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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A
VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
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EXTENDED BIBLE STUDY CLASS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
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THE WORLD - WE'RE DELIGHTED
THAT YOU'RE STUDYING THE
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BIBLE WITH US TODAY.
ALSO TO THE MEMBERS HERE
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AT GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THOSE
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WHO ARE VISITING, A VERY
WARM WELCOME TO YOU AS WELL.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH
THE BOOK OF MATTHEW AS OUR STUDY
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TOGETHER. TODAY
WE FIND OURSELVES ON
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LESSON #6 ENTITLED
RESTING IN CHRIST .
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NOW, FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
THIS MORNING, I'D LIKE TO INVITE
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OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME FORWARD
AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE LEADING
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US IN A SONG OF PRAISE BEFORE WE
GET TO OUR STUDY OF GOD'S WORD.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
THIS MORNING WE'RE GOING TO
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BE SINGING ABOUT JESUS, OUR
PRICELESS TREASURE - HYMN #431 -
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WE'LL SING ALL
THREE VERSES. (MUSIC)
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>>COME, LET US SING OF
HOMELAND, DOWN BY THE CRYSTAL
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SEA; WONDERFUL LAND WHERE
JESUS BUILDETH A MANSION FOR ME.
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OVER YONDER, DOWN BY THE CRYSTAL
SEA, OVER YONDER, THERE'S WHERE
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I LONG TO BE, NO MORE SORROW,
TOIL, GRIEF, NOR CARE, IN THE
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HOMELAND BRIGHT AND
FAIR, OVER, OVER THERE.
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WATER OF LIFE THERE FLOWETH,
FRUIT IN ABUNDANT STORE;
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CITIZENS OF THAT COUNTRY
HUNGER AND THIRST NEVERMORE.
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OVER YONDER, DOWN BY THE CRYSTAL
SEA, OVER YONDER, THERE'S WHERE
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I LONG TO BE, NO MORE SORROW,
TOIL, GRIEF, NOR CARE, IN THE
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HOMELAND BRIGHT AND
FAIR, OVER, OVER THERE.
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COME GO WITH ME TO HOMELAND,
JESUS INVITES YOU THERE; HELP
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SPREAD THE INVITATION,
TELL IT TO MEN EVERYWHERE.
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OVER YONDER, DOWN BY THE CRYSTAL
SEA, OVER YONDER, THERE'S WHERE
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I LONG TO BE, NO MORE SORROW,
TOIL, GRIEF, NOR CARE, IN THE
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HOMELAND BRIGHT AND
FAIR, OVER, OVER THERE.
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>>I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD
TO THAT DAY WHEN WE WILL BE IN
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HEAVEN WITH JESUS FOREVER.
AND THAT IS WHY WE SING.
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AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL
COME UP AND HAVE OUR MORNING
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PRAYER. >>AMEN.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH
OUR STUDY TODAY, LET'S JUST BOW
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OUR HEADS AND
HAVE A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE
AGAIN, WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE
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OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER
AND OPEN UP THE BIBLE AND STUDY
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THIS VERY IMPORTANT PART OF
SCRIPTURE TALKING ABOUT JESUS
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AND HIS TEACHINGS. SO
LORD, WE ASK THAT ONCE
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AGAIN YOU BE WITH US.
GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND MINDS FOR
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WE ASK THIS IN
JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR STUDY THIS MORNING WILL
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS AND I
WANT TO THANK OUR MUSICIANS AND
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OUR SINGERS. MORNING EVERYONE.
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>>MORNING. >>HOW ARE YOU?
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>>FINE. >>YOU LOOK OKAY.
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(LAUGHTER) I THINK THAT PASTOR
ROSS MENTIONED THAT OUR LESSON
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TODAY IS ON RESTING IN CHRIST.
THIS IS AN IDEAL TIME TO TELL
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YOU AGAIN ABOUT THE
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FOR THOSE THAT
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THE REST OF YOUR LIFE . IT
IS A NEW SHARING MAGAZINE BY
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AMAZING FACTS THAT GOES
THROUGH THE SABBATH SUBJECT
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FROM BOW TO STERN. IT
REALLY IS A - IN A VERY
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BEAUTIFUL WAY - IT'S
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BUT IF YOU CALL THE NUMBER
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I WANT YOU TO LOOK IT OVER,
STUDY IT, AND THEN SHARE IT WITH
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SOMEBODY AND WE'LL
GET THE MESSAGE OUT.
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IT GOES ALONG WITH THE LESSON
TODAY THAT IS TALKING ABOUT
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RESTING IN CHRIST AND DEALING,
IN PARTICULAR, WITH SOME OF THE
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MIRACLES THAT JESUS DID RELATED
TO THE SABBATH DAY AND SOME OF
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THOSE SABBATH DISPUTES
THAT YOU FIND THROUGHOUT THE NEW
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TESTAMENT. AND WE HAVE A MEMORY
VERSE. THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM
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MATTHEW CHAPTER 11, VERSE
28 AND HERE IT'S FROM THE NIV.
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ARE YOU READY? MATTHEW
11:28, "COME TO ME, ALL
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YOU WHO ARE WEARY AND BURDENED,
AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST."
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NOW, I'M ALWAYS A LITTLE
CONFLICTED WHEN WE MEMORIZE
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VERSES IN VARIOUS TRANSLATIONS
BECAUSE THEN WHEN YOU SAY IT
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TOGETHER AS A CONGREGATION,
EVERYONE'S READING FROM THEIR
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VARIOUS TRANSLATIONS AND IT
SOUNDS A LITTLE BIT LIKE BABEL.
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BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW IT AS 'COME
UNTO ME ALL YOU WHO ARE WEARY
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AND HEAVY-LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE
YOU REST.' BUT IT IS - HEAVY
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LADEN MEANS BURDEN, SO
THAT REALLY IS ACCURATE.
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AND WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY
IS OUR MISSION, IT'S GOING TO BE
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FROM MATTHEW 11:20 THROUGH
MATTHEW 12:14 AND SO THAT'S,
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SORT OF, OUR ASSIGNMENT.
YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'LL BE READING
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THROUGH SOME OF
THESE THINGS TODAY.
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AND SO, WHY DON'T YOU TURN IN
YOUR BIBLES TO MATTHEW CHAPTER
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11 AND WE'RE GOING TO
START READING WITH VERSE 20 AND
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THERE'S A LOT OF
LESSONS HERE THAT ARE AVAILABLE.
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AND IT SAYS HE BEGAN TO REBUKE
THE CITIES IN WHICH MOST OF HIS
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MIGHTY WORKS HAD BEEN DONE,
BECAUSE THEY DID NOT REPENT.
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NOW SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, IS
GOING TO READ LUKE 11:32 - OKAY,
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YOU'LL HAVE THAT EMMA?
SO JESUS IS REBUKING THESE
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CITIES WHERE HE HAD DONE
SO MANY OF HIS MIGHTY WORKS.
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AND IT SAYS IN VERSE
21, "WOE TO YOU, CHORAZIN!
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WOE TO YOU, BETHSAIDA!
FOR IF THE MIGHTY WORKS WHICH
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WERE DONE IN YOU HAD BEEN DONE
IN TYRE AND SIDON, THEY WOULD
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HAVE REPENTED LONG AGO
IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES."
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NOW DOES THE OLD TESTAMENT HAVE
PROPHECIES THAT TALK ABOUT THE
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DESTRUCTION OF
TYRE AND SIDON? THEY DO.
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YOU CAN READ
ABOUT THAT IN EZEKIEL.
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TYRE IS - WAS THE CAPITAL OF THE
PHOENICIANS AND WHO WENT UP AND
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SPENT SOME TIME
WORKING WITH THE CITY OF TYRE?
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YOU KNOW WHEN ELIJAH WAS HIDING
OUT WITH THAT WIDOW - I KNOW
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THAT DOESN'T SOUND RIGHT, BUT
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
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WHEN THEY WERE HUNTING FOR HIS
LIFE AND HE LIVED IN THE WIDOW'S
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HOME UPSTAIRS - SHE
LIVED UP IN THE NORTH.
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AND JESUS, THE ONLY TIME THAT
JESUS WENT ON A MISSIONARY TRIP,
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HE WENT UP TO THE REGION
OF TYRE AND HE PREACHED THERE.
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AND REMEMBER, THIS WOMAN SAID,
'OH, MY DAUGHTER IS POSSESSED BY
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A DEVIL, PLEASE COME AND HEAL
HER.' AND HE SAID, 'I'M SENT TO
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THE LOST SHEEP OF
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
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YOU'RE NOT AN ISRAELITE, YOU'RE
A SIDONIAN OR A PHOENICIAN.' AND
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SHE SAID, 'OH, BUT EVEN THE DOGS
GET THE CRUMBS THAT FALL FROM
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THE CHILDREN'S PLATES.' AND
SO IT'S INTERESTING THAT BOTH
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ELIJAH AND JESUS WENT TO THE
SAME REGION AND, IN BOTH CASES,
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THEY DID A MIRACLE FOR
A WOMAN THAT WAS UP THERE.
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BUT, LATER, JUDGMENT CAME
TO TYRE AND IT WAS FORETOLD.
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IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT PROPHECIES
THAT TYRE - BIG CITY - ALMOST
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IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS - THAT IT
WOULD BE DESTROYED AND SCRAPED
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LEVEL WITH THE GROUND. AND THIS
IS WHAT ALEXANDER THE GREAT DID.
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THE CAPITAL OF THE CITY WAS SORT
OF ON AN ISLAND OFF OF THE COAST
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AND ALEXANDER DESTROYED THE
CITY THAT WAS ON THE MAINLAND,
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PUSHING ALL THE RUBBLE OFF INTO
THE SEA TO BUILD A CAUSEWAY SO
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HIS SOLDIERS COULD ATTACK
THE ISLAND AND CONQUER IT.
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THEY DID THAT COMBINED WITH
SHIPS AND THEY DESTROYED IT.
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IT WAS JUDGED BECAUSE OF THEIR
SINS. YOU'VE PROBABLY READ IN
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THE BIBLE WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT
THE KING OF TYRE. AND YOU CAN
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READ IN EZEKIEL 28, IT'S REALLY
A PROPHECY ABOUT THE DEVIL, BUT
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IT SAYS, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD,
TO THE KING OF TYRE.' IT TALKS
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ABOUT HIS PRIDE - AND SO THEY
WERE JUDGED. AND JESUS SAID, 'IF
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THE MIRACLES THAT HAD BEEN DONE
IN BETHSAIDA AND CAPERNAUM HAD
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BEEN DONE IN TYRE, IT WOULD
STILL HAVE EXISTED - THEY WOULD
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HAVE REPENTED LIKE THE
CITY OF NINEVEH REPENTED.
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AND SO HE'S SAYING, 'YOU'VE HAD
TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY.' - "THEY
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WOULD HAVE REPENTED LONG
AGO IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES."
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WHICH IS WHAT
HAPPENS IN JONAH 3, VERSE 6.
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"BUT I SAY TO YOU, IT WILL
BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR TYRE AND
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SIDON IN THE DAY OF
JUDGMENT THAN FOR YOU."
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WHY WOULD IT BE MORE TOLERABLE?
BECAUSE TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN,
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MUCH IS REQUIRED AND THE
SIDONIANS AND THE PEOPLE OF
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TYRE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITIES THAT THE PEOPLE
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HAD THERE AROUND GALILEE,
TO HEAR THE PREACHING OF JESUS.
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AND HE GOES ON AND SAYS, "AND
YOU, CAPERNAUM," - WHERE DID
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PETER LIVE? PETER
LIVED IN CAPERNAUM, RIGHT
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THERE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE
- "AND YOU, CAPERNAUM, WHO ARE
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EXALTED TO HEAVEN, WILL
BE BROUGHT DOWN TO HADES;" -
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KING JAMES SAYS, 'HELL'.
NOW, WHY DID HE SAY THAT?
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'YOU'RE EXALTED TO HEAVEN' - WAS
CAPERNAUM IN THE MOUNTAINS - A
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HIGH CITY? NO, IT'S DOWN BY THE
SEA. WHY DID IT SAY "CAPERNAUM,
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WHO ARE EXALTED TO HEAVEN"?
WHY DO YOU THINK HE SAYS THAT?
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A COUPLE OF REASONS.
ONE IS, THEY WERE VERY
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PROSPEROUS IN
THE TIME OF CHRIST.
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AND THE OTHER REASON IS THEY HAD
- THEY'RE EXALTED BECAUSE THEY
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HAD BEEN HONORED BY HEAVEN
TO HAVE THE SON OF GOD SPEND THE
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MAJOR PART OF HIS MINISTRY
IN GALILEE AND CAPERNAUM.
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'TO GALILEE IN THE LAND OF THE
GENTILES WHO SAT IN DARKNESS, A
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GREAT LIGHT HAS COME.' AND SO
JESUS, THOUGH BORN IN BETHLEHEM,
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THOUGH REARED IN NAZARETH,
THEY CALLED CAPERNAUM HIS CITY.
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YOU REMEMBER WE STUDIED THIS
A FEW WEEKS AGO, BECAUSE THAT'S
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WHERE THE BULK
OF HIS MINISTRY WAS.
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AND SO, THEY WERE
EXALTED TO HEAVEN.
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THEY HAD THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY,
BUT MOST OF THEM DID NOT REPENT.
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AND HE SAID, 'YOU WILL BE
BROUGHT DOWN TO HADES.' NOW,
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WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
WHEN YOU SAY 'HADES' IN THE
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BIBLE - HADES IS - IT'S
A GREEK PLACE OF TORMENT.
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IT WAS THE LOWER DARK
REGIONS IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY.
