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HERE. WELL, AS
MENTIONED EARLIER, WE
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HAVE COME TO THE END OF OUR
STUDIES ON THE BOOK OF PROVERBS.
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WE HAVE OUR FINAL PRESENTATION
TONIGHT. IT'S GOT AN INTRIGUING
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TITLE - IT'S CALLED WOMEN
AND WINE AND THE KEY PASSAGE OF
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SCRIPTURE FOR THIS
STUDY IS PROVERBS CHAPTER 31.
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NOW WE HAVE A MEMORY TEXT AND
THAT'S PROVERBS CHAPTER 31 AND
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IT'S VERSE 3 AND VERSE 4.
YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG WITH ME IF
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YOU'D LIKE,
PROVERBS 31, VERSES 3 AND 4.
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IT SAYS, "DO NOT GIVE
YOUR STRENGTH TO WOMEN,
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NOR YOUR WAYS TO
THAT WHICH DESTROYS KINGS.
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IT IS NOT FOR KINGS, O LEMUEL,
IT IS NOT FOR KINGS TO DRINK
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WINE, NOR FOR
PRINCES INTOXICATING DRINK."
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NOW IT'S VERY INTERESTING, WHEN
YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE BOOK OF
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PROVERBS, IT BEGINS WITH THE
INSTRUCTION AND THE TEACHINGS OF
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A FATHER TO HIS SON AND THE BOOK
ENDS - OVER HERE IN CHAPTER 31 -
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WITH THE ADMONITIONS AND THE
TEACHINGS OF A MOTHER FOR HER
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SON. NOW WHO IS
THIS LEMUEL THAT WE
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READ ABOUT OVER HERE
IN OUR SCRIPTURE READING?
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APPARENTLY, ACCORDING TO
THE PASSAGE, IT SPEAKS OF HIM AS
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BEING A KING. THERE
ARE A NUMBER OF SCHOLARS
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WHO THINK THAT 'LEMUEL' MIGHT
JUST BE ANOTHER NAME FOR KING
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SOLOMON. AND THE
ADMONITION THAT'S BEING
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GIVEN HERE WOULD COME FROM
SOLOMON'S MOTHER - WE'RE GOING
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TO TALK ABOUT HER IN JUST A FEW
MOMENTS - A WOMAN THAT HAS GREAT
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WISDOM, AS YOU'LL READ THROUGH
THE VARIOUS COMMENTS MADE.
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NOW PROVERBS CHAPTER 31, YOU
HAVE THE ASSOCIATION OF WINE AND
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WOMAN, AND THIS
ISN'T BY ACCIDENT.
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THE POINT IS BEING MADE HERE -
THIS IS A MOTHER SPEAKING TO HER
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SON, QUITE POSSIBLY YOU HAVE
BATHSHEBA SPEAKING TO SOLOMON
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THE KING AND SHE IS WARNING THE
KING TO BE AWARE OF INFLUENCES
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THAT MIGHT COME UPON
HIM IN HIS DECISION MAKING.
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IN ORDER TO BE AN EFFECTIVE
RULER, THE KING HAD TO BE
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CAREFUL BASED UPON THOSE
WHO ARE INFLUENCING HIM, OR WHAT
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INFLUENCES HE OPENS HIMSELF
UP TO. NOW, DID KING SOLOMON
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HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A
LOT OF WIVES? YES HE DID.
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WERE THEY TYPICALLY A GOOD
INFLUENCE ON THE KING OR DID
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THEY DRAW HIM AWAY FROM
THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD?
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SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND - IF
LEMUEL IS SOLOMON - YOU CAN
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UNDERSTAND HOW HIS MOTHER
HAS WORDS OF COUNSEL IN THIS
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SUBJECT. WELL,
LET'S BEGIN BY GOING TO
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 31 AND WE HAVE
SOMEBODY THAT'S GOING TO READ
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FOR US FROM VERSE
1 THROUGH TO VERSE 3.
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THIS IS WHERE
WE'LL OPEN OUR STUDY.
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 31 AND
BEGIN READING HERE IN VERSE 1.
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>>"THE WORDS OF KING LEMUEL,
THE UTTERANCE WHICH HIS MOTHER
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TAUGHT HIM: WHAT, MY
SON? AND WHAT, SON OF MY WOMB?
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AND WHAT, SON OF MY VOWS?
DO NOT GIVE YOUR STRENGTH TO
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WOMEN, NOR YOUR WAYS TO
THAT WHICH DESTROYS KINGS."
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>>AS I MENTIONED A LITTLE
EARLIER, PROVERBS BEGINS WITH
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THE INSTRUCTION OF A FATHER.
IT ENDS WITH THE INSTRUCTION OF
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A MOTHER. PROVERBS
BEGINS BY THE FATHER
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TELLING HIS SON 'YOU NEED
TO ACQUIRE WISDOM.' AND THEN IT
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DESCRIBES CERTAIN
CHARACTERISTICS OF WISDOM.
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BUT HERE IT ENDS WITH THE MOTHER
APPLYING THIS WISDOM TO REAL
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LIFE SITUATIONS
AND CIRCUMSTANCES.
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SO IT IS THE COUNSEL OF A
MOTHER, QUITE POSSIBLY, AS
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MENTIONED EARLIER, BATHSHEBA
MIGHT BE GIVING COUNSEL TO HER
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SON SOLOMON, WHO IS THE KING.
VERSE 2 IT SAYS, "WHAT, MY SON?
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AND WHAT, SON OF MY WOMB?
AND WHAT, SON OF MY VOWS?"
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IN OTHER WORDS, THE QUESTION IS
ASKED, 'WHAT COUNSEL CAN I GIVE
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YOU, MY SON?' IT'S
SORT OF THE QUESTION THAT'S
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BEING POSED. AND THEN
THE COUNSEL SHE GIVES,
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WE FIND FIRST IN VERSE 3, "DO
NOT GIVE YOUR STRENGTH TO WOMEN,
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NOR YOUR WAYS TO THAT
WHICH DESTROYS KINGS."
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ONCE AGAIN, SHE IS WARNING ABOUT
THE INFLUENCE OF EVIL WOMEN ON
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THE KING. OF
COURSE, THAT COUNSEL IS
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RELEVANT FOR ANY TIME
WHICH WE ARE LIVING IN.
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THE COUNSEL OF A GODLY WOMAN IS
TO BE GREATLY CHERISHED, BUT THE
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COUNSEL OF AN EVIL
WOMAN, WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF.
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THE INFLUENCE CAN DESTROY.
NOW, DID KING SOLOMON KNOW
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SOMETHING ABOUT
THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN?
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HE HAD HOW MANY WIVES?
700 WIVES AND 300 CONCUBINES.
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NOW DID GOD FORESEE THE DANGER
IN MULTIPLYING MANY WIVES FOR
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THE KING? YES HE DID.
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MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN READ IN
DEUTERONOMY 17, VERSE 17 - THIS
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IS WHERE MOSES IS TALKING TO
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND HE'S
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REFERRING TO A TIME WHEN THEY
WANTED TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES
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OR HAVE A KING AND HE SAID,
'NEITHER SHALL THE KING MULTIPLY
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WIVES FOR HIMSELF, LEST HIS
HEART IS TURNED AWAY.' WELL,
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THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT
HAPPENED WITH SOLOMON.
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IF YOU READ THE BOOK OF
ECCLESIASTES YOU CAN READ THE
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EXPERIENCE THAT SOLOMON HAD.
NOW, CAN YOU THINK OF SOME OTHER
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BIBLE CHARACTERS, IN PARTICULAR,
KINGS WHO WERE INFLUENCED IN A
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NEGATIVE WAY BY THEIR
WIFE? WELL, I THINK OF AN OLD
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TESTAMENT CHARACTER. HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF
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AHAB AND HIS
WICKED WIFE - >>JEZEBEL.
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>>JEZEBEL - YOU GOT IT.
NOW, OF COURSE, AHAB WAS THE
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KING OF ISRAEL BUT HE
ENDED UP MARRYING JEZEBEL.
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JEZEBEL WAS THE DAUGHTER OF
ETHBAAL WHO WAS A KING OF ONE OF
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THE PAGAN NATIONS
SURROUNDING ISRAEL.
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AND GOD HAD ALSO TOLD, THROUGH
THE PROPHET MOSES, THAT THE
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KINGS WERE NOT TO TAKE
UNTO THEMSELVES WIVES FROM THE
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VARIOUS NATIONS
SURROUNDING THEM.
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NOW UNDER JEZEBEL'S INFLUENCE,
NOT ONLY DID SHE LEAD AHAB TO
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WORSHIP IDOLS, BUT EVEN MORE,
THROUGH HER INFLUENCE, AHAB
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EVENTUALLY
PERSECUTED THE PROPHETS OF GOD.
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AND YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WITH
ELIJAH - EVEN AT THE POINT OF A
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DEATH DECREE THAT JEZEBEL
HAD PRONOUNCED AGAINST ELIJAH
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BECAUSE HE WAS A
PROPHET OF THE TRUE GOD.
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SO THERE WE HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF A
WICKED WOMAN LEADING ASTRAY HER
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HUSBAND. NOW IN THE
NEW TESTAMENT, DO WE
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HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF A KING
WHO WAS ALSO INFLUENCED, BY HIS
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WIFE, TO EVENTUALLY
PERSECUTE ONE OF GOD'S PROPHETS?
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I'M THINKING OF HEROD. CORRECT.
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AND WHAT WAS THE NAME
OF HIS WIFE? HERODIAS.
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NOW HERE - IT'S ALMOST LIKE A
SOAP OPERA WHEN YOU GET TO IT.
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HERODIAS WAS ACTUALLY MARRIED TO
SOMEBODY BY THE NAME OF PHILIP.
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PHILIP WAS THE BROTHER OF HEROD
BUT, I GUESS, HEROD THOUGHT THAT
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HERODIAS NEEDED TO BE HIS WIFE
AND HERODIAS THOUGHT THE SAME
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THING AND SO JOHN THE BAPTIST
CONDEMNED HEROD AND HERODIAS FOR
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THIS. HE SAID,
'THIS IS NOT RIGHT.
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YOU HAVE TAKEN
YOUR BROTHER'S WIFE.
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YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE
THIS. NOW HEROD FEARED JOHN THE
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BAPTIST. HE
BELIEVED HIM TO BE A PROPHET.
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HEROD HATED JOHN THE BAPTIST AND
THROUGH HER INFLUENCE, HEROD HAD
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JOHN ARRESTED AND PLACED IN
PRISON BUT HEROD WAS UNWILLING
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TO TAKE HIS LIFE BECAUSE HE FELT
LIKE 'THIS IS, INDEED, A PROPHET
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OF GOD.' BUT THEN, AS THE
STORY GOES, ONE DAY HEROD HAD A
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BIRTHDAY. YOU REMEMBER THAT?
AND HERODIAS CAME UP WITH A PLAN
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THAT INVOLVED
HER DAUGHTER, SALOME.
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SO THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS CAME
AND DANCED BEFORE THE KING AND
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THE KING SAID, 'I'LL GIVE YOU
ANYTHING YOU WANT, UP TO HALF OF
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MY KINGDOM.' THEN SHE WENT
BACK TO HER MOTHER AND SHE SAID,
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'WHAT DO WE WANT?' AND
THE MOTHER SAID, 'I WANT THE
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HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST ON A
SILVER PLATTER.' AND EVEN THOUGH
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HEROD DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO
DO IT, HE'D GIVEN AN OATH AND SO
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JOHN THE BAPTIST
WAS PUT TO DEATH.
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IT'S VERY INTERESTING WHEN
YOU SEE THESE QUEENS INFLUENCING
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THEIR HUSBANDS, THE KING,
TO PERSECUTE THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
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IN BIBLE PROPHECY, WHAT
DOES A WOMAN OFTEN REPRESENT?
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>>THE CHURCH. >>A CHURCH.
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WHAT ABOUT A KING? WHAT
DOES A KING OFTEN REPRESENT?
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A POLITICAL POWER OR A NATION.
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THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHENEVER
A CHURCH HAS LOOKED TO THE POWER
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OF THE STATE TO ENFORCE HER
DECREES AND DOCTRINES, IT ALMOST
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ALWAYS RESULTS IN PERSECUTION
FOR SOME GROUP OF PEOPLE.
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SO THERE'S AN INTERESTING
PARALLEL THAT WE SEE IN BIBLE
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PROPHECY WHEN WE GET TO THE BOOK
OF REVELATION AND THE VARIOUS
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EXAMPLES THAT ARE SET FORTH,
BOTH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND
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SOME THAT WE HAVE
HERE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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MATTER OF FACT, LET'S GO TO
REVELATION AND LOOK AT HOW THIS
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EXAMPLE PLAYS OUT
IN THE END OF TIME.
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REVELATION CHAPTER 17 IS WHERE
WE'RE GOING - REVELATION CHAPTER
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17 - AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO
READ HERE VERSE 1 AND VERSE 2 -
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REVELATION CHAPTER 17
AND VERSE 1 AND VERSE 2.
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JOHN WRITES, "THEN ONE OF THE
SEVEN ANGELS WHO HAD THE SEVEN
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BOWLS CAME AND TALKED WITH ME,
SAYING TO ME, 'COME, I WILL SHOW
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YOU THE JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT
HARLOT WHO SITS ON MANY WATERS,"
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- IN BIBLE PROPHECY, WATERS
REPRESENT MULTITUDES AND NATIONS
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AND KINDREDS AND TONGUES.
A WOMAN REPRESENTS A CHURCH.
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SO HERE IS A CHURCH THAT HAS
GREAT INFLUENCE OVER MULTITUDES
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AND NATIONS AND
KINDREDS AND TONGUES.
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VERSE 2 SAYS, "WITH WHOM
THE KINGS OF THE EARTH COMMITTED
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FORNICATION," - NOW, WHO
WOULD BE THE KINGS OF THE EARTH?
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THAT WOULD REPRESENT THESE
VARIOUS POLITICAL POWERS - "AND
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THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH
WERE MADE DRUNK WITH THE WINE OF
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HER FORNICATION." NOW
REMEMBER, PROVERBS CHAPTER
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31 TALKS ABOUT WOMEN AND WINE
AND IN REVELATION CHAPTER 17 WE
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HAVE A WOMAN WHO IS MAKING ALL
NATIONS DRINK THE WINE OF THE
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WRATH OF HER FORNICATION.
