Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021623A
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00:35 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:37 WE ARE THRILLED THAT YOU ARE JOINING US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD 00:40 TOGETHER AS YOU DO EVERY WEEK. WE HAVE AN EXTENDED FAMILY 00:44 ACROSS THE GLOBE THAT LOVES TO STUDY GOD'S WORD AND SOME DAY, 00:49 VERY SOON, WE WILL BE SEEING OUR SAVIOR FACE TO FACE BUT UNTIL 00:53 THEN, WE WILL KEEP STUDYING, WE WILL KEEP SINGING TOGETHER. 00:57 WELCOME. OUR FIRST SONG TODAY IS GOING TO 01:00 BE HYMN #248 - WE'RE GOING TO BE SINGING ABOUT HOW WE LOVE JESUS 01:04 AND HE IS THE REASON WE SING, THE REASON WE TAKE EVERY BREATH. 01:09 O, HOW I LOVE JESUS - HYMN #248 - WE ARE GOING TO SING ALL THREE 01:13 VERSES. (MUSIC) 01:23 >>THERE IS A NAME I LOVE TO HEAR, I LOVE TO SING ITS 01:30 WORTH; IT SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC IN MY EARS, THE SWEETEST NAME ON 01:38 EARTH. O HOW I LOVE JESUS, O HOW I 01:46 LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME. 01:57 IT TELLS ME OF A SAVIOR'S LOVE, WHO DIED TO SET ME FREE; IT 02:06 TELLS ME OF A SAVIOR'S BLOOD, THE SINNERS' PERFECT PLEA. 02:14 O HOW I LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS, 02:27 BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME. IT TELLS OF ONE WHOSE LOVING HEART 02:36 CAN FEEL MY DEEPEST WOE WHO IN EACH SORROW BEARS A PART 02:44 THAT NONE CAN BEAR BELOW. O HOW I LOVE JESUS, O HOW I 02:55 LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME. 03:08 >>YOU KNOW, AS WE WERE SINGING THAT, I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN 03:10 I WAS A LITTLE GIRL. I USED TO SING THAT ALL THE 03:13 TIME - WE SANG IT AT CAMP. WE SANG IT AT CAMP MEETING. 03:15 WE SANG IT AT HOME. WE SANG IT IN CHURCH. 03:17 AND EVEN THOUGH I'M MUCH OLDER NOW, IT STILL RINGS TRUE TODAY. 03:23 OH HOW I LOVE JESUS AND WHAT HE'S DONE. 03:26 HYMN #249 - PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM - IT'S ALL ABOUT PRAISING 03:30 JESUS, IS IT NOT? IT'S THE REASON THAT WE EXIST AND WE HAVE 03:34 A LOT TO BE THANKFUL FOR WITH THIS WORLD FALLING APART. 03:37 HE'S ABOUT TO RESTORE IT AND I'M SO EXCITED FOR THAT. 03:40 PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! - HYMN #249 - WE ARE GOING 03:43 TO SING ALL THREE VERSES. (MUSIC) 03:50 >>PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! JESUS, OUR BLESSED REDEEMER! 03:55 SING, O EARTH, HIS WONDERFUL LOVE PROCLAIM! 04:01 HAIL HIM! HAIL HIM! HIGHEST ARCHANGELS IN GLORY; 04:07 STRENGTH AND HONOR GIVE TO HIS HOLY NAME! 04:12 LIKE A SHEPHERD, JESUS WILL GUARD HIS CHILDREN, IN HIS ARMS 04:21 HE CARRIES THEM ALL DAY LONG: PRAISE HIM! 04:26 PRAISE HIM! TELL OF HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS. 04:30 PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! EVER IN JOYFUL SONG! 04:37 PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! JESUS OUR BLESSED REDEEMER! 04:43 FOR OUR SINS HE SUFFERED, AND BLED, AND DIED. 04:49 HE OUR ROCK, OUR HOPE OF ETERNAL SALVATION, HAIL HIM! 04:56 HAIL HIM! JESUS THE CRUCIFIED. SOUND HIS PRAISES! 05:04 JESUS WHO BORE OUR SORROWS, LOVE UNBOUNDED, WONDERFUL, DEEP AND 05:12 STRONG. PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! TELL OF HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS. 05:19 PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! EVER IN JOYFUL SONG! 05:26 PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! JESUS, OUR BLESSED REDEEMER! 05:32 HEAVENLY PORTALS LOUD WITH HOSANNAS RING! 05:38 JESUS, SAVIOR, REIGNETH FOREVER AND EVER. 05:44 CROWN HIM! CROWN HIM! PROPHET, AND PRIEST, AND KING! 05:50 CHRIST IS COMING! OVER THE WORLD VICTORIOUS, POWER 05:57 AND GLORY UNTO THE LORD BELONG. PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! 06:06 TELL OF HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS. PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! 06:12 EVER IN JOYFUL SONG! >>LET'S PRAY. OUR FATHER IN 06:20 HEAVEN, WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TODAY THAT YOU ARE COMING SOON AND 06:25 THAT YOU ARE COMING AS CHRIST VICTORIOUS, AS WE JUST SANG 06:28 ABOUT. WE OFFER YOU OUR HONOR AND OUR PRAISES AND WE JUST 06:32 OFFER YOU OUR LIVES TODAY AS WE AGAIN COME BEFORE YOUR HOLY 06:36 THRONE TO STUDY YOUR WORD AND LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW WE CAN BE 06:40 READY, HOW WE CAN SHARE YOUR LOVE AND YOUR GRACE TO THOSE 06:45 AROUND US - TO A DYING WORLD. LORD, HELP US TO DO OUR PART. 06:48 THANK YOU, THIS MORNING, FOR PASTOR DOUG AS HE BRINGS US YOUR 06:52 WORD, LORD. BLESS HIS MESSAGE AND HELP US TO APPLY THE THINGS 06:56 THAT WE LEARNED TO OUR LIVES, THAT WE CAN BE READY AND WAITING 07:00 AND LOOKING FOR OUR GOD. WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR PRECIOUS 07:03 AND HOLY NAME, JESUS, AMEN. OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE 07:08 BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. >>MORNING FRIENDS. THANK YOU, 07:15 JOLYNE AND MUSICIANS AND SINGERS. I ENJOY THAT SONG TOO. 07:19 WELCOME TO OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE WORSHIPING WITH US OR STUDYING 07:22 THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON, WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE HERE. 07:25 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER EACH WEEK AND TODAY WE'VE GOT A BOOK 07:29 CALLED BLOOD BEHIND THE VEIL - TALKING ABOUT THE PLAN OF 07:32 SALVATION, WHICH TIES IN WITH OUR LESSON TODAY. 07:35 AND CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN, IT'S 866-788-3966 - 07:40 788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER #130. THE BOOK IS BLOOD BEHIND 07:47 THE VEIL BY JOE CREWS. READ IT AND SHARE IT WITH 07:50 A FRIEND, OUR LESSON TODAY - WE'RE GOING THROUGH OUR 07:53 LESSON ON THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. I JUST LOVE THIS. 07:56 WE'RE STUDYING ABOUT JESUS AND TODAY WE'RE JUST GOING TO BE 07:59 GETTING RIGHT IN THE THICK OF IT. 08:01 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT JESUS IN JERUSALEM, AND WE HAVE 08:05 A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM THE BOOK OF 08:08 MATTHEW 21:42 AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO FIND THAT. 08:12 YOU'LL FIND IT RIGHT THERE IN THE FRONT OF YOUR LESSON - IT'S 08:15 FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION, WHICH IS TYPICALLY THE VERSION I 08:18 USE WHEN I TEACH AND PREACH - MATTHEW 21:42. 08:22 IF YOU CAN, SAY IT OUT LOUD WITH ME. ARE YOU READY? 08:25 "HAVE YOU NEVER READ IN THE SCRIPTURES: 'THE STONE WHICH THE 08:29 BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. 08:34 THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?" 08:39 NOW WE'VE GOT A SECTION IN OUR LESSON, IN A LITTLE BIT, THAT'S 08:42 GOING TO BE TALKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF THE 08:45 CORNERSTONE. SO I'LL KIND OF HOLD OFF AND 08:48 WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT. 08:50 OUR ASSIGNMENT TODAY IS, YOU KNOW, AS YOU GO THROUGH THESE 08:54 STUDY GUIDES, WE HAVE A DIFFERENT STUDY GUIDE QUARTERLY 08:59 AND THE IDEA IS THAT YOU COVER THE MAJOR THEMES OF THE BIBLE IN 09:04 FIVE YEARS. THIS ONE, OF COURSE, IS 09:06 DEDICATED TO MATTHEW. YOU CAN'T REALLY READ EVERY WORD 09:10 IN MATTHEW, BUT THE ASSIGNMENT SORT OF BREAKS IT UP. 09:13 OUR TASK FOR TODAY IS TO READ MATTHEW - ALL OF CHAPTER 21 AND 09:17 22 UP UNTIL VERSE 15. SO WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR BEST TO COVER 09:21 THAT. LAST WEEK, I APOLOGIZE, I THINK I LEFT ABOUT A THIRD OF 09:24 THE LESSON OUT BECAUSE I BECAME HYPNOTIZED BY MY OWN VOICE AND 09:28 TOOK UP TOO MUCH TIME. BUT IF YOU GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 21 IN 09:34 YOUR BIBLES, THIS TELLS A VERY INTERESTING STORY. WE'RE GOING 09:39 TO READ VERSES 1 THROUGH 11. I'LL PROBABLY STOP AND DO SOME 09:41 COMMENTARY ALONG THE WAY AND, JUST FOR MY BENEFIT, SOMEONE'S 09:45 GOING TO READ ZECHARIAH 9:9 IN A MINUTE. WHO HAS THAT VERSE? 