(MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
AND WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A
VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
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FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR
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OUR STUDY TIME TODAY.
ALSO, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THE
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MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE
BAY CHURCH AND THOSE WHO ARE
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VISITING FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AND ALL OVER THE PLACE JOINING
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US THIS MORNING TO
STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH
OUR NEW LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING
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WITH THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH -
ONE OF THOSE GREAT OLD TESTAMENT
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PROPHETS. TODAY
WE FIND OURSELVES IN
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LESSON #2 ENTITLED THE
CRISIS WITHIN AND WITHOUT .
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WELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY,
AS USUAL WE'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR
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SONG LEADERS TO COME AND LEAD US
AS WE LIFT OUR VOICES IN PRAISE.
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>>HELLO AND WELCOME TO
EVERYONE THAT'S JOINING US.
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WE HAVE SOMETHING A LITTLE
BIT DIFFERENT TODAY AND I KNOW
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YOU'RE GOING TO ABSOLUTELY ENJOY
IT, BUT WE'RE NOT LEAVING YOU
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OUT. YOU'RE
GOING TO JOIN WITH US.
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SO THE FIRST SONG THAT WE'RE
GOING TO DO IS FOUND IN YOUR
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HYMNALS - #154 - WHEN I
SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS .
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BEAUTIFUL SONG, THE ONLY
DIFFERENCE IS THE TUNE'S NOT IN
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THE HYMNAL, BUT I THINK IT'S
A FAMILIAR TUNE THAT MOST OF YOU
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WILL KNOW, SO JOIN WITH
US - #154 - WHEN I SURVEY
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(THE WONDROUS CROSS) . (MUSIC)
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>>WHEN I SURVEY THE
WONDROUS CROSS ON WHICH THE
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PRINCE OF GLORY DIED, MY RICHEST
GAIN I COUNT BUT LOSS, AND POUR
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CONTEMPT ON ALL MY PRIDE.
FORBID IT, LORD, THAT I SHOULD
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BOAST, SAVE IN THE DEATH OF
CHRIST, MY GOD; ALL THE VAIN
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THINGS THAT CHARM ME MOST I
SACRIFICE THEM TO HIS BLOOD.
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SEE, FROM HIS HEAD, HIS HANDS,
HIS FEET, SORROW AND LOVE FLOW
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MINGLED DOWN: DID E'ER SUCH
LOVE AND SORROW MEET, OR THORNS
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COMPOSE SO RICH A CROWN?
WERE THE WHOLE REALM OF NATURE
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MINE, THAT WERE A PRESENT FAR
TOO SMALL; LOVE SO AMAZING, SO
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DIVINE, DEMANDS MY SOUL, DEMANDS
MY SOUL, LOVE DEMANDS MY SOUL,
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MY LIFE, MY ALL.
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>>THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE
SONGS. I LOVE THAT TUNE.
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AND THE NEXT SONG IS A
SPECIAL PEOPLE NEED THE LORD.
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(MUSIC)
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>>EVERY DAY THEY PASS ME
BY, I CAN SEE IT IN THEIR EYES.
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EMPTY PEOPLE FILLED WITH
CARE, HEADED WHO KNOWS WHERE?
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ON THEY GO THROUGH PRIVATE
PAIN, LIVING FEAR TO FEAR.
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LAUGHTER HIDES THEIR
SILENT CRIES, ONLY JESUS HEARS.
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PEOPLE NEED THE
LORD, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD.
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AT THE END OF BROKEN
DREAMS, HE'S THE OPEN DOOR.
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PEOPLE NEED THE
LORD, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD.
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WHEN WILL WE
REALIZE, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD?
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WE ARE CALLED TO TAKE HIS LIGHT
TO A WORLD WHERE WRONG SEEMS
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RIGHT. WHAT COULD
BE TOO GREAT A COST
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FOR SHARING LIFE
WITH ONE WHO'S LOST?
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THROUGH HIS LOVE OUR HEARTS CAN
FEEL ALL THE GRIEF THEY BEAR.
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THEY MUST HEAR THE WORDS
OF LIFE ONLY WE CAN SHARE.
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PEOPLE NEED THE
LORD, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD.
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AT THE END OF BROKEN
DREAMS, HE'S THE OPEN DOOR.
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PEOPLE NEED THE
LORD, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD.
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WHEN WILL WE REALIZE
THAT WE MUST GIVE OUR LIVES,
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FOR PEOPLE NEED THE
LORD? PEOPLE NEED THE LORD,
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PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. AT
THE END OF BROKEN DREAMS,
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HE'S THE OPEN DOOR.
PEOPLE NEED THE LORD,
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PEOPLE NEED THE
LORD. WHEN WILL WE REALIZE
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THAT WE MUST GIVE OUR
LIVES, FOR PEOPLE NEED THE LORD?
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PEOPLE NEED THE
LORD. PEOPLE NEED THE LORD.
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>>AMEN. >>I INVITE
YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS
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AS WE BEGIN WITH
A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK
YOU FOR ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY
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THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US THIS
SABBATH AND, AS WE OPEN UP YOUR
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WORD, WE ASK FOR THE HOLY
SPIRIT, ONCE AGAIN, TO COME AND
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GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
FATHER MAY WE LEARN THE LESSONS
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THAT YOU HAVE IN STORE FOR US IN
OUR STUDY OF THIS ANCIENT BOOK -
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ESPECIALLY JEREMIAH,
THIS IMPORTANT PROPHET.
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THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR
YOUR PROMISE TO BE WITH US.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. I'D
LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG
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BATCHELOR TO COME FORWARD
AND LEAD US IN OUR STUDY TODAY.
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THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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GOOD MORNING
EVERYONE. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT ENTERING
INTO THIS NEW STUDY IN JEREMIAH
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AND, FOR THOSE THAT ARE JOINING
US, WE'RE JUST BEGINNING OUR
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SECOND STUDY - I THINK THERE'S
THIRTEEN ALTOGETHER IN THIS VERY
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IMPORTANT BOOK. ONE OF
THE GREAT MAJOR PROPHETS
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OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND TODAY
WE'RE GOING TO BE ON LESSON #2
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AND THE TITLE OF THE
LESSON IS THE CRISIS WITHIN.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT
THE CRISES AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE
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BACK THEN AND WE MAY FIND THAT
THERE'S SOME SIMILARITIES WITH
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SOME CRISES THAT
WE FACE IN OUR DAY.
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AND THERE'S A MEMORY VERSE THAT
GOES ALONG WITH THE LESSON AND
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IT'S IN JEREMIAH
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 3.
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IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES OR YOUR
QUARTERLY, YOU CAN SAY IT WITH
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ME. IT'S FROM THE NEW KING JAMES
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VERSION - JEREMIAH 2,
VERSE 3. ARE YOU READY?
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"'ISRAEL WAS HOLINESS TO
THE LORD, THE FIRSTFRUITS OF HIS
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INCREASE. ALL THAT
DEVOUR HIM WILL OFFEND;
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DISASTER WILL COME
UPON THEM,' SAYS THE LORD."
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GOD IS TALKING ABOUT HIS
PROTECTIVE GUARDIAN RELATIONSHIP
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WITH ISRAEL WHEN ISRAEL WAS
HOLY AND WALKING WITH HIM IN THE
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WILDERNESS, BUT WE'LL GET
TO A LITTLE BIT OF THAT MORE.
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NOW THIS LESSON IS
DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
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I WISH SOME OF THE OTHER LESSONS
WOULD DO IT MORE WHEN THEY ENTER
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A NEW SUBJECT - A NEW BOOK.
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IT'S GOING TO GO BACK AND GIVE
A BIBLE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF
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GOD SO THAT WHEN WE FINALLY
START LOOKING AT THE PROPHECIES
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OF JEREMIAH, WE KNOW THE CONTEXT
OF WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.
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WHEN SOMEONE FIRST COMES TO THE
LORD AND YOU SAY, 'WHERE DO I
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START? 'YOU JUST
HAND THEM A NEW TESTAMENT.
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IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND A LOT
OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WITHOUT THE
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BACKGROUND HISTORY
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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AND TAKE IT FROM ME, IF YOU GREW
UP PRETTY MUCH A PAGAN - I MEAN,
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THE ONLY BIBLE STORIES I KNEW
ABOUT DAVID AND GOLIATH AND, I
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THINK I ONLY HAD A FLEETING IDEA
ABOUT DANIEL AND THE LION'S DEN,
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BUT I KNEW VERY LITTLE.
AND SO WHEN I STARTED READING
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THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT
MADE SO MANY REFERENCES TO THE
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HISTORY OF ISRAEL THAT IT WASN'T
UNTIL I WENT BACK AND READ AT
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LEAST FROM, YOU KNOW,
GENESIS THROUGH, YOU KNOW,
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1 AND 2 KINGS. THEN,
WHEN YOU READ THE NEW
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TESTAMENT, IT
MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE.
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AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS WITH
THE - THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH.
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IF YOU'RE GOING TO UNDERSTAND
JEREMIAH, YOU NEED SOME
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BACKGROUND IN WHAT WAS THE
CRISIS HE WAS DEALING WITH.
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JEREMIAH LIVED DURING THE TIME
WHERE THE PEOPLE OF GOD - THE
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SOUTHERN KINGDOM - WAS ON
THE VERGE OF BEING DESTROYED.
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THE TEMPLE WAS - I MEAN,
THERE WAS NO GREATER CATASTROPHE
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EXCEPT WHEN THE ROMANS DESTROYED
THE PEOPLE AND THE TEMPLE BACK
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IN THE DAYS OF 70 AD -
THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES.
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THIS WAS THE OTHER BIG TIME
WHERE, I MEAN, MAJOR JUDGMENT
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FELL ON GOD'S PEOPLE.
JEREMIAH IS THE PROPHET WHO
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FOREWARNED THIS AND
ACTUALLY LIVED THROUGH IT.
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WHAT BROUGHT THE PEOPLE OF
GOD TO THE PLACE WHERE GOD WOULD
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DEAL WITH THEM SO SEVERELY?
AND SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO
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BACK AND LOOK AT
SOME OF THE HISTORY.
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AND SO, IN OUR LESSON, IT
ACTUALLY TELLS US WE'RE GOING TO
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GO TO THE BOOK OF JUDGES AND SO
IF YOU'D TURN IN YOUR BIBLE TO
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THE BOOK OF JUDGES AND WE'LL BE
STARTING OUT WITH OH, LET ME SEE
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HERE, WE'LL BE GOING TO JUDGES
CHAPTER 2 - I THINK I'M GOING TO
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READ VERSES 1 TO 15 - JUDGES
2:1-15 - AND MAYBE I'LL START BY
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READING VERSES 1 TO 4. NOW
SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, WE'RE
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GOING TO ASK YOU TO HELP US.
YOU'RE GOING TO READ JUDGES 17:6
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- WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE THE NEXT
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THAT'LL BE SHARING A VERSE
WITH US. AND I'M GOING TO READ
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JUDGES 2:1-4, "THEN THE ANGEL OF
THE LORD CAME UP FROM GILGAL TO
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BOCHIM, AND SAID: 'I LED YOU
UP FROM EGYPT AND BROUGHT YOU TO
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THE LAND OF WHICH I SWORE
TO YOUR FATHERS; AND I SAID, 'I
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WILL NEVER BREAK
MY COVENANT WITH YOU.
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AND YOU SHALL MAKE NO COVENANT
WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THIS
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LAND; YOU SHALL
TEAR DOWN THEIR ALTARS.'
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BUT YOU HAVE NOT OBEYED MY
VOICE. WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS?
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THEREFORE I ALSO SAID, 'I WILL
NOT DRIVE THEM OUT BEFORE YOU;
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BUT THEY SHALL BE THORNS IN YOUR
SIDE, AND THEIR GODS SHALL BE A
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SNARE TO YOU.'' SO IT WAS,
WHEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SPOKE
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THESE WORDS TO ALL THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL, THAT THE PEOPLE
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LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES AND
WEPT." NOW IT'S INTERESTING,
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SOMETIMES GOD
SPEAKS THROUGH PROPHETS,
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HIS MESSENGERS, HIS JUDGES; HERE
GOD IS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO THE
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NATION THROUGH AN ANGEL.
AN ANGEL OF THE LORD SPOKE TO
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THE PEOPLE. MAY HAVE
BEEN JUST MEETING WITH
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SOME OF THE LEADERS.
THERE WAS A PROBLEM THAT HAPPENS
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IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES AND
WE'VE PROBABLY QUOTED THIS.
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EVEN PEOPLE IN THE
WORLD HAVE QUOTED THIS -
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MAYBE DIDN'T KNOW
WHERE IT CAME FROM.
