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ONCE AGAIN BOW OUR HEADS AND ASK
GOD'S BLESSING TO BE WITH US.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORD.
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WE THANK YOU FOR THE WORDS OF
TRUTH AND WISDOM THAT WE FIND IN
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THE SCRIPTURES AND TODAY, AS WE
OPEN UP THY WORD, WE JUST PRAY
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FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND
GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
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THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT
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LESSON, SO WE ASK FOR
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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#4. NOW THE LESSON IS ENTITLED
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'DIVINE WISDOM' AND WE HAVE
A MEMORY TEXT. IT'S PROVERBS
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CHAPTER 8, VERSE 22 AND
YOU CAN READ ALONG WITH ME.
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PROVERBS 8:22. IT
SAYS, "THE LORD POSSESSED ME
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AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS
WAY BEFORE HIS WORKS OF OLD."
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NOW, AS WE GET INTO THIS LESSON
A LITTLE BIT MORE, WE'RE GOING
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TO DISCOVER THAT THIS IS A
REFERENCE HERE, NOT ONLY TO
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WISDOM, BUT ALSO TO THE
ROLE OF CHRIST IN CREATION
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AND WE'LL GET TO THAT
IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS.
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NOW, AT THIS STAGE IN OUR STUDY
OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS, WE'RE
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FOCUSING TODAY ON PROVERBS
CHAPTER 8 AND PROVERBS CHAPTER 9
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- THOSE ARE THE
PRINCIPLE PASSAGES.
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AND IN THIS SECTION WE FIND
WISDOM, AGAIN, REAPPEARING BUT
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IT'S BEING EMPHASIZED
IN THE CONTEXT OF TRUTH.
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SO, THE COMPONENT OF WISDOM
THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED HERE IN OUR
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STUDY IS TRUTH AND, OF COURSE,
TRUTH EXISTS IN GOD AND GOD IS
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THE SOURCE AND FOUNDATION OF ALL
TRUTH. NOW WHAT THE SCRIPTURE
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TEACHES WITH REFERENCE TO
TRUTH IS THAT TRUTH IS ABSOLUTE.
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OF COURSE, THAT'S A
LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM TODAY'S
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CONTEMPORARY THINKING
WITH REFERENCE TO TRUTH.
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WE LIVE IN A CULTURE WHERE
TRUTH HAS BECOME VERY RELATIVE.
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IN OTHER WORDS, MY TRUTH MIGHT
BE DIFFERENT FROM YOUR TRUTH.
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OR ONE CULTURE MIGHT HAVE A
DIFFERENT TRUTH FROM ANOTHER
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CULTURE. BUT THIS
ISN'T WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.
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THE BIBLE TEACHES
ABSOLUTE TRUTH. WHY?
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BECAUSE TRUTH IS FOUND IN GOD
AND GOD IS THE SAME YESTERDAY,
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TODAY, AND FOREVER. SO
FINDING TRUTH THAT'S ABSOLUTE
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BRINGS WISDOM, BRINGS PEACE,
BRINGS JOY, BRINGS SALVATION.
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TRUTH - ABSOLUTE TRUTH IS LIKE,
FOR EXAMPLE, THE LAW OF GRAVITY.
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WHETHER YOU'RE IN NORTH AMERICA
OR WHETHER YOU HAPPEN TO BE IN
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SOUTH AMERICA, OR
AFRICA, GRAVITY WORKS THE SAME.
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IF YOU DROP A BOOK OR YOU DROP
SOMETHING - IT DOESN'T MATTER
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WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD -
WHETHER YOU WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
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IT OR NOT, THERE IS A LAW - THE
LAW OF GRAVITY - AND IT IS TRUE
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THAT IF YOU LET IT GO IT
WILL FALL BECAUSE OF THE LAW OF
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GRAVITY. SO ABSOLUTE
TRUTH IS FOUND IN SCRIPTURE.
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IT IS TRUSTWORTHY.
IT IS FOR EVERYONE.
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IT IS APPLICABLE FOR EVERY
CULTURE, EVERY PERSON, EVERY
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TIME - ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
OF COURSE, PILATE ASKED THAT
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FAMOUS QUESTION OF JESUS AT THE
TRIAL, HE SAID, 'WHAT IS TRUTH?'
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PILATE, A ROMAN, WAS LIVING
IN A TIME WHERE TRUTH WAS VERY
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RELATIVE TO THE THINKING OF
THE PEOPLE. THERE WERE DIFFERENT
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GODS, DIFFERENT
PHILOSOPHIES, DIFFERENT IDEAS,
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AND ONE PERSON'S TRUTH
WAS DIFFERENT FROM ANOTHER
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PERSON'S TRUTH AND SO HE
ASKED JESUS, 'WHAT IS TRUTH?'
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JESUS SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER
8, VERSE 32, YOU SHALL KNOW THE
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TRUTH AND THE
TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.
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NOW, OF COURSE, THE
TRUTH, WE KNOW, IS JESUS.
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JESUS SAID OF HIMSELF, 'I AM THE
WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.'
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SO TO KNOW THE
TRUTH IS TO KNOW JESUS.
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TO KNOW JESUS IS TO HAVE LIFE.
ON SUNDAY OUR DAY'S STUDY IS
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ENTITLED, 'WISDOM THAT CRIES
OUT' AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN
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STUDYING NOW PROVERBS CHAPTER
8 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE READING
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ALL THE WAY FROM
VERSE 1 THROUGH TO VERSE 23.
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IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU CAN
OPEN IT UP TO PROVERBS CHAPTER
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8, BEGINNING HERE IN VERSE
1, "DOES NOT WISDOM CRY OUT AND
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UNDERSTANDING
LIFT UP HER VOICE?"
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NOW THERE'S TWO QUESTIONS I WANT
YOU TO THINK ABOUT HERE IN VERSE
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1: 'DOES NOT WISDOM CRY
OUT?' - HOW DOES WISDOM CRY?
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AND NUMBER TWO, WHERE
DOES SHE LIFT UP HER VOICE?
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NOTICE VERSE 1, "DOES NOT WISDOM
CRY - CRY OUT AND UNDERSTANDING
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LIFT UP HER VOICE?" NOW
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION
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OF 'HOW DOES WISDOM SPEAK?' OR
'HOW DOES WISDOM CRY OUT TO US?'
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AND 'WHERE DO WE FIND WISDOM
CRYING OUT?' IS ANSWERED IN
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VERSES 2 AND 3. SO NOTICE VERSE
2, "SHE TAKES HER STAND ON THE
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TOP OF A HILL" - OR
HIGH HILL - "BESIDE THE WAY
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WHERE THE PATHS MEET."
SO HOW DOES WISDOM CRY OUT?
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THE FIRST PART OF VERSE
2, "SHE TAKES HER STAND."
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YOU KNOW, YOU CAN CRY OUT IN
TRUTH BY SIMPLY MAKING A STAND
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FOR WHAT'S RIGHT. YOU
MIGHT NOT SAY ANYTHING, BUT
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JUST BY SIMPLY DOING THE RIGHT
THING, YOU ARE CRYING OUT FOR
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WISDOM'S SAKE OR YOU
ARE PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH.
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NOW IN REVELATION CHAPTER 6,
VERSE 17, A QUESTION IS ASKED.
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IN REVELATION CHAPTER 6 YOU
HAVE THE OPENING OF THE SEALS.
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YOU HAVE THE OPENING OF THE
SIXTH SEAL IN REVELATION CHAPTER
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6 NEAR THE END, AND IT
DESCRIBES EVENTS CONNECTED WITH
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THE SECOND COMING OF
JESUS. IT TALKS ABOUT A GREAT
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EARTHQUAKE AND
HAIL COMING AND SO ON.
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AND THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH
HIDING IN THE ROCKS AND THE
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CAVES AND SAYING TO THE
MOUNTAINS AND THE ROCKS,
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'FALL ON US.
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HIDE US FROM THE FACE OF HIM
THAT SITS UPON THE THRONE AND
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FROM THE WRATH OF THE LAMB.'
AND THEN IN VERSE 17 WE HAVE THE
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QUESTION, "FOR THE GREAT DAY OF
HIS WRATH HAS COME" - AND HERE'S
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THE QUESTION - "WHO
SHALL BE ABLE TO STAND?"
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SO THE QUESTION IS ASKED, WHEN
JESUS COMES, 'WHO'S GOING TO BE
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ABLE TO STAND?' WELL,
I PROPOSE THOSE WHO ARE
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ABLE TO STAND ARE THE ONES WHO
STAND WITH WISDOM, WHO STAND FOR
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TRUTH, WHO STAND WITH
JESUS, WHO TRUST IN JESUS.
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THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION
IN REVELATION IS FOUND IN
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REVELATION CHAPTER 17, WHERE
YOU HAVE A DESCRIPTION OF THE
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144,000 WHO HAVE THE SEAL
OF GOD IN THEIR FOREHEADS.
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OF COURSE, THE SEAL OF GOD HAS
SOMETHING TO DO WITH CHARACTER.
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IT HAS TO DO WITH
OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.
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AND THEN WE ALSO FIND A GROUP -
AGAIN THE 144,000 ARE DESCRIBED
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IN REVELATION CHAPTER 14.
AND IN REVELATION CHAPTER 14,
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VERSE 1, IT SPEAKS ABOUT
THE LAMB STANDING ON MOUNT ZION.
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THERE WE HAVE THAT SAME
IDEA OF CHRIST STANDING OR TRUTH
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STANDING. HE'S
STANDING ON MOUNT ZION AND
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MOUNT ZION IS A HIGH HILL
AND WITH THEM ARE THE 144,000 -
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THOSE WHO HAVE STOOD WITH CHRIST
HERE ON THE EARTH, NOW THEY ARE
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SEEN VICTORIOUS IN HEAVEN
STANDING WITH JESUS ON MOUNT
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ZION. SO HOW
DOES WISDOM CRY OUT?
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NUMBER ONE, SHE MAKES
A STAND FOR THE TRUTH.
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HOW CAN WE PROCLAIM
WISDOM IN OUR WORLD?
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BY MAKING A STAND WITH
JESUS TO STAND ON THE TRUTH.
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IT SAYS, "SHE STANDS FOR THE
TRUTH ON A HIGH HILL AND BESIDE
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THE WAY AND
WHERE THE PATHS MEET."
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SO WISDOM IS
MAKING A STAND FOR TRUTH.
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THAT PHRASE THERE, 'BESIDE THE
WAY' MADE ME THINK OF A VERSE
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THAT WE HAVE IN SCRIPTURE,
ISAIAH CHAPTER 30, VERSE 21
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SAYS, "YOUR EARS SHALL HEAR
A WORD BEHIND YOU, 'THIS IS THE
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WAY, WALK IN IT.'" WHEN WE
MAKE A STAND FOR TRUTH WE ARE
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PROMISED THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT
WILL GUIDE US IN THE PATHS OF
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LIFE AND GUIDE US ALONG THE WAY.
THEN VERSE 3 ALSO CONTINUES BY
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TELLING US HOW WISDOM CRIES
OUT AND WHERE SHE CRIES OUT.
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IF YOU LOOK AT VERSE 3 IT SAYS,
'SHE CRIES OUT BY THE GATES, AT
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THE ENTRY OF THE CITY, AT
THE ENTRANCE OF THE DOORS."
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SO NOT ONLY DOES WISDOM CRY OUT
BY SIMPLY MAKING A STAND FOR THE
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TRUTH, WISDOM ALSO CRIES OUT BY
THE PROCLAMATION OF THE TRUTH.
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YOU KNOW THAT THE
PREACHING OF TRUTH IS IMPORTANT.
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JESUS WENT ABOUT PREACHING,
TEACHING, AND HEALING.
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THE APOSTLES WENT
ABOUT PREACHING AND TEACHING.
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THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES - THE
FIRST ANGEL - IT DESCRIBES THIS
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ANGEL FLYING IN THE MIDST OF
HEAVEN HAVING THE EVERLASTING
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GOSPEL TO PREACH TO THOSE THAT
DWELL UPON THE EARTH, TO EVERY
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NATION, KINDRED,
TONGUE, AND PEOPLE.
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SO THERE IS THE STANDING
FOR TRUTH, BUT THERE'S ALSO THE
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PROCLAIMING OF
TRUTH THAT IS HIGHLIGHTED.
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IN ORDER FOR US TO ENTER INTO
THE GATES OF THE CITY, THAT CITY
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BEING THE NEW JERUSALEM, WE NEED
TO DO THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS
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ASKED US TO DO. IN
REVELATION 22, VERSE 14, WE
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READ, "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO DO
HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MAY
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HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE
AND ENTER INTO THE GATES OF THE
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CITY." IT SAYS,
"WISDOM CAN ALSO BE
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FOUND AT THE
ENTRANCE OF THE DOORS."
