(MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
AND WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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I'D LIKE TO EXTEND A VERY
SPECIAL WELCOME TO OUR FRIENDS
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JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AND AROUND THE WORLD - AND ALSO
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TO THE MEMBERS HERE AT THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH - THANK YOU
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FOR JOINING US
AGAIN THIS MORNING.
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WE'RE STUDYING THROUGH OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
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THE SUBJECT OF THE GOSPEL OF
LUKE. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN
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LESSON #10 ENTITLED FOLLOWING
JESUS IN EVERYDAY LIFE .
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WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES
ALONG WITH OUR STUDY FOR TODAY.
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IT'S ENTITLED HIDDEN EYES AND
CLOSED EARS - YOU'LL SEE IT UP
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ON YOUR SCREEN. IF
YOU'D LIKE TO RECEIVE TODAY'S
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FREE OFFER, JUST CALL OUR
RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER, IT'S
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866-788-3966 AND YOU
CAN ASK FOR OFFER #726.
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THE NUMBER AGAIN IS 866-788-3966
- THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE.
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ONCE AGAIN WE'D LIKE TO INVITE
OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME AND
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JOIN US AS WE BEGIN
THIS TIME TOGETHER WITH SONG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, AND
HELLO TO EACH OF YOU AT HOME.
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WE'RE SO EXCITED TO SING SONGS
WITH YOU AND I KNOW THAT YOU ARE
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READY TO BEGIN AND WE
ARE HERE AT GRANITE BAY.
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OUR FIRST ONE - TURN IN YOUR
HYMNALS TO #619 - LEAD ON O KING
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ETERNAL - WE'RE GOING TO DO
THE FIRST AND THE LAST STANZAS.
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JOIN WITH US - #619. (MUSIC)
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>>LEAD ON, O KING ETERNAL,
THE DAY OF MARCH HAS COME;
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HENCEFORTH IN FIELDS OF CONQUEST
YOUR TENTS WILL BE OUR HOME.
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THROUGH DAYS OF PREPARATION YOUR
GRACE HAS MADE US STRONG; AND
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NOW, O KING ETERNAL,
WE LIFT OUR BATTLE SONG.
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LEAD ON, O KING ETERNAL;
WE FOLLOW, NOT WITH FEARS, FOR
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GLADNESS BREAKS LIKE MORNING
WHERE'ER YOUR FACE APPEARS.
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YOUR CROSS IS LIFTED O'ER US, WE
JOURNEY IN ITS LIGHT; THE CROWN
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AWAITS THE CONQUEST;
LEAD ON, O GOD OF MIGHT.
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>>WE'RE SO EXCITED TO HAVE
WILLIAM HERE WITH US, PLAYING
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THE PIANO AND, OF COURSE, LIKE
YOU ALREADY MET HIS WIFE JESSICA
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AND SHERRY AND KATRINA.
SO NOW YOU KNOW SOME NAMES TO
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SOME FACES AND OUR NEXT
SONG, TYING IN WITH OUR THEME
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FOLLOWING JESUS IN EVERYDAY LIFE
IS #590 - TRUST AND OBEY - AND I
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KNOW THAT SOMETIMES, WHEN YOU'RE
IN THOSE SITUATIONS WHERE YOU
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HAVE TO TRUST JESUS, IT
SOMETIMES SEEMS HARD BECAUSE WE
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HAVE OUR OWN WAY OF
WANTING TO DO THINGS.
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BUT WHEN WE LEARN TO TRUST HIM
AND OBEY, IT JUST SEEMS TO GO SO
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MUCH BETTER. IF WE
WOULD JUST LEARN THAT.
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#590 - JOIN WITH US, WE'RE GOING
TO DO THE FIRST, THIRD AND FIFTH
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STANZAS - #590 -
TRUST AND OBEY. (MUSIC)
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>>WHEN WE WALK WITH THE
LORD IN THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD,
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WHAT A GLORY HE
SHEDS ON OUR WAY!
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WHILE WE DO HIS GOOD
WILL, HE ABIDES WITH US STILL,
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AND WITH ALL WHO
WILL TRUST AND OBEY.
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TRUST AND OBEY, FOR THERE'S NO
OTHER WAY TO BE HAPPY IN JESUS,
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BUT TO TRUST AND OBEY.
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NOT A BURDEN WE BEAR, NOT A
SORROW WE SHARE, BUT OUR TOIL HE
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DOTH RICHLY REPAY; NOT A GRIEF
OR A LOSS, NOT A FROWN OR A
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CROSS, BUT IS
BLESSED IF WE TRUST AND OBEY.
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TRUST AND OBEY, FOR THERE'S NO
OTHER WAY TO BE HAPPY IN JESUS,
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BUT TO TRUST AND OBEY.
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THEN IN FELLOWSHIP SWEET WE WILL
SIT AT HIS FEET, OR WE'LL WALK
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BY HIS SIDE IN THE WAY; WHAT HE
SAYS WE WILL DO, WHERE HE SENDS
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WE WILL GO; NEVER
FEAR, ONLY TRUST AND OBEY.
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TRUST AND OBEY, FOR THERE'S NO
OTHER WAY TO BE HAPPY IN JESUS,
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BUT TO TRUST AND OBEY.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SINGING
ALONG WITH US. AT THIS TIME,
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PASTOR ROSS IS GOING TO
HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET'S JUST BOW
OUR HEADS AS WE PRAY.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU
FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, ONCE AGAIN,
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TO GATHER
TOGETHERTO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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WE ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO ONCE
AGAIN COME AND GUARD OUR HEARTS
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AND OUR MINDS - TO TEACH US HOW
TO BE EVERYDAY CHRISTIANS, FOR
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WE ASK THIS IN
JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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WELL, FRIENDS, WE HAVE A SPECIAL
MISSION FOCUS THAT WE'D LIKE TO
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LET YOU KNOW ABOUT. I'D LIKE TO
INVITE CARISSA MCSHERRY TO COME
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FORWARD - SHE'S OUR ASSISTANT
AFCOE DIRECTOR. OF COURSE, AFCOE
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IS THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER
OF EVANGELISM AND WE'RE VERY
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INVOLVED IN DOING TRAINING -
NOT ONLY HERE IN THE U.S., BUT
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AROUND THE WORLD. WE HAVE
A NUMBER OF AFCOE-AFFILIATED
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SCHOOLS IN DIFFERENT PARTS
OF THE GLOBE. WE JUST RECENTLY
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CAME BACK FROM A TRIP TO SOUTH
AFRICA AND CARISSA IS GOING
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TO SHARE WITH US A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT THAT MISSION EXPERIENCE
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THAT WE HAD OH, PROBABLY
ABOUT THREE OR FOUR WEEKS AGO.
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WELL, CARISSA, WHAT BROUGHT
THE AFCOE TEAM TO SOUTH AFRICA?
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>>WE HAD ACTUALLY BEEN RECEIVING
NUMEROUS REQUESTS FROM PEOPLE
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THAT ARE DESIRING US TO
COME DOWN TO SOUTH AFRICA AND
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GIVE EVANGELISM TRAINING.
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE IN AFRICA
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AND, AGAIN, PREDOMINATELY IN
SOUTH AFRICA, THAT ARE WATCHING
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THE AMAZING FACTS PROGRAMS AND
THERE WAS CERTAINLY A CRAVING TO
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LEARN MORE AND TO ACTUALLY
IMPLEMENT IT THEIR COMMUNITY.
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WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRAVEL
TO TWO DIFFERENT DESTINATIONS.
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WE WERE IN DURBAN - A LARGE
CITY, AGAIN, IN SOUTH AFRICA -
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AND THEN WE TRAVELED
ON DOWN TO CAPE TOWN.
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IN BOTH OF THOSE CITIES WE HELD
EVANGELISM TRAINING PROGRAMS.
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THE FIRST CITY THAT WE WERE
AT, DURBAN, AS YOU'LL SEE ON THE
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SLIDE, THEY HELD A VERY LARGE
CAMP MEETING THERE AND THE FOCUS
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OF OUR AFCOE TRAINING WAS,
AGAIN, ON EVANGELISM - AGAIN,
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EQUIPPING THE CHURCH MEMBERS
TO DO EVANGELISM IN THEIR LOCAL
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COMMUNITIES. WE CALL
ALL ATTEST TO THIS - THE
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AFCOE TEAM - THAT THERE WAS A
THIRST FOR EVANGELISM THERE IN
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THAT COMMUNITY THAT WE
HAD NOT WITNESSED BEFORE.
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WE HAD MANY PEOPLE COME UP TO
US, AGAIN, IN TEARS, AND THEY'RE
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SAYING, 'WE HAVE BEEN PRAYING
FOR YEARS FOR SOMETHING LIKE
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THIS TO COME TO SOUTH AFRICA.
THEY WERE SO THANKFUL FOR THIS
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OPPORTUNITY. IN
FACT, I REMEMBER GIVING ONE
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CLASS ON, AGAIN, EVANGELISM
AND ON FRIENDSHIP EVANGELISM -
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REACHING YOUR
COMMUNITY FOR JESUS CHRIST.
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AND THERE WAS ONE MAN IN MY
AUDIENCE - A MAN PROBABLY IN HIS
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FIFTIES OR SO - AND, AS HE
WAS SITTING THERE LISTENING, HIS
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FACE WAS COMPLETELY STOIC -
THERE WAS NO EMOTION WHATSOEVER.
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AND I REMEMBER
THINKING "AM I NOT CONNECTING?
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IS IT NOT MAKING SENSE?"
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AND I'M TRYING TO GEAR MY
COMMENTS TOWARDS HIM - I'M
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LOOKING AT HIM - AND
STILL HIS FACE IS JUST BLANK.
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AT THE END OF THE SEMINAR I WENT
UP TO HIM AND I BEGAN TO TALK
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WITH HIM A BIT AND HE - HE
BEGAN TO FIGHT BACK THE TEARS.
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AND HE SAID "THE ENTIRE TIME YOU
WERE TALKING, I WAS TRYING NOT
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TO CRY. I HAVE
FELT SO CONVICTED THAT I
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NEEDED TO BE DOING FULL-TIME
MINISTRY IN MY COMMUNITY.
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I'VE BEEN PUTTING OFF THAT
CONVICTION FOR SOME TIME NOW,
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BUT WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING
IT'S AS THOUGH GOD WAS SPEAKING
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THROUGH YOU. I'M NOT
GOING TO PUT IT OFF ANYMORE.
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I'M GOING TO WALK
FORWARD IN FAITH." PRAISE GOD.
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>>SO THAT WAS ONE EXPERIENCE
THAT YOU HAD DURING THE TIME
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THAT WAS SPENT THERE IN DURBAN,
DOING SOME TRAINING AT A CAMP
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MEETING. ANY OTHER
TESTIMONIES FROM YOUR
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EXPERIENCE OVER THERE? I
KNOW THERE'S MANY, IS THERE
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ANOTHER ONE YOU
CAN SHARE WITH US?
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>>ABSOLUTELY.
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WE MET A BEAUTIFUL COUPLE BY THE
NAME OF JOHANNES AND CHANTAL, AS
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YOU'LL SEE IN THE NEXT SLIDE
HERE. JOHANNES AND CHANTAL WERE
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THRILLED TO HAVE REPRESENTATIVES
FROM AMAZING FACTS THERE AT
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THEIR HOME. YOU SEE,
JOHANNES WAS RAISED IN
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A SECULAR HOME. HE
HAD A MOTHER THAT KEPT THE
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SABBATH DAY, BUT HIS FATHER WAS
JUST NOT RELIGIOUS WHATSOEVER.
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AND SO, AS JOHANNES GREW
UP, HE AGAIN, DID NOT HAVE THAT
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SPIRITUAL INTEREST UNTIL
HE WENT THROUGH A CRISIS.
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AND AS HE WENT THROUGH THAT
CRISIS HE REALIZED HE WAS EMPTY
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AND HE NEEDED
SOMETHING GREATER IN HIS LIFE.
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HE DECIDED HE WOULD TURN
TO THE BIBLE FOR THE ANSWERS.
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HE WAS NOT GOING TO BE RELIGIOUS
JUST BECAUSE HIS MOM WAS OR WHAT
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SOME OTHER CHURCH TAUGHT, HE
WANTED TO SEE IT IN THE BIBLE
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FOR HIMSELF. AND AS
HE BEGAN TO STUDY VERSE
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BY VERSE, PASSAGE BY PASSAGE,
HE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS HIS
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PERSONAL SAVIOR. AND
AS JOHANNES STUDIED, HE
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REALIZED THAT TRULY THE SEVENTH
DAY WAS THE SABBATH AND THAT WAS
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THE DAY THAT GOD
WAS CALLING HIM TO KEEP.
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IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE HE WAS
BAPTIZED INTO THAT LOCAL CHURCH.
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BUT, YOU SEE, JOHANNES NOW FACED
HIS FIRST CHALLENGE - HE OWNED A
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RATHER LARGE RESORT - HE AND HIS
WIFE CHANTAL - AND, AS YOU KNOW,
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FOR RESORTS THE MOST POPULAR DAY
FOR PEOPLE TO COME IS SATURDAY -
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SABBATH. HOW COULD
HE POSSIBLY CLOSE DOWN
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HIS BUSINESS ON THE MOST POPULAR
DAY? BUT HE WAS CONVICTED.
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HE PRAYED ABOUT IT AND HE KNEW
THAT WAS WHAT GOD WAS CALLING
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HIM TO DO AND SO HE
DECIDED TO STEP OUT IN FAITH.
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HE TOLD HIS COWORKERS - HIS
EMPLOYEES - WHAT HIS DECISION
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WAS AND THEY TOLD
HIM, "YOU ARE CRAZY.
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THIS BUSINESS IS
GOING TO GO BANKRUPT.
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THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN SURVIVE."
BUT AGAIN, JOHANNES HAD DECIDED
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AND HE PRESSED FORWARD IN
FAITH AND TODAY HIS BUSINESS HAS
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INCREASED BY 40 PERCENT.
GOD HAS BLESSED AND HE IS USING
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THIS, AGAIN, AS A
TOOL FOR MINISTRY.