09:50 ZECHARIAH 9:9 - IS THAT YOU DEAR? OH, YOU'LL HAVE THAT - 09:53 OKAY KATRINA, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST - YOU'LL BE QUEUED UP 09:56 NEXT. ALRIGHT, MATTHEW 21, "NOW WHEN THEY DREW NEAR JERUSALEM, 10:00 AND CAME TO BETHPHAGE," - AND THE WORD 'BETHPHAGE' MEANS 10:03 'HOUSE OF FIGS' - "AT THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, THEN JESUS SENT TWO 10:07 DISCIPLES, SAYING TO THEM, 'GO INTO THE VILLAGE OPPOSITE YOU, 10:12 AND IMMEDIATELY YOU WILL FIND A DONKEY TIED, AND A COLT WITH 10:16 HER. LOOSE THEM AND BRING THEM TO ME. AND IF ANYONE SAYS 10:20 ANYTHING TO YOU, YOU SHALL SAY, 'THE LORD HAS NEED OF THEM,' AND 10:25 IMMEDIATELY HE WILL SEND THEM.'" NOW THIS IS THE LAST JOURNEY 10:30 THAT JESUS MAKES BEFORE HIS DEATH. 10:33 HE HAS JUST COME UP FROM JERICHO - MATTER OF FACT, I THINK 10:37 SHERLE'S GOT A MAP QUEUED UP SHE'LL PUT ON THE SCREEN HERE, 10:40 JUST TO GIVE YOU A VISUAL BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT FOUR 10:43 PLACES HERE AND YOU'VE GOT JERICHO - HE'S COMING FROM 10:47 JERICHO AND SHERLE - I DON'T KNOW IF SHE CAN HEAR ME IN THE 10:50 STUDIO - WILL PUT THAT MAP UP ON THE SCREEN OF - FOR THE SABBATH 10:54 SCHOOL LESSON. THERE WE GO, THANK YOU. 10:57 THAT RED LINE SHOWS HE'S COME FROM JERICHO. 10:59 WHAT HAPPENED THERE? HE SAW ZACCHEUS IN A TREE, HE 11:03 HEALED BLIND BARTEMAEUS. YOU'LL NOTICE IT SAYS, 11:05 'IN JERICHO' AND HE'S ON HIS WAY TO JERUSALEM. HE TAKE - GOES UP 11:09 FROM BELOW SEA LEVEL, BASICALLY, HE COMES UP, HE SPENDS THE NIGHT 11:13 AT HIS FRIENDS' HOUSE. WHO WERE THESE FRIENDS? MARTHA, LAZARUS, 11:19 AND THEY HAD A SISTER NAMED MARY, AND THAT'S IN BETHANY. YOU 11:23 CAN SEE WHERE BETHANY IS THERE - THE LOWER LINE, HOPEFULLY. 11:26 THEN HE GOES - ON HIS WAY TO JERUSALEM - HE TAKES - HE GETS 11:30 TO THE ROAD AGAIN AND HE SENDS HIS DISCIPLES OFF INTO BETHPHAGE 11:34 - AND BETHPHAGE MEANS 'A HOUSE OF YOUNG FIGS'. 11:37 NOW THAT'S SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE FIG TREES COME INTO THE STORY. 11:41 BETHANY IS THERE ON THE BOTTOM AND THEN HE GOES ACROSS THE 11:47 MOUNT OF OLIVES TOWARDS JERUSALEM AND YOU GO OVER A HILL 11:50 AND DESCEND - JERUSALEM IS SPREAD BEFORE YOU - JUST SORT OF 11:53 WANTED YOU TO HAVE YOU HAVE THAT PICTURE IN MIND BECAUSE THIS IS 11:56 GOING TO COME INTO PLAY IN JUST A MOMENT. 11:58 AND SO HE TELLS THEM, 'GO, YOU'LL FIND THIS DONKEY TIED 12:05 WITH A COLT. LOOSE THEM.' NOW ONLY IN MATTHEW 12:10 - YOU'LL FIND THIS STORY IN MARK AND IN LUKE AND IN JOHN, BUT 12:15 ONLY IN MATTHEW DOES IT TALK ABOUT THE MOTHER, AS WELL AS 12:18 THE COLT THAT JESUS SAT ON, WAS BROUGHT ALONG. 12:21 WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY WERE TOLD TO BRING THE MOTHER ALONG? 12:24 BECAUSE IF YOU TAKE THE COLT OF THE DONKEY AWAY, IT'S GOING TO 12:28 BRAY AND HEEHAW AND MAKE ALL KINDS OF NOISE. 12:31 AND IT WOULD BE A LOT MORE RELAXED, SO THEY JUST LET THE 12:34 MOTHER COME. HE SAID, 'BRING THEM.' BUT JESUS 12:37 SITS ON THE COLT, ONE ON WHICH NEVER A MAN HAS SAT. 12:40 AND THE OTHERS IT JUST TALKS ABOUT HIM TAKING THE COLT. 12:43 BUT THE MOTHER CAME ALONG ALSO, AND IT SAYS, "ALL THIS WAS DONE" 12:48 - THIS IS VERSE 4 - MATTHEW 21:4 - "ALL THIS WAS DONE THAT IT 12:51 MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET," - NOW, 12:56 WHAT PROPHET ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? 12:59 IT SAYS, "TELL THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, 'BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS 13:03 COMING TO YOU, LOWLY, AND SITTING ON A DONKEY, A COLT, THE 13:07 FOAL OF A DONKEY.'" WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US 13:11 ZECHARIAH 9:9 THEN? >>REJOICE GREATLY, 13:15 O DAUGHTER OF ZION! SHOUT, O DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM! 13:19 BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU; HE IS JUST AND HAVING 13:23 SALVATION, LOWLY AND RIDING ON A DONKEY, A COLT, THE FOAL OF A 13:29 DONKEY." >>AS NEAR AS WE CAN TELL, THIS 13:31 WAS WRITTEN 450 YEARS BEFORE IT HAPPENED, AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT 13:37 THE KING COMING, HE'S GOING TO BE RIDING ON THE FOAL OF A 13:41 DONKEY, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING, AND THIS IS ONE ON 13:44 WHICH NEVER A MAN HAS SAT. NOW, HAVE ANY OF YOU 13:48 BROKE WILD HORSES BEFORE? I HAVE. I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU, 13:58 YOU JUST CAN'T CLIMB ON AND EXPECT TO RIDE. 14:02 WE ADOPTED SOME MUSTANGS FROM ARIZONA 35 YEARS AGO, UP IN 14:07 COVELO, WE WERE PART OF A PROGRAM. 14:09 WE MADE A YOUTH MINISTRY OUT OF IT AND THE KIDS WOULD COME, BUT 14:12 WE HAD TO BREAK THESE SO YOU COULD RIDE THEM. 14:15 AND THE FIRST TIME YOU CLIMB ON THE BACK - FIRST OF ALL, THEY 14:17 ARE KICKING AND CARRYING ON IF YOU TRY TO PUT A SADDLE ON THEM. 14:22 AND THE FIRST TIME - NOW, DOMESTICATED ONES ARE A LITTLE 14:25 TAMER BECAUSE THEY'RE A LITTLE MORE USED TO PEOPLE. THESE ONES 14:28 FROM ARIZONA AND UTAH AND NEVADA, THEY'RE JUST LIKE WILD. 14:33 I MEAN, THEY'LL NOT ONLY TRY TO BUCK YOU OFF, THEN THEY'LL GO 14:35 AFTER YOU TO KICK AND BITE YOU. I MEAN, THEY'RE REALLY WILD. 14:38 AND SO THE IDEA THAT JESUS JUST GOT ON THIS DONKEY IS A MIRACLE. 14:43 IT'S A MIRACLE THAT HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES THEY'D FIND IT WHERE 14:46 HE SAID THEY'D FIND IT, WITHOUT HAVING BEEN THERE, AND IT'S A 14:49 MIRACLE THAT THE PEOPLE LET IT GO JUST BY THE WORD OF THE LORD. 14:54 YOU KNOW, THIS REMINDS ME OF ANOTHER STORY IN THE BIBLE. 14:56 YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES 'WE'RE GOING TO HAVE - 14:59 WE'VE GOT A PLACE FOR THE LAST SUPPER.' IT'S NOT LONG AFTER 15:02 THIS - HE SAID, 'WHEN YOU ENTER THE TOWN, INTO JERUSALEM, YOU'RE 15:05 GOING TO SEE SOMEONE CARRYING SOME WATER. FOLLOW THEM. 15:08 THEY WILL LEAD YOU TO A ROOM AND SAY, 'WHERE'S THE ROOM WHERE MY 15:11 MASTER'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE SUPPER?' 15:13 AND IT'S LIKE MAYBE THEY HAD SEEN IT IN A DREAM. I MEAN, 15:16 YOU WONDER, 'HOW DID HE GET THIS INFORMATION TO THESE PEOPLE? 15:19 BUT IT'S LIKE SUPERNATURALLY THE LORD ARRANGED FOR THESE THINGS. 15:25 NOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT THIS HAPPENS FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE 15:31 PASSOVER - THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. MOST SCHOLARS AGREE. 15:35 YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE 15:37 PASSOVER? IS THE PASCAL LAMB WAS TO BE CHOSEN. 15:41 THEY DIDN'T PICK THE LAMB OUT OF THE FLOCK AND SLAY IT THE SAME 15:44 DAY OF THE PASSOVER. FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE PASSOVER 15:48 THE LAMB WAS CHOSEN AND SET ASIDE - KIND OF LIKE THE TURKEY 15:51 BEFORE THANKSGIVING IS PICKED. AND JESUS ENTERS THE CITY AS THE 15:57 LAMB FIVE DAYS - HE ENTERS AS KING - IT'S LIKE THIS IS THE 16:01 TIME HE IS SURRENDERING TO BEING THE PASSOVER LAMB FIVE DAYS 16:05 BEFORE - AND THIS IS DURING THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. 16:08 WHY IS HE RIDING A DONKEY? A YOUNG DONKEY, WHY NOT A HORSE? 16:14 WELL, IN BIBLE TIMES, THE HORSES MEANT BATTLE. 16:17 YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT MILITARY BUILD UP? 16:23 MILITARY BUILD UP IN BIBLE TIMES WAS THEY DID NOT BUY GUNS AND 16:26 TANKS. MILITARY BUILD UP WAS YOU 16:27 GOT HORSES BECAUSE IF YOU'RE CHARGING, WITH HORSES AND 16:32 SPEARS, ARMIES THAT ARE ON THE GROUND - AND THEY USED TO PUT 16:35 ARMOR ON THE HORSES - THE HORSES WOULD JUST PLOW 16:37 THROUGH THE TROOPS. AND SO, WHEN YOU WERE ON A HORSE 16:42 IT MEANT YOU WERE COMING TO CONQUER AND IT MEANT WAR. 16:45 WHEN YOU CAME ON A DONKEY OR A MULE, IT MEANT PEACE. 16:50 AND SO HERE HE'S COMING AS THE KING OF PEACE WITHIN THE GATES. 16:56 I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF THAT. 16:58 IF YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES, LEADERS USED TO RIDE 17:01 THEM. JUDGES CHAPTER 12, VERSE 13 - AND THERE'S A JUDGE MOST OF 17:04 YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT. "AFTER HIM, ABDON, THE SON OF 17:08 HILLEL THE PIRATHONITE JUDGED ISRAEL. 