IN BIBLE PROPHECY, A WOMAN,
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SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCH,
IS TO BE MARRIED TO CHRIST.
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BUT WHEN THE CHURCH LEAVES HER
ALLEGIANCE TO JESUS AND FORMS AN
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ALLIANCE WITH A POLITICAL POWER,
SHE IS GUILTY OF COMMITTING
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SPIRITUAL FORNICATION AND THAT'S
THE GREAT SIN, DESCRIBED HERE,
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OF BABYLON. SHE'S LEFT
HER ALLEGIANCE TO JESUS.
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SHE'S LOOKING TO THE STATE AND,
AS A RESULT, SHE'S PERSECUTING
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THE FOLLOWERS OF GOD.
WE'LL EXPLORE THAT THEME A
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LITTLE BIT MORE AS WE
WORK OUR WAY THROUGH OUR STUDY.
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OKAY, NOW COMING
TO SUNDAY'S LESSON.
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THE TITLE OF THE LESSON
THERE IS A TOAST TO LIFE.
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AND THE KEY PASSAGE THAT
WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT IS
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 31, VERSES
4 AND 5 - PROVERBS 31, VERSES 4
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AND 5 AND, KATRINA, I THINK
YOU HAVE THOSE VERSES FOR US.
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>>"IT IS NOT FOR KINGS, O
LEMUEL, IT IS NOT FOR KINGS TO
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DRINK WINE, NOR FOR PRINCES
INTOXICATING DRINK; LEST THEY
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DRINK AND FORGET THE LAW, AND
PERVERT THE JUSTICE OF ALL THE
00:11:47.40\00:11:50.53
AFFLICTED." >>NOW
HERE THE FOCUS SHIFTS A
00:11:50.53\00:11:53.83
LITTLE BIT TOWARDS THE DANGERS
OF ALCOHOL AND THIS IS COUNSEL
00:11:53.83\00:11:58.80
THAT A MOTHER IS GIVING TO HER
SON AND SHE SAYS, 'WATCH OUT FOR
00:11:58.80\00:12:01.50
WINE. DON'T DRINK WINE.
DON'T DRINK ALCOHOL.' NOW, OF
00:12:01.50\00:12:04.73
COURSE, IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY,
THE DRINKING OF ALCOHOL IS
00:12:04.73\00:12:07.46
PORTRAYED AS
LIVING THE GOOD LIFE.
00:12:07.46\00:12:10.96
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE SPENT
ON COMMERCIALS ADVOCATING AND
00:12:10.96\00:12:14.70
PROMOTING ALCOHOL AND THOSE
PRESENTING ALCOHOL ARE ALWAYS
00:12:14.70\00:12:18.76
HAPPY INDIVIDUALS. YOU
NEVER SEE THE DRUNKARD OR
00:12:18.76\00:12:21.46
SOMEBODY WHO HAS LOST ALL
OF THEIR INCOME AS A RESULT OF
00:12:21.46\00:12:24.36
ALCOHOL. AND SO
THERE IS THIS FALSE IDEA
00:12:24.36\00:12:26.86
THAT'S BEEN PRESENTED TO SOCIETY
THAT SOMEHOW, IF YOU'RE LIVING
00:12:26.86\00:12:32.86
THE GOOD LIFE, YOU
NEED TO INDULGE IN ALCOHOL.
00:12:32.86\00:12:35.66
BUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
WARNS US AGAINST THIS DEADLY
00:12:35.66\00:12:38.60
DECEPTION. THIS
ISN'T THE FIRST TIME THAT
00:12:38.60\00:12:40.76
PROVERBS TALKS
AGAINST DRINKING ALCOHOL.
00:12:40.76\00:12:42.76
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO TO
PROVERBS CHAPTER 23 AND VERSE 30
00:12:42.76\00:12:45.96
- ACTUALLY, BEGINNING IN VERSE
29 - LET ME JUST READ A FEW
00:12:45.96\00:12:49.26
VERSES HERE. IT SAYS,
"WHO HAS WOE? WHO HAS SORROW?
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WHO HAS
CONTENTIONS? WHO HAS BABBLING?
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WHO HAS WOUNDS WITHOUT
CAUSE? WHO HAS REDNESS OF EYES?
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THEY THAT TARRY LONG AT THE
WINE; THEY THAT GO TO SEEK MIXED
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WINE. LOOK NOT
UPON THE WINE WHEN IT
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IS RED, WHEN IT GIVES ITS COLOR
IN THE CUP, WHEN IT MOVES ITSELF
00:13:08.43\00:13:12.13
ARIGHT. AT THE
LAST IT BITES LIKE A
00:13:12.13\00:13:15.00
SERPENT AND IT
STINGS LIKE AN ADDER."
00:13:15.00\00:13:18.00
SO PREVIOUSLY IN THE BOOK OF
PROVERBS - PROVERBS 23 AND OTHER
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PLACES - THE BIBLE WARNS US
ABOUT THE DANGERS OF ALCOHOL.
00:13:21.53\00:13:25.63
NOW MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD SOME
PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, A LITTLE BIT
00:13:25.63\00:13:28.60
OF WINE IS GOOD FOR MY HEALTH.'
HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE?
00:13:28.60\00:13:31.90
I GUESS THE QUESTION IS: IS IT
THE ALCOHOL THAT'S GOOD FOR YOUR
00:13:31.90\00:13:34.90
HEALTH OR IS IT THE GRAPE JUICE
THAT'S GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH?
00:13:34.90\00:13:38.43
IT'S REALLY THE GRAPE JUICE.
THERE IS NO REAL VIRTUE IN
00:13:38.43\00:13:41.06
ALCOHOL. MAYBE
IF YOU PUT IT ON THE
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OUTSIDE OF YOUR SKIN AS A
DISINFECTANT IT COULD HAVE SOME
00:13:43.40\00:13:45.76
VALUE, BUT NOT
INSIDE THE BODY BY NO MEANS.
00:13:45.76\00:13:48.13
BUT WE KNOW THAT GRAPES AND
THE JUICE OF THE GRAPE IS VERY
00:13:48.13\00:13:51.30
BENEFICIAL. IT HAS A NUMBER
OF GOOD HEALTH PROPERTIES.
00:13:51.30\00:13:54.46
THE FACT THAT THE BOOK OF
PROVERBS ENDS WITH THIS WARNING
00:13:54.46\00:13:58.20
NOT TO DRINK WINE, I THINK, IN
ITSELF, IS RATHER SIGNIFICANT.
00:13:58.20\00:14:02.83
USUALLY WHEN SOMEBODY WRITES
SOMETHING AND THEY COME TO THEIR
00:14:02.83\00:14:05.63
FINAL PARAGRAPH, IT'S SORT OF
AN EMPHASIS OF SOME OF THE KEY
00:14:05.63\00:14:08.96
POINTS THAT THEY WANT YOU
TO REMEMBER FROM WHATEVER IT IS
00:14:08.96\00:14:12.26
THAT THEY'RE WRITING.
AT THE END OF THE BOOK OF
00:14:12.26\00:14:14.93
PROVERBS - THAT'S ALL OF THE
WISDOM THAT'S GIVEN - IS A VERY
00:14:14.93\00:14:17.26
PRACTICAL APPLICATION:
DON'T DRINK ALCOHOL.
00:14:17.26\00:14:20.83
NOW A COUPLE OF SPECIFIC
THINGS RELATED TO THOSE VERSES -
00:14:20.83\00:14:24.23
PROVERBS 31, VERSE 4
SAYS IT'S NOT FOR KINGS.
00:14:24.23\00:14:27.13
NOW THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE FOR
PEOPLE WHO ARE IN A POSITION OF
00:14:27.13\00:14:31.10
AUTHORITY AND THE REASON BEING
IS ALCOHOL, AS WE ALL KNOW,
00:14:31.10\00:14:34.46
PERVERTS JUDGMENT. THE
LAST THING YOU WANT IS TO
00:14:34.46\00:14:37.56
STAND BEFORE A JUDGE WHO COMES
STUMBLING OUT OF A ROOM ON THE
00:14:37.56\00:14:40.13
SIDE - YOU KNOW HE'S KIND OF
DAZED AS YOU LOOK INTO HIS EYES
00:14:40.13\00:14:44.03
AND HE'S GOING TO PRONOUNCE
WHETHER YOU'RE INNOCENT OR
00:14:44.03\00:14:46.23
GUILTY. YOU WANT
SOMEBODY OF A CLEAR
00:14:46.23\00:14:48.26
UNDERSTANDING - CLEAR
REASONING CAPABILITIES.
00:14:48.26\00:14:51.10
YOU DON'T WANT
SOMEONE INDULGING IN ALCOHOL.
00:14:51.10\00:14:53.46
DO CHRISTIANS TODAY NEED TO HAVE
CLEAR DISCERNMENT IN OUR WORLD?
00:14:53.46\00:14:59.23
THE BIBLE TELLS US IN 1 PETER
CHAPTER 5, VERSE 8, "BE SOBER,
00:14:59.23\00:15:03.00
BE VIGILANT; BECAUSE YOUR
ADVERSARY THE DEVIL," IS WALKING
00:15:03.00\00:15:06.93
AROUND LIKE A ROARING
LION, SEEING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR.
00:15:06.93\00:15:11.83
WELL, THERE IT IS. THE
BIBLE TELLS US THAT WE NEED
00:15:11.83\00:15:13.66
TO BE SOBER - RECOGNIZE THAT
THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO DECEIVE.
00:15:13.66\00:15:16.36
AND VERSE 5 SAYS DON'T
DRINK LEST YOU FORGET THE LAW.
00:15:16.36\00:15:21.03
NOW THE LAW OF GOD, OF COURSE,
IS THE STANDARD OF GOOD AND
00:15:21.03\00:15:23.93
EVIL. THOSE WHO
ARE IN A POSITION OF
00:15:23.93\00:15:26.80
AUTHORITY, THEY'RE TO LOOK OUT
FOR THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO ARE
00:15:26.80\00:15:29.93
OPPRESSED AND
THOSE WHO ARE AFFLICTED.
00:15:29.93\00:15:32.33
ALCOHOL - SOMEBODY UNDER
THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL, TENDS
00:15:32.33\00:15:36.96
TOWARD SELFISHNESS.
AFTER PEOPLE DRINK, THEY START
00:15:36.96\00:15:41.60
MAKING DECISIONS THAT ARE
QUITE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THEY'D
00:15:41.60\00:15:44.46
NORMALLY MAKE IF
THEY WEREN'T DRUNK.
00:15:44.46\00:15:47.20
AND WE CAN SEE THIS DEMONSTRATED
JUST IN OUR SOCIETY AROUND US.
00:15:47.20\00:15:50.86
JAMES CHAPTER 1, VERSE 27 SAYS,
"PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION
00:15:50.86\00:15:55.30
BEFORE GOD THE FATHER IS THIS:
TO VISIT ORPHANS AND WIDOWS IN
00:15:55.30\00:15:58.60
THEIR TROUBLE, AND TO
KEEP ONESELF UNSPOTTED FROM THE
00:15:58.60\00:16:02.33
WORLD." SO AS THE
CHRISTIAN, WE ARE TO
00:16:02.33\00:16:05.10
BE LOOKING OUT FOR
THE NEEDS OF OTHERS.
00:16:05.10\00:16:07.33
WE ARE TO BE MINISTERING
TO THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED AND
00:16:07.33\00:16:09.76
AFFLICTED. AGAIN, AS
WE MENTIONED EARLIER,
00:16:09.76\00:16:11.76
ALCOHOL AFFECTS A PERSON'S
ABILITY TO REASON AND THEIR
00:16:11.76\00:16:15.50
DISCERNMENT. JOB
DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS LOOKING
00:16:15.50\00:16:19.43
OUT FOR THE NEEDS OF
THOSE WHO WERE OPPRESSED.
00:16:19.43\00:16:21.33
HE SAYS, 'I HAVE BEEN EYES TO
THE BLIND AND I'VE BEEN FEET TO
00:16:21.33\00:16:24.13
THE LAME.' SO WINE
DISTORTS A PERSON'S JUDGMENT.
00:16:24.13\00:16:29.13
NOW YOU REMEMBER THE
STORIES OF NOAH AND LOT?
00:16:29.13\00:16:31.63
WHAT HAPPENED AS A RESULT OF
THE TWO OF THEM GETTING DRUNK?
00:16:31.63\00:16:35.16
SOME BAD THINGS
HAPPENED TO THE FAMILY.
00:16:35.16\00:16:37.56
YOU KNOW, MY GRANDFATHER - JUST
A WONDERFUL PERSON - WE ALWAYS
00:16:37.56\00:16:40.96
ENJOYED GOING TO VISIT HIM, BUT
HE HAD A DRINKING PROBLEM AND
00:16:40.96\00:16:45.00
WHENEVER HE WAS SOBER, THE
GRANDKIDS WOULD LOVE TO GATHER
00:16:45.00\00:16:47.96
AROUND AND HE'D TELL STORIES
AND WE'D JUST HAVE A GREAT TIME.
00:16:47.96\00:16:50.76
BUT WHEN GRANDFATHER WOULD START
DRINKING, THERE WAS A CHANGE
00:16:50.76\00:16:54.26
THAT CAME OVER HIM. I
REMEMBER AS A CHILD, BECOMING
00:16:54.26\00:16:57.13
RATHER AFRAID OF MY GRANDFATHER
- SOME OF THE DECISIONS HE WOULD
00:16:57.13\00:17:02.00
MAKE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
ALCOHOL WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO
00:17:02.00\00:17:05.03
HIS FAMILY AND TO HIMSELF, AND
SO I'VE SEEN FIRST HAND - AS I'M
00:17:05.03\00:17:09.46
SURE YOU HAVE -
THE DANGERS OF ALCOHOL.
00:17:09.46\00:17:12.70
BUT SOMEBODY MIGHT
SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:17:12.70\00:17:14.80
I JUST DRINK ON
SOCIAL OCCASIONS.
00:17:14.80\00:17:17.20
I'M NOT AN ALCOHOLIC. JUST
A LITTLE BIT IN MODERATION -
00:17:17.20\00:17:20.86
IS THERE
ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT?
00:17:20.86\00:17:23.10
WELL, I GUESS THE QUESTION
WE NEED TO CONSIDER IS SHOULD A
00:17:23.10\00:17:25.73
CHRISTIAN SUPPORT
THAT KIND OF INDUSTRY?
