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>>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL
STUDY HOUR, COMING TO YOU FROM
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THE GRANITE BAY
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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IN ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA.
WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE
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TUNING IN - WHETHER THIS IS YOUR
FIRST TIME OR YOU ARE JUST ONE
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OF OUR DIE-HARD FAMILY MEMBERS
- THAT WE'RE SO EXCITED THAT YOU
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JOIN US EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
IT DOESN'T MATTER; WE'RE JUST
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GLAD THAT YOU ARE JOINING US FOR
ANOTHER LESSON STUDY AS WE OPEN
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UP GOD'S WORD AND
WE STUDY TOGETHER.
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WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING ON
THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR
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WEBSITE, OR ON THE VARIOUS
TELEVISION NETWORKS, WELCOME.
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WE'RE GOING TO SING YOUR
FAVORITES AND WE'RE GOING TO
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START WITH #21 - A WONDERFUL
SONG THAT WE LOVE - IMMORTAL,
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INVISIBLE, GOD ONLY WISE - AND
WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST
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AND FOURTH
STANZAS. #21 - JOIN WITH US.
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IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, GOD
ONLY WISE, IN LIGHT INACCESSIBLE
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HID FROM OUR EYES, MOST BLESSED,
MOST GLORIOUS, THE ANCIENT OF
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DAYS, ALMIGHTY, VICTORIOUS,
THY GREAT NAME WE PRAISE.
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GREAT FATHER OF
GLORY, PURE FATHER OF LIGHT,
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THINE ANGELS ADORE
THEE, ALL VEILING THEIR SIGHT;
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ALL PRAISE WE WOULD
RENDER; O HELP US TO SEE
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'TIS ONLY THE
SPLENDOR OF LIGHT HIDETH THEE!
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>>ANOTHER SONG THAT TIES IN WITH
OUR LESSON STUDY TODAY, WHICH IS
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JESUS, THE MASTER TEACHER ,
IS ANOTHER WONDERFUL SONG, WHICH
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YOU'LL FIND ON #492 - LIKE JESUS
- #492 - AND I HOPE THAT IT IS
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THE PRAYER OF EACH AND EVERY ONE
OF YOU, THAT WE WILL WANT TO BE
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LIKE JESUS NO MATTER WHERE WE
ARE OR WHAT WE'RE DOING, THAT WE
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WILL REMEMBER HE IS ALWAYS WITH
US AND WE WILL ALWAYS WANT TO BE
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LIKE JESUS. FIRST
AND LAST STANZAS - #492.
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>>TEACH, ME, FATHER,
WHAT TO SAY; TEACH ME, FATHER,
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HOW TO PRAY; TEACH ME ALL ALONG
THE WAY HOW TO BE LIKE JESUS.
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I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS, I WOULD
BE LIKE JESUS; HELP ME, LORD TO
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DAILY GROW MORE
AND MORE LIKE JESUS.
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TEACH ME HOW WE MAY BE ONE, LIKE
THE FATHER AND THE SON; AND WHEN
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ALL IS OVERCOME, I
WILL BE LIKE JESUS.
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I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS, I WOULD
BE LIKE JESUS; HELP ME, LORD TO
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DAILY GROW MORE
AND MORE LIKE JESUS.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING
WITH US; AND AT THIS TIME WE'RE
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GOING TO INVITE PASTOR
DOUG BATCHELOR TO COME AND SAY A
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PRAYER FOR US AS
WE BEGIN OUR PROGRAM.
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>>AMEN. THANK YOU
VERY MUCH DEBBIE - OUR
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SINGERS AND MUSICIANS - AND
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING US
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TODAY FOR OUR
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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LET'S BEGIN WITH A WORD
OF PRAYER AND ASK FOR GOD'S
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PRESENCE AND BLESSING.
LOVING LORD, WE ARE SO THANKFUL
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THAT WE CAN HAVE THIS ROCK -
THIS FOUNDATION OF TRUTH - YOUR
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WORD THAT IS SO FREELY AVAILABLE
AND AT OUR FINGERTIPS AND THAT
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WE CAN GATHER TOGETHER WITH
FREEDOM AND TO STUDY THE TRUTH.
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LORD, WE BELIEVE THAT THESE
WORDS ARE MUCH MORE THAN BLACK
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INK ON WHITE PAPER - THAT THEY
ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE LIFE AND
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WE PRAY THAT AS WE STUDY
THEM, THAT WE'LL FEEL THE POWER
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CHANGING US. HELP US
TO PUT INTO PRACTICE THE
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THINGS WE LEARN. BLESS US.
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BE WITH ME AS I SHARE AND TEACH
AND I PRAY YOU'LL QUICKEN MY
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MIND TO REMEMBER THINGS STUDIED
BEFORE AND THAT WE'LL ALL BE
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DRAWN CLOSER TO YOU. WE
PRAY IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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ONCE AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK
OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE JOINING US
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FOR OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
STUDY HOUR. WE WELCOME YOU;
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WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE STUDYING WITH
US. IN A MOMENT WE'LL GET TO
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OUR STUDY FROM THE BOOK OF
LUKE. WE HAVE A FREE OFFER.
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EACH WEEK WE LIKE TO MAKE
SOMETHING AVAILABLE AND TODAY IT
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IS A STUDY GUIDE CALLED RESCUE
FROM ABOVE - THIS IS PART OF THE
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CLASSIC AMAZING
FACTS BIBLE STUDY SERIES.
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RESCUE FROM ABOVE - TALKING
ABOUT THE PLAN OF SALVATION
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BECAUSE THAT IS A LOT OF
OUR FOCUS IN OUR LESSON TODAY.
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AND IF YOU WANT A FREE
HARD COPY, JUST CALL THE NUMBER
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YOU CAN TAKE THE STUDY GUIDE
- READ IT - OR EVEN FILL IT OUT
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THERE ONLINE. SO MUCH
IS DONE ON THE INTERNET.
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OUR LESSON TODAY IS LESSON
#9 FROM OUR STUDY GUIDE DEALING
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WITH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE.
AND I'M HOPING THAT WHEN WE GET
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DONE WITH THIS 13-WEEK STUDY,
ALL OF YOU WILL HAVE AT LEAST
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READ THROUGH THE BOOK OF LUKE.
AND I THINK I MENTIONED BEFORE,
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IT IS MY
FAVORITE OF THE GOSPELS.
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I JUST LOVE THE BOOK OF LUKE.
THERE ARE SO MANY PARABLES AND
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STORIES YOU ONLY FIND IN LUKE.
LUKE INTERVIEWED A NUMBER OF
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PEOPLE IN WRITING HIS
GOSPEL STORY THAT WERE SOMETIMES
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NEGLECTED BY WHAT YOU FIND
IN MATTHEW, MARK, AND JOHN.
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AND TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE
TALKING ABOUT JESUS THE MASTER
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TEACHER AND WE HAVE A MEMORY
VERSE AND I HOPE YOU'LL SAY THIS
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OUT LOUD WITH ME - IT'S LUKE
4:32 FROM THE NEW KING JAMES
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VERSION - LUKE
4:32 - ARE YOU READY?
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"AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT
HIS TEACHING, FOR HIS WORD WAS
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WITH AUTHORITY." YOU
THINK, 'WHY WOULD THAT BE SO
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ASTONISHING?
DIDN'T ALL THE RABBIS AND
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TEACHERS TEACH WITH
AUTHORITY?' NOT REALLY.
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WHEN THEY WOULD TEACH THEY'D
OFTEN SAY, 'WELL, THIS PASSAGE
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OF SCRIPTURE COULD MEAN THIS'
AND 'THIS COULD MEAN THAT' AND
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'RABBI SO AND SO SAYS IT
REALLY HAS THIS MEANING' AND
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'ANOTHER RABBI SAYS IT HAS THAT
MEANING. IT USED TO MEAN THIS
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BUT NOW IT MEANS THAT IN OUR
CULTURE, TODAY.' AND THEY HAD
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JUST ALL THESE DIFFERENT WAYS
AND IT'S LIKE NOBODY COULD KNOW
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FOR SURE WHAT THE TRUTH WAS.
BUT THAT WASN'T HOW JESUS TAUGHT
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AND SO THAT'S ACTUALLY OUR FIRST
SECTION THAT WE'RE GOING TO
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ADDRESS AND THAT'S
THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS .
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NOW THERE'S SOME VERSES WE'RE
GOING TO LOOK AT THAT ARE GOING
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TO BEAR THIS OUT AND, TO BEGIN
WITH, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE
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STORY - WE'RE IN LUKE CHAPTER 8,
VERSE 22 - JESUS STEALS - STILLS
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THE STORM - LUKE 8:22 - "NOW IT
HAPPENED, ON A CERTAIN DAY, THAT
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HE GOT INTO A BOAT
WITH HIS DISCIPLES.
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AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'LET US
CROSS OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF
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THE LAKE.' AND
THEY LAUNCHED OUT.
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BUT AS THEY SAILED HE FELL
ASLEEP." - HARD DAY OF STUDY AND
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TEACHING - "AND A WINDSTORM CAME
DOWN ON THE LAKE, AND THEY WERE
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FILLING WITH WATER,
AND WERE IN JEOPARDY.
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AND THEY CAME TO HIM AND AWOKE
HIM SAYING, 'MASTER, MASTER, WE
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ARE PERISHING!'" - I
LIKE THE WAY IT'S ALSO
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WORDED IN ONE GOSPEL, IT SAYS,
'MASTER, CAREST THOU NOT THAT WE
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ARE PERISHING?' - THINK
ABOUT THAT: GOD SO LOVED
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THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS SON THAT
WE SHOULDN'T PERISH, THAT THEY
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SHOULD WAKE UP JESUS AND
SAY, 'DON'T YOU CARE THAT WE'RE
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PERISHING?' HE COULD
HAVE SAID, 'YEAH, I CARE.
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I'M GOING TO DIE FOR YOU GUYS SO
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PERISH.' SO HE
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DID DEFINITELY CARE ABOUT THEIR
PERISHING AND HE WOKE UP AND HE
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CALMED THE SEA - "THEN HE AROSE
AND REBUKED THE WIND AND THE
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RAGING OF THE WATER." -
YOU READ IN THE OTHER VERSIONS
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IT SAYS, 'HE SAID, 'PEACE BE
STILL.'' AND THAT WOULD REALLY
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BE BECAUSE YOU'RE
READING IT IN GREEK.
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IN HEBREW THE WORD IS 'SHALOM.'
YOU KNOW THAT ONE WORD 'SHALOM'
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IS A GREETING, IT'S A FAREWELL,
IT'S A BLESSING - ANY OF YOU
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BEEN TO HAWAII? YOU
KNOW THEY USE THE WORD
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'ALOHA' FOR ABOUT EVERYTHING
- AND IN HEBREW, 'SHALOM' WAS A
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WORD THAT MEANT MANY THINGS.
AND JESUS PROBABLY JUST SAID ONE
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WORD IN HEBREW; HE JUST SAID,
'SHALOM' - PEACE BE STILL AND
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ALL OF A SUDDEN, AT HIS WORD,
THESE RAGING ELEMENTS FLATTENED
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OUT AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES
SAW THAT, THEY WERE TERRIFIED.
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NOW JUST GET THE
PICTURE, THESE ARE FISHERMEN.
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THEY HAVE SPENT A
LOT OF TIME ON THE SEA.
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WHEN YOU SEE THE SEA OF
GALILEE, IT'S NOT THAT BIG.
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YOU KNOW, YOU SAY THE WORD
'SEA' - SOME OF OUR GREAT LAKES
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ARE BIGGER THAN
THE SEA OF GALILEE.
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YOU CAN SEE ACROSS IT
EASILY ON A CLEAR DAY.
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BUT YOU GET OUT IN THE MIDDLE
OF IT AND - BECAUSE THE JORDAN
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VALLEY IS ONE OF THE MOST
INTERESTING PIECES OF GEOGRAPHY
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ON THE PLANET, THE LOWEST POINT
ON EARTH IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE
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JORDAN VALLEY, THAT'S THE DEAD
SEA AND THEN IT GOES UP TO THE
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MOUNTAINS OF LEBANON, WHICH ARE
WAY ABOVE - THEY'RE THOUSANDS OF
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FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL AND THERE'S
SUCH A RADICAL SHIFT THAT THERE
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ARE CONVECTIONS OF AIR AND LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEMS THAT DEVELOP.
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IT DEVELOPS ITS OWN WEATHER
VERY QUICKLY AND IT MIGHT BE
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GLASSY CALM AND THEN, ALL OF A
SUDDEN, LATER IN THE DAY, THINGS
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CAN CHANGE - THE WIND CAN COME
SWEEPING DOWN AND IT BEATS UP
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THESE BIG WAVES AND FISHING
BOATS CAN'T HAVE HIGH GUNWALES
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ON THEM OR YOU CAN'T
GET THE FISH AND THE NET IN.
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THEY'RE USUALLY A LITTLE
BIT LOWER AND THE WAVES START
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SWAMPING IT. JESUS
HAS BEEN MINISTERING ALL
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DAY LONG - HE IS EXHAUSTED -
SO MUCH SO HE'S SLEEPING IN THE
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STORM - AND IT'S DARK. HE
PREACHED ALL DAY AND NOW HE'S
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CROSSING OVER. THE
SUN'S GONE DOWN AND THEY'RE
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TRYING TO BAIL THE
BOAT. THEY'RE TRYING TO SAVE
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THEMSELVES AND LIGHTNING FLASHES
AND THEY SEE JESUS IS ASLEEP.
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THEY'VE FORGOTTEN
JESUS WAS WITH THEM.
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SOMETIMES WE TRY TO SAVE
OURSELVES BECAUSE WE FORGET
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JESUS IS WITH US. AND
SO THEY WOKE UP JESUS.
