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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE
FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH IN
THE AREA OF SACRAMENTO.
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
FRIENDS JOINING US ONLINE - OUR
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EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS
- AND ALSO THOSE WATCHING ON THE
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VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
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THE WORLD. THANK YOU
FOR BEING PART OF OUR
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STUDY THIS MORNING - AND ALSO
TO THE MEMBERS HERE AT GRANITE
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BAY CHURCH AND THOSE WHO ARE
VISITING, VERY GOOD TO SEE YOU
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AGAIN ON THIS
BEAUTIFUL SABBATH MORNING.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
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THE ROLE OF THE
CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY.
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TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON
LESSON #3 ENTITLED JUSTICE AND
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MERCY IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT - PART 1.
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NOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE
JOINING US WHO DON'T HAVE A COPY
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OF THE LESSON, YOU CAN GO TO
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CLICK ON THE LINK THAT SAYS
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STUDY DURING OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY.
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AT THIS TIME WE'D LIKE TO INVITE
OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME FORWARD
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AND THEY'LL JOIN ME AND
WE'LL BEGIN OUR TIME TOGETHER BY
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LIFTING OUR VOICES IN PRAISE.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, WE ARE
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READY TO SING AND WE
KNOW THAT YOU ARE TOO.
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THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING
US, LIKE YOU DO EVERY WEEK, FROM
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ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND
AROUND THE WORLD AS OUR EXTENDED
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SABBATH SCHOOL FAMILY.
WE ARE GOING TO START WITH
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SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER.
IF YOU HAVE A HYMNAL AT HOME,
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PULL IT OUT AND
JOIN WITH US - #432.
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WE WILL DO THE FIRST, THE
SECOND, AND THE FOURTH STANZAS.
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JOIN WITH US. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>SHALL WE GATHER AT
THE RIVER WHERE BRIGHT ANGEL
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FEET HAVE TROD, WITH ITS CRYSTAL
TIDE FOREVER FLOWING BY THE
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THRONE OF GOD? YES,
WE'LL GATHER AT THE RIVER,
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THE BEAUTIFUL, THE BEAUTIFUL
RIVER; GATHER WITH THE SAINTS
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AT THE RIVER THAT
FLOWS BY THE THRONE OF GOD.
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ON THE MARGIN OF THE RIVER,
WASHING UP ITS SILVER SPRAY, WE
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WILL WALK AND WORSHIP
EVER, ALL THE HAPPY GOLDEN DAY.
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YES, WE'LL GATHER AT THE RIVER,
THE BEAUTIFUL, THE BEAUTIFUL
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RIVER; GATHER WITH THE SAINTS
AT THE RIVER THAT FLOWS BY THE
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THRONE OF GOD. SOON
WE'LL REACH THE SHINING
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RIVER, SOON OUR PILGRIMAGE WILL
CEASE, SOON OUR HAPPY HEARTS
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WILL QUIVER WITH
THE MELODY OF PEACE.
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YES, WE'LL GATHER AT THE RIVER,
THE BEAUTIFUL, THE BEAUTIFUL
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RIVER; GATHER WITH THE SAINTS
AT THE RIVER THAT FLOWS BY THE
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THRONE OF GOD. >>THANK
YOU FOR JOINING WITH US
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AND AT THIS TIME
PASTOR ROSS WILL CONTINUE WITH
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OUR SABBATH SCHOOL.
>>BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY,
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LET'S BOW OUR HEADS
FOR A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT
A PRIVILEGE IT IS FOR US TO BE
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ABLE TO OPEN UP THE
BIBLE AND TO STUDY TOGETHER.
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AND ONCE AGAIN WE ASK THAT YOU
WOULD GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR
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MINDS AS WE LOOK AT THIS
LESSON DEALING WITH THE GREAT
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CONTROVERSY AND THE DIFFERENT
PARTS OF HOW WE CAN BE INVOLVED
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IN STANDING UP FOR THE
TRUTH AND STANDING UP FOR YOU.
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SO WE ASK YOUR
BLESSING UPON OUR TIME TOGETHER.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
OUR TEACHER THIS MORNING
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IS PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
>>WELCOME. HOW IS EVERYBODY?
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>>GOOD. >>IT'S GOOD TO BE HOME.
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IN THE LAST TEN DAYS I'VE
BEEN TO MICHIGAN, NEW YORK, AND
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TENNESSEE YESTERDAY, CHICAGO
YESTERDAY - FOR JUST FLYING -
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AND IT'S ALWAYS NICE
TO SLEEP IN YOUR OWN BED.
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YEAH, AMEN. AND
SO WE'RE GLAD YOU CAN
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JOIN US TODAY FOR OUR STUDY.
WE'RE CONTINUING - FOR SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY - WE'RE CONTINUING
OUR STUDY DEALING WITH
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THE ROLE OF THE
CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY.
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A LOT OF VERY GOOD
AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION.
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AND TODAY'S LESSON, IN
PARTICULAR, IS LESSON #3 TALKING
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ABOUT JUSTICE AND MERCY IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT - AND THIS IS PART
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1 - AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BE
TALKING A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE
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SUBJECT AND THE THEME OF
THE CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY
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HAVING A VOICE OF
JUSTICE AND MERCY.
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AND SO, IF - WE HAVE A MEMORY
VERSE IF YOU WANT TO JOIN ME.
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THIS IS A LONG ONE AND SO YOU
MAY WANT TO READ IT RIGHT OUT OF
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YOUR PAGE 1 IN YOUR QUARTERLY,
AND IT'S PSALM 146, VERSES 7 TO
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9, AND FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE
WATCHING - YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A
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LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE CHANNEL
SURFING AND START WATCHING THE
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PROGRAM. I MET
SOME THIS LAST WEEK AND
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OTHERS, THIS IS PART
OF THEIR REGULAR STUDY.
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YOU CAN GET THESE QUARTERLIES
- YOU CAN LOOK ONLINE UNDER
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SABBATH SCHOOL
BIBLE STUDY GUIDE.
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YOU CAN FIND THEM, I THINK,
IF YOU GO TO THE GRANITE BAY SDA
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WEBSITE. THERE
MIGHT BE A LINK THERE THAT
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WILL TAKE YOU TO WHERE YOU CAN
DOWNLOAD AND STUDY THE GUIDE.
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GO TO YOUR LOCAL SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH AND I'LL BET
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THEY'LL SHARE ONE WITH YOU
AND YOU CAN JOIN THEM AND STUDY
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ALONG WITH THEM. AND
SO IT'S, ONCE AGAIN, PSALM
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146, VERSE 7, AND THIS IS IN THE
NIV. WOULD YOU SAY IT OUT LOUD
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WITH ME? "HE
UPHOLDS THE CAUSE OF THE
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OPPRESSED AND GIVES FOOD TO THE
HUNGRY. THE LORD SETS PRISONERS
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FREE, THE LORD GIVES SIGHT
TO THE BLIND, THE LORD LIFTS UP
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THOSE WHO ARE BOWED DOWN,
THE LORD LOVES THE RIGHTEOUS.
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THE LORD WATCHES OVER THE
FOREIGNER AND SUSTAINS THE
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FATHERLESS AND THE WIDOW," -
WELL, THERE'S A LOT COMPASSED IN
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THERE REGARDING WHAT THE
MISSION OF THE CHURCH IS.
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AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN
BY LOOKING AT A FEW VERSES.
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CHRISTIANITY IS, SORT OF,
SUMMARIZED IN MICAH 6:8, WHICH
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SAYS, "HE HAS SHOWN YOU, O MAN,
WHAT IS GOOD; AND WHAT DOES THE
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LORD REQUIRE OF YOU BUT TO
DO JUSTLY, TO LOVE MERCY, AND TO
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WALK HUMBLY WITH YOUR GOD?"
LOVING MERCY - THAT DOESN'T MEAN
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JUST LOVING MERCY FOR
YOURSELF, IT MEANS BEING
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MERCIFUL TO OTHERS.
'BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL FOR"
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- WHAT'S THE REST OF THAT?
SO WHEN IT SAYS 'BLESSED ARE THE
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MERCIFUL' IT MEANS THOSE WHO ARE
SHARING MERCY WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
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NOW, EVEN IN THE LAWS OF MOSES -
YOU KNOW, MANY GOVERNMENTAL LAWS
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AND A LOT OF BASIC SOCIAL LAWS
ARE BASED ON THE LAW OF MOSES -
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NOT JUST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
WHICH WERE WRITTEN BY GOD, BUT A
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LOT OF THE CIVIL LAWS
THAT WERE WRITTEN BY MOSES.
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AND IF YOU START, FOR INSTANCE
IN EXODUS 22:21, YOU'LL SEE THAT
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WE'RE GOING TO JUST LOOK -
THERE'S, KIND OF, A BOUQUET OF
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DIFFERENT LAWS THAT ARE HERE.
"YOU SHALL NEITHER MISTREAT A
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STRANGER NOR OPPRESS HIM, FOR
YOU WERE STRANGERS IN THE LAND
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OF EGYPT." - NOW WHEN IT SAYS
'STRANGER' WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
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YOU EVER TOLD YOUR KIDS
'WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T TALK TO
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>>STRANGERS.
>>STRANGERS'? WELL, DOES IT MEAN
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YOU'RE NEVER TO TALK TO
STRANGERS, OR ARE YOU JUST
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TELLING YOUR CHILDREN TO BE
CAREFUL ABOUT PEOPLE YOU DON'T
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KNOW? MAKE SURE MOM AND DAD
SAY 'OKAY', BUT WHEN IT SAYS
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'STRANGER', WHAT DOES IT MEAN
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BIBLE?
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THEY WERE A NATION
OF BELIEVERS - OF JEWS.
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PEOPLE THAT WERE NON-JEWS
- I MEAN A LOT OF NATIONS DID
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COMMERCE BY
GOING THROUGH ISRAEL.
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YOU SEE, GOD PUT ISRAEL AT THE
INTERSECTION - THE CROSSROADS,
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REALLY - OF THREE CONTINENTS:
AFRICA, ASIA, AND EUROPE ALL
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COULD INTERSECT THROUGH
THE JORDAN VALLEY THERE -
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A LOT OF CARAVANS
- A LOT OF TRAFFIC.
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THEY'D MEET A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT
WERE OUT OF TOWN AND, BASICALLY,
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HE'S SAYING SHOW MERCY TO
PEOPLE WHO ARE FOREIGNERS -
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WHETHER THEY ARE FOREIGNERS WHO
HAVE COME TO STAY WITH YOU OR
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FOREIGNERS WHO ARE TRAVELING
THROUGH, YOU'RE TO BE WITNESSES
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TO THEM BY SHOWING MERCY, BY
BEING KIND, BY BEING HOSPITABLE.
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AND SO THIS IS WHAT IT'S TALKING
ABOUT WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE
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STRANGER. THERE'S
BEEN A LOT IN THE NEWS
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LATELY ON THE SUBJECT OF
IMMIGRATION, TALKING ABOUT
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PEOPLE THAT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT
OR PEOPLE COMING FROM A
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DIFFERENT CULTURE OR DIFFERENT
BACKGROUND. AND CHRISTIANS OUGHT
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TO BE GOOD TO EVERY CHILD OF
ADAM, AMEN? AND SHOW KINDNESS TO
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THEM. SO HE SAID,
'REMEMBER, DO NOT AFFLICT THEM.
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YOU ARE STRANGERS. YOU
ARE IN A FOREIGN LAND.'
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AND GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE
BEEN A NATION OF PILGRIMS.
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MOSES, WHEN HE HAD HIS SONS, HE
TALKED ABOUT 'I'M A STRANGER IN
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A STRANGE LAND.' JOSEPH, WHEN
HE HAD HIS SONS IN EGYPT, HE
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HIGHLIGHTED THAT, 'I'M AWAY FROM
HOME.' AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD
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NAME THEIR SONS,
TALKING ABOUT BEING WANDERERS.
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EVEN ABRAHAM SAID HE LOOKED FOR
A CITY THAT HAD FOUNDATIONS -
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THAT HE HAD NO
PERMANENT DWELLING HERE.
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THEY SAW
THEMSELVES AS STRANGERS.
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AND SO GOD'S PEOPLE OUGHT TO
SHOW LOVE AND KINDNESS TO OTHER
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STRANGERS OR
TRAVELERS OR IMMIGRANTS.
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YOU SHALL NOT AFFLICT ANY
WIDOW OR FATHERLESS CHILD.
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NOW WE'RE GOING TO SAY QUITE
A BIT IN THIS STUDY ABOUT THE
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WIDOW AND THE FATHERLESS - AND
I'LL DELVE A LITTLE DEEPER INTO
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THAT AS WE GET TO IT.
"YOU SHALL NOT AFFLICT ANY
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WIDOW OR FATHERLESS CHILD."
- AN ORPHAN - "IF YOU AFFLICT
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THEM IN ANY WAY, AND THEY CRY
AT ALL TO ME, I WILL SURELY HEAR
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THEIR CRY; AND MY WRATH WILL
BECOME HOT, AND I WILL KILL YOU
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WITH THE SWORD; YOUR
WIVES SHALL BE WIDOWS, AND YOUR
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CHILDREN FATHERLESS."
NOW WHAT IS GOD SAYING THERE?
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IT'S TOUGH WHEN YOU'RE - YOU'RE
MARRIED AND - ESPECIALLY BACK IN
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BIBLE TIMES, AS A WOMAN, IF YOU
LOST YOUR HUSBAND, THERE WAS A
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LONELINESS THERE AND THAT PERSON
SHOULD RECEIVE APPROPRIATE
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MERCY. IF YOU'RE A CHILD
AND YOU'VE LOST YOUR FATHER.
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I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU OUT
THERE LOST YOUR FATHER'S EARLY
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OR WHILE YOU WERE YOUNG
- IT CAN BE DEVASTATING.
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AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THE OTHER
KIDS TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY DID
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THAT WEEK WITH THEIR FATHERS
AND - AND TO BE FATHERLESS - THE
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BIBLE HAS A LOT
TO SAY ABOUT THAT.
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AND YOU SHOULD HAVE COMPASSION
AND SHOW MERCY ON PEOPLE IN
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THOSE SITUATIONS. GOD
SAID, 'OTHERWISE, MAYBE YOUR
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WIVES WILL BE WIDOWS AND YOUR
CHILDREN WILL BE FATHERLESS.'
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WHAT IS GOD
SAYING BY THAT THREAT?
