER OF THE COUNCIL. BUT 30:46 WHOEVER SAYS, 'YOU FOOL!' SHALL BE IN DANGER OF HELL FIRE." 30:48 SO JESUS SAID, 'YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID BY THEM OF OLD, 'YOU'LL NOT 30:51 COMMIT MURDER.'' NOW, THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT VERSE FOR A 30:54 COUPLE OF REASONS: 1) WHAT DOES THAT COMMANDMENT SAY? 30:58 'THOU SHALL NOT KILL.' JESUS SAYS IT'S REALLY MORE ACCURATE, 31:01 'THOU SHALL NOT MURDER.' BECAUSE EVERY TIME YOU STEP ON A BUG YOU 31:06 KILL. YOU'RE NOT BREAKING THE LAW OF GOD. IT'S SAYING, 'DON'T 31:09 MURDER.' IT'S TALKING ABOUT TAKING INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE. 31:12 IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT SOLDIERS THAT GO TO DEFEND THE COUNTRY, 31:15 IT'S TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE WRONGFULLY TAKING 31:19 INNOCENT LIFE. 31:20 SO AFTER HE QUOTES FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, DOES HE SAY YOU 31:24 DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THAT COMMANDMENT ANYMORE AS LONG AS 31:26 YOU'RE NOT ANGRY WITH YOUR BROTHER IN YOUR HEART? 31:29 OR IS IT OBVIOUS THAT THE BARE MINIMUM IS YOU DON'T MURDER, BUT 31:33 HE'S SAYING IT GOES BEYOND THAT SO YOU NEED TO BE KEEPING IT IN 31:36 YOUR HEART. AND THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON IS TALKING ABOUT. 31:40 THE LAW OF GOD NEEDS TO BE AT THE CORE OF OUR LIVES - 31:43 IN YOUR HEART. SO IT'S NOT JUST ACTIONS. 31:45 THEN HE TALKS ABOUT ADULTERY, "YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID 31:47 TO THOSE OF OLD, 'YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.' BUT I SAY TO 31:50 YOU THAT WHOEVER LOOKS AT A WOMAN" - AND IT WORKS BOTH WAYS 31:54 - WITH LUST IN YOUR HEART, YOU CAN BE BREAKING THE COMMANDMENT 31:57 THAT WAY - NOT JUST ACTIONS, IT'S ATTITUDES AS WELL. 32:01 AND THEN YOU LOOK IN MATTHEW 19:17 - A YOUNG MAN CAME TO 32:11 JESUS AND SAID, "'GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THING SHALL I DO THAT 32:14 I MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?' SO HE SAID TO HIM, 'WHY DO YOU 32:17 CALL ME GOOD? NO ONE IS GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD. 32:22 BUT IF YOU WANT TO ENTER INTO LIFE,'" - DO WHAT? 32:26 >>KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS. >>"KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." 32:28 AND THEN HE WENT ON AND HE SAID, "WHICH ONES?" 32:31 AND JESUS QUOTES FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 32:34 SO WAS CHRIST SAYING THAT ONCE HE DIED ON THE CROSS THAT 32:38 OBSERVING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WAS NOT NECESSARY? 32:41 NO, OF COURSE NOT, IT'S STILL THE SAME. 32:43 THE REASON I'M SAYING ALL THIS IS BECAUSE I'M GOING TO GREAT 32:47 LENGTHS TO TRY TO REINFORCE THE TRUTH BECAUSE YOU CAN'T 32:51 UNDERSTAND WHAT SOLOMON IS SAYING WHEN SOLOMON IS TALKING 32:54 ABOUT THE LAW - KEEPING IT IN YOUR HEART, KEEPING IT IN YOUR 32:56 MIND, TIE IT AROUND YOUR HEAD, PUT IT AROUND YOUR NECK, IT'LL 32:59 BE AS THE APPLE OF YOUR EYE - HE USES ALL THESE METAPHORS. 33:03 AND THEN YOU JUMP TO THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCHES THAT SAY, 33:06 'BUT ONCE JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS, YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY 33:08 ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.' WHAT DOES THAT DO TO EVERYTHING 33:10 SOLOMON SAYS ABOUT THE LAW? OF COURSE IT'S STILL INTACT. 33:15 THE SAME THING THAT GOD SAID TO DAVID, 'KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS,' 33:19 THAT DAVID SAID TO HIS SON, 'KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD,' 33:23 SOLOMON IS SAYING TO US AND JESUS REITERATES. 33:27 BY THE WAY, JESUS IS THE SON OF DAVID, LIKE SOLOMON, WHO WAS A 33:32 TYPE OF - SOLOMON WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 33:35 ALRIGHT, REVELATION CHAPTER 14, VERSE 12. 