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NOW I FIND THAT TO BE SOMEWHAT
OF AN INTERESTING PHRASE.
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TO THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA,
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 3, JESUS
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SAYS, "BEHOLD, I
STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK.
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WHOEVER HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS
THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN UNTO
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HIM AND I WILL DINE
WITH HIM AND HE WITH ME."
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JESUS IS KNOCKING AT OUR HEART'S
DOOR - THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT -
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THROUGH THAT STILL SMALL
VOICE - THROUGH THE WORD.
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AND BY MAKING A STAND FOR TRUTH,
WE CAN HEAR THE VOICE OF WISDOM
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AND WE CAN JOIN THAT VOICE IN
PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD
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AND THE TRUTH OF
GOD TO THE WORLD.
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ALRIGHT, WELL LET'S LOOK
AT VERSE 4. WE'RE IN PROVERBS
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CHAPTER 8, MOVING RIGHT
ALONG NOW, VERSE 4 - IT SAYS,
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"TO YOU, O MEN, I CALL AND
MY VOICE IS TO THE SONS OF MEN."
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NOW NOTICE THERE IN THE FIRST
PART OF VERSE 4 IT SAYS, 'TO
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YOU, O MEN' AND THEN THE NEXT
PART SAYS 'THE SONS OF MEN' IN
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THE HEBREW THERE ARE
TWO DIFFERENT WORDS USED.
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THE WORD TRANSLATED 'MEN'
IN THE FIRST PART OF THE VERSE,
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EMPHASIZES INDIVIDUALITY
OR STRENGTH OR DETERMINATION.
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IN OTHER WORDS, THAT IS A PERSON
WHO HAS A DETERMINATION OR A
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CLEAR DIRECTION - SOMETHING THAT
HE WANTS - SOMEWHERE WHERE HE IS
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GOING, WHEREAS THE NEXT WORD IN
THE HEBREW FOR THE SECOND PART
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OF THE VERSE WHERE IT SAYS, 'THE
SONS OF MEN' THE HEBREW WORD
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THERE IS 'ADAM,' WHICH
MEANS MANKIND IN GENERAL.
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IT IS THE MASSES - THE SEA
OF HUMANITY - THOSE WHO ARE JUST
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SWEPT ALONG WITH THE MASSES.
SO WISDOM IS CALLING OUT TO
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THOSE WHO THINK THEY HAVE
PURPOSE AND DIRECTION IN THEIR
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LIVES, BUT IT'S ALSO CALLING
TO THOSE WHO ARE JUST SIMPLY
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FOLLOWING THE CROWD,
GOING ALONG WITH THE MASSES.
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IN OTHER WORDS, THE CALL OF
WISDOM - THE PROCLAMATION OF
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TRUTH - IS FOR EVERYONE -
FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY HAVE
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PURPOSE, FOR THOSE WHO WONDER
WHAT THE PURPOSE OF LIFE REALLY
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IS - IT'S FOR EVERYONE.
VERSE 5 SAYS, "O YOU SIMPLE
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ONES, UNDERSTAND
PRUDENCE AND YOU FOOLS, BE OF AN
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UNDERSTANDING HEART.
AGAIN WE HAVE TWO GROUPS.
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WE HAVE THE SIMPLE ONES,
THE FIRST PART OF THE VERSE,
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AND THEN WE HAVE THE FOOLS.
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NOW 'THE SIMPLE ONES' REFERS TO
THOSE WHO ARE IN THE VALLEY OF
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DECISION, IF YOU LIKE, IT COULD
BE THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THAT
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MASS OF HUMANITY, SORT
OF JUST FLOATING ALONG.
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THEY HAVE NOT YET MADE A CLEAR
DECISION FOR THE TRUTH, THEY
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MIGHT NOT EVEN KNOW THE
TRUTH, BUT THEY'RE NOT ACTIVELY
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RESISTING A
DESIRE TO KNOW TRUTH.
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THEY'RE JUST SIMPLY
GOING ALONG WITH THE FLOW.
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BUT THE NEXT GROUP DESCRIBED
IN VERSE 5, THE FOOLS, THOSE ARE
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THE ONES WHO ARE
ACTIVELY RESISTING WISDOM.
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THEIR HEART IS SET ON
SELFISHNESS AND PRIDE.
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SO THERE ARE TWO
GROUPS THERE IN VERSE 5.
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OUT OF THOSE WHO - THE MASSES
IN THE VALLEY OF DECISION - AND
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THOSE WHO ARE ACTIVELY RESISTING
THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD.
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VERSE 6 SAYS, "LISTEN, FOR I
WILL SPEAK EXCELLENT THINGS AND
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FROM THE OPENING OF MY
LIPS WILL COME RIGHT THINGS."
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NOW THE PHRASE THERE 'EXCELLENT
THINGS' IN THE HEBREW THERE IT
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MEANS 'PRINCELY THINGS' OR
'THINGS RELATED TO KINGSHIP OR
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RULERSHIP.' SO WISDOM
TEACHES US HOW WE CAN RULE -
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HOW WE CAN GOVERN OURSELVES.
00:14:14.03\00:14:17.16
THE NEXT PART OF THE VERSE SAYS,
'RIGHT THINGS' OR 'DOING THE
00:14:17.16\00:14:20.23
RIGHT THING.' YOU KNOW, GOD SAID
TO CAIN, AFTER HE HAD KILLED HIS
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BROTHER ABEL - YOU CAN READ THIS
IN GENESIS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 7,
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"IF YOU DO WELL YOU SHALL BE
ACCEPTED AND IF YOU DO NOT WELL,
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SIN LIES AT THE DOOR" - NOTICE
THE NEXT PART OF THE VERSE -
00:14:33.33\00:14:36.70
"AND ITS DESIRE IS FOR YOU,
BUT YOU SHALL RULE OVER IT."
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HOW CAN WE RULE
OVER SIN IN OUR LIVES?
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BY TAKING HEED TO THE WISDOM
THAT COMES FROM CHRIST - THE
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TRUTH THAT GOD WANTS TO GIVE US.
SO BY HEEDING THE WISDOM OF THE
00:14:51.06\00:14:56.70
WORD, WE HAVE STRENGTH TO RULE
OURSELVES, TO RULE OVER SIN.
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VERSE 7 - IT SAYS, "FOR MY MOUTH
WILL SPEAK TRUTH. WICKEDNESS
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IS AN ABOMINATION TO MY
LIPS." SO CHRIST SPEAKS TRUTH.
00:15:09.10\00:15:13.90
JESUS CAME TO REVEAL
TO US THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD.
00:15:13.90\00:15:17.30
HE CAME TO REVEAL TO
US THE CHARACTER OF GOD.
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JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, 'IF
YOU HAVE SEEN ME, YOU HAVE SEEN
00:15:19.80\00:15:22.16
THE FATHER.' "BUT THAT WHICH
CONSISTS OF LIES" - IT SAYS -
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"IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD."
NOW, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, WE
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HAVE AT LEAST SIX CATEGORIES
THAT ARE REFERRED TO AS
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'ABOMINATIONS.' DIVINATION
IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD.
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THAT IS COMMUNICATING WITH
THE DEAD AND SPIRITUALISM IN ITS
00:15:40.26\00:15:43.10
DIFFERENT PHASES.
ANOTHER ABOMINATION IS
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SACRIFICES THAT ARE
OFFERED WITH THE WRONG SPIRIT.
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THAT'S REFERRED
TO AS AN ABOMINATION.
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THE EATING OF CERTAIN
UNCLEAN MEATS IS DESCRIBED AS
00:15:52.36\00:15:56.43
AN ABOMINATION,
IN THE SCRIPTURES.
00:15:56.43\00:15:58.00
CERTAIN SEXUAL SINS ARE
ALSO DESCRIBED AS ABOMINATIONS.
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LYING LIPS ARE SAID TO BE
AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD, AND
00:16:02.26\00:16:06.90
FALSE WEIGHTS. WHEN IT
COMES TO BUSINESS, FALSE
00:16:06.90\00:16:10.50
DEALINGS WITH OTHERS IS
ALSO SAID TO BE AN ABOMINATION.
00:16:10.50\00:16:16.06
VERSE 8, "ALL THE WORDS OF
MY MOUTH ARE RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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NOTHING CROOKED OR
PERVERSE IS IN THEM."
00:16:20.16\00:16:24.20
SO HERE IT IS - HE'S EMPHASIZING
THE IMPORTANCE OF TRUTH -
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FINDING THE TRUTH -
THE TRUTH BRINGS LIFE.
00:16:27.50\00:16:30.50
THE TRUTH BRINGS WISDOM.
VERSE 9, "THEY ARE ALL PLAIN TO
00:16:30.50\00:16:34.43
HIM WHO UNDERSTANDS AND RIGHT
TO THOSE WHO FIND KNOWLEDGE.
00:16:34.43\00:16:39.46
NOW HERE'S THE KEY: IN ORDER FOR
US TO KNOW THE TRUTH - IN ORDER
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FOR US TO HAVE TRUE WISDOM,
THERE NEEDS TO BE A WILLINGNESS
00:16:42.56\00:16:46.23
TO RECEIVE THE TRUTH GIVEN
IN THE WORD THROUGH CHRIST - TO
00:16:46.23\00:16:50.60
RECEIVE THAT TRUTH
AND APPLY IT TO YOUR LIFE.
00:16:50.60\00:16:53.93
JESUS PUT IT THIS WAY IN JOHN
CHAPTER 7, VERSE 17, "IF ANYONE
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WILLS TO DO HIS WILL, HE SHALL
KNOW CONCERNING THE DOCTRINE."
00:16:58.23\00:17:02.93
SO IF THERE IS A WILLINGNESS
TO DO WHAT GOD ASKS OF US,
00:17:02.93\00:17:06.23
THEN GOD'LL
REVEAL MORE TRUTH TO US.
00:17:06.23\00:17:09.36
AND WHEN WE RECEIVE THAT TRUTH
AND APPLY THAT TRUTH TO OUR
00:17:09.36\00:17:12.40
LIFE, THEN HE CAN LEAD
US EVEN INTO GREATER TRUTH.
00:17:12.40\00:17:15.43
THIS WAS TRUE IN THE
EXPERIENCE OF CHRIST.
00:17:15.43\00:17:18.03
OF COURSE, JESUS MANY TIMES
PREACHED USING PARABLES - TAUGHT
00:17:18.03\00:17:21.96
WITH PARABLES - THERE WERE
A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO COULDN'T
00:17:21.96\00:17:25.20
UNDERSTAND WHAT JESUS WAS
SAYING, BUT THOSE WHO HAD A
00:17:25.20\00:17:27.86
WILLING HEART SEEKING
TRUTH COULD UNDERSTAND.
00:17:27.86\00:17:30.96
ON ONE OCCASION JESUS SAID TO
THE PEOPLE, 'EXCEPT YOU EAT MY
00:17:30.96\00:17:34.30
FLESH AND DRINK MY
BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.'
00:17:34.30\00:17:37.76
AND THERE WERE MANY WHO
SAID, 'THIS IS A HARD SAYING,'
00:17:37.76\00:17:40.66
AND THEY TURNED AND THEY LEFT.
00:17:40.66\00:17:42.40
AND EVEN THE DISCIPLES WERE
STRIVING WITH THIS AND THEY SAID
00:17:42.40\00:17:44.73
TO JESUS, 'YOU KNOW,
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?'
00:17:44.73\00:17:47.06
AND JESUS SAID, 'WELL, ARE
YOU ALSO GOING TO LEAVE ME?'
00:17:47.06\00:17:49.73
AND THEY SAID,
'LORD, WHERE ARE WE TO GO?
00:17:49.73\00:17:51.00
YOU HAVE THE WORDS OF TRUTH.
BUT THIS IS A HARD SAYING.
00:17:51.00\00:17:53.20
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?'
JESUS SAID, 'THE WORDS THAT I
00:17:53.20\00:17:55.43
SPEAK UNTO YOU, THEY ARE SPIRIT
AND THEY ARE LIFE.' SO TO EAT
00:17:55.43\00:18:00.30
THE FLESH OF CHRIST IS TO
RECEIVE HIS WORD. BUT IN ORDER
00:18:00.30\00:18:03.93
FOR US TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF
THESE SYMBOLS, THERE NEEDS TO BE
00:18:03.93\00:18:07.30
A WILLINGNESS TO SAY, 'LORD,
WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU NEED ME
00:18:07.30\00:18:09.86
TO DO, I'M WILLING TO DO THAT.
I'M WILLING TO FOLLOW THE TRUTH
00:18:09.86\00:18:12.76
THAT YOU'VE REVEALED TO ME.'
