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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK
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YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO
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STUDY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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>>AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY, LESSON #12, IS
ENTITLED HUMILITY OF THE WISE .
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WE DO HAVE A SCRIPTURE READING
WHICH IS MATTHEW CHAPTER 5,
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VERSE 3. I THINK IT'S ONE
THAT'S FAIRLY WELL KNOWN TO US.
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IT'S THE WORDS OF JESUS SPOKEN
THERE ON THE MOUNT: "BLESSED ARE
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THE POOR IN SPIRIT, FOR THEIRS
IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
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NOW A PRINCIPLE PASSAGE OF STUDY
THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT IS
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 30. SO
WE HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT ARE
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GOING TO HELP US READ AND WE'RE
GOING TO WORK OUR WAY THROUGH
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PROVERBS 30. SO OUR FIRST READER
CAN GET READY, LET ME JUST
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BEGIN BY READING THE
OPENING STATEMENT ON THE LESSON.
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IT SAYS HERE IN THE BIBLE
HUMILITY IS CONSIDERED A VERY
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IMPORTANT VIRTUE. THE
GREATEST OF THE PROPHETS,
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MOSES, IS SINGLED OUT AS BEING
THE MOST HUMBLE PERSON WHO EVER
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LIVED. YOU READ
ABOUT THAT IN NUMBERS
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CHAPTER 12, VERSE 3.
ACCORDING TO MICAH CHAPTER 6,
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VERSE 8, THE MAIN DUTY THAT GOD
EXPECTS FROM PEOPLE IS TO WALK
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HUMBLY WITH THEIR GOD.
JESUS, TOO, INSISTED THAT
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HUMILITY IS AN IDEAL THAT
THE CHRISTIAN SHOULD ADOPT.
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IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 18, VERSE
4 JESUS SAID WHOEVER HUMBLES
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HIMSELF AS A LITTLE CHILD IS
THE GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM OF
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HEAVEN. SO LET'S
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW
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PROVERBS DESCRIBES THE
IMPORTANCE OF HUMILITY.
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A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT
THEMES ARE ADDRESSED HERE.
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IT BEGINS IN VERSE 1 BY TALKING
ABOUT A GENTLEMEN BY THE NAME OF
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AGUR AND SAYS THAT
HE'S THE SON OF JAKEH.
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NOW, WHO IS AGUR? THIS
IS THE ONLY TIME THAT THIS
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PERSON IS REFERENCED IN THE
ENTIRE SCRIPTURES, SO WE'RE NOT
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QUITE SURE. ALSO,
HIS FATHER JAKEH IS ALSO
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MENTIONED JUST ONE
TIME AND IT'S HERE.
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THERE ARE TWO OTHER NAMES,
ITHIEL AND UCAL - UCAL IS ONLY
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MENTIONED HERE IN PROVERBS 30.
THERE IS SOMEBODY REFERRED TO AS
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'ITHIEL' OVER IN
NUMBERS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 7.
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NOW WE DON'T KNOW, OF COURSE, IF
THIS IS THE SAME ITHIEL - THERE
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MIGHT HAVE BEEN
SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS, BUT HE IS
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SAID TO BE A
DESCENDANT OF BENJAMIN.
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ALSO, WHAT WE DON'T KNOW FROM
THIS PASSAGE IS WHETHER AGUR WAS
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THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY WROTE
IT, OR IF HE JUST SPOKE IT AND
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ITHIEL WROTE IT
DOWN - IT'S UNCLEAR.
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BUT EITHER WAY, WHAT WE KNOW IS
THAT THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE,
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BEING PART OF SCRIPTURE, IS
GIVEN BY THE INSPIRATION OF GOD,
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BECAUSE WE READ IN 2 TIMOTHY
CHAPTER 3, VERSE 16 AND 17, "ALL
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SCRIPTURE" - THE BIBLE SAYS -
"IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD,
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AND IS PROFITABLE FOR
DOCTRINE," - WHAT IS DOCTRINE?
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THAT IS TEACHING - "FOR
REPROOF," - THAT IS TELLING US
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WHAT WE'RE DOING WRONG - "FOR
CORRECTION," - TELLING US HOW WE
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CAN DO THE RIGHT THING -
AS WELL AS "FOR INSTRUCTION IN
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RIGHTEOUSNESS," - THE WORD
'RIGHTEOUSNESS' MEANS 'RIGHT
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DOING' - "THAT THE MAN OF GOD
MAY BE (PERFECT OR) COMPLETE,
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THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED
FOR EVERY GOOD WORK."
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SO HERE WE HAVE SOME INSPIRED
COUNSEL, GIVEN THROUGH THIS
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INDIVIDUAL, THAT HAS BEEN PASSED
ON FROM TIME TO TIME, FROM GROUP
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OF PEOPLE IN THE SCRIPTURES,
WITH WISE, INSPIRED COUNSEL FOR
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OUR TIME. VERSE 2 HE SAYS,
"SURELY I AM MORE STUPID THAN
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ANY MAN, AND DO NOT HAVE
THE UNDERSTANDING OF A MAN."
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HERE HE USES ONE OF THE
STRONGEST WORDS TO DESCRIBE
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HIMSELF AS BEING, WELL, I JUST -
I JUST DON'T KNOW - HE USED THE
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WORD 'STUPID' - 'I'M A
STUPID MAN. I DON'T HAVE
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UNDERSTANDING.' IN OTHER WORDS,
IN COMPARISON TO WHAT GOD KNOWS,
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WE APPEAR VERY STUPID.
AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO
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CONSIDER THEMSELVES
WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES.
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FROM HEAVEN'S PERSPECTIVE
THEY'RE EVEN MORE STUPID.
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BUT HERE HE RECOGNIZES
HIS NEED FOR GOD'S WISDOM.
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SO HERE WE HAVE A
RECOGNITION FOR INSTRUCTION.
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JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
18, VERSE 4, "THEREFORE WHOEVER
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HUMBLES HIMSELF AS THIS LITTLE
CHILD IS THE GREATEST IN THE
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KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
HUMILITY IS A VERY IMPORTANT
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CHARACTERISTIC THAT WE SEE
REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN
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THE BIBLE. YOU KNOW,
THAT REMINDS ME OF A STORY.
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I THINK PASTOR DOUG
MENTIONED IT A FEW WEEKS AGO.
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I WANT TO MENTION IT AGAIN -
THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO WAS SO
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HUMBLE THAT THE TOWN
DECIDED TO GIVE HIM A MEDAL.
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DO YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY?
AND HE WORE HIS MEDAL ALL AROUND
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TOWN SO EVENTUALLY THEY HAD TO
TAKE IT AWAY FROM HIM BECAUSE HE
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WASN'T HUMBLE ANYMORE. HE
WAS BRAGGING ABOUT THE FACT
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THAT HE WAS THE
HUMBLEST MAN IN TOWN.
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HUMILITY IS ONE OF THOSE
CHARACTERISTICS OR CHARACTER
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TRAITS THAT YOU DON'T EVER
REALLY RECOGNIZE IN YOURSELF.
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THE MOMENT YOU START THINKING
OF YOURSELF AS HUMBLE, IT'S
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PROBABLY EVIDENCE THAT YOU'RE
NOT HUMBLE, BUT IT IS SOMETHING
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THAT HEAVEN RECOGNIZES.
IT'S ALSO SOMETHING THAT CAN BE
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RECOGNIZED BY OTHERS.
AND SO HE DOES TALK ABOUT
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NEEDING WISDOM.
VERSE 3 HE SAYS, "I NEITHER
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LEARNED WISDOM, NOR HAVE
KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY ONE."
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HE RECOGNIZES GOD'S
WISDOM AS BEING SUPREME.
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ISAIAH CHAPTER 55, VERSE 9 -
IT SAYS, "FOR AS THE HEAVENS ARE
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HIGHER THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE
MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS,
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AND MY THOUGHTS
THAN YOUR THOUGHTS."
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SO GOD'S WISDOM IS GREATER - FAR
GREATER THAN OUR WISDOM - AND,
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YET, GOD IS WILLING TO
SHARE WITH US HIS WISDOM.
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TO KNOW GOD IS TO KNOW
WISDOM - TO KNOW TRUTH - TO HAVE
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EVERLASTING LIFE. I'M REMINDED
OF THE EXPERIENCE OF JOB.
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WE READ ABOUT ALL THESE TERRIBLE
THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO HIM AND
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THEN HIS THREE FRIENDS CAME AND
THEY BEGAN TO SAY TO HIM, 'YOU
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KNOW, JOB, YOU MUST HAVE
COMMITTED SOME GREAT SIN AND
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THAT'S WHY ALL THESE BAD THINGS
ARE HAPPENING TO YOU.' 'GOD IS
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JUDGING YOU - OR PUNISHING YOU
FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE DONE.'
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'COME ON, JOB, JUST CONFESS.
WHAT IS IT THAT YOU'VE DONE?'
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AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN, JOB
SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW.
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I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING.'
WELL, AS TIME GOES ON, JOB
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BEGINS TO REALLY FEEL THE BURDEN
OF WHAT HIS FRIENDS ARE SAYING
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TO HIM AND JUST THE TERRIBLE
ORDEAL THAT HE'S GOING THROUGH.
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AND FINALLY JOB SAYS, 'OH THAT I
COULD APPEAR BEFORE GOD - THAT I
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COULD, AT LEAST, DEFEND MYSELF
- THAT I COULD PRESENT MY CASE
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BEFORE GOD.' WELL, AFTER JOB
SPEAKS FOR A WHILE, FINALLY GOD
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RESPONDS TO JOB. AND I
ALWAYS FIND THE RESPONSE
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GOD GIVES TO JOB
VERY INTERESTING.
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GOD DOES NOT EXPLAIN TO JOB THE
SITUATION AND SAY, 'WELL, JOB,
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THERE WAS THIS MEETING IN HEAVEN
AND LUCIFER SHOWED UP - AND
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SATAN WAS THERE AND HE SAID
- GOD SAID, 'WHERE DID YOU COME
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FROM?' 'FROM WALKING BACK AND
FORTH ON THE EARTH' AND SO ON.
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GOD DOESN'T GET INTO THE GREAT
CONTROVERSY THEME WITH JOB.
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INSTEAD, GOD RESPONDS TO JOB
WITH THESE WORDS - HE SAYS, "WHO
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IS IT THAT DARKENS COUNSEL,
SPEAKING WORDS WITHOUT WISDOM?
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GIRD YOURSELF UP LIKE A MAN.
I WILL DEMAND OF YOU AND YOU
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ANSWER ME IF YOU CAN."
- GOD'S SPEAKING TO JOB.
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HE SAYS, "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN
I LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE
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EARTH? TELL ME NOW IF YOU CAN.
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WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE
SONS OF GOD SANG FOR JOY?"
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AND THEN GOD GOES ON TO TALK
ABOUT HIS POWER AND HIS GLORY
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AND HIS CREATIVE ABILITY AND HE
GOES THROUGH THIS WHOLE LIST OF
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DESCRIBING
DIFFERENT THINGS IN NATURE.
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FINALLY, BY THE TIME GOD GETS
THROUGH, JOB RESPONDS AND THIS
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IS WHAT HE HAS TO SAY,
HE SAYS, SPEAKING TO GOD, "I
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KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING
AND THAT THERE IS NO PURPOSE OF
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YOURS THAT CAN BE
WITHHELD FROM YOU."
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AND THEN JOB GOES ON TO SAY,
"I'VE HEARD ABOUT WITH YOU WITH
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MY HEARING, BUT NOW
MY EYES HAVE SEEN YOU.
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THEREFORE I REPENT
IN DUST AND ASHES."
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WHEN JOB UNDERSTOOD GOD'S POWER
AND HIS CREATIVE ABILITY, HE
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BEGAN TO PUT HIS
TROUBLES IN PERSPECTIVE.
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WHEN WE UNDERSTAND HOW BIG
GOD REALLY IS, OUR BIG PROBLEMS
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DON'T SEEM THAT BIG ANYMORE.
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WHEN WE UNDERSTAND GOD HAS ALL
POWER - HE CAN DO ALL THINGS -
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THERE IS NOTHING
IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD.
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WE CAN PUT OUR CONFIDENCE
IN HIM EVEN THOUGH WE MIGHT NOT
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UNDERSTAND THE CIRCUMSTANCES
THAT WE FIND OURSELVES IN.
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WE CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT GOD
IS ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF US AND
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SEE US THROUGH. NOW
LOOKING AT VERSE 4 -
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 30 AND VERSE 4.
THE QUESTION IS ASKED, "WHO HAS
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ASCENDED INTO
HEAVEN, OR DESCENDED?
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WHO HAS GATHERED
THE WIND IN HIS FISTS?
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WHO HAS BOUND THE
WATERS IN A GARMENT?"
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- IT SAYS, "WHO HAS ESTABLISHED
ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH?
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WHAT IS HIS NAME, AND WHAT
IS HIS SON'S NAME, IF YOU KNOW?"
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OF COURSE, A
BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE HERE.
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NOTICE THE
THEMES THAT I INTRODUCE.
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FIRST OF ALL, THE QUESTION
IS ASKED, 'WHO HAS ASCENDED INTO
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HEAVEN AND COME
DOWN FROM HEAVEN?'
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NOW, IT'S NOT SAYING THAT
NOBODY HAS EVER ASCENDED UP INTO
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HEAVEN. WE KNOW
THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS
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THAT HAVE GONE UP TO HEAVEN, BUT
THEY HAVEN'T GONE UP TO HEAVEN
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AND COME BACK
DOWN TO REVEAL TRUTH.
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MATTER OF FACT, JESUS SAID,
IN JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSE 13, IN
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SPEAKING TO NICODEMUS JESUS
SAID, 'NO ONE HAS ASCENDED UP
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INTO HEAVEN BUT HE THAT
HAS COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN,
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THAT IS THE SON OF
MAN WHO IS IN HEAVEN.
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SO THERE WERE
INDIVIDUALS THAT WENT TO HEAVEN.
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CAN YOU THINK OF
SOME IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
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WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON THAT
WAS TRANSLATED WITHOUT SEEING
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DEATH? >>ENOCH.