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IT'S THE OLD AMERICAN-INDIAN
PROVERB, 'DON'T CRITICIZE YOUR
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NEIGHBOR UNTIL YOU'VE WALKED
A MILE IN THEIR MOCCASINS.' AND
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TRY TO EMPATHIZE WITH OTHER
PEOPLE AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW, IT'S
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PROBABLY TOUGH FOR THEM.' SHOW
THEM MERCY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
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PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES.
THAT'S WHAT SYMPATHY COMES FROM
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- 'PATHOS' - EMPATHY - IT
MEANS TO FEEL WHAT THEY FEEL.
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EXODUS 23 - WE'RE
KIND OF JUMPING AROUND NOW.
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IN A MOMENT I'M GOING TO HAVE
SOMEONE READ PROVERBS 14:31 -
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WHO'S GOT THAT? SOMEONE?
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DOES SOMEONE HAVE -
OH, DOWN HERE, OKAY.
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I'M GOING TO READ EXODUS 23:2,
"YOU SHALL NOT FOLLOW A CROWD TO
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DO EVIL; NOR SHALL YOU TESTIFY
IN A DISPUTE SO AS TO TURN ASIDE
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AFTER MANY TO PERVERT JUSTICE."
IT'S TALKING ABOUT DO NOT DO
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WHAT THE MOB DOES JUST
BECAUSE THE MOB IS DOING IT.
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YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE ADVERTISING
METHODS THAT MADISON AVENUE USES
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- IT'S CALLED THE BANDWAGON -
AND THE BANDWAGON IS BASICALLY
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SELL A PRODUCT BY
SAYING, 'EVERYBODY'S USING IT.
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EVERYBODY'S DOING IT. IT
MUST BE REALLY GOOD.' AND YOU
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DON'T REALLY LOOK AT IT FOR ITS
OWN VALUE, IT'S JUST THE IDEA
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THAT THIS IS THE POPULAR THING.
I USED TO WONDER, YOU KNOW, WHEN
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YOU SEE KIDS GOING AROUND
WITH PURPLE MOHAWKS - I THOUGHT,
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'WHAT KID EVER WOKE UP IN THE
MORNING AND LOOKED IN THE MIRROR
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AND SAID, 'I'VE GOT TO
DO SOMETHING WITH MY HAIR.
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I THINK I'M JUST GOING TO DYE IT
PURPLE AND MAKE A MOHAWK.' YOU
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KNOW HOW THEY DO
IT? IT BECOMES A TREND.
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SOME OF THEIR STARS AND
THEIR IDOLS BEGIN TO DO IT.
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AND WHEN THE FADS - FASHIONS
CHANGE - IT'S ALL THIS IDEA OF
00:13:56.97\00:14:01.27
GETTING ON THE
BANDWAGON. 'OH, DON'T DRESS THAT
00:14:01.27\00:14:04.24
WAY ANYMORE, THAT'S OUT.
THIS IS WHAT'S IN AND YOU'RE
00:14:04.24\00:14:07.58
SUPPOSED TO WEAR
YOUR SHIRT INSIDE-OUT.
00:14:07.58\00:14:09.01
THAT'S WHAT
EVERYONE'S DOING NOW.
00:14:09.01\00:14:10.35
OH, LOOK AT THAT.
YOUR SHIRT'S NORMAL!
00:14:10.35\00:14:11.51
THAT'S AWFUL - EVERYBODY'S
WEARING IT INSIDE-OUT.'
00:14:11.51\00:14:14.05
SO BANDWAGON MENTALITY, BUT
SOMETIMES A CROWD WOULD BEGIN TO
00:14:14.05\00:14:19.22
PERSECUTE SOMEONE WHO WAS
INNOCENT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS
00:14:19.22\00:14:21.32
POPULAR. OTHER
PEOPLE GOT SWEPT UP IN IT.
00:14:21.32\00:14:23.43
SOME OF THE SAME CROWD THAT WAS
SAYING, 'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF
00:14:23.43\00:14:29.30
DAVID', LATER WAS SAYING,
'CRUCIFY HIM! CRUCIFY HIM!'
00:14:29.30\00:14:33.30
AND THEY WERE JUST
FOLLOWING THE CROWD.
00:14:33.30\00:14:36.50
'WHAT ARE WE YELLING
ABOUT? OH, SOUNDS GOOD.
00:14:36.50\00:14:38.57
I'LL YELL TOO.' AND THEY ALL
BEGAN TO SHOUT FOR JESUS' BLOOD.
00:14:38.57\00:14:43.11
DO NOT FOLLOW A
CROWD TO DO EVIL.
00:14:43.11\00:14:45.75
"NOR SHALL YOU TESTIFY IN
A DISPUTE SO AS TO TURN ASIDE
00:14:45.75\00:14:49.52
AFTER MANY" - DON'T FOLLOW THE
CROWD - "AFTER MANY TO PERVERT
00:14:49.52\00:14:52.89
JUSTICE." GOD
LOOKS FOR PEOPLE WHO WILL
00:14:52.89\00:14:55.12
STAND UP EVEN THOUGH
EVERYONE ELSE IS BOWING DOWN.
00:14:55.12\00:14:58.49
CAN YOU THINK OF SOME FAMOUS
PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE WHO STOOD UP
00:14:58.49\00:15:00.80
AGAINST THE CROWD?
SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO?
00:15:00.80\00:15:04.77
WHO ELSE? ON
MOUNT CARMEL - ELIJAH?
00:15:04.77\00:15:10.61
DO SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THE
STORY IN THE BIBLE OF A PROPHET
00:15:10.61\00:15:13.21
NAMED MICAIAH? KING
JEHOSHAPHAT AND KING AHAB
00:15:13.21\00:15:17.85
HAD A BIG PEP RALLY TO GO
TO BATTLE, BUT IT WASN'T OF THE
00:15:17.85\00:15:20.95
LORD AND ALL THESE FALSE
PROPHETS SAID, 'GO, GO' AND THEY
00:15:20.95\00:15:24.39
WERE ALL GETTING EXCITED
AND SOMEONE EVEN TOLD MICAIAH,
00:15:24.39\00:15:26.72
'PLEASE DON'T SAY
ANYTHING NEGATIVE.
00:15:26.72\00:15:28.09
EVERYBODY IS OF ONE
SPIRIT. WE NEED UNITY.
00:15:28.09\00:15:32.03
JUST GO ALONG SO WE'LL
HAVE UNITY IN THE BATTLE.
00:15:32.03\00:15:34.20
DON'T RUIN THEIR MORALE.' AND
MICAIAH SAID, 'LOOK, I'M GOING
00:15:34.20\00:15:37.63
TO SAY WHAT GOD TELLS ME TO
SAY.' AND SO - AND HE WENT TO
00:15:37.63\00:15:41.20
JAIL FOR IT. HE WAS
RIGHT. AHAB DIED IN THE BATTLE.
00:15:41.20\00:15:44.97
IT WAS A DISASTER. JEHOSHAPHAT
NEARLY DIED - BUT HE STOOD UP.
00:15:44.97\00:15:50.18
AND SO GOD WANTS PEOPLE WHO
WILL STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT,
00:15:50.18\00:15:53.58
REGARDLESS OF WHAT
EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING.
00:15:53.58\00:15:55.98
HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT GOING
TO BE FOR US IN THE LAST DAYS?
00:15:55.98\00:15:59.45
WILL THE MAJORITY BE FOLLOWING
GOD OR WILL THE MAJORITY BE
00:15:59.45\00:16:03.32
FOLLOWING THE
BEAST? >>THE BEAST.
00:16:03.32\00:16:05.43
>>YEAH, IT'S GOING TO BE
STRAIGHT IS THE GATE AND NARROW
00:16:05.43\00:16:09.30
THE WAY THAT LEADS TO LIFE.
SO YOU HAVE TO LEARN EARLY ON
00:16:09.30\00:16:11.57
IN YOUR CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE
TO STAND FOR YOUR PRINCIPLES.
00:16:11.57\00:16:14.40
I REALLY ADMIRE YOUNG CHRISTIAN
MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE IN
00:16:14.40\00:16:16.71
COLLEGES WHERE EVERYBODY AROUND
THEM IS COMPROMISING MORALS AND
00:16:16.71\00:16:21.78
THEY TAKE A STAND AND
SAY, 'NO.' 'WELL, COME ON.
00:16:21.78\00:16:24.05
WHAT - ARE YOU
CRAZY, YOU FANATIC?'
00:16:24.05\00:16:25.41
'I'M A
CHRISTIAN. I DON'T DO THAT.
00:16:25.41\00:16:26.98
I'M NOT GOING THERE.
I'M NOT READING THAT.
00:16:26.98\00:16:29.48
I CAN'T TAKE THAT TEST' - OR -
'I CAN'T TAKE IT THAT DAY.' AND
00:16:29.48\00:16:33.12
SO WHEN THEY STAND UP FOR WHAT'S
RIGHT, I THINK THE LORD'LL BLESS
00:16:33.12\00:16:36.59
- HEAVEN'LL REJOICE -
THE LORD'LL BLESS THEM.
00:16:36.59\00:16:39.39
THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY -
I'M STILL IN EXODUS 23 - "IF YOU
00:16:39.39\00:16:45.07
MEET YOUR ENEMY'S OX OR HIS
DONKEY GOING ASTRAY, YOU SHALL
00:16:45.07\00:16:49.60
SURELY BRING IT
BACK TO HIM AGAIN.
00:16:49.60\00:16:52.41
IF YOU SEE THE DONKEY OF ONE
WHO HATES YOU LYING UNDER ITS
00:16:52.41\00:16:56.08
BURDEN, AND YOU WOULD REFRAIN
FROM HELPING IT, YOU SHALL
00:16:56.08\00:16:58.78
SURELY HELP HIM WITH IT."
SO, THE BIBLE SAYS 'LOVE YOUR
00:16:58.78\00:17:04.22
ENEMY' 'OVERCOME EVIL WITH
GOOD'. AND SO YOU'VE GOT THIS
00:17:04.22\00:17:07.76
NEIGHBOR THAT JUST HAS BEEN
GIVING YOU FITS AND HE'S, YOU
00:17:07.76\00:17:10.19
KNOW, YOU'VE GOT A DISPUTE -
HE'S YOUR ENEMY - FOR WHATEVER
00:17:10.19\00:17:14.00
REASON, YOU MAKE UP YOUR OWN
SCENARIO IN YOUR MIND - AND THEN
00:17:14.00\00:17:18.67
YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO MARKET
THAT DAY AND YOU SEE HE'S ON HIS
00:17:18.67\00:17:20.67
WAY TO MARKET AND YOU SEE HE'S
LOADED HIS DONKEY DOWN A LITTLE
00:17:20.67\00:17:23.24
TOO MUCH AND THE DONKEY TRIPS
AND - YOU KNOW, A DONKEY, WHEN
00:17:23.24\00:17:25.81
IT'S GOT A LOAD, IT CAN CARRY
QUITE A BIT, BUT DONKEYS AREN'T
00:17:25.81\00:17:28.94
VERY GOOD AT GETTING UP IF
THEY FALL UNDER THEIR LOAD.
00:17:28.94\00:17:31.41
YOU HAVE TO BASICALLY COMPLETELY
UNPACK THEM, GET THEM UP AGAIN,
00:17:31.41\00:17:35.22
AND THEN RE-LOAD THEM
AND IT'S VERY WORK-INTENSIVE.
00:17:35.22\00:17:37.65
BUT IF YOU GET A COUPLE OF MEN,
YOU CAN HELP, KIND OF, PUSH AND
00:17:37.65\00:17:40.82
PROD AND GET THE DONKEY
UP AGAIN AND ON THE ROAD.
00:17:40.82\00:17:44.09
HE SAID, 'SO IF YOU SEE YOUR
NEIGHBOR IS TRYING TO TUG AND
00:17:44.09\00:17:46.06
PULL AND GET THE DONKEY UP AGAIN
AND SOMEONE MIGHT BE NEEDED TO
00:17:46.06\00:17:52.53
HELP LIFT THE HINDQUARTERS OF
THE BEAST, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
00:17:52.53\00:17:56.34
SAY, 'GOOD FOR
YOU. YOU'RE MY ENEMY.
00:17:56.34\00:17:59.11
SERVES YOU RIGHT.' AND WALK BY
- EVEN THOUGH HE'S YOUR ENEMY OR
00:17:59.11\00:18:03.28
SHE'S YOUR ENEMY. YOU HELP THEM.
WHO KNOWS, MAYBE YOU'LL KILL
00:18:03.28\00:18:07.05
YOUR ENEMY WITH KINDNESS.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS YOU'LL
00:18:07.05\00:18:09.65
STOP BEING ENEMIES. AND
SO, YOU - IT SAYS IF YOU
00:18:09.65\00:18:14.02
HAVE SOMEBODY THAT'S IN - AND
YOU FIND YOUR ENEMY'S DONKEY,
00:18:14.02\00:18:16.96
SAY, 'OH, ISN'T THAT SO
AND SO'S DONKEY WANDERING?
00:18:16.96\00:18:19.59
WELL, I'M NOT GOING TO
HELP. THAT'S HIS PROBLEM.
00:18:19.59\00:18:23.10
I WANT BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN TO
HIM OR HER.' NO, YOU'RE SUPPOSED
00:18:23.10\00:18:26.90
TO DO THE JUST THING.
DO YOU SEE THE PRINCIPLE?
00:18:26.90\00:18:30.77
DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE
THEM DO UNTO YOU - EVEN IF IT'S
00:18:30.77\00:18:34.78
YOUR ENEMY - IS WHAT
MOSES IS SAYING HERE.
00:18:34.78\00:18:37.85
"YOU SHALL NOT PERVERT THE
JUDGMENT OF YOUR POOR IN HIS
00:18:37.85\00:18:41.48
DISPUTE. KEEP
YOURSELF FAR FROM A FALSE
00:18:41.48\00:18:44.59
MATTER; DO NOT KILL
THE INNOCENT AND RIGHTEOUS.
00:18:44.59\00:18:49.06
FOR I WILL NOT
JUSTIFY THE WICKED.
00:18:49.06\00:18:51.56
AND YOU SHALL TAKE NO BRIBE, FOR
A BRIBE BLINDS THE DISCERNING
00:18:51.56\00:18:55.93
AND PERVERTS THE
WORDS OF THE RIGHTEOUS."
00:18:55.93\00:18:58.10
SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT WHEN
YOU'RE GOING TO COURT - THEY HAD
00:18:58.10\00:19:01.04
COURT BACK THEN AND OFTEN,
YOU KNOW, THE JUDGES WERE THE
00:19:01.04\00:19:03.27
PRIESTS AND THEY
WOULD LISTEN TO A DISPUTE.
