(MUSIC)
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>>WELCOME AGAIN TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO
THE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH, ALSO THOSE WHO ARE
VISITING FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND EVEN SOME INTERNATIONAL
GUESTS THIS MORNING.
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WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE WITH
US. AND ALSO TO OUR FRIENDS WHO
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ARE JOINING US IN OUR EXTENDED
SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD - A
VERY WARM WELCOME TO YOU AS WELL
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AS TO OUR ONLINE CHURCH
MEMBERS THAT ARE PART OF THIS
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WORSHIP STUDY TIME TOGETHER.
WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR
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LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
THE BOOK OF MATTHEW AND TODAY
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WE FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON
#5 ENTITLED THE SEEN AND THE
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UNSEEN WAR - THAT'S LESSON
#5. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A LESSON
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QUARTERLY BUT YOU'D LIKE TO
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RESCUE FROM ABOVE . WELL,
BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
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THIS MORNING, WE'D LIKE TO
INVITE OUR CHORISTERS TO COME
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AND LEAD US AS WE SING A
SONG OF PRAISE, WARMING UP OUR
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HEARTS FOR OUR STUDY.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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IT'S SO NICE TO SEE
ALL OF YOUR SMILING FACES.
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AND THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING
US, WE CAN'T SEE YOUR FACES BUT
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WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE HAPPY
TO BE SINGING SOME SONGS AND
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WORSHIPING TOGETHER
LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK.
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SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH ONE
OF YOUR FAVORITES - ONE OF OUR
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FAVORITES TOO - BLESSED
ASSURANCE, JESUS IS MINE!
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- IT'S FOUND ON
#462 IN YOUR HYMNAL.
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JOIN WITH US. (MUSIC)
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>>BLESSED
ASSURANCE, JESUS IS MINE!
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O, WHAT A
FORETASTE OF GLORY DIVINE!
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HEIR OF SALVATION, PURCHASE OF
GOD, BORN OF HIS SPIRIT, WASHED
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IN HIS BLOOD. THIS
IS MY STORY, THIS IS MY
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SONG, PRAISING MY SAVIOR ALL THE
DAY LONG; THIS IS MY STORY, THIS
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IS MY SONG, PRAISING MY
SAVIOR ALL THE DAY LONG.
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PERFECT SUBMISSION, PERFECT
DELIGHT, VISIONS OF RAPTURE NOW
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BURST ON MY SIGHT.
ANGELS DESCENDING BRING FROM
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ABOVE ECHOES OF
MERCY, WHISPERS OF LOVE.
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THIS IS MY STORY, THIS IS MY
SONG, PRAISING MY SAVIOR ALL THE
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DAY LONG; THIS IS MY STORY, THIS
IS MY SONG, PRAISING MY SAVIOR
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ALL THE DAY LONG.
PERFECT SUBMISSION, ALL IS AT
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REST, I IN MY SAVIOR AM HAPPY
AND BLEST, WATCHING AND WAITING,
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LOOKING ABOVE, FILLED WITH
HIS GOODNESS, LOST IN HIS LOVE.
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THIS IS MY STORY, THIS IS MY
SONG, PRAISING MY SAVIOR ALL THE
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DAY LONG; THIS IS MY STORY,
THIS IS MY SONG, PRAISING MY
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SAVIOR ALL THE DAY LONG.
>>ONE OF THE NICE THINGS ABOUT
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OUR SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAM IS
WE HAVE VISITORS THAT COME FROM
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TIME TO TIME AND WE LIKE TO HAVE
THEM SHARE THEIR SPECIAL PIECES
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WITH YOU. SO
TODAY WE HAVE A VISITING
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CHOIR. IF YOU GUYS
WOULD LIKE TO STAND
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UP AND START COMING UP HERE
- THIS IS THE SLAVIC CHOIR -
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THEY'RE FROM THE SLAVIC CHURCH
IN CARMICHAEL, CALIFORNIA, WHICH
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IS PROBABLY 20 MINUTES
FROM HERE IN GRANITE BAY.
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AND THE MEMBERS OF THE CHOIR ARE
FROM RUSSIA, UKRAINE, MOLDOVA -
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AND TODAY THEY'RE SINGING
LORD, YOU ARE MY SHELTER .
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(MUSIC) (SINGING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
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>>AMEN. >>AMEN. WHAT A BLESSING.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO BOW
YOUR HEADS AS WE HAVE A WORD OF
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PRAYER. DEAR
FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE ARE
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GRATEFUL THAT WE ARE ABLE
TO GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY THE
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BIBLE - STUDY THIS WONDERFUL
BOOK ABOUT JESUS, THE LIFE OF
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CHRIST, AND THE LESSONS TAUGHT.
WE ASK THAT YOU BE WITH US ONCE
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AGAIN AS WE STUDY MATTHEW.
GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS,
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FOR WE ASK THIS
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>MORNING FRIENDS. >>MORNING.
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>>I'D LIKE TO WISH EVERYBODY
A HAPPY SABBATH AND THANK YOU TO
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THE SLAVIC GROUP -
THAT WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL.
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(RUSSIAN WORDS) (LAUGHTER)
AND FOR OUR FRIENDS THAT ARE OUT
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THERE, WELCOME. I WANT
TO WELCOME OUR EXTENDED
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CLASS THAT IS STUDYING
THE LESSON WITH US FROM ALL
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DIFFERENT POINTS
AROUND THE GLOBE.
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AND SOME OF YOU ARE ACTUALLY
MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH BECAUSE
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YOU HAVE NO LOCAL
CHURCH YOU CAN ATTEND.
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I WANT TO WELCOME THE EXTENDED
GRANITE BAY CHURCH FAMILY THAT
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IS OUT THERE. WE'RE
CONTINUING OUR STUDY
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TODAY DEALING WITH
THE BOOK OF MATTHEW.
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AND TODAY'S STUDY, IN
PARTICULAR, IS GOING TO BE
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TALKING ABOUT
MATTHEW CHAPTERS 11 AND 12.
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AND WE'LL ALWAYS - YOU COMPARE
SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE, YOU
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END UP BOUNCING
AROUND A LITTLE BIT.
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THE LESSON IS CALLED THE
SEEN AND THE UNSEEN WAR .
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MATTHEW TALKS ABOUT THIS
GREAT CONTROVERSY - THIS BATTLE.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND
THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM MATTHEW
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11, VERSE 12 AND I - IT COMES IN
THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION - I
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INVITE YOU TO SAY THIS OUT LOUD
WITH ME, BUT I WANT TO LET YOU
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GET READY. YOU READY?
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YOU CAN READ IT RIGHT OUT OF
YOUR QUARTERLY OR YOUR BIBLE -
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MATTHEW 11:12 - HERE WE GO,
"AND FROM THE DAYS OF JOHN THE
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BAPTIST UNTIL NOW THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN SUFFERS VIOLENCE, AND THE
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VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE."
NOW IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT THEY
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PICKED THIS AS THE MEMORY VERSE
BECAUSE WE HAVE A WHOLE SECTION
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WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO
TALK ABOUT THIS VERSE.
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IT IS A DIFFICULT VERSE.
MATTHEW - THERE'S A NUMBER OF
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VERSES IN MATTHEW THAT
SCHOLARS HAVE BEEN PERPLEXED BY.
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YOU KNOW, THAT VERSE THERE IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 16 WHERE HE SAYS
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TO PETER, 'YOU ARE THE ROCK'
AND 'THE GATES OF HADES WILL NOT
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PREVAIL AGAINST MY CHURCH'
AND 'WHOEVER'S SINS YOU FORGIVE,
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THEY ARE FORGIVEN.'
AND PEOPLE GO, 'WHAT?
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WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?' AND
THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE
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VERSES THAT YOU
FIND HERE IN MATTHEW.
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NOW GO AHEAD AND TAKE YOUR
BIBLE AND TURN THERE, PLEASE, TO
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MATTHEW CHAPTER
11, VERSES 11 AND 12.
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WE'RE GOING TO READ IT AND WE'RE
GOING TO SORT OF BREAK THIS DOWN
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PIECE BY PIECE AND, I THINK, IN
THE PROCESS WE'LL LEARN A LOT OF
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OTHER THINGS THAT ARE
JUST KIND OF INTERCONNECTED.
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NOW AT THE BEGINNING OF MATTHEW
11 - I SHOULD PROBABLY GIVE YOU
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A LITTLE BACKGROUND.
PART OF YOUR STUDY TODAY IS
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MATTHEW 11, YOU KNOW, 1 THROUGH
19, TALKING ABOUT JOHN THE
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BAPTIST, BUT IT STARTS BY GOING
TO THIS SECTION SETTING THE
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STAGE ABOUT JOHN
BEING A GREAT CHAPTER.
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LATER IN OUR STUDY TODAY IT'LL
GO BACK TO THE FIRST VERSES IN
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CHAPTER 11. JESUS
SAYS, "ASSUREDLY I SAY TO
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YOU, AMONG THOSE BORN OF WOMEN,
THERE HAS NOT RISEN ONE GREATER
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THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST; BUT
HE WHO IS LEAST IN THE KINGDOM
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OF HEAVEN IS GREATER THAN HE.
AND FROM THE DAYS OF JOHN THE
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BAPTIST UNTIL NOW, THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN SUFFERS VIOLENCE, AND
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THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE."
ALRIGHT, FIRST LET'S - LET'S
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EXAMINE THE FIRST PART OF THIS.
HE MAKES A BOLD PROCLAMATION.
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THERE'S LOTS OF PROPHETS IN THE
BIBLE AND JESUS SAID, 'I TELL
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YOU THAT AMONG THOSE WHO ARE
BORN OF WOMEN' - ANYONE HERE NOT
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BORN OF A WOMAN? JUST
CHECKING. SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT
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ALL HUMANS, RIGHT?
'AMONG THOSE BORN OF WOMEN THERE
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IS NOT RISEN ONE
GREATER THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST.'
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NOW HOW IS JOHN
THE BAPTIST GREATER?
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IS IT BECAUSE OF
THE BOOK THAT HE WROTE?
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YOU ALL ENJOY READING
THE BOOK OF JOHN THE BAPTIST?
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THERE IS NO
BOOK. THERE'S NO LETTER
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THAT JOHN WROTE.
IS IT BECAUSE OF THE
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MIRACLES THAT JOHN DID?
WHAT WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST'S
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GREATEST MIRACLE?
>>HE BAPTIZED JESUS.
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>>WAS THAT A MIRACLE?
I'VE BAPTIZED PEOPLE -
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IT'S NOT REALLY A
MIRACLE. IT WAS IMPORTANT.
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SO WHY IS JOHN THE
BAPTIST CALLED 'GREATER'?
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NOW IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA, YOU'VE
GOT TO SUMMARIZE IT INTO A
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SENTENCE. YOU
RAISE YOUR HAND - I'LL
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REPEAT IT SO THAT
PEOPLE HEAR. ANY OF YOU?
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WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WAYS
THAT JOHN THE - OKAY, VICKY.
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>>HE WAS THE ONE
WHO BAPTIZED GOD.
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>>HE BAPTIZED
JESUS, GOD THE SON.
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OKAY. NO ONE ELSE HAD
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DONE THAT BEFORE.
>>HERALDED THE COMING OF JESUS.
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>>HE ANNOUNCED
THE COMING OF JESUS.
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HE WAS THE ONE TO INTRODUCE AND
ANNOUNCE THE MESSIAH HAS COME.
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AND THAT'S, I
BELIEVE, ONE OF THEM.
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ANY OTHERS? IN THE BACK?
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>>HE WAS BORN WITH
THE HOLY GHOST AS JESUS.
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>>NOW THAT'S TRUE. HOW
MANY PEOPLE HAVE THE HOLY
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SPIRIT FROM THEIR BIRTH?
BUT THE BIBLE SAYS REGARDING -
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YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT IN MY NOTES
- THAT'S A GOOD POINT, THOUGH.
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THE BIBLE DOES SAY, REGARDING
JOHN THE BAPTIST, THAT HE WAS
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FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT FROM THE
VERY BEGINNING. LET ME GIVE YOU
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SOME OF THE PRIORITIES OF
WHY I THINK HE WAS BIGGER.
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FIRST OF ALL, HE WAS PROPHESIED
OF THE OTHER PROPHETS - ISAIAH
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43, MALACHI 1 - SO YOU'VE GOT
- WHEN PROPHETS FORETELL ANOTHER
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PROPHET'S -
THAT'S GOING TO COME.
