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00:33 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH 00:36 SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR 00:39 FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR 00:42 OUR STUDY TIME TODAY. ALSO, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THE 00:45 MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND THOSE WHO ARE 00:47 VISITING FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND ALL OVER THE PLACE JOINING 00:50 US THIS MORNING TO STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. 00:53 WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR NEW LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING 00:55 WITH THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH - ONE OF THOSE GREAT OLD TESTAMENT 00:58 PROPHETS. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN 01:01 LESSON #2 ENTITLED THE CRISIS WITHIN AND WITHOUT . 01:06 NOW, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF TODAY'S LESSON, FOR OUR FRIENDS 01:09 WATCHING, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON AT THE AMAZING 01:11 FACTS WEBSITE. THAT'S AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - LESSON 01:15 #2 IN OUR LESSON QUARTERLY AND YOU CAN STUDY ALONG WITH US. 01:21 WE ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT WE'D LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT. 01:23 FOR ANYBODY IN NORTH AMERICA, YOU CAN CALL AND WE'LL BE HAPPY 01:26 TO SEND THIS TO YOU FOR FREE. IT'S A BOOK ENTITLED RICHES OF 01:30 GRACE WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS. IF YOU'D LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS, 01:33 CALL OUR RESOURCE NUMBER - IT'S 866-788-3966. AGAIN, THAT'S 01:40 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER #152. AGAIN, THE BOOK'S CALLED 01:47 RICHES OF GRACE - WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO YOU. 01:50 WELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY, AS USUAL WE'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR 01:54 SONG LEADERS TO COME AND LEAD US AS WE LIFT OUR VOICES IN PRAISE. 02:00 >>HELLO AND WELCOME TO EVERYONE THAT'S JOINING US. 02:05 WE HAVE SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT TODAY AND I KNOW 02:09 YOU'RE GOING TO ABSOLUTELY ENJOY IT, BUT WE'RE NOT LEAVING YOU 02:13 OUT. YOU'RE GOING TO JOIN WITH US. 02:16 SO THE FIRST SONG THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS FOUND IN YOUR 02:19 HYMNALS - #154 - WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS . 02:24 BEAUTIFUL SONG, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THE TUNE'S NOT IN 02:27 THE HYMNAL, BUT I THINK IT'S A FAMILIAR TUNE THAT MOST OF YOU 02:30 WILL KNOW, SO JOIN WITH US - #154 - WHEN I SURVEY 02:35 (THE WONDROUS CROSS) . (MUSIC) 02:49 >>WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS ON WHICH THE 03:03 PRINCE OF GLORY DIED, MY RICHEST GAIN I COUNT BUT LOSS, AND POUR 03:28 CONTEMPT ON ALL MY PRIDE. FORBID IT, LORD, THAT I SHOULD 03:48 BOAST, SAVE IN THE DEATH OF CHRIST, MY GOD; ALL THE VAIN 04:06 THINGS THAT CHARM ME MOST I SACRIFICE THEM TO HIS BLOOD. 04:29 SEE, FROM HIS HEAD, HIS HANDS, HIS FEET, SORROW AND LOVE FLOW 04:48 MINGLED DOWN: DID E'ER SUCH LOVE AND SORROW MEET, OR THORNS 05:08 COMPOSE SO RICH A CROWN? WERE THE WHOLE REALM OF NATURE 05:27 MINE, THAT WERE A PRESENT FAR TOO SMALL; LOVE SO AMAZING, SO 05:50 DIVINE, DEMANDS MY SOUL, DEMANDS MY SOUL, LOVE DEMANDS MY SOUL, 06:14 MY LIFE, MY ALL. 06:30 >>THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS. I LOVE THAT TUNE. 06:34 AND THE NEXT SONG IS A SPECIAL PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. 06:40 (MUSIC) 06:59 >>EVERY DAY THEY PASS ME BY, I CAN SEE IT IN THEIR EYES. 07:12 EMPTY PEOPLE FILLED WITH CARE, HEADED WHO KNOWS WHERE? 07:25 ON THEY GO THROUGH PRIVATE PAIN, LIVING FEAR TO FEAR. 07:38 LAUGHTER HIDES THEIR SILENT CRIES, ONLY JESUS HEARS. 07:51 PEOPLE NEED THE LORD, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. 08:03 AT THE END OF BROKEN DREAMS, HE'S THE OPEN DOOR. 08:16 PEOPLE NEED THE LORD, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. 08:27 WHEN WILL WE REALIZE, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD? 08:50 WE ARE CALLED TO TAKE HIS LIGHT TO A WORLD WHERE WRONG SEEMS 09:00 RIGHT. WHAT COULD BE TOO GREAT A COST 09:08 FOR SHARING LIFE WITH ONE WHO'S LOST? 09:15 THROUGH HIS LOVE OUR HEARTS CAN FEEL ALL THE GRIEF THEY BEAR. 09:27 THEY MUST HEAR THE WORDS OF LIFE ONLY WE CAN SHARE. 09:39 PEOPLE NEED THE LORD, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. 09:51 AT THE END OF BROKEN DREAMS, HE'S THE OPEN DOOR. 10:03 PEOPLE NEED THE LORD, PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. 10:15 WHEN WILL WE REALIZE THAT WE MUST GIVE OUR LIVES, 10:26 FOR PEOPLE NEED THE LORD? PEOPLE NEED THE LORD, 11:24 PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. AT THE END OF BROKEN DREAMS, 11:36 HE'S THE OPEN DOOR. PEOPLE NEED THE LORD, 11:48 PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. WHEN WILL WE REALIZE 11:59 THAT WE MUST GIVE OUR LIVES, FOR PEOPLE NEED THE LORD? 12:18 PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. 12:54 >>AMEN. >>I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS 12:58 AS WE BEGIN WITH A WORD OF PRAYER. 12:59 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY 13:02 THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US THIS SABBATH AND, AS WE OPEN UP YOUR 13:05 WORD, WE ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT, ONCE AGAIN, TO COME AND 13:07 GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS. FATHER MAY WE LEARN THE LESSONS 13:11 THAT YOU HAVE IN STORE FOR US IN OUR STUDY OF THIS ANCIENT BOOK - 13:15 ESPECIALLY JEREMIAH, THIS IMPORTANT PROPHET. 13:18 THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR YOUR PROMISE TO BE WITH US. 13:20 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. I'D LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG 13:23 BATCHELOR TO COME FORWARD AND LEAD US IN OUR STUDY TODAY. 13:26 THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 13:31 GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. >>GOOD MORNING. 13:34 >>WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT ENTERING INTO THIS NEW STUDY IN JEREMIAH 13:38 AND, FOR THOSE THAT ARE JOINING US, WE'RE JUST BEGINNING OUR 13:42 SECOND STUDY - I THINK THERE'S THIRTEEN ALTOGETHER IN THIS VERY 13:45 IMPORTANT BOOK. ONE OF THE GREAT MAJOR PROPHETS 13:49 OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE ON LESSON #2 13:52 AND THE TITLE OF THE LESSON IS THE CRISIS WITHIN. 13:56 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE CRISES AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE 13:59 BACK THEN AND WE MAY FIND THAT THERE'S SOME SIMILARITIES WITH 14:02 SOME CRISES THAT WE FACE IN OUR DAY. 14:06 AND THERE'S A MEMORY VERSE THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE LESSON AND 14:09 IT'S IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 3. 14:13 IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES OR YOUR QUARTERLY, YOU CAN SAY IT WITH 14:15 ME. IT'S FROM THE NEW KING JAMES 14:16 VERSION - JEREMIAH 2, VERSE 3. ARE YOU READY? 14:19 "'ISRAEL WAS HOLINESS TO THE LORD, THE FIRSTFRUITS OF HIS 14:25 INCREASE. ALL THAT DEVOUR HIM WILL OFFEND; 14:29 DISASTER WILL COME UPON THEM,' SAYS THE LORD." 14:33 GOD IS TALKING ABOUT HIS PROTECTIVE GUARDIAN RELATIONSHIP 14:37 WITH ISRAEL WHEN ISRAEL WAS HOLY AND WALKING WITH HIM IN THE 14:40 WILDERNESS, BUT WE'LL GET TO A LITTLE BIT OF THAT MORE. 14:44 NOW THIS LESSON IS DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 14:47 I WISH SOME OF THE OTHER LESSONS WOULD DO IT MORE WHEN THEY ENTER 14:50 A NEW SUBJECT - A NEW BOOK. 14:52 IT'S GOING TO GO BACK AND GIVE A BIBLE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF 14:56 GOD SO THAT WHEN WE FINALLY START LOOKING AT THE PROPHECIES 14:59 OF JEREMIAH, WE KNOW THE CONTEXT OF WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. 