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HE AND HIS WIFE CHANTAL ATTEST
TO THE FACT THAT AMAZING FACTS
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WAS A CRITICAL ROLE IN HELPING
THEM IN THEIR SPIRITUAL WALK.
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THEY WERE, AGAIN, SO EXCITED TO
HAVE AMAZING FACTS THERE AND TO
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HOST US AT THEIR LOCATION AND
THIS NEXT YEAR THEY ARE PLANNING
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ON HOSTING AFCOE TRAINING THERE
ON THEIR PROPERTY SO THEY CAN
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TAKE THOSE TOOLS AND MINISTER
TO OTHERS IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
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>>AMEN. THAT'S AN
EXCITING TESTIMONY OF
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THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING THERE.
WELL, AFTER SPENDING ABOUT FIVE
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DAYS UP IN THE DURBAN AREA, THE
TEAM THEN TRAVELED DOWN TO CAPE
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TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA AND SPENT
SOME TIME WORKING WITH A LOCAL
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CHURCH DOING A
WEEKEND TRAINING INTENSIVE.
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TELL US ABOUT
THAT. >>ABSOLUTELY.
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WE WENT DOWN TO CAPE TOWN AND,
AS MANY OF YOU MAY KNOW, JËAN
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ROSS IS ACTUALLY FROM CAPE
TOWN AND HE IS A CAPETONIAN.
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SO THERE WE WERE IN CAPE TOWN,
WE WERE WORKING WITH A RIVERSIDE
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CHURCH - THIS
BEAUTIFUL CHURCH FAMILY HERE.
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AND, AGAIN, WE SAW THAT SAME
PASSION - THAT SAME ZEAL FOR
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EVANGELISM. OPENING
NIGHT WE HAD INDIVIDUALS
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THERE FROM 22
DIFFERENT CHURCHES.
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AGAIN, THIS PASSION - THIS ZEAL
- WAS SPREADING THROUGHOUT THAT
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COMMUNITY. IT WAS A
BLESSING TO WORK WITH A
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TEAM CALLED AMEN -
ADVENT MESSAGE TO EVERY NATION .
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THEY WERE VERY ORGANIZED
- VERY BUSINESS-MINDED YOUNG
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PROFESSIONALS THAT ARE
PASSIONATE ABOUT TAKING
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EVANGELISM TO THE
ENDS OF THE EARTH.
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>>WELL, CARISSA, WE HAVE A
SPECIAL TESTIMONY YOU'D LIKE TO
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SHARE OF ONE EXPERIENCE - THERE
WERE MANY, BUT ONE IN PARTICULAR
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THAT REALLY TOUCHED YOUR HEART
AND REALLY, I THINK, CAPSULATES
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WHAT AFCOE TRAINING
REALLY IS ALL ABOUT.
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>>ABSOLUTELY. WHEN I WAS IN
DURBAN, AT THE CAMP MEETING,
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WITH THE TEAM - JËAN ROSS
AND CHUCK HOLTRY - I REMEMBER
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SPEAKING ONE MORNING
ON THE DIVINE COMMISSION -
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ON HOW GOD HAS CALLED US TO
REACH OUR FAMILY - TO REACH OUR
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FRIENDS FOR JESUS CHRIST -
THAT WE ARE ALL CALLED TO BE
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A PART OF THIS MISSION. AT
THE END I SHARED A TRUE STORY
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ABOUT A YOUNG ORPHAN BOY AND
ABOUT A WOMAN THAT ACCEPTED THIS
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ORPHAN BOY INTO HER HOME AS
HER OWN SON - GAVE HIM A HUG AND
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SAID, 'MY SON, YOU'RE HOME.'
AND I COMPARED IT TO THE LIFE OF
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CHRIST - HOW SOMEDAY
SOON WE WILL BE IN HEAVEN.
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SOMEDAY SOON IT'S AS THOUGH
WE'LL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE
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FATHER SAYING, 'MY CHILD, YOU'RE
HOME. YOU'RE FINALLY HOME.'
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AFTER I GAVE THAT MESSAGE, A
WOMAN CAME UP TO ME AND SAID, 'I
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HAVE A TESTIMONY I HAVE TO SHARE
WITH YOU.' YOU SEE, ABOUT A YEAR
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AGO HER HUSBAND WAS DRIVING DOWN
THE ROAD AND HE SAW A MAN THAT
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JUST SEEMED SO LOST - SO EMPTY
- AND SO HE STOPPED AND HE SAID,
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"YOUNG MAN, WHERE ARE YOU
GOING?" AND THE YOUNG MAN, ABOUT
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20 YEARS OLD, TOLD HIM,
"I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF.
00:14:03.71\00:14:05.71
I HAVE NO FAMILY.
NO ONE CARES ABOUT ME.
00:14:05.71\00:14:09.11
I'M DONE WITH THIS WORLD.
I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF."
00:14:09.11\00:14:11.71
AND HER HUSBAND TOLD THE
YOUNG MAN, "NO YOU'RE NOT.
00:14:11.71\00:14:15.25
YOU'RE COMING HOME WITH ME."
00:14:15.25\00:14:16.92
AND SO HE TOOK
THAT YOUNG MAN HOME.
00:14:16.92\00:14:20.02
WHEN SHE ARRIVED HOME THAT
NIGHT, THERE HER HUSBAND WAS
00:14:20.02\00:14:22.29
TALKING WITH THIS YOUNG MAN,
SHOWING HIM WHERE HIS ROOM WOULD
00:14:22.29\00:14:25.99
BE, MAKING HIM FEEL AT
HOME. BUT SHE WAS UPSET.
00:14:25.99\00:14:29.60
"WHO IS THIS GUY? HOW CAN
HE MAKE HIMSELF AT HOME HERE?
00:14:29.60\00:14:33.50
THIS IS NOT HIS HOUSE."
00:14:33.50\00:14:34.94
THEY ALREADY HAD A SON AND,
AGAIN, SHE WAS JUST VERY UPSET
00:14:34.94\00:14:38.04
THAT HER HUSBAND WOULD MAKE
THIS DECISION. TWO WEEKS LATER,
00:14:38.04\00:14:42.14
TRAGICALLY, HER HUSBAND
SUDDENLY DIED OF A HEART ATTACK.
00:14:42.14\00:14:47.85
SO NOW HERE SHE IS LEFT WITH
THIS YOUNG MAN IN HER HOUSE AND
00:14:47.85\00:14:52.35
SHE TOLD HER SON,
"I DON'T WANT HIM.
00:14:52.35\00:14:55.02
HE HAS TO GO. HE CAN'T STAY."
00:14:55.02\00:14:56.79
AND HER SON TOLD
HER, "MOM, HE IS STAYING.
00:14:56.79\00:15:00.10
DAD BROUGHT HIM
HERE AND HE IS STAYING."
00:15:00.10\00:15:03.87
SHE TOLD ME HOW THIS YOUNG MAN,
AGAIN, ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD, IS SO
00:15:03.87\00:15:07.20
LOVING AND CARING AND HE BEGAN
TO STUDY THE BIBLE FOR HIMSELF.
00:15:07.20\00:15:12.37
HE TOOK BIBLE STUDIES AND SOON
HE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST, HE
00:15:12.37\00:15:15.34
ACCEPTED THE SABBATH AND HE WAS
BAPTIZED IN THAT LOCAL CHURCH.
00:15:15.34\00:15:18.45
SHE SAID "HE'S SO DEPENDABLE.
HE'S ALWAYS TAKING CARE OF THE
00:15:18.45\00:15:22.02
HOUSE, BUT I'VE
ALWAYS JUST BEEN SO ANGRY.
00:15:22.02\00:15:24.39
HE DIDN'T BELONG.
I DIDN'T WANT HIM."
00:15:24.39\00:15:27.02
BUT SHE SAID, AFTER HEARING THAT
STORY OF THE ORPHAN BOY, AFTER
00:15:27.02\00:15:31.09
HEARING OF THE MOTHER THAT
ACCEPTED HIM, AFTER HEARING
00:15:31.09\00:15:35.30
ABOUT HOW OUR GOD, TOO, IS GOING
TO ACCEPT US AND BRING US INTO
00:15:35.30\00:15:38.83
OUR FOREVER HOME, SHE SAID,
"I CAN'T ABANDON HIM ANYMORE.
00:15:38.83\00:15:42.44
WHEN I GET HOME I'M GOING
TO GIVE HIM A BIG HUG AND I AM
00:15:42.44\00:15:45.44
GOING TO TELL HIM,
"MY SON, YOU ARE HOME."
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>>AMEN. WHAT A
POWERFUL TESTIMONY OF
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LIVES THAT HAVE BEEN CHANGED
BY THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL.
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CARISSA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SHARING WITH US THIS EXCITING
00:15:55.88\00:15:59.09
NEWS ABOUT SOME OF THE
EVANGELISM TRAINING AND SOME OF
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THE EXPERIENCES OF THE
TEAM DOWN IN SOUTH AFRICA.
00:16:02.56\00:16:05.23
AND, BY THE WAY, THERE IS AN
INTEREST FOR US TO GO BACK AND
00:16:05.23\00:16:07.83
DO SOME ADDITIONAL TRAINING SO
WE'RE EXPLORING SOME OPTIONS TO
00:16:07.83\00:16:10.63
HELP THE FOLKS DOWN THERE
IN EVANGELISM TRAINING AND
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OUTREACH. THANK YOU, CARISSA.
00:16:13.67\00:16:15.80
AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO INVITE
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR TO COME
00:16:15.80\00:16:17.94
FORWARD. HE'LL
BE LEADING US IN OUR
00:16:17.94\00:16:19.81
LESSON FOR TODAY.
THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG.
00:16:19.81\00:16:22.14
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR
ROSS. THANK YOU, CARISSA.
00:16:22.14\00:16:26.25
THAT WAS A TREMENDOUS STORY
- A VERY ENCOURAGING TESTIMONY.
00:16:26.25\00:16:30.12
PART OF SABBATH SCHOOL IS TO
DO A LITTLE MISSION REPORT AND
00:16:30.12\00:16:33.82
THAT'S WHY WE SPRINKLE THESE
IN ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TIME.
00:16:33.82\00:16:37.23
I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS
WHO ARE JOINING US FOR OUR
00:16:37.23\00:16:40.10
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR AND WE
ARE GOING TO BE CONTINUING WITH
00:16:40.10\00:16:43.16
OUR STUDY DEALING WITH THE BOOK
OF LUKE - THE GOSPEL OF LUKE.
00:16:43.16\00:16:47.87
AND TODAY, WE'RE, IN PARTICULAR,
IN LESSON #10 AND IT'S CALLED
00:16:47.87\00:16:53.01
FOLLOWING JESUS
IN EVERYDAY LIFE .
00:16:53.01\00:16:55.71
NOW THIS LESSON, YOU KNOW,
SOMETIMES YOU'LL HAVE A LESSON
00:16:55.71\00:17:00.22
THAT'S BASED UPON ONE PARTICULAR
THEME, BUT THIS IS REALLY, AS
00:17:00.22\00:17:04.02
YOU WOULD SAY, "ACROSS THE
BOARD" - THIS IS AN ECLECTIC
00:17:04.02\00:17:06.86
LESSON THAT JUST KIND OF COVERS
- I BET THEY HAD TROUBLE AT THE
00:17:06.86\00:17:10.16
SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT,
NAMING THIS LESSON, IF YOU WANT
00:17:10.16\00:17:12.73
TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
BECAUSE IT'S TAKING TEACHINGS
00:17:12.73\00:17:16.23
THROUGHOUT THE GOSPEL OF LUKE ON
A BROAD SPECTRUM OF AREAS, THAT
00:17:16.23\00:17:19.50
ARE VERY IMPORTANT BUT THEY
COVER A NUMBER OF SITUATIONS AND
00:17:19.50\00:17:24.97
AREAS IN LIFE. WE
HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE
00:17:24.97\00:17:28.28
MEMORY VERSE IS FROM LUKE 17:5
- LUKE 17:5 - IF ANY OF YOU HAVE
00:17:28.28\00:17:32.05
THAT, YOU'RE
WELCOME TO SAY IT WITH ME.
00:17:32.05\00:17:35.18
AND IT'S "AND THE APOSTLES
SAID TO THE LORD, 'INCREASE OUR
00:17:35.18\00:17:41.22
FAITH.'" INCREASE OUR FAITH.
00:17:41.22\00:17:44.63
YOU KNOW, WITHOUT FAITH, IT'S
IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD AND HE
00:17:44.63\00:17:47.63
THAT COMES TO GOD MUST BELIEVE
THAT HE IS AND HE IS A REWARDER
00:17:47.63\00:17:51.63
OF THOSE THAT
DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM.
00:17:51.63\00:17:53.84
NOW IN THE FIRST SECTION OF
THE LESSON, WHICH WE WOULD HAVE
00:17:53.84\00:17:56.87
UNDER SUNDAY , IT'S
TITLED, FLEE PHARISAISM .
00:17:56.87\00:18:01.81
NOW WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD
PHARISEE , DOES THAT CONJURE UP
00:18:01.81\00:18:06.41
WITHIN YOU POSITIVE, GOOD
FEELINGS? WOULD YOU TAKE IT AS A
00:18:06.41\00:18:11.72
COMPLIMENT IF SOMEONE
CALLED YOU A PHARISEE?
00:18:11.72\00:18:14.12
>>NO. >>PROBABLY NOT.
00:18:14.12\00:18:16.06
BUT, YOU KNOW, BACK IN CHRIST'S
DAY, IT WAS A COMPLIMENT - IF
00:18:16.06\00:18:19.43
YOU WERE RELIGIOUS - AND TO CALL
SOMEONE A PHARISEE, THAT WAS
00:18:19.43\00:18:24.00
CONSIDERED A GOOD THING BECAUSE
THE PHARISEES WERE CONSIDERED
00:18:24.00\00:18:29.64
THE PURITANS. THEY
WERE THE HOLY ONES.
00:18:29.64\00:18:32.57
THEY - AND THE WORD PHARISEE
MEANS, 'THOSE WHO ARE THE
00:18:32.57\00:18:35.58
SEPARATISTS' OR 'THE SEPARATED
ONES' - AND THEY WERE SEPARATING
00:18:35.58\00:18:39.25
FROM THE WORLDLINESS
AND THE CULTURE AROUND THEM.