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>>YOU HAVE ENOCH. AND
THEN THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE -
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A GREAT PROPHET
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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>>ELIJAH. >>IT WAS ELIJAH.
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AND THEN WE KNOW OF SOMEBODY,
ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF JUDE,
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WHO DIED AND WAS BURIED, BUT
HE WAS RESURRECTED AND TAKEN TO
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HEAVEN. WHO'S THAT? >>MOSES.
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>>THAT'S MOSES. AND,
OF COURSE, MOSES APPEARS
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WITH JESUS ON THE MOUNT OF
TRANSFIGURATION WITH ELIJAH.
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THERE IS ALSO A GROUP OF PEOPLE
THAT YOU READ ABOUT IN MATTHEW
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THAT WERE RESURRECTED AT THE
TIME OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION -
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MATTHEW CHAPTER 27. IT
SAYS THAT THEY APPEARED TO
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MANY IN THE CITY AND THEN
WE HAVE NO FURTHER REFERENCE TO
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THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE. SO
YOU WOULD THINK IF THEY WERE
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AROUND DURING THE TIME OF
THE BOOK OF ACTS, THE EARLY
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH, YOU WOULD
HAVE HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT THEM.
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I ALWAYS WONDER WHO WAS IN
THAT GROUP THAT WAS RESURRECTED.
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SOME OF THE GREAT, YOU KNOW,
PEOPLE THAT WE READ ABOUT IN THE
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OLD TESTAMENT - MAYBE
DANIEL WAS PART OF THAT GROUP.
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WE DON'T KNOW, BUT IT APPEARS
THAT AT THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST,
00:11:59.76\00:12:03.10
THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE WENT WITH
JESUS TO HEAVEN AS FIRSTFRUITS.
00:12:03.10\00:12:07.13
SO THE POINT BEING MADE HERE
IS NO ONE HAS ASCENDED UP INTO
00:12:07.13\00:12:09.80
HEAVEN TO RECEIVE TRUTH FROM GOD
AND THEN HAS COME BACK IN PERSON
00:12:09.80\00:12:13.86
TO DELIVER THAT TRUTH.
00:12:13.86\00:12:15.76
EVEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TMES,
WHO WAS THE ONE THAT REVEALED
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HIMSELF IN THE CLOUD AND
THE PILLAR OF FIRE? WAS THAT THE
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FATHER OR WAS THAT
THE SON? >>THE SON.
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ACCORDING TO THE APOSTLE PAUL,
IT WAS CHRIST WHO LED ISRAEL
00:12:27.16\00:12:30.26
DURING THEIR
WILDERNESS WANDERINGS.
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SO EVEN BEFORE THE INCARNATION,
JESUS IS COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN
00:12:31.90\00:12:36.06
TO GUIDE HIS PEOPLE - TO REVEAL
TRUTH TO HIS PEOPLE HERE ON THE
00:12:36.06\00:12:39.73
EARTH. NOW
THERE'S A FEW OTHER THINGS
00:12:39.73\00:12:41.56
MENTIONED THERE IN VERSE 4 THAT
WE NEED TO MENTION. IT SAYS,
00:12:41.56\00:12:45.23
'WHO IS THE ONE THAT GATHERS THE
WIND IN HIS FISTS?' WHEN I READ
00:12:45.23\00:12:49.20
THAT, I COULDN'T HELP
THINK OF REVELATION CHAPTER 7.
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IN REVELATION 7 THERE IS
THE DESCRIPTION OF FOUR ANGELS
00:12:52.30\00:12:54.83
HOLDING BACK THE
FOUR WINDS OF STRIFE.
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IN BIBLE PROPHECY, WINDS OFTEN
REPRESENT TURMOIL AND COMMOTION
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AND CALAMITY. SO GOD
IS THE ONE THAT HOLDS
00:13:01.83\00:13:04.33
TURMOIL, OR CALAMITY, AT
BAY. HE HOLDS IT IN HIS FISTS.
00:13:04.33\00:13:08.53
THE NEXT PART IS WHO HAS
BOWED THE WATERS IN A GARMENT?
00:13:08.53\00:13:12.46
AGAIN, IN BIBLE PROPHECY,
WHAT DOES WATER REPRESENT?
00:13:12.46\00:13:15.30
REVELATION CHAPTER 17.
IT REPRESENTS MULTITUDES AND
00:13:15.30\00:13:18.06
NATIONS AND
KINDREDS AND TONGUES.
00:13:18.06\00:13:20.23
GOD IS THE ONE WHO
HAS CREATED ALL THINGS.
00:13:20.23\00:13:23.06
IT SAYS, 'WHO HAS ESTABLISHED
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH?'
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THAT, OF COURSE, IS THE
CREATOR. 'WHAT IS HIS NAME?
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WHAT IS HIS SON'S
NAME?' ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:13:29.26\00:13:33.40
HERE WE HAVE A REFERENCE TO
JESUS AND JESUS IS ASSOCIATED
00:13:33.40\00:13:36.96
WITH THE CREATOR. NOW,
OF COURSE, YOU SEE THAT
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SAME THEME IF YOU GO OVER TO
JOHN CHAPTER ONE AND WE'LL TAKE
00:13:40.60\00:13:43.46
A LOOK AT THAT HERE
IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS.
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ALRIGHT, LOOKING AT VERSE 5
- ONE OF MY FAVORITE VERSES.
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IT SAYS, "EVERY WORD OF GOD IS
PURE;" - AND - "HE IS A SHIELD
00:13:49.93\00:13:53.93
TO THOSE WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN
HIM." NOW THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE
00:13:53.93\00:13:58.20
THAT YOU FIND, IN THE BOOK OF
PROVERBS, THE WORD HERE IN THE
00:13:58.20\00:14:01.60
HEBREW -
TRANSLATED WORD IN ENGLISH.
00:14:01.60\00:14:04.63
YOU'LL ONLY FIND THIS PARTICULAR
WORD HERE IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 30
00:14:04.63\00:14:08.60
AND IT IS CLOSELY LINKED WITH
PSALM 119, VERSE 140, WHERE IT
00:14:08.60\00:14:15.20
SAYS, "YOUR WORD IS VERY PURE;
THEREFORE YOUR SERVANT LOVES
00:14:15.20\00:14:18.80
IT." SO TRUSTING IN GOD'S WORD
PROVIDES SPIRITUAL STRENGTH.
00:14:18.80\00:14:24.23
THERE IS POWER
IN THE WORD OF GOD.
00:14:24.23\00:14:27.20
NOW, TO ILLUSTRATE THE POWER OF
THE WORD OF GOD, I'D LIKE TO GO
00:14:27.20\00:14:30.80
TO ONE OF MY FAVORITE
STORIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:14:30.80\00:14:33.20
YOU'LL FIND IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
8, IT'S THE STORY OF A CENTURION
00:14:33.20\00:14:38.16
WHO HAD A SERVANT THAT WAS VERY
SICK. DO YOU REMEMBER THE STORY?
00:14:38.16\00:14:41.90
SO HE CAME TO JESUS AND HERE WAS
THIS MAN COMING TO JESUS AND HE
00:14:41.90\00:14:46.26
SAYS, 'MY SERVANT IS VERY SICK.'
AND JESUS SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I'LL
00:14:46.26\00:14:49.30
COME AND HEAL HIM.' BUT THE
CENTURION RESPONDED TO CHRIST
00:14:49.30\00:14:52.40
AND SAID, 'LORD, I AM NOT WORTHY
THAT YOU SHOULD COME TO MY
00:14:52.40\00:14:56.40
HOUSE. BUT ONLY
SPEAK THE WORD AND MY
00:14:56.40\00:15:00.63
SERVANT WILL BE HEALED.' NOW,
WHEN JESUS HEARD THAT, THE BIBLE
00:15:00.63\00:15:03.86
SAYS HE MARVELED AND HE SAID
TO THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM, THE
00:15:03.86\00:15:07.86
JEWS, 'I HAVE NOT SEEN SO GREAT
A FAITH; NO, NOT IN ISRAEL.' NOW
00:15:07.86\00:15:13.23
WHAT'S INTERESTING
ABOUT WHAT THE CENTURION SAID?
00:15:13.23\00:15:15.60
'LORD, I'M NOT WORTHY TO COME TO
MY HOUSE BUT, PLEASE, JUST SPEAK
00:15:15.60\00:15:18.30
THE WORD. THE
CENTURION PLACED HIS
00:15:18.30\00:15:21.33
CONFIDENCE IN THE
POWER OF THE WORD OF CHRIST.
00:15:21.33\00:15:27.43
SO THE WORD OF GOD HAS POWER.
THE QUESTION IS ASKED, 'WELL,
00:15:27.43\00:15:31.86
HOW IS IT THAT THE
WORD OF GOD HAS POWER?
00:15:31.86\00:15:34.06
I THINK WE FIND AN ANSWER TO
THAT IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1, IN
00:15:34.06\00:15:38.20
THE CREATION STORY, WHERE GOD
CREATED THE EARTH AND THE EARTH
00:15:38.20\00:15:42.10
WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID;
DARKNESS UPON THE FACE OF THE
00:15:42.10\00:15:44.13
DEEP. IT SAYS THE SPIRIT OF
GOD HOVERED OVER THE FACE OF THE
00:15:44.13\00:15:47.56
WATERS AND THEN GOD SAID, 'LET
THERE BE LIGHT.' SO WHEN GOD
00:15:47.56\00:15:51.06
SAID, 'LET THERE BE LIGHT,' THE
SPIRIT OF GOD MADE THE LIGHT.
00:15:51.06\00:15:55.96
IN OTHER WORDS, THE POWER OF
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE SPIRIT OF
00:15:55.96\00:16:01.16
GOD. SO WHATEVER
JESUS SAYS, WHATEVER
00:16:01.16\00:16:03.93
GOD SAYS, THE
SPIRIT ALWAYS DOES.
00:16:03.93\00:16:08.60
THAT'S WHY, OVER HERE IN
PROVERBS CHAPTER 30, IT SAYS,
00:16:08.60\00:16:11.10
"HE IS A SHIELD TO THOSE
WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM."
00:16:11.10\00:16:14.93
- IN HIS WORD. IN HIS PROMISES.
00:16:14.93\00:16:17.10
AND THEN VERSE 6 - IT SAYS, "DO
NOT ADD TO HIS WORDS, LEST HE
00:16:17.10\00:16:22.40
REBUKE YOU, AND
YOU BE FOUND A LIAR."
00:16:22.40\00:16:25.50
IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING TO NOTE
THAT MOSES SAID A SIMILAR THING
00:16:25.50\00:16:29.10
IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4, VERSE
2, THAT WE ARE NOT TO ADD TO THE
00:16:29.10\00:16:32.33
WORD OF GOD, NEITHER ARE WE TO
TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORD OF GOD.
00:16:32.33\00:16:36.16
SO MOSES, WHO WROTE THE
FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE,
00:16:36.16\00:16:39.40
GAVE THIS WARNING.
00:16:39.40\00:16:41.20
YOU ALSO FIND THIS WARNING
IN THE LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE.
00:16:41.20\00:16:44.96
MATTER OF FACT, THE VERY
LAST CHAPTER OF THE LAST BOOK,
00:16:44.96\00:16:47.76
REVELATION CHAPTER 22, WHERE
JOHN, WHO WROTE REVELATION, SAID
00:16:47.76\00:16:51.36
IF YOU ADD ANYTHING TO HIS WORD,
GOD WILL ADD THE PLAGUES WRITTEN
00:16:51.36\00:16:56.60
IN THE BOOK. IF YOU
TAKE ANYTHING AWAY, GOD
00:16:56.60\00:16:59.10
WILL REMOVE YOUR NAME
OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE.
00:16:59.10\00:17:01.66
SO HERE WE HAVE THIS WARNING AT
THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE
00:17:01.66\00:17:04.36
- DON'T ADD TO GOD'S WORD.
DON'T TAKE AWAY FROM IT - WE
00:17:04.36\00:17:07.26
HAVE IT AT THE VERY END OF THE
BIBLE AND NOW WE HAVE IT HERE IN
00:17:07.26\00:17:10.40
THE MIDDLE OF THE
BIBLE IN PROVERBS.
00:17:10.40\00:17:12.40
DON'T ADD TO HIS WORDS.
DON'T TAKE AWAY FROM HIS WORDS.
00:17:12.40\00:17:16.63
SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING ABOUT
THAT IS THE BIBLE TELLS US 'IN
00:17:16.63\00:17:20.10
THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE
WITNESSES EVERYTHING IS TO BE
00:17:20.10\00:17:22.96
ESTABLISHED. THERE
IS ALSO A PRINCIPLE THAT
00:17:22.96\00:17:25.50
WE SEE IN SCRIPTURE:
THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY -
00:17:25.50\00:17:29.10
OR THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
TO THE JEW, THE OLD TESTAMENT,
00:17:29.10\00:17:33.33
WHICH WAS THE SCRIPTURES THAT
THEY HAD, WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO
00:17:33.33\00:17:36.26
PARTS. THE FIRST
FIVE BOOKS, WRITTEN BY
00:17:36.26\00:17:39.56
MOSES, WAS CONSIDERED THE
LAW, AND EVERYTHING ELSE WAS
00:17:39.56\00:17:42.70
CONSIDERED THE
PROPHETS OR THE TESTIMONY.
00:17:42.70\00:17:45.80
AND IN ORDER TO HAVE SOMETHING
ESTABLISHED, YOU HAD TO HAVE A
00:17:45.80\00:17:49.33
WITNESS IN THE LAW AND THE
PROPHETS, OR THE LAW AND THE
00:17:49.33\00:17:53.40
TESTIMONY. SO HERE
WE HAVE A WITNESS IN THE
00:17:53.40\00:17:56.36
LAW, WRITTEN BY MOSES IN
DEUTERONOMY, AND WE HAVE A
00:17:56.36\00:17:59.56
WITNESS IN THE PROPHETS, BOTH
HERE IN PROVERBS AND THEN ALSO
00:17:59.56\00:18:03.36
BY THE PROPHET JOHN, TO REAFFIRM
AND ESTABLISH THE FACT THAT
00:18:03.36\00:18:07.43
GOD'S WORD IS
PURE. IT IS POWERFUL.
