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>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS AND WELCOME AGAIN
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TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
HOUR. A VERY SPECIAL WARM
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WELCOME TO OUR
FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY AND AROUND THE
WORLD - AN EXTENSION OF
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OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
CLASS. ALSO, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME
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THE MEMBERS, HERE, OF
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
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GOOD TO SEE YOU
AGAIN THIS MORNING.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO BE
STUDYING LESSON #13 IN
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THIS SERIES DEALING
WITH THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH.
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SO LESSON #13 ENTITLED
LESSONS FROM JEREMIAH AND
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FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO
ARE WATCHING, IF YOU DON'T
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HAVE THE STUDY GUIDE,
YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING
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FACTS WEBSITE - JUST
AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - AND YOU
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CAN CLICK ON THE LINK
THAT SAYS SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR AND YOU CAN
DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO
THE LESSON, I'D LIKE TO TELL
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YOU ABOUT A FREE
OFFER THAT WE HAVE.
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IT'S A BOOK ENTITLED
FAITH RECLAIMED AND WE'LL BE
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HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO
ANYBODY IN NORTH AMERICA
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WHO GIVES US A CALL.
THE NUMBER AT OUR RESOURCE
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LINE IS 866-788-3966.
THAT NUMBER AGAIN IS
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866-788-3966 AND YOU
CAN ASK FOR OFFER #788.
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WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT
TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS.
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AND FOR THOSE OUTSIDE
OF NORTH AMERICA, YOU CAN
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ALSO TAKE A LOOK
AT OUR WEBSITE AT
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AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND
YOU CAN FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN
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ALSO OBTAIN THE BOOK
CALLED FAITH RECLAIMED .
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO
OUR STUDY, I WOULD LIKE TO
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INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS
TO COME AND JOIN US HERE AND
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WE'LL SING TOGETHER AS WE
PREPARE OUR HEARTS FOR OUR
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STUDY FOR TODAY.
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>>HAPPY SABBATH
CHURCH FAMILY, AS WELL AS OUR
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EXTENDED FAMILY
AROUND THE WORLD.
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THIS IS THE TIME OF
YEAR WHEN WE LIKE TO REFLECT
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UPON AND REJOICE OVER
THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOR.
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AND AS THE ANGELS
CONTINUALLY SING HIM
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PRAISES, WE WILL TURN
TO OUR HYMNALS AND SING
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TOGETHER HYMN #142 -
ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON
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HIGH - PLEASE
JOIN US IN SINGING.
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(MUSIC) >>ANGELS WE
HAVE HEARD ON HIGH, SINGING
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SWEETLY THROUGH THE
NIGHT, AND THE MOUNTAINS, IN
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REPLY, ECHOING
THEIR BRAVE DELIGHT.
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GLORIA, IN EXCELSIS
DEO, GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO.
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SHEPHERDS, WHY THIS JUBILEE?
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WHY THESE SONGS OF HAPPY CHEER?
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WHAT GREAT
BRIGHTNESS DID YOU SEE?
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WHAT GLAD TIDINGS DID YOU HEAR?
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GLORIA, IN EXCELSIS
DEO, GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO.
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COME TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE
HIM WHOSE BIRTH THE ANGELS
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SING; COME ADORE, ON
BENDED KNEE, CHRIST THE
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LORD, THE NEWBORN KING.
GLORIA, IN EXCELSIS DEO,
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO.
SEE HIM IN A MANGER LAID
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WHO THE ANGELS PRAISE
ABOVE; MARY, JOSEPH, LEND
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YOUR AID, WHILE WE
RAISE OUR HEARTS IN LOVE.
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GLORIA, IN EXCELSIS
DEO, GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO.
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>>OUR NEXT SONG IS GOING
TO BE JOY TO THE WORLD THE
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LORD HAS COME , WHAT JOY
IT BRINGS US TO KNOW THAT
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JESUS LEFT THE GLORIES
OF HEAVEN TO COME DOWN TO
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THIS SINFUL EARTH TO
SHOW US WHAT REAL LOVE AND
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SACRIFICE IS AND TO
SAVE US FROM OUR SINS.
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AS WE GIVE OUR LIVES TO
HIM AND MAKE HIM THE LORD
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OF OUR LIVES, MAY HIS
LOVING CHARACTER SHINE
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THROUGH US. JOY TO THE WORLD .
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(MUSIC)
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>>JOY TO THE
WORLD, THE LORD IS COME!
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LET EARTH RECEIVE
HER KING; LET EVERY HEART
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PREPARE HIM ROOM, AND
HEAVEN AND NATURE SING,
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AND HEAVEN AND
NATURE SING, AND HEAVEN, AND
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HEAVEN AND NATURE SING.
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JOY TO THE EARTH,
THE SAVIOR REIGNS!
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LET MEN THEIR SONGS
EMPLOY; WHILE FIELDS AND
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FLOODS, ROCKS, HILLS,
AND PLAINS, REPEAT THE
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SOUNDING JOY, REPEAT
THE SOUNDING JOY, REPEAT,
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REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY.
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NO MORE LET SIN AND
SORROW GROW, NOR THORNS INFEST
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THE GROUND; HE COMES
TO MAKE HIS BLESSINGS FLOW
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FAR AS THE CURSE IS FOUND,
FAR AS THE CURSE IS FOUND,
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FAR AS, FAR AS
THE CURSE IS FOUND.
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HE RULES THE WORLD WITH
TRUTH AND GRACE, AND MAKES
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THE NATIONS PROVE
THE GLORIES OF HIS
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND
WONDERS OF HIS LOVE, AND WONDERS
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OF HIS LOVE, AND WONDERS,
AND WONDERS OF HIS LOVE.
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>>THANK YOU FOR
SINGING WITH US THIS MORNING.
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>>I'D LIKE TO INVITE
YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE
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OPEN WITH PRAYER.
DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
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ONCE AGAIN WE ARE
GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE TO GATHER
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TOGETHER TO STUDY THE BIBLE
TOGETHER. AND IT'S BEEN A RICH
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STUDY FOR US LOOKING
AT THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH.
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AND AS WE FINISH UP OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY TODAY, WE
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JUST ASK ONCE AGAIN
THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD
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SPEAK TO US, GUIDE US
THROUGH YOUR WORD; FOR WE
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ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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NOW THIS MORNING,
JUST BEFORE I INVITE PASTOR
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DOUG TO COME FORWARD
AND LEAD US IN OUR STUDY
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TOGETHER, WE'RE GOING
TO BE HAVING WHAT WE CALL
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HERE A LITTLE MISSION EMPHASIS
OR MISSION FOCUS SEGMENT.
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FROM TIME TO TIME HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH, WE
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LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT
SOME OF THE VARIOUS MISSION
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ACTIVITIES THAT MEMBERS
ARE INVOLVED IN OR MAYBE
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AMAZING FACTS
HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN.
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WELL, TODAY, WE'RE GOING
TO INVITE ONE OF OUR AFCOE
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GRADUATES TO COME AND
SHARE WITH US ABOUT SOME
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OF THE MISSION
EVANGELISM OUTREACH THAT THEY'RE
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DOING IN THAILAND.
SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE
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BRIAN ATWELL TO COME
AND JOIN ME HERE ON STAGE.
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BRIAN WENT THROUGH THE
AFCOE PROGRAM IN SPRING 2011.
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NOW AFCOE IS THE AMAZING
FACTS CENTER OF EVANGELISM
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AND WE TRAIN
INDIVIDUALS FOR BIBLE WORK, FOR
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MISSION ACTIVITY,
FOR EVANGELISM, AND JUST
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LEADERSHIP IN THEIR
LOCAL CHURCH OR IN THEIR OWN
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MINISTRY. SO BRIAN, THE LORD HAS
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CALLED YOU AND
YOUR FAMILY, JESSICA AND
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YOUR LITTLE SON ASHER - >>ASHER.
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>>TWO YEARS OF AGE -
AND YOU FOLKS ARE DOING
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MISSIONARY WORK
OVER IN THAILAND.
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NOW, WHY DID YOU CHOOSE
THAILAND TO BE THE PLACE TO GO?
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>>WELL, YOU KNOW, WE
FELT GOD'S CALL TO FOREIGN
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MISSION SERVICE AND WE
DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO
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AND SO WE BEGAN
PRAYING AND WE WERE ASKING,
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SPECIFICALLY, WHERE GOD
FELT HIS GREATEST NEED WAS.
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AND AS WE RESEARCHED
SOME OF THE NUMBERS THERE, WE
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FOUND THAT IN THE
COUNTRY OF 67 MILLION, THERE WAS
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LESS THAN ONE PERCENT
THAT WERE CHRISTIAN THERE.
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>>OKAY, SO WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN
DOING OVER THERE IN THAILAND?
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>>SO WE DIDN'T KNOW
EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED US
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TO DO, BUT WE KNEW
THE CALL WAS THERE AND SO,
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THROUGH SOME COUNSEL WE
RECEIVED, WE TOOK TIME TO
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JUST STUDY THE LANGUAGE
AND THE CULTURE AND GET A
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BETTER UNDERSTANDING
OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE WERE
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GOING TO TRY AND BE SERVING.
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>>ALRIGHT, SO IS THE
COUNTRY OF THAILAND OPEN
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TO THE WORK THAT YOU'RE
DOING - ARE THEY OPEN TO
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CHRISTIANITY?
>>YOU KNOW, AS A COUNTRY
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THEY'VE BEEN VERY
OPEN TO ALL RELIGIONS.
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THEY ARE BUDDHISTS,
PREDOMINANTLY, AND SO TO
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BE A BUDDHIST MEANS YOU
JUST NEED TO BE A BETTER
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PERSON AND THEY FELT
THAT ALL RELIGIONS HELP YOU TO
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BE A BETTER PERSON.
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BUT THROUGH A SERIES
OF EVENTS RECENTLY, THE
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COUNTRY HAS NOW
DECLARED IN THEIR CONSTITUTION
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THAT, IN ORDER TO DO
MISSION WORK, YOU NEED TO
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HAVE A PERMIT OR A
LICENSE FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
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SO THE DOORS THAT ONCE
WERE VERY WIDE OPEN, ARE
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NOW, WE CAN SEE, CLOSING UP.
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>>NOW YOU'RE SITUATED IN
BANGKOK, THE CAPITAL THERE
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IN THAILAND? >>CORRECT.
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>>AND WHAT TYPE OF
MINISTRY ARE YOU DOING
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THERE IN THAT MASSIVE CITY?
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>>SO, YEAH, THE CITY
ITSELF HAS 12 MILLION
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PEOPLE ON THE BOOKS AND
SO - OR ON THE CENSUS - AND
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SO WE - WE, OBVIOUSLY,
COULDN'T REACH ALL OF THEM
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AND SO WE FELT THAT
SETTING UP, WHAT WE CALL A
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'CENTER OF INFLUENCE' OR
A SMALL CAFÉ WITH A FITNESS
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CENTER, WHERE THE PEOPLE
CAN COME AND WE CAN BUILD
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RELATIONSHIPS AND
HELP GUIDE THEM TO CHRIST,
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WAS THE WAY TO GO.
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YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE
PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
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THE BIBLE, HAVE NEVER
HEARD OF JESUS, AND SO
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JUST GOING IN WITH A
BIBLE STUDY OUTRIGHT WAS NOT A
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METHOD THAT SEEMED TO
BE WORKING AND SO WE FELT
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BUILDING THOSE
RELATIONSHIPS - HELPING
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THEM TO SEE CHRISTIANITY
LIVED OUT IN OUR LIVES -
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AND THEN LEADING THAT
INTO A BIBLE STUDY WAS THE WAY
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TO GO. >>AMEN.
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NOW WHAT ARE SOME OF
THE GREATEST NEEDS THAT YOU
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SEE OVER THERE IN THAILAND
- IN THE WORK THAT YOU'RE
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DOING? >>YOU KNOW, THE GREATEST
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NEED THAT WE HAVE IS PEOPLE.
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YOU KNOW, AS I
MENTIONED, THERE ARE 12 MILLION
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PEOPLE JUST IN THE CITY
OF BANGKOK ALONE AND THERE
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ARE VERY FEW MISSIONARIES
THAT ARE SERVING THERE.
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AND SO, THE GREATEST
NEED - YOU KNOW, MANY PEOPLE
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SAY, 'WE NEED MONEY'
AND 'WE NEED THIS' - BUT THE
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GREATEST NEED WE HAVE
IS FOR PEOPLE TO BE THERE
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BUILDING AND
NURTURING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.
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YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE
MONEY IN THE WORLD WOULD NOT
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HELP IF THERE WEREN'T
PEOPLE THERE TO SERVE.
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JESUS SAID THE FIELD IS
RIPE BUT THE LABORERS ARE
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FEW AND WE HAVE
DEFINITELY SEEN THAT IS TRUE.
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>>OKAY, SO THERE'S A
GREAT CALL FOR WORKERS TO
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BE OUT THERE
WORKING IN THAILAND.
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NOW IF SOMEBODY WANTS
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE
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WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING
AND THE MINISTRY THAT YOU'RE
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INVOLVED IN, HOW DO
THEY GET THAT INFORMATION?
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>>SO THEY CAN GO TO
JESUSFORASIA.ORG AND UNDER
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THE PROJECTS PAGE OR ON
THE COUNTRY PAGE THEY CAN
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CLICK ON THAILAND AND
THEN BANGKOK OUTREACH.
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THEY CAN GO TO
ATTHEWELLMINISTRIES -
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ALL ONE WORD -
.WORDPRESS.COM OR THEY CAN
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SIMPLY SEND US AN E-MAIL
AT NEWSTARTFOODS@GMAIL.COM
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>>ALRIGHT, WELL THANK
YOU SO MUCH, BRIAN, FOR
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SHARING A LITTLE BIT OF
THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING
00:12:32.95\00:12:34.62
IN THAILAND.