17:12 HE HAD FORTY SONS AND THIRTY GRANDSONS, WHO RODE ON SEVENTY 17:18 YOUNG DONKEYS." - WHAT KIND OF DONKEYS? 17:20 YOUNG DONKEYS. WHAT DID JESUS RIDE ON? 17:23 YOUNG DONKEY - THE FOAL OF A DONKEY. 17:26 AND SO, THE LEADERS OF THESE - THE JUDGE HAD HIS SONS HELP 17:30 ADMINISTRATE THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL AND THEY WERE RIDING ON 17:33 THESE DONKEYS. BUT THEY WERE DOING 17:35 IT AS JUDGES IN PEACE. IT WASN'T FOR WAR. 17:39 SO YOU GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 21, VERSE 6, "SO THE DISCIPLES WENT 17:44 AND DID AS JESUS COMMANDED THEM. THEY BROUGHT THE DONKEY AND 17:48 THE COLT, LAID THEIR CLOTHES ON THEM, AND SET HIM ON THEM. 17:54 AND A VERY GREAT MULTITUDE SPREAD THEIR CLOTHES ON THE 17:57 ROAD; OTHERS CUT DOWN BRANCHES FROM THE TREES AND SPREAD THEM 18:02 ON THE ROAD." - AND THEY USED TO DO THIS - 18:04 SOME OF YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER A ROMANTIC PIECE OF HISTORY - AND 18:08 I BELIEVE IT'S TRUE, FROM WHAT I'VE READ ABOUT SIR WALTER 18:11 RALEIGH, WHEN QUEEN ELIZABETH WAS WALKING TO COURT ONE DAY, 18:15 HE TOOK OFF HIS CLOAK, BECAUSE THERE WAS A PUDDLE IN THE ROAD, 18:18 AND HE THREW HIS CLOAK DOWN BECAUSE SHE WAS A QUEEN AND SHE 18:20 SHOULD NOT SOIL HER SHOES ON THE PUDDLE. 18:23 AND HE SAID, 'WALK ON MY CLOAK BECAUSE YOU'RE THE QUEEN.' ANY 18:26 OF YOU REMEMBER THAT IMAGE FROM HISTORY? 18:28 YEAH, SO WHEN YOU HAVE ROYALTY, THEY DIDN'T WANT THEIR FEET TO 18:31 TOUCH THE GROUND AND THEY'D PUT DOWN THESE FRONDS AND THEY'D 18:34 THROW THEIR CLOTHES DOWN ON THE ROAD AND IT WAS A SYMBOL OF 18:38 RESPECT. AND THEY'RE ALL CELEBRATING. 18:43 THEY BELIEVE - THEY'VE BEEN WAITING FOR JESUS TO MAKE HIS 18:45 MOVE. REMEMBER? THEY WERE GOING TO TAKE HIM BY FORCE AND MAKE 18:47 HIM A KING WHEN HE MULTIPLIED THE BREAD. 18:51 AND HE SENT THE CROWD AWAY. AND WHEN HE PERFORMED HIS 18:53 MIRACLES HE KEPT TELLING THEM, 'DON'T TELL ANYBODY. KEEP IT 18:56 QUIET.' BUT THEY PROCLAIM IT ABROAD. 18:58 HE'D OPEN THE EYES OF THE BLIND AND SAY, 'DON'T TELL ANYBODY.' 19:01 HE'D HEAL A LEPER - 'DON'T TELL ANYBODY.' BUT THEY'D WIDELY 19:03 PROCLAIM IT AND EVERYBODY SAID, 'THIS IS THE MESSIAH. 19:07 WHEN IS HE GOING TO MAKE HIS MOVE? 19:08 WHEN'S THERE GOING TO BE THE ANNOUNCEMENT? 19:10 FINALLY,CAN YOU SEE THERE'S ALL THIS PENT-UP ENTHUSIASM. 19:14 FINALLY THE DISCIPLES - THEY'RE THE MOST EXCITED OF ALL. 19:16 THEY'VE BEEN WAITING BECAUSE NOW HE'S GOING TO LET THEM SIT ON 19:18 THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT IN THEIR KINGDOM. 19:21 SOMEHOW HE'S GOING TO DO SOMETHING TO PROCLAIM HIMSELF 19:23 THE NEW KING OF ISRAEL, THE SON OF DAVID. 19:25 AND EVERYBODY IS JUST ELECTRIC WITH EXCITEMENT AND THEY START 19:30 TO THROW THEIR CLOTHES DOWN FOR HIM TO MARCH OVER AND THEIR 19:33 TAKING PALMS AND THEY PROBABLY STRIPPED THE TREES FOR MILES 19:36 AROUND. THEY'RE TAKING THE PALMS AND 19:38 THROWING IT IN THE WAY AND THE PEOPLE ARE MORE AND MORE - YOU 19:40 HEAR THE COMMOTION - 'WHAT'S THE NOISE?' 19:41 AND THEY'RE ALL RUSHING TOGETHER AND THEY'RE SHOUTING LOUDER AND 19:44 LOUDER AS THE CROWD SWELLS AS HE'S COMING - YOU KNOW, BECAUSE 19:47 IT'S A COUPLE OF MILES THAT HE'S RIDING - AND ALL THESE PEOPLE 19:51 ARE COMING TO THE FEAST. THE ROADS ARE ALREADY CROWDED. 19:54 JOSEPHUS SAYS, DURING THE PASSOVER 250,000 LAMBS WERE 20:00 SACRIFICED BECAUSE THE JEWS THAT HAD BEEN SCATTERED ALL AROUND 20:05 THE WORLD WOULD COME TO JERUSALEM. 20:07 IT WAS ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE FEASTS - NOT EVERY JEW, BUT MANY 20:10 OF THE DEVOUT JEWS WOULD COME. THAT'S WHY - PENTECOST 20:13 - THEY WERE STILL THERE. AND SO, YOU'VE ALREADY GOT THE 20:16 PARADES OF PEOPLE COMING FROM THE SOUTH AND EGYPT AND FROM 20:20 MESOPOTAMIA, AND THEY'RE COMING FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THIS 20:25 SPECTACLE BEGINS TO HAPPEN AND THEY ALL RUSH AROUND HIM 20:27 AND THIS MASS OF PEOPLE. 'WHAT IS IT?' 20:30 'OH, IT'S THE SON OF DAVID, THE MESSIAH'S COME.' 'WHO IS IT?' 20:32 'JESUS.' 'OH, THAT'S RIGHT, IT WOULD BE JESUS.' AND THEY'RE 20:34 SHOUTING AND THEY'RE SINGING AND WHAT ARE THEY SAYING? 20:39 "HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID!" SO THEY ALL KNEW THE MESSIAH 20:43 WOULD BE THE SON OF DAVID. "'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES 20:46 IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!' 'HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST!'" 20:50 AND THE HILLS ARE RINGING WITH THE SOUND AND IT SAYS, 'WHEN HE 20:54 CAME INTO JERUSALEM, ALL THE CITY WAS MOVED SAYING, 20:57 'WHO IS THIS? AND THE MULTITUDE SAID, 'THIS IS JESUS, THE 21:02 PROPHET FROM NAZARETH OF GALILEE.' 21:05 NOW, THERE'S MORE THAT HAPPENS HERE. 21:10 AT ONE POINT, WHEN HE'S COMING IN THE CITY, IT TELLS US THAT HE 21:15 STOPS AND HE WEEPS OVER JERUSALEM AND, AS HE'S COMING 21:22 ACROSS THE BROW OF THE CITY, AND HE SAID, 'O, JERUSALEM, 21:27 JERUSALEM, HOW OFTEN I WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU UNDER MY WINGS 21:31 BUT YOU WOULD NOT.' AND THE DISCIPLES CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY 21:34 THERE'S THIS PAUSE ALL OF A SUDDEN. 21:36 SO AS THEY'RE COMING FROM THE INTERSECTION OF BETHANY AND 21:40 BETHPHAGE - YOU SAW ON THE MAP THERE - THEY'RE GOING UP THE TOP 21:43 OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, THE CROWD IS GOING - YOU GET TO THE 21:45 PEAK AND YOU CAN SEE THE CITY OF JERUSALEM - ONE OF THE 21:48 MAGNIFICENT WONDERS WAS THE TEMPLE THAT HAD BEEN EMBELLISHED 21:51 BY HEROD THE GREAT. HE WAS A GREAT BUILDER - WICKED 21:54 KING, BUT GREAT BUILDER. HE BUILT MASSAD AND HE BUILT 21:56 CAESAREA AND THE AQUADUCTS AND HE SPENT 40 YEARS MAKING THE 22:03 TEMPLE OF NEHEMIAH AND EZRA EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL. 22:06 AND THEY COME OVER THE HILL - IT'S STILL MORNING - THE SUN IS 22:10 HITTING IT. IT'S GOT GOLD THAT'S GLINTING 22:14 ON ITS EDGES, THE BRONZE IS POLISHED. 22:17 IT'S THE ICONIC BEAUTIFUL CENTERPIECE OF THE NATION OF 22:23 ISRAEL AND, AT THAT POINT, JESUS PULLS BACK ON THE REIGNS OR HE 22:28 TELLS THE DISCIPLES TO STOP AND HE STOPS AND HE LOOKS AND 22:31 EVERYONE GROWS QUIET BECAUSE TEARS COME TO HIS EYES AND HE 22:37 MOURNS OUT THIS LAMENT, 'O, JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, THE HOUR 22:42 IS COMING WHEN YOUR ENEMIES ARE GOING TO HEDGE YOU IN ON EVERY 22:44 SIDE AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW THE HOUR OF YOUR VISITATION.' 22:48 THEY'RE GOING, 'WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?' 22:50 AND THEN WHEN HE'S DONE WITH THAT, THEY BEGIN TO COME TO THE 22:52 CITY AND MAYBE THEY'RE THINKING IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE 22:55 A WAR WITH THE ROMANS AS HE TAKES THE CITY. 22:58 THEY DON'T KNOW. THEY START RESUMING THEIR SINGING AGAIN. 23:01 AND SO THE WHOLE CITY IS IN AN UPROAR AND HE COMES TO THE 23:03 TEMPLE AND THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE SAYING, 'DON'T YOU HEAR WHAT 23:06 THEY'RE SAYING? TELL THEM TO BE QUIET.' JESUS 23:10 SAID, 'OH, IF I TELL THEM TO BE QUIET, EVEN THE STONES'LL 23:12 CRY OUT BECAUSE THIS IS A FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY. 23:15 IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.' JESUS IS SAYING, 'WHEN GOD SAYS IT, IT'S 23:19 GOING TO HAPPEN.' SO THEY COME INTO THE CITY AND 23:22 HE BEGINS TO TEACH AGAIN. NOW, BY THE WAY, THAT VERSE I 23:27 QUOTED FROM IS LUKE 19:41 WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT - I OUGHT TO 23:34 READ IT TO YOU REALLY QUICK. "NOW AS HE DREW NEAR, HE SAW THE 23:40 CITY " - AND NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS IN VERSE 38 OF LUKE, "BLESSED IS 23:43 THE KING WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! 