00:18:07.43\00:18:10.90
WE ARE NOT TO TRY AND ADD TO HIS
WORD, NOR ARE WE TO TRY AND TAKE
00:18:10.90\00:18:14.20
AWAY FROM HIS WORD. WE
WANT TO ACCEPT GOD'S WORD
00:18:14.20\00:18:17.20
JUST THE WAY IT IS GIVEN.
WELL, I THINK WE'RE ABOUT READY
00:18:17.20\00:18:20.46
NOW TO GO TO OUR NEXT SECTION,
SO IF YOU WANT TO GET SET UP FOR
00:18:20.46\00:18:24.20
THAT, IT'S GOING TO BE PROVERBS
CHAPTER 30 AND WE'LL BE READING
00:18:24.20\00:18:27.50
HERE VERSE 7 THROUGH TO VERSE
9 AND IN THIS PASSAGE YOU'LL
00:18:27.50\00:18:31.73
NOTICE TWO REQUESTS THAT AGUR
HAS IN HIS PRAYER - TWO PRAYER
00:18:31.73\00:18:37.13
REQUESTS OF THE
AUTHOR OF THIS PASSAGE.
00:18:37.13\00:18:39.33
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK NOW AT
VERSE 7 - PROVERBS 30, VERSE 7.
00:18:39.33\00:18:44.60
>>"TWO THINGS I REQUEST OF YOU
(DEPRIVE ME NOT BEFORE I DIE):
00:18:44.60\00:18:48.70
REMOVE FALSEHOOD AND LIES FAR
FROM ME; GIVE ME NEITHER POVERTY
00:18:48.70\00:18:52.60
NOR RICHES - FEED ME WITH THE
FOOD ALLOTTED ME; LEST I BE FULL
00:18:52.60\00:18:57.80
AND DENY YOU, AND SAY, 'WHO IS
THE LORD?' OR LEST I BE POOR AND
00:18:57.80\00:19:03.46
STEAL AND PROFANE
THE NAME OF MY GOD."
00:19:03.46\00:19:06.40
>>ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU VERY
MUCH. SO WHAT ARE THE TWO PRAYER
00:19:06.40\00:19:09.33
REQUESTS OF AGUR? WHAT IS
HE ASKING FOR? NUMBER ONE:
00:19:09.33\00:19:13.03
HE'S ASKING THAT GOD WILL
PROVIDE WHAT HE NEEDS BUT NOT
00:19:13.03\00:19:16.00
GIVE HIM TOO MUCH -
SORT OF A BALANCE THERE.
00:19:16.00\00:19:19.36
FIRST OF ALL, HE'S ASKING FOR
TRUE UNDERSTANDING FOR HIMSELF.
00:19:19.36\00:19:23.76
HE SAYS, 'REMOVE
FALSEHOOD AND LIES FROM ME.'
00:19:23.76\00:19:27.93
I WAS REMINDED OF PSALM 119,
VERSE 18 WHERE WE READ, "OPEN
00:19:27.93\00:19:32.70
MY EYES THAT I MIGHT SEE."
IT BEGINS WITH HAVING A TRUE
00:19:32.70\00:19:37.06
PERSPECTIVE OR A TRUE
UNDERSTANDING OF WHO WE ARE AND
00:19:37.06\00:19:40.23
OUR NEED OF JESUS.
THAT'S WHERE CONVERSION BEGINS,
00:19:40.23\00:19:44.36
WHEN WE UNDERSTAND OUR GREAT
NEED - WHEN WE UNDERSTAND WHAT
00:19:44.36\00:19:49.13
IS PROVIDED BY JESUS, THAT
HUMBLES OUR HEART AND THAT'S THE
00:19:49.13\00:19:52.83
BEGINNING POINT. PAUL
ALSO SAYS THAT WE NEED TO
00:19:52.83\00:19:55.66
LEARN HOW TO BE
SUFFICIENT IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
00:19:55.66\00:19:59.50
IN PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE
11 PAUL SAYS, "...I HAVE LEARNED
00:19:59.50\00:20:03.90
IN WHATEVER STATE
I AM, TO BE CONTENT."
00:20:03.90\00:20:06.56
AND THEN PAUL WROTE TO TIMOTHY
IN 1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 6, VERSE 8,
00:20:06.56\00:20:10.33
"AND HAVING FOOD AND CLOTHING,
WITH THESE WE SHALL BE CONTENT."
00:20:10.33\00:20:15.33
SO WE NEED TO TRUST
IN WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN US.
00:20:15.33\00:20:17.93
BE GRATEFUL WITH
HIS - FOR HIS BLESSINGS.
00:20:17.93\00:20:20.93
PROVERBS 30, VERSE 9 SAYS, "LEST
I BE FULL AND DENY YOU, AND SAY,
00:20:20.93\00:20:25.06
'WHO IS THE LORD?' OR
LEST I BE POOR AND STEAL..."
00:20:25.06\00:20:28.70
THERE IS A
DANGER IN HAVING WEALTH.
00:20:28.70\00:20:31.33
THE DANGER IS THAT OVER
ABUNDANCE CREATES A FEELING OF,
00:20:31.33\00:20:36.43
SORT OF, INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD.
WE DON'T REALIZE OUR NEED OF
00:20:36.43\00:20:40.83
GOD. IT'S OFTEN WHEN I TRAVEL,
ESPECIALLY TO THIRD WORLD
00:20:40.83\00:20:44.26
COUNTRIES AND WE GO OUT INTO THE
RURAL AREAS AND THE FARMLANDS,
00:20:44.26\00:20:47.36
THERE IS A KEEN SENSE AMONGST
THE FARMERS OF THEIR DEPENDENCE
00:20:47.36\00:20:51.83
ON GOD. IF THE
RAIN DOESN'T COME, THE
00:20:51.83\00:20:54.93
CROPS DON'T GROW. THE
ANIMALS HAVE NOTHING TO EAT.
00:20:54.93\00:20:57.83
YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN THE CITY
AND WE GO TO THE STORE AND RIGHT
00:20:57.83\00:21:00.16
NOW WE'RE IN A TERRIBLE DROUGHT
HERE IN CALIFORNIA, BUT FOR MOST
00:21:00.16\00:21:03.43
PEOPLE IT'S NOT
IMPACTING THEM THAT DIRECTLY.
00:21:03.43\00:21:07.83
BUT FOR THOSE WHO ARE DEPENDENT
UPON THEIR LITTLE GARDEN TO
00:21:07.83\00:21:10.43
PROVIDE THEIR FOOD FOR
THE UPCOMING SEASON OR WINTER,
00:21:10.43\00:21:13.76
HAVING THE RAIN
IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:21:13.76\00:21:16.16
THEY RECOGNIZE THEIR DEPENDENCE
00:21:16.16\00:21:18.10
ON GOD AND THAT'S
WHAT'S BEING EMPHASIZED HERE.
00:21:18.10\00:21:20.93
NEVER GET TO THE POINT WHERE
WE ARE SO SATISFIED WITH WHAT WE
00:21:20.93\00:21:23.13
HAVE THAT WE NEGLECT REALIZING
GOD IS THE SOURCE OF ALL OF
00:21:23.13\00:21:26.90
THESE BLESSINGS.
WE WANT TO TRUST HIM.
00:21:26.90\00:21:29.40
AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS A
WARNING NOT TO - OR THERE IS A
00:21:29.40\00:21:35.13
REQUEST HERE NOT TO BE SO POOR
THAT WE GET ANGRY TOWARDS GOD OR
00:21:35.13\00:21:41.00
WE HAVE A LACK OF FAITH TOWARDS
GOD IN PROVIDING OUR NEEDS.
00:21:41.00\00:21:44.90
LUKE CHAPTER 18, VERSE 9 -
WE FIND THE PARABLE THERE OF
00:21:44.90\00:21:48.43
THE PHARISEE AND
THE TAX COLLECTOR.
00:21:48.43\00:21:51.76
ACTUALLY, THIS PASSAGE WAS
REFERRED TO IN OUR LESSON, SO IF
00:21:51.76\00:21:54.16
YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES,
LET'S JUST TURN TO IT.
00:21:54.16\00:21:55.63
YOU'LL FIND IN LUKE CHAPTER
18, VERSE 9 - I THINK THIS IS A
00:21:55.63\00:22:00.80
FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE
TALKING ABOUT HAVING A HUMBLE
00:22:00.80\00:22:04.00
HEART AND
RECOGNIZING OUR NEED OF GOD.
00:22:04.00\00:22:06.66
SO LUKE CHAPTER 18,
BEGINNING HERE IN VERSE 9.
00:22:06.66\00:22:10.33
IT SAYS, "ALSO HE SPOKE THIS
PARABLE TO SOME WHO TRUSTED IN
00:22:10.33\00:22:15.03
THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE
RIGHTEOUS, AND DESPISED OTHERS:"
00:22:15.03\00:22:19.63
IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING
HOW THAT THOSE WHO TRUST IN
00:22:19.63\00:22:22.30
THEMSELVES TO BE RIGHTEOUS,
ALMOST BY DEFAULT, DESPISE
00:22:22.30\00:22:25.96
OTHERS BECAUSE THEY ARE
COMPARING THEMSELVES WITH OTHERS
00:22:25.96\00:22:29.56
AND THINK, 'WELL, I
DON'T DO WHAT HE DOES.
00:22:29.56\00:22:31.40
I MUST BE A MUCH BETTER
PERSON.' JESUS, SPECIFICALLY, IS
00:22:31.40\00:22:34.36
ADDRESSING THIS.
VERSE 10, "TWO MEN" -
00:22:34.36\00:22:36.80
HE SAID - "WENT UP
TO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY,
00:22:36.80\00:22:38.16
ONE A PHARISEE AND THE
OTHER A TAX COLLECTOR."
00:22:38.16\00:22:40.80
- DESPISED BY THE PEOPLE - VERSE
11: "THE PHARISEE STOOD AND
00:22:40.80\00:22:44.06
PRAYED THUS WITH HIMSELF," -
WAS GOD LISTENING TO HIS PRAYER?
00:22:44.06\00:22:48.60
HE WAS PRAYING TO HIMSELF.
HE SAID, "GOD, I THANK YOU THAT
00:22:48.60\00:22:51.63
I AM NOT LIKE OTHER
MEN-EXTORTIONERS, UNJUST,
00:22:51.63\00:22:54.13
ADULTERERS, OR EVEN
AS THIS TAX COLLECTOR."
00:22:54.13\00:22:56.63
- AS HE LOOKS OVER AT THE TAX
COLLECTOR THERE IN THE CORNER -
00:22:56.63\00:22:59.43
HE SAYS, "I FAST TWICE A WEEK;
I GIVE TITHES OF ALL THAT I
00:22:59.43\00:23:03.73
POSSESS." - BUT
VERSE 13 SAYS, "AND THE
00:23:03.73\00:23:06.43
TAX COLLECTOR, STANDING AFAR
OFF" - WHY 'STANDING AFAR OFF?'
00:23:06.43\00:23:10.33
BECAUSE HE DIDN'T FEEL WORTHY TO
ENTER INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
00:23:10.33\00:23:14.60
HE RECOGNIZED HIS NEED.
HE'S STANDING AT A DISTANCE -
00:23:14.60\00:23:18.16
"WOULD NOT SO MUCH AS RAISE HIS
EYES TO HEAVEN," - DIDN'T FEEL
00:23:18.16\00:23:23.00
WORTHY - "BUT BEAT UPON
HIS BREAST, SAYING, 'GOD, BE
00:23:23.00\00:23:26.30
MERCIFUL TO ME A
SINNER!'" - HE SAW HIS NEED.
00:23:26.30\00:23:29.63
HERE'S THE PROMISE - VERSE 14 -
"I TELL YOU, THIS MAN WENT DOWN
00:23:29.63\00:23:32.63
TO HIS HOUSE JUSTIFIED" - JESUS
SAID - "RATHER THAN THE OTHER;
00:23:32.63\00:23:36.56
FOR EVERYONE WHO EXALTS HIMSELF
WILL BE HUMBLED, AND HE WHO
00:23:36.56\00:23:41.03
HUMBLES HIMSELF
WILL BE EXALTED."
00:23:41.03\00:23:43.53
WHAT A WONDERFUL PROMISE THAT
IS - THAT IF WE HUMBLE OURSELVES
00:23:43.53\00:23:46.23
BEFORE GOD HE WILL LIFT US UP.
00:23:46.23\00:23:48.16
WELL, NOW LOOKING IN VERSE 10
- PROVERBS CHAPTER 30, VERSE 10,
00:23:48.16\00:23:52.13
WE HAVE A SLIGHT
CHANGE OF THEMES HERE.
00:23:52.13\00:23:54.83
THE IDEA IS NOT TO
SPEAK EVIL OF ANOTHER.
00:23:54.83\00:23:58.36
VERSE 10 SAYS, "DO NOT MALIGN
A SERVANT TO HIS MASTER, LEST HE
00:23:58.36\00:24:04.03
CURSE YOU, AND
YOU BE FOUND GUILTY."
00:24:04.03\00:24:06.90
NOW THE WORD 'MALIGN' THERE
MEANS 'TO INJURE ANOTHER BY
00:24:06.90\00:24:10.26
SPEAKING ILL OF THAT PERSON
OR TO MISREPRESENT THE FACTS TO
00:24:10.26\00:24:15.40
ANOTHER'S HURT.' SO
HERE THE WARNING IS DON'T
00:24:15.40\00:24:18.60
SPEAK EVIL OF ANOTHER PERSON.
OF COURSE, JAMES CHAPTER 3,
00:24:18.60\00:24:21.96
VERSE 5 SAYS, "EVEN SO THE
TONGUE IS A LITTLE MEMBER AND
00:24:21.96\00:24:25.90
BOASTS GREAT THINGS. SEE
HOW GREAT A FOREST A LITTLE
00:24:25.90\00:24:32.70
FIRE KINDLES!" YOU
KNOW, I WAS REMINDED THE OF
00:24:32.70\00:24:35.00
THE STORY OF
MOSES WHEN I READ THIS.
00:24:35.00\00:24:36.66
DON'T SPEAK EVIL OF
ANOTHER MAN'S SERVANT.
