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00:33 >>WELCOME, FRIENDS, TO THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR HERE 00:36 AT THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. WE'RE SO 00:38 THANKFUL THAT YOU HAVE TUNED IN TO JOIN US, WE WANT TO GREET YOU 00:41 - BOTH THOSE THAT ARE VISITING WITH US AT THE GRANITE BAY 00:44 CHURCH AND OUR EXTENDED CLASS AROUND THE WORLD - WELCOME. 00:48 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY, AND 00:52 IT'S A CLASSIC BOOK THAT'S VERY ENCOURAGING, CALLED STEPS TO 00:55 CHRIST AND IF YOU'VE NOT READ THIS BOOK, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO 00:59 SEND FOR IT. WE'LL GIVE YOU A FREE COPY. 01:00 AFTER YOU READ IT, I HOPE YOU SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. 01:03 JUST WHEN YOU CALL THE NUMBER 866-788-3966 ASK FOR OFFER #800. 01:10 ONE MORE TIME, THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE OR 866-788-3966. 01:17 AND OUR LESSON TODAY IS FROM OUR SERIES WE'VE BEEN STUDYING 01:21 THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #12, JESUS 01:25 IN JERUSALEM AND IT'S GOING TO BE A FASCINATING STUDY, I KNOW. 01:29 BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT STUDY, OUR SONG LEADERS ARE GOING TO 01:32 COME LEAD US IN SOME SONGS. THEY'LL INTRODUCE OUR SPEAKER 01:35 WHO WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER. THANK YOU. 01:40 >>WE ARE GOING TO BE SINGING I CANNOT TELL WHY - HYMN #255 - 01:44 AND INSTEAD OF DOING A COUPLE SONGS TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO DO 01:47 ALL FOUR VERSES OF THIS SONG BECAUSE THE WHOLE SONG TALKS 01:53 ABOUT HIS LIFE, HIS BIRTH, HIS DEATH, AND EVERYTHING 01:58 IN BETWEEN. AND THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU CAN 02:00 REALLY GET THE FEEL OF THIS AND PUT YOURSELF IN THE PLACE, IS TO 02:05 SING ALL FOUR VERSES. SO JOIN US AS WE SING HYMN #255 02:09 - I CANNOT TELL WHY . (MUSIC) 02:20 >>I CANNOT TELL WHY HE, WHOM ANGELS WORSHIP, SHOULD SET HIS 02:31 LOVE UPON THE SONS OF MEN, OR WHY, AS SHEPHERD, HE SHOULD SEEK 02:46 THE WAND'RERS, TO BRING THEM BACK, THEY KNOW NOT HOW OR WHEN. 03:00 BUT THIS I KNOW, THAT HE WAS BORN OF MARY, WHEN BETHL'HEM'S 03:16 MANGER WAS HIS ONLY HOME, AND THAT HE LIVED AT NAZARETH AND 03:30 LABORED, AND SO THE SAVIOR, SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, IS COME. 03:46 I CANNOT TELL HOW SILENTLY HE SUFFERED, AS WITH HIS PEACE HE 04:01 GRACED THIS PLACE OF TEARS, OR HOW HIS HEART UPON THE CROSS WAS 04:14 BROKEN, THE CROWN OF PAIN TO THREE AND THIRTY YEARS. BUT THIS 04:31 I KNOW, HE HEALS THE BROKEN- HEARTED, AND STAYS OUR SIN, AND 04:44 CALMS OUR LURKING FEAR, AND LIFTS THE BURDEN FROM THE HEAVY 04:59 LADEN, FOR STILL THE SAVIOR, SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, HAS COME. 05:15 I CANNOT TELL HOW HE WILL WIN THE NATIONS, HOW HE WILL CLAIM 05:30 HIS EARTHLY HERITAGE, HOW SATISFY THE NEEDS AND 05:42 ASPIRATIONS OF EAST AND WEST, OF SINNER AND OF SAGE. BUT THIS I 06:00 KNOW, ALL FLESH SHALL SEE HIS GLORY, AND HE SHALL REAP THE 06:13 HARVEST HE HAS SOWN, AND SOME GLAD DAY HIS SUN WILL SHINE IN 06:27 SPLENDOR WHEN HE THE SAVIOR, SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, IS KNOWN. 06:44 I CANNOT TELL HOW ALL THE LANDS SHALL WORSHIP, WHEN, AT HIS 06:57 BIDDING, EVERY STORM IS STILLED, OR WHO CAN SAY HOW GREAT THE 07:12 JUBILATION WHEN ALL THE HEARTS WITH LOVE FOR MEN ARE FILLED BUT 07:28 THIS I KNOW, THE SKIES WILL SHOUT HIS PRAISES, AND TEN 07:40 THOUSAND, THOUSAND HUMAN VOICES SING, AND EARTH TO HEAVEN, AND 07:55 HEAVEN TO EARTH, WILL ANSWER: AT LAST THE SAVIOR, SAVIOR OF THE 08:10 WORLD, IS KING. 08:19 >>I'M SO THRILLED THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO KNOW EVERY SINGLE 08:22 ANSWER, WE JUST HAVE TO KNOW WHO DOES. 08:26 AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO INVITE PASTOR JËAN ROSS UP TO HAVE 08:28 PRAYER AND WE WILL GET INTO OUR STUDY. 08:34 >>LET US BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 08:36 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, ONCE 08:39 AGAIN, FOR US TO GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD. 08:42 LORD, AS WE TALK ABOUT THE LIFE OF JESUS DURING A VERY IMPORTANT 08:45 TIME OF EARTH'S HISTORY - THAT FINAL WEEK BEFORE THE 08:49 CRUCIFIXION, WE WANT TO ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT, ONCE AGAIN, TO COME 08:52 AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS. 08:54 LEAD US INTO A DEEPER AND FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR GREAT 08:57 LOVE, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 09:00 >>AMEN. >>THANK YOU SO MUCH, SINGERS, 09:03 FOR SHARING THAT BEAUTIFUL HYMN WITH US. 09:05 THE WORDS OF THAT ARE, OF COURSE, SUCH AN INSPIRATION. 09:08 ONE OF MY FAVORITES AS I'M SURE FOR MANY OF US. 09:11 WELL, AGAIN, WELCOME. WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE PART OF OUR 09:15 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR THIS MORNING. 09:17 I'D LIKE TO EXTEND A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR ONLINE CHURCH 09:20 MEMBERS WHO ARE PARTICIPATING IN OUR STUDY TIME TOGETHER. 09:24 WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT YOU'RE PART OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH FAMILY 09:27 ALONG WITH EVERYBODY ELSE THAT IS STUDYING WITH US AROUND THE 09:30 WORLD. AS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, OUR 09:34 LESSON TODAY CONTINUES IN OUR STUDY ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND 09:37 WE FIND OURSELVES TODAY ON LESSON #12. 09:40 THE TITLE OF THE LESSON IS JESUS IN JERUSALEM. 09:44 WE HAVE A MEMORY TEXT: LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 41. 09:49 IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU CAN TURN TO IT, LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND 09:52 WE'LL BE READING VERSE 41 AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN ME AS WE READ 09:55 TOGETHER IT SAYS, 'NOW AS HE DREW NEAR," - SPEAKING OF JESUS 09:59 - "HE SAW THE CITY AND WEPT OVER IT..." 10:04 NOW OUR LESSON THIS WEEK FOCUSES ON THE LAST WEEK OF MINISTRY 10:09 PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION. THE VARIOUS EVENTS THAT WE'RE 10:13 GOING TO BE LOOKING AT TOOK PLACE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM. 10:17 JERUSALEM MEANS "CITY OF PEACE" AND THE APOSTLE PAUL WRITES IN 10:21 COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 20, SPEAKING OF JESUS, "(HE) MADE 10:25 PEACE THROUGH THE BLOOD OF HIS CROSS." 10:28 IT WAS IN THE CITY OF PEACE - JERUSALEM - THAT JESUS GAVE HIS 10:32 LIFE A SACRIFICE FOR SIN BY WHICH WE CAN HAVE PEACE WITH 10:36 GOD. NOW THERE WERE A NUMBER OF 10:39 IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN THIS FIRST - OR THIS LAST 10:42 WEEK, RATHER - PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION, YOU HAVE THE 10:45 TRIUMPHANT ENTRY OF JESUS - THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE 10:47 GOING TO BE STUDYING TOGETHER, THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE IN 10:49 JERUSALEM. WE ALSO HAVE THE LAST SUPPER 10:52 WHERE JESUS ATE WITH HIS DISCIPLES. 10:54 WE HAVE THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE WHERE JESUS PRAYED, 'FATHER, IF 10:58 IT IS POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME, NEVERTHELESS, NOT 11:02 AS I WILT, BUT AS THOU WILL.' WE HAVE THE TRIAL OF JESUS, THE 11:06 CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS, AND, OF COURSE, THE RESURRECTION - 11:09 ALL TAKING PLACE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM OR THEREABOUT. 11:13 THIS LITTLE CITY BECAME THE PLACE FOR THE GREAT SHOWDOWN 11:15 BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND THE FORCES OF EVIL. 11:21 IT WAS SORT OF THE CLIMAX OF THIS COSMIC CONFLICT. 