Participants: Doug Batchelor
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00:33 >>GOOD EVENING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND WELCOME, 00:35 ONCE AGAIN, TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:38 I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE OF YOU JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY 00:41 AND AROUND THE WORLD - THOSE WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS 00:43 TELEVISION CHANNELS - ALSO ON THE INTERNET. 00:45 THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF OUR STUDY TOGETHER. 00:48 ALSO, A WARM WELCOME TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY 00:51 CHURCH THAT HAVE COME AND JOINED US HERE AT THE AMAZING FACTS 00:53 STUDIO AS WE CONTINUE OUR STUDY IN THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. 00:57 AND FRIENDS, IF YOU'RE JOINING US FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE'RE 01:00 STUDYING THROUGH THE LESSON QUARTERLY ON THE BOOK OF 01:02 PROVERBS AND TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #6. 01:04 IF YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR OWN STUDY, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S 01:07 LESSON BY GOING TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST 01:11 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND DOWNLOAD TODAY'S STUDY, 01:14 IT'S LESSON #6, AND FOLLOW ALONG WITH US. 01:17 WE ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT WE'D LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT. 01:20 IT'S A BOOK, WRITTEN BY PASTOR DOUG, ENTITLED DETERMINING THE 01:24 WILL OF GOD AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO ANYONE FOR FREE. 01:26 ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS JUST CALL OUR RESOURCE LINE, THE NUMBER IS 01:31 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #778. 01:38 AGAIN, THAT NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR THE 01:45 BOOK DETERMINING THE WILL OF GOD - FREE OFFER #778. 01:49 WELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY, LET'S JUST BOW OUR HEADS AND 01:52 ASK GOD'S PRESENCE TO BE WITH US. 01:54 DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER 01:56 TOGETHER TO STUDY THE BIBLE AND WE INVITE YOUR PRESENCE. 01:59 WE KNOW THE WORD IS FILLED WITH WISDOM - PRACTICAL WISDOM FOR 02:02 EVERYDAY LIVING - AND SO, BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER THIS EVENING 02:06 FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 02:09 OUR LESSON WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 02:13 THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG. >>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS. 02:16 AND THANK YOU, FRIENDS, FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT. 02:21 IT'S A LITTLE FOGGY AND COLD HERE IN SACRAMENTO. 02:24 WE APPRECIATE THE DEDICATION OF OUR PRAYER MEETING GROUP TO COME 02:28 OUT AND LET US, SORT OF, HIJACK OUR PRAYER MEETING TIME FOR 02:32 SABBATH SCHOOL TIME UNTIL WE GET MOVED INTO OUR NEW BUILDING, 02:35 WHICH SHOULD JUST BE WELL, THREE OR FOUR MORE WEEKS WE'RE GOING 02:39 TO BE DOING THIS AND THEN WE'LL BE IN THE NEW FACILITIES DOING 02:42 IT SABBATH MORNING LIKE WE DID FOR YEARS AND SO THAT'LL BE 02:45 GREAT. AS PASTOR ROSS MENTIONED, WE ARE 02:48 DEALING WITH THE BOOK OF PROVERBS NOW, WE'RE IN 02:51 LESSON #6, WHICH IS WHAT YOU GET IS NOT WHAT YOU SEE . 02:55 AND OUR HOMEWORK, REALLY, IS THIS LESSON IS ATTACHED TO 03:02 PROVERBS 14 AND 15 AND SO WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND COVER AS MUCH 03:07 OF THAT - FROM PROVERBS 14:1 TO PROVERBS 15:33 - I THINK WE MAY 03:11 EVEN COVER THE FIRST VERSE OF PROVERBS 16. 03:14 MEMORY VERSE IS 1 CORINTHIANS 13:12 AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO 03:20 SAY THIS WITH ME, THAT'D BE GREAT. 03:23 OH NO, NO - SORRY, LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN. 03:25 THE MEMORY VERSE IS PROVERBS 14:12 - PROVERBS 14:12 AND THIS 03:30 IS FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. 03:32 ARE YOU READY? "THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT 03:36 TO A MAN, BUT ITS END IS THE WAY OF DEATH." 03:41 YOU KNOW, DOING EVANGELISM, YOU ACTUALLY USE THAT VERSE A LOT 03:45 BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE WILL HEAR THE BIBLICAL TRUTH PRESENTED AND 03:48 THEY'LL SAY, 'WELL, I KNOW THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS BUT, 03:51 YOU KNOW, I FEEL THIS SEEMS RIGHT TO ME.' BUT IT CONFLICTS 03:54 WITH THE WORD OF GOD AND HOW MANY PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, I'M NOT 03:58 SURE, YOU KNOW, LOTS OF CHURCHES, LOTS OF RELIGIONS AND 04:00 I DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST GOING TO HAVE TO FOLLOW 04:03 MY HEART.' YOU EVER HEARD THAT BEFORE? 04:05 'I'M GOING TO HAVE TO DO WHAT SEEMS RIGHT TO ME.' YOU'VE GOT 04:09 TO KNOW WHAT THE TRUTH IS. IT'S PRETTY DANGEROUS TO GAMBLE 04:11 WITH ETERNITY AND SAY, 'I'M JUST GOING TO KIND OF GO WITH MY 04:13 FEELINGS.' AND THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM TO BE. 04:19 THAT'S WHY THE TITLE OF THIS LESSON IS WHAT YOU GET IS NOT 04:21 WHAT YOU SEE . YOU CAN'T WALK BY SIGHT, YOU 04:24 NEED TO WALK BY FAITH IN GOD'S WORD. 04:26 THERE'S A WHOLE BATTLE GOING ON, BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, BEHIND 04:31 THE VEIL THAT WE CAN'T SEE. THERE'S ANGELS IN THIS ROOM WE 04:34 CAN'T SEE. AND WE REALLY NEED TO LIVE BY 04:36 FAITH IN WHAT IS UNSEEN AND NOT BE LIVING BY SIGHT. 04:41 NOW THERE'S ACTUALLY A VERSE IN 1 CORINTHIANS 13:12 WHERE PAUL 04:46 ALLUDES TO THAT AND HE SAYS, IN THAT PASSAGE, "FOR NOW WE SEE IN 04:51 A MIRROR, DIMLY, BUT THEN FACE TO FACE. 04:55 NOW I KNOW IN PART, BUT THEN I SHALL KNOW JUST AS I ALSO AM 04:59 KNOWN." AND IN THE WORD THERE IT SAYS, 05:02 'NOW WE SEE IN A GLASS, DIMLY' - OR IN A MIRROR, DIMLY. 05:04 YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW THAT IN BIBLE TIMES THEY DIDN'T HAVE 05:10 GLASS LIKE WE DO. THEIR VERY BEST GLASS WAS WHAT 05:14 YOU WOULD CALL 'TRANSLUCENT' TODAY. SO WHEN IT EVEN TALKS 05:18 ABOUT THE STREETS IN THE NEW JERUSALEM BEING LIKE 05:20 TRANSPARENT GLASS, THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY TRANSPARENT GLASS. 05:25 THEY WERE REALLY TALKING ABOUT TRANSLUCENT GLASS BECAUSE - I'M 05:29 TRYING TO THINK IF THERE'S - ANY OF YOU SEEN, LIKE, HAND-BLOWN 05:31 GLASS FROM JUST, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY HEAT THINGS UP THEY DIDN'T 05:34 HAVE A WAY TO ROLL IT AND FLATTEN IT AND MAKE IT PERFECTLY 05:37 CLEAR LIKE YOUR WINDSHIELD ON YOUR CAR, WHICH MAY NOT BE CLEAR 05:39 RIGHT NOW BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GET IT FROM THE DEALER IT 05:42 IS. OR LIKE THE WINDOWS IN YOUR 05:44 HOUSE - IT WAS ALL A LITTLE WARPED AND DISTORTED. 05:47 AND OUR VISION - OUR VIEW OF GOD TODAY IS A LITTLE DISTORTED. 05:52 WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY. 05:54 EVEN AS WE'RE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD'S PREPARED, 05:57 PAUL SAID YOU CAN'T EVEN COMPREHEND THAT. 05:59 AND SO, OUR VISION IS DISTORTED NOW AND WE REALLY NEED TO GO BY 06:05 WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS AND NOT BY EARTHLY VISION. 06:08 NOW, IF YOU GO TO PROVERBS CHAPTER 14 - YOU KNOW OUR LESSON 06:11 IS TO SEE IF WE CAN GET THROUGH 14 AND 15. 06:14 I'M GOING TO READ A COUPLE OF VERSES HERE. 06:17 FIRST OF ALL, VERSE 1, "THE WISE WOMAN BUILDS HER HOUSE, BUT THE 06:21 FOOLISH WOMAN PULLS IT DOWN WITH HER HANDS." 06:24 NOW, OF COURSE, THAT'S A PRACTICAL STATEMENT FOR ANYBODY. 06:30 WHAT'S THE MAIN FIGURE - AND I'M JUMPING AHEAD NOW - 06:34 LAST CHAPTER IN PROVERBS DEALS WITH WHAT? 06:38 SUPER WOMAN. YOU EVER READ THAT? 06:41 WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 'WHO CAN FIND A VIRTUOUS WIFE?' 06:44 AND THEN, ANY WOMAN THAT READS THAT FEELS INTIMIDATED. 06:47 BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT THIS WOMAN WHO WAKES UP EARLY AND SHE 06:50 GOES TO THE MARKET AND SHE'S SPINNING CLOTHES FOR HER KIDS 06:53 AND ALL HER KIDS AND FAMILY ARE WEARING THE BEST AND THEY ALL 06:55 RISE UP AND CALL HER BLESSED AND YOU'RE GOING, 'WOW!' 06:59 THAT'S A PRETTY HIGH IDEAL. WHAT IS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST? 07:06 >>CHURCH. >>IT'S A SYMBOL FOR THE CHURCH, 07:08 RIGHT? AND SO, YOU'VE GOT - SOLOMON ALLUDES TO THAT IN SOME 07:13 OF THE SPIRITUAL METAPHORS, I THINK, THROUGH THIS, BUT THE 07:16 WOMEN OFTEN WOULD TAKE CARE OF THE THINGS AROUND THE HOME AND 07:19 THE MEN WERE OFTEN OUT IN THE FIELDS. 