00:24:36.66\00:24:39.30
DO YOU REMEMBER HOW MOSES WAS
WALKING AMONGST THE ISRAELITES
00:24:39.30\00:24:42.43
AND HE SAW AN EGYPTIAN BEATING
THE ISRAELITE AND MOSES JUMPED
00:24:42.43\00:24:46.73
TO THE DEFENSE OF THE ISRAELITE
AND HE ENDED UP KILLING THE
00:24:46.73\00:24:48.66
EGYPTIAN AND BURYING HIM THERE
IN THE SAND AND HE THOUGHT,
00:24:48.66\00:24:51.16
'WELL, I'M DOING SOMETHING GOOD,
YOU KNOW, FOR THE ISRAELITES.
00:24:51.16\00:24:54.53
THE NEXT DAY HE'S WALKING
ALONG AND HE SEES TWO ISRAELITES
00:24:54.53\00:24:56.83
FIGHTING AND HE
SAYS, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
00:24:56.83\00:24:58.70
YOU'RE BRETHREN - YOU SHOULDN'T
BE FIGHTING.' AND ONE OF THEM
00:24:58.70\00:25:00.96
TURNED TO MOSES AND SAID, 'ARE
YOU GOING TO KILL ME LIKE YOU
00:25:00.96\00:25:03.30
KILLED THE EGYPTIAN YESTERDAY?
SO HERE MOSES IS THINKING THAT
00:25:03.30\00:25:07.53
HE'S DOING A GOOD THING TO HELP
THE SERVANT, ONLY TO REALIZE
00:25:07.53\00:25:10.06
THAT THE SERVANT
TURNED AGAINST HIM.
00:25:10.06\00:25:12.53
THAT'S THE
WARNING HERE IN THE WORD.
00:25:12.53\00:25:14.56
BE CAREFUL WITH WHAT YOU SAY.
00:25:14.56\00:25:16.13
DON'T TRY AND BRING A
NEGATIVE REPORT ABOUT SOMEBODY.
00:25:16.13\00:25:20.00
JUST LEAVE IT IN
THE LORD'S HANDS.
00:25:20.00\00:25:22.70
ALRIGHT, SOMEBODY ELSE IS GOING
TO READ FOR US NOW PROVERBS
00:25:22.70\00:25:25.53
CHAPTER 30 AND WE'RE GOING
TO LOOK FROM VERSE 11 THROUGH TO
00:25:25.53\00:25:29.03
VERSE 14 AND WE HAVE FOUR
CHARACTERISTICS HERE OF A WICKED
00:25:29.03\00:25:34.53
GENERATION. YOU'LL SEE
THE PARALLELS IN OUR TIME.
00:25:34.53\00:25:37.23
SO PROVERBS CHAPTER 30,
BEGINNING NOW IN VERSE 11.
00:25:37.23\00:25:40.40
>>"THERE IS A GENERATION THAT
CURSES ITS FATHER, AND DOES NOT
00:25:40.40\00:25:44.13
BLESS ITS MOTHER.
THERE IS A GENERATION THAT IS
00:25:44.13\00:25:46.66
PURE IN ITS OWN EYES, YET IS
NOT WASHED FROM ITS FILTHINESS.
00:25:46.66\00:25:50.76
THERE IS A GENERATION-OH,
HOW LOFTY ARE THEIR EYES!
00:25:50.76\00:25:53.86
AND THEIR EYELIDS ARE LIFTED
UP. THERE IS A GENERATION WHOSE
00:25:53.86\00:25:57.33
TEETH ARE LIKE SWORDS, AND WHOSE
FANGS ARE LIKE KNIVES, TO DEVOUR
00:25:57.33\00:26:01.60
THE POOR FROM OFF THE EARTH,
AND THE NEEDY FROM AMONG MEN."
00:26:01.60\00:26:05.60
>>OKAY, SO WE HAVE FOUR
CHARACTERISTICS OF A VERY
00:26:05.60\00:26:08.16
GODLESS GENERATION. THE
FIRST ONE MENTIONED IN VERSE 11,
00:26:08.16\00:26:11.90
THEY CURSE THEIR
PARENTS - HE CURSES HIS FATHER.
00:26:11.90\00:26:15.40
BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, DISLOYALTY
TO PARENTS WAS A SIN THAT WAS
00:26:15.40\00:26:19.33
DESERVING OF DEATH. IT WAS A BIG
DEAL TO DISHONOR YOUR PARENTS.
00:26:19.33\00:26:23.70
OF COURSE, THIS IS ONE OF THE
CHARACTERISTICS THAT PAUL SAYS
00:26:23.70\00:26:26.63
WILL BE PREVALENT IN THE FINAL
GENERATION BEFORE JESUS COMES.
00:26:26.63\00:26:31.10
IN 2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3, VERSES
1 AND 2, PAUL WRITES, "BUT KNOW
00:26:31.10\00:26:33.26
THIS, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS"
- OF COURSE, WE'RE LIVING IN THE
00:26:33.26\00:26:36.46
LAST DAYS - "PERILOUS TIMES WILL
COME: FOR MEN WILL BE LOVERS OF
00:26:36.46\00:26:42.26
THEMSELVES," - DO
PEOPLE LOVE THEMSELVES TODAY?
00:26:42.26\00:26:45.00
IT SAYS THEY WILL LOVE MONEY.
DOES THE WORLD LOVE MONEY?
00:26:45.00\00:26:48.90
THEY'LL BE "BOASTERS, PROUD,
BLASPHEMERS," - AND THEN IT
00:26:48.90\00:26:52.50
SAYS, "DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS,"
- NOW THAT'S KIND OF AN
00:26:52.50\00:26:56.93
IMPORTANT THING
FOR US TO THINK ABOUT.
00:26:56.93\00:26:58.66
THE BIBLE EMPHASIZES THE
IMPORTANCE OF SHOWING RESPECT
00:26:58.66\00:27:03.66
AND HONOR TO OUR
PARENTS AND TO THE ELDERLY.
00:27:03.66\00:27:07.70
OF COURSE, IT'S ONE
OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:27:07.70\00:27:09.60
NOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE TEN
00:27:09.60\00:27:12.10
COMMANDMENTS ARE WRITTEN
ON HOW MANY TABLES OF STONE?
00:27:12.10\00:27:14.23
>>TWO. >>TWO. HOW
MANY COMMANDMENTS ARE
00:27:14.23\00:27:16.46
WRITTEN ON THE
FIRST TABLE? >>FOUR.
00:27:16.46\00:27:18.43
>>FOUR. WHAT DO THOSE FIRST
FOUR COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH?
00:27:18.43\00:27:22.50
>>OUR RELATIONSHIP TO
GOD. >>OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD.
00:27:22.50\00:27:25.40
IT DEFINES OUR RELATIONSHIP
TO GOD. OF COURSE, THE LAST SIX
00:27:25.40\00:27:28.83
HAVE TO DO WITH OUR
RELATIONSHIP TO OUR FELLOW MAN.
00:27:28.83\00:27:30.93
NOW HERE'S THE POINT: IN THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS, EVEN THOUGH ALL OF
00:27:30.93\00:27:34.33
THE COMMANDMENTS ARE
VERY IMPORTANT AND SIN IS THE
00:27:34.33\00:27:36.53
TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW,
BREAKING ANY OF THE COMMANDMENTS
00:27:36.53\00:27:39.26
IS SIN, YET THE COMMANDMENTS ARE
GIVEN IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE.
00:27:39.26\00:27:43.83
FOR EXAMPLE, 'THOU SHALT NOT
KILL' PRECEDES 'THOU SHALT NOT
00:27:43.83\00:27:48.00
BEAR FALSE WITNESS.' NOT THAT
IT'S OKAY TO BEAR FALSE WITNESS,
00:27:48.00\00:27:51.60
BUT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN MURDER AND TELLING A
00:27:51.60\00:27:55.96
LIE. SO THE COMMANDMENTS
ARE WRITTEN IN ORDER.
00:27:55.96\00:27:58.60
THE FIRST FOUR-THE MOST
IMPORTANT-HAVE TO DO WITH OUR
00:27:58.60\00:28:01.36
RELATIONSHIP WITH
GOD-THAT'S FIRST AND FOREMOST.
00:28:01.36\00:28:04.60
THE LAST SIX HAVE TO DO WITH OUR
RELATIONSHIP TO OUR FELLOW MAN.
00:28:04.60\00:28:06.73
WHAT I FIND INTERESTING IS
THAT THE FIRST OF THOSE LAST SIX
00:28:06.73\00:28:10.53
COMMANDMENTS IS 'HONOR YOUR
MOTHER AND YOUR FATHER.' IT EVEN
00:28:10.53\00:28:14.93
PRECEDES THE COMMANDMENT THAT
SAYS 'THOU SHALT NOT KILL.' IN
00:28:14.93\00:28:19.40
OTHER WORDS, THAT'S THE VALUE
THAT GOD HAS PLACED UPON THAT
00:28:19.40\00:28:22.50
COMMANDMENT. AND
HERE'S THE POINT: IF WE
00:28:22.50\00:28:25.30
CAN'T RESPECT OR HONOR OUR
EARTHLY PARENTS, OR THE ELDERLY,
00:28:25.30\00:28:29.56
HOW ARE WE GOING TO HONOR OUR
HEAVENLY FATHER - OUR CREATOR?
00:28:29.56\00:28:34.16
SO A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON
THERE AND THAT'S THE FIRST THING
00:28:34.16\00:28:36.80
MENTIONED OF A WICKED
GENERATION - THE CHILDREN ARE
00:28:36.80\00:28:40.26
DISOBEDIENT TO THEIR PARENTS.
VERSE 12 TALKS ABOUT ANOTHER
00:28:40.26\00:28:43.93
CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS
GENERATION, IT SAYS THEY ARE
00:28:43.93\00:28:47.03
PURE IN THEIR OWN EYES. IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 3 WE HAVE
00:28:47.03\00:28:52.80
JESUS' MESSAGE TO
THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA.
00:28:52.80\00:28:56.03
LAODICEA IS THE CHURCH OF
TODAY-THE CHURCH AT THE END-AND
00:28:56.03\00:28:58.76
ONE OF THE GREAT SINS OF
LAODICEA IS THAT SHE SAYS SHE IS
00:28:58.76\00:29:03.20
RICH, SHE HAS BECOME WEALTHY,
SHE HAS NEED OF NOTHING AND SHE
00:29:03.20\00:29:07.16
DOESN'T KNOW THAT SHE IS
WRETCHED, MISERABLE, POOR,
00:29:07.16\00:29:09.40
BLIND - SHE CAN'T EVEN SEE
HER TRUE CONDITION - AND NAKED.
00:29:09.40\00:29:13.76
SO IN THE WORLD, AND EVEN IN THE
CHURCH, THERE IS A TENDENCY FOR
00:29:13.76\00:29:17.90
US TO BE PURE IN OUR OWN EYES
AND THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO PRAY
00:29:17.90\00:29:22.76
AND SAY, 'LORD, GIVE ME
THAT SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT.
00:29:22.76\00:29:25.26
GIVE ME THAT EYE SALVE THAT
I CAN SEE MY TRUE CONDITION.'
00:29:25.26\00:29:28.70
AND WHEN WE SEE OUR TRUE
CONDITION IN RELATIONSHIP TO
00:29:28.70\00:29:31.80
JESUS AND HIS GRACE AND HIS
LOVE, IT LEADS US TO A HUMBLE
00:29:31.80\00:29:35.20
HEART - A SPIRIT OF REPENTANCE-
SAYING, 'LORD PLEASE I NEED YOU.
00:29:35.20\00:29:39.16
I NEED YOU.' THE NEXT THING
THAT'S MENTIONED HERE IN VERSE
00:29:39.16\00:29:41.36
13, IT SAYS, "OH HOW
LOFTY ARE THEIR EYES!"
00:29:41.36\00:29:44.00
PROVERBS CHAPTER 21, VERSE 4
SAYS, "A HAUGHTY LOOK, A PROUD
00:29:44.00\00:29:48.63
HEART," - SPEAKING OF
LOOKING DOWN UPON OTHERS.
00:29:48.63\00:29:53.20
A TENDENCY OF SOCIETY TODAY IS
TO LOOK DOWN ON OTHERS AND THEN
00:29:53.20\00:29:58.80
VERSE 14 TALKS ABOUT
DEVOURING THE POOR OF THE EARTH.
00:29:58.80\00:30:04.26
DO WE LIVE IN A GENERATION TODAY
THAT IS MOTIVATED BY GREED?
00:30:04.26\00:30:07.93
LOVE OF MONEY? ABSOLUTELY.
THIS PAST WEEK I READ AN ARTICLE
00:30:07.93\00:30:12.30
IN FORBES MAGAZINE AND THEY
HAD THIS INTERESTING STATISTIC.
00:30:12.30\00:30:18.06
IT SAID THE COMBINED WEALTH
OF 3.5 BILLION OF THE WORLD'S
00:30:18.06\00:30:24.10
POOREST IS EQUAL TO THE COMBINED
WEALTH OF 85 OF THE RICHEST
00:30:24.10\00:30:30.00
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.
3.5 BILLION - THEIR COMBINED
00:30:30.00\00:30:34.83
WEALTH IS EQUAL TO ONLY 85 OF
THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.
00:30:34.83\00:30:40.73
SO WE CAN SEE HOW THE RICH ARE
GETTING RICHER AND RICHER AND
00:30:40.73\00:30:44.26
THE POOR ARE
GETTING POORER AND POORER.
00:30:44.26\00:30:46.86
1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 6, VERSE 9, IT
SAYS, "BUT THOSE WHO DESIRE TO
00:30:46.86\00:30:52.03
BE RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND
A SNARE, AND INTO MANY FOOLISH
00:30:52.03\00:30:57.06
AND HARMFUL LUSTS WHICH
DROWN MEN IN DESTRUCTION AND
00:30:57.06\00:31:01.23
PERDITION." VERSE 10
SAYS, "FOR THE LOVE OF
00:31:01.23\00:31:05.00
MONEY IS A ROOT OF
ALL KINDS OF EVIL."
00:31:05.00\00:31:10.26
I'M SURE YOU REMEMBER THE STORY
OF THE RICH YOUNG RULER THAT
00:31:10.26\00:31:13.03
CAME TO JESUS AND SAID,
'WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?'