11:24 THERE, THE WHOLE HISTORY OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY WAS PLAYED OUT 11:29 CLEARLY BEFORE THE ONLOOKING UNIVERSE AND ALSO THE PEOPLE 11:32 THAT WERE IN JERUSALEM AT THAT TIME. 11:35 IN OUR LESSON, WE CAN JUST HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF THESE VERY 11:38 SIGNIFICANT EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN THIS FINAL WEEK. 11:41 WE HAVE CHRIST'S TRIUMPHANT ENTRY. 11:43 WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THAT. 11:45 WE HAVE THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE, THE OPPOSITION OF THE 11:47 RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO WHAT JESUS WAS DOING, WE HAVE JESUS TALKING 11:51 ABOUT SECULAR AUTHORITIES, AND THEN, FINALLY, THE LAST SUPPER. 11:54 SO THERE'S MUCH THAT WE HOPE TO COVER IN OUR STUDY TODAY AND 11:58 WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN ON SUNDAY WITH THE LESSON ENTITLED THE 12:02 TRIUMPHANT ENTRY . AND THE KEY PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE 12:05 HERE IS GOING TO BE LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN 12:09 READING HERE IN VERSE 28. SO IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU 12:12 CAN OPEN IT TO LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND WE'RE GOING TO START READING 12:16 IN VERSE 28 AND WE'LL READ A VERSE, PAUSE, SAY A FEW THINGS 12:19 ABOUT IT, AND THEN CONTINUE READING. 12:21 SO STARTING IN VERSE 28 IT SAYS, "WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE WENT 12:26 ON AHEAD, GOING UP TO JERUSALEM." - NOW IF YOU READ 12:30 A LITTLE EARLIER IN THE CHAPTER YOU'LL NOTICE THE STORY ABOUT 12:32 ZACCHEAUS. ZACCHEAUS WAS A RESIDENT OF 12:35 JERICHO, SO JESUS WAS IN JERICHO PRIOR TO HIM COMING UP TO 12:38 JERUSALEM AND THE TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. 12:42 THE CITY OF JERICHO WAS DOWN IN THE JORDAN VALLEY AND THE 12:45 DISTANCE BETWEEN JERICHO AND JERUSALEM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES. 12:49 THERE WAS QUITE THE ELEVATION CHANGE. 12:52 IF ONE WERE TO WALK FROM JERICHO TO JERUSALEM YOU HAD TO GO UP 12:57 ABOUT 3,300 FEET FROM DOWN JERICHO UP TO JERUSALEM. 13:02 AND THEN IT SAYS JESUS CAME, IN VERSE 29, "AND IT CAME TO PASS, 13:06 WHEN HE DREW NEAR TO BETHPHAGE AND BETHANY, AT THE MOUNTAIN 13:10 CALLED OLIVET, THAT HE SENT TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES," - NOW THESE 13:14 TWO TOWNS ARE INTERESTING. NOT A WHOLE LOT IS MENTIONED 13:17 WITH REFERENCE TO BETHPHAGE; IT SEEMS TO BE A VERY SMALL VILLAGE 13:21 THAT WAS AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 13:24 SO YOU HAVE BETHANY, AND THEN BETHPHAGE, THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 13:28 THE KIDRON VALLEY AND THEN JERUSALEM. 13:32 THERE WASN'T VERY MUCH DISTANCE BETWEEN THESE. 13:34 IT'S INTERESTING, THOUGH, THAT THE NAME BETHPHAGE, FOR THIS 13:37 LITTLE VILLAGE, IS THE HOUSE OF UNRIPE FIGS - THAT'S WHAT IT 13:40 MEANS. THE TOWN BETHANY MEANS THE HOUSE 13:43 OF DATES OR THE HOUSE OF SORROW OR MISERY . 13:47 NOW, IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT IN THIS FINAL WEEK WHEN 13:50 JESUS ENTERED INTO JERUSALEM. ON ONE OCCASION HE SAW A FIG 13:53 TREE THAT HAD LOTS OF LEAVES BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE ANY FIGS. 13:57 YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED? JESUS CURSED THE FIG TREE AND 14:00 THE DISCIPLES WERE AMAZED AT THIS AND, OF COURSE, THAT FIG 14:03 TREE REPRESENTED THE NATION OF ISRAEL. 14:05 IT LOOKED GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE BY IT WAS LACKING THE FRUIT OF THE 14:08 KINGDOM. YOU HAVE THIS TOWN CALLED 14:11 'UNRIPE FIGS' - THAT SORT OF DESCRIBES 14:13 THE CONDITION OF ISRAEL AT THIS TIME. 14:15 THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THEIR MESSIAH AND, AS A RESULT, 14:19 JERUSALEM EVENTUALLY BECAME A CITY OF SORROWS JUST 40 YEARS 14:22 LATER WHEN THE ROMANS CAME AND SURROUNDED THE CITY AND 14:26 DESTROYED IT. IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 14:30 NOW THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WAS ABOUT 300 FEET HIGHER THAN THE 14:34 TEMPLE MOUNT. SO FROM THE TOP OF THE MOUNT OF 14:38 OLIVES ONE COULD LOOK ACROSS THE KIDRON VALLEY AND YOU COULD SEE 14:40 JERUSALEM SPREAD OUT BEFORE YOU. YOU COULD SEE THE WHITE MARBLE 14:44 STONES THAT WERE USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE. 14:48 IT WAS A MARVELOUS SIGHT AND IT ALWAYS SWELLED UP PRIDE IN THE 14:52 HEARTS OF THE JEWS AS THEY TRAVELED AND THEY CAME TO THE 14:55 MOUNT OF OLIVES AND THEY LOOKED OUT UPON THEIR CITY, JERUSALEM, 14:57 IT WAS ALWAYS A WONDERFUL EVENT - A TIME THAT OFTEN WAS 15:01 ASSOCIATED WITH PRAISE AND SINGING AS THE ISRAELITES 15:04 JOURNEYED TO JERUSALEM FOR THE VARIOUS FESTIVALS. 15:07 IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT AS JESUS GETS TO THE CREST 15:11 OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, INSTEAD OF REJOICING ALONG WITH THE 15:14 CROWD THAT WAS WITH HIM, WE FIND JESUS WEEPING AT THE SIGHT OF 15:18 JERUSALEM. WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT 15:20 IN A FEW MINUTES AND TALK ABOUT THAT. IT WAS ALSO FROM THE CREST 15:22 OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES THAT MANY YEARS LATER - 40 YEARS LATER, 15:25 TITUS, THE ROMAN GENERAL, STOOD AND WITNESSED THE DESTRUCTION OF 15:30 THE TEMPLE AND THE BURNING OF THE CITY. 15:33 SO A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT THINGS HAPPENED RIGHT AROUND IN 15:35 THAT AREA. LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 30. 15:38 WE'RE IN LUKE CHAPTER 19, LOOKING AT VERSE 30. 15:41 IT SAYS - JESUS SPEAKING - "GO INTO THE VILLAGE OPPOSITE YOU, 15:45 WHERE AS YOU ENTER YOU WILL FIND A COLT TIED, ON WHICH NO ONE HAS 15:49 EVER SAT. LOOSE IT AND BRING IT HERE." 15:54 NOW, MOST LIKELY, JESUS HAD SPENT THE SABBATH DAY IN THE 15:58 TOWN OF BETHANY AT THE HOME OF MARY, MARTHA, AND LAZARUS, AND 16:02 NOW THIS IS EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. 16:04 JESUS CALLS TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES - WE DON'T KNOW WHO THOSE 16:07 DISCIPLES WERE, BUT HE SENDS THEM ON AN ERRAND. 16:10 HE SAYS, 'GO TO THE VILLAGE JUST OPPOSITE YOU.' QUITE POSSIBLY, 16:13 THAT WAS THE TOWN OR THIS LITTLE VILLAGE OF BETHPHAGE, CLOSE TO 16:16 BETHLEHEM. HE SAID, 'GO TO THAT TOWN AND 16:19 YOU WILL FIND THIS COLT TIED UP. JUST LOOSEN THE COLT AND BRING 16:22 IT TO ME.' AND, OF COURSE, THIS IS A FULFILLMENT OF THAT FAMOUS 16:26 PROPHECY THAT THE JEWS RECOGNIZED AS BEING A SIGN FOR 16:29 THE MESSIAH IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 9, VERSE 9. 16:34 IT SAYS, "REJOICE GREATLY, O DAUGHTER OF ZION!" 16:37 NOW JERUSALEM WAS BUILT ON MOUNT ZION. 16:40 IT WAS ACTUALLY THE OLD JEBUSITE FORTRESS THAT DAVID CONQUERED 16:44 AND RENAMED THE CITY OF DAVID AND, EVENTUALLY, JERUSALEM. 16:48 IT SAYS, "SHOUT, O DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM! BEHOLD YOUR KING IS 16:51 COMING TO YOU; HE IS JUST AND HAVING SALVATION, LOWLY AND 16:55 RIDING ON A DONKEY, A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY." 16:59 SO WHEN JESUS TOLD TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES 'GO INTO THIS NEARBY 17:03 TOWN AND GET THIS COLT AND BRING IT TO ME', YOU CAN IMAGINE THE 17:05 ANTICIPATION THAT MUST HAVE FILLED THE HEARTS OF THESE 17:09 DISCIPLES. 'WOW, THE TIME HAS COME. JESUS IS FINALLY TO 17:12 PROCLAIM HIMSELF AS KING.' ALL OF THEIR HOPES WERE CENTERED 17:16 UPON THIS EVENT, JESUS PROCLAIMING HIMSELF AS KING. 17:21 WELL LET'S TAKE A LOOK, IF YOU WOULD, IN VERSE 31. 17:23 JESUS GOES ON AND SAYS, "AND IF ANYONE ASKS YOU, 'WHY ARE YOU 17:28 LOOSING IT?' THUS YOU SHALL SAY TO HIM, 17:31 'BECAUSE THE LORD HAS NEED OF IT.'" NOW I DON'T WANT YOU TO 17:36 MISS THIS POINT. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE 17:39 HAVE ANY RECORD OF JESUS REFERRING TO HIMSELF AS 'LORD'. 