Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021607A
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00:35 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:37 WE ARE HERE AT GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:40 LOCATED IN ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA, RIGHT NEAR SACRAMENT0, AND WE 00:44 HAVE BEEN WARMING UP OUR VOICES HERE IN THE SANCTUARY READY FOR 00:47 YOU TO JOIN US. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO GET RIGHT 00:50 ON WITH OUR SONG SERVICE THIS MORNING SO PULL OUT YOUR 00:52 HYMNALS, THOSE OF YOU HERE AND THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, AND JOIN 00:55 WITH US - #223 - LOVELY SONG - CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS - 01:00 AND WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR VOICES AROUND THE WORLD AS 01:03 WE SING TOGETHER. FIRST, SECOND AND 01:05 FOURTH STANZAS - #223. (MUSIC) 01:12 >>CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS, THE LAMB UPON HIS THRONE, HARK! 01:21 HOW THE HEAVENLY ANTHEM DROWNS ALL MUSIC BUT ITS OWN. 01:29 AWAKE, MY SOUL, AND SING OF HIM WHO DIED FOR THEE, AND HAIL HIM 01:39 AS THY MATCHLESS KING THROUGH ALL ETERNITY. 01:47 CROWN HIM THE LORD OF LOVE! BEHOLD HIS HANDS AND SIDE, 01:55 THOSE WOUNDS, YET VISIBLE ABOVE, IN BEAUTY GLORIFIED; NO ANGEL 02:06 IN THE SKY CAN FULLY BEAR THAT SIGHT, BUT DOWNWARD BEND HIS 02:16 WONDERING EYE AT MYSTERIES SO GREAT. 02:23 CROWN HIM THE LORD OF YEARS; THE POTENTATE OF TIME, CREATOR OF 02:33 THE ROLLING SPHERES, INEFFABLY SUBLIME! 02:40 ALL HAIL, REDEEMER, HAIL! FOR THOU HAS DIED FOR ME; THY 02:49 PRAISE SHALL NEVER, NEVER FAIL THROUGHOUT ETERNITY. 03:01 >>AREN'T YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY? 03:02 >>YES. >>WHEN WE CAN FACE TO FACE WITH 03:04 JESUS, CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS AND CAST OUR CROWNS AT 03:09 HIS FEET BECAUSE IF WASN'T FOR HIM AND HIS SACRIFICE, WE WOULD 03:13 NEVER HAVE THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE. 03:16 THE THING I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO - OTHER THAN SEEING JESUS - IS 03:20 HEARING THE ANGEL CHOIR SING AND JOINING WITH THEM. 03:24 AND I WANT TO BE THERE ON THAT DAY AND I HOPE THAT YOU DO TOO. 03:28 OUR NEXT SONG IS #221, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE - REJOICE THE 03:33 LORD IS KING - #221 - AND WE'LL ALSO DO THE FIRST, SECOND, AND 03:37 FOURTH STANZAS. (MUSIC) 03:39 >>REJOICE, THE LORD IS KING! YOUR LORD AND KING ADORE! 03:47 REJOICE, GIVE THANKS AND SING, AND TRIUMPH EVERMORE: LIFT UP 03:57 YOUR HEART, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE! REJOICE, AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE! 04:09 JESUS, THE SAVIOR, REIGNS, THE GOD OF TRUTH AND LOVE; WHEN HE 04:18 HAD PURGED OUR STAINS, HE TOOK HIS SEAT ABOVE: LIFT UP YOUR 04:29 HEART, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE! REJOICE, AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE! 04:40 REJOICE IN GLORIOUS HOPE! OUR LORD THE JUDGE SHALL COME, 04:48 AND TAKE HIS SERVANTS UP TO THEIR ETERNAL HOME: LIFT UP 04:59 YOUR HEART, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE! REJOICE, AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE! 05:14 >>JOIN WITH ME IN PRAYER BEFORE PASTOR DOUG BRINGS US OUR LESSON 05:17 STUDY. FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE DO LIFT UP 05:20 OUR HEARTS TO YOU RIGHT NOW AND 05:23 OUR VOICES. WE THANK YOU. WE PRAISE YOU. 05:27 AND WE REJOICE FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE FOR US. 05:31 FATHER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BLESSING US, FOR LOVING US, AND 05:35 FOR GIVING US THIS OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE NOW, TO STUDY YOUR 05:38 WORD WHILE WE STILL HAVE FREEDOMS IN THIS COUNTRY. 05:41 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN. 05:43 >>AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR 05:46 SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 05:48 ADVENTIST CHURCH, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 05:56 >>HAPPY SABBATH. >>HAPPY SABBATH. 05:58 >>AND WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE VISITING IF YOU'RE AT THE 06:01 GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A NUMBER OF OUR 06:03 GRANITE BAY ONLINE MEMBERS. WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU. 06:06 WE HAVE PEOPLE SCATTERED AROUND THE WORLD THAT HAVE NO LOCAL 06:09 CHURCH THEY CAN ATTEND, FOR SOME REASON AND SO, THROUGH SATELLITE 06:12 OR THE INTERNET, THEY'RE PART OF OUR EXTENDED FAMILY. 06:15 AND THEN THERE ARE THE OTHER GUESTS AT LARGE AND WE'RE JUST 06:18 GLAD YOU'RE WATCHING ON ONE OF THE SEVERAL NETWORKS THAT 06:22 CARRIES THIS STUDY. WE'RE CONTINUING OUR STUDY NOW 06:25 IN THE QUARTERLY DEALING WITH REBELLION AND REDEMPTION AND, 06:30 AS ALWAYS, WE HAVE AN OFFER. TODAY IS NOT JUST A SPECIAL 06:33 OFFER, IT'S A SPECIAL, SPECIAL OFFER BECAUSE THIS IS SORT OF A 06:36 PREMIUM MAGAZINE WE'RE GOING TO SEND TO YOU. 06:39 THIS IS SOMETHING - I DON'T BELIEVE YOU CAN READ IT ONLINE, 06:42 YOU REALLY NEED TO SEND FOR IT - AND IT'S CALLED HIDDEN TRUTH AND 06:45 IT COVERS THE HIGH POINTS OF WHAT MANY PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND 06:49 ABOUT THE BIBLE - TALKS ABOUT THE BIBLE BEING TRUSTED, 06:52 IF GOD IS GOOD WHY DID HE MAKE A DEVIL? 06:54 HOW IS IT THAT WE ARE SAVED BY JESUS? 06:57 AND IT JUST HAS SOME OF THE BEST THEOLOGY AND IT'S ALL FULLY 07:03 ILLUSTRATED. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL BOOK. 07:04 CALL SIMPLY 866-788-3966 - WE'LL SEND YOU A COPY OF THIS. 07:10 WHEN YOU DO CALL, SAY YOU WOULD LIKE OFFER #815 - THE HIDDEN 07:14 TRUTH MAGAZINE - IT'S ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR RESOURCES AND WE 07:18 HOPE YOU'LL USE THAT. TODAY'S LESSON - WE'RE 07:21 CONTINUING DEALING WITH THE THEME OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY 07:24 AND WE'RE TALKING, MORE SPECIFICALLY, ABOUT THE GREAT 07:26 CONTROVERSY AS SEEN IN THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS. 07:29 NOW WE TALKED ABOUT IT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GREAT TEMPTATION 07:33 LAST WEEK AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - MEMORY VERSE MATTHEW 07:36 11:28 - AND YOU SHOULD ALL KNOW THAT - MATTHEW 11:28 - JESUS 07:42 SAID, "COME UNTO ME, ALL YOU WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I 07:50 WILL GIVE YOU..." >>REST. 07:51 >>"REST." I THINK HERE IT'S IN THE NIV. 07:53 IT SAYS, "ALL WHO ARE WEARY AND BURDENED AND I WILL GIVE YOU 07:56 REST." THERE ARE TWO GREAT DECLARATIONS 08:02 THAT JESUS MAKES IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW THAT SUMMARIZE LIFE. 08:06 ONE IS MATTHEW 11, VERSE 28 AND THE OTHER IS MATTHEW 28, 08:11 VERSES 18 AND 19. ONE IS CALLED THE GREAT - WHO KNOWS? 08:16 >>INVITATION. >>INVITATION. 08:18 AND THE OTHER ONE IS THE GREAT COMMISSION. 08:21 THE GREAT INVITATION SAYS, 'COME TO ME.' 08:25 THE GREAT COMMISSION SAYS WHAT? >>GO FOR ME. 08:28 >>'GO FOR ME.' AND THE WHOLE PLAN OF SALVATION IS SUMMED UP 08:32 IN THOSE TWO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS. 08:34 WE COME TO JESUS AND THEN WE GO FOR JESUS. 08:38 AND SO HERE YOU HAVE THAT MEMORY VERSE TALKING ABOUT REST. 08:41 NOW WE'RE GOING TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME TALKING ABOUT THE 08:44 REST THAT IS IN THIS VERSE HERE. YOU KNOW, LIFE - LIFE IS 08:50 INVOLVED IN RHYTHMS OF TAKE AND GIVE. 08:57 WHEN YOU BREATHE YOU'RE TAKING IN AND THEN YOU'RE GIVING OUT. 09:01 IF YOU ONLY TAKE IN, YOU EXPLODE, RIGHT? 09:05 YOU ONLY INHALE - YOU CAN'T DO THAT FOREVER. 09:08 YOUR HEART - BLOOD IS GOING IN AND BLOOD IS GOING OUT. 09:12 IF YOU WANT TO THRIVE AS A CHRISTIAN YOU NEED TO RECEIVE 09:14 FROM GOD AND GIVE FOR GOD. YOU RECEIVE BLESSINGS, 09:19 YOU SHARE BLESSINGS. YOU COME TO CHRIST, 09:22 YOU GO FOR CHRIST. EVERY DAY WE RECEIVE FROM 09:25 CHRIST, WE GIVE FOR CHRIST. AS YOU HAVE ONE HAND OPEN IN 09:29 RECEIVING, YOU BECOME A CONDUIT, A CHANNEL OF BLESSING TO THE 09:32 WORLD - YOU HAVE ANOTHER HAND OPEN IN GIVING. 