(MUSIC)
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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE ARE THRILLED THAT YOU ARE
JOINING US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD
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TOGETHER AS YOU DO EVERY
WEEK. WE HAVE AN EXTENDED FAMILY
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ACROSS THE GLOBE THAT LOVES TO
STUDY GOD'S WORD AND SOME DAY,
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VERY SOON, WE WILL BE SEEING OUR
SAVIOR FACE TO FACE BUT UNTIL
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THEN, WE WILL KEEP STUDYING,
WE WILL KEEP SINGING TOGETHER.
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WELCOME. OUR FIRST
SONG TODAY IS GOING TO
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BE HYMN #248 - WE'RE GOING TO BE
SINGING ABOUT HOW WE LOVE JESUS
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AND HE IS THE REASON WE SING,
THE REASON WE TAKE EVERY BREATH.
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O, HOW I LOVE JESUS - HYMN #248
- WE ARE GOING TO SING ALL THREE
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VERSES. (MUSIC)
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>>THERE IS A NAME I LOVE
TO HEAR, I LOVE TO SING ITS
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WORTH; IT SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC
IN MY EARS, THE SWEETEST NAME ON
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EARTH. O HOW I
LOVE JESUS, O HOW I
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LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS,
BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME.
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IT TELLS ME OF A SAVIOR'S LOVE,
WHO DIED TO SET ME FREE; IT
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TELLS ME OF A SAVIOR'S BLOOD,
THE SINNERS' PERFECT PLEA.
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O HOW I LOVE JESUS, O HOW I
LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS,
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BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME. IT
TELLS OF ONE WHOSE LOVING HEART
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CAN FEEL MY DEEPEST WOE
WHO IN EACH SORROW BEARS A PART
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THAT NONE CAN BEAR BELOW.
O HOW I LOVE JESUS, O HOW I
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LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS,
BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME.
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>>YOU KNOW, AS WE WERE SINGING
THAT, I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN
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I WAS A LITTLE GIRL. I
USED TO SING THAT ALL THE
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TIME - WE SANG IT AT CAMP.
WE SANG IT AT CAMP MEETING.
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WE SANG IT AT HOME.
WE SANG IT IN CHURCH.
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AND EVEN THOUGH I'M MUCH OLDER
NOW, IT STILL RINGS TRUE TODAY.
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OH HOW I LOVE
JESUS AND WHAT HE'S DONE.
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HYMN #249 - PRAISE HIM, PRAISE
HIM - IT'S ALL ABOUT PRAISING
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JESUS, IS IT NOT? IT'S THE
REASON THAT WE EXIST AND WE HAVE
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A LOT TO BE THANKFUL FOR
WITH THIS WORLD FALLING APART.
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HE'S ABOUT TO RESTORE IT
AND I'M SO EXCITED FOR THAT.
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PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
- HYMN #249 - WE ARE GOING
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TO SING ALL
THREE VERSES. (MUSIC)
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>>PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
JESUS, OUR BLESSED REDEEMER!
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SING, O EARTH, HIS
WONDERFUL LOVE PROCLAIM!
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HAIL HIM! HAIL HIM!
HIGHEST ARCHANGELS IN GLORY;
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STRENGTH AND HONOR
GIVE TO HIS HOLY NAME!
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LIKE A SHEPHERD, JESUS WILL
GUARD HIS CHILDREN, IN HIS ARMS
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HE CARRIES THEM ALL
DAY LONG: PRAISE HIM!
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PRAISE HIM! TELL OF
HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS.
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PRAISE HIM! PRAISE
HIM! EVER IN JOYFUL SONG!
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PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
JESUS OUR BLESSED REDEEMER!
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FOR OUR SINS HE
SUFFERED, AND BLED, AND DIED.
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HE OUR ROCK, OUR HOPE OF
ETERNAL SALVATION, HAIL HIM!
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HAIL HIM! JESUS THE
CRUCIFIED. SOUND HIS PRAISES!
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JESUS WHO BORE OUR SORROWS, LOVE
UNBOUNDED, WONDERFUL, DEEP AND
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STRONG. PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
TELL OF HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS.
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PRAISE HIM! PRAISE
HIM! EVER IN JOYFUL SONG!
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PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
JESUS, OUR BLESSED REDEEMER!
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HEAVENLY PORTALS
LOUD WITH HOSANNAS RING!
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JESUS, SAVIOR,
REIGNETH FOREVER AND EVER.
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CROWN HIM! CROWN HIM!
PROPHET, AND PRIEST, AND KING!
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CHRIST IS COMING! OVER
THE WORLD VICTORIOUS, POWER
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AND GLORY UNTO THE LORD
BELONG. PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
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TELL OF HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS.
PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
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EVER IN JOYFUL SONG!
>>LET'S PRAY. OUR FATHER IN
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HEAVEN, WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TODAY
THAT YOU ARE COMING SOON AND
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THAT YOU ARE COMING AS CHRIST
VICTORIOUS, AS WE JUST SANG
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ABOUT. WE OFFER YOU OUR HONOR
AND OUR PRAISES AND WE JUST
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OFFER YOU OUR LIVES TODAY AS
WE AGAIN COME BEFORE YOUR HOLY
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THRONE TO STUDY YOUR WORD AND
LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW WE CAN BE
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READY, HOW WE CAN SHARE YOUR
LOVE AND YOUR GRACE TO THOSE
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AROUND US - TO A DYING WORLD.
LORD, HELP US TO DO OUR PART.
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THANK YOU, THIS MORNING, FOR
PASTOR DOUG AS HE BRINGS US YOUR
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WORD, LORD. BLESS HIS MESSAGE
AND HELP US TO APPLY THE THINGS
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THAT WE LEARNED TO OUR LIVES,
THAT WE CAN BE READY AND WAITING
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AND LOOKING FOR OUR GOD. WE PRAY
THESE THINGS IN YOUR PRECIOUS
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AND HOLY NAME, JESUS,
AMEN. OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE
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BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
>>MORNING FRIENDS. THANK YOU,
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JOLYNE AND MUSICIANS AND
SINGERS. I ENJOY THAT SONG TOO.
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WELCOME TO OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
WORSHIPING WITH US OR STUDYING
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THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON,
WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE HERE.
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WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER EACH
WEEK AND TODAY WE'VE GOT A BOOK
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CALLED BLOOD BEHIND THE
VEIL - TALKING ABOUT THE PLAN OF
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SALVATION, WHICH TIES
IN WITH OUR LESSON TODAY.
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AND CALL THE NUMBER ON
YOUR SCREEN, IT'S 866-788-3966 -
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788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER
#130. THE BOOK IS BLOOD BEHIND
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THE VEIL BY JOE CREWS.
READ IT AND SHARE IT WITH
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A FRIEND, OUR LESSON
TODAY - WE'RE GOING THROUGH OUR
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LESSON ON THE BOOK OF
MATTHEW. I JUST LOVE THIS.
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WE'RE STUDYING ABOUT JESUS
AND TODAY WE'RE JUST GOING TO BE
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GETTING RIGHT
IN THE THICK OF IT.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT
JESUS IN JERUSALEM, AND WE HAVE
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A MEMORY VERSE AND THE
MEMORY VERSE IS FROM THE BOOK OF
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MATTHEW 21:42 AND YOU
MIGHT WANT TO FIND THAT.
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YOU'LL FIND IT RIGHT THERE IN
THE FRONT OF YOUR LESSON - IT'S
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FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION,
WHICH IS TYPICALLY THE VERSION I
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USE WHEN I TEACH AND
PREACH - MATTHEW 21:42.
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IF YOU CAN, SAY IT OUT
LOUD WITH ME. ARE YOU READY?
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"HAVE YOU NEVER READ IN THE
SCRIPTURES: 'THE STONE WHICH THE
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BUILDERS REJECTED HAS
BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
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THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING, AND
IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?"
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NOW WE'VE GOT A SECTION IN OUR
LESSON, IN A LITTLE BIT, THAT'S
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GOING TO BE TALKING SPECIFICALLY
ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF THE
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CORNERSTONE. SO
I'LL KIND OF HOLD OFF AND
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WE'LL GET TO
THAT IN A LITTLE BIT.
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OUR ASSIGNMENT TODAY IS, YOU
KNOW, AS YOU GO THROUGH THESE
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STUDY GUIDES, WE HAVE A
DIFFERENT STUDY GUIDE QUARTERLY
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AND THE IDEA IS THAT YOU COVER
THE MAJOR THEMES OF THE BIBLE IN
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FIVE YEARS. THIS
ONE, OF COURSE, IS
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DEDICATED TO MATTHEW. YOU
CAN'T REALLY READ EVERY WORD
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IN MATTHEW, BUT THE
ASSIGNMENT SORT OF BREAKS IT UP.
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OUR TASK FOR TODAY IS TO READ
MATTHEW - ALL OF CHAPTER 21 AND
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22 UP UNTIL VERSE 15. SO WE'RE
GOING TO DO OUR BEST TO COVER
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THAT. LAST WEEK, I APOLOGIZE,
I THINK I LEFT ABOUT A THIRD OF
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THE LESSON OUT BECAUSE I BECAME
HYPNOTIZED BY MY OWN VOICE AND
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TOOK UP TOO MUCH TIME. BUT IF
YOU GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 21 IN
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YOUR BIBLES, THIS TELLS A VERY
INTERESTING STORY. WE'RE GOING
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TO READ VERSES 1 THROUGH 11.
I'LL PROBABLY STOP AND DO SOME
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COMMENTARY ALONG THE WAY AND,
JUST FOR MY BENEFIT, SOMEONE'S
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GOING TO READ ZECHARIAH 9:9
IN A MINUTE. WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
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ZECHARIAH 9:9 - IS THAT YOU
DEAR? OH, YOU'LL HAVE THAT -
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OKAY KATRINA, WE'LL GET TO YOU
IN JUST - YOU'LL BE QUEUED UP
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NEXT. ALRIGHT, MATTHEW 21, "NOW
WHEN THEY DREW NEAR JERUSALEM,
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AND CAME TO BETHPHAGE," -
AND THE WORD 'BETHPHAGE' MEANS
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'HOUSE OF FIGS' - "AT THE MOUNT
OF OLIVES, THEN JESUS SENT TWO
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DISCIPLES, SAYING TO THEM, 'GO
INTO THE VILLAGE OPPOSITE YOU,
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AND IMMEDIATELY YOU WILL FIND
A DONKEY TIED, AND A COLT WITH
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HER. LOOSE THEM AND BRING
THEM TO ME. AND IF ANYONE SAYS
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ANYTHING TO YOU, YOU SHALL SAY,
'THE LORD HAS NEED OF THEM,' AND
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IMMEDIATELY HE WILL SEND THEM.'"
NOW THIS IS THE LAST JOURNEY
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THAT JESUS MAKES
BEFORE HIS DEATH.
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HE HAS JUST COME UP FROM JERICHO
- MATTER OF FACT, I THINK
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SHERLE'S GOT A MAP QUEUED UP
SHE'LL PUT ON THE SCREEN HERE,
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JUST TO GIVE YOU A VISUAL
BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT FOUR
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PLACES HERE AND YOU'VE
GOT JERICHO - HE'S COMING FROM
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JERICHO AND SHERLE - I DON'T
KNOW IF SHE CAN HEAR ME IN THE
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STUDIO - WILL PUT THAT MAP UP ON
THE SCREEN OF - FOR THE SABBATH
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SCHOOL LESSON.
THERE WE GO, THANK YOU.
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THAT RED LINE SHOWS
HE'S COME FROM JERICHO.
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WHAT HAPPENED THERE? HE
SAW ZACCHEUS IN A TREE, HE
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HEALED BLIND BARTEMAEUS.
YOU'LL NOTICE IT SAYS,
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'IN JERICHO' AND HE'S ON HIS WAY
TO JERUSALEM. HE TAKE - GOES UP
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FROM BELOW SEA LEVEL, BASICALLY,
HE COMES UP, HE SPENDS THE NIGHT
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AT HIS FRIENDS' HOUSE. WHO WERE
THESE FRIENDS? MARTHA, LAZARUS,
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AND THEY HAD A SISTER NAMED
MARY, AND THAT'S IN BETHANY. YOU
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CAN SEE WHERE BETHANY IS THERE
- THE LOWER LINE, HOPEFULLY.
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THEN HE GOES - ON HIS WAY TO
JERUSALEM - HE TAKES - HE GETS
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TO THE ROAD AGAIN AND HE SENDS
HIS DISCIPLES OFF INTO BETHPHAGE
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- AND BETHPHAGE MEANS
'A HOUSE OF YOUNG FIGS'.
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NOW THAT'S SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE
FIG TREES COME INTO THE STORY.
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BETHANY IS THERE ON THE BOTTOM
AND THEN HE GOES ACROSS THE
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MOUNT OF OLIVES TOWARDS
JERUSALEM AND YOU GO OVER A HILL
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AND DESCEND - JERUSALEM IS
SPREAD BEFORE YOU - JUST SORT OF
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WANTED YOU TO HAVE YOU HAVE THAT
PICTURE IN MIND BECAUSE THIS IS
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GOING TO COME INTO
PLAY IN JUST A MOMENT.
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AND SO HE TELLS THEM, 'GO,
YOU'LL FIND THIS DONKEY TIED
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WITH A COLT. LOOSE
THEM.' NOW ONLY IN MATTHEW
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- YOU'LL FIND THIS STORY IN MARK
AND IN LUKE AND IN JOHN, BUT
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ONLY IN MATTHEW DOES IT TALK
ABOUT THE MOTHER, AS WELL AS
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THE COLT THAT JESUS
SAT ON, WAS BROUGHT ALONG.
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WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY WERE
TOLD TO BRING THE MOTHER ALONG?
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BECAUSE IF YOU TAKE THE COLT OF
THE DONKEY AWAY, IT'S GOING TO
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BRAY AND HEEHAW AND
MAKE ALL KINDS OF NOISE.
