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00:33 >>HELLO FRIENDS, AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:36 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY 00:38 AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR THIS IN-DEPTH BIBLE STUDY. 00:42 I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME OUR MEMBERS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY 00:45 CHURCH. THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT THIS 00:47 BEAUTIFUL SABBATH MORNING AND STUDYING THE BIBLE TOGETHER. 00:50 FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR LESSON 00:52 QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE. 00:55 TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN THE FINAL LESSON ON THE SERIES - 00:59 LESSON #13 - ENTITLED CRUCIFIED AND RISEN . 01:03 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE PROGRAM TODAY, 01:06 IT'S AN AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDE. 01:08 THE STUDY GUIDE IS ENTITLED THE ULTIMATE DELIVERANCE AND WE'D 01:12 LIKE TO MAKE THIS AVAILABLE TO THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING. 01:14 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS FREE STUDY GUIDE, JUST GIVE 01:18 US A CALL - THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 - THAT IS 01:23 866-STUDY-MORE - AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #105. 01:28 THAT NUMBER ONE MORE TIME IS 866-788-3966. 01:34 THE STUDY GUIDE IS CALLED THE ULTIMATE DELIVERANCE . 01:37 IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A COPY OF THE LESSON AND YOU'D LIKE TO FOLLOW 01:41 ALONG WITH US, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON AT THE AMAZING 01:44 FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - CLICK ON THE 01:48 LINK THAT SAYS SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD 01:51 TODAY'S LESSON. WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY 01:54 THIS MORNING, WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME 01:57 OUT AND JOIN ME AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN WITH PRAISE FOR GOD'S 02:01 GOODNESS TO US. THANK YOU. 02:03 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. AS WE ALWAYS DO BEFORE EACH OF 02:09 OUR STUDIES TOGETHER, WE LIKE TO SING TOGETHER. 02:12 SO I INVITE YOU TO TURN IN YOUR HYMNALS ON PAGE 166 - HYMN #166 02:18 - CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY . 02:20 WE ARE GOING TO SING THE FIRST, THE SECOND, AND THE LAST VERSES. 02:26 (MUSIC) 02:34 >>CHRIST THE LORD IS RIS'N TODAY, ALLELUIA! 02:44 SONS OF MEN AND ANGELS SAY, ALLELUIA! 02:54 RAISE YOUR JOYS AND TRIUMPHS HIGH, ALLELUIA! 03:03 SING, YE HEAV'NS, AND EARTH, REPLY, ALLELUIA! 03:13 LIVES AGAIN OUR GLORIOUS KING, ALLELUIA! 03:23 WHERE, O DEATH, IS NOW THY STING? ALLELUIA! 03:33 ONCE HE DIED OUR SOULS TO SAVE, ALLELUIA! 03:42 WHERE'S THY VICTORY, BOASTING GRAVE? ALLELUIA! 03:53 SOAR WE THEN WHERE CHRIST HAS LED ALLELUIA! 04:02 FOLLOWING OUR EXALTED HEAD, ALLELUIA! 04:12 MADE LIKE HIM, LIKE HIM WE RISE, ALLELUIA! 04:22 OURS THE CROSS, THE GRAVE, THE SKIES, ALLELUIA! 04:34 >>YOU KNOW THAT IS THE CULMINATION OF THE REDEMPTION 04:37 STORY THAT CHRIST DIED AND ROSE AGAIN AND THAT WAY, SINCE HE 04:41 ROSE AGAIN AND HE GIVES US LIFE AND HE WANTS TO IMPART THAT LIFE 04:45 TO US RIGHT NOW, WE CAN EXPERIENCE HIM EVEN BEFORE HE 04:49 GETS HERE. WHAT A PRIVILEGE THAT IS. 04:52 LET'S TURN TO HYMN #171 - THINE IS THE GLORY - 04:56 WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES - HYMN #171. 05:01 (MUSIC) 05:10 >> THINE IS THE GLORY, RISEN, CONQUERING SON; ENDLESS 05:20 IS THE VICTORY THOU O'ER DEATH HAST WON! 05:28 ANGELS IN BRIGHT RAIMENT ROLLED THE STONE AWAY, KEPT THE FOLDED 05:40 GRAVE-CLOTHES WHERE THY BODY LAY. 05:47 THINE IS THE GLORY, RISEN, CONQUERING SON; ENDLESS IS THE 05:58 VICTORY THOU O'ER DEATH HAST WON! 06:06 LO, JESUS MEETS THEE, RISEN FROM THE TOMB! 06:16 LOVINGLY HE GREETS THEE, SCATTERS FEAR AND GLOOM; LET HIS 06:26 CHURCH WITH GLADNESS, HYMNS OF TRIUMPH SING, FOR THE LORD NOW 06:37 LIVETH; DEATH HATH LOST ITS STING! 06:44 THINE IS THE GLORY, RISEN, CONQUERING SON; ENDLESS IS THE 06:55 VICTORY THOU O'ER DEATH HAST WON! 07:03 NO MORE WE DOUBT THEE, GLORIOUS PRINCE OF LIFE; LIFE IS NAUGHT 07:14 WITHOUT THEE; AID US IN OUR STRIFE; MAKE US MORE THAN 07:24 CONQUERORS, THROUGH THY DEATHLESS LOVE; BRING US SAFE 07:33 THROUGH JORDAN TO THY HOME ABOVE. 07:40 THINE IS THE GLORY, RISEN, CONQUERING SON; ENDLESS IS THE 07:52 VICTORY THOU O'ER DEATH HAST WON! 08:01 >>AT THIS TIME PASTOR ROSS WILL HAVE PRAYER AND WE WILL GET INTO 08:04 OUR STUDY. 08:11 >>I INVITE YOU JUST TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE BEGIN WITH PRAYER. 08:13 DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU, ONCE AGAIN, THAT WE HAVE THIS 08:16 OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER AND STUDY THE BIBLE. 08:18 AND TODAY, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE RESURRECTION 08:21 OF OUR LORD - JUST A WONDERFUL THEME. 08:23 WHAT HOPE WE FIND IN THE SCRIPTURES FOR A PROMISED 08:27 RESURRECTION WHEN JESUS COMES THE SECOND TIME. 08:29 FATHER, WE ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT NOW TO GUIDE OUR HEARTS 08:32 AND OUR MINDS, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN. 08:36 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 08:40 >>GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. I WANT TO WELCOME, AGAIN, THOSE 08:43 WHO ARE A PART OF THE EXTENDED FAMILY STUDYING THE SABBATH 08:47 SCHOOL LESSON WITH US FROM AROUND THE WORLD. 08:49 IN A MOMENT WE'LL GET TO OUR LESSON, BUT YOU KNOW, TODAY'S 08:51 LESSON - #13 - IS THE LAST IN THIS QUARTER'S STUDY AND I'M 08:55 EXCITED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT FOR THE NEXT 13 WEEKS, STARTING NEXT 09:00 WEEK - AT LEAST IN OUR CLASS HERE - WE'RE GOING TO 09:03 BE STUDYING BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES. 09:05 AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, WHAT WE DO HERE AT THE GRANITE 09:08 BAY CHURCH IS WE STUDY THE LESSON THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE SO 09:11 THOSE WHO ARE STREAMING IT RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE 09:14 WATCHING A LESSON THAT REALLY WILL NOT BE STUDIED BY THE 09:16 WORLDWIDE CHURCH FOR ANOTHER THREE WEEKS. 09:19 THIS GIVES US TIME TO EDIT. WE ALSO NEED TO CLOSED CAPTION 09:22 THE LESSON SO THAT IT IS PREPARED FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE 09:26 READING THE SUBTITLES/CLOSED CAPTIONING ON THE SCREEN, AND 09:29 GET IT OUT TO THE VARIOUS NETWORKS. 09:31 AND SO, THAT'S PART OF THE REASON FOR THAT. 09:33 BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO STUDYING BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES. 09:36 ALRIGHT, WITH THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO OUR LESSON. 09:39 I'VE ENJOYED THE STUDY ON LUKE AND TODAY'S LESSON #13 - HE IS 09:43 RISEN - AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. 09:46 I ALWAYS ENJOY IF YOU CAN SAY IT WITH ME - A SHORT ONE - IT'S 09:48 FROM LUKE 24:7 - LUKE 24:7 - ARE YOU READY? 09:53 "THE SON OF MAN MUST BE DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF 09:58 SINFUL MEN AND BE CRUCIFIED AND THE THIRD DAY RISE AGAIN." 10:04 NOW THAT WAS FORETOLD BY JESUS MANY TIMES AND SO WHEN IT 10:09 HAPPENED, IT WAS AMAZING THAT THE DISCIPLES HAD FORGOTTEN 10:12 BECAUSE, IN FACT, THE ENEMIES OF JESUS REMEMBERED THAT AND THEY 10:16 WENT TO PILATE. SO TO BEGIN OUR FIRST SECTION, 10:20 FOR SUNDAY'S LESSON, WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 10:24 GETHSEMANE. GETHSEMANE. NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME OF 10:28 YOU MAYBE HELP US READ A FEW VERSES. 10:30 I'LL GET SOMEONE SET UP REAL QUICK. 10:32 WHO HAS JOHN 18:1 AND 2? OKAY? 10:35 WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. 