00:18:39.25\00:18:42.32
AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT
BECAUSE IN THE TIME OF CHRIST,
00:18:42.32\00:18:46.96
CONDITIONS THEN, KIND OF,
RESEMBLED CONDITIONS IN THE
00:18:46.96\00:18:50.53
WORLD TODAY. YOU
HAD THE INFLUENCE OF
00:18:50.53\00:18:53.56
ALEXANDER THE GREAT - THEY
CALL IT THE - THE GREEKS - THE
00:18:53.56\00:18:58.00
HELENIZATION, KIND OF, HAD
CONQUERED THEIR CULTURE AND THEY
00:18:58.00\00:19:02.20
HAD A LOT OF SPORTING EVENTS.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN
00:19:02.20\00:19:06.01
ANY OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ART,
BUT THE ATHLETES DIDN'T WEAR
00:19:06.01\00:19:09.54
VERY MUCH AND
THAT'S AN UNDERSTATEMENT.
00:19:09.54\00:19:11.61
I DIDN'T MEAN A PUN BY THAT BUT
THEY JUST ABOUT STREAKED AROUND.
00:19:11.61\00:19:18.25
AND SO YOU HAD THESE GYMNASIUMS
BACK THEN AND THEY HAD THE
00:19:18.25\00:19:22.59
THEATER IN ROME AND YOU CAN GO
TO CAESAREA AND STILL SEE - I'VE
00:19:22.59\00:19:27.30
BEEN THERE - ONE
OF THESE THEATERS.
00:19:27.30\00:19:29.00
THEY'RE BUILT WITH AMAZING
ACOUSTICS AND THE PEOPLE WERE
00:19:29.00\00:19:31.03
PREOCCUPIED WITH THE THEATER
AND THERE WERE VIOLENT GAMES AND
00:19:31.03\00:19:33.64
CHARIOT RACES AND - BEN
HUR WASN'T ENTIRELY BASED ON
00:19:33.64\00:19:37.34
FICTION. AND SO THIS
WAS A VERY SECULAR WORLD.
00:19:37.34\00:19:43.24
NOW, AGAINST THAT BACKDROP,
THERE WERE A NUMBER OF JEWS THAT
00:19:43.24\00:19:47.92
KNEW THAT THEY HAD GONE THROUGH
A LOT OF PROBLEMS IN THEIR
00:19:47.92\00:19:52.55
HISTORY BECAUSE OF BEING
COMPROMISING WITH THE WORLD,
00:19:52.55\00:19:55.66
WHICH WAS TRUE. YOU
KNOW, YOU LOOK AT THE
00:19:55.66\00:19:58.19
HISTORY OF JEWS DURING THE TIME
OF THE JUDGES AND THE KINGS,
00:19:58.19\00:20:01.70
THEN THEY WERE CARRIED OFF TO
BABYLON AND THE TEN TRIBES WERE
00:20:01.70\00:20:05.37
CONQUERED BY THE ASSYRIANS.
AND ALL THESE JUDGMENTS CAME
00:20:05.37\00:20:08.64
UPON THEM BECAUSE THEY
KEPT COMPROMISING THEIR FAITH.
00:20:08.64\00:20:11.97
SO WHEN THEY CAME BACK FROM THE
BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, SOME OF
00:20:11.97\00:20:15.31
THE VERY LOYAL JEWS - THEY TOOK
THE GOOD EXAMPLE OF EZRA AND
00:20:15.31\00:20:18.98
NEHEMIAH, AND THEY SAID,
'WE NEED TO MAKE UP OUR MINDS TO
00:20:18.98\00:20:21.95
NEVER MAKE THESE WORLDLY
MISTAKES AGAIN AND WE ARE GOING
00:20:21.95\00:20:25.09
TO SEPARATE FROM THE WORLDS AND
THE CULTURES AROUND US AND WE
00:20:25.09\00:20:28.12
ARE GOING TO BE GENUINE JEWS, NO
MATTER WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES.
00:20:28.12\00:20:32.29
AND THEY WERE VERY LOYAL AND
THEY MADE A NUMBER OF RULES TO
00:20:32.29\00:20:38.43
MAKE SURE YOU
WOULDN'T BREAK GOD'S RULES.
00:20:38.43\00:20:40.77
FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW IT'S OKAY
TO TAKE A WALK ON SABBATH, BUT
00:20:40.77\00:20:45.07
AT WHAT POINT DOES
WALK TURN INTO WORK?
00:20:45.07\00:20:48.78
AND SO THEY WENT THROUGH ENDLESS
DEBATE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW
00:20:48.78\00:20:52.25
FAR, EXACTLY, COULD YOU GO ON
THE SABBATH DAY BEFORE IT TURNS
00:20:52.25\00:20:54.48
INTO A LABOR? AND
THEY FIGURED OUT WHAT THAT
00:20:54.48\00:20:57.79
DISTANCE WAS - I DON'T REMEMBER.
IT'S - I'VE GOT IT IN MY NOTES
00:20:57.79\00:21:01.32
SOMEWHERE BUT, YOU KNOW, IT WAS
A FEW HUNDRED YARDS YOU COULD
00:21:01.32\00:21:04.33
WALK BEFORE IT
TURNED INTO A BURDEN.
00:21:04.33\00:21:06.23
AND, IF THEY WERE GOING TO GO
SOMEWHERE ON SABBATH - ON FRIDAY
00:21:06.23\00:21:08.86
- THEY WOULD TAKE A ROLL OF
STRING THAT WAS A SABBATH DAY'S
00:21:08.86\00:21:12.87
JOURNEY AND THEY WOULD REEL IT
OUT TO THEIR FRIEND'S HOUSE AND
00:21:12.87\00:21:16.54
SAY, 'IS THIS TOO CLOSE OR
TOO FAR - CAN I GET THERE?'
00:21:16.54\00:21:19.31
THEY SAID, 'HOW MUCH CAN YOU
CARRY ON SABBATH BEFORE IT TURNS
00:21:19.31\00:21:22.28
INTO WORK?" AND
THEY FINALLY SAID, 'WELL,
00:21:22.28\00:21:24.35
YOU SHOULDN'T CARRY ANYTHING
OR IT COULD BE A BURDEN.' 'WELL,
00:21:24.35\00:21:26.15
WHAT IF I NEED A HANDKERCHIEF?'
'WELL, THAT WOULD BE A BURDEN.'
00:21:26.15\00:21:28.32
'WHAT IF I SEW THE HANDKERCHIEF
TO MY CLOTHES, THEN IT'S PART OF
00:21:28.32\00:21:32.45
MY CLOTHES - IT'S
NOT A BURDEN ANYMORE?'
00:21:32.45\00:21:34.56
SO THEY'D KEEP A HANKIE SEWED TO
THEIR CLOTHES FOR AN EMERGENCY.
00:21:34.56\00:21:37.16
AND I'VE BEEN TO ISRAEL AND
YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE ORTHODOX
00:21:37.16\00:21:42.63
JEWS TODAY THAT, WHEN THEY GET
ON THE ELEVATOR, AND IN NEW YORK
00:21:42.63\00:21:48.04
AS WELL AS IN ISRAEL, THEY DON'T
WANT TO PUSH A BUTTON FOR FEAR
00:21:48.04\00:21:53.54
OF IT BEING LABOR AND THEY'LL
STAND IN THE ELEVATOR UNTIL A
00:21:53.54\00:21:57.18
GENTILE GETS ON THE ELEVATOR
AND HAPPENS TO PUSH THEIR FLOOR.
00:21:57.18\00:21:59.85
SO IN ISRAEL, THE WAY
THEY OVERCOME THAT IS THEY HAVE
00:21:59.85\00:22:02.88
SHABBAT ELEVATORS IN SOME
BUILDINGS THAT STOP ON EVERY
00:22:02.88\00:22:06.05
FLOOR WHEN YOU GET ON.
NOW YOU AND I THINK, 'WELL,
00:22:06.05\00:22:09.69
THAT'S KIND OF EXTREME.' BUT YOU
HAVE TO ADMIRE THEM IN THAT THEY
00:22:09.69\00:22:12.93
WANTED TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO
COMPROMISE AND SO THEY MADE ALL
00:22:12.93\00:22:16.70
OF THESE RULES. SO
THE PHARISEES, THEY WERE
00:22:16.70\00:22:19.83
KNOWN TO BE JUST EXTREMELY
ZEALOUS, BUT SO MUCH OF IT, OVER
00:22:19.83\00:22:24.41
THE YEARS, HAD GROWN INTO
LIKE AN OUTWARD DEMONSTRATION OF
00:22:24.41\00:22:28.01
PIETY AND RELIGION
AND IT WAS COUNTERFEIT.
00:22:28.01\00:22:32.25
WHEN JESUS BEGINS TO TEACH
- MAYBE I SHOULD START WITH A
00:22:32.25\00:22:37.02
PASSAGE FROM LUKE AND
THEN I'LL DELVE INTO THIS MORE.
00:22:37.02\00:22:40.52
LUKE 16:14 - BY THE WAY, IN
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, OF THE 80
00:22:40.52\00:22:43.36
REFERENCES TO PHARISEES IN
THE BIBLE, 25 OF THEM ARE IN THE
00:22:43.36\00:22:47.40
BOOK OF LUKE - A LITTLE MORE
THAN A QUARTER - LUKE 16:14,
00:22:47.40\00:22:52.17
"NOW THE PHARISEES, WHO WERE
LOVERS OF MONEY, ALSO HEARD ALL
00:22:52.17\00:22:56.14
THESE THINGS, AND
THEY DERIDED HIM."
00:22:56.14\00:22:58.77
THEY DIDN'T HAVE A
GREAT LOVE FOR JESUS.
00:22:58.77\00:23:01.28
YOU KNOW, THE PHARISEES WOULD
PRAY TO BE SEEN OF MEN JESUS
00:23:01.28\00:23:04.38
SAYS IN MATTHEW. THEY
GAVE TO BE SEEN OF MEN .
00:23:04.38\00:23:08.48
THEY FASTED TO BE SEEN OF
MEN AND SO MUCH OF IT WAS FOR
00:23:08.48\00:23:12.95
OUTWARD SHOW.
SOMEBODY SAID ONE TIME,
00:23:12.95\00:23:17.79
'HYPOCRISY IS THE HOMAGE
THAT VICE PAYS TO VIRTUE.
00:23:17.79\00:23:23.87
THAT'S REALLY PRETTY PROFOUND
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
00:23:23.87\00:23:26.80
IT'S SOMEONE WHO MAY, IN THEIR
HEART - THERE'S A LOT OF VICE -
00:23:26.80\00:23:30.51
BUT THEY WILL TRY TO LOOK
RELIGIOUS TO PAY THE PRICE FOR
00:23:30.51\00:23:34.64
THE APPEARANCE OF PIETY BUT
THEY'RE DOING IT BECAUSE THEY
00:23:34.64\00:23:39.35
CARE MORE ABOUT WHAT MEN
THINK THAN WHAT GOD THINKS - AND
00:23:39.35\00:23:42.22
THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID, 'YOU
PRAY TO BE SEEN OF MEN, FAST TO
00:23:42.22\00:23:45.09
BE SEEN OF MEN,
GIVE TO BE SEEN OF MEN.
00:23:45.09\00:23:46.35
GIVE IN SECRET, COMB YOUR HAIR
(IF YOU HAVE IT) WHEN YOU FAST
00:23:46.35\00:23:50.79
SO THAT YOU'LL - GOD KNOWS
YOU'RE FASTING AND IT'S NOT FOR
00:23:50.79\00:23:54.73
MEN - AND WHEN YOU GIVE, DON'T
LET YOUR LEFT HAND KNOW WHAT
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.67
YOUR RIGHT HAND DOES.
GOD'LL SEE YOUR GIVING.
00:23:57.67\00:23:59.33
GOD'LL REWARD YOU OPENLY FOR
WHAT YOU DO IN SECRET.' SO JESUS
00:23:59.33\00:24:02.00
SAID RELIGION REALLY NEEDS TO BE
FROM THE HEART AND IT SHOULD BE
00:24:02.00\00:24:05.07
TO SATISFY AND
PLEASE GOD AND NOT MEN.
00:24:05.07\00:24:08.11
BUT THE PHARISEES WERE
PREOCCUPIED WITH THE OUTWARD
00:24:08.11\00:24:11.85
RATHER THAN THE INWARD. AND
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID - I'LL
00:24:11.85\00:24:16.05
READ THIS IN LUKE ALSO -
LUKE 11:37 - "AND AS HE SPOKE, A
00:24:16.05\00:24:21.02
CERTAIN PHARISEE
ASKED HIM TO DINE WITH HIM.
00:24:21.02\00:24:24.69
SO HE WENT IN
AND SAT DOWN TO EAT.
00:24:24.69\00:24:27.23
WHEN THE PHARISEE SAW IT, HE
MARVELED THAT HE HAD NOT FIRST
00:24:27.23\00:24:30.80
WASHED BEFORE DINNER."
NOW, KEEP IN MIND, THIS HAS
00:24:30.80\00:24:35.00
NOTHING TO DO WITH THE KIND OF
SANITATION WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
00:24:35.00\00:24:39.11
THE PHARISEES HAD A LONG
RITUAL THEY WOULD GO THROUGH.
00:24:39.11\00:24:43.75
THEY ACTUALLY HAD A WRITTEN
PRESCRIPTION FOR HOW YOU ARE TO
00:24:43.75\00:24:47.28
SYMBOLICALLY WASH BEFORE YOU
EAT WHERE THEY WOULD, YOU KNOW,
00:24:47.28\00:24:50.79
RINSE ONE HAND AND HAVE IT DRIP
DOWN AND RINSE THE OTHER HAND
00:24:50.79\00:24:53.19
AND THEN THEY'D DRY IT AND
THEN THEY'D RINSE IT AGAIN.
00:24:53.19\00:24:55.52
IT WAS JUST A WHOLE CEREMONIAL
WASHING BEFORE YOU EAT - AND
00:24:55.52\00:24:58.56
JESUS JUST SAT
DOWN AND STARTED EATING.
