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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR. WE'RE
GLAD TO SEE YOU ALL HERE
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AGAIN ON THIS BEAUTIFUL SABBATH
MORNING, AS WE'RE GOING CONTINUE
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OUR STUDY
TOGETHER IN GOD'S WORD.
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OUR LESSON IS DEALING
WITH THE BOOK OF MATTHEW.
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IT'S A BRAND-NEW
QUARTER - BRAND-NEW STUDY.
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT
BE JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD, THIS
IS WHAT THE QUARTERLY LOOKS LIKE
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FOR THIS NEXT THIRTEEN
WEEKS' STUDY TIME PERIOD.
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IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF THE
LESSON QUARTERLY - WE'RE GOING
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TO BE LOOKING AT LESSON #1 TODAY
- YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING
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AND TODAY'S LESSON IS ENTITLED
THE SON OF DAVID AND IT GETS
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INTO OUR STUDY OF
THE BOOK OF MATTHEW.
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NOW, INSTEAD OF OUR
USUAL SINGING TOGETHER AT THE
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BEGINNING OF OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
STUDY HOUR, WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO
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HAVE THE WEIMAR CHOIR JOINING
US TODAY AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE
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BRINGING US A SPECIAL
MUSICAL ITEM AT THIS TIME.
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>>O LORD, MY GOD O LORD,
MY GOD HOW GREAT THOU ART.
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O LORD, MY GOD, WHEN I IN
AWESOME WONDER CONSIDER ALL THE
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WORLDS THY HANDS HAVE MADE;
I SEE THE STARS, I HEAR THE
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ROLLING THUNDER, THY
POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE
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DISPLAYED. THEN SINGS MY SOUL,
MY SAVIOR GOD, TO THEE, HOW
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GREAT THOU ART, HOW GREAT
THOU ART. THEN SINGS MY SOUL, MY
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SAVIOR GOD, TO THEE, HOW GREAT
THOU ART, HOW GREAT THOU ART!
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WHEN THROUGH THE WOOD AND FOREST
GLADES I WANDER AND HEAR THE
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BIRDS SING SWEETLY IN THE TREES
WHEN I LOOK DOWN FROM LOFTY
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MOUNTAIN GRANDEUR AND HEAR
THE BROOK, AND FEEL THE GENTLE
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BREEZE THEN SINGS MY SOUL, HOW
GREAT THOU ART. AND WHEN I THINK
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THAT GOD HIS SON NOT SPARING
SENT HIM TO DIE - I SCARCE CAN
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TAKE IT IN THEN SINGS MY
SOUL, HOW GREAT THOU ART.
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THAT ON THE CROSS MY BURDEN
GLADLY BEARING HE BLED AND DIED
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TO TAKE AWAY MY SIN THEN SINGS
MY SOUL, HOW GREAT THOU ART THEN
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SINGS MY SOUL, HOW GREAT THOU
ART MY GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART!
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WHEN CHRIST SHALL COME WITH
SHOUT OF ACCLAMATION AND TAKE ME
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HOME - WHAT JOY
SHALL FILL MY HEART!
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THEN I SHALL BOW IN HUMBLE
ADORATION AND THERE PROCLAIM, MY
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GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART!
THEN SINGS MY SOUL, MY SAVIOR
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GOD, TO THEE, HOW GREAT
THOU ART, HOW GREAT THOU ART.
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THEN SINGS MY SOUL, MY SAVIOR
GOD, TO THEE, O LORD MY GOD, O
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LORD MY GOD, O LORD MY
GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART!
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>>AMEN! >>AMEN.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH
WEIMAR CHOIR. BEAUTIFUL SONG.
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WELL, FROM TIME TO TIME WE
TRY TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE MISSION
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UPDATE OF SOME ACTIVITY - SOME
OUTREACH - THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING
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AMONGST SOME OF OUR CHURCH
MEMBERS - ALSO FROM AMAZING
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FACTS. TODAY WE'RE
GOING TO BE SHARING
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WITH YOU A LITTLE UPDATE
ON A MISSION TRIP TO THAILAND.
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CARISSA IS GOING TO BE
COMING FORWARD - AND OSTAP - AND
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THEY'RE GOING TO BE SHARING AN
AFCOE OUTREACH PROGRAM THAT TOOK
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PLACE, OH A COUPLE MONTHS
BACK - I THINK IT WAS DECEMBER.
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THANK YOU, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD
TO HEARING WHAT YOU HAVE TO
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SHARE. >>GOOD MORNING.
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HAPPY SABBATH. WE
WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU,
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BRIEFLY, HERE A LITTLE MISSION
SPOTLIGHT ABOUT THE WORK THAT
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JUST OCCURRED THIS
PAST DECEMBER IN THAILAND.
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WE HAD A MASSIVE MISSIONARY
ENDEAVOR - AGAIN, WE WERE GOING
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TO A VERY PREDOMINANTLY
BUDDHIST COUNTRY - THAILAND.
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FOR MANY PEOPLE THAT WE WERE
MINISTERING TO, THEY HAD NEVER
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HEARD THE NAME
JESUS CHRIST BEFORE.
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WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING
WITH AN INCREDIBLE AUSTRALIAN
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TEAM THERE IN THAILAND THAT
ORGANIZED THIS ENTIRE EVENT,
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WORKING CLOSELY WITH CHUCK
HOLTRY, OUR AFCOE DIRECTOR.
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WE TOOK A TEAM OF 14 AFCOE
GRADUATES AND OVER 20 MEDICAL
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PERSONNEL TO GO AND WORK IN
THAILAND AND MAKE AN IMPACT FOR
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JESUS CHRIST. OUR
FOCUS WHILE WE WERE THERE
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WAS CHILDREN'S EVANGELISM,
MEDICAL EVANGELISM, AND THEN
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ALSO CONDUCTING
SIX PROPHECY SEMINARS.
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THAT'S A LOT OF WORK, ISN'T IT?
MANY OF THE CHURCH MEMBERS HERE
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AT GRANITE BAY WERE A PART
OF THAT MISSIONARY ENDEAVOR.
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THE NAKABAYASHIS, JANELLE, MANY
OTHERS WERE INVOLVED, AND WE
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JUST SO APPRECIATE THAT SUPPORT.
OSTAP WAS ONE OF OUR SPEAKERS
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THERE IN THAILAND -
ONE OF THE AFCOE GRADUATES.
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OSTAP, WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE
LIKE AS A SPEAKER IN THAILAND?
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>>THAILAND, FOR ME,
WAS A VERY UNIQUE COUNTRY.
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IT'S MY FIRST TIME IN THAILAND
AND THE PEOPLE WERE SO WELCOMING
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AND WARM AND JUST
GREETED US AND ACCEPTED US.
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AND I SAW, EVERY NIGHT, HOW
FAITHFUL THEY WERE TO TRAVEL
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LONG DISTANCES - HAVING TO WALK
BY FOOT - AND THEY WERE COMING
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OUT EVERY NIGHT TO
LISTEN TO THE WORD OF GOD.
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>>AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>WAS THERE ONE MOMENT THAT WAS
PARTICULARLY MEMORABLE DURING
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YOUR TIME IN THAILAND?
>>WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO
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WITH THE PASTOR TO DO
HOUSE VISITATIONS AND TO TALK TO
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PEOPLE AND TO GET THEM READY FOR
BAPTISM - TO SEE IF THEY HAVE
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ANY QUESTIONS - AND THIS
FAMILY HAD WELCOMED US IN.
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WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO
INTO THEIR VERY SMALL, I WOULD
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SAY, HUT - IT'S NOT EVEN A BIG
HOME - AND, AS WE WERE SITTING
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THERE ON THEIR FLOOR WITH OUR
LEGS CROSSED AND - WE WERE JUST
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AMAZED WITH THE HOSPITALITY AND
THE LOVE THAT THEY SHARED WITH
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US BECAUSE WE HAD TAKEN THE TIME
TO COME AND SHARE THE WORD OF
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GOD WITH THEM. AND
ONE OF THE GESTURES THAT
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THEY WANTED TO DO FOR US WAS TO
SEND THEIR KIDS OFF TO A LITTLE
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VILLAGE STORE AND
TO BUY US SOME DRINKS.
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AND THE FATHER WAS STUMBLING IN
HIS POCKET TO FIND SOME CHANGE
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FOR THESE DRINKS AND HE
DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY WITH HIM.
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AND SO THE YOUNG GIRL REMEMBERED
THAT SHE HAD SOME CHANGE IN HER
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ROOM AND SHE RAN TO HER ROOM,
GRABBED SOME LOOSE CHANGE AND
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RAN DOWN TO THE VILLAGE STORE
TO BUY US SOMETHING TO DRINK.
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IT WAS REALLY, REALLY
HOT. >>THAT'S SPECIAL.
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>>YEAH.
>>EXCELLENT. THOSE LITTLE
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MOMENTS WHERE, AGAIN,
THEY SHOW THEIR LOVE AND
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CARE TOWARDS US.
OSTAP, AGAIN, IS AN AFCOE
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GRADUATE AND A CHURCH MEMBER
HERE AT GRANITE BAY AND NOW
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HE HAS COMMITTED HIS LIFE
TO FULL-TIME EVANGELISM AND
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FOREIGN MISSION WORK. SO
WE JUST PRAISE GOD FOR THE
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IMPACT THAT
THESE EXPERIENCES MAKE.
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HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS WHEN, BY THE
GRACE OF GOD, WE SHOW TRUE LOVE
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TO OTHERS. AND, WHEN
WE DO, AGAIN, CHRIST'S
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METHOD TRULY DOES
BREAK AND WIN HEARTS.
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YOU KNOW, THE WORK IS
GOING FORWARD IN THAILAND.
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THERE IS A NEED
OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
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THERE IS A NEED OF
PRAYERS FOR THE TEACHERS AND THE
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MISSIONARIES
THAT CONTINUE THERE.
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AND SO, OF COURSE, WE
ENCOURAGE YOU TO PRAY WITH US.
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BUT EVEN MORE SO, I BELIEVE
THERE IS A WORK HERE IN NORTH
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AMERICA. I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS
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A WORK WHEREVER WE ARE.
GOD IS CALLING US TO TRULY
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DEMONSTRATE THE LOVE OF JESUS IN
OUR CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE TODAY.
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AND NOW, AS WE TRANSITION INTO
OUR LESSON STUDY WITH PASTOR
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DOUG, WOULD YOU JUST BOW
YOUR HEADS WITH ME FOR A WORD OF
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PRAYER? HEAVENLY
FATHER, GOD, LORD, WE
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JUST THANK YOU FOR HOW YOU WORK.
WE THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT WE
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GET THE INCREDIBLE
PRIVILEGE OF BEING AN AMBASSADOR
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FOR JESUS CHRIST.
THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR THESE
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EXPERIENCES THAT
REMIND US THAT YOU ARE REAL.
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WHAT A JOY IT IS, FATHER, TO SEE
SOMEONE ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST - TO
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HEAR HIS NAME FOR
THE VERY FIRST TIME.
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AND FATHER, I PRAY THAT THAT
SAME JOY AND PASSION MAY BURN IN
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OUR HEARTS TODAY. AND
NOW, FATHER, AS WE OPEN YOUR
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WORD, I PRAY THAT YOU SPEAK
THROUGH PASTOR DOUG AND OPEN OUR
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HEARTS TO RECEIVE YOUR MESSAGE
TODAY. WE THANK YOU AND WE PRAY
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>THANK YOU VERY
MUCH, CARISSA AND OSTAP.
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AND I TAKE IT THAT OSTAP IS
WEARING CLOTHING FROM THAILAND.
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AND I WANT TO ALSO THANK
THE WEIMAR CHOIR FOR SINGING -
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THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. >>AMEN.
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>>APPRECIATE THAT. I
THINK THEY'RE GOING TO ALSO BE
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TREATING US DURING OUR
CHURCH SERVICE A LITTLE LATER.
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WELCOME TO OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
CLASS THAT IS STUDYING WITH US
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AROUND THE WORLD. NOW,
I PROMISED OUR FRIENDS IN
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SOUTH AFRICA THAT WHEN WE GOT
BACK HOME WE'D WAVE TO THEM, SO
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I JUST WANT TO - I'LL GIVE
YOU THE PRINCESS WAVE HERE.
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I WANT TO WAVE TO OUR
FRIENDS AND TELL THEM WE HAVEN'T
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FORGOTTEN THEM. AND
IT'S ALWAYS EXCITING AS WE
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TRAVEL, WE MEET PEOPLE THAT ARE
STUDYING WITH US EACH WEEK FROM
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AROUND THE WORLD ON THE VARIOUS
NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET.
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AND SOME OF YOU WHO ARE MEMBERS
OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH - SOME
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OF OUR ONLINE MEMBERS,
WE WELCOME YOU AS WELL.
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I THINK PASTOR ROSS MENTIONED,
WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER CALLED
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DOWN FROM HIS GLORY , AND YOU
CAN JUST CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR
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SCREEN - ASK FOR OFFER #701 -
WE'LL SEND YOU THAT AND READ IT
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- SHARE IT WITH YOUR
FRIENDS. IT WILL ENCOURAGE YOU.
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THAT'S AN APPROPRIATE STUDY FOR
WHERE WE'RE GOING TODAY BECAUSE
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TODAY WE'RE ENTERING INTO A
BRAND-NEW STUDY DEALING WITH A
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NEW QUARTERLY ON
THE SUBJECT OF MATTHEW.