23:45 PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST!" 23:47 KIND OF LIKE WHEN JESUS WAS BORN, TOO. 23:49 THEY SAID, 'PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO MEN.' AND IT SAYS, AS HE 23:52 CAME NEAR THE CITY - OH, AND SOME OF THE PHARISEES CALLED 23:55 THEM AND SAID, 'REBUKE THE DISCIPLES. 23:57 TELL THEM TO BE QUIET.' 'IF I SHOULD, THE STONES WOULD CRY 23:59 OUT.' "NOW AS HE DREW NEAR, HE SAW THE CITY AND WEPT OVER IT, 24:03 SAYING, 'IF YOU HAD KNOWN, EVEN YOU, ESPECIALLY IN THIS YOUR 24:07 DAY, THE THINGS THAT MAKE FOR YOUR PEACE! 24:09 BUT NOW THEY ARE HIDDEN FROM YOUR EYES. 24:11 FOR DAYS WILL COME UPON YOU WHEN YOUR ENEMIES WILL BUILD AN 24:13 EMBANKMENT AROUND YOU, SURROUND YOU AND CLOSE YOU IN ON EVERY 24:16 SIDE, AND LEVEL YOU, AND YOUR CHILDREN WITHIN YOU, TO THE 24:22 GROUND; AND THEY WILL NOT LEAVE IN YOU ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER, 24:26 BECAUSE YOU DID NOT KNOW THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION." 24:29 THEN HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND HE BEGAN TO DRIVE OUT THOSE WHO 24:32 BOUGHT AND SOLD. NOW, WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT 24:33 IN JUST A MINUTE. SO, ONE MORE THING BEFORE I 24:37 LEAVE THIS - I'M TRYING TO PACE MYSELF - BEFORE I LEAVE THE 24:41 TRIUMPHAL ENTRY - WHAT GATE DID HE GO THROUGH? 24:48 THERE'S ONE PRINCIPLE GATE THAT FACES THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, IT'S 24:51 CALLED THE GOLDEN GATE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A 24:53 PICTURE OF THAT TODAY? SHERLE, WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP A 24:56 PICTURE OF THE GOLDEN GATE FROM SABBATH SCHOOL. 24:58 SHE'S WORKING ON CHURCH SLIDES, PROBABLY, AND SO I WANT TO MAKE 25:01 SURE SHE HEARS MY QUEUE. THERE IT IS. SEE THAT? THAT'S 25:04 THE WAY IT LOOKS TODAY. THAT IS THE GATE THAT JESUS RODE 25:07 THROUGH ON HIS WAY TO JERUSALEM. WHY IS IT ALL WALLED UP? 25:12 I'LL TELL YOU A FEW INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT THIS GATE. 25:14 MOST OF THE ANCIENT WALLS OF JERUSALEM WERE REBUILT BY AN 25:19 ARAB LEADER CALLED SOLOMON THE MAGNIFICENT. 25:22 HE WAS REALLY A VERY GOOD KING. HE FOUGHT THE CRUSADERS AND WON. 25:25 HE WON BACK JERUSALEM. HE WAS QUITE A GENERAL. 25:29 THIS IS ONE RARE SECTION OF THE WALL THAT THE STONES DATE BACK 25:34 TO THE TIME OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH WHEN IT WAS REBUILT. 25:37 IF YOU WANT TO SEE SOME OF THE WALLS THAT NEHEMIAH AND HIS CREW 25:40 REBUILT, THIS SECTION IS PART OF THAT. 25:42 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL GATE. THE FOUNDATION STONES - THEY CAN 25:46 EVEN FIND STONES THAT DATE BACK TO SOLOMON THERE. 25:50 THE REASON IT'S WALLED UP IS BECAUSE ABOUT 700 YEARS AGO, THE 25:59 MUSLIMS, KNOWING THE PROPHECY THAT THE JEWISH MESSIAH WOULD 26:03 COME THROUGH THAT GATE, WANTED TO BLOCK IT AND THEY DESECRATED 26:09 THE GROUND BY PUTTING A CEMETERY IN FRONT OF IT. 26:12 INTERESTING, ISN'T IT? THE PROBLEM IS THEY WERE 26:15 SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS TOO LATE, BECAUSE JESUS ALREADY 26:18 WENT THROUGH THAT GATE. THERE WAS A PROPHECY ABOUT THAT 26:21 GATE, IN PARTICULAR, AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. 26:24 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN ZECHARIAH 14:4 - WE 26:28 READ, A MINUTE AGO, ZECHARIAH 9:9. 26:31 ZECHARIAH 14:4, SPEAKING OF HIS COMING, "ON THAT DAY HIS FEET 26:35 WILL STAND ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES THAT LIES BEFORE 26:37 JERUSALEM." DIRECTLY BETWEEN THE MOUNT OF 26:40 OLIVES AND JERUSALEM YOU'VE GOT THE GOLDEN GATE. 26:42 THAT WAS ANOTHER REASON THEY BELIEVED THAT WAS THE GATE. 26:45 IF YOU READ IN PSALM 1:18 - NOW BEAR WITH ME, I'M GOING TO READ 26:49 A COUPLE VERSES TO YOU. PSALM 118, VERSES 19 AND 20, 26:53 "OPEN TO ME THE GATES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; I WILL GO THROUGH 26:55 THEM, AND I WILL PRAISE THE LORD. 26:57 THIS IS THE GATE OF THE LORD, THROUGH WHICH THE RIGHTEOUS 27:00 SHALL ENTER." SO THEY PUT THAT TOGETHER WITH 27:03 PSALM 118:26, "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!" 27:08 WHAT DID THE PEOPLE SAY WHEN JESUS CAME DOWN THE HILL? 27:11 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.' SO YOU SEE 27:13 WHAT THEY'RE QUOTING FROM? THEIR QUOTING FROM PSALM 118 27:16 THAT TALKED ABOUT THE MESSIAH COMING THROUGH THE GATE. 27:20 AND SO, WHEN JESUS RODE THAT DONKEY THROUGH THE GOLDEN GATES, 27:23 IT WAS FULFILLING THESE PROPHECIES AND - IT'S 27:27 INTERESTING THAT THE MUSLIMS THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO STOP 27:29 THE MESSIAH FROM COMING BY WALLING UP THE GOLDEN GATE AND 27:32 PUTTING A CEMETERY IN FRONT. IT'S INTERESTING, THERE ARE 27:34 NOT ONLY MUSLIM GRAVES THERE, THERE'S JEWISH GRAVES THERE. 27:37 AND THEY THOUGHT, 'WELL THIS WILL KEEP HIM FROM COMING' BUT 27:41 HE ALREADY WENT THROUGH THE GATE. 27:43 ALRIGHT, JESUS AND THE TEMPLE , WHAT DOES HE DO? 27:45 WELL, WE ALREADY HEARD THAT THE CHILDREN COME AND THEY'RE 27:47 SINGING AND HE'S HEALING PEOPLE, BUT WHEN HE FIRST COMES IN THE 27:49 TEMPLE - MATTHEW 21:12 - IN A MOMENT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 27:54 FOR ME 1 PETER 2:5 - WILL THAT BE YOU? OKAY. 27:59 I'LL READ MATTHEW 21:12, "THEN JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE OF 28:03 GOD AND DROVE OUT ALL THOSE WHO BOUGHT AND SOLD IN THE TEMPLE, 28:07 AND OVERTURNED THE TABLES OF THE MONEY CHANGERS AND THE SEATS OF 28:11 THOSE WHO SOLD DOVES. AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'IT IS 28:14 WRITTEN, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' BUT 28:18 YOU HAVE MADE IT A 'DEN OF THIEVES.'" NOW WHERE DOES IT SAY 28:22 GOD'S HOUSE WILL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER? A FEW PLACES. 28:27 ONE, THE DEDICATION PRAYER OF SOLOMON SAID, 'IF YOUR PEOPLE 28:30 PRAY TOWARDS THIS PLACE' - BUT THERE ARE ACTUALLY SEVERAL 28:33 PLACES WHERE IT SAID IT WOULD BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL 28:35 PEOPLE. IS THIS THE FIRST OR THE SECOND 28:38 TIME JESUS DRIVES THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE? 28:43 SECOND TIME. ONCE, AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS 28:45 MINISTRY, AND ONCE AT THE END. OBVIOUSLY, JUST BECAUSE HE DROVE 28:52 THEM OUT, WHEN HE WENT BACK UP NORTH AROUND CAPERNAUM AND THE 28:56 SEA OF GALILEE TEACHING, THEY ALL CAME SWOOPING BACK IN AGAIN 29:00 AND THEY SET UP THEIR FLEA MARKETS AND PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY, 29:04 THERE WAS BIG MONEY IN SELLING SACRIFICES DURING THE PASSOVER. 29:10 THEY HAD T-SHIRTS - 'I SURVIVED PASSOVER' - THEY WERE SELLING. 29:14 THEY HAD ALL KINDS OF MERCHANDISE THERE. 29:16 PEOPLE WOULD BRING THEIR LAMBS AND, I MEAN, THEY WERE SELLING 29:19 STUFF IN THE TEMPLE ALL YEAR LONG, BUT THE BEST WEEK OF SALES 29:25 WAS THE PASSOVER. IT WAS SPRING. 29:28 PEOPLE WERE - ALL THE PILGRIMS WERE THERE AND THEY JUST COULD 29:31 NOT GIVE UP THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE MONEY. 29:34 AND EVEN THOUGH JESUS HAD DRIVEN THEM OUT BEFORE AND THEY BEHAVED 29:37 FOR A LITTLE WHILE, THEY CAME BACK IN. 29:40 AND SO, AGAIN, HE DRIVES THEM OUT OF THE TEMPLE. 29:44 SO YOU'VE GOT - IT'S INTERESTING, IT TALKS ABOUT 29:47 'BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN' - AND 'THE TEMPLE WAS CLEANSED, 29:50 WAS CLEANSED.' NOW, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE TEMPLE, YOU'VE 29:55 GOT A FEW DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE THE TEMPLE. 29:58 YOU'VE GOT THE PHYSICAL TEMPLE, LIKE THE TABERNACLE IN THE 30:01 WILDERNESS, AND THE ONE BUILT BY NEHEMIAH, SOLOMON, REFURBISHED 30:06 BY HEROD - THE PHYSICAL TEMPLE. YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPLE 30:10 WHICH IS YOUR BODY. YOUR BODY - 'DON'T YOU KNOW YOUR 30:14 BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?' 