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00:34 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:36 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN, BECAUSE WE KNOW YOU 00:38 DO EVERY WEEK FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD. 00:42 WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE AT GRANITE 00:46 BAY S - GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG - AND WE ARE DOING SOMETHING THAT WE 00:51 STOPPED, OH, ABOUT ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO, AND THAT IS SINGING 00:55 NEW SONGS AS WE WORK OUR WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL. 00:58 SO WE DECIDED TO START THAT UP AGAIN. 01:00 AND I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU ENJOYED DOING THAT WITH US AND 01:03 SO TODAY WE'RE GOING TO START AGAIN AND WE'RE GOING TO START 01:06 AT #227 - JESUS SHALL REIGN - SO THOSE OF YOU HERE, PULL OUT YOUR 01:10 HYMNALS AND THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, DO THE SAME AND JOIN WITH 01:13 US. WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST, 01:15 SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS - #227. (MUSIC) 01:29 >>JESUS SHALL REIGN WHERE'ER THE SUN DOES HIS 01:40 SUCCESSIVE JOURNEYS RUN; HIS KINGDOM STRETCH FROM SHORE TO 01:53 SHORE, TIL MOONS SHALL WAX AND WANE NO MORE. 02:05 PEOPLE AND REALMS OF EV'RY TONGUE DWELL ON HIS LOVE WITH 02:18 SWEETEST SONG, AND INFANT VOICES SHALL PROCLAIM THEIR EARTHLY 02:34 BLESSINGS ON HIS NAME. LET EVERY CREATURE RISE AND 02:47 BRING HONORS PECULIAR TO OUR KING; ANGELS DESCEND WITH SONGS 03:04 AGAIN, AND EARTH REPEAT THE LOUD AMEN! 03:20 >>IT'S NICE TO LEARN NEW SONGS - ONES THAT WE DON'T SING VERY 03:22 OFTEN WE GET FAMILIAR WITH THEM AGAIN SO WE THOUGHT YOU WOULD 03:25 APPRECIATE THAT AND WE'RE EXCITED TO LEARN THESE SONGS 03:28 WITH YOU. OUR NEXT SONG IS #423 - #423 - THIS ONE ACTUALLY ISN'T 03:37 ONE THAT WE SING VERY OFTEN EITHER, BUT IT IS A BEAUTIFUL 03:40 SONG - GOOD, UPBEAT - GLORIOUS THINGS OF THEE ARE SPOKEN - 03:45 WE'LL DO THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS. (MUSIC) 03:53 >>GLORIOUS THINGS OF THEE ARE SPOKEN, ZION, CITY OF 04:00 OUR GOD; HE WHOSE WORD CANNOT BE BROKEN FORMED THEE FOR HIS 04:09 OWN ABODE; ON THE ROCK OF AGES FOUNDED, WHAT CAN SHAKE THY 04:18 SURE REPOSE? WITH SALVATION'S WALL 04:23 SURROUNDED, THOU MAYEST SMILE AT ALL THY FOES. 04:31 SEE THE STREAMS OF LIVING WATERS SPRINGING FROM ETERNAL LOVE, 04:40 WELL SUPPLY THY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, AND ALL FEAR AND WANT 04:48 REMOVE; WHO CAN FAINT WHEN SUCH A RIVER EVER FLOWS THEIR THIRST 04:57 TO ASSUAGE? GRACE, WHICH, LIKE THE LORD, THE 05:02 GIVER, NEVER FAILS FROM AGE TO AGE. 05:10 SAVIOR, IF OF ZION'S CITY I, THROUGH GRACE, A MEMBER AM, LET 05:20 THE WORLD DERIDE OR PITY, I WILL GLORY IN THY NAME; FADING IS THE 05:30 WORLDLING'S PLEASURE, ALL HIS BOASTED POMP AND SHOW; SOLID 05:39 JOYS AND LASTING TREASURE NONE BUT ZION'S CHILDREN KNOW. 05:51 >>AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY 05:54 DR. DAVID DEROSE AND WE WILL BE STUDYING TOGETHER LIKE WE DO 05:59 EVERY WEEK. THANK YOU, DR. DEROSE. 06:13 >>WELL GOOD MORNING TO EACH OF YOU. 06:14 >>GOOD MORNING. 06:16 >>IT'S GOOD TO BE LOOKING AT ANOTHER INSTALLMENT IN OUR 06:19 SERIES REBELLION AND REDEMPTION - REBELLION AND REDEMPTION. 06:25 WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE GREAT CONTROVERSY THEME TOGETHER AND 06:29 WE'RE MOVING TO LOOK AT A LESSON - LESSON #8 - THAT'S ENTITLED 06:35 COMRADES IN ARMS - COMRADES IN ARMS - AND THE VERY LANGUAGE 06:41 SEEMS TO SUGGEST WHAT? >>BATTLE. 06:44 >>BATTLE - THAT'S RIGHT, BATTLE LANGUAGE - IMAGERY OF A CONTEST 06:49 OR A CONFLICT. AS ALWAYS, WE'VE GOT A SPECIAL 06:54 OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE LESSON. 06:57 THAT SPECIAL OFFER THIS WEEK IS FACE TO FACE WITH THE REAL 07:03 GOSPEL - FACE TO FACE WITH THE REAL GOSPEL, DENNIS PRIEBE HAS 07:07 PULLED THIS BOOK TOGETHER. IT'S OFFER #789 - IF YOU 07:11 WANT OFFER #789, SIMPLY CALL 866-STUDY MORE - THAT'S 07:17 866-788-3966 - AND ASK FOR OFFER #789. 07:26 YOU'VE BEEN THERE, HAVEN'T YOU? WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE. 07:29 THE PLACE I'M REFERRING TO IS THAT VALLEY OF DISCOURAGEMENT. 07:35 AND MAYBE THIS LAST WEEK WAS A GOOD WEEK FOR YOU, MAYBE YOU ARE 07:40 REJOICING THIS MORNING THAT THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING WELL, BUT 07:45 ALL OF US HAVE THOSE TIMES IN OUR EXPERIENCE WHEN WE'RE FACING 07:49 DISCOURAGEMENT, AND IN THIS LESSON DEALING WITH COMRADES IN 07:53 ARMS AS WE BEGIN OUR STUDY, OUR KEY TEXT - THE MEMORY TEXT - IS 08:00 ACTUALLY DRAWN FROM LUKE 24 - AND WE'RE GOING TO JUMP ALL THE 08:04 WAY, IF YOU'RE STUDYING THROUGH THE LESSON QUARTERLY, TO 08:08 THURSDAY'S LESSON BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THAT TEXT COMES FROM TO 08:12 REALLY SET THE STAGE FOR SOMETHING THAT REALLY PERVADES 08:15 THE EXPERIENCE OF JESUS' DISCIPLES. THAT'S WHAT THE FOCUS 08:19 IS, THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS WHILE HE WAS ON THIS EARTH. 08:22 AND WE SEE, IN LUKE 24, AN AMAZING STORY - IT'S ONE OF MY 08:27 FAVORITES - AND WE TURN THERE RIGHT NOW TO LUKE'S GOSPEL. 08:31 NOW, AS I'M TURNING THERE, JUST A REMINDER - LUKE HAS ONE OF THE 08:35 MORE INTERESTING BACKGROUNDS OF ANY OF THE GOSPEL WRITERS. 08:39 YOU KNOW THAT MATTHEW AND JOHN WERE ACTUALLY AMONG THE TWELVE 08:43 DISCIPLES. MARK WAS - HE ACTUALLY KNEW 08:48 JESUS - MARK WAS ACTUALLY CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH PETER 08:52 AND MANY REFER TO MARK'S GOSPEL, AT LEAST IN SCHOLARLY 08:56 CIRCLES, AS PETER'S GOSPEL. BUT WHAT ABOUT LUKE? 09:00 DID LUKE HAVE ANY PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE WITH JESUS? 09:03 HE ACTUALLY DIDN'T. LUKE ACTUALLY JOINED PAUL'S 09:07 MISSIONARY TEAM AND LUKE WAS A HISTORIAN - AND HE WAS A 09:11 PHYSICIAN - SO WE HAVE THIS INTERESTING BACKGROUND HERE AND 09:14 LUKE TELLS A STORY IN LUKE 24 THAT NONE OF THE OTHER 09:17 GOSPEL WRITERS RELATE. I'M JUMPING INTO THE STORY IN 09:21 VERSE 13 OF LUKE 24 - IT'S A STORY THAT TOOK PLACE AFTER THE 09:27 RESURRECTION OF JESUS, BUT THE DISCIPLES, INCLUDING THE TWO 09:31 THAT WE MEET IN THIS STORY, WERE NOT AWARE THAT JESUS WAS RISEN. 09:36 SO BEGINNING WITH LUKE 24, VERSE 13 IT SAYS, "NOW BEHOLD, TWO OF 09:41 THEM WERE TRAVELING THAT SAME DAY TO A VILLAGE CALLED EMMAUS, 09:45 WHICH WAS SEVEN MILES FROM JERUSALEM. 09:48 AND THEY TALKED TOGETHER OF ALL THESE THINGS WHICH HAD HAPPENED. 09:53 SO IT WAS, WHILE THEY CONVERSED AND REASONED, THAT JESUS 09:56 HIMSELF DREW NEAR AND WENT WITH THEM. 09:58 BUT THEIR EYES WERE RESTRAINED, SO THAT THEY DID NOT KNOW HIM." 10:02 SO HERE'S THE CONTEXT: IT'S SUNDAY - IT'S RESURRECTION 10:05 SUNDAY - AND JESUS IS ACTUALLY JOINING TWO DISCIPLES AS THEY'RE 10:11 LEAVING JERUSALEM AFTER THOSE MOMENTOUS EVENTS OF THE 10:15 PASSOVER, WHERE JESUS HIMSELF, AS OUR SIN BEARER, WAS CRUCIFIED 10:20 ON THE CROSS. AND SO, AS JESUS WALKS 10:23 ALONGSIDE THEM, DO THEY RECOGNIZE JESUS? 