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>>HELLO FRIENDS. WELCOME
TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE
OF YOU JOINING US HERE FROM THE
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GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH AS WE STUDY
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TOGETHER. I'D ALSO LIKE
TO WELCOME THE MEMBERS OF THE
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CHURCH - SO GOOD TO SEE YOU THIS
MORNING. WE'VE BEEN STUDYING
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THROUGH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY
DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT THE
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ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN
THE COMMUNITY . TODAY WE FIND
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OURSELVES ON LESSON #5 -
JESUS ON COMMUNITY OUTREACH .
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SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE
JOINING US, IF YOU'D LIKE TO
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FOLLOW ALONG AND YOU DON'T HAVE
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NOW I KNOW MANY OF US HAVE
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WELL, WITH THAT WE'RE GOING TO
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INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS
TO COME OUT AND JOIN ME.
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BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY WE'RE
GOING TO BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR
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VOICES IN SONG.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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YOU KNOW, IT'S A
CRAZY WORLD WE LIVE IN.
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A LOT OF TERRIBLE THINGS HAVE
HAPPENED THIS WEEK, AND IT'S -
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WE REALLY REALIZE THAT IT IS NOT
AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD THAT WE
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FIGHT, BUT IT IS AGAINST
PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS OF
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DARKNESS. AND JESUS
IS ABOUT TO COME AND
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THE ONLY PLACE THAT WE CAN FIND
HOPE IS TRULY IN THE FACT THAT
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WE ARE A CHILD OF THE KING.
SO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND
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SING WITH US A CHILD
OF THE KING - HYMN #468.
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WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST,
THE THIRD, AND THE LAST VERSES.
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I'M A CHILD OF THE KING,
PRAISE THE LORD. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>MY FATHER IS RICH
IN HOUSES AND LANDS, HE
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HOLDETH THE WEALTH OF
THE WORLD IN HIS HANDS!
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OF RUBIES AND DIAMONDS, OF
SILVER AND GOLD, HIS COFFERS ARE
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FULL, HE HAS RICHES UNTOLD.
I'M A CHILD OF THE KING, A CHILD
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OF THE KING; WITH JESUS MY
SAVIOR, I'M A CHILD OF THE KING.
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I ONCE WAS AN OUTCAST A STRANGER
ON EARTH, A SINNER BY CHOICE,
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AND AN ALIEN BY BIRTH, BUT I'VE
BEEN ADOPTED, MY NAME'S WRITTEN
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DOWN, AN HEIR TO A
MANSION, A ROBE, AND A CROWN.
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I'M A CHILD OF THE KING, A
CHILD OF THE KING; WITH JESUS MY
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SAVIOR, I'M A CHILD OF THE KING.
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A TENT OR A COTTAGE
O WHY SHOULD I CARE?
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THEY'RE BUILDING A PALACE FOR ME
OVER THERE; THOUGH ABSENT FROM
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HOME, YET STILL I MAY SING, "ALL
GLORY TO GOD, I'M A CHILD OF THE
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KING." I'M A CHILD
OF THE KING, A CHILD
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OF THE KING; WITH JESUS MY
SAVIOR, I'M A CHILD OF THE KING.
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>>WELL, HOPEFULLY, AS YOU
GO THROUGH THIS NEXT WEEK, THAT
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SONG WILL BE RINGING IN
YOUR HEAD - THAT YOU ARE TRULY A
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CHILD OF THE KING AND NOTHING
CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FROM YOU.
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RIGHT ACROSS THE PAGE - LEANING
ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS - #469 -
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WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL
THREE VERSES - LEANING ON THE
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EVERLASTING ARMS . (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>WHAT A
FELLOWSHIP, WHAT A JOY DIVINE,
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LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS;
WHAT A BLESSEDNESS, WHAT A PEACE
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IS MINE, LEANING ON
THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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LEANING, LEANING, SAFE AND
SECURE FROM ALL ALARMS; LEANING,
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LEANING, LEANING ON
THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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O HOW SWEET TO WALK IN
THIS PILGRIM WAY, LEANING ON THE
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EVERLASTING ARMS; O HOW BRIGHT
THE PATH GROWS FROM DAY TO DAY,
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LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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LEANING, LEANING, SAFE AND
SECURE FROM ALL ALARMS; LEANING,
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LEANING, LEANING ON
THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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WHAT HAVE I TO DREAD, WHAT
HAVE I TO FEAR, LEANING ON THE
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EVERLASTING ARMS? I
HAVE BLESSED PEACE WITH MY
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LORD SO NEAR, LEANING
ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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LEANING, LEANING, SAFE AND
SECURE FROM ALL ALARMS; LEANING,
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LEANING, LEANING ON
THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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>>AND I PRAY THAT THAT IS WHERE
YOU FIND YOURSELF THIS WEEK -
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LEANING ON
JESUS' EVERLASTING ARMS.
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AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL
COME UP AND LEAD US IN PRAYER.
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>>LET'S BEGIN WITH A WORD OF
PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
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WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO BE
ABLE TO GATHER TOGETHER AND OPEN
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UP YOUR WORD - TO STUDY TOGETHER
- TO LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE OF
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JESUS, OF HOW HE
MINISTERED TO THOSE AROUND HIM.
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TODAY, AS WE OPEN UP THE
SCRIPTURES, WE ONCE AGAIN ASK
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FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME
AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND MINDS,
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FOR WE ASK THIS
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY, LESSON #5
IN OUR STUDY, IS GOING TO BE
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BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR
DOUG. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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GOOD MORNING. >>GOOD MORNING
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>>OUR GRANITE BAY CLASS
- WE HAVE SOME BOTH IN THE
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BUILDING - WE HAVE SOME OF
OUR GRANITE BAY MEMBERS THAT ARE
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WATCHING ONLINE FROM
VARIOUS POINTS AROUND THE GLOBE.
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WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU AND WE'RE
GLAD TO BE STUDYING THE WORD OF
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GOD WITH YOU. WE'RE
GOING THROUGH OUR SABBATH
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SCHOOL LESSON CALLED THE ROLE
OF THE CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY
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AND THIS WAS PRODUCED BY THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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THEY DO IT AS A
QUARTERLY LESSON.
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IF YOU'D LIKE A COPY, YOU CAN GO
TO YOUR LOCAL ADVENTIST CHURCH,
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IF YOU HAVE ONE LOCALLY, THEY'LL
PROBABLY SHARE ONE WITH YOU - I
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HOPE THEY WILL - AND
OTHERWISE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT.
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I STUDY IT, ACTUALLY, ONLINE
BECAUSE IT MAKES IT EASY FOR ME
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TO COPY AND PASTE IN MY
NOTES. WE'RE ON LESSON #5 TODAY,
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TALKING ABOUT JESUS
ON COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - AND
I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IT IF YOU
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CAN SAY THE MEMORY VERSE HERE
LOCALLY WITH ME OUT LOUD, IT'S
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MATTHEW 4:23 - MATTHEW 4:23 -
HERE IN THE LESSON IT'S FROM THE
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NEW KING JAMES
VERSION. ARE YOU READY?
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JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL GALILEE,
TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES,
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PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE
KINGDOM, AND HEALING ALL KINDS
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OF SICKNESS AND ALL KINDS
OF DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE."
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AND JESUS - THIS WAS THE CORE
MINISTRY - THE TEACHING OF JESUS
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- THE MISSION OF JESUS
WAS TO LET THE LIGHT SHINE.
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SO IN LESSON - IN OUR LESSON
- UNDER SUNDAY'S STUDY, IT'S
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JESUS' MISSION STATEMENT AND IT
GIVES - JESUS' MISSION STATEMENT
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COMES FROM THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
CHAPTER 4 AND YOU CAN READ HERE,
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FOR INSTANCE, IN VERSE 15 IT
SAYS, "AND HE TAUGHT IN THEIR
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SYNAGOGUES, BEING
GLORIFIED BY ALL."
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NOW WHEN DID HE
START DOING THAT?
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RIGHT AFTER HE WAS BAPTIZED.
YOU READ IN MATTHEW 3:16 AND 17
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- IN JUST A MOMENT I THINK ONE
OF OUR READERS IS GOING TO DO
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MATTHEW 4:17 -
WILL THAT BE YOU? OKAY.
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BUT IF YOU READ IN MATTHEW 3:16,
"WHEN HE HAD BEEN BAPTIZED,
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JESUS CAME UP IMMEDIATELY
FROM THE WATER; AND BEHOLD, THE
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HEAVENS WERE OPENED TO HIM,
AND HE SAW THE SPIRIT OF GOD
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DESCENDING LIKE A DOVE
AND ALIGHTING UPON HIM.
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AND SUDDENLY A VOICE CAME
FROM HEAVEN, SAYING, 'THIS IS MY
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BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL
PLEASED.'" NOW JESUS DID NOT GO
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OUT DOING THIS WORK UNTIL HE WAS
ANOINTED WITH THE SPIRIT AND HE
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SET THE SAME
EXAMPLE FOR THE DISCIPLES.
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HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES, 'WAIT
IN JERUSALEM UNTIL YOU RECEIVE
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POWER FROM ON HIGH. AND
THEN YOU'RE TO GO AND BE MY
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WITNESSES.' HE SAYS, 'BEGINNING
IN JERUSALEM, JUDEA, SAMARIA' -
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THE OUTERMOST PARTS OF THE
EARTH. BUT IT'S DIFFICULT -
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IMPOSSIBLE, REALLY - TO DO THE
WORK OF GOD WITHOUT THE SPIRIT
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OF GOD. NOW JESUS
OBVIOUSLY HAD THE HOLY
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SPIRIT BEFORE HIS
BAPTISM. DO YOU AGREE?
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BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES IN
DIFFERENT MEASURES AND THE HOLY
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SPIRIT COMES WITH DIFFERENT
GIFTS. AND A SPECIAL BAPTISM OF
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THE SPIRIT OR ANOINTING
OF THE SPIRIT - AND WHAT DOES
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THE WORD 'CHRIST' MEAN?
THE ANOINTED - CHRISTOS.
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WHEN YOU CHRISTEN A SHIP -
OF COURSE, WE'RE NOT TO GET
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ANOINTED WITH CHAMPAGNE,
BUT THEY CHRISTEN A SHIP - THEY
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BREAK A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE ON
IT - THEY ANOINT IT SO TO SPEAK
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- THEY NAME IT. AND
WHEN A BABY IS CHRISTENED,
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IT'S OFTEN WHEN THEIR
NAME IS OFFICIALLY DECLARED.
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AND THE WORD MESSIAH IS THE
HEBREW WORD FOR THE ANOINTED.
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AND SO, THIS TALKS ABOUT
WHEN CHRIST WAS ANOINTED.
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AND AFTER THAT TIME,
HE WENT OUT PREACHING.
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IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
THE REST OF LUKE 4 - GO TO VERSE
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16, HIS FIRST SERMON IN HIS HOME
CHURCH HE STANDS UP - HE COMES
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TO NAZARETH WHERE HE HAD BEEN
BROUGHT UP AND, AS HIS CUSTOM
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WAS - MEANING THE WHOLE TIME
HE WAS BROUGHT UP - HE WENT INTO
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THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH.
