Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021627A
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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH 00:37 SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR 00:39 FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD 00:42 - OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS. ALSO TO THE MEMBERS HERE 00:46 OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH, HAPPY SABBATH. 00:48 GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE AGAIN THIS MORNING, AND ALSO THE VISITORS 00:51 WHO ARE JOINING US. IT'S SO NICE TO HAVE YOU. 00:53 WE'RE STARTING A BRAND-NEW LESSON QUARTERLY ENTITLED THE 00:56 ROLE OF THE CHURCH AND THE COMMUNITY . 00:59 TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON #1 ENTITLED THE 01:03 RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS . NOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU JOINING 01:06 US WHO DON'T HAVE A COPY OF TODAY'S LESSON, YOU CAN GO TO 01:09 THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN 01:13 DOWNLOAD LESSON #1 - THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS - AND 01:17 YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG WITH US AS WE STUDY TOGETHER. 01:20 WE ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR LESSON 01:22 TODAY, FROM STRESS TO JOY , AND WE'D BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE THIS TO 01:27 ANYONE WHO CALLS AND ASKS. THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966. 01:34 AGAIN, THAT PHONE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR 01:40 OFFER #705 AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO YOU. 01:44 THOSE WATCHING OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA CAN GO TO THE AMAZING 01:47 FACTS WEBSITE, JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN 01:51 DOWNLOAD A COPY OF FROM STRESS TO JOY AND YOU CAN READ FOR FREE 01:56 ONLINE. WELL, AT THIS TIME, WE'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS 02:00 TO COME AND JOIN ME HERE AS WE BEGIN OUR TIME TOGETHER WITH 02:03 LIFTING OUR VOICES IN PRAISE. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 02:10 AS YOU KNOW, I LOVE TO SING AND I AM A HYMN GIRL THROUGH ALL THE 02:15 YEARS, AND SO, I LOVE WHEN WE CAN GET TOGETHER AND WORSHIP GOD 02:19 IN SONG WITH THESE HYMNS. THIS MORNING WE'RE GOING TO SING 02:23 HYMN #295 - CHIEF OF SINNERS - 'THOUGH I BE, JESUS SHED HIS 02:28 BLOOD FOR ME.' WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE VERSES, SO PULL 02:31 OUT YOUR HYMNALS AT HOME AND SING ALONG WITH US - #295. 02:35 (PIANO MUSIC) >>CHIEF OF SINNERS THOUGH I BE, 02:48 JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR ME; DIED THAT I MIGHT LIVE ON HIGH, 02:57 DIED THAT I MIGHT NEVER DIE; AS THE BRANCH IS TO THE VINE, I AM 03:08 HIS, AND HE IS MINE. O THE HEIGHT OF JESUS' LOVE! 03:17 HIGHER THAN THE HEAVEN ABOVE, DEEPER THAN THE DEEPEST SEA, 03:27 LASTING AS ETERNITY; LOVE THAT FOUND ME; WONDROUS THOUGHT! 03:36 FOUND ME WHEN I SOUGHT HIM NOT! CHIEF OF SINNERS THOUGH I BE, 03:47 CHRIST IS ALL IN ALL TO ME; ALL MY WANTS TO HIM ARE KNOWN, ALL 03:57 MY SORROWS ARE HIS OWN; SAFE WITH HIM FROM EARTHLY STRIFE, 04:05 HE SUSTAINS THE HIDDEN LIFE. >>I AM SO GRATEFUL THAT WE HAVE 04:15 A SAVIOR THAT KNOWS ALL OF OUR STRIFE. 04:18 HE KNOWS ALL OF OUR WANTS, OUR NEEDS, OUR TEARS, AND HE STANDS 04:22 BY US EVERY SINGLE MINUTE OF EVERY SINGLE DAY. 04:25 AND IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW WE FEEL, IT'S A KNOWING THAT HE IS 04:28 THERE. PRAISE THE LORD. HYMN #50 - ABIDE WITH ME - MY 04:33 FAVORITE HYMN IN THE WHOLE HYMNAL. 04:35 AND THIS MORNING WE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL TREAT BECAUSE WE HAVE A 04:41 HARP PLAYING WITH US AND SO WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST 04:44 AND SECOND VERSES AND SHE'S GOING TO PLAY ONE VERSE WITH THE 04:48 HARP AND WE'RE GOING TO JOIN IN ON THE FOURTH VERSE. 04:51 ABIDE WITH ME - HYMN #50. (PIANO MUSIC) 04:58 >>ABIDE WITH ME; FAST FALLS THE EVEN TIDE; 05:10 THE DARKNESS DEEPENS; LORD WITH ME ABIDE! 05:23 WHEN OTHER HELPERS FAIL, AND COMFORTS FLEE, HELP OF THE 05:39 HELPLESS, O ABIDE WITH ME! SWIFT TO ITS CLOSE EBBS OUT 05:57 LIFE'S LITTLE DAY; EARTH'S JOYS GROW DIM, ITS GLORIES PASS AWAY; 06:15 CHANGE AND DECAY IN ALL AROUND I SEE; O THOU, WHO CHANGEST 06:31 NOT, ABIDE WITH ME! (HARP MUSIC) 07:34 >>I FEAR NO FOE, WITH THEE AT HAND TO BLESS; ILLS 07:49 HAVE NO WEIGHT, AND TEARS NO BITTERNESS: WHERE IS DEATH'S 08:04 STING? WHERE, GRAVE, THY VICTORY? 08:14 I TRIUMPH STILL IF THOU ABIDE WITH ME! 08:34 >>I PRAY THAT THAT IS YOUR PRAYER TODAY - THAT YOU'RE JUST 08:36 CONSTANTLY, CONSTANTLY ABIDING IN CHRIST UNTIL HIS COMING. 08:40 AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL HAVE PRAYER. 08:53 >>I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE BEGIN WITH PRAYER. 08:55 DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO 08:58 GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD, AND LORD WE ASK THAT THE 09:01 HOLY SPIRIT WOULD COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS. 09:04 AS WE LOOK AT THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY - HOW WE 09:07 OUGHT TO BE THAT CITY ON A HILL - THAT LIGHT SHINING FORTH IN 09:10 THE DARKNESS, SHARING THE GOOD NEWS OF SALVATION AND LIFTING UP 09:13 JESUS. I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD GUIDE US 09:15 AND HELP US TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO IN THIS GREAT WORK OF SHARING 09:19 GOOD NEWS WITH THE WORLD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR 09:22 PROMISE TO BE WITH US. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 09:25 OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 09:30 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. HAPPY SABBATH. HOW IS EVERYBODY? 09:34 AND WE'RE GETTING READY, NOW, TO DIVE INTO THIS NEW QUARTERLY 09:37 DEALING WITH THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY. 09:41 AND I'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE VARIOUS CHAPTERS AND, IF YOU 09:44 JUST GO TO THE CONTENTS IN THIS LESSON, YOU'LL SEE IT'S - A LOT 09:49 OF IT IS DRAWN FROM A STATEMENT - IT TALKS ABOUT JESUS - CHAPTER 09:54 6 - MINGLED WITH THE PEOPLE, DESIRED THEIR GOOD, SHOWED 09:57 SYMPATHY, MINISTERED TO THEIR NEEDS, WON THEIR CONFIDENCE, 10:01 BADE THEM 'FOLLOW ME.' AND THERE'S A STATEMENT RIGHT THERE 10:06 THAT SOME OF YOU RECOGNIZE FROM THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY THAT 10:09 TALKS ABOUT CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE - THE MOST EFFECTIVE 10:12 METHOD OF EVANGELISM. AND SO, THAT'S ALL BROKEN DOWN 10:16 IN EXPLORING THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY. 10:21 AND I WANT TO WELCOME OUR EXTENDED MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE 10:25 BAY CHURCH AND OUR SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS. 10:28 GREETINGS. WE KNOW WE'VE GOT FRIENDS FROM 10:29 AROUND THE WORLD THAT WATCH AND WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO LESSON 10:33 #1 TODAY, DEALING WITH THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS. 10:38 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - THE MEMORY VERSE COMES FROM GENESIS 10:41 1:27 - GENESIS 1:27 - AND IT'S RIGHT THERE IN YOUR QUARTERLY, 10:47 YOU CAN QUOTE IT RIGHT OUT OF THERE. 