33:39 NOW THESE ARE ALL IN - THEY'RE STILL IN MONDAY'S SECTION HERE. 33:43 "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP 33:46 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS." 33:49 THEN, OF COURSE, I BET MOST OF YOU HERE COULD QUOTE REVELATION 33:52 CHAPTER 12, VERSE 17, "THE DRAGON WAS" - 33:56 >>WROTH WITH THE WOMAN. 33:58 >>"WROTH WITH THE WOMAN AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF 34:02 HER SEED THAT" - >>KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS. 34:04 >>"KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND HAVE THE" - 34:06 >>TESTIMONY. >>"TESTIMONY OF JESUS." 34:08 AND THEN REVELATION CHAPTER 22, "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO DO HIS 34:13 COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF 34:16 LIFE, AND MAY ENTER THROUGH THE GATES OF THE CITY." 34:18 AND SO WHAT'S SEPARATING THOSE WHO HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST 34:22 FROM THOSE WHO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD IS YOU'VE GOT THIS ONE GROUP 34:25 THAT'S IDENTIFIED AS THE ONES WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF 34:28 GOD. WE DON'T DO IT TO BE SAVED, WE DO IT BECAUSE IT'S IN YOUR 34:32 HEART, AS SOLOMON SAID IN SEVERAL VERSES. 34:35 JOHN 8:12 - JESUS SAID, "I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 34:40 HE WHO FOLLOWS ME SHALL NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, BUT HAVE THE LIGHT 34:44 OF LIFE." SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT LIGHT AND THAT LIFE. 34:47 SO YOU'VE GOT LIFE ON ONE HAND, WHICH IS ONE OF THE POINTS IN 34:51 OUR LESSON, AND THE OPPOSITE OF LIFE IS DEATH. YOU CAN HAVE THE 34:56 LIGHT AND THE LIFE OR THE DEATH AND THE DARKNESS. 34:59 GOD'S LAW - WHAT'S THE LAST THING MOSES SAID - ALMOST LAST 35:02 THING HE SAID BEFORE HE CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN AND DIED? 35:06 'HEAR O ISRAEL, I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU TWO OPTIONS AND THAT 35:10 I COMMAND YOU TO LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD. 35:13 IF YOU OBEY GOD' - IT SAYS - 'YOU'LL BE BLESSED, IT'LL BE 35:17 GOOD, AND IT'S FOR YOUR BLESSING. 35:20 YOU DISOBEY, YOU DIE.' HE SAID, 'I SET BEFORE YOU THIS DAY, LIFE 35:24 AND GOOD AND BLESSING, DEATH AND EVIL AND CURSING.' - 35:28 TWO CHOICES. AND SO HE SAYS THAT IN THE 35:31 CONTEXT OF OBEYING GOD. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE HE SAYS? 35:34 'I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY TO LOVE THE LORD AND KEEP HIS 35:37 COMMANDMENTS.' CAN YOU REALLY KEEP THEM IF YOU DON'T LOVE 35:39 HIM? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE KEEPING 35:43 THE LAW, IN ITS TRUEST SENSE, IF YOU DON'T LOVE GOD. 35:46 BUT IF YOU'RE THINKING, 'WELL, I DON'T LOVE GOD, SHOULD I STILL 35:52 KEEP HIS LAW ANYWAY?' YEAH, YOU'LL BE BETTER OFF. 35:55 YOU SHOULD BE A CHEERFUL GIVER. BUT LET'S SUPPOSE YOU'RE NOT 35:59 CHEERFUL. SHOULD YOU STILL PAY YOUR TITHE? 36:02 YEAH, AND YOU'LL STILL BE BLESSED. 36:05 YOU MAY NOT WANT TO HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER - MAY NOT FEEL 36:08 LIKE IT - MIGHT NOT EVEN THINK YOU LOVE THEM - BUT SHOULD YOU 36:11 HONOR THEM ANYWAY BECAUSE GOD SAID SO? 36:13 >>YES. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 36:14 SO DO THE RIGHT THING BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT. 36:17 BEST THING IS TO DO IT BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE LORD, OKAY? 36:20 TUESDAY - 'FIGHTING TEMPTATION' - NOW IF YOU GO TO PROVERBS 6:24 36:24 - MATTER OF FACT, WE'RE GOING TO BE READING VERSES 24 THROUGH 29 36:27 BUT I'LL PAUSE HERE. PROVERBS 6:24 - HE'S GOING ON. 36:33 HE SAYS, "TO KEEP YOU FROM THE EVIL WOMAN," - SO ONE OF THE 36:35 THINGS HE'S SAYING - TYING THE LAW OF GOD AROUND YOUR HEART - 36:39 "TO KEEP YOU FROM THE EVIL WOMAN, FROM THE FLATTERING 36:42 TONGUE OF A SEDUCTRESS." 