00:31:13.03\00:31:16.16
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, 'GO
SELL EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, GIVE
00:31:16.16\00:31:19.33
IT TO THE POOR, COME FOLLOW
ME - YOU'LL HAVE RICHES IN
00:31:19.33\00:31:21.66
HEAVEN.' THE BIBLE
SAYS THE MAN WENT AWAY
00:31:21.66\00:31:23.90
SORROWFUL FOR HE
HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS.
00:31:23.90\00:31:26.70
HE COULDN'T IMAGINE HIS LIFE
WITHOUT HIS THINGS, EVEN THOUGH
00:31:26.70\00:31:30.06
JESUS WAS OFFERING TO BE
HIS COMPANION - 'COME FOLLOW ME.
00:31:30.06\00:31:35.03
BE WITH ME.' - HE STILL
VALUED HIS POSSESSIONS MORE.
00:31:35.03\00:31:37.46
AND THEN YOU HAVE JUST
THE OPPOSITE: JESUS GOES INTO
00:31:37.46\00:31:39.96
JERICHO AND THERE IS A SHORT
TAX COLLECTOR BY THE NAME OF
00:31:39.96\00:31:42.90
ZACCHAEUS WHO HEARS ABOUT JESUS,
HE SEES JESUS, HE CLIMBS DOWN
00:31:42.90\00:31:47.23
OUT OF THE TREE AND HE
SAYS, 'LORD, HALF OF WHAT I HAVE
00:31:47.23\00:31:50.90
I'M GOING TO GIVE TO THE
POOR. AND IF I'VE TAKEN ANYTHING
00:31:50.90\00:31:53.50
FALSELY, I WILL RESTORE IT
FOURFOLD.' SO IF ZACCHAEUS GAVE
00:31:53.50\00:31:57.40
AWAY HALF OF WHAT HE HAD
AND THEN EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD
00:31:57.40\00:32:00.73
TAKEN WRONGLY HE
RESTORED FOURFOLD,
00:32:00.73\00:32:03.70
THAT WOULD LEAVE
HIM WITH ALMOST NOTHING.
00:32:03.70\00:32:07.63
IN OTHER WORDS HE SAID, 'LORD,
I VALUE YOUR PRESENCE FAR MORE
00:32:07.63\00:32:11.16
THAN EARTHLY POSSESSIONS AND
JESUS SAID, 'TODAY SALVATION HAS
00:32:11.16\00:32:15.16
COME TO THIS MAN'S HOUSE.' SO
PROVERBS 30 IS WARNING US OF THE
00:32:15.16\00:32:18.83
DANGER OF PUTTING
CONFIDENCE IN EARTHLY THINGS.
00:32:18.83\00:32:21.90
ALRIGHT, WE'RE READY FOR OUR
NEXT SECTION THEN - IT'S VERSES
00:32:21.90\00:32:25.40
15 AND 16 AND HERE WE FIND
FOUR THINGS THAT CAN NEVER BE
00:32:25.40\00:32:30.43
SATISFIED. SO
PROVERBS 30, VERSE 15.
00:32:30.43\00:32:34.80
>>"THE LEECH HAS TWO
DAUGHTERS - GIVE AND GIVE!
00:32:34.80\00:32:40.23
THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT ARE
NEVER SATISFIED, FOUR NEVER SAY,
00:32:40.23\00:32:44.96
'ENOUGH!:' THE
GRAVE, THE BARREN WOMB,
00:32:44.96\00:32:49.06
THE EARTH THAT IS NOT SATISFIED
WITH WATER - AND THE FIRE NEVER
00:32:49.06\00:32:53.66
SAYS, 'ENOUGH!'"
>>SO FOUR THINGS THAT ARE
00:32:53.66\00:32:58.90
NEVER SATISFIED - AND NOTICE
IT'S DESCRIBED AS A LEECH.
00:32:58.90\00:33:03.23
BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, IN
PALESTINE, THERE WAS A LEECH
00:33:03.23\00:33:07.10
THAT I GUESS WAS
FAIRLY WELL KNOWN.
00:33:07.10\00:33:08.70
IT WAS CALLED A HORSE LEECH - AT
LEAST THAT'S THE TRANSLATION -
00:33:08.70\00:33:11.90
IT WAS A LARGE LEECH THAT WAS
COMMON IN PALESTINE AND IT WAS
00:33:11.90\00:33:16.93
KNOWN FOR ITS
FEROCIOUS APPETITE FOR BLOOD.
00:33:16.93\00:33:20.60
SO HERE WE HAVE A DESCRIPTION
OF FOUR THINGS THAT ARE NEVER
00:33:20.60\00:33:23.93
SATISFIED AND IT'S
DESCRIBED AS A LEECH.
00:33:23.93\00:33:26.50
NOW WHAT ARE THE FOUR THINGS?
WELL, VERSE 16 TALKS ABOUT THE
00:33:26.50\00:33:29.40
GRAVE. FIRST OF
ALL, THE QUESTION I
00:33:29.40\00:33:32.30
HAVE IS, WILL THE GRAVE
ONE DAY BE SATISFIED? YES.
00:33:32.30\00:33:36.13
IT'S AT THE RESURRECTION WHEN
JESUS COMES AGAIN AND THE DEAD
00:33:36.13\00:33:39.83
IN CHRIST ARE RESURRECTED.
THE BARREN WOMB - THOSE WHO WANT
00:33:39.83\00:33:42.73
TO HAVE CHILDREN - THEY'VE NEVER
BEEN ABLE TO HAVE CHILDREN.
00:33:42.73\00:33:45.43
WILL THOSE MOTHERS WHO WANT
CHILDREN, WILL THEY EVER HAVE
00:33:45.43\00:33:51.13
CHILDREN? YES, QUITE POSSIBLY
IN HEAVEN THEY'LL HAVE THE
00:33:51.13\00:33:54.70
OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE - MAYBE NOT
THEIR OWN BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN -
00:33:54.70\00:33:58.50
BUT THEY'LL GET TO
RAISE A CHILD IN HEAVEN.
00:33:58.50\00:34:01.06
THOSE IN THE RESURRECTION WHO DO
NOT HAVE CHILDREN THERE - VERY
00:34:01.06\00:34:05.10
LIKELY THEY'LL HAVE AN
OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE CHILDREN.
00:34:05.10\00:34:07.40
THE EARTH NOT SATISFIED WITH
WATER AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT
00:34:07.40\00:34:11.46
THE POOR. WILL THERE BE A
DAY WHEN THERE WILL BE NO POOR?
00:34:11.46\00:34:15.20
YES, WHEN THE EARTH IS MADE
NEW, BUT UNTIL THEN, JESUS SAID,
00:34:15.20\00:34:19.73
'FOR YOU HAVE THE POOR WITH YOU
ALWAYS AND WHENEVER YOU WISH,
00:34:19.73\00:34:23.70
YOU CAN DO THEM GOOD.
00:34:23.70\00:34:24.96
BUT ME YOU DO NOT HAVE WITH
YOU ALWAYS.' AND YET JESUS SAID
00:34:24.96\00:34:29.70
'WHEN YOU DO IT UNTO THE LEAST
OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YOU HAVE
00:34:29.70\00:34:32.33
DONE IT UNTO ME.' SO WHEN
WE MINISTER TO THE NEEDS OF THE
00:34:32.33\00:34:34.56
POOR - THOSE AROUND US
- WE'RE DOING IT TO JESUS.
00:34:34.56\00:34:38.30
AND THEN LOOKING AT VERSE 17
-PROVERBS CHAPTER 30, VERSE 17.
00:34:38.30\00:34:43.73
IT SAYS, "THE EYE THAT MOCKS HIS
FATHER, AND SCORNS OBEDIENCE TO
00:34:43.73\00:34:48.10
HIS MOTHER, THE RAVENS OF
THE VALLEY WILL PICK IT OUT,
00:34:48.10\00:34:51.96
AND THE YOUNG EAGLES WILL
EAT IT." AGAIN, VERY DESCRIPTIVE
00:34:51.96\00:34:56.13
PASSAGES SPEAKING ONCE AGAIN
OF THE DISOBEDIENT OR THOSE WHO
00:34:56.13\00:35:00.20
DISHONOR THEIR PARENTS, IT SAYS
THE RAVENS ARE GOING TO PLUCK
00:35:00.20\00:35:02.56
OUT THEIR EYES.
NOW THOSE WHO OBEY THE
00:35:02.56\00:35:05.53
COMMANDMENT TO HONOR YOUR MOTHER
AND YOUR FATHER, THE PROMISE IS
00:35:05.53\00:35:08.13
THAT THEY WILL HAVE A
LONG LIFE - GOD'LL BLESS THEM.
00:35:08.13\00:35:11.26
BUT THOSE WHO ARE DISOBEDIENT TO
THEIR PARENTS, THIS VERSE SPEAKS
00:35:11.26\00:35:15.46
OF THEM
SUFFERING A VIOLENT DEATH.
00:35:15.46\00:35:17.73
IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT
THE EAGLES AND VULTURES.
00:35:17.73\00:35:19.90
IN THE BIBLE, EAGLES AND
VULTURES ARE OFTEN USED IN
00:35:19.90\00:35:22.53
ASSOCIATION WITH JUDGMENT AND IN
THE CONTEXT OF THE DESTRUCTION
00:35:22.53\00:35:26.90
OF THE WICKED
AT THE END OF TIME.
00:35:26.90\00:35:28.93
IN LUKE CHAPTER 17, VERSE 37 IT
SAYS, "...WHEREVER THE BODY IS,
00:35:28.93\00:35:33.73
THERE THE EAGLES WILL
BE GATHERED TOGETHER."
00:35:33.73\00:35:36.26
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE DEATH OF
THE WICKED AT THE END OF TIME.
00:35:36.26\00:35:39.20
YOU ALSO FIND THE SAME THING IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 19, VERSE 17,
00:35:39.20\00:35:43.50
THAT SPEAKS ABOUT THE SECOND
COMING OF CHRIST AND THE WICKED
00:35:43.50\00:35:46.90
ARE DESTROYED AT THE
BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING.
00:35:46.90\00:35:49.16
IT TALKS ABOUT THE EAGLES
SYMBOLICALLY GATHERING TOGETHER
00:35:49.16\00:35:51.70
FOR THIS GREAT FEAST -
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED.
00:35:51.70\00:35:54.96
NOW WE MOVE TO OUR NEXT SECTION
WHERE WE HAVE FOUR THINGS THAT
00:35:54.96\00:35:58.50
ARE HARD TO BE KNOWN.
AND THIS IS PROVERBS 30,
00:35:58.50\00:36:02.66
VERSE 18 THROUGH
VERSE 20 -PROVERBS 30:18-20.
00:36:02.66\00:36:08.56
>>"THERE ARE THREE THINGS WHICH
ARE TOO WONDERFUL FOR ME, YES,
00:36:08.56\00:36:12.66
FOUR WHICH I DO NOT UNDERSTAND:
THE WAY OF AN EAGLE IN THE AIR,
00:36:12.66\00:36:17.93
THE WAY OF A SERPENT ON A ROCK,
THE WAY OF A SHIP IN THE MIDST
00:36:17.93\00:36:22.33
OF THE SEA, AND THE WAY OF A MAN
WITH A VIRGIN. THIS IS THE WAY
00:36:22.33\00:36:27.50
OF AN ADULTEROUS WOMAN: SHE EATS
AND WIPES HER MOUTH, AND SAYS,
00:36:27.50\00:36:31.36
'I HAVE DONE NO
WICKEDNESS.'" >>OKAY, THANK YOU.
00:36:31.36\00:36:34.73
SO HERE WE SEE FOUR THINGS THAT
THE WISE MAN GIVES AS THINGS
00:36:34.73\00:36:39.73
THAT WE CAN'T FULLY UNDERSTAND.
FIRST HE TALKS ABOUT AN EAGLE
00:36:39.73\00:36:44.16
FLYING, A SERPENT MOVING ON A
ROCK, A SHIP ON THE SEA, AND A
00:36:44.16\00:36:51.16
YOUNG MAN WITH A YOUNG WOMAN.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT ALL OF THESE
00:36:51.16\00:36:54.90
HERE IN JUST A MINUTE.
WHAT DOES AN EAGLE FLYING, A
00:36:54.90\00:36:58.56
SNAKE ON A ROCK, A BOAT OR A
SHIP IN THE SEA HAVE IN COMMON?
00:36:58.56\00:37:04.10
WELL, WHEN AN EAGLE'S FLYING AND
YOU LOOK UP AND YOU SEE IT IN
00:37:04.10\00:37:07.96
THE AIR, YOU'RE NOT SURE WHAT
DIRECTION THE EAGLE IS GOING IN
00:37:07.96\00:37:11.36
BECAUSE IT CAN DROP A WING AND
TURN TO THE RIGHT OR SUDDENLY
00:37:11.36\00:37:15.06
TURN TO THE LEFT.
00:37:15.06\00:37:17.83
WHEN YOU SEE A SNAKE MOVING ON
THE ROCK, YOU'RE NOT QUITE SURE
00:37:17.83\00:37:20.66
IF IT'S GOING TO END UP
GOING THAT WAY OR THIS WAY.
00:37:20.66\00:37:23.06
I REMEMBER, AS A YOUNG PERSON,
WE WERE OUT HIKING ONE DAY ALONG
00:37:23.06\00:37:25.10
WITH A GROUP OF FRIENDS AND WE
WERE WALKING ALONGSIDE A RIVER.
00:37:25.10\00:37:28.66
SOME OF THE GUYS WERE ACTUALLY
IN THE RIVER SWIMMING AND CAME
00:37:28.66\00:37:31.96
ACROSS THIS BIG SNAKE WARMING
ITSELF THERE ON A FLAT ROCK AND,
00:37:31.96\00:37:36.03
AT FIRST, THE SNAKE DIDN'T SEEM
TO NOTICE US, BUT THEN SUDDENLY
00:37:36.03\00:37:39.03
IT REALIZED 'THERE'S PEOPLE
GATHERED AROUND ME.' AND HE TOOK
00:37:39.03\00:37:42.16
OFF IN ONE DIRECTION AND SOME
OF THE GUYS MADE A NOISE AND
00:37:42.16\00:37:45.46
JUMPED AROUND AND
SUDDENLY HE TURNED
00:37:45.46\00:37:46.63
AND TOOK OFF IN
ANOTHER DIRECTION
00:37:46.63\00:37:48.40
AND THEN HE STOPPED AND HE
TURNED ANOTHER WAY AND HE WENT
00:37:48.40\00:37:50.43
DOWN INTO THE WATER.