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AND IT WOULD BE A LOT MORE
RELAXED, SO THEY JUST LET THE
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MOTHER COME. HE SAID,
'BRING THEM.' BUT JESUS
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SITS ON THE COLT, ONE ON
WHICH NEVER A MAN HAS SAT.
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AND THE OTHERS IT JUST
TALKS ABOUT HIM TAKING THE COLT.
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BUT THE MOTHER CAME ALONG ALSO,
AND IT SAYS, "ALL THIS WAS DONE"
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- THIS IS VERSE 4 - MATTHEW 21:4
- "ALL THIS WAS DONE THAT IT
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MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS
SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET," - NOW,
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WHAT PROPHET ARE
WE TALKING ABOUT?
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IT SAYS, "TELL THE DAUGHTER
OF ZION, 'BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS
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COMING TO YOU, LOWLY, AND
SITTING ON A DONKEY, A COLT, THE
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FOAL OF A DONKEY.'" WHY DON'T
YOU GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US
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ZECHARIAH 9:9
THEN? >>REJOICE GREATLY,
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O DAUGHTER OF ZION!
SHOUT, O DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM!
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BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING
TO YOU; HE IS JUST AND HAVING
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SALVATION, LOWLY AND RIDING ON
A DONKEY, A COLT, THE FOAL OF A
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DONKEY." >>AS NEAR
AS WE CAN TELL, THIS
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WAS WRITTEN 450 YEARS BEFORE IT
HAPPENED, AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT
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THE KING COMING, HE'S GOING
TO BE RIDING ON THE FOAL OF A
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DONKEY, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT'S
HAPPENING, AND THIS IS ONE ON
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WHICH NEVER A MAN HAS
SAT. NOW, HAVE ANY OF YOU
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BROKE WILD HORSES BEFORE? I
HAVE. I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU,
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YOU JUST CAN'T CLIMB
ON AND EXPECT TO RIDE.
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WE ADOPTED SOME MUSTANGS
FROM ARIZONA 35 YEARS AGO, UP IN
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COVELO, WE WERE
PART OF A PROGRAM.
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WE MADE A YOUTH MINISTRY OUT OF
IT AND THE KIDS WOULD COME, BUT
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WE HAD TO BREAK THESE
SO YOU COULD RIDE THEM.
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AND THE FIRST TIME YOU CLIMB
ON THE BACK - FIRST OF ALL, THEY
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ARE KICKING AND CARRYING ON IF
YOU TRY TO PUT A SADDLE ON THEM.
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AND THE FIRST TIME - NOW,
DOMESTICATED ONES ARE A LITTLE
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TAMER BECAUSE THEY'RE A LITTLE
MORE USED TO PEOPLE. THESE ONES
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FROM ARIZONA AND UTAH AND
NEVADA, THEY'RE JUST LIKE WILD.
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I MEAN, THEY'LL NOT ONLY TRY
TO BUCK YOU OFF, THEN THEY'LL GO
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AFTER YOU TO KICK AND BITE YOU.
I MEAN, THEY'RE REALLY WILD.
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AND SO THE IDEA THAT JESUS JUST
GOT ON THIS DONKEY IS A MIRACLE.
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IT'S A MIRACLE THAT HE TOLD THE
DISCIPLES THEY'D FIND IT WHERE
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HE SAID THEY'D FIND IT, WITHOUT
HAVING BEEN THERE, AND IT'S A
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MIRACLE THAT THE PEOPLE LET IT
GO JUST BY THE WORD OF THE LORD.
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YOU KNOW, THIS REMINDS ME
OF ANOTHER STORY IN THE BIBLE.
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YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS TOLD HIS
DISCIPLES 'WE'RE GOING TO HAVE -
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WE'VE GOT A PLACE FOR THE LAST
SUPPER.' IT'S NOT LONG AFTER
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THIS - HE SAID, 'WHEN YOU ENTER
THE TOWN, INTO JERUSALEM, YOU'RE
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GOING TO SEE SOMEONE CARRYING
SOME WATER. FOLLOW THEM.
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THEY WILL LEAD YOU TO A ROOM AND
SAY, 'WHERE'S THE ROOM WHERE MY
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MASTER'S SUPPOSED
TO HAVE THE SUPPER?'
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AND IT'S LIKE MAYBE THEY
HAD SEEN IT IN A DREAM. I MEAN,
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YOU WONDER, 'HOW DID HE GET THIS
INFORMATION TO THESE PEOPLE?
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BUT IT'S LIKE SUPERNATURALLY THE
LORD ARRANGED FOR THESE THINGS.
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NOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT THIS
HAPPENS FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE
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PASSOVER - THE TRIUMPHAL
ENTRY. MOST SCHOLARS AGREE.
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YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE WAS SUPPOSED
TO HAPPEN FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE
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PASSOVER? IS THE
PASCAL LAMB WAS TO BE CHOSEN.
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THEY DIDN'T PICK THE LAMB OUT OF
THE FLOCK AND SLAY IT THE SAME
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DAY OF THE PASSOVER.
FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE PASSOVER
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THE LAMB WAS CHOSEN AND SET
ASIDE - KIND OF LIKE THE TURKEY
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BEFORE THANKSGIVING IS PICKED.
AND JESUS ENTERS THE CITY AS THE
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LAMB FIVE DAYS - HE ENTERS
AS KING - IT'S LIKE THIS IS THE
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TIME HE IS SURRENDERING TO BEING
THE PASSOVER LAMB FIVE DAYS
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BEFORE - AND THIS IS
DURING THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY.
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WHY IS HE RIDING A DONKEY? A
YOUNG DONKEY, WHY NOT A HORSE?
00:16:08.06\00:16:14.07
WELL, IN BIBLE TIMES,
THE HORSES MEANT BATTLE.
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YOU KNOW, YOU TALK
ABOUT MILITARY BUILD UP?
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MILITARY BUILD UP IN BIBLE TIMES
WAS THEY DID NOT BUY GUNS AND
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TANKS. MILITARY BUILD UP WAS YOU
00:16:26.31\00:16:27.85
GOT HORSES BECAUSE IF
YOU'RE CHARGING, WITH HORSES AND
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SPEARS, ARMIES THAT ARE ON THE
GROUND - AND THEY USED TO PUT
00:16:32.39\00:16:35.29
ARMOR ON THE HORSES -
THE HORSES WOULD JUST PLOW
00:16:35.29\00:16:37.89
THROUGH THE TROOPS. AND
SO, WHEN YOU WERE ON A HORSE
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IT MEANT YOU WERE COMING
TO CONQUER AND IT MEANT WAR.
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WHEN YOU CAME ON A DONKEY
OR A MULE, IT MEANT PEACE.
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AND SO HERE HE'S COMING AS THE
KING OF PEACE WITHIN THE GATES.
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I'LL GIVE YOU
AN EXAMPLE OF THAT.
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IF YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF
JUDGES, LEADERS USED TO RIDE
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THEM. JUDGES CHAPTER 12, VERSE
13 - AND THERE'S A JUDGE MOST OF
00:17:01.58\00:17:04.82
YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT.
"AFTER HIM, ABDON, THE SON OF
00:17:04.82\00:17:08.96
HILLEL THE
PIRATHONITE JUDGED ISRAEL.
00:17:08.96\00:17:12.89
HE HAD FORTY SONS AND THIRTY
GRANDSONS, WHO RODE ON SEVENTY
00:17:12.89\00:17:18.10
YOUNG DONKEYS." -
WHAT KIND OF DONKEYS?
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YOUNG DONKEYS.
WHAT DID JESUS RIDE ON?
00:17:20.44\00:17:23.20
YOUNG DONKEY -
THE FOAL OF A DONKEY.
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AND SO, THE LEADERS OF THESE
- THE JUDGE HAD HIS SONS HELP
00:17:26.61\00:17:30.88
ADMINISTRATE THE KINGDOM OF
ISRAEL AND THEY WERE RIDING ON
00:17:30.88\00:17:33.92
THESE DONKEYS.
BUT THEY WERE DOING
00:17:33.92\00:17:35.42
IT AS JUDGES IN
PEACE. IT WASN'T FOR WAR.
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SO YOU GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 21,
VERSE 6, "SO THE DISCIPLES WENT
00:17:39.35\00:17:44.09
AND DID AS JESUS COMMANDED THEM.
THEY BROUGHT THE DONKEY AND
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THE COLT, LAID THEIR CLOTHES
ON THEM, AND SET HIM ON THEM.
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AND A VERY GREAT MULTITUDE
SPREAD THEIR CLOTHES ON THE
00:17:54.47\00:17:57.97
ROAD; OTHERS CUT DOWN BRANCHES
FROM THE TREES AND SPREAD THEM
00:17:57.97\00:18:02.44
ON THE ROAD." - AND
THEY USED TO DO THIS -
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SOME OF YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER A
ROMANTIC PIECE OF HISTORY - AND
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I BELIEVE IT'S TRUE, FROM
WHAT I'VE READ ABOUT SIR WALTER
00:18:08.08\00:18:11.02
RALEIGH, WHEN QUEEN ELIZABETH
WAS WALKING TO COURT ONE DAY,
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HE TOOK OFF HIS CLOAK, BECAUSE
THERE WAS A PUDDLE IN THE ROAD,
00:18:15.32\00:18:18.63
AND HE THREW HIS CLOAK DOWN
BECAUSE SHE WAS A QUEEN AND SHE
00:18:18.63\00:18:20.96
SHOULD NOT SOIL HER
SHOES ON THE PUDDLE.
00:18:20.96\00:18:23.47
AND HE SAID, 'WALK ON MY CLOAK
BECAUSE YOU'RE THE QUEEN.' ANY
00:18:23.47\00:18:26.57
OF YOU REMEMBER
THAT IMAGE FROM HISTORY?
00:18:26.57\00:18:28.80
YEAH, SO WHEN YOU HAVE ROYALTY,
THEY DIDN'T WANT THEIR FEET TO
00:18:28.80\00:18:31.67
TOUCH THE GROUND AND THEY'D
PUT DOWN THESE FRONDS AND THEY'D
00:18:31.67\00:18:34.78
THROW THEIR CLOTHES DOWN ON
THE ROAD AND IT WAS A SYMBOL OF
00:18:34.78\00:18:38.28
RESPECT. AND
THEY'RE ALL CELEBRATING.
00:18:38.28\00:18:43.25
THEY BELIEVE - THEY'VE BEEN
WAITING FOR JESUS TO MAKE HIS
00:18:43.25\00:18:45.89
MOVE. REMEMBER? THEY WERE GOING
TO TAKE HIM BY FORCE AND MAKE
00:18:45.89\00:18:47.99
HIM A KING WHEN HE
MULTIPLIED THE BREAD.
00:18:47.99\00:18:51.36
AND HE SENT THE CROWD
AWAY. AND WHEN HE PERFORMED HIS
00:18:51.36\00:18:53.86
MIRACLES HE KEPT TELLING THEM,
'DON'T TELL ANYBODY. KEEP IT
00:18:53.86\00:18:56.30
QUIET.' BUT THEY
PROCLAIM IT ABROAD.
00:18:56.30\00:18:58.83
HE'D OPEN THE EYES OF THE BLIND
AND SAY, 'DON'T TELL ANYBODY.'
00:18:58.83\00:19:01.37
HE'D HEAL A LEPER - 'DON'T
TELL ANYBODY.' BUT THEY'D WIDELY
00:19:01.37\00:19:03.54
PROCLAIM IT AND EVERYBODY
SAID, 'THIS IS THE MESSIAH.
00:19:03.54\00:19:07.14
WHEN IS HE GOING
TO MAKE HIS MOVE?
00:19:07.14\00:19:08.64
WHEN'S THERE GOING
TO BE THE ANNOUNCEMENT?
00:19:08.64\00:19:10.78
FINALLY,CAN YOU SEE THERE'S
ALL THIS PENT-UP ENTHUSIASM.
00:19:10.78\00:19:14.02
FINALLY THE DISCIPLES -
THEY'RE THE MOST EXCITED OF ALL.
00:19:14.02\00:19:16.69
THEY'VE BEEN WAITING BECAUSE NOW
HE'S GOING TO LET THEM SIT ON
00:19:16.69\00:19:18.92
THE RIGHT AND THE
LEFT IN THEIR KINGDOM.
00:19:18.92\00:19:21.16
SOMEHOW HE'S GOING TO DO
SOMETHING TO PROCLAIM HIMSELF
00:19:21.16\00:19:23.73
THE NEW KING OF
ISRAEL, THE SON OF DAVID.
00:19:23.73\00:19:25.83
AND EVERYBODY IS JUST ELECTRIC
WITH EXCITEMENT AND THEY START
00:19:25.83\00:19:30.67
TO THROW THEIR CLOTHES DOWN
FOR HIM TO MARCH OVER AND THEIR
00:19:30.67\00:19:33.54
TAKING PALMS AND THEY PROBABLY
STRIPPED THE TREES FOR MILES
00:19:33.54\00:19:36.40
AROUND. THEY'RE
TAKING THE PALMS AND
00:19:36.40\00:19:38.14
THROWING IT IN THE WAY AND THE
PEOPLE ARE MORE AND MORE - YOU
00:19:38.14\00:19:40.44
HEAR THE COMMOTION
- 'WHAT'S THE NOISE?'
00:19:40.44\00:19:41.81
AND THEY'RE ALL RUSHING TOGETHER
AND THEY'RE SHOUTING LOUDER AND
00:19:41.81\00:19:44.51
LOUDER AS THE CROWD SWELLS AS
HE'S COMING - YOU KNOW, BECAUSE
00:19:44.51\00:19:47.78
IT'S A COUPLE OF MILES THAT HE'S
RIDING - AND ALL THESE PEOPLE
00:19:47.78\00:19:51.45
ARE COMING TO THE FEAST.
THE ROADS ARE ALREADY CROWDED.