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AND, FOR OUR FRIENDS THAT - SOME
ARE WATCHING THIS STREAMING LIVE
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- YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WHY
ARE YOU THREE WEEKS AHEAD OF THE
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REST OF THE WORLD
CHURCH IN THEIR STUDY?'
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IT'S BECAUSE WHEN WE BROADCAST
THIS PROGRAM, BY THE TIME WE
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EDIT THE PROGRAMS AND, IN SOME
CASES THEY'RE TRANSLATED, AND
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THEN WE PUT CLOSED CAPTIONING
ON, IT JUST TAKES THREE WEEKS TO
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GET THAT DONE AND SENT TO
THE VARIOUS NETWORK STUDIOS.
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AND SO, WE STUDY THE LESSON HERE
- WE'RE LIVING IN THE FUTURE
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HERE AT GRANITE BAY. WE
STUDY THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE,
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IF YOU'RE VISITING
TODAY. I AM REALLY EXCITED TO BE
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DELVING INTO THE
BOOK OF MATTHEW, AND
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WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH
LESSON #1, OF COURSE, TODAY,
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WHICH IS CALLED
THE SON OF DAVID .
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AND THERE'S A MEMORY VERSE.
THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US
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FROM THE BOOK OF
MATTHEW CHAPTER 1, VERSE 21.
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AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ
THAT WITH ME, MATTHEW 1, VERSE
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21 - AND I'M DOING THE
WHOLE VERSE HERE - YOU READY?
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"AND SHE WILL BRING FORTH A
SON, AND YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME
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JESUS, FOR HE WILL SAVE
HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS."
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IN THEIR SINS? >>NO.
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>>OR FROM THEIR SINS? NOW
THIS IS - THE MEMORY VERSE
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IN THE LESSON'S ONLY GOT ABOUT
HALF OF THE VERSE, BUT I THINK
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THAT WE COULD ALL
DO THE WHOLE THING.
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'SHE'LL BRING FORTH A SON,
YOU'LL CALL HIS NAME JESUS, AND
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HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE
FROM THEIR SINS.' THIS SORT OF
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SUMMARIZES THE MISSION OF JESUS.
NOW, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
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APPROPRIATE, BEFORE WE DELVE
INTO THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, THAT
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WE TALK A LITTLE
BIT ABOUT THE BOOK.
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WE'RE STARTING, REALLY, NOT ONLY
A NEW QUARTERLY, BUT THIS IS THE
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FIRST BOOK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
AND JUST MAYBE TALK A LITTLE BIT
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ABOUT THE BACKGROUND.
FIRST OF ALL, WHO IS MATTHEW?
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WE'VE GOT A FEW
VERSES THAT GIVE US A CLUE.
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YOU CAN LOOK IN THE BOOK OF
MATTHEW, CHAPTER 9, VERSE 9, AND
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IT SAYS, "AS JESUS PASSED ON
FROM THERE, HE SAW A MAN NAMED
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MATTHEW SITTING
AT THE TAX OFFICE.
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AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'FOLLOW ME.'
SO HE AROSE AND FOLLOWED HIM."
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AND THE TAX OFFICE
MEANS THAT HE WAS A PUBLICAN.
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NOW IT SAYS A LITTLE DIFFERENT
ACCOUNT IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE
00:16:33.92\00:16:37.59
5:27, "AFTER THESE THINGS HE
WENT FORTH, AND SAW A PUBLICAN,
00:16:37.59\00:16:42.00
NAMED LEVI," - ONE PLACE IT SAYS
HIS NAME'S MATTHEW, THE OTHER
00:16:42.00\00:16:45.70
PLACE SAYS HIS NAME IS LEVI
- "SITTING AT THE RECEIPT OF
00:16:45.70\00:16:49.97
CUSTOM:" - THAT'S TAX.
LUKE IS SPEAKING AS A GENTILE
00:16:49.97\00:16:52.87
WOULD - "AND HE SAID UNTO HIM,
'FOLLOW ME.' AND HE LEFT ALL,
00:16:52.87\00:16:57.08
ROSE UP, AND FOLLOWED HIM.
AND LEVI MADE HIM A GREAT FEAST
00:16:57.08\00:17:01.45
IN HIS OWN HOUSE: AND THERE WAS
A GREAT COMPANY OF PUBLICANS AND
00:17:01.45\00:17:04.89
OF OTHERS" - THE PHARISEES TELL
US WHO THE OTHERS WERE, IT SAYS
00:17:04.89\00:17:08.42
THEY WERE PUBLICANS
AND HARLOTS AND SINNERS.
00:17:08.42\00:17:13.13
THE PUBLICANS ARE THE
TAX COLLECTORS IN JESUS' DAY.
00:17:13.13\00:17:17.03
IT WASN'T A REPUTABLE
JOB. THEY WERE, SORT OF,
00:17:17.03\00:17:20.00
PART OF THE UNDERWORLD.
THEY WERE AUTHORIZED BY THE
00:17:20.00\00:17:25.54
ROMANS TO COLLECT TRIBUTE
AND TAXES FROM THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
00:17:25.54\00:17:29.14
AND THEY WERE GIVEN SOME - A
CONTINGENT OF SOLDIERS TO HELP -
00:17:29.14\00:17:33.95
LIKE THE POLICE - TO HELP
ENFORCE WHEN THEY WOULD LEVY
00:17:33.95\00:17:36.65
CERTAIN TAXES ON THE CARAVANS
AND THE PEOPLE BUYING AND
00:17:36.65\00:17:39.55
SELLING. IF YOU
STARTED TO ARGUE TOO
00:17:39.55\00:17:41.32
MUCH, THEY'D HAVE YOU ROUGHED
UP - THEY'D HAVE YOU ARRESTED.
00:17:41.32\00:17:44.36
AND THEY WERE THE MAFIOSO
AND THEY HUNG OUT WITH THE
00:17:44.36\00:17:49.40
OFF-SCOURING OF SOCIETY.
AND SO, WHEN MATTHEW LEVI, WHICH
00:17:49.40\00:17:55.54
IS WHAT WE CALL HIM, WHEN HE
WAS SO HONORED THAT JESUS WOULD
00:17:55.54\00:18:00.68
ACCEPT HIM TO BE PART OF HIS
INNER CIRCLE, HE MADE A FEAST
00:18:00.68\00:18:03.28
FOR HIM AND THAT'S WHEN ALL THE
SCRIBES AND PHARISEES BEGAN TO
00:18:03.28\00:18:06.68
MURMUR TO THE OTHER APOSTLES AND
SAY, 'LOOK, YOUR MASTER HAS GONE
00:18:06.68\00:18:09.32
TO BE A GUEST OF
THEM THAT ARE SINNERS.
00:18:09.32\00:18:11.95
AND JESUS OVERHEARD THIS AND
HE SAID, 'HAVEN'T YOU HEARD THAT
00:18:11.95\00:18:15.36
IT'S NOT THE WELL THAT NEED A
PHYSICIAN, BUT IT'S THE SICK?'
00:18:15.36\00:18:19.43
THIS ALL HAPPENED IN
THE CONTEXT OF JESUS CALLING
00:18:19.43\00:18:22.06
MATTHEW. NOW, WHY DOES ONE
GOSPEL SAY HIS NAME WAS MATTHEW
00:18:22.06\00:18:25.73
AND THE OTHER GOSPEL SAYS HIS
NAME IS LEVI? WELL, IT WAS VERY
00:18:25.73\00:18:29.87
COMMON TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE
NAME. I MEAN, JESUS WAS CALLED
00:18:29.87\00:18:33.38
JESUS, THE SON OF
JOSEPH, OR JESUS OF NAZARETH.
00:18:33.38\00:18:35.84
WHEN IT SAYS 'MATTHEW', THAT
WAS PROBABLY HIS PROPER NAME.
00:18:35.84\00:18:38.71
'LEVI' MEANT THAT HE
WAS FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI.
00:18:38.71\00:18:41.45
KEEP IN MIND, THERE WERE REALLY
THREE PRINCIPLE TRIBES LEFT IN
00:18:41.45\00:18:46.99
THE LAND OF ISRAEL
IN THE TIME OF JESUS.
00:18:46.99\00:18:50.39
LONG BEFORE JESUS WAS
BORN, DURING THE TIME OF KING
00:18:50.39\00:18:53.36
HEZEKIAH, THE ASSYRIANS CARRIED
AWAY THE TEN TRIBES FROM THE
00:18:53.36\00:18:57.83
NORTH. THAT'S
WHEN YOU HAVE EPHRAIM
00:18:57.83\00:19:01.20
AND MANNASEH AND ISSACHAR
AND ZEBULON AND SO FORTH.
00:19:01.20\00:19:04.41
THE THREE TRIBES OF THE
SOUTHERN KINGDOM WERE JUDAH,
00:19:04.41\00:19:08.64
BENJAMIN, AND
LEVI. AND SO, PAUL, WHAT
00:19:08.64\00:19:13.28
TRIBE WAS HE FROM? HE
SAYS, 'FROM THE TRIBE OF
00:19:13.28\00:19:15.95
BENJAMIN.' AND OTHERS WERE -
JUDAS MAY HAVE BEEN FROM JUDAH.
00:19:15.95\00:19:22.49
MATTHEW WAS A LEVITE -
HE WAS, AT LEAST, DESCENDED.
00:19:22.49\00:19:26.13
SO HE HAD GONE A LONG WAY FROM
THE PRIESTLY FAMILY OF LEVI TO
00:19:26.13\00:19:30.07
BECOMING A TAX
COLLECTOR FOR THE ROMANS.
00:19:30.07\00:19:33.54
AND SO, HE WAS
SORT OF A FALLEN ANGEL.
00:19:33.54\00:19:35.84
AND IN THE SAME WAY THAT JESUS,
AFTER HE INVITED ZACCHEUS, WHO
00:19:35.84\00:19:40.31
WAS A PUBLICAN, TO COME TO HIM,
HE SAID, 'I MUST ABIDE AT YOUR
00:19:40.31\00:19:44.18
HOUSE.' NOW THERE'S ONLY FIVE
RECORDS IN THE BIBLE OF PEOPLE
00:19:44.18\00:19:49.05
WHO WERE CALLED TO FOLLOW JESUS
- WELL, SIX - I'LL GET TO THAT
00:19:49.05\00:19:52.09
IN A MINUTE -
FIVE THAT ACCEPTED.
00:19:52.09\00:19:55.62
YOU'VE GOT PETER - THE CALL OF
PETER IS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE -
00:19:55.62\00:19:59.36
AND ANDREW - THEY WERE FISHING.
00:19:59.36\00:20:01.86
JAMES AND JOHN,
LIKEWISE, FISHING.
00:20:01.86\00:20:05.03
AND THE ONLY
OTHER ONE IS MATTHEW.
00:20:05.03\00:20:07.34
NOW THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN,
WE DON'T KNOW HIS NAME, A RICH
00:20:07.34\00:20:09.77
YOUNG RULER. JESUS
SAID, 'SELL WHAT YOU HAVE,
00:20:09.77\00:20:11.57
GIVE IT TO THE POOR, AND
FOLLOW ME.' AND HE DIDN'T.
00:20:11.57\00:20:14.54
BUT HE SAID THE SAME THING TO
HIM THAT HE SAID TO THE OTHERS,
00:20:14.54\00:20:17.88
'FOLLOW ME.' AND IT
SAYS JESUS LOVED HIM.
00:20:17.88\00:20:20.78
BUT HE DIDN'T. WE
DON'T EVEN KNOW HIS NAME.
00:20:20.78\00:20:23.12
SO MATTHEW IS ONE OF
THEM WHOSE NAME WAS RECORDED.
00:20:23.12\00:20:26.72
HE WAS PROBABLY A GALILEAN FROM
- AS WITH THE OTHER APOSTLES -
00:20:26.72\00:20:32.46
AND A JEW. WHEN
WAS HIS GOSPEL WRITTEN?
00:20:32.46\00:20:37.87
WELL, I TELL YOU, YOU KNOW, I'VE
DONE SOME HOMEWORK THIS WEEK.
00:20:37.87\00:20:40.77
I'VE LEARNED A LOT. ONE
THING I LEARNED IS THAT THE
00:20:40.77\00:20:42.87
SCHOLARS DON'T AGREE WITH EACH
OTHER. AND I JUST WANTED TO TRY
00:20:42.87\00:20:47.71
AND PIN DOWN, YOU
KNOW, AN APPROXIMATE DATE.
00:20:47.71\00:20:51.35
AND I'LL JUST TELL YOU,
THEY ARE ALL OVER THE MAP.
00:20:51.35\00:20:53.48
WHEN YOU SAY, 'WHEN
WAS THE BOOK WRITTEN?'
00:20:53.48\00:20:55.42
IT GOES ALL THE WAY
FROM 45 A.D. TO 100 A.D.
00:20:55.42\00:21:00.82
THAT'S A PRETTY BIG SCOPE.
I'M INCLINED - I READ SEVERAL
00:21:00.82\00:21:04.26
SCHOLARS - I
READ THEIR ARGUMENTS.
00:21:04.26\00:21:06.23
I'M INCLINED TO THINK SEVERAL
THINGS: FIRST OF ALL, THAT THE
00:21:06.23\00:21:09.33
BOOK OF MATTHEW WAS
FIRST WRITTEN IN HEBREW.