SOME OF THE GUYS WERE SWIMMING
00:37:50.43\00:37:52.60
IN THE RIVER AND THE SNAKE
STARTED COMING STRAIGHT FOR THEM
00:37:52.60\00:37:54.53
AND THEY DOVE DOWN AND THE
SNAKE WENT OVER THEIR HEADS.
00:37:54.53\00:37:57.20
SO THE IDEA OF A SNAKE MOVING
ON A ROCK - IT'S UNPREDICTABLE.
00:37:57.20\00:38:01.86
YOU DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE
IT'S GOING TO END UP AND GO.
00:38:01.86\00:38:04.00
ALSO, OF COURSE, AN EAGLE IN
THE BIBLE REPRESENTS POWER AND
00:38:04.00\00:38:07.50
GRANDEUR, WHEREAS A SERPENT
REPRESENTS DECEPTION AND DANGER.
00:38:07.50\00:38:11.96
AND THEN YOU ALSO
HAVE A SHIP AT SEA.
00:38:11.96\00:38:14.40
IT'S FASCINATING TO SEE
A SHIP - THESE OLD SAILING
00:38:14.40\00:38:16.53
BOATS - SOMETIMES IT SEEMS AS
THOUGH THEY'RE ACTUALLY SAILING
00:38:16.53\00:38:19.86
RIGHT INTO THE WIND AND IF YOU
SEE A SHIP AT SEA MOVING AMONGST
00:38:19.86\00:38:23.83
THE WAVES, AGAIN, IT'S HARD TO
KNOW IF IT'S GOING TO BE MOVING
00:38:23.83\00:38:26.26
TOWARDS YOU OR AWAY FROM YOU
OR TO THE LEFT OR TO THE RIGHT.
00:38:26.26\00:38:29.16
THE DESTINATION IS NOT CLEARLY
SEEN AND THAT'S KIND OF THE
00:38:29.16\00:38:32.33
POINT THAT'S BEEN EMPHASIZED.
AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT A YOUNG
00:38:32.33\00:38:34.76
MAN HERE WITH A YOUNG
MAIDEN OR A VIRGIN. IT'S KIND OF
00:38:34.76\00:38:38.13
INTERESTING TO NOTICE - I HAVE
TEENAGE BOYS NOW AND FOR SO LONG
00:38:38.13\00:38:42.83
THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THEIR
APPEARANCE OR THE WAY THEIR HAIR
00:38:42.83\00:38:45.80
LOOKED OR WHETHER OR NOT THEIR
CLOTHES MATCHED, BUT NOW, AS
00:38:45.80\00:38:48.86
THEY'VE REACHED THE TEENAGE
YEARS, IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING
00:38:48.86\00:38:51.33
HOW SUDDENLY THEY'RE CONCERNED
ABOUT THEIR APPEARANCE.
00:38:51.33\00:38:53.73
THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
THEIR HAIR IS COMBED JUST RIGHT
00:38:53.73\00:38:56.93
AND, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THEIR
CLOTHES ARE ACTUALLY MATCHING.
00:38:56.93\00:38:59.70
I SAID TO MY WIFE THE OTHER DAY,
I SAID, 'I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.' I
00:38:59.70\00:39:02.50
LOOK AT ONE OF THE BOYS - HIS
HAT MATCHED HIS SHIRT, MATCHED
00:39:02.50\00:39:05.73
HIS PANTS - EVEN HIS
SOCKS MATCHED. I WAS AMAZED.
00:39:05.73\00:39:08.66
YOU KNOW, WE USED TO HAVE TO
REMIND THEM TO TAKE A SHOWER.
00:39:08.66\00:39:11.63
WE DON'T HAVE
TO DO THAT ANYMORE.
00:39:11.63\00:39:13.50
THEY MAKE SURE THAT
THEY'RE PRESENTABLE. WHY?
00:39:13.50\00:39:16.56
ESPECIALLY IN THE
COMPANY OF YOUNG LADIES.
00:39:16.56\00:39:19.83
SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S BEING
REFERRED TO HERE IS SOME OF THE
00:39:19.83\00:39:22.86
INTERESTING BEHAVIOR WHEN A
YOUNG MAN IS TRYING TO IMPRESS
00:39:22.86\00:39:27.16
A YOUNG WOMAN.
ALRIGHT, THEN VERSE 20 TALKS
00:39:27.16\00:39:30.23
ABOUT AN ADULTEROUS WOMAN.
IN THE BIBLE, WHAT DOES A WOMAN
00:39:30.23\00:39:33.50
OFTEN REPRESENT? >>THE CHURCH.
00:39:33.50\00:39:35.10
>>IT REPRESENTS THE CHURCH.
00:39:35.10\00:39:36.56
OF COURSE, IN REVELATION
CHAPTER 12 YOU HAVE A PURE WOMAN
00:39:36.56\00:39:38.60
REPRESENTING THE TRUE CHURCH.
IN REVELATION 17 YOU HAVE AN
00:39:38.60\00:39:41.13
IMPURE WOMAN. AND THEN
IT TALKS ABOUT - IT SAYS
00:39:41.13\00:39:43.93
SHE EATS AND WIPES HER
MOUTH -REVELATION CHAPTER 17
00:39:43.93\00:39:47.43
DESCRIBES THIS
WOMAN, HER NAME IS BABYLON.
00:39:47.43\00:39:50.63
IT SAYS SHE HAS A GOLDEN CUP
IN HER HAND FULL OF ABOMINATIONS
00:39:50.63\00:39:54.06
AND FILTHINESS
OF HER FORNICATION.
00:39:54.06\00:39:56.10
REVELATION 18:7 - BABYLON SAYS,
"...I SIT AS A QUEEN, AND AM
00:39:56.10\00:40:00.50
NO WIDOW, AND WILL NOT SEE
SORROW." SO THIS IDEA HERE IS
00:40:00.50\00:40:04.40
OF A CHURCH THAT IS CLAIMING
TO BE TRUE BUT SHE HAS LEFT THE
00:40:04.40\00:40:09.16
TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD AND
YET SHE SAYS, 'I HAVE DONE NO
00:40:09.16\00:40:12.83
WICKEDNESS' - EVEN
THOUGH SHE IS GOING CONTRARY TO
00:40:12.83\00:40:15.46
THE WORD OF GOD AND SHE'S
SETTING ASIDE GOD'S COMMANDMENTS
00:40:15.46\00:40:18.26
TO KEEP HER OWN TRADITIONS.
SHE'S SAYING, 'I HAVE DONE
00:40:18.26\00:40:21.40
NOTHING WRONG.' NOW WE MOVE ONTO
THE NEXT SECTION - IT'S VERSE 21
00:40:21.40\00:40:25.90
THROUGH TO VERSE 23 AND
THERE ARE FOUR THINGS THAT CAUSE
00:40:25.90\00:40:29.50
TROUBLE THAT THE WISE
MAN IS REFERRING TO HERE.
00:40:29.50\00:40:33.06
SO WHO'S GOT PROVERBS
CHAPTER 30:21-23? THANK YOU.
00:40:33.06\00:40:37.46
>>FOR THREE THINGS THE EARTH
IS PERTURBED, YES, FOR FOUR IT
00:40:37.46\00:40:41.03
CANNOT BEAR UP: FOR A SERVANT
WHEN HE REIGNS, A FOOL WHEN HE
00:40:41.03\00:40:45.70
IS FILLED WITH FOOD, A HATEFUL
WOMAN WHEN SHE IS MARRIED, AND A
00:40:45.70\00:40:50.06
MAIDSERVANT WHO
SUCCEEDS HER MISTRESS."
00:40:50.06\00:40:52.83
>>OKAY, ANOTHER FOUR INTERESTING
THINGS MENTIONED HERE THAT IT
00:40:52.83\00:40:56.03
SAYS THE WORLD
IS PERTURBED WITH.
00:40:56.03\00:40:59.13
FIRST IS A
SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNS.
00:40:59.13\00:41:01.86
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN AROUND LITTLE
CHILDREN AND EVERYBODY'S PLAYING
00:41:01.86\00:41:05.20
NICELY AND SEEM TO BE GETTING
ALONG AS LONG AS THE ADULT IS
00:41:05.20\00:41:07.96
SUPERVISING, BUT IF YOU PUT ONE
OF THE LITTLE KIDS IN CHARGE OF
00:41:07.96\00:41:11.56
ALL THE OTHER KIDS, DO YOU
NOTICE HOW THINGS SOMETIMES GO
00:41:11.56\00:41:14.80
ASTRAY? I THINK
THAT'S KIND OF THE POINT
00:41:14.80\00:41:17.70
THAT'S BEING EMPHASIZED
HERE - PUTTING A PERSON IN A
00:41:17.70\00:41:19.83
POSITION OF AUTHORITY WHEN
THEY'RE NOT ACTUALLY PREPARED TO
00:41:19.83\00:41:22.96
HANDLE THAT KIND OF AUTHORITY.
THAT'S A SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNS.
00:41:22.96\00:41:26.76
THEN IT TALKS ABOUT A FOOL
WHEN HE'S FILLED WITH FOOD.
00:41:26.76\00:41:30.90
WHEN A PERSON IS SATISFIED AND
HAS EVERYTHING THAT HE NEEDS,
00:41:30.90\00:41:33.80
ESPECIALLY A FOOL HERE IN THE
CONTEXT, HE BEGINS TO MOCK GOD
00:41:33.80\00:41:37.70
AND MOCK OTHERS WHO DON'T HAVE
WHAT HE HAS AND THAT'S WHAT'S
00:41:37.70\00:41:41.46
BEING DESCRIBED THERE.
THEN IT TALKS ABOUT A HATEFUL
00:41:41.46\00:41:44.63
WOMAN WHEN SHE'S MARRIED.
HERE IN THE CONTEXT, THIS IS
00:41:44.63\00:41:47.16
SOMEBODY THAT HADN'T
BEEN MARRIED FOR A LONG TIME,
00:41:47.16\00:41:49.66
SOMEWHAT, PERHAPS FELT REJECTED
AND THEN FINALLY SHE IS MARRIED.
00:41:49.66\00:41:53.06
NOW SHE LOOKS DOWN ON OTHERS
WHO WERE IN HER SITUATION.
00:41:53.06\00:41:57.13
THAT'S WHAT'S
BEING REFERRED TO THERE.
00:41:57.13\00:41:59.06
AND THEN A MAIDSERVANT WHO
SUCCEEDS HER MISTRESS - YOU ALL
00:41:59.06\00:42:01.83
REMEMBER THE STORY
OF SARAH AND HAGAR?
00:42:01.83\00:42:04.00
HOW THAT SHE WAS CONTENT TO BE
SARAH - HAGAR WAS CONTENT TO BE
00:42:04.00\00:42:07.60
SARAH'S MAID UNTIL FINALLY SHE
WAS PROMOTED AND SHE BECAME A
00:42:07.60\00:42:11.03
SECOND WIFE OF ABRAHAM AND THEN
SHE CONCEIVED AND HAD A SON AND
00:42:11.03\00:42:14.93
SUDDENLY SHE DESPISED SARAH.
00:42:14.93\00:42:17.86
THAT'S WHAT'S
BEING REFERRED TO THERE.
00:42:17.86\00:42:19.60
IN OTHER WORDS, GIVING SOMEBODY
AUTHORITY OR POSITION THAT THEY
00:42:19.60\00:42:22.90
ARE NOT PREPARED FOR.
OKAY, NOW WE'RE GOING TO BE
00:42:22.90\00:42:26.40
LOOKING IN VERSE 24 - FOUR
THINGS EXCEEDINGLY WISE IN THE
00:42:26.40\00:42:32.20
EARTH. SO PROVERBS CHAPTER
30, BEGINNING NOW IN VERSE 24.
00:42:32.20\00:42:36.16
>>THERE ARE FOUR THINGS WHICH
ARE LITTLE ON THE EARTH, BUT
00:42:36.16\00:42:40.06
THEY ARE EXCEEDINGLY WISE: THE
ANTS ARE A PEOPLE NOT STRONG,
00:42:40.06\00:42:44.83
YET THEY PREPARE THEIR FOOD IN
THE SUMMER; THE ROCK BADGERS ARE
00:42:44.83\00:42:48.73
A FEEBLE FOLK, YET THEY MAKE
THEIR HOMES IN THE CRAGS; THE
00:42:48.73\00:42:53.30
LOCUSTS HAVE NO KING, YET THE
ALL ADVANCE IN RANKS; THE SPIDER
00:42:53.30\00:42:58.26
SKILLFULLY GRASPS WITH
ITS HANDS, AND IT IS IN KINGS'
00:42:58.26\00:43:03.76
PALACES." >>OKAY, THANK YOU.
00:43:03.76\00:43:05.86
SO WE CAN LEARN SOME VERY
IMPORTANT LESSONS FROM FOUR
00:43:05.86\00:43:09.96
CREATURES LISTED IN THIS
PASSAGE: YOU'VE GOT THE ANT,
00:43:09.96\00:43:12.76
YOU'VE GOT THE ROCK
BADGER, YOU'VE GOT LOCUSTS,
00:43:12.76\00:43:15.96
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE SPIDER.
NOW WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE SPIDER
00:43:15.96\00:43:19.43
WHEN WE GET THERE, THERE'S
DIVIDED OPINION AS TO WHETHER OR
00:43:19.43\00:43:22.93
NOT THAT IS THE SPIDER OR MORE
OF A GECKO LIZARD-TYPE CREATURE,
00:43:22.93\00:43:27.00
BUT WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A
MINUTE. SO WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
00:43:27.00\00:43:29.40
LESSONS THAT WE CAN
LEARN BEGINNING HERE WITH ANTS?
00:43:29.40\00:43:32.80
I THINK THE BIGGEST LESSON
THAT'S BEEN EMPHASIZED IS ANTS
00:43:32.80\00:43:36.13
HAVE A CHARACTERISTIC OF
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE.
