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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE ARE HERE AT GRANITE BAY
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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LOCATED IN ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA,
RIGHT NEAR SACRAMENT0, AND WE
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HAVE BEEN WARMING UP OUR VOICES
HERE IN THE SANCTUARY READY FOR
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YOU TO JOIN US. AND SO
WE'RE GOING TO GET RIGHT
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ON WITH OUR SONG SERVICE
THIS MORNING SO PULL OUT YOUR
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HYMNALS, THOSE OF YOU HERE AND
THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, AND JOIN
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WITH US - #223 - LOVELY SONG
- CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS -
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AND WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR
VOICES AROUND THE WORLD AS
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WE SING
TOGETHER. FIRST, SECOND AND
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FOURTH STANZAS - #223. (MUSIC)
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>>CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS,
THE LAMB UPON HIS THRONE, HARK!
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HOW THE HEAVENLY ANTHEM
DROWNS ALL MUSIC BUT ITS OWN.
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AWAKE, MY SOUL, AND SING OF HIM
WHO DIED FOR THEE, AND HAIL HIM
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AS THY MATCHLESS
KING THROUGH ALL ETERNITY.
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CROWN HIM THE LORD OF
LOVE! BEHOLD HIS HANDS AND SIDE,
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THOSE WOUNDS, YET VISIBLE ABOVE,
IN BEAUTY GLORIFIED; NO ANGEL
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IN THE SKY CAN FULLY BEAR THAT
SIGHT, BUT DOWNWARD BEND HIS
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WONDERING EYE AT
MYSTERIES SO GREAT.
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CROWN HIM THE LORD OF YEARS; THE
POTENTATE OF TIME, CREATOR OF
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THE ROLLING
SPHERES, INEFFABLY SUBLIME!
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ALL HAIL, REDEEMER, HAIL!
FOR THOU HAS DIED FOR ME; THY
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PRAISE SHALL NEVER,
NEVER FAIL THROUGHOUT ETERNITY.
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>>AREN'T YOU
LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY?
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>>YES. >>WHEN WE
CAN FACE TO FACE WITH
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JESUS, CROWN HIM WITH MANY
CROWNS AND CAST OUR CROWNS AT
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HIS FEET BECAUSE IF WASN'T FOR
HIM AND HIS SACRIFICE, WE WOULD
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NEVER HAVE THE
HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
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THE THING I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
- OTHER THAN SEEING JESUS - IS
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HEARING THE ANGEL CHOIR
SING AND JOINING WITH THEM.
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AND I WANT TO BE THERE ON THAT
DAY AND I HOPE THAT YOU DO TOO.
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OUR NEXT SONG IS #221, JUST
ON THE OTHER SIDE - REJOICE THE
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LORD IS KING - #221 - AND WE'LL
ALSO DO THE FIRST, SECOND, AND
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FOURTH STANZAS. (MUSIC)
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>>REJOICE, THE LORD IS
KING! YOUR LORD AND KING ADORE!
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REJOICE, GIVE THANKS AND SING,
AND TRIUMPH EVERMORE: LIFT UP
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YOUR HEART, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE!
REJOICE, AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE!
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JESUS, THE SAVIOR, REIGNS, THE
GOD OF TRUTH AND LOVE; WHEN HE
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HAD PURGED OUR STAINS, HE TOOK
HIS SEAT ABOVE: LIFT UP YOUR
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HEART, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE!
REJOICE, AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE!
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REJOICE IN GLORIOUS HOPE!
OUR LORD THE JUDGE SHALL COME,
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AND TAKE HIS SERVANTS UP
TO THEIR ETERNAL HOME: LIFT UP
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YOUR HEART, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE!
REJOICE, AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE!
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>>JOIN WITH ME IN PRAYER BEFORE
PASTOR DOUG BRINGS US OUR LESSON
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STUDY. FATHER IN
HEAVEN, WE DO LIFT UP
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OUR HEARTS TO YOU RIGHT NOW AND
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OUR VOICES. WE
THANK YOU. WE PRAISE YOU.
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AND WE REJOICE FOR
EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE FOR US.
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FATHER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
BLESSING US, FOR LOVING US, AND
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FOR GIVING US THIS OPPORTUNITY
THAT WE HAVE NOW, TO STUDY YOUR
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WORD WHILE WE STILL HAVE
FREEDOMS IN THIS COUNTRY.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR
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SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH,
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>HAPPY
SABBATH. >>HAPPY SABBATH.
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>>AND WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE
HERE VISITING IF YOU'RE AT THE
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND WE KNOW
THAT WE HAVE A NUMBER OF OUR
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GRANITE BAY ONLINE
MEMBERS. WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU.
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WE HAVE PEOPLE SCATTERED AROUND
THE WORLD THAT HAVE NO LOCAL
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CHURCH THEY CAN ATTEND, FOR SOME
REASON AND SO, THROUGH SATELLITE
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OR THE INTERNET, THEY'RE
PART OF OUR EXTENDED FAMILY.
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AND THEN THERE ARE THE OTHER
GUESTS AT LARGE AND WE'RE JUST
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GLAD YOU'RE WATCHING ON ONE
OF THE SEVERAL NETWORKS THAT
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CARRIES THIS STUDY.
WE'RE CONTINUING OUR STUDY NOW
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IN THE QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
REBELLION AND REDEMPTION AND,
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AS ALWAYS, WE HAVE AN OFFER.
TODAY IS NOT JUST A SPECIAL
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OFFER, IT'S A SPECIAL, SPECIAL
OFFER BECAUSE THIS IS SORT OF A
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PREMIUM MAGAZINE
WE'RE GOING TO SEND TO YOU.
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THIS IS SOMETHING - I DON'T
BELIEVE YOU CAN READ IT ONLINE,
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YOU REALLY NEED TO SEND FOR IT -
AND IT'S CALLED HIDDEN TRUTH AND
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IT COVERS THE HIGH POINTS OF
WHAT MANY PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND
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ABOUT THE BIBLE - TALKS
ABOUT THE BIBLE BEING TRUSTED,
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IF GOD IS GOOD WHY
DID HE MAKE A DEVIL?
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HOW IS IT THAT WE
ARE SAVED BY JESUS?
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AND IT JUST HAS SOME OF THE
BEST THEOLOGY AND IT'S ALL FULLY
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ILLUSTRATED.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL BOOK.
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CALL SIMPLY 866-788-3966 -
WE'LL SEND YOU A COPY OF THIS.
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WHEN YOU DO CALL, SAY YOU WOULD
LIKE OFFER #815 - THE HIDDEN
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TRUTH MAGAZINE - IT'S ONE OF OUR
MOST POPULAR RESOURCES AND WE
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HOPE YOU'LL USE THAT.
TODAY'S LESSON - WE'RE
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CONTINUING DEALING WITH THE
THEME OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
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AND WE'RE TALKING, MORE
SPECIFICALLY, ABOUT THE GREAT
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CONTROVERSY AS SEEN IN
THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
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NOW WE TALKED ABOUT IT IN THE
CONTEXT OF THE GREAT TEMPTATION
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LAST WEEK AND WE HAVE A MEMORY
VERSE - MEMORY VERSE MATTHEW
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11:28 - AND YOU SHOULD ALL KNOW
THAT - MATTHEW 11:28 - JESUS
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SAID, "COME UNTO ME, ALL YOU WHO
LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I
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WILL GIVE YOU..." >>REST.
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>>"REST." I THINK
HERE IT'S IN THE NIV.
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IT SAYS, "ALL WHO ARE WEARY
AND BURDENED AND I WILL GIVE YOU
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REST." THERE ARE
TWO GREAT DECLARATIONS
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THAT JESUS MAKES IN THE BOOK
OF MATTHEW THAT SUMMARIZE LIFE.
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ONE IS MATTHEW 11, VERSE 28
AND THE OTHER IS MATTHEW 28,
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VERSES 18 AND 19. ONE IS
CALLED THE GREAT - WHO KNOWS?
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>>INVITATION. >>INVITATION.
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AND THE OTHER ONE IS
THE GREAT COMMISSION.
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THE GREAT
INVITATION SAYS, 'COME TO ME.'
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THE GREAT COMMISSION
SAYS WHAT? >>GO FOR ME.
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>>'GO FOR ME.' AND THE WHOLE
PLAN OF SALVATION IS SUMMED UP
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IN THOSE TWO
VERY IMPORTANT THINGS.
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WE COME TO JESUS AND
THEN WE GO FOR JESUS.
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AND SO HERE YOU HAVE THAT
MEMORY VERSE TALKING ABOUT REST.
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NOW WE'RE GOING TO SPEND A
LITTLE TIME TALKING ABOUT THE
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REST THAT IS IN THIS VERSE
HERE. YOU KNOW, LIFE - LIFE IS
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INVOLVED IN
RHYTHMS OF TAKE AND GIVE.
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WHEN YOU BREATHE YOU'RE TAKING
IN AND THEN YOU'RE GIVING OUT.
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IF YOU ONLY TAKE
IN, YOU EXPLODE, RIGHT?
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YOU ONLY INHALE - YOU
CAN'T DO THAT FOREVER.
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YOUR HEART - BLOOD IS
GOING IN AND BLOOD IS GOING OUT.
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IF YOU WANT TO THRIVE AS A
CHRISTIAN YOU NEED TO RECEIVE
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FROM GOD AND GIVE FOR
GOD. YOU RECEIVE BLESSINGS,
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YOU SHARE
BLESSINGS. YOU COME TO CHRIST,
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YOU GO FOR CHRIST.
EVERY DAY WE RECEIVE FROM
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CHRIST, WE GIVE FOR CHRIST.
AS YOU HAVE ONE HAND OPEN IN
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RECEIVING, YOU BECOME A CONDUIT,
A CHANNEL OF BLESSING TO THE
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WORLD - YOU HAVE
ANOTHER HAND OPEN IN GIVING.
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AND SALVATION IS
ABOUT A LOVE RELATIONSHIP.
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IT'S THIS LOVE RELATIONSHIP
AND IT'S THIS LOVE RELATIONSHIP.
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I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE
THE POPE WHEN I DO THAT.
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BUT THE FIRST PART IS THE GREAT
COMMISSION: "COME UNTO ME" AND
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WHAT DOES HE
PROMISE? "I'LL GIVE YOU REST."
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THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF REST AND
THAT'S THE FIRST SECTION WE'RE
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CONSIDERING.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME
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GENESIS 2:2 IN JUST A MOMENT.
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND GET READY.
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AND THE SECOND PART OF MATTHEW
11:28 IS VERSE 29, OF COURSE,
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"TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND LEARN
FROM ME, FOR I AM GENTLE AND
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LOWLY IN HEART, AND YOU WILL
FIND REST" - NOT JUST PHYSICAL
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REST, BUT "REST FOR YOUR SOULS."
JESUS IS PROMISING US AN INNER
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PEACE AND A REST
IF WE TAKE HIS YOKE.
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NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A
CONTRADICTION, BECAUSE A YOKE -
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NOT TALKING ABOUT AN EGG YOLK -
A FARMING YOKE IS SOMETHING THAT
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YOU WOULD PUT ON A COUPLE OF
ANIMALS THAT WOULD BE PULLING A
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PLOW OR SOME FARM IMPLEMENT AND
TO GET A LITTLE MORE STRENGTH,
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YOU'D YOKE THEM TOGETHER.
TWO CHARIOT HORSES WOULD BE
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YOKED TOGETHER SO THAT
THEY COULD PULL THE CHARIOT
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AT THE SAME SPEED. SO
THE VERY CONTEXT OF A YOKE IS
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TALKING ABOUT AN INSTRUMENT OF
WORK, BUT JESUS SAID 'YOKING UP
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TO ME IS EASIER THAN
YOKING UP TO ANYONE ELSE.
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IF YOU'RE NOT YOKED TO
CHRIST, WHO ARE YOU YOKED TO?
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>>SATAN. >>THERE'S ONLY TWO.
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THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT
CONTROVERSY - AND HIS BURDEN IS
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HEAVY AND THERE IS NO REST.
AND IT'S GOING TO COME OUT LATER
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IN OUR - IN OUR STUDY
- PAUL TALKS ABOUT DO NOT
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BE UNEQUALLY YOKED. WHAT
IS HE TALKING ABOUT THERE?
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TALKING ABOUT BELIEVERS MARRYING
UNBELIEVERS AND IT'S ALSO TRUE
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IN YOUR BUSINESSES.
YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT,
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IN PARTNERSHIPS, NOT BEING
UNEQUALLY YOKED WITH SOMEBODY
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WHO MAY NOT SHARE
YOUR CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND
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IT CAN CREATE ALL
KIDS OF CHALLENGES.
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SO HE SAYS, 'YOU'LL
FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.'
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JEREMIAH 6:16, "THUS SAYS
THE LORD: 'STAND IN THE WAYS AND
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SEE, AND ASK FOR THE OLD PATHS,
WHERE THE GOOD WAY IS, AND WALK
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IN IT; THEN YOU WILL FIND REST
FOR YOUR SOULS.' BUT THEY SAID,
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'WE WILL NOT WALK IN IT.'" YOU
KNOW, JESUS IS PROBABLY ALLUDING
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BACK TO JEREMIAH'S STATEMENT
WHEN HE SAID, 'COME UNTO ME AND
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YOU'LL FIND REST FOR YOUR
SOULS.' SOMEONE DID A COUNT -
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AND I DIDN'T DO IT, BUT BASED
ON WHAT I'VE READ, I THINK IT'S
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ACCURATE - THAT TEN PERCENT
OF EVERYTHING JESUS SAID, HE IS
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QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT,
OR AT LEAST PARAPHRASING THE OLD
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TESTAMENT. SO JESUS
WAS A BIBLE TEACHER.