00:17:25.73\00:17:28.66
WHEN A PERSON BUYS ALCOHOL,
OF COURSE, A BIG PORTION OF WHAT
00:17:28.66\00:17:32.00
THEY PAY FOR GOES TOWARDS
ADVERTISING AND PROMOTING
00:17:32.00\00:17:35.70
SOMETHING THAT IS BRINGING PAIN
AND SORROW TO SO MANY PEOPLE.
00:17:35.70\00:17:40.06
1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5, VERSE
22 TELLS US "ABSTAIN FROM EVERY
00:17:40.06\00:17:43.83
FORM OF EVIL." SO
THERE IS PLENTY OF SCRIPTURAL
00:17:43.83\00:17:47.73
EVIDENCE TO ENCOURAGE US TO BE
TRUE AND FAITHFUL - TO BE SOBER
00:17:47.73\00:17:51.50
AND NOT TO INDULGE IN
ALCOHOL - NOT TO DRINK ALCOHOL.
00:17:51.50\00:17:55.10
SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING,
THERE WAS A SPECIAL PROHIBITION
00:17:55.10\00:17:58.03
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT PRONOUNCED
AGAINST DRINKING ALCOHOL FOR THE
00:17:58.03\00:18:03.96
PRIESTS. THE PRIESTS
WERE NOT TO DRINK ALCOHOL.
00:18:03.96\00:18:06.26
YOU'LL READ THIS IN LEVITICUS
CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 9.
00:18:06.26\00:18:10.03
LET ME JUST READ IT FOR YOU.
00:18:10.03\00:18:12.00
IT SAYS, "DO NOT DRINK WINE NOR
STRONG DRINK, THOU, NOR THY SONS
00:18:12.00\00:18:14.66
WITH THEE, WHEN YOU GO INTO THE
TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION,
00:18:14.66\00:18:17.83
LEST YE DIE: IT SHALL BE A
STATUTE FOR EVER THROUGHOUT YOUR
00:18:17.83\00:18:21.26
GENERATIONS: AND THAT YE MAY
PUT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOLY AND
00:18:21.26\00:18:24.70
UNHOLY, AND BETWEEN UNCLEAN
AND CLEAN;" SO THE PRIESTS -
00:18:24.70\00:18:30.20
ESPECIALLY IN THEIR SERVICES OF
THE SANCTUARY - WERE TOLD THAT
00:18:30.20\00:18:33.53
THEY WEREN'T TO DRINK
ANY WINE OR STRONG DRINK.
00:18:33.53\00:18:36.16
I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT IN 1
PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9, PETER,
00:18:36.16\00:18:39.60
WHEN SPEAKING OF THE CHURCH,
HE SAYS, "YOU ARE A ROYAL
00:18:39.60\00:18:42.76
PRIESTHOOD, AN HOLY NATION."
THE CHURCH TODAY NEEDS TO BE
00:18:42.76\00:18:48.56
ABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THAT
WHICH IS HOLY AND THAT WHICH IS
00:18:48.56\00:18:51.10
UNHOLY AND WE WANT TO BE SHARING
THE TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD TO THE
00:18:51.10\00:18:55.70
WORLD. WE NEED
TO HAVE CLARITY OF
00:18:55.70\00:18:58.26
THOUGHT. OKAY,
MOVING ON - MONDAY'S
00:18:58.26\00:19:00.73
LESSON TALKS ABOUT A TOAST TO
DEATH AND IF SOMEONE WOULD READ
00:19:00.73\00:19:05.60
FOR US PROVERBS
31, VERSES 6 AND 7.
00:19:05.60\00:19:09.00
>>"GIVE STRONG DRINK TO HIM WHO
IS PERISHING, AND WINE TO THOSE
00:19:09.00\00:19:12.06
WHO ARE BITTER OF HEART.
LET HIM DRINK AND FORGET HIS
00:19:12.06\00:19:16.30
POVERTY, AND
REMEMBER HIS MISERY NO MORE."
00:19:16.30\00:19:19.96
>>ALRIGHT, WELL THIS IS A VERSE
THAT SOMETIMES WE HEAR, 'WELL,
00:19:19.96\00:19:22.56
IT'S ALRIGHT TO DRINK
A LITTLE BIT OF ALCOHOL.'
00:19:22.56\00:19:24.46
BUT NOTICE THE ONES TO
WHOM THE ALCOHOL IS GIVEN -
00:19:24.46\00:19:27.23
THOSE WHO ARE READY TO DIE.
NOW BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, THEY
00:19:27.23\00:19:30.73
DIDN'T HAVE THE PAINKILLERS
THAT, OF COURSE, WE HAVE TODAY.
00:19:30.73\00:19:34.53
THERE WAS A MIXTURE THAT THEY
HAD OF INTOXICATING DRINKS THAT
00:19:34.53\00:19:38.83
WAS USED TO DEADEN PAIN,
ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO WERE
00:19:38.83\00:19:42.00
FACING DEATH. YOU
PROBABLY REMEMBER THE STORY
00:19:42.00\00:19:44.50
WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS - IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 27, VERSE 34 -
00:19:44.50\00:19:48.96
HOW THEY OFFERED HIM
SOUR WINE MINGLED WITH GALL.
00:19:48.96\00:19:52.30
GALL WAS A STRONG, INTOXICATING
DRINK WHERE THEY WOULD MIX IN
00:19:52.30\00:19:57.36
CERTAIN TYPES OF HERBS FOR
THE PURPOSE OF DEADENING PAIN.
00:19:57.36\00:20:00.76
IT WAS THE BIBLICAL
FORM, IF YOU LIKE, OF MORPHINE.
00:20:00.76\00:20:03.80
AND SO THE ADMONITION IS ALCOHOL
OR WINE ARE FOR THOSE WHO ARE
00:20:03.80\00:20:08.46
READY TO DIE. IT'S
NOT FOR THE CHRISTIAN.
00:20:08.46\00:20:11.06
AND THEN VERSE 7 SAYS DRINK
AND FORGET POVERTY AND MISERY.
00:20:11.06\00:20:16.13
NOW SOMEBODY WHO IS IN FINANCIAL
DIFFICULTIES OR IS FEELING
00:20:16.13\00:20:22.56
MISERABLE, WHEN THEY DRINK, DOES
THAT MAKE THEIR SITUATION BETTER
00:20:22.56\00:20:26.03
OR WORSE? >>WORSE.
00:20:26.03\00:20:28.20
>>QUITE OFTEN IT MAKES IT
WORSE. SO DRINKING DOESN'T SOLVE
00:20:28.20\00:20:31.66
ANYTHING. IF
ANYTHING, IT JUST ADDS INSULT
00:20:31.66\00:20:34.40
TO INJURY. IT
MAKES THINGS WORSE.
00:20:34.40\00:20:37.76
ALSO, SOMETHING TO NOTE HERE,
THE EXPRESSION IN PROVERBS 31
00:20:37.76\00:20:43.03
WHERE IT SAYS GIVE STRONG DRINK
TO THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING - IN
00:20:43.03\00:20:47.30
THE BOOK OF PROVERBS, THE WORD
'PERISHING' AS IT RELATES TO
00:20:47.30\00:20:50.20
PEOPLE, IS OFTEN USED IN
REFERENCE TO THE WICKED, MEANING
00:20:50.20\00:20:54.40
THAT THE RIGHTEOUS - THIS IS NOT
SOMETHING FOR THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT
00:20:54.40\00:20:57.30
THIS IS SOMETHING
THAT THE WICKED WOULD DO.
00:20:57.30\00:20:58.93
FOR EXAMPLE, IN PROVERBS CHAPTER
10, VERSE 28 - IT SAYS, "THE
00:20:58.93\00:21:02.36
HOPE OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE
GLADNESS: BUT THE EXPECTATION OF
00:21:02.36\00:21:05.30
THE WICKED SHALL PERISH."
AND THERE'S MANY OF THEM.
00:21:05.30\00:21:08.76
PROVERBS 11, VERSE 7 - IT SAYS,
"WHEN A WICKED MAN DIETH, HIS
00:21:08.76\00:21:13.03
EXPECTATION SHALL PERISH:
AND THE HOPE OF UNJUST MEN
00:21:13.03\00:21:16.46
PERISHETH." SO THE
IDEA OF GIVE THE WINE TO
00:21:16.46\00:21:20.26
THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING - IN
THE BOOK OF PROVERBS, 'THOSE WHO
00:21:20.26\00:21:23.00
PERISH' IS OFTEN
ASSOCIATED WITH THE WICKED.
00:21:23.00\00:21:25.60
CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T
HAVE ANY PART IN THAT.
00:21:25.60\00:21:27.96
NOW HERE'S AN INTERESTING
STATEMENT THAT WE HAVE IN OUR
00:21:27.96\00:21:30.20
LESSON AND IT COMES FROM
THE BOOK TEMPERANCE AND IT'S
00:21:30.20\00:21:32.80
ON PAGE 12. I'M
GOING TO READ THIS TO YOU.
00:21:32.80\00:21:35.10
IT SAYS, "SATAN GATHERED THE
FALLEN ANGELS TOGETHER TO DEVISE
00:21:35.10\00:21:38.06
SOME WAY OF DOING THE
MOST POSSIBLE EVIL TO THE HUMAN
00:21:38.06\00:21:41.70
FAMILY. ONE
PROPOSITION AFTER ANOTHER
00:21:41.70\00:21:45.23
WAS MADE UNTIL FINALLY SATAN,
HIMSELF, THOUGHT OF A PLAN.
00:21:45.23\00:21:48.96
HE WOULD TAKE THE FRUIT OF
THE VINE, ALSO WHEAT AND OTHER
00:21:48.96\00:21:52.23
THINGS GIVEN BY GOD AS FOOD, AND
WOULD CONVERT THEM INTO POISONS,
00:21:52.23\00:21:56.93
WHICH WOULD RUIN MAN'S PHYSICAL,
MENTAL, AND MORAL POWERS AND SO
00:21:56.93\00:22:00.63
OVERCOME THE SENSES THAT
SATAN SHOULD HAVE FULL CONTROL.
00:22:00.63\00:22:04.66
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF LIQUOR,
MEN WOULD BE LED TO COMMIT
00:22:04.66\00:22:08.33
CRIMES OF ALL KINDS." AND
HOW TRUE IS THAT STATEMENT.
00:22:08.33\00:22:13.70
WE SEE THE RESULTS OF
THAT ALL AROUND US TODAY.
00:22:13.70\00:22:16.90
I DID A LITTLE RESEARCH THIS
AFTERNOON, FROM THE CENTER FOR
00:22:16.90\00:22:19.33
DISEASE CONTROL, THEY HAVE
A WHOLE LIST OF THE DANGERS OF
00:22:19.33\00:22:24.30
ALCOHOL AND HERE'S A FEW
THINGS THAT ARE MENTIONED THERE.
00:22:24.30\00:22:26.80
THEY SAY 1 IN 10 DEATHS
OF PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF
00:22:26.80\00:22:31.40
20 AND 64 IS DUE TO ALCOHOL.
THE LONG-TERM HEALTH RISKS OF
00:22:31.40\00:22:36.93
DRINKING ALCOHOL INCLUDE HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE, HEART DISEASE,
00:22:36.93\00:22:41.23
STROKE, LIVER DISEASE, DIGESTIVE
PROBLEMS, CANCER, LEARNING AND
00:22:41.23\00:22:45.60
MEMORY PROBLEMS, DEPRESSION,
ANXIETY, SOCIAL PROBLEMS,
00:22:45.60\00:22:49.80
ADDICTION, AND MUCH MORE.
SO THE QUESTION IS: SHOULD A
00:22:49.80\00:22:54.23
CHRISTIAN BE INVOLVED IN THIS?
AND I THINK THE ANSWER IS PRETTY
00:22:54.23\00:22:57.23
CLEAR. THE ANSWER WOULD BE 'NO.'
00:22:57.23\00:22:59.63
ON TUESDAY'S LESSON WE SHIFT
GEARS A LITTLE BIT AND THE FOCUS
00:22:59.63\00:23:03.60
NOW MOVES TO A VIRTUOUS
WOMAN. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF A
00:23:03.60\00:23:06.70
VIRTUOUS WOMAN. SO
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT PROVERBS
00:23:06.70\00:23:10.16
CHAPTER 31, READING FROM
VERSE 10 THROUGH TO VERSE 12.
00:23:10.16\00:23:15.40
>>"WHO CAN FIND A VIRTUOUS
WIFE? FOR HER WORTH IS FAR ABOVE
00:23:15.40\00:23:21.33
RUBIES. THE HEART
OF HER HUSBAND SAFELY
00:23:21.33\00:23:24.50
TRUSTS HER; SO HE
WILL HAVE NO LACK OF GAIN.
00:23:24.50\00:23:27.86
SHE DOES HIM GOOD AND NOT
EVIL ALL THE DAYS OF HER LIFE."
00:23:27.86\00:23:32.13
>>NOTICE A FEW OF THE WORDS
SPOKEN WITH REFERENCE TO THE
00:23:32.13\00:23:35.70
INFLUENCE OF A GODLY WOMAN.
OF COURSE, FIRST OF ALL, IT SAYS
00:23:35.70\00:23:39.40
THERE IN VERSE 10
THAT SHE IS PRICELESS.
00:23:39.40\00:23:42.36
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE SAYING
BEFORE, 'THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE
00:23:42.36\00:23:45.46
CRADLE RULES THE
WORLD.' AND HOW TRUE THAT IS.
00:23:45.46\00:23:49.06
JOHN WESLEY, THE GREAT
EVANGELIST AND PREACHER, HE
00:23:49.06\00:23:52.30
ACCREDITED HIS MOTHER FOR
THE DIRECTION OF HIS LIFE.
00:23:52.30\00:23:56.03
IT WAS HER GODLY EXAMPLE
AND INSTRUCTION THAT LAID THE
00:23:56.03\00:23:58.90
FOUNDATION FOR HIS MINISTRY
AND THAT IS TRUE IN MANY CASES.
00:23:58.90\00:24:02.96
VERSE 11 TALKS ABOUT A GODLY
WOMAN THAT CAN BE TRUSTED AND
00:24:02.96\00:24:06.80
HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO BE ABLE
TO TRUST - TO KNOW THAT YOUR
00:24:06.80\00:24:13.30
SPOUSE HAS GOT
YOUR BACK COVERED.
00:24:13.30\00:24:16.90
THAT BRINGS A
WONDERFUL BLESSING.
