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00:34 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, COMING TO YOU FROM 00:37 THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH HERE IN - WE'RE ACTUALLY IN 00:40 ROCKLIN, BUT IT'S THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 00:43 CHURCH. AND WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE 00:45 TUNING IN LIKE YOU DO EVERY WEEK FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND 00:48 AROUND THE WORLD. WE HAVE MICHAEL DUNBAR, WHO IS PRESIDENT 00:53 OF FOUNTAINVIEW ACADEMY, WITH US AND - MICHAEL, WE WANT TO KNOW 00:57 WHO ARE ALL OF THESE LOVELY YOUNG PEOPLE BEHIND US? 01:01 WHERE ARE YOU FROM AND WHY ARE YOU HERE? 01:03 OTHER THAN WE LOVE FOUNTAINVIEW. >>AMEN. 01:05 WE ARE FROM FOUNTAINVIEW ACADEMY, LOCATED IN SOUTHERN 01:08 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ALL THESE KIDS - THIS IS OUR 01:10 ENTIRE STUDENT BODY - 87 YOUNG PEOPLE DEDICATED TO SERVING THE 01:14 LORD THROUGH MUSIC AND THROUGH MINISTRY. 01:16 >>AND IF YOU HAVE A YOUNG PERSON THAT'S ACADEMY AGE, HOW CAN WE 01:21 GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL? 01:23 >>YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.FOUNTAINVIEW.CA 01:28 OR SPEAK, IF YOU'RE HERE AND YOU'RE INTERESTED, SPEAK TO ANY 01:31 ONE OF US THAT ARE HERE. WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU 01:33 ABOUT FOUNTAINVIEW ACADEMY. >>THANK YOU, MICHAEL. 01:35 AND WE'RE SO EXCITED TO LISTEN TO YOUR STUDENTS RIGHT NOW AS 01:39 THEY DO TWO SONGS FOR US. WELCOME FOUNTAINVIEW. 01:43 (MUSIC) 01:49 >> HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH 01:56 HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH FOR THE 02:05 LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNETH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH 02:12 HALLELUJAH FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNETH HALLELUJAH 02:19 HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT 02:26 REIGNETH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH 02:30 HALLELUJAH (FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNETH) HALLELUJAH 02:34 HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT 02:39 REIGNETH (HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH) 02:45 THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD; IS BECOME THE KINGDOM OF 02:55 OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST AND OF HIS CHRIST AND HE SHALL REIGN 03:02 FOR EVER AND EVER AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER AND HE 03:10 SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER 03:19 KING OF KINGS FOREVER AND EVER HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH AND LORD 03:25 OF LORDS FOREVER AND EVER HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH KING OF 03:31 KINGS FOREVER AND EVER HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH AND LORD 03:36 OF LORDS FOREVER AND EVER HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH KING OF 03:42 KINGS FOREVER AND EVER HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH AND LORD 03:47 OF LORDS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS AND HE SHALL REIGN AND 03:55 HE SHALL REIGN AND HE SHALL REIGN HE SHALL REIGN AND HE 03:59 SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER KING OF KINGS FOREVER AND EVER 04:06 AND LORD OF LORDS HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH AND HE SHALL REIGN 04:11 FOREVER AND EVER KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS KING OF KINGS 04:21 AND LORD OF LORDS AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER FOREVER 04:30 AND EVER AND EVER AND EVER (KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS) 04:34 HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH. 04:52 >>AMEN. (MUSIC) 05:28 >>ANGELS FROM THE REALMS OF GLORY WING YOUR FLIGHT O'ER ALL 05:34 THE EARTH YE WHO SANG CREATION'S STORY NOW PROCLAIM MESSIAH'S 05:41 BIRTH COME AND WORSHIP, COME AND WORSHIP, WORSHIP CHRIST THE 05:48 NEWBORN KING. SHEPHERDS, IN THE FIELDS ABIDING 05:55 WATCHING O'ER YOUR FLOCKS BY NIGHT GOD WITH MAN IS NOW 06:02 RESIDING YONDER SHINES THE INFANT LIGHT COME AND WORSHIP, 06:09 COME AND WORSHIP, WORSHIP CHRIST THE NEWBORN KING. (INSTRUMENTAL) 06:42 SAGES, LEAVE YOUR CONTEMPLATIONS, BRIGHTER VISIONS 06:50 BEAM AFAR; SEEK THE GREAT DESIRE OF NATIONS; YE HAVE SEEN HIS 07:00 NATAL STAR; COME AND WORSHIP, COME AND 07:07 WORSHIP, WORSHIP CHRIST, THE NEWBORN KING. (INSTRUMENTAL) 07:45 SAINTS BEFORE THE ALTAR BENDING, WATCHING LONG IN HOPE AND FEAR, 07:56 SUDDENLY THE LORD, DESCENDING, IN HIS TEMPLE SHALL APPEAR: 08:09 COME AND WORSHIP, COME AND WORSHIP, WORSHIP CHRIST, 08:17 THE NEWBORN KING! >>AMEN. 08:34 >>WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE STUDYING WITH US. 08:36 WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE STUDENTS WHO WATCH FROM ALL OVER THE 08:39 WORLD, AS WELL AS SOME OF YOU WHO ARE PART OF THE EXTENDED 08:42 AMAZING FACTS GRANITE BAY STUDY HOUR CHURCH. 08:48 AND SOMETHING I MEANT TO MENTION TODAY THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS 08:51 SHARE IS THAT YOU MAY NOTICE THAT I USUALLY PRINT OUT A FEW 08:55 NOTES THAT GO ALONG WITH THE LESSON. 08:58 SOME OF THESE, OF COURSE, YOU'VE GOT YOUR NOTES IN YOUR LESSON. 09:00 SOME OF THESE ARE THE THOUGHTS OF THE TEACHERS. 09:02 AND ALMOST EVERY WEEK, WE POST THESE ONLINE AND SO IF YOU'RE 09:06 EVER INTERESTED - SOME OF YOU TEACH - YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED 09:08 IN OUR NOTES AS WELL AS THE NOTES THAT ARE IN 09:10 THE LESSON BOOK. YOU CAN FIND THOSE, SUCH AS THEY 09:13 ARE, WILL BE AT THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE UNDER THE 09:16 SABBATH SCHOOL SECTION. AND OUR STUDY TODAY - WE'RE 09:21 CONTINUING WITH A BRAND-NEW QUARTER'S LESSON DEALING WITH 09:24 REBELLION AND REDEMPTION. AND IN OUR STUDY TODAY IT'S 09:28 TALKING ABOUT THE CRISIS IN EDEN. 09:30 IT'S GOING TO BE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SERPENT. 09:32 AND SO, OUR FREE OFFER FOR TODAY IS A BOOK CALLED THE SAVIOR AND 09:38 THE SERPENT - I WROTE THIS A FEW YEARS AGO BECAUSE I JUST SAW A 09:41 PATTERN ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION, ABOUT THIS BATTLE 09:45 BETWEEN THE SAVIOR AND THE SERPENT. 09:47 AND YOU CAN FIND IT IN ONE OF THE FIRST PROPHECIES IN THE 09:50 BIBLE - GENESIS 3:15 - AND IT GOES ALL THE WAY TO REVELATION 09:54 CHAPTER 12. AND SO, IF YOU WANT TO 09:56 UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOUT THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL 09:59 GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES, WE'LL GIVE YOU A FREE COPY OF 10:02 THAT - OFFER #798 - AND CALL 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 10:08 866-STUDY-MORE - AND WE'LL SEND YOU THAT FOR FREE. 10:12 YOU COULD ALSO GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE. 10:14 ALRIGHT, AND SO WE'RE DEALING WITH A CRISIS IN EDEN. 10:18 WE TALKED ABOUT, LAST WEEK, A CRISIS IN HEAVEN. 10:20 WHERE DID SIN COME FROM? HOW DID THIS - THIS WHOLE 10:23 TERRIBLE EXPERIMENT WITH GOOD AND EVIL BEGIN? 10:26 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS THAT ONE 10:30 I JUST REFERENCED IN GENESIS 3:15 AND IF YOU HAVE YOUR 10:33 BIBLES, IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW ALONG AND SAY THIS OUT LOUD WITH 10:36 ME - GENESIS 3:15 - IT'S FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION - 10:40 READY? "AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN, AND 10:46 BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED; HE SHALL BRUISE YOUR HEAD, AND 10:51 YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL." IT'S TALKING ABOUT A BATTLE 10:55 BETWEEN THE SEED OF THE WOMAN AND THE SERPENT. 