INCIDENTALLY, WE HAVE OUR
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AFCOE PROGRAM THAT'S
JUST FINISHED UP - OUR LAST
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SESSION THAT WE HAD
- THEY'RE DOING SOME
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EVANGELISM IN
THAILAND RIGHT NOW.
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THERE'S A TEAM OVER
THERE AND THEY'RE DOING SOME
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HEALTH OUTREACH, SOME
EVANGELISM, SOME TRAINING
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- SO AN IMPORTANT WORK
TO DO WHILE WE HAVE THE
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OPPORTUNITY - MINISTERING
TO THE MANY PEOPLE OUT
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THERE IN THAILAND.
WELL, AT THIS TIME, I'D
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LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR
DOUG TO COME FORWARD AND HE'LL
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LEAD US IN OUR
LESSON STUDY FOR TODAY.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
AND BRIAN, THAT'S EXCITING.
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I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
HEARING FROM THE NEW CROP
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OF AFCOE STUDENTS WHEN
THEY COME BACK - THE ONES
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WHO ARE IN THAILAND
RIGHT NOW - MAYBE GIVE US
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ANOTHER MISSION
REPORT. BOY, IMAGINE THAT, ONLY
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ONE PERCENT
CHRISTIAN IN THE COUNTRY.
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PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY
THERE FOR DOING GOSPEL WORK.
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WELCOME, FRIENDS, TO OUR
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE'RE GLAD THAT
YOU'VE JOINED US.
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WE NOT ONLY WANT TO
WELCOME OUR FRIENDS THAT
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ARE SOME OF OUR CLASS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD, BUT WE
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KNOW THAT WE ALSO HAVE
SOME WHO ARE GRANITE BAY
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MEMBERS - SOME OF OUR
ONLINE MEMBERS - THERE ARE
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PEOPLE WHO ARE IN
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE
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COUNTRY OR EVEN IN THE
WORLD AND FOR SOME REASON
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THERE'S NO LOCAL
CHURCH THEY CAN ATTEND, BUT
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THROUGH THE INTERNET OR
SATELLITE THEY'RE ABLE TO
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PARTICIPATE IN THIS STUDY
AND WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU.
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THERE MIGHT BE SOME OF
YOU WHO ARE IN THAT CATEGORY -
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YOU'RE THINKING, 'I'D
LIKE TO BE CONNECTED WITH
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A CHURCH. HOW DO I DO THAT?'
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YOU CAN SIMPLY GO TO THE
GRANITE BAY WEBSITE, WHICH
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IS GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG AND
LET US KNOW AND WE'LL SEE IF
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WE CAN GET YOU
CONNECTED SOMEHOW.
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WE ARE GOING TO BE
GETTING INTO OUR LESSON IN
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JEREMIAH IN JUST A MOMENT,
BUT TODAY WE'RE IN LESSON
00:14:08.98\00:14:12.18
#13, WHICH IS THE
LAST LESSON IN THE QUARTER,
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WHICH MEANS WE'RE GETTING
READY, STARTING NEXT WEEK,
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TO ENTER A NEW
QUARTER'S STUDY AND OUR NEW
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QUARTER'S LESSON IS GOING
TO BE CALLED REBELLION AND
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REDEMPTION - REBELLION
AND REDEMPTION - IT'S GOING TO
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BE DEALING WITH THE
THEME OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
00:14:27.23\00:14:30.23
AND, YOU KNOW, THE
FALL OF LUCIFER AND HOW SIN
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ENTERED THE WORLD -
AND THESE ARE SOME VERY
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IMPORTANT THEMES.
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING OUR
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CLASS HERE WE'LL HAVE
SOME AVAILABLE TO GIVE OUT TO
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THOSE WHO ARE REGULAR
ATTENDERS OF THE CLASS.
00:14:41.34\00:14:43.91
AND YOU CAN ALSO FIND
THESE STUDY MATERIALS ONLINE.
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YOU CAN EITHER GO TO
THE GRANITE BAY WEBSITE,
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AMAZING FACTS,
SABBATH SCHOOL WEBSITES - AND
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YOU'LL FIND THAT THE
NEW STUDY MATERIALS AND THE
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LESSON ALSO ARE AVAILABLE
ON THE INTERNET. WITH THAT,
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WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO
JEREMIAH, OUR LAST LESSON IN
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THIS BOOK OF 52 CHAPTERS
THAT WE'VE BEEN STUDYING.
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OBVIOUSLY, WE'VE NOT
BEEN ABLE TO STUDY IT ALL.
00:15:08.37\00:15:10.41
THE TITLE FOR THE
LESSON TODAY IS LESSONS FROM
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JEREMIAH - LESSON #13 -
AND THE MEMORY VERSE COMES
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TO US FROM JEREMIAH 23,
VERSE 5 - IF YOU'D LIKE TO
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SAY THAT WITH ME HERE IN
THE LESSON, IT'S FROM THE
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NEW KING JAMES VERSION
- JEREMIAH 23, VERSE 5 -
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WILL YOU HELP ME? YOU READY?
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"'BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE
COMING,' SAYS THE LORD,
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'THAT I WILL RAISE
TO DAVID A BRANCH OF
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RIGHTEOUSNESS; A KING
SHALL REIGN AND PROSPER,
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AND EXECUTE JUDGMENT
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE
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EARTH.'" YOU KNOW,
AS I WAS THINKING ABOUT
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JEREMIAH, IT'S, YOU
KNOW, THE BOOK IS - PARTS OF IT
00:15:50.88\00:15:56.75
CAN BE, LET'S JUST
FACE IT, DIFFICULT.
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I MEAN, EVEN AFTER
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH -
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JEREMIAH WROTE ANOTHER
BOOK CALLED LAMENTATIONS
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BECAUSE HE SPENT - YOU
KNOW, HE STARTS OUT A YOUNG MAN.
00:16:03.86\00:16:06.96
HE RECEIVES HIS CALL - HE
SPENT A LOT OF HIS TIME IN
00:16:06.96\00:16:09.66
MINISTRY TALKING ABOUT
IMPENDING JUDGMENT BECAUSE
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OF THE DISOBEDIENCE AND
REBELLION OF THE PEOPLE.
00:16:12.97\00:16:15.94
BUT THERE ARE A NUMBER
OF BRIGHT SPOTS IN THE BOOK
00:16:15.94\00:16:19.41
OF JEREMIAH. THERE ARE
SOME GREAT PROMISES THERE.
00:16:19.41\00:16:22.21
JEREMIAH IS A FREQUENTLY
CITED BIBLE BOOK IN SPITE
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OF THE FACT THAT IT
DOES HAVE A FAIR SHARE OF
00:16:27.28\00:16:31.92
SIGHING AND CRYING AND
WHINING AND PINING BECAUSE
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OF ALL THE SINS OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
WHY DO YOU THINK JEREMIAH
00:16:35.42\00:16:39.29
IS AN IMPORTANT BOOK
FOR US TO STUDY TODAY?
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DOESN'T IT DEAL
WITH OLD ISRAEL HISTORY?
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WHY WOULD IT BE RELEVANT TODAY?
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DOES HISTORY
TEND TO REPEAT ITSELF?
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THE THINGS THAT
HAPPENED BEFORE THE JUDGMENT OF
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BABYLON CAME DOWN ON
GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE OLD
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TESTAMENT, WILL SOME OF
THAT HISTORY BE REPEATED?
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DID JEREMIAH STRUGGLE
WITH THE PEOPLE FORGETTING GOD
00:17:01.65\00:17:05.12
AND APOSTASY IN THE
CAMP AND GOING THROUGH THE
00:17:05.12\00:17:08.29
FORMS OF RELIGION
WITHOUT THE POWER?
00:17:08.29\00:17:10.66
AND IDOLATRY? AND
ALL THE THINGS YOU'LL
00:17:10.66\00:17:12.33
FIND THAT HE'S
DEALING WITH IN HIS BOOK ARE
00:17:12.33\00:17:15.30
ISSUES THAT YOU STILL
RUN INTO IN THE CHURCH TODAY.
00:17:15.30\00:17:18.40
AND SO I THINK IT'S
BEEN A VERY PRODUCTIVE STUDY.
00:17:18.40\00:17:21.30
ALRIGHT, WELL WE'RE
GOING TO GET INTO THE LESSON.
00:17:21.30\00:17:23.41
OH, BY THE WAY, OUR MEMORY
VERSE THAT SAID ''THE DAYS
00:17:23.41\00:17:26.07
ARE COMING,' SAYS THE
LORD, 'I WILL RAISE UP A
00:17:26.07\00:17:28.01
BRANCH - TO DAVID A
BRANCH' - WHAT DOES THAT
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BRANCH TO DAVID? >>JESUS.
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>>ISAIAH 11:1, "THERE SHALL COME
FORTH A ROD FROM THE STEM OF
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JESSE, AND A BRANCH
SHALL GROW OUT OF HIS ROOTS.
00:17:38.52\00:17:41.66
AND THE SPIRIT OF THE
LORD SHALL REST UPON HIM," -
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WHO IS THAT BRANCH? >>JESUS.
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>>IT'S TALKING ABOUT CHRIST.
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THAT'S A MESSIANIC
PROPHECY, ISN'T IT?
00:17:48.06\00:17:50.73
AND SO JEREMIAH IS
AMONG THE PROPHETS IN THE OLD
00:17:50.73\00:17:54.74
TESTAMENT THAT FORETOLD
THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
00:17:54.74\00:17:57.71
NOW THERE'S - THE FIRST
SECTION HERE UNDER SUNDAY
00:17:57.71\00:18:01.84
SAYING JEREMIAH'S LORD
AND A PICTURE OF GOD IS GIVEN
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IN THE BOOK OF
JEREMIAH. I'M - SOMEONE HERE IS
00:18:06.31\00:18:08.95
GOING TO READ JEREMIAH
31:3. DO WE HAVE SOMEONE?
00:18:08.95\00:18:12.59
YOU'LL - ALRIGHT, JUST A
MOMENT. WE'LL GET TO YOU.
00:18:12.59\00:18:14.39
BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENT
VERSES HERE THAT GIVE US
00:18:14.39\00:18:16.56
DIFFERENT PICTURES.
00:18:16.56\00:18:18.13
ALL THESE DIFFERENT
VERSES OF JEREMIAH ARE KIND OF
00:18:18.13\00:18:19.73
LIKE WALKING AROUND
A JEWEL AND YOU HAVE
00:18:19.73\00:18:22.66
DIFFERENT FACETS
THAT REFLECT DIFFERENT
00:18:22.66\00:18:24.33
CHARACTERISTICS
OR ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.
00:18:24.33\00:18:27.57
FOR INSTANCE, JEREMIAH
2:13, "FOR MY PEOPLE HAVE
00:18:27.57\00:18:31.71
COMMITTED TWO EVILS:
THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, THE
00:18:31.71\00:18:34.48
FOUNTAIN OF LIVING
WATERS, AND HEWN THEMSELVES
00:18:34.48\00:18:37.18
CISTERNS-BROKEN CISTERNS
THAT CAN HOLD NO WATER."
00:18:37.18\00:18:40.32
WELL, RIGHT AWAY YOU
SAY, 'WHAT DOES THIS TELL US
00:18:40.32\00:18:42.42
ABOUT GOD AND THE
CHURCH? WELL, FOR ONE THING, IT
00:18:42.42\00:18:45.72
SAYS THAT - WHAT
WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE, A
00:18:45.72\00:18:48.69
FOUNTAIN OR A
POT? >> A FOUNTAIN.
00:18:48.69\00:18:51.43
>>IF YOU HAVE A
FOUNTAIN YOU HAVE A CONTINUAL,
00:18:51.43\00:18:53.40
UNENDING - YOU KNOW,
JESUS SAID TO THE WOMAN AT THE
00:18:53.40\00:18:55.10
WELL, 'YOU'RE GOING TO
GET A POT OF WATER, BUT HE
00:18:55.10\00:18:58.77
THAT DRINKS OF THE WATER
THAT I'M OFFERING, HE WILL
00:18:58.77\00:19:01.04
HAVE AN ARTESIAN WELL
WITHIN THEM SPRINGING UP.'
00:19:01.04\00:19:04.14
AND I WONDER IF JESUS
WAS DRAWING ON - OR REFERRING
00:19:04.14\00:19:07.44
TO JEREMIAH WHEN HE SAID THIS.
00:19:07.44\00:19:09.44
'YOU HAVE REJECTED ME,
THE FOUNTAIN OF WATER, AND
00:19:09.44\00:19:12.08
YOU'VE GOT YOURSELVES
CISTERNS - POTS - THAT ARE
00:19:12.08\00:19:15.28
CRACKED - THAT HOLD NO WATER.
00:19:15.28\00:19:18.82
AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO BUY A HOUSE WITH
00:19:18.82\00:19:21.42
A SWIMMING POOL, MAKE
SURE THE SWIMMING POOL DOESN'T
00:19:21.42\00:19:23.43
LEAK, BECAUSE IF IT LEAKS
YOU BETTER FIND A CHEAPER HOUSE.
00:19:23.43\00:19:29.36
AND BACK THEN, IF YOU
HAD A CISTERN AND YOU PUT ALL
00:19:29.36\00:19:31.17
YOUR WATER -
THAT'S SUPPOSED TO GET YOU
00:19:31.17\00:19:32.53
THROUGH THE SUMMER IN A
CISTERN AND THEN YOU FIND
00:19:32.53\00:19:34.80
OUT THAT IT LEAKS AND
YOU GO FOR THE WATER AND IT'S
00:19:34.80\00:19:36.50
GONE, YOU'VE GOT A BIG PROBLEM.
00:19:36.50\00:19:39.87
AND HE SAID, 'YOU'VE
REJECTED ME, A LIVING
00:19:39.87\00:19:41.84
FOUNTAIN, AND YOU'RE
GETTING CRACKED POTS INSTEAD.'
00:19:41.84\00:19:47.22
BUT, YOU KNOW, IN THIS
VERSE, WHAT IT REALLY TELLS US?
00:19:47.22\00:19:49.62
IT SAYS - AND THIS IS
JEREMIAH 2:13 - "FOR MY
00:19:49.62\00:19:53.49
PEOPLE" - WHO DOES HE CALL THEM?
