(MUSIC)
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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE ARE THRILLED THAT YOU HAVE
JOINED US AGAIN TO STUDY GOD'S
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WORD TOGETHER. WE
ARE GOING TO START OUT BY
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SINGING TOGETHER SO PULL OUT
YOUR HYMNALS - #246 - WORTHY,
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WORTHY IS THE LAMB - AND
WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE
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VERSES - HYMN #246. (MUSIC)
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>>WORTHY, WORTHY IS THE
LAMB, WORTHY, WORTHY IS THE
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LAMB; WORTHY, WORTHY IS
THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN.
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GLORY, HALLELUJAH!
PRAISE HIM, HALLELUJAH!
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GLORY HALLELUJAH TO THE LAMB!
SAVIOR, LET THY KINGDOM COME!
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NOW THE POWER OF SIN CONSUME;
BRING THY BLEST MILLENNIUM, HOLY
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LAMB. GLORY, HALLELUJAH!
PRAISE HIM, HALLELUJAH!
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GLORY HALLELUJAH TO THE LAMB!
THUS MAY WE EACH MOMENT FEEL,
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LOVE HIM, SERVE
HIM, PRAISE HIM STILL.
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TILL WE ALL ON
ZION'S HILL SEE THE LAMB.
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GLORY, HALLELUJAH!
PRAISE HIM, HALLELUJAH!
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GLORY HALLELUJAH TO THE LAMB!
>>WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO
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SING TO HIM EVERY SINGLE
DAY. WE DON'T HAVE TO DO IT JUST
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ON SABBATH, BUT EVERY DAY,
THROUGHOUT THE DAY, WE SHOULD BE
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SINGING PRAISES TO HIM FOR
WHAT HE HAS DONE. LET'S PRAY.
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OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU
SO MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO
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LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU - TO STUDY
TOGETHER AS A WORLD-WIDE FAMILY,
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KNOWING FULL WELL THAT YOU
ARE ABOUT TO BREAK THROUGH THOSE
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CLOUDS AND TAKE US ALL
HOME. SO LORD, HELP US TO APPLY
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THESE THINGS WE LEARN TODAY.
WE GIVE YOU HONOR, WE GIVE YOU
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PRAISE AND GLORY, THAT YOU
ARE OUR PERSONAL SAVIOR AND THAT
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YOU LIVE RIGHT IN OUR HEARTS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JUST
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LOVING US - FOR YOUR MERCY
AND YOUR GRACE THAT IS LONG
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SUFFERING AND WE JUST THANK YOU
THAT WE CAN STUDY AND LEARN AND
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HAVE THE PROMISE TO
LIVE WITH YOU FOREVER.
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WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN
YOUR HOLY NAME, JESUS, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME, PASTOR
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>>GOOD MORNING EVERYONE AND
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WELL, TODAY, WE FIND OURSELVES
IN OUR STUDY DEALING WITH THE
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GOSPEL OF MATTHEW.
WE'RE IN LESSON #8 AND OUR
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LESSON IS ENTITLED PETER AND
THE ROCK - IT'S A FASCINATING
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STUDY TOGETHER. IF
YOU HAVE YOUR LESSON
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QUARTERLY, YOU CAN TURN TO
OUR SCRIPTURE READING, WHICH IS
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RIGHT THERE AT THE BEGINNING OF
OUR STUDY - IT'S MATTHEW CHAPTER
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16, VERSE 15, AND
IT'S THE WORDS OF JESUS.
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JESUS SAID,
"'BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?'
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HE ASKED. 'WHO
DO YOU SAY I AM?'"
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NOW PETER IS THE ONE THAT
ANSWERS THE QUESTION THAT JESUS
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ASKS THE DISCIPLES. AND
THERE ARE TWO STATEMENTS OF
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PETER THAT WE'RE GOING TO
BE LOOKING AT, SORT OF FORMING
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THE FOCUS OF OUR
STUDY IN THIS WEEK'S LESSON.
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ON SABBATH AFTERNOON THERE IS
AN INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT THERE.
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IT'S THE SECOND PARAGRAPH, IF
YOU'RE FOLLOWING ALONG WITH THE
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LESSON. IT SAYS
THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT
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IS CLEAR JESUS HAD TO DIE.
AS HE FACED THE LOOMING SHADOW
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OF THE CROSS, JESUS PRAYED - AND
THIS IS IN JOHN CHAPTER 12:27,
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"NOW MY SOUL IS
TROUBLED, AND WHAT SHALL I SAY?
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'FATHER, SAVE ME FROM THIS HOUR'
NO, IT WAS FOR THIS VERY REASON
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I CAME TO THIS HOUR.'"
THIS WAS THE DIVINE PLAN
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CONCEIVED IN THE MIND OF
GOD EVEN BEFORE TIME BEGAN.
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SO HERE WE FIND JESUS SETTING
HIS FACE, AS THE BIBLE SAYS,
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TOWARD JERUSALEM AND HE'S
JOURNEYING TO THAT SUPREME
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PURPOSE WHY HE CAME - TO GIVE
HIS LIFE AN ATONING SACRIFICE
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FOR MAN'S SIN. THIS
WEEK, WE'RE GOING TO PICK
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UP THE STORY OF JESUS, BUT
WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS MORE ON THE
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EXPERIENCE OF JESUS'
JOURNEY TO CALVARY, BUT FROM THE
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PERSPECTIVE OF PETER.
HOW DID THE DISCIPLES RESPOND
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TO THIS IDEA THAT JESUS,
THEIR LORD, THEIR TEACHER, THEIR
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MESSIAH, WAS TO LAY DOWN HIS
LIFE? LITTLE BIT ABOUT PETER:
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OUT OF ALL OF THE DISCIPLES,
PETER SEEMS TO BE THE ONE THAT
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TOOK THE LEAD ON A NUMBER OF
THINGS. PETER WAS A PERSON OF
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STRENGTH. HE HAD STRENGTH
OF LEADERSHIP. WHENEVER THE
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DISCIPLES ARE LISTED, PETER'S
NAME ALWAYS SEEMS TO COME UP
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FIRST - PETER, JAMES, THEN JOHN
AND THEN THE OTHER DISCIPLES.
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HE WAS ALSO ONE OF THE GROUP
THAT GOT TO SHARE SOME VERY
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SPECIAL EXPERIENCES WITH JESUS,
ALONG WITH JAMES AND JOHN.
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ON ONE OCCASION, JESUS AND THE
DISCIPLES WERE IN THE AREA OF
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GALILEE AND A RULER OF THE
SYNAGOGUE CAME TO JESUS AND
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SAID, 'MY LITTLE GIRL, TWELVE
YEARS OF AGE, IS HOME VERY SICK.
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PLEASE COME AND HEAL
HER.' AND JESUS SAID HE WOULD.
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AND AS HE JOURNEYED TO THE MAN'S
HOUSE, THERE WAS A WOMAN THAT
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REACHED OUT AND TOUCHED THE HEM
OF CHRIST'S GARMENT AND SHE WAS
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HEALED. YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY?
AND JESUS STOPPED AND SPOKE TO
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HER, BUT THEN A MESSAGE CAME
FROM JAIRUS' HOUSE THAT SAID,
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'DO NOT TROUBLE
THE MASTER ANYMORE.
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YOUR LITTLE GIRL HAS DIED.' AND
WHEN JESUS HEARD THAT HE SAID TO
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JAIRUS AND THE DISCIPLES,
HE SAID, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID.
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ONLY BELIEVE.' AND THEN JESUS
WENT TO JAIRUS' HOUSE AND THEY
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CAME TO THE HOUSE AND THERE WERE
PEOPLE WEEPING AND WAILING AND
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THERE WERE THE HIRED MOURNERS
THAT WERE THERE MAKING ALL KINDS
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OF NOISE. JESUS SAID
TO THEM, 'DO NOT MAKE
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THIS A DO, FOR THE LITTLE
GIRL IS NOT DEAD, SHE IS ONLY
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SLEEPING.' AND THEN SUDDENLY
THEY BEGAN TO LAUGH AT JESUS
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BECAUSE THEY KNEW
THE GIRL WAS DEAD.
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BUT JESUS TOOK PETER, JAMES, AND
JOHN AND THE PARENTS AND HE WENT
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TO THE LITTLE GIRL'S ROOM AND HE
TOOK HER BY THE HAND AND JESUS
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SAID, 'LITTLE GIRL,
ARISE.' AND SHE WAS RESURRECTED.
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WHAT AN EXPERIENCE FOR PETER
TO WITNESS - THIS LITTLE GIRL
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RAISED TO LIFE. IT
WAS ALSO PETER, ALONG WITH
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JAMES AND JOHN, THAT JESUS
CALLED APART FROM THE OTHER
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DISCIPLES AND THEY WENT TO A
HIGH MOUNTAIN AND THEY WITNESSED
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JESUS GLORIFIED BEFORE THEM.
WE'RE GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT
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THAT STORY A LITTLE BIT
LATER ON IN OUR STUDY TODAY.
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IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE -
AGAIN, IT WAS PETER, JAMES, AND
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JOHN THAT JESUS SEPARATED FROM
THE OTHER DISCIPLES, BROUGHT
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THEM CLOSER TO WHERE HE WAS,
THEY COULD HEAR JESUS PRAY THOSE
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WORDS, 'FATHER, IF IT IS
POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP BE
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REMOVED FROM ME.' NEVERTHELESS,
NOT MY WILL BUT THY WILL BE
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DONE.' AND JESUS ASKED THOSE
THREE, IN PARTICULAR, TO PRAY
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DURING THAT TIME THERE
IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
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ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST, WHEN
THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON THE
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DISCIPLES, AGAIN, WE
HAVE PETER TAKING THE LEAD.
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HE GOT UP AND HE PREACHED AND
THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT 3,000
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PEOPLE WERE
BAPTIZED. PETER WAS ALSO THE
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SPOKESMAN OF THE GROUP.
IN OUR STUDY TODAY - TWO
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IMPORTANT STATEMENTS -
JESUS ASKED THE DISCIPLES, 'WHO
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DO PEOPLE SAY THAT I AM?'
AND THEN PETER RESPONDS WITH
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REFERENCE TO WHO
HE BELIEVES JESUS IS.
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BUT THEN, JUST A LITTLE LATER IN
THAT SAME PASSAGE, WE FIND JESUS
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HAVING TO REBUKE PETER FOR
SOMETHING PETER SAYS TO JESUS.
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WE'LL GET TO THAT
IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS.
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BUT IN ADDITION TO HAVING
STRENGTH OF LEADERSHIP, PETER
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WAS ALSO THE SPIRITUAL
ADVENTURER OF THE GROUP.
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YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE THE
DISCIPLES WERE IN A LITTLE BOAT
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IN THE MIDST OF A STORM BEING
TOSSED TO AND FRO BY THE WIND
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AND THE WAVES AND THEY LOOKED
OUT AND THERE WAS A BOLT OF
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LIGHTNING AND THEY SAW
SOMEBODY WALKING ON THE WATER.
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AND AT FIRST, WHO
DID THEY THINK THAT WAS?
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THEY THOUGHT IT WAS
A GHOST OR A SPIRIT.
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BUT THEN IT WAS JESUS AND
HE SAID, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID.
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IT IS I.' AND WHEN PETER FOUND
OUT THAT IT WAS JESUS WALKING ON
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THE WATER, WHAT DID PETER ASK?
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HE SAID, 'LORD, IF IT IS YOU,
BID ME TO COME WALKING TO YOU ON
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THE WATER.' NOW, WHO ELSE
WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT?
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PETER SEES JESUS WALKING ON
THE WATER HE SAYS, 'I WANT TO DO
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THAT TOO.' AND JESUS SAYS,
'COME.' AND PETER GETS OUT OF
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THE BOAT AND HE WALKS
ON THE WATER TOWARDS JESUS.
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THEN HE TAKES HIS EYES OFF
JESUS AND WHAT HAPPENS TO PETER?
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HE BEGINS TO SINK - AND
JESUS IS THERE TO LIFT HIM UP.
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HE CRIES OUT, 'LORD, SAVE ME!'
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AND JESUS IS
THERE TO LIFT HIM UP.
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SO PETER WAS SORT OF
THE ADVENTURER OF THE GROUP.
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HE WANTED TO DO
DIFFERENT THINGS.
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AT THE TIME OF CHRIST'S
ARREST THERE IN THE GARDEN OF
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GETHSEMANE, IT WAS PETER THAT
JUMPED TO THE FOREGROUND AND
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PULLED OUT HIS SWORD AND BEGAN
TO SWING TOWARDS THOSE PRIESTS
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AND THOSE RULERS
THAT CAME TO ARREST JESUS.
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FORTUNATELY FOR PETER, THOUGH,
ALL HE WAS ABLE TO CUT WAS JUST
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THE HIGH PRIEST'S SERVANT'S
EAR - HE CHOPPED IT RIGHT OFF.
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JESUS SAID, 'PETER, PETER,
PUT AWAY THE SWORD.' AND THEN HE
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REACHED DOWN AND HE PICKED UP
THE EAR AND HE PLACED IT ON THE
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MAN'S HEAD AND
IMMEDIATELY THE MAN WAS HEALED.
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SO PETER WAS THERE, WILLING TO
TAKE ON THE WHOLE ROMAN ARMY, SO
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LONG AS JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES
WERE THERE, BUT WHEN PETER WAS
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ALL ALONE, IT WAS
A DIFFERENT STORY.
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PETER ALSO HAD STRENGTH OF
BODY. HE WAS USED TO HARD WORK.
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HE WAS USED TO ROWING
BOATS AND PULLING IN NETS.
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YET, IN SPITE OF ALL OF THESE
GOOD QUALITIES, WE FIND PETER
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DENYING JESUS THREE TIMES WHILE
KEEPING WARM AT THE ENEMY'S
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FIRE. HE WAS STRONG WHEN HIS
FRIENDS WERE THERE, BUT HE WAS
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WEAK WHEN HE WAS ALONE.
YET, DESPITE THESE WEAKNESSES,
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JESUS NEVER GAVE UP ON PETER.
JESUS KEPT LEADING AND PULLING
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AND DRAWING PETER TO
HIMSELF. SO IT IS WITH US.
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I AM SO GRATEFUL JESUS DOES
NOT GIVE UP ON YOU AND I, AMEN?
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HOW MANY TIMES IN OUR LIFE HAVE
WE, LIKE PETER, TAKEN OUR EYES
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OFF JESUS AND BEGUN TO SINK INTO
SIN AND CRY OUT 'LORD, SAVE ME.'