00:21:09.33\00:21:12.80
LET ME GIVE YOU
SOME REASONS FOR THAT.
00:21:12.80\00:21:15.54
WE DO HAVE SOME
DOCUMENTATION IN HISTORY.
00:21:15.54\00:21:18.11
IRENAEUS - NOW MOST OF THE NEW
TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN IN GREEK -
00:21:18.11\00:21:21.28
MATTHEW, A JEW, WROTE
HIS GOSPEL TO APPEAL TO JEWS,
00:21:21.28\00:21:25.01
PROBABLY FIRST
WAS WRITTEN IN HEBREW.
00:21:25.01\00:21:28.68
IRENAEUS, SECOND-CENTURY BISHOP
WRITES, "MATTHEW ALSO ISSUED A
00:21:28.68\00:21:32.55
WRITTEN GOSPEL AMONG THE
HEBREWS IN THEIR OWN DIALECT."
00:21:32.55\00:21:36.93
AND THEN PAPIAS, ANOTHER
SECOND-CENTURY BISHOP - HE
00:21:36.93\00:21:40.13
REFERS TO THIS BELIEF - HE
SAYS, "MATTHEW PUT TOGETHER THE
00:21:40.13\00:21:42.53
ORACLES OF THE LORD
IN THE HEBREW LANGUAGE."
00:21:42.53\00:21:46.30
THIS WAS ALSO QUOTED BY EUSEBIUS
IN HIS BOOK ON CHURCH HISTORY.
00:21:46.30\00:21:50.07
"ORIGIN: ASSUMED THAT MATTHEW
PENNED HIS GOSPEL ORIGINALLY IN
00:21:50.07\00:21:53.91
HEBREW." SO A
NUMBER OF THE EARLY CHURCH
00:21:53.91\00:21:56.31
FATHERS BELIEVED THAT
THE FIRST THING THAT MATTHEW
00:21:56.31\00:21:58.88
WROTE WAS IN HEBREW. IT
PROBABLY WASN'T THE FIRST
00:21:58.88\00:22:02.92
GOSPEL, AGAIN, THE SCHOLARS
- OR THE JURY - IS STILL OUT
00:22:02.92\00:22:06.52
ABOUT WHICH WAS
FIRST. MOST AGREE IT WAS
00:22:06.52\00:22:09.22
MATTHEW OR MARK. IF YOU READ
THE GOSPELS OF MATTHEW AND MARK,
00:22:09.22\00:22:12.63
YOU'LL FIND THERE'S MANY
SIMILARITIES. MATTER OF FACT,
00:22:12.63\00:22:15.83
IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT
ONE IS QUOTING THE OTHER.
00:22:15.83\00:22:18.80
MANY OF THE DISCOURSES
AND THE OUTLINES ARE THE SAME.
00:22:18.80\00:22:21.44
MATTHEW'S LONGER -
MATTHEW'S MORE THOROUGH.
00:22:21.44\00:22:25.01
AND PROBABLY, IN MY OPINION, AND
I'VE SPENT MANY YEARS GETTING TO
00:22:25.01\00:22:28.94
KNOW THESE GUYS, READING THEIR
BOOKS, MY OPINION IS MARK WROTE
00:22:28.94\00:22:33.88
FIRST. HIS IS SHORTER. MARK
IS SPEAKING TO THE GENTILES.
00:22:33.88\00:22:38.92
PROBABLY 40 - 45 A.D.
HE WROTE HIS GOSPEL BECAUSE
00:22:38.92\00:22:44.26
HE WAS CONCERNED PEOPLE WERE
BEGINNING TO OBSCURE AND CHANGE
00:22:44.26\00:22:48.10
THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS
AND TO TWIST THE STORIES.
00:22:48.10\00:22:50.60
HE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU
GUYS ARE GETTING IT WRONG.
00:22:50.60\00:22:51.77
THAT'S NOT WHAT
HAPPENED. LET ME WRITE IT DOWN.'
00:22:51.77\00:22:55.20
YOU KNOW, WHENEVER THERE'S
A RISK OF SOMETHING BEING
00:22:55.20\00:22:57.04
MISUNDERSTOOD,
YOU WRITE IT DOWN.
00:22:57.04\00:22:58.91
SO MARK WROTE HIS
DOWN. HE'S GOT 16 CHAPTERS.
00:22:58.91\00:23:02.61
MARK'S IS THE SHORTEST
AND IT'S THE QUICKEST GOSPEL.
00:23:02.61\00:23:05.61
WHEN YOU READ THE GOSPEL OF
MARK, NOTICE HOW MANY TIMES IT
00:23:05.61\00:23:08.08
SAYS, 'IMMEDIATELY',
'STRAIGHTWAY' - IT'S TALKING
00:23:08.08\00:23:10.99
ABOUT JESUS IS JUST GOING
FAST - IN THE BOOK OF MARK.
00:23:10.99\00:23:14.49
MATTHEW, WANTING TO WRITE
A GOSPEL THAT WOULD APPEAL -
00:23:14.49\00:23:19.23
MARK'S WAS PROBABLY WRITTEN IN
GREEK BECAUSE THE EARLY CHURCH,
00:23:19.23\00:23:22.33
BY 45 A.D., IT WAS EXPLODING
THROUGH THE GENTILE WORLD.
00:23:22.33\00:23:26.53
THERE WERE MORE GENTILE
CHRISTIANS, BY THE TIME MARK
00:23:26.53\00:23:29.07
WROTE, THAN THERE
WERE JEWISH CHRISTIANS.
00:23:29.07\00:23:31.51
MATTHEW, NOT WANTING THE JEWS TO
BE LEFT OUT, THEY WERE CONCERNED
00:23:31.51\00:23:34.38
THAT 'CHRISTIANITY
IS ABANDONING THE LAW'.
00:23:34.38\00:23:37.81
MATTHEW WRITES HIS
GOSPEL TO APPEAL TO THE HEBREWS.
00:23:37.81\00:23:42.02
NOBODY SPEAKS MORE THAN MATTHEW
ABOUT THE MESSIAHSHIP OF JESUS.
00:23:42.02\00:23:48.69
THAT'S WHY HIS GOSPEL BEGINS,
AS OUR LESSON TITLED, THE SON OF
00:23:48.69\00:23:51.73
DAVID - HE IS SHOWING JESUS
IS THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY.
00:23:51.73\00:23:55.66
THERE IS NO GOSPEL
WRITER - MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE,
00:23:55.66\00:23:57.80
AND JOHN - MATTHEW DOES THE
MOST IN POINTING BACK TO THE OLD
00:23:57.80\00:24:01.70
TESTAMENT TO PROVE - AND HE
QUOTES THE OLD TESTAMENT AGAIN
00:24:01.70\00:24:05.74
AND AGAIN - TO PROVE
THAT JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH.
00:24:05.74\00:24:08.44
HE PROBABLY WROTE
IT FIRST IN HEBREW.
00:24:08.44\00:24:10.78
IT BECAME VERY POPULAR AND THEY
SAID, 'WE NEED A GREEK VERSION.'
00:24:10.78\00:24:14.25
MATTHEW, HIMSELF, MAY
HAVE WRITTEN THE GREEK VERSION.
00:24:14.25\00:24:17.22
WE HAVE NO RECORDS IN EXISTENCE
ANYMORE, OF THE ORIGINAL HEBREW
00:24:17.22\00:24:20.89
BUT, BASED ON THESE EARLY CHURCH
FATHERS, IT WAS PROBABLY FIRST
00:24:20.89\00:24:24.13
WRITTEN IN HEBREW, THEN HE WROTE
IT IN GREEK AND MATTHEW, BEING A
00:24:24.13\00:24:29.73
TAX COLLECTOR, WAS PROBABLY
CONVERSANT FLUENTLY IN HEBREW,
00:24:29.73\00:24:35.37
ARAMAIC, GREEK AND LATIN.
AND SO - HE WAS EXPOSED TO JUST
00:24:35.37\00:24:41.34
ALL THESE - THIS TRAFFIC FROM
THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND YOU WOULD
00:24:41.34\00:24:45.65
NEED TO BE ABLE TO
CONVERSE WITH THESE PEOPLE.
00:24:45.65\00:24:47.65
SO, SOMETHING ELSE - MATTHEW,
BEING A TAX COLLECTOR, HE THINKS
00:24:47.65\00:24:53.15
MORE IN FINANCIAL TERMS.
MORE IS SAID ABOUT FINANCE IN
00:24:53.15\00:24:57.43
THE GOSPEL OF
MATTHEW - TAKE A LOOK.
00:24:57.43\00:24:59.79
THE TWO PARABLES ABOUT
TALENTS, THEY'RE IN MATTHEW.
00:24:59.79\00:25:03.50
WHEN YOU READ THE LORD'S PRAYER
IN LUKE HE SAYS, 'FORGIVE US OUR
00:25:03.50\00:25:06.94
TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE
WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US.' HOW
00:25:06.94\00:25:11.27
DOES MATTHEW SAY IT? >>DEBTS.
00:25:11.27\00:25:13.24
>>DEBT - HE'S THINKING
IN THE FINANCIAL TERMS.
00:25:13.24\00:25:15.71
'FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS'
- THIS IS AN ACCOUNTANT.
00:25:15.71\00:25:17.81
THIS IS A TAX COLLECTOR.
00:25:17.81\00:25:19.48
AND SO YOU'LL NOTICE, AS YOU GO
THROUGH MATTHEW, THAT HE - THERE
00:25:19.48\00:25:22.18
ARE MORE ILLUSTRATIONS AND
PARABLES ABOUT MONEY IN MATTHEW
00:25:22.18\00:25:25.59
THAN ANY OTHER GOSPEL - AND
I'M SURE WE NEEDED THAT TOO.
00:25:25.59\00:25:30.33
WELL, THE OTHER INTERESTING
THING IS MATTHEW SUMMARIZES THE
00:25:30.33\00:25:35.36
WRITINGS OF JESUS. THE BOOK OF
MATTHEW HAS FIVE DISCOURSES OF
00:25:35.36\00:25:40.80
JESUS. I'LL TELL YOU WHERE THEY
ARE IF YOU WANT TO KNOW. IT'S
00:25:40.80\00:25:43.44
MATTHEW CHAPTERS 5 THROUGH 7,
MATTHEW 10, MATTHEW 13, MATTHEW
00:25:43.44\00:25:50.08
18, MATTHEW 24 AND 25. THE BOOK
OF MATTHEW HAS FIVE PRINCIPLE
00:25:50.08\00:25:55.38
TEACHINGS OF JESUS. SOME WONDER
IF HE WROTE IT THIS WAY BECAUSE
00:25:55.38\00:25:59.82
IT'S AN ECHO OF THE PENTATEUCH
THAT HAS THE LAW SUMMARIZED AND
00:25:59.82\00:26:06.23
JESUS SORT OF GIVES THE RENEWING
OF THE LAW. AND THEY'VE DIVIDED
00:26:06.23\00:26:10.80
THE TEACHINGS OF MATTHEW INTO
FIVE PARTS. YOU'VE GOT THE FIRST
00:26:10.80\00:26:15.84
PART - THE
PREPARATION OF THE KING -
00:26:15.84\00:26:18.41
THAT'S CHAPTER 1
THROUGH CHAPTER 4.
00:26:18.41\00:26:20.64
THE SECOND PART - THE
PRESENTATION OF THE KINGDOM -
00:26:20.64\00:26:24.28
CHAPTER 4 THROUGH CHAPTER
16 - THE MESSAGE AND SO FORTH.
00:26:24.28\00:26:28.45
SECOND - OR THE THIRD PART -
SERMONS - THAT'S 16 THROUGH 25 -
00:26:28.45\00:26:34.42
MATTHEW 16 THROUGH 25
- THE SERMONS OF JESUS.
00:26:34.42\00:26:37.19
THEN THE FOURTH PART IS THE
SACRIFICE OF CHRIST - THE FIFTH
00:26:37.19\00:26:42.33
PART, THE RESURRECTION.
SO THE WHOLE BOOK, SORT OF,
00:26:42.33\00:26:45.37
IS DIVIDED INTO
THESE FIVE SECTIONS.
00:26:45.37\00:26:48.07
ANYWAY, I'VE JUST LEARNED
A LOT READING, SORT OF, THE
00:26:48.07\00:26:54.18
INTRODUCTION TO MATTHEW.
I'LL READ YOU SOMETHING THAT WAS
00:26:54.18\00:26:57.15
WRITTEN BY DR. ADAM
CLARKE, ON THE BOOK OF MATTHEW.
00:26:57.15\00:27:01.92
HE'S A GREAT, GREAT BIBLE
COMMENTATOR. YOU'VE HEARD ME
00:27:01.92\00:27:04.62
QUOTE HIM MANY TIMES
BECAUSE HE'S ONE OF THE BEST.
00:27:04.62\00:27:06.99
YOU KNOW, HE HAILS BACK 200
YEARS AGO, BUT THIS GUY, HE KNEW
00:27:06.99\00:27:10.99
THE BIBLE IN SEVERAL
LANGUAGES - WAS JUST BRILLIANT.
00:27:10.99\00:27:14.20
HE WAS THE
RIGHT-HAND MAN FOR JOHN WESLEY.