36:44 - NOW, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN OUR LAST LESSON. 36:46 SOLOMON RETURNS TO THIS SUBJECT SEVERAL TIMES THROUGH PROVERBS 36:51 AND HE WAS SOMETHING OF AN EXPERT IN THIS CATEGORY. 36:57 I MEAN, IF YOU JUST READ THE HISTORY OF SOLOMON, HE GOT IN 36:59 TROUBLE BECAUSE IT SAYS, 'SOLOMON LOVED MANY STRANGE 37:01 WOMEN.' THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS. THAT MEANT FOREIGN WOMEN. 37:06 BUT - AND HIS WIVES LED HIM AWAY AND HE GOT IN TROUBLE. 37:12 HE WAS REPROVED BY A PROPHET FOR IT. BUT IT'S MORE THAN JUST 37:18 TALKING ABOUT TEMPTATION TO INFIDELITY OR ADULTERY OR 37:25 FORNICATION, HERE THIS WOMAN THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT - 37:30 IT'S TEMPTATION. LIKE YOU HAVE JEZEBEL - REMEMBER 37:38 WHEN JEHU CAME TO THE CITY? SHE THOUGHT AHAB WAS DEAD - NOW 37:43 HER SON WAS DEAD AND SHE THOUGHT, 'MY LAST CHANCE IS TO 37:45 SEDUCE HIM.' BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT SHE REALIZED THAT SHE 37:49 TURNED INTO A GRANDMOTHER OVER THE YEARS AND WHAT SHE WAS ABLE 37:52 TO ACHIEVE BEFORE WAS NOT NEARLY AS EFFECTIVE. 37:55 BUT IT SAYS THAT SHE FIXED UP HER HAIR AND PAINTED HER FACE 37:57 AND LOOKED OUT A WINDOW AND THEN SHE BEGAN TO TRY TO RATIONALIZE 38:01 WITH JEHU AND JEHU ASKED SOME EUNUCHS THAT WERE IN THE 38:05 BUILDING TO THROW HER OUT THE WINDOW. 38:07 BUT THAT WOMAN IN REVELATION 17, SHE'S CALLED THE MOTHER OF - 38:10 >>HARLOTS. >>HARLOTS. 38:12 IS THAT TALKING ABOUT PHYSICAL ADULTERY? 38:16 IT SAYS, 'WITH WHOM THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH HAVE COMMITTED 38:17 FORNICATION.' OR IS IT TALKING ABOUT COMPROMISING OF TRUTH? 38:21 WHEN WE FOLLOW THE FALSEHOODS OF THE DEVIL, DOESN'T THE BIBLE 38:25 USE THE METAPHOR OF INFIDELITY? WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 38:29 WOULD PRAY TO IDOLS OF OTHER GODS, GOD CALLED IT 'ADULTERY.' 38:35 AND SO THIS METAPHOR OF A SEDUCTIVE WOMAN IS SOMETHING 38:41 THAT'S BEING USED TO DESCRIBE TEMPTATION IN GENERAL AND - BUT 38:47 IT WORKS, I THINK, LITERALLY AS WELL AS AS A SYMBOL. 38:51 AND YOU READ ON HERE, IT SAYS IN PROVERBS 6, VERSES 25 THROUGH 38:55 29, "DO NOT LUST AFTER HER BEAUTY IN YOUR HEART, NOR LET 38:59 HER ALLURE YOU WITH HER EYELIDS. 39:02 FOR BY MEANS OF A HARLOT A MAN IS REDUCED TO A CRUST OF BREAD; 39:07 AND AN ADULTERESS WILL PREY UPON HIS PRECIOUS LIFE. CAN A MAN 39:11 TAKE FIRE TO HIS BOSOM, AND HIS CLOTHES NOT BE BURNED? 39:15 CAN ONE WALK ON HOT COALS, AND HIS FEET NOT BE SEARED?" 39:19 - WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THE BEST ANALOGY BECAUSE PEOPLE 39:22 DO THAT NOW AT THESE MOTIVATION SEMINARS, BUT BACK - I DON'T 39:29 KNOW IF ANY OF YOU EVER WENT CAMPING BEFORE - SUMMERTIME - 39:34 HAVE A CAMP FIRE AND SOMEHOW A COAL POPPED OUT OF THE FIRE AND 39:38 YOU STEPPED ON IT, BUT WHEN I LIVED UP IN THE CAVE, IT DOESN'T 39:41 TAKE YOU VERY LONG TO FIND OUT THAT THAT'S HAPPENED AND YOU'LL 39:44 - YOU DO A DANCE - BUT SO I KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT, 'CAN 39:49 YOU WALK ON COALS AND YOUR FEET NOT BE SEARED?' 39:51 - "SO IS HE WHO GOES IN TO HIS NEIGHBOR'S WIFE; WHOEVER TOUCHES 39:56 HER SHALL NOT BE INNOCENT." NOW HE BEARS THAT OUT IN A 40:00 NUMBER OF WAYS THROUGHOUT THE PASSAGE HERE. 40:04 IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, PAUL 40:07 TALKS ABOUT THIS TOO - HE'S TALKING ABOUT IT IN A MORE 40:11 LITERAL SENSE, "NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU EXCEPT AS SUCH 40:17 AS IS COMMON TO MAN. BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL, WHO WILL 40:21 NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU'RE ABLE, BUT 40:24 WILL WITH THE TEMPTATION, MAKE A WAY OF ESCAPE THAT YOU'RE ABLE 40:28 TO BEAR IT." SO, OF COURSE, THERE HE'S - 40:31 THREE TIMES IN THAT VERSE HE TALKS ABOUT TEMPTATION. 