10:26 >>NO. >>NO, THEY'RE OBLIVIOUS TO 10:28 THE FACT THAT THE ONE THEY'RE MOURNING IS RIGHT WITH THEM. 10:33 LET'S READ ON - VERSE 17, JESUS SPEAKS - "'WHAT KIND OF 10:37 CONVERSATION IS THIS THAT YOU HAVE WITH ONE ANOTHER AS YOU 10:41 WALK AND ARE SAD?' THEN ONE WHOSE NAME WAS CLEOPAS 10:46 ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, 'ARE 'ARE YOU THE ONLY STRANGER IN 10:49 JERUSALEM, AND HAVE YOU NOT KNOWN THE THINGS WHICH 10:52 HAPPENED THERE IN THESE DAYS?' AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'WHAT 10:57 THINGS?'" - NOW YOU WOULD SAY, 'WELL, JESUS KNOWS, OBVIOUSLY, 11:01 WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT WHAT IS HE DOING HERE? 11:04 HE'S TRYING TO DRAW THEM OUT. PICTURE THIS - PICTURE THIS: TWO 11:10 DISCIPLES - TWO FOLLOWERS OF JESUS - AND CATCH THEIR WORDS AS 11:15 THEY RELATE TO WHAT THEY SAY IS HAPPENING IN THEIR EXPERIENCE. 11:20 THEY SAY TO JESUS, 'WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS 11:23 CONCERNING JESUS OF NAZARETH, WHO WAS A PROPHET MIGHTY IN DEED 11:27 AND WORD BEFORE GOD AND ALL THE PEOPLE, AND HOW THE CHIEF 11:30 PRIESTS AND OUR RULERS DELIVERED HIM TO BE CONDEMNED TO DEATH, 11:33 AND CRUCIFIED HIM. BUT WE WERE HOPING THAT IT WAS 11:36 HE WHO WAS GOING TO REDEEM ISRAEL. 11:39 INDEED, BESIDES ALL THIS, TODAY IS THE THIRD DAY SINCE THESE 11:42 THINGS HAPPENED.'" DO YOU CATCH WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? 11:46 HERE ARE TWO INDIVIDUALS WHO, BASICALLY, HAD STAKED THEIR 11:50 WHOLE FUTURE ON JESUS BEING THE MESSIAH, AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED, 11:56 IN THEIR EYES? THAT'S RIGHT, THE RUG HAS 12:00 BEEN PULLED OUT, IF YOU WILL. I MEAN, EVERYTHING THAT THEY'VE 12:04 - THEY'VE LIVED FOR IS GONE. HAVE YOU BEEN THERE? 12:09 I MEAN, HAVE YOU BEEN THERE? I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE 12:11 DEALING WITH TODAY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE BEEN 12:13 FACING IN THE WORKPLACE - MAYBE YOU JUST LOST YOUR JOB - A JOB 12:17 THAT YOU'VE HAD FOR THIRTY YEARS. 12:19 MAYBE YOU CAN'T GET A JOB - YOU JUST FINISHED SCHOOL. 12:22 MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING IN THE FAMILY - MAYBE YOU'VE JUST LOST 12:25 A LOVED ONE. MAYBE YOU'RE DEALING WITH SOME 12:28 PHYSICAL ILLNESS - YOU JUST GOT THAT DIAGNOSIS. 12:32 BUT WE ALL ARE THERE AT SOME POINT IN OUR LIVES, RIGHT? 12:36 WE'RE LIKE THOSE DISCIPLES. BUT I WANT YOU TO REALIZE 12:38 SOMETHING ABOUT THE STORY: WHILE THEY'RE GRIEVING, WHILE THEY'RE 12:42 LONGING FOR THE PRESENCE OF JESUS, WHERE IS JESUS? 12:45 >>RIGHT THERE. >>HE'S RIGHT THERE. 12:47 >>AMEN. >>BUT DO THEY REALIZE IT? 12:49 THEY DON'T REALIZE IT. SO HERE'S THE FIRST MESSAGE OF 12:54 ENCOURAGEMENT THAT COMES IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS GREAT 12:56 CONTROVERSY TO COMRADES IN ARMS. BY THE WAY, ALL OF US, IF WE'VE 13:02 CHOSEN JESUS AS OUR SAVIOR, ARE HIS COMRADES, IF YOU WILL, IF 13:06 YOU WANT TO USE THAT LANGUAGE. JESUS CALLED US HIS FRIENDS. 13:09 HE CALLED US HIS CHILDREN. WE'RE PART OF HIS FAMILY. 13:13 AND AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE CHALLENGES IN LIFE, SOMETIMES 13:15 LIKE THOSE DISCIPLES, IT SEEMS THAT JESUS IS NOT THERE. 13:20 BUT LET'S READ ON, BECAUSE WHAT'S AMAZING IS JESUS WAS 13:24 TRYING TO TELL THEM ALL ALONG THAT HE WAS THERE - THAT HE 13:27 HADN'T FORGOTTEN THEM - THAT THIS WAS PART OF THE PLAN - OF 13:31 THE DIVINE PLAN, AND THEY WERE JUST MISSING IT. 13:34 DID YOU CATCH THEIR LANGUAGE IN VERSE 21? 13:37 THEY SAID, "...BESIDES...TODAY IS THE THIRD DAY SINCE THESE 13:40 THINGS HAPPENED." TURN IN YOUR BIBLES REALLY 13:43 QUICKLY, TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 27. I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING, 13:48 BECAUSE HERE ARE THE DISCIPLES FAILING TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT 13:53 JESUS' OWN WORDS - JESUS' OWN WORDS. 13:59 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE, IN MATTHEW 27, THE WORDS OF THE ENEMIES OF 14:04 JESUS, OKAY? SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THE FRIENDS 14:07 - THE DISCIPLES - BUT NOW WE WANT TO CONTRAST THAT 14:10 WITH THE ENEMIES OF JESUS. SO I'M IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 27. 14:14 NOW MATTHEW CHAPTER 27 IS RECOUNTING JESUS' DEATH ON THE 14:18 CROSS AND AFTER HE HAS DIED - HE DIED ON FRIDAY - ON SABBATH - ON 14:25 SATURDAY JESUS IS RESTING IN THE TOMB. 14:29 LOOK AT VERSE 62 OF MATTHEW 27, "ON THE NEXT DAY, WHICH FOLLOWED 14:34 THE DAY OF PREPARATION, THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND PHARISEES 14:40 GATHERED TOGETHER TO PILATE, SAYING, 'SIR, WE REMEMBER, WHILE 14:45 HE" - REFERRING TO JESUS - "WAS STILL ALIVE, HOW THAT DECEIVER 14:49 SAID," - WHAT? - "'AFTER THREE DAYS I WILL RISE.'" 14:55 WHO IS SAYING THIS? >>JESUS. 14:58 >>THAT'S RIGHT, JESUS IS SAYING IT, BUT THE ENEMIES OF JESUS ARE 15:01 QUOTING IT. THEY KNEW THAT JESUS SAID AFTER 15:03 THREE DAYS HE WOULD RISE AGAIN. BUT DID THE DISCIPLES - DID THE 15:08 DISCIPLES INTERNALIZE THAT? >>NO. 15:11 >>NO. SO ON THE EMMAUS ROAD, THEY'RE 15:13 NOT WALKING SAYING, 'YOU REMEMBER WHAT JESUS PROMISED? 15:15 IN THREE DAYS HE IS GOING TO RISE AGAIN.' JESUS REPEATEDLY 15:17 WAS SAYING THAT DURING HIS MINISTRY. WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT 15:20 THAT MORE BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON, SOMETIMES THOSE CLOSEST 15:23 TO JESUS MISS WHAT HE IS COMMUNICATING IN HIS WORD. 15:29 THE ENEMIES REALIZED IT AND SO THEY PUT THAT STRONG GUARD IN 15:33 FRONT OF JESUS' TOMB, ONLY PROVING ALL THE MORE THE MIRACLE 15:38 OF THE RESURRECTION. NOBODY STOLE THAT BODY. 15:42 JESUS CAME AS THE MIGHTY CONQUEROR FROM THE GRAVE. 15:47 >>AMEN. >>BUT LOOK BACK TO LUKE 24 AND 15:50 TO OUR OWN EXPERIENCE, OFTEN IT DOESN'T SEEM THAT JESUS IS 15:53 ALL THAT MIGHTY IN OUR OWN ESTIMATION. 15:57 IT SEEMS LIKE HE HASN'T SHOWN UP - THAT HE'S GONE - AND THAT'S 16:00 WHAT THESE DISCIPLES ARE DEALING WITH. 16:02 VERSE 22 - I'M BACK IN LUKE 24 - THE DISCIPLES STILL SHARING - IN 16:09 FACT, THEY'VE BEEN SHARING SOME OF THE EVIDENCES THAT JESUS GAVE 16:12 THAT HE WAS RISEN. IT'S BEEN THREE DAYS - OKAY, 16:15 THEY SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN IT THERE, BUT THEY DIDN'T. 16:17 NOW VERSE 22, "YES, AND CERTAIN WOMEN OF OUR COMPANY, WHO 16:21 ARRIVED AT THE TOMB EARLY, ASTONISHED US. 16:23 WHEN THEY DID NOT FIND HIS BODY, THEY CAME SAYING THAT THEY HAD 16:27 ALSO SEEN A VISION OF ANGELS WHO SAID" - WHAT? 16:31 >>HE WAS ALIVE. >>"HE WAS ALIVE." 16:33 SO, I MEAN, HERE IS THE TESTIMONY - NOW, BUT WAIT A 16:36 MINUTE. HAVE YOU NOTICED THIS? 16:39 WHO DOES GOD OFTEN REVEAL HIMSELF TO? HIS CHURCH. 16:45 AND SOMETIMES THE PEOPLE THAT HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO ARE NOT ALL 16:50 THAT PROMINENT IN OUR ESTIMATION. 16:54 NOW SOME OF YOU REALIZE THE CULTURE OF JESUS' DAY - WOMEN 17:00 WERE NOT HIGHLY REGARDED. AND SO FOR WOMEN TO BE THE FIRST 17:05 ONES TO GIVE THE MESSAGE TO THESE MALE DISCIPLES, THEY 17:10 WERE STRUGGLING WITH THIS. REALLY! 17:13 WHO DID THE ANGELS APPEAR TO ON THE HILLS OF BETHLEHEM WHEN 17:16 JESUS WAS BEING BORN? SHEPHERDS. 17:21 IT WAS NOT TO THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS. 17:24 OFTEN THE MOST RECEPTIVE ONES ARE ONES THAT ARE - MMMM - 17:29 SOMETIMES ON - WHAT THE WORLD WOULD SAY - ARE ON THE MARGINS 17:33 OF SOCIETY. NOW NOT IN GOD'S EYES. 17:35 SO YOU MIGHT BE SITTING HERE TODAY OR YOU MAY BE TUNING IN 17:38 WITH US AND YOU'RE SAYING, 'WELL, I'M NOBODY. 