Participants: Doug Batchelor
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00:34 >>GOOD EVENING, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO 00:36 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:38 MY NAME IS JËAN ROSS AND WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR LESSON 00:40 QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. 00:43 I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE JOINING US FROM ACROSS THE 00:45 COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD AS WE STUDY TOGETHER AND ALSO I'D 00:48 LIKE TO WELCOME THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH MEMBERS - THANK YOU FOR 00:51 COMING OUT AND JOINING US HERE FOR OUR TUESDAY EVENING BIBLE 00:54 STUDY. AS MENTIONED BEFORE, WE'RE STILL WORKING ON OUR 00:57 LESSON QUARTERLY ON THE BOOK OF PROVERBS AND WE'RE ON 01:00 LESSON #12. FOR OUR FRIENDS JOINING US, IF 01:02 YOU DON'T HAVE THE LESSON AND YOU'D LIKE TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH 01:05 US, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH 01:09 WEBSITE - JUST GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG - OR YOU CAN DO IT AT THE 01:14 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 01:17 LESSON #12 - AND YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG WITH US. 01:20 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY AND 01:24 IT'S ENTITLED THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS . 01:27 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS. 01:31 THE NUMBER TO CALL IS 866-788-3966. 01:36 THAT NUMBER, AGAIN, IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR 01:41 OFFER #156 - THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS - OR YOU CAN READ IT 01:46 FOR FREE ONLINE AT THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST 01:50 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY 01:54 AGAIN THIS EVENING, LET'S JUST BOW OUR HEADS AND ASK GOD'S 01:57 BLESSING ON OUR STUDY. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK 01:59 YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR 02:02 WORD. LORD, WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE 02:04 BIBLE IS YOUR BOOK, SO WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT TO GUIDE US. 02:07 SO LEAD US IN THIS STUDY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 02:12 >>AMEN. 02:13 OUR LESSON TODAY, LESSON #12, IS ENTITLED HUMILITY OF THE WISE . 02:17 WE DO HAVE A SCRIPTURE READING WHICH IS MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, 02:20 VERSE 3. I THINK IT'S ONE THAT'S FAIRLY WELL KNOWN TO US. 02:24 IT'S THE WORDS OF JESUS SPOKEN THERE ON THE MOUNT: "BLESSED ARE 02:28 THE POOR IN SPIRIT, FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." 02:32 NOW A PRINCIPLE PASSAGE OF STUDY THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT IS 02:37 PROVERBS CHAPTER 30. SO WE HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT ARE 02:40 GOING TO HELP US READ AND WE'RE GOING TO WORK OUR WAY THROUGH 02:41 PROVERBS 30. SO OUR FIRST READER CAN GET READY, LET ME JUST 02:45 BEGIN BY READING THE OPENING STATEMENT ON THE LESSON. 02:48 IT SAYS HERE IN THE BIBLE HUMILITY IS CONSIDERED A VERY 02:51 IMPORTANT VIRTUE. THE GREATEST OF THE PROPHETS, 02:54 MOSES, IS SINGLED OUT AS BEING THE MOST HUMBLE PERSON WHO EVER 03:01 LIVED. YOU READ ABOUT THAT IN NUMBERS 03:03 CHAPTER 12, VERSE 3. ACCORDING TO MICAH CHAPTER 6, 03:06 VERSE 8, THE MAIN DUTY THAT GOD EXPECTS FROM PEOPLE IS TO WALK 03:11 HUMBLY WITH THEIR GOD. JESUS, TOO, INSISTED THAT 03:15 HUMILITY IS AN IDEAL THAT THE CHRISTIAN SHOULD ADOPT. 03:19 IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 18, VERSE 4 JESUS SAID WHOEVER HUMBLES 03:22 HIMSELF AS A LITTLE CHILD IS THE GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM OF 03:26 HEAVEN. SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT HOW 03:29 PROVERBS DESCRIBES THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMILITY. 03:33 A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT THEMES ARE ADDRESSED HERE. 03:35 IT BEGINS IN VERSE 1 BY TALKING ABOUT A GENTLEMEN BY THE NAME OF 03:38 AGUR AND SAYS THAT HE'S THE SON OF JAKEH. 03:42 NOW, WHO IS AGUR? THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THAT THIS 03:45 PERSON IS REFERENCED IN THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURES, SO WE'RE NOT 03:48 QUITE SURE. ALSO, HIS FATHER JAKEH IS ALSO 03:53 MENTIONED JUST ONE TIME AND IT'S HERE. 03:55 THERE ARE TWO OTHER NAMES, ITHIEL AND UCAL - UCAL IS ONLY 04:00 MENTIONED HERE IN PROVERBS 30. THERE IS SOMEBODY REFERRED TO AS 04:05 'ITHIEL' OVER IN NUMBERS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 7. 04:09 NOW WE DON'T KNOW, OF COURSE, IF THIS IS THE SAME ITHIEL - THERE 04:12 MIGHT HAVE BEEN SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS, BUT HE IS 04:14 SAID TO BE A DESCENDANT OF BENJAMIN. 04:16 ALSO, WHAT WE DON'T KNOW FROM THIS PASSAGE IS WHETHER AGUR WAS 04:21 THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY WROTE IT, OR IF HE JUST SPOKE IT AND 04:24 ITHIEL WROTE IT DOWN - IT'S UNCLEAR. 04:27 BUT EITHER WAY, WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE, 04:31 BEING PART OF SCRIPTURE, IS GIVEN BY THE INSPIRATION OF GOD, 04:35 BECAUSE WE READ IN 2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3, VERSE 16 AND 17, "ALL 04:40 SCRIPTURE" - THE BIBLE SAYS - "IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, 04:45 AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE," - WHAT IS DOCTRINE? 04:47 THAT IS TEACHING - "FOR REPROOF," - THAT IS TELLING US 04:52 WHAT WE'RE DOING WRONG - "FOR CORRECTION," - TELLING US HOW WE 04:55 CAN DO THE RIGHT THING - AS WELL AS "FOR INSTRUCTION IN 04:59 RIGHTEOUSNESS," - THE WORD 'RIGHTEOUSNESS' MEANS 'RIGHT 05:02 DOING' - "THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE (PERFECT OR) COMPLETE, 05:06 THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK." 05:09 SO HERE WE HAVE SOME INSPIRED COUNSEL, GIVEN THROUGH THIS 05:13 INDIVIDUAL, THAT HAS BEEN PASSED ON FROM TIME TO TIME, FROM GROUP 05:19 OF PEOPLE IN THE SCRIPTURES, WITH WISE, INSPIRED COUNSEL FOR 05:23 OUR TIME. VERSE 2 HE SAYS, "SURELY I AM MORE STUPID THAN 05:26 ANY MAN, AND DO NOT HAVE THE UNDERSTANDING OF A MAN." 05:31 HERE HE USES ONE OF THE STRONGEST WORDS TO DESCRIBE 05:33 HIMSELF AS BEING, WELL, I JUST - I JUST DON'T KNOW - HE USED THE 05:37 WORD 'STUPID' - 'I'M A STUPID MAN. I DON'T HAVE 05:40 UNDERSTANDING.' IN OTHER WORDS, IN COMPARISON TO WHAT GOD KNOWS, 05:44 WE APPEAR VERY STUPID. AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO 05:47 CONSIDER THEMSELVES WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES. 05:50 FROM HEAVEN'S PERSPECTIVE THEY'RE EVEN MORE STUPID. 05:54 BUT HERE HE RECOGNIZES HIS NEED FOR GOD'S WISDOM. 05:57 SO HERE WE HAVE A RECOGNITION FOR INSTRUCTION. 06:01 JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 18, VERSE 4, "THEREFORE WHOEVER 06:06 HUMBLES HIMSELF AS THIS LITTLE CHILD IS THE GREATEST IN THE 06:09 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." HUMILITY IS A VERY IMPORTANT 06:13 CHARACTERISTIC THAT WE SEE REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN 06:15 THE BIBLE. YOU KNOW, THAT REMINDS ME OF A STORY. 06:18 I THINK PASTOR DOUG MENTIONED IT A FEW WEEKS AGO. 06:20 I WANT TO MENTION IT AGAIN - THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO WAS SO 06:23 HUMBLE THAT THE TOWN DECIDED TO GIVE HIM A MEDAL. 06:26 DO YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY? AND HE WORE HIS MEDAL ALL AROUND 06:28 TOWN SO EVENTUALLY THEY HAD TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM HIM BECAUSE HE 06:32 WASN'T HUMBLE ANYMORE. HE WAS BRAGGING ABOUT THE FACT 06:34 THAT HE WAS THE HUMBLEST MAN IN TOWN. 06:36 HUMILITY IS ONE OF THOSE CHARACTERISTICS OR CHARACTER 06:39 TRAITS THAT YOU DON'T EVER REALLY RECOGNIZE IN YOURSELF. 06:44 THE MOMENT YOU START THINKING OF YOURSELF AS HUMBLE, IT'S 06:48 PROBABLY EVIDENCE THAT YOU'RE NOT HUMBLE, BUT IT IS SOMETHING 06:51 THAT HEAVEN RECOGNIZES. IT'S ALSO SOMETHING THAT CAN BE 06:54 RECOGNIZED BY OTHERS. AND SO HE DOES TALK ABOUT 06:57 NEEDING WISDOM. VERSE 3 HE SAYS, "I NEITHER 07:01 LEARNED WISDOM, NOR HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY ONE." 07:05 HE RECOGNIZES GOD'S WISDOM AS BEING SUPREME. 