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IF YOU LOOK IN DEUTERONOMY 12,
VERSE 8 - DON'T LOSE YOUR PLACE
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IN JUDGES 2, BUT IN DEUTERONOMY
12, VERSE 8 - LAST BOOK OF MOSES
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- HE SAID, 'YOU WILL NOT DO ALL
AS WE ARE DOING HERE TODAY' -
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HE'S TALKING TO THE PEOPLE
BEFORE THEY ENTER THE PROMISED
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LAND - EVERY MAN DOING WHAT IS
RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES.' WHAT IS
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RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES.
YOU EVER HEARD THAT EXPRESSION
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BEFORE? EVERY MAN
DOES WHAT'S RIGHT IN
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HIS OWN EYES. THAT
EXPRESSION BECAME FAMOUS
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DURING THE TIME OF JUDGES.
MOSES FOREWARNED - HE SAID,
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'WHEN YOU ENTER INTO THE
PROMISED LAND, DON'T DO LIKE
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YOU'RE DOING NOW WHERE EVERY
MAN DOES WHAT'S RIGHT IN HIS OWN
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EYES. WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THAT?
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WE'LL, BEFORE THEY ENTERED INTO
THE PROMISED LAND, GOD SAID,
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'WHEN YOU ENTER, I WILL TELL
YOU WHERE AND HOW TO BRING YOUR
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OFFERINGS. I
WILL SPECIFY A PLACE.
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THAT PLACE WAS LATER JERUSALEM.
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THAT WAS THE
CENTRAL PLACE OF OFFERINGS.
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IN THE WILDERNESS,
THEY KIND OF WANDERED.
00:19:11.35\00:19:13.52
THEY BROUGHT THEM TO THE
TABERNACLE, BUT IT WAS A LITTLE
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DIFFERENT - A LITTLE MORE
RELAXED - AND HE SAID, 'DON'T
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EVERY MAN DO WHAT IS
RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES.
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HE'S TALKING SPECIFICALLY
ABOUT WORSHIP THERE.
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WELL, WHEN YOU GET TO THE
BOOK OF JUDGES, WHAT HAPPENED?
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LET'S GO AHEAD AND
READ JUDGES 17, VERSE 6.
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>>"IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS
NO KING IN ISRAEL; EVERYONE DID
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WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES."
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>>AND SO, YOU EVER HEARD
ABOUT THE WILD, WILD, WEST?
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AND, YOU KNOW, THEY - AS THE
GREAT AMERICAN WEST WAS BEING
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SETTLED - NOW, IN - IN LEGEND
IT'S OFTEN BIGGER THAN REALITY,
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BUT IT IS TRUE THAT AS THE WEST
WAS BEING SETTLED, THERE WERE
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SOME TOWNS THAT SPRANG
UP THAT ACTUALLY HAD NO LAW.
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THERE WERE NO SHERIFFS, THERE
WERE NO DEPUTIES, THERE WERE NO
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POLICEMEN, AND IT'S - THEY
CALLED IT THE LAW OF THE WEST -
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THE RULE OF THE WEST -
AND EVERY MAN KIND OF DID
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WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES.
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DURING THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
- AND, OF COURSE, HERE IN THE
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SACRAMENTO AREA WE'RE JUST RIGHT
IN THE VERY CRUCIBLE OF THAT
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HISTORY, PEOPLE MIGRATED SO
QUICKLY THAT THERE WERE TOWNS
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THAT SPRANG UP AND THERE WAS
NO LAW. THERE WERE NO JUDGES AND
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PEOPLE JUST HAD TO BE GOVERNED
BY THEIR OWN MORALS AND YOU
00:20:30.06\00:20:34.13
HOPED THAT WHOEVER WAS LARGE
AND IN CHARGE HAD SOME MORALS.
00:20:34.20\00:20:38.10
WELL, THAT'S THE WAY IT
WAS IN ISRAEL, THEY QUICKLY
00:20:38.13\00:20:40.67
DISPOSSESSED
THESE OTHER NATIONS.
00:20:40.70\00:20:42.44
THEY ALL CLAIMED THEIR
TERRITORY, THEY DIVIDED THE LAND
00:20:42.47\00:20:44.41
AMONG THE TRIBES, THERE WAS NO
KING - THEY DID HAVE THE LEVITES
00:20:44.44\00:20:48.34
THAT DID THEIR BEST TO TEACH,
BUT FOR THE MOST PART EVERY MAN
00:20:48.38\00:20:51.55
DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS
OWN EYES. AND THEY BEGAN TO BE
00:20:51.58\00:20:57.05
INFLUENCED BY THE OTHER NATIONS
AND STARTED TO APOSTASIZE.
00:20:57.09\00:21:01.72
NOW YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THAT
PHRASE 'WHATEVER WAS RIGHT IN
00:21:01.76\00:21:05.36
THEIR OWN EYES' IN THE
BOOK OF JUDGES, SEVERAL TIMES.
00:21:05.39\00:21:10.13
NOW THEY DON'T DO IT AFTER THEY
GET A KING, BUT BEFORE THEY HAD
00:21:10.17\00:21:13.30
A KING, BEFORE THEY HAD THE
CAREFUL LAW AND THE JUDGES AND
00:21:13.34\00:21:16.84
ADMINISTRATORS, PEOPLE WERE SORT
OF MAKING UP THE RULES AS THEY
00:21:16.87\00:21:20.54
WENT ALONG. I WANT TO
GO BACK HERE AND READ,
00:21:20.58\00:21:25.51
AGAIN, IN JUDGES CHAPTER 2,
JUST TO GIVE YOU THE HISTORY.
00:21:25.55\00:21:29.72
SO THE PEOPLE WEPT WHEN THE LORD
TOLD THEM THAT THEY HAD DONE
00:21:29.75\00:21:34.69
THIS AND THAT TAKES US TO
VERSE 4 IN JUDGES CHAPTER 2.
00:21:34.72\00:21:38.93
I'M GOING TO READ ON.
WE'RE STILL IN JUDGES CHAPTER 2
00:21:38.96\00:21:44.77
AND IT SAYS HERE IN VERSE 5,
"THEN THEY CALLED THE NAME OF
00:21:44.80\00:21:48.97
THAT PLACE BOSHIM; AND THEY
SACRIFICED THERE TO THE LORD.
00:21:49.00\00:21:52.04
AND WHEN JOSHUA" -
JOSHUA'S STILL ALIVE - HE
00:21:52.07\00:21:54.94
"...DISMISSED...THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL WENT EACH TO THEIR
00:21:54.98\00:21:57.71
OWN INHERITANCE
TO POSSESS THE LAND.
00:21:57.75\00:22:00.18
SO THE PEOPLE SERVED THE LORD
ALL THE DAYS OF JOSHUA, AND ALL
00:22:00.22\00:22:03.25
THE DAYS OF THE ELDERS WHO
OUTLIVED JOSHUA, WHO HAD SEEN
00:22:03.28\00:22:06.52
ALL THE GREAT WORKS OF THE LORD
WHICH HE HAD DONE FOR ISRAEL."
00:22:06.55\00:22:09.19
NOW YOU REALIZE, EVEN
THOUGH, AS THEY WENT THROUGH THE
00:22:09.22\00:22:12.66
WILDERNESS, EVERYBODY FROM
20 YEARS OLD AND UPWARD DIED,
00:22:12.69\00:22:17.87
EXCEPT JOSHUA AND CALEB.
THAT'S - YOU FIND THAT IN
00:22:17.90\00:22:20.64
NUMBERS CHAPTERS 13 AND 14,
BECAUSE OF THEIR LOSS OF FAITH.
00:22:20.67\00:22:23.97
THERE WERE STILL PEOPLE - HOW
MANY OF YOU REMEMBER - WHAT'S
00:22:24.01\00:22:27.58
YOUR EARLIEST
MEMORY? HOW OLD WERE YOU?
00:22:27.61\00:22:29.54
ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN
YOU WERE TEN YEARS OLD?
00:22:29.58\00:22:31.61
I HOPE EVERYBODY CAN REMEMBER
SOMETHING ABOUT WHEN YOU WERE
00:22:31.65\00:22:35.25
TEN YEARS OLD. I -
JUST - THERE'S A CHANCE.
00:22:35.28\00:22:36.95
SOME OF YOU DON'T REMEMBER
YESTERDAY AND IT'S OKAY.
00:22:36.99\00:22:40.56
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER
SOMETHING FROM WHEN YOU WERE
00:22:40.59\00:22:43.63
FIVE YEARS OLD? I'VE GOT
A COUPLE FLEETING MEMORIES.
00:22:43.66\00:22:46.49
ANY OF YOU REMEMBER SOMETHING
FROM WHEN YOU'RE THREE YEARS
00:22:46.53\00:22:49.96
OLD? A COUPLE. TWO?
YOU JUST THINK YOU REMEMBER
00:22:50.00\00:22:56.24
SOMETHING FROM
WHEN YOU'RE TWO IS ALL.
00:22:56.27\00:22:59.07
YOU SAW A PICTURE
YOUR PARENTS SHOWED YOU.
00:22:59.11\00:23:00.98
YOU SAID, 'I REMEMBER THAT.' NO
YOU MAY HAVE; I'M JUST TEASING,
00:23:01.01\00:23:04.95
BUT YOU DON'T GO MUCH FURTHER
BACK THAN THAT UNLESS YOU'RE A
00:23:04.98\00:23:07.15
REAL PRODIGY, BUT THERE WERE
PEOPLE WHO LIVED WITH JOSHUA
00:23:07.18\00:23:12.02
THAT WERE 18, 15, 13
YEARS OLD THAT REMEMBERED EGYPT.
00:23:12.05\00:23:18.13
THEY REMEMBERED THE PLAGUES.
THEY REMEMBERED THE RED SEA
00:23:18.16\00:23:21.63
PARTING. THEY
REMEMBERED THE JORDAN
00:23:21.66\00:23:24.27
PARTING AND AS JOSHUA DIED OFF -
YOU KNOW, MOSES LIVED A HUNDRED
00:23:24.30\00:23:28.74
AND TWENTY, AARON'S A HUNDRED
AND TWENTY-TWO OR A HUNDRED AND
00:23:28.77\00:23:31.74
TWENTY-THREE. SOME
OF THEM OUTLIVED JOSHUA,
00:23:31.77\00:23:33.81
JOSHUA WAS ONLY
A HUNDRED AND TEN.
00:23:33.84\00:23:35.74
SO FOR TEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS
AFTER JOSHUA, SOME OF THE ELDERS
00:23:35.78\00:23:39.48
WHO HAD REMEMBERED THE ENTIRE
EXODUS, THAT GENERATION DIED
00:23:39.51\00:23:43.52
OFF. AND THEN
THINGS BEGAN TO CHANGE.
00:23:43.55\00:23:47.52
THE ONES WHO HAD LOST THE VISION
- THE MIRACLE - THE PRESENCE OF
00:23:47.56\00:23:52.03
GOD - THE AWESOMENESS
OF THEIR DELIVERANCE.
00:23:52.06\00:23:54.46
THEN ANOTHER GENERATION CAME AND
THEY SAID, YOU KNOW, YEAH, THIS
00:23:54.50\00:23:58.70
- 'WE'RE AN INSTITUTION NOW AND
YEAH, OUR PARENTS WERE EXCITED
00:23:58.73\00:24:02.14
ABOUT SOMETHING AND WE DON'T
REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS.'
00:24:02.17\00:24:04.64
THEY DIDN'T SEE ALL THE MIRACLES
AND THOSE GENERATIONS PASSED ON
00:24:04.67\00:24:07.78
- THINGS BEGAN TO CHANGE.
"NOW JOSHUA, THE SON OF NUN, THE
00:24:07.81\00:24:14.45
SERVANT OF THE LORD, DIED WHEN
HE WAS ONE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS
00:24:14.48\00:24:17.02
OLD. AND THEY
BURIED HIM WITHIN THE
00:24:17.05\00:24:18.99
BORDER OF HIS INHERITANCE AT
TIMNATH HERES, IN THE MOUNTAINS
00:24:19.02\00:24:21.69
OF EPHRAIM, ON THE
NORTH SIDE OF MOUNT GAASH.
