(MUSIC)
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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE ARE COMING TO YOU FROM
THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH
LOCATED IN ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA.
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WE'RE GOING TO DO WHAT WE
ALWAYS DO AND THAT IS SING YOUR
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FAVORITE SONGS AND OUR FIRST
ONE, IF YOU'LL PULL OUT YOUR
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HYMNALS, THOSE OF YOU HERE AND
AT HOME, AND JOIN WITH US - #73
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- HOLY, HOLY,
HOLY - BEAUTIFUL SONG.
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WE WILL DO ALL
FOUR STANZAS - #73.
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>>HOLY, HOLY,
HOLY! LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!
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EARLY IN THE MORNING
OUR SONG SHALL RISE TO THEE;
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HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, MERCIFUL AND
MIGHTY! GOD IN THREE PERSONS,
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BLESSED TRINITY. HOLY, HOLY,
HOLY! ANGELS ADORE THEE, CASTING
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DOWN THEIR BRIGHT CROWNS AROUND
THE GLASSY SEA THOUSANDS AND TEN
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THOUSANDS WORSHIP LOW BEFORE
THEE, WHICH WERT, AND ART,
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AND EVERMORE SHALT
BE. HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!
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THOUGH THE DARKNESS HIDE THEE,
THOUGH THE EYE OF MAN THY GLORY
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MAY NOT SEE; ONLY THOU ART
HOLY; THERE IS NONE BESIDE THEE,
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PERFECT IN POWER,
IN LOVE, AND PURITY.
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HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!
LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!
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ALL THY WORKS SHALL PRAISE
THY NAME, IN EARTH, AND SKY, AND
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SEA; HOLY, HOLY,
HOLY! MERCIFUL AND MIGHTY!
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GOD IN THREE
PERSONS, BLESSED TRINITY!
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>>I LOVE THAT SONG. IT
REMINDS OF ONE TIME I WAS ON
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A MISSION TRIP IN PERU WITH
- ON OUR TEAM THERE WERE LIKE
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THIRTY-FIVE TEENAGERS -
WONDERFUL GROUP OF PEOPLE - AND
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WE WERE SINGING IN A ECHO-Y
HALLWAY IN THIS OLD SCHOOLHOUSE
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AND WE WERE SINGING THIS AND WE
HAD NO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND
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YOU COULD HEAR THE
HARMONY. IT WAS JUST GORGEOUS.
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THIS SONG IS JUST - I LOVE
IT. IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES.
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TURN WITH US NOW TO OUR NEXT
SONG - #83 - O WORSHIP THE KING
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- WE'LL DO THE FIRST,
SECOND AND FOURTH STANZAS - #83.
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(MUSIC) >>O
WORSHIP THE KING, ALL
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GLORIOUS ABOVE, O GRATEFULLY
SING HIS WONDERFUL LOVE;
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OUR SHIELD AND DEFENDER,
THE ANCIENT OF DAYS, PAVILIONED
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IN SPLENDOR, AND
GIRDED WITH PRAISE.
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O TELL OF HIS MIGHT, O SING
OF HIS GRACE, WHOSE ROBE IS THE
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LIGHT, WHOSE CANOPY SPACE,
HIS CHARIOTS OF WRATH THE DEEP
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THUNDERCLOUDS FORM, AND DARK
IS HIS PATH ON THE WINGS OF THE
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STORM. FRAIL
CHILDREN OF DUST, AND
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FEEBLE AS FRAIL, IN THEE DO
WE TRUST, NOR FIND THEE TO FAIL;
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THY MERCIES HOW
TENDER, HOW FIRM TO THE END!
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OUR MAKER, DEFENDER,
REDEEMER, AND FRIEND.
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>>BEFORE WE HAVE OUR LESSON
STUDY, I WOULD INVITE YOU TO
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JOIN ME IN PRAYER.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE COME BEFORE
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YOU AND WE DO WORSHIP
AND WE PRAISE YOU TODAY.
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BE WITH US AS WE JOIN
TOGETHER AND WE STUDY YOUR WORD.
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BE WITH OUR EXTENDED FAMILY
AROUND THE WORLD - WE'RE SO GLAD
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FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LOVING US
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- FOR DYING FOR US AND GIVING
US THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR
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SENIOR PASTOR,
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU, DEBBIE AND OUR
MUSICIANS - AND IT'S FUN HEARING
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THOSE INSTRUMENTS TOGETHER.
IS THAT A - IS THAT A MANDOLIN?
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IT IS. I KNOW I GET THAT
CONFUSED SOMETIMES WITH A
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BANDURIA OR SIMILAR.
GOOD TO SEE EACH OF YOU HERE.
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I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE
WATCHING ON TELEVISION RIGHT NOW
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OR VIA THE INTERNET - OUR
EXTENDED CLASS - AND ALSO, WE
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HAVE SOME OF OUR
GRANITE BAY MEMBERS.
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THERE ARE PEOPLE SCATTERED
AROUND THE PLANET THAT, AT
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LEAST, UNDERSTAND ENGLISH AND
THEY DON'T HAVE A LOCAL CHURCH
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THEY CAN ATTEND. AND WE
HAVE ADOPTED MANY OF THEM
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INTO OUR CHURCH FAMILY
HERE - TRY AND KEEP IN TOUCH.
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IF YOU'RE IN THAT CATEGORY AND
YOU'D LIKE TO BE CONNECTED, YOU
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CAN SIMPLY GO TO
GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG AND YOU CAN
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FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BEING
PART OF THE FAMILY AND WHAT'S
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INVOLVED IN THAT. WE'D
LIKE TO GET YOU CONNECTED.
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WE'RE CONTINUING OUR STUDY TODAY
IN OUR QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
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REBELLION AND REDEMPTION .
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TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE ON
LESSON #6, BUT BEFORE WE GET TO
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THAT WE ALWAYS HAVE A FREE OFFER
AND THE FREE OFFER TODAY IS DOWN
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YOU'D LIKE THIS,
IT'S 866-788-3966 - THAT'S
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YOU COULD ALSO GO TO
AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND I THINK YOU
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CAN READ THIS ON
THE INTERNET AS WELL.
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WELL, OUR LESSON TODAY IS
DEALING WITH A LARGE SEGMENT OF
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SACRED SCRIPTURE TALKING ABOUT
THE GREAT TEMPTATION OF JESUS.
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NOW IT LEADS INTO THAT AND
IT'S LESSON #6 TALKING ABOUT
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VICTORY IN THE WILDERNESS .
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THIS IS SOMETHING I THINK WE'LL
ALL FIND VERY APPLICABLE TO OUR
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LIVES BECAUSE ANYONE OUT
HERE STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION?
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DAILY - AND SO THIS IS
GOING TO BE VERY RELEVANT.
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WELL, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
REBELLION - THE BATTLE BETWEEN
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GOOD AND EVIL - AND
WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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NOW THE MEMORY VERSE IS LUKE 19,
VERSE 10 - IT'S A GOOD ONE TO
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REMEMBER TOO - LUKE 19:10 - I
ENCOURAGE OUR LOCAL CLASS HERE
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TO SAY IT OUT LOUD
WITH ME. ARE YOU READY?
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AND IT'S FROM THE NEW KING JAMES
VERSION - LUKE 19:10 - HERE WE
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GO: "FOR THE SON OF MAN HAS COME
TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH
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WAS LOST." JESUS
CAME INTO OUR WORLD TO
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BE WITH US, TO HAVE A PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH US, AND THIS
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WAS FORETOLD - THAT GOD WOULD
BECOME A MAN - FOR MANY YEARS.
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IT WAS A PROMISE MADE TO ADAM,
REPEATED THROUGH THE PATRIARCHS
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ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.
IT WAS THE DESIRE OF NATIONS
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AMONG THE ISRAELITES THAT
THE MESSIAH - THE SAVIOR - WOULD
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COME - THE ANOINTED ONE
WOULD COME AND REDEEM MAN.
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NOW THEY HAD MANY
MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT HOW HE
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WOULD COME. NOW, YOU
KNOW, NATIONALISTICALLY
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THEY ALWAYS THOUGHT JESUS THE
MESSIAH WAS GOING TO COME AND,
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LIKE DAVID, YOU KNOW, FIGHT
THEIR BATTLES AND RELIEVE THEM
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FROM THE OPPRESSION OF THE
SURROUNDING NATIONS AND MAKE
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THEM A WORLD KINGDOM LIKE IT WAS
BACK IN THE DAYS OF SOLOMON AND
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THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THAT TIME
WHERE, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING WAS
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MADE OF GOLD AND SILVER - DURING
THE TIME OF SOLOMON - AND THEY
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HAD PEACE ON EVERY SIDE AND -
AND THEY COULD GO ON WITH THEIR
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LIVES, BUT THE LORD WAS REALLY
TALKING ABOUT DELIVERING THEM
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FROM THE OPPRESSION
AND THE BURDEN OF SIN.
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NOW, THE FIRST PLAN OF THE DEVIL
- AND THE DEVIL, YOU KNOW, HIS
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UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE
MESSIAH WAS GOING TO SAVE PEOPLE
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HAS EVOLVED AND, AS THE LORD
SPOKE TO ABRAHAM AND ADAM AND
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THE DIFFERENT ONES,
SATAN WAS LISTENING.
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HE HAS BEEN
EAVESDROPPING ALL ALONG THE WAY.
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AND SO EVEN THE DEVIL'S
UNDERSTANDING HAS BEEN GROWING
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ABOUT WHAT THE
MESSIAH'S MISSION WAS.
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THE ONE THING HE KNEW IS THAT
JESUS WAS GOING TO COME INTO THE
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EARTH AND BECOME A
MAN TO SAVE HUMANITY.
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SATAN, IN ANTICIPATION OF THAT,
HE WANTED TO PREVENT IT FROM
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HAPPENING. WHY DO
YOU THINK THE DEVIL
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INSPIRED THE PHARAOH TO
KILL ALL THE BABY BOYS IN EGYPT?
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WELL, BECAUSE THE DEVIL KNEW
THAT A PROMISE HAD BEEN MADE
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THAT THEY WOULD SOMEHOW
BE DELIVERED FROM EGYPT AND A
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SAVIOR WAS COMING. WELL,
IT TURNED OUT BEING MOSES,
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WHO WASN'T THE MESSIAH, MOSES
WAS A TYPE OF THE MESSIAH, AND
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SO HE TRIED TO PREVENT IT BY
HAVING ALL OF THE SEED OF ISRAEL
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- THE MALE BABIES -
THROWN TO THE CROCODILES.
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AND THEN YOU COULD SEE IT
HAPPENING AGAIN IN THE DAYS OF
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ATHALIAH, WHEN SHE TRIED TO
EXTERMINATE - THEY KNEW THERE
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WAS A SON OF DAVID THAT WAS
GOING TO COME AND SAVE GOD'S
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PEOPLE AND SO ATHALIAH TRIED TO
KILL ALL THE ROYAL SEED, BUT ONE
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ESCAPED AND THE
SEED OF DAVID CONTINUED.
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AND THEN, WHEN JESUS FINALLY DID
COME, THE DEVIL INSPIRED HEROD
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TO SEND THE ROMAN ARMIES
INTO BETHLEHEM TO DO WHAT?
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TO EXTERMINATE
THE BABY BOYS AGAIN.
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SO YOU SEE THAT HE WAS TRYING
TO PREVENT HIM FROM COMING.
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SO THAT WAS PLAN A.
WHEN PLAN A DIDN'T WORK AND
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JESUS DID COME, HE THEN SWITCHED
TO PLAN B - WAS FRUSTRATE
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- RUIN HIS MISSION.
DON'T ALLOW HIM TO LIVE A
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PERFECT, HOLY LIFE AND SO HE
CANNOT REDEEM HUMANITY, BECAUSE
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IF HE DIDN'T LIVE A HOLY LIFE,
HE COULD NOT SAVE US FROM OUR
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SINS. AND SO HE
SPENT, THEN, THE REST
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OF HIS LIFE, TRYING
TO TEMPT JESUS TO SIN.
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BUT NOW I'M
GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF.
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SO FIRST SECTION IS
IMMANUEL TO THE RESCUE .
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I'M GOING TO HAVE
SOMEONE READ A VERSE FOR ME.
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IN A MOMENT YOU'LL READ - I
THINK IT'S JOHN 1:14 - AND I'M
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GOING TO READ MATTHEW 1:20
THROUGH VERSE 23 - GOD SPOKE TO
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JOSEPH THROUGH AN ANGEL AND
PROMISED THAT SHE - YOUR WIFE
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MARY - "WILL BRING FORTH A
SON, AND YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME
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JESUS, FOR HE WILL SAVE
HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS."
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SO IT DOESN'T SAY FROM THE
ROMANS, NOTICE - "SO ALL THIS
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WAS DONE THAT IT MIGHT BE
FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY
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THE LORD THROUGH THE PROPHET,
SAYING: 'BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN
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SHALL BE WITH CHILD, AND BEAR
A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS
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NAME IMMANUEL,' WHICH IS
TRANSLATED, 'GOD WITH US.'" NOW
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HERE MATTHEW IS QUOTING
FROM ISAIAH 7:14 - THAT ACTUALLY
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SAYS, 'GOD IS WITH US'.
