(MUSIC) 00:00:00.90\00:00:33.70 >>WELCOME, FRIENDS, TO THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR HERE 00:00:33.70\00:00:36.40 AT THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. WE'RE SO 00:00:36.40\00:00:38.77 THANKFUL THAT YOU HAVE TUNED IN TO JOIN US, WE WANT TO GREET YOU 00:00:38.77\00:00:41.57 - BOTH THOSE THAT ARE VISITING WITH US AT THE GRANITE BAY 00:00:41.57\00:00:44.81 CHURCH AND OUR EXTENDED CLASS AROUND THE WORLD - WELCOME. 00:00:44.81\00:00:48.48 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY, AND 00:00:48.48\00:00:52.08 IT'S A CLASSIC BOOK THAT'S VERY ENCOURAGING, CALLED STEPS TO 00:00:52.08\00:00:55.98 CHRIST AND IF YOU'VE NOT READ THIS BOOK, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO 00:00:55.98\00:00:59.19 SEND FOR IT. WE'LL GIVE YOU A FREE COPY. 00:00:59.19\00:01:00.82 AFTER YOU READ IT, I HOPE YOU SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. 00:01:00.82\00:01:03.36 JUST WHEN YOU CALL THE NUMBER 866-788-3966 ASK FOR OFFER #800. 00:01:03.36\00:01:10.67 ONE MORE TIME, THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE OR 866-788-3966. 00:01:10.67\00:01:17.54 AND OUR LESSON TODAY IS FROM OUR SERIES WE'VE BEEN STUDYING 00:01:17.54\00:01:21.01 THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #12, JESUS 00:01:21.01\00:01:25.05 IN JERUSALEM AND IT'S GOING TO BE A FASCINATING STUDY, I KNOW. 00:01:25.05\00:01:29.48 BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT STUDY, OUR SONG LEADERS ARE GOING TO 00:01:29.48\00:01:32.95 COME LEAD US IN SOME SONGS. THEY'LL INTRODUCE OUR SPEAKER 00:01:32.95\00:01:35.46 WHO WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER. THANK YOU. 00:01:35.46\00:01:40.00 >>WE ARE GOING TO BE SINGING I CANNOT TELL WHY - HYMN #255 - 00:01:40.00\00:01:44.27 AND INSTEAD OF DOING A COUPLE SONGS TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO DO 00:01:44.27\00:01:47.90 ALL FOUR VERSES OF THIS SONG BECAUSE THE WHOLE SONG TALKS 00:01:47.90\00:01:53.31 ABOUT HIS LIFE, HIS BIRTH, HIS DEATH, AND EVERYTHING 00:01:53.31\00:01:58.45 IN BETWEEN. AND THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU CAN 00:01:58.45\00:02:00.42 REALLY GET THE FEEL OF THIS AND PUT YOURSELF IN THE PLACE, IS TO 00:02:00.42\00:02:05.42 SING ALL FOUR VERSES. SO JOIN US AS WE SING HYMN #255 00:02:05.42\00:02:09.29 - I CANNOT TELL WHY . (MUSIC) 00:02:09.29\00:02:20.54 >>I CANNOT TELL WHY HE, WHOM ANGELS WORSHIP, SHOULD SET HIS 00:02:20.54\00:02:31.95 LOVE UPON THE SONS OF MEN, OR WHY, AS SHEPHERD, HE SHOULD SEEK 00:02:31.95\00:02:46.29 THE WAND'RERS, TO BRING THEM BACK, THEY KNOW NOT HOW OR WHEN. 00:02:46.29\00:03:00.84 BUT THIS I KNOW, THAT HE WAS BORN OF MARY, WHEN BETHL'HEM'S 00:03:00.84\00:03:16.26 MANGER WAS HIS ONLY HOME, AND THAT HE LIVED AT NAZARETH AND 00:03:16.26\00:03:30.27 LABORED, AND SO THE SAVIOR, SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, IS COME. 00:03:30.27\00:03:46.25 I CANNOT TELL HOW SILENTLY HE SUFFERED, AS WITH HIS PEACE HE 00:03:46.25\00:04:01.30 GRACED THIS PLACE OF TEARS, OR HOW HIS HEART UPON THE CROSS WAS 00:04:01.30\00:04:14.78 BROKEN, THE CROWN OF PAIN TO THREE AND THIRTY YEARS. BUT THIS 00:04:14.78\00:04:31.30 I KNOW, HE HEALS THE BROKEN- HEARTED, AND STAYS OUR SIN, AND 00:04:31.30\00:04:44.91 CALMS OUR LURKING FEAR, AND LIFTS THE BURDEN FROM THE HEAVY 00:04:44.91\00:04:59.26 LADEN, FOR STILL THE SAVIOR, SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, HAS COME. 00:04:59.26\00:05:15.21 I CANNOT TELL HOW HE WILL WIN THE NATIONS, HOW HE WILL CLAIM 00:05:15.21\00:05:30.03 HIS EARTHLY HERITAGE, HOW SATISFY THE NEEDS AND 00:05:30.03\00:05:42.27 ASPIRATIONS OF EAST AND WEST, OF SINNER AND OF SAGE. BUT THIS I 00:05:42.27\00:06:00.19 KNOW, ALL FLESH SHALL SEE HIS GLORY, AND HE SHALL REAP THE 00:06:00.19\00:06:13.67 HARVEST HE HAS SOWN, AND SOME GLAD DAY HIS SUN WILL SHINE IN 00:06:13.67\00:06:27.88 SPLENDOR WHEN HE THE SAVIOR, SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, IS KNOWN. 00:06:27.88\00:06:44.03 I CANNOT TELL HOW ALL THE LANDS SHALL WORSHIP, WHEN, AT HIS 00:06:44.03\00:06:57.71 BIDDING, EVERY STORM IS STILLED, OR WHO CAN SAY HOW GREAT THE 00:06:57.71\00:07:12.09 JUBILATION WHEN ALL THE HEARTS WITH LOVE FOR MEN ARE FILLED BUT 00:07:12.09\00:07:28.81 THIS I KNOW, THE SKIES WILL SHOUT HIS PRAISES, AND TEN 00:07:28.81\00:07:40.46 THOUSAND, THOUSAND HUMAN VOICES SING, AND EARTH TO HEAVEN, AND 00:07:40.46\00:07:55.70 HEAVEN TO EARTH, WILL ANSWER: AT LAST THE SAVIOR, SAVIOR OF THE 00:07:55.70\00:08:10.19 WORLD, IS KING. 00:08:10.19\00:08:19.79 >>I'M SO THRILLED THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO KNOW EVERY SINGLE 00:08:19.79\00:08:22.83 ANSWER, WE JUST HAVE TO KNOW WHO DOES. 00:08:22.83\00:08:26.27 AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO INVITE PASTOR JËAN ROSS UP TO HAVE 00:08:26.27\00:08:28.64 PRAYER AND WE WILL GET INTO OUR STUDY. 00:08:28.64\00:08:34.31 >>LET US BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 00:08:34.31\00:08:36.34 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, ONCE 00:08:36.34\00:08:39.05 AGAIN, FOR US TO GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD. 00:08:39.05\00:08:42.62 LORD, AS WE TALK ABOUT THE LIFE OF JESUS DURING A VERY IMPORTANT 00:08:42.62\00:08:45.72 TIME OF EARTH'S HISTORY - THAT FINAL WEEK BEFORE THE 00:08:45.72\00:08:49.02 CRUCIFIXION, WE WANT TO ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT, ONCE AGAIN, TO COME 00:08:49.02\00:08:52.06 AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS. 00:08:52.06\00:08:54.13 LEAD US INTO A DEEPER AND FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR GREAT 00:08:54.13\00:08:57.00 LOVE, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 00:08:57.00\00:09:00.90 >>AMEN. >>THANK YOU SO MUCH, SINGERS, 00:09:00.90\00:09:03.24 FOR SHARING THAT BEAUTIFUL HYMN WITH US. 00:09:03.24\00:09:05.37 THE WORDS OF THAT ARE, OF COURSE, SUCH AN INSPIRATION. 00:09:05.37\00:09:08.28 ONE OF MY FAVORITES AS I'M SURE FOR MANY OF US. 00:09:08.28\00:09:11.41 WELL, AGAIN, WELCOME. WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE PART OF OUR 00:09:11.41\00:09:15.48 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR THIS MORNING. 00:09:15.48\00:09:17.99 I'D LIKE TO EXTEND A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR ONLINE CHURCH 00:09:17.99\00:09:20.86 MEMBERS WHO ARE PARTICIPATING IN OUR STUDY TIME TOGETHER. 00:09:20.86\00:09:24.63 WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT YOU'RE PART OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH 00:09:24.63\00:09:27.56 FAMILY ALONG WITH EVERYBODY ELSE THAT IS STUDYING WITH US AROUND 00:09:27.56\00:09:30.27 THE WORLD. AS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, OUR 00:09:30.27\00:09:34.17 LESSON TODAY CONTINUES IN OUR STUDY ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND 00:09:34.17\00:09:37.57 WE FIND OURSELVES TODAY ON LESSON #12. 00:09:37.57\00:09:40.81 THE TITLE OF THE LESSON IS JESUS IN JERUSALEM. 00:09:40.81\00:09:44.18 WE HAVE A MEMORY TEXT: LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 41. 00:09:44.18\00:09:49.05 IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU CAN TURN TO IT, LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND 00:09:49.05\00:09:52.69 WE'LL BE READING VERSE 41 AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN ME AS WE 00:09:52.69\00:09:55.82 READ TOGETHER IT SAYS, 'NOW AS HE DREW NEAR," - SPEAKING OF 00:09:55.82\00:09:59.96 JESUS - "HE SAW THE CITY AND WEPT OVER IT..." 00:09:59.96\00:10:04.00 NOW OUR LESSON THIS WEEK FOCUSES ON THE LAST WEEK OF MINISTRY 00:10:04.00\00:10:09.90 PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION. THE VARIOUS EVENTS THAT WE'RE 00:10:09.90\00:10:13.84 GOING TO BE LOOKING AT TOOK PLACE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM. 00:10:13.84\00:10:17.01 JERUSALEM MEANS "CITY OF PEACE" AND THE APOSTLE PAUL WRITES IN 00:10:17.01\00:10:21.75 COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 20, SPEAKING OF JESUS, "(HE) MADE 00:10:21.75\00:10:25.72 PEACE THROUGH THE BLOOD OF HIS CROSS." 00:10:25.72\00:10:28.62 IT WAS IN THE CITY OF PEACE - JERUSALEM - THAT JESUS GAVE HIS 00:10:28.62\00:10:32.13 LIFE A SACRIFICE FOR SIN BY WHICH WE CAN HAVE PEACE WITH 00:10:32.13\00:10:36.60 GOD. NOW THERE WERE A NUMBER OF 00:10:36.60\00:10:39.10 IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN THIS FIRST - OR THIS LAST 00:10:39.10\00:10:42.07 WEEK, RATHER - PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION, YOU HAVE THE 00:10:42.07\00:10:45.01 TRIUMPHANT ENTRY OF JESUS - THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE 00:10:45.01\00:10:47.48 GOING TO BE STUDYING TOGETHER, THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE IN 00:10:47.48\00:10:49.71 JERUSALEM. WE ALSO HAVE THE LAST SUPPER 00:10:49.71\00:10:52.21 WHERE JESUS ATE WITH HIS DISCIPLES. 00:10:52.21\00:10:54.58 WE HAVE THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE WHERE JESUS PRAYED, 'FATHER, IF 00:10:54.58\00:10:58.99 IT IS POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME, NEVERTHELESS, NOT 00:10:58.99\00:11:02.42 AS I WILT, BUT AS THOU WILL.' WE HAVE THE TRIAL OF JESUS, THE 00:11:02.42\00:11:06.49 CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS, AND, OF COURSE, THE RESURRECTION - 00:11:06.49\00:11:09.53 ALL TAKING PLACE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM OR THEREABOUT. 00:11:09.53\00:11:13.17 THIS LITTLE CITY BECAME THE PLACE FOR THE GREAT SHOWDOWN 00:11:13.17\00:11:15.64 BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND THE FORCES OF EVIL. 00:11:15.64\00:11:21.08 IT WAS SORT OF THE CLIMAX OF THIS COSMIC CONFLICT. 00:11:21.08\00:11:24.18 THERE, THE WHOLE HISTORY OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY WAS PLAYED OUT 00:11:24.18\00:11:29.52 CLEARLY BEFORE THE ONLOOKING UNIVERSE AND ALSO THE PEOPLE 00:11:29.52\00:11:32.95 THAT WERE IN JERUSALEM AT THAT TIME. 00:11:32.95\00:11:35.32 IN OUR LESSON, WE CAN JUST HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF THESE VERY 00:11:35.32\00:11:38.16 SIGNIFICANT EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN THIS FINAL WEEK. 00:11:38.16\00:11:41.20 WE HAVE CHRIST'S TRIUMPHANT ENTRY. 