40:34 HE SAYS, 'NO TEMPTATION' - 'GOD WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE 40:37 TEMPTED, BUT WILL WITH THE TEMPTATION, WILL ALSO PROVIDE A 40:41 WAY OF ESCAPE.' NOW I'M SAYING ALL THIS TO LEAD UP TO A POINT: 40:46 SOLOMON IS SAYING, 'PUT THE LAW BEFORE YOUR EYE, TIE IT AROUND 40:50 YOUR FINGER, PUT IT AROUND YOUR NECK, PUT IT ON YOUR HEART SO 40:52 THAT WHEN TEMPTATION COMES DO YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHETHER 40:57 THIS IS RIGHT OR WRONG? YOU KNOW WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE 41:00 GET IN TROUBLE WITH TEMPTATION? IS THEY START TO RATIONALIZE. 41:05 JOE CREWS WROTE A BOOK THAT WAS REALLY GREAT, YEARS AGO, IT'S 41:07 CALLED "THE POWER OF A POSITIVE 'NO.'" AND HE SAYS, BASICALLY, 41:12 SO MUCH TEMPTATION COULD BE AVOIDEDBAND WE'D HAVE SO MUCH 41:15 MORE VICTORY, IF WE WOULD BE DECISIVE ABOUT THAT TEMPTATION 41:19 BEFORE IT EVER COMES. 41:21 SO YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND YOU SAY, 'MY ANSWER IS GOING TO BE 41:24 'NO.' AND I'M TELLING YOU IN ADVANCE MY ANSWER'S GOING TO BE 41:26 'NO.' I KNOW WHEN I QUIT SMOKING THAT - OR WHEN I QUIT DRUGS - 41:33 WHEN I QUIT DRINKING I KNEW I'D GET AROUND MY FRIENDS AND THAT - 41:37 I MADE UP MY MIND, 'I'VE GOT TO STOP THIS, THIS ISN'T RIGHT.' 41:40 AND I KNEW WHEN I GOT AROUND SOME OF MY OLD FRIENDS THAT I 41:42 WAS GOING TO BE TEMPTED. THEY WERE GOING TO OFFER ME - 41:48 AND I HAD TO TELL MYSELF AHEAD OF TIME, 'YOU'VE GOT TO SAY 41:51 'NO.' YOU'VE GOT TO SAY 'NO.' IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 41:53 YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DECISION IS AND YOU PREPARE YOURSELF.' 41:56 I KEPT IT AROUND MY NECK. I KEPT IN ON MY FINGER. 41:58 I KEPT IT BEFORE MY EYES SO THAT WHEN IT CAME, YOU GOT YOUR 42:01 ANSWER RIGHT AWAY. 42:02 AND IT'S THE POWER OF A POSITIVE 'NO.' YOUNG PEOPLE GET INTO 42:09 TROUBLE - OR A YOUNG MAN, YOUNG WOMAN GO ON A DATE AND THEY 42:13 DON'T HAVE THINGS CAREFULLY PLANNED AND THEY DON'T HAVE 42:17 THEIR MINDS MADE UP ABOUT WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG AND WHAT LINES 42:20 WILL NOT BE CROSSED AND YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW THAT STUFF AHEAD OF 42:24 TIME, OTHERWISE YOU GET YOURSELF IN A COMPROMISING SITUATION AND 42:28 YOU JUST SAY, 'WELL, I'LL JUST SEE HOW I FEEL AT THE TIME.' 42:30 YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ALL THE WRONG DECISIONS. 42:33 IF A PERSON'S ON A DIET - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TEMPTATION - AND 42:37 YOU'RE INVITED TO A POTLUCK, YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW AHEAD OF TIME 42:43 WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO AND CLAIM THAT PROMISE, 'GOD WILL 42:48 NOT SUFFER YOU TO BE TEMPTED ABOVE WHAT YOU'RE ABLE BUT WILL, 42:50 WITH THE TEMPTATION, PROVIDE A WAY OF ESCAPE.' BUT IT REALLY 42:53 HELPS A LOT TO KNOW AHEAD OF TIME AND HAVE THAT ALL PLANNED 42:56 OUT. NOW I SAID I WAS GOING TO READ 42:58 SOMETHING FROM PAUL ON THIS SUBJECT OF TEMPTATION AND 43:00 ADULTERY AND I GOT TWO SCRIPTURES SWAPPED AROUND. 43:03 NOW, WHAT I WANT TO READ IS 1 CORINTHIANS 6:13 - 1 CORINTHIANS 43:08 6:13 - AND SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, IS GOING TO HAVE MARK 14:38 - 43:12 WHO WILL THAT BE? OVER HERE, OKAY. 43:15 "NOW THE BODY" - AND I'M GOING TO READ VERSES 13 THROUGH 20 - 1 43:20 CORINTHIANS 6:13 - "NOW THE BODY IS NOT FOR FORNICATION, BUT FOR 43:26 THE LORD; AND THE LORD FOR THE BODY. 43:29 AND GOD HATH BOTH RAISED UP THE LORD, AND WILL ALSO RAISE US UP 43:33 BY HIS OWN POWER. KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE 43:37 THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST? SHALL I THEN TAKE THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST, 43:41 AND MAKE THEM THE MEMBERS OF AN HARLOT? GOD FORBID. WHAT? 43:46 KNOW YE NOT THAT HE WHICH IS JOINED TO AN HARLOT IS ONE BODY? 43:50 FOR TWO, SAITH HE, SHALL BE ONE FLESH. BUT HE THAT IS JOINED 43:55 UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT. FLEE FORNICATION." 