00:19:53.49\00:19:56.89
EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE
DOING SOMETHING AS FOOLISH AS
00:19:56.89\00:19:59.79
THAT, HE SAYS THEY'RE 'MY
PEOPLE.' WHAT DOES GOD SAY
00:19:59.79\00:20:02.23
TO THE PEOPLE IN
BABYLON? 'BABYLON IS FALLEN.
00:20:02.23\00:20:06.10
COME OUT OF HER - >>MY PEOPLE.
00:20:06.10\00:20:07.87
>>MY PEOPLE.
YOU MEAN GOD HAS HIS
00:20:07.87\00:20:09.10
PEOPLE IN BABYLON?
ALRIGHT, ANOTHER ONE.
00:20:09.10\00:20:13.64
JEREMIAH 5:22, "'DO YOU
NOT FEAR ME?' SAYS THE LORD.
00:20:13.64\00:20:18.08
'WILL YOU NOT TREMBLE
AT MY PRESENCE, WHO HAVE
00:20:18.08\00:20:19.88
PLACED THE SAND AS
THE BOUND OF THE SEA, BY A
00:20:19.88\00:20:23.15
PERPETUAL DECREE, THAT
IT CANNOT PASS BEYOND IT?
00:20:23.15\00:20:25.99
AND THOUGH ITS WAVES
TOSS TO AND FRO, YET THEY
00:20:25.99\00:20:28.29
CANNOT PREVAIL; THOUGH
THEY ROAR, YET THEY CANNOT
00:20:28.29\00:20:30.83
PASS OVER IT.'" NOW THIS
VERSE COMES TO REMIND THEM
00:20:30.83\00:20:34.86
- THEY WERE SO AFRAID
OF THE ASSYRIANS AND THEN
00:20:34.86\00:20:37.77
LATER THE BABYLONIANS
- THAT THEY WERE GOING TO
00:20:37.77\00:20:39.53
COME WASHING OVER
THEIR LAND AND THAT THEY WERE
00:20:39.53\00:20:41.94
GOING TO CONQUER THEM.
AND GOD SAID, 'LOOK, I CAN
00:20:41.94\00:20:44.27
TAKE CARE OF
THEM IF YOU TRUST ME.
00:20:44.27\00:20:46.64
IF I CAN STOP THE OCEAN
WITH THE SANDS OF THE SEA,
00:20:46.64\00:20:50.21
I CAN STOP THESE ENEMY
ALIENS FROM COMING IN AND
00:20:50.21\00:20:52.78
TAKING OVER YOUR COUNTRY,
BUT YOU NEED TO TRUST ME.'
00:20:52.78\00:20:56.05
AND HE SAYS,
'DON'T BE AFRAID OF THEM.
00:20:56.05\00:20:58.95
BE AFRAID OF ME.' AND SO HE
SAID, 'I'M A GOD TO BE FEARED.
00:20:58.95\00:21:03.09
IF YOU PUT ME FIRST
- YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID
00:21:03.09\00:21:04.59
BEFORE THAT IF YOU FEAR
GOD YOU FEAR NOTHING ELSE,
00:21:04.59\00:21:07.23
IF YOU DON'T FEAR GOD
YOU FEAR EVERYTHING.' BUT IF
00:21:07.23\00:21:10.97
YOU REALLY FEAR
GOD, YOU'RE NOT AFRAID OF
00:21:10.97\00:21:12.27
ANYTHING ELSE.
ALRIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:21:12.27\00:21:14.44
READ FOR US
JEREMIAH 31:3, PLEASE.
00:21:14.44\00:21:17.54
>>JEREMIAH 31:3, "THE
LORD HAS APPEARED OF OLD TO ME,
00:21:17.54\00:21:22.14
SAYING: 'YES, I HAVE
LOVED YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING
00:21:22.14\00:21:25.45
LOVE; THEREFORE WITH
LOVINGKINDNESS I HAVE
00:21:25.45\00:21:28.85
DRAWN YOU.'" >>NOW
IT SAYS 'THE LORD HAS
00:21:28.85\00:21:31.35
APPEARED OF OLD TO ME.' HOW LONG
AGO DID GOD SAY HE LOVED HIS
00:21:31.35\00:21:36.83
PEOPLE WITH AN EVERLASTING
LOVE? IT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK.
00:21:36.83\00:21:40.50
WHAT DOES PAUL TELL US
ABOUT THE LOVE OF GOD IN
00:21:40.50\00:21:43.53
ROMANS? CAN
ANYTHING SEPARATE US?
00:21:43.53\00:21:45.53
HEIGHT OR DEPTH OR
BREADTH OR PRINCIPALITIES OR
00:21:45.53\00:21:48.17
THINGS ABOVE OR THINGS BELOW?
00:21:48.17\00:21:49.60
NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US
FROM THE LOVE OF GOD AND
00:21:49.60\00:21:52.37
HE'S EMPHASIZING THIS
- 'I'VE DRAWN YOU WITH
00:21:52.37\00:21:55.74
EVERLASTING LOVE - WITH
LOVINGKINDNESS I'VE DRAWN
00:21:55.74\00:21:58.85
YOU.' GOD IS ALWAYS
TRYING TO DRAW US IN.
00:21:58.85\00:22:01.92
YOU KNOW, THE KEY TO A
SUCCESSFUL AND VICTORIOUS
00:22:01.92\00:22:05.35
CHRISTIAN LIFE IS LOVE FOR GOD.
00:22:05.35\00:22:07.96
LOVE FOR GOD NEEDS
TO BE THE MAIN THING.
00:22:07.96\00:22:10.86
THEN YOU LOOK AND ALL
OF THESE DIFFERENT VERSES -
00:22:10.86\00:22:13.03
AND WE'RE JUMPING
AROUND THROUGH THE BOOK HERE -
00:22:13.03\00:22:14.76
ARE TELLING US THINGS ABOUT
THE FACETS OF GOD'S CHARACTER.
00:22:14.76\00:22:17.87
JEREMIAH 11 IS ANOTHER
ONE GIVEN IN THE LESSON -
00:22:17.87\00:22:20.90
JEREMIAH 11:22,
"THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD OF
00:22:20.90\00:22:23.71
HOSTS: 'BEHOLD,
I WILL PUNISH THEM.
00:22:23.71\00:22:25.57
THE YOUNG MEN SHALL DIE
BY THE SWORD, THEIR SONS
00:22:25.57\00:22:28.24
AND DAUGHTERS SHALL DIE
BY FAMINE;" NOW HE JUST SAID
00:22:28.24\00:22:31.81
HE LOVES THEM AND THEN
HE SAYS HE'LL PUNISH THEM.
00:22:31.81\00:22:34.98
IS THAT INCONSISTENT?
DOES THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH
00:22:34.98\00:22:38.95
WARN OF COMING
JUDGMENT? WHY? WHAT DOES THIS
00:22:38.95\00:22:42.92
TELL US ABOUT GOD?
IF GOD WANTS TO PUNISH
00:22:42.92\00:22:45.86
THEM, WHY TELL THEM IN ADVANCE?
00:22:45.86\00:22:49.80
DOESN'T HE WANT TO
WARN THEM SO THEY'LL REPENT?
00:22:49.80\00:22:52.93
HE DOESN'T WANT TO PUNISH THEM.
00:22:52.93\00:22:54.70
AND, BECAUSE YOU
PUNISH SOMEONE, DOES THAT MEAN
00:22:54.70\00:22:56.77
THAT YOU DON'T LOVE THEM?
OR DOES IT SAY IN HEBREWS,
00:22:56.77\00:23:01.98
'EVERY SON WHO THE
FATHER LOVES HE WILL CHASTEN'?
00:23:01.98\00:23:06.25
HOW MANY OF YOU ARE PARENTS?
00:23:06.25\00:23:10.35
DO YOU PUNISH YOUR
CHILDREN BECAUSE YOU DON'T
00:23:10.35\00:23:12.49
LOVE THEM OR
BECAUSE YOU DO LOVE THEM?
00:23:12.49\00:23:15.56
SOME PARENTS ABUSE
THEIR CHILDREN EITHER BECAUSE
00:23:15.56\00:23:18.76
THEY DON'T LOVE THEM
OR THEY'VE GOT PROBLEMS -
00:23:18.76\00:23:20.43
OTHER ISSUES - BUT
WHEN YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN
00:23:20.43\00:23:23.03
THERE IS
APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT TO BE
00:23:23.03\00:23:25.20
REDEMPTIVE,
RIGHT? THAT'S THE IDEA.
00:23:25.20\00:23:28.00
SO IT TELLS US THAT GOD
IS A LOVING FATHER, BUT HE'S
00:23:28.00\00:23:30.27
ALSO A JUST KING AND HE
WILL PUNISH TRANSGRESSION.
00:23:30.27\00:23:36.11
JEREMIAH 3, VERSE 7, "AND
I SAID, AFTER SHE HAD DONE
00:23:36.11\00:23:41.28
ALL THESE THINGS, 'RETURN
TO ME.' BUT SHE DID NOT RETURN.
00:23:41.28\00:23:45.19
AND HER TREACHEROUS
SISTER JUDAH SAW IT."
00:23:45.19\00:23:47.89
HERE GOD IS TALKING
ABOUT, YOU KNOW, A LOVE
00:23:47.89\00:23:49.89
RELATIONSHIP LIKE A
HUSBAND FOR A WIFE AND
00:23:49.89\00:23:52.39
HE'S REFERRING TO
JUDAH AND ISRAEL AS HIS
00:23:52.39\00:23:56.00
BETROTHED AND THEY
LEFT HIM AND HE SAID, 'I'LL
00:23:56.00\00:24:01.04
TAKE YOU BACK.' NOW
HOW OFTEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN
00:24:01.04\00:24:03.61
THERE'S INFIDELITY IN
THE MARRIAGE THE HUSBAND OR
00:24:03.61\00:24:07.34
WIFE SAYS,
'THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT.
00:24:07.34\00:24:08.84
YOU DON'T GET A SECOND CHANCE.
00:24:08.84\00:24:10.18
THAT WAS THE UNPARDONABLE
SIN.' AND EVEN IN THE
00:24:10.18\00:24:14.25
BIBLE IT SAYS THERE
IS GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE -
00:24:14.25\00:24:16.85
WHAT IS GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE?
UNFAITHFULNESS - FORNICATION.
00:24:16.85\00:24:21.96
BUT GOD IS SAYING,
'EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE BEEN
00:24:21.96\00:24:23.79
TREACHEROUS, I WILL
TAKE YOU BACK.' AND THAT'S -
00:24:23.79\00:24:28.46
THAT'S A LOT OF LOVE.
AND HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE
00:24:28.46\00:24:30.40
FLIRTED WITH THE DEVIL
AND GOD IS STILL WILLING TO
00:24:30.40\00:24:33.70
TAKE US BACK
BECAUSE HE LOVES US?
00:24:33.70\00:24:35.37
SO ALL THROUGH THE
KALEIDOSCOPE OF VERSES IN
00:24:35.37\00:24:39.74
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH,
WE'RE GETTING PICTURES OF
00:24:39.74\00:24:41.91
GOD. JEREMIAH'S A GREAT BOOK.
00:24:41.91\00:24:43.95
YOU WALK AROUND IT AND
YOU LOOK AT IT AND YOU WILL
00:24:43.95\00:24:46.25
SEE JUST THE CHARACTER OF
GOD REFLECTED IN DIFFERENT
00:24:46.25\00:24:49.28
WAYS, BUT IT REALLY GIVES
US THE PICTURE OF GOD AS A
00:24:49.28\00:24:51.92
KING, AS A LOVING FATHER,
AS A HUSBAND, AS A SAVIOR,
00:24:51.92\00:24:57.96
CREATOR - ALRIGHT,
LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SECTION
00:24:57.96\00:25:01.60
THAT DEALS WITH THE
SUBJECT OF RITUAL AND SIN.
00:25:01.60\00:25:07.50
JEREMIAH 6:20 - WE'RE
GOING TO START WITH, "FOR
00:25:07.50\00:25:10.54
WHAT PURPOSE TO ME
COMES FRANKINCENSE FROM SHEBA,
00:25:10.54\00:25:16.68
AND SWEET CANE
FROM A FAR COUNTRY?
00:25:16.68\00:25:19.31
YOUR BURNT OFFERINGS
ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE, NOR YOUR
00:25:19.31\00:25:22.42
SACRIFICES SWEET TO ME."
NOW ISAIAH SAYS SOMETHING
00:25:22.42\00:25:26.02
SIMILAR TO THAT. HE
SAYS, 'AWAY WITH YOUR
00:25:26.02\00:25:28.19
SACRIFICES AND YOUR NEW
MOONS AND YOUR SABBATHS.'
00:25:28.19\00:25:31.73
WHEN WE GO THROUGH THE
EXTERNAL FORMS OF WORSHIP
00:25:31.73\00:25:34.66
AND OUR HEARTS AREN'T
IN THE RIGHT PLACE, THEN
00:25:34.66\00:25:38.23
GOD SAYS THAT'S
NOT REAL WORSHIP.
00:25:38.23\00:25:40.20
SO ONE OF THE THINGS HE
WAS TRYING TO SAY IS THAT
00:25:40.20\00:25:42.24
HAVING RITUALS DOES NOT
COMPENSATE FOR WICKEDNESS.
00:25:42.24\00:25:46.88
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 7, VERSES 8
AND 9 - OR 8 THROUGH 10, RATHER
00:25:46.88\00:25:54.22
- "BEHOLD YOU TRUST IN
LYING WORDS THAT CANNOT PROFIT.
00:25:54.22\00:25:57.39
WILL YOU STEAL,
MURDER, COMMIT ADULTERY, SWEAR
00:25:57.39\00:26:00.46
FALSELY, BURN INCENSE TO
BAAL, AND WALK AFTER OTHER
00:26:00.46\00:26:03.43
GODS WHOM YOU DO NOT
KNOW, AND THEN COME AND STAND
00:26:03.43\00:26:06.70
BEFORE ME IN THIS
HOUSE WHICH IS CALLED BY MY
00:26:06.70\00:26:08.53
NAME, AND SAY, 'WE ARE
DELIVERED TO DO ALL THESE
00:26:08.53\00:26:11.67
ABOMINATIONS'?"