00:19:03.27\00:19:05.37
YOU REMEMBER IT SAID SAMUEL WAS
HONEST BUT HIS SONS TOOK BRIBES
00:19:05.37\00:19:10.85
AND THEY BEGAN TO PERVERT
AND SOMEONE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, THE
00:19:10.85\00:19:13.25
RICH PEOPLE ARE GETTING BETTER
JUSTICE THAN THE POOR PEOPLE
00:19:13.25\00:19:16.69
BECAUSE THEY COULD GIVE FAVORS
TO THE JUDGES AND THEY COULD
00:19:16.69\00:19:19.42
SEND THEM ON
VACATIONS AND THEY GOT TREATS.'
00:19:19.42\00:19:22.49
IT'S KIND OF LIKE THESE
LOBBYISTS IN WASHINGTON.
00:19:22.49\00:19:25.03
WE JUST HAD SOMEBODY - I
GUESS THIS LAST WEEK - ANOTHER
00:19:25.03\00:19:27.86
POLITICIAN - IT HAPPENS
FREQUENTLY - WAS INDICTED FOR
00:19:27.86\00:19:30.83
TAKING BRIBES AND USING THEIR
POWER - CLOSING THEIR EYES TO
00:19:30.83\00:19:34.14
WHAT THE TRUTH
WAS, FOR PERSONAL GAIN.
00:19:34.14\00:19:37.07
GOD SAYS YOU NEED TO DO THE
RIGHT THING BECAUSE IT'S THE
00:19:37.07\00:19:39.74
RIGHT THING AND DON'T BE - DON'T
RESPECT A PERSON BECAUSE OF
00:19:39.74\00:19:43.14
THEIR WEALTH -
BECAUSE OF THEIR POSITION.
00:19:43.14\00:19:45.21
DO NOT NEGLECT A PERSON WHO
IS POOR - SAY, 'OH, IT DOESN'T
00:19:45.21\00:19:47.85
MATTER IF I TAKE CARE OF THEM
BECAUSE THEY'RE POOR AND THEY
00:19:47.85\00:19:50.05
CAN'T HELP ME. THERE'S
NO CONNECTIONS.' AND NOW
00:19:50.05\00:19:54.62
I WAS GOING TO HAVE SOMEONE READ
PROVERBS 14:31. GO AHEAD, TERRY.
00:19:54.62\00:19:59.23
>>"HE WHO OPPRESSES THE POOR
REPROACHES HIS MAKER, BUT HE WHO
00:19:59.23\00:20:03.10
HONORS HIM HAS
MERCY ON THE NEEDY."
00:20:03.10\00:20:06.47
>>NOW, IF YOU HAVE MERCY ON THE
POOR, IT SAYS THAT HONORS GOD -
00:20:06.47\00:20:12.94
IT PLEASES GOD. DID
JESUS HAVE A LOT OF CONVERTS
00:20:12.94\00:20:18.51
THAT CAME FROM THE RICH, OR WERE
THEY TYPICALLY AMONG THE POOR?
00:20:18.51\00:20:23.49
AND SO, IF WE WANT TO BE
CHRIST-LIKE, WE NEED TO SHOW
00:20:23.49\00:20:25.89
MERCY TO THE POOR.
NOW YOU NOTICE THERE'S TWO
00:20:25.89\00:20:28.69
EXTREMES HERE - SHOWING MERCY TO
THE POOR - HELPING THEM, CARING
00:20:28.69\00:20:33.16
- AND THEN THERE'S
THOSE WHO OPPRESS THE POOR.
00:20:33.16\00:20:35.90
WELL, MAYBE YOU MIGHT
SAY, 'WELL, I'M - I'M KIND OF
00:20:35.90\00:20:37.80
NEUTRAL. I DON'T
OPPRESS THE POOR, BUT
00:20:37.80\00:20:41.64
I ALSO DON'T SHOW THEM MERCY.'
WELL, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
00:20:41.64\00:20:45.11
SIMPLY BY
NEGLECTING YOU ARE OPPRESSING.
00:20:45.11\00:20:49.98
DOESN'T THE BIBLE
SAY, 'WHEN I WAS HUNGRY'?
00:20:49.98\00:20:52.11
MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO
GET TO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT SO
00:20:52.11\00:20:53.52
I DON'T WANT TO
JUMP AHEAD TO IT.
00:20:53.52\00:20:54.88
LEVITICUS 19:10, "AND YOU
SHALL GLEAN YOUR VINEYARD" - I'M
00:20:54.88\00:20:59.69
SORRY, "YOU SHALL NOT GLEAN YOUR
VINEYARD, NOR SHALL YOU GATHER
00:20:59.69\00:21:02.92
EVERY GRAPE OF YOUR VINEYARD;
YOU SHALL LEAVE THEM FOR THE
00:21:02.92\00:21:06.09
POOR AND THE STRANGER:
I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD."
00:21:06.09\00:21:09.46
NOW WE'VE GOT SOME SQUIRRELS
AND BIRDS IN OUR BACKYARD.
00:21:09.46\00:21:13.97
I'D LIKE TO TEACH
THEM TO READ THE BIBLE.
00:21:13.97\00:21:15.80
(LAUGHTER) ESPECIALLY LEVITICUS,
BECAUSE WHEN THEY GLEAN, THEY
00:21:15.80\00:21:22.11
DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING FOR
US. THEY JUST COMPLETELY PICKED
00:21:22.11\00:21:26.11
ALL THE CHERRIES ON OUR
TREE. I DIDN'T GET A SINGLE
00:21:26.11\00:21:28.08
CHERRY FROM THE
TREE. HUH? >>FOR YEARS.
00:21:28.08\00:21:31.69
>>FOR - OH NO, WE'VE GOTTEN A
COUPLE BUT THEY USUALLY DON'T -
00:21:31.69\00:21:33.82
THEY'RE PRETTY QUICK.
THEY DON'T LEAVE MUCH FOR US.
00:21:33.82\00:21:37.13
AND - BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE
TO TEACH THEM TO READ THE BIBLE
00:21:37.13\00:21:39.93
YET. THE IDEA
WAS - GLEANING MEANS
00:21:39.93\00:21:44.47
- AFTER YOU'VE HARVESTED THEY
CALLED - THE GLEANINGS WERE LIKE
00:21:44.47\00:21:46.74
THE EDGES OF THE FIELD OR SOME
THAT WAS LEFT BEHIND OR MISSED,
00:21:46.74\00:21:50.24
AND THE IDEA IS
DON'T GO OVER IT TWICE.
00:21:50.24\00:21:53.68
NOW THERE'S SEVERAL VERSES HERE
- IT TALKS ABOUT AFTER YOU BEAT
00:21:53.68\00:21:55.74
ALL THE OLIVES OFF YOUR TREE AND
YOU GATHER THEM, THEY WOULD PUT
00:21:55.74\00:21:59.08
A BIG TARP OR CLOTH UNDERNEATH
THE TREE, THEY'D BEAT AND SHAKE
00:21:59.08\00:22:02.32
ALL THE OLIVES DOWN - THEY'D
GATHER THEM - HE SAID, 'DON'T GO
00:22:02.32\00:22:05.22
OVER THE BRANCHES A SECOND
TIME. YES, THERE'LL BE SOME THAT
00:22:05.22\00:22:08.19
YOU'VE MISSED. LEAVE THEM FOR
THE POOR.' DO YOU KNOW THE STORY
00:22:08.19\00:22:13.46
OF RUTH? HOW DID BOAZ FIRST MEET
RUTH. HE TOLD THE YOUNG MEN - IT
00:22:13.46\00:22:20.54
WAS FUNNY - HE SAW THE POOR
WOMEN IN THE TOWN AND THE WIDOWS
00:22:20.54\00:22:24.54
- AND RUTH WAS A WIDOW AND HER
MOTHER WAS A WIDOW AND DO YOU
00:22:24.54\00:22:28.84
KNOW HOW THEY GOT
THEIR FOOD DURING HARVEST?
00:22:28.84\00:22:30.65
AFTER THE MEN WENT THROUGH -
THEY'RE DOING THE HEAVY WORK -
00:22:30.65\00:22:32.68
THEY'RE DOING THE BIG HARVEST,
THE BIG SHOCKS OF GRAIN - THE
00:22:32.68\00:22:36.45
WOMEN WOULD COME AND
GET WHAT THEY DROPPED.
00:22:36.45\00:22:38.85
THAT WAS THE GLEANINGS OR
THINGS THAT HAD BEEN MISSED.
00:22:38.85\00:22:41.49
AND BOAZ WAS SUCH A MERCIFUL
MAN, HE TOLD HIS HARVESTING MEN,
00:22:41.49\00:22:45.46
'LET A LOT OF IT
FALL.' DO YOU REMEMBER THAT?
00:22:45.46\00:22:49.60
HE SAID, 'LEAVE SOME
BEHIND. LEAVE A LITTLE EXTRA.
00:22:49.60\00:22:51.83
ACT LIKE YOU'RE DROPPING IT.'
AND HE SAID FOR THE POOR - AND
00:22:51.83\00:22:55.60
RUTH CAME HOME AND NAOMI WAS SO
HAPPY SHE SAID, 'MAN, I'VE JUST
00:22:55.60\00:22:58.31
GOT THIS WHOLE SHAWL -
THIS TARP - FULL OF GRAIN.'
00:22:58.31\00:23:01.34
BECAUSE BOAZ
DELIBERATELY WAS LEAVING EXTRA.
00:23:01.34\00:23:04.45
NOW DOES GOD LIKE THAT? >>YES.
00:23:04.45\00:23:06.92
>>WHEN WE SHOW MERCY TO THE POOR
- AND SO THAT'S WHAT HE SAID
00:23:06.92\00:23:10.59
WHEN - AND DON'T -
DON'T TAKE ALL THE GLEANINGS.
00:23:10.59\00:23:14.09
LEAVE SOMETHING FOR THE POOR.
NOT JUST THE POOR, YOU KNOW,
00:23:14.09\00:23:16.36
EVEN THE CREATURES DO THAT. AND
THEN IT SAYS IN DEUTERONOMY 27 -
00:23:16.36\00:23:21.36
THESE ARE JUST SCATTERED
PRINCIPLES THAT THE BIBLE
00:23:21.36\00:23:24.53
SHARES.
DEUTERONOMY 27:19, "CURSED IS
00:23:24.53\00:23:28.20
THE ONE WHO PERVERTS THE
JUSTICE DUE THE STRANGER, THE
00:23:28.20\00:23:32.11
FATHERLESS, AND WIDOW."
THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN.
00:23:32.11\00:23:34.71
"AND ALL THE
PEOPLE WILL SAY, 'AMEN!'"
00:23:34.71\00:23:37.18
NOW, YOU REMEMBER ONE OF THE
THINGS THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO
00:23:37.18\00:23:39.51
WHEN THEY CAME
INTO THE PROMISED LAND?
00:23:39.51\00:23:41.25
THEY WERE INSTRUCTED BY JOSHUA
THAT SIX OF THE TRIBES - I
00:23:41.25\00:23:44.69
FORGET WHICH ONES THEY WERE -
WOULD BE ON MOUNT EBAL AND SIX
00:23:44.69\00:23:47.79
WOULD BE ON MOUNT GERIZIM AND
ONE WAS CALLED THE MOUNTAIN OF
00:23:47.79\00:23:51.16
BLESSING AND ONE WAS
CALLED THE MOUNTAIN OF CURSING.
00:23:51.16\00:23:54.00
AND FROM THE MOUNTAINS THEY
WOULD SAY THESE BLESSINGS AND
00:23:54.00\00:23:57.37
THESE CURSINGS. AND
AFTER THEY SAID IT, THE
00:23:57.37\00:23:59.50
OTHER TRIBE WOULD SAY 'AMEN!'
AND, BASICALLY, THEY WERE IN THE
00:23:59.50\00:24:03.47
LAND SAYING, 'WE ARE GOING TO
LIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE
00:24:03.47\00:24:07.11
IN THE LAND.' ONE OF THE THINGS
THEY WOULD SAY IS 'CURSED IS THE
00:24:07.11\00:24:09.81
ONE WHO PERVERTS JUSTICE DUE
TO THE STRANGER, THE FATHERLESS,
00:24:09.81\00:24:14.05
AND THE WIDOW AND ALL
THE PEOPLE WILL SAY, 'AMEN!''
00:24:14.05\00:24:17.85
SO GOD NOT ONLY SAYS HE WON'T
BLESS YOU, IF WE DON'T SHOW
00:24:17.85\00:24:21.42
JUSTICE, HE SAYS THERE'S A
CURSE. THAT'S PRETTY SERIOUS,
00:24:21.42\00:24:25.49
ISN'T IT? IN A MOMENT SOMEONE IS
GOING TO READ FOR ME HEBREWS 4:4
00:24:25.49\00:24:29.53
AND 5 - OKAY, KATRINA? I'M GOING
TO READ GENESIS 2. NOW WE'RE
00:24:29.53\00:24:32.77
TALKING ABOUT UNDER THE HEADING
OF UNIVERSAL CONCERNS FROM AMONG
00:24:32.77\00:24:36.20
GOD'S PEOPLE - ONE OF THEM BEING
THE SABBATH. NOW SOME PEOPLE
00:24:36.20\00:24:39.54
SAY, 'WELL, THE SABBATH WAS MADE
FOR THE JEWS.' IS THAT WHAT THE
00:24:39.54\00:24:41.54
BIBLE SAYS? JESUS SAID
THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR -
00:24:41.54\00:24:45.61
>>MAN. >>MAN. IS
THAT HOW YOU SPELL
00:24:45.61\00:24:47.68
JEW? M-A-N? THAT WORD THERE,
I THINK, IS ANTHROPOS, AND IT
00:24:47.68\00:24:51.92
MEANS - IT'S WHERE WE GET
ANTHROPOLOGY - THE STUDY OF
00:24:51.92\00:24:54.22
MANKIND. AND SO IT MEANS
IT WAS MADE FOR HUMANITY - FOR
00:24:54.22\00:24:59.13
EVERYBODY. AND, OF COURSE,
GENESIS 2:1, "THUS THE HEAVENS
00:24:59.13\00:25:03.37
AND THE EARTH, AND ALL THE
HOST OF THEM, WERE FINISHED.