09:35 AND SALVATION IS ABOUT A LOVE RELATIONSHIP. 09:37 IT'S THIS LOVE RELATIONSHIP AND IT'S THIS LOVE RELATIONSHIP. 09:41 I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE THE POPE WHEN I DO THAT. 09:43 BUT THE FIRST PART IS THE GREAT COMMISSION: "COME UNTO ME" AND 09:48 WHAT DOES HE PROMISE? "I'LL GIVE YOU REST." 09:51 THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF REST AND THAT'S THE FIRST SECTION WE'RE 09:53 CONSIDERING. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME 09:56 GENESIS 2:2 IN JUST A MOMENT. YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND GET READY. 09:59 AND THE SECOND PART OF MATTHEW 11:28 IS VERSE 29, OF COURSE, 10:04 "TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND LEARN FROM ME, FOR I AM GENTLE AND 10:09 LOWLY IN HEART, AND YOU WILL FIND REST" - NOT JUST PHYSICAL 10:13 REST, BUT "REST FOR YOUR SOULS." JESUS IS PROMISING US AN INNER 10:18 PEACE AND A REST IF WE TAKE HIS YOKE. 10:21 NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CONTRADICTION, BECAUSE A YOKE - 10:23 NOT TALKING ABOUT AN EGG YOLK - A FARMING YOKE IS SOMETHING THAT 10:27 YOU WOULD PUT ON A COUPLE OF ANIMALS THAT WOULD BE PULLING A 10:31 PLOW OR SOME FARM IMPLEMENT AND TO GET A LITTLE MORE STRENGTH, 10:35 YOU'D YOKE THEM TOGETHER. TWO CHARIOT HORSES WOULD BE 10:38 YOKED TOGETHER SO THAT THEY COULD PULL THE CHARIOT 10:41 AT THE SAME SPEED. SO THE VERY CONTEXT OF A YOKE IS 10:45 TALKING ABOUT AN INSTRUMENT OF WORK, BUT JESUS SAID 'YOKING UP 10:49 TO ME IS EASIER THAN YOKING UP TO ANYONE ELSE. 10:53 IF YOU'RE NOT YOKED TO CHRIST, WHO ARE YOU YOKED TO? 10:56 >>SATAN. >>THERE'S ONLY TWO. 10:58 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT CONTROVERSY - AND HIS BURDEN IS 11:01 HEAVY AND THERE IS NO REST. AND IT'S GOING TO COME OUT LATER 11:05 IN OUR - IN OUR STUDY - PAUL TALKS ABOUT DO NOT 11:09 BE UNEQUALLY YOKED. WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT THERE? 11:14 TALKING ABOUT BELIEVERS MARRYING UNBELIEVERS AND IT'S ALSO TRUE 11:18 IN YOUR BUSINESSES. YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT, 11:21 IN PARTNERSHIPS, NOT BEING UNEQUALLY YOKED WITH SOMEBODY 11:25 WHO MAY NOT SHARE YOUR CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND 11:27 IT CAN CREATE ALL KIDS OF CHALLENGES. 11:30 SO HE SAYS, 'YOU'LL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.' 11:32 JEREMIAH 6:16, "THUS SAYS THE LORD: 'STAND IN THE WAYS AND 11:37 SEE, AND ASK FOR THE OLD PATHS, WHERE THE GOOD WAY IS, AND WALK 11:41 IN IT; THEN YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.' BUT THEY SAID, 11:46 'WE WILL NOT WALK IN IT.'" YOU KNOW, JESUS IS PROBABLY ALLUDING 11:49 BACK TO JEREMIAH'S STATEMENT WHEN HE SAID, 'COME UNTO ME AND 11:52 YOU'LL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.' SOMEONE DID A COUNT - 11:57 AND I DIDN'T DO IT, BUT BASED ON WHAT I'VE READ, I THINK IT'S 12:00 ACCURATE - THAT TEN PERCENT OF EVERYTHING JESUS SAID, HE IS 12:04 QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT, OR AT LEAST PARAPHRASING THE OLD 12:08 TESTAMENT. SO JESUS WAS A BIBLE TEACHER. 12:12 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, GENESIS 2:2 - ONE PLACE IT SAYS 12:15 REST FIRST APPEARS. >>"THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE 12:19 EARTH, AND ALL THE HOST OF THEM, WERE FINISHED. 12:21 AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD DONE, AND 12:26 HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD 12:29 DONE." >>THANK YOU. NOW WE'RE GOING TO 12:33 TALK A MOMENT ABOUT GOD RESTING. DID HE REST BECAUSE HE 12:36 WAS ALL TUCKERED OUT? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 12:39 YOU KNOW, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT VERSE IF, FOR NOTHING 12:44 ELSE, BECAUSE IT TEACHES A LITERAL CREATION. 12:47 YOU KNOW, JUST DRIVING TO CHURCH THIS MORNING AS WE 12:51 OFTEN DO, IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT THE STARS LINE UP WHERE 12:54 WHEN WE'RE COMING TO CHURCH THERE'S A CHRISTIAN RADIO 12:56 PROGRAM ON CREATION . I DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER LISTEN 12:59 TO FAMILY RADIO - THEY'VE GOT A LITTLE SEGMENT THIS GENTLEMAN 13:02 TALKS ABOUT SOME OF THE DEEPER THINGS - THE BIBLICAL 13:05 ARGUMENTS FOR CREATION. I SEE SOME OF YOU 13:07 NODDING IN RECOGNITION. AND HE WAS TALKING 13:09 ABOUT THAT TODAY. THE IDEA OF THE - SOME PEOPLE 13:13 SAY, 'WELL, YEAH, GOD CREATED BUT HE USED EVOLUTION TO DO IT.' 13:17 AND THAT THESE WERE REALLY EPOCHS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS. 13:22 BUT EVERYTHING IN THE TEXT SAYS THAT IT WAS LITERAL. 13:27 IT TALKS ABOUT LIGHT AND DARK. IT TALKS ABOUT DAY AND NIGHT. 13:30 AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE LORD RESTING AT THE CONCLUSION OF 13:34 THIS TIME PERIOD. AND IF YOU START BELIEVING THAT 13:37 THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE ARE NOT HISTORICAL, BUT 13:40 THEY'RE MYTHICAL, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH LUKE WHEN IT GOES THROUGH 13:43 THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS AND IT TRACES THE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST 13:47 RIGHT FROM JESUS' DAY BACK TO ADAM? 13:49 DOES LUKE, SOMEWHERE BACK WHEN HE STARTS NEARING ADAM, SWITCH 13:53 OVER AND BECOME SPIRITUAL AND MYTHICAL AGAIN? 13:57 THE BIBLE TREATS IT AS VERY REAL. 14:00 AND SO, YOU CANNOT - AND JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE 14:02 MOSES' - INCLUDING THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS - HE SAID, 'YOU 14:06 WON'T BELIEVE ME.' CHRIST TALKED ABOUT GOD MAKING THEM MALE AND 14:10 FEMALE - IN THE BEGINNING. THEY DIDN'T EVOLVE. 14:13 AND SO, I HOPE THAT YOU WILL NOT BE CONFUSED BECAUSE WE'RE IN A 14:18 CULTURE THAT IS ABSOLUTELY SATURATED WITH THIS - THIS 14:23 TEACHING ABOUT EVOLUTION THAT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE SHOWN TO 14:28 BE UNSCIENTIFIC, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY UNBIBLICAL. 14:33 AND JUST HERE, RIGHT AT THE VERY BEGINNING - AND ESPECIALLY IF 14:36 YOU'RE A SABBATH KEEPING CHRISTIAN. 14:38 TO BE A SABBATH-KEEPING CHRISTIAN THAT BELIEVES IN 14:41 EVOLUTION IS AN OXYMORON, BECAUSE EVERY SABBATH IS A 14:46 CELEBRATION OF THE SIX-DAY CREATION. 14:48 >>AMEN. >>OF COURSE, I ALWAYS - IS IT 14:51 A SIX-DAY CREATION OR IS IT A SEVEN-DAY CREATION? 14:54 THE WHOLE THING WASN'T DONE UNTIL HE'D RESTED ONE DAY SO - 14:57 ANYWAY, YOU COULD ARGUE THAT. ALRIGHT, GO TO EXODUS 31 - 15:02 TALKING ABOUT REST - GOD, REMINDING THEM OF THE SABBATH 15:06 TRUTH - EXODUS 31:16, "THEREFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL 15:11 KEEP THE SABBATH, TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH THROUGHOUT THEIR 15:15 GENERATIONS AS A PERPETUAL COVENANT." 15:18 NOW SOME STOP - I KNOW A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SAY, 'SEE, HE MADE 15:21 THE SABBATH FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.' THERE ARE A COUPLE OF 15:25 VERSES THAT SAY GOD MADE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - JESUS 15:28 SAID THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR - >>MAN. 15:30 >>'MAN.' WHEN IT SAYS THAT HE MADE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF 15:34 ISRAEL, HE'S SAYING, 'WELL, A LOT OF THE TRUTH I GAVE TO YOU. 15:37 I ALSO GAVE YOU THE OTHER NINE COMMANDMENTS, THAT DOESN'T MEAN 15:40 IT'S JUST FOR YOU, IT MEANS THAT YOU ARE TO BE A NATION OF KINGS 15:43 AND PRIESTS, TEACHING THESE TRUTHS TO THE OTHER NATIONS. 15:48 AND WHEN THEY ACCEPT THESE TRUTHS, THEY ARE ADOPTED INTO' - 15:51 GRAFTED, AS PAUL SAYS - 'INTO ISRAEL.' SO IT WAS THE TRUTH FOR 15:55 ALL PEOPLE. NOT ALL PEOPLE OBSERVED IT AND 15:57 SO THAT'S WHY GOD SAID, 'I'M REMINDING YOU THAT YOU'RE TO 16:00 BE A NATION THAT TEACHES THESE THINGS. 