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00:33 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, COMING TO YOU FROM 00:36 THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:39 IN ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA. WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE 00:42 TUNING IN - WHETHER THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME OR YOU ARE JUST ONE 00:45 OF OUR DIE-HARD FAMILY MEMBERS - THAT WE'RE SO EXCITED THAT YOU 00:50 JOIN US EVERY SINGLE WEEK. IT DOESN'T MATTER; WE'RE JUST 00:52 GLAD THAT YOU ARE JOINING US FOR ANOTHER LESSON STUDY AS WE OPEN 00:55 UP GOD'S WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. 00:58 WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR 01:01 WEBSITE, OR ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS, WELCOME. 01:05 WE'RE GOING TO SING YOUR FAVORITES AND WE'RE GOING TO 01:08 START WITH #21 - A WONDERFUL SONG THAT WE LOVE - IMMORTAL, 01:13 INVISIBLE, GOD ONLY WISE - AND WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST 01:18 AND FOURTH STANZAS. #21 - JOIN WITH US. 01:20 (MUSIC) 01:36 IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, GOD ONLY WISE, IN LIGHT INACCESSIBLE 01:48 HID FROM OUR EYES, MOST BLESSED, MOST GLORIOUS, THE ANCIENT OF 01:58 DAYS, ALMIGHTY, VICTORIOUS, THY GREAT NAME WE PRAISE. 02:09 GREAT FATHER OF GLORY, PURE FATHER OF LIGHT, 02:18 THINE ANGELS ADORE THEE, ALL VEILING THEIR SIGHT; 02:26 ALL PRAISE WE WOULD RENDER; O HELP US TO SEE 02:34 'TIS ONLY THE SPLENDOR OF LIGHT HIDETH THEE! 02:46 >>ANOTHER SONG THAT TIES IN WITH OUR LESSON STUDY TODAY, WHICH IS 02:49 JESUS, THE MASTER TEACHER , IS ANOTHER WONDERFUL SONG, WHICH 02:53 YOU'LL FIND ON #492 - LIKE JESUS - #492 - AND I HOPE THAT IT IS 03:00 THE PRAYER OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, THAT WE WILL WANT TO BE 03:04 LIKE JESUS NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE OR WHAT WE'RE DOING, THAT WE 03:09 WILL REMEMBER HE IS ALWAYS WITH US AND WE WILL ALWAYS WANT TO BE 03:13 LIKE JESUS. FIRST AND LAST STANZAS - #492. 03:17 (MUSIC) 03:24 >>TEACH, ME, FATHER, WHAT TO SAY; TEACH ME, FATHER, 03:35 HOW TO PRAY; TEACH ME ALL ALONG THE WAY HOW TO BE LIKE JESUS. 03:55 I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS, I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS; HELP ME, LORD TO 04:15 DAILY GROW MORE AND MORE LIKE JESUS. 04:29 TEACH ME HOW WE MAY BE ONE, LIKE THE FATHER AND THE SON; AND WHEN 04:46 ALL IS OVERCOME, I WILL BE LIKE JESUS. 05:01 I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS, I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS; HELP ME, LORD TO 05:22 DAILY GROW MORE AND MORE LIKE JESUS. 05:39 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING WITH US; AND AT THIS TIME WE'RE 05:42 GOING TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR TO COME AND SAY A 05:45 PRAYER FOR US AS WE BEGIN OUR PROGRAM. 05:48 >>AMEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH DEBBIE - OUR 05:52 SINGERS AND MUSICIANS - AND THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING US 05:55 TODAY FOR OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 05:57 LET'S BEGIN WITH A WORD OF PRAYER AND ASK FOR GOD'S 06:01 PRESENCE AND BLESSING. LOVING LORD, WE ARE SO THANKFUL 06:05 THAT WE CAN HAVE THIS ROCK - THIS FOUNDATION OF TRUTH - YOUR 06:10 WORD THAT IS SO FREELY AVAILABLE AND AT OUR FINGERTIPS AND THAT 06:14 WE CAN GATHER TOGETHER WITH FREEDOM AND TO STUDY THE TRUTH. 06:17 LORD, WE BELIEVE THAT THESE WORDS ARE MUCH MORE THAN BLACK 06:22 INK ON WHITE PAPER - THAT THEY ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE LIFE AND 06:26 WE PRAY THAT AS WE STUDY THEM, THAT WE'LL FEEL THE POWER 06:30 CHANGING US. HELP US TO PUT INTO PRACTICE THE 06:33 THINGS WE LEARN. BLESS US. 06:35 BE WITH ME AS I SHARE AND TEACH AND I PRAY YOU'LL QUICKEN MY 06:36 MIND TO REMEMBER THINGS STUDIED BEFORE AND THAT WE'LL ALL BE 06:40 DRAWN CLOSER TO YOU. WE PRAY IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 06:45 ONCE AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE JOINING US 06:48 FOR OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. WE WELCOME YOU; 06:51 WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE STUDYING WITH US. IN A MOMENT WE'LL GET TO 06:54 OUR STUDY FROM THE BOOK OF LUKE. WE HAVE A FREE OFFER. 06:56 EACH WEEK WE LIKE TO MAKE SOMETHING AVAILABLE AND TODAY IT 07:00 IS A STUDY GUIDE CALLED RESCUE FROM ABOVE - THIS IS PART OF THE 07:04 CLASSIC AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY SERIES. 07:07 RESCUE FROM ABOVE - TALKING ABOUT THE PLAN OF SALVATION 07:10 BECAUSE THAT IS A LOT OF OUR FOCUS IN OUR LESSON TODAY. 07:12 AND IF YOU WANT A FREE HARD COPY, JUST CALL THE NUMBER 07:16 866-788-3966 - IT'S ACTUALLY 866-STUDY-MORE - 07:22 AND ASK FOR OFFER #109. YOU CAN ALSO GET THEM ONLINE FOR 07:25 FREE IF YOU GO TO AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 07:28 YOU CAN TAKE THE STUDY GUIDE - READ IT - OR EVEN FILL IT OUT 07:32 THERE ONLINE. SO MUCH IS DONE ON THE INTERNET. 07:35 OUR LESSON TODAY IS LESSON #9 FROM OUR STUDY GUIDE DEALING 07:40 WITH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE. AND I'M HOPING THAT WHEN WE GET 07:43 DONE WITH THIS 13-WEEK STUDY, ALL OF YOU WILL HAVE AT LEAST 07:47 READ THROUGH THE BOOK OF LUKE. AND I THINK I MENTIONED BEFORE, 07:52 IT IS MY FAVORITE OF THE GOSPELS. 07:54 I JUST LOVE THE BOOK OF LUKE. THERE ARE SO MANY PARABLES AND 07:57 STORIES YOU ONLY FIND IN LUKE. LUKE INTERVIEWED A NUMBER OF 08:02 PEOPLE IN WRITING HIS GOSPEL STORY THAT WERE SOMETIMES 08:06 NEGLECTED BY WHAT YOU FIND IN MATTHEW, MARK, AND JOHN. 08:09 AND TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT JESUS THE MASTER 08:12 TEACHER AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND I HOPE YOU'LL SAY THIS 08:16 OUT LOUD WITH ME - IT'S LUKE 4:32 FROM THE NEW KING JAMES 08:21 VERSION - LUKE 4:32 - ARE YOU READY? 08:24 "AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS TEACHING, FOR HIS WORD WAS 08:29 WITH AUTHORITY." YOU THINK, 'WHY WOULD THAT BE SO 08:34 ASTONISHING? DIDN'T ALL THE RABBIS AND 08:36 TEACHERS TEACH WITH AUTHORITY?' NOT REALLY. 08:39 WHEN THEY WOULD TEACH THEY'D OFTEN SAY, 'WELL, THIS PASSAGE 08:43 OF SCRIPTURE COULD MEAN THIS' AND 'THIS COULD MEAN THAT' AND 08:47 'RABBI SO AND SO SAYS IT REALLY HAS THIS MEANING' AND 08:50 'ANOTHER RABBI SAYS IT HAS THAT MEANING. IT USED TO MEAN THIS 08:53 BUT NOW IT MEANS THAT IN OUR CULTURE, TODAY.' AND THEY HAD 08:57 JUST ALL THESE DIFFERENT WAYS AND IT'S LIKE NOBODY COULD KNOW 08:59 FOR SURE WHAT THE TRUTH WAS. BUT THAT WASN'T HOW JESUS TAUGHT 09:04 AND SO THAT'S ACTUALLY OUR FIRST SECTION THAT WE'RE GOING TO 09:08 ADDRESS AND THAT'S THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS . 09:12 NOW THERE'S SOME VERSES WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT ARE GOING 09:15 TO BEAR THIS OUT AND, TO BEGIN WITH, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE 09:18 STORY - WE'RE IN LUKE CHAPTER 8, VERSE 22 - JESUS STEALS - STILLS 09:23 THE STORM - LUKE 8:22 - "NOW IT HAPPENED, ON A CERTAIN DAY, THAT 09:27 HE GOT INTO A BOAT WITH HIS DISCIPLES. 09:29 AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'LET US CROSS OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF 09:33 THE LAKE.' AND THEY LAUNCHED OUT. 09:36 BUT AS THEY SAILED HE FELL ASLEEP." - HARD DAY OF STUDY AND 09:39 TEACHING - "AND A WINDSTORM CAME DOWN ON THE LAKE, AND THEY WERE 09:45 FILLING WITH WATER, AND WERE IN JEOPARDY. 