10:48 ARE YOU READY TO SAY IT WITH ME? "SO GOD CREATED MANKIND IN HIS 10:54 OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED THEM; MALE AND 10:59 FEMALE HE CREATED THEM." AND THAT'S GENESIS 1:27. 11:06 NOW, WHEN WE SAY, RIGHT HERE IN THE VERY INTRODUCTION IN THE 11:09 LESSON, IT'S CALLED THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS . 11:12 WHAT'S IMPLIED IN THE WORD 'RESTORATION'? 11:19 DO YOU RESTORE SOMETHING IN GOOD SHAPE? 11:22 DO YOU BUY A BRAND-NEW MERCEDES SO YOU CAN RESTORE IT? 11:25 OR DO YOU BUY SOMETHING THAT HAS SOME DEFECTS THAT NEEDS 11:31 RESTORATION? THE VERY FACT THAT THINGS 11:33 NEED RESTORATION MEANS WHAT? SOMETHING HAS DILAPIDATED, 11:39 SOMETHING HAS ERODED, SOMETHING HAS FALLEN, SOMETHING HAS BROKEN 11:44 AND IT NEEDS TO BE RESTORED. AND SO, JUST THE FACT THAT WE'RE 11:48 TALKING ABOUT RESTORING THINGS, IT MEANS THAT SOMETHING HAS 11:52 DRIFTED FROM GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN. 11:55 NOW, IF YOU LOOK WITH ME IN LUKE CHAPTER 4, VERSE 18, PEOPLE 12:00 THINK SOMETIMES THAT PREACHING IS THE MEANS OF RESTORATION - 12:06 THAT WE'RE JUST TO GO AND WE'RE ALL TO PREACH - AND THAT'S HOW 12:09 THE GOSPEL IS SPREAD. BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THERE'S MUCH 12:11 MORE TO THAT - MUCH MORE TO SPREADING THE GOSPEL 12:14 THAN JUST PREACHING. IN JUST A MOMENT I'M GOING TO 12:16 READ - SOMEONE'S GOT MATTHEW 9:35 - YOU'LL HAVE THAT KATRINA? 12:19 OKAY, WE'LL GET READY FOR YOU IN A MINUTE. 12:21 I'M GOING TO READ LUKE 4:18 - FIRST SERMON JESUS PREACHES IN 12:25 HIS HOME CHURCH. HE STANDS UP THERE IN NAZARETH, 12:28 IN THE SYNAGOGUE, AND HE OPENS TO ISAIAH 61 AND HE 12:31 QUOTES FROM ISAIAH 61. HERE'S WHAT IT SAYS, "'THE 12:35 SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME'" - 12:38 THAT'S - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE CHRIST WAS ANOINTED WITH 12:41 THE HOLY SPIRIT AT HIS BAPTISM, GOES IN THE WILDERNESS - HE 12:44 SUCCEEDS AGAINST THE VARIOUS TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL. 12:47 AND HE COMES BACK NOW AND HE GOES TO HIS HOME CHURCH AND HE 12:50 PREACHES HIS FIRST SERMON AND HE'S TELLING THEM THE LORD HAS 12:54 MESSIAHED ME - THE LORD HAS CHRISTED ME - CHRISTOS - THAT 13:00 MEANS 'I AM THE ANOINTED'. HE'S BASICALLY ANNOUNCING, 13:03 'I AM THE ANOINTED'. FOR WHAT? 13:06 "'BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR;'" 13:09 - SO HOW DO YOU PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR? 13:11 - "'HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM 13:15 LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, 13:19 TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED; TO PROCLAIM THE 13:23 ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.'" SO THERE'S PREACHING INVOLVED 13:28 AND THERE'S TEACHING INVOLVED, BUT IT TALKS ABOUT HEALING - 13:31 HEALING HEARTS, PROCLAIMING LIBERTY, SETTING CAPTIVES FREE, 13:36 OPENING THE EYES OF THE BLIND - PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY. 13:40 GO AHEAD, READ MATTHEW 9:35. THIS IS A GREAT VERSE THAT 13:43 SUMMARIZES THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. 13:47 >>"THEN JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN 13:50 THEIR SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND 13:54 HEALING EVERY SICKNESS AND EVERY DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE." 13:58 >>NOW THIS IS A GREAT VERSE. WE'VE OFTEN THOUGHT THIS IS 14:01 A - KIND OF A GOOD SLOGAN FOR AMAZING FACTS. 14:06 GO EVERYWHERE PREACHING THE GOSPEL - YOU'RE TEACHING, YOU'RE 14:10 PREACHING - IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S TRAINING, THERE'S PUBLIC 14:13 PROCLAMATION. HE GOES WHERE? TO THE SYNAGOGUES. 14:17 IT'S DONE IN THE CONTEXT OF A CHURCH. 14:20 THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A CHURCH-BASED MINISTRY. 14:23 HE NOT ONLY HAS A CITY MINISTRY, HE'S GOT A COUNTRY MINISTRY. 14:27 HE WENT TO THE CITIES, HE WENT TO THE VILLAGES AND HE'S 14:30 PREACHING ABOUT THE KINGDOM. THIS WAS THE MESSAGE 14:32 - THE KINGDOM OF GOD. PHYSICAL HEALING - HEALING OF 14:36 SICKNESS - AND EVERY DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. 14:39 AND I THINK IN SOME GOSPELS IT USES THIS AND THEN IT SAYS, 14:42 ALSO, CASTING OUT DEVILS. AND SO, THE MINISTRY OF 14:47 RESTORING PEOPLE TO GOD - THE MINISTRY OF RESTORATION IS NOT 14:52 JUST TO GO OUT AND PREACH. IT'S ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT 14:56 EVERY MEMBER CAN BE INVOLVED IN BECAUSE, WHILE ALL OF US MAY NOT 15:00 HAVE THE GIFTS OF TEACHING AND PREACHING, ALL OF US HAVE GIFTS 15:03 OF SOME KIND OF MINISTRY. EVERYBODY IS CALLED TO USE 15:08 THEIR GIFTS IN SOME ASPECT OF RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS. 15:13 ALRIGHT, NOW, UNDER THE FIRST SECTION IN OUR LESSON - THIS IS 15:16 LESSON #1 IN THE NEW QUARTERLY - THE IMAGE OF GOD - MOST OF THE 15:20 LESSON IS GOING TO BE SPENT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TALKING 15:23 ABOUT THAT. WHEN YOU FIRST HEAR ME SAY THE 15:26 WORD 'IMAGE' IN A CHURCH/BIBLE CONTEXT, DOES THAT CONJURE UP 15:30 GOOD PICTURES OR BAD PICTURES? WHAT DOES THE BIBLE 15:34 SAY ABOUT IMAGES? DON'T MAKE THEM. 15:38 DON'T BOW DOWN TO THEM AND WORSHIP THEM. 15:41 AND, EVEN IN THAT SECOND COMMANDMENT - I WAS DRIVING WITH 15:45 NATHAN YESTERDAY AND WE WENT BY A LOCAL CHURCH AND THEY HAD A 15:50 MONUMENT OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND I POINTED IT OUT TO HIM. 15:52 I SAID, 'NOW THAT PARTICULAR MONUMENT TO THE TEN 15:55 COMMANDMENTS, YOU'LL NOTICE THE SECOND COMMANDMENT IS TOTALLY 15:58 MISSING.' THEY DON'T HAVE THE COMMANDMENT 16:01 THAT SAYS, 'DON'T MAKE IMAGES - THE LIKENESS OF ANYTHING IN 16:05 THE HEAVEN ABOVE OR THE EARTH BENEATH.' SO THAT'S ONE EXTREME. 16:07 SOME PEOPLE HAVE DELETED THAT COMMANDMENT. 16:10 OTHERS SAY THAT THE COMMANDMENT NOT TO MAKE AN IMAGE MEANS YOU 16:15 SHOULD NOT HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH IN YOUR WALLET. 16:18 NOW, 'FESS UP, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH IN YOUR PURSE 16:21 OR WALLET? YOU WOULD BE ACCUSED, BY SOME, OF IDOLATRY. 16:28 DOES THE COMMANDMENT SAY, 'DON'T MAKE THE LIKENESS OF ANYTHING IN 16:31 THE HEAVEN ABOVE OR THE EARTH BENEATH OR THE WATER UNDER THE 16:33 EARTH'? IF YOU MAKE A FACSIMILE OF 16:36 ANYTHING THAT EXISTS, THAT WOULD BE IDOLATRY. 16:42 THE COMMANDMENT DOESN'T SAY THAT. 16:44 THE COMMANDMENT SAYS DO NOT MAKE THESE THINGS AND - PART OF THE 16:47 COMMANDMENT IS AND BOW DOWN TO THEM. 16:50 WHAT PROOF DO WE HAVE THAT MAKING ANY KIND OF AN IMAGE IS 16:55 NOT NECESSARILY BREAKING THAT COMMANDMENT? 16:58 DID GOD COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO MAKE IMAGES OF ANGELS 17:03 IN THE SANCTUARY? DID SOLOMON, UNDER THE 17:06 INSPIRATION OF THE SPIRIT, HAVE CALVES - BRONZE CALVES - THAT 17:10 WERE UNDER THE LAVER HOLDING IT UP? 17:12 AND DID THEY MAKE IMAGES OF POMEGRANATES AND BELLS THAT THEY 17:15 PUT ON THE HIGH PRIEST? AND DID THEY ENGRAVE AND 17:17 EMBROIDER IMAGES OF ANGELS IN THE VEIL THAT SEPARATED? 