07:23 AND I COULD SHOW YOU A NUMBER OF EXAMPLES OF THAT IN THE BIBLE, 07:27 BUT I THINK THAT YOU PROBABLY AGREE WITH THAT. 07:29 AND SO - BUT IT'S GOT ALSO, I THINK, A SPIRITUAL ANALOGY THAT 07:34 THE CHURCH OF GOD SHOULD BE BUILT UP. 07:38 IF IT TURNS IN ON ITSELF, YOU TEAR IT DOWN AND IT JUST SORT OF 07:43 SELF DESTRUCTS. VERSE 2, "HE WHO WALKS IN HIS 07:47 UPRIGHTNESS FEARS THE LORD, BUT HE WHO IS PERVERSE IN HIS WAYS 07:51 DESPISES HIM." WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, I LOVE 07:54 THE LORD AND I'M A GOD-FEARING PERSON.' HOW DO YOU SHOW THAT? 07:56 BY WALKING IN THE WAY OF THE LORD. 07:59 CAN YOU THINK OF A CHARACTER IN THE BIBLE THAT SAID HE FEARED 08:03 GOD AND HATED EVIL? FIRST VERSE IN THE BOOK. 08:08 "THERE WAS A JUST MAN IN THE LAND OF UZ." 08:12 >>JOB. >>JOB. 08:14 "WHO FEARED THE LORD AND HATED EVIL." 08:16 HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? BY THE WAY HE WALKED. 08:17 THEN IT GOES ON AND TELLS YOU ABOUT HOW HE PRAYED AND HIS 08:20 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. THE REST OF THE BOOK SHOWS YOU 08:22 ABOUT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JOB. AND SO WHEN A PERSON SAYS, 'I 08:26 LOVE THE LORD AND I FEAR THE LORD.' THEY'LL DEMONSTRATE IT BY 08:28 THEIR WALK. AND LIKEWISE, HE THAT IS 08:31 PERVERSE IN HIS WAY DESPISES HIM. 08:33 SO IF A PERSON SAYS, 'I LOVE THE LORD.' BUT THEY'RE PERVERSE IN 08:36 THEIR WAY, DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT SAY 'HE THAT SAYS 'I 08:39 LOVE THE LORD' AND KEEPS NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS IS A LIAR AND THE 08:41 TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM? SO IT'S THE SAME PRINCIPLE. 08:45 PAUL IS - OR RATHER SOLOMON HERE IS SAYING IT'S NOT JUST A 08:48 PROFESSION, IT'S SEEN IN THE LIFE. 08:50 AND THEN WE GET TO VERSE 3 AND THIS IS REALLY THE TITLE FOR 08:53 SUNDAY, THE ASSURANCE OF THE FOOL . 08:56 IT SOUNDS LIKE AN OXYMORON, RIGHT? 08:58 AND IT SAYS HERE, "A SCOFFER SEEKS WISDOM AND DOES NOT FIND 09:04 IT." NO, ACTUALLY, I'M SORRY, "IN THE 09:07 MOUTH OF A FOOL IS A ROD OF PRIDE." 09:09 THAT'S PROVERBS 14:3 - "IN THE MOUTH OF A FOOL IS A ROD OF 09:12 PRIDE, BUT THE LIPS OF THE WISE WILL PRESERVE THEM." 09:15 WHAT DOES IT MEAN "IN THE MOUTH OF A FOOL IS A ROD OF PRIDE?" 09:18 YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE ANOTHER TRANSLATION 09:21 MAKES IT A LITTLE CLEARER. IF YOU LOOK IN THE NEW ENGLISH 09:24 VERSION, WHICH ISN'T A BAD VERSION, IT SAYS, "BY THE MOUTH 09:27 OF A FOOL COMES A ROD FOR HIS BACK." 09:31 IT'S BASICALLY SAYING THAT WHEN A PERSON IS OPENING THEIR MOUTH 09:35 AND SAYING FOOLISH OR RECKLESS THINGS, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU 09:39 LIVED IN A MONARCHY, YOU CAN END UP GETTING PUNISHED FOR 09:43 TREASONOUS, RECKLESS THINGS THAT YOU SAY AND IT'S ALSO TRUE WITH 09:47 CHILDREN, THAT YOUR LIPS CAN CAUSE YOUR FLESH TO SIN. 09:50 WE TALKED ABOUT THAT, I THINK, IN OUR LAST STUDY. 09:52 "BUT THE LIPS OF THE WISE WILL PRESERVE THEM." 09:58 DOESN'T IT ALSO SAY IN PROVERBS "A SOFT ANSWER TURNS AWAY WRATH 10:01 BUT GRIEVOUS WORDS STIR UP STRIFE." HAVE YOU EVER SEEN 10:08 SOMEONE DIFFUSE WHAT COULD BE A VERY ANGRY SITUATION BY SPEAKING 10:12 ANGRY WORDS TO MAYBE A PERSON WHO HAD A SHORT FUSE? 10:17 WHERE IF YOU HAD SPOKEN IN A CALM VOICE - AND IT CAN HAPPEN 10:21 IN A MARRIAGE, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE - I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE 10:24 STREET THIS WEEK, STOPPED AT A LIGHT, I SAW A GUY RACE UP IN 10:27 THE LANE NEXT TO ME, SLAMMED ON HIS BRAKES, JUMPED OUT OF HIS 10:30 CAR, AND - AT FIRST I THOUGHT HE'S TRYING TO FIX SOMETHING 10:33 WRONG WITH THE BACK OF HIS CAR - CLOSE HIS HOOD OR SOMETHING 10:36 BEFORE THE LIGHT CHANGES, BUT HE WENT - IT WAS A CASE OF 10:38 ROAD RAGE. 10:40 HE WENT TO THE CAR BEHIND HIM AND I COULDN'T HEAR EVERYTHING 10:42 HE WAS SAYING, BUT HE WAS SHAKING HIS FIST AND I THOUGHT 10:44 HE WAS GOING TO LIGHT INTO THE PERSON IN THAT CAR. 10:46 AND THEY WERE TALKING VERY CALMLY AND HE NEVER DID ACTUALLY 10:52 LAY HANDS ON THE OTHER CAR - AS I PULLED AWAY, IT LOOKED LIKE IT 10:55 WAS BEING RESOLVED, BUT YEAH, IT COULD HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF HAND IF 10:59 THERE HAD BEEN VIOLENT OR HOSTILE WORDS. 11:01 AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY - NOW SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME - I DON'T 11:05 KNOW WHO'S GOING TO HAVE OUR FIRST SCRIPTURES. OKAY, THAT'D 11:09 BE MATTHEW 7:6, IN JUST A MOMENT HERE WE'LL GET TO THAT. 11:13 NOW I'M GOING TO READ PROVERBS 14 AND LET'S DO VERSES 6 THROUGH 11:18 8, "A SCOFFER SEEKS WISDOM AND DOES NOT FIND IT, BUT KNOWLEDGE 11:25 IS EASY TO HIM WHO UNDERSTANDS." ALRIGHT, LET'S PAUSE RIGHT THERE 11:29 WITH THAT VERSE. "A SCOFFER SEEKS WISDOM" - 11:33 WOULDN'T EVERYBODY WHO SEEKS WISDOM FIND WISDOM? 11:36 "A SCOFFER SEEKS WISDOM" - WHAT'S A SCOFFER? 11:40 YOU KNOW, PETER SAYS, IN THE LAST DAYS, 'SCOFFERS WILL ARISE 11:44 WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS SAYING, 'WHERE'S THE PROMISE OF 11:47 HIS COMING?'' THEY MOCK THE SECOND COMING. SEEKING WISDOM - 11:50 CAN YOU THINK OF SOMEBODY IN THE BIBLE THAT SOUNDED LIKE THEY 11:53 WERE SEEKING TRUTH BUT IT WAS SORT OF SARCASTIC? 11:57 WHAT DID PILATE SAY TO JESUS DURING HIS TRIAL? 12:03 YOU CAN LOOK IN JOHN - YEAH - JOHN 18:38, PILATE SAID TO HIM, 12:08 "WHAT IS TRUTH?" AND THEN HE WALKED AWAY. 12:12 IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS SEEKING WISDOM, BUT IT WAS REALLY 12:15 SCOFFING. HE JUST SHRUGGED AND HAD A 12:18 SARCASTIC - LIKE NO ONE CAN REALLY KNOW. 12:20 BOY, CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW PILATE'S GOING TO FEEL IN THE 12:23 JUDGMENT WHEN HE SEES THAT HE WAS STANDING BEFORE THE VERY 12:27 ESSENCE OF TRUTH - TRUTH INCARNATE - AND HE SAID, 'WHAT 12:31 IS TRUTH?' AND DIDN'T WAIT FOR AN ANSWER. 12:34 TO BE THAT CLOSE TO THE SOURCE OF TRUTH. 12:37 I MEAN, WOULDN'T YOU ALL WISH THAT YOU COULD CONSULT AN ORACLE 12:40 SOMEWHERE AND ASK THEM WHAT TRUTH WAS? 12:42 PILATE HAD JESUS - A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, REALLY - AND SAID, 12:47 'WHAT IS TRUTH?' AND WALKED AWAY. 12:49 JUST SAID IT SARCASTICALLY. 12:52 OH, IT MAKES ME SHUDDER TO THINK ABOUT IT. 12:53 PROVERBS 14, VERSE 7, "GO FROM THE PRESENCE OF A FOOLISH MAN, 12:58 WHEN YOU DO NOT PERCEIVE IN HIM THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE. 13:01 THIS WISDOM OF THE PRUDENT IS TO UNDERSTAND HIS WAY, 13:05 BUT THE FOLLY OF FOOLS IS DECEIT." 13:08 NOW, THERE ARE SOME OTHER VERSES THAT - AND THESE ARE NOT EASY 13:14 VERSES, BUT THEY ARE IN THE BIBLE AND THEY COME FROM THE 13:17 LIPS OF JESUS. GO AHEAD, READ FOR US MATTHEW 7, VERSE 6. 13:20 >>"DO NOT GIVE WHAT IS HOLY TO THE DOGS; NOR CAST YOUR PEARLS 13:25 BEFORE SWINE, LEST THEY TRAMPLE THEM UNDER THEIR FEET, 13:30 AND TURN AND TEAR YOU IN PIECES." 13:33 NOW THIS IS NOT A HAPPY VERSE AND I DON'T HEAR TOO MANY 13:38 PASTORS TELLING PEOPLE HOW TO APPLY THIS VERSE, BUT IS IT 13:42 CLEAR TO EVERYBODY THAT JESUS IS NOT TALKING ABOUT DOGS AND PIGS? 13:46 WHEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT CASTING YOUR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, 13:50 WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? IT'S A TYPE OF PEOPLE. 13:56 WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT GIVING WHAT IS HOLY TO THE DOGS, DOGS WAS A 14:00 TERM THAT WAS NOT ONLY USED FOR DOGS, IN THE BIBLE, DOGS WAS A 14:03 TERM THAT WAS USED BY GOD - WHO IS OUTSIDE THE NEW JERUSALEM? 14:06 >>DOGS. >>I'VE HAD PEOPLE READ THAT 14:08 BEFORE WHERE IT SAYS, 'WITHOUT' - SPEAKING OF THE NEW JERUSALEM 14:10 - 'FOR WITHOUT ARE DOGS' AND PEOPLE SAID, 'DOES THAT MEAN 14:13 ALL THE DOGS ARE GOING TO BE LOST? 14:15 I SAID, 'NO, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PUPPIES AND CANINES, IT 14:18 HAS TO DO - WE JUST GOT A DOG IN THE BATCHELOR HOUSE. 14:21 OH MAN, IT'S LIKE AN ALIEN'S INVADED. 14:25 OH, IT IS. NOTHING'S THE SAME. YEAH, I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING 14:30 AND I THINK - YEAH, THAT'S A DIFFERENT SUBJECT - OKAY. 14:32 ANYWAY, BUT YOU KNOW, DOGS ARE NICE ENOUGH. 