VERSE 10 - PROVERBS CHAPTER 8,
00:18:12.76\00:18:18.43
VERSE 10 THAT SAYS, "RECEIVE MY
INSTRUCTION AND NOT SILVER, AND
00:18:18.43\00:18:23.76
KNOWLEDGE RATHER
THAN CHOICE GOLD."
00:18:23.76\00:18:27.83
LOOKING AT VERSE 11, "FOR WISDOM
IS BETTER THAN RUBIES AND ALL
00:18:27.83\00:18:32.36
THE THINGS ONE MAY DESIRE
CANNOT BE COMPARED WITH HER."
00:18:32.36\00:18:37.76
NOW, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
THE THREE WORDS THAT WE FIND IN
00:18:37.76\00:18:39.93
THESE TWO VERSES, 'RECEIVE MY
INSTRUCTION' AND THEN IT SAYS,
00:18:39.93\00:18:43.86
'KNOWLEDGE' AND THEN IT SAYS
'WISDOM.' HERE ARE GIVEN THREE
00:18:43.86\00:18:49.63
STEPS TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH.
IT BEGINS WITH INSTRUCTION - WE
00:18:49.63\00:18:54.00
RECEIVE THE
INSTRUCTION OF GOD'S WORD.
00:18:54.00\00:18:56.33
WHEN WE RECEIVE INSTRUCTION,
THAT LEADS TO KNOWLEDGE AND
00:18:56.33\00:19:00.53
UNDERSTANDING A KNOWLEDGE OF THE
TRUTH. WHEN THAT KNOWLEDGE IS
00:19:00.53\00:19:04.33
APPLIED TO OUR
LIVES, IT RESULTS IN WISDOM.
00:19:04.33\00:19:08.53
SO YOU HAVE 'INSTRUCTION,' YOU
HAVE 'KNOWLEDGE,' AND THAT LEADS
00:19:08.53\00:19:12.23
TO 'WISDOM.' NOW INSTRUCTION
IS OF VALUE. MATTER OF FACT,
00:19:12.23\00:19:17.03
IT SAYS HERE THAT INSTRUCTION
IS MORE VALUABLE THAN SILVER.
00:19:17.03\00:19:20.93
BUT THEN IT TAKES IT THE NEXT
STEP AND SAYS, "KNOWLEDGE IS
00:19:20.93\00:19:24.20
MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD, BUT
WISDOM IS BETTER THAN RUBIES."
00:19:24.20\00:19:30.80
AND YOU THINK, 'WELL, I THOUGHT
GOLD WAS MORE VALUABLE THAN
00:19:30.80\00:19:33.46
RUBIES.' WELL, IT ADDS TO THAT
IN VERSE 11 - IT SAYS, "WISDOM
00:19:33.46\00:19:37.53
IS MORE VALUABLE THAN RUBIES AND
ALL THE THINGS THAT ONE MIGHT
00:19:37.53\00:19:41.70
DESIRE CANNOT BE COMPARED WITH
HER." SO YOU HAVE INSTRUCTION -
00:19:41.70\00:19:46.73
MORE VALUABLE THAN SILVER;
KNOWLEDGE - MORE VALUABLE THAN
00:19:46.73\00:19:50.20
GOLD; BUT WISDOM, THAT IS THE
MOST IMPORTANT - MORE VALUABLE
00:19:50.20\00:19:55.23
THAN ANYTHING THAN YOU CAN HAVE.
OF COURSE, THIS IS SOMETHING
00:19:55.23\00:19:58.90
THAT JESUS ILLUSTRATED
IN A PARABLE THAT HE TOLD.
00:19:58.90\00:20:02.60
AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 13, VERSE 44.
00:20:02.60\00:20:06.53
AND MAYBE, IF WE COULD HAVE
SOMEBODY READ THIS FOR US, IT'S
00:20:06.53\00:20:09.63
A FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE OF
SCRIPTURE, MATTHEW CHAPTER 13 -
00:20:09.63\00:20:14.46
THE PARABLE THAT JESUS
TOLD BEGINNING HERE IN VERSE 44.
00:20:14.46\00:20:19.00
WE'RE GOING TO READ
VERSE 44 THROUGH TO 46.
00:20:19.00\00:20:23.00
>>MATTHEW CHAPTER 13, VERSES 44
THROUGH 46, "AGAIN, THE KINGDOM
00:20:23.00\00:20:27.90
OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO TREASURE
HID IN A FIELD, THAT WHICH, WHEN
00:20:27.90\00:20:31.96
A MAN HATH FOUND HE HIDETH
AND FOR JOY, THEREOF, GOETH AND
00:20:31.96\00:20:35.63
SELLETH ALL THAT HE
HATH AND BUYETH THE FIELD.
00:20:35.63\00:20:38.43
AGAIN, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS
LIKE UNTO A MERCHANT MAN SEEKING
00:20:38.43\00:20:42.66
GOODLY PEARLS WHO, WHEN HE HAD
FOUND ONE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE,
00:20:42.66\00:20:46.16
WENT AND SOLD ALL
THAT HE HAD AND BOUGHT IT."
00:20:46.16\00:20:49.26
>>OKAY, SO HERE WE
HAVE THIS GREAT PRIZE.
00:20:49.26\00:20:53.40
HERE IS A MAN WORKING OUT IN
HIS FIELD AND HE'S ACTUALLY A
00:20:53.40\00:20:56.43
HIRELING, PROBABLY, AND HE'S
WORKING SOMEBODY ELSE'S FIELD,
00:20:56.43\00:20:59.16
AND WHILE HE'S MOVING THE
PLOW, SUDDENLY HE FEELS IT KNOCK
00:20:59.16\00:21:01.93
AGAINST SOMETHING AND CURIOSITY
LEADS HIM TO MOVE BACK SOME OF
00:21:01.93\00:21:05.26
THE DIRT AND, TO HIS AMAZEMENT,
THERE IS TREASURE HIDDEN IN THE
00:21:05.26\00:21:08.66
FIELD. BACK IN
BIBLE TIMES, THEY DIDN'T
00:21:08.66\00:21:11.80
ALWAYS HAVE THE MOST TRUSTWORTHY
BANKS AND SO PEOPLE WOULD
00:21:11.80\00:21:14.96
SOMETIMES HIDE THEIR TREASURE
IN A FIELD. EVIDENTLY, SOMEBODY
00:21:14.96\00:21:19.40
HID THIS TREASURE IN THE FIELD
AND MAYBE THE PERSON DIED AND
00:21:19.40\00:21:22.13
NOBODY KNEW ABOUT THE
TREASURE HIDDEN IN THE FIELD.
00:21:22.13\00:21:24.56
BUT HERE THIS PERSON IS WORKING
AND HE FINDS THE TREASURE.
00:21:24.56\00:21:26.93
IMMEDIATELY HE SEES THE VALUE OF
THE TREASURE AND SO HE GOES AND
00:21:26.93\00:21:30.13
HE SELLS EVERYTHING THAT HE
HAS IN ORDER TO BUY THE FIELD
00:21:30.13\00:21:34.06
TO OBTAIN THE TREASURE.
00:21:34.06\00:21:36.26
AND, AGAIN, JESUS SAYS IT'S LIKE
SOMEBODY LOOKING FOR GOOD PEARLS
00:21:36.26\00:21:39.43
AND WHEN HE FINDS THIS PEARL
OF GREAT PRICE, HE ALSO SELLS
00:21:39.43\00:21:42.06
EVERYTHING HE HAS SO THAT
HE CAN - HE CAN BUY THIS PEARL.
00:21:42.06\00:21:46.33
OF COURSE THERE IS A VERY
PRACTICAL STORY THAT ILLUSTRATES
00:21:46.33\00:21:49.43
THIS POINT: ONE DAY THERE WAS
A RICH YOUNG RULER THAT CAME TO
00:21:49.43\00:21:52.06
JESUS AND HE SAID, 'WHAT
GOOD THING MUST I DO TO INHERIT
00:21:52.06\00:21:54.56
ETERNAL LIFE?' AND JESUS
SAYS, 'WHY DO YOU CALL ME GOOD?
00:21:54.56\00:21:57.36
THERE IS ONLY ONE THAT'S GOOD
AND THAT IS GOD, BUT IF YOU WANT
00:21:57.36\00:21:59.83
TO ENTER INTO LIFE, KEEP
THE COMMANDMENTS.' AND HE SAID,
00:21:59.83\00:22:02.16
'WHICH?' AND JESUS
QUOTED THE COMMANDMENTS.
00:22:02.16\00:22:04.10
AND THEN THE YOUNG MAN SAID,
'ALL OF THESE THINGS I HAVE KEPT
00:22:04.10\00:22:06.90
FROM MY YOUTH.
WHAT DO I STILL LACK?'
00:22:06.90\00:22:08.90
JESUS SAID, 'GO SELL ALL THAT
YOU HAVE, GIVE IT TO THE POOR,
00:22:08.90\00:22:14.06
AND COME AND FOLLOW ME AND
YOU'LL HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN.'
00:22:14.06\00:22:16.93
AND JESUS WAS INVITING THAT
YOUNG MAN TO BE LIKE, IN THE
00:22:16.93\00:22:21.13
PARABLE, THE MAN WHO
FOUND THE TREASURE IN THE FIELD.
00:22:21.13\00:22:23.96
HE SAW THE VALUE OF THE
TREASURE AND WAS WILLING TO GIVE
00:22:23.96\00:22:27.60
EVERYTHING FOR THE TREASURE.
JESUS WAS LIKENING HIM TO THE
00:22:27.60\00:22:31.06
MERCHANT MEN WHO FOUND THE PEARL
OF GREAT PRICE WHO WAS WILLING
00:22:31.06\00:22:35.20
TO GIVE EVERYTHING
FOR THAT WONDERFUL PEARL.
00:22:35.20\00:22:39.26
SO IT IS WITH WISDOM. A
KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH -
00:22:39.26\00:22:42.26
A KNOWLEDGE OF GOD - WHAT
ARE WE WILLING TO GIVE FOR IT?
00:22:42.26\00:22:45.83
HOW MUCH EFFORT ARE WE WILLING
TO INVEST IN FINDING THAT TRUTH
00:22:45.83\00:22:50.96
- FINDING THAT KNOWLEDGE
AND ALLOWING THAT KNOWLEDGE TO
00:22:50.96\00:22:53.70
BECOME AN ACTIVE
PART OF OUR LIVES?
00:22:53.70\00:22:56.40
LET'S KEEP LOOKING IN PROVERBS
CHAPTER 8 - WE'RE IN VERSE 12
00:22:56.40\00:22:59.50
NOW - PROVERBS CHAPTER 8,
LOOKING AT VERSE 12, "I, WISDOM,
00:22:59.50\00:23:04.76
DWELL WITH PRUDENCE AND FIND
OUT KNOWLEDGE AND DISCRETION."
00:23:04.76\00:23:12.56
SO HERE IN VERSE 12
WISDOM DWELLS WITH PRUDENCE.
00:23:12.56\00:23:16.03
WHAT DOES THE
WORD PRUDENCE MEAN?
00:23:16.03\00:23:17.86
IT COMES FROM THE ROOT WORD
MEANING 'REASON' OR 'TO REASON
00:23:17.86\00:23:22.06
ABOUT SOMETHING.' I WAS REMINDED
OF ISAIAH CHAPTER 1, VERSE 18,
00:23:22.06\00:23:25.60
WHERE GOD SAYS, "COME
NOW, LET US" - DO WHAT? -
00:23:25.60\00:23:28.50
"LET US REASON TOGETHER. THOUGH
YOUR SINS BE OF SCARLET, THEY
00:23:28.50\00:23:32.20
SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW." A
TRUTH IS NOT AFRAID OF REASON.
00:23:32.20\00:23:38.26
A TRUTH IS ABLE TO STAND
NO MATTER HOW MUCH SCRUTINY IT
00:23:38.26\00:23:42.33
COMES UNDER BECAUSE IT'S THE
TRUTH. GOD'S NOT AFRAID OF US
00:23:42.33\00:23:46.13
REASONING WITH HIM FOR HE IS THE
TRUTH. HE WILL REVEAL TRUTH TO
00:23:46.13\00:23:51.20
US. VERSE 13, "THE FEAR OF
THE LORD IS TO HATE EVIL, PRIDE,
00:23:51.20\00:23:57.66
ARROGANCE, AND THE EVIL WAY;
AND THE PERVERSE MOUTH I HATE."
00:23:57.66\00:24:04.13
THE FEAR OF THE LORD, THAT IS TO
ACKNOWLEDGE GOD AS SUPREME, TO
00:24:04.13\00:24:08.73
HUMBLE OUR HEARTS
TO COME TO KNOW HIM.