00:27:14.20\00:27:16.40
HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THE
BOOK OF MATTHEW: "THERE IS NOT
00:27:16.40\00:27:19.60
ONE TRUTH OR DOCTRINE IN THE
WHOLE ORACLES OF GOD, WHICH IS
00:27:19.60\00:27:24.54
NOT TAUGHT IN THIS EVANGELIST"
- MATTHEW - "THE OUTLINES OF THE
00:27:24.54\00:27:28.61
WHOLE SPIRITUAL SYSTEM
ARE, HERE, CORRECTLY LAID DOWN.
00:27:28.61\00:27:32.71
EVEN PAUL, HIMSELF, HAS ADDED
NOTHING." - IN OTHER WORDS,
00:27:32.71\00:27:35.58
EVERYTHING PAUL SAID IS FIRST
APPROACHED IN MATTHEW - "HE HAS
00:27:35.58\00:27:38.95
AMPLIFIED AND ILLUSTRATED THE
TRUTHS CONTAINED IN THIS GOSPEL.
00:27:38.95\00:27:42.52
UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF THE
HOLY GHOST, NEITHER HE NOR ANY
00:27:42.52\00:27:45.79
OTHER APOSTLES HAVE BROUGHT
TO LIGHT ONE TRUTH THAT THE
00:27:45.79\00:27:50.10
PROTOTYPE OF WHICH HAS NOT BEEN
FIRST FOUND IN THE WORDS OF OUR
00:27:50.10\00:27:54.47
LORD AS RELATED BY MATTHEW."
IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S NOTHING
00:27:54.47\00:27:57.11
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT
YOU DON'T FIND AT LEAST THE
00:27:57.11\00:28:00.34
PROTOTYPE FOR IT
FIRST IN MATTHEW.
00:28:00.34\00:28:02.98
SO IT IS A VERY POWERFUL
BOOK. AND, AGAIN, NOT SURE IF
00:28:02.98\00:28:08.88
MATTHEW WROTE FIRST OR
MARK. I THINK MARK WROTE FIRST.
00:28:08.88\00:28:12.85
MATTHEW THEN WROTE HIS HEBREW
VERSION SHORTLY AFTER, MAYBE 50
00:28:12.85\00:28:18.09
- 55 A.D. AND
THEN SOON AFTER THAT
00:28:18.09\00:28:22.26
IT WAS WRITTEN IN GREEK.
AND THE ONLY FRAGMENTS WE HAVE
00:28:22.26\00:28:26.07
OF THE GOSPEL
ARE IN GREEK TODAY.
00:28:26.07\00:28:29.07
ANYWAY, THAT WAS
ALL AN INTRODUCTION.
00:28:29.07\00:28:30.81
LET'S GO TO THE FIRST VERSE.
MATTHEW CHAPTER 1 - AND THIS IS
00:28:30.81\00:28:34.24
UNDER THE SECTION
THE BOOK OF GENESIS .
00:28:34.24\00:28:36.95
AND IT SAYS, "THE BOOK OF THE
GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST THE
00:28:36.95\00:28:41.18
SON OF DAVID,
THE SON OF ABRAHAM."
00:28:41.18\00:28:44.19
NOW WHO COMES
FIRST, ABRAHAM OR DAVID?
00:28:44.19\00:28:46.65
ABRAHAM DOES, BUT HE
MENTIONS DAVID FIRST.
00:28:46.65\00:28:49.59
WE'RE GOING TO
DEAL WITH ABRAHAM FIRST.
00:28:49.59\00:28:51.56
SOMETHING INTERESTING YOU'LL
ALSO FIND, HE STARTS OUT BY
00:28:51.56\00:28:55.06
SAYING, 'THE BOOK' - YOU
KNOW HOW YOU SAY 'BOOK' HERE IN
00:28:55.06\00:28:57.63
GREEK? IT'S
'BIBLOS' - OR 'BIBLIOS'.
00:28:57.63\00:29:02.74
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THERE WAS
AN ISLAND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
00:29:02.74\00:29:06.37
SOMEWHERE - ONE OF THE GREEK
ISLES CALLED BIBLOS AND THEY HAD
00:29:06.37\00:29:10.91
A TREE THERE AND THEY WERE ABLE
TO USE THE BARK OF THE TREE TO
00:29:10.91\00:29:15.52
MAKE PAPER AND THAT'S WHERE
YOU GET THE WORD FOR 'BOOK'.
00:29:15.52\00:29:19.79
AND SO, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE
BIBLE, THE BIBLE IS A COLLECTION
00:29:19.79\00:29:23.89
- THE WORD 'BIBLE'
COMES FROM THE SAME WORD.
00:29:23.89\00:29:26.03
YOU DON'T, TECHNICALLY, FIND THE
WORD 'BIBLE' PRONOUNCED IN THE
00:29:26.03\00:29:28.80
BIBLE, BUT YOU DO FIND
THE WORD 'BOOK' - BIBLOS -
00:29:28.80\00:29:31.80
AND THAT'S WHAT BIBLE MEANS.
00:29:31.80\00:29:35.00
HE SAYS 'THE BIBLOS', AND THEN
HE SAYS, 'OF THE GENEALOGY'.
00:29:35.00\00:29:40.34
NOW WHAT HE'S SAYING THERE
IN GREEK, 'IT'S THE BIBLOS OF
00:29:40.34\00:29:43.85
GENESIS.' NOW WHEN YOU GO INTO
GENESIS AND YOU START TO READ -
00:29:43.85\00:29:50.09
LOOK, FOR INSTANCE IN GENESIS 5
- EARLY IN GENESIS 5:1, THIS IS
00:29:50.09\00:29:54.59
THE BOOK OF THE
GENEALOGY OF ADAM.
00:29:54.59\00:29:57.79
IN THE DAY THAT GOD CREATED MAN,
HE MADE HIM IN THE LIKENESS OF
00:29:57.79\00:30:00.43
GOD." AND HE
BEGINS TO GO THROUGH THE
00:30:00.43\00:30:01.73
GENEALOGY - THE
CHRONOLOGY - OF ADAM THERE.
00:30:01.73\00:30:07.87
IT'S INTERESTING THAT YOU'VE
GOT THE BIBLE AND THEN THE
00:30:07.87\00:30:12.07
GENEALOGY. IT'S
ALMOST LIKE MATTHEW IS
00:30:12.07\00:30:14.41
SAYING, 'I'M STARTING THE NEW
TESTAMENT AS A SECOND GENESIS.
00:30:14.41\00:30:20.05
THE OLD TESTAMENT - YOU KNOW,
THE FIRST FEW CHAPTERS, WHEN IT
00:30:20.05\00:30:22.98
STARTS HERE IN CHAPTER 5 - IT
BRINGS YOU TO THE GENEALOGY OF
00:30:22.98\00:30:26.15
ABRAHAM. WHAT
MATTHEW DOES IS HE TAKES
00:30:26.15\00:30:30.83
YOU FROM ABRAHAM TO
JESUS. NOW LUKE'S GENEALOGY GOES
00:30:30.83\00:30:35.96
ALL THE WAY BACK TO ADAM.
MATTHEW'S GENEALOGY REALLY
00:30:35.96\00:30:39.80
STARTS WITH ABRAHAM AND
GOES FROM ABRAHAM TO JESUS.
00:30:39.80\00:30:44.01
AND SO HE'S PROVING THAT ABRAHAM
AND DAVID WERE RELATED TO JESUS
00:30:44.01\00:30:48.98
AND THEY BOTH FORETOLD JESUS.
NOW, IN WHAT WAY WERE ALL THE
00:30:48.98\00:30:53.25
FAMILIES OF THE WORLD GOING
TO BE BLESSED THROUGH ABRAHAM?
00:30:53.25\00:30:56.35
THAT - IT DOESN'T SPECIFICALLY
SAY THE MESSIAH WOULD COME FROM
00:30:56.35\00:31:01.06
YOU, BUT THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD
THAT THAT MEANT THAT THE
00:31:01.06\00:31:04.79
PROMISED ONE WOULD COME
THROUGH YOUR DESCENDANTS.
00:31:04.79\00:31:07.93
FURTHER PROOF FOR THAT WOULD BE,
IF YOU LOOK IN GALATIANS 3:16 -
00:31:07.93\00:31:12.20
HERE PAUL SAYS, 'NOW THE
PROMISES WERE MADE TO ABRAHAM
00:31:12.20\00:31:15.84
AND TO HIS OFFSPRING.' -
00:31:15.84\00:31:17.07
IT DOESN'T SAY
'OFFSRINGS' REFERRING TO MANY,
00:31:17.07\00:31:20.18
BUT OFFSPRING - IT'S IN SINGULAR
IN THE HEBREW, REFERRING TO ONE.
00:31:20.18\00:31:23.51
THERE WOULD BE A SPECIAL
BLESSED OFFSPRING - "AND TO YOUR
00:31:23.51\00:31:26.51
OFFSPRING WHO IS CHRIST.
SO PAUL MAKES IT VERY CLEAR.
00:31:26.51\00:31:29.62
THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE
WAS THIS PROMISED OFFSPRING THAT
00:31:29.62\00:31:33.25
WOULD COME THROUGH ABRAHAM
THAT WOULD BE THE SAVIOR OF THE
00:31:33.25\00:31:36.69
WORLD. AND, OF
COURSE, THINGS ALMOST
00:31:36.69\00:31:40.26
GOT MESSED UP WHEN HE TOLD
SARAH, 'LOOK, WE'RE NOT DOING
00:31:40.26\00:31:42.46
VERY GOOD AT
HAVING THAT FIRST BABY.
00:31:42.46\00:31:44.33
WE'VE GOT TO GET HAGAR
INVOLVED.' AND GOD SAID, 'NO,
00:31:44.33\00:31:48.00
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A
MIRACLE CHILD, THROUGH SARAH.
00:31:48.00\00:31:52.51
WAS JESUS ALSO A MIRACLE BIRTH?
00:31:52.51\00:31:54.98
AND SO THERE'S SOME
ANALOGIES THERE, AS WELL.
00:31:54.98\00:31:57.15
YOU CAN READ IN, FOR
INSTANCE, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
00:31:57.15\00:32:01.18
IT TALKS ABOUT THE BEGINNING
OF JESUS - JOHN 1:3 - "IN THE
00:32:01.18\00:32:05.32
BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE
WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD
00:32:05.32\00:32:08.52
WAS GOD. HE WAS IN THE BEGINNING
WITH GOD. ALL THINGS WERE MADE
00:32:08.52\00:32:12.99
THROUGH HIM, AND WITHOUT HIM
NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS MADE."
00:32:12.99\00:32:15.86
NOW JOHN, IN THE BEGINNING OF
HIS GOSPEL - HIS FIRST VERSE -
00:32:15.86\00:32:19.57
WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT
JESUS? WHAT IS HE EMPHASIZING?
00:32:19.57\00:32:23.84
THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.
BUT WHAT IS MATTHEW EMPHASIZING
00:32:23.84\00:32:28.18
IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS
GOSPEL? THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST.
00:32:28.18\00:32:32.85
HE TELLS YOU RIGHT AWAY HE CAME
FROM ABRAHAM AND HE CAME FROM
00:32:32.85\00:32:36.35
DAVID AND HERE'S HIS FAMILY
TREE - AND WE'LL GET TO THAT
00:32:36.35\00:32:38.95
IN A MINUTE,
IT'S VERY INTERESTING.
00:32:38.95\00:32:41.76
IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES PAGE
19, THERE THE AUTHOR SAYS, "BY
00:32:41.76\00:32:46.83
COMING TO DWELL WITH US, JESUS
WAS TO REVEAL GOD BOTH TO MEN
00:32:46.83\00:32:51.93
AND TO ANGELS. HE
WAS THE WORD OF GOD.
00:32:51.93\00:32:54.24
GOD'S THOUGHT MADE AUDIBLE."
00:32:54.24\00:32:58.07
AND YOU CAN READ IN HEBREWS, IN
CHAPTER 1, "GOD, WHO AT VARIOUS
00:32:58.07\00:33:03.18
TIMES AND IN VARIOUS WAYS SPOKE
IN TIME PAST TO THE FATHERS BY
00:33:03.18\00:33:06.78
THE PROPHETS, HAS IN THESE LAST
DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON,
00:33:06.78\00:33:12.35
WHOM HE HAD APPOINTED HEIR OF
ALL THINGS, THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE
00:33:12.35\00:33:15.26
MADE THE WORLDS;".
ALRIGHT, HERE'S A QUESTION FOR
00:33:15.26\00:33:17.39
YOU: WHAT
PERCENTAGE OF JESUS WAS DIVINE?
00:33:17.39\00:33:25.03
A HUNDRED PERCENT -
IS WHAT I'M HEARING.
00:33:25.03\00:33:28.04
WHAT PERCENT WAS
HUMAN? >>A HUNDRED PERCENT.
00:33:28.04\00:33:30.41
>>HUNDRED PERCENT.
NOW WHAT ACCOUNTANT
00:33:30.41\00:33:32.61
WOULD ADD THAT WAY?
(LAUGHTER) DOESN'T THAT COME
00:33:32.61\00:33:35.98
UP WITH TWO HUNDRED PERCENT?
SO HOW COULD JESUS BE A HUNDRED
00:33:35.98\00:33:40.15
PERCENT DIVINE AND A
HUNDRED PERCENT HUMAN?
00:33:40.15\00:33:43.52
IT'S CALLED A MYSTERY. >>AMEN.