17:42 GOD DOESN'T DO ANYTHING FOR ME. 17:43 IF I WERE A SUPERSTAR CHRISTIAN, MAYBE HE WOULD DO SOMETHING FOR 17:46 ME.' IT'S THE EXACT OPPOSITE THAT WE SEE IN THE GOSPELS. 17:51 JESUS SHOWS UP FOR THE SINCERE OF HEART. 17:55 AND SO IT IS IN THIS STORY, THE WOMEN ARE FIRST GIVEN THE 18:00 MESSAGE BY THE ANGELS AND THE DISCIPLES, THEY DON'T HEAR IT 18:04 BECAUSE - REMEMBER - REMEMBER - VERSE 17 OF LUKE 24, WHAT WAS 18:10 THE ATTITUDE OF THESE DISCIPLES THAT JESUS CORRECTLY 18:13 ASCERTAINED? THEY WERE SAD. 18:17 THEY WERE DEJECTED. THEIR WORLD HAD FALLEN APART. 18:22 BUT JESUS IS THERE AND JESUS HAS BEEN TELLING THEM FOR THREE AND 18:27 A HALF YEARS, JUST EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. 18:30 ANGELS HAVE ALREADY CONFIRMED THE TRUTH OF HIS WORDS AND THEY 18:34 ARE DEJECTED. AND THIS SPEAKS TO ME 18:37 BECAUSE WHERE AM I AT TODAY? WHAT AM I STRUGGLING WITH? 18:41 WHAT THINGS AM I CONCERNED ABOUT? 18:44 AND FOR EVERY ONE OF US, THERE ARE THINGS IN OUR LIFE THAT WE 18:47 STRUGGLE WITH THAT ARE TOTALLY UNNECESSARY BECAUSE GOD HAS 18:53 FULLY PROVIDED. WELL, VERSE 25 - HOW DOES 18:58 JESUS DEAL WITH THEM? NOW, SOME YEARS AGO, I REMEMBER 19:03 MEETING A FELLOW AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? 19:06 IF JESUS WOULD JUST APPEAR TO ME - IF HE WOULD JUST SHOW ME HE'S 19:11 THERE - JUST HOLD ME - THIS WOULD BE SO COMFORTING TO ME.' 19:14 NOW, SOME OF YOU, NO DOUBT, HAVE HAD THAT SAME FEELING. 19:17 MAYBE EVEN RIGHT NOW YOU'RE FEELING THAT WAY - 'I JUST WANT 19:19 TO FEEL JESUS.' JESUS WAS THERE WITH THESE DISCIPLES AND HE 19:23 DIDN'T SAY, 'FEEL ME.' HE DIDN'T SAY, 'I'M JESUS. 19:27 I'M HERE.' WHAT DID HE DO? THIS WAS REALLY REMARKABLE, 19:30 I THINK, AND IT'S ESPECIALLY REMARKABLE IN LIGHT OF THE 19:33 LESSON BECAUSE THIS IS THE GREAT THEME. 19:34 THIS IS WHY WE'RE LOOKING AT THE END OF THE LESSON FIRST, BECAUSE 19:38 IN VERSE 25, WHAT JESUS DOES, I THINK, IS TOTALLY REMARKABLE. 19:43 HE DOESN'T MEET THEIR PERCEIVED NEED. 19:48 YOU SEE, THEIR PERCEIVED NEED IS TO FEEL THAT JESUS IS 19:50 THERE - HE'S STILL WITH THEM - THAT EVERYTHING THEY'VE GIVEN UP 19:53 WAS WORTHWHILE. WHAT JESUS DOES IS HE 19:57 POINTS THEM TO THE WORD. LOOK AT IT - VERSE 25, LUKE 24 20:03 - "THEN HE SAID TO THEM, 'O FOOLISH ONES, AND SLOW OF HEART 20:08 TO BELIEVE IN ALL THAT THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN!" 20:11 - AND I'M SURE I DIDN'T READ THAT JUST RIGHT. 20:13 BECAUSE I'M SURE JESUS - JESUS WAS NOT CRITICIZING THEM, HE WAS 20:17 WEEPING WITH THEM. I MEAN, HOW FOOLISH CAN YOU BE? 20:20 DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? 20:23 VERSE 26 - JESUS CONTINUES, "'OUGHT NOT THE CHRIST TO HAVE 20:29 SUFFERED THESE THINGS AND TO ENTER INTO HIS GLORY?' 20:34 AND BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL THE PROPHETS, HE EXPOUNDED TO 20:40 THEM IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF." 20:44 >>AMEN. >>DO YOU SEE WHAT JESUS DOES? 20:48 HE SEEKS TO ANCHOR THEIR FAITH, WHERE? 20:50 >>THE WORD. >>IN THE WORD. 20:52 HE IS SAYING, IN ESSENCE, JUST WHAT PETER SAID - YOU MIGHT 20:55 REMEMBER, AS PETER IS WRITING IN HIS EPISTLE HE SAYS, 'WE SAW THE 21:00 TRANSFIGURATION' - BUT HE SAYS - 'WE HAVE THE WORD OF PROPHECY 21:04 MADE MORE SURE - WE HAVE THE MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY.' 21:08 HE'S SAYING THAT GOD'S WORD - HIS REVEALED WORD - IS THE MOST 21:11 POWERFUL THING IN THE WORLD - AT LEAST AS FAR AS OUR INDIVIDUAL 21:15 EXPERIENCE IN THE REVELATION OF GOD. THINK ABOUT IT. 21:18 SOME OF YOU SAY, 'IF JESUS HAD ONLY DONE THIS FOR ME - IF HE'D 21:22 ONLY SHOWED UP IN THIS WAY - IF JUST WHEN I WAS IN MY CHILDHOOD, 21:26 LIKE THAT PERSON ACROSS THE PEW, IF HE HAD JUST APPEARED IN A 21:28 VISION TO ME' - HERE'S THE POINT: OUR MEMORIES - OUR 21:33 MEMORIES ARE FALLIBLE, OKAY? OUR MEMORIES CAN 21:36 ERODE OVER TIME. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I'VE NOTICED? 21:39 NO MATTER WHAT MY MEMORY TELLS ME, I HAVE A BOOK IN FRONT OF ME 21:44 - IT'S THE BIBLE AND IT HASN'T CHANGED. 21:47 >>AMEN. >>HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT? 21:49 I MEAN, THIS IS - WHEN I READ THESE WORDS - THE SAME WORDS I 21:52 READ TEN YEARS AGO ARE STILL THERE. 21:54 NOW I MAY - I MAY THINK WE MAY BE TALKING TOGETHER - AND YOU'VE 21:58 BEEN THERE. YOU'VE BEEN AT A REUNION WHEN 22:02 YOU'RE RELIVING SOME EXPERIENCE AND SAY, 'WASN'T THAT GREAT? 22:04 YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE TEACHER DID...?' 22:06 'THE TEACHER DIDN'T DO THAT.' 'NO, NO, YOU REMEMBER?' 22:09 'NO, THE TEACHER DID THIS.' HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE? 22:12 I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU SEE SOMETHING. 22:14 WHAT WE THINK IS SO IMPORTANT IN LIFE IS OFTEN NOT THAT IMPORTANT 22:18 AT ALL. AND IN THIS LESSON, WHAT WE KEEP 22:21 COMING BACK TO TIME AND TIME AGAIN - ON THE EMMAUS ROAD WE 22:25 FIRST SEE IT - JESUS IS SAYING, 'ANCHOR YOUR EXPERIENCE NOT 22:30 IN SOME MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE. DON'T ANCHOR YOUR EXPERIENCE 22:35 WITH ME IN SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE LOOKING TO HAPPEN - FOLLOWING A 22:39 CERTAIN SCRIPT' - ANCHOR YOUR FAITH IN WHAT? 22:43 IN THE WORD - IN THE WORD. WELL, IF WE'RE IN A CONTROVERSY 22:49 - IF WE'RE IN A BATTLE, AND WE ARE - IF WE'RE IN THE MIDST 22:51 OF A REBELLION, WE NEED FIRM INSTRUCTION - WE NEED A 22:57 CONNECTION TOO WITH THE ONE WHO GAVE THOSE WORDS, RIGHT? 23:01 LET'S GO BACK NOW TO WHERE THE LESSON STARTED. 23:05 I'M TURNING IN MY BIBLE, ULTIMATELY, BUT FIRST I'M 23:09 TURNING IN MY LESSON QUARTERLY TO LESSON #8 - THIS LESSON ON 23:13 COMRADES IN ARMS - AND TO SUNDAY'S LESSON - THE CALL OF 23:16 PETER - AND YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED SOMETHING AS YOU WERE 23:20 READING THIS, I THINK THE AUTHOR OF THE LESSON - THE AUTHORS - 23:23 DID A GOOD JOB IN HIGHLIGHTING SOMETHING ABOUT THE CALL OF 23:27 PETER. WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IT FROM LUKE 5. 23:30 AND THE IMPORTANT POINT THAT THEY FIRST MAKE IS THAT LUKE 5, 23:34 ALTHOUGH IT MAY SEEM AS JESUS IS ON THE SHORE OF GALILEE, THAT 23:39 THIS IS A VERY EARLY ENCOUNTER THAT PETER HAD WITH JESUS - 23:44 MAYBE EVEN A FIRST ENCOUNTER. IT'S NOT THAT WAY AT ALL. 23:47 WE'RE NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH A CHRONOLOGY OF THE GOSPELS. 23:50 WHETHER YOU USE LUKE'S CHRONOLOGY OR MARK'S OR JOHN'S, 23:53 THE POINT IS SIMPLY THIS. 23:56 WHEN LUKE 5 COMES UP, A LOT HAS HAPPENED. 23:59 NOW, I KNOW SOMETIMES WHEN WE'RE GOING THROUGH A LESSON STUDY WE 24:03 CAN TOUCH ON SOME SUBJECTS THAT LEAVE YOU SCRATCHING YOUR HEADS, 24:07 AND I MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT CHRONOLOGY - TIME FRAME. 24:11 YOU ALL REALIZE THAT IF YOU GO THROUGH THE DIFFERENT GOSPELS, 24:16 THEY GIVE YOU A LITTLE DIFFERENT FEEL OF THE SEQUENCE IN WHICH 24:19 THINGS HAPPENED. ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT? IN FACT, IN SUNDAY'S 24:22 LESSON, THE AUTHORS ARE WALKING US THROUGH LUKE'S CHRONOLOGY. 