15:03 WHEN SOMEONE FIRST COMES TO THE LORD AND YOU SAY, 'WHERE DO I 15:07 START? 'YOU JUST HAND THEM A NEW TESTAMENT. 15:09 IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND A LOT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WITHOUT THE 15:15 BACKGROUND HISTORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 15:19 AND TAKE IT FROM ME, IF YOU GREW UP PRETTY MUCH A PAGAN - I MEAN, 15:22 THE ONLY BIBLE STORIES I KNEW ABOUT DAVID AND GOLIATH AND, I 15:25 THINK I ONLY HAD A FLEETING IDEA ABOUT DANIEL AND THE LION'S DEN, 15:28 BUT I KNEW VERY LITTLE. AND SO WHEN I STARTED READING 15:32 THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT MADE SO MANY REFERENCES TO THE 15:35 HISTORY OF ISRAEL THAT IT WASN'T UNTIL I WENT BACK AND READ AT 15:38 LEAST FROM, YOU KNOW, GENESIS THROUGH, YOU KNOW, 15:42 1 AND 2 KINGS. THEN, WHEN YOU READ THE NEW 15:46 TESTAMENT, IT MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE. 15:47 AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS WITH THE - THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH. 15:51 IF YOU'RE GOING TO UNDERSTAND JEREMIAH, YOU NEED SOME 15:54 BACKGROUND IN WHAT WAS THE CRISIS HE WAS DEALING WITH. 15:58 JEREMIAH LIVED DURING THE TIME WHERE THE PEOPLE OF GOD - THE 16:03 SOUTHERN KINGDOM - WAS ON THE VERGE OF BEING DESTROYED. 16:07 THE TEMPLE WAS - I MEAN, THERE WAS NO GREATER CATASTROPHE 16:09 EXCEPT WHEN THE ROMANS DESTROYED THE PEOPLE AND THE TEMPLE BACK 16:12 IN THE DAYS OF 70 AD - THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES. 16:17 THIS WAS THE OTHER BIG TIME WHERE, I MEAN, MAJOR JUDGMENT 16:23 FELL ON GOD'S PEOPLE. JEREMIAH IS THE PROPHET WHO 16:25 FOREWARNED THIS AND ACTUALLY LIVED THROUGH IT. 16:28 WHAT BROUGHT THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO THE PLACE WHERE GOD WOULD 16:32 DEAL WITH THEM SO SEVERELY? AND SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO 16:37 BACK AND LOOK AT SOME OF THE HISTORY. 16:39 AND SO, IN OUR LESSON, IT ACTUALLY TELLS US WE'RE GOING TO 16:41 GO TO THE BOOK OF JUDGES AND SO IF YOU'D TURN IN YOUR BIBLE TO 16:45 THE BOOK OF JUDGES AND WE'LL BE STARTING OUT WITH OH, LET ME SEE 16:51 HERE, WE'LL BE GOING TO JUDGES CHAPTER 2 - I THINK I'M GOING TO 16:54 READ VERSES 1 TO 15 - JUDGES 2:1-15 - AND MAYBE I'LL START BY 17:00 READING VERSES 1 TO 4. NOW SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, WE'RE 17:02 GOING TO ASK YOU TO HELP US. YOU'RE GOING TO READ JUDGES 17:6 17:06 - WHO HAS THAT VERSE? ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE THE NEXT 17:09 THAT'LL BE SHARING A VERSE WITH US. AND I'M GOING TO READ 17:13 JUDGES 2:1-4, "THEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME UP FROM GILGAL TO 17:18 BOCHIM, AND SAID: 'I LED YOU UP FROM EGYPT AND BROUGHT YOU TO 17:23 THE LAND OF WHICH I SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS; AND I SAID, 'I 17:25 WILL NEVER BREAK MY COVENANT WITH YOU. 17:27 AND YOU SHALL MAKE NO COVENANT WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THIS 17:30 LAND; YOU SHALL TEAR DOWN THEIR ALTARS.' 17:33 BUT YOU HAVE NOT OBEYED MY VOICE. WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS? 17:37 THEREFORE I ALSO SAID, 'I WILL NOT DRIVE THEM OUT BEFORE YOU; 17:40 BUT THEY SHALL BE THORNS IN YOUR SIDE, AND THEIR GODS SHALL BE A 17:44 SNARE TO YOU.'' SO IT WAS, WHEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SPOKE 17:48 THESE WORDS TO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THE PEOPLE 17:51 LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES AND WEPT." NOW IT'S INTERESTING, 17:55 SOMETIMES GOD SPEAKS THROUGH PROPHETS, 17:57 HIS MESSENGERS, HIS JUDGES; HERE GOD IS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO THE 18:01 NATION THROUGH AN ANGEL. AN ANGEL OF THE LORD SPOKE TO 18:04 THE PEOPLE. MAY HAVE BEEN JUST MEETING WITH 18:07 SOME OF THE LEADERS. THERE WAS A PROBLEM THAT HAPPENS 18:10 IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES AND WE'VE PROBABLY QUOTED THIS. 18:13 EVEN PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE QUOTED THIS - 18:15 MAYBE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM. 18:17 IF YOU LOOK IN DEUTERONOMY 12, VERSE 8 - DON'T LOSE YOUR PLACE 18:21 IN JUDGES 2, BUT IN DEUTERONOMY 12, VERSE 8 - LAST BOOK OF MOSES 18:25 - HE SAID, 'YOU WILL NOT DO ALL AS WE ARE DOING HERE TODAY' - 18:30 HE'S TALKING TO THE PEOPLE BEFORE THEY ENTER THE PROMISED 18:33 LAND - EVERY MAN DOING WHAT IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES.' WHAT IS 18:38 RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES. YOU EVER HEARD THAT EXPRESSION 18:40 BEFORE? EVERY MAN DOES WHAT'S RIGHT IN 18:43 HIS OWN EYES. THAT EXPRESSION BECAME FAMOUS 18:45 DURING THE TIME OF JUDGES. MOSES FOREWARNED - HE SAID, 18:49 'WHEN YOU ENTER INTO THE PROMISED LAND, DON'T DO LIKE 18:50 YOU'RE DOING NOW WHERE EVERY MAN DOES WHAT'S RIGHT IN HIS OWN 18:53 EYES. WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THAT? 18:54 WE'LL, BEFORE THEY ENTERED INTO THE PROMISED LAND, GOD SAID, 18:59 'WHEN YOU ENTER, I WILL TELL YOU WHERE AND HOW TO BRING YOUR 19:03 OFFERINGS. I WILL SPECIFY A PLACE. 19:05 THAT PLACE WAS LATER JERUSALEM. 19:08 THAT WAS THE CENTRAL PLACE OF OFFERINGS. 19:11 IN THE WILDERNESS, THEY KIND OF WANDERED. 19:13 THEY BROUGHT THEM TO THE TABERNACLE, BUT IT WAS A LITTLE 19:16 DIFFERENT - A LITTLE MORE RELAXED - AND HE SAID, 'DON'T 19:19 EVERY MAN DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES. 19:21 HE'S TALKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT WORSHIP THERE. 19:23 WELL, WHEN YOU GET TO THE BOOK OF JUDGES, WHAT HAPPENED? 19:27 LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ JUDGES 17, VERSE 6. 19:30 >>"IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL; EVERYONE DID 19:34 WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES." 19:36 >>AND SO, YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT THE WILD, WILD, WEST? 19:40 AND, YOU KNOW, THEY - AS THE GREAT AMERICAN WEST WAS BEING 19:46 SETTLED - NOW, IN - IN LEGEND IT'S OFTEN BIGGER THAN REALITY, 19:50 BUT IT IS TRUE THAT AS THE WEST WAS BEING SETTLED, THERE WERE 19:54 SOME TOWNS THAT SPRANG UP THAT ACTUALLY HAD NO LAW. 19:58 THERE WERE NO SHERIFFS, THERE WERE NO DEPUTIES, THERE WERE NO 20:01 POLICEMEN, AND IT'S - THEY CALLED IT THE LAW OF THE WEST - 20:06 THE RULE OF THE WEST - AND EVERY MAN KIND OF DID 20:11 WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES. 20:13 DURING THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH - AND, OF COURSE, HERE IN THE 20:16 SACRAMENTO AREA WE'RE JUST RIGHT IN THE VERY CRUCIBLE OF THAT 20:20 HISTORY, PEOPLE MIGRATED SO QUICKLY THAT THERE WERE TOWNS 20:26 THAT SPRANG UP AND THERE WAS NO LAW. THERE WERE NO JUDGES AND 20:30 PEOPLE JUST HAD TO BE GOVERNED BY THEIR OWN MORALS AND YOU 20:34 HOPED THAT WHOEVER WAS LARGE AND IN CHARGE HAD SOME MORALS. 20:38 WELL, THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS IN ISRAEL, THEY QUICKLY 20:40 DISPOSSESSED THESE OTHER NATIONS. 20:42 THEY ALL CLAIMED THEIR TERRITORY, THEY DIVIDED THE LAND 20:44 AMONG THE TRIBES, THERE WAS NO KING - THEY DID HAVE THE LEVITES 20:48 THAT DID THEIR BEST TO TEACH, BUT FOR THE MOST PART EVERY MAN 20:51 DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES. AND THEY BEGAN TO BE 20:57 INFLUENCED BY THE OTHER NATIONS AND STARTED TO APOSTASIZE. 