00:24:58.56\00:25:01.83
NOW, BY THE WAY, YOU REALIZE
IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO WASH YOUR
00:25:01.83\00:25:05.83
HANDS BEFORE YOU EAT, BUT
IT'S NOT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO
00:25:05.83\00:25:11.81
SURVIVE. HOW MANY
OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN
00:25:11.81\00:25:15.44
YOU WERE KIDS? ANY OF YOU
MAKE MUD PIES AND EAT THEM?
00:25:15.44\00:25:17.85
OR AT LEAST TRY? IT'S AMAZING
THAT KIDS SURVIVE, ISN'T IT?
00:25:17.85\00:25:21.58
AND MOTHERS GO AROUND TRYING
TO SANITIZE THEIR LITTLE KIDS'
00:25:21.58\00:25:24.92
GRUBBY FINGERS ALL THE TIME
BECAUSE THEY'RE PUTTING THEM IN
00:25:24.92\00:25:27.19
THEIR MOUTH AND THEIR EARS
AND EVERYWHERE ELSE AND THEY'RE
00:25:27.19\00:25:29.42
DIGGING IN THE DIRT AND
PUTTING IT BACK IN THEIR MOUTH.
00:25:29.42\00:25:31.36
AND, YOU KNOW, JESUS DID
SAY, 'IT'S NOT WHAT GOES IN YOUR
00:25:31.36\00:25:35.03
MOUTH THAT DEFILES YOU.' BECAUSE
WHAT GOES IN YOUR MOUTH IS
00:25:35.03\00:25:38.70
PURIFIED BY YOUR DIGESTIVE
SYSTEM, BUT WHAT COMES OUT OF
00:25:38.70\00:25:43.07
THE HEART IS WHAT DEFILES YOU.
AND THEY HAD MADE SUCH A BIG
00:25:43.07\00:25:46.68
DEAL, THOSE PHARISEES, ABOUT THE
PHYSICAL WASHING, THEY DIDN'T
00:25:46.68\00:25:50.75
CARE ABOUT THE
REAL PURITY OF HEART.
00:25:50.75\00:25:53.18
AND SO JESUS SAID, "NOW YOU
PHARISEES" - I'M STILL BACK IN
00:25:53.18\00:25:56.55
MATTHEW - I'M SORRY, LUKE 11
AND THIS WOULD BE VERSE 39, I
00:25:56.55\00:26:02.52
BELIEVE. "NOW YOU
PHARISEES MAKE THE
00:26:02.52\00:26:04.49
OUTSIDE OF THE CUP AND DISH
CLEAN, BUT YOUR INWARD PART IS
00:26:04.49\00:26:07.90
FULL OF GREED AND
WICKEDNESS. FOOLISH ONES!
00:26:07.90\00:26:11.07
DID NOT HE WHO MADE THE
OUTSIDE MAKE THE INSIDE ALSO?
00:26:11.07\00:26:13.47
BUT RATHER GIVE ALMS OF SUCH
THINGS AS YOU HAVE; THEN INDEED
00:26:13.47\00:26:18.37
ALL THINGS ARE CLEAN TO
YOU. BUT WOE TO YOU PHARISEES!
00:26:18.37\00:26:21.44
FOR YOU TITHE MINT AND RUE AND
ALL MANNER OF HERBS, AND PASS BY
00:26:21.44\00:26:24.68
JUSTICE AND THE LOVE OF GOD.
THESE YOU OUGHT TO HAVE DONE,
00:26:24.68\00:26:28.78
WITHOUT LEAVING
THE OTHERS UNDONE."
00:26:28.78\00:26:31.05
BY THE WAY, THIS IS ALSO FOUND
IN MATTHEW 23:23 AND SOME PEOPLE
00:26:31.05\00:26:35.49
- YOU KNOW, IT'S AMAZING HOW
OFTEN WE RUN INTO PEOPLE THAT
00:26:35.49\00:26:38.83
SAY, 'WELL, THERE'S NOTHING IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT SAYS YOU
00:26:38.83\00:26:41.53
SHOULD PAY
TITHE.' THAT'S NOT TRUE.
00:26:41.53\00:26:43.97
THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO
PLACES WHERE JESUS TALKS TO THE
00:26:43.97\00:26:46.03
PHARISEES - HE RIDICULES THEM
FOR BEING SO FASTIDIOUS ABOUT
00:26:46.03\00:26:50.04
PAYING TITHE OF
THEIR HERB GARDENS.
00:26:50.04\00:26:52.24
HE SAYS, "THESE YOU OUGHT TO
HAVE DONE" - AND DON'T LEAVE THE
00:26:52.24\00:26:56.21
OTHER - THE PAIN
OF TITHE - UNDONE.
00:26:56.21\00:26:58.45
IN OTHER WORDS, YOU SHOULD TAKE
CARE OF THE JUSTICE, MERCY, AND
00:26:58.45\00:27:00.55
FAITH, BUT DON'T
NEGLECT PAYING TITHE.
00:27:00.55\00:27:02.48
AND SO, YEAH, THE NEW TESTAMENT
ALSO STILL TEACHES THAT TITHE IS
00:27:02.48\00:27:06.49
PART OF GOD'S PLAN.
"THESE YOU OUGHT TO HAVE DONE,
00:27:06.49\00:27:09.56
WITHOUT LEAVING
THE OTHERS UNDONE.
00:27:09.56\00:27:11.33
WOE TO YOU PHARISEES! FOR
YOU LOVE THE BEST SEATS IN
00:27:11.33\00:27:14.13
THE SYNAGOGUES (FOR SHOW) AND
GREETINGS IN THE MARKETPLACES.
00:27:14.13\00:27:17.60
WOE TO YOU, SCRIBES
AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES!
00:27:17.60\00:27:20.14
FOR YOU ARE LIKE GRAVES WHICH
ARE NOT SEEN, AND THE MEN WHO
00:27:20.14\00:27:23.61
WALK OVER THEM ARE
NOT AWARE OF THEM."
00:27:23.61\00:27:25.27
IT'S LIKE A GRAVE, YOU KNOW,
FULL OF THAT WHICH IS UNCLEAN
00:27:25.27\00:27:28.14
AND DEAD MEN'S BONES AND
THE BIBLE DECLARED IT UNCLEAN.
00:27:28.14\00:27:31.65
AND HE SAID, 'YOU'RE, YOU KNOW,
YOU'RE - ON THE OUTSIDE IT'S
00:27:31.65\00:27:35.02
LIKE A WHITED SEPULCHER.' BY THE
WAY, THAT'S WHAT PAUL CALLED THE
00:27:35.02\00:27:37.39
HIGH PRIEST ONE TIME. AND
SO JESUS DID NOT GET ALONG
00:27:37.39\00:27:43.63
WITH THE PHARISEES AND THEY DID
NOT LIKE HIM VERY MUCH BECAUSE
00:27:43.63\00:27:46.86
HE WANTED GENUINE RELIGION AND
THE PHARISEES HAD BECOME, SORT
00:27:46.86\00:27:53.77
OF, THE EMBODIMENT
OF SUPERFICIAL RELIGION.
00:27:53.77\00:27:57.81
NOW, IS THAT STILL A DANGER
TODAY? THE - JUST THE OUTWARD
00:27:57.81\00:28:02.38
RELIGION AND
NEGLECTING THE INWARD RELIGION.
00:28:02.38\00:28:04.68
WERE ALL PHARISEES BAD? >>NO.
00:28:04.68\00:28:08.02
>>CAN THERE BE
PHARISEES IN HEAVEN?
00:28:08.02\00:28:09.95
>>SURE.
00:28:09.95\00:28:12.32
>>YEAH, YOU LOOK AT ACTS 23:6,
"BUT WHEN PAUL PERCEIVED THAT
00:28:12.32\00:28:16.16
ONE PART WERE SADDUCEES AND THE
OTHER PHARISEES, HE CRIED OUT IN
00:28:16.16\00:28:19.53
THE COUNCIL, 'MEN AND BRETHREN,
I AM A PHARISEE, THE SON OF A
00:28:19.53\00:28:22.46
PHARISEE; CONCERNING THE HOPE
AND RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
00:28:22.46\00:28:26.13
I AM BEING JUDGED."
00:28:26.13\00:28:27.74
THAT WAS A PRETTY SHREWD THING
FOR HIM TO DO BECAUSE HE GOT THE
00:28:27.74\00:28:29.70
SANHEDRIN TO GO AGAINST EACH
OTHER AND THEY SORT OF - THE
00:28:29.70\00:28:32.67
PHARISEES SUDDENLY BECAME
HIS FRIENDS BECAUSE HE SAID HE
00:28:32.67\00:28:35.48
BELIEVED IN THE RESURRECTION.
AND, YOU KNOW, THE PHARISEES,
00:28:35.48\00:28:38.48
JESUS COMMENDED THEM
SOMETIMES FOR GOOD THINGS.
00:28:38.48\00:28:41.05
IN FACT, CHRIST SAID, 'EXCEPT
YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEEDS THAT
00:28:41.05\00:28:44.35
OF THE PHARISEES, YOU'LL BY
NO MEANS ENTER THE KINGDOM OF
00:28:44.35\00:28:48.32
HEAVEN.' NOW WHAT
DID HE MEAN BY THAT?
00:28:48.32\00:28:50.13
'EXCEPT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
EXCEEDS' - DOES THAT MEAN YOU
00:28:50.13\00:28:53.36
HAVE TO BE MORE METICULOUS AND
LEGALISTIC THAN THE PHARISEES OR
00:28:53.36\00:28:56.83
YOU CAN'T ENTER
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?
00:28:56.83\00:28:59.40
YOU KNOW, WHAT I THINK WHAT
JESUS IS SAYING - 'EXCEPT YOUR
00:28:59.40\00:29:01.87
QUALITY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEEDS
THAT OF THE PHARISEES' - IT HAS
00:29:01.87\00:29:07.11
TO BE REAL AND THE LORD
CALLS FOR A HIGH STANDARD,
00:29:07.11\00:29:13.95
BUT HE WANTS IT TO BE FROM THE
HEART. AND THEN YOU CAN LOOK AT
00:29:13.95\00:29:16.62
JOHN 3:1, "THERE WAS A
MAN OF THE PHARISEES NAMED -
00:29:16.62\00:29:20.16
>>NICODEMUS.
>>NICODEMUS - WILL HE BE IN
00:29:20.16\00:29:22.89
HEAVEN? >>YES.
00:29:22.89\00:29:25.33
>>YEAH, AND YOU LOOK IN ACTS
AND IT SAYS AMONG THOSE WHO WERE
00:29:25.33\00:29:29.13
BAPTIZED AFTER THE HOLY
SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT, THEY WERE
00:29:29.13\00:29:32.30
PRIESTS AND THEY WERE PHARISEES
- THAT THEIR HEARTS WERE
00:29:32.30\00:29:35.40
CHANGED. SO THERE WERE SOME VERY
SINCERE PHARISEES, BUT JESUS HAD
00:29:35.40\00:29:38.31
NO PATIENCE FOR
THE OUTWARD RELIGION.
00:29:38.31\00:29:40.91
LOOK AGAIN, AT ANOTHER EXAMPLE
FROM LUKE - IN LUKE 18, VERSE 9,
00:29:40.91\00:29:45.81
"ALSO HE SPOKE THIS PARABLE TO
SOME WHO TRUSTED IN THEMSELVES
00:29:45.81\00:29:50.12
THAT THEY WERE RIGHTEOUS, AND
DESPISED OTHERS: 'TWO MEN WENT
00:29:50.12\00:29:53.62
UP TO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY,"
- THAT'S A GOOD THING, RIGHT?
00:29:53.62\00:29:56.86
- "ONE A PHARISEE AND THE OTHER
A TAX COLLECTOR." - BETTER KNOWN
00:29:56.86\00:30:00.70
AS A 'PUBLICAN' - THEY WERE
THE ANTITHESIS OF A PHARISEE.
00:30:00.70\00:30:04.67
IN THEIR CULTURE, IF YOU WANTED
TO COMPLIMENT SOMEBODY FOR THEIR
00:30:04.67\00:30:07.84
RELIGION YOU'D SAY, 'OH, YOU'RE
A GOOD PHARISEE.' I KNOW, YOU
00:30:07.84\00:30:11.04
AND I THINK IT'S AN INSULT,
BUT THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS A
00:30:11.04\00:30:12.97
COMPLIMENT. IF
YOU WANTED TO INSULT
00:30:12.97\00:30:14.68
SOMEBODY, YOU WOULD
CALL THEM A TAX COLLECTOR.
00:30:14.68\00:30:17.18
NOW THAT WAS MUCH WORSE
BACK THEN THAN IT IS TODAY.
00:30:17.18\00:30:20.62
TODAY IT'S STILL NOT - NO ONE,
YOU KNOW, IS HAPPY TO HEAR TAX
00:30:20.62\00:30:25.22
COLLECTORS AT THEIR DOOR, BUT
BACK THEN THEY WERE CONSIDERED
00:30:25.22\00:30:27.99
LIKE THE MAFIA. THEY
WERE PRETTY UNRIGHTEOUS IN
00:30:27.99\00:30:30.49
THEIR COMPANY. "TWO
MEN WENT UP TO THE TEMPLE
00:30:30.49\00:30:35.00
TO PRAY, ONE A PHARISEE
AND THE OTHER A TAX COLLECTOR.
00:30:35.00\00:30:37.00
THE PHARISEE STOOD" - PROBABLY
NEAR THE FRONT - "AND PRAYED
00:30:37.00\00:30:40.37
THUS WITH HIMSELF, 'GOD, I THANK
YOU THAT I AM NOT LIKE OTHER
00:30:40.37\00:30:43.74
MEN'" - SO WHAT'S HIS PRAYER
ABOUT? IS HIS PRAYER ABOUT GOD?
00:30:43.74\00:30:47.44
IS HIS PRAYER
ABOUT HIS NEIGHBOR?
00:30:47.44\00:30:48.94
OR IS HIS PRAYER ABOUT HIM?
00:30:48.94\00:30:50.61
- "I THANK YOU THAT I AM NOT
LIKE OTHER MEN - EXTORTIONERS,
00:30:50.61\00:30:55.45
UNJUST, ADULTERERS, OR
EVEN AS THIS TAX COLLECTOR."
