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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
WELCOME, AGAIN, TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR COMING TO
YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
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REGULAR CHURCH MEMBERS AND THOSE
WHO ARE VISITING WITH US TODAY.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH
THE BOOK OF MATTHEW AND TODAY WE
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FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON #4
ENTITLED GET UP AND WALK: FAITH
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AND HEALING , BUT BEFORE WE GET
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LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT A
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I THINK YOU'LL FIND
THAT VERY FASCINATING.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
FOR THIS MORNING, I'D LIKE TO
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INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO
COME AND JOIN ME HERE ON STAGE.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN BY
SINGING PRAISES TO GOD FOR HIS
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BLESSINGS AND
HIS GOODNESS. (MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING. HAPPY SABBATH.
WE'RE GOING TO START OUR SABBATH
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SCHOOL SONG SERVICE THIS MORNING
WITH #645 - GOD OF OUR FATHERS .
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>>GOD OF OUR FATHERS, WHOSE
ALMIGHTY HAND LEADS FORTH IN
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BEAUTY ALL THE STARRY BAND
OF SHINING WORLDS IN SPLENDOR
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THROUGH THE SKIES, OUR GRATEFUL
SONGS BEFORE THY THRONE ARISE.
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THY LOVE DIVINE HATH LED US IN
THE PAST, IN THIS FREE LAND BY
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THEE OUR LOT IS CAST; BE THOU
OUR RULER, GUARDIAN, GUIDE, AND
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STAY, THY WORD OUR LAW,
THY PATHS OUR CHOSEN WAY.
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FROM WAR'S ALARMS, FROM DEADLY
PESTILENCE, BE THY STRONG ARM
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OUR EVER SURE DEFENSE; THY TRUE
RELIGION IN OUR HEARTS INCREASE,
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THY BOUNTEOUS
GOODNESS NOURISH US IN PEACE.
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REFRESH THY PEOPLE ON
THEIR TOILSOME WAY, LEAD US FROM
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NIGHT TO NEVER ENDING DAY;
FILL ALL OUR LIVES WITH LOVE AND
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GRACE DIVINE, AND GLORY,
LAUD, AND PRAISE BE EVER THINE.
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>>AT THIS TIME WE HAVE
A SPECIAL MUSIC NUMBER.
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(MUSIC) >>BY FAITH WE SEE THE
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HAND OF GOD IN THE LIGHT OF
CREATION'S GRAND DESIGN, IN THE
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LIVES OF THOSE WHO PROVED
HIS FAITHFULNESS; WHO WALK BY
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FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT. BY
FAITH OUR FATHERS ROAMED THE
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EARTH WITH THE POW'R OF HIS
PROMISE IN THEIR HEARTS, OF A
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HOLY CITY BUILT BY
GOD'S OWN HAND; A PLACE WHERE
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PEACE AND JUSTICE REIGN. WE
WILL STAND AS CHILDREN OF THE
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PROMISE WE WILL FIX OUR EYES ON
HIM OUR SOUL'S REWARD TILL THE
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RACE IS FINISHED AND THE WORK IS
DONE WE'LL WALK BY FAITH AND NOT
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BY SIGHT. BY FAITH
THE PROPHETS SAW A DAY
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WHEN THE LONGED-FOR MESSIAH
WOULD APPEAR, WITH THE POW'R
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TO BREAK THE CHAINS OF SIN AND
DEATH; AND RISE TRIUMPHANT FROM
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THE GRAVE. BY FAITH THE CHURCH
WAS CALLED TO GO IN THE POW'R OF
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THE SPIRIT TO THE LOST; TO
DELIVER CAPTIVES AND TO PREACH
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GOOD NEWS IN EVERY
CORNER OF THE EARTH.
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WE WILL STAND AS CHILDREN OF THE
PROMISE WE WILL FIX OUR EYES ON
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HIM OUR SOUL'S REWARD TILL THE
RACE IS FINISHED AND THE WORK IS
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DONE WE'LL WALK BY
FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT.
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BY FAITH THIS MOUNTAIN SHALL
BE MOVED AND THE POW'R OF THE
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GOSPEL SHALL PREVAIL; FOR WE
KNOW IN CHRIST ALL THINGS ARE
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POSSIBLE, FOR ALL
WHO CALL UPON HIS NAME.
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WE WILL STAND AS CHILDREN OF THE
PROMISE WE WILL FIX OUR EYES ON
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HIM OUR SOUL'S REWARDS TILL THE
RACE IS FINISHED AND THE WORK IS
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DONE WE'LL WALK BY
FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT.
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>>AMEN. >>AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO INVITE
YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE
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BEGIN WITH A WORD OF PRAYER.
DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE
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AGAIN WE ARE GRATEFUL
FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL SABBATH
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THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US. WE
ARE ALSO GRATEFUL FOR THE
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OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER
TO STUDY YOUR WORD SO WE ASK THE
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HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE
OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AS WE
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OPEN THE SCRIPTURES, FOR WE
ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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I WANT TO THANK THE WEIMAR
STUDENTS FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL
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MUSIC. >>AMEN.
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>>AND THE
CONDUCTOR. HOW IS EVERYONE?
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WE'RE GOING TO BE CONTINUING
IN OUR STUDY WITH THE BOOK OF
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MATTHEW, AND TODAY OUR MISSION
IS GOING TO BE TO GO THROUGH
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MATTHEW CHAPTER 8 AND THE
FIRST FEW VERSES IN CHAPTER 9.
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- MATTHEW 8 THROUGH MATTHEW 9,
VERSE 8 - AND THE TITLE OF OUR
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LESSON TODAY IS GET UP
AND WALK: FAITH AND HEALING .
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I HAVE A NUMBER OF EXAMPLES
OF HEALING HERE IN THE BIBLE.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - AND
THAT'S MATTHEW 9:5 - IF YOU'D
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LIKE TO SAY THAT WITH ME, I'LL
GIVE YOU A SECOND TO FIND IT.
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MATTHEW CHAPTER 9,
VERSE 5 - ARE YOU READY?
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KAREN'S SAYING,
'WAIT, WAIT, WAIT!' READY?
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HERE WE GO - IT'S SUPPOSED TO
BE A MEMORY VERSE - YOU SHOULD
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MEMORIZE IT - "WHICH IS EASIER,
TO SAY, 'YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN
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YOU' OR TO SAY 'ARISE AND
WALK'?" AND, BY THE WAY, THAT
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VERSE IS ALSO FOUND IN
MARK CHAPTER 2 AND SOME OTHERS.
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WELL, WE'RE
GOING TO DIVE RIGHT IN.
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WE'VE GOT SOME BIG STORIES
TO TALK ABOUT IN OUR STUDY TODAY
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AND THE LESSON IS, SORT OF,
DIVIDED INTO A NUMBER OF HEALING
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EXPERIENCES THAT YOU
FIND IN THE LIFE OF JESUS.
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AND THE FIRST ONE IS
TALKING ABOUT THE LEPER.
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THERE'S A LEPER THAT COMES TO
CHRIST, AND YOU CAN READ THIS IN
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MATTHEW CHAPTER 8:1-4, AND THIS
VERSE IS ALSO FOUND - OR THIS
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STORY IS ALSO FOUND IN
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 5:12-14.
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IT SAYS, "WHEN HE HAD
COME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN,
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GREAT MULTITUDES FOLLOWED HIM."
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- NOW, NOTICE THAT PART
ABOUT THE GREAT MULTITUDE - "AND
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BEHOLD, A LEPER CAME AND
WORSHIPED HIM, SAYING, 'LORD, IF
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YOU ARE WILLING, YOU CAN MAKE ME
CLEAN.' THEN JESUS PUT OUT HIS
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HAND AND TOUCHED HIM, SAYING,
'I AM WILLING; BE CLEANSED.'
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IMMEDIATELY HIS
LEPROSY WAS CLEANSED.
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AND JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'SEE THAT
YOU TELL NO ONE; BUT GO YOUR
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WAY, SHOW YOURSELF TO THE
PRIEST, AND OFFER THE GIFT THAT
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MOSES COMMANDED, AS A TESTIMONY
TO THEM.'" NOW WHY WAS THIS AN
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UNUSUAL
EXPERIENCE, IN PARTICULAR?
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BECAUSE LEPROSY IS A
DEADLY, CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.
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AND WHAT WAS A LEPER SUPPOSED TO
DO IF THEY GOT CLOSE TO ANYBODY?
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LEVITICUS 13 - NOW HOW WOULD YOU
LIKE TO HAVE LEPROSY BACK THEN?
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LISTEN TO THIS: LEVITICUS
13:44-46 - "HE IS A LEPROUS
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MAN. HE IS UNCLEAN.
THE PRIEST SHALL SURELY
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PRONOUNCE HIM UNCLEAN;
HIS SORE IS ON HIS HEAD.
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NOW THE LEPER ON WHOM THE SORE
IS," - THE EVIDENCE OF LEPROSY -
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"HIS CLOTHES SHALL BE TORN
AND HIS HEAD BARE; AND HE SHALL
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COVER HIS MUSTACHE," - I GUESS
THAT'S EVIDENCE WE'RE SUPPOSED
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TO HAVE MUSTACHES - "HE SHALL
COVER HIS MUSTACHE AND CRY,
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'UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!'
HE SHALL BE UNCLEAN.
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ALL THE DAYS HE HAS THE
SORE HE SHALL BE UNCLEAN.
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HE IS UNCLEAN, AND HE SHALL
DWELL ALONE; HIS DWELLING SHALL
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BE OUTSIDE THE CAMP."
SO THEY KNEW LEPROSY WAS
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CONTAGIOUS AND YOU HAD TO
DWELL IN AN ISOLATED SPOT.
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AND IF YOU HAD LEPROSY, YOU HAD
TO GO - WHENEVER YOU SAW PEOPLE
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YOU HAD TO ANNOUNCE THAT YOU
WERE A LEPER - AND YOU WOULDN'T
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JUST SAY, 'I'M A
LEPER.' YOU'D SAY, 'UNCLEAN!'
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I MEAN, HOW WOULD
THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
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SO JESUS IS TEACHING A GREAT
MULTITUDE - THERE'S A LOT OF
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PEOPLE THERE - AND AS HE - THIS
MAN APPROACHES, EVIDENTLY, HE'S
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MUSTERED THE COURAGE TO COME TO
JESUS AND ASK FOR CLEANSING, BUT
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THE PROBLEM IS
THERE'S A CROWD THERE.
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SO AS HE APPROACHES,
HE HAS TO SAY, 'UNCLEAN!
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UNCLEAN!' AND
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ARE
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CLEAN AND YOU TOUCH SOMETHING
UNCLEAN? DOES THE UNCLEAN THING
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BECOME CLEAN OR DOES THE
CLEAN THING BECOME UNCLEAN?
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NORMALLY, IF YOU'RE CLEAN AND
SOMETHING ELSE IS UNCLEAN, IF
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YOU TOUCH WHAT'S UNCLEAN,
THEN YOU BECOME CONTAMINATED.
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BUT THE OPPOSITE'S
GETTING READY TO HAPPEN.
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SO THIS MAN IS
APPROACHING JESUS.
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THE CROWD IS MELTING BACK
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HE'S SAYING,
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'UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!' THEY
DON'T WANT TO BE CONTAMINATED.
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THEY KNEW IT WAS CONTAGIOUS.
THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE UNCLEAN.
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AND - BUT JESUS DOESN'T RUN AND
HE FALLS DOWN AT JESUS' FEET.
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NOW, BY THE WAY, IN LUKE'S
ACCOUNT OF THIS STORY, IT SAYS
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HE WAS FULL OF LEPROSY.
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SO THIS MAN HAS AN ADVANCED CASE
OF LEPROSY AND SO PEOPLE CAN SEE
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HE'S A LEPER -
IT'S A PITIFUL SIGHT.
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AND SO HE COMES TO JESUS IN THIS
TERRIBLE, DECREPIT CONDITION AND
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HE SAYS, 'LORD, IF YOU WANT TO,
YOU CAN CLEAN ME.' THAT TAKES
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FAITH. WHAT WOULD
GIVE HIM FAITH THAT
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A PERSON COULD BE
CLEANSED FROM LEPROSY?
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DO YOU REMEMBER ANY STORIES
IN THE BIBLE OF PEOPLE WHO WERE
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CLEANSED FROM LEPROSY? NAME ONE.
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>>NAAMAN. >>NAAMAN WAS CLEANSED
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FROM LEPROSY.
MIRIAM WAS CLEANSED FROM
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LEPROSY - THAT'S RIGHT.
AND, MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN
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READ THE STORY ABOUT MIRIAM IN
NUMBERS CHAPTER 12 - SOMEONE'S
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GOING TO READ FOR ME ISAIAH
59:2 IN JUST A MOMENT, OKAY?
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IN NUMBERS CHAPTER 12:9 IT SAYS,
"SO THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS
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AROUSED AGAINST
THEM, AND HE DEPARTED.
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AND WHEN THE CLOUD DEPARTED FROM
ABOVE THE TABERNACLE, SUDDENLY
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MIRIAM BECAME
LEPROUS, AS WHITE AS SNOW."