WAS JESUS A SABBATH KEEPER?
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>>YES. >>WAS THAT HIS CUSTOM?
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>>YES. >>DID HE READ THE BIBLE?
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WAS THAT HIS CUSTOM? 'AS
HIS CUSTOM WAS' - "AND HE
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WAS HANDED THE BOOK OF THE
PROPHET ISAIAH AND WHEN HE HAD
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OPENED THE BOOK, HE
FOUND THE PLACE" - HE OPENED
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THE SCROLL, HE ROLLED IT OUT, HE
KNEW THE SPOT - THEY DIDN'T HAVE
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VERSES AND CHAPTERS BACK THEN -
SO HE KNEW WHERE IT WOULD BE IN
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ITS PERCENTAGE OF THE SCROLL
AND HE DELIBERATELY BEGINS WITH
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THESE WORDS WHEN
HE STARTS PREACHING.
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"'THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON
ME, BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME
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TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE
POOR; HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL THE
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BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM
LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES AND
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RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND,
TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE
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OPPRESSED; TO PROCLAIM THE
ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.'
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THEN HE CLOSED THE BOOK, AND
GAVE IT BACK TO THE ATTENDANT" -
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THEY HAD SOMEONE,
ACTUALLY, WHO GUARDED THE BIBLE.
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IT WAS THE MOST SACRED THING
IN - NOT EVERYONE HAD BIBLES.
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THERE WAS THE SCRIPTURE
ATTENDANT IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
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YOU HANDED IT TO
HIM - HE LOCKED IT UP.
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IT WAS ALL HAND
WRITTEN - VERY VALUABLE.
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HE GAVE IT TO THE ATTENDANT AND
SAT DOWN "AND THE EYES OF ALL
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WHO WERE IN THE
SYNAGOGUE WERE FIXED ON HIM."
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AND, YOU KNOW, HE WENT ON TO
SAY, 'THIS DAY IS THIS PROPHECY
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FULFILLED IN YOUR HEARING.' HE
WAS CLAIMING TO BE THE ANOINTED.
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'THE SPIRIT OF
THE LORD IS UPON ME.'
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BUT THIS IS HIS
MISSION STATEMENT.
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'PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR,
HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, PROCLAIM
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LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES,
THE RECOVERING OF SIGHT TO THE
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BLIND' - THAT'S, OF COURSE,
PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL SIGHT -
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'TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE
OPPRESSED' - SPIRITUAL LIBERTY
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FROM THE DEVIL - 'TO PROCLAIM
THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE
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LORD.' AND THAT BRINGS US
TO THE NEXT VERSE - WHAT DID HE
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SPECIFICALLY SAY WHEN HE OPENED
HIS MOUTH AND STARTED PREACHING
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THE GOSPEL?
THAT'S IN MATTHEW 4:17.
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>>"FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO
PREACH AND TO SAY, 'REPENT, FOR
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THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN IS AT HAND.'"
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>>SO PART OF HIS
MISSION STATEMENT WAS TO REPENT.
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PART OF RECEIVING THAT GOSPEL
THAT HE TALKED ABOUT - BINDING
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THE BROKEN HEARTED - WAS FOR
PEOPLE TO RECOGNIZE THEIR NEED
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OF GOD AND TO COME TO GOD.
WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT
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JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID
WHEN HE STARTED PREACHING?
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'REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.' I CAN'T
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REALLY IMPROVE ON THE MISSION
STATEMENT OF JESUS IN MATTHEW
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CHAPTER 28, 'GO YE, THEREFORE,
AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING
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THEM IN THE NAME - ALL AUTHORITY
IS GIVEN TO ME OF MY FATHER.
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GO THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS,
BAPTIZING THEM - MAKE DISCIPLES
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OF ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING THEM IN
THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON, AND
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HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING THEM
TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER
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I'VE COMMANDED YOU. LO,
I AM WITH YOU UNTIL THE END
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OF THE WORLD.' THAT'S A
GREAT MISSION STATEMENT!
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AND SO I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE, WELL,
BUT WE NEED TO BE MORE SPECIFIC
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- OR, YOU KNOW, THE ARGUMENTS.
BUT THAT WAS REALLY THE MISSION
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STATEMENT OF JESUS. HE CAME TO
HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED AND THEN
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HE TOLD US TO GO AND
SHARE THAT WITH OTHERS.
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ALRIGHT, UNDER THE NEXT SECTION,
IT'S LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR , AND
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IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE 10:27, AND -
YOU KNOW, MATTER OF FACT, GO AND
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WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A QUICK
LOOK AT THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD
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SAMARITAN - THAT YOU
ONLY FIND IN THIS GOSPEL.
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WAIT, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO
GO BACK AND SAY SOMETHING.
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WILL YOU LET ME
BACKTRACK? PLEASE?
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OH, COME ON, I
JUST FORGOT SOMETHING.
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WHEN JESUS STOOD UP AND HE READ
THAT PROPHESY FROM ISAIAH, HE
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CLOSED THE BOOK AND
HE STOPPED A VERSE SHORT.
00:15:55.42\00:15:59.22
YOU NOTICE, WHEN HE WAS SAYING,
'TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE
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OPPRESSED AND TO PROCLAIM THE
ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD' -
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AND THEN HE CLOSED THE BOOK.
HE LEFT OUT THE PART THAT SAID,
00:16:05.43\00:16:09.03
'AND THE DAY OF
VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD.'
00:16:09.03\00:16:11.67
DID YOU EVER NOTICE THAT?
HAVE YOU EVER COMPARED WHAT
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JESUS SAID AND WHAT HE
WAS QUOTING FROM ISAIAH?
00:16:13.84\00:16:17.41
HE'S QUOTING ISAIAH 61 VERBATIM,
BUT HE LEAVES OUT THE PART THAT
00:16:17.41\00:16:22.84
SAYS, 'THE DAY OF VENGEANCE
OF OUR GOD' - HE STOPS THERE.
00:16:22.84\00:16:26.95
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT
ABOUT WHY DID HE DO THAT?
00:16:26.95\00:16:32.59
WHEN YOU READ THE OLD TESTAMENT
PROPHETS, YOU REALIZE THAT THE
00:16:32.59\00:16:35.02
PROPHECIES, SOMETIMES,
ARE BIG SPANS OF TIME THAT ARE
00:16:35.02\00:16:37.99
CONDENSED. YOU
KNOW, YOU CAN READ IN
00:16:37.99\00:16:40.63
REVELATION 12 AND IT TALKS ABOUT
THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE WAR IN
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HEAVEN AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE
WOMAN FLEEING AND JUST ONE VERSE
00:16:44.00\00:16:47.70
- A THOUSAND YEARS
MIGHT BE IN ONE VERSE.
00:16:47.70\00:16:50.47
WELL, JESUS' FIRST COMING
WAS AS A LAMB - TO PROCLAIM THE
00:16:50.47\00:16:53.94
ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.
THERE'S ANOTHER COMING WHERE THE
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DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR
GOD IS THE DAY OF THE LORD.
00:16:57.58\00:17:02.65
HE ACTUALLY DID SOME OF THAT
TOWARDS THE END OF HIS MINISTRY
00:17:02.65\00:17:04.89
TOO WHEN HE PRONOUNCED SOME OF
THE JUDGMENTS THAT WERE COMING
00:17:04.89\00:17:07.52
ON JERUSALEM, WHO
HAD REJECTED HIS MISSION.
00:17:07.52\00:17:11.06
SO THAT WASN'T THE
TIME FOR THAT VERSE YET.
00:17:11.06\00:17:14.56
THE FIRST PART OF THE VERSE WAS
'COME UNTO ME' - WHEN HE BEGAN
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HIS MINISTRY HE SAID, 'THIS IS
MY FATHER'S HOUSE' - AT THE END
00:17:18.03\00:17:20.70
OF HIS MINISTRY HE SAID,
'YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU
00:17:20.70\00:17:22.47
DESOLATE.' SO SOMETHING HAPPENED
THROUGH HIS MINISTRY AND HE JUST
00:17:22.47\00:17:26.07
KNEW IT WASN'T THE
TIME FOR THAT VERSE YET.
00:17:26.07\00:17:27.78
ANYWAY, I JUST - I WANTED
TO MAKE SURE I MENTIONED THAT.
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ALRIGHT, IN THE PARABLE OF THE
GOOD SAMARITAN, YOU'LL NOTICE
00:17:30.15\00:17:33.18
THAT THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING
AFTER JESUS GETS DONE WITH AN
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EPISODE OF TEACHING. GO
TO VERSE 25 - LUKE 10, VERSE
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25, AND IT SAYS, "AND BEHOLD,
A CERTAIN LAWYER STOOD UP AND
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TESTED HIM, SAYING, 'TEACHER,
WHAT SHALL I DO TO INHERIT
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ETERNAL LIFE?'" - HOW MANY OF
YOU WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER TO
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THAT QUESTION? I MEAN,
ISN'T THAT - WE WANT TO
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- LORD, WHAT DO
YOU WANT ME TO DO?
00:17:54.47\00:17:55.97
I MEAN, SOME ARE
SAVED; SOME ARE LOST.
00:17:55.97\00:17:57.81
YOU AND I MOSTLY ARE NOT
PREDESTINATIONALISTS THAT FIGURE
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THAT GOD IS UP THERE JUST
DECIDING WHO IS SAVED AND WE
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HAVE NO CHOICE, BECAUSE IF YOU
HAVE NO CHOICE YOU HAVE NO POWER
00:18:05.45\00:18:08.25
TO LOVE AND WE BELIEVE WE DO
HAVE A CHOICE AND THAT'S WHY THE
00:18:08.25\00:18:12.45
BIBLE SAYS, 'CHOOSE YE
THIS DAY' 'WHOSOEVER WILL' -
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YOU HAVE A WILL.
00:18:16.16\00:18:17.46
YOU REALIZE THAT A BIG SWATH OF
CHRISTIANITY BELIEVES THAT IT'S
00:18:17.46\00:18:20.36
ALL ARBITRARILY PREDETERMINED BY
GOD AND WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE.
00:18:20.36\00:18:24.53
AND SO, WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
SO, WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?
00:18:24.53\00:18:27.54
HE'S ASKING, 'IS
THERE SOMETHING I DO?'
00:18:27.54\00:18:30.31
JESUS DIDN'T SAY, 'NO, THERE'S
NOTHING YOU CAN DO, GOD'S
00:18:30.31\00:18:32.54
ALREADY DECIDED.
THEY'RE THE ELECT.'
00:18:32.54\00:18:35.04
YOU NOTICE JESUS
SAID THERE IS SOMETHING.
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YOU SEE, I JUST ADDRESSED A VERY
DIFFICULT PART OF THEOLOGY WITH
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THIS SIMPLE
PASSAGE. 'WHAT SHALL I DO?'
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"HE SAID TO HIM,
'WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW?
00:18:45.49\00:18:47.26
WHAT IS YOUR READING OF IT?'"