JESUS WAS GOD WITH US - THAT'S
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CALLED THE INCARNATION -
GOD CAME DOWN TO BE ONE OF US.
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AND WHY DON'T YOU, PLEASE,
READ FOR US THEN JOHN 1:14?
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>>AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND
DWELT AMONG US, AND WE BEHELD
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HIS GLORY, THE GLORY AS OF
THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER,
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FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH."
>>SO AS MUCH AS HUMANITY COULD
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BEHOLD THE GLORY OF GOD, JESUS
CAME - NOW THE GLORY OF GOD WAS
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VEILED IN CHRIST -
BUT THE WORD BECAME FLESH.
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YOU KNOW, ARTISTS HAVE THEIR
CONCEPTS OF WHAT JESUS LOOKED
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LIKE BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S
ONLY ONE FLEETING, VERY DOUBTFUL
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STATEMENT OF A SUPPOSED ROMAN
SOLDIER DESCRIBING JESUS AND
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MANY OF THE ARTISTS' CONCEPTS
ARE BASED UPON THAT, BUT IN
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REALITY WE REALLY DON'T HAVE
ANYTHING IN THE BIBLE THAT TELLS
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US WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE, IT JUST
TELLS US THAT THERE'S NO OUTWARD
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APPEARANCE THAT WE
MIGHT BE DRAWN TO HIM.
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WE KNOW FROM EVIDENCE THAT JESUS
COULD EASILY DISAPPEAR IN A
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CROWD - HE LOOKED
LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.
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AND EVEN WHEN THEY ASKED JUDAS
TO BETRAY HIM, THEY SAID, 'LOOK,
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WE DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE HE IS.
HE LOOKS LIKE A TYPICAL GALILEAN
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OR A NAZARITE AND YOU BETTER
GO UP AND KISS HIM SO WE DON'T
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ARREST THE WRONG ONE.' SO THE
IDEA THAT JESUS WAS STRIKINGLY
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BEAUTIFUL IS NOT BIBLICAL.
HE PROBABLY HAD, YOU KNOW, A
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NICE APPEARANCE, BUT WE
DON'T KNOW WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE.
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WHAT MADE HIM
DIFFERENT WAS WHAT HE SAID.
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IT SAYS 'THE WORD BECAME FLESH
AND DWELT AMONG US, NOT THE
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MODEL OUT OF VOGUE
MAGAZINE OR THE MOVIE STAR.
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AND SO IT'S WHAT HE SAID
- THE WORD OF GOD INCARNATE.
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YOU CAN READ IN ROMANS 8, VERSE
3, "FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT
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DO IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH
THE FLESH, GOD DID BY SENDING
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HIS OWN SON IN THE
LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH..."
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- NOW THAT'S IMPORTANT. DID
JESUS COME DOWN 18 FEET TALL
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WITH THE BODY OF ADAM OR DID
HE COME DOWN WITH ALL THE DNA
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THAT'S LISTED IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 1 AND LUKE CHAPTER 3?
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YOU KNOW, IT GOES THROUGH JESUS'
FAMILY TREE AND IT TELLS US THAT
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HE HAD THE DNA OF SOME VERY
INTERESTING CHARACTERS IN HIS
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FAMILY TREE. HE
CAME IN THE LIKENESS OF
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SINFUL FLESH AND SO HE WRESTLED
WITH SIN THE WAY WE DO AND WE'RE
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GOING TO GET INTO
THAT IN OUR STUDY TODAY.
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SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO
UNDERSTAND THAT THE WAY THAT
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JESUS RESISTED THE TEMPTATIONS
OF THE DEVIL, HE USED THE SAME
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TOOLS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU
AND ME, OTHERWISE HOW COULD HE
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BE OUR EXAMPLE? AND THE
BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR THAT
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HE HAS GIVEN US AN EXAMPLE THAT
WE SHOULD WALK AS HE WALKED.
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HOW? AS HE DID. HE WAS
BAPTIZED AS OUR EXAMPLE.
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HE PRAYED AS WE SHOULD PRAY.
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HE GOT HUNGRY
LIKE WE GET HUNGRY.
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HE GOT THIRSTY
LIKE WE GET THIRSTY.
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HE GOT TIRED AND SLEPT THROUGH A
STORM - AND SO JESUS CAME IN THE
00:15:57.55\00:16:00.69
LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH,
BUT HE LIVED A PERFECT LIFE.
00:16:00.69\00:16:05.56
SO - LET ME FINISH READING THAT
VERSE - GOD SENT "HIS OWN SON IN
00:16:05.56\00:16:10.40
THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, ON
ACCOUNT OF SIN: HE CONDEMNED SIN
00:16:10.40\00:16:14.50
IN THE FLESH, THAT THE RIGHTEOUS
REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW MIGHT BE
00:16:14.50\00:16:18.81
FULFILLED IN US WHO DO NOT
WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH BUT
00:16:18.81\00:16:23.04
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT."
SO GOD IS TELLING US RIGHT
00:16:23.04\00:16:25.55
THERE, 'LIKE CHRIST' - HE LIVED
A LIFE WALKING AFTER THE SPIRIT.
00:16:25.55\00:16:30.35
GOD IS CALLING US TO LIVE
SPIRIT-FILLED LIVES. CAN YOU SAY
00:16:30.35\00:16:33.66
'AMEN'? DID I JUST TELL
YOU THE TRUTH? THAT'S RIGHT.
00:16:33.66\00:16:38.16
EZEKIEL 37:27 - THIS IS AN
INTERESTING VERSE AND I WANT YOU
00:16:38.16\00:16:43.06
TO TELL ME WHERE YOU FIND THIS
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - EZEKIEL
00:16:43.06\00:16:45.70
37:27, "MY TABERNACLE WILL ALSO
BE WITH THEM; INDEED I WILL BE
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THEIR GOD, AND THEY
SHALL BE MY PEOPLE."
00:16:50.94\00:16:53.27
DO YOU FIND THAT
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT?
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YEAH, SECOND TO THE LAST CHAPTER
IN THE BIBLE, SPEAKING - IN
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REVELATION 21 - "AND I HEARD
A LOUD VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING,
00:17:00.68\00:17:03.75
'BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD
IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL
00:17:03.75\00:17:07.82
WITH THEM, AND THEY
SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE.
00:17:07.82\00:17:09.59
GOD HIMSELF WILL BE
WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD."
00:17:09.59\00:17:13.76
NOW WHAT IS YOUR BODY
SOMETIMES CALLED? A TEMPLE.
00:17:13.76\00:17:18.87
WAS JESUS' BODY
CALLED THE TEMPLE?
00:17:18.87\00:17:21.30
DID JESUS CALL
HIS BODY A TEMPLE?
00:17:21.30\00:17:24.14
DID CHRIST, ONE TIME,
SAY 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE
00:17:24.14\00:17:26.47
AND IN THREE DAYS
I WILL RAISE IT UP'?
00:17:26.47\00:17:29.01
THEY GOT ALL UPSET AND THOUGHT
THAT HE WAS THREATENING TO
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PERFORM TERRORISM ON THE JEWISH
TEMPLE AND IT SAYS, 'NO, HE
00:17:30.61\00:17:35.08
SPOKE ABOUT HIS BODY.' SO, WHEN
IT TALKS ABOUT THE TABERNACLE OF
00:17:35.08\00:17:40.16
GOD BEING WITH MEN, DID
GOD TABERNACLE WITH THEM IN THE
00:17:40.16\00:17:44.69
WILDERNESS? AND WHEN
THEY REBUILT THE TEMPLE
00:17:44.69\00:17:47.76
- AND SOLOMON - THERE WAS A
TABERNACLE AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT
00:17:47.76\00:17:50.27
WAS DESTROYED
AND THEY REBUILT IT.
00:17:50.27\00:17:51.73
IN THE DAYS OF
NEHEMIAH THERE WAS A TABERNACLE.
00:17:51.73\00:17:54.84
GOD SAYS, 'I WANT TO DWELL AMONG
THEM.' SO WHEN JESUS CAME, ALL
00:17:54.84\00:17:59.34
THOSE OTHER TABERNACLES
WERE FULFILLED IN GOD TRULY
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TABERNACLING - IS
THAT A WORD - TABERNACLING?
00:18:03.38\00:18:07.48
WELL, IT IS NOW, WRITE IT DOWN.
THEY MAKE UP ALL KINDS OF WORDS
00:18:07.48\00:18:09.78
ALL THE TIME - YOU
JUST ADD IT TO GOOGLE.
00:18:09.78\00:18:11.82
SO CHRIST CAME TO TABERNACLE
AMONG US IN HIS BODY AND -
00:18:11.82\00:18:17.63
THE DWELLING PLACE OF
GOD - GOD WILL BE WITH THEM.
00:18:17.63\00:18:20.50
AND THIS IS WHAT IT SAID, BOTH
IN EZEKIEL AND IN REVELATION -
00:18:20.50\00:18:24.03
GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH
THEM. AND IN HEAVEN, WILL GOD
00:18:24.03\00:18:26.63
LITERALLY BE WITH US? YOU
SEE, WE'RE SEPARATED BY SIN.
00:18:26.63\00:18:31.01
ALRIGHT, NOW - SO THERE ARE FOUR
PRIMARY REASONS THAT ARE GIVEN -
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THERE ARE PROBABLY MORE, BUT
FOUR PRIMARY REASONS JESUS CAME
00:18:35.04\00:18:38.21
- IN THE LESSON. HE
CAME TO RESTORE THE DOMINION
00:18:38.21\00:18:40.78
- THAT'S ONE THAT WAS LEFT
OUT - THAT WAS LOST BY ADAM.
00:18:40.78\00:18:43.95
THE WORLD WAS KIDNAPPED BY
OUR FALL - THE FALL OF HUMANITY.
00:18:43.95\00:18:47.89
SECONDLY, HE CAME TO BRING
JUDGMENT AND DESTROY THE WORKS
00:18:47.89\00:18:50.76
OF THE DEVIL.
00:18:50.76\00:18:51.99
THIRD, HE CAME INTO THE WORLD
TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THE LOST.
00:18:51.99\00:18:54.93
AND FINALLY, HE CAME TO SHOW US
WHAT GOD IS LIKE - TO REVEAL GOD
00:18:54.93\00:18:58.07
TO US AND TO THE
WATCHING UNIVERSE.
00:18:58.07\00:19:01.37
YOU KNOW, I HEARD A STORY ONCE
ABOUT THIS EUROPEAN MONARCH THAT
00:19:01.37\00:19:05.21
WOULD REALLY MAKE THE PALACE
NERVOUS BECAUSE HE WOULD, EVERY
00:19:05.21\00:19:07.88
NOW AND THEN, DRESS DOWN AND GO
ROAM AMONG HIS PEOPLE INCOGNITO
00:19:07.88\00:19:11.91
AND THEY SAID,
'YOU CAN'T DO THIS.
00:19:11.91\00:19:13.62
THIS IS DANGEROUS.' HE SAID,
'HOW CAN I BE A GOOD SOVEREIGN
00:19:13.62\00:19:16.45
OF A PEOPLE UNLESS
I KNOW HOW THEY LIVE?'
00:19:16.45\00:19:18.72
SO DID JESUS COME TO FIND OUT
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A HUMAN?
00:19:18.72\00:19:22.99
YOU'VE GOT TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
NOW DOES GOD KNOW EVERYTHING?
00:19:22.99\00:19:26.26
SO GOD DIDN'T NEED TO BE A HUMAN
SO HE COULD SAY, 'OH, THAT'S
00:19:26.26\00:19:29.56
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A
PERSON.' HE ALREADY KNOWS,
00:19:29.56\00:19:33.60
BUT WE NOW KNOW THAT HE KNOWS.
00:19:33.60\00:19:37.81
BUT EVEN MORE THAN HIM COMING TO
FIND OUT WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR IT -
00:19:37.81\00:19:42.44
TO BE A HUMAN - HE CAME TO
SHOW US WHAT THE FATHER'S LIKE.
00:19:42.44\00:19:45.18
SO HE CAME TO DEMONSTRATE
HOW TO LOVE EACH OTHER, WHAT THE
00:19:45.18\00:19:49.18
FATHER'S LIKE - HE CAME AS
A LIVING DEMONSTRATION FOR US.
00:19:49.18\00:19:53.12
IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT
THAN THAT KING SCENARIO.
00:19:53.12\00:19:55.32
ALRIGHT, NOW LET'S GET
TO THE BAPTISM OF JESUS.
00:19:55.32\00:19:58.26
AND WE'LL JUST BE
LOOKING AT A COUPLE VERSES HERE.