09:47 AND THEY CAME TO HIM AND AWOKE HIM SAYING, 'MASTER, MASTER, WE 09:52 ARE PERISHING!'" - I LIKE THE WAY IT'S ALSO 09:55 WORDED IN ONE GOSPEL, IT SAYS, 'MASTER, CAREST THOU NOT THAT WE 09:58 ARE PERISHING?' - THINK ABOUT THAT: GOD SO LOVED 10:00 THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS SON THAT WE SHOULDN'T PERISH, THAT THEY 10:02 SHOULD WAKE UP JESUS AND SAY, 'DON'T YOU CARE THAT WE'RE 10:05 PERISHING?' HE COULD HAVE SAID, 'YEAH, I CARE. 10:07 I'M GOING TO DIE FOR YOU GUYS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO PERISH.' SO HE 10:10 DID DEFINITELY CARE ABOUT THEIR PERISHING AND HE WOKE UP AND HE 10:18 CALMED THE SEA - "THEN HE AROSE AND REBUKED THE WIND AND THE 10:22 RAGING OF THE WATER." - YOU READ IN THE OTHER VERSIONS 10:25 IT SAYS, 'HE SAID, 'PEACE BE STILL.'' AND THAT WOULD REALLY 10:28 BE BECAUSE YOU'RE READING IT IN GREEK. 10:30 IN HEBREW THE WORD IS 'SHALOM.' YOU KNOW THAT ONE WORD 'SHALOM' 10:34 IS A GREETING, IT'S A FAREWELL, IT'S A BLESSING - ANY OF YOU 10:37 BEEN TO HAWAII? YOU KNOW THEY USE THE WORD 10:39 'ALOHA' FOR ABOUT EVERYTHING - AND IN HEBREW, 'SHALOM' WAS A 10:43 WORD THAT MEANT MANY THINGS. AND JESUS PROBABLY JUST SAID ONE 10:46 WORD IN HEBREW; HE JUST SAID, 'SHALOM' - PEACE BE STILL AND 10:52 ALL OF A SUDDEN, AT HIS WORD, THESE RAGING ELEMENTS FLATTENED 10:57 OUT AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW THAT, THEY WERE TERRIFIED. 11:01 NOW JUST GET THE PICTURE, THESE ARE FISHERMEN. 11:04 THEY HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THE SEA. 11:07 WHEN YOU SEE THE SEA OF GALILEE, IT'S NOT THAT BIG. 11:12 YOU KNOW, YOU SAY THE WORD 'SEA' - SOME OF OUR GREAT LAKES 11:14 ARE BIGGER THAN THE SEA OF GALILEE. 11:16 YOU CAN SEE ACROSS IT EASILY ON A CLEAR DAY. 11:19 BUT YOU GET OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT AND - BECAUSE THE JORDAN 11:23 VALLEY IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING PIECES OF GEOGRAPHY 11:25 ON THE PLANET, THE LOWEST POINT ON EARTH IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE 11:29 JORDAN VALLEY, THAT'S THE DEAD SEA AND THEN IT GOES UP TO THE 11:33 MOUNTAINS OF LEBANON, WHICH ARE WAY ABOVE - THEY'RE THOUSANDS OF 11:38 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL AND THERE'S SUCH A RADICAL SHIFT THAT THERE 11:41 ARE CONVECTIONS OF AIR AND LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS THAT DEVELOP. 11:47 IT DEVELOPS ITS OWN WEATHER VERY QUICKLY AND IT MIGHT BE 11:50 GLASSY CALM AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, LATER IN THE DAY, THINGS 11:53 CAN CHANGE - THE WIND CAN COME SWEEPING DOWN AND IT BEATS UP 11:56 THESE BIG WAVES AND FISHING BOATS CAN'T HAVE HIGH GUNWALES 12:00 ON THEM OR YOU CAN'T GET THE FISH AND THE NET IN. 12:02 THEY'RE USUALLY A LITTLE BIT LOWER AND THE WAVES START 12:05 SWAMPING IT. JESUS HAS BEEN MINISTERING ALL 12:07 DAY LONG - HE IS EXHAUSTED - SO MUCH SO HE'S SLEEPING IN THE 12:10 STORM - AND IT'S DARK. HE PREACHED ALL DAY AND NOW HE'S 12:16 CROSSING OVER. THE SUN'S GONE DOWN AND THEY'RE 12:18 TRYING TO BAIL THE BOAT. THEY'RE TRYING TO SAVE 12:21 THEMSELVES AND LIGHTNING FLASHES AND THEY SEE JESUS IS ASLEEP. 12:26 THEY'VE FORGOTTEN JESUS WAS WITH THEM. 12:28 SOMETIMES WE TRY TO SAVE OURSELVES BECAUSE WE FORGET 12:31 JESUS IS WITH US. AND SO THEY WOKE UP JESUS. 12:34 YOU KNOW HOW YOU WAKE UP JESUS? SAME WAY THEY DID: YOU PRAY. 12:38 AND THE LORD WILL DO THINGS FOR US WHEN WE ASK THAT HE OTHERWISE 12:42 WOULD NOT DO. YOU WONDER WHAT WOULD HAVE 12:46 HAPPENED IF THEY DIDN'T WAKE HIM UP. 12:48 I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT BOAT WAS ALREADY UNSINKABLE BECAUSE 12:51 JESUS WAS THE LIFESAVER IN THE BOAT. AND SO THEY WAKE HIM UP - 12:56 NOW WHO COMMANDED THEM TO CROSS THE SEA? 12:58 JESUS DID, HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO PASS OVER.' WILL THE LORD GET 13:03 YOU TO THE OTHER SIDE IF HE TELLS YOU TO DO SOMETHING? 13:06 DOES HE PROMISE THERE WILL NOT BE A STORM ON THE WAY? 13:10 SO JUST BECAUSE YOU ENCOUNTER RESISTANCE, DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN 13:15 THAT YOU ARE NOT DOING GOD'S WILL. 13:17 IN FACT, JESUS ACTUALLY SAYS, 'WOE UNTO YOU WHEN ALL MEN SPEAK 13:21 WELL OF YOU.' IN OTHER WORDS, IF EVERYTHING'S GOING SMOOTHLY, 13:24 IT'S NOT ALWAYS EVIDENCE THAT YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING. 13:27 JESUS SAID IF YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING, YOU WILL MEET WITH 13:30 RESISTANCE - YOU'LL MEET WITH PERSECUTION. 13:32 AND SO DON'T LET THAT SURPRISE YOU. 13:34 HE SAYS, 'PEACE, BE STILL.' AND THEN HE SAYS, 'WHERE IS YOUR 13:37 FAITH?' NOW AFTER HE CALMS THE SEA - 13:39 WERE THEY FRIGHTENED? WERE THE DISCIPLES SCARED DURING 13:42 THE STORM? YEAH - 'WE'RE PERISHING' - THEY 13:46 THOUGHT THEY WERE DYING. THEY WERE FRIGHTENED. 13:48 AFTER HE CALMS THE STORM, ARE THEY NOW CALM? NO, IT SAYS THEY 13:54 WERE EXCEEDINGLY AFRAID. NOW THEY'RE EVEN MORE AFRAID, 13:58 YOU KNOW WHY? THEY SAID, 'WHO IS THIS MAN? 14:01 WITH AUTHORITY HE COMMANDS THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE AND THEY 14:04 OBEY.' SO HOW MUCH AUTHORITY DID JESUS HAVE? 14:08 DID HE HAVE JUST AUTHORITY OVER HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, 'GO HERE. 14:17 GO THERE. PREACH THIS. PREACH THAT.' OR DID HE HAVE 14:21 AUTHORITY OVER THE VERY LAWS OF NATURE? 14:24 I MEAN, WHEN SOMEONE CAN MAKE THE WIND BLOW AND THEN SPEAK AND 14:28 THE WIND STOPS; WHEN SOMEONE CAN MAKE THE WAVES RISE AND THEY 14:31 SPEAK AND THEY GET GLASSY CALM, YOU'VE JUST GOT - ALL OF YOUR 14:35 SENSES ARE TELLING YOU THAT THESE RAGING ELEMENTS - YOU'VE 14:38 GOT CLOUDS AND WIND AND LIGHTNING AND WAVES AND - HE 14:42 SPEAKS ONE WORD - ALL OF A SUDDEN CLOUDS PART - MOON IS UP 14:47 THERE - CLEAR SKY - GLASSY WAVES - NO WIND - PERFECTLY STILL - 14:53 THEY'RE AFRAID BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZE HIS WORD HAS CREATIVE 14:58 AUTHORITY. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT. ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE YOU 15:03 READ FOR US LUKE 19, VERSES 45 AND 46. 15:07 >>THEN HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND BEGAN TO DRIVE OUT THOSE WHO 15:11 BOUGHT AND SOLD IN IT, SAYING TO THEM, 'IT IS WRITTEN, 'MY HOUSE 15:15 IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' BUT YOU HAVE MADE IT A 'DEN OF 15:18 THIEVES.''" >>HERE'S ANOTHER 15:20 EXAMPLE OF HIS AUTHORITY: WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE TEMPLE? 15:23 LEVITES - SONS OF AARON - TEMPLE GUARDS. 15:28 HERE COMES THIS RABBI FROM NAZARETH - HE WALKS IN, HIS EYES 15:32 FLASH - HE TAKES SOME OF THE CORDS THEY USED FOR TYING OFF 15:35 THE SHEEP, AND HE TAKES A HANDFUL OF THOSE SO IT LOOKS 15:39 LIKE A CAT-O-NINE TAILS - HE'S GOT THIS WHIP IN HIS HAND. 15:41 IT NEVER SAYS HE WHIPPED ANYBODY. 15:43 IT NEVER SAYS HE YELLED. I MEAN, JESUS DIDN'T START 15:47 SCREAMING WITH A HOARSE VOICE AND HAVE A TANTRUM. 15:50 I THINK HIS VOICE HAD JUST SO MUCH AUTHORITY TO IT THAT HE 15:53 SAID, 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE IS TO BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER AND YOU 16:00 HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES' - AND JUST THE CONVICTION OF WHAT 16:02 HE SAID - THEY WERE SO AFRAID THEY DIDN'T ARGUE. 16:06 HE TURNS OVER THE TABLES. THE GUARDS DON'T ARREST HIM. 16:09 THE LEVITES DON'T CONFRONT HIM. THE PRIESTS DON'T STOP HIM. 16:13 AND IT'S LIKE THEY SUDDENLY, INHERENTLY KNOW HE IS THE ONE 16:18 THAT CALLS THE SHOTS. JESUS - HAVE YOU EVER MET A 16:23 PERSON - THEY HAVEN'T SPOKEN. YOU'VE NEVER MET THEM BEFORE. 16:26 YOU CAN LOOK AT THEM AND THEY HAVE A BEARING OF CONFIDENCE AND 16:31 AUTHORITY. HAVE YOU EVER MET PEOPLE LIKE THAT? 16:33 THEY JUST CARRY IT WITH THEM AND, YOU KNOW WHAT? 16:38 IT DOESN'T ALWAYS MATTER HOW TALL OR SHORT THEY ARE; HOW 16:42 YOUNG OR OLD THEY ARE; THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT YOU JUST LOOK 16:46 AT THEM AND YOU CAN SAY, 'THAT'S A LEADER.' 16:48 THIS PERSON HAS THAT BEARING OF AUTHORITY. 16:50 AND JESUS, WHEN HE WENT IN THERE, AND HIS CONNECTION WITH 16:53 THE FATHER AND THE SPIRIT - I THINK THAT IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF 16:56 AGES IT SAYS, "DIVINITY FLASHED THROUGH HUMANITY" WHEN HE SAID 17:01 THAT AND PEOPLE WERE TERRIFIED. IT'S LIKE IT WAS THE JUDGMENT 17:04 DAY WHEN HE SAID THIS TO THEM. THEY WERE FRIGHTENED. 