00:18:47.26\00:18:48.46
- WHERE DID JESUS DIRECT HIM
WHEN HE SAID, 'WHAT DO I DO?'
00:18:48.46\00:18:52.19
HE SAID, 'THE LAW TELLS YOU.'
- "SO HE ANSWERED AND SAID, 'YOU
00:18:52.19\00:18:56.43
SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD
WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL
00:18:56.43\00:18:58.43
YOUR SOUL, WITH ALL YOUR
STRENGTH AND WITH ALL YOUR
00:18:58.43\00:19:00.27
MIND,' AND 'YOUR NEIGHBOR
AS YOURSELF.'" CAN YOU THINK OF
00:19:00.27\00:19:03.20
SOMEONE ELSE THAT CAME TO JESUS
AND SAID, 'WHAT MUST I DO TO BE
00:19:03.20\00:19:05.61
SAVED?' THE RICH YOUNG RULER -
00:19:05.61\00:19:09.31
I HEARD SOMEBODY SAY.
AND WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
00:19:09.31\00:19:13.65
'IF YOU WOULD ENTER INTO LIFE,
KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.' YOU
00:19:13.65\00:19:15.58
NOTICE, BOTH TIMES THAT SOMEONE
ASKED HIM 'WHAT MUST I DO TO BE
00:19:15.58\00:19:19.95
SAVED?' HE POINTS
THEM BACK TO THE LAW.
00:19:19.95\00:19:22.19
HE BASICALLY SAYS, 'THE ANSWER
IS NOT VERY FAR FROM YOU.' AND
00:19:22.19\00:19:25.86
BOTH OF THEM, YOU KNOW, ONE
WAS A LAWYER - AND SHOULDN'T A
00:19:25.86\00:19:29.60
LAWYER KNOW THE LAW? AND
THE OTHER ONE'S A RICH YOUNG
00:19:29.60\00:19:32.27
RULER WHO GREW UP, YOU KNOW,
GOING TO SYNAGOGUE AND SABBATH
00:19:32.27\00:19:35.14
SCHOOL - THEY KNEW THE
LAW. AND HE SAID, 'IT'S NOT A
00:19:35.14\00:19:38.31
MYSTERY.' SO HE
DIRECTED THEM TO THE LAW.
00:19:38.31\00:19:41.71
NOW, ARE WE SAVED
BY KEEPING THE LAW?
00:19:41.71\00:19:46.88
WHAT ABOUT THAT LAW THAT SAYS,
'LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR
00:19:46.88\00:19:48.78
HEART? DOES THAT HAVE SOMETHING
00:19:48.78\00:19:51.19
TO DO WITH OUR SALVATION?
WELL, THE LORD WANTS US TO LOVE
00:19:51.19\00:19:57.53
HIM AND HE
COMMANDS US TO LOVE HIM.
00:19:57.53\00:20:01.20
AND THOSE AREN'T SUGGESTIONS.
THAT MEANS YOU CHOOSE TO
00:20:01.20\00:20:04.10
TRUST HIM AND TO LOVE HIM.
THERE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO.
00:20:04.10\00:20:07.14
PART OF LOVING THE LORD
IS HAVING FAITH IN HIS WORD.
00:20:07.14\00:20:10.61
AND HE SAID - BECAUSE WE'RE
SAVED BY FAITH - BUT THAT'S PART
00:20:10.61\00:20:12.51
OF IT. DID THAT
MAKE SENSE? I HOPE SO.
00:20:12.51\00:20:18.05
AND HE SAID, 'YOU
SHOULD LOVE THE LORD'.
00:20:18.05\00:20:20.52
AND JESUS SAID, 'YOU
HAVE ANSWERED RIGHTLY.
00:20:20.52\00:20:22.78
DO THIS AND YOU
WILL LIVE.' SEE THAT?
00:20:22.78\00:20:25.95
DO THIS - LOVE THE LORD.
00:20:25.95\00:20:28.06
YOU KNOW WE HAD
WORSHIP LAST NIGHT.
00:20:28.06\00:20:29.76
WE READ A REALLY GOOD CHAPTER
OUT OF THE BOOK WE'RE READING
00:20:29.76\00:20:32.03
AND IT TALKED ABOUT THAT ONE
OF THE REASONS THAT PAUL CHANGED
00:20:32.03\00:20:36.20
THE WORLD IS BECAUSE HE LOVED
THE LORD SO MUCH HE WAS WILLING
00:20:36.20\00:20:39.47
TO ENDURE ANYTHING
BECAUSE HE LOVED SO MUCH.
00:20:39.47\00:20:42.77
AND WE GOT DONE READING WORSHIP
AND WE THOUGHT, BOY, THINK ABOUT
00:20:42.77\00:20:46.57
HOW MUCH MORE WE COULD DO
IF WE LOVED THE LORD BETTER.
00:20:46.57\00:20:49.38
THE REASON PAUL MADE SUCH
A DIFFERENCE IN HIS WORLD IS
00:20:49.38\00:20:51.58
BECAUSE HE WAS SO
THOROUGHLY IN LOVE WITH JESUS.
00:20:51.58\00:20:54.02
AND SO, ONE OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT PRAYERS SHOULD BE,
00:20:54.02\00:20:57.99
'LORD, HELP ME LOVE YOU MORE.'
IS THAT A REASONABLE PRAYER?
00:20:57.99\00:21:02.92
AND IS IT OKAY TO SAY,
'HELP ME LOVE MY NEIGHBOR MORE?
00:21:02.92\00:21:07.40
PUT MORE - WOULDN'T WE GIVE MORE
TO MISSION AND DO MORE MISSION
00:21:07.40\00:21:10.97
WORK IF WE LOVED
OUR NEIGHBOR MORE?
00:21:10.97\00:21:14.10
SOMETIMES I SAY, 'LORD, I MUST
NOT LOVE YOU VERY WELL OR I'D
00:21:14.10\00:21:17.11
FOLLOW YOU BETTER.' AND SO I
SAY, 'HELP ME LOVE YOU MORE.' HE
00:21:17.11\00:21:20.58
SAID, 'LOVE THE LORD' - HE SAID,
'YOU'VE ANSWERED CORRECTLY.
00:21:20.58\00:21:22.91
YOU WIN. THIS IS IT. DO THIS AND
LIVE.' BUT HE WANTED - IT SEEMED
00:21:22.91\00:21:28.85
LIKE HE ANSWERED
HIS OWN QUESTION.
00:21:28.85\00:21:30.42
HE FELT A LITTLE SILLY AND,
WANTING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF, HE
00:21:30.42\00:21:32.42
SAID, 'WELL, IT'S NOT THAT
SIMPLE. WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?
00:21:32.42\00:21:35.62
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF, BUT WHO IS
00:21:35.62\00:21:37.13
MY NEIGHBOR? IS
EVERYBODY MY NEIGHBOR?'
00:21:37.13\00:21:39.66
AND JESUS ANSWERS
HIM WITH THIS PARABLE.
00:21:39.66\00:21:43.93
'A CERTAIN MAN WENT DOWN FROM
JERUSALEM TO JERICHO AND HE FELL
00:21:43.93\00:21:47.40
AMONG THIEVES WHO STRIPPED HIM
OF HIS CLOTHING, WOUNDED HIM,
00:21:47.40\00:21:51.77
AND DEPARTED
LEAVING HIM HALF DEAD.
00:21:51.77\00:21:54.11
NOW, BY CHANCE, A CERTAIN PRIEST
CAME DOWN THE ROAD AND WHEN HE
00:21:54.11\00:21:57.38
SAW HIM, HE PASSED
BY ON THE OTHER SIDE.
00:21:57.38\00:22:00.28
LIKEWISE, A LEVITE, WHEN HE
ARRIVED AT THE PLACE, HE CAME
00:22:00.28\00:22:02.85
AND HE LOOKED AND HE
PASSED BY ON THE OTHER SIDE.
00:22:02.85\00:22:06.29
BUT A CERTAIN SAMARITAN, AS HE
JOURNEYED, HE CAME TO WHERE HE
00:22:06.29\00:22:09.89
WAS, AND WHEN HE SAW
HIM, HE HAD COMPASSION.
00:22:09.89\00:22:13.29
SO HE WENT TO HIM AND HE
BANDAGED HIS WOUNDS, POURING ON
00:22:13.29\00:22:18.13
OIL AND WINE, AND HE SET HIM
ON HIS OWN ANIMAL, AND BROUGHT
00:22:18.13\00:22:21.74
HIM TO AN INN
AND TOOK CARE OF HIM.
00:22:21.74\00:22:24.31
ON THE NEXT DAY, WHEN HE
DEPARTED, HE TOOK OUT TWO
00:22:24.31\00:22:26.41
DENARII AND GAVE IT TO THE
INNKEEPER AND SAID TO HIM, 'TAKE
00:22:26.41\00:22:30.08
CARE OF HIM AND WHATEVER MORE
YOU SPEND, WHEN I COME AGAIN,
00:22:30.08\00:22:32.71
I'LL REPAY YOU. SO
WHICH OF THESE THREE DO YOU
00:22:32.71\00:22:36.08
THINK WAS A NEIGHBOR TO
HIM WHO FELL AMONG THIEVES?''
00:22:36.08\00:22:40.09
- AND THE LAWYER - HE'S
ADDRESSING THIS TO THE LAWYER
00:22:40.09\00:22:42.72
AND HE SAID, 'HIM WHO SHOWED
MERCY.' - HE DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO
00:22:42.72\00:22:45.26
SAY 'THE SAMARITAN' BECAUSE THE
JEWS DIDN'T HAVE MUCH REGARD FOR
00:22:45.26\00:22:48.80
THE SAMARITANS SO HE JUST SAID
'HIM WHO SHOWED MERCY ON HIM.'
00:22:48.80\00:22:54.47
JESUS SAID, 'GO AND DO
LIKEWISE.' SO IN THE PARABLE -
00:22:54.47\00:22:58.71
LET'S LOOK AT A FEW THINGS IN
HERE. WHO WAS THE MAN THAT FELL
00:22:58.71\00:23:01.91
AMONG THIEVES? US -
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE FALL
00:23:01.91\00:23:08.48
OF ADAM - ALL OF US HAVE FALLEN.
AND WHO IS THE THIEF THAT ROBBED
00:23:08.48\00:23:16.52
AND BEAT THE MAN -
LEFT HIM HALF DEAD?
00:23:16.52\00:23:19.49
THE DEVIL IS A
THIEF AND A ROBBER.
00:23:19.49\00:23:22.13
AND WHO IS THE PRIEST
AND THE LEVITE THAT COME BY?
00:23:22.13\00:23:30.04
THEY REPRESENT JUST
RELIGION IN AND OF ITSELF.
00:23:30.04\00:23:38.58
IT'S NOT THAT RELIGION'S BAD,
BUT IF IT'S A RELIGION THAT JUST
00:23:38.58\00:23:41.32
HAS REGIMENT AND DOESN'T DO
ANYTHING, IT'S NOT MUCH GOOD.
00:23:41.32\00:23:45.39
AND THEN WHO DOES
THE SAMARITAN REPRESENT?