00:43:36.13\00:43:40.16
THEY'RE HARD WORKING AND
INDUSTRIOUS. PROVERBS CHAPTER 6,
00:43:40.16\00:43:44.50
VERSE 6 SAYS, "GO TO
THE ANT, YOU SLUGGARD!
00:43:44.50\00:43:47.53
CONSIDER HER WAYS AND BE
WISE, WHICH, HAVING NO CAPTAIN,
00:43:47.53\00:43:50.96
OVERSEER OR RULER, PROVIDES
HER SUPPLIES IN THE SUMMER, AND
00:43:50.96\00:43:55.13
GATHERS HER FOOD IN THE
HARVEST." SO THE BIG LESSON
00:43:55.13\00:43:58.50
EMPHASIZED WITH ANTS IS
THEY PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE.
00:43:58.50\00:44:02.76
A COUPLE OF AMAZING FACTS
ABOUT ANTS: ANTS ARE CAPABLE OF
00:44:02.76\00:44:07.46
CARRYING OBJECTS 50
TIMES THEIR OWN BODY WEIGHT.
00:44:07.46\00:44:10.93
CERTAIN ANT SPECIES DEFEND
PLANTS IN EXCHANGE FOR FOOD AND
00:44:10.93\00:44:15.46
SHELTER. SOME
ANTS ACTUALLY SHEPHERD
00:44:15.46\00:44:19.00
OTHER INSECTS LIKE APHIDS.
THEY PROTECT THEM, THEY FEED
00:44:19.00\00:44:22.76
THEM, AND THEN THEY
HARVEST FROM THESE ANIMALS.
00:44:22.76\00:44:25.96
AND THE TOTAL BIOMASS OF ALL
OF THE ANTS ON EARTH IS ROUGHLY
00:44:25.96\00:44:29.50
EQUAL TO THE TOTAL BIOMASS
OF ALL THE PEOPLE ON EARTH.
00:44:29.50\00:44:34.26
SO THERE'S A LOT OF ANTS AND
THEY'RE DOING IMPORTANT WORK.
00:44:34.26\00:44:37.30
THE BIG LESSON HERE IS THAT ANTS
WORK HARD AND THEY PREPARE FOR
00:44:37.30\00:44:41.60
THE FUTURE. THEN
WE HAVE A ROCK BADGER.
00:44:41.60\00:44:44.56
NOW PROBABLY IN DIFFERENT
COUNTRIES THEY HAVE DIFFERENT
00:44:44.56\00:44:46.60
NAMES FOR THESE LITTLE CREATURES
THAT LIVE OUT IN THE ROCKS AND
00:44:46.60\00:44:50.00
CREVICES. THE POINT
HERE, PERHAPS, THAT'S
00:44:50.00\00:44:52.60
BEING EMPHASIZED IS THAT
THERE IS A CERTAIN DEGREE OF
00:44:52.60\00:44:56.90
WATCHFULNESS OR PLANNING.
ROCK BADGERS ARE KNOWN TO HAVE A
00:44:56.90\00:45:02.30
SENTINEL STAND GUARD AND
LOOK OUT FOR DANGER, SO THERE'S
00:45:02.30\00:45:07.06
ALWAYS SOMEBODY STANDING,
WATCHING FOR DANGER AND THAT'S
00:45:07.06\00:45:09.53
WHAT PROBABLY IS BEING
EMPHASIZED HERE IS BEING WISE
00:45:09.53\00:45:12.43
AND WATCHING FOR DANGER.
THEN, OF COURSE, WE HAVE LOCUSTS
00:45:12.43\00:45:16.20
AND THEY'RE REFERRED TO
SEVERAL TIMES IN SCRIPTURE.
00:45:16.20\00:45:18.63
THEY HAVE NO LEADER AND YET THEY
MOVE AS A WELL-TRAINED ARMY.
00:45:18.63\00:45:22.80
MATTER OF FACT, IN REVELATION
CHAPTER 9, LOCUSTS ARE USED TO
00:45:22.80\00:45:26.40
SYMBOLIZE AN INVADING FORCE THAT
COMES AGAINST A CERTAIN GROUP OF
00:45:26.40\00:45:30.96
PEOPLE. SO THE
POINT BEING EMPHASIZED
00:45:30.96\00:45:33.10
WITH LOCUSTS IS ORDER - THEY ARE
ORGANIZED - WELL ORGANIZED AND
00:45:33.10\00:45:38.03
THEY'RE
EFFECTIVE IN WHAT THEY DO.
00:45:38.03\00:45:39.86
THEN WE HAVE VERSE 28
TALKING ABOUT A SPIDER.
00:45:39.86\00:45:42.43
AND HERE'S THIS WORD THAT'S ONLY
USED IN THIS PLACE IN ALL OF
00:45:42.43\00:45:45.90
SCRIPTURE AND SO THERE'S
SOMEWHAT OF A DIVIDED OPINION AS
00:45:45.90\00:45:48.90
TO EXACTLY WHAT THIS CREATURE
IS. IS IT A SPIDER OR IS IT MORE
00:45:48.90\00:45:52.76
LIKE A LIZARD, KIND
OF, GECKO TYPE OF ANIMAL?
00:45:52.76\00:45:56.26
BUT EITHER WAY I THINK THE
POINT IS CLEAR THAT THERE IS A
00:45:56.26\00:45:58.66
TREMENDOUS
DEGREE OF PERSISTENCE.
00:45:58.66\00:46:01.13
HAVE YOU TRIED TO REMOVE
ALL THE SPIDERS FROM YOUR HOUSE
00:46:01.13\00:46:03.70
AND THEY JUST SEEM TO COME BACK?
00:46:03.70\00:46:05.43
EVEN IF YOU - YOU LIVE IN SOME
TROPICAL AREAS, YOU HAVE THESE
00:46:05.43\00:46:08.93
LITTLE GECKOS THAT
SOMEHOW GET INTO YOUR HOUSE.
00:46:08.93\00:46:11.46
YOU SEE THEM WALKING ON THE
ROOF WITH THEIR BIG, CUTE LITTLE
00:46:11.46\00:46:14.33
FINGERS AND WALKING AROUND.
THEY'RE JUST VERY PERSISTENT.
00:46:14.33\00:46:18.56
YOU CAN'T GET RID OF
THEM. THEY KEEP COMING BACK.
00:46:18.56\00:46:20.33
THAT'S THE POINT THAT'S BEING
EMPHASIZED HERE IS PERSISTENCE.
00:46:20.33\00:46:22.33
SO FROM THESE ANIMALS,
THE LESSON HERE IS HARD WORK,
00:46:22.33\00:46:26.56
PLANNING, ORDER, AND
PERSISTENCE - SOME IMPORTANT
00:46:26.56\00:46:31.26
CHARACTERISTICS THAT WE NEED TO
BEAR IN MIND. ALRIGHT, LOOKING
00:46:31.26\00:46:35.03
NOW AT VERSES 29 THROUGH 31,
FOUR THINGS THAT ARE STATELY .
00:46:35.03\00:46:40.26
>>THERE BE THREE THINGS WHICH
GO WELL, YEA, FOUR ARE COMELY IN
00:46:40.26\00:46:46.93
GOING: A LION WHICH IS STRONGEST
AMONG BEASTS, AND TURNETH NOT
00:46:46.93\00:46:54.03
AWAY FOR ANY; A GREYHOUND; AN HE
GOAT ALSO; AND A KING, AGAINST
00:46:54.03\00:47:02.20
WHOM THERE IS NO
RISING UP." >>THANK YOU.
00:47:02.20\00:47:07.26
SO HERE WE SEE FOUR
THINGS THAT ARE MAJESTIC.
00:47:07.26\00:47:10.46
FIRST OF ALL, OF
COURSE, IS THE LION.
00:47:10.46\00:47:13.03
WE KNOW THE LION IS A
SYMBOL OF POWER AND MAJESTY.
00:47:13.03\00:47:15.66
IN THE BIBLE JESUS IS DESCRIBED
AS A LION. IT'S CONNECTED WITH
00:47:15.66\00:47:20.26
HIS KINGSHIP AND RULERSHIP -
THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
00:47:20.26\00:47:24.13
IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE
THAT IN THE BIBLE, NOT ONLY IS
00:47:24.13\00:47:26.76
JESUS DESCRIBED AS A LION, BUT
YOU KNOW THE DEVIL IS DESCRIBED
00:47:26.76\00:47:29.80
AS A LION AND HE'S 'GOING AROUND
AS A ROARING LION SEEKING WHOM
00:47:29.80\00:47:33.20
HE MAY DEVOUR.'
ANOTHER INTERESTING SYMBOL IS -
00:47:33.20\00:47:36.00
NOT ONLY IS THE SERPENT USED
TO SYMBOLIZE SATAN, BUT THERE IS
00:47:36.00\00:47:41.46
A REFERENCE WHERE THE SERPENT
LIFTED UP ON THE POLE - YOU
00:47:41.46\00:47:44.46
REMEMBER THE STORY
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:47:44.46\00:47:46.26
- REPRESENTS JESUS TAKING UPON
HIMSELF OUR SINS - 'BECOMING SIN
00:47:46.26\00:47:49.66
FOR US; BEARING THE CURSE ON
OUR BEHALF.' SO THERE ARE SOME
00:47:49.66\00:47:53.30
INTERESTING - OH, ANOTHER
ONE, IN THE BIBLE CHRIST IS
00:47:53.30\00:47:55.86
DESCRIBED - HIS COMING IS
DESCRIBED AS LIGHTNING FLASHING
00:47:55.86\00:47:59.33
FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST.
JESUS SAID, CONCERNING SATAN, 'I
00:47:59.33\00:48:02.83
SAW SATAN FALL LIKE LIGHTNING
FROM HEAVEN.' SO THERE ARE SOME
00:48:02.83\00:48:06.36
INTERESTING SYMBOLS THAT ARE
USED FOR BOTH CHRIST AND SATAN.
00:48:06.36\00:48:09.16
THE LION HERE, OF COURSE,
IS POWER AND GLORY AND MAJESTY.
00:48:09.16\00:48:12.10
THE NEXT ANIMAL
MENTIONED IS A GREYHOUND.
00:48:12.10\00:48:15.90
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF
WHEN YOU THINK OF A GREYHOUND?
00:48:15.90\00:48:18.66
YOU THINK OF SPEED AND SO THE
IDEA OF A GREYHOUND WITH SPEED -
00:48:18.66\00:48:22.63
YOU KNOW GREYHOUNDS, THEY
HAVE THIS SORT OF, MAJESTIC LOOK
00:48:22.63\00:48:25.56
TO THEM - THE WAY THEY HOLD
THEIR NOSE UP AND THE WAY THEY
00:48:25.56\00:48:29.36
SIT-THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS.
AND THEN, THIS IS KIND OF AN
00:48:29.36\00:48:32.90
INTERESTING ONE, HE SAYS A
GOAT FOR A MAJESTIC ANIMAL.
00:48:32.90\00:48:36.73
AT FIRST I SCRATCHED MY
HEAD. I THOUGHT, 'A GOAT?'
00:48:36.73\00:48:39.20
YOU WOULDN'T THINK OF
A GOAT AS BEING MAJESTIC.
00:48:39.20\00:48:40.86
HAVE YOU GUYS EVER SEEN THOSE
NATURE DOCUMENTARIES OF THE
00:48:40.86\00:48:43.60
MOUNTAIN GOATS AND THE WAY
THEY RUN ON THOSE STEEP CLIFFS?
00:48:43.60\00:48:46.86
THAT IS MAJESTIC.
WHEN YOU SEE ONE OF THOSE
00:48:46.86\00:48:50.06
MOUNTAIN GOATS STANDING ON THE
EDGE OF THIS CLIFF AND HE HAS
00:48:50.06\00:48:53.40
NOTHING TO FEAR AND THEN THEY'RE
FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER AND
00:48:53.40\00:48:56.30
THEY'RE BANGING HORNS AND
THEY'RE ON THE SIDE OF THE
00:48:56.30\00:48:58.33
MOUNTAIN, THAT IS SPECTACULAR.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE NEXT
00:48:58.33\00:49:01.40
ONE IS A KING GOING OUT WITH HIS
SOLDIERS LOOKING MAJESTIC AND
00:49:01.40\00:49:06.43
POWERFUL GOING INTO BATTLE.
THAT, OF COURSE, IS ALSO A
00:49:06.43\00:49:09.26
REFERENCE TO THE
SECOND COMING OF JESUS.
00:49:09.26\00:49:11.83
REVELATION CHAPTER 19 - JESUS
IS DESCRIBED AS COMING KING OF
00:49:11.83\00:49:15.63
KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
HE'S RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE.
00:49:15.63\00:49:18.86
HE HAS MANY CROWNS UPON HIS HEAD
AND HE HAS THE NAME WRITTEN ON
00:49:18.86\00:49:23.06
HIS THIGH, 'KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS.' OH, BY THE WAY,
00:49:23.06\00:49:25.53
WHY IS THIS NAME 'KING OF KINGS
AND LORD OF LORDS' WRITTEN ON
00:49:25.53\00:49:30.03
CHRIST'S THIGH? HAVE YOU
EVER NOTICED THAT BEFORE?
00:49:30.03\00:49:33.53
A COUPLE THINGS: FIRST OF ALL,
THE THIGH IS THE BIGGEST MUSCLE
00:49:33.53\00:49:37.70
IN THE BODY. IT'S
A SYMBOL OF STRENGTH.
00:49:37.70\00:49:40.20
IT IS A SYMBOL OF POWER. SO
THAT'S WHAT'S EMPHASIZED WHEN
00:49:40.20\00:49:43.30
HE'S COMING AS KING OF
KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
00:49:43.30\00:49:45.46
HE'S COMING WITH POWER
AND MAJESTY AND STRENGTH.
00:49:45.46\00:49:47.96
THERE IS ANOTHER THING
THAT THE THIGH REPRESENTS.
