Participants: Pr. Jëan Ross
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00:35 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:37 WE ARE THRILLED THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US AGAIN TO STUDY GOD'S 00:41 WORD TOGETHER. WE ARE GOING TO START OUT BY 00:43 SINGING TOGETHER SO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS - #246 - WORTHY, 00:48 WORTHY IS THE LAMB - AND WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE 00:51 VERSES - HYMN #246. (MUSIC) 01:04 >>WORTHY, WORTHY IS THE LAMB, WORTHY, WORTHY IS THE 01:12 LAMB; WORTHY, WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN. 01:23 GLORY, HALLELUJAH! PRAISE HIM, HALLELUJAH! 01:34 GLORY HALLELUJAH TO THE LAMB! SAVIOR, LET THY KINGDOM COME! 01:49 NOW THE POWER OF SIN CONSUME; BRING THY BLEST MILLENNIUM, HOLY 02:02 LAMB. GLORY, HALLELUJAH! PRAISE HIM, HALLELUJAH! 02:15 GLORY HALLELUJAH TO THE LAMB! THUS MAY WE EACH MOMENT FEEL, 02:31 LOVE HIM, SERVE HIM, PRAISE HIM STILL. 02:36 TILL WE ALL ON ZION'S HILL SEE THE LAMB. 02:46 GLORY, HALLELUJAH! PRAISE HIM, HALLELUJAH! 02:57 GLORY HALLELUJAH TO THE LAMB! >>WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO 03:10 SING TO HIM EVERY SINGLE DAY. WE DON'T HAVE TO DO IT JUST 03:14 ON SABBATH, BUT EVERY DAY, THROUGHOUT THE DAY, WE SHOULD BE 03:17 SINGING PRAISES TO HIM FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE. LET'S PRAY. 03:22 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO 03:26 LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU - TO STUDY TOGETHER AS A WORLD-WIDE FAMILY, 03:29 KNOWING FULL WELL THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO BREAK THROUGH THOSE 03:32 CLOUDS AND TAKE US ALL HOME. SO LORD, HELP US TO APPLY 03:35 THESE THINGS WE LEARN TODAY. WE GIVE YOU HONOR, WE GIVE YOU 03:39 PRAISE AND GLORY, THAT YOU ARE OUR PERSONAL SAVIOR AND THAT 03:42 YOU LIVE RIGHT IN OUR HEARTS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JUST 03:47 LOVING US - FOR YOUR MERCY AND YOUR GRACE THAT IS LONG 03:50 SUFFERING AND WE JUST THANK YOU THAT WE CAN STUDY AND LEARN AND 03:56 HAVE THE PROMISE TO LIVE WITH YOU FOREVER. 03:59 WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR HOLY NAME, JESUS, AMEN. 04:04 AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL BRING US OUR STUDY. 04:07 >>GOOD MORNING EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY 04:11 HOUR. AGAIN, A VERY WARM WELCOME TO 04:12 THE MEMBERS HERE OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND THOSE WHO ARE 04:15 VISITING WITH US TODAY AND ALSO OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE A PART OF 04:18 OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND 04:21 AROUND THE WORLD - A VERY WARM WELCOME TO YOU. 04:24 JUST A REMINDER, IT WAS MENTIONED A FEW MOMENTS AGO. 04:27 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR 04:29 STUDY TODAY. IT'S A BOOK, WRITTEN BY 04:30 PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, CALLED DETERMINING THE WILL OF GOD . 04:34 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING HERE IN NORTH AMERICA, 04:37 YOU JUST NEED TO CALL OUR RESOURCE NUMBER. 04:39 THE NUMBER THERE IS 866-788-3966 AND, AGAIN, ASK FOR THE FREE 04:44 OFFER - IT'S #778 - WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO YOU. 04:48 AND THOSE OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A PDF 04:51 COPY OF THIS BOOK ONLINE AT THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE. 04:56 WELL, TODAY, WE FIND OURSELVES IN OUR STUDY DEALING WITH THE 04:58 GOSPEL OF MATTHEW. WE'RE IN LESSON #8 AND OUR 05:02 LESSON IS ENTITLED PETER AND THE ROCK - IT'S A FASCINATING 05:06 STUDY TOGETHER. IF YOU HAVE YOUR LESSON 05:09 QUARTERLY, YOU CAN TURN TO OUR SCRIPTURE READING, WHICH IS 05:12 RIGHT THERE AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR STUDY - IT'S MATTHEW CHAPTER 05:15 16, VERSE 15, AND IT'S THE WORDS OF JESUS. 05:20 JESUS SAID, "'BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?' 05:23 HE ASKED. 'WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?'" 05:27 NOW PETER IS THE ONE THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION THAT JESUS 05:30 ASKS THE DISCIPLES. AND THERE ARE TWO STATEMENTS OF 05:33 PETER THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT, SORT OF FORMING 05:35 THE FOCUS OF OUR STUDY IN THIS WEEK'S LESSON. 05:40 ON SABBATH AFTERNOON THERE IS AN INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT THERE. 05:43 IT'S THE SECOND PARAGRAPH, IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ALONG WITH THE 05:46 LESSON. IT SAYS THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT 05:47 IS CLEAR JESUS HAD TO DIE. AS HE FACED THE LOOMING SHADOW 05:52 OF THE CROSS, JESUS PRAYED - AND THIS IS IN JOHN CHAPTER 12:27, 05:57 "NOW MY SOUL IS TROUBLED, AND WHAT SHALL I SAY? 06:00 'FATHER, SAVE ME FROM THIS HOUR' NO, IT WAS FOR THIS VERY REASON 06:03 I CAME TO THIS HOUR.'" THIS WAS THE DIVINE PLAN 06:07 CONCEIVED IN THE MIND OF GOD EVEN BEFORE TIME BEGAN. 06:11 SO HERE WE FIND JESUS SETTING HIS FACE, AS THE BIBLE SAYS, 06:15 TOWARD JERUSALEM AND HE'S JOURNEYING TO THAT SUPREME 06:18 PURPOSE WHY HE CAME - TO GIVE HIS LIFE AN ATONING SACRIFICE 06:22 FOR MAN'S SIN. THIS WEEK, WE'RE GOING TO PICK 06:25 UP THE STORY OF JESUS, BUT WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS MORE ON THE 06:28 EXPERIENCE OF JESUS' JOURNEY TO CALVARY, BUT FROM THE 06:33 PERSPECTIVE OF PETER. HOW DID THE DISCIPLES RESPOND 06:37 TO THIS IDEA THAT JESUS, THEIR LORD, THEIR TEACHER, THEIR 06:41 MESSIAH, WAS TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE? LITTLE BIT ABOUT PETER: 06:45 OUT OF ALL OF THE DISCIPLES, PETER SEEMS TO BE THE ONE THAT 06:49 TOOK THE LEAD ON A NUMBER OF THINGS. PETER WAS A PERSON OF 06:53 STRENGTH. HE HAD STRENGTH OF LEADERSHIP. WHENEVER THE 06:56 DISCIPLES ARE LISTED, PETER'S NAME ALWAYS SEEMS TO COME UP 06:59 FIRST - PETER, JAMES, THEN JOHN AND THEN THE OTHER DISCIPLES. 07:03 HE WAS ALSO ONE OF THE GROUP THAT GOT TO SHARE SOME VERY 07:06 SPECIAL EXPERIENCES WITH JESUS, ALONG WITH JAMES AND JOHN. 07:11 ON ONE OCCASION, JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES WERE IN THE AREA OF 07:14 GALILEE AND A RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE CAME TO JESUS AND 07:17 SAID, 'MY LITTLE GIRL, TWELVE YEARS OF AGE, IS HOME VERY SICK. 07:21 PLEASE COME AND HEAL HER.' AND JESUS SAID HE WOULD. 07:24 AND AS HE JOURNEYED TO THE MAN'S HOUSE, THERE WAS A WOMAN THAT 07:27 REACHED OUT AND TOUCHED THE HEM OF CHRIST'S GARMENT AND SHE WAS 07:29 HEALED. YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY? AND JESUS STOPPED AND SPOKE TO 07:33 HER, BUT THEN A MESSAGE CAME FROM JAIRUS' HOUSE THAT SAID, 07:36 'DO NOT TROUBLE THE MASTER ANYMORE. 07:37 YOUR LITTLE GIRL HAS DIED.' AND WHEN JESUS HEARD THAT HE SAID TO 07:41 JAIRUS AND THE DISCIPLES, HE SAID, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID. 07:43 ONLY BELIEVE.' AND THEN JESUS WENT TO JAIRUS' HOUSE AND THEY 07:47 CAME TO THE HOUSE AND THERE WERE PEOPLE WEEPING AND WAILING AND 07:50 THERE WERE THE HIRED MOURNERS THAT WERE THERE MAKING ALL KINDS 07:53 OF NOISE. JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'DO NOT MAKE 07:56 THIS A DO, FOR THE LITTLE GIRL IS NOT DEAD, SHE IS ONLY 07:58 SLEEPING.' AND THEN SUDDENLY THEY BEGAN TO LAUGH AT JESUS 08:02 BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE GIRL WAS DEAD. 08:03 BUT JESUS TOOK PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN AND THE PARENTS AND HE WENT 08:07 TO THE LITTLE GIRL'S ROOM AND HE TOOK HER BY THE HAND AND JESUS 08:10 SAID, 'LITTLE GIRL, ARISE.' AND SHE WAS RESURRECTED. 08:14 WHAT AN EXPERIENCE FOR PETER TO WITNESS - THIS LITTLE GIRL 08:18 RAISED TO LIFE. IT WAS ALSO PETER, ALONG WITH 08:22 JAMES AND JOHN, THAT JESUS CALLED APART FROM THE OTHER 08:24 DISCIPLES AND THEY WENT TO A HIGH MOUNTAIN AND THEY WITNESSED 08:27 JESUS GLORIFIED BEFORE THEM. WE'RE GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT 08:31 THAT STORY A LITTLE BIT LATER ON IN OUR STUDY TODAY. 08:34 IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE - AGAIN, IT WAS PETER, JAMES, AND 08:36 JOHN THAT JESUS SEPARATED FROM THE OTHER DISCIPLES, BROUGHT 08:39 THEM CLOSER TO WHERE HE WAS, THEY COULD HEAR JESUS PRAY THOSE 08:43 WORDS, 'FATHER, IF IT IS POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP BE 08:46 REMOVED FROM ME.' NEVERTHELESS, NOT MY WILL BUT THY WILL BE 08:49 DONE.' AND JESUS ASKED THOSE THREE, IN PARTICULAR, TO PRAY 08:51 DURING THAT TIME THERE IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. 