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>>GOOD EVENING,
FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS
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JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AND AROUND THE WORLD AS WE
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CONTINUE OUR
STUDY IN GOD'S WORD.
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I'D LIKE TO, IN A SPECIAL WAY,
WELCOME OUR AUDIENCE HERE FROM
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THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, AGAIN,
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FOR OUR TUESDAY
EVENING BIBLE STUDY.
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AND, FOR THOSE WHO HAVE
BEEN FOLLOWING ALONG WITH THE
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, TODAY
WE FIND OURSELVES BEGINNING A
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BRAND-NEW STUDY
IN THE BOOK OF LUKE.
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WE'RE ON OUR LESSON QUARTERLY
DEALING WITH THE BOOK OF LUKE
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AND TODAY'S LESSON - LESSON #1
- IS CALLED THE COMING OF JESUS.
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WELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR LESSON
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FOR THIS EVENING, LET'S
JUST BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO
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GATHER TOGETHER
TO STUDY THE BIBLE.
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FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THESE
LESSONS THAT ARE BEING PREPARED.
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AS WE LAUNCH INTO A NEW STUDY ON
ONE OF THE GOSPELS, WE JUST ASK
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THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND
GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS
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AS WE LOOK AT THE MOST IMPORTANT
AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THEME OF
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ALL, THAT OF JESUS. FOR WE
ASK THIS IN HIS NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG.
>>GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY,
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CLASS, AND OUR FRIENDS - OUR
EXTENDED CLASS THAT IS WATCHING.
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AND I JUST WANT TO SEND SPECIAL
GREETINGS - I ARRIVED BACK
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FROM THE PHILIPPINES YESTERDAY,
WHERE WE HAD ONE OF THE MOST
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EXCITING MEETINGS
THAT I'VE BEEN PART OF.
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AND WORKED WITH - WE HAVE
AN AMAZING FACTS COLLEGE OF
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EVANGELISM IN THE PHILIPPINES
- WE ACTUALLY CALL IT PAFCOE
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BECAUSE IT'S THE PHILIPPINES
AMAZING FACTS COLLEGE OF
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EVANGELISM AND A LOT OF
FRIENDS THERE THAT GREET US.
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TOMORROW, PASTOR ROSS IS HEADING
TO INDONESIA TO OUR EVANGELISM
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PROGRAM IN INDONESIA, WHICH IS
IN THE LARGEST MUSLIM COUNTRY IN
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THE WORLD. AND SO, IT'S REALLY
EXCITING THAT IT'S - IS IT SOLO?
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INDONESIA - SOLO CITY?
WE'VE GOT AN EVANGELISM SCHOOL
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THERE. AND SO,
IT'S SO EXCITING TO JUST
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SEE THE - THE GLOBAL WORK
OF THE LORD GOING EVERYWHERE.
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AND WHEREVER WE TRAVEL - IN THE
PHILIPPINES - A LOT OF FRIENDS
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THERE SAY, 'OH, WE WATCH SABBATH
SCHOOL. THEY DON'T ALL SEE IT
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LIVE, BECAUSE OF THE TIME
CHANGE, BUT WE'VE GOT A LOT OF
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FRIENDS WATCHING THERE SO WE
WANT TO GREET OUR CLASS THERE.
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MATTER OF FACT, WE MAY ROLL IN A
LITTLE SHORT HERE TO GIVE YOU AN
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IDEA OF SOME OF THE THINGS
THAT WERE HAPPENING IN THE
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PHILIPPINES - SORT OF A LITTLE
MISSION REPORT, IF THAT'S OKAY.
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>>IN MARCH 2015, AMAZING
FACTS AND PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
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TRAVELED TO THE PHILIPPINES TO
SHARE THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL OF
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JESUS CHRIST TO THE
PEOPLE LIVING IN THE BUSTLING
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METROPOLIS OF MANILA. THIS
LIFE-CHANGING SERIES OF MESSAGES
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CALLED PROPHECY COUNTDOWN: A
BIBLE STUDY ADVENTURE FOR THE
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LAST DAYS WAS PRESENTED AT
THE CUNETA ASTRODOME IN PASAY TO
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TENS OF THOUSANDS OVER A
TWO-WEEK PERIOD, AND LIVES WERE
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CHANGED. TODAY,
THE LOVE AND POWER OF
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JESUS CHRIST IS MORE ALIVE IN
THE PHILIPPINES THAN EVER, AND
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LIVES ARE STILL BEING CHANGED BY
THE HOLY SPIRIT AS THE FUTURES
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OF SO MANY IN THE PHILIPPINES
ARE RENEWED WITH HOPE, JOY, AND
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PEACE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
JOINING AMAZING FACTS ON THIS
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MISSION OF FAITH - THROUGH
YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT -
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WITHOUT YOU IT WOULD
NEVER HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE.
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>>FRIENDS, WE'VE JUST
COME TO THE END OF OUR PROPHECY
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COUNTDOWN SERIES HERE IN MANILA,
IN THE PHILIPPINES, AND IT HAS
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BEEN A THRILL AND A
JOY TO SEE PEOPLE COME.
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NIGHT AFTER NIGHT THEY'VE OPENED
THE WORD OF GOD, HEARTS AND
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LIVES HAVE BEEN CHANGED,
HUNDREDS WERE BAPTIZED, AND IT'S
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ONLY BY GOD'S BLESSING AND
YOUR PARTICIPATION ALL THIS HAS
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HAPPENED. WELL,
THERE'S STILL A LOT OF
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WORLD LEFT TO REACH. NOW,
OFF TO OTHER MISSION FIELDS.
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(MUSIC) >>SO
THAT WAS REALLY NEAT.
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THAT WAS REALLY EXCITING AND
WE HAD 596 BAPTISMS LAST WEEK,
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WHICH WAS THE LARGEST NUMBER
THAT I'VE BEEN CONNECTED WITH
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AND I THINK IT WAS -
IT'S SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE
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PHILIPPINES AND INDONESIA, BUT
I'M PRETTY SURE THAT THIS LAST
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SABBATH WAS, FOR ME, THE LARGEST
LIVE AUDIENCE THAT I'VE BEEN
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ABLE TO SHARE WITH.
IT'S PRETTY EXCITING.
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SOMEWHERE AROUND 11,000 PEOPLE
WERE IN THE BUILDING AND SO
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IT WAS JUST
PRETTY - PRETTY NEAT.
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AND PART OF THE REASON IS
BECAUSE - ALMOST TWO YEARS NOW,
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AMAZING FACTS HAS - WE INVESTED,
WITH THE CONFERENCE, IN
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BROADCASTING OUR PROGRAMS ON A
MAIN CABLE CHANNEL, BECAUSE MANY
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OF THEM SPEAK ENGLISH, AT LEAST
AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, ALL ACROSS
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THE COUNTRY, NOT JUST MANILA,
BUT ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
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AND SO, WE THINK THAT THIS
WAS SOME OF THE FRUIT OF THOSE -
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THOSE ENDEAVORS AND SO I WANT
TO JUST, ONCE AGAIN, GREET OUR
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CLASS THAT'S WATCHING THERE.
AND WE'RE GOING TO GO TO MY
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FAVORITE GOSPEL. A LOT
OF PEOPLE LOVE THE GOSPEL
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OF JOHN BECAUSE THEY SAY, YOU
KNOW, HE'S THE APOSTLE OF LOVE.
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JOHN IS JUST SO PROFOUND,
IT'S ALMOST ABOVE MY HEAD -
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THE DEEP THEMES IN THERE.
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AND THEN THERE'S THOSE THAT LOVE
MATTHEW AND THOSE THAT LOVE MARK
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BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A
QUICK-MOVING GOSPEL.
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LUKE IS UNIQUE FOR
A NUMBER OF REASONS.
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FOR ONE, HE'S THE ONLY OF THE
GOSPEL WRITERS - WELL, HE WAS
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THE ONLY GENTILE THAT WROTE A
BOOK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND
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IT IS THE - IT'S THE EARLIEST
BEGINNING OF THE GOSPELS.
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IN OTHER WORDS, HE TRACES BACK
EVEN BEFORE MATTHEW, BECAUSE HE
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GOES TO THE ORIGIN OF
JOHN THE BAPTIST AND HIS BIRTH.
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AND HIS GENEALOGY GOES
BACK FURTHER THAN MATTHEW'S.
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MATTHEW'S GENEALOGY TRACES
JESUS BACK TO DAVID - HE PROVES
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HE'S THE SON OF DAVID.
LUKE TRACES HIM BACK TO ADAM,
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THE SON OF GOD. IF IT
WASN'T FOR LUKE, YOU WOULD
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NOT HAVE THE
PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON.
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IF IT WASN'T FOR THE GOSPEL
OF LUKE, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THE
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STORY OF ZACCHAEUS. LUKE
HAS THE PARABLE OF THE RICH
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MAN AND LAZARUS AND MANY OTHER
STORIES THAT ARE UNIQUE TO THE
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GOSPEL OF LUKE. SO WE
HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND IT
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- THE LESSON TITLE IS THE COMING
OF JESUS , BUT THAT MAY BE A
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MISNOMER FOR SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS, BECAUSE WHEN WE TALK
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ABOUT THE COMING OF JESUS,
WHICH COMING DO WE THINK ABOUT?
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WE'RE THINKING
ABOUT THE SECOND COMING.
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IT IS ACCURATE TO TALK ABOUT
THE COMING OF JESUS, BUT WE'RE
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REALLY STUDYING THE FIRST
COMING OF JESUS IN THIS LESSON.
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AND OUR MEMORY VERSE IS LUKE
1:37. IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT,
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VERY SIMPLE VERSE. YOU
READY TO SAY IT WITH ME?
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"FOR WITH GOD NOTHING WILL BE
IMPOSSIBLE." THESE ARE THE WORDS
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OF GABRIEL TO MARY BUT, YOU
KNOW, THAT SAME PHRASE IS FOUND
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SEVERAL PLACES IN THE BIBLE
- LITTLE VARIATIONS - 'FOR WITH
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GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.' OR
'IF YOU HAVE FAITH, ALL THINGS
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ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD.'
SO THAT IS A COMMON THEME.
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AND THE BOOK BEGINS WITH SEVERAL
MIRACLES, ONE BEING SIMILAR TO
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THE OLD TESTAMENT WHERE
ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH HAVE THIS
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MIRACULOUS BIRTH, THE FORERUNNER
OF CHRIST, JOHN THE BAPTIST, IS
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BORN THROUGH A MIRACULOUS
BIRTH FROM AN OLD COUPLE.
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IT DOESN'T TELL THE AGES OF
ZACHARIAH AND ELIZABETH, IT JUST
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SAYS THAT THEY WERE ADVANCED
IN YEARS. NOW JUST A LITTLE MORE
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ABOUT THE BOOK OF LUKE.
LUKE IS, EVIDENTLY, A CONVERT TO
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CHRISTIANITY. HE WAS NOT A JEW.
PROBABLY THE ONLY OTHER PERSON
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THAT YOU COULD ARGUE WROTE
SOME OF THE BIBLE, WHO IS NOT A
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JEW, WOULD BE A CHAPTER -
CHAPTER 4 - IN THE BOOK OF
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DANIEL, WHERE NEBUCHADNEZZAR
BASICALLY NARRATES HIS PERSONAL
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EXPERIENCE ABOUT
THE DREAM OF THE TREE.
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BUT THE REST OF THE BIBLE IS
WRITTEN BY JEWS EXCEPT LUKE AND
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THE OTHER BOOK THAT LUKE WROTE,
WHICH IS THE BOOK OF ACTS.
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AND REALLY, THEY GO TOGETHER IN
A BUNDLE AND HE'S WRITING BOTH
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OF THESE BOOKS TO SOMEBODY
BY THE NAME OF THEOPHILUS.
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NOW THEOPHILUS - HOW MANY
OF YOU KNOW WHAT THEOLOGY IS?
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THEOS IS 'GOD' AND, OF COURSE,
THEOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF GOD,
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LIKE GEOLOGY OR ANTHROPOLOGY OR
SOMETHING, BUT THEOPHILUS - WHAT
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DOES PHILADELPHIA MEAN?
WHAT DO THEY CALL PHILADELPHIA?
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CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE.
AND THELIO IS LIKE A BROTHERLY
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LOVE AND SO WHAT YOU HAVE IS
- IT'S LIKE A LOVE OF A FRIEND.
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SO THIS NAME 'THEOPHILUS' MEANS
'FRIEND OF GOD' AND SO LUKE IS
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WRITING TO THE FRIEND OF GOD AND
THEY - SOME HAVE WONDERED, 'WAS
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THERE A PERSON OR WAS HE WRITING
IN CODE BECAUSE THE CHRISTIAN
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RELIGION WAS FORBIDDEN ABOUT THE
TIME THAT LUKE WAS WRITING AND I
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THINK THERE PROBABLY WAS A
PERSON BY THE NAME OF THEOPHILUS
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AND HE WRITES THESE TWO
VERY IMPORTANT CHRONICLES.
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HE'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE
MOST CAREFUL OF THE HISTORIANS.
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HE'S REFERRED TO AS A PHYSICIAN,
IN ONE PLACE, AND DOCTORS DID
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NOT HAVE ALL OF THE TOOLS AT
THEIR DISPOSAL BACK THEN, THAT
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WE HAVE NOW, BUT THE SKILLS OF
DIAGNOSIS WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO
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THEM TO TRY TO, YOU KNOW,
WITHOUT X-RAYS AND MRIS AND ALL
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THE THINGS THAT WE DO
- AND BLOOD TESTS NOW.
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THEY REALLY HAD TO, KIND OF, YOU
KNOW, POKE AND PROD AND LOOK IN
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YOUR EARS TO FIGURE
OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON.
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AND SO, HE WAS A PHYSICIAN.
PAUL HAD SOME MEDICAL PROBLEMS
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AND SOME HAVE WONDERED IF PART
OF THE REASON - YOU KNOW, PAUL
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TALKS ABOUT A THORN IN HIS SIDE
WHERE SATAN CAME TO BUFFET HIM.