00:19:51.45\00:19:54.79
JOSEPHUS SAYS, DURING THE
PASSOVER 250,000 LAMBS WERE
00:19:54.79\00:20:00.86
SACRIFICED BECAUSE THE JEWS THAT
HAD BEEN SCATTERED ALL AROUND
00:20:00.86\00:20:05.23
THE WORLD WOULD
COME TO JERUSALEM.
00:20:05.23\00:20:07.84
IT WAS ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE
FEASTS - NOT EVERY JEW, BUT MANY
00:20:07.84\00:20:10.74
OF THE DEVOUT JEWS WOULD
COME. THAT'S WHY - PENTECOST
00:20:10.74\00:20:13.31
- THEY WERE STILL THERE.
AND SO, YOU'VE ALREADY GOT THE
00:20:13.31\00:20:16.44
PARADES OF PEOPLE COMING FROM
THE SOUTH AND EGYPT AND FROM
00:20:16.44\00:20:20.78
MESOPOTAMIA, AND THEY'RE COMING
FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THIS
00:20:20.78\00:20:25.15
SPECTACLE BEGINS TO HAPPEN
AND THEY ALL RUSH AROUND HIM
00:20:25.15\00:20:27.76
AND THIS MASS OF
PEOPLE. 'WHAT IS IT?'
00:20:27.76\00:20:30.63
'OH, IT'S THE SON OF DAVID, THE
MESSIAH'S COME.' 'WHO IS IT?'
00:20:30.63\00:20:32.43
'JESUS.' 'OH, THAT'S RIGHT,
IT WOULD BE JESUS.' AND THEY'RE
00:20:32.43\00:20:34.46
SHOUTING AND THEY'RE SINGING
AND WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?
00:20:34.46\00:20:39.40
"HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID!"
SO THEY ALL KNEW THE MESSIAH
00:20:39.40\00:20:43.47
WOULD BE THE SON OF
DAVID. "'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES
00:20:43.47\00:20:46.94
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!'
'HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST!'"
00:20:46.94\00:20:50.71
AND THE HILLS ARE RINGING WITH
THE SOUND AND IT SAYS, 'WHEN HE
00:20:50.71\00:20:54.45
CAME INTO JERUSALEM, ALL
THE CITY WAS MOVED SAYING,
00:20:54.45\00:20:57.99
'WHO IS THIS? AND THE MULTITUDE
SAID, 'THIS IS JESUS, THE
00:20:57.99\00:21:02.39
PROPHET FROM
NAZARETH OF GALILEE.'
00:21:02.39\00:21:05.33
NOW, THERE'S MORE
THAT HAPPENS HERE.
00:21:05.33\00:21:10.73
AT ONE POINT, WHEN HE'S COMING
IN THE CITY, IT TELLS US THAT HE
00:21:10.73\00:21:15.44
STOPS AND HE WEEPS OVER
JERUSALEM AND, AS HE'S COMING
00:21:15.44\00:21:22.61
ACROSS THE BROW OF THE CITY,
AND HE SAID, 'O, JERUSALEM,
00:21:22.61\00:21:27.48
JERUSALEM, HOW OFTEN I WOULD
HAVE TAKEN YOU UNDER MY WINGS
00:21:27.48\00:21:31.75
BUT YOU WOULD NOT.' AND THE
DISCIPLES CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY
00:21:31.75\00:21:34.49
THERE'S THIS
PAUSE ALL OF A SUDDEN.
00:21:34.49\00:21:36.56
SO AS THEY'RE COMING FROM
THE INTERSECTION OF BETHANY AND
00:21:36.56\00:21:40.13
BETHPHAGE - YOU SAW ON THE MAP
THERE - THEY'RE GOING UP THE TOP
00:21:40.13\00:21:43.47
OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, THE
CROWD IS GOING - YOU GET TO THE
00:21:43.47\00:21:45.50
PEAK AND YOU CAN SEE THE
CITY OF JERUSALEM - ONE OF THE
00:21:45.50\00:21:48.90
MAGNIFICENT WONDERS WAS THE
TEMPLE THAT HAD BEEN EMBELLISHED
00:21:48.90\00:21:51.57
BY HEROD THE GREAT. HE
WAS A GREAT BUILDER - WICKED
00:21:51.57\00:21:54.01
KING, BUT GREAT BUILDER.
HE BUILT MASSAD AND HE BUILT
00:21:54.01\00:21:56.75
CAESAREA AND THE AQUADUCTS
AND HE SPENT 40 YEARS MAKING THE
00:21:56.75\00:22:03.75
TEMPLE OF NEHEMIAH AND
EZRA EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL.
00:22:03.75\00:22:06.42
AND THEY COME OVER THE HILL -
IT'S STILL MORNING - THE SUN IS
00:22:06.42\00:22:10.69
HITTING IT. IT'S
GOT GOLD THAT'S GLINTING
00:22:10.69\00:22:14.03
ON ITS EDGES, THE
BRONZE IS POLISHED.
00:22:14.03\00:22:17.27
IT'S THE ICONIC BEAUTIFUL
CENTERPIECE OF THE NATION OF
00:22:17.27\00:22:23.51
ISRAEL AND, AT THAT POINT, JESUS
PULLS BACK ON THE REIGNS OR HE
00:22:23.51\00:22:28.78
TELLS THE DISCIPLES TO STOP
AND HE STOPS AND HE LOOKS AND
00:22:28.78\00:22:31.41
EVERYONE GROWS QUIET BECAUSE
TEARS COME TO HIS EYES AND HE
00:22:31.41\00:22:37.72
MOURNS OUT THIS LAMENT, 'O,
JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, THE HOUR
00:22:37.72\00:22:42.49
IS COMING WHEN YOUR ENEMIES ARE
GOING TO HEDGE YOU IN ON EVERY
00:22:42.49\00:22:44.66
SIDE AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW
THE HOUR OF YOUR VISITATION.'
00:22:44.66\00:22:48.96
THEY'RE GOING,
'WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?'
00:22:48.96\00:22:50.73
AND THEN WHEN HE'S DONE WITH
THAT, THEY BEGIN TO COME TO THE
00:22:50.73\00:22:52.77
CITY AND MAYBE THEY'RE THINKING
IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE
00:22:52.77\00:22:55.94
A WAR WITH THE
ROMANS AS HE TAKES THE CITY.
00:22:55.94\00:22:58.14
THEY DON'T KNOW. THEY START
RESUMING THEIR SINGING AGAIN.
00:22:58.14\00:23:01.01
AND SO THE WHOLE CITY IS IN
AN UPROAR AND HE COMES TO THE
00:23:01.01\00:23:03.55
TEMPLE AND THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS
ARE SAYING, 'DON'T YOU HEAR WHAT
00:23:03.55\00:23:06.92
THEY'RE SAYING? TELL
THEM TO BE QUIET.' JESUS
00:23:06.92\00:23:10.19
SAID, 'OH, IF I TELL THEM
TO BE QUIET, EVEN THE STONES'LL
00:23:10.19\00:23:12.75
CRY OUT BECAUSE THIS IS
A FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY.
00:23:12.75\00:23:15.89
IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.' JESUS IS
SAYING, 'WHEN GOD SAYS IT, IT'S
00:23:15.89\00:23:19.53
GOING TO HAPPEN.' SO
THEY COME INTO THE CITY AND
00:23:19.53\00:23:22.83
HE BEGINS TO TEACH AGAIN.
NOW, BY THE WAY, THAT VERSE I
00:23:22.83\00:23:27.17
QUOTED FROM IS LUKE 19:41 WHERE
IT TALKS ABOUT - I OUGHT TO
00:23:27.17\00:23:34.34
READ IT TO YOU REALLY QUICK.
"NOW AS HE DREW NEAR, HE SAW THE
00:23:34.34\00:23:40.62
CITY " - AND NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS
IN VERSE 38 OF LUKE, "BLESSED IS
00:23:40.62\00:23:43.55
THE KING WHO COMES
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!
00:23:43.55\00:23:45.39
PEACE IN HEAVEN AND
GLORY IN THE HIGHEST!"
00:23:45.39\00:23:47.69
KIND OF LIKE WHEN
JESUS WAS BORN, TOO.
00:23:47.69\00:23:49.36
THEY SAID, 'PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD
WILL TO MEN.' AND IT SAYS, AS HE
00:23:49.36\00:23:52.89
CAME NEAR THE CITY - OH,
AND SOME OF THE PHARISEES CALLED
00:23:52.89\00:23:55.30
THEM AND SAID,
'REBUKE THE DISCIPLES.
00:23:55.30\00:23:57.27
TELL THEM TO BE QUIET.' 'IF
I SHOULD, THE STONES WOULD CRY
00:23:57.27\00:23:59.77
OUT.' "NOW AS HE DREW NEAR, HE
SAW THE CITY AND WEPT OVER IT,
00:23:59.77\00:24:03.77
SAYING, 'IF YOU HAD KNOWN, EVEN
YOU, ESPECIALLY IN THIS YOUR
00:24:03.77\00:24:07.08
DAY, THE THINGS
THAT MAKE FOR YOUR PEACE!
00:24:07.08\00:24:09.44
BUT NOW THEY ARE
HIDDEN FROM YOUR EYES.
00:24:09.44\00:24:11.11
FOR DAYS WILL COME UPON YOU
WHEN YOUR ENEMIES WILL BUILD AN
00:24:11.11\00:24:13.28
EMBANKMENT AROUND YOU, SURROUND
YOU AND CLOSE YOU IN ON EVERY
00:24:13.28\00:24:16.52
SIDE, AND LEVEL YOU, AND
YOUR CHILDREN WITHIN YOU, TO THE
00:24:16.52\00:24:22.79
GROUND; AND THEY WILL NOT LEAVE
IN YOU ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER,
00:24:22.79\00:24:26.59
BECAUSE YOU DID NOT KNOW
THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION."
00:24:26.59\00:24:29.13
THEN HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND
HE BEGAN TO DRIVE OUT THOSE WHO
00:24:29.13\00:24:32.13
BOUGHT AND SOLD. NOW,
WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT
00:24:32.13\00:24:33.77
IN JUST A MINUTE. SO,
ONE MORE THING BEFORE I
00:24:33.77\00:24:37.77
LEAVE THIS - I'M TRYING TO
PACE MYSELF - BEFORE I LEAVE THE
00:24:37.77\00:24:41.41
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY - WHAT
GATE DID HE GO THROUGH?
00:24:41.41\00:24:48.75
THERE'S ONE PRINCIPLE GATE THAT
FACES THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, IT'S
00:24:48.75\00:24:51.75
CALLED THE GOLDEN
GATE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A
00:24:51.75\00:24:53.76
PICTURE OF THAT TODAY?
SHERLE, WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP A
00:24:53.76\00:24:56.56
PICTURE OF THE GOLDEN
GATE FROM SABBATH SCHOOL.
00:24:56.56\00:24:58.63
SHE'S WORKING ON CHURCH SLIDES,
PROBABLY, AND SO I WANT TO MAKE
00:24:58.63\00:25:01.00
SURE SHE HEARS MY QUEUE.
THERE IT IS. SEE THAT? THAT'S
00:25:01.00\00:25:04.27
THE WAY IT LOOKS TODAY.
THAT IS THE GATE THAT JESUS RODE
00:25:04.27\00:25:07.64
THROUGH ON HIS WAY TO JERUSALEM.
WHY IS IT ALL WALLED UP?
00:25:07.64\00:25:12.07
I'LL TELL YOU A FEW INTERESTING
THINGS ABOUT THIS GATE.
00:25:12.07\00:25:14.31
MOST OF THE ANCIENT WALLS
OF JERUSALEM WERE REBUILT BY AN
00:25:14.31\00:25:19.18
ARAB LEADER CALLED
SOLOMON THE MAGNIFICENT.
00:25:19.18\00:25:22.68
HE WAS REALLY A VERY GOOD KING.
HE FOUGHT THE CRUSADERS AND WON.
00:25:22.68\00:25:25.32
HE WON BACK JERUSALEM.
HE WAS QUITE A GENERAL.
00:25:25.32\00:25:29.29
THIS IS ONE RARE SECTION OF THE
WALL THAT THE STONES DATE BACK
00:25:29.29\00:25:34.40
TO THE TIME OF EZRA AND
NEHEMIAH WHEN IT WAS REBUILT.
00:25:34.40\00:25:37.97
IF YOU WANT TO SEE SOME OF THE
WALLS THAT NEHEMIAH AND HIS CREW
00:25:37.97\00:25:40.07
REBUILT, THIS
SECTION IS PART OF THAT.
00:25:40.07\00:25:42.47
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL GATE. THE
FOUNDATION STONES - THEY CAN
00:25:42.47\00:25:46.94
EVEN FIND STONES THAT
DATE BACK TO SOLOMON THERE.
00:25:46.94\00:25:50.78
THE REASON IT'S WALLED UP IS
BECAUSE ABOUT 700 YEARS AGO, THE
00:25:50.78\00:25:59.32
MUSLIMS, KNOWING THE PROPHECY
THAT THE JEWISH MESSIAH WOULD
00:25:59.32\00:26:03.66
COME THROUGH THAT GATE, WANTED
TO BLOCK IT AND THEY DESECRATED
00:26:03.66\00:26:09.03
THE GROUND BY PUTTING A
CEMETERY IN FRONT OF IT.
00:26:09.03\00:26:12.90
INTERESTING, ISN'T IT?
THE PROBLEM IS THEY WERE
00:26:12.90\00:26:15.54
SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS TOO
LATE, BECAUSE JESUS ALREADY
00:26:15.54\00:26:18.07
WENT THROUGH THAT GATE.
THERE WAS A PROPHECY ABOUT THAT
00:26:18.07\00:26:21.04
GATE, IN PARTICULAR, AND
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
00:26:21.04\00:26:24.05
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU LOOK, FOR
INSTANCE, IN ZECHARIAH 14:4 - WE
00:26:24.05\00:26:28.58
READ, A MINUTE
AGO, ZECHARIAH 9:9.