00:23:45.39\00:23:49.86
THAT WOULD BE JESUS BECAUSE IT
SAYS HE HAD COMPASSION - GOD'S
00:23:49.86\00:23:55.50
HAD COMPASSION ON US. JESUS SAW
THE MULTITUDE AND HAD COMPASSION
00:23:55.50\00:23:58.70
ON THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE
LIKE A SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD.
00:23:58.70\00:24:01.77
AND HE COMES AND HE BINDS UP HIS
WOUNDS. WHAT DID HE USE TO WRAP
00:24:01.77\00:24:05.67
UP HIS WOUNDS? HE MAY
HAVE TAKEN SOME CLOTH AND
00:24:05.67\00:24:10.55
TORN IT UP - MAYBE
ONE OF HIS OWN ROBES.
00:24:10.55\00:24:13.45
WHAT DOES JESUS
USE TO BIND OUR WOUNDS?
00:24:13.45\00:24:16.32
AND HE POURS IN OIL -
WHAT IS OIL A SYMBOL OF?
00:24:16.32\00:24:18.89
>>HOLY SPIRIT. >>HOLY SPIRIT.
00:24:18.89\00:24:20.92
AND WINE - YOU KNOW, WINE WAS
AN ASTRINGENT - ANTISEPTIC BACK
00:24:20.92\00:24:23.89
THEN. SO WHAT IS THE WINE?
00:24:23.89\00:24:27.20
A SYMBOL OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
PUTS HIM ON HIS OWN ANIMAL.
00:24:27.20\00:24:30.73
COULD HAVE BEEN A DONKEY OR
A CAMEL - PROBABLY A DONKEY.
00:24:30.73\00:24:33.54
THAT MEANS HE'S GIVEN HIM
HIS STRENGTH. ANIMALS OFTEN
00:24:33.54\00:24:36.60
REPRESENT EXTRA STRENGTH BECAUSE
AN OXEN OR THESE ANIMALS COULD
00:24:36.60\00:24:42.14
CARRY MORE/PLOW
MORE THAN A HUMAN COULD.
00:24:42.14\00:24:45.35
AND THEN HE BRINGS HIM TO THE
INN - TAKES HIM TO CHURCH - AND
00:24:45.35\00:24:50.52
HE CARES FOR HIM THERE AND HE
GIVES MONEY TO THE INNKEEPER AND
00:24:50.52\00:24:53.72
HE SAYS, 'LOOK, TAKE CARE OF HIM
AND 'WHEN I COME AGAIN' - THE
00:24:53.72\00:24:59.09
SAMARITAN SAYS, 'WHEN I COME
AGAIN.' IS JESUS COMING BACK?
00:24:59.09\00:25:03.67
HE SAYS, 'YOU TAKE
CARE OF HIM. I'M GIVING YOU
00:25:03.67\00:25:05.20
SOME TO START OUT. YOU
MIGHT NEED TO INVEST ALSO.
00:25:05.20\00:25:08.60
I'VE MADE A SACRIFICE TO TAKE
CARE OF HIM; YOU MIGHT NEED TO
00:25:08.60\00:25:11.51
MAKE AN ADDITIONAL SACRIFICE
AND WHEN I COME AGAIN, I'LL
00:25:11.51\00:25:13.91
REPAY YOU. SO
CHRIST, HE BRINGS TO THE
00:25:13.91\00:25:16.85
CHURCH PEOPLE WHO HAVE
BEEN BEAT UP BY THE DEVIL.
00:25:16.85\00:25:19.68
THEY'VE FALLEN AMONG THE
THIEVES. HE STRIPS AND ROBS US
00:25:19.68\00:25:23.39
AND WOUNDS US AND LEAVES US HALF
DEAD. YOU KNOW, WITHOUT CHRIST
00:25:23.39\00:25:26.79
WE'RE UNDER A DEATH
SENTENCE. WE'RE DYING.
00:25:26.79\00:25:28.59
IF IT WASN'T FOR THE SAMARITAN
COMING, HE WOULD HAVE DIED.
00:25:28.59\00:25:31.66
YOU SEE WHAT I'M TALKING
ABOUT? THAT'S THE HUMAN RACE.
00:25:31.66\00:25:34.56
SO THE STORY OF THE GOOD
SAMARITAN - JESUS ENDS UP
00:25:34.56\00:25:36.90
SAYING, 'SO WHO IS - WHO'S THE
NEIGHBOR - WHO'S YOUR NEIGHBOR?'
00:25:36.90\00:25:42.00
ANYBODY THAT NEEDS YOUR HELP
THAT GOD BRINGS INTO YOUR PATH.
00:25:42.00\00:25:49.41
WHO IS YOUR FRIEND OUT
THERE? THE ONE THAT YOU
00:25:49.41\00:25:53.38
ARE FRIENDLY TO.
YOU MAKE FRIENDS.
00:25:53.38\00:25:56.55
SOMEBODY SAYS, 'WELL, I DON'T
HAVE ANY FRIENDS.' THE BIBLE
00:25:56.55\00:25:58.39
SAYS, 'HE WHO WOULD HAVE FRIENDS
MUST MAKE HIMSELF BE FRIENDLY.'
00:25:58.39\00:26:03.26
IF YOU WANT TO HAVE NEIGHBORS,
ACT NEIGHBORLY AND DO THINGS FOR
00:26:03.26\00:26:06.73
YOUR NEIGHBOR.
SHOW THAT YOU CARE.
00:26:06.73\00:26:09.36
AND SO, THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE
OF CHRIST IN THE COMMUNITY IS
00:26:09.36\00:26:13.13
JUST FIND OUT
THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED.
00:26:13.13\00:26:15.34
NOW NOTICE, LAST WEEK, WE
TALKED ABOUT LOT AND HOW HE WAS
00:26:15.34\00:26:21.21
SUPPOSED TO BE SALT AND A
WITNESS AND LIGHT IN SODOM, BUT
00:26:21.21\00:26:27.25
THERE WERE SO FEW PEOPLE
WITNESSING THERE THAT GOD
00:26:27.25\00:26:30.02
COULDN'T EVEN FIND TEN.
BUT WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT LOVING
00:26:30.02\00:26:33.25
YOUR NEIGHBOR - GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US, I THINK WE'VE GOT
00:26:33.25\00:26:35.22
SOMEONE LINED UP TO READ,
- IS IT GENESIS 19:2 AND 3?
00:26:35.22\00:26:39.23
OKAY, KATRINA, YOU'LL DO THAT?
00:26:39.23\00:26:41.00
>>"AND HE SAID, 'HEAR NOW,
MY LORDS, PLEASE TURN INTO YOUR
00:26:41.00\00:26:45.53
SERVANT'S HOUSE AND SPEND
THE NIGHT AND WASH YOUR FEET.
00:26:45.53\00:26:49.50
THEN YOU MAY RISE EARLY AND
GO ON YOUR WAY.' AND THEY SAID,
00:26:49.50\00:26:53.61
'NO, BUT WE'LL SPEND THE NIGHT
IN THE OPEN SQUARE.' BUT HE
00:26:53.61\00:26:57.68
INSISTED STRONGLY, SO THEY
TURNED INTO HIM AND ENTERED HIS
00:26:57.68\00:27:01.68
HOUSE. THEN HE
MADE THEM A FEAST AND
00:27:01.68\00:27:04.49
BAKED THEM
UNLEAVENED BREAD AND THEY ATE."
00:27:04.49\00:27:07.52
>>HOUSE-PITALITY. LOT
BROUGHT THOSE ANGELS IN.
00:27:07.52\00:27:13.29
HE SAW THEM
STAYING OUT IN THE SQUARE.
00:27:13.29\00:27:14.83
HE KNEW IT WASN'T SAFE. HE
WAS CONCERNED FOR THEM - HE
00:27:14.83\00:27:17.43
DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE ANGELS
TO START WITH - AND HE SAID,
00:27:17.43\00:27:20.20
'YOU GUYS MIGHT BE
NEW IN THE COMMUNITY BUT
00:27:20.20\00:27:21.97
I WOULDN'T HANG OUT HERE.
YOU COME STAY WITH ME.' 'OH NO,
00:27:21.97\00:27:24.31
NO.' 'NO, YOU COME STAY
WITH ME.' AND HE URGED THEM.
00:27:24.31\00:27:28.81
WAS LOT GLAD THAT HE
SHOWED THEM HOSPITALITY LATER?
00:27:28.81\00:27:32.48
DID THAT MERCY COME
BACK ON HIM AND HE WAS SAVED?
00:27:32.48\00:27:35.05
YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WAS
WALKING DOWN THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
00:27:35.05\00:27:38.05
AND THEY CAME TO A FORK IN THE
ROAD AND THE TWO DISCIPLES SAID,
00:27:38.05\00:27:40.32
'COME AND STAY WITH US.' AND
THEY URGED HIM AND HE CAME IN.
00:27:40.32\00:27:43.63
WERE THEY GLAD THEY INVITED THAT
STRANGER TO COME STAY WITH THEM?
00:27:43.63\00:27:46.26
THEY FOUND OUT IT WAS JESUS.
00:27:46.26\00:27:48.23
DID ABRAHAM INVITE THREE PEOPLE
TO COME AND DINE WITH HIM, THAT
00:27:48.23\00:27:51.07
HE SAW WALKING
DOWN THE ROAD ONE DAY?
00:27:51.07\00:27:53.60
AND HE LATER FOUND OUT
THAT ONE OF THEM WAS THE LORD.
00:27:53.60\00:27:56.60
HAVE YOU READ IN THE BIBLE WHERE
IT SAYS IN HEBREWS THAT SOME
00:27:56.60\00:27:59.14
HAVE ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARE?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED IF YOU
00:27:59.14\00:28:02.58
SHOWED THAT
KINDNESS TO AN ANGEL?
00:28:02.58\00:28:05.35
AND IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LOOKING
LIKE A PERSON PANHANDLING AT AN
00:28:05.35\00:28:07.52
INTERSECTION OR SOMEONE
ELSE THAT NEEDED YOUR HELP.
00:28:07.52\00:28:13.96
EVEN IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES IT
TALKS ABOUT THIS OLD MAN COMING
00:28:13.96\00:28:16.16
FROM THE FIELDS, SAW THIS LEVITE
AND HIS CONCUBINE AND HE SAYS,
00:28:16.16\00:28:21.70
'COME STAY IN MY HOME.
LET ALL YOUR NEEDS FALL
00:28:21.70\00:28:23.63
UPON ME.' AND THERE
YOU HAD HOSPITALITY.
00:28:23.63\00:28:26.03
SO PART OF BEING A
NEIGHBOR AND PART OF
00:28:26.03\00:28:27.80
WITNESSING IS WHAT
HAPPENS IN THE HOME.
00:28:27.80\00:28:29.74
AND - ALRIGHT, SO LET'S GO ON
TO THE NEXT SECTION: THE WHOLE
00:28:29.74\00:28:33.21
RECIPE - IT TALKS ABOUT HERE.