16:02 I'M GOING TO KEEP GOING HERE - VERSE 17 - EXODUS 31:17 - "IT IS 16:07 A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FOREVER; FOR 16:11 IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, AND ON 16:14 THE SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED" - SO IT WAS A SIGN FOR THE CHILDREN 16:17 OF ISRAEL AND EVERYBODY THAT BELIEVES THAT HE MADE THE WORLD 16:21 IN SIX DAYS. DO YOU GET THAT? SO IS IT A SIGN FOR YOU? 16:26 IF YOU BELIEVE THAT HE'S THE CREATOR, IT'S A SIGN FOR YOU. 16:28 "THE LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, AND ON THE SEVENTH 16:31 DAY HE RESTED AND WAS REFRESHED." 16:35 HOW DOES GOD GET REFRESHED? IF GOD IMPROVES, IS HE PERFECT? 16:46 IF GOD LEARNS, IS HE ALL-KNOWING? 16:50 IF GOD IS REFRESHED, DOES IT SAY THAT HE MUST HAVE BEEN TIRED OR 16:54 MUSTY AND DUSTY AND HAD TO WASH HIS FACE? 16:57 IS IT - DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 17:02 DOES THE LORD EVER SLUMBER OR SLEEP? 17:05 IT SAYS IN THE PSALMS, 'HE THAT KEEPS ISRAEL WILL - HE NEITHER 17:07 SLUMBERS NOR SLEEPS.' AND EVEN JESUS SAID, 'I WORK AND MY 17:12 FATHER WORKS' - 'MY FATHER WORKS AND I WORK.' IN OTHER WORDS, GOD 17:15 IS ALWAYS SUSTAINING LIFE. HE NEVER TAKES A REST OR 17:17 WE'D ALL DIE FROM THAT. SO WHAT DOES IT MEAN HERE WHEN 17:21 IT SAYS, 'GOD RESTED AND WAS REFRESHED? 17:26 IF ANY OF YOU HAVE CREATED SOMETHING, WHETHER YOU MADE A 17:32 DISH OR YOU MADE SOMETHING IN - I DID A LITTLE HOME REPAIR 17:37 YESTERDAY AND, YOU KNOW, JUST HAD TO PATCH A HOLE IN THE WALL 17:42 - AND YOU GET DONE WITH IT - IT DIDN'T TAKE THAT LONG - YOU 17:44 STAND BACK AND YOU LOOK AT IT AND YOU GO, 'YES, I'VE BEEN 17:48 LOOKING AT THAT HOLE IN THE GARAGE FOR YEARS. 17:51 I AM SO GLAD TO HAVE THAT COVERED UP.' 17:53 I WAS REFRESHED. I WAS ENCOURAGED. 17:56 HAVE YOU EVER DONE A JOB WELL, WHETHER YOU KNIT SOMETHING OR 18:00 YOU COOK SOMETHING AND YOU LOOK BACK AND YOU GO, 'AH, IT'S 18:04 DONE.' SEE, GOD'S A CREATOR AND HE MAKES US TO CREATE. 18:07 AND HE WAS REFRESHED IN HIS CREATION. 18:10 HE WASN'T TIRED. HE WASN'T EXHAUSTED. 18:12 HE DIDN'T HAVE TO WASH UP BECAUSE GOD'S PERFECT. 18:14 GOD NEVER GETS TIRED. HE DOESN'T GET DIRTY. 18:15 HE'S HOLY. SO THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS. 18:17 HE RESTED AND WAS REFRESHED. AND WE SHOULD BE REFRESHED IN 18:21 OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM EACH WEEK. LET'S READ THIS - 18:25 EXODUS 23:10, "SIX YEARS YOU SHALL SOW YOUR LAND AND GATHER 18:29 IN ITS PRODUCE, BUT THE SEVENTH YEAR YOU SHALL LET IT REST AND 18:34 LIE FALLOW, THAT THE POOR OF YOUR PEOPLE MAY EAT." 18:37 - SO ONE THING THAT HAPPENS IS, WHATEVER CROPS HAPPEN TO GROW 18:40 VOLUNTARILY THAT YEAR WERE FOR THE POOR. 18:43 YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE BLESSED DURING THE SIX YEARS SO YOU 18:45 STORED A PROVISION, JUST LIKE JOSEPH STORED UP DURING THE 18:47 YEARS OF PLENTY SO THEY COULD EAT DURING YEARS OF SCARCITY. 18:51 AND WHATEVER WOULD SPRING UP - VOLUNTEER - THE POOR WOULD HAVE, 18:55 AND IT SAYS THE LAND WOULD REST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S 18:58 CERTAIN WEEDS AND CROPS THAT GROW WHEN YOU DON'T TILL THE 19:01 SOIL THAT MAY NOT BE GOOD FOR EATING, BUT THEY ADD NITROGEN 19:04 AND NUTRIENTS TO THE SOIL AND YOU JUST TILL THEM UNDER AND 19:09 IT'S A COVER CROP THAT REFRESHES THINGS. 19:11 I THINK ONE OF THE REASONS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER BECAME 19:15 SO FAMOUS WAS NOT JUST BECAUSE OF HIS INVENTIONS REGARDING 19:17 PEANUT BUTTER. THE REASON HE MADE INVENTIONS 19:20 REGARDING PEANUT BUTTER - WHO KNOWS? 19:22 IT'S BECAUSE THE SOUTH HAD GROWN SO MUCH COTTON - COTTON DRAWS 19:27 NITROGEN OUT OF THE SOIL - THEY HAD COMPLETELY DEPLETED THE SOIL 19:32 AND GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER REALIZED THAT A FEW THINGS - 19:36 SWEET POTATOES AND PEANUTS - WHEN YOU PLANT THEM, ACTUALLY 19:39 INCREASE THE NITROGEN. AND HE HAD TO CONVINCE THE 19:43 FARMERS, 'YOU'VE GOT TO GROW PEANUTS.' AND THEY'LL, 19:45 'WHAT DO WE DO WITH PEANUTS?' HE SAID, 'I'LL THINK OF 19:47 SOMETHING.' TODAY IT'S CALLED PEANUT BUTTER - AND ALL THESE 19:50 OTHER THINGS - AND HE SAID, 'BUT YOU'VE GOT TO GROW PEANUTS.' AND 19:52 SO HE HELPED CREATE A MARKET FOR PEANUTS SO THAT THOSE FARMERS 19:57 IN THE SOUTH WOULDN'T GO BROKE BECAUSE, AFTER ONE OR TWO YEARS 20:00 OF GROWING PEANUTS, THE COTTON WOULD THEN DO WELL AGAIN. 20:05 AND SO THE LAND NEEDED REST. IT NEEDED TO RECOVER. 20:08 NOW THE PEOPLE OF GOD, YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE HIS WORD AND 20:13 THEY KEPT WORKING THE LAND AND WORKING THE LAND AND THEY HAD 20:16 FAMINES AND PROBLEMS AND, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE, 2 CHRONICLES 36, 20:22 VERSE 19, SPEAKING OF WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME AND IT SAYS, 20:27 "THEN THEY BURNED THE HOUSE OF GOD," - THE TEMPLE - "BROKE DOWN 20:30 THE WALL OF JERUSALEM, BURNED ALL ITS PALACES WITH FIRE, AND 20:33 DESTROYED ALL ITS PRECIOUS POSSESSIONS. 20:35 AND THOSE WHO ESCAPED FROM THE SWORD" - THOSE WHO WEREN'T 20:38 KILLED - "HE CARRIED AWAY TO BABYLON, WHERE THEY BECAME 20:42 SERVANTS TO HIM AND HIS SONS UNTIL THE RULE OF THE KINGDOM OF 20:46 PERSIA," - WHEN THEY WERE ALLOWED TO COME BACK - "TO 20:48 FULFILL THE WORD OF THE LORD BY THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH, UNTIL THE 20:52 LAND HAD ENJOYED HER SABBATHS. AS LONG AS SHE LAY DESOLATE SHE 20:58 KEPT SABBATH, TO FULFILL SEVENTY YEARS." 21:01 THIS WAS FOR ALL THE YEARS THEY HAD NEGLECTED THE SEVEN-YEAR 21:05 SABBATH. GOD SAID, 'I'M GOING TO MAKE 21:08 YOU, NOW, FOR 490 YEARS, I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU MAKE THE LAND 21:11 KEEP SABBATH FOR SEVENTY YEARS TO COMPENSATE. 21:16 AND WHILE IT WAS DESOLATE, IT KEPT SABBATH. 21:18 WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OR WHAT IS THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD 21:22 DURING THE 1,000 YEARS OR MILLENNIUM? 21:25 >>DESOLATION. >>IT'S DESOLATE. 21:28 DOES GOD HAVE AN OPERATION OF YOU FARM THE LAND SIX YEARS, 21:31 YOU LET IT REST ONE? HAS JESUS BEEN SOWING THE 21:34 GOSPEL SEED FOR 6,000 YEARS? IS HE GOING TO LET - IS HE 21:39 COMING TO HARVEST IN REVELATION? DOES IT SAY HE'S 21:41 COMING TO HARVEST? AND THEN IS HE GOING TO LET THE 21:43 LAND REST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND THE - AND MAKE A NEW HEAVEN 21:46 AND A NEW EARTH AT THE END OF THAT? 21:49 SO IT'S - EVEN THE WORLD IS GOING TO KEEP A 1,000-YEAR 21:51 SABBATH - THE LAND. RIGHT NOW, THE WHOLE CREATION 21:54 GROANS AND TRAVAILS. AND, NOW, I'M NOT - I'M NOT, 21:59 JUST SO - I'VE GOT TO ISSUE A DISCLAIMER - I'M NOT 22:03 AN ENVIRONMENTAL NUT. I'M NOT A TREE HUGGER. 22:07 I'M MORE OF A LOGGER THAN A TREE HUGGER (LAUGHTER) BUT I THINK 22:10 THAT IT IS VALID TO KNOW THAT MAN IS EXPLOITING THE RESOURCES 22:18 OF THE WORLD FASTER THAN THEY CAN RECOVER. 22:22 YOU JUST - IF YOU'RE A PILOT AND YOU FLY AROUND THE COUNTRY, YOU 22:25 SEE IT ALL THE TIME. THE SPRAWL OF THE 22:27 CITIES ARE SPREADING. THE FORESTS ARE GETTING SHORTER. 22:30 THERE'S VERY LITTLE VIRGIN GROWTH LEFT AND - IN A NUMBER OF 22:33 WAYS THE - AND THE BIBLE SAYS THE WHOLE CREATION GROANS AND 22:37 TRAVAILS. THE EARTH WAXES OLD LIKE A GARMENT. 22:40 GOD IS COMING TO DESTROY THOSE THAT DESTROY THE EARTH. 22:43 GOD PUT ADAM AND EVE IN A GARDEN TO TAKE CARE OF IT. 22:47 BUT HUMANITY, THE DESCENDENTS OF ADAM AND EVE, ARE NOT DOING A 22:51 REALLY GOOD JOB AND SO I THINK THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE SIGNS. 22:57 THE EARTH IS NOT RESTING. IT'S GOING TO GET 22:58 AN ENFORCED REST. I HOPE I SAID THAT IN A WAY 23:02 THAT SOUNDED BALANCED AND NOT RADICAL. 23:04 ALRIGHT, NOT ONLY DOES THE LAND REST, THE LAND WAS TO REST - 23:09 OR PEOPLE WERE TO REST FROM WAR. 23:11 YOU GO TO - I TOLD YOU I'D SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THIS - 23:13 DEUTERONOMY 25, VERSE 19, "THEREFORE IT SHALL BE, WHEN THE 23:20 LORD YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU REST FROM YOUR ENEMIES ALL AROUND, IN 23:24 THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU TO POSSESS AS AN 23:27 INHERITANCE, THAT YOU WILL NOT FORGET - I'M SORRY - AN 23:31 INHERITANCE THAT YOU WILL BLOT OUT THE REMEMBRANCE OF AMALEK 23:35 FROM UNDER HEAVEN. YOU SHALL NOT FORGET." 