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ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US,
GENESIS 2:2 - ONE PLACE IT SAYS
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REST FIRST APPEARS.
>>"THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE
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EARTH, AND ALL THE
HOST OF THEM, WERE FINISHED.
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AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED
HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD DONE, AND
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HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY
FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD
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DONE." >>THANK
YOU. NOW WE'RE GOING TO
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TALK A MOMENT ABOUT GOD
RESTING. DID HE REST BECAUSE HE
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WAS ALL TUCKERED
OUT? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
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YOU KNOW, THIS IS A VERY
IMPORTANT VERSE IF, FOR NOTHING
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ELSE, BECAUSE IT
TEACHES A LITERAL CREATION.
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YOU KNOW, JUST DRIVING
TO CHURCH THIS MORNING AS WE
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OFTEN DO, IT JUST SO HAPPENS
THAT THE STARS LINE UP WHERE
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WHEN WE'RE COMING TO
CHURCH THERE'S A CHRISTIAN RADIO
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PROGRAM ON CREATION . I
DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER LISTEN
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TO FAMILY RADIO - THEY'VE GOT
A LITTLE SEGMENT THIS GENTLEMAN
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TALKS ABOUT SOME OF THE
DEEPER THINGS - THE BIBLICAL
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ARGUMENTS FOR
CREATION. I SEE SOME OF YOU
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NODDING IN
RECOGNITION. AND HE WAS TALKING
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ABOUT THAT TODAY. THE
IDEA OF THE - SOME PEOPLE
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SAY, 'WELL, YEAH, GOD CREATED
BUT HE USED EVOLUTION TO DO IT.'
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AND THAT THESE WERE REALLY
EPOCHS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS.
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BUT EVERYTHING IN THE
TEXT SAYS THAT IT WAS LITERAL.
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IT TALKS ABOUT LIGHT AND DARK.
IT TALKS ABOUT DAY AND NIGHT.
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AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE LORD
RESTING AT THE CONCLUSION OF
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THIS TIME PERIOD. AND
IF YOU START BELIEVING THAT
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THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS IN THE
BIBLE ARE NOT HISTORICAL, BUT
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THEY'RE MYTHICAL, WHAT DO YOU DO
WITH LUKE WHEN IT GOES THROUGH
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THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS AND IT
TRACES THE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST
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RIGHT FROM
JESUS' DAY BACK TO ADAM?
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DOES LUKE, SOMEWHERE BACK WHEN
HE STARTS NEARING ADAM, SWITCH
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OVER AND BECOME
SPIRITUAL AND MYTHICAL AGAIN?
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THE BIBLE
TREATS IT AS VERY REAL.
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AND SO, YOU CANNOT - AND JESUS
SAID, 'IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE
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MOSES' - INCLUDING THE FIRST
ELEVEN CHAPTERS - HE SAID, 'YOU
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WON'T BELIEVE ME.' CHRIST TALKED
ABOUT GOD MAKING THEM MALE AND
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FEMALE - IN THE
BEGINNING. THEY DIDN'T EVOLVE.
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AND SO, I HOPE THAT YOU WILL NOT
BE CONFUSED BECAUSE WE'RE IN A
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CULTURE THAT IS ABSOLUTELY
SATURATED WITH THIS - THIS
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TEACHING ABOUT EVOLUTION THAT IS
BECOMING MORE AND MORE SHOWN TO
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BE UNSCIENTIFIC, BUT IT
IS CERTAINLY UNBIBLICAL.
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AND JUST HERE, RIGHT AT THE VERY
BEGINNING - AND ESPECIALLY IF
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YOU'RE A SABBATH
KEEPING CHRISTIAN.
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TO BE A SABBATH-KEEPING
CHRISTIAN THAT BELIEVES IN
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EVOLUTION IS AN OXYMORON,
BECAUSE EVERY SABBATH IS A
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CELEBRATION OF
THE SIX-DAY CREATION.
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>>AMEN. >>OF
COURSE, I ALWAYS - IS IT
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A SIX-DAY CREATION OR
IS IT A SEVEN-DAY CREATION?
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THE WHOLE THING WASN'T DONE
UNTIL HE'D RESTED ONE DAY SO -
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ANYWAY, YOU COULD ARGUE
THAT. ALRIGHT, GO TO EXODUS 31 -
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TALKING ABOUT REST - GOD,
REMINDING THEM OF THE SABBATH
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TRUTH - EXODUS 31:16, "THEREFORE
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL
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KEEP THE SABBATH, TO OBSERVE
THE SABBATH THROUGHOUT THEIR
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GENERATIONS AS A
PERPETUAL COVENANT."
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NOW SOME STOP - I KNOW A NUMBER
OF PEOPLE WHO SAY, 'SEE, HE MADE
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THE SABBATH FOR THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL.' THERE ARE A COUPLE OF
00:15:21.82\00:15:25.12
VERSES THAT SAY GOD MADE IT FOR
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - JESUS
00:15:25.12\00:15:28.42
SAID THE SABBATH
WAS MADE FOR - >>MAN.
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>>'MAN.' WHEN IT SAYS THAT
HE MADE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF
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ISRAEL, HE'S SAYING, 'WELL, A
LOT OF THE TRUTH I GAVE TO YOU.
00:15:34.60\00:15:37.73
I ALSO GAVE YOU THE OTHER NINE
COMMANDMENTS, THAT DOESN'T MEAN
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IT'S JUST FOR YOU, IT MEANS THAT
YOU ARE TO BE A NATION OF KINGS
00:15:40.14\00:15:43.64
AND PRIESTS, TEACHING THESE
TRUTHS TO THE OTHER NATIONS.
00:15:43.64\00:15:48.14
AND WHEN THEY ACCEPT THESE
TRUTHS, THEY ARE ADOPTED INTO' -
00:15:48.14\00:15:51.95
GRAFTED, AS PAUL SAYS - 'INTO
ISRAEL.' SO IT WAS THE TRUTH FOR
00:15:51.95\00:15:55.62
ALL PEOPLE. NOT ALL
PEOPLE OBSERVED IT AND
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SO THAT'S WHY GOD SAID, 'I'M
REMINDING YOU THAT YOU'RE TO
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BE A NATION THAT
TEACHES THESE THINGS.
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I'M GOING TO KEEP GOING HERE -
VERSE 17 - EXODUS 31:17 - "IT IS
00:16:02.09\00:16:07.13
A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FOREVER; FOR
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IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE THE
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, AND ON
00:16:11.00\00:16:14.17
THE SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED" - SO
IT WAS A SIGN FOR THE CHILDREN
00:16:14.17\00:16:17.11
OF ISRAEL AND EVERYBODY THAT
BELIEVES THAT HE MADE THE WORLD
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IN SIX DAYS. DO YOU GET
THAT? SO IS IT A SIGN FOR YOU?
00:16:21.21\00:16:26.18
IF YOU BELIEVE THAT HE'S THE
CREATOR, IT'S A SIGN FOR YOU.
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"THE LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND
THE EARTH, AND ON THE SEVENTH
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DAY HE RESTED
AND WAS REFRESHED."
00:16:31.05\00:16:35.49
HOW DOES GOD GET REFRESHED?
IF GOD IMPROVES, IS HE PERFECT?
00:16:35.49\00:16:46.57
IF GOD LEARNS,
IS HE ALL-KNOWING?
00:16:46.57\00:16:50.31
IF GOD IS REFRESHED, DOES IT SAY
THAT HE MUST HAVE BEEN TIRED OR
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MUSTY AND DUSTY AND
HAD TO WASH HIS FACE?
00:16:54.41\00:16:57.45
IS IT - DO YOU
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:16:57.45\00:17:02.28
DOES THE LORD
EVER SLUMBER OR SLEEP?
00:17:02.28\00:17:05.19
IT SAYS IN THE PSALMS, 'HE THAT
KEEPS ISRAEL WILL - HE NEITHER
00:17:05.19\00:17:07.59
SLUMBERS NOR SLEEPS.' AND
EVEN JESUS SAID, 'I WORK AND MY
00:17:07.59\00:17:12.83
FATHER WORKS' - 'MY FATHER WORKS
AND I WORK.' IN OTHER WORDS, GOD
00:17:12.83\00:17:15.06
IS ALWAYS SUSTAINING
LIFE. HE NEVER TAKES A REST OR
00:17:15.06\00:17:17.97
WE'D ALL DIE FROM THAT. SO
WHAT DOES IT MEAN HERE WHEN
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IT SAYS, 'GOD
RESTED AND WAS REFRESHED?
00:17:21.67\00:17:26.37
IF ANY OF YOU HAVE CREATED
SOMETHING, WHETHER YOU MADE A
00:17:26.37\00:17:32.48
DISH OR YOU MADE SOMETHING
IN - I DID A LITTLE HOME REPAIR
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YESTERDAY AND, YOU KNOW, JUST
HAD TO PATCH A HOLE IN THE WALL
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- AND YOU GET DONE WITH IT -
IT DIDN'T TAKE THAT LONG - YOU
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STAND BACK AND YOU LOOK AT
IT AND YOU GO, 'YES, I'VE BEEN
00:17:44.83\00:17:48.53
LOOKING AT THAT HOLE
IN THE GARAGE FOR YEARS.
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I AM SO GLAD TO
HAVE THAT COVERED UP.'
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I WAS REFRESHED.
I WAS ENCOURAGED.
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HAVE YOU EVER DONE A JOB WELL,
WHETHER YOU KNIT SOMETHING OR
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YOU COOK SOMETHING AND YOU
LOOK BACK AND YOU GO, 'AH, IT'S
00:18:00.44\00:18:04.58
DONE.' SEE, GOD'S A CREATOR
AND HE MAKES US TO CREATE.
00:18:04.58\00:18:07.85
AND HE WAS
REFRESHED IN HIS CREATION.
00:18:07.85\00:18:10.09
HE WASN'T TIRED.
HE WASN'T EXHAUSTED.
00:18:10.09\00:18:12.42
HE DIDN'T HAVE TO WASH
UP BECAUSE GOD'S PERFECT.
00:18:12.42\00:18:14.39
GOD NEVER GETS
TIRED. HE DOESN'T GET DIRTY.
00:18:14.39\00:18:15.76
HE'S HOLY. SO
THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS.
00:18:15.76\00:18:17.69
HE RESTED AND WAS REFRESHED.
AND WE SHOULD BE REFRESHED IN
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OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM
EACH WEEK. LET'S READ THIS -
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EXODUS 23:10, "SIX YEARS YOU
SHALL SOW YOUR LAND AND GATHER
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IN ITS PRODUCE, BUT THE SEVENTH
YEAR YOU SHALL LET IT REST AND
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LIE FALLOW, THAT THE
POOR OF YOUR PEOPLE MAY EAT."
00:18:34.31\00:18:37.88
- SO ONE THING THAT HAPPENS IS,
WHATEVER CROPS HAPPEN TO GROW
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VOLUNTARILY THAT
YEAR WERE FOR THE POOR.
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YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE BLESSED
DURING THE SIX YEARS SO YOU
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STORED A PROVISION, JUST
LIKE JOSEPH STORED UP DURING THE
00:18:45.22\00:18:47.42
YEARS OF PLENTY SO THEY COULD
EAT DURING YEARS OF SCARCITY.
00:18:47.42\00:18:51.73
AND WHATEVER WOULD SPRING UP -
VOLUNTEER - THE POOR WOULD HAVE,
00:18:51.73\00:18:55.86
AND IT SAYS THE LAND WOULD
REST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S
00:18:55.86\00:18:58.93
CERTAIN WEEDS AND CROPS THAT
GROW WHEN YOU DON'T TILL THE
00:18:58.93\00:19:01.30
SOIL THAT MAY NOT BE GOOD FOR
EATING, BUT THEY ADD NITROGEN
00:19:01.30\00:19:04.71
AND NUTRIENTS TO THE SOIL
AND YOU JUST TILL THEM UNDER AND
00:19:04.71\00:19:09.04
IT'S A COVER CROP
THAT REFRESHES THINGS.
00:19:09.04\00:19:11.95
I THINK ONE OF THE REASONS
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER BECAME
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SO FAMOUS WAS NOT JUST BECAUSE
OF HIS INVENTIONS REGARDING
00:19:15.12\00:19:17.62
PEANUT BUTTER. THE
REASON HE MADE INVENTIONS
00:19:17.62\00:19:20.39
REGARDING PEANUT
BUTTER - WHO KNOWS?
00:19:20.39\00:19:22.96
IT'S BECAUSE THE SOUTH HAD GROWN
SO MUCH COTTON - COTTON DRAWS
00:19:22.96\00:19:27.36
NITROGEN OUT OF THE SOIL - THEY
HAD COMPLETELY DEPLETED THE SOIL
00:19:27.36\00:19:32.00
AND GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
REALIZED THAT A FEW THINGS -
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SWEET POTATOES AND PEANUTS -
WHEN YOU PLANT THEM, ACTUALLY
00:19:36.74\00:19:39.17
INCREASE THE NITROGEN.
AND HE HAD TO CONVINCE THE
00:19:39.17\00:19:43.35
FARMERS, 'YOU'VE GOT TO
GROW PEANUTS.' AND THEY'LL,
00:19:43.35\00:19:45.28
'WHAT DO WE DO WITH PEANUTS?'