00:24:08.73\00:24:10.60
WHAT IS THE FEAR OF THE
LORD? IT IS TO HATE EVIL.
00:24:10.60\00:24:13.76
NOW THE WORD THERE, 'EVIL,'
COMES FROM A ROOT WORD WHICH
00:24:13.76\00:24:17.30
MEANS 'TO
BREAK' OR 'TO DESTROY.'
00:24:17.30\00:24:20.90
EVIL BREAKS AND
DESTROYS PEOPLE'S LIVES.
00:24:20.90\00:24:24.83
IT BREAKS AND DESTROYS
MAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
00:24:24.83\00:24:29.20
SO THE LORD
HATES EVIL AND PRIDE.
00:24:29.20\00:24:32.20
OF COURSE, PRIDE LED TO
LUCIFER'S FALL IN HEAVEN.
00:24:32.20\00:24:36.13
ARROGANCE - ANOTHER WORD FOR
ARROGANCE THERE IS 'REBELLION'
00:24:36.13\00:24:40.20
AND IN 1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 15,
VERSE 23 WE READ, "REBELLION IS
00:24:40.20\00:24:44.46
AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT."
AND THEN THE EVIL WAY - THE EVIL
00:24:44.46\00:24:49.70
WAY REPRESENTS DISOBEDIENCE
TO GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.
00:24:49.70\00:24:53.70
AND THEN THE LAST PART OF
VERSE 13, "THE PERVERSE MOUTH" -
00:24:53.70\00:24:57.10
THAT'S LIES. SO IN THIS VERSE
WE HAVE FOUR DOWNWARD STEPS TO
00:24:57.10\00:25:02.66
DESTRUCTION. WE HAVE
PRIDE THAT LEADS TO REBELLION.
00:25:02.66\00:25:08.00
REBELLION IS MANIFEST
IN DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD'S
00:25:08.00\00:25:11.56
COMMANDMENTS AND, AS A
RESULT, MANKIND ENDS UP LYING OR
00:25:11.56\00:25:16.00
DECEIVING ONESELF AND
DECEIVING THOSE AROUND HIM.
00:25:16.00\00:25:20.90
OKAY, VERSE 15, "BY ME" - IT
SAYS - "KINGS REIGN" - TALKING
00:25:20.90\00:25:25.93
ABOUT WISDOM - "AND
RULERS DECREE JUSTICE."
00:25:25.93\00:25:29.16
OF COURSE, SOLOMON HIMSELF KNEW
SOMETHING ABOUT HAVING WISDOM IN
00:25:29.16\00:25:33.26
THE SPHERE OF
RULERSHIP OR JUDGING.
00:25:33.26\00:25:36.66
YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER THE STORY
OF TWO WOMEN WHO BROUGHT A BABY
00:25:36.66\00:25:40.13
TO KING SOLOMON AND SOLOMON
WISELY MADE A DECISION AS TO
00:25:40.13\00:25:45.26
WHOSE CHILD, YOU KNOW, WHO THE
CHILD REALLY BELONGED TO. HE HAD
00:25:45.26\00:25:50.76
GREAT WISDOM - DIVINE WISDOM
THAT GOD HAD GIVEN HIM. VERSE 16
00:25:50.76\00:25:54.60
SAYS, "BUY ME" - THAT IS, WISDOM
- "PRINCES RULE AND NOBLES AND
00:25:54.60\00:25:57.76
THE JUDGES OF THE EARTH.
I LOVE THOSE WHO LOVE ME."
00:25:57.76\00:26:02.46
OF COURSE WISDOM, HERE, IS A
SYMBOL OF GOD - "I LOVE THOSE
00:26:02.46\00:26:04.93
WHO LOVE ME, AND THOSE WHO
SEEK ME DILIGENTLY WILL FIND ME.
00:26:04.93\00:26:11.13
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 29, VERSE 13
SAYS, "AND YOU SHALL SEEK ME AND
00:26:11.13\00:26:15.36
FIND ME" - WHAT'S
THE REST OF THE VERSE?
00:26:15.36\00:26:18.16
"WHEN YOU SEARCH FOR ME
WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART."
00:26:18.16\00:26:21.80
WHEN IT SAYS, 'WITH ALL OF YOUR
HEART,' THAT IS HAVING A WILLING
00:26:21.80\00:26:23.86
HEART TO DO THE THINGS THAT GOD
ASKS OF US - HAVING THAT HUMBLE
00:26:23.86\00:26:27.40
SPIRIT. VERSE 18,
"RICHES AND HONOR ARE
00:26:27.40\00:26:31.60
WITH ME; ENDURING
RICHES AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:26:31.60\00:26:35.86
MY FRUIT IS BETTER THAN GOLD,
YES, THAN FINE GOLD, AND MY
00:26:35.86\00:26:40.23
REVENUE THAN CHOICE SILVER."
VERSE 20, "I TRAVERSE THE WAY OF
00:26:40.23\00:26:46.30
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND IN THE
MIDST OF THE PATHS OF JUSTICE."
00:26:46.30\00:26:49.96
WHERE IS THE PLACE OF WISDOM?
IT SAYS HERE, "IN THE WAY OF
00:26:49.96\00:26:52.90
RIGHTEOUSNESS, IN
THE PATHS OF JUSTICE" -
00:26:52.90\00:26:55.70
WHAT ARE THE REWARDS OF WISDOM?
IT TALKS ABOUT HEAVENLY RICHES,
00:26:55.70\00:26:58.96
HONOR, RIGHTEOUSNESS - AND VERSE
21, "THAT I MAY CAUSE THOSE WHO
00:26:58.96\00:27:04.90
LOVE ME TO INHERIT WEALTH THAT
I MIGHT FILL THEIR TREASURES."
00:27:04.90\00:27:10.26
NOW, OF COURSE, WE'RE NOT
TALKING HERE ABOUT EARTHLY
00:27:10.26\00:27:11.96
WEALTH, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
THE GREATEST WEALTH OF ALL AND
00:27:11.96\00:27:15.46
THAT IS THE WEALTH THAT JESUS
WANTS TO GIVE THOSE WHO HUMBLE
00:27:15.46\00:27:19.03
THEIR HEARTS. REVELATION CHAPTER
13 - JESUS SAYS, "BUY OF ME GOLD
00:27:19.03\00:27:22.00
REFINED IN THE FIRE THAT YOU
MIGHT BE RICH. BY THE WAY, WHAT
00:27:22.00\00:27:28.30
DOES THAT GOLD REFINED IN THE
FIRE REPRESENT? FAITH AND LOVE.
00:27:28.30\00:27:32.76
JESUS WANTS TO GIVE US FAITH
AND LOVE. JESUS SAYS "BUY OF ME
00:27:32.76\00:27:35.93
GOLD REFINED IN THE FIRE
THAT YOU MIGHT BE RICH AND WHITE
00:27:35.93\00:27:38.86
RAIMENT" - THAT SYMBOLIZES THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST - "AND
00:27:38.86\00:27:42.20
EYE SALVE" - THAT'S SPIRITUAL
DISCERNMENT OR THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:27:42.20\00:27:45.06
THAT'S THE TRUE RICHES AND
GOD WANTS TO GIVE THAT TO US.
00:27:45.06\00:27:49.16
TRUE RICHES IS FOUND IN
WISDOM. WISDOM IS FOUND IN GOD.
00:27:49.16\00:27:54.90
NOW, IN THIS PASSAGE THAT WE
LOOKED AT HERE, PROVERBS CHAPTER
00:27:54.90\00:27:58.40
8:1 THROUGH TO VERSE 21, WE
SEE THAT WISDOM IS IMPORTANT FOR
00:27:58.40\00:28:03.76
EVERYONE. EVERYBODY NEEDS
TO HAVE THIS KIND OF WISDOM.
00:28:03.76\00:28:08.16
THEY NEED A
KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.
00:28:08.16\00:28:09.80
AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, THE
FIRST ANGEL'S MESSAGE GOES TO
00:28:09.80\00:28:13.33
EVERY NATION
KINDRED, TONGUE AND PEOPLE.
00:28:13.33\00:28:15.50
JESUS DIED FOR EVERYONE.
THE GOSPEL MESSAGE IS FOR ALL.
00:28:15.50\00:28:20.63
ALL NEEDS TO COME TO
REALIZATION OF TRUTH.
00:28:20.63\00:28:24.26
THERE ARE EIGHT TIMES, IN THESE
VERSES THAT WE LOOKED AT, THAT
00:28:24.26\00:28:27.96
THE WORD 'TRUTHFULNESS'
IS USED - OR 'TRUTH.' SO IT'S
00:28:27.96\00:28:32.80
EMPHASIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF
TRUTH. NOW, IN THE NEXT SECTION
00:28:32.80\00:28:36.76
THAT WE HAVE HERE IN PROVERBS
CHAPTER 8, THERE IS A SHIFT.
00:28:36.76\00:28:39.86
AFTER DESCRIBING WHAT WISDOM IS,
AND WHAT FOLLY IS, NOW WE FIND A
00:28:39.86\00:28:46.10
CONNECTION BETWEEN WISDOM
AND CREATION - AND THIS IS WHERE
00:28:46.10\00:28:49.83
IT GETS REALLY INTERESTING.
00:28:49.83\00:28:51.56
TAKE A LOOK NOW IN VERSE 22 -
WE'RE IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 8 AND
00:28:51.56\00:28:57.76
WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE READING
HERE IN VERSE 22 - HERE ARE SOME
00:28:57.76\00:29:02.13
WELL-KNOWN VERSES - "THE LORD
POSSESSED ME AT THE BEGINNING OF
00:29:02.13\00:29:05.60
HIS WAY, BEFORE
HIS WORKS OF OLD.
00:29:05.60\00:29:08.50
I HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED FROM
EVERLASTING, FROM THE BEGINNING
00:29:08.50\00:29:12.36
BEFORE THERE WAS EVER AN EARTH."
NOW THIS, OF COURSE, IS A
00:29:12.36\00:29:18.43
MESSIANIC PROPHECY.
IT'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS.
00:29:18.43\00:29:23.20
IT'S DESCRIBING CHRIST
PRIOR TO THE INCARNATION.
00:29:23.20\00:29:26.53
IN YOUR LESSON ON FRIDAY, THERE
IS A STATEMENT FROM THE BOOK
00:29:26.53\00:29:30.86
'PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS'
AND I WANT TO READ THAT.
00:29:30.86\00:29:33.83
IT'S FRIDAY AND FRIDAY'S LESSON,
"THE SOVEREIGN OF THE UNIVERSE
00:29:33.83\00:29:38.36
WAS NOT ALONE IN HIS WORK OF
BENEFICENCE. HE HAD AN ASSOCIATE
00:29:38.36\00:29:42.36
- A COWORKER - WHO COULD
APPRECIATE HIS PURPOSES AND
00:29:42.36\00:29:46.20
COULD SHARE HIS JOY IN GIVING
HAPPINESS TO CREATED BEINGS.
00:29:46.20\00:29:50.80
"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE
WORD" - WHO'S THE WORD? JESUS
00:29:50.80\00:29:54.93
- "AND THE WORD WAS WITH
GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD.
00:29:54.93\00:29:58.03
THE SAME WAS IN THE
BEGINNING WITH GOD."
00:29:58.03\00:29:59.90
CHRIST, THE WORD, THE ONLY
BEGOTTEN OF GOD, WAS ONE WITH
00:29:59.90\00:30:04.80
THE ETERNAL FATHER IN NATURE,
IN CHARACTER, IN PURPOSE.
00:30:04.80\00:30:07.90
THE ONLY BEING THAT COULD ENTER
INTO ALL OF THE COUNCILS AND
00:30:07.90\00:30:12.43
PURPOSES OF GOD AND THE
SON OF GOD, DECLARES CONCERNING
00:30:12.43\00:30:16.23
HIMSELF, "THE LORD POSSESSED
ME IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS WAY.
00:30:16.23\00:30:20.83
BEFORE HIS WORKS OF OLD, I WAS
SET UP FROM EVERLASTING. HE HAS
00:30:20.83\00:30:25.50
APPOINTED THE FOUNDATIONS - WHEN
HE APPOINTED THE FOUNDATIONS OF
00:30:25.50\00:30:28.93
THE EARTH, THEN I WAS BY
HIM, AS ONE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM,
00:30:28.93\00:30:33.20
I WAS DAILY HIS DELIGHT,
REJOICING ALWAYS BEFORE HIM."
