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00:33 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL 00:36 STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:39 ADVENTIST CHURCH HERE IN ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA. 00:42 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE 00:45 COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD, GATHERING TOGETHER TO STUDY THE 00:48 BIBLE. I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME THE 00:50 MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND THE VISITORS. 00:52 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING OUT THIS MORNING. 00:54 IT'S ALWAYS A JOY TO BE ABLE TO MEET ON SABBATH MORNING AND OPEN 00:56 UP THE WORD. TODAY WE'RE IN LESSON #13 OF OUR 01:00 LESSON QUARTERLY, TALKING ABOUT MISSIONARIES. 01:03 TODAY'S LESSON IS ENTITLED: MUST THE WHOLE WORLD HEAR? 01:10 IT'S LESSON #13 - OUR FINAL LESSON IN THIS QUARTERLY. 01:13 IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LESSON, AND THOSE WATCHING ONLINE, IF YOU'D 01:17 LIKE TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH US, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON 01:19 AT THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 01:23 WE WILL BE STARTING A BRAND-NEW STUDY NEXT WEEK ON THE BOOK OF 01:27 JEREMIAH. SO AGAIN, OUR CHURCH MEMBERS 01:31 HERE, VISITORS - WE DO HAVE OUR LESSON QUARTERLIES. 01:34 THEY'RE IN THE BACK ON YOUR WAY OUT, YOU CAN PICK IT UP. 01:36 FOR OUR FRIENDS JOINING US, YOU CAN ALSO FOLLOW ALONG ONLINE - 01:38 DOWNLOAD THE LESSON - AND WE'RE GOING TO START A BRAND-NEW STUDY 01:42 NEXT WEEK ON THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH. 01:44 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER WE'D LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT. 01:46 IT'S A BOOK WRITTEN BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, ENTITLED: 01:48 COMPROMISE, CONFORMITY, AND COURAGE. 01:51 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS BOOK TO ANYBODY IN NORTH AMERICA WHO 01:54 CALLS AND ASKS. THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 - AND 02:01 YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #774. AGAIN, THAT NUMBER IS 02:06 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER #774. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU 02:13 THE BOOK COMPROMISE, CONFORMITY, AND COURAGE. 02:16 WELL, WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE OUR SINGERS TO COME AND 02:19 JOIN ME ON STAGE AND WE'LL BEGIN BY PRAISING GOD FOR HIS MANY 02:22 BLESSINGS. >>YOU ALL READY TO SING? 02:25 THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, I KNOW YOU ARE, SO WE'RE GOING TO SING SOME 02:29 OF YOUR FAVORITES. WE'RE GOING TO START, AS WE 02:32 CONTINUE OUR THEME WITH MISSIONARIES, O HOW I LOVE 02:35 JESUS - #248 - SO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS HERE AND AT HOME, AND 02:41 JOIN WITH US. WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE 02:43 STANZAS - #248. (MUSIC) 02:54 THERE IS A NAME I LOVE TO HEAR, I LOVE TO SING ITS WORTH; 03:04 IT SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC IN MY EAR, THE SWEETEST NAME ON EARTH. 03:13 O, HOW I LOVE JESUS, O, HOW I LOVE JESUS, O, HOW I LOVE JESUS, 03:26 BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME! IT TELLS ME OF A SAVIOR'S LOVE, 03:36 WHO DIED TO SET ME FREE; IT TELLS ME OF HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD, 03:45 THE SINNER'S PERFECT PLEA. O, HOW I LOVE JESUS, O, HOW I 03:56 LOVE JESUS, O, HOW I LOVE JESUS, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME! 04:08 IT TELLS OF ONE WHOSE LOVING HEART CAN FEEL MY DEEPEST WOE, 04:17 WHO IN EACH SORROW BEARS A PART THAT NONE CAN BEAR BELOW. 04:26 O, HOW I LOVE JESUS, O, HOW I LOVE JESUS, O, HOW I LOVE JESUS, 04:39 BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME! 04:45 >>DO YOU LOVE JESUS TODAY? AMEN. 04:50 WE'RE GOING TO SING #426 - I SHALL SEE THE KING - AND WE WILL 04:54 ALSO DO ALL THREE STANZAS. JOIN WITH US. 04:56 (MUSIC) 04:59 I SHALL SEE THE KING WHERE THE ANGELS SING, I SHALL 05:05 SEE THE KING SOME DAY, IN THE BETTER LAND, ON THE GOLDEN 05:12 STRAND AND WITH HIM SHALL EVER STAY. 05:19 IN HIS GLORY, I SHALL SEE THE KING, AND FOREVER ENDLESS 05:26 PRAISES SING; 'TWAS ON CALVARY JESUS DIED FOR ME; I SHALL SEE 05:34 THE KING SOMEDAY. IN THE LAND OF SONG, IN THE 05:42 GLORY THRONG, WHERE THERE NEVER COMES A NIGHT, WITH MY LORD ONCE 05:50 SLAIN I SHALL EVER REIGN IN THE GLORY LAND OF LIGHT. 05:58 IN HIS GLORY, I SHALL SEE THE KING, AND FOREVER ENDLESS 06:05 PRAISES SING; 'TWAS ON CALVARY JESUS DIED FOR ME; I SHALL SEE 06:14 THE KING SOMEDAY. I SHALL SEE THE KING, ALL MY 06:22 TRIBUTES BRING, AND SHALL LOOK UPON HIS FACE; THEN MY SONG 06:30 SHALL BE HOW HE RANSOMED ME AND HAS KEPT ME BY HIS GRACE. 06:39 IN HIS GLORY, I SHALL SEE THE KING, AND FOREVER ENDLESS 06:46 PRAISES SING; 'TWAS ON CALVARY JESUS DIED FOR ME; I SHALL SEE 06:56 THE KING SOMEDAY. >>ONE DAY WE SHALL SEE THE KING. 07:05 IF YOU WATCH WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR CRAZY WORLD, YOU KNOW THAT 07:09 THAT DAY IS NOT FAR AWAY. WE'RE GOING TO NOW TURN THE TIME 07:12 OVER TO PASTOR JËAN ROSS, WHO IS NOW GOING TO HAVE A SPECIAL 07:15 FEATURE FOR US. >>GOOD MORNING AGAIN, FRIENDS. 07:22 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SABBATH SCHOOL IS WELL-KNOWN FOR IS 07:25 MISSIONS. RIGHT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF 07:28 SABBATH SCHOOL, PART OF THE FOCUS WAS NOT ONLY LEARNING 07:30 TRUTH LOCALLY, BUT ALSO SHARING TRUTH AROUND THE WORLD WITH AS 07:35 MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. SO WHAT WE LIKE TO DO HERE AT 07:37 THE STUDY HOUR, IS TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO GET A LITTLE UPDATE 07:41 ON A MISSION REPORT, AN ACTIVITY THAT'S BEEN TAKING PLACE 07:44 INVOLVING OUR CHURCH MEMBERS, OR SOMETHING THAT AMAZING FACTS IS 07:47 INVOLVED WITH. SO THIS MORNING, I'M GOING TO 07:50 INVITE MICHAEL DEMYAN TO COME FORWARD. 07:52 HE IS A PASTOR - HE IS ACTUALLY A MEMBER HERE - OF THE GRANITE 07:54 BAY CHURCH, BUT HE HAS A REAL BURDEN FOR THE WORK IN UKRAINE, 07:58 AND EVERY YEAR HE GOES OVER THERE TO DO SOME EVANGELISTIC 08:01 OUTREACH TO MINISTER TO PEOPLE. SO, WELCOME MICHAEL. 08:05 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. >>COME ON OVER HERE AND WE'VE 08:09 GOT SOME SLIDES WE'RE GOING TO BE SHOWING YOU, OF SOME RECENT 08:12 MISSION ACTIVITY OVER THERE IN THE UKRAINE. 08:14 NOW TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION THAT 08:17 PEOPLE ARE FACING IN UKRAINE. >>YEAH, THANK YOU. 08:20 THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS AND GOOD MORNING TO FAMILY. 08:24 YEAH, I WANT TO TELL SOMETHING ABOUT UKRAINE. 08:27 UKRAINE, NOW, IS LIKE INDEPENDENCE COUNTRY BUT, AS 08:32 WELL YOU KNOW, IS VERY BIG PROBLEM THERE - LIKE POLITICS 08:37 PROBLEM - AND IT'S NOT ONLY POLITICS, IT'S SOMETHING IN 08:40 UKRAINE - RELIGION POLITICS AND PROBLEM. 08:45 AND BECAUSE THERE IS TWO BIG ORTHODOX CHURCH - RUSSIAN CHURCH 08:51 AND UKRAINE ORTHODOX CHURCH. AND FOR US, FOR LIKE ADVENTISTS, 08:55 OR ANOTHER PEOPLE, WE HAVE FREEDOM THERE BECAUSE THEY HAVE 08:58 FAITH BETWEEN THEM AND WE CAN DO SOME PROGRAMS OR EVANGELISM IN 09:04 THIS COUNTRY. >>SO TELL US, I KNOW THINGS, 09:07 WHEN IT COMES TO EVANGELISM IN UKRAINE, ARE DONE A LITTLE BIT 09:09 DIFFERENTLY THAN WE TYPICALLY DO IT HERE IN NORTH AMERICA. 09:11 SO TELL US ABOUT WHAT'S WORKING FOR EVANGELISM IN THE UKRAINE. 