HE SAID, 'I'LL THINK OF
00:19:45.28\00:19:47.38
SOMETHING.' TODAY IT'S CALLED
PEANUT BUTTER - AND ALL THESE
00:19:47.38\00:19:50.22
OTHER THINGS - AND HE SAID, 'BUT
YOU'VE GOT TO GROW PEANUTS.' AND
00:19:50.22\00:19:52.92
SO HE HELPED CREATE A MARKET FOR
PEANUTS SO THAT THOSE FARMERS
00:19:52.92\00:19:57.03
IN THE SOUTH WOULDN'T GO BROKE
BECAUSE, AFTER ONE OR TWO YEARS
00:19:57.03\00:20:00.96
OF GROWING PEANUTS, THE
COTTON WOULD THEN DO WELL AGAIN.
00:20:00.96\00:20:05.30
AND SO THE LAND NEEDED
REST. IT NEEDED TO RECOVER.
00:20:05.30\00:20:08.97
NOW THE PEOPLE OF GOD, YOU KNOW,
THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE HIS WORD AND
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THEY KEPT WORKING THE LAND AND
WORKING THE LAND AND THEY HAD
00:20:13.58\00:20:16.81
FAMINES AND PROBLEMS AND, I WANT
YOU TO NOTICE, 2 CHRONICLES 36,
00:20:16.81\00:20:22.38
VERSE 19, SPEAKING OF WHEN
NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME AND IT SAYS,
00:20:22.38\00:20:27.19
"THEN THEY BURNED THE HOUSE OF
GOD," - THE TEMPLE - "BROKE DOWN
00:20:27.19\00:20:30.06
THE WALL OF JERUSALEM, BURNED
ALL ITS PALACES WITH FIRE, AND
00:20:30.06\00:20:33.19
DESTROYED ALL ITS
PRECIOUS POSSESSIONS.
00:20:33.19\00:20:35.73
AND THOSE WHO ESCAPED FROM
THE SWORD" - THOSE WHO WEREN'T
00:20:35.73\00:20:38.57
KILLED - "HE CARRIED AWAY
TO BABYLON, WHERE THEY BECAME
00:20:38.57\00:20:42.10
SERVANTS TO HIM AND HIS SONS
UNTIL THE RULE OF THE KINGDOM OF
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PERSIA," - WHEN THEY WERE
ALLOWED TO COME BACK - "TO
00:20:46.11\00:20:48.78
FULFILL THE WORD OF THE LORD BY
THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH, UNTIL THE
00:20:48.78\00:20:52.81
LAND HAD ENJOYED HER SABBATHS.
AS LONG AS SHE LAY DESOLATE SHE
00:20:52.81\00:20:58.22
KEPT SABBATH, TO
FULFILL SEVENTY YEARS."
00:20:58.22\00:21:01.72
THIS WAS FOR ALL THE YEARS THEY
HAD NEGLECTED THE SEVEN-YEAR
00:21:01.72\00:21:05.86
SABBATH. GOD
SAID, 'I'M GOING TO MAKE
00:21:05.86\00:21:08.10
YOU, NOW, FOR 490 YEARS, I'M
GOING TO MAKE YOU MAKE THE LAND
00:21:08.10\00:21:11.67
KEEP SABBATH FOR
SEVENTY YEARS TO COMPENSATE.
00:21:11.67\00:21:16.54
AND WHILE IT WAS
DESOLATE, IT KEPT SABBATH.
00:21:16.54\00:21:18.61
WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OR WHAT
IS THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD
00:21:18.61\00:21:22.04
DURING THE 1,000
YEARS OR MILLENNIUM?
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>>DESOLATION. >>IT'S DESOLATE.
00:21:25.68\00:21:28.02
DOES GOD HAVE AN OPERATION
OF YOU FARM THE LAND SIX YEARS,
00:21:28.02\00:21:31.19
YOU LET IT REST ONE?
HAS JESUS BEEN SOWING THE
00:21:31.19\00:21:34.76
GOSPEL SEED FOR 6,000 YEARS?
IS HE GOING TO LET - IS HE
00:21:34.76\00:21:39.23
COMING TO HARVEST IN
REVELATION? DOES IT SAY HE'S
00:21:39.23\00:21:41.80
COMING TO HARVEST? AND
THEN IS HE GOING TO LET THE
00:21:41.80\00:21:43.80
LAND REST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS
AND THE - AND MAKE A NEW HEAVEN
00:21:43.80\00:21:46.87
AND A NEW EARTH
AT THE END OF THAT?
00:21:46.87\00:21:49.07
SO IT'S - EVEN THE WORLD
IS GOING TO KEEP A 1,000-YEAR
00:21:49.07\00:21:51.77
SABBATH - THE LAND.
RIGHT NOW, THE WHOLE CREATION
00:21:51.77\00:21:54.84
GROANS AND TRAVAILS.
AND, NOW, I'M NOT - I'M NOT,
00:21:54.84\00:21:59.95
JUST SO - I'VE GOT TO
ISSUE A DISCLAIMER - I'M NOT
00:21:59.95\00:22:03.22
AN ENVIRONMENTAL NUT.
I'M NOT A TREE HUGGER.
00:22:03.22\00:22:07.09
I'M MORE OF A LOGGER THAN A TREE
HUGGER (LAUGHTER) BUT I THINK
00:22:07.09\00:22:10.76
THAT IT IS VALID TO KNOW THAT
MAN IS EXPLOITING THE RESOURCES
00:22:10.76\00:22:18.93
OF THE WORLD FASTER
THAN THEY CAN RECOVER.
00:22:18.93\00:22:22.64
YOU JUST - IF YOU'RE A PILOT AND
YOU FLY AROUND THE COUNTRY, YOU
00:22:22.64\00:22:25.31
SEE IT ALL THE
TIME. THE SPRAWL OF THE
00:22:25.31\00:22:27.48
CITIES ARE SPREADING. THE
FORESTS ARE GETTING SHORTER.
00:22:27.48\00:22:30.01
THERE'S VERY LITTLE VIRGIN
GROWTH LEFT AND - IN A NUMBER OF
00:22:30.01\00:22:33.42
WAYS THE - AND THE BIBLE SAYS
THE WHOLE CREATION GROANS AND
00:22:33.42\00:22:37.65
TRAVAILS. THE EARTH
WAXES OLD LIKE A GARMENT.
00:22:37.65\00:22:40.66
GOD IS COMING TO DESTROY
THOSE THAT DESTROY THE EARTH.
00:22:40.66\00:22:43.73
GOD PUT ADAM AND EVE IN A
GARDEN TO TAKE CARE OF IT.
00:22:43.73\00:22:47.10
BUT HUMANITY, THE DESCENDENTS
OF ADAM AND EVE, ARE NOT DOING A
00:22:47.10\00:22:51.90
REALLY GOOD JOB AND SO I THINK
THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE SIGNS.
00:22:51.90\00:22:57.17
THE EARTH IS NOT
RESTING. IT'S GOING TO GET
00:22:57.17\00:22:58.57
AN ENFORCED REST. I
HOPE I SAID THAT IN A WAY
00:22:58.57\00:23:02.34
THAT SOUNDED
BALANCED AND NOT RADICAL.
00:23:02.34\00:23:04.65
ALRIGHT, NOT ONLY DOES THE LAND
REST, THE LAND WAS TO REST -
00:23:04.65\00:23:09.02
OR PEOPLE WERE TO REST FROM WAR.
00:23:09.02\00:23:11.45
YOU GO TO - I TOLD YOU I'D
SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THIS -
00:23:11.45\00:23:13.36
DEUTERONOMY 25, VERSE 19,
"THEREFORE IT SHALL BE, WHEN THE
00:23:13.36\00:23:20.83
LORD YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU REST
FROM YOUR ENEMIES ALL AROUND, IN
00:23:20.83\00:23:24.97
THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD
IS GIVING YOU TO POSSESS AS AN
00:23:24.97\00:23:27.60
INHERITANCE, THAT YOU WILL
NOT FORGET - I'M SORRY - AN
00:23:27.60\00:23:31.84
INHERITANCE THAT YOU WILL BLOT
OUT THE REMEMBRANCE OF AMALEK
00:23:31.84\00:23:35.21
FROM UNDER HEAVEN.
YOU SHALL NOT FORGET."
00:23:35.21\00:23:36.61
SO GOD SAID THERE WOULD BE A
TIME WHEN THEY WOULD HAVE REST
00:23:36.61\00:23:38.18
FROM THEIR ENEMIES.
WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
00:23:38.18\00:23:41.15
DID THEY CONQUER THE PROMISED
LAND IN ONE YEAR OR WERE THERE
00:23:41.15\00:23:44.32
SEVERAL YEARS OF
WAR? >>SEVERAL YEARS.
00:23:44.32\00:23:46.96
>>AND YOU'LL FIND, WHEN YOU COME
TO CHRIST, THERE MAY BE SEVERAL
00:23:46.96\00:23:49.22
YEARS OF WAR WHEN YOU'RE TRYING
TO DRIVE OUT THE CANAANITES AND
00:23:49.22\00:23:51.99
THE PERIZZITES AND THE JEBUSITES
AND THE PHILISTINES AND
00:23:51.99\00:23:54.46
EVERYBODY ELSE THAT'S GIVING YOU
A HARD TIME - TALKING ABOUT THIS
00:23:54.46\00:23:57.53
BATTLE ON THE INSIDE
SO THAT YOU HAVE REST.
00:23:57.53\00:24:03.27
SO THERE WAS A REST FROM
WAR THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT.
00:24:03.27\00:24:07.28
LOOK IN 2 CHRONICLES 14:6, "AND
HE BUILT FORTIFIED CITIES IN
00:24:07.28\00:24:12.08
JUDAH, FOR THE LAND HAD REST;
HE HAD NO WAR IN THOSE YEARS,
00:24:12.08\00:24:16.55
BECAUSE THE LORD
HAD GIVEN HIM REST."
00:24:16.55\00:24:18.85
AND THIS HAPPENED DURING THE
TIME OF ASA, DURING THE TIME OF
00:24:18.85\00:24:20.62
UZZAH, AND A FEW KINGS - SOLOMON
- THE LORD HAD REST FROM WAR.
00:24:20.62\00:24:25.73
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT, 'OH, MAN,
THERE'S JUST TEMPTATIONS AND
00:24:25.73\00:24:28.76
STRUGGLES EVERY DAY.' WOULDN'T
YOU LIKE TO GO THROUGH A WEEK
00:24:28.76\00:24:31.80
WITH NO TEMPTATION? >>YES.
00:24:31.80\00:24:34.34
>>A COUPLE WAYS THAT'LL HAPPEN:
ONE IS YOU CAN GRIEVE AWAY THE
00:24:34.34\00:24:36.84
HOLY SPIRIT AND YOU WON'T NOTICE
THE TEMPTATION BECAUSE YOU WON'T
00:24:36.84\00:24:40.34
BE TEMPTED BECAUSE
YOU GIVE IN TO EVERYTHING.
00:24:40.34\00:24:42.68
AND THE OTHER IS
THAT JESUS'LL COME.
00:24:42.68\00:24:47.05
THERE ARE PERIODS - THERE ARE
SPELLS WHERE IT'S NOT SO BAD.
00:24:47.05\00:24:52.45
WHEN JESUS WAS TEMPTED BY
THE DEVIL, AFTER HE RESISTED THE
00:24:52.45\00:24:55.42
DEVIL THE THIRD TIME, IT SAID
SATAN LEFT HIM FOR A SEASON.
00:24:55.42\00:25:00.90
SO, YOU KNOW, GOD CAN EVEN GIVE
YOU PEACE FOR AWHILE FROM YOUR
00:25:00.90\00:25:04.70
ENEMIES. BUT
OTHERWISE, JESUS SAID,
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.14
'IN THE WORLD YOU
WILL HAVE TRIBULATION.
00:25:07.14\00:25:08.87
BE OF GOOD CHEER; I
HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.'
00:25:08.87\00:25:12.21
THEN YOU FIND ANOTHER REST
HERE IN JEREMIAH 30, VERSE 10,
00:25:12.21\00:25:17.31
"'THEREFORE DO NOT FEAR, O MY
SERVANT JACOB,' SAYS THE LORD,
00:25:17.31\00:25:20.78
'NOR BE DISMAYED, O ISRAEL;
FOR BEHOLD, I WILL SAVE YOU FROM
00:25:20.78\00:25:24.09
AFAR, AND YOUR SEED FROM
THE LAND OF THEIR CAPTIVITY.
00:25:24.09\00:25:27.69
JACOB SHALL RETURN, HAVE REST
AND BE QUIET, AND NO ONE SHALL
00:25:27.69\00:25:31.89
MAKE HIM AFRAID.'" NOW THIS
REST IS TALKING ABOUT WHEN THE
00:25:31.89\00:25:34.56
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WOULD FINALLY
COME BACK INTO THE PROMISED
00:25:34.56\00:25:37.10
LAND. THEY DID
HAVE SEVERAL YEARS OF
00:25:37.10\00:25:39.43
PEACE DURING THE TIME OF PERSIA
AND EVEN DURING THE TIME OF
00:25:39.43\00:25:42.74
THE GREEKS, BUT IT'S, MORE
SPECIFICALLY, TALKING ABOUT
00:25:42.74\00:25:46.88
THE REST THAT WE ENJOY WHEN
WE INHERIT THE PROMISED LAND.
00:25:46.88\00:25:51.41
ANOTHER REST.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:25:51.41\00:25:53.92
FOR ME REVELATION 14:11.
I'M GOING TO READ ONE MORE.
00:25:53.92\00:25:58.59
YOU EVER - WELL, WHAT DO YOU SEE
ON GRAVES WHEN IT SAYS 'R.I.P'?