00:11:41.20\00:11:43.40 WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THAT. 00:11:43.40\00:11:45.00 WE HAVE THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE, THE OPPOSITION OF THE 00:11:45.00\00:11:47.74 RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO WHAT JESUS WAS DOING, WE HAVE JESUS TALKING 00:11:47.74\00:11:51.51 ABOUT SECULAR AUTHORITIES, AND THEN, FINALLY, THE LAST SUPPER. 00:11:51.51\00:11:54.38 SO THERE'S MUCH THAT WE HOPE TO COVER IN OUR STUDY TODAY AND 00:11:54.38\00:11:58.18 WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN ON SUNDAY WITH THE LESSON ENTITLED THE 00:11:58.18\00:12:02.45 TRIUMPHANT ENTRY . AND THE KEY PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE 00:12:02.45\00:12:05.79 HERE IS GOING TO BE LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN 00:12:05.79\00:12:09.69 READING HERE IN VERSE 28. SO IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU 00:12:09.69\00:12:12.73 CAN OPEN IT TO LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND WE'RE GOING TO START READING 00:12:12.73\00:12:16.13 IN VERSE 28 AND WE'LL READ A VERSE, PAUSE, SAY A FEW THINGS 00:12:16.13\00:12:19.27 ABOUT IT, AND THEN CONTINUE READING. 00:12:19.27\00:12:21.14 SO STARTING IN VERSE 28 IT SAYS, "WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE WENT 00:12:21.14\00:12:26.37 ON AHEAD, GOING UP TO JERUSALEM." - NOW IF YOU READ 00:12:26.37\00:12:30.35 A LITTLE EARLIER IN THE CHAPTER YOU'LL NOTICE THE STORY ABOUT 00:12:30.35\00:12:32.41 ZACCHEAUS. ZACCHEAUS WAS A RESIDENT OF 00:12:32.41\00:12:35.25 JERICHO, SO JESUS WAS IN JERICHO PRIOR TO HIM COMING UP TO 00:12:35.25\00:12:38.69 JERUSALEM AND THE TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. 00:12:38.69\00:12:42.59 THE CITY OF JERICHO WAS DOWN IN THE JORDAN VALLEY AND THE 00:12:42.59\00:12:45.86 DISTANCE BETWEEN JERICHO AND JERUSALEM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES. 00:12:45.86\00:12:49.53 THERE WAS QUITE THE ELEVATION CHANGE. 00:12:49.53\00:12:52.60 IF ONE WERE TO WALK FROM JERICHO TO JERUSALEM YOU HAD TO GO UP 00:12:52.60\00:12:57.14 ABOUT 3,300 FEET FROM DOWN JERICHO UP TO JERUSALEM. 00:12:57.14\00:13:02.54 AND THEN IT SAYS JESUS CAME, IN VERSE 29, "AND IT CAME TO PASS, 00:13:02.54\00:13:06.01 WHEN HE DREW NEAR TO BETHPHAGE AND BETHANY, AT THE MOUNTAIN 00:13:06.01\00:13:10.85 CALLED OLIVET, THAT HE SENT TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES," - NOW THESE 00:13:10.85\00:13:14.62 TWO TOWNS ARE INTERESTING. NOT A WHOLE LOT IS MENTIONED 00:13:14.62\00:13:17.93 WITH REFERENCE TO BETHPHAGE; IT SEEMS TO BE A VERY SMALL VILLAGE 00:13:17.93\00:13:21.16 THAT WAS AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 00:13:21.16\00:13:24.40 SO YOU HAVE BETHANY, AND THEN BETHPHAGE, THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 00:13:24.40\00:13:28.87 THE KIDRON VALLEY AND THEN JERUSALEM. 00:13:28.87\00:13:32.17 THERE WASN'T VERY MUCH DISTANCE BETWEEN THESE. 00:13:32.17\00:13:34.18 IT'S INTERESTING, THOUGH, THAT THE NAME BETHPHAGE, FOR THIS 00:13:34.18\00:13:37.48 LITTLE VILLAGE, IS THE HOUSE OF UNRIPE FIGS - THAT'S WHAT IT 00:13:37.48\00:13:40.95 MEANS. THE TOWN BETHANY MEANS THE HOUSE 00:13:40.95\00:13:43.52 OF DATES OR THE HOUSE OF SORROW OR MISERY . 00:13:43.52\00:13:47.36 NOW, IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT IN THIS FINAL WEEK WHEN 00:13:47.36\00:13:50.89 JESUS ENTERED INTO JERUSALEM. ON ONE OCCASION HE SAW A FIG 00:13:50.89\00:13:53.76 TREE THAT HAD LOTS OF LEAVES BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE ANY FIGS. 00:13:53.76\00:13:57.67 YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED? JESUS CURSED THE FIG TREE AND 00:13:57.67\00:14:00.54 THE DISCIPLES WERE AMAZED AT THIS AND, OF COURSE, THAT FIG 00:14:00.54\00:14:03.24 TREE REPRESENTED THE NATION OF ISRAEL. 00:14:03.24\00:14:05.44 IT LOOKED GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE BY IT WAS LACKING THE FRUIT OF THE 00:14:05.44\00:14:08.18 KINGDOM. YOU HAVE THIS TOWN CALLED 00:14:08.18\00:14:11.25 'UNRIPE FIGS' - THAT SORT OF DESCRIBES 00:14:11.25\00:14:13.92 THE CONDITION OF ISRAEL AT THIS TIME. 00:14:13.92\00:14:15.62 THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THEIR MESSIAH AND, AS A RESULT, 00:14:15.62\00:14:19.15 JERUSALEM EVENTUALLY BECAME A CITY OF SORROWS JUST 40 YEARS 00:14:19.15\00:14:22.89 LATER WHEN THE ROMANS CAME AND SURROUNDED THE CITY AND 00:14:22.89\00:14:26.19 DESTROYED IT. IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 00:14:26.19\00:14:30.47 NOW THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WAS ABOUT 300 FEET HIGHER THAN THE 00:14:30.47\00:14:34.50 TEMPLE MOUNT. SO FROM THE TOP OF THE MOUNT OF 00:14:34.50\00:14:38.24 OLIVES ONE COULD LOOK ACROSS THE KIDRON VALLEY AND YOU COULD SEE 00:14:38.24\00:14:40.58 JERUSALEM SPREAD OUT BEFORE YOU. YOU COULD SEE THE WHITE MARBLE 00:14:40.58\00:14:44.31 STONES THAT WERE USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE. 00:14:44.31\00:14:48.12 IT WAS A MARVELOUS SIGHT AND IT ALWAYS SWELLED UP PRIDE IN THE 00:14:48.12\00:14:52.52 HEARTS OF THE JEWS AS THEY TRAVELED AND THEY CAME TO THE 00:14:52.52\00:14:55.32 MOUNT OF OLIVES AND THEY LOOKED OUT UPON THEIR CITY, JERUSALEM, 00:14:55.32\00:14:57.93 IT WAS ALWAYS A WONDERFUL EVENT - A TIME THAT OFTEN WAS 00:14:57.93\00:15:01.40 ASSOCIATED WITH PRAISE AND SINGING AS THE ISRAELITES 00:15:01.40\00:15:04.87 JOURNEYED TO JERUSALEM FOR THE VARIOUS FESTIVALS. 00:15:04.87\00:15:07.20 IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT AS JESUS GETS TO THE CREST 00:15:07.20\00:15:11.34 OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, INSTEAD OF REJOICING ALONG WITH THE 00:15:11.34\00:15:14.64 CROWD THAT WAS WITH HIM, WE FIND JESUS WEEPING AT THE SIGHT OF 00:15:14.64\00:15:18.45 JERUSALEM. WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT 00:15:18.45\00:15:20.38 IN A FEW MINUTES AND TALK ABOUT THAT. IT WAS ALSO FROM THE CREST 00:15:20.38\00:15:22.82 OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES THAT MANY YEARS LATER - 40 YEARS LATER, 00:15:22.82\00:15:25.99 TITUS, THE ROMAN GENERAL, STOOD AND WITNESSED THE DESTRUCTION OF 00:15:25.99\00:15:30.19 THE TEMPLE AND THE BURNING OF THE CITY. 00:15:30.19\00:15:33.26 SO A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT THINGS HAPPENED RIGHT AROUND IN 00:15:33.26\00:15:35.76 THAT AREA. LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 30. 00:15:35.76\00:15:38.17 WE'RE IN LUKE CHAPTER 19, LOOKING AT VERSE 30. 00:15:38.17\00:15:41.47 IT SAYS - JESUS SPEAKING - "GO INTO THE VILLAGE OPPOSITE YOU, 00:15:41.47\00:15:45.94 WHERE AS YOU ENTER YOU WILL FIND A COLT TIED, ON WHICH NO ONE 00:15:45.94\00:15:49.14 HAS EVER SAT. LOOSE IT AND BRING IT HERE." 00:15:49.14\00:15:54.28 NOW, MOST LIKELY, JESUS HAD SPENT THE SABBATH DAY IN THE 00:15:54.28\00:15:58.52 TOWN OF BETHANY AT THE HOME OF MARY, MARTHA, AND LAZARUS, AND 00:15:58.52\00:16:02.26 NOW THIS IS EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. 00:16:02.26\00:16:04.76 JESUS CALLS TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES - WE DON'T KNOW WHO THOSE 00:16:04.76\00:16:07.60 DISCIPLES WERE, BUT HE SENDS THEM ON AN ERRAND. 00:16:07.60\00:16:10.40 HE SAYS, 'GO TO THE VILLAGE JUST OPPOSITE YOU.' QUITE POSSIBLY, 00:16:10.40\00:16:13.17 THAT WAS THE TOWN OR THIS LITTLE VILLAGE OF BETHPHAGE, CLOSE TO 00:16:13.17\00:16:16.97 BETHLEHEM. HE SAID, 'GO TO THAT TOWN AND 00:16:16.97\00:16:19.54 YOU WILL FIND THIS COLT TIED UP. JUST LOOSEN THE COLT AND BRING 00:16:19.54\00:16:22.54 IT TO ME.' AND, OF COURSE, THIS IS A FULFILLMENT OF THAT FAMOUS 00:16:22.54\00:16:26.15 PROPHECY THAT THE JEWS RECOGNIZED AS BEING A SIGN FOR 00:16:26.15\00:16:29.62 THE MESSIAH IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 9, VERSE 9. 00:16:29.62\00:16:34.32 IT SAYS, "REJOICE GREATLY, O DAUGHTER OF ZION!" 00:16:34.32\00:16:37.79 NOW JERUSALEM WAS BUILT ON MOUNT ZION. 00:16:37.79\00:16:40.70 IT WAS ACTUALLY THE OLD JEBUSITE FORTRESS THAT DAVID CONQUERED 00:16:40.70\00:16:44.13 AND RENAMED THE CITY OF DAVID AND, EVENTUALLY, JERUSALEM. 00:16:44.13\00:16:48.07 IT SAYS, "SHOUT, O DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM! BEHOLD YOUR KING IS 00:16:48.07\00:16:51.67 COMING TO YOU; HE IS JUST AND HAVING SALVATION, LOWLY AND 00:16:51.67\00:16:55.28 RIDING ON A DONKEY, A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY." 00:16:55.28\00:16:59.81 SO WHEN JESUS TOLD TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES 'GO INTO THIS NEARBY 00:16:59.81\00:17:03.05 TOWN AND GET THIS COLT AND BRING IT TO ME', YOU CAN IMAGINE THE 00:17:03.05\00:17:05.99 ANTICIPATION THAT MUST HAVE FILLED THE HEARTS OF THESE 00:17:05.99\00:17:09.19 DISCIPLES. 'WOW, THE TIME HAS COME. JESUS IS FINALLY TO 00:17:09.19\00:17:12.33 PROCLAIM HIMSELF AS KING.' ALL OF THEIR HOPES WERE CENTERED 00:17:12.33\00:17:16.83 UPON THIS EVENT, JESUS PROCLAIMING HIMSELF AS KING. 00:17:16.83\00:17:21.10 WELL LET'S TAKE A LOOK, IF YOU WOULD, IN VERSE 31. 00:17:21.10\00:17:23.44 JESUS GOES ON AND SAYS, "AND IF ANYONE ASKS YOU, 'WHY ARE YOU 00:17:23.44\00:17:28.38 LOOSING IT?' THUS YOU SHALL SAY TO HIM, 00:17:28.38\00:17:31.15 'BECAUSE THE LORD HAS NEED OF IT.'" NOW I DON'T WANT YOU TO 00:17:31.15\00:17:36.05 MISS THIS POINT. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE 00:17:36.05\00:17:39.12 HAVE ANY RECORD OF JESUS REFERRING TO HIMSELF AS 'LORD'. 