00:25:03.37\00:25:05.90
AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED
HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD DONE, AND
00:25:05.90\00:25:08.97
HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY
FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD
00:25:08.97\00:25:11.34
DONE. THEN GOD BLESSED THE
SEVENTH DAY AND SANCTIFIED IT,
00:25:11.34\00:25:14.84
BECAUSE IN IT HE RESTED FORM ALL
HIS WORK WHICH GOD HAD CREATED
00:25:14.84\00:25:17.31
AND MADE." HOW MANY
PEOPLE WERE IN THE WORLD THEN?
00:25:17.31\00:25:19.78
>>TWO. >>TWO.
00:25:19.78\00:25:21.42
HOW MANY RACES OF THE WORLD ARE
RELATED TO THOSE ORIGINAL TWO?
00:25:21.42\00:25:25.15
>>ALL.
>>EVERYBODY. AND SO WHEN WE TALK
00:25:25.15\00:25:28.02
ABOUT THE PRINCIPLE OF THE
SABBATH AND ALLOWING PEOPLE TO
00:25:28.02\00:25:31.66
HAVE REST AND NOT OPPRESSING
PEOPLE AND NOT - NOW CHILDREN OF
00:25:31.66\00:25:34.96
ISRAEL, THEY WERE SAVED
FROM HARD LABOR AND GOD'S PEOPLE
00:25:34.96\00:25:40.70
OUGHT TO BE CONCERNED
WITH, ALSO, OTHER PEOPLE'S REST.
00:25:40.70\00:25:48.11
IN THE NOTES IN THE LESSON - I
COPIED THIS - IT SAID, "INDEED,
00:25:48.11\00:25:51.18
THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH TELLS
US THAT GOD'S A CREATOR AND REST
00:25:51.18\00:25:54.05
PROVIDER OF ALL
WHO LIVE ON THE PLANET.
00:25:54.05\00:25:56.55
IF WE TRULY OBSERVE THE SABBATH,
WE'LL NOT REMAIN SATISFIED ONLY
00:25:56.55\00:25:59.95
WITH OUR OWN REST AND
REDEMPTION, BUT THE ULTIMATE
00:25:59.95\00:26:02.89
RESTORATION AND IN
THE NEW EARTH AS WELL.
00:26:02.89\00:26:06.43
GO AHEAD, READ FOR
US HEBREWS 4:4 AND 5.
00:26:06.43\00:26:10.27
>>"FOR HE HAS SPOKEN IN A
CERTAIN PLACE OF THE SEVENTH DAY
00:26:10.27\00:26:13.74
IN THIS WAY: 'AND GOD RESTED
ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS
00:26:13.74\00:26:17.84
WORKS'; AND AGAIN IN THIS PLACE:
'THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.'"
00:26:17.84\00:26:23.04
>>ALRIGHT, VERY GOOD.
EVEN THE NEW TESTAMENT SAYS,
00:26:23.04\00:26:27.32
'THERE REMAINS A SABBATH FOR
THE PEOPLE OF GOD.' SO YOU'VE
00:26:27.32\00:26:29.65
GOT THE SABBATH IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT; YOU'VE GOT THE
00:26:29.65\00:26:31.49
SABBATH AND IT TELLS YOU HE
SPOKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE ON THE
00:26:31.49\00:26:33.99
SEVENTH DAY - EVERYBODY
CAN HARKEN BACK TO THAT.
00:26:33.99\00:26:37.09
THE WHOLE WORLD STILL KEEPS
THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH, RIGHT?
00:26:37.09\00:26:40.46
NOW IN THE COMMANDMENT DOES
IT SAY WHO'S SUPPOSED TO REST?
00:26:40.46\00:26:46.40
SON, YOUR
DAUGHTER - >>MANSERVANT.
00:26:46.40\00:26:50.77
>>MANSERVANT.
MAIDSERVANT, STRANGER -
00:26:50.77\00:26:55.91
>>OX AND ASS. >>YOUR
OX - YOUR ANIMALS - AND,
00:26:55.91\00:26:59.81
NOW IN THAT COMMANDMENT, DO
YOU REALIZE IT ALSO SAYS IN THAT
00:26:59.81\00:27:03.62
COMMANDMENT THAT YOUR LAND
IS SUPPOSED TO REST? WERE THEY
00:27:03.62\00:27:08.09
SUPPOSED TO
HARVEST ON SABBATH? >>NO.
00:27:08.09\00:27:10.56
>>THEY WERE TOLD TO KEEP
THE SABBATH IN SEED TIME AND
00:27:10.56\00:27:13.70
HARVEST. THEY WEREN'T TO BE
SOWING SEEDS. DOES THE BIBLE
00:27:13.70\00:27:17.13
HAVE OTHER
SABBATHS FOR THE LAND?
00:27:17.13\00:27:19.83
>>YES. >>BESIDES
THE WEEKLY - DO YOU
00:27:19.83\00:27:22.07
REALIZE EVERY WEEK THE
LAND WAS TO GET A LITTLE BIT
00:27:22.07\00:27:24.21
OF REST - ONE DAY? BUT
ALSO, EVERY SEVENTH YEAR
00:27:24.21\00:27:27.41
THE LAND WAS TO GET A REST.
AND SO THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT
00:27:27.41\00:27:31.88
TELLS US THAT AS CHRISTIANS WE
ARE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT PEOPLE
00:27:31.88\00:27:36.58
BEING OVERWORKED - THE STRANGER,
FAMILIES, ANIMALS, THE LAND -
00:27:36.58\00:27:42.66
IT'S SOMETHING THAT REALLY
CARES ABOUT THE HEALTH AND THE
00:27:42.66\00:27:44.93
VITALITY AND THE REST OF
ALL CREATURES AND ALL CREATION.
00:27:44.93\00:27:48.96
AND IN THE NEW EARTH -
WILL THAT ALL BE RESTORED?
00:27:48.96\00:27:51.97
AND THAT WAS REFERRED TO IN OUR
LESSON IN ISAIAH 66, VERSES 22
00:27:51.97\00:27:55.54
AND 23 - THE NEW
HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH.
00:27:55.54\00:27:58.24
AND SO, THE SABBATH TRUTH - WHEN
YOU'RE SHARING THE SABBATH, YOU
00:27:58.24\00:28:01.51
DON'T SAY, 'I'VE GOT - OUR
DENOMINATION HAS THIS BELIEF
00:28:01.51\00:28:04.98
THAT WE MADE UP.' IS THAT OUR
- IS THAT THE REASON WE BELIEVE
00:28:04.98\00:28:08.85
THE SABBATH OR IS IT GOD'S IDEA
AND IT'S A PRINCIPLE OF TRUTH
00:28:08.85\00:28:12.82
THAT'S FOR ALL PEOPLE?
SO DON'T EVER FEEL LIKE THAT
00:28:12.82\00:28:16.49
'WELL, THIS IS JUST OUR
DENOMINATIONAL - WE'VE GOT A
00:28:16.49\00:28:19.39
MONOPOLY - WE'VE GOT A BRAND.
THIS IS OUR SLOGAN.' THE SABBATH
00:28:19.39\00:28:23.03
TRUTH IS PART OF THE JUSTICE
OF CHRISTIANITY FOR ALL PEOPLE.
00:28:23.03\00:28:27.67
>>AMEN. >>AND I
ALWAYS THINK IT'S SAD.
00:28:27.67\00:28:30.07
EVEN SUNDAY-KEEPING CHRISTIANS
- CHRISTIANS THAT KEEP THE FIRST
00:28:30.07\00:28:32.84
DAY OF THE WEEK AS THEIR SABBATH
- THEY USED TO KEEP IT, YEARS
00:28:32.84\00:28:37.85
AGO, MORE CAREFULLY THAN MANY
SABBATH-KEEPERS KEEP THE SABBATH
00:28:37.85\00:28:41.55
NOW. I'VE GOT
FRIENDS, YOU PROBABLY
00:28:41.55\00:28:43.85
KNEW SOME TOO, THAT
THEY HAD CLOTHES THEY ONLY
00:28:43.85\00:28:46.65
WORE ON SUNDAY. THEY
NEVER RAN AROUND ON SUNDAY.
00:28:46.65\00:28:48.79
THEY NEVER WENT TO
THE STORE ON SUNDAY.
00:28:48.79\00:28:50.56
THEY NEVER WENT TO
THEIR FIELDS ON SUNDAY.
00:28:50.56\00:28:52.29
IT WAS A DAY OF REST. AND
THEY KEPT IT MORE CAREFULLY
00:28:52.29\00:28:55.43
THAN SOME ADVENTIST SABBATH
KEEPERS ARE KEEPING THE TRUE
00:28:55.43\00:28:59.23
BIBLE SABBATH, WHICH
IS THE SEVENTH DAY, TODAY.
00:28:59.23\00:29:02.07
WOULD YOU AGREE
WITH THAT? >>YES.
00:29:02.07\00:29:03.61
>>AMEN. >>THAT'S UNFORTUNATE.
00:29:03.61\00:29:05.71
BUT TODAY, WHAT'S SAD, IS EVEN
THOSE THAT ARE CHRISTIANS IN
00:29:05.71\00:29:09.44
OTHER FAITHS, THEY'RE MISSING
THE REST BECAUSE RIGHT AFTER
00:29:09.44\00:29:12.01
CHURCH THEY'RE BACK IN THE
WORLD DOING EVERYTHING AGAIN AND
00:29:12.01\00:29:15.18
THEY'RE WORKING AND THEY'RE
FARMING AND JUST - THEY SAY,
00:29:15.18\00:29:18.52
'OH, WELL, I'VE GOT TO, BECAUSE'
- FOR THIS REASON OR THAT REASON
00:29:18.52\00:29:21.99
- IT'S USUALLY A FINANCIAL GAIN
- AND THEY'RE LOSING A BLESSING
00:29:21.99\00:29:24.99
BY DOING THAT.
COLOSSIANS 2:16, "SO LET NO ONE
00:29:24.99\00:29:30.33
JUDGE YOU IN FOOD OR IN DRINK,
OR REGARDING A FESTIVAL OR A
00:29:30.33\00:29:33.44
NEW MOON OR SABBATHS, WHICH ARE
SHADOWS OF THINGS TO COME, BUT
00:29:33.44\00:29:39.74
THE SUBSTANCE IS OF CHRIST."
NOW, THERE WERE SOME CEREMONIAL
00:29:39.74\00:29:43.08
SABBATHS: THE JEWISH
ANNUAL FEASTS CAME ONCE A YEAR.
00:29:43.08\00:29:48.55
THEY CAME AFTER SIN.
THEY ARE NAILED TO THE CROSS.
00:29:48.55\00:29:53.96
THE SABBATH OF THE WEEK,
DID IT COME BEFORE OR AFTER SIN?
00:29:53.96\00:29:58.63
IT'S PART OF GOD'S PERFECT
PLAN. IT CAME BACK IN CREATION.
00:29:58.63\00:30:01.56
ARE WE GOING TO STILL KEEP IT IN
HEAVEN WHEN THINGS ARE PERFECT?
00:30:01.56\00:30:03.70
>>AMEN. >>YEAH.
00:30:03.70\00:30:05.53
DOES GOD WANT US TO KEEP
IT NOW? BUT THERE WERE CERTAIN
00:30:05.53\00:30:08.77
CEREMONIAL SABBATHS THAT WERE
NAILED TO THE CROSS AND THOSE
00:30:08.77\00:30:11.17
ARE THE ONES THAT
ALL POINTED TO CHRIST.
00:30:11.17\00:30:13.17
NOW, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A PERSON
TO KEEP THE SABBATH AND - IF
00:30:13.17\00:30:16.41
THEY DON'T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE LORD OR IF THEY'RE
00:30:16.41\00:30:18.51
OPPRESSING THE POOR, THEY'RE
MISSING THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF IT.
00:30:18.51\00:30:22.12
I'VE GOT SOME VERSES I
THINK YOU'LL FIND INTERESTING.
00:30:22.12\00:30:24.42
IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
ISAIAH 8:4 - I'M SORRY, I MEANT
00:30:24.42\00:30:27.89
AMOS 8:4 - AMOS 8:4, "HEAR THIS,
YOU WHO SWALLOW UP THE NEEDY,
00:30:27.89\00:30:35.00
AND MAKE THE POOR OF THE LAND
FAIL, SAYING: 'WHEN WILL THE NEW
00:30:35.00\00:30:38.63
MOON BE PAST,
THAT WE MAY SELL GRAIN?
00:30:38.63\00:30:40.57
AND THE SABBATH
THAT WE MAY TRADE WHEAT?"
00:30:40.57\00:30:43.07
'WHEN WILL THE SABBATH BE PAST?'
SOMETIMES YOU SEE THE KIDS,
00:30:43.07\00:30:48.11
THEY'RE KIND OF SAYING,
'IS THE SABBATH OVER YET?'
00:30:48.11\00:30:50.61
THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE CLOCK
SAYING, 'OH SABBATH - WHEN'S IT
00:30:50.61\00:30:52.61
GOING TO BE? IS IT SABBATH?
LET'S HURRY UP AND HAVE SUNDOWN
00:30:52.61\00:30:54.92
WORSHIP.' IT'S LIKE WE CAN
SPEED UP SABBATH BEING OVER.
00:30:54.92\00:30:59.95
BUT THE PEOPLE BACK IN GOD'S
TIME AND IN THE TIME OF AMOS,
00:30:59.95\00:31:03.99
ANYWAY, THEY WERE
SWALLOWING UP THE NEEDY.
00:31:03.99\00:31:06.90
THEY WERE KEEPING THE SABBATH,
BUT THEY'RE NOT ENJOYING IT -
00:31:06.90\00:31:09.53
THEY'RE NOT GETTING A BLESSING.
THEY'RE SAYING, 'WHEN WILL IT
00:31:09.53\00:31:11.53
BE OVER SO WE CAN
GET BACK TO WORK?'
00:31:11.53\00:31:13.94
- "MAKING THE EPHAH SMALL AND
THE SHEKEL LARGE," - IN OTHER
00:31:13.94\00:31:17.64
WORDS, THEY
FALSIFIED THEIR WEIGHTS.
00:31:17.64\00:31:21.34
WHAT THE GRAIN THAT THEY WOULD
GIVE PEOPLE - A SHEKEL IS A
00:31:21.34\00:31:24.18
WEIGHT - AND EPHAH IS
A MEASUREMENT OF GRAIN.