00:24:16.90\00:24:18.86
GENESIS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 18,
GOD, IN THE CREATION OF ADAM AND
00:24:18.86\00:24:22.56
EVE: "IT IS NOT GOOD
THAT THE MAN SHOULD BE ALONE;
00:24:22.56\00:24:25.43
I WILL MAKE HIM A
HELPER COMPARABLE TO HIM."
00:24:25.43\00:24:28.83
NOW YOU REMEMBER THE STORY: GOD
CAUSED A DEEP SLEEP TO COME UPON
00:24:28.83\00:24:33.40
ADAM AND WHILE ADAM SLEPT, GOD
OPENED UP HIS SIDE AND TOOK OUT
00:24:33.40\00:24:36.53
A RIB AND WITH
THE RIB, GOD MADE EVE.
00:24:36.53\00:24:39.56
AND THEN GOD BROUGHT EVE TO
ADAM AND HE PERFORMED THE FIRST
00:24:39.56\00:24:42.33
WEDDING, RIGHT THERE
IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
00:24:42.33\00:24:44.76
NOW IT'S KIND OF SIGNIFICANT:
HERE YOU HAVE THE WIFE OF THE
00:24:44.76\00:24:48.10
MAN COMING FROM
THE SIDE OF THE MAN.
00:24:48.10\00:24:51.26
SOMEBODY ONCE SAID, 'ALL WOMEN
COME FROM MAN AND ALL MEN COME
00:24:51.26\00:24:56.33
FROM WOMAN.' IF YOU
THINK ABOUT THAT, AFTER
00:24:56.33\00:24:59.83
ADAM AND EVE, ALL
MEN COME FROM WOMAN.
00:24:59.83\00:25:01.83
SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING ABOUT
THE STORY OF THE CREATION OF
00:25:01.83\00:25:05.80
ADAM AND EVE: JESUS, IN THE
BIBLE, IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO
00:25:05.80\00:25:09.00
AS 'THE SECOND ADAM.' THE CHURCH
IS DESCRIBED AS 'THE BRIDE OF
00:25:09.00\00:25:13.06
CHRIST.' IN THE SAME WAY THAT
EVE, THE BRIDE OF ADAM, CAME
00:25:13.06\00:25:18.80
FROM THE SIDE OF ADAM, SO WHEN
JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS AND HE
00:25:18.80\00:25:24.10
DIED - SOMETIMES IN THE BIBLE
DEATH IS LIKENED UNTO SLEEP.
00:25:24.10\00:25:27.86
JOHN TELLS US THAT THEY OPENED
UP THE SIDE OF CHRIST AND WHAT
00:25:27.86\00:25:32.36
CAME FROM THE SIDE OF
CHRIST? >>WATER AND BLOOD.
00:25:32.36\00:25:33.70
>>WATER MIXED WITH BLOOD AND THE
BLOOD REPRESENTS JUSTIFICATION,
00:25:33.70\00:25:40.53
THE WATER REPRESENTS
SANCTIFICATIONAL CLEANSING.
00:25:40.53\00:25:42.70
FROM THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST
COMES THE BRIDE OF CHRIST -
00:25:42.70\00:25:47.20
THE CHURCH.
00:25:47.20\00:25:48.50
SO THIS VIRTUOUS WOMAN THAT WE
TALK ABOUT HERE IN PROVERBS 31,
00:25:48.50\00:25:51.50
IS ALSO A SYMBOL OF THE
BRIDE OF CHRIST, OR THE CHURCH.
00:25:51.50\00:25:55.23
NOW VERSE 12, SPEAKING OF THIS
GODLY WOMAN, IT SAYS THAT SHE IS
00:25:55.23\00:26:00.40
COMMITTED TO HER HUSBAND
"ALL THE DAYS OF HER LIFE."
00:26:00.40\00:26:02.76
SO MARRIAGE IS TO BE
A LIFELONG COMMITMENT.
00:26:02.76\00:26:06.43
AND, OF COURSE, WE KNOW THE TWO
INSTITUTIONS THAT GOD CREATED
00:26:06.43\00:26:09.46
BEFORE SIN EVER ENTERED
THE WORLD WERE MARRIAGE AND THE
00:26:09.46\00:26:11.73
SABBATH - BOTH OF WHICH THE
DEVIL HAS DONE HIS VERY BEST TO
00:26:11.73\00:26:15.33
TRY AND DESTROY. AND
YET THERE'S A WONDERFUL
00:26:15.33\00:26:18.73
BLESSING IN MARRIAGE AND, OF
COURSE, THE SYMBOLISM THERE AS
00:26:18.73\00:26:20.73
IT CONNECTS WITH THE CHURCH
AND THE CHURCH'S DEVOTION AND
00:26:20.73\00:26:24.06
COMMITMENT TO CHRIST
NEEDS TO BE LIFELONG.
00:26:24.06\00:26:28.26
NOW, A COUPLE OF OTHER ASPECTS
OF THIS VIRTUOUS WOMAN, BROUGHT
00:26:28.26\00:26:33.13
TO LIGHT HERE IN PROVERBS
31, THIS WOMAN ALSO REPRESENTS
00:26:33.13\00:26:36.00
WISDOM. THE WORD
FOR 'WISDOM' IN THE
00:26:36.00\00:26:39.46
HEBREW IS IN THE FEMININE NOUN,
WHICH IS KIND OF INTERESTING.
00:26:39.46\00:26:43.03
SO WISDOM, HERE, IS PICTURED
AS A WOMAN OR A WIFE THAT HAS
00:26:43.03\00:26:47.16
BECOME A LIFELONG COMPANION.
NOW THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES
00:26:47.16\00:26:51.76
BETWEEN WISDOM AND A VIRTUOUS
WOMAN AND I'M JUST GOING TO
00:26:51.76\00:26:56.50
MENTION A FEW OF THEM.
YOU HAVE THESE IN YOUR LESSON.
00:26:56.50\00:27:00.73
POINT #1 - IT SAYS SHE IS
PRECIOUS AND WORTH FINDING -
00:27:00.73\00:27:05.16
THAT IS PROVERBS
31, VERSE 10 - IT SAYS,
00:27:05.16\00:27:07.56
"WHO CAN FIND A VIRTUOUS WIFE?"
00:27:07.56\00:27:09.23
AND THEN IF YOU COMPARE THAT TO
WISDOM IN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 35,
00:27:09.23\00:27:13.10
IT SAYS, "FOR WHOEVER FINDETH
ME" - SPEAKING OF WISDOM -
00:27:13.10\00:27:16.90
"FINDETH LIFE, AND SHALL
OBTAIN FAVOR OF THE LORD."
00:27:16.90\00:27:19.96
SO POINT #1 - SHE'S PRECIOUS
AND SHE'S WORTH FINDING.
00:27:19.96\00:27:23.03
POINT #2 - HER
WORTH IS MORE THAN RUBIES.
00:27:23.03\00:27:26.73
THAT, OF COURSE, IS PROVERBS 31,
VERSE 10 AGAIN, WHERE IT SPEAKS
00:27:26.73\00:27:31.40
ABOUT HER PRICE IS
ABOVE THAT OF RUBIES.
00:27:31.40\00:27:34.06
AND CHAPTER 8, VERSE 10, TALKING
OF WISDOM IT SAYS, "RECEIVE MY
00:27:34.06\00:27:38.63
INSTRUCTION AND NOT SILVER
AND KNOWLEDGE RATHER THAN CHOICE
00:27:38.63\00:27:43.00
GOLD FOR WISDOM IS
BETTER THAN RUBIES."
00:27:43.00\00:27:47.03
SO WE BEGIN TO SEE THAT
THIS VIRTUOUS WOMAN IN PROVERBS
00:27:47.03\00:27:50.96
CHAPTER 31 BECOMES A SYMBOL
OF WISDOM AND THEY'RE USED
00:27:50.96\00:27:54.40
INTERCHANGEABLY. POINT
#3 - SHE PROVIDES FOOD FOR
00:27:54.40\00:27:58.70
HER HOUSEHOLD -
THAT'S PROVERBS 31, VERSE 14.
00:27:58.70\00:28:02.33
IT SAYS, "SHE IS LIKE THE
MERCHANTS' SHIPS; SHE BRINGETH
00:28:02.33\00:28:04.86
HER FOOD FROM AFAR."
AND THEN, THAT RELATING TO
00:28:04.86\00:28:08.40
WISDOM, WE READ IN VERSE 19 OF
PROVERBS CHAPTER 8, "MY FRUIT IS
00:28:08.40\00:28:14.16
BETTER THAN GOLD, YEA, THAN FINE
GOLD; AND MY REVENUE THAN CHOICE
00:28:14.16\00:28:18.60
SILVER." - TALKING
ABOUT WISDOM - MY FOOD
00:28:18.60\00:28:21.36
OR MY FRUIT - IS
BETTER THAN GOLD.
00:28:21.36\00:28:24.00
AND THEN POINT #4 - IS SAYS
SHE IS STRONG - SPEAKING OF THE
00:28:24.00\00:28:27.63
VIRTUOUS WOMAN - PROVERBS
31, VERSE 17 - "SHE GIRDETH HER
00:28:27.63\00:28:31.33
LOINS WITH STRENGTH,
AND STRENGTHENETH HER ARMS."
00:28:31.33\00:28:34.70
WITH REFERENCE TO WISDOM,
WE READ IN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 14,
00:28:34.70\00:28:38.23
"COUNSEL IS MINE, AND SOUND
WISDOM: I AM UNDERSTANDING;
00:28:38.23\00:28:42.10
I HAVE STRENGTH." SO
THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN IS
00:28:42.10\00:28:45.36
DESCRIBED AS HAVING STRENGTH AND
WISDOM IS DESCRIBED AS HAVING
00:28:45.36\00:28:48.70
STRENGTH. AND THEN
POINT #5 - OUT OF THESE
00:28:48.70\00:28:51.93
SIX POINTS LISTED HERE - SHE
IS WISE - PROVERBS CHAPTER 31,
00:28:51.93\00:28:56.16
VERSE 26 - IT SAYS, "SHE OPENETH
HER MOUTH WITH WISDOM; AND IN
00:28:56.16\00:29:00.83
HER TONGUE IS
THE LAW OF KINDNESS."
00:29:00.83\00:29:03.63
WITH REFERENCE TO PROVERBS,
PROVERBS CHAPTER 8, VERSE 1
00:29:03.63\00:29:07.53
SAYS, "DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY
AND UNDERSTANDING PUTS FORTH HER
00:29:07.53\00:29:11.96
VOICE?" SO
LIKEWISE, WISDOM SPEAKS JUST
00:29:11.96\00:29:15.56
LIKE THIS VIRTUOUS
WOMAN SPEAKS IN WISDOM.
00:29:15.56\00:29:19.03
AND THEN POINT
#6 - SHE IS PRAISED.
00:29:19.03\00:29:22.36
PROVERBS CHAPTER 31, VERSE
28 SAYS, "HER CHILDREN ARISE UP,
00:29:22.36\00:29:26.10
AND CALL HER BLESSED; HER
HUSBAND ALSO, AND HE PRAISETH
00:29:26.10\00:29:29.00
HER." AND THEN WITH REFERENCE TO
00:29:29.00\00:29:31.40
WISDOM - CHAPTER 8, VERSE 34,
"BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT HEARETH
00:29:31.40\00:29:35.00
ME," - SPEAKING OF WISDOM -
"WATCHING DAILY AT MY GATES,
00:29:35.00\00:29:38.76
WAITING AT THE
POSTS OF MY DOORS."
00:29:38.76\00:29:41.76
SO, IT'S QUITE CLEAR - IF YOU
PUT ALL THE VARIOUS COMPARISON'S
00:29:41.76\00:29:44.80
TOGETHER OVER HERE - THIS
VIRTUOUS WOMAN REPRESENTS THE
00:29:44.80\00:29:48.06
CHURCH. IT ALSO
REPRESENTS WISDOM.
00:29:48.06\00:29:51.33
NOW IN REVELATION, WE HAVE
A DESCRIPTION OF TWO WOMEN.
00:29:51.33\00:29:54.23
WE HAVE ONE, REPRESENTING GOD'S
TRUE CHURCH, FOUND IN REVELATION
00:29:54.23\00:29:57.66
CHAPTER 12, AND WE HAVE THE
OTHER THAT WE JUST LOOKED AT A
00:29:57.66\00:30:00.70
FEW MOMENTS AGO IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 17.
00:30:00.70\00:30:03.06
NOW I WANT YOU TO TURN IN YOUR
BIBLES TO REVELATION CHAPTER 12
00:30:03.06\00:30:06.30
AND LET'S NOTICE SOME OF
THE SIMILARITIES OF THE WOMAN
00:30:06.30\00:30:09.90
DESCRIBED IN REVELATION 12
TO THOSE CHARACTERISTICS THAT WE
00:30:09.90\00:30:13.46
READ ABOUT FOR A VIRTUOUS WOMAN.
REVELATION CHAPTER 12 - WE'RE
00:30:13.46\00:30:18.80
NOT GOING TO READ THE ENTIRE
CHAPTER BUT LET ME START IN
00:30:18.80\00:30:21.50
VERSE 1 AND I THINK WE'RE GOING
TO READ THROUGH TO VERSE 6.
00:30:21.50\00:30:24.50
REVELATION CHAPTER 12, BEGINNING
IN VERSE 1 - JOHN WRITES, "NOW A
00:30:24.50\00:30:29.50
GREAT SIGN APPEARED IN HEAVEN:
A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN," -
00:30:29.50\00:30:34.00
IT SAYS THAT SHE HAS "THE MOON
UNDER HER FEET, AND ON HER HEAD
00:30:34.00\00:30:38.60
A GARLAND OF TWELVE STARS."
- A WOMAN IN BIBLE PROPHECY
00:30:38.60\00:30:42.10
REPRESENTS A CHURCH. SHE
IS CLOTHED WITH THE SUN -
00:30:42.10\00:30:45.30
WHO DO YOU THINK
THE SUN REPRESENTS?
00:30:45.30\00:30:47.40
>>CHRIST. >>IT REPRESENTS JESUS.
00:30:47.40\00:30:49.26
THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE SUN
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ARISING WITH
00:30:49.26\00:30:51.96
HEALING IN HIS WINGS.
THAT IS A REFERENCE TO CHRIST.
00:30:51.96\00:30:55.20
SO THE CHURCH - GOD'S TRUE
CHURCH IS PURE - SHE'S CLOTHED
00:30:55.20\00:30:58.70
WITH CHRIST -
CLOTHED WITH THE SUN.
