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>>HELLO FRIENDS, AND
WELCOME ONCE AGAIN TO
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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I'D LIKE TO, IN A SPECIAL WAY,
WELCOME OUR FRIENDS JOINING US
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ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AND AROUND THE WORLD.
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF
THIS INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDY.
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WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE BOOK
OF PROVERBS - THAT'S OUR LESSON
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QUARTERLY FOR THIS QUARTER.
TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON
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LESSON #10. SO IF YOU
DON'T HAVE YOUR LESSON
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QUARTERLY, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD
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DOWNLOAD LESSON #10 ENTITLED
BEHIND THE MASK AND YOU CAN
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AS WE STUDY TOGETHER.
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I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME
THE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH HERE FOR OUR
MID-WEEK BIBLE STUDY.
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THANK YOU, AGAIN, FOR
COMING OUT AND JOINING US.
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WELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY,
LET'S INVITE GOD'S PRESENCE TO
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GUIDE US. DEAR FATHER,
ONCE AGAIN WE THANK YOU FOR
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THE OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER
TOGETHER AND OPEN UP YOUR WORD.
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AND LORD, WE ASK
FOR YOUR BLESSING.
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SEND YOUR HOLY SPIRIT TO GUIDE
OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AND MAY
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WE UNDERSTAND MORE OF THE GREAT
WISDOM THAT YOU HAVE IN STORE
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FOR US IN YOUR WORD.
BLESS OUR STUDY TOGETHER.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>OUR STUDY THIS EVENING IS
BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG
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BATCHELOR. THANK
YOU, PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
AND GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.
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>>GOOD EVENING.
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GOOD MORNING TO MANY WHO I KNOW
ARE WATCHING, BECAUSE A LOT OF
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PEOPLE VIEW THIS
PROGRAM ON SABBATH MORNING.
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I THINK THEY ALSO
AIR IT ON THURSDAY NIGHT.
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AND A COUPLE OF EXCITING THINGS
THAT ARE DEVELOPING - I THINK
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MOST OF OUR FRIENDS THAT
HAVE WATCHED SABBATH SCHOOL FOR
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SEVERAL YEARS NOW KNOW THAT
WE'RE, SORT OF, IN TRANSITION
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AND, GOD WILLING, IN A COUPLE
OF WEEKS THE CONGREGATION IS
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ACTUALLY GOING TO GET TO MOVE
INTO OUR NEW FACILITY THAT WE'VE
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BEEN RENOVATING. AND
SO YOU'LL BE SEEING THE
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PROGRAMS SHORTLY BE
COMING FROM THAT DIRECTION.
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WE STILL HAVE A LITTLE MEDIA
WORK TO DO TO GET THAT SET UP.
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SOMETHING ELSE I
THOUGHT I'D SHARE WITH YOU.
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WE HAD AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE
THIS WEEK - A LITTLE MISSION
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STORY, IF YOU WILL -
SUNDAY. TWO DAYS AGO.
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I WAS HOME PREPARING FOR
OUR BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE PROGRAM.
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MRS. BATCHELOR WENT TO A
WEDDING DOWN AT CENTRAL CHURCH,
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WHERE SOME FRIENDS GOT MARRIED.
AND SHE SAID, 'DOUG, THERE'S A
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MAN HERE WHO CAME FROM
CHINA AND HE'S LOOKING FOR YOU.'
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AND I SAID, 'SAY THAT
AGAIN, CAREFULLY.' AND SHE SAID,
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'THERE'S A MAN
HERE. HE FLEW FROM CHINA.
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HE FOUND SOME PEOPLE WHO DROVE
HIM FROM SAN FRANCISCO. HE SAID,
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'I'M LOOKING FOR AMAZING
FACTS AND DOUG BATCHELOR.'
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AND THEY DROVE HIM FROM SAN
FRANCISCO TO SACRAMENTO AND HE'S
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HERE AT THE CHURCH AND, BY THE
PROVIDENCE OF GOD, KAREN WAS AT
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THE CHURCH. IT'S
INTERESTING, I PREACHED
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ABOUT PROVIDENCE THE DAY BEFORE
- AND SHE WASN'T EVEN SURE SHE
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WAS GOING TO MAKE
IT TO THE WEDDING.
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SHE MADE IT TO THE WEDDING AND
MET THIS MAN AND HE - HE SAID,
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'I HAVE COME TO THE
LORD. I'VE ACCEPTED THE TRUTH.
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I LOOKED ALL OVER CHINA AFTER
BECOMING A CHRISTIAN, VISITED
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ALL THESE DIFFERENT CHURCHES,
WENT TO HUNDREDS OF CHURCHES,
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AND I DISCOVERED THE AMAZING
FACTS BIBLE STUDIES.' AND THEN
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HE SHOWED US THE BIBLE
STUDIES THAT HE HAD FILLED OUT.
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AND HE SAID, 'AND I'VE WATCHED
THE AMAZING FACTS DVDS - OUR
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EVANGELISTIC PROGRAMS THAT WERE
TRANSLATED - AND HE BROUGHT THEM
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WITH HIM ON THE
PLANE - SHOWED THEM.
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AND SO I SAID - SHE SAID, 'COULD
YOU COME MEET WITH THE MAN?'
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I SAID, 'ALRIGHT.' SO WE SET
UP JUST ABOUT AN HOUR FOR DINNER
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AND KAREN JOINED ME WITH - HIS
NAME IS MR. WU - AND HE TOLD US
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HIS INCREDIBLE TESTIMONY THROUGH
HIS FRIENDS THAT BROUGHT HIM
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FROM SAN
FRANCISCO THAT TRANSLATED.
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HE'S ACTUALLY NOW STAYING IN THE
AREA AND HE'S FINALIZING BIBLE
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STUDIES BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE
BAPTIZED AND GO BACK TO CHINA.
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SOLD HIS BUSINESS.
BOUGHT A TICKET TO COME TO
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AMERICA JUST BY FAITH.
DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IF I WAS GOING
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TO BE IN TOWN
AND WE WORKED IT OUT.
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HE WAS HERE - WE GAVE HIM A TOUR
AROUND THE OFFICE YESTERDAY AND
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TODAY. AND HE DOESN'T
SPEAK VERY MUCH ENGLISH.
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I DON'T KNOW -
CLARENCE IS MR. WU HERE TONIGHT?
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>>WE COULDN'T FIND HIM. WE
LOOKED FOR HIM AND, YOU KNOW,
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WE WENT TO HIS HOTEL AND
CALLED. >>MR. WU IS MISSING.
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NO, HE'S - I'M SURE HE PROBABLY
JUST WENT OUT FOR DINNER.
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BUT ANYWAY, SO WE WERE
GOING TO INTRODUCE HIM TO YOU.
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DIDN'T KNOW IF WE COULD TELL HIM
- AT THE LAST MINUTE WE CALLED
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TO SEE IF WE COULD HAVE HIM COME
BY. JUST AN AMAZING TESTIMONY.
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AND SO, WE'RE SO THRILLED -
THE WAY THE LORD IS WORKING.
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NOW HE WANTS TO GO BACK. HE
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, GOD SAVED ME
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SO THAT I COULD DO HIS
WORK.' AND SO JUST INCREDIBLE
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TESTIMONY. IT MIGHT
EVEN WORK OUT WHERE THE
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FIRST BAPTISM WE HAVE AT OUR NEW
FACILITY WILL BE, KIND OF, AN
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OMEN OF SOMEBODY WHO'S COME
FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD
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BECAUSE OF THE
OUTREACH OF THE PROGRAM.
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>>AMEN. >>SO
THAT IS VERY EXCITING.
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OUR STUDY, AS PASTOR ROSS SAID,
IS WE'RE DEALING WITH CHAPTERS
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25 THROUGH 27,
VERSE 6 IN PROVERBS.
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AND IT'S LESSON #10 - IT'S
CALLED BEHIND THE MASK AND WE
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HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE
MEMORY VERSE IS FROM PROVERBS
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25, VERSE 6 - PROVERBS 25,
VERSE 6 AND THIS IS, HERE IN THE
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LESSON, FROM THE
NEW KING JAMES VERSION.
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IF YOU'D LIKE TO SAY
IT WITH ME, ARE YOU READY?
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"DO NOT EXALT YOURSELF IN THE
PRESENCE OF THE KING, AND DO NOT
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STAND IN THE
PLACE OF THE GREAT."
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KIND OF REMINDS ME OF WHERE
JAMES SAID, 'BE NOT MANY MASTERS
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FOR YOU'LL RECEIVE MORE
SEVERE JUDGMENT OR GREATER
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CONDEMNATION.' YOU
DON'T WANT TO BE SEEKING TO
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EXALT YOURSELF IN THE
PRESENCE OF OTHER PEOPLE.
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HE WHO EXALTS
HIMSELF WILL BE HUMBLED.
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HE WHO HUMBLES
HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED.
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AND SO WE'RE GOING TO
DIVE IN TO SOME OF THE VERSES.
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IF YOU GO TO PROVERBS CHAPTER
25 - MATTER OF FACT, LET ME TURN
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HERE IN MY BIBLE VERY QUICK
AND - THE REASON WE'RE KIND OF
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STARTING WITH VERSE 2 IS
BECAUSE PROVERBS CHAPTER 25 SAYS
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SOMETHING WE'VE ALLUDED TO
EARLIER - VERSE 1, "THESE ALSO
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ARE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON WHICH
THE MEN OF HEZEKIAH KING OF
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JUDAH COPIED:" - AND,
OF COURSE, ALL THE BIBLE
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HAS BEEN
WRITTEN DOWN BY SCRIBES.
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WHEN IT SAYS 'COPIED'
IT'S SAYING MORE THAN THAT.
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IT'S REALLY SAYING THAT THEY
ORGANIZED OR THEY COLLECTED AND
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PUT INTO THESE
FOLLOWING CHAPTERS.
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AND SO THEN IT
REALLY BEGINS WITH VERSE 2.
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IN VERSE 2 IT SAYS, "IT IS
THE GLORY OF GOD TO CONCEAL A
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MATTER, BUT THE GLORY OF KINGS
IS TO SEARCH OUT A MATTER."
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AND THAT REMINDS ME - WELL, TELL
YOU WHAT, FIRST LET'S FIND OUT -
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SOMEBODY'S GOING TO BE READING,
IN A MOMENT, DEUTERONOMY 29:29 -
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OKAY, WE'LL GET TO YOU
ON MIC IN JUST A MINUTE.
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AND THAT REMINDS ME OF A VERSE
WHERE JESUS SAYS, IN LUKE 8,
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VERSES 9 AND 10, "THEN HIS
DISCIPLES ASKED HIM, SAYING,
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'WHAT DOES THIS PARABLE MEAN?'
AND HE SAID, 'TO YOU IT HAS BEEN
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GIVEN TO KNOW THE MYSTERIES OF
THE KINGDOM OF GOD, BUT TO THE
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REST IT IS GIVEN IN PARABLES,
THAT 'SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE,
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AND HEARING THEY MAY NOT
UNDERSTAND.'" 'IT'S THE GLORY OF
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KINGS - THE GLORY OF GOD TO
CONCEAL A MATTER, BUT THE GLORY
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OF KINGS TO SEARCH OUT A
MATTER.' WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
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HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT YOU
APPRECIATE SOMETHING MORE WHEN
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YOU SEARCH FOR
IT AND YOU FIND IT?
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DID JESUS TRY TO HIDE THE TRUTH
IN PARABLES OR DID HE PLANT THEM
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IN PARABLES SO THAT WE WOULD
HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF LOOKING
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FOR THEM AND
SEEKING TO UNDERSTAND THEM?
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YOU NOTICE JESUS
DOESN'T SAY, 'YOU WILL FIND?'
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HE SAYS, 'SEEK AND YOU WILL
FIND.' IN FACT, IN ANOTHER PLACE
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HE SAYS, 'YOU WILL SEARCH FOR
ME AND YOU'LL FIND ME WHEN YOU
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SEARCH FOR...ALL YOUR HEART.'
AND SO, THE TRUTH - IT SEEMS THE
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LORD HAS CONCEALED IT, BUT
BENEATH A LAYER TO SAY, 'DO WE
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BELIEVE IT'S PRECIOUS?'
WHY IS IT GOLD NUGGETS AREN'T
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JUST LAYING ON THE
GROUND? YOU KIND OF HAVE TO DIG.
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AND THIS IS A TREASURE AND IT'S
THE GLORY OF GOD TO CONCEAL A
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MATTER BUT THE GLORY OF
KINGS TO SEARCH OUT A MATTER.
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GO AHEAD, READ FOR US,
DEUTERONOMY 29:29, PLEASE.
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>>"THE SECRET THINGS BELONG
TO THE LORD OUR GOD, BUT THOSE
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THINGS WHICH ARE REVEALED
BELONG TO US AND TO OUR CHILDREN
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FOREVER, THAT WE MAY DO
ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW."
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>>NOW GOD - THERE'S CERTAIN
SECRETS THAT, YOU KNOW, MAN IS
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NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE
TO PENETRATE BECAUSE, AS THE
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HEAVENS ARE
HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH,
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SO ARE MY WAYS ABOVE YOUR WAYS.
BUT THERE'S A LOT THAT THE LORD
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HAS MADE MANIFEST AND IF WE'LL
LOOK FOR IT - THE BIBLE SAYS,
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'IF YOU SEARCH FOR ME YOU'LL
FIND ME.' IF WE DRAW NEAR TO
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HIM, HE'LL DRAW NEAR TO US.
HE WANTS US TO INVEST AN EFFORT
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IN RECOGNIZING THAT
THE TRUTH IS PRECIOUS.
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AND SO THESE THINGS
SHOULD BE SOUGHT OUT.
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THE GLORY OF KINGS IS
TO SEARCH A MATTER OUT.
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SOLOMON TOOK GREAT INTEREST
IN STUDYING THINGS AND WHEN YOU
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READ ABOUT SOLOMON IT
SAYS HE STUDIED EVERYTHING.
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HE STUDIED ANTS. HE STUDIED
EAGLES. HE STUDIED PEOPLE.
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AND YOU GO THROUGH AND YOU
LOOK AT THE ECCLESIASTES AND THE
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PROVERBS OF SOLOMON - THE SONG
OF SOLOMON - AND YOU CAN SEE HE
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WAS QUITE A - QUITE
A SCIENTIST OF LIFE.
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HE TALKS ABOUT CLOUDS, HE TALKS
ABOUT RIVERS, HE TALKS ABOUT,
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LIKE I SAID,
ANIMALS AND JUST EVERYTHING.