00:33:43.52\00:33:46.19
>>THERE ARE THINGS ABOUT GOD
THAT ARE MYSTERIES THAT WE CAN'T
00:33:46.19\00:33:49.22
UNDERSTAND, BUT WE DO BELIEVE
THAT HE WAS A HUNDRED PERCENT
00:33:49.22\00:33:53.40
DIVINE AND A
HUNDRED PERCENT HUMAN.
00:33:53.40\00:33:56.23
ALRIGHT, LET'S GET TO THE NEXT
SECTION HERE, TALKING ABOUT THE
00:33:56.23\00:33:58.20
ROYAL LINE. SOMEONE'S GOING
TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT,
00:33:58.20\00:34:01.84
PSALM 132, VERSE 11. I'M
GOING TO READ 2 SAMUEL 7:12.
00:34:01.84\00:34:07.18
NOW, GOD MAKES A PROMISE TO
DAVID. YOU'LL ALSO FIND THIS, I
00:34:07.18\00:34:09.54
THINK, IN 1 CHRONICLES 17 - IT'S
ALMOST REPEATED VERBATIM THERE.
00:34:09.54\00:34:13.72
2 SAMUEL 7, VERSE 12, NATHAN THE
PROPHET TELLS DAVID, "WHEN YOUR
00:34:13.72\00:34:18.39
DAYS ARE FULFILLED AND YOU REST
WITH YOUR FATHERS, I WILL SET UP
00:34:18.39\00:34:22.79
YOUR SEED AFTER YOU, WHO WILL
COME FROM YOUR BODY, AND I WILL
00:34:22.79\00:34:26.19
ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM."
NOW WHO IS THAT TALKING ABOUT?
00:34:26.19\00:34:31.70
IT'S ABOUT JESUS.
00:34:31.70\00:34:33.97
WHY - WHY CAN'T YOU ARGUE THAT
NATHAN IS MAKING, SORT OF, A
00:34:33.97\00:34:38.27
BROAD PROPHECY HERE THAT YOUR
DESCENDANTS WOULD STAY ON THE
00:34:38.27\00:34:41.51
THRONE - ALL OF
YOUR DESCENDANTS?
00:34:41.51\00:34:44.28
BECAUSE HE SAYS, 'OF YOUR SONS'
- 'HIS KINGDOM' - THERE'S A
00:34:44.28\00:34:49.18
SINGULAR AGAIN, JUST
LIKE GOD DID WITH ABRAHAM.
00:34:49.18\00:34:52.12
THERE WOULD BE A
PARTICULAR SON OF DAVID.
00:34:52.12\00:34:55.36
NOW, UNLIKE THE
TRIBES OF THE NORTH -
00:34:55.36\00:34:58.43
YOU REALIZE THE
KINGDOM SPLIT AFTER SOLOMON?
00:34:58.43\00:35:01.20
YOU ONLY HAD THREE
UNITED KINGS OF ISRAEL.
00:35:01.20\00:35:03.93
WELL, IF YOU COUNT ABIMELECH
YOU COULD SAY FOUR, BUT THERE'S
00:35:03.93\00:35:06.17
REALLY SAUL, DAVID,
SOLOMON - KINGDOM SPLIT.
00:35:06.17\00:35:10.37
INTERESTING: SOLOMON REIGNED 40
YEARS, DAVID REIGNED 40 YEARS,
00:35:10.37\00:35:15.98
SAUL REIGNED 40 YEARS - A TOTAL
OF 120 - PERIOD OF MOSES' LIFE.
00:35:15.98\00:35:20.28
IT'S VERY
INTERESTING THOSE THREE PHASES.
00:35:20.28\00:35:21.88
MOSES SPENT 40 YEARS IN EGYPT,
40 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, 40
00:35:21.88\00:35:25.85
YEARS LEADING THEM FROM EGYPT
TO THE PROMISED LAND - IT'S LIKE
00:35:25.85\00:35:28.39
THREE 40S. NOW I'M GETTING
INTO NUMEROLOGY. I'M SORRY.
00:35:28.39\00:35:31.53
ANYWAYS, SO YOU'VE GOT THOSE
THREE SEGMENTS, THOSE THREE
00:35:31.53\00:35:35.86
KINGS, AND THEN AFTER
THAT THE KINGDOM SPLIT.
00:35:35.86\00:35:38.30
THE NORTHERN KINGDOM - WHO WAS
THE FIRST KING OF THE NORTHERN
00:35:38.30\00:35:41.07
KINGDOM, DO YOU
REMEMBER? >>JEROBOAM.
00:35:41.07\00:35:43.47
>>TESTING - JEROBOAM, VERY GOOD.
JEROBOAM WAS THE SON OF NEBAT
00:35:43.47\00:35:46.14
WHO MADE ISRAEL TO SIN.
WAS IT JEROBOAM'S ROYAL LINE
00:35:46.14\00:35:50.68
THAT TOOK OVER THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM OR DID IT CHANGE
00:35:50.68\00:35:54.12
EVERY FEW
GENERATIONS? >>CHANGED.
00:35:54.12\00:35:56.05
>>THEY KEPT ASSASSINATING EACH
OTHER AND THEY PICKED DIFFERENT
00:35:56.05\00:35:58.45
KINGS AND IT WAS JEROBOAM AND IT
WAS AHAB AND IT WAS BAASHA AND
00:35:58.45\00:36:02.72
IT WAS - OH, I
CAN'T EVEN NAME THEM ALL.
00:36:02.72\00:36:05.86
THEY HAD ALL THESE
DIFFERENT KINGS AND THERE WAS NO
00:36:05.86\00:36:08.63
CONSISTENT ROYAL LINE.
WHOEVER COULD ASSASSINATE
00:36:08.63\00:36:12.00
AND TAKE OVER WAS IN CHARGE.
THEY WERE FROM DIFFERENT TRIBES.
00:36:12.00\00:36:16.24
BUT ONCE SOLOMON DIED, HIS SON
REHOBOAM CAME TO THE THRONE AND,
00:36:16.24\00:36:22.91
UNTIL THE BABYLONIANS CARRIED
THEM AWAY, IT WAS ONLY THE SONS
00:36:22.91\00:36:27.22
OF DAVID THAT WERE ON THE
THRONE OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM.
00:36:27.22\00:36:30.45
SOME WERE GOOD, SOME WERE BAD,
BUT ALWAYS THE SON OF DAVID.
00:36:30.45\00:36:33.72
THAT'S WHY QUEEN ATHALIA WANTED
TO DESTROY THE SONS OF DAVID.
00:36:33.72\00:36:38.73
SHE TRIED TO
KILL ALL THE BABIES.
00:36:38.73\00:36:41.96
IT'S ALSO INTERESTING THAT
IN BETHLEHEM - WHERE WAS DAVID
00:36:41.96\00:36:44.10
BORN? KING HEROD
KILLED ALL THE BABY
00:36:44.10\00:36:46.87
BOYS AND SO THERE WAS - IT
WAS VERY CLEAR TO THEM THAT THE
00:36:46.87\00:36:51.61
MESSIAH WOULD COME
THROUGH THIS ROYAL LINE.
00:36:51.61\00:36:53.41
WHY DON'T READ FOR US
ANOTHER PROPHECY - PSALM 132:11.
00:36:53.41\00:36:58.71
>>"THE LORD HAD SWORN IN TRUTH
TO DAVID; HE WILL NOT TURN FROM
00:36:58.71\00:37:02.32
IT: 'I WILL SET UPON YOUR
THRONE THE FRUIT OF YOUR BODY."
00:37:02.32\00:37:06.15
>> AND THERE YOU HAVE ANOTHER
PROMISE AND THIS IS IN THE
00:37:06.15\00:37:07.96
PSALMS. PROBABLY
THIS PSALM - NOT ALL
00:37:07.96\00:37:09.92
THE PSALMS ARE
WRITTEN BY DAVID, YOU KNOW.
00:37:09.92\00:37:11.33
SOME WERE WRITTEN BY
ASAPH AND A FEW OTHERS.
00:37:11.33\00:37:13.46
THIS ONE WAS
PROBABLY NOT WRITTEN BY DAVID.
00:37:13.46\00:37:15.10
YOU HAVE 2 SAMUEL, 7:16,
"AND YOUR HOUSE AND YOUR KINGDOM
00:37:15.10\00:37:19.70
SHALL BE
ESTABLISHED FOREVER BEFORE YOU.
00:37:19.70\00:37:21.54
YOUR THRONE SHALL BE
ESTABLISHED FOREVER."
00:37:21.54\00:37:24.61
NOW WHAT HAPPENED
TO THE THRONE OF DAVID?
00:37:24.61\00:37:26.84
IS IT IN POWER
TODAY? DOES JESUS RULE?
00:37:26.84\00:37:31.65
>>YES. >>SO WHEN
HE SAID 'YOUR THRONE
00:37:31.65\00:37:33.92
TO BE ESTABLISHED FOREVER', THE
ONLY WAY THAT CAN BE FULFILLED
00:37:33.92\00:37:37.02
IS IF ONE OF THE SONS OF
DAVID WAS THE MESSIAH WHO WOULD
00:37:37.02\00:37:40.86
RULE FOREVER AND EVER.
AND SO, IN THAT WAY, IN 1
00:37:40.86\00:37:46.39
CHRONICLES, NATHAN SAYS THERE,
'YOUR SON, WHICH WILL COME FROM
00:37:46.39\00:37:49.63
YOU, HE WILL BUILD ME A HOUSE
THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.' DID THE
00:37:49.63\00:37:52.47
TEMPLE OF SOLOMON LAST FOREVER?
DAVID DID HAVE A SON NAMED
00:37:52.47\00:37:56.07
SOLOMON, WHO BUILT A TEMPLE,
BUT IT DIDN'T LAST FOREVER.
00:37:56.07\00:37:58.84
WE TALKED ABOUT THAT ON OUR
MESSAGE ABOUT THE SANCTUARY.
00:37:58.84\00:38:02.18
BUT JESUS SAID, 'I'LL BUILD A
HOUSE' AND HIS HOUSE, THE BODY
00:38:02.18\00:38:07.02
OF CHRIST, YOU ARE THE TEMPLE
OF GOD, IT WAS TO LAST FOREVER.
00:38:07.02\00:38:10.82
AND SO THAT DID COME TRUE.
ALRIGHT, LET ME LOOK AT A FEW
00:38:10.82\00:38:13.72
OTHER PROPHECIES ABOUT
DAVID IN THIS ROYAL LINE.
00:38:13.72\00:38:17.16
ISAIAH 16, VERSE 5, "IN MERCY
THE THRONE WILL BE ESTABLISHED;
00:38:17.16\00:38:22.53
AND ONE WILL SIT ON IT IN TRUTH,
IN THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID,
00:38:22.53\00:38:26.63
JUDGING AND SEEKING JUSTICE
AND HASTENING RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:38:26.63\00:38:30.37
HERE IS A
PROPHECY ABOUT THE MESSIAH.
00:38:30.37\00:38:33.41
DID THE JEWS IN CHRIST'S TIME
UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECY ABOUT
00:38:33.41\00:38:37.11
DAVID BEING THE MESSIAH? >>YES.
00:38:37.11\00:38:40.18
>>THEY DID. MATTHEW 21:9, "THEN
THE MULTITUDES WHO WENT BEFORE
00:38:40.18\00:38:44.35
AND THOSE WHO
FOLLOWED CRIED OUT,
00:38:44.35\00:38:46.62
SAYING: 'HOSANNA
TO THE SON OF DAVID!
00:38:46.62\00:38:48.79
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!'"
00:38:48.79\00:38:51.03
THEY ALL BELIEVED THE MESSIAH
WOULD BE THE SON OF DAVID.
00:38:51.03\00:38:55.13
NOW WHAT DID THEY THINK THE
MESSIAH WOULD DO, THIS SON OF
00:38:55.13\00:38:57.77
DAVID? WHAT DID DAVID DO?
00:38:57.77\00:39:01.57
DAVID CAME FROM A LOWLY POSITION
AND HE BECAME A SOLDIER AND THEY
00:39:01.57\00:39:06.81
WERE BEING OPPRESSED BY THE
PHILISTINES AND DAVID KILLED THE
00:39:06.81\00:39:09.98
PHILISTINE GIANT AND DAVID BEAT
THE PHILISTINES IN MANY BATTLES
00:39:09.98\00:39:13.21
AND HE BEAT THE AMMONITES AND
HE BEAT THE EDOMITES AND HE BEAT
00:39:13.21\00:39:16.42
THE SYRIANS AND
DAVID NEVER LOST A BATTLE.
00:39:16.42\00:39:19.35
YOU SHOW ME ONE PLACE IN THE
BIBLE WHERE DAVID LOST A BATTLE.
00:39:19.35\00:39:22.52
HE ALWAYS WON. AND
SO THEY THOUGHT, 'THE
00:39:22.52\00:39:25.59
MESSIAH IS GOING TO
COME. WHAT'S HE GOING TO
00:39:25.59\00:39:27.40
DO TO THE ROMANS?
WHAT'S HE GOING TO DO TO THE
00:39:27.40\00:39:29.86
PARTHIANS AND THE
EGYPTIANS AND ALL THESE FORCES?
00:39:29.86\00:39:33.10
HE'S GOING TO MAKE US AN
INTERNATIONAL EMPIRE.' SO THEY
00:39:33.10\00:39:35.67
WERE DISAPPOINTED WHEN
JESUS DIDN'T TAKE UP THE SWORD.