09:15 >>OH, THEY DO DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, BUT I LIKE TO TELL YOU 09:19 ABOUT PROGRAMS THAT I, WITH MY FRIENDS AND MY PASTORS, WE DO 09:25 LIKE - LIKE CAMP MEETINGS EVERY YEAR AND WE DO THESE LIKE MORE 09:31 THAN TEN YEARS - EVERY YEAR - AND EVERY YEAR, WHEN WE DO LIKE 09:36 EVANGELISM OUTSIDE THE CITIES, LIKE CAMP MEETINGS, WE HAVE VERY 09:42 GOOD RESULT BECAUSE WE HAVE THE YOUNG PEOPLE, WE HAVE FAMILIES, 09:48 WE HAVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 09:50 AND EVERY YEAR, EVERY TIME, WE DO THESE PROGRAMS IN DIFFERENT 09:54 REGIONS BECAUSE THERE IS COUPLE OF CONFERENCE AND EACH 09:58 CONFERENCE HAS, KIND OF LIKE, THREE - FOUR REGIONS AND WE DO 10:02 THIS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF UKRAINE. 10:06 AND, ESPECIALLY IN THIS TIME, WE CAN'T DO THIS PROGRAM IN THE 10:09 VERY EAST OF UKRAINE BECAUSE THERE IS WAR, BUT ANOTHER PART 10:14 IT'S OKAY AND WE DO THESE PROGRAMS EVERY YEAR THERE. 10:19 >>ALRIGHT, SO YOU'VE BEEN DOING THIS PROGRAM IN UKRAINE - OH, 10:22 YOU SAID TEN YEARS NOW - THAT YOU'VE BEEN REACHING OUT. 10:25 WHAT KIND OF RESPONSE DO YOU GET FOR THESE EVANGELISTIC PROGRAMS 10:29 THAT YOU DO? >>OH, LIKE THIS YEAR - THIS 10:32 SLIDES SHOW YOU THAT, LIKE, GOOD RESULT. 10:37 WE HAD THE BAPTIZE PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT REGIONS - LIKE IN ONE 10:42 REGION IT WAS 13 PEOPLE AND ANOTHER ONE WAS 11 PEOPLE - THIS 10:48 GROUP - AND WE BAPTIZE PEOPLE EVERY TIME OUTSIDE THE CITY - 10:55 LIKE BY THE RIVER OR OTHER PARTS - AND THEN WE 10:59 PROVIDE THEIR FOOD. LIKE YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THESE 11:03 SLIDES, WE PROVIDE THEIR FOOD, THEY - PEOPLE THEY CAN EAT WITH 11:06 US AND SEE WHAT WE EAT - LIKE WE ARE VEGETARIAN AND, FOR THEM, 11:11 IT'S VERY INTERESTING TO BE. AND LIKE GOOD RESULT WE HAD, 11:16 THIS YEAR, 43 PEOPLE TOGETHER BAPTIZED ON THESE PROGRAMS. 11:21 YEAH, YOU CAN SEE LIKE LAST PROGRAM WAS VERY NICE PEOPLE AND 11:26 VERY NICE EXPERIENCE THESE PEOPLE HAD WITH US AND THESE 11:31 PROGRAMS, YEAH. >>AMEN. 11:32 SO SOME GOOD RESULTS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE OVER THE PAST 11:35 TEN YEARS, BUT EVEN MORE SO THIS PAST YEAR YOU WERE OVER THERE. 11:38 BUT YOU'RE PLANNING TO GO BACK NEXT YEAR AND DO SOME ADDITIONAL 11:42 OUTREACH, NOT ONLY IN THE UKRAINE, BUT I THINK YOU'RE 11:44 ADDING AN EXTRA COUNTRY FAR AWAY FROM THE UKRAINE THAT YOU'RE 11:48 GOING TO BE MINISTERING TO. >>YEAH, I LIKE IT - THANK YOU - 11:50 I LIKE TO DO THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE I'M ORIGINALLY FROM 11:52 UKRAINE AND I DO THIS PROGRAM EVERY YEAR THERE BUT, BESIDE OF 11:57 THIS, MY PLAN IS TO GO TO THIS COUNTRY - YOU CAN SEE THIS BIBLE 12:01 IS MADAGASCAN BIBLE AND MALAGASHIAN LANGUAGE - AND I WAS 12:07 THERE FOR FOUR YEARS, SINCE 2011, AND WE PROVIDE THERE THE 12:16 SAME PROGRAMS. THERE IS VERY POOR COUNTRY. 12:19 IT'S VERY BAD TO HAVE TRANSPORTATION THERE. 12:23 IT'S VERY BAD ROADS THERE. IT'S VERY BAD CONDITION. 12:27 YOU CAN SEE THERE, THE PEOPLE IS VERY, VERY POOR, BUT THEY ARE 12:32 VERY GOOD - VERY - YOU CAN SEE THIS SLIDE SHOW YOU THE PEOPLE 12:39 GATHER TOGETHER EVERY EVENING LIKE FROM 700 TO 1,400 - EVERY 12:47 EVENING. EVERY EVENING WE PROVIDE THE PROGRAMS. 12:51 WE BAPTIZE THERE AND THIS TIME MORE THAN 2,000 PEOPLE - ATTEND 12:56 PEOPLE THERE LIKE MORE THAN 7,000 AND WE - WE BAPTIZE THERE. 13:03 THIS IS INDIAN OCEAN - VERY NICE PLACE. 13:06 PEOPLE THERE ARE NICE AND THIS YEAR MY PLAN IS TO GO THERE ON 13:11 END OF OCTOBER TO PROVIDE AND SPECIAL, WE ALWAYS GIVE ONE OF 13:19 THE BEST GIFT FOR EACH ONE WHO COME TO CHURCH. 13:23 WE GIVE THEM A BIBLE. >>AMEN. 13:26 >>YEAH. >>ABSOLUTELY. 13:28 WELL, THAT'S EXCITING. THE TREMENDOUS REPORTS THAT ARE 13:29 TAKING PLACE ALL THE WAY OVER IN MADAGASCAR. 13:32 NOW PASTOR MIKE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE HEADING OVER THERE, IS IT 13:34 NEXT YEAR, TO MADAGASCAR TO DO SOME MORE EVANGELISM? 13:37 >>NO, THIS YEAR. >>IT'S THIS YEAR COMING UP? 13:39 >>THIS YEAR - OCTOBER - YEAH. >>OKAY. 13:41 SO YOU WERE IN THE UKRAINE AND NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GO DOWN TO 13:42 SOUTHERN AFRICA TO MADAGASCAR TO DO SOME OUTREACH. 13:44 FOR OUR FOLKS WHO ARE WATCHING AND FOR OUR CHURCH MEMBERS, IF 13:48 THEY WANT TO HELP IN THIS EVANGELISTIC ENDEAVOR, I SUPPOSE 13:50 THAT THEY COULD JUST GO TO THE GRANITE BAY SDA CHURCH WEBSITE - 13:54 GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG - AND FOLKS CAN GIVE TO THE SPECIAL 13:58 MADAGASCAR OR UKRAINE OUTREACH EFFORT RIGHT THERE ONLINE - OR 14:01 MARK IT ON YOUR TITHE ENVELOPE, JUST SAY 'MADAGASCAR' OR 14:04 'UKRAINE' AND THE FUNDS WILL GO TO HELP SUPPORT THE WORK. 14:07 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 14:08 WE APPRECIATE IT. >>OKAY. 14:10 >>IT'S ALWAYS ENCOURAGING, FROM TIME TO TIME, TO GET THESE 14:12 MISSION REPORTS. 14:13 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF OUR MEMBERS WHO ARE VERY ACTIVE IN 14:15 SHARING THE GOSPEL - INVOLVED IN SOUL WINNING. 14:18 YOU REMEMBER, NOT TOO LONG AGO, WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE GRANITE 14:20 BAY CHURCH MEMBERS WHO CAME BACK FROM A MISSION TRIP RECENTLY IN 14:24 MEXICO, AND SO WE BELIEVE THAT SHARING YOUR FAITH WITH OTHERS 14:28 IS KEY FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH. WELL, TODAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 14:32 EVANGELISM AND SHARING OUR FAITH WITH OTHERS. 14:35 WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT LESSON #13 AND OUR TEACHER TODAY 14:38 IS CHUCK HOLTRY. HE IS THE DIRECTOR OF AFCOE. 14:41 HE IS ALSO AN EVANGELIST WITH AMAZING FACTS. 14:43 CHUCK, THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>THANK YOU JËAN. 14:48 GREETINGS. GOOD MORNING. 14:52 >>GOOD MORNING. >>I'M EXCITED. 14:54 AS I LOOK AT THIS LAST LESSON IT SAYS, MUST THE WHOLE WORLD HEAR? 14:57 AND DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER FOR ME? 14:59 >>AMEN. >>IS THE ANSWER YES? 15:01 >>YES. >>MUST THE WHOLE WORLD HEAR? 15:03 THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS VERY INTERESTED IN DOING 15:05 EVANGELISM AND, IN HIS HEART, HE FELT THAT 'I HAVE TO REACH THE 15:09 WORLD THE BEST I POSSIBLY CAN.' SO HE WENT. 15:12 AND HE WENT TO THE BOARD OF LEADERS - A MINISTERS MEETING - 15:16 AND HE BROUGHT IT UP TO THEM - THIS IS SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS 15:18 AGO - AND AS HE BROUGHT IT UP TO THEM, ONE OF THEM LOOKED AT HIM 15:20 AND SAID THIS: "YOUNG MAN, SIT DOWN. 15:23 WHEN IT PLEASES THE LORD TO CONVERT THE HEATHEN, HE WILL DO 15:27 IT WITHOUT YOUR AID OR MINE." IS THAT TRUE? 15:32 >>NO. >>YOU KNOW, THERE'S - SOME 15:35 QUESTIONS THAT ARE COMING OUT IN OUR LESSON TODAY. 15:37 AS WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT MUST THE WORLD HEAR? 15:40 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO FEEL THAT 'JUST LET IT ALONE AND 15:42 GOD'LL TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING.' AND THERE ARE OTHERS THAT FEEL 15:45 THAT IF YOU DO NOT GET INTO EXACTLY THE SAME EXACT 15:48 UNDERSTANDING OF EVERYTHING AS THEY DO, YOU WILL BE LOST. 15:51 KIND OF TWO EXTREMES. WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH? 15:56 IS THAT WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR THIS MORNING? 15:57 >>YES. >>WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT WHAT 15:58 THE BIBLE SAYS AND THE BIBLE IS GOING TO, I BELIEVE, OPEN UP A 16:00 PICTURE FOR US FOR MUST THE WORLD HEAR? 16:04 ARE YOU READY? OUR FIRST ONE IS JESUS IS THE 16:07 ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED. JESUS IS PRETTY CLEAR ON THIS. 16:11 JESUS SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, VERSE 6, "...I AM THE WAY, THE 16:15 TRUTH, AND THE LIFE: NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER" - WHAT? 16:20 >>BUT BY ME. >>"BUT BY ME." - 16:23 OR EXCEPT BY ME. SO IS IT IMPORTANT? 