00:31:24.18\00:31:26.55
IT'S BASICALLY SAYING THEY'D PUT
A BIG WEIGHT ON IT AND MAKE IT
00:31:26.55\00:31:29.62
LOOK LIKE IT WAS HEAVIER THAN IT
WAS AND THEY WERE CHEATING THE
00:31:29.62\00:31:32.22
PEOPLE - "FALSIFYING THE SCALES
BY DECEIT, THAT WE MAY BUY THE
00:31:32.22\00:31:38.03
POOR FOR SILVER, AND THE NEEDY
FOR A PAIR OF SANDALS - EVEN
00:31:38.03\00:31:41.90
SELL THE BAD WHEAT?" -
THEY NOT ONLY WERE NOT SELLING
00:31:41.90\00:31:45.50
RIGHT QUANTITIES, THEY WERE
SELLING STUFF THAT HAD GONE BAD
00:31:45.50\00:31:48.90
- TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE POOR
- SELLING THE RICH THE GOOD AND
00:31:48.90\00:31:51.67
SELLING THE POOR THE
BAD - OR THE MOLDY - WHEAT.
00:31:51.67\00:31:55.51
"THE LORD HAS SWORN BY THE PRIDE
OF JACOB: 'SURELY I WILL NEVER
00:31:55.51\00:31:58.75
FORGET ANY OF THEIR WORKS.'"
- GOD SEES WHEN WE ARE BEING
00:31:58.75\00:32:02.08
UNJUST IN OUR DEALINGS.
YEARS AGO, I WAS IN THE
00:32:02.08\00:32:05.35
FIREWOOD BUSINESS AND A ZEALOUS
CHRISTIAN. MATTER OF FACT, ONE
00:32:05.35\00:32:12.59
OF OUR FRIENDS WHO'S BEEN TO
CHURCH HERE A FEW TIMES, DAVE
00:32:12.59\00:32:14.50
BOATRIGHT, WAS
IN BUSINESS WITH ME.
00:32:14.50\00:32:15.80
SOME OF YOU KNOW DAVE BOATRIGHT
AND CINDY - AND WHEN WE
00:32:15.80\00:32:19.57
ADVERTISED OUR FIREWOOD, WE
ALWAYS SAID, 'A FULL CORD' - A
00:32:19.57\00:32:25.54
CORD IS 128 SQUARE FEET OF WOOD,
IT'S USUALLY IN THREE TIERS -
00:32:25.54\00:32:29.11
DEPENDS ON IF IT'S 16-INCH WOOD
- IF IT'S 12-INCH WOOD IT WOULD
00:32:29.11\00:32:32.01
BE FOUR TIERS - ANYWAY, IT'S
128-SQUARE FEET NO MATTER HOW
00:32:32.01\00:32:34.58
YOU CUT IT - THAT'S A
CORD OF WOOD. AND SO WE USED TO
00:32:34.58\00:32:37.19
ADVERTISE, 'PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN
TOGETHER, RUNNING OVER.' AND WE
00:32:37.19\00:32:43.36
ALWAYS GAVE PEOPLE EXTRA
SO THEY'D NEVER HAVE DOUBT,
00:32:43.36\00:32:46.09
'IS THIS A CORD OF
WOOD?' AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT?
00:32:46.09\00:32:47.86
WORD SPREAD AROUND, 'WHY,
YOU BUY A CORD FROM BATCHELOR OR
00:32:47.86\00:32:50.40
BOATRIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO GET A
FULL CORD OF WOOD.' WE COULDN'T
00:32:50.40\00:32:52.93
KEEP UP WITH THE ORDERS AND
WE WOULD, YOU KNOW PASS THESE
00:32:52.93\00:32:56.37
THINGS OUT AND SAY, 'WE WANT TO
DO UNTO OTHERS AS WE WOULD WANT
00:32:56.37\00:32:58.57
THEM TO DO UNTO US.'
AND THE LORD BLESSED.
00:32:58.57\00:33:01.34
SO IF YOU'RE HONEST WITH PEOPLE
AND IF YOU TREAT PEOPLE THE WAY
00:33:01.34\00:33:04.48
THAT YOU WANT TO BE TREATED, IN
YOUR BUSINESS DEALINGS - BUT IF
00:33:04.48\00:33:07.65
YOU'RE STINGY AND IF YOU'RE
CUNNING AND IF YOU EXPLOIT
00:33:07.65\00:33:11.72
PEOPLE, GOD WON'T BLESS. AMEN?
00:33:11.72\00:33:16.36
THAT'S WHAT - THE PRINCIPLES
IT'S TALKING ABOUT HERE.
00:33:16.36\00:33:18.39
ALRIGHT, PROPHETIC VOICE -
PART 1 - AND IF YOU LOOK HERE IN
00:33:18.39\00:33:21.96
PROVERBS 31, IT'S TALKING ABOUT
NOT ONLY DOING THESE THINGS, BUT
00:33:21.96\00:33:26.80
WE NEED TO BE
WILLING TO SPEAK UP.
00:33:26.80\00:33:28.84
"OPEN YOUR MOUTH FOR THE
SPEECHLESS," - PROVERBS 31:8 -
00:33:28.84\00:33:32.54
"OPEN YOUR MOUTH FOR THE
SPEECHLESS, IN THE CAUSE OF ALL
00:33:32.54\00:33:35.48
WHO ARE APPOINTED TO
DIE. OPEN YOUR MOUTH, JUDGE
00:33:35.48\00:33:38.71
RIGHTEOUSLY, AND PLEAD THE
CAUSE OF THE POOR AND NEEDY."
00:33:38.71\00:33:42.45
YOU KNOW, THE BROTHERS OF
JOSEPH WERE GOING TO KILL HIM.
00:33:42.45\00:33:45.55
THEY WEREN'T JUST GOING TO SELL
HIM, THEY WERE GOING TO KILL
00:33:45.55\00:33:47.69
HIM. AND REUBEN
WASN'T EXACTLY SURE
00:33:47.69\00:33:50.23
WHAT TO DO BECAUSE
HIS BROTHERS WERE VIOLENT.
00:33:50.23\00:33:52.79
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER,
SIMEON AND LEVI WENT INTO A TOWN
00:33:52.79\00:33:54.66
AND KILLED A WHOLE TOWN.
AND REUBEN DELIVERED JOSEPH FROM
00:33:54.66\00:33:59.47
THEIR HAND AND SAID, 'DON'T KILL
HIM. JUST PUT HIM IN THE PIT
00:33:59.47\00:34:01.80
HERE.' AND HE PLANNED ON
COMING BACK TO GET HIM LATER.
00:34:01.80\00:34:04.47
SO HE SPOKE - HE DIDN'T REALIZE
WHILE HE WAS GONE THEY SOLD HIM.
00:34:04.47\00:34:07.71
BUT THAT'S ONE OF MANY CASES YOU
CAN THINK OF IN THE BIBLE WHERE
00:34:07.71\00:34:10.78
SOMEONE NEEDED SOMEONE ELSE TO
SPEAK UP FOR THEM AND TO STOP -
00:34:10.78\00:34:16.42
THERE'S A LOT OF STORIES
IN HISTORY - EVERYTHING FROM
00:34:16.42\00:34:20.66
POCAHONTAS TO OTHERS WHO HAVE
SPOKEN UP IN BEHALF OF OTHERS
00:34:20.66\00:34:26.53
THAT WERE GOING TO BE SLAIN.
SO WE NEED TO USE OUR VOICE.
00:34:26.53\00:34:29.23
- "OPEN YOUR MOUTH, JUDGE
RIGHTEOUSLY, AND PLEAD THE
00:34:29.23\00:34:31.93
CAUSE OF THE POOR
AND NEEDY." ISAIAH 1:13 -
00:34:31.93\00:34:36.50
THESE ARE SOME FAMOUS
VERSES - IT SAYS, "BRING
00:34:36.50\00:34:39.61
NO MORE FUTILE SACRIFICES;
INCENSE IS AN ABOMINATION TO ME.
00:34:39.61\00:34:43.21
THE NEW MOONS, THE SABBATHS, AND
THE CALLING OF ASSEMBLIES - I
00:34:43.21\00:34:46.05
CANNOT ENDURE" - WHAT,
GOD DOESN'T WANT THE SABBATHS?
00:34:46.05\00:34:49.72
THE SACRIFICES - DIDN'T
HE - WHY IS GOD SAYING THAT?
00:34:49.72\00:34:54.89
HE'S SAYING, 'YOU DO ALL THESE
THINGS AND YOU DO IT WITH A
00:34:54.89\00:34:56.76
WRONG HEART - IT'S -
YOU DON'T GET A BLESSING.
00:34:56.76\00:35:02.40
IF YOU - YEAH - THE PEOPLE
- KEEP IN MIND, THE PEOPLE WHO
00:35:02.40\00:35:06.17
KILLED JESUS WANTED TO HURRY
UP AND HAVE HIM KILLED SO THEY
00:35:06.17\00:35:10.04
COULD GO HOME AND KEEP THE
SABBATH. NOW, HOW MUCH BLESSING
00:35:10.04\00:35:14.04
DO YOU THINK THEY
REALLY GOT THAT SABBATH DAY?
00:35:14.04\00:35:16.88
DID THEY GET ANY CREDIT FOR
KEEPING THAT SABBATH WHEN THEY
00:35:16.88\00:35:20.15
HAD JUST COMMITTED TERRIBLE
INJUSTICE BY CRUCIFYING JESUS?
00:35:20.15\00:35:24.92
THEY SAID, 'OH, IT'S ALMOST
SUNDOWN, WE'VE GOT TO GO KEEP
00:35:24.92\00:35:26.99
THE SABBATH.' GOD SAYS,
'PRETENDING TO WORSHIP ME WHEN
00:35:26.99\00:35:32.69
YOU'RE UNJUST - THERE'S NO
BENEFIT IN THAT. YOU SEE WHAT
00:35:32.69\00:35:36.46
THE PRINCIPLE IS? THIS IS WHY
THESE LESSONS ARE SO IMPORTANT.
00:35:36.46\00:35:40.64
"I CANNOT ENDURE...YOUR NEW
MOONS AND YOUR APPOINTED FEASTS
00:35:40.64\00:35:43.20
MY SOUL HATES; THEY ARE A
TROUBLE TO ME, I AM WEARY OF
00:35:43.20\00:35:46.21
BEARING THEM. WHEN YOU SPREAD
OUT YOUR HANDS," - WHAT DOES
00:35:46.21\00:35:49.24
THAT MEAN? THEY USED TO SPREAD
OUT THEIR HANDS IN PRAYER - IN
00:35:49.24\00:35:53.11
THE HEBREW CULTURE THERE - "WHEN
YOU SPREAD OUT YOUR HANDS, I
00:35:53.11\00:35:56.65
WILL HIDE MY EYES FROM YOU; EVEN
THOUGH YOU MAKE MANY PRAYERS, I
00:35:56.65\00:36:00.66
WILL NOT HEAR." - WHY? -
"YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD."
00:36:00.66\00:36:05.73
SO HERE THEY WERE, GUILTY
OF INNOCENT BLOOD, BUT THEY'RE
00:36:05.73\00:36:08.50
PRAYING LONG PRAYERS. AND
GOD SAYS, 'WHO ARE YOU KIDDING?
00:36:08.50\00:36:10.83
THAT DOESN'T
MEAN ANYTHING TO ME.
00:36:10.83\00:36:12.73
IF YOU'RE NOT LIVING THE
LIFE AND LIVING A GODLY LIFE AND
00:36:12.73\00:36:16.04
CARING FOR THOSE WHO ARE
OPPRESSED AND SPEAKING UP FOR
00:36:16.04\00:36:19.41
THOSE WHO ARE BEING TRODDEN
DOWN, YOUR RELIGION IS VAIN.
00:36:19.41\00:36:23.68
IT DOESN'T DO ANY
GOOD. WE ALL GET THAT, RIGHT?
00:36:23.68\00:36:27.38
ALRIGHT, AND THEN YOU LOOK - GO
TO VERSE 16 - ISAIAH CHAPTER 1,
00:36:27.38\00:36:31.22
VERSE 16 - YOU ALL KNOW
THIS, "WASH YOURSELVES, MAKE
00:36:31.22\00:36:34.02
YOURSELVES CLEAN; PUT AWAY THE
EVIL OF YOUR DOINGS" - IT'S NOT
00:36:34.02\00:36:38.69
TALKING ABOUT THEIR DOCTRINES
- "THE EVIL OF YOUR DOINGS FROM
00:36:38.69\00:36:41.73
BEFORE MY EYES. CEASE TO
DO EVIL, LEARN TO DO GOOD;" -
00:36:41.73\00:36:45.77
NOW THIS IS AN IMPORTANT
VERSE - "LEARN TO DO GOOD."
00:36:45.77\00:36:49.10
WHEN A PERSON COMES TO THE LORD
AND THEY HAVE BEEN A PAGAN OUT
00:36:49.10\00:36:52.31
IN THE WORLD THEIR WHOLE LIFE,
AFTER ACCEPTING JESUS, ARE THEY
00:36:52.31\00:36:55.48
GOING TO KNOW EVERYTHING? >>NO.
00:36:55.48\00:36:57.31
>>OR IS THERE A
LEARNING PROCESS?
00:36:57.31\00:36:59.65
THEY CALL THAT SANCTIFICATION.
THAT MEANS YOU MAY HAVE TO STUDY
00:36:59.65\00:37:03.08
TO FIND OUT, 'WELL, WHAT
DOES THE LORD WANT OF ME?'
00:37:03.08\00:37:05.52
AND YOU LEARN - "CEASE TO
DO EVIL, LEARN TO DO GOOD; SEEK
00:37:05.52\00:37:10.03
JUSTICE, REBUKE THE OPPRESSOR;"
- THAT MEANS SPEAK UP AGAINST
00:37:10.03\00:37:14.36
THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSING -
"DEFEND THE FATHERLESS, PLEAD
00:37:14.36\00:37:18.17
FOR THE WIDOW." SOMETIMES IN THE
SCHOOLYARD, EVERYONE'S AFRAID TO
00:37:18.17\00:37:21.80
SPEAK UP TO THE BULLY
AND CALL THE BULLY A BULLY.
00:37:21.80\00:37:25.17
AND I REMEMBER ONE TIME, I WAS
ON THE STREETS IN PALM SPRINGS -
00:37:25.17\00:37:30.78
I JUST - I NEVER FORGOT
THE COURAGE OF THIS YOUNG MAN.