AND IF YOU LOOK IN MATTHEW 5:13
00:28:33.21\00:28:39.01
AND SOME OF THESE METAPHORS
WE'VE USED BEFORE, BUT WE'RE
00:28:39.01\00:28:42.15
LOOKING AT AGAIN - IT SAYS, "YOU
ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH; BUT
00:28:42.15\00:28:46.65
IF THE SALT LOSES ITS FLAVOR,
HOW SHALL IT BE SEASONED?
00:28:46.65\00:28:50.93
IT IS THEN GOOD FOR NOTHING BUT
TO BE THROWN OUT AND TRAMPLED
00:28:50.93\00:28:53.60
UNDERFOOT BY MEN." IF
YOU WANT TO KEEP THE SALT
00:28:53.60\00:28:56.26
SAFE, KEEP IT IN A
SHAKER WITH ALL THE OTHER SALT.
00:28:56.26\00:28:59.23
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES - IT CAN
00:28:59.23\00:29:01.44
BE COMFORTABLE TO LIVE
IN A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY.
00:29:01.44\00:29:04.77
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME TOWNS
WHERE WE'VE GOT OUR COLLEGES AND
00:29:04.77\00:29:07.34
UNIVERSITIES AND MEDICAL
CENTERS AND YOU'VE GOT A GREAT
00:29:07.34\00:29:09.51
CONCENTRATION OF
BELIEVERS IN THAT AREA.
00:29:09.51\00:29:12.18
BUT YOU WONDER, HOW MUCH
REAL EVANGELISM IS HAPPENING?
00:29:12.18\00:29:15.95
DOESN'T THE LORD WANT
US TO GO OUT AND DISPERSE?
00:29:15.95\00:29:19.15
NOW HERE, WE PLANTED THIS CHURCH
IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA - AND
00:29:19.15\00:29:23.53
SACRAMENTO IS NOT A - WE
DON'T HAVE A SCHOOL HERE.
00:29:23.53\00:29:28.23
WE DON'T HAVE A HOSPITAL HERE.
THIS IS WHERE REAL PEOPLE LIVE.
00:29:28.23\00:29:30.80
AND WE ALL - MOST OF US - WHEN
WE LEAVE CHURCH, WE GO AND WE
00:29:30.80\00:29:33.40
WORK OUT IN THE WORKPLACE WITH,
YOU KNOW, ALL KINDS OF FOLKS AND
00:29:33.40\00:29:37.74
WE HAVE A CHANCE TO DISPERSE
OUR INFLUENCE AND TRY TO BRING
00:29:37.74\00:29:41.91
PEOPLE TO THE LORD. AND IT'S
JUST - IT'S WONDERFUL TO BE ABLE
00:29:41.91\00:29:45.38
TO DO THAT. MATTER OF FACT, THIS
MORNING, OUT IN THE FOYER BY THE
00:29:45.38\00:29:48.58
WATER FOUNTAIN, ONE OF YOU
CAME UP TO ME AND SAID, 'I WAS
00:29:48.58\00:29:51.22
WORKING IN A HOSPITAL AND A MAN
IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM ASKED IF I
00:29:51.22\00:29:56.09
WAS A BELIEVER.' - MAYBE THEY
WERE SICK AND THEY WANTED TO
00:29:56.09\00:29:58.36
KNOW - THEY SAID, 'I AM.'
HE SAID, 'WHAT CHURCH DO YOU GO
00:29:58.36\00:30:01.30
TO?' HE SAID, 'I'M A SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST.' HE SAID, 'OH, I'M A
00:30:01.30\00:30:03.83
BAPTIST BUT DO YOU KNOW
DOUG BATCHELOR? I WATCH HIS
00:30:03.83\00:30:06.40
PROGRAMS.' (LAUGHTER) AND SO,
IT'S FUN TO KNOW PEOPLE ARE OUT
00:30:06.40\00:30:09.87
THERE THAT YOU'RE HAVING
AN INFLUENCE AND THAT THEY'RE
00:30:09.87\00:30:12.31
LISTENING. AND SO THAT'S ALWAYS
EXCITING BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE
00:30:12.31\00:30:15.78
PURPOSE OF SALT IS -
IT'S TO BE DISPERSED.
00:30:15.78\00:30:19.95
YOU KNOW, WE SAW SOME JUST
TRAGIC THINGS IN THE NEWS TODAY
00:30:19.95\00:30:23.62
- THIS WEEK - AND, YOU KNOW, IT
COULD KIND OF BE SUMMED UP IN -
00:30:23.62\00:30:29.12
JESUS SAID IN THE LAST DAYS
THE LOVE OF MANY WILL GROW COLD.
00:30:29.12\00:30:33.46
THERE'S JUST A LOT OF ANGER AND
HATRED AND A LOT OF DIVISION.
00:30:33.46\00:30:41.40
AND IT'S NOT JUST SOME OF THESE
ISSUES THAT ARE HAPPENING WITH
00:30:41.40\00:30:46.24
THE POLICE AND RACE - POLITICS
- ALL OF THIS IS REACHING A
00:30:46.24\00:30:51.58
FEVERED PITCH. BUT JESUS SAID IN
THE LAST DAYS, BECAUSE THE LOVE
00:30:51.58\00:30:59.22
OF MANY WILL GROW COLD -
THERE'LL BE A LOT OF PROBLEMS.
00:30:59.22\00:31:02.62
AND THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING
- 'BECAUSE LAWLESSNESS WILL
00:31:02.62\00:31:04.56
ABOUND, THE LOVE OF MANY WILL
GROW COLD.' YOU KNOW WHAT LAW -
00:31:04.56\00:31:09.06
LAWLESSNESS IS ABOUNDING WHEN
YOU CAST OUT THE LAW OF GOD.
00:31:09.06\00:31:14.67
WE'VE EVEN SEEN SOME LAWS THAT
HAVE HAPPENED FROM THE SUPREME
00:31:14.67\00:31:16.84
COURT, IN THE PAST COUPLE
OF YEARS, THAT HAVE BASICALLY
00:31:16.84\00:31:18.87
THROWN OUT LAWS OF GOD
THAT WERE MORALS IN OUR SOCIETY.
00:31:18.87\00:31:23.78
AND YOU CAN'T DO THAT WITHOUT
HAVING IT HAVE AFTERSHOCKS IN A
00:31:23.78\00:31:28.72
CULTURE. 'BECAUSE
LAWLESSNESS ABOUNDS,
00:31:28.72\00:31:32.95
THE LOVE OF MANY GROWS
COLD.' HOW DO YOU MELT ICE?
00:31:32.95\00:31:38.39
WHAT DO THEY PUT ON THE
ROADS IN MICHIGAN - CHICAGO?
00:31:38.39\00:31:42.96
>>SALT. >>SALT.
NOT VERY GOOD FOR THE
00:31:42.96\00:31:44.67
CARS, BUT IT HELPS THE ROADS
BE SAFER. AND SALT MELTS ICE.
00:31:44.67\00:31:49.67
YOU AND I ARE TO BE
SALT TO MELT THAT ICE.
00:31:49.67\00:31:52.37
YOU CAN READ IN COLOSSIANS, 'LET
YOUR SPEECH ALWAYS BE SEASONED
00:31:52.37\00:31:57.38
WITH SALT THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW
HOW YOU OUGHT TO ANSWER.' HAVE
00:31:57.38\00:32:01.12
GRACE IN YOUR WORDS
AND IN YOUR CONVERSATION.
00:32:01.12\00:32:04.79
NOW, ARE CHRISTIANS IN
NORTH AMERICA BEING EFFECTIVE IN
00:32:04.79\00:32:10.09
SHARING OUR FAITH? LET ME
READ YOU A COUPLE OF POLLS.
00:32:10.09\00:32:16.00
A CNN POLL - 2009 - 'AMERICA IS
A LESS CHRISTIAN NATION THAN IT
00:32:16.00\00:32:21.20
WAS 20 YEARS AGO.' NOW THIS IS
A POLL FROM 2009, STARTING HERE.
00:32:21.20\00:32:26.61
'CHRISTIANITY IS NOT LOSING
OUT TO OTHER RELIGIONS BUT,
00:32:26.61\00:32:29.54
PRIMARILY, A REJECTION
OF RELIGION ALTOGETHER.
00:32:29.54\00:32:32.61
A SURVEY PUBLISHED MONDAY FOUND
75% OF AMERICANS CALL THEMSELVES
00:32:32.61\00:32:36.62
CHRISTIANS, ACCORDING
TO THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS
00:32:36.62\00:32:38.42
IDENTIFICATION SURVEY FROM
TRINITY COLLEGE IN HARTFORD,
00:32:38.42\00:32:41.46
CONNECTICUT. IN
1990 THE FIGURE WAS 86%.
00:32:41.46\00:32:45.76
SO BETWEEN 1990 AND 2009,
THE PERCENTAGE OF CHRISTIANS IN
00:32:45.76\00:32:51.97
NORTH AMERICA
WENT FROM 86% TO 75%.
00:32:51.97\00:32:56.20
DO YOU REALIZE THAT
IS A PRECIPITOUS DECLINE?
00:32:56.20\00:32:59.87
BUT WAIT, IT GETS
BETTER - OR WORSE.
00:32:59.87\00:33:03.78
WASHINGTON 2015 - THE UNITED
STATES IS A SIGNIFICANTLY LESS
00:33:03.78\00:33:08.55
CHRISTIAN COUNTRY THAN WE
WERE SEVEN YEARS AGO. THE PEW
00:33:08.55\00:33:12.99
RESEARCH CENTER'S NEWEST REPORT
SAID, 'IN AMERICA'S CHANGING
00:33:12.99\00:33:16.66
RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE, RELEASED
TUESDAY, CHRISTIANITY STILL
00:33:16.66\00:33:19.93
DOMINATES THE RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
NOW 70% - DOWN FROM 75%.
00:33:19.93\00:33:27.20
BUT THE SURVEY SHOWS A DRAMATIC
SHIFT AS MORE PEOPLE MOVE OUT OF
00:33:27.20\00:33:31.24
THE DOORS OF DENOMINATIONS,
SHEDDING SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS
00:33:31.24\00:33:34.04
ALONG THE WAY. NEARLY
8%-POINT DROP IN THOSE
00:33:34.04\00:33:37.88
CALLING THEMSELVES
CHRISTIANS FROM 78% TO 70.6%
00:33:37.88\00:33:42.95
IN JUST SEVEN YEARS.
THEY USED A DIFFERENT
00:33:42.95\00:33:44.89
STARTING POINT.
THIS IS A BIG DEAL.
00:33:44.89\00:33:48.66
IF THOSE NUMBERS ARE ACCURATE,
CHRISTIANITY IS CERTAINLY
00:33:48.66\00:33:50.93
SHRINKING IN AMERICA AT A RATE
THAT, IF IT CONTINUES OVER THE
00:33:50.93\00:33:54.30
COMING YEARS AND DECADES,
WILL PRODUCE PROFOUND CULTURAL
00:33:54.30\00:33:57.63
CHANGE. ATHEISTS
AND AGNOSTICS HAVE
00:33:57.63\00:34:01.40
NEARLY DOUBLED THEIR SHARE
OF THE RELIGIOUS MARKETPLACE.