00:24:21.72\00:24:24.03
WHEN ALL THAT GENERATION HAD
BEEN GATHERED TO THEIR FATHERS,"
00:24:24.06\00:24:26.56
- YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS -
DIED AND THEY'RE BURIED IN THEIR
00:24:26.59\00:24:29.70
TERRITORIES - "ANOTHER
GENERATION AROSE AFTER THEM WHO
00:24:29.73\00:24:32.97
DID NOT KNOW THE LORD NOR
THE WORK WHICH HE HAD DONE FOR
00:24:33.00\00:24:35.84
ISRAEL THEN THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF
00:24:35.87\00:24:39.71
THE LORD, AND SERVED THE BAALS;
AND THEY FORSOOK THE LORD GOD OF
00:24:39.74\00:24:44.01
THEIR FATHERS, WHO HAD BROUGHT
THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT;
00:24:44.05\00:24:46.88
AND THEY FOLLOWED OTHER
GODS FROM AMONG THE GODS OF THE
00:24:46.92\00:24:49.48
PEOPLE WHO WERE ALL AROUND THEM,
AND THEY BOWED DOWN TO THEM; AND
00:24:49.52\00:24:53.66
THEY" - NOTICE, THEY BEGAN
TO SERVE THE GODS AROUND THEM.
00:24:53.69\00:24:56.99
THEY WERE INFLUENCED BY THEIR
CULTURE - THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
00:24:57.03\00:25:00.06
"THEY BOWED DOWN TO THEM AND
THEY PROVOKED THE LORD TO ANGER.
00:25:00.10\00:25:03.77
THEY FORSOOK THE LORD AND
SERVED BAAL AND THE ASHTORETHS."
00:25:03.80\00:25:06.57
- THAT'S THE FEMALE GODS OF BAAL
- "AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS
00:25:06.60\00:25:11.24
HOT AGAINST ISRAEL. SO
HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE
00:25:11.27\00:25:13.64
HANDS OF PLUNDERERS WHO
DESPOILED THEM; AND HE SOLD THEM
00:25:13.68\00:25:17.45
INTO THE HANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES
ALL AROUND, SO THAT THEY COULD
00:25:17.48\00:25:20.32
NO LONGER STAND
BEFORE THEIR ENEMIES.
00:25:20.35\00:25:22.65
WHEREVER THEY WENT OUT, THE HAND
OF THE LORD WAS AGAINST THEM FOR
00:25:22.68\00:25:25.85
CALAMITY, AS THE LORD HAD SAID,
AND AS THE LORD HAD SWORN TO
00:25:25.89\00:25:29.99
THEM. AND THEY WERE
GREATLY DISTRESSED."
00:25:30.03\00:25:31.86
SO, GRADUALLY, AS THE GENERATION
THAT HAD THE REVIVAL THAT WAS -
00:25:31.89\00:25:38.20
EXPERIENCED THE MOVEMENT THAT
SAW THAT - AS THEY DIED OFF,
00:25:38.23\00:25:42.40
THEY BEGAN TO LOOK FOR - INSTEAD
OF LOOKING TO GOD'S WORD, AND
00:25:42.44\00:25:46.51
LOOKING TO THEIR HISTORY AND
THEIR ROOTS, THEY BEGAN TO LOOK
00:25:46.54\00:25:49.11
AROUND AND WHAT WAS HAPPENING
WITH THE OTHER NATIONS THAT
00:25:49.14\00:25:51.51
SURROUNDED THEM, THEY BEGAN TO
SHOP WITH THESE PEOPLE, HANG OUT
00:25:51.55\00:25:55.05
WITH THESE PEOPLE, WORK
WITH THESE PEOPLE - BECAME VERY
00:25:55.08\00:25:57.62
CLOSE. LOOK AT
THE STORY OF SAMSON.
00:25:57.65\00:25:59.32
I MEAN HE - GOD RAISED HIM UP
TO DELIVER THE PEOPLE FROM THE -
00:25:59.35\00:26:02.82
THE PHILISTINES AND HE ENDED
UP WANTING TO MARRY A PHILISTINE
00:26:02.86\00:26:07.23
AND THEN AFTER THAT FELL APART
AND THEN HE - HE JUST MOVED IN
00:26:07.23\00:26:10.17
WITH DELILAH, ANOTHER
PHILISTINE. THE VERY PEOPLE
00:26:10.20\00:26:12.87
HE WAS SUPPOSED TO
DESTROY, HE BECAME FRIENDS WITH.
00:26:12.90\00:26:17.34
COULD THAT HAPPEN TO THE
CHURCH IN OUR WORLD TODAY?
00:26:17.37\00:26:21.14
WHERE YOU FORGET YOUR ROOTS, YOU
LOSE THE FIRE OF THE MOVEMENT,
00:26:21.18\00:26:24.65
YOU FORGET THE REASON FOR THE
MOVEMENT AND YOU START TO TRY TO
00:26:24.68\00:26:27.25
BE LIKE THE GODS AROUND YOU
AND THE NATIONS AROUND YOU AND,
00:26:27.28\00:26:30.02
INSTEAD OF BEING DEFINED BY THE
WORD OF GOD AND HIS PROPHETS,
00:26:30.05\00:26:33.12
YOU BECOME DEFINED BY
WHAT'S CULTURALLY RELEVANT.
00:26:33.15\00:26:36.86
SO THAT'S WHY THIS STUDY OF
JEREMIAH IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US
00:26:36.89\00:26:40.33
- AND THIS IS IN THE LESSON,
I'M NOT JUST - YOU THINK, 'WELL,
00:26:40.36\00:26:42.30
PASTOR DOUG'S
RIDING ON HIS HOBBY HORSE.'
00:26:42.33\00:26:43.93
NO, MY HOBBY HORSE IS
IN THE LESSON THIS TIME.
00:26:43.97\00:26:45.67
(LAUGHTER) AND MY HOBBY HORSE IS
THAT WE GET BACK TO THE MOVEMENT
00:26:45.70\00:26:49.10
THAT DEFINED US AS A PEOPLE
- GET BACK TO THE WORD - THE
00:26:49.14\00:26:52.57
REFORMATION PRINCIPLES AND
DO NOT BE DEFINED BY AN EVER
00:26:52.61\00:26:56.11
DOWNWARDLY EVOLVING CULTURE,
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT GOD'S PEOPLE
00:26:56.14\00:27:01.58
DID IN THE PAST.
AND SO THEY DRIFTED INTO
00:27:01.62\00:27:04.12
UNFAITHFULNESS. IT
SAYS THEY DID EVIL.
00:27:04.15\00:27:07.42
NOW THERE'S A QUESTION; ON THE
BOTTOM OF PAGE 2 IN YOUR LESSON,
00:27:07.46\00:27:12.23
UNDER QUICK HISTORY - I WANT
TO READ THIS QUESTION TO YOU.
00:27:12.26\00:27:15.60
THINK ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF THE
NEXT GENERATION, NOT HAVING THE
00:27:15.63\00:27:18.80
VALUES AND BELIEFS
OF THE ONE BEFORE IT.
00:27:18.83\00:27:21.80
HOW HAVE WE, AS A
CHURCH, DEALT WITH THIS ISSUE?
00:27:21.84\00:27:25.54
HOW CAN WE LEARN TO TRANSMIT OUR
VALUES - AND I HOPE THEY'RE THE
00:27:25.57\00:27:29.34
BIBLE VALUES, NOT JUST
BECAUSE IT'S OUR VALUES,
00:27:29.38\00:27:31.68
TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW US.
YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT THIS WOULD
00:27:31.71\00:27:35.25
BE A GOOD PLACE TO READ
SOMETHING YOU MAY OR MAY NOT
00:27:35.28\00:27:37.32
HAVE HEARD BEFORE. HAVE
ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD - IT
00:27:37.35\00:27:39.92
WAS SO WELL AND SO PERCEPTIVE -
SO WELL WRITTEN THAT IT KIND OF
00:27:39.95\00:27:44.49
MADE ITS WAY TO THE INTERNET AND
MADE THE ROUNDS. IT'S AN APPEAL.
00:27:44.53\00:27:48.26
IT'S THE LAST SERMON OF A
GENERAL CONFERENCE PRESIDENT OF
00:27:48.30\00:27:52.00
THE SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH NAMED ROBERT H.
00:27:52.03\00:27:54.50
PIERRSON AND IT WAS SORT OF
HIS CONCLUDING MESSAGE TO THE
00:27:54.54\00:27:58.81
DELEGATES AFTER HE HAD
SERVED OUT ALL OF HIS TERMS.
00:27:58.84\00:28:01.68
HE SERVED ALMOST AS MUCH -
MATTER OF FACT, ROBERT PIERSON
00:28:01.71\00:28:04.95
1911 TO 1989 WAS A GENERAL
CONFERENCE PRESIDENT FROM 1966
00:28:04.98\00:28:10.19
TO 1979. THE ONLY
ONE WHO SERVED LONGER
00:28:10.22\00:28:13.36
WAS A.J. DANIELS. HE
WAS A PROLIFIC WRITER.
00:28:13.39\00:28:16.42
HE'S CREDITED WITH AUTHORING 28
BOOKS - MANY OF THEM TRANSLATED
00:28:16.46\00:28:20.13
INTO MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
- AND HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES.
00:28:20.16\00:28:22.70
SHORTLY BEFORE HIS RETIREMENT HE
DELIVERED THIS EARNEST APPEAL TO
00:28:22.73\00:28:26.60
THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD CHURCH
GATHERED FOR AN ANNUAL COUNCIL
00:28:26.63\00:28:29.44
MEETING - I SAID GENERAL
CONFERENCE; IT WAS ACTUALLY AN
00:28:29.47\00:28:32.01
ANNUAL COUNCIL
MEETING - OCTOBER 15, 1978.
00:28:32.04\00:28:35.94
HIS MESSAGE
SEEMS ALMOST PROPHETIC.
00:28:35.98\00:28:38.01
THIS IS THE MESSAGE
ELDER PIERSON GAVE IN 1978 -
00:28:38.05\00:28:41.28
WHAT, 37 YEARS AGO. YOU
TELL ME IF YOU THINK IT'S A
00:28:41.32\00:28:43.72
RELEVANT MESSAGE. "THIS
WILL BE THE LAST TIME, IN
00:28:43.75\00:28:49.12
MY PRESENT ROLE, THAT I STAND
BEFORE YOU, THE WORLD LEADERS OF
00:28:49.16\00:28:52.19
MY CHURCH, YOUR CHURCH, OUR
CHURCH; AND I HAVE A FEW WORDS
00:28:52.23\00:28:55.73
TO LEAVE WITH YOU. I
TAKE MY THOUGHTS FROM
00:28:55.76\00:28:58.33
SOMETHING ELDER AND MRS. RALPH
NEALL HAD WRITTEN DESCRIBING HOW
00:28:58.37\00:29:01.50
TYPICALLY A SECT - A MOVEMENT
- EVOLVES INTO A CHURCH.
00:29:01.54\00:29:05.57
THEY SAY THAT A SECT OFTEN
BEGINS BY A CHARISMATIC LEADER
00:29:05.61\00:29:09.18
WITH TREMENDOUS DRIVE AND
COMMITMENT; THAT IT ARISES AS A
00:29:09.21\00:29:11.91
PROTEST AGAINST THE WORLDLINESS
AND THE FORMALISM THAT IS
00:29:11.95\00:29:15.22
UNPOPULAR AND DESPISED.
IT'S PERSECUTED BY SOCIETY IN
00:29:15.25\00:29:18.69
GENERAL. IT HAS
DEFINITE BELIEFS FIRMLY
00:29:18.72\00:29:21.72
HELD BY ZEALOUS MEMBERS.
EACH MEMBER MAKES A PERSONAL
00:29:21.76\00:29:25.13
DECISION TO JOIN IT
AND KNOWS WHAT HE BELIEVES.
00:29:25.16\00:29:28.10
THERE'S LITTLE ORGANIZATION
OR PROPERTY AND THERE ARE FEW
00:29:28.13\00:29:31.57
BUILDINGS. THE
GROUP HAS STRICT STANDARDS
00:29:31.60\00:29:33.50
AND CONTROL ON BEHAVIOR.
PREACHERS, OFTEN WITHOUT
00:29:33.54\00:29:36.77
EDUCATION - OR AT LEAST FORMAL
- THERE'S LITTLE CONCERN ABOUT
00:29:36.81\00:29:41.64
PUBLIC RELATIONS -
IT IS MESSAGE DRIVEN.
00:29:41.68\00:29:45.38
AND THEN IT PASSES ON
TO THE SECOND GENERATION.
00:29:45.41\00:29:48.42
WITH GROWTH THERE COMES THE NEED
FOR ORGANIZATION AND BUILDINGS.
00:29:48.45\00:29:52.19
AS A RESULT OF INDUSTRY
AND FRUGALITY, MEMBERS BECOME
00:29:52.22\00:29:55.19
PROSPEROUS. AS
PROSPERITY INCREASES,
00:29:55.22\00:29:57.56
PERSECUTION BEGINS TO WANE.