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YOU KNOW, MOSES FORETOLD, 'THE
LORD YOUR GOD WILL RAISE UP A
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PROPHET UNTO YOU' - IN
DEUTERONOMY 18 - SPEAKING OF
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JESUS - BUT HERE OTHER PROPHETS
FORETOLD THE COMING OF THIS
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PROPHET, AND THAT
WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST.
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ANOTHER REASON?
BECAUSE HE HAD THE PRIVILEGE -
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AND SOMEONE TOUCHED ON THIS - OF
SHOWING THE FULFILLMENT OF THEIR
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PREDICTIONS WHEN THEY CAME
TO JOHN AND SAID, 'WHO ARE YOU?'
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HE SAID, 'I AM THE VOICE OF ONE
CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS.' HE
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QUOTES ISAIAH AND SAYS
'ISAIAH FORETOLD WHAT I'M DOING.
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PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD.'
SO HE WAS PREPARING THE WAY TO
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INTRODUCE THE MESSIAH.
SECONDLY - OH, THAT WAS SECOND
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- THIRDLY, BECAUSE HE SAW
AND ENJOYED THAT SALVATION WHICH
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THEY COULD ONLY FORETELL, LOOK
AT ALL THE OTHER PROPHETS THAT
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LOOKED FORWARD TO THE
COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
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JOHN WAS GREATER IN THAT
HE GOT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM.
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REMEMBER WHAT JOHN THE APOSTLE -
NOT JOHN THE BAPTIST - JOHN THE
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APOSTLE SAYS, 'OUR HANDS HAVE
HANDLED THE WORD OF LIFE.' WELL,
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JOHN THE BAPTIST HELD HIM
IN HIS HANDS AND BAPTIZED HIM.
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AND HE SAW THE HOLY
SPIRIT COMING UPON HIM.
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AND ONE I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYONE
SAY YET - IS IT, BIBLICALLY, AN
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HONOR OR AN INSULT TO
SUFFER FOR CHRIST'S SAKE?
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DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY, 'REJOICE
AND BE EXCEEDING GLAD IF YOU'RE
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PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
WAS JOHN PERSECUTED
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FOR HIS PROCLAMATION?
AND WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN,
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THAT'LL BE AN HONOR
THROUGH ETERNITY - THAT HE
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DIED A MARTYR'S DEATH. SO
- NOW THE TIME THAT CHRIST
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WAS SPEAKING THAT
HADN'T QUITE HAPPENED YET.
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SO JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS THE
GREATEST OF THE PROPHETS FOR
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THOSE REASONS. IT
DOESN'T MEAN HE DID
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THE GREATEST MIRACLE. WHO
DO YOU THINK - WHAT PROPHET
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DO YOU THINK DID
THE GREATEST MIRACLE?
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I THINK ELIJAH'S PRAYING AND
FIRE COMING DOWN, PRAYING AND
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RAIN COMING DOWN - MOSES WOULD
PRAY AND THEN GOD WOULD SEND
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PLAGUES, BUT ELIJAH SEEMED TO
HAVE JUST A - HE'S THOUGHT OF AS
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ONE OF THE GREAT PROPHETS, BUT
THE HONOR THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST
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HAD REALLY, KIND
OF, EXCEEDED THEM ALL.
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AND, BEFORE WE LEAVE THIS,
THERE'S ANOTHER WAY JOHN THE
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BAPTIST IS GREATER IN THAT HE
BROUGHT - AND OUR LESSON'LL GET
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TO THIS IN A MOMENT - HE
BROUGHT REVIVAL TO THE PEOPLE.
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THE WORK OF ELIJAH
WAS TO BRING REVIVAL.
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AND JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU CAN
RECEIVE IT, THIS IS ELIJAH WHO
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WAS TO COME. SO - AND
HOW WAS JESUS - MATTER
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OF FACT, I'M JUMPING
AHEAD HERE - SOMEBODY'S GOING TO
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READ FOR ME IN LUKE
13:24. YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN
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JUST A MOMENT, OKAY?
WE'LL GET READY FOR THAT.
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IT GOES ON, IN MATTHEW 11, AND
IT SAYS, "AND FROM THE DAYS OF
00:18:17.69\00:18:21.46
JOHN THE BAPTIST" - NOT TO BE
CONFUSED WITH JOHN THE APOSTLE
00:18:21.46\00:18:25.77
OR THE OTHERS - "UNTIL NOW
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SUFFERS
00:18:25.77\00:18:29.24
VIOLENCE," - NOW, WHEN YOU THINK
OF VIOLENCE, IS THAT A GOOD
00:18:29.24\00:18:33.11
THING OR A BAD THING?
HOW DID THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
00:18:33.11\00:18:36.61
SUFFER VIOLENCE FROM THE
DAYS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST?
00:18:36.61\00:18:40.05
THEN HE GOES ON AND HE SAYS,
"AND THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY
00:18:40.05\00:18:41.98
FORCE." THIS IS A
DIFFICULT VERSE BUT I
00:18:41.98\00:18:45.15
THINK WE CAN FIND SOME ANSWERS
TO IT. GO AHEAD, READ FOR US,
00:18:45.15\00:18:49.29
PLEASE, LUKE 24, VERSE -
I'M SORRY, LUKE 13, VERSE 24.
00:18:49.29\00:18:54.36
>>"STRIVE TO ENTER THROUGH THE
NARROW GATE, FOR MANY, I SAY TO
00:18:54.36\00:18:58.00
YOU, WILL SEEK TO
ENTER AND WILL NOT BE ABLE."
00:18:58.00\00:19:02.00
>>THERE'S A STRIVING TO ENTER A
GATE. IF YOU'RE GOING TO CONQUER
00:19:02.00\00:19:07.54
A CITY, YOU TRY TO GET
THROUGH THE GATES, RIGHT?
00:19:07.54\00:19:11.18
YOU REMEMBER THAT VERSE THAT
SAYS IN JOHN 16 - I'M SORRY,
00:19:11.18\00:19:14.72
LUKE 16:16, "THE LAW AND
THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN."
00:19:14.72\00:19:18.95
- JOHN THE BAPTIST - "SINCE THAT
TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS BEEN
00:19:18.95\00:19:23.76
PREACHED AND
EVERYONE IS PRESSING INTO IT."
00:19:23.76\00:19:27.66
SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE
STRIVING TO GET IN A GATE -
00:19:27.66\00:19:30.93
PRESSING INTO THE KINGDOM - AND
SO WHEN HE SAYS THE KINGDOM OF
00:19:30.93\00:19:36.04
HEAVEN SUFFERS VIOLENCE, HE'S
NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WITH
00:19:36.04\00:19:41.14
TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS ATTACKING
THE KINGDOM OF GOD, HE'S TALKING
00:19:41.14\00:19:45.05
ABOUT THE POWER IN WHICH ALL OF
THE PEOPLE WERE RESPONDING AND
00:19:45.05\00:19:50.49
THEY WERE COMING AND LISTENING
TO THE PREACHING OF JOHN.
00:19:50.49\00:19:53.19
YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 3, VERSE 5 -
00:19:53.19\00:19:57.09
COMPARE SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE
- SPEAKING OF THE MINISTRY OF
00:19:57.09\00:19:59.76
JOHN THE BAPTIST, "THEN
JERUSALEM, ALL JUDEA, AND ALL
00:19:59.76\00:20:06.80
THE REGION AROUND THE
JORDAN WENT OUT TO HIM AND WERE
00:20:06.80\00:20:10.41
BAPTIZED BY HIM IN THE
JORDAN, CONFESSING THEIR SINS."
00:20:10.41\00:20:14.98
WHAT HAPPENED AS THE RESULT
OF THE PREACHING OF JOHN THE
00:20:14.98\00:20:17.45
BAPTIST? ALL OF JUDEA AND ALL OF
JERUSALEM AND ALL OF THE REGIONS
00:20:17.45\00:20:23.69
AND ALL THE PEOPLE
WENT AND WERE BAPTIZED.
00:20:23.69\00:20:26.59
ABOUT THE ONLY ONES THAT WERE
NOT BAPTIZED WERE SOME OF THE
00:20:26.59\00:20:29.22
RELIGIOUS LEADERS, BUT - AND
THEY EVEN CAME TO JOHN AND JOHN
00:20:29.22\00:20:32.99
CALLED THEM A BROOD OF VIPERS.
AND THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'WHAT
00:20:32.99\00:20:36.30
DID YOU GO OUT IN
THE WILDERNESS TO SEE?'
00:20:36.30\00:20:38.43
HE DIDN'T SAY 'SOME OF YOU' - HE
TALKED ABOUT, LIKE, ALL OF YOU.
00:20:38.43\00:20:41.74
HE SAID, 'WHY'D
YOU GO OUT THERE?'
00:20:41.74\00:20:43.07
PEOPLE CAME IN DROVES TO HEAR
THIS ONE MAN WHO WAS PREACHING
00:20:43.07\00:20:47.24
WITH SUCH AN UNCTION OF THE
SPIRIT THAT EVEN THOUGH HE WAS
00:20:47.24\00:20:50.81
DRESSED IN BIZARRE ATTIRE - YOU
KNOW, HE'S GOT A LEATHER BELT
00:20:50.81\00:20:54.92
AND CAMEL FUR - KIND OF CAMEL
BURLAP IS MORE LIKE WHAT IT WAS
00:20:54.92\00:20:59.35
- AND HE'S EATING LOCUST - IT
DOESN'T SAY LOCUST BEAN - I HOPE
00:20:59.35\00:21:03.73
IT WAS LOCUST BEAN. IT
COULD HAVE BEEN LOCUST BEAN,
00:21:03.73\00:21:06.13
IT COULD HAVE BEEN
LOCUST LOCUST - AND WILD HONEY.
00:21:06.13\00:21:09.00
IF YOU SAW SOMEBODY PREACHING ON
A SOAP BOX IN SACRAMENTO DRESSED
00:21:09.00\00:21:14.50
LIKE THAT, WOULD
YOU STOP AND LISTEN?
00:21:14.50\00:21:17.04
BUT THERE WAS
SOMETHING ABOUT JOHN.
00:21:17.04\00:21:18.97
YOU WONDER WHO WAS THE FIRST ONE
THAT NOTICED HE WAS PREACHING.
00:21:18.97\00:21:21.18
HAVE YOU EVER PICTURED THAT?
HE - SOMEONE WALKING THROUGH THE
00:21:21.18\00:21:24.21
DESERT, ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS
GUY'S STANDING UP ON A ROCK AND
00:21:24.21\00:21:26.38
HE STARTS TO PREACH TO HIM.
AND HE'S PASSING FROM JERUSALEM
00:21:26.38\00:21:29.22
TO JERICHO AND HE GETS TO
JERICHO AND SAID, 'DO YOU SEE
00:21:29.22\00:21:31.22
THAT GUY OUT THERE PREACHING?
BOY, HE REALLY' - AND THEN SOME
00:21:31.22\00:21:33.32
OTHERS GO OUT AND SOME MORE COME
OUT AND PRETTY SOON THE REPORTS
00:21:33.32\00:21:36.59
SPREAD AND DROVES GO OUT AND
HE SAYS THEY NEED TO REPENT, THE
00:21:36.59\00:21:40.03
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS
COMING, THE MESSIAH'S COMING.
00:21:40.03\00:21:41.63
JOHN, THOUGH HE WAS DRESSED
ROUGH, HIS SPEECH WAS NOT THAT
00:21:41.63\00:21:47.70
WAY BECAUSE WHAT DID
JOHN'S FATHER DO FOR A LIVING?
00:21:47.70\00:21:50.64
A PRIEST. COULD
THE PRIESTS READ?
00:21:50.64\00:21:53.74
WERE THEY ARTICULATE?
AND HE CAME FROM ELIZABETH.
00:21:53.74\00:21:58.45
IT SAYS SHE WAS OF
THE DAUGHTERS OF AARON.
00:21:58.45\00:22:02.05
AND SO FATHER AND
MOTHER WERE EDUCATED.
00:22:02.05\00:22:05.12
YOU REMEMBER WHEN JOHN LOST
- ZACHARIAH LOST HIS ABILITY TO
00:22:05.12\00:22:10.06
SPEAK AND THEY SAID,
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO CALL HIM?
00:22:10.06\00:22:12.36
AND HE TOOK A
TABLET AND HE WROTE.
00:22:12.36\00:22:14.93
HE KNEW HOW TO WRITE.
THEY KNEW HOW TO READ.