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- YOU REMEMBER MIRIAM WAS A
LITTLE JEALOUS AND SHE KIND OF
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INSTIGATED AARON THAT MOSES WAS
NOT CONSULTING HER, THE OLDER
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SISTER OF THESE THREE SIBLINGS
AND, INSTEAD, HE WAS CONFIDING
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MORE IN HIS WIFE - NOW WE'RE NOT
SURE IF THIS WAS ZIPPORAH OR IF
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SHE DIED AND HE REMARRIED,
BUT IT CALLS HER AN ETHIOPIAN.
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AND THEY BEGIN TO KIND OF
BACKBITE BEHIND THEIR BROTHER'S
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BACK AND IT REALLY
DISPLEASED THE LORD.
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AND IT SAYS THAT WHEN THE
CLOUD DEPARTED FROM ABOVE THE
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TABERNACLE, SUDDENLY MIRIAM
BECAME LEPROUS - AS WHITE AS
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SNOW - A VERY ADVANCED CASE -
"SO AARON SAID TO MOSES, 'OH, MY
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LORD! PLEASE DO NOT LAY THIS SIN
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ON US, IN WHICH WE HAVE DONE
FOOLISHLY AND IN WHICH WE HAVE
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SINNED.'" - NOTICE,
LEPROSY IS A TYPE OF WHAT?
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BECAUSE OF THE SIN THERE WAS
LEPROSY. WHAT ABOUT THE SERVANT
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OF NAAMAN - ELISHA - HIS NAME
WAS GEHAZI? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM
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BECAUSE OF HIS COVETOUSNESS?
BECAUSE HE STOLE THE MONEY THAT
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- GOD SAID THE HEALING
OF NAAMAN WOULD BE FREE.
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IT SAYS HE WENT OUT OF ELISHA'S
PRESENCE A LEPER, WHITE AS SNOW
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AND A CURSE WAS
PRONOUNCED UPON HIM.
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GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US ISAIAH 59:2.
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>>"BUT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE
SEPARATED YOU FROM YOUR GOD; AND
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YOUR SINS HAVE HIDDEN HIS FACE
FROM YOU, SO THAT HE WILL NOT
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HEAR." >>SO -
AND WHAT DID ISAIAH
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SAY WHEN HE SAW THE
LORD? 'WOE IS ME, I AM UNDONE.
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I AM A MAN OF' -
WHAT LIPS? >>UNCLEAN.
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>>'UNCLEAN LIPS AND I
DWELL IN THE MIDST OF A PEOPLE
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OF - HE SAYS, 'UNDONE, UNCLEAN,
UNCLEAN.' WHEN HE SAW THE
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PRESENCE OF THE LORD HE BECAME
AWARE OF HIS (LEPROSY) WHICH IS
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A TYPE OF SIN. BUT HE
CAME TO JESUS LIKE HE WAS.
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THIS IS NOT LIKE THE TEN LEPERS.
THE TEN LEPERS COME LATER.
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YOU'LL NOTICE THIS IS
EARLY ON IN THE GOSPELS.
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THE TEN LEPERS COME LATER -
MAYBE THEY'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS
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LEPER THAT WAS HEALED AND
SO THEY GOT COURAGE TO GO.
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BUT THIS MAN HE COMES AND HE -
WHAT IF JESUS SAID, 'NO, I'M NOT
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WILLING. YOU'RE
GETTING THE CURSE OF
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GOD.' HE BELIEVES
IN THE MERCY OF GOD.
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HE BELIEVES GOD
HAS DONE IT BEFORE.
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HE SEES HOW COMPASSIONATE JESUS
IS - MAYBE FROM A HILL HE'S
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WATCHING AS JESUS IS HEALING ALL
KINDS OF OTHER SICKNESS AND HE
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SAYS, 'YOU'VE GOT THE POWER.
IF YOU WANT TO, I KNOW YOU CAN.
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THE QUESTION IS, DO YOU
WANT TO? AND SO HE COMES TO HIM
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AND WHAT DOES JESUS
SAY? 'I AM WILLING.'
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SO IF WE ASK THE LORD, 'ARE YOU
WILLING TO CLEANSE US FROM OUR
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SIN?' WHAT DOES JESUS SAY?
00:17:12.39\00:17:14.56
'I AM WILLING.' YOU KNOW,
SOMETIMES I MEET PEOPLE - THEY
00:17:14.56\00:17:17.50
FEEL LIKE THEY'VE GOT TOO FAR
OR THEIR SIN IS SO BAD THAT GOD
00:17:17.50\00:17:19.77
JUST DOESN'T WANT TO FORGIVE
THEM. BUT IF THEY WOULD COME TO
00:17:19.77\00:17:23.30
HIM AND SAY,
'LORD, IF YOU'RE WILLING.'
00:17:23.30\00:17:25.87
WHAT WOULD THE LORD SAY? IS
GOD WILLING THAT YOU PERISH?
00:17:25.87\00:17:31.38
DO WE HAVE SCRIPTURE FOR THAT?
'THE LORD IS NOT WILLING THAT
00:17:31.38\00:17:34.35
ANY SHOULD PERISH BUT ALL
SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.'
00:17:34.35\00:17:37.22
SO IF GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT
ANY SHOULD PERISH THEN IS THE
00:17:37.22\00:17:39.42
LORD WILLING TO MAKE US CLEAN?
AND THEN IT SAYS - HE SAYS, 'I
00:17:39.42\00:17:43.93
AM WILLING.' AND JESUS SAID -
HE PUT OUT HIS HAND - VERSE 3 -
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"AND TOUCHED HIM," - NOW
CAN YOU HEAR THE CROWD GASPING
00:17:48.86\00:17:53.34
SAYING, 'DON'T
DO IT! DON'T DO IT!'
00:17:53.34\00:17:55.64
AS HE'S REACHING OUT TO TOUCH
THAT MAN BECAUSE WHAT'S GOING TO
00:17:55.64\00:17:58.91
HAPPEN TO JESUS WHEN
HE TOUCHES AN UNCLEAN MAN?
00:17:58.91\00:18:02.14
IF HE'S NOT CLEANSED, THAT
LEPROSY'S EITHER GOING TO FLOW
00:18:02.14\00:18:07.22
TO CHRIST OR THE CLEANSING OF
CHRIST IS GOING TO FLOW INTO THE
00:18:07.22\00:18:12.15
LEPER. WHICH RIVER
HAS THE STRONGEST STREAM?
00:18:12.15\00:18:16.29
IT'S GOING TO PUSH
BACK THE OTHER ONE.
00:18:16.29\00:18:18.36
AND SO, BY CHRIST REACHING OUT
WITH HIS CLEANSING, IT PUSHES
00:18:18.36\00:18:21.10
BACK THE LEPROSY AND
THIS MAN BECOMES CLEAN.
00:18:21.10\00:18:23.53
NORMALLY, WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU
AND I TOUCH THE SICK PERSON, THE
00:18:23.53\00:18:26.30
DISEASE COMES TOWARDS US.
I THINK IT'S SIGNIFICANT THAT
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IT SAYS, 'HE TOUCHED
HIM'. COULD JESUS HAVE SPOKEN?
00:18:31.24\00:18:36.04
I MEAN, WOULDN'T THAT HAVE BEEN
A - LATER IN THE STORY - IN OUR
00:18:36.04\00:18:38.11
STUDY TODAY, YOU'RE GOING TO
FIND WHERE CHRIST SPOKE AND A
00:18:38.11\00:18:40.68
PERSON WAS CLEANSED.
WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO - I'D
00:18:40.68\00:18:43.02
PREFER JUST SPEAKING TO
THE LEPER, WOULDN'T YOU?
00:18:43.02\00:18:46.22
I MEAN YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL
AND SOMEONE WITH LEPROSY - I
00:18:46.22\00:18:48.06
COULD SAY, 'LOOK, I
DON'T NEED TO TOUCH YOU.
00:18:48.06\00:18:49.76
I'M GOING TO SPEAK THE WORD.
MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO GO
00:18:49.76\00:18:51.29
TO THE OTHER ROOM AND SPEAK THE
WORD BECAUSE GOD CAN DO IT THAT
00:18:51.29\00:18:53.06
WAY TOO.' BUT JESUS LETS HIM
GET UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL AND
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TOUCHES THE UNTOUCHABLE.
YOU KNOW, LEGALLY, THE CASTE
00:18:57.10\00:19:02.44
SYSTEM IS ABOLISHED IN INDIA.
I SAID 'LEGALLY' BECAUSE IN
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REALITY IT'S
STILL VERY MUCH THERE.
00:19:07.54\00:19:10.81
YOU KNOW WHAT I
MEAN BY THE CASTE SYSTEM?
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THERE'S A WHOLE GROUP OF
PEOPLE IN INDIA - THEY CALL THEM
00:19:12.35\00:19:14.22
UNTOUCHABLES - THEY'RE THE VERY
LOWEST - AND THE HIGHEST ARE THE
00:19:14.22\00:19:17.19
BRAHMANS AND THEY'VE
GOT SEVERAL IN BETWEEN.
00:19:17.19\00:19:19.65
THEY KIND OF RECOGNIZE A CASTE
AND THE UNTOUCHABLES DO SOME
00:19:19.65\00:19:22.86
THINGS FOR WORK THAT YOU WOULD
CONSIDER UNTOUCHABLE AND THEY
00:19:22.86\00:19:27.76
HAVE THE LOWEST POSITIONS.
BUT JESUS WAS NOT AFRAID
00:19:27.76\00:19:30.43
TO TOUCH THE UNTOUCHABLE.
HOW IMPORTANT IS TOUCH?
00:19:30.43\00:19:37.01
YOU EVER YEARN
FOR TOUCH SOMETIMES?
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SOMETHING ABOUT HUMAN TOUCH.
YOU KNOW, IT ALWAYS FEELS BETTER
00:19:42.11\00:19:46.51
WHEN KAREN RUBS MY NECK
THAN WHEN I RUB MY OWN NECK.
00:19:46.51\00:19:50.72
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT
IT FEELS A LITTLE BETTER WHEN -
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THERE'S A HUMAN TOUCH - I DON'T
KNOW IF THERE'S ELECTRICAL AURA
00:19:52.99\00:19:56.29
IMPULSES - EXACTLY WHAT'S
HAPPENING - BUT WHEN SOMEONE
00:19:56.29\00:19:58.29
ELSE TOUCHES YOU IT'S LIKE
SOMETHING HAPPENS - AND THERE'S
00:19:58.29\00:20:02.80
SOMETHING TENDER. DO
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE
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CHILDREN - MOTHERS BROUGHT
THEIR CHILDREN THAT JESUS
00:20:04.07\00:20:06.74
MIGHT TOUCH THEM? HE
WAS GOING TO BLESS THEM, BUT
00:20:06.74\00:20:10.74
TO BLESS THEM HE WAS GOING
TO TOUCH THEM. AND THE DISCIPLES
00:20:10.74\00:20:14.44
SAID, 'NO, DON'T
BOTHER. HE'S BUSY. COME ON.
00:20:14.44\00:20:16.31
THESE LITTLE KIDS - GET THEM
OUT OF HERE.' AND JESUS SAID,
00:20:16.31\00:20:19.31
'NOOOOO. SUCH IS
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
00:20:19.31\00:20:23.95
EXCEPT YOU BECOME CONVERTED LIKE
A LITTLE CHILD, YOU WILL NOT
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ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.'
AND HE TOOK THEM UP IN HIS ARMS
00:20:26.22\00:20:29.86
AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON
THEM. JESUS SAW THERE WAS AN
00:20:29.86\00:20:33.40
IMPORTANCE OF TOUCH.
YOU REMEMBER THE LADY - SHE
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WANTED TO BE HEALED BY JESUS
- SHE'D BEEN BLEEDING FOR TWELVE
00:20:37.67\00:20:40.50
YEARS AND COULDN'T GET
NEAR HIM FOR THE CROWD.
00:20:40.50\00:20:45.67
AND SHE THOUGHT, 'BUT
SOMEHOW I'VE GOT TO TOUCH HIM.
00:20:45.67\00:20:48.01
IF I CAN'T TOUCH HIM, AT LEAST
TOUCH THEM HEM OF HIS GARMENT.'
00:20:48.01\00:20:51.25
AND, FOR HER, REACHING OUT
AND GETTING A HOLD OF THAT AND
00:20:51.25\00:20:54.55
ACTUALLY TOUCHING IT -
WE'RE TANGIBLE CREATURES.
00:20:54.55\00:20:58.19
IT REALLY MEANT
SOMETHING. AND SHE WAS HEALED!
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IN DESIRE OF AGES PAGE 266, IT
SAYS IN OUR LESSON, "THE WORK OF
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CHRIST IN CLEANSING THE LEPER
FROM HIS TERRIBLE DISEASE IS AN
00:21:07.00\00:21:09.96
ILLUSTRATION OF HIS WORK IN
CLEANSING THE SOUL FROM SIN.
00:21:09.96\00:21:14.60
THE MAN WHO CAME TO
JESUS WAS FULL OF LEPROSY;
00:21:14.60\00:21:17.67
IT'S DEADLY POISON
PERMEATED HIS WHOLE BODY.