CHILDREN BORN INTO THE MOVEMENT
00:29:57.59\00:30:00.96
DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE THE SAME
PERSONAL DECISIONS TO JOIN IT,
00:30:01.00\00:30:04.40
NOR DO THEY NECESSARILY
KNOW WHAT THEY BELIEVE.
00:30:04.43\00:30:06.84
THEY DO NOT NEED TO
HAMMER OUT THEIR OWN POSITIONS.
00:30:06.87\00:30:09.40
THESE HAVE BEEN WORKED OUT FOR
THEM. PREACHERS ARISE MORE BY
00:30:09.44\00:30:12.61
SELECTION AND BY APPRENTICESHIP
TO OLDER WORKERS THAN BY DIRECT
00:30:12.64\00:30:17.98
INNER COMPULSION AND DRIVE.
IN THE THIRD GENERATION" -
00:30:18.01\00:30:21.35
MOVING DOWN THE LINE NOW
- "ORGANIZATION DEVELOPS AND
00:30:21.38\00:30:25.05
INSTITUTIONS ARE ESTABLISHED.
THE NEED IS SEEN FOR SCHOOLS TO
00:30:25.09\00:30:27.96
PASS ON THE
FAITH OF THE FATHERS.
00:30:27.99\00:30:29.89
COLLEGES ARE ESTABLISHED THAT
TURN INTO UNIVERSITIES, MEMBERS
00:30:29.92\00:30:33.16
HAVE BEEN EXHORTED TO LIVE UP TO
THE STANDARDS, WHILE AT THE SAME
00:30:33.19\00:30:35.70
TIME, THE STANDARDS OF THE
MEMBERSHIP ARE BEING LOWERED TO
00:30:35.73\00:30:38.40
MAKE IT MORE
APPEALING TO OTHERS.
00:30:38.43\00:30:40.77
THE GROUP BECOMES LAX
ABOUT DISFELLOWSHIPING
00:30:40.80\00:30:43.54
NON-PARTICIPATING MEMBERS.
MISSIONARY ZEAL COOLS OFF.
00:30:43.57\00:30:46.98
THERE'S MORE CONCERN
OVER PUBLIC RELATIONS.
00:30:47.01\00:30:49.31
LEADERS STUDY METHODS
OF PROPAGATING THEIR FAITH,
00:30:49.34\00:30:52.51
SOMETIMES EMPLOYING
THE EXTRINSIC REWARDS AS
00:30:52.55\00:30:55.42
MOTIVATION FOR
SERVICE BY ITS MEMBERS.
00:30:55.45\00:30:57.69
YOUTH BEGIN TO QUESTION WHY THEY
ARE DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS AND
00:30:57.72\00:31:00.29
INTERMARRY WITH
THOSE NOT OF THEIR FAITH.
00:31:00.32\00:31:03.22
THE FOURTH GENERATION
THERE'S MUCH MACHINERY.
00:31:03.26\00:31:06.59
THE NUMBERS OF ADMINISTRATORS
INCREASE, WHILE THE NUMBERS OF
00:31:06.63\00:31:09.50
WORKERS AT THE GRASS ROOTS
BECOMES PROPORTIONATELY LESS.
00:31:09.53\00:31:11.80
GREAT CHURCH COUNSELS
ARE HELD TO DEFINE DOCTRINE.
00:31:11.83\00:31:15.57
MORE SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES,
AND SEMINARIES ARE ESTABLISHED.
00:31:15.60\00:31:19.21
THESE GO TO THE WORLD
FOR ACCREDITATION AND TEND TO
00:31:19.24\00:31:22.18
BECOMES SECULARIZED.
THERE IS A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE
00:31:22.21\00:31:26.08
POSITIONS AND A
MODERNIZING OF METHODS.
00:31:26.11\00:31:28.98
ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO
CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, AND WITH
00:31:29.02\00:31:31.12
INTEREST IN THE ARTS, MUSIC,
ARCHITECTURE, AND LITERATURE.
00:31:31.15\00:31:34.22
THE MOVEMENT SEEKS TO BECOME
RELEVANT TO ITS SOCIETY AND
00:31:34.26\00:31:37.63
BECOMES INVOLVED IN POPULAR
CAUSES. SERVICES BECOME FORMAL.
00:31:37.66\00:31:43.16
THE GROUP ENJOYS COMPLETE
ACCEPTANCE BY THE WORLD.
00:31:43.20\00:31:46.07
IT HAS GRAVITATED
FROM A SECT TO A CHURCH."
00:31:46.10\00:31:49.27
THEN HE APPEALS. I
WON'T READ THE WHOLE THING
00:31:49.30\00:31:52.27
BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TIME.
"BRETHREN AND SISTERS, THIS MUST
00:31:52.31\00:31:55.18
NEVER HAPPEN TO THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
00:31:55.21\00:31:57.51
THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN TO THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
00:31:57.55\00:32:00.05
IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER
CHURCH, IT IS GOD'S CHURCH.
00:32:00.08\00:32:02.62
YOU ARE, THE MEN AND WOMEN
SITTING IN THIS SANCTUARY THIS
00:32:02.65\00:32:06.19
MORNING, ON WHOM GOD IS COUNTING
TO ASSURE THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN.
00:32:06.22\00:32:09.29
ALREADY, BRETHREN AND SISTERS,
THERE ARE SUBTLE FORCES THAT ARE
00:32:09.32\00:32:12.86
BEGINNING TO STIR.
REGRETTABLY, THERE ARE THOSE IN
00:32:12.89\00:32:15.73
THE CHURCH WHO BELITTLE THE
INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE, WHO
00:32:15.76\00:32:18.70
SCORN THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS
OF GENESIS, WHO QUESTION THE
00:32:18.73\00:32:22.20
SPIRIT OF PROPHECY'S SHORT
CHRONOLOGY OF THE EARTH, AND WHO
00:32:22.24\00:32:25.31
SUBTLY AND NOT SO SUBTLY
ATTACK THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.
00:32:25.34\00:32:27.98
THERE ARE SOME WHO POINT TO
THE REFORMERS AND CONTEMPORARY
00:32:28.01\00:32:30.78
THEOLOGIANS AS A SOURCE AND THE
NORM FOR SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
00:32:30.81\00:32:34.62
DOCTRINE. THERE
ARE THOSE WHO ALLEGEDLY
00:32:34.65\00:32:36.79
ARE TIRED OF THE HACK AND
PHRASES OF ADVENTISM AND WHO
00:32:36.82\00:32:39.59
WISH TO FORGET THE
STANDARDS OF THE CHURCH WE LOVE.
00:32:39.62\00:32:42.79
THERE ARE THOSE WHO COVET THE
WORLD AND COURT THE FAVOR OF THE
00:32:42.82\00:32:45.59
EVANGELICALS; WHO WOULD, EVEN
NOW, THROW OFF THE MANTLE OF
00:32:45.63\00:32:48.60
BEING A PECULIAR PEOPLE, AND
THOSE WHO WOULD GO THE WAY OF
00:32:48.63\00:32:51.37
SECULAR MATERIALISTIC WORLD."
WELL, I COULD READ A LOT MORE.
00:32:51.40\00:32:57.87
IT GOES ON. IT'S VERY
- IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE
00:32:57.91\00:33:00.68
THIS WAS WRITTEN 37 YEARS AGO.
PRETTY ACCURATELY DEFINES WHAT
00:33:00.71\00:33:04.01
IS HAPPENING TODAY. YOU
KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, THE
00:33:04.05\00:33:06.65
BIBLE SAYS 'UNTO THE
THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION'.
00:33:06.68\00:33:08.72
A MOVEMENT BEGINS - YOU
LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE
00:33:08.75\00:33:11.79
METHODISTS - JOHN WESLEY
- THEY'RE CALLED METHODISTS
00:33:11.82\00:33:15.79
BECAUSE THEY WERE SO METHODICAL
ABOUT BEING REGIMENTED AND
00:33:15.82\00:33:19.73
CONSERVATIVE AND GODLY AND
HOLY AND PURE PEOPLE, THAT THEY
00:33:19.76\00:33:25.33
DEFINED EVERY DETAIL OF THEIR
LIVES - HOW THEY SPENT THEIR
00:33:25.37\00:33:28.47
TIME - AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN
THEY DID THAT THEY SPREAD LIKE
00:33:28.50\00:33:31.04
WILDFIRE BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHAT
THEY BELIEVED. THEY KNEW HOW TO
00:33:31.07\00:33:33.78
TELL OTHER PEOPLE WHAT
THEY BELIEVED. THEY WERE ON FIRE
00:33:33.81\00:33:35.91
ABOUT THE REASONS WHY THEY
BELIEVED WHAT THEY BELIEVED AND
00:33:35.94\00:33:38.81
IT BECAME A MOVEMENT OF
HOLINESS AND PURITY THAT SPREAD.
00:33:38.85\00:33:44.12
BUT IF JOHN WESLEY COULD BE
RESURRECTED TODAY, AFTER THREE
00:33:44.15\00:33:49.06
OR FOUR GENERATIONS, THEY
WENT THROUGH THE VERY SAME
00:33:49.09\00:33:51.79
TRANSITIONS THAT
PIERSON DESCRIBED HERE.
00:33:51.83\00:33:56.60
THEY GRADUALLY GREW INTO AN
INSTITUTION, THEN A CHURCH, AND
00:33:56.63\00:33:59.30
THEN THEY JUST SORT OF MELTED
INTO THE CULTURE WHERE THEY
00:33:59.33\00:34:02.30
BECAME IRRELEVANT BECAUSE
YOU COULD NOT SEE THE DIFFERENCE
00:34:02.34\00:34:04.91
BETWEEN THEM AND
THE WORLD AROUND THEM.
00:34:04.94\00:34:07.71
EVEN TODAY THERE ARE SEVERAL
FRAGMENTS OF THE METHODIST
00:34:07.74\00:34:10.68
CHURCH BECAUSE, AS THE CHURCH AT
LARGE COMPROMISES WITH THE WORLD
00:34:10.71\00:34:14.32
- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SAME-SEX
CLERGY - JUST A LOT OF OTHER
00:34:14.35\00:34:19.05
THINGS LIKE THAT. THOSE
WHO WANT TO BE FAITHFUL TO
00:34:19.09\00:34:21.62
THE ORIGINAL MOVEMENT, THOSE WHO
STILL KNOW WHAT IT IS, THEY KEEP
00:34:21.66\00:34:24.26
SPLITTING OFF,
FORMING NEW DENOMINATIONS.
00:34:24.29\00:34:27.50
IT'S HAPPENED WITH THE BAPTISTS
- THE BAPTISTS WERE A VERY
00:34:27.56\00:34:30.47
CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE WHEN
THEY WERE FORMED. THEY DIED FOR
00:34:30.50\00:34:34.60
SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS
BAPTISM BY IMMERSION. JUST LIKE
00:34:34.64\00:34:38.21
ADVENTISTS, DURING WORLD WARS I
AND II, DIED BECAUSE THEY WOULD
00:34:38.24\00:34:41.94
NOT PICK UP A SHOVEL ON
SABBATH WHEN ORDERED TO DO IT.
00:34:41.98\00:34:45.45
I MEAN, THEY WERE PEOPLE
WHO KNEW WHAT THEY BELIEVED.
00:34:45.48\00:34:47.52
THEY WERE WILLING TO
DIE FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVED.
00:34:47.55\00:34:49.78
BUT AS TIME GOES BY, THE
SAME THING THAT HAPPENED TO THE
00:34:49.82\00:34:53.19
PEOPLE OF GOD - IT'S HARD TO
BELIEVE YOU COULD BE PART OF A
00:34:53.22\00:34:55.62
MOVEMENT WHERE THE RED SEA OPENS
AND ALL THESE PLAGUES, AND FED
00:34:55.66\00:35:01.06
BY BREAD FROM HEAVEN,
AND ALL THESE MIRACLES.
00:35:01.10\00:35:04.03
AND YOU COME INTO THE PROMISED
LAND AND GOD SAYS, THROUGH
00:35:04.07\00:35:06.37
MOSES, 'DO NOT COMPROMISE
WITH THE NATIONS AROUND YOU.
00:35:06.40\00:35:09.90
DO NOT INTERMARRY WITH THEM.
DO NOT LET THEM INFLUENCE WITH
00:35:09.94\00:35:12.27
YOU BECAUSE YOU'LL FORGET
THE LORD IN NO TIME AT ALL.'
00:35:12.31\00:35:16.14
DID IT HAPPEN TO
THEM? DOES IT STILL HAPPEN?
00:35:16.18\00:35:21.52
HAS IT HAPPENED TO
OTHER MOVEMENTS BEFORE US?