17:21 AND SO THE COMMANDMENT WAS NOT SAYING YOU'RE NOT TO HAVE ANY 17:25 KIND OF ARTISTIC REPLICA OR DUPLICATION OR CARVE A FLOWER OR 17:30 ANYTHING LIKE THAT, IT WAS SAYING DON'T MAKE ANY OF THESE 17:33 THINGS AND BOW DOWN TO THEM. NOW, YOU DO NEED TO BE VERY 17:37 CAREFUL BECAUSE WHAT MAY NOT BE IDOLATRY 17:40 FOR YOU, COULD TEMPT ANOTHER PERSON. 17:45 AND - I TOLD YOU I SOMETIMES HAD MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THE 17:50 PICTURES IN THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH BECAUSE I'VE WATCHED 17:54 PEOPLE WALK INTO CHURCHES BEFORE AND THEY SAW A PICTURE AND THEY 17:58 WERE FROM ANOTHER FAITH AND THEY WENT UP AND THEY KNELT DOWN TO 18:00 IT AND THEY CROSSED THEMSELVES AND THEY STARTED PRAYING, AND I 18:04 THOUGHT, 'DON'T PRAY TO THE MOSAIC.' NOW, IT'S NOT IDOLATRY 18:08 TO HAVE A PICTURE OF REVELATION. WE USE, SOMETIMES, PICTURES IN 18:12 OUR CHURCHES, BUT SOME PEOPLE PRAY TO THEM. 18:15 AND SO, IF IT'S GOING TO MAKE MY BROTHER STUMBLE, YOU WANT TO 18:19 AVOID IT, RIGHT? SO WHEN WE SAY 'IMAGE' OFTEN OUR 18:22 MINDS GO TO THE IMAGES THAT YOU DON'T MAKE AND YOU DON'T PRAY 18:25 TO, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS MAN WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. 18:33 NOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE IMAGE OF GOD, HOW MANY PEOPLE 18:37 HAVE SEEN GOD AND KNOW WHAT THAT IMAGE LOOKS LIKE? 18:40 IS IT TALKING ABOUT A PHOTOGRAPH OF GOD? CAN YOU HAVE A SINGLE- 18:45 DIMENSIONAL IMAGE AND A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE? 18:49 WHEN MAN WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, IT'S NOT TALKING JUST 18:52 ABOUT LIKENESS. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF WAYS. 18:55 ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO GENESIS 1:26. 18:58 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ GENESIS 9:6 FOR ME IN A MOMENT. 19:01 WHO WILL HAVE - YOU'LL HAVE THAT? 19:02 ALRIGHT, GENESIS 1:26, "THEN GOD SAID, 'LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR 19:07 IMAGE, ACCORDING TO OUR LIKENESS;'" - NOW, FIRST OF ALL, 19:10 GOD SAID, 'LET US' - WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY? 19:15 PLURAL. 'MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE'. 19:20 I THINK THE WORD HERE IS 'ELOHIM' AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT 19:23 - OF THE PLURAL FORM OF GOD - "'ACCORDING TO OUR LIKENESS; LET 19:28 THEM HAVE DOMINION OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA, OVER THE BIRDS OF 19:32 THE AIR, AND OVER THE CATTLE, OVER ALL THE EARTH AND OVER 19:35 EVERY LIVING THING THAT MOVES ON THE EARTH.'" ALRIGHT, SO ONE OF 19:38 THE WAYS THAT MAN IS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD IS NOT JUST BECAUSE 19:42 WE PROBABLY BEAR SOME PHYSICAL RESEMBLANCE TO GOD. 19:48 IT'S TELLING US THAT MAN WAS MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD IN 19:51 THAT MAN WAS GIVEN DOMINION. AS GOD HAS DOMINION OVER THE 19:55 UNIVERSE, MAN WAS TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THIS NEW 19:58 WORLD THAT WAS MADE. IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH? 20:04 OKAY. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE. 20:07 THERE ARE SOME TODAY THAT THINK THAT IT IS VERY ARROGANT FOR MAN 20:13 TO THINK THAT WE HAVE DOMINION OVER THE PLANET AND THAT WE 20:17 SHOULD SOMEHOW BE BETTER THAN THE ANIMALS AND THAT IT SHOULD 20:22 BE JUST AS IMPORTANT TO SAVE A WHALE OR A GRASSHOPPER MOUSE AS 20:27 TO SAVE A PERSON. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT. 20:30 THAT'S THIS, KIND OF, EVOLUTION PERSPECTIVE - HUMANISM - I 20:33 BELIEVE THAT THE CROWNING ACT OF GOD'S CREATION IS MAN AND THAT 20:37 JESUS DID NOT DIE FOR MICE, HE DIED TO REDEEM HUMANS - THAT 20:42 PEOPLE ARE INFINITELY MORE VALUABLE. 20:45 JESUS SAID, 'ARE YOU NOT WORTH MORE THAN MANY SHEEP?' 20:48 'ARE YOU NOT WORTH MORE THAN MANY SPARROWS?' 20:51 PEOPLE ARE THE PINNACLE OF THE CREATION ON EARTH, AND THIS IS 20:55 WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES - VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE WORLD IS 20:58 PUTTING OUT THERE. SO 'GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE. 21:01 IN THE IMAGE CREATED HIM MALE AND FEMALE, CREATED HE THEM.' 21:07 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US GENESIS 9:6. 21:11 >>"WHOEVER SHEDS MAN'S BLOOD, BY MAN HIS BLOOD SHALL BE SHED; 21:16 FOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE MADE MAN." 21:19 >>NOW, YOU KNOW, WE'VE JUST JUMPED HERE TO GENESIS 9 BUT, 21:22 AGAIN, IT TALKS ABOUT THE IMAGE OF GOD. 21:24 SO HERE YOU SAY - YOU CAN SEE THAT GOD IS PLACING A GREATER 21:29 VALUE ON MAN BECAUSE, IN THE VERSES JUST PRECEDING THIS IN 21:33 CHAPTER 9, HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE ANIMALS AND THAT ANIMALS 21:37 COULD BE KILLED AND ANIMALS COULD BE EATEN. 21:40 OF COURSE, THAT'S AMONG THE CLEAN ANIMALS. 21:41 BUT, HE SAYS 'YOU SHED THE BLOOD OF MAN' - MAN IS NOT AN ANIMAL - 21:46 IT WAS DIFFERENT. THERE WAS SOMETHING SACRED ABOUT MAN. 21:50 ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ 1 CORINTHIANS 11, VERSE 7, "FOR" - 21:55 AND THIS IS A DIFFICULT VERSE, BUT I JUST WENT THROUGH THE 21:58 BIBLE AND TOOK THE PLACES WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE IMAGE OF GOD 22:03 - "FOR A MAN INDEED OUGHT NOT TO COVER HIS HEAD, SINCE HE IS THE 22:07 IMAGE AND GLORY OF GOD; BUT WOMAN IS THE GLORY OF MAN." 22:12 NOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT A WOMAN IS NOT IN THE IMAGE OF GOD? 22:20 IT'S NOT A TRICK QUESTION, NO. 22:22 BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. 22:25 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT - THAT'S REALLY NEAT - 22:28 WHEN I USED TO DUPLICATE AUDIOTAPES, EVERY AUDIOTAPE THAT 22:33 I WOULD DUPLICATE AWAY FROM THE MASTER ORIGINAL TAPE, THERE WAS 22:39 INFERIOR QUALITY. YOU WOULD LOSE QUALITY. 22:43 WITH THE DIGITAL REPRODUCTION, YOU CAN MAINTAIN THE SAME 22:47 QUALITY - IT'S REALLY GREAT BECAUSE WE'VE SENT SOME DVDS TO 22:49 CHINA AND THEY COPY AND PIRATE AND COPY AND COPY AND COPY - AND 22:53 THEY MAINTAIN THEIR QUALITY BECAUSE IT'S A DIGITAL 22:56 REPRODUCTION. AND SO, EVEN THOUGH ONE IS MADE 23:00 OUT OF THE OTHER, YOU STILL HAVE THE SAME LEVEL OF QUALITY. 23:04 AND IT IS TRUE THAT WOMAN WAS TAKEN FROM MAN, BUT IT DOESN'T 23:07 MEAN THAT THE IMAGE OF GOD WAS LOST AT THAT POINT. 23:11 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? AND SO, I THINK THAT'S 23:13 WHAT PAUL IS SAYING HERE. IT'S JUST TALKING ABOUT A 23:14 SEQUENCE OF HOW THESE THINGS WERE DONE. 23:17 PSALMS 8, VERSE 4 - YOU WERE WORRIED ABOUT THAT LAST ONE AND 23:21 WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY, WEREN'T YOU? 23:24 PSALMS 8, VERSE 4, "WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM, AND 23:28 THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU VISIT HIM? 23:30 FOR YOU HAVE MADE HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS," - AND 23:33 SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE GORILLAS - IS THAT WHAT IT SAYS? 23:39 NO, I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE - "FOR YOU HAVE MADE HIM 23:42 A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS AND YOU'VE CROWNED HIM WITH 23:44 GLORY AND HONOR. YOU HAVE MADE HIM TO HAVE 23:47 DOMINION" - HERE IT IS AGAIN - "OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS; 23:50 YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET, ALL SHEEP AND 23:54 OXEN-EVEN THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD, THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, AND 23:57 THE FISH OF THE SEA THAT PASS THROUGH THE PATHS OF THE SEAS." 24:01 NOW, DOES THAT MEAN, BECAUSE ALL THESE CREATURES ARE PUT UNDER 24:05 THE DOMINION OF MAN, SHOULD PEOPLE - SHOULD CHRISTIANS CARE 24:10 ABOUT ANIMALS? YEAH, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'THE 24:13 RIGHTEOUS MAN REGUARDS THE LIFE OF HIS BEAST.' 