NOW THIS IS A VERY
00:26:11.67\00:26:13.67
IMPORTANT VERSE.
'WE ARE DELIVERED TO DO
00:26:13.67\00:26:16.94
THESE ABOMINATIONS.'
DOES GOD SAVE US TO SIN
00:26:16.94\00:26:20.68
OR SAVE US FROM SIN? >>FROM.
00:26:20.68\00:26:22.88
>>BUT, YOU KNOW, A LOT
OF CHURCHES THINK THAT HE
00:26:22.88\00:26:24.85
JUST GIVES US GRACE SO
THAT WE CAN HAVE PEACE OF
00:26:24.85\00:26:28.65
MIND WHILE WE
CONTINUE IN WILFUL SIN.
00:26:28.65\00:26:31.89
THAT'S NOT THE PURPOSE
OF THE GOSPEL AND THIS IS
00:26:31.89\00:26:34.46
WHAT THE LORD IS SAYING -
THAT THE PEOPLE IN THE OLD
00:26:34.46\00:26:36.66
TESTAMENT MAKE THE SAME
MISTAKE THEY'RE MAKING TODAY.
00:26:36.66\00:26:39.69
THEY WENT AND THEY
COMMITTED ALL THESE THINGS
00:26:39.69\00:26:41.73
- HE SAID, 'YOU
STEAL, YOU MURDER, YOU COMMIT
00:26:41.73\00:26:43.06
ADULTERY, YOU SWEAR
FALSELY' - SOME OF IT MAY
00:26:43.06\00:26:44.83
HAVE BEEN STEALING IN
THEIR HEARTS, COMMITTING
00:26:44.83\00:26:46.97
ADULTERY IN THEIR HEARTS
- 'YOU BURN INCENSE TO FALSE
00:26:46.97\00:26:50.07
GODS, YOU WALK AFTER
OTHER GODS AND THEN YOU COME TO
00:26:50.07\00:26:52.34
THE CHURCH AND YOU
SAY, 'WE ARE DELIVERED TO DO
00:26:52.34\00:26:55.81
ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS.
WE'VE GOT THE HOUSE
00:26:55.81\00:26:57.48
OF THE LORD HERE.
WE'VE GOT THIS HERITAGE.
00:26:57.48\00:26:59.78
AND SO, GOD'S GOING
TO HAVE TO WATCH OVER US
00:26:59.78\00:27:02.45
BECAUSE WE'RE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE.
00:27:02.45\00:27:04.62
DO WE EVER HAVE THAT MINDSET?
00:27:04.62\00:27:07.59
HAVE YOU MET PEOPLE
BEFORE THAT WILL SAY, 'WHY WE'VE
00:27:07.59\00:27:10.66
BEEN IN THE CHURCH
FOR THREE GENERATIONS.
00:27:10.66\00:27:13.93
WE'VE GOT - WE BUILT THE
SCHOOL. WE BUILT THE CHURCH.
00:27:13.93\00:27:17.83
WE'VE GOT THIS LONG
HISTORY AND' - YOU KNOW,
00:27:17.83\00:27:20.47
IT'S NICE TO HAVE A
HERITAGE, BUT IS THERE ANY
00:27:20.47\00:27:22.14
REDEMPTIVE VALUE IN THAT? >>NO.
00:27:22.14\00:27:26.01
>>WHAT DOES GOD LOOK AT?
ARE YOU SURRENDERED TO ME?
00:27:26.01\00:27:29.28
DO YOU OBEY ME? I
KNOW I WAS TALKING TO
00:27:29.28\00:27:33.21
ONE LADY ONE TIME AND I
MENTIONED I WAS A CHRISTIAN.
00:27:33.21\00:27:38.69
I WAS TALKING TO HER
ABOUT THE LORD AND SHE WAS
00:27:38.69\00:27:40.22
SAYING, 'OH, YOU DON'T
NEED TO WASTE YOUR TIME
00:27:40.22\00:27:41.76
TALKING TO ME ABOUT THE LORD.
00:27:41.76\00:27:42.76
MY FATHER WAS A PASTOR.'
AND I THOUGHT, 'WHAT DOES
00:27:42.76\00:27:47.10
THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?
00:27:47.10\00:27:49.53
DOES THAT MAKE YOU A CHRISTIAN?
00:27:49.53\00:27:51.63
DO CHRISTIANS BIOLOGICALLY
REPRODUCE CHRISTIANS?
00:27:51.63\00:27:55.37
IT DOESN'T WORK THAT
WAY. SOMEONE SAID, 'GOD HAS NO
00:27:55.37\00:27:57.41
GRANDCHILDREN.'
EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE BORN
00:27:57.41\00:28:00.61
AGAIN, RIGHT?
EVERYONE NEEDS TO HAVE AN
00:28:00.61\00:28:03.35
INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE.
AND SO HERE THEY WERE
00:28:03.35\00:28:06.88
THINKING THAT WAS
SOMEHOW GIVING THEM CREDIT.
00:28:06.88\00:28:09.42
GO AHEAD, READ FOR US
ACTS 10:34 AND 35, PLEASE.
00:28:09.42\00:28:14.22
>>"THEN PETER OPENED HIS
MOUTH AND SAID: 'IN TRUTH
00:28:14.22\00:28:17.66
I PERCEIVE THAT GOD
SHOWS NO PARTIALITY.
00:28:17.66\00:28:20.96
BUT IN EVERY NATION
WHOEVER FEARS HIM AND
00:28:20.96\00:28:24.17
WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS ACCEPTED BY HIM."
00:28:24.17\00:28:28.64
>>IN EVERY NATION,
WHOEVER IT IS, WHETHER YOU'RE A
00:28:28.64\00:28:31.97
JEW OR A GENTILE BUT,
YET, THEY REALLY STRUGGLED
00:28:31.97\00:28:35.28
BELIEVING THAT BECAUSE
THEY HAD BEEN CHOSEN BY
00:28:35.28\00:28:38.38
GOD, THAT SOMEHOW THEY HAD
SPECIAL RIGHTS TO SALVATION.
00:28:38.38\00:28:41.98
BUT DIDN'T THE LORD
TELL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,
00:28:41.98\00:28:44.35
'DO NOT THINK THAT I
HAVE CHOSEN YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE
00:28:44.35\00:28:46.59
BETTER THAN OTHER NATIONS,
INDEED, YOU ARE A STUBBORN
00:28:46.59\00:28:49.76
AND A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE.
00:28:49.76\00:28:50.96
I CHOSE YOU, IN PART,
BECAUSE YOU ARE STUBBORN
00:28:50.96\00:28:54.73
AND STIFF-NECKED, TO SHOW
THAT IF I COULD EVEN REACH
00:28:54.73\00:28:56.70
YOU, I COULD REACH
ANYBODY.' SO INSTEAD OF IT
00:28:56.70\00:28:59.60
BEING A CAUSE FOR
BRAGGING, 'GOD CHOSE US
00:28:59.60\00:29:01.97
BECAUSE WE'RE BETTER
THAN OTHER PEOPLE,' GOD WAS
00:29:01.97\00:29:03.74
SAYING, 'NO, IT'S
ACTUALLY THE OPPOSITE.
00:29:03.74\00:29:05.94
I CHOSE YOU BECAUSE YOU
WERE THE LEAST OF THE LEAST.
00:29:05.94\00:29:08.48
YOU WERE A NATION OF
SLAVES AND I WANTED TO
00:29:08.48\00:29:10.98
SHOW THAT MY WORD AND
MY TRUTH - WHAT IT COULD DO
00:29:10.98\00:29:14.42
WITH SLAVES - HOW IT
COULD SET THEM FREE AND
00:29:14.42\00:29:16.79
TRANSFORM THEM.
SO DON'T BRAG AND
00:29:16.79\00:29:18.45
SAY, 'WE ARE CHOSEN.
WE'RE BETTER THAN YOU.'
00:29:18.45\00:29:21.89
NOW WE CAN BE AT RISK
OF THAT SAME ATTITUDE.
00:29:21.89\00:29:25.96
WHEN GOD, PROVIDENTIALLY
REVEALS THE TRUTH TO YOU,
00:29:25.96\00:29:28.46
WHETHER YOU'RE BORN
INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OR WHETHER
00:29:28.46\00:29:30.77
YOU DISCOVER IT, YOU
COULD SUBTLY SAY TO YOURSELF,
00:29:30.77\00:29:34.70
'THERE WAS SOMETHING
GOOD ABOUT ME AND SO GOD CHOSE
00:29:34.70\00:29:38.01
ME.' BUT YOU REALLY
CAN'T THINK THAT BECAUSE THE
00:29:38.01\00:29:41.94
ONES THAT GOD SAYS
KNOW THE TRUTH - THAT ARE
00:29:41.94\00:29:45.31
CHOSEN - BUT IF WE HAVE
PRIDE AND WE THINK WE'RE
00:29:45.31\00:29:47.88
BETTER, WE'RE
MISSING THE WHOLE POINT.
00:29:47.88\00:29:50.25
GALATIANS 3:29, "AND IF
YOU ARE CHRIST'S, THEN YOU
00:29:50.25\00:29:54.42
ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND
HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE."
00:29:54.42\00:29:57.56
AND YET, THERE'S A
DANGER THAT WE'LL MAKE THE SAME
00:29:57.56\00:29:59.56
MISTAKES SOME OF THE
JEWS MADE IN JESUS' DAY,
00:29:59.56\00:30:01.80
THINKING THAT BECAUSE
THEY WERE PHYSICAL JEWS, THAT
00:30:01.80\00:30:05.17
SOMEHOW THEY HAD A SPECIAL
RIGHT TO ETERNAL LIFE, BY
00:30:05.17\00:30:09.54
VIRTUE OF THEIR BLOOD
TYPE OR DNA OR GENETICS.
00:30:09.54\00:30:12.97
GOD DOESN'T SAVE
PEOPLE BASED ON GENETICS.
00:30:12.97\00:30:15.31
IT SAYS, 'GOD HAS MADE
OF ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS.'
00:30:15.31\00:30:17.98
AND PETER JUST SAID, 'I
PERCEIVE THAT GOD SHOWS NO
00:30:17.98\00:30:21.88
PARTIALITY, BUT IN EVERY
NATION, WHOEVER FEARS HIM,'
00:30:21.88\00:30:26.19
AS HE DID WHEN HE DECIDED
TO HEAL NAAMAN THE LEPER.
00:30:26.19\00:30:30.39
WHILE THERE WERE
STILL PLENTY OF LEPERS IN
00:30:30.39\00:30:31.56
ISRAEL, HE HEALED THE ASSYRIAN.
00:30:31.56\00:30:33.53
AND HE WENT TO THE
CANAANITE WOMAN WITH
00:30:33.53\00:30:35.76
ELIJAH AND
PERFORMED MIRACLES FOR HER AND
00:30:35.76\00:30:37.63
RAISED HER SON. AND
SO, WHOEVER FEARS HIM
00:30:37.63\00:30:41.14
- JOHN 8 - NOW
HERE'S A DISCOURSE.
00:30:41.14\00:30:43.94
I'M GOING TO READ
VERSES 39 THROUGH 44.
00:30:43.94\00:30:47.08
JESUS IS HAVING A
DISCOURSE WITH THE JEWS OF
00:30:47.08\00:30:49.31
HIS DAY: THEY SAID,
"'ABRAHAM IS OUR FATHER.'
00:30:49.31\00:30:53.18
JESUS SAID TO THEM,
'IF YOU WERE ABRAHAM'S
00:30:53.18\00:30:55.42
CHILDREN, YOU WOULD DO
THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM.'" -
00:30:55.42\00:30:58.02
ALRIGHT, SO WHAT MAKES
YOU ABRAHAM'S CHILD, ACCORDING
00:30:58.02\00:31:00.36
TO JESUS? >>IF YOU DO THE WORK.
00:31:00.36\00:31:02.82
>>DO WHAT ABRAHAM
DID. WHAT DID ABRAHAM DO?
00:31:02.82\00:31:05.43
ABRAHAM HAD
FAITH. ABRAHAM HAD ENOUGH
00:31:05.43\00:31:07.66
FAITH TO OBEY. THE
BIBLE SAYS, 'ABRAHAM
00:31:07.66\00:31:09.73
KEPT MY COMMANDMENTS, MY
STATUTES, AND MY LAWS.' SO
00:31:09.73\00:31:14.24
ABRAHAM PUT IT ALL ON
THE LINE. HE PUT HIS VERY SON
00:31:14.24\00:31:16.77
ON THE ALTAR FOR
GOD. HE WAS GOING TO LAY
00:31:16.77\00:31:18.91
IT ALL DOWN FOR GOD.
"'IF YOU WERE ABRAHAM'S
00:31:18.91\00:31:21.18
CHILDREN YOU WOULD
DO THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM.
00:31:21.18\00:31:23.24
BUT NOW YOU SEEK TO
KILL ME,'" - HE DIDN'T - THEY
00:31:23.24\00:31:26.82
DIDN'T THINK HE KNEW WHAT
THEY WERE THINKING, BUT HE
00:31:26.82\00:31:29.35
EXPOSED IT - "'NOW YOU
SEEK TO KILL ME, A MAN WHO
00:31:29.35\00:31:31.75
HAS TOLD YOU THE TRUTH
WHICH I HEARD FROM GOD.
00:31:31.75\00:31:34.86
ABRAHAM DID NOT DO
THIS. YOU DO THE DEEDS OF YOUR
00:31:34.86\00:31:37.49
FATHER.' THEN THEY SAID
TO HIM, 'WE WERE NOT BORN OF
00:31:37.49\00:31:41.53
FORNICATION; WE HAVE
ONE FATHER'" - NOW YOU KNOW
00:31:41.53\00:31:43.97
WHY THEY SAID 'WE'RE
NOT BORN OF FORNICATION'?