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SOME ARGUE IT WAS HIS EYESIGHT.
I'M INCLINED TO THINK THAT.
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OTHERS THINK THAT IT MAY
HAVE BEEN EPILEPSY OR - BUT HE'S
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VAGUE ABOUT WHAT IT IS, BUT
HE HAD SOME PHYSICAL PROBLEM HE
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PRAYED ABOUT. SOME
HAVE WONDERED IF LUKE
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ATTENDED HIM BECAUSE HE
NEEDED SOME ONGOING HELP.
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A LOT OF THAT'S SPECULATION, BUT
I'M JUST TELLING YOU SOME OF THE
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THINGS THAT THE
SCHOLARS THOUGHT.
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AS FAR AS WHERE HE'S
BORN, AGAIN, YOU CAN SPECULATE.
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NOW LET ME GIVE YOU
SOMETHING INTERESTING.
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TURN IN YOUR BIBLES - I KNOW
WE'RE GOING TO STUDY LUKE, BUT
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LET'S STUDY ABOUT LUKE AND THEN
WE'LL GET INTO THE CHAPTERS -
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1 AND 2 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT.
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ACTS 16 - ALSO WRITTEN BY LUKE
- ACTS 16:6 AND LUKE, UP UNTIL
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THIS TIME IN THE BOOK OF ACTS,
LUKE IS SAYING, 'PETER WENT
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HERE, PAUL WENT THERE, PHILIP
WENT HERE.' AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
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THE TENSE
CHANGES IN THIS CHAPTER.
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I WANT YOU TO NOTICE: ACTS 16:6,
"NOW WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH
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PHRYGIA AND THE REGION OF
GALATIA, THEY WERE FORBIDDEN BY
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THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
PREACH THE WORD IN ASIA." -
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THAT TELLS YOU SOMETIMES THE
SPIRIT SAYS, 'NO, THIS IS NOT
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THE RIGHT TIME OR THE RIGHT
PLACE.' - "AND AFTER THEY HAD
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COME TO MYSIA, THEY TRIED TO
GO INTO BITHYNIA, BUT THE SPIRIT
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DID NOT PERMIT THEM. SO
PASSING BY MYSIA, THEY CAME
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DOWN TO TROAS. AND A VISION
APPEARED TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT.
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A MAN OF MACEDONIA STOOD
AND PLEADED WITH HIM, SAYING,
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'COME OVER TO MACEDONIA
AND HELP US.' NOW AFTER HE HAD
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SEEN THE VISION,
IMMEDIATELY WE..."
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- ALRIGHT, THE BOOK
CHANGES RIGHT THERE.
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UP UNTIL THIS POINT IN THE BOOK
OF ACTS, HE'S SAYING 'THEY.'
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FROM 16 ON IT STARTS SAYING
'WE.' NOTICE HERE, IT SAYS,
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"...WE SOUGHT TO GO TO
MACEDONIA, CONCLUDING THAT THE
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LORD HAD CALLED US" - AND SO
IMMEDIATELY LUKE SAYS HE IS PART
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OF THE BOOK. BUT, YOU
KNOW, THE BIBLE WRITERS
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WERE SO MODEST. I
MEAN, HOW DID JOHN REFER TO
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HIMSELF IN HIS GOSPEL?
DOES HE EVER SAY HIS NAME?
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IN REVELATION HE DOES, BUT
OTHERWISE, IN HIS GOSPEL, HE
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SAYS, 'THE
DISCIPLE WHOM JESUS LOVED.'
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SO THEY WERE VERY SELF-EFFACING.
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THEY DIDN'T GRANDSTAND A LOT
AFTER THAT EXPERIENCE WHERE THEY
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WERE ARGUING
WHICH WAS THE GREATEST.
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LUKE DOESN'T MENTION HIMSELF IN
HIS BOOK AND HE DOESN'T MENTION
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HIMSELF IN ACTS, EXCEPT TO
SAY, 'WE,' BECAUSE HE WAS THERE.
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AND THE CHURCH FATHER,
00:13:01.26\00:13:05.20
JEROME, WHO LIVED ABOUT 300
YEARS AFTER CHRIST, HE SAID THAT
00:13:05.20\00:13:08.56
LUKE WAS BORN AT
ANTIOCH AND, YOU KNOW,
00:13:08.56\00:13:10.56
OTHER THAN THAT
STATEMENT WE DON'T KNOW.
00:13:10.56\00:13:12.06
BUT SOMEWHERE IN ASIA
MINOR LUKE PROBABLY ORIGINATED.
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AND ONE REASON WE DON'T
THINK THAT HE WAS A JEW?
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IF YOU TURN TO COLOSSIANS,
FOR EXAMPLE, GO TO COLOSSIANS 4,
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VERSE 10 AND IT SAYS -
COLOSSIANS 4:10 - PAUL IS
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WRITING - "ARISARCHUS MY FELLOW
PRISONER GREETS YOU, WITH MARK
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THE COUSIN OF BARNABAS (ABOUT
WHOM YOU RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS:
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IF HE COMES TO YOU, WELCOME
HIM), AND JESUS WHO IS CALLED
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JUSTUS." - JESUS
WAS NOT AN UNCOMMON -
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IT'S LIKE THE NAME JOSHUA, IT
WASN'T AN UNCOMMON NAME - "THESE
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ARE MY ONLY FELLOW WORKERS FOR
THE KINGDOM OF GOD WHO ARE OF
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THE CIRCUMCISION;" - NOW, WHAT
PAUL MEANS WHEN HE SAYS, 'OF THE
00:13:52.13\00:13:55.53
CIRCUMCISION' - HE MEANS 'WHO
ARE JEWISH' - THEY WERE JEWISH
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CONVERTS. SO HE'S
NAMES THESE PEOPLE.
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HE SAYS, THEY ARE "MY
ONLY FELLOW WORKERS...
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( THAT ARE JEWISH ); THEY HAVE
PROVED TO BE A COMFORT TO ME.
00:14:02.83\00:14:06.66
...LUKE, THE BELOVED PHYSICIAN
AND DEMAS" - SO, IF HE'S NAMING
00:14:06.66\00:14:11.13
THE OTHER GUYS AND SAYING
THEY'RE THE ONLY JEWS THAT ARE
00:14:11.13\00:14:14.93
COWORKERS, AND THEN HE MENTIONS
DEMAS, ANOTHER GREEK NAME, AND
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LUKE, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
HE'S NOT A JEW, HE'S A GENTILE.
00:14:19.06\00:14:23.50
BUT THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT
LUKE IS, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS
00:14:23.50\00:14:27.00
PROBABLY NOT A JEW, HE IS THE
MOST METICULOUS TO TALK ABOUT
00:14:27.00\00:14:31.73
THE JEWISH LAW SO THAT HIS
GENTILE READERS WILL UNDERSTAND
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THE CONTEXT OF
WHAT HE'S WRITING ABOUT.
00:14:36.86\00:14:40.50
AND I'LL GET INTO
SOME OF THAT IN CHAPTER 1.
00:14:40.50\00:14:42.20
YOU'LL FIND HOW OFTEN HE SAYS
'ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH LAW.'
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'ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH LAW.'
IT'S INTERESTING, AT THE END OF
00:14:45.53\00:14:48.16
LUKE'S GOSPEL, WHEN HE TALKS
ABOUT THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS
00:14:48.16\00:14:51.03
AND THEM NOT EMBALMING HIM ON
THE SABBATH, HE SAYS, 'THEY WENT
00:14:51.03\00:14:56.26
HOME AND KEPT THE SABBATH
ACCORDING TO 'THE COMMANDMENT.'
00:14:56.26\00:14:59.43
HE DOESN'T SAY 'THE JEWISH
COMMANDMENT.' IT'S LIKE IT IS
00:14:59.43\00:15:02.40
SELF-UNDERSTOOD TO HIS LISTENERS
THAT THIS WAS A COMMANDMENT.
00:15:02.40\00:15:06.30
SO ANYWAY, JUST A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT WHO HE IS AND WHERE HE'S
00:15:06.30\00:15:10.13
FROM AND THE NAME 'LUKE' IS - IT
REALLY IS CONNECTED WITH A NAME
00:15:10.13\00:15:17.56
- 'LUCAS' - AND THAT MEANS
'LIGHT GIVING.' IT'S CONTRACTED
00:15:17.56\00:15:22.20
FROM THE LATIN WORD 'LUCANIS'
AND THERE'S MAYBE THREE LUKES IN
00:15:22.20\00:15:29.66
THE GOSPEL. YOU CAN LOOK IN
ROMANS 16:21, HE SAYS, "TIMOTHY,
00:15:29.66\00:15:34.16
MY FELLOW WORKER, AND LUCANUS,"
- AND SOME HAVE ARGUED,
00:15:34.16\00:15:36.83
'IS THAT THE SAME 'LUKE?''
I THINK ORIGIN, THE CHURCH
00:15:36.83\00:15:39.20
FATHER, THOUGHT THAT 'LUCIUS' IN
ROMANS 16 WAS THE SAME 'LUKE.'
00:15:39.20\00:15:43.03
AND PAUL - IT'S LIKE SOMETIMES
I'VE GOT FRIENDS - I'LL CALL
00:15:43.03\00:15:45.23
THEM 'MICHAEL' OR I'LL CALL THEM
'MIKE.' I'VE GOT A FRIEND NAMED
00:15:45.23\00:15:48.20
'DAVID' AND I CALL HIM
'DAVE,' HE CORRECTS ME.
00:15:48.20\00:15:49.96
BUT SOME PEOPLE
GO BACK AND FORTH.
00:15:49.96\00:15:51.70
IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON BACK THEN,
TO HAVE CONTRACTIONS OF NAMES.
00:15:51.70\00:15:55.76
SO IT'S INTERESTING THAT LUKE,
WHOSE NAME MEANS 'LIGHT GIVING,'
00:15:55.76\00:16:01.16
IS WRITING TO 'FRIEND OF GOD' IN
HIS GOSPEL IN THE BOOK OF ACTS.
00:16:01.16\00:16:06.13
I ALWAYS LOOK AT
THE NAMES IN THE BIBLE.
00:16:06.13\00:16:08.83
I THINK IT MEANS SOMETHING.
SO LET'S GET TO CHAPTER 1.
00:16:08.83\00:16:11.60
I'VE GOT SOMEONE LINED
UP TO READ LUKE 1, VERSE 3.
00:16:11.60\00:16:14.16
WHO'S - YOU'LL HAVE
THAT? OKAY, IN JUST A MOMENT?
00:16:14.16\00:16:16.66
I'M GOING TO READ LUKE 1:1.
"INASMUCH AS MANY HAVE TAKEN IN
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HAND TO SET IN ORDER A NARRATIVE
OF THOSE THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN
00:16:21.90\00:16:25.90
FULFILLED AMONG US," -
WHO IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
00:16:25.90\00:16:28.93
HE SAID 'INASMUCH AS
MANY.' NOW WHAT GOSPELS HAD BEEN
00:16:28.93\00:16:32.53
WRITTEN BEFORE
THE ACCOUNT OF LUKE?
00:16:32.53\00:16:34.16
LUKE'S GETTING READY TO WRITE
THE LIFE OF JESUS AND HE SAYS,
00:16:34.16\00:16:38.06
"INASMUCH AS MANY
HAVE TAKEN IN HAND."
00:16:38.06\00:16:40.06
WELL, MATTHEW WAS
PROBABLY WRITTEN AT THIS POINT.
00:16:40.06\00:16:42.70
MARK - PROBABLY
WRITTEN BEFORE MATTHEW.
00:16:42.70\00:16:44.83
JOHN DEFINITELY
WAS NOT WRITTEN YET.
00:16:44.83\00:16:47.66
ALMOST EVERYONE AGREES JOHN WAS
THE LAST OF THE GOSPELS WRITTEN.
00:16:47.66\00:16:50.80
SO DOES IT MAKE YOU WONDER
IF THERE WERE OTHERS THAT HAD
00:16:50.80\00:16:54.56
WRITTEN LONG OR ABBREVIATED
STORIES OF JESUS' TEACHING, EVEN
00:16:54.56\00:16:58.43
BEFORE THE FOUR SURVIVING
GOSPELS THAT WE HAVE - FOR
00:16:58.43\00:17:01.80
WHATEVER REASON GOD DIDN'T SEE
THAT THEY SHOULD BE INCORPORATED
00:17:01.80\00:17:04.56
IN SCRIPTURE BUT, OBVIOUSLY,
JESUS FILLED THE HEADLINES
00:17:04.56\00:17:08.26
DURING HIS DAY, SO
OTHER PEOPLE WROTE ABOUT HIM.
00:17:08.26\00:17:11.26
I THINK IT'S SOLOMON THAT SAID
'OF THE MAKING OF MANY BOOKS
00:17:11.26\00:17:15.23
THERE IS NO END.'
AND JOHN, IN HIS GOSPEL -
00:17:15.23\00:17:18.66
YOU KNOW HOW
JOHN ENDS HIS GOSPEL?
00:17:18.66\00:17:20.90
'THESE ARE JUST SOME
OF THE THINGS JESUS DID.
00:17:20.90\00:17:22.76
IF I WROTE THEM ALL, THE
WORLD ITSELF COULD NOT CONTAIN.'
00:17:22.76\00:17:26.10
SO, EVIDENTLY, THERE WAS
QUITE A BIT WRITTEN ABOUT JESUS.
00:17:26.10\00:17:30.50
THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME
EFFORTS AMONG THE ROMANS, WHEN
00:17:30.50\00:17:33.40
CHRISTIANITY WAS ILLEGAL, TO
DESTROY THE HISTORY OF CHRIST.
00:17:33.40\00:17:39.93
THAT WAS COMMON WHEN ONE RULING
POWER WANTED TO GET RID OF A
00:17:39.93\00:17:43.63
FORBIDDEN RELIGION, THEY WOULD
BURN THEIR SACRED MANUSCRIPTS.