00:34:01.40\00:34:04.87
AN OVERALL INDIFFERENCE TO
RELIGION OF ANY SORT IS RISING
00:34:04.87\00:34:08.48
AS WELL. ONLY HISTORICALLY BLACK
00:34:08.48\00:34:12.08
PROTESTANT CHURCHES HAVE HAD
A STEADY GRIP THROUGH THE YEARS.
00:34:12.08\00:34:15.45
THEY'VE HAD A SMALL DECREASE,
BUT THEY'VE HELD FAIRLY STEADY.
00:34:15.45\00:34:21.29
WHAT DOES THAT TELL US?
00:34:21.29\00:34:22.39
HOW GOOD ARE WE DOING AT
BEING SALT IN OUR COMMUNITY?
00:34:22.39\00:34:26.59
NOW, YOU KNOW, DON'T WANT TO PAT
OURSELVES ON THE BACK TOO MUCH,
00:34:26.59\00:34:30.07
BUT YOU'LL BE A LITTLE
ENCOURAGED TO KNOW THAT
00:34:30.07\00:34:32.23
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS IN
NORTH AMERICA ARE GROWING.
00:34:32.23\00:34:36.40
NOT THE ANGLOS,
THEY ARE DECLINING.
00:34:36.40\00:34:40.91
IT IS THE MINORITY
CHURCHES THAT ARE GROWING.
00:34:40.91\00:34:45.31
THE ANGLO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
CHURCHES ARE IN DECLINE.
00:34:45.31\00:34:49.18
AND SO, THERE'S A LOT
OF WORK TO DO FOR US TO BE
00:34:49.18\00:34:53.25
MISSIONARIES IN OUR
COMMUNITY. WHY IS THAT?
00:34:53.25\00:34:59.09
WHAT'S MAKING SUCH A CHANGE
WHERE CHRISTIANITY SEEMS TO BE
00:34:59.09\00:35:01.63
SHRIVELING IN NORTH AMERICA?
>>WE HAVE THINGS TOO GOOD.
00:35:01.63\00:35:07.00
>>IT'S A - SEVERAL THINGS, BUT
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK THE
00:35:07.00\00:35:08.94
CHIEF FACTOR IS: PEOPLE ARE THE
SUM TOTAL OF WHAT THEY HEAR AND
00:35:08.94\00:35:15.91
WHAT THEY SEE AND
THE MEDIA IS SO SECULAR.
00:35:15.91\00:35:20.52
THE MEDIA DOES SO MUCH TO MOCK
THE BELIEFS OF THE BIBLE AND
00:35:20.52\00:35:24.02
CHRISTIANITY IS BEING DERIDED ON
EVERY FRONT, BY THE MEDIA, THAT
00:35:24.02\00:35:28.86
IT'S HAVING AN EFFECT.
AND MORE AND MORE PEOPLE - AND
00:35:28.86\00:35:32.73
THEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY HEAR
ABOUT RELIGIOUS SCANDAL, PEOPLE
00:35:32.73\00:35:34.76
LOSE ANY KIND OF
CONFIDENCE IN CHRISTIANITY.
00:35:34.76\00:35:37.87
SO ALL THESE THINGS
ARE COMING TOGETHER.
00:35:37.87\00:35:39.53
HAS THERE EVER
BEEN A GREATER NEED?
00:35:39.53\00:35:41.84
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GREW UP YOU
MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT, 'SOMEDAY I'M
00:35:41.84\00:35:44.94
GOING TO GO BE A MISSIONARY.
I AM GOING TO GO TO SOME JUNGLE
00:35:44.94\00:35:47.94
SOMEWHERE AND I AM GOING
TO SERVE JESUS AND BRING THOSE
00:35:47.94\00:35:50.85
PAGANS TO THE SAVIOR. HOW
FAR DO YOU NEED TO GO NOW?
00:35:50.85\00:35:55.65
>>ACROSS THE STREET.
>>YEAH, JUST GO ACROSS THE
00:35:55.65\00:35:58.32
STREET - MAYBE
EVEN JUST NEXT DOOR.
00:35:58.32\00:36:02.12
YOU MIGHT NOT NEED
TO CROSS THE STREET.
00:36:02.12\00:36:05.26
AND THERE'S PLENTY - IT MIGHT
BE THE CUBICLE NEXT TO YOU WHERE
00:36:05.26\00:36:08.50
YOU WORK.
THERE'S PLENTY OF MISSION
00:36:08.50\00:36:10.83
WORK, RIGHT
NEARBY, AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:36:10.83\00:36:14.80
>>SO WE SEE
THINGS HAPPENING HERE.
00:36:14.80\00:36:16.47
ALRIGHT, SO WE'RE SUPPOSED
TO BE SALT AND THERE ARE SOME
00:36:16.47\00:36:20.44
CHALLENGES HERE. NOW,
WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
00:36:20.44\00:36:23.08
BEING SALT - YOU KNOW, I TALKED
ABOUT - IN A MOMENT SOMEONE'S
00:36:23.08\00:36:28.05
GOING TO READ 1 PETER 3:1
AND 2 - OKAY, YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:36:28.05\00:36:33.02
I TALKED LAST WEEK ABOUT
REACHING JESUS ON THE OUTSIDE IN
00:36:33.02\00:36:36.76
YOUR COMMUNITY -
BEING SALT IN THE COMMUNITY.
00:36:36.76\00:36:39.83
DO YOU KNOW, YOU ALSO NEED
TO BE SALT IN YOUR OWN HOME?
00:36:39.83\00:36:43.00
YOU HAVE A SANCTIFYING
INFLUENCE IN YOUR FAMILY.
00:36:43.00\00:36:46.40
LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU
FROM 1 CORINTHIANS 7 - YOU MAY
00:36:46.40\00:36:48.97
NOT HAVE EVER READ THIS THIS WAY
BEFORE - 1 CORINTHIANS 7, VERSE
00:36:48.97\00:36:51.94
12, "BUT TO THE REST I, NOT THE
LORD, SAY: 'IF ANY BROTHER HAS A
00:36:51.94\00:36:57.18
WIFE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE," -
NOW WHAT PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT
00:36:57.18\00:37:00.75
HERE - HE SAYS, 'DON'T BE
UNEQUALLY YOKED' - BELIEVERS
00:37:00.75\00:37:02.95
SHOULD NOT MARRY
UNBELIEVERS, IS THAT CLEAR?
00:37:02.95\00:37:05.65
BUT WHEN PAUL WENT OUT PREACHING
THE GOSPEL TO THE GENTILES,
00:37:05.65\00:37:09.46
THERE WERE A LOT OF GENTILES
WHERE ONE HUSBAND OR WIFE WOULD
00:37:09.46\00:37:12.33
BELIEVE AND THE OTHER WOULD NOT.
SO ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY FOUND
00:37:12.33\00:37:15.06
THEMSELVES WHERE ONE ACCEPTED
THE LORD AND THE OTHER HAD NOT
00:37:15.06\00:37:17.67
AND YOU'RE IN A SITUATION
WHERE YOU'VE GOT A DIVIDED HOME.
00:37:17.67\00:37:20.90
AND SO THAT'S WHAT
HE'S ADDRESSING HERE.
00:37:20.90\00:37:23.37
AND IT SAID IF HE HAS A WIFE
WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE "AND SHE IS
00:37:23.37\00:37:27.68
WILLING TO LIVE WITH
HIM, LET HIM NOT DIVORCE HER.
00:37:27.68\00:37:30.91
AND A WOMAN WHO HAS A HUSBAND
WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE, IF HE IS
00:37:30.91\00:37:34.15
WILLING TO LIVE WITH
HER, LET HER NOT DIVORCE HIM.
00:37:34.15\00:37:37.95
FOR THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND IS
SANCTIFIED BY THE WIFE, AND THE
00:37:37.95\00:37:42.52
UNBELIEVING WIFE IS SANCTIFIED
BY THE HUSBAND; OTHERWISE YOUR
00:37:42.52\00:37:46.49
CHILDREN WOULD BE
UNCLEAN, BUT NOW THEY ARE HOLY."
00:37:46.49\00:37:49.76
THAT'S A VERY INTERESTING
PHRASE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN
00:37:49.76\00:37:53.00
BEFORE THE AGE OF
ACCOUNTABILITY, THERE IS A
00:37:53.00\00:37:55.87
SANCTIFYING INFLUENCE OF PRAYER
OF A BELIEVING FAMILY AND PARENT
00:37:55.87\00:38:02.08
MEMBER - OR PARENT IN THAT
FAMILY ON THE CHILDREN. THERE
00:38:02.08\00:38:05.81
ARE BLESSINGS THEY GET TO CLAIM
BECAUSE OF THE BELIEVING PARENT.
00:38:05.81\00:38:09.38
AND HE'S SAYING, 'DON'T, YOU
KNOW, ABANDON YOUR CHILDREN' -
00:38:09.38\00:38:12.42
OR 'DON'T LOSE THAT INFLUENCE
UPON THEM.' AND HE GOES ON TO
00:38:12.42\00:38:17.16
SAY, "FOR HOW DO YOU KNOW, O
WIFE, WHETHER YOU WILL SAVE YOUR
00:38:17.16\00:38:20.93
HUSBAND? OR HOW DO YOU KNOW,
O HUSBAND, WHETHER YOU WILL SAVE
00:38:20.93\00:38:23.50
YOUR WIFE?" BY
STICKING WITH THEM AND BY
00:38:23.50\00:38:25.60
TRYING TO MODEL IT - THAT'LL
LEAD US TO THE NEXT VERSE.
00:38:25.60\00:38:28.90
LET'S GO AHEAD AND
READ 1 PETER 3:1 AND 2.
00:38:28.90\00:38:32.17
>>"WIVES, LIKEWISE, BE
SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS,
00:38:32.17\00:38:35.24
THAT EVEN IF SOME DO NOT OBEY
THE WORD, THEY, WITHOUT A WORD,
00:38:35.24\00:38:39.21
MAY BE WON BY THE CONDUCT OF
THEIR WIVES, WHEN THEY OBSERVE
00:38:39.21\00:38:42.62
YOUR CHASTE CONDUCT
ACCOMPANIED BY FEAR."
00:38:42.62\00:38:45.62
>>YEAH, ISN'T THIS INTERESTING
THAT THROUGH THE BEHAVIOR AND -
00:38:45.62\00:38:51.19
WHERE'S THE HARDEST PLACE IN
THE WORLD TO BE A MISSIONARY?
00:38:51.19\00:38:53.96
>>HOME. >>YOU
KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING TO
00:38:53.96\00:38:57.57
BE A CHRISTIAN, WHAT INTEGRITY
IS - IT MEANS THAT YOU'RE THE
00:38:57.57\00:39:00.94
SAME PERSON IN PUBLIC AS YOU
ARE IN PRIVATE. YOU'RE THE SAME
00:39:00.94\00:39:04.74
PERSON WHEN PEOPLE ARE WATCHING
AND WHEN THEY'RE NOT WATCHING.
00:39:04.74\00:39:07.68
AND CHRISTIANS
SHOULD HAVE INTEGRITY.