17:08 THEY WENT SCRAMBLING OUT OF THERE. AND THEN THE CHILDREN - 17:11 BUT THEY WEREN'T AFRAID. THEY STAYED AND THEY SANG. 17:13 NOW THE DEFINITION FOR AUTHORITY - AND THIS IS JUST YOUR, YOU 17:18 KNOW, ONLINE MERRIAM WEBSTER DEFINITION - IT SAYS, "THE POWER 17:22 OR RIGHT TO GIVE ORDERS; TO MAKE DECISIONS; TO ENFORCE OBEDIENCE" 17:27 - SOME SYNONYMS WOULD BE 'POWER; JURISDICTION; COMMAND; CONTROL; 17:32 CHARGE; DOMINANCE; RULE; SOVEREIGNTY; SUPREMACY; 17:35 INFLUENCE; AND CLOUT." EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY, 17:39 'THEY'VE GOT CLOUT'? THEY'VE GOT AUTHORITY 17:41 IS WHAT THAT MEANS. JESUS HAD THAT. 17:43 HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS. 17:46 YOU LOOK IN LUKE CHAPTER 4 - LUKE 4, VERSE 40 - VERSES 31 17:52 THROUGH 36 IS WHERE HE CASTS OUT DEVILS. 17:54 "THEN HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM, A CITY OF GALILEE," - THIS IS 17:59 WHERE PETER LIVED - "AND WAS TEACHING THEM ON THE SABBATHS. 18:02 AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS TEACHING, FOR HIS WORD WAS WITH 18:05 AUTHORITY. NOW IN THE SYNAGOGUE THERE WAS A 18:10 MAN WHO HAD A SPIRIT OF AN UNCLEAN DEMON. 18:12 AND HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, 'LET US ALONE! 18:15 WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH YOU, JESUS OF NAZARETH? 18:18 DID YOU COME TO DESTROY US? 18:20 I KNOW WHO YOU ARE - THE HOLY ONE OF GOD!' 18:22 BUT JESUS REBUKED HIM, SAYING, 'BE QUIET, AND COME OUT OF HIM!' 18:26 AND WHEN THE DEMON HAD THROWN HIM IN THEIR MIDST," - A DEMON 18:30 ACTUALLY FELL AND CONVULSED - "IT CAME OUT OF HIM AND DID NOT 18:33 HURT HIM. THEN THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND 18:36 SPOKE AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING, 'WHAT A WORD THIS IS! 18:40 FOR WITH AUTHORITY AND POWER HE COMMANDS THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS, 18:44 AND THEY COME OUT.'" NOW DOES JESUS STILL HAVE THAT AUTHORITY? 18:47 DOES A PERSON NEED TO RANT AND RAGE IN CHURCH, IN ORDER TO HAVE 18:54 AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT? OR ARE THERE SOME PEOPLE THAT 18:58 MAY LOOK VERY COMPOSED AND SOPHISTICATED BUT THEY'RE 19:01 HARASSED BY THE DEVIL? CAN THE WORD OF JESUS STILL SET 19:04 PEOPLE FREE FROM DEMONIC POSSESSION AND DEMONIC - 19:09 CERTAINLY, IF HE CAN CAST THOUSANDS OF DEVILS OUT OF THE 19:12 MAN AT GALILEE - THAT DEMONIAC - HE CAN CAST OUT TEN OR ONE. 19:15 IF HE CAN DEAL WITH DEMONIC POSSESSION, JESUS CAN DEAL WITH 19:20 DEMONIC HARASSMENT. DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE? 19:23 EVERYBODY IS DEMON HARASSED. THAT'S CALLED TEMPTATION. 19:28 YOU EVER BEEN HARASSED BY THE DEVIL? 19:31 HE'S GIVING YOU A HARD TIME - MAKING YOU WANT TO THINK OR SAY 19:34 OR DO THINGS YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN'T THINK OR SAY OR DO? 19:36 EVERYBODY HAS THAT. 19:38 IF THE DEVIL - IF JESUS HAS THE AUTHORITY, THROUGH HIS WORD, TO 19:42 CAST DEVILS OUT - THAT'S DEMON POSSESSION - HE CAN SET PEOPLE 19:46 FREE WHO ARE JUST DEVIL HARASSED. 19:49 RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL - >>FLEE. 19:52 >>FLEE FROM YOU. HOW DID JESUS RESIST THE DEVIL? 19:54 THE WORD. WHERE DO WE HAVE OUR AUTHORITY? 19:57 IT'S THE WORD. IS THIS AUTHORITY? 20:01 ISN'T THIS THE AUTHORITY JESUS USED? 20:03 DO WE STILL HAVE THAT AUTHORITY? 20:06 WHAT DID JESUS SAY BEFORE HE WENT TO HEAVEN? 20:08 'ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH HAS BEEN GIVEN UNTO ME. 20:11 GO YE, THEREFORE.' AND WHAT WAS HIS AUTHORITY? HIS WORD. 20:15 ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT? THERE'S PROMISES 20:19 IN GOD'S WORD. THERE'S AUTHORITY IN GOD'S WORD. YOU KNOW, WHEN I 20:24 DO EVANGELISM, I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR AN EVANGELIST TO 20:29 SPEAK WITH CONFIDENCE, CONVICTION, AND AUTHORITY. 20:35 YOU DON'T WIN SOULS TO JESUS IF YOU SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, IT 20:40 COULD MEAN THIS' AND 'IT COULD MEAN THAT' AND 'THIS COULD BE 20:42 RIGHT' AND 'THIS COULD BE WRONG' AND 'WE'RE NOT REALLY SURE' AND 20:44 'THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE BUT OTHERS BELIEVE DIFFERENTLY' AND 20:46 - YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET ANYWHERE WITH THAT. 20:48 JOHN THE BAPTIST, WHEN HE PREACHED, HE SAID, 'REPENT! 20:51 TURN FROM YOUR WAYS. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 20:54 YOU'LL BE FORGIVEN. 20:55 CHANGE YOUR' - THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME AUTHORITY IN WHAT IS SAID. 20:57 I THINK IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER IN THE WORD OF GOD, DON'T BE 21:02 APOLOGETIC ABOUT WHAT YOU BELIEVE. 21:04 YOU'RE BETTER TO BE CONFIDENT AND MAYBE BE A LITTLE WRONG, 21:08 THAN TO BE WISHY WASHY ABOUT EVERYTHING. 21:11 BUT JESUS TAUGHT AS ONE THAT HAD AUTHORITY AND WE JUST TALKED 21:14 ABOUT THAT A SECOND AGO. THEY WERE AMAZED AT HIS 21:17 AUTHORITY. HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE: YOU GO 21:20 TO LUKE 7 - YOU KNOW THE STORY OF THE CENTURION? 21:22 THIS IS A GREAT STUDY ON BIBLICAL AUTHORITY. 21:24 LUKE CHAPTER 7, VERSE 7 - THERE'S THIS CENTURION, HIS 21:30 SERVANT IS SICK, AND HE SENDS MESSENGERS TO JESUS AND SAYS, 21:34 'YOU KNOW, IF YOU COULD HEAL MY SERVANT I'D BE REALLY GRATEFUL.' 21:37 WELL, HE THOUGHT JESUS WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, 'OKAY, BE HEALED' 21:40 AND HE'D BE HEALED. BUT JESUS BEGINS TO GO TO THE 21:43 MAN'S HOUSE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE HAD DONE FOR EVERYBODY ELSE. 21:46 HE ACTUALLY GOES AND HE TOUCHES THEM OR SAYS A WORD AND THE 21:48 CENTURION, HE'S MORTIFIED, HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT WORTHY THAT YOU 21:51 SHOULD COME TO ME.' AND YOU CAN READ HERE IN VERSE 7 - LUKE 7:7, 21:56 "THEREFORE I DID NOT EVEN THINK MYSELF WORTHY TO COME TO YOU." 22:00 - I SENT MESSENGERS - "BUT SAY THE WORD, AND MY SERVANT WILL BE 22:03 HEALED. FOR I ALSO AM A MAN PLACED UNDER 22:07 AUTHORITY," - I'M A SOLDIER, WE UNDERSTAND AUTHORITY - WE 22:09 UNDERSTAND RANK - "HAVING SOLDIERS UNDER ME. 22:11 AND I SAY TO ONE, 'GO,' AND HE GOES; AND TO ANOTHER, 'COME,' 22:14 AND HE COMES; AND TO MY SERVANT, 'DO THIS,' AND HE DOES IT.'" - 22:16 'I TAKE ORDERS OF THOSE ABOVE ME. I GIVE ORDERS TO THOSE 22:19 BELOW ME. YOU'RE THE GOD OF HEAVEN. 22:22 GIVE THE ORDER. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO COME. 22:25 SEND YOUR ANGELS WITH AN ORDER TO TELL MY SERVANT TO BE 22:27 HEALED.' AND JESUS STOPS IN HIS TRACKS. 22:31 YOU KNOW THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE OF TIMES THAT CHRIST ACTUALLY 22:35 COMMENDS A PERSON FOR FAITH. MOST OF THE TIME WHEN JESUS 22:39 TALKS ABOUT FAITH, HE SAYS, 'O YE OF LITTLE FAITH.' WHEN THE 22:43 DISCIPLES PANICKED IN THE BOAT, WHAT DID HE SAY TO THEM? 22:47 'O, GREAT FAITH!' - NO. 22:48 HE SAYS TO THE APOSTLES OVER AND OVER, 'WHERE IS YOUR FAITH? 22:50 O YE OF LITTLE FAITH.' BUT THE GENTILES, ON AT LEAST A COUPLE 22:56 OF OCCASIONS, HE COMMENDS THE FAITH OF GENTILES. 23:00 YOU REMEMBER THAT WOMAN WHO HAD A DEMON-POSSESSED DAUGHTER? 23:03 AND SHE SAYS, 'PLEASE HEAL MY DAUGHTER.' AND CHRIST SAID, 23:06 'LOOK, I'M SENT TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, 23:08 IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S FOOD AND GIVE IT TO 23:10 THE DOGS.' - HE SAID THAT BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THE GENTILES 23:13 WERE REFERRED TO BY THE APOSTLES. 23:16 SHE SAID, 'OH, YEAH, BUT EVEN THE DOGS GET THE CRUMBS.' AND 23:19 JESUS SAYS, 'GREAT IS YOUR FAITH.' AND IT'S INTERESTING, 23:25 THE ONES WHO WERE COMMENDED FOR FAITH WERE THE GENTILES. 23:28 SO HE SAYS, 'GREAT IS YOUR FAITH.' AND HE DOES IT. 23:32 HE HEALS THE CENTURION'S SERVANT. 