10:36 AND I'D LIKE TO START BY READING FROM LUKE 22 - LUKE 22, VERSES 10:41 39 TO 46, "COMING OUT, HE WENT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AS HE 10:47 WAS ACCUSTOMED, AND HIS DISCIPLES ALSO FOLLOWED HIM." 10:50 - THIS WAS COMING FROM THE LAST SUPPER - "WHEN HE CAME TO THE 10:53 PLACE, HE SAID TO THEM, 'PRAY THAT YOU MAY NOT ENTER INTO 10:56 TEMPTATION.' AND HE WAS WITHDRAWN FROM THEM ABOUT A 11:00 STONE'S THROW, AND HE KNELT DOWN AND PRAYED, SAYING, 'FATHER, IF 11:05 IT IS YOUR WILL, TAKE THIS CUP AWAY FROM ME; NEVERTHELESS NOT 11:10 MY WILL, BUT YOURS, BE DONE.' THEN AN ANGEL APPEARED TO 11:14 HIM FROM HEAVEN, STRENGTHENING HIM. 11:17 AND BEING IN AGONY, HE PRAYED MORE EARNESTLY. 11:21 THEN HIS SWEAT BECAME LIKE GREAT DROPS OF BLOOD FALLING DOWN TO 11:25 THE GROUND. WHEN HE ROSE UP FROM PRAYER, AND 11:28 HAD COME TO HIS DISCIPLES, HE FOUND THEM SLEEPING FROM SORROW. 11:32 THEN HE SAID TO THEM, 'WHY DO YOU SLEEP? 11:35 RISE AND PRAY, LEST YOU ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.'" NOW YOU 11:39 NOTICE HE SAYS THAT TWICE? YOU CAN SEE IN VERSE 40, "PRAY 11:42 THAT YOU MAY NOT ENTER INTO TEMPTATION." 11:45 AND THEN HE SAYS AGAIN, IN VERSE 46, "WHY DO YOU SLEEP? 11:48 RISE AND PRAY, LEST YOU ENTER INTO TEMPTATION." 11:52 SO ONE THING WE LEARNED FROM THIS STUDY ON GETHSEMANE - WHAT 11:55 IS SOMETHING PRACTICAL WE CAN DO TO AVOID THE TYPICAL TEMPTATIONS 12:00 THAT COME? PRAY. 12:02 AND THAT MIGHT MEAN PRAYING - GETTING UP A LITTLE EARLIER WHEN 12:07 YOU MAY BE SLEEPY AND DEDICATING TIME TO PRAY. 12:11 IT REALLY DOES GIVE YOU SPIRITUAL FORTITUDE. 12:13 AND I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT PHYSIOLOGICALLY, BUT THE LORD 12:17 CAN SOMEHOW COMPENSATE AND THAT EXTRA 15 MINUTES OF SLEEP THAT 12:21 YOU MAY HAVE LOST, YOU CAN GET NEW ENERGY THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF 12:26 GOD, THAT WILL SUSTAIN YOU. YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WAS 12:29 WITNESSING TO THE WOMAN AT THE WELL, HE HADN'T EATEN ALL DAY. 12:32 HE HAD LOW BLOOD SUGAR AND THE DISCIPLES SAID, 'OH LORD, QUICK 12:34 - EAT!' HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT FOOD YOU 12:36 DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT.' HE HAD BEEN REFRESHED. 12:38 HE HAD BEEN INVIGORATED BY BEING ABLE TO SHARE HIS FAITH. 12:42 PRAYER CAN DO THAT FOR YOU AS WELL. 12:45 AND JESUS WAS JUST AS TIRED AS THEY WERE, IF NOT MORE TIRED, 12:50 BUT HE KNEW HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS TO PRAY THAT HE WAS COMPLETELY 12:54 SURRENDERED AND CONNECTED TO GOD. 12:56 WHAT HAPPENED THERE IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE REALLY 13:00 REPRESENTS THE SUPREME BATTLE THAT ANYBODY COULD FIGHT. 13:04 NOW, BEFORE WE SAY MORE ABOUT THAT, I FORGOT, WE HAVE A VERSE 13:07 WE WANT TO READ FROM JOHN. SO WHY DON'T WE DO THAT NEXT? 13:09 JOHN - WHAT IS IT? 18:1 AND 2? GO AHEAD. 13:12 >>"WHEN JESUS HAD SPOKEN THESE WORDS, HE WENT OUT WITH HIS 13:14 DISCIPLES OVER THE BROOK KIDRON, WHERE THERE WAS A GARDEN, 13:19 WHICH HE AND HIS DISCIPLES ENTERED. 13:21 AND JUDAS, WHO BETRAYED HIM, ALSO KNEW THE PLACE; FOR JESUS 13:24 OFTEN MET THERE WITH HIS DISCIPLES." 13:27 >>ALRIGHT, JOHN GIVES US A LOT OF OTHER INSIGHTS 13:29 IN ADDITION TO LUKE. 13:31 FOR ONE THING, THEY CAME FROM THE LAST SUPPER IN JERUSALEM. 13:34 THEY WENT DOWN TOWARD THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 13:36 THEY HAD TO GO ACROSS THE KIDRON. 13:38 NOW THAT'S SIGNIFICANT FOR PEOPLE THAT UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS 13:41 HAPPENING THAT WEEK. THEY WERE HAVING THE PASSOVER. 13:45 WHERE DID THE BLOOD GO FROM THE TEMPLE FROM THOSE? 13:50 JOSEPHUS TELLS US THAT DURING THE PASSOVER WEEK THERE COULD BE 13:53 AS MANY AS 250,000 LAMBS SACRIFICED IN THE TEMPLE. 13:59 THERE WAS A VIRTUAL RIVER OF BLOOD THAT WAS FLOWING FROM THE 14:03 TEMPLE. NOW IF ANY OF YOU - HAVE ANY OF 14:05 YOU BEEN TO ISRAEL? DID YOU GO TO THE DOME OF THE 14:07 ROCK? YOU KNOW HOW THERE'S THAT BIG 14:09 HOLE INSIDE THE DOME OF THE ROCK? 14:12 THAT IS A CAVE - IT IS A PIPE THAT GOES FROM WHERE THE ALTAR 14:16 OF WHERE THE TEMPLE USED TO BE, DOWN TO THE KIDRON VALLEY. 14:19 THEY USED TO RUN THE BLOOD AWAY FROM THE TEMPLE INTO THE KIDRON 14:22 - IT WOULD EVENTUALLY WASH DOWN TO THE DEAD SEA FROM THERE. 14:25 MEANING THAT, DURING THAT PASSOVER WEEK, WHEN JESUS WENT 14:29 ACROSS THE KIDRON - DURING THE PASSOVER, CROSSING THE KIDRON 14:34 MEANT 'CROSSING THE BLOOD.' AND THAT WAS A REAL PASSOVER FOR 14:39 JESUS. AND JUST SOMETHING LIKE WHEN THE 14:42 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT THROUGH THE RED SEA, JESUS WENT ACROSS 14:45 THE KIDRON THERE. AND IT ALSO TELLS US THAT IT WAS 14:48 A PLACE JUDAS WAS AWARE OF. IT WASN'T THE FIRST TIME HE HAD 14:51 GONE THERE. HE OFTEN WENT THERE TO BE ALONE. 14:54 HE COULD HAVE, MAYBE STAYED IN ONE OF MANY HOMES. 14:56 SOMEONE WOULD HAVE DONATED AN UPPER ROOM FOR HIM TO STAY. 14:59 JESUS LIKED JUST BEING OUT IN NATURE SLEEPING UNDER THE TREES 15:03 SOMETIMES. IT WAS SPRING. AND SO HE WENT THERE TO PRAY. 15:06 NOW THE NAME FOR GETHSEMANE, IT MEANS 'OIL PRESS' OR 'PLACE 15:14 WHERE GRAPES - OLIVES - ARE CRUSHED' AND SO JESUS ACTUALLY 15:20 WENT THROUGH A CRUSHING THERE. IT WAS A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION - 15:24 TO THE POINT WHERE HE ACTUALLY PERSPIRED BLOOD. 15:28 AND I COULD BE MISTAKEN, BUT I THINK LUKE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO 15:30 MENTIONS THAT AND, BEING A PHYSICIAN, 15:32 THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE. 15:34 BUT I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE CONDITION - THERE IS A 15:37 MEDICAL TERM FOR A CONDITION - WHERE A PERSON IS EXPERIENCING 15:40 SO MUCH INTERNAL STRESS THAT THEIR CAPILLARIES CAN ACTUALLY 15:45 BREAK AND THEY CAN APPEAR TO PERSPIRE BLOOD. 15:48 AND SO JESUS, THE STRESS THAT HE WENT THROUGH THERE IN THE 15:52 GARDEN, IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO YOU AND ME. 15:54 AND SO THERE HE IS, IN THAT GARDEN PRESS, AND HE'S BEING 15:59 CRUSHED - SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S INTERESTING, ONE OF THE TITLES 16:02 FOR JESUS IS NOT ONLY 'THE SON OF MAN' - HE WAS CALLED THE SON 16:05 OF WHO? THE SON OF GOD - 16:09 >>SON OF DAVID. >>SON OF DAVID. 16:11 DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A STORY WHERE DAVID LEFT WITH A FEW 16:15 FOLLOWERS FROM JERUSALEM. HE CROSSED AND HE WENT UP THE 16:18 MOUNT OF OLIVES WEEPING BECAUSE THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT BEING MADE 16:22 TO DESTROY HIM BY ONE OF HIS OWN. BY HIS OWN SON. 16:28 HERE, NOW, JESUS, WITH A FEW FOLLOWERS, LEAVES JERUSALEM, 16:33 CROSSES THE KIDRON, BECAUSE ONE OF HIS CREATIONS - LUCIFER - IS 16:37 TRYING TO DESTROY HIM. AND SO JESUS IS ACTUALLY ECHOING 16:40 AN EXPERIENCE THAT DAVID HAD HAD THAT WAS VERY SIMILAR. 16:45 SO HE GOES TO THIS BATTLE - GOD SENDS AN ANGEL TO COMFORT HIM. 16:51 I THINK LUKE, ALSO, IS THE ONLY ONE WHO MENTIONS THIS ANGEL. 16:53 WAS THERE AN ANGEL WHO CAME TO HELP ELIJAH IN THE WILDERNESS? 16:57 >>AMEN. >>WERE THERE ANGELS THAT CAME TO 17:00 JESUS AND MINISTERED TO HIM AFTER HIS 40 DAYS? 17:05 AND HERE YOU HAVE AN ANGEL IN THE GARDEN. 17:08 I THINK THE ANGEL CAME AFTER HE PRAYED THE THIRD TIME AND SAID, 17:12 'NOT MY WILL BUT THY WILL BE DONE.' IN ANSWER TO OUR PRAYERS 17:16 WHEN WE ARE STRUGGLING WITH TEMPTATION, DOES GOD SEND 17:20 ANGELIC HELP FOR US. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. 17:23 BUT WAS IT ONE PRAYER OR THREE PRAYERS? 17:26 WHAT IS THE HARDEST PRAYER THAT ANYBODY CAN PRAY? 17:29 IT'S THE PRAYER THAT JESUS PRAYED. 17:32 'NOT MY WILL, THINE BE DONE.' NOT MY WILL, THINE BE DONE. 17:37 ISN'T THAT PART OF THE LORD'S PRAYER? 17:39 'THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN'? 17:42 OUR BIG BATTLE IS WHO - WHOSE WILL ARE WE GOING TO SURRENDER 17:47 TO? HIS WILL OR OUR WILL? 17:49 NOW, WHAT WAS JESUS SO CONCERNED ABOUT IN THE GARDEN? 17:53 WHAT WAS THE GREATEST BURDEN THAT HE BORE? 17:55 WAS IT THE ANTICIPATION OF THE TORTURE OF THE CRUCIFIXION? 18:00 OR WAS IT, PERHAPS, HIS DREAD OF BEING, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 18:05 ETERNITY, SEPARATED FROM THE FATHER? 18:08 WAS IT THE DREAD THAT HE FACED THE SECOND DEATH FOR YOU AND ME, 18:14 WHICH IS ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD? 18:17 AND HE WHO HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED SIN WAS NOW GOING TO FEEL, 18:21 WEIGHING UPON HIS SOUL, THE SINS OF THE WORLD. 