07:09 ISAIAH CHAPTER 55, VERSE 9 - IT SAYS, "FOR AS THE HEAVENS ARE 07:13 HIGHER THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, 07:17 AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS." 07:20 SO GOD'S WISDOM IS GREATER - FAR GREATER THAN OUR WISDOM - AND, 07:24 YET, GOD IS WILLING TO SHARE WITH US HIS WISDOM. 07:28 TO KNOW GOD IS TO KNOW WISDOM - TO KNOW TRUTH - TO HAVE 07:32 EVERLASTING LIFE. I'M REMINDED OF THE EXPERIENCE OF JOB. 07:36 WE READ ABOUT ALL THESE TERRIBLE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO HIM AND 07:38 THEN HIS THREE FRIENDS CAME AND THEY BEGAN TO SAY TO HIM, 'YOU 07:41 KNOW, JOB, YOU MUST HAVE COMMITTED SOME GREAT SIN AND 07:44 THAT'S WHY ALL THESE BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO YOU.' 'GOD IS 07:46 JUDGING YOU - OR PUNISHING YOU FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE DONE.' 07:49 'COME ON, JOB, JUST CONFESS. WHAT IS IT THAT YOU'VE DONE?' 07:52 AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN, JOB SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW. 07:55 I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING.' WELL, AS TIME GOES ON, JOB 07:59 BEGINS TO REALLY FEEL THE BURDEN OF WHAT HIS FRIENDS ARE SAYING 08:03 TO HIM AND JUST THE TERRIBLE ORDEAL THAT HE'S GOING THROUGH. 08:06 AND FINALLY JOB SAYS, 'OH THAT I COULD APPEAR BEFORE GOD - THAT I 08:10 COULD, AT LEAST, DEFEND MYSELF - THAT I COULD PRESENT MY CASE 08:14 BEFORE GOD.' WELL, AFTER JOB SPEAKS FOR A WHILE, FINALLY GOD 08:18 RESPONDS TO JOB. AND I ALWAYS FIND THE RESPONSE 08:21 GOD GIVES TO JOB VERY INTERESTING. 08:23 GOD DOES NOT EXPLAIN TO JOB THE SITUATION AND SAY, 'WELL, JOB, 08:26 THERE WAS THIS MEETING IN HEAVEN AND LUCIFER SHOWED UP - AND 08:29 SATAN WAS THERE AND HE SAID - GOD SAID, 'WHERE DID YOU COME 08:31 FROM?' 'FROM WALKING BACK AND FORTH ON THE EARTH' AND SO ON. 08:34 GOD DOESN'T GET INTO THE GREAT CONTROVERSY THEME WITH JOB. 08:37 INSTEAD, GOD RESPONDS TO JOB WITH THESE WORDS - HE SAYS, "WHO 08:41 IS IT THAT DARKENS COUNSEL, SPEAKING WORDS WITHOUT WISDOM? 08:47 GIRD YOURSELF UP LIKE A MAN. I WILL DEMAND OF YOU AND YOU 08:52 ANSWER ME IF YOU CAN." - GOD'S SPEAKING TO JOB. 08:54 HE SAYS, "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE 08:57 EARTH? TELL ME NOW IF YOU CAN. 08:59 WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE SONS OF GOD SANG FOR JOY?" 09:03 AND THEN GOD GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT HIS POWER AND HIS GLORY 09:06 AND HIS CREATIVE ABILITY AND HE GOES THROUGH THIS WHOLE LIST OF 09:10 DESCRIBING DIFFERENT THINGS IN NATURE. 09:12 FINALLY, BY THE TIME GOD GETS THROUGH, JOB RESPONDS AND THIS 09:15 IS WHAT HE HAS TO SAY, HE SAYS, SPEAKING TO GOD, "I 09:19 KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING AND THAT THERE IS NO PURPOSE OF 09:23 YOURS THAT CAN BE WITHHELD FROM YOU." 09:26 AND THEN JOB GOES ON TO SAY, "I'VE HEARD ABOUT WITH YOU WITH 09:30 MY HEARING, BUT NOW MY EYES HAVE SEEN YOU. 09:34 THEREFORE I REPENT IN DUST AND ASHES." 09:37 WHEN JOB UNDERSTOOD GOD'S POWER AND HIS CREATIVE ABILITY, HE 09:42 BEGAN TO PUT HIS TROUBLES IN PERSPECTIVE. 09:45 WHEN WE UNDERSTAND HOW BIG GOD REALLY IS, OUR BIG PROBLEMS 09:50 DON'T SEEM THAT BIG ANYMORE. 09:53 WHEN WE UNDERSTAND GOD HAS ALL POWER - HE CAN DO ALL THINGS - 09:57 THERE IS NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD. 09:59 WE CAN PUT OUR CONFIDENCE IN HIM EVEN THOUGH WE MIGHT NOT 10:01 UNDERSTAND THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WE FIND OURSELVES IN. 10:05 WE CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT GOD IS ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF US AND 10:08 SEE US THROUGH. NOW LOOKING AT VERSE 4 - 10:12 PROVERBS CHAPTER 30 AND VERSE 4. THE QUESTION IS ASKED, "WHO HAS 10:16 ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, OR DESCENDED? 10:18 WHO HAS GATHERED THE WIND IN HIS FISTS? 10:21 WHO HAS BOUND THE WATERS IN A GARMENT?" 10:24 - IT SAYS, "WHO HAS ESTABLISHED ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH? 10:28 WHAT IS HIS NAME, AND WHAT IS HIS SON'S NAME, IF YOU KNOW?" 10:34 OF COURSE, A BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE HERE. 10:35 NOTICE THE THEMES THAT I INTRODUCE. 10:37 FIRST OF ALL, THE QUESTION IS ASKED, 'WHO HAS ASCENDED INTO 10:39 HEAVEN AND COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN?' 10:41 NOW, IT'S NOT SAYING THAT NOBODY HAS EVER ASCENDED UP INTO 10:44 HEAVEN. WE KNOW THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS 10:45 THAT HAVE GONE UP TO HEAVEN, BUT THEY HAVEN'T GONE UP TO HEAVEN 10:47 AND COME BACK DOWN TO REVEAL TRUTH. 10:50 MATTER OF FACT, JESUS SAID, IN JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSE 13, IN 10:53 SPEAKING TO NICODEMUS JESUS SAID, 'NO ONE HAS ASCENDED UP 10:56 INTO HEAVEN BUT HE THAT HAS COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, 10:59 THAT IS THE SON OF MAN WHO IS IN HEAVEN. 11:02 SO THERE WERE INDIVIDUALS THAT WENT TO HEAVEN. 11:04 CAN YOU THINK OF SOME IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 11:06 WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON THAT WAS TRANSLATED WITHOUT SEEING 11:09 DEATH? >>ENOCH. 11:10 >>YOU HAVE ENOCH. AND THEN THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE - 11:13 A GREAT PROPHET OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 11:14 >>ELIJAH. >>IT WAS ELIJAH. 11:16 AND THEN WE KNOW OF SOMEBODY, ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF JUDE, 11:18 WHO DIED AND WAS BURIED, BUT HE WAS RESURRECTED AND TAKEN TO 11:23 HEAVEN. WHO'S THAT? >>MOSES. 11:25 >>THAT'S MOSES. AND, OF COURSE, MOSES APPEARS 11:26 WITH JESUS ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION WITH ELIJAH. 11:30 THERE IS ALSO A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT YOU READ ABOUT IN MATTHEW 11:33 THAT WERE RESURRECTED AT THE TIME OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION - 11:37 MATTHEW CHAPTER 27. IT SAYS THAT THEY APPEARED TO 11:40 MANY IN THE CITY AND THEN WE HAVE NO FURTHER REFERENCE TO 11:43 THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE. SO YOU WOULD THINK IF THEY WERE 11:45 AROUND DURING THE TIME OF THE BOOK OF ACTS, THE EARLY 11:48 CHRISTIAN CHURCH, YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT THEM. 11:51 I ALWAYS WONDER WHO WAS IN THAT GROUP THAT WAS RESURRECTED. 11:54 SOME OF THE GREAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT WE READ ABOUT IN THE 11:57 OLD TESTAMENT - MAYBE DANIEL WAS PART OF THAT GROUP. 11:59 WE DON'T KNOW, BUT IT APPEARS THAT AT THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST, 12:03 THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE WENT WITH JESUS TO HEAVEN AS FIRSTFRUITS. 12:07 SO THE POINT BEING MADE HERE IS NO ONE HAS ASCENDED UP INTO 12:09 HEAVEN TO RECEIVE TRUTH FROM GOD AND THEN HAS COME BACK IN PERSON 12:13 TO DELIVER THAT TRUTH. 12:15 EVEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TMES, WHO WAS THE ONE THAT REVEALED 12:20 HIMSELF IN THE CLOUD AND THE PILLAR OF FIRE? WAS THAT THE 12:25 FATHER OR WAS THAT THE SON? >>THE SON. 12:27 ACCORDING TO THE APOSTLE PAUL, IT WAS CHRIST WHO LED ISRAEL 12:30 DURING THEIR WILDERNESS WANDERINGS. 12:31 SO EVEN BEFORE THE INCARNATION, JESUS IS COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN 12:36 TO GUIDE HIS PEOPLE - TO REVEAL TRUTH TO HIS PEOPLE HERE ON THE 12:39 EARTH. NOW THERE'S A FEW OTHER THINGS 12:41 MENTIONED THERE IN VERSE 4 THAT WE NEED TO MENTION. IT SAYS, 12:45 'WHO IS THE ONE THAT GATHERS THE WIND IN HIS FISTS?' WHEN I READ 12:49 THAT, I COULDN'T HELP THINK OF REVELATION CHAPTER 7. 12:52 IN REVELATION 7 THERE IS THE DESCRIPTION OF FOUR ANGELS 12:54 HOLDING BACK THE FOUR WINDS OF STRIFE. 12:57 IN BIBLE PROPHECY, WINDS OFTEN REPRESENT TURMOIL AND COMMOTION 13:01 AND CALAMITY. SO GOD IS THE ONE THAT HOLDS 13:04 TURMOIL, OR CALAMITY, AT BAY. HE HOLDS IT IN HIS FISTS. 13:08 THE NEXT PART IS WHO HAS BOWED THE WATERS IN A GARMENT? 13:12 AGAIN, IN BIBLE PROPHECY, WHAT DOES WATER REPRESENT? 13:15 REVELATION CHAPTER 17. IT REPRESENTS MULTITUDES AND 13:18 NATIONS AND KINDREDS AND TONGUES. 13:20 GOD IS THE ONE WHO HAS CREATED ALL THINGS. 13:23 IT SAYS, 'WHO HAS ESTABLISHED THE ENDS OF THE EARTH?' 13:26 THAT, OF COURSE, IS THE CREATOR. 'WHAT IS HIS NAME? 13:29 WHAT IS HIS SON'S NAME?' ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 13:33 HERE WE HAVE A REFERENCE TO JESUS AND JESUS IS ASSOCIATED 13:36 WITH THE CREATOR. NOW, OF COURSE, YOU SEE THAT 13:40 SAME THEME IF YOU GO OVER TO JOHN CHAPTER ONE AND WE'LL TAKE 13:43 A LOOK AT THAT HERE IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. 