00:37:30.78\00:37:36.72
I CAME UP THE STREETS - I
WAS NOT INVOLVED IN WHAT WAS
00:37:36.72\00:37:39.49
HAPPENING, BUT I CAME UPON JUST
AFTER IT HAPPENED, BUT THESE
00:37:39.49\00:37:42.39
THREE THUGS - YOUNG DRUG GANG
PEOPLE - HAD JUST ROUGHED UP AN
00:37:42.39\00:37:50.77
OLD MAN AND HE WAS ON THE GROUND
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE
00:37:50.77\00:37:55.14
MISBEHAVING AND HE SPOKE UP
AGAINST THEM - HE SAID, 'OH YOU
00:37:55.14\00:38:00.78
GUYS NEED TO CALM DOWN' -
WHATEVER - AND THEY JUST - THEY
00:38:00.78\00:38:02.88
BEAT HIM UP A LITTLE BIT AND HE
WAS ON THE GROUND AND THIS ONE
00:38:02.88\00:38:05.81
YOUNG MAN, WHO WAS NOT ANY
BIGGER THAN ANY OF THEM, HE CAME
00:38:05.81\00:38:10.75
UP AND HE STOOD UP AGAINST THEM.
HE SAID, 'YOU GUYS THINK YOU'RE
00:38:10.75\00:38:13.15
TOUGH DOING THIS
TO THIS OLD MAN?'
00:38:13.15\00:38:14.99
HE SAID, 'WHY
DON'T YOU DO IT TO ME?'
00:38:14.99\00:38:16.62
AND THERE WAS THREE OF THEM.
NOW I'M JUST WATCHING THIS.
00:38:16.62\00:38:20.16
I CAME ON IT, BUT I
WAS - HE SCARED THEM.
00:38:20.16\00:38:25.97
HE WAS SO BOLD AND SO BRAVE THEY
ALL TALKED TO HIM - HE SAID,
00:38:25.97\00:38:29.64
'ALRIGHT, YOU'RE REALLY TOUGH'
- AND HE TOOK HIS SHIRT OFF - HE
00:38:29.64\00:38:31.67
WAS BULGING MUSCLES - LITTLE GUY
BUT BULGING MUSCLES - HE SAID,
00:38:31.67\00:38:34.34
'ALRIGHT, COME ON
SHOW ME HOW TOUGH YOU ARE.
00:38:34.34\00:38:35.38
YOU WANT TO DO
THIS?' THEY ALL TURNED
00:38:35.38\00:38:36.91
AND THEY WENT AWAY. >>AMEN!
00:38:36.91\00:38:38.35
>>AND I THOUGHT, 'WOW, THAT
TAKES COURAGE TO DO THAT.' BUT
00:38:38.35\00:38:41.85
HE WAS INCENSED THAT THEY
WERE DOING THIS TO AN OLD MAN.
00:38:41.85\00:38:46.86
AND HIS WIFE WAS THERE TOO, BUT
THEY BASICALLY ROUGHED UP THE
00:38:46.86\00:38:50.23
OLD MAN AND I THOUGHT THAT'S
COURAGE WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING
00:38:50.23\00:38:54.46
LIKE THAT. I HAD A FRIEND THAT
HIS NAME WAS JAY - IF YOU EVER
00:38:54.46\00:39:00.30
READ MY BOOK HE'S IN THE BOOK
- AND HE WAS FROM BROOKLYN, NEW
00:39:00.30\00:39:03.87
YORK - AND WE WERE ALL SITTING
AROUND THIS WATERFALL AND THERE
00:39:03.87\00:39:09.11
WERE, LITERALLY, A HUNDRED
PEOPLE AROUND THIS BIG WATERFALL
00:39:09.11\00:39:12.45
- SUNBATHING, SWIMMING - SOME
PEOPLE WERE DRINKING - AND THIS
00:39:12.45\00:39:16.02
ONE GUY JUMPED OFF THIS ROCK
AND HE DIDN'T COME BACK UP AND I
00:39:16.02\00:39:22.82
WASN'T WATCHING THE MINUTE IT
HAPPENED, I WAS THERE WITH JAY
00:39:22.82\00:39:25.06
- AND JAY JUMPED IN
TO PULL THE GUY OUT.
00:39:25.06\00:39:28.93
NOW THE REASON THIS IS SO
AMAZING IS JAY COULD NOT SWIM.
00:39:28.93\00:39:33.13
BUT HE THOUGHT, 'THAT GUY NEEDS
HELP AND HE FIGURED, 'I'LL GET
00:39:33.13\00:39:35.74
DOWN THERE AND I'LL WALK
OUT UNDERWATER.' BUT HE DID - HE
00:39:35.74\00:39:40.34
PULLED THE GUY - HE HAD HIT HIS
HEAD AND HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS AND
00:39:40.34\00:39:42.31
JAY HAD SPOTTED IT. AND
I THOUGHT, 'BOY, THAT TAKES
00:39:42.31\00:39:44.85
COURAGE TO RISK YOUR LIFE LIKE
THAT.' AND HE COULDN'T SWIM.
00:39:44.85\00:39:49.05
HE JUST - IN NEW YORK
- HE JUST NEVER LEARNED.
00:39:49.05\00:39:50.62
AND HERE I COULD
SWIM AND I WAS WATCHING.
00:39:50.62\00:39:54.06
I DIDN'T SEE WHAT HAPPENED.
ANYWAY, BUT - SO THAT'S COURAGE.
00:39:54.06\00:39:57.73
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU
CARE FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR.
00:39:57.73\00:40:00.50
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
JAMES 1:27 IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:40:00.50\00:40:04.93
I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW
18. NOW, WE TOLD YOU WE'RE GOING
00:40:04.93\00:40:07.67
TO TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE
FATHERLESS AND THE WIDOW - IN
00:40:07.67\00:40:11.87
LUKE 18 JESUS TALKED ABOUT AN
EXAMPLE WHERE POOR WIDOWS DON'T
00:40:11.87\00:40:15.74
GET JUSTICE AND HE SPOKE A
PARABLE TO THEM THAT PEOPLE
00:40:15.74\00:40:20.02
OUGHT TO ALWAYS
PRAY AND NOT LOSE HEART.
00:40:20.02\00:40:22.12
NOW, HIS PARABLE'S ABOUT PRAYER,
BUT HE USES A STORY THAT WAS
00:40:22.12\00:40:25.19
COMMON IN THOSE DAYS.
"THERE WAS IN A CERTAIN CITY A
00:40:25.19\00:40:28.02
JUDGE WHO DID NOT FEAR GOD
NOR REGARD MAN. NOW THERE WAS A
00:40:28.02\00:40:32.13
WIDOW IN THAT CITY;
AND SHE CAME TO HIM SAYING,
00:40:32.13\00:40:35.93
'GET JUSTICE FOR ME FROM
MY ADVERSARY.'" - SOMEONE WAS
00:40:35.93\00:40:38.30
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HER
OR WASN'T PAYING OR TOOK HER
00:40:38.30\00:40:41.47
PROPERTY - OR WHATEVER IT WAS -
AND SHE'S LOOKING FOR JUSTICE -
00:40:41.47\00:40:45.34
THE RIGHT THING TO
BE DONE. BUT SHE'S POOR.
00:40:45.34\00:40:47.84
SHE CAN'T BRIBE
HIM. SHE'S A WIDOW.
00:40:47.84\00:40:49.44
HE DOESN'T CARE - WHY?
BECAUSE HE DOESN'T REGARD GOD.
00:40:49.44\00:40:53.05
A JUDGE WHO REGARDS
GOD IS GOING TO CARE.
00:40:53.05\00:40:55.98
THAT'S WHAT
CHRISTIANITY'S ALL ABOUT.
00:40:55.98\00:40:58.32
AND SHE SAID, "'GET JUSTICE FOR
ME FROM MY ADVERSARY.' AND HE
00:40:58.32\00:41:01.22
WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE;
BUT AFTERWARD HE SAID WITHIN
00:41:01.22\00:41:04.76
HIMSELF, 'THOUGH I DO NOT FEAR
GOD NOR REGARD MAN, YET BECAUSE
00:41:04.76\00:41:07.96
THIS WIDOW TROUBLES ME I
WILL AVENGE HER, LEST BY HER
00:41:07.96\00:41:11.37
CONTINUAL COMING SHE WEARY
ME.'" - SHE JUST KEPT COMING AND
00:41:11.37\00:41:15.07
COMING AND COMING AND HE
SAID, 'ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT!'
00:41:15.07\00:41:18.14
THERE'S SOMETHING THERE TO
BE SAID FOR PERSISTENCE, BUT YOU
00:41:18.14\00:41:20.74
NOTICE IT WASN'T UNCOMMON FOR
PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T CONVERTED, TO
00:41:20.74\00:41:24.41
NOT SHOW JUSTICE TO THE POOR, TO
THE WIDOWS, TO THE FATHERLESS.
00:41:24.41\00:41:28.48
GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US JAMES 1:27.
00:41:28.48\00:41:31.19
>>JAMES 1:27, "PURE AND
UNDEFILED RELIGION BEFORE GOD
00:41:31.19\00:41:35.39
AND THE FATHER IS THIS: TO VISIT
ORPHANS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR
00:41:35.39\00:41:39.09
TROUBLE, AND TO KEEP ONESELF
UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD."
00:41:39.09\00:41:43.40
>>THE ORPHANS, THE
FATHERLESS, AND THE WIDOWS.
00:41:43.40\00:41:47.87
ANY OF YOU EVER READ THE
STORY ABOUT GEORGE MUELLER, WHO
00:41:47.87\00:41:52.57
STARTED THOSE ORPHANAGES IN
ENGLAND AND HOW HE SUSTAINED
00:41:52.57\00:41:56.71
THOSE ORPHANAGES FOR, I THINK,
THIRTY OR FORTY YEARS OF HIS
00:41:56.71\00:41:59.65
LIFE, FROM PRAYER AND HE NEVER
ASKED FOR MONEY, NEVER SENT OUT
00:41:59.65\00:42:04.52
AN APPEAL LETTER - AND GOD
ALWAYS SEEMED TO BRING THE FOOD
00:42:04.52\00:42:07.42
THAT THEY NEEDED, THE MONEY THEY
NEEDED, THE CLOTHES THEY NEEDED
00:42:07.42\00:42:10.13
FROM DAY TO DAY. AND HE
JUST BELIEVED - HE SAID,
00:42:10.13\00:42:12.43
'THE BIBLE HAS A LOT TO
SAY ABOUT HOW GOD CARES FOR THE
00:42:12.43\00:42:15.03
FATHERLESS AND IF I PRAY,
HE WILL CERTAINLY ANSWER MY
00:42:15.03\00:42:19.13
PRAYER.' NOW HE JUST HAD LIKE
A RECKLESS FAITH. I MEAN, THEY
00:42:19.13\00:42:22.00
WOULD BE TOTALLY OUT OF
FOOD. HE WOULDN'T TELL ANYONE.
00:42:22.00\00:42:24.34
HE SAID, 'I'LL TELL THE LORD.'
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN A TRUCK FROM
00:42:24.34\00:42:26.51
THE BAKERY WOULD SHOW UP.
ANY OF YOU EVER READ HIS BOOKS?
00:42:26.51\00:42:28.88
JUST INCREDIBLE MIRACLES OF
PRAYER. IT'S VERY INSPIRING.
00:42:28.88\00:42:31.75
IF YOU HAVEN'T, READ SOME OF
THOSE BOOKS ON GEORGE MUELLER.
00:42:31.75\00:42:34.15
YOU'LL BE ENCOURAGED.
HE WAS A REAL MAN OF FAITH.
00:42:34.15\00:42:37.25
WHY DOES IT SAY SO MUCH ABOUT
THE WIDOWS? WHY DON'T YOU HEAR
00:42:37.25\00:42:41.72
'SHOW MERCY TO THE WIDOWERS'?
ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT
00:42:41.72\00:42:46.26
SAYS, 'TAKE CARE
OF THE WIDOWER? >>NO.
00:42:46.26\00:42:50.67
>>WELL, IF - IF A WOMAN LOST
HER HUSBAND IN THAT AGRICULTURAL
00:42:50.67\00:42:56.00
SOCIETY, WITH THE HEAVY WORK
ON A FARM - I KNOW THIS IS NOT
00:42:56.00\00:43:00.11
POLITICALLY CORRECT - I WAS
TALKING TO PASTOR ROSS - I READ
00:43:00.11\00:43:02.91
SOME STATISTICS THIS WEEK THAT
SAID THAT THE AVERAGE MAN HAS
00:43:02.91\00:43:07.62
50% MORE BRUTE
STRENGTH THAN A WOMAN.
00:43:07.62\00:43:11.52
THEY CAN KIND OF TAKE CARE
OF THEMSELVES A LITTLE BETTER.
00:43:11.52\00:43:15.32
BUT WOMEN IN THAT CULTURE
COULD BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF.
00:43:15.32\00:43:17.93
I KNOW THERE ARE PROBABLY
CASES WHERE A MAN WAS RAPED BY A
00:43:17.93\00:43:21.50
WOMAN. NOT TOO MANY, BUT IT DOES
00:43:21.50\00:43:24.87
HAPPEN THE
OTHER WAY, DOESN'T IT?
00:43:24.87\00:43:26.94
AND SO WOMEN
NEED TO BE PROTECTED.
00:43:26.94\00:43:29.57
THEY - THEY'RE - THEY WERE TAKEN
ADVANTAGE OF AND IF THEY DIDN'T
00:43:29.57\00:43:33.41
HAVE A HUSBAND WHO WAS
THEIR ADVOCATE, THAT WAS THE
00:43:33.41\00:43:36.54
HOUSE-BAND TO HELP WATCH OVER
THEM, THEN - THIS IS IN THE DAYS
00:43:36.54\00:43:40.18
BEFORE THEY HAD TASERS AND MACE
SPRAY AND PEPPER SPRAY AND ALL
00:43:40.18\00:43:43.69
THOSE THINGS TO PROTECT THEM
- AND THEY NEEDED MEN - AND THEY
00:43:43.69\00:43:47.89
COULDN'T GET WORK OFTEN AND IF
THEY DIDN'T HAVE CHILDREN THEY
00:43:47.89\00:43:52.13
HAD NO ONE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM.
00:43:52.13\00:43:54.00
AND SO THEY NEEDED
PEOPLE TO SHOW THEM MERCY.
00:43:54.00\00:43:57.07
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THAT: 1
PETER 3:7: "HUSBANDS, LIKEWISE,
00:43:57.07\00:44:01.30
DWELL WITH THEM WITH
UNDERSTANDING, GIVING HONOR TO
00:44:01.30\00:44:06.37
THE WIFE, AS TO THE WEAKER
VESSEL," - IT DOESN'T MEAN
00:44:06.37\00:44:10.11
WEAKER MORALLY, OR WEAKER
SPIRITUALLY, IT MEANS WEAKER
00:44:10.11\00:44:12.88
WHAT? PHYSICALLY.