21:01 NOW YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THAT PHRASE 'WHATEVER WAS RIGHT IN 21:05 THEIR OWN EYES' IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES, SEVERAL TIMES. 21:10 NOW THEY DON'T DO IT AFTER THEY GET A KING, BUT BEFORE THEY HAD 21:13 A KING, BEFORE THEY HAD THE CAREFUL LAW AND THE JUDGES AND 21:16 ADMINISTRATORS, PEOPLE WERE SORT OF MAKING UP THE RULES AS THEY 21:20 WENT ALONG. I WANT TO GO BACK HERE AND READ, 21:25 AGAIN, IN JUDGES CHAPTER 2, JUST TO GIVE YOU THE HISTORY. 21:29 SO THE PEOPLE WEPT WHEN THE LORD TOLD THEM THAT THEY HAD DONE 21:34 THIS AND THAT TAKES US TO VERSE 4 IN JUDGES CHAPTER 2. 21:38 I'M GOING TO READ ON. WE'RE STILL IN JUDGES CHAPTER 2 21:44 AND IT SAYS HERE IN VERSE 5, "THEN THEY CALLED THE NAME OF 21:49 THAT PLACE BOSHIM; AND THEY SACRIFICED THERE TO THE LORD. 21:52 AND WHEN JOSHUA" - JOSHUA'S STILL ALIVE - HE 21:54 "...DISMISSED...THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT EACH TO THEIR 21:57 OWN INHERITANCE TO POSSESS THE LAND. 22:00 SO THE PEOPLE SERVED THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF JOSHUA, AND ALL 22:03 THE DAYS OF THE ELDERS WHO OUTLIVED JOSHUA, WHO HAD SEEN 22:06 ALL THE GREAT WORKS OF THE LORD WHICH HE HAD DONE FOR ISRAEL." 22:09 NOW YOU REALIZE, EVEN THOUGH, AS THEY WENT THROUGH THE 22:12 WILDERNESS, EVERYBODY FROM 20 YEARS OLD AND UPWARD DIED, 22:17 EXCEPT JOSHUA AND CALEB. THAT'S - YOU FIND THAT IN 22:20 NUMBERS CHAPTERS 13 AND 14, BECAUSE OF THEIR LOSS OF FAITH. 22:24 THERE WERE STILL PEOPLE - HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER - WHAT'S 22:27 YOUR EARLIEST MEMORY? HOW OLD WERE YOU? 22:29 ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE TEN YEARS OLD? 22:31 I HOPE EVERYBODY CAN REMEMBER SOMETHING ABOUT WHEN YOU WERE 22:35 TEN YEARS OLD. I - JUST - THERE'S A CHANCE. 22:36 SOME OF YOU DON'T REMEMBER YESTERDAY AND IT'S OKAY. 22:40 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER SOMETHING FROM WHEN YOU WERE 22:43 FIVE YEARS OLD? I'VE GOT A COUPLE FLEETING MEMORIES. 22:46 ANY OF YOU REMEMBER SOMETHING FROM WHEN YOU'RE THREE YEARS 22:50 OLD? A COUPLE. TWO? YOU JUST THINK YOU REMEMBER 22:56 SOMETHING FROM WHEN YOU'RE TWO IS ALL. 22:59 YOU SAW A PICTURE YOUR PARENTS SHOWED YOU. 23:01 YOU SAID, 'I REMEMBER THAT.' NO YOU MAY HAVE; I'M JUST TEASING, 23:04 BUT YOU DON'T GO MUCH FURTHER BACK THAN THAT UNLESS YOU'RE A 23:07 REAL PRODIGY, BUT THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO LIVED WITH JOSHUA 23:12 THAT WERE 18, 15, 13 YEARS OLD THAT REMEMBERED EGYPT. 23:18 THEY REMEMBERED THE PLAGUES. THEY REMEMBERED THE RED SEA 23:21 PARTING. THEY REMEMBERED THE JORDAN 23:24 PARTING AND AS JOSHUA DIED OFF - YOU KNOW, MOSES LIVED A HUNDRED 23:28 AND TWENTY, AARON'S A HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO OR A HUNDRED AND 23:31 TWENTY-THREE. SOME OF THEM OUTLIVED JOSHUA, 23:33 JOSHUA WAS ONLY A HUNDRED AND TEN. 23:35 SO FOR TEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER JOSHUA, SOME OF THE ELDERS 23:39 WHO HAD REMEMBERED THE ENTIRE EXODUS, THAT GENERATION DIED 23:43 OFF. AND THEN THINGS BEGAN TO CHANGE. 23:47 THE ONES WHO HAD LOST THE VISION - THE MIRACLE - THE PRESENCE OF 23:52 GOD - THE AWESOMENESS OF THEIR DELIVERANCE. 23:54 THEN ANOTHER GENERATION CAME AND THEY SAID, YOU KNOW, YEAH, THIS 23:58 - 'WE'RE AN INSTITUTION NOW AND YEAH, OUR PARENTS WERE EXCITED 24:02 ABOUT SOMETHING AND WE DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS.' 24:04 THEY DIDN'T SEE ALL THE MIRACLES AND THOSE GENERATIONS PASSED ON 24:07 - THINGS BEGAN TO CHANGE. "NOW JOSHUA, THE SON OF NUN, THE 24:14 SERVANT OF THE LORD, DIED WHEN HE WAS ONE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS 24:17 OLD. AND THEY BURIED HIM WITHIN THE 24:19 BORDER OF HIS INHERITANCE AT TIMNATH HERES, IN THE MOUNTAINS 24:21 OF EPHRAIM, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF MOUNT GAASH. 24:24 WHEN ALL THAT GENERATION HAD BEEN GATHERED TO THEIR FATHERS," 24:26 - YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS - DIED AND THEY'RE BURIED IN THEIR 24:29 TERRITORIES - "ANOTHER GENERATION AROSE AFTER THEM WHO 24:33 DID NOT KNOW THE LORD NOR THE WORK WHICH HE HAD DONE FOR 24:35 ISRAEL THEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF 24:39 THE LORD, AND SERVED THE BAALS; AND THEY FORSOOK THE LORD GOD OF 24:44 THEIR FATHERS, WHO HAD BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; 24:46 AND THEY FOLLOWED OTHER GODS FROM AMONG THE GODS OF THE 24:49 PEOPLE WHO WERE ALL AROUND THEM, AND THEY BOWED DOWN TO THEM; AND 24:53 THEY" - NOTICE, THEY BEGAN TO SERVE THE GODS AROUND THEM. 24:57 THEY WERE INFLUENCED BY THEIR CULTURE - THEIR ENVIRONMENT. 25:00 "THEY BOWED DOWN TO THEM AND THEY PROVOKED THE LORD TO ANGER. 25:03 THEY FORSOOK THE LORD AND SERVED BAAL AND THE ASHTORETHS." 25:06 - THAT'S THE FEMALE GODS OF BAAL - "AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS 25:11 HOT AGAINST ISRAEL. SO HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE 25:13 HANDS OF PLUNDERERS WHO DESPOILED THEM; AND HE SOLD THEM 25:17 INTO THE HANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES ALL AROUND, SO THAT THEY COULD 25:20 NO LONGER STAND BEFORE THEIR ENEMIES. 25:22 WHEREVER THEY WENT OUT, THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS AGAINST THEM FOR 25:25 CALAMITY, AS THE LORD HAD SAID, AND AS THE LORD HAD SWORN TO 25:30 THEM. AND THEY WERE GREATLY DISTRESSED." 25:31 SO, GRADUALLY, AS THE GENERATION THAT HAD THE REVIVAL THAT WAS - 25:38 EXPERIENCED THE MOVEMENT THAT SAW THAT - AS THEY DIED OFF, 25:42 THEY BEGAN TO LOOK FOR - INSTEAD OF LOOKING TO GOD'S WORD, AND 25:46 LOOKING TO THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR ROOTS, THEY BEGAN TO LOOK 25:49 AROUND AND WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH THE OTHER NATIONS THAT 25:51 SURROUNDED THEM, THEY BEGAN TO SHOP WITH THESE PEOPLE, HANG OUT 25:55 WITH THESE PEOPLE, WORK WITH THESE PEOPLE - BECAME VERY 25:57 CLOSE. LOOK AT THE STORY OF SAMSON. 25:59 I MEAN HE - GOD RAISED HIM UP TO DELIVER THE PEOPLE FROM THE - 26:02 THE PHILISTINES AND HE ENDED UP WANTING TO MARRY A PHILISTINE 26:07 AND THEN AFTER THAT FELL APART AND THEN HE - HE JUST MOVED IN 26:10 WITH DELILAH, ANOTHER PHILISTINE. THE VERY PEOPLE 26:12 HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DESTROY, HE BECAME FRIENDS WITH. 26:17 COULD THAT HAPPEN TO THE CHURCH IN OUR WORLD TODAY? 26:21 WHERE YOU FORGET YOUR ROOTS, YOU LOSE THE FIRE OF THE MOVEMENT, 26:24 YOU FORGET THE REASON FOR THE MOVEMENT AND YOU START TO TRY TO 26:27 BE LIKE THE GODS AROUND YOU AND THE NATIONS AROUND YOU AND, 26:30 INSTEAD OF BEING DEFINED BY THE WORD OF GOD AND HIS PROPHETS, 26:33 YOU BECOME DEFINED BY WHAT'S CULTURALLY RELEVANT. 26:36 SO THAT'S WHY THIS STUDY OF JEREMIAH IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US 26:40 - AND THIS IS IN THE LESSON, I'M NOT JUST - YOU THINK, 'WELL, 26:42 PASTOR DOUG'S RIDING ON HIS HOBBY HORSE.' 26:43 NO, MY HOBBY HORSE IS IN THE LESSON THIS TIME. 26:45 (LAUGHTER) AND MY HOBBY HORSE IS THAT WE GET BACK TO THE MOVEMENT 26:49 THAT DEFINED US AS A PEOPLE - GET BACK TO THE WORD - THE 26:52 REFORMATION PRINCIPLES AND DO NOT BE DEFINED BY AN EVER 26:56 DOWNWARDLY EVOLVING CULTURE, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT GOD'S PEOPLE 27:01 DID IN THE PAST. AND SO THEY DRIFTED INTO 27:04 UNFAITHFULNESS. IT SAYS THEY DID EVIL. 27:07 NOW THERE'S A QUESTION; ON THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 2 IN YOUR LESSON, 27:12 UNDER QUICK HISTORY - I WANT TO READ THIS QUESTION TO YOU. 27:15 THINK ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF THE NEXT GENERATION, NOT HAVING THE 27:18 VALUES AND BELIEFS OF THE ONE BEFORE IT. 27:21 HOW HAVE WE, AS A CHURCH, DEALT WITH THIS ISSUE? 