00:30:33.20\00:30:37.36
AND THAT, AGAIN, IS FROM
'PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS.' SO
00:30:37.36\00:30:40.03
THE NEXT FEW VERSES THAT WE HAVE
HERE IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 8, ARE
00:30:40.03\00:30:43.66
REFERENCES TO WISDOM BUT ALSO,
MORE DIRECTLY, IT'S A REFERENCE
00:30:43.66\00:30:48.36
TO CHRIST. IF YOU LOOK NOW
IN VERSE 24 - WE'RE IN PROVERBS
00:30:48.36\00:30:53.63
CHAPTER 8 LOOKING AT VERSE
24, "WHEN THERE WAS NO DEPTHS" -
00:30:53.63\00:31:00.23
THAT IS, BEFORE CREATION -
"I WAS BROUGHT FORTH. WHEN THERE
00:31:00.23\00:31:04.83
WERE NO FOUNTAINS ABOUNDING WITH
WATER." NOW, OF COURSE, THIS
00:31:04.83\00:31:09.50
VERSE HAS RAISED SOME QUESTIONS
IN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE.
00:31:09.50\00:31:12.56
DOES THIS VERSE MEAN THAT THERE
WAS A POINT IN TIME WHEN CHRIST
00:31:12.56\00:31:15.56
WAS NOT AND THEN HE WAS
BROUGHT FORTH BY THE FATHER?
00:31:15.56\00:31:20.00
WHAT DOES IT MEAN, BY THE
WAY, TO BRING FORTH, ANYWAY?
00:31:20.00\00:31:23.10
WELL, THE HEBREW WORD THERE,
TRANSLATED AS 'BROUGHT FORTH' IS
00:31:23.10\00:31:27.66
A WORD PRONOUNCED CHAYIL AND,
PRIMARILY, IT'S MEANING IS 'TO
00:31:27.66\00:31:33.36
TREMBLE' OR 'TO WRY' OR 'TO
MANIFEST ENERGY OR ACTIVITY.'
00:31:33.36\00:31:40.23
SOMETIMES THIS PHRASE IS ALSO
REFERRED TO BRINGING FORTH A
00:31:40.23\00:31:43.60
CHILD, BUT IT ALSO MEANS 'TO
CALL INTO ACTIVITY' OR IT IS 'TO
00:31:43.60\00:31:49.10
CALL ONE TO ACTION.' IN OTHER
WORDS, YOU CAN READ THIS VERSE,
00:31:49.10\00:31:54.03
'WHEN THERE WERE NO DEPTHS I WAS
CALLED INTO ACTION' OR 'CALLED
00:31:54.03\00:31:59.36
TO ACTIVITY.' THE
NEXT PART OF THE VERSE,
00:31:59.36\00:32:02.26
'WHEN THERE WERE NO
FOUNTAINS ABOUNDING WITH WATER.'
00:32:02.26\00:32:05.10
OF COURSE, THIS IS A
REFERENCE HERE TO CREATION.
00:32:05.10\00:32:07.86
GENESIS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 2 SAYS
THAT "THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM
00:32:07.86\00:32:12.10
AND VOID AND DARKNESS WAS UPON
THE FACE OF THE DEEP AND THE
00:32:12.10\00:32:15.50
SPIRIT OF GOD WAS HOVERING OVER
THE FACE OF THE WATERS." SO IN
00:32:15.50\00:32:18.96
THE LAST PART OF VERSE 24, WHEN
IT TALKS ABOUT 'NO FOUNTAINS
00:32:18.96\00:32:21.76
ABOUNDING WITH WATER,' YOU
HAVE A REFERENCE HERE TO DAY ONE
00:32:21.76\00:32:25.33
IN CREATION. AND
THEN LOOK AT VERSE 25,
00:32:25.33\00:32:29.33
"BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE
SETTLED, BEFORE THE HILLS, I WAS
00:32:29.33\00:32:33.80
BROUGHT FORTH." IT'S THAT
SAME WORD - 'I WAS CALLED INTO
00:32:33.80\00:32:37.13
ACTION' OR 'CALLED
TO ACTIVITY.' THIS IS A
00:32:37.13\00:32:41.96
REFERENCE TO THE
CREATION OF LAND.
00:32:41.96\00:32:43.70
OF COURSE, THAT OCCURRED ON
DAY THREE OF THE CREATION WEEK.
00:32:43.70\00:32:47.76
VERSE 26, "WHILE AS YET HE
HAD NOT MADE THE EARTH OR THE
00:32:47.76\00:32:52.30
FIELDS, OR THE PRIMORDIAL
OR PRIMEVAL DUST OF THE WORLD."
00:32:52.30\00:32:58.00
THIS, AGAIN, REFERS TO DAY THREE
IN CREATION, WHEN GOD CREATED
00:32:58.00\00:33:03.20
THE PLANTS AND THE
ANIMALS AND THE FIELDS.
00:33:03.20\00:33:06.50
VERSE 28 SAYS, "WHEN HE
ESTABLISHED THE CLOUDS ABOVE,
00:33:06.50\00:33:10.26
AND HE STRENGTHENED
THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP."
00:33:10.26\00:33:14.00
NOW, THIS IS A REFERENCE TO
CREATION, BUT I THINK IT COULD
00:33:14.00\00:33:16.63
ALSO BE A REFERENCE TO
THE FLOOD. NOTICE VERSE 28,
00:33:16.63\00:33:22.70
IT SAYS, "WHEN HE
ESTABLISHED THE CLOUDS ABOVE."
00:33:22.70\00:33:24.93
DID IT RAIN ON THE EARTH PRIOR
TO THE FLOOD? NO IT DIDN'T.
00:33:24.93\00:33:29.06
THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF A MIST THAT
CAME UP AND WATERED THE GROUND.
00:33:29.06\00:33:32.56
ALSO, NOTICE IN VERSE 29, IT
TALKS ABOUT - OR VERSE 28 - IT
00:33:32.56\00:33:36.73
TALKS ABOUT THE FOUNTAINS
OF THE DEEP. WHEN DO WE HAVE A
00:33:36.73\00:33:40.10
REFERENCE IN GENESIS, TO
THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP?
00:33:40.10\00:33:43.23
IT'S IN THE CONTEXT OF THE
FLOOD. MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN
00:33:43.23\00:33:46.43
READ IT IN GENESIS CHAPTER
7, VERSE 11, IT SAYS, "THE
00:33:46.43\00:33:48.53
FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP
WERE BROKEN UP." SO, OF COURSE,
00:33:48.53\00:33:52.76
CHRIST IS PRESENT AT CREATION
- VERY MUCH SO, BUT HE'S ALSO
00:33:52.76\00:33:57.23
THERE WHEN CREATION IS MODIFIED
AS A RESULT OF THE FLOOD.
00:33:57.23\00:34:02.50
LOOKING THEN AT VERSE 29, "WHEN
HE ASSIGNED THE SEA ITS LIMITS,
00:34:02.50\00:34:07.76
SO THE WATERS WOULD NOT
TRANSGRESS HIS COMMANDMENTS WHEN
00:34:07.76\00:34:11.36
HE MARKED OUT THE FOUNDATIONS OF
THE WORLD." SO THIS, AGAIN, IS
00:34:11.36\00:34:16.03
REFERRING TO CHRIST BEING THERE
AT CREATION. OF COURSE, CHRIST
00:34:16.03\00:34:20.13
IS VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN
CREATION, AS WE'RE GOING TO SEE
00:34:20.13\00:34:23.30
IN VERSES 31 THROUGH 32
HERE IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS.
00:34:23.30\00:34:26.00
SO NOT ONLY IS THIS REFERRING TO
CHRIST AND HIS ROLE IN CREATION,
00:34:26.00\00:34:30.63
BUT IT'S ALSO REFERRING TO THE
EARTH BEING CREATED IN WISDOM.
00:34:30.63\00:34:34.83
THERE'S GREAT WISDOM DISPLAYED
IN THE THINGS GOD HAS MADE.
00:34:34.83\00:34:38.73
IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU
CAN TURN TO ROMANS CHAPTER 1,
00:34:38.73\00:34:41.70
VERSE 20, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT
HOW GOD'S POWER IS REVEALED
00:34:41.70\00:34:46.26
IN THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS MADE.
00:34:46.26\00:34:47.96
ROMANS CHAPTER 1,
LOOKING HERE AT VERSE 20.
00:34:47.96\00:34:52.33
AND IF SOMEONE WOULD READ THAT
FOR US - ROMANS CHAPTER 1 AND
00:34:52.33\00:34:55.90
WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING HERE
AT VERSE 20 - TALKING ABOUT HOW
00:34:55.90\00:34:59.10
CREATION REVEALS
THE WISDOM OF GOD.
00:34:59.10\00:35:03.46
>>"FOR SINCE THE CREATION OF THE
WORLD HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES
00:35:03.46\00:35:07.86
ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING
UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT
00:35:07.86\00:35:11.66
ARE MADE. EVEN
HIS ETERNAL POWER AND
00:35:11.66\00:35:14.50
GODHEAD, SO THAT
THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE.
00:35:14.50\00:35:17.93
WELL THERE THE APOSTLE PAUL
TELLS US THAT EVEN GOD'S POWER,
00:35:17.93\00:35:22.36
AND UNDERSTANDING A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHO GOD IS,
00:35:22.36\00:35:25.66
IS DISPLAYED IN THE
THINGS THAT GOD HAS MADE.
00:35:25.66\00:35:28.90
SO CREATION CRIES
OUT THE WISDOM OF GOD.
00:35:28.90\00:35:32.56
IT REVEALS THE TRUTH
OF WHERE WE CAME FROM.
00:35:32.56\00:35:35.20
OF COURSE, THERE ARE MANY
EVIDENCES IN OUR WORLD TODAY
00:35:35.20\00:35:38.03
THAT DEMONSTRATE THE
WISDOM OF GOD IN CREATION.
00:35:38.03\00:35:41.43
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LITTLE RADIO
PROGRAM AT AMAZING FACTS, IT'S
00:35:41.43\00:35:44.66
CALLED 'BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE'
AND WE ALWAYS BEGIN OUR RADIO
00:35:44.66\00:35:47.76
PROGRAM BY SHARING
A LITTLE AMAZING FACT.
00:35:47.76\00:35:50.26
I CAME ACROSS THIS FACT DEALING
WITH A LITTLE FISH AND I THINK
00:35:50.26\00:35:55.50
IT'S EVIDENCE OF
GOD'S WISDOM IN CREATION.
00:35:55.50\00:35:57.83
LET ME READ IT TO YOU. IT
SAYS, "GOBIES ARE SMALL FISH
00:35:57.83\00:36:00.60
WHICH, DURING LOW TIDE, LIKE TO
SWIM IN ROCK POOLS ON THE EDGE
00:36:00.60\00:36:04.66
OF THE OCEAN. ONE
SPECIES CALLED THE BLENNY
00:36:04.66\00:36:07.43
GOBUS - OR GOBIES, ENJOY JUMPING
FROM ONE TIDAL POOL TO ANOTHER.
00:36:07.43\00:36:12.53
RESEARCHERS, INTRIGUED BY THIS
HABIT, DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE.
00:36:12.53\00:36:16.86
THEY DISCOVERED THAT THE LITTLE
FELLOWS ALWAYS JUMP IN THE RIGHT
00:36:16.86\00:36:20.33
DIRECTION AND AT JUST THE RIGHT
DISTANCE, WITHOUT EVER LANDING
00:36:20.33\00:36:24.33
ON THE ROCKS. ALTHOUGH
MUCH OF THE AREA AROUND
00:36:24.33\00:36:27.33
THE POOL IS EXPOSED ROCK AND THE
LITTLE FISH CANNOT SEE FROM ONE
00:36:27.33\00:36:30.83
TIDAL POOL TO THE
NEXT, IT NEVER MISSES.
00:36:30.83\00:36:33.90
HOW DOES THIS LITTLE FISH KNOW
JUST HOW FAR TO LEAP AND IN WHAT
00:36:33.90\00:36:39.00
DIRECTION?
SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT
00:36:39.00\00:36:41.90
WHEN THE TIDE IS IN AND COVERS
THE ROCKS, THE LITTLE FISH SWIMS
00:36:41.90\00:36:45.40
AROUND AND MEMORIZES ALL OF THE
BUMPS AND THE HOLLOWS SO THAT
00:36:45.40\00:36:49.40
WHEN THE TIDE IS OUT, IT
KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE TO JUMP.
00:36:49.40\00:36:53.33
IN OTHER WORDS, THIS AMAZING
FISH IS ABLE TO PRE-MEMORIZE THE
00:36:53.33\00:36:56.50
SHAPES OF ALL OF THE ROCKS AND
THEN CALCULATE WHERE THE WATER
00:36:56.50\00:37:00.70
IS GOING TO POOL. HOW
COULD THIS SMALL FISH HAVE
00:37:00.70\00:37:04.20
ENOUGH WISDOM TO GO ABOUT IN
ADVANCE AND LEARN ALL OF THAT?