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AND JESUS IS
THERE TO LIFT US UP.
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JESUS DRAWS US TO HIM - SO KIND,
SO GENTLE - WORKING WITH US.
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AND THAT'S THE WAY
JESUS WORKED WITH PETER.
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NOW A KEY AREA OF STUDY IS GOING
TO BE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 16 AND
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WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING
AT A QUESTION JESUS ASKED HIS
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DISCIPLES. MATTHEW
CHAPTER 16 - AND WE'RE
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GOING TO START READING HERE IN
VERSE 13 - IT SAYS, "WHEN JESUS
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CAME TO THE REGION OF
CAESAREA PHILIPPI, HE ASKED HIS
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DISCIPLES, 'WHO DO
PEOPLE SAY THE SON OF MAN IS?'"
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NOW, INCIDENTALLY, THE
AREA OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI WAS A
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TERRITORY OUTSIDE OF
ISRAEL. SO HERE, JESUS AND HIS
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DISCIPLES, HAVE
MADE A LITTLE DETOUR.
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THEY'VE GONE OUTSIDE OF THE
TERRITORY OF ISRAEL AND JESUS
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ASKS A QUESTION. YOU
SEE, IN THE MINDS OF THE
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DISCIPLES THEY THOUGHT OF
JESUS AS BEING THE MESSIAH
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JUST TO THE JEWS. THEY
DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND
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THAT JESUS WAS THE
MESSIAH TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
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SO IT'S INTERESTING THAT JESUS
ASKS THE QUESTION HERE AND HE
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SAYS, 'WHO DO THE
PEOPLE SAY THAT I AM?
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NOW WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE
JESUS ASKED THIS QUESTION?
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DIDN'T JESUS KNOW WHAT
THE PEOPLE THOUGHT OF HIM?
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WELL, YES HE DID.
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JESUS ASKED THE QUESTION BECAUSE
HE WANTED THE DISCIPLES TO THINK
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ABOUT IT. SO WHAT
DID THE DISCIPLES SAY?
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SO THEY ANSWERED AND SAID,
'SOME SAY THAT YOU ARE JOHN THE
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BAPTIST.' NOW, BY THIS
TIME, JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD BEEN
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BEHEADED BY HEROD AND PEOPLE
LOOKED AT JESUS AND AT THE WORK
00:13:12.35\00:13:16.12
THAT JESUS WAS DOING AND THEY
SAID 'THIS IS JOHN THE BAPTIST
00:13:16.12\00:13:19.69
RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD.' THE
PEOPLE SAID, 'NO, HE'S NOT JOHN
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THE BAPTIST. HE IS
ELIJAH.' NOW WHY DO YOU
00:13:23.97\00:13:26.70
SUPPOSE PEOPLE SAID
THAT JESUS WAS ELIJAH?
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THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE
OF THE PROPHECY THAT YOU FIND IN
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THE LAST BOOK OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT - THE BOOK OF MALACHI
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- THAT SAYS, 'BEHOLD, I WILL
SEND ELIJAH THE PROPHET BEFORE
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THE COMING OF THE GREAT AND
DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD AND HE
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WILL TURN THE HEARTS OF THE
FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN AND THE
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HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO THE
FATHERS, LEST I COME AND SMITE
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THE EARTH WITH A CURSE.' AND
SO THE JEWS WERE EXPECTING THAT
00:13:46.99\00:13:50.69
ELIJAH WOULD COME DOWN FROM
HEAVEN AND DO A SPECIAL WORK
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JUST PRIOR TO THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE KINGDOM THAT THEY
00:13:54.30\00:13:58.57
BELIEVED TO BE A
KINGDOM OF GLORY UPON THE
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EARTH WHEN THE
MESSIAH WOULD COME.
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NOW, ACCORDING TO JESUS'
OWN WORDS, HOW WAS THAT PROPHECY
00:14:03.41\00:14:06.91
FULFILLED? BY
WHOM WAS THAT PROPHECY
00:14:06.91\00:14:09.34
FULFILLED WITH
REFERENCE TO PREPARATION FOR
00:14:09.34\00:14:12.38
CHRIST'S FIRST
COMING? WHO CAME IN THE SPIRIT
00:14:12.38\00:14:15.08
AND POWER OF ELIJAH?
IT WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST.
00:14:15.08\00:14:18.82
NOW, DO YOU SUPPOSE THERE WILL
BE A SECOND REVIVAL - A SECOND
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MESSAGE THAT IS TO GO TO ALL THE
WORLD - JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES
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THE SECOND TIME? YES.
WHERE DO YOU FIND THAT MESSAGE?
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YOU FIND IT IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 14.
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WE CALL IT THE THREE ANGELS'
MESSAGE - A SPECIAL ELIJAH
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MESSAGE PREPARING THE WORLD
FOR THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
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SOME OF THE PEOPLE SAID, 'NO, HE
IS NOT ELIJAH, HE IS JEREMIAH OR
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ONE OF THE
PROPHETS. NOW, I'VE OFTEN
00:14:43.71\00:14:46.18
WONDERED WHY
JEREMIAH? WE HAVE SOME GREAT OLD
00:14:46.18\00:14:48.65
TESTAMENT PROPHETS. YOU
HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, ELISHA,
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YOU HAVE ISAIAH,
BUT WHY JEREMIAH?
00:14:51.85\00:14:55.39
WELL, IF YOU LOOK AT THE
BOOK JEREMIAH, JEREMIAH IS OFTEN
00:14:55.39\00:14:58.23
CALLING ISRAEL TO
COME TO REPENTANCE.
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MAYBE THE MESSAGE THAT JOHN THE
BAPTIST PREACHED AND THE MESSAGE
00:15:01.26\00:15:04.33
THAT JESUS PREACHED, REMINDED
THE JEWS OF JEREMIAH THE
00:15:04.33\00:15:08.57
PROPHET THAT WAS ALWAYS CALLING
PEOPLE TO COME TO REPENTANCE.
00:15:08.57\00:15:12.34
SO THEY LOOKED AT JESUS AND
THEY SAID, 'THIS IS JEREMIAH
00:15:12.34\00:15:14.64
RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD.' THEY
SAID, 'NO, HE'S JUST ONE OF THE
00:15:14.64\00:15:17.85
PROPHETS.' VERSE 15, 'JESUS SAID
TO THEM, 'BUT WHOM DO YOU SAY I
00:15:17.85\00:15:24.02
AM?' IN OTHER WORDS, JESUS SAID,
'I KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE
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SAYING ABOUT ME, BUT
WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?
00:15:27.12\00:15:31.33
AND THEN PETER ANSWERS, HERE IN
VERSE 16, "SIMON PETER ANSWERED
00:15:31.33\00:15:35.36
AND SAID, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST,
THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.'"
00:15:35.36\00:15:40.60
VERY SIGNIFICANT - THE WORDS
THAT PETER SPOKE HERE - HE SAID
00:15:40.60\00:15:44.21
TO JESUS, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST.'
NOW WHEN WE THINK OF JESUS
00:15:44.21\00:15:48.04
TODAY, WE THINK OF HIM AS BEING
THE CHRIST AND RIGHTFULLY SO.
00:15:48.04\00:15:51.61
IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT EVEN
00:15:51.61\00:15:53.85
THINK 'CHRIST' IS THE LAST NAME
OF JESUS, BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY
00:15:53.85\00:15:57.89
TRUE. YOU SEE, TO THE JEW,
CHRIST WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF
00:15:57.89\00:16:02.79
ALL OF THOSE OLD
TESTAMENT PROPHECIES.
00:16:02.79\00:16:05.59
THE CHRIST IS THE GREEK
TRANSLATION OF THE HEBREW
00:16:05.59\00:16:09.33
'MESSIAH'. IT MEANS
'THE ANOINTED ONE' -
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THE ONE THAT
PROPHETS HAD SPOKEN OF.
00:16:12.17\00:16:14.94
THE ONE THAT HAD BEEN MENTIONED
IN THE PROMISE GOD GAVE TO
00:16:14.94\00:16:18.67
ABRAHAM - THE CHRIST, THE
MESSIAH, THE ANOINTED ONE - HE
00:16:18.67\00:16:22.44
WOULD COME AND HE WOULD LIBERATE
ISRAEL FROM THEIR ENEMIES.
00:16:22.44\00:16:26.68
HE WOULD RULE ON
THE THRONE OF DAVID.
00:16:26.68\00:16:28.88
HE WOULD ESTABLISH A
KINGDOM THAT WOULD LAST FOREVER.
00:16:28.88\00:16:32.22
BUT WHAT THE JEWS DID
NOT UNDERSTAND - AND EVEN THE
00:16:32.22\00:16:34.22
DISCIPLES AT THAT TIME DID NOT
UNDERSTAND - THAT THERE WERE TWO
00:16:34.22\00:16:36.89
PHASES TO THE KINGDOM THAT
JESUS, THE MESSIAH, WAS ABOUT TO
00:16:36.89\00:16:42.16
ESTABLISH. THE
FIRST PHASE, WHICH IS WHEN
00:16:42.16\00:16:44.80
JESUS CAME, IS WHAT WE
CALL THE KINGDOM OF GRACE.
00:16:44.80\00:16:47.67
JESUS DID NOT COME TO LIBERATE
ISRAEL FROM THEIR ENEMIES, THE
00:16:47.67\00:16:51.51
ROMANS, BUT JESUS CAME TO
LIBERATE THE HUMAN RACE FROM
00:16:51.51\00:16:55.58
THEIR GREATEST
ENEMY, THAT BEING OF SATAN.
00:16:55.58\00:16:59.28
JESUS CAME TO ESTABLISH A
SPIRITUAL KINGDOM AND ANYWHERE
00:16:59.28\00:17:03.45
AND EVERYWHERE WHERE JESUS RULES
SUPREME, AND IF JESUS IS RULING
00:17:03.45\00:17:08.52
SUPREME IN YOUR HEART, YOU ARE A
CITIZEN OF THE KINGDOM OF GRACE.
00:17:08.52\00:17:13.80
IT'S NOT UNTIL THE SECOND COMING
THAT THE KINGDOM OF GLORY IS
00:17:13.80\00:17:17.53
ESTABLISHED, BUT THE DISCIPLES
AND THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, THEY
00:17:17.53\00:17:20.64
GOT CONFUSED ABOUT THE
NATURE OF CHRIST'S KINGDOM.
00:17:20.64\00:17:23.64
THEY PREFERRED THE KINGDOM OF
GLORY BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BE
00:17:23.64\00:17:26.84
LIBERATED FROM
THEIR PHYSICAL ENEMIES.
00:17:26.84\00:17:29.61
THEY WEREN'T THAT CONCERNED
ABOUT BEING LIBERATED FROM THEIR
00:17:29.61\00:17:31.91
SPIRITUAL ENEMY, THAT OF
SATAN, SIN AND, ULTIMATELY, THE
00:17:31.91\00:17:35.95
SECOND DEATH. SO,
PETER HERE, MOVED UPON BY
00:17:35.95\00:17:38.92
THE HOLY SPIRIT,
SAYS, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST.
00:17:38.92\00:17:40.89
YOU ARE THE FULFILLMENT
OF ALL OF THOSE OLD TESTAMENT
00:17:40.89\00:17:43.09
PROPHECIES.' THEY HOPED THAT
JESUS WOULD SOON ESTABLISH A
00:17:43.09\00:17:46.59
KINGDOM HERE ON THE EARTH
THAT WOULD COME TO NO END.
00:17:46.59\00:17:49.80
JESUS HAD TO TEACH THEM
THE TRUE NATURE OF HIS KINGDOM.
00:17:49.80\00:17:53.97
AND THEN, IN VERSE 17,
"JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM,
00:17:53.97\00:17:57.27
'BLESSED ARE YOU, SIMON BAR
JONAH, FOR FLESH AND BLOOD HAS
00:17:57.27\00:18:00.84
NOT REVEALED THIS TO YOU, BUT MY
FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN.'" FOR A
00:18:00.84\00:18:05.38
PERSON TO COME TO A CLEAR
UNDERSTANDING OF WHO JESUS IS,
00:18:05.38\00:18:09.65
IT'S MORE THAN JUST ACCEPTING
A SET OF HISTORICAL FACTS.
00:18:09.65\00:18:13.76
IT'S MORE THAN JUST SAYING,
'YES, JESUS CAME 2,000 YEARS
00:18:13.76\00:18:15.72
AGO. HE LIVED ON THE EARTH.
00:18:15.72\00:18:17.33
HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.' BUT TO
REALLY KNOW JESUS AS THE CHRIST
00:18:17.33\00:18:21.30
- AS YOUR PERSONAL DELIVERER
- THE ONE WHO CAN SET YOU FREE
00:18:21.30\00:18:25.70
FROM SIN, IT'S REALLY THE MOVING
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON YOUR
00:18:25.70\00:18:29.20
HEART AND THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID,
'THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT
00:18:29.20\00:18:31.67
SOMEBODY TOLD YOU, BUT
GOD HAS REVEALED THIS TO YOU.
00:18:31.67\00:18:35.24
THE SPIRIT HAS REVEALED THIS TO
YOU IN YOUR HEART.' AND SO PETER
00:18:35.24\00:18:38.38
WAS ABLE TO SAY, 'JESUS IS
THE CHRIST.' NOW, WHERE PETER
00:18:38.38\00:18:41.98
DECLARES CHRIST - OR JESUS - TO
BE THE CHRIST, THIS IS PROBABLY
00:18:41.98\00:18:45.15
ONE OF THE HIGHEST POINTS
OF SCRIPTURE, ESPECIALLY IN THE
00:18:45.15\00:18:47.69
EXPERIENCE OF PETER.
PETER CALLED JESUS 'THE
00:18:47.69\00:18:50.83
ANOINTED ONE' - 'THE CHRIST'.
JESUS IS THE MESSIAH, THE ONE
00:18:50.83\00:18:54.96
WHO IS THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL
THOSE OLD TESTAMENT PROMISES.
00:18:54.96\00:18:58.70
IN GALATIANS 3:16 WE READ, "NOW
TO ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED WERE THE
00:18:58.70\00:19:04.74
PROMISES MADE. HE
DOES NOT SAY, 'AND SEEDS,'
00:19:04.74\00:19:08.84
AS OF MANY, BUT AS OF ONE, 'AND
TO YOUR SEED,' WHO IS CHRIST."