00:26:28.58\00:26:31.79
ZECHARIAH 14:4, SPEAKING OF HIS
COMING, "ON THAT DAY HIS FEET
00:26:31.79\00:26:35.56
WILL STAND ON THE MOUNT
OF OLIVES THAT LIES BEFORE
00:26:35.56\00:26:37.93
JERUSALEM."
DIRECTLY BETWEEN THE MOUNT OF
00:26:37.93\00:26:40.23
OLIVES AND JERUSALEM
YOU'VE GOT THE GOLDEN GATE.
00:26:40.23\00:26:42.50
THAT WAS ANOTHER REASON
THEY BELIEVED THAT WAS THE GATE.
00:26:42.50\00:26:45.17
IF YOU READ IN PSALM 1:18 - NOW
BEAR WITH ME, I'M GOING TO READ
00:26:45.17\00:26:49.07
A COUPLE VERSES TO YOU.
PSALM 118, VERSES 19 AND 20,
00:26:49.07\00:26:53.01
"OPEN TO ME THE GATES OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS; I WILL GO THROUGH
00:26:53.01\00:26:55.54
THEM, AND I
WILL PRAISE THE LORD.
00:26:55.54\00:26:57.55
THIS IS THE GATE OF THE LORD,
THROUGH WHICH THE RIGHTEOUS
00:26:57.55\00:27:00.22
SHALL ENTER." SO THEY
PUT THAT TOGETHER WITH
00:27:00.22\00:27:03.28
PSALM 118:26, "BLESSED IS HE WHO
COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!"
00:27:03.28\00:27:08.02
WHAT DID THE PEOPLE SAY
WHEN JESUS CAME DOWN THE HILL?
00:27:08.02\00:27:11.06
'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE
NAME OF THE LORD.' SO YOU SEE
00:27:11.06\00:27:13.26
WHAT THEY'RE QUOTING FROM?
THEIR QUOTING FROM PSALM 118
00:27:13.26\00:27:16.73
THAT TALKED ABOUT THE
MESSIAH COMING THROUGH THE GATE.
00:27:16.73\00:27:20.10
AND SO, WHEN JESUS RODE THAT
DONKEY THROUGH THE GOLDEN GATES,
00:27:20.10\00:27:23.51
IT WAS FULFILLING
THESE PROPHECIES AND - IT'S
00:27:23.51\00:27:27.01
INTERESTING THAT THE MUSLIMS
THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO STOP
00:27:27.01\00:27:29.71
THE MESSIAH FROM COMING BY
WALLING UP THE GOLDEN GATE AND
00:27:29.71\00:27:32.68
PUTTING A CEMETERY IN FRONT.
IT'S INTERESTING, THERE ARE
00:27:32.68\00:27:34.92
NOT ONLY MUSLIM GRAVES THERE,
THERE'S JEWISH GRAVES THERE.
00:27:34.92\00:27:37.59
AND THEY THOUGHT, 'WELL THIS
WILL KEEP HIM FROM COMING' BUT
00:27:37.59\00:27:41.52
HE ALREADY WENT
THROUGH THE GATE.
00:27:41.52\00:27:43.19
ALRIGHT, JESUS AND THE
TEMPLE , WHAT DOES HE DO?
00:27:43.19\00:27:45.09
WELL, WE ALREADY HEARD THAT
THE CHILDREN COME AND THEY'RE
00:27:45.09\00:27:47.36
SINGING AND HE'S HEALING PEOPLE,
BUT WHEN HE FIRST COMES IN THE
00:27:47.36\00:27:49.93
TEMPLE - MATTHEW 21:12 - IN A
MOMENT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:27:49.93\00:27:54.07
FOR ME 1 PETER 2:5 -
WILL THAT BE YOU? OKAY.
00:27:54.07\00:27:59.54
I'LL READ MATTHEW 21:12, "THEN
JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE OF
00:27:59.54\00:28:03.35
GOD AND DROVE OUT ALL THOSE WHO
BOUGHT AND SOLD IN THE TEMPLE,
00:28:03.35\00:28:07.72
AND OVERTURNED THE TABLES OF THE
MONEY CHANGERS AND THE SEATS OF
00:28:07.72\00:28:11.19
THOSE WHO SOLD DOVES.
AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'IT IS
00:28:11.19\00:28:14.66
WRITTEN, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE
CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' BUT
00:28:14.66\00:28:18.09
YOU HAVE MADE IT A 'DEN OF
THIEVES.'" NOW WHERE DOES IT SAY
00:28:18.09\00:28:22.46
GOD'S HOUSE WILL BE A
HOUSE OF PRAYER? A FEW PLACES.
00:28:22.46\00:28:27.20
ONE, THE DEDICATION PRAYER
OF SOLOMON SAID, 'IF YOUR PEOPLE
00:28:27.20\00:28:30.71
PRAY TOWARDS THIS PLACE' -
BUT THERE ARE ACTUALLY SEVERAL
00:28:30.71\00:28:33.31
PLACES WHERE IT SAID IT WOULD
BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL
00:28:33.31\00:28:35.54
PEOPLE. IS THIS
THE FIRST OR THE SECOND
00:28:35.54\00:28:38.48
TIME JESUS DRIVES THE MONEY
CHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE?
00:28:38.48\00:28:43.08
SECOND TIME. ONCE,
AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS
00:28:43.08\00:28:45.35
MINISTRY, AND ONCE AT THE END.
OBVIOUSLY, JUST BECAUSE HE DROVE
00:28:45.35\00:28:52.26
THEM OUT, WHEN HE WENT BACK UP
NORTH AROUND CAPERNAUM AND THE
00:28:52.26\00:28:56.00
SEA OF GALILEE TEACHING, THEY
ALL CAME SWOOPING BACK IN AGAIN
00:28:56.00\00:29:00.20
AND THEY SET UP THEIR FLEA
MARKETS AND PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY,
00:29:00.20\00:29:04.51
THERE WAS BIG MONEY IN SELLING
SACRIFICES DURING THE PASSOVER.
00:29:04.51\00:29:10.78
THEY HAD T-SHIRTS - 'I SURVIVED
PASSOVER' - THEY WERE SELLING.
00:29:10.78\00:29:14.32
THEY HAD ALL KINDS
OF MERCHANDISE THERE.
00:29:14.32\00:29:16.18
PEOPLE WOULD BRING THEIR LAMBS
AND, I MEAN, THEY WERE SELLING
00:29:16.18\00:29:19.75
STUFF IN THE TEMPLE ALL YEAR
LONG, BUT THE BEST WEEK OF SALES
00:29:19.75\00:29:25.46
WAS THE PASSOVER. IT WAS SPRING.
00:29:25.46\00:29:28.10
PEOPLE WERE - ALL THE PILGRIMS
WERE THERE AND THEY JUST COULD
00:29:28.10\00:29:31.37
NOT GIVE UP THIS
OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE MONEY.
00:29:31.37\00:29:34.64
AND EVEN THOUGH JESUS HAD DRIVEN
THEM OUT BEFORE AND THEY BEHAVED
00:29:34.64\00:29:37.47
FOR A LITTLE
WHILE, THEY CAME BACK IN.
00:29:37.47\00:29:40.34
AND SO, AGAIN, HE
DRIVES THEM OUT OF THE TEMPLE.
00:29:40.34\00:29:44.51
SO YOU'VE GOT - IT'S
INTERESTING, IT TALKS ABOUT
00:29:44.51\00:29:47.25
'BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN'
- AND 'THE TEMPLE WAS CLEANSED,
00:29:47.25\00:29:50.39
WAS CLEANSED.' NOW, WHEN YOU
TALK ABOUT THE TEMPLE, YOU'VE
00:29:50.39\00:29:55.42
GOT A FEW DIFFERENT
THINGS THAT ARE THE TEMPLE.
00:29:55.42\00:29:58.23
YOU'VE GOT THE PHYSICAL TEMPLE,
LIKE THE TABERNACLE IN THE
00:29:58.23\00:30:01.46
WILDERNESS, AND THE ONE BUILT BY
NEHEMIAH, SOLOMON, REFURBISHED
00:30:01.46\00:30:06.80
BY HEROD - THE PHYSICAL
TEMPLE. YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPLE
00:30:06.80\00:30:10.44
WHICH IS YOUR BODY. YOUR
BODY - 'DON'T YOU KNOW YOUR
00:30:10.44\00:30:14.14
BODY IS THE TEMPLE
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?'
00:30:14.14\00:30:16.18
AND THEN PAUL SAYS THE CHURCH
IS A TEMPLE AND THAT'S IMPORTANT
00:30:16.18\00:30:18.81
BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO
TALK ABOUT THE CORNERSTONE IN A
00:30:18.81\00:30:20.72
LITTLE BIT. I WANT
YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
00:30:20.72\00:30:23.95
JESUS CLEANSED THE TEMPLE
THERE FROM THE MERCHANDISING.
00:30:23.95\00:30:29.09
DO WE SOMETIMES SEE
MERCHANDISING COME INTO THE
00:30:29.09\00:30:31.79
CHURCH? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD
OF A THEOLOGY CALLED 'PROSPERITY
00:30:31.79\00:30:35.96
PREACHING'? >>YES.
00:30:35.96\00:30:37.77
>>THEY CALL IT 'NAME
IT AND CLAIM IT' THEOLOGY.
00:30:37.77\00:30:41.67
I HEARD ANOTHER PREACHER SAY
IT'S CALLED 'BLAB IT AND GRAB
00:30:41.67\00:30:44.57
IT.' (LAUGHTER) THE IDEA IS
THAT YOU JUST SAY, 'I'M GOING TO
00:30:44.57\00:30:48.94
CLAIM THIS PROMISE AND GOD'S
GOING TO MAKE ME RICH AND IF I
00:30:48.94\00:30:51.95
GIVE MY DONATION TO THIS
PROSPERITY PREACHER, IN RETURN,
00:30:51.95\00:30:56.38
GOD PROMISES HE'S GOING TO
DOUBLE THAT.' THEY CALL IT A
00:30:56.38\00:30:58.69
SEED INVESTMENT OF FAITH.
YOU INVEST IN THIS MINISTRY, YOU
00:30:58.69\00:31:01.79
GIVE THEM A LITTLE MONEY,
GOD'S THEN GOING TO BLESS YOU.
00:31:01.79\00:31:04.06
AND IT'S ALL ABOUT 'I'M GOING TO
GIVE TO GOD SO HE'LL GIVE BACK
00:31:04.06\00:31:05.99
TO ME.' WHICH REALLY
SHOULDN'T BE THE REASON WE GIVE.
00:31:05.99\00:31:09.46
IT IS TRUE THAT GOD OFTEN
BLESSES WHEN WE'RE FAITHFUL IN
00:31:09.46\00:31:12.60
TITHES AND OFFERINGS, THOSE
BLESSINGS COME IN MANY SHAPES
00:31:12.60\00:31:15.67
AND FORMS, BUT THEY ALWAYS MAKE
IT SOUND LIKE IT'S MONETARY AND
00:31:15.67\00:31:19.57
THESE TELEVANGELISTS OFTEN FLIT
AROUND THE WORLD IN PRIVATE JETS
00:31:19.57\00:31:23.35
AND THEY ARE BEDECKED
WITH JEWELS AND IT'S ALL ABOUT
00:31:23.35\00:31:28.45
PROSPERITY AND YOU'LL SEE
THEY'VE GOT GILDED SETS FOR
00:31:28.45\00:31:32.02
THEIR TELEVISION PROGRAMS AND
- AND I WONDER WHAT JESUS WOULD
00:31:32.02\00:31:36.02
DO. WOULD HE COME
WITH CORDS TO SOME
00:31:36.02\00:31:37.73
OF THESE TEMPLES AND
DRIVE OUT THE MONEY CHANGERS?
00:31:37.73\00:31:41.66
THE PULPIT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO
BE AN AUCTION BLOCK WHERE YOU'RE
00:31:41.66\00:31:45.20
SELLING THINGS
AND AUCTIONING THINGS.
00:31:45.20\00:31:49.27
HE DRIVES THE MONEY
CHANGERS OUT OF OUR LIVES.
00:31:49.27\00:31:53.48
WHO KNOWS WHAT THE
TENTH COMMANDMENT IS?
00:31:53.48\00:31:57.38
THOU SHALL NOT COVET.
AND IT TALKS ABOUT SEVERAL
00:31:57.38\00:32:00.05
THINGS THAT COULD BE COVETED.
BUT NEVER BEING SATISFIED AND
00:32:00.05\00:32:03.92
COVETOUSNESS OR, EVEN LIKE I
SAID, COMING TO CHURCH BECAUSE
00:32:03.92\00:32:06.96
OF WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
THE WIIFM - WHAT'S IN IT FOR
00:32:06.96\00:32:10.93
ME - IS WHAT PEOPLE
ARE OFTEN WONDERING.
00:32:10.93\00:32:13.63
AND THE MATERIALISM - IF THEY
HAD A LOT OF THINGS YOU COULD
00:32:13.63\00:32:18.40
BUY AND SELL BACK 2,000
YEARS AGO WHEN JESUS WENT TO THE
00:32:18.40\00:32:21.10
TEMPLE, HOW MANY MORE THINGS
ARE THERE TO BUY AND SELL IN THE
00:32:21.10\00:32:25.27
WORLD TODAY?
THEY'VE GOT WHOLE CHANNELS
00:32:25.27\00:32:28.44
DEDICATED TO SELLING YOU STUFF
AND THERE'S A ZILLION WEBSITES
00:32:28.44\00:32:33.31
AND YOU CAN GO TO JUST
AMAZON AND BUY A ZILLION THINGS.
00:32:33.31\00:32:38.15
NEVER HAS THERE BEEN A TIME IN
THE WORLD WHERE THERE WAS MORE
00:32:38.15\00:32:41.22
STUFF TO BE BOUGHT AND SOLD.