10:59 THERE'S THIS BATTLE ABOUT THE DRAGON MAKES WAR WITH THE WOMAN 11:03 - THE SERPENT - IT TALKS ABOUT IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12. 11:06 AND SO, SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY WENT WRONG. 11:09 GOD'S CREATION ORIGINALLY WAS A BLESSING. 11:12 EVERYTHING WAS GOOD, GOOD, VERY GOOD. 11:14 MATTER OF FACT, IN THE FIRST SECTION ON SUNDAY IT TALKS ABOUT 11:17 THREE BLESSINGS AND - HERE ARE THE THREE BLESSINGS THAT ARE 11:21 MENTIONED: FIRST BLESSING: HE BLESSED THE SEA CREATURES AND 11:24 THE BIRDS AND HE ENCOURAGED THEM TO BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY AND 11:28 FILL THE WATERS AND THE SEAS AND LET ALL THE BIRDS MULTIPLY ON 11:32 THE EARTH. SO THAT'S THE FIRST BLESSING. 11:33 THAT, BY THE WAY, IS GENESIS 1:22. 11:36 THE SECOND BLESSING IS WHEN GOD TELLS ADAM AND EVE AND THEY'RE 11:40 BLESSED AND HE BLESSES THEM WITH A SIMILAR ENCOURAGEMENT - BE 11:44 FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY AND FILL THE EARTH. 11:45 THEN YOU'VE GOT - THE THIRD BLESSING IS GIVEN AT THE 11:48 CREATION STORY WHEN GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY. 11:52 AND THAT'S THERE IN GENESIS CHAPTER 2, THE FIRST FEW VERSES. 11:56 SO THERE'S NO DEATH OR PAIN. IF YOU LOOK IN PSALM 84 - STILL 12:00 TALKING ABOUT THINGS BEING GOOD. PSALM 84:11, "FOR THE LORD GOD 12:05 IS A SUN AND SHIELD; THE LORD WILL GIVE GRACE AND GLORY; NO 12:09 GOOD THING WILL HE WITHHOLD FROM THOSE WHO WALK UPRIGHTLY." 12:15 SO WHEN THE LORD TELLS US HE DOESN'T WANT US TO DO SOMETHING, 12:18 IS THAT BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T WANT CHRISTIANS TO HAVE FUN? 12:21 IS THERE EVER ANYTHING GOOD THAT GOD WITHHOLDS? 12:27 SO WHEN PEOPLE LOOK DOWN AND THEY SEE ALL THE MISERY IN THE 12:30 WORLD TODAY, AND THERE'S A LOT OF PAIN AND WAR AND SUFFERING 12:32 AND DISEASE AND THINGS WE CAN'T EXPLAIN AND INNOCENT PEOPLE 12:36 SUFFERING AND CHILDREN BORN WITH DEBILITATING DISEASE AND PAIN 12:40 AND - AND YOU SAY, 'IF GOD IS GOOD, THEN WHY IS HE ALLOWING 12:46 ALL OF THIS?' GENESIS EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENS. 12:50 THESE ARE THE VERSES WE'RE CONSIDERING TODAY. 12:52 GOD MADE A PARADISE. DOES GOD WANT PEOPLE TO BE HAPPY? 12:58 >>YES. >>IF YOU EVER WANT TO KNOW WHAT 13:00 GOD'S PLAN IS FOR MAN, GO BACK TO GENESIS CHAPTER 1 AND 2. 13:05 CHAPTER 3, THINGS GO SOUTH, BUT UP UNTIL THEN GOD MADE 13:09 EVERYTHING GOOD. HE MADE MAN AND PUT MAN AND WOMAN IN A PARADISE. 13:14 GOD WANTS YOU TO HAVE A HAPPY LIFE. 13:16 HE WANTS YOU TO HAVE PLEASURES AT HIS RIGHT HAND FOREVERMORE - 13:18 PSALM 16 TELLS US - BUT SIN CAME IN. 13:23 IT SAYS, 'NO GOOD THING WILL HE WITHHOLD.' SO WHEN GOD WANTS YOU 13:26 TO TURN FROM SIN, IS HE WANTING YOU TO TURN FROM SOMETHING BAD 13:28 OR SOMETHING GOOD? SOMETHING BAD. 13:32 GOD'LL WITHHOLD HOW MANY GOOD THINGS? NO GOOD THING. 13:35 THE ONLY THING HE WITHHOLDS ARE BAD THINGS BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU 13:40 AND HE WANTS YOUR ETERNAL GOOD. SO WHEN GOD TRIES TO STEER 13:43 US AWAY FROM SOMETHING, IT'S BECAUSE HE KNOWS IT 13:45 WILL ULTIMATELY HURT. NO GOOD THING WILL HE WITHHOLD. 13:49 ALRIGHT, IF YOU LOOK IN MARK - JUST TIE OFF THIS THOUGHT ABOUT 13:53 GOODNESS OF GOD. MARK 10:17 - AFTER JESUS BLESSED 13:58 THE CHILDREN, HE'S GOING DOWN THE ROAD AND THIS RICH YOUNG 14:01 RULER GOES CHASING AFTER HIM. HE SAW SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT 14:04 JESUS AND, "NOW AS HE WAS GOING DOWN THE ROAD, ONE CAME RUNNING, 14:07 KNELT BEFORE HIM, AND ASKED HIM, 'GOOD TEACHER, WHAT SHALL I 14:12 DO THAT I MAY INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE?'" 14:15 AND SO, INSTEAD OF JESUS IMMEDIATELY ANSWERING HIS 14:18 INITIAL QUESTION, HE ADDRESSES HOW HE WAS ADDRESSED. 14:22 HE SAID, "'WHY DO YOU CALL ME GOOD? 14:24 NO ONE IS GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD.'" ONLY ONE IS SINLESS. 14:31 ONLY ONE IS PERFECTLY GOOD. NOW WAS JESUS DENYING HIS 14:35 GOODNESS OR WAS HE HELPING THE RULER UNDERSTAND HIS GODNESS? 14:40 HE WASN'T SAYING, 'I'M NOT GOOD.' HE WAS SAYING, 'THERE'S 14:44 REALLY ONLY ONE GOOD. YOU'RE CALLING ME GOOD. 14:46 ONLY GOD IS GOOD. MAYBE I'M GOD. I'M NOT JUST A TEACHER. 14:52 I'M NOT JUST A GOOD MASTER - A GOOD RABBI.' SO HE WANTED HIM TO 14:55 UNDERSTAND THAT. HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE ASKING ME 'WHAT 14:57 DO YOU HAVE FOR EVERLASTING LIFE?' YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW? 15:01 YOU'VE GOT TO PUT EVERYTHING ON THE LINE. 15:04 IF YOU WANT ETERNAL LIFE, GO SELL ALL THAT YOU HAVE' - HE WAS 15:07 IN LOVE WITH HIS RICHES - 'GO SELL ALL THAT YOU HAVE. 15:11 GIVE IT TO THE POOR. GIVE THE PROCEEDS TO THE POOR. 15:15 YOU'LL HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN. TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW 15:18 ME.' NOW, DOES JESUS ASK US TO GIVE UP SOMETHING WITHOUT 15:22 OFFERING US SOMETHING BETTER? HE SAID, 'GO SELL ALL THAT YOU 15:26 HAVE AND YOU WILL HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN. WHAT'S WORTH MORE? 15:29 THAT MAN AND HIS TREASURE - HIS BANK ACCOUNT - IS ALL GONE - 15:32 BEEN GONE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS - BUT WE DON'T KNOW IF HE EVER 15:36 STORED ANYTHING IN HEAVEN. THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD 15:39 LAST. IN THE RESURRECTION, THE ONLY THING THAT'S GOING TO 15:42 MATTER TO HIM IS WHAT DID YOU STORE IN HEAVEN. 15:45 ALRIGHT, SECOND SECTION: TEST AT THE TREE . 15:48 SO THEN EVERYTHING WAS GOOD AND - CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING IN A 15:53 GARDEN - NOT ONLY DOES IT TELL US ABOUT THE PARADISE, IT TALKS 15:56 ABOUT THE RIVER AND THE AIR AND - BUT GOD MADE SOME 16:02 DISTINCTIONS. HE MADE SOME SEPARATIONS. 16:05 HE SAID, FOR INSTANCE, YOU READ IN GENESIS 1:3, GOD SAID, 'LET 16:08 THERE BE LIGHT' AND THERE WAS LIGHT. 16:10 AND GOD SAW THE LIGHT AND IT WAS GOOD AND GOD DIVIDED THE LIGHT 16:13 FROM THE DARKNESS. NOW IS DARKNESS SOMETIMES 16:17 A SYMBOL OF EVIL? PAUL TALKS ABOUT 'YOU ARE 16:21 CHILDREN OF THE DAY, NOT CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.' 16:24 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SONS OF LIGHT, NOT SONS OF DARKNESS. 16:27 GOD MADE A SEPARATION BETWEEN THE LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS. 16:31 IT'S SYMBOLIC THAT THERE'S A SEPARATION BETWEEN GOOD AND 16:34 EVIL. AND GOD LATER MAKES A SEPARATION 16:36 BETWEEN THE WATERS ABOVE AND THE WATERS BELOW. 16:39 AND HE MAKES A SEPARATION BETWEEN THE DOMAIN OF THE FISH 16:42 AND THE DOMAIN OF THE BIRDS. AND THERE'S A BUNCH OF 16:44 SEPARATIONS THAT ARE MADE AND THEN, FINALLY, WHEN HE SAYS, 16:47 'LOOK, I ALSO MADE ONE OTHER SEPARATION' - SOMEONE'S GOING TO 16:50 READ FOR ME 2 CHRONICLES 32:31 IN A MINUTE. 16:54 OKAY ALBERTO, YOU'LL DO THAT. HE MADE THIS OTHER SEPARATION. 16:58 YOU READ ABOUT THIS IN GENESIS 2, VERSE 8. 