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IT'S A WORD THAT IS USED
WHEN YOU TRANSLATE FROM HEBREW -
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JESUS SAID IT IN HEBREW, BUT
WHEN YOU TRANSLATE IT INTO GREEK
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THEY USED THE WORD 'HADES'
BECAUSE IT ALSO MEANT THE GRAVE
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AND IT ALSO MEANT A
DESTRUCTION. IT MEANT DARKNESS.
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IT MEANT DESOLATION.
AND SO, HADES IS OFTEN
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TRANSLATED AND PEOPLE ALWAYS
THINK THAT IT MEANS THE PLACE OF
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BURNING FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY.
NO, YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK AT WHAT
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THE HEBREW WAS THAT THEY
WERE TRANSLATING INTO GREEK.
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DOES THE LORD SEND
ENTIRE CITIES TO HADES?
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YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING,
GOD SAVES INDIVIDUALS.
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WE FIND CASES OF THAT IN
THE BIBLE, RIGHT? ONE BY ONE.
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GOD SAVES FAMILIES AND
FAMILIES CAN BE JUDGED.
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WE CAN THINK OF
FAMILIES THAT WERE SAVED.
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PETER SAID TO THE PHILIPPIAN
JAILER, 'REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED.
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BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST, YOU'LL BE SAVED.' AND
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LATER THAT DAY HE AND
HIS HOUSEHOLD WERE SAVED.
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WE CAN THINK OF WHOLE
FAMILIES THAT WERE LOST.
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GOD SAVED SOME OF LOT'S FAMILY
OUT OF SODOM AND THE FAMILY OF
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ACHAN WAS STONED AND BURNED.
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WE CAN THINK OF WHERE THE LORD
DESTROYED TOWNS - INDIVIDUALS,
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FAMILIES - A TOWN IS
COMPOSED OF MANY FAMILIES.
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ARE THERE
CITIES THAT WERE SAVED?
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WHAT HAPPENED TO
NINEVEH WHEN THEY REPENTED?
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ARE THERE CITIES
THAT WERE DESTROYED?
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SO, IN THE JUDGMENT,
DOES GOD JUDGE CITIES?
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WHAT ABOUT NATIONS?
CAN GOD SAVE A NATION?
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CAN HE DESTROY A NATION?
AND THEN, GOD SAVES WORLDS
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AND HE DESTROYS WORLDS.
AND SO, WHEN THE LORD SAYS THAT
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THIS CITY IS GOING TO BE JUDGED
MORE SEVERELY THAN THAT CITY,
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IS IT REALLY
CITIES THAT ARE JUDGED?
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DOES THE LORD
JUDGE MUNICIPALITIES?
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DOES THE LORD
JUDGE POLITICAL PARTIES?
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I MEAN, HOW DO YOU
PUNISH A POLITICAL PARTY?
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ISN'T IT REALLY INDIVIDUALS THAT
ARE IN THOSE CITIES AND IN THOSE
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VILLAGES AND TOWNS AND FAMILIES?
AND SO, HE WASN'T SAYING
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EVERYBODY IN CAPERNAUM WAS GOING
TO BE GOING DOWN TO HELL, HE
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WAS SAYING THAT THE TOWN
OF CAPERNAUM THAT HAD BEEN SO
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HONORED AND SO PROSPEROUS,
WAS GOING TO BE DESOLATE.
00:15:07.30\00:15:10.37
AND IT WAS LATER
DESOLATED IN WAR.
00:15:10.37\00:15:14.21
AND SO HE WAS FORETELLING
A JUDGMENT THAT WOULD COME.
00:15:14.21\00:15:18.58
YOU "WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO
HADES; FOR IF THE MIGHTY WORKS
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WHICH WERE DONE IN YOU HAD BEEN
DONE IN SODOM, IT WOULD HAVE
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REMAINED UNTIL THIS
DAY." ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
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FOR US LUKE 11:32, PLEASE.
>>"THE MEN OF NINEVEH SHALL
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RISE UP IN THE JUDGMENT
WITH THIS GENERATION, AND SHALL
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CONDEMN IT: FOR THEY REPENTED
AT THE PREACHING OF JONAH; AND,
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BEHOLD, A GREATER
THAN JONAH IS HERE."
00:15:38.07\00:15:40.77
>>SO THERE AGAIN YOU'VE GOT
AN EXAMPLE WHERE HE'S COMPARING
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NINEVEH THAT REPENTED - A
PAGAN CITY - AT THE PREACHING OF
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JONAH, AND HERE YOU'VE GOT JESUS
WHO IS - HE'S LIKE JONAH IN MANY
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WAYS. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WAYS
JESUS AND JONAH ARE SIMILAR?
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JESUS WAS NOT A WAYWARD PROPHET
THAT RAN FROM THE WORD OF THE
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LORD, BUT WAS JESUS
ASLEEP IN A BOAT DURING A STORM?
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WAS JONAH ASLEEP IN
A BOAT DURING A STORM?
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THE BIBLE SAYS 'JONAH WENT TO
NINEVEH, AN EXCEEDING GREAT CITY
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OF THREE DAYS' JOURNEY AND
HE ENTERED THE CITY A DAY'S
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JOURNEY' - THAT'S THREE AND A
HALF DAYS - 'AND HE PREACHED IN
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FORTY DAYS IT WOULD BE
DESTROYED.' JESUS PREACHED THREE
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AND A HALF YEARS TO HIS
OWN PEOPLE AND SAID, 'THIS
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GENERATION WILL NOT PASS AWAY
UNTIL THERE'S NOT ONE STONE LEFT
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UPON ANOTHER IN THE
TEMPLE. FORTY YEARS LATER
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IT WAS DESTROYED. SO
THAT WAS THE SIGN OF JONAH.
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DID THEY CAST LOTS FOR JONAH?
DID THEY CAST LOTS FOR JESUS?
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DID THEY WAKE UP JONAH AND SAY,
'PRAY THAT WE DO NOT PERISH'?
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DID THE DISCIPLES WAKE UP JESUS
AND SAY, 'PRAY THAT WE DO NOT
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PERISH'? DID THEY
SACRIFICE JONAH SO THAT
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THEY COULD HAVE PEACE
AND THEN THE WATER WAS CALM?
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DID JESUS SPEAK AND
THEN THE WATER WAS CALM?
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THERE ARE SOME
SIMILARITIES THERE.
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BUT THE WHOLE CITY OF NINEVEH
REPENTED AT THE PREACHING OF
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JONAH AND HERE A GREATER THAN
JONAH - JESUS - WAS PREACHING TO
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HIS OWN PEOPLE AND
THEY WOULD NOT REPENT.
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IT'S INTERESTING HOW MANY TIMES
IN THE BIBLE THAT THE PAGANS AND
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THE GENTILES ARE COMMENDED
BY JESUS FOR THEIR LISTENING AND
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THEIR FAITH. BUT
THE CHURCH - YOU KNOW,
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EVERYTHING GOD SAYS ABOUT ISRAEL
WHEN HE CONDEMNS THEM, IT'S
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REALLY A LESSON FOR US AS
A CHURCH - WHEN WE'VE GOT SO
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MUCH TRUTH, ARE NOT
RESPONSIVE SOMETIMES.
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YOU SEE WHAT HE'S SAYING?
ALRIGHT, MOVING RIGHT ALONG.
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AND THEN YOU CAN SEE - HE TALKS
ABOUT - IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT
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PASSAGE HERE - HE
TALKS ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP.
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SO AFTER HE TALKS ABOUT
THE JUDGMENT, HE SAID, 'IF THE
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MIGHTY WORKS WERE DONE IN SODOM
THAT HAD BEEN DONE IN YOU, IT
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WOULD HAVE REMAINED TO THIS
DAY.' BOY, WHAT A CONDEMNATION.
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THE LORD SAYS TO CAPERNAUM, 'IF
SODOM AND GOMORRAH HAD SEEN THE
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MIRACLES - IF YOU CAN NAME THE
MOST WICKED CITIES YOU CAN THINK
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OF, BIBLICALLY, WHAT CITIES
WOULD YOU PICK? JESUS SAID IF
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SODOM AND GOMORRAH HAD HEARD AND
SEEN THE MIRACLES AND HEARD THE
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SERMONS THAT YOU HAVE HEARD AND
SEEN, THEY WOULD HAVE REPENTED.
00:18:06.18\00:18:09.98
AND SO, BECAUSE THERE WASN'T A
REVIVAL OF REPENTANCE, GENERALLY
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SPEAKING, IN CAPERNAUM, FROM
THE PREACHING OF JESUS, HE SAID,
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'THERE'S A GREAT JUDGMENT.' NOW,
AFTER HE MAKES THAT STATEMENT,
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YOU GO TO VERSE 25 IN MATTHEW
11 IT SAYS, "AT THAT TIME JESUS
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ANSWERED AND SAID," - HE PAUSES
THIS SCATHING JUDGMENT AND HE
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SAYS, - "'I THANK YOU, FATHER,
LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THAT
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YOU HAVE HIDDEN THESE THINGS
FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT AND
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HAVE REVEALED THEM TO BABES.'"
WHO WERE THE WISE AND PRUDENT?
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THEY HAD BELIEVERS, THEY HAD
JEWS, THEY HAD PEOPLE WHO HAD
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BEEN IN THE FAITH FOR
YEARS, THEY HAD SYNAGOGUES IN
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CAPERNAUM, AND THE ONES
WHO ENDED UP BELIEVING WERE THE
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GENTILES AND THE FISHERMEN AND
THE BABES - THE ONES WHO DIDN'T
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CLAIM TO HAVE
THAT GREAT KNOWLEDGE.
00:18:53.90\00:18:56.06
AND SO CHRIST WAS HERE SAYING,
NOW, NOT EVERYBODY IN CAPERNAUM
00:18:56.06\00:18:58.63
IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD
00:18:58.63\00:19:01.60
CHILD-LIKE FAITH
THAT ARE GOING TO BELIEVE.
00:19:01.60\00:19:04.81
AND SO HE MAKES SURE AND INSERTS
THAT - "EVEN SO, FATHER," -
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VERSE 26 OF MATTHEW 11 - "FOR
SO IT SEEMED GOOD IN YOUR SIGHT.
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ALL THINGS HAVE BEEN DELIVERED
TO ME BY MY FATHER, AND NO ONE
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KNOWS THE SON EXCEPT THE FATHER.
NOR DOES ANYONE KNOW THE FATHER
00:19:16.52\00:19:19.99
EXCEPT THE SON, AND THE
ONE TO WHOM THE SON WILLS
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TO REVEAL HIM."
SO THEN HE PUTS AN
00:19:23.02\00:19:24.43
APPEAL IN THERE. HE
SAID, 'DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE
00:19:24.43\00:19:26.86
OF THOSE WHO IS
READY IN THAT JUDGMENT?
00:19:26.86\00:19:30.30
THE FATHER HAS SENT ME HIS SON
TO REVEAL GOD TO YOU.' SO HE -
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HE'S EVEN MAKING AN APPEAL.
AND THEN, FINALLY, HE CLOSES
00:19:35.94\00:19:38.74
OFF THAT APPEAL WITH THE
GREAT APPEAL OF THE BIBLE.
00:19:38.74\00:19:41.98
YOU KNOW, YOU GET TWO
PRINCIPAL STATEMENTS IN MATTHEW.
00:19:41.98\00:19:45.95
THE WHOLE GOSPEL IS SUMMED UP IN
THESE TWO PRINCIPAL STATEMENTS.
00:19:45.95\00:19:49.75
ONE IS CALLED 'THE GREAT
INVITATION' - AND THAT'S WHAT
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WE'RE ABOUT TO READ - MATTHEW
CHAPTER 11:28, AND IF YOU WANT
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TO REMEMBER THE OTHER ONE, IT'S
MATTHEW 28, VERSES 18 AND 19.
00:19:56.36\00:20:01.10
SO YOU'VE GOT MATTHEW 11:28 AND
MATTHEW 28, VERSES 18 AND 19,
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AND THERE YOU HAVE 'THE
GREAT COMMISSION. IN THE GREAT
00:20:06.67\00:20:10.31
INVITATION HE'S SAYING, 'COME
TO ME.' THIS IS THE VERTICAL
00:20:10.31\00:20:14.41
RELATIONSHIP - LOVE FOR GOD
- TWO GREAT COMMANDMENTS - LOVE
00:20:14.41\00:20:17.91
THE LORD - GREAT INVITATION
- COME TO ME - THE GREAT
00:20:17.91\00:20:21.22
COMMISSION - GO FOR
ME. ONE IS LOVE FOR GOD.
00:20:21.22\00:20:25.89
THE OTHER ONE IS
LOVE FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN.
00:20:25.89\00:20:28.36
THEY'RE BOTH IN MATTHEW.
AND SO, HERE WE'RE ABOUT TO
00:20:28.36\00:20:30.16
READ THE GREAT INVITATION.
"COME TO ME, ALL YOU WHO LABOR
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AND ARE HEAVY
LADEN," - WHO WOULD THAT BE?
00:20:35.00\00:20:38.03
THAT'D BE EVERYBODY -
JUST THE BURDENS OF LIFE.
00:20:38.03\00:20:43.71
YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS
YOUNG AND I HAD TO DO HOMEWORK
00:20:43.71\00:20:49.01
AND I REMEMBER THINKING WHAT A
BURDEN MY LIFE WAS WHEN I HAD TO
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REMEMBER ALL THOSE
WORDS FOR THE SPELLING TEST.
00:20:54.45\00:20:58.15
AND, TO ME, IT SEEMED SO
HARD. AND IT'S STILL HARD.
00:20:58.15\00:21:01.29
I AM SO THANKFUL FOR SPELL CHECK
BECAUSE IT RAISES MY PERCEIVED
00:21:01.29\00:21:05.73
IQ WHEN I
COMMUNICATE SO MUCH MORE.