13:45 ALRIGHT, LOOKING AT VERSE 5 - ONE OF MY FAVORITE VERSES. 13:49 IT SAYS, "EVERY WORD OF GOD IS PURE;" - AND - "HE IS A SHIELD 13:53 TO THOSE WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM." NOW THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE 13:58 THAT YOU FIND, IN THE BOOK OF PROVERBS, THE WORD HERE IN THE 14:01 HEBREW - TRANSLATED WORD IN ENGLISH. 14:04 YOU'LL ONLY FIND THIS PARTICULAR WORD HERE IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 30 14:08 AND IT IS CLOSELY LINKED WITH PSALM 119, VERSE 140, WHERE IT 14:15 SAYS, "YOUR WORD IS VERY PURE; THEREFORE YOUR SERVANT LOVES 14:18 IT." SO TRUSTING IN GOD'S WORD PROVIDES SPIRITUAL STRENGTH. 14:24 THERE IS POWER IN THE WORD OF GOD. 14:27 NOW, TO ILLUSTRATE THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD, I'D LIKE TO GO 14:30 TO ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 14:33 YOU'LL FIND IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 8, IT'S THE STORY OF A CENTURION 14:38 WHO HAD A SERVANT THAT WAS VERY SICK. DO YOU REMEMBER THE STORY? 14:41 SO HE CAME TO JESUS AND HERE WAS THIS MAN COMING TO JESUS AND HE 14:46 SAYS, 'MY SERVANT IS VERY SICK.' AND JESUS SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I'LL 14:49 COME AND HEAL HIM.' BUT THE CENTURION RESPONDED TO CHRIST 14:52 AND SAID, 'LORD, I AM NOT WORTHY THAT YOU SHOULD COME TO MY 14:56 HOUSE. BUT ONLY SPEAK THE WORD AND MY 15:00 SERVANT WILL BE HEALED.' NOW, WHEN JESUS HEARD THAT, THE BIBLE 15:03 SAYS HE MARVELED AND HE SAID TO THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM, THE 15:07 JEWS, 'I HAVE NOT SEEN SO GREAT A FAITH; NO, NOT IN ISRAEL.' NOW 15:13 WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT WHAT THE CENTURION SAID? 15:15 'LORD, I'M NOT WORTHY TO COME TO MY HOUSE BUT, PLEASE, JUST SPEAK 15:18 THE WORD. THE CENTURION PLACED HIS 15:21 CONFIDENCE IN THE POWER OF THE WORD OF CHRIST. 15:27 SO THE WORD OF GOD HAS POWER. THE QUESTION IS ASKED, 'WELL, 15:31 HOW IS IT THAT THE WORD OF GOD HAS POWER? 15:34 I THINK WE FIND AN ANSWER TO THAT IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1, IN 15:38 THE CREATION STORY, WHERE GOD CREATED THE EARTH AND THE EARTH 15:42 WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID; DARKNESS UPON THE FACE OF THE 15:44 DEEP. IT SAYS THE SPIRIT OF GOD HOVERED OVER THE FACE OF THE 15:47 WATERS AND THEN GOD SAID, 'LET THERE BE LIGHT.' SO WHEN GOD 15:51 SAID, 'LET THERE BE LIGHT,' THE SPIRIT OF GOD MADE THE LIGHT. 15:55 IN OTHER WORDS, THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD IS THE SPIRIT OF 16:01 GOD. SO WHATEVER JESUS SAYS, WHATEVER 16:03 GOD SAYS, THE SPIRIT ALWAYS DOES. 16:08 THAT'S WHY, OVER HERE IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 30, IT SAYS, 16:11 "HE IS A SHIELD TO THOSE WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM." 16:14 - IN HIS WORD. IN HIS PROMISES. 16:17 AND THEN VERSE 6 - IT SAYS, "DO NOT ADD TO HIS WORDS, LEST HE 16:22 REBUKE YOU, AND YOU BE FOUND A LIAR." 16:25 IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT MOSES SAID A SIMILAR THING 16:29 IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4, VERSE 2, THAT WE ARE NOT TO ADD TO THE 16:32 WORD OF GOD, NEITHER ARE WE TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 16:36 SO MOSES, WHO WROTE THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, 16:39 GAVE THIS WARNING. 16:41 YOU ALSO FIND THIS WARNING IN THE LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE. 16:44 MATTER OF FACT, THE VERY LAST CHAPTER OF THE LAST BOOK, 16:47 REVELATION CHAPTER 22, WHERE JOHN, WHO WROTE REVELATION, SAID 16:51 IF YOU ADD ANYTHING TO HIS WORD, GOD WILL ADD THE PLAGUES WRITTEN 16:56 IN THE BOOK. IF YOU TAKE ANYTHING AWAY, GOD 16:59 WILL REMOVE YOUR NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE. 17:01 SO HERE WE HAVE THIS WARNING AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE 17:04 - DON'T ADD TO GOD'S WORD. DON'T TAKE AWAY FROM IT - WE 17:07 HAVE IT AT THE VERY END OF THE BIBLE AND NOW WE HAVE IT HERE IN 17:10 THE MIDDLE OF THE BIBLE IN PROVERBS. 17:12 DON'T ADD TO HIS WORDS. DON'T TAKE AWAY FROM HIS WORDS. 17:16 SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING ABOUT THAT IS THE BIBLE TELLS US 'IN 17:20 THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERYTHING IS TO BE 17:22 ESTABLISHED. THERE IS ALSO A PRINCIPLE THAT 17:25 WE SEE IN SCRIPTURE: THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY - 17:29 OR THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. TO THE JEW, THE OLD TESTAMENT, 17:33 WHICH WAS THE SCRIPTURES THAT THEY HAD, WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO 17:36 PARTS. THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS, WRITTEN BY 17:39 MOSES, WAS CONSIDERED THE LAW, AND EVERYTHING ELSE WAS 17:42 CONSIDERED THE PROPHETS OR THE TESTIMONY. 17:45 AND IN ORDER TO HAVE SOMETHING ESTABLISHED, YOU HAD TO HAVE A 17:49 WITNESS IN THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS, OR THE LAW AND THE 17:53 TESTIMONY. SO HERE WE HAVE A WITNESS IN THE 17:56 LAW, WRITTEN BY MOSES IN DEUTERONOMY, AND WE HAVE A 17:59 WITNESS IN THE PROPHETS, BOTH HERE IN PROVERBS AND THEN ALSO 18:03 BY THE PROPHET JOHN, TO REAFFIRM AND ESTABLISH THE FACT THAT 18:07 GOD'S WORD IS PURE. IT IS POWERFUL. 18:10 WE ARE NOT TO TRY AND ADD TO HIS WORD, NOR ARE WE TO TRY AND TAKE 18:14 AWAY FROM HIS WORD. WE WANT TO ACCEPT GOD'S WORD 18:17 JUST THE WAY IT IS GIVEN. WELL, I THINK WE'RE ABOUT READY 18:20 NOW TO GO TO OUR NEXT SECTION, SO IF YOU WANT TO GET SET UP FOR 18:24 THAT, IT'S GOING TO BE PROVERBS CHAPTER 30 AND WE'LL BE READING 18:27 HERE VERSE 7 THROUGH TO VERSE 9 AND IN THIS PASSAGE YOU'LL 18:31 NOTICE TWO REQUESTS THAT AGUR HAS IN HIS PRAYER - TWO PRAYER 18:37 REQUESTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS PASSAGE. 18:39 SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK NOW AT VERSE 7 - PROVERBS 30, VERSE 7. 18:44 >>"TWO THINGS I REQUEST OF YOU (DEPRIVE ME NOT BEFORE I DIE): 18:48 REMOVE FALSEHOOD AND LIES FAR FROM ME; GIVE ME NEITHER POVERTY 18:52 NOR RICHES - FEED ME WITH THE FOOD ALLOTTED ME; LEST I BE FULL 18:57 AND DENY YOU, AND SAY, 'WHO IS THE LORD?' OR LEST I BE POOR AND 19:03 STEAL AND PROFANE THE NAME OF MY GOD." 19:06 >>ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO WHAT ARE THE TWO PRAYER 19:09 REQUESTS OF AGUR? WHAT IS HE ASKING FOR? NUMBER ONE: 19:13 HE'S ASKING THAT GOD WILL PROVIDE WHAT HE NEEDS BUT NOT 19:16 GIVE HIM TOO MUCH - SORT OF A BALANCE THERE. 19:19 FIRST OF ALL, HE'S ASKING FOR TRUE UNDERSTANDING FOR HIMSELF. 19:23 HE SAYS, 'REMOVE FALSEHOOD AND LIES FROM ME.' 19:27 I WAS REMINDED OF PSALM 119, VERSE 18 WHERE WE READ, "OPEN 19:32 MY EYES THAT I MIGHT SEE." IT BEGINS WITH HAVING A TRUE 19:37 PERSPECTIVE OR A TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF WHO WE ARE AND 19:40 OUR NEED OF JESUS. THAT'S WHERE CONVERSION BEGINS, 19:44 WHEN WE UNDERSTAND OUR GREAT NEED - WHEN WE UNDERSTAND WHAT 19:49 IS PROVIDED BY JESUS, THAT HUMBLES OUR HEART AND THAT'S THE 19:52 BEGINNING POINT. PAUL ALSO SAYS THAT WE NEED TO 19:55 LEARN HOW TO BE SUFFICIENT IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. 19:59 IN PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 11 PAUL SAYS, "...I HAVE LEARNED 20:03 IN WHATEVER STATE I AM, TO BE CONTENT." 20:06 AND THEN PAUL WROTE TO TIMOTHY IN 1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 6, VERSE 8, 20:10 "AND HAVING FOOD AND CLOTHING, WITH THESE WE SHALL BE CONTENT." 20:15 SO WE NEED TO TRUST IN WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN US. 20:17 BE GRATEFUL WITH HIS - FOR HIS BLESSINGS. 20:20 PROVERBS 30, VERSE 9 SAYS, "LEST I BE FULL AND DENY YOU, AND SAY, 20:25 'WHO IS THE LORD?' OR LEST I BE POOR AND STEAL..." 20:28 THERE IS A DANGER IN HAVING WEALTH. 20:31 THE DANGER IS THAT OVER ABUNDANCE CREATES A FEELING OF, 20:36 SORT OF, INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD. WE DON'T REALIZE OUR NEED OF 20:40 GOD. IT'S OFTEN WHEN I TRAVEL, ESPECIALLY TO THIRD WORLD 20:44 COUNTRIES AND WE GO OUT INTO THE RURAL AREAS AND THE FARMLANDS, 20:47 THERE IS A KEEN SENSE AMONGST THE FARMERS OF THEIR DEPENDENCE 20:51 ON GOD. IF THE RAIN DOESN'T COME, THE 20:54 CROPS DON'T GROW. THE ANIMALS HAVE NOTHING TO EAT. 20:57 YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN THE CITY AND WE GO TO THE STORE AND RIGHT 21:00 NOW WE'RE IN A TERRIBLE DROUGHT HERE IN CALIFORNIA, BUT FOR MOST 21:03 PEOPLE IT'S NOT IMPACTING THEM THAT DIRECTLY. 