00:17:43.63\00:17:47.13
SO YOU COULD ALMOST BE SURE THAT
WE COULD BE VERY THANKFUL WE'VE
00:17:47.13\00:17:53.13
GOT THE FOUR GOSPELS WE'VE GOT
- THAT THERE WERE OTHER THINGS
00:17:53.13\00:17:55.60
THAT WERE WRITTEN ABOUT JESUS
- YOU CAN BE QUITE SURE - THAT
00:17:55.60\00:17:58.10
WERE DESTROYED. LUKE
SAYS "MANY HAVE TAKEN IN
00:17:58.10\00:18:00.40
HAND" - IF THERE'S TWO PEOPLE
IN A ROOM, WOULD YOU SAY 'MANY?'
00:18:00.40\00:18:03.16
SO ALL WE KNOW ABOUT IS MATTHEW
AND MARK BEFORE LUKE WROTE.
00:18:03.16\00:18:06.86
BUT HE SAYS, "MANY HAVE TAKEN
IN HAND" 'BUT I WANT TO ADD MY
00:18:06.86\00:18:09.36
WRITING TO IT.' AND HE WAS
MORE CAREFUL, I THINK, TO GIVE
00:18:09.36\00:18:13.16
DETAILS. LUKE
WRITES AS A HISTORIAN
00:18:13.16\00:18:15.66
KNOWING THAT, AS TIME GOES
BY, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO READ IT.
00:18:15.66\00:18:20.20
HE PROBABLY WROTE SOMEWHERE
BETWEEN 18 AND 25 YEARS AFTER
00:18:20.20\00:18:25.80
JESUS AND ALREADY
STORIES WERE GETTING MUDDY.
00:18:25.80\00:18:30.73
YOU KNOW HOW TIME GOES BY?
AND I THINK LUKE WAS CONCERNED
00:18:30.73\00:18:34.00
THAT THE STORY WAS
GOING TO GET DISTORTED.
00:18:34.00\00:18:36.26
RUMORS WERE SPREADING.
I MEAN, THERE WERE RUMORS
00:18:36.26\00:18:39.13
SPREADING THE DAY OF THE
RESURRECTION THAT HIS BODY HAD
00:18:39.13\00:18:42.03
ACTUALLY BEEN STOLEN. SO,
TO GIVE AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT,
00:18:42.03\00:18:45.60
IS WHY HE'S WRITING THIS.
HE SAYS, "TO SET IN ORDER" -
00:18:45.60\00:18:50.36
SOME PEOPLE WERE GETTING THINGS
OUT OF ORDER - "A NARRATIVE OF
00:18:50.36\00:18:55.16
THOSE THINGS WHICH HAVE
BEEN FULFILLED AMONG US, JUST AS
00:18:55.16\00:18:58.30
THOSE WHO FROM THE BEGINNING
WERE EYEWITNESSES AND MINISTERS
00:18:58.30\00:19:01.93
OF THE WORD DELIVERED THEM TO
US," - SO WHERE DID LUKE GET HIS
00:19:01.93\00:19:07.30
GOSPEL? DID LUKE KNOW JESUS?
PROBABLY NOT. HE PROBABLY WAS A
00:19:07.30\00:19:13.70
CONVERT, MAYBE FROM PAUL OR
SOMEONE WHO WENT AHEAD OF PAUL.
00:19:13.70\00:19:20.90
LUKE PROBABLY - MARY WAS STILL
ALIVE WHEN LUKE WROTE - WHERE
00:19:20.90\00:19:24.60
DID HE GET THIS VERY DETAILED
ACCOUNT ABOUT ELIZABETH?
00:19:24.60\00:19:28.26
YOU SEE, MARY GOES TO SEE
ELIZABETH - IT'S IN THESE - AND
00:19:28.26\00:19:30.40
MARY'S ACCOUNT WITH THE ANGEL
AND THE STORY IN LUKE ABOUT THE
00:19:30.40\00:19:36.06
SHEPHERDS. MATTHEW
TALKS ABOUT THE WISE MEN.
00:19:36.06\00:19:38.73
LUKE TALKS ABOUT THE SHEPHERDS.
MARY WAS PROBABLY STILL ALIVE,
00:19:38.73\00:19:42.20
LIVING IN ASIA MINOR.
ACCORDING TO CHURCH TRADITION
00:19:42.20\00:19:44.46
JOHN TOOK CARE OF
HER. JOHN RESIDED IN ASIA.
00:19:44.46\00:19:46.93
I THINK LUKE HAD FIRST-HAND
INTERVIEWS. BY THE TIME LUKE
00:19:46.93\00:19:50.33
STARTED WRITING, SOME OF
THE APOSTLES HAD ALREADY DIED.
00:19:50.33\00:19:53.93
JAMES WAS BEHEADED - IN ACTS
CHAPTER 12 - AND HE COULD HAVE
00:19:53.93\00:19:59.13
BEEN
INTERVIEWING SOME OF THE 70.
00:19:59.13\00:20:01.06
SOME OF THE APOSTLES - YOU
READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 8 - GREAT
00:20:01.06\00:20:04.00
PERSECUTION UNDER PAUL - IT SAYS
THEY WERE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE
00:20:04.00\00:20:06.46
PREACHING THE GOSPEL.
THAT'S WHEN, TRADITION TELLS US,
00:20:06.46\00:20:10.00
THOMAS WENT TO INDIA AND SOME
OF THEM WENT TO NORTH AFRICA AND
00:20:10.00\00:20:13.16
THE APOSTLES
THEMSELVES SCATTERED.
00:20:13.16\00:20:15.26
SO HE PROBABLY HAD THE ABILITY
TO GO INTO INTERVIEW A NUMBER OF
00:20:15.26\00:20:19.50
FIRST-HAND PEOPLE - IF IT'S
NOT THE 12, THE OTHER FIRST-HAND
00:20:19.50\00:20:22.93
PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOME OF -
AT LEAST THE 70 THAT JESUS SENT
00:20:22.93\00:20:26.20
OUT - OR THOSE WHO
WERE IN THE UPPER ROOM.
00:20:26.20\00:20:28.20
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THEY
PICKED A REPLACEMENT FOR JUDAS?
00:20:28.20\00:20:30.66
THEY SAID, 'PICK SOMEONE FROM
AMONG THE ONES WHO, FROM THE
00:20:30.66\00:20:35.50
BEGINNING, HAD FOLLOWED JESUS
THAT REALLY KNEW HIM AND HIS
00:20:35.50\00:20:38.76
TEACHING.' AND SO
LUKE PROBABLY INTERVIEWED
00:20:38.76\00:20:41.46
SOME OF THOSE. SO
UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF THE
00:20:41.46\00:20:44.63
HOLY SPIRIT HE RECEIVED THAT.
GO AHEAD, READ FOR US VERSE 3.
00:20:44.63\00:20:49.53
>>"IT SEEMED GOOD TO ME ALSO,
HAVING HAD PERFECT UNDERSTANDING
00:20:49.53\00:20:52.60
OF ALL THINGS FROM THE
VERY FIRST, TO WRITE TO YOU AN
00:20:52.60\00:20:56.36
ORDERLY ACCOUNT, MOST
EXCELLENT THEOPHILUS,"
00:20:56.36\00:20:59.10
>>ALRIGHT, SO LUKE IS AGAIN -
HE'S EMPHASIZING THAT HE WANTS
00:20:59.10\00:21:03.73
TO PUT THINGS IN
ORDER AND HE SAYS,
00:21:03.73\00:21:07.63
"ALSO HAVING A
PERFECT UNDERSTANDING."
00:21:07.63\00:21:10.60
NOW LUKE SPENT A LOT OF TIME
WITH SOMEONE WHO DID SEE JESUS.
00:21:10.60\00:21:14.26
PAUL DID NOT WALK WITH JESUS THE
SAME WAY THE 12 DID OR THE 70
00:21:14.26\00:21:18.43
DID, BUT PAUL HAD A PERSONAL
INTERVIEW WITH JESUS AND PAUL
00:21:18.43\00:21:21.90
ALSO HAD UNIQUE REVELATION - NOT
ONLY DID JESUS APPEAR TO HIM,
00:21:21.90\00:21:27.40
BUT HE SAID, 'I KNEW A MAN
CAUGHT UP TO THE THIRD HEAVEN.'
00:21:27.40\00:21:30.40
AND SO PAUL SAW THINGS AND HEARD
THINGS THAT HE COULDN'T EVEN
00:21:30.40\00:21:34.16
REPEAT. SO,
THROUGH PAUL, THROUGH
00:21:34.16\00:21:37.06
INTERVIEWING OTHER FIRST-HAND
WITNESS, MOST BELIEVE, INCLUDING
00:21:37.06\00:21:40.36
MARY AND MAYBE HIS BROTHERS -
MOST LIKELY HIS BROTHERS, HE GOT
00:21:40.36\00:21:45.00
A VERY ACCURATE ACCOUNT AND
THAT'S WHY HIS - HIS GOSPEL IS
00:21:45.00\00:21:50.03
UNIQUE IN INCLUDING STORIES
THAT DIDN'T JUST COME FROM THE
00:21:50.03\00:21:53.40
TWELVE. IT PROBABLY CAME
FROM SOME OF THE 120 IN THE
00:21:53.40\00:21:56.70
UPPER ROOM
AND/OR SOME OF THE 70.
00:21:56.70\00:22:00.73
SO SOMEONE, I THINK, IS GOING TO
READ FOR ME 2 TIMOTHY 3:16 AND
00:22:00.73\00:22:06.40
17 AND I'M GOING
TO - YOU'LL DO THAT?
00:22:06.40\00:22:10.00
I'M GOING TO READ LUKE 1, VERSE
4. WE'RE JUST KIND OF MARCHING
00:22:10.00\00:22:13.00
THROUGH. I WILL NOT
BE ABLE TO READ EVERY
00:22:13.00\00:22:15.40
WORD, BUT WE'LL
COVER AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
00:22:15.40\00:22:17.53
"THAT YOU MAY KNOW THE CERTAINTY
OF THOSE THINGS IN WHICH YOU
00:22:17.53\00:22:22.36
WERE INSTRUCTED." OKAY,
THIS TELLS US SOMETHING.
00:22:22.36\00:22:24.83
THEOPHILUS HAS
BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT JESUS.
00:22:24.83\00:22:29.13
HE IS PROBABLY A CONVERT.
THE FACT THAT IN ONE OF HIS
00:22:29.13\00:22:33.40
BOOKS LUKE REFERS TO HIM AS
'MOST EXCELLENT THEOPHILUS.' HE
00:22:33.40\00:22:38.13
MAY HAVE BEEN A PERSON
OF SOME WEALTH AND RANK.
00:22:38.13\00:22:40.30
HE MAY HAVE ALSO GIVEN HIM - DO
YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WORK IT IS TO
00:22:40.30\00:22:43.56
WRITE - HANDWRITE THESE ACCOUNTS
OF - GOSPEL OF LUKE AND ACTS?
00:22:43.56\00:22:51.26
HE PROBABLY COULD TRUST THAT
THEOPHILUS WOULD BE A GUARDIAN
00:22:51.26\00:22:57.43
OF THIS - SHARE IT WITH THE
CHURCH IN HIS TOWN AND EVEN HELP
00:22:57.43\00:23:01.16
PAY TO HAVE
SCRIBES CREATE COPIES.
00:23:01.16\00:23:05.20
LUKE WOULD NOT HAVE GONE THROUGH
SUCH A CAREFUL CHRONICLE - NO
00:23:05.20\00:23:08.00
PRINTING PRESSES BACK THEN -
WHEN YOU WROTE SOMETHING THAT
00:23:08.00\00:23:10.73
YOU WANTED TO ENDURE, YOU WOULD
WRITE IT AND GIVE IT TO SOMEBODY
00:23:10.73\00:23:13.23
WHO COULD REPLICATE IT - THEY
COULD AFFORD TO PAY SCRIBES TO
00:23:13.23\00:23:15.73
MAKE COPIES. NONE OF
THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS
00:23:15.73\00:23:19.23
QUESTIONED THE
AUTHENTICITY OF LUKE.
00:23:19.23\00:23:22.40
IN FACT, SOME OF THE EARLIEST
MANUSCRIPTS - NO, WE DON'T HAVE
00:23:22.40\00:23:27.06
COPIES OF THOSE, BUT
THE COMMENTS ON THE EARLY
00:23:27.06\00:23:29.40
MANUSCRIPTS, FROM THE EARLY
CHURCH FATHERS, SAY THAT IT WAS
00:23:29.40\00:23:32.20
WRITTEN FROM ALEXANDRIA, EVEN
THOUGH IT ORIGINATED IN ASIA BUT
00:23:32.20\00:23:36.43
WHEN LUKE FINALLY WROTE IT THERE
WAS A BIG JEWISH COMMUNITY IN
00:23:36.43\00:23:38.93
ALEXANDRIA. HE
MAY HAVE BEEN THERE.
00:23:38.93\00:23:40.73
THAT WAS A PLACE WHERE A LOT OF
SCRIBES WERE - THAT THEY HAD THE
00:23:40.73\00:23:44.46
BIGGEST LIBRARY IN THE WORLD -
THAT WAS IN ALEXANDRIA UNTIL IT
00:23:44.46\00:23:48.06
WAS BURNED BY, I THINK, THE
MUSLIMS ABOUT 700 YEARS LATER.
00:23:48.06\00:23:54.46
BUT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE
HAD JUST A PHENOMENAL LIBRARY OF
00:23:54.46\00:23:57.00
HISTORY. AND SO IT
MAY HAVE BEEN THERE
00:23:57.00\00:24:00.40
AND WE'RE JUST THANKFUL THAT
THIS COPY SURVIVES. ALRIGHT,
00:24:00.40\00:24:03.83
SO IS LUKE JUST A PERSONAL
ACCOUNT OR IS IT SCRIPTURE?
00:24:03.83\00:24:09.33
GO AHEAD, READ THAT
FOR US IN 2 TIMOTHY 3.