00:30:58.70\00:31:01.26
IT SAYS SHE HAS THE
MOON UNDER HER FEET.
00:31:01.26\00:31:03.73
WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE
THAT MOON MIGHT REPRESENT?
00:31:03.73\00:31:06.03
IT WOULD
REPRESENT THE SCRIPTURES.
00:31:06.03\00:31:08.16
OF COURSE, THE MOON DOESN'T HAVE
ANY LIGHT IN AND OF ITSELF, BUT
00:31:08.16\00:31:10.46
THE MOON IS A
REFLECTION OF THE SUN.
00:31:10.46\00:31:13.10
WHERE DO WE FIND THE CLEAREST
REFLECTION OF JESUS TODAY?
00:31:13.10\00:31:17.30
ISN'T IT IN HIS
WORD? ABSOLUTELY.
00:31:17.30\00:31:20.03
SO HERE IS A CHURCH - A VIRTUOUS
WOMAN - SYMBOLIZED BY THIS
00:31:20.03\00:31:22.93
VIRTUOUS WOMAN IN CHAPTER 12.
SHE'S STANDING UPON THE MOON -
00:31:22.93\00:31:26.26
SHE'S STANDING
UPON THE WORD OF GOD.
00:31:26.26\00:31:27.96
IT SAYS SHE HAS A
GARLAND OF TWELVE STARS.
00:31:27.96\00:31:30.66
THE NUMBER TWELVE IN THE BIBLE
IS SIGNIFICANT - OF COURSE,
00:31:30.66\00:31:33.76
TWELVE REPRESENTS THE CHURCH.
YOU'VE GOT THE TWELVE TRIBES OF
00:31:33.76\00:31:36.30
THE OLD TESTAMENT; YOU'VE GOT
THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE NEW
00:31:36.30\00:31:38.33
TESTAMENT, SO THESE TWELVE
STARS REPRESENT THE CHURCH.
00:31:38.33\00:31:41.13
NOW LOOK AT VERSE 2: IT SAYS,
"THEN BEING WITH CHILD, SHE
00:31:41.13\00:31:44.93
CRIED OUT IN LABOR AND
IN PAIN TO GIVE BIRTH."
00:31:44.93\00:31:47.66
NOW WE'LL READ A LITTLE BIT
LATER ON IN VERSE 5 THAT THIS
00:31:47.66\00:31:51.16
CHILD IS ACTUALLY CHRIST AND THE
WOMAN DESCRIBED HERE IN VERSE 1
00:31:51.16\00:31:55.30
IS THE OLD TESTAMENT CHURCH
RIGHT AT THE TIME OF CHRIST'S
00:31:55.30\00:31:58.80
BIRTH. WE'RE
GOING TO READ ABOUT THE
00:31:58.80\00:32:00.93
NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH A
LITTLE LATER IN THE CHAPTER.
00:32:00.93\00:32:02.73
BUT THEN THE SCENE CHANGES AND
YOU HAVE THE ADVERSARY OF THE
00:32:02.73\00:32:05.30
CHURCH AND OF CHRIST - VERSE
3 - IT SAYS, "AND ANOTHER SIGN
00:32:05.30\00:32:08.76
APPEARED IN HEAVEN: BEHOLD, A
GREAT, FIERY RED DRAGON HAVING
00:32:08.76\00:32:12.40
SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS,
AND SEVEN DIADEMS ON HIS HEADS."
00:32:12.40\00:32:16.06
VERSE 4 SAYS "HIS TAIL DREW
A THIRD OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN
00:32:16.06\00:32:19.13
AND THREW THEM TO THE EARTH.
00:32:19.13\00:32:21.20
AND THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE
THE WOMAN WHO WAS READY TO GIVE
00:32:21.20\00:32:23.63
BIRTH, TO DEVOUR HER
CHILD AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN."
00:32:23.63\00:32:26.96
NOW, WHO DOES
THIS DRAGON REPRESENT?
00:32:26.96\00:32:28.93
WELL, WE DON'T HAVE TO GUESS,
YOU JUST READ ON IN THE CHAPTER
00:32:28.93\00:32:31.76
- IT CLEARLY TELLS YOU
THE DRAGON REPRESENTS SATAN.
00:32:31.76\00:32:33.76
SO HERE YOU HAVE THE BIRTH
OF JESUS AND SATAN IS TRYING TO
00:32:33.76\00:32:37.56
DESTROY JESUS AS
SOON AS HE IS BORN.
00:32:37.56\00:32:40.13
WHAT POWER DID SATAN WORK
THROUGH TO TRY AND DESTROY JESUS
00:32:40.13\00:32:43.70
AT HIS BIRTH. IT
WAS THROUGH HEROD.
00:32:43.70\00:32:46.56
REMEMBER THE DECREE THAT HEROD
PASSED TO KILL ALL THE LITTLE
00:32:46.56\00:32:49.26
BABY BOYS TWO YEARS AND
UNDER? WAS HE SUCCESSFUL?
00:32:49.26\00:32:52.56
NO, GOD DELIVERED CHRIST.
00:32:52.56\00:32:54.76
AND, OF COURSE, HE GAVE A DREAM
TO JOSEPH AND JOSEPH TOOK MARY
00:32:54.76\00:32:57.66
AND THE BABY DOWN INTO
EGYPT WHERE THEY WERE PROTECTED.
00:32:57.66\00:33:01.13
NOW VERSE 5 - CHAPTER 12, VERSE
5 - IT SAYS, "SHE BORE A MALE
00:33:01.13\00:33:05.73
CHILD WHO WAS TO RULE ALL
NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON.
00:33:05.73\00:33:08.96
AND HER CHILD WAS CAUGHT
UP TO GOD AND HIS THRONE."
00:33:08.96\00:33:12.03
NOW THE PHRASE 'RULE WITH A ROD
OF IRON' IS A MESSIANIC PHRASE
00:33:12.03\00:33:15.86
WITH REFERENCE TO THE MESSIAH
- OR REFERENCE TO CHRIST.
00:33:15.86\00:33:18.66
NOW WE MIGHT WONDER, 'WELL, HOW
DOES JESUS RULE WITH A ROD OF
00:33:18.66\00:33:21.70
IRON?' IT ALMOST SOUNDS A LITTLE
00:33:21.70\00:33:23.86
VINDICTIVE OF CHRIST COMING AND
HE'S GOING TO BEAT THE WICKED
00:33:23.86\00:33:27.06
WITH A ROD OF IRON.
WELL, IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT FOR
00:33:27.06\00:33:29.60
JUST A FEW MOMENTS, PSALM 23
- SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS THE
00:33:29.60\00:33:33.53
PSALM OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
- "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, I
00:33:33.53\00:33:36.50
SHALL NOT WANT" - IN THAT PSALM,
DAVID SAYS "THY ROD AND THY
00:33:36.50\00:33:39.56
STAFF" - WHAT DO
THEY DO? >>COMFORT.
00:33:39.56\00:33:42.80
>>"THEY COMFORT ME." NOW
THE SHEPHERD WOULD HAVE THE
00:33:42.80\00:33:45.06
STAFF - THAT'S THE PART THAT HAS
THE CROOK ON THE TOP - AND THAT
00:33:45.06\00:33:47.60
WOULD PRIMARILY BE
USED TO GUIDE THE SHEEP.
00:33:47.60\00:33:50.63
IF A SHEEP WAS WANDERING CLOSE
TO SOMETHING OF DANGER - A FAST
00:33:50.63\00:33:54.73
FLOWING RIVER - THE SHEPHERD
COULD REACH OUT AND HE COULD
00:33:54.73\00:33:57.66
PULL THE SHEEP
BACK WITH HIS CROOK.
00:33:57.66\00:34:00.20
THE ROD, ON THE OTHER HAND, WAS
OFTEN USED TO PROTECT THE SHEEP
00:34:00.20\00:34:04.36
OR DEFEND THE SHEEP. SO
WHEN A BEAR WOULD COME TO
00:34:04.36\00:34:07.50
STEAL ONE OF THE LAMBS, THE
SHEPHERD WOULD GRAB HIS ROD AND
00:34:07.50\00:34:10.73
HE WOULD GO TO THE
DEFENSE OF HIS SHEEP.
00:34:10.73\00:34:12.90
NOW AT THE END OF TIME,
ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF
00:34:12.90\00:34:15.06
REVELATION, THERE IS A DEATH
DECREE THAT IS PASSED AGAINST
00:34:15.06\00:34:17.80
GOD'S PEOPLE - REVELATION
CHAPTER 13 - BUT BEFORE THAT
00:34:17.80\00:34:21.06
DEATH DECREE CAN BE ENACTED,
JESUS, THE GOOD SHEPHERD, WILL
00:34:21.06\00:34:25.66
COME TO THE
DELIVERANCE OF HIS SHEEP.
00:34:25.66\00:34:28.63
JESUS COMES TO DEFEND AND TO
PROTECT HIS SHEEP - TO DELIVER
00:34:28.63\00:34:32.80
THEM - AND IN THE PROCESS,
THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED.
00:34:32.80\00:34:35.53
IN THAT SENSE, JESUS
COMES WITH A ROD OF IRON.
00:34:35.53\00:34:39.13
HE BRINGS DELIVERANCE FOR HIS
PEOPLE AND, IN THE PROCESS, THE
00:34:39.13\00:34:42.63
WICKED ARE DESTROYED.
THE BIBLE SAYS THEY ARE
00:34:42.63\00:34:44.50
DESTROYED WITH THE
BRIGHTNESS OF CHRIST'S COMING.
00:34:44.50\00:34:46.23
SO IT'S NOT A
VINDICTIVE PICTURE OF JESUS,
00:34:46.23\00:34:49.23
BUT IT'S A
PROTECTING PICTURE OF JESUS.
00:34:49.23\00:34:52.13
JESUS IS COMING TO
THE DEFENSE OF HIS PEOPLE.
00:34:52.13\00:34:54.66
SO AFTER THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, WE
HAVE VERSE 5 TALKING ABOUT HER
00:34:54.66\00:34:58.36
CHILD IS CAUGHT UP TO
GOD AND TO HIS THRONE.
00:34:58.36\00:35:00.60
THAT'S REFERRING TO
THE ASCENSION OF JESUS.
00:35:00.60\00:35:02.86
NOW VERSE 6 SAYS, "THEN THE
WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS,"
00:35:02.86\00:35:05.93
- SO NOTICE THAT THE
CHURCH - THE TRUE CHURCH - FACES
00:35:05.93\00:35:09.03
PERSECUTION AND, AS A RESULT,
SHE GOES INTO THE WILDERNESS
00:35:09.03\00:35:12.46
"WHERE SHE HAS A PLACE PREPARED
BY GOD, THAT THEY SHOULD FEED
00:35:12.46\00:35:17.36
HER THERE ONE THOUSAND
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS."
00:35:17.36\00:35:20.20
VERY INTERESTING PROPHETIC TIME
PERIOD THERE THAT REPRESENTS,
00:35:20.20\00:35:22.60
ROUGHLY, THE TIME PERIOD FROM
ABOUT 538 TILL 1798 - TWELVE
00:35:22.60\00:35:27.73
HUNDRED AND SIXTY YEARS OF
PERSECUTION THAT CAME UPON THOSE
00:35:27.73\00:35:31.53
THAT WERE HOLDING TO
THE TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD.
00:35:31.53\00:35:34.63
AND THEN IT GOES ON TO TALK
ABOUT, DURING THIS TIME PERIOD,
00:35:34.63\00:35:37.76
HOW THIS CONFLICT AND
PERSECUTION AND IT GIVES YOU A
00:35:37.76\00:35:40.50
LITTLE MORE ON THE WAR IN HEAVEN
THAT YOU READ ABOUT FROM VERSE 7
00:35:40.50\00:35:43.06
ONWARDS, BUT IF YOU LOOK IN
VERSE 17 OF REVELATION CHAPTER
00:35:43.06\00:35:47.50
12, YOU HAVE A DESCRIPTION OF
GOD'S PEOPLE RIGHT AT THE END OF
00:35:47.50\00:35:50.80
TIME. NOTICE THE DESCRIPTION
THAT'S GIVEN - REVELATION 12,
00:35:50.80\00:35:54.96
VERSE 17 - IT SAYS, "AND THE
DRAGON (SATAN) WAS ENRAGED WITH
00:35:54.96\00:35:58.70
THE WOMAN (THE CHURCH), AND HE
WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST
00:35:58.70\00:36:02.10
OF HER OFFSPRING," - NOTICE
THE CHARACTERISTICS - THOSE "WHO
00:36:02.10\00:36:06.40
KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS
00:36:06.40\00:36:09.70
CHRIST." SO AT THE
VERY END OF TIME, GOD
00:36:09.70\00:36:13.56
WILL HAVE A PURE
CHURCH - A VIRTUOUS CHURCH.
00:36:13.56\00:36:17.50
SHE'S PURE - SHE'S
CLOTHED WITH THE SUN.
00:36:17.50\00:36:20.63
SHE'S FOLLOWING THE TEACHINGS
THAT WE FIND IN THE SCRIPTURES.
00:36:20.63\00:36:24.33
SHE IS LOYAL TO GOD EVEN
IN THE FACE OF PERSECUTION.
00:36:24.33\00:36:27.86
SHE IS TRUSTING IN JESUS TO
PROVIDE FOR HER - TO DEFEND HER
00:36:27.86\00:36:31.30
- AND HERE AT THE END OF
TIME SHE'S OBEDIENT TO GOD'S
00:36:31.30\00:36:34.53
COMMANDMENTS. SHE KEEPS
THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.
00:36:34.53\00:36:37.20
SHE HAS THE TESTIMONY - THE
TESTIMONY IS DESCRIBED LATER IN
00:36:37.20\00:36:40.23
REVELATION CHAPTER 19, VERSE
10 AS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.
00:36:40.23\00:36:43.46
SHE IS REMAINING FAITHFUL
TO GOD AT A TIME OF WIDESPREAD
00:36:43.46\00:36:46.43
APOSTASY. WELL, NOW
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A
00:36:46.43\00:36:49.63
LOOK AT A FEW MORE VERSES THAT
DESCRIBE THIS VIRTUOUS WOMAN,
00:36:49.63\00:36:53.30
AND I'M GOING TO BE
READING FROM VERSE 13.