00:49:47.96\00:49:50.96
YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER THE OLD
TESTAMENT STORIES THAT IN THE
00:49:50.96\00:49:53.63
TIME OF ABRAHAM AND ALSO IN THE
TIME OF JACOB, WHEN YOU MADE A
00:49:53.63\00:49:57.70
SOLID OATH, YOU WOULD SLIDE YOUR
HAND UNDER THE PERSON'S THIGH.
00:49:57.70\00:50:02.86
I'M SURE GLAD WE DON'T DO THAT
NOWADAYS, WE JUST SHAKE HANDS
00:50:02.86\00:50:05.70
AND WE'RE DONE. BUT THAT
WAS A SIGN OF A SOLEMN OATH.
00:50:05.70\00:50:09.20
CHRIST HAS MADE AN OATH
TO US - HE'S MADE A PROMISE.
00:50:09.20\00:50:12.76
HE SAID, 'I WILL COME AGAIN
AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF.'
00:50:12.76\00:50:17.00
REVELATION CHAPTER 19 DESCRIBES
JESUS COMING, FULFILLING HIS
00:50:17.00\00:50:20.13
PROMISE AS KING OF KINGS
AND LORD OF LORDS. AND THEN,
00:50:20.13\00:50:24.60
FINALLY, THE LAST TWO VERSES
THAT WE HAVE HERE - I'LL JUST
00:50:24.60\00:50:27.83
READ IT - VERSES 32 AND 33 - IT
SAYS, "IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOOLISH
00:50:27.83\00:50:31.83
IN EXALTING YOURSELF, OR IF YOU
HAVE DEVISED EVIL, PUT YOUR HAND
00:50:31.83\00:50:36.30
ON YOUR MOUTH." - IN
OTHER WORDS, STOP SPEAKING;
00:50:36.30\00:50:39.06
DON'T JUST KEEP GOING.
00:50:39.06\00:50:40.33
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE FIND
OURSELVES SAYING SOMETHING AND
00:50:40.33\00:50:43.16
THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL CONVICT
US AND WE THINK TO OURSELF, 'WE
00:50:43.16\00:50:45.46
PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE SAYING
THIS, BUT WE'VE GONE SO FAR WE
00:50:45.46\00:50:48.43
MIGHT AS WELL AT
LEAST FINISH THE STORY.'
00:50:48.43\00:50:50.93
A WISE MAN SAYS IF YOU CATCH
YOURSELF HALFWAY, STOP SPEAKING
00:50:50.93\00:50:54.60
- PUT YOUR HAND ON YOUR MOUTH.
YOU CAN STOP IT RIGHT THERE.
00:50:54.60\00:50:58.03
VERSE 33 - IT SAYS, "FOR AS
THE CHURNING OF MILK PRODUCES
00:50:58.03\00:51:01.73
BUTTER, AND WRINGING THE NOSE
PRODUCES BLOOD, SO THE FORCING
00:51:01.73\00:51:06.73
OF WRATH PRODUCES STRIFE."
SO AS THE CHRISTIAN, WE DON'T
00:51:06.73\00:51:12.33
WANT TO PURSUE STRIFE.
WE DON'T WANT TO STIR UP
00:51:12.33\00:51:15.20
TROUBLE, ESPECIALLY AMONGST THE
BRETHREN. WE WANT TO BE KIND AND
00:51:15.20\00:51:19.80
CHRIST-LIKE IN THE WAY
THAT WE REACT WITH ONE ANOTHER.
00:51:19.80\00:51:23.20
IN CLOSING, I WANT
TO JUST SHARE HERE.
00:51:23.20\00:51:25.90
ON FRIDAY WE HAD A QUOTE FROM
THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES , WHICH
00:51:25.90\00:51:28.33
I THINKS HELPS SUMMARIZE WHAT
WE LOOKED AT IN THIS CHAPTER.
00:51:28.33\00:51:32.00
IT SAYS, "CHRIST'S WORDS TO THE
PEOPLE ON THE MOUNT" - SPEAKING
00:51:32.00\00:51:35.26
OF THE MOUNT OF BLESSINGS
- "WERE WORDS OF BLESSING.
00:51:35.26\00:51:37.63
'HAPPY ARE THEY' HE SAID
'WHO RECOGNIZE THEIR SPIRITUAL
00:51:37.63\00:51:41.10
POVERTY AND FEEL THEIR NEED OF
REDEMPTION. THE GOSPEL IS GOING
00:51:41.10\00:51:45.20
TO BE PREACHED TO THE POOR, NOT
TO THE SPIRITUALLY PROUD - THOSE
00:51:45.20\00:51:49.10
WHO CLAIM TO BE RICH AND IN NEED
OF NOTHING - "IT IS REVEALED
00:51:49.10\00:51:52.66
BUT TO THOSE WHO ARE OF A
HUMBLE AND A CONTRITE HEART.
00:51:52.66\00:51:58.13
THE LORD CAN DO NOTHING
TOWARD THE RECOVERY OF MAN UNTIL
00:51:58.13\00:52:01.20
CONVINCED OF HIS OWN
WEAKNESS AND STRIPPED OF ALL
00:52:01.20\00:52:05.10
SELF-SUFFICIENCY, HE YIELDS
HIMSELF TO THE CONTROL OF GOD.
00:52:05.10\00:52:08.76
THEN HE CAN RECEIVE THE GIFT
THAT GOD IS WAITING TO BESTOW.
00:52:08.76\00:52:12.20
FROM THAT SOUL THAT FEELS
HIS NEED, NOTHING IS WITHHELD."
00:52:12.20\00:52:17.90
- THAT'S A WONDERFUL PROMISE
- "HE HAS UNRESTRICTED ACCESS TO
00:52:17.90\00:52:21.40
HIM IN WHOM IS ALL THE
FULLNESS." THAT'S THE PROMISE.
00:52:21.40\00:52:25.96
SO WHEN WE RECOGNIZE OUR NEED
AND WE HUMBLE OUR HEARTS BEFORE
00:52:25.96\00:52:28.56
JESUS, THEN HE CAN LIFT US
UP AND WE CAN BE FILLED WITH HIS
00:52:28.56\00:52:32.33
GLORY. AGAIN, I'D
LIKE TO REMIND THOSE
00:52:32.33\00:52:34.96
WATCHING OF OUR
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WELL, FRIENDS, WE'RE
OUT OF TIME FOR OUR STUDY.
00:52:49.60\00:52:51.66
WE HAVE ONE MORE LESSON ON THE
BOOK OF PROVERBS, SO PLEASE BE
00:52:51.66\00:52:55.90
SURE TO COME BACK AND JOIN
US AS WE WRAP UP OUR STUDY ON
00:52:55.90\00:52:58.36
OUR LESSON QUARTERLY IN
PROVERBS. LET'S CLOSE WITH
00:52:58.36\00:53:01.46
A WORD OF PRAYER.
DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE
00:53:01.46\00:53:03.86
AGAIN WE THANK YOU FOR THE
OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND SOME TIME
00:53:03.86\00:53:06.23
LOOKING AT SOME PRACTICAL
COUNSEL FOR EVERYDAY LIVING.
00:53:06.23\00:53:10.96
FATHER, IT IS OUR
DESIRE TO HAVE A HUMBLE HEART.
00:53:10.96\00:53:13.63
WE KNOW THAT IT IS YOU THAT
GIVES US THE CORRECT PERSPECTIVE
00:53:13.63\00:53:18.76
OF WHO WE ARE IN RELATIONSHIP
TO YOU AND THAT BRINGS ABOUT A
00:53:18.76\00:53:23.50
HUMBLING OF OUR HEARTS SO THAT
YOU CAN FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT
00:53:23.50\00:53:26.56
AND LIFT US UP. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR PROMISE TO
00:53:26.56\00:53:29.30
WORK WITHIN US
AS WE TRUST IN YOU.
00:53:29.30\00:53:31.56
BLESS THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING
AND WE THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR
00:53:31.56\00:53:34.96
HEARING OUR PRAYER.
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:53:34.96\00:53:37.63
THANK YOU AGAIN, EVERYBODY.
HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING.
00:53:37.63\00:53:42.36
>>WELL, MY CONVERSION STORY IS
WHEN I WAS IN THE PHILIPPINES I
00:53:42.36\00:53:46.43
JUST GRADUATED AS A NURSE AND
AFTERWARDS I DID NOT HAVE ANY
00:53:46.43\00:53:52.13
RELIGION AND ONE TIME I FOUND
MYSELF INSIDE A SMALL CHURCH -
00:53:52.13\00:53:58.06
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MANILLA -
AND BEFORE A BIG CROSS AND I WAS
00:53:58.06\00:54:05.26
KNEELING BEFORE AND I COULD HEAR
JESUS TELLING ME TO ENTER THE
00:54:05.26\00:54:10.90
CONVENT, SAVE
MYSELF, AND ALSO MY FAMILY.
00:54:10.90\00:54:15.26
AND I SAID, 'LORD, I WOULD LIKE
TO FOLLOW YOU ALL THE WAY.' AT
00:54:15.26\00:54:18.33
THAT POINT I SEEMED TO BE HAPPY,
EXTERNALLY, BUT BECAUSE INSIDE
00:54:18.33\00:54:23.40
THE CONVENT WE DON'T READ THE
BIBLE - WE DON'T STUDY ABOUT THE
00:54:23.40\00:54:27.33
WORD OF GOD, WE PRAY THE
ROSARIES. WE ALSO, AT THE SAME
00:54:27.33\00:54:32.26
TIME, STUDY THE LIVES OF THE
SAINTS AND ALSO OUR FOUNDERS AND
00:54:32.26\00:54:36.16
THE ENCYCLICALS OF THE
POPE, AND THE VIRGIN MARY.
00:54:36.16\00:54:40.80
AND SO I DO NOT KNOW THE
TRUTH AND I HAD THIS TORTURE OF
00:54:40.80\00:54:44.30
CONSCIENCE - THE GUILTY FEELINGS
THAT CANNOT BE RESOLVED.
00:54:44.30\00:54:48.93
SO I WOULD CONFESS TO THE PRIEST
IN THE CONFESSIONAL BOX SAYING,
00:54:48.93\00:54:52.30
'FATHER, FORGIVE ME.
SINCE MY LAST CONFESSION WAS
00:54:52.30\00:54:56.90
LAST WEEK - SINCE THEN I
HAVE COMMITTED THE FOLLOWING SIN
00:54:56.90\00:55:00.46
INCLUDING THE ROOT CAUSE, 'WHY
AM I FALLING AND FALLING IN THAT
00:55:00.46\00:55:04.93
SAME SIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN?'
AND STILL, FOR 21 LONG YEARS I
00:55:04.93\00:55:10.70
STRUGGLE AND I
STRUGGLE AND I STRUGGLE.
00:55:10.70\00:55:15.03
I REALIZED THAT I
WAS TOTALLY EMPTY.
00:55:15.03\00:55:18.70
I WAS TOTALLY HELPLESS AND
HOPELESS AND SO DEPRESSED AND SO
00:55:18.70\00:55:23.90
DESPERATE THAT I WOULD
LIKE ALREADY TO END MY LIFE.
00:55:23.90\00:55:27.66
I WAS WORKING FOR FIVE YEARS AS
DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAINT
00:55:27.66\00:55:33.40
AUGUSTINE COLLEGE OF
NURSING IN ILOILO CITY,
00:55:33.40\00:55:36.66
ONE OF THE ISLANDS
OF THE PHILIPPINES.
00:55:36.66\00:55:39.23
AFTER FIVE YEARS I RECEIVED
MY COMMISSION FROM MY PARENTS TO
00:55:39.23\00:55:44.26
HELP MY SISTER WHO IS
BEING A BATTERED WOMAN.
00:55:44.26\00:55:48.93
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I
CAME OVER TO THE UNITED STATES.
00:55:48.93\00:55:53.63
IT IS BECAUSE MY
SISTER NEEDS MY HELP.
00:55:53.63\00:55:58.16
AS I WAS WORKING IN THE HOSPITAL
IN NEW YORK, MY BOSS, SERAPHIM,
00:55:58.16\00:56:02.20
HE WAS SO GRACIOUS ENOUGH
TO GIVE ME AN INVITATION TO THE
00:56:02.20\00:56:05.96
'MILLENNIUM OF PROPHECY'.
00:56:05.96\00:56:07.73
AS I WAS LISTENING TO PASTOR
DOUG BATCHELOR'S PRESENTATION,
00:56:07.73\00:56:12.16
MY HEART REALLY WAS BEATING SO
FAST AND MY MIND - I AM ABLE TO
00:56:12.16\00:56:17.46
GRASP THE TRUTH THAT THIS IS THE
TRUTH THAT I'VE BEEN LONGING TO
00:56:17.46\00:56:23.56
HEAR ALL MY LIFE - THAT I
HAVE BEEN SEEKING FOR SO LONG.
00:56:23.56\00:56:28.73
MY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH
JESUS - I CAN SEE JESUS AS MY
00:56:28.73\00:56:33.60
PERSONAL SAVIOR. HE IS
NOT ONLY THE SAVIOR OF THE
00:56:33.60\00:56:37.46
WHOLE WORLD, BUT HE
IS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR.
00:56:37.46\00:56:41.46
HE WAS THE ONE WHO DELIVERED ME
MIGHTILY FROM THE DEPTHS OF SIN
00:56:41.46\00:56:47.60
- FROM THE MIREY CLAY.
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR HAS BEEN
00:56:47.60\00:56:51.36
USED BY THE LORD
IN MY CONVERSION.
00:56:51.36\00:56:54.70
THE AMAZING
FACTS - I OWE TO THEM.
00:56:54.70\00:56:57.40
THE LORD REALLY BLESSED THIS
MINISTRY AND I'M SO PROUD I WAS
00:56:57.40\00:57:03.33
ABLE TO ATTEND THIS
'MILLENNIUM OF PROPHECY'.
00:57:03.33\00:57:06.83
MY LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME.
IT HAS GIVEN ME THAT PEACE -
00:57:06.83\00:57:11.83
THAT JOY THAT NEVER - I
HAVE NEVER TASTED IN MY LIFE.
00:57:11.83\00:57:17.60
NOW I AM SET FREE TO BE ABLE TO
WORK FOR HIM AND TO FOLLOW HIM.
00:57:17.60\00:57:35.33
>> DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:35.33\00:57:38.40
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:38.40\00:57:42.36
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
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