00:22:14.93\00:22:17.53
AND SO, HE HAD EDUCATED
PARENTS BUT YET HE'S OUT IN THE
00:22:17.53\00:22:20.74
WILDERNESS AND THERE WAS
JUST SOMETHING ABOUT HIM AND ALL
00:22:20.74\00:22:23.51
THESE PEOPLE CAME IN DROVES.
AND SO THEY WERE PRESSING
00:22:23.51\00:22:26.78
INTO THE KINGDOM. AND
THEN IT GOES ON AND SAYS,
00:22:26.78\00:22:29.94
"THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
SUFFERS VIOLENCE AND THE VIOLENT
00:22:29.94\00:22:33.38
TAKE IT BY FORCE."
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:22:33.38\00:22:36.85
LOOK IN MATTHEW 21:26, "BUT IF
WE SAY, 'FROM MEN,'" - THIS IS
00:22:36.85\00:22:45.46
WHEN JESUS STUMPED THE SCRIBES
AND THE PHARISEES - HE SAID,
00:22:45.46\00:22:48.43
'WAS THE BAPTISM OF
JOHN FROM GOD OR FROM MEN?'
00:22:48.43\00:22:51.43
AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, IF WE SAY
MEN WE FEAR THE MULTITUDE, FOR
00:22:51.43\00:22:54.44
ALL COUNT JOHN AS A PROPHET.'
EVERYBODY WENT OUT TO HIM.
00:22:54.44\00:23:00.24
LOOK AT JOHN 12:19, "THE
PHARISEES THEREFORE SAID AMONG
00:23:00.24\00:23:04.75
THEMSELVES, 'YOU SEE THAT
YOU ARE ACCOMPLISHING NOTHING.
00:23:04.75\00:23:08.42
LOOK, THE WORLD
HAS GONE AFTER HIM!'"
00:23:08.42\00:23:10.79
AND HERE THEY'RE
SPEAKING ABOUT JESUS.
00:23:10.79\00:23:12.12
SO WHAT JESUS IS SAYING IS, FROM
THE TIME THAT JOHN CAME - THE
00:23:12.12\00:23:16.06
PROPHETS PROPHESIED UNTIL JOHN
- BUT FROM THE TIME OF JOHN THE
00:23:16.06\00:23:19.29
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SUFFERED
VIOLENCE MEANING, PEOPLE WERE
00:23:19.29\00:23:22.50
POURING INTO IT. THEY
WERE PRESSING INTO IT LIKE
00:23:22.50\00:23:25.80
- LIKE AN ARMY
STORMING THE GATES OF THE CITY.
00:23:25.80\00:23:29.97
AND, MATTER OF FACT, I THINK
THAT'S ACTUALLY THE WAY - YEAH,
00:23:29.97\00:23:35.81
YEAH, JOHN WESLEY WORDED IT THIS
WAY, IN EXPLAINING THIS VERSE,
00:23:35.81\00:23:39.68
"THAT IS, FROM THE TIME THAT
JOHN HAD FULFILLED HIS MINISTRY,
00:23:39.68\00:23:43.42
MEN RUSH INTO MY KINGDOM WITH
VIOLENCE, LIKE THOSE WHO ARE
00:23:43.42\00:23:47.56
TAKING A CITY BY STORM."
AND SO, WHEN IT SAYS THAT THE
00:23:47.56\00:23:51.43
VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE,
WHICH PEOPLE WERE THE ONES THAT
00:23:51.43\00:23:57.90
ACCEPTED THE TEACHING OF
JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST?
00:23:57.90\00:24:01.90
WAS IT THE RELIGIOUS
ELITE? OR WAS IT THE ROUGH?
00:24:01.90\00:24:08.88
YOU KNOW, PAUL SAYS, 'NOT MANY
WISE, NOT MANY NOBLE, BUT GOD
00:24:08.88\00:24:13.62
HAS CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF
THE WORLD.' AND WHEN JESUS BEGAN
00:24:13.62\00:24:16.95
TO PREACH, IT WASN'T THOSE
WHO WERE CONSIDERED DELICATE AND
00:24:16.95\00:24:21.26
SOPHISTICATED AND
REFINED, BUT IT WAS THE VIOLENT.
00:24:21.26\00:24:28.06
NOW THE WORD 'VIOLENT' -
WHEN YOU THINK OF VIOLENCE, YOU
00:24:28.06\00:24:30.93
USUALLY THINK ABOUT SOMEBODY WHO
IS, YOU KNOW, DOING SOMETHING
00:24:30.93\00:24:35.60
VIOLENT - SOMEBODY WHO IS
LIKE, YOU KNOW, ATTACKING YOU OR
00:24:35.60\00:24:38.94
HITTING YOU OR THERE'S
SOME KIND OF BLOODSHED OR GORE.
00:24:38.94\00:24:43.01
THE WORD 'VIOLENT' DIDN'T ALWAYS
MEAN THAT. IT COULD MEAN THOSE
00:24:43.01\00:24:46.75
WHO WERE ROUGH, WHO WERE
FORCEFUL - AND WHEN THEY SAW
00:24:46.75\00:24:51.75
THESE FISHERMEN AND THESE
SHEPHERDS AND THESE HERDERS AND
00:24:51.75\00:24:56.29
TAX COLLECTORS - LET ME GIVE
YOU SOME MORE EVIDENCE FOR THAT.
00:24:56.29\00:25:01.23
GO, FOR INSTANCE, TO MATTHEW 21
- MATTHEW 21:31 - "JESUS SAITH
00:25:01.23\00:25:08.07
UNTO THEM, 'VERILY I SAY UNTO
YOU, THAT THE PUBLICANS AND THE
00:25:08.07\00:25:11.34
HARLOTS GO INTO THE
KINGDOM OF GOD BEFORE YOU.
00:25:11.34\00:25:14.54
FOR JOHN CAME UNTO YOU IN
THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND YE
00:25:14.54\00:25:18.15
BELIEVED HIM NOT: BUT
THE PUBLICANS AND THE HARLOTS
00:25:18.15\00:25:21.12
BELIEVED HIM: AND YE, WHEN
YE HAD SEEN IT, REPENTED NOT
00:25:21.12\00:25:24.62
AFTERWARD, THAT YE MIGHT BELIEVE
HIM.'" AND SO, HERE, JESUS IS
00:25:24.62\00:25:28.29
SAYING - WHO WAS IT THAT ENDED
UP BELIEVING JOHN THE BAPTIST?
00:25:28.29\00:25:32.03
IT WAS THE ROUGH - THE VIOLENT
- THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE.
00:25:32.03\00:25:35.70
AND THAT GOES ALONG WITH THAT
VERSE THAT SAYS - MATTHEW 16:18
00:25:35.70\00:25:42.57
- "AND I ALSO SAY TO YOU THAT
YOU ARE PETER, AND ON THIS ROCK
00:25:42.57\00:25:46.34
I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE
GATES OF HADES SHALL NOT PREVAIL
00:25:46.34\00:25:52.71
AGAINST IT." NOW
WHAT DOES THAT VERSE MEAN?
00:25:52.71\00:25:55.35
TALKING ABOUT
DIFFICULT VERSES HERE.
00:25:55.35\00:25:57.49
THERE'S A QUOTE IN THE LESSON
FROM STEPS TO CHRIST , I WANT TO
00:25:57.49\00:26:00.06
READ THAT TO YOU RIGHT NOW, "GOD
HAS GIVEN US, IN THE SCRIPTURES,
00:26:00.06\00:26:03.79
SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE FOR THEIR
DIVINE CHARACTER AND WE ARE NOT
00:26:03.79\00:26:07.03
TO DOUBT HIS WORD BECAUSE
WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND ALL THE
00:26:07.03\00:26:10.07
MYSTERIES OF HIS PROVIDENCE,
ESPECIALLY AT FIRST READING."
00:26:10.07\00:26:13.54
WHAT'S NEAT ABOUT THE BIBLE IS
THE LONGER YOU READ IT, THE MORE
00:26:13.54\00:26:17.11
YOU UNDERSTAND. IT
CONTINUES TO UNFOLD.
00:26:17.11\00:26:20.04
SO WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN WHEN HE
SAYS, 'THE GATES OF HADES WILL
00:26:20.04\00:26:23.95
NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT'?
WELL, YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE IN
00:26:23.95\00:26:28.58
YOUR MIND OF GATES OF A CITY
- THEY'RE GUARDING THE CITY -
00:26:28.58\00:26:32.09
AND YOU'VE GOT AN ARMY
THAT IS ATTACKING THE GATES,
00:26:32.09\00:26:35.96
TRYING TO CONQUER THE
CITY. WHO IS ATTACKING WHOM?
00:26:35.96\00:26:40.93
WHEN IT SAYS 'THE GATES OF HADES
WILL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT'
00:26:40.93\00:26:44.50
PEOPLE HAVE SOMETIMES PICTURED
THAT THE CHURCH IS THE KINGDOM
00:26:44.50\00:26:50.04
AND WE'VE GOT THESE GATES AND
THE DEVIL'S TRYING TO BREAK HIS
00:26:50.04\00:26:53.31
WAY IN BUT THEY
WILL NOT PREVAIL.
00:26:53.31\00:26:55.81
IT'S ACTUALLY
THE OPPOSITE OF THAT.
00:26:55.81\00:26:59.45
WE ARE BEING TOLD, AS BELIEVERS,
THAT THERE'S A WAR AND WE ARE TO
00:26:59.45\00:27:03.75
GO FORTH WITH CHRIST CONQUERING
WITH THE SWORD AND THE WORD OF
00:27:03.75\00:27:08.46
GOD AND THE ARMOR OF GOD AND
THE GATES OF THE DEVIL, WHO IS
00:27:08.46\00:27:11.86
HOLDING ALL OF HIS CAPTIVES,
WILL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST US.
00:27:11.86\00:27:16.73
YOU GET THAT? AND
SO, WE ARE STORMING
00:27:16.73\00:27:19.50
THE GATES OF THE ENEMY. THE
VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE AND
00:27:19.50\00:27:24.31
WE'RE TRYING TO
LIBERATE THE DEVIL'S CAPTIVES.
00:27:24.31\00:27:27.11
THIS IS THE
PICTURE THAT JESUS HAD.
00:27:27.11\00:27:28.81
THROUGH THE PREACHING OF JOHN,
ALL THESE CONVERTS WERE SEIZING
00:27:28.81\00:27:31.75
THE KINGDOM AND, THROUGH
THE MINISTRY OF THE APOSTLES - I
00:27:31.75\00:27:34.92
MEAN, JESUS, EVEN BEFORE HE
DIED, SENT OUT THE APOSTLES AND
00:27:34.92\00:27:38.02
HE SENT OUT THE 70 PREACHING -
THEY SAID, 'EVEN THE DEVILS ARE
00:27:38.02\00:27:40.96
SUBJECT UNTO US.' THE GATES
OF HADES DID NOT PREVAIL AGAINST
00:27:40.96\00:27:45.73
THE CHURCH PREACHING. THE
DEVIL'S GATES CANNOT - YOU
00:27:45.73\00:27:49.96
REMEMBER WHEN SAMSON, WITH ALL
OF HIS FLAWS, ONE TIME HE WAS
00:27:49.96\00:27:56.24
SHUT UP IN - WHAT WAS IT, EKRON?
ONE OF THE PHILISTINE CITIES -
00:27:56.24\00:28:00.48
AND THEY SAID,
'WE'VE GOT HIM NOW.
00:28:00.48\00:28:02.31
WE - HE'S ENTERED INTO A CITY
WITH GATES AND BARS' - THAT'S
00:28:02.31\00:28:04.85
EXACTLY WHAT THE PHILISTINE'S
SAID - 'HE'S ENTERED INTO A CITY
00:28:04.85\00:28:07.28
WITH GATES AND BARS. HE CAN'T
GET OUT. NOW WE'LL GET HIM.
00:28:07.28\00:28:11.39
WELL, WHAT DID SAMSON DO
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?