00:17:39.12\00:17:43.32 CHRIST'S MOST POPULAR NAME FOR HIMSELF WAS 'THE SON OF MAN.' 00:17:43.32\00:17:47.10 BUT HERE JESUS REFERS TO HIMSELF AS 'LORD.' SOMETHING ELSE 00:17:47.10\00:17:51.03 INTERESTING, JESUS DOESN'T SAY, 'GO ASK THIS MAN IF I CAN 00:17:51.03\00:17:53.94 BORROW, YOU KNOW, HIS COLT. JUST GO TAKE THE COLT. 00:17:53.94\00:17:57.91 AND IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, JUST SAY, 'THE LORD NEEDS THE 00:17:57.91\00:18:01.04 COLT.' WHAT'S VERY INTERESTING HERE IS JESUS NOW IS FULFILLING 00:18:01.04\00:18:04.81 THE ROLE OF A KING. WHEN A KING NEEDS SOMETHING, HE 00:18:04.81\00:18:08.82 DOESN'T ASK PERMISSION, HE JUST SIMPLY COMMANDS, 'I NEED THIS. 00:18:08.82\00:18:11.89 BRING IT TO ME.' JESUS CALLS HIMSELF 'LORD.' HE'S TAKING THAT 00:18:11.89\00:18:17.46 ROLE AS KING. NOW IN THE MINISTRY OF JESUS, 00:18:17.46\00:18:20.83 FOR MAN'S SALVATION, THERE ARE THREE PHASES: JESUS IS DESCRIBED 00:18:20.83\00:18:24.70 AS 'THE PROPHET' DURING HIS TIME ON EARTH. 00:18:24.70\00:18:27.50 HE CAME TO REVEAL THE WILL OF THE FATHER, HE PREACHED, HE 00:18:27.50\00:18:30.67 TAUGHT - JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU SEE ME, YOU HAVE SEEN THE FATHER.' 00:18:30.67\00:18:34.84 RIGHT NOW, JESUS IS FULFILLING THE ROLE AS OUR PRIEST IN THE 00:18:34.84\00:18:39.01 HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. HE IS MINISTERING ON OUR BEHALF 00:18:39.01\00:18:41.92 BEFORE THE FATHER, BUT WHEN CHRIST'S HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY 00:18:41.92\00:18:45.42 FINISHES, THEN HE WILL COME BACK AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF 00:18:45.42\00:18:49.32 LORDS. SO WE HAVE CHRIST AS THE 00:18:49.32\00:18:51.69 PROPHET, CHRIST AS THE PRIEST, AND CHRIST AS THE KING. 00:18:51.69\00:18:55.30 WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK THAT WE READ ABOUT 00:18:55.30\00:18:58.60 JUST PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION, WE SEE JESUS MANIFESTING ALL 00:18:58.60\00:19:01.97 THREE PHASES OF HIS MINISTRY IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER. 00:19:01.97\00:19:05.84 WE SEE JESUS AS PROPHET, WHERE HE WEEPS OVER JERUSALEM AND 00:19:05.84\00:19:09.84 SAYS, 'IF YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION. 00:19:09.84\00:19:12.75 WE SEE JESUS PREACHING OR TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE, 00:19:12.75\00:19:17.22 FULFILLING THE ROLE OF A PROPHET. 00:19:17.22\00:19:18.92 WE ALSO SEE JESUS AS PRIEST THERE IN THE UPPER ROOM, 00:19:18.92\00:19:22.19 MINISTERING TO THE DISCIPLES, WASHING THEIR FEET AND JESUS 00:19:22.19\00:19:24.76 HOLDING UP THE GRAPE JUICE AND THE BREAD AND SAYING, 'THIS IS A 00:19:24.76\00:19:28.13 SYMBOL OF MY BLOOD' AND, OF COURSE, THE CROSS WHERE JESUS IS 00:19:28.13\00:19:31.97 NOT ONLY THE PRIEST BUT ALSO THE SACRIFICE AND THE TRIUMPHANT 00:19:31.97\00:19:35.34 ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM, WHERE JESUS FULFILLS THE ROLE OF KING. 00:19:35.34\00:19:40.14 SO IN THIS FINAL WEEK WE SEE JESUS AS PROPHET, AS PRIEST, AND 00:19:40.14\00:19:43.45 ALSO AS KING. VERY INTERESTING. WELL, LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 32 AND 00:19:43.45\00:19:47.88 READ THROUGH TO VERSE 34. IT SAYS, "SO THOSE WHO WERE SENT 00:19:47.88\00:19:52.59 WENT THEIR WAY AND FOUND IT JUST AS HE HAD SAID TO THEM. 00:19:52.59\00:19:57.16 BUT AS THEY WERE LOOSENING THE COLT, THE OWNERS OF IT SAID 00:19:57.16\00:19:59.89 TO THEM, 'WHY ARE YOU LOOSING THE COLT?' AND THEY SAID, 00:19:59.89\00:20:03.33 'THE LORD HAS NEED OF HIM.'" NOW YOU CAN IMAGINE THE JOY IN 00:20:03.33\00:20:07.94 THE HEARTS OF THE DISCIPLES AS THEY SET OUT ON 00:20:07.94\00:20:10.27 THEIR ERRAND TO GET THIS COLT. THEY KNEW THE PROPHECY OF 00:20:10.27\00:20:13.14 ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 9, THAT THE KING WOULD ENTER INTO JERUSALEM 00:20:13.14\00:20:16.54 RIDING ON THE BACK OF THIS COLT, AND SO THEY WENT, FULFILLING 00:20:16.54\00:20:20.45 THE WORD OF JESUS WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION THAT HE WAS ABOUT 00:20:20.45\00:20:24.19 TO PROCLAIM HIMSELF AS KING OF THE JEWS. 00:20:24.19\00:20:27.16 AND I'M SURE THEY WERE WONDERING, 'WELL, WHAT POSITION 00:20:27.16\00:20:29.56 ARE WE GOING TO HAVE IN HIS CABINET WHEN HE PROCLAIMS 00:20:29.56\00:20:32.23 HIMSELF AS KING?' YOU KNOW, THE DISCIPLES SHARED 00:20:32.23\00:20:35.23 THE POPULAR THOUGHTS WITH REFERENCE TO THE MESSIAH AND 00:20:35.23\00:20:39.27 THAT THE KING WOULD COME AND LIBERATE ISRAEL FROM THEIR 00:20:39.27\00:20:42.34 ENEMIES. LITTLE DID THEY UNDERSTAND THE 00:20:42.34\00:20:44.94 FULL SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. 00:20:44.94\00:20:48.28 WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT VERSE 35. 00:20:48.28\00:20:50.35 IT SAYS, "THEN THEY BROUGHT HIM" - THAT IS THE COLT - "TO JESUS. 00:20:50.35\00:20:53.92 AND THEY THREW THEIR OWN CLOTHES ON THE COLT AND THEY SET JESUS 00:20:53.92\00:20:58.29 ON HIM. AND AS HE WENT, MANY SPREAD 00:20:58.29\00:21:01.42 THEIR CLOTHES BEFORE HIM ON THE ROAD." 00:21:01.42\00:21:04.43 NOW THIS IDEA OF SPREADING YOUR GARMENTS - YOUR OUTER GARMENTS 00:21:04.43\00:21:07.76 ON THE GROUND - WAS A SIGN OF HOMAGE FOR ROYALTY. 00:21:07.76\00:21:11.37 ALL THE WAY BACK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WE READ IN 2 KINGS 00:21:11.37\00:21:14.77 CHAPTER 9, VERSE 13, WHEN JEHU WAS ANOINTED KING IN ISRAEL, THE 00:21:14.77\00:21:20.31 PEOPLE QUICKLY TOOK OFF THEIR OUTER GARMENTS AND THEY LAID IT 00:21:20.31\00:21:23.88 BEFORE HIM SO THAT HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO STEP ON THE GROUND, 00:21:23.88\00:21:26.48 HE WOULD STEP ON THE GARMENTS. 00:21:26.48\00:21:28.52 SO WHEN JESUS CAME THEY SAID, 'HE IS OUR KING.' THEY SHOWED 00:21:28.52\00:21:32.12 HOMAGE TO HIM AS ROYALTY AND THEY LAID THEIR CLOTHES BEFORE 00:21:32.12\00:21:36.46 HIM AND JESUS ENTERED INTO JERUSALEM. 00:21:36.46\00:21:39.76 LOOKING THEN AT VERSE 39 - WE'LL READ VERSES 39 AND 40 - 00:21:39.76\00:21:43.80 ACTUALLY, LOOKING AT VERSE 37 - IT SAYS, "THEN, AS HE WAS NOW 00:21:43.80\00:21:50.37 DRAWING NEAR THE DESCENT OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, THE WHOLE 00:21:50.37\00:21:53.64 MULTITUDE OF THE DISCIPLES BEGAN TO REJOICE AND PRAISE GOD WITH 00:21:53.64\00:21:56.98 A LOUD VOICE FOR ALL THE MIGHTY WORKS THEY HAD SEEN," - VERSE 38 00:21:56.98\00:22:02.05 SAYS, "SAYING: 'BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF 00:22:02.05\00:22:06.09 THE LORD! PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST!'" 00:22:06.09\00:22:10.99 SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THE JOY AND THE EXCITEMENT AS JESUS IS 00:22:10.99\00:22:14.33 MAKING HIS WAY HERE INTO JERUSALEM, COMING TO THE CREST 00:22:14.33\00:22:17.63 OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 00:22:17.63\00:22:19.60 PEOPLE ARE FINALLY SAYING HE IS CLAIMING HIMSELF AS KING. 00:22:19.60\00:22:23.51 IN THE CROWD THAT DAY THERE WERE THOSE WHO PROBABLY HAD 00:22:23.51\00:22:27.78 EXPERIENCED HEALING FROM JESUS. THERE WERE MAYBE SOME WHOSE EYES 00:22:27.78\00:22:31.88 HAD BEEN OPENED BY THE GREAT MIRACLE WORKER. 00:22:31.88\00:22:34.85 THERE WERE OTHERS IN THE CROWD THAT DAY THAT HAD LISTENED TO 00:22:34.85\00:22:38.09 THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND THEIR HEARTS HAD BURNED WITHIN THEM 00:22:38.09\00:22:41.89 AS HE OPENED UP THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES AND AS HE 00:22:41.89\00:22:44.53 SPOKE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE KINGDOM. 00:22:44.53\00:22:46.90 THERE WERE ALSO IN THE CROWD SOME OF THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP - 00:22:46.90\00:22:49.93 RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO WERE THERE LOOKING TO TRY AND CATCH JESUS 00:22:49.93\00:22:53.44 IN SOMETHING HE WOULD SAY OR SOMETHING HE WOULD DO SO THAT 00:22:53.44\00:22:57.11 THEY COULD CONDEMN HIM TO THE ROMAN AUTHORITIES. 00:22:57.11\00:22:59.44 IT WAS QUITE THE CROWD THAT GATHERED THERE ON THE MOUNT OF 00:22:59.44\00:23:02.64 OLIVES THAT DAY. AND THEY WERE ALL PRAISING AND 00:23:02.64\00:23:05.98 SAYING - QUOTING, ACTUALLY FROM PSALM 118, VERSE 26, "BLESSED IS 00:23:05.98\00:23:12.45 HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY 00:23:12.45\00:23:16.46 IN THE HIGHEST." NOW THE LAST PART OF THAT PHRASE, 'PEACE IN 00:23:16.46\00:23:20.30 HEAVEN AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST', WHEN YOU READ THAT, 00:23:20.30\00:23:23.33 WHAT OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT COMES TO MIND? WHEN I READ IT I THOUGHT 00:23:23.33\00:23:27.20 OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ANGELS TO THE SHEPHERDS OUTSIDE 00:23:27.20\00:23:29.44 OF BETHLEHEM AT THE BIRTH OF JESUS, WHERE THEY SPOKE ABOUT 00:23:29.44\00:23:32.24 PEACE AND GOODWILL TO ALL MEN. HERE WE ARE AT THE END OF 00:23:32.24\00:23:35.88 CHRIST'S EARTHLY MINISTRY AND A SIMILAR ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE, 00:23:35.88\00:23:39.81 'PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST." 00:23:39.81\00:23:43.18 LOOKING THEN AT VERSE 39 IT SAYS, "AND SOME OF THE PHARISEES 00:23:43.18\00:23:45.89 CALLED TO HIM FROM THE CROWD, 'TEACHER, REBUKE YOUR 00:23:45.89\00:23:49.46 DISCIPLES.'" - VERSE 40, BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 'I 00:23:49.46\00:23:53.13 TELL YOU THAT IF THESE SHOULD KEEP SILENT, THE STONES WOULD 00:23:53.13\00:23:56.90 IMMEDIATELY CRY OUT.'" YOU SEE, JESUS WAS KEENLY AWARE 00:23:56.90\00:24:01.47 THAT HE WAS FULFILLING BIBLE PROPHECY. 