27:25 HOW CAN WE LEARN TO TRANSMIT OUR VALUES - AND I HOPE THEY'RE THE 27:29 BIBLE VALUES, NOT JUST BECAUSE IT'S OUR VALUES, 27:31 TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW US. YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT THIS WOULD 27:35 BE A GOOD PLACE TO READ SOMETHING YOU MAY OR MAY NOT 27:37 HAVE HEARD BEFORE. HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD - IT 27:39 WAS SO WELL AND SO PERCEPTIVE - SO WELL WRITTEN THAT IT KIND OF 27:44 MADE ITS WAY TO THE INTERNET AND MADE THE ROUNDS. IT'S AN APPEAL. 27:48 IT'S THE LAST SERMON OF A GENERAL CONFERENCE PRESIDENT OF 27:52 THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH NAMED ROBERT H. 27:54 PIERRSON AND IT WAS SORT OF HIS CONCLUDING MESSAGE TO THE 27:58 DELEGATES AFTER HE HAD SERVED OUT ALL OF HIS TERMS. 28:01 HE SERVED ALMOST AS MUCH - MATTER OF FACT, ROBERT PIERSON 28:04 1911 TO 1989 WAS A GENERAL CONFERENCE PRESIDENT FROM 1966 28:10 TO 1979. THE ONLY ONE WHO SERVED LONGER 28:13 WAS A.J. DANIELS. HE WAS A PROLIFIC WRITER. 28:16 HE'S CREDITED WITH AUTHORING 28 BOOKS - MANY OF THEM TRANSLATED 28:20 INTO MULTIPLE LANGUAGES - AND HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES. 28:22 SHORTLY BEFORE HIS RETIREMENT HE DELIVERED THIS EARNEST APPEAL TO 28:26 THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD CHURCH GATHERED FOR AN ANNUAL COUNCIL 28:29 MEETING - I SAID GENERAL CONFERENCE; IT WAS ACTUALLY AN 28:32 ANNUAL COUNCIL MEETING - OCTOBER 15, 1978. 28:35 HIS MESSAGE SEEMS ALMOST PROPHETIC. 28:38 THIS IS THE MESSAGE ELDER PIERSON GAVE IN 1978 - 28:41 WHAT, 37 YEARS AGO. YOU TELL ME IF YOU THINK IT'S A 28:43 RELEVANT MESSAGE. "THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME, IN 28:49 MY PRESENT ROLE, THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU, THE WORLD LEADERS OF 28:52 MY CHURCH, YOUR CHURCH, OUR CHURCH; AND I HAVE A FEW WORDS 28:55 TO LEAVE WITH YOU. I TAKE MY THOUGHTS FROM 28:58 SOMETHING ELDER AND MRS. RALPH NEALL HAD WRITTEN DESCRIBING HOW 29:01 TYPICALLY A SECT - A MOVEMENT - EVOLVES INTO A CHURCH. 29:05 THEY SAY THAT A SECT OFTEN BEGINS BY A CHARISMATIC LEADER 29:09 WITH TREMENDOUS DRIVE AND COMMITMENT; THAT IT ARISES AS A 29:11 PROTEST AGAINST THE WORLDLINESS AND THE FORMALISM THAT IS 29:15 UNPOPULAR AND DESPISED. IT'S PERSECUTED BY SOCIETY IN 29:18 GENERAL. IT HAS DEFINITE BELIEFS FIRMLY 29:21 HELD BY ZEALOUS MEMBERS. EACH MEMBER MAKES A PERSONAL 29:25 DECISION TO JOIN IT AND KNOWS WHAT HE BELIEVES. 29:28 THERE'S LITTLE ORGANIZATION OR PROPERTY AND THERE ARE FEW 29:31 BUILDINGS. THE GROUP HAS STRICT STANDARDS 29:33 AND CONTROL ON BEHAVIOR. PREACHERS, OFTEN WITHOUT 29:36 EDUCATION - OR AT LEAST FORMAL - THERE'S LITTLE CONCERN ABOUT 29:41 PUBLIC RELATIONS - IT IS MESSAGE DRIVEN. 29:45 AND THEN IT PASSES ON TO THE SECOND GENERATION. 29:48 WITH GROWTH THERE COMES THE NEED FOR ORGANIZATION AND BUILDINGS. 29:52 AS A RESULT OF INDUSTRY AND FRUGALITY, MEMBERS BECOME 29:55 PROSPEROUS. AS PROSPERITY INCREASES, 29:57 PERSECUTION BEGINS TO WANE. CHILDREN BORN INTO THE MOVEMENT 30:01 DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE THE SAME PERSONAL DECISIONS TO JOIN IT, 30:04 NOR DO THEY NECESSARILY KNOW WHAT THEY BELIEVE. 30:06 THEY DO NOT NEED TO HAMMER OUT THEIR OWN POSITIONS. 30:09 THESE HAVE BEEN WORKED OUT FOR THEM. PREACHERS ARISE MORE BY 30:12 SELECTION AND BY APPRENTICESHIP TO OLDER WORKERS THAN BY DIRECT 30:18 INNER COMPULSION AND DRIVE. IN THE THIRD GENERATION" - 30:21 MOVING DOWN THE LINE NOW - "ORGANIZATION DEVELOPS AND 30:25 INSTITUTIONS ARE ESTABLISHED. THE NEED IS SEEN FOR SCHOOLS TO 30:27 PASS ON THE FAITH OF THE FATHERS. 30:29 COLLEGES ARE ESTABLISHED THAT TURN INTO UNIVERSITIES, MEMBERS 30:33 HAVE BEEN EXHORTED TO LIVE UP TO THE STANDARDS, WHILE AT THE SAME 30:35 TIME, THE STANDARDS OF THE MEMBERSHIP ARE BEING LOWERED TO 30:38 MAKE IT MORE APPEALING TO OTHERS. 30:40 THE GROUP BECOMES LAX ABOUT DISFELLOWSHIPING 30:43 NON-PARTICIPATING MEMBERS. MISSIONARY ZEAL COOLS OFF. 30:47 THERE'S MORE CONCERN OVER PUBLIC RELATIONS. 30:49 LEADERS STUDY METHODS OF PROPAGATING THEIR FAITH, 30:52 SOMETIMES EMPLOYING THE EXTRINSIC REWARDS AS 30:55 MOTIVATION FOR SERVICE BY ITS MEMBERS. 30:57 YOUTH BEGIN TO QUESTION WHY THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS AND 31:00 INTERMARRY WITH THOSE NOT OF THEIR FAITH. 31:03 THE FOURTH GENERATION THERE'S MUCH MACHINERY. 31:06 THE NUMBERS OF ADMINISTRATORS INCREASE, WHILE THE NUMBERS OF 31:09 WORKERS AT THE GRASS ROOTS BECOMES PROPORTIONATELY LESS. 31:11 GREAT CHURCH COUNSELS ARE HELD TO DEFINE DOCTRINE. 31:15 MORE SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, AND SEMINARIES ARE ESTABLISHED. 31:19 THESE GO TO THE WORLD FOR ACCREDITATION AND TEND TO 31:22 BECOMES SECULARIZED. THERE IS A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE 31:26 POSITIONS AND A MODERNIZING OF METHODS. 31:29 ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, AND WITH 31:31 INTEREST IN THE ARTS, MUSIC, ARCHITECTURE, AND LITERATURE. 31:34 THE MOVEMENT SEEKS TO BECOME RELEVANT TO ITS SOCIETY AND 31:37 BECOMES INVOLVED IN POPULAR CAUSES. SERVICES BECOME FORMAL. 31:43 THE GROUP ENJOYS COMPLETE ACCEPTANCE BY THE WORLD. 31:46 IT HAS GRAVITATED FROM A SECT TO A CHURCH." 31:49 THEN HE APPEALS. I WON'T READ THE WHOLE THING 31:52 BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TIME. "BRETHREN AND SISTERS, THIS MUST 31:55 NEVER HAPPEN TO THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 31:57 THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN TO THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 32:00 IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER CHURCH, IT IS GOD'S CHURCH. 32:02 YOU ARE, THE MEN AND WOMEN SITTING IN THIS SANCTUARY THIS 32:06 MORNING, ON WHOM GOD IS COUNTING TO ASSURE THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN. 32:09 ALREADY, BRETHREN AND SISTERS, THERE ARE SUBTLE FORCES THAT ARE 32:12 BEGINNING TO STIR. REGRETTABLY, THERE ARE THOSE IN 32:15 THE CHURCH WHO BELITTLE THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE, WHO 32:18 SCORN THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS OF GENESIS, WHO QUESTION THE 32:22 SPIRIT OF PROPHECY'S SHORT CHRONOLOGY OF THE EARTH, AND WHO 32:25 SUBTLY AND NOT SO SUBTLY ATTACK THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. 32:28 THERE ARE SOME WHO POINT TO THE REFORMERS AND CONTEMPORARY 32:30 THEOLOGIANS AS A SOURCE AND THE NORM FOR SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 32:34 DOCTRINE. THERE ARE THOSE WHO ALLEGEDLY 32:36 ARE TIRED OF THE HACK AND PHRASES OF ADVENTISM AND WHO 32:39 WISH TO FORGET THE STANDARDS OF THE CHURCH WE LOVE. 32:42 THERE ARE THOSE WHO COVET THE WORLD AND COURT THE FAVOR OF THE 32:45 EVANGELICALS; WHO WOULD, EVEN NOW, THROW OFF THE MANTLE OF 32:48 BEING A PECULIAR PEOPLE, AND THOSE WHO WOULD GO THE WAY OF 32:51 SECULAR MATERIALISTIC WORLD." WELL, I COULD READ A LOT MORE. 32:57 IT GOES ON. IT'S VERY - IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE 33:00 THIS WAS WRITTEN 37 YEARS AGO. PRETTY ACCURATELY DEFINES WHAT 33:04 IS HAPPENING TODAY. YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, THE 33:06 BIBLE SAYS 'UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION'. 33:08 A MOVEMENT BEGINS - YOU LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE 33:11 METHODISTS - JOHN WESLEY - THEY'RE CALLED METHODISTS 33:15 BECAUSE THEY WERE SO METHODICAL ABOUT BEING REGIMENTED AND 33:19 CONSERVATIVE AND GODLY AND HOLY AND PURE PEOPLE, THAT THEY 33:25 DEFINED EVERY DETAIL OF THEIR LIVES - HOW THEY SPENT THEIR 33:28 TIME - AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY DID THAT THEY SPREAD LIKE 33:31 WILDFIRE BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHAT THEY BELIEVED. THEY KNEW HOW TO 33:33 TELL OTHER PEOPLE WHAT THEY BELIEVED. THEY WERE ON FIRE 33:35 ABOUT THE REASONS WHY THEY BELIEVED WHAT THEY BELIEVED AND 33:38 IT BECAME A MOVEMENT OF HOLINESS AND PURITY THAT SPREAD. 