00:25:58.59\00:26:02.12
WHAT DOES THAT STAND
FOR? >>REST IN PEACE.
00:26:02.12\00:26:04.13
>>REST IN PEACE. AND YOU
KNOW WHERE THAT COMES FROM?
00:26:04.13\00:26:08.03
THE BIBLE. JOB 3:11
- SOMEONE'S GOING TO
00:26:08.03\00:26:12.37
READ REVELATION
14:11 IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:26:12.37\00:26:14.77
JOB 3:11 SAYS, "WHY
DID I NOT DIE AT BIRTH?
00:26:14.77\00:26:19.71
WHY DID I NOT PERISH
WHEN I CAME FROM THE WOMB?"
00:26:19.71\00:26:22.11
- JOB IS, YOU KNOW, IN THE MIDST
OF HIS TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS AND
00:26:22.11\00:26:24.41
PHYSICAL PAIN - WHY
DID THE KNEES RECEIVE ME?
00:26:24.41\00:26:27.62
OR WHY THE BREASTS,
THAT I SHOULD NURSE?
00:26:27.62\00:26:29.55
FOR NOW I WOULD HAVE LAIN STILL
AND BEEN QUIET, I WOULD HAVE
00:26:29.55\00:26:32.49
BEEN ASLEEP; THEN I WOULD HAVE
BEEN AT REST...OR WHY WAS I NOT
00:26:32.49\00:26:36.76
HIDDEN LIKE A STILLBORN CHILD,
LIKE INFANTS WHO NEVER SAW
00:26:36.76\00:26:39.69
LIGHT? THERE THE
WICKED CEASE FROM
00:26:39.69\00:26:42.53
TROUBLING, AND THERE
THE WEARY ARE AT REST.
00:26:42.53\00:26:46.10
THERE THE PRISONERS REST
TOGETHER; THEY DO NOT HEAR THE
00:26:46.10\00:26:49.77
VOICE OF THE OPPRESSOR."
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN SOMEONE
00:26:49.77\00:26:55.44
WE LOVE IS GOING THROUGH THEIR
FINAL SICKNESS AND MAYBE IT'S
00:26:55.44\00:26:59.95
CANCER OR SOME PAINFUL DEATH
AND THEY'RE STRUGGLING - THEY'RE
00:26:59.95\00:27:03.92
UNCOMFORTABLE - AND FINALLY,
WHEN THEY DO DIE, THERE'S
00:27:03.92\00:27:07.62
ALMOST RELIEF IN THE FAMILY
BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE THEY'RE
00:27:07.62\00:27:11.36
NOT SUFFERING RIGHT
NOW. AND THIS IS WHAT JOB IS
00:27:11.36\00:27:13.73
TALKING ABOUT - PRAYING FOR.
ULTIMATELY, THE LACK OF REST IS
00:27:13.73\00:27:18.50
AMONG THOSE WHO
DO NOT KNOW THE LORD.
00:27:18.50\00:27:21.27
THERE'S THIS CONTROVERSY, JESUS
SAYS, 'COME TO ME, I'LL GIVE YOU
00:27:21.27\00:27:23.61
REST.' YOU DON'T COME TO
HIM AND YOU DON'T HAVE REST.
00:27:23.61\00:27:26.68
AND GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US REVELATION 14:11.
00:27:26.68\00:27:29.81
>>"AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR
TORMENT ASCENDS FOREVER AND
00:27:29.81\00:27:31.81
EVER; AND THEY HAVE NO REST DAY
OR NIGHT, WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST
00:27:31.81\00:27:36.12
AND HIS IMAGE, AND WHOEVER
RECEIVES THE MARK OF HIS NAME."
00:27:36.12\00:27:39.82
>>YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PASSAGE
AND, I DON'T REMEMBER - I THINK
00:27:39.82\00:27:42.86
ONE IS IN AMOS.
THERE'S ANOTHER ONE IN
00:27:42.86\00:27:46.43
DEUTERONOMY 28, WHERE MOSES SAYS
IF YOU DISOBEY GOD AND YOU RUN
00:27:46.43\00:27:51.57
FROM GOD, YOU'LL HAVE NO REST.
IT SAYS YOU'LL BE TROUBLED IN
00:27:51.57\00:27:55.97
THE FIELD, YOU'LL BE
TROUBLED IN THE CITY.
00:27:55.97\00:27:57.84
AT NIGHT YOU'LL
PRAY FOR MORNING.
00:27:57.84\00:28:00.04
AT MORNING
YOU'LL PRAY FOR NIGHT.
00:28:00.04\00:28:02.01
MATTER OF FACT, IN THE BOOK OF
JOB, JOB SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, IN THE
00:28:02.01\00:28:04.78
EVENING I PRAY FOR THE DAY.' IN
THE DAY HE PRAYS FOR THE EVENING
00:28:04.78\00:28:08.75
- WHEN HE WAS GOING
THROUGH HIS STRUGGLES.
00:28:08.75\00:28:10.92
AND THEN AMOS PUTS IT THIS WAY,
HE SAID, 'THERE'S NO PEACE.' HE
00:28:10.92\00:28:15.79
SAYS, 'IT'LL BE LIKE A MAN WHO'S
RUNNING FROM A LION AND HE RUNS
00:28:15.79\00:28:20.96
INTO HIS HOUSE AND HE SHUTS THE
DOOR AND LEANS AGAINST THE WALL
00:28:20.96\00:28:23.20
AND A SNAKE BITES HIM.
AND IT'S LIKE YOU JUST CAN'T -
00:28:23.20\00:28:27.34
THERE'S NOWHERE YOU
COULD GO TO HAVE REST.
00:28:27.34\00:28:30.11
AND PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO
FIND PEACE IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT
00:28:30.11\00:28:33.07
GOD, THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE LIKE.
THEY'RE JUST TRYING FROM THIS
00:28:33.07\00:28:36.21
THING AND THAT FAD AND THAT
HABIT TO THIS PLEASURE AND JUST
00:28:36.21\00:28:40.35
WHATEVER THEY CAN DO TO
TRY AND FIND SOME SATISFACTION
00:28:40.35\00:28:43.65
AND THEY CAN'T FIND IT.
LIKE THE OLD ROCK SONG SAYS.
00:28:43.65\00:28:48.96
THE ONLY PLACE YOU'RE GOING
TO AS SATISFACTION IS THE REST
00:28:48.96\00:28:51.39
THAT JESUS SAYS, 'COME UNTO
ME AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.'
00:28:51.39\00:28:54.73
ALRIGHT, THAT WAS A LONG - A
LONG DEVELOPMENT OF THAT TOPIC.
00:28:54.73\00:28:59.47
ONE MORE THOUGHT ON THAT: WHEN
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - NO REST
00:28:59.47\00:29:03.57
DAY OR NIGHT WHO WORSHIP THE
BEAST AND HIS IMAGE - WHEN THE
00:29:03.57\00:29:06.01
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE COMING
OUT OF EGYPT AND MOSES MET WITH
00:29:06.01\00:29:10.01
THE ELDERS - THEY REALIZED THEY
HAD WANDERED FROM GOD - MOSES
00:29:10.01\00:29:13.08
SAID, 'GOD IS GETTING
READY TO WORK MIGHTILY FOR YOU.
00:29:13.08\00:29:16.02
YOU NEED TO RETURN TO THE LORD -
HUMBLE YOURSELF - STOP FOLLOWING
00:29:16.02\00:29:19.12
THE EGYPTIAN GODS - AND FOR ONE
THING, YOU NEED TO START KEEPING
00:29:19.12\00:29:22.39
THE SABBATH. AND
THEY SAID, 'OH, WELL, IT'S
00:29:22.39\00:29:23.89
HARD TO KEEP THE SABBATH AND
KEEP UP WITH THE QUOTA OF BRICKS
00:29:23.89\00:29:26.70
THAT THE PHARAOH GIVES
US.' MOSES SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO
00:29:26.70\00:29:28.96
DECIDE: DO YOU WANT TO
FOLLOW GOD OR DO YOU WANT TO
00:29:28.96\00:29:30.63
FOLLOW THE
PHARAOH?' SO THEY STARTED
00:29:30.63\00:29:32.30
RESTING THE SABBATH.
PHARAOH HEARD ABOUT THAT, HE GOT
00:29:32.30\00:29:35.17
UPSET, HE BROUGHT MOSES IN - HE
SAID, 'YOU ARE MAKING THE PEOPLE
00:29:35.17\00:29:39.37
TO REST.' YOU KNOW
WHAT THAT WORD IS IN HEBREW?
00:29:39.37\00:29:42.18
IT'S - PHARAOH SAID TO
MOSES, 'YOU ARE CAUSING THEM TO
00:29:42.18\00:29:44.58
SHABBAT.' I AM
GOING TO INCREASE THEIR
00:29:44.58\00:29:47.88
WORKLOAD SO THEY DON'T
TALK ABOUT FREEDOM ANYMORE.
00:29:47.88\00:29:51.49
AND SO, INSTEAD OF LETTING THEM
HAVE REST, THE PHARAOH INCREASED
00:29:51.49\00:29:55.69
THEIR WORK SO
THEY COULD NOT REST.
00:29:55.69\00:29:59.33
NOW MOSES REPRESENTS JESUS.
WHO DOES THE PHARAOH REPRESENT?
00:29:59.33\00:30:02.40
>>SATAN. >>THE DEVIL.
00:30:02.40\00:30:04.17
THE DEVIL WANTED THEM TO STAY SO
BUSY - WORK, WORK, WORK, FOR ME
00:30:04.17\00:30:07.14
- THAT THEY
DIDN'T THINK ABOUT REST.
00:30:07.14\00:30:10.27
AND DOES HE STILL
DO THAT TODAY? >>YES.
00:30:10.27\00:30:12.47
>>YEAH, THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN
FIND RELIEF IS COME UNTO JESUS
00:30:12.47\00:30:15.24
AND YOU'LL FIND REST.
00:30:15.24\00:30:17.11
NOW, IN PLANTING AND
HARVESTING WE CAN FIND THE GREAT
00:30:17.11\00:30:20.95
CONTROVERSY IN JESUS' TEACHINGS
AND PARABLES ON THIS SUBJECT.
00:30:20.95\00:30:24.09
LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 13, VERSE 3.
00:30:24.09\00:30:27.96
IT SAYS "THEN HE SPOKE
MANY THINGS TO THEM IN PARABLES,
00:30:27.96\00:30:31.93
SAYING: 'BEHOLD, A
SOWER WENT OUT TO SOW.
00:30:31.93\00:30:34.46
AND AS HE SOWED, SOME SEED FELL
BY THE WAYSIDE; AND THE BIRDS
00:30:34.46\00:30:38.17
CAME AND DEVOURED THEM.'" -
NOW SOMEBODY, RIGHT AWAY, IS
00:30:38.17\00:30:41.60
THINKING, 'OH
THAT'S PRETTY WASTEFUL.'
00:30:41.60\00:30:43.67
WHO'S THE SOWER IN
THE STORY? >>JESUS.
00:30:43.67\00:30:46.81
>>JESUS, RIGHT? HE'S THE -
HE'S SOWING. IS THE SEED GOOD?
00:30:46.81\00:30:50.71
>>YES. >>GOOD
SOWER SOWING GOOD SEED.
00:30:50.71\00:30:53.92
WHY DOES HE WASTE
SEED ON BAD GROUND?
00:30:53.92\00:31:00.06
NOW, IN BIBLE TIMES, WHEN THEY
- YOU KNOW THE WORD WAS CALLED
00:31:00.06\00:31:04.03
'BROADCAST' AND WHERE WE GET
THE WORD - RIGHT NOW WE THINK OF
00:31:04.03\00:31:07.56
BROADCAST YOU THINK OF MEDIA.
00:31:07.56\00:31:09.63
IT'S REALLY THE
OTHER WAY AROUND.
00:31:09.63\00:31:11.63
MEDIA GETS THE WORD 'BROADCAST'
FROM OLD FARMING TECHNIQUES.
00:31:11.63\00:31:15.90
BEFORE THEY HAD THE MODERN
PLANTERS - WHEN I PLANT GRASS
00:31:15.90\00:31:19.34
SEED IN MY YARD I'VE GOT A
LITTLE CONTRAPTION I PUT THE
00:31:19.34\00:31:22.14
SEED IN. I'VE GOT
A CRANK AND I WALK
00:31:22.14\00:31:24.15
AROUND THE YARD AND
IT SPRAYS IT EVENLY.
00:31:24.15\00:31:27.68
AND YOU WALK AROUND THE YARD -
YOU KIND OF DO A GRID - YOU WALK
00:31:27.68\00:31:29.88
BACK AND FORTH AND CRANK THIS
LITTLE THING AND IT'S GOING 'ZHH
00:31:29.88\00:31:31.82
ZHH ZHH ZHH' AND IT'S SPRAYING
SEED ALL OVER THE YARD AND IT'S
00:31:31.82\00:31:35.19
SOMEWHAT EVEN - YOU
CAN LOOK AND SEE IT.
00:31:35.19\00:31:38.39
THAT'S CALLED BROADCASTING
- YOU'RE CASTING SOMETHING
00:31:38.39\00:31:41.20
BROADLY. THAT'S
WHERE THAT COMES FROM.
00:31:41.20\00:31:44.03
THE WAY THEY DID IT IN BIBLE
TIMES IS THEY HAD A BIG SACK OF
00:31:44.03\00:31:46.47
SEED WITH A BIG
MOUTH OPEN ON IT.
00:31:46.47\00:31:48.77
IT WENT OVER THEIR SHOULDER.