44:00 - NOW, WHEN YOU FLEE IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU SEE A SNAKE - YOU'RE 44:03 NOT THINKING ABOUT IT, YOU HAVE TO REACT RIGHT AWAY. 44:06 WHAT DID JOSEPH DO WHEN HE WAS TEMPTED IN THAT AREA? HE FLED. 44:12 IT ALSO SAYS 'RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE'LL FLEE FROM YOU.' THAT'S 44:16 THE SAME THING BUT IT'S JUST LIKE TWO MAGNETS PUSHING EACH 44:20 OTHER AWAY. YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW RIGHT AWAY 44:21 THAT IS WRONG AND RUN FROM IT. DON'T GIVE ANY OPPORTUNITY - NOW 44:26 WHETHER IT'S A TEMPTATION TO IMMORALITY OR WHATEVER THE 44:30 TEMPTATION IS - AVOID THOSE PLACES OF TEMPTATION. 44:34 WHEN I GO TO THE MARKET STILL - I HAVEN'T HAD A DRINK IN 44:39 30-SOMETHING YEARS - BUT STILL, WHEN I GO TO THE MARKET, I DON'T 44:43 WANT TO TAKE A SHORTCUT DOWN THE LIQUOR SECTION TO GET TO WHERE 44:46 I'M GOING. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO - THE BIBLE 44:49 SAYS AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF EVIL. 44:51 SO, YOU KNOW, ON EITHER SIDE OF THE AISLE IT'S ALL BOOZE AND I 44:56 THINK, 'WHAT IF A MEMBER WALKS BY AND EVEN SEES ME IN THE 45:01 AISLE? I DON'T EVEN WANT TO GO THROUGH THAT AISLE. 45:04 I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM. 45:05 WHEN I QUIT DRINKING, I DIDN'T QUIT DRINKING - I'LL JUST BE 45:09 HONEST WITH YOU - MY MOTHER DRANK, MY FATHER DRANK - BOTH 45:11 TILL THEY DIED, I MEAN, SO IT WAS IN OUR DNA. 45:16 I WAS CLEANING OUT MY FATHER'S MARTINI GLASSES WHEN I WAS LIKE 45:20 FIVE YEARS OLD, SO I STARTED DRINKING WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG. 45:22 SO I QUIT, NOT BECAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE IT - I QUIT BECAUSE I KNEW 45:25 GOD WANTED ME TO QUIT AND IT WAS BAD. 45:27 BUT IT WASN'T BECAUSE I DIDN'T CRAVE IT. 45:31 AND SO I JUST HAD TO STAY AWAY - DON'T EVEN GO DOWN THAT AISLE. 45:34 DON'T EVEN GIVE THE DEVIL OPPORTUNITY. 45:36 FLEE FROM TEMPTATION. STAY AS FAR AWAY AS YOU CAN. 45:41 AND HE'S SAYING THAT HERE ALSO ABOUT IMMORALITY. 45:44 "FLEE FORNICATION. EVERY SIN THAT A MAN DOETH IS 45:48 WITHOUT THE BODY; BUT HE THAT COMMITTETH FORNICATION SINNETH 45:51 AGAINST HIS OWN BODY. WHAT?" 45:53 - AND, OF COURSE, THIS IS MEN OR WOMEN - "WHAT? 45:55 KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST 45:59 WHICH IS IN YOU, WHICH YE HAVE OF GOD, AND YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN? 46:01 FOR YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE: THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR 46:05 BODY, AND IN YOUR SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GOD'S." 46:08 ALRIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO READ FOR US, I THINK, MARK 14:38. 46:13 >>"WATCH AND PRAY, LEST YOU ENTER INTO TEMPTATION. 46:16 THE SPIRIT INDEED IS WILLING, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK." 46:20 >>NOW JESUS IS MAKING THIS STATEMENT TO THE DISCIPLES IN 46:23 THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE WHEN THEY'RE STRUGGLING WITH PRAYING 46:27 FOR HIM. THE LORD KNOWS THAT THEY'RE GETTING READY TO JUST BE 46:30 HAMMERED WITH ALL KINDS OF TEMPTATION TO DENY HIM AND TO 46:35 FORSAKE HIM AND TO GIVE UP THEIR FAITH. 46:38 AND HE'S SAYING ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE AVOID TEMPTATION IS 46:41 WHAT? WATCH AND PRAY. SO HOW DO YOU WATCH? 46:47 PETER SAYS, 'BE SOBER. BE VIGILANT.' VIGIL - WHAT ARE 46:52 YOU DOING WHEN YOU KEEP VIGIL? DO YOU SLEEP THROUGH A VIGIL? 46:56 TO BE VIGILANT MEANS TO BE LIKE WATCHING AS THOUGH AN ENEMY IS 47:01 APPROACHING AND COULD BE SNEAKING UP, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW 47:04 THE DEVIL WORKS AND JESUS IS SAYING 'THE DEVIL'S SNEAKY. 