33:44 BUT IF JOHN WESLEY COULD BE RESURRECTED TODAY, AFTER THREE 33:49 OR FOUR GENERATIONS, THEY WENT THROUGH THE VERY SAME 33:51 TRANSITIONS THAT PIERSON DESCRIBED HERE. 33:56 THEY GRADUALLY GREW INTO AN INSTITUTION, THEN A CHURCH, AND 33:59 THEN THEY JUST SORT OF MELTED INTO THE CULTURE WHERE THEY 34:02 BECAME IRRELEVANT BECAUSE YOU COULD NOT SEE THE DIFFERENCE 34:04 BETWEEN THEM AND THE WORLD AROUND THEM. 34:07 EVEN TODAY THERE ARE SEVERAL FRAGMENTS OF THE METHODIST 34:10 CHURCH BECAUSE, AS THE CHURCH AT LARGE COMPROMISES WITH THE WORLD 34:14 - SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SAME-SEX CLERGY - JUST A LOT OF OTHER 34:19 THINGS LIKE THAT. THOSE WHO WANT TO BE FAITHFUL TO 34:21 THE ORIGINAL MOVEMENT, THOSE WHO STILL KNOW WHAT IT IS, THEY KEEP 34:24 SPLITTING OFF, FORMING NEW DENOMINATIONS. 34:27 IT'S HAPPENED WITH THE BAPTISTS - THE BAPTISTS WERE A VERY 34:30 CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE WHEN THEY WERE FORMED. THEY DIED FOR 34:34 SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS BAPTISM BY IMMERSION. JUST LIKE 34:38 ADVENTISTS, DURING WORLD WARS I AND II, DIED BECAUSE THEY WOULD 34:41 NOT PICK UP A SHOVEL ON SABBATH WHEN ORDERED TO DO IT. 34:45 I MEAN, THEY WERE PEOPLE WHO KNEW WHAT THEY BELIEVED. 34:47 THEY WERE WILLING TO DIE FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVED. 34:49 BUT AS TIME GOES BY, THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED TO THE 34:53 PEOPLE OF GOD - IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE YOU COULD BE PART OF A 34:55 MOVEMENT WHERE THE RED SEA OPENS AND ALL THESE PLAGUES, AND FED 35:01 BY BREAD FROM HEAVEN, AND ALL THESE MIRACLES. 35:04 AND YOU COME INTO THE PROMISED LAND AND GOD SAYS, THROUGH 35:06 MOSES, 'DO NOT COMPROMISE WITH THE NATIONS AROUND YOU. 35:09 DO NOT INTERMARRY WITH THEM. DO NOT LET THEM INFLUENCE WITH 35:12 YOU BECAUSE YOU'LL FORGET THE LORD IN NO TIME AT ALL.' 35:16 DID IT HAPPEN TO THEM? DOES IT STILL HAPPEN? 35:21 HAS IT HAPPENED TO OTHER MOVEMENTS BEFORE US? 35:23 ARE WE IMMUNE TO THOSE FORCES OR COULD IT HAPPEN TO US? 35:27 THIS IS WHAT THIS LESSON IS TALKING ABOUT. 35:30 THIS IS WHY JEREMIAH WAS SENT, BECAUSE HE WAS SENT TO A CHURCH 35:34 THAT HAD MADE THESE TERRIBLE COMPROMISES. 35:36 ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE NEXT SECTION UNDER TWO 35:39 KINGDOMS . IN A MOMENT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO 35:41 READ 2 KINGS 13:11. THAT'LL BE YOU, OKAY? 35:44 1 KINGS 1 - I'M SORRY, 1 KINGS 12, VERSE 25. 35:49 NOW WE TALKED ABOUT THE COMPROMISE DURING THE TIME OF 35:53 JUDGES. FINALLY THEY SAID, 'GIVE US A 35:54 KING.' THE LORD GAVE THEM A KING AND THERE WAS SOME UNITY AMONG 35:57 THE PEOPLE DURING THE TIME OF SAUL, DAVID, AND SOLOMON. 36:01 BUT THEN, DURING THE TIME OF REHOBOAM, THE SON OF SOLOMON, 36:11 THE KINGDOM SPLIT. NOW YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 36:14 JEROBOAM WAS A SERVANT OF SOLOMON THAT REBELLED AGAINST 36:18 SOLOMON - HE FLED TO EGYPT. WHEN SOLOMON DIED, HE CAME BACK. 36:22 IT WAS VERY SHREWD. HE MANAGED TO PERSUADE THE 36:25 NORTHERN TRIBES NOT TO FOLLOW REHOBOAM. 36:29 REHOBOAM MADE A DUMB DECISION WHILE HE WAS YOUNG AND LISTENED 36:34 TO THE WRONG COUNSELORS. THE KINGDOM OF DAVID - JUDAH - 36:38 BENJAMIN AND LEVI, THE PRIESTS, THEY WERE THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM, 36:42 WHERE THE TEMPLE WAS, IN JERUSALEM. 36:44 THE TEN TRIBES IN THE NORTH, EPHRAIM BEING THE BIGGEST - THE 36:48 TEN TRIBES ARE OFTEN REFERRED TO AS EPHRAIM BECAUSE IT WAS THE 36:51 BIGGEST TRIBE. THEY WERE LED BY JEROBOAM. ULTIMATELY, THE 36:55 CAPITAL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM WAS SAMARIA. THE CAPITAL OF THE 36:58 SOUTHERN KINGDOM WAS JERUSALEM. BUT WHEN JEROBOAM REBELLED, HE 37:03 BEGAN TO WORRY. HE SAID, 'WAIT A SECOND, THE 37:05 MAIN PLACE OF WORSHIP IS IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM. 37:07 IF ALL OF THESE TRIBES THAT NOW FOLLOW ME AS KING, FEEL LIKE 37:11 THEY'VE GOT TO GO SOUTH TO WORSHIP, THEY'RE GOING TO START 37:14 BEING INFLUENCED BY THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES THERE. 37:17 THEY'RE GOING TO START REMEMBERING ALL THE MIRACLES GOD 37:19 DID THROUGH DAVID AND SOLOMON. THEY'RE GOING TO START 37:22 SECOND-GUESSING MY BEING THE KING. 37:23 I'VE GOT TO KEEP THEM FROM GOING DOWN THERE TO WORSHIP. 37:26 SO HE SET UP A COUNTERFEIT FORM OF WORSHIP TO KEEP CONTROL. 37:30 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO READ ABOUT. 37:32 1 KINGS 12, VERSE 25, "THEN JEROBOAM BUILT SHECHEM IN THE 37:38 MOUNTAINS OF EPHRAIM, AND DWELT THERE. 37:40 ALSO HE WENT OUT FROM THERE AND BUILT PENUEL. 37:42 AND JEROBOAM SAID IN HIS HEART, 'NOW THE KINGDOM MAY RETURN TO 37:46 THE HOUSE OF DAVID: IF THESE PEOPLE GO UP TO OFFER SACRIFICES 37:49 IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AT JERUSALEM, THEN THE HEART OF 37:52 THIS PEOPLE WILL TURN BACK TO THEIR LORD, REHOBOAM KING OF 37:55 JUDAH, AND THEY WILL KILL ME AND GO BACK TO REHOBOAM'" - THE SON 37:58 OF SOLOMON - "'KING OF JUDAH.' THEREFORE THE KING ASKED 38:00 ADVICE," - HE GOT COUNSEL - HE "MADE TWO CALVES" - RIGHT AWAY 38:05 YOU'D THINK THEY OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER BASED ON THEIR HISTORY 38:07 ABOUT MAKING GOLDEN CALVES - THEY "MADE TWO CALVES OF GOLD, 38:10 AND SAID TO THE PEOPLE, '(IT IS NOT CONVENIENT) IT IS 38:13 TOO MUCH FOR YOU TO GO UP TO JERUSALEM (TO WORSHIP). 38:15 HERE ARE YOUR GODS, O ISRAEL, WHICH BROUGHT YOU UP FROM THE 38:19 LAND OF EGYPT!'" - THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? 38:21 THAT'S WHAT AARON SAID WHEN HE MADE A GOLDEN CALF - "AND HE SET 38:24 UP ONE IN BETHEL, AND THE OTHER HE PUT IN DAN." 38:27 - TO MAKE IT CONVENIENT - GAVE THEM TWO PLACES IN THE NORTH - 38:29 "NOW THIS THING BECAME A SIN, FOR THE PEOPLE WENT TO WORSHIP 38:33 BEFORE THE ONE AS FAR AS DAN." - THAT'S WAY UP IN THE NORTH - 38:36 AND "HE MADE SHRINES ON THE HIGH PLACES, AND MADE PRIESTS FROM 38:40 EVERY CLASS OF PEOPLE, - NOW, WHO WERE TO BE THE 38:43 PRIESTS? >>THE LEVITES. 38:45 >>THE LEVITES - SONS OF AARON - BUT WHAT DID JEROBOAM DO? 38:47 HE CHANGED THAT PLAN AND HE MADE PRIESTS FROM EVERY CLASS OF THE 38:53 PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT OF THE SONS OF LEVI. 38:55 NOW GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US, WHAT IS IT, SECOND KINGS 13:11. 38:58 >>"AND HE DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD. 39:01 HE DID NOT DEPART FROM ALL THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF 39:05 NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL SIN, BUT WALKED IN THEM." 39:08 >>THAT PHRASE - YOU CAN JUST TYPE IT INTO YOUR BIBLE COMPUTER 39:11 SOFTWARE - JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO CAUSED ISRAEL TO SIN 39:16 - JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL TO SIN - WALKED IN 39:20 ALL THE SINS OF THE SON OF - JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT. 39:23 THROUGH THE REST OF THE CHRONICLES OF THE KINGS, IT 39:27 REFERS BACK TO THIS ONE KING. WHEN YOU SAY 'JUDAS' HE'S SORT 39:33 OF THE ARCH VILLAIN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 39:36 JEROBOAM WAS THE ARCH VILLAIN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THAT HE 39:41 CORRUPTED THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN A VERY PROFANE - PROFOUND WAY - 39:46 AND THEY NEVER REALLY RECOVERED FROM IT. THE LORD SAID, 39:50 'DO NOT GO AFTER OTHER GODS. DO NOT COMPROMISE THE TRUTH. 