00:35:21.55\00:35:23.39
ARE WE IMMUNE TO THOSE
FORCES OR COULD IT HAPPEN TO US?
00:35:23.42\00:35:26.99
THIS IS WHAT THIS
LESSON IS TALKING ABOUT.
00:35:27.02\00:35:30.06
THIS IS WHY JEREMIAH WAS SENT,
BECAUSE HE WAS SENT TO A CHURCH
00:35:30.09\00:35:34.00
THAT HAD MADE THESE
TERRIBLE COMPROMISES.
00:35:34.03\00:35:36.50
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO GO
TO THE NEXT SECTION UNDER TWO
00:35:36.53\00:35:39.40
KINGDOMS . IN A
MOMENT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO
00:35:39.43\00:35:41.24
READ 2 KINGS 13:11.
THAT'LL BE YOU, OKAY?
00:35:41.27\00:35:44.51
1 KINGS 1 - I'M
SORRY, 1 KINGS 12, VERSE 25.
00:35:44.54\00:35:49.31
NOW WE TALKED ABOUT THE
COMPROMISE DURING THE TIME OF
00:35:49.34\00:35:53.21
JUDGES. FINALLY
THEY SAID, 'GIVE US A
00:35:53.25\00:35:54.95
KING.' THE LORD GAVE THEM A KING
AND THERE WAS SOME UNITY AMONG
00:35:54.98\00:35:57.75
THE PEOPLE DURING THE TIME
OF SAUL, DAVID, AND SOLOMON.
00:35:57.79\00:36:01.79
BUT THEN, DURING THE TIME OF
REHOBOAM, THE SON OF SOLOMON,
00:36:01.82\00:36:11.47
THE KINGDOM SPLIT. NOW YOU'VE
GOT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
00:36:11.50\00:36:14.20
JEROBOAM WAS A SERVANT OF
SOLOMON THAT REBELLED AGAINST
00:36:14.24\00:36:18.81
SOLOMON - HE FLED TO EGYPT.
WHEN SOLOMON DIED, HE CAME BACK.
00:36:18.84\00:36:22.24
IT WAS VERY SHREWD. HE
MANAGED TO PERSUADE THE
00:36:22.28\00:36:25.31
NORTHERN TRIBES
NOT TO FOLLOW REHOBOAM.
00:36:25.35\00:36:29.12
REHOBOAM MADE A DUMB DECISION
WHILE HE WAS YOUNG AND LISTENED
00:36:29.15\00:36:34.36
TO THE WRONG COUNSELORS.
THE KINGDOM OF DAVID - JUDAH -
00:36:34.39\00:36:38.76
BENJAMIN AND LEVI, THE PRIESTS,
THEY WERE THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM,
00:36:38.79\00:36:42.03
WHERE THE TEMPLE
WAS, IN JERUSALEM.
00:36:42.06\00:36:44.00
THE TEN TRIBES IN THE NORTH,
EPHRAIM BEING THE BIGGEST - THE
00:36:44.03\00:36:48.04
TEN TRIBES ARE OFTEN REFERRED
TO AS EPHRAIM BECAUSE IT WAS THE
00:36:48.07\00:36:51.07
BIGGEST TRIBE. THEY WERE
LED BY JEROBOAM. ULTIMATELY, THE
00:36:51.11\00:36:55.38
CAPITAL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM
WAS SAMARIA. THE CAPITAL OF THE
00:36:55.41\00:36:58.38
SOUTHERN KINGDOM WAS JERUSALEM.
BUT WHEN JEROBOAM REBELLED, HE
00:36:58.41\00:37:03.59
BEGAN TO WORRY. HE
SAID, 'WAIT A SECOND, THE
00:37:03.62\00:37:05.79
MAIN PLACE OF WORSHIP
IS IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM.
00:37:05.82\00:37:07.82
IF ALL OF THESE TRIBES THAT
NOW FOLLOW ME AS KING, FEEL LIKE
00:37:07.86\00:37:11.49
THEY'VE GOT TO GO SOUTH TO
WORSHIP, THEY'RE GOING TO START
00:37:11.53\00:37:14.20
BEING INFLUENCED BY THE
PRIESTS AND LEVITES THERE.
00:37:14.20\00:37:17.60
THEY'RE GOING TO START
REMEMBERING ALL THE MIRACLES GOD
00:37:17.63\00:37:19.80
DID THROUGH DAVID AND
SOLOMON. THEY'RE GOING TO START
00:37:19.83\00:37:22.04
SECOND-GUESSING
MY BEING THE KING.
00:37:22.07\00:37:23.87
I'VE GOT TO KEEP THEM FROM
GOING DOWN THERE TO WORSHIP.
00:37:23.91\00:37:26.54
SO HE SET UP A COUNTERFEIT
FORM OF WORSHIP TO KEEP CONTROL.
00:37:26.57\00:37:30.95
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE
GOING TO READ ABOUT.
00:37:30.98\00:37:32.58
1 KINGS 12, VERSE 25, "THEN
JEROBOAM BUILT SHECHEM IN THE
00:37:32.61\00:37:38.72
MOUNTAINS OF
EPHRAIM, AND DWELT THERE.
00:37:38.75\00:37:40.49
ALSO HE WENT OUT FROM
THERE AND BUILT PENUEL.
00:37:40.52\00:37:42.96
AND JEROBOAM SAID IN HIS HEART,
'NOW THE KINGDOM MAY RETURN TO
00:37:42.99\00:37:46.09
THE HOUSE OF DAVID: IF THESE
PEOPLE GO UP TO OFFER SACRIFICES
00:37:46.13\00:37:49.03
IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AT
JERUSALEM, THEN THE HEART OF
00:37:49.06\00:37:52.17
THIS PEOPLE WILL TURN BACK
TO THEIR LORD, REHOBOAM KING OF
00:37:52.20\00:37:55.20
JUDAH, AND THEY WILL KILL ME AND
GO BACK TO REHOBOAM'" - THE SON
00:37:55.24\00:37:58.41
OF SOLOMON - "'KING OF
JUDAH.' THEREFORE THE KING ASKED
00:37:58.44\00:38:00.54
ADVICE," - HE GOT COUNSEL - HE
"MADE TWO CALVES" - RIGHT AWAY
00:38:00.58\00:38:05.55
YOU'D THINK THEY OUGHT TO KNOW
BETTER BASED ON THEIR HISTORY
00:38:05.58\00:38:07.45
ABOUT MAKING GOLDEN CALVES -
THEY "MADE TWO CALVES OF GOLD,
00:38:07.48\00:38:10.45
AND SAID TO THE PEOPLE,
'(IT IS NOT CONVENIENT) IT IS
00:38:10.49\00:38:13.49
TOO MUCH FOR YOU TO GO UP
TO JERUSALEM (TO WORSHIP).
00:38:13.52\00:38:15.96
HERE ARE YOUR GODS, O ISRAEL,
WHICH BROUGHT YOU UP FROM THE
00:38:15.99\00:38:19.26
LAND OF EGYPT!'" -
THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?
00:38:19.29\00:38:21.43
THAT'S WHAT AARON SAID WHEN HE
MADE A GOLDEN CALF - "AND HE SET
00:38:21.46\00:38:24.40
UP ONE IN BETHEL, AND
THE OTHER HE PUT IN DAN."
00:38:24.43\00:38:27.27
- TO MAKE IT CONVENIENT - GAVE
THEM TWO PLACES IN THE NORTH -
00:38:27.30\00:38:29.07
"NOW THIS THING BECAME A SIN,
FOR THE PEOPLE WENT TO WORSHIP
00:38:29.10\00:38:33.44
BEFORE THE ONE AS FAR AS DAN."
- THAT'S WAY UP IN THE NORTH -
00:38:33.48\00:38:36.81
AND "HE MADE SHRINES ON THE HIGH
PLACES, AND MADE PRIESTS FROM
00:38:36.85\00:38:40.25
EVERY CLASS OF PEOPLE,
- NOW, WHO WERE TO BE THE
00:38:40.28\00:38:43.05
PRIESTS? >>THE LEVITES.
00:38:43.08\00:38:45.02
>>THE LEVITES - SONS OF AARON
- BUT WHAT DID JEROBOAM DO?
00:38:45.05\00:38:47.86
HE CHANGED THAT PLAN AND HE MADE
PRIESTS FROM EVERY CLASS OF THE
00:38:47.89\00:38:52.99
PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT
OF THE SONS OF LEVI.
00:38:53.03\00:38:55.06
NOW GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US,
WHAT IS IT, SECOND KINGS 13:11.
00:38:55.10\00:38:58.73
>>"AND HE DID EVIL IN
THE SIGHT OF THE LORD.
00:38:58.77\00:39:01.87
HE DID NOT DEPART FROM ALL
THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF
00:39:01.90\00:39:04.97
NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL
SIN, BUT WALKED IN THEM."
00:39:05.01\00:39:08.88
>>THAT PHRASE - YOU CAN JUST
TYPE IT INTO YOUR BIBLE COMPUTER
00:39:08.91\00:39:11.95
SOFTWARE - JEROBOAM THE SON OF
NEBAT, WHO CAUSED ISRAEL TO SIN
00:39:11.98\00:39:16.79
- JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO
MADE ISRAEL TO SIN - WALKED IN
00:39:16.82\00:39:20.96
ALL THE SINS OF THE SON OF
- JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT.
00:39:20.99\00:39:23.83
THROUGH THE REST OF THE
CHRONICLES OF THE KINGS, IT
00:39:23.86\00:39:27.03
REFERS BACK TO THIS ONE KING.
WHEN YOU SAY 'JUDAS' HE'S SORT
00:39:27.03\00:39:33.30
OF THE ARCH VILLAIN
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:39:33.34\00:39:36.30
JEROBOAM WAS THE ARCH VILLAIN
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THAT HE
00:39:36.34\00:39:41.81
CORRUPTED THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN
A VERY PROFANE - PROFOUND WAY -
00:39:41.84\00:39:46.92
AND THEY NEVER REALLY RECOVERED
FROM IT. THE LORD SAID,
00:39:46.95\00:39:50.79
'DO NOT GO AFTER OTHER GODS.
DO NOT COMPROMISE THE TRUTH.
00:39:50.82\00:39:54.02
DO NOT BE LIKE THE OTHER
NATIONS.' AND JEROBOAM SAID,
00:39:54.06\00:39:57.13
'WELL I DON'T CARE WHAT THE
SCRIPTURES SAY, WE'VE GOT TO
00:39:57.16\00:39:59.53
KEEP CONTROL
HERE, OF THE PEOPLE.
00:39:59.56\00:40:01.83
WE WANT TO HAVE MORE INFLUENCE
WITH THE OTHER NATIONS AROUND
00:40:01.86\00:40:04.27
US, SO WE'LL JUST
MAKE A FEW COMPROMISES.
00:40:04.30\00:40:06.47
WE'LL STILL SAY WE'RE WORSHIPING
GOD, BUT WE'LL DO IT THROUGH
00:40:06.50\00:40:08.84
GOLDEN CALVES.' AND SO THEY SORT
OF TRIED TO CO-MINGLE THE TWO
00:40:08.87\00:40:12.81
AND IT BROUGHT
ABOUT A GREAT SPLIT.
00:40:12.84\00:40:17.38
NOW FOR A WHILE, THE
SOUTHERN KINGDOM WAS FAITHFUL.
00:40:17.41\00:40:20.58
I'LL READ YOU ONE - THERE'S ONE
BATTLE - ACTUALLY, THE SOUTHERN
00:40:20.62\00:40:24.79
KINGDOM WENT TO WAR WITH THE
NORTHERN KINGDOM SEVERAL TIMES.
00:40:24.82\00:40:27.36
INSTEAD OF ISRAEL BEING A UNITED
NATION THAT WOULD FIGHT AGAINST
00:40:27.39\00:40:29.52
THE PHILISTINES AND THE MOABITES
AND THE EDOMITES AND THE
00:40:29.56\00:40:32.03
ASSYRIANS, THEY STARTED, NOW,
WAGING WAR AGAINST EACH OTHER
00:40:32.06\00:40:35.16
AND THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM SAID,
'WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH BECAUSE WE
00:40:35.20\00:40:38.13
STILL HAVE THE TEMPLE.
WE'RE FOLLOWING THE LORD.
00:40:38.17\00:40:40.04
WE'RE NOT WORSHIPING IDOLS.
YOU HAVE CORRUPTED' AND THE
00:40:40.07\00:40:43.10
SOUTHERN KINGDOM, NORTHERN
KINGDOM WENT TO WAR WITH EACH
00:40:43.14\00:40:45.34
OTHER FOR A WHILE.