17:01 "THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN EASTWARD IN EDEN, AND THERE HE 17:05 PUT THE MAN WHOM HE HAD FORMED. AND OUT OF THE GROUND THE LORD 17:09 GOD MADE EVERY TREE GROW THAT IS PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT 17:14 AND GOOD FOR FOOD. THE TREE OF LIFE WAS ALSO" - YOU 17:17 NOTICE IT DOESN'T SAY TREES - THERE WAS A PARTICULAR TREE. 17:21 AND YOU NEEDED TO EAT FROM THAT TREE PROBABLY ONCE EVERY TWO OR 17:24 THREE HUNDRED YEARS. ADAM LIVED 930 YEARS 17:27 BECAUSE HE DIDN'T EAT IT. HE FINALLY DRIED UP AND DIED. 17:30 AND EVERYBODY WISHES THEY COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS IN THAT TREE 17:33 THAT WE'RE MISSING BECAUSE THEY'D SELL IT AS A FOOD 17:36 SUPPLEMENT AND MAKE A LOT OF MONEY, RIGHT? 17:39 THEY DON'T KNOW WHY OUR CELLS - WHILE WE'RE YOUNG THEY REPAIR 17:41 THEMSELVES - AND SOMETHING STARTS TO DIE. 17:43 THEY'RE STARTING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS. 17:45 THAT'S WHY I THINK THE LORD'S COMING SOON. 17:48 AND THEY THINK, 'OH, IF WE COULD JUST PROLONG OUR MORTAL LIVES.' 17:56 CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THAT GARDEN LOOKED LIKE? 17:59 HAVE ANY OF YOU SEEN SOME BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN THE WORLD? 18:02 I'VE BEEN TO SOME COUNTRIES AND YOU GO LOOK AT ALL THE TULIPS 18:05 THEY PLANT THERE IN THE NETHERLANDS. 18:09 AND I'VE SEEN SOME GARDENS IN THE WORLD AND - YOU GO TO JAPAN 18:11 AND DIFFERENT PLACES - JUST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS. 18:13 THEY'VE GOT TRAILS. THERE'S USUALLY WATER IN SOME 18:16 OF THESE BEAUTIFUL GARDENS. THERE'S FLOWERS AND BEACHES - 18:19 THERE'S SOME INTERESTING ROCKS. THE JAPANESE SAY, 'IN ORDER TO 18:22 HAVE A GOOD GARDEN YOU NEED TO HAVE ROCK, YOU NEED TO HAVE 18:25 VEGETATION, YOU NEED TO HAVE WATER, AND - CAN YOU IMAGINE 18:29 THE GARDEN THAT GOD PLANTED? ALL THE EXOTIC FLOWERS - 18:34 FLOWERS, YOU KNOW, BIGGER THAN AN ELEPHANT'S EAR. 18:37 I DON'T KNOW WHY I PICKED THAT ANALOGY BUT JUST, YOU KNOW, BIG 18:41 FLOWERS AND VINES AND FRUIT - EVERY DIFFERENT KIND - 18:49 EVERYTHING WAS JUST - IT'S LIKE, YOU EVER ORGANIZE A FLOWER 18:52 ARRANGEMENT? YOU CUT THEM AND YOU TRY AND GET 18:54 THEM ALL SYMMETRICAL AND YOU TURN THE LITTLE FLOWERS IN THE 18:57 VASE SO THAT JUST, FROM ANY ANGLE IT'S BEAUTIFUL. 19:00 CAN YOU IMAGINE GOD DOING A GARDEN ARRANGEMENT? 19:03 WHAT THAT MUST HAVE LOOKED LIKE - WHAT IT MUST HAVE SMELLED LIKE 19:05 - THE CREATURES THAT HE STOCKED IT WITH. 19:08 THE LITTLE BEAUTIFUL BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES FLITTING FROM FLOWER 19:11 TO FLOWER AND THE MAJESTIC PERFECT FUR ON THE CREATURES AND 19:18 JUST - OH, ADAM AND EVE NEVER FORGOT THAT - GOD'S GARDEN. 19:23 BY THE WAY, YOU CAN GET TO SEE THAT SOMEDAY. 19:26 THERE ARE CONDITIONS FOR ADMITTANCE TO THAT GARDEN, BUT 19:30 THE TREE IS GOING TO BE IN THE MIDST. 19:32 IN NEW YORK CITY - THE MIDDLE OF NEW YORK CITY - IT'S UNIQUE - 19:36 THEY SET ASIDE A BIG AREA CALLED CENTRAL PARK. 19:39 AND IN THE NEW JERUSALEM, BASED ON WHAT WE READ, CENTRAL PARK IS 19:44 GOING TO BE THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND THE TREE OF LIFE IS GOING TO 19:48 BE THERE AGAIN. AND, OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF IT, 19:51 FLOWS THE RIVER OF GOD AND THE RIVER OF LIFE RUNS 19:54 UNDERNEATH THE TREE. EVIDENTLY, THE BRANCHES GROW 19:57 TOGETHER ABOVE IT AND THE ROOTS BELOW IT AND THE TREE - RIVER 20:00 SORT OF RUNS THROUGH IT. IT MUST HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL. 20:03 SO GOD MAKES THESE DIVISIONS - DIVIDES THE LIGHT - PLANTS A 20:07 GARDEN, AND THEN HE TESTS THEM. WHY DID HE TEST THEM? WHY MAKE 20:13 A TREE OF GOOD AND EVIL THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT FROM? 20:16 2 CHRONICLES - GO AHEAD, READ FOR US - 2 CHRONICLES 32:31. 20:21 >>"HOWEVER, REGARDING THE AMBASSADORS OF THE PRINCES OF 20:24 BABYLON, WHOM THEY SENT TO HIM TO INQUIRE ABOUT THE WONDER THAT 20:28 WAS DONE IN THE LAND, GOD WITHDREW FROM HIM, IN ORDER TO 20:32 TEST HIM, THAT HE MIGHT KNOW ALL THAT WAS IN HIS HEART." 20:36 >>SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE KING HEZEKIAH. 20:40 HE WAS SICK. HE PRAYED. 20:44 GOD HEALED HIM - SAID, 'I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ANOTHER 15 20:47 YEARS' - AND A WONDERFUL THING HAPPENED. 20:51 HE CREATED THIS ASTRONOMICAL WONDER WHERE THE SUN WENT - 20:54 DIDN'T JUST STOP, LIKE JOSHUA, IT WENT BACKWARDS. 20:57 EVERYTHING STOPPED AND WENT IN REVERSE. AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU 21:03 PRAY AND GOD MAKES THE SUN GOES BACKWARDS AND GOD HEALS YOU AND 21:06 YOU'RE BLESSED ON EVERY SIDE, EVEN THE GODLY CAN BE TEMPTED. 21:11 AND THE LORD WITHDREW FROM HEZEKIAH. HEZEKIAH THOUGHT, 'I'M 21:17 JUST GOOD - I'M INHERENTLY GOOD. I DON'T NEED GOD, I'M GOOD ON MY 21:19 OWN.' AND GOD WITHDREW FROM HIM TO SHOW HIM, 'NO, WITHOUT ME YOU 21:24 CAN DO NOTHING.' AND WHEN THE AMBASSADORS CAME LATER, HEZEKIAH 21:28 REVEALED HOW UTTERLY PROUD HE WAS. 21:31 THEY CAME TO FIND OUT ABOUT HIS GOD AND ALL HE COULD TALK ABOUT 21:33 WAS - HE SAYS, 'HERE'S MY TREASURE AND HERE'S MY CLOTHES, 21:35 AND HERE'S MY ARMORY, AND HERE'S MY FRAGRANCE, AND HERE'S - ME, 21:38 ME, ME, MY, MY, MY. AND HERE'S A GODLY KING. 21:42 IF HEZEKIAH DID THAT, YOU WONDER WHERE WE STAND. 21:45 GOD TESTED HIM. DID GOD TEST HIM SO GOD COULD FIND OUT WHAT 21:50 WAS IN HIM? OR DOES GOD KNOW EVERYTHING? DID GOD TEST HIM SO 21:54 HE COULD FIND OUT WHAT WAS IN HIM? SO GENESIS 2:15, "THEN THE 22:01 LORD GOD TOOK THAT MAN" - MEANING MAN AND WOMAN - "AND PUT 22:04 HIM IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN TO TEND AND KEEP IT." 22:06 - HE GAVE THEM A WORK TO DO - A WONDERFUL WORK - A DELIGHTFUL 22:09 WORK - "AND THE LORD GOD COMMANDED THE MAN, SAYING, 'OF 22:13 EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT;'" - I'VE GIVEN YOU 22:16 EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR YOUR ABUNDANT HAPPINESS. 22:18 BUT ONE RESTRICTION - "'BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF 22:22 GOOD AND EVIL YOU SHALL NOT EAT, FOR IN THAT DAY THAT YOU EAT OF 22:27 IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE.'" YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, WALK THROUGH A 22:33 GARDEN WITH YOUR 5-YEAR-OLD - 7-YEAR-OLD - AND YOU CAN SAY, 22:39 'YOU CAN PICK AND YOU CAN TOUCH EVERY FLOWER IN THIS GARDEN 22:43 EXCEPT ONE.' WHICH ONE WILL THEY GO TO? 22:48 THE ONE - IF YOU DRAW A LINE AND YOU SAY TO HIM, 'YOU CAN GO 22:52 ANYWHERE IN THIS ROOM JUST DON'T WALK ACROSS THAT LINE.' THEY'LL 22:54 GO RIGHT UP TO THE LINE, THEY'LL LOOK AT YOU, AND THEN THEY'LL 22:56 PUT THE FOOT OVER IT. AND EVE WAS SO CURIOUS 23:03 ABOUT 'WHY NOT THAT TREE? YOU'VE GOT ALL THESE OTHER TREES 23:07 YOU CAN EAT FROM AND SHE STARTS GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER AND 23:10 LOOKING AT IT - AND THE DEVIL SAW HIS OPPORTUNITY. 23:13 WHY DOES GOD TEST US? DEUTERONOMY 8:2, GOD SAID, "AND 23:18 YOU SHALL REMEMBER THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD LED YOU ALL THE WAY 23:21 THESE FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, TO HUMBLE YOU AND 23:25 TEST YOU, TO KNOW WHAT WAS IN YOUR HEART" - SO GOD WOULD KNOW 23:29 OR SO THEY COULD KNOW? I THINK IT'S MORE FOR THEM TO KNOW. 23:33 GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING - "WHETHER YOU WOULD KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS 23:37 OR NOT." - AND, OBVIOUSLY, THEY FAILED. 23:40 HE WANTED THEM TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND REALIZING THEIR 23:43 WEAKNESS - UTTERLY DEPENDING ON HIM. WELL, ADAM AND EVE HAD AN 23:48 OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE LOYALTY. 