21:07 BUT FOR THOSE WHO ARE DEPENDENT UPON THEIR LITTLE GARDEN TO 21:10 PROVIDE THEIR FOOD FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON OR WINTER, 21:13 HAVING THE RAIN IS VERY IMPORTANT. 21:16 THEY RECOGNIZE THEIR DEPENDENCE 21:18 ON GOD AND THAT'S WHAT'S BEING EMPHASIZED HERE. 21:20 NEVER GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE ARE SO SATISFIED WITH WHAT WE 21:23 HAVE THAT WE NEGLECT REALIZING GOD IS THE SOURCE OF ALL OF 21:26 THESE BLESSINGS. WE WANT TO TRUST HIM. 21:29 AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS A WARNING NOT TO - OR THERE IS A 21:35 REQUEST HERE NOT TO BE SO POOR THAT WE GET ANGRY TOWARDS GOD OR 21:41 WE HAVE A LACK OF FAITH TOWARDS GOD IN PROVIDING OUR NEEDS. 21:44 LUKE CHAPTER 18, VERSE 9 - WE FIND THE PARABLE THERE OF 21:48 THE PHARISEE AND THE TAX COLLECTOR. 21:51 ACTUALLY, THIS PASSAGE WAS REFERRED TO IN OUR LESSON, SO IF 21:54 YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, LET'S JUST TURN TO IT. 21:55 YOU'LL FIND IN LUKE CHAPTER 18, VERSE 9 - I THINK THIS IS A 22:00 FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE TALKING ABOUT HAVING A HUMBLE 22:04 HEART AND RECOGNIZING OUR NEED OF GOD. 22:06 SO LUKE CHAPTER 18, BEGINNING HERE IN VERSE 9. 22:10 IT SAYS, "ALSO HE SPOKE THIS PARABLE TO SOME WHO TRUSTED IN 22:15 THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE RIGHTEOUS, AND DESPISED OTHERS:" 22:19 IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING HOW THAT THOSE WHO TRUST IN 22:22 THEMSELVES TO BE RIGHTEOUS, ALMOST BY DEFAULT, DESPISE 22:25 OTHERS BECAUSE THEY ARE COMPARING THEMSELVES WITH OTHERS 22:29 AND THINK, 'WELL, I DON'T DO WHAT HE DOES. 22:31 I MUST BE A MUCH BETTER PERSON.' JESUS, SPECIFICALLY, IS 22:34 ADDRESSING THIS. VERSE 10, "TWO MEN" - 22:36 HE SAID - "WENT UP TO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY, 22:38 ONE A PHARISEE AND THE OTHER A TAX COLLECTOR." 22:40 - DESPISED BY THE PEOPLE - VERSE 11: "THE PHARISEE STOOD AND 22:44 PRAYED THUS WITH HIMSELF," - WAS GOD LISTENING TO HIS PRAYER? 22:48 HE WAS PRAYING TO HIMSELF. HE SAID, "GOD, I THANK YOU THAT 22:51 I AM NOT LIKE OTHER MEN-EXTORTIONERS, UNJUST, 22:54 ADULTERERS, OR EVEN AS THIS TAX COLLECTOR." 22:56 - AS HE LOOKS OVER AT THE TAX COLLECTOR THERE IN THE CORNER - 22:59 HE SAYS, "I FAST TWICE A WEEK; I GIVE TITHES OF ALL THAT I 23:03 POSSESS." - BUT VERSE 13 SAYS, "AND THE 23:06 TAX COLLECTOR, STANDING AFAR OFF" - WHY 'STANDING AFAR OFF?' 23:10 BECAUSE HE DIDN'T FEEL WORTHY TO ENTER INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 23:14 HE RECOGNIZED HIS NEED. HE'S STANDING AT A DISTANCE - 23:18 "WOULD NOT SO MUCH AS RAISE HIS EYES TO HEAVEN," - DIDN'T FEEL 23:23 WORTHY - "BUT BEAT UPON HIS BREAST, SAYING, 'GOD, BE 23:26 MERCIFUL TO ME A SINNER!'" - HE SAW HIS NEED. 23:29 HERE'S THE PROMISE - VERSE 14 - "I TELL YOU, THIS MAN WENT DOWN 23:32 TO HIS HOUSE JUSTIFIED" - JESUS SAID - "RATHER THAN THE OTHER; 23:36 FOR EVERYONE WHO EXALTS HIMSELF WILL BE HUMBLED, AND HE WHO 23:41 HUMBLES HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED." 23:43 WHAT A WONDERFUL PROMISE THAT IS - THAT IF WE HUMBLE OURSELVES 23:46 BEFORE GOD HE WILL LIFT US UP. 23:48 WELL, NOW LOOKING IN VERSE 10 - PROVERBS CHAPTER 30, VERSE 10, 23:52 WE HAVE A SLIGHT CHANGE OF THEMES HERE. 23:54 THE IDEA IS NOT TO SPEAK EVIL OF ANOTHER. 23:58 VERSE 10 SAYS, "DO NOT MALIGN A SERVANT TO HIS MASTER, LEST HE 24:04 CURSE YOU, AND YOU BE FOUND GUILTY." 24:06 NOW THE WORD 'MALIGN' THERE MEANS 'TO INJURE ANOTHER BY 24:10 SPEAKING ILL OF THAT PERSON OR TO MISREPRESENT THE FACTS TO 24:15 ANOTHER'S HURT.' SO HERE THE WARNING IS DON'T 24:18 SPEAK EVIL OF ANOTHER PERSON. OF COURSE, JAMES CHAPTER 3, 24:21 VERSE 5 SAYS, "EVEN SO THE TONGUE IS A LITTLE MEMBER AND 24:25 BOASTS GREAT THINGS. SEE HOW GREAT A FOREST A LITTLE 24:32 FIRE KINDLES!" YOU KNOW, I WAS REMINDED THE OF 24:35 THE STORY OF MOSES WHEN I READ THIS. 24:36 DON'T SPEAK EVIL OF ANOTHER MAN'S SERVANT. 24:39 DO YOU REMEMBER HOW MOSES WAS WALKING AMONGST THE ISRAELITES 24:42 AND HE SAW AN EGYPTIAN BEATING THE ISRAELITE AND MOSES JUMPED 24:46 TO THE DEFENSE OF THE ISRAELITE AND HE ENDED UP KILLING THE 24:48 EGYPTIAN AND BURYING HIM THERE IN THE SAND AND HE THOUGHT, 24:51 'WELL, I'M DOING SOMETHING GOOD, YOU KNOW, FOR THE ISRAELITES. 24:54 THE NEXT DAY HE'S WALKING ALONG AND HE SEES TWO ISRAELITES 24:56 FIGHTING AND HE SAYS, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 24:58 YOU'RE BRETHREN - YOU SHOULDN'T BE FIGHTING.' AND ONE OF THEM 25:00 TURNED TO MOSES AND SAID, 'ARE YOU GOING TO KILL ME LIKE YOU 25:03 KILLED THE EGYPTIAN YESTERDAY? SO HERE MOSES IS THINKING THAT 25:07 HE'S DOING A GOOD THING TO HELP THE SERVANT, ONLY TO REALIZE 25:10 THAT THE SERVANT TURNED AGAINST HIM. 25:12 THAT'S THE WARNING HERE IN THE WORD. 25:14 BE CAREFUL WITH WHAT YOU SAY. 25:16 DON'T TRY AND BRING A NEGATIVE REPORT ABOUT SOMEBODY. 25:20 JUST LEAVE IT IN THE LORD'S HANDS. 25:22 ALRIGHT, SOMEBODY ELSE IS GOING TO READ FOR US NOW PROVERBS 25:25 CHAPTER 30 AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK FROM VERSE 11 THROUGH TO 25:29 VERSE 14 AND WE HAVE FOUR CHARACTERISTICS HERE OF A WICKED 25:34 GENERATION. YOU'LL SEE THE PARALLELS IN OUR TIME. 25:37 SO PROVERBS CHAPTER 30, BEGINNING NOW IN VERSE 11. 25:40 >>"THERE IS A GENERATION THAT CURSES ITS FATHER, AND DOES NOT 25:44 BLESS ITS MOTHER. THERE IS A GENERATION THAT IS 25:46 PURE IN ITS OWN EYES, YET IS NOT WASHED FROM ITS FILTHINESS. 25:50 THERE IS A GENERATION-OH, HOW LOFTY ARE THEIR EYES! 25:53 AND THEIR EYELIDS ARE LIFTED UP. THERE IS A GENERATION WHOSE 25:57 TEETH ARE LIKE SWORDS, AND WHOSE FANGS ARE LIKE KNIVES, TO DEVOUR 26:01 THE POOR FROM OFF THE EARTH, AND THE NEEDY FROM AMONG MEN." 26:05 >>OKAY, SO WE HAVE FOUR CHARACTERISTICS OF A VERY 26:08 GODLESS GENERATION. THE FIRST ONE MENTIONED IN VERSE 11, 26:11 THEY CURSE THEIR PARENTS - HE CURSES HIS FATHER. 26:15 BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, DISLOYALTY TO PARENTS WAS A SIN THAT WAS 26:19 DESERVING OF DEATH. IT WAS A BIG DEAL TO DISHONOR YOUR PARENTS. 26:23 OF COURSE, THIS IS ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT PAUL SAYS 26:26 WILL BE PREVALENT IN THE FINAL GENERATION BEFORE JESUS COMES. 26:31 IN 2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3, VERSES 1 AND 2, PAUL WRITES, "BUT KNOW 26:33 THIS, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS" - OF COURSE, WE'RE LIVING IN THE 26:36 LAST DAYS - "PERILOUS TIMES WILL COME: FOR MEN WILL BE LOVERS OF 26:42 THEMSELVES," - DO PEOPLE LOVE THEMSELVES TODAY? 26:45 IT SAYS THEY WILL LOVE MONEY. DOES THE WORLD LOVE MONEY? 26:48 THEY'LL BE "BOASTERS, PROUD, BLASPHEMERS," - AND THEN IT 26:52 SAYS, "DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS," - NOW THAT'S KIND OF AN 26:56 IMPORTANT THING FOR US TO THINK ABOUT. 26:58 THE BIBLE EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF SHOWING RESPECT 27:03 AND HONOR TO OUR PARENTS AND TO THE ELDERLY. 27:07 OF COURSE, IT'S ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 27:09 NOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE TEN 27:12 COMMANDMENTS ARE WRITTEN ON HOW MANY TABLES OF STONE? 27:14 >>TWO. >>TWO. HOW MANY COMMANDMENTS ARE 27:16 WRITTEN ON THE FIRST TABLE? >>FOUR. 27:18 >>FOUR. WHAT DO THOSE FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS DEAL WITH? 27:22 >>OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD. >>OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD. 27:25 IT DEFINES OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD. OF COURSE, THE LAST SIX 27:28 HAVE TO DO WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP TO OUR FELLOW MAN. 27:30 NOW HERE'S THE POINT: IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, EVEN THOUGH ALL OF 27:34 THE COMMANDMENTS ARE VERY IMPORTANT AND SIN IS THE 27:36 TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW, BREAKING ANY OF THE COMMANDMENTS 27:39 IS SIN, YET THE COMMANDMENTS ARE GIVEN IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE. 27:43 FOR EXAMPLE, 'THOU SHALT NOT KILL' PRECEDES 'THOU SHALT NOT 27:48 BEAR FALSE WITNESS.' NOT THAT IT'S OKAY TO BEAR FALSE WITNESS, 27:51 BUT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MURDER AND TELLING A 27:55 LIE. SO THE COMMANDMENTS ARE WRITTEN IN ORDER. 