00:21:17.67\00:21:20.78
THE DISCIPLES SOUGHT TO PREVENT
THEIR MASTER FROM TOUCHING HIM,
00:21:20.78\00:21:23.75
FOR HE WHO TOUCHED THE
LEPER BECAME, HIMSELF, UNCLEAN.
00:21:23.75\00:21:26.85
BUT IN LAYING HIS HEAD UPON THE
LEPER - IN LAYING HIS HAND UPON
00:21:26.85\00:21:30.55
THE LEPER, JESUS
RECEIVED NO DEFILEMENT.
00:21:30.55\00:21:33.05
HIS TOUCH, INSTEAD,
IMPARTED LIFE-GIVING POWER.
00:21:33.05\00:21:36.39
THE LEPROSY WAS CLEANSED,
THUS IT WAS THE LEPROSY OF SIN -
00:21:36.39\00:21:40.26
DEEP-ROOTED, DEADLY, IMPOSSIBLE
TO BE CLEANSED BY HUMAN POWER,
00:21:40.26\00:21:44.37
BUT IT CAN BE CLEANSED
BY THE POWER OF CHRIST.
00:21:44.37\00:21:47.14
THAT MEANS, IF WE COME TO JESUS
AND SAY, 'LORD, I'VE SINNED, IF
00:21:47.14\00:21:50.44
YOU'RE WILLING YOU CAN MAKE
ME CLEAN.' WILL HE GIVE US THAT
00:21:50.44\00:21:53.44
TOUCH OF LIFE? IS
HE WILLING? >>AMEN.
00:21:53.44\00:21:57.05
>>ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO
GO ON TO THE NEXT SECTION.
00:21:57.05\00:21:59.48
THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE ROMAN
CENTURION AND THE MESSIAH .
00:21:59.48\00:22:04.49
YOU FIND THIS IN VERSE 5.
YOU JUST KEEP GOING THROUGH THE
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CHAPTER HERE - MATTHEW CHAPTER
8, VERSE 5 - AND IT SAYS,
00:22:06.79\00:22:11.16
"NOW WHEN JESUS HAD ENTERED
CAPERNAUM, A CENTURION CAME TO
00:22:11.16\00:22:14.93
HIM, PLEADING WITH HIM, SAYING,
'LORD, MY SERVANT IS LYING AT
00:22:14.93\00:22:19.33
HOME PARALYZED, DREADFULLY
TORMENTED.' AND JESUS SAID TO
00:22:19.33\00:22:22.74
HIM, 'I WILL COME AND
HEAL HIM.'" - NOW, I'VE GOT A
00:22:22.74\00:22:27.61
FEW THINGS TO TALK
ABOUT. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
00:22:27.61\00:22:29.24
CENTURIONS FOR A MOMENT, WE'RE
GOING TO TALK ABOUT CAPERNAUM,
00:22:29.24\00:22:32.35
AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A
CONFLICT IN THIS STORY - BECAUSE
00:22:32.35\00:22:36.35
TWO GOSPEL WRITERS TELL
IT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY.
00:22:36.35\00:22:40.39
FIRST OF ALL, CENTURIONS: A
ROMAN CENTURION TYPICALLY HAD
00:22:40.39\00:22:45.43
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 600
AND 1,000 SOLDIERS UNDER HIM.
00:22:45.43\00:22:49.80
THEY WERE, SOMETIMES, THE
BEST MEN IN THE ROMAN ARMY.
00:22:49.80\00:22:54.60
THE REASON IS, THEY DIDN'T
GET APPOINTED BECAUSE THEY HAD
00:22:54.60\00:22:57.87
FAMILY WITH MONEY AND IT WAS
SOME SPECIAL POLITICAL FAVOR.
00:22:57.87\00:23:01.11
TO BE APPOINTED AS A CENTURION,
ACCORDING TO THE ROMANS, YOU HAD
00:23:01.11\00:23:04.21
TO BE ELECTED BY OTHER SOLDIERS
THAT WENT TO BATTLE WITH YOU,
00:23:04.21\00:23:08.32
THAT YOU WERE SOMEONE OF
COURAGE, YOU WERE SOMEONE THEY
00:23:08.32\00:23:11.25
COULD TRUST THAT WAS NOT GOING
TO ORDER THEM INTO A FOOLISH
00:23:11.25\00:23:15.16
BATTLE PLAN THAT
WAS GOING TO KILL THEM.
00:23:15.16\00:23:17.53
YOU NEEDED TO BE A PERSON OF
INTELLIGENCE, YOU NEEDED TO BE A
00:23:17.53\00:23:19.66
PERSON OF HONESTY, INTEGRITY,
COURAGE - AND SO THE OTHER
00:23:19.66\00:23:22.50
SOLDIERS WOULD BE INVOLVED
IN ELECTING THOSE WHO WOULD BE
00:23:22.50\00:23:25.33
CENTURIONS AND THEY ENDED UP
BEING SOME OF THE BEST PEOPLE IN
00:23:25.33\00:23:29.70
THE ROMAN ARMY. CAN
YOU THINK OF ANYTHING
00:23:29.70\00:23:32.91
BAD THAT CAN BE SAID
ABOUT A CENTURION IN THE BIBLE?
00:23:32.91\00:23:37.05
ARE THERE SEVERAL
CENTURIONS THAT APPEAR?
00:23:37.05\00:23:41.68
WAS THERE ONE AT
THE FOOT OF THE CROSS?
00:23:41.68\00:23:44.85
AND WHAT DID HE SAY? IT'S
INTERESTING, THE TESTIMONY
00:23:44.85\00:23:48.89
THAT JESUS IS THE SON
OF GOD CAME FROM A THIEF
00:23:48.89\00:23:51.69
AND A ROMAN SOLDIER. THE
THIEF ON THE CROSS AND THE
00:23:51.69\00:23:55.60
CENTURION WHO SAW THE EARTHQUAKE
AND HEARD JESUS CRY OUT AND
00:23:55.60\00:23:58.50
SAID, 'SURELY THIS WAS THE
SON OF GOD.' WHO WAS THE FIRST
00:23:58.50\00:24:02.70
GENTILE TO HAVE THE
GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM? A ROMAN
00:24:02.70\00:24:07.51
CENTURION. WHAT WAS
HIS NAME? >>CORNELIUS.
00:24:07.51\00:24:10.18
>>CORNELIUS -
CHAPTER 10 OF ACTS.
00:24:10.18\00:24:13.72
DID PAUL - WAS PAUL
GUARDED BY A CENTURION?
00:24:13.72\00:24:18.09
WAS HE A GOOD CENTURION?
AND HIS NAME WAS ORANGE JULIUS
00:24:18.09\00:24:26.56
- NO, IT WAS JUST
JULIUS. NOW YOU'LL REMEMBER IT.
00:24:26.56\00:24:31.10
AND DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN ALL
THE OTHER SOLDIERS WANTED - THE
00:24:31.10\00:24:33.87
SHIPWRECK - THE SOLDIERS SAID,
'LET'S KILL ALL THE PRISONERS'
00:24:33.87\00:24:36.91
AND HE, WANTING TO SPARE PAUL,
HE SAID, 'NO.' AND HE SAVED
00:24:36.91\00:24:40.98
PAUL'S LIFE AND HE GAVE PAUL
LIBERTY WHEN HE WENT TO SHORE.
00:24:40.98\00:24:44.28
AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL THE
CENTURIONS IN THE BIBLE, THEY'RE
00:24:44.28\00:24:46.85
ALL PRETTY GOOD GUYS. AND
SO HERE'S A CENTURION - IT
00:24:46.85\00:24:50.42
DOESN'T TELL US HIS NAME -
YOU WONDER, WAS HE ONE THAT
00:24:50.42\00:24:52.99
LATER WAS AT THE CROSS? YOU
DON'T KNOW - IT DOESN'T SAY.
00:24:52.99\00:24:57.23
AND IT SAYS THAT JESUS HAS THIS
- HIS WORD HAS GONE ABROAD ABOUT
00:24:57.23\00:25:05.00
HIS HEALING - AND SO THE
CENTURION, IN CAPERNAUM - IT
00:25:05.00\00:25:09.44
SAYS IN LUKE 5, HE
SENDS A DELEGATION OF JEWS.
00:25:09.44\00:25:14.71
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO TO
LUKE 7, RATHER, VERSE 2, "AND A
00:25:14.71\00:25:17.91
CERTAIN CENTURION'S SERVANT, WHO
WAS DEAR TO HIM, WAS SICK AND
00:25:17.91\00:25:20.78
READY TO DIE. SO WHEN
HE HEARD ABOUT JESUS, HE
00:25:20.78\00:25:23.35
SENT ELDERS OF THE JEWS" -
HE THOUGHT, 'I'M NOT WORTHY' -
00:25:23.35\00:25:26.79
"...PLEADING WITH HIM TO
COME AND HEAL HIS SERVANT."
00:25:26.79\00:25:29.39
AND THEY ARGUE WITH JESUS
AND SAY, 'HE LOVES OUR NATION.
00:25:29.39\00:25:31.79
HE'S BUILT US A SYNAGOGUE.'
NOW YOU WONDER, WAS THIS LATER
00:25:31.79\00:25:35.13
CORNELIUS - YOU DON'T KNOW, BUT
HE'S A - CENTURION WHO ENDS UP
00:25:35.13\00:25:39.03
BELIEVING IN JEHOVAH.
NOW, FIRST, IT SAYS THE
00:25:39.03\00:25:42.27
CENTURION CAME - IN
MATTHEW. LUKE SAYS A ROMAN -
00:25:42.27\00:25:45.84
JEWISH DELEGATION
CAME. WHICH IS IT?
00:25:45.84\00:25:49.31
WELL, WHEN YOU READ THE
BOOK DESIRE OF AGES SHE KIND OF
00:25:49.31\00:25:51.05
CLEARS IT UP. FIRST
HE SENDS A DELEGATION OF
00:25:51.05\00:25:54.42
JEWS AND THEY SAY, 'WILL
YOU COME AND HEAL THIS MAN'S
00:25:54.42\00:25:57.32
SERVANT BECAUSE HE LOVES HIM.
HE'S DONE A LOT FOR OUR NATION.
00:25:57.32\00:26:01.02
HE'S WORTHY.' AND SO JESUS SAYS,
'I'LL GO.' SO HE'S ON HIS WAY -
00:26:01.02\00:26:05.36
MESSENGERS WENT BACK TO
THE CENTURION AND SAID, 'HE'S
00:26:05.36\00:26:07.13
COMING.' AND THE CENTURION SAID,
'NO, NO, I DIDN'T ASK HIM TO
00:26:07.13\00:26:09.76
COME. HE'S TOO BUSY.
00:26:09.76\00:26:12.17
I JUST WANTED HIM TO SPEAK THE
WORD AND SO NOW THE CENTURION
00:26:12.17\00:26:14.37
COMES PERSONALLY AND SAYS - HE
KNEELS BEFORE HIM AND SAYS, 'I'M
00:26:14.37\00:26:16.77
NOT WORTHY YOU
SHOULD COME TO MY HOUSE.
00:26:16.77\00:26:18.87
JUST SPEAK THE WORD.' SO THAT'S
WHY ONE GOSPEL SAYS THERE'S A
00:26:18.87\00:26:21.21
DELEGATION. THE
OTHER GOSPEL SAYS
00:26:21.21\00:26:23.14
THAT HE CAME IN PERSON.
FIRST HE SENDS A DELEGATION.
00:26:23.14\00:26:25.98
HE DIDN'T MEAN FOR JESUS TO
COME, HE JUST MEANT FOR JESUS TO
00:26:25.98\00:26:28.45
SPEAK THE WORD. HE
SEES THAT JESUS IS COMING,
00:26:28.45\00:26:31.22
HE SAYS, 'NO, I
DIDN'T WANT TO TROUBLE HIM.
00:26:31.22\00:26:32.62
IT'S A DISTANCE!'
HE COMES IN PERSON.
00:26:32.62\00:26:35.19
SEE HOW YOU RECONCILE THE TWO?
AND SO - GO BACK TO THE STORY.
00:26:35.19\00:26:42.93
YOU GO BACK INTO THE GOSPEL
OF LUKE AND IT SAYS HERE - I'M
00:26:42.93\00:26:47.70
SORRY, GOSPEL OF MATTHEW - IT
SAYS HE ENTERED CAPERNAUM - SO
00:26:47.70\00:26:51.97
WHERE DID JESUS DO
MOST OF HIS MINISTRY?
00:26:51.97\00:26:56.81
IF YOU LOOK IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
4, VERSE 15, IT SAYS, "THE LAND
00:26:56.81\00:27:04.75
OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF
NAPHTALI, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA,
00:27:04.75\00:27:08.92
BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF
THE GENTILES: THE PEOPLE WHO SAT
00:27:08.92\00:27:12.76
IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT
LIGHT, AND UPON THOSE WHO SAT IN
00:27:12.76\00:27:16.33
THE REGION AND SHADOW
OF DEATH LIGHT HAS DAWNED."
00:27:16.33\00:27:20.67
AND, ACTUALLY, MATTHEW, THERE IS
QUOTING ISAIAH CHAPTER 9, VERSES
00:27:20.67\00:27:23.20
1 AND 2. YOU CAN
READ IN MATTHEW 9:1,
00:27:23.20\00:27:26.01
"SO HE GOT INTO A BOAT, CROSSED
OVER, AND CAME TO HIS OWN CITY."