23:51 NOW, WHEN THE DEVIL REBELLED - WE TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK - 23:56 AND HE WENT THROUGH THE UNIVERSE - HE WAS KICKED OUT OF HEAVEN 23:59 BUT HE WASN'T CAST TO THE EARTH YET. 24:01 THE DEVIL COULD GO TO VARIOUS WORLDS AND HE WOULD TRY TO 24:05 RECRUIT LEADERS OF VARIOUS WORLDS TO BUY INTO HE AND THE 24:11 OTHER ANGELS. THE DEVIL HAD A THIRD OF THE 24:12 ANGELS THAT FOLLOWED HIM. BUT GOD DID NOT WANT THE DEVIL - 24:15 HE SAID, 'LOOK' - THE DEVIL WAS SAYING, 'IT'S NOT FAIR, YOU 24:18 KNOW, YOU'VE SHARED YOUR IDEA OF WHAT'S RIGHT. 24:20 I NEED TO BE ABLE TO SHARE MY IDEA. 24:21 GOD SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO LET YOU SHARE, BUT I'M NOT GOING 24:25 TO LET YOU HARASS THESE OTHER CREATURES ALL THE TIME ANYWHERE. 24:30 THERE'S ONE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN TALK TO THEM. 24:34 IF THEY WANT TO LISTEN TO YOU, THEY CAN. 24:35 IF THEY WANT TO WALK AWAY, THEY CAN. 24:37 AND YOU CAN TALK TO THEM AT THIS TREE.' AND THERE WAS PROBABLY 24:41 SOME SIMILAR TEST IN OTHER WORLDS AND ALL THE OTHER 24:43 UNFALLEN CREATURES, THEY WOULD NOT LISTEN TO LUCIFER. 24:47 RESIST THE DEVIL AND WHAT HAPPENS? 24:49 HE FLEES FROM YOU. SO HE LEFT THEM, BUT WHEN HE 24:51 CAME TO THIS PLANET - THIS NEW PLANET - THESE CREATURES MADE IN 24:54 GOD'S IMAGE - HE ESPECIALLY HATED THEM. YOU KNOW WHY? 24:57 ONE OF THE THINGS THE DEVIL WANTS ABOUT GOD IS THE DEVIL 25:02 CANNOT CREATE LIFE. THE DEVIL CAN MANIPULATE THE 25:07 LIFE GOD'S CREATED, BUT HE CAN'T CREATE LIFE AND THE DEVIL 25:10 WANTED THAT ABILITY. AND HE HEARD NOW GOD MAKES 25:12 CREATURES IN HIS OWN IMAGE THAT HAVE THIS ABILITY TO 25:14 PROCREATE IN THEIR OWN IMAGE. AND THAT REALLY BOTHERED 25:17 HIM THAT THEY COULD CREATE. AND HE GIVES THEM DOMINION OF 25:20 THE WORLD AND THE DEVIL WANTED DOMINION. 25:23 THE BIBLE SAID, 'WHOEVER YOU OBEY, THAT'S WHOSE SERVANTS YOU 25:25 ARE.' SOME PEOPLE THINK IF YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON GOD YOU'LL 25:28 HAVE FREEDOM. NO, YOU'RE FREE - JESUS SAID, 25:32 'YOU KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH MAKES YOU FREE.' YOU TURN 25:34 FROM GOD AND YOU BECOME A SLAVE. AND SO, HE MET EVE AT THE TREE. 25:42 WHY DON'T WE TURN - LET'S READ THAT RIGHT OUT OF OUR BIBLES - 25:44 GENESIS CHAPTER 3, 'THE SERPENT WAS MORE CUNNING, CRAFTY, SUBTLE 25:50 THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD MADE." 25:53 - SOME SERPENTS HAVE BEAUTIFUL COLORING. 25:56 THEY'RE VIVID. THEY'RE BRIGHT. THEY CAN MOVE IN HYPNOTIC WAYS. 26:02 SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT SERPENTS, THEY DO NOT HAVE EYELIDS - THEY 26:04 DO NOT BLINK - THEY'RE ALWAYS STARING. 26:07 YOU'VE NEVER HAD A SNAKE WINK AT YOU, RIGHT? 26:12 AND SO, FOR THIS AND OTHER REASONS, IT WAS JUST A - IT WAS 26:15 A MESMERIZING CREATURE - AND HERE IT IS COILED WITH ITS 26:22 BEAUTIFUL WINGS UP IN THE BRANCHES OF THIS TREE AND IT'S 26:27 EATING THE FRUIT. THE DEVIL MANIPULATED THE SERPENT. 26:33 CAN THE DEVIL MANIPULATE PIGS? CAN GOD SPEAK THROUGH A DONKEY? 26:38 AND SO GOOD AND EVIL INFLUENCES CAN AFFECT ANIMALS. 26:44 I THINK MORE CATS ARE DEMON-POSSESSED THAN DOGS. 26:49 THAT'S JUST A THEORY. I CAN'T PROVE IT. DON'T YOU AGREE? 26:55 WE'LL FIND OUT WHO THE CAT LOVERS ARE OUT THERE. 26:59 NO ONE EVER SAYS A DOG IS BAD LUCK. 27:03 DOG IS MAN'S FRIEND. ANYWAY, SO THE SERPENT, HE SAYS, 27:14 "HATH GOD INDEED SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY 27:18 TREE IN THE GARDEN'?" - NOW DID GOD SAY THAT? 27:20 WHAT IS THE FIRST QUESTION ASKED IN THE BIBLE? 27:23 WELL, THE FIRST QUESTION YOU HEAR IS THE DEVIL QUESTIONING 27:26 THE WORD OF GOD - THE DEVIL CASTING DOUBT ON THE TRUTH OF 27:31 GOD'S WORD. ALL THE SIN CAME INTO OUR WORLD 27:34 FROM THE DEVIL CASTING DOUBT ON THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD. 27:37 DO WE SEE, EVEN IN THE CHURCH TODAY, THAT THERE ARE SOME WHO 27:40 ARE CASTING DOUBT ON THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD? 27:43 OR THEY'RE TRYING TO MISCONSTRUE IT? 27:45 OR THEY'RE MISQUOTING IT? IT HAPPENS IN OUR INSTITUTIONS 27:49 OF LEARNING - 'WELL, THE BIBLE DOESN'T REALLY MEAN 27:52 THAT.' 'HATH GOD SAID?' AND LOOK AT ALL THE MISERY AND 27:56 THE SUFFERING IN THE WORLD TODAY FROM DOUBTING. 27:59 DOES GOD REALLY MEAN WHAT HE SAYS? 28:00 >>AMEN. >>AND SO HE BEGAN TO CAST DOUBT 28:04 ON IT - 'HAS GOD SAID 'YOU SHALL NOT EAT FROM EVERY TREE?' 28:07 THE DEVIL KNEW HE DIDN'T SAY THAT. 28:09 THERE WAS ONLY ONE TREE, BUT HE'S TRYING TO ENGAGE EVE AND 28:13 HIS GREETING IS SOMETHING LIKE, 'GREETINGS, HI THERE.' AND HE'S 28:18 - IT'S - HE PROBABLY - THERE'S MORE IN THE TEXT THAT WE DON'T 28:21 READ. HE MAY HAVE SAID, 'BOY, YOU ARE 28:22 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CREATURE I HAVE EVER SEEN.' HE STILL USES 28:26 THAT TODAY, IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW. 28:29 'WELL, I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE SO BEAUTIFUL.' AND SHE SAYS, 28:32 'WELL, YOU'RE NOT BAD LOOKING YOURSELF.' AND 'WOW, I HAD NO 28:35 IDEA THAT THERE WERE OTHER CREATURES IN THE GARDEN THAT 28:37 COULD TALK.' 'WELL, I COULDN'T TALK UNTIL I ATE THIS FRUIT.' 28:41 BUT I GUESS GOD TOLD YOU, YOU CAN'T EAT FROM ALL THE TREES IN 28:43 THE GARDEN.' 'OH NO, HE DIDN'T SAY THAT' - SHE GOES TO GOD'S 28:47 DEFENSE - 'HE JUST SAID WE'RE NOT TO EAT FROM THAT TREE. 28:50 WE'RE NOT EVEN TO TOUCH IT, LEST WE DIE.' NOW SHE ADDS SOMETHING 28:53 THAT GOD DIDN'T SPECIFICALLY SAY, BUT MAYBE HE HAD GIVEN THEM 28:56 FURTHER INSTRUCTION NOT TO TOUCH IT, EITHER. 28:58 YOU KNOW, IT'S A GOOD IDEA, IF YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT 29:01 SOMETHING, DON'T FONDLE IT OR YOU MAY END UP GETTING IN 29:06 TROUBLE. AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE HERE - I'M NOT 29:12 GOING TO MISS MY OPPORTUNITY. HOW FAR SHOULD YOU GO ON A DATE? 29:22 WELL, IF YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND TIME WITH SOMEBODY OF THE 29:25 OPPOSITE SEX AND YOU'RE NOT MARRIED, AND YOU WANT TO BE 29:29 CAREFUL HOW MUCH TOUCHING YOU DO, BECAUSE TOUCHING CAN LEAD TO 29:36 TAKING THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT. YOU CAN START FLIPPING SWITCHES 29:42 AND PUSHING BUTTONS THAT ACTIVATE MOTHER NATURE AND 29:44 PROCESSES ARE SET IN MOTION YOU CAN'T REVERSE. 29:48 DO I NEED TO SAY ANY MORE OR WAS THAT CLEAR? 29:49 (LAUGHTER) OKAY. HE SAID, 'DON'T EVEN TOUCH IT.' 29:57 IN THE BOOK PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS P. 53 30:01 IT SAYS THERE, "THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE HAD BEEN MADE A TEST 30:04 OF THEIR OBEDIENCE AND THEIR LOVE TO GOD. 30:07 THE LORD HAD SEEN FIT TO LAY UPON THEM BUT ONE PROHIBITION AS 30:11 TO THE USE OF ALL THAT WAS IN THE GARDEN; BUT IF THEY SHOULD 30:15 DISREGARD HIS WILL IN THIS PARTICULAR, THEY WOULD INCUR THE 30:18 GUILT OF TRANSGRESSION." - AND THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 30:21 THAT'S A VERY EXPENSIVE PIECE OF FRUIT. 30:24 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN I PREACH THE HEALTH MESSAGE PEOPLE 30:27 SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, YOU MAKE SUCH A BIG DEAL ABOUT WHAT YOU EAT 30:31 AND WHAT YOU DRINK. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU EAT 30:33 AND WHAT YOU DRINK.' AND I THINK, 'OH, IT DOESN'T MATTER? 30:37 ALL OF THE SIN IN THE WORLD TODAY IS THE RESULT OF PEOPLE 30:40 EATING SOMETHING THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO EAT.' 30:44 AND WILL WE BE TESTED IN THE LAST DAYS ON THIS FRONT? 