18:25 THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE EXPERIENCE WAS THE TURNING 18:28 POINT. MANY TIMES IN JESUS' LIFE AND 18:33 MINISTRY HE SAID, 'NOW IS NOT MY HOUR.' YOU REMEMBER WHEN HIS 18:37 MOTHER SAID, 'LET'S TURN THE WATER INTO WINE'? 18:39 HE SAID, 'MY HOUR IS NOT YET COME.' AND HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES 18:41 ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS - HIS BROTHER SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO GO 18:44 UP TO THE FEAST.' HE SAID, 'MY HOUR IS NOT YET COME.' SEVERAL 18:46 TIMES HE SAID THIS IS NOT MY HOUR YET. 18:48 WHEN HE GOT TO THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, THREE TIMES HE SAID, 18:51 'NOW IS THE HOUR.' WHEN DID THE SUFFERINGS OF JESUS BEGIN? 18:56 ONE THE CROSS OR THURSDAY NIGHT? >>THURSDAY. 19:01 >>THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU'LL READ IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 19:04 12 AND, OH, I THINK IT'S VERSE 38, JESUS SAID, 'IT'S AN EVIL 19:08 AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION THAT SEEKS AFTER A SIGN AND NO SIGN 19:11 WILL BE GIVEN BUT THE SIGN OF JONAH. 19:14 FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE 19:17 FISH, SO THE SON OF MAN WILL BE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN 19:21 THE HEART OF THE EARTH.' AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE MISTAKENLY 19:24 THOUGHT 'HEART OF THE EARTH' MEANT THE TOMB. 19:26 'HEART OF THE EARTH' MEANT THE CLUTCHES OF THE WORLD. 19:28 THE WORD 'HEART' THERE IN GREEK IS THE WORD CARDIA - WHERE WE 19:31 GET, LIKE, CARDIAC ARREST. AND THE WORD FOR 'EARTH' THERE 19:34 MEANS 'THE WORLD.' JESUS SURRENDERED ON THURSDAY NIGHT. 19:40 HE BEGAN TO BEAR THE PENALTY FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD. 19:43 THURSDAY NIGHT, FRIDAY NIGHT, SATURDAY NIGHT - THREE DAYS, 19:48 THREE NIGHTS - HE WAS IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE ENEMY PAYING FOR 19:51 THE SINS OF THE WORLD. JUST AS JONAH WAS CAPTURED BY 19:53 THE WHALE, CHRIST WAS IN THE HANDS OF THE DEVIL. 19:56 WHEN JUDAS CAME WITH THAT MOB, CHRIST BEGAN SUFFERING FOR OUR 19:59 SINS. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 20:01 IT SAYS, 'HEART OF' - 'IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH.' WHEN YOU 20:05 PRAY 'THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH' - DOES 'IN EARTH' MEAN THE TOMB? 20:07 NO, IT MEANS IN THE WORLD. 20:10 AND SO THAT - PEOPLE HAVE OFTEN ASSUMED THAT MEANT THAT HE WOULD 20:14 BE - THIS WAS TALKING ABOUT THE THIRD DAY HE'D RISE - THREE DAYS 20:16 IN THE TOMB. IT'S NOT SAYING THAT. 20:19 BY THE WAY, IN LUKE, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE SIGN OF JONAH, 20:22 HE DOES NOT EVEN MENTION THE THREE DAYS AND THE THREE NIGHTS. 20:25 AND SO HE SAYS, 'AS JONAH WAS ASSIGNED TO THE NINEVITES, SO 20:30 THE SON OF MAN WILL BE TO THIS GENERATION.' HOW IS THERE A 20:35 SIMILARITY BETWEEN JESUS AND JONAH AND THE NINEVITES? 20:38 STILL TALKING ABOUT THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE - JONAH WENT TO 20:42 NINEVEH - 'NINEVEH WAS AN EXCEEDING GREAT CITY OF THREE 20:45 DAYS' JOURNEY' - I'M QUOTING - 'HE ENTERED THE CITY A DAY' - 20:49 THAT MEANS HALF OF A DAY - THE TWELVE HOURS OF THE DAYLIGHT 20:53 TIME - SO THAT'S THREE AND A HALF - 'AND THEN HE PREACHED IN 20:56 FORTY DAYS IT WOULD BE DESTROYED.' 20:58 THAT'S WHAT JONAH DID. JESUS SAID, 'A GREATER THAN 21:01 JONAH IS HERE.' JESUS MINISTERED NOT THREE AND A HALF DAYS, BUT 21:04 THREE AND A HALF YEARS AND HE SAID, 'THIS GENERATION WILL NOT 21:08 PASS AWAY UNTIL ALL THESE THINGS ARE FULFILLED' - NAMELY NOT ONE 21:12 STONE BEING LEFT UPON ANOTHER IN THE TEMPLE. 21:15 EXACTLY 40 YEARS AFTER JESUS MADE THAT PROPHECY, JERUSALEM 21:18 WAS DESTROYED. JESUS WAS A TYPE OF JONAH. 21:22 THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH REPENTED AT THE PREACHING OF JONAH. 21:26 GOD'S PEOPLE DID NOT REPENT AT THE PREACHING OF JESUS AND SO 21:29 THE JUDGMENT DID COME - NOT 40 DAYS LATER, 40 YEARS LATER. 21:33 YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? HE SAID, 'THAT'S HOW JONAH WOULD 21:35 BE A SIGN TO THIS GEN - AND, OF COURSE, I MEAN, WHEN YOU ARE IN 21:37 A FISH FOR THREE DAYS AND YOU COME OUT, IT'S A RESURRECTION. 21:40 AND SO JESUS AND JONAH HAVE A TYPE OF RESURRECTION - THAT'S 21:44 ANOTHER - DID JONAH SLEEP IN A BOAT? 21:46 DID JESUS SLEEP IN A BOAT DURING A STORM? BOTH OF THEM? 21:49 AND SO THERE'S MANY, MANY PARALLELS THERE. 21:51 ALRIGHT, SO THAT WAS THE HOUR OF THE SUFFERING. 21:53 AND THEN, AFTER HE PRAYED THE THIRD TIME HE WENT BACK TO THE 21:56 DISCIPLES. WHAT THREE DISCIPLES DID HE 21:59 INITIALLY TAKE WITH HIM? PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. 22:03 SO YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS GETS TO THE GARDEN - HE GETS INTO THE 22:05 GARDEN, HE'S GOT ELEVEN APOSTLES BECAUSE JUDAS LEFT AT THE 22:09 LAST SUPPER. PEOPLE THOUGHT HE WAS TAKING 22:11 CARE OF PAYING SOME BILLS OR SOMETHING. 22:13 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE WENT. 22:14 NOBODY SAID - JESUS JUST SAID, 'DO WHAT THOU DOEST QUICKLY.' HE 22:17 GETS TO THE GARDEN WITH THE ELEVEN AND THEN HE SAYS TO 22:20 PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN, 'COME WITH ME.' HE GOES A LITTLE 22:23 DEEPER INTO THE GARDEN AND HE SAYS, 'PRAY WITH ME.' SO THEY 22:27 KNELT DOWN AND STARTED PRAYING WITH HIM, AND HE WENT A LITTLE 22:29 FURTHER AWAY FROM THEM. SO YOU'VE GOT JESUS OFF HERE AND 22:33 THEN PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN, AND THEN THE OTHER - WHAT'S LEFT 22:36 AFTER YOU TAKE THREE FROM ELEVEN? 22:38 >>EIGHT. >>EIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 22:40 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE OTHER EIGHT. 22:42 HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW OFTEN AT CRITICAL TIMES IN CHRISTIAN 22:46 HISTORY, WHEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD SHOULD BE PRAYING, INSTEAD THEY 22:50 ARE DOING WHAT? SLEEPING. 22:53 WHEN JESUS TALKS ABOUT THE SECOND COMING AND HE SHARES THE 22:57 PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS - YOU'VE GOT FIVE WISE, FIVE 23:00 FOOLISH - THAT'S 50/50 - WHAT PERCENT WERE SLEEPING? 23:03 >>HUNDRED PERCENT. >>A HUNDRED PERCENT. 23:05 AND THAT WOULD PUT YOU AND I IN WHAT CATEGORY? 23:09 THE SLEEPY CATEGORY. 23:10 WHEN JESUS TAKES PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN UP ON THE MOUNT OF 23:15 TRANSFIGURATION AND MOSES AND ELIJAH APPEAR, AND HE'S PRAYING 23:20 THAT THEY'LL HAVE A REVELATION TO STRENGTHEN THEIR FAITH, WHILE 23:22 HE'S PRAYING, WHAT DO THEY DO? THEY GO TO SLEEP. 23:26 IT SAYS IN LUKE, 'THEY WERE HEAVY WITH SLEEP.' SO OFTEN, AT 23:29 THE CRUCIAL TIMES WHEN GOD'S PEOPLE SHOULD BE PRAYING, 23:33 THEY'RE SLEEPING. COULD IT BE THAT IN THE LAST 23:36 DAYS, THAT'LL BE A PROBLEM? DOESN'T JESUS SAY, IN MARK 23:38 CHAPTER 13, SPEAKING OF THE SECOND COMING, 'WATCH, WATCH, 23:42 WATCH, WATCH, LEST HE COME AND FIND YOU SLEEPING'? 23:44 SO IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO GO TO SLEEP, WHAT IT 23:49 MEANS IS, SPIRITUALLY, WE SHOULD BE AWAKE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING AND 23:52 BE ALERT - BE SOBER - BE VIGILANT THE BIBLE SAYS. 23:54 OKAY, JUDAS. NOW JUDAS IS NOT A BAD NAME, BUT 23:59 I DON'T KNOW ANYONE WHO NAMES THEIR CHILDREN JUDAS. 24:01 JUDAS' NAME IS A DERIVATIVE OF ONE OF THE SIGNS - 24:06 TRIBES OF ISRAEL, JUDAH. AND THERE WERE SEVERAL PEOPLE 24:10 NAMED JUDAS - MOST OF THEM, IN THE BIBLE, WERE GOOD - IN THE 24:13 NEW TESTAMENT. IT'S - IT COMES FROM - IT'S 24:15 WHERE YOU ALSO GET THE WORD 'JEW' - THERE COULD BE THE 24:18 FEMALE VERSION IS JUDITH AND HE WAS - IT'S INTERESTING - DIDN'T 24:25 JESUS CHOOSE JUDAS AS AN APOSTLE? 24:28 CHRIST SAID, 'HAVE I NOT CHOSEN YOU TWELVE AND ONE IS A DEVIL?' 24:30 WHY WOULD JESUS CHOOSE A DEVIL TO BE AN APOSTLE? 24:33 EVIDENTLY, HE'S THE ONLY NON-GALILEAN, AND AS HE BEGAN 24:37 TO SEE THE POWER OF CHRIST, HE WAS PRESSING CLOSE TO THE OTHER 24:42 DISCIPLES AND THEY KEPT RECOMMENDING HIM TO JESUS AND 24:46 SO, TO GO ALONG WITH THEIR RECOMMENDATION - 24:48 THEY SAID, 'OH, HE'S SO BRIGHT. 24:50 HE'S GOT SO MUCH TALENT. HE'S A GOOD ACCOUNTANT. 