00:44:12.88\00:44:14.92
AND SO THEY NEED TO BE PROTECTED
AND THIS IS - THE BIBLE TALKS
00:44:14.92\00:44:18.22
ABOUT PROTECTING THE
WIDOWS ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE.
00:44:18.22\00:44:21.36
YOU KNOW, WHEN THE TITANIC
WAS DOWN, REPORTEDLY THE CAPTAIN
00:44:21.36\00:44:25.26
SAID, 'WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH LIFE
BOATS.' HE TOLD THE CREW, 'WE'D
00:44:25.26\00:44:28.23
BETTER GET THE WOMEN AND
CHILDREN FIRST.' TODAY THAT
00:44:28.23\00:44:31.73
WOULD BE VERY SOCIALLY
UNACCEPTABLE TO SAY THAT, RIGHT?
00:44:31.73\00:44:34.97
>>NO. >>SHOULDN'T
BE! YOU KNOW WHAT I
00:44:34.97\00:44:39.61
MEAN? YOU ALL KNOW WHAT
I MEAN? DO I NEED TO SPELL
00:44:39.61\00:44:42.34
IT OUT FOR YOU? OKAY.
00:44:42.34\00:44:44.28
PROPHETIC VOICE #3 - ISAIAH
58 - THIS IS A GREAT CHAPTER.
00:44:44.28\00:44:48.35
I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GOING
TO HAVE TIME TO READ ALL THIS.
00:44:48.35\00:44:50.02
LET ME READ THE FIRST FEW VERSES
HERE, "CRY ALOUD, SPARE NOT;
00:44:50.02\00:44:53.56
LIFT UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A
TRUMPET; TELL MY PEOPLE THEIR
00:44:53.56\00:44:56.49
TRANSGRESSION, AND THE
HOUSE OF JACOB THEIR SINS.
00:44:56.49\00:44:59.33
YET THEY SEEK ME DAILY, AND
DELIGHT TO KNOW MY WAYS, AS A
00:44:59.33\00:45:02.10
NATION THAT DID RIGHTEOUSNESS,
AND DID NOT FORSAKE THE
00:45:02.10\00:45:05.90
ORDINANCE OF THEIR GOD.
THEY ASK OF ME THE ORDINANCES OF
00:45:05.90\00:45:08.90
JUSTICE; THEY TAKE
DELIGHT IN APPROACHING GOD."
00:45:08.90\00:45:11.41
SO IN THIS WHOLE CHAPTER -
ISAIAH CHAPTER 58 IS A GREAT
00:45:11.41\00:45:14.18
CHAPTER - BUT WHY DON'T YOU JUST
JUMP, FOR INSTANCE, TO VERSE 6?
00:45:14.18\00:45:19.01
WELL, LET'S SEE, VERSE 5, "IS IT
A FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN, A DAY
00:45:19.01\00:45:24.99
FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL??
IS IT TO BOW DOWN HIS HEAD LIKE
00:45:24.99\00:45:27.79
A BULRUSH, AND TO
SPREAD OUT SACKCLOTH AND ASHES?
00:45:27.79\00:45:30.39
WOULD YOU CALL THIS A FAST, AND
AN ACCEPTABLE DAY TO THE LORD?"
00:45:30.39\00:45:33.43
- FOR A PERSON TO, YOU KNOW,
FAST, BY JUST DENYING THEMSELVES
00:45:33.43\00:45:36.03
FOOD, COVERING THEMSELVES WITH
ASHES, SIT ON SACKCLOTH - "IS
00:45:36.03\00:45:38.83
NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE
CHOSEN:" - WHAT IS THE FAST THAT
00:45:38.83\00:45:42.50
WILL GET GOD'S ATTENTION?
"TO LOOSE THE BONDS OF
00:45:42.50\00:45:45.71
WICKEDNESS, TO UNDO THE HEAVY
BURDENS, TO LET THE OPPRESSED GO
00:45:45.71\00:45:50.58
FREE, AND THAT YOU BREAK EVERY
YOKE? IS IT NOT TO SHARE YOUR
00:45:50.58\00:45:54.75
BREAD WITH THE HUNGRY, AND THAT
YOU BRING TO YOUR HOUSE THE POOR
00:45:54.75\00:45:58.29
WHO ARE CAST OUT; WHEN YOU SEE
THE NAKED, THAT YOU COVER HIM,
00:45:58.29\00:46:01.76
AND NOT HIDE
YOURSELF FROM YOUR OWN FLESH?"
00:46:01.76\00:46:04.83
- MEANING YOUR BROTHERS AND YOUR
SISTERS - "THEN YOUR LIGHT" - HE
00:46:04.83\00:46:08.13
PROMISES - "THEN YOUR LIGHT WILL
BREAK FORTH LIKE THE MORNING,
00:46:08.13\00:46:11.17
YOUR HEALING SHALL SPRING FORTH
SPEEDILY, AND YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:46:11.17\00:46:15.14
SHALL GO BEFORE YOU; THE GLORY
OF THE LORD SHALL BE YOUR REAR
00:46:15.14\00:46:17.84
GUARD. THEN YOU SHALL CALL, AND
THE LORD WILL ANSWER; YOU SHALL
00:46:17.84\00:46:21.51
CRY, AND HE WILL SAY, 'HERE
I AM.'" NOW WHY DO PEOPLE FAST?
00:46:21.51\00:46:25.11
SOME PEOPLE FAST
FOR HEALTH REASONS.
00:46:25.11\00:46:28.28
BUT IN THE DAYS OF ESTHER, WHY
DID ESTHER TELL THE PEOPLE TO
00:46:28.28\00:46:30.59
FAST. >>TO PRAY.
00:46:30.59\00:46:32.22
>>THEY NEEDED PRAYER ANSWERED
AND IT WAS LIFE OR DEATH.
00:46:32.22\00:46:35.22
THERE WAS A CRISIS.
YOU - DID A MAN ONCE HAVE A
00:46:35.22\00:46:38.73
DEMON-POSSESSED SON AND JESUS
SAID 'THIS KIND DOES NOT COME
00:46:38.73\00:46:41.40
FORTH EXCEPT BY PRAYER AND
FASTING.' SO THEY WOULD PRAY
00:46:41.40\00:46:44.50
BECAUSE THEY
NEEDED DIFFERENT THINGS.
00:46:44.50\00:46:46.23
IT WASN'T JUST
FOR HEALTH REASONS.
00:46:46.23\00:46:47.84
WHAT DOES GOD SAY IS
THE MOST IMPORTANT FAST?
00:46:47.84\00:46:50.54
IF YOU'RE GOING TO START FASTING
AND SAY, 'WELL, HEY, LORD,
00:46:50.54\00:46:52.54
ANSWER MY PRAYER. I
HAVEN'T EATEN FOR TWO DAYS.
00:46:52.54\00:46:54.81
I'VE BEEN FASTING. I'M
WEARING HUMBLE CLOTHING.
00:46:54.81\00:46:57.08
I'M NOT WATCHING TELEVISION.
I'M FASTING.' AND GOD IS SAYING,
00:46:57.08\00:47:01.08
'WELL, THAT'S NICE, BUT YOU KNOW
WHAT I'D REALLY LIKE YOU TO DO?
00:47:01.08\00:47:03.62
YOU'VE GOT THIS
POOR NEIGHBOR NEXT DOOR.
00:47:03.62\00:47:07.09
THE MOTHER, YOU KNOW, SHE
DOESN'T HAVE CLOTHES FOR THE
00:47:07.09\00:47:09.26
KIDS. THERE'S NO
FOOD ON THE SHELF.
00:47:09.26\00:47:12.56
SO WHILE YOU'RE DENYING YOURSELF
OF FOOD, WHY DON'T YOU TAKE IT
00:47:12.56\00:47:15.96
NEXT DOOR TO THEM? THAT
WOULD REALLY MAKE ME HAPPY.
00:47:15.96\00:47:18.43
THEN YOU'LL CALL UNTO ME AND
I WILL ANSWER.' YOU SEE WHAT GOD
00:47:18.43\00:47:21.60
IS SAYING? SO THE
FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT
00:47:21.60\00:47:23.47
FAST WE COULD PARTICIPATE IN AS
CHRISTIANS, IS THE ONE OF REALLY
00:47:23.47\00:47:27.34
LIVING CHRISTIAN LIVES
- LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR.
00:47:27.34\00:47:30.45
WHAT ARE THE TWO
GREAT COMMANDMENTS?
00:47:30.45\00:47:32.08
LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR
HEART AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
00:47:32.08\00:47:34.75
YOURSELF. YOU SEE
WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE?
00:47:34.75\00:47:37.95
'THIS IS THE
FAST THAT I'VE CHOSEN.
00:47:37.95\00:47:39.99
SHARE YOUR
BREAD WITH THE HUNGRY.
00:47:39.99\00:47:41.62
WHEN YOU SEE THE
NAKED, COVER THEM.
00:47:41.62\00:47:43.22
AND HE SAYS WHEN YOU DO THESE
THINGS, "THE GLORY OF THE LORD
00:47:43.22\00:47:45.66
SHALL BE YOUR REAR GUARD."
00:47:45.66\00:47:47.00
- GOD'LL PROTECT YOU -
"YOU SHALL CRY, AND HE WILL SAY,
00:47:47.00\00:47:50.67
'HERE I AM.' IF YOU TAKE AWAY
THE YOKE FROM YOUR MIDST," -
00:47:50.67\00:47:54.84
THAT MEANS PUTTING A
BURDEN ON PEOPLE - AND THE
00:47:54.84\00:47:56.84
"POINTING OF THE FINGER, AND
SPEAKING WICKEDNESS," - GOSSIP -
00:47:56.84\00:48:01.68
"IF YOU EXTEND YOUR SOUL TO THE
HUNGRY AND SATISFY THE AFFLICTED
00:48:01.68\00:48:05.28
SOUL, THEN" - HERE'S THE PROMISE
- "YOUR LIGHT SHALL DAWN IN THE
00:48:05.28\00:48:08.42
DARKNESS," - YOU'LL BE
BRIGHT AND YOUR LIFE WILL BE
00:48:08.42\00:48:11.29
ILLUMINATED. YOUR
DEPRESSION MAY GO AWAY.
00:48:11.29\00:48:13.66
YOUR DARKNESS WILL BE AS THE
NOONDAY. THE LORD WILL GUIDE YOU
00:48:13.66\00:48:16.96
CONTINUALLY, AND SATISFY YOUR
SOUL IN DROUGHT, AND STRENGTHEN
00:48:16.96\00:48:20.56
YOUR BONES; YOU SHALL BE LIKE
A WATERED GARDEN, AND LIKE A
00:48:20.56\00:48:23.33
SPRING OF WATER,
WHOSE WATERS DO NOT FAIL.
00:48:23.33\00:48:25.80
THOSE" - NOT ONLY WILL HE BLESS
YOU, THOSE WHO BE OF YOU, YOUR
00:48:25.80\00:48:29.54
CHILDREN - LISTEN - "THOSE FROM
AMONG YOU SHALL BUILD THE OLD
00:48:29.54\00:48:32.91
WASTE PLACES; YOU SHALL
RAISE UP THE FOUNDATIONS OF MANY
00:48:32.91\00:48:35.78
GENERATIONS; AND YOU SHALL
BE CALLED THE REPAIRER OF THE
00:48:35.78\00:48:38.28
BREACH, THE RESTORER
OF STREETS TO DWELL IN."
00:48:38.28\00:48:42.22
NOW, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT
REPAIRING THE BREACH, THERE IS A
00:48:42.22\00:48:44.49
BREACH IN GOD'S LAW
THAT NEEDED REPAIRING.
00:48:44.49\00:48:47.46
YOU READ ON, HE TELLS WHAT THAT
IS, "IF YOU TURN AWAY YOUR FOOT
00:48:47.46\00:48:50.56
FROM THE SABBATH, FROM DOING
YOUR PLEASURE ON MY HOLY DAY,
00:48:50.56\00:48:53.76
AND CALL THE SABBATH A DELIGHT,
THE HOLY DAY OF THE LORD
00:48:53.76\00:48:56.43
HONORABLE, AND SHALL HONOR HIM,
NOT DOING YOUR OWN WAYS, NOR
00:48:56.43\00:49:00.17
FINDING YOUR OWN PLEASURE, NOR
SPEAKING YOUR OWN WORDS," - THEN
00:49:00.17\00:49:03.34
HERE COMES THE PROMISE - "THEN
YOU SHALL DELIGHT YOURSELF IN
00:49:03.34\00:49:05.94
THE LORD; AND I WILL CAUSE YOU
TO RIDE ON THE HIGH HILLS OF THE
00:49:05.94\00:49:08.51
EARTH, AND FEED YOU WITH THE
HERITAGE OF JACOB YOUR FATHER.
00:49:08.51\00:49:12.01
THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HAS
SPOKEN.'" AND SO, THAT CHAPTER
00:49:12.01\00:49:15.58
IS JUST FULL OF ALL THE
BLESSINGS OF CARING AND SHARING
00:49:15.58\00:49:18.85
JUSTICE WITH OTHERS.
ALRIGHT - AND THEN THERE'S ONE
00:49:18.85\00:49:23.29
MORE VERSE HERE - PROVERBS 21:13
- WHOEVER SHUTS HIS EARS TO THE
00:49:23.29\00:49:28.00
CRY OF THE POOR WILL
ALSO CRY AND NOT BE HEARD.
00:49:28.00\00:49:32.37
NOW, IS THERE ANYONE HERE WHO
CAN FEED ALL THE POOR IN INDIA?
00:49:32.37\00:49:36.97
SO WHEN HE SAYS 'THE CRY OF
THE POOR' HOW DO YOU APPLY THAT?
00:49:36.97\00:49:41.44
GOD WILL, USUALLY EVERY WEEK,
BRING YOU IN CONTACT WITH PEOPLE
00:49:41.44\00:49:46.21
WHO HAVE SOME NEED. AND
YOU PRAY FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:49:46.21\00:49:50.92
TO HELP YOU RECOGNIZE
THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO SHOW THE
00:49:50.92\00:49:54.06
LOVE OF GOD TO THOSE
PEOPLE. IT MAY NOT BE FOOD.
00:49:54.06\00:49:57.56
THEY MIGHT NEED CLOTHES. THEY
MIGHT NEED SOME ENCOURAGEMENT.