00:24:01.47\00:24:05.64 EVERY EVENT IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST HAD BEEN LAID OUT BEFORE 00:24:05.64\00:24:08.81 AND HE WAS FULFILLING THE FATHER'S WILL. 00:24:08.81\00:24:11.85 ALL CREATION RECOGNIZED JESUS AS KING. 00:24:11.85\00:24:15.55 JESUS SAID, 'EVEN THE ROCKS WILL CRY OUT IF I TELL THE PEOPLE TO 00:24:15.55\00:24:18.39 KEEP QUIET' - EXCEPT FOR THE STUBBORN-HEARTED RELIGIOUS 00:24:18.39\00:24:22.72 LEADERS WHO REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE JESUS FOR WHO HE 00:24:22.72\00:24:25.93 REALLY IS. SO, JESUS, WHEN HE WAS BORN, 00:24:25.93\00:24:30.33 CREATED QUITE A STIR IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM. 00:24:30.33\00:24:33.57 YOU HAVE THE STORY OF THE WISE MEN THAT CAME LOOKING FOR THE 00:24:33.57\00:24:36.54 ONE BORN KING OF THE JEWS. AND ALL OF JERUSALEM BEGAN 00:24:36.54\00:24:39.54 TALKING ABOUT THIS NEW KING WHO WAS BORN. HERE WE ARE AT THE END 00:24:39.54\00:24:44.38 OF CHRIST'S EARTHLY MINISTRY AND, AGAIN, JERUSALEM IS IN A 00:24:44.38\00:24:48.55 STIR AND THE DISCUSSION IS ABOUT JESUS BEING KING. 00:24:48.55\00:24:53.72 THE PEOPLE WERE SAYING, 'BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES IN THE 00:24:53.72\00:24:56.66 NAME OF THE LORD.' THE DISCIPLES WERE CAUGHT UP WITH 00:24:56.66\00:25:00.63 THE CROWD, ANTICIPATING JESUS SOON TO PROCLAIM HIMSELF AS THE 00:25:00.63\00:25:04.60 MESSIAH. THEY SHARED THE SAME TRADITIONS 00:25:04.60\00:25:07.94 AND THE EXPECTATIONS THAT THE PEOPLE SHARED. LITTLE DID THEY 00:25:07.94\00:25:11.14 REALIZE THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT WAS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE. 00:25:11.14\00:25:15.48 EVEN THOUGH JESUS, FOR ABOUT A YEAR PRIOR TO THIS, HAD BEEN 00:25:15.48\00:25:18.55 TELLING HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE WAS TO GO DOWN TO JERUSALEM AND 00:25:18.55\00:25:21.85 THAT HE WAS TO BE BETRAYED INTO THE HANDS OF WICKED MEN AND THAT 00:25:21.85\00:25:25.02 HE WAS TO BE CRUCIFIED. THE DISCIPLES PUT THAT OUT OF 00:25:25.02\00:25:27.99 THEIR MIND. THEY PREFERRED THE IDEA OF 00:25:27.99\00:25:30.43 NATIONAL GREATNESS - OF JESUS BEING KING AND MAYBE THEIR 00:25:30.43\00:25:33.60 HAVING AN IMPORTANT PART IN HIS NEW KINGDOM. 00:25:33.60\00:25:37.03 NOW AS THE CROWD MOVES TO THE CREST OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WE 00:25:37.03\00:25:40.37 FIND JESUS IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF THIS PRAISE AND THIS 00:25:40.37\00:25:43.24 ADORATION, DOING SOMETHING THAT I'M SURE THE DISCIPLES FIRST 00:25:43.24\00:25:46.37 JUST COULDN'T UNDERSTAND. 00:25:46.37\00:25:48.54 TAKE A LOOK, IF YOU WOULD, IN VERSE 41 - LUKE CHAPTER 19 - 00:25:48.54\00:25:52.71 LOOKING NOW AT VERSE 41 IT SAYS, "NOW AS HE DREW NEAR, HE SAW 00:25:52.71\00:25:57.59 THE CITY AND WEPT OVER IT," - SO JESUS MAKES IT TO THE TOP OF 00:25:57.59\00:26:03.46 THE MOUNT - THE MOUNT OF OLIVES - HE LOOKS OUT AND HE SEES THE 00:26:03.46\00:26:06.33 TEMPLE - HE SEES THE BUILDINGS OF JERUSALEM AND EVERYBODY'S 00:26:06.33\00:26:09.40 PRAISING AND THEY'RE WAVING THE PALM BRANCHES AND THEY'RE LAYING 00:26:09.40\00:26:12.30 DOWN THEIR CLOTHES BEFORE HIM AND IN THE MIDST OF THIS SCENE 00:26:12.30\00:26:15.04 OF GREAT JOY AND CELEBRATION, SUDDENLY THE DISCIPLES LOOK OVER 00:26:15.04\00:26:20.28 TO JESUS AND HE'S SITTING ON THE DONKEY AND SUDDENLY HIS 00:26:20.28\00:26:22.88 SHOULDERS BEGIN TO SHAKE. IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS PRAISE 00:26:22.88\00:26:27.82 THEY BEGIN TO SEE JESUS WEEPING. NOW THIS WAS NOT JUST A SLIGHT 00:26:27.82\00:26:32.99 WHIMPER, BUT THIS WAS A HEARTFELT SORROW AND GRIEF 00:26:32.99\00:26:38.63 MANIFESTED BY CHRIST. FOR AS JESUS LOOKED OUT ON THE 00:26:38.63\00:26:42.06 CITY, HE REALIZED WHAT WAS SOON TO COME UPON JERUSALEM. 00:26:42.06\00:26:46.37 HE KNEW THAT JUST IN 40 YEARS JERUSALEM WOULD BE DESTROYED. 00:26:46.37\00:26:50.14 AND IN THE MIDST OF HIS TEARS AND HIS SORROW, CHRIST BEGINS TO 00:26:50.14\00:26:53.54 GROAN OUT THESE WORDS - AND WE HAVE IT RIGHT HERE IN VERSE 42: 00:26:53.54\00:26:57.75 JESUS SAID "IF YOU HAD KNOWN, EVEN YOU, ESPECIALLY IN THIS 00:26:57.75\00:27:02.35 YOUR DAY, THE THINGS THAT MAKE FOR YOUR PEACE! 00:27:02.35\00:27:06.25 BUT NOW THEY ARE HIDDEN FROM YOU EYES." 00:27:06.25\00:27:09.86 JESUS IS ALMOST PLEADING WITH JERUSALEM SAYING, 'PLEASE, 00:27:09.86\00:27:13.29 UNDERSTAND THAT I AM THE ONE THAT CAN PROTECT YOU. 00:27:13.29\00:27:16.53 I AM THE ONE THAT CAN GIVE YOU PEACE, BUT YOU ARE REJECTING ME. 00:27:16.53\00:27:20.00 VERSE 43: "FOR DAY WILL COME UPON YOU WHEN YOUR ENEMIES WILL 00:27:20.00\00:27:23.94 BUILD AN EMBANKMENT AROUND YOU, SURROUND YOU AND CLOSE YOU IN ON 00:27:23.94\00:27:26.88 EVERY SIDE, AND LEVEL YOU, AND YOUR CHILDREN WITHIN YOU, TO THE 00:27:26.88\00:27:30.65 GROUND; AND THEY WILL NOT LEAVE IN YOU ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER, 00:27:30.65\00:27:34.62 BECAUSE YOU DID NOT KNOW THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION." 00:27:34.62\00:27:40.42 IN THE MIDST OF CELEBRATION AND JOY, JESUS IS FILLED WITH SORROW 00:27:40.42\00:27:44.59 FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS TO COME." YOU KNOW, WHEN I READ THAT, I 00:27:44.59\00:27:48.73 THOUGHT OF OUR WORLD TODAY SORT OF SPEEDING ALONG TO FINAL 00:27:48.73\00:27:53.07 DESTRUCTION. IT SEEMS LIKE SO MANY IN THE 00:27:53.07\00:27:55.80 WORLD HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS JUST AHEAD. 00:27:55.80\00:27:59.21 THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM IS REALLY A MINIATURE OF WHAT IS TO 00:27:59.21\00:28:03.28 COME UPON THE WHOLE WORLD JUST BEFORE THE COMING OF JESUS. 00:28:03.28\00:28:07.05 THIS PAST WEEK, I WAS REVIEWING A LESSON DEALING WITH THE STORY 00:28:07.05\00:28:11.82 OF THE TITANIC. IT'S ACTUALLY AN INTRO THAT WE 00:28:11.82\00:28:15.56 HAVE FOR A LESSON LATER ON THIS YEAR. WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A 00:28:15.56\00:28:18.46 10-PART REVIVAL SERIES FROM ORLANDO, FLORIDA AND WE HAVE 00:28:18.46\00:28:22.43 LESSONS THAT GO ALONG WITH EACH OF THESE PRESENTATIONS AND THIS 00:28:22.43\00:28:24.97 ONE HAPPENED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE TITANIC. 00:28:24.97\00:28:27.54 OF COURSE, IT'S REMARKABLE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THIS BIG SHIP 00:28:27.54\00:28:30.44 THAT STRUCK THE ICEBERG AND THE MESSAGE WAS FINALLY GIVEN TO THE 00:28:30.44\00:28:34.28 PEOPLE, 'THE SHIP IS GOING TO SINK.' AND DESPITE EVEN THE 00:28:34.28\00:28:38.08 ANNOUNCEMENT BEING MADE, THAT THE TITANIC IS SINKING, MOST 00:28:38.08\00:28:41.62 PEOPLE IGNORED IT. THERE WERE THOSE WHO WERE 00:28:41.62\00:28:44.72 AWAKENED FROM THEIR SLEEP AND THEY WERE TOLD, 'PUT ON THESE 00:28:44.72\00:28:46.76 LIFE JACKETS, THE SHIP IS GOING DOWN.' AND THEY WENT STRAIGHT 00:28:46.76\00:28:50.19 BACK TO SLEEP. THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO HEARD THE 00:28:50.19\00:28:52.73 ANNOUNCEMENT AND THEY WERE EATING 00:28:52.73\00:28:54.63 AND THEY WERE DRINKING AND THEY WERE DANCING AND THEY JUST KEPT 00:28:54.63\00:28:56.36 DOING WHAT THEY WERE DOING. AND WHEN THE CALL WAS MADE, 00:28:56.36\00:28:59.10 'PLEASE ENTER THE LIFEBOATS.' PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT TO GET IN THE 00:28:59.10\00:29:02.84 LIFEBOATS. THE FIRST FEW LIFEBOATS WERE 00:29:02.84\00:29:04.51 SCARCELY FULL. LITTLE DID THE PEOPLE REALIZE 00:29:04.51\00:29:07.88 THE EVENTS THAT WERE SOON TO TAKE PLACE. 00:29:07.88\00:29:11.51 I THINK OF OUR WORLD, LIKE THE TITANIC, HEADED STRAIGHT TOWARDS 00:29:11.51\00:29:14.28 A TERRIBLE ICEBERG, AND HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY ARE 00:29:14.28\00:29:19.35 EARNESTLY SEEKING FOR THAT PEACE THAT ONLY JESUS CAN GIVE? 00:29:19.35\00:29:25.49 YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, JESUS SAID, 'AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, 00:29:25.49\00:29:28.00 SO IT'LL ALSO BE WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED. 00:29:28.00\00:29:30.90 IN THE DAYS OF NOAH THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING AND MARRYING 00:29:30.90\00:29:33.50 AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT UNTIL THE FLOOD 00:29:33.50\00:29:35.90 CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY.' SO IT WILL BE WHEN JESUS COMES. 00:29:35.90\00:29:40.78 NOW, IN MONDAY'S LESSON, JESUS ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM AND WE 00:29:40.78\00:29:45.25 HAVE THE STORY OF THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. 00:29:45.25\00:29:48.15 OUR KEY VERSE HERE IS LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 46, JESUS 00:29:48.15\00:29:53.56 SAID, "IT IS WRITTEN, 'MY HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' BUT YOU 00:29:53.56\00:29:57.93 HAVE MADE IT A 'DEN OF THIEVES.'" NOW WHY DID JESUS 00:29:57.93\00:30:01.86 SAY, 'MY HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER? 00:30:01.86\00:30:05.10 OF COURSE THE TEMPLE WAS FILLED WITH ALL KINDS OF RELIGIOUS 00:30:05.10\00:30:08.80 ACTIVITIES. IT WAS A PLACE OF SACRIFICE. 00:30:08.80\00:30:10.87 IT WAS A PLACE OF SINGING. IT WAS A PLACE OF PREACHING OR 00:30:10.87\00:30:14.94 TEACHING. NEVERTHELESS, JESUS SAID, 'MY 00:30:14.94\00:30:17.55 HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER. 00:30:17.55\00:30:19.65 WHY IS PRAYER SO IMPORTANT FOR THE CHRISTIAN? 00:30:19.65\00:30:23.12 YOU SEE, PRAYER IS KEY BECAUSE PRAYER DOES NOT BRING GOD DOWN 00:30:23.12\00:30:26.25 TO US, BUT PRAYER LIFTS US UP INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND 00:30:26.25\00:30:29.49 THERE IS POWER IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 00:30:29.49\00:30:34.66 LIVES ARE CHANGED IN GOD'S PRESENCE. 00:30:34.66\00:30:37.47 PRAYER IS NOT JUST SIMPLY TELLING GOD SOMETHING THAT HE 00:30:37.47\00:30:40.27 ALREADY KNOWS, BUT PRAYER IS OPENING OUR HEARTS UP TO GOD IN 00:30:40.27\00:30:43.77 ORDER FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO TRANSFORM US INTO GOD'S IMAGE. 00:30:43.77\00:30:49.84 PRAYER IS A KEY. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'MY 00:30:49.84\00:30:53.15 FATHER'S HOUSE AND MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF 00:30:53.15\00:30:55.48 PRAYER.' YOU KNOW, AS ADVENTISTS TODAY, WE NEED TO BE PEOPLE OF 00:30:55.48\00:30:59.55 PRAYER. WE NEED TO BE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK 00:30:59.55\00:31:01.99 AND WE NEED TO BE PEOPLE FERVENT IN PRAYER. 00:31:01.99\00:31:04.86 HOW MANY TIMES A DAY DID DANIEL PRAY? THREE TIMES A DAY. 00:31:04.86\00:31:08.16 WAS HE ASHAMED OR EMBARRASSED ABOUT PRAYING? NO. 00:31:08.16\00:31:11.53 HE RECOGNIZED THAT WAS HIS LIFELINE TO HEAVEN. 