24:52 HE CAN BE TRUSTED.' JESUS - AT THEIR RECOMMENDATION - HE 24:57 INCLUDED JUDAS AS ONE OF THE TWELVE. 24:59 IT WAS THE LAST ONE THE OTHER DISCIPLES WOULD HAVE EXPECTED. 25:03 ALL THE GOSPELS, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, WHEN THEY LIST THE 25:07 APOSTLES, WHO DO YOU THINK IS AT THE END OF THE LIST? JUDAS. 25:12 NOW THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE WHO IS CALLED 'JUDAS' - OR AT LEAST 25:16 SOME OF THE TIME HIS NAME IS LISTED AS JUDAS. 25:19 SOME OF THE APOSTLES HAVE TWO NAMES, LIKE SIMON PETER - CEPHAS 25:21 - PETER'S USUALLY AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, JUDAS IS AT THE BOTTOM 25:25 OF THE LIST. HE WAS KNOWN AS ALSO A MISER AND A THIEF. 25:31 PROBABLY - IF YOU READ THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES , THERE THE AUTHOR 25:35 SAYS - IN MATTHEW 8:19, "A CERTAIN SCRIBE CAME AND SAID TO 25:41 HIM, 'TEACHER, I WILL FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU GO.'" - SHE SAYS 25:44 THAT WAS JUDAS - "AND JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'FOXES HAVE HOLES AND 25:48 BIRDS OF THE AIR HAVE NESTS, BUT THE SON OF MAN HAS NOWHERE TO 25:51 LAY HIS HEAD.'" - SO HE WAS SAYING, 'LOOK, IF YOU'RE 25:55 FOLLOWING ME FOR SOME KIND OF EARTHLY ADVANTAGE OR TREASURE, 25:58 JUST KNOW, FOXES AND BIRDS HAVE MORE THAN I HAVE ON EARTH. 26:03 IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE 26:06 HOUSES AND LANDS AND WEALTH AND FAME, YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME FOR 26:09 THE WRONG REASONS.' SO JESUS TOLD HIM RIGHT UP FRONT. 26:11 BUT IT SAYS, 'A CERTAIN SCRIBE' - SO JUDAS MAY HAVE BEEN A 26:15 SCRIBE. JOHN 6:64 - AND, NO, SOMEBODY 26:19 HERE HAS GOT JOHN 6, VERSE 70 - WHO HAS THAT? 26:22 WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. 26:24 IN JOHN 6, VERSE 64, CHRIST SAID, "'BUT THERE ARE SOME OF 26:28 YOU WHO DO NOT BELIEVE.' FOR JESUS KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING 26:30 WHO THEY WERE WHO DID NOT BELIEVE, AND WHO WOULD BETRAY 26:35 HIM." I NEED TO ASK YOU A QUESTION. 26:37 DID GOD LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN, DURING NEW TESTAMENT TIMES, AND 26:43 SAY, 'LOOK, I NEED SOMEBODY TO BE THE FALL GUY - THAT WOULD BE 26:47 THE BAD GUY - THE HEAVY - THAT WILL BETRAY MY SON SO THAT THE 26:51 PROPHECIES COULD BE FULFILLED AND SO, YOU KNOW, I HATE TO DO 26:55 THIS TO ANYBODY BUT, WELL, I'M GOING TO PICK THIS GUY DOWN 26:57 THERE NAMED 'JUDAS' AND I'M GOING TO MAKE HIM THE BAD GUY'? 26:59 SO SINCE IT WAS FORETOLD THAT SOMEONE WOULD BETRAY HIM AND IT 27:04 WOULD BE A CLOSE FRIEND, DID JUDAS HAVE A CHOICE? 27:07 >>YES. >>YES. 27:09 IT WASN'T THAT GOD MADE JUDAS THE BAD GUY SO THAT HE COULDN'T 27:12 REPENT. GOD KNEW WHAT HE WOULD DO - IT 27:16 WAS ENTIRELY AS MUCH JUDAS' CHOICE TO BETRAY JESUS AS IT WAS 27:20 PETER'S CHOICE TO DENY HIM BUT LATER REPENT. 27:24 ALL OF THE APOSTLES HAD A FREE WILL. GOD IS SIMPLY SAYING, 27:27 'I KNOW IN ADVANCE' WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. 27:30 AND YOU CAN EVEN HEAR JESUS PLEADING WITH JUDAS. 27:33 HE'S TELLING HIM, AT THE LAST SUPPER, 'I KNOW ONE OF YOU IS 27:36 GOING TO BETRAY ME.' IT'S ALMOST LIKE THE LORD IS HOPING THAT 27:39 JESUS WILL THWART - JUDAS WILL THWART THE PROPHECY AND SAY, 27:42 'NO, I REPENT.' HE WANTED TO WHEN JESUS WAS WASHING HIS FEET. 27:45 BUT HE HARDENED HIS HEART. OR MAYBE HE KEPT WAITING. 27:50 OR MAYBE HE THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, JESUS IS SO MEEK, I'VE GOT TO 27:53 HELP HIM - I'VE GOT TO HELP HIM ALONG - PRONOUNCE HIMSELF THE 27:57 SON OF DAVID AND IF I TURN HIM INTO THE ROMANS, THEN HE'LL HAVE 28:00 TO USE HIS MIRACULOUS POWER TO DELIVER HIMSELF. 28:03 THEN EVERYBODY WILL KNOW AND IT WILL TRIGGER THINGS - THIS 28:05 REVOLUTION WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR.' HE PROBABLY THOUGHT, 'AND 28:09 THEN I WILL BE SEEN AS THE WISE ONE WHO TOOK INITIATIVE.' HE WAS 28:13 PROBABLY TELLING THEM ALL THAT, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE WAS HE COULD 28:16 HAVE BETRAYED HIM FOR FREE. HE ASKED FOR MONEY. 28:20 AND THEN JOHN GOES ON TO TELL US HE WAS A THIEF AND HE TOOK WHAT 28:24 WAS IN THEIR MEAGER OFFERING BAG THAT THE DISCIPLES KEPT. 28:28 AND SO THERE WAS COVETOUSNESS IN JUDAS' HEART. OH HOW SAD. 28:36 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US JOHN 6, VERSE 70. 28:39 >>JESUS ANSWERED THEM, 'DID I NOT CHOOSE YOU, THE TWELVE, AND 28:43 ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL?" >>READ THE NEXT VERSE TOO. 28:46 >>HE SPAKE OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, THE SON OF SIMON, FOR IT WAS HE 28:49 WHO WOULD BETRAY HIM, BEING ONE OF THE TWELVE." 28:52 >>NOW ONE THING ENCOURAGES ME ABOUT THE STORY OF JUDAS. 28:56 PEOPLE OFTEN SAY, 'I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THAT CHURCH BECAUSE 29:01 THERE'S HYPOCRITES THERE.' OR 'THERE IS SOMEBODY IN THAT 29:04 CHURCH AND THEY WERE SO UNKIND TO ME. 29:06 IF THAT'S WHAT CHRISTIANS ARE LIKE' - AND I REMIND PEOPLE IF 29:08 JESUS WAS ALIVE IN THE WORLD TODAY, WOULD YOU FOLLOW HIM? 29:11 IF HE WALKED THE EARTH TODAY, WOULD YOU WANT TO FOLLOW HIM? 29:15 WOULD YOU BE PART OF HIS GROUP IF HE WAS RIGHT THERE. 29:18 IF HE WAS THE PREACHER IN THE CHURCH, WOULD YOU COME? 29:19 DID JESUS HAVE A JUDAS WAY BACK THEN? 29:24 AND SO, SHOULD IT SURPRISE US IF THERE ARE STILL JUDASES IN THE 29:28 CHURCH TODAY? DON'T BE DISCOURAGED BY THAT. 29:31 GOD HAS NOT CHANGED AND THE DEVIL HASN'T CHANGED AND THERE 29:34 ARE GOING TO BE COUNTERFEITS. THE DEVIL'S GOING TO HAVE HIS 29:37 REPRESENTATIVES AND LET'S JUST MAKE SURE IT'S NOT US, AMEN? 29:40 THAT ALL OF US ARE FAITHFUL. YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT THE 29:45 ADVANTAGES AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT JUDAS HAD. 29:48 YOU CAN READ IN DESIRE OF AGES P. 716, 29:50 "HE (CHRIST) ENDOWED JUDAS WITH POWER TO HEAL THE SICK, TO 29:54 CAST OUT DEVILS, BUT JUDAS DID NOT COME TO THE POINT OF 29:57 SURRENDERING HIMSELF FULLY TO CHRIST. 29:59 HE DID NOT GIVE UP HIS WORLDLY AMBITION AND LOVE OF MONEY. 30:03 JUST THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE. 30:05 YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS HE SENT OUT THE TWELVE. 30:07 HE GAVE THEM POWER OVER DISEASES. 30:09 THEY CAST OUT DEVILS. THEY WORKED MIRACLES - 30:12 PERFORMED WONDERS. WAS JUDAS COMPLETELY CONVERTED 30:15 AT THAT POINT? NO. 30:18 CAN GOD GIVE HIS POWER TO PEOPLE THAT ARE FOLLOWING HIM BUT MAY 30:21 NOT BE COMPLETELY CONVERTED? YES. 30:25 DID HE GIVE THAT SAME POWER TO PETER? 30:28 AND AFTER PETER WAS OUT PREACHING AND TEACHING AND 30:30 CASTING OUT DEVILS AND HE CAME BACK, JESUS SAID TO PETER, 30:33 'PETER, SATAN HAS DESIRED TO HAVE YOU THAT HE MIGHT SIFT YOU 30:36 AS WHEAT, BUT I'VE PRAYED FOR YOU THAT YOUR FAITH DOES NOT 30:39 FAIL AND WHEN YOU ARE CONVERTED, STRENGTHEN THE BRETHREN." 30:42 EVEN PETER WAS NOT THOROUGHLY CONVERTED. 30:45 THAT'S WHY HE DENIED JESUS. 30:47 SO, DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU THINK, 'I'M NOT GOING TO WORK FOR THE 30:50 LORD UNTIL I'M THOROUGHLY CONVERTED. 30:52 DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT GOD COULD EVEN USE YOU WHEN YOU'RE 30:54 NOT TOTALLY CONVERTED TO WORK MIRACLES? 30:57 - AND DO NOT THINK, BECAUSE GOD IS WORKING MIRACLES THROUGH 31:01 SOMEBODY, THAT MEANS THAT THEY'RE INFALLIBLE, RIGHT? 31:07 I SOMETIMES MEET PEOPLE THAT THEY WENT TO A - SOME DUBIOUS 31:11 HEALING CRUSADE OR SOMETHING AND THEY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, GOD REALLY 31:14 WORKED A MIRACLE FOR ME AND I EXPERIENCED HEALING.' OR 'I 31:16 EXPERIENCED CONVERSION AND GAVE MY HEART TO THE LORD.' AND THEN 31:18 LATER YOU FIND OUT THAT PASTOR THAT LED OUT IN THAT SERIES, HE 31:21 ENDS UP IN THE HEADLINES OF THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER. 31:24 NOW IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN HEALED BY 31:28 JUDAS READ ABOUT HIS NAME IN THE PAPERS LATER. 31:32 GOD HEALS PEOPLE AND HE OFTEN SAYS, 'YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU 31:36 WHOLE.' HE DOESN'T SAY, 'THE TELEVANGELIST'S FAITH MADE YOU 31:38 WHOLE.' ISN'T THAT RIGHT? IT'S YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST. 31:42 SO WE LEARN A LOT FROM THE STORY OF JUDAS. 