00:19:08.84\00:19:15.75
SO PAUL WAS QUITE CLEAR HERE,
WRITING GALATIANS, THAT THE
00:19:15.75\00:19:19.15
PROMISE MADE TO ABRAHAM
FOUND ITS FULFILLMENT IN JESUS.
00:19:19.15\00:19:23.09
HE WAS INDEED THE CHRIST.
NOW PETER, FILLED WITH THE HOLY
00:19:23.09\00:19:26.19
SPIRIT, HE RECOGNIZED THAT JESUS
WAS SOMETHING MUCH MORE THAN
00:19:26.19\00:19:29.80
JUST A JEWISH PROPHET,
THAT OTHERS HAD SUGGESTED.
00:19:29.80\00:19:34.24
HIS MINISTRY EXTENDED MUCH
FURTHER THAN THE MINISTRY OF
00:19:34.24\00:19:36.94
JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE MINISTRY
OF ELIJAH, OR JEREMIAH - INDEED,
00:19:36.94\00:19:40.71
IT WAS TO ENCOMPASS THE WHOLE
OF HUMANITY, HENCE JESUS CALLED
00:19:40.71\00:19:44.41
HIMSELF THE SON OF MAN.
THAT WAS CHRIST'S MOST FAVORITE
00:19:44.41\00:19:49.02
SAYING WITH
REFERENCE TO HIMSELF.
00:19:49.02\00:19:50.95
HE OFTEN SPOKE OF HIMSELF AS
BEING THE SON OF MAN - NOT JUST
00:19:50.95\00:19:53.19
THE SON OF ABRAHAM - IT WASN'T
JUST FOR THE JEWS, BUT HE WAS
00:19:53.19\00:19:57.93
FOR ALL MANKIND. HE WAS
THE CHRIST - THE MESSIAH
00:19:57.93\00:20:01.56
- THE ANOINTED ONE
- FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:20:01.56\00:20:03.50
NOW, HOW DID THE DISCIPLES
UNDERSTAND THAT JESUS WAS TO BE
00:20:03.50\00:20:09.20
FOR EVERYONE AND
NOT JUST FOR THEM?
00:20:09.20\00:20:12.01
DID THEY HAVE A HARD
TIME UNDERSTANDING THAT?
00:20:12.01\00:20:14.04
YES, THEY DID.
AND THERE WERE SEVERAL
00:20:14.04\00:20:16.34
EXPERIENCES IN THE MINISTRY
OF JESUS WHERE HE TRIED TO
00:20:16.34\00:20:18.51
ILLUSTRATE THIS IMPORTANT
TRUTH TO THE DISCIPLES.
00:20:18.51\00:20:21.02
IT WASN'T REALLY UNTIL AFTER THE
RESURRECTION THAT THE DISCIPLES
00:20:21.02\00:20:24.72
REALLY BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT
THEIR MISSION WASN'T JUST FOR
00:20:24.72\00:20:27.46
THE JEWS, BUT IT
WAS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:20:27.46\00:20:30.66
IN JOHN CHAPTER 4, WE HAVE THE
STORY OF JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES
00:20:30.66\00:20:34.40
JOURNEYING FROM
JERUSALEM UP TO GALILEE.
00:20:34.40\00:20:37.20
AND THE SHORT WAY TO GO
FROM JERUSALEM - OR JUDEA - TO
00:20:37.20\00:20:40.17
GALILEE IS TO GO STRAIGHT
UP THROUGH THE AREA OF THE
00:20:40.17\00:20:42.97
SAMARITANS. MOST
OF THE JEWS, WHEN THEY
00:20:42.97\00:20:45.34
TRAVELED FROM THE SOUTH TO THE
NORTH, THEY WOULD TRAVEL AROUND
00:20:45.34\00:20:47.74
SAMARIA BECAUSE THEY
TRIED TO AVOID CONTACT WITH THE
00:20:47.74\00:20:50.38
SAMARITANS BECAUSE THEY
DIDN'T LIKE THE SAMARITANS.
00:20:50.38\00:20:52.68
OF COURSE, THE SAMARITANS
DIDN'T LIKE THE JEWS EITHER.
00:20:52.68\00:20:55.28
BUT JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES ARE
TRAVELING STRAIGHT UP THROUGH
00:20:55.28\00:20:57.75
THE TERRITORY OF SAMARIA
AND IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.
00:20:57.75\00:21:00.96
IT'S VERY HOT AND THEY COME TO
A TOWN BY THE NAME OF SYCHAR AND
00:21:00.96\00:21:04.93
THERE WAS A VERY FAMOUS
WELL JUST OUTSIDE OF THE TOWN.
00:21:04.93\00:21:08.66
IT IS A WELL THAT JACOB HAD
DUG MANY, MANY YEARS BEFORE.
00:21:08.66\00:21:12.43
SO JESUS STOPPED AT THE WELL TO
REST AND THE DISCIPLES WENT ON
00:21:12.43\00:21:15.60
INTO THE TOWN TO BUY FOOD.
00:21:15.60\00:21:17.71
WHILE JESUS WAS AT THE WELL, A
WOMAN OF SAMARIA CAME AND SHE -
00:21:17.71\00:21:21.11
AS IF JESUS WASN'T EVEN THERE
- SHE SORT OF IGNORED JESUS AND
00:21:21.11\00:21:24.78
SHE TOOK HER JAR FROM HER
SHOULDER, TIED THE ROPE, AND
00:21:24.78\00:21:28.15
BEGAN TO LOWER IT DOWN INTO THE
WELL. AND THEN JESUS ASKED, HE
00:21:28.15\00:21:32.29
SAID, 'COULD YOU GIVE ME A
DRINK?' AND THIS SAMARITAN WOMAN
00:21:32.29\00:21:35.32
WAS VERY SURPRISED AND SHE SAID,
'HOW IS IT THAT YOU, BEING A
00:21:35.32\00:21:37.86
JEW, ASK OF ME, A
SAMARITAN WOMAN, A DRINK?'
00:21:37.86\00:21:41.86
AND THEN JESUS SAID TO HER, 'IF
YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE GIFT OF
00:21:41.86\00:21:45.03
GOD AND WHO IT IS THAT ASKED
YOU FOR A DRINK, YOU WOULD HAVE
00:21:45.03\00:21:48.27
ASKED OF HIM AND HE WOULD HAVE
GIVEN YOU LIVING WATER.' AND
00:21:48.27\00:21:53.27
THEN SHE SAID, 'SIR, YOU
HAVE NOTHING TO DRAW WITH
00:21:53.27\00:21:55.44
AND THIS WELL IS VERY DEEP.
00:21:55.44\00:21:56.68
WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO
GET THIS LIVING WATER?'
00:21:56.68\00:21:58.31
AND THEN JESUS SPOKE ABOUT
A GIFT - A DRINK THAT HE COULD
00:21:58.31\00:22:01.38
GIVE THAT WOULD BE A SPRING
SWELLING UP TO EVERLASTING LIFE.
00:22:01.38\00:22:05.99
SHE THEN SAID, 'SIR, GIVE ME
THIS WATER THAT I NEED NOT COME
00:22:05.99\00:22:08.82
OUT HERE TO DRAW.' AND JESUS
SAID, 'GO CALL YOUR HUSBAND.'
00:22:08.82\00:22:13.09
SHE SAID, 'I HAVE NO HUSBAND.'
THEN JESUS SAID, 'YOU'VE
00:22:13.09\00:22:16.43
ANSWERED CORRECTLY FOR YOU'VE
HAD FIVE HUSBANDS AND THE ONE
00:22:16.43\00:22:19.57
THAT YOU'RE WITH IS NOT YOUR
HUSBAND.' SHE THEN SAID, 'SIR, I
00:22:19.57\00:22:22.74
PERCEIVE THAT YOU'RE A PROPHET.'
AND THEN SHE TRIED TO CHANGE THE
00:22:22.74\00:22:24.77
CONVERSATION. SHE
SAID, 'OUR FOREFATHERS SAY
00:22:24.77\00:22:27.34
THAT HERE ON MOUNT GERIZIM WE
ARE TO WORSHIP, BUT YOU JEWS SAY
00:22:27.34\00:22:30.31
IN JERUSALEM.' SHE TRIED TO GET
INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHERE
00:22:30.31\00:22:33.21
YOU NEED TO WORSHIP - WHERE IS
THE CORRECT PLACE FOR WORSHIP?
00:22:33.21\00:22:37.69
BUT JESUS SPOKE TO
HER THE WORDS OF TRUTH.
00:22:37.69\00:22:41.09
SHE FINALLY REALIZED THAT
THE ONE SHE WAS TALKING TO WAS,
00:22:41.09\00:22:43.83
INDEED, THE
CHRIST - THE MESSIAH.
00:22:43.83\00:22:47.03
SHE LEFT HER WATER POT, RAN BACK
TO THE CITY, TOLD ALL THE PEOPLE
00:22:47.03\00:22:50.40
THAT SHE SAW, 'COME, MEET A MAN
THAT TOLD ME ALL THINGS ABOUT MY
00:22:50.40\00:22:55.30
LIFE - ABOUT WHAT I'VE
DONE - THIS IS THE CHRIST.
00:22:55.30\00:22:58.57
COULD THIS BE THE ONE?'
WELL, THE DISCIPLES, JUST PRIOR
00:22:58.57\00:23:01.84
TO LEAVING, ARRIVED BACK WHERE
JESUS WAS TALKING TO THE WOMAN
00:23:01.84\00:23:05.28
AND THEY WERE AMAZED
THAT JESUS WAS SPEAKING TO A
00:23:05.28\00:23:08.65
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
THEY DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING.
00:23:08.65\00:23:10.95
AND THEN AFTER THE WOMAN LEFT,
JESUS WAS THERE IN MEDITATION.
00:23:10.95\00:23:14.69
HE DIDN'T EVEN DRINK WATER
AND THEY SAID TO HIM, 'MASTER,
00:23:14.69\00:23:18.46
PLEASE EAT.' AND JESUS SAID,
'I'VE EATEN FOOD THAT YOU DO NOT
00:23:18.46\00:23:20.93
KNOW OF.' THEY SAID,
'WELL, WHO GAVE HIM FOOD?'
00:23:20.93\00:23:24.33
THEN JESUS EXPLAINED.
00:23:24.33\00:23:25.57
HE SAID, 'MY FOOD IS TO DO THE
WILL OF MY FATHER AND FULFILL
00:23:25.57\00:23:28.80
THE WORK THAT HE HAS SENT ME
TO DO.' SO JESUS IS HELPING THE
00:23:28.80\00:23:33.24
DISCIPLES - TRYING TO TEACH
THE DISCIPLES THAT HIS MISSION
00:23:33.24\00:23:35.98
WASN'T JUST FOR THE JEWS, BUT
HIS MISSION WAS FOR THE WHOLE
00:23:35.98\00:23:39.81
WORLD. IT WAS
SLOW FOR THE DISCIPLES
00:23:39.81\00:23:42.78
TO UNDERSTAND THIS LESSON.
INTERESTING EXPERIENCE, NEAR THE
00:23:42.78\00:23:46.09
END OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY - THIS
IS SOME THREE AND A HALF YEARS
00:23:46.09\00:23:48.39
LATER - JESUS AND THE
DISCIPLES ARE TRAVELING NOW FROM
00:23:48.39\00:23:51.46
GALILEE DOWN TO JERUSALEM.
IT'S THE FINAL JOURNEY WHERE
00:23:51.46\00:23:54.20
JESUS GOES TO JERUSALEM.
AND THEY'RE TRAVELING THROUGH
00:23:54.20\00:23:56.73
SAMARIA AND THE DISCIPLES HAVE
GONE ON AHEAD TO TRY TO MAKE
00:23:56.73\00:24:00.07
PREPARATIONS FOR A
PLACE FOR JESUS TO STAY,
00:24:00.07\00:24:02.80
AND THEY WENT TO ONE OF
THE SAMARITAN VILLAGES, BUT THE
00:24:02.80\00:24:05.71
SAMARITAN VILLAGE DIDN'T
WANT JESUS TO STAY THERE.
00:24:05.71\00:24:09.48
AND SO JOHN AND JAMES, TWO OF
THE DISCIPLES, GOT VERY UPSET BY
00:24:09.48\00:24:13.55
THIS AND THEY CAME BACK TO JESUS
AND THEY SAID TO JESUS, 'DO YOU
00:24:13.55\00:24:16.35
WANT US TO CALL FIRE DOWN FROM
HEAVEN, LIKE ELIJAH DID, AND
00:24:16.35\00:24:19.75
BURN UP THE CITY?' AND
JESUS HAD TO REBUKE THEM.
00:24:19.75\00:24:22.89
WE READ IN LUKE CHAPTER 9,
VERSES 55 AND 56, "BUT HE TURNED
00:24:22.89\00:24:26.13
AND REBUKED THEM, AND SAID,
'YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT MANNER OF
00:24:26.13\00:24:29.06
SPIRIT YOU ARE OF. FOR THE SON
OF MAN DID NOT COME TO DESTROY
00:24:29.06\00:24:32.73
MEN'S LIVES BUT TO SAVE THEM."
YOU SEE, THEY DIDN'T REALIZE
00:24:32.73\00:24:35.57
THAT JESUS HAD COME FOR THE
SAMARITAN AS WELL AS THE JEW.
00:24:35.57\00:24:40.01
IT WASN'T UNTIL AFTER THE
RESURRECTION AND THE OUTPOURING
00:24:40.01\00:24:44.11
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON PENTECOST
THAT THEY REALLY BEGAN TO
00:24:44.11\00:24:46.92
UNDERSTAND WHAT
THEIR MISSION WAS.
00:24:46.92\00:24:49.42
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT JOHN
AND PETER - JOHN BEING ONE OF
00:24:49.42\00:24:53.25
THOSE DISCIPLES THAT WANTED
TO CALL FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN.
00:24:53.25\00:24:56.36
JOHN AND PETER WENT BACK TO
THOSE SAME VILLAGES AND THEY
00:24:56.36\00:24:59.73
PREACHED THE GOSPEL THERE IN
SAMARIA AND THE BIBLE SAYS 'MANY
00:24:59.73\00:25:03.20
BELIEVED.' THE VERY TOWN THAT
JOHN WANTED TO HAVE DESTROYED,
00:25:03.20\00:25:07.70
AFTER HE UNDERSTOOD THE MISSION
OF CHRIST, HE WENT BACK AND HE
00:25:07.70\00:25:10.81
PREACHED AND MANY BELIEVED.