00:24:09.33\00:24:12.33
>>"ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN
BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS
00:24:12.33\00:24:16.00
PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE,
FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR
00:24:16.00\00:24:20.16
INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS,
THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE
00:24:20.16\00:24:24.43
COMPLETE, THOROUGHLY
EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK."
00:24:24.43\00:24:28.30
>>THIS IS ONE OF THE OTHER GREAT
3:16 VERSES - IS THERE IN 2
00:24:28.30\00:24:34.40
TIMOTHY, TALKING ABOUT THE WORD
OF GOD, THAT ALL SCRIPTURE -
00:24:34.40\00:24:36.90
NOW, WHAT SCRIPTURE WAS IN
EXISTENCE WHEN PAUL WROTE THAT?
00:24:36.90\00:24:40.66
DID THEY HAVE THE - THEY DIDN'T
HAVE THE NEW TESTAMENT YET,
00:24:40.66\00:24:47.03
DID THEY? BUT YOU KNOW THAT
PAUL'S WRITINGS WERE CONSIDERED
00:24:47.03\00:24:51.30
SCRIPTURE WHILE PAUL WAS STILL
ALIVE, BECAUSE PETER SAYS, IN 2
00:24:51.30\00:24:56.13
PETER CHAPTER 3, "EVEN AS
OUR BELOVED BROTHER PAUL...HATH
00:24:56.13\00:25:00.53
WRITTEN UNTO YOU; AS ALSO IN ALL
HIS EPISTLES...IN WHICH ARE SOME
00:25:00.53\00:25:03.93
THINGS HARD TO BE UNDERSTOOD,
WHICH THEY THAT ARE UNLEARNED
00:25:03.93\00:25:06.70
AND UNSTABLE PEOPLE WREST," -
OR TWIST - "AS THEY DO ALSO THE
00:25:06.70\00:25:09.70
OTHER SCRIPTURES, UNTO
THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION."
00:25:09.70\00:25:12.80
SO PETER IS REFERRING TO PAUL'S
WRITING AS SCRIPTURE WHILE PETER
00:25:12.80\00:25:19.00
AND PAUL ARE STILL ALIVE.
AND SO LUKE, WE BELIEVE, IS A
00:25:19.00\00:25:25.26
BEAUTIFULLY INSPIRED BOOK. I
JUST SEE SO MANY SUPERNATURAL
00:25:25.26\00:25:30.66
FINGERPRINTS ON THE
BOOK OF LUKE AS I READ IT.
00:25:30.66\00:25:35.30
WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITHOUT
THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL SON?
00:25:35.30\00:25:37.86
OR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
LITTLE MAN NAMED ZACCHAEUS.
00:25:37.86\00:25:41.30
A SHEPHERD HAD 99 SHEEP AND HE
LOSES ONE - AND THERE'S SO MANY
00:25:41.30\00:25:45.76
UNIQUE THINGS IN
THE BOOK OF LUKE.
00:25:45.76\00:25:47.73
LUKE - THE CHAPTERS
ARE AMONG THE LONGEST.
00:25:47.73\00:25:51.16
ANY OF YOU EVER READ
THE BOOK THE HIDING PLACE ?
00:25:51.16\00:25:54.00
AND CORRIE TEN BOOM - IN
THAT BOOK, HER PAPA USED TO READ
00:25:54.00\00:25:57.16
SCRIPTURE EVERY NIGHT AND SHE
TALKS ABOUT ONE NIGHT HE SAID,
00:25:57.16\00:25:59.70
'TODAY WE'RE GOING
TO READ FROM LUKE.'
00:25:59.70\00:26:01.06
AND SHE SAID, 'OH, THE CHAPTERS
ARE SO LONG!' AND SHE'S RIGHT.
00:26:01.06\00:26:05.13
LUKE HAS GOT SOME OF THEM YOU
SEE VERSE 60 AND SO HE WAS VERY
00:26:05.13\00:26:11.16
THOROUGH IN HIS WRITING.
ALRIGHT, IF YOU LOOK IN THE
00:26:11.16\00:26:15.70
BEGINNING OF LUKE - NOW, WE'RE
READING AND IT'S GIVING US SOME
00:26:15.70\00:26:19.83
INSTRUCTION OR THE STORY - THE
BACKGROUND FOR THE BIRTH OF JOHN
00:26:19.83\00:26:24.66
THE BAPTIST. AND,
IF YOU LOOK IN VERSE 5,
00:26:24.66\00:26:27.80
"THERE WAS IN THE DAYS OF HEROD,
THE KING OF JUDEA, A CERTAIN
00:26:27.80\00:26:32.46
PRIEST NAMED ZACHARIAS,
OF THE DIVISION OF ABIJAH.
00:26:32.46\00:26:35.76
HIS WIFE WAS OF THE DAUGHTERS
OF AARON, AND HER NAME WAS
00:26:35.76\00:26:38.40
ELIZABETH." IS THIS
A FAIRY TALE OR IS HE
00:26:38.40\00:26:41.20
STICKING THEM IN HISTORY
AND GIVING THEM CONTEXT OF
00:26:41.20\00:26:43.86
TRADITION? IT
TELLS WHAT TRIBE THEY'RE
00:26:43.86\00:26:46.90
FROM. IT TELLS WHAT TIME.
IT TELLS WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
00:26:46.90\00:26:50.16
POWER WAS. AND IT
SAYS, "HIS WIFE WAS OF
00:26:50.16\00:26:53.76
THE DAUGHTERS OF AARON,
AND HER NAME WAS ELIZABETH."
00:26:53.76\00:26:57.60
SO, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE
PRIESTLY DAUGHTERS - DAUGHTERS
00:26:57.60\00:27:00.76
OF THE PRIESTS - THEY DIDN'T
CARRY OUT ALL THE FUNCTIONS OF
00:27:00.76\00:27:02.96
THE PRIESTS, BUT THEY
WERE PART OF THE PRIESTHOOD.
00:27:02.96\00:27:05.10
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT
THESE DAYS THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE
00:27:05.10\00:27:08.20
FORGETTING ABOUT. AND IT
SAYS, "AND THEY WERE BOTH
00:27:08.20\00:27:11.80
RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD, WALKING
IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS AND
00:27:11.80\00:27:15.96
ORDINANCES OF THE LORD
BLAMELESS." - NOW, IS IT
00:27:15.96\00:27:20.70
POSSIBLE TO WALK IN ALL THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD BLAMELESS?
00:27:20.70\00:27:27.06
I JUST READ IT. WHAT DO YOU
THINK? BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:27:27.06\00:27:31.63
YOU READ A LITTLE FURTHER AND
ZACHARIAS IS CHASTISED BY THE
00:27:31.63\00:27:35.60
ANGEL FOR HIS LACK OF FAITH.
SO WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WALK IN
00:27:35.60\00:27:40.76
ALL THE COMMANDMENTS
OF THE LORD BLAMELESS?
00:27:40.76\00:27:42.93
YOU KNOW, I'M SO THANKFUL FOR
A STATEMENT IN THE BOOK STEPS TO
00:27:42.93\00:27:45.90
CHRIST THAT SAYS, "IT'S NOT
THE OCCASIONAL GOOD DEED OR THE
00:27:45.90\00:27:49.86
OCCASIONAL MISDEED THAT
DETERMINES WHOSE SIDE WE'RE ON,
00:27:49.86\00:27:52.93
BUT IT'S THE
HABITUAL WORDS AND ACTS."
00:27:52.93\00:27:55.73
SO WHAT LUKE IS SAYING
HERE IS IT WAS THE HABIT.
00:27:55.73\00:27:58.96
IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY NEVER
MADE A MISTAKE OR THEY NEVER
00:27:58.96\00:28:02.20
QUESTIONED OR NEVER LOST FAITH,
IT WAS THE HABIT OF ZACHARIAS
00:28:02.20\00:28:07.56
AND ELIZABETH TO WALK IN
THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD.
00:28:07.56\00:28:09.46
THAT WAS THEIR PATTERN. AND YOU
CAN TALK ABOUT KING HEZEKIAH.
00:28:09.46\00:28:14.43
IT SAYS HE WALKED IN ALL
THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD.
00:28:14.43\00:28:17.63
THAT'S THE RECORD OF HEZEKIAH.
BUT THEN YOU READ ABOUT WHERE
00:28:17.63\00:28:21.40
HEZEKIAH GOT PROUD AND STARTED
TO BRAG TO THE AMBASSADOR FROM
00:28:21.40\00:28:24.43
BABYLON. IT DOESN'T
MEAN THAT WAS RIGHT.
00:28:24.43\00:28:26.70
AND SO, YOU KNOW,
THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE -
00:28:26.70\00:28:29.03
AND THEN LOOK AT DAVID. NOW
IT ACTUALLY SAYS DAVID WAS A
00:28:29.03\00:28:33.40
FRIEND OF GOD AND HE WALKED
IN THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD,
00:28:33.40\00:28:35.50
EXCEPT FOR THE INCIDENT
WITH BATHSHEBA AND THEN, LATER,
00:28:35.50\00:28:40.36
NUMBERING ISRAEL. BUT DO
YOU THINK THAT MEANS THAT
00:28:40.36\00:28:42.80
DAVID ONLY SINNED
TWICE IN HIS LIFE?
00:28:42.80\00:28:45.10
NO, IT MEANS IN HIS HEART -
IN HIS LIFE - HE HAD A LIFE OF
00:28:45.10\00:28:48.00
CONSISTENTLY OBEYING GOD.
AND SO THIS WAS THE PATTERN.
00:28:48.00\00:28:51.93
ALL OF THE NEIGHBORS OF
ZACHARIAS AND ELIZABETH KNEW
00:28:51.93\00:28:54.86
THEM AS GODLY
PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH -
00:28:54.86\00:28:57.26
AND YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW
SOMETHING ABOUT THE TIMES.
00:28:57.26\00:29:00.36
THE JEWISH NATION, DURING THE
TIME OF ZACHARIAS AND ELIZABETH,
00:29:00.36\00:29:05.36
HAD - THEY HAD SACRIFICED A
LOT OF THEIR GODLY TRADITIONS TO
00:29:05.36\00:29:10.16
WHAT THEY CALLED HELENIZATION -
THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK CULTURE.
00:29:10.16\00:29:14.20
AND SO, ON ONE HAND YOU HAD THE
PHARISEES THAT WERE ROBED FROM
00:29:14.20\00:29:18.46
CROWN TO FOOT AND, YOU KNOW,
WEARING THEIR PHYLACTERIES AND
00:29:18.46\00:29:21.80
PRAYING ON THE CORNERS
AND GIVING PUBLICLY AND VERY
00:29:21.80\00:29:25.03
RELIGIOUS BUT, DURING THE SAME
TIME, YOU HAD ROMANS THAT HAD A
00:29:25.03\00:29:30.23
LAS VEGAS IN MAGDALA, YOU HAD
THE GREEKS THAT HAD OLYMPIANS
00:29:30.23\00:29:34.53
WRESTLING NUDE OR AT LEAST -
WELL, YEAH, ACCORDING TO ALL THE
00:29:34.53\00:29:37.93
ANCIENT POTTERY AND - AND
SO, YOU KNOW, SO HERE YOU'VE GOT
00:29:37.93\00:29:42.43
GREAT MODESTY AMONG SOME OF THE
MORE CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE, BUT
00:29:42.43\00:29:45.53
EVEN AMONG THE JEWS THERE
WERE BELIEVERS THAT WERE VERY
00:29:45.53\00:29:49.83
LIBERAL. THE
SADDUCEES DIDN'T BELIEVE IN
00:29:49.83\00:29:51.33
A RESURRECTION OR A JUDGMENT.
THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN ANGELS.
00:29:51.33\00:29:56.16
THAT'D BE PRETTY WAYWARD
THEOLOGY AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY
00:29:56.16\00:30:01.23
AND THERE ARE CHRISTIANS WHO
STILL, TODAY, THEY SAY, 'OH, I'M
00:30:01.23\00:30:03.26
A CHRISTIAN BUT I DON'T BELIEVE
THAT MIRACLES ARE LITERAL.' SO
00:30:03.26\00:30:06.40
THE REASON I'M SAYING THAT IS,
IN SPITE OF THE WORLDLINESS FROM
00:30:06.40\00:30:09.83
THE ROMAN AND GREEK INFLUENCE IN
ISRAEL, ZACHARIAH AND ELIZABETH
00:30:09.83\00:30:13.66
WERE STILL LIVING GODLY LIVES
ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENTS.
00:30:13.66\00:30:17.43
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US, BEFORE
THE SECOND COMING - AND THEY'RE
00:30:17.43\00:30:20.26
DOING THIS BEFORE THE FIRST
COMING - IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US,
00:30:20.26\00:30:23.43
BEFORE THE SECOND COMING,
SURROUNDED BY A CULTURE THAT'S
00:30:23.43\00:30:25.66
COMPROMISED, TO STILL LIVE GODLY
LIVES? THE SAME WAY THEY DID.
00:30:25.66\00:30:31.53
I THINK JESUS CHRIST IS THE
SAME. RIGHTEOUS - "BUT THEY HAD
00:30:31.53\00:30:35.06
NO CHILD, BECAUSE ELIZABETH WAS
BARREN, AND THEY WERE BOTH WELL
00:30:35.06\00:30:39.26
ADVANCED IN YEARS." -
NOW I THINK I'VE SAID MANY
00:30:39.26\00:30:41.26
TIMES, THERE ARE SEVEN OCCASIONS
OF MIRACLE BIRTHS IN THE BIBLE.
00:30:41.26\00:30:47.20
THIS IS REALLY THE LAST OCCASION
IN THE BIBLE OF A WOMAN WHO WAS
00:30:47.20\00:30:52.60
BARREN THAT
MIRACULOUSLY HAD A CHILD.
00:30:52.60\00:30:55.73
JESUS IS THE LAST MIRACLE BIRTH,
BUT NOT BECAUSE MARY WAS BARREN.