00:28:11.39\00:28:14.12
HE WOKE UP AND HE CAME TO THE
GATE AND HE TRIED THE DOOR AND
00:28:14.12\00:28:16.32
IT WAS LOCKED SO HE TOOK A DEEP
BREATH AND HE TORE THE GATES -
00:28:16.32\00:28:20.16
BARS, HINGES, LINTEL - RIGHT
OUT OF THE WALLS, PUT IT ON HIS
00:28:20.16\00:28:24.07
SHOULDERS - HE COULDN'T JUST
KNOCK IT DOWN AND WALK OUT, HE
00:28:24.07\00:28:25.97
HAD TO MAKE A SPECTACLE OF
IT - PUT IT ON HIS SHOULDERS AND
00:28:25.97\00:28:28.97
CARRIED IT TEN MILES UP ON TOP
OF A HILL BY HEBRON AND THREW IT
00:28:28.97\00:28:32.11
OFF. SO HE TORE
OFF THE GATES OF THE
00:28:32.11\00:28:35.74
ENEMY CITY. SO YOU
SEE WHAT THE PICTURE OF
00:28:35.74\00:28:38.31
JESUS IS REFERRING TO HERE,
ABOUT WHAT GATES ARE KEEPING WHO
00:28:38.31\00:28:43.08
IN. AGAIN, IF YOU - YEAH, LET ME
JUMP OVER HERE - THERE'S ANOTHER
00:28:43.08\00:28:55.90
VERSE I'M MISSING I
WANT TO READ TO YOU.
00:28:55.90\00:28:58.80
OH, YEAH, GO HERE TO - GO
TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 11 - GO TO
00:28:58.80\00:29:07.28
MATTHEW CHAPTER 11 IN YOUR
LESSON HERE - AND I WANT YOU TO
00:29:07.28\00:29:13.68
KNOW - I WANT YOU TO READ VERSE
13, "FOR ALL THE PROPHETS AND
00:29:13.68\00:29:19.32
THE LAW ARE
PROPHESIED UNTIL JOHN."
00:29:19.32\00:29:22.82
NOW WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
THE - WHAT'S THE CENTRAL THEME
00:29:22.82\00:29:27.50
OF ALL THE LAW AND THE
PROPHETS? >>JESUS IS COMING.
00:29:27.50\00:29:30.37
>>IT'S JESUS, ISN'T IT?
AT LEAST JESUS' FIRST COMING
00:29:30.37\00:29:33.20
- BUT IT'S ABOUT JESUS.
CHRIST, WHEN HE TOLD THE
00:29:33.20\00:29:35.84
DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS,
'BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL THE
00:29:35.84\00:29:39.67
PROPHETS, HE EXPOUNDED UNTO THEM
IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES THE THINGS
00:29:39.67\00:29:43.95
CONCERNING HIMSELF.' JESUS SAID,
'YOU SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES FOR
00:29:43.95\00:29:48.62
IN THEM YOU THINK
YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
00:29:48.62\00:29:50.42
THESE ARE THEY THAT TESTIFY OF
ME.' AND SO, WHEN HE SAYS THERE
00:29:50.42\00:29:54.56
IN MATTHEW 11 'ALL THE PROPHETS
AND THE LAW PROPHESIED UNTIL
00:29:54.56\00:29:58.96
JOHN AND IF YOU ARE WILLING TO
RECEIVE IT, HE IS ELIJAH WHO IS
00:29:58.96\00:30:03.93
TO COME.' NOW WHAT IS
CHRIST REFERRING TO THERE?
00:30:03.93\00:30:08.67
IS JOHN THE BAPTIST THE
REINCARNATION OF ELIJAH?
00:30:08.67\00:30:12.24
NO. THAT'S - THAT'S IMPORTANT
TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE WHEN THE
00:30:12.24\00:30:16.34
RELIGIOUS LEADERS CAME TO JOHN
AND THEY SAID, 'ARE YOU THE ONE
00:30:16.34\00:30:20.98
WE'VE BEEN WAITING
FOR? ARE YOU ELIJAH?
00:30:20.98\00:30:23.15
ARE YOU THAT PROPHET
THAT MOSES SPOKE ABOUT?'
00:30:23.15\00:30:25.65
AND WHEN THEY
SAID, 'ARE YOU ELIJAH?'
00:30:25.65\00:30:27.16
HE SAID, 'NO.' WHY DID ELIJAH
SAY 'NO' WHEN THEY ASKED HIM ARE
00:30:27.16\00:30:32.53
YOU - WHY DID JOHN THE BAPTIST
SAY 'NO' WHEN THEY ASKED HIM
00:30:32.53\00:30:35.23
'ARE YOU ELIJAH?'?
BECAUSE THEY WERE ASKING
00:30:35.23\00:30:38.20
THE WRONG QUESTION.
THEY WERE WONDERING, 'ARE
00:30:38.20\00:30:39.87
YOU ELIJAH REINCARNATED?'
WHERE DO THEY GET THAT?
00:30:39.87\00:30:44.04
WHAT'S THE LAST
PROPHECY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:30:44.04\00:30:46.37
MALACHI CHAPTER 4, REMEMBER THE
LAW OF MOSES, 'BEHOLD I SEND YOU
00:30:46.37\00:30:52.15
ELIJAH THE PROPHET BEFORE THE
GRATEFUL - THE DREADFUL DAY OF
00:30:52.15\00:30:56.99
THE LORD AND HE WILL TURN
THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO THE
00:30:56.99\00:30:59.55
CHILDREN AND THE HEARTS OF THE
CHILDREN TO THE FATHERS, LEST I
00:30:59.55\00:31:01.92
COME AND SMITE THE EARTH WITH
A CURSE.' PERIOD - END OF OLD
00:31:01.92\00:31:05.59
TESTAMENT. SO THE LAST THING
THAT MALACHI SAYS IS 'I WILL
00:31:05.59\00:31:09.20
SEND YOU ELIJAH.' WELL, ELIJAH
WENT UP TO HEAVEN AND SO THEY
00:31:09.20\00:31:12.50
THOUGHT, WELL, HE WAS GOING
TO COME DOWN - THAT HE'D BE
00:31:12.50\00:31:15.20
REINCARNATED. HOW WAS
JOHN THE BAPTIST LIKE ELIJAH?
00:31:15.20\00:31:20.08
LET'S KEEP READING MATTHEW
11, "AND IF YOU ARE WILLING TO
00:31:20.08\00:31:23.28
RECEIVE IT," - NOW WHY DOES
JESUS SAY, 'IF YOU'RE WILLING TO
00:31:23.28\00:31:25.58
RECEIVE IT?' NOT
EVERYBODY - NOT ONLY WILLING
00:31:25.58\00:31:30.29
- COULD THEY UNDERSTAND IT?
HE'S SAYING, 'CAN YOU - IF YOU
00:31:30.29\00:31:34.66
CAN COMPREHEND THIS' - IT'S NOT
JUST THAT I'M - I DON'T WANT TO
00:31:34.66\00:31:37.33
KNOW THE TRUTH, SOME
PEOPLE JUST DIDN'T GET IT.
00:31:37.33\00:31:39.83
AND JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'RE
WILLING TO RECEIVE IT, THIS IS
00:31:39.83\00:31:42.30
ELIJAH WHO IS TO COME.
HE THAT HAS EARS, LET HIM
00:31:42.30\00:31:46.13
HEAR' - THOSE WITH SPIRITUAL
DISCERNMENT. SO TO UNDERSTAND
00:31:46.13\00:31:49.34
HOW YOU COME LIKE ELIJAH,
GO BACK TO THE FIRST PERSON WHO
00:31:49.34\00:31:53.27
CAME LIKE ELIJAH. THE ANGEL
GABRIEL TOLD THE FATHER OF JOHN
00:31:53.27\00:31:58.88
THE BAPTIST, 'YOUR SON WILL
GO FORTH IN THE SPIRIT AND THE
00:31:58.88\00:32:03.22
POWER OF ELIJAH. WHO WAS THE
FIRST ONE WHO CAME IN THE SPIRIT
00:32:03.22\00:32:07.66
AND THE POWER OF
ELIJAH? >>ELISHA.
00:32:07.66\00:32:10.79
>>ELISHA. GOOD. IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT IN 2 KINGS
00:32:10.79\00:32:14.46
CHAPTER 2 - YOU REMEMBER WHEN
ELIJAH SAYS TO ELISHA, 'WHAT
00:32:14.46\00:32:18.63
CAN I DO FOR YOU
BEFORE I GO TO HEAVEN?'
00:32:18.63\00:32:20.54
HE SAID, 'LET A DOUBLE PORTION
OF YOUR SPIRIT BE UPON ME.' NOW
00:32:20.54\00:32:25.17
THAT DIDN'T MEAN THAT ELIJAH HAD
SOME SPECIAL TRADEMARK SPIRIT
00:32:25.17\00:32:30.01
THAT WAS JUST HIS THAT GOD
TOOK SOME OF IT OUT OF HIM.
00:32:30.01\00:32:33.11
ELISHA, IN HIS REQUEST TO
ELIJAH, IS QUOTING SOMETHING
00:32:33.11\00:32:39.55
THAT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE
BEFORE WHERE GOD TOOK THE SPIRIT
00:32:39.55\00:32:43.53
OF MOSES AND PUT
IT ON THE 70 ELDERS.
00:32:43.53\00:32:46.93
IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT. IT
WASN'T LIKE - I MEAN, HOW DO
00:32:46.93\00:32:50.63
YOU TAKE THE SPIRIT OF ONE MAN
AND PUT IT ON ALL THESE PEOPLE?
00:32:50.63\00:32:53.64
DIDN'T JESUS GIVE
OF HIS SPIRIT TO US?
00:32:53.64\00:32:56.60
ISN'T THAT WHAT
IT'S TEACHING US?
00:32:56.60\00:32:58.01
WHEN CHRIST BREATHED ON THE
DISCIPLES HE SAID, 'RECEIVE YE
00:32:58.01\00:33:00.68
THE SPIRIT.' SO THESE WERE ALL
ILLUSTRATIONS OF GIVING THE HOLY
00:33:00.68\00:33:04.45
SPIRIT TO OTHERS. SO,
THE FIRST ONE WHO HAD THE
00:33:04.45\00:33:07.15
SPIRIT AND POWER
OF ELIJAH WAS ELISHA.
00:33:07.15\00:33:10.89
IT DOESN'T MEAN ELISHA WAS A
REINCARNATION OF ELIJAH BECAUSE
00:33:10.89\00:33:14.62
THEY WERE BOTH
ALIVE AT THE SAME TIME.
00:33:14.62\00:33:16.52
IT MEANS THAT HE WOULD DO A
SIMILAR WORK AND HAVE THE SAME
00:33:16.52\00:33:19.69
HOLY SPIRIT AND
THE SAME POWER, OKAY?
00:33:19.69\00:33:22.56
SO WHEN IT SAYS THAT JOHN THE
BAPTIST CAME IN THE SPIRIT AND
00:33:22.56\00:33:25.53
POWER OF ELIJAH AND HE WAS THE
FULFILLMENT - HE WAS PART OF THE
00:33:25.53\00:33:29.14
FULFILLMENT.
LET ME EXPLAIN THAT.
00:33:29.14\00:33:31.17
GO WITH ME TO MATTHEW 17 REAL
QUICK AND LOOK IN VERSE 11 -
00:33:31.17\00:33:38.38
WE'RE STILL IN MATTHEW - I'M
DIVERGING A LITTLE BIT, BUT I'M
00:33:38.38\00:33:42.28
STAYING IN MATTHEW
AND THAT'S OUR ASSIGNMENT.
00:33:42.28\00:33:46.35
"AND HIS DISCIPLES ASKED HIM,
SAYING, 'WHY THEN DO THE SCRIBES
00:33:46.35\00:33:48.96
SAY THAT ELIJAH
MUST COME FIRST?'" -
00:33:48.96\00:33:51.33
BEFORE THE MESSIAH - AND
LISTEN TO WHAT JESUS SAYS -
00:33:51.33\00:33:53.50
VERSE 11 - MATTHEW 17:11, "JESUS
ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM,
00:33:53.50\00:33:57.90
'INDEED, ELIJAH IS COMING'"
- NOW WHEN THEY ASKED THAT JOHN
00:33:57.90\00:34:03.94
THE BAPTIST WAS ALREADY THERE.
HE'D ALREADY DONE HIS MINISTRY.
00:34:03.94\00:34:06.47
HE'S ALREADY IN PRISON.
AND JESUS SAID, 'ELIJAH IS
00:34:06.47\00:34:09.74
COMING' - THAT'S FUTURE - "BUT I
SAY TO YOU THAT ELIJAH HAS COME
00:34:09.74\00:34:15.18
ALREADY, AND THEY DID
NOT KNOW HIM BUT DID TO HIM
00:34:15.18\00:34:17.09
WHATEVER THEY WISHED.
LIKEWISE THE SON OF MAN IS ALSO
00:34:17.09\00:34:20.19
ABOUT TO SUFFER AT THEIR HANDS."
AND SO JOHN THE BAPTIST HAS
00:34:20.19\00:34:21.82
ALREADY BEEN KILLED AT
THIS POINT IN THE STORY.