00:31:11.53\00:31:14.64 NOW YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, I TRY TO PRAY 00:31:14.64\00:31:17.21 BUT SOMETIMES MY MIND WANDERS IN PRAYER' OR 'I'M NOT QUITE SURE 00:31:17.21\00:31:20.68 WHAT TO SAY. IT SEEMS THAT I KEEP SAYING THE 00:31:20.68\00:31:23.91 SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. LET ME JUST SHARE WITH YOU JUST 00:31:23.91\00:31:26.82 A SIMPLE PRINCIPLE THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN YOUR PRAYER. 00:31:26.82\00:31:30.52 I THINK OF THE WORD 'PRAY' - P-R-A-Y - AND THINK OF EACH OF 00:31:30.52\00:31:34.79 THOSE LETTERS REPRESENTING SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP GUIDE 00:31:34.79\00:31:37.26 US IN PRAYER. THE P CAN STAND FOR PRAISE. 00:31:37.26\00:31:40.46 WHEN YOU BEGIN YOUR PRAYER, YOU ALWAYS WANT TO BEGIN WITH 00:31:40.46\00:31:42.80 PRAISE. THINK OF SOMETHING SPECIFIC THAT 00:31:42.80\00:31:45.47 YOU CAN PRAISE GOD FOR - SOMETHING THAT HE HAS DONE FOR 00:31:45.47\00:31:48.84 YOU THAT VERY DAY. PRAISE NEEDS TO BE SPECIFIC - IT 00:31:48.84\00:31:52.61 NEEDS TO HAVE MEANING, SO STOP FOR A MOMENT AND THINK IN PRAYER 00:31:52.61\00:31:56.11 AND SAY, 'LORD, WHAT IS IT THAT I NEED TO THANK YOU FOR? 00:31:56.11\00:31:58.41 SO YOU BEGIN WITH PRAISE. THE R STANDS FOR REPENTANCE. 00:31:58.41\00:32:03.42 AGAIN, IN YOUR PRAYER, YOU NEED TO STOP AND ASK YOURSELF, 'WHAT 00:32:03.42\00:32:06.19 IS IT, LORD, THAT I NEED TO REPENT OF TODAY? 00:32:06.19\00:32:09.16 IS IT SOMETHING THAT I SAID? IS IT SOME FEELINGS THAT I'VE 00:32:09.16\00:32:12.46 BEEN HARBORING IN MY HEART? WHAT IS IT THAT I NEED TO ASK 00:32:12.46\00:32:15.30 YOUR FORGIVENESS OF?' THEN YOU GO ON TO THE ASK, AND 00:32:15.30\00:32:17.83 THAT IS WHERE YOU LAY ALL YOUR NEEDS BEFORE GOD. 00:32:17.83\00:32:20.90 'LORD, PLEASE HELP ME IN THIS AND HELP ME IN THAT.' AND, 00:32:20.90\00:32:23.87 FINALLY, YOU ALWAYS WANT TO END YOUR PRAYER WITH YIELD - 00:32:23.87\00:32:27.04 THAT'S THE 'Y' - YIELD. 00:32:27.04\00:32:28.61 YOU WANT TO SURRENDER YOURSELF TO GOD AND SAY, 'LORD, PLEASE, 00:32:28.61\00:32:31.25 ALLOW YOUR WILL TO BE FULFILLED IN ME. 00:32:31.25\00:32:34.32 SURRENDER ALL YOUR PLANS - LAY IT AT HIS FEET. 00:32:34.32\00:32:36.42 WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT PRAYER IS THE KEY IN THE HAND OF FAITH 00:32:36.42\00:32:41.56 THAT UNLOCKS HEAVENS TREASURE HOUSE. 00:32:41.56\00:32:45.03 WE WANT TO BE UNLOCKING THE TREASURES OF HEAVEN - THE 00:32:45.03\00:32:47.83 SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS THAT WE SO DESPERATELY NEED. 00:32:47.83\00:32:51.33 SO NOW WE FIND JESUS IN JERUSALEM AND HE IS HERE AT THE 00:32:51.33\00:32:54.67 TEMPLE. SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK IN LUKE, CHAPTER 19 AND I'M GOING 00:32:54.67\00:32:58.34 TO START READING NOW IN VERSE 45. OUR KEY PASSAGE HERE IS 00:32:58.34\00:33:01.91 LUKE 19:45 THROUGH 48 - JUST A FEW VERSES. 00:33:01.91\00:33:05.98 VERSE 45 SAYS, "THEN HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND BEGAN TO 00:33:05.98\00:33:10.59 DRIVE OUT THOSE WHO BOUGHT AND SOLD IN IT," - VERSE 46 - 00:33:10.59\00:33:15.02 "SAYING TO THEM, 'IT IS WRITTEN, 'MY HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF 00:33:15.02\00:33:18.53 PRAYER,' BUT YOU HAVE MADE IT A 'DEN OF THIEVES.'" NOW HOW MANY 00:33:18.53\00:33:22.50 TIMES DID JESUS CLEANSE THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM? HE 00:33:22.50\00:33:26.84 CLEANSED IT TWICE. THE FIRST TIME WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF 00:33:26.84\00:33:29.20 HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY. YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN JOHN 00:33:29.20\00:33:31.87 CHAPTER 2 - IT TOOK PLACE IN THE SPRING OF AD 28. 00:33:31.87\00:33:35.78 THEN WE HAVE THE SECOND CLEANSING, NOW AT THE END OF 00:33:35.78\00:33:38.38 CHRIST'S PUBLIC MINISTRY AND THE PASSOVER OF AD 31. 00:33:38.38\00:33:42.12 SOMETHING ELSE, VERY INTERESTING, ABOUT THE CLEANSING 00:33:42.12\00:33:44.92 OF THE TEMPLE: WHAT IS IT THAT JESUS SAID WHEN HE CLEANSED THE 00:33:44.92\00:33:49.09 TEMPLE FOR THE FIRST TIME, WITH REFERENCE TO THE TEMPLE? 00:33:49.09\00:33:53.23 HE SAID, 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF 00:33:53.23\00:33:57.93 PRAYER.' BUT HERE AT THE SECOND CLEANSING, JESUS DOES NOT SAY, 00:33:57.93\00:34:01.34 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER' - WHAT 00:34:01.34\00:34:04.27 DOES HE SAY? HE SAYS, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE 00:34:04.27\00:34:07.48 CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER.' IT'S VERY INTERESTING. 00:34:07.48\00:34:09.71 YOU REMEMBER EARLIER WE MENTIONED HOW THAT THIS LAST 00:34:09.71\00:34:11.65 WEEK, JESUS TAKES THE POSITION OF A KING AND HE BEGINS TO ACT 00:34:11.65\00:34:15.85 THE ROLE OF ROYALTY - ACT THE ROLE OF KING? 00:34:15.85\00:34:19.12 JESUS CLAIMS THE TEMPLE HERE AS HIS. 00:34:19.12\00:34:21.36 YES, IT'S THE FATHER'S, BUT NOW IT IS ALSO HIS AND JESUS SAID, 00:34:21.36\00:34:26.26 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER.' NOW, OF 00:34:26.26\00:34:31.23 COURSE, NOT ONLY IS THERE A CLEANSING THAT WE READ ABOUT IN 00:34:31.23\00:34:34.27 THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING OF CHRIST'S EARTHLY MINISTRY, BUT 00:34:34.27\00:34:37.07 THERE IS ALSO A CLEANSING AT THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING OF 00:34:37.07\00:34:40.38 CHRIST'S HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY ON OUR BEHALF IN HEAVEN. 00:34:40.38\00:34:44.91 THAT FIRST CLEANSING CAN BE DESCRIBED AS THE SPECIAL 00:34:44.91\00:34:48.18 OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE CHURCH AT THE DAY OF 00:34:48.18\00:34:51.29 PENTECOST. THERE WAS A CLEANSING OF THE 00:34:51.29\00:34:53.86 CHURCH AND THEY WERE EMPOWERED BY THE CHURCH TO GO OUT AND 00:34:53.86\00:34:57.23 PROCLAIM TO THE WORLD THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST AND THAT HE ROSE 00:34:57.23\00:35:01.30 FROM THE DEAD. SO, ALSO, AT THE ENDING OF 00:35:01.30\00:35:04.03 CHRIST'S HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY THERE IS ALSO A CLEANSING OF THE 00:35:04.03\00:35:07.17 CHURCH - A CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY. 00:35:07.17\00:35:10.57 THE CHURCH IS AGAIN FILLED WITH THE LATTER RAIN - A SPECIAL 00:35:10.57\00:35:14.58 OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE CHURCH GOES FORTH TO 00:35:14.58\00:35:17.51 PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS IS COMING SOON. 00:35:17.51\00:35:21.02 REVELATION CHAPTER 18 DESCRIBES A MIGHTY ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM 00:35:21.02\00:35:25.02 HEAVEN AND THE EARTH IS ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY - 00:35:25.02\00:35:28.06 THAT IS A REVELATION OF THE CHARACTER OF GOD AND HE 00:35:28.06\00:35:30.46 PROCLAIMS GOD'S LAST WARNING MESSAGE TO THE WORLD. 00:35:30.46\00:35:34.43 WELL, LET'S LOOK IN VERSE 47 AND VERSE 48. 00:35:34.43\00:35:39.00 IT SAYS, "AND HE WAS TEACHING DAILY IN THE TEMPLE. 00:35:39.00\00:35:42.10 BUT THE CHIEF PRIESTS, THE SCRIBES, AND THE LEADERS OF THE 00:35:42.10\00:35:45.04 PEOPLE SOUGHT TO DESTROY HIM, AND WERE UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING; 00:35:45.04\00:35:49.61 FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WERE VERY ATTENTIVE TO HEAR HIM." 00:35:49.61\00:35:53.42 SO EVEN THOUGH YOU HAD THOSE WHO WERE EXCITED ABOUT JESUS BEING 00:35:53.42\00:35:57.39 KING AND THEY WERE WORSHIPING AND PRAISING GOD, THERE WERE 00:35:57.39\00:36:00.72 THOSE RELIGIOUS LEADERS THAT WERE LOOKING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY 00:36:00.72\00:36:03.32 TO TRY AND DESTROY JESUS. AND YET, JESUS, BOLDLY IS 00:36:03.32\00:36:06.63 PREACHING THE TRUTH IN THE TEMPLE. 00:36:06.63\00:36:09.03 YOU SEE, CHRIST WAS AWARE OF THE FATHER'S MASTER PLAN. 00:36:09.03\00:36:12.80 HE KNEW THAT NOTHING COULD HAPPEN TO HIM SO LONG AS HE WAS 00:36:12.80\00:36:15.94 IN THE CENTER OF GOD'S WILL. GOD WOULD PROTECT HIM. 00:36:15.94\00:36:19.44 HIS LIFE WOULD CONTINUE UNTIL THE APPOINTED TIME. 00:36:19.44\00:36:22.98 AND YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, SO IT IS WITH US. IF WE REMAIN IN THE 00:36:22.98\00:36:25.65 CENTER OF GOD'S WILL, WE NEED NOT FEAR THE FUTURE. AMEN? 00:36:25.65\00:36:30.15 GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF US JUST AS HE HAS TAKEN CARE OF DANIEL IN 00:36:30.15\00:36:34.52 THE LION'S DEN AND ALL OF THESE GREAT BIBLE HEROES OVER TIME AND 00:36:34.52\00:36:37.99 EVEN STORIES OF OUR MODERN-DAY MISSIONARIES THAT GOD TAKES CARE 00:36:37.99\00:36:43.30 OF AND PROTECTS. ON TUESDAY, THE LESSON IS ENTITLED 00:36:43.30\00:36:46.63 THE UNFAITHFUL AND IT'S REALLY A PARABLE THAT JESUS TELLS. 00:36:46.63\00:36:50.41 YOU FIND IT IN LUKE CHAPTER 20 AND WE'RE GOING TO START READING 00:36:50.41\00:36:54.14 HERE IN VERSE 9 - LUKE CHAPTER 20, VERSE 9 - JESUS IS TELLING 00:36:54.14\00:36:58.55 THIS PARABLE IN THE TEMPLE - OF COURSE, THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS 00:36:58.55\00:37:02.38 ARE THERE. LET ME BEGIN IN VERSE 9. 00:37:02.38\00:37:04.65 IT SAYS, "THEN HE BEGAN TO TELL THE PEOPLE THIS PARABLE: 'A 00:37:04.65\00:37:07.32 CERTAIN MAN PLANTED A VINEYARD, LEASED IT TO VINEDRESSERS, AND 00:37:07.32\00:37:11.23 WENT INTO A FAR COUNTRY FOR A LONG TIME.'" - NOW HERE IS AN 00:37:11.23\00:37:15.60 INTERESTING SYMBOL JESUS USES; HE TALKS ABOUT A VINEYARD. 