31:44 IT SAYS - AND YOU CAN ALSO READ IN PAGE 716 - SAME PAGE IN 31:49 DESIRE OF AGES - "HE HAD FOSTERED THE EVIL SPIRIT OF 31:51 AVARICE UNTIL IT HAD BECOME THE RULING MOTIVE OF HIS LIFE. 31:55 THE LOVE OF MAMMON OVER-BALANCED HIS LOVE FOR CHRIST." 31:59 - YOU CAN'T SERVE TWO MASTERS. AND HOW MUCH DID HE SELL JESUS 32:03 FOR? THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER. 32:07 IT'S INTERESTING - EXODUS 21, VERSE 32, "IF THE OX" - IF 32:11 YOU'VE GOT AN OX AND IT GORED SOMEONE ELSE'S MALE OR FEMALE 32:13 SERVANT, YOU WERE TO GIVE THEIR MASTER 30 SHEKELS OF SILVER - IT 32:17 WAS THE PRICE OF A SLAVE CHRIST WAS SOLD FOR. 32:21 THE BIBLE SAYS, IN LUKE 22 - WE'RE STUDYING LUKE - "SATAN 32:25 ENTERED JUDAS, SURNAMED ISCARIOT." 32:29 AND, BY THE WAY, THE NAME 'ISCARIOT' - THERE WAS A PLACE 32:33 CALLED 'KERIOTH' AND IT MEANT 'A MAN OF KERIOTH' AND IT WAS JUST 32:37 TELLING ABOUT THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS FROM. 32:39 ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON HERE AND WHY DON'T WE GET DOWN - EITHER 32:44 FOR HIM OR AGAINST HIM - THIS IS UNDER THE SECTION THAT THERE'S 32:47 ONLY TWO CATEGORIES - FOR HIM OR AGAINST HIM - SOMEBODY'S GOING 32:50 TO READ FOR ME, LUKE 11:23 - OVER HERE - IN JUST A MOMENT. 32:53 MARK 9:38 THROUGH 40, "NOW JOHN ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, 'TEACHER, 33:00 WE SAW SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT FOLLOW US CASTING OUT DEMONS IN 33:03 YOUR NAME, AND WE FORBADE HIM BECAUSE HE DOES NOT FOLLOW US.' 33:07 BUT JESUS SAID, 'DO NOT FORBID HIM, FOR NO ONE WHO WORKS A 33:11 MIRACLE IN MY NAME CAN SOON AFTERWARD SPEAK EVIL OF ME. 33:14 FOR HE WHO IS NOT AGAINST US IS ON OUR SIDE.'" YOU KNOW, WHEN I 33:19 WAS FIRST STUDYING AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT - AFTER I ACCEPTED 33:22 THE LORD AND BECAME A CHRISTIAN - I WANTED TO FIGURE OUT 'WHERE 33:26 DO I GO TO CHURCH?' YOU KNOW, I WAS VERY OPEN MINDED 33:30 AND SOMEWHAT NAÏVE AT THE TIME AND I THOUGHT AS LONG AS A 33:33 PERSON SAYS THEY'RE A CHRISTIAN, IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER. 33:35 AND SO, I WORSHIPED WITH MANY DIFFERENT CHRISTIANS IN MANY 33:37 DIFFERENT CHURCHES AND I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS PEOPLE 33:40 THAT LOVE HIM IN MANY PERSUASIONS. 33:43 I WAS KIND OF DISCOURAGED, THOUGH, BECAUSE I'D GO TO ONE 33:46 CHURCH AND THEY'D SAY - ONE DENOMINATION WOULD TELL ME, 33:49 'UNLESS YOU'RE A MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH, ALL THE OTHERS ARE 33:52 LOST.' AND I'D GO TO ANOTHER CHURCH AND THEY'D SAY, 'UNLESS 33:56 YOU SPEAK IN TONGUES, YOU DON'T HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.' I'D GO TO 33:59 ANOTHER CHURCH - I'D STUDY WITH THEM AND THEY'D SAY, 'UNLESS 34:01 YOU'RE ONE OF US, YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THE 144,000 AND YOU'RE 34:04 DOOMED. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 34:06 ACTUALLY ATTRACTED ME TO THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS WAS THE 34:08 TEACHING THAT WE BELIEVE THE GREATEST PART OF CHRIST'S TRUE 34:11 FOLLOWERS ARE ACTUALLY NOT IN OUR CHURCH. 34:13 THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE AS PERFECTLY AS THEY 34:17 COULD, BUT DOES GOD ALSO WORK THROUGH CHRISTIANS OF OTHER 34:20 FAITHS? OF COURSE HE DOES. 34:23 AND SO JESUS SAID, 'WELL, IF HE'S TEACHING AND PREACHING AND 34:27 CASTING OUT DEVILS IN MY NAME,' - JAMES AND JOHN SAID, 34:29 'WE TOLD HIM TO STOP IT. WE HAVE NOT GIVEN HIM LICENSE TO 34:33 DO THAT.' - AND JESUS SAID, 'DON'T FORBID THEM.' 34:36 YOU KNOW, I - WELL, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO TELL YOU THAT STORY, 34:41 BUT I HAVE MET PEOPLE BEFORE THAT BELIEVE EXACTLY WHAT WE 34:45 BELIEVE AND THEY'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. 34:48 I PICKED UP A HITCHHIKER ONE TIME AND STARTED STUDYING WITH 34:51 HIM AS I WAS GOING DOWN THE ROAD. 34:53 HE WAS A CHRISTIAN - HAD A BAG FULL OF BIBLES AND BOOKS. 34:55 HE STARTED TELLING ME, 'YOU KNOW THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH?' 34:57 I SAID, 'OH, REALLY?' I HAD JUST STUDIED THAT AND 35:01 LEARNED IT FOR MYSELF, BUT I WAS STILL GOING TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY. 35:04 AND THEN HE SAID - HE WAS TALKING TO ME ABOUT THAT - 'ARE 35:08 YOU AWARE THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE BUT IT DOESN'T BURN FOREVER 35:12 AND EVER AND EVER?' I SAID, 'YOU'RE A SEVENTH-DAY 35:14 ADVENTIST.' HE SAID, 'A WHAT?' NEVER HEARD OF THEM BEFORE. 35:19 I SAID, 'WHERE'D YOU GET ALL THIS?' 35:21 HE SAID, 'IT'S IN THE BIBLE.' AND GOD HAS PEOPLE OUT THERE 35:24 THAT HE'S LEADING AND WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO SAY THAT 35:27 'IF YOU'RE NOT WITH ME, YOU'RE AGAINST ME.' BUT THERE ARE THOSE 35:31 WHO TRY TO PLAY THE MIDDLE. NOW JESUS - GO AHEAD, LET'S READ 35:35 THAT VERSE IN LUKE 11:23. ARE WE READY? 35:38 >>"HE WHO IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME, AND HE WHO DOES NOT 35:41 GATHER WITH ME SCATTERS." >>THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR, ISN'T IT? 35:46 IF WE'RE NOT WITH CHRIST WE'RE AGAINST HIM. 35:48 THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT UNLESS YOU'RE ALL PART OF THE SAME 35:51 DENOMINATION, YOU'RE AUTOMATICALLY THE ENEMIES OF 35:54 JESUS, BUT THERE REALLY ARE, HOW MANY ROADS? 35:57 TWO - TRUE AND FALSE - RIGHT? YOU'VE GOT BROAD IS THE WAY THAT 36:06 LEADS WHERE? >>TO DESTRUCTION. 36:08 >>THAT'S A ROAD - TO DESTRUCTION. 36:09 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN PUT IT THIS WAY: THERE'S ONE ROAD AND TWO 36:11 DIRECTIONS. YOU'VE GOT UP TO THE CITY OF GOD 36:15 AND YOU'VE GOT DOWN TO THE OTHER DIRECTION. 36:17 BUT THERE'S REALLY TWO ROADS THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF, THE ROAD OF 36:20 LIFE AND THE ROAD OF DEATH. AND THERE'S NO SWITZERLAND IN 36:25 THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 36:27 YOU KNOW, SWITZERLAND MANAGED TO SKIRT WORLD WAR I AND 36:30 SKIRT WORLD WAR II BY BEING NEUTRAL. 36:32 THERE IS NO NEUTRAL COUNTRY IN THIS WAR BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 36:36 IF WE'RE NOT WITH JESUS, WE'RE AGAINST. 36:38 HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT DURING THE TRIAL OF CHRIST - AND YOU MIGHT 36:40 TURN IN YOUR BIBLE TO - YOU CAN GO TO LUKE CHAPTER 23, FOR 36:45 INSTANCE - PILATE AND HEROD - THEY KEPT KIND OF TRYING TO 36:51 OFFLOAD THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ACTUALLY CONDEMNING JESUS. 36:55 HEROD WAS - HE WAS VERY GUILTY ABOUT WHAT HE HAD DONE TO JOHN - 36:59 BUT NOW I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. 37:00 LET'S LOOK IN LUKE CHAPTER 23, "THEN THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF 37:04 THEM AROSE AND LED HIM TO PILATE. 37:06 AND THEY BEGAN TO ACCUSE HIM, SAYING, 'WE FOUND THIS FELLOW 37:09 PERVERTING THE NATION, AND FORBIDDING TO PAY TAXES TO 37:12 CAESAR, SAYING'" - DID HE SAY THAT? 37:14 THAT'S A LIE. JESUS DIDN'T SAY THAT. 37:15 HE SAID, 'GIVE TO CAESAR WHAT IS CAESAR'S.' - "'FORBIDDING TO PAY 37:19 TAXES TO CAESAR SAYING THAT HE HIMSELF IS CHRIST, A KING.' THEN 37:23 PILATE ASKED HIM, SAYING, 'ARE YOU THE KING OF THE JEWS?' 37:26 HE ANSWERED HIM AND SAID, 'IT IS AS YOU SAY.' SO PILATE SAID TO 37:31 THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE CROWD, 'I FIND NO FAULT IN THIS MAN.'" 37:34 HOW COULD PILATE HEAR JESUS SAY, 'IT IS AS YOU SAY, I'M THE KING 37:39 OF THE JEWS' AND TURN RIGHT AROUND FROM THAT AND SAY, 'I 37:41 DON'T FIND ANY FAULT IN HIM.' HE COULD TELL BY THE CONTEXT OF 37:44 WHAT JESUS SAID AND BY THE LOOK OF JESUS, HE WAS SPEAKING 37:47 ENTIRELY IN SPIRITUAL TERMS AND HE WAS NO THREAT. 37:50 EVERYTHING ABOUT JESUS SAID HE WAS A MAN OF PEACE. 37:52 PILATE HAD SEEN MANY JEWISH REBELS BEFORE. 37:55 HE HAD SEEN THE VIOLENT ZEALOTS. HE LOOKED AT JESUS AND HE SAID, 37:58 'THIS IS A RABBI WHO'S SPEAKING IN ETHEREAL TERMS. 38:02 I DON'T - HE'S NOT A RISK. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?' 38:05 EVERYTHING ABOUT CHRIST TALKED ABOUT MEEKNESS. 