00:27:26.01\00:27:30.98
NOW DID I - DID I TELL - I
DID. I TOOK SOMEBODY'S VERSE.
00:27:30.98\00:27:36.65
SOMEONE WAS GOING TO
READ - SORRY KATRINA.
00:27:36.65\00:27:38.59
TELL YOU WHAT,
I'LL SWAP WITH YOU.
00:27:38.59\00:27:40.29
I'VE GOT ONE I WAS GOING
TO READ - I'LL LET YOU READ.
00:27:40.29\00:27:42.06
GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 4, VERSES
23 AND 24 - IT'S A BETTER VERSE,
00:27:42.06\00:27:46.36
ANYWAY. CAN YOU SAY THAT
00:27:46.36\00:27:47.86
ABOUT THE BIBLE?
MATTHEW 4, VERSES 23 AND 24.
00:27:47.86\00:27:52.23
NOW YOU - YOU GOT TO
PRACTICE THE OTHER ONE.
00:27:52.23\00:27:53.90
THIS ONE'S GOING
TO BE COLD TURKEY.
00:27:53.90\00:27:55.60
SHE'S GOING TO HAVE TO - MATTHEW
CHAPTER 4, VERSES 23 AND 24.
00:27:55.60\00:28:00.08
I GET EXCITED TALKING ABOUT
CENTURIONS AND I READ HER VERSE.
00:28:00.08\00:28:04.68
YEAH, GO AHEAD.
>>"AND JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL
00:28:04.68\00:28:08.62
GALILEE TEACHING IN THEIR
SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL
00:28:08.62\00:28:11.92
OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING
ALL KINDS OF SICKNESSES AND ALL
00:28:11.92\00:28:15.99
KINDS OF DISEASE
AMONG THE PEOPLE.
00:28:15.99\00:28:18.73
THEN HIS FAME WENT THROUGHOUT
ALL SYRIA AND BROUGHT TO HIM ALL
00:28:18.73\00:28:23.06
SICK PEOPLE WHO WERE AFFLICTED
WITH VARIOUS DISEASES AND
00:28:23.06\00:28:27.14
TORMENTS AND THOSE WHO WERE
DEMON POSSESSED, EPILEPTICS,
00:28:27.14\00:28:31.47
AND PARALYTICS
AND HE HEALED THEM."
00:28:31.47\00:28:34.44
>>ALRIGHT, SO HERE IT TALKS
ABOUT THE APPEALING MINISTRY OF
00:28:34.44\00:28:37.55
JESUS,
ESPECIALLY AROUND CAPERNAUM.
00:28:37.55\00:28:40.02
THE MAIN FOCUS OF HIS MINISTRY
WAS AROUND GALILEE, BUT WHAT DID
00:28:40.02\00:28:44.52
IT CALL CAPERNAUM? HIS OWN CITY.
00:28:44.52\00:28:47.49
NOW, NORMALLY, IF I SAID
WHAT WAS THE CITY OF JESUS?
00:28:47.49\00:28:49.46
YOU WOULD HAVE SAID,
'BETHLEHEM.' OR 'HE WEPT OVER
00:28:49.46\00:28:52.19
JERUSALEM.' MAYBE NAZARETH.
BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW
00:28:52.19\00:28:56.53
THAT ONCE HE BEGAN HIS
MINISTRY HIS CITY WAS CAPERNAUM.
00:28:56.53\00:29:00.27
WHERE DID PETER
LIVE? IT WAS CAPERNAUM.
00:29:00.27\00:29:03.37
AND HERE'S WHERE
THIS MIRACLE WAS.
00:29:03.37\00:29:05.07
AND THERE'S ANOTHER MIRACLE
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A
00:29:05.07\00:29:06.68
LITTLE LATER - AND IT WAS
ALL HAPPENING IN CAPERNAUM.
00:29:06.68\00:29:09.04
SO YOU GO BACK TO THE STORY OF
THE CENTURION IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
00:29:09.04\00:29:12.78
8 AND IT SAYS THAT THE CENTURION
ANSWERED - NOW THE CENTURION
00:29:12.78\00:29:17.95
COMES PERSONALLY AND HE SAYS,
"LORD, I AM NOT WORTHY THAT YOU
00:29:17.95\00:29:22.12
SHOULD COME UNDER MY ROOF.
BUT ONLY SPEAK A WORD, AND MY
00:29:22.12\00:29:25.36
SERVANT WILL BE HEALED. FOR I
ALSO AM A MAN UNDER AUTHORITY...
00:29:25.36\00:29:28.40
AND I SAY TO THIS ONE, 'GO,' AND
HE GOES; AND TO ANOTHER, 'COME,'
00:29:28.40\00:29:30.60
AND HE COMES; AND TO MY SERVANT,
'DO THIS,' AND HE DOES IT.' WHEN
00:29:30.60\00:29:34.40
JESUS HEARD IT, HE MARVELED," -
THIS STOPPED JESUS IN HIS TRACKS
00:29:34.40\00:29:38.47
- HE SAID, "'ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO
YOU, I HAVE NOT FOUND SUCH GREAT
00:29:38.47\00:29:43.65
FAITH, NOT EVEN IN ISRAEL!'"
THERE'S A COUPLE OF TIMES IN
00:29:43.65\00:29:46.98
JESUS' MINISTRY THAT HE
COMMENDED PEOPLE FOR GREAT
00:29:46.98\00:29:49.35
FAITH. YOU KNOW WHO
THEY WERE? GENTILES.
00:29:49.35\00:29:54.26
YOU REMEMBER THE WOMAN WHO
DOGGED AFTER HIS STEPS AND SAID,
00:29:54.26\00:29:58.63
'PLEASE HEAL MY DAUGHTER.' AND
HE SAID, 'IT'S NOT GOOD TO TAKE
00:29:58.63\00:30:00.63
THE CHILDREN'S FOOD AND GIVE IT
TO THE DOGS.' AND SHE SAID, 'OH,
00:30:00.63\00:30:04.90
BUT YES, EVEN THE PUPPIES GET
THE CRUMBS THAT FALL FROM THE
00:30:04.90\00:30:07.24
CHILDREN'S TABLE.' AND JESUS
SAID, 'GREAT IS YOUR FAITH.' AND
00:30:07.24\00:30:11.64
SO THE LORD COMMENDED THE
FAITH OF SOME OF THESE GENTILES.
00:30:11.64\00:30:14.48
THAT WAS A WOMAN FROM TYRE THAT
HE PERFORMED THAT MIRACLE FOR.
00:30:14.48\00:30:19.51
'GREAT IS YOUR FAITH.' NOW JESUS
SAYS, 'BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO
00:30:19.51\00:30:24.35
BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING.'
BELIEVING IN THE WORD - GOD
00:30:24.35\00:30:31.13
MAKES PROMISES. THOMAS SAID, 'IF
I SEE AND IF I CAN TOUCH, THEN
00:30:31.13\00:30:34.36
I'LL BELIEVE.' JESUS SAID,
'I WANT YOU TO GO BEYOND THAT.
00:30:34.36\00:30:37.17
I WANT YOU TO BELIEVE WITHOUT
SEEING.' AND SO THIS CENTURION,
00:30:37.17\00:30:40.54
HE JUST SENT A MESSAGE. HE
SAID, 'JUST SPEAK THE WORD.
00:30:40.54\00:30:42.80
I THINK YOUR WORD IS SO POWERFUL
THAT YOUR WORD CAN HEAL WITHOUT
00:30:42.80\00:30:45.47
EVEN COMING.' DO YOU
BELIEVE IN THE PROMISES OF GOD?
00:30:45.47\00:30:50.71
>>AMEN. >>WHEN YOU
SEE PROMISES IN HIS
00:30:50.71\00:30:52.31
WORD AND YOU SAY, 'LORD, LOOK,
YOU SAID THIS AND I BELIEVE IT
00:30:52.31\00:30:54.52
AND I'M GOING TO CLAIM THIS
PROMISE.' AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:30:54.52\00:30:57.49
SEE EVIDENCE -
YOU SAY, 'GOD SAID IT.
00:30:57.49\00:30:59.12
I BELIEVE IT.' I WAS TALKING
TO SOMEBODY YESTERDAY - I WON'T
00:30:59.12\00:31:04.79
TELL YOU THE WHOLE STORY
BUT I'LL JUST SAY IT'S SOMEONE I
00:31:04.79\00:31:06.80
HAVE KNOWN FOR 40 YEARS -
AND THEY WERE IN VERY FRAIL
00:31:06.80\00:31:12.23
CONDITION. THEY
ONCE WERE MEMBERS OF OUR
00:31:12.23\00:31:14.97
CHURCH BUT THEY HAD DRIFTED
AWAY. AND, BELIEVE IT OR NOT,
00:31:14.97\00:31:22.08
THEY RAN INTO THE TV
PROGRAM. THEY CALLED THE OFFICE.
00:31:22.08\00:31:26.82
BONNIE GAVE ME A
MESSAGE THIS WEEK.
00:31:26.82\00:31:28.85
SHE SAID THERE'S SOMEBODY THAT'S
UP IN COVELO, THEY'VE BEEN
00:31:28.85\00:31:32.32
WATCHING THE PROGRAM.'
AND I THOUGHT, 'WELL, THAT'S
00:31:32.32\00:31:35.79
PROVIDENTIAL I'M HERE.' AND
SO KAREN AND I, YESTERDAY, WE
00:31:35.79\00:31:39.69
STOPPED TO SEE THIS PERSON THAT
I'D KNOWN FOR YEARS - THAT HAD
00:31:39.69\00:31:43.37
DRIFTED. AND WHEN
THEY HAD DRIFTED, THEY
00:31:43.37\00:31:45.77
DRIFTED PRETTY WELL, IF YOU
KNOW WHAT I MEAN - PRETTY FAR.
00:31:45.77\00:31:50.01
AND SO THEY'RE IN VERY FRAIL
CONDITION IN A BED WITH OXYGEN
00:31:50.01\00:31:55.01
AND I TALKED TO THIS BROTHER AND
HE JUST SAID, 'BOY, YOU KNOW,
00:31:55.01\00:31:57.95
I'VE BEEN SO FAR FROM GOD FOR
SO LONG.' AND I SAID, 'DO YOU
00:31:57.95\00:32:01.45
BELIEVE THE PROMISES OF GOD?'
I SAID, 'HE DOESN'T SAY 'HOW
00:32:01.45\00:32:06.09
BAD A SINNER HAVE YOU BEEN?''
I SAID, 'YOU MAY HAVE WANDERED
00:32:06.09\00:32:09.32
ALL YOUR LIFE' - I
SAID, 'LOOK AT SAMSON.
00:32:09.32\00:32:11.99
IN THE LAST HOURS OF HIS LIFE
HE TURNED BACK TO GOD AND HE
00:32:11.99\00:32:14.86
PRAYED.' I SAID, 'GOD SAYS IF WE
CONFESS OUR SINS HE IS FAITHFUL
00:32:14.86\00:32:18.07
AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS
AND CLEANSE US.' I SAID, 'GOD
00:32:18.07\00:32:20.54
SAID IT. DO YOU BELIEVE
IT?' AND WE PRAYED TOGETHER.
00:32:20.54\00:32:25.04
AND IT'S A SIMPLE QUESTION OF DO
YOU BELIEVE THE PROMISES OF GOD?
00:32:25.04\00:32:30.31
>>AMEN. >>AND
SO, KEEP MY FRIEND UP
00:32:30.31\00:32:35.48
THERE - YOU DON'T NEED
TO KNOW HIS NAME - GOD KNOWS
00:32:35.48\00:32:37.55
- IN YOUR PRAYERS. AND
HE SAID, 'LOOK, I'VE GOT TWO
00:32:37.55\00:32:41.72
OF THESE AMAZING
FACTS STUDY GUIDES.
00:32:41.72\00:32:43.83
HOW DO I GET THE
REST OF THEM?' GREAT.
00:32:43.83\00:32:48.00
ANYWAY, YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE.
JESUS WAS SO EXCITED HE SAID,
00:32:48.00\00:32:53.23
'LOOK, SINCE YOU BELIEVE, BE IT
DONE.' AND THE VERY HOUR CHRIST
00:32:53.23\00:32:56.91
SPOKE THE WORD, THE CENTURION
WENT HOME AND FOUND THAT HIS
00:32:56.91\00:33:00.24
SERVANT WAS HEALED AT
THAT MOMENT THAT JESUS
00:33:00.24\00:33:02.24
HAD SPOKEN THE WORD.
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO ON NOW.
00:33:02.24\00:33:05.88
WE'RE GOING TO TALK
NEXT - ABOUT DEMONS AND PIGS.
00:33:05.88\00:33:13.02
I KNOW THAT
SOUNDS KIND OF OMINOUS.