AND SO, TO THINK THAT'S NOT
00:32:41.22\00:32:45.59
GOING TO IMPACT
CHRISTIANS LIVING IN A WORLD OF
00:32:45.59\00:32:47.76
HYPER-MATERIALISM,
WE'RE KIDDING OURSELVES.
00:32:47.76\00:32:50.97
WE'RE ALL - I, YOU
KNOW, IT HAPPENS TO YOU.
00:32:50.97\00:32:54.77
IT HAPPENS TO ME.
YESTERDAY I WENT ON
00:32:54.77\00:32:56.24
A MISSION TO WALMART.
I'M USUALLY PRETTY GOOD.
00:32:56.24\00:32:59.11
I WALK IN THE DOOR, I'VE GOT ONE
OR TWO THINGS I'M GOING TO GET
00:32:59.11\00:33:03.24
AND I GET THOSE
THINGS AND I WALK OUT.
00:33:03.24\00:33:05.08
>>AMEN. >>IT
DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK THAT
00:33:05.08\00:33:09.12
WAY FOR PEOPLE CLOSE TO ME.
(LAUGHTER) THERE'S - SOMETIMES
00:33:09.12\00:33:15.06
YOU GO TO GET SOMETHING AND
YOU COME BACK WITH THREE OR FOUR
00:33:15.06\00:33:17.49
EXTRA THINGS THAT
YOU JUST HAPPEN TO SEE.
00:33:17.49\00:33:20.16
THEY CALL TO YOU.
>>YOU ALWAYS APPRECIATE IT.
00:33:20.16\00:33:22.70
>>I DIDN'T MENTION
ANYBODY IN PARTICULAR.
00:33:22.70\00:33:24.73
(LAUGHTER) I SAW A PRETTY FUNNY
- I SAW A CARTOON ONCE AND IT
00:33:24.73\00:33:33.58
WAS - IT SHOWED A PICTURE OF
A MALL - IT WAS LIKE A MAZE - A
00:33:33.58\00:33:37.01
GRID - AND IT SHOWS A MAN GOING
TO THE MALL TO BUY A SHIRT AND
00:33:37.01\00:33:42.48
IT SHOWS A DIRECT LINE
IN, SHIRT, BACK OUT AGAIN.
00:33:42.48\00:33:47.32
AND IT SAYS, 'A WOMAN GOING
TO THE MALL' - I'M GOING TO GET
00:33:47.32\00:33:50.79
LETTERS OVER THIS - 'A
WOMAN GOING TO THE MALL TO GET A
00:33:50.79\00:33:53.26
SHIRT' - AND SHE'S - THE LINE
GOES LIKE THIS ALL THROUGH THE
00:33:53.26\00:33:57.97
MALL AND COMES BACK DOWN AGAIN.
00:33:57.97\00:34:03.17
BUT EVEN I -
YESTERDAY IT HAPPENED TO ME.
00:34:03.17\00:34:04.97
I SAID, 'OH, I FORGOT, I
COULD USE SOME OF THAT TOO.
00:34:04.97\00:34:09.54
AND SO I ENDED UP - AND THEY
COUNT - AND YOU KNOW, THE THINGS
00:34:09.54\00:34:11.81
THAT PEOPLE BUY THE MOST IN THE
STORE, THEY PUT IN THE BACK OF
00:34:11.81\00:34:15.55
THE STORE SO YOU'VE GOT TO
GO ON THIS LONG CIRCUITOUS ROUTE
00:34:15.55\00:34:20.56
THROUGH THE STORE LOOKING AT ALL
THE OTHER MERCHANDISE BECAUSE
00:34:20.56\00:34:22.62
THEY KNOW THE MORE YOU LOOK -
WHY DO THEY THINK THEY PUT A FEW
00:34:22.62\00:34:24.79
THINGS ON SALE AND
THEY PUT THEM IN THE BACK?
00:34:24.79\00:34:27.13
SO YOU'LL SEE ALL THE OTHER
THINGS THAT ARE REALLY GOING TO
00:34:27.13\00:34:29.26
BRING YOU HAPPINESS ON YOUR
WAY TO THAT ONE THING THAT YOU
00:34:29.26\00:34:31.60
ACTUALLY NEED.
AND YOU'RE SURE - I -
00:34:31.60\00:34:34.74
SOMETHING'S MISSING IN
MY LIFE, IT MUST BE THIS.
00:34:34.74\00:34:38.11
AND SO, I'M JUST SAYING,
WHEN JESUS CAME HE DROVE OUT THE
00:34:38.11\00:34:43.18
MONEY CHANGERS. AND I JUST
WONDER IF - WHAT HE WOULD DO
00:34:43.18\00:34:47.22
TODAY. NOW, WHAT IS THAT
TEMPLE? GO AHEAD, NATHAN, YOU'RE
00:34:47.22\00:34:52.65
GOING TO READ 1
PETER 2:5 FOR US, PLEASE.
00:34:52.65\00:34:56.16
>>"YOU ALSO, AS LIVING STONES,
ARE BEING BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL
00:34:56.16\00:34:59.66
HOUSE, A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO
OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES
00:34:59.66\00:35:04.50
ACCEPTABLE TO GOD
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST."
00:35:04.50\00:35:07.14
>>SO WE'VE GOT THE PHYSICAL
TEMPLE AND THE BIBLE TELLS US
00:35:07.14\00:35:11.34
THERE IS A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE -
THAT WE'RE LIVING STONES BUILT
00:35:11.34\00:35:14.81
ON A CORNERSTONE - WE'LL GET
TO IN A LITTLE BIT - TO BUILD UP
00:35:14.81\00:35:18.75
THIS SPIRITUAL HOUSE.
YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE OF GOD.
00:35:18.75\00:35:22.08
NOW, WHEN YOU STUDY
THE SANCTUARY SUBJECT, IT'S
00:35:22.08\00:35:24.32
IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT
THERE ARE THREE SYMBOLS FOR IT.
00:35:24.32\00:35:28.26
YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPLE OF GOD IN
HEAVEN, YOU'VE GOT THE CHURCH AS
00:35:28.26\00:35:31.49
A SANCTUARY THAT NEEDS
CLEANSING, AND OUR BODIES ARE
00:35:31.49\00:35:33.90
SANCTUARIES THAT
NEED CLEANSING, OKAY?
00:35:33.90\00:35:36.77
AND JESUS, BEFORE HE COMES,
HE CLEANSES THE SANCTUARY.
00:35:36.77\00:35:40.84
IT'S VERY
IMPORTANT. IS HE CLEANSING THE
00:35:40.84\00:35:42.80
SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN?
BEFORE HE DIED ON THE CROSS
00:35:42.80\00:35:46.27
HE CLEANSED THE TEMPLE.
BEFORE HE FINISHES HIS WORK
00:35:46.27\00:35:49.28
OF MEDIATION HE
CLEANSES THE TEMPLE.
00:35:49.28\00:35:52.31
AND SO - AND HE DRIVES
OUT THE MONEY CHANGERS.
00:35:52.31\00:35:55.95
HE'S GOING TO PURIFY
HIS CHURCH BEFORE HE COMES.
00:35:55.95\00:35:59.52
1 CORINTHIANS 3:16 AND 17, "DO
YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE
00:35:59.52\00:36:03.73
TEMPLE OF GOD AND THAT THE
SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU?
00:36:03.73\00:36:06.83
IF ANYONE DEFILES THE TEMPLE
OF GOD, GOD WILL DESTROY HIM.
00:36:06.83\00:36:11.13
FOR THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS
HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YOU ARE."
00:36:11.13\00:36:13.77
YOU INDIVIDUALLY ARE THE TEMPLE
OF GOD AND YOU COLLECTIVELY ARE
00:36:13.77\00:36:16.97
THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
ALRIGHT - AND THEN, AFTER HE
00:36:16.97\00:36:20.31
DOES THIS, PEOPLE OFTEN WONDER,
WHEN HE MADE THE CORD - WHERE
00:36:20.31\00:36:24.51
DO YOU MAKE THE CORD FROM?
THEY HAD LITTLE ROPES THEY USED
00:36:24.51\00:36:26.88
- WHEN THEY'D SELL THE LAMBS,
THEY'D TIE OFF THE LAMBS - MAYBE
00:36:26.88\00:36:29.22
HE GRABBED SOME OF THOSE - AND
HE TOOK THESE LITTLE CORDS AND
00:36:29.22\00:36:32.69
HE - IT SAYS HE MADE A WHIP - I
DON'T KNOW IF HE PUT SEVERAL OF
00:36:32.69\00:36:35.96
THEM TOGETHER AND
PUT A KNOT IN THEM.
00:36:35.96\00:36:38.13
IT NEVER SAYS HE WHIPPED
ANYBODY, BUT I'VE SEEN PAINTINGS
00:36:38.13\00:36:41.13
WHERE THEY SHOW JESUS THRASHING
THE MONEY CHANGERS AND DRIVING
00:36:41.13\00:36:44.17
THEM OUT OF THE TEMPLE. IT
NEVER SAYS HE WHIPPED ANYONE.
00:36:44.17\00:36:47.44
IT DOESN'T SAY HE YELLED. I
THINK THAT HE JUST HELD THAT
00:36:47.44\00:36:51.37
IN HIS HAND AND IT WAS AN IMAGE
OF JUDGMENT THAT TERRIFIED THEM.
00:36:51.37\00:36:55.31
AND HE SPOKE, BUT WHEN HE SPOKE,
HIS VOICE WAS SO POWERFUL THAT
00:36:55.31\00:37:01.48
IT PUT TERROR - AND THEY WENT
SCRAMBLING AND HE WENT BY AND HE
00:37:01.48\00:37:04.99
BEGAN TO - HE DID TURN OVER THE
TABLES OF THE MONEY - THE COINS
00:37:04.99\00:37:08.99
WERE CLANGING ON THE FLOOR AND
THEY WERE AFRAID TO EVEN TAKE
00:37:08.99\00:37:10.93
THEM UP. HE SAID,
'TAKE THESE THINGS
00:37:10.93\00:37:13.19
HENCE - AND THEY WERE HEARING
THE VOICE OF THE ALMIGHTY
00:37:13.19\00:37:15.90
SPEAKING TO THEIR SOULS.
BUT, EVIDENTLY, IT WASN'T
00:37:15.90\00:37:19.97
FRIGHTENING BECAUSE WHAT
HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER THAT?
00:37:19.97\00:37:22.44
THEN THE BLIND AND THE LAME
CAME TO HIM IN THE TEMPLE AND HE
00:37:22.44\00:37:26.41
HEALED THEM. AND WHEN THE
PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES SAW THE
00:37:26.41\00:37:29.11
WONDERFUL THINGS THAT HE DID
- AND THEY HEARD THE CHILDREN
00:37:29.11\00:37:31.68
CRYING OUT IN THE TEMPLE.
THEY'RE STILL SAYING THE REFRAIN
00:37:31.68\00:37:34.95
FROM THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY -
"'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID!'
00:37:34.95\00:37:38.25
THEY WERE INDIGNANT AND SAID TO
HIM, 'DO YOU HEAR WHAT THESE ARE
00:37:38.25\00:37:41.66
SAYING? THEY'RE
CALLING YOU THE MESSIAH.
00:37:41.66\00:37:43.73
STOP THEM.' AND YOU CAN TELL
WHY THEY WANTED TO CRUCIFY HIM.
00:37:43.73\00:37:49.16
AND JESUS SAID, 'DID YOU HEAR'
- HE SAID, "HAVE YOU NEVER READ,
00:37:49.16\00:37:52.33
'OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
AND NURSING INFANTS YOU HAVE
00:37:52.33\00:37:55.50
PERFECTED PRAISE'? AND
HE LEFT THEM AND HE WENT OUT
00:37:55.50\00:37:59.07
OF THE CITY TO BETHANY, AND HE
LODGED THERE." SO HE WENT BACK
00:37:59.07\00:38:02.68
AFTER THAT DAY OF TEACHING,
HE WENT OUT OF THE TEMPLE.
00:38:02.68\00:38:06.72
SO HERE WE HAVE HIM CLEANSING
THE TEMPLE AND THEN THE NEXT
00:38:06.72\00:38:11.55
MORNING - NOW, WE DON'T KNOW
IF IT WAS IMMEDIATELY THE NEXT
00:38:11.55\00:38:13.66
MORNING, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE
IT FROM THE READING OF MATTHEW.
00:38:13.66\00:38:16.42
WE'VE GOT NO FRUIT.
00:38:16.42\00:38:18.36
MATTHEW 21 - LET'S JUMP THERE
- VERSE 18, "NOW IN THE MORNING,
00:38:18.36\00:38:22.43
AS HE RETURNED TO
THE CITY, HE WAS HUNGRY.
00:38:22.43\00:38:25.43
AND SEEING A FIG" - WELL, YOU
WOULD THINK, YOU KNOW, HE WOULD
00:38:25.43\00:38:28.67
JUST BE FED BY MARTHA AND
LAZARUS - THEY WERE TAKING CARE
00:38:28.67\00:38:32.67
OF TWELVE APOSTLES -
IT'S A PRETTY BIG HOUSEHOLD.
00:38:32.67\00:38:35.18
MAYBE JESUS
WANTED TO SPARE THEM.
00:38:35.18\00:38:36.68
AND SO HE GOES FOR A WALK -
BETHANY IS NOT THAT FAR FROM
00:38:36.68\00:38:41.12
BOTH JERUSALEM AND FROM
BETHLEHEM - AND HE GOES AND HE
00:38:41.12\00:38:47.86
SEES THERE'S A FIG
TREE. HE CAME AND HE FOUND
00:38:47.86\00:38:52.29
NOTHING ON IT BUT LEAVES.