00:21:05.73\00:21:09.06
OF COURSE, YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY
CAREFUL THOUGH BECAUSE I DEPEND
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NOW ON THIS TALKING/TYPING
SOFTWARE BECAUSE I STILL TYPE
00:21:12.10\00:21:19.54
WITH TWO FINGERS.
I CAN TYPE BUT IT'S
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REALLY
EMBARRASSING. AND SO I SOMETIMES
00:21:21.18\00:21:23.61
TALK AND IT TYPES.
YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL.
00:21:23.61\00:21:26.65
YOU READ THOSE THINGS
OVER BEFORE YOU CLICK 'SEND'.
00:21:26.65\00:21:29.95
AND EVEN ON MY PHONE I'LL
TEXT SOMEBODY A MESSAGE AND I'LL
00:21:29.95\00:21:32.72
CLICK THE LITTLE MICROPHONE -
I'LL TALK MY TEXT AND THEN CLICK
00:21:32.72\00:21:35.52
'SEND' AND I LOOK LATER AT WHAT
I SENT AND, OH, IT JUST SOUNDED
00:21:35.52\00:21:38.66
REALLY GARBLED. IT'LL
SAY SOME REALLY FUNNY THINGS.
00:21:38.66\00:21:42.36
I KNOW WHENEVER I USE THE
WORD 'PROPHETIC' IT TRANSLATES
00:21:42.36\00:21:46.27
PROSTHETIC. IT JUST
CAN'T GET PROPHETIC.
00:21:46.27\00:21:50.31
THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE
USING THAT SOFTWARE THAT ARE
00:21:50.31\00:21:51.97
SAYING PROPHETIC AND
SO IT MESSES THAT UP.
00:21:51.97\00:21:54.68
ANYWAY, HOW DID I GET ON THAT?
OH, IT WAS SUCH A BURDEN WHEN
00:21:54.68\00:21:58.85
I WAS DOING SPELLING TESTS.
AND THEN YOU GET INTO HIGH
00:21:58.85\00:22:02.22
SCHOOL AND THINK, 'NOW LIFE IS
REALLY A BURDEN. THE TESTS ARE
00:22:02.22\00:22:05.05
GETTING HARDER.' I JUST
TALKED TO MY SON IN COLLEGE.
00:22:05.05\00:22:08.09
HE SAID, 'I WISH I WAS A KID
AGAIN BACK IN SCHOOL.' BECAUSE
00:22:08.09\00:22:11.86
NOW HE'S DOING COLLEGE-LEVEL
WORK AND HE SAID, 'BOY, I
00:22:11.86\00:22:15.40
THOUGHT I WANTED TO GROW UP -
THAT LIFE WOULD BE EASIER.' - HE
00:22:15.40\00:22:18.10
SAID, 'COLLEGE IS REALLY HARD.'
I SAID, 'PUT ON YOUR SEAT BELT,
00:22:18.10\00:22:21.74
IT GETS WORSE AS YOU'RE AN
ADULT.' OUR BURDENS SEEM TO
00:22:21.74\00:22:25.97
INCREASE AS TIME GOES BY, YOU
KNOW? AND THEN YOU GET MARRIED
00:22:25.97\00:22:29.81
AND YOU THINK, 'OH
MAN, LIFE CAN BE TOUGH.
00:22:29.81\00:22:32.11
I'VE GOT TO SUPPORT A
WIFE.' AND THEN YOU HAVE KIDS.
00:22:32.11\00:22:35.62
THEN YOU HAVE GRAND
KIDS. WELL THAT'S GOOD, YEAH.
00:22:35.62\00:22:40.16
AND THEN, YEAH, AFTER YOU KICK
ALL THE KIDS OUT THE GRAND KIDS
00:22:40.16\00:22:42.66
AREN'T SO BAD. THAT'S
RIGHT. WHEN THEY BECOME
00:22:42.66\00:22:46.53
SELF-FUNDING THAT'S NICE.
BUT THERE ARE BURDENS IN LIFE.
00:22:46.53\00:22:51.30
YOU HAVE HEALTH
PROBLEMS WHEN YOU GET OLDER.
00:22:51.30\00:22:54.67
AND YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST SAY,
'OH, YEAH, I WOULD LIKE PEACE
00:22:54.67\00:22:58.21
AND REST.' AND JESUS SAYS, 'COME
UNTO ME' OR 'SEEK ME' AND I WILL
00:22:58.21\00:23:06.21
GIVE YOU THAT REST.
"TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU" - NOW,
00:23:06.21\00:23:10.45
YOU NOTICE HE DOESN'T SAY
THERE ARE NO BURDENS IN LIFE?
00:23:10.45\00:23:12.92
BECAUSE THE VERY CONTEXT OF HOW
HE'S SAYING YOU GET THE REST IS
00:23:12.92\00:23:16.32
IN THE CONTEXT OF A BURDEN.
YOU YOKE ANIMALS WHO ARE PLOWING
00:23:16.32\00:23:21.76
AND THE LORD HAS A
HARVEST FOR US TO WORK IN.
00:23:21.76\00:23:24.27
SO HE'S NOT SAYING
THERE'S NOTHING TO DO.
00:23:24.27\00:23:26.00
THERE ARE BURDENS IN LIFE.
HE SAYS, "MY BURDEN IS LIGHT."
00:23:26.00\00:23:29.84
IT IS SO MUCH EASIER
WHEN YOU HAVE JOY DOING WORK.
00:23:29.84\00:23:36.51
I ALWAYS LIKE TO POINT BACK TO
THAT STORY IN THE BIBLE WHEN THE
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TWO DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD
TO EMMAUS IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
00:23:41.42\00:23:45.02
CHAPTER 24. THEIR
HEARTS WERE BROKEN AND
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THEY WERE GOING DOWNHILL. IT
WAS A SUNNY DAY BUT THEY WERE
00:23:48.39\00:23:50.59
GOING DOWNHILL SAD BECAUSE
THEY THOUGHT JESUS WAS DEAD.
00:23:50.59\00:23:54.83
AFTER THEY FOUND OUT JESUS WAS
ALIVE - THEY WALKED SEVEN MILES
00:23:54.83\00:23:57.97
DOWNHILL - AFTER THEY FOUND OUT
JESUS WAS ALIVE AND THE SUN HAD
00:23:57.97\00:24:01.50
GONE DOWN, HE APPEARED TO THEM
AT THE DINNER THERE - THEY NOW
00:24:01.50\00:24:05.44
WENT UPHILL SEVEN MILES IN
THE DARK - GOING UPHILL - MUCH
00:24:05.44\00:24:09.88
HARDER IN THE DARK GOING
UPHILL - BUT THEY WERE SO HAPPY.
00:24:09.88\00:24:14.32
THEY'RE STILL
WORKING. IT'S EVEN HARDER WORK,
00:24:14.32\00:24:17.35
BUT THEY'RE
HAPPY. THEY WERE JOYFUL.
00:24:17.35\00:24:19.82
IT MADE IT EASY BECAUSE
THEY KNEW JESUS WAS ALIVE.
00:24:19.82\00:24:23.46
AND THAT'S REALLY
THE TWO ROADS IN LIFE.
00:24:23.46\00:24:25.43
YOU'VE GOT ONE ROAD, YOU DON'T
KNOW THE LORD, YOU'RE GOING
00:24:25.43\00:24:27.00
DOWNHILL, YOU'RE SAD, YOU'RE
HEADING TO EMMAUS - THAT MEANS
00:24:27.00\00:24:30.47
HOT WATER - JUST HEADING TO
HOT WATER FROM THE CITY OF GOD.
00:24:30.47\00:24:33.97
THE OTHER ONE YOU'RE GOING TO
THE CITY OF GOD BUT YOU'RE HAPPY
00:24:33.97\00:24:35.97
BECAUSE JESUS IS
ALIVE AND WITH YOU.
00:24:35.97\00:24:37.94
AND, SO WHEN WE KNOW CHRIST, OUR
BURDEN IS LIGHT - IF YOU KNOW
00:24:37.94\00:24:42.68
THAT JESUS IS WITH YOU,
AMEN? "TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND
00:24:42.68\00:24:47.12
LEARN FROM ME," - DO YOU
NOTICE IT'S A LEARNING PROCESS?
00:24:47.12\00:24:50.19
- 'FOR I AM GENTLE. I
AM MEEK AND LOWLY.' - YOU
00:24:50.19\00:24:52.19
DON'T HAVE TO BE STRIVING TO
BE THE BEST - "I AM GENTLE AND
00:24:52.19\00:24:55.66
LOWLY IN HEART, AND YOU
WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.
00:24:55.66\00:24:59.36
FOR MY YOKE IS EASY
AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT."
00:24:59.36\00:25:03.30
WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A FEW
WEEKS AGO WHEN WE DID A MESSAGE.
00:25:03.30\00:25:06.27
IS IT EASIER TO BE SAVED OR
LOST? THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS
00:25:06.27\00:25:10.41
HARD BUT THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS
SAYS, 'MY BURDEN IS EASY - MY
00:25:10.41\00:25:14.98
YOKE IS EASY. MY BURDEN
IS LIGHT.' NOW, I WANT YOU TO
00:25:14.98\00:25:18.81
NOTICE SOMETHING HERE: WHEN YOU
LOOK IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA 14:15
00:25:18.81\00:25:25.49
IT SAYS THAT WHEN THEY FOUGHT
WITH THE LORD, THEY CONQUERED
00:25:25.49\00:25:30.09
THEIR ENEMIES AND THE
LAND HAD REST FROM WAR.
00:25:30.09\00:25:35.00
JOSHUA 21:44 - IT SAYS, 'AND THE
LORD WAS WITH THEM AND HE GAVE
00:25:35.00\00:25:40.27
THEM REST.' YOU LOOK IN JUDGES 3
WHEN THEY REPENTED, IT TELLS US
00:25:40.27\00:25:46.24
'AND THE LAND HAD REST FORTY
YEARS.' LOOK IN JUDGES CHAPTER
00:25:46.24\00:25:52.08
3, VERSE 30, "AND THE LAND
HAD REST FOR EIGHTY YEARS."
00:25:52.08\00:25:56.89
JUDGES 5:31 - AT ONE TIME
THEY CAST OFF THE MOABITES.
00:25:56.89\00:26:00.79
THE OTHER TIME THEY CAST
OFF - THEY TURNED TO THE LORD.
00:26:00.79\00:26:02.82
THEY SOUGHT THE LORD. THEY
CAST OFF THE MIDIANITES, IN
00:26:02.82\00:26:05.86
THE BOOK OF JUDGES, "SO THE
LAND HAD REST FOR FORTY YEARS."
00:26:05.86\00:26:08.63
IT'S INTERESTING, HAVE YOU EVER
NOTICED, GOING THROUGH THE BOOK
00:26:08.63\00:26:10.63
OF JUDGES, THAT WHENEVER A JUDGE
CAME IN AND TURNED THE PEOPLE
00:26:10.63\00:26:13.67
BACK TO THE LORD AFTER BEING
OPPRESSED BY THEIR ENEMIES, THEY
00:26:13.67\00:26:17.04
HAD REST IN
DERIVATIVES OF 20, 40, 80.
00:26:17.04\00:26:21.11
IS THAT JUST A COINCIDENCE?
USUALLY THAT REPRESENTED A
00:26:21.11\00:26:27.42
GENERATION - FORTY YEARS -
AND SO IT'S OFTEN 40 OR 80 - TWO
00:26:27.42\00:26:30.79
GENERATIONS THEY HAD
REST. DAVID REIGNED FORTY YEARS.
00:26:30.79\00:26:34.46
SAUL REIGNED FORTY YEARS.
SOLOMON REIGNED FORTY YEARS.
00:26:34.46\00:26:39.46
MOSES SPENT FORTY YEARS
IN EGYPT, FORTY YEARS IN THE
00:26:39.46\00:26:42.76
WILDERNESS, FORTY YEARS BRINGING
PEOPLE FROM EGYPT THROUGH THE
00:26:42.76\00:26:45.60
WILDERNESS. THERE'S
ALL THESE INTERESTING
00:26:45.60\00:26:47.17
GENERATIONS YOU
FIND IN THE BIBLE.
00:26:47.17\00:26:49.07
BUT NOTICE, IT SAYS THE LAND
HAD REST, THE LAND HAD REST, THE
00:26:49.07\00:26:52.17
LAND HAD REST,
THE LAND HAD REST.
00:26:52.17\00:26:53.88
NOW I WANT TO READ YOU - WHAT
WAS JESUS QUOTING, POSSIBLY,
00:26:53.88\00:26:59.55
WHEN HE SAID THE
GREAT INVITATION?
00:26:59.55\00:27:03.92
I THINK JESUS WAS ALLUDING TO A
REFERENCE OF SCRIPTURE - YOU MAY
00:27:03.92\00:27:07.02
WANT TO LOOK THIS UP - 2
CHRONICLES - YOU KNOW, THERE ARE
00:27:07.02\00:27:12.43
SOME GREAT
PASSAGES IN 2 CHRONICLES.
00:27:12.43\00:27:14.46
YOU'VE GOT THAT ONE THAT SAYS,
'IF MY PEOPLE, WHICH ARE CALLED
00:27:14.46\00:27:16.30
BY MY NAME, WILL HUMBLE
THEMSELVES AND PRAY' - GREAT
00:27:16.30\00:27:18.93
PROMISES. 2
CHRONICLES 14 AND LOOK AT
00:27:18.93\00:27:25.14
VERSE 4, "HE COMMANDED JUDAH
TO SEEK THE LORD GOD OF THEIR
00:27:25.14\00:27:32.01
FATHERS, AND TO OBSERVE
THE LAW AND THE COMMANDMENT.