00:30:55.45\00:30:58.39
- ALL OF IT WAS HORIZONTAL
- "I FAST TWICE A WEEK;" -
00:30:58.39\00:31:01.69
HE PROBABLY DID.
THAT'S A GOOD THING.
00:31:01.69\00:31:03.46
IT WASN'T REQUIRED,
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:31:03.46\00:31:06.06
FASTING'S NOT ALL BAD - "I GIVE
TITHES OF ALL THAT I POSSESS."
00:31:06.06\00:31:08.76
- THAT'S GOOD - "AND THE TAX
COLLECTOR, STANDING AFAR OFF,
00:31:08.76\00:31:12.47
WOULD NOT SO MUCH AS RAISE
HIS EYES TO HEAVEN, BUT BEAT HIS
00:31:12.47\00:31:15.00
BREAST," - IN SELF-HUMILIATION -
"SAYING, 'GOD, BE MERCIFUL TO ME
00:31:15.00\00:31:19.81
A SINNER!'" -
THAT'S ONE OF THE SHORTEST
00:31:19.81\00:31:22.11
PRAYERS IN THE BIBLE.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS SAID?
00:31:22.11\00:31:24.31
- "I TELL YOU THAT THIS MAN" -
THE PUBLICAN - "WENT DOWN TO HIS
00:31:24.31\00:31:28.12
HOUSE JUSTIFIED RATHER THAN THE
OTHER;" - THE PHARISEE - "FOR
00:31:28.12\00:31:31.15
EVERYONE WHO EXALTS HIMSELF WILL
BE HUMBLED AND HE THAT HUMBLES
00:31:31.15\00:31:35.02
HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED."
YOU KNOW THE HARDEST THING FOR
00:31:35.02\00:31:38.03
GOD TO REACH IS PRIDE -
PRIDE AND SELF SUFFICIENCY.
00:31:38.03\00:31:42.50
SOMEONE SAID 'YOU'RE NEVER MORE
LIKE THE DEVIL THAN WHEN YOU'RE
00:31:42.50\00:31:45.60
PROUD.' I THINK THAT WAS
JOHN KNOX THAT SAID THAT.
00:31:45.60\00:31:49.84
AND YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE
JESUS THAN WHEN YOU'RE HUMBLE.
00:31:49.84\00:31:52.54
SO THE PHARISEES - IT WAS ALL
LIKE THEY WERE PROUD OF THEIR
00:31:52.54\00:31:56.44
HUMILITY. AND, YOU KNOW, THAT
SORT OF IS AN ENDLESS CYCLE.
00:31:56.44\00:32:02.62
HOW MANY OF YOU WANT TO
BE HUMBLE LIKE JESUS? I DO.
00:32:02.62\00:32:08.59
IF YOU EVER GET TO THAT POINT
WHERE YOU THINK, 'I FINALLY GOT
00:32:08.59\00:32:12.26
THE HUMILITY OF JESUS,' THEN YOU
ARE AT RISK OF BECOMING PROUD
00:32:12.26\00:32:15.80
THAT YOU'RE AS HUMBLE AS JESUS.
SO YEAH, YOU'VE JUST GOT TO
00:32:15.80\00:32:22.40
GUARD - YOU KNOW
SOMETHING ELSE ON THAT SUBJECT?
00:32:22.40\00:32:24.44
CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE IN
THE BIBLE WE'RE TO PRAY THAT GOD
00:32:24.44\00:32:29.21
WILL HUMBLE US?
IT DOESN'T SAY THAT.
00:32:29.21\00:32:34.28
BUT OVER AND OVER IN THE BIBLE
IT SAYS 'HUMBLE YOURSELF,' WHICH
00:32:34.28\00:32:38.15
IS PROOF THAT
YOU HAVE A FREE WILL.
00:32:38.15\00:32:40.39
GOD CANNOT FORCE
YOU TO BE HUMBLE.
00:32:40.39\00:32:42.76
GOD CAN PUT YOU THROUGH SOME
HUMILIATING CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT
00:32:42.76\00:32:45.33
FOR YOU TO REALLY - LOOK AT ALL
THAT THE LORD DID TO PHARAOH.
00:32:45.33\00:32:48.10
DID IT HUMBLE HIM OR
DID IT HARDEN HIS HEART?
00:32:48.10\00:32:50.27
SEE, YOU'RE ALL FREE TO REACT TO
CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT ONLY YOU CAN
00:32:50.27\00:32:55.04
CHOOSE TO BE HUMBLE AND UNLESS
YOU CONSCIOUSLY CHOOSE IT, WE
00:32:55.04\00:33:00.44
WILL BE SELFISH AND PROUD.
AND SO, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE
00:33:00.44\00:33:04.55
MUST EMBRACE AND IT
DOESN'T COME NATURALLY.
00:33:04.55\00:33:07.35
SO THE PHARISEE - IT WAS ALL
ABOUT SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS - AND
00:33:07.35\00:33:12.12
THE PUBLICAN, HE WAS FORGIVEN.
SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'THE NUMBER
00:33:12.12\00:33:16.39
ONE CAUSE OF ATHEISM IS
CHRISTIANS.' THOSE WHO PROCLAIM
00:33:16.39\00:33:20.80
GOD WITH THEIR MOUTHS AND
DENY HIM WITH THEIR LIFESTYLES
00:33:20.80\00:33:23.73
ARE WHAT AN UNBELIEVING
WORLD FINDS SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE.
00:33:23.73\00:33:27.40
SO IT'S THE OUTWARD - DON'T YOU
SEE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND IN
00:33:27.40\00:33:31.67
THE MEDIA, THEY LOVE TO FIND
HYPOCRISY AMONG CHRISTIANS AND
00:33:31.67\00:33:34.91
JUST ALL OF THE PROGRAMS - AND
THEY WRITE IT INTO ALL OF THE
00:33:34.91\00:33:38.35
SCRIPTS - THAT THE BIGGEST
SCOUNDREL IN ANY PROGRAM IS
00:33:38.35\00:33:41.08
GOING TO BE THE PROFESSED
CHRISTIAN AND THEY'RE MOCKED AND
00:33:41.08\00:33:45.09
THEY'RE DERIDED. SOMEONE ELSE
- OSWALD CHAMBERS - HE SAID,
00:33:45.09\00:33:49.22
'THE WORLD IS GLAD OF AN EXCUSE
NOT TO LISTEN TO THE GOSPEL
00:33:49.22\00:33:53.26
MESSAGE AND THE INCONSISTENCIES
OF CHRISTIANS IS THE EXCUSE THE
00:33:53.26\00:33:57.37
WORLD IS LOOKING FOR.
SO THE LORD WANTS US TO BE
00:33:57.37\00:34:00.90
AUTHENTIC AND THE HYPOCRISY OF
THE PHARISEES RUBBED JESUS THE
00:34:00.90\00:34:06.07
WRONG WAY.
ALRIGHT, WELL, I'LL MOVE ON.
00:34:06.07\00:34:10.25
WE NEED TO GET ON TO OUR SECTION
ON FEARING GOD, AND THIS WOULD
00:34:10.25\00:34:14.68
BE MONDAY. LUKE
12:4 - LUKE 12:4, "AND I
00:34:14.68\00:34:18.85
SAY TO YOU, MY FRIENDS, DO NOT
BE AFRAID OF THOSE WHO KILL THE
00:34:18.85\00:34:22.59
BODY, AND AFTER THAT
HAVE NO MORE THAT THEY CAN DO.
00:34:22.59\00:34:25.49
BUT I WILL SHOW YOU WHOM YOU
SHOULD FEAR: FEAR HIM WHO, AFTER
00:34:25.49\00:34:28.36
HE HAS KILLED, HAS POWER TO CAST
INTO HELL; YES, I SAY TO YOU,
00:34:28.36\00:34:32.03
FEAR HIM! ARE NOT FIVE SPARROWS
SOLD FOR TWO COPPER COINS?
00:34:32.03\00:34:35.30
AND NOT ONE OF THEM IS FORGOTTEN
BEFORE GOD. BUT THE VERY HAIRS
00:34:35.30\00:34:38.77
OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL NUMBERED.
DO NOT FEAR THEREFORE; YOU ARE
00:34:38.77\00:34:42.08
OF MORE VALUE
THAN MANY SPARROWS."
00:34:42.08\00:34:44.61
SO HERE HE'S TELLING US ABOUT
WHO TO FEAR, AND THEN HE SAYS
00:34:44.61\00:34:47.52
'DO NOT FEAR.' SO, ARE WE
TO FEAR GOD OR NOT FEAR GOD?
00:34:47.52\00:34:52.49
IS ALL FEAR - YOU KNOW,
THIS IS - THIS IS A CONUNDRUM
00:34:52.49\00:34:56.73
UNDERSTANDING THIS SOMETIMES
BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE
00:34:56.73\00:34:59.96
GOSPEL OF 1 JOHN, CHAPTER 4:18,
"THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE; BUT
00:34:59.96\00:35:07.14
PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR,
BECAUSE FEAR INVOLVES TORMENT.
00:35:07.14\00:35:09.77
BUT HE WHO FEARS HAS NOT
BEEN MADE PERFECT IN LOVE."
00:35:09.77\00:35:13.17
- AND THEN YOU LOOK AT THE THREE
ANGELS' MESSAGE AND WHAT IS IT?
00:35:13.17\00:35:17.21
FIRST ANGEL, REVELATION 14:7 -
WE'RE TO PROCLAIM "FEAR GOD AND
00:35:17.21\00:35:22.72
GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE
HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME."
00:35:22.72\00:35:25.49
SO HOW DO WE RECONCILE THESE TWO
APPARENTLY CONTRADICTORY FORMS
00:35:25.49\00:35:30.03
OF FEAR IN THE BIBLE?
'JOB WAS A PERFECT AND UPRIGHT
00:35:30.03\00:35:35.33
MAN, ONE WHO' - WHAT? - 'FEARED
GOD AND HATED EVIL.' THAT WAS A
00:35:35.33\00:35:39.87
GOOD FEAR. ADAM
AND EVE, THEY SAID,
00:35:39.87\00:35:43.57
'WE HEARD YOUR VOICE IN THE
GARDEN AND WE WERE AFRAID AND
00:35:43.57\00:35:47.38
WE RAN.' IS THAT
THE RIGHT KIND OF FEAR
00:35:47.38\00:35:50.05
THAT GOD WANTS US TO HAVE? NO.
00:35:50.05\00:35:51.88
SO THE WAY I UNDERSTAND IT IS
IT IS APPROPRIATE TO HAVE A FEAR
00:35:51.88\00:36:00.59
THAT IS AN AWESOME REVERENCE
FOR THE MAJESTY OF GOD.
00:36:00.59\00:36:05.69
I THINK THAT IT WAS JOHN WESLEY
THAT SAID, 'IF YOU FEAR GOD, YOU
00:36:05.69\00:36:10.53
WON'T FEAR ANYTHING ELSE' -
IF YOU TRULY FEAR GOD - 'IF YOU
00:36:10.53\00:36:13.54
DON'T FEAR GOD, YOU'LL FEAR,
BASICALLY, EVERYTHING ELSE.' BUT
00:36:13.54\00:36:16.67
IF YOU REALLY ONLY FEAR GOD AND
YOU FEAR HIM APPROPRIATELY WHERE
00:36:16.67\00:36:21.84
YOU'RE CONSUMED BY
NOTHING MORE THAN PLEASING GOD,
00:36:21.84\00:36:24.41
THAT'S STEP #1 IN
BEING A CHRISTIAN.
00:36:24.41\00:36:29.45
IT IS APPROPRIATE TO TREMBLE FOR
GOD, BUT IT'S NOT THE KIND OF
00:36:29.45\00:36:34.79
FEAR WHERE YOU RUN FROM HIM,
LIKE ADAM, BUT YOU GO TO HIM
00:36:34.79\00:36:38.06
THROUGH JUST AWE - YOU'RE DRAWN
BY HIS LOVE - BUT THE PRESENCE
00:36:38.06\00:36:42.93
OF THE LORD - HOW DID JOHN ACT
WHEN HE SAW THE PRESENCE OF AN
00:36:42.93\00:36:47.27
ANGEL? >>FELL ON HIS FACE.
00:36:47.27\00:36:50.31
>>YEAH, HE FELL DOWN LIKE HE WAS
DEAD. WHAT ABOUT DANIEL WHEN HE
00:36:50.31\00:36:52.67
SAW THE LORD? 'I HAD
NO STRENGTH REMAINED IN
00:36:52.67\00:36:55.54
ME.' HE FELL
DOWN. HOW ABOUT EZEKIEL?
00:36:55.54\00:36:57.91
WHAT ABOUT ISAIAH, 'WOE IS ME,
I AM UNDONE.' YOU GO THROUGH THE
00:36:57.91\00:37:01.38
BIBLE, JACOB SAID, 'I'LL DIE FOR
I'VE SEEN GOD.' I MEAN, YOU GO
00:37:01.38\00:37:04.95
THROUGH THE BIBLE AND THE ONES
WHO HAVE ENCOUNTERED GOD WERE
00:37:04.95\00:37:07.92
TERRIFIED, BUT THEY ALL
CONTINUED TO LOVE AND SERVE HIM.
00:37:07.92\00:37:11.83
AND SO, IT'S JUST A REVERENCE
FOR HIM AND A MAJESTY TO HIM,
00:37:11.83\00:37:17.27
AND AN AWARENESS THAT YOU BELONG
TO HIM. THEN THERE'S THE FEAR
00:37:17.27\00:37:19.97
OF THE UNBELIEVING THAT THEY RUN
FROM GOD AND THAT'S NOT WHAT GOD
00:37:19.97\00:37:24.34
WANTS US TO DO. HERE'S
THE WRONG KIND OF FEAR:
00:37:24.34\00:37:27.61
DEUTERONOMY 28 - AND THIS IS IN
YOUR LESSON - DEUTERONOMY 28:66
00:37:27.61\00:37:31.88
- IF YOU DISOBEY GOD HE SAYS ALL
THESE CURSES WILL FOLLOW YOU:
00:37:31.88\00:37:37.22
"YOUR LIFE SHALL HANG IN DOUBT
BEFORE YOU; YOU SHALL FEAR DAY
00:37:37.22\00:37:40.66
AND NIGHT, AND HAVE
NO ASSURANCE OF LIFE.