30:16 AND THEN PAUL SAYS THE CHURCH IS A TEMPLE AND THAT'S IMPORTANT 30:18 BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE CORNERSTONE IN A 30:20 LITTLE BIT. I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT. 30:23 JESUS CLEANSED THE TEMPLE THERE FROM THE MERCHANDISING. 30:29 DO WE SOMETIMES SEE MERCHANDISING COME INTO THE 30:31 CHURCH? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A THEOLOGY CALLED 'PROSPERITY 30:35 PREACHING'? >>YES. 30:37 >>THEY CALL IT 'NAME IT AND CLAIM IT' THEOLOGY. 30:41 I HEARD ANOTHER PREACHER SAY IT'S CALLED 'BLAB IT AND GRAB 30:44 IT.' (LAUGHTER) THE IDEA IS THAT YOU JUST SAY, 'I'M GOING TO 30:48 CLAIM THIS PROMISE AND GOD'S GOING TO MAKE ME RICH AND IF I 30:51 GIVE MY DONATION TO THIS PROSPERITY PREACHER, IN RETURN, 30:56 GOD PROMISES HE'S GOING TO DOUBLE THAT.' THEY CALL IT A 30:58 SEED INVESTMENT OF FAITH. YOU INVEST IN THIS MINISTRY, YOU 31:01 GIVE THEM A LITTLE MONEY, GOD'S THEN GOING TO BLESS YOU. 31:04 AND IT'S ALL ABOUT 'I'M GOING TO GIVE TO GOD SO HE'LL GIVE BACK 31:05 TO ME.' WHICH REALLY SHOULDN'T BE THE REASON WE GIVE. 31:09 IT IS TRUE THAT GOD OFTEN BLESSES WHEN WE'RE FAITHFUL IN 31:12 TITHES AND OFFERINGS, THOSE BLESSINGS COME IN MANY SHAPES 31:15 AND FORMS, BUT THEY ALWAYS MAKE IT SOUND LIKE IT'S MONETARY AND 31:19 THESE TELEVANGELISTS OFTEN FLIT AROUND THE WORLD IN PRIVATE JETS 31:23 AND THEY ARE BEDECKED WITH JEWELS AND IT'S ALL ABOUT 31:28 PROSPERITY AND YOU'LL SEE THEY'VE GOT GILDED SETS FOR 31:32 THEIR TELEVISION PROGRAMS AND - AND I WONDER WHAT JESUS WOULD 31:36 DO. WOULD HE COME WITH CORDS TO SOME 31:37 OF THESE TEMPLES AND DRIVE OUT THE MONEY CHANGERS? 31:41 THE PULPIT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AN AUCTION BLOCK WHERE YOU'RE 31:45 SELLING THINGS AND AUCTIONING THINGS. 31:49 HE DRIVES THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF OUR LIVES. 31:53 WHO KNOWS WHAT THE TENTH COMMANDMENT IS? 31:57 THOU SHALL NOT COVET. AND IT TALKS ABOUT SEVERAL 32:00 THINGS THAT COULD BE COVETED. BUT NEVER BEING SATISFIED AND 32:03 COVETOUSNESS OR, EVEN LIKE I SAID, COMING TO CHURCH BECAUSE 32:06 OF WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME? THE WIIFM - WHAT'S IN IT FOR 32:10 ME - IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE OFTEN WONDERING. 32:13 AND THE MATERIALISM - IF THEY HAD A LOT OF THINGS YOU COULD 32:18 BUY AND SELL BACK 2,000 YEARS AGO WHEN JESUS WENT TO THE 32:21 TEMPLE, HOW MANY MORE THINGS ARE THERE TO BUY AND SELL IN THE 32:25 WORLD TODAY? THEY'VE GOT WHOLE CHANNELS 32:28 DEDICATED TO SELLING YOU STUFF AND THERE'S A ZILLION WEBSITES 32:33 AND YOU CAN GO TO JUST AMAZON AND BUY A ZILLION THINGS. 32:38 NEVER HAS THERE BEEN A TIME IN THE WORLD WHERE THERE WAS MORE 32:41 STUFF TO BE BOUGHT AND SOLD. AND SO, TO THINK THAT'S NOT 32:45 GOING TO IMPACT CHRISTIANS LIVING IN A WORLD OF 32:47 HYPER-MATERIALISM, WE'RE KIDDING OURSELVES. 32:50 WE'RE ALL - I, YOU KNOW, IT HAPPENS TO YOU. 32:54 IT HAPPENS TO ME. YESTERDAY I WENT ON 32:56 A MISSION TO WALMART. I'M USUALLY PRETTY GOOD. 32:59 I WALK IN THE DOOR, I'VE GOT ONE OR TWO THINGS I'M GOING TO GET 33:03 AND I GET THOSE THINGS AND I WALK OUT. 33:05 >>AMEN. >>IT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK THAT 33:09 WAY FOR PEOPLE CLOSE TO ME. (LAUGHTER) THERE'S - SOMETIMES 33:15 YOU GO TO GET SOMETHING AND YOU COME BACK WITH THREE OR FOUR 33:17 EXTRA THINGS THAT YOU JUST HAPPEN TO SEE. 33:20 THEY CALL TO YOU. >>YOU ALWAYS APPRECIATE IT. 33:22 >>I DIDN'T MENTION ANYBODY IN PARTICULAR. 33:24 (LAUGHTER) I SAW A PRETTY FUNNY - I SAW A CARTOON ONCE AND IT 33:33 WAS - IT SHOWED A PICTURE OF A MALL - IT WAS LIKE A MAZE - A 33:37 GRID - AND IT SHOWS A MAN GOING TO THE MALL TO BUY A SHIRT AND 33:42 IT SHOWS A DIRECT LINE IN, SHIRT, BACK OUT AGAIN. 33:47 AND IT SAYS, 'A WOMAN GOING TO THE MALL' - I'M GOING TO GET 33:50 LETTERS OVER THIS - 'A WOMAN GOING TO THE MALL TO GET A 33:53 SHIRT' - AND SHE'S - THE LINE GOES LIKE THIS ALL THROUGH THE 33:57 MALL AND COMES BACK DOWN AGAIN. 34:03 BUT EVEN I - YESTERDAY IT HAPPENED TO ME. 34:04 I SAID, 'OH, I FORGOT, I COULD USE SOME OF THAT TOO. 34:09 AND SO I ENDED UP - AND THEY COUNT - AND YOU KNOW, THE THINGS 34:11 THAT PEOPLE BUY THE MOST IN THE STORE, THEY PUT IN THE BACK OF 34:15 THE STORE SO YOU'VE GOT TO GO ON THIS LONG CIRCUITOUS ROUTE 34:20 THROUGH THE STORE LOOKING AT ALL THE OTHER MERCHANDISE BECAUSE 34:22 THEY KNOW THE MORE YOU LOOK - WHY DO THEY THINK THEY PUT A FEW 34:24 THINGS ON SALE AND THEY PUT THEM IN THE BACK? 34:27 SO YOU'LL SEE ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE REALLY GOING TO 34:29 BRING YOU HAPPINESS ON YOUR WAY TO THAT ONE THING THAT YOU 34:31 ACTUALLY NEED. AND YOU'RE SURE - I - 34:34 SOMETHING'S MISSING IN MY LIFE, IT MUST BE THIS. 34:38 AND SO, I'M JUST SAYING, WHEN JESUS CAME HE DROVE OUT THE 34:43 MONEY CHANGERS. AND I JUST WONDER IF - WHAT HE WOULD DO 34:47 TODAY. NOW, WHAT IS THAT TEMPLE? GO AHEAD, NATHAN, YOU'RE 34:52 GOING TO READ 1 PETER 2:5 FOR US, PLEASE. 34:56 >>"YOU ALSO, AS LIVING STONES, ARE BEING BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL 34:59 HOUSE, A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES 35:04 ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST." 35:07 >>SO WE'VE GOT THE PHYSICAL TEMPLE AND THE BIBLE TELLS US 35:11 THERE IS A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE - THAT WE'RE LIVING STONES BUILT 35:14 ON A CORNERSTONE - WE'LL GET TO IN A LITTLE BIT - TO BUILD UP 35:18 THIS SPIRITUAL HOUSE. YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE OF GOD. 35:22 NOW, WHEN YOU STUDY THE SANCTUARY SUBJECT, IT'S 35:24 IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE THREE SYMBOLS FOR IT. 35:28 YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPLE OF GOD IN HEAVEN, YOU'VE GOT THE CHURCH AS 35:31 A SANCTUARY THAT NEEDS CLEANSING, AND OUR BODIES ARE 35:33 SANCTUARIES THAT NEED CLEANSING, OKAY? 35:36 AND JESUS, BEFORE HE COMES, HE CLEANSES THE SANCTUARY. 35:40 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. IS HE CLEANSING THE 35:42 SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN? BEFORE HE DIED ON THE CROSS 35:46 HE CLEANSED THE TEMPLE. BEFORE HE FINISHES HIS WORK 35:49 OF MEDIATION HE CLEANSES THE TEMPLE. 35:52 AND SO - AND HE DRIVES OUT THE MONEY CHANGERS. 35:55 HE'S GOING TO PURIFY HIS CHURCH BEFORE HE COMES. 35:59 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16 AND 17, "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE 36:03 TEMPLE OF GOD AND THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU? 36:06 IF ANYONE DEFILES THE TEMPLE OF GOD, GOD WILL DESTROY HIM. 36:11 FOR THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YOU ARE." 36:13 YOU INDIVIDUALLY ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND YOU COLLECTIVELY ARE 36:16 THE TEMPLE OF GOD. ALRIGHT - AND THEN, AFTER HE 36:20 DOES THIS, PEOPLE OFTEN WONDER, WHEN HE MADE THE CORD - WHERE 36:24 DO YOU MAKE THE CORD FROM? THEY HAD LITTLE ROPES THEY USED 36:26 - WHEN THEY'D SELL THE LAMBS, THEY'D TIE OFF THE LAMBS - MAYBE 36:29 HE GRABBED SOME OF THOSE - AND HE TOOK THESE LITTLE CORDS AND 36:32 HE - IT SAYS HE MADE A WHIP - I DON'T KNOW IF HE PUT SEVERAL OF 36:35 THEM TOGETHER AND PUT A KNOT IN THEM. 36:38 IT NEVER SAYS HE WHIPPED ANYBODY, BUT I'VE SEEN PAINTINGS 36:41 WHERE THEY SHOW JESUS THRASHING THE MONEY CHANGERS AND DRIVING 36:44 THEM OUT OF THE TEMPLE. IT NEVER SAYS HE WHIPPED ANYONE. 36:47 IT DOESN'T SAY HE YELLED. I THINK THAT HE JUST HELD THAT 36:51 IN HIS HAND AND IT WAS AN IMAGE OF JUDGMENT THAT TERRIFIED THEM. 36:55 AND HE SPOKE, BUT WHEN HE SPOKE, HIS VOICE WAS SO POWERFUL THAT 37:01 IT PUT TERROR - AND THEY WENT SCRAMBLING AND HE WENT BY AND HE 37:04 BEGAN TO - HE DID TURN OVER THE TABLES OF THE MONEY - THE COINS 37:08 WERE CLANGING ON THE FLOOR AND THEY WERE AFRAID TO EVEN TAKE 37:10 THEM UP. HE SAID, 'TAKE THESE THINGS 37:13 HENCE - AND THEY WERE HEARING THE VOICE OF THE ALMIGHTY 37:15 SPEAKING TO THEIR SOULS. BUT, EVIDENTLY, IT WASN'T 37:19 FRIGHTENING BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER THAT? 37:22 THEN THE BLIND AND THE LAME CAME TO HIM IN THE TEMPLE AND HE 37:26 HEALED THEM. AND WHEN THE PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES SAW THE 37:29 WONDERFUL THINGS THAT HE DID - AND THEY HEARD THE CHILDREN 37:31 CRYING OUT IN THE TEMPLE. THEY'RE STILL SAYING THE REFRAIN 37:34 FROM THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY - "'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID!' 37:38 THEY WERE INDIGNANT AND SAID TO HIM, 'DO YOU HEAR WHAT THESE ARE 37:41 SAYING? THEY'RE CALLING YOU THE MESSIAH. 