00:39:07.68\00:39:09.68
AND WE OUGHT TO BE LOVING AND
CONSISTENT AND NICE AND POLITE
00:39:09.68\00:39:12.31
IN OUR FAMILIES AND WE OUGHT
TO BE THAT WAY IN THE PUBLIC.
00:39:12.31\00:39:15.82
AND IF YOUR UNBELIEVING WIFE
OR HUSBAND SEES THAT YOU ARE A
00:39:15.82\00:39:20.32
CHRISTIAN HUGGING YOUR
BIBLE WHEN YOU GO TO CHURCH, BUT
00:39:20.32\00:39:22.52
YOU'RE ROTTEN AND CANTANKEROUS
WHEN YOU COME HOME, YOU'RE
00:39:22.52\00:39:25.79
PROBABLY NOT GOING
TO WIN THEM TO THE LORD.
00:39:25.79\00:39:28.43
BUT IF THEY SEE THAT YOU LOVE
THEM AND YOU LOVE THE LORD IN
00:39:28.43\00:39:32.37
PUBLIC, AND YOU LOVE THEM AND
YOU LOVE THE LORD IN PRIVATE AND
00:39:32.37\00:39:36.27
THERE'S KINDNESS AND THERE'S
COURTESY AND WHEN YOU NEED TO
00:39:36.27\00:39:38.44
APOLOGIZE YOU APOLOGIZE AND YOU
TRY TO DEMONSTRATE THE CHRISTIAN
00:39:38.44\00:39:42.18
FRUITS AND VIRTUES, IT SOFTENS
HEARTS. IF YOU SHOW THAT JESUS
00:39:42.18\00:39:47.35
HAS BROUGHT JOY TO YOU,
THEY WILL WANT THAT JOY.
00:39:47.35\00:39:51.09
BUT IF YOU'RE COMPLAINING AND
CRABBY AND GRIPING AND - AND YOU
00:39:51.09\00:39:56.06
WONDER WHY YOUR UNBELIEVING
HUSBAND OR WIFE HAS NOT BEEN
00:39:56.06\00:40:00.10
CONVERTED, WELL, ARE YOU
LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE?
00:40:00.10\00:40:05.27
NOW I'M NOT TRYING TO GIVE YOU A
HARD TIME, BUT ISN'T THAT TRUE?
00:40:05.27\00:40:10.71
IT SAYS LET THEM SEE YOUR
BEHAVIOR AND THAT'LL HAVE A
00:40:10.71\00:40:14.51
SANCTIFYING INFLUENCE. SO
THIS IS PART OF THE CHURCH IN
00:40:14.51\00:40:17.48
THE COMMUNITY -
STARTS IN THE FAMILY.
00:40:17.48\00:40:19.88
CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? >>AMEN.
00:40:19.88\00:40:21.38
>>THANK YOU. ALRIGHT,
THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO
00:40:21.38\00:40:23.45
TO THE NEXT
SECTION ON BEING A FARMER.
00:40:23.45\00:40:25.79
AND HERE JESUS IS TAKING
A PARABLE AND - AND HE'S NOT
00:40:25.79\00:40:29.56
ACTUALLY TAKING A PARABLE,
HE'S USING AN ILLUSTRATION.
00:40:29.56\00:40:32.33
AFTER HE SHARED WITH THE WOMAN
AT THE WELL, ABOUT HE WAS THE
00:40:32.33\00:40:39.27
LIVING WATER, SHE WAS SO EXCITED
- HE REVEALED HE'S THE MESSIAH -
00:40:39.27\00:40:43.41
SHE GOES BACK IMMEDIATELY AND
SHE TELLS THE PEOPLE IN THEIR
00:40:43.41\00:40:47.24
COMMUNITY, 'COME SEE A MAN THAT
SHOWED ME ALL THAT EVER I DID.'
00:40:47.24\00:40:50.88
YOU CAN FIND THAT PHRASE SEVERAL
TIMES IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN -
00:40:50.88\00:40:53.78
'COME AND SEE - COME AND SEE.
00:40:53.78\00:40:55.35
YOU COME TO JESUS AND YOU SEE.'
AND SO WHEN SHE GOES AND SHE
00:40:55.35\00:41:01.99
TELLS THE PEOPLE IN THE
COMMUNITY TO COME, THE DISCIPLES
00:41:01.99\00:41:06.19
COME BACK AND THEY SEE THAT
JESUS WAS TALKING TO THIS WOMAN,
00:41:06.19\00:41:08.56
SHE'S LEFT, AND THEY'RE
WONDERING WHAT - WHAT - THEY
00:41:08.56\00:41:11.87
WERE - HE WAS DOING TALKING TO
A SAMARITAN - A PAGAN - AND THEN
00:41:11.87\00:41:16.97
ALL THESE PEOPLE BEGIN TO COME
OUT OF THE CITY OF SICHAR - THIS
00:41:16.97\00:41:20.24
SAMARITAN VILLAGE - AND JESUS
SEES THE PEOPLE COMING BECAUSE
00:41:20.24\00:41:23.91
THEY WANT TO SEE THIS MAN WHO
WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE MESSIAH -
00:41:23.91\00:41:26.65
THE PROPHET - AND HE SAID, 'DO
YOU NOT SAY THERE ARE STILL FOUR
00:41:26.65\00:41:29.85
MONTHS AND THEN
COMES THE HARVEST?
00:41:29.85\00:41:31.69
BEHOLD, I SAY TO YOU, 'LIFT UP
YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT THE FIELDS
00:41:31.69\00:41:35.32
FOR THEY ARE ALREADY WHITE FOR
HARVEST. YOU KNOW, WHEN - YOU
00:41:35.32\00:41:40.06
USUALLY DON'T HARVEST THE
GRAIN WHEN IT'S ALL GREEN.
00:41:40.06\00:41:43.43
SUMMER COMES AND THE GRAIN
BEGINS TO DRY OUT AND THEY OPEN
00:41:43.43\00:41:47.70
UP AND IT - IT'S WHITE
FOR HARVEST, YOU CAN TELL.
00:41:47.70\00:41:52.17
'AND HE WHO REAPS RECEIVES
WAGES AND HE GATHERS FRUIT UNTO
00:41:52.17\00:41:55.88
ETERNAL LIFE THAT BOTH HE
WHO SOWS AND HE WHO REAPS MAY
00:41:55.88\00:41:59.71
REJOICE TOGETHER. FOR
IN THIS THE SAYING IS TRUE.
00:41:59.71\00:42:03.08
ONE SOWS AND ANOTHER REAPS.
I SENT YOU TO REAP THAT FOR
00:42:03.08\00:42:06.39
WHICH YOU'VE NOT LABORED.
OTHERS HAVE LABORED AND HAVE
00:42:06.39\00:42:08.69
ENTERED INTO THEIR LABORS.'
SO PART OF BEING A CHRISTIAN AND
00:42:08.69\00:42:13.09
A WITNESS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
IS THAT WE ALL FARM TOGETHER.
00:42:13.09\00:42:17.67
THAT MEANS WE USE
OUR DIFFERENT GIFTS.
00:42:17.67\00:42:21.00
SOME ARE PASTORS, SOME ARE
EVANGELISTS - SOME ARE PASTORS
00:42:21.00\00:42:26.11
AND EVANGELISTS. SOME
HAVE GIFTS OF ADMINISTRATION.
00:42:26.11\00:42:29.84
SOME HAVE GIFTS OF HELP.
SOME HAVE GIFTS OF COOKING,
00:42:29.84\00:42:34.22
MUSIC - ALL KINDS OF
GIFTS THAT A PERSON HAS.
00:42:34.22\00:42:37.49
WHEN YOU WORK AS A CHURCH
FAMILY, YOU ARE ONE BODY WITH
00:42:37.49\00:42:40.49
MANY DIFFERENT MEMBERS -
I'D BETTER BE CAREFUL, I THINK
00:42:40.49\00:42:42.82
THERE'S A LESSON COMING ON THAT
LATER. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT ALL
00:42:42.82\00:42:45.49
NOW. BUT IT'S LIKE WE'RE ONE
BODY WITH DIFFERENT GIFTS AND
00:42:45.49\00:42:49.36
DIFFERENT MEMBERS AND WHEN WE
WORK TOGETHER - IT'S BEAUTIFUL
00:42:49.36\00:42:51.80
TO SEE A CHURCH GET INVOLVED IN
EVANGELISM, BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S
00:42:51.80\00:42:54.70
USING THEIR SPIRITUAL GIFTS, ALL
MAKING SACRIFICES AND PUTTING
00:42:54.70\00:42:58.37
THEIR ENERGY INTO THE COMMON
GOAL OF FULFILLING THE GREAT
00:42:58.37\00:43:01.38
COMMISSION OF PREACHING
THE GOSPEL - LEADING PEOPLE TO
00:43:01.38\00:43:04.81
CHRIST. AND - BUT PEOPLE ARE
USING THEIR DIFFERENT GIFTS, BUT
00:43:04.81\00:43:09.62
WE ALL HARVEST
AND REJOICE TOGETHER.
00:43:09.62\00:43:12.39
NOW, DID JESUS SAY THAT THE
PROBLEM IS THAT THE PEOPLE OUT
00:43:12.39\00:43:16.49
THERE JUST AREN'T
INTERESTED IN CHRISTIANITY?
00:43:16.49\00:43:18.29
IS THAT WHY
CHRISTIANITY IS ON THE DECLINE?
00:43:18.29\00:43:21.60
I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST TO YOU THAT
I THINK PEOPLE ARE LOOKING MORE
00:43:21.60\00:43:25.37
NOW FOR ANSWERS THAN ANY
TIME I CAN REMEMBER IN MY LIFE.
00:43:25.37\00:43:29.50
PEOPLE ARE MORE FRIGHTENED
AND WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE.
00:43:29.50\00:43:31.94
PEOPLE ARE WONDERING
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON.
00:43:31.94\00:43:34.24
THEY MAY NOT AFFILIATE WITH ANY
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION, BUT THEY
00:43:34.24\00:43:37.85
ARE SEARCHING. THEY ARE SCARED.
00:43:37.85\00:43:40.68
THEY SEE THINGS HAPPENING IN
THE WORLD THAT IS UNPRECEDENTED.
00:43:40.68\00:43:44.19
AND DOES IT LOOK LIKE TERRORISM
IS BEING - THE WAR AGAINST
00:43:44.19\00:43:48.89
TERRORISM IS BEING WON
- THAT IT'S GOING AWAY?
00:43:48.89\00:43:51.79
OR IS IT GETTING NOW WHERE
PEOPLE ARE ALMOST SHRUGGING WHEN
00:43:51.79\00:43:55.43
THEY HEAR ABOUT A HUNDRED
PEOPLE BLOWN UP IN BAGHDAD.
00:43:55.43\00:43:58.77
AND WE SHAKE OUR HEADS
AND SAY, 'ISN'T THAT AWFUL?'