00:39:35.67\00:39:39.07
CHRIST SAID, 'NO, THAT'S A
DIFFERENT KINGDOM FROM WHAT
00:39:39.07\00:39:40.71
YOU'RE THINKING - IT'S AN INNER
KINGDOM.' BUT THEY ALL WERE
00:39:40.71\00:39:43.68
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SON OF
DAVID WHO WOULD BE THE MESSIAH.
00:39:43.68\00:39:47.62
THEY JUST DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT THE MESSIAH WOULD DO.
00:39:47.62\00:39:49.48
AND EVEN THE APOSTLES,
DID THEY MISUNDERSTAND?
00:39:49.48\00:39:51.19
>>YES. >>EVEN
AFTER THREE AND A HALF
00:39:51.19\00:39:54.16
YEARS OF JESUS' CLOSE ONE-ON-ONE
CONTACT, YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY
00:39:54.16\00:39:57.73
TO JESUS AFTER THE RESURRECTION?
'WILL YOU, AT THIS TIME,
00:39:57.73\00:40:00.96
RESTORE THE KINGDOM? YOU
KNOW, NOW, IS NOW THE TIME?'
00:40:00.96\00:40:05.90
AND JUST - IN THE GARDEN OF
GETHSEMANE, JESUS SAID, 'NOW HE
00:40:05.90\00:40:10.17
THAT DOESN'T HAVE A SWORD,
SELL YOUR GARMENT AND GET ONE.'
00:40:10.17\00:40:13.64
HE WAS TALKING
ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD.
00:40:13.64\00:40:15.18
PETER SAID,
'WE'VE GOT TWO SWORDS.
00:40:15.18\00:40:18.01
WE'RE READY TO
START. THAT'S ALL WE NEED.
00:40:18.01\00:40:20.58
LIKE JONATHAN AND HIS
ARMOR BEARER - WE'LL TAKE ON THE
00:40:20.58\00:40:22.92
ROMANS - TWO OF US.' AND JESUS
SAID, 'IT IS ENOUGH.' PEOPLE
00:40:22.92\00:40:27.09
THINK THAT MEANS HE WAS
SAYING TWO SWORDS IS ENOUGH.
00:40:27.09\00:40:29.56
HE WAS SAYING ENOUGH MEANING,
'YOU DON'T GET IT.' IT'S LIKE
00:40:29.56\00:40:33.06
WHEN HE WAS IN THE BOAT ON THE
SEA OF GALILEE, HE SAID, 'BEWARE
00:40:33.06\00:40:36.23
THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES.'
AND THEY SAID, 'OH, WE FORGOT TO
00:40:36.23\00:40:38.40
BRING LUNCH.' HE SAID,
'DON'T YOU GUYS GET IT?
00:40:38.40\00:40:42.74
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT BREAD.'
SO SOMETIMES THEY TOTALLY
00:40:42.74\00:40:45.14
MISUNDERSTOOD JESUS'
ANALOGIES. ALRIGHT - BUT - SO HE
00:40:45.14\00:40:48.01
WAS THE SON OF DAVID.
ANOTHER ONE, MATTHEW 21, VERSE
00:40:48.01\00:40:52.81
14, AFTER THE - WHEN HE DID THE
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY AND THEY CALLED
00:40:52.81\00:40:58.25
HIM THE SON OF DAVID, IT SAYS,
"THEN THE BLIND AND THE LAME
00:40:58.25\00:41:01.39
CAME TO HIM IN THE
TEMPLE, AND HE HEALED THEM.
00:41:01.39\00:41:04.59
BUT WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND
THE SCRIBES SAW THE WONDERFUL
00:41:04.59\00:41:06.73
THINGS THAT HE DID, AND THE
CHILDREN" - EVEN THE CHILDREN -
00:41:06.73\00:41:10.03
"CRYING OUT IN THE TEMPLE AND
SAYING, 'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF
00:41:10.03\00:41:13.13
DAVID!'" DID THE CHILDREN
- NO, EVERY CHILD WAS TAUGHT
00:41:13.13\00:41:16.71
THAT SOME SON OF DAVID WOULD
COME TO THE THRONE AND DELIVER
00:41:16.71\00:41:20.21
THEM FROM THEIR
ENEMIES - THE MESSIAH.
00:41:20.21\00:41:23.18
AND WHEN THE SCRIBES HEARD THEM
CALLING JESUS THE SON OF DAVID,
00:41:23.18\00:41:26.38
THEY WERE INDIGNANT AND THEY
SAID, 'DO YOU HEAR WHAT THEY'RE
00:41:26.38\00:41:29.08
SAYING? THIS IS BLASPHEMY.
THEY'RE CALLING YOU THE
00:41:29.08\00:41:31.52
MESSIAH.' THEY KNEW
WHO THE SON OF DAVID WAS.
00:41:31.52\00:41:34.42
SO WHEN MATTHEW SAYS, IN THE
BEGINNING OF HIS GOSPEL, EVEN
00:41:34.42\00:41:38.19
BEFORE HE SAYS 'THE SON OF
ABRAHAM', HE SAYS, 'THE SON OF
00:41:38.19\00:41:40.43
DAVID.' THERE'S NO
QUESTION WHO HE'S CALLING JESUS.
00:41:40.43\00:41:44.53
IT'S INTERESTING, HE SAYS,
'JESUS CHRIST - THE GOSPEL - THE
00:41:44.53\00:41:47.40
BOOK OF THE GOSPEL OF
JESUS CHRIST.' HOW DOES THE NEW
00:41:47.40\00:41:51.84
TESTAMENT END? DOES
THE NEW TESTAMENT END
00:41:51.84\00:41:54.64
WITH THE NAME OF JESUS?
"EVEN SO, COME LORD JESUS."
00:41:54.64\00:41:58.41
WHAT'S THE BOOK OF
REVELATION? HOW DOES IT BEGIN?
00:41:58.41\00:42:01.65
THE REVELATION OF - >>JESUS.
00:42:01.65\00:42:03.99
>>JESUS CHRIST. AND SO CHRIST IS
THE CENTRAL THEME, OBVIOUSLY, OF
00:42:03.99\00:42:07.79
THE WHOLE NEW TESTAMENT.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME
00:42:07.79\00:42:10.63
REVELATION 22:16 - YOU HAVE THAT
SAM? I'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE BEFORE
00:42:10.63\00:42:14.30
I GET THERE. I'M
GOING TO READ MARK 12:35.
00:42:14.30\00:42:17.43
"THE JEWS ANSWERED AND SAID,
WHILE HE TAUGHT IN THE TEMPLE,
00:42:17.43\00:42:21.17
'HOW IS IT' - NO, I'M SORRY,
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THE
00:42:21.17\00:42:24.14
JEWS, "WHILE HE TAUGHT IN
THE TEMPLE, 'HOW IS IT THAT THE
00:42:24.14\00:42:26.74
SCRIBES SAY THAT THE
CHRIST IS THE SON OF DAVID?'"
00:42:26.74\00:42:30.11
NOW JESUS IS QUOTING WHAT
THEIR RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE
00:42:30.11\00:42:32.85
TEACHING - THAT THE MESSIAH -
THE CHRISTOS - THE CHRIST - WAS
00:42:32.85\00:42:37.15
THE SON OF DAVID. HE
WOULD BE A DESCENDANT OF DAVID.
00:42:37.15\00:42:40.22
AND JESUS IS
SAYING, 'HOW IS THAT?'
00:42:40.22\00:42:42.26
AND YET DAVID CALLS HIM
LORD. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT
00:42:42.26\00:42:45.36
CLEAR, THAT WAS THE TEACHING.
THE SCRIBES WERE RIGHT.
00:42:45.36\00:42:51.17
ACTS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 29,
PETER'S PREACHING AT PENTECOST.
00:42:51.17\00:42:54.40
WHO'S HE TALKING TO - JEWS
OR GENTILES - AT PENTECOST?
00:42:54.40\00:42:57.41
TALKING TO JEWS - THERE
WERE DEVOUT JEWS GATHERED OUT OF
00:42:57.41\00:43:00.21
EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN
- PETER PREACHES, "MEN AND
00:43:00.21\00:43:02.94
BRETHREN, LET ME SPEAK FREELY TO
YOU OF THE PATRIARCH DAVID, THAT
00:43:02.94\00:43:06.38
HE IS BOTH DEAD AND BURIED, AND
HIS TOMB IS WITH US TO THIS DAY.
00:43:06.38\00:43:09.22
THEREFORE, BEING A PROPHET, AND
KNOWING THAT GOD HAD SWORN WITH
00:43:09.22\00:43:11.85
AN OATH TO HIM THAT OF THE FRUIT
OF HIS BODY, ACCORDING TO THE
00:43:11.85\00:43:14.59
FLESH, HE WOULD
RAISE UP THE CHRIST" -
00:43:14.59\00:43:16.93
THERE, AGAIN, YOU HAVE
IT. THEY KNEW THAT THE SON OF
00:43:16.93\00:43:20.20
DAVID WOULD BE THE CHRIST.
PETER USES THAT IN HIS SERMON
00:43:20.20\00:43:24.07
AND THEN HE POINTS TO JESUS.
THIS IS WHAT MATTHEW DOES AT
00:43:24.07\00:43:26.63
THE BEGINNING OF HIS BOOK.
READ FOR US - LAST CHAPTER IN
00:43:26.63\00:43:29.37
THE BIBLE -
REVELATION 22, VERSE 16, PLEASE.
00:43:29.37\00:43:32.64
>>"I, JESUS, HAVE SENT MY ANGEL
TO TESTIFY TO YOU THESE THINGS
00:43:32.64\00:43:36.34
IN THE CHURCHES. I AM
THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING
00:43:36.34\00:43:39.61
OF DAVID, THE
BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR."
00:43:39.61\00:43:42.65
>>SO YOU'VE GOT THE TESTIMONY OF
MATTHEW AND PETER AND PAUL AND
00:43:42.65\00:43:46.59
ALL THE APOSTLES UNDERSTOOD
THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD BE FROM
00:43:46.59\00:43:49.92
THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
BARTEMAEUS - YOU REMEMBER
00:43:49.92\00:43:53.23
BLIND BARTEMAEUS? JESUS
IS GOING THROUGH JERICHO
00:43:53.23\00:43:56.06
AND THIS BLIND MAN,
HE SAYS, 'WHAT IS IT?'
00:43:56.06\00:43:57.53
AND THEY SAID, 'IT'S JESUS
OF NAZARETH.' BARTEMAEUS CHASES
00:43:57.53\00:44:00.67
AFTER HIM AND HE DOESN'T SAY,
'JESUS OF NAZARETH' HE SAYS,
00:44:00.67\00:44:03.87
'SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON
ME.' SON OF - BECAUSE BARTEMAEUS
00:44:03.87\00:44:07.98
NEEDED A MIRACLE. CHRIST
SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU WANT?'
00:44:07.98\00:44:10.61
'THAT YOU MIGHT OPEN MY EYES.'
'WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I CAN DO
00:44:10.61\00:44:13.35
THIS?' 'YOU'RE THE MESSIAH.
00:44:13.35\00:44:14.72
YOU'RE THE SON OF DAVID.' AND
SO HE KEPT - AND THEY SAID, 'BE
00:44:14.72\00:44:18.85
QUIET.' AND HE CALLED LOUDER,
'SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON
00:44:18.85\00:44:21.39
ME.' SO THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD
WHO THAT WAS GOING TO BE.
00:44:21.39\00:44:25.63
AND HERE'S ANOTHER PROPHECY THAT
TELLS YOU WHY: MICAH 5:2, "BUT
00:44:25.63\00:44:30.83
YOU, BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH," -
NOW THE WORD 'BETHLEHEM' MEANS
00:44:30.83\00:44:35.20
'HOUSE OF BREAD.' I UNDERSTAND
THERE WERE MORE THAN - THERE WAS
00:44:35.20\00:44:39.74
MORE THAN ONE TOWN IN THE
PROMISED LAND CALLED BETHLEHEM.
00:44:39.74\00:44:43.51
IT WAS A COMMON TOWN. YOU
KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY
00:44:43.51\00:44:46.15
THERE ARE - HOW MANY PORTLAND'S
ARE THERE IN NORTH AMERICA?
00:44:46.15\00:44:49.65
YES, I KNOW PORTLAND, MAINE;
YOU'VE GOT PORTLAND, OREGON -
00:44:49.65\00:44:52.75
THERE'S LIKE
THREE OR FOUR PORTLANDS.
00:44:52.75\00:44:54.02
HOW MANY FARMINGTONS?
I KNOW - I'VE RUN INTO
00:44:54.02\00:44:57.79
TWO OR THREE FARMINGTONS.
THERE'S SEVERAL TOWNS -
00:44:57.79\00:45:02.23
CENTERVILLE - SEVERAL TOWNS
HAVE A CENTERVILLE. AND THERE'S
00:45:02.23\00:45:07.07
SEVERAL TOWNS IN NORTH AMERICA
YOU HAVE A REPEAT. BETHLEHEM WAS
00:45:07.07\00:45:09.40
LIKE THAT BECAUSE ANYWHERE THAT
YOU GROUND BREAD OR MADE BREAD,
00:45:09.40\00:45:13.07
AND YOU DID A LOT OF IT, THEY
CALLED IT THE HOUSE OF BREAD.