00:30:55.73\00:30:59.86
AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT
MARY AND ELIZABETH ARE RELATED.
00:30:59.86\00:31:02.76
NOW LET'S REHEARSE THEM REAL
QUICK, IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD
00:31:02.76\00:31:05.03
THIS BEFORE. SARAH
WAS BARREN - HAD A MIRACLE
00:31:05.03\00:31:09.30
BIRTH IN HER OLD AGE. REBEKAH
HAD TWINS - JACOB AND ESAU.
00:31:09.30\00:31:16.36
RACHEL WAS BARREN. SHE
HAD JOSEPH - YOU KNOW WHAT
00:31:16.36\00:31:19.33
'JOSEPH' MEANS? ADDING
- AND SHE SAID, 'GOD WILL
00:31:19.33\00:31:23.70
ADD TO ME ANOTHER
SON,' WHICH WAS BENJAMIN.
00:31:23.70\00:31:25.66
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. SO
THERE'S THREE MIRACLE BIRTHS.
00:31:25.66\00:31:28.36
HANNAH WAS BARREN. THE
SHUNAMITE WOMAN AND SAMSON'S
00:31:28.36\00:31:33.93
MOTHER - MINOAH'S WIFE
- WE DON'T KNOW HER NAME.
00:31:33.93\00:31:37.06
AND SO THERE YOU'VE GOT THOSE
SIX - IS THAT SIX? LET ME SEE.
00:31:37.06\00:31:41.00
YEAH, THAT'S SIX AND THEN
JESUS - YEAH - INCLUDING SARAH -
00:31:41.00\00:31:46.40
INCLUDING ELIZABETH.
SO LUKE IS PLACING THEM,
00:31:46.40\00:31:51.06
HISTORICALLY, IN CONTEXT, AND
THEN HE GOES INTO THE DIVISIONS.
00:31:51.06\00:31:54.93
NOW IT SAYS THAT HE
GOES UP TO THE TEMPLE.
00:31:54.93\00:31:58.40
HE'S FULFILLING HIS CUSTOM.
00:31:58.40\00:32:00.06
HIS LOT WAS TO BURN INCENSE -
THEY HAD A NUMBER OF DUTIES BUT
00:32:00.06\00:32:03.66
HE HAD BEEN CHOSEN,
BY LOT, TO BURN INCENSE.
00:32:03.66\00:32:07.20
THAT WAS A GREAT HONOR, BUT DO
YOU THINK THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT
00:32:07.20\00:32:09.26
THAT HE WOULD BE IN THE TEMPLE
WHEN THIS PROMISED CHILD COMES
00:32:09.26\00:32:12.36
TO HIM? AND
WHILE HE'S DOING IT THE
00:32:12.36\00:32:16.63
WHOLE MULTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE
ARE OUTSIDE AND THEY'RE PRAYING.
00:32:16.63\00:32:19.33
NOW, SOME ARE WONDERING,
'IS THIS BASED ON LEVITICUS?
00:32:19.33\00:32:22.73
WAS IT A DAY OF ATONEMENT WHEN
THE PEOPLE WOULD BE GATHERED
00:32:22.73\00:32:26.80
OUTSIDE PRAYING?'
IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING.
00:32:26.80\00:32:28.96
AND THE ANGEL APPEARS, SAYS THAT
'YOUR GOD HAS HEARD YOUR PRAYERS
00:32:28.96\00:32:35.76
AND YOUR WIFE IS GOING TO HAVE
A SON.' AND HE'S EVIDENTLY BEEN
00:32:35.76\00:32:40.96
PRAYING FOR SOMETHING BUT HE
DOESN'T BELIEVE HIS PRAYERS ARE
00:32:40.96\00:32:42.86
GOING TO BE ANSWERED BECAUSE
HE BEGINS TO DOUBT THAT THIS IS
00:32:42.86\00:32:47.80
GOING TO HAPPEN AND IT
SAYS, "AND YOU WILL HAVE JOY AND
00:32:47.80\00:32:50.80
GLADNESS, AND MANY
WILL REJOICE AT HIS BIRTH.
00:32:50.80\00:32:54.20
FOR HE WILL BE GREAT IN THE
SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND SHALL
00:32:54.20\00:32:56.60
DRINK NEITHER
WINE NOR STRONG DRINK.
00:32:56.60\00:32:58.60
HE WILL ALSO BE FILLED WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT, EVEN FROM HIS
00:32:58.60\00:33:01.43
MOTHER'S WOMB." OH,
SO MUCH I COULD SAY HERE.
00:33:01.43\00:33:03.80
JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS A NAZARITE.
YOU REMEMBER WHAT THE ANGEL SAID
00:33:03.80\00:33:09.00
TO MINOAH'S WIFE? DO NOT
GIVE HIM WINE OR STRONG DRINK?
00:33:09.00\00:33:13.33
SAMSON GREW UP AND DIDN'T
LISTEN TO THAT, BUT HIS PARENTS,
00:33:13.33\00:33:16.10
AT LEAST, OBSERVED THAT.
AND GOD HAD A GREAT WORK FOR
00:33:16.10\00:33:20.43
THIS CHILD AND HE NEEDED EVERY
PHYSICAL ADVANTAGE TO HAVE HIS
00:33:20.43\00:33:24.90
VESSEL BE A HOUSING FOR THE HOLY
SPIRIT BECAUSE JOHN THE BAPTIST
00:33:24.90\00:33:28.86
WAS FILLED WITH THE
SPIRIT FROM THE BEGINNING.
00:33:28.86\00:33:31.16
MATTER OF FACT, JOHN THE
BAPTIST, IN HIS MOTHER'S WOMB,
00:33:31.16\00:33:33.86
WAS LEAPING AT
THE TIDINGS OF JESUS.
00:33:33.86\00:33:36.20
AND SO THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT
BASED ON HIS WORKS, BUT BASED ON
00:33:36.20\00:33:40.36
THE GRACE OF
GOD. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:33:40.36\00:33:43.83
YOU KNOW, SOME OF US THINK,
'WELL, GOD INTERVENED IN MY LIFE
00:33:43.83\00:33:46.53
BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING FOR HIM.
AND THAT MAY BE, BUT IT'S THE
00:33:46.53\00:33:49.93
HOLY SPIRIT THAT SOMETIMES
IMPRESSES US TO LOOK FOR HIM.
00:33:49.93\00:33:53.00
AND IT WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT,
NOT BECAUSE OF JOHN'S GOOD WORKS
00:33:53.00\00:33:56.90
MADE HIM DESIRE THAT, BUT HE
WAS REALLY CALLED BY THE LORD.
00:33:56.90\00:34:00.63
I KNOW THAT MIGHT SOUND LIKE
I'M TALKING ABOUT ELECTION, BUT
00:34:00.63\00:34:02.86
SOMETIMES GOD'S
GRACE JUST INTERVENES.
00:34:02.86\00:34:05.76
PAUL WAS NOT SAVED ON THE
ROAD TO DAMASCUS BECAUSE OF HIS
00:34:05.76\00:34:09.50
GOODNESS. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
GOD IS GOOD AND SOMETIMES HE
00:34:09.50\00:34:13.26
JUST INTERRUPTS
THINGS AND HE IS SOVEREIGN.
00:34:13.26\00:34:16.73
AND HE SAYS YOUR WIFE
"WILL BEAR YOU A SON,"
00:34:16.73\00:34:21.36
AND GOD PICKS HIS NAME. NOW
THERE'S SEVERAL SIMILARITIES
00:34:21.36\00:34:24.20
BETWEEN JESUS AND JOHN.
NOT ONLY ARE THEY COUSINS OF
00:34:24.20\00:34:28.56
SOME FORM, THEIR
NAMES ARE CHOSEN.
00:34:28.56\00:34:31.10
THE SAME ANGEL, GABRIEL,
ANNOUNCES BOTH THEIR BIRTHS,
00:34:31.10\00:34:35.30
THEY BOTH DIE AT THE HANDS OF
OTHERS, AND THEY'RE BOTH SPIRIT
00:34:35.30\00:34:42.63
FILLED AND THEY BOTH GO TO THE
JORDAN RIVER. SO IT'S LIKE JOHN
00:34:42.63\00:34:47.73
IS SORT OF LEADING THE WAY
AND HE ACTUALLY LED THE WAY FOR
00:34:47.73\00:34:50.70
CHRIST, AS A MARTYR, BEFORE
JESUS DIED. JOY AND GLADNESS
00:34:50.70\00:34:55.80
DURING HIS LIFE - JOHN OUTLIVED
HIS PARENTS, WE BELIEVE.
00:34:55.80\00:34:59.93
OF COURSE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO
WITNESS HIS DEATH, UNLIKE WHAT
00:34:59.93\00:35:02.03
THE ANGEL SAYS TO MARY, THAT 'A
SWORD'LL PIERCE YOUR OWN SOUL.'
00:35:02.03\00:35:06.40
SO, WELL, I GUESS SHE DOESN'T
GET THAT FROM THE ANGEL, SHE
00:35:06.40\00:35:11.86
GETS THAT FROM
SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE.
00:35:11.86\00:35:15.23
"AND HE'LL TURN MANY OF THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO THE LORD
00:35:15.23\00:35:19.26
THEIR GOD." HE'LL
ALSO PREPARE - HE'LL "GO
00:35:19.26\00:35:22.50
BEFORE HIM IN THE SPIRIT
AND POWER OF ELIJAH, TO TURN THE
00:35:22.50\00:35:26.06
HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO
THE CHILDREN." NOW THIS IS
00:35:26.06\00:35:28.26
IMPORTANT BECAUSE WHEN
PEOPLE TALK ABOUT JOHN COMING IN
00:35:28.26\00:35:34.23
THE SPIRIT AND THE POWER
OF ELIJAH, SOME HAVE WONDERED,
00:35:34.23\00:35:37.53
'DOES THAT MEAN
ELIJAH WOULD BE RESURRECTED?'
00:35:37.53\00:35:40.23
AND YOU REMEMBER THEY USED TO -
THEY CAME TO JOHN THE BAPTIST -
00:35:40.23\00:35:42.60
THEY SAID, 'ARE YOU JOHN?'
- 'ARE YOU ELIJAH' RATHER -
00:35:42.60\00:35:45.33
'RESURRECTED?'
AND HE SAID, 'WHAT?
00:35:45.33\00:35:47.16
NO.' BUT THE ANGEL SAID HE
WAS AND JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU CAN
00:35:47.16\00:35:52.60
RECEIVE IT, THIS WAS ELIJAH
WHO IS TO COME.' MATTHEW 11.
00:35:52.60\00:35:56.93
WHY DID JOHN SAY 'NO' WHEN
THEY SAID, 'ARE YOU ELIJAH?'
00:35:56.93\00:36:00.20
AND JESUS SAID, 'YES HE
IS,' AND THE ANGELS SAY HE IS?
00:36:00.20\00:36:04.20
BECAUSE THEY WERE
ASKING A DIFFERENT QUESTION.
00:36:04.20\00:36:06.66
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS
WERE ASKING, 'ARE YOU ELIJAH
00:36:06.66\00:36:08.50
RESURRECTED?' IT WAS
ALMOST LIKE BORDERING ON
00:36:08.50\00:36:10.60
REINCARNATION - AND HE SAID,
'NO.' WHAT HE HAD FROM ELIJAH
00:36:10.60\00:36:15.13
WAS THE SAME THING THAT ELISHA
HAD FROM ELIJAH; HE HAD THE
00:36:15.13\00:36:20.03
SPIRIT THAT - OF
REVIVAL - THAT GOD GAVE ELIJAH.
00:36:20.03\00:36:24.23
AND THIS IS WHAT THE
ANGEL FORETOLD ABOUT HIS LIFE.
00:36:24.23\00:36:27.30
AND HE HAD A MISSION TO TURN
"THE DISOBEDIENT TO THE WISDOM
00:36:27.30\00:36:32.53
OF THE JUST, TO MAKE READY A
PEOPLE PREPARED FOR THE LORD."
00:36:32.53\00:36:37.50
THIS IS ALSO INTERESTING
BECAUSE, IF YOU READ IN MALACHI,
00:36:37.50\00:36:40.16
WHERE IT SAYS, 'BEHOLD, I SEND
YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET AND HE'LL
00:36:40.16\00:36:43.33
TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS
TO THE CHILDREN AND THE CHILDREN
00:36:43.33\00:36:45.20
TO THE FATHERS,' HERE THE ANGEL
SAYS IT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY
00:36:45.20\00:36:48.86
THAN THAT. IT SAYS "HE'LL TURN
THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO
00:36:48.86\00:36:51.70
THE CHILDREN AND THE DISOBEDIENT
TO THE WISDOM OF THE JUST,
00:36:51.70\00:36:55.96
TO MAKE READY A PEOPLE
PREPARED FOR THE LORD."
00:36:55.96\00:36:59.66
SO THE MESSAGE IN JOHN THE
BAPTIST IS TO PREPARE THE WAY OF
00:36:59.66\00:37:02.83
THE LORD FOR THE FIRST COMING.
WHAT SHOULD BE OUR WORK IN THE
00:37:02.83\00:37:06.80
LAST DAYS? WHAT DOES IT
MEAN TO BE AN ADVENTIST?
00:37:06.80\00:37:11.33
DON'T WE HAVE A WORK SIMILAR TO
THE WORK OF ELIJAH AND - ELISHA
00:37:11.33\00:37:17.03
AND JOHN THE BAPTIST? TO
PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD?
00:37:17.03\00:37:20.90
DID ELIJAH SPEND
TIME IN THE DESERT?
00:37:20.90\00:37:24.36
DID JOHN SPEND
TIME IN THE DESERT?
00:37:24.36\00:37:26.30
DID ELIJAH DRESS OUT OF
STYLE? THAT'S NOT THAT IT'S A
00:37:26.30\00:37:30.70
REQUIREMENT FOR YOU TO ALL DRESS
OUT OF STYLE, BUT I JUST WANT
00:37:30.70\00:37:32.80
YOU TO KNOW HE HAD SIMPLE DRESS.