24:16 IS THERE ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT TELLS US ABOUT 24:18 THAT? YEAH, HAVE YOU NOTICED IN THE 24:24 SABBATH COMMANDMENT IT NOT ONLY SAYS YOUR SON AND YOUR DAUGHTER 24:27 SHALL REST, IT SAYS YOUR BEASTS OF BURDEN SHALL REST. 24:32 AND SO, NOT THAT THEY'RE OF EQUAL VALUE, BUT GOD IS JUST 24:35 SHOWING THERE THAT HE CARES ABOUT THE ANIMALS AS WELL AND HE 24:41 MADE LAWS TO PROTECT THEM. WHAT HAPPENED TO BALAAM WHEN HE 24:45 DIDN'T CARE ABOUT HIS ANIMAL? THE ANGEL APPEARED AND SAID 'IF 24:49 IT WASN'T FOR THE DONKEY - I WOULD HAVE SPARED THE DONKEY AND 24:51 KILLED YOU.' BUT - SO GOD DOES - HE CARES ABOUT - HE 24:57 LOVES - GOD IS LOVE. HE LOVES ALL OF HIS CREATURES. 25:00 BUT MAN WAS GIVEN DOMINION AND I THINK WHEN GOD PUT MAN IN THE 25:05 GARDEN OF EDEN, WHAT WAS HIS JOB? 25:09 TO BE A STEWARD - TO CARE FOR THE CREATION. 25:14 SHOULD HUMANS - SHOULD PEOPLE CARE FOR CREATION? 25:18 YEAH, I DO BELIEVE THAT. IN REVELATION IT SAYS GOD WILL 25:22 DESTROY THOSE THAT DESTROY THE EARTH. 25:25 SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS. 25:28 NOT ONLY DOES HUMANITY NEED RESTORING, THE PLANET NEEDS 25:32 RESTORING. OKAY, GO AHEAD NOW, WE'RE GOING 25:35 TO GO TO OUR NEXT SECTION AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT 25:38 THE FALL AND ITS AFTERMATH. OH, YOU KNOW, ONE THING I JUST - 25:41 I TOLD YOU I WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS - HOW MANY OF THE 25:45 DIFFERENT CREATURES WERE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD? 25:50 HOW WAS THE CREATION OF MAN DIFFERENT FROM THE CREATION OF 25:54 THE CATTLE AND THE BIRDS AND THE FISH? 25:58 WAS THERE A DIFFERENCE? WHEN - YEAH, WHEN HE CREATED THE 26:03 CATTLE AND THE BIRDS AND THE FISH, HE SPOKE AND THEY WERE. 26:06 WHAT DOES HE DO WHEN HE MAKES MAN? 26:08 HE GETS INVOLVED. HE TOUCHES, HE USES HIS HANDS, 26:12 HE TAKES HIS LIPS - HE BREATHES INTO MAN THE BREATH OF LIFE. 26:16 AND WHEN HE MAKES WOMAN - AGAIN, GOD GETS INVOLVED LIKE A 26:20 SURGEON. IT'S A VERY PERSONAL TOUCH THAT'S INVOLVED. 26:24 HE'S TAKING SOMETHING OF HIMSELF AND INSPIRING IT INTO MAN AND 26:29 WOMAN. YOU KNOW WHERE WE GET THE WORD 'INSPIRE'? IT MEANS TO 26:32 BREATHE INTO. GOD BREATHED INTO MAN THE BREATH OF LIFE. 26:37 AND HE, LIKEWISE, WITH WOMAN - HE TOOK THE WOMAN - HE TOOK THE 26:41 RIB FROM THE MAN AND MADE THE WOMAN. WHAT IS THE WORLD'S VIEW 26:47 ABOUT HOW MAN CAME INTO BEING? NOT ALL THE WORLD, BUT MUCH OF 26:52 THE WORLD BELIEVES IN EVOLUTION, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 26:56 AND SO THEIR IDEA OF HOW WE CAME INTO BEING IS THAT MAN IS REALLY 27:01 AT JUST A LEVEL WHERE WE HAVE SOMEHOW BECOME MORE 27:05 SOPHISTICATED, AT LEAST BY OUR VIEW - APES DON'T THINK SO - 27:10 MORE SOPHISTICATED THAN MONKEYS AND PRIMATES OR MARSUPIALS. 27:18 DO YOU KNOW HOW DIFFERENT A HUMAN IS THAN A GORILLA? 27:23 I MEAN, TO ME IT IS MADDENING - BECAUSE I USED TO BELIEVE THIS - 27:28 IT IS MADDENING TO ME THAT WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, LOOK - LOOK 27:32 AT THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN MEN AND CHIMPANZEES AND GORILLAS. 27:38 THEY'VE GOT THE TEN FINGERS AND THE TEN TOES AND THEY CAN WALK 27:40 UPRIGHT IF THEY WANT TO AND, YEAH, THEY DRAG THEIR KNUCKLES 27:43 BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST GIVEN A FEW MILLION YEARS AND THAT BECAME 27:48 US.' THIS BEGS MANY QUESTIONS. ONE QUESTION IS, WHY DID SOME OF 27:53 THEM STAY GORILLAS AND OTHERS WENT ON AND BECAME - WHY DIDN'T 27:55 THEY ALL GO ON AND BECOME HUMANS? 27:59 IF IT WAS SO UNFORTUNATE TO BE A GORILLA, AND IF WE'RE INCLINED 28:03 TO EVOLVE TOWARDS BETTER, WHY DID THEY STOP EVOLVING RIGHT 28:05 THERE? OR CHIMPANZEES? 28:08 WHY DID HUMANS EVOLVE - IF WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE MORE 28:12 SOPHISTICATED, WHY ARE WE SO FEEBLE AS BABIES? 28:18 SOME OF YOU SAW THAT TRAGIC VIDEO CLIP OF A CHILD THAT FELL 28:22 INTO A GORILLA CAGE - IN THE NEWS? 28:25 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 28:27 AND THE POOR GORILLA - I MEAN, I CARE ABOUT THE BABY TOO, DON'T 28:32 MISUNDERSTAND - THE BABY'S ALIVE, GORILLA'S DEAD. 28:34 I JUST WAS THINKING IT WASN'T HIS FAULT. 28:37 THIS HUMAN BABY FALLS IN AND I THINK HE CARED ABOUT IT. 28:41 HE WENT OVER - HE WAS CURIOUS AS MUCH AS ANYTHING AND THEN ALL 28:42 THE PEOPLE LOOKING IN AND SHOUTING - HE GOT SCARED AND, TO 28:45 BE PROTECTIVE, HE DID WHAT YOU WOULD DO WITH ANY GORILLA BABY, 28:48 HE GRABBED IT BY THE FOOT AND RAN. 28:51 A GORILLA BABY SURVIVES THAT OKAY, BUT NOT A HUMAN BABY, 28:55 BECAUSE WE'RE A LOT MORE FEEBLE IN OUR - IN OUR INFANCY. 29:00 AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO SPECIES IS SO INCREDIBLE. 29:04 HOW HELPLESS IS A HUMAN BABY AFTER FOUR YEARS? 29:10 AN IMPALA - IT'S BORN ON THE SAVANNAH, IT GETS UP, AND IT 29:13 RUNS IN AN HOUR. TRY THAT WITH A 29:16 BABY - A HUMAN BABY. BUT WE ARE CREATED WITH MORE 29:23 BRAIN STORAGE CAPACITY THAN WE EVER USE IN OUR LIFETIME. 29:30 WHY WOULD EVOLUTION WANT YOU TO EVOLVE SO MUCH MORE BRAIN 29:35 CAPACITY THAN YOU COULD EVER USE? 29:37 MAYBE WE WERE INTENDED TO LIVE LONGER. 29:40 WHY DOES A TORTOISE LIVE LONGER THAN A HUMAN? 29:43 YOU EVER THINK SOME OF THESE THINGS? 29:46 IF WE HEAL WHEN WE'RE YOUNG AND WE GET BETTER, AFTER MILLIONS OF 29:52 YEARS, WHY DON'T WE LIVE LONGER? WHY DOESN'T THE HEALING 29:57 PROCESS LAST LONGER? IF YOU HAD THE BODY AND THE 30:01 ENZYMES AND ALL OF THE CELL STRENGTH THAT YOU HAD WHEN YOU 30:04 WERE 20 YEARS OLD, YOU'D LIVE A LONG TIME. 30:08 YOU JUST, YOU KNOW, KEEP GETTING BETTER. 30:10 BUT THERE'S SOME VITAL FORCE THAT GOES OUT. 30:13 DEATH HAS COME TO ALL THE CREATURES. 30:16 AND SO, NO, WE DIDN'T EVOLVE FROM APES. 30:24 JUST THE IDEA - WE ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. 30:28 LET ME JUST - LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING BEFORE WE GO ANY 30:30 FARTHER HERE. GO WITH ME, IN YOUR 30:32 BIBLES, TO MARK CHAPTER 5. YOU'VE GOT TWO IMAGES 30:38 THAT ARE AT WAR. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS 30:40 LATER IN THE LESSON HERE. "THEY CAME TO THE OTHER SIDE OF 30:46 THE SEA, TO THE COUNTRY OF THE GADARENES." 30:48 - THIS IS VERSE 1 - MARK 5:1 - "AND WHEN HE HAD COME OUT OF THE 30:51 BOAT, IMMEDIATELY THERE MET HIM OUT OF THE TOMBS A MAN WITH AN 30:54 UNCLEAN SPIRIT," - WHAT DOES 'UNCLEAN SPIRIT' MEAN? 30:59 DEMONIC - IT'S COMING FROM WHO? THE DEVIL - OR AT LEAST 31:04 FALLEN ANGELS, RIGHT? - "WHO HAD HIS DWELLING AMONG 31:08 THE TOMBS; AND NO ONE COULD BIND HIM, NOT EVEN WITH CHAINS, 31:12 BECAUSE HE HAD OFTEN BEEN BOUND WITH SHACKLES AND CHAINS. 