THEY WOULD STICK THEIR HAND IN
00:31:48.77\00:31:51.47
AND THEY WERE PRETTY GOOD AT
IT - DOING IT EVENLY - AND THEY
00:31:51.47\00:31:55.08
WOULD SCATTER IT BUT, YOU KNOW,
WHEN YOU'RE SCATTERING SEED LIKE
00:31:55.08\00:31:57.88
THIS THERE'S - IT'S
HARD TO PERFECTLY CONTROL.
00:31:57.88\00:32:01.92
YOU WANT THE GRASS - YOU WANT TO
FARM EVERY INCH OF FARMABLE LAND
00:32:01.92\00:32:05.82
THAT YOU'VE GOT, BUT THAT MEANS
SOMETIMES YOU'RE GOING TO GET
00:32:05.82\00:32:08.36
CLOSE TO THE PATH.
INVARIABLY, SOME IS GOING
00:32:08.36\00:32:11.43
TO LAND ON THE PATH.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:32:11.43\00:32:14.36
IN ORDER TO GET THE GOOD GROUND
- UNLESS YOU GET ON YOUR HANDS
00:32:14.36\00:32:16.87
AND KNEES AND PUT EVERY SEED
DOWN - AND WHEN YOU'RE DOING
00:32:16.87\00:32:18.67
SMALL GRAIN LIKE
THAT, THAT'S RIDICULOUS.
00:32:18.67\00:32:21.14
SO SOME OF IT FALLS ON THE PATH.
00:32:21.14\00:32:23.64
BUT, INSTEAD OF IT GETTING A
CHANCE TO SPROUT, DO YOU REALIZE
00:32:23.64\00:32:26.91
THAT THE SEED WOULD ACTUALLY
SPROUT ON THE PATH IF IT WASN'T
00:32:26.91\00:32:32.48
FOR THE FACT
THAT THE BIRDS GOT IT.
00:32:32.48\00:32:35.05
IF IT RAINED ON THE PATH - WILL
A PATH OVERGROW IF IT'S NOT USED
00:32:35.05\00:32:39.62
AND IF IT GETS RAIN? >>YES.
00:32:39.62\00:32:41.46
>>YEAH. BUT WHAT
JESUS IS SAYING IS,
00:32:41.46\00:32:44.56
BECAUSE IT'S ON THE SURFACE,
AND BEFORE IT GETS A CHANCE TO
00:32:44.56\00:32:46.73
SPROUT, THESE RAVENS COME
ALONG AND THEY SNATCH IT UP.
00:32:46.73\00:32:49.90
AND HE COMPARES
THAT TO THE DEVIL.
00:32:49.90\00:32:52.60
AND THE LORD IS SAYING THAT
'AS I GO OUT SOWING THE SEED, AS
00:32:52.60\00:32:56.04
SOON AS SOME PEOPLE HEAR
THE SEED, IT JUST BOUNCES ON THE
00:32:56.04\00:32:59.77
SURFACE. IT
DOESN'T EVEN TAKE ROOT
00:32:59.77\00:33:01.74
BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS ARE HARD.
THEIR HEARTS ARE PACKED DOWN.
00:33:01.74\00:33:05.21
THE PROBLEM'S
NOT WITH THE SOWER.
00:33:05.21\00:33:07.18
THE PROBLEM'S NOT WITH THE SEED.
THE PROBLEM'S WITH THE SOIL.
00:33:07.18\00:33:11.25
THEIR HEARTS ARE HARD. AND
SO THE SEED JUST SITS THERE
00:33:11.25\00:33:14.36
ON THE SURFACE AND IT DOESN'T
TAKE LONG BEFORE THE BIRDS
00:33:14.36\00:33:16.29
COME AND PLUCK IT AWAY.
SOMEONE MIGHT PONDER IT FOR A
00:33:16.29\00:33:19.83
MINUTE BUT THEY
DON'T LET IT TAKE ROOT.
00:33:19.83\00:33:21.76
THEY DON'T LET IT SPROUT.
WHEREVER JESUS GOES TO SOW THE
00:33:21.76\00:33:25.30
SEED, THE DEVIL IS THERE TO TRY
TO DISTRACT AND KEEP PEOPLE FROM
00:33:25.30\00:33:28.00
HEARING IT
BECAUSE IT CHANGES HEARTS.
00:33:28.00\00:33:29.67
THE DEVIL HATES THE TRUTH
BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE HEAR THE
00:33:29.67\00:33:33.11
TRUTH, IT TAKES PEOPLE -
IT LIBERATES PEOPLE FROM HIS
00:33:33.11\00:33:35.71
PRISON. THE
DEVIL BOASTS ABOUT HOW
00:33:35.71\00:33:38.45
MANY PEOPLE HE HAS IN
PRISON. GOD LIKES TO BOAST ABOUT
00:33:38.45\00:33:41.92
THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN
FREED. LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOB.
00:33:41.92\00:33:45.19
GOD SAYS, 'HAVE YOU
CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB?
00:33:45.19\00:33:47.09
HE DOESN'T FOLLOW YOU, SATAN.'
SATAN WANTS TO GET JOB AND SO
00:33:47.09\00:33:50.69
THEY'RE FIGHTING OVER THIS
SOUL. SO WHENEVER THE WORD IS
00:33:50.69\00:33:54.03
PROCLAIMED, THE
DEVIL'S TRYING TO STOP IT.
00:33:54.03\00:33:55.96
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A STATEMENT IN
CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS THAT'S
00:33:55.96\00:33:58.27
VERY INTERESTING. SATAN
AND HIS ANGELS ARE IN THE
00:33:58.27\00:34:02.24
ASSEMBLY WHERE THE
GOSPEL IS PREACHED.
00:34:02.24\00:34:04.97
WHAT? I THOUGHT
THAT ONLY GOOD PEOPLE
00:34:04.97\00:34:06.94
WENT WHEN JESUS PREACHED.
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER - I
00:34:06.94\00:34:10.21
THINK IT'S IN MARK CHAPTER
2 - JESUS IS PREACHING IN A
00:34:10.21\00:34:13.25
SYNAGOGUE AND A MAN WHO WAS
DEMON POSSESSED BEGAN TO SHOUT?
00:34:13.25\00:34:17.25
I'VE - DOING A MEETING IN INDIA
AND THIS LADY STARTED SHRIEKING.
00:34:17.25\00:34:21.32
I'VE HAD IT HAPPEN IN NORTH
AMERICA TOO - NOT QUITE THAT BAD
00:34:21.32\00:34:24.43
- BUT THIS LADY IN
INDIA JUST STARTED SHRIEKING.
00:34:24.43\00:34:27.03
I'VE HAD IT HAPPEN IN AFRICA -
SOMEBODY STARTED SHRIEKING - THE
00:34:27.03\00:34:29.40
PASTORS KNEW
RIGHT AWAY WHAT IT WAS.
00:34:29.40\00:34:31.47
THEY WENT AND PICKED HER UP
- BODILY PICKED HER UP AND TOOK
00:34:31.47\00:34:33.47
HER BEHIND THE STAGE AND STARTED
PRAYING OVER HER AND SHE STOPPED
00:34:33.47\00:34:37.14
AND WENT BACK OUT AND BEHAVED
THROUGH THE REST OF THE MEETING.
00:34:37.14\00:34:40.01
BUT THE DEVIL WILL TRY TO DO
THINGS - NOW, IT'S NOT ALWAYS AS
00:34:40.01\00:34:44.01
DRAMATIC A SPIRITUAL
DEMONSTRATION AS SOMEONE FALLING
00:34:44.01\00:34:48.35
OUT DEMON POSSESSED. SOMETIMES I
THINK THE DEVIL PINCHES BABIES.
00:34:48.35\00:34:53.02
I KNOW, IT'S
NOT QUITE LIKE THAT.
00:34:53.02\00:34:55.69
(LAUGHTER) IT JUST, YOU KNOW,
RIGHT WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE
00:34:55.69\00:34:59.06
YOUR MOST IMPORTANT SPIRITUAL
POINT AND YOU'RE SOWING THE
00:34:59.06\00:35:01.73
GOSPEL SEED, THEY HAVE A
PLUMBING PROBLEM AND THEY START
00:35:01.73\00:35:04.70
TO CRY AND SCREAM AND NOBODY CAN
HEAR WHAT YOU JUST SAID BECAUSE
00:35:04.70\00:35:10.11
THE DEVIL'S TRYING
TO SNATCH AWAY THE SEED.
00:35:10.11\00:35:12.31
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? IT
COULD BE ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
00:35:12.31\00:35:14.91
IT COULD BE THINGS THAT ARE
PERFECTLY GOOD THAT, YOU KNOW,
00:35:14.91\00:35:18.11
AN AMBULANCE WILL BE GOING
TO HELP SOMEBODY - IT WAS REALLY
00:35:18.11\00:35:21.92
BAD AT CENTRAL CHURCH BECAUSE
THE CHURCH WAS RIGHT BY A MAIN
00:35:21.92\00:35:24.65
ROAD AND I'D BE MAKING A POINT
AND AN AMBULANCE WOULD GO BY
00:35:24.65\00:35:28.69
SIREN BLARING.
THEY'RE ON A GOOD MISSION, BUT
00:35:28.69\00:35:31.73
ALL PEOPLE WOULD TURN
AND LOOK TOWARDS THE ROAD.
00:35:31.73\00:35:34.83
THEY COULDN'T SEE THE AMBULANCE,
BUT THEY'D TURN INSTINCTIVELY
00:35:34.83\00:35:36.97
TOWARDS THE SIREN AND THEY
WOULDN'T HEAR ANYTHING YOU SAID.
00:35:36.97\00:35:40.60
THE DEVIL COMES, LIKE THE
BIRDS, TO SNATCH AWAY THE SEED.
00:35:40.60\00:35:44.01
IN BIBLE TIMES, SO MUCH OF YOUR
VITALITY AND LIFE DEPENDED UPON
00:35:44.01\00:35:50.15
THE FARMING ECONOMY THAT WHEN
YOU DID WAR AGAINST AN ENEMY, IF
00:35:50.15\00:35:53.85
YOU WANTED TO SUBDUE THEM
IT OFTEN MEANT YOU NEEDED TO
00:35:53.85\00:35:56.12
CRIPPLE THEM FINANCIALLY
BY DESTROYING THEIR FARMS.
00:35:56.12\00:36:01.52
HOW MANY OF YOU
REMEMBER THE STORY OF SAMSON?
00:36:01.52\00:36:04.73
JUDGES 4 - 15, VERSE 4 - JUDGES
15, VERSES 4 AND 5, "THEN SAMSON
00:36:04.73\00:36:11.07
WENT OUT AND CAUGHT THREE
HUNDRED FOXES;" - THESE ARE LIKE
00:36:11.07\00:36:13.34
JACKALS OR FOXES - "AND HE TOOK
TORCHES," - MATTER OF FACT, HIS
00:36:13.34\00:36:17.11
CATCHING THAT MANY IMPRESSES ME
AS MUCH AS ANYTHING HE'S DONE -
00:36:17.11\00:36:20.71
"HE TOOK TORCHES," - HE TOOK
THESE LONG FIREBRANDS, TIED THEM
00:36:20.71\00:36:23.55
TO ROPES. HE TIED
THE FOXES TAILS TOGETHER
00:36:23.55\00:36:27.68
AND THEN HE TIED A LONG
FIREBRAND - SOMETHING THAT THEY
00:36:27.68\00:36:29.88
WOULD IMMERSE IN AN OIL OR
SOMETHING AND LIGHT AND, AS THE
00:36:29.88\00:36:32.45
FOXES GOT LET GO, THEY WOULD
RUN HITHER AND THITHER BECAUSE
00:36:32.45\00:36:36.12
THEY'RE TIED BY THE
TAIL TO ANOTHER FOX.
00:36:36.12\00:36:38.23
NOW DON'T EVER TRY THIS TO SEE
IF IT'S TRUE, BUT THERE'S JUST
00:36:38.23\00:36:41.80
- THEY'RE NOT GOING
TO RUN IN A BEELINE.
00:36:41.80\00:36:42.76
THEY ARE GOING TO
JUST BE ALL OVER THE PLACE.
00:36:42.76\00:36:45.53
AND HE LET THEM GO IN THE
ORCHARDS AND VINEYARDS OF THE
00:36:45.53\00:36:49.57
PHILISTINES AND THEY
JUST SPREAD FIRE EVERYWHERE.
00:36:49.57\00:36:53.91
HE DID IT, OBVIOUSLY, DURING
A DRY PART OF THE SEASON, AND IT
00:36:53.91\00:36:57.95
JUST TOTALLY
RAVAGED THEIR ECONOMY.
00:36:57.95\00:37:00.42
"HE HAD SET THE TORCHES ON FIRE,
HE LET THE FOXES GO INTO THE
00:37:00.42\00:37:03.69
STANDING GRAIN OF THE
PHILISTINES, AND BURNED UP BOTH
00:37:03.69\00:37:06.02
THE SHOCKS AND THE STANDING
GRAIN," - THEY WERE BEGINNING TO
00:37:06.02\00:37:09.09
HARVEST. THEY HAD
ALREADY HAD IT STACKED
00:37:09.09\00:37:10.66
IN SHOCKS - "THE STANDING
GRAIN AS WELL AS THE VINEYARDS
00:37:10.66\00:37:14.20
AND OLIVE GROVES." IT
TOTALLY DEVASTATED THE
00:37:14.20\00:37:16.70
ECONOMY OF THE PHILISTINES
SO THEY WOULD ATTACK THE FARMS.