NO ONE COULD ACCUSE HIM OF BEING
00:37:32.80\00:37:36.36
FLAMBOYANT. IT WAS,
YOU KNOW, CAMEL SKIN AND
00:37:36.36\00:37:39.06
A LEATHER BELT AND
THAT'S WHAT ELIJAH WORE.
00:37:39.06\00:37:41.60
AND HE HAD A MINISTRY OF
BAPTISM - TO PREPARE PEOPLE.
00:37:41.60\00:37:47.23
WHAT'S THE LAST THING
JESUS SAYS? 'GO TEACH. BAPTIZE.'
00:37:47.23\00:37:50.80
AND SO, YOU SEE, THERE'S
SOME INTERESTING PARALLELS HERE.
00:37:50.80\00:37:53.83
NOW THE NAME 'JOHN' THAT
THE ANGEL GIVES HIM - YOU KNOW,
00:37:53.83\00:37:59.26
WHENEVER YOU SEE THESE NAMES
LIKE 'JESUS' - IS NOT REALLY
00:37:59.26\00:38:02.06
'JESUS,' IT'S 'YAHSHUA.' AND
'JOHN' IS - IT COMES FROM THE
00:38:02.06\00:38:07.83
WORD 'YOHANAN,' MEANING 'YAHWEH
IS GRACIOUS.' LET ME SEE HERE -
00:38:07.83\00:38:15.63
LET ME - I'VE GOT A QUOTE FROM
DESIRE OF AGES I'D LIKE TO READ
00:38:15.63\00:38:17.93
YOU, AND THIS IS PAGE
98. "THE BIRTH OF A SON TO
00:38:17.93\00:38:23.33
ZACHARIAS, LIKE THE BIRTH OF THE
CHILD OF ABRAHAM, AND THAT OF
00:38:23.33\00:38:26.86
MARY, WAS TO TEACH A GREAT
SPIRITUAL TRUTH - A TRUTH THAT
00:38:26.86\00:38:30.96
WE ARE SLOW TO
LEARN AND READY TO FORGET.
00:38:30.96\00:38:33.30
IN OURSELVES WE ARE INCAPABLE OF
DOING ANY GOOD THING, BUT THAT
00:38:33.30\00:38:37.20
WHICH WE CANNOT DO WILL BE
WROUGHT BY THE POWER OF GOD IN
00:38:37.20\00:38:40.80
EVERY SUBMISSIVE
AND BELIEVING SOUL.
00:38:40.80\00:38:43.90
IT WAS THROUGH FAITH THAT
THE CHILD OF PROMISE WAS GIVEN.
00:38:43.90\00:38:47.20
IT WAS THROUGH FAITH THAT
SPIRITUAL LIFE IS BEGOTTEN AND
00:38:47.20\00:38:51.00
WE ARE UNABLE TO DO
WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:38:51.00\00:38:53.43
SO HOW ARE WE ABLE TO
DO WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS?
00:38:53.43\00:38:55.90
IT SAYS WE SOMETIMES ARE QUICK
TO FORGET THAT IN OURSELVES
00:38:55.90\00:38:59.83
WE'RE INCAPABLE OF DOING ANY
GOOD THING, BUT WHEN WE SUBMIT,
00:38:59.83\00:39:04.10
THROUGH FAITH IN GOD, WE
ARE ENABLED TO DO THE WORKS OF
00:39:04.10\00:39:08.06
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
ALRIGHT, SO THEN JOHN IS BORN -
00:39:08.06\00:39:12.46
WE'RE HAVING TO HASTEN ALONG
BECAUSE WE'VE GOT SOME OTHER
00:39:12.46\00:39:14.60
SECTIONS HERE - AND IT TALKS
ABOUT THEN IT TRANSITIONS FROM,
00:39:14.60\00:39:19.40
YOU KNOW,
ZACHARIAS, HE CAN'T SPEAK.
00:39:19.40\00:39:22.86
HE COMES OUT - EVERYONE'S
WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED AND HIS
00:39:22.86\00:39:24.53
FACE IS GLOWING. HE'S
SEEN A VISION AND HE WRITES
00:39:24.53\00:39:26.26
AND HE TELLS
THEM WHAT'S HAPPENED.
00:39:26.26\00:39:27.90
HE CAN'T SPEAK
AGAIN UNTIL JOHN'S BORN.
00:39:27.90\00:39:30.03
MEANTIME, FAST FORWARD A
FEW MONTHS, THE ANGEL GOES TO
00:39:30.03\00:39:34.76
NAZARETH AND THERE'S MARY AND
SHE'S ENGAGED TO AN OLDER MAN
00:39:34.76\00:39:39.40
THAT HAS A BLENDED FAMILY - HIS
FIRST WIFE HAS EVIDENTLY DIED -
00:39:39.40\00:39:43.50
NAMED JOSEPH, AND THE ANGEL
ANNOUNCES THAT SHE'S GOING TO
00:39:43.50\00:39:48.66
HAVE A MIRACLE BIRTH - AND THIS
IS THE SEVENTH OF THE MIRACLE
00:39:48.66\00:39:52.40
BIRTHS IN THE BIBLE.
INTERESTING, ALSO, THEY'RE ALL
00:39:52.40\00:39:54.90
BOYS, BECAUSE EACH OF THOSE
MIRACLE BIRTHS WERE ALL TYPES OF
00:39:54.90\00:40:00.36
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE.
ISAAC, JOSEPH, SAMSON, SAMUEL,
00:40:00.36\00:40:06.06
THE SHUNAMITE BOY WHO
DIES AND IS RESURRECTED.
00:40:06.06\00:40:08.80
THEY'RE ALL, IN SOME WAY,
A TYPE OR A SHADOW OF CHRIST.
00:40:08.80\00:40:12.13
AND I THINK THE LORD
WANTED US TO NOTICE THAT.
00:40:12.13\00:40:15.30
SO ANGEL COMES TO MARY AND
SAYS, 'YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THIS
00:40:15.30\00:40:21.16
PROMISED CHILD.' HIS NAME IS
YASHUA - IN GREEK, JESUS, WHICH
00:40:21.16\00:40:28.10
MEANS, 'GOD IS SALVATION.' TWO
OTHER JOSHUAS IN THE BIBLE THAT
00:40:28.10\00:40:33.06
ARE PROMINENT: ONE IS, OF
COURSE, MOSES' ATTENDANT WHO
00:40:33.06\00:40:36.36
LEADS PEOPLE FROM SLAVERY INTO
THE PROMISED LAND - OR FROM THE
00:40:36.36\00:40:41.16
WILDERNESS INTO THE PROMISED
LAND. THE OTHER JOSHUA IS THE
00:40:41.16\00:40:44.00
HIGH PRIEST THAT LEADS THEM FROM
BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED LAND,
00:40:44.00\00:40:48.43
DURING THE DAYS
OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH.
00:40:48.43\00:40:50.96
AND SOMETHING ELSE, IF YOU LOOK
IN - SOMEBODY'S GOING TO LOOK UP
00:40:50.96\00:40:55.30
FOR ME JOHN 6:14
- YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:40:55.30\00:40:58.26
IF YOU LOOK IN - DEUTERONOMY
18:15 IS A GREAT - WHAT'S THE
00:40:58.26\00:41:04.53
LAST BOOK MOSES
WROTE? DEUTERONOMY.
00:41:04.53\00:41:07.70
AND IF YOU LOOK IN THE LAST
BOOK MOSES WROTE BEFORE HE DIES,
00:41:07.70\00:41:11.93
DEUTERONOMY'S HIS SWAN SONG
- IT'S HIS CLOSING SERMON - HE
00:41:11.93\00:41:15.43
SAYS, "THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL
RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE
00:41:15.43\00:41:19.56
ME FROM YOUR MIDST, FROM YOUR
BRETHREN. HIM YOU SHALL HEAR,"
00:41:19.56\00:41:25.40
- AND EVERYONE KEPT
WONDERING - HE DIDN'T NAME HIM.
00:41:25.40\00:41:28.36
HE SAID, 'THERE'LL BE A PROPHET
LIKE ME.' I MEAN, MOSES WAS A
00:41:28.36\00:41:31.90
PRETTY REMARKABLE PROPHET.
THE SIGNS AND WONDERS AND
00:41:31.90\00:41:34.96
MIRACLES HE DID. AND I
HEARD SOMEONE SAY THERE'S
00:41:34.96\00:41:37.93
ONLY THREE OR FOUR WAVES
OF MIRACLES IN THE BIBLE.
00:41:37.93\00:41:42.43
YOU'VE GOT ALL THE MIRACLES
CONNECTED WITH THE EXODUS.
00:41:42.43\00:41:47.13
YOU'VE GOT A GREAT RAFT OF
MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH ELIJAH
00:41:47.13\00:41:53.43
AND ELISHA. THEN
YOU'VE GOT THE MIRACLES OF
00:41:53.43\00:41:56.83
JESUS AND THE APOSTLES.
YOU KNOW, BETWEEN THOSE EPICS,
00:41:56.83\00:42:00.53
THINGS ARE NORMAL - LIKE
THEY ARE TODAY. I THINK BEFORE
00:42:00.53\00:42:05.83
JESUS COMES BACK, THERE'LL
BE ANOTHER WAVE OF MIRACLES.
00:42:05.83\00:42:09.50
I MEAN, IF GOD POURED OUT THE
FORMER RAIN AND THERE WAS A WAVE
00:42:09.50\00:42:12.30
OF MIRACLES, JUST BEFORE THE
SECOND COMING, WHEN THE BEAST IS
00:42:12.30\00:42:16.30
DOING HIS POWER, WHERE SIN
ABOUNDS, GRACE ABOUNDS, RIGHT?
00:42:16.30\00:42:19.26
I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE
ANOTHER WAVE OF MIRACLES THAT
00:42:19.26\00:42:21.23
WILL COME DURING THAT
TIME. SO WHO IS THIS PROPHET?
00:42:21.23\00:42:25.53
THEY KEPT
WAITING FOR THIS PROPHET.
00:42:25.53\00:42:27.30
I'M GOING TO READ
FOR YOU JOHN 1:21.
00:42:27.30\00:42:30.66
THEY CAME TO JOHN THE BAPTIST
AND THEY SAID, 'WHAT THEN?
00:42:30.66\00:42:33.56
ARE YOU ELIJAH?' HE
SAID, 'I AM NOT.' 'ARE YOU
00:42:33.56\00:42:35.90
'THE PROPHET?' -
CAPITAL 'P' - AND HE SAID,
00:42:35.90\00:42:39.80
'NO.' WHAT PROPHET
ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT?
00:42:39.80\00:42:41.60
THE ONE LIKE MOSES
THEY WERE ALL LOOKING FOR.
00:42:41.60\00:42:43.33
YOU'LL NOTICE HOW
MANY TIMES IT SAYS THAT.
00:42:43.33\00:42:44.86
GO TO VERSE 25 - JOHN CHAPTER 1,
VERSE 25 - "AND THEY ASKED HIM,
00:42:44.86\00:42:49.53
SAYING, 'WHY THEN DO YOU BAPTIZE
IF YOU ARE NOT THE CHRIST, NOR
00:42:49.53\00:42:54.00
ELIJAH, NOR THE PROPHET?'"
NOTICE THE THREE NAMES THAT
00:42:54.00\00:42:58.13
ARE MENTIONED: CHRIST, ELIJAH,
OR THE PROPHET (LIKE MOSES).
00:42:58.13\00:43:02.56
WHO APPEARS TO JESUS ON
THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION?
00:43:02.56\00:43:05.90
>>MOSES. >>UP
THERE YOU'VE GOT JESUS,
00:43:05.90\00:43:07.26
ELIJAH, AND MOSES. SO
THAT WAS LIKE THE TRINITY OF
00:43:07.26\00:43:11.13
GREAT MESSENGERS. GO
AHEAD, READ FOR US JOHN 6:14.
00:43:11.13\00:43:14.73
>>"THEN THOSE MEN, WHEN THEY HAD
SEEN THE SIGN THAT JESUS DID,
00:43:14.73\00:43:17.40
SAID, 'THIS IS TRULY THE PROPHET
WHO IS TO COME INTO THE WORLD.'"
00:43:17.40\00:43:21.53
>>AGAIN, WHO ARE
THEY TALKING ABOUT?
00:43:21.53\00:43:23.70
THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT JESUS
WAS NOT MOSES, JESUS WAS THE ONE
00:43:23.70\00:43:29.03
MOSES TALKED ABOUT.
THAT'S WHY THE MOUNT OF
00:43:29.03\00:43:31.86
TRANSFIGURATION EXPERIENCE WAS
SO IMPORTANT, BECAUSE MANY WERE
00:43:31.86\00:43:35.80
INCLINED TO THINK THAT JESUS
WAS LIKE MOSES, ANOTHER GREAT
00:43:35.80\00:43:38.76
PROPHET - BUT HE
WAS MUCH MORE THAN THAT.
00:43:38.76\00:43:41.36
THAT'S WHY, WHEN PETER, ON THE
MOUNTAIN, SAID, 'OH LORD, IT'S
00:43:41.36\00:43:43.96
GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE,
LET'S BUILD THREE TEMPLES.
00:43:43.96\00:43:46.00
WE'LL BUILD ONE FOR YOU
AND WE'LL BUILD ONE FOR MOSES.
00:43:46.00\00:43:48.90
WE'LL BUILD ONE FOR ELIJAH' AND
THE APOSTLES THOUGHT THAT JESUS
00:43:48.90\00:43:52.66
GOT EQUAL MARQUEE
BILLING WITH MOSES AND ELIJAH.
00:43:52.66\00:43:56.96
AND THEN YOU KNOW WHO SPEAKS UP?
00:43:56.96\00:43:58.66
GOD THE FATHER SAYS, 'NO, NO,
NO, NO. THIS IS MY BELOVED SON.