23:36 SO GOD SAID THERE WOULD BE A TIME WHEN THEY WOULD HAVE REST 23:38 FROM THEIR ENEMIES. WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 23:41 DID THEY CONQUER THE PROMISED LAND IN ONE YEAR OR WERE THERE 23:44 SEVERAL YEARS OF WAR? >>SEVERAL YEARS. 23:46 >>AND YOU'LL FIND, WHEN YOU COME TO CHRIST, THERE MAY BE SEVERAL 23:49 YEARS OF WAR WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO DRIVE OUT THE CANAANITES AND 23:51 THE PERIZZITES AND THE JEBUSITES AND THE PHILISTINES AND 23:54 EVERYBODY ELSE THAT'S GIVING YOU A HARD TIME - TALKING ABOUT THIS 23:57 BATTLE ON THE INSIDE SO THAT YOU HAVE REST. 24:03 SO THERE WAS A REST FROM WAR THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT. 24:07 LOOK IN 2 CHRONICLES 14:6, "AND HE BUILT FORTIFIED CITIES IN 24:12 JUDAH, FOR THE LAND HAD REST; HE HAD NO WAR IN THOSE YEARS, 24:16 BECAUSE THE LORD HAD GIVEN HIM REST." 24:18 AND THIS HAPPENED DURING THE TIME OF ASA, DURING THE TIME OF 24:20 UZZAH, AND A FEW KINGS - SOLOMON - THE LORD HAD REST FROM WAR. 24:25 HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT, 'OH, MAN, THERE'S JUST TEMPTATIONS AND 24:28 STRUGGLES EVERY DAY.' WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO GO THROUGH A WEEK 24:31 WITH NO TEMPTATION? >>YES. 24:34 >>A COUPLE WAYS THAT'LL HAPPEN: ONE IS YOU CAN GRIEVE AWAY THE 24:36 HOLY SPIRIT AND YOU WON'T NOTICE THE TEMPTATION BECAUSE YOU WON'T 24:40 BE TEMPTED BECAUSE YOU GIVE IN TO EVERYTHING. 24:42 AND THE OTHER IS THAT JESUS'LL COME. 24:47 THERE ARE PERIODS - THERE ARE SPELLS WHERE IT'S NOT SO BAD. 24:52 WHEN JESUS WAS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL, AFTER HE RESISTED THE 24:55 DEVIL THE THIRD TIME, IT SAID SATAN LEFT HIM FOR A SEASON. 25:00 SO, YOU KNOW, GOD CAN EVEN GIVE YOU PEACE FOR AWHILE FROM YOUR 25:04 ENEMIES. BUT OTHERWISE, JESUS SAID, 25:07 'IN THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE TRIBULATION. 25:08 BE OF GOOD CHEER; I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.' 25:12 THEN YOU FIND ANOTHER REST HERE IN JEREMIAH 30, VERSE 10, 25:17 "'THEREFORE DO NOT FEAR, O MY SERVANT JACOB,' SAYS THE LORD, 25:20 'NOR BE DISMAYED, O ISRAEL; FOR BEHOLD, I WILL SAVE YOU FROM 25:24 AFAR, AND YOUR SEED FROM THE LAND OF THEIR CAPTIVITY. 25:27 JACOB SHALL RETURN, HAVE REST AND BE QUIET, AND NO ONE SHALL 25:31 MAKE HIM AFRAID.'" NOW THIS REST IS TALKING ABOUT WHEN THE 25:34 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WOULD FINALLY COME BACK INTO THE PROMISED 25:37 LAND. THEY DID HAVE SEVERAL YEARS OF 25:39 PEACE DURING THE TIME OF PERSIA AND EVEN DURING THE TIME OF 25:42 THE GREEKS, BUT IT'S, MORE SPECIFICALLY, TALKING ABOUT 25:46 THE REST THAT WE ENJOY WHEN WE INHERIT THE PROMISED LAND. 25:51 ANOTHER REST. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 25:53 FOR ME REVELATION 14:11. I'M GOING TO READ ONE MORE. 25:58 YOU EVER - WELL, WHAT DO YOU SEE ON GRAVES WHEN IT SAYS 'R.I.P'? 26:02 WHAT DOES THAT STAND FOR? >>REST IN PEACE. 26:04 >>REST IN PEACE. AND YOU KNOW WHERE THAT COMES FROM? 26:08 THE BIBLE. JOB 3:11 - SOMEONE'S GOING TO 26:12 READ REVELATION 14:11 IN JUST A MINUTE. 26:14 JOB 3:11 SAYS, "WHY DID I NOT DIE AT BIRTH? 26:19 WHY DID I NOT PERISH WHEN I CAME FROM THE WOMB?" 26:22 - JOB IS, YOU KNOW, IN THE MIDST OF HIS TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS AND 26:24 PHYSICAL PAIN - WHY DID THE KNEES RECEIVE ME? 26:27 OR WHY THE BREASTS, THAT I SHOULD NURSE? 26:29 FOR NOW I WOULD HAVE LAIN STILL AND BEEN QUIET, I WOULD HAVE 26:32 BEEN ASLEEP; THEN I WOULD HAVE BEEN AT REST...OR WHY WAS I NOT 26:36 HIDDEN LIKE A STILLBORN CHILD, LIKE INFANTS WHO NEVER SAW 26:39 LIGHT? THERE THE WICKED CEASE FROM 26:42 TROUBLING, AND THERE THE WEARY ARE AT REST. 26:46 THERE THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER; THEY DO NOT HEAR THE 26:49 VOICE OF THE OPPRESSOR." YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN SOMEONE 26:55 WE LOVE IS GOING THROUGH THEIR FINAL SICKNESS AND MAYBE IT'S 26:59 CANCER OR SOME PAINFUL DEATH AND THEY'RE STRUGGLING - THEY'RE 27:03 UNCOMFORTABLE - AND FINALLY, WHEN THEY DO DIE, THERE'S 27:07 ALMOST RELIEF IN THE FAMILY BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE THEY'RE 27:11 NOT SUFFERING RIGHT NOW. AND THIS IS WHAT JOB IS 27:13 TALKING ABOUT - PRAYING FOR. ULTIMATELY, THE LACK OF REST IS 27:18 AMONG THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW THE LORD. 27:21 THERE'S THIS CONTROVERSY, JESUS SAYS, 'COME TO ME, I'LL GIVE YOU 27:23 REST.' YOU DON'T COME TO HIM AND YOU DON'T HAVE REST. 27:26 AND GO AHEAD, READ FOR US REVELATION 14:11. 27:29 >>"AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDS FOREVER AND 27:31 EVER; AND THEY HAVE NO REST DAY OR NIGHT, WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST 27:36 AND HIS IMAGE, AND WHOEVER RECEIVES THE MARK OF HIS NAME." 27:39 >>YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PASSAGE AND, I DON'T REMEMBER - I THINK 27:42 ONE IS IN AMOS. THERE'S ANOTHER ONE IN 27:46 DEUTERONOMY 28, WHERE MOSES SAYS IF YOU DISOBEY GOD AND YOU RUN 27:51 FROM GOD, YOU'LL HAVE NO REST. IT SAYS YOU'LL BE TROUBLED IN 27:55 THE FIELD, YOU'LL BE TROUBLED IN THE CITY. 27:57 AT NIGHT YOU'LL PRAY FOR MORNING. 28:00 AT MORNING YOU'LL PRAY FOR NIGHT. 28:02 MATTER OF FACT, IN THE BOOK OF JOB, JOB SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, IN THE 28:04 EVENING I PRAY FOR THE DAY.' IN THE DAY HE PRAYS FOR THE EVENING 28:08 - WHEN HE WAS GOING THROUGH HIS STRUGGLES. 28:10 AND THEN AMOS PUTS IT THIS WAY, HE SAID, 'THERE'S NO PEACE.' HE 28:15 SAYS, 'IT'LL BE LIKE A MAN WHO'S RUNNING FROM A LION AND HE RUNS 28:20 INTO HIS HOUSE AND HE SHUTS THE DOOR AND LEANS AGAINST THE WALL 28:23 AND A SNAKE BITES HIM. AND IT'S LIKE YOU JUST CAN'T - 28:27 THERE'S NOWHERE YOU COULD GO TO HAVE REST. 28:30 AND PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO FIND PEACE IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT 28:33 GOD, THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE LIKE. THEY'RE JUST TRYING FROM THIS 28:36 THING AND THAT FAD AND THAT HABIT TO THIS PLEASURE AND JUST 28:40 WHATEVER THEY CAN DO TO TRY AND FIND SOME SATISFACTION 28:43 AND THEY CAN'T FIND IT. LIKE THE OLD ROCK SONG SAYS. 28:48 THE ONLY PLACE YOU'RE GOING TO AS SATISFACTION IS THE REST 28:51 THAT JESUS SAYS, 'COME UNTO ME AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.' 28:54 ALRIGHT, THAT WAS A LONG - A LONG DEVELOPMENT OF THAT TOPIC. 28:59 ONE MORE THOUGHT ON THAT: WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - NO REST 29:03 DAY OR NIGHT WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE - WHEN THE 29:06 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE COMING OUT OF EGYPT AND MOSES MET WITH 29:10 THE ELDERS - THEY REALIZED THEY HAD WANDERED FROM GOD - MOSES 29:13 SAID, 'GOD IS GETTING READY TO WORK MIGHTILY FOR YOU. 29:16 YOU NEED TO RETURN TO THE LORD - HUMBLE YOURSELF - STOP FOLLOWING 29:19 THE EGYPTIAN GODS - AND FOR ONE THING, YOU NEED TO START KEEPING 29:22 THE SABBATH. AND THEY SAID, 'OH, WELL, IT'S 29:23 HARD TO KEEP THE SABBATH AND KEEP UP WITH THE QUOTA OF BRICKS 29:26 THAT THE PHARAOH GIVES US.' MOSES SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO 29:28 DECIDE: DO YOU WANT TO FOLLOW GOD OR DO YOU WANT TO 29:30 FOLLOW THE PHARAOH?' SO THEY STARTED 29:32 RESTING THE SABBATH. PHARAOH HEARD ABOUT THAT, HE GOT 29:35 UPSET, HE BROUGHT MOSES IN - HE SAID, 'YOU ARE MAKING THE PEOPLE 29:39 TO REST.' YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WORD IS IN HEBREW? 29:42 IT'S - PHARAOH SAID TO MOSES, 'YOU ARE CAUSING THEM TO 29:44 SHABBAT.' I AM GOING TO INCREASE THEIR 29:47 WORKLOAD SO THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT FREEDOM ANYMORE. 