27:58 THE FIRST FOUR-THE MOST IMPORTANT-HAVE TO DO WITH OUR 28:01 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD-THAT'S FIRST AND FOREMOST. 28:04 THE LAST SIX HAVE TO DO WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP TO OUR FELLOW MAN. 28:06 WHAT I FIND INTERESTING IS THAT THE FIRST OF THOSE LAST SIX 28:10 COMMANDMENTS IS 'HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR FATHER.' IT EVEN 28:14 PRECEDES THE COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS 'THOU SHALT NOT KILL.' IN 28:19 OTHER WORDS, THAT'S THE VALUE THAT GOD HAS PLACED UPON THAT 28:22 COMMANDMENT. AND HERE'S THE POINT: IF WE 28:25 CAN'T RESPECT OR HONOR OUR EARTHLY PARENTS, OR THE ELDERLY, 28:29 HOW ARE WE GOING TO HONOR OUR HEAVENLY FATHER - OUR CREATOR? 28:34 SO A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON THERE AND THAT'S THE FIRST THING 28:36 MENTIONED OF A WICKED GENERATION - THE CHILDREN ARE 28:40 DISOBEDIENT TO THEIR PARENTS. VERSE 12 TALKS ABOUT ANOTHER 28:43 CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS GENERATION, IT SAYS THEY ARE 28:47 PURE IN THEIR OWN EYES. IN REVELATION CHAPTER 3 WE HAVE 28:52 JESUS' MESSAGE TO THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA. 28:56 LAODICEA IS THE CHURCH OF TODAY-THE CHURCH AT THE END-AND 28:58 ONE OF THE GREAT SINS OF LAODICEA IS THAT SHE SAYS SHE IS 29:03 RICH, SHE HAS BECOME WEALTHY, SHE HAS NEED OF NOTHING AND SHE 29:07 DOESN'T KNOW THAT SHE IS WRETCHED, MISERABLE, POOR, 29:09 BLIND - SHE CAN'T EVEN SEE HER TRUE CONDITION - AND NAKED. 29:13 SO IN THE WORLD, AND EVEN IN THE CHURCH, THERE IS A TENDENCY FOR 29:17 US TO BE PURE IN OUR OWN EYES AND THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO PRAY 29:22 AND SAY, 'LORD, GIVE ME THAT SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT. 29:25 GIVE ME THAT EYE SALVE THAT I CAN SEE MY TRUE CONDITION.' 29:28 AND WHEN WE SEE OUR TRUE CONDITION IN RELATIONSHIP TO 29:31 JESUS AND HIS GRACE AND HIS LOVE, IT LEADS US TO A HUMBLE 29:35 HEART - A SPIRIT OF REPENTANCE- SAYING, 'LORD PLEASE I NEED YOU. 29:39 I NEED YOU.' THE NEXT THING THAT'S MENTIONED HERE IN VERSE 29:41 13, IT SAYS, "OH HOW LOFTY ARE THEIR EYES!" 29:44 PROVERBS CHAPTER 21, VERSE 4 SAYS, "A HAUGHTY LOOK, A PROUD 29:48 HEART," - SPEAKING OF LOOKING DOWN UPON OTHERS. 29:53 A TENDENCY OF SOCIETY TODAY IS TO LOOK DOWN ON OTHERS AND THEN 29:58 VERSE 14 TALKS ABOUT DEVOURING THE POOR OF THE EARTH. 30:04 DO WE LIVE IN A GENERATION TODAY THAT IS MOTIVATED BY GREED? 30:07 LOVE OF MONEY? ABSOLUTELY. THIS PAST WEEK I READ AN ARTICLE 30:12 IN FORBES MAGAZINE AND THEY HAD THIS INTERESTING STATISTIC. 30:18 IT SAID THE COMBINED WEALTH OF 3.5 BILLION OF THE WORLD'S 30:24 POOREST IS EQUAL TO THE COMBINED WEALTH OF 85 OF THE RICHEST 30:30 PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. 3.5 BILLION - THEIR COMBINED 30:34 WEALTH IS EQUAL TO ONLY 85 OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. 30:40 SO WE CAN SEE HOW THE RICH ARE GETTING RICHER AND RICHER AND 30:44 THE POOR ARE GETTING POORER AND POORER. 30:46 1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 6, VERSE 9, IT SAYS, "BUT THOSE WHO DESIRE TO 30:52 BE RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE, AND INTO MANY FOOLISH 30:57 AND HARMFUL LUSTS WHICH DROWN MEN IN DESTRUCTION AND 31:01 PERDITION." VERSE 10 SAYS, "FOR THE LOVE OF 31:05 MONEY IS A ROOT OF ALL KINDS OF EVIL." 31:10 I'M SURE YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF THE RICH YOUNG RULER THAT 31:13 CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, 'WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?' 31:16 JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, 'GO SELL EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, GIVE 31:19 IT TO THE POOR, COME FOLLOW ME - YOU'LL HAVE RICHES IN 31:21 HEAVEN.' THE BIBLE SAYS THE MAN WENT AWAY 31:23 SORROWFUL FOR HE HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS. 31:26 HE COULDN'T IMAGINE HIS LIFE WITHOUT HIS THINGS, EVEN THOUGH 31:30 JESUS WAS OFFERING TO BE HIS COMPANION - 'COME FOLLOW ME. 31:35 BE WITH ME.' - HE STILL VALUED HIS POSSESSIONS MORE. 31:37 AND THEN YOU HAVE JUST THE OPPOSITE: JESUS GOES INTO 31:39 JERICHO AND THERE IS A SHORT TAX COLLECTOR BY THE NAME OF 31:42 ZACCHAEUS WHO HEARS ABOUT JESUS, HE SEES JESUS, HE CLIMBS DOWN 31:47 OUT OF THE TREE AND HE SAYS, 'LORD, HALF OF WHAT I HAVE 31:50 I'M GOING TO GIVE TO THE POOR. AND IF I'VE TAKEN ANYTHING 31:53 FALSELY, I WILL RESTORE IT FOURFOLD.' SO IF ZACCHAEUS GAVE 31:57 AWAY HALF OF WHAT HE HAD AND THEN EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD 32:00 TAKEN WRONGLY HE RESTORED FOURFOLD, 32:03 THAT WOULD LEAVE HIM WITH ALMOST NOTHING. 32:07 IN OTHER WORDS HE SAID, 'LORD, I VALUE YOUR PRESENCE FAR MORE 32:11 THAN EARTHLY POSSESSIONS AND JESUS SAID, 'TODAY SALVATION HAS 32:15 COME TO THIS MAN'S HOUSE.' SO PROVERBS 30 IS WARNING US OF THE 32:18 DANGER OF PUTTING CONFIDENCE IN EARTHLY THINGS. 32:21 ALRIGHT, WE'RE READY FOR OUR NEXT SECTION THEN - IT'S VERSES 32:25 15 AND 16 AND HERE WE FIND FOUR THINGS THAT CAN NEVER BE 32:30 SATISFIED. SO PROVERBS 30, VERSE 15. 32:34 >>"THE LEECH HAS TWO DAUGHTERS - GIVE AND GIVE! 32:40 THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT ARE NEVER SATISFIED, FOUR NEVER SAY, 32:44 'ENOUGH!:' THE GRAVE, THE BARREN WOMB, 32:49 THE EARTH THAT IS NOT SATISFIED WITH WATER - AND THE FIRE NEVER 32:53 SAYS, 'ENOUGH!'" >>SO FOUR THINGS THAT ARE 32:58 NEVER SATISFIED - AND NOTICE IT'S DESCRIBED AS A LEECH. 33:03 BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, IN PALESTINE, THERE WAS A LEECH 33:07 THAT I GUESS WAS FAIRLY WELL KNOWN. 33:08 IT WAS CALLED A HORSE LEECH - AT LEAST THAT'S THE TRANSLATION - 33:11 IT WAS A LARGE LEECH THAT WAS COMMON IN PALESTINE AND IT WAS 33:16 KNOWN FOR ITS FEROCIOUS APPETITE FOR BLOOD. 33:20 SO HERE WE HAVE A DESCRIPTION OF FOUR THINGS THAT ARE NEVER 33:23 SATISFIED AND IT'S DESCRIBED AS A LEECH. 33:26 NOW WHAT ARE THE FOUR THINGS? WELL, VERSE 16 TALKS ABOUT THE 33:29 GRAVE. FIRST OF ALL, THE QUESTION I 33:32 HAVE IS, WILL THE GRAVE ONE DAY BE SATISFIED? YES. 33:36 IT'S AT THE RESURRECTION WHEN JESUS COMES AGAIN AND THE DEAD 33:39 IN CHRIST ARE RESURRECTED. THE BARREN WOMB - THOSE WHO WANT 33:42 TO HAVE CHILDREN - THEY'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO HAVE CHILDREN. 33:45 WILL THOSE MOTHERS WHO WANT CHILDREN, WILL THEY EVER HAVE 33:51 CHILDREN? YES, QUITE POSSIBLY IN HEAVEN THEY'LL HAVE THE 33:54 OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE - MAYBE NOT THEIR OWN BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN - 33:58 BUT THEY'LL GET TO RAISE A CHILD IN HEAVEN. 34:01 THOSE IN THE RESURRECTION WHO DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN THERE - VERY 34:05 LIKELY THEY'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE CHILDREN. 34:07 THE EARTH NOT SATISFIED WITH WATER AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT 34:11 THE POOR. WILL THERE BE A DAY WHEN THERE WILL BE NO POOR? 34:15 YES, WHEN THE EARTH IS MADE NEW, BUT UNTIL THEN, JESUS SAID, 34:19 'FOR YOU HAVE THE POOR WITH YOU ALWAYS AND WHENEVER YOU WISH, 34:23 YOU CAN DO THEM GOOD. 34:24 BUT ME YOU DO NOT HAVE WITH YOU ALWAYS.' AND YET JESUS SAID 34:29 'WHEN YOU DO IT UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YOU HAVE 34:32 DONE IT UNTO ME.' SO WHEN WE MINISTER TO THE NEEDS OF THE 34:34 POOR - THOSE AROUND US - WE'RE DOING IT TO JESUS. 34:38 AND THEN LOOKING AT VERSE 17 -PROVERBS CHAPTER 30, VERSE 17. 34:43 IT SAYS, "THE EYE THAT MOCKS HIS FATHER, AND SCORNS OBEDIENCE TO 34:48 HIS MOTHER, THE RAVENS OF THE VALLEY WILL PICK IT OUT, 34:51 AND THE YOUNG EAGLES WILL EAT IT." AGAIN, VERY DESCRIPTIVE 34:56 PASSAGES SPEAKING ONCE AGAIN OF THE DISOBEDIENT OR THOSE WHO 35:00 DISHONOR THEIR PARENTS, IT SAYS THE RAVENS ARE GOING TO PLUCK 35:02 OUT THEIR EYES. NOW THOSE WHO OBEY THE 35:05 COMMANDMENT TO HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR FATHER, THE PROMISE IS 35:08 THAT THEY WILL HAVE A LONG LIFE - GOD'LL BLESS THEM. 35:11 BUT THOSE WHO ARE DISOBEDIENT TO THEIR PARENTS, THIS VERSE SPEAKS 35:15 OF THEM SUFFERING A VIOLENT DEATH. 35:17 IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT THE EAGLES AND VULTURES. 35:19 IN THE BIBLE, EAGLES AND VULTURES ARE OFTEN USED IN 35:22 ASSOCIATION WITH JUDGMENT AND IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DESTRUCTION 35:26 OF THE WICKED AT THE END OF TIME. 35:28 IN LUKE CHAPTER 17, VERSE 37 IT SAYS, "...WHEREVER THE BODY IS, 35:33 THERE THE EAGLES WILL BE GATHERED TOGETHER." 