47:06 KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN.' DON'T THINK A LOT ABOUT THE DEVIL, BUT 47:10 UNDERSTAND YOUR WEAKNESSES AND DON'T GIVE HIM OPPORTUNITY. 47:14 ONE OF THE WAYS WE RESIST - PRAY THAT YOU ENTER NOT INTO 47:19 TEMPTATION. AND WHAT ELSE DID JESUS DO TO AVOID TEMPTATION? 47:22 THE LAW OF GOD AROUND HIS NECK, BETWEEN HIS EYES, ON HIS HAND, 47:29 TIED ON HIS FINGER, IN HIS HEART. FIRST THING HE SAID WHEN 47:33 TEMPTATION CAME - HE FOUGHT WITH - WHAT SOLOMON'S TALKING ABOUT - 47:36 THE LAW OF GOD IS WHAT KEPT HIM FROM THESE THINGS. 47:39 SATAN - AND THIS IS A QUOTE THAT'S IN YOUR LESSON - FROM 47:42 E.G. WHITE, TESTIMONIES VOLUME 4, PAGE 495 - "SATAN OFFERS TO 47:48 MEN THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IF THEY WILL YIELD TO HIM THE 47:52 SUPREMACY. MANY DO THIS AND SACRIFICE HEAVEN. 47:55 IT'S BETTER TO DIE THAN TO SIN." 47:59 YOU DON'T HEAR THAT VERY OFTEN, DO YOU? 48:02 WHAT SEPARATES THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST FROM THOSE 48:06 WHO DON'T? THE ONES WHO REFUSE TO RECEIVE 48:09 THE MARK OF THE BEAST ARE WILLING TO DIE RATHER THAN SIN. 48:13 I MEAN, ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BEAST SAYS? 48:14 IF THEY DON'T WORSHIP THE BEAST THEY'LL BE KILLED. 48:16 SO WE'VE GOT TO HAVE OUR MINDS MADE UP. 48:18 WAS THERE A DEATH SENTENCE THREATENED AGAINST SHADRACH, 48:22 MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO IF THEY DIDN'T AT LEAST ONE TIME BOW 48:25 DOWN - JUST ONCE? HOW ABOUT DANIEL? HE ONLY HAD THIRTY DAYS 48:32 - HE JUST - ALL HE NEEDED TO DO WAS CLOSE HIS WINDOWS THIRTY 48:35 DAYS AND - BUT HE WOULDN'T DO IT AT ALL - NOT ONCE. 48:39 AND WHAT DID THAT MEAN? HE WAS GOING TO DIE. 48:42 AND HE SAID, 'I'D RATHER DIE THAN SIN.' I KNOW THAT SOUNDS 48:44 HEAVY, BUT THIS IS - THIS IS THE BIBLE IDEAL FOR THAT TRUTH. 48:49 I KNOW I'VE MET PEOPLE BEFORE THAT SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG?' 48:51 - CHURCH MEMBERS - AND THEY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I'VE STRUGGLED 48:56 LOOKING FOR WORK AND I FINALLY GOT A JOB AND THEY SAY I'VE ONLY 48:58 GOT TO BREAK THE SABBATH FOR THIRTY DAYS AND THEN I'LL GET 49:01 SENIORITY' OR 'JUST A FEW MONTHS AND THEN I'LL GET - DURING THE 49:05 TRAINING PERIOD - I'VE JUST GOT TO WORK A FEW SABBATHS WHILE I'M 49:08 TRAINING AND THEN I GET IT OFF.' I SAY, 'BOY, ONCE YOU OPEN THAT 49:10 DOOR, BROTHER,' I SAID 'YOU START SELLING YOUR SOUL 49:14 IT MAKES IT EASIER NEXT TIME. 49:16 AND IF YOU'RE WILLING TO DO IT NOW FOR A JOB, WHAT WILL YOU DO 49:18 WHEN YOUR LIFE'S ON THE LINE?' RIGHT? 49:24 IT'S BETTER TO DIE THAN TO SIN. BETTER TO WANT THAN DEFRAUD. 49:29 NOW WHAT THAT MEANS IS DON'T STEAL. YOU'RE BETTER TO BE IN 49:31 WANT OR IN NEED THAN TO DEFRAUD. BETTER TO HUNGER THAN TO LIE FOR 49:36 A PIECE OF BREAD. ALRIGHT, WEDNESDAY - 'YOU SHALL 49:40 NOT STEAL.' NOW I'VE GOT TO MOVE RIGHT ALONG HERE. 49:42 PROVERBS 6:30 TO 31, "MEN DO NOT DESPISE A THIEF IF HE STEAL 49:50 TO SATISFY HIS SOUL WHEN HE IS HUNGRY. 49:52 BUT IF HE BE FOUND, HE SHALL RESTORE SEVENFOLD;" HE MAY HAVE 49:55 TO GIVE UP ALL THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS HOUSE. 49:58 NOW HE'S GOING ON AND HE'S COMPARING SOMEBODY WHO MIGHT 50:00 STEAL TO SOMEBODY WHO MIGHT VIOLATE A MARRIAGE. 50:06 ARE THERE VARYING DEGREES OF SIN? 50:09 WHILE ALL SIN IS BAD, THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES. 50:11 WHAT'S WORSE, TO STEAL SOMETHING OR TO MURDER SOMEBODY? 50:19 WHAT'S WORSE, TO LIE OR TO COMMIT ADULTERY? 50:25 YOU DON'T EVER WANT TO SAY ANYTHING'S GOOD, DO YOU? 50:28 BUT YEAH, I THINK WE ALL KNOW IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN 50:30 EXPERIENCING ONE OF THE TWO, YOU'D RATHER HAVE SOMEONE TELL 50:33 YOU A LIE - OF COURSE, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE LIE IS - 50:34 THAN TO HAVE YOUR MARRIAGE VIOLATED. 