39:54 DO NOT BE LIKE THE OTHER NATIONS.' AND JEROBOAM SAID, 39:57 'WELL I DON'T CARE WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY, WE'VE GOT TO 39:59 KEEP CONTROL HERE, OF THE PEOPLE. 40:01 WE WANT TO HAVE MORE INFLUENCE WITH THE OTHER NATIONS AROUND 40:04 US, SO WE'LL JUST MAKE A FEW COMPROMISES. 40:06 WE'LL STILL SAY WE'RE WORSHIPING GOD, BUT WE'LL DO IT THROUGH 40:08 GOLDEN CALVES.' AND SO THEY SORT OF TRIED TO CO-MINGLE THE TWO 40:12 AND IT BROUGHT ABOUT A GREAT SPLIT. 40:17 NOW FOR A WHILE, THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM WAS FAITHFUL. 40:20 I'LL READ YOU ONE - THERE'S ONE BATTLE - ACTUALLY, THE SOUTHERN 40:24 KINGDOM WENT TO WAR WITH THE NORTHERN KINGDOM SEVERAL TIMES. 40:27 INSTEAD OF ISRAEL BEING A UNITED NATION THAT WOULD FIGHT AGAINST 40:29 THE PHILISTINES AND THE MOABITES AND THE EDOMITES AND THE 40:32 ASSYRIANS, THEY STARTED, NOW, WAGING WAR AGAINST EACH OTHER 40:35 AND THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM SAID, 'WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH BECAUSE WE 40:38 STILL HAVE THE TEMPLE. WE'RE FOLLOWING THE LORD. 40:40 WE'RE NOT WORSHIPING IDOLS. YOU HAVE CORRUPTED' AND THE 40:43 SOUTHERN KINGDOM, NORTHERN KINGDOM WENT TO WAR WITH EACH 40:45 OTHER FOR A WHILE. LISTEN TO WHAT KING AHAB - I'M 40:49 SORRY - LISTEN TO WHAT KING ABIJAH, WHO WAS THE KING OF 40:53 JERUSALEM, SAID TO KING JEROBOAM IN THE NORTH - THE NORTHERN 40:58 KINGDOM - WHEN THEY WENT TO WAR. 2 CHRONICLES 13:5. 41:04 NOW SOMEONE, IN A MINUTE, IS GOING TO READ 2 CHRONICLES 33:9. 41:06 WHO WILL HAVE THAT? OKAY. I'M READING 2 CHRONICLES 13:5 - 41:11 I'LL READ THROUGH 11, "SHOULD YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE LORD GOD 41:14 OF ISRAEL GAVE THE DOMINION OVER ISRAEL TO DAVID FOREVER, TO HIM 41:19 AND HIS SONS, BY A COVENANT OF SALT?" 41:21 - DID GOD MAKE A COVENANT WITH DAVID AND THE SONS OF DAVID THAT 41:23 THE MESSIAH WOULD COME THROUGH THE LINE OF DAVID? 41:25 SO WHEN THESE TRIBES SPLIT AWAY, IT WAS NOT GOD'S PLAN. 41:29 - " YET JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, THE SERVANT OF SOLOMON 41:33 THE SON OF DAVID, ROSE UP AND REBELLED AGAINST HIS LORD. 41:36 THEN WORTHLESS ROGUES GATHERED TO HIM, AND STRENGTHENED 41:40 THEMSELVES AGAINST REHOBOAM THE SON OF SOLOMON, WHEN REHOBOAM 41:43 WAS YOUNG AND INEXPERIENCED AND COULD NOT WITHSTAND THEM. 41:45 AND NOW YOU THINK TO WITHSTAND THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD, WHICH 41:48 IS IN THE HAND OF THE SONS OF DAVID; AND YOU ARE A GREAT 41:51 MULTITUDE," - THE TEN TRIBES OUTNUMBERED JUDAH - "AND WITH 41:54 YOU ARE THE GOLD CALVES WHICH JEROBOAM MADE FOR YOU AS GODS." 41:58 - YOU'D THINK RIGHT AWAY THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG IF YOU'VE GOT TO 42:00 MAKE GODS - "HAVE YOU NOT CAST OUT THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD, THE 42:04 SONS OF AARON, AND THE LEVITES, AND MADE FOR YOURSELVES PRIESTS, 42:06 LIKE THE PEOPLES OF OTHER LANDS," - SO ONE OF THE THINGS 42:09 THEY DO IS THEY COMPROMISE THE WORSHIP WITH THE OTHER LANDS - 42:13 "SO THAT WHOEVER COMES TO CONSECRATE HIMSELF WITH A YOUNG 42:19 BULL AND SEVEN RAMS MAY BE A PRIEST" - IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU 42:22 COULD PAY THE DUES, YOU COULD BE A PRIEST, IS WHAT THEY WERE 42:24 SAYING - "OF THINGS THAT ARE NOT GODS? 42:30 BUT AS FOR US, THE LORD IS OUR GOD, AND WE HAVE NOT FORSAKEN 42:33 HIM; AND THE PRIESTS WHO MINISTER TO THE LORD ARE THE 42:35 SONS OF AARON, AND THE LEVITES ATTEND TO THEIR DUTIES. 42:38 AND THEY BURN TO THE LORD EVERY MORNING AND EVERY EVENING BURNT 42:43 SACRIFICES AND SWEET INCENSE; THEY ALSO SET THE SHOWBREAD IN 42:45 ORDER ON THE PURE GOLD TABLE, AND THE LAMPSTAND OF GOLD WITH 42:48 ITS LAMPS TO BURN EVERY EVENING; FOR WE KEEP THE COMMAND OF THE 42:53 LORD OUR GOD, BUT YOU HAVE FORSAKEN HIM." 42:56 HE'S BRINGING THEM BACK TO THE SPECIFICS OF THE TEMPLE AND THE 42:59 SANCTUARY, ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY HAD WHEN THEY CAME THROUGH 43:01 THE WILDERNESS, AND THEY WENT INTO BATTLE AND GUESS WHO WON 43:05 THAT BATTLE? THE CHILDREN OF DAVID BECAUSE HE 43:08 WENT INTO BATTLE TRUSTING THE LORD, SAYING 'WE'RE BEING 43:10 FAITHFUL TO THAT.' ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US 2 CHRONICLES 43:13 33:9 AND 10. >>"SO MANASSEH SEDUCED JUDAH AND 43:18 THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM TO DO MORE EVIL THAN THE NATIONS 43:21 WHOM THE LORD HAD DESTROYED BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. 43:24 AND THE LORD SPOKE TO MANASSEH AND HIS PEOPLE, 43:26 BUT THEY WOULD NOT LISTEN." >>ALRIGHT, SO FOR AWHILE YOU HAD 43:30 SEVERAL KINGS - JEHOSHOPHAT WAS A GOOD KING, HEZEKIAH WAS A GOOD 43:36 KING, ASA WAS A GOOD KING, UZZIAH WAS A GOOD KING - KINGS 43:40 OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM - SONS OF DAVID. 43:42 SOME WERE BAD, MANY WERE GOOD THAT WERE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD. 43:47 NONE OF THEM IN THE NORTH WERE GOOD. 43:50 THE CLOSEST WAS JEHU WHO, AT LEAST, GOD USED TO INFLICT 43:53 JUDGMENT ON THE TRIBES, BUT IT KEEPS SAYING, 'HE WALKED IN THE 43:57 SINS OF JEROBOAM - THEY WALKED IN THE SINS OF JEROBOAM.' 44:00 SOMETIMES IT SAID, 'WALKED IN THE SINS OF AHAB.' BUT THE 44:04 NORTHERN KINGDOM WAS ENTRENCHED IN IDOLATRY. 44:06 BUT WHAT HAPPENED WAS, JEHOSHOPHAT - WHO WAS A GOOD 44:09 KING - HE SAID, 'WE'RE TIRED OF WARRING WITH OUR OWN PEOPLE IN 44:13 THE NORTH.' HE MADE FRIENDS WITH AHAB. 44:15 HE SAID, 'WE COULD BE FRIENDS.' CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER UNLESS 44:19 THEY'RE AGREED? AND JEHOSHOPHAT AND AHAB SAID, 44:24 'LET'S MAKE AN ALLIANCE BY MARRIAGE.' AND JEHOSHOPHAT'S SON 44:26 MARRIED AHAB'S DAUGHTER. HER NAME WAS ATHALIAH - TURNED 44:32 OUT VERY BAD - THIS WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JEZEBEL. 44:35 HE SAID, 'WE CAN HAVE PEACE BETWEEN OUR TWO KINGDOMS. 44:37 WE'RE GOING TO BE STRONGER THAT WAY.' 44:39 BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BECOME UNEQUALLY YOKED? 44:43 AND EVEN THOUGH JEROBOAM WAS A GOOD KING, A PROPHET WAS SENT TO 44:46 JEROBOAM AND SAID, 'SHOULD YOU LOVE THOSE THAT HATE THE LORD?' 44:48 TRIED TO GO INTO A BUSINESS DEAL TOGETHER. 44:51 HE SAID, 'LET'S DO A SHIPPING EXPEDITION LIKE SOLOMON DID. 44:54 WE'LL GO GET GOLD FROM EZION-GEBER. 44:58 WE'LL SAIL.' AND A STORM CAME AND DESTROYED THE SHIPS. 45:01 GOD SAID, 'I DON'T WANT YOU IN A PARTNERSHIP WITH THAT KINGDOM 45:04 BECAUSE THEY'VE GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO IDOLATRY. 45:06 WELL, ONCE JEHOSHOPHAT BEGAN TO REACH OUT, THEY STARTED BECOMING 45:12 FRIENDLY WITH THE NORTHERN KINGDOM, THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM 45:15 BEGAN TO DO WHAT THE NORTHERN KINGDOM DID. 45:18 NOW, SOMETIMES - SOMETIMES A BELIEVER WILL MARRY SOMEONE WHO 45:25 IS AN UNBELIEVER AND THEY SAY, 'I WILL CONVERT HIM.' 'I WILL 45:28 CONVERT HER.' SOMETIMES IT WORKS, BUT WHEN YOU GET A 45:32 BELIEVER AND AN UNBELIEVER TOGETHER AND YOU'VE GOT DARKNESS 45:37 AND LIGHT, THE DARKNESS OFTEN WINS OVER THE LIGHT. 45:40 AND SURE, YOU MIGHT MAKE SOME POSITIVE INFLUENCES IN THE LIFE 45:45 OF YOUR UNBELIEVING SPOUSE, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO INFLUENCE YOU 45:50 TOO BECAUSE, AS SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'YOU CAN'T GO INTO A COAL 45:54 MINE WITHOUT COMING OUT DIRTY.' AND IT'S GOING TO HAVE AN 45:59 INFLUENCE ON YOU. AND THROUGH THIS ASSOCIATION OF 46:01 THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM AND THE NORTHERN KINGDOM, THE SOUTHERN 46:04 KINGDOM BECAME INVOLVED IN APOSTASY AND THEN YOU HAD A 46:07 REALLY BAD KING. YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS NEXT 46:10 WITH MANASSEH, WHO WAS THE NEXT KING WHO SEDUCED THE NATION. 