LISTEN TO WHAT KING AHAB - I'M
00:40:45.37\00:40:49.88
SORRY - LISTEN TO WHAT
KING ABIJAH, WHO WAS THE KING OF
00:40:49.91\00:40:53.42
JERUSALEM, SAID TO KING JEROBOAM
IN THE NORTH - THE NORTHERN
00:40:53.45\00:40:58.52
KINGDOM - WHEN THEY WENT
TO WAR. 2 CHRONICLES 13:5.
00:40:58.55\00:41:04.06
NOW SOMEONE, IN A MINUTE, IS
GOING TO READ 2 CHRONICLES 33:9.
00:41:04.09\00:41:06.53
WHO WILL HAVE THAT? OKAY.
I'M READING 2 CHRONICLES 13:5 -
00:41:06.56\00:41:11.83
I'LL READ THROUGH 11, "SHOULD
YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE LORD GOD
00:41:11.87\00:41:14.87
OF ISRAEL GAVE THE DOMINION OVER
ISRAEL TO DAVID FOREVER, TO HIM
00:41:14.90\00:41:19.07
AND HIS SONS, BY
A COVENANT OF SALT?"
00:41:19.11\00:41:21.44
- DID GOD MAKE A COVENANT WITH
DAVID AND THE SONS OF DAVID THAT
00:41:21.48\00:41:23.85
THE MESSIAH WOULD COME
THROUGH THE LINE OF DAVID?
00:41:23.88\00:41:25.95
SO WHEN THESE TRIBES SPLIT
AWAY, IT WAS NOT GOD'S PLAN.
00:41:25.98\00:41:29.65
- " YET JEROBOAM THE SON OF
NEBAT, THE SERVANT OF SOLOMON
00:41:29.68\00:41:33.86
THE SON OF DAVID, ROSE UP
AND REBELLED AGAINST HIS LORD.
00:41:33.89\00:41:36.59
THEN WORTHLESS ROGUES GATHERED
TO HIM, AND STRENGTHENED
00:41:36.62\00:41:40.20
THEMSELVES AGAINST REHOBOAM THE
SON OF SOLOMON, WHEN REHOBOAM
00:41:40.23\00:41:43.06
WAS YOUNG AND INEXPERIENCED
AND COULD NOT WITHSTAND THEM.
00:41:43.10\00:41:45.80
AND NOW YOU THINK TO WITHSTAND
THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD, WHICH
00:41:45.83\00:41:48.84
IS IN THE HAND OF THE SONS
OF DAVID; AND YOU ARE A GREAT
00:41:48.87\00:41:51.21
MULTITUDE," - THE TEN TRIBES
OUTNUMBERED JUDAH - "AND WITH
00:41:51.24\00:41:54.58
YOU ARE THE GOLD CALVES WHICH
JEROBOAM MADE FOR YOU AS GODS."
00:41:54.61\00:41:58.11
- YOU'D THINK RIGHT AWAY THERE'S
SOMETHING WRONG IF YOU'VE GOT TO
00:41:58.15\00:42:00.65
MAKE GODS - "HAVE YOU NOT CAST
OUT THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD, THE
00:42:00.68\00:42:04.35
SONS OF AARON, AND THE LEVITES,
AND MADE FOR YOURSELVES PRIESTS,
00:42:04.39\00:42:06.82
LIKE THE PEOPLES OF OTHER
LANDS," - SO ONE OF THE THINGS
00:42:06.86\00:42:09.89
THEY DO IS THEY COMPROMISE THE
WORSHIP WITH THE OTHER LANDS -
00:42:09.92\00:42:13.66
"SO THAT WHOEVER COMES TO
CONSECRATE HIMSELF WITH A YOUNG
00:42:13.70\00:42:19.33
BULL AND SEVEN RAMS MAY BE A
PRIEST" - IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU
00:42:19.37\00:42:22.10
COULD PAY THE DUES, YOU COULD
BE A PRIEST, IS WHAT THEY WERE
00:42:22.14\00:42:24.81
SAYING - "OF
THINGS THAT ARE NOT GODS?
00:42:24.84\00:42:30.28
BUT AS FOR US, THE LORD IS OUR
GOD, AND WE HAVE NOT FORSAKEN
00:42:30.31\00:42:33.28
HIM; AND THE PRIESTS WHO
MINISTER TO THE LORD ARE THE
00:42:33.31\00:42:35.82
SONS OF AARON, AND THE
LEVITES ATTEND TO THEIR DUTIES.
00:42:35.85\00:42:38.92
AND THEY BURN TO THE LORD EVERY
MORNING AND EVERY EVENING BURNT
00:42:38.95\00:42:42.99
SACRIFICES AND SWEET INCENSE;
THEY ALSO SET THE SHOWBREAD IN
00:42:43.02\00:42:45.53
ORDER ON THE PURE GOLD TABLE,
AND THE LAMPSTAND OF GOLD WITH
00:42:45.56\00:42:48.93
ITS LAMPS TO BURN EVERY EVENING;
FOR WE KEEP THE COMMAND OF THE
00:42:48.96\00:42:53.67
LORD OUR GOD, BUT
YOU HAVE FORSAKEN HIM."
00:42:53.70\00:42:56.40
HE'S BRINGING THEM BACK TO THE
SPECIFICS OF THE TEMPLE AND THE
00:42:56.44\00:42:59.11
SANCTUARY, ACCORDING TO WHAT
THEY HAD WHEN THEY CAME THROUGH
00:42:59.14\00:43:01.88
THE WILDERNESS, AND THEY WENT
INTO BATTLE AND GUESS WHO WON
00:43:01.91\00:43:05.15
THAT BATTLE? THE
CHILDREN OF DAVID BECAUSE HE
00:43:05.18\00:43:08.65
WENT INTO BATTLE TRUSTING
THE LORD, SAYING 'WE'RE BEING
00:43:08.68\00:43:10.69
FAITHFUL TO THAT.' ALRIGHT, GO
AHEAD, READ FOR US 2 CHRONICLES
00:43:10.72\00:43:12.99
33:9 AND 10. >>"SO
MANASSEH SEDUCED JUDAH AND
00:43:13.02\00:43:18.49
THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM
TO DO MORE EVIL THAN THE NATIONS
00:43:18.53\00:43:21.83
WHOM THE LORD HAD DESTROYED
BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
00:43:21.86\00:43:24.67
AND THE LORD SPOKE TO
MANASSEH AND HIS PEOPLE,
00:43:24.70\00:43:26.84
BUT THEY WOULD NOT LISTEN."
>>ALRIGHT, SO FOR AWHILE YOU HAD
00:43:26.87\00:43:30.74
SEVERAL KINGS - JEHOSHOPHAT WAS
A GOOD KING, HEZEKIAH WAS A GOOD
00:43:30.77\00:43:36.41
KING, ASA WAS A GOOD KING,
UZZIAH WAS A GOOD KING - KINGS
00:43:36.44\00:43:40.25
OF THE SOUTHERN
KINGDOM - SONS OF DAVID.
00:43:40.28\00:43:42.12
SOME WERE BAD, MANY WERE GOOD
THAT WERE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD.
00:43:42.15\00:43:47.02
NONE OF THEM IN
THE NORTH WERE GOOD.
00:43:47.06\00:43:50.13
THE CLOSEST WAS JEHU WHO,
AT LEAST, GOD USED TO INFLICT
00:43:50.16\00:43:53.83
JUDGMENT ON THE TRIBES, BUT IT
KEEPS SAYING, 'HE WALKED IN THE
00:43:53.86\00:43:57.83
SINS OF JEROBOAM - THEY
WALKED IN THE SINS OF JEROBOAM.'
00:43:57.87\00:44:00.67
SOMETIMES IT SAID, 'WALKED
IN THE SINS OF AHAB.' BUT THE
00:44:00.70\00:44:04.07
NORTHERN KINGDOM WAS
ENTRENCHED IN IDOLATRY.
00:44:04.11\00:44:06.51
BUT WHAT HAPPENED WAS,
JEHOSHOPHAT - WHO WAS A GOOD
00:44:06.54\00:44:09.94
KING - HE SAID, 'WE'RE TIRED OF
WARRING WITH OUR OWN PEOPLE IN
00:44:09.98\00:44:13.25
THE NORTH.' HE
MADE FRIENDS WITH AHAB.
00:44:13.28\00:44:15.65
HE SAID, 'WE COULD BE FRIENDS.'
CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER UNLESS
00:44:15.68\00:44:19.89
THEY'RE AGREED? AND
JEHOSHOPHAT AND AHAB SAID,
00:44:19.92\00:44:24.26
'LET'S MAKE AN ALLIANCE BY
MARRIAGE.' AND JEHOSHOPHAT'S SON
00:44:24.29\00:44:26.86
MARRIED AHAB'S DAUGHTER.
HER NAME WAS ATHALIAH - TURNED
00:44:26.90\00:44:32.40
OUT VERY BAD - THIS WAS
THE DAUGHTER OF JEZEBEL.
00:44:32.43\00:44:35.14
HE SAID, 'WE CAN HAVE
PEACE BETWEEN OUR TWO KINGDOMS.
00:44:35.17\00:44:37.94
WE'RE GOING TO BE
STRONGER THAT WAY.'
00:44:37.97\00:44:39.77
BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
YOU BECOME UNEQUALLY YOKED?
00:44:39.81\00:44:43.28
AND EVEN THOUGH JEROBOAM WAS A
GOOD KING, A PROPHET WAS SENT TO
00:44:43.31\00:44:46.15
JEROBOAM AND SAID, 'SHOULD YOU
LOVE THOSE THAT HATE THE LORD?'
00:44:46.18\00:44:48.42
TRIED TO GO INTO A
BUSINESS DEAL TOGETHER.
00:44:48.45\00:44:51.49
HE SAID, 'LET'S DO A SHIPPING
EXPEDITION LIKE SOLOMON DID.
00:44:51.52\00:44:54.49
WE'LL GO GET
GOLD FROM EZION-GEBER.
00:44:54.52\00:44:58.36
WE'LL SAIL.' AND A STORM
CAME AND DESTROYED THE SHIPS.
00:44:58.39\00:45:01.00
GOD SAID, 'I DON'T WANT YOU IN
A PARTNERSHIP WITH THAT KINGDOM
00:45:01.03\00:45:04.10
BECAUSE THEY'VE GIVEN
THEMSELVES OVER TO IDOLATRY.
00:45:04.13\00:45:06.57
WELL, ONCE JEHOSHOPHAT BEGAN TO
REACH OUT, THEY STARTED BECOMING
00:45:06.60\00:45:12.77
FRIENDLY WITH THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM, THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM
00:45:12.81\00:45:15.91
BEGAN TO DO WHAT THE
NORTHERN KINGDOM DID.
00:45:15.94\00:45:18.78
NOW, SOMETIMES - SOMETIMES A
BELIEVER WILL MARRY SOMEONE WHO
00:45:18.81\00:45:25.19
IS AN UNBELIEVER AND THEY SAY,
'I WILL CONVERT HIM.' 'I WILL
00:45:25.22\00:45:28.26
CONVERT HER.' SOMETIMES
IT WORKS, BUT WHEN YOU GET A
00:45:28.29\00:45:32.89
BELIEVER AND AN UNBELIEVER
TOGETHER AND YOU'VE GOT DARKNESS
00:45:32.93\00:45:36.97
AND LIGHT, THE DARKNESS
OFTEN WINS OVER THE LIGHT.
00:45:37.00\00:45:40.84
AND SURE, YOU MIGHT MAKE SOME
POSITIVE INFLUENCES IN THE LIFE
00:45:40.87\00:45:45.54
OF YOUR UNBELIEVING SPOUSE, BUT
THEY'RE GOING TO INFLUENCE YOU
00:45:45.57\00:45:50.28
TOO BECAUSE, AS SOMEONE ONCE
SAID, 'YOU CAN'T GO INTO A COAL
00:45:50.31\00:45:54.92
MINE WITHOUT COMING OUT DIRTY.'
AND IT'S GOING TO HAVE AN
00:45:54.95\00:45:59.05
INFLUENCE ON YOU. AND
THROUGH THIS ASSOCIATION OF
00:45:59.09\00:46:01.16
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM AND THE
NORTHERN KINGDOM, THE SOUTHERN
00:46:01.19\00:46:04.26
KINGDOM BECAME INVOLVED IN
APOSTASY AND THEN YOU HAD A
00:46:04.29\00:46:07.60
REALLY BAD KING. YOU
CAN READ ABOUT THIS NEXT
00:46:07.60\00:46:10.80
WITH MANASSEH, WHO WAS THE NEXT
KING WHO SEDUCED THE NATION.