00:34:21.82\00:34:25.99
BUT JESUS SAID ELIJAH IS COMING
AND THEN HE SAYS ELIJAH DID
00:34:25.99\00:34:29.66
COME. WHY DID JESUS SAY THAT?
BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO COMINGS OF
00:34:29.66\00:34:34.60
THE LORD THAT JOHN
THE BAPTIST PREPARES FOR.
00:34:34.60\00:34:37.87
THERE ARE TWO COMINGS OF THE
LORD THAT ELIJAH PREPARES FOR.
00:34:37.87\00:34:41.31
JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME IN THE
SPIRIT AND POWER OF ELIJAH TO
00:34:41.31\00:34:43.95
PREPARE THE WORLD
FOR THE FIRST COMING.
00:34:43.95\00:34:46.35
IN THE LAST DAYS THERE IS GOING
TO BE ANOTHER JOHN THE BAPTIST
00:34:46.35\00:34:50.45
OR GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WILL
HAVE THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF
00:34:50.45\00:34:53.76
ELIJAH THAT WILL
DO A SIMILAR WORK.
00:34:53.76\00:34:56.19
I THINK IT WILL
BE MANY NOT ONE. WHY?
00:34:56.19\00:34:58.83
BECAUSE FOR JESUS' FIRST COMING
HE HAD TWELVE APOSTLES THAT HE
00:34:58.83\00:35:03.30
FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT.
FOR HIS SECOND COMING HE'S GOT
00:35:03.30\00:35:06.50
12 TIMES 12,000 -
THEY'RE CALLED THE 144,000.
00:35:06.50\00:35:10.41
SO, SINCE THERE ARE SO MANY MORE
APOSTLES, I THINK THERE'S GOING
00:35:10.41\00:35:12.57
TO BE MANY MORE JOHN THE
BAPTISTS - OR AT LEAST THEY'LL
00:35:12.57\00:35:15.31
HAVE THAT SPIRIT
AND POWER OF ELIJAH.
00:35:15.31\00:35:17.08
WHAT WAS IT ABOUT ELIJAH
AND JOHN THE BAPTIST THAT IS A
00:35:17.08\00:35:21.02
MESSAGE FOR TODAY?
AND I SEE THE CLOCK.
00:35:21.02\00:35:23.39
I'M GOING TO TRY AND GET TO THE
LESSON, BUT I HATE TO RUSH PAST
00:35:23.39\00:35:25.45
THIS BECAUSE IT'S SO
IMPORTANT TO US TODAY.
00:35:25.45\00:35:27.92
WHAT MADE JOHN
DIFFERENT? DID JOHN PREACH ABOUT
00:35:27.92\00:35:33.13
THE COMING OF THE LORD? >>YES.
00:35:33.13\00:35:35.16
>>'PREPARE FOR THE
COMING OF THE LORD.
00:35:35.16\00:35:37.40
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT
HAND.' IS THAT TO BE A MESSAGE
00:35:37.40\00:35:39.33
THAT WE'RE TO BE GIVING TODAY
- FOR THE LAST GROUP OF ELIJAHS?
00:35:39.33\00:35:44.74
DID JOHN BELIEVE
IN COUNTRY LIVING?
00:35:44.74\00:35:49.68
I'M NOT GOING TO GO OFF THAT
ROAD TOO FAR, BUT HE DID - HE
00:35:49.68\00:35:53.88
DID GET OUT IN THE
WILDERNESS. DID JOHN BELIEVE
00:35:53.88\00:35:57.65
IN HUMBLE DRESS? >>YES.
00:35:57.65\00:36:01.16
>>COULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN MUCH MORE
HUMBLE. YOU COULD NEVER SAY THAT
00:36:01.16\00:36:04.93
HE WAS A CLOTHESHORSE.
AND WHEN YOU OPENED HIS CLOSET
00:36:04.93\00:36:08.50
YOU DIDN'T SEE 50 PAIRS
OF SHOES LIKE IMELDA MARCOS.
00:36:08.50\00:36:12.93
JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD
HUMILITY IN HIS DRESS.
00:36:12.93\00:36:15.14
DID HE HAVE A
SIMPLE DIET? >>YES.
00:36:15.14\00:36:17.67
>>HE DID. AND DID
HE LIVE A HOLY LIFE?
00:36:17.67\00:36:21.88
THESE ARE JUST A FEW THINGS, BUT
YOU LOOK AT THE LIFE OF JOHN THE
00:36:21.88\00:36:24.45
BAPTIST AND YOU LOOK AT
THE LIFE OF ELIJAH AND THEY'RE
00:36:24.45\00:36:26.85
SPIRIT-FILLED, THEY'RE SIMPLE
LIVES, THEY'RE PREOCCUPIED WITH
00:36:26.85\00:36:30.69
HOLINESS AND SO WE NEED THAT
SAME MESSAGE IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:36:30.69\00:36:35.82
WE NEED THE MESSAGE OF MODESTY.
WE NEED THE HEALTH MESSAGE.
00:36:35.82\00:36:40.30
WE NEED THE MESSAGE OF
THAT CLOSENESS TO GOD AND THAT
00:36:40.30\00:36:44.73
WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE. ALRIGHT,
I BETTER MOVE RIGHT ALONG HERE.
00:36:44.73\00:36:49.54
FRONTIERS OF
DARKNESS IS THE NEXT SECTION.
00:36:49.54\00:36:52.31
AND IN A MOMENT SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ GENESIS 32:24.
00:36:52.31\00:36:56.61
OKAY, KELLY, YOU'LL HAVE
THAT? LIGHT AND DARKNESS.
00:36:56.61\00:36:59.35
LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A
MINUTE. COLOSSIANS 1:12-14 -
00:36:59.35\00:37:03.59
THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON - "GIVING
THANKS TO THE FATHER WHO HAS
00:37:03.59\00:37:07.26
QUALIFIED US TO BE PARTAKERS OF
THE INHERITANCE OF THE SAINTS IN
00:37:07.26\00:37:12.36
THE LIGHT. HE HAS
DELIVERED US FROM THE
00:37:12.36\00:37:14.73
POWER OF DARKNESS" - YOU KNOW, I
UNDERSTAND WHEN THEY DISCOVERED
00:37:14.73\00:37:18.67
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, YOU KNOW,
THAT THEY FOUND VIRTUALLY EVERY
00:37:18.67\00:37:22.50
BOOK IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT IN PART OR WHOLE.
00:37:22.50\00:37:24.84
THE ONLY BOOK THAT WAS
COMPLETELY ABSENT WAS THE BOOK
00:37:24.84\00:37:26.81
OF ESTHER. BUT EVERY
OTHER BOOK THEY FOUND
00:37:26.81\00:37:29.51
- MANY OF THEM IN ENTIRETY, SOME
IN PART - BUT THEY ALSO FOUND
00:37:29.51\00:37:32.81
OTHER BOOKS THAT ARE
NOT PART OF THE BIBLE.
00:37:32.81\00:37:35.38
AND THE WRITERS WHO
WROTE THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, WHO
00:37:35.38\00:37:39.12
TRANSCRIBED THE BIBLE, AND ALSO
WROTE OTHER BOOKS, THEY WERE
00:37:39.12\00:37:42.72
PROBABLY KNOWN TO JOHN THE
BAPTIST BECAUSE THE DEAD SEA
00:37:42.72\00:37:45.29
SCROLLS WERE NOT FOUND VERY FAR
FROM AENON WHERE IT'S A POOL IN
00:37:45.29\00:37:50.43
THE JORDAN RIVER WHERE JOHN
BAPTIZED AND THE PART OF THE
00:37:50.43\00:37:53.60
WILDERNESS WHERE JOHN HAUNTED -
WHEN I SAY THAT I DON'T MEAN IT
00:37:53.60\00:37:56.97
LIKE A SPIRIT, I MEAN WHERE HE
WORKED - WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE
00:37:56.97\00:38:00.61
ESSENES, THESE JEWISH SCRIBES
- THIS VERY - AND THEY PRACTICED
00:38:00.61\00:38:06.72
BAPTISM TOO.
THEY HAD BAPTISTERIES.
00:38:06.72\00:38:08.85
ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN TO MASADA?
I SEE SOME OF YOU'VE BEEN - YOU
00:38:08.85\00:38:12.49
KNOW WHAT I'M
TALKING ABOUT, YEAH.
00:38:12.49\00:38:13.72
THEY'VE ACTUALLY UNCOVERED -
RIGHT BY MASADA - BY THE JORDAN
00:38:13.72\00:38:16.73
RIVER NEAR THE DEAD SEA, WHERE
THE JORDAN RUNS INTO THE DEAD
00:38:16.73\00:38:19.36
SEA - THIS ESSENE COMMUNITY -
JOHN ALMOST CERTAINLY KNEW THEM.
00:38:19.36\00:38:22.90
THEY WROTE BOOKS ABOUT
THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND THE
00:38:22.90\00:38:26.23
CHILDREN OF DARKNESS.
00:38:26.23\00:38:28.30
THEY HAD A WHOLE DIFFERENT
SEPARATE GROUP OF WRITINGS WHERE
00:38:28.30\00:38:31.31
THEY TALKED ABOUT THE SONS OF
LIGHT AND THE SONS OF DARKNESS.
00:38:31.31\00:38:35.48
AND THE BIBLE
TALKS ABOUT THIS TOO.
00:38:35.48\00:38:38.75
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE GREAT
STATEMENTS OF JESUS IS IN THE
00:38:38.75\00:38:42.02
BOOK OF - WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT
STATEMENTS OF JESUS YOU THINK
00:38:42.02\00:38:44.82
MATTHEW, MARK,
LUKE, AND JOHN, RIGHT?
00:38:44.82\00:38:46.86
BUT JESUS SAYS SOME
THINGS IN ACTS, TOO.
00:38:46.86\00:38:50.36
AND DEEP IN ACTS - ACTS CHAPTER
26 - YOU'LL FIND RED-LETTER
00:38:50.36\00:38:54.46
EDITION. JESUS
SPEAKS AND HE SAYS -
00:38:54.46\00:38:58.73
HE'S TALKING TO PAUL - 'I
WILL DELIVER YOU FROM THE JEWISH
00:38:58.73\00:39:04.07
PEOPLE, AS WELL AS FROM THE
GENTILES TO WHOM I NOW SEND YOU,
00:39:04.07\00:39:07.68
TO OPEN THEIR EYES IN ORDER
TO TURN THEM FROM DARKNESS TO
00:39:07.68\00:39:12.71
LIGHT, FROM THE POWER OF
SATAN' - WHO IS THE DARKNESS?
00:39:12.71\00:39:16.99
- 'FROM THE POWER OF SATAN THAT
THEY MIGHT RECEIVE FORGIVENESS
00:39:16.99\00:39:20.56
OF SINS AND AN INHERITANCE AMONG
THOSE WHO ARE SANCTIFIED BY
00:39:20.56\00:39:24.89
FAITH IN ME.' BOY, THAT'S THE
WHOLE GOSPEL RIGHT THERE - TO
00:39:24.89\00:39:28.00
TURN THEM FROM THE
POWER OF THE DEVIL.
00:39:28.00\00:39:29.90
GOD WANTS TO SAVE US FROM THE
POWER OF THE DEVIL - FROM THE
00:39:29.90\00:39:32.30
DARKNESS TO THE LIGHT - THAT
THEY MIGHT BE SANCTIFIED - MADE
00:39:32.30\00:39:36.04
HOLY - BY FAITH IN ME. AND
HE ALSO SAYS, 'I'LL PRESERVE
00:39:36.04\00:39:40.31
YOU WHILE YOU GIVE THIS MESSAGE.
I'LL DELIVER YOU FROM THE PEOPLE
00:39:40.31\00:39:43.45
THAT WANT TO STOP YOU
FROM GIVING THIS MESSAGE.
00:39:43.45\00:39:45.98
HE HAS THESE
WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL PROMISES.
00:39:45.98\00:39:48.42
SO YOU'VE GOT THAT
LIGHT AND DARKNESS TENSIONS.
00:39:48.42\00:39:52.62
THE CHRISTIAN
LIFE INVOLVES A BATTLE.
00:39:52.62\00:39:56.19
THAT'S WHAT THIS
LESSON IS TALKING ABOUT.
00:39:56.19\00:39:58.89
IT'S A STRUGGLE
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
00:39:58.89\00:40:01.13
FOR INSTANCE,
READ GENESIS 32:24.