00:19:58.26\00:20:00.33
IF YOU GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 3,
THE ADVENT - THE FIRST ADVENT OF
00:20:00.33\00:20:04.77
JESUS, GOD WITH US, WAS
INTRODUCED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST
00:20:04.77\00:20:08.54
AND IT SAYS, "I INDEED BAPTIZE
YOU WITH WATER UNTO REPENTANCE,
00:20:08.54\00:20:12.67
BUT HE WHO IS COMING
AFTER ME IS MIGHTIER THAN I,
00:20:12.67\00:20:16.41
WHOSE SANDALS I AM
NOT WORTHY TO CARRY.
00:20:16.41\00:20:18.48
HE WILL BAPTIZE YOU WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WITH FIRE.
00:20:18.48\00:20:22.28
HIS WINNOWING FAN IS IN HIS
HAND, AND HE WILL THOROUGHLY
00:20:22.28\00:20:25.29
CLEAN OUT HIS THRESHING FLOOR,
AND GATHER HIS WHEAT INTO THE
00:20:25.29\00:20:28.36
BARN; BUT HE WILL BURN UP THE
CHAFF WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE."
00:20:28.36\00:20:31.69
DID JESUS TELL A PARABLE
SOMETHING LIKE THAT ONCE?
00:20:31.69\00:20:34.30
THE PARABLE OF THE
WHEAT AND THE TARES?
00:20:34.30\00:20:36.16
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE
WEEDS? THEY'RE GATHERED
00:20:36.16\00:20:38.93
AND THEY'RE
BURNED. BUT HE GATHERS THE
00:20:38.93\00:20:41.00
WHEAT INTO THE BARN. AND
SO JESUS EVEN HAD A PARABLE
00:20:41.00\00:20:44.47
SIMILAR TO THE
PREACHING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
00:20:44.47\00:20:46.94
BUT IT SAYS, 'HE'LL BAPTIZE YOU
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WITH
00:20:46.94\00:20:51.91
FIRE.' WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?
IN ACTS CHAPTER 2, THE PLACE
00:20:51.91\00:20:59.05
WHERE THEY WERE ASSEMBLED
WAS SHAKEN AND THERE APPEARED ON
00:20:59.05\00:21:01.16
EACH OF THEM,
TONGUES OF - >>FIRE.
00:21:01.16\00:21:04.86
>>FIRE. AND SO,
THAT WAS A SYMBOL
00:21:04.86\00:21:07.23
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. DID
JOHN'S PROPHECY COME TRUE?
00:21:07.23\00:21:11.27
THEY WERE LITERALLY BAPTIZED
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE.
00:21:11.27\00:21:14.24
AND YOU CAN READ IN LUKE
3, VERSES 3 TO 6 - AGAIN, JOHN
00:21:14.24\00:21:19.51
PREACHING ABOUT WHAT HIS MISSION
WAS AND THE FIRST COMING OF THE
00:21:19.51\00:21:21.94
LORD - AND HE WENT - "ALL
THE REGION AROUND THE JORDAN" -
00:21:21.94\00:21:25.78
PREACHING A BAPTISM OF
REPENTANCE AS A REMISSION OF SIN
00:21:25.78\00:21:29.05
AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE WORDS OF
ISAIAH THE PROPHET SAYING: 'THE
00:21:29.05\00:21:32.89
VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE
WILDERNESS: 'PREPARE THE WAY OF
00:21:32.89\00:21:35.92
THE LORD; MAKE
HIS PATHS STRAIGHT.
00:21:35.92\00:21:37.99
EVERY VALLEY WILL BE FILLED,
EVERY MOUNTAIN AND HILL BROUGHT
00:21:37.99\00:21:40.80
LOW. THE CROOKED
PLACES SHALL BE MADE
00:21:40.80\00:21:42.96
STRAIGHT, THE
ROUGH WAY MADE SMOOTH.
00:21:42.96\00:21:45.00
ALL FLESH WILL SEE
THE SALVATION OF GOD.
00:21:45.00\00:21:48.37
NOW WHEN A KING WAS TRAVELING
IN ANCIENT TIMES, THEY DID NOT
00:21:48.37\00:21:51.74
HAVE TAXES OR THEY PROBABLY
DIDN'T HAVE VERY GOOD ROAD
00:21:51.74\00:21:56.51
CONSTRUCTION. YOU KNOW,
WE GET TAXED FOR ROAD REPAIR.
00:21:56.51\00:22:00.85
THEIR ROADS BACK THEN
WERE IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE.
00:22:00.85\00:22:03.05
BUT WHEN A KING WAS ABOUT TO
TRAVEL DOWN A ROAD, THEY SENT A
00:22:03.05\00:22:05.55
ROAD CREW AHEAD OF HIM WITH A
HERALD AND THE HERALD WOULD SAY,
00:22:05.55\00:22:09.59
'THE KING IS COMING!'
THE ROAD CREW WOULD KICK THE
00:22:09.59\00:22:12.36
HIGH SPOTS AND THE ROCKS OUT
OF THE ROAD AND FILL IN THE LOW
00:22:12.36\00:22:14.93
SPOTS SO THAT HIS CHARIOT
WOULD RIDE SMOOTHLY BECAUSE
00:22:14.93\00:22:19.00
HE'S THE KING. AND HE
HAD, SOMETIMES, MEN THAT
00:22:19.00\00:22:20.57
WOULD RUN BEFORE HIM
THAT WOULD BE THE KING.
00:22:20.57\00:22:23.71
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN AFRICA,
THE PRESIDENT DROVE BY THE
00:22:23.71\00:22:27.54
STREET WE WERE ON IN CAMAROON
AND HE HAD - HE WAS IN A BLACK
00:22:27.54\00:22:34.28
LIMOUSINE - AND HE HAD HIS
SECURITY DETAIL - THERE WERE
00:22:34.28\00:22:38.15
LIKE SIX OR EIGHT GUYS - I KNOW
THEY WERE IN TWO ROWS - RUNNING
00:22:38.15\00:22:42.56
BEFORE AND BEHIND HIS CAR -
RUNNING - IN SUITS - BLACK SUITS
00:22:42.56\00:22:49.10
- ON THE EQUATOR IN MIDDAY
WITH THEIR SUNGLASSES AND THEIR
00:22:49.10\00:22:54.14
EARPIECES - AND YOU KNEW
THE KING WAS COMING AND THEY HAD
00:22:54.14\00:22:59.17
EVERYBODY OUT LINED ON THE
STREETS AND THEY WERE BEATING
00:22:59.17\00:23:01.04
DRUMS AND IT WAS
QUITE A BIT OF FANFARE.
00:23:01.04\00:23:03.91
BIBLE TIMES - YOU REMEMBER WHEN
ABSALOM WANTED TO BE KING, HE
00:23:03.91\00:23:06.61
PREPARED FIFTY
MEN TO RUN BEFORE HIM.
00:23:06.61\00:23:08.72
WHAT DO YOU THINK
HE HAD IN HIS MIND?
00:23:08.72\00:23:11.72
IT GIVES - WHEN PEOPLE ARE
RUNNING BEFORE YOU TO ANNOUNCE
00:23:11.72\00:23:14.12
YOUR COMING, THAT MEANS YOU'RE
REALLY AN IMPORTANT PERSON.
00:23:14.12\00:23:18.06
AND SO JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS THE
ONE WHO RAN BEFORE THE KING TO
00:23:18.06\00:23:21.90
PREPARE THE WAY - KIND OF LIKE
WHEN ELIJAH RAN BEFORE AHAB TO
00:23:21.90\00:23:27.67
SHOW RESPECT TO BRING
HIM SAFELY BACK TO JEZREEL.
00:23:27.67\00:23:30.77
SO GO - TURN WITH ME IN YOUR
BIBLES NOW - LET'S LOOK AT THE
00:23:30.77\00:23:33.54
BAPTISM OF JESUS AND THIS
PREPARES US FOR THE TEMPTATION
00:23:33.54\00:23:36.58
THAT'S COMING - TO MATTHEW
CHAPTER 3 AND JOHN IS BAPTIZING
00:23:36.58\00:23:43.15
A NUMBER OF PEOPLE - HE'S
PROBABLY BAPTIZED PETER, JAMES,
00:23:43.15\00:23:46.15
JOHN, ANDREW - AND
EVENTUALLY JESUS COMES.
00:23:46.15\00:23:50.86
FIRST JOHN REALIZES WHO HE IS -
HE DOESN'T WANT TO BAPTIZE HIM.
00:23:50.86\00:23:53.36
HE SAID, 'YOU
SHOULD BAPTIZE ME.'
00:23:53.36\00:23:54.83
AND JESUS SAID, 'ALLOW IT
TO BE THIS WAY NOW, THUS IT
00:23:54.83\00:23:57.60
BECOMES US TO
FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:23:57.60\00:23:59.83
AND IT SAYS IN VERSE 16 -
MATTHEW 3:16 - "WHEN HE HAD BEEN
00:23:59.83\00:24:04.91
BAPTIZED, JESUS CAME UP
IMMEDIATELY FROM THE WATER; AND
00:24:04.91\00:24:09.14
BEHOLD, THE HEAVENS WERE OPENED
TO HIM, AND HE SAW THE SPIRIT OF
00:24:09.14\00:24:13.31
GOD DESCENDING LIKE A
DOVE AND ALIGHTING UPON HIM.
00:24:13.31\00:24:16.72
AND SUDDENLY A VOICE CAME FROM
HEAVEN," - YOU KNOW WHEN THE
00:24:16.72\00:24:20.29
HOLY SPIRIT CAME IT SAYS, 'AND
SUDDENLY THERE WAS THIS SHAKING
00:24:20.29\00:24:24.69
IN HEAVEN AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
CAME DOWN - "AND SUDDENLY A
00:24:24.69\00:24:27.76
VOICE CAME FROM HEAVEN, SAYING,
'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM
00:24:27.76\00:24:30.77
I AM WELL PLEASED.'" A TESTIMONY
FROM HEAVEN THAT JESUS IS THE
00:24:30.77\00:24:34.80
SON OF GOD. NOW WHAT DOES THE
WORD 'CHRIST' MEAN? HOW MANY OF
00:24:34.80\00:24:39.37
YOU, WHEN YOU FIRST BECAME
CHRISTIANS AND YOU HEARD THE
00:24:39.37\00:24:41.11
NAME JESUS CHRIST YOU THOUGHT
CHRIST WAS HIS LAST NAME? I DID.
00:24:41.11\00:24:45.18
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT BOB
SMITH AND PETER CARPENTER - OR
00:24:45.18\00:24:49.65
WHATEVER - AND JESUS CHRIST.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS HIS NAME.
00:24:49.65\00:24:53.59
BUT CHRIST, OF COURSE,
YOU KNOW NOW, IS A TITLE.
00:24:53.59\00:24:57.36
HE WAS - JESUS OF NAZARETH
WOULD HAVE BEEN JESUS THE SON OF
00:24:57.36\00:25:00.96
JOSEPH, THAT WOULD HAVE
BEEN MORE WHAT HIS NAME IS.
00:25:00.96\00:25:05.60
MATTER OF FACT, YOU'LL STILL
MEET PEOPLE NAMED - THAT ARE -
00:25:05.60\00:25:08.04
ONE OF OUR MEMBERS HERE,
PETERSON, I MEAN IT'S THE SON OF
00:25:08.04\00:25:11.37
PETER BACK THERE IN
HIS HERITAGE SOMEWHERE.
00:25:11.37\00:25:13.84
AND YOU'VE GOT JOSEPHSON
AND DIFFERENT NAMES LIKE THAT.
00:25:13.84\00:25:16.68
WELL, JESUS WAS A JOSEPHSON
AND - BUT THE WORD 'CHRIST' IS A
00:25:16.68\00:25:22.42
TITLE. WHAT DOES
THE WORD 'CHRIST' MEAN?
00:25:22.42\00:25:26.96
MESSIAH - ANOINTED - THE
WORD 'MESSIAH' MEANS 'ANOINTED'.
00:25:26.96\00:25:31.06
WHEN YOU SAY, 'CHRISTOS' - WHEN
THEY CHRISTEN A SHIP - USUALLY
00:25:31.06\00:25:34.30
ANOINT IT WITH
CHAMPAGNE OR SOMETHING, RIGHT?
00:25:34.30\00:25:37.07
AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT TO
BE ANOINTED - THE CHRISTOS.
00:25:37.07\00:25:42.00
SO WHEN - WHAT DOES -
THE MESSIAH IS THE ANOINTED.
00:25:42.00\00:25:45.51
WHEN WAS CHRIST
ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT?
00:25:45.51\00:25:50.15
WELL, DIDN'T HE HAVE THE
HOLY SPIRIT BEFORE HIS BAPTISM?
00:25:50.15\00:25:53.82
NOT TO THE SAME DEGREE.
DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT COME
00:25:53.82\00:25:57.42
IN DIFFERENT DEGREES?
DID JESUS BREATHE ON THE
00:25:57.42\00:26:01.32
APOSTLES AND SAY, 'RECEIVE
THE SPIRIT IN THE UPPER ROOM'?
00:26:01.32\00:26:05.16
WAS THAT THE SAME BAPTISM
OF THE SPIRIT AS PENTECOST?
00:26:05.16\00:26:08.66
NO. DID JESUS
GIVE AN ELEMENT OF THE
00:26:08.66\00:26:12.03
SPIRIT TO THE APOSTLES
WHEN HE SENT THEM OUT PREACHING?