31:15 AND THE CHAINS HAD BEEN PULLED APART BY HIM, AND THE SHACKLES 31:17 BROKEN IN PIECES; NEITHER COULD ANYONE TAME HIM. 31:20 AND ALWAYS, NIGHT AND DAY, HE WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IN THE 31:23 TOMBS, CRYING OUT AND CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES. 31:26 WHEN HE SAW JESUS FROM AFAR, HE RAN AND WORSHIPED HIM." 31:29 YOU READ THE SAME STORY IN LUKE AND IT SAYS HE DIDN'T WEAR ANY 31:33 CLOTHES. LIVING AMONG THE TOMBS, SURROUNDED BY PIGS - YOU KNOW 31:37 THE STORY, RIGHT? AND THEN HE RUNS TO JESUS. 31:42 NOW, HERE YOU'VE GOT TWO TOTAL DIAMETRIC OPPOSITES: YOU HAVE 31:48 JESUS, WHO WAS FULL OF THE IMAGE OF GOD - THERE ON THE SHORE - 31:52 THE DISCIPLES RAN OFF TO THE BOAT WHEN THIS MAN CAME; AND 31:55 THEN YOU HAVE THIS MAN WHO'S LIVING IN A CAVE WHERE THEY PUT 31:58 DEAD PEOPLE - HE'S A CAVE MAN - AND HE'S RUNNING AROUND NAKED 32:03 AND HE'S ACTING BERSERK - HE'S ACTING LIKE AN ANIMAL, WOULD YOU 32:06 AGREE? DRAGGING AROUND CHAINS - LIKE HE 32:09 HAD TO HAVE A LEASH ON HIM BUT HE BROKE THE LEASH - AND THEY 32:12 BOTH LIVE IN THE SAME DECADE. DOES THAT MEAN THAT JESUS 32:18 EVOLVED FROM THE DEMONIAC? ARE YOU WITH ME - WHERE 32:23 I'M GOING WITH THIS? YOU'VE GOT TWO COMPLETELY 32:25 DIFFERENT SPIRITS. DO WE, SOMETIMES, AROUND 32:29 THE WORLD, FIND EVIDENCE OF PRIMITIVE MAN? 32:33 DOES THAT MEAN THAT THEY LIVED MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE MODERN 32:36 MAN? YOU KNOW, NOT FAR FROM WHERE THE 32:38 PYRAMIDS ARE, THERE'S EVIDENCE OF PEOPLE THAT USED 32:41 VERY PRIMITIVE TOOLS. LOS ANGELES - MODERN CITY - AT 32:48 THE SAME TIME PEOPLE WERE USING ELEVATORS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES 32:51 IN LOS ANGELES, I WAS LIVING IN A CAVE A HUNDRED MILES AWAY. 32:55 YOU CAN HAVE VERY SOPHISTICATED CIVILIZED PEOPLE AND YOU CAN 32:59 HAVE PEOPLE FROM WHOM THE IMAGE OF GOD IS WITHDRAWN THAT LIVE IN 33:02 A VERY BASE, UNSOPHISTICATED, PRIMITIVE WAY - VERY PRIMAL 33:08 LIVES - LIVING AT THE SAME TIME. SO JUST BECAUSE YOU FIND 33:12 EVIDENCE OF SOME PEOPLE THAT APPEARED TO LIVE VERY PRIMITIVE, 33:15 DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT HAPPENED MILLIONS OF YEARS EARLIER. 33:20 NOW, ONE OF THE REASONS I READ THIS STORY IS BECAUSE THE 33:23 PURPOSE OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION IS TO RESTORE - THAT'S OUR 33:28 LESSON TODAY, THE RESTORATION - THE IMAGE OF GOD IN MAN. 33:33 HERE ON THE BEACH THAT DAY, BY THE SEA OF GALILEE, YOU'VE GOT 33:36 THE DEMONIAC, WHO REFLECTS WHOSE IMAGE? 33:42 WHAT'S THE PLAN OF GOD FOR HUMANITY? 33:45 TO RESTORE THE IMAGE OF CHRIST - HIS ORIGINAL PLAN. 33:49 ADAM REFLECTED THE IMAGE OF CHRIST. 33:53 THE DEMONIAC REFLECTED THE IMAGE OF SATAN. 33:57 THERE YOU'VE GOT IT - TWO OF THEM FACE TO FACE - THE TWO 33:59 OPPOSITES. GOD'S PLAN FOR YOU 34:01 IS TO BE LIKE JESUS. THE DEVIL'S PLAN FOR YOU 34:04 IS TO BE LIKE THE DEMONIAC. THE DEVIL WANTS TO ERASE ANY 34:08 VESTIGE OF THE IMAGE OF GOD FROM MAN. ALRIGHT, SO BACK TO OUR 34:11 LESSON HERE. THE FALL AND ITS AFTERMATH - AND 34:14 SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT'S, GOING TO READ GENESIS 3:16. 34:17 ALRIGHT, LET ME READ - OH, BEFORE I GET - WELL, YEAH, LET 34:22 ME READ - GENESIS 3:8 - "AND THEY HEARD THE SOUND OF THE LORD 34:25 GOD WALKING IN THE GARDEN IN THE COOL OF THE DAY, AND ADAM AND 34:29 HIS WIFE HID THEMSELVES FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD" - THIS IS 34:32 AFTER THAT INFAMOUS EPISODE WITH THE DEVIL AND THE FORBIDDEN 34:35 FRUIT - THEY "HID THEMSELVES FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD AMONG 34:39 THE TREES OF THE GARDEN." THEY HEARD THE VOICE OF 34:42 THE LORD AND THEY RAN. WHAT'S ONE OF THE SIGNS THAT THE 34:47 HOLY SPIRIT'S WORKING IN YOUR LIFE? 34:49 YOU'RE DRAWN TO THE WORD OF GOD. PEOPLE RUN FROM THE WORD OF GOD 34:54 - THE VOICE OF THE LORD - OR THEY RUN TO THE WORD OF GOD. 34:59 IT'S LIKE MOODY SAID, 'EITHER SIN'LL KEEP YOU FROM THE BIBLE 35:01 OR THE BIBLE WILL KEEP YOU FROM SIN.' 35:04 AND WHEN GOD BEGINS TO INVESTIGATE AND SAY - FIRST OF 35:08 ALL, GOD SAYS, 'WHERE ARE YOU?' IS IT BECAUSE ADAM AND EVE 35:10 - HE HAD MISPLACED THEM? DID GOD KNOW WHERE THEY WERE? 35:13 CAN YOU HIDE AND CAMOUFLAGE YOURSELF SO WELL GOD CAN'T FIND 35:16 YOU? WHEN JONAH WAS AT THE BOTTOM OF 35:19 THE MOUNTAINS DID GOD KNOW WHERE JONAH WAS? 35:22 SO YOU CAN'T RUN FROM GOD. THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS IN, I THINK 35:25 IT'S PSALM 139 - 'WITHER SHALL I FLEE FROM THY PRESENCE?' 35:28 YOU CAN'T FLEE FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 35:31 WHY WERE - WHY WERE THEY RUNNING? 35:34 REMEMBER WHAT ADAM SAID? 'SEE, WE'RE NAKED AND WE 35:39 WERE AFRAID.' DID GOD - WHAT HAPPENED? 35:42 WHEN THEY SINNED, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THEY BECAME BRIGHT 35:44 ENOUGH TO REALIZE THEY HAD NO CLOTHES ON? 35:46 WHAT HAPPENED THAT THEY SUDDENLY BECAME ASHAMED? 35:50 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE CLOTHED WITH ROBES OF 35:55 LIGHT BEFORE SIN AND, AFTER SIN, THE LIGHT WENT OUT? 36:01 WHERE DO YOU GET THAT BIBLICALLY? 36:03 NOW, IT SAYS THAT IN THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. 36:06 CAN YOU FIND BIBLE SUPPORT? YEAH, I THINK YOU CAN. 36:10 WHEN MOSES TALKED TO THE LORD ON THE MOUNTAIN, WHAT HAPPENED TO 36:13 MOSES' FACE WHEN HE CAME DOWN OFF THE MOUNTAIN? 36:16 IT SAYS IT SHONE. DID IT SHINE JUST SO YOU SEE HE 36:18 HAD A HAPPY GLOW, LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE? 36:21 OR WAS IT SHINING SO BRIGHT THAT THE PEOPLE COULDN'T LOOK AT HIM 36:24 AND THEY SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO VEIL YOUR FACE BECAUSE IT'S 36:26 HURTING OUR EYES.' THAT'S PRETTY BRIGHT. 36:32 WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE MOUNTAIN WITH MOSES AND ELIJAH, IN THE 36:36 MOUNT - NOW I'M IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 36:38 WHAT HAPPENED TO CHRIST'S GARMENTS? IT SUDDENLY DIDN'T 36:41 LOOK LIKE ANY ARTIFICIAL CLOTHING, IT WAS SHINING AS 36:44 BRIGHT AS THE SUN, LIKE NO SOAP ON EARTH COULD GET IT. 36:47 ADAM AND EVE, IN THEIR INNOCENCE AND PURITY, THEY WORE THE ROBES 36:51 OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT GOD GIVES HIS INTELLIGENT CREATURES. 36:54 THEY HAD THESE LIGHTS - THESE ROBES OF GLORY AND LIGHT. 36:57 AND SO, YOU DIDN'T SEE THEIR NAKEDNESS AND THERE WAS - THEY 37:03 WERE COVERED. I'M SURE YOU COULD LOOK AT THEIR 37:05 FACES, BUT GOD KIND OF GAVE THEM A NATURAL COVERING - COVERED 37:09 WITH, KIND OF, A SHEKINAH GLORY ROBE. 37:12 BUT WHEN THEY SINNED, THEY BEGAN TO FEEL A COOL BREEZE AND THEY 37:16 LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND THEY SAID, 'OH - SOMETHING'S GONE.' 37:19 THEN THEY SAW THEIR NAKEDNESS AND THEY RAN. 37:22 SO WHAT DOES SIN DO? SIN BROUGHT AN INTERRUPTION IN 37:27 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. 37:30 IT MADE THEM RUN AND IT MADE THEM HIDE. 37:33 SOMEBODY READ FOR ME GENESIS 3:16. 37:37 >>TO THE WOMAN HE SAID: 'I WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY YOUR SORROW AND 37:40 YOUR CONCEPTION; IN PAIN YOU SHALL BRING FORTH CHILDREN; YOUR 37:45 DESIRE SHALL BE FOR YOUR HUSBAND, AND HE SHALL RULE OVER 37:48 YOU.'" >>ALRIGHT, SO HERE YOU SEE SOME 37:51 OF THE CURSES THAT BEGAN TO COME AS THE RESULT OF DISOBEDIENCE. 