08:55 ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON THE 08:59 DISCIPLES, AGAIN, WE HAVE PETER TAKING THE LEAD. 09:02 HE GOT UP AND HE PREACHED AND THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT 3,000 09:05 PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED. PETER WAS ALSO THE 09:09 SPOKESMAN OF THE GROUP. IN OUR STUDY TODAY - TWO 09:12 IMPORTANT STATEMENTS - JESUS ASKED THE DISCIPLES, 'WHO 09:15 DO PEOPLE SAY THAT I AM?' AND THEN PETER RESPONDS WITH 09:18 REFERENCE TO WHO HE BELIEVES JESUS IS. 09:20 BUT THEN, JUST A LITTLE LATER IN THAT SAME PASSAGE, WE FIND JESUS 09:24 HAVING TO REBUKE PETER FOR SOMETHING PETER SAYS TO JESUS. 09:27 WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. 09:29 BUT IN ADDITION TO HAVING STRENGTH OF LEADERSHIP, PETER 09:32 WAS ALSO THE SPIRITUAL ADVENTURER OF THE GROUP. 09:36 YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE THE DISCIPLES WERE IN A LITTLE BOAT 09:39 IN THE MIDST OF A STORM BEING TOSSED TO AND FRO BY THE WIND 09:42 AND THE WAVES AND THEY LOOKED OUT AND THERE WAS A BOLT OF 09:45 LIGHTNING AND THEY SAW SOMEBODY WALKING ON THE WATER. 09:49 AND AT FIRST, WHO DID THEY THINK THAT WAS? 09:52 THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A GHOST OR A SPIRIT. 09:54 BUT THEN IT WAS JESUS AND HE SAID, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID. 09:56 IT IS I.' AND WHEN PETER FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS JESUS WALKING ON 09:59 THE WATER, WHAT DID PETER ASK? 10:02 HE SAID, 'LORD, IF IT IS YOU, BID ME TO COME WALKING TO YOU ON 10:05 THE WATER.' NOW, WHO ELSE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT? 10:08 PETER SEES JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER HE SAYS, 'I WANT TO DO 10:10 THAT TOO.' AND JESUS SAYS, 'COME.' AND PETER GETS OUT OF 10:15 THE BOAT AND HE WALKS ON THE WATER TOWARDS JESUS. 10:18 THEN HE TAKES HIS EYES OFF JESUS AND WHAT HAPPENS TO PETER? 10:22 HE BEGINS TO SINK - AND JESUS IS THERE TO LIFT HIM UP. 10:24 HE CRIES OUT, 'LORD, SAVE ME!' 10:26 AND JESUS IS THERE TO LIFT HIM UP. 10:28 SO PETER WAS SORT OF THE ADVENTURER OF THE GROUP. 10:30 HE WANTED TO DO DIFFERENT THINGS. 10:32 AT THE TIME OF CHRIST'S ARREST THERE IN THE GARDEN OF 10:34 GETHSEMANE, IT WAS PETER THAT JUMPED TO THE FOREGROUND AND 10:38 PULLED OUT HIS SWORD AND BEGAN TO SWING TOWARDS THOSE PRIESTS 10:43 AND THOSE RULERS THAT CAME TO ARREST JESUS. 10:46 FORTUNATELY FOR PETER, THOUGH, ALL HE WAS ABLE TO CUT WAS JUST 10:48 THE HIGH PRIEST'S SERVANT'S EAR - HE CHOPPED IT RIGHT OFF. 10:52 JESUS SAID, 'PETER, PETER, PUT AWAY THE SWORD.' AND THEN HE 10:56 REACHED DOWN AND HE PICKED UP THE EAR AND HE PLACED IT ON THE 10:58 MAN'S HEAD AND IMMEDIATELY THE MAN WAS HEALED. 11:00 SO PETER WAS THERE, WILLING TO TAKE ON THE WHOLE ROMAN ARMY, SO 11:03 LONG AS JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES WERE THERE, BUT WHEN PETER WAS 11:07 ALL ALONE, IT WAS A DIFFERENT STORY. 11:10 PETER ALSO HAD STRENGTH OF BODY. HE WAS USED TO HARD WORK. 11:15 HE WAS USED TO ROWING BOATS AND PULLING IN NETS. 11:17 YET, IN SPITE OF ALL OF THESE GOOD QUALITIES, WE FIND PETER 11:21 DENYING JESUS THREE TIMES WHILE KEEPING WARM AT THE ENEMY'S 11:25 FIRE. HE WAS STRONG WHEN HIS FRIENDS WERE THERE, BUT HE WAS 11:29 WEAK WHEN HE WAS ALONE. YET, DESPITE THESE WEAKNESSES, 11:32 JESUS NEVER GAVE UP ON PETER. JESUS KEPT LEADING AND PULLING 11:37 AND DRAWING PETER TO HIMSELF. SO IT IS WITH US. 11:40 I AM SO GRATEFUL JESUS DOES NOT GIVE UP ON YOU AND I, AMEN? 11:43 HOW MANY TIMES IN OUR LIFE HAVE WE, LIKE PETER, TAKEN OUR EYES 11:47 OFF JESUS AND BEGUN TO SINK INTO SIN AND CRY OUT 'LORD, SAVE ME.' 11:53 AND JESUS IS THERE TO LIFT US UP. 11:55 JESUS DRAWS US TO HIM - SO KIND, SO GENTLE - WORKING WITH US. 11:59 AND THAT'S THE WAY JESUS WORKED WITH PETER. 12:03 NOW A KEY AREA OF STUDY IS GOING TO BE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 16 AND 12:07 WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT A QUESTION JESUS ASKED HIS 12:10 DISCIPLES. MATTHEW CHAPTER 16 - AND WE'RE 12:13 GOING TO START READING HERE IN VERSE 13 - IT SAYS, "WHEN JESUS 12:15 CAME TO THE REGION OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI, HE ASKED HIS 12:19 DISCIPLES, 'WHO DO PEOPLE SAY THE SON OF MAN IS?'" 12:23 NOW, INCIDENTALLY, THE AREA OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI WAS A 12:26 TERRITORY OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL. SO HERE, JESUS AND HIS 12:29 DISCIPLES, HAVE MADE A LITTLE DETOUR. 12:31 THEY'VE GONE OUTSIDE OF THE TERRITORY OF ISRAEL AND JESUS 12:35 ASKS A QUESTION. YOU SEE, IN THE MINDS OF THE 12:37 DISCIPLES THEY THOUGHT OF JESUS AS BEING THE MESSIAH 12:40 JUST TO THE JEWS. THEY DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND 12:43 THAT JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH TO THE WHOLE WORLD. 12:46 SO IT'S INTERESTING THAT JESUS ASKS THE QUESTION HERE AND HE 12:48 SAYS, 'WHO DO THE PEOPLE SAY THAT I AM? 12:51 NOW WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE JESUS ASKED THIS QUESTION? 12:55 DIDN'T JESUS KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE THOUGHT OF HIM? 12:57 WELL, YES HE DID. 12:59 JESUS ASKED THE QUESTION BECAUSE HE WANTED THE DISCIPLES TO THINK 13:02 ABOUT IT. SO WHAT DID THE DISCIPLES SAY? 13:05 SO THEY ANSWERED AND SAID, 'SOME SAY THAT YOU ARE JOHN THE 13:09 BAPTIST.' NOW, BY THIS TIME, JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD BEEN 13:12 BEHEADED BY HEROD AND PEOPLE LOOKED AT JESUS AND AT THE WORK 13:16 THAT JESUS WAS DOING AND THEY SAID 'THIS IS JOHN THE BAPTIST 13:19 RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD.' THE PEOPLE SAID, 'NO, HE'S NOT JOHN 13:23 THE BAPTIST. HE IS ELIJAH.' NOW WHY DO YOU 13:26 SUPPOSE PEOPLE SAID THAT JESUS WAS ELIJAH? 13:30 THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE OF THE PROPHECY THAT YOU FIND IN 13:33 THE LAST BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT - THE BOOK OF MALACHI 13:36 - THAT SAYS, 'BEHOLD, I WILL SEND ELIJAH THE PROPHET BEFORE 13:40 THE COMING OF THE GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD AND HE 13:42 WILL TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN AND THE 13:44 HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO THE FATHERS, LEST I COME AND SMITE 13:46 THE EARTH WITH A CURSE.' AND SO THE JEWS WERE EXPECTING THAT 13:50 ELIJAH WOULD COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND DO A SPECIAL WORK 13:54 JUST PRIOR TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM THAT THEY 13:58 BELIEVED TO BE A KINGDOM OF GLORY UPON THE 14:00 EARTH WHEN THE MESSIAH WOULD COME. 14:03 NOW, ACCORDING TO JESUS' OWN WORDS, HOW WAS THAT PROPHECY 14:06 FULFILLED? BY WHOM WAS THAT PROPHECY 14:09 FULFILLED WITH REFERENCE TO PREPARATION FOR 14:12 CHRIST'S FIRST COMING? WHO CAME IN THE SPIRIT 14:15 AND POWER OF ELIJAH? IT WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST. 14:18 NOW, DO YOU SUPPOSE THERE WILL BE A SECOND REVIVAL - A SECOND 14:22 MESSAGE THAT IS TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD - JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES 14:26 THE SECOND TIME? YES. WHERE DO YOU FIND THAT MESSAGE? 14:30 YOU FIND IT IN REVELATION CHAPTER 14. 14:32 WE CALL IT THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE - A SPECIAL ELIJAH 14:36 MESSAGE PREPARING THE WORLD FOR THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 14:39 SOME OF THE PEOPLE SAID, 'NO, HE IS NOT ELIJAH, HE IS JEREMIAH OR 14:43 ONE OF THE PROPHETS. NOW, I'VE OFTEN 14:46 WONDERED WHY JEREMIAH? WE HAVE SOME GREAT OLD 14:48 TESTAMENT PROPHETS. YOU HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, ELISHA, 14:51 YOU HAVE ISAIAH, BUT WHY JEREMIAH? 14:55 WELL, IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOOK JEREMIAH, JEREMIAH IS OFTEN 14:58 CALLING ISRAEL TO COME TO REPENTANCE. 15:01 MAYBE THE MESSAGE THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHED AND THE MESSAGE 15:04 THAT JESUS PREACHED, REMINDED THE JEWS OF JEREMIAH THE 15:08 PROPHET THAT WAS ALWAYS CALLING PEOPLE TO COME TO REPENTANCE. 15:12 SO THEY LOOKED AT JESUS AND THEY SAID, 'THIS IS JEREMIAH 15:14 RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD.' THEY SAID, 'NO, HE'S JUST ONE OF THE 15:17 PROPHETS.' VERSE 15, 'JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'BUT WHOM DO YOU SAY I 15:24 AM?' IN OTHER WORDS, JESUS SAID, 'I KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE 15:27 SAYING ABOUT ME, BUT WHO DO YOU THINK I AM? 15:31 AND THEN PETER ANSWERS, HERE IN VERSE 16, "SIMON PETER ANSWERED 15:35 AND SAID, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.'" 