35:36 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE DEATH OF THE WICKED AT THE END OF TIME. 35:39 YOU ALSO FIND THE SAME THING IN REVELATION CHAPTER 19, VERSE 17, 35:43 THAT SPEAKS ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE WICKED 35:46 ARE DESTROYED AT THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. 35:49 IT TALKS ABOUT THE EAGLES SYMBOLICALLY GATHERING TOGETHER 35:51 FOR THIS GREAT FEAST - THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED. 35:54 NOW WE MOVE TO OUR NEXT SECTION WHERE WE HAVE FOUR THINGS THAT 35:58 ARE HARD TO BE KNOWN. AND THIS IS PROVERBS 30, 36:02 VERSE 18 THROUGH VERSE 20 -PROVERBS 30:18-20. 36:08 >>"THERE ARE THREE THINGS WHICH ARE TOO WONDERFUL FOR ME, YES, 36:12 FOUR WHICH I DO NOT UNDERSTAND: THE WAY OF AN EAGLE IN THE AIR, 36:17 THE WAY OF A SERPENT ON A ROCK, THE WAY OF A SHIP IN THE MIDST 36:22 OF THE SEA, AND THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A VIRGIN. THIS IS THE WAY 36:27 OF AN ADULTEROUS WOMAN: SHE EATS AND WIPES HER MOUTH, AND SAYS, 36:31 'I HAVE DONE NO WICKEDNESS.'" >>OKAY, THANK YOU. 36:34 SO HERE WE SEE FOUR THINGS THAT THE WISE MAN GIVES AS THINGS 36:39 THAT WE CAN'T FULLY UNDERSTAND. FIRST HE TALKS ABOUT AN EAGLE 36:44 FLYING, A SERPENT MOVING ON A ROCK, A SHIP ON THE SEA, AND A 36:51 YOUNG MAN WITH A YOUNG WOMAN. WE'LL TALK ABOUT ALL OF THESE 36:54 HERE IN JUST A MINUTE. WHAT DOES AN EAGLE FLYING, A 36:58 SNAKE ON A ROCK, A BOAT OR A SHIP IN THE SEA HAVE IN COMMON? 37:04 WELL, WHEN AN EAGLE'S FLYING AND YOU LOOK UP AND YOU SEE IT IN 37:07 THE AIR, YOU'RE NOT SURE WHAT DIRECTION THE EAGLE IS GOING IN 37:11 BECAUSE IT CAN DROP A WING AND TURN TO THE RIGHT OR SUDDENLY 37:15 TURN TO THE LEFT. 37:17 WHEN YOU SEE A SNAKE MOVING ON THE ROCK, YOU'RE NOT QUITE SURE 37:20 IF IT'S GOING TO END UP GOING THAT WAY OR THIS WAY. 37:23 I REMEMBER, AS A YOUNG PERSON, WE WERE OUT HIKING ONE DAY ALONG 37:25 WITH A GROUP OF FRIENDS AND WE WERE WALKING ALONGSIDE A RIVER. 37:28 SOME OF THE GUYS WERE ACTUALLY IN THE RIVER SWIMMING AND CAME 37:31 ACROSS THIS BIG SNAKE WARMING ITSELF THERE ON A FLAT ROCK AND, 37:36 AT FIRST, THE SNAKE DIDN'T SEEM TO NOTICE US, BUT THEN SUDDENLY 37:39 IT REALIZED 'THERE'S PEOPLE GATHERED AROUND ME.' AND HE TOOK 37:42 OFF IN ONE DIRECTION AND SOME OF THE GUYS MADE A NOISE AND 37:45 JUMPED AROUND AND SUDDENLY HE TURNED 37:46 AND TOOK OFF IN ANOTHER DIRECTION 37:48 AND THEN HE STOPPED AND HE TURNED ANOTHER WAY AND HE WENT 37:50 DOWN INTO THE WATER. SOME OF THE GUYS WERE SWIMMING 37:52 IN THE RIVER AND THE SNAKE STARTED COMING STRAIGHT FOR THEM 37:54 AND THEY DOVE DOWN AND THE SNAKE WENT OVER THEIR HEADS. 37:57 SO THE IDEA OF A SNAKE MOVING ON A ROCK - IT'S UNPREDICTABLE. 38:01 YOU DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE IT'S GOING TO END UP AND GO. 38:04 ALSO, OF COURSE, AN EAGLE IN THE BIBLE REPRESENTS POWER AND 38:07 GRANDEUR, WHEREAS A SERPENT REPRESENTS DECEPTION AND DANGER. 38:11 AND THEN YOU ALSO HAVE A SHIP AT SEA. 38:14 IT'S FASCINATING TO SEE A SHIP - THESE OLD SAILING 38:16 BOATS - SOMETIMES IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THEY'RE ACTUALLY SAILING 38:19 RIGHT INTO THE WIND AND IF YOU SEE A SHIP AT SEA MOVING AMONGST 38:23 THE WAVES, AGAIN, IT'S HARD TO KNOW IF IT'S GOING TO BE MOVING 38:26 TOWARDS YOU OR AWAY FROM YOU OR TO THE LEFT OR TO THE RIGHT. 38:29 THE DESTINATION IS NOT CLEARLY SEEN AND THAT'S KIND OF THE 38:32 POINT THAT'S BEEN EMPHASIZED. AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT A YOUNG 38:34 MAN HERE WITH A YOUNG MAIDEN OR A VIRGIN. IT'S KIND OF 38:38 INTERESTING TO NOTICE - I HAVE TEENAGE BOYS NOW AND FOR SO LONG 38:42 THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THEIR APPEARANCE OR THE WAY THEIR HAIR 38:45 LOOKED OR WHETHER OR NOT THEIR CLOTHES MATCHED, BUT NOW, AS 38:48 THEY'VE REACHED THE TEENAGE YEARS, IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING 38:51 HOW SUDDENLY THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR APPEARANCE. 38:53 THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR HAIR IS COMBED JUST RIGHT 38:56 AND, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THEIR CLOTHES ARE ACTUALLY MATCHING. 38:59 I SAID TO MY WIFE THE OTHER DAY, I SAID, 'I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.' I 39:02 LOOK AT ONE OF THE BOYS - HIS HAT MATCHED HIS SHIRT, MATCHED 39:05 HIS PANTS - EVEN HIS SOCKS MATCHED. I WAS AMAZED. 39:08 YOU KNOW, WE USED TO HAVE TO REMIND THEM TO TAKE A SHOWER. 39:11 WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT ANYMORE. 39:13 THEY MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE PRESENTABLE. WHY? 39:16 ESPECIALLY IN THE COMPANY OF YOUNG LADIES. 39:19 SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S BEING REFERRED TO HERE IS SOME OF THE 39:22 INTERESTING BEHAVIOR WHEN A YOUNG MAN IS TRYING TO IMPRESS 39:27 A YOUNG WOMAN. ALRIGHT, THEN VERSE 20 TALKS 39:30 ABOUT AN ADULTEROUS WOMAN. IN THE BIBLE, WHAT DOES A WOMAN 39:33 OFTEN REPRESENT? >>THE CHURCH. 39:35 >>IT REPRESENTS THE CHURCH. 39:36 OF COURSE, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12 YOU HAVE A PURE WOMAN 39:38 REPRESENTING THE TRUE CHURCH. IN REVELATION 17 YOU HAVE AN 39:41 IMPURE WOMAN. AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT - IT SAYS 39:43 SHE EATS AND WIPES HER MOUTH -REVELATION CHAPTER 17 39:47 DESCRIBES THIS WOMAN, HER NAME IS BABYLON. 39:50 IT SAYS SHE HAS A GOLDEN CUP IN HER HAND FULL OF ABOMINATIONS 39:54 AND FILTHINESS OF HER FORNICATION. 39:56 REVELATION 18:7 - BABYLON SAYS, "...I SIT AS A QUEEN, AND AM 40:00 NO WIDOW, AND WILL NOT SEE SORROW." SO THIS IDEA HERE IS 40:04 OF A CHURCH THAT IS CLAIMING TO BE TRUE BUT SHE HAS LEFT THE 40:09 TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD AND YET SHE SAYS, 'I HAVE DONE NO 40:12 WICKEDNESS' - EVEN THOUGH SHE IS GOING CONTRARY TO 40:15 THE WORD OF GOD AND SHE'S SETTING ASIDE GOD'S COMMANDMENTS 40:18 TO KEEP HER OWN TRADITIONS. SHE'S SAYING, 'I HAVE DONE 40:21 NOTHING WRONG.' NOW WE MOVE ONTO THE NEXT SECTION - IT'S VERSE 21 40:25 THROUGH TO VERSE 23 AND THERE ARE FOUR THINGS THAT CAUSE 40:29 TROUBLE THAT THE WISE MAN IS REFERRING TO HERE. 40:33 SO WHO'S GOT PROVERBS CHAPTER 30:21-23? THANK YOU. 40:37 >>FOR THREE THINGS THE EARTH IS PERTURBED, YES, FOR FOUR IT 40:41 CANNOT BEAR UP: FOR A SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNS, A FOOL WHEN HE 40:45 IS FILLED WITH FOOD, A HATEFUL WOMAN WHEN SHE IS MARRIED, AND A 40:50 MAIDSERVANT WHO SUCCEEDS HER MISTRESS." 40:52 >>OKAY, ANOTHER FOUR INTERESTING THINGS MENTIONED HERE THAT IT 40:56 SAYS THE WORLD IS PERTURBED WITH. 40:59 FIRST IS A SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNS. 41:01 HAVE YOU EVER BEEN AROUND LITTLE CHILDREN AND EVERYBODY'S PLAYING 41:05 NICELY AND SEEM TO BE GETTING ALONG AS LONG AS THE ADULT IS 41:07 SUPERVISING, BUT IF YOU PUT ONE OF THE LITTLE KIDS IN CHARGE OF 41:11 ALL THE OTHER KIDS, DO YOU NOTICE HOW THINGS SOMETIMES GO 41:14 ASTRAY? I THINK THAT'S KIND OF THE POINT 41:17 THAT'S BEING EMPHASIZED HERE - PUTTING A PERSON IN A 41:19 POSITION OF AUTHORITY WHEN THEY'RE NOT ACTUALLY PREPARED TO 41:22 HANDLE THAT KIND OF AUTHORITY. THAT'S A SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNS. 41:26 THEN IT TALKS ABOUT A FOOL WHEN HE'S FILLED WITH FOOD. 41:30 WHEN A PERSON IS SATISFIED AND HAS EVERYTHING THAT HE NEEDS, 41:33 ESPECIALLY A FOOL HERE IN THE CONTEXT, HE BEGINS TO MOCK GOD 41:37 AND MOCK OTHERS WHO DON'T HAVE WHAT HE HAS AND THAT'S WHAT'S 41:41 BEING DESCRIBED THERE. THEN IT TALKS ABOUT A HATEFUL 41:44 WOMAN WHEN SHE'S MARRIED. HERE IN THE CONTEXT, THIS IS 41:47 SOMEBODY THAT HADN'T BEEN MARRIED FOR A LONG TIME, 41:49 SOMEWHAT, PERHAPS FELT REJECTED AND THEN FINALLY SHE IS MARRIED. 41:53 NOW SHE LOOKS DOWN ON OTHERS WHO WERE IN HER SITUATION. 41:57 THAT'S WHAT'S BEING REFERRED TO THERE. 41:59 AND THEN A MAIDSERVANT WHO SUCCEEDS HER MISTRESS - YOU ALL 42:01 REMEMBER THE STORY OF SARAH AND HAGAR? 42:04 HOW THAT SHE WAS CONTENT TO BE SARAH - HAGAR WAS CONTENT TO BE 42:07 SARAH'S MAID UNTIL FINALLY SHE WAS PROMOTED AND SHE BECAME A 42:11 SECOND WIFE OF ABRAHAM AND THEN SHE CONCEIVED AND HAD A SON AND 42:14 SUDDENLY SHE DESPISED SARAH. 42:17 THAT'S WHAT'S BEING REFERRED TO THERE. 42:19 IN OTHER WORDS, GIVING SOMEBODY AUTHORITY OR POSITION THAT THEY 42:22 ARE NOT PREPARED FOR. OKAY, NOW WE'RE GOING TO BE 42:26 LOOKING IN VERSE 24 - FOUR THINGS EXCEEDINGLY WISE IN THE 42:32 EARTH. SO PROVERBS CHAPTER 30, BEGINNING NOW IN VERSE 24. 