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YOU KNOW HOW YOU WAKE UP JESUS?
SAME WAY THEY DID: YOU PRAY.
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AND THE LORD WILL DO THINGS FOR
US WHEN WE ASK THAT HE OTHERWISE
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WOULD NOT DO. YOU
WONDER WHAT WOULD HAVE
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HAPPENED IF THEY
DIDN'T WAKE HIM UP.
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I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT BOAT
WAS ALREADY UNSINKABLE BECAUSE
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JESUS WAS THE LIFESAVER IN THE
BOAT. AND SO THEY WAKE HIM UP -
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NOW WHO COMMANDED
THEM TO CROSS THE SEA?
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JESUS DID, HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU
TO PASS OVER.' WILL THE LORD GET
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YOU TO THE OTHER SIDE IF
HE TELLS YOU TO DO SOMETHING?
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DOES HE PROMISE THERE
WILL NOT BE A STORM ON THE WAY?
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SO JUST BECAUSE YOU ENCOUNTER
RESISTANCE, DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN
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THAT YOU ARE NOT
DOING GOD'S WILL.
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IN FACT, JESUS ACTUALLY SAYS,
'WOE UNTO YOU WHEN ALL MEN SPEAK
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WELL OF YOU.' IN OTHER WORDS,
IF EVERYTHING'S GOING SMOOTHLY,
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IT'S NOT ALWAYS EVIDENCE THAT
YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
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JESUS SAID IF YOU ARE DOING THE
RIGHT THING, YOU WILL MEET WITH
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RESISTANCE - YOU'LL
MEET WITH PERSECUTION.
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AND SO DON'T LET
THAT SURPRISE YOU.
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HE SAYS, 'PEACE, BE STILL.'
AND THEN HE SAYS, 'WHERE IS YOUR
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FAITH?' NOW AFTER
HE CALMS THE SEA -
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WERE THEY FRIGHTENED? WERE
THE DISCIPLES SCARED DURING
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THE STORM? YEAH -
'WE'RE PERISHING' - THEY
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THOUGHT THEY WERE
DYING. THEY WERE FRIGHTENED.
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AFTER HE CALMS THE STORM, ARE
THEY NOW CALM? NO, IT SAYS THEY
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WERE EXCEEDINGLY AFRAID.
NOW THEY'RE EVEN MORE AFRAID,
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YOU KNOW WHY? THEY
SAID, 'WHO IS THIS MAN?
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WITH AUTHORITY HE COMMANDS
THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE AND THEY
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OBEY.' SO HOW MUCH
AUTHORITY DID JESUS HAVE?
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DID HE HAVE JUST AUTHORITY OVER
HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, 'GO HERE.
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GO THERE. PREACH THIS.
PREACH THAT.' OR DID HE HAVE
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AUTHORITY OVER THE
VERY LAWS OF NATURE?
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I MEAN, WHEN SOMEONE CAN MAKE
THE WIND BLOW AND THEN SPEAK AND
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THE WIND STOPS; WHEN SOMEONE
CAN MAKE THE WAVES RISE AND THEY
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SPEAK AND THEY GET GLASSY CALM,
YOU'VE JUST GOT - ALL OF YOUR
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SENSES ARE TELLING YOU THAT
THESE RAGING ELEMENTS - YOU'VE
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GOT CLOUDS AND WIND AND
LIGHTNING AND WAVES AND - HE
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SPEAKS ONE WORD - ALL OF A
SUDDEN CLOUDS PART - MOON IS UP
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THERE - CLEAR SKY - GLASSY WAVES
- NO WIND - PERFECTLY STILL -
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THEY'RE AFRAID BECAUSE THEY
RECOGNIZE HIS WORD HAS CREATIVE
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AUTHORITY. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT.
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE YOU
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READ FOR US LUKE
19, VERSES 45 AND 46.
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>>THEN HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE
AND BEGAN TO DRIVE OUT THOSE WHO
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BOUGHT AND SOLD IN IT, SAYING TO
THEM, 'IT IS WRITTEN, 'MY HOUSE
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IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER,'
BUT YOU HAVE MADE IT A 'DEN OF
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THIEVES.''" >>HERE'S ANOTHER
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EXAMPLE OF HIS AUTHORITY:
WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE TEMPLE?
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LEVITES - SONS OF
AARON - TEMPLE GUARDS.
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HERE COMES THIS RABBI FROM
NAZARETH - HE WALKS IN, HIS EYES
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FLASH - HE TAKES SOME OF THE
CORDS THEY USED FOR TYING OFF
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THE SHEEP, AND HE TAKES A
HANDFUL OF THOSE SO IT LOOKS
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LIKE A CAT-O-NINE TAILS -
HE'S GOT THIS WHIP IN HIS HAND.
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IT NEVER SAYS
HE WHIPPED ANYBODY.
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IT NEVER SAYS HE YELLED.
I MEAN, JESUS DIDN'T START
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SCREAMING WITH A HOARSE
VOICE AND HAVE A TANTRUM.
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I THINK HIS VOICE HAD JUST
SO MUCH AUTHORITY TO IT THAT HE
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SAID, 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE IS
TO BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER AND YOU
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HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES' -
AND JUST THE CONVICTION OF WHAT
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HE SAID - THEY WERE SO
AFRAID THEY DIDN'T ARGUE.
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HE TURNS OVER THE TABLES.
THE GUARDS DON'T ARREST HIM.
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THE LEVITES DON'T CONFRONT
HIM. THE PRIESTS DON'T STOP HIM.
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AND IT'S LIKE THEY SUDDENLY,
INHERENTLY KNOW HE IS THE ONE
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THAT CALLS THE SHOTS.
JESUS - HAVE YOU EVER MET A
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PERSON - THEY HAVEN'T SPOKEN.
YOU'VE NEVER MET THEM BEFORE.
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YOU CAN LOOK AT THEM AND THEY
HAVE A BEARING OF CONFIDENCE AND
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AUTHORITY. HAVE YOU
EVER MET PEOPLE LIKE THAT?
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THEY JUST CARRY IT WITH
THEM AND, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:16:33.96\00:16:38.03
IT DOESN'T ALWAYS MATTER
HOW TALL OR SHORT THEY ARE; HOW
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YOUNG OR OLD THEY ARE; THERE ARE
SOME PEOPLE THAT YOU JUST LOOK
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AT THEM AND YOU CAN
SAY, 'THAT'S A LEADER.'
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THIS PERSON HAS THAT
BEARING OF AUTHORITY.
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AND JESUS, WHEN HE WENT IN
THERE, AND HIS CONNECTION WITH
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THE FATHER AND THE SPIRIT - I
THINK THAT IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF
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AGES IT SAYS, "DIVINITY FLASHED
THROUGH HUMANITY" WHEN HE SAID
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THAT AND PEOPLE WERE TERRIFIED.
IT'S LIKE IT WAS THE JUDGMENT
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DAY WHEN HE SAID THIS TO
THEM. THEY WERE FRIGHTENED.
00:17:04.96\00:17:08.50
THEY WENT SCRAMBLING OUT OF
THERE. AND THEN THE CHILDREN -
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BUT THEY WEREN'T AFRAID.
THEY STAYED AND THEY SANG.
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NOW THE DEFINITION FOR AUTHORITY
- AND THIS IS JUST YOUR, YOU
00:17:13.90\00:17:18.33
KNOW, ONLINE MERRIAM WEBSTER
DEFINITION - IT SAYS, "THE POWER
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OR RIGHT TO GIVE ORDERS; TO MAKE
DECISIONS; TO ENFORCE OBEDIENCE"
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- SOME SYNONYMS WOULD BE 'POWER;
JURISDICTION; COMMAND; CONTROL;
00:17:27.33\00:17:32.03
CHARGE; DOMINANCE;
RULE; SOVEREIGNTY; SUPREMACY;
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INFLUENCE; AND CLOUT."
EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY,
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'THEY'VE GOT CLOUT'?
THEY'VE GOT AUTHORITY
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IS WHAT THAT
MEANS. JESUS HAD THAT.
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HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE
OF THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS.
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YOU LOOK IN LUKE CHAPTER 4
- LUKE 4, VERSE 40 - VERSES 31
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THROUGH 36 IS WHERE
HE CASTS OUT DEVILS.
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"THEN HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM,
A CITY OF GALILEE," - THIS IS
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WHERE PETER LIVED - "AND WAS
TEACHING THEM ON THE SABBATHS.
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AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS
TEACHING, FOR HIS WORD WAS WITH
00:18:02.36\00:18:05.96
AUTHORITY. NOW IN
THE SYNAGOGUE THERE WAS A
00:18:05.96\00:18:10.06
MAN WHO HAD A
SPIRIT OF AN UNCLEAN DEMON.
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AND HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD
VOICE, SAYING, 'LET US ALONE!
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WHAT HAVE WE TO DO
WITH YOU, JESUS OF NAZARETH?
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DID YOU COME TO DESTROY US?
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I KNOW WHO YOU ARE -
THE HOLY ONE OF GOD!'
00:18:20.03\00:18:22.23
BUT JESUS REBUKED HIM, SAYING,
'BE QUIET, AND COME OUT OF HIM!'
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AND WHEN THE DEMON HAD THROWN
HIM IN THEIR MIDST," - A DEMON
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ACTUALLY FELL AND CONVULSED -
"IT CAME OUT OF HIM AND DID NOT
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HURT HIM. THEN
THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND
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SPOKE AMONG THEMSELVES,
SAYING, 'WHAT A WORD THIS IS!
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FOR WITH AUTHORITY AND POWER
HE COMMANDS THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS,
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AND THEY COME OUT.'" NOW DOES
JESUS STILL HAVE THAT AUTHORITY?
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DOES A PERSON NEED TO RANT AND
RAGE IN CHURCH, IN ORDER TO HAVE
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AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT? OR
ARE THERE SOME PEOPLE THAT
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MAY LOOK VERY COMPOSED
AND SOPHISTICATED BUT THEY'RE
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HARASSED BY THE DEVIL? CAN
THE WORD OF JESUS STILL SET
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PEOPLE FREE FROM
DEMONIC POSSESSION AND DEMONIC -
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CERTAINLY, IF HE CAN CAST
THOUSANDS OF DEVILS OUT OF THE
00:19:09.23\00:19:12.83
MAN AT GALILEE - THAT DEMONIAC
- HE CAN CAST OUT TEN OR ONE.
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IF HE CAN DEAL WITH DEMONIC
POSSESSION, JESUS CAN DEAL WITH
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DEMONIC HARASSMENT. DO
YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?
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EVERYBODY IS DEMON HARASSED.
THAT'S CALLED TEMPTATION.
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YOU EVER BEEN
HARASSED BY THE DEVIL?
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HE'S GIVING YOU A HARD TIME -
MAKING YOU WANT TO THINK OR SAY
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OR DO THINGS YOU KNOW YOU
SHOULDN'T THINK OR SAY OR DO?
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EVERYBODY HAS THAT.
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IF THE DEVIL - IF JESUS HAS THE
AUTHORITY, THROUGH HIS WORD, TO
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CAST DEVILS OUT - THAT'S DEMON
POSSESSION - HE CAN SET PEOPLE
00:19:42.20\00:19:46.53
FREE WHO ARE
JUST DEVIL HARASSED.
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RESIST THE DEVIL
AND HE WILL - >>FLEE.
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>>FLEE FROM YOU. HOW
DID JESUS RESIST THE DEVIL?
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THE WORD. WHERE DO
WE HAVE OUR AUTHORITY?
00:19:54.40\00:19:57.50
IT'S THE WORD.
IS THIS AUTHORITY?
00:19:57.50\00:20:01.50
ISN'T THIS THE
AUTHORITY JESUS USED?
00:20:01.50\00:20:03.93
DO WE STILL HAVE THAT AUTHORITY?
00:20:03.93\00:20:06.36
WHAT DID JESUS SAY
BEFORE HE WENT TO HEAVEN?
00:20:06.36\00:20:08.63
'ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND
EARTH HAS BEEN GIVEN UNTO ME.
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GO YE, THEREFORE.' AND WHAT
WAS HIS AUTHORITY? HIS WORD.
00:20:11.33\00:20:15.76
ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL, WHEN YOU
THINK ABOUT IT? THERE'S PROMISES
00:20:15.76\00:20:19.56
IN GOD'S WORD. THERE'S AUTHORITY
IN GOD'S WORD. YOU KNOW, WHEN I
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DO EVANGELISM, I THINK IT'S VERY
IMPORTANT FOR AN EVANGELIST TO
00:20:24.20\00:20:29.96
SPEAK WITH CONFIDENCE,
CONVICTION, AND AUTHORITY.
00:20:29.96\00:20:35.13
YOU DON'T WIN SOULS TO JESUS
IF YOU SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, IT
00:20:35.13\00:20:40.16
COULD MEAN THIS' AND 'IT COULD
MEAN THAT' AND 'THIS COULD BE
00:20:40.16\00:20:42.33
RIGHT' AND 'THIS COULD BE WRONG'
AND 'WE'RE NOT REALLY SURE' AND
00:20:42.33\00:20:44.46
'THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE BUT
OTHERS BELIEVE DIFFERENTLY' AND
00:20:44.46\00:20:46.36
- YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
GET ANYWHERE WITH THAT.
00:20:46.36\00:20:48.86
JOHN THE BAPTIST, WHEN HE
PREACHED, HE SAID, 'REPENT!
00:20:48.86\00:20:51.33
TURN FROM YOUR WAYS.
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
00:20:51.33\00:20:54.26
YOU'LL BE FORGIVEN.