NOW IN MONDAY'S LESSON - IT'S
00:25:10.81\00:25:15.38
ENTITLED ON THIS ROCK -
AND OUR PASSAGE THERE - MATTHEW
00:25:15.38\00:25:20.35
CHAPTER 16:17 AND 18.
AGAIN, JESUS SAID, "BLESSED ARE
00:25:20.35\00:25:24.12
YOU, SIMON BAR JONAH, FLESH AND
BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO
00:25:24.12\00:25:26.82
YOU, BUT MY FATHER
WHICH IS IN HEAVEN."
00:25:26.82\00:25:28.72
VERSE 18 SAYS, "AND I ALSO SAY
TO YOU THAT YOU ARE PETER, AND
00:25:28.72\00:25:32.53
ON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY
CHURCH, AND THE GATES OF HADES
00:25:32.53\00:25:36.60
SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT."
NOW THE QUESTION IS ASKED, 'IS
00:25:36.60\00:25:42.47
PETER THE ROCK UPON
WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT?'
00:25:42.47\00:25:46.84
THERE ARE ENTIRE RELIGIOUS
DENOMINATIONS THAT BELIEVE THAT
00:25:46.84\00:25:50.71
PETER IS THE FOUNDATION
UPON WHICH THE CHURCH WAS BUILT.
00:25:50.71\00:25:54.52
BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT
THE BIBLE IS SAYING.
00:25:54.52\00:25:56.82
IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT
THE WORD 'PETER' THERE IN THE
00:25:56.82\00:25:58.92
ORIGINAL MEANS 'A PEBBLE' OR 'A
STONE', BUT THE DECLARATION THAT
00:25:58.92\00:26:03.22
PETER HAD JUST MADE, THAT JESUS
IS THE CHRIST, THAT'S THE ROCK -
00:26:03.22\00:26:08.23
THAT'S THE FOUNDATION
UPON WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT.
00:26:08.23\00:26:12.07
NOW, THERE ARE MANY PASSAGES
IN SCRIPTURE THAT HELP US
00:26:12.07\00:26:14.37
UNDERSTAND THAT JESUS IS INDEED
THE ROCK - OR THE FOUNDATION -
00:26:14.37\00:26:18.01
OF THE CHURCH. PETER, HIMSELF,
NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE THE
00:26:18.01\00:26:21.84
FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH.
ACTUALLY, IN ACTS CHAPTER
00:26:21.84\00:26:24.55
4, VERSE 11, WE HAVE
PETER PREACHING - THIS IS AFTER
00:26:24.55\00:26:27.52
PENTECOST AND THE HOLY
SPIRIT HAS COME UPON THEM.
00:26:27.52\00:26:30.02
IT SAYS PETER IS PREACHING -
ACTS 4:11 - HE SAID, "THIS IS
00:26:30.02\00:26:35.39
THE 'STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED BY
YOU BUILDERS, WHICH HAS BECOME
00:26:35.39\00:26:39.13
THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.' NOR
IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER,
00:26:39.13\00:26:43.06
FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER
HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN BY WHICH
00:26:43.06\00:26:46.84
WE MUST BE
SAVED." SO THERE IT IS.
00:26:46.84\00:26:49.40
PETER IS PREACHING AND HE SAYS,
'JESUS IS THE STONE THAT HAD
00:26:49.40\00:26:53.51
BEEN REJECTED BY THE BUILDERS,
THAT IS, THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS,
00:26:53.51\00:26:57.08
AND HE HAS BECOME
THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
00:26:57.08\00:26:59.58
AND THEN IN 1 PETER, THE LETTER
THAT PETER, HIMSELF, WROTE -
00:26:59.58\00:27:03.05
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 6 - THIS IS
WHAT PETER SAYS, "THEREFORE IT
00:27:03.05\00:27:06.82
IS ALSO CONTAINED IN THE
SCRIPTURE, 'BEHOLD, I LAY IN
00:27:06.82\00:27:09.72
ZION A CHIEF CORNERSTONE,
ELECT, PRECIOUS, AND HE WHO
00:27:09.72\00:27:13.73
BELIEVES ON HIM WILL BY NO MEANS
BE PUT TO SHAME.'" - TALKING
00:27:13.73\00:27:17.17
ABOUT JESUS - VERSE 7 SAYS,
"THEREFORE, TO YOU WHO BELIEVE,
00:27:17.17\00:27:20.97
HE IS PRECIOUS; BUT TO THOSE
WHO ARE DISOBEDIENT, 'THE STONE
00:27:20.97\00:27:24.17
WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS
BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE,'
00:27:24.17\00:27:27.68
AND 'A STONE OF STUMBLING AND
A ROCK OF OFFENSE.'" SO IN THE
00:27:27.68\00:27:33.28
MIND OF PETER, IT WAS PRETTY
CLEAR AS TO WHO THE FOUNDATION
00:27:33.28\00:27:35.78
OF THE CHURCH IS.
CLEARLY IT'S JESUS.
00:27:35.78\00:27:39.05
PETER WOULD NEVER WANT TO BE
THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH.
00:27:39.05\00:27:42.76
THE CHURCH HAS TO BE BUILT
ON THE FACT THAT JESUS IS THE
00:27:42.76\00:27:46.33
CHRIST. THAT'S THE FOUNDATION.
AND THEN, SECONDLY, THROUGHOUT
00:27:46.33\00:27:50.33
THE BIBLE WE FIND
THE IMAGERY OF A ROCK
00:27:50.33\00:27:52.67
OR A STONE, OFTEN ASSOCIATED
WITH GOD OR WITH CHRIST.
00:27:52.67\00:27:57.94
YOU REMEMBER, IN DANIEL CHAPTER
2, NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD THIS DREAM
00:27:57.94\00:28:01.11
AND IN THIS DREAM HE SAW
THIS IMAGE MADE UP OF ALL THESE
00:28:01.11\00:28:04.51
DIFFERENT METALS
- YOU REMEMBER THAT?
00:28:04.51\00:28:07.18
THE HEAD OF GOLD, THE CHEST AND
ARMS OF SILVER, BELLY AND THIGHS
00:28:07.18\00:28:09.25
OF BRASS, LEGS OF
IRON, FEET OF IRON AND CLAY?
00:28:09.25\00:28:11.25
AND THEN WHAT
HAPPENED TO THAT IMAGE?
00:28:11.25\00:28:14.42
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'A STONE WAS CUT
OUT WITHOUT HANDS AND IT CAME
00:28:14.42\00:28:17.83
AND IT STRUCK THE IMAGE UPON
THE FEET.' WHO DOES THAT STONE
00:28:17.83\00:28:20.83
REPRESENT? IT REPRESENTS JESUS.
IT DOES NOT REPRESENT PETER.
00:28:20.83\00:28:24.83
OKAY? IT REPRESENTS JESUS.
00:28:24.83\00:28:26.60
ALSO, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 7,
VERSE 24, JESUS SAID, 'WHOEVER
00:28:26.60\00:28:30.07
HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF MINE AND
DOES THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM UNTO
00:28:30.07\00:28:34.54
A WISE MAN WHO BUILT
HIS HOUSE UPON' WHAT?
00:28:34.54\00:28:37.48
UPON THE ROCK. SO TO
BUILD OUR HOUSE UPON THE
00:28:37.48\00:28:40.72
ROCK IS TO RECEIVE THE WORDS OF
JESUS - TO ACT UPON HIS WORD -
00:28:40.72\00:28:44.99
THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS
TO BUILD UPON THE ROCK.
00:28:44.99\00:28:48.36
ELSEWHERE IN SCRIPTURE IT'S
PRETTY CLEAR, WE FIND PAUL IN 1
00:28:48.36\00:28:51.39
CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, VERSE
4 SAYING - SPEAKING OF ISRAEL -
00:28:51.39\00:28:54.83
"AND ALL DRANK FROM
THAT SAME SPIRITUAL DRINK.
00:28:54.83\00:28:57.20
FOR THEY DRANK OF THAT SPIRITUAL
ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM, AND
00:28:57.20\00:29:00.67
THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST." YOU CAN'T
GET IT ANY CLEARER THAN THIS.
00:29:00.67\00:29:05.21
WHO'S THE ROCK UPON
WHOM THE CHURCH WAS BUILT?
00:29:05.21\00:29:07.91
CLEARLY IT IS
CHRIST - IT IS JESUS.
00:29:07.91\00:29:10.11
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 19
AND 20 - AGAIN, THIS IS PAUL -
00:29:10.11\00:29:13.68
"NOW, THEREFORE, YOU ARE NO
LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS,
00:29:13.68\00:29:17.75
BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH
THE SAINTS AND MEMBERS OF THE
00:29:17.75\00:29:20.92
HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, HAVING BEEN
BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE
00:29:20.92\00:29:24.53
APOSTLES AND THE PROPHETS, JESUS
CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF
00:29:24.53\00:29:29.10
CORNERSTONE..." SO THE
CHURCH IS BUILT UPON JESUS.
00:29:29.10\00:29:33.67
NOW, THAT TRUTH THAT JESUS
IS THE CHRIST - THAT HE IS THE
00:29:33.67\00:29:36.60
FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH, WAS
PREACHED AND PROCLAIMED BY THE
00:29:36.60\00:29:39.94
APOSTLES AND THE PROPHETS, BUT
REALLY, THE FOUNDATION OF THE
00:29:39.94\00:29:42.91
CHURCH IS JESUS.
THERE'S A VERY INTERESTING QUOTE
00:29:42.91\00:29:46.82
THAT I FOUND - IT'S ACTUALLY IN
YOUR LESSON - IT'S FROM THE BOOK
00:29:46.82\00:29:49.15
DESIRE OF AGES AND IT HAS THIS
TO SAY WITH REFERENCE TO THE
00:29:49.15\00:29:52.52
FACT THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST
AND HOW THE DISCIPLES RESPONDED
00:29:52.52\00:29:55.12
TO IT - DESIRE
OF AGES, PAGE 413 ,
00:29:55.12\00:29:58.46
"HOW FEEBLE THE CHURCH APPEARED
WHEN CHRIST SPOKE THESE WORDS.
00:29:58.46\00:30:02.10
THERE WAS ONLY A HANDFUL OF
BELIEVERS AGAINST WHOM ALL THE
00:30:02.10\00:30:05.90
POWERS OF DEMONS AND EVIL MEN
WERE DIRECTED, YET THE FOLLOWERS
00:30:05.90\00:30:09.90
OF CHRIST WERE NOT TO FEAR,
BUILT UPON THE ROCK OF THEIR
00:30:09.90\00:30:13.94
STRENGTH, JESUS, THEY
COULD NOT BE OVERTHROWN." AMEN?
00:30:13.94\00:30:18.88
YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, EVEN TODAY,
THE FACT THAT JESUS IS THE
00:30:18.88\00:30:22.62
FOUNDATION OF OUR CHURCH, THAT'S
THE PROMISE THAT BY GOD'S GRACE,
00:30:22.62\00:30:26.89
IF WE ARE TRUE TO
HIM, WE ALSO WILL OVERCOME.
00:30:26.89\00:30:31.29
JESUS SAID, 'UPON THIS ROCK I'LL
BUILD MY CHURCH AND THE GATES OF
00:30:31.29\00:30:34.93
HELL SHALL NOT
PREVAIL AGAINST IT.'
00:30:34.93\00:30:38.43
THE 'IT' IN THE
VERSE IS THE CHURCH.
00:30:38.43\00:30:41.74
THE FACT THAT THE CHURCH IS
BUILT UPON JESUS, THAT IS THE
00:30:41.74\00:30:46.17
PROMISE THAT, BY GOD'S
GRACE, THE CHURCH CAN OVERCOME.
00:30:46.17\00:30:51.61
IT'S NOT THE DEVIL BREAKING DOWN
THE GATES OF THE CHURCH THAT
00:30:51.61\00:30:55.12
JESUS IS SPEAKING ABOUT, IT'S
THE CHURCH BREAKING DOWN THE
00:30:55.12\00:30:57.89
GATES OF THE
DEVIL. WHAT DO WE MEAN?
00:30:57.89\00:31:00.16
IT'S THE CHURCH, EMPOWERED
BY THE SPIRIT, ENTERING INTO THE
00:31:00.16\00:31:04.03
VERY STRONGHOLD OF SATAN,
SETTING SIN'S CAPTIVES FREE.
00:31:04.03\00:31:08.73
IT'S NOT THE CHURCH TREMBLING AT
THE PRESENCE OF THE DEVIL, BUT
00:31:08.73\00:31:11.77
IT'S THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS
TREMBLING AT THE PRESENCE OF THE
00:31:11.77\00:31:15.24
CHURCH BECAUSE
JESUS IS THE CHRIST.
00:31:15.24\00:31:18.91
AND JESUS SAID, 'FEAR NOT, FOR I
HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.' AMEN?
00:31:18.91\00:31:24.21
THAT'S GOOD NEWS. WHEN
IT COMES TO EVANGELISM AND
00:31:24.21\00:31:26.95
THE PREACHING OF THE EVERLASTING
GOSPEL, WE NEED NOT FEAR
00:31:26.95\00:31:29.92
BECAUSE JESUS IS THE CHRIST.
AND IF WE KEEP OUR EYES FIXED
00:31:29.92\00:31:34.42
UPON HIM, MOVING
FORWARD IN FAITH, THERE
00:31:34.42\00:31:37.66
IS NO POWER FROM DARKNESS THAT
COULD STAND AGAINST THE LIGHT OR
00:31:37.66\00:31:41.33
THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD.
YES, JESUS IS THE CHRIST.
00:31:41.33\00:31:46.47
AND THEN THERE IS A SHIFT
OF FOCUS THAT WE READ ABOUT IN
00:31:46.47\00:31:50.57
TUESDAY'S LESSON - FROM THIS
MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCE OF PETER
00:31:50.57\00:31:54.41
ACKNOWLEDGING JESUS TO BE THE
CHRIST, AND EVERYTHING THAT'S
00:31:54.41\00:31:58.25
INVOLVED WITH THAT.
SUDDENLY, WE FIND A SHIFT
00:31:58.25\00:32:00.95
OCCURRING IN THE STORY.
MATTHEW CHAPTER 16, VERSE 21 -
00:32:00.95\00:32:05.89
MATTHEW 16:21 - IT SAYS, "FROM
THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO SHOW TO
00:32:05.89\00:32:11.39
HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE MUST
GO TO JERUSALEM, AND SUFFER MANY
00:32:11.39\00:32:14.83
THINGS FROM THE ELDERS AND CHIEF
PRIESTS AND SCRIBES, AND BE
00:32:14.83\00:32:18.17
KILLED, AND BE
RAISED THE THIRD DAY."