00:27:32.01\00:27:35.82
HE REMOVED THE HIGH PLACES AND
THE INCENSE ALTARS FROM ALL THE
00:27:35.82\00:27:39.45
CITIES OF JUDAH, AND THE
KINGDOM WAS QUIET UNDER HIM.
00:27:39.45\00:27:43.36
AND HE BUILT FORTIFIED CITIES IN
JUDAH, FOR THE LAND HAD REST;" -
00:27:43.36\00:27:48.80
WHAT DID THE LAND HAVE? >>REST.
00:27:48.80\00:27:50.50
>>WHY'D THEY HAVE REST?
SEEK THE GOD OF THEIR FATHERS.
00:27:50.50\00:27:55.50
ALRIGHT? THE LAND HAD REST.
00:27:55.50\00:27:56.67
KEEP READING. "HE HAD
NO WAR IN THOSE YEARS,
00:27:56.67\00:27:59.51
BECAUSE THE LORD
HAD GIVEN HIM REST.
00:27:59.51\00:28:02.38
THEREFORE HE SAID TO JUDAH, 'LET
US BUILD THESE CITIES AND MAKE
00:28:02.38\00:28:05.65
WALLS AROUND THEM, AND TOWERS,
GATES, AND BARS, WHILE THE LAND
00:28:05.65\00:28:09.12
IS YET BEFORE US, BECAUSE WE
HAVE SOUGHT THE LORD...WE HAVE
00:28:09.12\00:28:13.29
SOUGHT HIM, AND HE HAS GIVEN
US REST ON EVERY SIDE.' SO THEY
00:28:13.29\00:28:18.16
BUILT AND
PROSPERED." THEY'RE WORKING BUT
00:28:18.16\00:28:21.90
THEY'RE RESTING.
WHY ARE THEY RESTING?
00:28:21.90\00:28:26.10
BECAUSE THEY SOUGHT THE
LORD. WHAT DOES JESUS SAY?
00:28:26.10\00:28:28.44
'COME UNTO ME.' 'YOU WILL SEARCH
FOR ME AND YOU WILL FIND ME WHEN
00:28:28.44\00:28:32.04
YOU SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL
YOUR HEART.' YOU WANT REST?
00:28:32.04\00:28:35.41
SEEK THE LORD. >>AMEN.
00:28:35.41\00:28:37.41
>>WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND.
CALL UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR.
00:28:37.41\00:28:40.95
WHEN THEY SOUGHT THE LORD,
GOD DELIVERED THEM FROM THEIR
00:28:40.95\00:28:44.49
ENEMIES. WHO'S
OUR ENEMY? >>SATAN.
00:28:44.49\00:28:46.79
>>THE DEVIL.
YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPTATIONS
00:28:46.79\00:28:49.36
THAT MAKE US RESTLESS.
AND THEN THEY HAD THAT REST.
00:28:49.36\00:28:54.56
THEY BUILT AND THEY PROSPERED
AND SO - AND THIS WAS OFTEN THE
00:28:54.56\00:28:58.67
CASE UNDER GOOD KINGS LIKE
ASA AND JEHOSHOPHAT AND JOSIAH -
00:28:58.67\00:29:03.30
WHEN THEY SOUGHT THE LORD THEY
HAD REST FROM THEIR ENEMIES.
00:29:03.30\00:29:07.21
NOW I DON'T WANT TO TAKE THIS
FIRST DAY TOO FAR, BUT THE OTHER
00:29:07.21\00:29:11.95
ONES'LL GO QUICKER. SO
TURN WITH ME TO HEBREWS 4,
00:29:11.95\00:29:14.32
TALKING ABOUT - WHOLE
LESSON IS ABOUT REST - TURN TO
00:29:14.32\00:29:17.15
HEBREWS CHAPTER 4. IF
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS
00:29:17.15\00:29:20.42
PRINCIPLE, YOU'RE NOT
GOING TO UNDERSTAND HEBREWS 4.
00:29:20.42\00:29:23.43
HEBREWS 4 IS TALKING ABOUT THE
ULTIMATE REST AND THAT'S THE KEY
00:29:23.43\00:29:28.53
OF OUR LESSON. IF YOU
GO TO VERSE 3 - HEBREWS
00:29:28.53\00:29:32.60
4, VERSE 3 - "FOR WE WHO HAVE
BELIEVED DO ENTER THAT REST, AS
00:29:32.60\00:29:37.47
HE HAS SAID: 'SO I SWORE IN MY
WRATH, 'THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY
00:29:37.47\00:29:40.54
REST,''" NOW WHAT PAUL IS DOING
- PAUL WROTE HEBREWS - WHAT HE'S
00:29:40.54\00:29:43.81
DOING HERE - HE'S QUOTING FROM
A PSALM OF DAVID IN PSALM 95.
00:29:43.81\00:29:47.88
AND IT SAID, 'I'VE SWORN TO THEM
THEY WILL NOT ENTER MY REST.'
00:29:47.88\00:29:51.19
THE PEOPLE OF GOD DID NOT
ENTER THE REAL REST BECAUSE OF
00:29:51.19\00:29:55.06
UNBELIEF. WHENEVER
THEY STOP BELIEVING THE
00:29:55.06\00:29:57.66
LORD AND SEEKING THE LORD, THEY
LOST THEIR PEACE AND THEIR REST.
00:29:57.66\00:30:02.40
ALTHOUGH THE WORKS WERE FINISHED
FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE
00:30:02.40\00:30:05.27
WORLD, FOR HE HAD SPOKEN IN A
CERTAIN PLACE OF THE SEVENTH DAY
00:30:05.27\00:30:09.04
- 'AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH
DAY FROM HIS WORKS' - FROM ALL
00:30:09.04\00:30:12.14
HIS WORKS. AND
AGAIN, IN THIS PLACE, 'THEY
00:30:12.14\00:30:15.04
SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.' AGAIN,
HE'S REFERRING TO PSALM 95:11 -
00:30:15.04\00:30:18.81
'SINCE THEREFORE IT REMAINS THAT
SOME MUST ENTER IT AND THOSE TO
00:30:18.81\00:30:22.88
WHOM IT WAS FIRST PREACHED'
- THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL DID NOT
00:30:22.88\00:30:25.52
ENTER BECAUSE OF
DISOBEDIENCE AND UNBELIEF.
00:30:25.52\00:30:28.49
AGAIN, HE DESIGNATES A CERTAIN
DAY, SAYING IN DAVID - HE SAYS
00:30:28.49\00:30:31.96
'IN DAVID' - HE MEANS IN THE
PSALMS - HE SPEAKS - THIS IS THE
00:30:31.96\00:30:35.73
BOOK OF HEBREWS AND SO PAUL IS
WRITING LIKE 'YOU'RE GOOD JEWS
00:30:35.73\00:30:38.47
AND YOU KNOW THE BIBLE.' HE'S
ASSUMING YOU KNOW THE PSALMS.
00:30:38.47\00:30:41.00
HE'S ASSUMING YOU KNOW GENESIS.
HE'S NOT QUOTING ALL THESE
00:30:41.00\00:30:44.14
VERBATIM BECAUSE HE'S
TEACHING A POINT ABOUT REST.
00:30:44.14\00:30:47.61
IN DAVID HE SAYS, 'TODAY, AFTER
SUCH A LONG TIME, IT HAS BEEN
00:30:47.61\00:30:52.88
SAID, 'TODAY, IF YOU HEAR
HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR
00:30:52.88\00:30:55.18
HEART.' - THAT'S THE SAME PSALM
- PSALM 95:11 - AND 7 AND 8 -
00:30:55.18\00:31:00.19
'FOR IF JOSHUA HAD GIVEN THEM
REST' - NOW, DIDN'T WE JUST READ
00:31:00.19\00:31:04.73
THAT AS THEY FOLLOWED JOSHUA
THROUGH THE PROMISED LAND AND
00:31:04.73\00:31:08.16
THEY DEFEATED THE
ENEMIES, THAT THE LAND HAD REST.
00:31:08.16\00:31:11.77
PAUL IS SAYING THAT'S NOT
THE ULTIMATE REST BECAUSE THE
00:31:11.77\00:31:14.50
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL LATER WERE
TOLD, 'THEY WILL NOT ENTER MY
00:31:14.50\00:31:18.11
REST BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.' KING
DAVID - WHO LIVES FIRST, JOSHUA
00:31:18.11\00:31:22.18
OR DAVID? JOSHUA.
HE'S SAYING, 'IF JOSHUA HAD
00:31:22.18\00:31:26.95
GIVEN THEM THE REST THAT THEY
WERE TALKING ABOUT, THEN WHY
00:31:26.95\00:31:30.52
DOES KING DAVID SAY
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ENTER
00:31:30.52\00:31:32.39
BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF?
DAVID IS PROPHESYING THAT GOD'S
00:31:32.39\00:31:36.09
PEOPLE WOULD NEVER ENTER
THE ULTIMATE REST BECAUSE OF
00:31:36.09\00:31:38.89
UNBELIEF IF THEY DID NOT
ACCEPT THE MESSIAH, THE SECOND
00:31:38.89\00:31:42.20
JOSHUA, WHOSE NAME WAS
JESUS. YOU GET WHAT HE'S SAYING?
00:31:42.20\00:31:46.50
AND THEN THE KEY TO THE WHOLE
THING IS HEBREWS 4:11, "LET US
00:31:46.50\00:31:51.11
THEREFORE BE DILIGENT TO ENTER
THAT REST, LEST ANYONE FALL
00:31:51.11\00:31:55.98
ACCORDING TO THE SAME
EXAMPLE OF DISOBEDIENCE."
00:31:55.98\00:31:59.21
WHAT IS THAT REST THAT
WE ARE TO LABOR TO ENTER?
00:31:59.21\00:32:03.22
DOESN'T IT SOUND STRANGE
TO YOU TO LABOR TO ENTER REST?
00:32:03.22\00:32:06.25
WE DO IT EVERY WEEK.
DON'T YOU WORK DURING THE WEEK
00:32:06.25\00:32:11.19
AND MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE
EXTRA WORK ON FRIDAY SO THAT YOU
00:32:11.19\00:32:14.03
DON'T HAVE TO WORK ON SABBATH?
HOW MUCH BREAD DO THEY NORMALLY
00:32:14.03\00:32:18.67
GATHER FIVE DAYS A
WEEK? ENOUGH FOR THAT DAY.
00:32:18.67\00:32:23.87
HOW MUCH BREAD DID THEY
GATHER ON THE SIXTH DAY?
00:32:23.87\00:32:27.08
THEY HAD TO LABOR HARDER SO THEY
WOULDN'T HAVE TO GATHER ON THE
00:32:27.08\00:32:31.41
SEVENTH DAY. SO DOES
IT MAKE SENSE YOU MIGHT
00:32:31.41\00:32:32.98
LABOR HARDER TO REST MORE?
SO WHAT IS THE LABOR THAT PAUL
00:32:32.98\00:32:38.02
IS TALKING ABOUT THAT
WE MIGHT ENTER THE REST?
00:32:38.02\00:32:41.29
'SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE
FOUND; CALL AFTER HIM WHILE HE
00:32:41.29\00:32:46.49
IS NEAR.' IT'S TALKING
ABOUT WHAT IT SAYS - THEY SOUGHT
00:32:46.49\00:32:49.23
THE LORD LIKE - 2 CHRONICLES
- BECAUSE THEY SOUGHT THE LORD
00:32:49.23\00:32:52.63
HE GAVE THEM REST. SEEKING
THE LORD REQUIRES SOME EFFORT.
00:32:52.63\00:32:57.54
YOU CAN SEEK THE LORD IN PRAYER.
YOU CAN SEEK THE LORD IN STUDY.
00:32:57.54\00:33:01.61
YOU CAN SEEK THE LORD THROUGH
WITNESS, BUT WE NEED TO SEARCH
00:33:01.61\00:33:05.58
FOR HIM WITH ALL OUR HEART - AND
THAT'S WHEN YOU FINALLY FIND THE
00:33:05.58\00:33:07.75
REST. IT'S WORTH FINDING.
AND I - HOW MANY OF YOU FIND
00:33:07.75\00:33:11.25
SOMETIMES IT'S A
LITTLE STRESSFUL JUST BEFORE
00:33:11.25\00:33:13.09
THE SUN GOES DOWN? AS
YOU'RE RIP-SNORTING AROUND
00:33:13.09\00:33:16.22
TRYING TO GET EVERYTHING
TOGETHER, YOU - YOU PICK
00:33:16.22\00:33:19.19
UP THE PACE A LITTLE
BIT? AM I THE ONLY ONE?
00:33:19.19\00:33:22.36
BUT THEN FINALLY YOU SET IT ALL
ASIDE, YOU TURN ON THE MUSIC -
00:33:22.36\00:33:26.33
SABBATH MUSIC - YOU HAVE PRAYER
AND YOU GO, (BREATHES DEEPLY).
00:33:26.33\00:33:30.74
WAS IT WORTH IT? YOU
EVER GO ON A VACATION?
00:33:30.74\00:33:33.88
YOU HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, RUSH TO
THE AIRPORT, AND YOU'VE GOT TO
00:33:33.88\00:33:35.98
DO ALL THIS PACKING AND
SCHEDULING AND CHECKING IN - AND
00:33:35.98\00:33:40.22
FINALLY YOU GET OUT THERE ON THE
BEACH AND YOU SIT BACK IN THE
00:33:40.22\00:33:43.69
LOUNGE CHAIR AND YOU WATCH THE
WAVES ROLL IN AND YOU GO, 'AH,
00:33:43.69\00:33:47.79
HAD TO WORK TO ENTER THAT REST.'
SO WHAT IS THE REST THAT WE WORK
00:33:47.79\00:33:53.03
TO ENTER? IT'S NOT
JUST A LITERAL SABBATH DAY.