23:35 HE UNDERSTANDS THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS. 23:38 DO YOU BELIEVE IN HIS AUTHORITY? THE AUTHORITY OF HIS WORD THAT 23:42 HE CAN ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS? HE CAN DO IT INSTANTLY. 23:45 ALRIGHT, LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS. 23:48 YOU GO TO LUKE CHAPTER 5, VERSE 24. 23:53 I'M KIND OF BOUNCING AROUND IN LUKE, BUT THE LESSON DOES ALSO. 23:56 STILL TALKING ABOUT AUTHORITY, THE MAN IS LET DOWN THROUGH THE 24:01 ROOF - HE'S PARALYZED. 24:03 HE LOOKS LIKE HIS PRIMARY CONCERN IS THAT HE WANTS TO BE 24:08 HEALED, BUT JESUS DEALS WITH HIS MOST IMPORTANT CONCERN. 24:11 AND HE SAYS, IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL THAT ARE LISTENING AND 24:14 THERE'S SOME APOSTLES THERE, THERE'S SOME SCRIBES AND 24:17 PHARISEES THERE - HE SAID, "'BUT THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE SON 24:20 OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS' - HE SAID TO THE 24:23 MAN WHO WAS PARALYZED, 'I SAY TO YOU, ARISE, TAKE UP YOUR BED, 24:27 AND GO TO YOUR HOUSE.' IMMEDIATELY HE ROSE UP BEFORE 24:30 THEM, TOOK UP WHAT HE HAD BEEN LYING ON, AND DEPARTED TO HIS 24:33 OWN HOUSE, GLORIFYING GOD. AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED, AND 24:36 THEY GLORIFIED GOD AND WERE FILLED WITH FEAR, SAYING, 24:38 'WE HAVE SEEN STRANGE THINGS TODAY!'" 24:40 THEN, THEY WERE SURPRISED THAT HE WOULD TAKE THE AUDACITY TO 24:47 SAY 'YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN.' DOES JESUS HAVE AUTHORITY TO 24:50 FORGIVE SINS? HE NOT ONLY HAS AUTHORITY TO 24:54 SAVE FROM SIN, HE FORGIVES PAST SIN, HE FORGIVES THE POWER OF 24:59 SIN IN THE PRESENT, AND HE CAN DELIVER YOU FROM SIN IN THE 25:04 FUTURE. AND SO HE HAS THAT AUTHORITY. 25:07 NOW THAT - THEY REALLY HAD A PROBLEM WITH THAT. 25:09 JESUS, SEVERAL TIMES, DID THINGS AND SAID THINGS THAT MADE IT 25:13 CLEAR THAT HE HAD POWER TO FORGIVE SIN AND THE BIBLE SAYS 25:19 GOD AND GOD ONLY CAN FORGIVE SIN. 25:21 AND SO JESUS WAS SAYING, 'I HAVE THAT AUTHORITY TO FORGIVE SIN.' 25:27 AND SO THAT REALLY SHOCKED THEM THAT HE SAID THIS. 25:30 YOU CAN LOOK ALSO IN LUKE 12 - WE'RE - JUST A COUPLE MORE ON 25:33 AUTHORITY THEN WE'LL MOVE ALONG. LUKE 12, VERSE 8 - JESUS SAID, 25:38 "ALSO I SAY TO YOU, WHO CONFESSES ME - WHOEVER CONFESSES 25:41 ME BEFORE MEN, HIM THE SON OF MAN ALSO WILL CONFESS BEFORE THE 25:44 ANGELS OF GOD. BUT HE WHO DENIES ME BEFORE MEN 25:47 WILL BE DENIED BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD." 25:51 JESUS WAS SAYING, 'LOOK, MY NAME HAS POWER IN HEAVEN.' - HOW MANY 25:57 OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF JOB? 25:59 WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE 26:04 LORD AND SATAN CAME ALSO, AND THE LORD SAID TO THE DEVIL, 26:08 'WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?' WHO IS THAT SPEAKING, 26:11 GOD THE FATHER OR THE SON? 26:13 I THINK THAT WAS JESUS AND JESUS IS SAYING, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED 26:21 MY SERVANT JOB, THAT THERE'S NONE LIKE HIM? 26:24 THE DEVIL IS SAYING, 'I REPRESENT THE EARTH. 26:26 THE EARTH IS MY DOMAIN.' - SEE, EVEN JESUS - JESUS EVEN SAID 26:29 SATAN IS THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD, DIDN'T HE? HE SAID, 26:33 'THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD COMES AND HAS NOTHING IN ME.' 26:36 BUT JESUS WAS LETTING THE DEVIL KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE COMPLETE 26:40 DOMINION. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB?' 26:42 SO WHEN CHRIST SAID, 'WHOEVER CONFESSES ME BEFORE MEN IN THIS 26:46 WORLD, I WILL CONFESS HIM BEFORE MY FATHER AND THE ANGELS OF 26:49 HEAVEN.' DO YOU HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF THAT IN THE BIBLE? 26:51 HE IS CONFESSING THE NAME OF JOB IN HEAVEN. 26:54 AND SO WHEN YOU STAND UP FOR GOD HERE ON EARTH AND YOU THINK 26:58 NOBODY'S NOTICING, THERE'S A WHOLE STADIUM FILLED WITH ANGELS 27:02 AND GOD AND UNFALLEN BEINGS THAT SEE THE BATTLES WE'RE GOING 27:06 THROUGH. AND WHEN YOU THINK 'NOBODY CARES 27:08 THAT I'M BEING FAITHFUL.' OH, YOU'D BE SURPRISED. 27:11 THERE'S A GREAT CONTROVERSY. THERE'S UNTOLD MILLIONS - WE ARE 27:14 A SPECTACLE TO THE UNIVERSE. JESUS SAID HE WILL CONFESS YOUR 27:18 NAME BEFORE THE UNFALLEN WORLDS, WHEN WE CONFESS HIS NAME. 27:22 SO WHEN YOU'RE UNDER PRESSURE TO COMPROMISE YOUR BELIEFS BECAUSE 27:25 OF OUR CULTURE AND OUR WORLD, AND YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE THE 27:28 ONLY ONE THAT STANDS UP - THAT YOU'RE OLD FASHIONED - YOU'RE 27:31 STRAIGHT-LACED - YOU'RE CALLED ALL KINDS OF KOOKY NAMES BECAUSE 27:35 OF YOUR BELIEFS. THE WORLD MIGHT SAY THAT ABOUT 27:38 YOU BUT HOW DOES HEAVEN SAY - HOW DOES HEAVEN SPEAK ABOUT YOU? 27:42 DOES THE LORD WANT MORE PEOPLE LIKE ELIJAH THAT WILL STAND UP 27:46 WHEN EVERYONE ELSE - MORE PEOPLE LIKE JOHN THE BAPTIST? 27:50 HE SAYS, 'CONFESS ME - I HAVE AUTHORITY TO CONFESS YOUR NAME 27:53 IN HEAVEN.' AND THEN YOU CAN READ IN LUKE CHAPTER 6 - WHEN 27:58 YOU DO THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT THAT YOU FIND IN MATTHEW 28:02 CHAPTERS 5, 6, AND 7, LUKE COMPRESSES IT ALL INTO PART OF 28:08 JUST CHAPTER 6. IN LUKE'S VERSION OF JESUS' 28:13 SERMON ON THE MOUNT - THE GREATEST SERMON - HE'S REALLY 28:15 COVERING SEVEN PRINCIPLE POINTS, AND IT OUTLINES THEM FOR YOU 28:20 HERE IN THE LESSON. I'M GOING TO GO OVER THIS VERY 28:22 QUICKLY WITH YOU. YOU'VE GOT THE CHRISTIAN 28:25 BLESSEDNESS IS ONE. THE CHRISTIAN REJOICING IN THE 28:28 MIDST OF REJECTION IS ANOTHER. THE WOES TO GUARD AGAINST IS 28:32 THREE. THE CHRISTIAN IMPERATIVE - THAT 28:35 GREAT COMMAND - IS FOUR. THE CHRISTIAN WAY IS FIVE. 28:39 CHRISTIAN FRUIT BEARING IS SIX AND THE CHRISTIAN BUILDER - THE 28:43 WISE MAN WHO BUILDS ON THE ROCK - IS SEVEN. 28:45 AND LET'S GO AHEAD AND OPEN OUR BIBLES QUICKLY AND WE'LL 28:48 HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THESE - THESE GREAT TEACHINGS OF LUKE - 28:53 TEACHINGS OF JESUS - THAT YOU FIND IN LUKE CHAPTER 6. 28:56 HE STARTS WITH VERSE 20, "THEN HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES TOWARD HIS 29:00 DISCIPLES, AND SAID: 'BLESSED ARE YOU POOR, FOR YOURS IS THE 29:03 KINGDOM OF GOD.'" - NOW, IS THAT DIFFERENT FROM MATTHEW? 29:06 HOW DOES IT READ IN MATTHEW - THE BEATITUDES? 29:10 IS JESUS SAYING YOU'RE BLESSED FOR BEING POOR? 29:13 OR DOES HE SAY 'POOR IN SPIRIT'? 29:16 SO IT SHOWS THERE'S MORE - GOD IS NOT SAYING, 'I WANT EVERYONE 29:19 TO BE POOR.' BUT LUKE REALLY IDENTIFIES WITH THE POOR. 29:24 HAVE YOU NOTICED - LIKE IN THE PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND 29:26 LAZARUS, HE TALKS ABOUT THIS CERTAIN POOR BEGGAR. 29:28 LUKE OFTEN ACCENTUATES JESUS' LOVE FOR THE POOR AND SO HE 29:36 HIGHLIGHTS THAT HERE - "BLESSED ARE YOU POOR FOR YOURS IN THE 29:39 KINGDOM OF GOD. BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HUNGER NOW, 29:42 FOR YOU SHALL BE FILLED. BLESSED ARE YOU WHO WEEP NOW, 29:46 FOR YOU SHALL LAUGH.' BLESSED ARE YOU WHEN MEN HATE YOU, AND 29:50 WHEN THEY EXCLUDE YOU, AND REVILE YOU, AND CAST OUT YOUR 29:52 NAME AS EVIL, FOR THE SON OF MAN'S SAKE. 29:56 REJOICE IN THAT DAY AND LEAP FOR JOY! 29:58 FOR INDEED YOUR REWARD IS GREAT IN HEAVEN, FOR IN LIKE MANNER 30:01 THEIR FATHERS DID PERSECUTE THE PROPHETS BEFORE YOU." 30:04 NOW DOES IT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT 'BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS' 30:08 HERE? HOW ABOUT 'BLESSED ARE THE MEEK'? 30:12 SO IF YOU WANT TO - KAREN WAS READING A BIBLE - I THINK - I 30:17 THINK SHE SAID SHE HAD A BIBLE WHERE IT TOOK THE FOUR GOSPELS 30:21 AND IT PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER, CHRONOLOGICALLY. 