00:32:18.17\00:32:21.40
NOW IT SAYS CLEARLY HERE THAT
JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE
00:32:21.40\00:32:24.91
WAS GOING TO GO TO JERUSALEM, HE
WAS GOING TO BE BETRAYED, AND HE
00:32:24.91\00:32:27.11
WAS GOING TO BE CRUCIFIED,
BUT HE WOULD RISE THE THIRD DAY.
00:32:27.11\00:32:29.91
YET IT SEEMED THE DISCIPLES JUST
DIDN'T LISTEN TO WHAT JESUS WAS
00:32:29.91\00:32:33.82
SAYING. THEY DIDN'T EXPECT THAT.
MATTER OF FACT, WHEN JESUS WAS
00:32:33.82\00:32:37.12
ARRESTED AND HE WAS CRUCIFIED
AND THEY WITNESSED JESUS BEING
00:32:37.12\00:32:41.49
PLACED IN THAT TOMB, THEIR HOPES
WERE DASHED AS IF JESUS HAD
00:32:41.49\00:32:46.66
NEVER EVEN TOLD
THEM WHAT WAS TO COME.
00:32:46.66\00:32:48.90
YOU SEE, THEY HAVE SO FILLED
THEIR MINDS WITH THE POPULAR
00:32:48.90\00:32:51.33
TEACHING CONCERNING THE MESSIAH,
THAT HE WOULD ESTABLISH A
00:32:51.33\00:32:54.17
KINGDOM HERE ON THIS EARTH AND
THAT THAT KINGDOM WOULD ELEVATE
00:32:54.17\00:32:57.57
THE JEWISH NATION AND THEY WOULD
CAST OFF THE ROMAN YOKE THAT,
00:32:57.57\00:33:01.18
EVEN THOUGH JESUS EXPLAINED THE
TRUE NATURE OF HIS KINGDOM, THE
00:33:01.18\00:33:04.45
KINGDOM OF GRACE,
THEY DIDN'T RECEIVE IT.
00:33:04.45\00:33:06.98
THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.
00:33:06.98\00:33:08.55
IT WASN'T UNTIL AFTER
THESE EVENTS WERE FULFILLED THE
00:33:08.55\00:33:10.69
DISCIPLES REALLY BEGAN TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TRUE MISSION
00:33:10.69\00:33:13.76
OF THE CHURCH WAS AND THE WORK
THAT JESUS WANTED THEM TO DO.
00:33:13.76\00:33:17.66
NOW, IN VERSE 22 IT SAYS, 'THEN
PETER TOOK" - JESUS - "HIM ASIDE
00:33:17.66\00:33:21.90
AND BEGAN TO REBUKE HIM,"
- NOW ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:33:21.90\00:33:25.03
HERE YOU HAVE
PETER REBUKING JESUS.
00:33:25.03\00:33:28.27
PETER KNOWS BETTER THAN JESUS
AND HE SAYS, 'FAR BE IT FROM
00:33:28.27\00:33:31.94
YOU, LORD; THIS
SHALL NOT HAPPEN TO YOU!'"
00:33:31.94\00:33:35.58
SO HERE JESUS SAID THAT HE'S
GOING TO GO TO JERUSALEM AND IS
00:33:35.58\00:33:37.78
GOING TO BE BETRAYED AND
IS GOING TO BE CRUCIFIED.
00:33:37.78\00:33:39.95
PETER SAYS,
'LORD, DON'T SAY THAT.
00:33:39.95\00:33:42.02
THAT'S NOT GOING TO
HAPPEN TO YOU.' 'WHY?'
00:33:42.02\00:33:44.55
'I JUST TOLD YOU. YOU'RE
THE CHRIST. YOU'RE THE MESSIAH.
00:33:44.55\00:33:48.16
YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S GOING TO
ESTABLISH A KINGDOM THAT'S GOING
00:33:48.16\00:33:51.16
TO LAST FOREVER.
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
00:33:51.16\00:33:52.63
BEING BETRAYED AND CRUCIFIED?'
AFTER ALL, THOSE WHO CRUCIFIED
00:33:52.63\00:33:57.20
WERE THE ROMANS AND JESUS HAD
COME TO CAST OFF THE ROMAN YOKE
00:33:57.20\00:34:02.34
- TO ESTABLISH A GREAT KINGDOM
HERE ON THIS EARTH FOR ISRAEL.
00:34:02.34\00:34:05.41
SO PETER THOUGHT, WELL,
LET ME JUST CORRECT JESUS HERE.
00:34:05.41\00:34:09.31
'LORD, THAT'S NOT GOING TO
HAPPEN TO YOU.' PETER SAYS.
00:34:09.31\00:34:12.31
BUT LOOK AT VERSE 23, IT SAYS,
"BUT HE TURNED" - JESUS TURNED -
00:34:12.31\00:34:16.18
"AND SAID TO PETER,
'GET BEHIND ME, SATAN!
00:34:16.18\00:34:19.85
YOU ARE AN OFFENSE TO ME,
FOR YOU ARE NOT MINDFUL OF THE
00:34:19.85\00:34:23.59
THINGS OF GOD, BUT THE THINGS
OF MEN.'" SO JESUS HAD TO REBUKE
00:34:23.59\00:34:29.23
PETER AND SAY, 'GET THEE BEHIND
ME, SATAN.' IN ESSENCE, JESUS
00:34:29.23\00:34:33.77
WAS SAYING, 'PETER, YOU'RE
ACTING LIKE SATAN. YOU'RE DOING
00:34:33.77\00:34:37.14
THE WORK OF SATAN.' NOW, WHY IS
IT THAT JESUS HAD TO SAY THAT TO
00:34:37.14\00:34:41.01
PETER? AFTER ALL, WASN'T PETER
REALLY WELL INTENTIONED IN HIS
00:34:41.01\00:34:45.51
WORDS TO CHRIST? WELL, PETER
MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT, WELL, THAT'S
00:34:45.51\00:34:48.92
THE NICE THING TO DO -
TO KIND OF ENCOURAGE JESUS -
00:34:48.92\00:34:51.02
MAYBE HE WAS A LITTLE
DISCOURAGED AND - 'WE'VE GOT TO
00:34:51.02\00:34:53.19
BE POSITIVE AND TELL JESUS 'NO,
THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.' BUT
00:34:53.19\00:34:55.79
NO, WHAT PETER DIDN'T REALIZE IS
HE WAS BEING USED BY THE DEVIL
00:34:55.79\00:34:59.76
TO TRY AND DISCOURAGE
CHRIST FROM HIS MISSION.
00:34:59.76\00:35:03.00
IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE
THAT JESUS SAID THE SAME THING
00:35:03.00\00:35:05.67
AFTER HE HAD BEEN TEMPTED
BY THE DEVIL IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:35:05.67\00:35:09.34
REMEMBER, JESUS SAID, 'GET THEE
BEHIND ME SATAN.' AND HERE JESUS
00:35:09.34\00:35:12.71
SAYS THIS TO PETER, 'GET THEE
BEHIND ME, SATAN.' YOU SEE, IN
00:35:12.71\00:35:16.04
THE WILDERNESS, THE DEVIL CAME,
HE TEMPTED JESUS THAT JESUS
00:35:16.04\00:35:19.95
DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH
THE EXPERIENCE OF HIS BETRAYAL,
00:35:19.95\00:35:23.69
CRUCIFIXION, AND DEATH.
THE DEVIL SAID TO JESUS, 'IF
00:35:23.69\00:35:26.92
YOU'LL JUST BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP
ME, I WILL GIVE YOU ALL THE
00:35:26.92\00:35:29.62
KINGDOMS OF THIS EARTH.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO WHAT YOU
00:35:29.62\00:35:32.46
KNOW YOUR FATHER HAS
LAID OUT FOR YOU TO DO.
00:35:32.46\00:35:35.33
YOU CAN GET AROUND
THAT. YOU CAN GET PAST ALL THE
00:35:35.33\00:35:37.73
SUFFERING.' AND NOW THE SAME
SPIRIT WAS BEING MANIFEST BY
00:35:37.73\00:35:41.00
PETER WHEN HE SAID, 'LORD, THIS
IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU.'
00:35:41.00\00:35:43.81
PETER WAS, IN ESSENCE, TELLING
JESUS THAT THE MISSION THAT GOD
00:35:43.81\00:35:47.24
HAD GIVEN HIM, JESUS
DIDN'T REALLY HAVE TO FULFILL.
00:35:47.24\00:35:51.61
NOW PETER DIDN'T REALLY
UNDERSTAND WHAT HE WAS SAYING
00:35:51.61\00:35:54.68
BUT, IN REALITY, THE DEVIL WAS
USING HIM TO TRY AND DISCOURAGE
00:35:54.68\00:35:57.15
CHRIST FROM THE VERY MISSION
THAT CHRIST HAD COME TO DO.
00:35:57.15\00:36:01.99
YOU SEE, THE PROBLEM REALLY WAS
THAT PETER, INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING
00:36:01.99\00:36:05.53
JESUS, WAS NOW
TELLING JESUS TO FOLLOW HIM.
00:36:05.53\00:36:11.00
IN ESSENCE HE WAS SAYING, 'LORD,
I KNOW WHAT'S BEST.' AND JESUS
00:36:11.00\00:36:14.30
HAD TO REBUKE PETER. YOU
SEE, THE LESSON IN THIS FOR
00:36:14.30\00:36:18.01
US IS THIS: ANYTHING THAT WOULD
LEAD US AWAY FROM THE KNOWN WILL
00:36:18.01\00:36:23.08
OF GOD, NEEDS TO
BE PUT BEHIND US.
00:36:23.08\00:36:26.45
IN THIS CASE, JESUS KNEW
WHAT THE WILL OF THE FATHER WAS.
00:36:26.45\00:36:30.29
HERE, PETER WAS
SUGGESTING ANOTHER ROUTE.
00:36:30.29\00:36:32.42
JESUS WOULD HAVE
NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
00:36:32.42\00:36:34.49
HE SAID, 'SATAN, GET THEE BEHIND
ME.' IN OUR OWN LIVES, ANYTHING
00:36:34.49\00:36:39.23
THAT WOULD LEAD US AWAY FROM
WHAT GOD IS CALLING US TO DO,
00:36:39.23\00:36:42.46
THOSE THINGS THAT WE KNOW
GOD WANTS US TO DO, MUST BE PUT
00:36:42.46\00:36:46.33
BEHIND US, AMEN? OUR
GOAL IS TO FOLLOW THE WILL
00:36:46.33\00:36:50.41
OF GOD WHEREVER IT MAY LEAD,
EVEN IF THAT MEANS GOING THROUGH
00:36:50.41\00:36:54.84
A SHADOW OF DEATH, THE SAFEST
PLACE TO BE IS TO BE FOLLOWING
00:36:54.84\00:36:59.61
JESUS - TO BE IN
THE CENTER OF HIS WILL.
00:36:59.61\00:37:04.39
MATTHEW CHAPTER 16, VERSE 24
- THE STORY CONTINUES - "THEN
00:37:04.39\00:37:09.26
JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, 'IF
ANYONE DESIRES TO COME AFTER ME,
00:37:09.26\00:37:12.99
LET HIM DENY HIMSELF, AND TAKE
UP HIS CROSS, AND FOLLOW ME."
00:37:12.99\00:37:17.83
NOW, OF COURSE, THE CROSS
WAS AN INSTRUMENT OF DEATH.
00:37:17.83\00:37:21.40
IN ORDER FOR US TO BE A FOLLOWER
OF JESUS, WE NEED TO HAVE OUR
00:37:21.40\00:37:24.44
EYES SET ON JESUS. WE
NEED TO FOLLOW CLOSELY
00:37:24.44\00:37:28.84
BEHIND JESUS, IN HIS FOOTSTEPS.
ANYTHING THAT WOULD TAKE US AWAY
00:37:28.84\00:37:33.25
FROM THAT NEEDS TO BE SET ASIDE
- NEEDS TO BE PUT TO DEATH, SO
00:37:33.25\00:37:36.82
TO SPEAK, IN OUR OWN
MINDS. IN OUR OWN HEARTS.
00:37:36.82\00:37:40.29
VERSE 25 SAYS, "FOR WHOEVER
DESIRES TO SAVE HIS LIFE WILL
00:37:40.29\00:37:43.83
LOSE IT, BUT WHOEVER LOSES HIS
LIFE FOR MY SAKE WILL FIND IT."
00:37:43.83\00:37:48.70
- VERSE 26 - "FOR WHAT PROFIT
IS IT TO A MAN IF HE GAINS THE
00:37:48.70\00:37:51.60
WHOLE WORLD, AND
LOSES HIS OWN SOUL?
00:37:51.60\00:37:54.54
OR WHAT WILL A MAN GIVE
IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS SOUL?"
00:37:54.54\00:37:57.81
WHAT IS THE MOST PRECIOUS
THING THAT WE COULD EVER HAVE?
00:37:57.81\00:38:00.31
THAT IS JESUS - TO
KNOW JESUS - TO LOVE JESUS.
00:38:00.31\00:38:04.71
JOHN CHAPTER 17, JESUS SAID,
"AND THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL, THAT
00:38:04.71\00:38:08.68
THEY MIGHT KNOW THEE THE ONLY
TRUE GOD, AND JESUS CHRIST, WHOM
00:38:08.68\00:38:12.22
THOU HAST SENT." THAT
IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
00:38:12.22\00:38:14.02
TO US - COMING TO KNOW JESUS
- COMING TO LOVE JESUS - COMING
00:38:14.02\00:38:17.03
TO FOLLOW JESUS - THAT'S
MORE PRECIOUS THAN LIFE ITSELF.
00:38:17.03\00:38:21.86
IF WE END UP LAYING DOWN
OUR LIVES HERE ON THIS EARTH FOR
00:38:21.86\00:38:24.17
JESUS, WE NEED NOT FEAR BECAUSE
HE HAS PROMISED US A LIFE
00:38:24.17\00:38:27.27
THROUGHOUT ALL ETERNITY - WITH
NO PAIN, NO SORROW, NO FEAR.
00:38:27.27\00:38:31.41
FOREVER WE'LL BE WITH JESUS
AND WITH THOSE THAT LOVE HIM.