00:37:15.60\00:37:19.37 NOW TO THE JEW - TO THE ISRAELITE - THE VINE WAS A 00:37:19.37\00:37:22.14 SYMBOL OF THEIR NATION. NOT TOO FAR FROM WHERE JESUS WAS 00:37:22.14\00:37:26.64 ACTUALLY SPEAKING THESE WORDS, ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH 00:37:26.64\00:37:29.28 HISTORIAN JOSEPHUS, THERE WAS A VINE AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE 00:37:29.28\00:37:32.91 TEMPLE MADE OF GOLD AND SILVER AND IT REPRESENTED THE NATION OF 00:37:32.91\00:37:36.62 ISRAEL. THAT IDEA, OF COURSE, COMES FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 5, 00:37:36.62\00:37:39.69 WHERE ISRAEL IS LIKENED UNTO A VINE. 00:37:39.69\00:37:42.06 SO WHEN JESUS BEGINS A PARABLE AND HE SAYS 'THERE WAS A CERTAIN 00:37:42.06\00:37:44.56 MAN THAT PLANTED A VINEYARD' - OF COURSE, IN THE EARS OF THE 00:37:44.56\00:37:47.83 HEARERS THEY'RE THINKING, 'WELL, THIS IS TALKING ABOUT ISRAEL AS 00:37:47.83\00:37:51.70 A NATION.' AND THEN IN VERSE 10 JESUS SAYS, "NOW AT VINTAGE-TIME 00:37:51.70\00:37:56.27 HE SENT A SERVANT TO THE VINEDRESSERS, THAT THEY MIGHT 00:37:56.27\00:38:00.04 GIVE HIM SOME OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINEYARD. 00:38:00.04\00:38:02.81 BUT THE VINEDRESSERS BEAT HIM AND SENT HIM AWAY EMPTY-HANDED." 00:38:02.81\00:38:06.68 NOW, OF COURSE, THESE VINEDRESSERS HERE REPRESENT 00:38:06.68\00:38:09.32 THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS. 00:38:09.32\00:38:10.79 AS JESUS WAS TELLING THE STORY, YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE THE ANGER 00:38:10.79\00:38:13.39 THAT WAS SWELLING UP IN THE HEARTS OF THE SCRIBES AND 00:38:13.39\00:38:15.89 PHARISEES BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT JESUS WAS 00:38:15.89\00:38:19.39 SAYING. SO IT SAYS THE TIME CAME WHERE 00:38:19.39\00:38:22.26 THE MASTER OF THE VINEYARD WENT TO GO GET THE FRUIT. 00:38:22.26\00:38:25.00 WHAT IS THE FRUIT THAT JESUS WAS LOOKING FOR IN ISRAEL? 00:38:25.00\00:38:27.84 HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE FRUIT OF A VIRTUOUS CHARACTER. 00:38:27.84\00:38:31.71 HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT. 00:38:31.71\00:38:33.44 AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE SAME THING THAT GOD IS STILL LOOKING 00:38:33.44\00:38:35.98 FOR IN HIS CHURCH TODAY - THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM - 00:38:35.98\00:38:40.05 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT. 00:38:40.05\00:38:41.12 GALATIANS CHAPTER 5, VERSE 22 TELLS US WHAT THOSE 00:38:41.12\00:38:43.62 CHARACTERISTICS ARE: "BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, 00:38:43.62\00:38:46.39 JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, 00:38:46.39\00:38:49.56 FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL. 00:38:49.56\00:38:52.43 AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW." SO CHRIST, TODAY, IS STILL 00:38:52.43\00:38:58.27 LOOKING FOR THESE CHARACTER QUALIFICATIONS IN HIS CHURCH. 00:38:58.27\00:39:02.80 JESUS SAYS, TO THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA, RECORDED FOR US IN 00:39:02.80\00:39:06.17 REVELATION CHAPTER 3, "YOUR NEED IS GOLD REFINED IN THE FIRE." 00:39:06.17\00:39:10.91 WHAT DOES THE GOLD MEAN THAT JESUS IS OFFERING TO HIS CHURCH 00:39:10.91\00:39:14.82 TODAY? IT IS FAITH AND LOVE. 00:39:14.82\00:39:17.79 AND JESUS SAYS YOU ALSO NEED WHITE RAIMENT. 00:39:17.79\00:39:21.02 WHAT DOES THAT WHITE RAIMENT REPRESENT? 00:39:21.02\00:39:22.79 CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, BOTH IMPUTED AND IMPARTED. 00:39:22.79\00:39:27.00 AND THEN JESUS SAID, "ANOINT YOUR EYES WITH EYE SALVE." 00:39:27.00\00:39:30.43 WHAT DOES THAT EYE SALVE - THAT OINTMENT - REPRESENT? 00:39:30.43\00:39:33.03 SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT OR THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:39:33.03\00:39:35.94 SO JESUS SAYS, 'WHAT YOU NEED TODAY, IN ORDER TO MANIFEST THE 00:39:35.94\00:39:39.21 FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT - YOU NEED LOVE, PEACE IN YOUR HEART, YOU 00:39:39.21\00:39:43.08 NEED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS, BOTH IMPUTED AND IMPARTED, AND 00:39:43.08\00:39:46.95 YOU NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT - YOU NEED SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT. 00:39:46.95\00:39:50.09 THEN JESUS SAYS, "BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. 00:39:50.09\00:39:53.29 WHOEVER HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN UNTO 00:39:53.29\00:39:55.56 HIM AND I WILL DINE WITH HIM AND HE WITH ME. 00:39:55.56\00:39:59.93 READING ON IN VERSE 11 - LUKE CHAPTER 20, VERSE 11, "AGAIN HE 00:39:59.93\00:40:04.83 SENT ANOTHER SERVANT; AND THEY BEAT HIM ALSO, TREATED HIM 00:40:04.83\00:40:07.77 SHAMEFULLY, AND SENT HIM AWAY EMPTY-HANDED. 00:40:07.77\00:40:10.44 AND AGAIN HE SENT A THIRD; AND THEY WOUNDED HIM ALSO AND CAST 00:40:10.44\00:40:14.54 HIM OUT." WHICH OF THE PROPHETS WERE EVER 00:40:14.54\00:40:17.75 RECEIVED BY THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF THEIR TIME? 00:40:17.75\00:40:21.52 I CAN'T THINK OF ANY. THE SERVANTS IN THE PARABLE 00:40:21.52\00:40:25.49 REPRESENT THOSE PROPHETS THAT CAME WITH A MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN 00:40:25.49\00:40:28.06 AND VERY OFTEN THEY WERE TREATED SPITEFULLY. 00:40:28.06\00:40:31.39 MANY OF THEM WERE REJECTED AND EVEN PUT TO DEATH. 00:40:31.39\00:40:34.13 WHAT ABOUT TODAY, FRIENDS? HOW DO WE RESPOND TO THE GIFT OF 00:40:34.13\00:40:39.43 PROPHECY THAT JESUS HAS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH TODAY? 00:40:39.43\00:40:43.04 DO WE RECOGNIZE IT'S VALUE? DO WE EMBRACE THIS GREAT GIFT? 00:40:43.04\00:40:47.71 DO WE APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF ITS TEACHINGS IN OUR LIVES? 00:40:47.71\00:40:52.11 "THEN THE OWNER OF THE VINEYARD SAID, 'WHAT SHALL I DO? 00:40:52.11\00:40:55.38 I WILL SEND MY BELOVED SON. 00:40:55.38\00:40:56.85 PROBABLY THEY WILL RESPECT HIM WHEN THEY SEE HIM.'" - VERSE 14 00:40:56.85\00:41:01.09 - "BUT WHEN THE VINEDRESSERS SAW HIM, THEY REASONED AMONG 00:41:01.09\00:41:04.29 THEMSELVES, SAYING, 'THIS IS THE HEIR. 00:41:04.29\00:41:06.73 COME, LET US KILL HIM, THAT THE INHERITANCE MAY BE OURS.'" - 00:41:06.73\00:41:10.47 VERSE 15 - "SO THEY CAST HIM OUT OF THE VINEYARD AND KILLED HIM. 00:41:10.47\00:41:14.00 THEREFORE WHAT WILL THE OWNER OF THE VINEYARD DO TO THEM?" 00:41:14.00\00:41:19.34 NOW, OF COURSE, THIS VINEYARD REPRESENTS ISRAEL; THE SON WOULD 00:41:19.34\00:41:22.68 BE JESUS. AND THEY REJECT THE PROPHETS. 00:41:22.68\00:41:26.45 THEY ALSO REJECT JESUS, THE SON, AND THEY CRUCIFY HIM. 00:41:26.45\00:41:30.85 THE ANSWER IS GIVEN HERE IN VERSE 16, "HE WILL COME AND 00:41:30.85\00:41:35.76 DESTROY THOSE VINEDRESSERS AND GIVE THE VINEYARD TO OTHERS.' 00:41:35.76\00:41:39.16 AND WHEN THEY HEARD IT THEY SAID, 'CERTAINLY NOT!'" 00:41:39.16\00:41:41.90 - YOU SEE, THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE VINEYARD REPRESENTED - 00:41:41.90\00:41:44.93 IT REPRESENTED ISRAEL. 00:41:44.93\00:41:46.23 AND WHEN JESUS SAID THEY'LL TAKE THE VINEYARD AWAY - GOD'LL TAKE 00:41:46.23\00:41:49.64 THE VINEYARD AWAY AND GIVE IT TO ANOTHER - THEY SAID 'CERTAINLY 00:41:49.64\00:41:52.14 NOT!' - VERSE 17 - "THEN HE LOOKED AT 00:41:52.14\00:41:54.34 THEM AND SAID, 'WHAT THEN IS THIS THAT IS WRITTEN: 'THE STONE 00:41:54.34\00:41:57.41 WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE'?" 00:41:57.41\00:42:01.52 NOW THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING PROPHECY. IT COMES FROM 00:42:01.52\00:42:04.52 PSALM 118, VERSES 22 AND 23 - THE STORY ABOUT THIS CORNERSTONE 00:42:04.52\00:42:08.99 - IT ACTUALLY IS ASSOCIATED WITH A HISTORICAL EVENT. 00:42:08.99\00:42:12.73 DURING THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, THE STONES 00:42:12.73\00:42:16.03 FOR THE BUILDING WERE QUARRIED OFFSITE AND THEN THEY WERE 00:42:16.03\00:42:18.80 TRANSPORTED TO WHERE THE BUILDING WAS BEING BUILT. 00:42:18.80\00:42:21.60 AND WHEN IT CAME TO LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR THE TEMPLE - 00:42:21.60\00:42:24.17 THESE VARIOUS STONES CAME AND THE BUILDERS PLACED STONES IN 00:42:24.17\00:42:27.01 THE APPROPRIATE AREA. 00:42:27.01\00:42:28.91 BUT THEN THEY RECEIVED THIS STONE THAT HAD SOMEWHAT OF A 00:42:28.91\00:42:31.48 STRANGE SHAPE AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHERE IT WENT AND THEY 00:42:31.48\00:42:33.62 THOUGHT PERHAPS THE PEOPLE AT THE QUARRY HAD MADE A MISTAKE. 00:42:33.62\00:42:36.25 THIS STONE WAS IN THE WAY. IT WAS A BIG STONE. 00:42:36.25\00:42:38.75 IT WAS A HEAVY STONE. IT BECAME A STONE OF STUMBLING. 00:42:38.75\00:42:41.69 PEOPLE WERE SAYING, 'WHY DO WE HAVE THIS STONE? 00:42:41.69\00:42:43.86 WE DON'T NEED THIS STONE. 00:42:43.86\00:42:45.19 BUT WHEN IT CAME TIME TO LAY THE CORNERSTONE - THEY BEGAN TO 00:42:45.19\00:42:48.26 LOOK AROUND FOR A STONE THAT COULD ENDURE THE PRESSURE AND 00:42:48.26\00:42:51.37 THE WEIGHT - A STONE THAT WOULD NOT CRACK WHEN THE TEMPERATURE 00:42:51.37\00:42:55.57 WOULD CHANGE DRAMATICALLY AND THEY COULDN'T FIND THE RIGHT 00:42:55.57\00:42:57.74 STONE. SOMEBODY SAID, 'WELL, WHAT ABOUT THIS STONE? 00:42:57.74\00:43:00.18 LET'S PUT IT IN PLACE AND SEE.' SO THEY MOVED THIS BIG, HEAVY 00:43:00.18\00:43:03.68 STONE AND THEY PUT IT AND IT WAS A PERFECT FIT. 00:43:03.68\00:43:06.41 AND THAT STONE, OF COURSE, BECAME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. 00:43:06.41\00:43:09.18 THAT STONE IS A SYMBOL OF JESUS AND FROM THAT TIME ONWARDS, THE 00:43:09.18\00:43:12.85 CORNERSTONE WAS THE SYMBOL OF MESSIAH - THE ONE WHO HAD COME - 00:43:12.85\00:43:15.99 BUT HE WOULD BE REJECTED BY THE BUILDERS - THAT WOULD BE THE 00:43:15.99\00:43:19.29 RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS DAY. JESUS ALSO TALKS ABOUT A STONE. 