50:38 SO THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF SIN AND THAT'S WHAT SOLOMON'S 50:40 SAYING. HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST 50:41 IF A THIEF STEALS IT'S BECAUSE HE'S STARVING, BUT PEOPLE WHO 50:45 COMMIT ADULTERY - DO YOU KNOW YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT SEX? 50:47 BELIEVE IT OR NOT, YOU WON'T DIE EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT THINK YOU 50:50 WILL DIE, YOU WON'T DIE. AND THAT'S WHAT SOLOMON IS SAYING. 50:55 BUT PEOPLE THAT DESTROY ANOTHER FAMILY, THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR 51:01 IT. PROVERBS 30, VERSES 8 AND 9, 51:05 "REMOVE FALSEHOOD AND LIES FAR FROM ME; GIVE ME NEITHER POVERTY 51:09 NOR RICHES - FEED ME WITH THE FOOD ALLOTTED TO ME; LEST I BE 51:13 FULL AND DENY YOU, AND SAY, 'WHO IS THE LORD?' 51:16 OR LEST I BE POOR AND STEAL, AND PROFANE THE NAME OF MY GOD." 51:20 SO HE'S SAYING, 'I DON'T WANT TO DENY THE LORD AND I DON'T WANT 51:22 TO STEAL EITHER.' THEN - NOW, WHEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT 51:28 STEALING, IS SOLOMON JUST TALKING ABOUT A THIEF 51:32 STEALING BREAD OR DOES HE TALK ABOUT STEALING IN THE CONTEXT OF 51:35 STEALING ANOTHER WOMAN'S HUSBAND OR ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE? 51:40 IS THAT STEALING? IS ADULTERY STEALING? 51:44 WHEN YOU STEAL AFFECTION THAT'S BEEN GIVEN TO SOMEONE ELSE IN A 51:47 COVENANT BEFORE GOD? DID DAVID STEAL URIAH'S WIFE? 51:53 HE TOOK IT BY FRAUD. 51:56 THERE'S ANOTHER VERSE WHERE PAUL CONNECTS THE TWO - 52:01 1 THESSALONIANS 4 - 1 THESSALONIANS 4, VERSES 3 52:07 THROUGH 6, "FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION: 52:10 THAT YOU SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY; THAT EACH OF 52:12 YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO POSSESS HIS OWN VESSEL" - HIS BODY - "IN 52:16 SANCTIFICATION AND HONOR, NOT IN PASSION OF LUST, LIKE THE 52:20 GENTILES WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD; THAT NO ONE SHOULD TAKE 52:23 ADVANTAGE OF AND DEFRAUD HIS BROTHER IN THIS MATTER," - YOU 52:28 KNOW WHAT DEFRAUD MEANS? IT'S A TYPE OF STEALING. 52:30 WHY IS PAUL JUMPING FROM ADULTERY TO DEFRAUDING? 52:34 OR IS HE MAKING THAT SAME CONNECTION THAT SOLOMON MADE, 52:38 THAT THEY WERE DEFRAUDING EACH OTHER. 52:40 I MEAN, 1 CORINTHIANS HE TALKS ABOUT ONE MAN TAKING HIS 52:42 FATHER'S WIFE. THAT'S STEALING YOUR FATHER'S 52:45 WIFE, NOT TO MENTION IT'S ADULTERY AS WELL. 52:48 ELLEN WHITE SAYS, IN 'PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS' PAGE 308, "THOU 52:54 SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. THIS COMMANDMENT FORBIDS NOT 52:57 ONLY ACTS OF IMPURITY, BUT SENSUAL THOUGHTS OR DESIRES OR 53:00 ANY PRACTICE THAT TENDS TO EXCITE THEM. 53:03 CHRIST, WHO TAUGHT THE FAR-REACHING OBLIGATION OF THE 53:06 LAW OF GOD, DECLARED THE EVIL THOUGHT OR LOOK TO BE AS 53:09 TRULY A SIN AS THE UNLAWFUL DEED." 53:12 NOW WHENEVER I READ SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I NEED TO MAKE IT 53:15 CLEAR THAT I'VE RUN INTO PEOPLE BEFORE AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, 53:19 JESUS SAYS IF YOU THINK IT IN YOUR HEART IT'S THE SAME AS 53:21 DOING IT, SO I'M THINKING IT - I MAY AS WELL DO IT.' NO, GOD 53:26 FORBID, AS PAUL SAID. IT'S NOT WHAT JESUS IS SAYING. 53:29 IT'S NOT WHAT PAUL IS SAYING. 53:30 THEY'RE JUST SAYING WE WANT TO AVOID THE THOUGHT ALSO, BECAUSE 53:34 JAMES SAYS IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT LEADS TO THE ACT. 53:37 SO JUST RECOGNIZE THE SIN BEGINS WITH THE THOUGHT - THE DEED IS 53:41 OBVIOUSLY MUCH WORSE, WHY? WELL, THE THOUGHT'S STILL JUST 53:44 IN YOUR HEAD. THE DEED THAT INVOLVES ANOTHER 53:45 PERSON - ANOTHER FAMILY - AND IT'S MUCH MORE SINISTER. 