37:43 STOP THEM.' AND YOU CAN TELL WHY THEY WANTED TO CRUCIFY HIM. 37:49 AND JESUS SAID, 'DID YOU HEAR' - HE SAID, "HAVE YOU NEVER READ, 37:52 'OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES AND NURSING INFANTS YOU HAVE 37:55 PERFECTED PRAISE'? AND HE LEFT THEM AND HE WENT OUT 37:59 OF THE CITY TO BETHANY, AND HE LODGED THERE." SO HE WENT BACK 38:02 AFTER THAT DAY OF TEACHING, HE WENT OUT OF THE TEMPLE. 38:06 SO HERE WE HAVE HIM CLEANSING THE TEMPLE AND THEN THE NEXT 38:11 MORNING - NOW, WE DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS IMMEDIATELY THE NEXT 38:13 MORNING, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT FROM THE READING OF MATTHEW. 38:16 WE'VE GOT NO FRUIT. 38:18 MATTHEW 21 - LET'S JUMP THERE - VERSE 18, "NOW IN THE MORNING, 38:22 AS HE RETURNED TO THE CITY, HE WAS HUNGRY. 38:25 AND SEEING A FIG" - WELL, YOU WOULD THINK, YOU KNOW, HE WOULD 38:28 JUST BE FED BY MARTHA AND LAZARUS - THEY WERE TAKING CARE 38:32 OF TWELVE APOSTLES - IT'S A PRETTY BIG HOUSEHOLD. 38:35 MAYBE JESUS WANTED TO SPARE THEM. 38:36 AND SO HE GOES FOR A WALK - BETHANY IS NOT THAT FAR FROM 38:41 BOTH JERUSALEM AND FROM BETHLEHEM - AND HE GOES AND HE 38:47 SEES THERE'S A FIG TREE. HE CAME AND HE FOUND 38:52 NOTHING ON IT BUT LEAVES. AND HE SAID, 'LET NO FRUIT GROW 38:56 ON YOU EVER AGAIN.' IMMEDIATELY THE FIG TREE WITHERED AWAY." 39:01 NOW, WHEN YOU READ THIS IN MARK, I JUST NEED TO BE HONEST WITH 39:04 YOU, THERE'S A LITTLE DISCREPANCY HERE BETWEEN MARK 39:07 AND MATTHEW. MARK SAYS THE NEXT DAY THEY 39:10 CAME AND SAW THE FIG TREE WAS WITHERED. 39:12 WHAT MATTHEW IS SAYING, IS RIGHT AFTER HE SPOKE THE WORD IT 39:15 BEGAN TO WITHER. THE DISCIPLES NOTICED IT THE NEXT DAY. 39:20 IT HAD JUST - IT DIED WHEN JESUS SPOKE, BUT YOU COULD 39:22 SEE IT WAS VISIBLY SHRIVELED THE NEXT DAY. 39:26 DID JESUS HAVE A TANTRUM BECAUSE HE DIDN'T GET BREAKFAST AND SO 39:30 HE CURSED THE TREE? PEOPLE HAVE OFTEN WONDERED, 'WHAT'S GOING ON 39:34 HERE? WHY'D HE GET MAD AND CURSE THE TREE? WHAT DID THAT POOR 39:36 TREE EVER DO TO HIM?' HE COMES TO THE TREE THAT HAS ALL OF THE 39:43 - THE ADVERTISING - IT HAS THE PRETENSE THAT IT'S GOING TO HAVE 39:46 FRUIT, BUT THERE IS NO FRUIT AND SO HE CURSES IT BECAUSE IT'S A 39:52 FRUITLESS FIG TREE. WHAT DOES THAT FIG TREE MEAN? 39:56 'LET NO MAN EVER EAT FRUIT ON YOU AGAIN' - 39:59 AND IMMEDIATELY THE FIG TREE WITHERED AWAY. 40:01 AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT, THEY MARVELED AND SAID, 'LOOK 40:04 HOW THE FIG TREE HAS WITHERED AWAY SO SOON.' "SO JESUS 40:07 ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 'ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, IF YOU 40:11 HAVE FAITH AND DO NOT DOUBT, YOU WILL NOT ONLY DO WHAT WAS DONE 40:14 TO THE FIG TREE, BUT ALSO IF YOU SAY THIS TO THE MOUNTAIN, 'BE 40:17 REMOVED AND BE CAST INTO THE SEA,' IT WILL BE DONE. 40:21 AND WHATEVER THINGS YOU ASK IN PRAYER, BELIEVING, YOU WILL 40:24 RECEIVE.'" THAT'S A WONDERFUL PROMISE. 40:27 NOW HE STILL HASN'T TOLD THEM 'WHY'D YOU DO THAT TO THE FIG 40:29 TREE?' WHAT THEY'RE IMPRESSED BY IS 40:33 THAT HE SPOKE AND THIS MIRACLE HAPPENED - THAT HE JUST 40:36 HAS POWER OVER NATURE. AND HE SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU SAY 40:40 AND PRAY IN FAITH, THINGS WILL HAPPEN. DID THE DISCIPLES TRY 40:44 THAT LATER IN THEIR LIVES? DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN - DID 40:49 THE DISCIPLES SPEAK AND HEAL CRIPPLES? 40:54 PAUL SPOKE ONE TIME AND A SORCERER WENT BLIND - SO CHILD 40:58 OF THE DEVIL, YOU'RE NOW GOING TO BE BLIND FOR AWHILE BECAUSE 41:01 YOU'RE TURNING PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE TRUTH. THEY JUST HAD THE - 41:05 I WOULDN'T WANT TO TRY THAT. FIRST OF ALL, BECAUSE IT 41:09 WOULDN'T NOT SEEM VERY NICE. SECONDLY, IT MIGHT NOT WORK. 41:13 BUT, YOU KNOW,THEY WOULD, SPEAK AND SAY - SOME GUY'S CRIPPLED 41:16 FOR HIS WHOLE LIFE - 'TAKE MY HAND. STAND UP AND WALK.' 41:19 WOULDN'T IT BE EMBARRASSING IF YOU TRIED THAT AND IT DIDN'T 41:21 WORK? THEN THEY JUST FELL DOWN. BUT THE DISCIPLES DEVELOPED THE 41:26 SAME KIND OF FAITH AS JESUS. WHERE THEY WOULD SPEAK THESE 41:29 THINGS AND THEY SAID IT IN FAITH AND MIRACLES HAPPENED. 41:34 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED THAT WE DON'T SEE ANY MIRACLES BECAUSE 41:37 WE DON'T TAKE CHRIST AT HIS WORD AND TRY IT? 41:41 YOU KNOW, I'VE PRAYED SOME PRAYERS THAT I HAD DOUBTS THE 41:42 PRAYER WOULD BE ANSWERED, EVEN WHEN I PRAYED IT, AND GOD 41:45 ANSWERED THE PRAYER IN SPITE OF MY LACK OF FAITH AND I THOUGHT, 41:47 'MAN, I OUGHT TO PRAY BIG PRAYERS MORE OFTEN.' SO HE'S 41:51 TALKING TO THEM ABOUT ASKING IN FAITH AND HE SAYS, 'YOU'LL DO 41:54 GREAT THING FOR THEM.' BUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE FIG 41:57 TREE? LET ME GIVE YOU SOMETHING QUICK TO THINK ABOUT. 41:59 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME GALATIANS 5:22. 42:04 FIRST OF ALL, WHY DID HE CURSE A FRUITLESS FIG? 42:08 WHAT DOES THAT FRUIT REPRESENT? GO AHEAD AND READ THAT FOR US. 42:11 >>"BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, 42:14 LONGSUFFERING, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, 42:17 GENTLENESS, SELF CONTROL, AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW." 42:22 >>SO HE WANTS THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT IN OUR LIVES. 42:26 WHAT DOES IT SAY IN JOHN 15? 'HE'S THE VINE WHERE THE 42:29 BRANCHES, IF THEY DON'T BEAR FRUIT, THEY'RE GOOD FOR NOTHING 42:31 BUT TO BE CUT AND BURNED. SO IT TELLS US PRETTY CLEARLY 42:35 WHAT THE FATE IS FOR FRUITLESS CHRISTIANS. 42:39 HE WANTS THE FRUIT. WHAT IS THE FRUIT? 42:41 THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT SHOULD BE IN OUR LIVES. 42:44 AND - BUT WHY - WHAT DOES THE FIG TREE REPRESENT? 42:48 WHY DID HE CURSE THE FIG TREE? 42:50 YOU REMEMBER IN MATTHEW 24, JESUS SAID, 'LEARN A PARABLE OF 42:55 THE FIG TREE, WHEN IT'S BRANCHES ALREADY BECOME TENDER, IT PUTS 42:59 FORTH LEAVES, YOU KNOW THAT SUMMER IS NEAR. 43:02 SO ALSO, WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE THINGS, KNOW THAT IT IS NEAR, 43:06 EVEN AT THE DOORS.' MANY HAVE BELIEVED THAT THE FIG TREE WAS A 43:09 SYMBOL FOR JERUSALEM - THE JEWISH NATION - HE CAME TO THEM 43:13 LOOKING FOR THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. 43:14 HERE HE IS, THE MESSIAH, HE'S JUST COME THROUGH THE CITY AND, 43:18 INSTEAD OF HAVING RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BEING READY FOR HIS FIRST 43:20 COMING, THEY'RE - HE HAS TO CHASE THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF 43:25 THE TEMPLE AND THERE'S FRUITLESSNESS. 43:28 CHRIST TELLS A PARABLE - IF YOU GO TO LUKE IT GIVES US A LITTLE 43:32 MORE INSIGHT IN THIS - LUKE CHAPTER 13 - YOU'LL ONLY FIND 43:35 THIS IN LUKE - LUKE CHAPTER 13, VERSE 6, "A CERTAIN MAN HAD A 43:40 FIG TREE PLANTED IN HIS VINEYARD, AND HE CAME SEEKING 43:43 FRUIT ON IT AND FOUND NONE. THEN HE SAID TO THE KEEPER OF 43:47 HIS VINEYARD, 'LOOK, FOR THREE YEARS'" - HOW MANY YEARS? 43:51 THREE YEARS - I WANT YOU TO JUST CATCH THAT - "'I HAVE COME 43:54 SEEKING FRUIT ON THIS FIG TREE AND FIND NONE. 43:56 CUT IT DOWN; WHY DOES IT USE UP THE GROUND?'" 43:59 - NO FRUIT - "BUT HE" - THE MAN WHO CARES FOR THE TREE - 44:03 "BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, 'SIR, LET IT ALONE THIS 44:06 YEAR ALSO, UNTIL I DIG AROUND IT AND FERTILIZE IT.'" - 'I'LL DIG 44:10 AROUND IT, I'LL IRRIGATE IT, I'LL FERTILIZE IT, I'LL GIVE IT 44:12 ONE MORE CHANCE.' WHO KNOWS? SOME TREES DON'T 44:15 BEAR EVERY YEAR. MAYBE IT WAS AN OFF YEAR. 44:18 KAREN AND I JUST WENT OUT TO OUR LITTLE CHERRY TREE IN THE 44:20 BACKYARD. RIGHT NOW YOU SHOULD 44:22 HAVE CHERRIES. NOT A CHERRY. 