14:34 THEY'RE CUTE FOR A WHILE, BUT HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT DOGS. 14:38 HE'S TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS HOLY THAT YOU DON'T GIVE TO THE DOGS 14:42 AND THE PIGS. YOUR LIFE? YOUR TIME? 14:46 IF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MOCK GOD AND GOBBLE UP YOUR TIME AND 14:50 SCOFF WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS PRECIOUS, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT 14:53 SOMETIMES YOU'LL ENDURE IT FOR AWHILE TO WITNESS TO SOMEBODY, 14:55 BUT SOMETIMES THE DEVIL WILL SEND PEOPLE - I BELIEVE THIS - I 15:00 BELIEVE THE DEVIL HAS HIS REPRESENTATIVES AND HE WILL SEND 15:03 PEOPLE INTO YOUR LIFE TO TURN YOU AWAY FROM WHAT'S REALLY 15:06 IMPORTANT. AND I THINK WE SHOULD LOVE EVERYBODY. 15:10 I USED TO WONDER, 'HOW DID JESUS DEAL WITH PEOPLE THAT WOULD TRY 15:13 TO MONOPOLIZE HIS TIME BUT WEREN'T REALLY INTERESTED IN 15:16 CHANGING, THEY JUST WANTED SOMEONE TO LISTEN TO THEM TALK 15:20 TO THEMSELVES OR SOMEONE TO COMPLAIN TO. 15:24 SOMEONE ONCE CAME TO JESUS AND THEY SAID, 'LORD, TELL MY 15:27 BROTHER TO GIVE ME THE INHERITANCE.' AND CHRIST SAID, 15:29 'MAN, WHO MADE ME A JUDGE AND RULER OVER YOU? 15:32 I'M NOT THE COURT EXECUTOR OVER YOUR WILL.' 15:33 AND HE WOULDN'T GET SUCKED INTO IT. 15:36 BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WILL TRY AND DRAW YOU OUT AND TAKE 15:39 WHAT YOU SAY AND USE IT AGAINST YOU. 15:42 DID PEOPLE FOLLOW JESUS AROUND AND TRY AND TRAP HIM IN HIS 15:44 WORDS? SO, SOLOMON IS TALKING ABOUT 15:49 THAT, "GO FROM THE PRESENCE OF A FOOLISH MAN, WHEN YOU DO NOT 15:53 PERCEIVE IN HIM THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE." 15:56 YOU KNOW WHO YOU SHOULD BE FRIENDS WITH? THE BIBLE SAYS, 15:59 'HE THAT IS FRIENDS OF A WISE MAN WILL BE WISE.' SO, YOU KNOW, 16:03 CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS - I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT WITNESSING TO 16:05 PEOPLE NOW, WE WANT TO BE WITNESSES TO EVERYBODY, BUT YOU 16:08 DON'T WANT TO HAVE THE WRONG KIND OF INFLUENCES. 16:10 BY THE WAY, THERE'S ANOTHER PROVERB - I'M JUMPING AHEAD, BUT 16:13 IT GOES WITH THIS LAST ONE - IF YOU LOOK IN PROVERBS 26, VERSE 16:16 4, "ANSWER NOT A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY, LEST THOU ALSO BE 16:22 LIKE UNTO HIM." AND SO YOU CAN GET SUCKED INTO A 16:26 MEANINGLESS ARGUMENT WITH FOOLISH PEOPLE. 16:29 THAT'S WHY IT SAYS, "GO FROM THE PRESENCE OF A FOOL." 16:31 DON'T GET SUCKED INTO ARGUING ABOUT FOOLISH THINGS THAT ARE 16:35 NOT PRODUCTIVE AND - DON'T DO THEM ANY GOOD - DOESN'T DO YOU 16:39 ANY GOOD. SOMEBODY SAID ONCE, 'IF YOU GET 16:42 INTO A FIGHT WITH A PIG, YOU'LL BOTH GET DIRTY BUT THE PIG WILL 16:45 ENJOY IT.' YOU EVER HEARD THAT BEFORE? 16:49 SO I THINK THAT'S SORT OF A ROUGH RENDERING OF WHAT 16:53 JESUS IS SAYING THERE - AND SOLOMON. PROVERBS 14, VERSES 15 16:58 THROUGH 18 - OH, BY THE WAY, OF COURSE, WE'VE GOT VERSE - WELL, 17:03 I'M GOING TO READ VERSE 10, "THE HEART KNOWS ITS OWN BITTERNESS, 17:10 AND A STRANGER DOES NOT SHARE ITS JOY." 17:14 THERE'S SOMETHING SOLOMON IS SAYING THAT YOU ONLY CAN REALLY 17:17 UNDERSTAND. OF COURSE, GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS. 17:18 THAT'S ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION OF OUR LESSON TITLE 17:21 THAT EVERYTHING'S NOT WHAT YOU SEE. 17:24 SOME CERTAIN HEARTS HAVE GONE THROUGH GREAT TRIAL AND YOU HAVE 17:28 NO IDEA. I WENT TO GET A HAIRCUT TODAY. 17:33 I KNOW YOU FIND THAT HARD TO BELIEVE. 17:34 A LADY HAS BEEN CUTTING OUR HAIR AND OUR KIDS' HAIR SINCE THE 17:38 BOYS WERE VERY YOUNG AND SHE WAS STARTING TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS 17:43 AND SHE ASKED - SHE KNEW ABOUT STEPHEN AND NATHAN - SHE SAID, 17:47 'WELL HOW MANY CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE?' 17:49 AND I SAID, 'WELL, FIVE NOW. WE HAD SIX AND, YOU KNOW, WE 17:53 LOST ONE.' AND SHE JUST STOPPED AND SHE STARED AND SHE THOUGHT, 17:58 'YOU KNOW, I'VE' - IT'S LIKE THERE WAS THIS UNSPOKEN 18:01 COMMUNICATION - 'I'VE KNOWN YOU ALL THIS TIME. 18:02 IT'S BEEN THESE VERY SHORT ENCOUNTERS, OBVIOUSLY, WITH ME 18:05 IT'S A VERY SHORT ENCOUNTER FOR A HAIRCUT, BUT SHE WAS NOT AWARE 18:10 THAT WE'D BEEN THROUGH A VERY PAINFUL EXPERIENCE. 18:14 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE - MOST PEOPLE HAVE SOME KIND 18:16 OF SORROW IN THEIR HEART THAT THEY ONLY KNOW. 18:19 HE'S TALKING ABOUT "A STRANGER DOES NOT SHARE IN ITS JOY." 18:23 SOMETIMES THERE'S SADNESS AND THERE'S JOY THAT OTHER PEOPLE 18:26 CAN'T REALIZE - THAT YOU REALLY ONLY KNOW YOURSELF. 18:28 "THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED WILL BE OVERTHROWN," - WHAT HAPPENS IF 18:32 SATAN TRIES TO CAST OUT SATAN? IT SAYS HIS HOUSE WILL NOT STAND 18:38 - "BUT THE TENT OF THE UPRIGHT WILL FLOURISH." 18:40 NOW WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HOUSE AND A TENT? 18:42 WHICH IS BUILT, USUALLY, MORE FIRMLY? 18:46 >>THE HOUSE. >>THE HOUSE. 18:48 ANY OF YOU READY TO TRADE IN YOUR HOUSE FOR A TENT? 18:50 ONE WEEK CAMPING OUT'S ENOUGH, RIGHT? A WEEKEND. 18:55 BUT YOU NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS HERE, "THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED 18:58 IS NOT AS STABLE AS THE TENT OF THE UPRIGHT." 19:02 YOU KNOW, THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, THEY LIVED IN THE 19:07 HILLS OF JUDEA AROUND THE TIME OF JEREMIAH, WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR 19:11 WAS GETTING READY TO CONQUER JERUSALEM, AND IT WAS THE SONS 19:16 OF JEHONADAB, AND THEY LIVED IN TENTS. 19:20 BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE FAITHFUL TO GOD, JEREMIAH MADE A PROMISE 19:23 TO THEM FROM THE LORD - THEY PROMISED NEVER TO DRINK WINE, TO 19:27 ALWAYS OBEY THEIR FATHER, AND THEY LIVED IN TENTS. 19:30 JEREMIAH SAID, 'YOU ARE GOING TO SURVIVE THE SIEGE BETTER THAN 19:34 THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN HOUSES IN THE CITY.' AND IT DOESN'T 19:38 TELL THE FOLLOW UP, BUT I'M ASSUMING THE WORD OF THE LORD 19:40 CAME TRUE THERE. "THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMETH 19:43 RIGHT UNTO A MAN" - VERSE 12 - "BUT THE END THEREOF ARE THE 19:45 WAYS OF DEATH." THEN HE GOES ON AND SAYS, "EVEN 19:48 IN LAUGHTER THE HEART MAY SORROW," - YEAH, HAVE YOU EVER 19:55 KNOWN OF FAMOUS COMEDIANS THAT ARE VERY SAD PEOPLE? 19:58 I THINK THE WORLD WAS STUNNED WHEN THEY GOT NEWS THAT ROBIN 20:01 WILLIAMS, WHO WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, A BRILLIANT CLOWN, TOOK 20:06 HIS OWN LIFE BECAUSE HE WAS GOING THROUGH JUST SO MUCH, 20:08 EVIDENTLY, INTERNAL MELANCHOLY - DEPRESSION - SORROW. 20:12 AND SO SOME PEOPLE - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO - I DON'T LIKE 20:17 GOING TO PARTIES, I'M SORRY. WELL, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE GO 20:22 TO THESE FUNCTIONS AND YOU NEED TO BE THERE FOR WHATEVER REASON 20:25 AND IT'S JUST A WHOLE LOT OF SMALL TALK. 20:26 AND PEOPLE ARE LAUGHING AND IT JUST, YOU KNOW - BUT IT MAY NOT 20:32 BE GENUINE JOY. I LIKE WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT 20:35 REAL THINGS THAT HAVE ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES. 20:38 JUST THE IDLE CHATTER AND THE LIGHT CONVERSATION, I'M NEVER 20:42 VERY GOOD AT THAT. "EVEN IN LAUGHTER THE HEART MAY 20:44 SORROW, AND THE END OF MIRTH MAY BE GRIEF." 20:47 MIRTH IS LIKE A PARTY - CELEBRATION - AND NABAL WOKE UP 20:53 FROM HIS WINE AND FOUND OUT THAT HE NEARLY DIED BECAUSE OF WHAT 20:58 HAPPENED WITH DAVID. NOAH WOKE UP FROM HIS WINE AND 21:03 FOUND OUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED WITH HIS SON. 21:06 LOT WOKE UP FROM HIS WINE - YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 21:10 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THAT KIND OF MIRTH THERE. 21:12 THE END OF IT CAN BE GRIEF. 21:14 JUMPING DOWN HERE TO PROVERBS 14, VERSE 15. 21:22 "THE SIMPLE BELIEVES EVERY WORD, BUT THE PRUDENT CONSIDERS WELL 21:27 HIS STEPS." NOW DOES JESUS TELL US THAT WE 21:30 OUGHT TO BE PRUDENT IN WHAT WE BELIEVE? 21:33 HERE'S A VERSE FOR YOU, MATTHEW CHAPTER 10, VERSE 16 - CHRIST 21:37 SAID TO HIS FOLLOWERS - THIS IS FOR ALL OF US, "BEHOLD, I SEND 21:41 YOU OUT AS SHEEP IN THE MIDST OF WOLVES." 21:45 - DOESN'T THAT SOUND LIKE A SUICIDE MISSION? 21:47 - "BEHOLD, I SEND YOU OUT AS SHEEP IN THE MIDST OF WOLVES. 21:50 THEREFORE BE WISE AS SERPENTS AND HARMLESS AS DOVES." 21:55 HOW MANY ANIMALS ARE MENTIONED IN THAT ONE PASSAGE THERE? 