15:40 VERY SIGNIFICANT - THE WORDS THAT PETER SPOKE HERE - HE SAID 15:44 TO JESUS, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST.' NOW WHEN WE THINK OF JESUS 15:48 TODAY, WE THINK OF HIM AS BEING THE CHRIST AND RIGHTFULLY SO. 15:51 IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT EVEN 15:53 THINK 'CHRIST' IS THE LAST NAME OF JESUS, BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY 15:57 TRUE. YOU SEE, TO THE JEW, CHRIST WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF 16:02 ALL OF THOSE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES. 16:05 THE CHRIST IS THE GREEK TRANSLATION OF THE HEBREW 16:09 'MESSIAH'. IT MEANS 'THE ANOINTED ONE' - 16:12 THE ONE THAT PROPHETS HAD SPOKEN OF. 16:14 THE ONE THAT HAD BEEN MENTIONED IN THE PROMISE GOD GAVE TO 16:18 ABRAHAM - THE CHRIST, THE MESSIAH, THE ANOINTED ONE - HE 16:22 WOULD COME AND HE WOULD LIBERATE ISRAEL FROM THEIR ENEMIES. 16:26 HE WOULD RULE ON THE THRONE OF DAVID. 16:28 HE WOULD ESTABLISH A KINGDOM THAT WOULD LAST FOREVER. 16:32 BUT WHAT THE JEWS DID NOT UNDERSTAND - AND EVEN THE 16:34 DISCIPLES AT THAT TIME DID NOT UNDERSTAND - THAT THERE WERE TWO 16:36 PHASES TO THE KINGDOM THAT JESUS, THE MESSIAH, WAS ABOUT TO 16:42 ESTABLISH. THE FIRST PHASE, WHICH IS WHEN 16:44 JESUS CAME, IS WHAT WE CALL THE KINGDOM OF GRACE. 16:47 JESUS DID NOT COME TO LIBERATE ISRAEL FROM THEIR ENEMIES, THE 16:51 ROMANS, BUT JESUS CAME TO LIBERATE THE HUMAN RACE FROM 16:55 THEIR GREATEST ENEMY, THAT BEING OF SATAN. 16:59 JESUS CAME TO ESTABLISH A SPIRITUAL KINGDOM AND ANYWHERE 17:03 AND EVERYWHERE WHERE JESUS RULES SUPREME, AND IF JESUS IS RULING 17:08 SUPREME IN YOUR HEART, YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF THE KINGDOM OF GRACE. 17:13 IT'S NOT UNTIL THE SECOND COMING THAT THE KINGDOM OF GLORY IS 17:17 ESTABLISHED, BUT THE DISCIPLES AND THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, THEY 17:20 GOT CONFUSED ABOUT THE NATURE OF CHRIST'S KINGDOM. 17:23 THEY PREFERRED THE KINGDOM OF GLORY BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BE 17:26 LIBERATED FROM THEIR PHYSICAL ENEMIES. 17:29 THEY WEREN'T THAT CONCERNED ABOUT BEING LIBERATED FROM THEIR 17:31 SPIRITUAL ENEMY, THAT OF SATAN, SIN AND, ULTIMATELY, THE 17:35 SECOND DEATH. SO, PETER HERE, MOVED UPON BY 17:38 THE HOLY SPIRIT, SAYS, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST. 17:40 YOU ARE THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL OF THOSE OLD TESTAMENT 17:43 PROPHECIES.' THEY HOPED THAT JESUS WOULD SOON ESTABLISH A 17:46 KINGDOM HERE ON THE EARTH THAT WOULD COME TO NO END. 17:49 JESUS HAD TO TEACH THEM THE TRUE NATURE OF HIS KINGDOM. 17:53 AND THEN, IN VERSE 17, "JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, 17:57 'BLESSED ARE YOU, SIMON BAR JONAH, FOR FLESH AND BLOOD HAS 18:00 NOT REVEALED THIS TO YOU, BUT MY FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN.'" FOR A 18:05 PERSON TO COME TO A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHO JESUS IS, 18:09 IT'S MORE THAN JUST ACCEPTING A SET OF HISTORICAL FACTS. 18:13 IT'S MORE THAN JUST SAYING, 'YES, JESUS CAME 2,000 YEARS 18:15 AGO. HE LIVED ON THE EARTH. 18:17 HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.' BUT TO REALLY KNOW JESUS AS THE CHRIST 18:21 - AS YOUR PERSONAL DELIVERER - THE ONE WHO CAN SET YOU FREE 18:25 FROM SIN, IT'S REALLY THE MOVING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON YOUR 18:29 HEART AND THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT 18:31 SOMEBODY TOLD YOU, BUT GOD HAS REVEALED THIS TO YOU. 18:35 THE SPIRIT HAS REVEALED THIS TO YOU IN YOUR HEART.' AND SO PETER 18:38 WAS ABLE TO SAY, 'JESUS IS THE CHRIST.' NOW, WHERE PETER 18:41 DECLARES CHRIST - OR JESUS - TO BE THE CHRIST, THIS IS PROBABLY 18:45 ONE OF THE HIGHEST POINTS OF SCRIPTURE, ESPECIALLY IN THE 18:47 EXPERIENCE OF PETER. PETER CALLED JESUS 'THE 18:50 ANOINTED ONE' - 'THE CHRIST'. JESUS IS THE MESSIAH, THE ONE 18:54 WHO IS THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL THOSE OLD TESTAMENT PROMISES. 18:58 IN GALATIANS 3:16 WE READ, "NOW TO ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED WERE THE 19:04 PROMISES MADE. HE DOES NOT SAY, 'AND SEEDS,' 19:08 AS OF MANY, BUT AS OF ONE, 'AND TO YOUR SEED,' WHO IS CHRIST." 19:15 SO PAUL WAS QUITE CLEAR HERE, WRITING GALATIANS, THAT THE 19:19 PROMISE MADE TO ABRAHAM FOUND ITS FULFILLMENT IN JESUS. 19:23 HE WAS INDEED THE CHRIST. NOW PETER, FILLED WITH THE HOLY 19:26 SPIRIT, HE RECOGNIZED THAT JESUS WAS SOMETHING MUCH MORE THAN 19:29 JUST A JEWISH PROPHET, THAT OTHERS HAD SUGGESTED. 19:34 HIS MINISTRY EXTENDED MUCH FURTHER THAN THE MINISTRY OF 19:36 JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE MINISTRY OF ELIJAH, OR JEREMIAH - INDEED, 19:40 IT WAS TO ENCOMPASS THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY, HENCE JESUS CALLED 19:44 HIMSELF THE SON OF MAN. THAT WAS CHRIST'S MOST FAVORITE 19:49 SAYING WITH REFERENCE TO HIMSELF. 19:50 HE OFTEN SPOKE OF HIMSELF AS BEING THE SON OF MAN - NOT JUST 19:53 THE SON OF ABRAHAM - IT WASN'T JUST FOR THE JEWS, BUT HE WAS 19:57 FOR ALL MANKIND. HE WAS THE CHRIST - THE MESSIAH 20:01 - THE ANOINTED ONE - FOR THE WHOLE WORLD. 20:03 NOW, HOW DID THE DISCIPLES UNDERSTAND THAT JESUS WAS TO BE 20:09 FOR EVERYONE AND NOT JUST FOR THEM? 20:12 DID THEY HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THAT? 20:14 YES, THEY DID. AND THERE WERE SEVERAL 20:16 EXPERIENCES IN THE MINISTRY OF JESUS WHERE HE TRIED TO 20:18 ILLUSTRATE THIS IMPORTANT TRUTH TO THE DISCIPLES. 20:21 IT WASN'T REALLY UNTIL AFTER THE RESURRECTION THAT THE DISCIPLES 20:24 REALLY BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT THEIR MISSION WASN'T JUST FOR 20:27 THE JEWS, BUT IT WAS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD. 20:30 IN JOHN CHAPTER 4, WE HAVE THE STORY OF JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES 20:34 JOURNEYING FROM JERUSALEM UP TO GALILEE. 20:37 AND THE SHORT WAY TO GO FROM JERUSALEM - OR JUDEA - TO 20:40 GALILEE IS TO GO STRAIGHT UP THROUGH THE AREA OF THE 20:42 SAMARITANS. MOST OF THE JEWS, WHEN THEY 20:45 TRAVELED FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH, THEY WOULD TRAVEL AROUND 20:47 SAMARIA BECAUSE THEY TRIED TO AVOID CONTACT WITH THE 20:50 SAMARITANS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE SAMARITANS. 20:52 OF COURSE, THE SAMARITANS DIDN'T LIKE THE JEWS EITHER. 20:55 BUT JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES ARE TRAVELING STRAIGHT UP THROUGH 20:57 THE TERRITORY OF SAMARIA AND IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. 21:00 IT'S VERY HOT AND THEY COME TO A TOWN BY THE NAME OF SYCHAR AND 21:04 THERE WAS A VERY FAMOUS WELL JUST OUTSIDE OF THE TOWN. 21:08 IT IS A WELL THAT JACOB HAD DUG MANY, MANY YEARS BEFORE. 21:12 SO JESUS STOPPED AT THE WELL TO REST AND THE DISCIPLES WENT ON 21:15 INTO THE TOWN TO BUY FOOD. 21:17 WHILE JESUS WAS AT THE WELL, A WOMAN OF SAMARIA CAME AND SHE - 21:21 AS IF JESUS WASN'T EVEN THERE - SHE SORT OF IGNORED JESUS AND 21:24 SHE TOOK HER JAR FROM HER SHOULDER, TIED THE ROPE, AND 21:28 BEGAN TO LOWER IT DOWN INTO THE WELL. AND THEN JESUS ASKED, HE 21:32 SAID, 'COULD YOU GIVE ME A DRINK?' AND THIS SAMARITAN WOMAN 21:35 WAS VERY SURPRISED AND SHE SAID, 'HOW IS IT THAT YOU, BEING A 21:37 JEW, ASK OF ME, A SAMARITAN WOMAN, A DRINK?' 21:41 AND THEN JESUS SAID TO HER, 'IF YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE GIFT OF 21:45 GOD AND WHO IT IS THAT ASKED YOU FOR A DRINK, YOU WOULD HAVE 21:48 ASKED OF HIM AND HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU LIVING WATER.' AND 21:53 THEN SHE SAID, 'SIR, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DRAW WITH 21:55 AND THIS WELL IS VERY DEEP. 21:56 WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO GET THIS LIVING WATER?' 21:58 AND THEN JESUS SPOKE ABOUT A GIFT - A DRINK THAT HE COULD 22:01 GIVE THAT WOULD BE A SPRING SWELLING UP TO EVERLASTING LIFE. 22:05 SHE THEN SAID, 'SIR, GIVE ME THIS WATER THAT I NEED NOT COME 22:08 OUT HERE TO DRAW.' AND JESUS SAID, 'GO CALL YOUR HUSBAND.' 22:13 SHE SAID, 'I HAVE NO HUSBAND.' THEN JESUS SAID, 'YOU'VE 22:16 ANSWERED CORRECTLY FOR YOU'VE HAD FIVE HUSBANDS AND THE ONE 22:19 THAT YOU'RE WITH IS NOT YOUR HUSBAND.' SHE THEN SAID, 'SIR, I 22:22 PERCEIVE THAT YOU'RE A PROPHET.' AND THEN SHE TRIED TO CHANGE THE 22:24 CONVERSATION. SHE SAID, 'OUR FOREFATHERS SAY 22:27 THAT HERE ON MOUNT GERIZIM WE ARE TO WORSHIP, BUT YOU JEWS SAY 22:30 IN JERUSALEM.' SHE TRIED TO GET INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHERE 22:33 YOU NEED TO WORSHIP - WHERE IS THE CORRECT PLACE FOR WORSHIP? 22:37 BUT JESUS SPOKE TO HER THE WORDS OF TRUTH. 22:41 SHE FINALLY REALIZED THAT THE ONE SHE WAS TALKING TO WAS, 22:43 INDEED, THE CHRIST - THE MESSIAH. 22:47 SHE LEFT HER WATER POT, RAN BACK TO THE CITY, TOLD ALL THE PEOPLE 22:50 THAT SHE SAW, 'COME, MEET A MAN THAT TOLD ME ALL THINGS ABOUT MY 22:55 LIFE - ABOUT WHAT I'VE DONE - THIS IS THE CHRIST. 