00:33:53.03\00:33:57.30
THE SABBATH IS AN
ACTUAL SIGN OF THAT.
00:33:57.30\00:33:59.50
IT'S THE DAILY REST IN CHRIST.
DO YOU ONLY WANT TO COME TO
00:33:59.50\00:34:04.71
JESUS AND HAVE REST ONE DAY
A WEEK, OR DO YOU WANT TO HAVE
00:34:04.71\00:34:08.34
REST SEVEN DAYS A WEEK?
HE SAYS, 'HOOK UP TO ME.
00:34:08.34\00:34:13.68
YOU'LL BE LABORING AND YOU'LL
FIND REST.' HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:34:13.68\00:34:16.65
REST IN LABOR. SO
IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT
00:34:16.65\00:34:20.49
KEEPING THE SABBATH,
IT'S TALKING ABOUT A REST
00:34:20.49\00:34:22.49
THAT GOES
24/7/365. ISN'T THAT THE KIND
00:34:22.49\00:34:26.63
OF REST YOU WANT?
REST FOR YOUR SOUL.
00:34:26.63\00:34:29.76
OKAY, I WORE
THAT OUT PRETTY WELL.
00:34:29.76\00:34:32.67
NOW WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT UNREST OVER A REST DAY.
00:34:32.67\00:34:36.07
WE'RE GOING BACK NOW TO MATTHEW,
EXCEPT WE'RE GOING TO CHAPTER
00:34:36.07\00:34:38.71
12. AND IT SAYS,
"AT THAT TIME JESUS
00:34:38.71\00:34:41.18
WENT THROUGH THE
GRAIN FIELDS ON THE SABBATH.
00:34:41.18\00:34:44.81
AND HIS DISCIPLES WERE HUNGRY,
AND BEGAN TO PLUCK THE HEADS OF
00:34:44.81\00:34:48.78
GRAIN AND TO EAT. AND
WHEN THE PHARISEES SAW IT,
00:34:48.78\00:34:52.55
THEY SAID TO HIM, 'LOOK, YOUR
DISCIPLES ARE DOING WHAT IS NOT
00:34:52.55\00:34:54.56
LAWFUL TO DO ON THE
SABBATH!'" WAS IT THEIR FIELD OR
00:34:54.56\00:34:58.19
SOMEONE ELSE'S FIELD?
SO THE PHARISEES ARE UPSET
00:34:58.19\00:35:02.26
BECAUSE THEY'RE STEALING.
IS THAT WHY THEY'RE UPSET?
00:35:02.26\00:35:06.43
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT IS
GOING TO READ EXODUS 34, VERSE
00:35:06.43\00:35:09.80
21. YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
OKAY. LET ME SHARE WHAT THE
00:35:09.80\00:35:12.71
LAW OF MOSES SAID.
I'LL READ DEUTERONOMY 23:25,
00:35:12.71\00:35:16.44
"WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR
NEIGHBOR'S STANDING GRAIN, YOU
00:35:16.44\00:35:20.25
MAY PLUCK THE HEADS WITH
YOUR HAND, BUT YOU SHALL NOT USE
00:35:20.25\00:35:24.75
A SICKLE ON YOUR
NEIGHBOR'S STANDING GRAIN."
00:35:24.75\00:35:27.52
FIRST THING, THEY WERE NOT
SUPPOSED TO TRANSVERSE A FIELD.
00:35:27.52\00:35:31.53
FIELDS OFTEN WERE
SURROUNDED BY ROADS.
00:35:31.53\00:35:33.93
AND SO, AS THEY WALKED BY THE
FIELD - I REMEMBER ONE TIME I
00:35:33.93\00:35:39.43
WAS HITCHHIKING. I
WAS VERY HUNGRY AND I WAS
00:35:39.43\00:35:41.00
WALKING BY A FIELD OF CORN.
HAVE YOU EVER EATEN RAW CORN
00:35:41.00\00:35:44.41
OUT OF THE - IT'S
NOT BAD. YOU WON'T DIE.
00:35:44.41\00:35:48.24
YOU'RE ALL SO USED TO EATING IT
COOKED - LET ME JUST TELL YOU,
00:35:48.24\00:35:50.81
YOU WON'T DIE. IT'S PRETTY GOOD.
IT SOMETIMES TASTES A LITTLE
00:35:50.81\00:35:55.52
STARCHY AND YOU'VE
GOT TO WATCH FOR WORMS.
00:35:55.52\00:35:57.52
IT DEPENDS ON IF IT'S CORN
THEY'RE GROWING FOR COWS OR FOR
00:35:57.52\00:35:59.55
HUMAN CONSUMPTION - YOU DON'T
KNOW SOMETIMES UNTIL YOU BITE
00:35:59.55\00:36:01.79
INTO IT. BUT
IT'S OKAY, YOU KNOW,
00:36:01.79\00:36:07.36
BIBLICALLY THAT'S LEGAL.
BUT YOU DON'T GO WALKING OFF
00:36:07.36\00:36:10.20
THROUGH A PERSON'S
FIELD WITH A BUCKET.
00:36:10.20\00:36:14.40
IF YOU WALK BY YOUR NEIGHBOR'S
APPLE TREE - WE'VE GOT A
00:36:14.40\00:36:17.31
NEIGHBOR, HE'S A MEMBER OF OUR
CHURCH, ACTUALLY, AND HE'S GOT A
00:36:17.31\00:36:20.61
FIG TREE AND A POMELO
TREE THAT HANGS OVER OUR FENCE.
00:36:20.61\00:36:24.95
NOW, I DON'T MIND BECAUSE MY
TREES HANG OVER HIS FENCE TOO.
00:36:24.95\00:36:28.58
MINE DON'T PRODUCE ANY
FRUIT THOUGH, THEY'RE JUST PINE
00:36:28.58\00:36:30.95
NEEDLES, SORRY. BUT WE
KNOW THEM WELL AND THEY
00:36:30.95\00:36:36.42
HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH MY REACHING
UP TO THE BRANCHES THAT ARE
00:36:36.42\00:36:39.03
HANGING OVER THE FENCE - AND I
GLEAN. NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
00:36:39.03\00:36:43.00
SO THAT'S NOT WHY
THE PHARISEES WERE UPSET.
00:36:43.00\00:36:47.30
WHY WERE THEY UPSET?
READ FOR US EXODUS 34:21.
00:36:47.30\00:36:50.67
>>"SIX DAYS YOU SHALL WORK,
BUT ON THE SEVENTH DAY YOU SHALL
00:36:50.67\00:36:53.78
REST; IN PLOWING TIME AND
IN HARVEST YOU SHALL REST."
00:36:53.78\00:36:58.65
>>SO A FARMER - THERE'S SOME
THINGS A FARMER CAN DO ON THE
00:36:58.65\00:37:02.05
SABBATH DAY. IS IT
OKAY FOR A FARMER TO MILK
00:37:02.05\00:37:06.52
HIS GOATS AND COWS
IF THEY NEED MILKING?
00:37:06.52\00:37:08.69
>>YES. >>IT'S
ACTUALLY CRUEL IF YOU
00:37:08.69\00:37:10.53
DON'T BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM VERY
UNCOMFORTABLE AND YOU'VE GOT TO
00:37:10.53\00:37:14.23
MILK THEM AT REGULAR TIMES SEVEN
DAYS A WEEK. BUT WERE THEY TO
00:37:14.23\00:37:20.17
HARVEST THEIR FIELDS?
SOME THINGS HAD TO BE DONE.
00:37:20.17\00:37:24.11
EVEN IF THERE HAD BEEN RAIN AND
NOW IT WAS THE PERFECT DAY FOR
00:37:24.11\00:37:28.44
HARVESTING, BUT IT'S THE
SABBATH, YOU DON'T HARVEST.
00:37:28.44\00:37:30.88
EVEN IF BAD WEATHER WAS COMING,
IF YOU DIDN'T GET STUFF OUT OF
00:37:30.88\00:37:33.42
THE FIELD IN TIME, YOU MIGHT -
YOUR CROP MIGHT BE DAMAGED - GOD
00:37:33.42\00:37:37.29
SAID, 'EVEN IF YOU RISK LOSING
YOUR CROP, YOU DO NOT HARVEST' -
00:37:37.29\00:37:41.59
BECAUSE THAT INVOLVES SERIOUS
WORK - 'YOU DO NOT HARVEST ON
00:37:41.59\00:37:44.83
THE SABBATH.' SO WHAT THE
DISCIPLES WERE DOING WHEN THEY
00:37:44.83\00:37:48.73
WALKED THROUGH THE FIELD ON THE
SABBATH IS, OBVIOUSLY, THEY WERE
00:37:48.73\00:37:51.33
HARVESTING. AND
SO IT REALLY MADE THE
00:37:51.33\00:37:54.94
SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES UPSET
AND THEY SAID, 'THEY'RE DOING
00:37:54.94\00:37:57.37
THAT WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL.
THEY ARE HARVESTING.' NOW, IS
00:37:57.37\00:38:00.34
THAT WHAT THE LAW WAS SAYING?
IF YOU PICK AN APPLE - IF YOU'RE
00:38:00.34\00:38:05.68
WALKING BY - DOWN THE ROAD -
ON YOUR WAY TO CHURCH AND YOU
00:38:05.68\00:38:10.12
HAVEN'T HAD ANY BREAKFAST
SABBATH MORNING AND THERE'S AN
00:38:10.12\00:38:12.95
APPLE TREE AND IT'S GOT
THIS LIMB WITH A RED DELICIOUS
00:38:12.95\00:38:15.49
HANGING DOWN OVER THE ROAD
AND YOU REACH UP AND TAKE IT AND
00:38:15.49\00:38:19.06
THAT'S YOUR BREAKFAST ON
THE WAY TO CHURCH, ARE YOU
00:38:19.06\00:38:21.23
HARVESTING APPLES?
WOULDN'T YOU HAVE TO KIND OF
00:38:21.23\00:38:24.53
PICK IT UP OFF THE
COUNTER AND EAT IT TOO?
00:38:24.53\00:38:28.80
ISN'T THAT LEGALISM?
THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
00:38:28.80\00:38:32.24
AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY DO - WE
DON'T SEE THIS IN THIS CULTURE
00:38:32.24\00:38:34.68
BECAUSE WE DON'T GROW GRAIN,
BUT BACK THEN THEY'D HAVE THE
00:38:34.68\00:38:37.48
STANDING WHEAT OR THE RYE,
DEPENDING ON WHAT KIND OF GRAIN
00:38:37.48\00:38:40.02
IT WAS, AND THEY WOULD PLUCK THE
HEADS - THEY USUALLY LET THEM
00:38:40.02\00:38:44.32
DRY A LITTLE BIT - THEY'D RUB
THEM IN THEIR HANDS - THAT WOULD
00:38:44.32\00:38:47.69
SEPARATE THE CHAFF - THEY'D
BLOW - THEY MIGHT GO LIKE THIS A
00:38:47.69\00:38:51.79
COUPLE TIMES AND BLOW IT.
IT'S BASICALLY, IT'S KIND OF -
00:38:51.79\00:38:54.10
THEY CALL THAT THRESHING -
SO THEY GET RID OF ALL THE CHAFF
00:38:54.10\00:38:58.93
AND THEY'D POP THE
KERNELS IN THEIR MOUTHS.
00:38:58.93\00:39:00.90
THEY WERE SO HUNGRY THEY
WERE JUST EATING RAW WHEAT.
00:39:00.90\00:39:02.87
IT WON'T HURT YOU,
IT'S GOOD. IT'S SEEDS.
00:39:02.87\00:39:04.87
AND THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE
HARVESTING AND YOU'RE THRESHING
00:39:04.87\00:39:09.11
AND THAT'S A SIN.
YOU'RE BREAKING THE SABBATH.'
00:39:09.11\00:39:11.41
THAT'S LEGALISM, AND
JESUS WAS TELLING THEM THAT.
00:39:11.41\00:39:14.95
AND THEN HE USES SOME
ILLUSTRATIONS TO PROVE THAT.
00:39:14.95\00:39:18.09
WELL, LET ME GIVE
YOU ONE MORE VERSE FIRST.
00:39:18.09\00:39:19.32
LEVITICUS 19:9 AND 10 - I TOLD
YOU ABOUT THIS BUT I DIDN'T GIVE
00:39:19.32\00:39:23.99
YOU THE VERSE. "WHEN
YOU REAP THE HARVEST OF
00:39:23.99\00:39:26.09
YOUR LAND, YOU SHALL NOT WHOLLY
REAP THE CORNERS OF YOUR FIELD,
00:39:26.09\00:39:29.56
NOR SHALL YOU GATHER THE
GLEANINGS OF YOUR HARVEST."
00:39:29.56\00:39:33.03
- THAT MEANS YOU DON'T
GO OVER IT A SECOND TIME.
00:39:33.03\00:39:34.70
THEY CALL THAT THE GLEANINGS.
00:39:34.70\00:39:35.97
IF SOMETHING'S RIPENED LATE YOU
JUST LEAVE IT - "AND YOU SHALL
00:39:35.97\00:39:40.41
NOT GLEAN YOUR VINEYARD, NOR
SHALL YOU GATHER EVERY GRAPE OF
00:39:40.41\00:39:43.81
YOUR VINEYARD; YOU SHALL
LEAVE THEM FOR THE POOR AND THE
00:39:43.81\00:39:48.85
STRANGER: I AM
THE LORD YOUR GOD."
00:39:48.85\00:39:50.09
OTHER PLACES IT SAYS, 'FOR THE
STRANGER AND THE POOR.' SO IT
00:39:50.09\00:39:52.35
WAS PERMISSIBLE FOR THE
STRANGERS AND THE POOR TO BE
00:39:52.35\00:39:55.69
ABLE TO EAT THESE THINGS EVEN ON
THE SABBATH DAY, IF IT WAS THEIR
00:39:55.69\00:39:59.19
MEAL AND THEY'RE EATING
IT RIGHT OUT OF THE FIELD.