16:25 IS JESUS IMPORTANT? YES. IS HE A WAY? 16:28 HE SAYS "THE WAY." HE IS NOT A WAY, HE IS THE WAY. 16:32 ANOTHER POINT HE SAID, 'I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.' YOU MIGHT 16:37 REMEMBER THIS FROM JOHN CHAPTER 8 - 'I AM THE LIGHT OF THE 16:40 WORLD.' IT DOESN'T SAY, 'I AM A LIGHT.' FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN 16:44 DARKNESS AND IGNORANCE, HE IS THE LIGHT. 16:46 THERE IS NOT ANOTHER LIGHT, HE IS THE LIGHT. FOR THOSE WHO ARE 16:49 LOST THERE'S NOT ANOTHER PATH. HE IS THE PATH. 16:51 THERE'S ANOTHER PASSAGE - HE SAYS, 'I AM THE BREAD.' I MEET 16:59 HUNGRY PEOPLE. MAYBE YOU MEET HUNGRY PEOPLE. 17:01 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT PHYSICALLY HUNGRY. 17:03 SPIRITUALLY HUNGRY PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR 17:05 SOMETHING IN THEIR LIFE. THEY DON'T NEED BREAD, THEY NEED 17:09 THE BREAD. JESUS SAYS, 'I AM THE BREAD.' 17:14 JESUS IS - HE IS THE SOURCE OF SALVATION. 17:19 I DON'T - ONE MORE - JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE DOOR.' THERE'S NOT 17:23 ANOTHER WAY. IN FACT, IF YOU COME IN ANOTHER 17:26 WAY WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? A THIEF AND A ROBBER. 17:28 SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT TODAY TO START OUT WITH IS JESUS IS 17:32 THE ONLY WAY. 17:35 WHEN IT COMES TO MISSION WORK, HE IS THE SOURCE OF SALVATION. 17:39 WE'RE GOING TO BE SHARING SEVERAL THINGS TODAY THAT ARE 17:43 ALMOST A LITTLE BIT CONTROVERSIAL AND IT'S KIND OF 17:46 HARD TO DO WITHOUT A GIVING AND TAKING, SO I'M GOING TO TRY TO 17:50 DO THAT WITH A VIDEO HERE, BUT ONE THING WE MUST START OUT WITH 17:54 IS THIS: IN SPITE OF THE CONTROVERSY, JESUS IS THE WAY. 17:57 HE IS THE LIGHT. HE IS THE TRUTH. HE IS THE BREAD. 18:01 HE IS THE DOOR. HE IS THE SOURCE. 18:03 NOW, IF YOU OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES TO ACTS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 12 - 18:06 ACTS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 12 - WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT A COUPLE OF 18:10 VERSES HERE TO KIND OF SOLIDIFY THIS POINT IN THE BEGINNING OF 18:13 OUR LESSON. ACTS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 12. 18:21 PETER AND JOHN ARE SPEAKING, MORE SPECIFICALLY, PETER - IN 18:27 VERSE 12 IT SAYS, "NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER." 18:31 WHO IS HE SPEAKING ABOUT? JESUS CHRIST. 18:34 "NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER: FOR THERE IS NONE 18:37 OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN, WHEREBY WE MUST BE 18:42 SAVED." IT IS ONLY IN JESUS THAT THERE'S 18:46 SALVATION FOR HUMANITY. ONLY IN JESUS. 18:51 THE NEXT VERSE WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IS 1 TIMOTHY, CHAPTER 2 18:53 AND VERSE 5. 1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 5 18:57 - IN OUR BIBLE STUDY THIS MORNING WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING 18:59 TO QUITE A FEW DIFFERENT PLACES TO GIVE US A SOLID FOUNDATION TO 19:01 STAND ON. 1 TIMOTHY 2, VERSE 5 SAYS, "FOR 19:04 THERE IS" - HOW MANY GODS? >>ONE. 19:07 >>"ONE GOD," - AND THERE'S HOW MANY MEDIATORS? 19:09 >>ONE. >>"ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND 19:11 MEN," - WHO? >>THE MAN CHRIST JESUS. 19:15 >>"THE MAN CHRIST JESUS." 19:16 SO HERE IT IS, JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY FOR SALVATION AND HE IS THE 19:19 ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. 19:21 OUR NEXT VERSE, JOHN CHAPTER 14, VERSE 6. 19:25 I QUOTED IT ALREADY, BUT I'D LIKE US TO LOOK AT IT. 19:28 JOHN CHAPTER 14, VERSE 6 - JESUS, AGAIN, IS SPEAKING. 19:34 HE'S SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES AND IT'S THAT - THAT LAST NIGHT 19:39 - THE NIGHT BEFORE THE CRUCIFIXION. 19:42 THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY TO THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE AND HE SAYS 19:46 THIS TO THEM, "...I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE: NO MAN 19:54 COMETH UNTO THE FATHER, BUT BY ME." 19:56 FROM JESUS' WORDS, HIMSELF, THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO THE FATHER IS 20:00 THROUGH WHO? IS THROUGH JESUS. 20:03 OUR NEXT POINT HERE - THE FINAL ONE FOR THIS SECTION - MATTHEW 1 20:05 CHAPTER 1 AND VERSE 21 - MATTHEW 1 AND VERSE 21 - SOME OF YOU 20:09 COULD PROBABLY REMEMBER THIS - IT'S VERY EARLY IN THE LIFE OF 20:12 JESUS. THIS IS ACTUALLY BEFORE HIS BIRTH. 20:14 SOMEONE COMES AND SPEAKS THESE WORDS TO JOSEPH: "AND SHE" - 20:20 THAT'S MARY - "SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS 20:23 NAME JESUS: FOR HE SHALL" - DO WHAT? 20:26 - "HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM" - WHAT? - "THEIR SINS." 20:29 THE ONLY WAY, AND THE WHOLE REASON FOR THESE VERSES IS THIS: 20:32 THE ONLY WAY A HUMAN BEING CAN BE SAVED IS THROUGH JESUS 20:35 CHRIST. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY. NOW I HOPE I'M RAISING SOME 20:38 QUESTIONS IN YOUR MIND. I'M DOING THIS ON PURPOSE, OKAY? 20:40 THE ONLY WAY THAT A HUMAN BEING CAN BE SAVED IS THROUGH WHO? 20:44 >>JESUS. >>JESUS CHRIST. 20:46 NOW, MY NEXT QUESTION IS THIS: WHAT DOES JESUS' NAME HAVE TO DO 20:52 WITH IT? ROMANS CHAPTER 10 - ROMANS CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 13. 20:59 WHILE YOU'RE TURNING THERE, RIGHT NOW OUR AFCOE CLASS - 21:01 AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF EVANGELISM - IS IN FULL SWING. 21:05 AND WE WERE DISCUSSING THIS SUBJECT IN OUR BIBLE CLASS THIS 21:09 WEEK AND IT WAS EXCITING. IT FORCED US TO THINK. I THINK 21:15 ALL OF US WERE THINKING A LITTLE BIT MORE AS A RESULT OF IT. 21:17 AND SO, WHAT YOU'RE HEARING TODAY - I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND - 21:20 IS A LITTLE BIT OF AN AFCOE CLASS. ROMANS CHAPTER 10 AND 21:24 VERSE 3, "FOR THEY" - VERSE 13, EXCUSE ME - "FOR WHOSOEVER 21:29 SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE" WHAT? 21:33 >>SAVED. >>IF YOU CALL UPON JESUS' NAME 21:36 IN FAITH AND BELIEF, WHAT WILL HAPPEN? 21:39 YOU WILL BE SAVED. YOU'LL HAVE SALVATION. 21:41 AND ONE MORE VERSE AND THAT IS ACTS CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 43. 21:45 THERE IS A REASON FOR THESE VERSES AS WE GO THROUGH THEM. 21:52 ACTS CHAPTER 10:43, "TO HIM" - SPEAKING OF JESUS - 21:54 "TO HIM GIVE ALL THE PROPHETS WITNESS, THAT THROUGH HIS NAME 21:59 WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHALL RECEIVE" - WHAT? - 22:03 "REMISSION OF SINS." OR FORGIVENESS OF SINS. 22:06 IT IS THROUGH JESUS THAT I RECEIVE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. 22:09 IT IS THROUGH JESUS THAT SALVATION COMES. 22:11 IT IS THROUGH JESUS THAT I HAVE LIGHT. IT IS THROUGH JESUS 22:13 THAT I HAVE BREAD. IT IS THROUGH JESUS THAT I HAVE 22:16 A WAY AND A TRUTH TO FOLLOW. JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE. 22:18 'HE THAT HATH THE SON HATH' - WHAT? 22:20 >>LIFE. >>"LIFE." 22:22 1 JOHN 5:12 - THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO GRASP. 22:24 JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF EVERYTHING. 22:27 AND I'M SPEAKING TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO I KNOW ALREADY 22:29 BELIEVE THIS SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT ME LIKE, 'THANKS. 22:31 APPRECIATE IT. GLAD I KNOW THAT.' BUT WE MUST 22:33 SOLIDIFY THIS IN OUR MIND BEFORE WE GO TO OUR NEXT STEP. 22:38 FIRST, WE LOOKED AT THE FACT THAT IT ONLY COMES THROUGH 22:43 JESUS. NOW MY QUESTION IS THIS: 22:47 HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION - OUR LESSON QUARTERLY BROUGHT OUT 22:53 THIS QUESTION SO I'M GOING TO BRING IT TO YOU. 22:55 MUST YOU KNOW THE PERSON WHO'S SAVING YOU TO BE SAVED? 