00:26:12.03\00:26:15.87
I HOPE SO, I MEAN, THEY
WERE CASTING OUT DEVILS.
00:26:15.87\00:26:18.04
BUT IT WASN'T THE BAPTISM OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT - TO ANOINT MEANS TO
00:26:18.04\00:26:22.24
BE SUBMERGED - TO BE
COVERED. HE WAS SLATHERED
00:26:22.24\00:26:26.48
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
YOU EVER READ WHERE IT TALKS
00:26:26.48\00:26:29.82
ABOUT HOW THEY ANOINTED AARON
AND THE OIL RAN DOWN HIS BEARD?
00:26:29.82\00:26:34.39
I MEAN, THEY REALLY ANOINTED
THEM BACK THEN NOT LIKE WHAT WE
00:26:34.39\00:26:37.19
DO WHEN WE ANOINT FOR SICKNESS
OR HEALING NOW, WHERE YOU JUST
00:26:37.19\00:26:40.53
TAKE A LITTLE OIL AND PUT IT
ON THEIR FOREHEAD AS A SYMBOL.
00:26:40.53\00:26:43.23
MOST OF YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO
BE ANOINTED THE WAY AARON WAS
00:26:43.23\00:26:45.57
ANOINTED WITH OIL.
THEY POURED IT ON HIM.
00:26:45.57\00:26:48.64
THEY FILLED A HORN AND
THEY POURED IT ON THEM.
00:26:48.64\00:26:51.61
JESUS WAS COVERED BY THE
HOLY SPIRIT - FILLED BY THE HOLY
00:26:51.61\00:26:55.64
SPIRIT. NOW, DO YOU HEAR OF ANY
MIRACLES THAT CHRIST PERFORMED
00:26:55.64\00:27:00.98
BEFORE HIS BAPTISM? NO.
VERY LITTLE TEACHING - YOU HAVE
00:27:00.98\00:27:08.86
A STATEMENT HE MADE
WHEN HE WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD.
00:27:08.86\00:27:10.96
I'M SURE THERE ARE MANY THINGS
HE DID, BUT NOTHING IS REALLY
00:27:10.96\00:27:13.53
RECORDED - HIS MISSION BEGAN, IN
A SPECIAL WAY, AT HIS BAPTISM.
00:27:13.53\00:27:20.04
MATTER OF FACT, THE PROPHECY
OF DANIEL TALKED ABOUT THE
00:27:20.04\00:27:22.77
ANOINTING OF THE MOST HOLY - IT
REACHED - DANIEL CHAPTER 9 - IT
00:27:22.77\00:27:26.74
REACHES UP TO
HIS BAPTISM IN 27 AD.
00:27:26.74\00:27:31.08
AND THEN, FOR THREE AND
A HALF YEARS, HE TEACHES.
00:27:31.08\00:27:33.95
BUT WHEN HE WAS FILLED WITH THE
HOLY SPIRIT, HE WAS ESPECIALLY A
00:27:33.95\00:27:37.85
THREAT TO THE DEVIL.
NOTICE WHAT HAPPENS: AFTER HE'S
00:27:37.85\00:27:42.22
BAPTIZED - NOW THAT
LEADS US TO OUR NEXT SEGMENT -
00:27:42.22\00:27:44.59
TEMPTATION COMES.
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:27:44.59\00:27:47.23
FOR ME IN A MOMENT, JAMES
1:2 AND 3 AND IT'LL TAKE ME
00:27:47.23\00:27:51.63
A MINUTE TO GET THERE. SO
IF YOU LOOK IN MATTHEW 4:1 -
00:27:51.63\00:27:55.37
THIS IS RIGHT AFTER HIS BAPTISM
- JESUS WAS LED UP OF THE SPIRIT
00:27:55.37\00:27:59.87
INTO THE WILDERNESS TO
BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL.
00:27:59.87\00:28:02.64
A LOT OF PEOPLE
HAVE STRUGGLED WITH THAT.
00:28:02.64\00:28:04.85
DO YOU ALL WANT TO PRAY FOR THE
HOLY SPIRIT SO YOU COULD BE LED
00:28:04.85\00:28:08.18
TO BE TEMPTED? HERE
JESUS IS FILLED WITH THE
00:28:08.18\00:28:11.55
HOLY SPIRIT AND
HE'S LED TO TEMPTATION.
00:28:11.55\00:28:14.32
THEN IN THE LORD'S PRAYER WE'RE
BEGGING GOD LEAD ME NOT INTO
00:28:14.32\00:28:16.93
TEMPTATION. WELL
THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU
00:28:16.93\00:28:19.93
GO FROM ONE LANGUAGE TO ANOTHER,
SOMETIMES IT LOSES SOMETHING.
00:28:19.93\00:28:23.33
WHAT WE'RE REALLY PRAYING
IS 'LORD, LEAD ME AWAY FROM MY
00:28:23.33\00:28:26.27
NATURAL TENDENCY TO TEMPTATION.
THE HOLY SPIRIT LED JESUS INTO
00:28:26.27\00:28:30.11
THE WILDERNESS TO PRAY AND
PREPARE HIMSELF AND THE DEVIL
00:28:30.11\00:28:35.14
CAME THERE TO STOP HIM
FOR HIS MISSION THAT HE
00:28:35.14\00:28:38.68
WAS PRAYING ABOUT. IS
THAT THE FIRST TIME PEOPLE
00:28:38.68\00:28:41.85
HAVE BEEN TESTED OR
TEMPTED IN THE WILDERNESS?
00:28:41.85\00:28:45.59
NO, YOU HAVE THAT
HAPPENING SEVERAL TIMES.
00:28:45.59\00:28:49.26
NOTICE IN DEUTERONOMY 8,
THE ISRAELITES WENT INTO THE
00:28:49.26\00:28:55.30
WILDERNESS TO BE
TEMPTED AND TESTED.
00:28:55.30\00:28:57.53
DEUTERONOMY 8:15 IT SAYS "WHO
LED YOU THROUGH THAT GREAT AND
00:28:57.53\00:29:01.37
TERRIBLE WILDERNESS, IN
WHICH WERE FIERY SERPENTS AND
00:29:01.37\00:29:04.24
SCORPIONS AND THIRSTY LAND WHERE
THERE WAS NO WATER; WHO BROUGHT
00:29:04.24\00:29:08.58
WATER FOR YOU OUT OF THE
FLINTY ROCK; WHO FED YOU IN THE
00:29:08.58\00:29:11.31
WILDERNESS WITH MANNA, WHICH
YOUR FATHERS DID NOT KNOW, THAT
00:29:11.31\00:29:14.92
HE MIGHT HUMBLE YOU AND THAT HE
MIGHT" - HERE IT IS - "TEST YOU"
00:29:14.92\00:29:19.35
- LED THEM IN THE WILDERNESS
AND THEY WERE TESTED - "THAT HE
00:29:19.35\00:29:23.59
MIGHT TEST YOU," - TO KNOW -
"THAT HE MIGHT HUMBLE YOU AND
00:29:23.59\00:29:28.56
THAT HE MIGHT TEST YOU,
TO DO YOU GOOD IN THE END."
00:29:28.56\00:29:32.07
YOU NOTICE THAT HE
MIGHT TEST YOU TO DO YOU GOOD.
00:29:32.07\00:29:34.14
DOES GOD SOMETIMES ALLOW
US TO BE TESTED FOR OUR GOOD?
00:29:34.14\00:29:39.11
WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH
A TEST IT DOESN'T FEEL GOOD.
00:29:39.11\00:29:43.35
YOU KNOW, IT TELLS US, MATTER OF
FACT, I'M GOING TO HAVE YOU READ
00:29:43.35\00:29:46.28
THAT FOR US NOW. GO
AHEAD, READ JAMES 1:2.
00:29:46.28\00:29:50.72
>>"MY BRETHREN, COUNT IT ALL
JOY WHEN YOU FALL INTO VARIOUS
00:29:50.72\00:29:53.42
TRIALS, KNOWING THAT THE
TESTING OF YOUR FAITH PRODUCES
00:29:53.42\00:29:57.09
PATIENCE." >>HOW
MANY OF YOU REJOICE
00:29:57.09\00:30:00.23
WHEN YOU'RE
TEMPTED? WHY DOES JAMES
00:30:00.23\00:30:03.70
TELL US TO REJOICE?
BECAUSE YOU'RE DEVELOPING
00:30:03.70\00:30:08.90
CHARACTER AS YOU SURVIVE
THESE VARIOUS TEMPTATIONS.
00:30:08.90\00:30:14.34
YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T FEEL
TEMPTATION UNLESS YOU HAVE A
00:30:14.34\00:30:18.38
STRUGGLE BETWEEN
GOOD AND EVIL INSIDE.
00:30:18.38\00:30:20.72
THE REASON THIS LESSON IS SO
IMPORTANT - THE WHOLE LESSON IS
00:30:20.72\00:30:22.35
TALKING ABOUT REBELLION
AND REDEMPTION. IF YOU FELT NO
00:30:22.35\00:30:25.82
TEMPTATION, IT WOULD PROBABLY
MEAN THAT YOU ARE DRIFTING WITH
00:30:25.82\00:30:28.72
THE CURRENT OF DESTRUCTION
AND YOU'RE NOT RESISTING.
00:30:28.72\00:30:32.76
YOU DON'T FEEL THE CURRENT
WHEN YOU'RE MOVING WITH IT.
00:30:32.76\00:30:36.43
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SIT ON A
SAILBOAT AND THE SAILBOAT IS
00:30:36.43\00:30:39.83
MOVING WITH THE WIND, YOU DON'T
FEEL THE WIND BECAUSE YOU'RE
00:30:39.83\00:30:42.74
MOVING IN THE SAME
DIRECTION. I USED TO SAIL A LOT.
00:30:42.74\00:30:45.94
I WOULD WONDER
HOW TO CATCH THE WIND.
00:30:45.94\00:30:48.24
YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE WATER
BECAUSE YOU DON'T ALWAYS FEEL
00:30:48.24\00:30:49.94
THE WIND WHEN
YOU'RE ON THE BOAT.
00:30:49.94\00:30:51.18
YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE
SAIL. YOU DON'T FEEL IT BECAUSE
00:30:51.18\00:30:53.25
YOU'RE MOVING WITH THE WIND.
AND AS SOON AS YOU START TO
00:30:53.25\00:30:56.89
RESIST THE WIND,
THEN YOU FEEL IT.
00:30:56.89\00:31:00.09
IF YOU'RE SWIMMING WITH THE
CURRENT OF THE WORLD, YOU'RE NOT
00:31:00.09\00:31:02.86
GOING TO FEEL MUCH TEMPTATION.
AND SOME PEOPLE WANT TO GIVE
00:31:02.86\00:31:05.96
UP THE CHRISTIAN LIFE BECAUSE
THEY'RE TIRED OF SWIMMING
00:31:05.96\00:31:08.80
AGAINST THE TIDE.
SOMETIMES YOU'LL EVEN FEEL
00:31:08.80\00:31:11.97
YOU'RE SWIMMING
AGAINST THE TIDE IN THE CHURCH.
00:31:11.97\00:31:14.74
THIS DAY AND AGE, IF YOU WANT TO
LIVE A HOLY LIFE AND WORLDLINESS
00:31:14.74\00:31:20.41
CREEPS IN, YOU'RE GOING TO FEEL
LIKE YOU'RE SWIMMING AGAINST
00:31:20.41\00:31:22.41
THE CURRENT AND YOU MEET WITH
RESISTANCE. WHO WAS IT THAT -
00:31:22.41\00:31:27.32
BILLY SUNDAY WAS PREACHING ABOUT
HOLINESS ONE TIME AND THIS MAN
00:31:27.32\00:31:30.92
CAME TO HIM AFTER THE SERVICE
AND HE WAS A CHURCH MEMBER.
00:31:30.92\00:31:34.39
HE SAID, 'PASTOR SUNDAY,' HE
SAYS, 'YOU'RE ALWAYS RUBBING THE
00:31:34.39\00:31:37.23
CAT'S FUR THE WRONG WAY.' AND
BILLY SUNDAY SAID, 'WELL THAT'S
00:31:37.23\00:31:41.16
BECAUSE THE CAT'S GOING THE
WRONG WAY.' HE SAID, 'IF THE CAT
00:31:41.16\00:31:43.83
WOULD TURN AROUND I'D BE RUBBING
THE FUR THE RIGHT WAY.' SO, DO
00:31:43.83\00:31:51.24
THIEVES BREAK INTO THE HOMES
OF POOR PEOPLE OR DO THEY BREAK
00:31:51.24\00:31:54.38
INTO THE HOMES OF
PEOPLE THAT HAVE SOMETHING?
00:31:54.38\00:31:57.31
WHEN THE DEVIL TEMPTS
YOU IT'S BECAUSE HE'S AFRAID.
00:31:57.31\00:32:00.78
WHEN DOES THE
DEVIL COME TO JESUS?