00:31:43.97\00:31:46.57
BECAUSE EVEN THAT LATE
IN JESUS' LIFE, THEY KNEW
00:31:46.57\00:31:50.14
THERE WAS SOMETHING
SUSPICIOUS ABOUT HIS BIRTH.
00:31:50.14\00:31:53.81
THAT MARY SEEMED TO
COME UP PREGNANT LONG - TOO
00:31:53.81\00:31:57.15
SHORT A TIME AFTER THE
WEDDING, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:31:57.15\00:32:01.78
AND THEY WERE ALWAYS
QUESTIONING HIS LINEAGE
00:32:01.78\00:32:05.79
AND SO THAT WAS ACTUALLY A SLAP.
00:32:05.79\00:32:08.69
THEY SAID, "'WE WERE
NOT BORN OF FORNICATION; WE
00:32:08.69\00:32:10.83
HAVE ONE FATHER-GOD.'
JESUS SAID TO THEM, "IF
00:32:10.83\00:32:13.86
GOD WERE YOUR FATHER,
YOU WOULD LOVE ME, FOR I
00:32:13.86\00:32:16.20
PROCEEDED FORTH
AND CAME FROM GOD;
00:32:16.20\00:32:18.63
NOR HAVE I COME OF
MYSELF, BUT HE SENT ME.
00:32:18.63\00:32:21.64
WHY DO YOU NOT
UNDERSTAND MY SPEECH?
00:32:21.64\00:32:23.41
BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ABLE
TO LISTEN TO MY WORD.'" -
00:32:23.41\00:32:25.04
YOU KNOW, JESUS
SAID SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE
00:32:25.04\00:32:26.54
SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED -
"'YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER
00:32:26.54\00:32:29.28
THE DEVIL,'" - NOW,
WOULD YOU SAY THAT'S RUDE?
00:32:29.28\00:32:36.72
WOULD YOU SAY THAT TO ANYBODY?
00:32:36.72\00:32:38.72
PROBABLY NOT. I
DON'T THINK I'VE EVER
00:32:38.72\00:32:40.69
SAID THAT TO
ANYBODY. I'VE THOUGHT IT.
00:32:40.69\00:32:42.66
(LAUGHTER) BUT I DIDN'T SAY IT.
00:32:42.66\00:32:47.20
HE SAID, "'YOU ARE OF
YOUR'" - AND HE SAID THIS
00:32:47.20\00:32:48.50
TO THE RELIGIOUS
LEADERS. HE KNEW HE WAS FINISHED
00:32:48.50\00:32:50.30
WHEN HE SAID THAT.
"'YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER
00:32:50.30\00:32:53.13
THE DEVIL.'" - THEY
SAID, 'GOD'S OUR FATHER.'
00:32:53.13\00:32:54.94
HE SAID, 'NO, YOU'VE
GOT A DIFFERENT FATHER.'
00:32:54.94\00:32:56.64
NOW DOES THAT MEAN
THAT THEY WERE LIKE LITTLE
00:32:56.64\00:32:58.54
ROSEMARY'S BABY
CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL?
00:32:58.54\00:33:02.21
YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE
THINK THAT THE ANTICHRIST
00:33:02.21\00:33:04.38
IS GOING TO BE THE
RESULT OF THE DEVIL HAVING
00:33:04.38\00:33:07.82
INTIMATE RELATIONS WITH
A HUMAN AND GIVE BIRTH TO
00:33:07.82\00:33:09.95
THIS HALF DEVIL/HALF
HUMAN - NO, ANGELS AND HUMANS
00:33:09.95\00:33:15.09
DON'T PROCREATE.
SO WHEN JESUS SAID,
00:33:15.09\00:33:17.13
'YOU'RE OF YOUR FATHER
THE DEVIL', HE DIDN'T MEAN
00:33:17.13\00:33:19.13
THAT THE DEVIL WILL
LITERALLY BEGET THEM.
00:33:19.13\00:33:22.10
IT MEANS YOU END UP
BEHAVING LIKE WHOEVER YOUR
00:33:22.10\00:33:25.47
FATHER IS. IF
YOU'RE CREATED IN THE
00:33:25.47\00:33:26.87
IMAGE OF GOD, YOU WILL
BEAR THE IMAGE OF JESUS.
00:33:26.87\00:33:29.57
IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING
THE DEEDS OF THE DEVIL,
00:33:29.57\00:33:32.14
YOU'LL BEAR HIS IMAGE.
00:33:32.14\00:33:34.71
HE SAID, "'YOU ARE OF
YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL AND THE
00:33:34.71\00:33:36.75
DESIRES OF YOUR
FATHER YOU WANT TO DO.
00:33:36.75\00:33:40.18
HE WAS A MURDERER FROM
THE BEGINNING,'" - WAY BACK
00:33:40.18\00:33:42.32
WITH CAIN - "'HE
WAS A MURDERER FROM THE
00:33:42.32\00:33:44.72
BEGINNING, AND DOES
NOT STAND IN THE TRUTH,
00:33:44.72\00:33:46.69
BECAUSE THERE
IS NO TRUTH IN HIM.
00:33:46.69\00:33:48.29
WHEN HE SPEAKS A LIE,
HE SPEAKS FROM HIS OWN
00:33:48.29\00:33:50.16
RESOURCES , FOR HE IS
A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF
00:33:50.16\00:33:52.13
IT.'" HE IS THE ONE
WHO UTTERED THE FIRST LIE.
00:33:52.13\00:33:56.73
NOW THAT MAKES IT
PRETTY CLEAR THAT GOD DOES NOT
00:33:56.73\00:34:00.37
SAVE PEOPLE BASED
ON THEIR HERITAGE.
00:34:00.37\00:34:04.47
HE SAID, 'ARE YOU
CHILDREN OF FAITH?'
00:34:04.47\00:34:06.47
- CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM.
00:34:06.47\00:34:07.68
MATTHEW 9:12, "WHEN
JESUS HEARD THAT, HE SAID TO
00:34:07.68\00:34:14.32
THEM, 'THOSE WHO ARE
WELL HAVE NO NEED OF A
00:34:14.32\00:34:16.35
PHYSICIAN, BUT THOSE
WHO ARE SICK.'" SO WHO IS
00:34:16.35\00:34:19.55
QUALIFIED TO BE HEALED
BY THE GREAT PHYSICIAN?
00:34:19.55\00:34:22.42
WHAT MAKES YOU
QUALIFIED TO COME TO JESUS?
00:34:22.42\00:34:24.83
KNOWING YOU'RE SICK.
HE SAID, 'I DIDN'T COME TO
00:34:24.83\00:34:28.00
CALL THE RIGHTEOUS,
BUT SINNERS TO REPENTANCE.
00:34:28.00\00:34:30.63
AND SO THIS IDEA THAT
YOU'VE GOT THE RITUALS AND
00:34:30.63\00:34:34.10
THAT YOU'RE AUTOMATICALLY
TO BE SAVED IS NOT WHAT
00:34:34.10\00:34:36.50
THE BIBLE TEACHES.
ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION:
00:34:36.50\00:34:38.64
RELIGION OF THE HEART .
JEREMIAH HAS A LOT TO SAY
00:34:38.64\00:34:43.48
ABOUT GOING TO THE
HEART OF THE MATTER - HEART
00:34:43.48\00:34:45.55
RELIGION - AND
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME
00:34:45.55\00:34:48.05
JEREMIAH 17:10 IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:34:48.05\00:34:51.52
ALRIGHT, ROMANS 14:12,
"SO THEN EACH OF US SHALL GIVE
00:34:51.52\00:34:55.86
AN ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO
GOD." EVERYBODY IS INVOLVED.
00:34:55.86\00:35:01.66
EVERY KNEE WILL BOW.
EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS.
00:35:01.66\00:35:03.97
WE WILL ALL GIVE
AN ACCOUNT TO GOD.
00:35:03.97\00:35:06.00
JESUS SAID EVERYONE OF
US WILL GIVE AN ACCOUNT FOR
00:35:06.00\00:35:09.17
EVERY IDLE WORD THAT
IS SPOKEN - 'FOR BY YOUR
00:35:09.17\00:35:11.87
WORDS YOU'LL BE JUSTIFIED
AND BY YOUR WORDS YOU'LL
00:35:11.87\00:35:13.88
BE CONDEMNED. YOU CAN READ IN
00:35:13.88\00:35:15.84
DEUTERONOMY 6:4 - THE
GREAT - THIS GREAT SHEMA,
00:35:15.84\00:35:20.88
"HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE
LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE!
00:35:20.88\00:35:24.99
YOU SHALL LOVE THE
LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR
00:35:24.99\00:35:27.32
HEART, WITH ALL YOUR
SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR
00:35:27.32\00:35:29.59
STRENGTH." - SO
WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT?
00:35:29.59\00:35:32.43
HE WANTS OUR HEART.
DO YOU KNOW, THE MOST
00:35:32.43\00:35:34.63
IMPORTANT THING IN
OBEYING GOD IS TO BE IN LOVE.
00:35:34.63\00:35:38.47
YOU KNOW HOW EASY IT IS TO
SERVE GOD WHEN YOU LOVE HIM?
00:35:38.47\00:35:41.27
IT'S SO MUCH EASIER. >>AMEN.
00:35:41.27\00:35:43.00
>>WHEN THERE'S LOVE.
LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL
00:35:43.00\00:35:46.41
YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR
SOUL, WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.
00:35:46.41\00:35:50.15
AND JEREMIAH BEARS THIS
OUT. YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE,
00:35:50.15\00:35:52.28
IN JEREMIAH 9:23,
"THUS SAYS THE LORD, 'LET NOT
00:35:52.28\00:35:57.05
THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS
WISDOM, LET NOT THE MIGHTY
00:35:57.05\00:36:00.09
MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT,
NOR LET THE RICH MAN GLORY
00:36:00.09\00:36:02.86
IN HIS RICHES; BUT LET
HIM WHO GLORIES GLORY IN THIS,
00:36:02.86\00:36:05.76
THAT HE UNDERSTANDS
AND KNOWS ME, THAT I AM THE
00:36:05.76\00:36:08.93
LORD, EXERCISING
LOVINGKINDNESS, JUDGMENT,
00:36:08.93\00:36:12.17
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH.
00:36:12.17\00:36:13.70
FOR IN THESE I
DELIGHT,' SAYS THE LORD."
00:36:13.70\00:36:15.90
THE LORD DELIGHTS
IN LOVINGKINDNESS.
00:36:15.90\00:36:18.14
AND, GO AHEAD, READ FOR
US, PLEASE JEREMIAH 17:10.
00:36:18.14\00:36:22.21
>>"I, THE LORD, SEARCH
THE HEART, I TEST THE MIND,
00:36:22.21\00:36:26.38
EVEN TO GIVE EVERY
MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS,
00:36:26.38\00:36:29.48
ACCORDING TO THE
FRUIT OF HIS DOINGS."
00:36:29.48\00:36:32.12
>>SO IS IT JUST WHAT YOU DO?
00:36:32.12\00:36:34.99
OR DOES THE LORD LOOK ON
THE HEART TO FIND OUT WHY
00:36:34.99\00:36:36.79
YOU'RE DOING WHAT YOU
DO? DID JESUS, WHEN HE WAS
00:36:36.79\00:36:41.06
TEACHING, HE SAID,
'THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO PRAY BUT
00:36:41.06\00:36:44.60
THEY'RE NOT REALLY
TALKING TO ME IN THEIR HEART,
00:36:44.60\00:36:46.67
THEY'RE PRAYING TO BE
SEEN.' IT'S A SPECTACLE.
00:36:46.67\00:36:49.44
AND HE SAID THERE ARE
PEOPLE WHO GIVE AND THEY
00:36:49.44\00:36:51.91
MAY GIVE LARGE
AMOUNTS, BUT THEY'RE GIVING TO
00:36:51.91\00:36:54.78
HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOME
LIBRARY NAMED AFTER THEM
00:36:54.78\00:36:57.88
AND IT'S REALLY BECAUSE
THEY'RE GIVING FOR THEIR
00:36:57.88\00:36:59.48
OWN GLORY, NOT FOR
LOVE FOR THEIR FELLOW MAN.
00:36:59.48\00:37:02.18
AND JESUS POINTS OUT A
POOR WIDOW WHO PUTS IN HER
00:37:02.18\00:37:04.12
LAST TWO CENTS - VERY
SMALL, VERY INSIGNIFICANT
00:37:04.12\00:37:07.06
- AND JESUS SAID, 'WOW,
THEY'RE REALLY PLAYING THE
00:37:07.06\00:37:09.79
BAND RIGHT NOW IN HEAVEN
FOR WHAT THIS WIDOW GAVE,
00:37:09.79\00:37:12.43
BECAUSE SHE GAVE
MORE THAN ANYBODY.'
00:37:12.43\00:37:13.73
HOW DID GOD KNOW?
GOD LOOKS ON THE HEART.
00:37:13.73\00:37:17.67
AND SO, GOD NOT ONLY
LOOKS AT WHAT YOU'RE DOING,
00:37:17.67\00:37:20.80
THOUGH HE SEES
THAT, HE LOOKS AT WHY
00:37:20.80\00:37:24.41
YOU'RE DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
00:37:24.41\00:37:25.47
THERE WAS A STINGY MAN IN
SCOTLAND NAMED O'NEILL AND
00:37:25.47\00:37:32.08
HE WOULD GO TO CHURCH
EVERY WEEK AND HE WAS VERY
00:37:32.08\00:37:34.78
FAITHFUL TO GIVE HIS
ONE DOLLAR EVERY WEEK.
00:37:34.78\00:37:39.42
AND ONE WEEK, WHEN HE
WAS THUMBING THROUGH HIS
00:37:39.42\00:37:42.96
WALLET AND THE DEACON
CAME BY, HE TOSSED IN THE
00:37:42.96\00:37:46.76
DOLLAR, BUT JUST AS
THE PLATE WAS GOING BY HE
00:37:46.76\00:37:48.90
REALIZED HE HAD
ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED IN A TEN.