42:36 >>THERE ARE FOUR THINGS WHICH ARE LITTLE ON THE EARTH, BUT 42:40 THEY ARE EXCEEDINGLY WISE: THE ANTS ARE A PEOPLE NOT STRONG, 42:44 YET THEY PREPARE THEIR FOOD IN THE SUMMER; THE ROCK BADGERS ARE 42:48 A FEEBLE FOLK, YET THEY MAKE THEIR HOMES IN THE CRAGS; THE 42:53 LOCUSTS HAVE NO KING, YET THE ALL ADVANCE IN RANKS; THE SPIDER 42:58 SKILLFULLY GRASPS WITH ITS HANDS, AND IT IS IN KINGS' 43:03 PALACES." >>OKAY, THANK YOU. 43:05 SO WE CAN LEARN SOME VERY IMPORTANT LESSONS FROM FOUR 43:09 CREATURES LISTED IN THIS PASSAGE: YOU'VE GOT THE ANT, 43:12 YOU'VE GOT THE ROCK BADGER, YOU'VE GOT LOCUSTS, 43:15 AND THEN YOU HAVE THE SPIDER. NOW WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE SPIDER 43:19 WHEN WE GET THERE, THERE'S DIVIDED OPINION AS TO WHETHER OR 43:22 NOT THAT IS THE SPIDER OR MORE OF A GECKO LIZARD-TYPE CREATURE, 43:27 BUT WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE. SO WHAT ARE SOME OF THE 43:29 LESSONS THAT WE CAN LEARN BEGINNING HERE WITH ANTS? 43:32 I THINK THE BIGGEST LESSON THAT'S BEEN EMPHASIZED IS ANTS 43:36 HAVE A CHARACTERISTIC OF PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE. 43:40 THEY'RE HARD WORKING AND INDUSTRIOUS. PROVERBS CHAPTER 6, 43:44 VERSE 6 SAYS, "GO TO THE ANT, YOU SLUGGARD! 43:47 CONSIDER HER WAYS AND BE WISE, WHICH, HAVING NO CAPTAIN, 43:50 OVERSEER OR RULER, PROVIDES HER SUPPLIES IN THE SUMMER, AND 43:55 GATHERS HER FOOD IN THE HARVEST." SO THE BIG LESSON 43:58 EMPHASIZED WITH ANTS IS THEY PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE. 44:02 A COUPLE OF AMAZING FACTS ABOUT ANTS: ANTS ARE CAPABLE OF 44:07 CARRYING OBJECTS 50 TIMES THEIR OWN BODY WEIGHT. 44:10 CERTAIN ANT SPECIES DEFEND PLANTS IN EXCHANGE FOR FOOD AND 44:15 SHELTER. SOME ANTS ACTUALLY SHEPHERD 44:19 OTHER INSECTS LIKE APHIDS. THEY PROTECT THEM, THEY FEED 44:22 THEM, AND THEN THEY HARVEST FROM THESE ANIMALS. 44:25 AND THE TOTAL BIOMASS OF ALL OF THE ANTS ON EARTH IS ROUGHLY 44:29 EQUAL TO THE TOTAL BIOMASS OF ALL THE PEOPLE ON EARTH. 44:34 SO THERE'S A LOT OF ANTS AND THEY'RE DOING IMPORTANT WORK. 44:37 THE BIG LESSON HERE IS THAT ANTS WORK HARD AND THEY PREPARE FOR 44:41 THE FUTURE. THEN WE HAVE A ROCK BADGER. 44:44 NOW PROBABLY IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES THEY HAVE DIFFERENT 44:46 NAMES FOR THESE LITTLE CREATURES THAT LIVE OUT IN THE ROCKS AND 44:50 CREVICES. THE POINT HERE, PERHAPS, THAT'S 44:52 BEING EMPHASIZED IS THAT THERE IS A CERTAIN DEGREE OF 44:56 WATCHFULNESS OR PLANNING. ROCK BADGERS ARE KNOWN TO HAVE A 45:02 SENTINEL STAND GUARD AND LOOK OUT FOR DANGER, SO THERE'S 45:07 ALWAYS SOMEBODY STANDING, WATCHING FOR DANGER AND THAT'S 45:09 WHAT PROBABLY IS BEING EMPHASIZED HERE IS BEING WISE 45:12 AND WATCHING FOR DANGER. THEN, OF COURSE, WE HAVE LOCUSTS 45:16 AND THEY'RE REFERRED TO SEVERAL TIMES IN SCRIPTURE. 45:18 THEY HAVE NO LEADER AND YET THEY MOVE AS A WELL-TRAINED ARMY. 45:22 MATTER OF FACT, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 9, LOCUSTS ARE USED TO 45:26 SYMBOLIZE AN INVADING FORCE THAT COMES AGAINST A CERTAIN GROUP OF 45:30 PEOPLE. SO THE POINT BEING EMPHASIZED 45:33 WITH LOCUSTS IS ORDER - THEY ARE ORGANIZED - WELL ORGANIZED AND 45:38 THEY'RE EFFECTIVE IN WHAT THEY DO. 45:39 THEN WE HAVE VERSE 28 TALKING ABOUT A SPIDER. 45:42 AND HERE'S THIS WORD THAT'S ONLY USED IN THIS PLACE IN ALL OF 45:45 SCRIPTURE AND SO THERE'S SOMEWHAT OF A DIVIDED OPINION AS 45:48 TO EXACTLY WHAT THIS CREATURE IS. IS IT A SPIDER OR IS IT MORE 45:52 LIKE A LIZARD, KIND OF, GECKO TYPE OF ANIMAL? 45:56 BUT EITHER WAY I THINK THE POINT IS CLEAR THAT THERE IS A 45:58 TREMENDOUS DEGREE OF PERSISTENCE. 46:01 HAVE YOU TRIED TO REMOVE ALL THE SPIDERS FROM YOUR HOUSE 46:03 AND THEY JUST SEEM TO COME BACK? 46:05 EVEN IF YOU - YOU LIVE IN SOME TROPICAL AREAS, YOU HAVE THESE 46:08 LITTLE GECKOS THAT SOMEHOW GET INTO YOUR HOUSE. 46:11 YOU SEE THEM WALKING ON THE ROOF WITH THEIR BIG, CUTE LITTLE 46:14 FINGERS AND WALKING AROUND. THEY'RE JUST VERY PERSISTENT. 46:18 YOU CAN'T GET RID OF THEM. THEY KEEP COMING BACK. 46:20 THAT'S THE POINT THAT'S BEING EMPHASIZED HERE IS PERSISTENCE. 46:22 SO FROM THESE ANIMALS, THE LESSON HERE IS HARD WORK, 46:26 PLANNING, ORDER, AND PERSISTENCE - SOME IMPORTANT 46:31 CHARACTERISTICS THAT WE NEED TO BEAR IN MIND. ALRIGHT, LOOKING 46:35 NOW AT VERSES 29 THROUGH 31, FOUR THINGS THAT ARE STATELY . 46:40 >>THERE BE THREE THINGS WHICH GO WELL, YEA, FOUR ARE COMELY IN 46:46 GOING: A LION WHICH IS STRONGEST AMONG BEASTS, AND TURNETH NOT 46:54 AWAY FOR ANY; A GREYHOUND; AN HE GOAT ALSO; AND A KING, AGAINST 47:02 WHOM THERE IS NO RISING UP." >>THANK YOU. 47:07 SO HERE WE SEE FOUR THINGS THAT ARE MAJESTIC. 47:10 FIRST OF ALL, OF COURSE, IS THE LION. 47:13 WE KNOW THE LION IS A SYMBOL OF POWER AND MAJESTY. 47:15 IN THE BIBLE JESUS IS DESCRIBED AS A LION. IT'S CONNECTED WITH 47:20 HIS KINGSHIP AND RULERSHIP - THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. 47:24 IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT IN THE BIBLE, NOT ONLY IS 47:26 JESUS DESCRIBED AS A LION, BUT YOU KNOW THE DEVIL IS DESCRIBED 47:29 AS A LION AND HE'S 'GOING AROUND AS A ROARING LION SEEKING WHOM 47:33 HE MAY DEVOUR.' ANOTHER INTERESTING SYMBOL IS - 47:36 NOT ONLY IS THE SERPENT USED TO SYMBOLIZE SATAN, BUT THERE IS 47:41 A REFERENCE WHERE THE SERPENT LIFTED UP ON THE POLE - YOU 47:44 REMEMBER THE STORY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 47:46 - REPRESENTS JESUS TAKING UPON HIMSELF OUR SINS - 'BECOMING SIN 47:49 FOR US; BEARING THE CURSE ON OUR BEHALF.' SO THERE ARE SOME 47:53 INTERESTING - OH, ANOTHER ONE, IN THE BIBLE CHRIST IS 47:55 DESCRIBED - HIS COMING IS DESCRIBED AS LIGHTNING FLASHING 47:59 FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST. JESUS SAID, CONCERNING SATAN, 'I 48:02 SAW SATAN FALL LIKE LIGHTNING FROM HEAVEN.' SO THERE ARE SOME 48:06 INTERESTING SYMBOLS THAT ARE USED FOR BOTH CHRIST AND SATAN. 48:09 THE LION HERE, OF COURSE, IS POWER AND GLORY AND MAJESTY. 48:12 THE NEXT ANIMAL MENTIONED IS A GREYHOUND. 48:15 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF A GREYHOUND? 48:18 YOU THINK OF SPEED AND SO THE IDEA OF A GREYHOUND WITH SPEED - 48:22 YOU KNOW GREYHOUNDS, THEY HAVE THIS SORT OF, MAJESTIC LOOK 48:25 TO THEM - THE WAY THEY HOLD THEIR NOSE UP AND THE WAY THEY 48:29 SIT-THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS. AND THEN, THIS IS KIND OF AN 48:32 INTERESTING ONE, HE SAYS A GOAT FOR A MAJESTIC ANIMAL. 48:36 AT FIRST I SCRATCHED MY HEAD. I THOUGHT, 'A GOAT?' 48:39 YOU WOULDN'T THINK OF A GOAT AS BEING MAJESTIC. 48:40 HAVE YOU GUYS EVER SEEN THOSE NATURE DOCUMENTARIES OF THE 48:43 MOUNTAIN GOATS AND THE WAY THEY RUN ON THOSE STEEP CLIFFS? 48:46 THAT IS MAJESTIC. WHEN YOU SEE ONE OF THOSE 48:50 MOUNTAIN GOATS STANDING ON THE EDGE OF THIS CLIFF AND HE HAS 48:53 NOTHING TO FEAR AND THEN THEY'RE FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER AND 48:56 THEY'RE BANGING HORNS AND THEY'RE ON THE SIDE OF THE 48:58 MOUNTAIN, THAT IS SPECTACULAR. AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE NEXT 49:01 ONE IS A KING GOING OUT WITH HIS SOLDIERS LOOKING MAJESTIC AND 49:06 POWERFUL GOING INTO BATTLE. THAT, OF COURSE, IS ALSO A 49:09 REFERENCE TO THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 49:11 REVELATION CHAPTER 19 - JESUS IS DESCRIBED AS COMING KING OF 49:15 KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. HE'S RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE. 49:18 HE HAS MANY CROWNS UPON HIS HEAD AND HE HAS THE NAME WRITTEN ON 49:23 HIS THIGH, 'KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.' OH, BY THE WAY, 49:25 WHY IS THIS NAME 'KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS' WRITTEN ON 49:30 CHRIST'S THIGH? HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT BEFORE? 49:33 A COUPLE THINGS: FIRST OF ALL, THE THIGH IS THE BIGGEST MUSCLE 49:37 IN THE BODY. IT'S A SYMBOL OF STRENGTH. 49:40 IT IS A SYMBOL OF POWER. SO THAT'S WHAT'S EMPHASIZED WHEN 49:43 HE'S COMING AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. 49:45 HE'S COMING WITH POWER AND MAJESTY AND STRENGTH. 49:47 THERE IS ANOTHER THING THAT THE THIGH REPRESENTS. 49:50 YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER THE OLD TESTAMENT STORIES THAT IN THE 49:53 TIME OF ABRAHAM AND ALSO IN THE TIME OF JACOB, WHEN YOU MADE A 49:57 SOLID OATH, YOU WOULD SLIDE YOUR HAND UNDER THE PERSON'S THIGH. 