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AND SO THAT REQUIRES
SEARCH. IT REQUIRES CURIOSITY.
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AND THEN THERE'S WISDOM OF THE
WORLD AND THERE'S THE WISDOM OF
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GOD THAT IT TALKS ABOUT
HERE. IF YOU LOOK IN VERSE 3 -
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PROVERBS 25, VERSE 3, "AS THE
HEAVENS FOR HEIGHT AND THE EARTH
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FOR DEPTH, SO THE HEART
OF KINGS IS UNSEARCHABLE."
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WHY WOULD A HEART OF A KING BE
MORE UNSEARCHABLE THAN SOMEONE
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ELSE'S HEART. DOES
THE LORD RAISE UP LEADERS
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AND PUT DOWN LEADERS? >>YES.
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>>THE RESPONSIBILITIES - WHO
WAS IT? SHAKESPEARE OR SOMEBODY?
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- THAT SAID, 'HEAVY RESTS THE
HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN.' I
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MISQUOTED THAT. YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
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>>IT WAS CLOSE.
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>>YEAH, WITH ALL THAT A KING
IS DEALING WITH, HIS HEART - HIS
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MIND - IS BURDENED WITH MANY
DIFFERENT THINGS AND SO, I THINK
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THIS IS ALLUDING TO THAT.
THAT IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND
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EVERYTHING A KING IS GRAPPLING
WITH. NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN
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1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 6
IT SAYS, "HOWEVER, WHEN WE SPEAK
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WISDOM" - AND THIS IS UNDER THE
SECTION CALLED THE MYSTERY OF
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GOD - "HOWEVER, WHEN WE
SPEAK WISDOM AMONG THOSE WHO ARE
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MATURE, YET NOT THE WISDOM OF
THIS AGE, NOR OF THE RULERS OF
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THIS AGE WHO ARE
COMING TO NOTHING.
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BUT WE SPEAK THE WISDOM OF GOD
IN A MYSTERY, THE HIDDEN WISDOM
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WHICH GOD ORDAINED
BEFORE THE AGES FOR OUR GLORY."
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HAVE YOU HEARD BEFORE
OF THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY?
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PAUL SPEAKS ABOUT 'THE MYSTERY
OF INIQUITY DOTH ALREADY WORK.'
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AND HE TALKS ABOUT
THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS.
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CAN YOU THINK OF SOME THINGS
THAT WOULD BE A MYSTERY OF GOD?
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>>HOW CAN GOD BECOME MAN?
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>>KAREN SAID, 'HOW
CAN GOD BECOME MAN?'
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HAVE YOU EVER HEARD PEOPLE TRY
AND PONDER, 'DID JESUS DIE ON
00:12:10.63\00:12:14.86
THE CROSS?' 'WAS JESUS GOD?'
00:12:14.86\00:12:17.76
'DID GOD DIE?'
'HOW COULD GOD DIE?'
00:12:17.76\00:12:20.70
'HOW COULD THE UNIVERSE
KEEP GOING IF GOD DIED?'
00:12:20.70\00:12:23.30
'DID ONLY PART OF GOD DIE -
THE PART THAT WAS IN THE SON?'
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- SOME OF THESE
THINGS ARE A REAL MYSTERY.
00:12:25.90\00:12:28.03
HOW DO YOU GET 100 PERCENT
OF DIVINITY COMPRESSED INTO
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HUMANITY? THERE ARE MYSTERIES.
THE MYSTERY OF GOD - I HEARD
00:12:32.93\00:12:37.63
SOMEONE SAY ONE TIME IS
HOW GOD COULD BECOME A MAN.
00:12:37.63\00:12:42.16
THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY IS HOW
THE CREATURE WOULD WANT TO BE
00:12:42.16\00:12:44.80
GOD. AND, I MEAN, THINK ABOUT
HOW CRAZY IT IS THAT THE DEVIL -
00:12:44.80\00:12:51.23
THAT CREATION WOULD THINK THAT
HE COULD OVERTHROW HIS CREATOR.
00:12:51.23\00:12:55.80
IT'S THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.
WHERE DID SIN COME FROM?
00:12:55.80\00:12:58.53
IT'S LIKE SOMEONE SAYS - YOU
KNOW, YOU EVER GET A COLD AND
00:12:58.53\00:13:01.46
YOU SAY, 'WELL IT'S NOT MY
FAULT, I GOT IT FROM SO AND SO.'
00:13:01.46\00:13:04.46
WELL, WHERE'D THE
FIRST COLD COME FROM?
00:13:04.46\00:13:06.16
WHERE DID AIDS ORIGINATE?
WHO HAD THE FIRST CASE?
00:13:06.16\00:13:09.70
WHERE'D SIN COME FROM? SOME
OF THESE THINGS ARE A MYSTERY.
00:13:09.70\00:13:13.86
YOU KNOW A QUESTION THAT
EVOLUTIONISTS LIKE TO ASK
00:13:13.86\00:13:19.73
LITERAL CREATIONISTS - PEOPLE
THAT LITERALLY BELIEVE IN A
00:13:19.73\00:13:22.90
DIVINE CREATION - THEY
SAY, 'WELL, WHO MADE GOD?
00:13:22.90\00:13:26.90
WHERE'D HE COME FROM?
00:13:26.90\00:13:28.63
HOW COULD HE JUST?' -
AND YOU SAY, 'WELL, HE'S
00:13:28.63\00:13:29.90
ALWAYS BEEN - FROM EVERLASTING
TO EVERLASTING - HE'S ALWAYS
00:13:29.90\00:13:31.60
EXISTED.' DID YOU EVER TRY
AND WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND THAT?
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OR I'VE THOUGHT BEFORE - AND YOU
PROBABLY HAVE - JUST IMAGINE YOU
00:13:35.46\00:13:38.86
COULD BE - PUT A SADDLE ON A
CANNON BALL AND YOU GET FIRED
00:13:38.86\00:13:43.80
INTO SPACE. YOU
KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
00:13:43.80\00:13:46.80
YOU COULD DO A UNICORN IF YOU
LADIES DON'T THINK A CANNON BALL
00:13:46.80\00:13:48.90
WOULD BE GOOD. YOU GET
FIRED OFF INTO SPACE AND
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- YOU KNOW, A THOUSAND TIMES
FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
00:13:50.90\00:13:55.16
AND WHEN YOU GO PAST THE KNOWN
UNIVERSE, WHAT'S OUT THERE?
00:13:55.16\00:13:58.70
DO YOU EVER REACH AN END?
OR IS IT LIKE A BIG CIRCLE?
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ONCE YOU GET TO THE END
IT'S ACTUALLY - YOU START AT THE
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BEGINNING AGAIN LIKE, KIND
OF, GOING AROUND THE BLOCK.
00:14:03.33\00:14:05.40
I MEAN, CAN YOU - CAN YOUR
MIND COMPREHEND THESE THINGS?
00:14:05.40\00:14:09.60
EVOLUTIONISTS
HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM.
00:14:09.60\00:14:11.83
WHERE DID EVERYTHING COME FROM?
HOW DO YOU GET SOMETHING FROM
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NOTHING? HOW DO YOU
GET ORGANIZATION FROM
00:14:15.70\00:14:18.26
CHAOS? HOW DO
YOU GET MATTER FROM
00:14:18.26\00:14:20.66
NON-MATTER. THOSE
THINGS DEFY ALL WE KNOW
00:14:20.66\00:14:23.93
ABOUT SCIENCE. SO
THEY'RE FACED WITH THE SAME
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THING ABOUT HOW YOU HAVE ALL
THE INTELLIGENCE AND DESIGN AND
00:14:25.96\00:14:29.16
ORGANIZATION AND BEAUTY
IN THE WORLD FROM NOTHING.
00:14:29.16\00:14:31.96
THEY SAY THAT ALL THE UNIVERSE
- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HEARD
00:14:31.96\00:14:34.40
THIS BEFORE BUT IT - IF IT
WASN'T SAD THAT SOME PEOPLE
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BELIEVED IT, IT
WOULD BE HILARIOUS.
00:14:37.20\00:14:39.30
THEY SAY EVERYTHING IN THE KNOWN
UNIVERSE WAS ONCE COMPRESSED TO
00:14:39.30\00:14:42.30
SOMETHING SMALLER THAN THE HEAD
OF A PIN AND IT EXPLODED AND
00:14:42.30\00:14:45.86
CAUSED THE BIG BANG.
HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD THAT?
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I DON'T KNOW WHAT PHYSICS COULD
EXPLAIN THAT, BUT IT IS EASIER
00:14:53.36\00:14:57.86
FOR ME TO BELIEVE IN GOD THAN
TO BELIEVE EVERYTHING IN THE
00:14:57.86\00:15:00.93
INFINITE UNIVERSE EXPLODED OUT
OF SOMETHING SMALLER THAN THE
00:15:00.93\00:15:03.70
HEAD OF A PIN. HOW YOU GET ALL
THAT MATTER OUT OF NON-MATTER.
00:15:03.70\00:15:08.20
ALL I'M SAYING NOW IS THERE'S
MYSTERIES. AND THERE'S SOME
00:15:08.20\00:15:12.20
THINGS THAT WE JUST HAVE
TO ACCEPT THAT WE DON'T KNOW.
00:15:12.20\00:15:15.30
YOU KNOW, IT TALKS ABOUT THE
KINGS SEVERAL TIMES IN CHAPTER
00:15:15.30\00:15:20.06
25 AND IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT
GOING - IT'S ACTUALLY IN THE
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LESSON - DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTER 17, VERSE 14.
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NOW WAS IT GOD'S WILL THAT THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL PICK A KING?
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>>NO. >>NO. DID
HE KNOW THAT THEY
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MIGHT DO THAT ANYWAY? >>YES.
00:15:35.30\00:15:39.26
BECAUSE HE MADE A PROVISION - IT
WAS NEVER HIS WILL - FOR SEVERAL
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THINGS - IT WAS NEVER HIS WILL
THAT A MAN HAVE MORE THAN ONE
00:15:43.60\00:15:45.83
WIFE. >>AMEN.
00:15:45.83\00:15:47.60
>>OR A WOMAN MORE THAN
ONE HUSBAND. YEAH, OR SLAVERY.
00:15:47.60\00:15:52.80
BUT DID GOD MAKE LAWS TO PROTECT
MULTIPLE WIVES AND SLAVES?
00:15:52.80\00:15:57.23
AND JESUS SAID HE ALLOWED
DIVORCE - NOT THAT DIVORCE IS
00:15:57.23\00:16:01.13
HIS WILL, BUT BECAUSE OF
THE HARDNESS OF YOUR HEARTS.
00:16:01.13\00:16:03.93
AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF TIMES
WHEN GOD MADE A PROVISION - NOT
00:16:03.93\00:16:06.50
THAT HE APPROVED - HE
MADE A PROVISION FOR A KING.
00:16:06.50\00:16:08.53
AND HE WANTED THE KINGS TO BE
ACCOUNTABLE. DEUTERONOMY 17:14,
00:16:08.53\00:16:13.40
"WHEN YOU COME TO THE
LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR
00:16:13.40\00:16:15.16
GOD IS GIVING YOU, AND POSSESS
IT AND DWELL IN IT, AND SAY, 'I
00:16:15.16\00:16:18.93
WILL SET A KING OVER ME LIKE
ALL THE NATIONS THAT ARE AROUND
00:16:18.93\00:16:21.03
ME,'" - THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY
DID THERE IN 1 SAMUEL - "YOU
00:16:21.03\00:16:23.93
SHALL SURELY SET A KING OVER YOU
WHOM THE LORD YOUR GOD CHOOSES;
00:16:23.93\00:16:27.40
ONE FROM AMONG YOUR BRETHREN YOU
SHALL SET AS KING OVER YOU; YOU
00:16:27.40\00:16:31.30
MAY NOT SET A FOREIGNER OVER
YOU," - WE HAVE A LAW LIKE THAT
00:16:31.30\00:16:34.30
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES - HAS TO BE U.S.
00:16:34.30\00:16:36.80
BORN, RIGHT? - "WHO
IS NOT YOUR BROTHER.
00:16:36.80\00:16:42.20
BUT HE SHALL NOT MULTIPLY HORSES
FOR HIMSELF, NOR CAUSE THE
00:16:42.20\00:16:45.60
PEOPLE TO RETURN TO EGYPT TO
MULTIPLY HORSES, FOR THE LORD
00:16:45.60\00:16:48.83
HAS SAID TO YOU, 'YOU SHALL NOT
RETURN THAT WAY AGAIN.' NEITHER
00:16:48.83\00:16:51.93
SHALL HE MULTIPLY WIVES FOR
HIMSELF, LEST HIS HEART TURN
00:16:51.93\00:16:54.86
AWAY; NOR SHALL HE GREATLY
MULTIPLY SILVER AND GOLD FOR
00:16:54.86\00:16:58.10
HIMSELF." YOU KNOW
WHO MOSES DESCRIBES HERE?
00:16:58.10\00:17:02.66
WHAT KING MULTIPLIED
WIVES, HORSES, AND GOLD?
00:17:02.66\00:17:08.10
>>SOLOMON. >>THE
ONE WHO WROTE PROVERBS.
00:17:08.10\00:17:11.33
AND HE SAYS, 'LEST THEY
DRAW YOUR HEART AWAY.' DID THAT
00:17:11.33\00:17:14.90
PROPHECY COME TRUE? >>YES.
00:17:14.90\00:17:16.93
>>THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
BY THE WAY, THAT'S ANOTHER GOOD
00:17:16.93\00:17:20.43
PROPHECY. WE'RE
DOING A PROPHECY DVD -
00:17:20.43\00:17:21.90
I'VE GOT TO
REMEMBER SOME OF THESE.
00:17:21.90\00:17:24.00
WE'RE DOING A DVD ABOUT THE 50
MOST COMPELLING PROPHECIES THAT
00:17:24.00\00:17:26.73
PROVE THE BIBLE. AND
THEN IT TELLS US AGAIN IN
00:17:26.73\00:17:29.70
PROVERBS 25:3, "AS THE HEAVENS
FOR HEIGHT AND THE EARTH FOR
00:17:29.70\00:17:33.46
DEPTH, SO THE HEART OF
KINGS IS UNSEARCHABLE."