21:59 YOU'VE GOT THE WOLVES AND THE SHEEP, THE SERPENTS AND THE 22:01 DOVES. OBVIOUSLY ALL TOTAL DIAMETRIC OPPOSITES. 22:07 WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN BY THAT? 22:08 HE GOES ON TO SAY, "BUT BEWARE OF MEN," - IS HE TALKING ABOUT 22:12 SHEEP AND WOLVES AND DOVES AND SERPENTS, OR PEOPLE? 22:15 SOME PEOPLE HAVE THOSE CHARACTERISTICS AND HE'S 22:19 SPEAKING, OF COURSE, IN METAPHORS HERE. 22:22 CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO BE MEEK. WE OUGHT TO BE HUMBLE. 22:26 WE SHOULD NOT BE GULLIBLE. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE? 22:30 I'VE KNOW SOME VERY DEAR, CHRISTIAN PEOPLE THAT MADE SOME 22:37 VERY BAD FINANCIAL AND OTHER DECISIONS BECAUSE THEY JUST 22:42 TRUSTED PEOPLE AT THEIR WORD WITHOUT ASKING FOR - WHO WAS IT? 22:47 RONALD REAGAN THAT USED TO SAY, 'TRUST BUT VERIFY.' WITHOUT 22:51 ASKING FOR SOME VERIFICATION OF THIS INVESTMENT OR THIS 22:54 AGREEMENT OR, YEAH, I JUST NEED A PLACE TO LIVE FOR A FEW DAYS 22:59 AND - OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE - AND THEN JUST TOTALLY GET TAKEN 23:03 ADVANTAGE OF. CHRISTIANS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO 23:05 BE LOVING, BE CHRIST-LIKE, AND ALSO NOT BE GULLIBLE. 23:09 AND THAT'S WHAT SOLOMON IS SAYING HERE AND THAT'S WHAT 23:12 JESUS IS SAYING. BE LOVING, BE KIND, BE MEEK, BUT 23:17 WE ALSO NEED TO BE - WHY WISE AS SERPENTS? 23:21 WHAT CHRISTIAN WANTS TO BE COMPARED TO A SERPENT IN ANY 23:23 WAY? HE'S NOT SAYING BE A SERPENT. WHO'S THE SERPENT? 23:27 >>IT'S THE DEVIL. >>IS THE DEVIL SMART? 23:32 >>YEP. HE IS. >>AND WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL DID 23:35 THE DEVIL USE AS HIS MEDIUM? THE SERPENT WAS THE MOST SUBTLE 23:39 OF ALL THE BEASTS THAT THE LORD GOD HAD MADE. 23:42 AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH WANTING TO BE AT LEAST AWARE OF 23:47 WHAT THE TACTICS OF THE DEVIL ARE SO HE DOESN'T PULL ONE OVER 23:51 ON YOU. THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS TELLING US. 23:53 BE WISE TO HIS PLANS. PROVERBS 14:16, "A WISE MAN 23:59 FEARS AND DEPARTS FROM EVIL, BUT A FOOL RAGES AND IS 24:03 SELF-CONFIDENT." SOMETIMES A PERSON IS MAKING A 24:08 BAD CHOICE OR GOING DOWN THE WRONG PATH AND THEY REALIZE IT. 24:12 IF YOU'RE WISE, CUT YOUR LOSSES AND TURN AROUND. 24:15 THAT'S WISDOM. BUT A FOOL SAYS, 'OH, THIS IS 24:19 WHAT I'M DOING. CAN'T BE WRONG. 24:21 I'M JUST GOING TO PRESS ON.' SOLOMON SAYS, 'WELL, YOU MAY 24:24 PRESS ON TO YOUR OWN DESTRUCTION HERE. 24:26 "A WISE MAN FEARS AND DEPARTS FROM EVIL, BUT A FOOL RAGES AND 24:29 IS SELF-CONFIDENT. A QUICK-TEMPERED MAN ACTS 24:31 FOOLISHLY, AND A MAN OF WICKED INTENTIONS IS HATED." 24:37 NOW SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS IN THE BIBLE: THERE WAS A KING - NOW IF 24:42 YOU WANT THE REFERENCE, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU. 24:44 YOU MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO LOOK IT UP. 1 KINGS 20, VERSE 18. 24:47 SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE THE KING OF SYRIA, 24:49 BEN HADAD, HE WAS ATTACKING THE KING OF ISRAEL. AT THAT TIME, 24:54 IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO BE AHAB. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, AHAB WON A 24:56 COUPLE OF BATTLES AGAINST SYRIA, PARTLY BECAUSE ELIJAH WAS IN THE 25:02 KINGDOM PRAYING FOR THEM, AND THE KING OF SYRIA HAD JUST THESE 25:06 VAST MASSIVE ARMIES SURROUNDING SAMARIA. 25:09 SAMARIA IS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL - NORTHERN KINGDOM AND - BUT THE 25:13 KING, WHILE HE HAD THE CITY BESIEGED - YEAH, IT'S A LONG - 25:17 WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SURRENDER TOOK YEARS SOMETIMES AND SO, 25:19 DURING THE TIME WHEN HE HAD THE CITY BESIEGED, HE'S OUT UNDER 25:22 ALL HIS TENTS IN HIS PAVILION AND HE STARTS DRINKING AND HE 25:24 DRINKS HIMSELF DRUNK. AND FINALLY, GOD HAD TOLD AHAB, 25:28 'I WANT YOU TO GO OUT AND ATTACK. 25:30 YOU CAN'T SURVIVE A LONG SIEGE IN SAMARIA.' AND GOD SAID, 25:34 'AHAB, TAKE THE PRINCES OF THE KINGDOM AND GO ATTACK.' EVEN HE 25:37 SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST A HANDFUL COMPARED TO THIS ARMY.' 25:40 HE SAID, 'I'LL BE WITH YOU.' AND IT REALLY TOOK FAITH ON AHAB'S 25:43 PART TO SEND THE SOLDIERS OUT AND HE SAID, 'WHO LEADS THEM?' 25:45 GOD SAID TO AHAB, 'YOU LEAD THEM.' SO AHAB LEADS OUT THIS 25:49 JUST SMALL CONTINGENT OF CRUSADERS AGAINST THIS MASSIVE 25:52 SYRIAN ARMY, BUT THE KING OF SYRIA GOT DRUNK AND HE GAVE THIS 25:58 REALLY DUMB ORDER TO HIS SOLDIERS THAT THEY HAD TO OBEY - 26:02 HE'S THE GENERAL. HERE'S WHAT THE ORDER WAS: THEY SAID, 26:05 'THERE'S SOME SOLDIERS COMING OUT OF SAMARIA.' 'OH, THEY'RE 26:07 ACTUALLY COMING OUT TO FIGHT?' HE SAYS, 'I TELL YOU WHAT, IF 26:10 THEY COME OUT FOR PEACE, TAKE THEM ALIVE AND IF THEY COME OUT 26:14 FOR WAR TAKE THEM ALIVE.' HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO TAKE SOMEONE 26:18 ALIVE WHO'S COMING TO KILL YOU? AND THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL JUST 26:22 TOTALLY SLAUGHTERED AND ACTUALLY WON THIS BATTLE BECAUSE THE BAD 26:26 ORDERS A KING MADE IN HIS PRIDE AND HIS FOOLISHNESS. 26:30 THAT WASN'T JUST THE ENEMIES THAT HAD KINGS LIKE THAT. 26:33 KING SAUL COULD BE IMPULSIVE AND PROUD AND ISSUE SOME OF THESE 26:39 VERY RECKLESS ORDERS. REMEMBER, WE'RE READING - WE'RE 26:42 GIVING SOME EXAMPLES OF PROVERBS 14 - "A QUICK-TEMPERED MAN ACTS 26:46 FOOLISHLY, AND A MAN OF WICKED INTENTIONS IS HATED." 26:50 THE EXAMPLE I'M GIVING YOU IS FOUND IN 1 SAMUEL 14. 26:54 I'M GOING TO READ THIS TO YOU - 1 SAMUEL 14 - 26:56 ISRAEL IS GOING AGAINST THE PHILISTINES. 26:58 GOD SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING TO WIN THE BATTLE.' AND NOW SAUL HAS 27:03 BEEN KING FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE, HE'S HAD SOME VICTORIES, 27:06 AND HE'S STARTING TO FEEL PRETTY SELF-CONFIDENT. 27:08 "AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL WERE DISTRESSED THAT DAY, FOR SAUL 27:11 HAD PLACED THE PEOPLE UNDER OATH, SAYING, 'CURSED IS THE 27:14 MAN'" - HE SAYS TO HIS OWN SOLDIERS - "'CURSED IS THE MAN 27:17 WHO EATS ANY FOOD UNTIL EVENING, BEFORE I HAVE TAKEN VENGEANCE ON 27:21 MY ENEMIES.'" - THE PHILISTINES - WELL, BUT TELLING SOLDIERS 27:26 THEY CAN'T EAT IN A BATTLE - THEY CAN'T EVEN TAKE ANY OF THE 27:29 SPOIL, IS A REALLY DUMB ORDER. SO, OBEDIENT TO THE KING - "NONE 27:35 OF THE PEOPLE TASTED FOOD. NOW ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND 27:38 CAME TO A FOREST; AND THERE WAS HONEY ON THE GROUND. AND WHEN 27:41 THE PEOPLE HAD COME INTO THE WOODS," - BY THE WAY, WHEN IT 27:44 SAYS IT'S A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY, IT REALLY WAS. 27:46 THEY'VE GOT HONEY DRIPPING OUT OF THE HIVES ONTO THE GROUND. 27:49 THERE WAS A PUDDLE OF IT UNDER A TREE - AND IT SAYS, 27:52 "WHEN THE PEOPLE HAD COME INTO THE WOODS THERE WAS THE HONEY, 27:54 DRIPPING; BUT NO ONE PUT HIS HAND TO HIS MOUTH, 27:56 FOR THE PEOPLE FEARED THE OATH." 27:57 BUT JONATHAN, HE HADN'T HEARD HIS FATHER CHARGE THE PEOPLE, HE 28:00 STRETCHED OUT THE END OF HIS POLE, DIPPED IT IN THE HONEY, 28:03 PUT SOME IN HIS MOUTH - HIS COUNTENANCE WAS BRIGHTENED - 28:06 "THEN ONE OF THE PEOPLE SAID, 'OH, YOUR FATHER STRICTLY 28:08 CHARGED THE PEOPLE WITH AN OATH SAYING, 'CURSED IS THE MAN WHO 28:11 EATS FOOD THIS DAY.'' AND THE PEOPLE WERE FAINT. 28:13 BUT JONATHAN SAID, 'MY FATHER HAS TROUBLED THE LAND. 28:16 LOOK NOW, HOW MY COUNTENANCE HAS BRIGHTENED'" - HIS BLOOD SUGAR 28:20 JUMPED UP - "'BECAUSE I'VE EATEN A LITTLE OF THIS HONEY. HOW MUCH 28:22 BETTER IF THE PEOPLE HAD EATEN FREELY TODAY OF THE SPOIL OF 28:25 THEIR ENEMIES WHICH THEY FOUND!'" - THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN 28:28 A MUCH GREATER VICTORY OR SLAUGHTER AMONG THE PHILISTINES. 28:31 AND SO, MAKING RASH, WRATHFUL, IMPULSIVE DECISIONS, SOLOMON 28:38 SAYS, IT USUALLY DOESN'T END WELL. 28:40 THAT'S WHY SOLOMON SAYS, 'IN THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSEL THERE'S 28:43 SAFETY.' WHEN A KING JUST STARTS TO SPURT OUT ORDERS WITHOUT 28:46 TALKING TO OTHER PEOPLE, YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE BAD DECISIONS. 28:51 AND THEN YOU HAVE, IN PROVERBS 14:18 - NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO 28:54 LOOK UP FOR ME 1 THESSALONIANS 5:21 - YOU'LL BE READY FOR THAT? 28:57 PROVERBS 14:18, "THE SIMPLE INHERIT FOLLY, BUT THE PRUDENT 29:02 ARE CROWNED WITH KNOWLEDGE." WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING 29:06 YOU CAN INHERIT - ACCORDING TO SOLOMON? 