00:33:13.02\00:33:15.29
NOW THIS IS A STORY THAT YOU
FIND - YOU CAN READ IT HERE IN
00:33:15.29\00:33:18.23
MATTHEW CHAPTER 8, VERSE 28,
"WHEN HE HAD COME TO THE OTHER
00:33:18.23\00:33:21.10
SIDE, TO THE COUNTRY OF THE
GERGESENES, THERE MET HIM TWO
00:33:21.10\00:33:25.03
DEMON-POSSESSED MEN, COMING OUT
OF THE TOMBS," - NOW I NEED TO
00:33:25.03\00:33:28.47
STOP HERE AND ASK YOU, DO YOU
NOTICE A PROBLEM? YOU READ THIS
00:33:28.47\00:33:32.74
STORY IN MARK 5 AND IN LUKE
CHAPTER 8 AND IT SAYS THERE'S
00:33:32.74\00:33:36.95
ONE MAN. YOU READ IT IN MATTHEW,
IT SAYS THERE'S TWO MEN.
00:33:36.95\00:33:41.38
PEOPLE LOVE TO POINT TO THESE
THINGS AND SAY, 'THE BIBLE CAN'T
00:33:41.38\00:33:43.32
BE TRUSTED.' TO ME, THIS
WOULD BE EVIDENCE OF THE BIBLE'S
00:33:43.32\00:33:47.16
TRUTHFULNESS BECAUSE IF MARK
AND MATTHEW JUST ALL COPIED FROM
00:33:47.16\00:33:52.03
EACH OTHER, WHY WOULD
YOU MAKE A BLUNDER LIKE THAT?
00:33:52.03\00:33:54.83
BUT THEY'RE TELLING WHAT THEY
REALLY SAW AND REMEMBERED AND
00:33:54.83\00:33:57.63
MATTHEW SAYS THERE
WERE TWO. MARK AND LUKE SAY
00:33:57.63\00:33:59.80
THERE WERE ONE. WHY IS THAT?
00:33:59.80\00:34:01.80
IF YOU LOOK AT ALL THE
COMMENTATORS, THE ONES I TRUST,
00:34:01.80\00:34:04.11
THEY SAY THERE
WERE PROBABLY TWO MEN.
00:34:04.11\00:34:06.11
ONE OF THEM MAY HAVE STAYED
IN THE BACKGROUND, ONE WAS THE
00:34:06.11\00:34:08.61
SPOKESMAN THAT THE DEVIL SPOKE
THROUGH. ONE MAYBE CAME RUNNING
00:34:08.61\00:34:11.08
TO JESUS BUT THERE WERE
ACTUALLY TWO IN THE VICINITY.
00:34:11.08\00:34:14.52
ONE WAS REAL NOTORIOUS SO - FOR
MARK AND FOR LUKE, THEY TALKED
00:34:14.52\00:34:19.99
PARTICULARLY ABOUT THIS MAN WHO
WAS ESPECIALLY POSSESSED THAT
00:34:19.99\00:34:23.39
SPOKE TO JESUS -
THAT CAME DOWN TO JESUS.
00:34:23.39\00:34:25.96
ONE MAY HAVE STILL BE UP IN THE
TOMBS, BUT THERE ARE ACTUALLY
00:34:25.96\00:34:28.43
TWO DEMON-POSSESSED MEN. I
HOPE YOU'RE OKAY WITH THAT.
00:34:28.43\00:34:32.43
YOU EVER SEE PEOPLE GIVE A
REPORT ON A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT AT
00:34:32.43\00:34:35.14
AN INTERSECTION? AND
THE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
00:34:35.14\00:34:39.34
THAT THEY'LL HAVE
OF THE SAME ACCIDENT?
00:34:39.34\00:34:42.61
AND THE DISCIPLES WERE GIVING
THEIR HONEST ACCOUNT OF WHAT
00:34:42.61\00:34:46.48
THEY SAW. SO THAT
DOESN'T SHAKE MY FAITH
00:34:46.48\00:34:48.42
AT ALL BUT I JUST
NEED TO BE HONEST.
00:34:48.42\00:34:50.32
THERE'S A LITTLE
DISCREPANCY THERE.
00:34:50.32\00:34:53.56
AND IT SAYS HERE THAT "WHEN HE
HAD COME TO THE OTHER SIDE, TO
00:34:53.56\00:34:57.89
THE COUNTRY OF THE GERGESENES,"
- THIS IS OPPOSITE GALILEE -
00:34:57.89\00:35:00.33
THAT MEANS IT'S ACROSS THE OCEAN
FROM THE SEA OF - FROM CAPERNAUM
00:35:00.33\00:35:05.87
- ACROSS THE SEA OF GALILEE -
AND IT IS WHAT YOU WOULD CALL -
00:35:05.87\00:35:09.54
IT'S A REGION THAT
WAS KNOWN AS DECAPOLIS.
00:35:09.54\00:35:11.41
IT WAS NAMED BY ALEXANDER
THE GREAT BECAUSE THERE WERE TEN
00:35:11.41\00:35:14.18
CITIES - DECA - A DECADE - TEN
YEARS - POLIS - DECAPOLIS - THEY
00:35:14.18\00:35:18.75
HAD TEN CITIES. THEY
WERE NOT JEWISH CITIES.
00:35:18.75\00:35:22.52
THESE WERE CITIES THAT HAD BEEN
BUILT BY THE GREEKS AND THAT
00:35:22.52\00:35:25.25
COMES INTO PROMINENCE BECAUSE
THEY'RE GROWING PIGS AND YOU
00:35:25.25\00:35:28.29
WOULD KNOW THAT WOULD NOT GO
WELL FOR A JEWISH SABBATH SCHOOL
00:35:28.29\00:35:32.06
MINISTRY TO HAVE A PIG FARM.
AND SO HE'S CROSSED THE SEA -
00:35:32.06\00:35:38.20
AND HE'S NOT
THERE TOTALLY BY DESIGN.
00:35:38.20\00:35:41.64
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS
THE NIGHT BEFORE IS THERE'S A
00:35:41.64\00:35:42.90
TERRIBLE STORM AND THE
BOAT IS DRIVEN BY THE STORM.
00:35:42.90\00:35:46.68
IT'S WET - THEY'RE ALL
WATERLOGGED - AND AFTER JESUS
00:35:46.68\00:35:48.91
CALMS THE STORM HE DIRECTS THEM
TO THIS COAST - MAYBE TO BUILD A
00:35:48.91\00:35:52.45
FIRE AND DRY OFF A LITTLE BIT
AND RECOVER AND BAIL THE WATER
00:35:52.45\00:35:55.05
OUT OF THE BOAT. BUT
THEY NORMALLY WOULD NOT
00:35:55.05\00:35:57.32
HAVE GONE TO MINISTER IN THIS
COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY
00:35:57.32\00:36:01.06
BRING THE BOAT UP ON
THE SHORE OF A CEMETERY.
00:36:01.06\00:36:03.66
THEY LAND AND IT'S
A PLACE FULL OF TOMBS.
00:36:03.66\00:36:06.29
THAT WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST PLACE
YOU'D GO AND DO EVANGELISM,
00:36:06.29\00:36:08.50
WOULD IT? IF
YOU'RE STRUGGLING IN YOUR
00:36:08.50\00:36:11.60
EVANGELISM IT COULD BE BECAUSE
YOU'RE GOING TO A CEMETERY.
00:36:11.60\00:36:14.77
YOU'VE GOT TO BE GOING
WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE, RIGHT?
00:36:14.77\00:36:18.11
BUT JESUS, ACTUALLY, HE
HAS GREAT SUCCESS THERE.
00:36:18.11\00:36:20.71
SO THESE TWO DEMON-POSSESSED MEN
COME RUNNING OUT OF THE TOMBS -
00:36:20.71\00:36:26.31
EXCEEDINGLY FIERCE - THEY'RE
FURIOUS - THEY'RE FILLED WITH
00:36:26.31\00:36:29.62
ANGER, WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN YOU'RE - YOU GOT FULL OF
00:36:29.62\00:36:32.89
THE DEVIL - PEOPLE THAT
LOSE THEIR TEMPER ARE OFTEN, AT
00:36:32.89\00:36:35.69
LEAST,
TEMPORARILY, DEMON POSSESSED.
00:36:35.69\00:36:38.23
SO THAT NOBODY
WOULD PASS THAT WAY.
00:36:38.23\00:36:40.83
THEY BROKE CHAINS - IT SAYS IN
LUKE AND MARK - CUT THEMSELVES
00:36:40.83\00:36:44.50
AND CRIED OUT - "AND SUDDENLY
THEY CRIED OUT, SAYING, 'WHAT
00:36:44.50\00:36:48.24
HAVE WE TO DO WITH
YOU, JESUS, YOU SON OF GOD?
00:36:48.24\00:36:50.84
HAVE YOU COME HERE TO
TORMENT US BEFORE THE TIME?'"
00:36:50.84\00:36:53.91
WHY WOULD THEY SAY
THAT? IS THERE TORMENT
00:36:53.91\00:36:58.65
FOR FALLEN ANGELS?
DOES THE BIBLE SAY THEY'RE
00:36:58.65\00:37:02.48
KEPT IN CHAINS RESERVED
FOR DESTRUCTION? IS THE DEVIL -
00:37:02.48\00:37:07.96
AND HIS ANGELS - ARE
THEY GOING TO A LAKE OF FIRE?
00:37:07.96\00:37:12.26
DOESN'T IT SAY THAT
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 25?
00:37:12.26\00:37:14.96
DO THE DEVILS KNOW
WHAT THEIR FATE IS?
00:37:14.96\00:37:16.80
>>YES. >>DON'T YOU WISH SOME
00:37:16.80\00:37:18.40
OF THE LOST KNEW? IF
LOST PEOPLE KNEW WHAT SOME
00:37:18.40\00:37:21.64
OF THE DEVILS
KNEW, MAYBE WE'D REPENT.
00:37:21.64\00:37:24.11
DOES THE DEVIL KNOW
HE HAS A SHORT TIME?
00:37:24.11\00:37:25.91
>>YES. >>DON'T
YOU WISH SOME OF THE
00:37:25.91\00:37:27.54
LOST KNEW THAT - AND THEN THEY'D
REPENT? THE DEVILS, THEY BELIEVE
00:37:27.54\00:37:31.98
AND TREMBLE. "'HAVE YOU COME
HERE TO TORMENT US BEFORE THE
00:37:31.98\00:37:35.25
TIME?'" YOU KNOW, IT SAYS IN
MARK, 'DON'T CAST US INTO THE
00:37:35.25\00:37:38.29
ABUSSOS.' AND THAT
WORD 'ABUSSOS' IS THE
00:37:38.29\00:37:41.09
SAME WORD -
BOTTOMLESS PIT - YOU FIND IN
00:37:41.09\00:37:44.03
REVELATION WHEN SATAN
AND HIS ANGELS ARE BOUND.
00:37:44.03\00:37:47.00
THEY KNOW THERE'S A TIME
WHEN THEY'RE GOING TO BE IN THE
00:37:47.00\00:37:48.56
ABUSSOS AND THEY
CAN'T POSSESS ANYBODY.
00:37:48.56\00:37:50.53
RIGHT NOW, THE DEVILS STAY
OCCUPIED POSSESSING PEOPLE AND
00:37:50.53\00:37:54.24
PIGS AND SERPENTS
AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
00:37:54.24\00:37:58.87
NOW, YOU JUMP ALONG HERE IN THE
STORY AND IT SAYS, "NOW A GOOD
00:37:58.87\00:38:04.21
WAY OFF FROM THERE WAS A
HERD OF MANY SWINE FEEDING.
00:38:04.21\00:38:08.42
SO THE" - OH WAIT, NO, SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ FOR ME - DID I -
00:38:08.42\00:38:11.52
ONE OF YOU HAVE
MARK - MARK 5:5 AND 6.
00:38:11.52\00:38:16.19
GO AHEAD, DEAR, WHY
DON'T YOU READ THAT?
00:38:16.19\00:38:17.89
>>"AND ALWAYS, NIGHT AND DAY, HE
WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IN THE
00:38:17.89\00:38:21.03
TOMBS, CRYING OUT AND
CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES.
00:38:21.03\00:38:24.63
WHEN HE SAW JESUS FROM
AFAR, HE RAN AND WORSHIPED HIM."
00:38:24.63\00:38:28.67
>>ONE OF THEM RAN AND
DID WHAT? WHY WOULD A DEVIL
00:38:28.67\00:38:31.64
COME TO WORSHIP JESUS?
NOW THIS MAN - OR THESE
00:38:31.64\00:38:37.45
MEN - ARE DEMON POSSESSED.
BUT EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE DEMON -
00:38:37.45\00:38:42.15
AND THESE MEN ARE POSSESSED
WITH LEGIONS OF DEMONS,
00:38:42.15\00:38:45.22
ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN WORD.
WHEN PEOPLE ARE DEMON POSSESSED,
00:38:45.22\00:38:48.26
IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT OF THE
ORIGINAL PERSON STILL INSIDE?
00:38:48.26\00:38:50.93
>>YES. >>YEAH.
00:38:50.93\00:38:53.06
IF THERE WASN'T THEY'D HAVE
NOTHING TO POSSESS - THEY'D DIE.
00:38:53.06\00:38:55.86
WHATEVER WAS LEFT OF THIS MAN
INSIDE, WHEN HE HEARD THE DEVILS
00:38:55.86\00:38:59.53
TALK AND SAY, 'OH, IT'S JESUS,
SON OF GOD, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO
00:38:59.53\00:39:01.94
DO?' HE
THOUGHT, 'THIS IS MY ONLY
00:39:01.94\00:39:03.84
HOPE.' HE RAN TO JESUS JUST
LIKE HE WAS AND WORSHIPED HIM.