23:02 MUST YOU KNOW THE PERSON WHO'S SAVING YOU TO BE SAVED? 23:11 I'M GLAD THAT I GOT - OH, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT 23:16 LISTENING - WHO CAN'T HEAR ON A VIDEO - THE ANSWER IS YES AND 23:18 NO. IN OTHER WORDS, WE'RE NOT - 23:21 WE'RE KIND OF PLAYING WITH THAT THOUGHT IN OUR MIND. 23:23 SO LET ME ASK YOU ANOTHER QUESTION: OLD TESTAMENT 23:27 PATRIARCHS, THOSE WHO NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF JESUS, WILL 23:31 THEY BE SAVED? YOU WOULD SAY 'YES.' HEBREWS 23:34 CHAPTER 11 GIVES ME A WHOLE LONG LIST OF THEM. 23:36 YOU SAY, WELL CHUCK, THEY BELIEVED IN GOD. 23:39 YES, BUT DID THEY HAVE THE NAME OF JESUS? NO. 23:44 SO I'M JUST TRYING TO HELP US THINK THROUGH A FEW THOUGHTS 23:47 HERE. THEY HAD FAITH IN A MESSIAH TO 23:52 COME. IS THAT RIGHT? BUT THEY DID NOT NECESSARILY 23:56 HAVE FAITH IN THE EXACT NAME OF JESUS. 23:58 THEY KNEW THAT THERE WAS A MESSIAH TO COME AND THEY HAD 24:01 FAITH IN THAT MESSIAH, BUT THEY DIDN'T KNOW HIS NAME YET EXCEPT 24:04 HE WAS THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF DAVID. 24:08 I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT A FEW VERSES AND THEN READ A PASSAGE TO YOU 24:14 FROM A BOOK CALLED DESIRE OF AGES IF THAT'S OKAY. 24:17 SO LET'S LOOK AT A FEW PASSAGES - ROMANS CHAPTER 1 - ROMANS 24:20 CHAPTER 1 AND LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 18 TO START WITH. 24:28 ROMANS CHAPTER 1, STARTING WITH VERSE 18 - AND THIS IS JUST 24:37 AFTER THAT FAMOUS PASSAGE WHERE THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY THEIR 24:40 FAITH. THEN PAUL SHIFTS GEARS HERE 24:45 UNDER INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND HE SAYS THIS IN 24:47 VERSE 18, "FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST 24:52 ALL UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF MEN, WHO HOLD 24:55 THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS;" SO GOD'S WRATH IS REVEALED 24:58 AGAINST UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. 25:02 THEN HE SAYS THIS IN VERSE 19, "BECAUSE THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN 25:06 OF GOD IS MANIFEST IN THEM; FOR GOD HATH SHEWED IT UNTO THEM." 25:10 HE SAID THE REASON WHY GOD'S WRATH WILL BE POURED OUT ON 25:13 THEIR UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IS BECAUSE I 25:15 HAVE SHOWN MYSELF TO THEM. THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER. 25:19 IS THAT OKAY? 25:21 NOW NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS IN VERSE 20 - HERE'S HOW THEY KNOW, "FOR 25:25 THE INVISIBLE THINGS OF HIM FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD ARE 25:29 CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE" - WHAT? 25:35 - "MADE" - IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO JESUS IS, YOU CAN LOOK AT 25:41 WHAT HE MADE AND THAT WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND HIM. 25:44 THEN IT SAYS IN VERSE - IT CONTINUES ON, "EVEN HIS ETERNAL 25:50 POWER AND GODHEAD;" - WILL BE SEEN - "SO THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT 25:55 EXCUSE:" YOU MEAN THOSE WHO ARE - KNOWLEDGE IS SIMPLY THROUGH, 26:02 MAYBE, THE CREATED WORLD, AREN'T WITH EXCUSE WHEN IT COMES TO 26:09 WHETHER THEY ACCEPT JESUS OR NOT? 26:11 THAT'S WHAT IT'S SAYING HERE, ISN'T IT? 26:14 LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER PASSAGE: JOB CHAPTER 12. 26:17 THE BOOK OF JOB CHAPTER 12 - POOR JOB, HE IS IN THE MIDST OF 26:22 BEING TORMENTED BY HIS FRIENDS WITH THEIR ACCUSATIONS. 26:27 AND HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS IN JOB CHAPTER 12 AND VERSE 7 - 26:29 BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE - IT SAYS, "BUT ASK NOW THE BEASTS, AND 26:35 THEY SHALL" - DO WHAT? 26:36 - "THEY SHALL TEACH THEE; AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR, AND THEY 26:39 SHALL TELL THEE: OR SPEAK TO THE EARTH, AND IT SHALL TEACH THEE: 26:41 AND THE FISHES OF THE SEA SHALL DECLARE UNTO THEE. 26:44 WHO KNOWETH NOT IN ALL THESE THAT THE HAND OF THE LORD HATH 26:48 WROUGHT THIS?" BEAUTIFUL. 26:52 ASK THE FOWLS OF THE AIR, ASK THE CREATURES, ASK THE EARTH, 26:55 AND THEY WILL LET YOU KNOW IT'S GOD WHO DID IT. MY FRIENDS, 26:59 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CAN, SIMPLY THROUGH A STUDY OF THE CREATION 27:04 THAT GOD MADE, COME TO A KNOWLEDGE OF GOD - CAN SEE THAT. 27:10 LET'S GO TO ANOTHER PASSAGE: JOHN CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 16 - 27:14 JOHN CHAPTER 10, VERSE 16 - THIS IS JESUS' WORDS HERE AND HE SAYS 27:19 SOMETHING - WE'RE NOT GOING TO GO TOO FAR WITH THIS, WE'RE 27:23 SIMPLY GOING TO TAKE IT AT FACE VALUE AND THEN CONTINUE ON. 27:25 JOHN CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 16 - JESUS SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES, 27:31 "AND OTHER SHEEP I HAVE, WHICH ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD: THEM ALSO 27:38 I MUST BRING, AND THEY SHALL HEAR MY VOICE; AND THERE 27:42 SHALL BE ONE FOLD, AND ONE SHEPHERD." 27:47 SO HE SAID THERE, 'I HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN THE FOLD; THEY'RE 27:48 NOT IN THE SAME BELIEF SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE, BUT THEY'RE MINE 27:52 AND SOMEDAY THEY'RE GOING TO HEAR MY VOICE AND THEY'RE GOING 27:56 TO COME IN AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE TOGETHER. NOW WE SEE THIS 27:59 IN A LOT OF PLACES - REVELATION CHAPTER 18 - DO WE NOT? 28:02 WE SEE THE FOURTH ANGEL SOUND - IT SAYS, 'BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS 28:06 FALLEN. COME OUT OF HER' - WHAT? 28:09 - 'MY PEOPLE.' SO, THEREFORE, EVEN IN A CORRUPT RELIGIOUS 28:11 SYSTEM OF BABYLON, GOD HAS HIS PEOPLE. 28:15 IT'S A PICTURE WE'RE BEING GIVEN HERE. 28:19 SO GOD - FIRST WE LOOKED AT THE FACT THAT GOD CAN SPEAK THROUGH 28:22 HIS CREATED WORKS. THERE IS A BOOK CALLED STEPS TO 28:25 CHRIST - MAYBE YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH IT. 28:27 THERE'S ANOTHER BOOK CALLED EDUCATION . 28:29 BOTH BOOKS ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT GOD'S SECOND BOOK IS 28:32 CREATION - IT'S NATURE - AND GOD SPEAKS THROUGH THAT. 28:36 THERE ARE WAYS THAT PEOPLE COME TO KNOW JESUS BETTER. 28:39 ACTS CHAPTER 14 - ACTS CHAPTER 14 AND VERSE 17. 28:43 THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME IN THIS JOURNEY TODAY. 28:46 I WAS GLAD THAT I WAS DOING THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON, SIMPLY 28:50 BECAUSE, WHEN I SAW WHAT IT WAS, I KNEW I DIDN'T HAVE ALL THE 28:53 ANSWERS THAT I WANTED SO IT GAVE ME A CHANCE TO STUDY. 28:56 ACTS CHAPTER 14 AND VERSE 17 - AND, BY THE WAY, WHEN I WAS 29:00 DONE, I STILL DON'T THINK I HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT I THINK 29:02 WE'RE A WHOLE LOT CLOSER. 29:04 ACTS CHAPTER 14 AND VERSE 17, "NEVERTHELESS, HE LEFT NOT 29:06 HIMSELF WITHOUT WITNESS," - THIS IS SPEAKING OF GOD WHO, IN PAST, 29:10 SUFFERED ALL NATIONS TO WALK IN THEIR OWN WAYS. 29:13 SO VERSE 16 GOES, 'I'M SUFFERING ALL NATIONS TO WALK IN 29:15 THEIR OWN WAYS.' THEN IN VERSE 17, "NEVERTHELESS HE LEFT NOT 29:17 HIMSELF WITHOUT WITNESS," - THAT IS, TO THESE NATIONS - "IN THAT 29:20 HE DID GOOD, AND GAVE US RAIN FROM HEAVEN, AND FRUITFUL 29:24 SEASONS, FILLING OUR HEARTS WITH FOOD AND GLADNESS." 29:28 HE HAD A WITNESS. HE WAS DOING GOOD TO THESE PEOPLE. 