AND HE SAID, 'LET NO FRUIT GROW
00:38:52.29\00:38:56.36
ON YOU EVER AGAIN.' IMMEDIATELY
THE FIG TREE WITHERED AWAY."
00:38:56.36\00:39:01.27
NOW, WHEN YOU READ THIS IN MARK,
I JUST NEED TO BE HONEST WITH
00:39:01.27\00:39:04.67
YOU, THERE'S A LITTLE
DISCREPANCY HERE BETWEEN MARK
00:39:04.67\00:39:07.14
AND MATTHEW. MARK
SAYS THE NEXT DAY THEY
00:39:07.14\00:39:10.21
CAME AND SAW THE
FIG TREE WAS WITHERED.
00:39:10.21\00:39:12.35
WHAT MATTHEW IS SAYING, IS
RIGHT AFTER HE SPOKE THE WORD IT
00:39:12.35\00:39:15.75
BEGAN TO WITHER. THE DISCIPLES
NOTICED IT THE NEXT DAY.
00:39:15.75\00:39:20.19
IT HAD JUST - IT DIED
WHEN JESUS SPOKE, BUT YOU COULD
00:39:20.19\00:39:22.96
SEE IT WAS VISIBLY
SHRIVELED THE NEXT DAY.
00:39:22.96\00:39:26.53
DID JESUS HAVE A TANTRUM BECAUSE
HE DIDN'T GET BREAKFAST AND SO
00:39:26.53\00:39:30.67
HE CURSED THE TREE? PEOPLE HAVE
OFTEN WONDERED, 'WHAT'S GOING ON
00:39:30.67\00:39:34.57
HERE? WHY'D HE GET MAD AND CURSE
THE TREE? WHAT DID THAT POOR
00:39:34.57\00:39:36.71
TREE EVER DO TO HIM?' HE COMES
TO THE TREE THAT HAS ALL OF THE
00:39:36.71\00:39:43.75
- THE ADVERTISING - IT HAS THE
PRETENSE THAT IT'S GOING TO HAVE
00:39:43.75\00:39:46.65
FRUIT, BUT THERE IS NO FRUIT AND
SO HE CURSES IT BECAUSE IT'S A
00:39:46.65\00:39:52.02
FRUITLESS FIG TREE.
WHAT DOES THAT FIG TREE MEAN?
00:39:52.02\00:39:56.73
'LET NO MAN EVER EAT
FRUIT ON YOU AGAIN' -
00:39:56.73\00:39:59.06
AND IMMEDIATELY THE
FIG TREE WITHERED AWAY.
00:39:59.06\00:40:01.00
AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT,
THEY MARVELED AND SAID, 'LOOK
00:40:01.00\00:40:04.23
HOW THE FIG TREE HAS WITHERED
AWAY SO SOON.' "SO JESUS
00:40:04.23\00:40:07.67
ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM,
'ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, IF YOU
00:40:07.67\00:40:11.01
HAVE FAITH AND DO NOT DOUBT, YOU
WILL NOT ONLY DO WHAT WAS DONE
00:40:11.01\00:40:14.38
TO THE FIG TREE, BUT ALSO IF YOU
SAY THIS TO THE MOUNTAIN, 'BE
00:40:14.38\00:40:17.68
REMOVED AND BE CAST INTO
THE SEA,' IT WILL BE DONE.
00:40:17.68\00:40:21.25
AND WHATEVER THINGS YOU ASK
IN PRAYER, BELIEVING, YOU WILL
00:40:21.25\00:40:24.25
RECEIVE.'" THAT'S
A WONDERFUL PROMISE.
00:40:24.25\00:40:27.56
NOW HE STILL HASN'T TOLD THEM
'WHY'D YOU DO THAT TO THE FIG
00:40:27.56\00:40:29.52
TREE?' WHAT
THEY'RE IMPRESSED BY IS
00:40:29.52\00:40:33.29
THAT HE SPOKE AND THIS
MIRACLE HAPPENED - THAT HE JUST
00:40:33.29\00:40:36.40
HAS POWER OVER NATURE.
AND HE SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU SAY
00:40:36.40\00:40:40.07
AND PRAY IN FAITH, THINGS WILL
HAPPEN. DID THE DISCIPLES TRY
00:40:40.07\00:40:44.74
THAT LATER IN THEIR LIVES?
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN - DID
00:40:44.74\00:40:49.88
THE DISCIPLES
SPEAK AND HEAL CRIPPLES?
00:40:49.88\00:40:54.12
PAUL SPOKE ONE TIME AND A
SORCERER WENT BLIND - SO CHILD
00:40:54.12\00:40:58.45
OF THE DEVIL, YOU'RE NOW GOING
TO BE BLIND FOR AWHILE BECAUSE
00:40:58.45\00:41:01.79
YOU'RE TURNING PEOPLE AWAY FROM
THE TRUTH. THEY JUST HAD THE -
00:41:01.79\00:41:05.33
I WOULDN'T WANT TO TRY
THAT. FIRST OF ALL, BECAUSE IT
00:41:05.33\00:41:09.36
WOULDN'T NOT SEEM VERY NICE.
SECONDLY, IT MIGHT NOT WORK.
00:41:09.36\00:41:13.20
BUT, YOU KNOW,THEY WOULD, SPEAK
AND SAY - SOME GUY'S CRIPPLED
00:41:13.20\00:41:16.44
FOR HIS WHOLE LIFE - 'TAKE
MY HAND. STAND UP AND WALK.'
00:41:16.44\00:41:19.77
WOULDN'T IT BE EMBARRASSING
IF YOU TRIED THAT AND IT DIDN'T
00:41:19.77\00:41:21.54
WORK? THEN THEY JUST FELL DOWN.
BUT THE DISCIPLES DEVELOPED THE
00:41:21.54\00:41:26.95
SAME KIND OF FAITH AS JESUS.
WHERE THEY WOULD SPEAK THESE
00:41:26.95\00:41:29.68
THINGS AND THEY SAID IT IN
FAITH AND MIRACLES HAPPENED.
00:41:29.68\00:41:34.59
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED THAT WE
DON'T SEE ANY MIRACLES BECAUSE
00:41:34.59\00:41:37.73
WE DON'T TAKE CHRIST
AT HIS WORD AND TRY IT?
00:41:37.73\00:41:41.26
YOU KNOW, I'VE PRAYED SOME
PRAYERS THAT I HAD DOUBTS THE
00:41:41.26\00:41:42.96
PRAYER WOULD BE ANSWERED,
EVEN WHEN I PRAYED IT, AND GOD
00:41:42.96\00:41:45.03
ANSWERED THE PRAYER IN SPITE OF
MY LACK OF FAITH AND I THOUGHT,
00:41:45.03\00:41:47.30
'MAN, I OUGHT TO PRAY BIG
PRAYERS MORE OFTEN.' SO HE'S
00:41:47.30\00:41:51.91
TALKING TO THEM ABOUT ASKING
IN FAITH AND HE SAYS, 'YOU'LL DO
00:41:51.91\00:41:54.91
GREAT THING FOR THEM.' BUT
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE FIG
00:41:54.91\00:41:57.31
TREE? LET ME GIVE YOU
SOMETHING QUICK TO THINK ABOUT.
00:41:57.31\00:41:59.91
SOMEONE'S GOING TO
READ FOR ME GALATIANS 5:22.
00:41:59.91\00:42:04.39
FIRST OF ALL, WHY DID
HE CURSE A FRUITLESS FIG?
00:42:04.39\00:42:08.16
WHAT DOES THAT FRUIT REPRESENT?
GO AHEAD AND READ THAT FOR US.
00:42:08.16\00:42:11.93
>>"BUT THE FRUIT OF THE
SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE,
00:42:11.93\00:42:14.73
LONGSUFFERING, KINDNESS,
GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS,
00:42:14.73\00:42:17.70
GENTLENESS, SELF CONTROL,
AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW."
00:42:17.70\00:42:22.67
>>SO HE WANTS THE FRUITS
OF THE SPIRIT IN OUR LIVES.
00:42:22.67\00:42:26.24
WHAT DOES IT SAY IN JOHN
15? 'HE'S THE VINE WHERE THE
00:42:26.24\00:42:29.38
BRANCHES, IF THEY DON'T BEAR
FRUIT, THEY'RE GOOD FOR NOTHING
00:42:29.38\00:42:31.51
BUT TO BE CUT AND BURNED.
SO IT TELLS US PRETTY CLEARLY
00:42:31.51\00:42:35.22
WHAT THE FATE IS FOR
FRUITLESS CHRISTIANS.
00:42:35.22\00:42:39.49
HE WANTS THE
FRUIT. WHAT IS THE FRUIT?
00:42:39.49\00:42:41.86
THE FRUITS OF THE
SPIRIT SHOULD BE IN OUR LIVES.
00:42:41.86\00:42:44.49
AND - BUT WHY - WHAT
DOES THE FIG TREE REPRESENT?
00:42:44.49\00:42:48.73
WHY DID HE CURSE THE FIG TREE?
00:42:48.73\00:42:50.90
YOU REMEMBER IN MATTHEW 24,
JESUS SAID, 'LEARN A PARABLE OF
00:42:50.90\00:42:55.97
THE FIG TREE, WHEN IT'S BRANCHES
ALREADY BECOME TENDER, IT PUTS
00:42:55.97\00:42:59.91
FORTH LEAVES, YOU
KNOW THAT SUMMER IS NEAR.
00:42:59.91\00:43:02.51
SO ALSO, WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE
THINGS, KNOW THAT IT IS NEAR,
00:43:02.51\00:43:06.18
EVEN AT THE DOORS.' MANY HAVE
BELIEVED THAT THE FIG TREE WAS A
00:43:06.18\00:43:09.38
SYMBOL FOR JERUSALEM - THE
JEWISH NATION - HE CAME TO THEM
00:43:09.38\00:43:13.05
LOOKING FOR THE
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT.
00:43:13.05\00:43:14.86
HERE HE IS, THE MESSIAH, HE'S
JUST COME THROUGH THE CITY AND,
00:43:14.86\00:43:18.46
INSTEAD OF HAVING RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND BEING READY FOR HIS FIRST
00:43:18.46\00:43:20.93
COMING, THEY'RE - HE HAS TO
CHASE THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF
00:43:20.93\00:43:25.67
THE TEMPLE AND
THERE'S FRUITLESSNESS.
00:43:25.67\00:43:28.40
CHRIST TELLS A PARABLE - IF YOU
GO TO LUKE IT GIVES US A LITTLE
00:43:28.40\00:43:32.77
MORE INSIGHT IN THIS - LUKE
CHAPTER 13 - YOU'LL ONLY FIND
00:43:32.77\00:43:35.58
THIS IN LUKE - LUKE CHAPTER 13,
VERSE 6, "A CERTAIN MAN HAD A
00:43:35.58\00:43:40.48
FIG TREE PLANTED IN HIS
VINEYARD, AND HE CAME SEEKING
00:43:40.48\00:43:43.89
FRUIT ON IT AND FOUND NONE.
THEN HE SAID TO THE KEEPER OF
00:43:43.89\00:43:47.56
HIS VINEYARD, 'LOOK, FOR
THREE YEARS'" - HOW MANY YEARS?
00:43:47.56\00:43:51.23
THREE YEARS - I WANT YOU TO
JUST CATCH THAT - "'I HAVE COME
00:43:51.23\00:43:54.03
SEEKING FRUIT ON THIS
FIG TREE AND FIND NONE.
00:43:54.03\00:43:56.67
CUT IT DOWN; WHY DOES
IT USE UP THE GROUND?'"
00:43:56.67\00:43:59.37
- NO FRUIT - "BUT HE" - THE
MAN WHO CARES FOR THE TREE -
00:43:59.37\00:44:03.51
"BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID
TO HIM, 'SIR, LET IT ALONE THIS
00:44:03.51\00:44:06.44
YEAR ALSO, UNTIL I DIG AROUND IT
AND FERTILIZE IT.'" - 'I'LL DIG
00:44:06.44\00:44:10.11
AROUND IT, I'LL IRRIGATE IT,
I'LL FERTILIZE IT, I'LL GIVE IT
00:44:10.11\00:44:12.61
ONE MORE CHANCE.' WHO
KNOWS? SOME TREES DON'T
00:44:12.61\00:44:15.35
BEAR EVERY YEAR.
MAYBE IT WAS AN OFF YEAR.
00:44:15.35\00:44:18.59
KAREN AND I JUST WENT OUT TO
OUR LITTLE CHERRY TREE IN THE
00:44:18.59\00:44:20.39
BACKYARD. RIGHT NOW YOU SHOULD
00:44:20.39\00:44:22.36
HAVE CHERRIES. NOT A CHERRY.
00:44:22.36\00:44:24.53
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WENT WRONG,
BUT I DON'T REMEMBER CURSING IT
00:44:24.53\00:44:27.76
- I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
BUT WHO KNOWS - I DON'T KNOW
00:44:27.76\00:44:30.27
- THE BEES DIDN'T
COME OR SOMETHING, BUT NOT
00:44:30.27\00:44:32.07
A SINGLE CHERRY. SOME
CHERRY TREES - AND THEN
00:44:32.07\00:44:34.64
YOU'LL HAVE
ANOTHER YEAR - BUMPER CROP.
00:44:34.64\00:44:37.01
AND SO HE SAID, 'LOOK, I KNOW
THERE'S BEEN NO FIGS FOR THREE
00:44:37.01\00:44:38.74
YEARS AND,
TYPICALLY, THERE WOULD BE.
00:44:38.74\00:44:40.38
GIVE IT ANOTHER YEAR.' SOME
TREES NEVER BEAR, YOU KNOW THAT?
00:44:40.38\00:44:43.48
THEY JUST - FOR WHATEVER
REASON THEY DON'T DO IT.
00:44:43.48\00:44:46.61
HE SAID, 'GIVE IT ONE MORE
YEAR.' HE WANTS THE TREE TO BE
00:44:46.61\00:44:49.68
FRUITFUL. 'I'LL DO EVERYTHING
I CAN TO MAKE IT FRUITFUL.