00:38:31.41\00:38:34.88
WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO HOLD
US BACK FROM THAT FULL SURRENDER
00:38:34.88\00:38:39.58
TO CHRIST. I
REMEMBER A STORY OF A MAN WHO,
00:38:39.58\00:38:44.12
INSTEAD OF INVESTING ALL OF HIS
FINANCES IN THE STOCK MARKET,
00:38:44.12\00:38:48.32
OR IN SOME KIND OF
RETIREMENT ACCOUNT, HE DECIDED
00:38:48.32\00:38:50.49
TO BUY GOLD COINS. AND
SO, ALL THE MONEY HE HAD, HE
00:38:50.49\00:38:54.30
INVESTED IN
BUYING GOLD COINS AND HE
00:38:54.30\00:38:56.30
HAD QUITE A FEW OF THESE
GOLD COINS AND HE HAD A SPECIAL
00:38:56.30\00:38:59.17
HIDING PLACE IN HIS HOUSE -
MAYBE UNDER THE FLOOR OR, YOU
00:38:59.17\00:39:02.87
KNOW, SOMEPLACE
ONLY HE KNEW ABOUT.
00:39:02.87\00:39:06.31
WELL, THERE WAS A FLOOD THAT
CAME TO THAT AREA AND, AS THE
00:39:06.31\00:39:09.41
FLOOD WATERS BEGAN TO RISE, THE
MAN REALIZED THAT HE WAS SOON TO
00:39:09.41\00:39:13.38
BE IN TROUBLE SO HE WENT AND HE
FOUND THIS BAG OF GOLD COINS -
00:39:13.38\00:39:16.92
HIS ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS - PART
OF THE INHERITANCE THAT HE HAD
00:39:16.92\00:39:20.26
GOTTEN FROM HIS FATHER -
EVERYTHING HE HAD, THERE IN THAT
00:39:20.26\00:39:24.03
BAG FULL OF GOLD COINS. SO
HE GRABBED THE BAG OF COINS
00:39:24.03\00:39:28.33
AND HE CLIMBED ONTO THE ROOF
OF HIS HOUSE AND HE WAS WAITING
00:39:28.33\00:39:31.40
BECAUSE THE FLOOD WATERS ARE
JUST WASHING IN AND TAKING DOWN
00:39:31.40\00:39:35.74
FENCES AND HOUSES WERE BEING
WASHED AWAY - IT WAS TERRIBLE
00:39:35.74\00:39:39.14
AND - HE WAS UP ON THE ROOF OF
HIS HOUSE WAITING TO BE RESCUED.
00:39:39.14\00:39:42.04
THERE WAS A HELICOPTER FLYING
AROUND AND IT WAS RESCUING
00:39:42.04\00:39:44.91
PEOPLE, SO THE HELICOPTER CAME
OVER AND THEY DROPPED DOWN A
00:39:44.91\00:39:47.25
ROPE AND THEY SAID TO THE MAN HE
NEEDS TO HOLD ONTO THE ROPE AND
00:39:47.25\00:39:50.15
THE HELICOPTER WAS GOING TO LIFT
HIM UP AND TAKE HIM TO A PLACE
00:39:50.15\00:39:52.35
OF SAFETY. AND SO
THERE HE WAS, WITH HIS
00:39:52.35\00:39:54.72
BAG FULL OF GOLD COINS AND WITH
THE OTHER HAND HE WAS WRAPPING
00:39:54.72\00:39:57.93
IT AROUND THE ROPE TRYING TO
HOLD ON AND THE PERSON FROM THE
00:39:57.93\00:40:01.13
HELICOPTER CALLED DOWN AND
SAID, 'YOU CAN NEVER DO THAT -
00:40:01.13\00:40:04.03
YOU NEED BOTH HANDS!
ONE ARM IS NOT ENOUGH
00:40:04.03\00:40:07.67
TO HOLD YOU SECURE. YOU
NEED TO HOLD ON WITH BOTH
00:40:07.67\00:40:09.77
HANDS.' THAT MAN
HAD A TERRIBLE TIME.
00:40:09.77\00:40:12.87
WHAT WAS HE TO DO?
WAS HE TO LET GO HIS LIFE
00:40:12.87\00:40:15.84
SAVINGS AND SAVE HIS LIFE,
OR WAS HE GOING TO TRY AND HOLD
00:40:15.84\00:40:20.48
ONTO HIS LIFE SAVINGS
AND JEOPARDIZE HIS LIFE.
00:40:20.48\00:40:25.09
THE STORY GOES THAT HE HELD ONTO
THE BAG OF GOLD COINS AND HE
00:40:25.09\00:40:28.36
WRAPPED HIS ARM AROUND THE ROPE
AND, DESPITE THE COUNSEL GIVEN
00:40:28.36\00:40:32.66
FROM THE PEOPLE ABOVE, HE
FIGURED HE WAS ABLE TO HOLD ONTO
00:40:32.66\00:40:35.76
HIS LIFE SAVINGS AND ALSO HOLD
ONTO THE ROPE AT THE SAME TIME
00:40:35.76\00:40:38.63
AND, AS THE HELICOPTER BEGAN TO
LIFT, HE BEGAN TO REALIZE HOW HE
00:40:38.63\00:40:41.60
WAS SLIPPING AND FINALLY HE CAME
TO HIS SENSES AND HE LET GO OF
00:40:41.60\00:40:44.87
THE GOLD COINS AND HE CLUNG ON
WITH BOTH HANDS AND HE SAVED HIS
00:40:44.87\00:40:49.18
LIFE. FRIENDS, THE
TRUTH IS THERE IS A
00:40:49.18\00:40:52.01
VOICE CALLING DOWN FROM
HEAVEN TO EACH OF US, 'DON'T LET
00:40:52.01\00:40:55.38
ANYTHING HERE ON THIS EARTH
HINDER YOU FROM HOLDING ON,
00:40:55.38\00:40:59.75
WITH BOTH HANDS, TO JESUS. AMEN?
00:40:59.75\00:41:03.46
BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS
WORLD THAT CAN COMPARE WITH THE
00:41:03.46\00:41:08.13
WORLD TO COME. THE
THINGS THAT GOD HAS IN
00:41:08.13\00:41:10.30
STORE FOR THOSE THAT LOVE HIM.
WELL THEN, MOVING RIGHT ALONG TO
00:41:10.30\00:41:14.17
WEDNESDAY'S LESSON - IT'S CALLED
ENCOURAGEMENT FROM HEAVEN - AND
00:41:14.17\00:41:18.11
THIS IS JUST A
REALLY GREAT STORY.
00:41:18.11\00:41:19.97
WE FIND OVER IT HERE IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 17 AND VERSE 1 - MATTHEW
00:41:19.97\00:41:26.18
17, VERSE 1 - IT SAYS, "NOW
AFTER SIX DAYS JESUS TOOK PETER,
00:41:26.18\00:41:29.78
JAMES, AND JOHN - THOSE ARE
THE THREE DISCIPLES THAT GOT TO
00:41:29.78\00:41:32.35
SHARE SOME VERY SPECIAL
EXPERIENCES WITH CHRIST - AND HE
00:41:32.35\00:41:36.86
"...LED THEM UP ON A HIGH
MOUNTAIN BY THEMSELVES;" - NOW,
00:41:36.86\00:41:39.46
THE POINT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
IS HOW MANY DAYS LATER DOES
00:41:39.46\00:41:43.20
JESUS TAKE
PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN?
00:41:43.20\00:41:45.30
IT SAYS IT THERE - SIX DAYS.
00:41:45.30\00:41:47.07
NOW IF YOU READ THE ACCOUNT OF
THE STORY IN MARK, JESUS MAKES
00:41:47.07\00:41:50.44
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
TO THE DISCIPLES.
00:41:50.44\00:41:51.94
THEY WERE ALL THERE AND JESUS
SAID, 'THERE ARE SOME STANDING
00:41:51.94\00:41:53.81
HERE THAT SHALL NOT TASTE DEATH
UNTIL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN
00:41:53.81\00:41:57.31
COME WITH POWER OR GLORY.' OR,
AS OTHER TRANSLATIONS PUT IT,
00:41:57.31\00:42:01.12
'IN HIS KINGDOM WITH GLORY.'
AND THEN IT SAYS SIX DAYS AFTER
00:42:01.12\00:42:04.69
JESUS MAKES THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO
THE DISCIPLES, HE TAKES PETER,
00:42:04.69\00:42:07.69
JAMES, AND JOHN AND HE TAKES
THEM UP TO A HIGH MOUNTAIN AND
00:42:07.69\00:42:11.53
SOMETHING HAPPENS THERE
ON TOP OF THAT MOUNTAIN.
00:42:11.53\00:42:14.13
NOW IN BIBLE TYPOLOGY,
WHAT DOES A DAY REPRESENT?
00:42:14.13\00:42:18.93
IT REPRESENTS A YEAR IF YOU'RE
DOING TIME PROPHECY, BUT IT
00:42:18.93\00:42:23.84
CAN ALSO
REPRESENT A THOUSAND YEARS.
00:42:23.84\00:42:26.01
YOU CAN READ IN PETER, 'ONE DAY
WITH THE LORD IS AS A THOUSAND
00:42:26.01\00:42:29.38
YEARS AND A
THOUSAND YEARS IS AS ONE DAY.
00:42:29.38\00:42:32.48
IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE
THAT AFTER SIX THOUSAND YEARS OF
00:42:32.48\00:42:35.05
BEING HERE ON THE EARTH, JESUS
WILL TAKE THOSE WHO TRUSTED HIM
00:42:35.05\00:42:38.59
UP HIGH TO OUR HEAVENLY HOME AND
WE'LL SEE THE GLORY OF CHRIST.
00:42:38.59\00:42:44.79
JESUS COMES IN THE CLOUDS
OF GLORY AND HE TAKES US HOME.
00:42:44.79\00:42:48.66
WELL, THE NEXT VERSE, VERSE 2 -
"AND HE WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE
00:42:48.66\00:42:52.30
THEM. HIS FACE
SHONE LIKE THE SUN, AND
00:42:52.30\00:42:54.74
HIS CLOTHES BECAME
AS WHITE AS THE LIGHT."
00:42:54.74\00:42:57.34
VERSE 3 SAYS, "AND BEHOLD,
MOSES AND ELIJAH APPEARED TO
00:42:57.34\00:43:00.71
THEM, TALKING WITH
HIM." - TALKED WITH JESUS.
00:43:00.71\00:43:05.51
NOW, YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING,
'WELL, WE UNDERSTAND ABOUT
00:43:05.51\00:43:07.82
ELIJAH' - HOW DID
ELIJAH DIE? ELIJAH DIDN'T DIE.
00:43:07.82\00:43:12.49
WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? HE
WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN, RIGHT?
00:43:12.49\00:43:15.56
IN A FIERY
CHARIOT. WHAT ABOUT MOSES?
00:43:15.56\00:43:17.19
DID MOSES DIE? YES MOSES DIED.
00:43:17.19\00:43:20.20
BUT, NOW, HOW'S
MOSES APPEARING WITH JESUS?
00:43:20.20\00:43:22.63
WELL, ACCORDING TO THE BOOK
OF JUDE, WHICH IS THE SECOND TO
00:43:22.63\00:43:25.37
LAST BOOK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,
IT TALKS ABOUT A RESURRECTION
00:43:25.37\00:43:28.34
THAT TOOK PLACE
WITH REFERENCE TO MOSES.
00:43:28.34\00:43:31.07
SO SOMETIME AFTER MOSES' DEATH,
THERE ON THE MOUNTAIN, CHRIST
00:43:31.07\00:43:34.28
RESURRECTED MOSES AND
HE WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN.
00:43:34.28\00:43:37.15
SO ELIJAH AND MOSES WERE BOTH
IN HEAVEN WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE
00:43:37.15\00:43:40.62
EARTH. AND HERE THEY
COME AND TALK WITH JESUS.
00:43:40.62\00:43:44.82
NOW, WHAT DID THEY
TALK TO JESUS ABOUT?
00:43:44.82\00:43:47.82
THE VERY THING THAT PETER, JUST
A LITTLE WHILE EARLIER HAD SAID,
00:43:47.82\00:43:50.86
'LORD, FAR BE IT FOR YOU - YOU
WILL NOT SUFFER - YOU WON'T BE
00:43:50.86\00:43:53.40
BETRAYED - YOU WON'T DIE.' MOSES
AND ELIJAH CAME AND SPOKE TO
00:43:53.40\00:43:56.67
CHRIST CONCERNING WHAT HE WAS
TO SUFFER AND THEY ENCOURAGED
00:43:56.67\00:43:59.70
CHRIST IN THE
MISSION THAT LAY BEFORE HIM.
00:43:59.70\00:44:03.64
NOW, IT'S ALSO INTERESTING
TO NOTE THAT ELIJAH, HERE, IS A
00:44:03.64\00:44:06.74
SYMBOL OF THOSE WHO ARE
TRANSLATED TO HEAVEN AT THE
00:44:06.74\00:44:10.48
SECOND COMING, WITHOUT SEEING
DEATH. OF COURSE, WE REALIZE
00:44:10.48\00:44:13.88
THAT ELIJAH WAS TAKEN TO
HEAVEN WITHOUT SEEING DEATH.
00:44:13.88\00:44:16.18
MOSES, ON THE OTHER HAND,
CAN REPRESENT THOSE WHO ARE
00:44:16.18\00:44:18.72
RESURRECTED WHEN
JESUS COMES THE SECOND TIME.
00:44:18.72\00:44:21.36
SO TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE AT THE
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST - THOSE
00:44:21.36\00:44:23.96
WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN AT
THE COMING OF THE LORD, THEY ARE
00:44:23.96\00:44:26.46
TRANSLATED WITHOUT SEEING DEATH,
AND THOSE WHO ARE RESURRECTED AT
00:44:26.46\00:44:29.73
THE SECOND COMING
AND TAKEN TO HEAVEN.
00:44:29.73\00:44:32.40
TWO GROUPS OF
PEOPLE WHEN JESUS COMES.
00:44:32.40\00:44:34.50
ALRIGHT THEN, MOVING RIGHT
ALONG, VERSE 4 SAYS, "THEN PETER
00:44:34.50\00:44:36.91
ANSWERED AND SAID TO JESUS,
'LORD, IT IS GOOD FOR US TO BE
00:44:36.91\00:44:40.31
HERE;'" - REMEMBER, PETER IS THE
SPOKESMAN OF THE GROUP - "'LORD,
00:44:40.31\00:44:43.58
IT'S GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE; IF
YOU WISH, LET US MAKE HERE THREE
00:44:43.58\00:44:46.72
TABERNACLES: ONE FOR YOU, ONE
FOR MOSES, AND ONE FOR ELIJAH.'"