44:24 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WENT WRONG, BUT I DON'T REMEMBER CURSING IT 44:27 - I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. BUT WHO KNOWS - I DON'T KNOW 44:30 - THE BEES DIDN'T COME OR SOMETHING, BUT NOT 44:32 A SINGLE CHERRY. SOME CHERRY TREES - AND THEN 44:34 YOU'LL HAVE ANOTHER YEAR - BUMPER CROP. 44:37 AND SO HE SAID, 'LOOK, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN NO FIGS FOR THREE 44:38 YEARS AND, TYPICALLY, THERE WOULD BE. 44:40 GIVE IT ANOTHER YEAR.' SOME TREES NEVER BEAR, YOU KNOW THAT? 44:43 THEY JUST - FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY DON'T DO IT. 44:46 HE SAID, 'GIVE IT ONE MORE YEAR.' HE WANTS THE TREE TO BE 44:49 FRUITFUL. 'I'LL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO MAKE IT FRUITFUL. 44:53 AND IF IT BEARS FRUIT, WELL - WE'VE SAVED THE TREE, BUT IF 44:56 NOT, THEN YOU CAN CUT IT DOWN.' NOW THIS IS A PARABLE BUT IT'S 45:01 SORT OF A PROPHECY BECAUSE WHAT DOES THAT FIG TREE REPRESENT? 45:05 GOD'S PEOPLE. BACK THERE - THE 45:07 NATION OF ISRAEL. THERE'S A TIME PERIOD 45:09 CONNECTED WITH IT. HOW MANY YEARS ARE IN IT TOTAL? 45:13 FOUR YEARS. IT SAYS, 'THREE YEARS, NO FRUIT. GIVE IT ONE 45:16 MORE YEAR.' A TOTAL OF HOW MANY YEARS? WHAT DOES A DAY EQUAL IN 45:20 PROPHECY? >>YEAR. 45:22 >>A YEAR. HOW MANY DAYS IN A JEWISH YEAR? 45:26 >>360. >>360. 45:28 YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE IT TELLS US 42 MONTHS IS THREE HUNDRED - 45:33 IS 1260-YEAR-PROPHECY IS 42 MONTHS. 45:35 IT'S GOT TO BE A 360-DAY - 30-DAY MONTH, 360-DAY YEAR IN 45:40 THAT LUNAR CALENDAR. SO, 360 TIMES 4 IS 1440. 45:51 IF YOU GO FROM WHEN - WHO'S THE FIG TREE? 45:57 IT'S JERUSALEM, IN PARTICULAR, PLANTED IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 46:00 YOU READ IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 5 IT SAYS, 'I PLANTED ISRAEL AS A 46:06 VINEYARD.' THIS MAN PLANTS A FIG TREE IN HIS VINEYARD. 46:09 WHEN WERE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL PLANTED IN THE PROMISED LAND? 46:14 JOSHUA ENTERED IN AND THEY BEGAN TO TAKE JERICHO AND STARTED 46:17 TAKING - THEY ENDED UP FIGHTING OH, FOR 35-40 YEARS - TAKING THE 46:22 PROMISED LAND, BUT THEY FIRST SETTLED IN IT 1406 - YOU'LL FIND 46:26 THAT NUMBER IN YOUR BIBLES. IF YOU GO 360 TIMES 4 PROPHETIC 46:32 YEARS, THAT'S 1440 YEARS FROM 40 - 1406 - YOU KNOW 46:35 WHAT THAT COMES TO? 34 A.D. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 46:40 WHAT HAPPENED IN 34 A.D.? IF YOU KNOW YOUR PROPHECY. 46:44 THE SANHEDRIN PLUGGED THEIR EARS, THEY STONED STEPHEN, THE 46:48 DISCIPLES - A GREAT PERSECUTION BEGAN, AND THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY 46:52 WAS UP FOR THE JEWISH NATION. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 46:57 THAT FOUR YEARS - THAT PARABLE JESUS SHARES COVERS THAT AS 47:00 WELL. ALL RIGHT, RUNNING OUT OF TIME. LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS 47:02 CORNERSTONE. CORNERSTONE - "'HEAR ANOTHER PARABLE.'" - 47:07 WE'RE IN MATTHEW 21:33 - "'THERE WAS A CERTAIN 47:10 LANDOWNER WHO PLANTED A VINEYARD AND SET A HEDGE AROUND IT, DUG 47:15 A WINEPRESS IN IT AND BUILT A TOWER. 47:17 AND HE LEASED IT TO VINEDRESSERS AND WENT INTO A FAR COUNTRY. 47:21 NOW WHEN VINTAGE-TIME DREW NEAR, HE SENT HIS SERVANTS TO THE 47:25 VINEDRESSERS, THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE ITS FRUIT. 47:28 AND THE VINEDRESSERS TOOK HIS SERVANTS, BEAT ONE, KILLED ONE, 47:32 AND STONED ANOTHER. AGAIN HE SENT OTHER SERVANTS, 47:35 MORE THAN THE FIRST, AND THEY DID LIKEWISE TO THEM. 47:38 THEN LAST OF ALL HE SENT HIS SON" - 47:40 I WOULD HAVE NOT DONE THAT BUT IN THE PARABLE 47:42 HE DOES - "HE SENT HIS SON TO THEM SAYING, 'THEY WILL RESPECT 47:45 MY SON.' BUT WHEN THE VINEDRESSERS SAW THE SON, THEY 47:49 SAID AMONG THEMSELVES, 'THIS IS THE HEIR. 47:51 COME, LET US KILL HIM AND SEIZE HIS INHERITANCE.'" - 47:53 HE'LL HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO TAKE IT. WE'LL GET IT.' - "SO THEY 47:56 TOOK HIM AND THEY CAST HIM OUT OF THE VINEYARD" - JERUSALEM - 48:00 CAST OUT - "AND KILLED HIM. 'THEREFORE, WHEN THE OWNER OF 48:05 THE VINEYARD COMES, WHAT WILL HE DO TO THOSE VINEDRESSERS?' 48:09 THEY SAID TO HIM, 'HE WILL DESTROY THOSE WICKED MEN 48:11 MISERABLY, AND LEASE HIS VINEYARD TO OTHER VINEDRESSERS 48:16 WHO WILL RENDER TO HIM THE FRUITS IN THEIR SEASONS.' JESUS 48:20 SAID TO THEM," - HERE'S THE PUNCH LINE - HE SAYS, "'HAVE YOU 48:23 NEVER READ IN THE SCRIPTURES: 'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS 48:26 REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. 48:29 THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'? 48:33 THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, THE KINGDOM OF GOD WILL BE TAKEN 48:37 FROM YOU AND GIVEN TO A NATION BEARING THE FRUITS" - WHAT DOES 48:41 THE LORD WANT? FRUITS. HE DOESN'T WANT US TO JUST HAVE THE 48:45 NAME. HE DOESN'T WANT US JUST TO HAVE A BUILDING. HE DOESN'T WANT 48:49 US TO HAVE A CULTURE. HE DOESN'T WANT US TO HAVE A REGISTERED 48:53 DENOMINATION. I MEAN, THERE MIGHT BE A PLACE 48:56 FOR ALL THOSE THINGS, BUT WHAT DOES HE WANT? 48:58 CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT 'DO YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT? 49:01 DO YOU HAVE THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT? 49:02 ARE YOU LIVING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE? 49:04 AND IF WE DON'T, HE CUTS IT DOWN, TAKES THE NATION AWAY AND 49:07 GIVES IT TO A NATION THAT WILL BRING FORTH THE FRUIT. 49:11 JESUS SAID, 'YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY THEIR - BY THEIR FRUITS.' AND 49:17 THEN HE GOES ON AND HE SAYS, "WHOEVER FALLS ON THIS STONE" - 49:20 OH, BY THE WAY, WHO IS THE NATION? 49:22 THE GENTILES AND ANY ISRAELITE THAT WANTED TO BE 49:25 PART OF IT, THEY COULD ALSO STILL, BUT IT WASN'T JUST GOING 49:29 TO BE THE NATION OF ISRAEL ANYMORE, THE GOSPEL WAS GOING 49:31 EVERYWHERE - WHOSOEVER WILL. AND IN ONE GENERATION - IT 49:35 STARTED OUT THE EARLY CHURCH WAS ALL JEWISH BUT WITHIN 40 YEARS 49:39 THE NUMBER OF GENTILES GREATLY OUTPACED THE NUMBER OF JEWS 49:42 THAT WERE IN THE EARLY CHURCH - "'WHOEVER FALLS ON THIS STONE 49:46 WILL BE BROKEN; BUT ON WHOMEVER IT FALLS, IT WILL GRIND HIM TO 49:51 POWDER.' NOW WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE PHARISEES HEARD 49:55 HIS PARABLES, THEY PERCEIVED THAT HE WAS SPEAKING OF THEM." 49:58 - THEY WERE RIGHT - "BUT WHEN THEY SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM, 50:01 THEY FEARED THE MULTITUDES, BECAUSE THEY TOOK HIM FOR A 50:04 PROPHET." YOU KNOW, HE QUOTES FROM - WHEN THEY SAID, 'OH, THIS 50:08 IS THE HEIR, LET US SEIZE HIM AND KILL HIM AND THE INHERITANCE 50:12 WILL BE OURS' REMEMBER WHEN JOSEPH CAME TO HIS BROTHERS? 50:15 THEY SAID, 'HERE COMES THAT DREAMER. 50:17 LET'S KILL HIM.' WHY WERE THEY SO UPSET WITH JOSEPH? 50:20 BECAUSE JACOB WAS GOING TO MAKE JOSEPH THE HEIR THAT NORMALLY 50:24 WOULD GO TO THE FIRSTBORN. AND SO, THEY SAID, 'WE WILL 50:27 GET THE INHERITANCE BY KILLING JOSEPH - FATHER'S FAVORITE. 50:32 AND SO THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS GOING ON HERE AND THEY KNEW HE 50:37 SPAKE THIS ABOUT THEMSELVES. SO SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO THINK 50:41 ABOUT HERE, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS IS WHAT IS 50:44 THIS CORNERSTONE? WHO'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, 50:46 ROMANS 9:33 - ALRIGHT, IN JUST A MOMENT I'LL GET TO YOU. 50:49 LET ME READ ISAIAH 8:13 - THIS IS THE SCRIPTURE THAT JESUS IS 50:53 QUOTING. "THE LORD OF HOSTS, HIM YOU 50:57 SHALL HALLOW; LET HIM BE YOUR FEAR, AND LET HIM BE YOUR DREAD. 51:00 HE WILL BE A SANCTUARY, BUT A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK 51:04 OF OFFENSE TO BOTH THE HOUSES OF ISRAEL." 