22:58 COULD THIS BE THE ONE?' WELL, THE DISCIPLES, JUST PRIOR 23:01 TO LEAVING, ARRIVED BACK WHERE JESUS WAS TALKING TO THE WOMAN 23:05 AND THEY WERE AMAZED THAT JESUS WAS SPEAKING TO A 23:08 SAMARITAN WOMAN. THEY DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. 23:10 AND THEN AFTER THE WOMAN LEFT, JESUS WAS THERE IN MEDITATION. 23:14 HE DIDN'T EVEN DRINK WATER AND THEY SAID TO HIM, 'MASTER, 23:18 PLEASE EAT.' AND JESUS SAID, 'I'VE EATEN FOOD THAT YOU DO NOT 23:20 KNOW OF.' THEY SAID, 'WELL, WHO GAVE HIM FOOD?' 23:24 THEN JESUS EXPLAINED. 23:25 HE SAID, 'MY FOOD IS TO DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER AND FULFILL 23:28 THE WORK THAT HE HAS SENT ME TO DO.' SO JESUS IS HELPING THE 23:33 DISCIPLES - TRYING TO TEACH THE DISCIPLES THAT HIS MISSION 23:35 WASN'T JUST FOR THE JEWS, BUT HIS MISSION WAS FOR THE WHOLE 23:39 WORLD. IT WAS SLOW FOR THE DISCIPLES 23:42 TO UNDERSTAND THIS LESSON. INTERESTING EXPERIENCE, NEAR THE 23:46 END OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY - THIS IS SOME THREE AND A HALF YEARS 23:48 LATER - JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES ARE TRAVELING NOW FROM 23:51 GALILEE DOWN TO JERUSALEM. IT'S THE FINAL JOURNEY WHERE 23:54 JESUS GOES TO JERUSALEM. AND THEY'RE TRAVELING THROUGH 23:56 SAMARIA AND THE DISCIPLES HAVE GONE ON AHEAD TO TRY TO MAKE 24:00 PREPARATIONS FOR A PLACE FOR JESUS TO STAY, 24:02 AND THEY WENT TO ONE OF THE SAMARITAN VILLAGES, BUT THE 24:05 SAMARITAN VILLAGE DIDN'T WANT JESUS TO STAY THERE. 24:09 AND SO JOHN AND JAMES, TWO OF THE DISCIPLES, GOT VERY UPSET BY 24:13 THIS AND THEY CAME BACK TO JESUS AND THEY SAID TO JESUS, 'DO YOU 24:16 WANT US TO CALL FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN, LIKE ELIJAH DID, AND 24:19 BURN UP THE CITY?' AND JESUS HAD TO REBUKE THEM. 24:22 WE READ IN LUKE CHAPTER 9, VERSES 55 AND 56, "BUT HE TURNED 24:26 AND REBUKED THEM, AND SAID, 'YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT MANNER OF 24:29 SPIRIT YOU ARE OF. FOR THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO DESTROY 24:32 MEN'S LIVES BUT TO SAVE THEM." YOU SEE, THEY DIDN'T REALIZE 24:35 THAT JESUS HAD COME FOR THE SAMARITAN AS WELL AS THE JEW. 24:40 IT WASN'T UNTIL AFTER THE RESURRECTION AND THE OUTPOURING 24:44 OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON PENTECOST THAT THEY REALLY BEGAN TO 24:46 UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR MISSION WAS. 24:49 WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT JOHN AND PETER - JOHN BEING ONE OF 24:53 THOSE DISCIPLES THAT WANTED TO CALL FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN. 24:56 JOHN AND PETER WENT BACK TO THOSE SAME VILLAGES AND THEY 24:59 PREACHED THE GOSPEL THERE IN SAMARIA AND THE BIBLE SAYS 'MANY 25:03 BELIEVED.' THE VERY TOWN THAT JOHN WANTED TO HAVE DESTROYED, 25:07 AFTER HE UNDERSTOOD THE MISSION OF CHRIST, HE WENT BACK AND HE 25:10 PREACHED AND MANY BELIEVED. NOW IN MONDAY'S LESSON - IT'S 25:15 ENTITLED ON THIS ROCK - AND OUR PASSAGE THERE - MATTHEW 25:20 CHAPTER 16:17 AND 18. AGAIN, JESUS SAID, "BLESSED ARE 25:24 YOU, SIMON BAR JONAH, FLESH AND BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO 25:26 YOU, BUT MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN." 25:28 VERSE 18 SAYS, "AND I ALSO SAY TO YOU THAT YOU ARE PETER, AND 25:32 ON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE GATES OF HADES 25:36 SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT." NOW THE QUESTION IS ASKED, 'IS 25:42 PETER THE ROCK UPON WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT?' 25:46 THERE ARE ENTIRE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS THAT BELIEVE THAT 25:50 PETER IS THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH THE CHURCH WAS BUILT. 25:54 BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE IS SAYING. 25:56 IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THE WORD 'PETER' THERE IN THE 25:58 ORIGINAL MEANS 'A PEBBLE' OR 'A STONE', BUT THE DECLARATION THAT 26:03 PETER HAD JUST MADE, THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST, THAT'S THE ROCK - 26:08 THAT'S THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT. 26:12 NOW, THERE ARE MANY PASSAGES IN SCRIPTURE THAT HELP US 26:14 UNDERSTAND THAT JESUS IS INDEED THE ROCK - OR THE FOUNDATION - 26:18 OF THE CHURCH. PETER, HIMSELF, NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE THE 26:21 FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH. ACTUALLY, IN ACTS CHAPTER 26:24 4, VERSE 11, WE HAVE PETER PREACHING - THIS IS AFTER 26:27 PENTECOST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON THEM. 26:30 IT SAYS PETER IS PREACHING - ACTS 4:11 - HE SAID, "THIS IS 26:35 THE 'STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED BY YOU BUILDERS, WHICH HAS BECOME 26:39 THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.' NOR IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER, 26:43 FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN BY WHICH 26:46 WE MUST BE SAVED." SO THERE IT IS. 26:49 PETER IS PREACHING AND HE SAYS, 'JESUS IS THE STONE THAT HAD 26:53 BEEN REJECTED BY THE BUILDERS, THAT IS, THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, 26:57 AND HE HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. 26:59 AND THEN IN 1 PETER, THE LETTER THAT PETER, HIMSELF, WROTE - 27:03 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 6 - THIS IS WHAT PETER SAYS, "THEREFORE IT 27:06 IS ALSO CONTAINED IN THE SCRIPTURE, 'BEHOLD, I LAY IN 27:09 ZION A CHIEF CORNERSTONE, ELECT, PRECIOUS, AND HE WHO 27:13 BELIEVES ON HIM WILL BY NO MEANS BE PUT TO SHAME.'" - TALKING 27:17 ABOUT JESUS - VERSE 7 SAYS, "THEREFORE, TO YOU WHO BELIEVE, 27:20 HE IS PRECIOUS; BUT TO THOSE WHO ARE DISOBEDIENT, 'THE STONE 27:24 WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE,' 27:27 AND 'A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE.'" SO IN THE 27:33 MIND OF PETER, IT WAS PRETTY CLEAR AS TO WHO THE FOUNDATION 27:35 OF THE CHURCH IS. CLEARLY IT'S JESUS. 27:39 PETER WOULD NEVER WANT TO BE THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH. 27:42 THE CHURCH HAS TO BE BUILT ON THE FACT THAT JESUS IS THE 27:46 CHRIST. THAT'S THE FOUNDATION. AND THEN, SECONDLY, THROUGHOUT 27:50 THE BIBLE WE FIND THE IMAGERY OF A ROCK 27:52 OR A STONE, OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH GOD OR WITH CHRIST. 27:57 YOU REMEMBER, IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2, NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD THIS DREAM 28:01 AND IN THIS DREAM HE SAW THIS IMAGE MADE UP OF ALL THESE 28:04 DIFFERENT METALS - YOU REMEMBER THAT? 28:07 THE HEAD OF GOLD, THE CHEST AND ARMS OF SILVER, BELLY AND THIGHS 28:09 OF BRASS, LEGS OF IRON, FEET OF IRON AND CLAY? 28:11 AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT IMAGE? 28:14 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'A STONE WAS CUT OUT WITHOUT HANDS AND IT CAME 28:17 AND IT STRUCK THE IMAGE UPON THE FEET.' WHO DOES THAT STONE 28:20 REPRESENT? IT REPRESENTS JESUS. IT DOES NOT REPRESENT PETER. 28:24 OKAY? IT REPRESENTS JESUS. 28:26 ALSO, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 7, VERSE 24, JESUS SAID, 'WHOEVER 28:30 HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF MINE AND DOES THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM UNTO 28:34 A WISE MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON' WHAT? 28:37 UPON THE ROCK. SO TO BUILD OUR HOUSE UPON THE 28:40 ROCK IS TO RECEIVE THE WORDS OF JESUS - TO ACT UPON HIS WORD - 28:44 THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO BUILD UPON THE ROCK. 28:48 ELSEWHERE IN SCRIPTURE IT'S PRETTY CLEAR, WE FIND PAUL IN 1 28:51 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 4 SAYING - SPEAKING OF ISRAEL - 28:54 "AND ALL DRANK FROM THAT SAME SPIRITUAL DRINK. 28:57 FOR THEY DRANK OF THAT SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM, AND 29:00 THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST." YOU CAN'T GET IT ANY CLEARER THAN THIS. 29:05 WHO'S THE ROCK UPON WHOM THE CHURCH WAS BUILT? 29:07 CLEARLY IT IS CHRIST - IT IS JESUS. 29:10 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 19 AND 20 - AGAIN, THIS IS PAUL - 29:13 "NOW, THEREFORE, YOU ARE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, 29:17 BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS AND MEMBERS OF THE 29:20 HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, HAVING BEEN BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE 29:24 APOSTLES AND THE PROPHETS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF 29:29 CORNERSTONE..." SO THE CHURCH IS BUILT UPON JESUS. 