00:32:00.78\00:32:02.65
AFTER HE'S FILLED
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:32:02.65\00:32:04.85
WHEN YOU'RE FILLED WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT YOU'VE GOT POWER TO FIGHT
00:32:04.85\00:32:07.79
THE DEVIL AND YOU ARE
A THREAT TO THE DEVIL.
00:32:07.79\00:32:10.43
AND SO, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL WENT THROUGH THE RED SEA
00:32:10.43\00:32:14.40
- THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE SEA
- AND THE PILLAR OF FIRE CAME
00:32:14.40\00:32:17.10
AND BAPTIZED THEM IN FIRE - YOU
REMEMBER THE CLOUD OF FIRE CAME
00:32:17.10\00:32:20.30
- WERE THEY STILL ATTACKED?
THEY WERE ATTACKED BY THE
00:32:20.30\00:32:23.84
EGYPTIANS, THEY WERE ATTACKED
BY THE AMALEKITES - EVEN IN THE
00:32:23.84\00:32:26.37
WILDERNESS THEY WERE
ATTACKED. DO YOU REMEMBER?
00:32:26.37\00:32:30.08
AND SO, WHEN A PERSON BEGINS
TO FOLLOW JESUS, SOMETIMES THEY
00:32:30.08\00:32:33.05
THINK, 'OKAY, I SHOULD NOW HAVE
UNLIMITED JOY.' THERE IS A PEACE
00:32:33.05\00:32:36.55
AND A JOY BECAUSE YOU'RE ON YOUR
WAY TO THE PROMISED LAND, BUT
00:32:36.55\00:32:38.79
YOU MAY STILL
ENCOUNTER TEMPTATION.
00:32:38.79\00:32:41.09
THERE STILL MAY BE PROBLEMS
SO DON'T BE DISCOURAGED BY THAT.
00:32:41.09\00:32:45.46
THIEVES DON'T
STEAL FROM PAUPERS.
00:32:45.46\00:32:47.00
IT MEANS YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING.
IT SAYS, 'HE TEMPTED YOU THAT HE
00:32:47.00\00:32:51.83
MIGHT DO YOU GOOD IN THE END.'
WAS JOB TESTED AND TEMPTED?
00:32:51.83\00:32:58.37
WAS HE TEMPTED BY
GOD OR BY THE DEVIL?
00:32:58.37\00:33:01.24
THE DEVIL BROUGHT THE PROBLEMS.
DID GOD DO HIM GOOD IN THE END?
00:33:01.24\00:33:05.68
IT SAYS HE BLESSED THE LATTER
END OF JOB MORE THAN IF HE HAD
00:33:05.68\00:33:09.22
NEVER BEEN
TEMPTED - TWICE AS MUCH.
00:33:09.22\00:33:12.25
AND SO JAMES SAYS REJOICE IF
YOU'RE GOING THROUGH TEMPTATION.
00:33:12.25\00:33:16.06
IF YOU ENDURE,
YOU WILL BE BLESSED.
00:33:16.06\00:33:19.59
I REMEMBER - AND YOU -
I'VE REFERENCED IT SEVERAL TIMES
00:33:19.59\00:33:23.10
BECAUSE IT JUST IS A SIMPLE
SCENARIO BUT ONE OF THE BIG
00:33:23.10\00:33:26.00
STRUGGLES FOR ME WAS SMOKING
AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST REALLY
00:33:26.00\00:33:31.17
APPRECIATE - I'VE MET PEOPLE AND
GOD WORKED A MIRACLE - HE JUST
00:33:31.17\00:33:33.48
TOOK AWAY THE
DESIRE. THEY THREW AWAY THEIR
00:33:33.48\00:33:35.08
CIGARETTES, THE DESIRE
WAS GONE, THEY NEVER SMOKED
00:33:35.08\00:33:36.88
AGAIN AND THAT WAS
IT. IT WAS A MIRACLE.
00:33:36.88\00:33:39.55
WELL IT DIDN'T
HAPPEN FOR ME LIKE THAT.
00:33:39.55\00:33:41.48
I DID THROW THEM AWAY AND
I NEVER SMOKED AGAIN, BUT IT
00:33:41.48\00:33:43.39
WASN'T EASY AND I
WAS CONSTANTLY TEMPTED.
00:33:43.39\00:33:47.29
I WOULD FOLLOW PEOPLE DOWN
THE STREET WHO WERE SMOKING AND
00:33:47.29\00:33:49.76
INHALE AFTER THEY EXHALED.
SERIOUSLY, YEAH, I'D GET INTO A
00:33:49.76\00:33:54.56
TRUCK WITH SOMEONE ELSE
WHO WAS SMOKING AND THEY'D SAY,
00:33:54.56\00:33:56.40
'DO YOU MIND IF I SMOKE?'
AND I'D SAY, 'NO, PLEASE.' AND,
00:33:56.40\00:34:03.74
YOU KNOW, BACK WHEN I
QUIT SMOKING THEY STILL
00:34:03.74\00:34:05.57
SMOKED ON AIRPLANES.
ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT?
00:34:05.57\00:34:08.54
WHICH IS REALLY CRAZY
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
00:34:08.54\00:34:10.98
THEY HAD A SMOKING SECTION
AND A NON-SMOKING SECTION.
00:34:10.98\00:34:12.91
THE PERSON, YOU KNOW, TWO FEET
AWAY FROM YOU SMOKING - THEY'RE
00:34:12.91\00:34:15.45
IN THE SMOKING SECTION
AND YOU'RE IN THE NON-SMOKING
00:34:15.45\00:34:17.12
SECTION, IT DOESN'T
MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.
00:34:17.12\00:34:20.26
BUT YEAH, I ACTUALLY RELISHED
GETTING A BUZZ OFF SECOND-HAND
00:34:20.26\00:34:25.99
SMOKE BECAUSE IT
WAS A STRUGGLE FOR ME.
00:34:25.99\00:34:30.47
BUT, YOU KNOW, FINALLY I GOT
TO THE PLACE WHERE, YOU KNOW,
00:34:30.47\00:34:32.93
SOMETIMES IT WOULD BE REALLY
HARD EVERY DAY AND IT WAS JUST -
00:34:32.93\00:34:35.00
I'D GET TEMPTED - THERE'D BE
SPELLS EVERY WEEK - I'D HAVE A
00:34:35.00\00:34:38.04
COUPLE SPELLS AND THEN
PRETTY SOON I'D NOTICE I WASN'T
00:34:38.04\00:34:40.28
TEMPTED. FOR
SEVERAL WEEKS IT WENT BY
00:34:40.28\00:34:42.61
AND YOU'D BARELY THINK ABOUT
IT ANYMORE, AND THEN NOT AT ALL.
00:34:42.61\00:34:47.42
AND I THINK BACK NOW OVER THE 37
YEARS SINCE I'VE SMOKED AND OH,
00:34:47.42\00:34:54.66
I'M SO THANKFUL.
YOU KNOW HOW MUCH
00:34:54.66\00:34:55.79
MONEY I'VE SAVED?
THAT'S AN EXPENSIVE HABIT.
00:34:55.79\00:34:59.76
AND NOT TO MENTION, YOU
KNOW, THAT I CAN BREATHE.
00:34:59.76\00:35:04.20
LAST WEEK I WENT TO VISIT
SOMEBODY THAT WAS ON OXYGEN -
00:35:04.20\00:35:08.64
EMPHYSEMA - YEARS OF SMOKING
- AND I THOUGHT, 'OH PRAISE THE
00:35:08.64\00:35:13.27
LORD. THANK YOU,
LORD.' I WAS TEMPTED
00:35:13.27\00:35:15.81
BUT HE DOES YOU GOOD IN THE END.
EVERY TEMPTATION, WHEN YOU GAIN
00:35:15.81\00:35:19.88
THE VICTORY,
YOU'LL BE BLESSED FOR IT.
00:35:19.88\00:35:23.15
SO, NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO ON
HERE TO THE - WELL, WE'RE STILL
00:35:23.15\00:35:27.66
TALKING ABOUT THE
TEMPTATION A LITTLE BIT.
00:35:27.66\00:35:30.09
SOME PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL, THE
WAY TO AVOID TEMPTATION IS JUST
00:35:30.09\00:35:33.56
AVOID CONTACT WITH PEOPLE -
AVOID CONTACT WITH LIFE - AND IF
00:35:33.56\00:35:38.40
I JUST GO LIVE IN A CAVE
SOMEWHERE AND THERE'S NO, YOU
00:35:38.40\00:35:42.47
KNOW, LAS VEGAS STRIP AND
THERE'S NO PEOPLE AROUND, THEN
00:35:42.47\00:35:46.11
I'LL HIDE MYSELF FROM ALL
TEMPTATION.' WELL, I'VE GOT NEWS
00:35:46.11\00:35:48.64
FOR YOU, YOU CAN BE TEMPTED
WHEN YOU'RE ALL BY YOURSELF.
00:35:48.64\00:35:51.61
I THINK JOE CREWS WROTE, 'THE
PERSON WHO AVOIDS TEMPTATION BY
00:35:51.61\00:35:56.08
AVOIDING CONTACT WITH
ALL PEOPLE, MAY DO NO HARM,
00:35:56.08\00:35:59.92
BUT NEITHER WILL
THEY DO ANY GOOD.
00:35:59.92\00:36:02.26
THEY BECOME MORALLY USELESS.'
THE REASON THAT WE WANT TO BE
00:36:02.26\00:36:07.73
INVOLVED WITH PEOPLE IS NOT JUST
- SIN IS JUST NOT DOING BAD, SIN
00:36:07.73\00:36:11.73
IS ALSO NEGLECTING TO DO GOOD.
SO YOU WANT TO BE AN OVERCOMER.
00:36:11.73\00:36:15.80
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ MATTHEW
4:4 AND TELL US HOW JESUS
00:36:15.80\00:36:17.87
OVERCAME THAT TEMPTATION IN
JUST A MOMENT. I'M GOING TO READ
00:36:17.87\00:36:21.11
ANOTHER VERSE FROM JAMES,
'BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO ENDURES
00:36:21.11\00:36:27.52
TEMPTATION, FOR WHEN HE IS
APPROVED HE WILL RECEIVE A CROWN
00:36:27.52\00:36:31.22
OF LIFE WHICH THE LORD HAS
PROMISED TO THOSE THAT LOVE HIM.
00:36:31.22\00:36:34.66
LET NO ONE SAY WHEN HE IS
TEMPTED, 'I AM TEMPTED OF GOD.'
00:36:34.66\00:36:38.36
FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED WITH
EVIL NOR DOES HE HIMSELF TEMPT
00:36:38.36\00:36:41.56
ANYONE, BUT EACH ONE IS TEMPTED
WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY BY HIS OWN
00:36:41.56\00:36:45.97
DESIRES AND ENTICED.' NOW
THERE'S A MYSTERY IN THIS VERSE:
00:36:45.97\00:36:49.20
GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED. WAS
JESUS GOD? WAS JESUS TEMPTED?
00:36:49.20\00:36:57.71
GOD CANNOT BE
TEMPTED. WAS JESUS GOD?
00:36:57.71\00:37:00.68
WAS JESUS TEMPTED?
IT SAYS HE WAS TEMPTED.
00:37:00.68\00:37:03.92
WAS HE TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS
AS WE ARE YET WITHOUT SIN.
00:37:03.92\00:37:07.62
HOW CAN WE
RECONCILE THOSE TWO CONCEPTS?
00:37:07.62\00:37:10.93
BECAUSE WHEN JESUS CAME INTO
THE WORLD, HE LAID ASIDE HIS
00:37:10.93\00:37:13.86
GODNESS - HE LAID ASIDE HIS
DIVINITY - HE EMBRACED OUR FLESH
00:37:13.86\00:37:19.20
AND SO HE KNOWS HOW WE
ARE TEMPTED. HE UNDERSTANDS
00:37:19.20\00:37:23.84
COMPLETELY HOW WE ARE TEMPTED.
HE HAD ALL OF THE SAME ANIMAL
00:37:23.84\00:37:30.31
DESIRES THAT A HEALTHY HUMAN
HAS. HE KNEW HOW IT FELT TO BE
00:37:30.31\00:37:35.78
HUNGRY AND WANT TO EAT TOO MUCH.
HE KNEW WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO BE
00:37:35.78\00:37:40.82
SLIGHTED AND MAYBE HAVE YOUR
SELF-ESTEEM WOUNDED AND HE JUST
00:37:40.82\00:37:45.96
SUBDUED ALL THOSE THINGS
AND WAS LED OF THE SPIRIT.
00:37:45.96\00:37:48.53
HE CONTINUALLY SURRENDERED
HIMSELF INTO HIS FATHER'S HANDS.
00:37:48.53\00:37:52.17
NOW, THEN TEMPTATION SAID,
'IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD, TURN
00:37:52.17\00:37:58.34
THESE STONES INTO BREAD.' RIGHT?
THAT'S THE FIRST TEMPTATION.
00:37:58.34\00:38:04.31
NOW WHAT GAVE
THE DEVIL AWAY? >>IF.