00:45:13.07\00:45:15.38
THEY HAD A LOT OF OVENS - THEY
CALLED IT THE HOUSE OF BREAD.
00:45:15.38\00:45:17.31
BUT THIS ONE IS VERY SPECIFIC.
IT SAYS, "BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH."
00:45:17.31\00:45:22.15
THIS IS WHERE RACHEL DIED.
THIS IS WHERE DAVID WAS BORN.
00:45:22.15\00:45:25.22
IT'S SPECIFYING WHICH BETHLEHEM
- IT'S BEING VERY SPECIFIC.
00:45:25.22\00:45:29.26
AND LISTEN TO WHAT MICAH
PROPHESIES LONG BEFORE JESUS WAS
00:45:29.26\00:45:31.16
BORN: "THOUGH YOU ARE LITTLE
AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF JUDAH," -
00:45:31.16\00:45:34.76
IT WAS A LITTLE TOWN - "YET OUT
OF YOU SHALL COME FORTH TO ME
00:45:34.76\00:45:39.03
THE ONE TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL,
WHOSE GOINGS FORTH ARE FROM OF
00:45:39.03\00:45:44.01
OLD, FROM EVERLASTING." IT
GOES BACK TO WHAT JOHN SAID,
00:45:44.01\00:45:47.94
"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD."
AND SO THIS MESSIAH, THIS SON OF
00:45:47.94\00:45:52.58
DAVID EXISTED
BEFORE DAVID WAS BORN.
00:45:52.58\00:45:55.25
ISN'T THAT - THAT'S WHAT JESUS
WAS SAYING WHEN HE TRIED TO - HE
00:45:55.25\00:45:58.05
PLACED A RIDDLE FOR THE
SCRIBES. HOW DID DAVID CALL HIM
00:45:58.05\00:46:03.02
LORD AND YET HE'S HIS SON?
THIS ONE WHO IS GOING TO BE THE
00:46:03.02\00:46:07.86
MESSIAH, IS THE SON OF
DAVID YET HIS GOINGS FORTH ARE
00:46:07.86\00:46:11.23
FROM BEFORE DAVID.
IT'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS.
00:46:11.23\00:46:15.14
AND THEN HE BEGINS TO RECITE
THE GENEALOGY - WE'LL GET TO THE
00:46:15.14\00:46:18.31
GENEALOGY - AND HE DIVIDES THE
GENEALOGY OF JESUS INTO THREE
00:46:18.31\00:46:22.61
SETS OF 14. DID YOU - HAVE
YOU READ CHAPTER 1 OF MATTHEW?
00:46:22.61\00:46:27.75
AND THERE ARE 14 GENERATIONS
FROM ABRAHAM TO DAVID; 14
00:46:27.75\00:46:35.12
GENERATIONS FROM DAVID TO
THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY; 14
00:46:35.12\00:46:38.79
GENERATIONS FROM THE
BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY TO CHRIST.
00:46:38.79\00:46:43.47
NOW WHY DID MATTHEW DO
THAT - THREE SETS OF 14?
00:46:43.47\00:46:47.47
TWO TIMES WHAT
EQUALS 14? >>SEVEN.
00:46:47.47\00:46:51.24
>>SEVEN. NOW DOES SEVEN -
IS THAT AN INTERESTING NUMBER?
00:46:51.24\00:46:55.71
SO WHAT HE'S DOING IS HE'S
SAYING THERE ARE SIX SETS OF
00:46:55.71\00:46:59.75
SEVEN BEFORE YOU GET TO THE
MESSIAH AND THEN JESUS PREACHES
00:46:59.75\00:47:06.79
FOR ONE PROPHETIC WEEK - THREE
AND A HALF YEARS IN PERSON -
00:47:06.79\00:47:10.23
THREE AND A HALF
YEARS THROUGH THE APOSTLES.
00:47:10.23\00:47:12.59
YOU KNOW ABOUT THE
70-WEEK PROPHECY IN DANIEL?
00:47:12.59\00:47:14.56
DID I ALREADY MENTION
THAT MATTHEW WAS AN ACCOUNTANT?
00:47:14.56\00:47:18.80
SO HERE HE IS, HE'S COUNTING THE
GENERATIONS AND HE'S DIVIDING
00:47:18.80\00:47:21.80
THEM UP FOR US AND HE'S SHOWING
THAT THERE'S A PATTERN HERE.
00:47:21.80\00:47:25.57
SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY -
OH, YOU KNOW HOW WHEN YOU ADD UP
00:47:25.57\00:47:30.31
DIFFERENT NAMES - WE DON'T
DO IT SO MUCH IN ENGLISH, BUT IN
00:47:30.31\00:47:34.25
GREEK, IN HEBREW, IN LATIN -
LETTERS HAD A NUMERICAL VALUE.
00:47:34.25\00:47:38.92
WHEN YOU CALCULATE THE MARK
OF THE BEAST, PEOPLE OFTEN TAKE
00:47:38.92\00:47:42.22
LIKE THE TITLE OF THE POPE
VICARIUS FILII DEI AND IT'S
00:47:42.22\00:47:45.53
FASCINATING THAT THAT ADDS UP TO
666 BECAUSE ROMAN NUMERALS - WE
00:47:45.53\00:47:51.13
ALL KNOW ROMAN
NUMERALS HAVE A VALUE.
00:47:51.13\00:47:54.57
THE V IS WHAT? >>FIVE.
00:47:54.57\00:47:56.17
>>IT'S FIVE, YOU KNOW, AND YOU
GET - AN I IS ONE AND THE X IS
00:47:56.17\00:48:00.84
TEN AND SO FORTH.
JEWS HAD THAT TOO.
00:48:00.84\00:48:04.75
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE NUMERICAL
VALUE OF DAVID'S NAME IS?
00:48:04.75\00:48:08.45
14 - IT'S INTERESTING. SO
CAN YOU SEE THE BIG EMPHASIS
00:48:08.45\00:48:13.66
ON DAVID THAT MATTHEW IS MAKING?
THE SON OF DAVID - 14, 14, 14.
00:48:13.66\00:48:20.20
HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW, THAT'S AT
LEAST - I'LL TELL YOU AGAIN, THE
00:48:20.20\00:48:23.70
SCHOLARS ARE WONDERING WHY IS
HE EMPHASIZING 14 GENERATIONS?
00:48:23.70\00:48:27.90
THE ONLY THING THEY CAME UP
WITH IS THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF
00:48:27.90\00:48:31.31
DAVID'S NAME IS 14. I
ALSO THINK IT'S REALLY
00:48:31.31\00:48:34.01
SIX SETS OF SEVEN THAT
HE'S EMPHASIZING THERE.
00:48:34.01\00:48:37.68
YOU STILL WITH ME? >>YES.
00:48:37.68\00:48:39.48
>>ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT
SECTION TALKING ABOUT JESUS'
00:48:39.48\00:48:41.52
EARLY FAMILY
TREE. OH MAN, I'VE GOT
00:48:41.52\00:48:43.82
FOUR MINUTES LEFT.
JUST AMAZING TO ME, IT
00:48:43.82\00:48:50.39
HIGHLIGHTS JUST SOME
VERY INTERESTING CHARACTERS.
00:48:50.39\00:48:54.03
NOW IT TALKS ABOUT
TAMAR. DO YOU KNOW WHO TAMAR IS?
00:48:54.03\00:48:58.20
TAMAR IS THE CANAANITE LADY -
SHE WAS A YOUNG LADY - MARRIED
00:48:58.20\00:49:03.27
ONE OF THE SONS OF
JUDAH. THE LORD SAID HE WAS
00:49:03.27\00:49:06.57
EVIL AND HE SLEW HIM. SO,
BECAUSE HE HAD NO SEED, AS
00:49:06.57\00:49:10.25
THE CUSTOM WAS, JUDAH'S
BROTHER - JUDAH'S SON'S BROTHER
00:49:10.25\00:49:14.48
- TOOK TAMAR AND HE DIED.
NOW JUDAH HAD ANOTHER SON,
00:49:14.48\00:49:20.22
SHELAH AND HE THOUGHT, 'I'M
NOT GIVING - SHE'S BAD LUCK.
00:49:20.22\00:49:23.09
I'M NOT GIVING' - HE SAID,
'JUST YOU GO WEAR YOUR WIDOW'S
00:49:23.09\00:49:26.39
GARMENTS AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN
SHELAH'S GROWN UP - HE'S STILL
00:49:26.39\00:49:28.73
PRETTY YOUNG - AND I'LL GIVE HIM
TO YOU AND YOU CAN HAVE CHILDREN
00:49:28.73\00:49:31.27
AND ALL WILL BE WELL.' BUT HE
GREW UP, YOU KNOW, HE WENT FROM
00:49:31.27\00:49:34.84
13 TO 18 - WHATEVER IT WAS -
AND THAT WAS OLD ENOUGH TO MARRY
00:49:34.84\00:49:38.51
BACK THEN - AND
NOTHING HAPPENED.
00:49:38.51\00:49:40.01
AND SHE WAS WAITING AND WAITING
AND SHE REALIZED 'HE'S NEVER
00:49:40.01\00:49:41.51
GOING TO DO IT AND I'M GOING
TO DIE WEARING WIDOW'S CLOTHES.
00:49:41.51\00:49:44.75
I'LL HAVE NO ONE TO TAKE CARE
OF ME IN MY OLD AGE.' SO SHE DID
00:49:44.75\00:49:47.58
SOMETHING VERY - CREATIVE.
00:49:47.58\00:49:50.12
SHE DRESSED UP LIKE A PROSTITUTE
- SHE KNEW THAT JUDAH'S WIFE WAS
00:49:50.12\00:49:54.62
DEAD - SHE HAD DIED - THAT HE
MAYBE WAS GETTING LONELY AND SHE
00:49:54.62\00:50:00.16
CAUGHT HIM ALONE ON THE ROAD
BETWEEN THE SHEEP SHEARING - SHE
00:50:00.16\00:50:03.33
KNEW HE'D BE
TRAVELING BY HIMSELF.
00:50:03.33\00:50:04.80
AT A FORK IN THE ROAD SHE
DRESSED UP LIKE A PROSTITUTE,
00:50:04.80\00:50:07.44
SHE SEDUCED HIM - SHE HAD
PROBABLY PAINTED HER FACE IN
00:50:07.44\00:50:11.14
SUCH A WAY THAT HE DIDN'T
RECOGNIZE HER - WEARING HER
00:50:11.14\00:50:14.28
GARMENTS AND SHE SAID, 'NOW,' -
HE SAID, 'I DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY
00:50:14.28\00:50:18.95
ON ME.' AND SHE SAID, 'WELL,
GIVE ME A PLEDGE THAT YOU'LL PAY
00:50:18.95\00:50:21.38
ME.' 'HERE'S MY SIGNET RING AND
A BRACELET AND A STAFF.' AND HE
00:50:21.38\00:50:25.29
GAVE HER SOME THINGS THAT WERE
VERY PERSONALIZED AND HE SAID,
00:50:25.29\00:50:28.16
'I'LL SEND SOMEONE BACK WITH A
CALF AND WE'LL PAY FOR OUR LOVE
00:50:28.16\00:50:31.46
AFFAIR AND THEN YOU GIVE ME BACK
THOSE THINGS.' WELL HIS FRIEND
00:50:31.46\00:50:34.56
GOES TO PAY FOR IT AND SHE'S
GONE. HE SAID, 'WHERE WAS THE
00:50:34.56\00:50:36.90
PROSTITUTE THAT
WAS AROUND HERE?'
00:50:36.90\00:50:38.33
'THERE'S NO PROSTITUTE AROUND
HERE.' SEVERAL MONTHS LATER WORD
00:50:38.33\00:50:42.47
COMES TO JUDAH,
'HAVE YOU HEARD THE WORD?
00:50:42.47\00:50:45.47
YOUR DAUGHTER-IN-LAW IS WITH
CHILD.' JUDAH, INDIGNANT, SAYS,
00:50:45.47\00:50:49.44
'WELL, THAT FLOOZY.
00:50:49.44\00:50:50.88
BRING HER FORTH AND BURN
HER.' THAT'S WHAT HE SAID.
00:50:50.88\00:50:54.75
HE DIDN'T SAY 'FLOOZY', HE SAID,
'BRING HER FORTH AND BURN HER.'
00:50:54.75\00:50:59.05
SHE COMES FORTH AND SAYS,
'NOW, BEFORE YOU BURN ME, I JUST
00:50:59.05\00:51:02.46
THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT
I AM WITH CHILD BY THE MAN WHO
00:51:02.46\00:51:05.23
OWNS THESE THINGS.' YOU KNOW
THOSE - THERE'S A FEW MOMENTS IN
00:51:05.23\00:51:09.80
THE BIBLE WHEN GOD SAYS, 'THOU
ART THE MAN.' (LAUGHTER) AND
00:51:09.80\00:51:15.10
JUDAH GOES, 'OOH. SHE
IS MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN ME.'
00:51:15.10\00:51:19.41
SO THIS WHOLE STORY IS IN THERE.
JUST TALK ABOUT SOAP OPERA.