38:08 HIS WHOLE COUNTENANCE EXUDED THAT. 38:10 HE SAID, 'I FIND NO FAULT IN THE MAN.' - "BUT THEY WERE THE MORE 38:13 FIERCE, SAYING, 'HE STIRS UP THE PEOPLE, TEACHING THROUGHOUT ALL 38:17 JUDEA, BEGINNING FROM GALILEE TO THIS PLACE.'" AND PILATE SAID, 38:20 'GALILEE?' - "WHEN PILATE HEARD ABOUT 38:22 GALILEE, HE ASKED IF THE MAN WERE A GALILEAN" - AS SOON AS HE 38:25 KNEW THAT HE HAD ORIGINALLY COME FROM NAZARETH, WHICH WAS IN 38:28 GALILEE, - "...HE BELONGED TO HEROD'S JURISDICTION" - HE TRIED 38:31 TO OFFLOAD THE RESPONSIBILITY AND HE SENT HIM TO HEROD, WHO 38:35 HAPPENED TO BE IN JERUSALEM FOR THE FEAST THAT WEEKEND. 38:38 I'M PARAPHRASING. 38:40 "NOW WHEN HEROD SAW JESUS, HE WAS EXCEEDINGLY GLAD; FOR HE HAD 38:43 DESIRED FOR A LONG TIME TO SEE HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD HEARD MANY 38:46 THINGS ABOUT HIM, AND HE HOPED HE WOULD SEE SOME MIRACLE DONE 38:49 BY HIM." - SO NOW HEROD'S SO EXCITED - 38:52 'OH, I'VE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT HIM. 38:53 I WANTED TO SEE HIM FOR MYSELF. I'VE HEARD HE'S RAISED THE DEAD. 38:56 I'VE HEARD HE'S OPENED THE EYES OF THE BLIND. 38:58 HE'S HEALED LEPERS AND HERE I GET A PRIVATE AUDIENCE. 39:01 I'LL BRING IN SOME SICK PEOPLE AND SAY, 'DO A MIRACLE.' AND SO 39:04 THEY WENT OUT IN THE STREETS AND THEY GATHERED TOGETHER SOME LAME 39:07 AND SICK AND BLIND AND THEY BROUGHT HIM IN AND SAID, 'HERE 39:09 JESUS, DO A MIRACLE.' NOW JESUS HAS BEEN TERRIBLY BEATEN THROUGH 39:11 THE NIGHT AND THE WHOLE THING IS JUST A - IT'S AN INSULTING SHAM 39:15 - AND JESUS, HE SPOKE TO PILATE BUT HE DID NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH 39:20 AND UTTER A SINGLE PHRASE TO HEROD. WHY? 39:24 WHO WAS THE GREATEST PROPHET THAT EVER LIVED? ACCORDING TO 39:29 JESUS, JOHN THE BAPTIST. WHO GOT TO HEAR JOHN THE BAPTIST 39:33 PREACH WHENEVER HE WANTED? HEROD ACTUALLY HAD HIM 39:36 IMPRISONED AND HE SAID HE WOULD OFTEN LISTEN TO HIM. 39:39 HE WOULD HAVE HIM BROUGHT IN AND PREACH TO HIM - 39:41 PUT HIM BACK IN JAIL. 39:42 HE NOT ONLY REJECTED THE PREACHING OF GOD'S BEST 39:45 MESSENGER, CHRIST SAID, 'IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE MOSES AND THE 39:48 PROPHETS, THEN YOU WON'T BELIEVE THOUGH ONE RISE FROM THE DEAD.' 39:50 AND HEROD HAD JOHN THE BAPTIST EXECUTED AT THE WHIM OF HIS 39:55 STEP-DAUGHTER AFTER DANCING - HAD THE GREATEST PROPHET KILLED 40:00 - AND HE KNEW IT WAS THE WRONG THING TO DO. 40:02 AND SO NOW - AS FAR AS GOD WAS CONCERNED, HE HAD COMMITTED THE 40:06 UNPARDONABLE SIN AND HE COMPLETELY IGNORED HIM. 40:10 ISN'T THAT A FRIGHTENING THOUGHT? 40:12 THAT WE COULD SO REJECT THE MESSENGERS OF GOD? 40:14 SEE, HERE, HE COULD HAVE TALKED TO JESUS PERSONALLY, BUT HE HAD 40:18 REJECTED THE MESSENGER OF CHRIST. 40:20 CHRIST SAID, 'IF YOU REJECT THEM, YOU REJECT ME.' THAT'S A 40:24 REALLY SOBERING THOUGHT. AND BECAUSE HEROD HAD SO 40:27 COMPLETELY REJECTED THE MESSENGER 40:29 THAT GOD HAD APPOINTED, HE SAID, 'I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO YOU.' 40:32 AND SO HE SAID, 'WELL, IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TALK TO ME' - HE 40:35 CUT HIM LOSE FOR THE SOLDIERS WHO THEN PROCEEDED TO MOCK 40:38 JESUS. AND IT SAYS HERE THAT "HE QUESTIONED HIM WITH MANY WORDS, 40:45 BUT HE ANSWERED HIM NOTHING. AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE 40:48 SCRIBES STOOD AND VEHEMENTLY ACCUSED HIM. 40:51 THEN HEROD, WITH HIS MEN OF WAR, TREATED HIM WITH CONTEMPT AND 40:53 MOCKED HIM, ARRAYED HIM IN A GORGEOUS ROBE," - HE HAD ONE OF 40:57 THE GLORIOUS PURPLE ROBES BROUGHT OUT, THEY STRIPPED HIM 41:03 OF HIS ROBE, THEY PUT A REED IN HIS HAND, THEY PUT A CROWN OF 41:07 THORNS ON HIS HEAD, THEY BEAT HIM WITH THE REED ON THE HEAD, 41:11 THEY BOWED AND MOCKED HIM, THEY SPIT AT HIM AND, 41:14 IT SAYS, HE "SENT HIM BACK TO PILATE. 41:19 THAT VERY DAY PILATE AND HEROD BECAME FRIENDS WITH EACH OTHER, 41:23 FOR PREVIOUSLY THEY HAD BEEN AT ENMITY WITH EACH OTHER." 41:26 ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT THE SADDUCEES AND THE PHARISEES 41:30 WERE ADVERSARIES BUT THEY MANAGED TO COME TOGETHER WHEN IT 41:33 CAME TIME TO CRUCIFY JESUS? THEY WERE THE CHURCH. 41:37 PILATE AND HEROD WERE THE STATE. THEY WERE ENEMIES BUT, OVER 41:43 PERSECUTING JESUS, THEY CAME TOGETHER. 41:46 IN THE LAST DAYS, IS THERE GOING TO BE A CONFEDERACY OF CHURCH 41:50 AND STATE THAT WILL COME TOGETHER - 'YOU MEAN THERE COULD 41:54 ACTUALLY BE SOMETHING THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WOULD 41:57 AGREE ON?' - THAT CHURCH AND STATE COULD 42:00 COME TOGETHER? THAT PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS 42:02 COULD COME TOGETHER FOR ONE COMMON CAUSE? 42:06 TO PERSECUTE THOSE THAT HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD. 42:09 WHAT HAPPENED TO JESUS? 42:11 HE SAID, 'IF THEY'VE DONE THIS ME, THEY'LL DO THIS TO YOU.' 42:14 HISTORY IS GOING TO REPEAT ITSELF, FRIENDS, I DON'T THINK 42:17 IT'S VERY FAR DISTANT BEFORE WE WILL SEE THOSE WORDS FULFILLED. 42:19 PILATE AND HE - "THEN PILATE, WHEN HE" - VERSE 13 - I'M IN 42:25 LUKE 23:13 - "THEN PILATE, WHEN HE HAD CALLED TOGETHER THE CHIEF 42:29 PRIESTS, THE RULERS, AND THE PEOPLE, SAID TO THEM, 'YOU HAVE 42:32 BROUGHT THIS MAN TO ME, AS ONE WHO MISLEADS THE PEOPLE. 42:35 AND INDEED, HAVING EXAMINED HIM IN YOUR PRESENCE, I HAVE FOUND 42:38 NO FAULT IN THIS MAN CONCERNING THOSE THINGS OF WHICH YOU ACCUSE 42:41 HIM; NO NEITHER DID HEROD,'" - NOW NOTICE: THEY'RE SAYING, 'WE 42:44 FIND NO FAULT - I OR HEROD - "'FOR I SENT YOU BACK TO HIM; 42:48 AND INDEED NOTHING DESERVING OF DEATH HAS BEEN DONE BY HIM. 42:52 I WILL THEREFORE CHASTISE HIM.'" - IF HE'S DONE NOTHING WRONG, 42:54 WHY ARE YOU WHIPPING HIM? "'I'LL THEREFORE'" - HE'S TRYING 42:57 TO COMPROMISE. YOU SEE HOW DANGEROUS THAT IS? 42:59 "'I'LL CHASTISE HIM AND RELEASE HIM' (FOR IT WAS NECESSARY FOR 43:02 HIM TO RELEASE ONE TO THEM AT THE FEAST.)" HE'D PICK A 43:05 PRISONER AND THEY HAD A LOTTERY OR WHATEVER, AND HE'D RELEASE A 43:08 PRISONER AND THEY ALL CRIED OUT AT ONCE SAYING, 'AWAY WITH THIS 43:12 MAN!' DON'T EVEN GIVE US HIM FOR FREE. 43:14 "AWAY WITH THIS MAN AND GIVE US BARABBAS, WHO HAS BEEN THROWN 43:18 INTO PRISON FOR A CERTAIN REBELLION MADE IN THE CITY, AND 43:21 FOR MURDER." NOW YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD 'BARABBAS' MEANS? 43:24 BAR MEANS 'SON OF'; ABBA MEANS 'FATHER OR PAPA.' THEY SAID 43:31 BARABBAS WAS THE SON OF THE FATHER. 43:33 JESUS WAS THE SON OF THE FATHER. HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'GIVE US 43:37 THE COUNTERFEIT SON OF THE FATHER IN PLACE OF THE REAL SON 43:41 OF THE FATHER. WE WANT OUR MAN-MADE MESSIAH. 43:44 YOU SEE, BARABBAS, ONE REASON HE MURDERED IS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT 43:46 HE WAS GOING TO USE HIS OWN STRENGTH TO OVERTHROW THE ROMANS 43:49 AND SO HE WAS SCHEDULED TO BE CRUCIFIED WITH TWO OF HIS 43:52 ASSOCIATES THAT DAY. 43:54 AND SO, HERE BARABBAS IS THE RINGLEADER OF THESE ZEALOTS THAT 43:57 WERE FIGHTING THE ROMANS - LAST PERSON IN THE WORLD THE ROMANS 44:00 WANTED TO RELEASE - AND BARABBAS WAS RELEASED AND JESUS DIED ON 44:06 HIS CROSS. BY THE WAY, JESUS DIED ON OUR CROSS. 44:10 WE ARE LIKE BARABBAS IN THAT SENSE. 44:12 SO I NEED TO HASTEN ALONG. I'VE GOT A LOT STILL LEFT TO 44:15 COVER AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE RESURRECTION YET. 44:18 SO MOVING ALONG, THEY'RE - HE SAID, 'YOU'RE EITHER WITH ME OR 44:23 AGAINST ME.' THEY TRIED TO FIND THE MIDDLE ROAD, BUT IN TRYING 44:25 TO FIND A COMPROMISE, THEY ENDED UP BEING AGAINST JESUS, DIDN'T 44:29 THEY? PILATE SAID, 'NO, THERE'S GOT TO 44:31 BE A MIDDLE ROAD.' AND HE ENDED UP HANDING HIM OVER AT THE 44:34 END. NOW SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS. 44:37 HE HAS JESUS SCOURGED, HE'S DELIVERED TO BE CRUCIFIED, 44:40 WASHES HIS HANDS - PILATE - AS THOUGH IT'S NOT GOING TO TAINT 44:44 HIM, BUT CHRIST FALLS ON THE WAY TO THE CROSS. 