00:17:33.46\00:17:36.73
1 KINGS 4:29, "AND GOD GAVE
SOLOMON WISDOM AND EXCEEDINGLY
00:17:36.73\00:17:42.73
GREAT UNDERSTANDING, AND
LARGENESS OF HEART LIKE THE SAND
00:17:42.73\00:17:47.20
ON THE SEASHORE." SO
HERE IT TALKS ABOUT AS THE
00:17:47.20\00:17:50.90
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH FOR
DEPTH, SO THE HEART OF A KING.
00:17:50.90\00:17:54.26
WHO WAS SOLOMON'S FATHER? DAVID.
SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS KING,
00:17:54.26\00:18:01.46
WHO IS THE SON OF DAVID,
WHO HAD A LARGENESS OF HEART.
00:18:01.46\00:18:05.96
AND WHAT IT SAYS HERE IN
PROVERBS 3, 'AS THE HEAVENS FOR
00:18:05.96\00:18:08.83
HEIGHT AND THE EARTH FOR DEPTH,
SO THE HEART OF THE KING IS
00:18:08.83\00:18:11.33
UNSEARCHABLE.' BY THE WAY,
THAT'S KIND OF A - SOMETHING
00:18:11.33\00:18:14.50
ISAIAH ALMOST QUOTES
- IT'S A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:18:14.50\00:18:17.80
CHRIST IS THE SON OF DAVID
WHOSE HEART IS UNSEARCHABLE.
00:18:17.80\00:18:23.33
SO IT'S, I THINK, AN
ALLUSION TO HIM HERE.
00:18:23.33\00:18:24.86
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO ON NOW TO
MONDAY. THE FOOL AS THE WISE .
00:18:24.86\00:18:30.23
AND, IN A MOMENT, WE'RE GOING TO
BE JUMPING INTO PROVERBS - SOME
00:18:30.23\00:18:33.36
OF THE PROVERBS
FROM PROVERBS 26.
00:18:33.36\00:18:35.53
NOW HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT WHEN
WE START TALKING ABOUT FOOLS?
00:18:35.53\00:18:43.06
AS A CHRISTIAN, DOES THAT MAKE
YOU CRINGE JUST A LITTLE BIT?
00:18:43.06\00:18:45.86
WOULD YOU EVER WANT TO
LABEL ANYBODY THAT WAY?
00:18:45.86\00:18:48.76
IS THERE A VERSE IN THE BIBLE
THAT TELLS US NOT TO DO THAT?
00:18:48.76\00:18:52.73
MATTHEW 5 - THAT WAS CALLED
A LEADING QUESTION - MATTHEW 5,
00:18:52.73\00:18:58.90
VERSE 22, "BUT I SAY TO YOU
THAT WHOEVER IS ANGRY WITH HIS
00:18:58.90\00:19:03.80
BROTHER WITHOUT A CAUSE SHALL
BE IN DANGER OF THE JUDGMENT.
00:19:03.80\00:19:06.86
AND WHOEVER SAYS TO
HIS BROTHER, 'RACA!'
00:19:06.86\00:19:08.80
SHALL BE IN
DANGER OF THE COUNCIL.
00:19:08.80\00:19:10.96
BUT WHOEVER SAYS, 'YOU FOOL!'
SHALL BE IN DANGER OF HELL
00:19:10.96\00:19:14.63
FIRE." WELL THAT'S
KIND OF FRIGHTENING.
00:19:14.63\00:19:16.86
THAT'S ALMOST LIKE
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.
00:19:16.86\00:19:23.73
EVER WANT TO RISK CALLINGS
ANYBODY A FOOL OR STUPID ORU
00:19:23.73\00:19:28.63
SOMETHING LIKE THAT? AND
IT SAYS 'IN DANGER OF HELL
00:19:28.63\00:19:30.43
FIRE.' DO YOU KNOW THAT WORD
IS ONLY FOUND ONCE IN THE BIBLE?
00:19:30.43\00:19:36.60
IT'S A DIFFERENT WORD. DID
JESUS EVER CALL ANYBODY A FOOL?
00:19:36.60\00:19:42.00
THINK ABOUT IT. 'O
FOOLS AND SLOW OF HEART TO
00:19:42.00\00:19:46.33
BELIEVE. ALL THE
PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN.'
00:19:46.33\00:19:48.30
'O YOU FOOLISH ONES,
HOW COULD YOU BE SO FOOLISH?
00:19:48.30\00:19:50.80
WE TOOK BREAD WITH US.' OR, YOU
KNOW, 'BECAUSE I SAID YOU FORGOT
00:19:50.80\00:19:54.06
BREAD.' SEVERAL TIMES JESUS USED
THAT TALKING TO THE APOSTLES.
00:19:54.06\00:19:58.16
SO OBVIOUSLY, AND IF
SOLOMON MAKES SO MANY DEFINING
00:19:58.16\00:20:01.66
STATEMENTS ABOUT WHAT A FOOL IS,
THEN HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD BE
00:20:01.66\00:20:06.73
BRAVE ENOUGH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO FOOLISH
00:20:06.73\00:20:08.73
THINGS? OKAY, THAT'S
WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
00:20:08.73\00:20:12.20
SO, IT'S NOT A SIN.
00:20:12.20\00:20:13.63
I USED TO REALLY WORRY ABOUT
EVER WONDERING 'HOW YOU APPLY
00:20:13.63\00:20:15.90
THESE VERSES ABOUT SOMEONE BEING
FOOLISH BECAUSE I DON'T WANT
00:20:15.90\00:20:18.30
HELL FIRE.' IT'S A
PRETTY STRONG STATEMENT.
00:20:18.30\00:20:21.30
NOW, SOLOMON GOES INTO SEVERAL
DEFINITIONS AND WE'VE JUST GOT
00:20:21.30\00:20:25.76
TO BE PLAIN ABOUT IT.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO HAVE PSALM
00:20:25.76\00:20:28.06
14:1 IN A MOMENT,
OKAY? THIS IS BEA.
00:20:28.06\00:20:31.16
PROVERBS 26:11 AND 12, "AS A DOG
RETURNS TO HIS OWN VOMIT," - NOT
00:20:31.16\00:20:36.43
A PRETTY PICTURE - "SO
A FOOL REPEATS HIS FOLLY.
00:20:36.43\00:20:39.50
DO YOU SEE A MAN
WISE IN HIS OWN EYES?
00:20:39.50\00:20:42.56
THERE IS MORE HOPE
FOR A FOOL THAN FOR HIM."
00:20:42.56\00:20:45.53
NOW, WE'VE ALL SEEN PEOPLE THAT
DO THINGS THAT THEY KNOW HURT
00:20:45.53\00:20:49.23
THEM AND THEY GO
BACK AND DO IT AGAIN.
00:20:49.23\00:20:52.26
AND THAT - THAT ADAGE ABOUT THE
DOG, IS THAT ALSO FOUND IN THE
00:20:52.26\00:20:58.36
NEW TESTAMENT? USED BY PETER?
00:20:58.36\00:21:01.06
HE NOT ONLY TALKS ABOUT THE DOG
- HE SAYS, 'AS A DOG RETURNS TO
00:21:01.06\00:21:04.66
VOMIT' - I DON'T LIKE SAYING
THAT ON TELEVISION AND VIDEO,
00:21:04.66\00:21:07.20
BUT IT'S IN THE BIBLE.
'AND AS A PIG WHO IS WASHED TO
00:21:07.20\00:21:10.83
WALLOWING IN THE MIRE, SO ARE
THESE PEOPLE WHO KNEW THE TRUTH
00:21:10.83\00:21:14.46
AND TURN AWAY FROM
IT.' SO WHAT IS THE FOOL?
00:21:14.46\00:21:20.40
THE FOOL IS SOMEBODY WHO KNEW
THE TRUTH - WHO KNEW GOD - AND
00:21:20.40\00:21:23.80
TURNS AWAY TO THE
SIN THAT MADE THEM SICK.
00:21:23.80\00:21:26.53
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD
AND READ PSALM 14:1.
00:21:26.53\00:21:31.86
>>"THE FOOL HAS SAID IN HIS
HEART, 'THERE IS NO GOD.' THEY
00:21:31.86\00:21:35.23
ARE CORRUPT, THEY
HAVE DONE ABOMINABLE WORKS,
00:21:35.23\00:21:38.66
THERE IS NONE WHO DOES
GOOD." >>SO HAS EVERYBODY DONE
00:21:38.66\00:21:44.16
SOMETHING
FOOLISH? >MMM HMM. YES.
00:21:44.16\00:21:46.66
>>NOW DON'T WE ALL HOPE
THAT WE WOULD BE USED BY GOD?
00:21:46.66\00:21:50.53
WILL WE ALL ADMIT THAT AT SOME
POINT IN OUR LIFE WE'VE PROBABLY
00:21:50.53\00:21:53.16
BEEN USED BY THE
ENEMY? >>MMM HMM.
00:21:53.16\00:21:55.56
>>TO JUST - EVEN
THE APOSTLE PETER.
00:21:55.56\00:21:58.63
I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING, THE SAME
DAY THAT JESUS SAYS, 'THOU ART
00:21:58.63\00:22:03.43
PETER AND UPON THIS ROCK I
WILL BUILD MY CHURCH.' AND SOME
00:22:03.43\00:22:07.16
PEOPLE SAY, 'VOILA, PETER MUST
HAVE BEEN THE FIRST POPE.' AND,
00:22:07.16\00:22:10.93
OF COURSE, HE WASN'T TALKING
ABOUT PETER BEING THE ROCK, HE
00:22:10.93\00:22:13.30
WAS TALKING ABOUT THE TRUTH
THAT PETER SPOKE, 'YOU ARE THE
00:22:13.30\00:22:15.00
MESSIAH.' THAT IS THE ROCK UPON
WHICH JESUS BUILDS THE CHURCH.
00:22:15.00\00:22:17.93
SAME DAY, JESUS SAID,
'I'M GOING TO JERUSALEM.
00:22:17.93\00:22:20.33
I'M GOING TO BE BETRAYED.
I'LL BE PLACED IN THE HANDS OF
00:22:20.33\00:22:23.63
GENTILES. THEY'LL CRUCIFY ME.
00:22:23.63\00:22:25.23
I'LL RISE THE THIRD DAY.'
PETER CHASTISED JESUS - SAYS,
00:22:25.23\00:22:28.23
'NOT SO LORD. DON'T
EVEN TALK LIKE THAT.' AND
00:22:28.23\00:22:30.80
JESUS SAYS TO PETER, 'GET BEHIND
ME SATAN.' AND SO - SO THE DEVIL
00:22:30.80\00:22:36.43
WILL SOMETIMES TRY TO WORK
THROUGH PEOPLE THAT ARE CLOSE TO
00:22:36.43\00:22:41.23
YOU AND SOMETIMES HE
MIGHT EVEN DO IT THROUGH US.
00:22:41.23\00:22:45.70
IF YOU ARE IN A FAMILY SITUATION
YOU'VE PROBABLY HAD MOMENTS
00:22:45.70\00:22:48.76
WHERE YOU'VE PLAYED THE
PART OF THE NOT SO WISE.
00:22:48.76\00:22:54.10
AND SO, ALL OF US, THIS IS
SPEAKING NOT JUST TO THOSE OUT
00:22:54.10\00:22:57.30
THERE - SOMETIMES THESE
STATEMENTS ABOUT BEING FOOLISH -
00:22:57.30\00:22:59.43
IT SAYS, 'A FOOL SAYS IN
HIS HEART THERE IS NO GOD.'
00:22:59.43\00:23:04.13
ARE THERE TIMES WHEN WE
SOMETIMES ACT LIKE WE DON'T
00:23:04.13\00:23:06.26
THINK THERE'S A GOD?
LIKE THERE'S NOT CONSEQUENCES
00:23:06.26\00:23:08.56
FOR OUR LIVES AND OUR
WORDS? IS ATHEISM FOOLISH?
00:23:08.56\00:23:15.13
>>YES. >>I DON'T WANT TO SOUND
00:23:15.13\00:23:17.40
JUDGMENTAL, BUT I
THINK IT IS. YOU KNOW WHY?
00:23:17.40\00:23:21.10
WHAT DOES ATHEISM SAY? 'A
FOOL SAYS 'THERE'S NO GOD.''
00:23:21.10\00:23:24.83
ATHEISM SAYS - NOT 'I
DON'T KNOW.' THAT'S AN AGNOSTIC.
00:23:24.83\00:23:28.63
AN ATHEIST SAYS, 'I DON'T
BELIEVE THERE IS A GOD.' I HEARD
00:23:28.63\00:23:32.93
IT EXPLAINED THIS WAY ONE
TIME: HOW BIG IS THE UNIVERSE?
00:23:32.93\00:23:38.63
YOU KNOW, MILKY WAY GALAXY -
JUST A LITTLE BITTY - I MEAN,
00:23:38.63\00:23:43.36
THERE ARE BILLIONS OF GALAXIES
WITH BILLIONS OF STARS AND WE
00:23:43.36\00:23:48.20
ARE LIVING IN ONE GALAXY THAT'S,
YOU KNOW, 200 MILLION STARS.
00:23:48.20\00:23:51.76
THOSE STARS ARE SUNS - OTHER
- THEY HAVE PLANETS AROUND THEM
00:23:51.76\00:23:54.63
AND IT'S 93 MILLION MILES FROM
US TO THE NEAREST STAR OR SUN.
00:23:54.63\00:23:59.23
IT IS SO BIG - I - YOU KNOW,
WE'RE JUST WONDERING IF IN OUR
00:23:59.23\00:24:02.63
LIFETIME WE CAN GET TO
MARS. THAT'S IN OUR LITTLE SOLAR
00:24:02.63\00:24:05.20
SYSTEM. AND YOU
THINK ABOUT HOW BIG -
00:24:05.20\00:24:08.16
YOU TRAVEL 186,000 MILES A
SECOND, IT TAKES YOU FOUR YEARS,
00:24:08.16\00:24:12.96
GOING THE SPEED OF LIGHT,
TO GET TO THE CLOSEST STAR.
00:24:12.96\00:24:15.83
HOW MUCH DO WE
KNOW ABOUT THE UNIVERSE?
00:24:15.83\00:24:19.20
>>NOT MUCH. >>WE
HAVEN'T EVEN LEFT THE FRONT
00:24:19.20\00:24:21.80
DOOR - BY GOING TO THE MOON AND
GOING OUT TOWARDS PLUTO WITH THE
00:24:21.80\00:24:25.33
VOYAGER EXPLORERS. SO
ISN'T IT A LITTLE ARROGANT
00:24:25.33\00:24:29.80
FOR US TO SAY WE
KNOW THAT THERE'S NO GOD?