00:39:03.84\00:39:09.54
DOES THE DEVIL
WANT TO WORSHIP HIM?
00:39:09.54\00:39:11.05
NO, THE DEVIL SAYS TO JESUS,
'YOU FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.'
00:39:11.05\00:39:14.42
THE DEVIL DOESN'T WANT
HIS MINIONS WORSHIPING JESUS.
00:39:14.42\00:39:18.49
WHATEVER WAS LEFT OF THAT MAN
WANTED TO WORSHIP JESUS AND ASK
00:39:18.49\00:39:22.96
FOR HELP. BUT HE
COULDN'T EVEN PRAY.
00:39:22.96\00:39:25.99
NOW THIS IS A GREAT STORY IN THE
BIBLE OF SOMEBODY - OR TWO MEN -
00:39:25.99\00:39:31.13
THAT WERE AS FAR AWAY
FROM GOD AS ANYBODY COULD BE.
00:39:31.13\00:39:35.60
FIRST OF ALL,
WHERE DO THEY LIVE?
00:39:35.60\00:39:37.31
>>CEMETERY.
>>CEMETERY. WHO TYPICALLY LIVES
00:39:37.31\00:39:40.08
IN CEMETERIES? DEAD PEOPLE.
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS -
00:39:40.08\00:39:44.25
AND THAT
REPRESENTS SPIRITUALLY DEAD.
00:39:44.25\00:39:48.62
THAT'S A TRICK QUESTION: DO
DEAD PEOPLE LIVE IN CEMETERIES?
00:39:48.62\00:39:52.02
NO, THEY'RE NOT REALLY
THERE. WHAT IS HE SURROUNDED BY?
00:39:52.02\00:39:58.16
WHAT KIND OF
ANIMALS ARE UP IN THE HILLS?
00:39:58.16\00:40:00.43
PIGS, RIGHT? I
HAVEN'T GOTTEN THERE YET, BUT
00:40:00.43\00:40:03.90
YOU'VE HEARD IT IN THE TITLE
OF THE DAY'S STUDY - PIGS -
00:40:03.90\00:40:08.27
SURROUNDED BY HERDS OF
PIGS. ARE PIGS CLEAN OR UNCLEAN?
00:40:08.27\00:40:12.14
HE CUTS HIMSELF WITH STONES
LEAVING BLOOD AND BRUISES.
00:40:12.14\00:40:15.48
IS BLOOD CLEAN OR UNCLEAN?
ARE THE DEAD CLEAN OR UNCLEAN?
00:40:15.48\00:40:21.38
SO FOR THE JEWISH MIND, WHEN YOU
READ THIS STORY - IN THE TOMB -
00:40:21.38\00:40:25.42
UNCLEAN. YOU'RE UNCLEAN IF YOU
00:40:25.42\00:40:26.42
TOUCH A DEAD
BODY. PIGS - UNCLEAN -
00:40:26.42\00:40:28.89
BLOOD - UNCLEAN. HE'S ISOLATED.
00:40:28.89\00:40:32.76
HE'S ACROSS THE
SEA. HE'S BY HIMSELF.
00:40:32.76\00:40:34.50
HE'S COVERED WITH CHAINS
- A SYMBOL OF HIS BONDAGE.
00:40:34.50\00:40:37.73
THIS MAN IS - IT SAYS
HE'S NAKED. WHAT DOES CLOTHING
00:40:37.73\00:40:41.04
REPRESENT IN THE BIBLE?
CHARACTER - CHRIST'S ROBE
00:40:41.04\00:40:44.87
WOULD BE RIGHTEOUSNESS.
THIS MAN IS AS FAR FROM GOD AS
00:40:44.87\00:40:47.88
ANYONE COULD BE, BUT HE
COMES TO JESUS LIKE HE IS - AND
00:40:47.88\00:40:51.21
DOES JESUS TURN HIM
AWAY? HE IS THE MOST UNSAVED
00:40:51.21\00:40:55.22
PERSON IN THE
BIBLE. WOULD YOU AGREE?
00:40:55.22\00:40:57.52
I'LL GIVE YOU A MOMENT.
IF YOU CAN THINK OF ANYONE IN
00:40:57.52\00:40:59.19
THE BIBLE WHO IS MORE LOST
THAN THIS MAN, YOU TELL ME.
00:40:59.19\00:41:04.26
HE IS NAKED, CUT, CHAINS, PIGS,
DEAD BODIES, I MEAN, CRYING -
00:41:04.26\00:41:12.80
IT'S A PICTURE - IT'S A PITIFUL,
PITIFUL PICTURE OF A DESPERATE
00:41:12.80\00:41:20.48
LOST PERSON. AND SO HE COMES
TO WORSHIP JESUS AND JESUS TELLS
00:41:20.48\00:41:25.78
THE DEVILS TO GO. AND
THE DEVILS SAID, 'DON'T CAST
00:41:25.78\00:41:28.48
US INTO THE NOTHINGNESS, CAST
US INTO THE PIGS.' AND HE SAYS,
00:41:28.48\00:41:31.72
'OKAY, GO.' NOW, YOU MIGHT BE
THINKING, 'WHY WOULD JESUS LET'
00:41:31.72\00:41:36.59
- WHY WOULD YOU
ANSWER THE PRAYER OF A DEVIL?
00:41:36.59\00:41:39.83
AND THAT ALSO BEGS ANOTHER
QUESTION - IF JESUS IS WILLING
00:41:39.83\00:41:43.57
TO ANSWER THE PRAYER OF DEVILS
THAT ASK, WHY DON'T WE ASK MORE?
00:41:43.57\00:41:48.14
ISN'T THAT A GOOD QUESTION?
EVEN THE DEVILS GOT THEIR PRAYER
00:41:48.14\00:41:52.07
ANSWERED. WHY DO WE PRAY SO
LITTLE? THEY SAID, 'DON'T CAST
00:41:52.07\00:41:55.38
US INTO THE NOTHINGNESS,
CAST US INTO THE PIGS.'
00:41:55.38\00:41:57.61
WELL, THE PIGS WERE NOT BEING
RAISED FOR PETS, THEY WERE BEING
00:41:57.61\00:42:00.08
RAISED FOR FOOD AND GOD CARES
MORE ABOUT PEOPLE THAN PIGS SO
00:42:00.08\00:42:03.42
HE CAST THESE DEVILS - THERE MAY
HAVE BEEN THOUSANDS OF DEVILS,
00:42:03.42\00:42:06.49
BECAUSE TWO THOUSAND PIGS WENT
BERSERK AND THEY WENT RUNNING
00:42:06.49\00:42:10.26
OFF THIS STEEP PLACE LIKE
AN AVALANCHE OF PORK CHOPS
00:42:10.26\00:42:14.36
CASCADING OFF INTO THE
WATER AND THEY DROWNED.
00:42:14.36\00:42:19.77
TWO THOUSAND OF THEM - SEA
OF GALILEE IS NOT THAT BIG.
00:42:19.77\00:42:22.87
YOU CAN SEE ACROSS IT.
CAN YOU IMAGINE WHY THIS STORY
00:42:22.87\00:42:27.68
IS FOUND IN THE GOSPEL
OF MATTHEW, MARK, AND LUKE?
00:42:27.68\00:42:30.38
IF YOU HAD TWO THOUSAND BLOATED
PIG CARCASSES FLOATING IN A
00:42:30.38\00:42:34.68
JEWISH LAKE, DID EVERYBODY KNOW
- TALK ABOUT A TOXIC SPILL - DID
00:42:34.68\00:42:40.46
EVERYBODY KNOW
WHAT HAD HAPPENED?
00:42:40.46\00:42:44.56
THIS STORY WENT
EVERYWHERE. SO JESUS ALLOWED IT.
00:42:44.56\00:42:47.86
THE DEVILS THOUGHT THAT, 'OH,
THIS IS GOING TO BACKFIRE.' WHEN
00:42:47.86\00:42:50.93
THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE CITY
HEARD WHAT WAS HAPPENING, THEY
00:42:50.93\00:42:54.44
CAME OUT AND ASKED JESUS
TO LEAVE. AND JESUS LEFT.
00:42:54.44\00:42:58.31
BUT CHRIST TOLD THE MAN, 'YOU GO
OUT AND TELL WHAT GREAT THINGS
00:42:58.31\00:43:01.54
GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU.' THEY
CAME, THEY FOUND THE MAN SITTING
00:43:01.54\00:43:05.51
AT THE FEET OF JESUS
CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND.
00:43:05.51\00:43:09.32
JOE CREWS LIKED TO BRING THE
CONNECTION BETWEEN BEING CLOTHED
00:43:09.32\00:43:12.69
AND BEING IN YOUR RIGHT MIND.
AND THE MORE AND MORE YOU LIVE
00:43:12.69\00:43:16.36
IN A CULTURE WHERE THE PEOPLE
ARE UNCLOTHED, THE MORE OUT OF
00:43:16.36\00:43:19.49
THEIR MINDS IT APPEARS THEY
ARE. AND YOU WOULD PROBABLY - IF
00:43:19.49\00:43:23.80
SOMEONE STRIPPED DOWN TO
NOTHING RIGHT NOW, WOULDN'T WE
00:43:23.80\00:43:25.40
CALL FOR MEDICAL
HELP? (LAUGHTER) RIGHT?
00:43:25.40\00:43:29.57
DON'T PROVE IT. DON'T TEST THAT.
00:43:29.57\00:43:34.98
THEY BEGGED HIM TO
DEPART AND JESUS DEPARTED.
00:43:34.98\00:43:37.81
THEY WERE MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE
PIGS THEY HAD LOST THAN THE MAN
00:43:37.81\00:43:39.91
THAT WAS SAVED.
ISN'T THAT SOMETHING?
00:43:39.91\00:43:42.98
THIS MAN HAD BEEN TORMENTING THE
TERRITORY FOR AGES - BREAKING
00:43:42.98\00:43:46.52
CHAINS, HAUNTING THEM
- JESUS SAVES THE MAN.
00:43:46.52\00:43:49.19
HE'S IN HIS -
WHERE'D HE GET THE CLOTHES?
00:43:49.19\00:43:50.99
HE WAS SITTING AT THE
FEET OF JESUS CLOTHED.
00:43:50.99\00:43:52.56
I THINK THE CHAINS
FELL OFF WHEN JESUS SPOKE.
00:43:52.56\00:43:55.20
HE TOOK HIM TO THE WATER,
HE WASHED HIM, HE GAVE HIM HIS
00:43:55.20\00:43:57.43
OUTER ROBE. WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO
00:43:57.43\00:43:59.87
HAVE THE ROBE OF JESUS?
WHERE'D HE GET THE CLOTHES?
00:43:59.87\00:44:02.74
THIS IS THE STORY OF HIS,
LIKE, BAPTISM - AND THEN HE
00:44:02.74\00:44:05.51
COMMISSIONS HIM RIGHT AWAY AND
SAYS, 'YOU GO TELL OTHERS WHAT
00:44:05.51\00:44:07.64
GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU.' AND
HE GOES AND TELLS EVERYBODY.
00:44:07.64\00:44:11.18
AND IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE IT
SAYS WHEN HE CAME BACK THEY WERE
00:44:11.18\00:44:13.48
WAITING FOR HIM. IT
SOUNDS LIKE HE CAME BACK
00:44:13.48\00:44:15.38
TO THAT AREA AND THE
PEOPLE WERE READY BECAUSE OF THE
00:44:15.38\00:44:17.29
MINISTRY OF THE DEMONIAC.
SO IT'S A GREAT STORY OF A
00:44:17.29\00:44:20.99
PERSON WHO IS AS LOST AS THEY
CAN BE. JESUS SAVES THEM, HEALS
00:44:20.99\00:44:25.46
THEM, AND THEN
SENDS THEM TO TELL OTHERS.
00:44:25.46\00:44:29.36
NOW WHAT HE DOES FOR THAT MAN,
HE CAN DO WITH EACH ONE OF US.
00:44:29.36\00:44:32.90
ALRIGHT, THAT'S
- THAT'S THE PIGS.
00:44:32.90\00:44:35.87
NOW GET UP AND WALK - MATTHEW 9,
VERSES 1 THROUGH 8, "SO HE GOT
00:44:35.87\00:44:40.98
INTO A BOAT, CROSSED
OVER, AND CAME TO HIS OWN CITY.
00:44:40.98\00:44:43.85
THEN BEHOLD, THEY BROUGHT TO
HIM A PARALYTIC LYING ON A BED.
00:44:43.85\00:44:47.78
WHEN JESUS SAW THEIR FAITH, HE
SAID TO THE PARALYTIC, 'SON, BE
00:44:47.78\00:44:51.69
OF GOOD CHEER; YOUR SINS ARE
FORGIVEN YOU.' AND AT ONCE SOME
00:44:51.69\00:44:55.49
OF THE SCRIBES SAID
WITHIN THEMSELVES, 'THIS MAN
00:44:55.49\00:44:57.49
BLASPHEMES!' BUT
JESUS...SAID, 'WHY DO YOU
00:44:57.49\00:45:00.76
THINK EVIL IN YOUR HEARTS?