17:43 CHRIST'S MOST POPULAR NAME FOR HIMSELF WAS 'THE SON OF MAN.' 17:47 BUT HERE JESUS REFERS TO HIMSELF AS 'LORD.' SOMETHING ELSE 17:51 INTERESTING, JESUS DOESN'T SAY, 'GO ASK THIS MAN IF I CAN 17:53 BORROW, YOU KNOW, HIS COLT. JUST GO TAKE THE COLT. 17:57 AND IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, JUST SAY, 'THE LORD NEEDS THE 18:01 COLT.' WHAT'S VERY INTERESTING HERE IS JESUS NOW IS FULFILLING 18:04 THE ROLE OF A KING. WHEN A KING NEEDS SOMETHING, HE 18:08 DOESN'T ASK PERMISSION, HE JUST SIMPLY COMMANDS, 'I NEED THIS. 18:11 BRING IT TO ME.' JESUS CALLS HIMSELF 'LORD.' HE'S TAKING THAT 18:17 ROLE AS KING. NOW IN THE MINISTRY OF JESUS, 18:20 FOR MAN'S SALVATION, THERE ARE THREE PHASES: JESUS IS DESCRIBED 18:24 AS 'THE PROPHET' DURING HIS TIME ON EARTH. 18:27 HE CAME TO REVEAL THE WILL OF THE FATHER, HE PREACHED, HE 18:30 TAUGHT - JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU SEE ME, YOU HAVE SEEN THE FATHER.' 18:34 RIGHT NOW, JESUS IS FULFILLING THE ROLE AS OUR PRIEST IN THE 18:39 HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. HE IS MINISTERING ON OUR BEHALF 18:41 BEFORE THE FATHER, BUT WHEN CHRIST'S HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY 18:45 FINISHES, THEN HE WILL COME BACK AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF 18:49 LORDS. SO WE HAVE CHRIST AS THE 18:51 PROPHET, CHRIST AS THE PRIEST, AND CHRIST AS THE KING. 18:55 WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK THAT WE READ ABOUT 18:58 JUST PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION, WE SEE JESUS MANIFESTING ALL 19:01 THREE PHASES OF HIS MINISTRY IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER. 19:05 WE SEE JESUS AS PROPHET, WHERE HE WEEPS OVER JERUSALEM AND 19:09 SAYS, 'IF YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION. 19:12 WE SEE JESUS PREACHING OR TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE, 19:17 FULFILLING THE ROLE OF A PROPHET. 19:18 WE ALSO SEE JESUS AS PRIEST THERE IN THE UPPER ROOM, 19:22 MINISTERING TO THE DISCIPLES, WASHING THEIR FEET AND JESUS 19:24 HOLDING UP THE GRAPE JUICE AND THE BREAD AND SAYING, 'THIS IS A 19:28 SYMBOL OF MY BLOOD' AND, OF COURSE, THE CROSS WHERE JESUS IS 19:31 NOT ONLY THE PRIEST BUT ALSO THE SACRIFICE AND THE TRIUMPHANT 19:35 ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM, WHERE JESUS FULFILLS THE ROLE OF KING. 19:40 SO IN THIS FINAL WEEK WE SEE JESUS AS PROPHET, AS PRIEST, AND 19:43 ALSO AS KING. VERY INTERESTING. WELL, LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 32 AND 19:47 READ THROUGH TO VERSE 34. IT SAYS, "SO THOSE WHO WERE SENT 19:52 WENT THEIR WAY AND FOUND IT JUST AS HE HAD SAID TO THEM. 19:57 BUT AS THEY WERE LOOSENING THE COLT, THE OWNERS OF IT SAID 19:59 TO THEM, 'WHY ARE YOU LOOSING THE COLT?' AND THEY SAID, 20:03 'THE LORD HAS NEED OF HIM.'" NOW YOU CAN IMAGINE THE JOY IN 20:07 THE HEARTS OF THE DISCIPLES AS THEY SET OUT ON 20:10 THEIR ERRAND TO GET THIS COLT. THEY KNEW THE PROPHECY OF 20:13 ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 9, THAT THE KING WOULD ENTER INTO JERUSALEM 20:16 RIDING ON THE BACK OF THIS COLT, AND SO THEY WENT, FULFILLING THE 20:20 WORD OF JESUS WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION THAT HE WAS ABOUT 20:24 TO PROCLAIM HIMSELF AS KING OF THE JEWS. 20:27 AND I'M SURE THEY WERE WONDERING, 'WELL, WHAT POSITION 20:29 ARE WE GOING TO HAVE IN HIS CABINET WHEN HE PROCLAIMS 20:32 HIMSELF AS KING?' YOU KNOW, THE DISCIPLES SHARED 20:35 THE POPULAR THOUGHTS WITH REFERENCE TO THE MESSIAH AND 20:39 THAT THE KING WOULD COME AND LIBERATE ISRAEL FROM THEIR 20:42 ENEMIES. LITTLE DID THEY UNDERSTAND THE 20:44 FULL SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. 20:48 WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT VERSE 35. 20:50 IT SAYS, "THEN THEY BROUGHT HIM" - THAT IS THE COLT - "TO JESUS. 20:53 AND THEY THREW THEIR OWN CLOTHES ON THE COLT AND THEY SET JESUS 20:58 ON HIM. AND AS HE WENT, MANY SPREAD 21:01 THEIR CLOTHES BEFORE HIM ON THE ROAD." 21:04 NOW THIS IDEA OF SPREADING YOUR GARMENTS - YOUR OUTER GARMENTS 21:07 ON THE GROUND - WAS A SIGN OF HOMAGE FOR ROYALTY. 21:11 ALL THE WAY BACK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WE READ IN 2 KINGS 21:14 CHAPTER 9, VERSE 13, WHEN JEHU WAS ANOINTED KING IN ISRAEL, THE 21:20 PEOPLE QUICKLY TOOK OFF THEIR OUTER GARMENTS AND THEY LAID IT 21:23 BEFORE HIM SO THAT HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO STEP ON THE GROUND, 21:26 HE WOULD STEP ON THE GARMENTS. 21:28 SO WHEN JESUS CAME THEY SAID, 'HE IS OUR KING.' THEY SHOWED 21:32 HOMAGE TO HIM AS ROYALTY AND THEY LAID THEIR CLOTHES BEFORE 21:36 HIM AND JESUS ENTERED INTO JERUSALEM. 21:39 LOOKING THEN AT VERSE 39 - WE'LL READ VERSES 39 AND 40 - 21:43 ACTUALLY, LOOKING AT VERSE 37 - IT SAYS, "THEN, AS HE WAS NOW 21:50 DRAWING NEAR THE DESCENT OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, THE WHOLE 21:53 MULTITUDE OF THE DISCIPLES BEGAN TO REJOICE AND PRAISE GOD WITH A 21:56 LOUD VOICE FOR ALL THE MIGHTY WORKS THEY HAD SEEN," - VERSE 38 22:02 SAYS, "SAYING: 'BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF 22:06 THE LORD! PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST!'" 22:10 SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THE JOY AND THE EXCITEMENT AS JESUS IS 22:14 MAKING HIS WAY HERE INTO JERUSALEM, COMING TO THE CREST 22:17 OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 22:19 PEOPLE ARE FINALLY SAYING HE IS CLAIMING HIMSELF AS KING. 22:23 IN THE CROWD THAT DAY THERE WERE THOSE WHO PROBABLY HAD 22:27 EXPERIENCED HEALING FROM JESUS. THERE WERE MAYBE SOME WHOSE EYES 22:31 HAD BEEN OPENED BY THE GREAT MIRACLE WORKER. 22:34 THERE WERE OTHERS IN THE CROWD THAT DAY THAT HAD LISTENED TO 22:38 THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND THEIR HEARTS HAD BURNED WITHIN THEM AS 22:41 HE OPENED UP THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES AND AS HE SPOKE OF 22:44 THE PRINCIPLES OF THE KINGDOM. 22:46 THERE WERE ALSO IN THE CROWD SOME OF THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP - 22:49 RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO WERE THERE LOOKING TO TRY AND CATCH JESUS 22:53 IN SOMETHING HE WOULD SAY OR SOMETHING HE WOULD DO SO THAT 22:57 THEY COULD CONDEMN HIM TO THE ROMAN AUTHORITIES. 22:59 IT WAS QUITE THE CROWD THAT GATHERED THERE ON THE MOUNT OF 23:02 OLIVES THAT DAY. AND THEY WERE ALL PRAISING AND 23:05 SAYING - QUOTING, ACTUALLY FROM PSALM 118, VERSE 26, "BLESSED IS 23:12 HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY 23:16 IN THE HIGHEST." NOW THE LAST PART OF THAT PHRASE, 'PEACE IN 23:20 HEAVEN AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST', WHEN YOU READ THAT, 23:23 WHAT OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT COMES TO MIND? WHEN I READ IT I THOUGHT 23:27 OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ANGELS TO THE SHEPHERDS OUTSIDE 23:29 OF BETHLEHEM AT THE BIRTH OF JESUS, WHERE THEY SPOKE ABOUT 23:32 PEACE AND GOODWILL TO ALL MEN. HERE WE ARE AT THE END OF 23:35 CHRIST'S EARTHLY MINISTRY AND A SIMILAR ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE, 23:39 'PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST." 23:43 LOOKING THEN AT VERSE 39 IT SAYS, "AND SOME OF THE PHARISEES 23:45 CALLED TO HIM FROM THE CROWD, 'TEACHER, REBUKE YOUR 23:49 DISCIPLES.'" - VERSE 40, BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 'I 23:53 TELL YOU THAT IF THESE SHOULD KEEP SILENT, THE STONES WOULD 23:56 IMMEDIATELY CRY OUT.'" YOU SEE, JESUS WAS KEENLY AWARE 24:01 THAT HE WAS FULFILLING BIBLE PROPHECY. 