44:49 THEY PLACE HIS CROSS ON SIMON'S SHOULDERS, THEY BRING HIM TO THE 44:53 PLACE OF CRUCIFIXION, HE PRAYS FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF THOSE WHO 44:56 ARE EXECUTING HIM, THE OTHER TWO THIEVES ARE PLACED ON THE RIGHT 45:01 AND THE LEFT, AND THEN YOU READ IN LUKE'S STORY, THAT YOU DO NOT 45:04 FIND IN MATTHEW, MARK, OR JOHN, "THEN ONE OF THE CRIMINALS" - 45:10 THIS IS LUKE 23:39 - "THEN ONE OF THE CRIMINALS WHO WERE HANGED 45:15 BLASPHEMED HIM, SAYING, 'IF YOU ARE THE CHRIST, SAVE YOURSELF 45:21 AND US.' BUT THE OTHER, ANSWERING, REBUKED HIM, SAYING, 45:25 'DO YOU NOT EVEN FEAR GOD, SEEING YOU ARE UNDER THE SAME 45:27 CONDEMNATION? AND WE INDEED JUSTLY, FOR WE 45:30 RECEIVE THE DUE REWARD OF OUR DEEDS; BUT THIS MAN HAS DONE 45:33 NOTHING WRONG.'" - ALRIGHT, I WANT TO PAUSE. 45:36 WHY DOES IT SAY, IN OTHER GOSPELS, THAT HE WAS CRUCIFIED 45:41 BETWEEN TWO THIEVES AND THE MOB MOCKED HIM AS DID BOTH OF THE 45:46 THIEVES? HE WAS NOT ONLY REVILED BY THE 45:49 MOB BUT IT SAYS, BOTH OF THE THIEVES, INITIALLY, WERE MOCKING 45:54 HIM? HOW LONG WAS JESUS ON THE CROSS ALIVE? SIX HOURS. 45:59 JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS FOR ABOUT SEVEN HOURS. 46:01 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? SIX HOURS ALIVE AND ONE HOUR 46:03 RESTING - ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 46:07 FROM THE TIME HE DIED UNTIL JOSEPH TOOK THE BODY DOWN THEY 46:10 ESTIMATE IT WAS ABOUT AN HOUR BASED UPON IT WAS BEFORE THE 46:14 SABBATH, THE BIBLE SAYS. 46:15 AND - BUT SOMEWHERE DURING THE DAY, AS THE EVENTS UNFOLDED, AS 46:21 THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT HAND OF JESUS, HEARS CHRIST PRAY, 'ELOI, 46:27 ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI' - 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU 46:32 FORSAKEN ME?' WHICH IS A QUOTE FROM PSALM 22 - 46:35 AND YOU READ LATER IN THAT PSALM AND IT SAYS, 'THEY PIERCED MY 46:38 HANDS AND MY FEET. THE DOGS HAVE SURROUNDED ME. 46:41 THEY CAST LOTS FOR MY CLOTHING.' THIS THIEF SEES - HE HEARS JESUS 46:46 SAY, 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?' 46:48 HE LOOKS ABOVE THE HEAD OF CHRIST WITH HIS SWEAT, BLOOD, 46:52 AND HIS EYES AND HE SEES A SIGN THAT SAYS, 'THIS IS 46:54 THE KING OF THE JEWS' IN THREE LANGUAGES. 46:55 HE STARTS TO REMEMBER THAT PSALM FROM CHILDHOOD - THEY PIERCED MY 47:00 HANDS AND MY FEET. THEY MOCK ME. 47:02 THEY SURROUND ME.' HE SEES THE ROMAN SOLDIERS GAMBLING AT THE 47:04 FOOT OF THE CROSS FOR CHRIST'S CLOTHING. 47:06 'THEY CAST LOTS FOR MY VESTURE.' THIS IS ALL IN PSALM 22. 47:10 THAT'S WHY JESUS QUOTED THAT PSALM, NOT BECAUSE CHRIST 47:13 BELIEVED HE HAD BEEN FORSAKEN BY THE FATHER, JESUS KNEW EXACTLY 47:16 WHAT WAS COMING. THE LAST WORDS OF CHRIST WERE 47:19 'INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT.' HE WAS QUOTING FROM THE 47:22 PSALM RHETORICALLY, SAYING 'WHY HAD THE FATHER FORSAKEN HIM?' 47:27 THE ANSWER IS FOR US. AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ILLUMINATED 47:30 THAT THIEF'S MIND AND HIS - HIS ATTITUDE CHANGED. 47:35 BEFORE CHRIST DIED HE TURNED TO JESUS AND HE SAID - AND THIS IS 47:38 ALSO IN THAT SAME PASSAGE THERE, LUKE 23, VERSE 42, "LORD, 47:45 REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM." 47:48 DO YOU REALIZE HOW SIGNIFICANT THAT IS? 47:50 THAT'S A VERY SHORT STATEMENT. IT'S A SHORT PRAYER. 47:52 FIRST OF ALL, HE'S CALLING JESUS LORD. 47:55 WAS ANYONE ELSE AROUND THE CROSS CALLING JESUS LORD THAT DAY? 47:58 DID HE LOOK LIKE A LORD? HE'S ALSO CALLING HIM A KING. 48:03 I MEAN, DOESN'T A KING HAVE A KINGDOM? RIGHT? 48:07 HE SAYS, 'REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM.' YOUR 48:10 KINGDOM - BOY, THAT TOOK A LOT OF FAITH. THE STATEMENT OF 48:15 THE THIEF PROBABLY QUIETED THE WHOLE CROWD. 48:18 HE SAID, 'YOU ARE THE LORD AND YOU ARE THE KING.' AND JESUS, AS 48:24 MUCH AS HE WAS SUFFERING - CHRIST HAD HIS HANDS NAILED TO 48:27 THE CROSS, BUT THE DEVIL COULD NOT KEEP THE SAVIOR FROM SAVING. 48:31 THE REASON JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD WAS TO SEEK AND SAVE THE 48:34 LOST AND THE ONLY GLEAM OF JOY THAT CAME TO CHRIST IN THOSE 48:37 CLOSING MOMENTS ON THE CROSS WAS THE JOY OF BEING ABLE TO SAVE 48:41 ONE LAST PERSON, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS DYING HIMSELF. 48:46 AND HE MADE A PROMISE TO HIM. 48:48 HE SAID, 'VERILY I SAY TO YOU TODAY, YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN 48:53 PARADISE.' AND I KNOW THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE ARGUED ABOUT 48:56 WHERE DO YOU PUT THE COMMA - THERE WAS NO PUNCTUATION IN THE 48:58 ORIGINAL. SOME PEOPLE SAY JESUS WAS 49:01 SAYING, 'VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, TODAY YOU'RE GOING TO BE WITH ME 49:06 IN PARADISE.' BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH THAT. 49:08 YOU GET TO JOHN 21 - JESUS SAYS TO MARY, 'DO NOT CLING TO ME' - 49:11 THAT'S SUNDAY MORNING - 'I HAVE NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER.' 49:14 SO JESUS HAD NOT YET GONE TO THE FATHER SUNDAY MORNING; HOW COULD 49:17 HE BE WITH THE THIEF IN PARADISE THAT DAY? 49:19 THE OTHER THING IS A DAY BEGINS AND ENDS AT SUNDOWN AND THE 49:23 THIEF - THEY BROKE HIS LEGS TO ACCELERATE HIS DEATH BECAUSE 49:27 THEY WANTED HIM TO DIE BEFORE SUNDOWN. 49:29 AND SO, WHAT CHRIST WAS REALLY SAYING WAS, 'VERILY I SAY TO YOU 49:33 TODAY, YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.' 'TODAY, EVEN THOUGH I 49:38 DON'T LOOK LIKE A KING, I DON'T LOOK LIKE A LORD, I DON'T LOOK 49:41 LIKE I CAN SAVE ANYBODY - I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU A PROMISE 49:44 TODAY, WHEN EVERYONE ELSE, INCLUDING MY OWN APOSTLES, ARE 49:46 STANDING AFAR OFF, TODAY I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU A PROMISE: YOU 49:49 WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.' YOU SEE WHAT HE'S SAYING? 49:52 AND HE'S GOING TO KEEP THAT PROMISE. 49:55 ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL, THAT THE LORD - WAS THAT THIEF - DID HE 49:59 GET DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND GO GET BAPTIZED? 50:01 DID HE GET DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND OPEN AN ORPHANAGE AND A 50:05 HOSPITAL AND DO A LOT OF GOOD WORKS? 50:07 WAS HE SAVED BY FAITH OR BY WORKS? 50:10 >>BY FAITH. >>A HUNDRED PERCENT BY FAITH. 50:13 NOW, IF YOU HAD BEEN ABLE TO GET HIM OFF THE CROSS ALIVE, WOULD 50:16 HIS LIFE HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT? YES. 50:19 BUT THAT REMINDS US THAT WE ARE SAVED BY THE PROMISE OF GOD. 50:23 HE REPENTED OF HIS SINS - PUBLICLY - HE SAID, 'WE ARE 50:25 GETTING WHAT WE DESERVE.' HE CONFESSED JESUS PUBLICLY - 50:28 CONFESSED HIS SINS - HE ASKED PUBLICLY AND HE WAS FORGIVEN. 50:33 THOSE ARE THE CRITERIA FOR SALVATION. 50:35 HE FOLLOWED ALL OF THAT. NOW - HE IS RISEN - THIS IS THE 50:39 TITLE FOR THE LESSON - I FINALLY GOT THERE. 50:40 LUKE 23 - THEY TOOK HIS BODY DOWN, THEY WRAPPED IT IN LINEN 50:44 AND PLACED IT IN THE TOMB - AND THIS IS LUKE 23:53, "THAT DAY 50:49 WAS THE PREPARATION," - WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IS THAT? 50:52 WHAT WE CALL FRIDAY - "AND THE SABBATH DREW NEAR." 50:55 WHAT IS THE DAY THAT FOLLOWS FRIDAY? SATURDAY, RIGHT? 50:59 WHAT WE CALL SATURDAY, WHICH WOULD BE THE SABBATH. 51:02 THE SABBATH IS FOLLOWING THE PREPARATION DAY. 51:04 "AND THE WOMEN WHO HAD COME WITH HIM FROM GALILEE FOLLOWED AFTER, 51:07 AND THEY OBSERVED THE TOMB AND HOW HIS BODY WAS LAID. 51:10 THEN THEY RETURNED AND PREPARED SPICES AND FRAGRANT OILS. 51:13 AND THEY RESTED ON THE JEWISH SABBATH ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH 51:16 COMMANDMENT." HE DIDN'T SAY THAT. 51:18 HE STATES IT AS A SELF-EVIDENT TRUTH THAT WAS IN EXISTENCE IN 51:22 HIS DAY THAT WAS STILL PRACTICED. 51:24 THEY RESTED THE SABBATH ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT. 51:27 HE DOESN'T HAVE TO SAY 'WHAT COMMANDMENT?' 51:28 THEY KNOW WHAT COMMANDMENT. HE DOESN'T HAVE TO SAY WHAT DAY 51:31 OF THE WEEK IT WAS, THEY UNDERSTAND THIS. 51:33 NOW, THAT MEANS THAT AFTER THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF JESUS 51:37 TEACHING, THE DISCIPLES STILL BELIEVED THE SABBATH WAS SO 51:40 IMPORTANT TO CHRIST, THEY WEREN'T GOING TO BREAK IT EVEN 51:43 WITH THE LABOR OF LOVE OF EMBALMING HIS BODY. 51:46 THEY KNEW THAT WOULD DISPLEASE THE LORD. 51:48 THEY'RE WAITING UNTIL SUNDAY MORNING TO COME BACK AND FINISH 51:49 BECAUSE THEY SAID, 'THE SUN'S GOING DOWN. 51:51 THIS IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE WORK. 51:53 LET'S FINISH AFTER SABBATH.' WOW, IF THE EARLY CHURCH TOOK 51:58 THE SABBATH THAT SERIOUSLY, THEN SHOULD WE TODAY? 