00:24:29.80\00:24:33.36
IF WE ONLY KNOW ONE FRACTION OF
ONE-HUNDREDTH OF ONE-THOUSANDTH
00:24:33.36\00:24:38.53
OF A PERCENT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF
THE UNIVERSE, FOR US TO SAY, 'I
00:24:38.53\00:24:42.13
KNOW THERE'S NO GOD.'
ISN'T THAT REALLY RECKLESS?
00:24:42.13\00:24:46.46
WE'VE WATCHED A LOT OF NATURE
VIDEOS IN OUR HOME - PROBABLY AD
00:24:46.46\00:24:52.00
NAUSEAM. WE LIKE -
I JUST - YOU'VE GOT
00:24:52.00\00:24:55.30
AMAZING FACTS AND THERE'S
SOME OF THEM - AND WE'VE SEEN A
00:24:55.30\00:24:57.76
NUMBER OF THEM WITH DAVID
ATTENBOROUGH - YOU'VE PROBABLY
00:24:57.76\00:24:59.53
SEEN - HE'S A FAMOUS NATURALIST
AND HE'S DONE SOME - HE'S HOSTED
00:24:59.53\00:25:02.83
SOME JUST BEAUTIFUL SERIES.
I ALWAYS GET A LITTLE BIT
00:25:02.83\00:25:06.56
FRUSTRATED WHEN THEY SAY,
'MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO.' AND,
00:25:06.56\00:25:09.93
YOU KNOW, I'VE TOLD MY KIDS
THAT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST
00:25:09.93\00:25:12.83
TRANSLATE THAT INTO
THOUSANDS AND IT USUALLY WORKS.
00:25:12.83\00:25:15.23
BUT ANYWAY, SOMEONE WAS
INTERVIEWING HIM AND ASKING HIM
00:25:15.23\00:25:20.63
- THEY SAID, 'ARE YOU AN
ATHEIST?' HE SAID, 'NO, I COULD
00:25:20.63\00:25:22.33
NEVER SAY THAT.'
THEY SAID, 'WHY NOT?'
00:25:22.33\00:25:24.40
BECAUSE HE'S GOT DAWKINS
AND ALL THESE FRIENDS IN ENGLAND
00:25:24.40\00:25:26.76
THAT ARE ATHEISTS.
00:25:26.76\00:25:28.03
HE SAID, 'NO, I'M NOT GOING TO
GO ON THAT.' HE SAYS, 'I THINK
00:25:28.03\00:25:29.23
IT'S UNSCIENTIFIC.' HE SAID,
'BECAUSE IT WOULD BE LIKE A
00:25:29.23\00:25:32.83
TERMITE SAYING HE KNOWS
EVERYTHING ABOUT THE WORLD FROM
00:25:32.83\00:25:35.66
THE VANTAGE POINT OF HIS TERMITE
MOUND.' AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW,
00:25:35.66\00:25:40.10
WE'RE SO SMALL AND WE KNOW
SO LITTLE.' AND I THOUGHT, 'WELL
00:25:40.10\00:25:42.80
THAT'S - AT LEAST HE'S
ADMITTING HE DOESN'T KNOW.
00:25:42.80\00:25:45.70
SO IT'S FOOLISH FOR
A PERSON TO DENY GOD.
00:25:45.70\00:25:50.36
AND I'VE TALKED TO PEOPLE - I'VE
STUDIED WITH PEOPLE BEFORE AND
00:25:50.36\00:25:52.46
THEY SAY, 'OH
DOUG, DON'T PREACH TO ME.
00:25:52.46\00:25:53.76
I DON'T - I'M NOT SURE THERE'S
A GOD.' I SAID, 'ALRIGHT, LET'S
00:25:53.76\00:25:55.83
SUPPOSE YOU'RE NOT
SURE. SUPPOSE I'M RIGHT.
00:25:55.83\00:25:58.93
JUST SUPPOSE THERE'S A CHANCE
THAT I'M RIGHT AND THAT IF YOU
00:25:58.93\00:26:01.73
BELIEVE IN GOD YOU HAVE
EVERLASTING LIFE AND IF YOU
00:26:01.73\00:26:04.30
DON'T, YOU HAVE
EVERLASTING LOSS.
00:26:04.30\00:26:06.83
AND YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU JUST
DIE AND YOU TURN INTO NOTHING.'
00:26:06.83\00:26:12.56
I SAID, 'IF YOU LIVE LIKE ME
AND YOU, AT LEAST, EXPLORE THESE
00:26:12.56\00:26:17.23
THINGS, YOU HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITY OF EVERLASTING LIFE.
00:26:17.23\00:26:20.30
DO YOU KNOW HOW RECKLESS IT IS
TO THROW AWAY YOUR ONE CHANCE AT
00:26:20.30\00:26:22.83
LIFE, WHICH IS YOUR ONLY
OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE ETERNAL
00:26:22.83\00:26:25.53
LIFE? IF THERE
IS TRUTH IN THAT ARE
00:26:25.53\00:26:29.73
YOU SO SURE THAT THERE IS NO
GOD, NO JESUS, NO EVERLASTING
00:26:29.73\00:26:32.46
LIFE, YOU'RE GOING TO GAMBLE
ETERNITY AND THE ETERNITY OF
00:26:32.46\00:26:34.96
YOUR FRIENDS AND
YOUR FAMILY ON THAT GUESS?
00:26:34.96\00:26:39.40
REALLY, THAT'S DANGEROUS
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
00:26:39.40\00:26:41.36
THAT'S WHY I
STARTED STUDYING THE BIBLE.
00:26:41.36\00:26:42.83
I THOUGHT, 'IT'D REALLY BE
FOOLISH NOT TO EXPLORE IT IF
00:26:42.83\00:26:45.13
THESE CHRISTIANS ARE
RIGHT. I'D BETTER FIND OUT.
00:26:45.13\00:26:48.03
OF COURSE, BACK THEN I BELIEVED
IN AN EVER-BURNING HELL TOO AND
00:26:48.03\00:26:49.96
I THOUGHT, 'WELL, I DON'T WANT
TO GO THERE SO I BETTER FIND
00:26:49.96\00:26:54.40
OUT.' NOW THERE'S SEVERAL
STATEMENTS HERE ABOUT FOOLS THAT
00:26:54.40\00:26:59.83
ARE INTERESTING.
PROVERBS 26:4, "DO NOT ANSWER A
00:26:59.83\00:27:04.90
FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY,
LEST YOU ALSO BE LIKE HIM."
00:27:04.90\00:27:09.33
THAT ONE'S SAYING, 'IF A FOOL
IS TRYING TO ENGAGE YOU IN AN
00:27:09.33\00:27:13.10
ARGUMENT, DON'T ARGUE WITH HIM
BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO SOUND
00:27:13.10\00:27:15.13
LIKE A FOOL. YOU KNOW
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:27:15.13\00:27:17.76
BUT LISTEN TO THE VERY NEXT
THING THAT SOLOMON SAYS: "ANSWER
00:27:17.76\00:27:21.03
A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY,
LEST HE BE WISE IN HIS OWN
00:27:21.03\00:27:24.56
EYES." MEANING,
IF A FOOL MAKES AN
00:27:24.56\00:27:26.46
OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENT AND YOU
DON'T CORRECT HIM, HE'S GOING TO
00:27:26.46\00:27:28.66
THINK HE'S RIGHT AND HE'LL BE
SMUG ABOUT IT AND YOU'VE GOT TO,
00:27:28.66\00:27:32.46
SOMETIMES, REPROVE PEOPLE.
AND SO HERE SOLOMON'S SAYING,
00:27:32.46\00:27:37.83
'DON'T ANSWER A FOOL
OR YOU'LL BE LIKE HIM.
00:27:37.83\00:27:39.23
ANSWER A FOOL OR
HE'LL THINK HE'S RIGHT.'
00:27:39.23\00:27:41.80
YOU KNOW WHAT THE SUBTLE
EMPHASIS IS OF SOLOMON HERE?
00:27:41.80\00:27:47.76
WHEN YOU'RE ARGUING WITH A
FOOL, YOU DON'T WIN EITHER WAY.
00:27:47.76\00:27:51.30
IF YOU DO ANSWER HIM YOU SOUND
LIKE A FOOL. I REMEMBER I HAD A
00:27:51.30\00:27:54.60
TEACHER, I'D ASK A QUESTION AND
SHE'D SAY, 'A FOOLISH QUESTION
00:27:54.60\00:27:59.63
DESERVES A FOOLISH ANSWER.'
OF COURSE, OTHER TEACHERS SAY
00:27:59.63\00:28:05.10
'THERE IS NO FOOLISH QUESTION.'
BUT I HAD THE OTHER KIND OF
00:28:05.10\00:28:09.56
TEACHER FOR A WHILE. AND
- BUT YOU GET INVOLVED - YOU
00:28:09.56\00:28:13.26
EVER HEARD SOMEONE - A NEWS
REPORTER ASK SOMEONE A QUESTION
00:28:13.26\00:28:16.80
AND THEY SAID, 'THAT QUESTION
DOESN'T DESERVE AN ANSWER?'
00:28:16.80\00:28:19.76
SOMETIMES IT'S
BECAUSE THEY'RE GUILTY.
00:28:19.76\00:28:22.66
THEY SAY 'IT
DOESN'T DESERVE AN ANSWER.
00:28:22.66\00:28:25.00
BUT SOMETIMES IT'S JUST BECAUSE
YOU GIVE CREDIBILITY TO AN
00:28:25.00\00:28:30.10
OUTRAGEOUS QUESTION
BY ARGUING WITH THEM.
00:28:30.10\00:28:33.96
BUT THEN, IF YOU
DON'T, THEY'LL SAY, 'AHA!
00:28:33.96\00:28:36.53
I'M RIGHT!'
MEANING YOU JUST CAN'T WIN.
00:28:36.53\00:28:41.36
PROVERBS 26, VERSES 7 THROUGH 10
- THERE'S SEVERAL IN A ROW HERE,
00:28:41.36\00:28:46.73
IN PROVERBS 26, ON
THE FOOL AND THE WISE.
00:28:46.73\00:28:48.96
"LIKE THE LEGS OF THE LAME THAT
HANG LIMP IS A PROVERB IN THE
00:28:48.96\00:28:54.00
MOUTH OF FOOLS." IT
MEANS IT DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE.
00:28:54.00\00:28:59.50
YOU EVER HEARD - SOME PEOPLE
ARE REALLY GOOD WITH TIMING, IF
00:28:59.50\00:29:02.90
THEY'RE GOING TO TELL YOU A
FUNNY STORY, AND THEY HAVE A WAY
00:29:02.90\00:29:06.03
WITH WORDS AND THEY KNOW HOW
TO JUST PLANT IT AND THEY JUST -
00:29:06.03\00:29:08.30
THEIR TIMING IS GREAT
AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT?
00:29:08.30\00:29:10.30
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD A PERSON TRY
AND RE-TELL A JOKE THEY'VE HEARD
00:29:10.30\00:29:13.86
AND THEY DON'T KNOW IT AND
THEY MESS IT UP AND IT JUST IS
00:29:13.86\00:29:18.40
PATHETIC? WELL, I
KNOW SOLOMON'S NOT
00:29:18.40\00:29:21.13
TALKING ABOUT JOKES, HE'S
TALKING ABOUT A PROVERB, BUT A
00:29:21.13\00:29:22.90
PROVERB IS A WITTICISM THAT'S
SUPPOSED TO BE DELIVERED IN A
00:29:22.90\00:29:26.73
WISE WAY AND HE SAID, 'A PROVERB
IN THE MOUTH OF A FOOL, IT'S
00:29:26.73\00:29:30.23
LIKE LIMP - SOMEONE WHO'S LIMP
- LAME - WHOSE LIMBS ARE HANGING
00:29:30.23\00:29:36.26
LIMP AND THEN IT SAYS, "LIKE A
THORN THAT GOES INTO THE HAND OF
00:29:36.26\00:29:39.73
THE DRUNKARD IS A
PROVERB IN THE MOUTH OF FOOLS."
00:29:39.73\00:29:43.50
IT'S LIKE YOU LEAN DOWN
ON SOMETHING AND YOU FIND OUT
00:29:43.50\00:29:45.96
YOU'RE LEANING AGAINST THORNS.
YOU'RE WASTING YOUR TIME.
00:29:45.96\00:29:49.83
"THE GREAT GOD WHO FORMED
EVERYTHING GIVES THE FOOL HIS
00:29:49.83\00:29:54.13
HIRE AND THE
TRANSGRESSOR HIS WAGES."
00:29:54.13\00:29:57.46
NOW IT'S A FOOL THAT SAYS THERE
IS NO GOD AND SO EVERYBODY'S
00:29:57.46\00:30:03.30
GOING TO BE PAID SOMEDAY
AND EVEN THE FOOL WILL SOMEDAY
00:30:03.30\00:30:06.73
DISCOVER THE FOOLISHNESS OF
THEIR LIVES AND THEIR CHOICES.
00:30:06.73\00:30:10.73
JUDGES 21:25, IT DESCRIBES HERE
- AND THIS IS IN THE LESSON -
00:30:10.73\00:30:14.06
THAT THERE WAS A DAY WHEN
THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL AND
00:30:14.06\00:30:19.20
EVERYBODY DID WHAT
WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES.
00:30:19.20\00:30:21.83
WHAT DOES SOLOMON SAY IS THE END
WHEN A PERSON SAYS 'THERE'S A
00:30:21.83\00:30:25.40
WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT UNTO
A MAN BUT THE END THEREOF...'
00:30:25.40\00:30:28.96
>>IS DEATH. >>ARE
THE WAYS OF DEATH.
00:30:28.96\00:30:31.03
EVERYBODY DID WHAT
WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES.
00:30:31.03\00:30:33.43
YOU KNOW ONE
REASON WE GO TO CHURCH?
00:30:33.43\00:30:36.23
BECAUSE YOU ARE WISER WHEN YOU
ARE - A MULTITUDE OF COUNSELORS,
00:30:36.23\00:30:40.56
THERE'S WISDOM. YOU
EVER MET ANYBODY THAT LIVED
00:30:40.56\00:30:43.63
LIKE A HERMIT? I'M
NOT TALKING ABOUT ME.
00:30:43.63\00:30:47.83
BUT PEOPLE WHO
DON'T WORSHIP WITH OTHERS?