29:33 SO WHILE THEY'RE OUT THERE, THESE NATIONS - SEE WE'RE NOT 29:34 JUST SPEAKING ABOUT ISRAEL, WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT A BROADER 29:37 SPHERE - THEY HAVE WITNESS OF GOD BECAUSE GOD DOES THINGS THAT 29:42 ARE GOOD AND PROVIDES FOR THEIR NEEDS. SO THAT'S ANOTHER PICTURE 29:45 THAT GOD CAN OPERATE. ACTS CHAPTER 17 - LET'S JUST 29:49 CONTINUE ON - ACTS CHAPTER 17 AND VERSE 26 - WHILE YOU'RE - 30:06 BEFORE WE READ THIS, I HAD A CHANCE TO STAND WHERE PAUL MADE 30:11 THESE WORDS AND THAT WAS A MOVING EXPERIENCE FOR ME. 30:14 A YEAR AGO I HAD THE PRIVILEGE, WITH AFCOE, OF BEING IN A PLACE 30:18 CALLED ATHENS AND WE WENT TO MARS HILL, SPENT TIME THERE AND 30:23 - I KNOW IT SOUNDS EXCITING - I SPENT MY MORNING EXERCISE 30:28 ROUTINE EVERY DAY CLIMBING UP TO MARS HILL. 30:31 WALKING AMONG THE TRAILS THERE - SOME OF THE OLIVE GROVES THAT 30:34 WERE AROUND, SEEING WHERE THIS MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED - AND AS I 30:38 LOOKED AT IT - YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A PAGAN CITY, 30:41 COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED WITH PEOPLE WHO WORSHIPED IDOLS. 30:44 NOTICE WHAT PAUL IS SAYING HERE, "AND HATH MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL 30:51 NATIONS OF MEN FOR TO DWELL ON ALL THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND 30:54 HATH DETERMINED THE TIMES BEFORE APPOINTED, AND THE BOUNDS OF 30:57 THEIR HABITATION;" - GOD - HE SAID GOD'S IN CHARGE OF ALL MEN. 31:00 HE DETERMINED WHO'S GOING TO DO WHAT AND HOW FAR THEY CAN SPREAD 31:03 AND WHAT THEY CAN OWN, ETC. - "THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK THE LORD, 31:08 IF HAPLY THEY MIGHT FEEL AFTER HIM, AND FIND HIM, THOUGH HE BE 31:12 NOT FAR FROM EVERY ONE OF US:" HE HAS BEEN IN CONTROL OF WHAT 31:16 THEY DO AND WHAT THEY CAN DO AND WHAT THEY CANNOT DO AND - AND - 31:19 AND IT'S HOPING THAT THROUGH THAT, THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE 31:22 TO SEEK AFTER AND SENSE FOR HIM. AND IT SAYS "HE IS NOT FAR FROM 31:24 EVERY ONE OF US." DEAR PAGAN FRIEND, HE IS NOT FAR 31:32 FROM YOU. DEAR RELIGIOUS FRIEND WHO'S NOT 31:36 CHRISTIAN, HE'S NOT FAR FROM YOU. 31:39 DEAR CHRISTIAN FRIEND, HE'S NOT FAR FROM YOU. 31:42 WHAT'S HE DOING? HE'S SPEAKING TO US AND ASKING 31:44 US TO FOLLOW HIM. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD SPEAKS 31:47 TO HEATHENS AND ASKS THEM TO FOLLOW HIM? 31:50 DO YOU BELIEVE THAT HE SPEAKS TO BUDDHISTS AND MUSLIMS AND HINDU? 31:55 AMEN. I AGREE. DO YOU AGREE THAT HE SPEAKS TO US TOO? 32:00 GOD IS CONSTANTLY SPEAKING TO EACH ONE OF US, ASKING US TO 32:05 COME CLOSER. COME CLOSER TO HIM. THERE'S ONE MORE PASSAGE, ROMANS 32:12 CHAPTER 2 - ROMANS CHAPTER 2 - AND I LIKE THE FIRST COUPLE OF 32:18 CHAPTERS OF ROMANS IF - AS WE GO THROUGH IT. 32:22 ROMANS CHAPTER 1, PAUL, UNDER INSPIRATION, IS GIVEN A 32:26 FOUNDATION FOR THE BOOK OF ROMANS. 32:28 IN ROMANS CHAPTER 2 HE'S LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT THE HEATHEN. 32:31 IN ROMANS CHAPTER 3 HE'S LOOKING AT THE JEWISH CHRISTIAN WORLD. 32:36 AND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, ALL OF US' - 32:39 WHAT'S IT SAY IN ROMANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 23 - "FOR ALL HAVE 32:41 SINNED, AND" - WHAT? - "COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD." 32:45 YOU CAN BE A PAGAN HEATHEN AND YOU CAN BE A GOOD JEW OR 32:47 CHRISTIAN AND GUESS WHAT? 32:49 YOU'VE FALLEN SHORT. THAT'S THE PICTURE. 32:51 NOW LET'S GO BACK TO ROMANS 2 - GIVE YOU A LITTLE FOUNDATION 32:53 THERE - ROMANS CHAPTER 2 - AND STARTING WITH VERSE 12, "FOR AS 32:58 MANY AS HAVE SINNED WITHOUT LAW SHALL ALSO PERISH WITHOUT LAW:" 33:03 - SO IF YOU SINNED AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE LAW WAS AND 33:07 YOU SINNED ANYHOW, YOU'RE GOING TO PERISH ANYHOW. 33:09 THAT SOUNDS ENCOURAGING, DOESN'T IT? 33:12 LET'S CONTINUE - "AND AS MANY AS HAVE SINNED IN THE LAW SHALL BE 33:15 JUDGED BY THE LAW;" - SO YOU KNEW WHAT THE LAW WAS AND YOU 33:17 SINNED ANYHOW AND YOU BROKE IT ANYHOW, YOU'RE GOING TO BE 33:19 JUDGED BY IT. THEN IT SAYS THIS IN VERSE 13, 33:22 "(FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST BEFORE GOD, BUT THE 33:24 DOERS OF THE LAW SHALL BE JUSTIFIED. 33:27 FOR" - VERSE 14 - "FOR WHEN THE GENTILES, WHICH HAVE NOT THE 33:30 LAW, DO BY NATURE THE THINGS CONTAINED IN THE LAW, THESE, 33:35 HAVING NOT THE LAW ARE A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES:" - 33:39 WAIT A MINUTE, THEY DON'T HAVE A WRITTEN LAW IN FRONT OF THEM 33:41 YET THEY ARE DOING THE LAW? AND THAT'S OKAY, THEY'RE A LAW 33:47 UNTO THEMSELVES. THEN IT SAYS THIS IN VERSE 15 - 33:51 "WHICH SHEW THE WORK OF THE LAW" - WHERE'S THE LAW? 33:55 WHERE'S THE LAW? - IT'S "WRITTEN IN THEIR 33:59 HEARTS," - HAVE YOU HEARD THAT PHRASE SOMEWHERE BEFORE? 34:02 THAT IS A NEW COVENANT EXPERIENCE WE SEE DESCRIBED IN 34:06 HEBREWS CHAPTER 8. THE LAW OF GOD WRITTEN IN HEARTS 34:10 - IS THIS SPEAKING ABOUT GOOD JEWS? 34:12 IS THIS SPEAKING ABOUT GOOD SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS? 34:15 WHO IS IT SPEAKING ABOUT IN ROMANS CHAPTER 2? 34:18 THIS IS SPEAKING ABOUT GENTILES WHO KNEW NOT THE LAW AS IT'S 34:21 WRITTEN OUT. THAT MEANS THAT GOD CAN HAVE A 34:26 LIVING EXPERIENCE WITH PEOPLE - PEOPLE HAVE A LIVING EXPERIENCE 34:30 WITH HIM, WHO KNOW NOT THE WRITTEN LAW BUT IT'S WRITTEN IN 34:34 THEIR HEARTS, SO IT IS WRITTEN. I'VE GOT TO CLARIFY THAT - IT 34:36 IS WRITTEN, BUT IT'S WRITTEN IN THEIR LIVES AND HEARTS. 34:38 THEY HAVEN'T ACTUALLY SEEN IT IN THE PHYSICAL FORM THAT YOU AND I 34:41 MAY HAVE IT. BUT LET'S CONTINUE - MAKE SURE 34:43 I'M NOT GOING OFF OF THIS - "THEIR CONSCIENCE ALSO BEARING 34:46 WITNESS, AND THEIR THOUGHTS THE MEAN WHILE ACCUSING OR ELSE 34:49 EXCUSING ONE ANOTHER;)" - YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 34:52 THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORKING WELL IN THEIR LIVES. 34:55 'YOU SHOULD BE DOING THIS.' 'NO, NO, YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING 34:57 THIS.' IS THERE TIMES THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS TO YOUR LIFE 35:01 AND YOUR HEART AND TELLS YOU TO DO SOMETHING OR NOT DO SOMETHING 35:04 THAT'S REALLY NOT WRITTEN OUT, BUT YOU KNOW HE'S SPEAKING TO 35:05 YOU? I HAD THAT HAPPEN. I REMEMBER, FOR AWHILE IT WAS MY 35:09 PARENTS THAT WERE MY CONSCIENCE: 'BETTER NOT DO THIS.' 'BETTER DO 35:15 THIS.' I REMEMBER I'D GET SO FRUSTRATED. 35:17 THERE WAS CERTAIN MUSIC I WOULD LIKE AND MY DAD WOULD SAY, 'SON, 35:19 YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO LISTEN TO THAT MUSIC. NOT IN MY HOUSE.' 35:22 MY DAD WAS MY CONSCIENCE. BUT THEN, EVENTUALLY, I GOT OUT 35:28 OF THE HOME AND I HAD TO SEE IF I HAD ANOTHER CONSCIENCE. 35:30 THE HOLY SPIRIT STARTED SPEAKING AND SAYING, 'CHUCK, MAYBE THAT'S 35:34 NOT FOR YOU.' HE DIDN'T QUITE SAY IT THAT WAY HE SAID, 'THAT'S 35:39 NOT FOR YOU.' THE HOLY SPIRIT'S A LITTLE MORE DIRECT, ISN'T HE? 35:41 BUT IT HELPED ME - HE DOES THAT TO US AND THERE IS NO 35:45 CODIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE SAYING, 'THOU SHALT NOT LISTEN 35:49 TO THIS EXACT FORM OF MUSIC.' THERE IS SOME GOOD PRINCIPLES, I 35:53 BELIEVE, BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES IT SPEAKING TO US. 35:56 AND WE CAN KNOW, CAN WE NOT? SO THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING TO 35:59 THE GENTILE WORLD HERE AS WE LOOK AT THIS. 36:01 I AM TAKING TOO LONG TO PROVE THIS POINT. 