37:54 I ACTUALLY LEFT OUT A COUPLE VERSES. 37:56 YOU CAN LOOK IN VERSE 12, FIRST THE MAN SAYS "THE WOMAN WHOM YOU 38:00 GAVE TO BE WITH ME, SHE GAVE ME OF THE TREE, AND I DID EAT." 38:03 GOD SAYS TO ADAM, 'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?' 38:06 AND SO WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER SIN? 38:08 BLAME, DEFLECTION, DIVERSION - IT'S 'YOU MADE THE WOMAN, YOU 38:16 KNOW? I DIDN'T COMPLAIN. 38:20 YOU SAID IT'S NOT GOOD FOR ME TO BE ALONE. 38:23 YOU DID IT, SO IT'S YOUR FAULT AND IT'S HER FAULT.' THERE'S A 38:28 DEFLECTION - KIND OF - HE'S YOU KNOW, DESPERATE, BECAUSE THE 38:31 PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. AND THEN HE TALKS TO THE WOMAN 38:36 AND HE SAID, 'WHAT IS THIS YOU HAVE DONE?' 38:38 AND THE WOMAN SAID, 'THE SERPENT. 38:40 WHO MADE THAT SERPENT ANYWAY? WHO PUT HIM THERE IN THE TREE? 38:44 WHO MADE THE TREE? THE SERPENT DID IT. 38:47 HE DECEIVED ME AND I ATE.' AND THEN HE SAYS TO THE WOMAN - AND 38:52 NOW THESE CURSES COME - A CURSE COMES TO THE WOMAN; A CURSE 38:55 COMES TO THE MAN - "I WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY YOUR SORROW AND 38:59 YOUR CONCEPTION;" - NOW THAT WORD 'CONCEPTION' THERE, IT'S 39:02 ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT THE TIME OF CONCEPTION AND IT COULD BE 39:05 INTERPRETED TO BE CONNECTED WITH WHAT IS SOMETIMES A TYPICAL 39:09 MORNING SICKNESS AFTER A CHILD IS CONCEIVED, BECAUSE THEN IT 39:13 GOES ON AND SAYS, "IN PAIN YOU SHALL BRING FORTH CHILDREN;" 39:17 WHICH MAKES YOU WONDER, WHAT WOULD IT HAVE BEEN LIKE FOR EVE 39:21 TO GIVE BIRTH BEFORE THE CURSE? CAN YOU IMAGINE? JUST, 39:27 YOU KNOW, 'ADAM, WAKE UP. YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT 39:30 HAPPENED LAST NIGHT.' JUST - 'LOOK, A BABY!' 39:37 PROBABLY WASN'T THAT OBSCURE, BUT IT EVIDENTLY WASN'T PAINFUL, 39:41 DON'T YOU AGREE? BRINGING FORTH CHILDREN? 39:44 IT MIGHT HAVE EVEN BEEN PLEASANT. I MEAN, IT'S HARD FOR 39:47 US TO IMAGINE, BUT IT WASN'T PAINFUL BECAUSE EVERYTHING GOD 39:52 MADE WAS GOOD. AND, YOU KNOW, EVIDENTLY, YOU 39:55 CAN SEE SOME OF THE ANIMALS IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AND THEY GIVE 39:59 BIRTH AND IT JUST - IT HAPPENS, SORT OF THAT WAY. 40:04 AND THEN THERE'S THE CURSE, OF COURSE, THAT'S PUT ON MAN AND HE 40:07 SAYS, 'THE GROUND IS CURSED...THORNS AND 40:10 THISTLES...THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW...YOU'LL BRING FORTH' - AND 40:13 SO, THINGS HAVE DETERIORATED BECAUSE OF SIN. 40:17 "BECAUSE YOU'VE HEEDED" - GOD SAYS IN GENESIS 3:17 - "THE 40:22 VOICE OF YOUR WIFE, AND HAVE EATEN FROM THE TREE OF WHICH I 40:24 COMMANDED YOU, SAYING, 'YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF IT': CURSED IS 40:28 THE GROUND FOR YOUR SAKE; IN TOIL YOU SHALL EAT OF IT ALL THE 40:30 DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. BOTH THORNS AND THISTLES IT 40:33 SHALL BRING FORTH FOR YOU, AND YOU SHALL EAT THE 40:36 HERB OF THE FIELD." - VEGETABLES WERE ADDED TO THE 40:39 DIET - "IN THE SWEAT OF YOUR FACE YOU SHALL EAT BREAD TILL 40:42 YOU RETURN TO THE GROUND, FOR OUT OF IT YOU WERE TAKEN; FOR 40:46 DUST YOU ARE, AND TO DUST YOU SHALL RETURN." 40:48 AND THAT'S OFTEN READ AT FUNERALS. 40:51 ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: ENMITY AND ATONEMENT . 40:55 AND SO, AS YOU'RE READING ON HERE IN GENESIS, WE WANT TO JUMP 40:58 BACK TO A PROPHECY THAT WAS GIVEN - THIS IS THE FIRST 41:02 PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE - IN GENESIS 3:14 AND 15, "SO THE 41:07 LORD GOD SAID TO THE SERPENT: 'BECAUSE YOU HAVE DONE THIS, YOU 41:11 ARE CURSED MORE THAN ALL CATTLE, AND MORE THAN EVERY BEAST OF THE 41:15 FIELD; ON YOUR BELLY YOU SHALL GO, AND YOU SHALL EAT DUST ALL 41:19 THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE." NOW MAN RETURNS TO THE DUST, 41:22 BUT IT SAYS THAT THE SERPENT IS GOING TO EAT THE DUST. 41:24 WHAT DID THE SNAKE DO? DID THE SNAKE DO ANYTHING WRONG, 41:29 OR WAS THE SNAKE JUST THE PAWN AND A MEDIUM OF THE DEVIL? 41:33 SO WHY DOES GOD CURSE THE SERPENT? 41:36 WELL, FIRST OF ALL, BECAUSE THE SERPENT BECOMES AN ILLUSTRATION 41:41 OF THE MEDIUM OF THE DEVIL. ALL - WAS IT JUST THE SERPENT 41:46 THAT WAS CURSED - OR HOW MANY CREATURES SUFFERED? 41:48 >>ALL OF THEM. >>ALL OF THE CREATURES. 41:50 NOW, WHAT DOES THAT TELL US ABOUT SIN? THE SIN OF ADAM AND 41:53 EVE, HOW DID IT AFFECT THE REST OF THE WORLD? THE WHOLE CREATION 41:57 GROANS AND TRAVAILS. IS THAT FAIR FOR THE ANIMALS? 42:02 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT TELLS US ABOUT SIN? DO GOOD PEOPLE EVER 42:05 SUFFER BECAUSE OF DECISIONS THAT BAD PEOPLE MAKE? 42:10 A PARENT MAY DRINK DURING PREGNANCY AND THE CHILD IS BORN 42:14 WITH A DEFECT. IS IT THE CHILD'S FAULT? 42:18 DO INNOCENTS SUFFER BECAUSE OF DECISIONS THAT OTHERS MAKE? 42:23 NOW, RIGHT AWAY, WE'RE LEARNING SOMETHING ABOUT COMMUNITY - IS 42:26 THAT WHAT ONE PERSON DOES CAN AFFECT OTHERS. 42:29 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF ACHAN? 42:32 WHEN ACHAN SINNED, DID IT JUST HURT ACHAN OR DID IT HURT THE 42:35 WHOLE ARMY? EVERYBODY SUFFERED AS A RESULT. 42:39 AND WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED, IT NOT ONLY HURT ADAM AND EVE, IT 42:41 HURT THE CREATION, INCLUDING THE SERPENT. 42:44 AND THEN HE SAYS, IN VERSE 15 - I SAID VERSE 15 BUT I DIDN'T PUT 42:53 IT IN HERE. HERE, LET ME LOOK IT UP. 42:56 THIS IS THE FIRST PROPHECY THAT YOU FIND HERE IN GENESIS CHAPTER 42:59 3:15 - I KNOW IT, I JUST WANT TO GET IT RIGHT. 43:08 AND YOU'LL FIND ALLUSIONS TO THIS THAT GO ON EVEN IN THE BOOK 43:11 OF REVELATION. "AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN 43:14 YOU AND THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED; HE SHALL 43:20 BRUISE YOUR HEAD, AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL." 43:24 NOW, NOTICE HE'S TALKING TO THE WOMAN AND SUDDENLY IT STARTS 43:26 TALKING ABOUT THE MAN - 'HE WILL BRUISE YOUR HEAD AND YOU WILL 43:29 BRUISE HIS HEEL.' WHAT IS THIS ENMITY? 43:33 ENMITY MEANS OPPOSITION, ANIMOSITY, THERE'S A RESISTANCE 43:40 BETWEEN TWO FORCES, THERE'S A WAR THAT IS GOING ON. 43:44 AND SO THERE'S THIS WAR THAT GOES ON THROUGH THE AGES BETWEEN 43:49 THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - THE WOMAN AND THE SEED OF THE WOMAN 43:52 - AND THE SERPENT. NOW, DO YOU SEE THAT PLAYING 43:54 OUT THROUGH THE BIBLE? IF YOU GO TO REVELATION, FOR 43:58 INSTANCE, AND YOU LOOK IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12 44:07 TALKS ABOUT THIS SERPENT. MATTER OF FACT, TURN THERE REAL 44:10 QUICK BECAUSE I WANT TO READ A LITTLE MORE OF THAT. 44:15 REVELATION 12 TALKS ABOUT THE ENMITY BETWEEN THE WOMAN AND THE 44:20 SERPENT. "NOW A GREAT SIGN APPEARED IN 44:23 HEAVEN: A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, WITH THE MOON UNDER HER 44:26 FEET, AND ON HER HEAD A GARLAND OF TWELVE STARS. 44:29 THEN BEING" - WHO IS THAT WOMAN? CHURCH. 44:33 GOOD CHURCH OR BAD CHURCH? GOOD CHURCH. 44:36 SHE'S CLOTHED WITH THE LIGHT OF GOD. 44:38 GOD MADE THE SUN, MOON AND STARS - NATURAL LIGHT - "THEN, BEING 44:43 WITH CHILD, SHE CRIES OUT IN LABOR AND PAINS TO GIVE BIRTH." 