29:33 NOW, THAT TRUTH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST - THAT HE IS THE 29:36 FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH, WAS PREACHED AND PROCLAIMED BY THE 29:39 APOSTLES AND THE PROPHETS, BUT REALLY, THE FOUNDATION OF THE 29:42 CHURCH IS JESUS. THERE'S A VERY INTERESTING QUOTE 29:46 THAT I FOUND - IT'S ACTUALLY IN YOUR LESSON - IT'S FROM THE BOOK 29:49 DESIRE OF AGES AND IT HAS THIS TO SAY WITH REFERENCE TO THE 29:52 FACT THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST AND HOW THE DISCIPLES RESPONDED 29:55 TO IT - DESIRE OF AGES, PAGE 413 , 29:58 "HOW FEEBLE THE CHURCH APPEARED WHEN CHRIST SPOKE THESE WORDS. 30:02 THERE WAS ONLY A HANDFUL OF BELIEVERS AGAINST WHOM ALL THE 30:05 POWERS OF DEMONS AND EVIL MEN WERE DIRECTED, YET THE FOLLOWERS 30:09 OF CHRIST WERE NOT TO FEAR, BUILT UPON THE ROCK OF THEIR 30:13 STRENGTH, JESUS, THEY COULD NOT BE OVERTHROWN." AMEN? 30:18 YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, EVEN TODAY, THE FACT THAT JESUS IS THE 30:22 FOUNDATION OF OUR CHURCH, THAT'S THE PROMISE THAT BY GOD'S GRACE, 30:26 IF WE ARE TRUE TO HIM, WE ALSO WILL OVERCOME. 30:31 JESUS SAID, 'UPON THIS ROCK I'LL BUILD MY CHURCH AND THE GATES OF 30:34 HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.' 30:38 THE 'IT' IN THE VERSE IS THE CHURCH. 30:41 THE FACT THAT THE CHURCH IS BUILT UPON JESUS, THAT IS THE 30:46 PROMISE THAT, BY GOD'S GRACE, THE CHURCH CAN OVERCOME. 30:51 IT'S NOT THE DEVIL BREAKING DOWN THE GATES OF THE CHURCH THAT 30:55 JESUS IS SPEAKING ABOUT, IT'S THE CHURCH BREAKING DOWN THE 30:57 GATES OF THE DEVIL. WHAT DO WE MEAN? 31:00 IT'S THE CHURCH, EMPOWERED BY THE SPIRIT, ENTERING INTO THE 31:04 VERY STRONGHOLD OF SATAN, SETTING SIN'S CAPTIVES FREE. 31:08 IT'S NOT THE CHURCH TREMBLING AT THE PRESENCE OF THE DEVIL, BUT 31:11 IT'S THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS TREMBLING AT THE PRESENCE OF THE 31:15 CHURCH BECAUSE JESUS IS THE CHRIST. 31:18 AND JESUS SAID, 'FEAR NOT, FOR I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.' AMEN? 31:24 THAT'S GOOD NEWS. WHEN IT COMES TO EVANGELISM AND 31:26 THE PREACHING OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL, WE NEED NOT FEAR 31:29 BECAUSE JESUS IS THE CHRIST. AND IF WE KEEP OUR EYES FIXED 31:34 UPON HIM, MOVING FORWARD IN FAITH, THERE 31:37 IS NO POWER FROM DARKNESS THAT COULD STAND AGAINST THE LIGHT OR 31:41 THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD. YES, JESUS IS THE CHRIST. 31:46 AND THEN THERE IS A SHIFT OF FOCUS THAT WE READ ABOUT IN 31:50 TUESDAY'S LESSON - FROM THIS MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCE OF PETER 31:54 ACKNOWLEDGING JESUS TO BE THE CHRIST, AND EVERYTHING THAT'S 31:58 INVOLVED WITH THAT. SUDDENLY, WE FIND A SHIFT 32:00 OCCURRING IN THE STORY. MATTHEW CHAPTER 16, VERSE 21 - 32:05 MATTHEW 16:21 - IT SAYS, "FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO SHOW TO 32:11 HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE MUST GO TO JERUSALEM, AND SUFFER MANY 32:14 THINGS FROM THE ELDERS AND CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES, AND BE 32:18 KILLED, AND BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY." 32:21 NOW IT SAYS CLEARLY HERE THAT JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE 32:24 WAS GOING TO GO TO JERUSALEM, HE WAS GOING TO BE BETRAYED, AND HE 32:27 WAS GOING TO BE CRUCIFIED, BUT HE WOULD RISE THE THIRD DAY. 32:29 YET IT SEEMED THE DISCIPLES JUST DIDN'T LISTEN TO WHAT JESUS WAS 32:33 SAYING. THEY DIDN'T EXPECT THAT. MATTER OF FACT, WHEN JESUS WAS 32:37 ARRESTED AND HE WAS CRUCIFIED AND THEY WITNESSED JESUS BEING 32:41 PLACED IN THAT TOMB, THEIR HOPES WERE DASHED AS IF JESUS HAD 32:46 NEVER EVEN TOLD THEM WHAT WAS TO COME. 32:48 YOU SEE, THEY HAVE SO FILLED THEIR MINDS WITH THE POPULAR 32:51 TEACHING CONCERNING THE MESSIAH, THAT HE WOULD ESTABLISH A 32:54 KINGDOM HERE ON THIS EARTH AND THAT THAT KINGDOM WOULD ELEVATE 32:57 THE JEWISH NATION AND THEY WOULD CAST OFF THE ROMAN YOKE THAT, 33:01 EVEN THOUGH JESUS EXPLAINED THE TRUE NATURE OF HIS KINGDOM, THE 33:04 KINGDOM OF GRACE, THEY DIDN'T RECEIVE IT. 33:06 THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. 33:08 IT WASN'T UNTIL AFTER THESE EVENTS WERE FULFILLED THE 33:10 DISCIPLES REALLY BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TRUE MISSION 33:13 OF THE CHURCH WAS AND THE WORK THAT JESUS WANTED THEM TO DO. 33:17 NOW, IN VERSE 22 IT SAYS, 'THEN PETER TOOK" - JESUS - "HIM ASIDE 33:21 AND BEGAN TO REBUKE HIM," - NOW ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 33:25 HERE YOU HAVE PETER REBUKING JESUS. 33:28 PETER KNOWS BETTER THAN JESUS AND HE SAYS, 'FAR BE IT FROM 33:31 YOU, LORD; THIS SHALL NOT HAPPEN TO YOU!'" 33:35 SO HERE JESUS SAID THAT HE'S GOING TO GO TO JERUSALEM AND IS 33:37 GOING TO BE BETRAYED AND IS GOING TO BE CRUCIFIED. 33:39 PETER SAYS, 'LORD, DON'T SAY THAT. 33:42 THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU.' 'WHY?' 33:44 'I JUST TOLD YOU. YOU'RE THE CHRIST. YOU'RE THE MESSIAH. 33:48 YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S GOING TO ESTABLISH A KINGDOM THAT'S GOING 33:51 TO LAST FOREVER. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT 33:52 BEING BETRAYED AND CRUCIFIED?' AFTER ALL, THOSE WHO CRUCIFIED 33:57 WERE THE ROMANS AND JESUS HAD COME TO CAST OFF THE ROMAN YOKE 34:02 - TO ESTABLISH A GREAT KINGDOM HERE ON THIS EARTH FOR ISRAEL. 34:05 SO PETER THOUGHT, WELL, LET ME JUST CORRECT JESUS HERE. 34:09 'LORD, THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU.' PETER SAYS. 34:12 BUT LOOK AT VERSE 23, IT SAYS, "BUT HE TURNED" - JESUS TURNED - 34:16 "AND SAID TO PETER, 'GET BEHIND ME, SATAN! 34:19 YOU ARE AN OFFENSE TO ME, FOR YOU ARE NOT MINDFUL OF THE 34:23 THINGS OF GOD, BUT THE THINGS OF MEN.'" SO JESUS HAD TO REBUKE 34:29 PETER AND SAY, 'GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN.' IN ESSENCE, JESUS 34:33 WAS SAYING, 'PETER, YOU'RE ACTING LIKE SATAN. YOU'RE DOING 34:37 THE WORK OF SATAN.' NOW, WHY IS IT THAT JESUS HAD TO SAY THAT TO 34:41 PETER? AFTER ALL, WASN'T PETER REALLY WELL INTENTIONED IN HIS 34:45 WORDS TO CHRIST? WELL, PETER MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT, WELL, THAT'S 34:48 THE NICE THING TO DO - TO KIND OF ENCOURAGE JESUS - 34:51 MAYBE HE WAS A LITTLE DISCOURAGED AND - 'WE'VE GOT TO 34:53 BE POSITIVE AND TELL JESUS 'NO, THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.' BUT 34:55 NO, WHAT PETER DIDN'T REALIZE IS HE WAS BEING USED BY THE DEVIL 34:59 TO TRY AND DISCOURAGE CHRIST FROM HIS MISSION. 35:03 IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT JESUS SAID THE SAME THING 35:05 AFTER HE HAD BEEN TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL IN THE WILDERNESS. 35:09 REMEMBER, JESUS SAID, 'GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN.' AND HERE JESUS 35:12 SAYS THIS TO PETER, 'GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN.' YOU SEE, IN 35:16 THE WILDERNESS, THE DEVIL CAME, HE TEMPTED JESUS THAT JESUS 35:19 DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE EXPERIENCE OF HIS BETRAYAL, 35:23 CRUCIFIXION, AND DEATH. THE DEVIL SAID TO JESUS, 'IF 35:26 YOU'LL JUST BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME, I WILL GIVE YOU ALL THE 35:29 KINGDOMS OF THIS EARTH. YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO WHAT YOU 35:32 KNOW YOUR FATHER HAS LAID OUT FOR YOU TO DO. 35:35 YOU CAN GET AROUND THAT. YOU CAN GET PAST ALL THE 35:37 SUFFERING.' AND NOW THE SAME SPIRIT WAS BEING MANIFEST BY 35:41 PETER WHEN HE SAID, 'LORD, THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU.' 35:43 PETER WAS, IN ESSENCE, TELLING JESUS THAT THE MISSION THAT GOD 35:47 HAD GIVEN HIM, JESUS DIDN'T REALLY HAVE TO FULFILL. 35:51 NOW PETER DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT HE WAS SAYING 35:54 BUT, IN REALITY, THE DEVIL WAS USING HIM TO TRY AND DISCOURAGE 35:57 CHRIST FROM THE VERY MISSION THAT CHRIST HAD COME TO DO. 36:01 YOU SEE, THE PROBLEM REALLY WAS THAT PETER, INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING 36:05 JESUS, WAS NOW TELLING JESUS TO FOLLOW HIM. 36:11 IN ESSENCE HE WAS SAYING, 'LORD, I KNOW WHAT'S BEST.' AND JESUS 36:14 HAD TO REBUKE PETER. YOU SEE, THE LESSON IN THIS FOR 36:18 US IS THIS: ANYTHING THAT WOULD LEAD US AWAY FROM THE KNOWN WILL 36:23 OF GOD, NEEDS TO BE PUT BEHIND US. 36:26 IN THIS CASE, JESUS KNEW WHAT THE WILL OF THE FATHER WAS. 36:30 HERE, PETER WAS SUGGESTING ANOTHER ROUTE. 36:32 JESUS WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. 