24:05 EVERY EVENT IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST HAD BEEN LAID OUT BEFORE 24:08 AND HE WAS FULFILLING THE FATHER'S WILL. 24:11 ALL CREATION RECOGNIZED JESUS AS KING. 24:15 JESUS SAID, 'EVEN THE ROCKS WILL CRY OUT IF I TELL THE PEOPLE TO 24:18 KEEP QUIET' - EXCEPT FOR THE STUBBORN-HEARTED RELIGIOUS 24:22 LEADERS WHO REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE JESUS FOR WHO HE 24:25 REALLY IS. SO, JESUS, WHEN HE WAS BORN, 24:30 CREATED QUITE A STIR IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM. 24:33 YOU HAVE THE STORY OF THE WISE MEN THAT CAME LOOKING FOR THE 24:36 ONE BORN KING OF THE JEWS. AND ALL OF JERUSALEM BEGAN 24:39 TALKING ABOUT THIS NEW KING WHO WAS BORN. HERE WE ARE AT THE END 24:44 OF CHRIST'S EARTHLY MINISTRY AND, AGAIN, JERUSALEM IS IN A 24:48 STIR AND THE DISCUSSION IS ABOUT JESUS BEING KING. 24:53 THE PEOPLE WERE SAYING, 'BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES IN THE 24:56 NAME OF THE LORD.' THE DISCIPLES WERE CAUGHT UP WITH 25:00 THE CROWD, ANTICIPATING JESUS SOON TO PROCLAIM HIMSELF AS THE 25:04 MESSIAH. THEY SHARED THE SAME TRADITIONS 25:07 AND THE EXPECTATIONS THAT THE PEOPLE SHARED. LITTLE DID THEY 25:11 REALIZE THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT WAS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE. 25:15 EVEN THOUGH JESUS, FOR ABOUT A YEAR PRIOR TO THIS, HAD BEEN 25:18 TELLING HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE WAS TO GO DOWN TO JERUSALEM AND 25:21 THAT HE WAS TO BE BETRAYED INTO THE HANDS OF WICKED MEN AND THAT 25:25 HE WAS TO BE CRUCIFIED. THE DISCIPLES PUT THAT OUT OF 25:27 THEIR MIND. THEY PREFERRED THE IDEA OF 25:30 NATIONAL GREATNESS - OF JESUS BEING KING AND MAYBE THEIR 25:33 HAVING AN IMPORTANT PART IN HIS NEW KINGDOM. 25:37 NOW AS THE CROWD MOVES TO THE CREST OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WE 25:40 FIND JESUS IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF THIS PRAISE AND THIS 25:43 ADORATION, DOING SOMETHING THAT I'M SURE THE DISCIPLES FIRST 25:46 JUST COULDN'T UNDERSTAND. 25:48 TAKE A LOOK, IF YOU WOULD, IN VERSE 41 - LUKE CHAPTER 19 - 25:52 LOOKING NOW AT VERSE 41 IT SAYS, "NOW AS HE DREW NEAR, HE SAW THE 25:57 CITY AND WEPT OVER IT," - SO JESUS MAKES IT TO THE TOP OF THE 26:03 MOUNT - THE MOUNT OF OLIVES - HE LOOKS OUT AND HE SEES THE TEMPLE 26:06 - HE SEES THE BUILDINGS OF JERUSALEM AND EVERYBODY'S 26:09 PRAISING AND THEY'RE WAVING THE PALM BRANCHES AND THEY'RE LAYING 26:12 DOWN THEIR CLOTHES BEFORE HIM AND IN THE MIDST OF THIS SCENE 26:15 OF GREAT JOY AND CELEBRATION, SUDDENLY THE DISCIPLES LOOK OVER 26:20 TO JESUS AND HE'S SITTING ON THE DONKEY AND SUDDENLY HIS 26:22 SHOULDERS BEGIN TO SHAKE. IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS PRAISE 26:27 THEY BEGIN TO SEE JESUS WEEPING. NOW THIS WAS NOT JUST A SLIGHT 26:32 WHIMPER, BUT THIS WAS A HEARTFELT SORROW AND GRIEF 26:38 MANIFESTED BY CHRIST. FOR AS JESUS LOOKED OUT ON THE 26:42 CITY, HE REALIZED WHAT WAS SOON TO COME UPON JERUSALEM. 26:46 HE KNEW THAT JUST IN 40 YEARS JERUSALEM WOULD BE DESTROYED. 26:50 AND IN THE MIDST OF HIS TEARS AND HIS SORROW, CHRIST BEGINS TO 26:53 GROAN OUT THESE WORDS - AND WE HAVE IT RIGHT HERE IN VERSE 42: 26:57 JESUS SAID "IF YOU HAD KNOWN, EVEN YOU, ESPECIALLY IN THIS 27:02 YOUR DAY, THE THINGS THAT MAKE FOR YOUR PEACE! 27:06 BUT NOW THEY ARE HIDDEN FROM YOU EYES." 27:09 JESUS IS ALMOST PLEADING WITH JERUSALEM SAYING, 'PLEASE, 27:13 UNDERSTAND THAT I AM THE ONE THAT CAN PROTECT YOU. 27:16 I AM THE ONE THAT CAN GIVE YOU PEACE, BUT YOU ARE REJECTING ME. 27:20 VERSE 43: "FOR DAY WILL COME UPON YOU WHEN YOUR ENEMIES WILL 27:23 BUILD AN EMBANKMENT AROUND YOU, SURROUND YOU AND CLOSE YOU IN ON 27:26 EVERY SIDE, AND LEVEL YOU, AND YOUR CHILDREN WITHIN YOU, TO THE 27:30 GROUND; AND THEY WILL NOT LEAVE IN YOU ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER, 27:34 BECAUSE YOU DID NOT KNOW THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION." 27:40 IN THE MIDST OF CELEBRATION AND JOY, JESUS IS FILLED WITH SORROW 27:44 FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS TO COME." YOU KNOW, WHEN I READ THAT, I 27:48 THOUGHT OF OUR WORLD TODAY SORT OF SPEEDING ALONG TO FINAL 27:53 DESTRUCTION. IT SEEMS LIKE SO MANY IN THE 27:55 WORLD HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS JUST AHEAD. 27:59 THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM IS REALLY A MINIATURE OF WHAT IS TO 28:03 COME UPON THE WHOLE WORLD JUST BEFORE THE COMING OF JESUS. 28:07 THIS PAST WEEK, I WAS REVIEWING A LESSON DEALING WITH THE STORY 28:11 OF THE TITANIC. IT'S ACTUALLY AN INTRO THAT WE 28:15 HAVE FOR A LESSON LATER ON THIS YEAR. WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A 28:18 10-PART REVIVAL SERIES FROM ORLANDO, FLORIDA AND WE HAVE 28:22 LESSONS THAT GO ALONG WITH EACH OF THESE PRESENTATIONS AND THIS 28:24 ONE HAPPENED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE TITANIC. 28:27 OF COURSE, IT'S REMARKABLE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THIS BIG SHIP 28:30 THAT STRUCK THE ICEBERG AND THE MESSAGE WAS FINALLY GIVEN TO THE 28:34 PEOPLE, 'THE SHIP IS GOING TO SINK.' AND DESPITE EVEN THE 28:38 ANNOUNCEMENT BEING MADE, THAT THE TITANIC IS SINKING, MOST 28:41 PEOPLE IGNORED IT. THERE WERE THOSE WHO WERE 28:44 AWAKENED FROM THEIR SLEEP AND THEY WERE TOLD, 'PUT ON THESE 28:46 LIFE JACKETS, THE SHIP IS GOING DOWN.' AND THEY WENT STRAIGHT 28:50 BACK TO SLEEP. THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO HEARD THE 28:52 ANNOUNCEMENT AND THEY WERE EATING 28:54 AND THEY WERE DRINKING AND THEY WERE DANCING AND THEY JUST KEPT 28:56 DOING WHAT THEY WERE DOING. AND WHEN THE CALL WAS MADE, 28:59 'PLEASE ENTER THE LIFEBOATS.' PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT TO GET IN THE 29:02 LIFEBOATS. THE FIRST FEW LIFEBOATS WERE 29:04 SCARCELY FULL. LITTLE DID THE PEOPLE REALIZE 29:07 THE EVENTS THAT WERE SOON TO TAKE PLACE. 29:11 I THINK OF OUR WORLD, LIKE THE TITANIC, HEADED STRAIGHT TOWARDS 29:14 A TERRIBLE ICEBERG, AND HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY ARE 29:19 EARNESTLY SEEKING FOR THAT PEACE THAT ONLY JESUS CAN GIVE? 29:25 YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, JESUS SAID, 'AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, 29:28 SO IT'LL ALSO BE WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED. 29:30 IN THE DAYS OF NOAH THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING AND MARRYING 29:33 AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT UNTIL THE FLOOD 29:35 CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY.' SO IT WILL BE WHEN JESUS COMES. 29:40 NOW, IN MONDAY'S LESSON, JESUS ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM AND WE 29:45 HAVE THE STORY OF THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. 29:48 OUR KEY VERSE HERE IS LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 46, JESUS 29:53 SAID, "IT IS WRITTEN, 'MY HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' BUT YOU 29:57 HAVE MADE IT A 'DEN OF THIEVES.'" NOW WHY DID JESUS 30:01 SAY, 'MY HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER? 30:05 OF COURSE THE TEMPLE WAS FILLED WITH ALL KINDS OF RELIGIOUS 30:08 ACTIVITIES. IT WAS A PLACE OF SACRIFICE. 30:10 IT WAS A PLACE OF SINGING. IT WAS A PLACE OF PREACHING OR 30:14 TEACHING. NEVERTHELESS, JESUS SAID, 'MY 30:17 HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER. 30:19 WHY IS PRAYER SO IMPORTANT FOR THE CHRISTIAN? 30:23 YOU SEE, PRAYER IS KEY BECAUSE PRAYER DOES NOT BRING GOD DOWN 30:26 TO US, BUT PRAYER LIFTS US UP INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND 30:29 THERE IS POWER IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 30:34 LIVES ARE CHANGED IN GOD'S PRESENCE. 30:37 PRAYER IS NOT JUST SIMPLY TELLING GOD SOMETHING THAT HE 30:40 ALREADY KNOWS, BUT PRAYER IS OPENING OUR HEARTS UP TO GOD IN 30:43 ORDER FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO TRANSFORM US INTO GOD'S IMAGE. 30:49 PRAYER IS A KEY. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'MY 30:53 FATHER'S HOUSE AND MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF 30:55 PRAYER.' YOU KNOW, AS ADVENTISTS TODAY, WE NEED TO BE PEOPLE OF 30:59 PRAYER. WE NEED TO BE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK 31:01 AND WE NEED TO BE PEOPLE FERVENT IN PRAYER. 31:04 HOW MANY TIMES A DAY DID DANIEL PRAY? THREE TIMES A DAY. 31:08 WAS HE ASHAMED OR EMBARRASSED ABOUT PRAYING? NO. 31:11 HE RECOGNIZED THAT WAS HIS LIFELINE TO HEAVEN. 