44:48 - SHE'S WANTING TO GIVE BIRTH TO THIS PROMISED CHILD - "AND 44:52 ANOTHER SIGN APPEARED IN HEAVEN: BEHOLD, A GREAT, FIERY RED 44:56 DRAGON HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND SEVEN DIADEMS ON 45:00 HIS HEADS. HIS TAIL DREW A THIRD OF THE 45:01 STARS OF HEAVEN AND THREW THEM TO THE EARTH. 45:04 AND THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN WHO WAS READY TO GIVE 45:06 BIRTH, TO DEVOUR HER CHILD...AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH A MALE CHILD" 45:11 - WHO'S THE CHILD? >>JESUS. 45:13 >>THIS MALE CHILD "WAS TO RULE ALL NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON. 45:17 AND HER CHILD WAS CAUGHT UP TO GOD AND HIS THRONE." 45:19 SO THIS MALE CHILD IS JESUS. THE WOMAN REPRESENTS THE 45:22 CHURCH - THE BRIDE OF CHRIST. THE DRAGON IS THE DEVIL. 45:26 IN THE SAME CHAPTER IT SAYS, 'THAT OLD SERPENT THE DEVIL' AND 45:29 YOU CAN READ VERSE 9. "SO THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT 45:33 SERPENT OF OLD, CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN." SO HERE YOU SEE THE 45:37 DEVIL WANTS TO DESTROY THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. 45:39 CAN YOU THINK OF OTHER TIMES IN THE BIBLE THAT THE DEVIL MADE AN 45:42 EFFORT TO DESTROY THE SEED OF THE WOMAN? 45:45 IN EXODUS - IT BEGINS WITH GENOCIDE AGAINST BABY BOYS. 45:51 THEY - THE DEVIL KNEW THAT A SAVIOR WAS COMING. 45:54 HE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE THE MESSIAH SO HE HAD ALL THE BABY 45:56 BOYS THROWN TO THE CROCODILES AND MOSES CAME ALONG. 46:01 GOD SAVED THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. IN THE STORY OF ATHALIAH, SHE 46:07 TRIES TO WIPE OUT THE ROYAL SEED - THE SEED OF DAVID - THE DEVIL 46:11 HEARD GOD SAY, 'DAVID, THROUGH YOUR SEED THE MESSIAH WILL 46:14 COME.' AND SO ATHALIAH KILLS ALL THE GRANDCHILDREN - TRIES TO 46:17 WIPE OUT THE SEED OF DAVID, BUT ONE SURVIVES. 46:20 WHAT WAS HIS NAME? JOASH - SOMETIMES CONFUSED WITH 46:23 JOSIAH BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TWO CHILD KINGS. 46:26 BUT JOASH - AND SO ANOTHER EXAMPLE. 46:29 AND THEN HEROD, WHEN HE HEARS THAT THIS CHILD IS BORN, HE 46:32 SENDS HIS SOLDIERS IN TO BETHLEHEM TO DESTROY THE SEED OF 46:35 THE WOMAN - THE SEED OF MARY, IN THIS CASE. 46:39 SEE, OUR CATHOLIC FRIENDS THINK REVELATION 12 IS TALKING ABOUT 46:41 THE WOMAN IS MARY. YOU'LL OFTEN SEE PICTURES OF 46:44 MARY AND SHE'S GOT TWELVE STARS ABOVE HER HEAD, SHE'S STANDING 46:46 ON THE MOON - YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF THOSE PICTURES IN CATHOLIC 46:50 ART, BUT THAT WOMAN IS NOT MARY BECAUSE IT SAYS THIS WOMAN FLEES 46:55 INTO THE WILDERNESS - I'M BACK IN REVELATION 46:57 CHAPTER 12, VERSE 6. SHE FLEES INTO THE WILDERNESS 47:01 AFTER THE MAN-CHILD IS CAUGHT UP. 47:03 NOW THE DEVIL VENTS HIS FURY ON THE WOMAN BECAUSE HE CAN'T REACH 47:06 THE MAN-CHILD ANYMORE. SO THIS IS TALKING 47:09 ABOUT GENESIS 3:15. ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE YOU'VE 47:12 GOT THE CHURCH AT WAR WITH THE SERPENT, WAITING TO BRING FORTH 47:17 THE MAN-CHILD - THE CHRIST - THE MESSIAH TO THE WORLD. 47:21 AND THERE'S THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THE TWO THAT GOES ON. 47:25 AND YOU SEE THAT ALL THE WAY BACK THERE IN GENESIS. 47:27 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE WAS GOING TO READ FOR US - WE'RE TALKING 47:31 ABOUT ENMITY AND ATONEMENT - JUDE, VERSE 6 - YOU'VE GOT THAT? 47:38 MAYBE - THEY'RE NOT READY YET SO YOU HANG ON. 47:40 I'M GOING TO READ 2 PETER 2:4 AND YOU ALL TELL ME IF THIS 47:43 SOUNDS FAMILIAR. 2 PETER 2:4, "FOR IF GOD DID NOT 47:47 SPARE THE ANGELS WHO SINNED, BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL AND 47:51 DELIVERED THEM INTO CHAINS OF DARKNESS, TO BE RESERVED FOR 47:55 JUDGMENT;" - SO IT TELLS US THAT THE FATE OF THE DEVIL AND HIS 47:59 ANGELS IS ALREADY SECURE. SATAN KNOWS HE HAS A SHORT TIME. 48:03 TELL ME, DOES THAT VERSE SOUND AT ALL LIKE JUDE 6? 48:06 GO AHEAD, READ THAT FOR US. >>"AND THE ANGELS WHO DID NOT 48:08 KEEP THEIR PROPER DOMAIN, BUT LEFT THEIR OWN ABODE, HE HAS 48:13 RESERVED IN EVERLASTING CHAINS UNDER DARKNESS FOR THE JUDGMENT 48:16 OF THE GREAT DAY;" >>SO THE BATTLE, IS IT JUST 48:19 BETWEEN CHRIST? THIS FALL, IS IT JUST BETWEEN 48:23 CHRIST AND PEOPLE, OR WAS THERE A FALL IN HEAVEN? 48:27 DOES THE RESTORATION JUST NEED TO HAPPEN ON EARTH OR DO THINGS 48:30 IN HEAVEN NEED TO BE RESTORED? THIS TERRIBLE REBELLION OF 48:35 LUCIFER HAS INFECTED AND AFFECTED ALL OF CREATION. 48:39 AND JESUS, OFTEN, WHEN HE WAS TEACHING - YOU CAN LOOK IN 48:42 MATTHEW 8:29 - THE DEMON SUDDENLY CRIED OUT, 'WHAT HAVE 48:46 WE TO DO WITH YE JESUS, SON OF GOD? 48:48 HAVE YOU COME TO TORMENT US BEFORE THE TIME?' 48:51 DO THEY KNOW THERE'S A TIME COMING WHEN THEIR NUMBER IS UP? 48:55 THEY'RE RESERVED IN EVERLASTING CHAINS OF DARKNESS. 48:57 THE DEVIL KNOWS HE HAS A SHORT TIME. 49:00 THEY HAVE BEEN RESTRICTED TO THIS PLANET FROM THE TIME OF 49:03 CHRIST. ALRIGHT, RESTORATION AND JESUS. 49:05 NOW, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SECTIONS. 49:08 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME 1 CORINTHIANS 15:49 - JUST A 49:12 MOMENT. ALRIGHT, GALATIANS 4:19, "MY 49:15 LITTLE CHILDREN, FOR WHOM I LABOR IN BIRTH AGAIN UNTIL 49:19 CHRIST IS FORMED IN YOU," - WHAT IS THE PURPOSE - WHAT IS THE 49:22 RESTORATION THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR? WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? 49:26 CHRIST BEING BORN IN US; US BECOMING NEW CREATURES. 49:31 LOOK AT ROMANS 8:29, "FOR WHOM HE FOREKNEW, HE ALSO PREDESTINED 49:36 TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON," - DON'T GET HUNG UP ON 49:39 THE PREDESTINED PART, JUST KNOW THAT HE WANTS US TO BE CONFORMED 49:43 TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON - "THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRSTBORN AMONG 49:47 MANY BRETHREN." EPHESIANS 4:24, "AND THAT YOU 49:52 PUT ON THE NEW MAN" - THAT'S SOMETHING ACTIVE THAT YOU'RE 49:56 INVOLVED IN - "PUT ON THE NEW MAN WHICH WAS CREATED ACCORDING 49:59 TO GOD, IN TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS." 50:03 PHILIPPIANS 2:5, "LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU" - YOU MUST CHOOSE TO 50:07 ALLOW - "LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU" - PUTTING ON CHRIST - 50:11 PUTTING ON THE ARMOR - LETTING HIM BE IN YOU - "WHICH WAS ALSO 50:15 IN CHRIST JESUS," - HE WANTS THE MIND OF CHRIST IN US. 50:18 WE MAY NOT LOOK LIKE - VERY FEW OF US DO - THE TYPICAL ARTISTS' 50:23 RENDITIONS OF JESUS WE SEE, WITH THE HAZEL HAIR AND THE BEARD AND 50:27 - THE HAZEL EYES AND CHESTNUT HAIR. 50:32 NOW WHEN IT SAYS THE IMAGE OF CHRIST, DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT. 50:35 THINK ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF CHRIST BECAUSE WE DON'T EVEN 50:37 KNOW EXACTLY WHAT JESUS LOOKED LIKE, BUT WE KNOW HOW JESUS 50:41 ACTED. YOU CAN LOOK AT HIS WORD. 50:44 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, PLEASE, 1 CORINTHIANS 15:49. 