29:08 WHAT DID SOLOMON PRAY FOR? >>WISDOM. 29:12 >>IF YOU GET WISDOM - NOW, YOU MIGHT THINK, 'IF I'M GOING TO 29:16 PRAY ABOUT AN INHERITANCE, I'M GOING TO PRAY ABOUT LIKE A BILL 29:20 GATES INHERITANCE, RIGHT? BUT REALLY, IF YOU PRAY FOR 29:24 WISDOM, GOD KNOWS, THE OTHER STUFF CAN COME IF YOU SEEK FIRST 29:29 GOD'S KINGDOM. SEEK FIRST GOD'S KINGDOM AND ALL 29:32 THE OTHER THINGS'LL BE ADDED. AND THAT'S WHAT SOLOMON DID. 29:34 THIS IS WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE IN THIS VERSE. 29:36 "THE PRUDENT ARE CROWNED WITH KNOWLEDGE." 29:38 ALRIGHT, NOW UNDER MONDAY, THE FEAR OF THE WISE , AND THIS IS - 29:42 LET'S GO TO PROVERBS - LET'S SEE HERE, PROVERBS 14, VERSE 18 - 29:49 IT'S PART VERSES 6 AND 18 - "BUT KNOWLEDGE IS EASY TO HIM WHO 29:54 UNDERSTANDS, BUT THE PRUDENT ARE CROWNED WITH KNOWLEDGE." 29:58 'THE WISE ARE CAUTIOUS,' WE READ IN PROVERBS 14:15. 30:04 'THE WISE ARE CALM,' WE READ IN PROVERBS 14:29. 30:09 'THE WISE ARE COMPASSIONATE AND SENSITIVE. 30:11 HERE IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE FEAR OF THE WISE AS CONTRASTED 30:14 WITH THE FOOLS THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT. 30:17 READ FOR US, PLEASE, 1 THESSALONIANS 5:21. 30:20 >>"TEST ALL THINGS; HOLD FAST WHAT IS GOOD." 30:23 >>YEAH, THAT MAKES US ALSO THINK ABOUT WHERE JOHN SAYS, 'TRY THE 30:28 SPIRITS TO PROVE WHAT SOURCE THEY ARE.' AND GOD WANTS US TO 30:33 USE WISDOM - JUDGEMENT - TO USE THE GIFT OF EVALUATION. 30:37 YOU CAN READ IN MARK CHAPTER 12, VERSES 29 THROUGH 31, "'THE 30:42 FIRST OF ALL THE COMMANDMENTS IS: 'HEAR, O ISRAEL, 30:46 THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE. 30:49 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH 30:52 ALL YOUR SOUL, WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR 30:54 STRENGTH.' THIS IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. AND THE SECOND, 30:57 LIKE IT, IS THIS: 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' 31:00 THERE ARE NO OTHER COMMANDMENTS GREATER THAN THESE." 31:04 AND SO, IN UNDERSTANDING THE FEAR OF THE WISE - LOVING THE 31:09 LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF IS 31:12 REALLY THE FOUNDATION OF THAT BIBLICAL - 31:15 THAT BIBLICAL WISDOM AND THE FEAR OF THE WISE. 31:18 AND, YOU KNOW, I QUOTED A VERSE BEFORE, BUT I DIDN'T GIVE YOU 31:22 THE REFERENCE: 1 JOHN 4:1 - AND THAT'S WHERE IT SAYS, "BELOVED, 31:25 DO NOT BELIEVE EVERY SPIRIT, BUT TEST THE SPIRITS, WHETHER THEY 31:29 ARE OF GOD; BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS HAVE GONE OUT INTO THE 31:32 WORLD." IN THE LAST DAYS, WHAT DOES 31:35 JESUS SAY, IN MATTHEW 24 - THE FIRST THING HE SAYS REGARDING - 31:37 ABOUT THE LAST DAYS? "TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU." 31:42 NOT ONLY DOES HE SAY IT IN MATTHEW 24 AT THE BEGINNING, IN 31:46 THE MIDDLE HE SAYS, "FOR THERE SHALL ARISE MANY FALSE CHRISTS 31:48 AND FALSE PROPHETS. AND THEN HE SAYS, 'AND THE 31:51 DECEPTION'LL BE SO EFFECTIVE IN THE LAST DAYS, IF IT WERE 31:54 POSSIBLE, EVEN THE VERY ELECT WOULD BE DECEIVED.' SO HOW ARE 31:58 WE GOING TO KNOW THE TRUE FROM THE FALSE? 32:00 WE NEED TO KNOW HOW TO TEST THE SPIRITS - TRY THE SPIRITS - 32:04 EVALUATE THINGS. YOU EVER HAVE ANYONE WRITE YOU A 32:09 LETTER AND TELL YOU THEY'RE A PROPHET? 32:11 OR SEND YOU A NOTE AND TELL YOU THEY'RE A PROPHET? 32:14 I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW OFTEN WE GET LETTERS HERE AT AMAZING 32:17 FACTS - FROM, PROBABLY, SOME VERY DEAR AND SINCERE PEOPLE. 32:21 AND I'VE GOT A NUMBER OF CHARISMATIC FRIENDS AND THEY 32:23 BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, A NUMBER OF MEMBERS IN EVERY 32:26 CONGREGATION, PEOPLE HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY AND SO THEY'LL 32:29 SAY, 'THE LORD GAVE ME A PROPHECY FOR YOU, PASTOR DOUG.' 32:30 I USUALLY THANK THEM AND, YOU KNOW, COULD BE. 32:34 I'M ALWAYS AFRAID WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, 'I'VE GOT A MESSAGE FROM 32:36 THE LORD FOR YOU.' YOU DON'T WANT TO DISMISS IT AND SAY, 'OH, 32:40 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF KOOKS OUT THERE, BECAUSE WHAT IF THE 32:42 LORD DOES HAVE A MESSAGE? SO HOW DO YOU KNOW? 32:45 WELL, AT FIRST I LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE AND I SAY, 'DOES THIS 32:49 MATCH UP WITH THE SCRIPTURE?' AND THERE'S OUR GIFT WHERE IT 32:53 TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU KNOW THE WILL OF GOD? 32:55 YOU JUST APPLY SOME OF THE PRINCIPLES IN DECIDING THE WILL 32:57 OF GOD AND THAT CAN USUALLY HELP YOU SORT OUT IF IT'S FROM THE 32:59 LORD. ALRIGHT, NOW TUESDAY - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME 2 33:03 CHRONICLES 16:9 - OKAY, YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT - AND 33:07 IT'S THE EYES OF THE LORD . THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE 33:10 SECTIONS IN OUR STUDY THIS WEEK - THE EYES OF THE LORD - 33:13 AND I'M GOING TO READ PROVERBS 15, VERSE 3. 33:16 NOW WE'VE JUMPED INTO PROVERBS 15 - HAVEN'T COVERED EVERY VERSE 33:19 IN PROVERBS 14, BUT WE GOT QUITE A BIT. "THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE 33:24 IN EVERY PLACE, KEEPING WATCH ON THE EVIL AND THE GOOD." 33:28 I TOLD KAREN TONIGHT, I SAID, 'I WANT TO PUT UP SOME SIGNS IN OUR 33:34 NEIGHBORHOOD.' - WE'VE GOT LIKE A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY WATCH - 33:37 AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD'S LIKE BUT IT SEEMS 33:40 LIKE WE'VE HAD A FEW BREAK-INS - THERE'S BEEN SOME BURGLARIES AND 33:43 SOME CAR VANDALISM AND THINGS, BUT I'VE NOTICED THAT WE HAD 33:46 PROBLEMS ON OUR PROPERTY UP IN THE HILLS. 33:51 PEOPLE WERE SNEAKING ON AND TRYING TO GROW POT AND 33:53 WE JUST STRUGGLED WITH IT FOR YEARS. 33:56 I REMEMBER KAREN AND I DRIVING ALL OVER THE LAND NAILING UP 33:58 SIGNS TELLING PEOPLE DON'T STEAL FIREWOOD AND OTHER THINGS. 34:02 THEN WE PUT UP SIGNS EVERYWHERE THAT SAID 'NO POT GROWING.' YOU 34:05 THINK YOU'D KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, BUT JUST NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK 34:09 AND IT'S A REAL CONCERN BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE MUCH ANYMORE, 34:14 BUT A FEW YEARS AGO, IF YOU WERE GROWING ON YOUR LAND, THEY'D 34:16 TAKE YOUR PROPERTY AWAY. AND SO YOU HAD TO REALLY - 34:19 IT WAS SOMETHING WE WORRIED ABOUT - SO FINALLY YOU KNOW WHAT 34:22 SETTLED IT? THEY CAME OUT WITH THESE 34:24 WILDLIFE CAMERAS. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 34:26 MOTION-ACTIVATED WILDLIFE CAMERAS - WE BOUGHT A FEW OF 34:28 THOSE AND PUT THEM UP AROUND THE LAND. 34:30 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I DID IS - WHAT DID AS MUCH GOOD AS 34:32 WILDLIFE CAMERAS IS - WE GOT SOME NEAT PICTURES OF BEARS AND 34:34 SKUNKS AND RABBITS AND FOXES AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS - IS WE PUT 34:36 UP SIGNS AND THE SIGNS SAY 'PROPERTY PROTECTED BY VIDEO 34:44 CAMERAS' - OR WILDLIFE CAMERAS. EVERYONE UP THERE KNOWS WHAT 34:48 THAT MEANS. WELL THERE'S TREES EVERYWHERE 34:49 AND YOU CAN HIDE THESE THINGS AND NO ONE KNOWS 'WHERE ARE 34:51 THEY?' AND THE THING IS, IF THEY'RE - 34:53 IF ANYONE'S WALKING AROUND ON THE LAND AND THEY'RE MOTION 34:56 ACTIVATED - WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY PROBLEMS ANYMORE AND SO I TOLD 35:00 KAREN, 'WE NEED TO PUT THOSE UP IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. 35:03 THIS NEIGHBORHOOD - BECAUSE SOME OF THE NEIGHBORS DO ACTUALLY 35:05 HAVE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE - VIDEO SECURITY. 35:08 SO WE NEED TO JUST PUT A SIGN UP AND THAT'LL FIX IT. 35:09 CAN YOU GO ANYWHERE TODAY WHERE THERE'S NOT A VIDEO CAMERA? 35:13 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE THEM ON YOUR PHONES? 35:15 IT JUST - IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYWHERE YOU TURN. 35:21 NOW IF, IN OUR CULTURE TODAY - I GOT ON GOOGLE EARTH - I DON'T 35:32 KNOW IF I SHOULD SAY THIS. NOW I HAVE TO. 35:36 NO, I CAN SAY IT, IT'S ALRIGHT. I GOT ON GOOGLE EARTH AND, YOU 35:40 KNOW, YOU'VE SEEN GOOGLE EARTH, IT'S THIS SATELLITE PICTURES OF 35:45 PROPERTY THAT ZOOM IN AND EVERY YEAR THEIR RESOLUTION GETS 35:48 SHARPER AND IT GETS BETTER AND BETTER AND, YOU KNOW, 35:51 PERIODICALLY I CAN'T GO PLACES, BUT I DO TAKE THESE IMAGINARY 35:56 TRIPS WITH GOOGLE EARTH ALL OVER THE WORLD. 