00:37:16.70\00:37:20.20
WITH THAT IN MIND, THIS
NEXT PARABLE MAKES MORE SENSE.
00:37:20.20\00:37:24.14
JESUS - WE'RE STILL IN MATTHEW
13 - TALKING ABOUT THE BATTLE
00:37:24.14\00:37:27.01
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL IN THE
TEACHINGS AND PARABLES OF JESUS.
00:37:27.01\00:37:30.38
"ANOTHER PARABLE HE PUT FORTH
TO THEM, SAYING: 'THE KINGDOM OF
00:37:30.38\00:37:32.91
HEAVEN IS LIKE A MAN WHO SOWED
GOOD SEED IN HIS FIELD; BUT
00:37:32.91\00:37:36.79
WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS ENEMY CAME
AND SOWED TARES AMONG THE WHEAT
00:37:36.79\00:37:42.69
AND WENT HIS
WAY. NOW, WHAT ARE THE
00:37:42.69\00:37:47.13
TARES AMONG THE
WHEAT? WELL, IT COULD BE
00:37:47.13\00:37:51.90
A COUPLE THINGS. ONE WE
JUST READ, WHERE THE SEED
00:37:51.90\00:37:53.84
IS THE WORD OF GOD - TRUTH -
AND THE DEVIL WILL PLANT LIES IN
00:37:53.84\00:37:59.64
AMONG THE TRUTH - AND
IT'S PEOPLE WHO ARE THE FRUIT.
00:37:59.64\00:38:04.21
YOU HAVE GOOD FRUIT AND THEN
YOU HAVE BAD FRUIT AND THE DEVIL
00:38:04.21\00:38:08.05
WILL HAVE PEOPLE WHO WILL COME
TO THE CHURCH AND THEY'LL SAY
00:38:08.05\00:38:11.22
THEY'RE PART OF THE CHURCH AND -
AND THEY'LL BE THERE TO FALSELY
00:38:11.22\00:38:14.86
REPRESENT CHRISTIANITY AND
THEY'RE NOT CONVERTED AND THEY
00:38:14.86\00:38:18.19
BRING IN ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS.
AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WHY
00:38:18.19\00:38:21.90
WOULD JESUS ALLOW
THAT?' DID JESUS HAVE A JUDAS
00:38:21.90\00:38:25.93
AMONG THE
TWELVE APOSTLES? >>YES.
00:38:25.93\00:38:28.04
>>DID JESUS POINT HIM OUT THE
FIRST DAY WHEN JUDAS SHOWED UP
00:38:28.04\00:38:31.84
AND SAY, 'THIS GUY - EVERYONE,
I WANT YOU TO KNOW HE'S A
00:38:31.84\00:38:33.98
HYPOCRITE, DON'T LET
HIM IN.' DID JESUS KNOW -
00:38:33.98\00:38:37.25
>>YES. >>THAT
JUDAS HAD THOSE PROBLEMS?
00:38:37.25\00:38:39.45
AND YET HE ALLOWED HIM
- DOES THE LORD SOMETIMES
00:38:39.45\00:38:43.85
ALLOW THE WEEDS -
A TARE WAS A WEED.
00:38:43.85\00:38:47.66
IT WAS SOMETHING THAT GREW UP
- IT SPROUTED AND, AT FIRST, IT
00:38:47.66\00:38:50.43
KIND OF LOOKED A LITTLE BIT LIKE
WHEAT. AS IT MATURED THOUGH,
00:38:50.43\00:38:54.23
THE WHEAT BECAME VERY CLEAR
WHAT IT WAS AND THE TARES -
00:38:54.23\00:38:56.73
CLEAR WHAT THEY WERE -
AND HE SAID YOU'VE JUST GOT TO
00:38:56.73\00:38:59.93
LET THEM GROW TOGETHER.
YOU'LL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
00:38:59.93\00:39:02.47
IF YOU TRY TO PULL UP THE
WEEDS AFTER THE GOOD GRAIN HAS
00:39:02.47\00:39:06.27
SPROUTED BECAUSE
THEIR ROOTS BECOME ENTWINED.
00:39:06.27\00:39:08.34
YOU PULL UP ONE, IT KILLS THE
OTHER AND YOU ALMOST JUST HAD TO
00:39:08.34\00:39:11.11
- AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE?
THE TARES WOULD STUNT THE GROWTH
00:39:11.11\00:39:15.45
OF THE WHEAT, BUT YOU
HAD TO LET IT GROW TOGETHER.
00:39:15.45\00:39:18.35
THE WORK OF THE CHURCH IN
THE WORLD HAS BEEN STUNTED BY
00:39:18.35\00:39:22.19
HYPOCRISY IN THE CHURCH.
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
00:39:22.19\00:39:26.73
SOMEONE SAY, 'WELL, I WOULD BE
A CHRISTIAN BUT MAN, I KNEW THIS
00:39:26.73\00:39:29.13
CHRISTIAN - I WENT TO CHURCH
ONCE AND IF YOU KNEW WHAT THEY
00:39:29.13\00:39:31.00
DID TO ME AND THIS CHRISTIAN,
THEY'RE SUCH A HYPOCRITE.
00:39:31.00\00:39:33.03
I SEE WHAT CHRISTIANS DO
AND I HEAR ABOUT THE WARS OF
00:39:33.03\00:39:35.24
CHRISTIANS' - AND THERE ARE SO
MANY PEOPLE THAT TAKE THE NAME
00:39:35.24\00:39:38.01
OF CHRIST AND THEY'RE REALLY
TARES THAT GROW AMONG THE WHEAT.
00:39:38.01\00:39:41.38
THEY MISREPRESENT JESUS AND
IT DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
00:39:41.38\00:39:45.48
AND SO THE DEVIL USES
THAT. THIS IS WHY JESUS
00:39:45.48\00:39:48.08
SHARED THAT PARABLE. HE
SAYS, 'THERE'S A CONTROVERSY.
00:39:48.08\00:39:50.62
I'M TRYING TO SHARE THE TRUTH TO
SAVE AND THE DEVIL IS PLANTING
00:39:50.62\00:39:54.29
COUNTERFEITS IN. MOST
OF YOU WHO KNOW A LITTLE
00:39:54.29\00:39:58.83
BIT OF CHURCH HISTORY KNOW
THAT RIGHT AFTER THE CHURCH WAS
00:39:58.83\00:40:01.53
GROWING, WITH THE GREATEST
OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT - RIGHT
00:40:01.53\00:40:07.90
AFTER PENTECOST - AND THE
DEVIL SAW THAT PERSECUTION WAS
00:40:07.90\00:40:12.04
NOT STOPPING THE CHURCH. HE
THEN BEGAN TO ATTACK THROUGH
00:40:12.04\00:40:15.44
COMPROMISE, BY PLANTING HIS
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE CHURCH.
00:40:15.44\00:40:19.15
HE MADE IT VERY EASY TO BECOME
A CHRISTIAN - THERE WAS NO
00:40:19.15\00:40:21.45
PERSECUTION - AND HE SAID, 'OH,
WE WANT TO REACH MORE PAGANS SO
00:40:21.45\00:40:24.79
YOU CAN BRING
YOUR PAGAN TEACHINGS
00:40:24.79\00:40:26.29
IN - AND ALL THESE UNCONVERTED
PEOPLE CAME INTO THE CHURCH AND
00:40:26.29\00:40:30.29
THAT WAS THE
ENTRANCE OF THE DARK AGES.
00:40:30.29\00:40:32.96
THAT WAS THE GREAT CONTROVERSY.
IF THE DEVIL CAN'T DESTROY A
00:40:32.96\00:40:35.80
CHURCH FROM THE OUTSIDE,
HE TRIES TO DO IT BY PLANTING
00:40:35.80\00:40:38.17
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE CHURCH
AND DO IT FROM THE INSIDE.
00:40:38.17\00:40:42.34
NOW, YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
ABOUT GOING ON A WITCH HUNT.
00:40:42.34\00:40:48.44
AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK NEXT
ABOUT JUDGING BECAUSE THAT'S IN
00:40:48.44\00:40:50.95
OUR LESSON TODAY, BUT - OR IN A
MINUTE WE'LL TALK ABOUT JUDGING
00:40:50.95\00:40:53.65
- BUILDING ON THE ROCK - RUNNING
OUT OF TIME AND I WANT TO GET
00:40:53.65\00:40:56.48
INTO THIS. JESUS
THEN TELLS A PARABLE - NOW
00:40:56.48\00:40:59.79
SOMEONE'S GOING TO HAVE MATTHEW
7:21 AND 22 - YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:40:59.79\00:41:05.33
"THEREFORE WHOEVER HEARS THESE
SAYINGS OF MINE AND DOES THEM,
00:41:05.33\00:41:08.50
I WILL LIKEN HIM TO A MAN
WHO BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON A ROCK.
00:41:08.50\00:41:11.60
THE RAIN DESCENDS, THE FLOODS
COME, THE WINDS BLOW AND BEAT ON
00:41:11.60\00:41:14.37
THAT HOUSE AND IT DID NOT FALL
FOR IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK."
00:41:14.37\00:41:18.57
IN LUKE, WHEN HE SHARES THIS
STORY, HE SAYS, 'HE DIGS DEEP
00:41:18.57\00:41:21.48
AND PLANTS IT ON THE ROCK.'
- "BUT EVERYONE WHO HEARS THESE
00:41:21.48\00:41:27.65
SAYINGS OF MINE AND DOES NOT
DO THEM, HE'LL BE LIKE A FOOLISH
00:41:27.65\00:41:30.59
MAN WHO BUILDS
HIS HOUSE ON THE SAND.
00:41:30.59\00:41:33.39
AND THE RAIN DESCENDED AND THE
FLOOD CAME AND THE WIND BLEW AND
00:41:33.39\00:41:36.09
BEAT ON THAT HOUSE
AND GREAT WAS ITS FALL."
00:41:36.09\00:41:39.86
WHAT'S THE CENTRAL
MESSAGE OF THIS PARABLE?
00:41:39.86\00:41:44.90
HOW MANY PEOPLE BUILD A HOUSE?
YOU'VE GOT THE WISE MAN, YOU'VE
00:41:44.90\00:41:47.30
GOT THE FOOL, SO
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE.
00:41:47.30\00:41:49.57
HOW MANY OF THEM BUILD A
HOUSE? THEY BOTH BUILD A HOUSE.
00:41:49.57\00:41:53.11
DO THEY BOTH USE GOOD
MATERIALS IN BUILDING THE HOUSE?
00:41:53.11\00:41:56.95
LET'S ASSUME THEY DO. DO
THEY - DOES THE STORM COME
00:41:56.95\00:42:00.45
JUST TO THE WISE MAN AND NOT TO
THE FOOL - OR JUST TO THE FOOL
00:42:00.45\00:42:03.15
- OR DO THEY BOTH ENCOUNTER
A STORM? THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
00:42:03.15\00:42:06.99
ARE STORMS GOING
TO COME TO EVERYBODY?
00:42:06.99\00:42:08.59
>>YES. >>SO WHAT
IS THE ONE DIFFERENCE
00:42:08.59\00:42:11.26
BETWEEN THE WISE
MAN AND THE FOOL?
00:42:11.26\00:42:12.89
>>THE FOUNDATION. >>THEY
BOTH BUILD - MAYBE IN THE
00:42:12.89\00:42:16.56
SAME LOCATIONS - NOT FAR FROM
A STREAM BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE
00:42:16.56\00:42:20.87
BIBLE SAYS THE STREAM
BEATS AGAINST THE WISE
00:42:20.87\00:42:22.80
MAN'S HOUSE TOO. THE
DIFFERENCE IS ONE OF THEM
00:42:22.80\00:42:27.21
DOESN'T DIG DEEP AND
FOUND - IT'S THE FOUNDATION.
00:42:27.21\00:42:31.05
AND WHAT DOES -
WHAT DOES CHRIST SAY?
00:42:31.05\00:42:33.48
'IF YOU HEAR THESE WORDS OF MINE
AND DO THEM, YOU'RE A WISE MAN.
00:42:33.48\00:42:37.89
IF YOU HEAR THESE WORDS OF MINE
AND YOU DON'T DO THEM, YOU'RE A
00:42:37.89\00:42:41.26
FOOL.' SO YOU KNOW
WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS?
00:42:41.26\00:42:43.76
IT'S A TWO-LETTER WORD: >>DO.
00:42:43.76\00:42:45.76
>>DOING - LET ME ILLUSTRATE
THAT A LITTLE FURTHER.
00:42:45.76\00:42:48.90
SOMEONE GO AHEAD AND READ
FOR ME MATTHEW 7:21 AND 22.
00:42:48.90\00:42:53.97
>>"NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO ME,
'LORD, LORD,' SHALL ENTER THE
00:42:53.97\00:42:58.41
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT HE WHO
DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER IN
00:42:58.41\00:43:04.41
HEAVEN. MANY
WILL SAY TO ME IN THAT
00:43:04.41\00:43:07.98
DAY, 'LORD, LORD, HAVE WE NOT
PROPHESIED IN YOUR NAME, CAST
00:43:07.98\00:43:13.66
OUT DEMONS IN YOUR NAME,
AND DONE MANY WONDERS IN YOUR
00:43:13.66\00:43:17.33
NAME?'" >>THAT'S
RIGHT. SO, HE SAID IT'S
00:43:17.33\00:43:19.86
NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS,
'LORD, LORD,' BUT HE THAT DOES.
00:43:19.86\00:43:23.53
AND JESUS SAYS, IN MATTHEW
21:28, "BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK?