00:37:40.66\00:37:43.69
IN THE MORNING YOU SHALL
SAY, 'OH, THAT IT WERE EVENING!'
00:37:43.69\00:37:45.73
AND AT EVENING YOU SHALL
SAY, 'OH, THAT IT WERE MORNING!'
00:37:45.73\00:37:47.46
BECAUSE OF THE FEAR
WHICH TERRIFIES YOUR HEART, AND
00:37:47.46\00:37:50.10
BECAUSE OF THE SIGHT
WHICH YOUR EYES SEE."
00:37:50.10\00:37:52.70
NOW THAT'S THE FEAR OF A PERSON
THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE SPIRIT OF
00:37:52.70\00:37:56.40
GOD. ON THE OTHER
HAND, YOU KNOW WHAT
00:37:56.40\00:37:59.17
BROUGHT ABOUT THE
CONVERSION OF JOHN WESLEY?
00:37:59.17\00:38:01.31
HE WAS IN A STORM ON A
BOAT, COMING BACK FROM A FAILED
00:38:01.31\00:38:04.78
MISSION TRIP IN NORTH AMERICA,
TO ENGLAND AND THEY ENCOUNTERED
00:38:04.78\00:38:08.98
A TERRIBLE STORM AND HE OBSERVED
THE MORAVIAN FAMILIES, THAT WERE
00:38:08.98\00:38:13.69
SORT OF LIKE A GERMAN PRIMITIVE
BAPTIST, THEY WERE SINGING IN
00:38:13.69\00:38:18.06
THE MIDST OF THE STORM,
UP ON THE DECK OF THE BOAT.
00:38:18.06\00:38:19.79
YOU GET SEASICK WHEN IT'S BAD
AND YOU GO DOWN BELOW, AND THEY
00:38:19.79\00:38:22.86
WERE UP ON THE DECK AND THE
WAVES WERE CRASHING OVER AND ALL
00:38:22.86\00:38:25.37
THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING AND
WESLEY SAID TO THE FATHER, HE
00:38:25.37\00:38:28.00
SAYS, 'AREN'T YOU AFRAID?'
HE SAID, 'NO, WE'RE NOT AFRAID
00:38:28.00\00:38:30.27
TO DIE.' 'AREN'T YOUR
WOMEN AND YOUR CHILDREN AFRAID?'
00:38:30.27\00:38:32.77
'NO, WE ARE - OUR
LIVES ARE IN GOD'S HANDS.
00:38:32.77\00:38:35.44
WHATEVER GOD WILLS, WE'RE HAPPY
WITH THAT.' AND HE REALIZED HE
00:38:35.44\00:38:38.58
DIDN'T KNOW THE LORD AND THAT
BROUGHT ABOUT THE CONVERSION OF
00:38:38.58\00:38:41.85
WESLEY BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID OF
GOD INSTEAD OF HAVING A LOVING
00:38:41.85\00:38:46.45
REVERENCE FOR GOD. SO -
DIDN'T JESUS SLEEP IN A STORM?
00:38:46.45\00:38:51.33
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID TO THE
DISCIPLES WHEN THEY WOKE HIM UP
00:38:51.33\00:38:54.06
AND SAID, 'MASTER, CAREST
THOU NOT THAT WE'RE PERISHING?'
00:38:54.06\00:38:56.30
HE SAID, 'WHY DID YOU - WHY ARE
YOU AFRAID?' THAT SUGGESTS TO ME
00:38:56.30\00:39:00.97
THAT IF WE HAVE THE
KIND OF FAITH WE SHOULD HAVE,
00:39:00.97\00:39:03.91
WE WON'T BE AFRAID OF
THESE CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE OUR
00:39:03.91\00:39:09.18
LIVES ARE IN GOD'S HANDS.
HOW COULD PAUL WRITE WITH SUCH
00:39:09.18\00:39:12.38
PEACE? YOU EVER READ 2 TIMOTHY?
HE'S ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED.
00:39:12.38\00:39:14.75
HE'S PREOCCUPIED WITH THE
WELL-BEING OF THE CHURCH, NOT
00:39:14.75\00:39:17.62
THAT HE'S GOING
TO DIE IN A FEW DAYS.
00:39:17.62\00:39:19.22
I MEAN, HE SAID, 'I KNOW THAT MY
DEPARTURE IS AT HAND, BUT I KNOW
00:39:19.22\00:39:22.52
WHOM I'VE BELIEVED AND I'M
CONFIDENT THAT HE IS GOING TO
00:39:22.52\00:39:28.00
KEEP THAT WHICH I'VE COMMITTED
UNTO HIM AGAINST THAT DAY.'
00:39:28.00\00:39:31.27
PAUL WAS NOT AFRAID OF DYING.
PETER SAID, 'I KNOW - THE LORD'S
00:39:31.27\00:39:35.30
SHOWN ME I MUST PUT OFF MY
TABERNACLE' - MEANING HE WAS
00:39:35.30\00:39:37.97
GOING TO DIE - BUT HE WAS
PREOCCUPIED WITH THE CHURCH AND
00:39:37.97\00:39:40.91
THAT'S IN 2 PETER - BUT
THEY WEREN'T AFRAID TO DIE.
00:39:40.91\00:39:44.11
AND THIS IS WHAT CONVERTED SO
MANY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, WHEN
00:39:44.11\00:39:47.78
THEY SAW THE CHRISTIANS DIE
WITHOUT FEAR IN THE COLISEUMS.
00:39:47.78\00:39:51.29
SO DON'T YOU WANT THAT KIND
OF FAITH? BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN
00:39:51.29\00:39:54.69
THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A REVERENCE,
AN APPROPRIATE AWE, TREMBLING,
00:39:54.69\00:40:01.56
AT THE GLORY AND THE MAJESTY
OF GOD. SO, ALRIGHT, JOHN - OH,
00:40:01.56\00:40:07.50
LET'S SEE - PSALM 27:1,
"THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY
00:40:07.50\00:40:10.84
SALVATION; WHOM SHALL I FEAR?
THE LORD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY
00:40:10.84\00:40:14.44
LIFE; OF WHOM
SHALL I BE AFRAID?"
00:40:14.44\00:40:16.64
YOU KNOW, WHEN GOD CAME TO DAVID
ONCE, BECAUSE HE HAD SINNED, HE
00:40:16.64\00:40:20.92
SAID, 'I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU
THREE OPTIONS:" - I MEAN, IT'D
00:40:20.92\00:40:24.49
BE TERRIBLE TO
PICK YOUR PUNISHMENT.
00:40:24.49\00:40:25.99
YOUR PARENTS
EVER DO THAT TO YOU?
00:40:25.99\00:40:27.46
THEY GIVE YOU OPTIONS:
'SO WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE?
00:40:27.46\00:40:29.22
WOULD YOU LIKE TO
GET WHIPPED THREE TIMES?
00:40:29.22\00:40:31.33
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE, YOU
KNOW, TWO DAYS OF NO FRIENDS?
00:40:31.33\00:40:34.03
OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO" -
OH, IT'S - I HATED THAT.
00:40:34.03\00:40:36.36
SO THE LORD, THROUGH A PROPHET,
HE ASKED DAVID, HE SAID, 'DO YOU
00:40:36.36\00:40:40.20
WANT THREE DAYS OF PLAGUE TO
FALL THROUGH THE CITY OR DO YOU
00:40:40.20\00:40:44.21
WANT TO BE CHASED BY YOUR
ENEMIES OR DO YOU WANT SO MANY
00:40:44.21\00:40:46.91
YEARS OF FAMINE?' AND
DAVID SAID, 'WELL, I DON'T
00:40:46.91\00:40:50.21
WANT TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF
MAN AND BE CHASED BY MY ENEMIES"
00:40:50.21\00:40:54.25
- HE HAD ALREADY BEEN THROUGH
THAT - HE SAYS, 'I'M GOING TO
00:40:54.25\00:40:57.92
FALL INTO THE HANDS OF
THE LORD.' SO A PLAGUE CAME ON
00:40:57.92\00:41:01.26
ISRAEL AND GOD
SHORTENED IT IN MERCY.
00:41:01.26\00:41:03.36
DAVID SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I
CAN TRUST THAT GOD AND HIS
00:41:03.36\00:41:06.33
JUDGMENTS, WHATEVER HAPPENS,
IT'LL BE LOVE.' BUT HE DIDN'T
00:41:06.33\00:41:09.10
WANT TO HAVE TO WORRY
ABOUT THE FEAR OF MAN.
00:41:09.10\00:41:12.33
NOW IN THIS SECTION, WHERE WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT APPROPRIATE AND
00:41:12.33\00:41:17.61
INAPPROPRIATE FEAR, BIBLICALLY,
LUKE HAS THIS PARABLE.
00:41:17.61\00:41:20.18
LUKE 12:13, "THEN ONE FROM
THE CROWD SAID TO HIM, 'TEACHER,
00:41:20.18\00:41:26.25
TELL MY BROTHER TO DIVIDE
THE INHERITANCE WITH ME.'" -
00:41:26.25\00:41:28.95
YOU KNOW, I'LL JUST PAUSE HERE
AND SAY SOMETHING THAT I HOPE IS
00:41:28.95\00:41:32.55
TAKEN APPROPRIATELY. AS A
PASTOR, IT IS AMAZING TO ME
00:41:32.55\00:41:37.96
- YOU SEE FAMILIES THAT GET
ALONG FOR MANY YEARS AND THEN
00:41:37.96\00:41:43.70
THE PARENTS DIE AND IF
THEIR WILL ISN'T VERY PRECISE,
00:41:43.70\00:41:47.34
SIBLINGS THAT HAVE GONE TO THE
SAME CHURCH AND GOT ALONG FOR
00:41:47.34\00:41:51.51
YEARS AND THEY'RE ADULTS, YOU
KNOW, SOMETIMES THEY'RE EVEN IN
00:41:51.51\00:41:53.78
THEIR LATER YEARS - THEY GET
INTO FIGHTS OVER STUFF AND THEY
00:41:53.78\00:41:56.78
NEVER TALK AGAIN.
AND THAT'S NOT UNCOMMON.
00:41:56.78\00:42:01.68
BUT HERE - SO MAKE OUT
A GOOD WILL. BE SPECIFIC.
00:42:01.68\00:42:05.75
HERE SOMEONE SAYS, "LORD,
TELL MY BROTHER TO DIVIDE THE
00:42:05.75\00:42:10.19
INHERITANCE WITH ME."
WHAT USUALLY CAUSES THOSE
00:42:10.19\00:42:13.16
BATTLES? LOVE OF STUFF, YEAH.
00:42:13.16\00:42:16.50
BUT HE SAID TO HIM, 'MAN, WHO
MADE ME A JUDGE AND AN ARBITER
00:42:16.50\00:42:19.73
OF YOU?'- I'M NOT THE ARBITER OF
YOUR WILL - HE SAID, "TAKE HEED
00:42:19.73\00:42:24.61
AND BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS,"
- WHAT IS JESUS SAYING?
00:42:24.61\00:42:26.57
BY THE WAY, WHICH COMMANDMENT
IS THAT? TENTH, RIGHT?
00:42:26.57\00:42:31.78
"BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS, FOR
ONE'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST IN
00:42:31.78\00:42:34.82
THE ABUNDANCE OF
THINGS HE POSSESSES."
00:42:34.82\00:42:36.92
I'VE SEEN PEOPLE FIGHT OVER
LITTLE KNICK KNACKS AND YOU GO
00:42:36.92\00:42:40.09
TO THEIR HOMES AND THEY'RE FULL
- THE GARAGE IS - THEY CAN'T FIT
00:42:40.09\00:42:44.06
THE CAR - THE CAR'S ON THE
STREET BECAUSE THE GARAGE IS
00:42:44.06\00:42:45.66
FULL OF JUNK. YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:42:45.66\00:42:48.46
"THEN HE SPOKE THIS PARABLE TO
THEM, SAYING: 'THE GROUND OF A
00:42:48.46\00:42:54.94
CERTAIN RICH MAN
YIELDED PLENTIFULLY.
00:42:54.94\00:42:57.14
AND HE THOUGHT WITHIN HIMSELF,
SAYING, 'WHAT SHALL I DO, SINCE
00:42:57.14\00:42:59.64
I HAVE NO ROOM
TO STORE MY CROPS?'
00:42:59.64\00:43:01.61
SO HE SAID, 'I WILL DO THIS:
I WILL PULL DOWN MY BARNS AND
00:43:01.61\00:43:06.11
BUILD GREATER, AND THERE I WILL
STORE ALL MY CROPS AND MY GOODS.
00:43:06.11\00:43:08.45
AND I WILL SAY TO MY SOUL,
'SOUL, YOU HAVE MANY GOODS LAID
00:43:08.45\00:43:11.75
UP FOR MANY YEARS; TAKE
YOUR EASE; EAT, DRINK, AND BE
00:43:11.75\00:43:14.89
MERRY.'' BUT GOD
SAID TO HIM, 'FOOL!
00:43:14.89\00:43:16.99
THIS NIGHT YOUR SOUL WILL BE
REQUIRED OF YOU; THEN WHOSE WILL
00:43:16.99\00:43:20.83
THOSE THINGS BE
WHICH YOU HAVE PROVIDED?'
00:43:20.83\00:43:24.17
SO IS HE WHO LAYS UP TREASURE
FOR HIMSELF, AND IS NOT RICH
00:43:24.17\00:43:27.30
TOWARD GOD.'" IF ALL WE THINK
ABOUT IS 'WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?'
00:43:27.30\00:43:31.97
AND 'WHAT HAVE I STORED
FOR MYSELF?' AND WE'RE NOT
00:43:31.97\00:43:34.34
CONCERNED ABOUT GOD AND HIS
WORK AND WE DON'T APPRECIATE THE
00:43:34.34\00:43:36.41
BLESSINGS THAT GOD HAS
GIVEN, THAT'S SOMETHING TO FEAR.
00:43:36.41\00:43:39.21
THAT'S ACTUALLY - JESUS
IS SAYING THAT'S DANGEROUS.