00:38:04.31\00:38:07.45
>>HE SAID, 'IF YOU'RE THE SON OF
GOD.' HE'S - AND DID THE DEVIL,
00:38:07.45\00:38:11.39
WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO TEMPT
JESUS, THE DEVIL KIND OF PLOPPED
00:38:11.39\00:38:15.22
DOWN ON THE GROUND SNAPPING HIS
POINTED TAIL WITH HIS BAT WINGS
00:38:15.22\00:38:19.36
FLAPPING AND HIS GOATEE AND
HIS HORNS AND HIS RED LEOTARDS,
00:38:19.36\00:38:23.80
STROKING HIS GOATEE
WITH LONG FINGERNAILS -
00:38:23.80\00:38:28.20
IT'S THE TYPICAL
PICTURE PEOPLE HAVE.
00:38:28.20\00:38:29.94
YOU KNOW, IF YOU SEE RED DEVIL
PAINT OR DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE AND
00:38:29.94\00:38:32.84
YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE OF
THE DEVIL SOMEWHERE, HE DOESN'T
00:38:32.84\00:38:35.18
USUALLY LOOK LIKE A
GOOD ANGEL, DOES HE?
00:38:35.18\00:38:37.95
SO IF SOME HIDEOUS CREATURE LIKE
THAT WERE TO JUMP DOWN AND MAKE
00:38:37.95\00:38:41.18
A SUGGESTION, WHY WOULD YOU EVER
LISTEN TO ANYTHING THAT THAT
00:38:41.18\00:38:44.12
CREATURE WOULD SUGGEST?
YOU KNOW HE'S UP TO NO GOOD
00:38:44.12\00:38:45.82
JUST BY THE WAY HE
LOOKS. HOW DID THE DEVIL
00:38:45.82\00:38:47.99
APPEAR TO JESUS? 2
CORINTHIANS 11, SATAN HIMSELF
00:38:47.99\00:38:52.96
IS TRANSFORMED
INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.
00:38:52.96\00:38:56.70
SO HE CAME DOWN AND HE HID
HIMSELF AND LOOKED BEAUTIFUL AND
00:38:56.70\00:39:03.84
CONVEYED THAT HE WAS SENT FROM
GOD AND THERE'S JUST ONE TEST
00:39:03.84\00:39:07.98
AND ALL THIS
TEMPTATION WOULD BE OVER.
00:39:07.98\00:39:09.91
HE JUST NEEDED TO USE HIS POWER
AND SO I'M SURE IT WAS A LOT
00:39:09.91\00:39:14.98
MORE SERIOUS A TEMPTATION THAN
WE MIGHT THINK, IF HE APPEARED
00:39:14.98\00:39:17.75
LOOKING LIKE A DEVIL.
NOW DID JESUS JUST HEAR THE
00:39:17.75\00:39:20.82
FATHER SAY, 'THIS
IS MY BELOVED SON'?
00:39:20.82\00:39:24.06
SO THE - YEAH, WHEN HE WAS
BAPTIZED - SO NOW THE DEVIL'S
00:39:24.06\00:39:27.40
SAYING, 'IF'. HE'S
GETTING HIM TO DOUBT THE
00:39:27.40\00:39:31.83
TESTIMONY OF GOD'S WORD - FIRST
TEMPTATION. WHAT WAS THE FIRST
00:39:31.83\00:39:36.91
TEMPTATION TO EVE?
WAS IT REGARDING APPETITE?
00:39:36.91\00:39:41.34
WAS THE DEVIL TRYING TO GET EVE
TO DOUBT THE TESTIMONY OF GOD'S
00:39:41.34\00:39:44.31
WORD - DO NOT EAT
THIS FORBIDDEN FRUIT?
00:39:44.31\00:39:48.38
AND SO JESUS - THE DIFFERENCE IS
ADAM WAS TEMPTED IN A PARADISE.
00:39:48.38\00:39:52.92
JESUS IS NOW
TEMPTED IN A WILDERNESS.
00:39:52.92\00:39:55.19
ADAM FELL IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
JESUS OVERCAME IN A DESERT.
00:39:55.19\00:40:00.63
AND SO THE BIG CONTRAST HERE
TELLING US THAT IF JESUS COULD
00:40:00.63\00:40:04.77
OVERCOME IN THOSE
CIRCUMSTANCES WE CAN TOO.
00:40:04.77\00:40:07.50
SO WHAT DID - WHAT WAS
JESUS' RESPONSE? MATTHEW 4:4.
00:40:07.50\00:40:10.51
>>"BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID, 'IT
IS WRITTEN, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE
00:40:10.51\00:40:15.41
BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY
WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE
00:40:15.41\00:40:18.48
MOUTH OF GOD.'" >>WITH
EVERY TEMPTATION, JESUS
00:40:18.48\00:40:22.82
MEETS IT WITH
WHAT? >>THE WORD OF GOD.
00:40:22.82\00:40:25.12
>>THE WORD OF GOD
- 'IT IS WRITTEN'.
00:40:25.12\00:40:27.66
OF THE ARMOR OF GOD, YOU'VE GOT
ONE PIECE OF THE ARMOR OF GOD
00:40:27.66\00:40:32.46
YOU FIND IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6,
THAT IS NOT ONLY OFFENSIVE, IT'S
00:40:32.46\00:40:38.03
DEFENSIVE - IT'S BOTH - MOST
OF THEM ARE DEFENSIVE - YOUR
00:40:38.03\00:40:41.04
HELMET, YOU KNOW, NO SOLDIER
EVER ATTACKS SOMEBODY WITH THEIR
00:40:41.04\00:40:43.84
HELMET - NOT TYPICALLY -
OR THEIR BREASTPLATE, OR THEIR
00:40:43.84\00:40:47.98
SHOES, BUT THE SWORD IS - OR
THEIR SHIELD - THE SWORD IS AN
00:40:47.98\00:40:51.55
OFFENSIVE AND A
DEFENSIVE WEAPON.
00:40:51.55\00:40:54.22
SO WHEN WE'RE TEMPTED BY
THE DEVIL, YOU USE THE SWORD.
00:40:54.22\00:40:58.99
IT'S A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD.
00:40:58.99\00:41:00.36
IT'S A SYMBOL FOR THE WORD
OF GOD - THE NEW AND THE OLD
00:41:00.36\00:41:02.36
TESTAMENTS - THE LAW AND
THE PROPHETS - IT'S LIKE THE TEN
00:41:02.36\00:41:05.23
COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON
TWO STONES - MOSES AND ELIJAH.
00:41:05.23\00:41:09.90
AND SO HE SAID, 'IT IS WRITTEN.'
NOW, I'LL TELL YOU NOW THAT ALL
00:41:09.90\00:41:13.20
THREE TIMES WHEN JESUS IS
TEMPTED, WHO KNOWS WHAT BOOK
00:41:13.20\00:41:16.84
CHRIST QUOTES FROM? ALL
THREE TIMES HE QUOTES FROM
00:41:16.84\00:41:19.97
THE SAME BOOK - DEUTERONOMY.
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:41:19.97\00:41:23.48
IT'S THE LAST SERMON OF
MOSES AND IN DEUTERONOMY, MOSES
00:41:23.48\00:41:27.65
FORETELLS CHRIST IS COMING -
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 18 - SO I
00:41:27.65\00:41:31.29
THINK THAT'S INTERESTING.
DID JESUS, WHEN HE WAS TEMPTED
00:41:31.29\00:41:34.56
BY THE DEVIL, SAY, 'HANG ON
SATAN, I'VE GOT A SCROLL HERE.
00:41:34.56\00:41:40.46
JUST LET ME FIND CHAPTER AND
VERSE' - THERE WERE NO CHAPTERS
00:41:40.46\00:41:43.50
AND VERSES, BY
THE WAY, BACK THEN.
00:41:43.50\00:41:46.20
DID HE HAVE TO TAKE HIS FINGER
AND UNROLL THIS LONG SCROLL OF
00:41:46.20\00:41:49.60
DEUTERONOMY OR HAD HE ALREADY
DONE THAT FROM WEEK TO WEEK AS
00:41:49.60\00:41:53.14
HE WAS READING THE VERSES
GROWING UP ON HIS MOTHER'S KNEE
00:41:53.14\00:41:56.64
AND HE HAD HIDDEN IT IN HIS
HEART SO WHEN TEMPTATION CAME,
00:41:56.64\00:41:59.45
HE HAD IT. WE NEED
TO STORE UP THE PROMISES
00:41:59.45\00:42:02.55
OF GOD SO THAT WE CAN REFERENCE
THEM. WILL THE HOLY SPIRIT BRING
00:42:02.55\00:42:07.12
THOSE VERSES TO YOUR MIND
WHEN YOU NEED THEM? DOES JESUS
00:42:07.12\00:42:10.36
PROMISE THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT
WILL BRING THOSE THINGS TO OUR
00:42:10.36\00:42:13.06
MIND? THE SPIRIT WILL GIVE
US REMEMBRANCE? YES HE DOES.
00:42:13.06\00:42:16.03
ALRIGHT, NOW ANOTHER TEMPTATION,
MATTHEW 4, VERSES 5 THROUGH 7.
00:42:16.03\00:42:20.97
AND IT SAYS HERE, "THEN THE
DEVIL TOOK HIM UP INTO THE HOLY
00:42:20.97\00:42:24.21
CITY, SET HIM ON THE PINNACLE
OF THE TEMPLE, AND SAID TO HIM,
00:42:24.21\00:42:27.64
'IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD,
THROW YOURSELF DOWN. FOR IT IS
00:42:27.64\00:42:31.38
WRITTEN:" - OOH, LOOK AT THAT,
THE DEVIL'S QUOTING THE BIBLE
00:42:31.38\00:42:33.38
NOW. HE'S CAUGHT ON. "FOR IT
IS WRITTEN: 'HE SHALL GIVE HIS
00:42:33.38\00:42:37.79
ANGELS CHARGE OVER YOU,'
AND, 'IN THEIR HANDS THEY SHALL
00:42:37.79\00:42:40.59
BEAR YOU UP, LEST YOU DASH YOUR
FOOT AGAINST A STONE.'" NOW, YOU
00:42:40.59\00:42:44.86
KNOW, RIGHT AWAY -
I HOPE YOU NOTICED.
00:42:44.86\00:42:47.30
IF YOU KNOW PSALM 91 THAT THE
DEVIL IS QUOTING, THE DEVIL IS
00:42:47.30\00:42:51.47
MISQUOTING - HE'S
LEAVING PART OF IT OUT.
00:42:51.47\00:42:54.67
HE LEAVES OUT THE PART 'TO GIVE
HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER YOU TO
00:42:54.67\00:42:57.17
KEEP YOU IN ALL OF YOUR WAYS.'
AND HE'S JUST SAYING, 'HE'LL
00:42:57.17\00:43:01.21
GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE -
JUMP - THEY'LL WATCH OVER YOU.
00:43:01.21\00:43:04.18
THEY'LL CATCH YOU.
THIS'LL BE A SIGN OF FAITH.
00:43:04.18\00:43:06.75
TAKE A LEAP OF
FAITH. WHERE'S YOUR FAITH?'
00:43:06.75\00:43:10.02
AND HE TAKES HIM TO A RELIGIOUS
PLACE. NOW JOSEPHUS TELLS US -
00:43:10.02\00:43:16.49
IT SAYS HE TOOK HIM TO
THE PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE.
00:43:16.49\00:43:18.69
JOSEPHUS TELLS US THAT THE
PINNACLE OF THE JEWISH TEMPLE
00:43:18.69\00:43:22.06
WAS ABOUT 450 FEET.
NOW THAT WAS PRETTY HIGH.
00:43:22.06\00:43:28.67
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE FAITH
IF YOU'RE GOING TO JUMP OFF -
00:43:28.67\00:43:30.91
THAT'S LIKE BUNGEE JUMPING
- 450 FEET IS QUITE A WAYS UP.
00:43:30.91\00:43:37.38
WELL, I'LL SAVE THAT.
HOW DID JESUS RESPOND?
00:43:37.38\00:43:42.65
DEUTERONOMY 6:16 HE SAID IT IS
WRITTEN - AGAIN - "YOU SHALL NOT
00:43:42.65\00:43:47.72
TEMPT THE LORD YOUR GOD."
SO HERE THE DEVIL IS USING
00:43:47.72\00:43:50.09
SCRIPTURE, BUT HE'S MISUSING THE
SCRIPTURE SO JESUS RESPONDS WITH
00:43:50.09\00:43:54.30
THE RIGHT VERSE FROM THE BIBLE.
HE TAKES HIM TO A RELIGIOUS
00:43:54.30\00:43:58.43
PLACE AND HE
QUOTES RELIGIOUS WORDS.
00:43:58.43\00:44:01.37
DOES THE DEVIL
SOMETIMES GO TO CHURCH?
00:44:01.37\00:44:03.44
>>YES. >>YEAH, SO HERE THE
00:44:03.44\00:44:06.41
DEVIL GOES TO THE TEMPLE.
HE HAS NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.