00:30:47.83\00:30:50.20
YOU BECOME ECCENTRIC. YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:30:50.20\00:30:53.66
IF YOU DON'T BOUNCE YOUR IDEAS
OFF SOMEBODY ELSE YOU CAN START
00:30:53.66\00:30:59.86
COMING UP WITH SOME
PRIVATE INTERPRETATIONS.
00:30:59.86\00:31:01.83
YOU SAY, 'WELL IT FEELS RIGHT TO
ME.' WELL, IF YOU'RE YOUR ONLY
00:31:01.83\00:31:04.93
GUIDE, YOU HAVE A GOOD
CHANCE OF MAKING A MISTAKE.
00:31:04.93\00:31:08.66
IT'S LIKE TRYING TO LIVE ON
ONE LEG - GOOD CHANCE OF FALLING
00:31:08.66\00:31:11.10
OVER. SO DON'T DO
WHAT'S RIGHT IN YOUR OWN EYES.
00:31:11.10\00:31:15.16
1 CORINTHIANS 1:20 AND 21 -
TALKING ABOUT WISDOM AGAIN - THE
00:31:15.16\00:31:19.30
SECTION'S TALKING
ABOUT THE FOOL AND THE WISE.
00:31:19.30\00:31:21.83
"WHERE IS THE WISE?
WHERE IS THE SCRIBE?
00:31:21.83\00:31:25.00
WHERE IS THE DISPUTER OF THIS
AGE? HAS NOT GOD MADE FOOLISH
00:31:25.00\00:31:29.10
THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD?
FOR SINCE THE WISDOM OF GOD, THE
00:31:29.10\00:31:32.56
WORLD, THROUGH
WISDOM, DID NOT KNOW GOD.
00:31:32.56\00:31:34.60
IT PLEASED GOD THROUGH
THE FOOLISHNESS OF THE MESSAGE
00:31:34.60\00:31:36.43
PREACHED TO SAVE
THOSE WHO BELIEVE."
00:31:36.43\00:31:40.86
DOES THE WORLD THINK THAT
CHRISTIANITY IS A WISE RELIGION?
00:31:40.86\00:31:46.13
OR DOES THE MEDIA AND
THE CULTURE TRY TO PORTRAY
00:31:46.13\00:31:49.06
CHRISTIANS AS
BIGOTED IGNORAMUSES?
00:31:49.06\00:31:53.03
BUT WHEN YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT
IT, I MEAN, SOME OF THE GREATEST
00:31:53.03\00:31:56.73
MINDS AND SCIENTISTS - EVERYONE
FROM ISAAC NEWTON TO DA VINCI TO
00:31:56.73\00:32:00.76
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND FARADAY, AND
ALL OF THESE BRILLIANT PEOPLE,
00:32:00.76\00:32:06.03
THEY WERE BELIEVERS.
THE FOUNDING FATHERS ALL
00:32:06.03\00:32:10.50
BELIEVED IN GOD. SOME
WERE DEISTS, BUT THEY ALL
00:32:10.50\00:32:12.13
BELIEVED IN GOD.
MOST WERE CHRISTIANS.
00:32:12.13\00:32:14.53
SOME WERE PASTORS THAT SIGNED
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
00:32:14.53\00:32:17.10
AND THE CONSTITUTION. SO
TO SAY THAT IT'S NOT WISE -
00:32:17.10\00:32:23.83
IT'S THE FEAR OF THE LORD
THAT'S THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.
00:32:23.83\00:32:27.10
BUT THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING
IS WHAT GOD HAS CHOSEN TO
00:32:27.10\00:32:33.26
TRANSFORM PEOPLE'S
LIVES. WHAT DID JESUS DO?
00:32:33.26\00:32:39.53
DID JESUS EVER WRITE A BOOK?
00:32:39.53\00:32:41.40
DID JESUS EVER
COMPOSE A SYMPHONY?
00:32:41.40\00:32:45.83
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THAT
STATEMENT CALLED ONE SOLITARY
00:32:45.83\00:32:47.46
LIFE - AN EXCERPT FROM A SERMON
THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, HE NEVER
00:32:47.46\00:32:50.56
WENT MORE THAN A HUNDRED MILES
FROM THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH.
00:32:50.56\00:32:52.76
HE NEVER WROTE A BOOK. HE
NEVER PAINTED A PICTURE, YET
00:32:52.76\00:32:55.40
MOST OF THE ART IN THE
WORLD IS DEDICATED TO HIM.
00:32:55.40\00:32:57.50
HE NEVER SCULPTED A SCULPTURE
YET THERE'S MORE SCULPTURES
00:32:57.50\00:33:00.20
DEDICATED TO CHRISTIANITY THAN
ANY OTHER RELIGION IN THE WORLD.
00:33:00.20\00:33:03.66
AND YOU CAN GO ON AND ON TALKING
ABOUT THE GREAT THINGS - I THINK
00:33:03.66\00:33:08.20
IT CLOSES BY SAYING, 'ALL THE
ARMIES THAT EVER MARCHED AND ALL
00:33:08.20\00:33:11.16
THE NAVIES THAT EVER SAILED AND
ALL THE PARLIAMENTS THAT HAVE
00:33:11.16\00:33:13.23
EVER SAT HAVE NOT AFFECTED LIFE
ON EARTH AS MUCH AS THIS ONE
00:33:13.23\00:33:15.60
SOLITARY LIFE.'
HOW? HE PREACHED.
00:33:15.60\00:33:20.40
IT SAYS WHEN HE WAS - DIDN'T
EVEN - WASN'T KNOWN AT ALL
00:33:20.40\00:33:23.46
PUBLICLY EXCEPT BY HIS FAMILY
AND A FEW PEOPLE IN TOWN UNTIL
00:33:23.46\00:33:26.76
HE WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD.
00:33:26.76\00:33:28.26
AND THEN IN THREE AND A HALF
YEARS IT SAYS HE BEGAN PREACHING
00:33:28.26\00:33:31.36
- SAYING - AND THEN HE TAUGHT
AND PREACHED AND THOSE WHO WENT
00:33:31.36\00:33:34.93
TO HEAR HIM SAID, 'NEVER A MAN
SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN.' WORDS -
00:33:34.93\00:33:38.76
AND THE IDEAS AND THE WORDS THAT
HE SHARED AFFECTED EVERY AREA OF
00:33:38.76\00:33:42.93
LIFE AND IT TURNED - IT
REVOLUTIONIZED THE WORLD.
00:33:42.93\00:33:45.66
HE MADE A LOT OF ENEMIES
TOO. ALRIGHT, TALK ABOUT THE
00:33:45.66\00:33:51.63
SLUGGARD. YOU
EVER HAVE THOSE LITTLE
00:33:51.63\00:33:55.26
CREATURES IN YOUR
GARDEN CALLED SLUGS?
00:33:55.26\00:33:59.63
WE'VE GOT SOME UP IN THE HILLS
BY OUR CABIN AND THEY CALL THEM
00:33:59.63\00:34:07.30
BANANA SLUGS. THEY'RE
BIG OLD HONKIN' THAT'S
00:34:07.30\00:34:12.16
HOW WIDE THEY ARE.
NO, THEY'RE PRETTY LONG.
00:34:12.16\00:34:16.00
AND YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL THEY - I
DON'T KNOW, THEY LIKE TO KIND OF
00:34:16.00\00:34:20.26
GO UP ONE SIDE OF OUR HOUSE AND
DOWN THE OTHER AND THEY LEAVE A
00:34:20.26\00:34:22.33
SLIMY TRAIL EVERYWHERE THEY GO.
BUT THEY DON'T MOVE VERY FAST,
00:34:22.33\00:34:26.93
WHICH IS WHY
THEY'RE CALLED SLUGS.
00:34:26.93\00:34:29.16
AND SO, A SLUGGARD,
WHAT IS THAT TALKING ABOUT?
00:34:29.16\00:34:33.83
>>SLOW. >>SOMEONE
WHO IS LAZY OR - WHY
00:34:33.83\00:34:37.80
IS A SLOTH CALLED A SLOTH?
YOU EVER SEEN ONE OF THESE
00:34:37.80\00:34:40.70
JUNGLE SLOTHS?
THEY'VE GOT THE THREE-TOED
00:34:40.70\00:34:42.73
SLOTHS AND THEY - AND
THAT'S WHEN THEY'RE RUNNING.
00:34:42.73\00:34:48.16
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
CLIMBING UP THE TREE AND DOWN
00:34:48.16\00:34:52.00
THE TREE - AND
THEY'RE VERY VULNERABLE.
00:34:52.00\00:34:53.76
BUT SO, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT A
SLUGGARD OR A SLOTH IN THE BIBLE
00:34:53.76\00:34:57.70
- AND THAT'S WHERE THESE
CREATURES GET THEIR NAMES - IT'S
00:34:57.70\00:34:59.50
TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO'S LAZY
AND SOLOMON HAD A LOT TO SAY
00:34:59.50\00:35:03.86
ABOUT THAT. IF YOU READ IN -
LET'S GO - PROVERBS 26, VERSE 13
00:35:03.86\00:35:10.00
- SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
PROVERBS 15:19 - YOU, CATHY?
00:35:10.00\00:35:14.03
OKAY. PROVERBS
26:13, "THE LAZY MAN
00:35:14.03\00:35:17.23
SAYS, 'THERE'S A LION IN
THE ROAD - A FIERCE LION IN THE
00:35:17.23\00:35:20.63
STREETS. AS A DOOR
TURNS ON ITS HINGES,
00:35:20.63\00:35:23.93
SO THE LAZY MAN TURNS ON HIS
BED." ALRIGHT, LET'S STOP HERE
00:35:23.93\00:35:28.20
BEFORE I START TO
EXTRAPOLATE A LITTLE BIT.
00:35:28.20\00:35:30.33
WHAT DOES IT MEAN, 'THERE'S A
LION IN THE ROAD - A FIERCE LION
00:35:30.33\00:35:32.76
IN THE STREETS?' 'I
WOULD GO OUT AND WORK BUT I
00:35:32.76\00:35:35.76
HEARD THERE'S A LION
ROAMING SO I BETTER STAY HOME.'
00:35:35.76\00:35:38.83
THEY CAN ALWAYS FIND SOME
CRAZY REASON NOT TO GO ANYWHERE.
00:35:38.83\00:35:44.10
AND, AS A PASTOR, SOMETIMES IT'S
EXASPERATING BECAUSE EVERY NOW
00:35:44.10\00:35:48.26
AND THEN YOU'LL MEET SOMEBODY
AND THEY'RE OSTENSIBLY A
00:35:48.26\00:35:50.76
CHRISTIAN AND THE MAN
HASN'T WORKED IN YEARS
00:35:50.76\00:35:55.83
AND IT'S NOT
BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY.
00:35:55.83\00:35:58.06
I'LL TALK TO THEM AND I'LL
SAY, YOU KNOW, 'HOW'S IT GOING?'
00:35:58.06\00:36:00.76
AND THEY'LL SAY, 'WELL,' - YOU
KNOW, THE WIFE'S WORKING HERSELF
00:36:00.76\00:36:02.33
TO DEATH AND SHE'S TAKING CARE
OF THE KIDS AND KEEPING A JOB
00:36:02.33\00:36:04.60
AND - HE SAYS, 'I'M PRAYING THAT
GOD WILL HELP ME FIND A JOB.' I
00:36:04.60\00:36:09.60
SAID, 'WELL, WHAT ARE YOU
DOING TO HELP GOD ANSWER YOUR
00:36:09.60\00:36:11.73
PRAYERS?' 'WELL,
I'M JUST PUTTING IT IN
00:36:11.73\00:36:13.50
GOD'S HANDS.' I SAID, 'WELL,
HAVE YOU - HOW ABOUT THAT JOB AT
00:36:13.50\00:36:17.66
TACO BELL?' 'NO, NO,
THAT'S - I DON'T THINK
00:36:17.66\00:36:20.06
THAT'S MY CALLING.' AND THEY'VE
JUST GOT A THOUSAND - YOU ALL
00:36:20.06\00:36:23.83
KNOW THAT PERSON?
THEY'VE GOT A THOUSAND EXCUSES
00:36:23.83\00:36:27.40
FOR - YOU KNOW, THEY IMAGINE
SOME BIG CALLING AND THEY'VE GOT
00:36:27.40\00:36:32.40
A THOUSAND
REASONS TO DO NOTHING.
00:36:32.40\00:36:34.50
AND SO WHILE THEY STAY HOME AND
WATCH FOOTBALL, THEY THINK THE
00:36:34.50\00:36:36.73
LORD'S GOING TO REVEAL TO THEM,
WITHOUT SEARCHING THE HIRING ADS
00:36:36.73\00:36:42.23
IN THE PAPER OR ANYTHING, THAT
SUDDENLY AN ANGEL'S GOING TO
00:36:42.23\00:36:44.53
KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND SAY,
'I'VE FOUND THE JOB FOR YOU.
00:36:44.53\00:36:46.30
THERE'S SOMETHING TO
BE SAID FOR DILIGENCE.
00:36:46.30\00:36:50.90
I KNOW THIS VERY SUCCESSFUL
SALESMAN - HE'S ACTUALLY A BIBLE
00:36:50.90\00:36:55.53
SALESMAN. HE'S GOT ALL
THESE FUNNY ONE LINERS.
00:36:55.53\00:36:58.30
AND HE SAYS, 'THE HARDER I WORK
THE LUCKIER I GET.' YOU KNOW
00:36:58.30\00:37:04.53
WHAT THAT MEANS? IT HAS
NOTHING TO DO WITH LUCK.
00:37:04.53\00:37:08.13
IT MEANS GOD BLESSES - IT'S NOT
IN THE BIBLE, BUT BEN FRANKLIN
00:37:08.13\00:37:10.86
USED TO SAY - HE WROTE A LOT
ABOUT SLOTH IN POOR RICHARD'S
00:37:10.86\00:37:14.20
ALMANAC, BUT HE USED TO
SAY, 'GOD HELPS THOSE THAT HELP
00:37:14.20\00:37:17.70
THEMSELVES.' AND GOD
HELPS THOSE THAT ARE DILIGENT.
00:37:17.70\00:37:21.46
BEN FRANKLIN HAD A PROVERB THAT
HE KEPT BEFORE HIM IN HIS LIFE.
00:37:21.46\00:37:25.30
IT SAID, 'SEE A MAN
DILIGENT IN HIS BUSINESS?