36:05 LET'S CONTINUE ON IN VERSE 16, "IN THE DAY WHEN GOD SHALL JUDGE 36:08 THE SECRETS OF MEN BY" - WHO? BY WHO? - 36:13 "BY JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL." 36:15 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT EVEN THE GENTILES WHO KNEW NOT GOD, WHO 36:18 WERE WORSHIPING GOD WITH THE LAW WRITTEN IN THEIR HEARTS 36:20 UNKNOWINGLY - THAT'S THE PICTURE HERE - ARE STILL BEING JUDGED BY 36:24 JESUS CHRIST. YOU'RE EITHER SAVED THROUGH 36:26 JESUS OR YOU'RE LOST WITHOUT HIM. 36:29 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YOU MAY NOT KNOW HIM, BUT IT'S 36:32 ONLY THROUGH HIM THAT SALVATION COMES. 36:36 I WANT YOU TO REALIZE, MY FRIENDS, THAT IN THE CASES THAT 36:39 WE'VE JUST LOOKED AT, ALTHOUGH THERE ISN'T SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE 36:42 IN SOME AREAS, THERE IS STILL REPENTANCE AND A GENERAL 36:47 KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH IN THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT ARE BEING 36:51 DESCRIBED IN ROMANS CHAPTER 2. THERE'S STILL A CHANGE OF LIFE. 36:53 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS TO THEIR CONSCIENCE, EVEN THOUGH 36:58 THEY MAY NOT CALL THAT SPEAKING THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY TURN 37:01 AROUND ON THE PATH - FROM THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION - AND WALK 37:04 TOWARDS GOD. THEY REPENT AND CHANGE THEIR 37:06 LIVES AND THAT IS OKAY, IN GOD'S EYES. 37:10 SO WE'VE LOOKED AT TWO THINGS OUT OF FIVE AND WE'RE HALFWAY 37:13 DONE. THE FIRST THING WE LOOKED AT IS 37:16 THERE IS NO SALVATION OUTSIDE OF WHO? 37:19 >>JESUS. HE IS THE SAVIOR. IT'S ONLY THROUGH THE MERITS OF 37:22 HIS BLOOD THAT ANY OF US HAVE ANY CHANCE. 37:24 CRYSTAL CLEAR: HE IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. 37:27 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT GOD WILL GIVE THE MERITS OF HIS 37:30 SACRIFICE TO, EVEN IF THEY DON'T FULLY KNOW HIM THE WAY WE DO OR 37:33 BY THE NAME JESUS, BECAUSE THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE LIGHT THAT 37:38 THEY KNOW - THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE SPEAKING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 37:41 TO THEIR CONSCIENCE. THAT BEING SAID, I'D LIKE TO 37:44 READ THIS PASSAGE FROM DESIRE OF AGES P. 638 , 37:47 "AMONG THE HEATHEN ARE THOSE WHO WORSHIP GOD 37:52 IGNORANTLY. THOSE TO WHOM THE LIGHT IS NEVER BROUGHT BY HUMAN 37:56 INSTRUMENTALITY, YET THEY WILL NOT PERISH. 37:59 THOUGH IGNORANT OF THE WRITTEN LAW OF GOD, THEY HAVE HEARD HIS 38:04 VOICE SPEAKING TO THEM IN NATURE AND HAVE DONE THE THINGS THAT 38:08 THE LAW REQUIRED." THEN IT SAYS THIS: "THEIR WORKS 38:12 ARE EVIDENCE THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TOUCHED THEIR HEARTS 38:16 AND THEY ARE RECOGNIZED AS THE CHILDREN OF GOD. 38:20 DESIRE OF AGES P. 638 - WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE. 38:23 SO IF I WERE TO TAKE WHAT I JUST SAID AND WENT FAR WITH IT, I 38:33 WOULD GET MYSELF IN A LOT OF TROUBLE. 38:34 WOULD YOU AGREE WITH ME? YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH ME, 38:36 BUT I'LL AGREE WITH MYSELF. I WOULD. 38:39 THERE IS A THEORY CALLED 'UNIVERSALISM' - YOU KNOW WHAT 38:41 THAT IS? I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL I READ THIS WEEK'S LESSON. 38:44 UNIVERSALISM IS THE BELIEF THAT EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE SAVED - 38:47 EVEN LUCIFER, SOMEDAY, WILL BE SAVED, ULTIMATELY, BECAUSE IT'S 38:50 JUST THE WAY IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 38:52 AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER BELIEF CALLED PLURALISM WHICH SAYS, 38:55 'ALL RELIGIONS LEAD TO GOD.' YOU CAN BE MUSLIM, HINDU, CHRISTIAN, 39:02 BUDDHIST - WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE - IT'S ALL GOING TO LEAD TO 39:05 GOD EVENTUALLY.' ARE THOSE TWO BELIEFS RIGHT? 39:10 NO, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WE GO 39:14 THROUGH HERE, BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN CLEARLY THAT THE ONLY WAY WE CAN 39:17 BE SAVED IS THROUGH WHOM? >>JESUS. 39:19 >>JESUS CHRIST. BUT THEN, WELL, DO YOU MIND IF I 39:23 SHARE A FEW SCRIPTURES WITH YOU? JEREMIAH CHAPTER 29 - JEREMIAH 39:30 CHAPTER 29 - AND THIS - WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN IN 39:36 COLLEGE, A FRIEND OF MINE SHARED THIS TEXT WITH ME AND IT WAS ONE 39:39 OF THE GREATEST ENCOURAGEMENTS I HAD EVER HAD. 39:42 YOU SEE, YOU MAY BE LIKE ME. I STRUGGLED IN MY WALK IN MY 39:47 LIFE AND THERE WERE TIMES WHEN I REALIZED I'M JUST FALLING FLAT 39:49 ON MY FACE. BUT I KNOW IN MY HEART I REALLY 39:52 WANT TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT, AND I LOVE GOD AND I REALLY WANT TO 39:55 GET BACK UP AND KEEP MOVING, RIGHT? 39:56 JEREMIAH 29, VERSE 13 SAYS, "AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND" - WHAT'S 40:01 THAT NEXT THING? - "AND FIND ME, WHEN YE SHALL 40:04 SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART." 40:05 THAT'S GOOD NEWS BECAUSE EVEN IF I'M FALLING, I'M GOING TO GET UP 40:10 AND I'M GOING TO KEEP SEEKING BECAUSE I WANT TO FIND GOD. 40:12 I WANT TO KNOW HIM. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HE CAN DO IN MY LIFE. 40:15 I WANT TO SURRENDER MY LIFE TO HIM. 40:17 I'M A SEEKER. "AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND FIND 40:21 ME, WHEN YE SHALL SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART." 40:23 IN VERSE 14, THE FIRST LINE SAYS, "AND I WILL BE FOUND OF 40:27 YOU, SAITH THE LORD:" WOW. YOU WILL SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. 40:32 MATTHEW CHAPTER 6, VERSE 33 - YOU PROBABLY KNOW THIS BY 40:35 MEMORY, "BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS 40:39 RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND" - WHAT WILL HAPPEN? 40:42 - "ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU." 40:44 IT IS SEEKERS, MY FRIENDS, WHO FIND GOD. 40:46 IT IS SEEKERS WHO FIND GOD. NOW I HAVE ABOUT 15 TEXTS HERE - 40:52 20 TEXTS - THAT VERIFY THAT SAME POINT. 40:54 I'M NOT GOING TO LOOK AT ALL OF THEM, FOR THE SAKE OF TIME, BUT 40:57 LET'S LOOK AT A FEW OF THEM. ZEPHANIAH - WE HAVEN'T TURNED 41:00 THERE FOR AWHILE, SO LET'S TURN THERE - ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2 AND 41:02 VERSE 3 - ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 3 - NOW I SHOULD HAVE 41:16 MEMORIZED EXACTLY WHERE ZEPHANIAH IS SO THAT I COULD 41:19 TELL YOU WHERE IT'S AT. IT'S AFTER HABAKKUK, IF THAT'S 41:22 HELPFUL. ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 3 41:27 - IT SAYS, "SEEK YE THE LORD, ALL YE MEEK OF PALESTINE" - 41:34 ALL THE MEEK OF WHO? MEEK IS THE HUMBLE, RIGHT? 41:40 SO SEEK ME ALL YE HUMBLE, YE MEEK PEOPLE OF WHERE? 41:44 PLANET EARTH. MAN, THAT'S A WIDE RANGE. 41:47 HE'S NOT JUST SPEAKING TO THE CHOSEN ONES HERE. 41:48 ACTUALLY, HE'S SPEAKING TO HIS CHOSEN ONES, BUT NOT THE CHOSEN 41:51 NATION PER SE. "SEEK YE THE LORD, ALL YE MEEK 41:55 OF THE EARTH, WHICH HAVE WROUGHT HIS JUDGMENT;" - OH, THESE ARE 41:58 ONES WHO ARE WANTING TO DO WHAT HE WANTS THEM TO DO. 42:01 WE LOOKED AT THIS CONCEPT BEFORE - THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKING TO 42:04 HEARTS - "SEEK RIGHTEOUSNESS, SEEK MEEKNESS: IT MAY BE YE 42:09 SHALL BE HID IN THE DAY OF THE LORD'S ANGER." POWERFUL. 42:13 LET'S TURN A FEW PAGES BACK, CLOSER TO THE NEW TESTAMENT - 42:15 ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 8 - ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 8 AND VERSE 22 - 42:21 ZECHARIAH 8:22 SAYS THIS: "YEAH, MANY PEOPLE AND STRONG" - WHAT'S 42:27 THE NEXT WORD? - "NATIONS" - THANK YOU - "SHALL 42:31 COME TO SEEK" - WHO? - "THE LORD OF HOSTS" - WHERE? - 42:34 "IN JERUSALEM, AND TO PRAY BEFORE" - WHOM? - "THE LORD." 42:38 AGAIN, WE SEE A SEEKING IN BEING DONE, NOT JUST BY PEOPLE THAT WE 42:43 WOULD PUT IN THE CATEGORY OF GOD'S SPECIAL CHURCH, BUT WE'RE 42:49 SEEING A SEEKING BY ALL PEOPLE AND THEY COME AND WORSHIP GOD. 42:54 THIS IS GOD'S DESIRE AND I BELIEVE IT WILL BE HAPPENING. 