00:43:58.66\00:44:03.23
HEAR HIM.' JESUS WAS SO
MUCH MORE THAN ELIJAH OR MOSES.
00:44:03.23\00:44:09.06
AND SO THEY JUST THOUGHT
THAT THIS PROPHET LIKE MOSES.
00:44:09.06\00:44:12.56
MOSES DIDN'T MEAN HE'D BE A
PROPHET OF THE SAME CALIBER, BUT
00:44:12.56\00:44:16.13
HE WOULD BE A GREAT SAVIOR -
NOT FROM SLAVERY, BUT FROM SIN.
00:44:16.13\00:44:21.46
SO THERE'S A LOT OF PARALLELS
BETWEEN JESUS AND MOSES.
00:44:21.46\00:44:24.13
IN FACT - SHAMELESS PLUG - I,
YOU KNOW, WROTE A BOOK A LITTLE
00:44:24.13\00:44:30.00
WHILE AGO CALLED SHADOWS OF
LIGHT: SEEING JESUS IN ALL THE
00:44:30.00\00:44:33.80
BIBLE - I HAVE A WHOLE SECTION
TALKING ABOUT ALL THE PARALLELS
00:44:33.80\00:44:36.80
BETWEEN MOSES AND JESUS. IT'S
PHENOMENAL HOW MANY THERE ARE.
00:44:36.80\00:44:41.16
MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN JUST
ALSO READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 3:22 -
00:44:41.16\00:44:47.00
PETER IS PREACHING AND HE SAID,
"FOR MOSES TRULY SAID TO THE
00:44:47.00\00:44:51.50
FATHER, 'THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL
RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE
00:44:51.50\00:44:53.93
ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN. HIM
YOU SHALL HEAR IN ALL THINGS,
00:44:53.93\00:44:57.60
WHATEVER HE SAYS TO YOU...YES,
AND ALL THE PROPHETS," -
00:44:57.60\00:45:00.93
NOT JUST MOSES - "ALL THE
PROPHETS, FROM SAMUEL AND THOSE
00:45:00.93\00:45:04.43
WHO FOLLOW, AS MANY AS
HAVE SPOKEN, HAVE ALSO FORETOLD
00:45:04.43\00:45:07.76
THESE DAYS." ALL THE
PROPHETS WERE POINTING TO WHO?
00:45:07.76\00:45:10.73
THE DAY OF JESUS WHEN
GOD'S SON WOULD FINALLY COME.
00:45:10.73\00:45:15.20
AND THEN, BEFORE STEPHEN'S
STONED - IN HIS CLOSING SERMON -
00:45:15.20\00:45:18.63
LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS, "THIS
IS THAT MOSES WHO SAID TO THE
00:45:18.63\00:45:23.90
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 'THE LORD
YOUR GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A
00:45:23.90\00:45:26.63
PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR
BRETHREN. HIM YOU SHALL HEAR.'"
00:45:26.63\00:45:29.76
STEPHEN SAID, 'JESUS IS THAT
PROPHET - THE ONE YOU EXECUTED.'
00:45:29.76\00:45:33.36
THEY GOT UPSET AT THAT
AND THEY KILLED STEPHEN.
00:45:33.36\00:45:35.53
SO, YOU KNOW, THE ANGEL COMES
TO MARY AND EXPLAINS THAT YOU'RE
00:45:35.53\00:45:40.06
NOT JUST HAVING ANOTHER BABY, HE
SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE
00:45:40.06\00:45:44.63
BABY EVERY JEWISH MOTHER DREAMED
THAT HER SON MIGHT BE - THE
00:45:44.63\00:45:50.16
BLESSED MESSIAH
- THE ANOINTED ONE.
00:45:50.16\00:45:53.00
AND THAT'S WHY SHE SAYS IN VERSE
43 - I'LL GO TO LUKE 1, VERSE
00:45:53.00\00:45:57.66
42, "THEN SHE SPOKE OUT WITH
A LOUD VOICE AND SAID, 'BLESSED
00:45:57.66\00:46:02.10
ARE YOU AMONG WOMEN, AND BLESSED
IS THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB!
00:46:02.10\00:46:05.70
BUT WHY IS THIS GRANTED TO ME,
- I'M SORRY, THESE ARE THE WORDS
00:46:05.70\00:46:08.86
OF ELIZABETH - "'BUT WHY IS THIS
GRANTED TO ME, THAT THE MOTHER
00:46:08.86\00:46:12.46
OF MY LORD SHOULD COME TO ME?'"
SO ELIZABETH UNDERSTOOD THAT
00:46:12.46\00:46:17.50
JESUS WAS - MARY'S BABY WAS
NOT GOING TO JUST BE ANOTHER
00:46:17.50\00:46:20.53
PROPHET, THIS WOULD BE
THE SAVIOR THAT WAS FORETOLD.
00:46:20.53\00:46:24.06
"FOR INDEED, AS SOON AS THE
VOICE OF YOUR GREETING SOUNDED
00:46:24.06\00:46:26.80
IN MY EARS, THE BABE
LEAPED IN MY WOMB FOR JOY.
00:46:26.80\00:46:30.86
BLESSED IS SHE WHO BELIEVED, FOR
THERE WILL BE A FULFILLMENT OF
00:46:30.86\00:46:35.36
THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE
TOLD HER FROM THE LORD."
00:46:35.36\00:46:38.10
GOD, THROUGH GABRIEL, TOLD MARY
SHE WAS GOING TO HAVE MESSIAH.
00:46:38.10\00:46:43.20
ELIZABETH CONFIRMS IT AND
SAYS IT IS DEFINITELY TRUE.
00:46:43.20\00:46:46.03
THEN MARY, HEARING THAT,
SHE ISSUES WHAT'S CALLED THE
00:46:46.03\00:46:49.86
MAGNIFICENT - MAGNIFICAT -
AND SHE SAYS, "MY SOUL MAGNIFIES
00:46:49.86\00:46:54.46
THE LORD, AND MY SPIRIT
HAS REJOICED IN GOD MY SAVIOR."
00:46:54.46\00:46:58.60
- NOW I WANT TO PAUSE. A
PROMISE IS GIVEN TO ZACHARIAS
00:46:58.60\00:47:03.26
IN THE EARLY CHAPTERS OF LUKE,
AND A PROMISE IS GIVEN TO MARY.
00:47:03.26\00:47:06.20
BOTH DOUBT - ZACHARIAS
STRUCK DUMB - WHY ISN'T MARY?
00:47:06.20\00:47:16.13
MARY DOES NOT DOUBT
WHAT GOD IS GOING TO DO,
00:47:16.13\00:47:20.10
MARY WONDERS HOW
IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:47:20.10\00:47:22.76
SHE SAID, 'HOW CAN THIS BE?
BECAUSE WE'RE NOT MARRIED YET.'
00:47:22.76\00:47:27.80
AND SO THE ANGEL THEN SAYS, 'THE
HOLY SPIRIT WILL COME UPON YOU.
00:47:27.80\00:47:31.30
MARY BELIEVES, SHE
JUST DOESN'T UNDERSTAND HOW.
00:47:31.30\00:47:34.86
ZACHARIAS DOUBTS THE WORD OF
THE ANGEL AND - YOU EVER PRAY A
00:47:34.86\00:47:40.46
PRAYER - NOT EVEN SURE IF
YOU BELIEVE YOUR OWN PRAYER?
00:47:40.46\00:47:43.36
YOU KNOW GOD CAN ANSWER A PRAYER
THAT YOU DON'T EVEN BELIEVE?
00:47:43.36\00:47:47.03
I MENTIONED THIS AT OUR STAFF
WORSHIP TODAY, BUT WHEN WE WERE
00:47:47.03\00:47:51.43
JUST IN MANILA DOING
SOME MEETINGS, WE SPENT A DAY
00:47:51.43\00:47:54.73
VIDEOTAPING - WE DID THIS
AMAZING FACT ABOUT JEEPNEYS -
00:47:54.73\00:47:58.66
SPENT THE WHOLE MORNING
VIDEOTAPING - I WAS JUMPING OFF
00:47:58.66\00:48:02.40
AND ON, OFF AND ON - WE RENTED A
JEEPNEY AND A DRIVER WENT AROUND
00:48:02.40\00:48:06.26
- BREATHED A LOT OF EXHAUST AND
DIDN'T - WE FINALLY GOT WHAT WE
00:48:06.26\00:48:08.70
THOUGHT WOULD BE
A GOOD AMAZING FACT.
00:48:08.70\00:48:10.76
GOT BACK TO THE HOTEL WITH WAYNE
AND OUR CREW THERE THAT WERE
00:48:10.76\00:48:14.13
HELPING US AND WE REALIZED
WE HAD LEFT THIS VERY EXPENSIVE
00:48:14.13\00:48:19.83
CAMERA IN THE JEEPNEY.
THIS IS A PUBLIC JEEPNEY - NOT
00:48:19.83\00:48:23.80
ONLY THE LOSS OF THE CAMERA,
THOUGH IT'S INSURED, BUT, YOU
00:48:23.80\00:48:26.80
KNOW, THOUSANDS OF DOLLAR CAMERA
- BUT THE CARD WITH ALL THE
00:48:26.80\00:48:31.20
FOOTAGE THAT WE'D
JUST TAPED THAT MORNING.
00:48:31.20\00:48:33.10
AND IT WAS THE ONLY DAY - VERY
TIGHT SCHEDULE - WE WERE GOING
00:48:33.10\00:48:35.23
TO BE ABLE TO DO IT. WE
WERE JUST SICK ABOUT IT.
00:48:35.23\00:48:36.80
AND WHEN OUR PRODUCER CAME IN
AND TOLD ME, HE JUST LOOKED LIKE
00:48:36.80\00:48:41.23
HE WAS GOING TO CRY. AND I WAS -
I WAS ALL READY TO CRY TOO, BUT
00:48:41.23\00:48:45.36
I THOUGHT, 'WELL, LET'S
PRAY.' WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO?
00:48:45.36\00:48:48.00
I MEAN, WE CALLED THE - WE
MANAGED TO FIND THE JEEPNEY
00:48:48.00\00:48:53.30
DRIVER'S PHONE NUMBER BY
SOME MIRACLE - CALLED - HE SAID,
00:48:53.30\00:48:56.36
'NO, THERE'S NOTHING IN MY
CAR. IT WASN'T THERE.' AND THEY
00:48:56.36\00:48:58.46
WOULD LOOK AROUND -
THERE WAS NO SIGN OF IT.
00:48:58.46\00:49:00.06
SO WE PRAYED AND SAID, 'LORD,
WE REALIZE THAT IT DOESN'T LOOK
00:49:00.06\00:49:06.70
VERY HOPEFUL RIGHT NOW, THAT
IN A CITY LIKE MANILLA YOU WOULD
00:49:06.70\00:49:10.76
DROP AN EXPENSIVE CAMERA LIKE
THAT ON THE STREET SOMEHOW AND
00:49:10.76\00:49:13.83
IT WOULD DISAPPEAR AND
SOMEHOW FIND ITS WAY BACK.
00:49:13.83\00:49:15.90
WHAT ARE THE ODDS?' AND
I SAID, 'LORD, WE'RE GOING
00:49:15.90\00:49:19.83
TO HAVE TROUBLE BELIEVING THIS
ONE, BUT ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
00:49:19.83\00:49:22.06
WITH YOU - BUT IF THERE'S
ANY WAY YOU COULD BRING IT BACK,
00:49:22.06\00:49:24.33
WE'D APPRECIATE IT.' SO WE
PRAYED AND THAT NIGHT AT THE
00:49:24.33\00:49:27.83
MEETING I GOT A TEXT FROM OUR
TRANSLATOR WHO WAS DRIVING US TO
00:49:27.83\00:49:32.20
THE MEETINGS. HE SAID,
'I JUST GOT A CALL FROM
00:49:32.20\00:49:34.90
THE FATHER OF THE JEEPNEY DRIVER
AND, EVIDENTLY, HE FOUND THAT
00:49:34.90\00:49:38.03
THE SON HAD TAKEN THE
CAMERA. IT WAS IN HIS CAR.
00:49:38.03\00:49:41.10
AND HE TALKED TO HIS SON AND
SAID HE NEEDS TO BRING IT BACK.
00:49:41.10\00:49:45.16
AND THEY BROUGHT THE CAMERA
BACK, WITH ALL THE FILM AND
00:49:45.16\00:49:47.46
EVERYTHING, THAT DAY. HE
CAME UNDER CONVICTION, TOLD
00:49:47.46\00:49:50.70
HIS FATHER WHAT HE HAD DONE,
AND HE BROUGHT THE CAMERA BACK.
00:49:50.70\00:49:54.16
THAT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT - IF
WE HADN'T PRAYED - BUT I DIDN'T
00:49:54.16\00:49:57.23
EVEN BELIEVE MY PRAYER WOULD
BE ANSWERED WHEN I PRAYED IT.
00:49:57.23\00:49:59.66
BUT YOU CAN TELL THE
LORD THAT, I MEAN, CAN'T YOU?
00:49:59.66\00:50:03.16
AND THAT'S WHAT WE SAID, WE
SAID, 'LORD, IT DOESN'T LOOK
00:50:03.16\00:50:04.93
LIKELY, BUT ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE WITH YOU.' AND WE JUST
00:50:04.93\00:50:07.56
- WE KIND OF WROTE IT OFF IN OUR
MINDS AND GOD SAID, 'WHY DO YOU
00:50:07.56\00:50:10.60
DOUBT? I CAN DO
IT.' SO, PRAISE THE LORD.
00:50:10.60\00:50:13.93
SO YOU'LL SEE A
JEEPNEY FACT SOMEDAY.
00:50:13.93\00:50:15.50
ANYWAY, SO WHERE AM I?
ALRIGHT, SO MARY PRAYS.