50:48 >>"AND AS WE HAVE BORNE THE IMAGE OF THE MAN OF DUST, WE 50:52 SHALL ALSO BEAR THE IMAGE OF THE HEAVENLY MAN." 50:57 >>PAUL IS SAYING IN THE SAME WAY WE BEAR THE IMAGE OF ADAM - 50:59 REMEMBER, GOD SAID TO ADAM, 'DUST YOU ARE AND TO DUST YOU'RE 51:02 GOING TO RETURN'? - JUST AS REAL AS WE HAVE THE 51:04 IMAGE OF THE FIRST ADAM, WE CAN BEAR THE IMAGE OF THE SECOND 51:08 ADAM, JESUS. HOW WAS JESUS BORN? A MIRACLE CONCEPTION. 51:15 HOW ARE WE BORN AGAIN? A MIRACLE. 51:17 DOESN'T MAKE FAITH. YOU KNOW HOW JESUS WAS BORN? 51:21 MARY SAID, AFTER SHE HEARD THE WORD OF THE ANGEL, 'BE IT UNTO 51:24 YOUR SERVANT AS YOU HAVE SAID.' BE IT UNTO ME. 51:28 AND WHEN GOD SAYS YOU CAN BE A NEW CREATURE, YOU, LIKE MARY 51:31 SAY, 'LORD, LET ME EXPERIENCE THAT NEW BIRTH. 51:33 AND BY FAITH SOMETHING HAPPENS IN THE HEART AND WE BECOME 51:37 TRANSFORMED SO THAT WE'RE NOT THE OLD CREATURES, WE ARE 51:41 BECOMING NEW CREATURES. LET ME READ THIS STATEMENT FROM 51:45 PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS P. 595, "IN THE BEGINNING GOD 51:50 CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN LIKENESS. HE ENDOWED HIM WITH 51:53 NOBLE QUALITIES. HIS MIND WAS WELL-BALANCED AND 51:56 ALL THE POWERS OF HIS BEING WERE HARMONIOUS. BUT THE FALL AND ITS 52:00 EFFECTS HAVE PERVERTED THESE GIFTS. SIN HAS MARRED AND WELL 52:05 NIGH OBLITERATED THE IMAGE OF GOD IN MAN. 52:08 IT WAS TO RESTORE THIS THAT THE PLAN OF SALVATION WAS DEVISED 52:13 AND A LIFE OF PROBATION WAS GRANTED TO MAN - YOU AND I JUST 52:16 HAVE ONE LIFE - TO BRING HIM BACK TO PERFECTION, IN WHICH HE 52:20 WAS FIRST CREATED AND WAS THE GREAT OBJECT OF LIFE. 52:24 THE OBJECT THAT UNDERLIES EVERY OTHER - THE OBJECT THAT 52:27 UNDERLIES EVERY OTHER IS TO RESTORE IN US THE IMAGE OF 52:31 CHRIST. A CHRISTIAN IS A FOLLOWER OF JESUS. 52:35 OUR HIGHEST GOAL IS TO BE LIKE JESUS. 52:37 FIND OUT WHAT JESUS IS LIKE. GET TO KNOW HIM. 52:41 ISN'T THAT WHAT IT SAYS? YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW HIM. 52:43 HOW CAN YOU BE LIKE HIM IF YOU DON'T KNOW HIM? 52:46 BUT TAKE YOUR TIME GETTING TO KNOW CHRIST AND THEN PUTTING ON 52:48 CHRIST. SAY, 'LORD, I WANT TO BE LIKE 52:50 YOU IN THIS AND I WANT TO BE LIKE YOU IN THAT. 52:53 AND I WANT TO THINK YOUR THOUGHTS.' AND WHEN WE HAVE THE 52:54 WRONG THOUGHTS, WE PRAY AND WE REJECT THAT AND WE INVITE HIS 52:58 SPIRIT IN. AND IT'S AN ONGOING - IT'S AN ONGOING BATTLE. 53:03 AND THEN WE'VE GOT ANOTHER SECTION WE DON'T REALLY HAVE 53:06 TIME TO GET INTO HERE, RESTORING THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH . 53:11 FORTUNATELY, SOME OF THE FUTURE LESSONS ARE GOING TO BE DEALING 53:13 WITH THAT AND WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO PAUSE RIGHT HERE, NOW. 53:16 I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WATCHING, WE DO HAVE A FREE 53:19 OFFER. IT'S CALLED FROM STRESS TO JOY . 53:22 MAYBE YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF STRESS IN YOUR LIFE - YOU'D LIKE TO 53:23 HAVE SOME JOY. YOU CAN SEND FOR THIS, 53:25 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FREE. JUST CALL THE NUMBER 53:28 - 866-788-3966. THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE, 53:34 IF YOU WANT THE ACRONYM. 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VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. 54:15 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 54:19 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 54:22 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 54:26 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 54:29 REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 54:33 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 54:36 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 54:39 WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT THE AMAZING BIBLE TIME 54:43 LINE AT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. (MUSIC) 54:57 >>ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1971, 17-YEAR-OLD JULIANE KOEPCKE 55:02 BOARDED LANSA FLIGHT #508 WITH HER MOTHER IN LIMA, PERU. 55:06 THEY INTENDED TO JOIN HER FATHER FOR CHRISTMAS AT HIS RESEARCH 55:10 STATION IN THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST. 55:13 AFTER CROSSING THE ANDES AT ABOUT 21,000 FEET, THEIR 55:16 AIRCRAFT WAS ENVELOPED BY LARGE, DARK THUNDERCLOUDS AND IT 55:20 ENCOUNTERED SEVERE TURBULENCE. LIGHTNING WAS FLASHING 55:23 EVERYWHERE AND THE PLANE WAS SHAKEN VIOLENTLY, WHICH 55:26 NATURALLY TERRIFIED THE PASSENGERS. 55:28 THEN, A BOLT OF LIGHTNING STRUCK THE PLANE'S ENGINE AND TORE OFF 55:33 A WING. AS THE DOOMED AIRLINER HURTLED 55:36 TOWARDS THE EARTH, THE CABIN CAME APART AND THE NEXT THING 55:39 SHE KNEW, JULIANE FOUND HERSELF STRAPPED ALONE TO A ROW OF SEATS 55:43 FALLING AND SPINNING SILENTLY FROM OVER 10,000 FEET 55:47 ABOVE THE RAIN FOREST. SHE PLUMMETED THROUGH THE JUNGLE 55:50 CANOPY AND SLAMMED ON THE FOREST FLOOR. 55:53 WHEN SHE AWOKE THE NEXT DAY, JULIANE WAS AMAZED TO REALIZE 55:57 SHE HAD SURVIVED THE TWO-MILE FALL WITH JUST A BROKEN 56:00 COLLARBONE AND A BAD GASH IN HER ARM. 56:03 AFTER FAILING TO FIND ANY OTHER SURVIVORS, JULIANE RELIED ON 56:07 WHAT HER FATHER HAD TAUGHT HER: THAT WALKING DOWNSTREAM WILL 56:10 ALWAYS LEAD TO CIVILIZATION. SO, WITH A BAG OF CANDY THAT HAD 56:14 FALLEN FROM THE PLANE AND ONE SANDAL, SHE STARTED WALKING. 56:18 FOR TEN DAYS JULIANE HOBBLED, SWAM, OR FLOATED DOWNSTREAM. 56:23 HER WOUNDS BECAME INFECTED AND SHE WAS PLAGUED BY MAGGOTS WHILE 56:26 HAVING TO DODGE CROCODILES, PIRANHAS, AND RELENTLESS 56:29 INSECTS. EVENTUALLY SHE CAME TO A SHACK 56:33 WHERE SHE SLEPT AND SHE WAS SOON DISCOVERED BY PERUVIAN LOGGERS. 56:37 EVENTUALLY JULIANE WAS UNITED WITH HER AMAZED FATHER. 56:42 IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL SURVIVING SUCH 56:45 A FALL AND THEN HIKING ALONE OUT OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST 56:48 RAINFOREST. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT 56:51 SOME WHO SURVIVED AN EVEN GREATER FALL THAN JULIANE. 56:55 IN FACT, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, WHEN ADAM AND EVE 56:58 FELL IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, IT BROUGHT THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE 57:00 DOWN. BUT JESUS CAME TO REDEEM THE WORLD FROM SIN. 57:05 PERHAPS YOU'RE THINKING TO YOURSELF, 'WELL, THAT'S OKAY FOR 57:07 THE WORLD, BUT I'VE FALLEN TOO FAR. 57:10 WELL, IF THE LORD CAN SAVE JULIANE, GOD CAN SAVE YOU. 57:14 YOU'VE NOT GONE FARTHER THAN MOSES, WHO WAS GUILTY OF MURDER, 57:17 OR DAVID, WHO WAS GUILTY OF ADULTERY, OR PETER, WHO DENIED 57:20 JESUS - AND ALL OF THEM WERE SAVED AND RESTORED FROM THEIR 57:24 FALL. OR MAYBE YOU'RE THINKING, 'I'VE 57:26 FALLEN TOO MANY TIMES.' BE OF GOOD COURAGE. 57:29 IT SAYS IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 24, VERSE 16, "FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN 57:33 MAY FALL SEVEN TIMES AND RISE AGAIN" - AND JESUS CAST SEVEN 57:37 DEVILS OUT OF MARY MAGDALENE. SO DON'T GET DISCOURAGED, 57:40 FRIEND, IF YOU'VE FALLEN, GET BACK UP AGAIN. 57:42 THE SAME WAY THAT HE COULD SAVE JULIANE - LEAD HER FROM THAT 57:45 LOST CONDITION IN THE RAINFOREST AND RESTORE HER TO HER FATHER, 57:49 JESUS CAN LEAD YOU FROM YOUR LOST CONDITION AND RESTORE YOU 57:53 TO YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER. 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