00:43:39.21\00:43:44.22
ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION WE
HAVE BE PREPARED AND WATCHFUL -
00:43:44.22\00:43:48.52
AND IN LUKE 12:48 JESUS SAID,
"BUT HE WHO DID NOT KNOW, YET
00:43:48.52\00:43:54.63
COMMITTED THINGS
DESERVING OF STRIPES," -
00:43:54.63\00:43:57.07
STRIPES ARE WHEN YOU WERE
WHIPPED AND IT LEFT A STRIPE ON
00:43:57.07\00:43:59.30
YOUR BACK - "SHALL
BE BEATEN WITH FEW.
00:43:59.30\00:44:01.37
BUT TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, FROM
HIM MUCH WILL BE REQUIRED; AND
00:44:01.37\00:44:05.07
TO WHOM MUCH HAS BEEN COMMITTED,
OF HIM THEY WILL ASK THE MORE."
00:44:05.07\00:44:08.28
WE'RE TO BE VIGILANT AND
WATCHFUL BECAUSE WE'RE ALL TO
00:44:08.28\00:44:12.08
GIVE AN ACCOUNT TO GOD FOR WHAT
WE DO IN LETTING THE WORLD KNOW
00:44:12.08\00:44:14.92
AND WHAT WE DO WITH THE
GIFTS THE LORD HAS GIVEN US.
00:44:14.92\00:44:18.09
JESUS TELLS THIS PARABLE IN LUKE
12, VERSE 35, "LET YOUR WAIST BE
00:44:18.09\00:44:23.43
GIRDED AND YOUR LAMPS BURNING;
AND YOU YOURSELVES BE LIKE MEN
00:44:23.43\00:44:26.93
WHO WAIT FOR THEIR MASTER, WHEN
HE WILL RETURN FROM THE WEDDING,
00:44:26.93\00:44:29.76
THAT WHEN HE COMES AND
KNOCKS THEY MAY OPEN TO HIM
00:44:29.76\00:44:32.03
IMMEDIATELY. BLESSED
ARE THOSE SERVANTS WHO
00:44:32.03\00:44:34.87
THE MASTER, WHEN HE
COMES, WILL FIND WATCHING.
00:44:34.87\00:44:36.87
ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU THAT HE
WILL GIRD HIMSELF AND HAVE THEM
00:44:36.87\00:44:39.74
SIT DOWN TO EAT, AND
WILL COME AND SERVE THEM.
00:44:39.74\00:44:42.41
AND IF HE SHOULD COME IN
THE SECOND WATCH, OR COME IN THE
00:44:42.41\00:44:45.21
THIRD WATCH, AND FIND THEM
SO, BLESSED ARE THOSE SERVANTS.
00:44:45.21\00:44:48.32
BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE
MASTER OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN
00:44:48.32\00:44:51.49
WHAT HOUR THE THIEF WOULD COME,
HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED AND NOT
00:44:51.49\00:44:53.82
ALLOWED HIS HOUSE
TO BE BROKEN INTO.
00:44:53.82\00:44:55.82
THEREFORE YOU ALSO BE READY, FOR
THE SON OF MAN IS COMING AT AN
00:44:55.82\00:45:00.23
HOUR YOU DO NOT EXPECT."
YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT
00:45:00.23\00:45:03.03
JESUS SAID HE MIGHT COME IN THE
FIRST WATCH, BUT IF HE DOESN'T
00:45:03.03\00:45:07.44
COME, DON'T GET TIRED OF SERVING
HIM. HE MIGHT COME IN THE SECOND
00:45:07.44\00:45:11.21
WATCH, BUT IF HE DOESN'T COME IN
THE FIRST AND THE SECOND WATCH,
00:45:11.21\00:45:15.41
OH MAN, NOW YOU'VE WAITED FOR,
YOU KNOW, 6 - 12 HOURS - WHAT
00:45:15.41\00:45:18.95
ABOUT THE THIRD WATCH? AND
SO JESUS IS SAYING IT MIGHT
00:45:18.95\00:45:23.12
BE LATER THAN YOU
THINK. DON'T DESPAIR.
00:45:23.12\00:45:25.92
NOW WE'RE ALL SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS, AT LEAST MOST OF US,
00:45:25.92\00:45:28.36
AND THE WORD ADVENTIST MEANS
THAT WE'RE A PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE
00:45:28.36\00:45:31.46
IN THE NEAR OR SOON
ADVENT (RETURN) OF THE LORD.
00:45:31.46\00:45:35.13
IS THERE A DANGER THAT
ADVENTISTS COULD GET TO THE
00:45:35.13\00:45:38.07
POINT WHERE THEY STOP BELIEVING
IN THE EMINENT ADVENT OF JESUS?
00:45:38.07\00:45:40.44
>>YES. >>YEAH.
ISN'T THAT KIND OF WHAT
00:45:40.44\00:45:43.84
THE LORD FORETOLD WHAT MIGHT
HAPPEN? WHY IS IT THAT THERE ARE
00:45:43.84\00:45:48.78
SO MANY PARABLES AND STORIES
THAT JESUS TELLS ABOUT AN
00:45:48.78\00:45:52.25
APPARENT DELAY CONNECTED
WITH THE SECOND COMING?
00:45:52.25\00:45:55.58
WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM TARRIED,
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE TEN
00:45:55.58\00:46:00.32
VIRGINS WENT TO SLEEP? >>FIFTY.
00:46:00.32\00:46:03.32
>>A HUNDRED PERCENT. IT
WAS FIVE WISE, FIVE FOOLISH,
00:46:03.32\00:46:06.19
HOW MANY WERE SLEEPING? A
HUNDRED PERCENT UNTIL THEY
00:46:06.19\00:46:09.33
HEARD THE CRY. WHY? HE
TARRIED - AN APPARENT DELAY.
00:46:09.33\00:46:12.93
JESUS SAYS, AT THE END OF
MATTHEW 24, 'IF THAT SERVANT
00:46:12.93\00:46:15.97
SAYS IN HIS HEART, 'MY LORD
DELAYS HIS COMING.' CHRIST MIGHT
00:46:15.97\00:46:19.51
BE ALLUDING TO THE STORY WHERE
MOSES GOES UP THE MOUNTAIN.
00:46:19.51\00:46:24.01
AND IT SAYS, 'WHEN THE PEOPLE
SAW THAT MOSES DELAYED COMING
00:46:24.01\00:46:26.68
DOWN.' LATER THAN THEY THOUGHT.
WHEN SAUL IS WAITING FOR SAMUEL
00:46:26.68\00:46:31.72
- SAMUEL SAID,
'AFTER SEVEN DAYS I'LL COME.
00:46:31.72\00:46:33.86
WHEN SAMUEL DELAYED, SAUL
LOST FAITH DURING THAT TIME OF
00:46:33.86\00:46:37.59
TESTING AND HE LOST THE CROWN.
IT SEEMS LIKE THE PROPHECIES
00:46:37.59\00:46:41.43
TELL US THERE IS AN APPARENT
DELAY THAT GOD IS FORETELLING.
00:46:41.43\00:46:45.67
THERE'S THE APPEARANCE OF IT.
WHY IS IT THAT JESUS SAID, 'IN
00:46:45.67\00:46:49.17
SUCH AN HOUR AS YOU THINK
NOT THE SON OF MAN COMES"?
00:46:49.17\00:46:52.11
YOU CAN GET THE TAPE AND CHECK
FOR YOURSELF, BUT BACK IN 1999,
00:46:52.11\00:46:54.78
WHEN I WAS DOING THE NET 99
PROGRAMS, I TOLD EVERYBODY, 'IF
00:46:54.78\00:47:00.68
EVERYONE THOUGHT Y2K' - YEAR
2,000 - END OF THE WORLD - ANY
00:47:00.68\00:47:03.85
OF YOU REMEMBER
HEARING ANY OF THAT?
00:47:03.85\00:47:05.45
AND I SAID, 'I DON'T THINK JESUS
IS COMING.' AND PEOPLE SAID,
00:47:05.45\00:47:09.52
'YOU SHOULD NEVER SAY
THAT. WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?
00:47:09.52\00:47:11.89
THE YEAR 2,000 - SIX THOUSAND
YEARS - IT'LL BE THE END.'
00:47:11.89\00:47:15.03
YOU KNOW, AND PEOPLE
WERE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
00:47:15.03\00:47:16.97
I SAID, 'MY BIBLE SAYS 'IN
SUCH AN HOUR AS YOU THINK NOT.'
00:47:16.97\00:47:19.13
AND EVERYBODY
THOUGHT HE WAS COMING.
00:47:19.13\00:47:21.37
I SAID, 'NO, THAT'S NOT -
PROBABLY - EVERYONE WAIT FOR THE
00:47:21.37\00:47:24.41
STOCK MARKET TO DROP - EVERYONE
RAN TO THE HILLS AND THEY CUT UP
00:47:24.41\00:47:27.04
THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY CARDS AND
THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSES AND PUT
00:47:27.04\00:47:31.01
FOOD IN 5-GALLON PLASTIC BUCKETS
AND, I MEAN, I REALLY - I KNOW
00:47:31.01\00:47:34.05
PEOPLE THAT DID ALL THESE THINGS
- GETTING OFF THE GRID AND
00:47:34.05\00:47:36.52
WORLD'S GOING TO END AND - HERE
WE ARE NOW, FIFTEEN YEARS LATER.
00:47:36.52\00:47:39.69
BUT NOW PEOPLE HAVE STARTED
SAYING, 'OH MAN, WE'VE GOT
00:47:39.69\00:47:42.86
ANOTHER
MILLENNIUM SPREAD BEFORE US.
00:47:42.86\00:47:44.56
HE MAY NEVER COME.' ON
SUCH AN HOUR AS YOU THINK NOT.
00:47:44.56\00:47:46.63
NOW I START GETTING EXCITED
BECAUSE IT'S WHEN THE CHURCH
00:47:46.63\00:47:50.97
STARTS SAYING, 'MY LORD DELAYS
HIS COMING.' THAT'S WHEN YOU
00:47:50.97\00:47:53.70
KNOW THAT THE COMING IS NEAR.
ALRIGHT, SO WHAT DID JESUS TELL
00:47:53.70\00:47:59.61
US TO DO UNTIL THAT DAY?
LUKE 19:13 - HE SAID, "OCCUPY
00:47:59.61\00:48:04.01
TILL I COME."
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:48:04.01\00:48:06.72
DO BUSINESS, STAY BUSY, GROW
YOUR TALENTS, SHARE THE GOSPEL.
00:48:06.72\00:48:10.35
BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW
WHAT I THINK IS THE BEST SIGN
00:48:10.35\00:48:13.22
OF THE NEARNESS
OF CHRIST'S COMING?
00:48:13.22\00:48:15.06
ALRIGHT, SINCE YOU
ASKED, I'LL TELL YOU.
00:48:15.06\00:48:16.69
MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, VERSE 14,
"THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM WILL
00:48:16.69\00:48:21.40
BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD FOR
A WITNESS TO ALL NATIONS, AND
00:48:21.40\00:48:24.23
THEN THE END WILL COME."
THERE'S NOWHERE IN THE WORLD I
00:48:24.23\00:48:27.37
GO NOW WHERE PEOPLE DON'T
HAVE ACCESS TO THE GOSPEL.
00:48:27.37\00:48:30.31
I MEAN, THROUGH THE INTERNET AND
SATELLITE, ISLANDS OUT IN THE
00:48:30.31\00:48:33.17
MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC THAT USED
TO BE REMOTE AND ISOLATED, THERE
00:48:33.17\00:48:36.11
ARE TRIBES WHERE PEOPLE ARE
LITERALLY BAREFOOT AND THEY'VE
00:48:36.11\00:48:38.98
GOT THE INTERNET ON PHONES.
I'M SERIOUS, I MEAN, IT'S JUST
00:48:38.98\00:48:42.38
AMAZING, WHEREVER I GO NOW -
AND WE RUN INTO PEOPLE THAT ARE
00:48:42.38\00:48:46.52
STREAMING OUR PROGRAMS AND A
LOT OF OTHER GOSPEL PROGRAMS.
00:48:46.52\00:48:49.19
JESUS DIDN'T SAY THE WHOLE WORLD
WOULD BELIEVE, HE SAID IT'LL GO
00:48:49.19\00:48:53.83
INTO ALL THE WORLD AS A WITNESS
- AN OPPORTUNITY. AND SO NOW
00:48:53.83\00:48:57.37
THE GOSPEL IS GOING INTO
CHINA, IT'S GOING TO GO INTO THE
00:48:57.37\00:49:00.40
MIDDLE EAST - A LOT OF THESE
COUNTRIES - AND THEN THE END
00:49:00.40\00:49:03.81
WILL COME. HE DIDN'T SAY IT
MIGHT COME, HE SAID, 'THEN IT'LL
00:49:03.81\00:49:06.41
COME.' THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS
I THINK THAT THE END IS NEAR.
00:49:06.41\00:49:09.11
ALRIGHT, BE PREPARED, BE
WATCHFUL - AND IT SAYS, 'BE A
00:49:09.11\00:49:12.98
FAITHFUL WITNESS.' ACTS 1:8 -
AND THIS WAS WRITTEN BY LUKE -
00:49:12.98\00:49:17.69
"BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME
00:49:17.69\00:49:20.22
UPON YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE
WITNESSES TO ME IN JERUSALEM,
00:49:20.22\00:49:23.99
AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA,
AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH."
00:49:23.99\00:49:28.46
AND SO THE LORD WANTS US TO
START AT HOME. SOMEONE SAID, 'IF
00:49:28.46\00:49:32.73
YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE
WORLD, CLEAN YOUR BEDROOM.'
00:49:32.73\00:49:34.77
START AT HOME AND THEN START
BEING - YOU KNOW, BILLY GRAHAM
00:49:34.77\00:49:39.54
MET A YOUNG MAN THAT SAID HE WAS
GOING TO GO TO A FOREIGN MISSION
00:49:39.54\00:49:41.98
FIELD - THEY WERE TRAVELING
ON SOME CONVEYANCE, A PLANE, A
00:49:41.98\00:49:44.58
TRAIN, OR SOMETHING - HE
SAID, 'WHERE ARE YOU GOING?'