30:25 THAT'S A GOOD STUDY TOOL. 30:27 I WOULDN'T SAY YOU SHOULD MAKE IT YOUR REGULAR BIBLE, BUT 30:30 SOMEONE ACTUALLY DID THE RESEARCH AND THEY OVERLAPPED ALL 30:33 THE TEACHINGS, CHRONOLOGICALLY, OF MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN, 30:37 AND IT'S REALLY INTERESTING, YOU GET ALL THOSE TEACHINGS 30:40 OVERLAPPED TOGETHER - THE WAY WE DO IT NOW IS SORT OF BY CROSS 30:43 REFERENCING. IT ACTUALLY MAKES THE TEACHINGS 30:45 OF JESUS BROADER WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT THAT WAY. 30:49 BUT YOU'LL SEE WHAT LUKE IS DOING IS LUKE IS BASICALLY 30:51 GIVING A CONDENSED VERSION OF THAT SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 30:55 LUKE THEN SAYS, "BUT WOE TO YOU WHO ARE RICH, 30:58 FOR YOU HAVE RECEIVED YOUR CONSOLATION." 31:00 NOW, IS LUKE SAYING THAT RICHES ARE A CURSE? CAN BE. 31:08 DOESN'T JESUS SAY IT'S HARDER FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE 31:10 KINGDOM THAN A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE? 31:13 I THINK IF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR EARTHLY RICHES, 31:17 IT CAN BE A WOE IF THAT'S OUR OBJECTIVE. 31:21 "WOE TO YOU WHO ARE FULL, FOR YOU SHALL HUNGER." 31:24 - IF - HE'S SAYING IF YOUR GOAL IN LIFE IS RICHES NOW AND A FULL 31:28 STOMACH NOW AND YOU DON'T HAVE A GREATER PURPOSE THAN HAPPINESS 31:33 AND SATISFACTION NOW, YOU'RE GOING TO MISS EVERYTHING. 31:36 HE'S SAYING, 'REALLY, YOU SHOULD BE THINKING AHEAD TO THE KINGDOM 31:40 TO COME.' AND THEN HE MAKES THOSE STATEMENTS - VERSE 27, 31:44 "BUT I SAY TO YOU WHO HEAR: 'LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD TO 31:50 THOSE WHO HATE YOU, BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU, AND PRAY FOR 31:53 THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU. TO HIM WHO STRIKES YOU ON THE 31:58 ONE CHEEK, OFFER THE OTHER ALSO. AND FROM HIM WHO TAKES AWAY YOUR 32:00 CLOAK, DO NOT WITHHOLD YOUR TUNIC EITHER. 32:03 GIVE TO EVERYONE WHO ASKS OF YOU." 32:06 - THAT'S TOUGH TO LIVE UP TO - GIVE TO EVERYONE WHO ASKS OF 32:10 YOU. IS THERE A LIMIT? 32:13 IF YOU KNOW THAT PEOPLE IN CHURCH JUST READ THAT VERSE AND 32:16 THEY'RE PRETTY WELL SET, YOU CAN GO TO THEM AND SAY, 'COULD 32:21 I HAVE TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, PLEASE?' 32:23 IT SAYS RIGHT HERE, 'GIVE TO HIM THAT ASKS OF YOU.' HE'S SPEAKING 32:32 IN GENERAL TERMS, RIGHT? WE SHOULD BE GENEROUS. 32:36 WE SHOULD KNOW HOW TO FORGIVE. 32:37 I MEAN, IF SOMEBODY COMES AND SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M GOING TO TAKE 32:40 AWAY YOUR CLOAK AND I WANT YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR SWEATER, AND I 32:42 WANT YOUR TEMPURPEDIC MATTRESS AND I WANT YOUR CAR AND I WANT' 32:47 - I MEAN, THAT'S NOT WHAT JESUS IS SAYING. 32:49 HE'S SAYING THAT - HE'S TALKING ABOUT IF SOMEONE IS SUING YOU 32:53 BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT YOU OWE RIGHTS, SOMETIMES YOU'RE BETTER 32:55 OFF LETTING A PERSON JUST HAVE SOMETHING AND HAVING PEACE - 32:59 'AND IF THOSE DO - DO GOOD - AND DO GOOD TO GOOD TO YOU...WHAT 33:07 CREDIT IS THAT TO YOU?' - "FOR EVEN SINNERS DO THE SAME. 33:09 AND IF YOU LEND TO THOSE FROM WHOM YOU HOPE TO RECEIVE BACK, 33:13 WHAT CREDIT IS THAT TO YOU? 33:15 FOR EVEN SINNERS LEND TO SINNERS TO RECEIVE AS MUCH BACK." 33:18 - HE MEANS EVEN THE PAGANS DO THAT - "BUT LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, 33:20 DO GOOD, AND LEND, HOPING FOR NOTHING IN RETURN; AND YOUR 33:24 REWARD WILL BE GREAT, AND YOU WILL BE SONS OF THE MOST HIGH. 33:27 FOR HE IS KIND TO THE UNTHANKFUL AND EVIL. 33:31 THEREFORE BE MERCIFUL, JUST AS YOUR FATHER ALSO IS MERCIFUL." 33:34 NOW HOW IS THAT RENDERED IN MATTHEW? 33:37 'BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS 33:42 PERFECT.' HOW DOES LUKE SAY IT? 'BE THEREFORE MERCIFUL.' HAVE 33:48 YOU ALWAYS BEEN FRIGHTENED A LITTLE BIT BY THAT VERSE, 'BE YE 33:51 THEREFORE PERFECT AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT? 33:53 WHO HERE IS PERFECT AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN? 33:55 IF WE HAVE PERFECT LOVE AND PERFECT MERCY, THAT'S HOW WE'RE 34:03 MODELING - AND THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO COMPARE THESE 34:06 GOSPELS BACK AND FORTH. "JUDGE NOT, AND YOU SHALL NOT BE 34:12 JUDGED. CONDEMN NOT AND YOU SHALL NOT BE 34:13 CONDEMNED." - THAT'S A PROMISE - "FORGIVE, 34:15 AND YOU WILL BE FORGIVEN. GIVE AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO 34:18 YOU." YOU NOTICE WHAT HE'S SAYING? 34:20 YOU'RE GOING TO GET WHAT YOU GIVE. 34:22 "GIVE AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU: GOOD MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, 34:24 SHAKEN TOGETHER, AND RUNNING OVER WILL BE PUT INTO YOUR 34:28 BOSOM. FOR WITH THE SAME MEASURE THAT 34:31 YOU USE, IT WILL BE MEASURED BACK TO YOU." 34:33 THOSE ARE SOME OF THE HIGH POINTS OF THE SERMON ON THE 34:36 MOUNT. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE SECTION 34:38 UNDER A NEW FAMILY - A NEW FAMILY - SOMEONE IS GOING TO 34:42 READ FOR ME, IN A MINUTE, EPHESIANS 3:15. 34:45 OKAY, DARRYL WILL HAVE THAT IN JUST A SECOND. 34:47 LET ME READ THAT VERSE FOR YOU, LUKE 8 - LUKE 8:19 - 21, 34:51 "THEN HIS MOTHER AND BROTHERS CAME TO HIM, AND COULD NOT 34:55 APPROACH HIM BECAUSE OF THE CROWD. 34:57 AND IT WAS TOLD HIM BY SOME, WHO SAID, 'YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR 35:01 BROTHERS ARE STANDING OUTSIDE, DESIRING TO SEE YOU.' BUT HE 35:05 ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 'MY MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS ARE THESE 35:08 WHO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND DO IT.'" NOW, I ACTUALLY HAD A CALL 35:12 THAT CAME INTO THE RADIO PROGRAM THIS WEEK, SOMEONE QUOTED THIS 35:17 VERSE AND THEY SAID, 'WAS JESUS DISOWNING HIS FAMILY?' 35:19 THEY LOOKED AT WHAT JESUS SAID AT THE CROSS WHEN HE SAID, 35:22 'WOMAN, BEHOLD YOUR SON.' AND WHEN, YOU KNOW, HIS BROTHERS 35:27 SAID - AND HIS FAMILY SAID, 'COME, WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU. 35:30 YOU'RE - YOU'RE - THINGS ARE GETTING OUT OF CONTROL.' AND 35:33 WHEN MARY SAID, 'LOOK, THEY'RE OUT OF WINE.' HE SAID, 'WOMAN, 35:36 MY TIME HAS NOT YET COME YET.' AND WHEN HE WAS DOWN IN THE 35:38 TEMPLE AND HE SAID, 'WOULDST YE NOT I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHER'S 35:40 BUSINESS.' AND THEY SAID, 'DID JESUS BASICALLY ABANDON HIS 35:43 FAMILY?' NO, NOT AT ALL. 35:45 CHRIST WAS SAYING - FIRST OF ALL, HE PUT THE CARE OF HIS 35:49 MOTHER - ONE OF THE LAST THINGS HE DOES IS TAKE CARE OF HIS 35:51 MOTHER BECAUSE HE FEELS A CONNECTION AND RESPONSIBILITY, 35:54 HE PUTS HER IN THE CARE OF JOHN. 35:56 HERE HE'S SAYING - HE'S SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE 35:59 LISTENING TO THE WORD OF GOD AND HE'S SAYING, 'FIRST AND 36:03 FOREMOST, MY MISSION IS TO TEACH THE WORD OF GOD AND ENCOURAGE 36:07 PEOPLE TO DO IT - TO BE HEARERS AND DOERS OF THE WORD. 36:10 THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN A FAMILY POW WOW.' 36:14 AND SO THAT'S ALL THAT JESUS IS SAYING BY THIS. 36:17 HE WAS ALSO SAYING THAT WHEN WE HEAR AND DO THE WORD OF GOD, 36:21 WE ARE PART OF A HEAVENLY FAMILY. 36:23 YOU REMEMBER THE STATEMENT WHERE - I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT 36:28 REFERENCE RIGHT NOW, BUT PETER SAYS, 'LORD, WE'VE FORSAKEN 36:30 EVERYTHING TO FOLLOW YOU, WHAT WILL WE HAVE? 36:32 AND JESUS SAID, 'NO MAN HAS GIVEN UP FATHER, MOTHER, 36:35 HUSBAND, WIFE, HOUSES, LAND, CHILDREN, FOR MY SAKE AND THE 36:39 GOSPEL, EXCEPT HE WILL HAVE A HUNDRED TIMES MORE IN THIS 36:43 LIFE.' - FATHERS AND MOTHERS AND HOUSES AND LANDS AND FAMILY - 36:47 WITH PERSECUTION - AND ETERNAL LIFE IN THE WORLD TO COME. 36:51 SO WHEN YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN AND YOU JOIN GOD'S CHURCH, DO 36:54 YOU HAVE LESS FAMILY OR MORE FAMILY? 36:56 YEAH, JESUS SAID THE BELIEVERS ARE ALL FAMILY. 37:01 WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF ACTS? LUKE. 37:05 AND LUKE IS THERE SAYING, 'EVERYONE TREATED EVERYBODY LIKE 37:08 A BROTHER AND IF ANYONE HAD NEED, THEY'D SELL TO TAKE CARE 37:11 OF THE NEEDS OF OTHERS.' AND THERE WAS THIS 37:13 GREAT SENSE OF FAMILY THAT THEY HAD. 37:15 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US PLEASE EPHESIANS 3:15. 