00:20:54.26\00:20:55.60
CHANGE YOUR' - THERE NEEDS TO BE
SOME AUTHORITY IN WHAT IS SAID.
00:20:55.60\00:20:57.60
I THINK IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER
IN THE WORD OF GOD, DON'T BE
00:20:57.60\00:21:02.60
APOLOGETIC ABOUT
WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
00:21:02.60\00:21:04.66
YOU'RE BETTER TO BE CONFIDENT
AND MAYBE BE A LITTLE WRONG,
00:21:04.66\00:21:08.16
THAN TO BE WISHY
WASHY ABOUT EVERYTHING.
00:21:08.16\00:21:11.36
BUT JESUS TAUGHT AS ONE THAT
HAD AUTHORITY AND WE JUST TALKED
00:21:11.36\00:21:14.80
ABOUT THAT A SECOND
AGO. THEY WERE AMAZED AT HIS
00:21:14.80\00:21:17.03
AUTHORITY. HERE'S
ANOTHER EXAMPLE: YOU GO
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TO LUKE 7 - YOU KNOW
THE STORY OF THE CENTURION?
00:21:20.26\00:21:22.63
THIS IS A GREAT STUDY
ON BIBLICAL AUTHORITY.
00:21:22.63\00:21:24.60
LUKE CHAPTER 7, VERSE 7 -
THERE'S THIS CENTURION, HIS
00:21:24.60\00:21:30.43
SERVANT IS SICK, AND HE SENDS
MESSENGERS TO JESUS AND SAYS,
00:21:30.43\00:21:34.60
'YOU KNOW, IF YOU COULD HEAL MY
SERVANT I'D BE REALLY GRATEFUL.'
00:21:34.60\00:21:37.40
WELL, HE THOUGHT JESUS WAS JUST
GOING TO SAY, 'OKAY, BE HEALED'
00:21:37.40\00:21:40.63
AND HE'D BE HEALED. BUT
JESUS BEGINS TO GO TO THE
00:21:40.63\00:21:43.73
MAN'S HOUSE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT
HE HAD DONE FOR EVERYBODY ELSE.
00:21:43.73\00:21:46.23
HE ACTUALLY GOES AND HE TOUCHES
THEM OR SAYS A WORD AND THE
00:21:46.23\00:21:48.30
CENTURION, HE'S MORTIFIED, HE
SAYS, 'I'M NOT WORTHY THAT YOU
00:21:48.30\00:21:51.76
SHOULD COME TO ME.' AND YOU CAN
READ HERE IN VERSE 7 - LUKE 7:7,
00:21:51.76\00:21:56.76
"THEREFORE I DID NOT EVEN THINK
MYSELF WORTHY TO COME TO YOU."
00:21:56.76\00:22:00.16
- I SENT MESSENGERS - "BUT SAY
THE WORD, AND MY SERVANT WILL BE
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HEALED. FOR I ALSO
AM A MAN PLACED UNDER
00:22:03.70\00:22:07.40
AUTHORITY," - I'M A SOLDIER,
WE UNDERSTAND AUTHORITY - WE
00:22:07.40\00:22:09.83
UNDERSTAND RANK -
"HAVING SOLDIERS UNDER ME.
00:22:09.83\00:22:11.76
AND I SAY TO ONE, 'GO,' AND
HE GOES; AND TO ANOTHER, 'COME,'
00:22:11.76\00:22:14.40
AND HE COMES; AND TO MY SERVANT,
'DO THIS,' AND HE DOES IT.'" -
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'I TAKE ORDERS OF THOSE
ABOVE ME. I GIVE ORDERS TO THOSE
00:22:16.76\00:22:19.43
BELOW ME. YOU'RE
THE GOD OF HEAVEN.
00:22:19.43\00:22:22.50
GIVE THE ORDER. YOU
DON'T EVEN HAVE TO COME.
00:22:22.50\00:22:25.03
SEND YOUR ANGELS WITH AN
ORDER TO TELL MY SERVANT TO BE
00:22:25.03\00:22:27.80
HEALED.' AND JESUS
STOPS IN HIS TRACKS.
00:22:27.80\00:22:31.83
YOU KNOW THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE
OF TIMES THAT CHRIST ACTUALLY
00:22:31.83\00:22:35.70
COMMENDS A PERSON FOR FAITH.
MOST OF THE TIME WHEN JESUS
00:22:35.70\00:22:39.26
TALKS ABOUT FAITH, HE SAYS,
'O YE OF LITTLE FAITH.' WHEN THE
00:22:39.26\00:22:43.60
DISCIPLES PANICKED IN THE
BOAT, WHAT DID HE SAY TO THEM?
00:22:43.60\00:22:47.03
'O, GREAT FAITH!' - NO.
00:22:47.03\00:22:48.83
HE SAYS TO THE APOSTLES OVER
AND OVER, 'WHERE IS YOUR FAITH?
00:22:48.83\00:22:50.96
O YE OF LITTLE FAITH.' BUT THE
GENTILES, ON AT LEAST A COUPLE
00:22:50.96\00:22:56.23
OF OCCASIONS, HE
COMMENDS THE FAITH OF GENTILES.
00:22:56.23\00:23:00.33
YOU REMEMBER THAT WOMAN WHO
HAD A DEMON-POSSESSED DAUGHTER?
00:23:00.33\00:23:03.16
AND SHE SAYS, 'PLEASE HEAL
MY DAUGHTER.' AND CHRIST SAID,
00:23:03.16\00:23:06.26
'LOOK, I'M SENT TO THE LOST
SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,
00:23:06.26\00:23:08.06
IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE TO TAKE THE
CHILDREN'S FOOD AND GIVE IT TO
00:23:08.06\00:23:10.83
THE DOGS.' - HE SAID THAT
BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THE GENTILES
00:23:10.83\00:23:13.90
WERE REFERRED
TO BY THE APOSTLES.
00:23:13.90\00:23:16.93
SHE SAID, 'OH, YEAH, BUT EVEN
THE DOGS GET THE CRUMBS.' AND
00:23:16.93\00:23:19.96
JESUS SAYS, 'GREAT IS YOUR
FAITH.' AND IT'S INTERESTING,
00:23:19.96\00:23:25.46
THE ONES WHO WERE COMMENDED
FOR FAITH WERE THE GENTILES.
00:23:25.46\00:23:28.33
SO HE SAYS, 'GREAT IS
YOUR FAITH.' AND HE DOES IT.
00:23:28.33\00:23:32.83
HE HEALS THE
CENTURION'S SERVANT.
00:23:32.83\00:23:35.96
HE UNDERSTANDS THE
AUTHORITY OF JESUS.
00:23:35.96\00:23:38.46
DO YOU BELIEVE IN HIS AUTHORITY?
THE AUTHORITY OF HIS WORD THAT
00:23:38.46\00:23:42.40
HE CAN ANSWER YOUR
PRAYERS? HE CAN DO IT INSTANTLY.
00:23:42.40\00:23:45.46
ALRIGHT, LET'S LOOK AT
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS.
00:23:45.46\00:23:48.86
YOU GO TO LUKE
CHAPTER 5, VERSE 24.
00:23:48.86\00:23:53.43
I'M KIND OF BOUNCING AROUND IN
LUKE, BUT THE LESSON DOES ALSO.
00:23:53.43\00:23:56.86
STILL TALKING ABOUT AUTHORITY,
THE MAN IS LET DOWN THROUGH THE
00:23:56.86\00:24:01.90
ROOF - HE'S PARALYZED.
00:24:01.90\00:24:03.66
HE LOOKS LIKE HIS PRIMARY
CONCERN IS THAT HE WANTS TO BE
00:24:03.66\00:24:08.23
HEALED, BUT JESUS DEALS
WITH HIS MOST IMPORTANT CONCERN.
00:24:08.23\00:24:11.33
AND HE SAYS, IN THE PRESENCE
OF ALL THAT ARE LISTENING AND
00:24:11.33\00:24:14.90
THERE'S SOME APOSTLES
THERE, THERE'S SOME SCRIBES AND
00:24:14.90\00:24:17.33
PHARISEES THERE - HE SAID, "'BUT
THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE SON
00:24:17.33\00:24:20.23
OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO
FORGIVE SINS' - HE SAID TO THE
00:24:20.23\00:24:23.50
MAN WHO WAS PARALYZED, 'I SAY
TO YOU, ARISE, TAKE UP YOUR BED,
00:24:23.50\00:24:27.60
AND GO TO YOUR HOUSE.'
IMMEDIATELY HE ROSE UP BEFORE
00:24:27.60\00:24:30.36
THEM, TOOK UP WHAT HE HAD BEEN
LYING ON, AND DEPARTED TO HIS
00:24:30.36\00:24:33.30
OWN HOUSE, GLORIFYING GOD.
AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED, AND
00:24:33.30\00:24:36.30
THEY GLORIFIED GOD AND
WERE FILLED WITH FEAR, SAYING,
00:24:36.30\00:24:38.96
'WE HAVE SEEN
STRANGE THINGS TODAY!'"
00:24:38.96\00:24:40.76
THEN, THEY WERE SURPRISED THAT
HE WOULD TAKE THE AUDACITY TO
00:24:40.76\00:24:47.23
SAY 'YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN.'
DOES JESUS HAVE AUTHORITY TO
00:24:47.23\00:24:50.60
FORGIVE SINS? HE NOT
ONLY HAS AUTHORITY TO
00:24:50.60\00:24:54.03
SAVE FROM SIN, HE FORGIVES PAST
SIN, HE FORGIVES THE POWER OF
00:24:54.03\00:24:59.30
SIN IN THE PRESENT, AND HE
CAN DELIVER YOU FROM SIN IN THE
00:24:59.30\00:25:04.30
FUTURE. AND SO HE
HAS THAT AUTHORITY.
00:25:04.30\00:25:07.63
NOW THAT - THEY REALLY
HAD A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
00:25:07.63\00:25:09.86
JESUS, SEVERAL TIMES, DID THINGS
AND SAID THINGS THAT MADE IT
00:25:09.86\00:25:13.86
CLEAR THAT HE HAD POWER TO
FORGIVE SIN AND THE BIBLE SAYS
00:25:13.86\00:25:19.73
GOD AND GOD
ONLY CAN FORGIVE SIN.
00:25:19.73\00:25:21.80
AND SO JESUS WAS SAYING, 'I HAVE
THAT AUTHORITY TO FORGIVE SIN.'
00:25:21.80\00:25:27.26
AND SO THAT REALLY
SHOCKED THEM THAT HE SAID THIS.
00:25:27.26\00:25:30.10
YOU CAN LOOK ALSO IN LUKE 12
- WE'RE - JUST A COUPLE MORE ON
00:25:30.10\00:25:33.46
AUTHORITY THEN WE'LL MOVE ALONG.
LUKE 12, VERSE 8 - JESUS SAID,
00:25:33.46\00:25:38.53
"ALSO I SAY TO YOU, WHO
CONFESSES ME - WHOEVER CONFESSES
00:25:38.53\00:25:41.30
ME BEFORE MEN, HIM THE SON OF
MAN ALSO WILL CONFESS BEFORE THE
00:25:41.30\00:25:44.63
ANGELS OF GOD. BUT HE
WHO DENIES ME BEFORE MEN
00:25:44.63\00:25:47.46
WILL BE DENIED
BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD."
00:25:47.46\00:25:51.43
JESUS WAS SAYING, 'LOOK, MY NAME
HAS POWER IN HEAVEN.' - HOW MANY
00:25:51.43\00:25:57.06
OF YOU REMEMBER
THE STORY OF JOB?
00:25:57.06\00:25:59.16
WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO
PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE
00:25:59.16\00:26:04.00
LORD AND SATAN CAME ALSO,
AND THE LORD SAID TO THE DEVIL,
00:26:04.00\00:26:08.56
'WHERE DID YOU COME
FROM?' WHO IS THAT SPEAKING,
00:26:08.56\00:26:11.80
GOD THE FATHER OR THE SON?
00:26:11.80\00:26:13.53
I THINK THAT WAS JESUS AND JESUS
IS SAYING, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED
00:26:13.53\00:26:21.96
MY SERVANT JOB, THAT
THERE'S NONE LIKE HIM?
00:26:21.96\00:26:24.33
THE DEVIL IS SAYING,
'I REPRESENT THE EARTH.
00:26:24.33\00:26:26.13
THE EARTH IS MY DOMAIN.' - SEE,
EVEN JESUS - JESUS EVEN SAID
00:26:26.13\00:26:29.06
SATAN IS THE PRINCE OF
THIS WORLD, DIDN'T HE? HE SAID,
00:26:29.06\00:26:33.23
'THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD
COMES AND HAS NOTHING IN ME.'
00:26:33.23\00:26:36.90
BUT JESUS WAS LETTING THE DEVIL
KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE COMPLETE
00:26:36.90\00:26:40.60
DOMINION. HAVE YOU
CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB?'
00:26:40.60\00:26:42.86
SO WHEN CHRIST SAID, 'WHOEVER
CONFESSES ME BEFORE MEN IN THIS
00:26:42.86\00:26:46.33
WORLD, I WILL CONFESS HIM BEFORE
MY FATHER AND THE ANGELS OF
00:26:46.33\00:26:49.03
HEAVEN.' DO YOU HAVE AN
EXAMPLE OF THAT IN THE BIBLE?
00:26:49.03\00:26:51.36
HE IS CONFESSING THE
NAME OF JOB IN HEAVEN.
00:26:51.36\00:26:54.03
AND SO WHEN YOU STAND UP FOR
GOD HERE ON EARTH AND YOU THINK
00:26:54.03\00:26:58.30
NOBODY'S NOTICING, THERE'S A
WHOLE STADIUM FILLED WITH ANGELS
00:26:58.30\00:27:02.06
AND GOD AND UNFALLEN BEINGS
THAT SEE THE BATTLES WE'RE GOING
00:27:02.06\00:27:06.06
THROUGH. AND WHEN
YOU THINK 'NOBODY CARES
00:27:06.06\00:27:08.26
THAT I'M BEING FAITHFUL.'