00:36:53.30\00:36:55.86
BEGINNING IN VERSE 13, WE'RE
GOING TO WORK OUR WAY DOWN TO
00:36:55.86\00:36:58.73
VERSE 19 - WE'RE IN PROVERBS
CHAPTER 31 - BEGINNING NOW IN
00:36:58.73\00:37:02.36
VERSE 13 IT SAYS, "SHE SEEKS
WOOL AND FLAX, AND WILLINGLY
00:37:02.36\00:37:08.76
WORKS WITH HER HANDS. SHE
IS LIKE THE MERCHANT SHIPS,
00:37:08.76\00:37:11.90
SHE BRINGS HER FOOD FROM AFAR.
SHE ALSO RISES WHILE IT IS YET
00:37:11.90\00:37:16.40
NIGHT, AND PROVIDES FOOD FOR HER
HOUSEHOLD, AND A PORTION FOR HER
00:37:16.40\00:37:21.10
MAIDSERVANTS. SHE
CONSIDERS A FIELD AND BUYS
00:37:21.10\00:37:24.96
IT; FROM HER PROFITS
SHE PLANTS A VINEYARD.
00:37:24.96\00:37:27.60
SHE GIRDS HERSELF WITH STRENGTH
AND STRENGTHENS HER ARMS.
00:37:27.60\00:37:31.36
SHE PERCEIVES THAT HER
MERCHANDISE IS GOOD, AND HER
00:37:31.36\00:37:35.20
LAMP DOES NOT GO OUT BY NIGHT.
SHE STRETCHES OUT HER HANDS TO
00:37:35.20\00:37:40.50
THE DISTAFF, AND HER
HANDS HOLD THE SPINDLE."
00:37:40.50\00:37:44.76
NOW, IN VERSE 19, WHERE IT TALKS
ABOUT THE DISTAFF, THAT IS AN
00:37:44.76\00:37:48.40
INSTRUMENT THAT WAS
USED FOR WEAVING THREAD.
00:37:48.40\00:37:52.00
SO SHE IS PRODUCTIVE WITH
HER HANDS - SHE'S BUSY WEAVING -
00:37:52.00\00:37:56.03
SHE'S BUSY MAKING CLOTH -
SHE'S BUSY MAKING RAIMENT.
00:37:56.03\00:37:58.90
NOW, THE FIRST POINT THAT'S
NOTED IN THESE VERSES IS THAT
00:37:58.90\00:38:02.10
THIS VIRTUOUS WOMAN, WHICH
SYMBOLIZES WISDOM - IT ALSO
00:38:02.10\00:38:05.03
SYMBOLIZES THE CHURCH - IS NOT
LAZY. IT IS AN ACTIVE CHURCH.
00:38:05.03\00:38:08.46
TO BE SPIRITUAL DOES NOT
MEAN THAT WE NEED TO BE IDLE.
00:38:08.46\00:38:12.33
TO THE CONTRARY, LUKE CHAPTER
16, VERSE 10 SAYS, "HE WHO IS
00:38:12.33\00:38:17.23
FAITHFUL IN WHAT IS LEAST IS
FAITHFUL ALSO IN MUCH; AND HE
00:38:17.23\00:38:22.20
WHO IS UNJUST IN WHAT IS
LEAST IS UNJUST ALSO IN MUCH."
00:38:22.20\00:38:25.50
SO THE CHURCH, WHILE WE WAIT FOR
THE COMING OF JESUS, WE ARE NOT
00:38:25.50\00:38:30.30
TO BE IDLE. WE'RE,
RATHER, TO BE BUSY.
00:38:30.30\00:38:33.16
THERE'S A WORK TO BE DONE AND
THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED HERE IN THESE
00:38:33.16\00:38:36.60
PASSAGES. NOW WHY IS
THIS WOMAN, DESCRIBED
00:38:36.60\00:38:40.20
IN PROVERBS 31, ALWAYS WORKING?
THERE ARE THREE REASONS WHY
00:38:40.20\00:38:44.93
SHE'S ALWAYS WORKING
THAT I WANT TO JUST EMPHASIZE.
00:38:44.93\00:38:47.93
NUMBER ONE: SHE WANTS
TO PLEASE HER HUSBAND.
00:38:47.93\00:38:50.50
SHE LOVES HER HUSBAND.
SHE'S COMMITTED TO HER HUSBAND.
00:38:50.50\00:38:54.30
HER HUSBAND TRUSTS IN HER AND
SHE WANTS TO PLEASE HER HUSBAND,
00:38:54.30\00:38:59.06
SO SHE'S BUSY. THE
QUESTION IS, DO CHRISTIANS
00:38:59.06\00:39:02.73
TODAY WANT TO PLEASE JESUS?
SHOULD WE WANT TO PLEASE JESUS?
00:39:02.73\00:39:08.36
SHOULD WE DO THOSE THINGS
THAT JESUS WANTS US TO DO?
00:39:08.36\00:39:11.76
ABSOLUTELY.
REVELATION CHAPTER 14:12,
00:39:11.76\00:39:15.10
SPEAKING OF GOD'S PEOPLE AT THE
END OF TIME, IT SAYS THEY KEEP
00:39:15.10\00:39:18.13
THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND
THEY HAVE THE FAITH OF JESUS.
00:39:18.13\00:39:20.96
THE FAITH OF JESUS IS BEST
DESCRIBED IN WHAT JESUS PRAYED
00:39:20.96\00:39:24.06
IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE
WHERE HE SAID, 'FATHER, NOT MY
00:39:24.06\00:39:27.23
WILL BUT THY WILL BE DONE.'
SO GOD'S PEOPLE, AT THE END OF
00:39:27.23\00:39:30.53
TIME, HIS BRIDE IS EAGER TO
PLEASE CHRIST - WILLING TO DO
00:39:30.53\00:39:35.03
WHATEVER IT IS THAT
JESUS ASKS HIS CHURCH TO DO.
00:39:35.03\00:39:38.26
POINT NUMBER TWO: SHE FEEDS
HER HOUSEHOLD - SHE FEEDS HER
00:39:38.26\00:39:42.26
FAMILY. THE CHURCH
IS TO BE FEEDING NOT
00:39:42.26\00:39:45.46
ONLY THE HOUSEHOLD OR THE
MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH, BUT THE
00:39:45.46\00:39:49.26
WORLD WITH THE TRUTHS OF GOD'S
WORD. IN THE BIBLE, BREAD IS
00:39:49.26\00:39:54.23
SOMETIMES LIKENED UNTO THE WORD
OF GOD. THE CHURCH IS TO PROVIDE
00:39:54.23\00:39:58.43
THE WORD - IT IS TO SHARE
THE TRUTH OF JESUS TO THE WORLD.
00:39:58.43\00:40:02.93
MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, VERSE 45
ONWARD TALKS ABOUT THE MASTER OF
00:40:02.93\00:40:07.26
THE HOUSEHOLD WHO IS TO PROVIDE
MEAT IN DUE SEASON - THAT IS,
00:40:07.26\00:40:11.56
FEEDING THE WORD
OF GOD TO THE PEOPLE.
00:40:11.56\00:40:14.13
AND THEN, THIRDLY,
WHY IS SHE ALWAYS WORKING?
00:40:14.13\00:40:17.43
BECAUSE SHE WANTS
HER LIGHT TO SHINE.
00:40:17.43\00:40:19.73
REMEMBER THE VERSE THAT TALKS
ABOUT A LAMP THAT DOESN'T GO OUT
00:40:19.73\00:40:22.06
AT NIGHT? NOW, IN
THE BIBLE, WHAT DOES A
00:40:22.06\00:40:24.36
LAMP OFTEN
REPRESENT? THE WORD OF GOD.
00:40:24.36\00:40:27.20
THE CHURCH IS ALWAYS TO BE
HOLDING UP THE WORD OF GOD,
00:40:27.20\00:40:31.16
WHICH IS THE LAMP OR THE LIGHT.
00:40:31.16\00:40:33.36
JESUS SAID, 'IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
5, VERSE 16, "LET YOUR LIGHT SO
00:40:33.36\00:40:37.46
SHINE BEFORE MEN, THAT THEY MAY
SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS AND GLORIFY
00:40:37.46\00:40:41.23
YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN." SO
WHY IS THE CHURCH TO BE BUSY?
00:40:41.23\00:40:46.10
BECAUSE SHE
WANTS TO PLEASE JESUS.
00:40:46.10\00:40:48.13
BECAUSE THERE IS A WORK OF
FEEDING THE WORLD WITH THE WORD
00:40:48.13\00:40:51.23
OF GOD, AND SHE'S LETTING HER
LIGHT SHINE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT
00:40:51.23\00:40:54.93
JESUS ASKED HER TO DO. IN
REVELATION CHAPTER - CHAPTER
00:40:54.93\00:40:58.26
1, VERSE 13, YOU HAVE A PICTURE
OF JESUS IN HEAVEN, STANDING IN
00:40:58.26\00:41:03.53
THE FIRST COMPARTMENT
OF THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY.
00:41:03.53\00:41:06.03
HE'S DRESSED IN THE HIGH
PRIEST'S ROBE - REVELATION
00:41:06.03\00:41:09.33
CHAPTER 1 - AND IN VERSE 13,
JESUS IS DESCRIBED AS STANDING
00:41:09.33\00:41:13.16
AMONGST THE SEVEN
BRANCHED CANDLESTICKS.
00:41:13.16\00:41:15.30
AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER -
REVELATION CHAPTER 1 - THE SEVEN
00:41:15.30\00:41:18.70
BRANCHED - OR THE SEVEN
CANDLESTICKS - SEVEN BRANCHED
00:41:18.70\00:41:21.63
CANDLESTICKS - ARE DESCRIBED
AS BEING THE CHURCH - THE
00:41:21.63\00:41:24.50
CANDLESTICK
REPRESENTING THE CHURCH.
00:41:24.50\00:41:26.30
NOW, IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING
THAT THE CHURCH HERE IN
00:41:26.30\00:41:29.23
REVELATION CHAPTER 1 IS
DESCRIBED AS A LAMPSTAND.
00:41:29.23\00:41:31.86
NOW, WHAT IS THE
PURPOSE OF A LAMPSTAND?
00:41:31.86\00:41:34.40
IT IS TO HOLD UP THE LIGHT.
WHO IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD?
00:41:34.40\00:41:39.03
>>JESUS. >>IT IS JESUS.
00:41:39.03\00:41:41.13
THE WORK OF THE CHURCH IS TO
HOLD JESUS UP BEFORE THE WORLD.
00:41:41.13\00:41:44.56
BUT, IN ORDER FOR THE CHURCH TO
HOLD JESUS UP BEFORE THE WORLD,
00:41:44.56\00:41:48.20
IN ORDER TO HAVE FIRE ON THE
LAMPSTAND, WHAT DO YOU NEED IN
00:41:48.20\00:41:53.06
THE LAMP? >>OIL.
00:41:53.06\00:41:54.93
>>YOU NEED TO HAVE OIL.
WHAT DOES THE OIL REPRESENT IN
00:41:54.93\00:41:56.53
THE BIBLE? >>HOLY SPIRIT.
00:41:56.53\00:41:58.53
>>THE HOLY SPIRIT. IN
ORDER FOR THE CHURCH TO DO
00:41:58.53\00:42:01.06
THE WORK OF HOLDING JESUS UP TO
THE WORLD, WE NEED TO BE FILLED
00:42:01.06\00:42:05.00
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
WE NEED THAT OIL WITHIN US.
00:42:05.00\00:42:07.83
AND JESUS GAVE THIS SAME IDEA
WHEN HE SPOKE TO NICODEMUS IN
00:42:07.83\00:42:12.26
JOHN CHAPTER 3. HE
SAID, 'AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE
00:42:12.26\00:42:15.36
SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS, EVEN
SO MUST THE SON OF MAN BE LIFTED
00:42:15.36\00:42:18.36
UP.' OUR WORK AS A CHURCH IS
TO LIFT JESUS UP TO THE WORLD.
00:42:18.36\00:42:23.76
I'M GOING TO BE READING NOW THE
NEXT PORTION IN PROVERBS 31 -
00:42:23.76\00:42:27.86
THIS IS FROM VERSE 20 THROUGH
TO VERSE 25 - STILL GIVING US
00:42:27.86\00:42:32.63
CHARACTERISTICS
OF A VIRTUOUS WOMAN.
00:42:32.63\00:42:35.06
IT SAYS, SHE EXTENDS HER HAND TO
THE POOR, YES, SHE REACHES OUT
00:42:35.06\00:42:38.63
HER HANDS TO THE NEEDY.
SHE IS NOT AFRAID OF SNOW FOR
00:42:38.63\00:42:41.96
HER HOUSEHOLD, FOR ALL
HER HOUSEHOLD IS CLOTHED WITH
00:42:41.96\00:42:44.26
SCARLET. SHE MAKES
TAPESTRY FOR HERSELF;
00:42:44.26\00:42:47.50
HER CLOTHING IS
FINE LINEN AND PURPLE.
00:42:47.50\00:42:50.40
HER HUSBAND IS KNOWN IN THE
GATES, WHEN HE SITS AMONG THE
00:42:50.40\00:42:53.86
ELDERS OF THE LAND. SHE
MAKES LINEN GARMENTS AND
00:42:53.86\00:42:57.26
SELLS THEM, AND SUPPLIES
SASHES FOR THE MERCHANTS.
00:42:57.26\00:43:00.90
STRENGTH AND HONOR ARE HER
CLOTHING; SHE SHALL REJOICE IN
00:43:00.90\00:43:05.20
TIME TO COME." SO SOME
ADDITIONAL CHARACTERISTIC THAT'S
00:43:05.20\00:43:09.36
- CHARACTERISTICS THAT'S
MENTIONED HERE - YOU'LL NOTICE
00:43:09.36\00:43:12.76
IN VERSE 20 IT SAYS SHE HELPS
THE POOR - SHE HAS COMPASSION ON
00:43:12.76\00:43:17.83
THE NEEDY. THE CHURCH
- THE BRIDE OF CHRIST -
00:43:17.83\00:43:20.70
IS TO HAVE
COMPASSION ON THE NEEDY.
00:43:20.70\00:43:23.86
JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'VE DONE
THIS UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE MY
00:43:23.86\00:43:26.60
BRETHREN, YOU HAVE DONE IT UNTO
ME.' I LIKE THE PARABLE THAT
00:43:26.60\00:43:30.46
JESUS TOLD OF A GOOD SAMARITAN
WHO WENT TO HELP A MAN WHO HAD
00:43:30.46\00:43:33.90
FALLEN AMONGST THIEVES.