00:43:23.53\00:43:28.04
A MAN HAD TWO SONS, AND HE CAME
TO THE FIRST SON," - ANOTHER
00:43:28.04\00:43:31.21
PARABLE - HE SAYS, "GO WORK
IN MY VINEYARD.'" HE SAYS, 'I'M
00:43:31.21\00:43:33.98
GOING' - OR - SORRY, THE
FIRST ONE SAYS "'I WILL NOT' BUT
00:43:33.98\00:43:38.01
AFTERWARD HE REGRETTED IT AND
WENT. THEN HE CAME TO THE SECOND
00:43:38.01\00:43:40.55
AND SAID...'I GO, SIR,'" - 'ON
MY WAY DAD' - "BUT HE DID NOT
00:43:40.55\00:43:44.69
GO." AND THEN JESUS SAYS, 'WHICH
OF THE TWO DID THE WILL OF HIS
00:43:44.69\00:43:49.92
FATHER?'" SO THE
BOTTOM LINE IS, YOU
00:43:49.92\00:43:53.50
KNOW, NOT WHAT THEY
SAY, BUT WHAT DO YOU DO?
00:43:53.50\00:43:57.10
BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE MAKE
A PROFESSION AND THEY DON'T DO
00:43:57.10\00:43:59.53
ANYTHING AND SOME PEOPLE DON'T
MAKE MUCH OF A PROFESSION BUT
00:43:59.53\00:44:01.77
THEY DO IT. LUKE
11:27, "AND IT HAPPENED, AS
00:44:01.77\00:44:05.97
HE SPOKE THESE THINGS, THAT
A CERTAIN WOMAN FROM THE CROWD
00:44:05.97\00:44:08.01
RAISED HER VOICE AND SAID TO
HIM, 'BLESSED IS THE WOMB THAT
00:44:08.01\00:44:10.71
BORE YOU, AND THE
BREASTS WHICH NURSED YOU!'
00:44:10.71\00:44:12.65
BUT HE SAID, 'MORE THAN THAT,
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR THE
00:44:12.65\00:44:16.35
WORD OF GOD AND KEEP IT!'"
JAMES TALKS ABOUT THOSE WHO
00:44:16.35\00:44:20.29
ARE HEARERS OF THE
WORD AND NOT - WHAT?
00:44:20.29\00:44:23.22
>>DOERS. >>NOT DOERS.
00:44:23.22\00:44:25.09
AND SO IT'S NOT JUST
'LORD, LORD,' BUT THEY THAT DO.
00:44:25.09\00:44:28.93
AND JOHN - 1 JOHN 2:17, "AND THE
WORLD IS PASSING AWAY, AND THE
00:44:28.93\00:44:32.73
LUST OF IT; BUT HE WHO DOES
THE WILL OF GOD ABIDES FOREVER."
00:44:32.73\00:44:38.04
SO THE LORD WANTS US NOT
JUST TO BE HEARERS BUT DOERS -
00:44:38.04\00:44:40.28
TO PRACTICE WHAT WE BELIEVE.
00:44:40.28\00:44:42.14
NOT JUDGING - MATTHEW 7:1-5 -
MATTHEW 7:1 THROUGH 5 - NOW SOME
00:44:42.14\00:44:49.62
OF YOU THOUGHT THE MOST QUOTED
VERSE IN THE BIBLE IS JOHN 3:16
00:44:49.62\00:44:53.09
- I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF
YOU SAW, BUT THERE'S A CHARACTER
00:44:53.09\00:44:55.12
HERE IN TOWN NOW THAT HAS BEEN
WRITING JOHN 3:16 AT A NUMBER OF
00:44:55.12\00:45:00.20
THE INTERSECTIONS -
ANY OF YOU NOTICE THAT?
00:45:00.20\00:45:03.26
WITH CHALK - AND HE TOOK A BUNCH
OF STONES AND HE STACKED JOHN
00:45:03.26\00:45:06.74
3:16 ON ONE OF THE OVERPASSES -
IT'S JUST BEEN THE LAST MONTH OR
00:45:06.74\00:45:10.04
SO - WE SEE IT WHEN
WE GO HOME FROM CHURCH.
00:45:10.04\00:45:12.77
THAT'S NOT THE MOST QUOTED
VERSE. THE MOST QUOTED VERSE IS
00:45:12.77\00:45:15.11
"JUDGE NOT THAT YOU BE NOT
JUDGED." MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW
00:45:15.11\00:45:18.35
WHERE IT IS, BUT THEY
SAY 'YOU'RE JUDGING ME.
00:45:18.35\00:45:19.75
DON'T JUDGE.' "JUDGE NOT THAT
YOU BE NOT JUDGED, FOR WITH WHAT
00:45:19.75\00:45:24.19
JUDGMENT YOU JUDGE, YOU WILL BE
JUDGED AND WITH WHAT MEASURE YOU
00:45:24.19\00:45:27.69
MEET, IT WILL BE
MEASURED BACK TO YOU.
00:45:27.69\00:45:29.79
AND WHY DO YOU LOOK AT THE SPECK
THAT'S IN YOUR BROTHER'S EYE BUT
00:45:29.79\00:45:32.39
YOU DON'T CONSIDER
THE PLANK IN YOUR OWN EYE?
00:45:32.39\00:45:34.46
OR HOW CAN YOU SAY TO YOUR
BROTHER, 'LET ME REMOVE THE
00:45:34.46\00:45:36.60
SPECK FROM YOUR EYE' AND LOOK,
YOU'VE GOT A PLANK IN YOUR OWN
00:45:36.60\00:45:40.04
EYE. HYPOCRITE!
00:45:40.04\00:45:42.00
FIRST REMOVE THE PLANK FROM
YOUR OWN EYE, THEN YOU WILL SEE
00:45:42.00\00:45:45.07
CLEARLY TO REMOVE THE SPECK
FROM YOUR BROTHER'S EYE. NOW
00:45:45.07\00:45:49.31
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME
1 CORINTHIANS 6:3 - YOU'LL HAVE
00:45:49.31\00:45:53.31
THAT IN JUST A MOMENT HERE - GET
YOU READY - ROMANS 2:3, "AND DO
00:45:53.31\00:45:58.99
YOU THINK THIS, O MAN, YOU
WHO JUDGE THOSE PRACTICING SUCH
00:45:58.99\00:46:03.59
THINGS, AND DOING THE SAME, THAT
YOU WILL ESCAPE THE JUDGMENT OF
00:46:03.59\00:46:06.46
GOD?" SAME PRINCIPLE.
ROMANS 14:10, "BUT WHY DO
00:46:06.46\00:46:10.33
YOU JUDGE YOUR
BROTHER? OR WHY DO YOU SHOW
00:46:10.33\00:46:12.30
CONTEMPT FOR YOUR BROTHER?
FOR WE SHALL ALL STAND BEFORE
00:46:12.30\00:46:15.17
THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF
CHRIST." SO, QUICK QUESTION: IS
00:46:15.17\00:46:19.17
IT WRONG TO JUDGE OTHERS? >>NO.
00:46:19.17\00:46:21.51
>>NOT ALWAYS, BECAUSE IF YOU
ONLY READ THOSE VERSES WITHOUT
00:46:21.51\00:46:26.55
READING THE OTHER VERSES, YOU'RE
GOING TO GET THE WRONG IDEA.
00:46:26.55\00:46:29.68
JESUS ALSO SAID
SOME OTHER THINGS.
00:46:29.68\00:46:31.49
HE SAYS, IN JOHN 7:24, "DO NOT
JUDGE ACCORDING TO APPEARANCE,
00:46:31.49\00:46:35.92
BUT JUDGE WITH
RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT."
00:46:35.92\00:46:39.53
DOES THE LORD WANT US
TO USE JUDGMENT? HE DOES.
00:46:39.53\00:46:42.73
1 CORINTHIANS 2:15, "BUT
HE WHO IS SPIRITUAL JUDGES ALL
00:46:42.73\00:46:46.70
THINGS, YET HE HIMSELF IS
RIGHTLY JUDGED BY NO ONE."
00:46:46.70\00:46:52.51
AND KAREN, YOU'VE GOT ONE
THERE - 1 CORINTHIANS 6:3.
00:46:52.51\00:46:55.24
>>"DO YOU NOT KNOW
THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS?
00:46:55.24\00:46:58.55
HOW MUCH MORE, THINGS
THAT PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE?"
00:46:58.55\00:47:02.08
>>PAUL WAS TALKING TO
THE CHURCH IN CORINTH.
00:47:02.08\00:47:03.95
IN 1 CORINTHIANS HE'S SAYING,
YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH A BROTHER
00:47:03.95\00:47:06.99
WHO IS LIVING IN OPEN SIN - HE
WAS ACTUALLY SLEEPING WITH HIS
00:47:06.99\00:47:09.29
STEP-MOTHER AND NOBODY WANTED TO
DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY SAID,
00:47:09.29\00:47:12.03
'NO, JESUS SAID DON'T
JUDGE. WE'RE NOT TO JUDGE.'
00:47:12.03\00:47:14.30
AND PAUL SAID, 'WHAT?
THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT MEANS!'
00:47:14.30\00:47:17.07
HE SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT
TO JUDGE. YOU'VE GOT TO BE
00:47:17.07\00:47:18.53
DISCRIMINATING.' HE SAID,
'YOU'RE GOING TO JUDGE ANGELS.
00:47:18.53\00:47:20.40
YOU CAN'T JUDGE IN THE SMALLEST
OF MATTERS WITH EACH OTHER?'
00:47:20.40\00:47:23.94
SO WHEN IT SAYS 'DO NOT
JUDGE' IS IT SAYING THAT WE'RE
00:47:23.94\00:47:29.64
NOT TO EVER MAKE
ANY DETERMINATIONS?
00:47:29.64\00:47:31.95
OR IS IT SAYING
'DO NOT CONDEMN'?
00:47:31.95\00:47:34.08
LET ME READ TO YOU FROM THE BOOK
DESIRE OF AGES - A GREAT QUOTE:
00:47:34.08\00:47:37.72
"JUDGE NOT THAT YOU BE NOT
JUDGED AND DO NOT THINK YOURSELF
00:47:37.72\00:47:40.62
BETTER THAN OTHER MEN AND
SET YOURSELF UP AS THEIR JUDGE.
00:47:40.62\00:47:43.76
SINCE YOU CANNOT DISCERN MOTIVE,
YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF JUDGING
00:47:43.76\00:47:47.13
ANOTHER. IN
CRITICIZING HIM, YOU'RE
00:47:47.13\00:47:49.53
PASSING SENTENCE UPON YOURSELF,
FOR YOU SHOW THAT YOU ARE A
00:47:49.53\00:47:52.40
PARTICIPANT WITH SATAN, WHO
IS THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN.
00:47:52.40\00:47:55.70
THE LORD SAYS, 'EXAMINE
YOURSELVES, WHETHER YOU BE IN
00:47:55.70\00:47:58.17
THE FAITH. PROVE
YOUR OWN SELVES."
00:47:58.17\00:48:00.61
SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT PASSING
SENTENCE ON ANOTHER PERSON, NOW
00:48:00.61\00:48:04.38
- AND JUDGING THE MOTIVES OF
THEIR HEART. WE CAN'T SEE WHAT'S
00:48:04.38\00:48:08.15
IN A PERSON'S HEART, BUT
SOMETIMES THE THINGS THAT ARE
00:48:08.15\00:48:10.22
VERY PLAIN AND
EXTERNAL, THAT YOU CAN SEE.
00:48:10.22\00:48:13.25
IF YOU SEE SOMEBODY IS
GOING DOWN THE ROAD AND THEY ARE
00:48:13.25\00:48:18.03
SWERVING ALL OVER THE PLACE AND
SIDE-SWIPING PARKED CARS, WILL
00:48:18.03\00:48:22.86
YOU CALL 911? HOW
MANY OF YOU WOULD CALL 911?
00:48:22.86\00:48:27.20
HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD THINK
THAT'S JUDGMENTAL BECAUSE YOU
00:48:27.20\00:48:28.80
DON'T KNOW THEIR
HEARTS? (LAUGHTER) I DON'T KNOW
00:48:28.80\00:48:31.81
WHAT'S IN THEIR HEART.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT'S IN
00:48:31.81\00:48:33.54
THEIR HEART, THEY'RE
GOING TO KILL SOMEBODY.
00:48:33.54\00:48:34.98
THEY'RE DRUNK OR HAVING A
PROBLEM AND YOU KNOW THEM BY
00:48:34.98\00:48:38.05
THEIR FRUITS. AND SO
WE'VE GOT TO KNOW HOW TO
00:48:38.05\00:48:41.38
APPLY THAT 'DON'T JUDGE' VERSE.
I MEAN, SOMETIMES IT'S PLAIN AND
00:48:41.38\00:48:45.05
EVIDENT THAT A PERSON IS HAVING
A REAL SPIRITUAL PROBLEM AND
00:48:45.05\00:48:47.76
PEOPLE SAY, 'MAYBE WE
SHOULD TALK TO SO AND SO.
00:48:47.76\00:48:50.63
THEY LOOK THEY'RE
DRIFTING FROM THE LORD.'
00:48:50.63\00:48:52.06
'OH, YOU'RE JUDGING THEM!'
WELL, IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR YOUR
00:48:52.06\00:48:54.76
BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT
ARE STRUGGLING SPIRITUALLY, YOU
00:48:54.76\00:48:57.63
SOUND LIKE CAIN WHO SAYS,
'AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?
00:48:57.63\00:49:00.04
I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM.' SO
WE ARE TO CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER.
00:49:00.04\00:49:03.47
WE ARE TO WATCH - WE'RE NOT TO
CONDEMN ONE ANOTHER, THAT'S WHAT
00:49:03.47\00:49:06.68
JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT.
OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD VERSE.
00:49:06.68\00:49:09.44
ALRIGHT, AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO
GO ON TO - YEAH, I'M GOING TO GO
00:49:09.44\00:49:15.18
TO THE LAST PART.
JESUS SAID, 'I AM WITH YOU
00:49:15.18\00:49:17.15
ALWAYS.' - I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS
- MATTHEW 28:20, "TEACHING THEM
00:49:17.15\00:49:22.49
TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I
HAVE COMMANDED YOU; AND LO, I AM
00:49:22.49\00:49:26.46
WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN
TO THE END OF THE AGE."
00:49:26.46\00:49:28.90
OF COURSE, WE STARTED WITH
MATTHEW 11 - 'COME UNTO ME' -
00:49:28.90\00:49:31.17
MATTHEW 28 - 'GO THEREFORE,
TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING
00:49:31.17\00:49:34.94
THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY
00:49:34.94\00:49:36.71
SPIRIT.' AND HE SAYS, 'YOU
DO THIS, I AM WITH YOU.' SO IF
00:49:36.71\00:49:39.11
YOU'RE OUT WORKING FOR GOD, GOD
PROMISES TO BE WITH YOU ALWAYS,
00:49:39.11\00:49:41.68
DOESN'T HE? AND
THERE'S A VERSE - ROMANS
00:49:41.68\00:49:47.42
8:39 - HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER?
'THERE'S NOTHING IN HEAVEN
00:49:47.42\00:49:50.92
ABOVE, THE EARTH BENEATH,
PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, GOOD,
00:49:50.92\00:49:54.69
BAD, THAT CAN SEPARATE US
FROM THE LOVE OF GOD THAT IS IN
00:49:54.69\00:49:57.23
CHRIST JESUS.' WHAT
DID GOD SAY TO JACOB?
00:49:57.23\00:50:01.13
GENESIS 26:24, "AND THE LORD
APPEARED TO HIM THE SAME NIGHT
00:50:01.13\00:50:04.27
AND SAID, 'I AM THE GOD OF YOUR
FATHER ABRAHAM; DO NOT FEAR, FOR
00:50:04.27\00:50:08.54
I AM WITH YOU. I WILL
BLESS YOU AND MULTIPLY
00:50:08.54\00:50:11.44
YOUR DESCENDANTS FOR MY SERVANT
ABRAHAM'S SAKE.'" HE SAYS, 'I AM
00:50:11.44\00:50:15.71
WITH YOU WHERE YOU GO.'
WHAT DID GOD SAY TO JOSHUA?
00:50:15.71\00:50:18.95
'BE COURAGEOUS. I'M
GOING TO BE WITH YOU.
00:50:18.95\00:50:21.28
AS I WAS WITH MOSES, SO I'LL
BE WITH YOU.' PAUL GOES INTO THE
00:50:21.28\00:50:24.92
CITY - IT WAS ACTUALLY CORINTH -
IN ACTS 18:10, JESUS SAYS TO HIM
00:50:24.92\00:50:30.13
- IF YOU'VE GOT A NEW TESTAMENT,
THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES RED
00:50:30.13\00:50:33.43
LETTERS APPEAR AFTER THE GOSPEL.
00:50:33.43\00:50:35.70
JESUS SPOKE AND IT SAYS, "FOR
I AM WITH YOU, AND NO ONE WILL
00:50:35.70\00:50:39.43
ATTACK YOU TO HURT YOU; FOR I
HAVE MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY."
00:50:39.43\00:50:42.87
YOU NOTICE THE CONTEXT
THAT JESUS OFTEN SAYS, 'I AM
00:50:42.87\00:50:46.64
ESPECIALLY WITH YOU WHEN YOU ARE
DOING MY WORK.' 'GO INTO ALL THE
00:50:46.64\00:50:51.71
WORLD, I'LL BE WITH YOU.' IF YOU
PREACH THE GOSPEL, IF YOU HELP
00:50:51.71\00:50:56.35
THE PEOPLE GET INTO THE PROMISED
LAND, I'LL BE WITH YOU.'
00:50:56.35\00:50:58.52
WHEN WE'RE WORKING FOR THE
LORD AND WE'RE - HE'S ESPECIALLY
00:50:58.52\00:51:00.96
INTERESTED IN HIS INTERESTS
AND THE GOSPEL IS HIS INTEREST.
00:51:00.96\00:51:04.89
AND IF WE'RE INVOLVED IN DOING
HIS WORK, I'VE OFTEN SAID THAT
00:51:04.89\00:51:08.83
ONE OF THE BEST THINGS YOU
CAN DO FOR YOUR HEALTH IS PREACH
00:51:08.83\00:51:11.20
CHRIST. NOW
THERE'S A HEALTH MESSAGE,
00:51:11.20\00:51:16.77
BUT IF YOU ARE DOING THE WORK
OF GOD, GOD HAS A GOOD EXCUSE TO
00:51:16.77\00:51:19.97
KEEP YOU AROUND, DOESN'T
HE? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN -
00:51:19.97\00:51:26.05
HOW MANY TIMES DID THEY
TRY TO ARREST AND KILL PAUL
00:51:26.05\00:51:27.95
AND HE SURVIVED? TALK
ABOUT A HEALTH MESSAGE, IF
00:51:27.95\00:51:30.85
YOU CAN SURVIVE A STONING AND
THREE SHIPWRECKS AND MULTIPLE
00:51:30.85\00:51:34.72
WHIPPINGS, GOD SAID, 'I'VE GOT
TO KEEP HIM AROUND BECAUSE HE'S
00:51:34.72\00:51:37.36
A GOOD PREACHER.' AND SO, IF
YOU'RE INVOLVED IN WORKING FOR
00:51:37.36\00:51:40.96
THE LORD, THAT'S A GOOD
PART OF THE HEALTH MESSAGE.
00:51:40.96\00:51:44.07
ALRIGHT, WITH THAT, WE'VE RUN
OUT OF TIME, BUT BEFORE WE GO, I
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>>HELLO FRIENDS, I
HAVE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.
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I WANT TO TELL YOU
ABOUT AN EXCITING EVANGELISTIC
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OPPORTUNITY THAT WILL BE COMING
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MARCH 21, 7:00 PM EASTERN TIME.
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>>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
>>MY GREATEST WISH IS THAT MY
00:53:30.61\00:53:42.38
CHILDREN WILL SEE ME THE
WAY I SEE MY - MY OWN FATHER.
00:53:42.38\00:53:49.39
HE'S A VERY DEVOTED MAN AND
THAT KIND OF FRAMED MY CHILDHOOD
00:53:49.39\00:53:54.73
GOING FORWARD FROM THERE, WHERE
I WAS ALWAYS INVOLVED IN CHURCH
00:53:54.73\00:53:59.40
WORK AND I HAD A VERY RICH
EXPERIENCE WITH THE LORD AT A
00:53:59.40\00:54:04.04
YOUNG AGE ALL THE
WAY UP THROUGH COLLEGE.
00:54:04.04\00:54:08.51
THEN AFTER I GOT MARRIED, I GOT
IN A COMPANY CALLED COMCAST AND
00:54:08.51\00:54:14.18
I SPENT THE PAST, ROUGHLY EIGHT
AND A HALF YEARS - NINE YEARS -
00:54:14.18\00:54:18.42
AT COMCAST AND I WAS ACTUALLY
WATCHING TELEVISION WITH MY SON
00:54:18.42\00:54:23.53
AND A COMCAST COMMERCIAL CAME ON
THE AIR AND HE SAID, 'OH DADDY,
00:54:23.53\00:54:30.87
THAT'S COMCAST -
THAT'S WHERE YOU WORK, DADDY.'
00:54:30.87\00:54:34.40
AND MOST FATHERS WOULD BE
PROUD OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT,
00:54:34.40\00:54:38.07
BUT IT REALLY STRUCK ME THAT,
YOU KNOW, MY SON'S GETTING OLDER
00:54:38.07\00:54:41.91
AND HE DOES NOT SEE ME
AS A SERVANT OF THE LORD,
00:54:41.91\00:54:45.21
HE SEES ME AS A
SERVANT OF MY COMPANY.
00:54:45.21\00:54:48.55
AND I KNEW THAT I WOULD HAVE
TO MAKE SOME CHANGES BECAUSE I
00:54:48.55\00:54:54.36
WANTED HIM TO KNOW
ME AS A MAN OF GOD.
00:54:54.36\00:54:58.26
I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD DE A
PREACHER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT,
00:54:58.26\00:55:01.46
BUT I KNEW THAT THERE WAS ROOM
IN THE WORK FOR ME AND FOR MY
00:55:01.46\00:55:08.14
TALENTS AND I WANTED MY SON
TO SEE ME OPERATING IN THE WORK.
00:55:08.14\00:55:15.81
THAT'S WHEN I KNEW THAT MY
TIME THERE WAS COMING TO AN END.
00:55:15.81\00:55:20.28
I WAS SITTING IN MY OFFICE ONE
DAY AND I WAS KNEELING IN PRAYER
00:55:20.28\00:55:24.35
AND I WAS LIKE, 'GOD, SHOW ME
WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO BECAUSE,
00:55:24.35\00:55:28.96
YOU KNOW, THIS SEEMS LIKE A -
A BIG MOVE HERE AND, YOU KNOW,
00:55:28.96\00:55:35.00
EVERYONE'S THINKING I'M CRAZY
AND I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW,
00:55:35.00\00:55:41.80
YOU KNOW, THINGS ARE GOING
TO GO IF THEY DON'T GO WELL.
00:55:41.80\00:55:47.44
CRAZY THOUGHT WHEN YOU'RE
THINKING ABOUT GOD AND I LIFTED
00:55:47.44\00:55:53.42
MY HEAD UP IN PRAYER AND THERE
WERE JUST LIKE A FLOCK OF MAYBE
00:55:53.42\00:55:59.29
300 BIRDS THAT WERE JUST FLYING
AND THEY WERE SWOOPING DOWN OVER
00:55:59.29\00:56:04.99
THE WATER AND THEY WOULD
FLY BACK UP AND THEN THEY WOULD
00:56:04.99\00:56:08.90
CHASE EACH OTHER AROUND AND, YOU
KNOW, I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THE
00:56:08.90\00:56:11.83
PATTERN OF THE GIANT FLOCK AND
THE PROMISE OF THE LORD CAME TO
00:56:11.83\00:56:16.74
ME WHERE HE SAYS THAT, YOU KNOW,
HE TAKES CARE OF THE SPARROWS
00:56:16.74\00:56:21.88
AND YOU DON'T SEE THEM WORRYING
ABOUT HOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE
00:56:21.88\00:56:26.51
TAKEN CARE OF FROM DAY TO DAY.
YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T, YOU KNOW,
00:56:26.51\00:56:30.65
WRING THEIR HANDS WONDERING,
YOU KNOW, WILL THERE BE ANY
00:56:30.65\00:56:33.19
WORMS TO EAT TOMORROW?
AND THAT PROMISE REALLY STOOD
00:56:33.19\00:56:38.23
OUT TO ME AND HE SAID -
YOU KNOW, HE SAID, 'HOW MUCH
00:56:38.23\00:56:40.80
MORE DO I LOVE YOU? YOU
KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO SEND
00:56:40.80\00:56:43.77
YOU ON A MISSION TO DO MY
WORK AND LEAVE YOU HIGH AND DRY
00:56:43.77\00:56:48.84
BECAUSE YOU
CLAIM TO BE MY CHILD.
00:56:48.84\00:56:51.27
YOU CLAIM TO BE MY SON
AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.' THAT
00:56:51.27\00:56:56.48
ASSURANCE ALLOWS ME TO KNOW THAT
WHATEVER HAPPENS HERE, WHATEVER
00:56:56.48\00:57:02.02
HAPPENS AFTER HERE, WE'RE SONS
OF GOD AND THERE ARE CERTAIN
00:57:02.02\00:57:08.16
THINGS THAT WE SHOULDN'T WORRY
ABOUT. FROM THE DAY WE ARRIVED
00:57:08.16\00:57:12.89
AT AFCOE, IT'S BEEN OBVIOUS
THAT GOD HAS BLESSED THE AMAZING
00:57:12.89\00:57:18.37
FACTS MINISTRY - THE AFCOE
PROGRAM - AND I WILL BE USING MY
00:57:18.37\00:57:24.07
AFCOE EXPERIENCE NO MATTER WHERE
I GO, TO REACH PEOPLE, BECAUSE
00:57:24.07\00:57:29.18
THE PERSONAL TOUCH OF
FACE-TO-FACE EVANGELISM -
00:57:29.18\00:57:34.78
SPEAKING AND SHARING THE WORD
OF GOD OUT OF YOUR OWN MOUTH -
00:57:34.78\00:57:38.89
THERE'S NO REPLACEMENT FOR THAT
AND AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN VERY
00:57:38.89\00:57:42.76
INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING ME FIND
THE AREA OF THE WORK OF GOD AND
00:57:42.76\00:57:51.00
SHOWING ME HOW
LARGE AND HOW BROAD IT IS.
00:57:51.00\00:57:54.44
IT'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS BLESSING
TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE WE'RE
00:57:54.44\00:57:58.77
AROUND PEOPLE SEEKING TO DO
GOD'S WILL AND LISTENING FOR HIS
00:57:58.77\00:58:03.01
VOICE IN THEIR LIFE AND THAT'S
VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TODAY.
00:58:03.01\00:58:14.02
(MUSIC)
00:58:14.02\00:58:29.00