00:40:01.13\00:40:06.10
>>"THEN JACOB WAS LEFT ALONE;
AND A MAN WRESTLED WITH HIM
00:40:06.10\00:40:09.37
UNTIL THE BREAKING OF DAY."
>>ALRIGHT, THERE WAS WRESTLING.
00:40:09.37\00:40:13.44
WHO WAS JACOB WRESTLING
WITH? I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS BUT
00:40:13.44\00:40:19.01
I THINK IF ANY OF YOU OWN A
TELEVISION AND YOU'RE HONEST,
00:40:19.01\00:40:21.92
YOU HAVE SURFED BY SOME OF THIS
TEN-YEAR-OLD WRESTLING - I MEAN,
00:40:21.92\00:40:27.32
IT'S MADE FOR 10-YEAR-OLDS
- THAT THEY HAVE ON TV.
00:40:27.32\00:40:30.59
IT'S JUST RIDICULOUS HYPER-DRAMA
WHERE THERE'S GRANDSTANDING AND
00:40:30.59\00:40:35.93
PEOPLE ARE JUMPING AND THROWING
CHAIRS AND IT'S - IT'S ALL KIND
00:40:35.93\00:40:40.57
OF - IT'S A JOKE. I HOPE
YOU DON'T WATCH THAT, BUT
00:40:40.57\00:40:43.67
YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN IT BEFORE
BECAUSE IT'S - THEY EVEN HAVE
00:40:43.67\00:40:46.27
IT ON IN AIRPORTS
SOMETIMES. THAT'S NOT WRESTLING.
00:40:46.27\00:40:50.11
COLLEGE WRESTLING IS A LITTLE
MORE LIKE WHAT IT IS - WHERE
00:40:50.11\00:40:55.05
YOU'VE GOT TWO PEOPLE
PITTING ALL OF THEIR STRENGTH -
00:40:55.05\00:40:57.89
I WRESTLED IN MILITARY SCHOOL.
00:40:57.89\00:40:59.55
I WAS ON A WRESTLING TEAM - YOU
GET SO EXHAUSTED IN JUST A FEW
00:40:59.55\00:41:02.76
MOMENTS BECAUSE YOU USE EVERY
OUNCE OF STRENGTH THAT YOU'VE
00:41:02.76\00:41:05.83
GOT AND YOU'RE USING ALL THE
MUSCLES IN YOUR BODY TO TRY AND
00:41:05.83\00:41:09.23
OVERCOME SOMEONE - USUALLY THE
SAME WEIGHT AND SIZE AS YOU -
00:41:09.23\00:41:12.10
AND - TO PIN THEM AND YOU -
AFTER THREE MINUTES, YOU JUST -
00:41:12.10\00:41:16.74
YOU CAN FALL OVER YOU'RE SO
EXHAUSTED. THE BIBLE TELLS US
00:41:16.74\00:41:20.18
THAT JACOB WAS PRAYING BY THE
BROOK JABBOK THERE. HIS BROTHER
00:41:20.18\00:41:25.45
WAS COMING WITH AN ARMY, INTENT
ON GETTING VENGEANCE FOR HIS
00:41:25.45\00:41:29.98
STEALING HIS BIRTHRIGHT. AND
HERE JACOB'S GOT ALL HIS FAMILY,
00:41:29.98\00:41:33.29
HIS CHILDREN, ALL HIS STUFF
AND HE'S JUST PRAYING WITH GOD
00:41:33.29\00:41:35.79
FOR FORGIVENESS FOR HIS SIN AND
HE'S - ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS MAN
00:41:35.79\00:41:39.63
TOUCHES HIM -
IT'S ACTUALLY THE LORD.
00:41:39.63\00:41:41.66
AND HE DOESN'T KNOW, HE THINKS
IT'S SOME BANDIT OR SOMEBODY
00:41:41.66\00:41:45.60
FROM ESAU'S COMPANY AND HE
TRIES TO DEFEND HIMSELF AND HE'S
00:41:45.60\00:41:48.97
GRABBING HIS WRIST AND THEN HIS
ANKLE AND THEN THEY'RE TUSSLING
00:41:48.97\00:41:51.67
AND IT SAYS HE WRESTLED
HIM UNTIL THE BREAK OF DAY.
00:41:51.67\00:41:56.28
WRESTLE THREE MINUTES, LET ALONE
THREE HOURS, AND THAT SYMBOLIZES
00:41:56.28\00:42:04.79
PRAYING. FINALLY,
WHEN THIS ANGEL OF
00:42:04.79\00:42:08.12
THE LORD - WE BELIEVE HE WAS
WRESTLING WITH THE LORD BECAUSE
00:42:08.12\00:42:10.29
HE SAYS, 'I'VE SEEN GOD.' HE
TOUCHES HIS HIP AND IT'S TAKEN
00:42:10.29\00:42:14.30
OUT OF JOINT AND -
BUT HE WON'T LET GO.
00:42:14.30\00:42:17.90
HE REALIZES IT'S THE LORD
AND HE GRABS HIM BY THE ANKLE.
00:42:17.90\00:42:20.07
HE SAYS, 'I'LL NOT LET YOU
GO' - THE ANGEL SAYS, 'LET GO.
00:42:20.07\00:42:21.70
IT'S BREAKING OF DAY. I
NEED TO GO.' HE SAYS, 'I WON'T
00:42:21.70\00:42:24.34
LET YOU.' YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW
IF HE WAS GOING TO - WHY MICHAEL
00:42:24.34\00:42:27.94
THE ARCHANGEL WOULD SAY THAT
TO JACOB - IT'S NOT LIKE HE WAS
00:42:27.94\00:42:30.35
GOING TO TURN INTO A PUMPKIN
OR SOMETHING, BUT HE SAID,
00:42:30.35\00:42:33.98
'LET ME GO. THE DAY
IS BREAKING.' I THINK
00:42:33.98\00:42:37.52
IT'S BECAUSE HE HAD TO GO
TALK TO ESAU AND CALM HIM DOWN.
00:42:37.52\00:42:40.49
AND HE SAID, 'I'LL NOT LET YOU
GO UNTIL YOU BLESS ME.' AND THAT
00:42:40.49\00:42:45.13
HAS BECOME A SYMBOL OF
WRESTLING WITH GOD IN PRAYER.
00:42:45.13\00:42:49.33
IT'S A BATTLE BETWEEN THE FORCES
OF DOUBT AND FAITH AND WE ALL GO
00:42:49.33\00:42:55.04
THROUGH THAT.
SOMETIMES WE WRESTLE WITH GOD IN
00:42:55.04\00:42:57.71
PRAYER WHEN THERE'S TEMPTATION
AND THERE'S A STRIVING GOING
00:42:57.71\00:43:01.88
ON AND IT CAN BE
EXHAUSTING. THERE'S A BATTLE
00:43:01.88\00:43:04.25
BETWEEN GOOD AND
EVIL. SO THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
00:43:04.25\00:43:06.98
CHRISTIANS ARE TO BE MEEK -
BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, THEY WILL
00:43:06.98\00:43:12.12
INHERIT THE EARTH -
BUT DOES MEEK MEAN WEAK?
00:43:12.12\00:43:16.32
IT'S ACTUALLY THE OPPOSITE.
IT TAKES STRENGTH TO BE MEEK.
00:43:16.32\00:43:23.40
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT MOSES WAS
THE MEEKEST MAN IN ALL THE WORLD
00:43:23.40\00:43:27.80
BUT HE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO
CHASE OFF SEVEN SHEPHERDS THAT
00:43:27.80\00:43:30.21
WERE BOTHERING THE
GIRLS - ONE MAN AGAINST SEVEN.
00:43:30.21\00:43:33.51
SO JESUS, HE SAID, 'I AM MEEK
AND LOWLY' BUT HE HAD INCREDIBLE
00:43:33.51\00:43:39.41
INTERNAL STRENGTH
WHERE HE WAS NOT AFRAID.
00:43:39.41\00:43:42.15
I MEAN, THERE IN THE GARDEN
PRAYING, HE WAS WRESTLING WITH
00:43:42.15\00:43:44.65
GOD, SWEATING DROPS OF BLOOD,
KIND OF LIKE A SYMBOL OF JACOB'S
00:43:44.65\00:43:47.92
TIME OF TROUBLE AND WRESTLING.
AND WE WILL ALL HAVE OUR GARDEN
00:43:47.92\00:43:52.09
OF GETHSEMANE EXPERIENCE.
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS?
00:43:52.09\00:43:55.70
THE BIGGEST BATTLE - I THINK
THIS IS IN THE BOOK STEPS TO
00:43:55.70\00:43:57.73
CHRIST ALSO, BUT I FORGET THE
REFERENCE - THE BIGGEST BATTLE
00:43:57.73\00:43:59.87
THAT ANYONE IS GOING TO
FACE IS THE WAR AGAINST SELF.
00:43:59.87\00:44:04.21
WHEN YOU STRUGGLE WITH THE
SELFISH NATURE AND YOU PRAY TO
00:44:04.21\00:44:10.05
COME TO THE POINT WHERE YOU
REALLY PRAY AND SAY, 'NOT MY
00:44:10.05\00:44:13.28
WILL, THY WILL BE DONE'
- THAT BATTLE AGAINST SELF.
00:44:13.28\00:44:15.62
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I
HAVE TROUBLE GOING TEN MINUTES
00:44:15.62\00:44:18.05
WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT
MYSELF. LESS THAN THAT.
00:44:18.05\00:44:22.16
BUT I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO
KNOW HOW BAD IT REALLY WAS.
00:44:22.16\00:44:26.36
AND I EXPECT YOU'D FIND THE
SAME THING, BUT THAT BATTLE OF
00:44:26.36\00:44:28.60
SAYING, 'NOT I BUT CHRIST',
THAT'S THE BIGGEST BATTLE.
00:44:28.60\00:44:31.07
IT'S A WRESTLING MATCH.
00:44:31.07\00:44:33.54
EPHESIANS 6:12, "FOR WE DO NOT
WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD,
00:44:33.54\00:44:39.24
BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES,"
- NOW YOU NOTICE THEY'VE GOT TWO
00:44:39.24\00:44:41.54
DIFFERENT WRESTLINGS HERE - YOU
WRESTLE WITH THE LORD IN PRAYER
00:44:41.54\00:44:43.55
SOMETIMES AND
SAY, 'DON'T LET ME GO.
00:44:43.55\00:44:45.01
I WON'T LET YOU GO TILL YOU
BLESS ME.' BUT WE ALSO WRESTLE
00:44:45.01\00:44:49.08
AGAINST THE ENEMY - "FOR WE
DO NOT WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH AND
00:44:49.08\00:44:52.89
BLOOD, BUT AGAINST
PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWERS,
00:44:52.89\00:44:55.62
AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE
DARKNESS OF THIS AGE, AGAINST
00:44:55.62\00:44:58.29
SPIRITUAL HOSTS OF WICKEDNESS
IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES."
00:44:58.29\00:45:01.90
SO THERE'S A
BATTLE THAT GOES ON.
00:45:01.90\00:45:04.07
THIS IS WHY JESUS SAID, AND THIS
IS IN YOUR LESSON AS WELL, IN
00:45:04.07\00:45:08.27
MATTHEW 10:34 - NOW WE'RE GOING
BACK BEFORE MATTHEW 11 - "DO NOT
00:45:08.27\00:45:12.07
THINK THAT I CAME TO
BRING PEACE ON EARTH.
00:45:12.07\00:45:14.91
I DID NOT COME TO
BRING PEACE BUT A" - WHAT?
00:45:14.91\00:45:17.21
>>SWORD. >>WAIT
A SECOND, A SWORD?
00:45:17.21\00:45:20.05
I THOUGHT THAT YOU
ACCEPT JESUS AND YOU HAVE PEACE.
00:45:20.05\00:45:23.12
AND IF EVERYBODY WAS A
CHRISTIAN, WOULDN'T WE HAVE
00:45:23.12\00:45:24.95
PEACE ON EARTH?
GOODWILL AND PEACE ON EARTH?
00:45:24.95\00:45:28.16
PROBLEM IS THERE'S SOMEONE
THAT DOESN'T ACCEPT JESUS - THE
00:45:28.16\00:45:32.09
DEVIL. HE CLAIMS
THIS WORLD AS HIS OWN.
00:45:32.09\00:45:35.16
EVEN JESUS RECOGNIZED THE
DEVIL HAS A FOOTHOLD HERE.
00:45:35.16\00:45:37.73
HE CALLS HIM THE
PRINCE OF THE WORLD.