00:39:59.19\00:40:01.06
THEY'RE NOT DOING LIKE RUTH DID,
WHERE SHE'S GOING AND GATHERING
00:40:01.06\00:40:04.67
IT AND GETTING SHOCKS.
THEY WERE JUST EATING IT.
00:40:04.67\00:40:07.37
THERE WAS
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
00:40:07.37\00:40:08.80
BUT THEY HAD BECOME SO
LEGALISTIC THAT, IN THE TIME OF
00:40:08.80\00:40:12.21
CHRIST, THEY HAD MEASURED OFF
HOW FAR THEY THOUGHT YOU COULD
00:40:12.21\00:40:14.88
WALK ON THE SABBATH DAY - IT WAS
ABOUT 4,000 - 4,000 FEET, YEAH -
00:40:14.88\00:40:21.32
SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY.
AND THEY SAID YOU CANNOT CARRY
00:40:21.32\00:40:25.79
A HANDKERCHIEF IN YOUR
POCKET BECAUSE IT WAS A BURDEN.
00:40:25.79\00:40:28.62
THEY NEVER KNEW, YOU KNOW, WHERE
TO DRAW THE LINE, SO THEY SAID,
00:40:28.62\00:40:31.16
'DON'T CARRY ANYTHING OR IT'S
A BURDEN.' WELL, WHAT IF YOU'VE
00:40:31.16\00:40:33.60
GOT HAYFEVER AND
YOU NEED A HANDKERCHIEF?
00:40:33.60\00:40:36.03
THEY SAID, 'WELL, SEW IT TO YOUR
CLOTHES AND THEN IT BECOMES PART
00:40:36.03\00:40:38.83
OF YOUR CLOTHING AND YOU CAN
BLOW YOUR NOSE IN IT THEN.' I
00:40:38.83\00:40:42.50
MEAN, THEY JUST HAD ALL THESE
LAWS THAT WERE MAN-MADE LAWS AND
00:40:42.50\00:40:45.94
SO, JESUS, IN ALL OF THE
DISPUTES - DON'T FORGET WHAT I'M
00:40:45.94\00:40:48.88
GOING TO SAY: YOU'RE GOING
TO SEE THAT CHRIST HAD AS MANY
00:40:48.88\00:40:52.38
DISPUTES ON THE SUBJECT OF
THE SABBATH WITH THE RELIGIOUS
00:40:52.38\00:40:55.85
LEADERS, AS ANY OTHER DOCTRINE,
BUT NEVER WAS IT A DISPUTE
00:40:55.85\00:41:01.22
REGARDING WHETHER OR NOT YOU
SHOULD KEEP THE SABBATH, IT WAS
00:41:01.22\00:41:05.26
ALWAYS A DISPUTE REGARDING
HOW TO KEEP THE SABBATH.
00:41:05.26\00:41:09.56
AND SO, SOME PEOPLE SAY,
'WELL, BECAUSE THERE WERE THESE
00:41:09.56\00:41:12.57
DISPUTES THAT WERE LEGALISM,
WE SHOULDN'T KEEP THE SABBATH AT
00:41:12.57\00:41:14.77
ALL.' NO, HE WAS JUST
TALKING ABOUT THEIR LEGALISM.
00:41:14.77\00:41:18.87
THEY ALSO HAD LEGALISM ABOUT
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.
00:41:18.87\00:41:21.91
IT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN
BREAK THAT COMMANDMENT.
00:41:21.91\00:41:24.08
AND SO, WE'RE TO JUST,
BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, USE
00:41:24.08\00:41:26.92
PRACTICAL SENSE IN THESE THINGS.
00:41:26.92\00:41:29.25
LOOK IN THE
REST OF THIS CHAPTER.
00:41:29.25\00:41:31.89
GO TO - I'M IN CHAPTER 12 -
AND HE THEN, AFTER THE PHARISEES
00:41:31.89\00:41:38.83
SAY, 'LOOK, THEY'RE DOING THAT
WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL - VERSE 3 OF
00:41:38.83\00:41:41.06
CHAPTER 12 - "BUT HE SAID TO
THEM, 'HAVE YOU NOT READ WHAT
00:41:41.06\00:41:45.37
DAVID DID WHEN HE WAS HUNGRY, HE
AND THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM: HOW
00:41:45.37\00:41:50.57
HE ENTERED THE HOUSE OF GOD AND
ATE THE SHOWBREAD WHICH WAS NOT
00:41:50.57\00:41:53.24
LAWFUL FOR HIM TO EAT, NOR
FOR THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM, BUT
00:41:53.24\00:41:56.24
ONLY FOR THE PRIESTS?'"
NOW, DO YOU KNOW THE STORY
00:41:56.24\00:42:00.35
THAT CHRIST WAS TALKING ABOUT
HERE? IT'S WHEN - IN THE DAYS OF
00:42:00.35\00:42:04.75
DAVID - LET ME READ
IT TO YOU. GO TO 1 SAMUEL
00:42:04.75\00:42:09.36
CHAPTER 21, VERSE 4.
AND SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, IS
00:42:09.36\00:42:15.33
GOING TO READ MARK 2, VERSE
27. JUAN, YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:42:15.33\00:42:19.07
I THINK YOU READ
28 TOO - IN A MOMENT.
00:42:19.07\00:42:21.37
1 SAMUEL 21:4, "AND THE PRIEST
ANSWERED DAVID AND SAID, 'THERE
00:42:21.37\00:42:25.24
IS NO COMMON BREAD ON HAND;
BUT THERE IS HOLY BREAD,'" - I'D
00:42:25.24\00:42:27.48
BETTER GIVE YOU THE
BACKGROUND TO THE STORY.
00:42:27.48\00:42:29.08
DAVID HAS FOUND OUT SAUL IS
TRYING TO KILL HIM. HE HOPED IT
00:42:29.08\00:42:32.81
WAS GOING TO GO WELL BUT HE
GOT WORD FROM JONATHAN - DAD -
00:42:32.81\00:42:38.35
JONATHAN, THE PRINCE SAID, 'MY
FATHER HAS A PRICE ON YOUR HEAD.
00:42:38.35\00:42:42.06
YOU BETTER GET OUT AND GET
OUT FAST.' AND SAUL EVEN SENT
00:42:42.06\00:42:46.83
SOMEONE TO DAVID'S HOUSE TO KILL
HIM IN HIS BED, BUT HE HAD GONE
00:42:46.83\00:42:50.87
OUT THE WINDOW AND PUT A STATUE
IN HIS BED. DON'T ASK ME WHAT
00:42:50.87\00:42:53.97
DAVID HAD A STATUE IN HIS HOUSE
FOR. AND THEY'D COVERED IT WITH
00:42:53.97\00:42:57.91
A BLANKET TO LOOK
LIKE IT WAS HIM IN THE BED.
00:42:57.91\00:43:02.14
AND MICHAEL, HIS WIFE, TRIED
TO LIE FOR HIM TO SAVE HIM.
00:43:02.14\00:43:04.68
SO HE'S RUNNING FOR HIS
LIFE AND, IN RUNNING, HE GOES BY
00:43:04.68\00:43:09.52
WHERE THE ARK IS PROTECTED UNDER
A TENT - THE OLD TABERNACLE IS
00:43:09.52\00:43:14.39
THERE - AND HE SAYS TO THE
PRIEST, 'I'M ON A MISSION' -
00:43:14.39\00:43:18.39
DAVID KIND OF LIES - HE SAYS,
'I'M ON AN URGENT MISSION OF THE
00:43:18.39\00:43:21.83
KING.' NOW DAVID IS ALWAYS
THINKING THAT KING, YOU KNOW?
00:43:21.83\00:43:25.80
HE SAID, 'I'M ON A MISSION OF
THE KING' - THE KING OF HEAVEN -
00:43:25.80\00:43:28.30
'URGENT MISSION. DO YOU HAVE
ANY FOOD?' DAVID HAD SOME OF HIS
00:43:28.30\00:43:30.57
SOLDIERS WITH HIM THAT
LATER GREW INTO THE MIGHTY MEN.
00:43:30.57\00:43:34.68
HE SAID, 'THE ONLY THING WE HAVE
HERE IS THE DAY-OLD HOLY BREAD
00:43:34.68\00:43:37.68
AND YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO
EAT THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT A
00:43:37.68\00:43:39.51
PRIEST.' AND HE SAID, 'BUT
IF YOU - IF, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE
00:43:39.51\00:43:44.59
HOLY - IF YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN
BEHAVING YOURSELVES, THEN WE'LL
00:43:44.59\00:43:48.46
LET YOU EAT IT.' AND DAVID SAID,
'TRULY' - "THEN DAVID ANSWERED
00:43:48.46\00:43:51.86
THE PRIEST, AND SAID TO HIM,
'TRULY, WOMEN HAVE BEEN KEPT
00:43:51.86\00:43:53.73
FROM US ABOUT THREE DAYS.'" YOU
KNOW, WHEN THERE WAS A SPECIAL
00:43:53.73\00:43:56.80
SABBATH AND GOD SPOKE TO THE
PEOPLE, IT SAID THAT THEY HAD TO
00:43:56.80\00:43:59.70
WASH THEIR CLOTHES AND
STAY AWAY FROM THEIR WIVES.
00:43:59.70\00:44:02.60
AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THEY
DID DURING A TIME OF FASTING.
00:44:02.60\00:44:05.37
PAUL TALKS ABOUT THAT
IN 1 CORINTHIANS 7 TOO.
00:44:05.37\00:44:08.01
AND DAVID SAYS, 'NO, WE'VE BEEN
ON A MISSION OF THE KING FOR
00:44:08.01\00:44:11.21
THREE DAYS NOW.' AND HE SAID,
'OKAY, THE BREAD IS HOLY, EVEN
00:44:11.21\00:44:15.52
THOUGH IT WAS CONSECRATED IN THE
VESSEL THIS DAY.' "SO THE PRIEST
00:44:15.52\00:44:18.49
GAVE HIM HOLY BREAD; FOR
THERE WAS NO BREAD THERE BUT THE
00:44:18.49\00:44:20.96
SHOWBREAD WHICH HAD BEEN TAKEN
FROM BEFORE THE LORD, IN ORDER
00:44:20.96\00:44:23.86
TO PUT HOT BREAD" - SO
THIS IS THE DAY-OLD SHOWBREAD.
00:44:23.86\00:44:27.10
IT WAS ALREADY - THEY PUT THE
NEW BREAD IN ITS PLACE WHEN IT
00:44:27.10\00:44:30.10
WAS TAKEN AWAY. TECHNICALLY,
THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT
00:44:30.10\00:44:33.27
THAT, JUST THE SONS OF
AARON WERE SUPPOSED TO EAT IT.
00:44:33.27\00:44:36.44
BUT JESUS IS SAYING TO THE
SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, 'IF IT'S
00:44:36.44\00:44:41.51
AN EMERGENCY.' YOU KNOW, IF A
KID WAS IN A CHURCH AND YOU SEE
00:44:41.51\00:44:49.88
HIM CLIMBING ON A CROSS - A
WOODEN CROSS - WITH JESUS ON THE
00:44:49.88\00:44:53.76
CROSS, YOU'D SAY, THAT'S VERY
DISRESPECTFUL, DON'T DO THAT.'
00:44:53.76\00:44:57.36
BUT IF THAT CROSS WAS FLOATING
IN THE OCEAN AND THE CHILD WAS
00:44:57.36\00:45:00.30
DROWNING, WOULD YOU SAY, 'YOU
CAN'T HANG ON TO THE ONLY THING
00:45:00.30\00:45:02.53
FLOATING' - WHICH WAS
A WOODEN PIECE OF CROSS?
00:45:02.53\00:45:05.37
IT'S - YOU'RE
JUST BEING PRACTICAL.
00:45:05.37\00:45:08.67
AND SO THAT'S WHAT JESUS -
DAVID AND HIS MEN WERE HUNGRY.
00:45:08.67\00:45:11.41
THERE WAS NOTHING TO EAT.
HE'S ON AN URGENT MISSION.
00:45:11.41\00:45:14.08
THEY SAID, 'OKAY, IT'S AN
EMERGENCY.' DO YOU KNOW THE
00:45:14.08\00:45:17.01
RELIGIOUS LEADERS DID ALLOW
HEALING ON THE SABBATH, BUT IT
00:45:17.01\00:45:24.25
NEEDED TO BE AN EMERGENCY AND
THAT TAKES US OFF INTO OUR NEXT
00:45:24.25\00:45:27.16
ONE WE'LL GET TO IN A MOMENT.
GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, MARK
00:45:27.16\00:45:30.13
CHAPTER 2, VERSES 27 AND
28. >>"AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'THE
00:45:30.13\00:45:35.06
SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN AND NOT
MAN FOR THE SABBATH.' THEREFORE,
00:45:35.06\00:45:40.27
THE SON OF MAN IS
ALSO LORD OF THE SABBATH."
00:45:40.27\00:45:44.21
>>NOW, WHEN HE TELLS THIS STORY
- WHEN YOU READ THIS EXPERIENCE
00:45:44.21\00:45:48.14
IN MATTHEW, IT
DOESN'T INCLUDE THAT VERSE.
00:45:48.14\00:45:51.38
AT THE END OF THE EXPERIENCE IN
MARK IT SAYS, 'THE SABBATH WAS
00:45:51.38\00:45:54.62
MADE FOR MAN AND NOT MAN FOR THE
SABBATH.' I'M GLAD THAT VERSE IS
00:45:54.62\00:45:57.29
IN HERE BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE
THINK THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR
00:45:57.29\00:45:59.52
JEWS. HAVE YOU
HEARD THAT BEFORE?