00:44:49.68\00:44:53.29
AND IF IT BEARS FRUIT, WELL
- WE'VE SAVED THE TREE, BUT IF
00:44:53.29\00:44:56.49
NOT, THEN YOU CAN CUT IT DOWN.'
NOW THIS IS A PARABLE BUT IT'S
00:44:56.49\00:45:01.40
SORT OF A PROPHECY BECAUSE WHAT
DOES THAT FIG TREE REPRESENT?
00:45:01.40\00:45:05.07
GOD'S PEOPLE. BACK THERE - THE
00:45:05.07\00:45:07.47
NATION OF ISRAEL.
THERE'S A TIME PERIOD
00:45:07.47\00:45:09.74
CONNECTED WITH IT. HOW
MANY YEARS ARE IN IT TOTAL?
00:45:09.74\00:45:13.41
FOUR YEARS. IT SAYS, 'THREE
YEARS, NO FRUIT. GIVE IT ONE
00:45:13.41\00:45:16.24
MORE YEAR.' A TOTAL OF HOW MANY
YEARS? WHAT DOES A DAY EQUAL IN
00:45:16.24\00:45:20.52
PROPHECY? >>YEAR.
00:45:20.52\00:45:22.48
>>A YEAR. HOW MANY
DAYS IN A JEWISH YEAR?
00:45:22.48\00:45:26.12
>>360. >>360.
00:45:26.12\00:45:28.19
YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE IT TELLS
US 42 MONTHS IS THREE HUNDRED -
00:45:28.19\00:45:33.43
IS
1260-YEAR-PROPHECY IS 42 MONTHS.
00:45:33.43\00:45:35.96
IT'S GOT TO BE A 360-DAY -
30-DAY MONTH, 360-DAY YEAR IN
00:45:35.96\00:45:40.50
THAT LUNAR CALENDAR.
SO, 360 TIMES 4 IS 1440.
00:45:40.50\00:45:51.35
IF YOU GO FROM WHEN
- WHO'S THE FIG TREE?
00:45:51.35\00:45:57.09
IT'S JERUSALEM, IN PARTICULAR,
PLANTED IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
00:45:57.09\00:46:00.16
YOU READ IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 5
IT SAYS, 'I PLANTED ISRAEL AS A
00:46:00.16\00:46:06.13
VINEYARD.' THIS MAN PLANTS
A FIG TREE IN HIS VINEYARD.
00:46:06.13\00:46:09.96
WHEN WERE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
PLANTED IN THE PROMISED LAND?
00:46:09.96\00:46:14.04
JOSHUA ENTERED IN AND THEY BEGAN
TO TAKE JERICHO AND STARTED
00:46:14.04\00:46:17.44
TAKING - THEY ENDED UP FIGHTING
OH, FOR 35-40 YEARS - TAKING THE
00:46:17.44\00:46:22.21
PROMISED LAND, BUT THEY FIRST
SETTLED IN IT 1406 - YOU'LL FIND
00:46:22.21\00:46:26.15
THAT NUMBER IN YOUR BIBLES.
IF YOU GO 360 TIMES 4 PROPHETIC
00:46:26.15\00:46:32.39
YEARS, THAT'S 1440 YEARS
FROM 40 - 1406 - YOU KNOW
00:46:32.39\00:46:35.72
WHAT THAT COMES TO? 34
A.D. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:46:35.72\00:46:40.96
WHAT HAPPENED IN 34 A.D.?
IF YOU KNOW YOUR PROPHECY.
00:46:40.96\00:46:44.27
THE SANHEDRIN PLUGGED THEIR
EARS, THEY STONED STEPHEN, THE
00:46:44.27\00:46:48.00
DISCIPLES - A GREAT PERSECUTION
BEGAN, AND THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY
00:46:48.00\00:46:52.57
WAS UP FOR THE JEWISH
NATION. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:46:52.57\00:46:57.15
THAT FOUR YEARS - THAT PARABLE
JESUS SHARES COVERS THAT AS
00:46:57.15\00:47:00.68
WELL. ALL RIGHT, RUNNING OUT
OF TIME. LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS
00:47:00.68\00:47:02.85
CORNERSTONE. CORNERSTONE -
"'HEAR ANOTHER PARABLE.'" -
00:47:02.85\00:47:07.89
WE'RE IN MATTHEW 21:33
- "'THERE WAS A CERTAIN
00:47:07.89\00:47:10.96
LANDOWNER WHO PLANTED A VINEYARD
AND SET A HEDGE AROUND IT, DUG
00:47:10.96\00:47:15.43
A WINEPRESS IN IT
AND BUILT A TOWER.
00:47:15.43\00:47:17.93
AND HE LEASED IT TO VINEDRESSERS
AND WENT INTO A FAR COUNTRY.
00:47:17.93\00:47:21.77
NOW WHEN VINTAGE-TIME DREW NEAR,
HE SENT HIS SERVANTS TO THE
00:47:21.77\00:47:25.37
VINEDRESSERS, THAT THEY
MIGHT RECEIVE ITS FRUIT.
00:47:25.37\00:47:28.31
AND THE VINEDRESSERS TOOK HIS
SERVANTS, BEAT ONE, KILLED ONE,
00:47:28.31\00:47:32.05
AND STONED ANOTHER.
AGAIN HE SENT OTHER SERVANTS,
00:47:32.05\00:47:35.08
MORE THAN THE FIRST, AND
THEY DID LIKEWISE TO THEM.
00:47:35.08\00:47:38.35
THEN LAST OF ALL
HE SENT HIS SON" -
00:47:38.35\00:47:40.26
I WOULD HAVE NOT DONE
THAT BUT IN THE PARABLE
00:47:40.26\00:47:42.06
HE DOES - "HE SENT HIS SON TO
THEM SAYING, 'THEY WILL RESPECT
00:47:42.06\00:47:45.56
MY SON.' BUT WHEN THE
VINEDRESSERS SAW THE SON, THEY
00:47:45.56\00:47:49.30
SAID AMONG
THEMSELVES, 'THIS IS THE HEIR.
00:47:49.30\00:47:51.33
COME, LET US KILL HIM AND
SEIZE HIS INHERITANCE.'" -
00:47:51.33\00:47:53.70
HE'LL HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO TAKE
IT. WE'LL GET IT.' - "SO THEY
00:47:53.70\00:47:56.74
TOOK HIM AND THEY CAST HIM OUT
OF THE VINEYARD" - JERUSALEM -
00:47:56.74\00:48:00.81
CAST OUT - "AND KILLED HIM.
'THEREFORE, WHEN THE OWNER OF
00:48:00.81\00:48:05.31
THE VINEYARD COMES, WHAT WILL
HE DO TO THOSE VINEDRESSERS?'
00:48:05.31\00:48:09.08
THEY SAID TO HIM, 'HE
WILL DESTROY THOSE WICKED MEN
00:48:09.08\00:48:11.55
MISERABLY, AND LEASE HIS
VINEYARD TO OTHER VINEDRESSERS
00:48:11.55\00:48:16.76
WHO WILL RENDER TO HIM THE
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASONS.' JESUS
00:48:16.76\00:48:20.40
SAID TO THEM," - HERE'S THE
PUNCH LINE - HE SAYS, "'HAVE YOU
00:48:20.40\00:48:23.63
NEVER READ IN THE SCRIPTURES:
'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS
00:48:23.63\00:48:26.57
REJECTED HAS BECOME
THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
00:48:26.57\00:48:29.70
THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING, AND
IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?
00:48:29.70\00:48:33.71
THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, THE
KINGDOM OF GOD WILL BE TAKEN
00:48:33.71\00:48:37.05
FROM YOU AND GIVEN TO A NATION
BEARING THE FRUITS" - WHAT DOES
00:48:37.05\00:48:41.72
THE LORD WANT? FRUITS. HE
DOESN'T WANT US TO JUST HAVE THE
00:48:41.72\00:48:45.82
NAME. HE DOESN'T WANT US JUST TO
HAVE A BUILDING. HE DOESN'T WANT
00:48:45.82\00:48:49.92
US TO HAVE A CULTURE. HE DOESN'T
WANT US TO HAVE A REGISTERED
00:48:49.92\00:48:53.50
DENOMINATION. I MEAN,
THERE MIGHT BE A PLACE
00:48:53.50\00:48:56.13
FOR ALL THOSE THINGS,
BUT WHAT DOES HE WANT?
00:48:56.13\00:48:58.67
CHRISTIANITY IS ALL
ABOUT 'DO YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT?
00:48:58.67\00:49:01.10
DO YOU HAVE THE
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT?
00:49:01.10\00:49:02.34
ARE YOU LIVING
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE?
00:49:02.34\00:49:04.51
AND IF WE DON'T, HE CUTS IT
DOWN, TAKES THE NATION AWAY AND
00:49:04.51\00:49:07.84
GIVES IT TO A NATION THAT
WILL BRING FORTH THE FRUIT.
00:49:07.84\00:49:11.18
JESUS SAID, 'YOU'LL KNOW THEM
BY THEIR - BY THEIR FRUITS.' AND
00:49:11.18\00:49:17.25
THEN HE GOES ON AND HE SAYS,
"WHOEVER FALLS ON THIS STONE" -
00:49:17.25\00:49:20.19
OH, BY THE WAY,
WHO IS THE NATION?
00:49:20.19\00:49:22.19
THE GENTILES AND ANY
ISRAELITE THAT WANTED TO BE
00:49:22.19\00:49:25.56
PART OF IT, THEY COULD ALSO
STILL, BUT IT WASN'T JUST GOING
00:49:25.56\00:49:29.36
TO BE THE NATION OF ISRAEL
ANYMORE, THE GOSPEL WAS GOING
00:49:29.36\00:49:31.93
EVERYWHERE - WHOSOEVER
WILL. AND IN ONE GENERATION - IT
00:49:31.93\00:49:35.57
STARTED OUT THE EARLY CHURCH WAS
ALL JEWISH BUT WITHIN 40 YEARS
00:49:35.57\00:49:39.11
THE NUMBER OF GENTILES GREATLY
OUTPACED THE NUMBER OF JEWS
00:49:39.11\00:49:42.48
THAT WERE IN THE EARLY CHURCH
- "'WHOEVER FALLS ON THIS STONE
00:49:42.48\00:49:46.48
WILL BE BROKEN; BUT ON WHOMEVER
IT FALLS, IT WILL GRIND HIM TO
00:49:46.48\00:49:51.69
POWDER.' NOW WHEN THE CHIEF
PRIESTS AND THE PHARISEES HEARD
00:49:51.69\00:49:55.39
HIS PARABLES, THEY PERCEIVED
THAT HE WAS SPEAKING OF THEM."
00:49:55.39\00:49:58.83
- THEY WERE RIGHT - "BUT WHEN
THEY SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM,
00:49:58.83\00:50:01.56
THEY FEARED THE MULTITUDES,
BECAUSE THEY TOOK HIM FOR A
00:50:01.56\00:50:04.27
PROPHET." YOU KNOW, HE QUOTES
FROM - WHEN THEY SAID, 'OH, THIS
00:50:04.27\00:50:08.97
IS THE HEIR, LET US SEIZE HIM
AND KILL HIM AND THE INHERITANCE
00:50:08.97\00:50:12.64
WILL BE OURS' REMEMBER WHEN
JOSEPH CAME TO HIS BROTHERS?
00:50:12.64\00:50:15.68
THEY SAID, 'HERE
COMES THAT DREAMER.
00:50:15.68\00:50:17.35
LET'S KILL HIM.' WHY WERE
THEY SO UPSET WITH JOSEPH?
00:50:17.35\00:50:20.48
BECAUSE JACOB WAS GOING TO MAKE
JOSEPH THE HEIR THAT NORMALLY
00:50:20.48\00:50:24.15
WOULD GO TO THE FIRSTBORN.
AND SO, THEY SAID, 'WE WILL
00:50:24.15\00:50:27.62
GET THE INHERITANCE BY KILLING
JOSEPH - FATHER'S FAVORITE.
00:50:27.62\00:50:32.46
AND SO THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS
GOING ON HERE AND THEY KNEW HE
00:50:32.46\00:50:37.17
SPAKE THIS ABOUT THEMSELVES.
SO SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO THINK
00:50:37.17\00:50:41.54
ABOUT HERE, AS WE'RE
LOOKING AT THIS IS WHAT IS
00:50:41.54\00:50:44.67
THIS CORNERSTONE?
WHO'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
00:50:44.67\00:50:46.31
ROMANS 9:33 - ALRIGHT, IN
JUST A MOMENT I'LL GET TO YOU.
00:50:46.31\00:50:49.84
LET ME READ ISAIAH 8:13 - THIS
IS THE SCRIPTURE THAT JESUS IS
00:50:49.84\00:50:53.78
QUOTING. "THE
LORD OF HOSTS, HIM YOU
00:50:53.78\00:50:57.19
SHALL HALLOW; LET HIM BE YOUR
FEAR, AND LET HIM BE YOUR DREAD.
00:50:57.19\00:51:00.12
HE WILL BE A SANCTUARY, BUT
A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK
00:51:00.12\00:51:04.29
OF OFFENSE TO BOTH
THE HOUSES OF ISRAEL."
00:51:04.29\00:51:08.10
- MEANING THE SOUTHERN AND
NORTHERN KINGDOMS - "AS A TRAP
00:51:08.10\00:51:10.67
AND A SNARE TO THE
INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM.
00:51:10.67\00:51:13.10
AND MANY AMONG THEM WILL STUMBLE
AND THEY SHALL FALL AND BE
00:51:13.10\00:51:15.70
BROKEN, BE SNARED AND TAKEN."