30:47 IS THE DEVIL GOING TO GET IT WHERE PEOPLE CANNOT BUY OR SELL 30:50 UNLESS THEY GET THE MARK OF THE BEAST? 30:52 AND WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY'RE GOING TO FEEL THAT THE MOST? 30:56 PAYING FOR THEIR INTERNET SERVICE OR NOT BEING ABLE TO 30:59 EAT? ONE OF THE BASICS OF LIFE - AND SO, YEAH, THAT NEEDS TO BE 31:04 UNDER CONTROL. SO HE SAYS, 'HAS GOD SAID?' 31:10 NOW I'M GOING TO - I'M GOING TO HAVE SOMEONE READ PSALM 91:13. 31:14 OKAY, YOU'LL - WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MINUTE. 31:18 THE ANGELS - NOW THIS IS FROM THE BOOK CONFLICT AND COURAGE P. 31:23 15 - THE ANGELS HAD CAUTIONED EVE TO BEWARE OF SEPARATING 31:27 HERSELF FROM HER HUSBAND WHILE OCCUPIED IN THEIR DAILY LABOR IN 31:31 THE GARDEN;" - WHY WAS EVE - AND ADAM - CAUTIONED? 31:34 WAS THERE A REBEL IN THE UNIVERSE THAT WAS LOOKING TO 31:38 RECRUIT AND HE USED DECEPTION? AND THE ANGELS SAY - SAID, 'YOU 31:45 GUYS'LL BE STRONGER TOGETHER.' WHY DID JESUS SEND THE DISCIPLES 31:48 OUT WITNESSING TWO BY TWO? YOU'RE SAFER AGAINST TEMPTATION 31:54 IF YOU TRAVEL WITH SOMEBODY. YOU'RE MORE EFFECTIVE IN YOUR 31:59 WITNESSING WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. "...BEWARE OF SEPARATING HERSELF 32:04 FROM HER HUSBAND WHILE OCCUPIED IN THEIR DAILY LABOR IN THE 32:07 GARDEN; WITH HIM SHE WOULD BE IN LESS DANGER FROM TEMPTATION 32:10 THAN IF SHE WERE ALONE. BUT ABSORBED IN HER PLEASING 32:13 TASK, SHE UNCONSCIOUSLY WANDERED FROM HIS SIDE." 32:17 - IT WASN'T INTENTIONAL - "SHE SOON FOUND HERSELF GAZING WITH 32:20 MINGLED CURIOSITY AND ADMIRATION UPON THE FORBIDDEN TREE." 32:24 - NOW, ALL THE TREES IN THE GARDEN WERE BEAUTIFUL EXCEPT 32:27 THERE WAS ONE UGLY TREE? IS THAT WHAT IT SAYS? 32:31 IT LOOKED LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOME HALF-DEAD OAK IN A GRAVEYARD. 32:37 NO, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL TREE. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT. 32:42 AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE PICTURES, THEY ALWAYS MAKE THE FRUIT LOOK 32:46 LIKE AN APPLE OR A PEAR, BUT I'VE TRAVELED AROUND THE WORLD 32:50 AND I'VE SEEN SOME INCREDIBLY EXOTIC-LOOKING FRUIT. 32:53 THERE'S EVEN A FRUIT IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, THEY CALL IT 32:57 SNAKESKIN FRUIT - ANY OF YOU EVER EATEN SNAKESKIN FRUIT? 33:01 ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 33:02 YEAH, THE SKIN LOOKS JUST LIKE SCALES. 33:06 IT'S ACTUALLY VERY GOOD. STARFRUIT - THEY'VE GOT FRUIT 33:11 THAT GROWS ON TREES - LOOKS LIKE STRAWBERRIES. 33:15 AND THEY'VE GOT FRUITS THAT GOT ALL THE POINTS AND SHAPES AND 33:18 GEOMETRIC DESIGNS, AND PINEAPPLE, BUT THEY ALWAYS PUT 33:21 THE FRUIT ON THE TREE TO LOOK LIKE A PEAR. 33:25 IT'S REALLY BORING. OR THEY SAY IT WAS AN APPLE. 33:30 THE WORD 'APPLE' IS SORT OF A GENERIC WORD FOR FRUIT IN OLD 33:33 ENGLISH AND SO THEY CALLED THIS THE ADAM'S APPLE BECAUSE IT GOT 33:38 STUCK HALFWAY DOWN, I GUESS. BUT THE SERPENT - "THE FRUIT 33:46 WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL, AND SHE QUESTIONED WITH HERSELF WHY 33:49 GOD HAD WITHHELD IT FROM THEM." AND RIGHT WHEN SHE WAS THINKING 33:52 THAT THE TEMPTER TOOK HIS OPPORTUNITY. 33:54 AS IF HE WERE ABLE TO DISCERN THE WORKINGS OF HER MIND, HE 33:57 ADDRESSED HER: "YEA, HATH GOD SAID, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY 34:00 TREE?" SO THE DEVIL TOOK POSSESSION OF THE SERPENT AND 34:05 THE SERPENT, FROM THEN ON, HAS BECOME A SYMBOL OF WHAT? 34:08 THE DEVIL - SATAN - RIGHT? IN THE BIBLE. 34:11 GO AHEAD READ FOR US PSALM 91:13. 34:17 >>PSALM 91:13, "YOU SHALL TREAD UPON THE LION AND THE COBRA, THE 34:22 YOUNG LION AND THE SERPENT YOU SHALL TRAMPLE UNDERFOOT." 34:25 >>NOW WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS YOU'LL TRAMPLE THE YOUNG 34:28 LION AND THE SERPENT? IS THE LION ANOTHER SYMBOL? 34:32 'THE DEVIL GOES AROUND AS A ROARING - 34:34 >>LION. >>LION. 34:36 AND IF YOU READ HERE IN - OH, YOU READ IN ROMANS 16:20 - "AND 34:42 THE GOD OF PEACE WILL CRUSH SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET." 34:45 - IT SAYS YOU'LL TRAMPLE THE SERPENT - "AND THE GOD OF PEACE 34:47 WILL CRUSH SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY. 34:50 THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU." 34:53 JESUS SAID, IN JOHN 8:44, "YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL AND 34:57 THE DESIRES OF YOUR FATHER YOU WILL DO. 35:00 HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, AND DOES NOT STAND IN 35:02 THE TRUTH, BECAUSE THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. 35:04 WHEN HE SPEAKS A LIE, HE SPEAKS FROM HIS OWN RESOURCES, FOR HE 35:07 IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF IT." SO HE LIED. 35:10 HE DECEIVED EVE. SHE SAID, 'NO, WE'RE NOT TO EAT IT OR TOUCH IT 35:16 OR WE'LL DIE.' AND WHAT DID THE DEVIL SAY? 35:18 'YOU'RE NOT REALLY GOING TO DIE. GOD IS KEEPING SOMETHING FROM 35:22 YOU. HAVE YOU TALKED TO ANY OTHER 35:23 GODS? THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER GODS OUT 35:25 THERE AND THE WAY THEY BECAME GODS IS THEY ATE FROM THIS TREE. 35:28 GOD DOESN'T WANT TO SHARE HIS DIVINITY WITH YOU. 35:31 HE KNOWS IF YOU FIND OUT ABOUT THAT - YOU EAT FROM THIS TREE - 35:34 YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GOD TOO. YOU'LL HAVE THE SAME POWER AS 35:36 HIM. YOU WON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF 35:37 HIM KILLING YOU BECAUSE YOU'LL BE LIKE GOD YOURSELF.' 35:40 THE DEVIL SUPERIMPOSED, IN EVE, HIS OWN DESIRE. 35:46 WHAT DID THE DEVIL WANT? HE WANTED TO BE GOD. 35:49 AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S REALLY ONLY TWO WORSHIPS IN THE WORLD. 35:52 THERE'S A WORSHIP OF GOD AND THE WORSHIP OF YOURSELF. 35:56 ALL FALSE WORSHIP IS, AT ITS CORE, IF IT'S RIGHTEOUSNESS BY 36:01 WORKS, YOU'RE WORSHIPING YOURSELF BECAUSE OF THE WORK 36:04 YOU'VE DONE. IF YOU SAY, 'I DON'T BELIEVE IN ANY GOD.' 36:07 YES YOU DO. YOU ARE YOUR GOD. YOU'RE EITHER WORSHIPING GOD OR 36:12 YOU HAVE MADE YOURSELF YOUR GOD. THERE'S ONLY TWO GODS. 36:16 THE DEVIL WANTED TO BE GOD. HE IMPLANTED THAT DESIRE IN EVE. 36:19 YOU WILL BE AS GOD AND OTHERS WILL WORSHIP YOU.' IS WHAT 36:24 HOLLYWOOD TEACHES. 'GOD KNOWS, IN THE DAY YOU 36:28 EAT, YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED. HE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE. 36:31 YOU'LL BE LIKE GOD, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL. 36:34 AND EVIL - THERE'S WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT EVIL.' "SO WHEN THE 36:38 WOMAN SAW THAT THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD," - THE SERPENT WAS 36:41 EATING IT. HE LOOKED FINE. 36:44 SMELLED GREAT - "THAT IT WAS PLEASANT TO THE EYES, AND A TREE 36:47 DESIRABLE TO MAKE ONE WISE, SHE TOOK OF ITS FRUIT AND ATE." 36:52 NOW, THERE ARE THREE AREAS OF SIN: THE LUST OF THE FLESH, THE 36:58 LUST OF THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE. 37:00 THERE WERE THREE AREAS WHERE JESUS WAS TEMPTED: FOOD - TURN 37:06 THESE STONES INTO BREAD - SHOWED HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS. 37:09 IT WAS PLEASANT TO THE EYES. AND THEN THE PRIDE OF LIFE 37:12 - FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME. I'LL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING. 37:16 THOSE ARE THE SAME THREE AREAS WHERE ADAM AND EVE FELL. 37:20 SHE ATE IT AND THEN IT SAYS SHE GAVE TO HER HUSBAND WITH HER" - 37:23 NOW SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'SEE, ADAM WAS RIGHT THERE WITH HER WHEN 37:25 THE DEVIL WAS TALKING TO HER.' NO, IT MEANS HE WAS WITH HER IN 37:29 THE GARDEN. THERE WERE ONLY TWO PEOPLE IN 37:30 THE GARDEN AND HE WASN'T WITH HER AT HER SIDE 37:34 WHEN THIS HAPPENED. IT MEANS HE GAVE IT TO 37:36 HER TO EAT ALONG WITH HER. SHE ATE IT AND SHE GAVE IT TO 37:41 HER HUSBAND TO EAT IT ALONG WITH HER. 37:43 A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE MADE A BIG DEAL OF SAYING, 'SEE, ADAM WAS 37:45 STANDING RIGHT THERE THROUGH THIS WHOLE DISCOURSE.' NO, 37:47 THAT'S NOT TRUE - "THEN THE EYES OF BOTH OF THEM WERE OPENED," - 37:51 AT FIRST IT PROBABLY FELT EXHILARATING. 