31:14 NOW YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, I TRY TO PRAY 31:17 BUT SOMETIMES MY MIND WANDERS IN PRAYER' OR 'I'M NOT QUITE SURE 31:20 WHAT TO SAY. IT SEEMS THAT I KEEP SAYING THE 31:23 SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. LET ME JUST SHARE WITH YOU JUST 31:26 A SIMPLE PRINCIPLE THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN YOUR PRAYER. 31:30 I THINK OF THE WORD 'PRAY' - P-R-A-Y - AND THINK OF EACH OF 31:34 THOSE LETTERS REPRESENTING SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP GUIDE 31:37 US IN PRAYER. THE P CAN STAND FOR PRAISE. 31:40 WHEN YOU BEGIN YOUR PRAYER, YOU ALWAYS WANT TO BEGIN WITH 31:42 PRAISE. THINK OF SOMETHING SPECIFIC THAT 31:45 YOU CAN PRAISE GOD FOR - SOMETHING THAT HE HAS DONE FOR 31:48 YOU THAT VERY DAY. PRAISE NEEDS TO BE SPECIFIC - IT 31:52 NEEDS TO HAVE MEANING, SO STOP FOR A MOMENT AND THINK IN PRAYER 31:56 AND SAY, 'LORD, WHAT IS IT THAT I NEED TO THANK YOU FOR? 31:58 SO YOU BEGIN WITH PRAISE. THE R STANDS FOR REPENTANCE. 32:03 AGAIN, IN YOUR PRAYER, YOU NEED TO STOP AND ASK YOURSELF, 'WHAT 32:06 IS IT, LORD, THAT I NEED TO REPENT OF TODAY? 32:09 IS IT SOMETHING THAT I SAID? IS IT SOME FEELINGS THAT I'VE 32:12 BEEN HARBORING IN MY HEART? WHAT IS IT THAT I NEED TO ASK 32:15 YOUR FORGIVENESS OF?' THEN YOU GO ON TO THE ASK, AND 32:17 THAT IS WHERE YOU LAY ALL YOUR NEEDS BEFORE GOD. 32:20 'LORD, PLEASE HELP ME IN THIS AND HELP ME IN THAT.' AND, 32:23 FINALLY, YOU ALWAYS WANT TO END YOUR PRAYER WITH YIELD - 32:27 THAT'S THE 'Y' - YIELD. 32:28 YOU WANT TO SURRENDER YOURSELF TO GOD AND SAY, 'LORD, PLEASE, 32:31 ALLOW YOUR WILL TO BE FULFILLED IN ME. 32:34 SURRENDER ALL YOUR PLANS - LAY IT AT HIS FEET. 32:36 WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT PRAYER IS THE KEY IN THE HAND OF FAITH 32:41 THAT UNLOCKS HEAVENS TREASURE HOUSE. 32:45 WE WANT TO BE UNLOCKING THE TREASURES OF HEAVEN - THE 32:47 SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS THAT WE SO DESPERATELY NEED. 32:51 SO NOW WE FIND JESUS IN JERUSALEM AND HE IS HERE AT THE 32:54 TEMPLE. SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK IN LUKE, CHAPTER 19 AND I'M GOING 32:58 TO START READING NOW IN VERSE 45. OUR KEY PASSAGE HERE IS 33:01 LUKE 19:45 THROUGH 48 - JUST A FEW VERSES. 33:05 VERSE 45 SAYS, "THEN HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND BEGAN TO 33:10 DRIVE OUT THOSE WHO BOUGHT AND SOLD IN IT," - VERSE 46 - 33:15 "SAYING TO THEM, 'IT IS WRITTEN, 'MY HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' 33:18 BUT YOU HAVE MADE IT A 'DEN OF THIEVES.'" NOW HOW MANY TIMES 33:22 DID JESUS CLEANSE THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM? HE CLEANSED IT TWICE. 33:26 THE FIRST TIME WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS PUBLIC 33:29 MINISTRY. YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN JOHN 33:31 CHAPTER 2 - IT TOOK PLACE IN THE SPRING OF AD 28. 33:35 THEN WE HAVE THE SECOND CLEANSING, NOW AT THE END OF 33:38 CHRIST'S PUBLIC MINISTRY AND THE PASSOVER OF AD 31. 33:42 SOMETHING ELSE, VERY INTERESTING, ABOUT THE CLEANSING 33:44 OF THE TEMPLE: WHAT IS IT THAT JESUS SAID WHEN HE CLEANSED THE 33:49 TEMPLE FOR THE FIRST TIME, WITH REFERENCE TO THE TEMPLE? 33:53 HE SAID, 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF 33:57 PRAYER.' BUT HERE AT THE SECOND CLEANSING, JESUS DOES NOT SAY, 34:01 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER' - WHAT 34:04 DOES HE SAY? HE SAYS, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE 34:07 CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER.' IT'S VERY INTERESTING. 34:09 YOU REMEMBER EARLIER WE MENTIONED HOW THAT THIS LAST 34:11 WEEK, JESUS TAKES THE POSITION OF A KING AND HE BEGINS TO ACT 34:15 THE ROLE OF ROYALTY - ACT THE ROLE OF KING? 34:19 JESUS CLAIMS THE TEMPLE HERE AS HIS. 34:21 YES, IT'S THE FATHER'S, BUT NOW IT IS ALSO HIS AND JESUS SAID, 34:26 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER.' NOW, OF 34:31 COURSE, NOT ONLY IS THERE A CLEANSING THAT WE READ ABOUT IN 34:34 THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING OF CHRIST'S EARTHLY MINISTRY, BUT 34:37 THERE IS ALSO A CLEANSING AT THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING OF 34:40 CHRIST'S HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY ON OUR BEHALF IN HEAVEN. 34:44 THAT FIRST CLEANSING CAN BE DESCRIBED AS THE SPECIAL 34:48 OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE CHURCH AT THE DAY OF 34:51 PENTECOST. THERE WAS A CLEANSING OF THE 34:53 CHURCH AND THEY WERE EMPOWERED BY THE CHURCH TO GO OUT AND 34:57 PROCLAIM TO THE WORLD THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST AND THAT HE ROSE 35:01 FROM THE DEAD. SO, ALSO, AT THE ENDING OF 35:04 CHRIST'S HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY THERE IS ALSO A CLEANSING OF THE 35:07 CHURCH - A CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY. 35:10 THE CHURCH IS AGAIN FILLED WITH THE LATTER RAIN - A SPECIAL 35:14 OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE CHURCH GOES FORTH TO 35:17 PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS IS COMING SOON. 35:21 REVELATION CHAPTER 18 DESCRIBES A MIGHTY ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM 35:25 HEAVEN AND THE EARTH IS ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY - 35:28 THAT IS A REVELATION OF THE CHARACTER OF GOD AND HE 35:30 PROCLAIMS GOD'S LAST WARNING MESSAGE TO THE WORLD. 35:34 WELL, LET'S LOOK IN VERSE 47 AND VERSE 48. 35:39 IT SAYS, "AND HE WAS TEACHING DAILY IN THE TEMPLE. 35:42 BUT THE CHIEF PRIESTS, THE SCRIBES, AND THE LEADERS OF THE 35:45 PEOPLE SOUGHT TO DESTROY HIM, AND WERE UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING; 35:49 FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WERE VERY ATTENTIVE TO HEAR HIM." 35:53 SO EVEN THOUGH YOU HAD THOSE WHO WERE EXCITED ABOUT JESUS BEING 35:57 KING AND THEY WERE WORSHIPING AND PRAISING GOD, THERE WERE 36:00 THOSE RELIGIOUS LEADERS THAT WERE LOOKING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY 36:03 TO TRY AND DESTROY JESUS. AND YET, JESUS, BOLDLY IS 36:06 PREACHING THE TRUTH IN THE TEMPLE. 36:09 YOU SEE, CHRIST WAS AWARE OF THE FATHER'S MASTER PLAN. 36:12 HE KNEW THAT NOTHING COULD HAPPEN TO HIM SO LONG AS HE WAS 36:15 IN THE CENTER OF GOD'S WILL. GOD WOULD PROTECT HIM. 36:19 HIS LIFE WOULD CONTINUE UNTIL THE APPOINTED TIME. 36:22 AND YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, SO IT IS WITH US. IF WE REMAIN IN THE 36:25 CENTER OF GOD'S WILL, WE NEED NOT FEAR THE FUTURE. AMEN? 36:30 GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF US JUST AS HE HAS TAKEN CARE OF DANIEL IN 36:34 THE LION'S DEN AND ALL OF THESE GREAT BIBLE HEROES OVER TIME AND 36:37 EVEN STORIES OF OUR MODERN-DAY MISSIONARIES THAT GOD TAKES CARE 36:43 OF AND PROTECTS. ON TUESDAY, THE LESSON IS ENTITLED 36:46 THE UNFAITHFUL AND IT'S REALLY A PARABLE THAT JESUS TELLS. 36:50 YOU FIND IT IN LUKE CHAPTER 20 AND WE'RE GOING TO START READING 36:54 HERE IN VERSE 9 - LUKE CHAPTER 20, VERSE 9 - JESUS IS TELLING 36:58 THIS PARABLE IN THE TEMPLE - OF COURSE, THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS 37:02 ARE THERE. LET ME BEGIN IN VERSE 9. 37:04 IT SAYS, "THEN HE BEGAN TO TELL THE PEOPLE THIS PARABLE: 'A 37:07 CERTAIN MAN PLANTED A VINEYARD, LEASED IT TO VINEDRESSERS, AND 37:11 WENT INTO A FAR COUNTRY FOR A LONG TIME.'" - NOW HERE IS AN 37:15 INTERESTING SYMBOL JESUS USES; HE TALKS ABOUT A VINEYARD. 37:19 NOW TO THE JEW - TO THE ISRAELITE - THE VINE WAS A 37:22 SYMBOL OF THEIR NATION. NOT TOO FAR FROM WHERE JESUS WAS 37:26 ACTUALLY SPEAKING THESE WORDS, ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH 37:29 HISTORIAN JOSEPHUS, THERE WAS A VINE AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE 37:32 TEMPLE MADE OF GOLD AND SILVER AND IT REPRESENTED THE NATION OF 37:36 ISRAEL. THAT IDEA, OF COURSE, COMES FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 5, 37:39 WHERE ISRAEL IS LIKENED UNTO A VINE. 37:42 SO WHEN JESUS BEGINS A PARABLE AND HE SAYS 'THERE WAS A CERTAIN 37:44 MAN THAT PLANTED A VINEYARD' - OF COURSE, IN THE EARS OF THE 37:47 HEARERS THEY'RE THINKING, 'WELL, THIS IS TALKING ABOUT ISRAEL AS 37:51 A NATION.' AND THEN IN VERSE 10 JESUS SAYS, "NOW AT VINTAGE-TIME 37:56 HE SENT A SERVANT TO THE VINEDRESSERS, THAT THEY MIGHT 38:00 GIVE HIM SOME OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINEYARD. 