36:34 HE SAID, 'SATAN, GET THEE BEHIND ME.' IN OUR OWN LIVES, ANYTHING 36:39 THAT WOULD LEAD US AWAY FROM WHAT GOD IS CALLING US TO DO, 36:42 THOSE THINGS THAT WE KNOW GOD WANTS US TO DO, MUST BE PUT 36:46 BEHIND US, AMEN? OUR GOAL IS TO FOLLOW THE WILL 36:50 OF GOD WHEREVER IT MAY LEAD, EVEN IF THAT MEANS GOING THROUGH 36:54 A SHADOW OF DEATH, THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS TO BE FOLLOWING 36:59 JESUS - TO BE IN THE CENTER OF HIS WILL. 37:04 MATTHEW CHAPTER 16, VERSE 24 - THE STORY CONTINUES - "THEN 37:09 JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, 'IF ANYONE DESIRES TO COME AFTER ME, 37:12 LET HIM DENY HIMSELF, AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS, AND FOLLOW ME." 37:17 NOW, OF COURSE, THE CROSS WAS AN INSTRUMENT OF DEATH. 37:21 IN ORDER FOR US TO BE A FOLLOWER OF JESUS, WE NEED TO HAVE OUR 37:24 EYES SET ON JESUS. WE NEED TO FOLLOW CLOSELY 37:28 BEHIND JESUS, IN HIS FOOTSTEPS. ANYTHING THAT WOULD TAKE US AWAY 37:33 FROM THAT NEEDS TO BE SET ASIDE - NEEDS TO BE PUT TO DEATH, SO 37:36 TO SPEAK, IN OUR OWN MINDS. IN OUR OWN HEARTS. 37:40 VERSE 25 SAYS, "FOR WHOEVER DESIRES TO SAVE HIS LIFE WILL 37:43 LOSE IT, BUT WHOEVER LOSES HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE WILL FIND IT." 37:48 - VERSE 26 - "FOR WHAT PROFIT IS IT TO A MAN IF HE GAINS THE 37:51 WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSES HIS OWN SOUL? 37:54 OR WHAT WILL A MAN GIVE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS SOUL?" 37:57 WHAT IS THE MOST PRECIOUS THING THAT WE COULD EVER HAVE? 38:00 THAT IS JESUS - TO KNOW JESUS - TO LOVE JESUS. 38:04 JOHN CHAPTER 17, JESUS SAID, "AND THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL, THAT 38:08 THEY MIGHT KNOW THEE THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND JESUS CHRIST, WHOM 38:12 THOU HAST SENT." THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING 38:14 TO US - COMING TO KNOW JESUS - COMING TO LOVE JESUS - COMING 38:17 TO FOLLOW JESUS - THAT'S MORE PRECIOUS THAN LIFE ITSELF. 38:21 IF WE END UP LAYING DOWN OUR LIVES HERE ON THIS EARTH FOR 38:24 JESUS, WE NEED NOT FEAR BECAUSE HE HAS PROMISED US A LIFE 38:27 THROUGHOUT ALL ETERNITY - WITH NO PAIN, NO SORROW, NO FEAR. 38:31 FOREVER WE'LL BE WITH JESUS AND WITH THOSE THAT LOVE HIM. 38:34 WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO HOLD US BACK FROM THAT FULL SURRENDER 38:39 TO CHRIST. I REMEMBER A STORY OF A MAN WHO, 38:44 INSTEAD OF INVESTING ALL OF HIS FINANCES IN THE STOCK MARKET, 38:48 OR IN SOME KIND OF RETIREMENT ACCOUNT, HE DECIDED 38:50 TO BUY GOLD COINS. AND SO, ALL THE MONEY HE HAD, HE 38:54 INVESTED IN BUYING GOLD COINS AND HE 38:56 HAD QUITE A FEW OF THESE GOLD COINS AND HE HAD A SPECIAL 38:59 HIDING PLACE IN HIS HOUSE - MAYBE UNDER THE FLOOR OR, YOU 39:02 KNOW, SOMEPLACE ONLY HE KNEW ABOUT. 39:06 WELL, THERE WAS A FLOOD THAT CAME TO THAT AREA AND, AS THE 39:09 FLOOD WATERS BEGAN TO RISE, THE MAN REALIZED THAT HE WAS SOON TO 39:13 BE IN TROUBLE SO HE WENT AND HE FOUND THIS BAG OF GOLD COINS - 39:16 HIS ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS - PART OF THE INHERITANCE THAT HE HAD 39:20 GOTTEN FROM HIS FATHER - EVERYTHING HE HAD, THERE IN THAT 39:24 BAG FULL OF GOLD COINS. SO HE GRABBED THE BAG OF COINS 39:28 AND HE CLIMBED ONTO THE ROOF OF HIS HOUSE AND HE WAS WAITING 39:31 BECAUSE THE FLOOD WATERS ARE JUST WASHING IN AND TAKING DOWN 39:35 FENCES AND HOUSES WERE BEING WASHED AWAY - IT WAS TERRIBLE 39:39 AND - HE WAS UP ON THE ROOF OF HIS HOUSE WAITING TO BE RESCUED. 39:42 THERE WAS A HELICOPTER FLYING AROUND AND IT WAS RESCUING 39:44 PEOPLE, SO THE HELICOPTER CAME OVER AND THEY DROPPED DOWN A 39:47 ROPE AND THEY SAID TO THE MAN HE NEEDS TO HOLD ONTO THE ROPE AND 39:50 THE HELICOPTER WAS GOING TO LIFT HIM UP AND TAKE HIM TO A PLACE 39:52 OF SAFETY. AND SO THERE HE WAS, WITH HIS 39:54 BAG FULL OF GOLD COINS AND WITH THE OTHER HAND HE WAS WRAPPING 39:57 IT AROUND THE ROPE TRYING TO HOLD ON AND THE PERSON FROM THE 40:01 HELICOPTER CALLED DOWN AND SAID, 'YOU CAN NEVER DO THAT - 40:04 YOU NEED BOTH HANDS! ONE ARM IS NOT ENOUGH 40:07 TO HOLD YOU SECURE. YOU NEED TO HOLD ON WITH BOTH 40:09 HANDS.' THAT MAN HAD A TERRIBLE TIME. 40:12 WHAT WAS HE TO DO? WAS HE TO LET GO HIS LIFE 40:15 SAVINGS AND SAVE HIS LIFE, OR WAS HE GOING TO TRY AND HOLD 40:20 ONTO HIS LIFE SAVINGS AND JEOPARDIZE HIS LIFE. 40:25 THE STORY GOES THAT HE HELD ONTO THE BAG OF GOLD COINS AND HE 40:28 WRAPPED HIS ARM AROUND THE ROPE AND, DESPITE THE COUNSEL GIVEN 40:32 FROM THE PEOPLE ABOVE, HE FIGURED HE WAS ABLE TO HOLD ONTO 40:35 HIS LIFE SAVINGS AND ALSO HOLD ONTO THE ROPE AT THE SAME TIME 40:38 AND, AS THE HELICOPTER BEGAN TO LIFT, HE BEGAN TO REALIZE HOW HE 40:41 WAS SLIPPING AND FINALLY HE CAME TO HIS SENSES AND HE LET GO OF 40:44 THE GOLD COINS AND HE CLUNG ON WITH BOTH HANDS AND HE SAVED HIS 40:49 LIFE. FRIENDS, THE TRUTH IS THERE IS A 40:52 VOICE CALLING DOWN FROM HEAVEN TO EACH OF US, 'DON'T LET 40:55 ANYTHING HERE ON THIS EARTH HINDER YOU FROM HOLDING ON, 40:59 WITH BOTH HANDS, TO JESUS. AMEN? 41:03 BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS WORLD THAT CAN COMPARE WITH THE 41:08 WORLD TO COME. THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS IN 41:10 STORE FOR THOSE THAT LOVE HIM. WELL THEN, MOVING RIGHT ALONG TO 41:14 WEDNESDAY'S LESSON - IT'S CALLED ENCOURAGEMENT FROM HEAVEN - AND 41:18 THIS IS JUST A REALLY GREAT STORY. 41:19 WE FIND OVER IT HERE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 17 AND VERSE 1 - MATTHEW 41:26 17, VERSE 1 - IT SAYS, "NOW AFTER SIX DAYS JESUS TOOK PETER, 41:29 JAMES, AND JOHN - THOSE ARE THE THREE DISCIPLES THAT GOT TO 41:32 SHARE SOME VERY SPECIAL EXPERIENCES WITH CHRIST - AND HE 41:36 "...LED THEM UP ON A HIGH MOUNTAIN BY THEMSELVES;" - NOW, 41:39 THE POINT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE IS HOW MANY DAYS LATER DOES 41:43 JESUS TAKE PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN? 41:45 IT SAYS IT THERE - SIX DAYS. 41:47 NOW IF YOU READ THE ACCOUNT OF THE STORY IN MARK, JESUS MAKES 41:50 AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE DISCIPLES. 41:51 THEY WERE ALL THERE AND JESUS SAID, 'THERE ARE SOME STANDING 41:53 HERE THAT SHALL NOT TASTE DEATH UNTIL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN 41:57 COME WITH POWER OR GLORY.' OR, AS OTHER TRANSLATIONS PUT IT, 42:01 'IN HIS KINGDOM WITH GLORY.' AND THEN IT SAYS SIX DAYS AFTER 42:04 JESUS MAKES THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE DISCIPLES, HE TAKES PETER, 42:07 JAMES, AND JOHN AND HE TAKES THEM UP TO A HIGH MOUNTAIN AND 42:11 SOMETHING HAPPENS THERE ON TOP OF THAT MOUNTAIN. 42:14 NOW IN BIBLE TYPOLOGY, WHAT DOES A DAY REPRESENT? 42:18 IT REPRESENTS A YEAR IF YOU'RE DOING TIME PROPHECY, BUT IT 42:23 CAN ALSO REPRESENT A THOUSAND YEARS. 42:26 YOU CAN READ IN PETER, 'ONE DAY WITH THE LORD IS AS A THOUSAND 42:29 YEARS AND A THOUSAND YEARS IS AS ONE DAY. 42:32 IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT AFTER SIX THOUSAND YEARS OF 42:35 BEING HERE ON THE EARTH, JESUS WILL TAKE THOSE WHO TRUSTED HIM 42:38 UP HIGH TO OUR HEAVENLY HOME AND WE'LL SEE THE GLORY OF CHRIST. 42:44 JESUS COMES IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY AND HE TAKES US HOME. 42:48 WELL, THE NEXT VERSE, VERSE 2 - "AND HE WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE 42:52 THEM. HIS FACE SHONE LIKE THE SUN, AND 42:54 HIS CLOTHES BECAME AS WHITE AS THE LIGHT." 42:57 VERSE 3 SAYS, "AND BEHOLD, MOSES AND ELIJAH APPEARED TO 43:00 THEM, TALKING WITH HIM." - TALKED WITH JESUS. 43:05 NOW, YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING, 'WELL, WE UNDERSTAND ABOUT 43:07 ELIJAH' - HOW DID ELIJAH DIE? ELIJAH DIDN'T DIE. 43:12 WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? HE WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN, RIGHT? 43:15 IN A FIERY CHARIOT. WHAT ABOUT MOSES? 43:17 DID MOSES DIE? YES MOSES DIED. 43:20 BUT, NOW, HOW'S MOSES APPEARING WITH JESUS? 43:22 WELL, ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF JUDE, WHICH IS THE SECOND TO 43:25 LAST BOOK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT TALKS ABOUT A RESURRECTION 43:28 THAT TOOK PLACE WITH REFERENCE TO MOSES. 43:31 SO SOMETIME AFTER MOSES' DEATH, THERE ON THE MOUNTAIN, CHRIST 43:34 RESURRECTED MOSES AND HE WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN. 43:37 SO ELIJAH AND MOSES WERE BOTH IN HEAVEN WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE 43:40 EARTH. AND HERE THEY COME AND TALK WITH JESUS. 43:44 NOW, WHAT DID THEY TALK TO JESUS ABOUT? 43:47 THE VERY THING THAT PETER, JUST A LITTLE WHILE EARLIER HAD SAID, 43:50 'LORD, FAR BE IT FOR YOU - YOU WILL NOT SUFFER - YOU WON'T BE 43:53 BETRAYED - YOU WON'T DIE.' MOSES AND ELIJAH CAME AND SPOKE TO 43:56 CHRIST CONCERNING WHAT HE WAS TO SUFFER AND THEY ENCOURAGED 43:59 CHRIST IN THE MISSION THAT LAY BEFORE HIM. 44:03 NOW, IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT ELIJAH, HERE, IS A 44:06 SYMBOL OF THOSE WHO ARE TRANSLATED TO HEAVEN AT THE 44:10 SECOND COMING, WITHOUT SEEING DEATH. OF COURSE, WE REALIZE 44:13 THAT ELIJAH WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN WITHOUT SEEING DEATH. 