00:37:04.20\00:37:08.43
WELL, IN THE CREATION OF THE
WORLD WE SEE THE WISDOM OF GOD
00:37:08.43\00:37:13.00
REVEALED. JAMES
CHAPTER 1, VERSE 5 SAYS,
00:37:13.00\00:37:16.60
"IF ANYONE LACKS WISDOM LET HIM
ASK OF GOD AND HE WILL GIVE TO
00:37:16.60\00:37:20.90
ALL LIBERALLY WITHOUT REPROACH
AND IT WILL BE GIVEN UNTO HIM."
00:37:20.90\00:37:25.23
SO IN THE WORKS OF CREATION
WE CAN CLEARLY SEE GOD'S WISDOM
00:37:25.23\00:37:29.46
MANIFEST. WE CAN
ALSO SEE HIS CHARACTER OF
00:37:29.46\00:37:32.10
CARE AND CONCERN
FOR ALL OF HIS CREATION.
00:37:32.10\00:37:36.93
SO CREATION
REVEALS THE WISDOM OF GOD.
00:37:36.93\00:37:40.13
THE BIBLE ALSO TELLS US THAT
CHRIST WAS VERY ACTIVE IN THE
00:37:40.13\00:37:44.70
CREATION OF THE EARTH.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 2 - IT
00:37:44.70\00:37:47.96
SAYS, "THROUGH HIM THE WORLDS
WERE MADE" - SPEAKING OF CHRIST.
00:37:47.96\00:37:52.90
SO WISDOM, WHICH COMES FROM GOD,
EXISTED BEFORE MAN WAS CREATED.
00:37:52.90\00:37:58.90
IN OTHER WORDS, WISDOM
DOES NOT ORIGINATE WITH US.
00:37:58.90\00:38:04.40
WISDOM IS REVEALED TO US.
00:38:04.40\00:38:07.83
WISDOM IS SOMETHING OUTSIDE
OF US THAT WE LEARN FROM GOD.
00:38:07.83\00:38:13.36
SO GOD IS THE TRUE
SOURCE OF ALL WISDOM.
00:38:13.36\00:38:17.30
THEN ON TUESDAY WE HAVE A
LESSON ENTITLED 'REJOICING IN
00:38:17.30\00:38:20.76
CREATION.' AND IF YOU HAVE
YOUR BIBLES, LET'S LOOK NOW AT
00:38:20.76\00:38:24.06
PROVERBS CHAPTER 8,
BEGINNING IN VERSE 30.
00:38:24.06\00:38:27.26
"THEN I WAS BESIDE
HIM AS A MASTER CRAFTSMAN.
00:38:27.26\00:38:31.43
I WAS DAILY HIS DELIGHT,
REJOICING ALWAYS BEFORE HIM."
00:38:31.43\00:38:35.46
NOW IT'S TALKING ABOUT WISDOM,
BUT IT'S ALSO REFERRING, HERE,
00:38:35.46\00:38:37.73
TO CHRIST. JOHN
CHAPTER 1 TALKS ABOUT THE
00:38:37.73\00:38:40.86
WORD THAT WAS WITH GOD -
"ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM.
00:38:40.86\00:38:43.73
WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT
ANYTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE."
00:38:43.73\00:38:46.10
VERSE 31 SAYS, "REJOICING
IN HIS INHABITED WORLD AND MY
00:38:46.10\00:38:50.73
DELIGHT WAS WITH
THE SONS OF MEN."
00:38:50.73\00:38:53.36
SO WE'VE SEEN IN THIS
PASSAGE, REFERENCES TO CREATION.
00:38:53.36\00:38:57.50
DAY 1 THE EARTH BEING CREATED
AND THE WATERS ON THE EARTH.
00:38:57.50\00:39:02.43
IT TALKS ABOUT
LAND BEING CREATED.
00:39:02.43\00:39:05.00
IT HAS A REFERENCE
THERE TO PLANTS BEING CREATED.
00:39:05.00\00:39:07.70
AND NOW WE COME TO DAY 6 HERE
WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE SONS OF
00:39:07.70\00:39:11.46
MEN. OF COURSE, THAT WAS THE
HIGHLIGHT OF GOD'S CREATION HERE
00:39:11.46\00:39:15.03
ON THIS EARTH. WHY
DID GOD CREATE MAN?
00:39:15.03\00:39:17.93
IN ORDER TO HAVE
FELLOWSHIP WITH MAN.
00:39:17.93\00:39:20.53
HERE 'SONS OF MAN' IS REFERRED
TO AS 'THE DELIGHT OF GOD.'
00:39:20.53\00:39:25.06
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT ISAIAH 45,
VERSE 18 - ISAIAH 45 AND VERSE
00:39:25.06\00:39:31.36
18, WHICH TALKS A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT WHY GOD CREATED THE EARTH
00:39:31.36\00:39:35.83
AND GOD'S DESIRE TO
HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH US.
00:39:35.83\00:39:38.86
ISAIAH 45 AND VERSE 18 AND I'LL
GO AHEAD AND READ THAT FOR US.
00:39:38.86\00:39:42.86
IT SAYS, "FOR THUS SAITH THE
LORD, WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS,
00:39:42.86\00:39:46.76
WHO IS GOD, WHO FORMED THE EARTH
AND MADE IT, WHO HAS ESTABLISHED
00:39:46.76\00:39:51.93
IT, WHO DID NOT CREATE IT
IN VAIN, WHO FORMED IT TO BE
00:39:51.93\00:39:56.76
INHABITED: 'I AM THE
LORD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER.'"
00:39:56.76\00:40:00.93
WHY DID GOD CREATE THE EARTH?
00:40:00.93\00:40:02.66
IT SAYS HE CREATED IT IN
ORDER FOR IT TO BE INHABITED.
00:40:02.66\00:40:06.20
GOD CREATED MAN BECAUSE HE WANTS
FELLOWSHIP WITH US AND IT IS A
00:40:06.20\00:40:10.53
GREAT DELIGHT TO BE IN HIS
PRESENCE. NOW LOOK AT VERSE 32.
00:40:10.53\00:40:15.86
WE SPOKE ABOUT THE DIFFERENT
DAYS OF CREATION, NOW WE HAVE
00:40:15.86\00:40:18.63
THE SEVENTH DAY OF CREATION
REFERRED TO - VERSE 32 - "NOW
00:40:18.63\00:40:23.96
THEREFORE, LISTEN TO ME, MY
CHILDREN, FOR BLESSED ARE THOSE
00:40:23.96\00:40:29.00
WHO KEEP MY WAYS."
AFTER GOD CREATED THE EARTH IN
00:40:29.00\00:40:32.53
SIX DAYS, WHAT DID
HE DO ON THE SEVENTH?
00:40:32.53\00:40:34.90
GOD RESTED, GOD
BLESSED, AND GOD SANCTIFIED.
00:40:34.90\00:40:39.73
AND WHEN WE ENTER INTO
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD, WE RECEIVE
00:40:39.73\00:40:43.26
A BLESSING. SO WISDOM,
HERE, IS ASSOCIATED WITH TRUTH.
00:40:43.26\00:40:47.53
WISDOM IS ALSO
ASSOCIATED WITH THE CREATOR.
00:40:47.53\00:40:50.80
IT'S ASSOCIATED WITH CHRIST.
SO IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 8, WE
00:40:50.80\00:40:55.36
FIND THE REASON
FOR WISDOM'S REJOICING.
00:40:55.36\00:40:59.63
MY DELIGHT IS
WITH THE SONS OF MAN.
00:40:59.63\00:41:02.03
AND, OF COURSE, THE
SABBATH BECOMES A SYMBOL OF THAT
00:41:02.03\00:41:04.56
RELATIONSHIP THAT GOD
WANTS TO HAVE WITH HIS CREATION.
00:41:04.56\00:41:08.76
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 16 -
LET'S TURN TO THAT - COLOSSIANS
00:41:08.76\00:41:12.60
CHAPTER 1, VERSES 16 AND 17
TALK ABOUT CHRIST IN CREATION.
00:41:12.60\00:41:18.56
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 1, BEGINNING
HERE IN VERSE 16. AND JOHN,
00:41:18.56\00:41:23.20
WHEN YOU'RE READY, LET US
KNOW AND WE'LL HAVE YOU READ IT.
00:41:23.20\00:41:25.73
>>COLOSSIANS 1, VERSE 16, "FOR
BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED
00:41:25.73\00:41:33.10
THAT ARE IN HEAVEN AND THAT ARE
IN EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE,
00:41:33.10\00:41:38.76
WHETHER THEY BE THRONES OR
DOMINIONS OR PRINCIPALITIES OR
00:41:38.76\00:41:45.10
POWERS, ALL THINGS WERE
CREATED BY HIM AND FOR HIM."
00:41:45.10\00:41:50.56
>>SO THIS VERSE MAKES IT VERY
CLEAR, WITH REFERENCE TO CHRIST,
00:41:50.56\00:41:54.53
THAT HE WAS BEFORE ALL THINGS
AND HE WAS THE ONE WHO CREATED
00:41:54.53\00:41:58.93
ALL THINGS. SO IN THE BEGINNING,
CHRIST WAS WITH THE FATHER,
00:41:58.93\00:42:02.93
VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN
THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.
00:42:02.93\00:42:06.53
NOW LOOKING AT PROVERBS CHAPTER
8, FINISHING UP OUR CHAPTER
00:42:06.53\00:42:09.83
THERE - WE'RE ON VERSE 33 -
PROVERBS CHAPTER 8, VERSE 33,
00:42:09.83\00:42:15.63
"HEAR INSTRUCTION AND BE
WISE AND DO NOT DISDAIN IT."
00:42:15.63\00:42:20.43
VERSE 34, "BLESSED IS THE
MAN WHO LISTENS TO ME, WATCHING
00:42:20.43\00:42:24.96
DAILY AT MY GATES, WAITING
AT THE POSTS OF MY DOOR."
00:42:24.96\00:42:30.30
NOW HERE IS A BLESSING
PRONOUNCED UPON THOSE WHO LISTEN
00:42:30.30\00:42:34.16
TO WISDOM - THOSE
WHO LISTEN TO CHRIST -
00:42:34.16\00:42:37.23
HOW ARE WE TO LISTEN TO WISDOM?
00:42:37.23\00:42:40.13
WELL, THE NEXT PART OF THE VERSE
TELLS US HOW - #1, WATCHING
00:42:40.13\00:42:44.30
DAILY AT MY GATE; #2,
WAITING AT THE POSTS OF MY DOOR.
00:42:44.30\00:42:49.86
HOW MANY OF YOU WERE IN
PATHFINDERS AT SOME POINT IN
00:42:49.86\00:42:52.33
TIME? ALRIGHT, WE SEE SOME
HANDS. I WAS IN PATHFINDERS.
00:42:52.33\00:42:55.10
I REMEMBER PART OF THE
PATHFINDER LAW WAS TO KEEP THE
00:42:55.10\00:42:58.96
WHAT? KEEP THE MORNING
- KEEP THE MORNING WATCH.
00:42:58.96\00:43:03.16
AND WHAT DID THAT REFER TO?
THE STUDY OF THE SCRIPTURES.
00:43:03.16\00:43:06.66
HOW DO WE LISTEN TO WISDOM?
00:43:06.66\00:43:09.03
BY SPENDING TIME
IN THE SCRIPTURES.
00:43:09.03\00:43:12.73
IN ADDITION TO JUST SPENDING
TIME READING, WE ALSO NEED TO
00:43:12.73\00:43:15.83
SPEND TIME IN PRAYER AND
THAT IS WAITING ON THE LORD -
00:43:15.83\00:43:19.86
WAITING AT THE POSTS OF MY DOOR,
AS IS PORTRAYED IN VERSE 34.
00:43:19.86\00:43:24.33
SO IT'S THROUGH THE STUDY OF THE
SCRIPTURES AND THROUGH SPENDING
00:43:24.33\00:43:27.50
TIME IN PRAYER, THAT WE
RECEIVE THE WISDOM OF GOD.
00:43:27.50\00:43:31.66
THAT IS HOW WE COME TO KNOW
GOD. VERSE 35 SAYS, "FOR WHOEVER
00:43:31.66\00:43:36.73
FINDS ME FINDS LIFE." OF
COURSE THE 'ME' IS WISDOM,
00:43:36.73\00:43:42.00
BUT EVEN MORE
SPECIFICALLY IT'S JESUS.
00:43:42.00\00:43:44.56
JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE
WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.
00:43:44.56\00:43:48.90
WHOEVER FINDS ME FINDS LIFE AND
OBTAINS FAVOR FROM THE LORD."