51:08 - MEANING THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN KINGDOMS - "AS A TRAP 51:10 AND A SNARE TO THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM. 51:13 AND MANY AMONG THEM WILL STUMBLE AND THEY SHALL FALL AND BE 51:15 BROKEN, BE SNARED AND TAKEN." ALRIGHT, READ FOR US, PLEASE, 51:20 ROMANS 9:33 >>"AS IT IS WRITTEN: 51:24 'BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STUMBLING STONE AND ROCK OF 51:29 OFFENSE, AND WHOEVER BELIEVES ON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO 51:33 SHAME.'" >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 51:36 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US THE APOSTLES SAY 'WE'RE LIVING 51:39 STONES BUILT ON THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE' WHICH IS JESUS. 51:42 THIS WHOLE STORY ABOUT THE CORNERSTONE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE 51:46 UNLESS YOU KNOW ABOUT A STORY THAT IS IN JEWISH LITERATURE BUT 51:51 IS NOT IN THE BIBLE. AND IT'S REFERENCED BY 51:55 THE BIBLE SEVERAL TIMES. WHEN THEY WERE BUILDING 51:58 SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, ALL THE STONES WERE CUT AT A QUARRY A FEW MILES 52:02 AWAY SO THERE WAS NO SOUND HEARD WHEN THEY GOT TO THE TEMPLE. 52:06 THIS IS A QUOTE FROM DESIRE OF AGES , I FORGOT THE REFERENCE, 52:09 BUT IF YOU LOOK IN THERE YOU'LL FIND IT. 52:11 "IN QUOTING THIS PROPHECY ABOUT THE STONE REJECTED, CHRIST 52:14 REFERRED TO AN ACTUAL OCCURRENCE IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL. 52:18 THE INCIDENT WAS CONNECTED WITH THE BUILDING OF THE FIRST 52:21 TEMPLE. WHILE IT HAD A SPECIAL APPLICATION FOR THE TIME OF 52:24 CHRIST'S FIRST ADVENT AND SHOULD HAVE APPEALED WITH SPECIAL FORCE 52:28 TO THE JEWS, IT HAS A LESSON FOR US. 52:30 WHEN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON WAS ERECTED, THE IMMENSE STONES FOR 52:34 THE WALLS AND THE FOUNDATION WERE ENTIRELY PREPARED AT THE 52:37 QUARRY. AFTERWARD, THEY WERE BROUGHT 52:39 TO THE PLACE OF THE BUILDING. NOT AN INSTRUMENT WAS 52:41 TO BE USED UPON THEM. THE WORKMEN HAD ONLY TO PUT 52:44 THEM IN PLACE FOR USE IN THE FOUNDATION. 52:47 THE ONE STONE OF UNUSUAL SIZE AND A PECULIAR SHAPE HAD BEEN 52:51 BROUGHT BUT THE WORKMEN COULD FIND NO PLACE FOR IT AND WOULD 52:54 NOT ACCEPT IT. IT WAS AN ANNOYANCE TO THEM. 52:57 IT LAY UNUSED IN THEIR WAY. LONG IT REMAINED A REJECTED STONE." 53:03 - IT GATHERED DUST AND BUILDING MATERIALS WERE SET ON THERE AND 53:06 BLUEPRINTS AND THEY STUMBLED INTO IT AND TRIPPED OVER IT AND 53:09 BUMPED INTO IT BECAUSE THE PEOPLE FROM THE QUARRY, 53:11 THEY KNEW IT WAS A CORNERSTONE. 53:13 THEY DIDN'T HAVE RADIOS TO TALK TO EACH OTHER BACK THEN. 53:15 THEY DELIVERED IT AND THEY THOUGHT THEY'D KNOW. 53:17 AND THEY PUT IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT, 53:19 'OH, YOU'LL NEED THIS FIRST.' - "SO IT WAS RIGHT IN THE WAY. 53:23 BUT TIME CAME FOR THEM TO NOW PICK THE CORNERSTONE AND TO FIND 53:28 A STONE OF SUFFICIENT SIZE AND STRENGTH AND THE PROPER SHAPE TO 53:31 TAKE THE PARTICULAR PLACE AND TO BEAR THE GREAT WEIGHT THAT WAS 53:34 TO REST UPON IT, SHOULD THEY MAKE AN UNWISE CHOICE FOR THIS 53:36 IMPORTANT PLACE, THE SAFETY OF THE ENTIRE BUILDING WOULD BE 53:40 ENDANGERED. THEY MUST FIND A STONE CAPABLE OF RESISTING THE 53:43 INFLUENCE OF THE SUN, THE FROST, THE TEMPEST. SEVERAL STONES, AT 53:47 DIFFERENT TIMES HAD BEEN CHOSEN, BUT UNDER THE PRESSURE OF 53:50 IMMENSE WEIGHTS, THEY HAD CRUMBLED TO PIECES. 53:52 OTHERS COULD NOT BEAR THE TEST OF SUDDEN ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES 53:55 AND THEY CRACKED. BUT AT LAST, ATTENTION WAS 53:58 CALLED TO THE STONE THAT HAD BEEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 54:00 WORK AREA SO LONG REJECTED. IT HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO THE AIR, 54:04 TO THE SUN,THE STORM - WITHOUT REVEALING THE SLIGHTEST CRACK. 54:07 THE BUILDERS EXAMINED THE STONE; IT BORE EVERY TEST BUT ONE. 54:11 IF IT COULD BEAR THE TEST OF SEVERE PRESSURE THEY DECIDED TO 54:14 ACCEPT IT FOR THE CORNERSTONE. THE TRIAL WAS MADE, THE STONE 54:18 WAS ACCEPTED AND BROUGHT TO THE ASSIGNED POSITION, IT WAS 54:21 FOUND TO BE AN EXACT FIT. IN PROPHETIC VISION, ISAIAH WAS 54:25 SHOWN THIS STONE WAS A SYMBOL OF CHRIST." 54:27 AND THAT'S THE VERSE THAT WE JUST READ. 54:29 THE CORNERSTONE - THE STONE THAT WAS REJECTED. 54:34 YOU AND I ARE LIVING STONES BUILT UP TO A SPIRITUAL HOUSE, 54:38 BUT YOU'VE GOT A CORNERSTONE. ANY OF YOU EVER BUILD A 54:41 WALL - MEN - WITH MASONRY? YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS - 54:46 YOU GET THE BOTTOM STONES HAVE TO BE SQUARE OR THE WHOLE WALL 54:50 TIPS IF THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT OUT OF LINE. 54:54 BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, IF YOU'RE BUILDING A WALL THAT'S 54:56 GOT A CORNER IN IT, IF THE CORNERSTONE IS NOT SQUARE - 54:58 BECAUSE IT NOT ONLY CONTROLS ONE SIDE, IT CONTROLS THE ELEVATION, 55:02 IT CONTROLS THAT WALL AND IT CONTROLS THIS WALL AND THE FLOOR 55:07 - THE PAVEMENT. AND SO EVERYTHING GOES 55:10 OFF OF THE CORNERSTONE. IF THE CORNERSTONE IS NOT 55:12 PERFECTLY SQUARED, THE WHOLE BUILDING GETS OUT OF SKEW. 55:17 AND SO, HERE THE QUARRYMEN HAD PREPARED A PERFECT STONE BUT 55:22 THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE STONE THAT WAS BROUGHT. 55:24 THEY EXPECTED SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 55:26 AND THIS IS AN ILLUSTRATION THAT GOD HAD SENT JESUS, THE ROCK OF 55:28 AGES, FOR THEM TO BUILD THE CHURCH UPON, BUT IT DIDN'T FIT 55:33 WITH THEIR - THEY KEPT STUMBLING ON IT. 55:35 WHY DOES IT SAY IF YOU FALL ON THE STONE YOU'LL BE BROKEN? 55:38 IS THAT A BAD THING OR A GOOD THING? 55:40 GOOD THING. IT MEANS YOU'RE BROKEN-HEARTED 55:42 - YOU FALL ON THE STONE AND YOU SURRENDER. 55:44 BUT IT SAYS ON WHOEVER THE STONE FALLS, IT GRINDS INTO POWDER. 55:47 WHERE DO WE SEE A STONE GRINDING THINGS TO POWDER? 55:50 DANIEL CHAPTER 2. ALL THE LOST KINGDOMS BLOW AWAY AS THE WIND. 55:55 AND SO YOU DON'T WANT TO BE GROUND TO POWDER, YOU WANT TO 55:57 FALL ON THE STONE AND BE BROKEN, BUT YOU NOTICE SOMETHING? 55:59 EVERYBODY ENCOUNTERS THE STONE. EITHER YOU FALL ON IT OR IT 56:03 FALLS ON YOU. AND SO JESUS IS THAT ROCK OF AGES AND - AND I 56:10 DID RUN OUT OF TIME. NO - I'VE GOT TWO SECONDS LEFT. 56:13 NOW I'M OUT OF TIME (LAUGHTER) AND I DIDN'T GET TO THE LAST 56:17 SECTION ON THE COST OF GRACE, SO PLEASE READ MATTHEW 22:1-14. 56:21 I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS STUDYING WITH US WE DO HAVE A 56:23 FREE OFFER IF YOU MISSED IT AT THE BEGINNING. 56:25 IT'S CALLED BLOOD BEHIND THE VEIL AND JUST ASK FOR OFFER #130 56:29 WHEN YOU CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. 56:31 WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY. 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MORE THAN 45 57:16 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 57:20 >>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 57:24 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS 57:27 WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE 57:29 I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE 57:33 NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK 57:35 THROUGH AND FIND THIS. >>THAT I JUST COULDN'T GET 57:37 ENOUGH. >>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE 57:39 STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS 57:42 STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF. 57:45 >>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' 57:48 THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS 57:51 A FATHER. >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS 57:55 WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE. 57:58 >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. 58:02 THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT, 58:06 'THIS IS REAL. THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 58:11 (MUSIC) |
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