44:16 MOSES, ON THE OTHER HAND, CAN REPRESENT THOSE WHO ARE 44:18 RESURRECTED WHEN JESUS COMES THE SECOND TIME. 44:21 SO TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST - THOSE 44:23 WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN AT THE COMING OF THE LORD, THEY ARE 44:26 TRANSLATED WITHOUT SEEING DEATH, AND THOSE WHO ARE RESURRECTED AT 44:29 THE SECOND COMING AND TAKEN TO HEAVEN. 44:32 TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHEN JESUS COMES. 44:34 ALRIGHT THEN, MOVING RIGHT ALONG, VERSE 4 SAYS, "THEN PETER 44:36 ANSWERED AND SAID TO JESUS, 'LORD, IT IS GOOD FOR US TO BE 44:40 HERE;'" - REMEMBER, PETER IS THE SPOKESMAN OF THE GROUP - "'LORD, 44:43 IT'S GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE; IF YOU WISH, LET US MAKE HERE THREE 44:46 TABERNACLES: ONE FOR YOU, ONE FOR MOSES, AND ONE FOR ELIJAH.'" 44:50 NOW, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW WHERE PETER GOT THAT IDEA FROM. 44:52 HE WAS PROBABLY OVERWHELMED AND SO FILLED WITH FEAR HE DIDN'T 44:55 QUITE KNOW WHAT TO SAY, BUT HE THOUGHT HE'D BETTER SAY 44:56 SOMETHING AND SO HE SAID, 'LORD, IT'S GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE. 44:59 WE'RE GOING TO BUILD THREE TEMPLES - ONE FOR YOU, ONE FOR 45:03 MOSES, AND ONE FOR ELIJAH.' AND THEN, VERSE 5, "WHILE HE WAS 45:07 STILL SPEAKING, BEHOLD, A BRIGHT CLOUD OVERSHADOWED THEM; AND 45:11 SUDDENLY A VOICE CAME OUT OF THE CLOUD, SAYING, 'THIS IS MY 45:13 BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED. 45:16 HEAR HIM!" NOW WHO WAS THE ONE 45:19 SPEAKING FROM THE CLOUD? IT WAS GOD HIMSELF. 45:23 SO JESUS IS THERE ON THE MOUNT, MOSES, ELIJAH - THE DISCIPLES A 45:26 LITTLE FURTHER BACK - THERE IS A CLOUD THAT OVERSHADOWS THE THREE 45:30 DISCIPLES AND A VOICE HEARD FROM THE CLOUD - THAT'S GOD HIMSELF - 45:33 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON.' IN OTHER WORDS, GOD WAS SAYING TO 45:36 PETER, 'PETER, BE QUIET. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO TALK. 45:39 THIS IS THE TIME TO LISTEN. THIS IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO 45:42 UNDERSTAND WHAT'S REALLY TAKING PLACE BEFORE YOU.' 45:45 THERE'S ANOTHER INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE - 45:47 THAT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE - YOU HAVE ELIJAH, WHICH REPRESENTS 45:50 THOSE TRANSLATED AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, YOU HAVE 45:53 MOSES, REPRESENTING THOSE WHO ARE RESURRECTED AT THE SECOND 45:56 COMING OF CHRIST, AND THEN YOU HAVE GOD THE FATHER SPEAKING, 45:59 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON.' IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, ELIJAH OFTEN IS 46:05 ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROPHETS AND MOSES IS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH 46:09 THE LAW. NOW, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 46:12 THE LAW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE 46:15 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - THE PENTATEUCH - THE BOOKS 46:18 WRITTEN BY MOSES. AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE 46:20 PROPHETS, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE. 46:23 SO YOU HAVE THE OLD TESTAMENT DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS - THE 46:25 LAW, THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS - AND THE PROPHETS, EVERYTHING ELSE. 46:29 THE LAW REPRESENTED BY MOSES; THE PROPHETS REPRESENTED BY 46:31 ELIJAH. AND WHEN YOU COME TO THE NEW 46:33 TESTAMENT, THE WRITING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IS REALLY JUST 46:36 AN EXTENSION OF THE PROPHETS. SO YOU'VE STILL GOT THOSE TWO 46:39 DIVISIONS, THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 46:41 NOW THESE TWO DIVISIONS ARE SOMETIMES REFERRED TO IN THE 46:44 BIBLE AS 'THE TESTIMONY' - YOU'VE GOT THE TESTIMONY OF THE 46:48 LAW AND YOU'VE GOT THE TESTIMONY OF THE PROPHETS. 46:51 THERE IS ALSO A VERY INTERESTING VERSE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT 46:55 SAYS, 'IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY TRUTH - OR 47:01 EVERY WORD - IS TO BE ESTABLISHED.' SO WHO ARE THE TWO 47:04 WITNESSES THAT GIVE TESTIMONY TO THE TRUTH? 47:07 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. SO IF YOU ARE SEEKING FOR TRUTH, 47:11 YOU LOOK TO THE LAW OF GOD - THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS - AND 47:14 YOU LOOK TO THE PROPHETS. AND WHATEVER THE LAW SAYS, 47:17 YOU'LL FIND THE PROPHETS REPEATING. 47:19 WHATEVER THE PROPHETS SAY, YOU'LL FIND IN THE LAW. 47:21 AND THAT'S THE TWO WITNESSES - IN THE MOUTH OF TWO WITNESSES - 47:24 BUT THEN IT SAYS, 'IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES 47:28 EVERYTHING - EVERY TRUTH IS TO BE ESTABLISHED. 47:30 NOW IN THIS CASE, THE TRUTH THAT THE LAW SPOKE OF - THE TRUTH 47:34 THAT THE PROPHETS SPOKE OF, WAS WITH REFERENCE TO JESUS BEING 47:38 THE MESSIAH. HE WAS THE CHRIST. HE IS THE ANOINTED ONE. 47:42 WE FIND THAT REFERRED TO IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES AND, 47:45 OF COURSE, WE ALSO FIND THAT IN THE WRITINGS OF THE PROPHETS - 47:47 THAT'S THE TWO WITNESSES. BUT THERE IS A THIRD WITNESS 47:51 THAT IS BROUGHT TO VIEW IN THIS STORY. 47:54 WHO'S THE THIRD WITNESS? YOU'VE GOT MOSES, YOU'VE GOT 47:56 ELIJAH, BUT WHO'S THE THIRD WITNESS? GOD HIMSELF. 48:01 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.' WHAT MORE 48:07 EVIDENCE DOES ANYBODY NEED THAN THAT? YOU'VE GOT THE LAW, YOU'VE 48:11 GOT THE PROPHETS, AND YOU'VE GOT THE VOICE OF GOD. 48:15 NOW DID GOD EVER SAY, SOME OTHER TIME IN THE MINISTRY OF JESUS, 48:18 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.'? 48:21 WHEN DID THAT OCCUR? AT THE BAPTISM OF JESUS. 48:23 AT THE BEGINNING OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY THE MESSAGE WAS GIVEN 48:27 BY GOD, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON.' NOW, NEARING THE END OF 48:31 CHRIST'S MINISTRY, AGAIN THE MESSAGE IS GIVEN, 'THIS IS MY 48:34 BELOVED SON, HEAR HIM. HEED HIS TEACHINGS. 48:38 HE'S THE ONE THAT IS TO BE THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH.' 48:41 MOVING ON WITH VERSE 6, "AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES HEARD IT, 48:45 THEY FELL ON THEIR FACES AND WERE GREATLY AFRAID." 48:48 WHAT'S GOING TO BE THE EXPERIENCE OF THE UNGODLY WHEN 48:52 JESUS COMES THE SECOND TIME IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY? 48:55 WHAT'LL THEY SAY TO THE ROCKS AND THE MOUNTAINS? 48:58 'FALL ON US AND HIDE US FROM THE FACE OF HIM THAT SITS UPON THE 49:01 THRONE AND FROM THE WRATH OF THE LAMB, FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS 49:05 WRATH HAS COME AND WHO SHALL BE ABLE TO STAND?' 49:08 THEY WILL FALL TO THE GROUND. BUT WHAT'LL BE THE EXPERIENCE OF 49:11 THE RIGHTEOUS WHEN JESUS COMES? THEY'LL LOOK UP AND THEY'LL SAY, 49:15 'THIS IS OUR GOD, WE HAVE WAITED FOR HIM. 49:17 HE WILL SAVE US.' NOTICE THE NEXT VERSE HERE - VERSE 7 - "BUT 49:22 JESUS CAME AND TOUCHED THEM AND SAID, 'ARISE, AND DO NOT BE 49:25 AFRAID.'" YOU SEE, FRIENDS, WHEN WE FALL AT THE FEET OF JESUS, 49:30 AND WE SET HIM BEFORE US, AND WE CHOOSE TO FOLLOW HIM, WE NOT - 49:35 WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID. WE NEED NOT FEAR THAT DAY WHEN 49:38 JESUS COMES FOR WE WILL BE FOUND IN HIM. AND JESUS WILL FORGIVE 49:44 AND CLEANSE AND TRANSFORM OUR LIVES NOW, SO THAT WHEN THAT DAY 49:48 COMES, WE'LL BE READY FOR JESUS - TO MEET HIM IN PEACE. 49:52 YOU KNOW, I'M GRATEFUL THAT THE STORY OF PETER AND JESUS DOESN'T 49:56 END WITH PETER MAKING ONE MISTAKE AFTER ANOTHER. 50:00 AFTER THE RESURRECTION, JESUS FIRST APPEARED TO THE DISCIPLES 50:03 ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON - HE ROSE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING - HE MET 50:07 MARY MAGDALENE AND HE SAID, 'DO NOT DETAIN ME. 50:09 DO NOT CLING TO ME, FOR I HAVE NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER IN 50:11 HEAVEN.' JESUS ASCENDS TO THE FATHER, THEN HE COMES BACK AND 50:14 HE MEETS WITH THE DISCIPLES THERE IN THE UPPER ROOM. 50:17 AND THEN EIGHT DAYS AFTER THAT FIRST MEETING WITH THE 50:19 DISCIPLES, JESUS CAME BACK. THE DISCIPLES WERE STILL IN 50:22 JERUSALEM AND HE MET WITH THEM AGAIN - THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN ON 50:24 A MONDAY - AND JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES THAT THEY WERE TO GO 50:28 TO GALILEE AND HE WOULD MEET THEM IN GALILEE. 