38:02 BUT THE VINEDRESSERS BEAT HIM AND SENT HIM AWAY EMPTY-HANDED." 38:06 NOW, OF COURSE, THESE VINEDRESSERS HERE REPRESENT 38:09 THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS. 38:10 AS JESUS WAS TELLING THE STORY, YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE THE ANGER 38:13 THAT WAS SWELLING UP IN THE HEARTS OF THE SCRIBES AND 38:15 PHARISEES BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT JESUS WAS 38:19 SAYING. SO IT SAYS THE TIME CAME WHERE 38:22 THE MASTER OF THE VINEYARD WENT TO GO GET THE FRUIT. 38:25 WHAT IS THE FRUIT THAT JESUS WAS LOOKING FOR IN ISRAEL? 38:27 HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE FRUIT OF A VIRTUOUS CHARACTER. 38:31 HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT. 38:33 AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE SAME THING THAT GOD IS STILL LOOKING 38:35 FOR IN HIS CHURCH TODAY - THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM - 38:40 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT. 38:41 GALATIANS CHAPTER 5, VERSE 22 TELLS US WHAT THOSE 38:43 CHARACTERISTICS ARE: "BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, 38:46 JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, 38:49 FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL. 38:52 AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW." SO CHRIST, TODAY, IS STILL 38:58 LOOKING FOR THESE CHARACTER QUALIFICATIONS IN HIS CHURCH. 39:02 JESUS SAYS, TO THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA, RECORDED FOR US IN 39:06 REVELATION CHAPTER 3, "YOUR NEED IS GOLD REFINED IN THE FIRE." 39:10 WHAT DOES THE GOLD MEAN THAT JESUS IS OFFERING TO HIS CHURCH 39:14 TODAY? IT IS FAITH AND LOVE. 39:17 AND JESUS SAYS YOU ALSO NEED WHITE RAIMENT. 39:21 WHAT DOES THAT WHITE RAIMENT REPRESENT? 39:22 CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, BOTH IMPUTED AND IMPARTED. 39:27 AND THEN JESUS SAID, "ANOINT YOUR EYES WITH EYE SALVE." 39:30 WHAT DOES THAT EYE SALVE - THAT OINTMENT - REPRESENT? 39:33 SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT OR THE HOLY SPIRIT. 39:35 SO JESUS SAYS, 'WHAT YOU NEED TODAY, IN ORDER TO MANIFEST THE 39:39 FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT - YOU NEED LOVE, PEACE IN YOUR HEART, YOU 39:43 NEED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS, BOTH IMPUTED AND IMPARTED, AND 39:46 YOU NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT - YOU NEED SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT. 39:50 THEN JESUS SAYS, "BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. 39:53 WHOEVER HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN UNTO 39:55 HIM AND I WILL DINE WITH HIM AND HE WITH ME. 39:59 READING ON IN VERSE 11 - LUKE CHAPTER 20, VERSE 11, "AGAIN HE 40:04 SENT ANOTHER SERVANT; AND THEY BEAT HIM ALSO, TREATED HIM 40:07 SHAMEFULLY, AND SENT HIM AWAY EMPTY-HANDED. 40:10 AND AGAIN HE SENT A THIRD; AND THEY WOUNDED HIM ALSO AND CAST 40:14 HIM OUT." WHICH OF THE PROPHETS WERE EVER 40:17 RECEIVED BY THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF THEIR TIME? 40:21 I CAN'T THINK OF ANY. THE SERVANTS IN THE PARABLE 40:25 REPRESENT THOSE PROPHETS THAT CAME WITH A MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN 40:28 AND VERY OFTEN THEY WERE TREATED SPITEFULLY. 40:31 MANY OF THEM WERE REJECTED AND EVEN PUT TO DEATH. 40:34 WHAT ABOUT TODAY, FRIENDS? HOW DO WE RESPOND TO THE GIFT OF 40:39 PROPHECY THAT JESUS HAS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH TODAY? 40:43 DO WE RECOGNIZE IT'S VALUE? DO WE EMBRACE THIS GREAT GIFT? 40:47 DO WE APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF ITS TEACHINGS IN OUR LIVES? 40:52 "THEN THE OWNER OF THE VINEYARD SAID, 'WHAT SHALL I DO? 40:55 I WILL SEND MY BELOVED SON. 40:56 PROBABLY THEY WILL RESPECT HIM WHEN THEY SEE HIM.'" - VERSE 14 41:01 - "BUT WHEN THE VINEDRESSERS SAW HIM, THEY REASONED AMONG 41:04 THEMSELVES, SAYING, 'THIS IS THE HEIR. 41:06 COME, LET US KILL HIM, THAT THE INHERITANCE MAY BE OURS.'" - 41:10 VERSE 15 - "SO THEY CAST HIM OUT OF THE VINEYARD AND KILLED HIM. 41:14 THEREFORE WHAT WILL THE OWNER OF THE VINEYARD DO TO THEM?" 41:19 NOW, OF COURSE, THIS VINEYARD REPRESENTS ISRAEL; THE SON WOULD 41:22 BE JESUS. AND THEY REJECT THE PROPHETS. 41:26 THEY ALSO REJECT JESUS, THE SON, AND THEY CRUCIFY HIM. 41:30 THE ANSWER IS GIVEN HERE IN VERSE 16, "HE WILL COME AND 41:35 DESTROY THOSE VINEDRESSERS AND GIVE THE VINEYARD TO OTHERS.' 41:39 AND WHEN THEY HEARD IT THEY SAID, 'CERTAINLY NOT!'" 41:41 - YOU SEE, THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE VINEYARD REPRESENTED - 41:44 IT REPRESENTED ISRAEL. 41:46 AND WHEN JESUS SAID THEY'LL TAKE THE VINEYARD AWAY - GOD'LL TAKE 41:49 THE VINEYARD AWAY AND GIVE IT TO ANOTHER - THEY SAID 'CERTAINLY 41:52 NOT!' - VERSE 17 - "THEN HE LOOKED AT 41:54 THEM AND SAID, 'WHAT THEN IS THIS THAT IS WRITTEN: 'THE STONE 41:57 WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE'?" 42:01 NOW THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING PROPHECY. IT COMES FROM 42:04 PSALM 118, VERSES 22 AND 23 - THE STORY ABOUT THIS CORNERSTONE 42:08 - IT ACTUALLY IS ASSOCIATED WITH A HISTORICAL EVENT. 42:12 DURING THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, THE STONES 42:16 FOR THE BUILDING WERE QUARRIED OFFSITE AND THEN THEY WERE 42:18 TRANSPORTED TO WHERE THE BUILDING WAS BEING BUILT. 42:21 AND WHEN IT CAME TO LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR THE TEMPLE - 42:24 THESE VARIOUS STONES CAME AND THE BUILDERS PLACED STONES IN 42:27 THE APPROPRIATE AREA. 42:28 BUT THEN THEY RECEIVED THIS STONE THAT HAD SOMEWHAT OF A 42:31 STRANGE SHAPE AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHERE IT WENT AND THEY 42:33 THOUGHT PERHAPS THE PEOPLE AT THE QUARRY HAD MADE A MISTAKE. 42:36 THIS STONE WAS IN THE WAY. IT WAS A BIG STONE. 42:38 IT WAS A HEAVY STONE. IT BECAME A STONE OF STUMBLING. 42:41 PEOPLE WERE SAYING, 'WHY DO WE HAVE THIS STONE? 42:43 WE DON'T NEED THIS STONE. 42:45 BUT WHEN IT CAME TIME TO LAY THE CORNERSTONE - THEY BEGAN TO LOOK 42:48 AROUND FOR A STONE THAT COULD ENDURE THE PRESSURE AND THE 42:51 WEIGHT - A STONE THAT WOULD NOT CRACK WHEN THE TEMPERATURE WOULD 42:55 CHANGE DRAMATICALLY AND THEY COULDN'T FIND THE RIGHT STONE. 42:57 SOMEBODY SAID, 'WELL, WHAT ABOUT THIS STONE? 43:00 LET'S PUT IT IN PLACE AND SEE.' SO THEY MOVED THIS BIG, HEAVY 43:03 STONE AND THEY PUT IT AND IT WAS A PERFECT FIT. 43:06 AND THAT STONE, OF COURSE, BECAME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. 43:09 THAT STONE IS A SYMBOL OF JESUS AND FROM THAT TIME ONWARDS, THE 43:12 CORNERSTONE WAS THE SYMBOL OF MESSIAH - THE ONE WHO HAD COME - 43:15 BUT HE WOULD BE REJECTED BY THE BUILDERS - THAT WOULD BE THE 43:19 RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS DAY. JESUS ALSO TALKS ABOUT A STONE. 43:23 IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2 THERE IS A SYMBOL OF A STONE WHICH 43:27 REPRESENTS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 43:29 YOU'LL RECALL NEBUCHADNEZZAR, THE KING OF BABYLON, HAD A DREAM 43:32 AND IN THE DREAM HE SAW THIS GIANT IMAGE MADE UP OF ALL OF 43:35 THESE DIFFERENT METALS AND THEN A STONE CAME AND STRUCK THE 43:38 IMAGE UPON ITS FEET. 43:40 IT GROUND ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT METALS TO POWDER AND THE STONE 43:44 GREW AND BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN AND FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH. 43:47 WELL THAT STONE THAT STRUCK THE IMAGE UPON THE FEET, IS A SYMBOL 43:50 OF JESUS AND THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 43:52 NOW NOTICE WHAT JESUS SAYS HERE IN VERSE 18 - WE'RE IN LUKE 43:57 CHAPTER 20, VERSE 18 - JESUS SAID, "WHOEVER FALLS ON THAT 44:02 STONE WILL BE BROKEN; BUT ON WHOMEVER IT 44:06 FALLS, IT WILL GRIND HIM TO POWDER." 