00:45:59.52\00:46:01.92
THE SABBATH WAS A
COVENANT JUST FOR JEWS?
00:46:01.92\00:46:03.66
HERE, JESUS SAID
THAT IT WAS MADE FOR MAN.
00:46:03.66\00:46:05.96
THAT WORD THERE, I BELIEVE, IN
THE GREEK IS 'ANTHROPOS' AND IT
00:46:05.96\00:46:08.96
MEANS 'MANKIND'. IT'S
A VERY STRONG ARGUMENT
00:46:08.96\00:46:12.73
THAT THE SABBATH
WAS MADE FOR EVERYBODY.
00:46:12.73\00:46:15.04
BUT AT THE SAME TIME - AND THE
SABBATH WAS MADE AFTER MAN, YOU
00:46:15.04\00:46:18.17
SEE, AND IT WAS MADE
TO BE A BLESSING TO MAN.
00:46:18.17\00:46:20.51
MAN WAS NOT CREATED TO SUDDENLY
SERVE THE SABBATH, THE SABBATH
00:46:20.51\00:46:23.08
WAS MADE TO SERVE MAN.
AND JESUS, IN MATTHEW, HE SAYS
00:46:23.08\00:46:28.18
IT, 'HAVE YOU NOT READ IN THE
LAW THAT ON THE SABBATH DAY THE
00:46:28.18\00:46:34.29
PRIESTS IN THE TEMPLE' - NOW
I'M IN MATTHEW - BACK IN MATTHEW
00:46:34.29\00:46:36.96
12:5 - "OR HAVE YOU NOT READ IN
THE LAW THAT ON THE SABBATH THE
00:46:36.96\00:46:40.53
PRIESTS IN THE TEMPLE PROFANE
THE SABBATH, AND ARE BLAMELESS?"
00:46:40.53\00:46:43.40
WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN THAT THE
PRIESTS PROFANED THE SABBATH?
00:46:43.40\00:46:48.20
WHAT DO YOU THINK HE
MEANS BY THAT? THEY WORK.
00:46:48.20\00:46:52.27
NOW, NORMALLY, IF A MAN WAS
BUILDING A FIRE ON THE SABBATH
00:46:52.27\00:46:56.38
DAY - THEY WEREN'T
SUPPOSED TO DO THAT.
00:46:56.38\00:46:58.05
YOU COULD HAVE A FIRE -
MANY PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND THAT.
00:46:58.05\00:47:00.88
I'VE HEARD - I REMEMBER READING
A BOOK BY JIMMY SWAGGART YEARS
00:47:00.88\00:47:03.32
AGO, WHEN HE WAS SAYING HOW
IMPOSSIBLE IT IS TO KEEP THE
00:47:03.32\00:47:05.79
SABBATH, AND HE MADE IT
SOUND LIKE GOD HAD A BAD IDEA.
00:47:05.79\00:47:08.99
HE SAID, 'WHENEVER YOU DRIVE TO
CHURCH - YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO
00:47:08.99\00:47:13.06
KINDLE A FIRE ON THE SABBATH AND
EVERY TIME THAT YOUR SPARKPLUGS
00:47:13.06\00:47:15.53
FIRE IN YOUR CAR,
YOU ARE KINDLING A FIRE.
00:47:15.53\00:47:19.00
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP THE
SABBATH.' YOU KNOW, GOD DIDN'T
00:47:19.00\00:47:22.97
TELL THEM THEY COULDN'T HAVE
A FIRE. HE DIDN'T TELL THEM THEY
00:47:22.97\00:47:25.27
HAD TO SIT AND SHIVER ALL
THROUGH THE SABBATH, HE TOLD
00:47:25.27\00:47:28.01
THEM, 'DON'T KINDLE A FIRE.'
HOW DO WE START FIRES TODAY?
00:47:28.01\00:47:31.85
TURN A SWITCH - YOU'VE GOT
AN AUTOMATIC THING THAT GOES,
00:47:31.85\00:47:34.65
'CLICK, CLICK, CLICK'
UNTIL THE GAS STOVE LIGHTS.
00:47:34.65\00:47:36.99
OR YOU LIGHT A MATCH - HOW
DID THEY KINDLE A FIRE IN BIBLE
00:47:36.99\00:47:41.66
TIMES? IT'S
LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE
00:47:41.66\00:47:45.13
RUBBING STICKS TOGETHER.
I MEAN, IT WAS PRETTY LABOR
00:47:45.13\00:47:47.30
INTENSIVE TO KINDLE A
FIRE AND THEY WERE OUT
00:47:47.30\00:47:50.10
GATHERING THE WOOD. HE
SAID, 'DON'T GATHER WOOD.' A
00:47:50.10\00:47:52.37
MAN WAS STONED FOR DOING THAT.
IF THEY HAD WOOD GATHERED AND A
00:47:52.37\00:47:55.20
FIRE GOING, THEY
COULD PUT WOOD ON THE FIRE.
00:47:55.20\00:47:57.51
THEY COULD KEEP A
FIRE GOING ON THE SABBATH.
00:47:57.51\00:47:59.44
THERE WAS NOTHING THAT
SAID THEY HAD TO BE COLD.
00:47:59.44\00:48:01.44
THEY JUST WEREN'T TO
KINDLE IT. THAT'S THE ACT OF
00:48:01.44\00:48:04.41
STARTING A FIRE. DO
YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE?
00:48:04.41\00:48:06.65
SO, WITH THAT IN MIND, DID THE
PRIESTS HAVE TO KEEP THE FIRE
00:48:06.65\00:48:10.89
GOING IN THE
SANCTUARY ON THE SABBATH?
00:48:10.89\00:48:14.52
THAT FIRE WAS NEVER TO GO OUT.
00:48:14.52\00:48:17.19
THEY WERE
PUTTING WOOD ON THE FIRE.
00:48:17.19\00:48:19.19
WERE THERE
SACRIFICES ON THE SABBATH?
00:48:19.19\00:48:21.26
THEY HAD SPECIAL
SACRIFICES JUST FOR THE SABBATH.
00:48:21.26\00:48:23.47
THAT MEANS THAT YOU'VE GOT TO
- SACRIFICE THE LAMB, DRAIN THE
00:48:23.47\00:48:27.44
BLOOD, SPRINKLE THE BLOOD, SKIN
THE LAMB, BURN THE LAMB, HAUL
00:48:27.44\00:48:31.47
THE WATER TO THE LAVER FOR THE
WASHING - AND IN PASSOVER, YOU
00:48:31.47\00:48:36.51
KNOW HOW BUSY THOSE PRIESTS
WERE ON THE SABBATH DURING THE
00:48:36.51\00:48:40.02
PASSOVER IN THE
SANCTUARY? THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID
00:48:40.02\00:48:43.75
THEY'RE PROFANING IT.
WHAT HE MEANT IS THEY'RE
00:48:43.75\00:48:45.19
WORKING, BUT THEY ARE BLAMELESS.
HOW MUCH BLAME DID THEY HAVE?
00:48:45.19\00:48:48.86
>>NONE. >>ZERO. WHY?
00:48:48.86\00:48:51.13
BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING
THAT WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACT OF
00:48:51.13\00:48:54.83
WORSHIP. AND, YOU
KNOW, WE'VE REALLY
00:48:54.83\00:48:58.50
STUDIED THIS OUT HERE AT OUR
CHURCH BECAUSE, ON THE SABBATH
00:48:58.50\00:49:03.64
DAY - WELL, MANY CHURCHES, YOU
KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE A FELLOWSHIP
00:49:03.64\00:49:06.74
DINNER, THERE'S A
CERTAIN AMOUNT OF WORK.
00:49:06.74\00:49:08.48
WE DO AS MUCH
AS POSSIBLE BEFORE.
00:49:08.48\00:49:10.48
MATTER OF FACT, AT OUR
CHURCH, WE JUST HEAT THINGS UP.
00:49:10.48\00:49:13.62
WE DON'T ACTUALLY EVEN
HAVE A LOT OF COOKING GOING ON.
00:49:13.62\00:49:17.29
SOMETIMES CHAIRS NEED TO BE
MOVED BY DEACONS BECAUSE ONE
00:49:17.29\00:49:20.19
FUNCTION IS DONE AND ANOTHER
FUNCTION IS BEGINNING AND YOU'RE
00:49:20.19\00:49:23.89
GOING FROM THE DINNER INTO THE
AFTERNOON STUDY OR WHATEVER IT
00:49:23.89\00:49:26.86
IS AND THERE'S PRACTICAL THINGS
- YOU DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN
00:49:26.86\00:49:30.43
AHEAD OF TIME, BUT THERE ARE
THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE AND
00:49:30.43\00:49:34.40
THERE'S A GREAT SECTION ON THIS
IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES WHERE
00:49:34.40\00:49:37.21
SHE SAYS, 'THAT WHICH IS DONE ON
THE SABBATH DAY TO MAKE POSSIBLE
00:49:37.21\00:49:41.91
WORSHIP FOR OTHERS IS HOLY.' AND
SO, WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT -
00:49:41.91\00:49:45.98
IT'S IN THE CHAPTER WHERE JESUS
DEFENDS THE DISCIPLES WHO ARE
00:49:45.98\00:49:50.65
RUBBING THE
GRAIN IN THEIR HANDS.
00:49:50.65\00:49:52.59
AND SO, PASTORS SOMETIMES
ARE BUSY ON THE SABBATH.
00:49:52.59\00:49:57.39
AND I'VE BEEN ON THE SABBATH
DAY IN SOME COUNTRIES WHERE WE
00:49:57.39\00:50:00.66
BAPTIZED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
AND MY BACK BEGAN TO HURT.
00:50:00.66\00:50:05.27
I WAS HEAVY LADEN
BUT IT WAS A BLESSING.
00:50:05.27\00:50:10.21
I MEAN, ISN'T IT OKAY TO
DO THAT ON THE SABBATH DAY?
00:50:10.21\00:50:13.74
AND SO THERE'S PRACTICAL THINGS
THAT NEED TO BE DONE AND IT'S
00:50:13.74\00:50:16.75
PART OF THE WORSHIP
EXPERIENCE. AND JESUS SAID USE
00:50:16.75\00:50:19.08
COMMON SENSE, OKAY?
ANYWAY, ALRIGHT, WHAT
00:50:19.08\00:50:23.02
AM I FORGETTING HERE?
ALRIGHT, HEALING ON THE SABBATH.
00:50:23.02\00:50:25.32
WOW, I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
MATTHEW 12:9, "NOW WHEN HE HAD
00:50:25.32\00:50:29.26
DEPARTED FROM THERE, HE
WENT INTO THEIR SYNAGOGUE.
00:50:29.26\00:50:31.56
AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS A
MAN WHO HAD A WITHERED HAND.
00:50:31.56\00:50:34.60
AND THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING,
'IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL ON THE
00:50:34.60\00:50:39.47
SABBATH?'" - AND
THEY WANTED TO ACCUSE HIM.
00:50:39.47\00:50:44.21
"THEN HE SAID TO THEM, 'WHAT MAN
IS THERE AMONG YOU WHO HAS ONE
00:50:44.21\00:50:47.34
SHEEP, AND IF IT FALLS INTO A
PIT ON THE SABBATH, WILL NOT LAY
00:50:47.34\00:50:50.58
HOLD OF IT?'" -
HE MAKES IT REALLY
00:50:50.58\00:50:52.65
HARD FOR THEM TO ANSWER.
HE SAID HE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT
00:50:52.65\00:50:54.55
OF SHEEP - HE'S GOT ONE SHEEP.
I MEAN, IF HE HAD A LOT OF SHEEP
00:50:54.55\00:50:57.52
HE MIGHT SAY, 'I'LL COME BACK
FOR THAT ONE AFTER SUNDOWN.'
00:50:57.52\00:50:59.59
BUT IT'S HIS ONLY
SHEEP. "AND IF IT FALLS INTO A
00:50:59.59\00:51:03.43
PIT...WILL NOT LAY
HOLD OF IT AND LIFT IT OUT?
00:51:03.43\00:51:05.86
OF HOW MUCH MORE VALUE
THEN IS A MAN THAN A SHEEP?"
00:51:05.86\00:51:09.43
ARE THERE VARIATIONS
OF VALUE IN GOD'S KINGDOM?
00:51:09.43\00:51:14.30
ARE PEOPLE MORE
VALUABLE THAN SHEEP - QUESTION?
00:51:14.30\00:51:17.44
WHAT DOES HUMANISM TEACH TODAY?
THERE'S ALMOST NO DIFFERENCE
00:51:17.44\00:51:21.84
BETWEEN A WHALE AND A HUMAN,
THAT PEOPLE WILL HUG A TREE AND
00:51:21.84\00:51:26.85
DIE TO SAVE THE TREES AND THEY
THINK, 'WELL, WE'VE ALL EVOLVED
00:51:26.85\00:51:31.15
FROM MOTHER NATURE AND WE'RE
ALL - THERE'S NOTHING MORE, YOU
00:51:31.15\00:51:34.62
KNOW, THE PORPOISES AND
THE MOSQUITOS, IF YOU'RE A
00:51:34.62\00:51:38.06
DEDICATED BUDDHIST IT'S ALL LIFE
IS LIFE AND - THE BIBLE TEACHES
00:51:38.06\00:51:42.80
A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD
VIEW. THERE ARE VARIATIONS
00:51:42.80\00:51:45.73
OF VALUE IN LIFE.
HUMANS ARE THE CROWNING
00:51:45.73\00:51:50.61
ACT OF CREATION. WE
ARE WORTH MORE THAN SHEEP.
00:51:50.61\00:51:54.18
IF I'M DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD,
HEAVEN FORBID I HIT A DEER.