00:44:06.41\00:44:09.61
AND HE'S QUOTING
DEUTERONOMY 6:16.
00:44:09.61\00:44:12.28
AGAIN, I MENTIONED IT, THE
FIRST ADAM FELL IN THE PARADISE,
00:44:12.28\00:44:15.35
JESUS OVERCAME IN A WILDERNESS.
00:44:15.35\00:44:16.89
THE FIRST ADAM FELL
WITH EVERY NEED BEING MET.
00:44:16.89\00:44:19.65
THE SECOND ADAM, JESUS,
OVERCOMES WITH GREAT WANT.
00:44:19.65\00:44:23.26
WHEN DOES THE DEVIL
COME WITH TEMPTATION?
00:44:23.26\00:44:27.30
IT SAYS AFTER HE HAD
GONE 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS.
00:44:27.30\00:44:32.57
HE WAITS UNTIL YOU'RE TIRED.
HE WAITS UNTIL YOU'RE HUNGRY.
00:44:32.57\00:44:37.11
YOU ALWAYS WANT TO SCHEDULE YOUR
BEST ARGUMENTS WITH YOUR SPOUSE
00:44:37.11\00:44:39.67
FOR WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY AND
TIRED AND THAT'S WHEN YOU CAN
00:44:39.67\00:44:43.18
HAVE A REAL GOOD ONE. THE DEVIL
COMES TO US WHEN WE'RE WEAK.
00:44:43.18\00:44:47.92
HE DOESN'T COME TO
YOU WHEN YOU'RE STRONG.
00:44:47.92\00:44:50.32
HE COMES TO YOU WHEN YOU DON'T
EXPECT IT AND SURPRISES YOU.
00:44:50.32\00:44:54.86
YOU NOTICE THE OLD TESTAMENT
BEGINS WITH A SERPENT TEMPTING
00:44:54.86\00:44:57.46
ADAM AND EVE AND
THE WORLD'S FALL.
00:44:57.46\00:45:00.26
THE NEW TESTAMENT BEGINS WITH A
SERPENT TEMPTING THE SON OF GOD
00:45:00.26\00:45:03.20
AND THE WORLD'S SALVATION.
THE OLD TESTAMENT BEGINS BY
00:45:03.20\00:45:07.47
GOD SAYING, 'WHERE ARE YOU?'
THE NEW TESTAMENT BEGINS BY
00:45:07.47\00:45:11.21
THE WISE MEN LOOKING FOR
JESUS SAYING, 'WHERE IS HE?'
00:45:11.21\00:45:14.61
THE OLD TESTAMENT BEGINS
EXPLAINING ABOUT THE PROBLEM.
00:45:14.61\00:45:17.78
THE NEW TESTAMENT BEGINS
EXPLAINING THE SOLUTION TO THE
00:45:17.78\00:45:20.48
PROBLEM. YOU KNOW, THE
DEVIL SAID, 'JUST JUMP.'
00:45:20.48\00:45:28.12
AND JESUS SAID, 'DON'T
TEMPT THE LORD.' DOES THE DEVIL
00:45:28.12\00:45:31.09
STILL TELL PEOPLE TO JUMP?
CHRISTIAN MAN FINDS A BEAUTIFUL
00:45:31.09\00:45:39.57
DAUGHTER OF MEN AND HE'S A
BELIEVER AND SHE'S NOT AND THE
00:45:39.57\00:45:46.01
DEVIL SAYS, 'JUST GO AHEAD AND
PROPOSE. JUMP. GOD'LL CATCH YOU.
00:45:46.01\00:45:52.51
SHE'LL GET CONVERTED LATER.'
DO PEOPLE SOMETIMES STILL TEMPT
00:45:52.51\00:45:56.05
THE LORD TODAY? THE
DEVIL SAYS, 'JUST JUMP,
00:45:56.05\00:45:58.49
GOD'LL CATCH YOU.
GO AHEAD AND SIN AND
00:45:58.49\00:46:02.39
YOU CAN REPENT LATER.
JUST JUMP.' HOW MANY TIMES HAVE
00:46:02.39\00:46:06.19
YOU AND I HEARD THE
DEVIL SAY, 'JUST JUMP.
00:46:06.19\00:46:08.83
GOD'LL PICK UP THE PIECES.
WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY.'?
00:46:08.83\00:46:12.80
AND THEN YOU GET TO THE - THIS
LAST TEMPTATION HERE - DEVIL
00:46:12.80\00:46:18.04
WORSHIP - AND SOMEONE, IN
A MOMENT, IS GOING TO READ
00:46:18.04\00:46:21.38
MATTHEW 4:10. OKAY,
RICKY, YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:46:21.38\00:46:24.71
I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW 4:8
AND 9, "AGAIN, THE DEVIL TOOK
00:46:24.71\00:46:27.78
HIM UP ON AN EXCEEDINGLY HIGH
MOUNTAIN, AND SHOWED HIM ALL THE
00:46:27.78\00:46:31.42
KINGDOMS OF THE
WORLD AND THEIR GLORY.
00:46:31.42\00:46:33.99
AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'ALL THESE
THINGS I WILL GIVE YOU IF YOU
00:46:33.99\00:46:37.89
WILL FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.'"
NOW, AT THIS POINT, THE VEIL HAS
00:46:37.89\00:46:41.06
BEEN TORN ASIDE. YOU
KNOW, JESUS KNOWS WHO IT IS.
00:46:41.06\00:46:44.83
TWICE HE SAID, 'IF
YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD.
00:46:44.83\00:46:46.53
IF YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD.'
AND NOW THE DEVIL SAYS, 'LOOK,
00:46:46.53\00:46:50.34
ALRIGHT, SO YOU KNOW WHO I AM.
YOU CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE
00:46:50.34\00:46:53.44
THE WORLD, I WILL
SAVE YOU ALL THE TROUBLE.
00:46:53.44\00:46:56.75
YOU DON'T NEED TO GO THROUGH
ALL THE MISERY AND SUFFERING,
00:46:56.75\00:47:00.42
REJECTION, AND DEATH THAT YOU'RE
GOING TO EXPERIENCE.' HE SAID,
00:47:00.42\00:47:04.39
'IF YOU JUST BOW DOWN AND
WORSHIP ME, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.
00:47:04.39\00:47:08.26
I'LL HAND YOU THE WORLD ON A
PLATTER.' YOU HEAR ABOUT PEOPLE
00:47:08.26\00:47:12.06
SELLING THEIR
SOULS TO THE DEVIL?
00:47:12.06\00:47:14.20
'IF YOU'LL JUST ACKNOWLEDGE ME.
JUST SELL OUT.' YOU KNOW, SOME
00:47:14.20\00:47:17.40
PEOPLE SELL THEIR SOULS TO
THE DEVIL AND THEY DON'T SIGN A
00:47:17.40\00:47:19.43
CONTRACT AND THEY DON'T PRAY
TO THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL DOESN'T
00:47:19.43\00:47:22.94
APPEAR TO THEM AND SAY,
'LOOK, I'LL MAKE YOU A DEAL.
00:47:22.94\00:47:24.71
I'LL GIVE YOU RICHES, FAME, AND
FORTUNE IF YOU JUST WORSHIP ME.'
00:47:24.71\00:47:28.18
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO'D PROBABLY
DO THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT A LOT
00:47:28.18\00:47:32.65
OF PEOPLE EVERY DAY SORT OF
SELL THEIR SOULS TO THE DEVIL BY
00:47:32.65\00:47:35.28
SAYING, 'I JUST DON'T WANT
TO SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT.
00:47:35.28\00:47:38.55
I'M JUST GOING TO GO WITH
THE FLOW.' AND CHRIST SAID, 'IF
00:47:38.55\00:47:42.19
YOU'RE NOT WITH ME THEN'
- WHAT? >>YOU'RE AGAINST ME.
00:47:42.19\00:47:44.53
>>YOU'RE AGAINST ME.
AND SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'LOOK,
00:47:44.53\00:47:47.40
IT'LL BE EASIER TO
GO ALONG WITH THE WORLD.
00:47:47.40\00:47:51.37
IF I RESIST THE DEVIL HE COMES
AFTER ME.' AS SOON AS JESUS
00:47:51.37\00:47:54.97
BEGAN HIS MINISTRY
THE DEVIL CAME AFTER HIM.
00:47:54.97\00:47:57.21
WHO WANTS TO FIGHT THE DEVIL?
IF THE DEVIL KNOWS WHO YOU ARE,
00:47:57.21\00:48:01.68
IS THAT A GOOD
THING OR A BAD THING?
00:48:01.68\00:48:04.58
HOW MANY OF YOU WANT THE DEVIL
TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE BY NAME?
00:48:04.58\00:48:10.79
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
MIXED FEELINGS ON THIS QUESTION?
00:48:10.79\00:48:13.36
(LAUGHTER) BECAUSE YOU WANT TO
LIVE A LIFE THAT'S A PROBLEM FOR
00:48:13.36\00:48:18.83
THE DEVIL - SUCH A BIG PROBLEM
HE KNOWS WHO YOU ARE, RIGHT?
00:48:18.83\00:48:22.96
SO IN THAT RESPECT YOU WANT
TO BE A PROBLEM FOR THE DEVIL.
00:48:22.96\00:48:25.27
DID THE DEVIL KNOW WHO
PAUL WAS? HOW DO WE KNOW THAT?
00:48:25.27\00:48:29.64
BECAUSE ONE TIME THE DEMONS
SAID, WHEN THESE EXORCISTS TRIED
00:48:29.64\00:48:33.61
TO CAST OUT A DEVIL IN JESUS'
NAME - THEY SAID, 'IN THE NAME
00:48:33.61\00:48:36.98
OF JESUS, WHO PAUL PREACHES,
COME OUT.' AND THE DEVIL
00:48:36.98\00:48:39.25
RESPONDED - HE SAID, 'I KNOW
PAUL AND I KNOW JESUS, BUT I
00:48:39.25\00:48:43.92
DON'T KNOW YOU.' WOULDN'T THAT
BE AN INSULT IF THE DEVIL SAID,
00:48:43.92\00:48:49.06
'I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
YOU'RE SUCH A WICKED PERSON THAT
00:48:49.06\00:48:52.56
YOU'RE JUST PART
OF OUR LOST CROWD.
00:48:52.56\00:48:54.20
WE DON'T EVEN
KNOW - WHO ARE YOU?'
00:48:54.20\00:48:56.60
DON'T YOU WANT THE
DEVIL TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE?
00:48:56.60\00:48:59.57
BUT YOU DON'T WANT ANY
PERSONAL ATTENTION, DO YOU?
00:48:59.57\00:49:02.57
SO IT'S HARD TO SAY THAT.
THAT'S LIKE PRAYING - HAVE YOU
00:49:02.57\00:49:05.84
EVER SAID, 'LORD,
WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SAVE ME.
00:49:05.84\00:49:07.84
SEND TROUBLE. SEND
PAIN. SEND SUFFERING.
00:49:07.84\00:49:09.84
WHATEVER IT TAKES
TO SAVE ME, DO IT.'
00:49:09.84\00:49:12.55
ANY OF YOU EVER
THOUGHT THAT BEFORE?
00:49:12.55\00:49:16.15
BUT YOU HESITATE TO PRAY IT
BECAUSE WHO WANTS TO PRAY FOR
00:49:16.15\00:49:19.72
SOME CYCLONE TO
COME INTO THEIR LIFE?
00:49:19.72\00:49:22.69
BUT IN REALITY, WOULDN'T
THAT BE THE SMART THING?
00:49:22.69\00:49:25.63
TO SAY, 'LORD, I'M
TOTALLY SURRENDERED.
00:49:25.63\00:49:27.10
WHATEVER YOU NEED TO
DO, I'M YOURS.' RIGHT?
00:49:27.10\00:49:31.10
WOULDN'T IT BE
WORTH IT IN THE END?
00:49:31.10\00:49:33.37
OR DO YOU WANT TO BE UNKNOWN TO
THE DEVIL AND UNTESTED BY GOD?
00:49:33.37\00:49:37.74
SO HE TOOK HIM UP TO A VERY HIGH
MOUNTAIN AND SHOWED HIM ALL THE
00:49:37.74\00:49:42.61
KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD - 'ALL
THIS I WILL GIVE YOU.' THAT'S
00:49:42.61\00:49:46.68
WHY JESUS CALLED THE DEVIL THE
PRINCE OF THE WORLD, BECAUSE THE
00:49:46.68\00:49:51.02
- HE CLAIMS IT AS HIS OWN.
YOU KNOW, THE LORD TOOK MOSES UP
00:49:51.02\00:49:57.33
ON A MOUNTAIN AND SHOWED HIM
ALL THE PROMISED LAND BEFORE HE
00:49:57.33\00:50:00.10
DIED. HE SHOWED HIM THE
PROMISES. THE DEVIL IS NOW
00:50:00.10\00:50:05.80
TAKING JESUS UP AND SHOWING
HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS, BUT HE'S
00:50:05.80\00:50:09.77
SAYING, 'DON'T WORSHIP GOD.' IN
REVELATION 21 JOHN IS TAKEN UP
00:50:09.77\00:50:14.24
ON A MOUNTAIN AND
SHOWN THE NEW JERUSALEM.