44:09 CLEAR REFERENCE HERE TO DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND THE PROPHECY ABOUT 44:12 THE COMING OF CHRIST - THE SECOND COMING. 44:15 NOW FRIENDS, THIS IS A WARNING THAT JESUS GAVE TO THE RELIGIOUS 44:18 ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS DAY, BUT DOES GOD HAVE A SPECIAL WARNING 44:23 FOR THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF TODAY? YES HE DOES. 44:28 IF I WERE TO ASK YOU WHAT PASSAGE OF THE SCRIPTURE - AT 44:31 LEAST IN THE GOSPELS - IN PARTICULAR, TALKS TO THOSE TODAY 44:37 AND GIVES CERTAIN SIGNS OF WHEN JESUS WILL COME. 44:41 WHAT PASSAGE WILL COME TO MIND? I'LL GIVE YOU A CLUE, IT'S IN 44:44 THE BOOK OF MATTHEW - MATTHEW WHAT? MATTHEW CHAPTER 24. 44:48 AND, OF COURSE, IN MATTHEW 24 WE HAVE SIGNS RELATING TO THE 44:51 DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM THAT HAPPENED IN 70 AD. 44:54 WE ALSO HAVE SIGNS RELATING TO THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 44:57 NOW IN MATTHEW 24, JESUS ENDS BY TELLING A PARABLE. 45:02 AND THIS PARABLE, I THINK, IS, IN PARTICULAR, RELATED TO OUR 45:04 TIME. YOU'LL FIND IT HERE IN VERSE 45 45:06 - MATTHEW 24, BEGINNING IN VERSE 45 - JESUS SAID, "WHO THEN IS A 45:13 FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT, WHOM HIS MASTER HAS MADE RULER OVER 45:17 HIS HOUSEHOLD, TO GIVE THEM FOOD IN DUE SEASON?" 45:21 NOW WHO DO YOU SUPPOSE THIS MASTER WOULD REPRESENT HERE IN 45:24 VERSE 45? THAT WOULD BE JESUS. 45:27 WHAT DOES THE HOUSEHOLD REPRESENT? 45:29 THAT WOULD BE THE CHURCH. WHO ARE THE SERVANTS DESCRIBED 45:34 HERE IN VERSE 45? THAT'S THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS. 45:37 AND WHAT ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO DO? 45:39 VERSE 45 SAYS THEY ARE "TO GIVE THEM FOOD IN DUE SEASON." 45:44 IN OTHER WORDS, THERE IS A PRESENT-TRUTH MESSAGE THAT NEEDS 45:48 TO BE GIVEN TO THE CHURCH, THAT NEEDS TO BE GIVEN TO THE WORLD, 45:51 AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME. WHAT IS THE PRESENT-TRUTH 45:55 MESSAGE THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH TO PROCLAIM TO THE 45:58 WORLD JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST? 46:01 WE REFER TO THAT AS THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES FOUND IN 46:03 REVELATION CHAPTER 14. NOW READ THE NEXT VERSE - 46:07 VERSE 46 - JESUS SAID, "BLESSED IS THAT 46:09 SERVANT WHOM HIS MASTER, WHEN HE COMES, WILL FIND SO DOING." 46:13 SO WE NEED TO BE PROCLAIMING THIS PRESENT-TRUTH MESSAGE TO 46:17 THE WORLD. VERSE 47 - "ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO 46:19 YOU THAT HE WILL MAKE HIM RULER OVER ALL HIS GOODS." 46:23 - BUT LOOK AT VERSE 48 - "BUT IF THAT EVIL SERVANT SAYS IN HIS 46:26 HEART," - WHERE DOES HE SAY IT? - IN HIS HEART. HE DOESN'T 46:30 PREACH IT FROM THE PULPIT, HE SIMPLY SAYS IT IN HIS OWN HEART 46:33 - "'MY MASTER IS DELAYING HIS COMING,'" - OF COURSE, TODAY, 46:38 WE SPEAK OF OURSELVES AS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. 46:40 THE WORD 'ADVENTIST' MEANS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 46:43 WE BELIEVE IN THE SOON COMING OF JESUS. BUT WE'VE BEEN TALKING 46:47 ABOUT THE COMING OF JESUS FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS AND JESUS 46:50 HASN'T COME YET. THERE IS A TENDENCY FOR US TO 46:54 SAY IN OUR HEARTS, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? 46:56 MAYBE JESUS ISN'T COMING AS SOON AS WE THINK. 47:00 MAYBE HIS COMING IS YET IN THE FAR DISTANT FUTURE.' AND WE 47:05 BEGIN TO LOSE OUR URGENCY - THE PASSION - THAT JESUS IS COMING. 47:10 SO THIS EVIL SERVANT SAYS IN HIS HEART, 'MY LORD DELAYS HIS 47:13 COMING' AND WHAT HAPPENS? VERSE 49 - "AND BEGINS TO BEAT 47:17 HIS FELLOW SERVANTS," - SO THEY BEGIN TO CRITICIZE BELIEVERS AND 47:21 THE CHURCH - "AND TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE DRUNKARDS." 47:25 - IN REVELATION CHAPTER 17 THERE IS A WOMAN DESCRIBED RIDING UPON 47:29 A SCARLET-COLORED BEAST AND HER NAME IS BABYLON. 47:33 IN BIBLE PROPHECY A WOMAN OFTEN REPRESENTS A CHURCH. 47:37 REVELATION CHAPTER 12 YOU HAVE A SYMBOL OF THE TRUE CHURCH - 47:40 REVELATION 17 YOU HAVE A SYMBOL OF AN APOSTATE CHURCH. 47:44 IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS 47:46 DRUNK WITH FALSE DOCTRINE - WITH THIS FALSE WINE. 47:50 WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? 47:53 I DON'T THINK JESUS IS COMING AS SOON AS WE THOUGHT HE WAS 47:56 COMING.' THE TENDENCY IS TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE DRUNKARD, 48:00 MEANING WE BEGIN TO BUY INTO THESE FALSE TEACHINGS AND FALSE 48:03 PHILOSOPHIES THAT HAVE BEEN ADVOCATED BY THESE VARIOUS 48:07 RELIGIOUS POWERS. VERSE 50 SAYS, "THE MASTER OF 48:10 THAT SERVANT WILL COME ON A DAY WHEN HE IS NOT LOOKING FOR HIM 48:12 AND AT AN HOUR THAT HE IS NOT AWARE OF, AND WILL CUT HIM IN 48:15 TWO AND APPOINT HIM HIS PORTION WITH THE HYPOCRITES." 48:18 YES INDEED, JESUS HAS A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR US TODAY - 48:22 THOSE WHO ARE LIVING AT THE END OF TIME. 48:24 IT'S A MESSAGE VERY SIMILAR TO THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS GAVE TO 48:27 THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS TIME. WE NEED TO BE AWARE AND 48:31 NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO FALL INTO THE STATE OF SPIRITUAL SLUMBER. 48:36 NOW, MOVING RIGHT ALONG, IF YOU LOOK ON WEDNESDAY, IT'S GOD 48:38 VERSUS CAESAR AND OUR KEY PASSAGE HERE, IF YOU WANT TO GO 48:43 BACK TO LUKE, IT'S LUKE CHAPTER 20 AND FROM VERSE 20 THROUGH TO 48:48 VERSE 26 - I'M GOING TO READ THROUGH THIS BEGINNING IN LUKE 48:51 CHAPTER 20, BEGINNING IN VERSE 20. IT SAYS, "SO THEY WATCHED 48:58 HIM, AND SENT SPIES WHO PRETENDED TO BE RIGHTEOUS," - 49:02 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS - "THAT THEY MIGHT SEIZE 49:04 ON HIS WORDS, IN ORDER TO DELIVER HIM TO THE POWER AND THE 49:07 AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNOR. NOW I FIND THIS INTERESTING. 49:10 HERE YOU HAVE THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO WERE VERY MUCH 49:12 OPPOSED TO THE ROMAN AUTHORITY, BUT WHEN IT CAME TO TRYING TO 49:15 GET RID OF JESUS, THEY WERE TRYING TO USE THE AUTHORITY OF 49:18 ROME TO THEIR FAVOR TO TRY AND GET RID OF JESUS. 49:21 YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF TIME, REVELATION TELLS US THAT THERE 49:24 IS A WORLD-WIDE RELIGIOUS POWER THAT, LIKE THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS 49:28 BACK IN THE TIME OF JESUS, WILL LOOK TO VARIOUS POLITICAL 49:32 INSTITUTIONS AND POWERS TO TRY AND FORCE THEIR TEACHINGS AND 49:37 DECREES. SORT OF A REPEAT OF WHAT WE SEE HAPPENING HERE. 49:41 LOOKING IN VERSE 21 IT SAYS, "THEN THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING, 49:44 "TEACHER, WE KNOW THAT YOU SAY AND TEACH RIGHTLY, AND YOU DO 49:49 NOT SHOW PERSONAL FAVORITISM, BUT TEACH THE WAY OF GOD IN 49:54 TRUTH:'" - VERSE 22 - "'IS IT LAWFUL FOR US TO PAY TAXES TO 49:57 CAESAR OR NOT?'" 'AH! WE GOT HIM NOW!' 50:01 THEY THOUGHT TO THEMSELVES - ONE OF THESE TRICK QUESTIONS. 50:04 WHAT HAPPENS IF JESUS SAID, 'NO, IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO PAY 50:08 TAXES TO CAESAR? WHAT WOULD THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS HAVE DONE? 50:11 THEY WOULD HAVE GONE STRAIGHT TO THE GOVERNOR AND SAID, 'JESUS 50:14 SAYS WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY TAXES.' BUT IF JESUS CAME OUT 50:16 AND SAID, 'NO, WE NEED TO PAY TAXES.' THEN THEY WOULD HAVE 50:20 SAID TO THE CROWD THAT WERE WANTING TO MAKE HIM KING, 'YOU 50:24 SEE, HE'S NOT LOYAL TO THE JEWISH NATION. 50:27 HE'S ENCOURAGING US TO SUPPORT THIS NATION THAT IS GOVERNING US 50:31 - THIS NATION THAT IS PERSECUTING US. 50:34 JESUS IS UNFIT TO BE THE JEWISH KING IF HE IS RECOGNIZING THE 50:38 AUTHORITY OF ROME. 'WE HAVE HIM!' THEY THOUGHT. 