00:37:25.30\00:37:27.76
HE WILL STAND BEFORE KINGS AND
NOT MEAN PERSONS.' MEAN DOESN'T
00:37:27.76\00:37:30.93
MEAN MEAN LIKE - MEAN
MEANS PEOPLE OF NO ESTEEM.
00:37:30.93\00:37:34.76
AND FRANKLIN, WHO WAS LIKE ONE
OF, I DON'T KNOW, SIXTEEN KIDS,
00:37:34.76\00:37:39.60
HE HAD AN ENORMOUS FAMILY - VERY
POOR - LEFT HOME WITH NOTHING
00:37:39.60\00:37:42.63
BUT A SHILLING IN HIS POCKET
AND JUST HAD NOWHERE TO LIVE.
00:37:42.63\00:37:45.73
RAN AWAY FROM HOME - HE
ENDED UP STANDING BEFORE KINGS.
00:37:45.73\00:37:49.50
HE BECAME AN AMBASSADOR
FOR THE UNITED STATES.
00:37:49.50\00:37:51.20
BUT ONE THING YOU COULD NEVER
ACCUSE HIM OF IS HE WAS NOT
00:37:51.20\00:37:54.76
LAZY. YOU EVER LOOK AT ALL THE
00:37:54.76\00:37:56.16
EXPERIMENTS THAT HE DID? I
MEAN, NOT ONLY WAS IT BIFOCAL
00:37:56.16\00:37:59.36
GLASSES AND THE FRANKLIN STOVE
AND THE ELECTRIC EXPERIMENTS.
00:37:59.36\00:38:02.93
ANY OF YOU EVER SEEN THE
GLASS HARMONICA HE INVENTED?
00:38:02.93\00:38:06.60
HE HAD THIS GLASS
HARMONICA - IT WAS A WHEEL.
00:38:06.60\00:38:08.33
YOU EVER SEE SOMEBODY TAKE THEIR
FINGER AND THEY RUN IT ON A
00:38:08.33\00:38:09.93
GLASS SO IT SINGS?
00:38:09.93\00:38:11.16
HE MADE A WHOLE ROW OF THESE,
DIFFERENT SIZES, AND YOU WOULD
00:38:11.16\00:38:13.76
CRANK IT THROUGH WATER AND YOU'D
PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT AND THEY'D
00:38:13.76\00:38:15.80
- IT PLAYED THIS
ENCHANTING MUSIC.
00:38:15.80\00:38:18.43
AND, I MEAN, HE JUST - HIS MIND
WAS GOING ALL THE TIME AND HE
00:38:18.43\00:38:21.06
WAS A PRINTER AND HE WAS
A WRITER AND JUST INCREDIBLY
00:38:21.06\00:38:24.26
DILIGENT AND THE LORD
BLESSED HIS DILIGENCE.
00:38:24.26\00:38:27.63
BUT THAT WAS A
PROMISE THAT HE CLAIMED.
00:38:27.63\00:38:29.46
HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO WORK
HARD.' AND IF THAT'S TRUE, THEN
00:38:29.46\00:38:34.70
WE CAN ALSO BELIEVE THE OPPOSITE
IS ALSO STILL TRUE, THAT IF YOU
00:38:34.70\00:38:38.16
DON'T DO ANYTHING, THAT YOU WILL
NOT PROSPER. PROVERBS 19:24 -
00:38:38.16\00:38:42.93
OH WAIT, I DIDN'T EVEN
FINISH PROVERBS 13 THROUGH 16.
00:38:42.93\00:38:46.70
YEAH, IT SAYS "A LAZY MAN BURIES
HIS HAND IN THE BOWL; IT WEARIES
00:38:46.70\00:38:50.90
HIM TO BRING IT
BACK TO HIS MOUTH.
00:38:50.90\00:38:54.00
THE LAZY MAN IS WISER IN HIS
OWN EYES THAN SEVEN MEN WHO CAN
00:38:54.00\00:38:57.76
ANSWER SENSIBLY."
LAZY MAN - YOU EVER KNOWN
00:38:57.76\00:39:00.93
SOMEONE THAT'S ALL
TALK AND NO ACTION?
00:39:00.93\00:39:03.16
THEY'VE GOT LOTS OF OPINIONS AND
THEY'VE GOT LOTS OF IDEAS AND
00:39:03.16\00:39:07.56
THEY'VE GOT LOTS OF INTENTIONS
AND THEY CAN TELL EVERYBODY
00:39:07.56\00:39:10.03
EVERYTHING EVERYONE IS
DOING WRONG, BUT THEY AREN'T
00:39:10.03\00:39:12.46
REALLY DOING
ANYTHING WITH THEIR LIVES.
00:39:12.46\00:39:15.46
THEY - YEAH, THEY -
WISER IN HIS OWN EYES.
00:39:15.46\00:39:21.03
PROVERBS 19:24, "LAZY MAN BURIES
HIS HAND IN A BOWL" - SIMILAR TO
00:39:21.03\00:39:24.73
WHAT WE JUST READ
HERE IN PROVERBS 26:13 -
00:39:24.73\00:39:28.73
"A LAZY MAN BURIES HIS HAND IN
THE BOWL AND WILL NOT SO MUCH AS
00:39:28.73\00:39:31.43
BRING IT TO HIS MOUTH AGAIN."
HE'S TOO TIRED TO EVEN LIFT THE
00:39:31.43\00:39:33.53
FOOD TO HIS MOUTH. GO
AHEAD, READ FOR US, CATHY, I
00:39:33.53\00:39:36.96
THINK IT'S PROVERBS 15:19.
>>"THE WAY OF THE SLOTHFUL MAN
00:39:36.96\00:39:41.03
IS AS A HEDGE OF THORNS; BUT
THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS MADE
00:39:41.03\00:39:44.46
PLAIN." >>NOW,
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:39:44.46\00:39:48.70
THE WAY OF THE SLOTHFUL MAN - OR
THE LAZY MAN - IS AS A HEDGE OF
00:39:48.70\00:39:51.43
THORNS? JUST HE SEES OBSTACLES
00:39:51.43\00:39:55.20
EVERYWHERE AND HE WON'T
PLOW THROUGH ANYTHING DIFFICULT.
00:39:55.20\00:39:59.73
AND SO, YOU KNOW, HE
JUST CAN'T SEE THE WAY.
00:39:59.73\00:40:04.03
BUT A PLAIN MAN, HE SAYS,
'THAT'S WHERE I NEED TO GO' AND
00:40:04.03\00:40:06.23
IF THERE'S THORNS IN THE WAY, HE
JUST GOES AROUND THEM OR THROUGH
00:40:06.23\00:40:08.56
THEM OR OVER THEM
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
00:40:08.56\00:40:10.40
BUT A LAZY MAN HAS A LOT
OF WAYS OF SEEING OBSTACLES.
00:40:10.40\00:40:14.83
NOW, BIBLE'S CLEAR ENOUGH THAT
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO REST EVERY
00:40:14.83\00:40:21.30
SEVENTH DAY, RIGHT?
WHAT ELSE IS COMMANDED IN THE
00:40:21.30\00:40:25.00
TEN COMMANDMENTS?
>>WORK - SIX DAYS.
00:40:25.00\00:40:28.66
>>PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY, 'THOU SHALT
NOT WORK ON THE SABBATH.' BUT,
00:40:28.66\00:40:32.43
YOU KNOW, IT SAYS
'SIX DAYS THOU SHALT WORK.'
00:40:32.43\00:40:35.66
BY THE WAY, THAT'S THREE
TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT:
00:40:35.66\00:40:37.96
SIX DAYS THOU SHALT WORK.
00:40:37.96\00:40:40.30
NOW, I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE
THAT BECAUSE OF AGE - YOU SLOW
00:40:40.30\00:40:43.56
DOWN - THEY'RE MAYBE HANDICAPPED
- I'M NOT TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE
00:40:43.56\00:40:46.06
OUT THERE THAT FOR SOME REASON
THEY CAN'T WORK FEEL BAD, WE'RE
00:40:46.06\00:40:50.03
TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO
CAN WORK THAT DON'T DO ANYTHING.
00:40:50.03\00:40:53.23
AND SO, WE'RE COMMANDED TO BE
BUSY - TO BE DILIGENT AND TO -
00:40:53.23\00:40:57.60
GOD - WHAT DID - EVEN BEFORE
SIN, WHY DID GOD MAKE MAN?
00:40:57.60\00:41:02.50
BUILD HAMMOCKS AND SWING BACK
AND FORTH ON SANDY BEACHES AND?
00:41:02.50\00:41:07.60
OR DID HE PUT THEM IN THE GARDEN
TO WORK, DRESS AND KEEP IT?
00:41:07.60\00:41:11.53
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S REALLY
GREAT SATISFACTION HAVING -
00:41:11.53\00:41:15.36
DON'T YOU FEEL GOOD
WHEN YOU GET SOMETHING DONE?
00:41:15.36\00:41:17.70
WHEN YOU CREATE SOMETHING, YOU
STAND BACK AND YOU LOOK AT IT -
00:41:17.70\00:41:20.10
WHETHER IT'S A QUILT OR A HOUSE
THAT YOU BUILD OR WHATEVER IT
00:41:20.10\00:41:23.53
IS? GOD CREATED
US TO BE CREATORS,
00:41:23.53\00:41:28.83
TO BE PRODUCTIVE, TO DO THINGS,
TO MAKE THINGS, TO PRODUCE, AND
00:41:28.83\00:41:33.06
HE WANTS US TO HAVE LIVES LIKE
THAT, WHERE WE MAKE THE WORLD
00:41:33.06\00:41:36.36
BETTER THROUGH CREATIVITY.
"SIX DAYS YOU SHALL LABOR AND DO
00:41:36.36\00:41:39.53
ALL YOUR WORK."
ROMANS 12, VERSE 11, "NOT
00:41:39.53\00:41:43.03
LAGGING IN DILIGENCE, FERVENT
IN SPIRIT, SERVING THE LORD."
00:41:43.03\00:41:48.36
SO CHRISTIANS, WE'RE TO DO
ALL THINGS AS UNTO THE LORD.
00:41:48.36\00:41:51.43
DO THINGS DILIGENTLY.
DO THINGS WITH FERVENCY.
00:41:51.43\00:41:53.76
CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO BE - THE
PASTOR WHO BAPTIZED ME, AND I'VE
00:41:53.76\00:41:56.83
QUOTED IT MANY TIMES
BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS CUTE.
00:41:56.83\00:41:58.76
HE SAID, 'WE OUGHT TO HAVE ZIP
IN OUR HIP AND PEP IN OUR STEP
00:41:58.76\00:42:02.96
AND SPUNK IN OUR TRUNK.' AND HE
DID - UP - YOU KNOW, THIS PASTOR
00:42:02.96\00:42:08.80
WHO BAPTIZED ME, HE
WAS JUST SO PHENOMENAL.
00:42:08.80\00:42:10.43
KAREN AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT
HIM THE OTHER NIGHT BECAUSE WE
00:42:10.43\00:42:12.63
WERE READING THESE OLD -
ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE OLD
00:42:12.63\00:42:14.00
ERIC B. HARE STORIES FROM BURMA?
00:42:14.00\00:42:17.03
WELL, PASTOR PHILLIPS AND HIS
WIFE, THEY WERE MISSIONARIES IN
00:42:17.03\00:42:19.13
BURMA, NOW MYANMAR, AND HE
RETIRED AND BUILT THE CHURCH IN
00:42:19.13\00:42:27.26
COVELO BEFORE I WAS BORN.
HE BAPTIZED ME WHEN HE WAS 87.
00:42:27.26\00:42:32.20
HE WAS STILL GIVING BIBLE
STUDIES AND DOING EVANGELISTIC
00:42:32.20\00:42:34.76
WORK AND HE LIVED INTO
HIS NINETIES, AS DID HIS WIFE.
00:42:34.76\00:42:38.60
JUST BUSY RIGHT UP TO THE
END. AND THAT JUST HAS ALWAYS
00:42:38.60\00:42:43.23
INSPIRED ME TO HAVE A
FULL AND A PRODUCTIVE LIFE.
00:42:43.23\00:42:45.93
ALRIGHT, ENOUGH ABOUT
THAT, I HOPE I'VE MADE EVERYONE
00:42:45.93\00:42:49.73
ADEQUATELY GUILTY ABOUT
NOT BEING MORE DILIGENT.
00:42:49.73\00:42:53.60
THE FRIEND AS AN
ENEMY - PROVERBS 25:5
00:42:53.60\00:42:59.00
"TAKE AWAY THE WICKED FROM
BEFORE THE KING AND HIS THRONE
00:42:59.00\00:43:03.13
WILL BE
ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:43:03.13\00:43:06.60
YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
FOR A GOVERNMENT - AND SOMETIMES
00:43:06.60\00:43:09.66
IT MAY EVEN SEEM A LITTLE HARSH,
BUT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR A
00:43:09.66\00:43:13.50
GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH
RIGHTEOUSNESS - THAT THE LAWS
00:43:13.50\00:43:17.06
WILL BE KEPT. NOW,
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THAT
00:43:17.06\00:43:23.73
SINGAPORE HAS
SOME VERY STRICT LAWS.
00:43:23.73\00:43:26.53
AND SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER
WHEN A YOUNG MAN NAMED MICHAEL -
00:43:26.53\00:43:31.16
A FEW YEARS AGO HE WAS CAUGHT
PAINTING GRAFFITI OR SOMETHING
00:43:31.16\00:43:34.63
ON SOME VEHICLES IN SINGAPORE
AND HE WAS ARRESTED AND THE
00:43:34.63\00:43:38.80
PENALTY WAS THAT HE WAS
GOING TO BE WHACKED WITH A ROD.
00:43:38.80\00:43:43.33
THAT'S WHAT THEIR PENALTY WAS.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IN AMERICA
00:43:43.33\00:43:45.50
CAME UNGLUED AND THEY SAID,
'THAT'S BARBARIC.' AND THEY
00:43:45.50\00:43:47.90
TRIED EVERYTHING THEY COULD
TO INTERVENE AND TO STOP IT AND
00:43:47.90\00:43:50.46
SOME INTERESTING
THINGS CAME OUT AT THAT TIME.