00:50:15.50\00:50:20.30
YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO JUMP UP TO
CHAPTER 2 AND THEN IT SAYS IN -
00:50:20.30\00:50:25.86
YEAH - THEN IT SAYS IN CHAPTER
2, VERSE 1, "AND IT CAME TO PASS
00:50:25.86\00:50:31.76
IN THOSE DAYS THAT A DECREE WENT
OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT
00:50:31.76\00:50:34.83
ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE
REGISTERED," - THIS CENSUS TOOK
00:50:34.83\00:50:37.73
PLACE - NOW NOTICE THIS - "THIS
CENSUS FIRST TOOK PLACE WHILE
00:50:37.73\00:50:41.00
QUIRINIUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA.
SO ALL WENT TO BE REGISTERED,
00:50:41.00\00:50:45.36
EVERYONE TO HIS OWN
CITY. JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM
00:50:45.36\00:50:48.50
GALILEE, OUT OF THE CITY OF
NAZARETH, INTO JUDEA," - LUKE
00:50:48.50\00:50:51.96
IS, AGAIN, REINFORCING THE
STORY WITH HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
00:50:51.96\00:50:57.06
EVERYBODY LIVING BACK THEN -
FIRST OF ALL, AUGUSTUS CAESAR,
00:50:57.06\00:50:59.20
WHO WAS ONCE KNOWN AS OCTAVIAN
- AND YOU CAN READ ABOUT HIM IN
00:50:59.20\00:51:02.16
THE STORIES OF
CLEOPATRA AND MARK ANTHONY.
00:51:02.16\00:51:04.13
LATER - HIS NAME WENT FROM
'OCTAVIAN' TO 'AUGUSTUS CAESAR'
00:51:04.13\00:51:07.93
- RULED FOR 40 YEARS - VERY WELL
KNOWN IN ROMAN HISTORY - EASY TO
00:51:07.93\00:51:11.16
ESTABLISH - TELLS - EVERYONE
KNOWS ABOUT THIS GREAT CENSUS,
00:51:11.16\00:51:14.03
WHICH WAS A TAX FOR THE
WORLD, AND THAT YOU HAD TO BE
00:51:14.03\00:51:17.40
REGISTERED - YOU HAD TO GO
TO YOUR PLACE - YOUR NATIVE TOWN
00:51:17.40\00:51:21.10
FOR REGISTRY TO MAKE
SURE YOU WEREN'T SKIPPING OUT.
00:51:21.10\00:51:24.13
SO LUKE IS CONSTANTLY
SAYING, 'THIS IS A REAL STORY.
00:51:24.13\00:51:27.86
THE STORY OF JESUS
IS NOT A FAIRY TALE.
00:51:27.86\00:51:29.96
WE ARE GOING TO JUST SURROUND IT
WITH HISTORICAL FACTS.' AND IT'S
00:51:29.96\00:51:33.43
ONE REASON I LOVE THE BOOK OF
LUKE, IS BECAUSE HE JUST STATES
00:51:33.43\00:51:37.40
IT ALL LIKE, 'THIS IS WHAT
HAPPENED, BELIEVE IT OR NOT.'
00:51:37.40\00:51:40.03
AND HE PUTS IT IN HISTORY.
"TO BE REGISTERED WITH MARY, HIS
00:51:40.03\00:51:45.63
BETROTHED WIFE...SO IT WAS, THAT
WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS
00:51:45.63\00:51:48.33
WERE COMPLETED FOR
HER TO BE DELIVERED."
00:51:48.33\00:51:50.30
- LUKE KNEW ABOUT THOSE DAYS - A
DOCTOR - "AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH
00:51:50.30\00:51:53.96
HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED
HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHS," - I
00:51:53.96\00:51:57.13
THINK HE TALKED TO MARY -
"AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER," - WE
00:51:57.13\00:52:01.36
WOULDN'T HAVE THIS STORY ABOUT
THE MANGER AND NO ROOM AT THE
00:52:01.36\00:52:03.40
INN IF IT WASN'T FOR LUKE.
MATTHEW DOESN'T MENTION THAT.
00:52:03.40\00:52:07.36
"NOW THERE WERE IN THE SAME
COUNTRY SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT IN
00:52:07.36\00:52:11.03
THE FIELDS, KEEPING WATCH
OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT."
00:52:11.03\00:52:13.60
NOW, YOU KNOW, BASED ON THE
DIFFERENT FEASTS AND WHEN THESE
00:52:13.60\00:52:16.70
THINGS HAPPEN, JESUS WAS
MOST LIKELY BORN IN THE FALL.
00:52:16.70\00:52:21.90
NOW, HOW DO YOU GET THAT?
BECAUSE, DO WE KNOW WHAT TIME OF
00:52:21.90\00:52:25.93
YEAR JESUS DIED? WHEN? PASSOVER
- SPRING. THAT'S A FIXED DATE.
00:52:25.93\00:52:32.40
DO WE KNOW HOW
LONG HE MINISTERED?
00:52:32.40\00:52:34.60
>>THREE AND A HALF
YEARS. >>THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:52:34.60\00:52:37.13
DO WE KNOW HOW OLD HE WAS
WHEN HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY?
00:52:37.13\00:52:40.56
YOU KNOW WE GET
THAT FROM LUKE ALSO.
00:52:40.56\00:52:42.86
MARY WOULD KNOW WHEN HIS
BIRTHDAY WAS AND HE ALSO NEEDED
00:52:42.86\00:52:47.60
TO BE 30 BECAUSE A PRIEST
COULD NOT MINISTER UNTIL THEN.
00:52:47.60\00:52:50.83
SO AS HE BEGAN TO BE 30 - AS HE
ENTERED ON HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY, HE
00:52:50.83\00:52:55.20
WENT TO JOHN
AND HE WAS BAPTIZED.
00:52:55.20\00:52:57.00
SO YOU COUNT BACK THREE AND
A HALF YEARS FROM THE PASSOVER
00:52:57.00\00:53:01.53
AND IT LANDS IN
THE FALL SOMETIME.
00:53:01.53\00:53:03.93
AND THE SHEPHERDS OUT IN
THE FIELDS - HERE IN NORTHERN
00:53:03.93\00:53:07.10
CALIFORNIA, THE CLIMATE, BELIEVE
IT OR NOT, IS VERY SIMILAR TO
00:53:07.10\00:53:10.33
THE CLIMATE IN ISRAEL DURING
THAT TIME AND IT'S COLD AND IT'S
00:53:10.33\00:53:15.40
WET AND THE SHEPHERD'S ARE
NOT OUT IN THE FIELDS GRAZING.
00:53:15.40\00:53:18.83
THERE'S - IT'S BROWN
- IF ANYTHING, OR MUD.
00:53:18.83\00:53:21.33
AND SO IT WAS
PROBABLY IN THE FALL.
00:53:21.33\00:53:24.53
ANYWAY, SO WE'VE GOT ONE
MORE VERSE WE'LL CLOSE WITH.
00:53:24.53\00:53:27.06
YOU'RE UP, OKAY KATRINA? WE'RE
GOING TO DO 2 CORINTHIANS 8:9.
00:53:27.06\00:53:32.83
>>"FOR YOU KNOW THE GRACE OF OUR
LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT THOUGH
00:53:32.83\00:53:37.46
HE WAS RICH, YET FOR YOUR
SAKES HE BECAME POOR, THAT YOU
00:53:37.46\00:53:41.10
THROUGH HIS
POVERTY, MIGHT BECOME RICH."
00:53:41.10\00:53:44.53
>>YOU WILL FIND THIS THEME ABOUT
THE RICH AND THE POOR EMPHASIZED
00:53:44.53\00:53:48.30
IN LUKE ALMOST MORE THAN ANY
OTHER GOSPEL - THE PARABLE OF
00:53:48.30\00:53:51.56
THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS AND
HE TALKS ABOUT THE RICH AND THE
00:53:51.56\00:53:56.20
POOR A LITTLE
DIFFERENTLY IN HIS BEATITUDES.
00:53:56.20\00:53:59.03
AND SO LUKE MAY HAVE ACTUALLY
FORSAKEN SOME WEALTH OF A
00:53:59.03\00:54:03.66
PHYSICIAN AS HE BECAME AN
ITINERANT WORKER WITH PAUL.
00:54:03.66\00:54:07.93
BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
GETTING TO KNOW HIM BETTER AS WE
00:54:07.93\00:54:10.00
STUDY THE STORY OF LUKE. I
WISH I HAD MORE TIME, THERE'S
00:54:10.00\00:54:13.13
SO MUCH TO SHARE. ONE
AGAIN, FRIENDS, IF YOU
00:54:13.13\00:54:15.00
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00:54:29.30\00:54:32.30
LOOKING FORWARD TO STUDYING MORE
ABOUT LUKE WITH YOU NEXT WEEK.
00:54:32.30\00:54:37.63
>>I GREW UP IN A
CHURCH-GOING FAMILY.
00:54:37.63\00:54:40.36
I MEAN, WE WERE
AT EVERY MEETING.
00:54:40.36\00:54:42.36
I SANG IN FOUR OF THE CHOIRS
THERE - I DIRECTED THREE - VERY
00:54:42.36\00:54:46.70
INVOLVED - VERY ACTIVE. IT
ALMOST SEEMED LIKE BUSY WORK
00:54:46.70\00:54:51.13
SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW?
I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL.
00:54:51.13\00:54:54.33
I KNEW ABOUT GOD. I KNEW
ABOUT JESUS, BUT I DIDN'T
00:54:54.33\00:54:58.86
HAVE A PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
00:54:58.86\00:55:01.90
MY SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL I
GOT THE NEWS THAT MY FATHER HAD
00:55:01.90\00:55:08.86
BEEN MURDERED. I
PLAYED IT OFF WELL.
00:55:08.86\00:55:13.30
NO ONE REALLY SAW THAT
I WAS STRUGGLING WITH IT.
00:55:13.30\00:55:20.10
IT JUST REALLY FELT LIKE THERE
WAS A HOLE THAT NEEDED TO BE
00:55:20.10\00:55:22.90
FILLED AND I TRIED TO FILL
IT WITH DRUGS, WITH ALCOHOL,
00:55:22.90\00:55:27.16
WITH PARTYING. AFTER COLLEGE
I JUST STOPPED GOING TO CHURCH
00:55:27.16\00:55:31.90
ALTOGETHER. ONE DAY, ON
A SUNDAY, BECAUSE I DIDN'T
00:55:31.90\00:55:37.53
FEEL LIKE GOING TO CHURCH WITH
MY MOM, I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, I
00:55:37.53\00:55:42.13
SHOULD GET A LITTLE BIT OF WORD.
SHE HAD THE SATELLITE SYSTEM
00:55:42.13\00:55:46.10
HOOKED UP AND I'M FLIPPING
THROUGH CHANNELS AND THEN THE
00:55:46.10\00:55:49.30
LOGO POPS ACROSS:
AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS .
00:55:49.30\00:55:53.26
I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT HERE
00:55:53.26\00:55:55.86
WAS - THIS WAS THE FIRST
TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING
00:55:55.86\00:55:58.63
SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB
MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP
00:55:58.63\00:56:01.43
AND I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS
BEFORE, LET ME - LET ME LOOK
00:56:01.43\00:56:04.83
THROUGH AND FIND
THIS. I WENT THROUGH ALL THE
00:56:04.83\00:56:07.00
STORACLES. I WENT
THROUGH ALL THE STUDY
00:56:07.00\00:56:09.10
GUIDES AND I JUST
COULDN'T GET ENOUGH.
00:56:09.10\00:56:11.13
AND THEN THE SABBATH CAME UP AND
HE'S GOING THROUGH THE APPEAL
00:56:11.13\00:56:15.23
AND I'M JUST
GOING, 'LORD, I HEAR YOU.
00:56:15.23\00:56:17.56
I HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH.' SO I
SHOW UP - IT WAS FUNNY, I DIDN'T
00:56:17.56\00:56:21.43
FEEL LIKE I WAS GOING TO BE
JUDGED - ANYTHING JUDGMENTAL -
00:56:21.43\00:56:25.60
ANYTHING. AND I WALKED IN THE
DOOR AND I JUST FELT AT HOME.
00:56:25.60\00:56:29.16
BUT THERE'S STILL A
PROBLEM. I'M STILL PARTYING.
00:56:29.16\00:56:34.76
I WAS STILL
GOING OUT TO THE BARS.
00:56:34.76\00:56:36.40
AT THIS TIME, I WAS
SELLING COCAINE TO PAY MY RENT.
00:56:36.40\00:56:40.80
16 DAYS LATER I FIND MYSELF
IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION.
00:56:40.80\00:56:46.36
I HAD JUST CAME BACK FROM A
LIQUOR STORE AND I GRABBED A
00:56:46.36\00:56:49.16
BOTTLE OF VODKA AND THERE I AM,
HIGH OFF COCAINE, WITH MY BIBLE
00:56:49.16\00:56:55.40
IN HAND, TRYING
TO DO A BIBLE STUDY.
00:56:55.40\00:56:58.40
AND I HEARD AN AUDIBLE VOICE,
'JUST LOOK AT YOURSELF.' AND I
00:56:58.40\00:57:05.66
DID AND I WAS
LIKE 'WHAT AM I DOING?'
00:57:05.66\00:57:12.53
AND I GOT ON MY KNEES AND I
SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU DO NOT TAKE
00:57:12.53\00:57:15.43
THIS AWAY FROM ME NOW, I'M GOING
TO KILL MYSELF.' I WAS GOING TO
00:57:15.43\00:57:21.20
CONTINUE THIS LIFESTYLE AND I
WAS GOING TO END UP OVERDOSING,
00:57:21.20\00:57:24.63
HAVING A HEART
ATTACK, WHATEVER IT WAS.
00:57:24.63\00:57:28.16
'YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS AWAY.
ALL OF IT.' AND THAT DAY HE
00:57:28.16\00:57:37.06
LIFTED ALL OF IT AWAY
FROM ME. IT WAS ALL GONE.
00:57:37.06\00:57:41.10
WHEN GOD DOES SOMETHING IN
YOUR LIFE, HE DOES IT COMPLETE.
00:57:41.10\00:57:54.56
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