37:18 >>"FOR THIS REASON I BOW MY KNEES TO THE FATHER OF OUR LORD 37:21 JESUS CHRIST, FROM WHOM THE WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH 37:25 IS NAMED." >>ALRIGHT, AND NOW FAMILY 37:27 SOMETIMES HAS WEDDING AND FAMILY FUNCTIONS. 37:31 AND YOU CAN READ HERE IN LUKE 5:29, "THEN LEVI GAVE HIM A 37:37 GREAT FEAST IN HIS OWN HOUSE. AND THERE WERE A GREAT NUMBER OF 37:41 TAX COLLECTORS AND OTHERS WHO SAT DOWN WITH THEM. 37:43 AND THEIR SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES COMPLAINED AGAINST HIS 37:46 DISCIPLES, SAYING, 'WHY DO YOU EAT AND DRINK WITH TAX 37:48 COLLECTORS AND SINNERS?' JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 37:52 'THOSE WHO ARE WELL HAVE NO NEED OF A PHYSICIAN, BUT THOSE WHO 37:55 ARE SICK. I HAVE NOT COME TO CALL THE 37:58 RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS, TO REPENTANCE.'" JESUS WAS SAYING, 38:00 'THE NEW FAMILY THAT I'M CALLING ARE FROM ALL DIFFERENT 38:05 BACKGROUNDS.' NOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE DISMAY OF THE 38:12 RELIGIOUS LEADERS BECAUSE WHAT DOES PSALM 1 SAY? ANYONE KNOW? 38:14 FIRST PSALM - FIRST VERSES IN THE FIRST PSALM. 38:18 'BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO WALKS NOT IN THE COUNSEL OF THE 38:22 UNGODLY OR SITS IN THE SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL OR WALKS IN THE WAY 38:24 OF THE SINNERS.' - I'M GETTING IT MIXED UP BUT 38:27 THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS. 38:28 AVOID SINNERS - DON'T SIT WITH SINNERS - FIRST PSALM. 38:33 AND THEY THOUGHT THIS WAS GOOD BIBLE TEACHING AND HERE'S JESUS, 38:36 HE'S DELIBERATELY GOING TO A DINNER AND SITTING WITH SINNERS 38:39 AND THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS A VIOLATION OF TEACHING. 38:42 AND HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'LOOK, UNLESS YOU REACH OUT AND 38:45 MINGLE WITH SOME OF THESE PEOPLE, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO 38:48 EVER REACH THEM? SHOULD CHRISTIANS ONLY EAT WITH 38:51 CHRISTIANS? ISN'T IT IMPORTANT TO INTERACT 38:56 WITH PEOPLE FROM OTHER FAITHS AND OTHER - YOU KNOW, THERE'S 39:02 GOING TO BE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS AND THINGS - CAN YOU SOMETIMES 39:05 BE FACED WITH SOME MORAL DILEMMAS OF HOW TO BEHAVE IN 39:08 THOSE SITUATIONS? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE FAMILY THAT 39:13 ARE NOT BELIEVERS SOMEWHERE? YEAH, MOST OF US, RIGHT? 39:16 AND IF YOU'RE - YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE LIKE US, WHEN OUR KIDS WERE 39:22 LITTLE I'D GO AROUND ALL OF MY DEAR PAGAN FAMILY AND THEY'D 39:26 START TALKING TO THE KIDS AND SAY, 'OH, SANTA CLAUS GOT YOU 39:28 THIS.' AND THE TV'S GOING AND YOU GO VISIT THEM AND SOMETIMES 39:31 IT'S OVER SABBATH AND THE TV'S GOING AND THE CONVER - AND YOU 39:34 CAN RUN INTO SOME REAL MORAL CHALLENGES, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M 39:37 TALKING ABOUT? WHEN YOU'RE VISITING FAMILY - OR 39:40 YOU GO TO A WEDDING - IT'S A FAMILY MEMBER, YOU WANT TO BE 39:42 THERE, BUT SOMETIMES THOSE WEDDINGS GET OUT OF HAND. 39:45 YOU ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 39:48 YEAH, AND THERE'S OFF-COLOR JOKES AND THEN THEY HAVE THE 39:51 RECEPTION AFTERWARD WHICH COULD MEAN THE DRINKING AND THE BAND 39:54 AND THE DANCING AND, YOU KNOW, HERE YOU'RE A BELIEVER AND 39:57 YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE WISDOM TO KNOW AND SAY, 'HEY, THIS WAS 40:00 GREAT. I'M SO GLAD I COULD BE HERE FOR THE VOWS. 40:01 GOT TO RUN NOW.' SOMETIMES YOU'VE GOT TO GRACEFULLY 40:05 EXTRICATE YOURSELF FROM THOSE SITUATIONS. 40:08 BUT, IN THE SAME WAY, CHRISTIANS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO ENGAGE AND 40:11 INTERACT WITH UNBELIEVERS OR YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO REACH - IF 40:15 YOU'RE ONLY FRIENDS WITH THE PEOPLE SITTING WITH YOU IN 40:17 CHURCH, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO WITNESS AND BRING OTHERS TO THE 40:19 LORD? YOU'VE GOT TO CONNECT WITH THEM. 40:21 NOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU START HANGING OUT AT THE BAR SO YOU 40:25 CAN FIND BIBLE STUDIES BECAUSE YOU ALSO DO WANT TO BE A WITNESS 40:28 BY YOUR EXAMPLE AND SO THIS IS A PRINCIPLE WHERE WE NEED TO KNOW 40:33 HOW TO REACH PEOPLE AND BRING THEM INTO THE FAMILY. 40:36 JESUS THEN TALKS ABOUT THIS PARABLE - I LOVE THIS PARABLE - 40:40 LUKE 14:15 - OF THE GREAT SUPPER - "NOW WHEN ONE OF THOSE WHO SAT 40:46 AT THE TABLE WITH HIM HEARD THESE THINGS, HE SAID TO HIM, 40:48 'BLESSED IS HE'" - KIND OF IN A POMPOUS, SANCTIFIED WAY - 40:52 "'BLESSED IS HE WHO SHALL EAT BREAD IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD!'" 40:54 - AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAID, 'OH, 40:57 IT'LL BE SO NICE WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES AND WE CAN EAT 41:00 BREAD TOGETHER IN GOD'S KINGDOM WHERE WE'RE NOT OPPRESSED BY THE 41:02 ROMANS ANYMORE.' AND JESUS SAID, "A CERTAIN MAN GAVE A GREAT 41:06 SUPPER AND INVITED MANY, AND SENT HIS SERVANT AT SUPPER TIME 41:10 TO SAY TO THOSE WHO WERE INVITED, 'COME, FOR ALL THINGS 41:13 ARE NOW READY.' BUT THEY ALL WITH ONE ACCORD 41:17 BEGAN TO MAKE EXCUSES. 41:18 THE FIRST SAID TO HIM, 'I HAVE BOUGHT A PIECE OF GROUND, AND I 41:21 MUST GO AND SEE IT.'" - WHY, DID HE BUY IT SIGHT UNSEEN? 41:23 - 'PLEASE EXCUSE ME.' - THEY'VE ACCEPTED THE WEDDING INVITATION, 41:28 THEY SHOULD HAVE PLANNED ACCORDINGLY. 41:30 THIS IS A KING WHO'S HAVING A WEDDING. 41:32 AND ANOTHER ONE SAYS, "I BOUGHT FIVE YOKE OF OXEN, AND I AM 41:35 GOING TO TEST THEM." - YOU BUY YOUR CAR SIGHT UNSEEN? 41:37 THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE INTERNET BACK THEN - "'I ASK YOU PLEASE 41:42 HAVE ME EXCUSED.' STILL ANOTHER SAID, 'I HAVE MARRIED A WIFE, 41:45 AND THEREFORE I CANNOT COME.'" - WELL, SHE COULD PROBABLY COME 41:47 WITH YOU. THEY'RE JUST MAKING EXCUSES - 41:51 "SO THAT SERVANT CAME AND REPORTED THESE THINGS TO HIS 41:53 MASTER. THEN THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, 41:56 BEING ANGRY, SAID TO HIS SERVANT, 'GO OUT QUICKLY INTO 41:58 THE STREETS AND LANES OF THE CITY, AND BRING IN HERE THE 42:01 POOR" - REMEMBER WHAT I SAID ABOUT LUKE AND THE POOR? 42:03 LUKE'S GOSPEL - HE IS THE GREAT CHAMPION OF THE POOR - "AND 42:08 BRING HERE THE POOR AND THE MAIMED AND THE LAME AND THE 42:11 BLIND.' AND THE SERVANT SAID, 'MASTER, IT IS DONE AS YOU 42:13 COMMANDED, AND STILL THERE IS ROOM.' THEN THE MASTER SAID TO 42:16 THE SERVANT, 'GO OUT INTO THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES, AND COMPEL 42:19 THEM TO COME IN, THAT MY HOUSE MAY BE FILLED.'" - WILL HEAVEN 42:22 BE FILLED? YEAH, GOD'S INSISTING THERE'LL 42:26 BE PLENTY THERE - "FOR I SAY TO YOU THAT NONE OF THOSE MEN WHO 42:29 WERE INVITED SHALL TASTE MY SUPPER." 42:31 NOW WHAT IS THAT PARABLE ALL ABOUT? THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS - 42:35 THE ORTHODOX JEWS - AT THAT TIME SAID, 'OH, WE'RE GOING TO EAT 42:40 BREAD IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.' 'WE ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.' 42:43 BUT THEY WEREN'T WILLING TO ACCEPT JESUS WHEN HE CAME AND 42:45 COME TO THE WEDDING FEAST OF THE SON. 42:48 SO THEN THE DISCIPLES ARE TOLD - THE MESSENGERS - ARE TOLD, 'GO 42:52 OUT AND I WANT YOU TO GET THE PEOPLE WHO MAYBE ARE NOT OF THE 42:56 RELIGIOUS GROUP, BUT THEY'RE JEWS. 42:59 BRING THEM IN.' THAT WAS WHEN YOU GET THE 43:01 FISHERMEN AND YOU GET THE SHEPHERDS AND YOU GET 43:03 THE TAX COLLECTORS AND THEY BECOME PART. 43:05 AND HE SAYS, 'YEAH, BUT THERE'S STILL ROOM.' HE SAYS, 'NOW I 43:08 WANT YOU TO GO TO THE GENTILES - GO TO THE HIGHWAYS AND THE 43:11 HEDGES AND BRING THEM IN.' AND SO THE HOUSE WAS FILLED, BUT THE 43:17 ONES WHO SAID, 'OH YEAH, WE'RE GOD'S PEOPLE' THEY DIDN'T ACCEPT 43:21 JESUS - MANY OF THEM, AND SO THEY WERE - ENDED UP IN OUTER 43:24 DARKNESS. ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP GOING HERE - 43:28 GOT JUST A FEW MINUTES LEFT. IN LUKE 17:17 - WE'RE STILL 43:32 TALKING ABOUT THE - THE ONES FROM THE OUTSIDE WHO COME. 43:39 YOU KNOW WHEN THE TEN LEPERS ARE CLEANSED, HOW MANY CAME BACK TO 43:42 THANK HIM? ONE OUT OF THE TEN. 43:45 WAS HE A JEW OR A GENTILE? >>GENTILE. 43:48 >>HE WAS A SAMARITAN - TECHNICALLY A GENTILE. 43:50 AND YOU'LL OFTEN HEAR, IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, HOW HE'S SAYING 43:53 THAT MANY WILL COME FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST AND WILL SIT 43:58 DOWN IN THE KINGDOM WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, AND 44:01 THE NATURAL CHILDREN MAY BE IN OUTER DARKNESS. 44:03 NOW WHY WAS THIS MESSAGE IMPORTANT TO LUKE? 44:06 OF THE GOSPEL WRITERS - FIRST OF ALL, WAS LUKE AN APOSTLE? 44:12 HE WAS NEVER CALLED AN APOSTLE, BUT HE IS WHAT THEY WOULD CALL 44:15 ONE OF THE EVANGELISTS WHO WROTE A GOSPEL. 44:17 WAS HE A JEW OR A GENTILE? >>GENTILE. SO LUKE, WHEN HE 44:22 JOINED THE CHURCH, HE WAS ONE OF THE EARLY CONVERTS. 44:24 HE OFTEN RAN INTO PEOPLE THAT WERE SAYING, 'DON'T HANG OUT 44:29 WITH THE GENTILES BECAUSE WE'RE JEWS.' THAT FIRST GENERATION, IN 44:32 THE EARLY CHURCH, THEY STRUGGLED WITH THAT. 44:34 AND EVEN AFTER PETER HEARD THE LORD SAY, 'DON'T CALL ANY MAN 44:36 UNCLEAN,' THE GOSPEL NOW WAS TO GO TO EVERYBODY, PAUL HAD TO 44:39 CHASTISE PETER FOR, KIND OF, BEING HYPOCRITICAL - HE WAS 44:45 HANGING OUT WITH THE GENTILES UNTIL SOME EMISSARIES CAME FROM 44:46 JERUSALEM THEN PETER SAID, 'WE BETTER NOT HANG OUT WITH THESE 44:49 GUYS, IT'S NOT GOING TO LOOK GOOD.' 44:51 AND THEY KIND OF HAD LIKE A CASTE SYSTEM. 44:53 YOU'VE GOT THE JEWS AND YOU'VE GOT THE GENTILES AND SO LUKE 44:57 SPOKE OUT AGAINST THAT AND HE WOULD HIGHLIGHT - IT WAS THE 45:01 SAMARITAN THAT CAME BACK TO PRAISE GOD. 45:04 AND HE TALKS ABOUT NAAMAN, THE LEPER, THAT BELIEVED. 45:09 ALRIGHT, IN OUR LAST FEW MINUTES, WE'RE GOING TO BE 45:15 TALKING ABOUT THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN - ANOTHER EXAMPLE 45:17 OF IT WAS NOT THE PRIEST - YOU ALL KNOW THIS STORY. 45:22 LET ME JUST REVIEW IT QUICKLY. 45:23 'A CERTAIN MAN WHO WAS GOING FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO - HE'S 45:28 GOING DOWN, TRAVELING BY HIMSELF, HE FELL AMONG THIEVES, 45:32 WHO ROBBED HIM AND STRIPPED HIM AND BEAT HIM NEARLY TO DEATH AND 45:35 LEFT HIM HALF DEAD AND WENT THEIR WAY AND WHILE THE MAN IS 45:41 DYING ON THE ROAD IN GREAT SUFFERING, A CERTAIN PRIEST 45:45 COMES DOWN THE ROAD AND HE SEES THAT A CRIME IS RECENTLY 45:49 HAPPENED AND HE'S THINKING, 'I DON'T KNOW, THIEVES MAY NOT BE 45:51 FAR AWAY. MAYBE THIS MAN IS GETTING WHAT 45:53 HE DESERVED. I DON'T WANT TO INTERFERE.' 45:55 AND HE JUST GOES DOWN THE ROAD. THIS IS A MEMBER OF THE MAN'S 45:57 OWN CHURCH. HE'S GOING FROM JERUSALEM - 45:59 HOUSE OF GOD - DOWN TO JERICHO - LAS VEGAS. 46:02 HE'S GOING THE SAME WAY AS THE MAN WHO FELL. 46:05 BY THE WAY, DOES THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT ANYBODY FALLING? 46:10 THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE. ADAM FELL. 46:13 IT'S CALLED 'THE FALL.' THIS MAN THAT FELL AMONG THIEVES - WHAT'S 46:16 THE DEVIL CALLED? THE DEVIL IS A THIEF AND A 46:19 ROBBER WHO COMES TO DESTROY - THAT'S THE DEVIL. 46:22 THE DEVIL MET ADAM AND EVE AND THEY WERE NAKED WHEN THEY GOT 46:27 DONE. THIS MAN, THE THIEVES ROBBED 46:30 HIM, STRIPPED HIM - LEAVING HIM NAKED AND WOUNDED - HALF DEAD. 46:33 AFTER THE DEVIL MET ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN, A SENTENCE OF 46:38 DEATH FELL UPON THE HUMAN RACE. SO THEN A LEVITE COMES. 46:43 AGAIN, STILL MEMBERS OF THE SAME CHURCH. 46:45 IT SAYS HE STOPPED - AT LEAST HE LOOKED. 46:49 MAYBE HE SAID A PRAYER, BUT HE DOESN'T DO ANYTHING, HE JUST 46:53 STOPS AND HE LOOKS AND HE GOES DOWN THE ROAD. 46:55 MAYBE HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, LOOK, I'LL CALL A TOW TRUCK.' NOW THE 46:59 MAN IS, YOU KNOW, HE'S HALF DEAD. 47:01 HE'S NOT ALL DEAD, HE'S WOUNDED. HE MAY BE SEMI-CONSCIOUS AND 47:03 WHEN HE'S LAYING THERE AND HE SEES THE PRIEST COME. 47:07 HE'S PROBABLY LAYING THERE AFTER BEING ROBBED AND THINKING, 47:10 'OH, I NEED SOME HELP. MAYBE THE THIEVES'LL COME BACK 47:12 AND KILL ME.' AND HE'S PRAYING, 'LORD, SEND HELP.' AND THE 47:14 PASTOR COMES AND HE THINKS, 'OH, PRAISE THE LORD!' AND HE'S 47:17 GOING, 'OH, HELP. HELP. HELP.' THE PASTOR JUST GOES BY - 47:20 LOOKS AT HIM AND SAYS, 'YOU PROBABLY DID SOMETHING 47:23 TERRIBLE.' AND 'GOD'S PUNISHING YOU, I CAN'T GET INVOLVED. 47:25 IT'S YOUR FATE.' WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED. 47:28 AND HE THINKS, 'THIS ISN'T GOOD.' AND THEN HE SEES THE HEAD 47:32 ELDER COMES BY - THE LEVITE. HE COMES AND HE STOPS AND THE 47:35 MAN SAYS, 'OH, THANK THE LORD. PRAISE THE LORD. HELP ME. 47:37 HELP ME.' HE SAYS, 'OH, I'M GOING TO PRAY FOR YOU. 47:39 I'LL SAY A PRAYER BUT I WON'T DO ANYTHING.' AND HE PRAYS, 'BE YE 47:43 WARMED AND FILLED.' AND THEN HE GOES ON DOWN THE ROAD. 47:46 DOESN'T DO ANYTHING AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S GOT ONE EYE SWOLLEN 47:51 SHUT, HE'S BEEN BEATEN AND HE'S MAYBE GOT A BROKEN BONE OR HIS 47:54 RIBS ARE BROKEN AND IT'S GETTING HOT NOW. 47:58 BUZZARDS ARE CIRCLING AND HE KNOWS HE'S RUNNING OUT OF TIME. 48:01 AND THEN HE LOOKS AND HE HEARS A NOISE COMING AND THE CLOP OF A 48:05 DONKEY AND HE SEES AROUND THIS DIRT HILL ON THE TRAIL, A 48:09 SAMARITAN COMES. SAMARITANS HATED JEWS. 48:14 HERE'S A JEW THAT IS HALF DEAD. MANY SAMARITANS WOULD THINK, 48:19 'I'M GOING TO FINISH HIM OFF IF THERE'S NO WITNESSES. 48:21 THIS GUY'S OWN PASTOR AND HEAD ELDER JUST WALKED BY HIM. 48:25 HOW DOES HE THINK IT'S GOING TO END NOW WHEN HE SEES THE 48:29 SAMARITAN COMING? HE THINKS, 'THIS ISN'T GOOD.' 48:32 AND THEN THE SAMARITAN STOPS AND HE STARTS COMING TOWARDS HIM. 48:37 HE THINKS, 'OH NO, NO, NO, PLEASE DON'T.' 48:38 AND IT SAYS - WHAT DOES HE DO? 48:40 HE SHOWS HIM COMPASSION AND HE HAS PITY ON HIM. 48:45 NOW JESUS TELLS THE STORY OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN IN THE INQUIRY - 48:48 AND THIS WAS ACTUALLY PART ONE - A LAWYER IS SAYING, 'WHO IS MY 48:54 NEIGHBOR?' JESUS SAYS, 'YOU WANT TO KNOW THE GREAT COMMANDMENT? 48:57 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS. 48:59 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' HE SAYS, 'WELL WHO'S MY NEIGHBOR? 49:02 I CAN'T REALLY BE SURE.' AND JESUS TELLS THIS PARABLE. 49:04 NOW THE SAMARITAN STOPS AND IT SAYS THAT HE HAS MERCY ON HIM - 49:10 HE HAS COMPASSION. HE WENT TO HIM - JESUS COMES TO 49:17 US - THE SAMARITAN IS LIKE CHRIST - HE BINDS HIS WOUNDS, 49:20 HE POURS IN OIL - WHAT DOES OIL REPRESENT? 49:23 HOLY SPIRIT - AND WINE? WHAT DOES WINE REPRESENT IN THE 49:28 NEW COVENANT? I JUST TOLD YOU, IT'S THE NEW 49:30 COVENANT - THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, RIGHT? 49:33 AND HE PUTS HIM ON HIS OWN ANIMAL - HE HAS NO STRENGTH - 49:36 AND HE BRINGS HIM TO THE INN AND HE REACHES INTO HIS POCKET AND 49:40 HE TAKES OUT MONEY AND HE SAYS, 'I WILL PAY.' HE TAKES CARE OF 49:45 HIM AND HE SAYS, 'BUT I'VE GOT TO KEEP GOING. 49:47 YOU TAKE CARE OF HIM. WHATEVER MORE YOU SPEND, I'LL 49:49 REIMBURSE YOU.' AND THEN HE SAYS, 'WHEN I COME BACK AGAIN, 49:54 I'LL PAY YOU BACK.' SO WHO IS THE MAN WHO FELL AMONG THIEVES? 49:59 WHO DOES HE REPRESENT? THE HUMAN RACE - US. 50:04 WHO IS THE THIEF? THE DEVIL. YOU KNOW, THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A 50:10 STORY THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, TOO. 50:12 THIS IS SOMETHING THEY MAY HAVE EVEN HEARD ABOUT. 50:16 MATTER OF FACT, ONE OF THOSE THIEVES THAT ROBBED THAT MAN 50:19 COULD HAVE BEEN HANGING ON THE CROSS NEXT TO JESUS. 50:20 AND WHO DOES THE SAMARITAN REPRESENT? 50:25 SAMARITANS WERE KIND OF HALF BREEDS BECAUSE THEY HAD SOME 50:31 JEWISH BLOOD. THEY INTERMARRIED WITH SOME OF THE PRIESTS. 