46:22 AND THEN YOU READ IN 2 CHRONICLES 33:21, AND THEN YOU 46:25 HAVE AMON WHO "...WAS 22 YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING, 46:28 AND HE REIGNED TWO YEARS IN JERUSALEM. BUT HE DID EVIL IN 46:31 THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AS HIS FATHER MANASSEH HAD DONE;" - 46:33 HE DIDN'T LIVE VERY LONG. HE DIDN'T EVEN HANG OUT AS LONG AS 46:36 AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT - "FOR AMON SACRIFICED ALL THE CARVED 46:39 IMAGES WHICH HIS FATHER MANASSEH HAD MADE, AND SERVED THEM. 46:42 AND HE DID NOT HUMBLE HIMSELF BEFORE THE LORD, AS" - MANASSEH 46:45 REPENTED IN HIS OLD AGE AND TURNED, BUT THINGS HAD GONE SO 46:49 FAR - "...BUT AMON TRESPASSED MORE AND MORE." 46:52 AND GOD DESTROYED HIM YOUNG IN HIS LIFE. 46:54 AND THEN YOU CAN READ 2 KINGS 24, VERSE 8, "JEHOIACHIN WAS 46:58 EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING, AND HE REIGNED IN 47:01 JERUSALEM THREE MONTHS." - HE DIDN'T PROSPER VERY LONG, 47:04 DID HE? - "HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS NEHUSHTA THE DAUGHTER OF 47:08 ELNATHAN OF JERUSALEM. AND HE DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF 47:10 THE LORD ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HIS FATHER HAD DONE." 47:13 BY THE WAY, JEHOIACHIN WAS THE ONE WHO WAS ARRESTED BY 47:15 NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHEN THE CITY DID FALL, AND HE LIVED DURING THE 47:19 TIME OF JEROBOAM. SO WE'VE TAKEN YOU NOW, DOWN TO 47:21 THE TIME OF - JEREMIAH RATHER - AND SO HE LIVED DURING THE TIME 47:27 OF JEREMIAH AND - ACTUALLY, 37 YEARS AFTER HIS IMPRISONMENT HE 47:32 WAS BROUGHT OUT OF PRISON AND HE HAD HAD A CHANGE OF HEART BY 47:35 THEN. SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENED. 47:39 THE NATION IN THE NORTH, THEY APOSTASIZED - GAVE THEMSELVES TO 47:43 IDOLATRY. JEREMIAH LIVED DURING THE TIME 47:46 WHEN THEY CAME AND THEY CONQUERED THE KINGDOM TO THE 47:49 NORTH, DESTROYED THEIR CITIES, CARRIED THEM AWAY CAPTIVE. 47:51 HEZEKIAH, THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM, SURVIVED A LITTLE LONGER. 47:55 THE ASSYRIANS ACTUALLY CARRIED AWAY MANASSEH AND - HE WAS 47:59 SUPPOSED TO PAY TAXES - AND BROUGHT HIM BACK. 48:00 THEN THE ASSYRIANS WERE CONQUERED BY THE BABYLONIANS AND 48:03 THEY HAD A CHANCE TO REPENT AND LIVE AND JEREMIAH SAID 'YOU NEED 48:07 TO TURN AWAY FROM YOUR IDOLS. TURN BACK TO THE LORD.' BUT THEY 48:10 WOULDN'T LISTEN. AND SO THIS IS THE TIME, JUST 48:13 BEFORE THIS JUDGMENT, BECAUSE THEY HAD COMPROMISED WITH THE 48:15 OTHER NATIONS, IS WHEN JEREMIAH LIVED. 48:18 ALRIGHT, YOU CAN READ ABOUT THE TWO EVILS THAT IT SPEAKS OF. 48:23 IF YOU LOOK IN - AND YOU FIND THIS IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 1 48:26 THROUGH VERSE 28 - AND I'M GOING TO READ JEREMIAH CHAPTER - I'LL 48:32 READ JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11, "HAS A NATION CHANGED ITS 48:35 GODS, WHICH ARE NOT GODS? BUT MY PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED THEIR 48:39 GLORY FOR WHAT DOES NOT PROFIT. BE ASTONISHED, O HEAVENS, AT 48:44 THIS, AND BE HORRIBLY AFRAID; BE VERY DESOLATE,' SAYS THE LORD. 48:47 'FOR MY PEOPLE HAVE COMMITTED TWO EVILS: THEY HAVE FORSAKEN 48:50 ME," - HERE'S THE TWO EVILS - 1) "THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME,THE 48:53 FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS, AND HEWN THEMSELVES CISTERNS - 48:57 BROKEN CISTERNS THAT CAN HOLD NO WATER." 48:59 WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE, A FOUNTAIN OR A JAR? 49:01 WOULD YOU HAVE ONE JAR OF WATER OR WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE A 49:06 CONTINUAL FLOW? DOESN'T JESUS REFER TO THAT WHEN 49:09 HE SAID, 'YOU MIGHT DRAW FROM THE WELL IN YOUR VESSEL, BUT I 49:11 CAN GIVE YOU AN ARTESIAN, LIVING WATER THAT WILL SPRING UP IN 49:15 YOUR HEART.' AND HE SAID THIS IS WHAT THE NATION DID IS THEY 49:18 TURNED AWAY FROM A LIVING GOD TO IDOLS. 49:22 THEY TURNED AWAY FROM THIS LIVING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE 49:26 LORD AND THEN THEY TURNED TO CISTERNS THAT HOLD NO WATER. 49:28 THEY'RE CRACKED POTS, YOU MIGHT SAY. 49:31 (LAUGHTER) JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 23, "HOW CAN YOU SAY, 'I 49:36 AM NOT POLLUTED, I HAVE NOT GONE AFTER THE BAALS'? 49:39 SEE YOUR WAY IN THE VALLEY; KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE:'" - RIGHT 49:42 THERE IN THE VALLEY THEY HAD THE IDOLS STILL - "KNOW WHAT YOU 49:45 HAVE DONE: YOU ARE A SWIFT DROMEDARY (A CAMEL) BREAKING 49:48 LOOSE IN HER WAYS, A WILD DONKEY USED TO THE WILDERNESS, THAT 49:52 SNIFFS AT THE WIND IN HER DESIRE;" - HE'S TALKING ABOUT 49:55 WHEN AN ANIMAL GOES INTO HEAT AND YOU CAN'T TURN IT AWAY - 49:59 TOTALLY PREOCCUPIED. YOU KNOW, ANY OF YOU WHO'VE 50:03 DRIVEN OUT IN THE COUNTRY WHEN - THEY CALL IT - THE DEER ARE IN 50:06 THE RUT SEASON? A BUCK WILL JUST WALK RIGHT OUT 50:10 IN THE ROAD, SEE THE CAR COMING - THEY'RE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH 50:13 CHASING AFTER THE DEER THAT THEY DON'T NOTICE - HUNTERS CAN WALK 50:18 RIGHT UP TO THEM. THEY DON'T SEE THEIR DANGER. 50:21 THEY DON'T SENSE WHAT'S GOING ON. AND THAT'S WHAT GOD IS 50:25 SAYING ABOUT HIS PEOPLE. 'YOU ARE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH 50:28 GOING AFTER THESE OTHER GODS, THAT' - HE SAID - 'YOU WON'T 50:34 LISTEN TO ME.' AND THEN JEREMIAH PROPHESIES IN 50:38 CHAPTER 25, IT TALKS ABOUT THE BABYLONIAN THREAT. 50:41 AND I KNOW WE'RE JUMPING AROUND A LITTLE BIT HERE, BUT THE 50:44 LESSON IS KIND OF GIVING YOU THE VIEW OF WHERE THEY WERE. 50:47 SOMEONE HAS GOT JEREMIAH 26, VERSE 7. 50:50 YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. 50:51 LET ME READ TO YOU JEREMIAH 25, VERSE 8, "THEREFORE THUS SAYS 50:56 THE LORD OF HOSTS: 'BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT HEARD MY WORDS, BEHOLD, 50:59 I WILL SEND AND TAKE ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE NORTH,' SAYS THE 51:04 LORD,' AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON, MY SERVANT, AND 51:07 WILL BRING THEM AGAINST THIS LAND, AGAINST ITS INHABITANTS,'" 51:11 - NOW I'VE GOT TO JUST PAUSE HERE - I HOPE THERE'S TIME. 51:13 WHEN YOU GET TO DANIEL CHAPTER 11, THIS GREAT PROPHECY OF 51:18 DANIEL TALKS ABOUT THE KING OF THE NORTH IN THE LAST DAYS - THE 51:20 KING OF THE NORTH - WHEN JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL WERE 51:25 DESTROYED, BECAUSE THERE WAS AN OCEAN TO THE WEST - BIG OCEAN - 51:31 AND THERE WAS AN UNCROSSABLE DESERT TO THE EAST, WHENEVER 51:36 THESE NATIONS CAME, THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH OR SOUTH. 51:39 AND SO, WHEN ASSYRIA AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR - BABYLON AND 51:44 ASSYRIA - CAME TO CARRY OFF JEREMIAH AND JERUSALEM, AND TO 51:48 CARRY OFF THE TEN TRIBES OF THE NORTH, THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH. 51:51 AND SO, JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU READ IN DANIEL 51:55 ABOUT THE KING OF THE NORTH AND THE KING OF THE SOUTH. 51:57 ISRAEL SAW THEIR PROBLEMS OFTEN COMING FROM THE SOUTH FROM EGYPT 52:01 AND ETHIOPIA, OR THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH - BABYLON, SYRIA - OR 52:06 ASSYRIA. OKAY - "'NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING 52:13 OF BABYLON, MY SERVANT,'" - BY THE WAY, WHAT DID THE DEVIL SAY 52:15 HE WANTED? 'I WANT TO SIT ON THE 52:17 CONGREGATION ON THE SIDES OF THE NORTH.' INTERESTING. 