00:43:50.46\00:43:53.50
FIRST OF ALL, VERY FEW PEOPLE
ARE ARRESTED FOR SUCH THINGS AND
00:43:53.50\00:43:56.83
VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE PUNISHED
THAT WAY - YEAH, THEY WERE GOING
00:43:56.83\00:43:59.13
TO CANE HIM. AND IT
WASN'T A CANDY CANE -
00:43:59.13\00:44:03.86
IT'S A BAMBOO ROD AND IT
LEAVES A WELT AND IT HURTS.
00:44:03.86\00:44:07.13
BUT THE CRIME RATE AND
THE VANDALISM RATE AND THE
00:44:07.13\00:44:12.16
CLEANLINESS OF SINGAPORE ARE
LEGENDARY AND THEY HAVE STRICT
00:44:12.16\00:44:17.86
LAWS THAT THEY ENFORCE AND
THEIR STREETS ARE VERY SAFE.
00:44:17.86\00:44:22.73
BUT YOU GO TO COUNTRIES WHERE
THEY'RE ALWAYS SO CONCERNED
00:44:22.73\00:44:25.93
ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF THE CRIMINAL
AND WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENS TO
00:44:25.93\00:44:29.43
THE CRIME RATES
THERE? >>IT SOARS.
00:44:29.43\00:44:32.26
>>NOW WHEN SOLOMON BECAME KING,
HE DID SOME THINGS THAT PROBABLY
00:44:32.26\00:44:36.80
WOULD BE VIEWED,
IN OUR DAY, AS BRUTAL.
00:44:36.80\00:44:40.16
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS SOLOMON
DID WHEN HE BECAME KING IS HE
00:44:40.16\00:44:43.76
FOLLOWED THROUGH ON SOME THINGS
HIS FATHER ADVISED HIM ON.
00:44:43.76\00:44:46.53
HE SAID, 'THERE'S SOME PEOPLE
THAT MAY NOT BE LOYAL AND YOU
00:44:46.53\00:44:49.40
NEED TO DEAL WITH IT.
DAVID SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING TO
00:44:49.40\00:44:52.43
TELL YOU. YOU'RE A
WISE MAN AND YOU'LL
00:44:52.43\00:44:54.30
KNOW WHAT TO DO.' WELL, ONE MAN,
WHO HAD CURSED DAVID, SOLOMON
00:44:54.30\00:44:59.10
SAID, 'YOU'RE NOT
SUPPOSED TO LEAVE TOWN.
00:44:59.10\00:45:00.70
YOU ARE TO BE
RESTRICTED TO JERUSALEM.
00:45:00.70\00:45:03.03
HIS NAME WAS SHIMEI AND HE SAID,
'IF YOU LEAVE JERUSALEM, ON THE
00:45:03.03\00:45:08.10
DAY YOU LEAVE, YOU'LL DIE.' HE
SAID, 'FAIR ENOUGH.' HE COULDN'T
00:45:08.10\00:45:11.56
CONTROL HIMSELF AND HE CHASED
AFTER SOME RUNAWAY SLAVES AND
00:45:11.56\00:45:14.10
THE KING FOUND OUT AND HE DIED.
00:45:14.10\00:45:16.20
JOAB, WHO HAD BEEN DAVID'S
GENERAL, BUT HAD ALSO KILLED TWO
00:45:16.20\00:45:20.00
OTHER COMPETITIVE GENERALS THAT
WERE INNOCENT MEN, HE TRIED TO
00:45:20.00\00:45:25.33
MAKE SOLOMON'S
BROTHER ADONIJAH KING.
00:45:25.33\00:45:28.63
JOAB WAS SLAIN. ABIATHAR
THE PRIEST, WHO HAD ALSO
00:45:28.63\00:45:34.16
CONSPIRED, HE WAS
TAKEN OUT OF THE PRIESTHOOD.
00:45:34.16\00:45:37.13
SOLOMON DID SEVERAL THINGS RIGHT
AT THE BEGINNING, TO ESTABLISH
00:45:37.13\00:45:40.30
RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE KINGDOM,
AND THEN YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS?
00:45:40.30\00:45:43.60
THERE WERE FORTY YEARS OF PEACE.
BUT RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING HE
00:45:43.60\00:45:47.50
SAID, 'THIS IS THE LAW AND
THE LAW IS GOING TO BE OBEYED.
00:45:47.50\00:45:52.56
AND IN CASE YOU THINK THAT I'M
GOING TO BE WISHY-WASHY, I'LL
00:45:52.56\00:45:56.13
LET YOU KNOW RIGHT NOW THAT I
MEAN BUSINESS.' AND ONCE HE DID
00:45:56.13\00:45:59.10
THAT - THAT'S, I THINK,
KIND OF WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.
00:45:59.10\00:46:02.66
IT SAYS, "TAKE AWAY THE WICKED
FROM BEFORE THE KING; HIS THRONE
00:46:02.66\00:46:05.26
WILL BE
ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:46:05.26\00:46:07.30
THERE WAS KIND OF A PURGING THAT
HAPPENED AT THE VERY BEGINNING.
00:46:07.30\00:46:09.33
PROVERBS 25, VERSES 6 AND 7,
"DO NOT EXALT YOURSELF IN THE
00:46:09.33\00:46:14.83
PRESENCE OF THE KING AND DO NOT
STAND IN THE PLACE OF THE GREAT"
00:46:14.83\00:46:18.66
- WE READ THIS - "FOR IT IS
BETTER THAT HE SAY TO YOU, 'COME
00:46:18.66\00:46:20.83
UP HERE' THAN YOU SHOULD BE
PUT LOWER IN THE PRESENCE OF THE
00:46:20.83\00:46:24.80
PRINCE WHOM
YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN."
00:46:24.80\00:46:27.56
NOW SOMEBODY'S GOING TO READ THE
NEXT VERSE, WHICH IS MATTHEW 23,
00:46:27.56\00:46:31.83
VERSES 5 AND 6.
IS THAT YOU KATRINA?
00:46:31.83\00:46:33.93
HOPEFULLY THEY'RE READY
FOR THAT. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD.
00:46:33.93\00:46:37.20
>>"BUT ALL THEIR WORKS
THEY DO TO BE SEEN BY MEN.
00:46:37.20\00:46:40.10
THEY MAKE THEIR PHYLACTERIES
BROAD AND ENLARGE THE BORDERS OF
00:46:40.10\00:46:44.03
THEIR GARMENTS. THEY
LOVE THE BEST PLACES AT
00:46:44.03\00:46:46.36
FEASTS, THE BEST
SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES."
00:46:46.36\00:46:49.46
>>YOU KNOW, IN SYNAGOGUES
THEY WOULD HAVE SEATS BASED ON
00:46:49.46\00:46:54.20
AUTHORITY AND DIFFERENT PEOPLE
GOT TO SIT IN DIFFERENT PLACES
00:46:54.20\00:46:57.10
BASED ON THEIR ESTEEM AND THEIR
PRESTIGE AND THEIR DEGREES AND
00:46:57.10\00:47:00.96
WHATEVER IT HAPPENED TO BE, AND
THEY ALL KIND OF CLAMORED FOR
00:47:00.96\00:47:03.46
THE HIGHEST SEATS.
I'VE SEEN IT AT DINNERS, AT
00:47:03.46\00:47:09.60
WEDDINGS - THERE ARE PLACES
WHERE THE FAMILY AND CERTAIN
00:47:09.60\00:47:14.26
GUESTS SIT AND FOLKS WANT TO BE
CLOSEST TO THE BRIDE AND GROOM.
00:47:14.26\00:47:17.70
JESUS SAID - LUKE 14:8 -
HE'S TALKING ABOUT THIS VERY
00:47:17.70\00:47:20.86
PRINCIPLE - "WHEN YOU ARE
INVITED BY ANYBODY TO A WEDDING
00:47:20.86\00:47:24.20
FEAST, DO NOT SIT DOWN IN
THE BEST PLACE LEST ONE MORE
00:47:24.20\00:47:28.66
HONORABLE THAN YOU BE INVITED BY
HIM AND HE WHO INVITED YOU AND
00:47:28.66\00:47:32.83
HIM COME AND SAY TO YOU, 'CAN
YOU PLEASE GIVE UP YOUR SEAT FOR
00:47:32.83\00:47:35.53
THIS MAN?' AND THEN
YOU BEGIN, WITH SHAME,
00:47:35.53\00:47:38.43
TO TAKE THE LOWEST PLACE.
00:47:38.43\00:47:40.23
BUT WHEN YOU'RE INVITED, GO AND
SIT DOWN IN THE LOWEST PLACE SO
00:47:40.23\00:47:44.50
THAT WHEN HE WHO INVITED YOU
COMES, HE MAY SAY, 'FRIEND, GO
00:47:44.50\00:47:48.40
UP HIGHER.' THEN YOU'LL HAVE
GLORY IN THE PRESENCE OF THOSE
00:47:48.40\00:47:51.53
WHO SIT AT THE TABLE WITH YOU.
FOR WHOEVER EXALTS HIMSELF WILL
00:47:51.53\00:47:55.30
BE HUMBLED AND HE WHO HUMBLES
HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED."
00:47:55.30\00:47:59.10
AND SO THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON IS
SAYING: DO NOT EXALT YOURSELF IN
00:47:59.10\00:48:03.13
THE PRESENCE OF THE KING.
MUCH BETTER THAT THE KING SAY,
00:48:03.13\00:48:06.70
'OH YOU, COME SIT BY ME.' OR
'COME AND SIT IN THIS PLACE OF
00:48:06.70\00:48:10.40
HONOR' THAN FOR THE KING TO
SAY, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
00:48:10.40\00:48:12.76
GET BACK IN - GO BACK TO THE
PRESS BOX.' THIS IS - THAT GOES
00:48:12.76\00:48:20.33
BACK TO THAT VERY SIMPLE
PRINCIPLE, 'WHOEVER EXALTS
00:48:20.33\00:48:24.00
HIMSELF WILL BE HUMBLED AND
HE THAT HUMBLES HIMSELF WILL BE
00:48:24.00\00:48:26.80
EXALTED.' WHO IS IT IN THE
UNIVERSE WHO EXALTED HIMSELF
00:48:26.80\00:48:30.70
MORE THAN ANYBODY? >>SATAN.
00:48:30.70\00:48:33.06
>>THE DEVIL. WHO IS GOING TO
BE HUMBLED THE MOST? THE DEVIL.
00:48:33.06\00:48:36.76
WHO HUMBLED HIMSELF
THE MOST OF ANYBODY?
00:48:36.76\00:48:39.23
>>JESUS. >>JESUS.
AND HE WHO HUMBLED
00:48:39.23\00:48:42.20
HIMSELF IS GOING TO BE EXALTED
HIGHER THAN ANYBODY. RIGHT?
00:48:42.20\00:48:46.43
SO THAT EVERY KNEE WILL
BOW AT THE NAME OF CHRIST.
00:48:46.43\00:48:48.93
ALRIGHT, OUR LAST SECTION IS THE
FRIEND - THE ENEMY AS A FRIEND .
00:48:48.93\00:48:53.36
AND IF WE LOOK HERE IN
- SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ,
00:48:53.36\00:48:57.00
IN JUST A MOMENT, PROVERBS 5:17.
00:48:57.00\00:48:59.53
I'M GOING TO READ - I'M SORRY,
YOU'LL BE READING JOB 5:17.
00:48:59.53\00:49:03.10
PROVERBS 26:17, "HE WHO PASSES
BY AND MEDDLES IN A QUARREL THAT
00:49:03.10\00:49:08.36
IS NOT HIS OWN, IS LIKE ONE
WHO TAKES A DOG BY THE EARS."
00:49:08.36\00:49:12.63
NOW, IS THERE EVER A TIME TO
MEDDLE IN A QUARREL THAT ISN'T
00:49:12.63\00:49:16.33
YOURS? >>YES.
00:49:16.33\00:49:19.26
>>YEAH, I CAME UPON A MAN THAT
WAS BEATING HIS WIFE AND, YOU
00:49:19.26\00:49:25.33
KNOW, ONE SIDE OF YOU IS SAYING,
'THIS IS A FAMILY PROBLEM.' THE
00:49:25.33\00:49:28.20
OTHER SIDE OF YOU - YOU KNOW, AT
LEAST THE WAY MY FATHER RAISED
00:49:28.20\00:49:30.90
ME, IS YOU NEVER HIT A GIRL AND
THAT YOU'RE - MEN ARE SUPPOSED
00:49:30.90\00:49:38.06
TO DEFEND. IT MAKES IT KIND
OF AWKWARD WHEN IT'S A MARRIED
00:49:38.06\00:49:40.96
THING, BUT THERE ARE TIMES
WHEN SOMEBODY'S BEING HARMED.
00:49:40.96\00:49:44.73
YOU JUST - YOU
NEED TO GET INVOLVED.
00:49:44.73\00:49:46.33
BUT YOU GET INVOLVED IN,
YOU KNOW, JUST A TYPICAL STREET
00:49:46.33\00:49:49.46
ARGUMENT, YOU KNOW, VENDORS AND
PEOPLE FIGHTING OVER STUFF THAT
00:49:49.46\00:49:52.06
- YOU JUST SOMETIMES - YOU JUST
SAY YOU'RE GOING TO LET THEM
00:49:52.06\00:49:55.46
WORK IT OUT.
HOPEFULLY NO ONE'S ARMED.
00:49:55.46\00:49:56.93
AND, YOU KNOW, LET THEM DEAL
WITH IT BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT'S
00:49:56.93\00:50:00.56
LIKE TAKING A DOG BY THE EARS.
YOUR KIDS EVER DO THAT WITH A
00:50:00.56\00:50:04.50
DOG? OUR SON DANIEL'S GOT A SCAR
ON HIS FACE FROM GRABBING A DOG
00:50:04.50\00:50:09.33
BY THE EARS. THE DOG
WAS NORMALLY NICE, BUT
00:50:09.33\00:50:12.50
HE DIDN'T LIKE A LITTLE
KID GRABBING HIM BY THE EARS.
00:50:12.50\00:50:15.53
"OR LIKE A MADMAN WHO THROWS
FIREBRANDS, ARROWS, AND DEATH IS
00:50:15.53\00:50:21.43
THE MAN WHO DECEIVES HIS
NEIGHBOR AND SAYS, 'I WAS ONLY
00:50:21.43\00:50:24.53
JOKING.'" HOW MANY TIMES
HAS SOMEONE SAID, 'OH, JUST
00:50:24.53\00:50:29.53
KIDDING.' RIGHT AFTER
THEY UTTERED SORT OF A SCATHING
00:50:29.53\00:50:32.30
LITTLE SARCASM - A
LITTLE CUT - AND THEY SAY,
00:50:32.30\00:50:36.93
'OH, I'M JUST
KIDDING.' NO YOU'RE NOT.