00:43:19.29\00:43:23.93 IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2 THERE IS A SYMBOL OF A STONE WHICH 00:43:23.93\00:43:27.10 REPRESENTS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 00:43:27.10\00:43:29.44 YOU'LL RECALL NEBUCHADNEZZAR, THE KING OF BABYLON, HAD A DREAM 00:43:29.44\00:43:32.51 AND IN THE DREAM HE SAW THIS GIANT IMAGE MADE UP OF ALL OF 00:43:32.51\00:43:35.81 THESE DIFFERENT METALS AND THEN A STONE CAME AND STRUCK THE 00:43:35.81\00:43:38.68 IMAGE UPON ITS FEET. 00:43:38.68\00:43:40.25 IT GROUND ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT METALS TO POWDER AND THE STONE 00:43:40.25\00:43:44.35 GREW AND BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN AND FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH. 00:43:44.35\00:43:47.16 WELL THAT STONE THAT STRUCK THE IMAGE UPON THE FEET, IS A SYMBOL 00:43:47.16\00:43:50.03 OF JESUS AND THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 00:43:50.03\00:43:52.89 NOW NOTICE WHAT JESUS SAYS HERE IN VERSE 18 - WE'RE IN LUKE 00:43:52.89\00:43:57.67 CHAPTER 20, VERSE 18 - JESUS SAID, "WHOEVER FALLS ON THAT 00:43:57.67\00:44:02.00 STONE WILL BE BROKEN; BUT ON WHOMEVER IT 00:44:02.00\00:44:06.27 FALLS, IT WILL GRIND HIM TO POWDER." 00:44:06.27\00:44:09.38 CLEAR REFERENCE HERE TO DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND THE PROPHECY ABOUT 00:44:09.38\00:44:12.58 THE COMING OF CHRIST - THE SECOND COMING. 00:44:12.58\00:44:15.62 NOW FRIENDS, THIS IS A WARNING THAT JESUS GAVE TO THE RELIGIOUS 00:44:15.62\00:44:18.62 ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS DAY, BUT DOES GOD HAVE A SPECIAL WARNING 00:44:18.62\00:44:23.02 FOR THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF TODAY? YES HE DOES. 00:44:23.02\00:44:28.16 IF I WERE TO ASK YOU WHAT PASSAGE OF THE SCRIPTURE - AT 00:44:28.16\00:44:31.90 LEAST IN THE GOSPELS - IN PARTICULAR, TALKS TO THOSE TODAY 00:44:31.90\00:44:37.64 AND GIVES CERTAIN SIGNS OF WHEN JESUS WILL COME. 00:44:37.64\00:44:41.38 WHAT PASSAGE WILL COME TO MIND? I'LL GIVE YOU A CLUE, IT'S IN 00:44:41.38\00:44:44.68 THE BOOK OF MATTHEW - MATTHEW WHAT? MATTHEW CHAPTER 24. 00:44:44.68\00:44:48.05 AND, OF COURSE, IN MATTHEW 24 WE HAVE SIGNS RELATING TO THE 00:44:48.05\00:44:51.65 DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM THAT HAPPENED IN 70 AD. 00:44:51.65\00:44:54.72 WE ALSO HAVE SIGNS RELATING TO THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 00:44:54.72\00:44:57.23 NOW IN MATTHEW 24, JESUS ENDS BY TELLING A PARABLE. 00:44:57.23\00:45:02.36 AND THIS PARABLE, I THINK, IS, IN PARTICULAR, RELATED TO OUR 00:45:02.36\00:45:04.90 TIME. YOU'LL FIND IT HERE IN VERSE 45 00:45:04.90\00:45:06.90 - MATTHEW 24, BEGINNING IN VERSE 45 - JESUS SAID, "WHO THEN IS A 00:45:06.90\00:45:13.48 FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT, WHOM HIS MASTER HAS MADE RULER OVER 00:45:13.48\00:45:17.01 HIS HOUSEHOLD, TO GIVE THEM FOOD IN DUE SEASON?" 00:45:17.01\00:45:21.45 NOW WHO DO YOU SUPPOSE THIS MASTER WOULD REPRESENT HERE IN 00:45:21.45\00:45:24.72 VERSE 45? THAT WOULD BE JESUS. 00:45:24.72\00:45:27.49 WHAT DOES THE HOUSEHOLD REPRESENT? 00:45:27.49\00:45:29.92 THAT WOULD BE THE CHURCH. WHO ARE THE SERVANTS DESCRIBED 00:45:29.92\00:45:34.06 HERE IN VERSE 45? THAT'S THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS. 00:45:34.06\00:45:37.60 AND WHAT ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO DO? 00:45:37.60\00:45:39.70 VERSE 45 SAYS THEY ARE "TO GIVE THEM FOOD IN DUE SEASON." 00:45:39.70\00:45:44.44 IN OTHER WORDS, THERE IS A PRESENT-TRUTH MESSAGE THAT NEEDS 00:45:44.44\00:45:48.14 TO BE GIVEN TO THE CHURCH, THAT NEEDS TO BE GIVEN TO THE WORLD, 00:45:48.14\00:45:51.61 AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME. WHAT IS THE PRESENT-TRUTH 00:45:51.61\00:45:55.08 MESSAGE THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH TO PROCLAIM TO THE 00:45:55.08\00:45:58.19 WORLD JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST? 00:45:58.19\00:46:01.56 WE REFER TO THAT AS THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES FOUND IN 00:46:01.56\00:46:03.93 REVELATION CHAPTER 14. NOW READ THE NEXT VERSE - 00:46:03.93\00:46:07.06 VERSE 46 - JESUS SAID, "BLESSED IS THAT 00:46:07.06\00:46:09.73 SERVANT WHOM HIS MASTER, WHEN HE COMES, WILL FIND SO DOING." 00:46:09.73\00:46:13.54 SO WE NEED TO BE PROCLAIMING THIS PRESENT-TRUTH MESSAGE TO 00:46:13.54\00:46:17.11 THE WORLD. VERSE 47 - "ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO 00:46:17.11\00:46:19.57 YOU THAT HE WILL MAKE HIM RULER OVER ALL HIS GOODS." 00:46:19.57\00:46:23.01 - BUT LOOK AT VERSE 48 - "BUT IF THAT EVIL SERVANT SAYS IN HIS 00:46:23.01\00:46:26.95 HEART," - WHERE DOES HE SAY IT? - IN HIS HEART. HE DOESN'T 00:46:26.95\00:46:30.55 PREACH IT FROM THE PULPIT, HE SIMPLY SAYS IT IN HIS OWN HEART 00:46:30.55\00:46:33.39 - "'MY MASTER IS DELAYING HIS COMING,'" - OF COURSE, TODAY, 00:46:33.39\00:46:38.43 WE SPEAK OF OURSELVES AS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. 00:46:38.43\00:46:40.66 THE WORD 'ADVENTIST' MEANS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 00:46:40.66\00:46:43.70 WE BELIEVE IN THE SOON COMING OF JESUS. BUT WE'VE BEEN TALKING 00:46:43.70\00:46:47.57 ABOUT THE COMING OF JESUS FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS AND JESUS 00:46:47.57\00:46:50.41 HASN'T COME YET. THERE IS A TENDENCY FOR US TO 00:46:50.41\00:46:54.18 SAY IN OUR HEARTS, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? 00:46:54.18\00:46:56.48 MAYBE JESUS ISN'T COMING AS SOON AS WE THINK. 00:46:56.48\00:47:00.85 MAYBE HIS COMING IS YET IN THE FAR DISTANT FUTURE.' AND WE 00:47:00.85\00:47:05.42 BEGIN TO LOSE OUR URGENCY - THE PASSION - THAT JESUS IS COMING. 00:47:05.42\00:47:10.56 SO THIS EVIL SERVANT SAYS IN HIS HEART, 'MY LORD DELAYS HIS 00:47:10.56\00:47:13.76 COMING' AND WHAT HAPPENS? VERSE 49 - "AND BEGINS TO BEAT 00:47:13.76\00:47:17.13 HIS FELLOW SERVANTS," - SO THEY BEGIN TO CRITICIZE BELIEVERS AND 00:47:17.13\00:47:21.50 THE CHURCH - "AND TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE DRUNKARDS." 00:47:21.50\00:47:25.17 - IN REVELATION CHAPTER 17 THERE IS A WOMAN DESCRIBED RIDING 00:47:25.17\00:47:29.91 UPON A SCARLET-COLORED BEAST AND HER NAME IS BABYLON. 00:47:29.91\00:47:33.31 IN BIBLE PROPHECY A WOMAN OFTEN REPRESENTS A CHURCH. 00:47:33.31\00:47:37.19 REVELATION CHAPTER 12 YOU HAVE A SYMBOL OF THE TRUE CHURCH - 00:47:37.19\00:47:40.59 REVELATION 17 YOU HAVE A SYMBOL OF AN APOSTATE CHURCH. 00:47:40.59\00:47:44.03 IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS 00:47:44.03\00:47:46.76 DRUNK WITH FALSE DOCTRINE - WITH THIS FALSE WINE. 00:47:46.76\00:47:50.53 WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? 00:47:50.53\00:47:53.20 I DON'T THINK JESUS IS COMING AS SOON AS WE THOUGHT HE WAS 00:47:53.20\00:47:56.47 COMING.' THE TENDENCY IS TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE DRUNKARD, 00:47:56.47\00:48:00.01 MEANING WE BEGIN TO BUY INTO THESE FALSE TEACHINGS AND FALSE 00:48:00.01\00:48:03.91 PHILOSOPHIES THAT HAVE BEEN ADVOCATED BY THESE VARIOUS 00:48:03.91\00:48:07.08 RELIGIOUS POWERS. VERSE 50 SAYS, "THE MASTER OF 00:48:07.08\00:48:10.32 THAT SERVANT WILL COME ON A DAY WHEN HE IS NOT LOOKING FOR HIM 00:48:10.32\00:48:12.95 AND AT AN HOUR THAT HE IS NOT AWARE OF, AND WILL CUT HIM IN 00:48:12.95\00:48:15.66 TWO AND APPOINT HIM HIS PORTION WITH THE HYPOCRITES." 00:48:15.66\00:48:18.83 YES INDEED, JESUS HAS A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR US TODAY - 00:48:18.83\00:48:22.70 THOSE WHO ARE LIVING AT THE END OF TIME. 00:48:22.70\00:48:24.47 IT'S A MESSAGE VERY SIMILAR TO THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS GAVE TO 00:48:24.47\00:48:27.40 THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS TIME. WE NEED TO BE AWARE AND 00:48:27.40\00:48:31.41 NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO FALL INTO THE STATE OF SPIRITUAL SLUMBER. 00:48:31.41\00:48:36.24 NOW, MOVING RIGHT ALONG, IF YOU LOOK ON WEDNESDAY, IT'S GOD 00:48:36.24\00:48:38.98 VERSUS CAESAR AND OUR KEY PASSAGE HERE, IF YOU WANT TO GO 00:48:38.98\00:48:43.75 BACK TO LUKE, IT'S LUKE CHAPTER 20 AND FROM VERSE 20 THROUGH TO 00:48:43.75\00:48:48.49 VERSE 26 - I'M GOING TO READ THROUGH THIS BEGINNING IN LUKE 00:48:48.49\00:48:51.23 CHAPTER 20, BEGINNING IN VERSE 20. IT SAYS, "SO THEY WATCHED 00:48:51.23\00:48:58.50 HIM, AND SENT SPIES WHO PRETENDED TO BE RIGHTEOUS," - 00:48:58.50\00:49:02.44 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS - "THAT THEY MIGHT 00:49:02.44\00:49:04.74 SEIZE ON HIS WORDS, IN ORDER TO DELIVER HIM TO THE POWER AND THE 00:49:04.74\00:49:07.58 AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNOR. NOW I FIND THIS INTERESTING. 00:49:07.58\00:49:10.65 HERE YOU HAVE THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO WERE VERY MUCH 00:49:10.65\00:49:12.51 OPPOSED TO THE ROMAN AUTHORITY, BUT WHEN IT CAME TO TRYING TO 00:49:12.51\00:49:15.18 GET RID OF JESUS, THEY WERE TRYING TO USE THE AUTHORITY OF 00:49:15.18\00:49:18.52 ROME TO THEIR FAVOR TO TRY AND GET RID OF JESUS. 00:49:18.52\00:49:21.86 YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF TIME, REVELATION TELLS US THAT THERE 00:49:21.86\00:49:24.46 IS A WORLD-WIDE RELIGIOUS POWER THAT, LIKE THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS 00:49:24.46\00:49:28.73 BACK IN THE TIME OF JESUS, WILL LOOK TO VARIOUS POLITICAL 00:49:28.73\00:49:32.37 INSTITUTIONS AND POWERS TO TRY AND FORCE THEIR TEACHINGS AND 00:49:32.37\00:49:37.24 DECREES. SORT OF A REPEAT OF WHAT WE SEE HAPPENING HERE. 00:49:37.24\00:49:41.18 LOOKING IN VERSE 21 IT SAYS, "THEN THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING, 00:49:41.18\00:49:44.31 "TEACHER, WE KNOW THAT YOU SAY AND TEACH RIGHTLY, AND YOU DO 00:49:44.31\00:49:49.65 NOT SHOW PERSONAL FAVORITISM, BUT TEACH THE WAY OF GOD IN 00:49:49.65\00:49:54.39 TRUTH:'" - VERSE 22 - "'IS IT LAWFUL FOR US TO PAY TAXES TO 00:49:54.39\00:49:57.76 CAESAR OR NOT?'" 'AH! WE GOT HIM NOW!' 00:49:57.76\00:50:01.23 THEY THOUGHT TO THEMSELVES - ONE OF THESE TRICK QUESTIONS. 00:50:01.23\00:50:04.37 WHAT HAPPENS IF JESUS SAID, 'NO, IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO PAY 00:50:04.37\00:50:08.87 TAXES TO CAESAR? WHAT WOULD THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS HAVE DONE? 00:50:08.87\00:50:11.17 THEY WOULD HAVE GONE STRAIGHT TO THE GOVERNOR AND SAID, 'JESUS 00:50:11.17\00:50:14.04 SAYS WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY TAXES.' BUT IF JESUS CAME OUT 00:50:14.04\00:50:16.98 AND SAID, 'NO, WE NEED TO PAY TAXES.' THEN THEY WOULD HAVE 00:50:16.98\00:50:20.48 SAID TO THE CROWD THAT WERE WANTING TO MAKE HIM KING, 'YOU 00:50:20.48\00:50:24.25 SEE, HE'S NOT LOYAL TO THE JEWISH NATION. 