50:31 IT WAS ABOUT A TWO AND A HALF-DAY JOURNEY TO GO FROM 50:34 JERUSALEM ALL THE WAY OUT TO GALILEE, SO PROBABLY ON TUESDAY 50:37 MORNING THE DISCIPLES LEFT AND THEY WALKED TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, 50:41 AND AT LEAST HALF OF THURSDAY - MAYBE THURSDAY LATE AFTERNOON 50:44 THEY MADE IT TO THE SEA OF GALILEE. 50:46 YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE HOW PETER WAS PROBABLY FEELING AT THIS 50:49 TIME - JUST FRESH IN HIS MIND WAS HIS BETRAYAL OF CHRIST. 50:53 BUT NOW HE SEES THE SEA OF GALILEE AND SAYS TO THE 50:56 DISCIPLES, 'I'M GOING TO GO FISHING.' AND THEY SAY, 'OKAY, 50:58 WE'RE GOING TO GO FISHING WITH YOU.' SO THE BIBLE TELLS US THEY 51:01 FISHED ALL NIGHT - AND HOW MUCH DID THEY CATCH? 51:04 THEY CATCH NOTHING. I THINK THERE'S A LESSON 51:06 IN THAT FOR US, FRIENDS. IF JESUS CALLS US TO DO 51:08 SOMETHING FOR HIM, EVEN IF WE GET DISCOURAGED, DON'T GO BACK 51:12 TO WHAT YOU USED TO DO, YOU WON'T BE SUCCESSFUL. 51:16 FOLLOW WHERE JESUS IS LEADING. THERE'S THE LESSON. 51:20 AND IN THE MORNING, AS THE LITTLE BOAT WAS MAKING ITS WAY 51:22 TOWARDS SHORE, THE DISCIPLES LOOKED OUT AND THEY SAW SOMEBODY 51:25 STANDING THERE AT THE SHORE AND THE PERSON CALLED TO THE 51:28 DISCIPLES AND SAID, 'CHILDREN HAVE YOU CAUGHT ANY FISH?' 51:30 AND THEY RESPONDED, 'NO, WE HAVEN'T CAUGHT ANYTHING.' BUT 51:34 THEN THE STRANGER SAID TO THEM, 'TAKE YOUR NETS AND THROW IT ON 51:36 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BOAT.' AND IMMEDIATELY THE DISCIPLES 51:40 REMEMBERED AN EXPERIENCE THAT HAPPENED AT THE BEGINNING OF 51:43 CHRIST'S PUBLIC MINISTRY WHERE PETER WAS TOLD TO GO CAST OUT 51:47 NETS IN THE WATER AND HE SAID, 'LORD, WE'VE FISHED ALL NIGHT 51:50 BUT WE'VE CAUGHT NOTHING. NEVERTHELESS, AT YOUR WORD I 51:53 WILL DO IT.' AND AS HE THREW THE NETS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 51:55 BOAT, THE NET WAS FILLED WITH FISH. 51:58 SO THE DISCIPLES QUICKLY GATHERED THE NETS AND THEY THREW 52:00 IT OVER AND SUDDENLY, THE NETS WERE FILLED WITH FISH. 52:04 JOHN, WHO WAS THERE IN THE BOAT, HE MOTIONED TO PETER AND SAID, 52:07 'IT'S THE LORD.' NOT THAT PETER NEEDED JOHN TO TELL HIM THAT IT 52:12 WAS JESUS. I THINK HE FIGURED IT OUT. 52:14 AND SO, PETER CAST OFF HIS OUTER COAT AND HE JUMPED INTO THE 52:17 WATER AND HE WENT SPLASHING THROUGH THE WATER, MADE HIS WAY 52:20 UP TO WHERE JESUS WAS. FINALLY, PETER TURNED HIS BACK 52:25 ON THE FISHING AND SET HIS HEART ON THE SAVIOR. 52:31 HE HAD MADE HIS DECISION AND THERE WAS A LITTLE FIRE GOING 52:35 AND JESUS PREPARED BREAKFAST FOR THE DISCIPLES. 52:37 WHEN THEY WERE GETTING DONE EATING, JESUS ASKED PETER THE 52:40 QUESTION, HE SAID, 'PETER, SON OF JONAH, DO YOU LOVE ME MORE 52:44 THAN THESE?' NOW, OF COURSE, THE REASON JESUS 52:47 ASKED THAT QUESTION IS BECAUSE, THE NIGHT OF CHRIST'S BETRAYAL, 52:50 PETER SAID, 'LORD, THOUGH ALL SHALL BE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF YOU 52:56 - SHALL BETRAY YOU OR LEAVE YOU, I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU.' JESUS 53:00 SAYS, 'PETER, DO YOU REALLY LOVE ME MORE THAN THE OTHERS?' 53:03 BECAUSE PETER REALIZED WHAT HE DID. 53:06 AND PETER SAID, 'YES, LORD, YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU.' AND THEN 53:10 JESUS ASKED THE SAME QUESTION: 'PETER, DO YOU LOVE ME?' 53:12 AND AGAIN PETER SAID, 'YES, LORD, YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU.' 53:15 FINALLY, JESUS ASKED A THIRD TIME, 'PETER, DO YOU LOVE ME?' 53:19 WHY DID JESUS ASK THREE TIMES? BECAUSE PETER HAD DENIED 53:22 JESUS HOW MANY TIMES? THREE TIMES. AND THE THIRD TIME PETER 53:27 SAID, 'YES, LORD, YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU.' AND THEN JESUS 53:30 REVEALED SOMETHING OF WHAT PETER WAS TO SUFFER FOR JESUS. 53:34 AND YET, PETER WAS STILL WILLING TO SUFFER FOR HIS LORD. 53:38 YES, PETER WAS FULLY COMMITTED TO JESUS. 53:42 FRIENDS, THAT'S THE EXPERIENCE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE, AMEN? 53:46 JESUS NEEDS TO BE OUR PERSONAL CHRIST. 53:50 HE NEEDS TO BE OUR SAVIOR AND WE NEED TO LEARN TO TRUST IN HIM 53:53 WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND COMPLETELY, LEAVING THOSE THINGS THAT ARE 53:57 BEHIND US, PRESSING TOWARDS THE MARK, FOLLOWING OUR SAVIOR 54:01 JESUS. TRADITION TELLS US THAT, YES, PETER WAS FAITHFUL. 54:05 HE WAS ACTUALLY CRUCIFIED FOR CHRIST. 54:07 ALTHOUGH, WHEN IT CAME TO HIS CRUCIFIXION, HE DIDN'T FEEL 54:09 WORTHY TO BE CRUCIFIED RIGHT WAY UP. 54:13 HE SAID, 'I CAN'T BE CRUCIFIED LIKE MY LORD, CRUCIFY ME UPSIDE 54:17 DOWN.' TRADITION TELLS US THAT HE WAS. 54:20 HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR JESUS. NO QUESTIONING THEN. 54:24 NO BETRAYAL THEN, BUT JUST A FIRM, FULL COMMITMENT TO THE 54:28 LOVE OF CHRIST. FRIENDS, THAT NEEDS TO BE OUR EXPERIENCE, 54:31 AMEN? I WANT THAT EXPERIENCE. WHAT ABOUT YOU? 54:34 JESUS ASKS ALL OF US THAT SAME QUESTION THAT HE ASKED PETER. 54:38 'DO YOU LOVE ME MORE THAN THESE?' 54:41 MORE THAN THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, WHO WILL YOU PUT FIRST? 54:45 THAT'S THE LESSON THAT WE LEARN FROM PETER'S RESPONSE TO JESUS. 54:50 WELL, FRIENDS, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE OUT OF TIME. 54:52 I WOULD JUST LIKE TO REMIND THOSE WHO ARE JOINING US ABOUT 54:54 OUR FREE OFFER. IT'S A BOOK ENTITLED 54:56 DETERMINING THE WILL OF GOD . AND FRIENDS, YOU CAN RECEIVE 54:59 THIS BY GIVING US A CALL ON OUR RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER. 55:02 THE NUMBER THERE IS 866-788-3966 - THAT'S OFFER #778 - ASK FOR 55:09 THE BOOK DETERMINING THE WILL OF GOD . 55:10 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND IT TO YOU. 55:11 THOSE OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA, JUST GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS 55:14 WEBSITE - AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . CLICK ON THE LINK THAT SAYS 55:18 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD THIS 55:22 RESOURCE ALONG WITH THE LESSON. AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 55:25 JOINING US AND HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT WEEK AS WE STUDY AGAIN. 55:29 (MUSIC) 55:42 >>PORT ROYAL, HERE IN 55:43 JAMAICA, WAS ONCE CONSIDERED THE MOST WICKED CITY IN THE WORLD. 55:46 THEY HAD MORE BARS AND BROTHELS PER SQUARE FOOT THAN ANY OTHER 55:49 PLACE ON THE PLANET. IT WAS SAID TO BE JUST FULL OF 55:52 CUTTHROATS AND PIRATES BUT, DURING THIS TIME, THE KING OF 55:56 FRANCE, LOUIS XIV, HE BEGAN TO PERSECUTE THE PROTESTANTS AND 56:00 THE HUGUENOTS IN THE KINGDOM AND MANY FLED. 56:03 THAT'S WHEN LOUIS GALDY AND HIS BROTHER LAURENT CAME TO PORT 56:06 ROYAL. WHEN LOUIS GALDY ARRIVED, HE WAS 56:10 ABSOLUTELY DUMBFOUNDED AT THE UNRESTRAINED IMMORALITY, 56:14 VIOLENCE, AND EXTRAVAGANCE THAT FILLED PORT ROYAL. 56:17 THAT'S WHY NOBODY WAS SURPRISED WHEN THE JUDGMENT OF GOD FINALLY 56:20 HAPPENED. JUST BEFORE NOON ON JUNE 7, 56:23 1692, THERE WAS A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE THAT AFFECTED THE 56:26 WHOLE ISLAND, PORT ROYAL, IN PARTICULAR. 56:29 TWO THIRDS OF IT SLID INTO THE SEA. 56:32 THEN CAME A TSUNAMI. THOUSANDS PERISHED. 56:34 UNFORTUNATELY, EVEN LOUIS GALDY WAS SWALLOWED UP IN THE 56:38 EARTHQUAKE. YOU KNOW, MUCH OF JAMAICA IS A 56:43 ROCK, BUT PORT ROYAL WAS BUILT ON THE SAND. 56:46 AND SO, WHEN THE EARTHQUAKE STRUCK, THE SAND VIRTUALLY 56:49 LIQUEFIED, SWALLOWING MUCH OF THE CITY AND THOUSANDS OF 56:52 PEOPLE. LOUIS GALDY WAS BURIED ALIVE, 56:55 BUT WHILE UNDERGROUND HE WAS STILL CONSCIOUS AND HE PRAYED. 56:59 HE RESIGNED HIMSELF TO HIS FATE, PRAYED TO THE LORD, AND THEN 57:03 ANOTHER MIRACLE HAPPENED. THERE WAS AN AFTERSHOCK, 57:06 WITH VOLCANIC ACTIVITY, THAT EXPLODED, BLOWING LOUIS GALDY 57:09 OUT OF THE EARTH HUNDREDS OF YARDS OFF INTO THE SEA WHERE HE 57:13 HAD A PRETTY HARD LANDING, BUT HE WAS ABLE TO SWIM 57:15 UNTIL HE WAS RESCUED. LOUIS GALDY DEDICATED THE 57:19 REMAINING 47 YEARS OF HIS LIFE TO SERVING JESUS IN THIS ISLAND 57:23 AND HE'S EVEN BURIED HERE STILL TODAY. 57:29 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US, JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK THE 57:32 CONDITIONS IN THE WORLD WILL BE VERY MUCH LIKE THEY WERE IN 57:34 SODOM AND IN PORT ROYAL. THERE'S GOING TO BE A TREMENDOUS 57:38 EARTHQUAKE AND EVEN ISLANDS WILL BE SWALLOWED UP. 57:41 BUT GOD'S PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID. 57:43 THE SAME WAY THAT THE LORD TOOK CARE OF LOUIS GALDY, HE WILL 57:45 TAKE CARE OF YOU. IT SAYS IN PSALM 91 THAT YOU 57:48 MIGHT SEE A THOUSAND FALL AT YOUR SIDE OR TEN THOUSAND AT 57:51 YOUR RIGHT HAND, BUT ONLY WITH YOUR EYES WILL YOU SEE AND 57:54 BEHOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED. 57:55 HE CAN PROTECT YOU AND RESURRECT YOU. 57:59 (MUSIC) |
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