OH, YOU'D BE SURPRISED.
00:27:08.26\00:27:11.13
THERE'S A GREAT CONTROVERSY.
THERE'S UNTOLD MILLIONS - WE ARE
00:27:11.13\00:27:14.70
A SPECTACLE TO THE UNIVERSE.
JESUS SAID HE WILL CONFESS YOUR
00:27:14.70\00:27:18.03
NAME BEFORE THE UNFALLEN WORLDS,
WHEN WE CONFESS HIS NAME.
00:27:18.03\00:27:22.60
SO WHEN YOU'RE UNDER PRESSURE TO
COMPROMISE YOUR BELIEFS BECAUSE
00:27:22.60\00:27:25.50
OF OUR CULTURE AND OUR WORLD,
AND YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE THE
00:27:25.50\00:27:28.96
ONLY ONE THAT STANDS UP - THAT
YOU'RE OLD FASHIONED - YOU'RE
00:27:28.96\00:27:31.56
STRAIGHT-LACED - YOU'RE CALLED
ALL KINDS OF KOOKY NAMES BECAUSE
00:27:31.56\00:27:35.16
OF YOUR BELIEFS. THE
WORLD MIGHT SAY THAT ABOUT
00:27:35.16\00:27:38.43
YOU BUT HOW DOES HEAVEN SAY -
HOW DOES HEAVEN SPEAK ABOUT YOU?
00:27:38.43\00:27:42.90
DOES THE LORD WANT MORE PEOPLE
LIKE ELIJAH THAT WILL STAND UP
00:27:42.90\00:27:46.63
WHEN EVERYONE ELSE - MORE
PEOPLE LIKE JOHN THE BAPTIST?
00:27:46.63\00:27:50.06
HE SAYS, 'CONFESS ME - I HAVE
AUTHORITY TO CONFESS YOUR NAME
00:27:50.06\00:27:53.83
IN HEAVEN.' AND THEN YOU CAN
READ IN LUKE CHAPTER 6 - WHEN
00:27:53.83\00:27:58.63
YOU DO THE SERMON ON THE
MOUNT THAT YOU FIND IN MATTHEW
00:27:58.63\00:28:02.23
CHAPTERS 5, 6, AND 7, LUKE
COMPRESSES IT ALL INTO PART OF
00:28:02.23\00:28:08.76
JUST CHAPTER 6. IN
LUKE'S VERSION OF JESUS'
00:28:08.76\00:28:13.10
SERMON ON THE MOUNT - THE
GREATEST SERMON - HE'S REALLY
00:28:13.10\00:28:15.93
COVERING SEVEN PRINCIPLE POINTS,
AND IT OUTLINES THEM FOR YOU
00:28:15.93\00:28:20.40
HERE IN THE LESSON. I'M
GOING TO GO OVER THIS VERY
00:28:20.40\00:28:22.90
QUICKLY WITH YOU.
YOU'VE GOT THE CHRISTIAN
00:28:22.90\00:28:25.13
BLESSEDNESS IS ONE. THE
CHRISTIAN REJOICING IN THE
00:28:25.13\00:28:28.63
MIDST OF REJECTION IS ANOTHER.
THE WOES TO GUARD AGAINST IS
00:28:28.63\00:28:32.36
THREE. THE
CHRISTIAN IMPERATIVE - THAT
00:28:32.36\00:28:35.43
GREAT COMMAND - IS FOUR.
THE CHRISTIAN WAY IS FIVE.
00:28:35.43\00:28:39.33
CHRISTIAN FRUIT BEARING IS SIX
AND THE CHRISTIAN BUILDER - THE
00:28:39.33\00:28:43.40
WISE MAN WHO BUILDS
ON THE ROCK - IS SEVEN.
00:28:43.40\00:28:45.73
AND LET'S GO AHEAD AND OPEN
OUR BIBLES QUICKLY AND WE'LL
00:28:45.73\00:28:48.86
HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THESE -
THESE GREAT TEACHINGS OF LUKE -
00:28:48.86\00:28:53.36
TEACHINGS OF JESUS - THAT
YOU FIND IN LUKE CHAPTER 6.
00:28:53.36\00:28:56.50
HE STARTS WITH VERSE 20, "THEN
HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES TOWARD HIS
00:28:56.50\00:29:00.36
DISCIPLES, AND SAID: 'BLESSED
ARE YOU POOR, FOR YOURS IS THE
00:29:00.36\00:29:03.53
KINGDOM OF GOD.'" - NOW, IS
THAT DIFFERENT FROM MATTHEW?
00:29:03.53\00:29:06.46
HOW DOES IT READ IN
MATTHEW - THE BEATITUDES?
00:29:06.46\00:29:10.10
IS JESUS SAYING YOU'RE
BLESSED FOR BEING POOR?
00:29:10.10\00:29:13.46
OR DOES HE SAY 'POOR IN SPIRIT'?
00:29:13.46\00:29:16.53
SO IT SHOWS THERE'S MORE - GOD
IS NOT SAYING, 'I WANT EVERYONE
00:29:16.53\00:29:19.73
TO BE POOR.' BUT LUKE
REALLY IDENTIFIES WITH THE POOR.
00:29:19.73\00:29:24.66
HAVE YOU NOTICED - LIKE IN
THE PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND
00:29:24.66\00:29:26.83
LAZARUS, HE TALKS ABOUT
THIS CERTAIN POOR BEGGAR.
00:29:26.83\00:29:28.66
LUKE OFTEN ACCENTUATES JESUS'
LOVE FOR THE POOR AND SO HE
00:29:28.66\00:29:36.00
HIGHLIGHTS THAT HERE - "BLESSED
ARE YOU POOR FOR YOURS IN THE
00:29:36.00\00:29:39.93
KINGDOM OF GOD.
BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HUNGER NOW,
00:29:39.93\00:29:42.83
FOR YOU SHALL BE FILLED.
BLESSED ARE YOU WHO WEEP NOW,
00:29:42.83\00:29:46.33
FOR YOU SHALL LAUGH.' BLESSED
ARE YOU WHEN MEN HATE YOU, AND
00:29:46.33\00:29:50.36
WHEN THEY EXCLUDE YOU, AND
REVILE YOU, AND CAST OUT YOUR
00:29:50.36\00:29:52.93
NAME AS EVIL, FOR
THE SON OF MAN'S SAKE.
00:29:52.93\00:29:56.13
REJOICE IN THAT
DAY AND LEAP FOR JOY!
00:29:56.13\00:29:58.26
FOR INDEED YOUR REWARD IS GREAT
IN HEAVEN, FOR IN LIKE MANNER
00:29:58.26\00:30:01.73
THEIR FATHERS DID PERSECUTE
THE PROPHETS BEFORE YOU."
00:30:01.73\00:30:04.56
NOW DOES IT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT
'BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS'
00:30:04.56\00:30:08.33
HERE? HOW ABOUT
'BLESSED ARE THE MEEK'?
00:30:08.33\00:30:12.16
SO IF YOU WANT TO - KAREN WAS
READING A BIBLE - I THINK - I
00:30:12.16\00:30:17.73
THINK SHE SAID SHE HAD A BIBLE
WHERE IT TOOK THE FOUR GOSPELS
00:30:17.73\00:30:21.93
AND IT PUT THEM ALL
TOGETHER, CHRONOLOGICALLY.
00:30:21.93\00:30:25.86
THAT'S A GOOD STUDY TOOL.
00:30:25.86\00:30:27.66
I WOULDN'T SAY YOU SHOULD
MAKE IT YOUR REGULAR BIBLE, BUT
00:30:27.66\00:30:30.23
SOMEONE ACTUALLY DID THE
RESEARCH AND THEY OVERLAPPED ALL
00:30:30.23\00:30:33.23
THE TEACHINGS, CHRONOLOGICALLY,
OF MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN,
00:30:33.23\00:30:37.36
AND IT'S REALLY INTERESTING,
YOU GET ALL THOSE TEACHINGS
00:30:37.36\00:30:40.26
OVERLAPPED TOGETHER - THE WAY
WE DO IT NOW IS SORT OF BY CROSS
00:30:40.26\00:30:43.30
REFERENCING. IT
ACTUALLY MAKES THE TEACHINGS
00:30:43.30\00:30:45.63
OF JESUS BROADER WHEN
YOU LOOK AT IT THAT WAY.
00:30:45.63\00:30:49.30
BUT YOU'LL SEE WHAT LUKE
IS DOING IS LUKE IS BASICALLY
00:30:49.30\00:30:51.43
GIVING A CONDENSED VERSION
OF THAT SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
00:30:51.43\00:30:55.43
LUKE THEN SAYS, "BUT
WOE TO YOU WHO ARE RICH,
00:30:55.43\00:30:58.40
FOR YOU HAVE
RECEIVED YOUR CONSOLATION."
00:30:58.40\00:31:00.90
NOW, IS LUKE SAYING THAT
RICHES ARE A CURSE? CAN BE.
00:31:00.90\00:31:08.46
DOESN'T JESUS SAY IT'S HARDER
FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE
00:31:08.46\00:31:10.96
KINGDOM THAN A CAMEL TO GO
THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE?
00:31:10.96\00:31:13.56
I THINK IF PEOPLE ARE
LOOKING FOR EARTHLY RICHES,
00:31:13.56\00:31:17.03
IT CAN BE A WOE IF
THAT'S OUR OBJECTIVE.
00:31:17.03\00:31:21.30
"WOE TO YOU WHO ARE
FULL, FOR YOU SHALL HUNGER."
00:31:21.30\00:31:24.53
- IF - HE'S SAYING IF YOUR GOAL
IN LIFE IS RICHES NOW AND A FULL
00:31:24.53\00:31:28.83
STOMACH NOW AND YOU DON'T HAVE
A GREATER PURPOSE THAN HAPPINESS
00:31:28.83\00:31:33.60
AND SATISFACTION NOW,
YOU'RE GOING TO MISS EVERYTHING.
00:31:33.60\00:31:36.76
HE'S SAYING, 'REALLY, YOU SHOULD
BE THINKING AHEAD TO THE KINGDOM
00:31:36.76\00:31:40.66
TO COME.' AND THEN HE MAKES
THOSE STATEMENTS - VERSE 27,
00:31:40.66\00:31:44.03
"BUT I SAY TO YOU WHO HEAR:
'LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD TO
00:31:44.03\00:31:50.40
THOSE WHO HATE YOU, BLESS THOSE
WHO CURSE YOU, AND PRAY FOR
00:31:50.40\00:31:53.96
THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU.
TO HIM WHO STRIKES YOU ON THE
00:31:53.96\00:31:58.40
ONE CHEEK, OFFER THE OTHER ALSO.
AND FROM HIM WHO TAKES AWAY YOUR
00:31:58.40\00:32:00.83
CLOAK, DO NOT
WITHHOLD YOUR TUNIC EITHER.
00:32:00.83\00:32:03.90
GIVE TO EVERYONE
WHO ASKS OF YOU."
00:32:03.90\00:32:06.36
- THAT'S TOUGH TO LIVE UP TO
- GIVE TO EVERYONE WHO ASKS OF
00:32:06.36\00:32:10.30
YOU. IS THERE A LIMIT?
00:32:10.30\00:32:13.16
IF YOU KNOW THAT PEOPLE IN
CHURCH JUST READ THAT VERSE AND
00:32:13.16\00:32:16.73
THEY'RE PRETTY WELL SET, YOU
CAN GO TO THEM AND SAY, 'COULD
00:32:16.73\00:32:21.60
I HAVE TEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS, PLEASE?'
00:32:21.60\00:32:23.83
IT SAYS RIGHT HERE, 'GIVE TO HIM
THAT ASKS OF YOU.' HE'S SPEAKING
00:32:23.83\00:32:32.66
IN GENERAL TERMS,
RIGHT? WE SHOULD BE GENEROUS.
00:32:32.66\00:32:36.66
WE SHOULD KNOW HOW TO FORGIVE.
00:32:36.66\00:32:37.96
I MEAN, IF SOMEBODY COMES AND
SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M GOING TO TAKE
00:32:37.96\00:32:40.13
AWAY YOUR CLOAK AND I WANT YOU
TO GIVE ME YOUR SWEATER, AND I
00:32:40.13\00:32:42.56
WANT YOUR TEMPURPEDIC MATTRESS
AND I WANT YOUR CAR AND I WANT'
00:32:42.56\00:32:47.10
- I MEAN, THAT'S NOT
WHAT JESUS IS SAYING.
00:32:47.10\00:32:49.50
HE'S SAYING THAT - HE'S TALKING
ABOUT IF SOMEONE IS SUING YOU
00:32:49.50\00:32:53.00
BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT YOU OWE
RIGHTS, SOMETIMES YOU'RE BETTER
00:32:53.00\00:32:55.10
OFF LETTING A PERSON JUST HAVE
SOMETHING AND HAVING PEACE -
00:32:55.10\00:32:59.96
'AND IF THOSE DO - DO GOOD - AND
DO GOOD TO GOOD TO YOU...WHAT
00:32:59.96\00:33:07.63
CREDIT IS THAT TO YOU?' -
"FOR EVEN SINNERS DO THE SAME.
00:33:07.63\00:33:09.80
AND IF YOU LEND TO THOSE FROM
WHOM YOU HOPE TO RECEIVE BACK,
00:33:09.80\00:33:13.70
WHAT CREDIT IS THAT TO YOU?