50:33 THEY BELIEVED THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES BUT THEY HAD A LOT OF 50:36 ASSYRIAN BLOOD TOO. DID JESUS HAVE SOME GENTILE 50:39 BLOOD IN HIS VEINS? YOU KNOW ABOUT RUTH AND TAMAR 50:42 AND RAHAB AND POSSIBLY BATHSHEBA. 50:47 THERE WAS SOME - JESUS HAD OTHER RACES IN HIS BLOOD. 50:55 JESUS IS HALF GOD AND HALF MAN, SO TO SPEAK, AND HE COMES TO THE 51:01 ONE THAT HAS BEEN BEATEN AND HE SHOWS MERCY AND HE SAYS, 'LOOK, 51:07 I'M GOING TO GET OFF MY DONKEY. I'LL WALK AND YOU RIDE.' 51:09 HE TRADES PLACES WITH HIM - 'I'M GOING TO TAKE MY CLOTHES AND 51:12 I'LL TEAR THEM UP AND MAKE BANDAGES - HIS ROBE, LIKE HIS 51:15 RIGHTEOUSNESS - HE BANDAGES UP HIS WOUNDS - 'AND I'LL POUR IN 51:18 THE OIL OF THE SPIRIT AND THE WINE OF THE NEW COVENANT AND 51:20 I'LL BRING YOU TO WHERE OTHERS WILL CARE FOR YOU.' 51:23 THAT'S THE CHURCH. AND HE TELLS THE INNKEEPER, 'YOU 51:26 TAKE CARE OF HIM. WHEN I COME BACK I'LL REPAY 51:29 YOU.' IS JESUS COMING BACK? WE - DO WE MAYBE HAVE TO INVEST 51:33 IN TAKING CARE OF OTHERS? IS THERE A PAYDAY COMING? 51:37 THE WHOLE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS WRAPPED UP IN THE STORY OF THE 51:41 GOOD SAMARITAN. AND WE ALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY 51:45 TO SHOW THAT LOVE AND THAT COMPASSION TO OTHERS. 51:49 SO THEN HE CLOSES THAT PARABLE BY SAYING TO THE LAWYER, 'WHO 51:52 THEN WAS NEIGHBOR TO HIM THAT FELL AMONG THIEVES?' 51:57 AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE LAWYER SAYS? 52:00 HE WON'T EVEN SAY 'THE SAMARITAN' BECAUSE IT JUST - IT 52:02 HURTS ON THE LIPS OF A JEW TO SAY THE WORD. 52:04 I MEAN, THERE WAS A LOT OF ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THE TWO - AND 52:07 SO ALL HE COULD SAY WAS, 'HE THAT SHOWED MERCY TO HIM.' AND 52:13 SO JESUS BASICALLY SAID, 'GO AND DO LIKEWISE.' SO WHO IS OUR 52:17 NEIGHBOR, THE PERSON WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR? 52:20 ANYBODY THAT IS IN NEED - THAT GOD BRINGS INTO YOUR PATH. 52:26 GOD WANTS US TO SHOW HIS LOVE. 52:28 HE WANTS US TO PRESENT HIS ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - THE BLOOD OF 52:32 THE COVENANT - THE OIL OF THE SPIRIT - TAKING CARE OF THE 52:36 PRACTICAL NEEDS - GIVE THEM OUR STRENGTH. 52:39 THIS IS WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO FOR WHOEVER THE LORD BRINGS 52:42 US IN CONTACT WITH. WOW, THIS IS A RECORD. 52:45 I NEVER DREAMED I'D GET THROUGH ALL THESE PARABLES, BUT I THINK 52:47 I DID IT ON TIME. HEY FRIENDS, I WANT TO REMIND 52:50 YOU, IF YOU DID NOT HEAR AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR PRESENTATION, 52:52 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER TODAY AND IT'S A STUDY THAT DEALS WITH THE 52:55 PLAN OF SALVATION. YOU OUGHT TO GET IT AND THEN 52:59 READ IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY AS WELL. 53:01 IT'S OFFER #109 AND ALL YOU DO IS CALL 866-788-3966. 53:06 WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU - THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE - OR, IF YOU WANT 53:10 TO, YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE AND YOU CAN 53:13 DOWNLOAD AND READ THIS FOR FREE. IT'S SIMPLY AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 53:17 GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US DURING OUR STUDY 53:20 TODAY. GOD WILLING, WE'LL STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 53:25 >>WHEN I WAS 15 I BOUGHT MY FIRST BAG OF MARIJUANA OUT OF 53:27 CURIOSITY AND FROM THE AGE OF 15 ON TO 23 WAS A CONSTANT 53:34 EXPERIMENTATION WITH DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES. 53:37 BY THE TIME I WAS 23 THERE WAS NOT A DRUG I HAD NOT TRIED. 53:42 I HAD WORN MYSELF OUT SEARCHING FOR HAPPINESS. 53:45 AND ONE DAY, I CAME HOME TIRED, AS USUAL, AND I STARTED DRINKING 53:50 AND, AS USUAL, AFTER I STARTED DRINKING, I STARTED LOOKING FOR 53:55 A HIGHER BUZZ. SOMEONE CAME BY WITH SOME XANAX. 54:02 SOMEONE ALSO CAME BY WITH SOMETHING ELSE THAT I LIKED, 54:06 AND THAT WAS COCAINE. THIS TIME, NOT THINKING, I TOOK 54:09 THE WHOLE THING. SO I WENT TO BED ABOUT 5:00 IN 54:13 THE AFTERNOON. MY ROOMMATE WENT OFF TO WORK 54:16 THAT NIGHT. WHEN HE CAME BACK FROM WORK THE 54:19 NEXT DAY THOUGH, HE NOTICED SOMETHING WAS WRONG BECAUSE 54:22 I WAS STILL IN BED IN THE SAME POSITION. 54:24 HE TRIED TO WAKE ME UP AND HE COULDN'T WAKE ME UP. 54:29 AND WHEN MY PARENTS FOUND ME, THEY FOUND ME CURLED UP IN THE 54:33 FETAL POSITION IN MY HOSPITAL ROOM, UNCONSCIOUS STILL. 54:39 AND I STAYED UNCONSCIOUS IN THIS COMA-LIKE STATE FOR THE NEXT 54:43 WEEK. I STAYED THE NEXT MONTH IN THE 54:46 HOSPITAL, SLOWLY GETTING BETTER TO WHERE I COULD SIT UP IN BED 54:52 AND I HAD TO LEARN TO WALK AGAIN. BUT MY PARENTS FOUND THIS 54:55 ONE FACILITY OUT IN THE HILLS OF TENNESSEE. 54:58 I HAD TO ADMIT THAT I LIKED THE PLACE, BUT THEY WERE CHRISTIAN 55:03 AND, EVEN WORSE THAN THAT, I SAID 'YES' WHEN THEY ASKED ME IF 55:07 I WANTED TO GO TO CHURCH THAT WEEK. 55:10 BEFORE THE PASTOR SAID THE BENEDICTION, I WAS SO EXCITED 55:13 BECAUSE I WAS PLANNING MY ESCAPE. 55:15 AND SO, AFTER EVERYBODY WAS ALL IN BED THAT NIGHT, I MADE SURE 55:19 THAT THEY WERE SNORING AND THAT THEY WERE ASLEEP. 55:22 I WENT INTO THE KITCHEN AND STOLE A FEW BANANAS, GOT MY 55:25 BACKPACK READY - I FIGURED I COULD GET SOBER ON MY OWN. 55:30 MY FAVORITE SONG WAS I DID IT MY WAY . 55:34 OF COURSE, MY DEFINITION OF SOBER WAS A NICE SUPPLY OF 55:40 MARIJUANA EACH DAY AND ALCOHOL ON THE WEEKENDS. 55:43 AND, OF COURSE, IF I HAD A BAD HANGOVER, I MIGHT NEED 55:46 SOME OF THOSE RELAXING PILLS TO TAKE. 55:49 BUT OTHER THAN THAT, THAT WOULD BE IT. 55:52 SO HERE I AM, STRANDED ON THE STREET IN THE BIG CITY OF 55:56 HOUSTON, MY BAG OF CLOTHES IS GONE. MY CELL PHONE IS GONE. 56:00 MY WALLET - MY BUS TICKET'S GONE. 56:02 I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING BUT THE SHIRT ON MY BACK. 56:04 IT'S AT THAT POINT THAT THIS MAN COMES UP TO ME - THIS MYSTERIOUS 56:08 MAN - HE'S ACTUALLY VERY SHORT AND APPEARS TO BE HOMELESS AND 56:12 HE LED ME TO SOME FOOD AND EVEN A PLACE TO STAY THAT NIGHT. 56:16 LOOKING BACK, IT IS MY FIRM CONCLUSION THAT THAT WAS AN 56:21 ANGEL. SO MY DAD WAS ABLE TO COME DOWN 56:24 TO HOUSTON AND PICK ME UP AND TAKE ME BACK UP TO THE HEALTH 56:28 RETREAT AT WILDWOOD IN TENNESSEE. THEY HAD A SATELLITE. 56:33 ON THIS CHANNEL THERE WAS A MAN NAMED DOUG BATCHELOR. 56:36 I LIKED WHAT I HEARD. I LIKED THE WAY HE EXPLAINED THE 56:40 BIBLE - IT WAS SO SIMPLE - AND HE ALSO HAD AN EXPERIENCE 56:43 SIMILAR TO MINE AND I HAD TALKED A LITTLE ABOUT HIM AND THEY 56:47 HAPPENED TO HAVE A WHOLE SET OF CASSETTE TAPES. 56:50 I WOULD WAKE UP AT 4:00 IN THE MORNING SOMETIMES AND I WOULD 56:54 GET UP AND I WOULD WATCH TWO OF THOSE VIDEOS BEFORE BREAKFAST. 56:58 I WOULD SIT THIS CLOSE TO THE TV WATCHING WHAT DOUG BATCHELOR WAS 57:02 SAYING - JUST EATING UP EVERY WORD OF IT - I WAS SO TIRED OF 57:05 HEARING LIES AND EVEN BELIEVING MY OWN LIES, THAT I - IT WAS SO 57:09 WONDERFUL TO FIND SOMETHING THAT WAS SOLID THAT I COULD RELY ON. 57:14 AND SO, WHEN I GOT HOME FROM REHAB, IN MY LOCAL CHURCH, ERIK 57:19 FLICKINGER FROM AMAZING FACTS WAS HOLDING AN EVANGELISTIC 57:23 SERIES. THEY SOLIDIFIED MY CONVICTION 57:26 AND IT WAS THEN I MADE THE ABSOLUTE DECISION TO FOLLOW 57:30 JESUS. I PRAISE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 57:34 FOR AMAZING FACTS. I PRAISE GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS 57:39 BECAUSE THEY ARE SO BIBLE-BASED. THEY SEND OUT EVANGELISTS WHO 57:43 ARE WILLING TO TEACH THE TRUTH TO PEOPLE. 57:46 I'M THANKFUL THAT THEY'RE PREACHING RIGHT NOW ALL OVER THE 57:49 WORLD, CHANGING LIVES JUST AS THEY CHANGED MINE. 57:53 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 57:59 BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 58:08 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT 58:11 AFBOOKSTORE.COM . (MUSIC) |
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