53:50 LAST SECTION - THURSDAY - 'THE THREAT OF DEATH.' PROVERBS 7:22 53:54 AND 23 - AND SOMEBODY'S GOING TO READ PROVERBS 7:26 AND 27 IN A 54:00 MINUTE. OKAY. "IMMEDIATELY HE WENT AFTER HER," 54:05 - HE'S STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS METAPHOR AGAIN, OF THE MAN AND 54:08 THE HARLOT - "AS AN OX GOES TO THE SLAUGHTER, OR AS A FOOL TO 54:12 THE CORRECTION OF THE STOCKS, TILL AN ARROW STRUCK HIS LIVER. 54:16 AS A BIRD HASTENS TO THE SNARE," - YOU KNOW, IF YOU GOT HIT IN 54:20 BIBLE TIMES - IF YOU GOT HIT BY AN ARROW ON A LOT OF YOUR BODY, 54:23 YOU COULD PROBABLY BE BOUND UP AND HEALED, BUT IF IT HIT YOUR 54:25 LIVER IT WAS FATAL AND THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE, 54:32 THAT THIS - AND THAT'S WHAT THIS WHOLE SECTION'S ABOUT - THE 54:35 THREAT OF DEATH - "AS A BIRD HASTENS TO THE SNARE, HE DID NOT 54:39 KNOW IT WOULD COST HIS LIFE." THIS IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S HIS 54:47 NAME? JOHN - THAT'S HIS NAME - HE TALKS ABOUT A SIN THAT LEADS 54:52 UNTO DEATH AND THIS IS JUST A DANGEROUS THING. 54:56 IT'S NOT THAT GOD DOESN'T FORGIVE IT. HE FORGAVE DAVID. 54:58 HE FORGAVE SAMPSON IN THIS AREA, BUT THE WAGES OF SIN IS WHAT? 55:03 >>DEATH. >>DEATH. 55:05 AND THAT'S WHAT SOLOMON'S SAYING HERE. 55:06 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US PROVERBS 7:26 AND 27. 55:10 >>"FOR SHE HAS CAST DOWN MANY WOUNDED, AND ALL WHO WERE SLAIN 55:14 BY HER WERE STRONG MEN. HER HOUSE IS THE WAY TO HELL, 55:17 DESCENDING TO THE CHAMBERS OF DEATH." 55:19 >>AGAIN, HE'S EMPHASIZING THAT THE END OF TEMPTATION - IT'S NOT 55:23 JUST TALKING ABOUT SEXUAL TEMPTATION, SOLOMON IS SPEAKING 55:26 IN A VERY COMPREHENSIVE WAY, USING THIS METAPHOR TO KIND OF 55:31 ENCOMPASS ALL TEMPTATION. YOU KNOW, ALL TEMPTATION IS 55:34 SUMMED UP IN THREE AREAS: THE LUST OF THE FLESH, THE LUST OF 55:38 THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE. WHEN JESUS WAS TEMPTED WITH 55:42 BREAD, WHICH ONE WAS THAT? HE WAS HUNGRY, IT'S A PHYSICAL 55:46 TEMPTATION. SEX IS A PHYSICAL TEMPTATION. 55:49 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPTATIONS OF PRIDE AND YOU'VE GOT THE 55:52 TEMPTATIONS OF COVETOUSNESS - THE LUST OF THE EYES - AND JUST 55:55 ABOUT ANYTHING COULD BE SUMMED UP IN THOSE CATEGORIES. 55:58 THOSE ARE THE AREAS WHERE EVE FELL AND ADAM. 56:02 THOSE ARE THE AREAS WHERE JESUS OVERCAME - THREE MAIN AREAS OF 56:06 TEMPTATION. AND THEN ROMANS 8, VERSES 5 AND 56:09 6, "FOR THOSE WHO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH SET THEIR MINDS ON 56:13 THE THINGS OF THE FLESH, BUT THOSE WHO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE 56:16 SPIRIT, THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT. 56:18 FOR TO BE CARNALLY" - OR FLESHLY - "MINDED IS DEATH, BUT TO BE 56:23 SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE." 56:26 I'D MUCH RATHER END ON THOSE WORDS. 56:28 SO HE SAID IT'S A LIFE AND DEATH THING. IF WE ARE CARNALLY MINDED 56:32 AND LIVING FOR THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, IT LEADS TO DEATH. 56:35 THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT TO KEEP THE LAW AND - BY THE WAY, JUST IN 56:40 CLOSING, ALL OF THE LAW THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EMBODIES 56:44 JESUS BECAUSE HE LIVED IT OUT IN HIS LIFE - HE FULFILLED IT. 56:48 SO WHEN YOU KEEP CHRIST BEFORE YOU - IN YOUR HEART, AROUND YOUR 56:52 NECK, BETWEEN YOUR EYES, ON YOUR HAND - THAT'S REALLY JUST 56:56 KEEPING THE LAW BEFORE YOU BECAUSE CHRIST IS THE EMBODIMENT 56:59 OF THE WORD, ISN'T HE? AND THAT'S WHAT KEEPS US FROM SIN. 57:03 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US, FRIENDS. 57:05 I WANT TO REMIND YOU, IF YOU DIDN'T HEAR AT THE BEGINNING, WE 57:07 HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER, IT'S 'THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT' 57:10 BY JOE CREWS. 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