00:43:48.90\00:43:53.23
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 10, VERSE 32
JESUS SAID, "IF YOU CONFESS ME
00:43:53.23\00:43:57.20
BEFORE MAN I WILL CONFESS YOU
BEFORE MY FATHER. AND IF JESUS
00:43:57.20\00:44:01.93
CONFESSES US BEFORE HIS FATHER,
WE ARE GUARANTEED TO HAVE FAVOR
00:44:01.93\00:44:06.80
FROM GOD. VERSE 36, "BUT HE WHO
SINS AGAINST ME WRONGS HIS OWN
00:44:06.80\00:44:12.36
SOUL. ALL THOSE THAT
HATE ME, LOVE DEATH."
00:44:12.36\00:44:17.03
AND SO WE SEE THE THREE STEPS
INVOLVED HERE, THOSE WHO SIN
00:44:17.03\00:44:20.73
AGAINST ME
"WRONGS HIS OWN SOUL."
00:44:20.73\00:44:25.43
NOW GOD IS A GOD OF LOVE AND THE
REASON HE GIVES US HIS LAW AND
00:44:25.43\00:44:28.76
THE REASON HE GIVES US GUIDANCE
IS REALLY FOR OUR OWN GOOD.
00:44:28.76\00:44:31.96
IT'S THAT HEDGE OF PROTECTION
THAT LEADS TO LIFE, THAT LEADS
00:44:31.96\00:44:34.73
TO PEACE, IT LEADS TO
JOY, IT LEADS TO THE BLESSINGS
00:44:34.73\00:44:37.56
THAT GOD WANTS
TO BESTOW UPON US.
00:44:37.56\00:44:40.53
SO, PROVERBS CHAPTER 8 -
BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE TALKING ABOUT
00:44:40.53\00:44:43.40
THE IMPORTANCE OF WISDOM, BUT
IT ALSO GIVES US DESCRIPTIONS OF
00:44:43.40\00:44:46.66
JESUS, ESPECIALLY AS IT'S
ASSOCIATED WITH CHRIST AND HIS
00:44:46.66\00:44:51.33
ROLE IN CREATION.
THAT BRINGS US, NOW, TO
00:44:51.33\00:44:53.96
THURSDAY'S LESSON.
IF YOU HAVE YOUR LESSON
00:44:53.96\00:44:56.90
QUARTERLY, THIS IS ON PAGE 35
AND WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING,
00:44:56.90\00:45:00.40
NOW, AT PROVERBS CHAPTER 9.
JUST A GREAT PASSAGE AS WELL.
00:45:00.40\00:45:05.56
LET ME JUST GIVE YOU - ORIENT
YOU TO THE CHAPTER, THERE ARE
00:45:05.56\00:45:09.46
THREE SECTIONS TO PROVERBS
CHAPTER 9. THE FIRST SECTION IS
00:45:09.46\00:45:13.06
FROM VERSE 1 THROUGH TO VERSE
6, AND IT'S TALKING AGAIN ABOUT
00:45:13.06\00:45:17.53
WISDOM. WISDOM HERE
IS DESCRIBED AS A WOMAN.
00:45:17.53\00:45:20.56
THEN YOU FIND FROM VERSES 13
TO 18 THERE IS A DESCRIPTION OF
00:45:20.56\00:45:25.60
FOLLY OR FOOLISHNESS AND, AGAIN,
IT'S DESCRIBED AS A WOMAN.
00:45:25.60\00:45:29.00
SO THE FIRST PART OF THE
CHAPTER TALKS ABOUT WISDOM.
00:45:29.00\00:45:32.56
THE LAST PART
TALKS ABOUT FOOLISHNESS.
00:45:32.56\00:45:36.03
AND THEN IN THE MIDDLE IT
TALKS ABOUT HOW WE CAN COME TO
00:45:36.03\00:45:40.60
EXPERIENCE WISDOM ONCE MORE.
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK NOW IN
00:45:40.60\00:45:44.00
PROVERBS CHAPTER 9 AND
LOOK, IF YOU WOULD, AT VERSE 1.
00:45:44.00\00:45:47.73
NOW I'M GOING TO JUMP BACK AND
FORTH BETWEEN PROVERBS 9 - THE
00:45:47.73\00:45:50.83
FIRST PART - AND THEN PROVERBS
9 THE ENDING AND YOU'LL SEE THE
00:45:50.83\00:45:54.30
CONNECTION HERE. TAKE A LOOK
AT VERSE 1, IT SAYS, "WISDOM HAS
00:45:54.30\00:45:57.86
BUILT HER HOUSE. SHE HAS
HEWN OUT HER SEVEN PILLARS."
00:45:57.86\00:46:03.60
NOW WHAT DOES WISDOM REPRESENT?
WHO IS TRUTH? WHO IS WISDOM?
00:46:03.60\00:46:09.40
AS WE'VE LOOKED
AT IT, IT'S CHRIST.
00:46:09.40\00:46:11.30
IT SAYS, "WISDOM
HAS BUILT HER HOUSE.
00:46:11.30\00:46:15.23
WHO WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED
IN THE CREATION OF THE EARTH?
00:46:15.23\00:46:18.46
JESUS WAS. "WISDOM
HAS BUILT HER HOUSE."
00:46:18.46\00:46:22.60
THE EARTH - NOTICE IT SAID, "SHE
HAS HEWN OUT HER SEVEN PILLARS."
00:46:22.60\00:46:27.23
THE EARTH WAS CREATED IN SIX
DAYS AND THEN GOD RESTED ON THE
00:46:27.23\00:46:31.10
SEVENTH DAY. OF COURSE, THE WORD
- OR THE NUMBER 7, IN SCRIPTURE,
00:46:31.10\00:46:34.26
ALSO REPRESENTS
PERFECTION OR COMPLETION.
00:46:34.26\00:46:39.66
IF YOU LOOK AT VERSE
13 YOU HAVE FOOLISHNESS.
00:46:39.66\00:46:43.53
SO WISDOM TALKS ABOUT
HER BUILDING HER HOUSE.
00:46:43.53\00:46:46.53
IT TALKS ABOUT
THE SEVEN PILLARS.
00:46:46.53\00:46:48.70
BUT LOOK AT VERSE 13, IT SAYS,
"A FOOLISH WOMAN IS CLAMOROUS.
00:46:48.70\00:46:52.73
SHE'S SIMPLE AND KNOWS NOTHING."
00:46:52.73\00:46:55.83
NOW, THE WORD CLAMOROUS THERE
MEANS 'MARKED BY CONFUSION.' IN
00:46:55.83\00:47:00.96
BIBLE PROPHECY, WHAT DOES
A WOMAN SOMETIMES REPRESENT?
00:47:00.96\00:47:04.56
>>THE CHURCH. >>A
CHURCH. AND DOES REVELATION
00:47:04.56\00:47:08.06
TALK ABOUT A WOMAN
THAT'S MARKED BY CONFUSION?
00:47:08.06\00:47:13.23
WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD FOR
CONFUSION IN BIBLE PROPHECY?
00:47:13.23\00:47:15.96
>>BABYLON. >>BABYLON.
00:47:15.96\00:47:17.73
BABYLON MEANS 'CONFUSION.'
SO HERE YOU HAVE A CHURCH THAT,
00:47:17.73\00:47:22.36
INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING AFTER
WISDOM, BUILDING UP THE TRUTH,
00:47:22.36\00:47:26.20
SHE IS MARKED BY CONFUSION
- BY BABYLON. SHE'S SIMPLAND
00:47:26.20\00:47:31.30
SHE KNOWS NOT THE
TRUTH. NOW GO BACK TO VERSE 2.
00:47:31.30\00:47:35.33
WE'RE CONTRASTING
BETWEEN THESE TWO SYMBOLS.
00:47:35.33\00:47:37.90
VERSE 2 SAYS, SPEAKING OF
WISDOM, "SHE HAS SLAUGHTERED HER
00:47:37.90\00:47:42.60
MEAT. SHE HAS MIXED HER WINE.
00:47:42.60\00:47:45.13
SHE HAS ALSO
FURNISHED HER TABLE.
00:47:45.13\00:47:48.00
NOW WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT
'SLAUGHTERED HER MEAT, MIXED HER
00:47:48.00\00:47:51.00
WINE, AND FURNISHED HER TABLES,'
WE KNOW THAT CHRIST HAS PROVIDED
00:47:51.00\00:47:54.53
A WAY OF SALVATION FOR
US THROUGH HIS SACRIFICE.
00:47:54.53\00:47:59.33
SLAUGHTERED HER MEAT - THAT CAN
REFER TO THE SACRIFICE. THE WINE
00:47:59.33\00:48:02.66
IS A SYMBOL OF CHRIST - HIS
ATONING SACRIFICE - HIS BLOOD.
00:48:02.66\00:48:06.23
SHE HAS FURNISHED A TABLE -
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 22 YOU HAVE A
00:48:06.23\00:48:10.53
PARABLE ABOUT A MARRIAGE FEAST
AND ALL THINGS ARE PREPARED.
00:48:10.53\00:48:15.50
AND, OF COURSE, THAT MARRIAGE
REPRESENTS CHRIST'S RECEPTION OF
00:48:15.50\00:48:17.63
HIS KINGDOM - THE
RECEPTION OF HIS BRIDE.
00:48:17.63\00:48:20.70
IF YOU LOOK AT THE CONTRAST
OF THAT, LOOK AT VERSE 14 -
00:48:20.70\00:48:24.10
PROVERBS CHAPTER 9, VERSE 14,
TALKING OF FOOLISHNESS, "FOR SHE
00:48:24.10\00:48:27.83
SITS AT THE DOOR OF HER HOUSE ON
A SEAT BY THE HIGHEST PLACES OF
00:48:27.83\00:48:33.10
THE HILL TO CALL TO THOSE WHO
PASS BY WHO GO STRAIGHT ON THEIR
00:48:33.10\00:48:37.43
WAY." SO YOU FIND
WISDOM BUILDING UP HER HOUSE.
00:48:37.43\00:48:42.96
IN VERSE 14, YOU FIND
FOOLISHNESS SITTING AT THE DOOR
00:48:42.96\00:48:45.96
OF HER HOUSE. SHE
SITS ON A SEAT BY THE
00:48:45.96\00:48:48.93
HIGHEST PLACES AND SHE'S
CALLING TO THOSE WHO PASS BY.
00:48:48.93\00:48:54.16
IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING, THAT
YOU'LL NOTICE HERE IN THE NEXT -
00:48:54.16\00:48:56.40
OR A LITTLE FURTHER DOWN IN
THE CHAPTER - THAT NOT ONLY DOES
00:48:56.40\00:48:59.20
FOOLISHNESS SIT AT THE HIGH
PLACES OF THE CITY, BUT WISDOM
00:48:59.20\00:49:02.76
ALSO SITS AT THE
HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY.
00:49:02.76\00:49:05.63
AND THEY ARE BOTH CALLING
OUT TO THE PEOPLE PASSING BY.
00:49:05.63\00:49:09.36
SO WISDOM - TRUTH - CHRIST
- IS CALLING OUT TO PEOPLE.
00:49:09.36\00:49:14.23
AT THE SAME TIME, YOU HAVE
FOOLISHNESS OR FOLLY CALLING OUT
00:49:14.23\00:49:18.40
TO PEOPLE. AND WE
NEED TO BE ABLE TO
00:49:18.40\00:49:20.70
DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE TRUTH,
WISDOM, AND FALSEHOOD - OR LIES.
00:49:20.70\00:49:25.56
A LOOK AT VERSE 3 - GOING BACK,
NOW, TO WISDOM - IT SAYS, "SHE
00:49:25.56\00:49:29.76
SENT OUT HER MAIDENS; SHE CRIED
OUT FROM THE HIGHEST PLACES OF
00:49:29.76\00:49:34.43
THE CITY. SOME HAVE
SAID THAT MAYBE THESE
00:49:34.43\00:49:37.20
MAIDENS MIGHT REPRESENT THE
PROPHETS THAT WERE OUT TO PREACH
00:49:37.20\00:49:40.50
THE GOSPEL AND CALL PEOPLE TO
THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB.
00:49:40.50\00:49:43.80
YOU ALSO HAVE THE REFERENCE,
POSSIBLY, TO THE PARABLE OF THE
00:49:43.80\00:49:47.10
TEN VIRGINS, IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 25.
00:49:47.10\00:49:49.96
VERSE 4 SAYS, "WHOEVER IS
SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN HERE."
00:49:49.96\00:49:55.33
NOW THOSE WHO ARE SIMPLE - IT'S
REFERRING TO THOSE WHO HAVE A
00:49:55.33\00:49:59.06
TEACHABLE SPIRIT - THOSE WHO
HAVE A HUMBLE HEART - THOSE WHO
00:49:59.06\00:50:04.43
ARE SEEKING FOR TRUTH - SEEKING
FOR WISDOM - "AS FOR HIM WHO
00:50:04.43\00:50:08.83
LACKS UNDERSTANDING" - SHE SAYS
TO HIM - "COME EAT MY BREAD AND
00:50:08.83\00:50:13.30
DRINK THE WINE
THAT I HAVE MIXED."