35:57 I'VE BEEN ALL OVER THE WORLD JUST ZOOMING IN ON ISLANDS - 36:00 KAREN'LL WALK IN SOMETIMES AND I'M OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 36:03 PACIFIC AND I'M SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK ANYONE KNOWS 36:04 ABOUT THIS ISLAND HERE.' LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO GO AND - BUT I'VE 36:11 ZOOMED IN TO SOME TOWNS AND YOU CAN LOOK RIGHT INTO PEOPLE'S 36:15 YARDS AND THEY TOOK A BUNCH OF PICTURES ONE YEAR IN THE FALL 36:17 AND I WAS SHOCKED HOW MANY PEOPLE I KNEW THAT THEY WERE 36:21 CHRISTIAN HOMES AND THEY, EVIDENTLY, HAVE MEDICINAL 36:25 MARIJUANA GROWING IN THEIR BACKYARDS. 36:28 YOU THINK ABOUT THESE EYES UP IN THE SKY. 36:31 DO THESE SATELLITES SEE MORE THAN GOD? 36:34 THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE EVERYWHERE. HE SEES EVERYTHING 36:37 AND THAT'S - GO AHEAD, GIVE US OUR NEXT VERSE, PROVERBS 36:39 CHAPTER - I'M SORRY IT'S RATHER 2 CHRONICLES 16:9. 36:43 >>"FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN TO AND FRO THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE 36:47 EARTH, TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHOSE HEART IS 36:51 LOYAL TO HIM." >>THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE 36:55 VERSES AND I'D LIKE IT BETTER IF THE SECOND HALF OF THE VERSE 36:59 DIDN'T REALLY TALK ABOUT BATTLES. 37:01 BUT 'THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN' - SOME VERSIONS EVEN TRANSLATE 37:06 THAT 'THE EYES OF THE LORD SCAN TO AND FRO THROUGH THE WHOLE 37:11 EARTH.' NOW GOD SEES EVERYTHING AT ONCE, BUT WHAT IS GOD LOOKING 37:14 FOR? TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG IN BEHALF 37:17 OF THOSE WHOSE HEART IS LOYAL TO HIM. 37:21 GOD IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE THROUGH WHOM HE CAN DEMONSTRATE 37:26 HIS POWER BECAUSE THEY TRUST IN HIM. 37:28 AND WHEN IT SAYS 'THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE SCANNING,' YOU KNOW 37:31 WHAT THAT MEANS? HE IS SEARCHING FOR SOMEBODY 37:34 THAT IS SEARCHING FOR HIM. >>AMEN. 37:37 >>THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE SAYS THAT IF WE DRAW NEAR TO THE LORD, 37:39 HE'LL DRAW NEAR TO US. 37:41 WE READ A VERSE A MINUTE AGO ABOUT PEOPLE SCOFFING - THEY 37:44 SEEK THE TRUTH BUT THEY'RE SCOFFERS AND THAT'S LIKE PEOPLE 37:47 WHO THEY'RE NOT REALLY HUNGERING FOR THE TRUTH. THE BIBLE SAYS, 37:52 'IF YOU SEARCH WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART' YOU'LL FIND ME. 37:55 AND JESUS, WE READ THIS, 'LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART' 37:58 AND GOD IS WANTING TO SHOW HIS POWER THROUGH AND TO PEOPLE - 38:02 YOU KNOW, IT JUST MAKES ME SAD. 38:04 YOU THINK ABOUT GOD JUST - IT'S LIKE HE SAYS TO THE DEVIL IN THE 38:08 BOOK OF JOB, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB?' 38:10 IT'S LIKE GOD SAID, 'I FOUND ONE. I FOUND ONE HERE ON EARTH 38:14 THAT TRUSTS ME.' AND IT'S LIKE HE WANTS TO FIND OTHERS. 38:17 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'WHOEVER CONFESSES ME BEFORE THIS EVIL 38:21 AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION - I'M LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY. 38:25 I WILL CONFESS THEIR NAME BEFORE MY FATHER IN HEAVEN BECAUSE HE'S 38:28 LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY OUT THERE THAT REALLY TRUSTS IN ME THAT 38:31 BELIEVES IN ME EVEN WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING. THE EYES OF THE LORD 38:35 - IS THERE ANYTHING THAT IS HIDDEN FROM HIM? 38:38 >>NO. >>THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE IN 38:40 EVERY PLACE WATCHING ON THE EVIL AND THE GOOD. 38:43 HE NOT ONLY SEES THE GOOD, HE SEES THE EVIL. 38:46 GOD SEES ALL THINGS - ALL THINGS, THE BIBLE TELLS US. 38:49 MATTER OF FACT, I'M JUMPING AHEAD - THAT'S HEBREWS 4:13, 38:51 "AND THERE IS NO CREATURE HIDDEN FROM HIS SIGHT, BUT ALL THINGS 38:57 ARE NAKED AND OPEN TO THE EYES OF HIM TO WHOM WE MUST GIVE 39:02 ACCOUNT." THAT'S BOTH AN ENCOURAGING AND 39:05 ALSO A FRIGHTENING VERSE - THAT HE SEES EVERYTHING AND HEARS 39:08 EVERY WORD. YOU KNOW, IN DOING AMAZING FACTS 39:14 I'VE BEEN AMAZED AT THE EYES OF CERTAIN CREATURES. 39:17 CHAMELEONS ARE FUN TO LOOK AT BECAUSE THEIR EYES - YOU'VE 39:22 PROBABLY SEEN THE CHAMELEON - THEY BARELY MOVE, YOU KNOW, THEY 39:24 CRAWL ACROSS A BRANCH WITH THEIR TWO LITTLE THINGS AND - BUT 39:27 THEY'VE GOT THESE EYES THAT ARE IN INDEPENDENT TURRETS THAT IT'S 39:31 NOT LIKE THEY LOOK - AND ONE'S GOING THIS WAY AND ONE'S GOING 39:34 THIS WAY AND IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDES 39:38 OF THEIR HEAD AND THEY'VE GOT INCREDIBLE FOCUS. WHEN THEIR 39:40 EYES LOCK IN - THEY'VE GOT THIS STEREOSCOPIC VISION AND THEN 39:44 THEIR TONGUE GOES OUT LIKE LIGHTNING AND GETS A DRAGONFLY 39:46 OR BUG OR SOMETHING, THEY ALMOST NEVER MISS. BUT THEY'RE - 39:51 IT ALWAYS LOOKS SO FUNNY THAT THEIR EYES ARE ALWAYS SCANNING. 39:55 YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL THEY'RE ALIVE EXCEPT YOU SEE THIS GREEN 39:57 STICK WITH EYES ON IT MOVING AROUND. 39:59 AND THEN PENGUINS - HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED PENGUINS HAVE 40:03 THE MOST VERSATILE EYES IN THE WORLD? NOW EAGLES HAVE GOT 40:06 BETTER VISION, BUT A PENGUIN'S EYE HAS TO GO FROM THE BRIGHTEST 40:10 LIGHT IN THE WORLD - WHEN YOU'RE AT THE SOUTH POLE WHEN IT'S 40:14 SUMMER DOWN THERE AND THERE'S SNOW EVERYWHERE AND YOU'VE GOT - 40:19 I MEAN, WE WOULD GET SNOW BLINDNESS. 40:21 IT'S AS BRIGHT AS - THEIR EYES CAN CONSTRICT TO A PINHOLE - SO 40:25 THEY SEE - YOU KNOW, YOUR IRIS CONSTRICTS? 40:27 BUT THEN THEY DIVE IN THE WATER AND THEY GO FROM VISION THAT 40:30 SEES CLEARLY ABOVE WATER IN THE AIR - YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO 40:35 YOUR EYES WHEN THEY GO IN THE WATER, YOU NEED A MASK OR YOU 40:37 NEED GOGGLES BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE. THEN THEIR EYE ADJUSTS FOR 40:40 UNDERWATER SEEING AND THEY CAN DIVE DOWN OVER A THOUSAND FEET 40:46 IN PITCH-BLACK DARKNESS AND SEE SQUID DOWN THERE. 40:51 THE PUPIL JUST GOES 'BWAA!' LIKE IT'S ON LSD - IT'S GREAT 40:54 BIG - WHAT A RADICAL DIFFERENCE - PENGUIN EYES - IT'S PROBABLY 41:01 NOT THE BEST ILLUSTRATION FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD BUT HE MADE 41:05 PENGUINS. HERE'S ANOTHER VERSE, JOB 28, 41:08 VERSE 24, "FOR HE" - THE LORD - "LOOKS TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, 41:15 AND SEES UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVENS." THERE'S NOTHING 41:19 THAT IS HIDDEN FROM THE EYES OF THE LORD. PSALM 33:18, 41:24 "BEHOLD, THE EYE OF THE LORD IS ON THOSE WHO FEAR HIM, ON THOSE 41:29 WHO HOPE IN HIS MERCY." NOW WHEN IT SAYS, 'THE EYE OF 41:32 THE LORD IS ON THEM' WHAT DO YOU THINK IT MEANS? 41:33 ISN'T THE EYE OF THE LORD ON EVERYBODY? 41:35 JONAH THOUGHT HE COULD RUN FROM GOD. 41:37 DID THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE JONAH? 41:39 WAS JONAH DIM TO GOD THERE IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH OR WAS IT 41:43 JUST AS BRIGHT TO HIM AS THOUGH IT WAS ILLUMINATED? 41:46 GOD SEES EVERYTHING PERFECTLY. 41:48 HE CAN - SO WHEN IT SAYS 'THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE 41:51 RIGHTEOUS' THAT'S REALLY TALKING MORE ABOUT THAT HE IS GIVING 41:56 THEM HIS ATTENTION TO THEIR PRAYERS AND THEIR NEEDS. 42:00 WE THINK ABOUT WHEN SOMEONE DOESN'T SEE SOMETHING THEY'RE 42:02 BEING NEGLECTED. SO WHEN IT SAYS 'THE EYES OF THE 42:05 LORD ARE ON THE RIGHTEOUS,' IT MEANS HE'S WATCHING OUT FOR THEM 42:08 TO PROTECT THEM, TO PROVIDE FOR THEM. 42:11 "THE EYE OF THE LORD IS ON THOSE WHO FEAR HIM, ON THOSE WHO HOPE 42:16 IN HIS MERCY." ZECHARIAH 4, VERSE 10, "FOR WHO 42:20 HAS DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS? FOR THESE SEVEN REJOICE 42:24 TO SEE THE PLUMB LINE IN THE HAND OF ZERUBBABEL. 42:28 THEY ARE THE EYES OF THE LORD, WHICH SCAN" - THAT'S ACTUALLY 42:31 THE WORD 'SCAN' THERE - "THE EYES OF THE LORD WHICH SCAN TO 42:34 AND FRO THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH." 42:37 IN REVELATION THERE'S A LAMB THAT'S ON - AS IT'S BEEN SLAIN 42:42 IT'S ON A THRONE - HOW MANY EYES DOES IT HAVE? SEVEN. 42:48 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A LAMB WITH SEVEN EYES? 42:52 THAT'S KIND OF STRANGE, ISN'T IT? WHO IS THE LAMB? 42:55 >>JESUS. >>WHY DOES HE HAVE SEVEN EYES? 42:58 YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE THAT 43:02 COMES INTO YOUR HEAD COMES THROUGH YOUR OPTIC NERVES? 