24:27 IF WE WERE IN A SEMINARY CLASS, I'M SURE WE WOULD HAVE A LIVELY 24:31 DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER LUKE'S CHRONOLOGY IS THE BEST 24:35 CHRONOLOGY TO USE AS FAR AS THE GOSPELS. 24:37 I WILL JUST PLAY MY HAND AND TELL YOU I THINK LUKE'S IS ONE 24:41 OF THE WORST, AND IT'S PROBABLY PARTLY BECAUSE HE'S A PHYSICIAN. 24:44 (LAUGHTER) AND I CAN SAY THAT WITH SOME AUTHORITY, YOU KNOW, 24:49 BEING A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU WHY. 24:51 I'LL TELL YOU A COUPLE OF PATIENTS I HAD JUST THIS LAST 24:53 WEEK AND ILLUSTRATE THIS. ONE OF THE PATIENTS I SAW HAD 24:57 FALLEN AND ALSO WAS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH HER RIGHT LEG. 25:02 NOW IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME TO GET THE CHRONOLOGY ABOUT 25:06 THOSE TWO PROBLEMS. I WANTED TO KNOW WHETHER THE 25:11 PROBLEM WITH THE LEG STARTED FIRST - IT WAS A NEUROLOGICAL 25:14 PROBLEM - BEFORE THE FALL, BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR 25:17 US AS PHYSICIANS TO DEFINE WHY A PERSON FELL. 25:21 YOU KNOW, SO DID THE - WAS SHE HAVING A STROKE? 25:23 DID THE LEG SUDDENLY GO NUMB OR DID SHE FALL FIRST, TRIP OVER 25:26 HER RUG, AND THEN INJURE HER LEG? 25:29 DO YOU SEE WHY THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT? 25:30 SO, SOMETIMES FOR PHYSICIANS, CHRONOLOGY IS VERY IMPORTANT. 25:32 SOMETIMES, FOR LUKE, HE'S VERY, VERY PRECISE ABOUT CHRONOLOGY. 25:37 BUT OTHER TIMES THE CHRONOLOGY REALLY DOESN'T MAKE MUCH 25:39 DIFFERENCE. I HAD ANOTHER PATIENT IN THE 25:40 OFFICE AND THEY WERE HAVING RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS AND I WAS 25:45 TRYING TO FIND OUT IF THERE WERE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT PRECEDED 25:49 THE RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS AND IT TURNED OUT THAT THEY HAD EYE 25:53 IRRITATION AND A SORE THROAT AND A RUNNY NOSE. I DIDN'T CARE 25:56 WHETHER THE RUNNY NOSE CAME FIRST OR THE WATERY EYES, I 26:00 DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T CARE IF IT WAS THURSDAY NIGHT AT 5:00 26:03 PM THAT THIS - I JUST WAS TRYING TO PUT ALL THOSE THINGS TOGETHER 26:06 AND SAY IS THIS MAYBE PNEUMONIA THAT THEY HAD OR IS IT PART OF A 26:10 VIRAL ILLNESS THAT'S ALSO AFFECTING THEIR LUNGS? SO THE 26:14 POINT I'M SIMPLY MAKING IS SOMETIMES CHRONOLOGY IS VERY 26:17 IMPORTANT - THE EXACT SEQUENCE OF THINGS - BUT AS I READ 26:20 THROUGH LUKE'S GOSPEL, OFTENTIMES LUKE IS PUTTING SOME 26:23 INCIDENTS TOGETHER, NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE THEY 26:26 FOLLOWED IN THAT PRECISE SEQUENCE. 26:29 NOW I REALIZE, FOR SOME OF YOU THIS IS - YOU SAY, 'WELL, HOW 26:34 COULD THIS BE? I THOUGHT THE BIBLE - EVERYTHING 26:37 WAS DIRECTLY THE WAY IT HAPPENED?' 26:40 REALIZE THESE ARE EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS - MOST OF THEM - EXCEPT 26:44 FOR WHO? LUKE AND, SOMEWHAT, MARK. 26:48 MARK, YOU KNOW, SEEING THROUGH PETER'S EYES. 26:50 HERE'S WHY I'M TAKING A LITTLE BIT OF TIME WITH THIS: DON'T 26:53 READ INTO THE BIBLE MORE THAN GOD HAS GIVEN US. 26:57 LOOK IN YOUR BIBLE AT SOMETHING THAT PAUL SAYS. 27:00 I'M TURNING TO HIS SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY. 27:04 TURN IN 2 TIMOTHY WITH YOU - WITH ME, IF YOU WILL, IN 2 27:08 TIMOTHY - IN 2 TIMOTHY PETER IS - EXCUSE ME, PAUL, OF COURSE - 27:16 PAUL IS SPEAKING IN 2 TIMOTHY ABOUT WHY SCRIPTURE WAS GIVEN. 27:21 WHY HAS GOD GIVEN THIS REVELATION? 27:23 2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3, VERSE 16 - 2 TIMOTHY 3:16, "ALL SCRIPTURE 27:30 IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, 27:36 FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, 27:41 THAT THE MAN (OR WOMAN) OF GOD MAY BE COMPLETE, THOROUGHLY 27:45 EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK." THE BIBLE WAS NOT GIVEN SO 27:50 THAT WE WOULD HAVE A PRECISE CHRONOLOGY OF EXACTLY 27:53 WHEN EVERYTHING HAPPENED. IT'S GIVEN TO DO WHAT? 27:58 TO TEACH US THE TRUTHS OF GOD - HIS WAYS - HIS WORD - AND SO 28:02 WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT SEQUENCE. 28:05 NOW I'VE TAKEN SOME TIME WITH THAT BECAUSE THE CHRONOLOGY - 28:08 ONE PART OF THE CHRONOLOGY THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, THAT YOU 28:10 MAY MISS JUST LOOKING AT LUKE'S GOSPEL, OR JUST LOOKING AT 28:14 MARK'S GOSPEL, WOULD BE MORE PRECISE, BECAUSE MARK DOESN'T 28:16 GIVE MUCH IN THE WAY OF DETAIL BEFORE SOME OF THESE EVENTS, IS 28:21 JUST HOW MUCH HAPPENED BEFORE LUKE 5. 28:24 JOHN CHAPTER 2, JOHN CHAPTER 3 - THE WOMAN AT THE WELL; 28:32 NICODEMUS, FOR EXAMPLE, IN JERUSALEM; JESUS CLEANSING THE 28:35 TEMPLE FOR THE FIRST TIME - ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED - THE 28:38 WEDDING AT CANA AND GALILEE IN JOHN CHAPTER 2. 28:41 JOHN TELLS US THAT WAS JESUS' FIRST MIRACLE, OKAY? 28:47 THAT WAS THE FIRST MIRACLE. 28:48 YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ABOUT IT IN THE OTHER GOSPELS. 28:52 LOOK NOW AT LUKE 5 - AND I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU JUST PICTURE 28:56 THIS - I DON'T WANT YOU TO GET BOGGED DOWN IN THE CHRONOLOGY, 28:59 BUT YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT A LOT HAS HAPPENED. 29:02 JESUS' MINISTRY HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR SOME TIME. 29:05 PETER HAS BEEN CONNECTED WITH JESUS. 29:07 HE'S MET JESUS. JOHN'S GOSPEL REVEALS HOW JOHN 29:11 THE BAPTIST HAD POINTED TO JESUS AND CALLED HIM WHAT? 29:16 THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD, RIGHT? 29:19 AND PETER IS IN THAT CONTEXT. SO PETER HAS BEEN INTIMATELY 29:25 ASSOCIATED WITH JESUS FOR SOME TIME BEFORE LUKE 5 STARTS. 29:31 SO NOW, LET'S PICK UP THE STORY IN LUKE 5. 29:34 IT SAYS THE MULTITUDE IS PRESSING ABOUT JESUS AS HE'S ON 29:37 THE SHORE OF THE SEA OF GALILEE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE LAKE OF 29:42 GENNESARAT, AND IT SAYS, BECAUSE THAT CROWD IS - IS AROUND HIM, 29:47 HE'S GOT TO GET A LITTLE WAYS AWAY FROM THE CROWD AND SO THE 29:49 FISHERMEN ARE RECRUITED - VERSE 3 - HE GETS INTO ONE OF THE 29:53 BOATS, WHICH WAS SIMON'S, AND ASKED HIM TO PUT OUT A LITTLE 29:57 FROM THE LAND AND JESUS SITS DOWN AND HE BEGINS TO TEACH THE 30:02 MULTITUDE FROM THE BOAT. AND AFTER THE SERMON IS FINISHED 30:08 AND PEOPLE, APPARENTLY ARE SCATTERING, HE SAYS IN VERSE 4, 30:13 "LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS FOR A CATCH." 30:19 NOW WHEN IS JESUS SPEAKING TO THE CROWD? 30:22 HE'S SPEAKING DURING THE DAY. 30:27 SOME OF YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK THE DESIRE OF AGES - AN AMAZING 30:30 BOOK - AND, BY THE WAY, IT'S A BOOK THAT LARGELY GOES 30:32 CHRONOLOGICALLY THROUGH JESUS' LIFE. 30:35 IT'S A LONG BOOK - WHAT, ABOUT 700 - 800 PAGES? 30:40 THIS STORY - PAGE 245 IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES - SO A LOT'S 30:45 HAPPENED IN JESUS' LIFE. LET'S LISTEN TO THIS. 30:49 THE CONTEXT OF JESUS ASKING PETER TO THROW HIS NET INTO THE 30:54 LAKE. LISTEN, "PETER WAS DISHEARTENED. 30:58 ALL NIGHT HE HAD TAKEN NOTHING. 31:03 DURING THE LONELY HOURS HE HAD THOUGHT OF THE FATE OF JOHN THE 31:07 BAPTIST, WHO WAS LANGUISHING ALONE IN HIS DUNGEON. 