00:44:46.72\00:44:50.02
NOW, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW
WHERE PETER GOT THAT IDEA FROM.
00:44:50.02\00:44:52.59
HE WAS PROBABLY OVERWHELMED AND
SO FILLED WITH FEAR HE DIDN'T
00:44:52.59\00:44:55.12
QUITE KNOW WHAT TO SAY,
BUT HE THOUGHT HE'D BETTER SAY
00:44:55.12\00:44:56.99
SOMETHING AND SO HE SAID, 'LORD,
IT'S GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE.
00:44:56.99\00:44:59.23
WE'RE GOING TO BUILD THREE
TEMPLES - ONE FOR YOU, ONE FOR
00:44:59.23\00:45:03.10
MOSES, AND ONE FOR ELIJAH.'
AND THEN, VERSE 5, "WHILE HE WAS
00:45:03.10\00:45:07.57
STILL SPEAKING, BEHOLD, A BRIGHT
CLOUD OVERSHADOWED THEM; AND
00:45:07.57\00:45:11.17
SUDDENLY A VOICE CAME OUT OF
THE CLOUD, SAYING, 'THIS IS MY
00:45:11.17\00:45:13.91
BELOVED SON, IN
WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.
00:45:13.91\00:45:16.68
HEAR HIM!" NOW WHO WAS THE ONE
00:45:16.68\00:45:19.78
SPEAKING FROM THE
CLOUD? IT WAS GOD HIMSELF.
00:45:19.78\00:45:23.32
SO JESUS IS THERE ON THE MOUNT,
MOSES, ELIJAH - THE DISCIPLES A
00:45:23.32\00:45:26.59
LITTLE FURTHER BACK - THERE IS A
CLOUD THAT OVERSHADOWS THE THREE
00:45:26.59\00:45:30.19
DISCIPLES AND A VOICE HEARD FROM
THE CLOUD - THAT'S GOD HIMSELF -
00:45:30.19\00:45:33.60
'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON.' IN
OTHER WORDS, GOD WAS SAYING TO
00:45:33.60\00:45:36.26
PETER, 'PETER, BE QUIET.
THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO TALK.
00:45:36.26\00:45:39.47
THIS IS THE TIME TO LISTEN.
THIS IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO
00:45:39.47\00:45:42.10
UNDERSTAND WHAT'S REALLY
TAKING PLACE BEFORE YOU.'
00:45:42.10\00:45:45.21
THERE'S ANOTHER INTERESTING
THING ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE -
00:45:45.21\00:45:47.68
THAT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE - YOU
HAVE ELIJAH, WHICH REPRESENTS
00:45:47.68\00:45:50.88
THOSE TRANSLATED AT THE SECOND
COMING OF CHRIST, YOU HAVE
00:45:50.88\00:45:53.55
MOSES, REPRESENTING THOSE WHO
ARE RESURRECTED AT THE SECOND
00:45:53.55\00:45:56.62
COMING OF CHRIST, AND THEN YOU
HAVE GOD THE FATHER SPEAKING,
00:45:56.62\00:45:59.59
'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON.' IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT, ELIJAH OFTEN IS
00:45:59.59\00:46:05.16
ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROPHETS AND
MOSES IS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH
00:46:05.16\00:46:09.96
THE LAW. NOW, WHEN
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
00:46:09.96\00:46:12.00
THE LAW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
00:46:12.00\00:46:15.10
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT -
THE PENTATEUCH - THE BOOKS
00:46:15.10\00:46:18.31
WRITTEN BY MOSES. AND
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE
00:46:18.31\00:46:20.61
PROPHETS, YOU'RE
TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE.
00:46:20.61\00:46:23.24
SO YOU HAVE THE OLD TESTAMENT
DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS - THE
00:46:23.24\00:46:25.98
LAW, THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS - AND
THE PROPHETS, EVERYTHING ELSE.
00:46:25.98\00:46:29.15
THE LAW REPRESENTED BY MOSES;
THE PROPHETS REPRESENTED BY
00:46:29.15\00:46:31.89
ELIJAH. AND WHEN
YOU COME TO THE NEW
00:46:31.89\00:46:33.46
TESTAMENT, THE WRITING OF
THE NEW TESTAMENT IS REALLY JUST
00:46:33.46\00:46:36.76
AN EXTENSION OF THE PROPHETS.
SO YOU'VE STILL GOT THOSE TWO
00:46:36.76\00:46:39.33
DIVISIONS, THE
LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
00:46:39.33\00:46:41.66
NOW THESE TWO DIVISIONS ARE
SOMETIMES REFERRED TO IN THE
00:46:41.66\00:46:44.57
BIBLE AS 'THE TESTIMONY' -
YOU'VE GOT THE TESTIMONY OF THE
00:46:44.57\00:46:48.44
LAW AND YOU'VE GOT THE
TESTIMONY OF THE PROPHETS.
00:46:48.44\00:46:51.54
THERE IS ALSO A VERY INTERESTING
VERSE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT
00:46:51.54\00:46:55.68
SAYS, 'IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR
THREE WITNESSES EVERY TRUTH - OR
00:46:55.68\00:47:01.15
EVERY WORD - IS TO BE
ESTABLISHED.' SO WHO ARE THE TWO
00:47:01.15\00:47:04.59
WITNESSES THAT GIVE
TESTIMONY TO THE TRUTH?
00:47:04.59\00:47:07.86
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. SO
IF YOU ARE SEEKING FOR TRUTH,
00:47:07.86\00:47:11.93
YOU LOOK TO THE LAW OF GOD
- THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS - AND
00:47:11.93\00:47:14.96
YOU LOOK TO THE PROPHETS.
AND WHATEVER THE LAW SAYS,
00:47:14.96\00:47:17.43
YOU'LL FIND THE
PROPHETS REPEATING.
00:47:17.43\00:47:19.33
WHATEVER THE PROPHETS
SAY, YOU'LL FIND IN THE LAW.
00:47:19.33\00:47:21.87
AND THAT'S THE TWO WITNESSES -
IN THE MOUTH OF TWO WITNESSES -
00:47:21.87\00:47:24.71
BUT THEN IT SAYS, 'IN THE
MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES
00:47:24.71\00:47:28.04
EVERYTHING - EVERY
TRUTH IS TO BE ESTABLISHED.
00:47:28.04\00:47:30.71
NOW IN THIS CASE, THE TRUTH THAT
THE LAW SPOKE OF - THE TRUTH
00:47:30.71\00:47:34.48
THAT THE PROPHETS SPOKE OF, WAS
WITH REFERENCE TO JESUS BEING
00:47:34.48\00:47:38.49
THE MESSIAH. HE WAS THE
CHRIST. HE IS THE ANOINTED ONE.
00:47:38.49\00:47:42.26
WE FIND THAT REFERRED TO IN THE
FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES AND,
00:47:42.26\00:47:45.43
OF COURSE, WE ALSO FIND THAT IN
THE WRITINGS OF THE PROPHETS -
00:47:45.43\00:47:47.83
THAT'S THE TWO WITNESSES.
BUT THERE IS A THIRD WITNESS
00:47:47.83\00:47:51.27
THAT IS BROUGHT TO
VIEW IN THIS STORY.
00:47:51.27\00:47:54.34
WHO'S THE THIRD WITNESS?
YOU'VE GOT MOSES, YOU'VE GOT
00:47:54.34\00:47:56.91
ELIJAH, BUT WHO'S THE
THIRD WITNESS? GOD HIMSELF.
00:47:56.91\00:48:01.54
'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM
I AM WELL PLEASED.' WHAT MORE
00:48:01.54\00:48:07.28
EVIDENCE DOES ANYBODY NEED THAN
THAT? YOU'VE GOT THE LAW, YOU'VE
00:48:07.28\00:48:11.55
GOT THE PROPHETS, AND
YOU'VE GOT THE VOICE OF GOD.
00:48:11.55\00:48:15.32
NOW DID GOD EVER SAY, SOME OTHER
TIME IN THE MINISTRY OF JESUS,
00:48:15.32\00:48:18.36
'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON
IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.'?
00:48:18.36\00:48:21.00
WHEN DID THAT OCCUR?
AT THE BAPTISM OF JESUS.
00:48:21.00\00:48:23.60
AT THE BEGINNING OF CHRIST'S
MINISTRY THE MESSAGE WAS GIVEN
00:48:23.60\00:48:27.54
BY GOD, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED
SON.' NOW, NEARING THE END OF
00:48:27.54\00:48:31.74
CHRIST'S MINISTRY, AGAIN THE
MESSAGE IS GIVEN, 'THIS IS MY
00:48:31.74\00:48:34.78
BELOVED SON, HEAR
HIM. HEED HIS TEACHINGS.
00:48:34.78\00:48:38.21
HE'S THE ONE THAT IS TO BE
THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH.'
00:48:38.21\00:48:41.88
MOVING ON WITH VERSE 6, "AND
WHEN THE DISCIPLES HEARD IT,
00:48:41.88\00:48:45.02
THEY FELL ON THEIR FACES
AND WERE GREATLY AFRAID."
00:48:45.02\00:48:48.59
WHAT'S GOING TO BE THE
EXPERIENCE OF THE UNGODLY WHEN
00:48:48.59\00:48:52.89
JESUS COMES THE SECOND
TIME IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY?
00:48:52.89\00:48:55.76
WHAT'LL THEY SAY TO THE
ROCKS AND THE MOUNTAINS?
00:48:55.76\00:48:58.67
'FALL ON US AND HIDE US FROM THE
FACE OF HIM THAT SITS UPON THE
00:48:58.67\00:49:01.74
THRONE AND FROM THE WRATH OF THE
LAMB, FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS
00:49:01.74\00:49:05.47
WRATH HAS COME AND WHO
SHALL BE ABLE TO STAND?'
00:49:05.47\00:49:08.44
THEY WILL FALL TO THE GROUND.
BUT WHAT'LL BE THE EXPERIENCE OF
00:49:08.44\00:49:11.65
THE RIGHTEOUS WHEN JESUS COMES?
THEY'LL LOOK UP AND THEY'LL SAY,
00:49:11.65\00:49:15.45
'THIS IS OUR GOD,
WE HAVE WAITED FOR HIM.
00:49:15.45\00:49:17.62
HE WILL SAVE US.' NOTICE THE
NEXT VERSE HERE - VERSE 7 - "BUT
00:49:17.62\00:49:22.22
JESUS CAME AND TOUCHED THEM
AND SAID, 'ARISE, AND DO NOT BE
00:49:22.22\00:49:25.96
AFRAID.'" YOU SEE, FRIENDS, WHEN
WE FALL AT THE FEET OF JESUS,
00:49:25.96\00:49:30.27
AND WE SET HIM BEFORE US, AND WE
CHOOSE TO FOLLOW HIM, WE NOT -
00:49:30.27\00:49:35.70
WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID. WE
NEED NOT FEAR THAT DAY WHEN
00:49:35.70\00:49:38.97
JESUS COMES FOR WE WILL BE FOUND
IN HIM. AND JESUS WILL FORGIVE
00:49:38.97\00:49:44.01
AND CLEANSE AND TRANSFORM OUR
LIVES NOW, SO THAT WHEN THAT DAY
00:49:44.01\00:49:48.35
COMES, WE'LL BE READY FOR
JESUS - TO MEET HIM IN PEACE.
00:49:48.35\00:49:52.79
YOU KNOW, I'M GRATEFUL THAT THE
STORY OF PETER AND JESUS DOESN'T
00:49:52.79\00:49:56.73
END WITH PETER MAKING
ONE MISTAKE AFTER ANOTHER.
00:49:56.73\00:50:00.63
AFTER THE RESURRECTION, JESUS
FIRST APPEARED TO THE DISCIPLES
00:50:00.63\00:50:03.50
ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON - HE ROSE
EARLY SUNDAY MORNING - HE MET
00:50:03.50\00:50:07.14
MARY MAGDALENE AND HE
SAID, 'DO NOT DETAIN ME.
00:50:07.14\00:50:09.40
DO NOT CLING TO ME, FOR I HAVE
NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER IN
00:50:09.40\00:50:11.64
HEAVEN.' JESUS ASCENDS TO THE
FATHER, THEN HE COMES BACK AND
00:50:11.64\00:50:14.51
HE MEETS WITH THE DISCIPLES
THERE IN THE UPPER ROOM.
00:50:14.51\00:50:17.11
AND THEN EIGHT DAYS AFTER
THAT FIRST MEETING WITH THE
00:50:17.11\00:50:19.78
DISCIPLES, JESUS CAME BACK.
THE DISCIPLES WERE STILL IN
00:50:19.78\00:50:22.52
JERUSALEM AND HE MET WITH THEM
AGAIN - THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN ON
00:50:22.52\00:50:24.52
A MONDAY - AND JESUS TOLD THE
DISCIPLES THAT THEY WERE TO GO
00:50:24.52\00:50:28.42
TO GALILEE AND HE
WOULD MEET THEM IN GALILEE.
00:50:28.42\00:50:31.86
IT WAS ABOUT A TWO AND A
HALF-DAY JOURNEY TO GO FROM
00:50:31.86\00:50:34.13
JERUSALEM ALL THE WAY OUT TO
GALILEE, SO PROBABLY ON TUESDAY
00:50:34.13\00:50:37.57
MORNING THE DISCIPLES LEFT AND
THEY WALKED TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY,
00:50:37.57\00:50:41.14
AND AT LEAST HALF OF THURSDAY
- MAYBE THURSDAY LATE AFTERNOON
00:50:41.14\00:50:44.27
THEY MADE IT TO
THE SEA OF GALILEE.
00:50:44.27\00:50:46.88
YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE HOW PETER
WAS PROBABLY FEELING AT THIS
00:50:46.88\00:50:49.01
TIME - JUST FRESH IN HIS
MIND WAS HIS BETRAYAL OF CHRIST.
00:50:49.01\00:50:53.92
BUT NOW HE SEES THE SEA
OF GALILEE AND SAYS TO THE
00:50:53.92\00:50:56.28
DISCIPLES, 'I'M GOING TO GO
FISHING.' AND THEY SAY, 'OKAY,
00:50:56.28\00:50:58.79
WE'RE GOING TO GO FISHING WITH
YOU.' SO THE BIBLE TELLS US THEY
00:50:58.79\00:51:01.62
FISHED ALL NIGHT - AND
HOW MUCH DID THEY CATCH?