43:04 I WAS TELLING KAREN TODAY, I SAW SOMETHING A LITTLE DISTRESSING, 43:09 THAT I WAS DRIVING BACK TO THE HOUSE, STOPPED AT A TRAFFIC 43:15 LIGHT WAITING FOR THE TURN AND I SAW A BLIND MAN BEGINNING TO 43:19 CROSS THE STREET BUT HE HAD MISSED THE CROSSWALK AND HE'S - 43:22 YOU COULD TELL HE WAS BLIND, HE HAD NO GLASSES ON AND HIS EYES 43:25 WERE SUNK IN AND HE HAD THE WHITE CANE WITH A RED TIP ON IT 43:27 AND SOME BAGS IN HIS HAND AND HE'S TAPPING HIS WAY ACROSS THE 43:29 STREET BUT HE'S TAPPING RIGHT OFF INTO - HE JUST WAS FORGING 43:34 AHEAD BOLDLY - TAPPING OFF INTO CARS THAT WERE RUNNING, WAITING 43:39 TO TURN AND HE GOT BETWEEN THEM AND ABOUT THE - I'M THINKING 43:43 'NOW WHAT DO I DO?' I THOUGHT, 'WELL, I DON'T WANT TO HONK AND 43:45 SCARE HIM.' AND HE GOT BETWEEN MY CAR AND, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY 43:51 WE STOPPED EVEN THOUGH THE LIGHT WAS GREEN, AND HE GOT IN FRONT 43:53 OF A CAR - A TRUCK - AND THE TRUCK HONKED AT HIM. I THOUGHT, 43:58 'WELL, THAT'S NOT GOING TO HELP HIM.' BUT HE MADE IT SAFELY 44:01 ACROSS, YOU'LL BE GLAD TO KNOW, BUT MOST OF YOUR INFORMATION 44:06 COMES THROUGH YOUR EYES AND WHEN IT SAYS THE EYES OF THE LORD 44:11 SEE EVERYTHING AND JESUS HAS GOT SEVEN EYES, THERE'S NOTHING 44:15 THAT HE DOESN'T KNOW, IS WHAT IT'S TELLING US THERE. 44:18 BOY, AND IF YOU THINK GOOGLE EARTH SEES A LOT ON THEIR 44:23 SATELLITE SITES, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT WHAT THE MILITARY CAN SEE 44:26 WITH THEIR SATELLITES? 44:27 YOU CAN MAKE OUT - JUST WITH GOOGLE EARTH, YOU CAN MAKE OUT 44:32 PARTICULAR CARS, MAKES, AND MODELS. 44:34 I CAN - YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD STORIES THAT THE - ON A CLEAR 44:38 DAY, MILITARY SATELLITES CAN READ LICENSE PLATES. 44:41 I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE ON THE SIDE, BUT 44:43 - SOMETHING THAT SMALL ANYWAY. I BELIEVE IT. GOD SEES MORE. 44:47 >>AMEN. >>JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 6, 44:51 VERSE 22, "THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE. 44:55 IF THEREFORE THINE EYE BE SINGLE, THY WHOLE BODY SHALL BE 44:59 FULL OF LIGHT. BUT IF THINE EYE BE EVIL, THY 45:02 WHOLE BODY SHALL BE FULL OF DARKNESS. 45:04 IF THEREFORE THE LIGHT THAT IS IN YOU BE DARKNESS, HOW GREAT IS 45:07 THAT DARKNESS?" WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN WHEN HE 45:09 SAYS, 'IF YOUR EYE IS SINGLE?' FOCUSED. 45:13 IF A PERSON'S VISION IS OUT OF FOCUS AND THEY CAN'T SEE OR IF 45:17 IT'S DULL LIKE ISAAC AND YOU'RE LIVING IN DARKNESS - GOD WANTS 45:22 US TO HAVE CLARITY. ALRIGHT, WEDNESDAY THE JOY OF THE LORD . 45:26 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ PROVERBS 15:15. WHO'S GOING TO BE NEXT? 45:29 YOU'LL HAVE THAT BRIAN IN JUST A MOMENT. 45:31 LET ME READ ECCLESIASTES 1:18. I KNOW WE'RE STUDYING PROVERBS 45:34 BUT THIS FITS ALONG WITH THE JOY OF THE LORD. I WANT YOU TO THINK 45:38 NOW - ECCLESIASTES 1:18. WHO WROTE ECCLESIASTES? 45:41 >>SOLOMON. >>SOLOMON. THE LESSON HERE IS ON 45:44 THE JOY OF THE LORD - THIS WEDNESDAY - "FOR IN MUCH WISDOM 45:47 IS MUCH GRIEF: AND HE THAT INCREASETH KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH 45:52 SORROW." WOW, WAIT A SECOND. I THOUGHT THAT THE MORE YOU KNOW, 45:58 THE MORE JOY YOU'LL HAVE. YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION 46:01 'IGNORANCE IS BLISS?' >>UH HUH. 46:04 >>HAVE YOU EVER WISHED YOU DIDN'T KNOW SOMETHING OR YOU 46:08 HADN'T HEARD OR HADN'T SEEN SOMETHING? 46:10 ONE REASON CHILDREN CAN ENJOY LIFE AS MUCH AS THEY CAN IS THEY 46:13 DON'T ALWAYS KNOW THE STRUGGLES MOM AND DAD ARE GOING THROUGH. 46:18 THEY DON'T ALWAYS KNOW THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD, THE 46:20 DANGERS - YOU'VE EVEN SEEN KIDS PLAYING ON WAR-TORN STREETS 46:23 LAUGHING. I HAVE ANYWAY, BECAUSE THEY 46:27 JUST, MAYBE, ARE NOT ABLE TO COMPREHEND IT. 46:30 SO WHY DOES SOLOMON SAY THAT THERE AND IT SAYS IN 46:34 ECCLESIASTES 7:12, "FOR WISDOM IS A DEFENSE, AND MONEY IS A 46:38 DEFENSE: BUT THE EXCELLENCY OF KNOWLEDGE IS, THAT WISDOM 46:42 GIVETH LIFE TO THEM THAT HAVE IT." 46:45 WISDOM GIVES LIFE TO HIM THAT HAS IT. 46:47 WHY DOES HE SAY THAT WHEN KNOWLEDGE INCREASES, SORROW 46:50 INCREASES? WELL, SOMETIMES IT MEANS YOU 46:54 HAVE MORE TO WORRY ABOUT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TOO MUCH. 46:58 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US PROVERBS 15:15. 47:00 AND THIS IS REALLY WHERE WE WANT TO TAKE THE DISCUSSION, BUT I 47:02 JUST WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT BOTH SIDES. 47:04 >>"ALL THE DAYS OF THE AFFLICTED ARE EVIL, BUT HE WHO IS OF A 47:09 MERRY HEART HAS A CONTINUAL FEAST." 47:12 >>SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE TO GO TO A PARTY OF FEAST TO HAVE 47:15 THAT TEMPORARY JOY, BUT IF A PERSON HAS PEACE WITHIN, THEY'VE 47:19 GOT A PARTY ALL THE TIME. YOU KNOW ANYBODY LIKE THAT? 47:23 THEY'RE JUST ONE OF THESE SANGUINE PEOPLE AND THEY JUST 47:26 TAKE THEIR PARTY WITH THEM FROM PLACE TO PLACE BECAUSE THEY'RE 47:28 JUST HAPPY AND THEY'VE GOT A GOOD ATTITUDE. 47:31 MRS. BATCHELOR IS LIKE THAT. SHE'S JUST - IF YOU GET HER 47:34 AROUND PEOPLE IT'S ALWAYS A PARTY - YOU JUST - RIGHT AWAY. 47:37 PROVERBS 15:17, "BETTER IS A DINNER OF HERBS WHERE LOVE IS, 47:42 THAN A FATTED CALF WITH HATRED." 47:45 IF YOU'RE LIVING IN A POOR FAMILY WHERE YOU JUST DON'T HAVE 47:50 MUCH TO EAT, YOU'VE JUST GOT A FEW HERBS - YOU'VE GOT A FEW 47:53 VEGGIES YOU'VE PULLED - EATING A POTATO AND AN ONION FOR DINNER, 47:56 BUT YOU'VE GOT LOVE AND HAPPINESS, YOU'RE BETTER OFF 48:00 THAN IF YOU'RE IN A MANSION WHERE THERE'S STRIFE AND 48:03 DISTRUST AND ANGER. SOLOMON WOULD KNOW ABOUT THAT. 48:07 PROVERBS 15:23, "A MAN HAS JOY BY THE ANSWER OF HIS MOUTH, AND 48:13 A WORD SPOKEN IN DUE SEASON, HOW GOOD IT IS!" 48:17 NOW I DON'T REMEMBER THE VERSE, BUT I KNOW THAT SOLOMON SAYS, 'A 48:21 WORD FITLY SPOKEN IS LIKE AN APPLE OF GOLD IN A SETTING OF 48:26 SILVER.' OR IN PICTURES OF SILVER - A COUPLE OF 48:29 TRANSLATIONS. THE RIGHT WORD CAN REALLY CHEER 48:32 A PERSON UP AND A MAN HAS JOY BY THE ANSWER OF HIS MOUTH. 48:36 SOMETIMES YOU CAN JUST SAY THE RIGHT THING AND JUST REALLY MAKE 48:39 A PERSON'S DAY AND ENCOURAGE THEM. 48:41 A COMPLIMENT - A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT. 48:43 IS JOY SOMETHING A CHRISTIAN SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF OR IS JOY 48:49 SOMETHING GOD WANTS US TO HAVE. YEAH. 48:52 HOW CAN YOU ADVERTISE FOR PEOPLE TO BE CHRISTIANS IF YOU'RE 48:55 MOROSE ALL THE TIME AND NEGATIVE? IT DOESN'T WANT TO 48:59 WIN ANYBODY - DON'T YOU WANT TO BE AROUND PEOPLE THAT HAVE JOY? 49:01 AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I BECAME A 49:05 CHRISTIAN IS I MET A MARRIED COUPLE THAT WERE ALWAYS HAPPY. 49:09 EVERY TIME I SAW THEM THEY WERE PRAISING GOD, THEY WERE SMILING. 49:12 THE PASTOR THAT BAPTIZED ME, HE AND HIS WIFE, 49:14 THEY REALLY KNEW THE JOY OF THE LORD. 49:16 AND EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THEY HAD HEARTACHE AND TRIAL, THEY JUST - 49:20 THEY HAD THIS REAL JOY AND I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T 49:22 DRINK, THEY DON'T USE DRUGS AND THEY'RE HAPPY ALL THE TIME. 49:25 WHAT DO THEY HAVE AND WHAT ARE THEY TAKING?' 49:28 MY FATHER COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND MY GRANDPARENTS BECAUSE MY 49:32 GRANDPARENTS NEVER DRANK, BUT WHENEVER HE WENT OVER TO THEIR 49:35 HOUSE, MY GRANDMOTHER PLAYED THE PIANO, MY GRANDFATHER SANG, AND 49:37 THEY JUST - YOU KNOW, JUST GREGARIOUS AND VIVACIOUS AND HE 49:43 SAID, 'HOW DO YOU GUYS HAVE SO MUCH FUN WITH NO BOOZE?' THAT'S 49:46 WHAT MY FATHER USED TO SAY. SO CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE HAPPY. 49:51 I THINK BILLY SUNDAY SAID, 'IF YOU HAVE NO JOY IN YOUR 49:54 RELIGION, THERE'S A LEAK IN YOUR CHRISTIANITY SOMEWHERE.' JOB 49:59 8:21, "HE WILL YET FILL YOUR MOUTH WITH LAUGHING AND YOUR 50:03 LIPS WITH REJOICING." LAUGHTER IS NOT A SIN. 50:06 NOW THE BIBLE SAYS WE SHOULD AVOID FOOLISH JESTING AND, YOU 50:09 KNOW, THERE'S A TYPE OF HUMOR THAT'S JUST TOTALLY 50:12 INAPPROPRIATE, BUT I THINK GOD - YOU JUST LOOK AT THE 50:16 CREATURES HE MADE AND THERE'S STUFF. 