00:45:37.73\00:45:40.17
SO THERE'S THIS BATTLE.
CHRIST SAID, 'I AM SAVING YOU.
00:45:40.17\00:45:43.04
YOU'RE IN THE WORLD BUT
YOU'RE NOT OF THE WORLD.'
00:45:43.04\00:45:44.64
THERE'S THIS BATTLE BETWEEN
THESE OPPOSING FORCES AND
00:45:44.64\00:45:47.91
MATTHEW BRINGS THIS OUT
QUITE A BIT IN HIS BOOK.
00:45:47.91\00:45:53.52
ONE MORE VERSE HERE - 2
CORINTHIANS 12:10 - YOU KNOW,
00:45:53.52\00:45:56.08
I'VE GOT SOME VERSES YOU
WON'T FIND IN YOUR LESSON.
00:45:56.08\00:45:57.92
FOR THOSE WHO FREQUENT THE
AMAZING FACTS OR GRANITE BAY
00:45:57.92\00:46:01.22
WEBSITE, WE DO POST MOST OF THE
NOTES. SO IF YOU WANT THESE - IF
00:46:01.22\00:46:04.46
YOU'RE A TEACHER - FOR WHATEVER
THEY'RE WORTH. HE SAYS HERE IN 2
00:46:04.46\00:46:08.76
CORINTHIANS 12:10, "THEREFORE I
TAKE PLEASURE IN INFIRMITIES, IN
00:46:08.76\00:46:12.87
REPROACHES, IN NEEDS, IN
PERSECUTIONS, IN DISTRESSES, FOR
00:46:12.87\00:46:16.37
CHRIST'S SAKE." - NOTICE THIS
- "FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM
00:46:16.37\00:46:19.51
STRONG." WHAT DOES PAUL MEAN BY
THAT? 'WHEN I COME TO THE POINT
00:46:19.51\00:46:24.35
WHERE I KNOW I CAN'T DEPEND
ON MYSELF, THEN I'M STRONG.'
00:46:24.35\00:46:28.38
HAVE YOU HAD THOSE EXPERIENCES
WHERE GOD HAS TO BRING YOU DOWN
00:46:28.38\00:46:30.59
TO REALIZE YOUR DEPENDENCE
ON HIM? AND YOU'RE STRONG IN THE
00:46:30.59\00:46:33.56
LORD BECAUSE YOU
KNOW YOUR OWN WEAKNESS?
00:46:33.56\00:46:35.76
YEP, THE LORD
SOMETIMES DOES GREAT THINGS BY
00:46:35.76\00:46:38.56
THOSE WHO
RECOGNIZE THEIR OWN WEAKNESS.
00:46:38.56\00:46:40.90
HE KILLS GIANTS
WITH LITTLE DAVIDS.
00:46:40.90\00:46:43.63
EPHESIANS 10 - I'M SORRY,
EPHESIANS 6:10, "FINALLY, MY
00:46:43.63\00:46:47.64
BRETHREN, BE STRONG IN THE LORD
AND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT."
00:46:47.64\00:46:51.24
- SO HOW ARE WE STRONG? WE
CAN BE MEEK AND VERY STRONG
00:46:51.24\00:46:54.18
IN THE POWER OF THE LORD.
SO MATTHEW TEACHES THIS WHOLE
00:46:54.18\00:46:59.38
WARFARE WORLD VIEW, WHICH IS
OUR NEXT SECTION, AND SOMEONE'S
00:46:59.38\00:47:03.62
GOING TO READ 1 JOHN
5:19 - JUST A MOMENT.
00:47:03.62\00:47:07.16
I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW 12:25,
"BUT JESUS KNEW THEIR THOUGHTS,
00:47:07.16\00:47:11.63
AND SAID TO THEM: 'EVERY KINGDOM
DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF IS
00:47:11.63\00:47:15.23
BROUGHT TO DESOLATION, AND EVERY
CITY OR HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST
00:47:15.23\00:47:19.03
ITSELF WILL NOT STAND. IF SATAN
CASTS OUT SATAN, HE IS DIVIDED
00:47:19.03\00:47:23.17
AGAINST HIMSELF. HOW
THEN WILL HIS KINGDOM STAND?'"
00:47:23.17\00:47:26.44
ALRIGHT, I WANT TO PAUSE RIGHT
HERE AND KIND OF TALK ABOUT THIS
00:47:26.44\00:47:29.01
VERSE QUICKLY. JESUS
WAS CASTING OUT DEVILS.
00:47:29.01\00:47:33.35
HIS ENEMIES WERE SAYING, 'YOU'RE
CASTING OUT DEVILS THROUGH THE
00:47:33.35\00:47:36.05
POWER OF THE DEVIL.' AND JESUS
SAID, 'JUST KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
00:47:36.05\00:47:39.85
SAYING.' HE SAYS, 'IF YOU SAY
THAT SATAN IS CASTING OUT SATAN,
00:47:39.85\00:47:42.92
HE'S GOT INTERNAL DIVISION,
HIS KINGDOM WILL NOT STAND.' WAS
00:47:42.92\00:47:47.13
JESUS SAYING THAT SATAN WILL
NEVER APPEAR TO CAST OUT SATAN
00:47:47.13\00:47:53.07
FOR THE PURPOSE OF DECEIVING?
NO, BECAUSE SOMETIMES SATAN WILL
00:47:53.07\00:47:56.87
MAKE YOU THINK THAT HE'S
CASTING OUT SATAN - TO DECEIVE.
00:47:56.87\00:48:01.11
WHAT JESUS WAS
SAYING, IS WHEN HE
00:48:01.11\00:48:02.34
DOES THAT, HIS
KINGDOM WON'T STAND.
00:48:02.34\00:48:04.75
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A CHURCH
SERVICE WHERE YOU'VE GOT THIS
00:48:04.75\00:48:07.58
GUY UP THERE THAT'S CARRYING ON
- HE'S ACTING LIKE HE'S CASTING
00:48:07.58\00:48:10.09
OUT DEVILS AND YOU KNOW THAT
HE'S BAMBOOZLING PEOPLE - THAT
00:48:10.09\00:48:13.52
HE'S BEGGING FOR THEIR MONEY AND
HE'S A - LATER IT'S DISCOVERED
00:48:13.52\00:48:15.76
THAT HE'S A FRAUD AND HE'S GOT
A GIRLFRIEND AND ALL THESE OTHER
00:48:15.76\00:48:17.93
PROBLEMS - BUT HE SAID
HE WAS CASTING OUT DEVILS.
00:48:17.93\00:48:21.43
OR CAN THE DEVIL MAKE A PERSON
SICK AND THEN GIVE ONE OF HIS
00:48:21.43\00:48:25.93
REPRESENTATIVES THE POWER TO
APPEAR THAT THEY'VE BEEN HEALED?
00:48:25.93\00:48:31.11
SO CAN SATAN CREATE THE ILLUSION
THAT HE'S CASTING OUT SATAN?
00:48:31.11\00:48:35.28
IT'S LIKE A
DOUBLE SPY. SURE HE CAN.
00:48:35.28\00:48:37.85
ALL JESUS IS SAYING IS HIS
KINGDOM'S NOT GOING TO STAND.
00:48:37.85\00:48:40.68
DID THAT MAKE SENSE? SO
CHRIST WAS NOT SAYING JUST
00:48:40.68\00:48:44.19
BECAUSE SOME MINISTER OUT
THERE IS CASTING OUT DEVILS HE
00:48:44.19\00:48:46.65
CAN'T BE A COUNTERFEIT.
THERE ARE - THERE'S COUNTERFEITS
00:48:46.65\00:48:49.82
OUT THERE THAT
THE DEVIL IS USING.
00:48:49.82\00:48:52.13
ALRIGHT, LET ME READ THE REST OF
THAT VERSE - "AND IF I CAST OUT
00:48:52.13\00:48:55.70
DEVILS BY BEELZEBUB, BY WHOM
DO YOUR SONS CAST THEM OUT?"
00:48:55.70\00:49:00.50
THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THE
PRIESTS' SONS THAT WERE GOING
00:49:00.50\00:49:02.97
OUT CASTING OUT DEVILS.
YOU CAN READ ABOUT ONE OF
00:49:02.97\00:49:05.74
THEM IN THE BOOK OF ACTS.
IT SAYS THESE SEVEN SONS OF
00:49:05.74\00:49:08.18
SCEVA TRIED TO CAST OUT THE
DEVIL IN THE NAME OF JESUS AND
00:49:08.18\00:49:11.45
THE DEVIL SAID, 'I KNOW PAUL AND
I KNOW JESUS, BUT I DON'T KNOW
00:49:11.45\00:49:14.78
YOU.' THE DEMON-POSSESSED
MAN JUMPED ON THESE SEVEN BOYS,
00:49:14.78\00:49:18.15
BEAT THEM UP, AND THEY
RAN OUT WOUNDED AND NAKED.
00:49:18.15\00:49:20.52
AND SO, THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF
THESE PRIESTS HAD SONS THAT HAD
00:49:20.52\00:49:23.66
THESE ITINERANT 'WE
CAST OUT DEVILS' MINISTRIES.
00:49:23.66\00:49:27.30
AND HE SAID, 'WHY ARE YOU GIVING
ME A HARD TIME FOR CASTING OUT
00:49:27.30\00:49:30.63
THE DEVIL WHEN YOUR
SONS ARE CLAIMING TO DO IT?
00:49:30.63\00:49:33.34
BY WHOM DO THEY CAST OUT DEVILS?
00:49:33.34\00:49:35.64
AND THEREFORE,
THEY'LL BE YOUR JUDGES.
00:49:35.64\00:49:38.17
"BUT IF I CAST OUT DEMONS BY
THE SPIRIT OF GOD, SURELY THE
00:49:38.17\00:49:40.91
KINGDOM OF GOD
HAS COME UPON YOU.
00:49:40.91\00:49:43.08
OR HOW CAN ONE ENTER A STRONG
MAN'S HOUSE AND PLUNDER HIS
00:49:43.08\00:49:45.85
GOODS, UNLESS HE
FIRST BINDS THE STRONG MAN?
00:49:45.85\00:49:48.52
AND THEN HE WILL PLUNDER HIS
HOUSE." SO HERE WE'VE GOT AGAIN
00:49:48.52\00:49:50.82
A PICTURE OF THE DEVIL AND HIS
POWERS BEING BOUND - THE GATES
00:49:50.82\00:49:55.69
OF THE DEVIL WILL NOT RESIST THE
POWER OF GOD. IF YOU'VE GOT A
00:49:55.69\00:49:59.86
PERSON - YOUR BODY'S A TEMPLE OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT - BUT THE DEVIL
00:49:59.86\00:50:03.60
INVADES THAT HOUSE AND HE TAKES
POSSESSION OF YOUR HOUSE, IF YOU
00:50:03.60\00:50:07.17
WANT TO OVERCOME - IF YOU WANT
TO DELIVER THE PERSON, YOU NEED
00:50:07.17\00:50:11.81
TO OVERPOWER THE DEVIL WHO HAS
TAKEN THAT PERSON. AND JESUS IS
00:50:11.81\00:50:15.98
SAYING BASICALLY, WHEN WE INVITE
HIS LIGHT INTO OUR LIVES, THAT
00:50:15.98\00:50:20.58
HE WILL BIND THE
POWER OF THE DEVIL.
00:50:20.58\00:50:24.09
YOU'LL SOMETIMES HEAR
CHARISMATIC PREACHERS SHAKING
00:50:24.09\00:50:26.05
THEIR FISTS AND SCREAMING, 'I
BIND YOU, SATAN.' AND IT LOOKS
00:50:26.05\00:50:30.56
LIKE MAYBE THEY'RE BEING A
LITTLE BIT - A LITTLE AUDACIOUS
00:50:30.56\00:50:35.63
TO SAY, 'I'VE GOT THE POWER
TO BIND SATAN.' BUT IT IS TRUE.
00:50:35.63\00:50:39.63
IT IS BIBLICAL THAT
CHRIST CAN BIND SATAN.
00:50:39.63\00:50:44.74
WHAT HAPPENS IN REVELATION 20?
'I SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM
00:50:44.74\00:50:47.84
HEAVEN WITH A GREAT CHAIN
AND HE LAYS HOLD ON THAT SERPENT
00:50:47.84\00:50:50.55
AND HE' - DOES WHAT? BINDS THEM.
HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO
00:50:50.55\00:50:54.85
HAVE THE LORD BIND THE
DEVIL'S POWER IN YOUR LIFE.