00:33:13.70\00:33:15.30
FOR EVEN SINNERS LEND TO SINNERS
TO RECEIVE AS MUCH BACK."
00:33:15.30\00:33:18.20
- HE MEANS EVEN THE PAGANS DO
THAT - "BUT LOVE YOUR ENEMIES,
00:33:18.20\00:33:20.53
DO GOOD, AND LEND, HOPING
FOR NOTHING IN RETURN; AND YOUR
00:33:20.53\00:33:24.13
REWARD WILL BE GREAT, AND YOU
WILL BE SONS OF THE MOST HIGH.
00:33:24.13\00:33:27.70
FOR HE IS KIND TO
THE UNTHANKFUL AND EVIL.
00:33:27.70\00:33:31.63
THEREFORE BE MERCIFUL, JUST AS
YOUR FATHER ALSO IS MERCIFUL."
00:33:31.63\00:33:34.96
NOW HOW IS THAT
RENDERED IN MATTHEW?
00:33:34.96\00:33:37.80
'BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT,
EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS
00:33:37.80\00:33:42.96
PERFECT.' HOW DOES LUKE SAY IT?
'BE THEREFORE MERCIFUL.' HAVE
00:33:42.96\00:33:48.80
YOU ALWAYS BEEN FRIGHTENED A
LITTLE BIT BY THAT VERSE, 'BE YE
00:33:48.80\00:33:51.86
THEREFORE PERFECT AS YOUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT?
00:33:51.86\00:33:53.50
WHO HERE IS PERFECT
AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN?
00:33:53.50\00:33:55.73
IF WE HAVE PERFECT LOVE AND
PERFECT MERCY, THAT'S HOW WE'RE
00:33:55.73\00:34:03.73
MODELING - AND THAT'S WHY
IT'S IMPORTANT TO COMPARE THESE
00:34:03.73\00:34:06.86
GOSPELS BACK AND FORTH.
"JUDGE NOT, AND YOU SHALL NOT BE
00:34:06.86\00:34:12.03
JUDGED. CONDEMN NOT
AND YOU SHALL NOT BE
00:34:12.03\00:34:13.13
CONDEMNED." - THAT'S
A PROMISE - "FORGIVE,
00:34:13.13\00:34:15.73
AND YOU WILL BE FORGIVEN.
GIVE AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO
00:34:15.73\00:34:18.63
YOU." YOU NOTICE
WHAT HE'S SAYING?
00:34:18.63\00:34:20.70
YOU'RE GOING TO
GET WHAT YOU GIVE.
00:34:20.70\00:34:22.26
"GIVE AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO
YOU: GOOD MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN,
00:34:22.26\00:34:24.40
SHAKEN TOGETHER, AND RUNNING
OVER WILL BE PUT INTO YOUR
00:34:24.40\00:34:28.03
BOSOM. FOR WITH
THE SAME MEASURE THAT
00:34:28.03\00:34:31.03
YOU USE, IT WILL BE
MEASURED BACK TO YOU."
00:34:31.03\00:34:33.33
THOSE ARE SOME OF THE HIGH
POINTS OF THE SERMON ON THE
00:34:33.33\00:34:36.30
MOUNT. ALRIGHT,
LET'S GO TO THE SECTION
00:34:36.30\00:34:38.76
UNDER A NEW FAMILY - A NEW
FAMILY - SOMEONE IS GOING TO
00:34:38.76\00:34:42.40
READ FOR ME, IN A
MINUTE, EPHESIANS 3:15.
00:34:42.40\00:34:45.30
OKAY, DARRYL WILL
HAVE THAT IN JUST A SECOND.
00:34:45.30\00:34:47.53
LET ME READ THAT VERSE FOR
YOU, LUKE 8 - LUKE 8:19 - 21,
00:34:47.53\00:34:51.80
"THEN HIS MOTHER AND BROTHERS
CAME TO HIM, AND COULD NOT
00:34:51.80\00:34:55.96
APPROACH HIM
BECAUSE OF THE CROWD.
00:34:55.96\00:34:57.70
AND IT WAS TOLD HIM BY SOME,
WHO SAID, 'YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR
00:34:57.70\00:35:01.46
BROTHERS ARE STANDING OUTSIDE,
DESIRING TO SEE YOU.' BUT HE
00:35:01.46\00:35:05.30
ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 'MY
MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS ARE THESE
00:35:05.30\00:35:08.43
WHO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND DO
IT.'" NOW, I ACTUALLY HAD A CALL
00:35:08.43\00:35:12.70
THAT CAME INTO THE RADIO PROGRAM
THIS WEEK, SOMEONE QUOTED THIS
00:35:12.70\00:35:17.10
VERSE AND THEY SAID, 'WAS
JESUS DISOWNING HIS FAMILY?'
00:35:17.10\00:35:19.50
THEY LOOKED AT WHAT JESUS
SAID AT THE CROSS WHEN HE SAID,
00:35:19.50\00:35:22.33
'WOMAN, BEHOLD YOUR SON.'
AND WHEN, YOU KNOW, HIS BROTHERS
00:35:22.33\00:35:27.90
SAID - AND HIS FAMILY SAID,
'COME, WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU.
00:35:27.90\00:35:30.90
YOU'RE - YOU'RE - THINGS
ARE GETTING OUT OF CONTROL.' AND
00:35:30.90\00:35:33.40
WHEN MARY SAID, 'LOOK, THEY'RE
OUT OF WINE.' HE SAID, 'WOMAN,
00:35:33.40\00:35:36.23
MY TIME HAS NOT YET COME YET.'
AND WHEN HE WAS DOWN IN THE
00:35:36.23\00:35:38.36
TEMPLE AND HE SAID, 'WOULDST YE
NOT I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHER'S
00:35:38.36\00:35:40.93
BUSINESS.' AND THEY SAID,
'DID JESUS BASICALLY ABANDON HIS
00:35:40.93\00:35:43.50
FAMILY?' NO, NOT AT ALL.
00:35:43.50\00:35:45.73
CHRIST WAS SAYING - FIRST
OF ALL, HE PUT THE CARE OF HIS
00:35:45.73\00:35:49.56
MOTHER - ONE OF THE LAST THINGS
HE DOES IS TAKE CARE OF HIS
00:35:49.56\00:35:51.76
MOTHER BECAUSE HE FEELS A
CONNECTION AND RESPONSIBILITY,
00:35:51.76\00:35:54.90
HE PUTS HER IN THE CARE OF JOHN.
00:35:54.90\00:35:56.80
HERE HE'S SAYING - HE'S
SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:35:56.80\00:35:59.33
LISTENING TO THE WORD OF
GOD AND HE'S SAYING, 'FIRST AND
00:35:59.33\00:36:03.16
FOREMOST, MY MISSION IS TO TEACH
THE WORD OF GOD AND ENCOURAGE
00:36:03.16\00:36:07.86
PEOPLE TO DO IT - TO BE
HEARERS AND DOERS OF THE WORD.
00:36:07.86\00:36:10.90
THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT
THAN A FAMILY POW WOW.'
00:36:10.90\00:36:14.10
AND SO THAT'S ALL THAT
JESUS IS SAYING BY THIS.
00:36:14.10\00:36:17.66
HE WAS ALSO SAYING THAT WHEN
WE HEAR AND DO THE WORD OF GOD,
00:36:17.66\00:36:21.33
WE ARE PART OF
A HEAVENLY FAMILY.
00:36:21.33\00:36:23.53
YOU REMEMBER THE STATEMENT WHERE
- I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT
00:36:23.53\00:36:28.70
REFERENCE RIGHT NOW, BUT PETER
SAYS, 'LORD, WE'VE FORSAKEN
00:36:28.70\00:36:30.43
EVERYTHING TO FOLLOW
YOU, WHAT WILL WE HAVE?
00:36:30.43\00:36:32.63
AND JESUS SAID, 'NO MAN
HAS GIVEN UP FATHER, MOTHER,
00:36:32.63\00:36:35.53
HUSBAND, WIFE, HOUSES, LAND,
CHILDREN, FOR MY SAKE AND THE
00:36:35.53\00:36:39.46
GOSPEL, EXCEPT HE WILL HAVE
A HUNDRED TIMES MORE IN THIS
00:36:39.46\00:36:43.03
LIFE.' - FATHERS AND MOTHERS AND
HOUSES AND LANDS AND FAMILY -
00:36:43.03\00:36:47.36
WITH PERSECUTION - AND ETERNAL
LIFE IN THE WORLD TO COME.
00:36:47.36\00:36:51.50
SO WHEN YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN
AND YOU JOIN GOD'S CHURCH, DO
00:36:51.50\00:36:54.50
YOU HAVE LESS
FAMILY OR MORE FAMILY?
00:36:54.50\00:36:56.83
YEAH, JESUS SAID THE
BELIEVERS ARE ALL FAMILY.
00:36:56.83\00:37:01.36
WHO WROTE THE
BOOK OF ACTS? LUKE.
00:37:01.36\00:37:05.43
AND LUKE IS THERE SAYING,
'EVERYONE TREATED EVERYBODY LIKE
00:37:05.43\00:37:08.93
A BROTHER AND IF ANYONE HAD
NEED, THEY'D SELL TO TAKE CARE
00:37:08.93\00:37:11.50
OF THE NEEDS OF
OTHERS.' AND THERE WAS THIS
00:37:11.50\00:37:13.23
GREAT SENSE OF
FAMILY THAT THEY HAD.
00:37:13.23\00:37:15.53
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US PLEASE EPHESIANS 3:15.
00:37:15.53\00:37:18.30
>>"FOR THIS REASON I BOW MY
KNEES TO THE FATHER OF OUR LORD
00:37:18.30\00:37:21.53
JESUS CHRIST, FROM WHOM THE
WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH
00:37:21.53\00:37:25.10
IS NAMED."
>>ALRIGHT, AND NOW FAMILY
00:37:25.10\00:37:27.86
SOMETIMES HAS
WEDDING AND FAMILY FUNCTIONS.
00:37:27.86\00:37:31.23
AND YOU CAN READ HERE IN
LUKE 5:29, "THEN LEVI GAVE HIM A
00:37:31.23\00:37:37.86
GREAT FEAST IN HIS OWN HOUSE.
AND THERE WERE A GREAT NUMBER OF
00:37:37.86\00:37:41.40
TAX COLLECTORS AND
OTHERS WHO SAT DOWN WITH THEM.
00:37:41.40\00:37:43.40
AND THEIR SCRIBES AND THE
PHARISEES COMPLAINED AGAINST HIS
00:37:43.40\00:37:46.13
DISCIPLES, SAYING, 'WHY
DO YOU EAT AND DRINK WITH TAX
00:37:46.13\00:37:48.76
COLLECTORS AND SINNERS?'
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM,
00:37:48.76\00:37:52.06
'THOSE WHO ARE WELL HAVE NO NEED
OF A PHYSICIAN, BUT THOSE WHO
00:37:52.06\00:37:55.46
ARE SICK. I HAVE
NOT COME TO CALL THE
00:37:55.46\00:37:58.20
RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS, TO
REPENTANCE.'" JESUS WAS SAYING,
00:37:58.20\00:38:00.93
'THE NEW FAMILY THAT I'M
CALLING ARE FROM ALL DIFFERENT
00:38:00.93\00:38:05.30
BACKGROUNDS.' NOW YOU CAN
UNDERSTAND THE DISMAY OF THE
00:38:05.30\00:38:12.00
RELIGIOUS LEADERS BECAUSE WHAT
DOES PSALM 1 SAY? ANYONE KNOW?
00:38:12.00\00:38:14.80
FIRST PSALM - FIRST
VERSES IN THE FIRST PSALM.
00:38:14.80\00:38:18.83
'BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO
WALKS NOT IN THE COUNSEL OF THE
00:38:18.83\00:38:22.26
UNGODLY OR SITS IN THE SEAT OF
THE SCORNFUL OR WALKS IN THE WAY
00:38:22.26\00:38:24.96
OF THE SINNERS.' - I'M
GETTING IT MIXED UP BUT
00:38:24.96\00:38:27.60
THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.
00:38:27.60\00:38:28.93
AVOID SINNERS - DON'T SIT
WITH SINNERS - FIRST PSALM.
00:38:28.93\00:38:33.10
AND THEY THOUGHT THIS WAS GOOD
BIBLE TEACHING AND HERE'S JESUS,
00:38:33.10\00:38:36.03
HE'S DELIBERATELY GOING TO A
DINNER AND SITTING WITH SINNERS
00:38:36.03\00:38:39.60
AND THEY THOUGHT THAT
WAS A VIOLATION OF TEACHING.
00:38:39.60\00:38:42.16
AND HE'S BASICALLY SAYING,
'LOOK, UNLESS YOU REACH OUT AND
00:38:42.16\00:38:45.03
MINGLE WITH SOME OF THESE
PEOPLE, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO
00:38:45.03\00:38:48.33
EVER REACH THEM? SHOULD
CHRISTIANS ONLY EAT WITH
00:38:48.33\00:38:51.46
CHRISTIANS? ISN'T IT
IMPORTANT TO INTERACT
00:38:51.46\00:38:56.86
WITH PEOPLE FROM OTHER FAITHS
AND OTHER - YOU KNOW, THERE'S
00:38:56.86\00:39:02.16
GOING TO BE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS
AND THINGS - CAN YOU SOMETIMES
00:39:02.16\00:39:05.33
BE FACED WITH SOME MORAL
DILEMMAS OF HOW TO BEHAVE IN
00:39:05.33\00:39:08.53
THOSE SITUATIONS? HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE FAMILY THAT
00:39:08.53\00:39:13.60
ARE NOT BELIEVERS SOMEWHERE?
YEAH, MOST OF US, RIGHT?