00:46:10.83\00:46:22.54
AND THEN YOU READ IN 2
CHRONICLES 33:21, AND THEN YOU
00:46:22.58\00:46:25.28
HAVE AMON WHO "...WAS 22
YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING,
00:46:25.31\00:46:28.58
AND HE REIGNED TWO YEARS IN
JERUSALEM. BUT HE DID EVIL IN
00:46:28.62\00:46:31.32
THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AS
HIS FATHER MANASSEH HAD DONE;" -
00:46:31.35\00:46:33.96
HE DIDN'T LIVE VERY LONG. HE
DIDN'T EVEN HANG OUT AS LONG AS
00:46:33.99\00:46:36.22
AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT - "FOR
AMON SACRIFICED ALL THE CARVED
00:46:36.26\00:46:39.79
IMAGES WHICH HIS FATHER MANASSEH
HAD MADE, AND SERVED THEM.
00:46:39.83\00:46:42.73
AND HE DID NOT HUMBLE HIMSELF
BEFORE THE LORD, AS" - MANASSEH
00:46:42.76\00:46:45.63
REPENTED IN HIS OLD AGE AND
TURNED, BUT THINGS HAD GONE SO
00:46:45.67\00:46:49.04
FAR - "...BUT AMON
TRESPASSED MORE AND MORE."
00:46:49.07\00:46:52.77
AND GOD DESTROYED
HIM YOUNG IN HIS LIFE.
00:46:52.81\00:46:54.91
AND THEN YOU CAN READ 2 KINGS
24, VERSE 8, "JEHOIACHIN WAS
00:46:54.94\00:46:58.65
EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE
BECAME KING, AND HE REIGNED IN
00:46:58.68\00:47:01.45
JERUSALEM THREE MONTHS." -
HE DIDN'T PROSPER VERY LONG,
00:47:01.48\00:47:04.89
DID HE? - "HIS MOTHER'S NAME
WAS NEHUSHTA THE DAUGHTER OF
00:47:04.92\00:47:08.02
ELNATHAN OF JERUSALEM. AND
HE DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF
00:47:08.06\00:47:10.63
THE LORD ACCORDING TO ALL
THAT HIS FATHER HAD DONE."
00:47:10.66\00:47:13.23
BY THE WAY, JEHOIACHIN WAS
THE ONE WHO WAS ARRESTED BY
00:47:13.26\00:47:15.36
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHEN THE CITY DID
FALL, AND HE LIVED DURING THE
00:47:15.40\00:47:19.07
TIME OF JEROBOAM. SO
WE'VE TAKEN YOU NOW, DOWN TO
00:47:19.10\00:47:21.60
THE TIME OF - JEREMIAH RATHER -
AND SO HE LIVED DURING THE TIME
00:47:21.64\00:47:27.01
OF JEREMIAH AND - ACTUALLY, 37
YEARS AFTER HIS IMPRISONMENT HE
00:47:27.04\00:47:32.41
WAS BROUGHT OUT OF PRISON AND
HE HAD HAD A CHANGE OF HEART BY
00:47:32.45\00:47:35.58
THEN. SO YOU CAN
SEE WHAT'S HAPPENED.
00:47:35.62\00:47:39.75
THE NATION IN THE NORTH, THEY
APOSTASIZED - GAVE THEMSELVES TO
00:47:39.79\00:47:42.99
IDOLATRY. JEREMIAH
LIVED DURING THE TIME
00:47:43.02\00:47:45.99
WHEN THEY CAME AND THEY
CONQUERED THE KINGDOM TO THE
00:47:46.03\00:47:48.96
NORTH, DESTROYED THEIR CITIES,
CARRIED THEM AWAY CAPTIVE.
00:47:49.00\00:47:51.43
HEZEKIAH, THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM,
SURVIVED A LITTLE LONGER.
00:47:51.47\00:47:54.97
THE ASSYRIANS ACTUALLY CARRIED
AWAY MANASSEH AND - HE WAS
00:47:55.00\00:47:59.04
SUPPOSED TO PAY TAXES
- AND BROUGHT HIM BACK.
00:47:59.07\00:48:00.78
THEN THE ASSYRIANS WERE
CONQUERED BY THE BABYLONIANS AND
00:48:00.81\00:48:03.21
THEY HAD A CHANCE TO REPENT AND
LIVE AND JEREMIAH SAID 'YOU NEED
00:48:03.24\00:48:07.52
TO TURN AWAY FROM YOUR IDOLS.
TURN BACK TO THE LORD.' BUT THEY
00:48:07.55\00:48:10.39
WOULDN'T LISTEN. AND
SO THIS IS THE TIME, JUST
00:48:10.42\00:48:13.09
BEFORE THIS JUDGMENT, BECAUSE
THEY HAD COMPROMISED WITH THE
00:48:13.12\00:48:15.92
OTHER NATIONS, IS
WHEN JEREMIAH LIVED.
00:48:15.96\00:48:18.36
ALRIGHT, YOU CAN READ ABOUT
THE TWO EVILS THAT IT SPEAKS OF.
00:48:18.39\00:48:23.20
IF YOU LOOK IN - AND YOU
FIND THIS IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 1
00:48:23.23\00:48:26.74
THROUGH VERSE 28 - AND I'M GOING
TO READ JEREMIAH CHAPTER - I'LL
00:48:26.77\00:48:32.27
READ JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE
11, "HAS A NATION CHANGED ITS
00:48:32.31\00:48:35.84
GODS, WHICH ARE NOT GODS?
BUT MY PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED THEIR
00:48:35.88\00:48:39.78
GLORY FOR WHAT DOES NOT PROFIT.
BE ASTONISHED, O HEAVENS, AT
00:48:39.81\00:48:44.02
THIS, AND BE HORRIBLY AFRAID; BE
VERY DESOLATE,' SAYS THE LORD.
00:48:44.05\00:48:47.52
'FOR MY PEOPLE HAVE COMMITTED
TWO EVILS: THEY HAVE FORSAKEN
00:48:47.56\00:48:50.49
ME," - HERE'S THE TWO EVILS
- 1) "THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME,THE
00:48:50.53\00:48:53.40
FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS,
AND HEWN THEMSELVES CISTERNS -
00:48:53.43\00:48:57.07
BROKEN CISTERNS
THAT CAN HOLD NO WATER."
00:48:57.10\00:48:59.30
WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER
HAVE, A FOUNTAIN OR A JAR?
00:48:59.33\00:49:01.87
WOULD YOU HAVE ONE JAR OF
WATER OR WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE A
00:49:01.90\00:49:06.07
CONTINUAL FLOW? DOESN'T
JESUS REFER TO THAT WHEN
00:49:06.11\00:49:09.28
HE SAID, 'YOU MIGHT DRAW FROM
THE WELL IN YOUR VESSEL, BUT I
00:49:09.31\00:49:11.88
CAN GIVE YOU AN ARTESIAN, LIVING
WATER THAT WILL SPRING UP IN
00:49:11.91\00:49:15.55
YOUR HEART.' AND HE SAID THIS
IS WHAT THE NATION DID IS THEY
00:49:15.58\00:49:18.72
TURNED AWAY FROM A
LIVING GOD TO IDOLS.
00:49:18.75\00:49:22.52
THEY TURNED AWAY FROM THIS
LIVING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
00:49:22.56\00:49:26.16
LORD AND THEN THEY TURNED
TO CISTERNS THAT HOLD NO WATER.
00:49:26.19\00:49:28.90
THEY'RE CRACKED
POTS, YOU MIGHT SAY.
00:49:28.93\00:49:31.90
(LAUGHTER) JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2,
VERSE 23, "HOW CAN YOU SAY, 'I
00:49:31.93\00:49:36.77
AM NOT POLLUTED, I HAVE
NOT GONE AFTER THE BAALS'?
00:49:36.81\00:49:39.44
SEE YOUR WAY IN THE VALLEY; KNOW
WHAT YOU HAVE DONE:'" - RIGHT
00:49:39.47\00:49:42.68
THERE IN THE VALLEY THEY HAD
THE IDOLS STILL - "KNOW WHAT YOU
00:49:42.71\00:49:45.61
HAVE DONE: YOU ARE A SWIFT
DROMEDARY (A CAMEL) BREAKING
00:49:45.65\00:49:48.48
LOOSE IN HER WAYS, A WILD DONKEY
USED TO THE WILDERNESS, THAT
00:49:48.52\00:49:52.82
SNIFFS AT THE WIND IN HER
DESIRE;" - HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:49:52.85\00:49:55.29
WHEN AN ANIMAL GOES INTO HEAT
AND YOU CAN'T TURN IT AWAY -
00:49:55.32\00:49:59.13
TOTALLY PREOCCUPIED.
YOU KNOW, ANY OF YOU WHO'VE
00:49:59.16\00:50:03.43
DRIVEN OUT IN THE COUNTRY WHEN
- THEY CALL IT - THE DEER ARE IN
00:50:03.47\00:50:06.87
THE RUT SEASON? A BUCK
WILL JUST WALK RIGHT OUT
00:50:06.90\00:50:10.37
IN THE ROAD, SEE THE CAR COMING
- THEY'RE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH
00:50:10.41\00:50:13.44
CHASING AFTER THE DEER THAT THEY
DON'T NOTICE - HUNTERS CAN WALK
00:50:13.48\00:50:18.18
RIGHT UP TO THEM. THEY
DON'T SEE THEIR DANGER.
00:50:18.21\00:50:21.48
THEY DON'T SENSE WHAT'S
GOING ON. AND THAT'S WHAT GOD IS
00:50:21.52\00:50:25.62
SAYING ABOUT HIS PEOPLE.
'YOU ARE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH
00:50:25.65\00:50:28.12
GOING AFTER THESE OTHER GODS,
THAT' - HE SAID - 'YOU WON'T
00:50:28.16\00:50:34.93
LISTEN TO ME.' AND
THEN JEREMIAH PROPHESIES IN
00:50:34.96\00:50:38.17
CHAPTER 25, IT TALKS
ABOUT THE BABYLONIAN THREAT.
00:50:38.20\00:50:41.84
AND I KNOW WE'RE JUMPING AROUND
A LITTLE BIT HERE, BUT THE
00:50:41.87\00:50:44.61
LESSON IS KIND OF GIVING
YOU THE VIEW OF WHERE THEY WERE.
00:50:44.64\00:50:47.01
SOMEONE HAS GOT
JEREMIAH 26, VERSE 7.
00:50:47.04\00:50:50.21
YOU'LL HAVE THAT
IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:50:50.25\00:50:51.88
LET ME READ TO YOU JEREMIAH 25,
VERSE 8, "THEREFORE THUS SAYS
00:50:51.91\00:50:56.18
THE LORD OF HOSTS: 'BECAUSE YOU
HAVE NOT HEARD MY WORDS, BEHOLD,
00:50:56.22\00:50:59.49
I WILL SEND AND TAKE ALL THE
FAMILIES OF THE NORTH,' SAYS THE
00:50:59.52\00:51:03.99
LORD,' AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE
KING OF BABYLON, MY SERVANT, AND
00:51:04.03\00:51:07.30
WILL BRING THEM AGAINST THIS
LAND, AGAINST ITS INHABITANTS,'"
00:51:07.36\00:51:11.17
- NOW I'VE GOT TO JUST PAUSE
HERE - I HOPE THERE'S TIME.
00:51:11.20\00:51:13.34
WHEN YOU GET TO DANIEL CHAPTER
11, THIS GREAT PROPHECY OF
00:51:13.37\00:51:18.34
DANIEL TALKS ABOUT THE KING OF
THE NORTH IN THE LAST DAYS - THE
00:51:18.37\00:51:20.78
KING OF THE NORTH - WHEN
JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL WERE
00:51:20.81\00:51:25.01
DESTROYED, BECAUSE THERE WAS AN
OCEAN TO THE WEST - BIG OCEAN -
00:51:25.05\00:51:31.49
AND THERE WAS AN UNCROSSABLE
DESERT TO THE EAST, WHENEVER
00:51:31.52\00:51:36.52
THESE NATIONS CAME, THEY
CAME FROM THE NORTH OR SOUTH.
00:51:36.56\00:51:39.49
AND SO, WHEN ASSYRIA AND
NEBUCHADNEZZAR - BABYLON AND
00:51:39.53\00:51:44.10
ASSYRIA - CAME TO CARRY OFF
JEREMIAH AND JERUSALEM, AND TO
00:51:44.13\00:51:48.04
CARRY OFF THE TEN TRIBES OF THE
NORTH, THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH.
00:51:48.07\00:51:51.81
AND SO, JUST SOMETHING TO THINK
ABOUT WHEN YOU READ IN DANIEL
00:51:51.84\00:51:55.18
ABOUT THE KING OF THE
NORTH AND THE KING OF THE SOUTH.