00:49:57.56\00:50:00.16
THEY MIGHT NEED A LIFT - THEY'RE
HITCHHIKING - I'M NOT TELLING
00:50:00.16\00:50:02.26
ALL THE LADIES YOU WANT TO DO
THAT BUT, I MEAN, JUST ALL KINDS
00:50:02.26\00:50:04.73
OF THINGS. BUT
JUST CARING ABOUT PEOPLE
00:50:04.73\00:50:06.20
THAT ARE IN NEED -
SHOWING YOUR CHRISTIAN LOVE.
00:50:06.20\00:50:09.50
IT MIGHT BE SOME - HELPING
SOMEBODY CARRY THEIR BAG - THAT
00:50:09.50\00:50:12.84
THEY'RE WEAK. IT'S
JUST SHOWING THE LOVE OF
00:50:12.84\00:50:15.38
JESUS IN THE
PRACTICAL THINGS OF LIFE.
00:50:15.38\00:50:17.48
A FORCE FOR GOOD - LUKE 7:11,
"NOW IT HAPPENED, THE DAY AFTER,
00:50:17.48\00:50:23.69
THAT HE WENT INTO A CITY CALLED
NAIN; AND MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES
00:50:23.69\00:50:26.89
WENT WITH HIM,
AND A LARGE CROWD.
00:50:26.89\00:50:29.39
AND WHEN HE CAME NEAR THE GATE
OF THE CITY, BEHOLD, A DEAD MAN
00:50:29.39\00:50:31.99
WAS BEING CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY
SON OF HIS MOTHER; AND SHE WAS A
00:50:31.99\00:50:35.30
WIDOW." - SO
HERE'S A WIDOW AND SHE'S
00:50:35.30\00:50:37.13
LOST HER ONLY SON WHO
COULD SUPPORT HER LATER IN LIFE.
00:50:37.13\00:50:40.30
JESUS IS SO MOVED - LARGE CROWD
COMES - WAS WITH HER - "WHEN THE
00:50:40.30\00:50:45.31
LORD SAW HER, HE HAD COMPASSION
ON HER AND SAID TO HER, 'DO NOT
00:50:45.31\00:50:49.68
WEEP.' THEN HE CAME AND TOUCHED
THE OPEN COFFIN, AND THOSE WHO
00:50:49.68\00:50:53.65
CARRIED HIM STOOD STILL.
AND HE SAID, 'YOUNG MAN, I SAY
00:50:53.65\00:50:56.99
TO YOU, ARISE.' SO HE WHO WAS
DEAD SAT UP AND BEGAN TO SPEAK.
00:50:56.99\00:51:01.12
AND HE PRESENTED
HIM TO HIS MOTHER."
00:51:01.12\00:51:03.22
YOU GOT THAT PICTURE? THIS IS
GREAT. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:51:03.22\00:51:05.89
FOR US A VERSE
HERE, IN A MOMENT. OKAY.
00:51:05.89\00:51:08.13
YOU'VE GOT THE
COLLISION OF TWO PROCESSIONS.
00:51:08.13\00:51:12.17
JESUS AS A SON OF LIFE IS
IN ONE, OUT OF THE CITY COMES A
00:51:12.17\00:51:17.74
PROCESSION WHERE A WOMAN
IS CARRYING A SON OF DEATH.
00:51:17.74\00:51:21.01
THESE TWO PROCESSIONS MEET,
JESUS SEES THE WOMAN WEEPING AND
00:51:21.01\00:51:24.45
HE IS SO MOVED HE STOPS THE
PROCESSION AND HE COMPLETELY
00:51:24.45\00:51:28.15
RUINS THE SERMON FOR THE PASTOR
- HE WAS GOING TO DO AT THE
00:51:28.15\00:51:30.89
FUNERAL. HE RESURRECTS THE BOY.
00:51:30.89\00:51:35.09
PASTOR'S GOING, 'WHAT
DO I DO WITH MY NOTES NOW?'
00:51:35.09\00:51:37.66
AND HE PRESENTS
HIM BACK TO HIS MOTHER.
00:51:37.66\00:51:39.53
DOES JESUS CARE
ABOUT WIDOWS? >>AMEN.
00:51:39.53\00:51:42.20
>>HE DOES. AND THIS BOY, IF SHE
WAS A WIDOW, HE WAS FATHERLESS,
00:51:42.20\00:51:45.27
TOO, WASN'T HE? >>YES.
00:51:45.27\00:51:47.14
>>AND HE RESTORES HIM TO
LIFE. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD AND READ
00:51:47.14\00:51:49.24
OUR NEXT VERSE FOR US.
>>PSALM 82, VERSE 3, "DEFEND THE
00:51:49.24\00:51:53.38
POOR AND FATHERLESS. DO JUSTICE
TO THE AFFLICTED AND NEEDY.
00:51:53.38\00:51:57.71
>>AMEN. AND
THAT'S SELF-EXPLANATORY.
00:51:57.71\00:52:00.68
I'M GOING TO READ ONE MORE - 1
JOHN 3:17, "BUT WHOEVER HAS THIS
00:52:00.68\00:52:06.05
WORLD'S GOODS, AND SEES HIS
BROTHER IN NEED, AND SHUTS UP
00:52:06.05\00:52:09.66
HIS HEART FROM HIM, HOW DOES
THE LOVE OF GOD ABIDE IN HIM?"
00:52:09.66\00:52:14.66
YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID, AS I
MENTIONED - MATTHEW CHAPTER 25 -
00:52:14.66\00:52:17.67
IT STARTS WITH VERSE 31 - THAT
PARABLE - HE SAID, IN THE GREAT
00:52:17.67\00:52:20.54
JUDGMENT DAY,
WHAT'S HE GOING TO SAY?
00:52:20.54\00:52:23.51
YOU KEPT THE SABBATH, YOU PAID
YOUR TITHE' - IS HE GOING TO GO
00:52:23.51\00:52:28.44
THERE? - 'YOU WERE
VEGETARIAN' (LAUGHTER)
00:52:28.44\00:52:32.61
- OH, YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS?
THOSE THINGS ARE ALL GOOD -
00:52:32.61\00:52:34.18
DON'T MISUNDERSTAND - I
DON'T WANT TO BE SARCASTIC, EVEN
00:52:34.18\00:52:36.75
THOUGH I JUST WAS - I
DON'T LIKE DOING THAT.
00:52:36.75\00:52:38.89
HE SAYS, 'I WAS HUNGRY AND
YOU FED ME; I WAS NAKED AND YOU
00:52:38.89\00:52:43.12
CLOTHED ME; I WAS SICK OR IN
PRISON AND YOU MINISTERED TO ME;
00:52:43.12\00:52:47.93
I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK
ME IN.' AND WHEN WE MINISTER TO
00:52:47.93\00:52:52.83
THESE THINGS HE SAYS, 'WELL
DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,
00:52:52.83\00:52:55.60
ENTER INTO THE JOY OF THE LORD.'
SO IT'S LOOKING AT THE NEEDS IN
00:52:55.60\00:52:59.11
THE WORLD AROUND US AND CHRIST
SAID, 'INASMUCH AS WE TAKE CARE
00:52:59.11\00:53:01.74
OF THOSE NEEDS, WHO ARE
WE REALLY BLESSING? HE SAID,
00:53:01.74\00:53:05.18
'INASMUCH AS YOU'VE DONE IT FOR
THEM, YOU'VE DONE IT FOR ME.'
00:53:05.18\00:53:08.88
BECAUSE JESUS FEELS THE
RELIEF OF HIS CHILDREN THAT YOU
00:53:08.88\00:53:12.79
AND I MINISTER TO. SO
WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME FOR
00:53:12.79\00:53:15.62
OUR LESSON, BUT I WANT TO REMIND
THOSE, BEFORE WE GO OFF THE AIR,
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WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT TIME.
00:53:41.78\00:53:46.82
(MUSIC)
00:53:46.82\00:54:04.41
>>HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE
EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'THEY EAT
00:54:04.41\00:54:06.37
LIKE A BIRD' TALKING ABOUT
SOMEBODY WHO HAS A MINUSCULE
00:54:06.37\00:54:09.41
APPETITE? WELL YOU
MIGHT WANT TO THINK
00:54:09.41\00:54:11.48
TWICE NEXT TIME YOU
USE THAT EXPRESSION.
00:54:11.48\00:54:14.08
FOR EXAMPLE, TAKE THE
HUMMINGBIRD: IN ORDER FOR IT TO
00:54:14.08\00:54:17.35
MAINTAIN ITS INCREDIBLE
METABOLISM, IT HAS TO EAT ABOUT
00:54:17.35\00:54:20.69
50-PERCENT OF ITS
BODY WEIGHT EVERY DAY.
00:54:20.69\00:54:23.96
TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, IF
A HUNDRED-POUND WOMAN WAS TO EAT
00:54:23.96\00:54:27.40
LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD, SHE WOULD
HAVE TO EAT 50 POUNDS OF SUGAR A
00:54:27.40\00:54:30.73
DAY JUST TO MAINTAIN HER
BODY WEIGHT. IMAGINE THAT.
00:54:30.73\00:54:34.47
MAYBE YOU DON'T WANT TO IMAGINE
THAT, BUT PERHAPS YOU'LL WANT TO
00:54:34.47\00:54:38.11
CONSIDER THIS ANOTHER WAY: THE
HUMMINGBIRD TYPICALLY CONSUMES
00:54:38.11\00:54:41.24
BETWEEN FOUR TO SEVEN CALORIES A
DAY, ON THE OTHER HAND, A HUMAN:
00:54:41.24\00:54:44.98
ABOUT 3,500 CALORIES A DAY.
BUT IF YOU WERE TO EAT LIKE A
00:54:44.98\00:54:48.58
BIRD - A HUMMINGBIRD
- YOU'D HAVE TO EAT OVER
00:54:48.58\00:54:51.32
150,000 CALORIES A DAY.
THAT'S LIKE A MAN - 170 POUNDS
00:54:51.32\00:54:58.06
THAT WOULD BE EATING
3,000 OREO COOKIES. UNDER NORMAL
00:54:58.06\00:55:02.70
CONDITIONS, A HUMMINGBIRD
NEEDS TO EAT EVERY FIVE OR TEN
00:55:02.70\00:55:05.47
MINUTES, BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY
ONE TIME DURING THE YEAR THE
00:55:05.47\00:55:08.47
HUMMINGBIRD WILL EAT ITS
ENTIRE BODY WEIGHT EVERY DAY.
00:55:08.47\00:55:12.27
YOU SEE, ONCE A YEAR THEY MAKE
THIS MIGRATION 500 MILES ACROSS
00:55:12.27\00:55:16.78
THE GULF OF MEXICO FROM
TEXAS TO THE YUCATAN PENINSULA.
00:55:16.78\00:55:22.05
IN ORDER TO DO THAT, THE
HUMMINGBIRD FEASTS ON NECTAR AND
00:55:22.05\00:55:25.59
GORGES THEMSELVES ON THIS NECTAR
FOR ABOUT A WEEK, DOUBLING THEIR
00:55:25.59\00:55:29.69
BODY WEIGHT. THAT'S
THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN
00:55:29.69\00:55:31.83
STORE ENOUGH CALORIES TO HELP
THEM WITH THEIR 70-WING BEATS
00:55:31.83\00:55:35.63
PER SECOND OR ROUGHLY 4 MILLION
WING BEATS ON THAT JOURNEY.
00:55:35.63\00:55:40.57
YOU KNOW, IN THE SAME WAY,
FRIENDS, AS WE NEAR THE END OF
00:55:40.57\00:55:42.54
TIME, WE NEED TO BE FEASTING AND
GORGING OURSELVES ON THE NECTAR
00:55:42.54\00:55:46.11
OF GOD'S WORD. WE'VE GOT TO
BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT STRENGTH TO
00:55:46.11\00:55:49.31
GET US THROUGH THE TIMES
OF TROUBLE THAT ARE AHEAD.
00:55:49.31\00:55:51.71
SO WHEN IT COMES TO THE BIBLE
AND YOUR PERSONAL DEVOTIONS, IF
00:55:51.71\00:55:54.48
YOU'RE GOING TO EAT LIKE A
BIRD, EAT LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD.
00:55:54.48\00:55:58.99
(MUSIC)
00:55:58.99\00:56:20.18
>>CAN'T GET ENOUGH
AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY?
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>>AMAZING FACTS
HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE.
00:56:50.21\00:56:52.37
>>AND I JUST PRAISE
GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS.
00:56:52.37\00:56:54.14
>>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY
DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE.
00:56:54.14\00:56:56.64
>>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING
TO WHERE I AM TODAY - I FELT
00:56:56.64\00:56:59.55
GOOD ABOUT THAT. I
DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED, I FELT -
00:56:59.55\00:57:02.02
>>I BEGAN
READING THE BIBLE AND -
00:57:02.02\00:57:04.32
>>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST -
00:57:04.32\00:57:06.49
>>I REALIZED THAT
THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE.
00:57:06.49\00:57:08.82
>>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS.
>>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME.
00:57:08.82\00:57:11.13
>>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO
POWERFUL. >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST
00:57:11.13\00:57:12.83
WHEREVER HE GOES.
>>AMAZING FACTS. MORE THAN 45
00:57:12.83\00:57:17.87
YEARS OF PROCLAIMING
GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:17.87\00:57:21.67
>>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS
ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS .
00:57:21.67\00:57:25.57
I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS
00:57:25.57\00:57:28.14
WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S
ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE
00:57:28.14\00:57:31.01
I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND
ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE
00:57:31.01\00:57:34.88
NEVER HEARD THIS
BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK
00:57:34.88\00:57:36.99
THROUGH AND FIND THIS.
THEN I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH.
00:57:36.99\00:57:39.12
>>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE
STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF
00:57:39.12\00:57:42.62
THESE GUYS STARTED BEING
CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF.
00:57:42.62\00:57:46.26
>>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY
DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?'
00:57:46.26\00:57:49.86
THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT
AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS
00:57:49.86\00:57:53.00
A FATHER. >>I LOST
EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS
00:57:53.00\00:57:56.30
WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT
WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE.
00:57:56.30\00:57:59.74
>>I WENT TO A PROPHECY
SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT.
00:57:59.74\00:58:03.41
THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL
AND SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT,
00:58:03.41\00:58:07.85
'THIS IS REAL. THIS
IS - THIS IS AMAZING.'
00:58:07.85\00:58:13.22
(MUSIC)
00:58:13.22\00:58:28.20