43:01 IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE SEEKERS, RIGHT NOW, IN 43:05 A LOT OF COUNTRIES THAT ARE BLOCKED OFF TO CHRISTIANITY. 43:10 THEY'RE SEEKING AND GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO THEM. 43:13 OH, NOT QUITE THE WAY HE DOES IT WITH US, BUT HE REVEALS HIMSELF 43:18 TO THEM. MAYBE IN DREAMS. 43:20 MAYBE AN ANGEL COMES AND VISITS THEM, BUT HE REVEALS HIMSELF IN 43:25 WAYS THAT THEY KNOW - THAT THEIR PERSON WHO THEY'RE SEEKING HAS 43:28 BEEN FOUND. I LIKE TO LOOK AT ONE MORE 43:34 PASSAGE THAT I USED TO NOT QUITE CONNECT WELL WITH, BUT AFTER 43:37 LOOKING AT THE ISSUE OF SEEKING, I HAVE. 43:40 HEBREWS CHAPTER 11 - YOU PROBABLY KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, 43:43 THOSE OF YOU WHO'VE MEMORIZED HEBREWS CHAPTER 11 - "BUT 43:48 WITHOUT FAITH" - WE'RE IN VERSE 6 - "BUT WITHOUT FAITH IT IS 43:52 IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM: FOR HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST" - WHAT? 43:57 - "BELIEVE THAT HE IS, AND THAT HE IS A" - WHAT? 44:00 - "REWARDER OF THEM THAT DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM." 44:04 MY FRIENDS, THOSE WHO ARE SAVED IN THE END OF TIME ARE SEEKERS, 44:07 NOT PROFESSORS. THOSE WHO ARE SAVED IN THE END 44:11 OF TIME ARE THOSE WHO ARE SEEKERS. 44:13 SO WHAT IS THE - WHY DO WE EXIST? 44:16 WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE THIS CALL FOR MISSIONS? 44:19 LET EVERYONE ELSE GO OUT THERE AND SEEK. 44:21 IT SHOULD BE ALL TAKEN CARE OF. 44:23 GOD SPEAKS IN NATURE - DOESN'T NEED ME. 44:25 MAYBE THAT GUY WHO SPOKE AT THE MEETING EARLIER, YOU KNOW, A 44:29 COUPLE HUNDRED YEARS AGO - SAYS, 'HEY CHUCK, SIT DOWN. 44:31 IF GOD WANTS TO CONVERT THE HEATHEN, HE'LL DO IT HIS OWN 44:35 WAY.' SHOULD IT HAPPEN THAT WAY? SO WHY US? 44:43 WELL, YOU WANT THE ANSWER, RIGHT? 44:48 I DO - IT'S HERE - CRYSTAL CLEAR IN THE WORD OF GOD. 44:51 I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW I CAN PUT IN THE NEXT DAY'S 44:56 LESSON AND FINISH ON TIME. I THINK I MIGHT HAVE TO JUST 44:59 SKIP IT. IS THAT OKAY? YOU CAN SAY 'YES' - YOU CAN SAY 45:02 'NO' - BUT I THINK I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ANYHOW. 45:03 WEDNESDAY'S LESSON TALKS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT US BEING 45:09 SAVED BY GRACE. I'M GOING TO POINT - A FEW 45:11 POINTERS IN THAT BEFORE I GO TO OUR FINAL DAY. 45:13 THOSE WHO SIN ARE IN REBELLION AGAINST GOD. 45:18 THE REBELLIOUS AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS NEED TO HEAR A CALL 45:22 BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT SEEKING AND WE NEED TO CALL AND, BY CHANCE - 45:26 BY GOD'S GRACE - CONVICT THEM (THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT 45:30 CONVICTING THEM, NOT US) TO TURN TO GOD. 45:33 HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? I MEAN, QUITE FRANKLY, IF GOD 45:37 CAN'T - IF NATURE DOESN'T DO IT, HOW IN THE WORLD CAN WE DO IT? 45:39 THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART OF THE WHOLE LESSON. 45:45 GOD USES US BECAUSE WE ARE THE BEST METHOD. 45:53 RIGHT AWAY I'VE GOT A LOT OF RED FLAGS POPPING UP IN YOUR MIND 45:56 SAYING, 'YOU'VE GOT TO BE OUT OF YOUR MIND, CHUCK.' GOD USES US - 46:01 I WOULD SAY WE'RE THE SECOND-BEST METHOD BECAUSE THE 46:06 FIRST METHOD WAS JESUS CHRIST, HIMSELF, AMEN? 46:10 LET ME JUST SHARE A FEW THOUGHTS WITH YOU. 46:13 ACCORDING TO ROMANS CHAPTER 1, VERSES 18 THROUGH 20 AND JOB 46:18 12:7-9, GOD SPEAKS THROUGH NATURE TO HUMANITY AND THEY 46:23 LEARN OF HIM AND THEY'RE WITHOUT EXCUSE BECAUSE THEIR CONSCIENCE 46:28 WILL SPEAK TO THEM, THAT'S CLEAR. 46:30 SO GOD USES NATURE TO SPEAK. DO YOU KNOW GOD ALSO USED 46:34 EARTHLY RELATIONSHIPS? HE USES EARTHLY RELATIONSHIPS TO 46:37 TEACH THEM ABOUT US - TEACH US ABOUT HIMSELF. 46:40 ISAIAH CHAPTER 49 AND VERSE 15 - WE'RE GOING TO DO A COUPLE VERY 46:42 QUICKLY HERE - ISAIAH CHAPTER 49, VERSE 15 - GOD USES NATURE 46:47 AND GOD ALSO USES EARTHLY RELATIONSHIPS - VERSE 15 OF 46:50 ISAIAH 49 SAYS THIS: "CAN A WOMAN FORGET HER SUCKING CHILD, 46:54 THAT SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE COMPASSION ON THE SON OF HER 47:00 WOMB? YEA, THEY MAY FORGET, YET WILL I 47:04 NOT FORGET THEE." WHAT A PICTURE IS BEING GIVEN. 47:08 NOW I - I HAVE A YOUNG CHILD AND I KNOW THE INTIMATE CONNECTION 47:16 BETWEEN CHILD AND MOTHER. I SEE IT ALL THE TIME, THE 47:20 INTIMATE CONNECTION. THERE IS NOTHING MY WIFE WOULD 47:24 NOT DO FOR OUR CHILD - NOTHING! AND GOD SAYS, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? 47:29 EVEN IF SHE GAVE UP ON HIM, I WON'T GIVE UP.' IS THAT GOOD 47:34 NEWS? GOD DOESN'T GIVE UP ON US. 47:38 HE WILL NOT FORGET US. WHAT A - WHAT A PICTURE IS BEING 47:42 GIVEN HERE ON THIS EARTHLY - EARTHLY RELATIONSHIP. 47:44 HERE'S ANOTHER ONE - PSALMS CHAPTER 68 AND VERSE 5 - PSALMS 47:49 68, VERSE 5 - SPEAKING OF JAH, AS HE IS CALLED HERE, OUR LORD 47:57 GOD - IN VERSE 4. VERSE 5 SAYS HE IS "A FATHER OF THE 48:00 FATHERLESS, AND A JUDGE OF THE WIDOWS, IS GOD IN HIS HOLY 48:04 HABITATION." A FATHER OF THE FATHERLESS. 48:07 SOME PEOPLE HERE ARE FATHERLESS BECAUSE YOUR FATHER WASN'T A 48:10 GOOD FATHER. SOME OF YOU ARE FATHERLESS 48:12 BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A FATHER. SOME OF YOU ARE FATHERLESS 48:14 FOR SOME OTHER REASONS. BUT HE IS A FATHER. 48:18 A WOMAN CAN'T - MAY FORGET HER CHILD; HE WON'T AND HE'S THE 48:22 FATHER. WHAT A PICTURE WE'RE SEEING OF 48:25 JESUS. WHAT A PICTURE WE'RE SEEING OF 48:26 GOD. HOSEA CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 19 - 48:29 EZEKIEL, DANIEL, HOSEA CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 19 - GOD SAYS THIS - 48:37 NOW HE'S MORE THAN A MOTHER AND HE'S MORE THAN A FATHER. 48:40 LOOK AT THIS IN HOSEA 2:19, "AND I WILL BETROTH THEE UNTO ME FOR 48:44 EVER; YEA, I WILL BETROTH THEE UNTO ME IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IN 48:48 JUDGMENT, AND IN LOVINGKINDNESS, AND IN MERCIES." 48:50 WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE IS, 'I WANT TO MAKE YOU MY SPOUSE. 48:55 REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE, I WANT TO MAKE YOU MY SPOUSE. 48:58 I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU, UNFAITHFUL PERSON, AND BRING YOU 49:01 TO MYSELF. I WILL BE MORE THAN A MOTHER. 49:07 I WILL BE MORE THAN A FATHER. I WILL BE A SPOUSE.' WHAT A 49:14 PICTURE IS BEING GIVEN OF GOD. GOD SPEAKS THROUGH NATURE. 49:22 HE SPEAKS THROUGH EARTHLY RELATIONSHIPS. 49:25 YOU KNOW, I - I WAS LISTENING TO A YOUNG MAN, RECENTLY, SHARING 49:34 ABOUT HOW HIS MOTHER HAS CHANGED HIS LIFE - HOW MUCH HIS MOTHER 49:37 MEANT TO HIM - HOW THE PRAYERS OF A MOTHER ARE POWERFUL. 49:40 I HAVE ANOTHER FRIEND THAT I'VE TALKED TO RECENTLY AND SHE SAID, 49:44 'CHUCK, THE ONLY REASON I'M A CHRISTIAN IS BECAUSE OF MY DAD.' 49:45 THERE'S POWER IN THESE EARTHLY RELATIONSHIPS - INCREDIBLE POWER 49:52 FOR THE SAVING OF SOULS. STEPS TO CHRIST PAGE 10 SAYS 50:00 THIS ABOUT NATURE AND EARTHLY RELATIONSHIPS - IT SAYS THEY 50:05 IMPERFECTLY REPRESENT GOD'S LOVE. LET ME REPEAT THAT. 50:10 THEY IMPERFECTLY REPRESENT GOD'S LOVE. 50:13 AND BECAUSE THEY WERE IMPERFECT, BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT FULLY 50:17 REPRESENT WHAT GOD'S LOVE IS, GOD HAD TO SEND HIS SON. 50:22 AND WHEN HE SENT HIS SON, HIS SON WAS GOING TO SHOW US 'THIS 50:25 IS WHAT LOVE IS. THIS IS WHO GOD IS. 50:27 I'M GOING TO VINDICATE HIS CHARACTER. 