00:51:55.21\00:51:57.61
ISRAEL SAW THEIR PROBLEMS OFTEN
COMING FROM THE SOUTH FROM EGYPT
00:51:57.65\00:52:01.42
AND ETHIOPIA, OR THEY CAME FROM
THE NORTH - BABYLON, SYRIA - OR
00:52:01.45\00:52:06.42
ASSYRIA. OKAY -
"'NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING
00:52:06.45\00:52:13.03
OF BABYLON, MY SERVANT,'" - BY
THE WAY, WHAT DID THE DEVIL SAY
00:52:13.06\00:52:15.30
HE WANTED? 'I WANT TO SIT ON THE
00:52:15.33\00:52:16.97
CONGREGATION ON THE SIDES
OF THE NORTH.' INTERESTING.
00:52:17.00\00:52:20.60
'I WANT TO BE THE TOP.' - "'I
WILL DEVOTE THEM TO DESTRUCTION
00:52:20.64\00:52:24.44
AND MAKE THEM A WHORE, A HISSING
AND AN EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION.
00:52:24.47\00:52:27.41
MOREOVER, I WILL BANISH FROM
THEM THE VOICE OF MIRTH AND THE
00:52:27.44\00:52:31.61
VOICE OF GLADNESS, THE VOICE OF
THE BRIDEGROOM AND THE VOICE OF
00:52:31.65\00:52:34.45
THE BRIDE, THE GRINDING OF
MILLSTONES AND THE LIGHT OF THE
00:52:34.48\00:52:37.32
LAMP. THIS WHOLE
LAND WILL BECOME A
00:52:37.35\00:52:39.65
RUIN AND A WASTE AND ALL THESE
NATIONS WILL SERVE THE KING OF
00:52:39.69\00:52:43.12
BABYLON SEVENTY
YEARS.'" HERE'S A PROPHECY.
00:52:43.16\00:52:45.73
DID IT HAPPEN? IT
DID - WHAT HE FORETOLD.
00:52:45.76\00:52:50.00
"'THEN AFTER SEVENTY YEARS
ARE COMPLETE, I WILL PUNISH THE
00:52:50.03\00:52:53.27
KINGDOM OF BABYLON AND
THAT NATION, THE LAND OF THE
00:52:53.30\00:52:57.34
CHALDEANS, FOR THEIR INIQUITY.'
DECLARES THE LORD, 'MAKING THE
00:52:57.37\00:53:01.54
LAND AN EVERLASTING WASTE.'"
- SAME WAY THEY HAD WASTED
00:53:01.58\00:53:04.98
JERUSALEM, HE SAID, 'I WILL
WASTE THE CITY OF BABYLON.' YOU
00:53:05.01\00:53:07.58
KNOW, THE CITY OF
BABYLON IS STILL WASTED TODAY?
00:53:07.62\00:53:09.38
SADDAM HUSSEIN WANTED TO REBUILD
ANCIENT BABYLON AND, AS HE
00:53:09.42\00:53:13.39
STARTED THAT, THE FIRST GULF WAR
BROKE OUT AND HE HAD TO STOP.
00:53:13.42\00:53:18.89
AND THEN THERE WAS A LITTLE
BIT OF RESPITE BETWEEN THE FIRST
00:53:18.93\00:53:21.90
GULF WAR AND THE SECOND GULF WAR
AND HE STARTED IT UP AGAIN, AND
00:53:21.93\00:53:24.37
THEN THE SECOND GULF WAR STARTED
AND, OF COURSE, HE WAS KILLED
00:53:24.40\00:53:27.80
AND THE CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT OF ANCIENT BABYLON -
00:53:27.84\00:53:30.81
WITH ISIS AND ALL
THIS - HAS NEVER RESUMED.
00:53:30.84\00:53:32.97
GOD SAID IT WOULD
NEVER BE REBUILT AGAIN.
00:53:33.01\00:53:35.24
YOU CAN READ ISAIAH
13. JEREMIAH SAID THAT TOO.
00:53:35.28\00:53:37.55
VERY INTERESTING. READ
FOR US, PLEASE, JEREMIAH 26:7.
00:53:37.58\00:53:41.58
<<"SO THE PRIESTS AND THE
PROPHETS AND ALL THE PEOPLE
00:53:41.62\00:53:44.29
HEARD JEREMIAH SPEAKING THESE
WORDS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD."
00:53:44.32\00:53:47.29
>>NOW HOW POPULAR DO YOU THINK
THAT MADE JEREMIAH THERE IN THE
00:53:47.32\00:53:50.93
TEMPLE, TO SAY, 'THIS
TEMPLE'S GOING TO BE DESTROYED.
00:53:50.96\00:53:54.36
THE CITY'S
GOING TO BE DESTROYED.
00:53:54.40\00:53:55.86
YOUR HOME'S
GOING TO BE DESTROYED.
00:53:55.90\00:53:57.00
YOUR PEOPLE, YOUR GOVERNMENT
ARE GOING TO BE DESTROYED, AND
00:53:57.03\00:53:58.87
YOU'RE GOING TO BE SLAVES.'
WOULD YOU WANT TO BELIEVE A
00:53:58.90\00:54:02.50
PROPHECY LIKE THAT? WOULD
THAT BE CONSIDERED PATRIOTIC?
00:54:02.54\00:54:06.74
WOULD YOU BE POPULAR
WITH A PROPHECY LIKE THAT?
00:54:06.78\00:54:11.68
DID IT HAPPEN? DOES
GOD SEND JUDGMENTS ON
00:54:11.71\00:54:17.79
NATIONS THAT TURN
FROM HIS PRINCIPLES?
00:54:17.82\00:54:21.36
HE IS SOMETIMES PATIENT - YEARS
WENT BY BETWEEN MANASSEH AND
00:54:21.39\00:54:26.06
WHEN THE JUDGMENT ACTUALLY CAME.
00:54:26.09\00:54:28.83
YOU WONDER, SOMETIMES, WHAT WILL
HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY IF WE KEEP
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GOING DOWN THE ROUTE WE'RE
GOING, BECAUSE RIGHTEOUSNESS
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ESTABLISHES THE LAND AND THROUGH
IMMORALITY AND WORLDLINESS WE
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DRIVE AWAY THE
SPIRIT OF THE LORD.
00:54:42.01\00:54:44.95
AND YOU JUST WONDER HOW
LONG GOD'S MERCY WILL TARRY.
00:54:44.98\00:54:48.42
ANYONE WANT TO
SAY 'AMEN' TO THAT?
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>>AMEN. >>I JUST
DIDN'T WANT TO BE
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ALONE. YOU'RE ON RECORD NOW.
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PSALMS 78, VERSE 60, 'HE FORSOOK
THE TABERNACLE OF SHILOH, THE
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TENT WHERE HIS GLORY WAS AMONG
MANKIND AND HE DELIVERED HIS
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POWER TO CAPTIVITY, HIS
GLORY TO THE HAND OF THE FOE.
00:55:03.20\00:55:06.60
HE GAVE HIS PEOPLE OVER TO THE
HAND OF THE SWORD AND VENTED HIS
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WRATH ON HIS HERITAGE.'
WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT HERE?
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THE TEMPLE USED TO BE WITH
- YOU KNOW, BEFORE JERUSALEM
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WAS PICKED, WHERE
WAS THE SANCTUARY?
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AFTER THEY CAME OUT OF THE
WILDERNESS, WITH THIS TABERNACLE
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WITH THE ARK, UP UNTIL DAVID
IN JERUSALEM, IT WAS IN SHILOH
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DURING THE DAYS OF ELI, HOFNI,
PHINEAS - BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE
00:55:23.52\00:55:28.39
WICKED - HOFNI AND
PHINEAS, IN PARTICULAR.
00:55:28.42\00:55:31.73
THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, I WON'T
TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY WERE DOING,
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BUT IT'S IN THE BIBLE.
THEY WERE JUST VERY IMMORAL.
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THEY SAID, 'BUT WE'RE THE
PRIESTS. WE'VE GOT THE ARK.
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WE'VE GOT THE TEMPLE.' GOD SAID,
'BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU KNOW ME
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AND BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT THESE
SACRED ORACLES, YOU THINK YOU
00:55:42.27\00:55:46.04
CAN SIN LIKE THE NATIONS. I
AM GOING TO GIVE THE ARK INTO
00:55:46.07\00:55:49.74
THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES
BECAUSE YOU THINK IT'S A GOOD
00:55:49.78\00:55:52.88
LUCK CHARM.' THAT'S
WHAT HAPPENED AT SHILOH.
00:55:52.91\00:55:55.72
THAT'S WHY IT SAYS HERE,
'REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AT
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SHILOH. DON'T THINK TO SAY'
- IN JERUSALEM IN THE DAYS OF
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JEREMIAH THEY WERE
SAYING, 'WE'VE GOT THE TEMPLE.
00:56:00.82\00:56:02.59
WE'VE GOT THE
ARK OF THE COVENANT.
00:56:02.62\00:56:04.59
WE'VE GOT GOD'S PRESENCE.' YOU
KNOW, UP UNTIL NEBUCHADNEZZAR
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DESTROYED THE TEMPLE,
THEY HAD THE ARK STILL, THEN.
00:56:07.23\00:56:09.63
AND AS I MENTIONED LAST
WEEK, JEREMIAH AND THE PRIESTS
00:56:09.66\00:56:12.60
PROBABLY HID IT IN A CAVE BEFORE
NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED THE
00:56:12.63\00:56:15.54
TEMPLE. IT'S NEVER BEEN FOUND.
00:56:15.57\00:56:17.71
AND SO THEY THOUGHT, 'WE'VE GOT
THIS GOOD LUCK CHARM.' IT'S KIND
00:56:17.74\00:56:20.78
OF LIKE A PERSON THAT, YOU KNOW,
HANGS A CROSS ON THEIR MIRROR SO
00:56:20.81\00:56:22.91
THEY CAN DRIVE DRUNK. THEY
PUT A LITTLE STATUE OF MARY
00:56:22.94\00:56:25.71
ON THE DASHBOARD OR SOMETHING.
AND THEY WERE TREATING THE ARK
00:56:25.75\00:56:29.45
LIKE IT WAS SOME SACRED RELIC OR
GOOD LUCK CHARM - SUPERSTITION.
00:56:29.48\00:56:33.29
AND GOD SAID, 'REMEMBER
WHAT HAPPENED AT SHILOH.
00:56:33.32\00:56:35.32
BECAUSE THEY WERE WICKED I GAVE
IT ALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE
00:56:35.36\00:56:39.53
PHILISTINES.' NOW THEY ENDED UP
GETTING IT BACK BUT - SAME WAY -
00:56:39.56\00:56:44.73
ISRAEL ENDED UP GETTING THE
TEMPLE BACK LATER, BUT THEY HAD
00:56:44.77\00:56:46.87
TO REPENT FIRST. AND SO
- OH, I'VE JUST GOT A FEW
00:56:46.90\00:56:49.97
SECONDS LEFT. SWEARING
FALSELY - JEREMIAH 5:1,
00:56:50.01\00:56:53.54
"RUN TO AND FRO THROUGH THE
STREETS OF JERUSALEM; SEE NOW
00:56:53.58\00:56:56.64
AND KNOW; AND SEEK IN HER OPEN
PLACES IF YOU CAN FIND A MAN,
00:56:56.68\00:57:00.58
IF THERE IS ANYONE WHO EXECUTES
JUDGMENT, WHO SEEKS THE TRUTH,
00:57:00.62\00:57:03.89
AND I WILL PARDON HER."
YOU REMEMBER WHEN ABRAHAM SAID
00:57:03.92\00:57:07.56
TO THE LORD BEFORE SODOM WAS
DESTROYED, HE SAID, 'IF THERE'S
00:57:07.59\00:57:11.09
TEN RIGHTEOUS WILL YOU SPARE
IT?' GOD SAID, 'I'LL SPARE THE
00:57:11.13\00:57:14.20
WHOLE THING - ALL THOSE CITIES
- IF THERE'S TEN RIGHTEOUS.' AND
00:57:14.23\00:57:17.30
GOD IS SAYING TO JEREMIAH -
THROUGH JEREMIAH - 'RUN THROUGH
00:57:17.33\00:57:20.97
JERUSALEM AND SEE IF YOU
CAN FIND ANY THAT DOESN'T SWEAR
00:57:21.00\00:57:24.24
FALSELY.' HE COULDN'T FIND ONE.
00:57:24.27\00:57:26.57
EVERYBODY HAD
GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER.
00:57:26.61\00:57:29.01
AND SO THAT WAS THE
CONDITION OF THE LAND.
00:57:29.04\00:57:31.75
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