29:51 AND SO, INSTEAD OF LETTING THEM HAVE REST, THE PHARAOH INCREASED 29:55 THEIR WORK SO THEY COULD NOT REST. 29:59 NOW MOSES REPRESENTS JESUS. WHO DOES THE PHARAOH REPRESENT? 30:02 >>SATAN. >>THE DEVIL. 30:04 THE DEVIL WANTED THEM TO STAY SO BUSY - WORK, WORK, WORK, FOR ME 30:07 - THAT THEY DIDN'T THINK ABOUT REST. 30:10 AND DOES HE STILL DO THAT TODAY? >>YES. 30:12 >>YEAH, THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN FIND RELIEF IS COME UNTO JESUS 30:15 AND YOU'LL FIND REST. 30:17 NOW, IN PLANTING AND HARVESTING WE CAN FIND THE GREAT 30:20 CONTROVERSY IN JESUS' TEACHINGS AND PARABLES ON THIS SUBJECT. 30:24 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 13, VERSE 3. 30:27 IT SAYS "THEN HE SPOKE MANY THINGS TO THEM IN PARABLES, 30:31 SAYING: 'BEHOLD, A SOWER WENT OUT TO SOW. 30:34 AND AS HE SOWED, SOME SEED FELL BY THE WAYSIDE; AND THE BIRDS 30:38 CAME AND DEVOURED THEM.'" - NOW SOMEBODY, RIGHT AWAY, IS 30:41 THINKING, 'OH THAT'S PRETTY WASTEFUL.' 30:43 WHO'S THE SOWER IN THE STORY? >>JESUS. 30:46 >>JESUS, RIGHT? HE'S THE - HE'S SOWING. IS THE SEED GOOD? 30:50 >>YES. >>GOOD SOWER SOWING GOOD SEED. 30:53 WHY DOES HE WASTE SEED ON BAD GROUND? 31:00 NOW, IN BIBLE TIMES, WHEN THEY - YOU KNOW THE WORD WAS CALLED 31:04 'BROADCAST' AND WHERE WE GET THE WORD - RIGHT NOW WE THINK OF 31:07 BROADCAST YOU THINK OF MEDIA. 31:09 IT'S REALLY THE OTHER WAY AROUND. 31:11 MEDIA GETS THE WORD 'BROADCAST' FROM OLD FARMING TECHNIQUES. 31:15 BEFORE THEY HAD THE MODERN PLANTERS - WHEN I PLANT GRASS 31:19 SEED IN MY YARD I'VE GOT A LITTLE CONTRAPTION I PUT THE 31:22 SEED IN. I'VE GOT A CRANK AND I WALK 31:24 AROUND THE YARD AND IT SPRAYS IT EVENLY. 31:27 AND YOU WALK AROUND THE YARD - YOU KIND OF DO A GRID - YOU WALK 31:29 BACK AND FORTH AND CRANK THIS LITTLE THING AND IT'S GOING 'ZHH 31:31 ZHH ZHH ZHH' AND IT'S SPRAYING SEED ALL OVER THE YARD AND IT'S 31:35 SOMEWHAT EVEN - YOU CAN LOOK AND SEE IT. 31:38 THAT'S CALLED BROADCASTING - YOU'RE CASTING SOMETHING 31:41 BROADLY. THAT'S WHERE THAT COMES FROM. 31:44 THE WAY THEY DID IT IN BIBLE TIMES IS THEY HAD A BIG SACK OF 31:46 SEED WITH A BIG MOUTH OPEN ON IT. 31:48 IT WENT OVER THEIR SHOULDER. THEY WOULD STICK THEIR HAND IN 31:51 AND THEY WERE PRETTY GOOD AT IT - DOING IT EVENLY - AND THEY 31:55 WOULD SCATTER IT BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE SCATTERING SEED LIKE 31:57 THIS THERE'S - IT'S HARD TO PERFECTLY CONTROL. 32:01 YOU WANT THE GRASS - YOU WANT TO FARM EVERY INCH OF FARMABLE LAND 32:05 THAT YOU'VE GOT, BUT THAT MEANS SOMETIMES YOU'RE GOING TO GET 32:08 CLOSE TO THE PATH. INVARIABLY, SOME IS GOING 32:11 TO LAND ON THE PATH. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 32:14 IN ORDER TO GET THE GOOD GROUND - UNLESS YOU GET ON YOUR HANDS 32:16 AND KNEES AND PUT EVERY SEED DOWN - AND WHEN YOU'RE DOING 32:18 SMALL GRAIN LIKE THAT, THAT'S RIDICULOUS. 32:21 SO SOME OF IT FALLS ON THE PATH. 32:23 BUT, INSTEAD OF IT GETTING A CHANCE TO SPROUT, DO YOU REALIZE 32:26 THAT THE SEED WOULD ACTUALLY SPROUT ON THE PATH IF IT WASN'T 32:32 FOR THE FACT THAT THE BIRDS GOT IT. 32:35 IF IT RAINED ON THE PATH - WILL A PATH OVERGROW IF IT'S NOT USED 32:39 AND IF IT GETS RAIN? >>YES. 32:41 >>YEAH. BUT WHAT JESUS IS SAYING IS, 32:44 BECAUSE IT'S ON THE SURFACE, AND BEFORE IT GETS A CHANCE TO 32:46 SPROUT, THESE RAVENS COME ALONG AND THEY SNATCH IT UP. 32:49 AND HE COMPARES THAT TO THE DEVIL. 32:52 AND THE LORD IS SAYING THAT 'AS I GO OUT SOWING THE SEED, AS 32:56 SOON AS SOME PEOPLE HEAR THE SEED, IT JUST BOUNCES ON THE 32:59 SURFACE. IT DOESN'T EVEN TAKE ROOT 33:01 BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS ARE HARD. THEIR HEARTS ARE PACKED DOWN. 33:05 THE PROBLEM'S NOT WITH THE SOWER. 33:07 THE PROBLEM'S NOT WITH THE SEED. THE PROBLEM'S WITH THE SOIL. 33:11 THEIR HEARTS ARE HARD. AND SO THE SEED JUST SITS THERE 33:14 ON THE SURFACE AND IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG BEFORE THE BIRDS 33:16 COME AND PLUCK IT AWAY. SOMEONE MIGHT PONDER IT FOR A 33:19 MINUTE BUT THEY DON'T LET IT TAKE ROOT. 33:21 THEY DON'T LET IT SPROUT. WHEREVER JESUS GOES TO SOW THE 33:25 SEED, THE DEVIL IS THERE TO TRY TO DISTRACT AND KEEP PEOPLE FROM 33:28 HEARING IT BECAUSE IT CHANGES HEARTS. 33:29 THE DEVIL HATES THE TRUTH BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE HEAR THE 33:33 TRUTH, IT TAKES PEOPLE - IT LIBERATES PEOPLE FROM HIS 33:35 PRISON. THE DEVIL BOASTS ABOUT HOW 33:38 MANY PEOPLE HE HAS IN PRISON. GOD LIKES TO BOAST ABOUT 33:41 THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FREED. LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOB. 33:45 GOD SAYS, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB? 33:47 HE DOESN'T FOLLOW YOU, SATAN.' SATAN WANTS TO GET JOB AND SO 33:50 THEY'RE FIGHTING OVER THIS SOUL. SO WHENEVER THE WORD IS 33:54 PROCLAIMED, THE DEVIL'S TRYING TO STOP IT. 33:55 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A STATEMENT IN CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS THAT'S 33:58 VERY INTERESTING. SATAN AND HIS ANGELS ARE IN THE 34:02 ASSEMBLY WHERE THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED. 34:04 WHAT? I THOUGHT THAT ONLY GOOD PEOPLE 34:06 WENT WHEN JESUS PREACHED. HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER - I 34:10 THINK IT'S IN MARK CHAPTER 2 - JESUS IS PREACHING IN A 34:13 SYNAGOGUE AND A MAN WHO WAS DEMON POSSESSED BEGAN TO SHOUT? 34:17 I'VE - DOING A MEETING IN INDIA AND THIS LADY STARTED SHRIEKING. 34:21 I'VE HAD IT HAPPEN IN NORTH AMERICA TOO - NOT QUITE THAT BAD 34:24 - BUT THIS LADY IN INDIA JUST STARTED SHRIEKING. 34:27 I'VE HAD IT HAPPEN IN AFRICA - SOMEBODY STARTED SHRIEKING - THE 34:29 PASTORS KNEW RIGHT AWAY WHAT IT WAS. 34:31 THEY WENT AND PICKED HER UP - BODILY PICKED HER UP AND TOOK 34:33 HER BEHIND THE STAGE AND STARTED PRAYING OVER HER AND SHE STOPPED 34:37 AND WENT BACK OUT AND BEHAVED THROUGH THE REST OF THE MEETING. 34:40 BUT THE DEVIL WILL TRY TO DO THINGS - NOW, IT'S NOT ALWAYS AS 34:44 DRAMATIC A SPIRITUAL DEMONSTRATION AS SOMEONE FALLING 34:48 OUT DEMON POSSESSED. SOMETIMES I THINK THE DEVIL PINCHES BABIES. 34:53 I KNOW, IT'S NOT QUITE LIKE THAT. 34:55 (LAUGHTER) IT JUST, YOU KNOW, RIGHT WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE 34:59 YOUR MOST IMPORTANT SPIRITUAL POINT AND YOU'RE SOWING THE 35:01 GOSPEL SEED, THEY HAVE A PLUMBING PROBLEM AND THEY START 35:04 TO CRY AND SCREAM AND NOBODY CAN HEAR WHAT YOU JUST SAID BECAUSE 35:10 THE DEVIL'S TRYING TO SNATCH AWAY THE SEED. 35:12 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? IT COULD BE ALL KINDS OF THINGS. 35:14 IT COULD BE THINGS THAT ARE PERFECTLY GOOD THAT, YOU KNOW, 35:18 AN AMBULANCE WILL BE GOING TO HELP SOMEBODY - IT WAS REALLY 35:21 BAD AT CENTRAL CHURCH BECAUSE THE CHURCH WAS RIGHT BY A MAIN 35:24 ROAD AND I'D BE MAKING A POINT AND AN AMBULANCE WOULD GO BY 35:28 SIREN BLARING. THEY'RE ON A GOOD MISSION, BUT 35:31 ALL PEOPLE WOULD TURN AND LOOK TOWARDS THE ROAD. 35:34 THEY COULDN'T SEE THE AMBULANCE, BUT THEY'D TURN INSTINCTIVELY 35:36 TOWARDS THE SIREN AND THEY WOULDN'T HEAR ANYTHING YOU SAID. 35:40 THE DEVIL COMES, LIKE THE BIRDS, TO SNATCH AWAY THE SEED. 35:44 IN BIBLE TIMES, SO MUCH OF YOUR VITALITY AND LIFE DEPENDED UPON 35:50 THE FARMING ECONOMY THAT WHEN YOU DID WAR AGAINST AN ENEMY, IF 35:53 YOU WANTED TO SUBDUE THEM IT OFTEN MEANT YOU NEEDED TO 35:56 CRIPPLE THEM FINANCIALLY BY DESTROYING THEIR FARMS. 36:01 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF SAMSON? 36:04 JUDGES 4 - 15, VERSE 4 - JUDGES 15, VERSES 4 AND 5, "THEN SAMSON 36:11 WENT OUT AND CAUGHT THREE HUNDRED FOXES;" - THESE ARE LIKE 36:13 JACKALS OR FOXES - "AND HE TOOK TORCHES," - MATTER OF FACT, HIS 36:17 CATCHING THAT MANY IMPRESSES ME AS MUCH AS ANYTHING HE'S DONE - 36:20 "HE TOOK TORCHES," - HE TOOK THESE LONG FIREBRANDS, TIED THEM 36:23 TO ROPES. HE TIED THE FOXES TAILS TOGETHER 36:27 AND THEN HE TIED A LONG FIREBRAND - SOMETHING THAT THEY 36:29 WOULD IMMERSE IN AN OIL OR SOMETHING AND LIGHT AND, AS THE 36:32 FOXES GOT LET GO, THEY WOULD RUN HITHER AND THITHER BECAUSE 36:36 THEY'RE TIED BY THE TAIL TO ANOTHER FOX. 36:38 NOW DON'T EVER TRY THIS TO SEE IF IT'S TRUE, BUT THERE'S JUST 36:41 - THEY'RE NOT GOING TO RUN IN A BEELINE. 