00:39:13.60\00:39:16.60
AND IF YOU'RE - YOU KNOW IF YOU
ARE LIKE US, WHEN OUR KIDS WERE
00:39:16.60\00:39:22.43
LITTLE I'D GO AROUND ALL OF
MY DEAR PAGAN FAMILY AND THEY'D
00:39:22.43\00:39:26.30
START TALKING TO THE KIDS AND
SAY, 'OH, SANTA CLAUS GOT YOU
00:39:26.30\00:39:28.53
THIS.' AND THE TV'S GOING AND
YOU GO VISIT THEM AND SOMETIMES
00:39:28.53\00:39:31.36
IT'S OVER SABBATH AND THE TV'S
GOING AND THE CONVER - AND YOU
00:39:31.36\00:39:34.30
CAN RUN INTO SOME REAL MORAL
CHALLENGES, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
00:39:34.30\00:39:37.70
TALKING ABOUT? WHEN
YOU'RE VISITING FAMILY - OR
00:39:37.70\00:39:40.16
YOU GO TO A WEDDING - IT'S A
FAMILY MEMBER, YOU WANT TO BE
00:39:40.16\00:39:42.90
THERE, BUT SOMETIMES
THOSE WEDDINGS GET OUT OF HAND.
00:39:42.90\00:39:45.70
YOU ALL KNOW WHAT
I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:39:45.70\00:39:48.03
YEAH, AND THERE'S OFF-COLOR
JOKES AND THEN THEY HAVE THE
00:39:48.03\00:39:51.30
RECEPTION AFTERWARD WHICH COULD
MEAN THE DRINKING AND THE BAND
00:39:51.30\00:39:54.36
AND THE DANCING AND, YOU
KNOW, HERE YOU'RE A BELIEVER AND
00:39:54.36\00:39:57.46
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE WISDOM
TO KNOW AND SAY, 'HEY, THIS WAS
00:39:57.46\00:40:00.06
GREAT. I'M SO GLAD I
COULD BE HERE FOR THE VOWS.
00:40:00.06\00:40:01.86
GOT TO RUN NOW.' SOMETIMES
YOU'VE GOT TO GRACEFULLY
00:40:01.86\00:40:05.63
EXTRICATE YOURSELF
FROM THOSE SITUATIONS.
00:40:05.63\00:40:08.10
BUT, IN THE SAME WAY, CHRISTIANS
NEED TO KNOW HOW TO ENGAGE AND
00:40:08.10\00:40:11.40
INTERACT WITH UNBELIEVERS OR
YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO REACH - IF
00:40:11.40\00:40:15.06
YOU'RE ONLY FRIENDS WITH
THE PEOPLE SITTING WITH YOU IN
00:40:15.06\00:40:17.10
CHURCH, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO
WITNESS AND BRING OTHERS TO THE
00:40:17.10\00:40:19.26
LORD? YOU'VE GOT
TO CONNECT WITH THEM.
00:40:19.26\00:40:21.20
NOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU START
HANGING OUT AT THE BAR SO YOU
00:40:21.20\00:40:25.00
CAN FIND BIBLE STUDIES BECAUSE
YOU ALSO DO WANT TO BE A WITNESS
00:40:25.00\00:40:28.66
BY YOUR EXAMPLE AND SO THIS IS A
PRINCIPLE WHERE WE NEED TO KNOW
00:40:28.66\00:40:33.56
HOW TO REACH PEOPLE AND
BRING THEM INTO THE FAMILY.
00:40:33.56\00:40:36.66
JESUS THEN TALKS ABOUT THIS
PARABLE - I LOVE THIS PARABLE -
00:40:36.66\00:40:40.66
LUKE 14:15 - OF THE GREAT SUPPER
- "NOW WHEN ONE OF THOSE WHO SAT
00:40:40.66\00:40:46.33
AT THE TABLE WITH HIM HEARD
THESE THINGS, HE SAID TO HIM,
00:40:46.33\00:40:48.93
'BLESSED IS HE'" - KIND OF
IN A POMPOUS, SANCTIFIED WAY -
00:40:48.93\00:40:52.06
"'BLESSED IS HE WHO SHALL EAT
BREAD IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD!'"
00:40:52.06\00:40:54.50
- AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAID, 'OH,
00:40:54.50\00:40:57.56
IT'LL BE SO NICE WHEN THE
MESSIAH COMES AND WE CAN EAT
00:40:57.56\00:41:00.06
BREAD TOGETHER IN GOD'S KINGDOM
WHERE WE'RE NOT OPPRESSED BY THE
00:41:00.06\00:41:02.43
ROMANS ANYMORE.' AND JESUS SAID,
"A CERTAIN MAN GAVE A GREAT
00:41:02.43\00:41:06.56
SUPPER AND INVITED MANY, AND
SENT HIS SERVANT AT SUPPER TIME
00:41:06.56\00:41:10.13
TO SAY TO THOSE WHO WERE
INVITED, 'COME, FOR ALL THINGS
00:41:10.13\00:41:13.80
ARE NOW READY.' BUT
THEY ALL WITH ONE ACCORD
00:41:13.80\00:41:17.00
BEGAN TO MAKE EXCUSES.
00:41:17.00\00:41:18.53
THE FIRST SAID TO HIM, 'I HAVE
BOUGHT A PIECE OF GROUND, AND I
00:41:18.53\00:41:21.30
MUST GO AND SEE IT.'" -
WHY, DID HE BUY IT SIGHT UNSEEN?
00:41:21.30\00:41:23.63
- 'PLEASE EXCUSE ME.' - THEY'VE
ACCEPTED THE WEDDING INVITATION,
00:41:23.63\00:41:28.66
THEY SHOULD HAVE
PLANNED ACCORDINGLY.
00:41:28.66\00:41:30.50
THIS IS A KING
WHO'S HAVING A WEDDING.
00:41:30.50\00:41:32.00
AND ANOTHER ONE SAYS, "I BOUGHT
FIVE YOKE OF OXEN, AND I AM
00:41:32.00\00:41:35.73
GOING TO TEST THEM." -
YOU BUY YOUR CAR SIGHT UNSEEN?
00:41:35.73\00:41:37.83
THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE INTERNET
BACK THEN - "'I ASK YOU PLEASE
00:41:37.83\00:41:42.50
HAVE ME EXCUSED.' STILL ANOTHER
SAID, 'I HAVE MARRIED A WIFE,
00:41:42.50\00:41:45.53
AND THEREFORE I CANNOT COME.'"
- WELL, SHE COULD PROBABLY COME
00:41:45.53\00:41:47.83
WITH YOU. THEY'RE
JUST MAKING EXCUSES -
00:41:47.83\00:41:51.10
"SO THAT SERVANT CAME AND
REPORTED THESE THINGS TO HIS
00:41:51.10\00:41:53.73
MASTER. THEN THE
MASTER OF THE HOUSE,
00:41:53.73\00:41:56.40
BEING ANGRY, SAID TO HIS
SERVANT, 'GO OUT QUICKLY INTO
00:41:56.40\00:41:58.50
THE STREETS AND LANES OF
THE CITY, AND BRING IN HERE THE
00:41:58.50\00:42:01.23
POOR" - REMEMBER WHAT I
SAID ABOUT LUKE AND THE POOR?
00:42:01.23\00:42:03.43
LUKE'S GOSPEL - HE IS THE GREAT
CHAMPION OF THE POOR - "AND
00:42:03.43\00:42:08.70
BRING HERE THE POOR AND
THE MAIMED AND THE LAME AND THE
00:42:08.70\00:42:11.23
BLIND.' AND THE SERVANT
SAID, 'MASTER, IT IS DONE AS YOU
00:42:11.23\00:42:13.26
COMMANDED, AND STILL THERE IS
ROOM.' THEN THE MASTER SAID TO
00:42:13.26\00:42:16.73
THE SERVANT, 'GO OUT INTO THE
HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES, AND COMPEL
00:42:16.73\00:42:19.23
THEM TO COME IN, THAT MY HOUSE
MAY BE FILLED.'" - WILL HEAVEN
00:42:19.23\00:42:22.43
BE FILLED? YEAH,
GOD'S INSISTING THERE'LL
00:42:22.43\00:42:26.76
BE PLENTY THERE - "FOR I SAY TO
YOU THAT NONE OF THOSE MEN WHO
00:42:26.76\00:42:29.83
WERE INVITED
SHALL TASTE MY SUPPER."
00:42:29.83\00:42:31.43
NOW WHAT IS THAT PARABLE ALL
ABOUT? THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS -
00:42:31.43\00:42:35.76
THE ORTHODOX JEWS - AT THAT TIME
SAID, 'OH, WE'RE GOING TO EAT
00:42:35.76\00:42:40.56
BREAD IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.'
'WE ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.'
00:42:40.56\00:42:43.06
BUT THEY WEREN'T WILLING TO
ACCEPT JESUS WHEN HE CAME AND
00:42:43.06\00:42:45.96
COME TO THE
WEDDING FEAST OF THE SON.
00:42:45.96\00:42:48.06
SO THEN THE DISCIPLES ARE TOLD
- THE MESSENGERS - ARE TOLD, 'GO
00:42:48.06\00:42:52.80
OUT AND I WANT YOU TO GET THE
PEOPLE WHO MAYBE ARE NOT OF THE
00:42:52.80\00:42:56.66
RELIGIOUS GROUP,
BUT THEY'RE JEWS.
00:42:56.66\00:42:59.30
BRING THEM IN.'
THAT WAS WHEN YOU GET THE
00:42:59.30\00:43:01.93
FISHERMEN AND YOU GET
THE SHEPHERDS AND YOU GET
00:43:01.93\00:43:03.90
THE TAX COLLECTORS
AND THEY BECOME PART.
00:43:03.90\00:43:05.83
AND HE SAYS, 'YEAH, BUT THERE'S
STILL ROOM.' HE SAYS, 'NOW I
00:43:05.83\00:43:08.53
WANT YOU TO GO TO THE GENTILES
- GO TO THE HIGHWAYS AND THE
00:43:08.53\00:43:11.63
HEDGES AND BRING THEM IN.' AND
SO THE HOUSE WAS FILLED, BUT THE
00:43:11.63\00:43:17.13
ONES WHO SAID, 'OH YEAH, WE'RE
GOD'S PEOPLE' THEY DIDN'T ACCEPT
00:43:17.13\00:43:21.23
JESUS - MANY OF THEM, AND SO
THEY WERE - ENDED UP IN OUTER
00:43:21.23\00:43:24.10
DARKNESS. ALRIGHT, WE'RE
GOING TO KEEP GOING HERE -
00:43:24.10\00:43:28.86
GOT JUST A FEW MINUTES LEFT.
IN LUKE 17:17 - WE'RE STILL
00:43:28.86\00:43:32.73
TALKING ABOUT THE - THE
ONES FROM THE OUTSIDE WHO COME.
00:43:32.73\00:43:39.06
YOU KNOW WHEN THE TEN LEPERS ARE
CLEANSED, HOW MANY CAME BACK TO
00:43:39.06\00:43:42.50
THANK HIM? ONE OUT OF THE TEN.
00:43:42.50\00:43:45.93
WAS HE A JEW OR A
GENTILE? >>GENTILE.
00:43:45.93\00:43:48.60
>>HE WAS A SAMARITAN
- TECHNICALLY A GENTILE.
00:43:48.60\00:43:50.73
AND YOU'LL OFTEN HEAR, IN THE
GOSPEL OF LUKE, HOW HE'S SAYING
00:43:50.73\00:43:53.96
THAT MANY WILL COME FROM THE
EAST AND THE WEST AND WILL SIT
00:43:53.96\00:43:58.43
DOWN IN THE KINGDOM WITH
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, AND
00:43:58.43\00:44:01.30
THE NATURAL CHILDREN
MAY BE IN OUTER DARKNESS.
00:44:01.30\00:44:03.23
NOW WHY WAS THIS
MESSAGE IMPORTANT TO LUKE?
00:44:03.23\00:44:06.63
OF THE GOSPEL WRITERS - FIRST
OF ALL, WAS LUKE AN APOSTLE?
00:44:06.63\00:44:12.06
HE WAS NEVER CALLED AN APOSTLE,
BUT HE IS WHAT THEY WOULD CALL
00:44:12.06\00:44:15.43
ONE OF THE
EVANGELISTS WHO WROTE A GOSPEL.
00:44:15.43\00:44:17.93
WAS HE A JEW OR A GENTILE?
>>GENTILE. SO LUKE, WHEN HE
00:44:17.93\00:44:22.33
JOINED THE CHURCH, HE WAS
ONE OF THE EARLY CONVERTS.
00:44:22.33\00:44:24.70
HE OFTEN RAN INTO PEOPLE THAT
WERE SAYING, 'DON'T HANG OUT
00:44:24.70\00:44:29.40
WITH THE GENTILES BECAUSE WE'RE
JEWS.' THAT FIRST GENERATION, IN
00:44:29.40\00:44:32.30
THE EARLY CHURCH,
THEY STRUGGLED WITH THAT.
00:44:32.30\00:44:34.30
AND EVEN AFTER PETER HEARD THE
LORD SAY, 'DON'T CALL ANY MAN
00:44:34.30\00:44:36.80
UNCLEAN,' THE GOSPEL NOW WAS
TO GO TO EVERYBODY, PAUL HAD TO
00:44:36.80\00:44:39.66
CHASTISE PETER FOR, KIND
OF, BEING HYPOCRITICAL - HE WAS
00:44:39.66\00:44:45.10
HANGING OUT WITH THE GENTILES
UNTIL SOME EMISSARIES CAME FROM
00:44:45.10\00:44:46.80
JERUSALEM THEN PETER SAID, 'WE
BETTER NOT HANG OUT WITH THESE
00:44:46.80\00:44:49.86
GUYS, IT'S NOT
GOING TO LOOK GOOD.'