00:37:48.90\00:37:53.17
AND HE WENT TO GET THE
DEACON FURTHER DOWN THE
00:37:53.17\00:37:57.71
LINE - HE SAID, 'OH, I MADE A
MISTAKE. I MEANT TO PUT A ONE IN
00:37:57.71\00:37:59.84
AND I PUT A TEN.' HE
SAID, 'LOOK,' - HE SAID, 'YOU'VE
00:37:59.84\00:38:03.78
GOT FREEDOM TO CHOOSE
BEFORE YOU PUT IT IN, BUT
00:38:03.78\00:38:05.85
ONCE IT'S IN, IT
DOESN'T COME BACK OUT.' HE SAID,
00:38:05.85\00:38:08.72
'BUT, BUT, BUT' - HE
SAID, 'NO, THAT'S THE WAY IT IS.
00:38:08.72\00:38:11.25
YOU PUT IT IN,
IT STAYS.' >>AMEN.
00:38:11.25\00:38:14.46
>>HE SAID, 'WELL, I'LL
GET CREDIT FOR TEN.' AND THE
00:38:14.46\00:38:17.36
DEACON SAID, 'NO,
YOU'RE GOING TO GET CREDIT FOR
00:38:17.36\00:38:18.79
ONE DOLLAR BECAUSE
THAT'S ALL YOU MEANT TO PUT IN.'
00:38:18.79\00:38:23.47
IT'S SAYING GOD
LOOKS ON THE HEART.
00:38:23.47\00:38:25.70
HE DIDN'T - HE WAS
NOT A CHEERFUL GIVER.
00:38:25.70\00:38:30.61
ALRIGHT, JEREMIAH
12:7 - STILL TALKING ABOUT
00:38:30.61\00:38:33.14
RELIGION OF THE HEART,
"I HAVE FORSAKEN MY HOUSE, I
00:38:33.14\00:38:37.48
HAVE LEFT MY HERITAGE;
I HAVE GIVEN THE DEARLY
00:38:37.48\00:38:40.55
BELOVED OF MY SOUL INTO
THE HAND OF HER ENEMIES.
00:38:40.55\00:38:43.82
MY HERITAGE IS TO ME
LIKE A LION IN THE FORESTS; IT
00:38:43.82\00:38:46.86
CRIES OUT AGAINST ME;
THEREFORE I HAVE HATED IT."
00:38:46.86\00:38:49.79
YOU NOTICE, TWICE HE
SAYS, 'MY HERITAGE - MY
00:38:49.79\00:38:52.26
HERITAGE' - THESE ARE MY PEOPLE.
00:38:52.26\00:38:53.93
AND YOU CAN TELL THAT
GOD IS - DOES GOD HAVE
00:38:53.93\00:38:56.80
FEELINGS? OH,
HE'S BIG AND STRONG.
00:38:56.80\00:39:01.07
YOU CAN'T HURT GOD.
HOW CAN YOU HURT GOD?
00:39:01.07\00:39:05.87
HE'S A HUNDRED TIMES
STRONGER THAN ANY SUPERMAN.
00:39:05.87\00:39:10.28
BUT WHY DO YOU HAVE FEELINGS?
00:39:10.28\00:39:13.21
YOU HAVE FEELINGS
BECAUSE GOD HAS FEELINGS AND
00:39:13.21\00:39:14.85
YOU'RE MADE IN HIS
IMAGE. AND SO, INSTEAD OF
00:39:14.85\00:39:17.19
WONDERING IF GOD THINKS
LIKE YOU, YOU BETTER MAYBE
00:39:17.19\00:39:21.39
REVERSE THAT AND
REALIZE THAT YOU THINK AND HAVE
00:39:21.39\00:39:23.43
EMOTIONS BECAUSE
YOU GET THOSE FROM GOD.
00:39:23.43\00:39:26.53
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT
THE EVIL ONES BECAUSE YOU
00:39:26.53\00:39:29.20
KNOW, GOD IS NOT TEMPTED
WITH EVIL, BUT IF YOU ARE SAD
00:39:29.20\00:39:33.90
BECAUSE YOU LOSE
SOMEONE YOU LOVE OR ARE BETRAYED
00:39:33.90\00:39:36.57
BY SOMEONE YOU LOVE,
DID IT HURT JESUS WHEN JUDAS
00:39:36.57\00:39:40.21
BETRAYED HIM?
IT DEEPLY HURT HIM.
00:39:40.21\00:39:43.85
DID IT HURT JESUS
WHEN PETER DENIED HIM?
00:39:43.85\00:39:47.38
DID IT HURT THE LORD
WHEN THE WHOLE NATION, AFTER
00:39:47.38\00:39:49.92
ALL HE HAD DONE TO
PROTECT AND PRESERVE THEM WHEN
00:39:49.92\00:39:52.62
THEY TURNED FROM
HIM TO OTHER GODS?
00:39:52.62\00:39:55.59
AND SO THAT'S WHY
JEREMIAH IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE
00:39:55.59\00:39:58.03
WEEPING PROPHET IS
BECAUSE HE HAD THE HEART OF GOD
00:39:58.03\00:40:00.16
AND HE SAW HOW MUCH
THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE WERE
00:40:00.16\00:40:03.37
HURTING GOD. AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
00:40:03.37\00:40:06.17
JEREMIAH 17:7, "BLESSED
IS THE MAN WHO TRUSTS IN THE
00:40:06.17\00:40:10.07
LORD, AND WHOSE HOPE IS THE
LORD." AND SO GOD IS A GOD WHO
00:40:10.07\00:40:14.88
WANTS US TO
HAVE THAT INNER HOPE.
00:40:14.88\00:40:16.91
WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT THE INNER MOTIVES.
00:40:16.91\00:40:18.28
AND THEN JEREMIAH -
WE READ THIS TWICE NOW -
00:40:18.28\00:40:20.75
JEREMIAH 29:13, "AND
YOU WILL SEEK ME AND FIND ME
00:40:20.75\00:40:23.82
WHEN YOU SEARCH FOR
ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART."
00:40:23.82\00:40:27.56
SO WHEN IT SAYS
'YOU'LL SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL
00:40:27.56\00:40:29.66
YOUR HEART', DOES
THAT MEAN YOU SEARCH FOR ME
00:40:29.66\00:40:31.66
WITH MORE
SOPHISTICATED EQUIPMENT?
00:40:31.66\00:40:35.46
DOES THAT HELP
YOU FIND THE LORD?
00:40:35.46\00:40:37.43
EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE GOT
BETTER SEARCH TOOLS THAN
00:40:37.43\00:40:40.17
WE'VE EVER HAD AND YOU
CAN ACCESS TO MORE MATERIAL
00:40:40.17\00:40:43.61
AND INFORMATION THAN YOU
EVER COULD BEFORE, THAT'S
00:40:43.61\00:40:46.51
NOT THE KIND OF
SEARCHING GOD'S TALKING ABOUT.
00:40:46.51\00:40:49.51
YOU CANNOT CLICK
YOUR WAY TO THE KINGDOM.
00:40:49.51\00:40:52.51
IF YOU HAD THE
OLD STRONG'S & YOUNG'S
00:40:52.51\00:40:55.88
ANALYTICAL CONCORDANCES
BUT YOU'RE SEARCHING WITH
00:40:55.88\00:40:58.75
YOUR HEART, GOD
SAYS YOU'LL FIND HIM.
00:40:58.75\00:41:02.29
IF YOU'VE GOT ALL OF THE
MOST SOPHISTICATED SEARCH
00:41:02.29\00:41:04.83
ENGINES OF GOOGLE
AND YAHOO, BUT YOU'RE NOT
00:41:04.83\00:41:07.23
SEARCHING WITH YOUR
HEART, YOU WON'T FIND HIM.
00:41:07.23\00:41:09.93
YOU'LL HAVE LOTS OF
INFORMATION BUT, YOU KNOW,
00:41:09.93\00:41:12.60
IN THE LAST DAYS
IT SAYS KNOWLEDGE WILL
00:41:12.60\00:41:15.60
INCREASE AND PEOPLE
WILL STILL BE WICKED.
00:41:15.60\00:41:19.34
SO YOU CAN HAVE ALL
KINDS OF BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE AT
00:41:19.34\00:41:21.31
YOUR FINGERTIPS AND STILL
NOT HAVE YOUR HEART WITH GOD.
00:41:21.31\00:41:25.55
DOES THIS MAKE
SENSE? >>IT SURE DOES.
00:41:25.55\00:41:27.22
>>SO THE CRITERIA IS TO
SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL OF
00:41:27.22\00:41:29.45
YOUR HEART, IS WHAT GOD
WANTS. ALRIGHT, MOVING ON TO THE
00:41:29.45\00:41:34.62
TWILIGHTS - THE
TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS .
00:41:34.62\00:41:40.73
JEREMIAH 10:8 - NOW WHEN
I FIRST READ THIS SUBTITLE
00:41:40.73\00:41:44.50
FOR THE LESSON - THE
TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS -
00:41:44.50\00:41:46.77
FOR THIS DAY, WHAT IT
MADE ME THINK OF IS - ARE YOU
00:41:46.77\00:41:51.04
AWARE THAT AFTER THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - AFTER
00:41:51.04\00:41:53.41
JEREMIAH - AFTER THEY
WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON,
00:41:53.41\00:41:55.91
THEY SAW ALL THE
IDOLATRY IN BABYLON, THE REMNANT
00:41:55.91\00:41:58.48
THAT CAME BACK
FROM BABYLON NEVER HAD A
00:41:58.48\00:42:02.08
PROBLEM WITH PHYSICAL
IDOLS AGAIN. DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:42:02.08\00:42:08.12
YOU LOOK AT ISRAEL IN THE
TIME OF JESUS - THE ROMANS MAY
00:42:08.12\00:42:11.53
HAVE BROUGHT IDOLS, BUT THE
JEWS HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH IDOLS.
00:42:11.53\00:42:15.66
JESUS SAID ALMOST
NOTHING ABOUT IDOLS.
00:42:15.66\00:42:17.33
JOHN AND THE APOSTLES
TALKED ABOUT IDOLS TO THE
00:42:17.33\00:42:19.90
GENTILE CONVERTS
THAT WERE COMING FROM THE
00:42:19.90\00:42:21.84
GRECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS
INTO CHRISTIANITY, BUT THE JEWS
00:42:21.84\00:42:24.91
FINALLY GOT THE VICTORY
OVER IDOLS AFTER JEREMIAH
00:42:24.91\00:42:29.34
BECAUSE THEY SAW
WHAT IT DID TO THEM.
00:42:29.34\00:42:32.21
BUT, DURING JEREMIAH'S
TIME, THEY WERE WORSHIPING
00:42:32.21\00:42:35.92
THE IDOLS. YOU
GO TO JEREMIAH 10:8
00:42:35.92\00:42:38.05
THROUGH 11, "BUT THEY
ARE ALTOGETHER DULL-HEARTED
00:42:38.05\00:42:41.72
AND FOOLISH; A WOODEN
IDOL IS A WORTHLESS DOCTRINE.
00:42:41.72\00:42:45.09
SILVER IS BEATEN INTO
PLATES; IT IS BROUGHT FROM
00:42:45.09\00:42:47.50
TARSHISH, AND GOLD
FROM UPHAZ, THE WORK OF THE
00:42:47.50\00:42:50.73
CRAFTSMAN AND OF THE
HANDS OF THE" - BY THE WAY, JUST
00:42:50.73\00:42:54.24
A LITTLE TRIVIA, WHEN
IT SAYS HERE 'SILVER WAS
00:42:54.24\00:42:57.71
BROUGHT FROM TARSHISH' -
I THINK I MENTIONED TO YOU
00:42:57.71\00:43:01.54
THAT WAS MY - ACTUALLY
MY MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME, BUT
00:43:01.54\00:43:03.41
TARSHISH WAS A COASTAL
CITY ON SPAIN JUST BEFORE
00:43:03.41\00:43:07.65
YOU GO THROUGH THE
GATES OF HERCULES FROM THE
00:43:07.65\00:43:09.78
MEDITERRANEAN INTO THE ATLANTIC.
00:43:09.78\00:43:11.55
IT WAS ONE OF THE
FURTHEST MOST PHOENICIAN CITIES
00:43:11.55\00:43:14.76
AND THERE ARE A FEW
VERSES IN THE BIBLE THAT TALK
00:43:14.76\00:43:16.99
ABOUT SILVER AND
TARSHISH AND SO THEY HAVE BEEN
00:43:16.99\00:43:20.63
LOOKING FOR SILVER MINES IN
SPAIN BECAUSE OF THESE VERSES.
00:43:20.63\00:43:25.50
THEY KNOW THERE WAS GOLD
DOWN IN ARABIA WHERE THEY
00:43:25.50\00:43:28.50
WENT TO - THEY WENT FROM
EZION-GEBER AND THEY'D GO
00:43:28.50\00:43:31.57
DOWN TO THE LAND OF
UPHAZ LOOKING FOR GOLD.
00:43:31.57\00:43:35.34
BUT THEY NEVER DID
FIND THE SILVER MINES OF
00:43:35.34\00:43:39.45
TARSHISH AND THERE WERE
ALWAYS THESE FABLED MINES
00:43:39.45\00:43:41.75
- AND I GUESS THEY'RE
STILL LOOKING FOR THEM -
00:43:41.75\00:43:44.45
"THE WORK OF THE
CRAFTSMAN AND OF THE METALSMITH;
00:43:44.45\00:43:46.32
BLUE AND PURPLE ARE
THEIR CLOTHING;" - THEY MAKE
00:43:46.32\00:43:48.72
THESE IDOLS AND THEN THEY
CLOTHE THEM AND PLATE THEM
00:43:48.72\00:43:50.36
WITH SILVER AND GOLD -
"THEY ARE ALL THE WORK OF
00:43:50.36\00:43:52.89
SKILLFUL MEN. BUT
THE LORD IS THE TRUE
00:43:52.89\00:43:55.60
GOD; HE IS THE LIVING GOD
AND THE EVERLASTING KING."