36:42 THEY ARE GOING TO JUST BE ALL OVER THE PLACE. 36:45 AND HE LET THEM GO IN THE ORCHARDS AND VINEYARDS OF THE 36:49 PHILISTINES AND THEY JUST SPREAD FIRE EVERYWHERE. 36:53 HE DID IT, OBVIOUSLY, DURING A DRY PART OF THE SEASON, AND IT 36:57 JUST TOTALLY RAVAGED THEIR ECONOMY. 37:00 "HE HAD SET THE TORCHES ON FIRE, HE LET THE FOXES GO INTO THE 37:03 STANDING GRAIN OF THE PHILISTINES, AND BURNED UP BOTH 37:06 THE SHOCKS AND THE STANDING GRAIN," - THEY WERE BEGINNING TO 37:09 HARVEST. THEY HAD ALREADY HAD IT STACKED 37:10 IN SHOCKS - "THE STANDING GRAIN AS WELL AS THE VINEYARDS 37:14 AND OLIVE GROVES." IT TOTALLY DEVASTATED THE 37:16 ECONOMY OF THE PHILISTINES SO THEY WOULD ATTACK THE FARMS. 37:20 WITH THAT IN MIND, THIS NEXT PARABLE MAKES MORE SENSE. 37:24 JESUS - WE'RE STILL IN MATTHEW 13 - TALKING ABOUT THE BATTLE 37:27 BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL IN THE TEACHINGS AND PARABLES OF JESUS. 37:30 "ANOTHER PARABLE HE PUT FORTH TO THEM, SAYING: 'THE KINGDOM OF 37:32 HEAVEN IS LIKE A MAN WHO SOWED GOOD SEED IN HIS FIELD; BUT 37:36 WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES AMONG THE WHEAT 37:42 AND WENT HIS WAY. NOW, WHAT ARE THE 37:47 TARES AMONG THE WHEAT? WELL, IT COULD BE 37:51 A COUPLE THINGS. ONE WE JUST READ, WHERE THE SEED 37:53 IS THE WORD OF GOD - TRUTH - AND THE DEVIL WILL PLANT LIES IN 37:59 AMONG THE TRUTH - AND IT'S PEOPLE WHO ARE THE FRUIT. 38:04 YOU HAVE GOOD FRUIT AND THEN YOU HAVE BAD FRUIT AND THE DEVIL 38:08 WILL HAVE PEOPLE WHO WILL COME TO THE CHURCH AND THEY'LL SAY 38:11 THEY'RE PART OF THE CHURCH AND - AND THEY'LL BE THERE TO FALSELY 38:14 REPRESENT CHRISTIANITY AND THEY'RE NOT CONVERTED AND THEY 38:18 BRING IN ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS. AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WHY 38:21 WOULD JESUS ALLOW THAT?' DID JESUS HAVE A JUDAS 38:25 AMONG THE TWELVE APOSTLES? >>YES. 38:28 >>DID JESUS POINT HIM OUT THE FIRST DAY WHEN JUDAS SHOWED UP 38:31 AND SAY, 'THIS GUY - EVERYONE, I WANT YOU TO KNOW HE'S A 38:33 HYPOCRITE, DON'T LET HIM IN.' DID JESUS KNOW - 38:37 >>YES. >>THAT JUDAS HAD THOSE PROBLEMS? 38:39 AND YET HE ALLOWED HIM - DOES THE LORD SOMETIMES 38:43 ALLOW THE WEEDS - A TARE WAS A WEED. 38:47 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT GREW UP - IT SPROUTED AND, AT FIRST, IT 38:50 KIND OF LOOKED A LITTLE BIT LIKE WHEAT. AS IT MATURED THOUGH, 38:54 THE WHEAT BECAME VERY CLEAR WHAT IT WAS AND THE TARES - 38:56 CLEAR WHAT THEY WERE - AND HE SAID YOU'VE JUST GOT TO 38:59 LET THEM GROW TOGETHER. YOU'LL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD 39:02 IF YOU TRY TO PULL UP THE WEEDS AFTER THE GOOD GRAIN HAS 39:06 SPROUTED BECAUSE THEIR ROOTS BECOME ENTWINED. 39:08 YOU PULL UP ONE, IT KILLS THE OTHER AND YOU ALMOST JUST HAD TO 39:11 - AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE? THE TARES WOULD STUNT THE GROWTH 39:15 OF THE WHEAT, BUT YOU HAD TO LET IT GROW TOGETHER. 39:18 THE WORK OF THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN STUNTED BY 39:22 HYPOCRISY IN THE CHURCH. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD 39:26 SOMEONE SAY, 'WELL, I WOULD BE A CHRISTIAN BUT MAN, I KNEW THIS 39:29 CHRISTIAN - I WENT TO CHURCH ONCE AND IF YOU KNEW WHAT THEY 39:31 DID TO ME AND THIS CHRISTIAN, THEY'RE SUCH A HYPOCRITE. 39:33 I SEE WHAT CHRISTIANS DO AND I HEAR ABOUT THE WARS OF 39:35 CHRISTIANS' - AND THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT TAKE THE NAME 39:38 OF CHRIST AND THEY'RE REALLY TARES THAT GROW AMONG THE WHEAT. 39:41 THEY MISREPRESENT JESUS AND IT DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD. 39:45 AND SO THE DEVIL USES THAT. THIS IS WHY JESUS 39:48 SHARED THAT PARABLE. HE SAYS, 'THERE'S A CONTROVERSY. 39:50 I'M TRYING TO SHARE THE TRUTH TO SAVE AND THE DEVIL IS PLANTING 39:54 COUNTERFEITS IN. MOST OF YOU WHO KNOW A LITTLE 39:58 BIT OF CHURCH HISTORY KNOW THAT RIGHT AFTER THE CHURCH WAS 40:01 GROWING, WITH THE GREATEST OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT - RIGHT 40:07 AFTER PENTECOST - AND THE DEVIL SAW THAT PERSECUTION WAS 40:12 NOT STOPPING THE CHURCH. HE THEN BEGAN TO ATTACK THROUGH 40:15 COMPROMISE, BY PLANTING HIS REPRESENTATIVES IN THE CHURCH. 40:19 HE MADE IT VERY EASY TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN - THERE WAS NO 40:21 PERSECUTION - AND HE SAID, 'OH, WE WANT TO REACH MORE PAGANS SO 40:24 YOU CAN BRING YOUR PAGAN TEACHINGS 40:26 IN - AND ALL THESE UNCONVERTED PEOPLE CAME INTO THE CHURCH AND 40:30 THAT WAS THE ENTRANCE OF THE DARK AGES. 40:32 THAT WAS THE GREAT CONTROVERSY. IF THE DEVIL CAN'T DESTROY A 40:35 CHURCH FROM THE OUTSIDE, HE TRIES TO DO IT BY PLANTING 40:38 REPRESENTATIVES IN THE CHURCH AND DO IT FROM THE INSIDE. 40:42 NOW, YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT GOING ON A WITCH HUNT. 40:48 AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK NEXT ABOUT JUDGING BECAUSE THAT'S IN 40:50 OUR LESSON TODAY, BUT - OR IN A MINUTE WE'LL TALK ABOUT JUDGING 40:53 - BUILDING ON THE ROCK - RUNNING OUT OF TIME AND I WANT TO GET 40:56 INTO THIS. JESUS THEN TELLS A PARABLE - NOW 40:59 SOMEONE'S GOING TO HAVE MATTHEW 7:21 AND 22 - YOU'LL HAVE THAT? 41:05 "THEREFORE WHOEVER HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF MINE AND DOES THEM, 41:08 I WILL LIKEN HIM TO A MAN WHO BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON A ROCK. 41:11 THE RAIN DESCENDS, THE FLOODS COME, THE WINDS BLOW AND BEAT ON 41:14 THAT HOUSE AND IT DID NOT FALL FOR IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK." 41:18 IN LUKE, WHEN HE SHARES THIS STORY, HE SAYS, 'HE DIGS DEEP 41:21 AND PLANTS IT ON THE ROCK.' - "BUT EVERYONE WHO HEARS THESE 41:27 SAYINGS OF MINE AND DOES NOT DO THEM, HE'LL BE LIKE A FOOLISH 41:30 MAN WHO BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON THE SAND. 41:33 AND THE RAIN DESCENDED AND THE FLOOD CAME AND THE WIND BLEW AND 41:36 BEAT ON THAT HOUSE AND GREAT WAS ITS FALL." 41:39 WHAT'S THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF THIS PARABLE? 41:44 HOW MANY PEOPLE BUILD A HOUSE? YOU'VE GOT THE WISE MAN, YOU'VE 41:47 GOT THE FOOL, SO THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. 41:49 HOW MANY OF THEM BUILD A HOUSE? THEY BOTH BUILD A HOUSE. 41:53 DO THEY BOTH USE GOOD MATERIALS IN BUILDING THE HOUSE? 41:56 LET'S ASSUME THEY DO. DO THEY - DOES THE STORM COME 42:00 JUST TO THE WISE MAN AND NOT TO THE FOOL - OR JUST TO THE FOOL 42:03 - OR DO THEY BOTH ENCOUNTER A STORM? THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. 42:06 ARE STORMS GOING TO COME TO EVERYBODY? 42:08 >>YES. >>SO WHAT IS THE ONE DIFFERENCE 42:11 BETWEEN THE WISE MAN AND THE FOOL? 42:12 >>THE FOUNDATION. >>THEY BOTH BUILD - MAYBE IN THE 42:16 SAME LOCATIONS - NOT FAR FROM A STREAM BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE 42:20 BIBLE SAYS THE STREAM BEATS AGAINST THE WISE 42:22 MAN'S HOUSE TOO. THE DIFFERENCE IS ONE OF THEM 42:27 DOESN'T DIG DEEP AND FOUND - IT'S THE FOUNDATION. 42:31 AND WHAT DOES - WHAT DOES CHRIST SAY? 42:33 'IF YOU HEAR THESE WORDS OF MINE AND DO THEM, YOU'RE A WISE MAN. 42:37 IF YOU HEAR THESE WORDS OF MINE AND YOU DON'T DO THEM, YOU'RE A 42:41 FOOL.' SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS? 42:43 IT'S A TWO-LETTER WORD: >>DO. 42:45 >>DOING - LET ME ILLUSTRATE THAT A LITTLE FURTHER. 42:48 SOMEONE GO AHEAD AND READ FOR ME MATTHEW 7:21 AND 22. 