00:51:19.41\00:51:24.58
AND TAMAR'S NAME - IT DOESN'T
MENTION THE WOMEN'S NAME UNLESS
00:51:24.58\00:51:28.68
THEY FACTOR INTO THE STORY IN
SOME PROMINENT WAY AND ALL THE
00:51:28.68\00:51:30.95
WOMEN WHO ARE MENTIONED AND THE
WOMEN YOU HAVE MENTIONED IN THIS
00:51:30.95\00:51:34.06
STORY: YOU'VE GOT TAMAR,
RAHAB, RUTH, AND BATHSHEBA.
00:51:34.06\00:51:38.43
AT LEAST THREE OF
THEM ARE GENTILES.
00:51:38.43\00:51:41.10
THERE'S SOME QUESTION
ABOUT BATHSHEBA - SHE'S THE
00:51:41.10\00:51:43.47
GRANDDAUGHTER OF AHITHOPHEL,
THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE -
00:51:43.47\00:51:46.87
WHETHER SHE WAS JEW OR NOT
WAS NOT CLEAR. COULD HAVE BEEN
00:51:46.87\00:51:50.51
EITHER BUT CERTAINLY THERE WAS A
VERY FAMOUS AFFAIR AND SOME BAD
00:51:50.51\00:51:57.01
BEHAVIOR THAT
HAPPENED IN THAT STORY.
00:51:57.01\00:51:59.25
AND THEN RUTH WAS A MOABITESS
AND THEN YOU READ ABOUT RAHAB
00:51:59.25\00:52:05.39
WHO WAS A HARLOT AND IT'S
MENTIONING SOME - AND THEY TALK
00:52:05.39\00:52:09.99
ABOUT THE SONS OF
DAVID THAT ARE IN THIS STORY.
00:52:09.99\00:52:16.40
YOU'VE GOT WICKED ABIJAH, WHO'S
THE FATHER OF GOOD KING ASA,
00:52:16.40\00:52:21.70
WHO'S THE FATHER OF GOOD KING
JEHOSHAPHAT, WHO'S THE FATHER OF
00:52:21.70\00:52:24.67
WICKED KING JORAM. AND
THEN YOU GO THROUGH THE
00:52:24.67\00:52:27.54
FAMILY TREE - NOT ALL THE SONS
OF DAVID, THE KINGS, WERE GOOD.
00:52:27.54\00:52:31.48
THERE'S GOOD AND
BAD IN THAT TREE.
00:52:31.48\00:52:32.98
SO WHY - WHY WOULD MATTHEW GO
THROUGH THE TROUBLE OF TRACING
00:52:32.98\00:52:36.82
THIS GENEALOGY? HE'S
EMPHASIZING, FIRST OF ALL,
00:52:36.82\00:52:40.56
THAT JESUS IS DIRECTLY
RELATED TO THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
00:52:40.56\00:52:45.03
HE'S ALSO SAYING, 'AND THOUGH HE
WAS HUMAN, HE WAS SINLESS AND HE
00:52:45.03\00:52:49.66
WILL SAVE US FROM OUR SINS.' AND
HE WAS TEMPTED - AND ACTUALLY, I
00:52:49.66\00:52:54.67
THINK I'M STEALING SOMEBODY -
YOU'VE GOT THE LAST VERSE WE'RE
00:52:54.67\00:52:57.81
GOING TO READ. WHY
DON'T YOU READ FOR US, LET
00:52:57.81\00:53:03.18
ME SEE HERE, ISAIAH - OH YEAH,
YOU'RE GOING TO READ ISAIAH
00:53:03.18\00:53:06.08
53, VERSE 6 FOR
US, PLEASE. GO AHEAD.
00:53:06.08\00:53:09.85
>>"ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE
ASTRAY; WE HAVE TURNED, EVERY
00:53:09.85\00:53:14.86
ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY; AND
THE LORD HAS LAID ON HIM THE
00:53:14.86\00:53:18.53
INIQUITY OF US ALL."
>>AND SO HERE IT SAYS THAT
00:53:18.53\00:53:21.53
JESUS, HE WILL SAVE
HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.
00:53:21.53\00:53:24.23
ALL OF US HAVE
SINNED. AND YOU LOOK THROUGH
00:53:24.23\00:53:25.70
THE FAMILY TREE. ONE
MORE QUESTION BEFORE WE
00:53:25.70\00:53:28.44
CONCLUDE OUR LESSON TODAY,
THERE'S A GENEALOGY IN LUKE
00:53:28.44\00:53:32.41
THAT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT
FROM THE GENEALOGY IN MATTHEW.
00:53:32.41\00:53:36.08
WHY IS THAT? DO
YOU KNOW THE ANSWER?
00:53:36.08\00:53:40.85
>>ONE IS THROUGH JOSEPH
THE HUSBAND AND THROUGH MARY.
00:53:40.85\00:53:45.22
>>THAT'S RIGHT. LET ME REPEAT
IT SO PEOPLE HEAR AT HOME.
00:53:45.22\00:53:48.12
THE GENEALOGY OF MATTHEW
IS GOING THROUGH THE FATHER.
00:53:48.12\00:53:52.06
THE GENEALOGY OF LUKE IS GOING
THROUGH THE FATHER-IN-LAW, WHICH
00:53:52.06\00:53:56.53
IS THE MOTHER'S - BOTH JOSEPH
AND MARY WERE OF THE HOUSE OF
00:53:56.53\00:54:02.27
DAVID. THAT'S WHY THEY WENT
00:54:02.27\00:54:03.81
COLLECTIVELY TO BETHLEHEM,
TO REGISTER FOR THE TAX.
00:54:03.81\00:54:06.84
AND SO I'M REALLY EXCITED -
LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING MORE
00:54:06.84\00:54:10.35
INTO THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. I
WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS AT
00:54:10.35\00:54:12.91
HOME WE JUST
BARELY GOT INTO LESSON #1.
00:54:12.91\00:54:15.02
I'LL BACK UP AND TRY AND COVER
SOME OF WHAT WE MISSED IN OUR
00:54:15.02\00:54:16.95
NEXT STUDY. AND WE
DO HAVE A FREE OFFER.
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I WANT TO REMIND YOU CALLED DOWN
FROM HIS GLORY - IT TALKS ABOUT
00:54:19.82\00:54:22.39
THE INCARNATION OF
JESUS. WAS JESUS LIKE US?
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AND ASK FOR OFFER #701.
CALL 866-788-3966 - THAT'S
00:54:25.99\00:54:31.80
866-STUDY-MORE -
WE'LL SEND YOU THIS BOOK.
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READ IT, PLEASE, SHARE IT WITH
OTHERS, AND GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL
00:54:34.47\00:54:37.21
WE GET TOGETHER AND
STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN.
00:54:37.21\00:54:41.84
(MUSIC) >>FRIENDS, HAVE YOU
EVER HEARD OF THE BOWHEAD WHALE?
00:54:41.84\00:54:54.32
THIS ENORMOUS LEVIATHAN IS THE
SECOND-LARGEST CREATURE IN THE
00:54:54.32\00:54:57.89
WORLD. DARK AND
STOCKY, IT ROAMS THE
00:54:57.89\00:55:00.70
FERTILE ARCTIC NORTHERN WATERS.
THESE MASSIVE CREATURES CAN
00:55:00.70\00:55:05.37
BE MORE THAN 65-FEET LONG
AND WEIGHT MORE THAN 75 TONS.
00:55:05.37\00:55:09.60
THAT'S HEAVIER
THAN THE SPACE SHUTTLE.
00:55:09.60\00:55:12.31
YET, IN SPITE OF THEIR TITANIC
SIZE, THEY'RE ABLE TO LEAP
00:55:12.31\00:55:15.54
ENTIRELY OUT OF THE
WATER. CAN YOU SAY 'BELLY FLOP'?
00:55:15.54\00:55:20.78
THE BOWHEAD WHALE GETS ITS NAME
FROM ITS BOW-SHAPED SKULL - AND
00:55:20.78\00:55:24.62
THEY'VE GOT ONE
GINORMOUS NOGGIN.
00:55:24.62\00:55:27.16
MATTER OF FACT, THEIR HEADS ARE
ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THEIR BODY
00:55:27.16\00:55:29.52
SIZE, WHICH COMES IN HANDY WHEN
YOU FIND OUT HOW THEY USE THEIR
00:55:29.52\00:55:32.59
HEADS. THEY'VE
GOT VERY THICK SKULLS.
00:55:32.59\00:55:35.63
SOMETIMES THEY GET TRAPPED UNDER
THE SURFACE AND THEY USE THEIR
00:55:35.63\00:55:38.67
HEADS TO RAM THE ICE.
THEY CAN BREAK A BREATHING HOLE
00:55:38.67\00:55:42.17
IN THE ICE THAT IS A FOOT AND A
HALF THICK. FRIENDS, YOU HAVE TO
00:55:42.17\00:55:46.27
JUST IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE
LIKE TO BE WALKING AROUND ON THE
00:55:46.27\00:55:49.78
ARCTIC ICE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
HAVE THE GROUND BENEATH YOU
00:55:49.78\00:55:52.01
CRACK AND SPLIT AND RISE AS ONE
OF THESE SEA MONSTERS PUSHES ITS
00:55:52.01\00:55:57.02
HEAD UP TO BREATH FOR
THE FIRST TIME IN 90 MINUTES.
00:55:57.02\00:56:01.52
BECAUSE BOWHEADS MAKE THEIR
HOME IN THE COLDEST PART OF OUR
00:56:01.52\00:56:03.66
WORLD, THEY HAVE THE
THICKEST BLUBBER OF ANY WHALE.
00:56:03.66\00:56:07.13
BUT THIS, PLUS THEIR FRIENDLY
AND CURIOUS NATURE, MADE THEM
00:56:07.13\00:56:10.57
PRIME TARGETS WHEN THE EUROPEAN
WHALERS DISCOVERED THE BOWHEADS.
00:56:10.57\00:56:14.50
THEY HUNTED THEM NEARLY TO
EXTINCTION. FORTUNATELY, BECAUSE
00:56:14.50\00:56:19.41
OF CONSERVATION EFFORTS, WE'VE
SLOWLY SEEN THEIR NUMBERS BEGIN
00:56:19.41\00:56:22.58
TO INCREASE SINCE THE 60S.
ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING FACTS
00:56:22.58\00:56:26.48
ABOUT THE BOWHEAD
WHALE IS ITS LONGEVITY.
00:56:26.48\00:56:29.45
SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED, BY
EVALUATING HARPOON TIPS FOUND IN
00:56:29.45\00:56:32.92
THEIR SKULL, AND EXAMINING THEIR
EYE TISSUE, THERE ARE BOWHEAD
00:56:32.92\00:56:36.93
WHALES OUT THERE THAT ARE
PROBABLY OVER 200 YEARS OLD.
00:56:36.93\00:56:40.83
YOU REALIZE THAT MEANS THERE
ARE BOWHEAD WHALES SWIMMING THE
00:56:40.83\00:56:44.30
OCEANS RIGHT NOW THAT WERE
ALIVE BEFORE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS
00:56:44.30\00:56:48.44
ELECTED PRESIDENT.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?
00:56:48.44\00:56:51.64
AMONG THE OTHER
AMAZING MEGA-FACTS ABOUT THE
00:56:51.64\00:56:54.48
BOWHEAD WHALE,
IS ITS MEGA-MOUTH.
00:56:54.48\00:56:57.41
THEY HAVE THE LARGEST MOUTH
OF ANY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
00:56:57.41\00:57:00.52
AND WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR PIE
HOLE FULL EXTENDED, IT'S LARGE
00:57:00.52\00:57:03.62
ENOUGH TO PARK A
MEDIUM-SIZED SUV INSIDE.
00:57:03.62\00:57:07.59
YET, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT
THEY'VE GOT SUCH BIG MOUTHS,
00:57:07.59\00:57:09.86
THEY SURVIVE BY EATING THE VERY
SMALLEST CREATURES IN THE OCEAN
00:57:09.86\00:57:13.96
- PLANKTON, KRILL, AND
OTHER MICROSCOPIC ANIMALS.
00:57:13.96\00:57:17.77
FRIENDS, I'M ALWAYS AMAZED
BY THE CREATURES GOD HAS MADE.
00:57:17.77\00:57:21.17
THIS BOWHEAD WHALE IS ABLE
TO DIVE TO THE DEEPEST OCEANS.
00:57:21.17\00:57:24.31
THEY CAN BREAK THROUGH THE ICE
AND MOVE MOUNTAINS WITH THEIR
00:57:24.31\00:57:26.68
HEAD AND COMPLETELY LEAVE THE
WATER AND FLY THROUGH THE AIR.
00:57:26.68\00:57:30.41
AND YET, THEY DO ALL THAT
BY GAINING STRENGTH FROM ALMOST
00:57:30.41\00:57:33.68
MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS.
IT HELPS US REMEMBER THAT WE
00:57:33.68\00:57:36.95
SURVIVE THROUGH THE
LITTLE PROMISES IN GOD'S WORD.
00:57:36.95\00:57:40.49
JESUS, WHEN TEMPTED BY THE
DEVIL, HE QUOTED JUST A FEW
00:57:40.49\00:57:43.36
LITTLE VERSES AND HE
SENT THE ENEMY RUNNING.
00:57:43.36\00:57:46.26
YOU CAN ALSO HAVE THAT SAME
DURABILITY AND LONG LIFE AS THE
00:57:46.26\00:57:49.30
BOWHEAD WHALE, BY TRUSTING
IN GOD'S WORD AND HIS PROMISES.
00:57:49.30\00:57:53.34
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