00:50:24.25\00:50:27.29 HE'S ENCOURAGING US TO SUPPORT THIS NATION THAT IS GOVERNING US 00:50:27.29\00:50:31.16 - THIS NATION THAT IS PERSECUTING US. 00:50:31.16\00:50:34.06 JESUS IS UNFIT TO BE THE JEWISH KING IF HE IS RECOGNIZING THE 00:50:34.06\00:50:38.87 AUTHORITY OF ROME. 'WE HAVE HIM!' THEY THOUGHT. 00:50:38.87\00:50:41.70 'THERE IS NOTHING JESUS CAN DO. WE GOT HIM!' 00:50:41.70\00:50:43.67 NOW, OF COURSE, NOTICE CHRIST'S RESPONSE; IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE. 00:50:43.67\00:50:46.11 LOOKING DOWN IN VERSE 23, "BUT HE PERCEIVED THEIR CRAFTINESS, 00:50:46.11\00:50:51.11 AND SAID TO THEM, 'WHY DO YOU TEST ME?'" - 00:50:51.11\00:50:54.15 VERSE 24 - "'SHOW ME A DENARIUS.'" - THAT WAS A COIN - 00:50:54.15\00:50:58.45 "'WHOSE IMAGE AND INSCRIPTION DOES IT HAVE?' 00:50:58.45\00:51:02.92 THEY ANSWERED AND SAID, 'CAESAR'S.' AND HE SAID UNTO 00:51:02.92\00:51:06.53 THEM, 'RENDER THEREFORE TO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE 00:51:06.53\00:51:10.40 CAESAR'S, AND TO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S.' BUT THEY COULD 00:51:10.40\00:51:14.94 NOT CATCH HIM IN HIS WORDS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PEOPLE. 00:51:14.94\00:51:20.21 AND THEY MARVELED AT HIS ANSWER AND KEPT SILENT." 00:51:20.21\00:51:24.48 NOW JESUS, OF COURSE, GIVES A VERY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE WHEN HE 00:51:24.48\00:51:26.82 SAYS, 'GIVE TO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE CAESAR'S AND TO GOD 00:51:26.82\00:51:29.85 THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE WRITTEN 00:51:29.85\00:51:32.52 ON HOW MANY TABLES OF STONE? TWO. THE FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS 00:51:32.52\00:51:36.69 ON THE ONE TABLE DEFINES OUR RELATIONSHIP AND OUR ALLEGIANCE 00:51:36.69\00:51:40.40 TO GOD. WE ARE TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF 00:51:40.40\00:51:42.96 OUR HEART, WITH ALL OF OUR SOUL, WITH ALL OF OUR MIND. OUR 00:51:42.96\00:51:45.33 ALLEGIANCE TO GOD NEEDS TO BE FIRST. WE ARE TO HAVE NO OTHER 00:51:45.33\00:51:47.90 GODS BEFORE HIM, NOT WORSHIP IDOLS, NOT TAKE HIS NAME 00:51:47.90\00:51:50.54 IN VAIN, AND REMEMBER HIS SABBATH TO KEEP IT HOLY. 00:51:50.54\00:51:53.58 THE LAST SIX OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE SECOND TABLE 00:51:53.58\00:51:55.88 HAS TO DO WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP TO OUR FELLOW MAN: HONORING OUR 00:51:55.88\00:51:59.38 PARENTS, NOT KILLING, NOT COMMITTING ADULTERY, NOT 00:51:59.38\00:52:02.35 STEALING, NOT BEARING FALSE WITNESS, NOT COVETING THAT WHICH 00:52:02.35\00:52:05.09 IS OUR NEIGHBORS. THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES HAVE A 00:52:05.09\00:52:08.09 RESPONSIBILITY TO ENFORCE THE PRINCIPLES OF THOSE LAST SIX 00:52:08.09\00:52:12.36 COMMANDMENTS. CAN YOU IMAGINE SOCIETY WHERE 00:52:12.36\00:52:15.23 IT IS FREE FOR PEOPLE TO JUST TAKE WHATEVER THEY WANT? 00:52:15.23\00:52:18.27 OR TO KILL WHOEVER THEY DON'T LIKE? SO THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES 00:52:18.27\00:52:22.30 DO HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ENFORCE THOSE LAST SIX OF THE 00:52:22.30\00:52:25.04 TEN COMMANDMENTS - AT LEAST THE PRINCIPLES OF THAT. 00:52:25.04\00:52:27.11 BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE FIRST FOUR, IT IS NOT THE 00:52:27.11\00:52:30.51 RESPONSIBILITY OF POLITICAL POWERS TO TRY AND ENFORCE A 00:52:30.51\00:52:34.02 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. THAT IS SOMETHING BETWEEN US. 00:52:34.02\00:52:37.95 WE ARE TO WORSHIP GOD ACCORDING TO HIS WORD AND THE LEADING OF 00:52:37.95\00:52:41.12 THE HOLY SPIRIT WITHIN OUR HEARTS AND WITHIN OUR LIVES. 00:52:41.12\00:52:43.76 SO JESUS IS EMPHASIZING THESE TWO VERY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES: 00:52:43.76\00:52:47.93 WORSHIPING GOD - PUTTING HIM FIRST - AND THEN RESPECTING OUR 00:52:47.93\00:52:51.40 FELLOW MAN AND RECOGNIZING THE AUTHORITY THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO 00:52:51.40\00:52:55.10 THE STATE IN ORDER TO DO THIS. SO WE WANT TO BE FAITHFUL 00:52:55.10\00:52:59.24 CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRIES - WHEREVER WE MIGHT BE - AND WE 00:52:59.24\00:53:02.64 WANT TO RESPECT THEIR LAWS AS FAR AS WE CAN. 00:53:02.64\00:53:08.32 BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST, OUR ALLEGIANCE NEEDS TO BE TO THE 00:53:08.32\00:53:11.79 LAW OF GOD, AMEN? >>AMEN. 00:53:11.79\00:53:13.46 >>THAT'S FIRST AND FOREMOST. AND THAT WAS THE LESSON THAT 00:53:13.46\00:53:15.72 JESUS WAS EMPHASIZING HERE IN THIS PASSAGE. 00:53:15.72\00:53:19.06 WELL, FRIENDS, WE ARE OUT OF TIME BUT I'D LIKE TO REMIND OUR 00:53:19.06\00:53:21.60 VIEWERS OF OUR FREE OFFER FOR TODAY, A BEAUTIFUL BOOK TALKING 00:53:21.60\00:53:24.57 ABOUT HOW WE CAN RECEIVE JESUS AND FEAST UPON HIS WORD. 00:53:24.57\00:53:29.77 IT'S A BOOK ENTITLED STEPS TO CHRIST . 00:53:29.77\00:53:31.24 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND IT TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS. 00:53:31.24\00:53:34.11 THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR THE BOOK STEPS 00:53:34.11\00:53:41.12 TO CHRIST . IT'S OFFER #800. 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I KNEW ABOUT GOD. 00:54:16.08\00:54:20.09 I KNEW ABOUT JESUS, BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP 00:54:20.09\00:54:24.49 WITH JESUS CHRIST. 00:54:24.49\00:54:25.89 MY SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL I GOT THE NEWS THAT MY FATHER HAD 00:54:25.89\00:54:32.93 BEEN MURDERED. I PLAYED IT OFF WELL. 00:54:32.93\00:54:37.24 NO ONE REALLY SAW THAT I WAS STRUGGLING WITH IT. 00:54:37.24\00:54:43.48 IT JUST REALLY FELT LIKE THERE WAS A HOLE THAT NEEDED TO BE 00:54:43.48\00:54:47.22 FILLED AND I TRIED TO FILL IT WITH DRUGS, WITH ALCOHOL, WITH 00:54:47.22\00:54:51.35 PARTYING. AFTER COLLEGE I JUST STOPPED 00:54:51.35\00:54:55.32 GOING TO CHURCH ALTOGETHER. ONE DAY, ON A SUNDAY, BECAUSE I 00:54:55.32\00:55:01.63 DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOING TO CHURCH WITH MY MOM, I THOUGHT, YOU 00:55:01.63\00:55:05.37 KNOW, I SHOULD GET A LITTLE BIT OF WORD. 00:55:05.37\00:55:08.17 SHE HAD THE SATELLITE SYSTEM HOOKED UP AND I'M FLIPPING 00:55:08.17\00:55:11.54 THROUGH CHANNELS AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS: 00:55:11.54\00:55:14.71 AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 00:55:14.71\00:55:16.85 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT HERE 00:55:16.85\00:55:20.12 WAS - THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING 00:55:20.12\00:55:22.58 SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP 00:55:22.58\00:55:25.32 AND I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE, LET ME - LET ME LOOK 00:55:25.32\00:55:28.56 THROUGH AND FIND THIS. I WENT THROUGH ALL THE 00:55:28.56\00:55:31.13 STORACLES. I WENT THROUGH ALL THE STUDY 00:55:31.13\00:55:33.06 GUIDES AND I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 00:55:33.06\00:55:34.93 THEN THE SABBATH CAME UP AND HE'S GOING THROUGH THE APPEAL 00:55:34.93\00:55:38.33 AND I'M JUST GOING, 'LORD, I HEAR YOU. I HAVE TO GO TO 00:55:38.33\00:55:41.77 CHURCH.' SO I SHOW UP - IT WAS FUNNY, I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE I WAS 00:55:41.77\00:55:45.77 GOING TO BE JUDGED - ANYTHING JUDGMENTAL - ANYTHING. 00:55:45.77\00:55:50.18 AND I WALKED IN THE DOOR AND I JUST FELT AT HOME. 00:55:50.18\00:55:52.71 BUT THERE'S STILL A PROBLEM. I'M STILL PARTYING. 00:55:52.71\00:55:58.39 I WAS STILL GOING OUT TO THE BARS. 00:55:58.39\00:56:00.19 AT THIS TIME, I WAS SELLING COCAINE TO PAY MY RENT. 00:56:00.19\00:56:03.63 16 DAYS LATER I FIND MYSELF IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION. 00:56:03.63\00:56:09.70 I HAD JUST CAME BACK FROM A LIQUOR STORE AND I GRABBED A 00:56:09.70\00:56:13.50 BOTTLE OF VODKA AND THERE I AM, HIGH OFF COCAINE, WITH MY BIBLE 00:56:13.50\00:56:19.91 IN HAND, TRYING TO DO A BIBLE STUDY. 00:56:19.91\00:56:22.38 AND I HEARD AN AUDIBLE VOICE, 'JUST LOOK AT YOURSELF.' AND I 00:56:22.38\00:56:29.68 DID AND I WAS LIKE 'WHAT AM I DOING?' 00:56:29.68\00:56:35.49 AND I GOT ON MY KNEES AND I SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU DO NOT TAKE 00:56:35.49\00:56:39.06 THIS AWAY FROM ME NOW, I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF.' I WAS GOING TO 00:56:39.06\00:56:45.13 CONTINUE THIS LIFESTYLE AND I WAS GOING TO END UP OVERDOSING, 00:56:45.13\00:56:48.60 HAVING A HEART ATTACK, WHATEVER IT WAS. 00:56:48.60\00:56:51.64 'YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS AWAY. ALL OF IT.' AND THAT DAY HE 00:56:51.64\00:57:00.78 LIFTED ALL OF IT AWAY FROM ME. IT WAS ALL GONE. 00:57:00.78\00:57:05.25 WHEN GOD DOES SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE, HE DOES IT COMPLETE. 00:57:05.25\00:57:10.69 (MUSIC) >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS 00:57:10.69\00:57:32.45 PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 00:57:32.45\00:57:34.75 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 00:57:34.75\00:57:37.89 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 00:57:37.89\00:57:41.16 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 00:57:41.16\00:57:44.19 REVELATION, BIBLEHISTORY.COM IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 00:57:44.19\00:57:48.36 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 00:57:48.36\00:57:50.93 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 00:57:50.93\00:57:55.50 WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT BIBLEHISTORY.COM. 00:57:55.50\00:58:00.08 (MUSIC) 00:58:00.08\00:58:01.08