FOR WHICH IS EASIER, TO SAY,
00:45:00.76\00:45:02.93
'YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN YOU,'
OR TO SAY, 'ARISE AND WALK'?
00:45:02.93\00:45:05.77
BUT THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE
SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO
00:45:05.77\00:45:09.20
FORGIVE SINS' - THEN HE SAID TO
THE PARALYTIC, 'ARISE, TAKE UP
00:45:09.20\00:45:13.58
YOUR BED, AND GO TO YOUR HOUSE.'
AND HE AROSE AND DEPARTED TO HIS
00:45:13.58\00:45:17.48
HOUSE. NOW WHEN
THE MULTITUDES SAW IT,
00:45:17.48\00:45:19.58
THEY MARVELED AND GLORIFIED
GOD, WHO HAD GIVEN SUCH
00:45:19.58\00:45:21.68
POWER TO MEN." OH,
ANOTHER GREAT STORY.
00:45:21.68\00:45:24.49
YOU'LL FIND THIS
IN MARK CHAPTER 2.
00:45:24.49\00:45:25.92
IT ACTUALLY SAYS THAT HIS
FRIENDS - THEY CARRIED HIM A
00:45:25.92\00:45:27.86
LONG WAY, BECAUSE WHEN THEY GET
TO THE HOUSE THERE'S ALREADY A
00:45:27.86\00:45:30.69
CROWD THERE AT THE
HOUSE. IT MAY HAVE BEEN PETER'S
00:45:30.69\00:45:32.73
HOUSE - CAPERNAUM. SO
THEY COME TO THE HOUSE, THEY
00:45:32.73\00:45:35.26
CAN'T GET THROUGH THE WINDOW,
THEY CAN'T GET THROUGH THE
00:45:35.26\00:45:37.17
DOOR AND SO WHAT DO THEY DO?
THEY TELL THEIR FRIEND THEY'VE
00:45:37.17\00:45:41.47
CARRIED TO JESUS, THEY
SAID, 'LOOK, IT'S TOO CROWDED.
00:45:41.47\00:45:43.57
WE'LL TRY ANOTHER
DAY.' IS THAT WHAT THEY DO?
00:45:43.57\00:45:46.51
NO, THEY MAY HAVE SAID,
'LOOK, WE CARRIED YOU HERE.
00:45:46.51\00:45:48.14
YOU'RE WALKING HOME.' (LAUGHTER)
AND SO THEY GO AROUND BEHIND THE
00:45:48.14\00:45:52.98
BUILDING AND THEY
FIND A WAY UP ON THE ROOF.
00:45:52.98\00:45:56.99
NOW, I KNOW THIS SOUNDS A LITTLE
BIT VIOLENT, IT SAYS THEY TORE
00:45:56.99\00:46:00.69
UP THE ROOF AND THEY LET THE MAN
DOWN IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS.
00:46:00.69\00:46:03.86
THEY DIDN'T GET UP ON THE ROOF
LIKE FIREMEN WITH AXES AND PICKS
00:46:03.86\00:46:06.76
AND START HACKING THROUGH THE
ROOF. IN THE JEWISH CULTURE THEY
00:46:06.76\00:46:10.17
OFTEN HAD A PLACE WHERE YOU WALK
ON THE ROOF. THEY ACTUALLY HAD
00:46:10.17\00:46:12.60
LAWS ABOUT HAVING A BORDER
AROUND YOUR ROOF. DAVID WAS UP
00:46:12.60\00:46:15.57
ON HIS ROOF.
PETER'S PRAYING ON THE ROOF
00:46:15.57\00:46:17.64
BEFORE LUNCH - YOU
REMEMBER? IN ACTS CHAPTER 10?
00:46:17.64\00:46:20.78
AND SO YOU COULD GO UP ON
YOUR ROOF AND THERE WAS OFTEN AN
00:46:20.78\00:46:22.71
OPENING IN THE MIDDLE -
ESPECIALLY DURING THE SUMMER -
00:46:22.71\00:46:26.11
THEY REMOVED SOME TILES - THE
INNER COOKING SMOKE WOULD GO OUT
00:46:26.11\00:46:29.35
AND IT CREATED A NATURAL
CONVECTION - IT BROUGHT THE AIR
00:46:29.35\00:46:32.22
IN THROUGH THE DOOR AND
THE WINDOW AND IT WENT OUT THE
00:46:32.22\00:46:33.86
CEILING. SO
THAT WAS VERY COMMON.
00:46:33.86\00:46:36.12
SO WHAT THEY DID IS THEY
JUST MOVED ASIDE THE TILES.
00:46:36.12\00:46:39.16
JESUS WAS IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE ROOM.
00:46:39.16\00:46:40.86
THEY SAW THE SUNLIGHT COMING IN
AND THE DUST FILTERING DOWN AND
00:46:40.86\00:46:44.17
THESE GUYS BEGAN TO LOWER THEIR
FRIEND, MAYBE WITH SOME ROPES OR
00:46:44.17\00:46:48.47
THEY TIED SOME SHEETS TOGETHER,
DOWN INTO THE PRESENCE OF JESUS
00:46:48.47\00:46:52.44
- AND HE'S THERE TEACHING - SOME
OF THE SCRIBES AND RABBIS AND
00:46:52.44\00:46:55.34
PHARISEES ARE IN THERE AND
THEY THINK, 'WHAT A SPECTACLE.
00:46:55.34\00:46:59.31
WHAT ARE THEY DOING?' AND
WHEN JESUS SAID, 'YOUR SINS
00:46:59.31\00:47:02.15
ARE FORGIVEN' - THIS MAN'S
ALL GNARLED AND PARALYZED - HE'S
00:47:02.15\00:47:04.85
THERE LOOKING PITIFUL AND
JESUS SAID, 'SON, YOUR SINS ARE
00:47:04.85\00:47:08.82
FORGIVEN.' AND THEY THOUGHT,
'THIS MAN SPEAKS BLASPHEMIES.
00:47:08.82\00:47:12.89
WHO CAN FORGIVE
SIN BUT GOD ONLY?'
00:47:12.89\00:47:15.30
NOW, DID THEY
TELL THE TRUTH? >>YES.
00:47:15.30\00:47:18.43
>>DOES THE BIBLE SAY THAT GOD
AND GOD ONLY CAN FORGIVE SIN?
00:47:18.43\00:47:21.17
>>YES. >>THAT'S TRUE.
00:47:21.17\00:47:22.40
THERE IS ONE SAVIOR FROM SIN.
00:47:22.40\00:47:24.64
IT'S - BY THE WAY, THE BIBLE
SAYS ONLY JEHOVAH CAN FORGIVE
00:47:24.64\00:47:28.41
SIN AND IT SAYS ONLY JESUS CAN
FORGIVE SIN, WHICH MIGHT MAKE
00:47:28.41\00:47:33.42
YOU THINK MAYBE
JEHOVAH AND JESUS ARE SIMILAR.
00:47:33.42\00:47:36.75
IT'S JUST IF YOU EVER HAVE A
STUDY WITH A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS -
00:47:36.75\00:47:39.82
BUT ANYWAY, SO HE SAYS, 'YOUR
SINS ARE FORGIVEN.' AND THEN HE
00:47:39.82\00:47:45.06
KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE THINKING
BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IN THEIR
00:47:45.06\00:47:46.76
HEARTS, 'THIS MAN SPEAKS
BLASPHEMIES' - THEY DIDN'T SAY
00:47:46.76\00:47:48.93
IT, THEY THOUGHT IT. YOU
KNOW, ANOTHER DEFINITION FOR
00:47:48.93\00:47:50.87
GOD, IT SAYS, 'GOD AND GOD
ONLY KNOWS THE THOUGHTS OF MEN'S
00:47:50.87\00:47:53.34
HEARTS.' AND JOHN SAYS
HE KNEW WHAT WAS IN MAN.
00:47:53.34\00:47:58.14
GOD CAN READ YOUR
PRAYERS, YOUR HEARTS.
00:47:58.14\00:48:00.04
AND HE SAID, 'WHAT'S EASIER, TO
SAY TO THIS MAN 'YOUR SINS ARE
00:48:00.04\00:48:05.08
FORGIVEN' OR 'TAKE
UP YOUR BED AND WALK'?
00:48:05.08\00:48:07.25
WELL, WHICH IS EASIER.
SAYING 'TAKE UP YOUR BED AND
00:48:07.25\00:48:12.02
WALK' IS EASIER
THAN FORGIVING SIN.
00:48:12.02\00:48:14.79
MEN MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE THEIR
GIFTS TO HEAL OTHER MEN, BUT
00:48:14.79\00:48:18.39
ONLY GOD CAN FORGIVE SIN.
AND SO HE SAID, 'BUT THAT YOU
00:48:18.39\00:48:24.00
MIGHT KNOW' - SO WHY DID
JESUS HEAL ANYBODY PHYSICALLY?
00:48:24.00\00:48:27.54
'THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW THE
SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO
00:48:27.54\00:48:30.31
FORGIVE SINS' - HE SAID
TO THE SICK AND THE PALSIED.
00:48:30.31\00:48:32.57
WHY DOES JESUS HEAL PHYSICALLY?
EVERYBODY THAT JESUS EVER HEALED
00:48:32.57\00:48:37.91
PHYSICALLY LATER
GOT SICK AND DIED.
00:48:37.91\00:48:43.35
ISN'T THAT RIGHT? SO
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE?
00:48:43.35\00:48:46.76
WELL, HE PROLONGED
THEIR LIVES, THAT'S NICE.
00:48:46.76\00:48:49.42
THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF HIS
HEALING IS THAT WE MIGHT KNOW
00:48:49.42\00:48:54.40
- FIRST OF ALL, HE WANTS TO
BLESS US, BUT - HE WANTS US TO
00:48:54.40\00:48:57.47
HAVE ABUNDANT LIFE - BUT THAT HE
HAS POWER TO HEAL SPIRITUALLY.
00:48:57.47\00:49:02.57
AND HE SAID, 'BUT THAT YOU MIGHT
KNOW' - HE SAID TO THE SICK AND
00:49:02.57\00:49:05.57
THE PALSIED - 'ARISE, TAKE UP
YOUR BED, AND WALK.' AND HE GOT
00:49:05.57\00:49:07.98
UP, STRENGTH
CAME INTO HIS LIMBS.
00:49:07.98\00:49:10.91
HIS MUSCLES FILLED OUT SUDDENLY
AND HE STOOD UP AND HE OBEYED -
00:49:10.91\00:49:15.48
ROLLED UP HIS BED AND WALKED
OUT AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND
00:49:15.48\00:49:19.02
GLORIFIED GOD. YOU
KNOW, WHAT HEALED THIS MAN,
00:49:19.02\00:49:24.89
THE FAITH OF THE MAN ON
THE MAT OR THE FAITH OF HIS
00:49:24.89\00:49:26.96
FRIENDS THAT BROUGHT HIM?
YOU NOTICE IN THE VERSE HERE
00:49:26.96\00:49:30.43
IT SAYS, 'WHEN JESUS SAW THEIR
FAITH.' YEAH, A LOT OF PEOPLE
00:49:30.43\00:49:35.40
THAT WERE HEALED BY
JESUS WERE BROUGHT BY OTHERS.
00:49:35.40\00:49:38.84
CAN YOU INTERCEDE IN
SOMEONE ELSE'S BEHALF?
00:49:38.84\00:49:42.74
NOW, I THINK THE
MAN HAD FAITH TOO.
00:49:42.74\00:49:44.35
HE SAID, 'TAKE ME TO JESUS.' BUT
HE SAW THE PERSISTENCE - THEY
00:49:44.35\00:49:48.25
COULD HAVE GIVEN UP
WHEN THE DOORS WERE BLOCKED.
00:49:48.25\00:49:50.25
THEY COULD HAVE GIVEN UP WHEN
THEY COULDN'T GET THROUGH THE
00:49:50.25\00:49:51.82
WINDOW OR THE BACK DOOR, BUT
THE WAY THEY SHOWED THEIR FAITH
00:49:51.82\00:49:55.82
IS THEY PERSISTED. HAVE
YOU SOMETIMES HAD TO PRAY
00:49:55.82\00:49:58.33
PERSISTENTLY FOR
SOMEONE FOR YEARS?
00:49:58.33\00:50:01.03
YEAH, I JUST TOLD YOU A MINUTE
AGO - THIS FELLOW THAT WE SAW
00:50:01.03\00:50:03.93
YESTERDAY, I'VE BEEN
PRAYING FOR FOR THIRTY YEARS.
00:50:03.93\00:50:07.17
I'VE KNOWN HIM FORTY YEARS
- LEFT THE CHURCH THIRTY YEARS
00:50:07.17\00:50:09.77
AGO. AND GOD ANSWERS PRAYER, BUT
00:50:09.77\00:50:14.61
YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP
PRAYING. PERSISTENCE - HE
00:50:14.61\00:50:19.45
SAW THEIR FAITH.
NOW, WHEN THAT MAN CAME
00:50:19.45\00:50:22.88
TO JESUS HE HAD A BED.
WHEN HE LEFT JESUS HE HAD A BED.