00:43:55.60\00:43:59.30
- ARTISTS, NOW, CAN
MAKE REPLICAS OF HUMANS THAT
00:43:59.30\00:44:06.41
ARE SO REAL - IN FACT,
HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN
00:44:06.41\00:44:10.85
TO A WAX MUSEUM?
AND YOU'LL SEE, THEY'LL
00:44:10.85\00:44:14.68
MAKE A
LIFE-SIZED QUEEN ELIZABETH.
00:44:14.68\00:44:18.12
THE EYES SPARKLE
LIKE THEY'RE MOIST.
00:44:18.12\00:44:20.82
THE SKIN HAS THE
TEXTURE - JUST THE PORES AND THE
00:44:20.82\00:44:23.36
HAIRS - THEY LOOK SO
REAL YOU EXPECT THEM TO START
00:44:23.36\00:44:27.66
BREATHING. AND
IF YOU PUT THE REAL
00:44:27.66\00:44:30.57
QUEEN ELIZABETH NEXT TO
THE WAX ONE, IT'S HARD TO
00:44:30.57\00:44:34.14
TELL WHICH IS WHICH
IF THERE'S NO MOVEMENT.
00:44:34.14\00:44:37.67
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW
SKILLFUL THOSE WAX ARTISTS
00:44:37.67\00:44:40.91
ARE, IT'S STILL
JUST WAX. IT'S NOT ALIVE.
00:44:40.91\00:44:45.85
JESUS ISN'T GOING TO DIE FOR IT.
00:44:45.85\00:44:47.45
BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE
ARE SOME RELIGIONS AND THEY
00:44:47.45\00:44:50.82
THINK, 'OH THE MORE BEAUTIFUL
THE IDOL, THE MORE DIVINE -
00:44:50.82\00:44:53.79
THERE'S SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL
AND YOU CAN PRAY TO IT.
00:44:53.79\00:44:55.72
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW
BEAUTIFUL THE IDOL IS.
00:44:55.72\00:44:59.03
IT IS STONE. IT IS WOOD.
00:44:59.03\00:45:01.10
IT'S LIKE EINSTEIN
SAID, 'IT'S JUST STICKS AND
00:45:01.10\00:45:02.96
STONES.' AND YET PEOPLE
PRAY TO A BLOCK OF WOOD -
00:45:02.96\00:45:08.07
THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS IN
THE BIBLE - THEY'RE PRAYING TO
00:45:08.07\00:45:09.30
A BLOCK OF WOOD
OR A PIECE OF METAL.
00:45:09.30\00:45:11.71
AND THIS IS WHAT
JEREMIAH WAS TALKING ABOUT.
00:45:11.71\00:45:15.51
"BUT THE LORD IS THE
TRUE GOD; HE IS THE LIVING GOD
00:45:15.51\00:45:17.68
AND THE EVERLASTING
KING. AT HIS WRATH THE EARTH
00:45:17.68\00:45:22.35
WILL TREMBLE, AND THE
NATIONS WILL NOT BE ABLE
00:45:22.35\00:45:24.15
TO ENDURE HIS INDIGNATION.
THUS SHALL YOU SAY TO
00:45:24.15\00:45:26.49
THEM: 'THE GODS THAT
HAVE NOT MADE THE HEAVENS AND
00:45:26.49\00:45:29.22
THE EARTH SHALL PERISH
FROM THE EARTH AND FROM
00:45:29.22\00:45:32.29
UNDER THESE HEAVENS.'"
THAT'S AN INTERESTING PLAY
00:45:32.29\00:45:34.36
ON WORDS - THE GODS
THAT DID NOT MAKE THE HEAVENS
00:45:34.36\00:45:36.26
AND THE EARTH WILL
PERISH FROM UNDER THE HEAVENS.
00:45:36.26\00:45:39.50
DEUTERONOMY 4:11 - AND
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:45:39.50\00:45:41.87
FOR ME EXODUS 20:25, I
GUESS. DEUTERONOMY 4:11, "THEN
00:45:41.87\00:45:48.74
YOU CAME NEAR AND STOOD
AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN,
00:45:48.74\00:45:50.85
AND THE MOUNTAIN BURNED
WITH FIRE TO THE MIDST OF
00:45:50.85\00:45:52.48
HEAVEN, WITH DARKNESS,
CLOUD, AND THICK DARKNESS.
00:45:52.48\00:45:55.05
AND THE LORD SPOKE TO YOU
OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE.
00:45:55.05\00:45:58.12
YOU HEARD THE SOUND
OF THE WORDS, BUT SAW NO
00:45:58.12\00:46:01.96
FORM;" - NOW WHY
DOES GOD SAY THAT?
00:46:01.96\00:46:04.79
HE WAS REMINDING THEM -
'DON'T BE TEMPTED TO THINK
00:46:04.79\00:46:08.10
YOU SAW A FORM AND
DON'T MAKE ANY FORM BECAUSE I
00:46:08.10\00:46:11.63
DON'T WANT YOU MAKING AN IDOL.'
00:46:11.63\00:46:13.74
HE EMPHASIZES
THAT. YOU SAW NO FORM.
00:46:13.74\00:46:16.24
YOU ONLY HEARD A VOICE -
"SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS
00:46:16.24\00:46:18.81
COVENANT WHICH HE
COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM,
00:46:18.81\00:46:20.61
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS;
AND HE WROTE THEM ON TWO
00:46:20.61\00:46:22.44
TABLETS OF STONE."
GO AHEAD AND READ THAT
00:46:22.44\00:46:24.65
NEXT VERSE FOR
ME, PLEASE, IN EXODUS.
00:46:24.65\00:46:26.95
>>"AND IF YOU MAKE ME AN
ALTAR OF STONE, YOU SHALL
00:46:26.95\00:46:29.42
NOT BUILD IT OF HEWN
STONE; FOR IF YOU USE YOUR
00:46:29.42\00:46:32.45
TOOL ON IT, YOU
HAVE PROFANED IT."
00:46:32.45\00:46:35.22
>>WHY DID GOD SAY,
'WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR ALTAR, GET
00:46:35.22\00:46:38.46
THE TWELVE STONES -
JUST GET ROUGH STONES.
00:46:38.46\00:46:40.56
YOU DIG 'EM UP.
00:46:40.56\00:46:41.93
PRY 'EM UP OUT OF THE
GROUND, STACK THEM UP INTO
00:46:41.93\00:46:43.67
TWELVE - ONE FOR EACH
TRIBE - DO NOT LIFT UP A
00:46:43.67\00:46:47.10
CHISEL AND A HAMMER ON THEM.
00:46:47.10\00:46:48.87
IF YOU DO, YOU
HAVE POLLUTED THEM.
00:46:48.87\00:46:50.24
YOU ROLL IT AWAY AND GET
ANOTHER ROCK.' WHY DID HE
00:46:50.24\00:46:53.04
SAY IT IS TO BE AS
NATURAL AS POSSIBLE?
00:46:53.04\00:46:56.08
IS THAT BECAUSE GOD
ONLY BELIEVES IN ORGANIC
00:46:56.08\00:46:58.48
ALTARS? IS THE LORD AN
ENVIRONMENTALIST? YOU KNOW WHY?
00:46:58.48\00:47:05.69
BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT
AS SOON AS THEY THOUGHT IT
00:47:05.69\00:47:08.52
WAS OKAY TO MODIFY THAT
ALTAR WITH THEIR ARTISTIC
00:47:08.52\00:47:11.33
ABILITY AND THEY PUT
THEIR WORKS IN IT, THEY WOULD
00:47:11.33\00:47:13.70
BEGIN TO ADMIRE WHAT THEY
HAD DONE AND THEY'D FORGET
00:47:13.70\00:47:16.67
ABOUT WORSHIPING GOD
AND IT WOULD BE ABOUT
00:47:16.67\00:47:18.17
WORSHIPING THE ALTAR.
BUT AS LONG AS THEY WERE
00:47:18.17\00:47:21.07
JUST ROUGH, ROUND
ROCKS, THERE WAS NOTHING VERY
00:47:21.07\00:47:24.37
AESTHETICALLY
PLEASING ABOUT THE ALTAR.
00:47:24.37\00:47:28.84
IT WAS TO BE WITHOUT A
MAN'S HAND TOUCHING IT.
00:47:28.84\00:47:33.98
'YOU SAW NO
FORM IN THE MOUNTAIN.
00:47:33.98\00:47:35.75
DO NOT MAKE A GOLDEN CALF.
WHERE'D YOU GET THAT IDEA?'
00:47:35.75\00:47:38.65
GOD DID NOT APPEAR TO THEM AS
A CALF AT ANY TIME IN HISTORY.
00:47:38.65\00:47:41.26
LET ME GIVE YOU
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS POINT:
00:47:41.26\00:47:44.09
DANIEL CHAPTER 2, VERSE
34, "YOU WATCHED WHILE A
00:47:44.09\00:47:48.46
STONE WAS CUT OUT
WITHOUT HANDS, WHICH STRUCK THE
00:47:48.46\00:47:53.10
IMAGE ON ITS FEET OF
IRON AND CLAY, AND BROKE THEM
00:47:53.10\00:47:55.40
IN PIECES." YOU
NOTICE THAT IN DANIEL
00:47:55.40\00:47:57.54
2, THE WHOLE VISION -
I'M ASSUMING YOU ALL KNOW
00:47:57.54\00:48:00.51
ABOUT THE VISION IN
DANIEL 2 - IT'S ALL ABOUT
00:48:00.51\00:48:03.01
A GREAT IDOL. CAN
YOU TELL ME - HOW MANY
00:48:03.01\00:48:06.25
OF YOU HAVE SEEN
THE IDOL IN DANIEL 2?
00:48:06.25\00:48:09.22
YOU'VE SEEN PAINTINGS
OF IT - YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
00:48:09.22\00:48:11.72
TALKING ABOUT. WHAT
DOES IT USUALLY LOOK LIKE?
00:48:11.72\00:48:14.36
ISN'T IT USUALLY
A MAN? WHERE DOES IT
00:48:14.36\00:48:16.96
SAY IT'S A MAN?
IT SAYS AN IMAGE.
00:48:16.96\00:48:22.70
FOR ALL WE KNOW,
IT HAD A DONKEY HEAD.
00:48:22.70\00:48:25.40
IT HAS A HEAD IS ALL IT SAID.
00:48:25.40\00:48:27.60
IT HAS ARMS BUT WE DON'T
KNOW WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE
00:48:27.60\00:48:29.57
- BECAUSE THE
PAGANS, THEY WORSHIPED IDOLS.
00:48:29.57\00:48:32.34
EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS AN
IDOL UNTIL YOU GET TO THE STONE.
00:48:32.34\00:48:36.61
AND IT SAYS THE STONE
IS CUT WITHOUT HANDS -
00:48:36.61\00:48:40.35
MEANING, NOT MAN'S
HANDS - THAT DESTROYS IT.
00:48:40.35\00:48:43.72
AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN GOD'S
00:48:43.72\00:48:46.72
TRUTH - THE TRUE
WORSHIP - AND MAN-MADE IDOLATRY.
00:48:46.72\00:48:51.36
THAT STONE IS THE TRUTH
OF GOD - CHRIST - DESTROYING
00:48:51.36\00:48:54.20
THE RELIGION - THE
IDOLS OF THE WORLD.
00:48:54.20\00:48:56.73
THE WHOLE THING IS
ABOUT THE CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO
00:48:56.73\00:48:59.07
KINGDOMS - A KINGDOM OF
THE IDOLS - WORLD RELIGION
00:48:59.07\00:49:01.37
- IDOLATRY AND GOD'S KINGDOM.
00:49:01.37\00:49:03.94
ALRIGHT, LAST SECTION -
THE REMNANT - ALRIGHT, IN
00:49:03.94\00:49:08.24
- IF YOU GO TO HAGGAI
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 2, "SPEAK
00:49:08.24\00:49:12.81
NOW TO ZERUBBABEL THE
SON OF SHEALTIEL, GOVERNOR OF
00:49:12.81\00:49:15.72
JUDAH, AND TO JOSHUA THE
SON OF JEHOZADAK, THE HIGH
00:49:15.72\00:49:18.52
PRIEST, AND TO THE
REMNANT OF THE PEOPLE, SAYING:
00:49:18.52\00:49:21.29
'WHO IS LEFT AMONG YOU
WHO SAW THIS TEMPLE IN ITS
00:49:21.29\00:49:23.73
FORMER GLORY? AND
HOW DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
00:49:23.73\00:49:26.53
IN COMPARISON WITH IT,
IS THIS NOT IN YOUR EYES AS
00:49:26.53\00:49:29.30
NOTHING?'" YOU KNOW, I'M JUMPING
00:49:29.30\00:49:31.33
AHEAD TO HAGGAI BECAUSE
JEREMIAH LIVED BEFORE THE
00:49:31.33\00:49:35.64
DESTRUCTION THAT
HAPPENED IN JERUSALEM.
00:49:35.64\00:49:38.17
HE SAID THEY WERE
GOING TO - JEREMIAH FORETOLD,
00:49:38.17\00:49:40.14
'YOU'LL SERVE
BABYLON SEVENTY YEARS.
00:49:40.14\00:49:42.54
HERE YOU ARE, THEY
COME BACK AND REBUILD THE
00:49:42.54\00:49:44.28
TEMPLE A FEW YEARS
AFTER THEY'VE BEEN FREED - THE
00:49:44.28\00:49:48.02
KING HELPS UNDERWRITE
BUILDING THE TEMPLE - AND
00:49:48.02\00:49:51.95
THERE WERE ACTUALLY STILL
PEOPLE ALIVE THAT HAD SEEN
00:49:51.95\00:49:55.49
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE BEFORE
IT WAS DESTROYED AND THEY
00:49:55.49\00:49:58.16
WERE HEARTBROKEN.