42:53 >>"NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO ME, 'LORD, LORD,' SHALL ENTER THE 42:58 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT HE WHO DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER IN 43:04 HEAVEN. MANY WILL SAY TO ME IN THAT 43:07 DAY, 'LORD, LORD, HAVE WE NOT PROPHESIED IN YOUR NAME, CAST 43:13 OUT DEMONS IN YOUR NAME, AND DONE MANY WONDERS IN YOUR 43:17 NAME?'" >>THAT'S RIGHT. SO, HE SAID IT'S 43:19 NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS, 'LORD, LORD,' BUT HE THAT DOES. 43:23 AND JESUS SAYS, IN MATTHEW 21:28, "BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK? 43:28 A MAN HAD TWO SONS, AND HE CAME TO THE FIRST SON," - ANOTHER 43:31 PARABLE - HE SAYS, "GO WORK IN MY VINEYARD.'" HE SAYS, 'I'M 43:33 GOING' - OR - SORRY, THE FIRST ONE SAYS "'I WILL NOT' BUT 43:38 AFTERWARD HE REGRETTED IT AND WENT. THEN HE CAME TO THE SECOND 43:40 AND SAID...'I GO, SIR,'" - 'ON MY WAY DAD' - "BUT HE DID NOT 43:44 GO." AND THEN JESUS SAYS, 'WHICH OF THE TWO DID THE WILL OF HIS 43:49 FATHER?'" SO THE BOTTOM LINE IS, YOU 43:53 KNOW, NOT WHAT THEY SAY, BUT WHAT DO YOU DO? 43:57 BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE MAKE A PROFESSION AND THEY DON'T DO 43:59 ANYTHING AND SOME PEOPLE DON'T MAKE MUCH OF A PROFESSION BUT 44:01 THEY DO IT. LUKE 11:27, "AND IT HAPPENED, AS 44:05 HE SPOKE THESE THINGS, THAT A CERTAIN WOMAN FROM THE CROWD 44:08 RAISED HER VOICE AND SAID TO HIM, 'BLESSED IS THE WOMB THAT 44:10 BORE YOU, AND THE BREASTS WHICH NURSED YOU!' 44:12 BUT HE SAID, 'MORE THAN THAT, BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR THE 44:16 WORD OF GOD AND KEEP IT!'" JAMES TALKS ABOUT THOSE WHO 44:20 ARE HEARERS OF THE WORD AND NOT - WHAT? 44:23 >>DOERS. >>NOT DOERS. 44:25 AND SO IT'S NOT JUST 'LORD, LORD,' BUT THEY THAT DO. 44:28 AND JOHN - 1 JOHN 2:17, "AND THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY, AND THE 44:32 LUST OF IT; BUT HE WHO DOES THE WILL OF GOD ABIDES FOREVER." 44:38 SO THE LORD WANTS US NOT JUST TO BE HEARERS BUT DOERS - 44:40 TO PRACTICE WHAT WE BELIEVE. 44:42 NOT JUDGING - MATTHEW 7:1-5 - MATTHEW 7:1 THROUGH 5 - NOW SOME 44:49 OF YOU THOUGHT THE MOST QUOTED VERSE IN THE BIBLE IS JOHN 3:16 44:53 - I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU SAW, BUT THERE'S A CHARACTER 44:55 HERE IN TOWN NOW THAT HAS BEEN WRITING JOHN 3:16 AT A NUMBER OF 45:00 THE INTERSECTIONS - ANY OF YOU NOTICE THAT? 45:03 WITH CHALK - AND HE TOOK A BUNCH OF STONES AND HE STACKED JOHN 45:06 3:16 ON ONE OF THE OVERPASSES - IT'S JUST BEEN THE LAST MONTH OR 45:10 SO - WE SEE IT WHEN WE GO HOME FROM CHURCH. 45:12 THAT'S NOT THE MOST QUOTED VERSE. THE MOST QUOTED VERSE IS 45:15 "JUDGE NOT THAT YOU BE NOT JUDGED." MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW 45:18 WHERE IT IS, BUT THEY SAY 'YOU'RE JUDGING ME. 45:19 DON'T JUDGE.' "JUDGE NOT THAT YOU BE NOT JUDGED, FOR WITH WHAT 45:24 JUDGMENT YOU JUDGE, YOU WILL BE JUDGED AND WITH WHAT MEASURE YOU 45:27 MEET, IT WILL BE MEASURED BACK TO YOU. 45:29 AND WHY DO YOU LOOK AT THE SPECK THAT'S IN YOUR BROTHER'S EYE BUT 45:32 YOU DON'T CONSIDER THE PLANK IN YOUR OWN EYE? 45:34 OR HOW CAN YOU SAY TO YOUR BROTHER, 'LET ME REMOVE THE 45:36 SPECK FROM YOUR EYE' AND LOOK, YOU'VE GOT A PLANK IN YOUR OWN 45:40 EYE. HYPOCRITE! 45:42 FIRST REMOVE THE PLANK FROM YOUR OWN EYE, THEN YOU WILL SEE 45:45 CLEARLY TO REMOVE THE SPECK FROM YOUR BROTHER'S EYE. NOW 45:49 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME 1 CORINTHIANS 6:3 - YOU'LL HAVE 45:53 THAT IN JUST A MOMENT HERE - GET YOU READY - ROMANS 2:3, "AND DO 45:58 YOU THINK THIS, O MAN, YOU WHO JUDGE THOSE PRACTICING SUCH 46:03 THINGS, AND DOING THE SAME, THAT YOU WILL ESCAPE THE JUDGMENT OF 46:06 GOD?" SAME PRINCIPLE. ROMANS 14:10, "BUT WHY DO 46:10 YOU JUDGE YOUR BROTHER? OR WHY DO YOU SHOW 46:12 CONTEMPT FOR YOUR BROTHER? FOR WE SHALL ALL STAND BEFORE 46:15 THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST." SO, QUICK QUESTION: IS 46:19 IT WRONG TO JUDGE OTHERS? >>NO. 46:21 >>NOT ALWAYS, BECAUSE IF YOU ONLY READ THOSE VERSES WITHOUT 46:26 READING THE OTHER VERSES, YOU'RE GOING TO GET THE WRONG IDEA. 46:29 JESUS ALSO SAID SOME OTHER THINGS. 46:31 HE SAYS, IN JOHN 7:24, "DO NOT JUDGE ACCORDING TO APPEARANCE, 46:35 BUT JUDGE WITH RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT." 46:39 DOES THE LORD WANT US TO USE JUDGMENT? HE DOES. 46:42 1 CORINTHIANS 2:15, "BUT HE WHO IS SPIRITUAL JUDGES ALL 46:46 THINGS, YET HE HIMSELF IS RIGHTLY JUDGED BY NO ONE." 46:52 AND KAREN, YOU'VE GOT ONE THERE - 1 CORINTHIANS 6:3. 46:55 >>"DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS? 46:58 HOW MUCH MORE, THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE?" 47:02 >>PAUL WAS TALKING TO THE CHURCH IN CORINTH. 47:03 IN 1 CORINTHIANS HE'S SAYING, YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH A BROTHER 47:06 WHO IS LIVING IN OPEN SIN - HE WAS ACTUALLY SLEEPING WITH HIS 47:09 STEP-MOTHER AND NOBODY WANTED TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY SAID, 47:12 'NO, JESUS SAID DON'T JUDGE. WE'RE NOT TO JUDGE.' 47:14 AND PAUL SAID, 'WHAT? THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT MEANS!' 47:17 HE SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO JUDGE. YOU'VE GOT TO BE 47:18 DISCRIMINATING.' HE SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING TO JUDGE ANGELS. 47:20 YOU CAN'T JUDGE IN THE SMALLEST OF MATTERS WITH EACH OTHER?' 47:23 SO WHEN IT SAYS 'DO NOT JUDGE' IS IT SAYING THAT WE'RE 47:29 NOT TO EVER MAKE ANY DETERMINATIONS? 47:31 OR IS IT SAYING 'DO NOT CONDEMN'? 47:34 LET ME READ TO YOU FROM THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES - A GREAT QUOTE: 47:37 "JUDGE NOT THAT YOU BE NOT JUDGED AND DO NOT THINK YOURSELF 47:40 BETTER THAN OTHER MEN AND SET YOURSELF UP AS THEIR JUDGE. 47:43 SINCE YOU CANNOT DISCERN MOTIVE, YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF JUDGING 47:47 ANOTHER. IN CRITICIZING HIM, YOU'RE 47:49 PASSING SENTENCE UPON YOURSELF, FOR YOU SHOW THAT YOU ARE A 47:52 PARTICIPANT WITH SATAN, WHO IS THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 47:55 THE LORD SAYS, 'EXAMINE YOURSELVES, WHETHER YOU BE IN 47:58 THE FAITH. PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES." 48:00 SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT PASSING SENTENCE ON ANOTHER PERSON, NOW 48:04 - AND JUDGING THE MOTIVES OF THEIR HEART. WE CAN'T SEE WHAT'S 48:08 IN A PERSON'S HEART, BUT SOMETIMES THE THINGS THAT ARE 48:10 VERY PLAIN AND EXTERNAL, THAT YOU CAN SEE. 48:13 IF YOU SEE SOMEBODY IS GOING DOWN THE ROAD AND THEY ARE 48:18 SWERVING ALL OVER THE PLACE AND SIDE-SWIPING PARKED CARS, WILL 48:22 YOU CALL 911? HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD CALL 911? 48:27 HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD THINK THAT'S JUDGMENTAL BECAUSE YOU 48:28 DON'T KNOW THEIR HEARTS? (LAUGHTER) I DON'T KNOW 48:31 WHAT'S IN THEIR HEART. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT'S IN 48:33 THEIR HEART, THEY'RE GOING TO KILL SOMEBODY. 48:34 THEY'RE DRUNK OR HAVING A PROBLEM AND YOU KNOW THEM BY 48:38 THEIR FRUITS. AND SO WE'VE GOT TO KNOW HOW TO 48:41 APPLY THAT 'DON'T JUDGE' VERSE. I MEAN, SOMETIMES IT'S PLAIN AND 48:45 EVIDENT THAT A PERSON IS HAVING A REAL SPIRITUAL PROBLEM AND 48:47 PEOPLE SAY, 'MAYBE WE SHOULD TALK TO SO AND SO. 48:50 THEY LOOK THEY'RE DRIFTING FROM THE LORD.' 48:52 'OH, YOU'RE JUDGING THEM!' WELL, IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR YOUR 48:54 BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT ARE STRUGGLING SPIRITUALLY, YOU 48:57 SOUND LIKE CAIN WHO SAYS, 'AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER? 49:00 I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM.' SO WE ARE TO CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER. 49:03 WE ARE TO WATCH - WE'RE NOT TO CONDEMN ONE ANOTHER, THAT'S WHAT 49:06 JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT. OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD VERSE. 