00:50:14.24\00:50:17.05
YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION
21:10, "AND HE CARRIED ME AWAY
00:50:17.05\00:50:20.02
IN THE SPIRIT TO A GREAT AND
HIGH MOUNTAIN, AND SHOWED ME THE
00:50:20.02\00:50:22.58
GREAT CITY, THE HOLY JERUSALEM,
DESCENDING...FROM GOD."
00:50:22.58\00:50:26.25
WHAT MOUNTAIN IS IT THAT THE
DEVIL TOOK JESUS TO - THAT HE
00:50:26.25\00:50:31.49
SHOWS HIM ALL THE
KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD?
00:50:31.49\00:50:33.13
YOU CAN'T SEE ALL THE
KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD FROM NEBO.
00:50:33.13\00:50:36.20
YOU CAN'T SEE ALL THE KINGDOMS
OF THE WORLD FROM EVEREST.
00:50:36.20\00:50:39.10
HAVE YOU READ IN ISAIAH
14 WHAT DID THE DEVIL WANT?
00:50:39.10\00:50:42.47
ISAIAH 14:13, "FOR YOU HAVE SAID
IN YOUR HEART:" - SPEAKING OF
00:50:42.47\00:50:46.68
LUCIFER - "'I WILL ASCEND INTO
HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE
00:50:46.68\00:50:51.01
ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I WILL
ALSO SIT ON THE MOUNT OF THE
00:50:51.01\00:50:55.52
CONGREGATION ON THE FARTHEST
SIDES OF THE NORTH;" - SO THIS
00:50:55.52\00:50:59.12
MOUNTAIN MUST HAVE
BEEN AT THE NORTH POLE?
00:50:59.12\00:51:01.46
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
FARTHEST SIDES OF THE NORTH?
00:51:01.46\00:51:04.79
SEE, OUR IDEA - WHEN YOU
SAY SOMEONE LIVES DOWN UNDER IN
00:51:04.79\00:51:09.86
AUSTRALIA, WHY DO
YOU SAY 'DOWN UNDER'?
00:51:09.86\00:51:11.67
WHY DON'T YOU SAY
THEY LIVE AT THE TOP?
00:51:11.67\00:51:13.80
THE IDEA OF THE TOP OF THE WORLD
BEING THE NORTH AND THE BOTTOM
00:51:13.80\00:51:16.91
BEING THE SOUTH - THEY EVEN
BELIEVE THAT IN THE SOUTHERN
00:51:16.91\00:51:20.71
HEMISPHERE. THAT IS AN ANCIENT
CONCEPT. THE HIGHEST YOU COULD
00:51:20.71\00:51:26.61
BE - THE PINNACLE OF THE NORTH
- THE DEVIL WANTING TO BE ON THE
00:51:26.61\00:51:30.49
MOUNTAIN OF THE NORTH
MEANT HE WANTED TO BE GOD.
00:51:30.49\00:51:33.99
YOU GET WHAT I'M
SAYING? IT'S THE HIGHEST PLACE.
00:51:33.99\00:51:37.23
AND SO WHEN IT SAYS HE TOOK HIM
UP TO A HIGH MOUNTAIN, THE DEVIL
00:51:37.23\00:51:40.26
TOOK HIM UP TO HIS PLACE
AND HE GAVE HIM A PANORAMA.
00:51:40.26\00:51:43.87
HE CREATED THIS
THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE.
00:51:43.87\00:51:46.33
AND WHEN HE SHOWED HIM THE
CITIES OF THE WORLD, DID THE
00:51:46.33\00:51:48.20
DEVIL SHOW JESUS THE CITIES OF
THE WORLD - DID HE SHOW HIM THE
00:51:48.20\00:51:50.87
SLUMS AND THE DIRTY PLACES AND
THE CRIME, OR DID HE SHOW THEM
00:51:50.87\00:51:55.41
ALL THE GLORY OF THEM? HE
SHOWED THEM THE GOOD SIDE.
00:51:55.41\00:51:59.51
HE HID THE BAD SIDE.
00:51:59.51\00:52:01.95
AND HE SAID, 'OH, I'LL GIVE IT
TO YOU.' - EXCUSE ME - 'IT'LL BE
00:52:01.95\00:52:05.52
YOURS, JUST BOW
DOWN.' HE WANTED TO BE GOD.
00:52:05.52\00:52:10.89
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR ME, PLEASE, MATTHEW 4:10.
00:52:10.89\00:52:15.26
>>"THEN SAYETH JESUS TO HIM,
'GO ADVERSARY, FOR IT HATH BEEN
00:52:15.26\00:52:18.77
WRITTEN, 'THE LORD THY GOD SHALT
THOU BOW TO AND HIM ONLY SHALT
00:52:18.77\00:52:22.64
THOU SERVE.' THEN DOTH THE DEVIL
LEAVE HIM, AND, LO, MESSENGERS
00:52:22.64\00:52:27.21
CAME AND WERE
MINISTERING TO HIM."
00:52:27.21\00:52:30.08
>>ALRIGHT, SO JESUS FINALLY
SAID, 'LOOK, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.'
00:52:30.08\00:52:32.55
THERE ARE THREE
TEMPTATIONS THAT CAME.
00:52:32.55\00:52:35.25
AND ALL TEMPTATION CAN REALLY
BE SUMMARIZED INTO ONE OF THREE
00:52:35.25\00:52:38.99
CATEGORIES: YOU'VE GOT 1 JOHN
2:16, "FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE
00:52:38.99\00:52:43.86
WORLD, THE LUST OF THE FLESH,
AND THE LUST OF THE EYES, AND
00:52:43.86\00:52:47.66
THE PRIDE OF LIFE, IS NOT OF
THE FATHER, BUT IS OF THE WORLD.
00:52:47.66\00:52:50.17
AND THE WORLD PASSETH
AWAY, AND THE LUST THEREOF."
00:52:50.17\00:52:53.50
JESUS IS NOW TEMPTED IN THREE
AREAS: HE'S TEMPTED THROUGH HIS
00:52:53.50\00:52:57.27
SENSES - WHAT
WAS THAT TEMPTATION?
00:52:57.27\00:53:01.01
MAKE THE STONES INTO
BREAD. HE WAS HUNGRY.
00:53:01.01\00:53:04.51
HE HAD A PHYSICAL NEED.
IT WAS A PHYSICAL TEMPTATION.
00:53:04.51\00:53:07.25
HE LOOKED AT THOSE WATER-WASHED
STONES - MAYBE IN A DRY CREEK
00:53:07.25\00:53:09.98
BED OUT THERE IN THE DESERT AND
THEY LOOKED LIKE LITTLE LOAVES.
00:53:09.98\00:53:13.29
AND THE DEVIL PROBABLY CREATED
A FRAGRANCE OF FRESH BREAD AND
00:53:13.29\00:53:18.03
WAFTED IT OVER TO JESUS AND
SAID, 'YOU CAN JUST SPEAK AND
00:53:18.03\00:53:20.66
MAKE THESE BREADS - AND EAT
RIGHT - MAKE THIS INTO BREAD AND
00:53:20.66\00:53:22.83
EAT RIGHT NOW.' HE
TEMPTED HIM THROUGH HIS SENSES.
00:53:22.83\00:53:27.14
HE WAS TEMPTED TO
TEST THE SUPERNATURAL.
00:53:27.14\00:53:30.14
'ANGELS WILL CATCH YOU, JUMP.'
AND HE WAS TEMPTED TO TAKE
00:53:30.14\00:53:34.78
SHORTCUTS TO POWER - 'FALL DOWN
AND WORSHIP ME.' THE SAME AREAS
00:53:34.78\00:53:40.82
WHERE ADAM AND EVE WERE
TEMPTED - WHAT DID GOD SAY IN
00:53:40.82\00:53:44.32
GENESIS 3:6 TO EVE? "AND
WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT THE
00:53:44.32\00:53:49.49
TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD," - LUST
OF THE FLESH - "AND THAT IT WAS
00:53:49.49\00:53:52.99
PLEASANT TO THE EYES," - LUST
OF THE EYES - "AND A TREE TO BE
00:53:52.99\00:53:56.83
DESIRED TO MAKE ONE WISE," -
SMARTER THAN OTHERS - PRIDE OF
00:53:56.83\00:53:59.57
LIFE - "SHE TOOK OF THE
FRUIT THEREOF, AND DID EAT."
00:53:59.57\00:54:03.20
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SAY SOMETIMES
THEY DON'T THINK THAT DIET AND
00:54:03.20\00:54:08.94
CONTROL OVER OUR DIET IS GOING
TO BE AN ISSUE IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:54:08.94\00:54:13.11
WAS IT AN ISSUE WITH
THE FALL OF HUMANITY?
00:54:13.11\00:54:16.85
WAS IT AN ISSUE IN
THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS?
00:54:16.85\00:54:23.56
IN THE END, WHEN IT SAYS THAT
MAYBE YOU CAN'T BUY OR SELL -
00:54:23.56\00:54:27.96
WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT NOT
BE ABLE TO GET NEW CLOTHES FOR A
00:54:27.96\00:54:31.97
LITTLE WHILE, BUT HOW LONG
CAN YOU GO WITHOUT EATING OR
00:54:31.97\00:54:33.70
DRINKING? AND SO
THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS.
00:54:33.70\00:54:37.44
IF JESUS FASTED 40 DAYS AND
40 NIGHTS HE HAD THOSE PASSIONS
00:54:37.44\00:54:41.14
SUBDUED. AND GOD IS
NOT ASKING US TO FAST
00:54:41.14\00:54:44.68
- FASTING
PERIODICALLY IS A GOOD IDEA.
00:54:44.68\00:54:46.58
DO THAT UNDER DOCTOR'S - YOUR
DOCTOR'S COUNSEL, BUT FASTING
00:54:46.58\00:54:51.55
IS BIBLICAL. YOU
DON'T HAVE TO FAST 40 DAYS.
00:54:51.55\00:54:54.59
THREE PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE
FASTED 40 DAYS - WHO WERE THEY?
00:54:54.59\00:54:57.03
>>JESUS. >>JESUS. MOSES. ELIJAH.
00:54:57.03\00:55:03.00
ON THE MOUNT OF
TRANSFIGURATION, WHO APPEARED?
00:55:03.00\00:55:06.30
JESUS, MOSES, AND ELIJAH.
THEY'RE ALL SYMBOLS FOR THE -
00:55:06.30\00:55:11.11
THE LAW AND THE
PROPHETS - THE WORD OF GOD.
00:55:11.11\00:55:14.54
AND - BUT GOD IS NOT
CALLING YOU TO DO THAT.
00:55:14.54\00:55:17.95
BUT WE DO NEED TO ASK GOD
TO GIVE US THE VICTORY IN THESE
00:55:17.95\00:55:21.15
AREAS. SO THESE
WERE THE SAME AREAS
00:55:21.15\00:55:23.02
WHERE ADAM AND EVE
FELL - THE SAME AREAS WHERE
00:55:23.02\00:55:26.92
JESUS WAS TEMPTED.
EVERYTHING THAT WAS LOST BY THE
00:55:26.92\00:55:29.36
FIRST ADAM WAS
RECOVERED BY THE SECOND ADAM.
00:55:29.36\00:55:32.79
SO, WHAT ARE THE TIPS
FOR RESISTING TEMPTATION?
00:55:32.79\00:55:40.07
EVERYTHING THAT - EVERYTHING
THAT JESUS DID TO FIGHT
00:55:40.07\00:55:42.80
TEMPTATION WAS, 'IT IS
WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN.
00:55:42.80\00:55:45.71
IT IS WRITTEN.' BUT THERE ARE
SOME OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO.
00:55:45.71\00:55:50.08
AVOID THE PLACES WHERE YOU KNOW
YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE TEMPTED.
00:55:50.08\00:55:53.78
NOW, IF YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE A
CHRISTIAN LIFE, THE BIBLE SAYS,
00:55:53.78\00:55:55.82
'ALL THAT LIVE GODLY
WILL SUFFER PERSECUTION.'
00:55:55.82\00:55:58.55
BUT THERE ARE
THINGS YOU CAN DO TO AVOID
00:55:58.55\00:56:00.29
PLACES WHERE YOU
KNOW THAT YOU'RE WEAK.
00:56:00.29\00:56:04.06
THERE ARE RELATIONSHIPS
YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN AVOID.
00:56:04.06\00:56:06.93
SOMETIMES YOU CAN AVOID
TEMPTATION BY JUST WAITING UNTIL
00:56:06.93\00:56:09.56
YOU'VE HAD A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP
TO TAKE CARE OF A CONVERSATION
00:56:09.56\00:56:13.00
OR SOMETHING, OR
YOU'VE HAD A MEAL.
00:56:13.00\00:56:16.20
MATTER OF FACT, I'VE GOT ANOTHER
LITTLE BOOK THAT'S CALLED TIPS
00:56:16.20\00:56:19.87
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