31:12 HE THOUGHT OF THE ILL SUCCESS OF THE MISSION TO JUDEA," - SO THAT 31:17 WAS WHEN JESUS WAS DOWN THERE MEETING WITH NICODEMUS, 31:19 WHEN HE CLEANSED THE TEMPLE - 31:21 "HE THOUGHT OF THE ILL SUCCESS OF THE MISSION TO JUDEA AND THE 31:24 MALICE OF THE PRIESTS AND RABBIS, EVEN HIS OWN OCCUPATION 31:29 HAD FAILED HIM, AND AS HE WATCHED THE EMPTY NETS, THE 31:34 FUTURE HAD SEEMED DARK WITH DISCOURAGEMENT. 31:40 WE BEGAN BY LOOKING AT THE END OF JESUS' EARTHLY MINISTRY. 31:45 THE DISCIPLES ARE IN WHAT POSITION? THEY'RE SAD. 31:50 THEY'RE DISCOURAGED. THEY'RE DISHEARTENED. 31:52 AND IT SEEMS LIKE JESUS HAS LET THEM DOWN. 31:54 NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DISCIPLES' 31:57 MINISTRY. WE'RE LOOKING AT PETER - PETER 31:59 WAS A FISHERMAN AND IN THOSE CLEAR WATERS OF THE SEA OF 32:03 GALILEE, WHEN WAS THE TIME YOU COULD FISH RELIABLY WITH A NET? 32:07 >>AT NIGHT. >>AT NIGHT. 32:09 YOU COULD NOT FISH DURING THE DAY, I MEAN, EVERYONE KNEW THAT. 32:12 IF I WAS GOING TO THE SEA OF GALILEE WITH A NET DURING THE 32:16 DAY, AND I WAS WALKING THROUGH ONE OF THOSE VILLAGES TOWARD THE 32:20 SEA, WHAT WOULD PEOPLE BE SAYING? 32:23 'LOOK, A TOURIST FROM AMERICA - (LAUGHTER) - GOT A NET - GOING 32:27 TO THE LAKE TO TRY TO FISH IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.' 32:30 PETER KNEW THIS. AND SO WHEN JESUS TELLS PETER, IN VERSE 4 OF 32:35 LUKE 5, TO PUT YOUR NET INTO THE LAKE, WHAT IS HE THINKING? 32:41 >>CRAZY. >>CRAZY. 32:44 VERSE 5, "MASTER, WE HAVE TOILED ALL NIGHT AND CAUGHT NOTHING;" - 32:52 NOW SOME OF US, IF JESUS ASKS US TO DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T 32:56 MAKE SENSE TO US, WE WOULD SAY, 'THERE'S NO WAY I'M DOING THAT. 33:00 THEY'LL ALL THINK I'M AN IDIOT. I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT. 33:03 I MEAN, THEY WANT ME TO, YOU KNOW, TO TEACH IN THE CHILDREN'S 33:07 CLASS? I'M NOT GOING TO - THE KIDS'LL 33:10 ALL LAUGH AT ME. I'LL FORGET WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO SAY. 33:13 I GET NERVOUS JUST STANDING UP IN FRONT.' ONE OF YOU SAYS. 33:18 BUT SOMETIMES, MAYBE OFTENTIMES, JESUS ASKS US TO DO WHAT? 33:25 YEAH, THINGS THAT PUSH US OUT OF OUR COMFORT ZONE. 33:28 THINGS THAT WE WOULDN'T DO - THINGS THAT WE KNOW BETTER THAN 33:32 TO DO. AND WHAT DOES PETER DO 33:33 HERE, TO HIS CREDIT? >>HE DID IT. 33:35 >>THAT'S RIGHT, LISTEN TO HIS WORDS, "MASTER, WE HAVE TOILED 33:38 ALL NIGHT AND CAUGHT NOTHING;" - BUT HE DOESN'T ARGUE WITH JESUS, 33:41 HE SAYS, "NEVERTHELESS AT YOUR WORD I WILL LET DOWN THE NET." 33:49 DO YOU CATCH WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? 33:51 IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR DISCOURAGEMENT, IN THE MIDDLE OF 33:54 YOUR LOSS, IN THE MIDST OF YOUR HEALTH STRUGGLE, IN THE 33:59 CHALLENGES YOU'RE HAVING IN YOUR FAMILY, WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? 34:04 HE SAYS, 'I'M WITH YOU. LISTEN TO MY WORD.' AND SO PETER 34:09 DOES IT AND IT SAYS IN VERSE 6, "AND WHEN THEY HAD DONE THIS," - 34:14 WHEN THEY TOOK JESUS AT HIS WORD, EVEN WHEN IT DIDN'T SEEM 34:17 TO MAKE SENSE, WHAT HAPPENED? IT SAID THEY CAUGHT A GREAT 34:22 NUMBER OF FISH AND THEIR NET WAS BREAKING. I MEAN, THIS IS - 34:26 THIS IS AMAZING. AND SO THEY'VE GOT TO CALL FOR 34:29 THEIR FRIENDS IN ANOTHER BOAT TO COME AND HELP THEM. 34:32 THEY FILLED BOTH BOATS SO MUCH THAT WHAT'S HAPPENING? 34:36 >>THEY'RE SINKING. >>THAT'S RIGHT, THEY'VE GOT A 34:37 BLESSING SO BIG THAT THEY CAN HARDLY RECEIVE IT. 34:40 >>AMEN. >>BY THE WAY, WHAT WAS THE 34:42 CONTEXT IN WHICH BOTH THOSE BLESSINGS WERE GIVEN? 34:45 THE EMMAUS ROAD AND NOW HERE AT THE CALL OF PETER? THE MIDST OF 34:50 DISCOURAGEMENT. YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM. I DON'T KNOW IF 34:54 YOU'VE NOTICED IT, BUT WHEN WE THINK WE'VE GOT OUR ACT ALL 34:57 TOGETHER, THAT'S WHEN GOD CAN'T DO ANYTHING FOR US, REALLY. 35:03 I WAS DEALING WITH SOMEONE NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO, JUST HAD 35:07 EVERYTHING ALL TOGETHER, BUT I COULD SEE THIS PERSON HAD SOME 35:10 REAL ISSUES, BUT NO ONE COULD HELP THEM BECAUSE THEY JUST HAD 35:14 THEIR ACT ALL TOGETHER UNTIL THEY GOT INTO SOME REAL TROUBLE. 35:21 DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU GET INTO REAL TROUBLE BEFORE YOU LET 35:24 PEOPLE HELP YOU, OKAY? THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A CHURCH. 35:28 THAT'S WHY GOD CALLS US INTO CHURCH FELLOWSHIP. 35:31 LET'S GO ON THOUGH. THE NET IS PULLED IN AND THEN 35:35 WHEN PETER REALIZED WHAT'S HAPPENED, IN VERSE 8 HE FALLS 35:39 DOWN AT JESUS' KNEES SAYING, "DEPART FROM ME, FOR I 35:44 AM A SINFUL MAN, O LORD!" HE REALIZES, IN A VERY 35:50 REAL WAY, WHO JESUS IS. HE IS THE MASTER OF EVERYTHING. 35:58 GO WITH ME TO MONDAY'S LESSON, BECAUSE HERE'S THE GREATEST - 36:02 GREATEST PART OF ALL THAT JESUS OFFERS US - HE OFFERS US HIS 36:07 WORD. IT'S THE MOST POWERFUL 36:08 THING THAT WE HAVE. IT'S THE FOUNDATION OF ALL. 36:11 NOW YOU SAY, 'WELL THE WORD IS ONLY POWERFUL BECAUSE JESUS IS 36:14 THE WORD.' RIGHT? JOHN MAKES THAT VERY CLEAR IN 36:17 HIS GOSPEL AND SO IT'S REALLY EMPHASIZED HERE AS, AFTER 36:22 JESUS REVEALS HIMSELF TO THE DISCIPLES, THE TIME COMES TO 36:26 ACTUALLY CALL TWELVE TO BE HIS INTIMATE ASSOCIATES. 36:31 SO I'M TURNING, THIS TIME, TO ANOTHER GOSPEL. 36:33 WE'RE POINTED TO MARK'S GOSPEL FOR THIS RECOUNTING OF JESUS' 36:38 CALL. I'M TURNING TO MARK CHAPTER 3 - 36:41 MARK CHAPTER 3 - AND I'M PICKING UP THE STORY IN MARK 3, 36:49 BEGINNING WITH VERSE 13 - MARK 3, VERSE 13. 36:52 IT SAYS, "AND HE WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN" - REFERRING TO JESUS - 36:56 "AND HE WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN AND CALLED TO HIM THOSE HE 36:57 HIMSELF WANTED. AND THEY CAME TO HIM. 37:00 THEN HE APPOINTED TWELVE, THAT THEY MIGHT BE WITH HIM AND THAT 37:05 HE MIGHT SEND THEM OUT TO PREACH, AND TO HAVE POWER TO 37:08 HEAL SICKNESSES AND TO CAST OUT DEMONS:" AND THEN IT LISTS THE 37:13 TWELVE WHO HE CALLED. WHAT MARK SAYS THAT'S SO 37:17 INTERESTING IN THIS REASON FOR THE CALL - WHAT THEY'RE BEING 37:22 CALLED TO DO IS - DID YOU CATCH IT THERE IN MARK 3? 37:26 THEY WERE CALLED, FIRST AND FOREMOST, TO BE WITH HIM. 37:32 DID YOU PICK UP ON THAT? TO BE WITH HIM. 37:35 THE GREATEST PRIVILEGE WE HAVE IS OF BEING WITH JESUS. 37:41 AND HE INVITES US TO BE WITH HIM, HOW? 37:44 THROUGH HIS WORD. THROUGH PRAYER. 37:47 THROUGH, WHAT WE WOULD SAY TODAY, IS THE DEVOTIONAL LIFE - 37:50 IT'S THROUGH QUIET TIME - IT'S TAKING TIME WITH JESUS. 37:53 IS JESUS WILLING TO HAVE YOU BE WITH HIM TODAY? 37:57 >>AMEN. >>AND THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON 37:59 WE MEET IN CHURCH FELLOWSHIP. IT'S THE WHOLE REASON WHY 38:02 WE BROADCAST MESSAGES. WHY? 38:05 BECAUSE JESUS WANTS TO WORK THROUGH PEOPLE AND THEY ARE 38:08 OFTEN PEOPLE WHO ARE BROKEN PEOPLE AND DISCOURAGED PEOPLE - 38:12 PEOPLE THAT RECOGNIZE THEIR NEED FOR A SAVIOR. 38:16 AND SO WE'RE GIVEN THIS GREAT PRIVILEGE OF BEING WITH JESUS. 38:19 NOW I WANT TO POINT SOMETHING OUT TO YOU BECAUSE SOMEBODY - 38:20 SOME OF YOU MAY BE DISTRESSED AND YOU SAY, 'YOU KNOW, YOU'VE 38:23 GOT A MAN PREACHING UP THERE AND, YOU KNOW, MEN'S MINDS AND 38:27 WOMEN'S MINDS ARE DIFFERENT.' YOU REALIZE THAT, DON'T YOU? 38:30 AND EVERY NOW AND THEN MY WIFE SONJA HAS TO REMIND ME OF THIS. 38:35 I THINK I'M CATCHING ON AFTER - OH, OKAY, I SEE YOU - I SEE 'YOU 38:40 DON'T GOT IT DOC - YOU DON'T GET IT DR. DEROSE.' WELL, LET ME 38:43 JUST TELL YOU. I'LL JUST CONFESS. 