00:51:54.18\00:51:57.95
IT HAPPENED
ONCE, I FELT TERRIBLE.
00:51:57.95\00:51:59.51
A LITTLE DEER SCAMPERED OUT INTO
THE ROAD - IT WAS IN A CITY,
00:51:59.51\00:52:01.75
TOO, OF ALL THINGS - AND
IT DIED. I FELT TERRIBLE.
00:52:01.75\00:52:06.42
I FELT WORSE THAN IF
I HAD HIT A SQUIRREL.
00:52:06.42\00:52:10.36
I CAME ON AN ACCIDENT ONE TIME
WHEN SOMEBODY WRECKED THEIR CAR
00:52:10.36\00:52:13.46
BECAUSE THEY WERE
AVOIDING A SQUIRREL IN A ROAD.
00:52:13.46\00:52:15.50
AND I THOUGHT,
'RUN OVER THAT SQUIRREL!
00:52:15.50\00:52:16.83
IT'S JUST A CUTE RAT IS ALL IT
IS.' (LAUGHTER) DON'T WRECK YOUR
00:52:16.83\00:52:20.40
CAR FOR A SQUIRREL. BUT
I'D FEEL WORSE IF I RAN OVER
00:52:20.40\00:52:24.64
A SQUIRREL THAN WHEN A MOSQUITO
SPLATS ON MY WINDSHIELD.
00:52:24.64\00:52:29.78
THEY'RE ALL DYING, BUT ISN'T
A SQUIRREL WORTH MORE THAN A
00:52:29.78\00:52:33.08
MOSQUITO? ARE YOU WITH
ME? THERE ARE VARIATIONS.
00:52:33.08\00:52:37.29
MATTER OF FACT, IF I HIT A
MOSQUITO, I DON'T CARE ABOUT
00:52:37.29\00:52:39.29
THAT. I CARE
ABOUT MY WINDSHIELD.
00:52:39.29\00:52:42.36
YOU KNOW, THERE'S - THERE'S
VARIATIONS OF VALUE AND JESUS IS
00:52:42.36\00:52:45.99
SAYING, 'LOOK, YOU CARE ABOUT
YOUR SHEEP ON THE SABBATH, OF
00:52:45.99\00:52:48.46
HOW MUCH MORE VALUE
IS IT TO HEAL A PERSON?
00:52:48.46\00:52:51.83
AND HE TALKED - HE HAD THAT
WOMAN WHO WAS BENT OVER FOR 18
00:52:51.83\00:52:55.14
YEARS AND HE RAISED HER UP.
IT'S INTERESTING, IN THE BOOK OF
00:52:55.14\00:53:00.38
MARK, WHEN THIS STORY HAPPENS,
YOU READ IN MARK CHAPTER 3 -
00:53:00.38\00:53:03.98
SAME STORY, WHERE HE HAD THE
MAN WITH THE WITHERED HAND - HE
00:53:03.98\00:53:06.38
HEALS HIM IN THE
SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH.
00:53:06.38\00:53:08.25
HE TELLS HIM, 'STEP FORWARD' -
HE DOES IT IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY
00:53:08.25\00:53:11.52
AND HE SAYS HE LOOKS AROUND
AND HE'S ANGRY WITH THEM BY THE
00:53:11.52\00:53:16.79
HARDNESS OF THEIR HEARTS.
HE WAITED FOR SOMEONE TO SAY,
00:53:16.79\00:53:20.63
'OF COURSE THIS MAN IS WORTH
MORE THAN A SHEEP.' NOBODY SAID
00:53:20.63\00:53:23.93
ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY
WERE AFRAID OF THE PRIESTS.
00:53:23.93\00:53:26.10
THEY WERE AFRAID TO JUST SAY
WHAT WAS COMMON SENSE - AND MARK
00:53:26.10\00:53:30.07
ADDS THAT POINT. IN
CAPERNAUM - IN MARK - SAME
00:53:30.07\00:53:33.51
EXPERIENCE - HE DOES THIS AND
THEN HE HEALS A DEMONIAC ON THE
00:53:33.51\00:53:38.81
SABBATH DAY. COMES
HOME FROM CHURCH ON THE
00:53:38.81\00:53:41.45
SABBATH DAY IN CAPERNAUM, HE
RAISES UP PETER'S MOTHER WHO IS
00:53:41.45\00:53:45.09
SICK, ON THE SABBATH DAY,
AND IT SAYS SHE GOT UP AND
00:53:45.09\00:53:47.96
SHE SERVED THEM.
SO IS THERE SERVICE
00:53:47.96\00:53:51.76
ON THE SABBATH? SHE
GOT UP AND, I GUESS, HELPED
00:53:51.76\00:53:54.66
FEED THEM THEIR SABBATH MEAL.
BUT YOU'LL NOTICE, IF YOU READ
00:53:54.66\00:53:58.30
MARK 1:21-34, IT'S ALL
HAPPENING ON THE SABBATH DAY.
00:53:58.30\00:54:02.27
AND SO - AND THAT ONE,
ACTUALLY, WAS MARK 1:29.
00:54:02.27\00:54:08.48
YOU WANT TO READ
THAT FOR US REALLY QUICK?
00:54:08.48\00:54:10.81
>>"NOW AS SOON AS THEY HAD
COME OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE, THEY
00:54:10.81\00:54:13.58
ENTERED THE HOUSE OF SIMON
AND ANDREW WITH JAMES AND JOHN.
00:54:13.58\00:54:16.95
BUT SIMON'S WIFE'S MOTHER LAY
SICK WITH A FEVER AND THEY TOLD
00:54:16.95\00:54:21.02
HIM ABOUT HER AT ONCE. SO
HE CAME AND TOOK HER BY THE
00:54:21.02\00:54:24.19
HAND AND LIFTED HER UP
AND IMMEDIATELY THE FEVER LEFT
00:54:24.19\00:54:27.76
HER AND SHE SERVED THEM."
>>WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT
00:54:27.76\00:54:31.53
IN BIBLICAL ANALOGIES? NOT
EVERY TIME, BUT MANY TIMES?
00:54:31.53\00:54:36.34
I THINK THAT THERE'S A LESSON IN
HERE THAT HE HEALED HER THAT SHE
00:54:36.34\00:54:40.58
MIGHT SERVE HIM.
WHY DOES GOD SAVE US?
00:54:40.58\00:54:45.15
WHY DID HE DELIVER ISRAEL?
HE TOLD PHARAOH 'THAT THEY MAY
00:54:45.15\00:54:47.55
SERVE ME.' AND IT'S INTERESTING
THAT GOD SAVES US - AND EVEN ON
00:54:47.55\00:54:53.12
THE SABBATH DAY -
THAT WE MIGHT SERVE HIM.
00:54:53.12\00:54:56.06
ON THE SABBATH DAY SHE GOT
UP AND MINISTERED TO THEM THEN.
00:54:56.06\00:54:58.96
WELL, THERE ARE MANY
HEALINGS IN THE BIBLE.
00:54:58.96\00:55:00.86
JESUS NEVER SAID THERE WAS
ANYTHING WRONG WITH HEALING ON
00:55:00.86\00:55:03.16
THE SABBATH. I KNOW
ONE FRIEND THAT HAD A
00:55:03.16\00:55:06.33
TERRIBLE TOOTHACHE ON SABBATH
AND HE WAS A SABBATH KEEPER.
00:55:06.33\00:55:11.04
AND HE CALLED THE DENTIST
WHO WAS A SABBATH KEEPER.
00:55:11.04\00:55:14.11
AND THE DENTIST SAID, 'I'LL MEET
YOU RIGHT NOW.' ANY OF YOU EVER
00:55:14.11\00:55:16.51
HAD A TERRIBLE TOOTHACHE?
IT'S JUST THROBBING PAIN.
00:55:16.51\00:55:19.78
AND THE DENTIST SAID, 'LOOK,
YOU SHOULDN'T SUFFER LIKE THAT.
00:55:19.78\00:55:21.95
NO PROBLEM. I'LL COME -
I'LL MEET YOU AT THE OFFICE.
00:55:21.95\00:55:23.75
GET OVER THERE RIGHT NOW.' AND
THE DENTIST, HE WAS LATE GOING
00:55:23.75\00:55:26.22
TO HIS SABBATH SCHOOL -
MET THIS PERSON AT THE OFFICE.
00:55:26.22\00:55:28.22
HE SAYS, 'I'LL DO
SOMETHING FOR YOU NOW.
00:55:28.22\00:55:29.56
I CAN'T DO THE WHOLE PROCEDURE
YOU NEED UNTIL MY STAFF IS HERE,
00:55:29.56\00:55:32.69
BUT THIS'LL TAKE AWAY
THE PAIN.' TOOK CARE OF HIM.
00:55:32.69\00:55:34.63
TOOK AWAY THE PAIN. MADE
AN APPOINTMENT FOR MONDAY.
00:55:34.63\00:55:36.83
AND THEY FELT MUCH BETTER.
ISN'T THAT WHAT JESUS WOULD DO?
00:55:36.83\00:55:39.63
YEAH, JUST BEING PRACTICAL.
00:55:39.63\00:55:41.70
ANYWAY, I HOPE WE
LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY.
00:55:41.70\00:55:42.90
I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE
DO HAVE THIS REALLY NEAT STUDY
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MAGAZINE - SHARING
MAGAZINE - ON THE SABBATH TRUTH.
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IT'S CALLED THE REST OF YOUR
LIFE - SORT OF A PLAY ON WORDS.
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WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY -
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THEY ANSWER THE PHONE.
00:56:00.32\00:56:02.16
READ IT AND
SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND.
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GOD BLESS YOU,
FRIENDS. THANK YOU.
00:56:03.83\00:56:05.66
AND WE'LL STUDY HIS WORD
TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:56:05.66\00:56:09.23
(MUSIC) >>FRIENDS, ONE OF THE
00:56:09.23\00:56:19.84
AMAZING THINGS THAT YOU'LL OFTEN
IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS,
00:56:19.84\00:56:23.04
LIKE HERE ON FIJI, IS THE
VAI VAI PLANT. NOW, IN NORTH
00:56:23.04\00:56:26.65
AMERICA, IF YOU WANT
TO BUILD A FENCE YOU'VE
00:56:26.65\00:56:28.48
GOT TO GET FENCE POSTS AND THEN
YOU PUT THE WOODEN FENCE POSTS
00:56:28.48\00:56:31.19
IN THE GROUND AND THEN AFTER
A FEW YEARS THEY'RE GOING TO ROT
00:56:31.19\00:56:33.52
AND BREAK OFF, UNLESS
THEY'RE SPECIALLY TREATED.
00:56:33.52\00:56:35.92
BUT HERE, THEY'VE GOT THESE
TREES - THE VAI VAI TREE - THEY
00:56:35.92\00:56:39.33
CAN CUT THEM
RIGHT OUT OF THE WOODS,
00:56:39.33\00:56:40.90
THEY'LL TAKE A STICK, THEY STICK
IT IN THE GROUND, AND BECAUSE
00:56:40.90\00:56:43.93
THEY HAVE SO MUCH RAIN AND
PRECIPITATION, IT BEGINS TO
00:56:43.93\00:56:46.97
SPROUT AND TURNS
INTO A LIVING FENCE POST.
00:56:46.97\00:56:49.77
IT MAKES UP ITS MIND THAT IT'S
GOING TO FLOURISH WHEREVER YOU
00:56:49.77\00:56:51.77
STICK IT, WHICH IS A
GOOD LESSON FOR YOU AND ME.
00:56:51.77\00:56:55.04
SO YOU MIGHT WONDER SOMETIMES
IF YOU'VE GOT A PURPOSE IN LIFE.
00:56:55.04\00:56:58.08
YOU MIGHT FEEL LIKE YOU'RE
GROWING SORT OF SPORADICALLY IN
00:56:58.08\00:57:00.62
EVERY DIRECTION, AND THEN ALONG
COMES THIS PERSON WHO CUTS YOU
00:57:00.62\00:57:03.62
DOWN AND CARRIES YOU OFF, HE
STICKS YOU IN THE GROUND BUT YOU
00:57:03.62\00:57:08.12
LOOK BACK AND
SAY, 'THERE WAS A PLAN.
00:57:08.12\00:57:10.36
THERE WAS A PURPOSE.' GOD KNOWS
HOW TO TEACH US HOW TO PROSPER
00:57:10.36\00:57:14.40
WHERE HE PLANTS US. YOU
MIGHT WONDER WHY THE LORD
00:57:14.40\00:57:17.00
HAS PUT YOU WHERE HE HAS IN
LIFE, BUT YOU CAN PUT DOWN ROOTS
00:57:17.00\00:57:20.30
AND YOU CAN GROW AND YOU CAN
SERVE A GREAT PURPOSE FOR GOD.
00:57:20.30\00:57:23.00
YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE GOD SAYS IN
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 29, 'I KNOW THE
00:57:23.00\00:57:26.61
PLANS THAT I'VE GOT FOR YOU
TO GIVE YOU A FUTURE.' GOD HAS A
00:57:26.61\00:57:29.61
PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE, FRIENDS,
AND HE CAN HELP YOU TO PROSPER
00:57:29.61\00:57:32.51
AND GROW WHEREVER
YOU'RE PLANTED. (MUSIC)
00:57:32.51\00:57:41.99
>>IN SIX DAYS GOD
CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE
00:57:41.99\00:57:44.63
EARTH. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE
00:57:44.63\00:57:49.00
SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK.
NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
00:57:49.00\00:57:52.63
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:52.63\00:57:56.54
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:56.54\00:57:58.67
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:58.67\00:58:01.71
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S
00:58:01.71\00:58:04.85
LAW AND HOW IT WAS
CHANGED. VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM.
00:58:04.85\00:58:12.22
(MUSIC)
00:58:12.22\00:58:27.20