IT SAYS THE MOTIVATION OF THE
00:43:33.90\00:43:36.86
SAMARITAN TO HELP THE MAN WAS
THAT HE HAD COMPASSION ON HIM.
00:43:36.86\00:43:40.93
IN THE PARABLE, THE GOOD
SAMARITAN REPRESENTS JESUS.
00:43:40.93\00:43:43.50
JESUS CAME TO OUR WORLD TO SAVE
US BECAUSE HE HAD COMPASSION
00:43:43.50\00:43:46.50
UPON US. THE CHURCH
IS TO HAVE COMPASSION
00:43:46.50\00:43:49.86
UPON THE WORLD AND WE ARE TO BE
REACHING OUT, SHARING WITH THEM
00:43:49.86\00:43:53.63
THE GOOD NEWS OF SALVATION.
VERSES 21 AND 22 - PROVERBS 31 -
00:43:53.63\00:43:59.63
IT TALKS ABOUT THIS VIRTUOUS
WOMAN BEING CLOTHED IN SCARLET
00:43:59.63\00:44:03.20
AND PURPLE. NOW, IN
THE BIBLE, SCARLET AND
00:44:03.20\00:44:06.93
PURPLE WERE COLORS
THAT WERE USED BY ROYALTY.
00:44:06.93\00:44:09.76
SO A VIRTUOUS WOMAN, SYMBOLIZING
WISDOM OR THE BRIDE OF CHRIST,
00:44:09.76\00:44:14.46
IS ROYALTY
BECAUSE JESUS IS THE KING.
00:44:14.46\00:44:17.93
AND IF YOU'RE THE BRIDE OR THE
WIFE OF JESUS, THEN YOU'RE THE
00:44:17.93\00:44:20.80
QUEEN - THEN YOU HAVE ROYALTY.
BUT IN REVELATION THERE IS
00:44:20.80\00:44:25.30
ANOTHER WOMAN DESCRIBED
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 17.
00:44:25.30\00:44:28.36
SHE THINKS SHE IS THE BRIDE
OF CHRIST FOR SHE IS CLOTHED IN
00:44:28.36\00:44:32.96
PURPLE AND SCARLET, BUT SHE'S
NOT TRULY THE BRIDE OF CHRIST.
00:44:32.96\00:44:36.96
LET'S GO TO THAT, IF YOU WOULD,
REVELATION CHAPTER 17, VERSE 4.
00:44:36.96\00:44:39.96
HERE YOU HAVE THIS OTHER WOMAN
THAT'S SPOKEN OF - REVELATION
00:44:39.96\00:44:44.60
CHAPTER 17 - AND WE'RE JUST
GOING TO READ HERE VERSE 4 -
00:44:44.60\00:44:48.50
THIS IS THE WOMAN
WHOSE NAME IS BABYLON.
00:44:48.50\00:44:52.33
IT SAYS, "THE WOMAN WAS ARRAYED
IN PURPLE AND SCARLET, AND
00:44:52.33\00:44:56.26
ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS
STONES AND PEARLS, HAVING IN HER
00:44:56.26\00:45:00.46
HAND A GOLDEN CUP FULL OF
ABOMINATIONS AND THE FILTHINESS
00:45:00.46\00:45:03.63
OF HER FORNICATION." SO
HERE IS A COUNTERFEIT CHURCH
00:45:03.63\00:45:08.13
THINKING THAT SHE IS A QUEEN
- THINKING THAT SHE IS THE BRIDE
00:45:08.13\00:45:11.03
OF CHRIST, BUT IN REALITY SHE IS
GUILTY OF SPIRITUAL FORNICATION.
00:45:11.03\00:45:15.26
REMEMBER, I SAID EARLIER,
THE GREAT SIN OF BABYLON IS HER
00:45:15.26\00:45:18.50
LOOKING TO POLITICAL POWERS -
LOOKING TO THE STATE TO ENFORCE
00:45:18.50\00:45:21.83
HER DOCTRINES AND DECREES?
THAT'S SPIRITUAL FORNICATION.
00:45:21.83\00:45:25.23
SHE THINKS SHE'S THE
BRIDE OF CHRIST BUT SHE IS NOT.
00:45:25.23\00:45:28.86
IN OTHER WORDS, I THINK THE
WARNING WE CAN TAKE FROM THAT -
00:45:28.86\00:45:31.23
NOT EVERY CHURCH THAT MIGHT
HAVE A CROSS ON THEIR STEEPLE IS
00:45:31.23\00:45:34.70
NECESSARILY BEING FAITHFUL
TO THE TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD.
00:45:34.70\00:45:38.10
WE NEED TO COMPARE ALL THINGS
BY WHAT DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?
00:45:38.10\00:45:42.50
'TO THE LAW AND TO THE
TESTIMONY, IF THEY SPEAK NOT
00:45:42.50\00:45:45.06
ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, THERE IS
NO LIGHT IN THEM.' NOW VERSES 23
00:45:45.06\00:45:49.70
AND 24 TALK ABOUT HER HUSBAND,
WHO IS KNOWN AT THE GATE.
00:45:49.70\00:45:53.36
IF THE WOMAN REPRESENTS THE
CHURCH, HER HUSBAND, OF COURSE,
00:45:53.36\00:45:56.63
WOULD BE CHRIST. HE IS KNOWN.
SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING IN
00:45:56.63\00:46:00.10
VERSE 24, IT SAYS SHE
MAKES LINEN AND SHE SELLS IT.
00:46:00.10\00:46:03.06
SHE PREPARES
THESE WHITE GARMENTS.
00:46:03.06\00:46:06.10
IN THE BIBLE, WHAT DOES
RAIMENT OFTEN REPRESENT?
00:46:06.10\00:46:09.16
RIGHTEOUSNESS. SO
THE CHURCH IS TO GIVE THE
00:46:09.16\00:46:12.50
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
CHRIST TO OTHERS.
00:46:12.50\00:46:15.33
VERSE 25 SAYS, "STRENGTH
AND HONOR ARE HER CLOTHING;" -
00:46:15.33\00:46:20.00
THAT'S INTERESTING - THE
STRENGTH AND THE COMFORT OF THE
00:46:20.00\00:46:24.46
CHURCH IS IN THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.
00:46:24.46\00:46:27.40
IT IS NOT OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
THAT SAVES US, BUT IT IS THE
00:46:27.40\00:46:30.73
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS.
WE WANT TO BE CLOTHED IN HIS
00:46:30.73\00:46:33.23
RIGHTEOUSNESS. ONE
OF MY FAVORITE VERSES IS
00:46:33.23\00:46:36.80
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 23, VERSE
6. IT SAYS, "IN HIS DAYS JUDAH
00:46:36.80\00:46:39.53
SHALL BE SAVED, AND ISRAEL SHALL
DWELL SAFELY: AND THIS IS HIS
00:46:39.53\00:46:44.10
NAME WHEREBY HE SHALL BE CALLED,
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS ."
00:46:44.10\00:46:49.93
NOW, OF COURSE, WHEN A
YOUNG WOMAN MARRIES A YOUNG MAN,
00:46:49.93\00:46:54.40
DEPENDING ON WHAT CULTURE
THE PERSON MIGHT BE IN, BUT SHE
00:46:54.40\00:46:58.36
USUALLY ASSUMES THE
NAME OF HER HUSBAND.
00:46:58.36\00:47:01.30
SO HERE YOU HAVE THIS VIRTUOUS
WOMAN SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCH,
00:47:01.30\00:47:06.00
MARRIED TO CHRIST.
SHE RECEIVES HIS NAME.
00:47:06.00\00:47:09.40
HE BECOMES THE
LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:47:09.40\00:47:11.53
WE ARE SAVED BY THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.
00:47:11.53\00:47:15.63
AND THEN ON THURSDAY, PROVERBS
CHAPTER 31 FROM VERSE 26 TO 31
00:47:15.63\00:47:21.53
GIVES US A FEW MORE
CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS VIRTUOUS
00:47:21.53\00:47:24.63
WOMAN. WOULD YOU
READ THAT FOR US?
00:47:24.63\00:47:27.56
>>"SHE OPENS HER MOUTH WITH
WISDOM, AND ON HER TONGUE IS THE
00:47:27.56\00:47:30.83
LAW OF KINDNESS. SHE
WATCHES OVER THE WAYS OF HER
00:47:30.83\00:47:34.16
HOUSEHOLD AND DOES NOT
EAT THE BREAD OF IDLENESS.
00:47:34.16\00:47:37.80
HER CHILDREN RISE UP AND CALL
HER BLESSED; HER HUSBAND ALSO,
00:47:37.80\00:47:41.60
AND HE PRAISES HER: 'MANY
DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE WELL, BUT
00:47:41.60\00:47:46.26
YOU EXCEL THEM ALL.'
CHARM IS DECEITFUL AND BEAUTY IS
00:47:46.26\00:47:50.26
PASSING, BUT A WOMAN WHO FEARS
THE LORD, SHE SHALL BE PRAISED.
00:47:50.26\00:47:54.83
GIVE HER OF THE FRUIT OF
HER HANDS, AND LET HER OWN WORKS
00:47:54.83\00:47:59.10
PRAISE HER IN THE GATES."
00:47:59.10\00:48:00.93
>>NOTICE THE CHARACTERISTICS
- A FEW OF THE CHARACTERISTICS
00:48:00.93\00:48:04.23
MENTIONED HERE - FIRST ONE,
VERSE 26 - TWO CHARACTERISTICS
00:48:04.23\00:48:06.53
THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED: SHE
HAS WISDOM AND SHE IS KIND.
00:48:06.53\00:48:10.70
THE CHURCH IS TO HAVE WISDOM -
WISDOM FOUND IN THE WORD OF GOD
00:48:10.70\00:48:14.40
- AND THE CHURCH IS TO BE KIND
TO OTHERS AND THAT'S THROUGH
00:48:14.40\00:48:17.86
WITNESSING OR SHARING.
VERSE 27 TALKS ABOUT HER BEING
00:48:17.86\00:48:20.93
WATCHFUL AND HAVING BREAD.
SO THE CHURCH IS TO WATCH.
00:48:20.93\00:48:25.26
JESUS, IN MATTHEW 25, SEVERAL
TIMES SAID, 'WATCH, BE READY,
00:48:25.26\00:48:31.03
FOR YOU KNOW NOT THE DAY NOR THE
HOUR WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES.'
00:48:31.03\00:48:33.96
SO THE CHURCH IS ALWAYS TO BE
WATCHING FOR THE BRIDEGROOM TO
00:48:33.96\00:48:37.63
COME - WATCHING FOR HER HUSBAND
- AND SHE IS TO BE FEEDING
00:48:37.63\00:48:40.96
PEOPLE ON THE BREAD. THAT, OF
COURSE, BEING THE WORD OF GOD.
00:48:40.96\00:48:43.80
VERSE 28 AND VERSE 29 - IT SAYS
SHE'S BLESSED BY HER CHILDREN
00:48:43.80\00:48:47.93
AND HER HUSBAND. CHRIST
WANTS TO BLESS THE CHURCH.
00:48:47.93\00:48:51.70
THE CHRISTIAN IS NOT TO SEEK
WORLDLY PRAISE, BUT WE RATHER
00:48:51.70\00:48:56.73
WANT THE PRAISE OF
GOD. WE WANT TO PLEASE GOD.
00:48:56.73\00:48:58.90
WE DON'T WANT TO PLEASE MAN.
WHAT DID THE DISCIPLES SAY WHEN
00:48:58.90\00:49:02.00
THEY WERE TOLD BY THE LEADERSHIP
OF ISRAEL NOT TO PREACH IN
00:49:02.00\00:49:06.20
CHRIST'S NAME? THEY
SAID, 'WHAT ARE WE TO DO?
00:49:06.20\00:49:08.83
IT IS BETTER FOR US TO PLEASE
GOD THAN TO PLEASE MAN.' THAT IS
00:49:08.83\00:49:13.26
THE ATTITUDE OF THE
CHURCH - TO PLEASE GOD, NOT MAN.
00:49:13.26\00:49:16.40
IT SAYS HERE THAT HER CHARM - OR
CHARM IN GENERAL - AND BEAUTY IS
00:49:16.40\00:49:19.96
PASSING, BUT A VIRTUOUS
WOMAN HAS THE FEAR OF THE LORD.
00:49:19.96\00:49:23.46
HER FEAR ENDURES FOREVER.
REVELATION CHAPTER 14, THE FIRST
00:49:23.46\00:49:26.23
ANGEL'S MESSAGE, BEGINS
WITH 'FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO
00:49:26.23\00:49:30.20
HIM.' THAT IS,
REVERENCE GOD, RESPECT GOD.
00:49:30.20\00:49:33.16
THOSE ARE THE
THINGS THAT ENDURE FOREVER.
00:49:33.16\00:49:35.26
AND THEN, FINALLY,
VERSE 31, FINISHES UP.
00:49:35.26\00:49:37.80
IT SAYS HER OWN
WORKS WILL PRAISE HER.
00:49:37.80\00:49:40.03
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 22, VERSE
12, JESUS, NOW COMING AS KING OF
00:49:40.03\00:49:44.76
KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS - HE'S
COMING TO RECEIVE HIS BRIDE.
00:49:44.76\00:49:47.93
JESUS SAYS, "BEHOLD, I AM COMING
QUICKLY;" - REVELATION 22:12 -
00:49:47.93\00:49:51.80
"AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, TO
GIVE EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS
00:49:51.80\00:49:55.60
WORK." SO THE WORKS OF THE
HAND REWARDS WHEN JESUS COMES.
00:49:55.60\00:50:01.20
A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS AS WE
FINISH UP WITH OUR STUDY HERE ON
00:50:01.20\00:50:04.73
PROVERBS CHAPTER 31, AND ALSO
WITH THE WHOLE BOOK OF PROVERBS
00:50:04.73\00:50:07.60
THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT, HERE
IT'S DESCRIBED THAT A WOMAN'S
00:50:07.60\00:50:12.06
TRUE BEAUTY - AND SO IT IS IN
THE CHURCH - THE CHURCH'S TRUE
00:50:12.06\00:50:14.93
BEAUTY IS FOUND IN HER
CHARACTER, WHICH IS MANIFEST IN
00:50:14.93\00:50:18.50
THE THINGS THAT SHE SAYS
AND THE THINGS THAT SHE DOES.