49:09 ALRIGHT, AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO ON TO - YEAH, I'M GOING TO GO 49:15 TO THE LAST PART. JESUS SAID, 'I AM WITH YOU 49:17 ALWAYS.' - I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS - MATTHEW 28:20, "TEACHING THEM 49:22 TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU; AND LO, I AM 49:26 WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE." 49:28 OF COURSE, WE STARTED WITH MATTHEW 11 - 'COME UNTO ME' - 49:31 MATTHEW 28 - 'GO THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING 49:34 THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY 49:36 SPIRIT.' AND HE SAYS, 'YOU DO THIS, I AM WITH YOU.' SO IF 49:39 YOU'RE OUT WORKING FOR GOD, GOD PROMISES TO BE WITH YOU ALWAYS, 49:41 DOESN'T HE? AND THERE'S A VERSE - ROMANS 49:47 8:39 - HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER? 'THERE'S NOTHING IN HEAVEN 49:50 ABOVE, THE EARTH BENEATH, PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, GOOD, 49:54 BAD, THAT CAN SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD THAT IS IN 49:57 CHRIST JESUS.' WHAT DID GOD SAY TO JACOB? 50:01 GENESIS 26:24, "AND THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM THE SAME NIGHT 50:04 AND SAID, 'I AM THE GOD OF YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM; DO NOT FEAR, FOR 50:08 I AM WITH YOU. I WILL BLESS YOU AND MULTIPLY 50:11 YOUR DESCENDANTS FOR MY SERVANT ABRAHAM'S SAKE.'" HE SAYS, 'I AM 50:15 WITH YOU WHERE YOU GO.' WHAT DID GOD SAY TO JOSHUA? 50:18 'BE COURAGEOUS. I'M GOING TO BE WITH YOU. 50:21 AS I WAS WITH MOSES, SO I'LL BE WITH YOU.' PAUL GOES INTO THE 50:24 CITY - IT WAS ACTUALLY CORINTH - IN ACTS 18:10, JESUS SAYS TO HIM 50:30 - IF YOU'VE GOT A NEW TESTAMENT, THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES RED 50:33 LETTERS APPEAR AFTER THE GOSPEL. 50:35 JESUS SPOKE AND IT SAYS, "FOR I AM WITH YOU, AND NO ONE WILL 50:39 ATTACK YOU TO HURT YOU; FOR I HAVE MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY." 50:42 YOU NOTICE THE CONTEXT THAT JESUS OFTEN SAYS, 'I AM 50:46 ESPECIALLY WITH YOU WHEN YOU ARE DOING MY WORK.' 'GO INTO ALL THE 50:51 WORLD, I'LL BE WITH YOU.' IF YOU PREACH THE GOSPEL, IF YOU HELP 50:56 THE PEOPLE GET INTO THE PROMISED LAND, I'LL BE WITH YOU.' 50:58 WHEN WE'RE WORKING FOR THE LORD AND WE'RE - HE'S ESPECIALLY 51:00 INTERESTED IN HIS INTERESTS AND THE GOSPEL IS HIS INTEREST. 51:04 AND IF WE'RE INVOLVED IN DOING HIS WORK, I'VE OFTEN SAID THAT 51:08 ONE OF THE BEST THINGS YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR HEALTH IS PREACH 51:11 CHRIST. NOW THERE'S A HEALTH MESSAGE, 51:16 BUT IF YOU ARE DOING THE WORK OF GOD, GOD HAS A GOOD EXCUSE TO 51:19 KEEP YOU AROUND, DOESN'T HE? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN - 51:26 HOW MANY TIMES DID THEY TRY TO ARREST AND KILL PAUL 51:27 AND HE SURVIVED? TALK ABOUT A HEALTH MESSAGE, IF 51:30 YOU CAN SURVIVE A STONING AND THREE SHIPWRECKS AND MULTIPLE 51:34 WHIPPINGS, GOD SAID, 'I'VE GOT TO KEEP HIM AROUND BECAUSE HE'S 51:37 A GOOD PREACHER.' AND SO, IF YOU'RE INVOLVED IN WORKING FOR 51:40 THE LORD, THAT'S A GOOD PART OF THE HEALTH MESSAGE. 51:44 ALRIGHT, WITH THAT, WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME, BUT BEFORE WE GO, I 51:46 WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS - YOU MAY NOT HAVE CAUGHT THIS AT THE 51:48 BEGINNING - WE HAVE A SPECIAL, SPECIAL OFFER FOR EVERYBODY. 51:51 YOU CAN'T GET THIS ON THE INTERNET, BUT IT'S A GREAT 51:53 SHARING MAGAZINE - BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED - IT GOES THROUGH 51:56 SOME OF THE MOST AMAZING HIDDEN TEACHINGS THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW 51:59 ABOUT. 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PLAN NOW TO GET YOUR 53:09 CHURCH OR HOME GROUP INVOLVED IN THIS SOUL-WINNING PROGRAM. 53:13 FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO LASTDAYOFPROPHECY.COM AND, OF 53:17 COURSE, PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAM. 53:21 THE LAST DAY OF PROPHECY MARCH 21, 7:00 PM EASTERN TIME. 53:30 >>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES. >>MY GREATEST WISH IS THAT MY 53:42 CHILDREN WILL SEE ME THE WAY I SEE MY - MY OWN FATHER. 53:49 HE'S A VERY DEVOTED MAN AND THAT KIND OF FRAMED MY CHILDHOOD 53:54 GOING FORWARD FROM THERE, WHERE I WAS ALWAYS INVOLVED IN CHURCH 53:59 WORK AND I HAD A VERY RICH EXPERIENCE WITH THE LORD AT A 54:04 YOUNG AGE ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH COLLEGE. 54:08 THEN AFTER I GOT MARRIED, I GOT IN A COMPANY CALLED COMCAST AND 54:14 I SPENT THE PAST, ROUGHLY EIGHT AND A HALF YEARS - NINE YEARS - 54:18 AT COMCAST AND I WAS ACTUALLY WATCHING TELEVISION WITH MY SON 54:23 AND A COMCAST COMMERCIAL CAME ON THE AIR AND HE SAID, 'OH DADDY, 54:30 THAT'S COMCAST - THAT'S WHERE YOU WORK, DADDY.' 54:34 AND MOST FATHERS WOULD BE PROUD OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT, 54:38 BUT IT REALLY STRUCK ME THAT, YOU KNOW, MY SON'S GETTING OLDER 54:41 AND HE DOES NOT SEE ME AS A SERVANT OF THE LORD, 54:45 HE SEES ME AS A SERVANT OF MY COMPANY. 54:48 AND I KNEW THAT I WOULD HAVE TO MAKE SOME CHANGES BECAUSE I 54:54 WANTED HIM TO KNOW ME AS A MAN OF GOD. 54:58 I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD DE A PREACHER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, 55:01 BUT I KNEW THAT THERE WAS ROOM IN THE WORK FOR ME AND FOR MY 55:08 TALENTS AND I WANTED MY SON TO SEE ME OPERATING IN THE WORK. 55:15 THAT'S WHEN I KNEW THAT MY TIME THERE WAS COMING TO AN END. 55:20 I WAS SITTING IN MY OFFICE ONE DAY AND I WAS KNEELING IN PRAYER 55:24 AND I WAS LIKE, 'GOD, SHOW ME WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO BECAUSE, 55:28 YOU KNOW, THIS SEEMS LIKE A - A BIG MOVE HERE AND, YOU KNOW, 55:35 EVERYONE'S THINKING I'M CRAZY AND I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW, 55:41 YOU KNOW, THINGS ARE GOING TO GO IF THEY DON'T GO WELL. 55:47 CRAZY THOUGHT WHEN YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT GOD AND I LIFTED 55:53 MY HEAD UP IN PRAYER AND THERE WERE JUST LIKE A FLOCK OF MAYBE 55:59 300 BIRDS THAT WERE JUST FLYING AND THEY WERE SWOOPING DOWN OVER 56:04 THE WATER AND THEY WOULD FLY BACK UP AND THEN THEY WOULD 56:08 CHASE EACH OTHER AROUND AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THE 56:11 PATTERN OF THE GIANT FLOCK AND THE PROMISE OF THE LORD CAME TO 56:16 ME WHERE HE SAYS THAT, YOU KNOW, HE TAKES CARE OF THE SPARROWS 56:21 AND YOU DON'T SEE THEM WORRYING ABOUT HOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE 56:26 TAKEN CARE OF FROM DAY TO DAY. YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T, YOU KNOW, 56:30 WRING THEIR HANDS WONDERING, YOU KNOW, WILL THERE BE ANY 56:33 WORMS TO EAT TOMORROW? AND THAT PROMISE REALLY STOOD 56:38 OUT TO ME AND HE SAID - YOU KNOW, HE SAID, 'HOW MUCH 56:40 MORE DO I LOVE YOU? YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO SEND 56:43 YOU ON A MISSION TO DO MY WORK AND LEAVE YOU HIGH AND DRY 56:48 BECAUSE YOU CLAIM TO BE MY CHILD. 56:51 YOU CLAIM TO BE MY SON AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.' THAT 56:56 ASSURANCE ALLOWS ME TO KNOW THAT WHATEVER HAPPENS HERE, WHATEVER 57:02 HAPPENS AFTER HERE, WE'RE SONS OF GOD AND THERE ARE CERTAIN 57:08 THINGS THAT WE SHOULDN'T WORRY ABOUT. FROM THE DAY WE ARRIVED 57:12 AT AFCOE, IT'S BEEN OBVIOUS THAT GOD HAS BLESSED THE AMAZING 57:18 FACTS MINISTRY - THE AFCOE PROGRAM - AND I WILL BE USING MY 57:24 AFCOE EXPERIENCE NO MATTER WHERE I GO, TO REACH PEOPLE, BECAUSE 57:29 THE PERSONAL TOUCH OF FACE-TO-FACE EVANGELISM - 57:34 SPEAKING AND SHARING THE WORD OF GOD OUT OF YOUR OWN MOUTH - 57:38 THERE'S NO REPLACEMENT FOR THAT AND AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN VERY 57:42 INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING ME FIND THE AREA OF THE WORK OF GOD AND 57:51 SHOWING ME HOW LARGE AND HOW BROAD IT IS. 57:54 IT'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS BLESSING TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE WE'RE 57:58 AROUND PEOPLE SEEKING TO DO GOD'S WILL AND LISTENING FOR HIS 58:03 VOICE IN THEIR LIFE AND THAT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TODAY. 58:14 (MUSIC) |
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