52:20 'I WANT TO BE THE TOP.' - "'I WILL DEVOTE THEM TO DESTRUCTION 52:24 AND MAKE THEM A WHORE, A HISSING AND AN EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION. 52:27 MOREOVER, I WILL BANISH FROM THEM THE VOICE OF MIRTH AND THE 52:31 VOICE OF GLADNESS, THE VOICE OF THE BRIDEGROOM AND THE VOICE OF 52:34 THE BRIDE, THE GRINDING OF MILLSTONES AND THE LIGHT OF THE 52:37 LAMP. THIS WHOLE LAND WILL BECOME A 52:39 RUIN AND A WASTE AND ALL THESE NATIONS WILL SERVE THE KING OF 52:43 BABYLON SEVENTY YEARS.'" HERE'S A PROPHECY. 52:45 DID IT HAPPEN? IT DID - WHAT HE FORETOLD. 52:50 "'THEN AFTER SEVENTY YEARS ARE COMPLETE, I WILL PUNISH THE 52:53 KINGDOM OF BABYLON AND THAT NATION, THE LAND OF THE 52:57 CHALDEANS, FOR THEIR INIQUITY.' DECLARES THE LORD, 'MAKING THE 53:01 LAND AN EVERLASTING WASTE.'" - SAME WAY THEY HAD WASTED 53:05 JERUSALEM, HE SAID, 'I WILL WASTE THE CITY OF BABYLON.' YOU 53:07 KNOW, THE CITY OF BABYLON IS STILL WASTED TODAY? 53:09 SADDAM HUSSEIN WANTED TO REBUILD ANCIENT BABYLON AND, AS HE 53:13 STARTED THAT, THE FIRST GULF WAR BROKE OUT AND HE HAD TO STOP. 53:18 AND THEN THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF RESPITE BETWEEN THE FIRST 53:21 GULF WAR AND THE SECOND GULF WAR AND HE STARTED IT UP AGAIN, AND 53:24 THEN THE SECOND GULF WAR STARTED AND, OF COURSE, HE WAS KILLED 53:27 AND THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OF ANCIENT BABYLON - 53:30 WITH ISIS AND ALL THIS - HAS NEVER RESUMED. 53:33 GOD SAID IT WOULD NEVER BE REBUILT AGAIN. 53:35 YOU CAN READ ISAIAH 13. JEREMIAH SAID THAT TOO. 53:37 VERY INTERESTING. READ FOR US, PLEASE, JEREMIAH 26:7. 53:41 <<"SO THE PRIESTS AND THE PROPHETS AND ALL THE PEOPLE 53:44 HEARD JEREMIAH SPEAKING THESE WORDS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD." 53:47 >>NOW HOW POPULAR DO YOU THINK THAT MADE JEREMIAH THERE IN THE 53:50 TEMPLE, TO SAY, 'THIS TEMPLE'S GOING TO BE DESTROYED. 53:54 THE CITY'S GOING TO BE DESTROYED. 53:55 YOUR HOME'S GOING TO BE DESTROYED. 53:57 YOUR PEOPLE, YOUR GOVERNMENT ARE GOING TO BE DESTROYED, AND 53:58 YOU'RE GOING TO BE SLAVES.' WOULD YOU WANT TO BELIEVE A 54:02 PROPHECY LIKE THAT? WOULD THAT BE CONSIDERED PATRIOTIC? 54:06 WOULD YOU BE POPULAR WITH A PROPHECY LIKE THAT? 54:11 DID IT HAPPEN? DOES GOD SEND JUDGMENTS ON 54:17 NATIONS THAT TURN FROM HIS PRINCIPLES? 54:21 HE IS SOMETIMES PATIENT - YEARS WENT BY BETWEEN MANASSEH AND 54:26 WHEN THE JUDGMENT ACTUALLY CAME. 54:28 YOU WONDER, SOMETIMES, WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY IF WE KEEP 54:33 GOING DOWN THE ROUTE WE'RE GOING, BECAUSE RIGHTEOUSNESS 54:36 ESTABLISHES THE LAND AND THROUGH IMMORALITY AND WORLDLINESS WE 54:42 DRIVE AWAY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. 54:44 AND YOU JUST WONDER HOW LONG GOD'S MERCY WILL TARRY. 54:48 ANYONE WANT TO SAY 'AMEN' TO THAT? 54:51 >>AMEN. >>I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO BE 54:52 ALONE. YOU'RE ON RECORD NOW. 54:54 PSALMS 78, VERSE 60, 'HE FORSOOK THE TABERNACLE OF SHILOH, THE 54:59 TENT WHERE HIS GLORY WAS AMONG MANKIND AND HE DELIVERED HIS 55:03 POWER TO CAPTIVITY, HIS GLORY TO THE HAND OF THE FOE. 55:06 HE GAVE HIS PEOPLE OVER TO THE HAND OF THE SWORD AND VENTED HIS 55:09 WRATH ON HIS HERITAGE.' WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT HERE? 55:11 THE TEMPLE USED TO BE WITH - YOU KNOW, BEFORE JERUSALEM 55:15 WAS PICKED, WHERE WAS THE SANCTUARY? 55:17 AFTER THEY CAME OUT OF THE WILDERNESS, WITH THIS TABERNACLE 55:19 WITH THE ARK, UP UNTIL DAVID IN JERUSALEM, IT WAS IN SHILOH 55:23 DURING THE DAYS OF ELI, HOFNI, PHINEAS - BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE 55:28 WICKED - HOFNI AND PHINEAS, IN PARTICULAR. 55:31 THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, I WON'T TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY WERE DOING, 55:34 BUT IT'S IN THE BIBLE. THEY WERE JUST VERY IMMORAL. 55:36 THEY SAID, 'BUT WE'RE THE PRIESTS. WE'VE GOT THE ARK. 55:39 WE'VE GOT THE TEMPLE.' GOD SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU KNOW ME 55:42 AND BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT THESE SACRED ORACLES, YOU THINK YOU 55:46 CAN SIN LIKE THE NATIONS. I AM GOING TO GIVE THE ARK INTO 55:49 THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES BECAUSE YOU THINK IT'S A GOOD 55:52 LUCK CHARM.' THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED AT SHILOH. 55:55 THAT'S WHY IT SAYS HERE, 'REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AT 55:57 SHILOH. DON'T THINK TO SAY' - IN JERUSALEM IN THE DAYS OF 56:00 JEREMIAH THEY WERE SAYING, 'WE'VE GOT THE TEMPLE. 56:02 WE'VE GOT THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. 56:04 WE'VE GOT GOD'S PRESENCE.' YOU KNOW, UP UNTIL NEBUCHADNEZZAR 56:07 DESTROYED THE TEMPLE, THEY HAD THE ARK STILL, THEN. 56:09 AND AS I MENTIONED LAST WEEK, JEREMIAH AND THE PRIESTS 56:12 PROBABLY HID IT IN A CAVE BEFORE NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED THE 56:15 TEMPLE. IT'S NEVER BEEN FOUND. 56:17 AND SO THEY THOUGHT, 'WE'VE GOT THIS GOOD LUCK CHARM.' IT'S KIND 56:20 OF LIKE A PERSON THAT, YOU KNOW, HANGS A CROSS ON THEIR MIRROR SO 56:22 THEY CAN DRIVE DRUNK. THEY PUT A LITTLE STATUE OF MARY 56:25 ON THE DASHBOARD OR SOMETHING. AND THEY WERE TREATING THE ARK 56:29 LIKE IT WAS SOME SACRED RELIC OR GOOD LUCK CHARM - SUPERSTITION. 56:33 AND GOD SAID, 'REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AT SHILOH. 56:35 BECAUSE THEY WERE WICKED I GAVE IT ALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE 56:39 PHILISTINES.' NOW THEY ENDED UP GETTING IT BACK BUT - SAME WAY - 56:44 ISRAEL ENDED UP GETTING THE TEMPLE BACK LATER, BUT THEY HAD 56:46 TO REPENT FIRST. AND SO - OH, I'VE JUST GOT A FEW 56:50 SECONDS LEFT. SWEARING FALSELY - JEREMIAH 5:1, 56:53 "RUN TO AND FRO THROUGH THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM; SEE NOW 56:56 AND KNOW; AND SEEK IN HER OPEN PLACES IF YOU CAN FIND A MAN, 57:00 IF THERE IS ANYONE WHO EXECUTES JUDGMENT, WHO SEEKS THE TRUTH, 57:03 AND I WILL PARDON HER." YOU REMEMBER WHEN ABRAHAM SAID 57:07 TO THE LORD BEFORE SODOM WAS DESTROYED, HE SAID, 'IF THERE'S 57:11 TEN RIGHTEOUS WILL YOU SPARE IT?' GOD SAID, 'I'LL SPARE THE 57:14 WHOLE THING - ALL THOSE CITIES - IF THERE'S TEN RIGHTEOUS.' AND 57:17 GOD IS SAYING TO JEREMIAH - THROUGH JEREMIAH - 'RUN THROUGH 57:21 JERUSALEM AND SEE IF YOU CAN FIND ANY THAT DOESN'T SWEAR 57:24 FALSELY.' HE COULDN'T FIND ONE. 57:26 EVERYBODY HAD GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER. 57:29 AND SO THAT WAS THE CONDITION OF THE LAND. 57:31 WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME BUT I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS THAT 57:34 IF YOU DID NOT HEAR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BROADCAST, WE 57:36 HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS IT. 57:39 IT'S CALLED RICHES OF GRACE AND JUST A BEAUTIFUL BOOK BY JOE 57:42 CREWS. WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. 57:44 IF YOU'VE NOT READ THIS YOU'LL BE INSPIRED BY IT. 57:46 866-788-3966 - YOU CAN CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. 57:50 YOU CAN READ IT FOR FREE ONLINE AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 57:54 BUT WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME FOR TODAY'S LESSON. 57:57 GOD WILLING, WE'LL GET TOGETHER NEXT WEEK AND STUDY LESSON #3 IN 57:59 JEREMIAH AND WE'LL GET MORE SPECIFICALLY INTO THE BOOK AT 58:03 THAT TIME. >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN 58:06 RESOURCES, VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM OR CALL 1-800-538-7275. 58:14 (MUSIC) |
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