37:54 THERE MAY HAVE BEEN THE TEMPORARY PLEASURES OF SIN, AND 37:57 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE TASTE, AND THEY THOUGHT, 'YEAH, 37:59 WE'RE ENTERING INTO THIS NEW SPHERE. 38:01 SOMETHING'S CHANGING. I FEEL A CHANGE COMING OVER ME. 38:05 MATTER OF FACT, I FEEL A DRAFT. WOW, YOU'RE NAKED!' 38:10 'NO, YOU'RE NAKED TOO!' THEY HAD THESE ROBES OF LIGHT 38:13 THAT KEPT THEM WARM AND THEN - YEAH, THEY FELT THE DIFFERENCE. 38:18 THEIR LIGHT WENT OUT. THEY FELT SHAME. 38:22 AND DID IT MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER OR WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF 38:25 THAT? THIS IS UNDER THE SECTION THE FALL PART 2. 38:31 IMMEDIATELY, GOD GOES TO THEM. THEY HEARD THE VOICE. 38:34 THEIR EYES WERE OPENED - VERSE 7, "AND THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE 38:37 NAKED;" - YEAH, THEY HAD A NEW REVELATION. 38:41 THEY HAD - NOW, YOU MIGHT BE SAYING, 'PASTOR DOUG, HOW DO YOU 38:44 KNOW THEY HAD ROBES OF LIGHT BEFORE?' 38:47 WHEN MOSES TALKED TO GOD ON THE MOUNTAIN, WHAT DOES THE BIBLE 38:51 SAY HAPPENED TO HIS FACE? >>IT WAS SHINY. 38:54 >>IT WAS GLOWING - SO MUCH SO - HE WAS GLOWING SO BRIGHTLY THAT 38:59 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAID, 'CAN YOU PLEASE COVER YOUR FACE? 39:01 WE CAN'T EVEN LOOK AT YOU.' SO IF ADAM AND EVE TALKED TO GOD 39:05 ALL THE TIME, AND THEY TALKED TO ANGELS, THEY HAD THESE ROBES OF 39:09 LIGHT. AND THE ROBES OF LIGHT - THE WHITE ROBES THAT GOD GIVES 39:12 THE REDEEMED, THAT'S THE SAME LIGHT. SO - BUT WHEN THEY 39:16 SINNED, THE LIGHT WENT OUT. THEIR EYES WERE OPENED AND THEY 39:19 KNEW THEY WERE NAKED AND WHAT DID THEY DO? 39:21 THEY SEWED TOGETHER FIG LEAVES TO MAKE THEMSELVES COVERINGS. 39:24 NOW HOW WELL WOULD THAT LAST? HAD ANYTHING DIED BEFORE? 39:29 THEY DIDN'T REALIZE THE WITHER EFFECT. THEY HAD NEVER SEEN THE 39:32 WITHER EFFECT. AND IF THEY SEWED THESE FIG 39:36 LEAVES TOGETHER - THEY THOUGHT, 'OH, THIS'LL WORK GREAT.' BUT 39:38 YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IT SAYS? IT SAYS THEY MADE 39:41 APRONS FOR THEMSELVES. SO THEY WERE VERY SMALL. 39:48 THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO DO SOMETHING AS AN EMERGENCY. 39:51 "AND THEY HEARD THE SOUND OF THE LORD WALKING IN THE GARDEN IN 39:54 THE COOL OF THE DAY," - THEY HEARD HIS VOICE - "AND ADAM AND 40:00 HIS WIFE HID THEMSELVES FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD" - DID GOD 40:04 SEPARATE FROM MAN OR DID MAN SEPARATE FROM GOD? 40:08 THEY HID THEMSELVES FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD - "THEN THE 40:11 LORD GOD CALLED TO ADAM AND SAID TO HIM, 'WHERE ARE YOU?'" 40:12 - NOW, DID GOD KNOW WHERE THEY WERE? OF COURSE. 40:15 GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS. HE WAS WANTING ADAM TO 40:18 THINK, WHAT HAS THIS DONE? WHERE HAS THIS TAKEN YOU? 40:22 SOMETIMES WE DISOBEY GOD AND GOD SAYS, 'WHERE ARE YOU?' 40:25 'WHERE DID THIS TAKE - HE SAID, 'HOW DID I GET HERE?' 40:28 YOU'RE LIKE THE PRODIGAL SON IN A PIGPEN IN SOME FAR COUNTRY 40:31 STARVING TO DEATH CRAVING WHAT THE PIGS ARE EATING AND GOD 40:33 SAYS, 'WHERE ARE YOU?' 'OH, I WAS GOING TO RUN AWAY 40:36 FROM HOME AND I WAS GOING TO JUST - I GOT THIS INHERITANCE 40:38 AND I WAS GOING TO HAVE A GREAT TIME AND NOW I'M FRIENDLESS, 40:44 FOODLESS, IN A PIG PEN. GOD SAYS, 'WHERE ARE YOU?' 40:50 AND THEY WERE AFRAID. "I HEARD YOUR VOICE IN THE 40:52 GARDEN, AND I WAS AFRAID BECAUSE I WAS NAKED; AND I HID MYSELF.' 40:57 AND HE SAID, 'WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED? 40:59 HAVE YOU EATEN FROM THE TREE OF WHICH I COMMANDED YOU THAT YOU 41:02 SHOULD NOT EAT?'" WHERE DID ALL THE 41:04 PROBLEMS COME FROM? 'I COMMANDED YOU NOT TO DO 41:06 THIS.' THEY DISOBEYED THE COMMAND AND THINGS WENT BAD. 41:10 AND SO, ADAM - YOU KNOW, WHY DID ADAM EAT THE FRUIT? 41:14 WAS HE DECEIVED BY THE DEVIL? >>NO. 41:16 >>WHY DID HE EAT THE FRUIT? WAS HE DECEIVED BY EVE? 41:20 ADAM ATE THE FRUIT BECAUSE HE LOVED EVE. 41:22 HE COULDN'T BEAR THE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD LOSE HER AND SO HE 41:28 LOVED HER SO MUCH HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO SHARE HER FATE.' AND 41:31 NOW, AFTER HE'S EATEN THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT, HE THROWS HER 41:35 UNDER THE BUS. 'OH LORD, IT'S THAT WOMAN YOU MADE. 41:40 SHE MADE ME DO IT. IT'S YOUR FAULT, GOD. 41:46 I WAS OKAY AND THEN, AFTER NAMING THE ANIMALS, YOU THOUGHT 41:48 I HAD TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE. THE WOMAN, WHO YOU GAVE ME...' 41:56 SO WHAT DOES - ISN'T IT THE DEVIL WHO ALWAYS GETS US TO 41:59 BLAME GOD FOR ALL THE SIN IN THE WORLD? 42:02 YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ATHEISTS AND WHEN I TALK TO THEM 42:04 ABOUT GOD THEY SAY, 'IF THERE'S A GOD, LOOK AT WHAT HE DID TO 42:06 THE WORLD. ALL THIS MISERY, IT'S HIS 42:09 FAULT.' AND THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND GOD MADE 42:10 EVERYTHING GOOD. HE MADE EVERYTHING PERFECT. 42:14 'THE WOMAN YOU GAVE ME.' AND SO THEN GOD SAYS TO THE WOMAN, 42:18 'OKAY, HE SAYS IT'S YOUR FAULT. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY?' 42:21 I'M PARAPHRASING - 'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?' 42:25 AND THE WOMAN SAID, 'THE SERPENT! 42:26 HE GAVE IT TO ME. IT'S YOUR FAULT. 42:29 YOU MADE THE SERPENT.' ALL OF A SUDDEN, AFTER SIN, INSTEAD OF 42:33 HAVING ENLIGHTENMENT, THEY HAVE SHAME AND BLAME. 42:37 AND NOW, THE SERPENT, HE SUDDENLY CAN'T TALK ANYMORE AND 42:40 HE DOESN'T HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON. 42:43 GET IT? SERPENT GETS CURSED. AND THEN HE DECLARES THE CURSES. 42:52 NOW WE'RE DEALING WITH THE FINAL SECTION THAT TALKS ABOUT THE 42:54 CONSEQUENCES. "SO THE LORD GOD SAID TO THE 42:58 SERPENT:" - HE STARTS WITH THE SERPENT. 43:00 IT'S WHERE THEY ENDED - "BECAUSE YOU HAVE DONE THIS, YOU ARE 43:03 CURSED MORE THAN ALL CATTLE, AND MORE THAN EVERY BEAST OF THE 43:07 FIELD; ON YOUR BELLY YOU SHALL GO, AND YOU SHALL EAT DUST ALL 43:11 THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE." NOW THERE'S SOMETHING 43:14 INTERESTING ABOUT THE SERPENT. YOU CAN FIND SNAKES THAT STILL 43:19 GLIDE THROUGH THE AIR IN INDONESIA. 43:21 THEY FLATTEN THEIR RIBCAGE AND THEY GLIDE BETWEEN TREES. 43:25 YOU CAN FIND SNAKES THAT LIVE IN THE OCEAN - SEA SNAKES - I'VE 43:28 SEEN THEM THERE BEFORE. YOU CAN FIND SNAKES THAT LIVE 43:31 UP IN ALASKA AND DOWN IN THE TROPICS. 43:34 SNAKES ARE ON JUST ABOUT EVERY CONTINENT. 43:36 I DON'T THINK THEY'RE IN ANTARCTICA, BUT THEY'RE A 43:41 REMINDER OF THE CURSE WHEREVER YOU GO. 43:44 AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SINNED AND THEY DIDN'T WANT GOD'S BREAD - 43:51 YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY WERE GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS THEY GOT 43:52 TIRED OF GOD'S BREAD? A PLAGUE OF SERPENTS CAME. 43:57 WHEN THE DEVIL QUESTIONED THE WORD OF GOD, WHAT IS THAT BREAD 43:59 A SYMBOL OF? WHEN THE DEVIL QUESTIONED THE 44:02 WORD OF GOD WITH EVE, SHE GOT BIT BY THE SERPENT. 