50:19 WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS PUPPY AND AS MUCH AS A CHALLENGE HE IS AT 50:24 TIMES, SOMETIMES HE JUST GETS THIS - HE JUST GETS FULL OF 50:29 ENERGY AND HE'LL GRAB A SHOE AND - HE WAS TAKING EVERYONE'S SHOES 50:32 SO WE GAVE HIM HIS OWN SHOE THAT DIDN'T FIT ANYBODY ANYMORE. 50:35 HE RUNS AROUND THE HOUSE AND WE JUST START LAUGHING. 50:37 HE RUNS INTO THE WALL AND HE JUST - ATTACKING THIS SHOE - 50:41 AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK GOD INSPIRED US THIS WAY. YOU KNOW 50:44 THEY FOUND OUT - THEY'VE DONE A NUMBER OF ANIMAL 50:46 STUDIES AND ANIMALS LAUGH. YOU KNOW, IT'S EASIER TO SENSE 50:50 IF - DOLPHINS, THEY LAUGH. CHIMPANZEES - THEY'LL SEE 50:55 SOMETHING HAPPEN TO ANOTHER CHIMPANZEE AND THEY LET OUT THIS 50:58 SQUEAL AND THEY LAUGH. THEY'LL EVEN ROLL AROUND. 51:01 AND SO, YOU KNOW, GOD, I THINK, MADE HIS CREATURES WITH HUMOR. 51:05 NOW PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH THIS SO I WANT TO BE CLEAR, THE BIBLE 51:09 SAYS JESUS WAS A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF. 51:12 HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THAT ONE REASON THAT JESUS WAS A MAN 51:15 OF SORROWS IS BECAUSE OF WHERE SOLOMON SAID 'IN MUCH WISDOM IS 51:19 MUCH GRIEF?' JESUS KNEW ABOUT THE BATTLE 51:22 BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. JESUS KNEW WHAT HIS FUTURE WAS. 51:24 JESUS KNEW THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE HE PREACHED TO WOULD NOT 51:27 ACCEPT HIM. CAN YOU IMAGINE HAVING THAT KIND OF BURDEN 51:30 ONCE HE REALIZED HIS MISSION FOR LIFE? HE HAD A LOT OF WISDOM 51:34 THAT JUST PROBABLY SOBERED HIM UP A LOT. BUT HE WAS STILL 51:39 A PERSON OF JOY. CHILDREN WERE ATTRACTED TO HIM. 51:42 AND SO, I DON'T WANT YOU TO ALWAYS PICTURE A JESUS THAT IS 51:45 SAD, EVEN THOUGH IT DOES SAY HE WAS A MAN OF SORROWS. 51:48 HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH IT BUT HE HAD JOY IN HIS LIFE. 51:51 LAST SECTION IS TALKING ABOUT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD FOR 51:57 THURSDAY - LAST ONE WE'RE GOING TO COVER. 51:59 PROVERBS - IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN PROVERBS 16:1 - AND 52:03 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME PROVERBS 20:24. WHO HAS THAT? 52:08 YOU'VE GOT TO PASS THE MICROPHONE, OKAY? 52:10 PROVERBS CHAPTER 16:1, "THE PREPARATIONS OF THE HEART BELONG 52:14 TO MAN, BUT THE ANSWER OF THE TONGUE IS FROM THE LORD." 52:18 YOU KNOW, REALLY, GOD CONTROLS EVERYTHING. 52:23 THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE, BUT GOD STILL IS 52:26 SOVEREIGN, MEANING HE CAN WORK ANYTHING OUT NO MATTER HOW BENT 52:29 WE ARE IN DOING THINGS OUR OWN WAY, GOD CAN EITHER BLESS 52:33 OR CONFOUND WHATEVER WE MIGHT PLAN. 52:34 AND WHEN IT SAYS THE ANSWER IS FROM THE LORD, YOU CAN'T EVEN 52:39 GIVE AN ANSWER WITHOUT GOD ALLOWING IT. 52:43 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN BALAAM TRIED TO CURSE WHO GOD HAD BLESSED? 52:48 WELL, HE WASN'T STRUCK DUMB, ACTUALLY, HE OPENED HIS MOUTH 52:53 AND A BLESSING CAME OUT EVEN THOUGH HE WANTED TO CURSE. 52:57 THE DONKEY, I THINK PASTOR JOHN LOMACANG'S GOT A SERMON CALLED 53:01 'DUMB AND DUMBER' TALKING ABOUT BALAAM AND HIS DONKEY. 53:04 HE STARTS TO ARGUE WITH HIS DONKEY. BUT THE DONKEY, HE WAS 53:08 ABLE TO SPEAK - BUT HE COULDN'T EVEN CONTROL WHAT HE SAID. 53:11 AND SO GOD IS ULTIMATELY SOVEREIGN. AND THIS IS THE VERSE 53:15 I ESPECIALLY WANT YOU TO REMEMBER. GO AHEAD READ 53:17 PROVERBS 20, VERSE 24. >>"A MAN'S STEPS ARE OF THE 53:22 LORD; HOW THEN CAN A MAN UNDERSTAND HIS OWN WAY?" 53:26 >>NOW GOD DOES GIVE US A CHOICE AND WHAT SEPARATES THE SAVED 53:29 FROM THE LOST IS NOT THAT GOD HAS NOT WILLED ALL MEN TO BE 53:33 SAVED, BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY 53:36 SHOULD PERISH, BUT GOD KNOWS HOW TO WORK PURPOSES OUT AND HE CAN 53:41 WORK IN THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE AND HE CAN LEAD PEOPLE. SO IF WE 53:44 CHOOSE TO COOPERATE WITH THE SOVEREIGNTY AND THE PROVIDENCE 53:48 OF GOD, THEN WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPEN FOR ETERNITY. 53:52 SO WITH THAT, I SEE BY THE CLOCK WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME, BUT I 53:56 WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER AND IT'S 53:58 CALLED DETERMINING THE WILL OF GOD . 54:01 WE'LL SEND THIS TO ANYBODY THAT ASKS FOR IT. 54:02 YOU CAN READ IT FOR FREE ONLINE AT THE AMAZINGFACTS.ORG WEBSITE. 54:07 IF YOU DO CALL AND ASK FOR THE FREE OFFER, IT'S 866-788-3966. 54:13 ASK FOR OFFER #778 AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FRIENDS. 54:17 NEXT WEEK WE'LL BE STUDYING LESSON #7. 54:20 GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY AGAIN. 54:25 >>I GREW UP IN A CHURCH-GOING FAMILY. 54:28 I MEAN, WE WERE AT EVERY MEETING. 54:30 I SANG IN FOUR OF THE CHOIRS THERE. I DIRECTED THREE. 54:34 VERY INVOLVED, VERY ACTIVE. IT ALMOST SEEMED LIKE BUSY WORK 54:39 SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW? I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL. 54:42 I KNEW ABOUT GOD. I KNEW ABOUT JESUS BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A 54:47 PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST. 54:49 MY SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL I GOT THE NEWS THAT MY FATHER HAD 54:56 BEEN MURDERED. I PLAYED IT OFF WELL. NO ONE REALLY SAW 55:01 THAT I WAS STRUGGLING WITH IT. IT JUST REALLY FELT LIKE 55:09 THERE WAS A HOLE THAT NEEDED TO BE FILLED AND I TRIED TO FILL IT 55:12 WITH DRUGS, WITH ALCOHOL, WITH PARTYING. 55:17 AFTER COLLEGE I JUST STOPPED GOING TO CHURCH ALTOGETHER. 55:22 ONE DAY, ON A SUNDAY, BECAUSE I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOING TO CHURCH 55:26 WITH MY MOM, I THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, I SHOULD GET A LITTLE BIT 55:31 OF WORD.' SHE HAD THE SATELLITE SYSTEM HOOKED UP AND I'M 55:35 FLIPPING THROUGH CHANNELS AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS - 55:38 AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 55:41 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT HERE 55:44 WAS - THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING 55:46 SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP 55:49 AND I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. 55:51 LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND FIND THIS. 55:53 I WENT THROUGH ALL THE STORACLES. 55:55 I WENT THROUGH ALL THE STUDY GUIDES AND I JUST COULDN'T GET 55:58 ENOUGH. AND THEN THE SABBATH CAME UP AND 56:00 HE'S GOING THROUGH THE APPEAL AND I'M JUST GOING, 'LORD, I 56:03 HEAR YOU. I HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH.' SO I 56:07 SHOW UP - IT WAS FUNNY, I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE I WAS GOING TO BE 56:10 JUDGED - ANYTHING JUDGMENTAL - ANYTHING. 56:14 AND I WALKED IN THE DOOR AND I JUST FELT AT HOME. 56:16 BUT THERE'S STILL A PROBLEM. I'M STILL PARTYING. 56:22 I WAS STILL GOING OUT TO THE BARS. 56:24 AT THIS TIME, I WAS SELLING COCAINE TO PAY MY RENT. 56:28 SIXTEEN DAYS LATER I FIND MYSELF IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION. 56:33 I HAD JUST CAME BACK FROM A LIQUOR STORE AND I GRABBED A 56:37 BOTTLE OF VODKA AND THERE I AM, HIGH OFF COCAINE, WITH MY BIBLE 56:43 IN HAND, TRYING TO DO A BIBLE STUDY AND I HEARD AN AUDIBLE 56:50 VOICE 'JUST LOOK AT YOURSELF.' AND I DID AND I WAS LIKE 56:56 'WHAT AM I DOING?' AND I GOT ON MY KNEES. 57:01 I SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU DO NOT TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME NOW, I'M 57:05 GOING TO KILL MYSELF.' I WAS GOING TO CONTINUE THIS LIFESTYLE 57:10 AND I WAS GOING TO END UP OVERDOSING - HAVING A HEART 57:13 ATTACK - WHATEVER IT WAS. 'YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS AWAY. 57:18 ALL OF IT.' AND THAT DAY HE LIFTED ALL OF IT AWAY FROM ME. 57:27 IT WAS ALL GONE. 57:29 WHEN GOD DOES SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE, HE DOES IT COMPLETE. 57:42 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:44 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:48 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:51 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 57:55 REVELATION, BIBLEHISTORY.COM IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 57:59 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 58:02 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 58:05 WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. 58:13 (MUSIC) |
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