38:45 ONE OF THE THINGS I TEND TO DO WHEN THERE IS SOME ISSUE. 38:48 MAYBE MY WIFE IS GRIEVING OVER SOMETHING. 38:51 I, BEING THE GOOD MAN THAT I AM, WANT TO FIX ALL HER PROBLEMS, 38:55 OKAY? AND OFTEN IT'S, YOU KNOW, I'M 38:58 JUST GOING EXPLAIN THINGS, SONJA, AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW IT 39:01 ALL IS, BUT MY WIFE REALLY JUST WANTS ME TO DO WHAT THE BIBLE 39:05 SAID AND WEEP WITH THOSE WHO WEEP AND REJOICE WITH THOSE WHO 39:08 REJOICE. ARE YOU FOLLOWING ALONG WITH ME? SOME OF YOU ARE NODDING 39:12 YOUR HEADS - MORE OF THE LADIES ARE NODDING THEIR HEADS. 39:14 SOME OF THE MEN ARE LOOKING BEWILDERED, BUT THE POINT IS 39:18 SIMPLY THIS: WOMEN TEND TO BE MORE RELATIONAL AND MEN TEND TO 39:23 OFTEN, AND AGAIN, THESE ARE GENERALITIES, BUT TEND TO WANT 39:28 TO FIX THINGS AND WE SEE THE PROBLEMS. 39:31 WE SEE THINGS MECHANISTICALLY. AND SO JESUS, ON THE EMMAUS 39:33 ROAD, WHAT DOES HE DO FOR THESE MEN? 39:36 HE GIVES THEM THE BIG PICTURE. HE KIND OF WALKS THEM, 39:38 MECHANISTICALLY, THROUGH SOMETHING. 39:40 BUT THERE'S SOMEONE ELSE, AS WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT THESE TWO 39:43 DIMENSIONS - JESUS' WORD - AND NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 39:46 RELATIONSHIP - BEING WITH HIM - THERE'S ANOTHER CHARACTER THAT 39:49 WAS NOT ONE OF THE TWELVE BUT WAS INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED WITH 39:53 JESUS AND I WANT TO - YOU TO READ SOMETHING WITH ME FROM 39:57 LUKE'S GOSPEL, AS WELL, IN LUKE CHAPTER 10. 40:00 I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THIS PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL, MARY 40:07 MAGDALENE, AND IN LUKE CHAPTER 10 WE HAVE A PICTURE OF MARY AND 40:15 SHE'S ILLUSTRATING THIS PRINCIPLE IN MONDAY'S LESSON OF 40:17 BEING WITH JESUS - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WITH HIM AND 40:21 THAT FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM IS FOUNDED ON HIS WORD. 40:25 AND SO, IN LUKE 10, AS LUKE IS CLOSING OUT THIS CHAPTER, HE 40:29 SHARES THIS VIGNETTE WITH US - LUKE 10, BEGINNING WITH VERSE 40:32 38, "NOW IT HAPPENED AS THEY WENT THAT HE ENTERED A CERTAIN 40:37 VILLAGE; AND A CERTAIN WOMAN NAMED MARTHA WELCOMED HIM INTO 40:42 HER HOUSE. AND SHE HAD A SISTER CALLED 40:44 MARY, WHO ALSO SAT AT JESUS' FEET AND HEARD HIS WORD." 40:51 SO WHAT WAS MARY DOING? >>BEING WITH HIM. 40:53 >>SHE'S BEING WITH JESUS AND SHE'S LISTENING TO WHAT? 40:56 SHE'S LISTENING TO HIS WORD. 40:58 SO IF WE WANT TO SEE SOME OF THE GREAT ISSUES IN THE GREAT 41:00 CONTROVERSY, IT DOESN'T SEEM THAT'S WHERE THE BATTLE IS. 41:04 IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE DEALING WITH ALL THESE THINGS - ALL THESE 41:07 EXPERIENCES - ALL THESE DEMANDS, BUT THIS STORY IS FOCUSING ON US 41:12 - FOCUSING US ON WHAT THE LESSON IS FOCUSING ON. 41:15 THE FOUNDATION OF OUR CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE IS GOD'S WORD AND 41:19 SPENDING TIME WITH HIM - AND HE OFFERS THAT TO ALL OF US. 41:22 SO MARTHA IS THERE AND SHE'S DOING WHAT? 41:24 >>SERVING. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 41:27 WE READ THAT IN VERSE 40, "BUT MARTHA WAS DISTRACTED WITH MUCH 41:31 SERVING, AND SHE APPROACHED HIM AND SAID, 'LORD, DO YOU NOT CARE 41:38 THAT MY SISTER HAS LEFT ME TO SERVE ALONE? 41:42 THEREFORE TELL HER TO HELP ME.'" NOW, BY THE WAY, WAS MARTHA 41:46 DOING SOMETHING IMPORTANT? >>YES. 41:48 >>BY THE WAY, I WANT TO SHARE MY APPRECIATION FOR ALL OF YOU IN 41:52 THIS CONGREGATION, WHO ARE FOCUSED ON SERVING. 41:56 I MEAN THERE'S LOTS OF YOU THAT SERVE IN MANY WAYS, WHETHER IT'S 41:58 BEHIND CAMERAS, OR WHETHER IT'S IN DEACON MINISTRIES, WHETHER 42:02 IT'S KEEPING THE PLACE CLEAN, WHETHER IT'S OPENING THE DOORS 42:05 AND SHUTTING THE DOORS, WHETHER IT'S PREPARING FOR A COMMUNION 42:09 SERVICE - WHATEVER IT IS, MANY OF YOU SERVE IN VARIOUS WAYS. 42:14 SOME OF YOU ARE PRINTING THE BULLETIN. 42:16 SOME OF YOU ARE SENDING OUT NEWS LETTERS TO US, OKAY? 42:20 SO WE APPRECIATE ALL THOSE MINISTRIES OF SERVICE. 42:22 THEY MAY NOT BE UP FRONT. AND THEN HOW ABOUT WHEN WE 42:24 HAVE A FELLOWSHIP MEAL HERE? HOW MANY OF YOU ARE GLAD THAT 42:27 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT LIKE TO SERVE AND PREPARING FOOD? 42:30 >>AMEN. >>YEAH, I'M VERY 42:31 THANKFUL FOR THAT. SO HERE'S MY POINT: MARTHA WAS 42:35 DOING SOMETHING GOOD, BUT WHAT DOES JESUS SAY TO HER? 42:40 VERSE 41, "AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HER, 'MARTHA, 42:43 MARTHA, YOU ARE WORRIED AND TROUBLED ABOUT MANY THINGS. 42:49 BUT ONE THING IS NEEDED, AND MARY HAS CHOSEN THAT GOOD PART, 42:55 WHICH WILL NOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER.'" SO YES, WE NEED ALL 42:59 YOUR SERVICE. GOD CALLS US TO SERVE. 43:02 IN FACT, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD APOSTLE REFERS TO? 43:08 IT ACTUALLY, IN THE GREEK, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT TERM COMES FROM? 43:12 IT COMES FROM 'SENT OUT'. SO YOU CAN'T BE SENT OUT UNLESS 43:20 YOU'RE THERE TO BE SENT. YOU UNDERSTAND? 43:23 I MEAN IT MAY SOUND KIND OF BASIC. 43:24 SO WE HAVE TO FIRST COME TO JESUS, THEN HE CAN SEND US OUT. 43:29 SO WE'RE ALL CALLED TO DO THAT GREAT COMMISSION WORK OF 43:33 PREACHING AND TEACHING - SHARING WHAT GOD'S DOING IN OUR LIVES. 43:36 WE'RE ALL CALLED TO SERVE, BUT WE FIRST HAVE TO DO WHAT? 43:40 >>BE WITH JESUS. >>BE WITH JESUS. 43:42 HEAR HIS WORD. NOW HOW DO YOU DO THAT TODAY? 43:44 YOU KNOW, THIS IS SPOKEN OF SO MUCH, YOU WOULD THINK THAT EVERY 43:47 CHRISTIAN WOULD HAVE THIS DOWN BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT? 43:51 IT'S SO EASY IN OUR LIFE TO SQUEEZE OUT TIME WITH JESUS. 43:55 I LOOK FORWARD TO MY TIME EVERY MORNING TO MEET WITH JESUS 44:00 THROUGH HIS WORD AND THROUGH PRAYER. 44:03 AND, IF THAT'S NOT ALREADY A REGULAR HABIT OF YOURS - YOU 44:06 MIGHT THINK THAT PREACHERS JUST BELABOR THAT POINT, BUT I NEED 44:10 IT. AS A PHYSICIAN, I NEED IT. 44:11 WHEN I'M TEACHING IN CHURCH I NEED IT. 44:14 WHEN I'M TEACHING IN A HEALTH SETTING I NEED IT. 44:17 WE NEED JESUS' PRESENCE WITH US AND HE'S WILLING TO BE THERE AND 44:21 HELP US, NO MATTER HOW BAD YOU FEEL, EVEN IF IT FEELS LIKE HE'S 44:24 NOT THERE. WELL, LET'S GOT TO TUESDAY'S 44:27 LESSON AND JUST FOCUS A LITTLE BIT MORE ON JESUS' POWER. 44:30 THAT'S WHAT THE FOCUS IS ON HERE. 44:33 IT COMES TO US FROM A SECTION IN MATTHEW'S GOSPEL THAT IS REALLY 44:38 FOCUSED ON THE AMAZING POWER OF JESUS. 44:41 MATTHEW CHAPTERS 8 AND 9 ARE REMARKABLE. 44:44 YOU READ ABOUT THE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY OF GOD'S WORD - GOD'S 44:48 WORD, IF YOU READ THROUGH MATTHEW 8 - MAYBE IF YOU'RE 44:51 TURNING THERE WE CAN JUST QUICKLY FLY THROUGH MATTHEW 8 44:54 AND JUST CATCH SOME OF THE HIGH POINTS. 