44:07 ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL GOT BIT BY A SERPENT. 44:09 WHAT DID MOSES TELL THEM TO DO? PUT A SERPENT UP ON A POLE AND 44:13 WHOEVER LOOKS IN FAITH - THAT SERPENT ON A POLE REPRESENTED 44:17 THE SERPENT WOULD BE DEFEATED. SHEPHERDS USED TO KILL SNAKES 44:19 AND THEY'D CARRY IT OFF ON THEIR STAFF BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT - 44:23 YOU KNOW, EVEN AFTER A SNAKE'S BIT THEY'RE STILL DANGEROUS. 44:25 YOU CAN STEP ON IT AND FANGS CAN HURT YOU AND OTHER ANIMALS CAN 44:29 EAT THEM AND GET SICK FROM DOING THAT, SO THEY CARRY THEM OFF AND 44:32 THEY BURY THEM. SO IF YOU WOULD LOOK AT THAT 44:36 SERPENT ON THE POLE, A SYMBOL OF WHAT? 44:39 CHRIST SAID, 'AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT, EVEN SO THE SON OF 44:42 MAN MUST BE LIFTED UP THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM MUST NOT 44:45 PERISH. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 44:47 THIS CORRELATION WAS MADE BETWEEN WHEN THE SERPENT WAS 44:49 LIFTED UP AND JESUS. YOU THINK THEY WOULD 44:51 BE AN ANTITHESIS. THE CROSS, INSTEAD OF BEING A 44:54 TREE OF GOOD AND EVIL, BECOMES A TREE OF LIFE. 44:57 BECAUSE, WHEN YOU SEE JESUS, THROUGH HIS DEATH, HE 44:59 NEUTRALIZED THE VENOM OF THE SERPENT. 45:02 JESUS, THROUGH HIS DEATH, SEALED THE DEFEAT OF THE SERPENT - 45:07 THE DEVIL. THAT'S WHY THE DEVIL WANTED TO 45:09 GET JESUS TO SIN ON THE CROSS - DO SOMETHING - 45:12 GET DISCOURAGED AND GIVE UP. AND SO, THEN YOU'VE GOT 45:16 THE CURSE THAT CAME. AND THEN ADAM AND EVE TRYING TO 45:20 COVER THEIR OWN NAKEDNESS WITH FIG LEAVES IS SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS 45:24 - MAN-MADE COVERING - GOD SAID THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. 45:28 YOU KNOW, JESUS CURSED THE FIG TREE ONCE, DIDN'T HE? 45:31 SYMBOL OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS BECAUSE IT HAD ITS LEAVES AND NO 45:34 FRUIT. AND GOD SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING TO 45:38 NEED SKINS.' AND SO HE GAVE THEM ROBES OF 45:41 SKIN. NOW, HE DIDN'T USE VINYL. 45:44 I'M PRETTY SURE HE DIDN'T USE NAUGAHYDE OR MAN-MADE MATERIALS. 45:49 YOU KNOW, WHEN I GO BUY SHOES, IT'S SO HARD TO FIND GOOD 45:52 LEATHER SHOES ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO MANY GOOD 45:54 COUNTERFEIT LEATHERS. I CALL THEM COUNTERFEIT. 45:58 GOD DIDN'T USE COUNTERFEIT. HE GAVE THEM SKIN. 46:01 IN ORDER TO GET SKIN, WHAT DOES THAT USUALLY MEAN? 46:04 SOMETHING HAS TO DIE. THIS IS THE INTRODUCTION 46:07 OF THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM. DON'T MISS THIS POINT: TO COVER 46:10 THEIR NAKEDNESS, A LAMB HAD TO DIE. 46:15 TO COVER OUR NAKEDNESS, GOD'S SON NEEDED TO DIE. 46:20 AND IT ALSO SAYS THEY MADE APRONS OUT OF FIG LEAVES. 46:24 GOD GAVE THEM TUNICS - ROBES - OF SKIN. NOT ONLY DID THEY HAVE 46:28 THE WRONG MATERIAL, THEY DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH MATERIAL. 46:31 WHAT GOD GAVE THEM WAS MORE MODEST AS WELL. 46:34 AND THEN THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN - HE GOES ON, HE TALKED ABOUT 46:38 THE SERPENT - "AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND THE 46:41 WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED; HE SHALL BRUISE YOUR 46:45 HEAD," - THE SEED OF THE SERPENT WILL BRUISE THE HEAD - THE SEED 46:49 OF THE WOMAN, I'M SORRY, WOULD BRUISE THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT - 46:51 "AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL." 46:53 THERE WOULD BE A CONSTANT ENMITY - BATTLE - GOING ON BETWEEN 46:56 CHRIST AND THE DEVIL. "TO THE WOMAN HE SAID: 'I WILL 46:59 GREATLY MULTIPLY YOUR SORROW AND YOUR CONCEPTION;" - SOME HAVE 47:05 WONDERED WAS THIS AN ALLUSION TO MORNING SICKNESS. 47:08 EVEN IN CONCEPTION THERE WAS SORROW. 47:11 AND, OBVIOUSLY, I DON'T THINK THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE 47:16 KIND OF PAIN IN LABOR THAT WOMEN EXPERIENCE NOW WHEN THEY GIVE 47:19 BIRTH. I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT 47:21 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE. IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT SHE 47:23 WOULD JUST ELBOW ADAM IN THE MORNING AND SAY, 'YOU'RE NEVER 47:26 GOING TO BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT.' (LAUGHS) 47:28 'LOOK, A BABY!' BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE PROBABLY 47:33 SEEN - THERE'S SOME ANIMALS THAT SEEM TO GIVE BIRTH THAT IT 47:35 DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S SO LABORIOUS. 47:38 BUT WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT? >>CHURCH. 47:42 >>'IN SORROW YOU'LL BRING FORTH.' FOR A CHURCH TO GROW, 47:46 DOESN'T IT REQUIRE LABOR? 47:49 AND SOMETIMES IT'S HEARTBREAKING AND THERE'S PAIN. 47:52 PEOPLE COME SO CLOSE TO ACCEPTING JESUS AND THEN THEY 47:55 WALK AWAY AND IT BREAKS YOUR HEART. 47:57 AND DOING MISSION WORK, IS THERE SOMETIMES PERSECUTION WHEN 48:00 YOU'RE OUT WORKING FOR THE LORD - LABORING FOR THE LORD - 48:02 BRINGING FORTH - "I WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY YOUR SORROW AND YOUR 48:08 CONCEPTION; IN PAIN YOU SHALL BRING FORTH CHILDREN; YOUR 48:11 DESIRE SHALL BE FOR YOUR HUSBAND, AND HE SHALL RULE OVER 48:14 YOU.' THEN TO ADAM HE SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU HAVE HEEDED THE 48:17 VOICE OF YOUR WIFE, AND HAVE EATEN FROM THE TREE OF WHICH I 48:20 COMMANDED YOU, SAYING, 'YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF IT: CURSED IS 48:23 THE GROUND FOR YOUR SAKE; IN TOIL YOU SHALL EAT OF IT ALL THE 48:27 DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. BOTH THORNS AND THISTLES IT 48:30 SHALL BRING FORTH FOR YOU, AND YOU SHALL EAT THE HERB OF THE 48:33 FIELD.'" - VEGETABLES WERE ADDED TO THE DIET - "'IN THE SWEAT OF 48:36 YOUR FACE YOU SHALL EAT BREAD TILL YOU RETURN TO THE GROUND, 48:40 FOR OUT OF IT YOU WERE TAKEN; FOR DUST YOU ARE, AND TO DUST 48:43 YOU SHALL RETURN.'" HE GAVE THEM THE SKINS AND THEN HE DROVE 48:47 THEM FROM THE GARDEN, AND THEY EXPERIENCED THE CURSE. 48:52 SO THIS IS THE STORY OF THE TRANSITION. 48:55 THE DEVIL NOW SAID, 'SINCE THEY'VE RECOGNIZED ME, I AM THE 48:58 PRINCE OF THIS WORLD.' AND RIGHT AWAY AND IN OUR NEXT STUDY, 49:02 YOU'LL BEGIN TO SEE THAT TWO CLASSES OF PEOPLE BEGIN TO 49:04 DEVELOP. AND THIS STUDY IS GOING TO TAKE 49:06 US ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE REBELLION RESTORED AT THE END. 49:10 BUT WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME FOR TODAY. 49:11 I DO WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER: IT'S THAT 49:14 BOOK ABOUT THE PLAN OF SALVATION CALLED THE SAVIOR AND THE 49:16 SERPENT AND I KNOW PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT SERPENTS, 49:19 BUT YOU'LL FIND IT ENCOURAGING - SOME AMAZING FACTS 49:21 IN THERE AS WELL. IT'S OFFER #798 OR YOU CAN GET IT BY CALLING 49:25 866-788-3966. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, FRIENDS, GOD WILLING WE'LL 49:32 STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC) 49:48 >>HI FRIENDS, THIS IS PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 49:50 WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR AN AMAZING FACT? 49:53 MORE AND MORE OF THE WORLD IS TURNING, NOW, TO NATURAL FORMS 49:56 OF ENERGY TO TRY AND FIND THEIR POWER AND THEY'RE RESORTING TO 49:59 THINGS LIKE THE WIND FARM THAT WE HAVE HERE IN JAMAICA AT 50:01 WIGTON. YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER YEARS AGO, 50:04 MY WIFE AND I GOING TO VISIT THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII AND WE WERE 50:07 AMAZED AT ALL THE POTENTIAL THERE FOR NATURAL POWER, 50:10 BUT THEY WEREN'T USING IT. THERE AT THE SOUTH PART OF 50:13 THE ISLAND THERE WAS VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. 