00:44:49.86\00:44:51.76
AND THEY KIND OF
HAD LIKE A CASTE SYSTEM.
00:44:51.76\00:44:53.86
YOU'VE GOT THE JEWS AND YOU'VE
GOT THE GENTILES AND SO LUKE
00:44:53.86\00:44:57.66
SPOKE OUT AGAINST THAT AND
HE WOULD HIGHLIGHT - IT WAS THE
00:44:57.66\00:45:01.76
SAMARITAN THAT
CAME BACK TO PRAISE GOD.
00:45:01.76\00:45:04.96
AND HE TALKS ABOUT NAAMAN,
THE LEPER, THAT BELIEVED.
00:45:04.96\00:45:09.53
ALRIGHT, IN OUR LAST FEW
MINUTES, WE'RE GOING TO BE
00:45:09.53\00:45:15.10
TALKING ABOUT THE PARABLE OF THE
GOOD SAMARITAN - ANOTHER EXAMPLE
00:45:15.10\00:45:17.70
OF IT WAS NOT THE PRIEST
- YOU ALL KNOW THIS STORY.
00:45:17.70\00:45:22.33
LET ME JUST REVIEW IT QUICKLY.
00:45:22.33\00:45:23.90
'A CERTAIN MAN WHO WAS GOING
FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO - HE'S
00:45:23.90\00:45:28.16
GOING DOWN, TRAVELING BY
HIMSELF, HE FELL AMONG THIEVES,
00:45:28.16\00:45:32.06
WHO ROBBED HIM AND STRIPPED HIM
AND BEAT HIM NEARLY TO DEATH AND
00:45:32.06\00:45:35.43
LEFT HIM HALF DEAD AND WENT
THEIR WAY AND WHILE THE MAN IS
00:45:35.43\00:45:41.76
DYING ON THE ROAD IN GREAT
SUFFERING, A CERTAIN PRIEST
00:45:41.76\00:45:45.46
COMES DOWN THE ROAD AND HE
SEES THAT A CRIME IS RECENTLY
00:45:45.46\00:45:49.20
HAPPENED AND HE'S THINKING, 'I
DON'T KNOW, THIEVES MAY NOT BE
00:45:49.20\00:45:51.86
FAR AWAY. MAYBE
THIS MAN IS GETTING WHAT
00:45:51.86\00:45:53.70
HE DESERVED. I
DON'T WANT TO INTERFERE.'
00:45:53.70\00:45:55.53
AND HE JUST GOES DOWN THE ROAD.
THIS IS A MEMBER OF THE MAN'S
00:45:55.53\00:45:57.63
OWN CHURCH. HE'S
GOING FROM JERUSALEM -
00:45:57.63\00:45:59.66
HOUSE OF GOD - DOWN
TO JERICHO - LAS VEGAS.
00:45:59.66\00:46:02.83
HE'S GOING THE SAME
WAY AS THE MAN WHO FELL.
00:46:02.83\00:46:05.46
BY THE WAY, DOES THE BIBLE
TALK ABOUT ANYBODY FALLING?
00:46:05.46\00:46:10.23
THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE. ADAM FELL.
00:46:10.23\00:46:13.00
IT'S CALLED 'THE FALL.' THIS MAN
THAT FELL AMONG THIEVES - WHAT'S
00:46:13.00\00:46:16.33
THE DEVIL CALLED? THE
DEVIL IS A THIEF AND A
00:46:16.33\00:46:19.06
ROBBER WHO COMES TO
DESTROY - THAT'S THE DEVIL.
00:46:19.06\00:46:22.63
THE DEVIL MET ADAM AND EVE AND
THEY WERE NAKED WHEN THEY GOT
00:46:22.63\00:46:27.50
DONE. THIS MAN,
THE THIEVES ROBBED
00:46:27.50\00:46:30.43
HIM, STRIPPED HIM - LEAVING HIM
NAKED AND WOUNDED - HALF DEAD.
00:46:30.43\00:46:33.53
AFTER THE DEVIL MET ADAM AND
EVE IN THE GARDEN, A SENTENCE OF
00:46:33.53\00:46:38.43
DEATH FELL UPON THE HUMAN
RACE. SO THEN A LEVITE COMES.
00:46:38.43\00:46:43.90
AGAIN, STILL
MEMBERS OF THE SAME CHURCH.
00:46:43.90\00:46:45.60
IT SAYS HE STOPPED
- AT LEAST HE LOOKED.
00:46:45.60\00:46:49.03
MAYBE HE SAID A PRAYER, BUT
HE DOESN'T DO ANYTHING, HE JUST
00:46:49.03\00:46:53.30
STOPS AND HE LOOKS
AND HE GOES DOWN THE ROAD.
00:46:53.30\00:46:55.66
MAYBE HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, LOOK,
I'LL CALL A TOW TRUCK.' NOW THE
00:46:55.66\00:46:59.50
MAN IS, YOU
KNOW, HE'S HALF DEAD.
00:46:59.50\00:47:01.63
HE'S NOT ALL DEAD, HE'S WOUNDED.
HE MAY BE SEMI-CONSCIOUS AND
00:47:01.63\00:47:03.80
WHEN HE'S LAYING THERE
AND HE SEES THE PRIEST COME.
00:47:03.80\00:47:07.73
HE'S PROBABLY LAYING THERE
AFTER BEING ROBBED AND THINKING,
00:47:07.73\00:47:10.53
'OH, I NEED SOME HELP.
MAYBE THE THIEVES'LL COME BACK
00:47:10.53\00:47:12.50
AND KILL ME.' AND HE'S PRAYING,
'LORD, SEND HELP.' AND THE
00:47:12.50\00:47:14.53
PASTOR COMES AND HE THINKS,
'OH, PRAISE THE LORD!' AND HE'S
00:47:14.53\00:47:17.70
GOING, 'OH, HELP. HELP.
HELP.' THE PASTOR JUST GOES BY -
00:47:17.70\00:47:20.63
LOOKS AT HIM AND SAYS,
'YOU PROBABLY DID SOMETHING
00:47:20.63\00:47:23.10
TERRIBLE.' AND 'GOD'S PUNISHING
YOU, I CAN'T GET INVOLVED.
00:47:23.10\00:47:25.20
IT'S YOUR FATE.'
WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED.
00:47:25.20\00:47:28.40
AND HE THINKS, 'THIS ISN'T
GOOD.' AND THEN HE SEES THE HEAD
00:47:28.40\00:47:32.03
ELDER COMES BY - THE LEVITE.
HE COMES AND HE STOPS AND THE
00:47:32.03\00:47:35.73
MAN SAYS, 'OH, THANK THE
LORD. PRAISE THE LORD. HELP ME.
00:47:35.73\00:47:37.73
HELP ME.' HE SAYS, 'OH,
I'M GOING TO PRAY FOR YOU.
00:47:37.73\00:47:39.70
I'LL SAY A PRAYER BUT I WON'T DO
ANYTHING.' AND HE PRAYS, 'BE YE
00:47:39.70\00:47:43.86
WARMED AND FILLED.' AND
THEN HE GOES ON DOWN THE ROAD.
00:47:43.86\00:47:46.16
DOESN'T DO ANYTHING AND, YOU
KNOW, HE'S GOT ONE EYE SWOLLEN
00:47:46.16\00:47:51.56
SHUT, HE'S BEEN BEATEN AND HE'S
MAYBE GOT A BROKEN BONE OR HIS
00:47:51.56\00:47:54.86
RIBS ARE BROKEN AND
IT'S GETTING HOT NOW.
00:47:54.86\00:47:58.00
BUZZARDS ARE CIRCLING AND HE
KNOWS HE'S RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
00:47:58.00\00:48:01.96
AND THEN HE LOOKS AND HE HEARS
A NOISE COMING AND THE CLOP OF A
00:48:01.96\00:48:05.93
DONKEY AND HE SEES AROUND
THIS DIRT HILL ON THE TRAIL, A
00:48:05.93\00:48:09.20
SAMARITAN COMES.
SAMARITANS HATED JEWS.
00:48:09.20\00:48:14.90
HERE'S A JEW THAT IS HALF DEAD.
MANY SAMARITANS WOULD THINK,
00:48:14.90\00:48:19.00
'I'M GOING TO FINISH HIM
OFF IF THERE'S NO WITNESSES.
00:48:19.00\00:48:21.53
THIS GUY'S OWN PASTOR AND
HEAD ELDER JUST WALKED BY HIM.
00:48:21.53\00:48:25.50
HOW DOES HE THINK IT'S GOING
TO END NOW WHEN HE SEES THE
00:48:25.50\00:48:29.30
SAMARITAN COMING? HE
THINKS, 'THIS ISN'T GOOD.'
00:48:29.30\00:48:32.43
AND THEN THE SAMARITAN STOPS AND
HE STARTS COMING TOWARDS HIM.
00:48:32.43\00:48:37.20
HE THINKS, 'OH NO,
NO, NO, PLEASE DON'T.'
00:48:37.20\00:48:38.66
AND IT SAYS - WHAT DOES HE DO?
00:48:38.66\00:48:40.80
HE SHOWS HIM COMPASSION
AND HE HAS PITY ON HIM.
00:48:40.80\00:48:45.53
NOW JESUS TELLS THE STORY OF THE
GOOD SAMARITAN IN THE INQUIRY -
00:48:45.53\00:48:48.96
AND THIS WAS ACTUALLY PART ONE
- A LAWYER IS SAYING, 'WHO IS MY
00:48:48.96\00:48:54.13
NEIGHBOR?' JESUS SAYS, 'YOU WANT
TO KNOW THE GREAT COMMANDMENT?
00:48:54.13\00:48:57.33
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' HE
SAYS, 'YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS.
00:48:57.33\00:48:59.93
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' HE
SAYS, 'WELL WHO'S MY NEIGHBOR?
00:48:59.93\00:49:02.20
I CAN'T REALLY BE SURE.'
AND JESUS TELLS THIS PARABLE.
00:49:02.20\00:49:04.00
NOW THE SAMARITAN STOPS AND IT
SAYS THAT HE HAS MERCY ON HIM -
00:49:04.00\00:49:10.26
HE HAS COMPASSION. HE
WENT TO HIM - JESUS COMES TO
00:49:10.26\00:49:17.16
US - THE SAMARITAN IS LIKE
CHRIST - HE BINDS HIS WOUNDS,
00:49:17.16\00:49:20.90
HE POURS IN OIL -
WHAT DOES OIL REPRESENT?
00:49:20.90\00:49:23.30
HOLY SPIRIT - AND WINE?
WHAT DOES WINE REPRESENT IN THE
00:49:23.30\00:49:28.13
NEW COVENANT? I JUST
TOLD YOU, IT'S THE NEW
00:49:28.13\00:49:30.66
COVENANT - THE BLOOD
OF THE COVENANT, RIGHT?
00:49:30.66\00:49:33.60
AND HE PUTS HIM ON HIS OWN
ANIMAL - HE HAS NO STRENGTH -
00:49:33.60\00:49:36.50
AND HE BRINGS HIM TO THE INN AND
HE REACHES INTO HIS POCKET AND
00:49:36.50\00:49:40.73
HE TAKES OUT MONEY AND HE SAYS,
'I WILL PAY.' HE TAKES CARE OF
00:49:40.73\00:49:45.20
HIM AND HE SAYS, 'BUT
I'VE GOT TO KEEP GOING.
00:49:45.20\00:49:47.16
YOU TAKE CARE OF HIM.
WHATEVER MORE YOU SPEND, I'LL
00:49:47.16\00:49:49.10
REIMBURSE YOU.' AND THEN HE
SAYS, 'WHEN I COME BACK AGAIN,
00:49:49.10\00:49:54.96
I'LL PAY YOU BACK.' SO WHO IS
THE MAN WHO FELL AMONG THIEVES?
00:49:54.96\00:49:59.40
WHO DOES HE
REPRESENT? THE HUMAN RACE - US.
00:49:59.40\00:50:04.90
WHO IS THE THIEF? THE DEVIL.
YOU KNOW, THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A
00:50:04.90\00:50:10.53
STORY THAT
ACTUALLY HAPPENED, TOO.
00:50:10.53\00:50:12.46
THIS IS SOMETHING THEY
MAY HAVE EVEN HEARD ABOUT.
00:50:12.46\00:50:16.00
MATTER OF FACT, ONE OF THOSE
THIEVES THAT ROBBED THAT MAN
00:50:16.00\00:50:19.00
COULD HAVE BEEN HANGING
ON THE CROSS NEXT TO JESUS.
00:50:19.00\00:50:20.96
AND WHO DOES THE
SAMARITAN REPRESENT?
00:50:20.96\00:50:25.06
SAMARITANS WERE KIND OF HALF
BREEDS BECAUSE THEY HAD SOME
00:50:25.06\00:50:31.23
JEWISH BLOOD. THEY INTERMARRIED
WITH SOME OF THE PRIESTS.
00:50:31.23\00:50:33.66
THEY BELIEVED THE FIVE BOOKS
OF MOSES BUT THEY HAD A LOT OF
00:50:33.66\00:50:36.23
ASSYRIAN BLOOD TOO.
DID JESUS HAVE SOME GENTILE
00:50:36.23\00:50:39.40
BLOOD IN HIS VEINS? YOU
KNOW ABOUT RUTH AND TAMAR
00:50:39.40\00:50:42.56
AND RAHAB AND
POSSIBLY BATHSHEBA.
00:50:42.56\00:50:47.96
THERE WAS SOME - JESUS
HAD OTHER RACES IN HIS BLOOD.