44:56 MAYBE YOU'RE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE A BIBLE LIKE MINE THAT HAS 44:59 SOME HEADINGS IN IT, BUT IN MATTHEW 8 JESUS DOES WHAT? 45:04 IT BEGINS HE CLEANSES A LEPER WITH HIS WORD, THEN HE HEALS 45:08 THAT CENTURION SERVANT WITH HIS WORD, THEN HE HEALS PETER'S 45:12 MOTHER-IN-LAW WITH HIS WORD. ARE YOU CATCHING THIS? 45:15 THE POWER OF JESUS' WORD. AS YOU GO ON IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 45:19 8 YOU SEE HIM CASTING OUT TWO DEMONS OUT OF TWO 45:24 DEMON-POSSESSED MEN - THAT'S MATTHEW 8:28 AND ON 45:28 IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 JESUS HEALS A PARALYTIC, BUT IN THESE TWO 45:33 CHAPTERS, THERE'S ONE THING THAT JESUS DOES NOT HAVE POWER OVER. 45:37 THERE'S ONE THING HE DOES NOT HAVE POWER OVER AND THIS BRINGS 45:40 US BACK TO THE THEME OF OUR WHOLE LESSON: WHAT DOES JESUS' 45:43 WORD NOT HAVE POWER OVER? >>INDIVIDUAL CHOICE. 45:46 >>THAT'S RIGHT, OUR INDIVIDUAL CHOICE. 45:48 SO IN MATTHEW 8, VERSE 18 - MULTITUDES FLOCKING AROUND JESUS 45:56 - A CERTAIN SCRIBE COMES TO HIM AND SAYS, "TEACHER, 45:59 I WILL FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU GO." 46:05 VERSE 20 - "AND JESUS SAYS TO HIM, 'FOXES HAVE HOLES AND 46:08 BIRDS OF THE AIR HAVE NESTS, BUT THE SON OF MAN HAS NOWHERE 46:13 TO LAY HIS HEAD.'" IT SEEMS THAT THIS MAN LEAVES. 46:17 ANOTHER MAN COMES - VERSE 21 - "'LORD, LET ME GO FIRST AND BURY 46:22 MY FATHER.' BUT JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'FOLLOW ME, AND LET THE 46:27 DEAD BURY THEIR OWN DEAD.'" NOW A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE STRUGGLED 46:30 WITH THAT AND, SINCE WE MENTIONED IT, THERE'S A NUMBER 46:32 OF POSSIBILITIES HERE. MAYBE HIS FATHER WAS OLDER AND 46:36 HE'S SAYING, 'LET ME WAIT UNTIL MY FATHER DIES AND THEN I'LL 46:40 FOLLOW YOU.' PERHAPS HIS FATHER HAD DIED AND THE FUNERAL WAS 46:45 PENDING AND JESUS IS SAYING, LET THE SPIRITUALLY DEAD ATTEND 46:50 TO THE THINGS OF THIS EARTH. I'M CALLING YOU TO FOLLOW ME.' 46:53 I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU I COMPLETELY FATHOM ALL JESUS IS 46:55 SAYING HERE, BUT THE POINT IS, HE'S CALLING PEOPLE TO MAKE A 46:59 RADICAL CHANGE IN DIRECTION AND THE CHALLENGE IS, IN MY LIFE, 47:05 GOD HAS OFTEN DONE THAT. HAS HE DONE IT FOR YOU? 47:09 HAS HE CALLED YOU OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE? 47:11 MAYBE HE'S CALLING YOU OUT RIGHT NOW. 47:13 IN FACT, I WAS JUST DOING A RADIO INTERVIEW YESTERDAY TO BE 47:16 AIRING IN A MONTH OR SO, AND THIS WAS A COUPLE, QUITE 47:21 SUCCESSFUL, OUT ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE UNITED STATES AND 47:24 THE LORD WAS SPEAKING TO THEIR HEARTS. 47:25 THEY NEEDED TO LEAVE THEIR GOOD JOBS AND GO AND DO MINISTRY IN 47:30 KIND OF A MORE ARID PART OF THE COUNTRY THAN WHERE THEY WERE 47:35 LIVING. NOW THINGS WERE GOING GOOD FOR THEM. 47:38 THEY HAD A GOOD - THEY HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE SAME PLACE FOR 47:40 MANY YEARS, THEY WERE CLOSE TO THEIR CHILDREN, BUT THE LORD'S 47:45 CALLING THEM TO PACK EVERYTHING UP AND LEAVE. THEY DID IT. 47:49 AND THEY WERE TELLING ME AND THEY TOLD OUR AUDIENCE - THEY 47:52 WERE TELLING THEIR STORY - HOW THEY WERE SO THANKFUL THAT GOD 47:56 LED THEM - THAT THEY'RE - FINANCIALLY, EVEN THOUGH THEY'VE 47:59 TAKEN LESS - THEY'VE TAKEN JOBS THAT HAVE REDUCED THEIR INCOME, 48:03 THEY'RE FINANCIALLY BETTER OFF. HOW CAN THAT BE? 48:06 HOW COULD YOU REDUCE YOUR SALARY AND BE BETTER OFF? 48:09 THEY SAID, 'WELL, WE MOVED OUT HERE, YOU KNOW, WE DOWN-SIZED, 48:11 OUR EXPENSES ARE LESS, AND WE'RE DOING WHAT GOD WANTS US TO DO.' 48:16 SO HERE WE'RE READING ABOUT IT. WE'RE READING ABOUT PEOPLE THAT 48:19 DIDN'T SEEM TO WANT TO FOLLOW AND THEN THE LESSON POINTS US TO 48:22 THIS AMAZING STORY IN MATTHEW 8 THAT WE SKIPPED OVER. 48:27 MATTHEW 8, VERSE 23, LET'S LOOK AT IT. 48:30 NOW WHEN HE, REFERRING TO JESUS, GOT INTO THE BOAT AND CROSSED 48:36 OVER, HE CAME TO HIS OWN CITY - AM I READING IT RIGHT? 48:42 NO, "...HE GOT INTO A BOAT, HIS DISCIPLES FOLLOWED HIM. 48:46 AND SUDDENLY A GREAT TEMPEST AROSE ON THE SEA, SO THAT THE 48:50 BOAT WAS COVERED WITH THE WAVES. BUT HE (JESUS) WAS"? 48:53 >>ASLEEP. >>ASLEEP. 48:55 HERE'S ANOTHER ONE OF THESE STORIES. 48:57 RIGHT WHEN YOU NEED JESUS, WHERE IS HE? 48:59 NOW HE'S SLEEPING. 13 PEOPLE ON A BOAT, LET'S 49:06 READ ABOUT TWELVE OF THEM - OR THEIR REACTION - VERSE 25 - 49:10 THEY'RE CRYING OUT, ULTIMATELY, "LORD, SAVE US!" 49:15 WHAT? "WE ARE PERISHING!" 49:16 IT'S OVER. THIS IS THE END. AND WHAT'S JESUS DOING? SLEEPING. 49:22 HOW COULD JESUS BE SLEEPING ON THE BOAT? 49:24 HOW COULD HE BE SLEEPING WHEN 13 - 12 OTHER MEN ARE FEARING FOR 49:29 THEIR LIVES? BY THE WAY, A NUMBER OF THESE 49:33 MEN HAD SPENT THEIR LIVES ON THAT LAKE - THEY'RE FISHERMEN 49:37 - THEY'VE SEEN STORMS BEFORE. THIS IS A TERRIBLE STORM. 49:42 BY THE WAY, AS YOU READ THROUGH THE STORY, IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE 49:44 SATAN, HIMSELF, HAS BROUGHT UP THIS STORM. 49:48 WHY IS JESUS RESTING IN THE BOAT? 49:51 >>THE LORD WAS TIRED. >>OKAY, I - SOME OF YOU SAY HE 49:54 WAS TIRED. OTHERS OF YOU - NO DOUBT HE 49:57 PROBABLY WAS - OTHERS OF YOU ARE SAYING HE'S TRUSTING. 50:01 JESUS SAID, 'I ALWAYS DO THE THINGS THAT PLEASE MY FATHER.' 50:04 HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ON HIS OWN. HE WAS ALWAYS WHAT? 50:07 SPENDING TIME WITH THE FATHER. HE WAS REFLECTING ON GOD'S WORD. 50:11 SO IN THE WILDERNESS OF TEMPTATION, WHEN THAT WAS 50:13 STUDIED IN THIS LESSON, WHAT DID HE DO? 50:15 HE'S QUOTING THE WORD. JESUS IS FINDING - FOUNDING - IS 50:19 ESTABLISHING HIS RELATIONSHIP ON THE FATHER AND IN A TRUSTING 50:23 RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. I THINK THERE'S MORE TO IT. 50:25 SOME HAVE POINTED OUT THAT JESUS, PERHAPS, KNEW THAT HIS 50:28 TIME HAD NOT YET COME. JESUS WAS A BIBLE STUDENT. 50:31 HE KNEW THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL CHAPTER 9 - IF YOU HAVEN'T 50:35 STUDIED THAT, BOY, THAT'S ONE TO STUDY. 50:37 HIS TIME HAD NOT YET COME. MAYBE THAT'S WHY HE WAS RESTING. 50:40 HE KNEW HE WASN'T GOING TO DIE RIGHT THEN. 50:42 WHATEVER THE REASONS WERE, IT WAS TRUST. 50:46 AND THEN, AS THE STORY PLAYS OUT, VERSE 26, JESUS CRITICIZES 50:51 THEM VERY GENTLY FOR THEIR LACK OF WHAT? 50:55 FAITH. AND THEN IT SAYS HE ARISES, HE 50:59 REBUKES THE WIND AND THE SEA, AND WHAT HAPPENS? 51:02 >>THERE IS A GREAT CALM. >>THERE'S A GREAT CALM. 51:04 JESUS IS WITH US IN ALL OUR DISCOURAGEMENTS. 51:09 >>AMEN. >>HE'S WITH US IN ALL OUR LIFE'S 51:12 CHALLENGES, EVEN IF WE DON'T FEEL HIM, HE'S THERE. 51:17 IT MAY SEEM LIKE HE'S ASLEEP - HE'S NOT HEARING OUR PRAYERS - 51:20 IT MAY SEEM LIKE HE'S NOT THERE WHEN HE'S WALKING WITH US. 51:24 IT MAY SEEM LIKE HE'S ASKING US TO DO THINGS THAT ARE 51:27 UNREASONABLE, BUT THE LAST PART OF OUR LESSON, AS FAR AS WE WILL 51:31 COVER, IS WEDNESDAY'S LESSON AND WEDNESDAY'S LESSON IS ABOUT WHAT 51:37 JESUS CALLED ALL HIS DISCIPLES TO - IT'S WHAT HE CALLS US TO - 51:41 AND THAT'S TAKING UP OUR CROSS AND FOLLOWING HIM. 51:45 BUT WHAT WAS THE DISCIPLES' PROBLEM? 