00:50:18.50\00:50:21.66
THE CHURCH IS TO VALUE -
CHRISTIANS, INDIVIDUALLY, ARE TO
00:50:21.66\00:50:25.03
VALUE THOSE HEAVENLY TREASURES
- THAT BEAUTY OF CHARACTER THAT
00:50:25.03\00:50:29.30
REVEALS CHRIST IN US, THE
HOPE OF GLORY. THERE IS AN
00:50:29.30\00:50:33.60
INTERESTING STATEMENT THAT COMES
FROM THE BOOK AMAZING GRACE -
00:50:33.60\00:50:36.06
IT'S PAGE 81 - I'M
GOING TO FINISH WITH THIS.
00:50:36.06\00:50:39.63
IT SAYS, "A GREAT NAME AMONG MEN
IS AS LETTERS TRACED IN SAND;
00:50:39.63\00:50:43.66
BUT A SPOTLESS CHARACTER
WILL ENDURE TO ALL ETERNITY."
00:50:43.66\00:50:47.93
THE GOAL OF THE CHRISTIAN IS TO
HAVE A SPOTLESS CHARACTER - TO
00:50:47.93\00:50:52.60
REFLECT THE CHARACTER OF
CHRIST - AND THAT'S DESCRIBED
00:50:52.60\00:50:55.90
BEAUTIFULLY HERE IN PROVERBS 31
WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT A VIRTUOUS
00:50:55.90\00:50:59.26
WOMAN. SO NOT ONLY DO WE SEE
SOME PRACTICAL GUIDELINES FOR
00:50:59.26\00:51:02.90
EVERYDAY LIVING, BUT WE ALSO SEE
THE BIGGER PICTURE: JESUS IS THE
00:51:02.90\00:51:07.23
BRIDEGROOM, THE CHURCH IS THE
BRIDE, THE CHURCH NEEDS TO BE
00:51:07.23\00:51:10.20
COMMITTED AND FULLY DEVOTED TO
CHRIST BECAUSE CHRIST IS WANTING
00:51:10.20\00:51:13.26
TO PERFECT HIS CHARACTER IN US.
NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT
00:51:13.26\00:51:17.63
I WANT JESUS TO PERFECT
HIS CHARACTER IN ME, AMEN?
00:51:17.63\00:51:21.03
I WANT HIS GLORY TO
SHINE OUT TO THE WORLD.
00:51:21.03\00:51:24.10
THAT'S WHAT BEING A
CHRISTIAN IS REALLY ALL ABOUT.
00:51:24.10\00:51:26.40
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WE CONTINUE OUR STUDY IN A
00:52:03.33\00:52:06.06
BRAND-NEW LESSON QUARTERLY.
LET'S CLOSE WITH PRAYER.
00:52:06.06\00:52:09.30
DEAR FATHER, WE
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORD.
00:52:09.30\00:52:12.23
WE THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL
PICTURE THAT IS PORTRAYED OF
00:52:12.23\00:52:14.76
YOUR CHURCH IN THE LAST
DAYS - FAITHFUL AND TRUE TO YOU.
00:52:14.76\00:52:19.00
FATHER, WE LONG FOR THE DAY WHEN
JESUS COMES AND THERE'LL BE NO
00:52:19.00\00:52:22.36
MORE PAIN OR SORROW OR SICKNESS,
BUT YOU'LL MAKE ALL THINGS NEW.
00:52:22.36\00:52:25.86
FATHER, WE WANT TO BE CLOTHED
IN THE SPOTLESS ROBE OF CHRIST'S
00:52:25.86\00:52:28.90
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND SO, LORD, WE
ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME
00:52:28.90\00:52:32.83
AND FILL OUR HEARTS AND
OUR LIVES AND MAY WE BE TRUE IN
00:52:32.83\00:52:35.73
LIFTING UP THE LIGHT OF
THE WORLD, JESUS, TO THE WORLD
00:52:35.73\00:52:40.03
BECAUSE WHEN JESUS IS LIFTED
UP, OTHERS WILL BE DRAWN TO HIM.
00:52:40.03\00:52:44.36
THANK YOU FOR BEING
WITH US IN OUR STUDY TODAY.
00:52:44.36\00:52:46.73
WE ASK FOR YOUR BLESSING
AS WE GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS.
00:52:46.73\00:52:49.56
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN.
00:52:49.56\00:52:51.36
>>THANK YOU AGAIN,
FRIENDS, FOR JOINING US.
00:52:51.36\00:52:53.66
HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.
>>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
00:52:53.66\00:53:07.70
>>I FELT LIKE I WAS RECEIVING
SOME ANGEL MESSAGES IN AROUND MY
00:53:07.70\00:53:12.26
SON'S DEATH. MY SON
JESSE WAS JUST 31 YEARS
00:53:12.26\00:53:15.36
OLD SO I DIDN'T EXPECT
HIM TO DIE BEFORE I DID.
00:53:15.36\00:53:20.60
BUT IN NOVEMBER OF 2009 WE
DECIDED TO HAVE THANKSGIVING
00:53:20.60\00:53:25.33
WITH HIM WHEN WE NORMALLY GO TO
A FAMILY TO HAVE THANKSGIVING.
00:53:25.33\00:53:29.50
I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS GOING TO BE
THE VERY LAST TIME THAT I WOULD
00:53:29.50\00:53:32.46
SEE MY SON ALIVE. IN
APRIL OF 2010 I WAS URGED TO
00:53:32.46\00:53:37.56
CALL HIM ON THE DAY THAT HE
DIED. I DIDN'T MAKE THAT CALL.
00:53:37.56\00:53:42.00
I WAS TOO BUSY. I
THOUGHT I HAD TILL THE NEXT
00:53:42.00\00:53:44.16
MORNING TO CALL HIM AND
IT TURNS OUT THAT I DIDN'T.
00:53:44.16\00:53:48.50
AND THEN MY HUSBAND'S FATHER WAS
PASSING AWAY IN A NURSING HOME,
00:53:48.50\00:53:52.36
SLOWLY - NOT EATING, TAKING HIS
MEDICINE - JUST WASTING AWAY.
00:53:52.36\00:53:58.46
>>WE WERE PUTTING OUT AMAZING
FACTS BIBLE STUDY GUIDES AND WE
00:53:58.46\00:54:05.03
HAD SENT OUT CARDS AND WE HAD
THIS CARD, BUT WHEN I KNOCKED ON
00:54:05.03\00:54:12.70
SUE AND KIRK'S DOOR BY MISTAKE
- >>AND WE WERE CONVINCED THAT
00:54:12.70\00:54:18.76
THIS WAS THE RIGHT HOUSE AND
IT OBVIOUSLY TURNED OUT, TO OUR
00:54:18.76\00:54:22.43
SURPRISE, TO BE THE WRONG HOUSE.
>>WHEN THEY CAME BY, WE WEREN'T
00:54:22.43\00:54:26.20
EXPECTING THEM.
THEY TOLD ME ABOUT THESE
00:54:26.20\00:54:30.40
PAMPHLETS - THESE AMAZING FACTS
THAT EXPLAINED THEIR DOCTRINE.
00:54:30.40\00:54:38.20
>>WELL, TO OUR SURPRISE,
WHEN THEY ANSWERED THE DOOR, THE
00:54:38.20\00:54:41.83
GENTLEMAN, WHEN HE SAW WHAT
WE WERE DOING HE SAID, 'WELL, WE
00:54:41.83\00:54:46.23
WOULD LIKE TO
TAKE THESE STUDIES.
00:54:46.23\00:54:48.16
>>ANYTHING ABOUT THE LORD THAT
INCREASES MY FAITH IS ALWAYS
00:54:48.16\00:54:53.90
OPEN. >>THESE
LESSONS CAME AT A TIME
00:54:53.90\00:54:58.26
WE DIDN'T KNOW
WE WERE SEARCHING.
00:54:58.26\00:55:00.26
WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE NEEDED.
00:55:00.26\00:55:02.40
WE WERE JUST HURTING FROM THE
GRIEF THAT WE'D BEEN THROUGH.
00:55:02.40\00:55:05.73
WHEN I SAW THE STUDIES BY
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE SABBATH,
00:55:05.73\00:55:10.50
IT STRUCK A CHORD WITH ME
BECAUSE I REMEMBERED WHEN I HAD
00:55:10.50\00:55:14.76
TALKED TO MY MOTHER AS A CHILD
ABOUT THE SABBATH - ABOUT SEEING
00:55:14.76\00:55:20.63
THAT TRUTH WHEN I WAS ONLY EIGHT
YEARS OLD AND ASKING HER WHY WE
00:55:20.63\00:55:24.23
DIDN'T HONOR THE SABBATH DAY AND
SHE TOLD ME THAT IT WAS JUST NOT
00:55:24.23\00:55:29.93
THE WAY THAT THEY DID THINGS.
WELL THAT WASN'T A GOOD ENOUGH
00:55:29.93\00:55:34.23
EXPRESSION - A
GOOD ENOUGH EXPLANATION.
00:55:34.23\00:55:36.93
THERE WAS NO SCRIPTURAL
BASIS FOR WHAT SHE TOLD ME.
00:55:36.93\00:55:40.20
SHE JUST SAID TO FORGET IT.
AND I WENT THROUGH ALL OF THE
00:55:40.20\00:55:43.33
STUDIES THAT WE HAD
GOTTEN AND I WANTED MORE.
00:55:43.33\00:55:46.10
SO I DECIDED THAT, WELL, IF
THEY PUT OUT THESE AMAZING FACTS
00:55:46.10\00:55:51.16
BIBLE STUDIES, THERE MUST
BE SOMETHING ONLINE ABOUT THEM,
00:55:51.16\00:55:55.06
SO I DECIDED TO CHECK IT OUT.
00:55:55.06\00:55:56.93
I WENT ON THE COMPUTER TO
AMAZING FACTS AND IT SAID IT
00:55:56.93\00:56:00.76
RIGHT DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE
BIBLE STUDIES, AMAZINGFACTS.ORG.
00:56:00.76\00:56:04.03
I CHECKED IT OUT AND THERE
WAS FREE BIBLE STUDIES THERE.
00:56:04.03\00:56:06.83
IT WAS THE VERY SAME ONES
THAT WE HAD BEEN STUDYING.
00:56:06.83\00:56:09.43
AFTER FINDING THE AMAZING FACTS
BIBLE STUDIES ONLINE - AND I DID
00:56:09.43\00:56:13.43
THEM ALL - I THINK THERE WERE 27
- 28 BIBLE STUDIES, I FELT LIKE
00:56:13.43\00:56:17.13
I WAS FINALLY SEEING THE
TRUTH AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.
00:56:17.13\00:56:21.76
WE ORDERED THE AMAZING FACTS
DVDS LIKE THE COSMIC CONFLICT
00:56:21.76\00:56:27.86
AND THE FINAL EVENTS - PROPHECY
FOUNDATIONS AND DIFFERENT
00:56:27.86\00:56:33.73
MATERIALS LIKE THAT. WE
WENT THROUGH THEM AND ENJOYED
00:56:33.73\00:56:37.13
ALL OF THEM AND THEY
IMPACTED OUR LIVES EVEN MORE.
00:56:37.13\00:56:41.83
>>WELL, I WORKED
AT THE POST OFFICE.
00:56:41.83\00:56:44.23
I KNEW KIRK AND SUE FOR A VERY
LONG TIME AND I WASN'T ALLOWED
00:56:44.23\00:56:48.43
TO TALK TO ANYONE ABOUT
THE BIBLE AND BIBLE STUDIES AND
00:56:48.43\00:56:52.76
THINGS LIKE THAT
BECAUSE THEY TOLD US NOT TO.
00:56:52.76\00:56:55.13
BUT ANYWAY, WHEN SUE CAME IN
AND TALKED ABOUT IT, SHE TALKED
00:56:55.13\00:56:58.20
ABOUT THE SABBATH AND I TOLD
HER - I SAID, 'WELL SUE, I GO TO
00:56:58.20\00:57:00.93
CHURCH ON SATURDAY.'
>>SO I INVITED MYSELF.
00:57:00.93\00:57:04.83
SHE WAS EXCITED, OF
COURSE, TO HAVE ME GO.
00:57:04.83\00:57:07.73
MY HUSBAND AND I BOTH STARTED
GOING THAT VERY NEXT SABBATH AND
00:57:07.73\00:57:11.10
IT WASN'T BUT JUST FOUR MONTHS
AFTER THAT THAT WE WERE BAPTIZED
00:57:11.10\00:57:14.56
IN THE CHURCH AND IT FELT LIKE
THE MOST GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE I
00:57:14.56\00:57:18.73
COULD HAVE EVER HAD.
>>THE THING THAT TOUCHES MY
00:57:18.73\00:57:23.23
HEART THE MOST IS MERWYN AND I
HAD BEEN DOING THIS FOR, OH, THE
00:57:23.23\00:57:27.40
LAST YEAR AND A HALF OR TWO
YEARS, AND SUE IS NOT THE ONLY
00:57:27.40\00:57:31.60
ONE THAT HAS
RESPONDED TO AMAZING FACTS.
00:57:31.60\00:57:34.03
WE'VE HAD SEVERAL OTHERS THAT
HAVE RESPONDED AND HAVE BEEN
00:57:34.03\00:57:36.23
BAPTIZED SO THIS IS WHAT REALLY
MAKES IT EXCITING. THERE'S TIMES
00:57:36.23\00:57:42.20
IT'S DISCOURAGING, BUT THE
BOTTOM LINE IS EVERY TIME YOU
00:57:42.20\00:57:45.36
SEE SOMEBODY IN THE WATER
BEING BAPTIZED, IT'S A THRILL.
00:57:45.36\00:57:48.80
>>I KNOW THAT JESUS LOVES ME.
AFTER ALL OF THE TRAGEDY THAT
00:57:48.80\00:57:52.40
I'VE BEEN THROUGH, HE MADE
SURE THAT THE TWO MEN CAME AND
00:57:52.40\00:57:56.63
BROUGHT THE AMAZING FACTS BIBLE
STUDIES TO ME AND MY HUSBAND. MY
00:57:56.63\00:58:01.66
LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
IT IS FOREVER CHANGED AND I AM
00:58:01.66\00:58:06.43
FOREVER PART OF
THE FAMILY OF GOD.
00:58:06.43\00:58:14.00
(MUSIC)
00:58:14.00\00:58:15.00