00:51:01.62\00:51:04.63
THEY CATCH NOTHING. I
THINK THERE'S A LESSON
00:51:04.63\00:51:06.46
IN THAT FOR US,
FRIENDS. IF JESUS CALLS US TO DO
00:51:06.46\00:51:08.90
SOMETHING FOR HIM, EVEN IF WE
GET DISCOURAGED, DON'T GO BACK
00:51:08.90\00:51:12.93
TO WHAT YOU USED TO DO,
YOU WON'T BE SUCCESSFUL.
00:51:12.93\00:51:16.30
FOLLOW WHERE JESUS IS
LEADING. THERE'S THE LESSON.
00:51:16.30\00:51:20.51
AND IN THE MORNING, AS THE
LITTLE BOAT WAS MAKING ITS WAY
00:51:20.51\00:51:22.71
TOWARDS SHORE, THE DISCIPLES
LOOKED OUT AND THEY SAW SOMEBODY
00:51:22.71\00:51:25.21
STANDING THERE AT THE SHORE
AND THE PERSON CALLED TO THE
00:51:25.21\00:51:28.18
DISCIPLES AND SAID, 'CHILDREN
HAVE YOU CAUGHT ANY FISH?'
00:51:28.18\00:51:30.85
AND THEY RESPONDED, 'NO, WE
HAVEN'T CAUGHT ANYTHING.' BUT
00:51:30.85\00:51:34.39
THEN THE STRANGER SAID TO THEM,
'TAKE YOUR NETS AND THROW IT ON
00:51:34.39\00:51:36.96
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BOAT.'
AND IMMEDIATELY THE DISCIPLES
00:51:36.96\00:51:40.43
REMEMBERED AN EXPERIENCE THAT
HAPPENED AT THE BEGINNING OF
00:51:40.43\00:51:43.50
CHRIST'S PUBLIC MINISTRY WHERE
PETER WAS TOLD TO GO CAST OUT
00:51:43.50\00:51:47.27
NETS IN THE WATER AND HE SAID,
'LORD, WE'VE FISHED ALL NIGHT
00:51:47.27\00:51:50.44
BUT WE'VE CAUGHT NOTHING.
NEVERTHELESS, AT YOUR WORD I
00:51:50.44\00:51:53.14
WILL DO IT.' AND AS HE THREW THE
NETS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
00:51:53.14\00:51:55.68
BOAT, THE NET
WAS FILLED WITH FISH.
00:51:55.68\00:51:58.31
SO THE DISCIPLES QUICKLY
GATHERED THE NETS AND THEY THREW
00:51:58.31\00:52:00.62
IT OVER AND SUDDENLY, THE
NETS WERE FILLED WITH FISH.
00:52:00.62\00:52:04.55
JOHN, WHO WAS THERE IN THE BOAT,
HE MOTIONED TO PETER AND SAID,
00:52:04.55\00:52:07.49
'IT'S THE LORD.' NOT THAT PETER
NEEDED JOHN TO TELL HIM THAT IT
00:52:07.49\00:52:12.06
WAS JESUS. I
THINK HE FIGURED IT OUT.
00:52:12.06\00:52:14.46
AND SO, PETER CAST OFF HIS OUTER
COAT AND HE JUMPED INTO THE
00:52:14.46\00:52:17.23
WATER AND HE WENT SPLASHING
THROUGH THE WATER, MADE HIS WAY
00:52:17.23\00:52:20.20
UP TO WHERE JESUS WAS.
FINALLY, PETER TURNED HIS BACK
00:52:20.20\00:52:25.61
ON THE FISHING AND SET
HIS HEART ON THE SAVIOR.
00:52:25.61\00:52:31.65
HE HAD MADE HIS DECISION AND
THERE WAS A LITTLE FIRE GOING
00:52:31.65\00:52:35.62
AND JESUS PREPARED
BREAKFAST FOR THE DISCIPLES.
00:52:35.62\00:52:37.72
WHEN THEY WERE GETTING DONE
EATING, JESUS ASKED PETER THE
00:52:37.72\00:52:40.76
QUESTION, HE SAID, 'PETER, SON
OF JONAH, DO YOU LOVE ME MORE
00:52:40.76\00:52:44.56
THAN THESE?' NOW, OF
COURSE, THE REASON JESUS
00:52:44.56\00:52:47.50
ASKED THAT QUESTION IS BECAUSE,
THE NIGHT OF CHRIST'S BETRAYAL,
00:52:47.50\00:52:50.70
PETER SAID, 'LORD, THOUGH ALL
SHALL BE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF YOU
00:52:50.70\00:52:56.14
- SHALL BETRAY YOU OR LEAVE YOU,
I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU.' JESUS
00:52:56.14\00:53:00.84
SAYS, 'PETER, DO YOU REALLY
LOVE ME MORE THAN THE OTHERS?'
00:53:00.84\00:53:03.81
BECAUSE PETER
REALIZED WHAT HE DID.
00:53:03.81\00:53:06.72
AND PETER SAID, 'YES, LORD, YOU
KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU.' AND THEN
00:53:06.72\00:53:10.12
JESUS ASKED THE SAME QUESTION:
'PETER, DO YOU LOVE ME?'
00:53:10.12\00:53:12.69
AND AGAIN PETER SAID, 'YES,
LORD, YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU.'
00:53:12.69\00:53:15.62
FINALLY, JESUS ASKED A THIRD
TIME, 'PETER, DO YOU LOVE ME?'
00:53:15.62\00:53:19.23
WHY DID JESUS ASK THREE
TIMES? BECAUSE PETER HAD DENIED
00:53:19.23\00:53:22.90
JESUS HOW MANY TIMES? THREE
TIMES. AND THE THIRD TIME PETER
00:53:22.90\00:53:27.30
SAID, 'YES, LORD, YOU KNOW
THAT I LOVE YOU.' AND THEN JESUS
00:53:27.30\00:53:30.64
REVEALED SOMETHING OF WHAT
PETER WAS TO SUFFER FOR JESUS.
00:53:30.64\00:53:34.58
AND YET, PETER WAS STILL
WILLING TO SUFFER FOR HIS LORD.
00:53:34.58\00:53:38.35
YES, PETER WAS
FULLY COMMITTED TO JESUS.
00:53:38.35\00:53:42.75
FRIENDS, THAT'S THE EXPERIENCE
THAT WE NEED TO HAVE, AMEN?
00:53:42.75\00:53:46.45
JESUS NEEDS TO BE
OUR PERSONAL CHRIST.
00:53:46.45\00:53:50.66
HE NEEDS TO BE OUR SAVIOR AND
WE NEED TO LEARN TO TRUST IN HIM
00:53:50.66\00:53:53.33
WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND COMPLETELY,
LEAVING THOSE THINGS THAT ARE
00:53:53.33\00:53:57.03
BEHIND US, PRESSING TOWARDS
THE MARK, FOLLOWING OUR SAVIOR
00:53:57.03\00:54:01.04
JESUS. TRADITION TELLS US
THAT, YES, PETER WAS FAITHFUL.
00:54:01.04\00:54:05.17
HE WAS ACTUALLY
CRUCIFIED FOR CHRIST.
00:54:05.17\00:54:07.68
ALTHOUGH, WHEN IT CAME TO
HIS CRUCIFIXION, HE DIDN'T FEEL
00:54:07.68\00:54:09.94
WORTHY TO BE
CRUCIFIED RIGHT WAY UP.
00:54:09.94\00:54:13.62
HE SAID, 'I CAN'T BE CRUCIFIED
LIKE MY LORD, CRUCIFY ME UPSIDE
00:54:13.62\00:54:17.62
DOWN.' TRADITION
TELLS US THAT HE WAS.
00:54:17.62\00:54:20.42
HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR
JESUS. NO QUESTIONING THEN.
00:54:20.42\00:54:24.69
NO BETRAYAL THEN, BUT JUST
A FIRM, FULL COMMITMENT TO THE
00:54:24.69\00:54:28.93
LOVE OF CHRIST. FRIENDS,
THAT NEEDS TO BE OUR EXPERIENCE,
00:54:28.93\00:54:31.73
AMEN? I WANT THAT
EXPERIENCE. WHAT ABOUT YOU?
00:54:31.73\00:54:34.34
JESUS ASKS ALL OF US THAT SAME
QUESTION THAT HE ASKED PETER.
00:54:34.34\00:54:38.04
'DO YOU LOVE ME
MORE THAN THESE?'
00:54:38.04\00:54:41.38
MORE THAN THE THINGS OF THIS
WORLD, WHO WILL YOU PUT FIRST?
00:54:41.38\00:54:45.81
THAT'S THE LESSON THAT WE LEARN
FROM PETER'S RESPONSE TO JESUS.
00:54:45.81\00:54:50.35
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LOOKS LIKE WE'RE OUT OF TIME.
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(MUSIC)
00:55:29.89\00:55:42.20
>>PORT ROYAL, HERE IN
00:55:42.20\00:55:43.44
JAMAICA, WAS ONCE CONSIDERED THE
MOST WICKED CITY IN THE WORLD.
00:55:43.44\00:55:46.84
THEY HAD MORE BARS AND BROTHELS
PER SQUARE FOOT THAN ANY OTHER
00:55:46.84\00:55:49.81
PLACE ON THE PLANET. IT
WAS SAID TO BE JUST FULL OF
00:55:49.81\00:55:52.55
CUTTHROATS AND PIRATES BUT,
DURING THIS TIME, THE KING OF
00:55:52.55\00:55:56.18
FRANCE, LOUIS XIV, HE BEGAN
TO PERSECUTE THE PROTESTANTS AND
00:55:56.18\00:56:00.36
THE HUGUENOTS IN THE
KINGDOM AND MANY FLED.
00:56:00.36\00:56:03.02
THAT'S WHEN LOUIS GALDY AND
HIS BROTHER LAURENT CAME TO PORT
00:56:03.02\00:56:06.26
ROYAL. WHEN LOUIS
GALDY ARRIVED, HE WAS
00:56:06.26\00:56:10.90
ABSOLUTELY DUMBFOUNDED AT
THE UNRESTRAINED IMMORALITY,
00:56:10.90\00:56:14.07
VIOLENCE, AND EXTRAVAGANCE
THAT FILLED PORT ROYAL.
00:56:14.07\00:56:17.24
THAT'S WHY NOBODY WAS SURPRISED
WHEN THE JUDGMENT OF GOD FINALLY
00:56:17.24\00:56:20.61
HAPPENED. JUST
BEFORE NOON ON JUNE 7,
00:56:20.61\00:56:23.38
1692, THERE WAS A MASSIVE
EARTHQUAKE THAT AFFECTED THE
00:56:23.38\00:56:26.85
WHOLE ISLAND, PORT
ROYAL, IN PARTICULAR.
00:56:26.85\00:56:29.85
TWO THIRDS OF IT
SLID INTO THE SEA.
00:56:29.85\00:56:32.22
THEN CAME A
TSUNAMI. THOUSANDS PERISHED.
00:56:32.22\00:56:34.72
UNFORTUNATELY, EVEN LOUIS
GALDY WAS SWALLOWED UP IN THE
00:56:34.72\00:56:38.03
EARTHQUAKE. YOU
KNOW, MUCH OF JAMAICA IS A
00:56:38.03\00:56:43.70
ROCK, BUT PORT ROYAL
WAS BUILT ON THE SAND.
00:56:43.70\00:56:46.87
AND SO, WHEN THE EARTHQUAKE
STRUCK, THE SAND VIRTUALLY
00:56:46.87\00:56:49.67
LIQUEFIED, SWALLOWING MUCH
OF THE CITY AND THOUSANDS OF
00:56:49.67\00:56:52.14
PEOPLE. LOUIS
GALDY WAS BURIED ALIVE,
00:56:52.14\00:56:55.64
BUT WHILE UNDERGROUND HE WAS
STILL CONSCIOUS AND HE PRAYED.
00:56:55.64\00:56:59.81
HE RESIGNED HIMSELF TO HIS FATE,
PRAYED TO THE LORD, AND THEN
00:56:59.81\00:57:03.18
ANOTHER MIRACLE HAPPENED.
THERE WAS AN AFTERSHOCK,
00:57:03.18\00:57:06.09
WITH VOLCANIC ACTIVITY, THAT
EXPLODED, BLOWING LOUIS GALDY
00:57:06.09\00:57:09.82
OUT OF THE EARTH HUNDREDS OF
YARDS OFF INTO THE SEA WHERE HE
00:57:09.82\00:57:13.26
HAD A PRETTY HARD
LANDING, BUT HE WAS ABLE TO SWIM
00:57:13.26\00:57:15.90
UNTIL HE WAS RESCUED.
LOUIS GALDY DEDICATED THE
00:57:15.90\00:57:19.00
REMAINING 47 YEARS OF HIS LIFE
TO SERVING JESUS IN THIS ISLAND
00:57:19.00\00:57:23.14
AND HE'S EVEN
BURIED HERE STILL TODAY.
00:57:23.14\00:57:29.71
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US,
JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK THE
00:57:29.71\00:57:32.31
CONDITIONS IN THE WORLD WILL
BE VERY MUCH LIKE THEY WERE IN
00:57:32.31\00:57:34.88
SODOM AND IN PORT ROYAL.
THERE'S GOING TO BE A TREMENDOUS
00:57:34.88\00:57:38.45
EARTHQUAKE AND EVEN
ISLANDS WILL BE SWALLOWED UP.
00:57:38.45\00:57:41.09
BUT GOD'S PEOPLE
DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID.
00:57:41.09\00:57:43.09
THE SAME WAY THAT THE LORD TOOK
CARE OF LOUIS GALDY, HE WILL
00:57:43.09\00:57:45.86
TAKE CARE OF YOU. IT
SAYS IN PSALM 91 THAT YOU
00:57:45.86\00:57:48.66
MIGHT SEE A THOUSAND FALL
AT YOUR SIDE OR TEN THOUSAND AT
00:57:48.66\00:57:51.20
YOUR RIGHT HAND, BUT ONLY
WITH YOUR EYES WILL YOU SEE AND
00:57:51.20\00:57:54.14
BEHOLD THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED.
00:57:54.14\00:57:55.97
HE CAN PROTECT
YOU AND RESURRECT YOU.
00:57:55.97\00:57:59.04
(MUSIC)
00:57:59.04\00:58:14.12