00:50:54.85\00:50:58.72
SO IN PRINCIPLE, IT'S TRUE -
THAT WHEN THE LORD COMES IN -
00:50:58.72\00:51:01.99
HAVE YOU SEEN PEOPLE
BEING SET FREE FROM THEIR SIN?
00:51:01.99\00:51:05.53
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE BOUND
BY THE CORDS OF THEIR SINS.
00:51:05.53\00:51:08.46
JESUS COMES IN, SAVES
THEM, AND THEY'RE DELIVERED.
00:51:08.46\00:51:11.87
SO THE DEVIL'S POWER IS BOUND
WHEN YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN.
00:51:11.87\00:51:17.81
WHEN SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND
ABEDNEGO WERE TIED UP AND THROWN
00:51:17.81\00:51:20.81
IN THE FIERY
FURNACE, WHAT DID THE FIRE DO?
00:51:20.81\00:51:23.41
IT BURNED THE ROPES THAT BOUND
THEM. WHEN JESUS BROUGHT LAZARUS
00:51:23.41\00:51:27.65
OUT OF THE GRAVE,
YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID?
00:51:27.65\00:51:29.52
HE WAS ALL WRAPPED UP WITH
GRAVE CLOTHES - HE SAID, 'UNBIND
00:51:29.52\00:51:30.99
HIM.' AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS
THE LORD DOES IS WHEN HE ENTERS
00:51:30.99\00:51:34.69
A PERSON'S LIFE,
HE BREAKS THE CHAINS.
00:51:34.69\00:51:37.69
SO THERE'S A BATTLE
BETWEEN THESE TWO FORCES.
00:51:37.69\00:51:40.50
YOU'RE EITHER A SERVANT OF THE
LORD OR A SLAVE OF THE DEVIL.
00:51:40.50\00:51:44.00
HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD IS UNDER
THE SWAY OF THE WICKED ONE?
00:51:44.00\00:51:47.47
ARE BELIEVERS IN THE WORLD
THE MAJORITY OR THE MINORITY?
00:51:47.47\00:51:52.61
SO WHEN YOU'VE GOT TWO FORCES
GOING TO BATTLE, DON'T YOU WANT
00:51:52.61\00:51:57.31
TO HAVE MORE SOLDIERS
THAN THE OTHER GUY, TYPICALLY?
00:51:57.31\00:52:01.72
WHEN YOU'RE FIGHTING WITH
GOD, DOES THE MAJORITY MATTER?
00:52:01.72\00:52:06.65
HOW MANY TIMES DID DAVID GO WITH
A MUCH SMALLER FORCE AGAINST THE
00:52:06.65\00:52:10.86
PHILISTINES AND WIN?
SOMETIMES DAVID HAD AN ARMY THAT
00:52:10.86\00:52:14.83
NUMBERED IN HUNDREDS AND HE
FOUGHT AN ARMY THAT NUMBERED
00:52:14.83\00:52:18.37
IN THOUSANDS AND HE
WON. JUST LIKE WHEN HE
00:52:18.37\00:52:20.97
WON AGAINST GOLIATH. SO
EVEN THOUGH BELIEVERS ARE A
00:52:20.97\00:52:25.27
SMALLER GROUP IN THIS WORLD, YOU
AND GOD ARE ALWAYS A MAJORITY.
00:52:25.27\00:52:34.02
IS THAT RIGHT? >>AMEN.
00:52:34.02\00:52:35.58
>>SO - I MEAN, THAT'S WHY MOSES
SAID 'DON'T FOLLOW A MULTITUDE
00:52:35.58\00:52:38.85
TO DO EVIL.' DON'T WAIT
FOR THE TRUTH TO BE POPULAR.
00:52:38.85\00:52:42.46
IT IS NEVER GOING TO BE POPULAR.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S WAVES,
00:52:42.46\00:52:45.33
LIKE DURING THE TIME OF
JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JESUS
00:52:45.33\00:52:47.56
- A GREAT REVIVAL. MANY
WERE FORCING THEIR WAY INTO
00:52:47.56\00:52:49.56
THE CHURCH BUT, BY AND
LARGE, THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD
00:52:49.56\00:52:52.20
DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE LORD.
AND SO, THERE'S THIS POWER, BUT
00:52:52.20\00:52:58.77
WE NEED TO TRUST
THAT GOD'S MORE POWERFUL.
00:52:58.77\00:53:00.71
ROMANS 16:20 - I LIKE THIS VERSE
- PAUL CLOSES OUT THE BOOK OF
00:53:00.71\00:53:03.85
ROMANS WITH THIS, "AND THE GOD
OF PEACE WILL CRUSH SATAN" - NOW
00:53:03.85\00:53:09.68
WAIT A SECOND. DOES A
PEACEFUL PERSON CRUSH?
00:53:09.68\00:53:13.05
WHAT DOES HE USE? HE
USES THE SWORD - "THE GOD OF
00:53:13.05\00:53:17.46
PEACE WILL CRUSH SATAN
UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY."
00:53:17.46\00:53:20.10
WHAT IS PAUL
REFERRING TO WHEN HE SAYS THAT?
00:53:20.10\00:53:23.33
YOU KNOW THE FIRST
PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE?
00:53:23.33\00:53:25.60
IN GENESIS 3:14 THE LORD SAID TO
THE SERPENT, "BECAUSE YOU HAVE
00:53:25.60\00:53:29.14
DONE THIS, YOU ARE CURSED MORE
THAN ALL CATTLE, AND MORE THAN
00:53:29.14\00:53:32.47
EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD;
ON YOUR BELLY YOU SHALL GO, AND
00:53:32.47\00:53:35.51
YOU SHALL EAST DUST
ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.
00:53:35.51\00:53:37.08
AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN
YOU AND THE WOMAN," - THERE'LL
00:53:37.08\00:53:39.65
BE CONSTANT ANIMOSITY -
AGITATION - OPPOSITION BETWEEN
00:53:39.65\00:53:43.22
THE CHURCH AND THE DEVIL - "AND
BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED;
00:53:43.22\00:53:49.26
HE" - JESUS, THE MESSIAH,
THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - "SHALL
00:53:49.26\00:53:52.73
BRUISE YOUR HEAD,
AND YOU" - THE SERPENT -
00:53:52.73\00:53:55.83
"SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL."
00:53:55.83\00:53:57.57
THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE
CONFLICT THAT WOULD GO ON - THE
00:53:57.57\00:54:00.14
WAR BETWEEN GOOD AND
EVIL THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
00:54:00.14\00:54:02.37
YOU'VE GOT THE WORK OF GOD -
CHRIST - THE SEED OF THE WOMAN -
00:54:02.37\00:54:04.97
WALKING WITH THE GOSPEL AND THE
DEVIL'S CONSTANTLY BITING AT HIS
00:54:04.97\00:54:08.48
HEELS, IMPEDING HIS PROGRESS.
IF YOUR HEEL IS BITTEN AND YOUR
00:54:08.48\00:54:11.65
FOOT IS SWOLLEN WITH
VENOM, YOU WALK MORE SLOWLY.
00:54:11.65\00:54:14.58
BUT, ULTIMATELY, WHAT WOULD YOU
RATHER HAVE? A WOUNDED HEEL OR A
00:54:14.58\00:54:18.79
CRUSHED HEAD? SO
WHO LOSES THE BATTLE?
00:54:18.79\00:54:23.83
SATAN, BUT DOES THE
CHURCH SOMETIMES LOSE BATTLES?
00:54:23.83\00:54:27.86
YEAH, WE DON'T LIKE TO THINK OF
- DID THE DISCIPLES GET WELCOMED
00:54:27.86\00:54:31.73
IN EVERY PLACE THEY PREACHED, OR
DID THEY SOMETIMES GET STONED?
00:54:31.73\00:54:35.84
HOW MANY OF THE APOSTLES
WERE KILLED FOR THEIR FAITH?
00:54:35.84\00:54:39.64
MOST OF THEM. NO,
JOHN THE REVELATOR DIED OF
00:54:39.64\00:54:43.14
OLD AGE, BUT THEY
TRIED TO KILL HIM.
00:54:43.14\00:54:45.08
BUT ALL THE OTHERS - HISTORY
- TRADITION TELLS US THAT THEY
00:54:45.08\00:54:48.02
WERE MARTYRED. AND
THEN, YOU KNOW, I'VE RUN OUT
00:54:48.02\00:54:50.92
OF TIME HERE, BUT IT TALKS ABOUT
WHEN THE BATTLE GETS NASTY.
00:54:50.92\00:54:54.02
JOHN'S FAITH WAS CHALLENGED WHEN
HE WAS IN PRISON - MATTHEW 11.
00:54:54.02\00:54:58.29
HE HEARD ABOUT
THE MIRACLES OF JESUS.
00:54:58.29\00:55:00.23
HE KEPT WAITING FOR JESUS TO DO
WHAT HE THOUGHT THE MESSIAH WAS
00:55:00.23\00:55:02.93
GOING TO DO - THAT HE WOULD
GET ON A WHITE HORSE AND BRING
00:55:02.93\00:55:06.47
ARMIES AND FIGHT AGAINST THE
ROMANS AND ISRAEL WOULD BECOME A
00:55:06.47\00:55:09.87
NATION AGAIN. EVEN
JOHN THE BAPTIST DIDN'T
00:55:09.87\00:55:13.27
FULLY UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES
AND HE WAS WONDERING, 'WHY IS
00:55:13.27\00:55:15.68
JESUS JUST GOING AROUND TEACHING
AND HEALING AND PREACHING AND -
00:55:15.68\00:55:19.91
ISN'T THE MESSIAH
GOING TO DO SOMETHING MORE
00:55:19.91\00:55:21.75
INTERNATIONALLY DRAMATIC?
ISN'T THERE GOING TO BE
00:55:21.75\00:55:25.35
SOMETHING HAPPENING
MILITARILY, POLITICALLY?'
00:55:25.35\00:55:29.09
AND SO HE WAITED AND WAITED
AND JOHN WAS LEFT IN PRISON.
00:55:29.09\00:55:31.49
HIS FAITH WAS TRIED. THE DEVIL
WAS TRYING TO DISCOURAGE JOHN.
00:55:31.49\00:55:35.06
AND HE SENT A MESSAGE TO JESUS.
HE SAID, 'ARE YOU THE ONE WE'RE
00:55:35.06\00:55:37.20
WAITING FOR OR DO WE LOOK FOR
ANOTHER?' JESUS DIDN'T ANSWER
00:55:37.20\00:55:40.94
THE MESSENGERS RIGHT
AWAY. HE SAID, 'JUST STAND RIGHT
00:55:40.94\00:55:43.51
THERE.' AND THEY
WATCHED HIM TEACH,
00:55:43.51\00:55:45.64
HEAL, YOU KNOW, RAISE THE
DEAD, CLEANSE THE LEPER, PREACH
00:55:45.64\00:55:51.78
THE GOSPEL - AND HE SAID,
'NOW GO TELL JOHN WHAT YOU SAW.'
00:55:51.78\00:55:55.72
AND THEY WENT BACK
AND REPORTED THAT AND THEN
00:55:55.72\00:55:57.99
JOHN REMEMBERED ISAIAH 61 WHERE
IT TALKED ABOUT THE MINISTRY
00:55:57.99\00:56:01.59
OF THE MESSIAH WOULD BE ONE
OF OPENING THE EYES OF THE BLIND
00:56:01.59\00:56:06.39
AND SETTING THE CAPTIVES
FREE. AND HE SAW THAT THERE WAS
00:56:06.39\00:56:08.46
THE SPIRITUAL SIDE TO IT.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THEY WANTED
00:56:08.46\00:56:12.93
TO GET RID OF JOHN THE
BAPTIST AND STOP HIS PREACHING
00:56:12.93\00:56:15.27
- HE WAS BEHEADED.
THE REASON WE PRAY, IN THE
00:56:15.27\00:56:19.41
LORD'S PRAYER, 'THY WILL
BE DONE' IS BECAUSE GOD'S
00:56:19.41\00:56:22.78
WILL IS NOT ALWAYS
DONE. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:56:22.78\00:56:27.42
NOT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS
IN THE WORLD IS GOD'S WILL.
00:56:27.42\00:56:30.19
GOD IS NOT - PARDON ME -
GOD - THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS NOT
00:56:30.19\00:56:34.49
WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH
AND THE FACT THAT PEOPLE ARE
00:56:34.49\00:56:38.66
PERISHING IS EVIDENCE THAT
NOT EVERYTHING IS GOD'S WILL.
00:56:38.66\00:56:41.76
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