50:02 I'M SURE GLAD WE DON'T DO THAT NOWADAYS, WE JUST SHAKE HANDS 50:05 AND WE'RE DONE. BUT THAT WAS A SIGN OF A SOLEMN OATH. 50:09 CHRIST HAS MADE AN OATH TO US - HE'S MADE A PROMISE. 50:12 HE SAID, 'I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF.' 50:17 REVELATION CHAPTER 19 DESCRIBES JESUS COMING, FULFILLING HIS 50:20 PROMISE AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. AND THEN, 50:24 FINALLY, THE LAST TWO VERSES THAT WE HAVE HERE - I'LL JUST 50:27 READ IT - VERSES 32 AND 33 - IT SAYS, "IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOOLISH 50:31 IN EXALTING YOURSELF, OR IF YOU HAVE DEVISED EVIL, PUT YOUR HAND 50:36 ON YOUR MOUTH." - IN OTHER WORDS, STOP SPEAKING; 50:39 DON'T JUST KEEP GOING. 50:40 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE FIND OURSELVES SAYING SOMETHING AND 50:43 THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL CONVICT US AND WE THINK TO OURSELF, 'WE 50:45 PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE SAYING THIS, BUT WE'VE GONE SO FAR WE 50:48 MIGHT AS WELL AT LEAST FINISH THE STORY.' 50:50 A WISE MAN SAYS IF YOU CATCH YOURSELF HALFWAY, STOP SPEAKING 50:54 - PUT YOUR HAND ON YOUR MOUTH. YOU CAN STOP IT RIGHT THERE. 50:58 VERSE 33 - IT SAYS, "FOR AS THE CHURNING OF MILK PRODUCES 51:01 BUTTER, AND WRINGING THE NOSE PRODUCES BLOOD, SO THE FORCING 51:06 OF WRATH PRODUCES STRIFE." SO AS THE CHRISTIAN, WE DON'T 51:12 WANT TO PURSUE STRIFE. WE DON'T WANT TO STIR UP 51:15 TROUBLE, ESPECIALLY AMONGST THE BRETHREN. WE WANT TO BE KIND AND 51:19 CHRIST-LIKE IN THE WAY THAT WE REACT WITH ONE ANOTHER. 51:23 IN CLOSING, I WANT TO JUST SHARE HERE. 51:25 ON FRIDAY WE HAD A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES , WHICH I 51:28 THINKS HELPS SUMMARIZE WHAT WE LOOKED AT IN THIS CHAPTER. 51:32 IT SAYS, "CHRIST'S WORDS TO THE PEOPLE ON THE MOUNT" - SPEAKING 51:35 OF THE MOUNT OF BLESSINGS - "WERE WORDS OF BLESSING. 51:37 'HAPPY ARE THEY' HE SAID 'WHO RECOGNIZE THEIR SPIRITUAL 51:41 POVERTY AND FEEL THEIR NEED OF REDEMPTION. THE GOSPEL IS GOING 51:45 TO BE PREACHED TO THE POOR, NOT TO THE SPIRITUALLY PROUD - THOSE 51:49 WHO CLAIM TO BE RICH AND IN NEED OF NOTHING - "IT IS REVEALED 51:52 BUT TO THOSE WHO ARE OF A HUMBLE AND A CONTRITE HEART. 51:58 THE LORD CAN DO NOTHING TOWARD THE RECOVERY OF MAN UNTIL 52:01 CONVINCED OF HIS OWN WEAKNESS AND STRIPPED OF ALL 52:05 SELF-SUFFICIENCY, HE YIELDS HIMSELF TO THE CONTROL OF GOD. 52:08 THEN HE CAN RECEIVE THE GIFT THAT GOD IS WAITING TO BESTOW. 52:12 FROM THAT SOUL THAT FEELS HIS NEED, NOTHING IS WITHHELD." 52:17 - THAT'S A WONDERFUL PROMISE - "HE HAS UNRESTRICTED ACCESS TO 52:21 HIM IN WHOM IS ALL THE FULLNESS." THAT'S THE PROMISE. 52:25 SO WHEN WE RECOGNIZE OUR NEED AND WE HUMBLE OUR HEARTS BEFORE 52:28 JESUS, THEN HE CAN LIFT US UP AND WE CAN BE FILLED WITH HIS 52:32 GLORY. AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO REMIND THOSE 52:34 WATCHING OF OUR FREE OFFER THIS EVENING. 52:37 IT'S CALLED THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS. 52:39 TO RECEIVE OUR BOOK, JUST CALL OUR RESOURCE NUMBER. 52:41 IT'S 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #156. 52:48 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO YOU. 52:49 WELL, FRIENDS, WE'RE OUT OF TIME FOR OUR STUDY. 52:51 WE HAVE ONE MORE LESSON ON THE BOOK OF PROVERBS, SO PLEASE BE 52:55 SURE TO COME BACK AND JOIN US AS WE WRAP UP OUR STUDY ON 52:58 OUR LESSON QUARTERLY IN PROVERBS. LET'S CLOSE WITH 53:01 A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE 53:03 AGAIN WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND SOME TIME 53:06 LOOKING AT SOME PRACTICAL COUNSEL FOR EVERYDAY LIVING. 53:10 FATHER, IT IS OUR DESIRE TO HAVE A HUMBLE HEART. 53:13 WE KNOW THAT IT IS YOU THAT GIVES US THE CORRECT PERSPECTIVE 53:18 OF WHO WE ARE IN RELATIONSHIP TO YOU AND THAT BRINGS ABOUT A 53:23 HUMBLING OF OUR HEARTS SO THAT YOU CAN FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT 53:26 AND LIFT US UP. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PROMISE TO 53:29 WORK WITHIN US AS WE TRUST IN YOU. 53:31 BLESS THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING AND WE THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR 53:34 HEARING OUR PRAYER. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 53:37 THANK YOU AGAIN, EVERYBODY. HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING. 53:42 >>WELL, MY CONVERSION STORY IS WHEN I WAS IN THE PHILIPPINES I 53:46 JUST GRADUATED AS A NURSE AND AFTERWARDS I DID NOT HAVE ANY 53:52 RELIGION AND ONE TIME I FOUND MYSELF INSIDE A SMALL CHURCH - 53:58 CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MANILLA - AND BEFORE A BIG CROSS AND I WAS 54:05 KNEELING BEFORE AND I COULD HEAR JESUS TELLING ME TO ENTER THE 54:10 CONVENT, SAVE MYSELF, AND ALSO MY FAMILY. 54:15 AND I SAID, 'LORD, I WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW YOU ALL THE WAY.' AT 54:18 THAT POINT I SEEMED TO BE HAPPY, EXTERNALLY, BUT BECAUSE INSIDE 54:23 THE CONVENT WE DON'T READ THE BIBLE - WE DON'T STUDY ABOUT THE 54:27 WORD OF GOD, WE PRAY THE ROSARIES. WE ALSO, AT THE SAME 54:32 TIME, STUDY THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS AND ALSO OUR FOUNDERS AND 54:36 THE ENCYCLICALS OF THE POPE, AND THE VIRGIN MARY. 54:40 AND SO I DO NOT KNOW THE TRUTH AND I HAD THIS TORTURE OF 54:44 CONSCIENCE - THE GUILTY FEELINGS THAT CANNOT BE RESOLVED. 54:48 SO I WOULD CONFESS TO THE PRIEST IN THE CONFESSIONAL BOX SAYING, 54:52 'FATHER, FORGIVE ME. SINCE MY LAST CONFESSION WAS 54:56 LAST WEEK - SINCE THEN I HAVE COMMITTED THE FOLLOWING SIN 55:00 INCLUDING THE ROOT CAUSE, 'WHY AM I FALLING AND FALLING IN THAT 55:04 SAME SIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN?' AND STILL, FOR 21 LONG YEARS I 55:10 STRUGGLE AND I STRUGGLE AND I STRUGGLE. 55:15 I REALIZED THAT I WAS TOTALLY EMPTY. 55:18 I WAS TOTALLY HELPLESS AND HOPELESS AND SO DEPRESSED AND SO 55:23 DESPERATE THAT I WOULD LIKE ALREADY TO END MY LIFE. 55:27 I WAS WORKING FOR FIVE YEARS AS DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAINT 55:33 AUGUSTINE COLLEGE OF NURSING IN ILOILO CITY, 55:36 ONE OF THE ISLANDS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 55:39 AFTER FIVE YEARS I RECEIVED MY COMMISSION FROM MY PARENTS TO 55:44 HELP MY SISTER WHO IS BEING A BATTERED WOMAN. 55:48 THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I CAME OVER TO THE UNITED STATES. 55:53 IT IS BECAUSE MY SISTER NEEDS MY HELP. 55:58 AS I WAS WORKING IN THE HOSPITAL IN NEW YORK, MY BOSS, SERAPHIM, 56:02 HE WAS SO GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO GIVE ME AN INVITATION TO THE 56:05 'MILLENNIUM OF PROPHECY'. 56:07 AS I WAS LISTENING TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR'S PRESENTATION, 56:12 MY HEART REALLY WAS BEATING SO FAST AND MY MIND - I AM ABLE TO 56:17 GRASP THE TRUTH THAT THIS IS THE TRUTH THAT I'VE BEEN LONGING TO 56:23 HEAR ALL MY LIFE - THAT I HAVE BEEN SEEKING FOR SO LONG. 56:28 MY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS - I CAN SEE JESUS AS MY 56:33 PERSONAL SAVIOR. HE IS NOT ONLY THE SAVIOR OF THE 56:37 WHOLE WORLD, BUT HE IS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR. 56:41 HE WAS THE ONE WHO DELIVERED ME MIGHTILY FROM THE DEPTHS OF SIN 56:47 - FROM THE MIREY CLAY. PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR HAS BEEN 56:51 USED BY THE LORD IN MY CONVERSION. 56:54 THE AMAZING FACTS - I OWE TO THEM. 56:57 THE LORD REALLY BLESSED THIS MINISTRY AND I'M SO PROUD I WAS 57:03 ABLE TO ATTEND THIS 'MILLENNIUM OF PROPHECY'. 57:06 MY LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME. IT HAS GIVEN ME THAT PEACE - 57:11 THAT JOY THAT NEVER - I HAVE NEVER TASTED IN MY LIFE. 57:17 NOW I AM SET FREE TO BE ABLE TO WORK FOR HIM AND TO FOLLOW HIM. 57:35 >> DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:38 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:42 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:45 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 57:48 REVELATION, BIBLEHISTORY.COM IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 57:53 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 57:55 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 57:59 WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT BIBLEHISTORY.COM . 58:06 (MUSIC) |
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