52:02 >>AMEN. >>ALRIGHT, MOVING ON. 52:04 GO TO LUKE 24:1, "NOW ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, VERY 52:09 EARLY IN THE MORNING, THEY, AND CERTAIN OTHER WOMEN WITH THEM, 52:12 CAME TO THE TOMB BRINGING THE SPICES WHICH THEY HAD PREPARED. 52:16 BUT THEY FOUND THE STONE ROLLED AWAY FROM THE TOMB. 52:17 THEN THEY WENT IN AND DID NOT FIND THE BODY...AND IT HAPPENED, 52:21 AS THEY WERE GREATLY PERPLEXED ABOUT THIS, THAT BEHOLD, TWO MEN 52:24 STOOD BY THEM IN SHINING GARMENTS" - ANGELS - "THEN, AS 52:27 THEY WERE AFRAID AND BOWED THEIR FACES TO THE EARTH, THEY SAID TO 52:29 THEM, 'WHY DO YOU SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? 52:31 HE IS NOT HERE, BUT IS RISEN! REMEMBER HOW HE SPOKE TO YOU" - 52:36 THEY'RE SAYING, 'HE TOLD YOU THIS. 52:38 YOU WEREN'T LISTENING.' - "...HOW HE SPOKE TO YOU IN 52:40 GALILEE, SAYING, 'THE SON OF MAN MUST BE DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS 52:43 OF SINFUL MEN, AND BE CRUCIFIED, AND THE THIRD DAY RISE AGAIN.'' 52:46 AND THEY REMEMBERED HIS WORDS. 52:48 THEN THEY RETURNED FROM THE TOMB AND TOLD ALL THESE THINGS TO THE 52:52 ELEVEN AND TO ALL THE REST." NOW THAT'S LUKE'S ACCOUNT. 52:55 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US JOHN 20, VERSE 1, PLEASE, NOEMI. 52:58 >>"NOW ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO THE 53:02 TOMB EARLY, WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK, AND SAW THAT THE STONE HAD 53:08 BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM THE TOMB." >>WE JUST READ LUKE AND IT SAYS 53:12 ALL OF THESE WOMEN CAME AND IT NAMES THEM. 53:14 JOHN SAYS MARY CAME. HOW DO WE RECONCILE THAT? 53:17 EVIDENTLY, MARY WAS THE FIRST ONE THERE. 53:22 MARY WAS ALSO THE LAST ONE TO LEAVE. 53:24 MARY CAME, FOUND THE STONE ROLLED AWAY, SHE DIDN'T GO IN 53:28 YET, SHE WENT BACK AND SHE SAW THE OTHER WOMEN WHO WERE EN 53:32 ROUTE - THEY'RE COMING FROM DIFFERENT LOCATIONS - THEY 53:34 RENDEZVOUS BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO FINISH THE JOB. 53:36 MARY THEN GOES WITH THEM, SHE SEES THE ANGELS, THE WOMEN GO TO 53:39 THE UPPER ROOM, MARY SEES PETER AND JOHN. 53:43 SHE GOES BACK WITH PETER AND JOHN TO THE TOMB. 53:45 PETER AND JOHN LOOK INSIDE. THEY DON'T SEE AN ANGEL. 53:47 THEY LEAVE. THE WOMEN HAVE LEFT. THEN JESUS APPEARS TO MARY WHILE 53:51 SHE'S THE LAST ONE THERE. SO, YOU KNOW, I WROTE A BOOK ON 53:54 THIS WHERE I DID A DEEP STUDY ON THE SEQUENCE AND IT ALL FITS 53:57 TOGETHER PERFECTLY AND IT MATCHES UP WITH THE GOSPEL. 53:59 ALRIGHT, LAST THING I'M GOING TO SHARE IS ABOUT EMMAUS, AND THIS 54:04 IS THE WONDERFUL STORY IN LUKE 24, VERSES 13 TO 16, "...TWO OF 54:08 THEM WERE TRAVELING THAT SAME DAY" - THIS WAS BEFORE HE MET 54:12 THEM IN THE UPPER ROOM, THEY ARE GOING FROM JERUSALEM TO EMMAUS - 54:14 JESUS APPEARS TO THEM AND WHAT DOES HE DO? 54:18 HE OPENS THE SCRIPTURES. HE SAYS, "O FOOLISH ONES, AND 54:22 SLOW OF HEART TO BELIEVE IN ALL THAT THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN! 54:24 OUGHT NOT THE CHRIST TO HAVE SUFFERED THESE THINGS AND TO 54:27 ENTER INTO HIS GLORY? AND BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL 54:29 THE PROPHETS, HE EXPOUNDED TO THEM IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES THE 54:32 THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF." HOW MUCH OF THE SCRIPTURE IS 54:36 ABOUT JESUS? ALL THE SCRIPTURE. 54:38 MOSES - WAS THERE A NEW TESTAMENT YET, WHEN HE SAID 54:41 THIS? >>NO. 54:43 >>CAN YOU READ ABOUT JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 54:44 YEAH, THE TEACHINGS ABOUT CHRIST, CHRIST SAID, 'THESE ARE 54:47 THEY THAT TESTIFY OF ME.' AND SO THEY GET TO THE FORK IN THE ROAD 54:52 - LITTLE TOWN OF EMMAUS - AND THE MAIN ROAD CONTINUES ON AND 54:56 HE MAKES LIKE HE'S GOING TO KEEP GOING. 54:58 THEY DON'T KNOW IT'S JESUS YET. THEY SAID, 'COME AND ABIDE WITH 55:00 US.' THAT'S WHERE WE GET THAT SONG ABIDE WITH ME . 55:03 HE GOES IN, THEY ALL ASK IF HE'LL BREAK THE BREAD. 55:07 IN THE PROCESS OF BREAKING THE BREAD, 55:09 SUDDENLY THEIR EYES ARE OPENED. 55:11 THEY RECOGNIZE THAT IT WAS JESUS THAT HAD BEEN WALKING WITH THEM 55:14 FOR THAT TWO AND A HALF HOURS FROM JERUSALEM TO EMMAUS, 55:16 OPENING THE SCRIPTURES. AND THEN HE DISAPPEARS. 55:19 AND THEY SAID, 'DID NOT OUR HEARTS BURN WITHIN US WHEN HE 55:22 OPENED THE SCRIPTURES TO US ALONG THE WAY. 55:25 THEY GO BACK TO THE UPPER ROOM NOW - THEY'RE SO HAPPY - 55:28 IT'S DARK. THEY GO UPHILL, BUT THEY'VE GOT 55:31 GOOD NEWS, THEY CAN'T KEEP IT TO THEMSELVES AND THEY SAY TO THE 55:34 DISCIPLES, 'JESUS APPEARED. HE'S ALIVE. 55:37 HE WAS KNOWN TO US IN THE BREAKING OF BREAD.' AND WHILE 55:40 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT JESUS - BY THE WAY, IS JESUS STILL KNOWN TO 55:43 US IN THE BREAKING OF BREAD? >>AMEN. 55:45 >>IT'S THROUGH THE BIBLE THAT HE'S KNOWN TO US. 55:48 WHILE THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT JESUS, HE APPEARS AGAIN. 55:51 HE HAD GONE WITH THEM FROM EMMAUS BACK TO JERUSALEM, EXCEPT 55:54 THEY DIDN'T SEE HIM. HE ENTERS THE ROOM, HE SAYS, 55:56 'PEACE TO YOU.' AND THEN YOU FIND THAT HE CONTINUES TO OPEN 56:00 TO THEM THE SCRIPTURES AND IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE IT SAYS THAT 56:04 EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED WAS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES. 56:07 YOU KNOW, LUKE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, JUST EVEN LIKE THE 56:11 PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS, 'IF THEY BELIEVE NOT 56:13 MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, THEN THEY WON'T BE PERSUADED THOUGH 56:16 ONE SHOULD RISE FROM THE DEAD.' THE EMPHASIS THROUGHOUT THE 56:19 GOSPEL OF LUKE IS WE NEED TO BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD AND 56:21 WE'LL KNOW THAT JESUS IS THE ONE, AMEN? 56:25 I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS TWO THINGS BEFORE WE CLOSE: ONE IS 56:27 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER WE'LL SEND ANYBODY. 56:30 IT'S CALLED THE ULTIMATE DELIVERANCE - GREAT STORY OF 56:33 SALVATION - AND JUST ASK FOR OFFER #105. 56:36 YOU CAN ALSO READ THIS ONLINE AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - AND CALL 56:40 866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU. 56:44 THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE AND ALSO, DON'T FORGET WE HAVE OUR NEW 56:49 SABBATH SCHOOL QUARTERLY COMING NEXT WEEK: BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES 56:53 - SO THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE PART OF OUR LIVE-STREAMING CLASS OR 56:55 THE CLASS HERE, YOU'LL WANT TO GET YOUR LESSONS AND BE READY 56:58 FOR NEXT WEEK. IT LOOKS REALLY GOOD - THE 57:00 MISSIONARY NATURE OF GOD - ABRAHAM, THE FIRST MISSIONARY - 57:03 THE UNLIKELY MISSIONARY - JONAH, THE SAGA - EXILES AND 57:08 MISSIONARIES - GOT SOME GREAT SUBJECTS. 57:10 GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 57:14 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 57:17 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 57:22 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 57:24 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 57:28 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 57:31 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 57:33 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 57:37 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. VISIT 'SABBATHTRUTH.COM'. 57:44 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:47 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:51 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:55 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 57:58 REVELATION, BIBLEHISTORY.COM IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 58:02 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 58:05 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 58:08 WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. 58:15 (MUSIC) |
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