00:50:47.96\00:50:55.20
JESUS IS HALF GOD AND HALF MAN,
SO TO SPEAK, AND HE COMES TO THE
00:50:55.20\00:51:01.23
ONE THAT HAS BEEN BEATEN AND HE
SHOWS MERCY AND HE SAYS, 'LOOK,
00:51:01.23\00:51:07.46
I'M GOING TO GET OFF MY
DONKEY. I'LL WALK AND YOU RIDE.'
00:51:07.46\00:51:09.70
HE TRADES PLACES WITH HIM - 'I'M
GOING TO TAKE MY CLOTHES AND
00:51:09.70\00:51:12.76
I'LL TEAR THEM UP AND MAKE
BANDAGES - HIS ROBE, LIKE HIS
00:51:12.76\00:51:15.66
RIGHTEOUSNESS - HE BANDAGES UP
HIS WOUNDS - 'AND I'LL POUR IN
00:51:15.66\00:51:18.26
THE OIL OF THE SPIRIT AND
THE WINE OF THE NEW COVENANT AND
00:51:18.26\00:51:20.66
I'LL BRING YOU TO WHERE
OTHERS WILL CARE FOR YOU.'
00:51:20.66\00:51:23.60
THAT'S THE CHURCH. AND
HE TELLS THE INNKEEPER, 'YOU
00:51:23.60\00:51:26.53
TAKE CARE OF HIM.
WHEN I COME BACK I'LL REPAY
00:51:26.53\00:51:29.16
YOU.' IS JESUS COMING BACK?
WE - DO WE MAYBE HAVE TO INVEST
00:51:29.16\00:51:33.60
IN TAKING CARE OF OTHERS?
IS THERE A PAYDAY COMING?
00:51:33.60\00:51:37.53
THE WHOLE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS
WRAPPED UP IN THE STORY OF THE
00:51:37.53\00:51:41.50
GOOD SAMARITAN. AND WE
ALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY
00:51:41.50\00:51:45.96
TO SHOW THAT LOVE AND
THAT COMPASSION TO OTHERS.
00:51:45.96\00:51:49.80
SO THEN HE CLOSES THAT PARABLE
BY SAYING TO THE LAWYER, 'WHO
00:51:49.80\00:51:52.46
THEN WAS NEIGHBOR TO HIM
THAT FELL AMONG THIEVES?'
00:51:52.46\00:51:57.66
AND YOU KNOW
WHAT THE LAWYER SAYS?
00:51:57.66\00:52:00.43
HE WON'T EVEN SAY 'THE
SAMARITAN' BECAUSE IT JUST - IT
00:52:00.43\00:52:02.63
HURTS ON THE LIPS OF
A JEW TO SAY THE WORD.
00:52:02.63\00:52:04.83
I MEAN, THERE WAS A LOT OF
ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THE TWO - AND
00:52:04.83\00:52:07.86
SO ALL HE COULD SAY WAS, 'HE
THAT SHOWED MERCY TO HIM.' AND
00:52:07.86\00:52:13.73
SO JESUS BASICALLY SAID, 'GO
AND DO LIKEWISE.' SO WHO IS OUR
00:52:13.73\00:52:17.83
NEIGHBOR, THE
PERSON WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR?
00:52:17.83\00:52:20.23
ANYBODY THAT IS IN NEED -
THAT GOD BRINGS INTO YOUR PATH.
00:52:20.23\00:52:26.16
GOD WANTS US TO SHOW HIS LOVE.
00:52:26.16\00:52:28.43
HE WANTS US TO PRESENT HIS ROBE
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - THE BLOOD OF
00:52:28.43\00:52:32.73
THE COVENANT - THE OIL OF
THE SPIRIT - TAKING CARE OF THE
00:52:32.73\00:52:36.16
PRACTICAL NEEDS -
GIVE THEM OUR STRENGTH.
00:52:36.16\00:52:39.06
THIS IS WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO
DO FOR WHOEVER THE LORD BRINGS
00:52:39.06\00:52:42.16
US IN CONTACT WITH.
WOW, THIS IS A RECORD.
00:52:42.16\00:52:45.50
I NEVER DREAMED I'D GET THROUGH
ALL THESE PARABLES, BUT I THINK
00:52:45.50\00:52:47.73
I DID IT ON TIME. HEY
FRIENDS, I WANT TO REMIND
00:52:47.73\00:52:50.00
YOU, IF YOU DID NOT HEAR AT THE
BEGINNING OF OUR PRESENTATION,
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DOWNLOAD AND READ THIS FOR FREE.
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GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU
FOR JOINING US DURING OUR STUDY
00:53:17.26\00:53:20.33
TODAY. GOD WILLING, WE'LL
STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:53:20.33\00:53:25.43
>>WHEN I WAS 15 I BOUGHT MY
FIRST BAG OF MARIJUANA OUT OF
00:53:25.43\00:53:27.36
CURIOSITY AND FROM THE AGE
OF 15 ON TO 23 WAS A CONSTANT
00:53:27.36\00:53:34.23
EXPERIMENTATION WITH
DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES.
00:53:34.23\00:53:37.43
BY THE TIME I WAS 23 THERE
WAS NOT A DRUG I HAD NOT TRIED.
00:53:37.43\00:53:42.06
I HAD WORN MYSELF OUT
SEARCHING FOR HAPPINESS.
00:53:42.06\00:53:45.10
AND ONE DAY, I CAME HOME TIRED,
AS USUAL, AND I STARTED DRINKING
00:53:45.10\00:53:50.43
AND, AS USUAL, AFTER I STARTED
DRINKING, I STARTED LOOKING FOR
00:53:50.43\00:53:55.53
A HIGHER BUZZ. SOMEONE
CAME BY WITH SOME XANAX.
00:53:55.53\00:54:02.33
SOMEONE ALSO CAME BY WITH
SOMETHING ELSE THAT I LIKED,
00:54:02.33\00:54:06.46
AND THAT WAS COCAINE.
THIS TIME, NOT THINKING, I TOOK
00:54:06.46\00:54:09.76
THE WHOLE THING. SO I
WENT TO BED ABOUT 5:00 IN
00:54:09.76\00:54:13.60
THE AFTERNOON. MY
ROOMMATE WENT OFF TO WORK
00:54:13.60\00:54:16.73
THAT NIGHT. WHEN HE
CAME BACK FROM WORK THE
00:54:16.73\00:54:19.03
NEXT DAY THOUGH, HE NOTICED
SOMETHING WAS WRONG BECAUSE
00:54:19.03\00:54:22.36
I WAS STILL IN BED
IN THE SAME POSITION.
00:54:22.36\00:54:24.66
HE TRIED TO WAKE ME UP
AND HE COULDN'T WAKE ME UP.
00:54:24.66\00:54:29.30
AND WHEN MY PARENTS FOUND ME,
THEY FOUND ME CURLED UP IN THE
00:54:29.30\00:54:33.96
FETAL POSITION IN MY HOSPITAL
ROOM, UNCONSCIOUS STILL.
00:54:33.96\00:54:39.46
AND I STAYED UNCONSCIOUS IN THIS
COMA-LIKE STATE FOR THE NEXT
00:54:39.46\00:54:43.33
WEEK. I STAYED
THE NEXT MONTH IN THE
00:54:43.33\00:54:46.36
HOSPITAL, SLOWLY GETTING BETTER
TO WHERE I COULD SIT UP IN BED
00:54:46.36\00:54:52.10
AND I HAD TO LEARN TO WALK
AGAIN. BUT MY PARENTS FOUND THIS
00:54:52.10\00:54:55.16
ONE FACILITY OUT IN
THE HILLS OF TENNESSEE.
00:54:55.16\00:54:58.50
I HAD TO ADMIT THAT I LIKED THE
PLACE, BUT THEY WERE CHRISTIAN
00:54:58.50\00:55:03.53
AND, EVEN WORSE THAN THAT, I
SAID 'YES' WHEN THEY ASKED ME IF
00:55:03.53\00:55:07.93
I WANTED TO GO
TO CHURCH THAT WEEK.
00:55:07.93\00:55:10.26
BEFORE THE PASTOR SAID THE
BENEDICTION, I WAS SO EXCITED
00:55:10.26\00:55:13.13
BECAUSE I WAS
PLANNING MY ESCAPE.
00:55:13.13\00:55:15.53
AND SO, AFTER EVERYBODY WAS ALL
IN BED THAT NIGHT, I MADE SURE
00:55:15.53\00:55:19.00
THAT THEY WERE SNORING
AND THAT THEY WERE ASLEEP.
00:55:19.00\00:55:22.10
I WENT INTO THE KITCHEN
AND STOLE A FEW BANANAS, GOT MY
00:55:22.10\00:55:25.96
BACKPACK READY - I FIGURED
I COULD GET SOBER ON MY OWN.
00:55:25.96\00:55:30.00
MY FAVORITE SONG
WAS I DID IT MY WAY .
00:55:30.00\00:55:34.26
OF COURSE, MY DEFINITION
OF SOBER WAS A NICE SUPPLY OF
00:55:34.26\00:55:40.16
MARIJUANA EACH DAY AND
ALCOHOL ON THE WEEKENDS.
00:55:40.16\00:55:43.70
AND, OF COURSE, IF I HAD
A BAD HANGOVER, I MIGHT NEED
00:55:43.70\00:55:46.36
SOME OF THOSE
RELAXING PILLS TO TAKE.
00:55:46.36\00:55:49.23
BUT OTHER THAN
THAT, THAT WOULD BE IT.
00:55:49.23\00:55:52.70
SO HERE I AM, STRANDED ON
THE STREET IN THE BIG CITY OF
00:55:52.70\00:55:56.00
HOUSTON, MY BAG OF CLOTHES
IS GONE. MY CELL PHONE IS GONE.
00:55:56.00\00:56:00.66
MY WALLET - MY
BUS TICKET'S GONE.
00:56:00.66\00:56:02.36
I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING
BUT THE SHIRT ON MY BACK.
00:56:02.36\00:56:04.93
IT'S AT THAT POINT THAT THIS MAN
COMES UP TO ME - THIS MYSTERIOUS
00:56:04.93\00:56:08.60
MAN - HE'S ACTUALLY VERY SHORT
AND APPEARS TO BE HOMELESS AND
00:56:08.60\00:56:12.53
HE LED ME TO SOME FOOD AND
EVEN A PLACE TO STAY THAT NIGHT.
00:56:12.53\00:56:16.60
LOOKING BACK, IT IS MY
FIRM CONCLUSION THAT THAT WAS AN
00:56:16.60\00:56:21.63
ANGEL. SO MY DAD
WAS ABLE TO COME DOWN
00:56:21.63\00:56:24.76
TO HOUSTON AND PICK ME UP AND
TAKE ME BACK UP TO THE HEALTH
00:56:24.76\00:56:28.00
RETREAT AT WILDWOOD IN
TENNESSEE. THEY HAD A SATELLITE.
00:56:28.00\00:56:33.33
ON THIS CHANNEL THERE WAS
A MAN NAMED DOUG BATCHELOR.
00:56:33.33\00:56:36.60
I LIKED WHAT I HEARD. I
LIKED THE WAY HE EXPLAINED THE
00:56:36.60\00:56:40.73
BIBLE - IT WAS SO SIMPLE -
AND HE ALSO HAD AN EXPERIENCE
00:56:40.73\00:56:43.23
SIMILAR TO MINE AND I HAD TALKED
A LITTLE ABOUT HIM AND THEY
00:56:43.23\00:56:47.03
HAPPENED TO HAVE A
WHOLE SET OF CASSETTE TAPES.
00:56:47.03\00:56:50.33
I WOULD WAKE UP AT 4:00 IN THE
MORNING SOMETIMES AND I WOULD
00:56:50.33\00:56:54.76
GET UP AND I WOULD WATCH TWO OF
THOSE VIDEOS BEFORE BREAKFAST.
00:56:54.76\00:56:58.13
I WOULD SIT THIS CLOSE TO THE TV
WATCHING WHAT DOUG BATCHELOR WAS
00:56:58.13\00:57:02.33
SAYING - JUST EATING UP EVERY
WORD OF IT - I WAS SO TIRED OF
00:57:02.33\00:57:05.26
HEARING LIES AND EVEN BELIEVING
MY OWN LIES, THAT I - IT WAS SO
00:57:05.26\00:57:09.10
WONDERFUL TO FIND SOMETHING THAT
WAS SOLID THAT I COULD RELY ON.
00:57:09.10\00:57:14.50
AND SO, WHEN I GOT HOME FROM
REHAB, IN MY LOCAL CHURCH, ERIK
00:57:14.50\00:57:19.33
FLICKINGER FROM AMAZING FACTS
WAS HOLDING AN EVANGELISTIC
00:57:19.33\00:57:23.16
SERIES. THEY
SOLIDIFIED MY CONVICTION
00:57:23.16\00:57:26.13
AND IT WAS THEN I MADE THE
ABSOLUTE DECISION TO FOLLOW
00:57:26.13\00:57:30.73
JESUS. I PRAISE
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
00:57:30.73\00:57:34.93
FOR AMAZING FACTS. I
PRAISE GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS
00:57:34.93\00:57:39.10
BECAUSE THEY ARE SO BIBLE-BASED.
THEY SEND OUT EVANGELISTS WHO
00:57:39.10\00:57:43.60
ARE WILLING TO
TEACH THE TRUTH TO PEOPLE.
00:57:43.60\00:57:46.20
I'M THANKFUL THAT THEY'RE
PREACHING RIGHT NOW ALL OVER THE
00:57:46.20\00:57:49.20
WORLD, CHANGING LIVES
JUST AS THEY CHANGED MINE.
00:57:49.20\00:57:53.93
>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
00:57:53.93\00:57:59.03
BEFORE. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
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CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT
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