50:41 'THERE IS NOTHING JESUS CAN DO. WE GOT HIM!' 50:43 NOW, OF COURSE, NOTICE CHRIST'S RESPONSE; IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE. 50:46 LOOKING DOWN IN VERSE 23, "BUT HE PERCEIVED THEIR CRAFTINESS, 50:51 AND SAID TO THEM, 'WHY DO YOU TEST ME?'" - 50:54 VERSE 24 - "'SHOW ME A DENARIUS.'" - THAT WAS A COIN - 50:58 "'WHOSE IMAGE AND INSCRIPTION DOES IT HAVE?' 51:02 THEY ANSWERED AND SAID, 'CAESAR'S.' AND HE SAID UNTO 51:06 THEM, 'RENDER THEREFORE TO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE 51:10 CAESAR'S, AND TO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S.' BUT THEY COULD 51:14 NOT CATCH HIM IN HIS WORDS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PEOPLE. 51:20 AND THEY MARVELED AT HIS ANSWER AND KEPT SILENT." 51:24 NOW JESUS, OF COURSE, GIVES A VERY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE WHEN HE 51:26 SAYS, 'GIVE TO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE CAESAR'S AND TO GOD THE 51:29 THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE WRITTEN 51:32 ON HOW MANY TABLES OF STONE? TWO. THE FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS 51:36 ON THE ONE TABLE DEFINES OUR RELATIONSHIP AND OUR ALLEGIANCE 51:40 TO GOD. WE ARE TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF 51:42 OUR HEART, WITH ALL OF OUR SOUL, WITH ALL OF OUR MIND. OUR 51:45 ALLEGIANCE TO GOD NEEDS TO BE FIRST. WE ARE TO HAVE NO OTHER 51:47 GODS BEFORE HIM, NOT WORSHIP IDOLS, NOT TAKE HIS NAME 51:50 IN VAIN, AND REMEMBER HIS SABBATH TO KEEP IT HOLY. 51:53 THE LAST SIX OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE SECOND TABLE 51:55 HAS TO DO WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP TO OUR FELLOW MAN: HONORING OUR 51:59 PARENTS, NOT KILLING, NOT COMMITTING ADULTERY, NOT 52:02 STEALING, NOT BEARING FALSE WITNESS, NOT COVETING THAT WHICH 52:05 IS OUR NEIGHBORS. THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES HAVE A 52:08 RESPONSIBILITY TO ENFORCE THE PRINCIPLES OF THOSE LAST SIX 52:12 COMMANDMENTS. CAN YOU IMAGINE SOCIETY WHERE 52:15 IT IS FREE FOR PEOPLE TO JUST TAKE WHATEVER THEY WANT? 52:18 OR TO KILL WHOEVER THEY DON'T LIKE? SO THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES 52:22 DO HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ENFORCE THOSE LAST SIX OF THE 52:25 TEN COMMANDMENTS - AT LEAST THE PRINCIPLES OF THAT. 52:27 BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE FIRST FOUR, IT IS NOT THE 52:30 RESPONSIBILITY OF POLITICAL POWERS TO TRY AND ENFORCE A 52:34 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. THAT IS SOMETHING BETWEEN US. 52:37 WE ARE TO WORSHIP GOD ACCORDING TO HIS WORD AND THE LEADING OF 52:41 THE HOLY SPIRIT WITHIN OUR HEARTS AND WITHIN OUR LIVES. 52:43 SO JESUS IS EMPHASIZING THESE TWO VERY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES: 52:47 WORSHIPING GOD - PUTTING HIM FIRST - AND THEN RESPECTING OUR 52:51 FELLOW MAN AND RECOGNIZING THE AUTHORITY THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO 52:55 THE STATE IN ORDER TO DO THIS. SO WE WANT TO BE FAITHFUL 52:59 CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRIES - WHEREVER WE MIGHT BE - AND WE 53:02 WANT TO RESPECT THEIR LAWS AS FAR AS WE CAN. 53:08 BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST, OUR ALLEGIANCE NEEDS TO BE TO THE 53:11 LAW OF GOD, AMEN? >>AMEN. 53:13 >>THAT'S FIRST AND FOREMOST. AND THAT WAS THE LESSON THAT 53:15 JESUS WAS EMPHASIZING HERE IN THIS PASSAGE. 53:19 WELL, FRIENDS, WE ARE OUT OF TIME BUT I'D LIKE TO REMIND OUR 53:21 VIEWERS OF OUR FREE OFFER FOR TODAY, A BEAUTIFUL BOOK TALKING 53:24 ABOUT HOW WE CAN RECEIVE JESUS AND FEAST UPON HIS WORD. 53:29 IT'S A BOOK ENTITLED STEPS TO CHRIST . 53:31 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND IT TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS. 53:34 THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR THE BOOK STEPS 53:41 TO CHRIST . IT'S OFFER #800. WELL, FRIENDS, AGAIN, THANK YOU 53:45 FOR JOINING US AS WE STUDY TOGETHER. 53:47 I HOPE THOSE WHO HAVE JOINED US ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION 53:51 NETWORKS AND ALSO ON THE INTERNET, THAT YOU WILL MAKE 53:54 SURE TO JOIN US NEXT TIME AS WE CONTINUE OUR STUDY IN THE GOSPEL 53:57 OF LUKE. MAY GOD BLESS YOU. 53:59 >>I GREW UP IN A CHURCH-GOING FAMILY. I MEAN, WE WERE AT EVERY 54:05 MEETING. I SANG IN FOUR OF THE CHOIRS 54:08 THERE - I DIRECTED THREE - VERY INVOLVED - VERY ACTIVE. 54:12 IT ALMOST SEEMED LIKE BUSY WORK SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW? 54:16 I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL. I KNEW ABOUT GOD. 54:20 I KNEW ABOUT JESUS, BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP 54:24 WITH JESUS CHRIST. 54:25 MY SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL I GOT THE NEWS THAT MY FATHER HAD 54:32 BEEN MURDERED. I PLAYED IT OFF WELL. 54:37 NO ONE REALLY SAW THAT I WAS STRUGGLING WITH IT. 54:43 IT JUST REALLY FELT LIKE THERE WAS A HOLE THAT NEEDED TO BE 54:47 FILLED AND I TRIED TO FILL IT WITH DRUGS, WITH ALCOHOL, WITH 54:51 PARTYING. AFTER COLLEGE I JUST STOPPED 54:55 GOING TO CHURCH ALTOGETHER. ONE DAY, ON A SUNDAY, BECAUSE I 55:01 DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOING TO CHURCH WITH MY MOM, I THOUGHT, YOU 55:05 KNOW, I SHOULD GET A LITTLE BIT OF WORD. 55:08 SHE HAD THE SATELLITE SYSTEM HOOKED UP AND I'M FLIPPING 55:11 THROUGH CHANNELS AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS: 55:14 AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 55:16 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT HERE 55:20 WAS - THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING 55:22 SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP 55:25 AND I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE, LET ME - LET ME LOOK 55:28 THROUGH AND FIND THIS. I WENT THROUGH ALL THE 55:31 STORACLES. I WENT THROUGH ALL THE STUDY 55:33 GUIDES AND I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 55:34 THEN THE SABBATH CAME UP AND HE'S GOING THROUGH THE APPEAL 55:38 AND I'M JUST GOING, 'LORD, I HEAR YOU. I HAVE TO GO TO 55:41 CHURCH.' SO I SHOW UP - IT WAS FUNNY, I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE I WAS 55:45 GOING TO BE JUDGED - ANYTHING JUDGMENTAL - ANYTHING. 55:50 AND I WALKED IN THE DOOR AND I JUST FELT AT HOME. 55:52 BUT THERE'S STILL A PROBLEM. I'M STILL PARTYING. 55:58 I WAS STILL GOING OUT TO THE BARS. 56:00 AT THIS TIME, I WAS SELLING COCAINE TO PAY MY RENT. 56:03 16 DAYS LATER I FIND MYSELF IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION. 56:09 I HAD JUST CAME BACK FROM A LIQUOR STORE AND I GRABBED A 56:13 BOTTLE OF VODKA AND THERE I AM, HIGH OFF COCAINE, WITH MY BIBLE 56:19 IN HAND, TRYING TO DO A BIBLE STUDY. 56:22 AND I HEARD AN AUDIBLE VOICE, 'JUST LOOK AT YOURSELF.' AND I 56:29 DID AND I WAS LIKE 'WHAT AM I DOING?' 56:35 AND I GOT ON MY KNEES AND I SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU DO NOT TAKE 56:39 THIS AWAY FROM ME NOW, I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF.' I WAS GOING TO 56:45 CONTINUE THIS LIFESTYLE AND I WAS GOING TO END UP OVERDOSING, 56:48 HAVING A HEART ATTACK, WHATEVER IT WAS. 56:51 'YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS AWAY. ALL OF IT.' AND THAT DAY HE 57:00 LIFTED ALL OF IT AWAY FROM ME. IT WAS ALL GONE. 57:05 WHEN GOD DOES SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE, HE DOES IT COMPLETE. 57:10 (MUSIC) >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS 57:32 PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:34 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:37 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:41 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 57:44 REVELATION, BIBLEHISTORY.COM IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 57:48 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 57:50 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 57:55 WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT BIBLEHISTORY.COM. 58:00 (MUSIC) |
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