00:49:44.58\00:49:46.51
'I'M GOING TO BE A MISSIONARY.'
HE SAID, 'HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE
00:49:46.51\00:49:48.88
YOU BROUGHT TO THE
LORD IN YOUR HOMETOWN?'
00:49:48.88\00:49:50.69
'WELL, NOBODY YET, BUT I'M GOING
TO GO - I'M GOING TO GO AND DO
00:49:50.69\00:49:53.89
MISSION WORK.' HE SAID, 'LOOK,
IF YOU CAN'T REACH PEOPLE IN
00:49:53.89\00:49:56.12
YOUR FAMILY OR YOUR HOMETOWN,
DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO BE
00:49:56.12\00:49:58.59
EASIER IN SOME STRANGE LAND WITH
STRANGE CUSTOMS AND A STRANGE
00:49:58.59\00:50:00.86
LANGUAGE.' HE SAID, 'YOU WANT
TO START WHERE YOU ARE BEING A
00:50:00.86\00:50:04.53
WITNESS.' AND WE'RE - THROUGH
THE HOLY SPIRIT WE CAN ALL BE
00:50:04.53\00:50:07.47
WITNESSES, AMEN? AND
LUKE 8:4, "AND WHEN A GREAT
00:50:07.47\00:50:13.41
MULTITUDE HAD GATHERED, AND THEY
HAD COME TO HIM FROM EVERY CITY,
00:50:13.41\00:50:16.91
HE SPOKE BY A PARABLE: 'A
SOWER WENT OUT TO SOW HIS SEED.
00:50:16.91\00:50:20.95
AND AS HE SOWED, SOME FELL BY
THE WAYSIDE; AND IT WAS TRAMPLED
00:50:20.95\00:50:23.65
DOWN, AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR
DEVOURED IT. SOME FELL ON ROCK;
00:50:23.65\00:50:26.79
AND AS SOON AS IT SPRANG UP, IT
WITHERED AWAY BECAUSE IT LACKED
00:50:26.79\00:50:29.89
MOISTURE. AND SOME FELL AMONG
THORNS, AND THE THORNS SPRANG UP
00:50:29.89\00:50:32.99
WITH IT AND CHOKED IT. BUT
OTHERS FELL ON GOOD GROUND AND
00:50:32.99\00:50:38.27
SPRANG UP YIELDING A
CROP OF A HUNDREDFOLD.
00:50:38.27\00:50:41.70
AND WHEN HE SAID THESE THINGS HE
SAID, 'HE WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR,
00:50:41.70\00:50:44.24
LET HIM HEAR.'" YOU KNOW WHAT
THAT MEANS? WHEN IT COMES TO
00:50:44.24\00:50:46.64
BEING A WITNESS, YOU WANT TO SOW
AS MUCH SEED AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE
00:50:46.64\00:50:49.94
THREE OUT OF FOUR OF THOSE
SEEDS DIDN'T PRODUCE A CROP.
00:50:49.94\00:50:53.75
BUT THEY WERE SURE
THANKFUL ABOUT THE FOURTH.
00:50:53.75\00:50:56.28
YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT
A LOT OF SALESMAN - THEY MAKE A
00:50:56.28\00:51:00.86
WHOLE LOT OF CALLS
BEFORE THEY MAKE A SALE.
00:51:00.86\00:51:03.22
AND MORMON MISSIONARIES, THEY
GO OUT - I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE
00:51:03.22\00:51:05.76
RATIO IS, YOU MIGHT KNOW THIS,
CARISSA, BUT I THINK THEY COUNT
00:51:05.76\00:51:08.33
ON GOING TO LIKE 50 HOMES BEFORE
THEY GET A BIBLE STUDY, BUT
00:51:08.33\00:51:11.07
THEY'RE SO - THEY
JUST KNOW IT AHEAD OF TIME.
00:51:11.07\00:51:13.77
YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES A
FISHERMAN MIGHT HAVE TO DROP HIS
00:51:13.77\00:51:15.84
LINE IN THE WATER
BEFORE HE PULLS IN A FISH?
00:51:15.84\00:51:17.57
THEY DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.
00:51:17.57\00:51:19.14
AND SO YOU'VE JUST GOT TO COUNT
ON SOWING A LOT OF SEED AND
00:51:19.14\00:51:21.68
YOU'LL END UP GETTING A
HARVEST ALONG THE WAY, AMEN?
00:51:21.68\00:51:24.45
ANYWAY, WE HAVE RUN OUT
OF TIME FOR TODAY'S LESSON.
00:51:24.45\00:51:27.75
I WANT TO REMIND OUR LISTENERS,
IF THEY DIDN'T CATCH IT AT THE
00:51:27.75\00:51:30.39
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>>AMAZING FACTS. CHANGED LIVES
>>WHEN I WAS 15 I BOUGHT MY
00:52:05.19\00:52:13.73
FIRST BAG OF
MARIJUANA OUT OF CURIOUSITY.
00:52:13.73\00:52:16.73
AND FROM THE AGE OF 15 ON TO 23
WAS A CONSTANT EXPERIMENTATION
00:52:16.73\00:52:22.80
WITH DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES.
BY THE TIME I WAS 23 THERE WAS
00:52:22.80\00:52:27.28
NOT A DRUG I HAD NOT TRIED.
I HAD WORN MYSELF OUT SEARCHING
00:52:27.28\00:52:31.51
FOR HAPPINESS. AND
ONE DAY I CAME HOME, TIRED
00:52:31.51\00:52:35.22
AS USUAL, AND I
STARTED DRINKING.
00:52:35.22\00:52:38.62
AND AS USUAL, AFTER I STARTED
DRINKING, I STARTED LOOKING FOR
00:52:38.62\00:52:43.19
A HIGHER BUZZ. SOMEONE
CAME BY WITH SOME XANAX.
00:52:43.19\00:52:50.20
SOMEONE ALSO CAME BY WITH
SOMETHING ELSE THAT I LIKED AND
00:52:50.20\00:52:53.50
THAT WAS COCAINE. THIS
TIME, NOT THINKING, I TOOK
00:52:53.50\00:52:56.81
THE WHOLE THING. SO I
WENT TO BED ABOUT 5:00 IN
00:52:56.81\00:53:01.08
THE AFTERNOON. MY
ROOMMATE WENT OFF TO WORK
00:53:01.08\00:53:03.98
THAT NIGHT. WHEN HE
CAME BACK FROM WORK THE
00:53:03.98\00:53:06.78
NEXT DAY THOUGH HE NOTICED
SOMETHING WAS WRONG BECAUSE I
00:53:06.78\00:53:09.65
WAS STILL IN BED
IN THE SAME POSITION.
00:53:09.65\00:53:11.92
HE TRIED TO WAKE ME UP
AND HE COULDN'T WAKE ME UP.
00:53:11.92\00:53:17.39
WHEN MY PARENTS FOUND ME, THEY
FOUND ME CURLED UP IN THE FETAL
00:53:17.39\00:53:21.16
POSITION IN MY HOSPITAL ROOM,
UNCONSCIOUS STILL, AND I STAYED
00:53:21.16\00:53:27.57
UNCONSCIOUS, IN THIS COMA-LIKE
STATE FOR THE NEXT WEEK.
00:53:27.57\00:53:31.94
I STAYED THE NEXT MONTH IN THE
HOSPITAL SLOWLY GETTING BETTER
00:53:31.94\00:53:38.08
TO WHERE I COULD SIT UP IN
BED, AND I HAD TO LEARN TO WALK
00:53:38.08\00:53:40.65
AGAIN. BUT MY
PARENTS FOUND THIS ONE
00:53:40.65\00:53:43.32
FACILITY OUT IN
THE HILLS OF TENNESSEE.
00:53:43.32\00:53:46.22
I HAD TO ADMIT THAT I LIKED THE
PLACE, BUT THEY WERE CHRISTIAN
00:53:46.22\00:53:51.59
AND EVEN WORSE THAN THAT I SAID
"YES" WHEN THEY ASKED ME IF I
00:53:51.59\00:53:55.86
WANTED TO GO TO
CHURCH THAT WEEK.
00:53:55.86\00:53:58.00
BEFORE THE PASTOR SAID THE
BENEDICTION I WAS SO EXCITED
00:53:58.00\00:54:00.64
BECAUSE I WAS
PLANNING MY ESCAPE.
00:54:00.64\00:54:03.00
AND SO AFTER EVERYBODY WAS ALL
IN BED THAT NIGHT I MADE SURE
00:54:03.00\00:54:06.44
THAT THEY WERE SNORING
AND THAT THEY WERE ASLEEP.
00:54:06.44\00:54:10.18
I WENT INTO THE KITCHEN
AND STOLE A FEW BANANAS, GOT MY
00:54:10.18\00:54:13.58
BACKPACK READY - I FIGURED
I COULD GET SOBER ON MY OWN.
00:54:13.58\00:54:18.79
MY FAVORITE SONG
WAS I DID IT MY WAY .
00:54:18.79\00:54:21.76
OF COURSE, MY DEFINITION
OF SOBER WAS A NICE SUPPLY OF
00:54:21.76\00:54:27.83
MARIJUANA EACH DAY AND
ALCOHOL ON THE WEEKENDS.
00:54:27.83\00:54:31.13
AND OF COURSE IF I HAD A BAD
HANGOVER I MIGHT NEED SOME OF
00:54:31.13\00:54:33.84
THOSE RELAXING PILLS TO TAKE.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, THAT WOULD
00:54:33.84\00:54:39.17
BE IT. SO HERE I
AM STRANDED ON THE
00:54:39.17\00:54:41.54
STREET IN THE BIG CITY OF
HOUSTON. MY BAG OF CLOTHES
00:54:41.54\00:54:45.05
IS GONE. MY CELL PHONE IS GONE,
MY WALLET, MY BUS TICKET'S GONE.
00:54:45.05\00:54:49.72
I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING
BUT THE SHIRT ON MY BACK.
00:54:49.72\00:54:52.52
IT'S AT THAT POINT THAT THIS MAN
COMES UP TO ME - THIS MYSTERIOUS
00:54:52.52\00:54:56.12
MAN AND HE'S ACTUALLY VERY SHORT
AND APPEARS TO BE HOMELESS.
00:54:56.12\00:55:00.10
AND HE LED ME TO SOME FOOD AND
EVEN A PLACE TO STAY THAT NIGHT.
00:55:00.10\00:55:04.13
LOOKING BACK IT IS MY FIRM
CONCLUSION THAT THAT WAS AN
00:55:04.13\00:55:08.77
ANGEL. SO MY DAD
WAS ABLE TO COME DOWN
00:55:08.77\00:55:12.44
TO HOUSTON AND PICK ME UP AND
TAKE ME BACK UP TO THE HEALTH
00:55:12.44\00:55:15.24
RETREAT AT
WILDWOOD IN TENNESSEE.
00:55:15.24\00:55:18.31
THEY HAD A SATELLITE. ON
THIS CHANNEL THERE WAS A MAN
00:55:18.31\00:55:22.85
NAMED DOUG
BATCHELOR. I LIKED WHAT I HEARD.
00:55:22.85\00:55:26.22
I LIKED THE WAY HE
EXPLAINED THE BIBLE.
00:55:26.22\00:55:28.39
IT WAS SO SIMPLE AND HE ALSO HAD
AN EXPERIENCE SIMILAR TO MINE.
00:55:28.39\00:55:32.13
AND I TALKED TO LOU ABOUT
HIM AND THEY HAPPENED TO HAVE
00:55:32.13\00:55:36.00
A WHOLE SET OF CASSETTE TAPES.
I WOULD WAKE UP AT 4:00 IN THE
00:55:36.00\00:55:39.73
MORNING SOMETIMES AND I WOULD
GET UP AND I WOULD WATCH TWO OF
00:55:39.73\00:55:43.77
THOSE VIDEOS BEFORE BREAKFAST.
I WOULD SIT THIS CLOSE TO THE TV
00:55:43.77\00:55:47.68
WATCHING WHAT DOUG BATCHELOR
WAS SAYING, JUST EATING UP EVERY
00:55:47.68\00:55:51.18
WORD OF IT. I WAS SO
TIRED OF HEARING LIES
00:55:51.18\00:55:53.31
AND EVEN BELIEVING MY OWN LIES
- IT WAS SO WONDERFUL TO FIND
00:55:53.31\00:55:57.82
SOMETHING THAT WAS
SOLID, THAT I COULD RELY ON.
00:55:57.82\00:56:02.49
AND SO WHEN I GOT HOME FROM
REHAB IN MY LOCAL CHURCH, ERIK
00:56:02.49\00:56:07.43
FLICKINGER FROM AMAZING FACTS
WAS HOLDING AN EVANGELISTIC
00:56:07.43\00:56:10.67
SERIES. THEY
SOLIDIFIED MY CONVICTION
00:56:10.67\00:56:13.47
AND IT WAS THEN I MADE THE
ABSOLUTE DECISION TO FOLLOW
00:56:13.47\00:56:17.97
JESUS. I PRAISE
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
00:56:17.97\00:56:21.54
FOR AMAZING FACTS. I
PRAISE GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS
00:56:21.54\00:56:26.25
BECAUSE THEY'RE SO BIBLE-BASED.
THEY SEND OUT EVANGELISTS WHO
00:56:26.25\00:56:30.69
ARE WILLING TO
TEACH THE TRUTH TO PEOPLE.
00:56:30.69\00:56:33.49
I'M THANKFUL THAT THEY'RE
PREACHING RIGHT NOW ALL OVER THE
00:56:33.49\00:56:37.06
WORLD, CHANGING LIVES
JUST AS THEY CHANGED MINE.
00:56:37.06\00:56:43.93
>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
00:56:43.93\00:56:47.30
BEFORE. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
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>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:56:56.75\00:56:59.41
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:56:59.41\00:57:03.39
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:57:03.39\00:57:06.45
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00:57:06.45\00:57:09.52
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
00:57:28.58\00:57:32.15
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN
HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH
00:57:32.15\00:57:35.52
DAY OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
00:57:35.52\00:57:39.22
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:39.22\00:57:42.69
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:42.69\00:57:45.56
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:45.56\00:57:47.90
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT.
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00:57:47.90\00:57:51.20
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