50:16 YOU CAN MAKE GEOTHERMAL POWER THERE. 50:19 IF YOU WENT TO WAIMEA, THE WIND WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING, BUT THEY 50:22 HAD NO WINDMILLS THERE. IF YOU WENT OVER TO KONA, SUN 50:25 ALWAYS SHINES - SOLAR ELECTRIC - BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY MUCH 50:29 SOLAR ELECTRIC THERE. AND IF YOU WENT TO HILO, IT WAS 50:32 ALWAYS RAINING - HYDROELECTRIC. AND IN SPITE OF ALL THAT 50:36 POTENTIAL FOR POWER THERE ON THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII, THEY WERE 50:39 POWERING THE ISLAND BACK THEN WITH DIRTY DIESEL GENERATORS. 50:43 IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW WE SOMETIMES WASTE THE POWER OF 50:45 GOD'S SPIRIT THAT HE'S MAKING AVAILABLE TO US. 50:48 AND EACH OF US CAN HAVE THAT SPIRIT IF WE SIMPLY ASK. 50:51 YOU CAN READ IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 10 - WHAT DO WE DO? 50:54 'ASK OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN AND HE 50:57 WILL SEND FLASHING CLOUDS.' JESUS ALSO SAID, IN THE BOOK OF 51:01 LUKE, 'IF YOU THEN BEING EVIL KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO 51:05 YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE 51:08 THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK?' 51:11 WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS 51:14 POURED OUT, IT SAYS THERE WAS A SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND. 51:18 AND THAT POWER THAT LAUNCHED THE CHURCH BACK THEN CAN STILL POWER 51:21 YOUR LIFE TODAY, FRIENDS. SO WHY DON'T YOU ASK HIM? 51:24 (MUSIC) >>FRIENDS, IF YOU ENJOYED WHAT 51:41 YOU'VE JUST SEEN, WE'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE 51:45 AMAZING FACTS CHANNEL. >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH 51:51 AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 51:54 NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT 51:57 THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 52:02 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS 52:07 WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 52:12 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 52:15 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. >>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES. 52:31 >>I'M TLINGIT INDIAN FROM SITKA, ALASKA. 52:34 MY TLINGIT NAME IS WISH DUSTY CLOUD. 52:39 IT WAS A VERY DEPRESSING TIME FOR THE PEOPLE OF ALASKA. 52:42 A LOT OF ALCOHOL ABUSE WAS TAKING PLACE AND, UNFORTUNATELY, 52:49 MY MOTHER GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE ALCOHOL. IT MADE MYSELF AND MY 52:57 SIBLINGS GROW UP IN A PRETTY HORRIBLE ENVIRONMENT. 53:06 IT WAS REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND GOD. 53:10 IT WAS REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT LOVE WAS. 53:14 I ENDED UP HAVING A CHILD IN MY TWELFTH GRADE AND LEAVING HOME 53:24 WHEN I WAS FIFTEEN YEARS OLD, BUT SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, WE MADE IT 53:29 AND I BECAME A LONER. I BECAME A HERMIT. 53:32 SO I WENT UP TO THE BIGGEST MARIJUANA COUNTY TO HUMBOLDT 53:37 COUNTY AND STARTED MY NEW CAREER. 53:42 THINGS WEREN'T RIGHT THOUGH. NO MATTER HOW NICE I KEPT 53:46 THINKING LIFE WAS LIVING UP ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, NOT HAVING 53:50 TO WORRY ABOUT WEARING CLOTHING, JUST WAKING UP AND WATCHING THE 53:56 PLANTS GROW - SEARCHING, STILL, FOR MORE AND MORE. 54:01 I WENT TO THE POST OFFICE AND I WAS STANDING THERE BY MYSELF. 54:07 I LOOKED DOWN AND HERE WAS THIS WHAT IS CALLED A HANDBILL - A 54:12 POSTCARD - AND THE LETTERS ON IT GRABBED MY ATTENTION AND IT 54:17 SAID, 'REVELATION' - I'D NEVER HEARD REVELATION TAUGHT BEFORE 54:23 AND I THOUGHT, 'GOSH, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOD.' I LOOKED AT 54:26 THE TIME AND THE DATE AND I SAID, 'WOW, THAT'S TODAY.' AND 54:33 FOR SIX WEEKS I SAT THERE IN THE FRONT SEAT OF THAT BUILDING AND 54:42 COULD NOT BELIEVE THE THINGS THAT I HEARD AND I FOUND THIS 54:49 HUNGER THAT I HAD IN MY HEART FOR DECADES BEING FILLED. 54:53 I WAS ACTUALLY LIKE A STARVING CHILD, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO GET 54:57 IN TO LEARN MORE ABOUT REVELATION. 55:00 AND I CHOSE TO BE BAPTIZED ON APRIL 3RD. 55:06 EVEN THOUGH I CHOSE TO SERVE GOD, I KEPT FALLING. 55:11 I WAS GOING TO BIBLE STUDIES ALL - FOUR TIMES A WEEK AND JUST SO 55:17 HUNGRY TO LEARN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. GOD JUST OVERNIGHT HAD 55:25 ME STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD THROUGH AFCOE AND THE MIRACLES 55:29 THAT HAPPENED THROUGH AFCOE IS SO INCREDIBLE. 55:33 THE ONLY PREACHER I WAS LISTENING TO WAS PASTOR DOUG 55:36 BATCHELOR, WHO I DIDN'T EVEN CALL BY HIS NAME. 55:40 I CALLED HIM 'THE CAVEMAN' AND THEN HERE, ALL OF A SUDDEN, I'M 55:44 SITTING IN FRONT OF HIM IN HIS CLASSROOM, LEARNING FROM HIM. 55:52 ON OCTOBER 11, I SAT THERE, THOUGH, IN MY ROOM SAYING, 55:57 'LORD, HERE I AM STUDYING YOUR WORD, BUT WHAT - WHAT AM I DOING 56:04 HERE? WHAT DO I NEED TO DO? WHAT IS IT YOU WANT ME TO DO?' 56:09 AND THAT NIGHT, ABOUT ONE IN THE MORNING, GOD SPOKE TO ME AND HE 56:13 SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO WRITE A NOTE TO PASTOR DOUG AND TELL HIM 56:17 WHAT YOU DO.' I SAT THERE AND I SAID, 'NO, I'M NOT GOING TO 56:20 WRITE A NOTE. I'M NOT GOING TO WRITE A NOTE.' 56:21 AND I SAID, 'OKAY.' SO I RIPPED OFF A PIECE OF PAPER AND I WROTE 56:26 ON THE NOTE AND I SAID, 'I'M AN EXPERIENCED FASHION DESIGNER. 56:30 I CAN SEW ANYTHING. I CAN MAKE ANY PATTERNS. 56:33 IF THERE'S ANY WAY THAT I CAN BE OF ANY SERVICE TO YOU, GOD TOLD 56:38 ME TO BE BOLD AND TELL YOU.' AND I WALKED UP AND I HANDED HIM THE 56:42 NOTE AND HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, BUT HE SAID, 'THANK YOU.' 56:45 AND FOUR HOURS LATER I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM AMAZING FACTS. 56:49 PASTOR DOUG TOLD ME THAT I WAS AN ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYERS. 56:53 THEY HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR A WARDROBE STYLIST FOR THEIR NEW 56:57 FILM THAT THEY'RE PRODUCING. >>ACTION! TWO! THREE! 57:04 >>AMAZING FACTS HAS CHANGED MY LIFE IN THE DIRECTION THAT GOD 57:08 WANTS ME TO GO. AND NOW, OUT OF ALL THE 57:12 KNOWLEDGE THAT WAS TAUGHT TO ME, I'M ABLE TO GO OUT INTO THIS 57:17 WORLD AND SHARE THE GOSPEL AND FINISH THE WORK 57:22 FOR JESUS CHRIST. >>FRIENDS, IT'S BECAUSE OF GOD'S 57:27 BLESSING AND YOUR SUPPORT THAT THOUSANDS OF OTHERS, LIKE NITA, 57:31 HAVE FOUND JESUS AND EVERLASTING LIFE. (MUSIC) 57:44 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE 57:47 EARTH. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS 57:50 WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. 57:53 NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. 57:57 WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 58:01 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 58:04 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 58:07 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. 58:15 (MUSIC) |
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