00:50:22.88\00:50:28.52
BUT WAS THERE A DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN WHEN HE CAME AND WHEN HE
00:50:28.52\00:50:30.46
LEFT? HOW MANY OF
US WOULD ADMIT THAT
00:50:30.46\00:50:35.03
WE HAVE A CARNAL
SIDE TO OUR NATURE?
00:50:35.03\00:50:40.50
AND THERE'S A SPIRITUAL
SIDE. AND THERE'S SOMETIMES A
00:50:40.50\00:50:44.71
WAR BETWEEN THE
SPIRIT AND THE FLESH.
00:50:44.71\00:50:47.98
YOU GOING TO ADMIT THAT? >>YES.
00:50:47.98\00:50:49.78
>>WHEN YOU COME TO JESUS DOES
THE CARNAL SIDE OF YOUR NATURE
00:50:49.78\00:50:53.18
DISAPPEAR? >>NO.
00:50:53.18\00:50:55.08
>>NO. WHAT'S THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
00:50:55.08\00:50:57.75
BEFORE JESUS AND AFTER
JESUS? IT'S IN THIS STORY.
00:50:57.75\00:51:02.09
WHEN YOU COME TO JESUS YOU'RE
CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH AND NOT
00:51:02.09\00:51:05.09
BY THE SPIRIT. THAT
MAN HAD A BED WHEN HE CAME
00:51:05.09\00:51:08.93
TO JESUS, BUT THE BED CARRIED
HIM. AFTER JESUS HEALED HIM, HE
00:51:08.93\00:51:15.20
CARRIED THE BED. >>AMEN.
00:51:15.20\00:51:17.84
>>BEFORE JESUS, HE
WENT WHERE THE BED TOOK HIM.
00:51:17.84\00:51:20.48
AFTER JESUS, HE
TOOK THE BED. >>AMEN.
00:51:20.48\00:51:25.78
>>YOU MAY STILL HAVE CARNAL
TEMPTATIONS, BUT YOU ARE NO
00:51:25.78\00:51:27.95
LONGER CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH.
00:51:27.95\00:51:29.48
THE BIBLE SAYS SIN SHALL NOT
HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU ANYMORE -
00:51:29.48\00:51:33.96
THAT CHRIST - 'DO NOT LET SIN
REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL MEMBERS' -
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WHO'S IN CHARGE?
WHO'S ON THE THRONE?
00:51:37.93\00:51:39.76
IT MUST BE JESUS
ON THE THRONE, AMEN?
00:51:39.76\00:51:42.60
SO THAT MAN WENT OUT
AND THEY ALL GLORIFIED HIM.
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ALRIGHT, OUR LAST STORY: LETTING
THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD - MATTHEW
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8:18 - AND IT SAYS HERE, "AND
WHEN JESUS SAW GREAT MULTITUDES
00:51:47.54\00:51:52.47
ABOUT HIM, HE GAVE A COMMAND
TO DEPART TO THE OTHER SIDE.
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THEN A CERTAIN SCRIBE CAME AND
SAID TO HIM, 'TEACHER, I WILL
00:51:55.64\00:51:58.61
FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU GO.' AND
JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'FOXES HAVE
00:51:58.61\00:52:03.15
HOLES AND BIRDS OF THE AIR HAVE
NESTS, BUT THE SON OF MAN HAS
00:52:03.15\00:52:07.22
NOWHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD.'"
NOW IT'S INTERESTING THAT JESUS
00:52:07.22\00:52:10.59
WOULD USE THOSE TWO ANALOGIES
- HE SAID ONE GOES DOWN IN THE
00:52:10.59\00:52:13.96
GROUND AND THE OTHER GOES UP IN
THE TREES - THEY'RE COMPLETELY
00:52:13.96\00:52:17.07
OPPOSITE. YOU CAN
HAVE A CLEAN BIRD BUT
00:52:17.07\00:52:19.50
YOU CAN ONLY
HAVE AN UNCLEAN FOX.
00:52:19.50\00:52:21.60
AND HE - WHO WAS HE
TALKING TO WHEN HE SAID THAT?
00:52:21.60\00:52:25.37
IT SAYS 'A CERTAIN SCRIBE'.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU READ THE BOOK
00:52:25.37\00:52:28.54
DESIRE OF AGES IT SAYS THAT WAS
JUDAS. JESUS CHOSE THE APOSTLES,
00:52:28.54\00:52:33.48
JUDAS SORT OF VOLUNTEERED.
AND HE SAID, 'LORD, I'LL FOLLOW
00:52:33.48\00:52:36.92
YOU.' AND JESUS KNEW HE HAD
POSSIBILITIES AND JESUS FINALLY
00:52:36.92\00:52:40.39
ENDORSED - OR APPROVED - JUDAS
BEING RECOMMENDED BY THE OTHER
00:52:40.39\00:52:44.36
APOSTLES, BUT HE SAID, 'LOOK, IF
YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME FOR EARTHLY
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GAIN, I DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE
TO LAY MY HEAD IN THIS WORLD.
00:52:48.00\00:52:51.50
IF YOU WANT EARTHLY GAIN - IF
YOU'RE NOT THINKING ABOUT YOUR
00:52:51.50\00:52:53.84
KINGDOM - YOUR TREASURE IN
HEAVEN, DON'T FOLLOW ME.' HE
00:52:53.84\00:52:56.97
SAYS, 'IN THIS WORLD, EVEN FOXES
HAVE A PLACE - BIRDS HAVE A
00:52:56.97\00:52:59.14
PLACE - THE ANIMALS
ARE BETTER OFF THAN ME.
00:52:59.14\00:53:01.58
I'VE GOT TO SLEEP, YOU KNOW,
IN AN OLIVE GARDEN OR DEPEND ON
00:53:01.58\00:53:04.68
SOMEONE ELSE'S HOSPITALITY.'
HE SAYS, 'IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME
00:53:04.68\00:53:07.88
BECAUSE YOU WANT AN EARTHLY
KINGDOM FOR THE SON OF DAVID,
00:53:07.88\00:53:10.95
DON'T FOLLOW ME.' SO IT WAS A
WARNING TO JUDAS BECAUSE JESUS
00:53:10.95\00:53:14.72
READ HIS HEART. AND
THEN HE SAID SOMETHING
00:53:14.72\00:53:17.09
REALLY STRANGE: ANOTHER MAN CAME
TO HIM - AND HE SAID - THIS IS
00:53:17.09\00:53:20.66
VERSE 21 - MATTHEW
8:21 - "LORD, LET ME
00:53:20.66\00:53:23.43
FIRST GO AND BURY MY
FATHER." - NOW, THAT COULD BE
00:53:23.43\00:53:27.97
MEANT ONE OF TWO WAYS.
ONE, IT MAY MEAN HIS FATHER
00:53:27.97\00:53:31.24
DIED AND THEY HAD TO SETTLE THE
ESTATE. ANOTHER MEANS 'MY FATHER
00:53:31.24\00:53:34.31
IS AGED. HE'S HOME.
DEATH ISN'T FAR AWAY, BUT I'VE
00:53:34.31\00:53:37.71
GOT TO STAY AND TAKE CARE OF
HIM AND AFTER HE DIES THEN I'LL
00:53:37.71\00:53:41.08
FOLLOW YOU.' AND JESUS
SAID SOMETHING STRANGE.
00:53:41.08\00:53:43.85
YOU THINK HE'D SAY, 'SURE, GO
AHEAD, TAKE CARE OF YOUR FAMILY
00:53:43.85\00:53:47.02
AFFAIRS.' I MEAN, EVEN ELISHA,
WHEN ELIJAH CALLED ELISHA, AND
00:53:47.02\00:53:50.99
HE SAYS - HE PUT HIS MANTLE ON
HIM. YOU KNOW WHAT ELISHA SAID?
00:53:50.99\00:53:53.90
LET ME GO KISS MY MOTHER
AND FATHER GOOD BYE.' AND ELIJAH
00:53:53.90\00:53:57.17
SAID, 'GO, WHAT
HAVE I DONE TO YOU?
00:53:57.17\00:53:59.20
THAT'S FINE.' AND HE LET
HIM GO SAY GOOD BYE AND THEN HE
00:53:59.20\00:54:01.50
FOLLOWED. BUT JESUS SAYS TO
00:54:01.50\00:54:02.87
THIS MAN, 'FOLLOW ME.
LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR OWN
00:54:02.87\00:54:07.38
DEAD.' WOW,
THAT'S A LITTLE ROUGH.
00:54:07.38\00:54:10.78
WHO ARE THE DEAD THAT
HE'S TALKING ABOUT HERE?
00:54:10.78\00:54:13.78
SO YOU'RE GOING TO READ
- SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:54:13.78\00:54:14.85
EPHESIANS 2:5 - WHO HAS
THAT? I'LL GET YOU SET UP.
00:54:14.85\00:54:18.82
WHILE YOU'RE FINDING THAT
I'M GOING TO READ LUKE 15:24.
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WHAT DID THE FATHER SAY
REGARDING THE PRODIGAL SON?
00:54:21.39\00:54:24.69
"FOR THIS MY SON WAS DEAD AND IS
ALIVE AGAIN; HE WAS LOST AND IS
00:54:24.69\00:54:30.53
FOUND." WHAT
DID HE MEAN BY DEAD?
00:54:30.53\00:54:33.00
SPIRITUALLY LOST.
IS THAT SAFE TO SAY?
00:54:33.00\00:54:35.34
WHEN A PERSON DOESN'T
HAVE JESUS DO THEY HAVE LIFE?
00:54:35.34\00:54:37.44
HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE;
HE THAT HAS NOT THE SON HAS NOT
00:54:37.44\00:54:40.91
LIFE. GO AHEAD, READ
PLEASE, EPHESIANS 2:5.
00:54:40.91\00:54:44.88
>>"EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD
IN TRESPASSES, MADE US ALIVE
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TOGETHER WITH CHRIST (BY
GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED)."
00:54:47.85\00:54:51.39
>>SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT BEING
DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS.
00:54:51.39\00:54:55.56
AND CHRIST SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU
GET PREOCCUPIED WITH THE CARES
00:54:55.56\00:54:59.93
OF THIS LIFE, THERE'LL ALWAYS BE
AN EXCUSE.' YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS
00:54:59.93\00:55:03.87
IS SAYING, IS 'WHEN I CALL
YOU TO FOLLOW ME, DON'T LET ANY
00:55:03.87\00:55:09.04
EARTHLY AFFAIRS DISTRACT YOU
FROM FOLLOWING ME BECAUSE THE
00:55:09.04\00:55:13.07
CALL TO LIFE IS SOMETHING YOU
SHOULD BE TAKING CARE OF RIGHT
00:55:13.07\00:55:17.28
AWAY. LET THE
DEAD BURY THE DEAD.'
00:55:17.28\00:55:20.95
THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE SOME
EXCUSE OR SOME DISTRACTION FOR
00:55:20.95\00:55:23.92
YOU TO DO OTHER THINGS, BUT WHEN
GOD CALLS YOU, THERE'S NOTHING
00:55:23.92\00:55:27.16
MORE IMPORTANT THAN
FOLLOWING JESUS AND THAT'S WHAT
00:55:27.16\00:55:28.89
JESUS WAS SAYING. HE
SAID, 'LOOK, I'VE CALLED YOU
00:55:28.89\00:55:30.46
TO FOLLOW ME.' HE CALLED PETER,
JAMES, AND JOHN TO FOLLOW HIM.
00:55:30.46\00:55:35.40
THIS IS SOMEONE HE
CALLED TO BE AN APOSTLE.
00:55:35.40\00:55:37.50
NOTHING CAN
DISTRACT YOU FROM THAT.
00:55:37.50\00:55:39.83
DON'T TURN TO THE RIGHT HAND,
DON'T TURN TO THE LEFT, RIGHT?
00:55:39.83\00:55:43.57
AMEN? WELL, WE ARE OUT
OF TIME. WE GOT THROUGH
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>>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY
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>>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING
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ABOUT THAT. I
DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED.
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>>I BEGAN
READING THE BIBLE AND -
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>>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST -
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>>I REALIZED THAT
THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE.
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>>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS.
>>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME.
00:56:34.72\00:56:37.09
>>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL.
00:56:37.09\00:56:38.69
>>I'LL FOLLOW
CHRIST WHEREVER HE GOES.
00:56:38.69\00:56:40.70
>>AMAZING FACTS.
MORE THAN 45 YEARS OF
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PROCLAIMING GOD'S
MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
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>>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS
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I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS
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WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S
ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE
00:56:54.04\00:56:57.05
I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND
ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE
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NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE.
LET ME - LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND
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FIND THIS. >>THAT
I JUST COULDN'T GET
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ENOUGH. >>AND SO I STARTED
00:57:04.59\00:57:05.95
DOING BIBLE STUDIES.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS
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STARTED BEING
CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF.
00:57:09.36\00:57:12.06
>>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY
DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?'
00:57:12.06\00:57:15.80
THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT
AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS
00:57:15.80\00:57:18.97
A FATHER. >>I LOST
EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS
00:57:18.97\00:57:22.30
WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT
WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE.
00:57:22.30\00:57:25.67
>>I WENT TO A PROPHECY
SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT.
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AND SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT,
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