00:50:36.93\00:50:39.50
USUALLY, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, 'I'M
JUST KIDDING' THEY'VE AT LEAST
00:50:39.50\00:50:43.53
VEILED AN ELEMENT OF TRUTH
IN WHAT THEY SAID AND - BUT THEN
00:50:43.53\00:50:49.00
THEY SAY, 'OH, I'M JUST
KIDDING.' AND THAT'S WHY HE
00:50:49.00\00:50:51.63
SAID, 'SO IS HE WHO SAID, 'I WAS
ONLY JOKING.'' HE GOES ON AND
00:50:51.63\00:50:56.96
SAYS - SAME PASSAGE - PROVERBS
26, VERSE - OH, I GUESS I'M IN
00:50:56.96\00:51:01.16
VERSE 20 NOW, "WHERE THERE IS NO
WOOD THE FIRE GOES OUT AND WHERE
00:51:01.16\00:51:05.10
THERE IS NO TALE-BEARER" - AND
THAT WORD THERE IS 'GOSSIP' OR
00:51:05.10\00:51:09.86
'SLANDER,' 'WHISPER'
- "STRIFE WILL CEASE."
00:51:09.86\00:51:14.03
JUST ABOUT EVERY CHURCH HAS A
MEMBER NAMED GABRIELLA GOSSIP.
00:51:14.03\00:51:19.23
OF COURSE THEY COULD BE A
MAN. HIS NAME IS GARTH GOSSIP.
00:51:19.23\00:51:22.43
BUT YOU CAN SOMETIMES SEE THAT
WHEN THOSE PEOPLE TRANSFER THEIR
00:51:22.43\00:51:28.20
MEMBERSHIP, ALL OF A
SUDDEN THINGS CALM WAY DOWN.
00:51:28.20\00:51:32.36
IF SOMEONE IS NOT - YOU KNOW
ONE OF THE SINS THAT GOD HATES?
00:51:32.36\00:51:35.06
HE TALKS ABOUT
LYING. HE TALKS ABOUT PRIDE.
00:51:35.06\00:51:38.00
HE TALKS ABOUT ALL KINDS OF
THINGS AND THEN HE SAYS, 'HE
00:51:38.00\00:51:40.66
THAT SOWS DISCORD AMONG
BRETHREN.' AND SO, GOD WANTS US
00:51:40.66\00:51:45.33
TO BE CAREFUL WITH OUR WORDS
TO BRING UNITY AND NOT TO BRING
00:51:45.33\00:51:47.80
DIVISION OR STRIFE.
"SO IS A CONTENTIOUS MAN TO
00:51:47.80\00:51:52.20
KINDLE STRIFE. THE
WORDS OF A TALE-BEARER ARE
00:51:52.20\00:51:55.30
LIKE TASTY TRIFLES AND THEY
GO DOWN TO THE INMOST BODY."
00:51:55.30\00:51:58.46
SOMETHING WHERE SOMEONE SAYS,
'OH MAN, YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST
00:51:58.46\00:52:01.33
HEARD?' TASTY TRIFLE - LET ME
GET - 'I'VE GOT THE HOT GOSSIP.
00:52:01.33\00:52:07.50
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE
THIS.' AND PEOPLE ALWAYS LIKE TO
00:52:07.50\00:52:10.50
HAVE THAT INSIDE INFORMATION
AND THEY GO DOWN INTO THE INMOST
00:52:10.50\00:52:15.86
BODY. "FERVENT
LIPS WITH A WICKED
00:52:15.86\00:52:18.33
HEART ARE LIKE AN EARTHENWARE
COVERED WITH SILVER DROSS."
00:52:18.33\00:52:23.16
PEOPLE THAT SPEAK WITH PASSION
WITH EVIL INTENT - IT'S LIKE
00:52:23.16\00:52:26.66
TAKING SOMETHING THAT'S NOTHING
MORE THAN CLAY AND SILVER
00:52:26.66\00:52:30.30
COATING IT. IT'S JUST MISPLACED.
00:52:30.30\00:52:33.20
IT'S JUST STILL
GOING TO BE CLAY.
00:52:33.20\00:52:35.93
I THINK SOLOMON ALSO SAID, 'LIKE
APPLES OF GOLD IN SETTINGS OF
00:52:35.93\00:52:43.16
SILVER, SO IS A WORD IN DUE
SEASON.' PROVERBS 27, VERSE 5,
00:52:43.16\00:52:50.13
"OPEN REBUKE IS BETTER
THAN LOVE CAREFULLY CONCEALED.
00:52:50.13\00:52:54.70
FAITHFUL ARE THE
WOUNDS OF A FRIEND,
00:52:54.70\00:52:57.06
BUT THE KISSES OF
AN ENEMY ARE DECEITFUL.
00:52:57.06\00:52:59.80
DON'T YOU APPRECIATE PEOPLE THAT
REALLY JUST ARE HONEST, I MEAN,
00:52:59.80\00:53:02.93
IN A NICE WAY, BUT THEY'LL
TELL YOU REALLY HOW THEY FEEL.
00:53:02.93\00:53:05.56
I'VE GOT A NUMBER OF AUSTRALIAN
FRIENDS AND THEY'RE LEGENDARY
00:53:05.56\00:53:08.03
FOR BEING VERY ABRUPT SOMETIMES
- AND I HOPE I'M NOT SAYING
00:53:08.03\00:53:13.10
ANYTHING THAT'S NOT ALLOWED
BUT I THINK THEY'LL ADMIT IT.
00:53:13.10\00:53:16.06
I'VE GOT AUSTRALIAN FRIENDS,
THEY'LL SAY, 'AH, AN AMERICAN.
00:53:16.06\00:53:18.23
YOU'LL STAB EACH
OTHER IN THE BACK.
00:53:18.23\00:53:19.43
AUSTRALIAN, WE'LL STAB YOU
IN THE FRONT.' AND THEY SAID,
00:53:19.43\00:53:22.33
'WE'LL TELL YOU RIGHT WHAT WE
THINK RIGHT UP FRONT.' AND THEY
00:53:22.33\00:53:25.46
HAVE SOME VERY HEALTHY ARGUMENTS
BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO GUESS.
00:53:25.46\00:53:27.90
MY GRANDMOTHER WAS THAT WAY.
SHE WOULD JUST SAY - YOU NEVER
00:53:27.90\00:53:31.43
HAD TO WONDER
WHAT SHE WAS THINKING.
00:53:31.43\00:53:32.66
I THINK SOME OF
IT RUBBED OFF ON ME.
00:53:32.66\00:53:34.46
HOPEFULLY GOD'S
USED IT FOR GOOD.
00:53:34.46\00:53:36.00
BUT IT HELPS, SOMETIMES, TO JUST
BE HONEST WITH PEOPLE - IN A
00:53:36.00\00:53:40.46
NICE WAY. YOU
WANT TO BE DIPLOMATIC.
00:53:40.46\00:53:42.26
ALRIGHT, READ FOR US JOB 5:17.
00:53:42.26\00:53:44.56
>>JOB 5:17, "BEHOLD, HAPPY
IS THE MAN WHOM GOD CORRECTS.
00:53:44.56\00:53:50.00
THEREFORE, DO NOT DESPISE
THE CHASTENING OF THE ALMIGHTY."
00:53:50.00\00:53:53.73
>> THERE'S A LOT OF POSITIVE
THINGS IN THE BIBLE ABOUT
00:53:53.73\00:53:55.76
REBUKE. YOU KNOW,
EVEN IN THE CHRISTIAN
00:53:55.76\00:53:58.73
CHURCH IT TALKS
ABOUT JESUS REBUKED.
00:53:58.73\00:54:01.70
PAUL SAYS, 'REBUKE THOSE' - TO
TIMOTHY - 'THAT NEED IT.' MATTER
00:54:01.70\00:54:04.60
OF FACT, IN 2 TIMOTHY
4:2, "PREACH THE WORD.
00:54:04.60\00:54:07.60
BE READY IN
SEASON, OUT OF SEASON.
00:54:07.60\00:54:09.40
CONVINCE, REBUKE, EXHORT WITH
LONG-SUFFERING AND TEACHING.
00:54:09.40\00:54:12.90
SOMETIMES REBUKE IS JUST A KIND
WAY OF TELLING A PERSON 'THIS
00:54:12.90\00:54:18.00
BEHAVIOR IS UNACCEPTABLE.' OR
'WHAT YOU SAID IS PATENTLY WRONG
00:54:18.00\00:54:22.83
AND YOU NEED TO APOLOGIZE.' OR
WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE, BUT SOME
00:54:22.83\00:54:25.73
PEOPLE ACTUALLY - IF YOU LOVE
THEM, YOU NEED TO CONFRONT THEM.
00:54:25.73\00:54:30.00
AND YOU NEED TO HAVE THOSE
HEALTHY CONVERSATIONS EVEN IN A
00:54:30.00\00:54:33.00
CHURCH. IT'S A GOOD
IDEA TO HAVE THEM ALONE.
00:54:33.00\00:54:35.93
YOU DON'T WANT TO OPENLY REBUKE
A PERSON FOR SOMETHING THAT MAY
00:54:35.93\00:54:37.83
BE A PRIVATE ISSUE AND - BUT
THERE'S - DOES GOD - HAPPY IS
00:54:37.83\00:54:42.80
THE MAN WHOM
GOD CORRECTS, RIGHT?
00:54:42.80\00:54:46.10
AND SO IT'S GOOD THAT A LOVING
FATHER CHASTENS HIS CHILDREN AND
00:54:46.10\00:54:49.06
SO THERE NEEDS TO BE THIS KIND
OF LOVING ACCOUNTABILITY, EVEN
00:54:49.06\00:54:51.96
IN A CHURCH. WE HAVE
RUN OUT OF TIME BUT I
00:54:51.96\00:54:54.80
WANT TO REMIND YOU, BEFORE WE
SIGN OFF WE HAVE A FREE OFFER -
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AT THE OPENING OF THE PROGRAM.
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IT'S CALLED SATAN'S CONFUSING
COUNTERFEITS - OFFER #191 - AND
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YOU CAN JUST EITHER READ IT
ONLINE AT THE AMAZINGFACTS.ORG
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WEBSITE OR TYPE IN - OR
CALL, RATHER, 866-788-3966 -
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THAT'S 866-STUDY MORE.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AGAIN
00:55:13.20\00:55:16.46
FOR THIS WEEK OF OUR
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
00:55:16.46\00:55:19.10
GOD BLESS.
00:55:19.10\00:55:25.16
>>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
>>YOU KNOW, I WASN'T RAISED TO
00:55:25.16\00:55:36.20
BE A
METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURER.
00:55:36.20\00:55:39.00
I WASN'T RAISED
TO BE A DRUG DEALER.
00:55:39.00\00:55:40.86
I WAS RAISED IN THE
CHURCH. I WANTED TO FIT IN.
00:55:40.86\00:55:44.66
I WANTED TO BE IN THE IN-CROWD.
I WANTED TO FEEL ACCEPTED SO I
00:55:44.66\00:55:48.60
GOT INTO ALL THE THINGS THAT MY
FRIEND WAS INTO. SHE WAS AN AVID
00:55:48.60\00:55:53.33
DRINKER AND BY THE TIME I WAS
16 I WAS DRINKING QUITE A BIT.
00:55:53.33\00:56:00.13
AND PRETTY SOON SOMEONE ASKED ME
IF I WANTED TO HAVE SOME COCAINE
00:56:00.13\00:56:05.00
AND ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER AND
PRETTY SOON I STARTED TO SELL
00:56:05.00\00:56:08.96
COCAINE AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW,
I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT - THAT
00:56:08.96\00:56:13.86
THIS REALLY
DOESN'T HAVE A HOLD ON ME.
00:56:13.86\00:56:16.43
AND ONE DAY, MY FRIEND, SHE WAS
DRIVING - A TRAIN HAD WENT BY
00:56:16.43\00:56:21.80
AND SOMEHOW SHE DIDN'T SEE
THE OTHER TRAIN COMING AND SHE
00:56:21.80\00:56:27.20
DIDN'T MAKE IT AND THAT
RIGHT THERE JUST DEVASTATED ME.
00:56:27.20\00:56:34.23
IT WAS AT THAT POINT THAT I JUST
CRIED OUT TO GOD AND I SAID,
00:56:34.23\00:56:39.36
'GOD, YOU KNOW, DO
WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO.
00:56:39.36\00:56:42.36
I DON'T CARE WHAT IT IS.
00:56:42.36\00:56:43.96
INTERVENE IN MY LIFE.' MY
PARENTS, IN THE MEANTIME, HAD
00:56:43.96\00:56:50.00
BEEN PRAYING FOR ME - THAT
I WOULD COME BACK TO THE LORD.
00:56:50.00\00:56:54.40
THEY ACTUALLY HAD INVITED
ME TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR.
00:56:54.40\00:56:58.30
I DECIDED TO COME,
BUT I WENT THERE HIGH.
00:56:58.30\00:57:01.66
AND I'M NOT PROUD OF IT - WHY I
EVEN MENTION IT TODAY IS BECAUSE
00:57:01.66\00:57:06.20
I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS MUCH MORE POWERFUL AND
00:57:06.20\00:57:12.16
HE STARTED WORKING ON MY HEART.
IT'S LIKE I KNEW THAT THE HOLY
00:57:12.16\00:57:19.06
SPIRIT WAS CONVICTING ME BUT YET
IT WASN'T EVEN LIKE IT WAS ME.
00:57:19.06\00:57:22.16
I LITERALLY, I WAS PICKED
UP AND TAKEN DOWN TO THE FRONT.
00:57:22.16\00:57:25.96
YOU CAN BE RAISED IN THE CHURCH
AND DO ALL KINDS OF THINGS AND
00:57:25.96\00:57:30.83
THE DEVIL WILL MAKE YOU THINK
THAT GOD WON'T ACCEPT YOU BACK.
00:57:30.83\00:57:36.73
BUT GOD IS MERCIFUL. HE
IS LOVING AND HE - IT DOESN'T
00:57:36.73\00:57:41.13
MATTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE. HE JUST
WANTS YOU TO COME BACK HOME.
00:57:41.13\00:57:53.46
>>TOGETHER, WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
00:57:53.46\00:57:56.70
BEFORE. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
00:57:56.70\00:58:05.60
(MUSIC)
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