51:48 YEAH, IT'S THE SAME PROBLEM WE HAVE, THEY WERE BASICALLY 51:52 ASKING, WHAT'S IN IT FOR US? WHAT'S IN IT FOR US? 51:55 LISTEN, IF I'VE LEFT ALL THIS, YOU KNOW, AM I GOING TO HAVE A 51:57 REALLY GOOD PLACE? AM I GOING TO HAVE THE 51:59 BEST PLACE IN THE KINGDOM? AND HOW DID JESUS CORRECT THEM? 52:04 HE CORRECTED THEM IN A NUMBER OF WAYS. 52:07 HE'D CALL A LITTLE CHILD AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO 52:10 BE GREAT, YOU'VE GOT TO BE LIKE A LITTLE CHILD.' JESUS WOULD 52:13 SERVE THEM. HE'D MINISTER TO THEM. HE'D WASH THEIR FEET. 52:16 HE SAID, 'YOU SEE WHAT I'VE DONE? 52:18 I'M NOT HERE - I'M YOUR LORD AND MASTER, BUT I'M HERE TO DO WHAT? 52:23 I'M HERE TO SERVE YOU.' WE'RE CALLED, AS COMRADES IN ARMS - 52:28 WE'RE CALLED TO BE PARTNERS WITH JESUS IN THE GREATEST WORK THAT 52:32 HAS EVER BEEN COMMISSIONED TO MORTALS AND THAT WORK IS 52:38 EXTENDING THE GOSPEL CALL. THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DO IT IS BY 52:43 GETTING INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE MASTER - FROM OUR 52:46 GENERAL, JESUS. THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DO IT IS 52:49 BY SPENDING TIME WITH HIM. WE HAVE THE WORD, WE HAVE HIS 52:53 PRESENCE, AND THE GREATEST PROBLEM - THE ONLY THING THAT 52:56 GOD DOESN'T HAVE CONTROL OVER IS THE HUMAN HEART. 52:59 HE ALLOWS US TO HAVE OUR FREE WILL TO CHOOSE FOR HIM. 53:03 WELL, IF YOU WANT TO READ MORE THAT CAN BRING YOU INTO CLOSER 53:06 RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER 53:10 FOR YOU, IT'S #789. DID YOU CATCH THE TITLE? 53:15 FACE TO FACE WITH THE REAL GOSPEL - ASK FOR IT - CALL 53:19 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S FOR ALL OUR FRIENDS IN NORTH AMERICA - 53:23 866-788-3966. IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH 53:29 AMERICA, GO TO AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - YOU CAN GET MANY OF THOSE 53:34 GREAT RESOURCES ONLINE. LET'S PRAY TOGETHER. 53:39 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR THE POWER OF YOUR WORD. 53:43 THANK YOU THAT WE CAN BE COMRADES OF YOURS. 53:47 YOU'VE CALLED US YOUR CHILDREN, YOU'VE CALLED US YOUR FRIENDS - 53:52 PLEASE HELP US LIVE THAT WAY, TRUSTING IN YOUR WORD. 53:55 WE ASK IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 53:59 >>HELLO FRIENDS, I HAVE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. 54:02 I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT AN EXCITING EVANGELISTIC 54:05 OPPORTUNITY THAT WILL BE COMING TO YOUR CHURCH THIS SPRING. 54:09 BEGINNING MARCH 21 AMAZING FACTS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 3ABN 54:13 AND THE CAROLINA CONFERENCE, WILL BE PRESENTING A FRESH NEW 54:16 7-PART TV SERIES CALLED THE LAST DAY OF PROPHECY . 54:21 THIS UNIQUE PROPHECY PROGRAM WILL PRESENT THE SABBATH TRUTH 54:24 AND THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES IN A WINSOME WAY THAT YOUR 54:27 FRIENDS AND FAMILY WILL REALLY APPRECIATE. 54:30 IT'S THE IDEAL OCCASION TO INVITE YOUR COMMUNITY AND 54:33 INTRODUCE THEM TO THE BEAUTY OF THE SABBATH. 54:35 THIS IS ALSO THE PERFECT TIME IN HISTORY FOR A NET EVANGELISTIC 54:39 PROGRAM LIKE THIS. IT'S NOT TOO LATE. 54:41 PLAN NOW TO GET YOUR CHURCH OR HOME GROUP INVOLVED IN THIS 54:44 SOUL-WINNING PROGRAM. FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO 54:47 LASTDAYOFPROPHECY.COM AND, OF COURSE, PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRAY 54:52 FOR THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAM. THE LAST DAY OF PROPHECY 54:55 MARCH 21, 7:00 PM EASTERN TIME. (MUSIC) 55:10 >>TODAY'S SMART PHONES ARE A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE OF 55:12 INFORMATION THAT FITS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND. 55:15 IT'S A GOOD THING WE HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS! 55:17 WITH IT YOU CAN BUY YOUR GROCERIES, TAKE CARE OF YOUR 55:21 EXERCISE REGIME, WATCH A VIDEO, LISTEN TO MUSIC, YOU CAN SURF 55:25 THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD-WIDE WEB, WHICH MAY NOT ALWAYS BE A 55:28 GOOD THING. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE IS MORE 55:31 COMPUTER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY AND POWER IN A LITTLE SMART 55:34 PHONE TODAY THAN WAS USED BY NASA TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON. 55:39 AND I ALMOST FORGOT, YOU CAN ALSO USE THESE TO MAKE A PHONE 55:41 CALL, BUT WHO DOES THAT ANYMORE? 55:44 TODAY COMMUNICATION IS NOT IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. 55:46 IT'S ALL ABOUT SHORT MESSAGE SERVICING OR SMS TEXTING. 55:51 THAT'S RIGHT, THERE ARE ABOUT 2.5 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD 55:55 TODAY THAT ARE COMMUNICATING WITH THEIR FELLOW HUMANS IN 55:58 SHORT BYTES CALLED TEXTING. THAT'S MORE DATA THAT IS BEING 56:02 USED THAN THOSE WHO ARE SURFING THE WEB OR EVEN PLAYING VIDEO 56:05 GAMES. AND, FRIENDS, NOWHERE IS THIS 56:07 MORE TRUE THAN RIGHT HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES. 56:10 EVEN THOUGH THE PHILIPPINES HAS ABOUT 100 MILLION PEOPLE, THEY 56:13 ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LARGEST NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES OF 56:16 ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THEY'RE THE TWELFTH-LARGEST 56:19 COUNTRY, BUT THEY SEND 400 MILLION TEXT MESSAGES EVERY DAY. 56:24 WOW, THAT'S A LOT OF FINGER FATIGUE. 56:28 EVEN THOUGH THE GREATEST NUMBER OF TEXTERS IS HERE IN THE 56:30 PHILIPPINES, THE RECORD FOR THE FASTEST TEXTER IN THE WORLD IS 56:33 FROM BRAZIL. A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF 56:35 MARCEL FERNANDES FILHO - HE WAS ABLE TO TEXT 25 VERY COMPLICATED 56:40 WORDS IN A LITTLE MORE THAN 18 SECONDS. 56:42 WOW, IT TAKES ME LONGER THAN THAT TO JUST SAY 'I LOVE YOU' TO 56:46 MY WIFE AND PRESS SEND. ALL THUMBS. 56:49 ONE OF THE NEAT THINGS ABOUT TEXTING IS YOU CAN TEXT JUST 56:52 ABOUT ANYWHERE. IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED WITH PEOPLE 56:54 AND YOU WANT TO SEND A PERSONAL MESSAGE, YOU TEXT. 56:56 YOU'RE IN A CROWDED SUBWAY OR AN AIRPORT, YOU CAN TEXT. 57:00 IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY NOISE OR NOSEY PEOPLE, YOU CAN TEXT - 57:04 JUST DON'T TEXT WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING. 57:06 THAT'S WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL, FRIENDS, YOU CAN ALWAYS TEXT GOD 57:09 A MESSAGE OF PRAYER FROM YOUR HEART. 57:12 WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING 'WHAT SCHOOL DO I GO TO?' 57:14 'WHAT JOB DO I TAKE?' 57:15 'WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO DATE THAT MAY BE A FUTURE LIFE PARTNER?' 57:18 YOUR PRAYERS DON'T HAVE TO BE LONG. 57:19 THE SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE BIBLE IS THREE WORDS - WHEN PETER 57:22 PRAYED, 'LORD SAVE ME.' AND JESUS ANSWERED HIS PRAYER. 57:26 IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAST YOU CAN TEXT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO 57:29 GOD, HE'LL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR AND HEAR YOUR PRAYER 57:32 BEFORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO SAY 'AMEN' AND PRESS THE SEND 57:35 BUTTON. IN FACT, FRIENDS, YOU'LL BRING 57:36 JOY TO GOD WHEN YOU SEND HIM REGULAR MESSAGES FROM 57:40 YOUR HEART TO HIS. SO WHY DON'T YOU TALK 57:42 TO HIM RIGHT NOW? (MUSIC) 57:57 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER 58:00 THAN EVER BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 58:04 (MUSIC) |
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