SOME OF THE PEOPLE ARE
00:49:58.16\00:50:00.26
REJOICING BECAUSE THEY'RE HAVING
THE BIG INAUGURATION TO LAY THE
00:50:00.26\00:50:03.63
CORNERSTONE, AND THESE OLD MEN
ARE ALL CRYING. THEY'RE GOING.
00:50:03.63\00:50:06.50
'WHY ARE YOU
CRYING?' 'OH, THIS IS NOTHING!
00:50:06.50\00:50:08.94
COMPARED TO SOLOMON'S
TEMPLE, THIS IS PITIFUL!'
00:50:08.94\00:50:12.57
AND THAT'S WHEN HAGGAI
GAVE THEM THE PROPHECY AND
00:50:12.57\00:50:14.78
SAID, 'WELL, THE GLORY OF
THIS TEMPLE IS GOING TO BE
00:50:14.78\00:50:16.44
BIGGER THAN THE GLORY
OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE BECAUSE
00:50:16.44\00:50:18.38
MY SON IS COMING TO
THIS TEMPLE.' AND SO IT'S A
00:50:18.38\00:50:22.15
DIFFERENT STORY, BUT
THERE WERE STILL PEOPLE ALIVE
00:50:22.15\00:50:24.92
FROM THE DAYS OF
JEREMIAH, WHO HAD HEARD JEREMIAH
00:50:24.92\00:50:28.46
PROPHESY, THAT LIVED
THROUGH THE BABYLONIAN
00:50:28.46\00:50:30.79
CAPTIVITY AND THEY CAME BACK.
00:50:30.79\00:50:33.19
THERE WAS A
REMNANT THAT SURVIVED.
00:50:33.19\00:50:35.53
NOW WHEN THE BABYLONIANS
CAME, IF YOU WERE GOING TO
00:50:35.53\00:50:37.97
GUESS, WHO WOULD BE THE REMNANT?
00:50:37.97\00:50:41.44
THE ONES THAT ARE BEING
CARRIED OFF INTO BABYLON,
00:50:41.44\00:50:43.81
THAT WILL BE
SURROUNDED WITH PAGANISM AND
00:50:43.81\00:50:45.71
SURROUNDED WITH FALSE RELIGION?
00:50:45.71\00:50:47.28
THEY'RE GOING TO END UP
- WOULD THEY SURVIVE AND
00:50:47.28\00:50:50.81
COME BACK, OR WOULD THEY
BE DIFFUSED AND DISAPPEAR?
00:50:50.81\00:50:54.62
OR WOULD IT BE THE ONES
THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID,
00:50:54.62\00:50:56.65
'I'M GOING TO LET
YOU STAY IN THE LAND.
00:50:56.65\00:50:57.69
YOU CAN LIVE IN WHATEVER
HOUSE YOU WANT.' YOU WOULD
00:50:57.69\00:50:59.72
HAVE THOUGHT, 'OH, THAT
WILL BE THE REMNANT.' BUT
00:50:59.72\00:51:01.96
WHEN YOU READ JEREMIAH -
DO YOU REMEMBER AS WE STUDIED?
00:51:01.96\00:51:04.69
THE ONES THAT
STAYED BEHIND THAT HAD AN
00:51:04.69\00:51:08.63
ABUNDANCE OF FOOD,
THAT WERE TOLD 'YOU CAN HAVE
00:51:08.63\00:51:10.83
WHATEVER HOUSE YOU WANT TO
LIVE IN.' THEY APOSTATIZED.
00:51:10.83\00:51:14.60
THEY LOST FAITH. THEY
WENT TO EGYPT. THEY DISAPPEAR.
00:51:14.60\00:51:17.94
THE ONES WHO WERE
PERSECUTED IN BABYLON,
00:51:17.94\00:51:21.18
THEY BEGAN TO CLING TO
THEIR HERITAGE AND THEY
00:51:21.18\00:51:24.71
HAD DANIEL, SHADRACH,
MESHACH, ABEDNEGO - OF
00:51:24.71\00:51:28.48
COURSE THOSE WERE THEIR
BABYLONIAN NAMES - THERE
00:51:28.48\00:51:30.05
WAS HANANIAH, MISHAEL,
AZARIAH, ESTHER, EZEKIEL,
00:51:30.05\00:51:34.12
MORDECAI - YOU HAVE ALL
THESE FAITHFUL HEROES AND
00:51:34.12\00:51:37.19
ALL OF THEM SEEM
TO SURVIVE IN SPITE OF
00:51:37.19\00:51:40.66
ATTEMPTS TO KILL THEM.
00:51:40.66\00:51:42.03
WAS THERE AN
ATTEMPT TO KILL DANIEL?
00:51:42.03\00:51:44.27
A COUPLE - ONCE WHEN
THEY GATHERED ALL THE WISE MEN
00:51:44.27\00:51:46.43
TO ANNIHILATE THEM,
AND THEN IN THE LIONS' DEN.
00:51:46.43\00:51:49.54
GOD PRESERVED THEM AND
WITNESSED THROUGH THEM.
00:51:49.54\00:51:52.24
WAS THERE AN ATTEMPT TO
DESTROY SHADRACH, MESHACH
00:51:52.24\00:51:55.28
AND ABEDNEGO -
AND A GOLDEN STATUE?
00:51:55.28\00:51:58.61
WAS THERE AN ATTEMPT TO
DESTROY ESTHER, MORDECAI?
00:51:58.61\00:52:03.15
AND EZEKIEL WOULD HAVE
BEEN CAUGHT UP IN THAT.
00:52:03.15\00:52:06.22
SO THEY SURVIVED THROUGH TRIAL.
00:52:06.22\00:52:09.66
NOW THERE'S A LESSON FOR US.
00:52:09.66\00:52:10.96
IT SEEMS LIKE GOD
REFINES HIS PEOPLE THE BEST, NOT
00:52:10.96\00:52:15.13
IN PROSPERITY, BUT IN TRIAL.
00:52:15.13\00:52:17.93
SO WHEN YOU PRAY FOR
REVIVAL FOR THE CHURCH,
00:52:17.93\00:52:21.00
SHOULD YOU BE PRAYING
THAT GOD SENDS TROUBLE?
00:52:21.00\00:52:23.57
NOBODY WANTS TO
PRAY THAT, RIGHT?
00:52:23.57\00:52:26.74
HISTORICALLY, THAT'S
USUALLY - WHEN DID THE
00:52:26.74\00:52:28.91
CHURCH GROW THE MOST
IN THE FIRST CENTURY?
00:52:28.91\00:52:31.61
IN TIMES OF PERSECUTION.
WHEN WAS THE GREATEST APOSTASY?
00:52:31.61\00:52:36.08
WHEN CHRISTIANITY WAS LEGALIZED.
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:52:36.08\00:52:41.19
WELL, I'VE GOT TO TIE
THIS OFF BECAUSE I'M RUNNING
00:52:41.19\00:52:43.02
OUT OF TIME HERE.
JUST A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS.
00:52:43.02\00:52:48.66
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
HAPPENED TO JEREMIAH EXACTLY.
00:52:48.66\00:52:51.03
AS FAR AS WE KNOW,
THERE'S A COUPLE OF ANCIENT
00:52:51.03\00:52:53.47
HISTORIANS - ONE
BEING JEROME TERTULLIAN - WE
00:52:53.47\00:52:57.61
BELIEVE THEY ARE
QUOTING EARLIER SOURCES.
00:52:57.61\00:53:00.24
THEY SAY JEREMIAH DIED
IN EGYPT IN TAHPANHES AND HE
00:53:00.24\00:53:04.68
WAS STONED BY
HIS OWN PEOPLE THERE.
00:53:04.68\00:53:08.72
NOT TOO MUCH THAT
WE'VE READ CONTRADICTS THAT.
00:53:08.72\00:53:11.12
IT LOOKED LIKE THEY
WEREN'T VERY HAPPY WITH
00:53:11.12\00:53:12.62
HIS LAST PROPHECIES.
00:53:12.62\00:53:14.22
THE FINAL PROPHECY IN
JEREMIAH IS INTERESTING.
00:53:14.22\00:53:16.79
IT'S A QUOTE - JEREMIAH
IS QUOTING 2 KINGS 25 OR 2
00:53:16.79\00:53:22.10
KINGS WAS ADDED TO
THE END OF JEREMIAH.
00:53:22.10\00:53:24.40
IT'S NOT LIKELY JEREMIAH
LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO SEE
00:53:24.40\00:53:26.57
THIS, BUT IT SAYS,
"NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE
00:53:26.57\00:53:29.10
THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF
THE CAPTIVITY OF JEHOIACHIN
00:53:29.10\00:53:31.81
KING OF JUDAH, IN
THE TWELFTH MONTH, ON THE
00:53:31.81\00:53:34.11
TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF
THE MONTH," - IT'S VERY
00:53:34.11\00:53:35.71
CAREFUL ABOUT THE DATE
HERE - "THAT EVIL-MERODACH
00:53:35.71\00:53:38.45
KING OF BABYLON, IN
THE YEAR THAT HE BEGAN TO
00:53:38.45\00:53:40.42
REIGN," - RIGHT
AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR DIED,
00:53:40.42\00:53:42.42
EVIL-MERODACH, FOR A
VERY SHORT PERIOD WAS KING AND
00:53:42.42\00:53:44.89
THEN HE WAS ASSASSINATED,
HE LIFTED UP THE HEAD OF
00:53:44.89\00:53:47.56
JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH
AND BROUGHT HIM OUT OF PRISON."
00:53:47.56\00:53:50.33
- THIS YOUNG KING,
THE LAST SURVIVING KING OF
00:53:50.33\00:53:53.53
DAVID - THE LAST SON OF
DAVID - OR DESCENDENT OF
00:53:53.53\00:53:55.83
DAVID WHO SERVED AS A
KING - WAS BROUGHT OUT OF
00:53:55.83\00:53:58.77
PRISON. AND I
KNOW I READ THIS TO
00:53:58.77\00:54:01.34
YOU EARLIER - HE
SPOKE KINDLY TO HIM.
00:54:01.34\00:54:03.51
HE GAVE HIM A MORE
PROMINENT SEAT THAN THE
00:54:03.51\00:54:05.71
KINGS WHO WERE WITH HIM
IN BABYLON - "SO JEHOIACHIN
00:54:05.71\00:54:08.58
CHANGED FROM HIS PRISON
GARMENTS, AND HE ATE BREAD
00:54:08.58\00:54:10.98
REGULARLY BEFORE THE
KING ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE.
00:54:10.98\00:54:14.18
AND AS FOR HIS PROVISIONS,
THERE WAS A REGULAR RATION
00:54:14.18\00:54:16.05
GIVEN HIM BY THE KING, A
PORTION FOR EACH DAY, ALL
00:54:16.05\00:54:20.86
THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE."
I THINK IT'S INTERESTING
00:54:20.86\00:54:24.29
THAT THE BOOK OF
JEREMIAH ENDS, OF ALL THINGS,
00:54:24.29\00:54:27.60
WITH THE WORD 'LIFE'.
OF ALL THE WORDS THAT YOU
00:54:27.60\00:54:30.77
COULD PICK, IT ENDS
WITH THE WORD 'LIFE'.
00:54:30.77\00:54:32.90
AND THE BOOK OF
JEREMIAH ENDS BY TALKING ABOUT
00:54:32.90\00:54:34.90
SOMEONE GOING FROM
PRISON GARMENTS AND PRISON FOOD
00:54:34.90\00:54:37.74
AND PRISON STATUS TO THE
KING'S PALACE, THE KING'S
00:54:37.74\00:54:41.98
ROBES, THE
KING'S FOOD, AND LIFE.
00:54:41.98\00:54:44.75
AND SO YOU'VE GOT, IN
THAT LAST STORY, YOU HAVE THE
00:54:44.75\00:54:47.75
SCENARIO OF BEING
SAVED FROM CAPTIVITY, BEING
00:54:47.75\00:54:51.32
BROUGHT TO THE PALACE
- THAT'S THE WHOLE GOSPEL
00:54:51.32\00:54:53.22
STORY. ISN'T
THIS LAST - THE LAST
00:54:53.22\00:54:55.66
STATEMENT HERE IN
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH?
00:54:55.66\00:54:57.13
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YOU'VE BEEN BLESSED BY IT.
00:54:57.13\00:54:58.49
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00:55:23.62\00:55:35.03
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00:55:35.03\00:55:38.70
FOUND IN FOLKLORE IN
NEARLY EVERY COUNTRY AND
00:55:38.70\00:55:42.37
CULTURE.
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00:55:42.37\00:55:45.71
TO HELP GUIDE THE
SPIRITS OF THEIR LEADERS.
00:55:45.71\00:55:49.04
ROME SANCTIONED HOLIDAYS
TO HONOR AND APPEASE THE
00:55:49.04\00:55:52.25
SPIRITS OF THEIR DEAD.
00:55:52.25\00:55:54.22
EVEN THE BIBLE TELLS OF
A KING THAT USED A WITCH TO
00:55:54.22\00:55:57.82
CONTACT THE SPIRIT
OF A DECEASED PROPHET.
00:55:57.82\00:56:01.22
TODAY, ANCIENT FOLKLORE
OF SPIRITS AND APPARITIONS
00:56:01.22\00:56:04.09
HAVE GONE FROM
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00:56:04.09\00:56:07.23
MAINSTREAM
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00:56:07.23\00:56:10.73
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS
INVESTIGATE STORIES OF
00:56:10.73\00:56:13.64
HAUNTINGS AND SIGHTINGS,
TRYING TO PROVE, ONCE AND
00:56:13.64\00:56:17.01
FOR ALL, THE
EXISTENCE OF GHOSTS.
00:56:17.01\00:56:23.18
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00:56:23.18\00:56:25.88
CENTURIES OF STORIES
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00:56:25.88\00:56:29.28
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00:56:29.28\00:56:37.53
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00:57:33.62\00:57:36.82
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00:57:36.82\00:57:39.95
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00:57:43.76\00:57:46.46
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