00:50:13.30\00:50:15.50
SO JESUS IS CALLING OUT TO THOSE
WHO ARE TEACHABLE - THOSE WHO
00:50:15.50\00:50:20.16
LACK UNDERSTANDING - AND
JESUS SAYS, 'COME EAT MY BREAD.'
00:50:20.16\00:50:25.40
WHAT DOES THAT BREAD REPRESENT?
00:50:25.40\00:50:27.60
JESUS SAYS, 'THE WORDS I SPEAK
UNTO YOU, THEY ARE SPIRIT AND
00:50:27.60\00:50:30.96
THEY ARE LIFE.' OF COURSE, ALSO,
IT'S A REFERENCE HERE TO THE
00:50:30.96\00:50:34.40
BROKEN BODY OF JESUS.
IN THE COMMUNION SERVICE WE
00:50:34.40\00:50:37.23
SPEAK OF THE BREAD AS
SYMBOLIZING THE BODY OF CHRIST.
00:50:37.23\00:50:39.93
THE WINE, AGAIN, A REFERENCE
TO THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST - HIS
00:50:39.93\00:50:42.80
ATONING SACRIFICE, WHICH
MAKES THE WEDDING POSSIBLE.
00:50:42.80\00:50:45.50
AND THEN VERSE 6 SAYS,
"FORSAKE FOOLISHNESS AND LIVE
00:50:45.50\00:50:48.73
AND GO IN THE
WAY OF UNDERSTANDING.
00:50:48.73\00:50:52.40
FOOLISHNESS THERE, AGAIN,
IS REBELLION OR STUBBORNNESS.
00:50:52.40\00:50:56.53
NOW NOTICE THE
CONTRAST OVER HERE IN VERSE 16.
00:50:56.53\00:51:00.36
YOU HAVE FOOLISHNESS CALLING
TO THE SAME GROUP, "WHOEVER IS
00:51:00.36\00:51:05.30
SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN IN
HERE AND AS FOR HIM WHO LACKS
00:51:05.30\00:51:09.13
UNDERSTANDING" - SHE SAYS TO
HIM - "STOLEN WATER IS SWEET AND
00:51:09.13\00:51:14.53
BREAD EATEN IN
SECRET IS PLEASANT."
00:51:14.53\00:51:18.93
NOW, LET ME SAY SOMETHING ABOUT
VERSE 17, BUT BEFORE WE DO,
00:51:18.93\00:51:21.60
NOTICE THAT WISDOM IS CALLING
THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT
00:51:21.60\00:51:26.16
FOOLISHNESS IS CALLING.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE DEVIL IS
00:51:26.16\00:51:29.03
TRYING TO DECEIVE THE VERY ONES
THAT CHRIST IS CALLING, ALRIGHT?
00:51:29.03\00:51:33.30
NOTICE WHAT SHE SAYS TO TRY AND
DECEIVE: 'STOLEN WATER IS SWEET'
00:51:33.30\00:51:40.10
- NOTICE THERE'S NO REFERENCE
HERE TO WINE OR THE ATONING
00:51:40.10\00:51:43.33
SACRIFICE OF CHRIST - 'AND BREAD
EATEN IN SECRET IS PLEASANT.'
00:51:43.33\00:51:48.66
NOW, THINK BACK IN YOUR STUDY OF
PROVERBS, HAVE WE READ ANYTHING
00:51:48.66\00:51:53.43
ABOUT WATER AND WHAT THAT MIGHT
REPRESENT? YES WE HAVE, TAKE
00:51:53.43\00:51:58.63
A LOOK AT PROVERBS CHAPTER 5,
VERSE 15 - NOTICE THE LANGUAGE
00:51:58.63\00:52:02.66
HERE - THIS IS FOOLISHNESS
DESCRIBED AS A WOMAN AND SHE'S
00:52:02.66\00:52:07.66
CALLING OUT AND SHE'S
SAYING, "STOLEN WATER IS SWEET."
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WHAT DOES THE WATER
REFER TO HERE IN PROVERBS?
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 5, VERSE 15 -
IT SAYS, "DRINK WATER FROM YOUR
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OWN CISTERN AND RUNNING
WATER FROM YOUR OWN WELL."
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NOW, IF YOU READ ON THERE IN
PROVERBS CHAPTER 5, IT'S TALKING
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ABOUT FAITHFULNESS TO
YOUR SPOUSE. STOLEN WATER IS
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OBVIOUSLY NOT DRINKING FROM YOUR
OWN CISTERN OR YOUR OWN WELL.
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NOW WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT SYMBOLS
IN SCRIPTURE, WHO IS THE CHURCH,
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WHICH IS SOMETIMES DESCRIBED AS
A WOMAN, WHO DOES THE CHURCH, IN
00:52:40.86\00:52:43.90
SCRIPTURE, OR A WOMAN IN
SCRIPTURE REPRESENT? OR WHO IS
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THE CHURCH, I SHOULD SAY -
THE BRIDE - TO BE MARRIED TO?
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>>CHRIST. >>CHRIST.
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BUT WHEN THE CHURCH LEAVES HER
ALLEGIANCE TO JESUS AND FORMS AN
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ALLIANCE WITH SOME OTHER POWER,
WHETHER IT BE POLITICAL OR
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WHETHER IT BE IN A POWER
THAT HAS SET ASIDE THE TRUTHS OF
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GOD'S WORD, SHE IS
GUILTY OF SPIRITUAL ADULTERY.
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HERE, THIS FOOLISH WOMAN
SAYS, "STOLEN WATER IS SWEET."
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- 'COME MY WAY.' - "AND BREAD
EATEN IN SECRET IS PLEASANT."
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NOW WHAT DOES BREAD
REPRESENT? >>THE WORD.
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>>THE WORD OF GOD. WHAT
DOES IT MEAN 'EATEN IN SECRET?'
00:53:22.20\00:53:24.70
IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 1, VERSE
20, WE READ "NO SCRIPTURE IS FOR
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PRIVATE INTERPRETATION. IN
OTHER WORDS, THIS IS SOMEBODY
00:53:29.36\00:53:34.26
THAT TAKES THE SCRIPTURES
AND TAKES IT OUT OF CONTEXT OR
00:53:34.26\00:53:38.06
DOESN'T READ THE
SCRIPTURES AS A WHOLE.
00:53:38.06\00:53:39.96
OF COURSE, THERE ARE MANY
CHURCHES TODAY THAT CLAIM TO BE
00:53:39.96\00:53:42.40
FOLLOWING THE SCRIPTURES -
CLAIMING TO FOLLOW THE TRUTHS OF
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GOD'S WORD - BUT THEY ARE
NOT EATING - OR STUDYING THE
00:53:45.46\00:53:49.90
SCRIPTURES - AS A WHOLE. A
LITTLE BIT HERE, A LITTLE BIT
00:53:49.90\00:53:52.80
THERE - TAKING
THINGS OUT OF CONTEXT.
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"AND BREAD EATEN IN
SECRET IS PLEASANT."
00:53:55.23\00:53:59.76
BUT VERSE 18, "BUT HE DOES NOT
KNOW THAT DEATH" - OR THE DEAD
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ARE THERE - "AND THAT HER GUESTS
ARE IN THE DEPTHS OF HELL."
00:54:04.76\00:54:08.73
SO HERE WE HAVE A CALL -
A WARNING AGAINST THIS FALSE
00:54:08.73\00:54:12.56
TEACHING - THIS FALSE DOCTRINE.
STAY TRUE TO THE WORD OF GOD.
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SO IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 8, WE
HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL PORTRAYAL OF
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WISDOM, WHICH
ALSO REPRESENTS CHRIST.
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CONNECTED WITH THE
WISDOM, WE FIND CREATION.
00:54:24.46\00:54:27.16
WE FIND TRUTH. WE FIND
LIFE. TRUTH IS ABSOLUTE.
00:54:27.16\00:54:31.96
IT STANDS FIRM
BECAUSE TRUTH IS FOUND IN GOD.
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GOD DOESN'T CHANGE.
00:54:35.36\00:54:37.03
AND GOD IS INVITING US IN THESE
PASSAGES, 'COME TO ME.' JESUS
00:54:37.03\00:54:40.50
SAID, 'COME UNTO ME ALL YOU WHO
LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN AND I
00:54:40.50\00:54:43.30
WILL GIVE YOU REST.' TRUE REST -
TRUE PEACE IS FOUND IN JESUS AND
00:54:43.30\00:54:50.46
THAT'S THE MESSAGE OF
PROVERBS CHAPTER 8, VERSE 9.
00:54:50.46\00:54:54.10
I'D LIKE TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS
WATCHING, WE DO HAVE A FREE
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'AMAZING WONDERS OF CREATION.'
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AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #116 -
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AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR JOINING US AND TO OUR LOCAL
00:55:16.70\00:55:19.90
CHURCH MEMBERS HERE, THANK
YOU FOR COMING OUT THIS EVENING.
00:55:19.90\00:55:22.86
I HOPE YOU WERE INSPIRED BY
OUR STUDY. I WAS JUST SO BLESSED
00:55:22.86\00:55:27.10
WHEN I WAS GOING THROUGH
THIS PASSAGE AND PREPARING.
00:55:27.10\00:55:29.23
JUST A WONDERFUL DEMONSTRATION
OF GOD'S LOVE FOR US.
00:55:29.23\00:55:32.06
LET'S CLOSE WITH
A WORD OF PRAYER.
00:55:32.06\00:55:34.26
"DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE
THANK YOU FOR THE SCRIPTURES.
00:55:34.26\00:55:36.53
WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR
WILLINGNESS TO GIVE US WISDOM.
00:55:36.53\00:55:39.83
AND YOU WANT TO GIVE YOURSELF TO
US THAT WE MIGHT HAVE THE TRUTH.
00:55:39.83\00:55:43.26
WE MIGHT HAVE THAT CREATOR,
THROUGH HIS SPIRIT, DWELLING
00:55:43.26\00:55:46.76
WITHIN US. OH FATHER, WE THANK
YOU FOR THIS GREAT INVITATION.
00:55:46.76\00:55:50.66
THANK YOU FOR THE GIFT OF
LIFE THAT'S FOUND IN YOU AND WE
00:55:50.66\00:55:54.03
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORD WHICH
IS INDEED A LAMP TO OUR PATH AND
00:55:54.03\00:55:57.76
WILL LEAD US IN THE
WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:55:57.76\00:56:00.26
BLESS THOSE WHO ARE
WATCHING. BE WITH US HERE.
00:56:00.26\00:56:02.53
WE JUST ASK FOR YOUR CONTINUED
LEADING. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:56:02.53\00:56:06.80
THANK YOU, FRIENDS FOR JOINING
US AGAIN THIS WEEK AND THOSE
00:56:06.80\00:56:09.96
WATCHING, PLEASE BE SURE TO
TUNE IN NEXT WEEK AS WE CONTINUE
00:56:09.96\00:56:13.36
WITH OUR STUDY IN THE BOOK
OF PROVERBS. GOD BLESS YOU.
00:56:13.36\00:56:17.86
>>(CRICKETS
CHIRPING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC)
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>>MOMMY! DADDY! HELP ME!
>>NO, I DON'T THINK SO. YOU
00:57:01.60\00:57:08.16
DIDN'T DO VERY WELL ON YOUR
REPORT CARD THIS LAST QUARTER
00:57:08.16\00:57:10.33
SO...NO. >>YOU
HAVEN'T BEEN PULLING YOUR
00:57:10.33\00:57:13.40
WEIGHT AROUND HERE
LATELY. YOU WANT HELP?
00:57:13.40\00:57:15.86
WELL, I WANTED HELP
WITH THE DISHES LAST NIGHT.
00:57:15.86\00:57:18.70
HELP YOURSELF! >>HUH?
00:57:18.70\00:57:20.63
>>HONEY, DID YOU
BRING THE MARSHMALLOWS?
00:57:20.63\00:57:24.06
>>(COUGHING) (SIRENS) (MUSIC)
00:57:24.06\00:57:48.10
>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE
00:57:48.10\00:57:50.20
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
00:57:50.20\00:57:54.10
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE
SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK.
00:57:54.10\00:57:57.63
NOW, EACH WEEK MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY.
00:57:57.63\00:58:01.93
WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID
GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:58:01.93\00:58:04.96
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:58:04.96\00:58:08.00
WHO IS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S
00:58:08.00\00:58:11.30
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