50:28 I'M GOING TO VINDICATE HIS LOVE. I'M GOING TO VINDICATE WHAT HE 50:30 IS AND WHAT HE DOES.' JESUS CHRIST IS THAT. 50:34 YOU SEE, NATURE CAN'T FULLY REACH US. 50:37 EARTHLY RELATIONSHIPS ARE GOOD, BUT THEY'RE FULLY HUMAN. 50:42 WHAT CAN REACH US IS THE UNION OF THE HUMAN AND THE DIVINE. 50:47 THE BEST WAY TO DO MISSION IS THE UNION OF THE HUMAN AND THE 50:54 DIVINE. IF YOU MISS NOTHING - I MEAN, IF 50:59 YOU MISS EVERYTHING ELSE, DON'T MISS THAT POINT. 51:02 THE BEST WAY TO DO MISSIONS IS THE HUMAN - UNION OF THE HUMAN 51:06 AND THE DIVINE. THE BEST WAY TO REACH HUMANITY 51:11 IN ITS FALLEN CONDITION - JESUS DID NOT COME AS AN ANGEL BECAUSE 51:17 THAT WASN'T THE BEST WAY. JESUS DID THE VERY BEST WAY AND 51:21 THE VERY BEST WAY IS THE DIVINE SON OF GOD COMING IN FALLEN 51:25 HUMANITY TO REACH YOU AND I WHERE WE'RE AT. 51:28 THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DO MISSIONS. WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND 51:36 EXPERIENCE OF HUMANITY, JESUS COULD BEST REACH HUMANITY. 51:40 I BELIEVE THAT TODAY IT'S THE UNION OF THE HUMAN AND THE 51:45 DIVINE THAT IS STILL THE BEST WAY. 51:49 'I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST; NEVERTHELESS, I LIVE. 51:56 YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE 52:02 IN THE FLESH, I LIVE BY FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD WHO LOVED ME AND 52:05 GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.' MY FRIENDS, WHEN CHRIST COMES AND 52:10 LIVES IN MY HEART - WHEN HE COMES AND LIVES IN YOUR HEART - 52:13 WHEN THE HUMAN IS CONNECTED WITH THE DIVINE, THAT IS THE GREATEST 52:17 POWER FOR MISSION. A CONVERTED SPIRIT-FILLED 52:22 CHRISTIAN CAN DO MORE ON BEHALF OF CHRISTIANITY THAN ANYTHING 52:25 ELSE. NATURE IS NICE. I LOVE NATURE. 52:32 IF I HAD MY WAY - MY POOR WIFE, BUT I'LL TELL YOU - IF I HAD MY 52:36 WAY, I'D DISAPPEAR EVERY MONTH FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS AND HANG 52:38 OUT AS A HERMIT IN THE WOODS AND JUST ENJOY GOD'S INCREDIBLE 52:42 NATURE - ESPECIALLY OUT HERE IN CERTAIN PARTS OF CALIFORNIA. 52:44 BUT THAT'S NOT THE BEST REPRESENTATION OF WHO GOD IS. 52:51 IT IS THE UNION OF THE HUMAN AND THE DIVINE. 52:56 YOU KNOW, IT SAYS IN 2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 4 - 2 53:02 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 4, "FOR GOD, WHO COMMANDED THE LIGHT" - WHAT 53:06 IS THAT, VERSE 6? - "FOR GOD, WHO COMMANDED THE 53:09 LIGHT TO SHINE OUT OF DARKNESS, HATH" - DONE WHAT? 53:13 - HE "SHINED IN OUR HEARTS, TO GIVE THE LIGHT OF THE KNOWLEDGE 53:17 OF THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST." 53:20 SO THE GLORY OF GOD IS SHINING ON MY HEART AND HE SAYS THIS: 53:22 "BUT WE HAVE THIS TREASURE" - THIS GLORY OF GOD - "IN EARTHEN 53:25 VESSELS, THAT THE EXCELLENCY OF THE POWER MAY BE OF GOD, AND NOT 53:29 OF US." YOU WANT TO SEE THE SUCCESS OF MISSIONS TAKE PLACE? 53:33 CAN I TELL YOU A SECRET? IT'S NOT HANDBILLS. 53:37 I'M AN EVANGELIST, I USE HANDBILLS, BUT THAT'S NOT IT. 53:42 IT'S NOT SIMPLY GREAT HEALTH PROGRAMS. 53:47 THEY'RE FANTASTIC - IT'S THE RIGHT ARM OF THE MESSAGE - BUT 53:51 THE ONLY REASON IT'S THE RIGHT ARM OF THE MESSAGE IS BECAUSE 53:53 HEALTH SHOULD BE A UNION OF THE HUMAN AND THE DIVINE. 53:57 THAT'S THE ONLY REASON. THE REASON WHY THERE'S SUCCESS 54:01 IN MINISTRY - THE REASON WHY THERE'S SUCCESS IN MISSIONS IS 54:03 BECAUSE THE HUMAN AND THE DIVINE ARE UNITED TOGETHER. 54:06 THAT'S GOD'S PLAN. THAT'S WHY YOU ARE NEEDED - YOU. 54:13 WE DON'T NEED MORE RADIO WAVES, ALTHOUGH I THINK THEY'RE GREAT. 54:17 THEY'RE REACHING PLACES THAT WE COULDN'T REACH. WHAT WE NEED IS 54:20 CHRISTIANS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT - CONVERTED CHRISTIANS 54:24 WHO ALLOW GOD TO WORK IN THEIR LIFE AND THEIR COMMUNITIES, 54:27 AMONG THEIR FRIENDS, AMONG THEIR RELATIVES, IN THEIR HOMES. 54:31 THEN, HOW QUICKLY WOULD WE SEE THE WORK DONE? 54:35 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 14, "FOR THIS CAUSE I BOW MY 54:50 KNEES UNTO THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, OF WHOM THE 54:55 WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS NAMED, THAT HE WOULD GRANT 54:59 YOU, ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY, TO BE STRENGTHENED 55:04 WITH MIGHT BY HIS SPIRIT IN THE INNER MAN; THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL 55:10 IN YOUR HEARTS BY FAITH; THAT YE, BEING ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN 55:14 LOVE, MAY BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND WITH ALL SAINTS WHAT IS THE 55:17 BREADTH, AND LENGTH, AND DEPTH AND HEIGHT; AND TO KNOW THE LOVE 55:21 OF CHRIST, WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE, THAT YE MIGHT BE 55:25 FILLED WITH ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD. 55:29 NOW UNTO HIM" - YOU EVER FEEL LIKE THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE? 55:33 DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOUR LIFE TO BE 55:36 FILLED WITH ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD? I DO. 55:38 I KNOW WHO I AM AND I LOOK AND SAY, 'MAN, GOD, HOW COULD THAT 55:41 HAPPEN?' AND THEN HE TELLS ME THIS 55:44 BEAUTIFUL PROMISE IN VERSE 20 OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 3, "NOW UNTO 55:49 HIM THAT IS ABLE TO DO EXCEEDING ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL THAT WE ASK 55:54 OR THINK, ACCORDING TO THE POWER THAT WORKETH IN US, UNTO HIM BE 56:00 GLORY IN THE CHURCH BY CHRIST JESUS THROUGHOUT ALL AGES, WORLD 56:04 WITHOUT END. AMEN." 56:07 TODAY THE SECRET FOR GRANITE BAY - FOR THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, 56:13 WHEREVER YOU LIVE - THE SECRET FOR THE SUCCESS OF MISSIONS IS 56:17 CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY. 56:22 THE SECRET SUCCESS OF MISSION IS THE UNITING OF THE HUMAN AND THE 56:24 DIVINE BECAUSE WHEN THAT HAPPENS, MIRACLES TAKE PLACE. 56:30 THE HOLY SPIRIT - GOD - IS ALIVE AND REAL RIGHT AROUND THE PEOPLE 56:35 WHO NEED HIM MOST. I WANT TO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE, 56:38 HOW ABOUT YOU? LET'S CLOSE WITH A WORD OF 56:41 PRAYER. FATHER IN HEAVEN, IT DOESN'T 56:46 MAKE SENSE THAT WE FRAIL HUMANS CAN BE OF USE TO YOU. 56:49 BUT WE KNOW THAT WHEN WE ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE EMPTIED OF 56:54 OURSELVES AND THAT YOU FILL US, THAT UNION OF HUMAN AND DIVINE 56:57 IS WHAT YOU LONG FOR AND IS WHAT YOU USE FOR THE SAVING OF SOULS. 57:02 IT'S THE MOST PERFECT REPRESENTATION OF YOUR LOVE. 57:05 PLEASE DRAW CLOSE TO US AS WE FINISH UP THIS LESSON. 57:11 DRAW CLOSE TO US, FATHER, AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE DIVINE SERVICE 57:14 AND FATHER, AS WE CONTINUE IN OUR LIVES, MAY WE NOT FORGET 57:18 WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IN US. WE TRUST YOU TO DO IT, FOR WE 57:24 ASK IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN 57:29 COMING TO JESUS AND GOING FOR JESUS. 57:32 HAVE YOU GOT PLANS THIS FALL TO BRING A SOUL TO CHRIST? 57:35 PLAN TO ATTEND THE HEROES OF FAITH EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM, 57:38 UPLINKED FROM LANSING, MICHIGAN, FROM OCTOBER 2 TO OCTOBER 10. 57:42 PLAN NOW TO ATTEND WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, AND LEARN 57:45 FROM THE PAST HOW WE CAN BE HEROES OF FAITH TODAY. 57:49 GO TO THEHEROESOFFAITH.COM TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN REGISTER 57:53 YOUR HOME AND YOUR CHURCH. MAKE AN ETERNAL DIFFERENCE IN 57:56 SOMEONE'S LIFE. >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN 58:00 RESOURCES VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM OR CALL 1-800-538-7275. 58:09 (MUSIC) |
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