ALRIGHT, READ FOR US, PLEASE,
00:51:15.70\00:51:20.18
ROMANS 9:33 >>"AS IT IS WRITTEN:
00:51:20.18\00:51:24.48
'BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A
STUMBLING STONE AND ROCK OF
00:51:24.48\00:51:29.05
OFFENSE, AND WHOEVER BELIEVES
ON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO
00:51:29.05\00:51:33.29
SHAME.'" >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:51:33.29\00:51:36.39
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US
THE APOSTLES SAY 'WE'RE LIVING
00:51:36.39\00:51:39.33
STONES BUILT ON THE CHIEF
CORNERSTONE' WHICH IS JESUS.
00:51:39.33\00:51:42.80
THIS WHOLE STORY ABOUT THE
CORNERSTONE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
00:51:42.80\00:51:46.27
UNLESS YOU KNOW ABOUT A STORY
THAT IS IN JEWISH LITERATURE BUT
00:51:46.27\00:51:51.87
IS NOT IN THE BIBLE.
AND IT'S REFERENCED BY
00:51:51.87\00:51:55.34
THE BIBLE SEVERAL
TIMES. WHEN THEY WERE BUILDING
00:51:55.34\00:51:58.11
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, ALL THE STONES
WERE CUT AT A QUARRY A FEW MILES
00:51:58.11\00:52:02.02
AWAY SO THERE WAS NO SOUND HEARD
WHEN THEY GOT TO THE TEMPLE.
00:52:02.02\00:52:06.82
THIS IS A QUOTE FROM DESIRE OF
AGES , I FORGOT THE REFERENCE,
00:52:06.82\00:52:09.06
BUT IF YOU LOOK IN
THERE YOU'LL FIND IT.
00:52:09.06\00:52:11.16
"IN QUOTING THIS PROPHECY
ABOUT THE STONE REJECTED, CHRIST
00:52:11.16\00:52:14.93
REFERRED TO AN ACTUAL OCCURRENCE
IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL.
00:52:14.93\00:52:18.70
THE INCIDENT WAS CONNECTED
WITH THE BUILDING OF THE FIRST
00:52:18.70\00:52:21.10
TEMPLE. WHILE IT HAD A SPECIAL
APPLICATION FOR THE TIME OF
00:52:21.10\00:52:24.74
CHRIST'S FIRST ADVENT AND SHOULD
HAVE APPEALED WITH SPECIAL FORCE
00:52:24.74\00:52:28.24
TO THE JEWS, IT
HAS A LESSON FOR US.
00:52:28.24\00:52:30.95
WHEN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON WAS
ERECTED, THE IMMENSE STONES FOR
00:52:30.95\00:52:34.38
THE WALLS AND THE FOUNDATION
WERE ENTIRELY PREPARED AT THE
00:52:34.38\00:52:37.65
QUARRY.
AFTERWARD, THEY WERE BROUGHT
00:52:37.65\00:52:39.32
TO THE PLACE OF THE
BUILDING. NOT AN INSTRUMENT WAS
00:52:39.32\00:52:41.89
TO BE USED UPON THEM.
THE WORKMEN HAD ONLY TO PUT
00:52:41.89\00:52:44.79
THEM IN PLACE FOR
USE IN THE FOUNDATION.
00:52:44.79\00:52:47.66
THE ONE STONE OF UNUSUAL SIZE
AND A PECULIAR SHAPE HAD BEEN
00:52:47.66\00:52:51.27
BROUGHT BUT THE WORKMEN COULD
FIND NO PLACE FOR IT AND WOULD
00:52:51.27\00:52:54.60
NOT ACCEPT IT. IT
WAS AN ANNOYANCE TO THEM.
00:52:54.60\00:52:57.77
IT LAY UNUSED IN THEIR WAY. LONG
IT REMAINED A REJECTED STONE."
00:52:57.77\00:53:03.35
- IT GATHERED DUST AND BUILDING
MATERIALS WERE SET ON THERE AND
00:53:03.35\00:53:06.68
BLUEPRINTS AND THEY STUMBLED
INTO IT AND TRIPPED OVER IT AND
00:53:06.68\00:53:09.18
BUMPED INTO IT BECAUSE
THE PEOPLE FROM THE QUARRY,
00:53:09.18\00:53:11.55
THEY KNEW IT WAS A CORNERSTONE.
00:53:11.55\00:53:13.22
THEY DIDN'T HAVE RADIOS TO
TALK TO EACH OTHER BACK THEN.
00:53:13.22\00:53:15.52
THEY DELIVERED IT AND
THEY THOUGHT THEY'D KNOW.
00:53:15.52\00:53:17.46
AND THEY PUT IT RIGHT IN
THE MIDDLE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT,
00:53:17.46\00:53:19.79
'OH, YOU'LL NEED THIS FIRST.'
- "SO IT WAS RIGHT IN THE WAY.
00:53:19.79\00:53:23.30
BUT TIME CAME FOR THEM TO NOW
PICK THE CORNERSTONE AND TO FIND
00:53:23.30\00:53:28.77
A STONE OF SUFFICIENT SIZE AND
STRENGTH AND THE PROPER SHAPE TO
00:53:28.77\00:53:31.57
TAKE THE PARTICULAR PLACE AND TO
BEAR THE GREAT WEIGHT THAT WAS
00:53:31.57\00:53:34.08
TO REST UPON IT, SHOULD THEY
MAKE AN UNWISE CHOICE FOR THIS
00:53:34.08\00:53:36.95
IMPORTANT PLACE, THE SAFETY
OF THE ENTIRE BUILDING WOULD BE
00:53:36.95\00:53:40.05
ENDANGERED. THEY MUST FIND A
STONE CAPABLE OF RESISTING THE
00:53:40.05\00:53:43.82
INFLUENCE OF THE SUN, THE FROST,
THE TEMPEST. SEVERAL STONES, AT
00:53:43.82\00:53:47.79
DIFFERENT TIMES HAD BEEN CHOSEN,
BUT UNDER THE PRESSURE OF
00:53:47.79\00:53:50.46
IMMENSE WEIGHTS, THEY
HAD CRUMBLED TO PIECES.
00:53:50.46\00:53:52.83
OTHERS COULD NOT BEAR THE TEST
OF SUDDEN ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES
00:53:52.83\00:53:55.96
AND THEY CRACKED. BUT
AT LAST, ATTENTION WAS
00:53:55.96\00:53:58.50
CALLED TO THE STONE THAT
HAD BEEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
00:53:58.50\00:54:00.64
WORK AREA SO LONG REJECTED.
IT HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO THE AIR,
00:54:00.64\00:54:04.41
TO THE SUN,THE STORM - WITHOUT
REVEALING THE SLIGHTEST CRACK.
00:54:04.41\00:54:07.88
THE BUILDERS EXAMINED THE STONE;
IT BORE EVERY TEST BUT ONE.
00:54:07.88\00:54:11.21
IF IT COULD BEAR THE TEST OF
SEVERE PRESSURE THEY DECIDED TO
00:54:11.21\00:54:14.75
ACCEPT IT FOR THE CORNERSTONE.
THE TRIAL WAS MADE, THE STONE
00:54:14.75\00:54:18.45
WAS ACCEPTED AND BROUGHT TO
THE ASSIGNED POSITION, IT WAS
00:54:18.45\00:54:21.16
FOUND TO BE AN EXACT FIT.
IN PROPHETIC VISION, ISAIAH WAS
00:54:21.16\00:54:25.19
SHOWN THIS STONE
WAS A SYMBOL OF CHRIST."
00:54:25.19\00:54:27.86
AND THAT'S THE
VERSE THAT WE JUST READ.
00:54:27.86\00:54:29.33
THE CORNERSTONE - THE
STONE THAT WAS REJECTED.
00:54:29.33\00:54:34.07
YOU AND I ARE LIVING STONES
BUILT UP TO A SPIRITUAL HOUSE,
00:54:34.07\00:54:38.77
BUT YOU'VE GOT A CORNERSTONE.
ANY OF YOU EVER BUILD A
00:54:38.77\00:54:41.01
WALL - MEN - WITH MASONRY?
YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS -
00:54:41.01\00:54:46.68
YOU GET THE BOTTOM STONES HAVE
TO BE SQUARE OR THE WHOLE WALL
00:54:46.68\00:54:50.35
TIPS IF THEY'RE A
LITTLE BIT OUT OF LINE.
00:54:50.35\00:54:54.09
BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, IF
YOU'RE BUILDING A WALL THAT'S
00:54:54.09\00:54:56.02
GOT A CORNER IN IT, IF THE
CORNERSTONE IS NOT SQUARE -
00:54:56.02\00:54:58.89
BECAUSE IT NOT ONLY CONTROLS ONE
SIDE, IT CONTROLS THE ELEVATION,
00:54:58.89\00:55:02.83
IT CONTROLS THAT WALL AND IT
CONTROLS THIS WALL AND THE FLOOR
00:55:02.83\00:55:07.67
- THE PAVEMENT.
AND SO EVERYTHING GOES
00:55:07.67\00:55:10.31
OFF OF THE CORNERSTONE.
IF THE CORNERSTONE IS NOT
00:55:10.31\00:55:12.84
PERFECTLY SQUARED, THE
WHOLE BUILDING GETS OUT OF SKEW.
00:55:12.84\00:55:17.35
AND SO, HERE THE QUARRYMEN
HAD PREPARED A PERFECT STONE BUT
00:55:17.35\00:55:22.48
THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE
STONE THAT WAS BROUGHT.
00:55:22.48\00:55:24.35
THEY EXPECTED
SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
00:55:24.35\00:55:26.15
AND THIS IS AN ILLUSTRATION THAT
GOD HAD SENT JESUS, THE ROCK OF
00:55:26.15\00:55:28.96
AGES, FOR THEM TO BUILD THE
CHURCH UPON, BUT IT DIDN'T FIT
00:55:28.96\00:55:33.19
WITH THEIR - THEY
KEPT STUMBLING ON IT.
00:55:33.19\00:55:35.53
WHY DOES IT SAY IF YOU FALL
ON THE STONE YOU'LL BE BROKEN?
00:55:35.53\00:55:38.40
IS THAT A BAD
THING OR A GOOD THING?
00:55:38.40\00:55:40.64
GOOD THING. IT MEANS
YOU'RE BROKEN-HEARTED
00:55:40.64\00:55:42.37
- YOU FALL ON THE
STONE AND YOU SURRENDER.
00:55:42.37\00:55:44.34
BUT IT SAYS ON WHOEVER THE STONE
FALLS, IT GRINDS INTO POWDER.
00:55:44.34\00:55:47.51
WHERE DO WE SEE A STONE
GRINDING THINGS TO POWDER?
00:55:47.51\00:55:50.85
DANIEL CHAPTER 2. ALL THE LOST
KINGDOMS BLOW AWAY AS THE WIND.
00:55:50.85\00:55:55.25
AND SO YOU DON'T WANT TO BE
GROUND TO POWDER, YOU WANT TO
00:55:55.25\00:55:57.35
FALL ON THE STONE AND BE BROKEN,
BUT YOU NOTICE SOMETHING?
00:55:57.35\00:55:59.82
EVERYBODY ENCOUNTERS THE STONE.
EITHER YOU FALL ON IT OR IT
00:55:59.82\00:56:03.89
FALLS ON YOU. AND SO JESUS
IS THAT ROCK OF AGES AND - AND I
00:56:03.89\00:56:10.37
DID RUN OUT OF TIME. NO -
I'VE GOT TWO SECONDS LEFT.
00:56:10.37\00:56:13.47
NOW I'M OUT OF TIME (LAUGHTER)
AND I DIDN'T GET TO THE LAST
00:56:13.47\00:56:17.44
SECTION ON THE COST OF GRACE,
SO PLEASE READ MATTHEW 22:1-14.
00:56:17.44\00:56:21.24
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>>AMAZING FACTS
HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE.
00:56:49.14\00:56:51.14
>>AND I JUST PRAISE
GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS.
00:56:51.14\00:56:53.01
>>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY
DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE.
00:56:53.01\00:56:55.61
>>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING
WHERE I AM TODAY - I FELT GOOD
00:56:55.61\00:56:58.61
ABOUT THAT. I
DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED.
00:56:58.61\00:57:00.48
>>I BEGAN
READING THE BIBLE AND -
00:57:00.48\00:57:03.12
>>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST -
00:57:03.12\00:57:05.42
>>I REALIZED THAT
THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE.
00:57:05.42\00:57:07.82
>>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS.
>>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME.
00:57:07.82\00:57:09.96
>>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL.
>>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST WHEREVER HE
00:57:09.96\00:57:12.16
GOES. >>AMAZING
FACTS. MORE THAN 45
00:57:12.16\00:57:16.60
YEARS OF PROCLAIMING
GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:16.60\00:57:20.50
>>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS
ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS .
00:57:20.50\00:57:24.54
I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS
00:57:24.54\00:57:27.04
WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S
ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE
00:57:27.04\00:57:29.94
I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND
ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE
00:57:29.94\00:57:33.92
NEVER HEARD THIS
BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK
00:57:33.92\00:57:35.75
THROUGH AND FIND THIS.
>>THAT I JUST COULDN'T GET
00:57:35.75\00:57:37.55
ENOUGH. >>AND SO I
STARTED DOING BIBLE
00:57:37.55\00:57:39.25
STUDIES. EVERY
SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS
00:57:39.25\00:57:42.22
STARTED BEING
CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF.
00:57:42.22\00:57:45.06
>>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY
DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?'
00:57:45.06\00:57:48.66
THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT
AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS
00:57:48.66\00:57:51.90
A FATHER. >>I LOST
EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS
00:57:51.90\00:57:55.24
WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT
WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE.
00:57:55.24\00:57:58.47
>>I WENT TO A PROPHECY
SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT.
00:57:58.47\00:58:02.18
THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL
AND SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT,
00:58:02.18\00:58:06.55
'THIS IS REAL. THIS
IS - THIS IS AMAZING.'
00:58:06.55\00:58:11.89
(MUSIC)
00:58:11.89\00:58:26.87