00:43:58.77\00:44:00.34
AND GO ON OUR WAY. AND WE'RE
BECOMING NUMB TO IT BECAUSE IT'S
00:44:00.34\00:44:03.51
BECOMING SO COMMON. AND SO
PEOPLE ARE - THEY'RE FRIGHTENED.
00:44:03.51\00:44:08.38
AND WHAT KIND OF WORLD - AND IF
CHRISTIANS ARE BEING THE SALT IN
00:44:08.38\00:44:11.81
THE COMMUNITY THAT WE
HAVE, THEN YOU'LL SEE A HARVEST.
00:44:11.81\00:44:15.72
1 CORINTHIANS - ONE SOWS,
ANOTHER REAPS - 1 CORINTHIANS
00:44:15.72\00:44:19.15
3:5 THROUGH 8. PAUL
IS WRITING, "WHO THEN IS
00:44:19.15\00:44:23.06
PAUL, AND WHO IS APOLLOS,
BUT MINISTERS THROUGH WHOM YOU
00:44:23.06\00:44:25.39
BELIEVED, AS THE
LORD GAVE TO EACH ONE?"
00:44:25.39\00:44:27.66
- NOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING IS PAUL
WAS WRITING TO THE CHURCH IN
00:44:27.66\00:44:30.30
CORINTH AND THEY WERE MAKING
GROUPEES OUT OF THE APOSTLES.
00:44:30.30\00:44:34.84
APOLLOS ENDED UP BECOMING A
VERY SUCCESSFUL ELDER AND LATER,
00:44:34.84\00:44:38.84
EVIDENTLY, LOOKED UPON AS AN
APOSTLE IN THE CHURCH - OR AT
00:44:38.84\00:44:41.71
LEAST AN EVANGELIST.
00:44:41.71\00:44:44.11
SOME WERE SAYING, 'I WAS
BAPTIZED BY PAUL AND HE'S DONE
00:44:44.11\00:44:46.41
MORE MIRACLES THAN APOLLOS.' AND
SOME SAID, 'OH, APOLLOS IS EVEN
00:44:46.41\00:44:49.18
A BETTER PREACHER - HE'S A
BETTER ORATOR THAN EVEN PAUL.
00:44:49.18\00:44:52.02
AND PAUL'S SMALL
AND HE'S SQUINTY.
00:44:52.02\00:44:53.22
HE CAN'T SEE VERY WELL.' AND
THEY WERE MAKING THESE IDOLS AND
00:44:53.22\00:44:55.69
PUTTING POSTERS OF APOLLOS
AND PAUL - AND THEY WERE GETTING
00:44:55.69\00:44:59.09
DIVIDED OVER THAT. YOU
KNOW, 'WHO BAPTIZED YOU?'
00:44:59.09\00:45:01.73
'I WAS BAPTIZED BY HIM.' AND
PAUL IS SAYING, 'IT HAS NOTHING
00:45:01.73\00:45:05.93
TO DO WITH THE MINISTER.'
HAVE YOU SEEN THAT BEFORE?
00:45:05.93\00:45:10.07
PEOPLE KIND OF FOLLOWING
MINISTERS LIKE ROCK STARS?
00:45:10.07\00:45:13.14
AND THAT'S NOT GOD'S PLAN.
MATTER OF FACT, I READ AGAIN
00:45:13.14\00:45:16.54
THIS WEEK WHERE JESUS
SAID, 'DON'T BE CALLED 'FATHER,
00:45:16.54\00:45:20.05
FATHER' - DON'T BE CALLED
'RABBI, RABBI' - YOU HAVE ONE
00:45:20.05\00:45:22.48
RABBI.' HE SAYS WE'RE NOT TO
BE GIVING THESE ELEGANT TITLES.
00:45:22.48\00:45:26.39
IN OUR CHURCH WE KIND OF SHUN
BEING CALLED REVEREND, BECAUSE
00:45:26.39\00:45:31.53
THE BIBLE SAYS 'HOLY AND
REVEREND IS HIS NAME.' EVERY
00:45:31.53\00:45:35.00
MINISTER, WHETHER YOUR GIFT
IS PREACHING OR EVANGELISM OR
00:45:35.00\00:45:38.47
WHATEVER YOUR GIFT IS,
ALL OF US WORK TOGETHER.
00:45:38.47\00:45:42.20
JESUS SAID, 'I
CAME AS ONE TO SERVE.
00:45:42.20\00:45:45.07
I'M YOUR MASTER BUT I'M A
SERVANT.' THE APOSTLES SAID,
00:45:45.07\00:45:48.38
'WE'RE SERVANTS.' AND SO THAT'S
WHAT PAUL IS REITERATING HERE.
00:45:48.38\00:45:51.55
HE'S SAYING, "...THE
LORD GAVE TO EACH ONE.
00:45:51.55\00:45:55.05
I PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED,
BUT GOD GAVE THE INCREASE."
00:45:55.05\00:45:58.35
- WE'RE FARMING TOGETHER - "SO
THEN NEITHER HE WHO PLANTS IS
00:45:58.35\00:46:01.56
ANYTHING, NOR HE WHO WATERS,
BUT GOD WHO GIVES THE INCREASE.
00:46:01.56\00:46:06.83
NOW HE WHO PLANTS AND HE WHO
WATERS ARE ONE," - WE'RE WORKING
00:46:06.83\00:46:09.33
TOGETHER - "AND EACH ONE WILL
RECEIVE HIS OWN REWARD ACCORDING
00:46:09.33\00:46:12.63
TO HIS OWN LABOR." PERIODICALLY
WE'LL GET A TESTIMONY IN THE
00:46:12.63\00:46:16.81
MAIL AT AMAZING FACTS AND IT'LL
SAY, YOU KNOW, 'BROTHER DOUG,
00:46:16.81\00:46:22.28
I WENT TO MARK FINLEY'S NET
95 MEETING AND THEN I WENT TO
00:46:22.28\00:46:27.22
DWIGHT NELSON'S NET 98 MEETING,
AND THEN I WENT TO NET 99 AND
00:46:27.22\00:46:32.29
ALL OF IT TOGETHER FINALLY
GOT MY ATTENTION.' AND I'LL TAKE
00:46:32.29\00:46:35.72
THAT AND I'LL COPY AND E-MAIL
IT AND I'LL SEND IT TO PASTOR
00:46:35.72\00:46:38.53
NELSON, I'LL SEND IT TO
MARK FINLEY, AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL
00:46:38.53\00:46:40.96
QUOTE THIS VERSE - 'ONE PLANTED,
ONE WATERED' AND - JUST TO SHOW
00:46:40.96\00:46:45.97
THAT SOMETIMES
IT'S SEVERAL THINGS.
00:46:45.97\00:46:48.07
THE BAPTISM OF NAAMAN - YOU KNOW
THE STORY OF NAAMAN THE LEPER?
00:46:48.07\00:46:54.04
WHO GETS THE CREDIT
FOR NAAMAN'S CONVERSION?
00:46:54.04\00:46:57.45
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SAID, 'YOU
NEED TO GO WASH IN THE JORDAN?'
00:46:57.45\00:47:01.52
WAS IT THE SERVANT OF ELISHA
- THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SAID, 'YOU
00:47:01.52\00:47:05.75
NEED TO SEE ELISHA', THE SERVANT
OF ELISHA WHO SAID, 'YOU NEED TO
00:47:05.75\00:47:10.49
WASH IN THE JORDAN', OR HIS
SOLDIERS WHO SAID, 'YOU NEED TO
00:47:10.49\00:47:14.00
LISTEN TO THE PROPHET'? HE
GOT THREE DIFFERENT MESSAGES
00:47:14.00\00:47:18.67
AND HE FINALLY
LISTENED, THEN HE GOT BAPTIZED.
00:47:18.67\00:47:20.40
SO WHO GETS THE CREDIT?
EVERYONE'S WORKING TOGETHER.
00:47:20.40\00:47:24.37
AND SO THIS IS WHAT PAUL IS
SAYING AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS IS
00:47:24.37\00:47:27.11
SAYING IN OUR LESSON TODAY.
SO ONE PLANTS, ANOTHER SOWS.
00:47:27.11\00:47:32.45
MATTHEW 9:35, "AND JESUS WENT
ABOUT" - NOW, YOU'LL NOTICE,
00:47:32.45\00:47:37.52
WHAT IS OUR MEMORY VERSE?
00:47:37.52\00:47:40.12
YOU REMEMBER WE READ OUR
MEMORY VERSE IN MATTHEW 4:23?
00:47:40.12\00:47:42.96
I WANT YOU TO CATCH SOMETHING
HERE - MATTHEW 4:23 - MEMORY
00:47:42.96\00:47:46.19
VERSE - "AND JESUS WENT ABOUT
ALL GALILEE, TEACHING IN THEIR
00:47:46.19\00:47:48.96
SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL
OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING ALL
00:47:48.96\00:47:51.33
KINDS OF SICKNESS AND ALL KINDS
OF DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE."
00:47:51.33\00:47:53.84
NOW JUMP TO MATTHEW 9:35, "THEN
JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES
00:47:53.84\00:47:59.87
AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR
SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL
00:47:59.87\00:48:02.81
OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING
EVERY SICKNESS AND EVERY DISEASE
00:48:02.81\00:48:05.81
AMONG THE PEOPLE."
THAT SOUND SIMILAR?
00:48:05.81\00:48:09.12
MATTHEW'S JUST REITERATING THAT
- HE DID IT IN CAPERNAUM, YOU
00:48:09.12\00:48:12.85
KNOW, HE DID IT UP IN NAZARETH.
HE WENT DOWN TO JERUSALEM.
00:48:12.85\00:48:16.86
HE WENT EVERYWHERE PREACHING THE
GOSPEL, HEALING SICKNESS - YOU
00:48:16.86\00:48:21.00
KNOW, THIS IS A GREAT VERSE
BECAUSE DID JESUS HAVE A COUNTRY
00:48:21.00\00:48:25.40
MINISTRY? HE
WENT TO THE VILLAGES.
00:48:25.40\00:48:28.67
DID HE HAVE A CITY
MINISTRY? HE WENT TO ALL THE
00:48:28.67\00:48:31.17
CITIES AND THE VILLAGES.
DID HE HAVE A TEACHING MINISTRY?
00:48:31.17\00:48:35.51
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN TEACHING AND PREACHING?
00:48:35.51\00:48:38.28
IT SAYS HE SAT DOWN
AND TAUGHT THE PEOPLE.
00:48:38.28\00:48:40.25
BUT IN THE SYNAGOGUE HE STOOD UP
AND HE PREACHED AND HE READ THE
00:48:40.25\00:48:42.98
BIBLE. AND HE WAS
PREACHING THE GOSPEL
00:48:42.98\00:48:45.49
- TEACHING - PREACHING
THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM.
00:48:45.49\00:48:49.69
HEALING - DID HE
HAVE A MEDICAL MINISTRY?
00:48:49.69\00:48:51.69
>>YES. >>AND DID HE DO IT IN
00:48:51.69\00:48:54.63
THE CONTEXT OF A
CHURCH? DID HE GO TO SYNAGOGUES?
00:48:54.63\00:48:57.80
A SYNAGOGUE WAS THE
GATHERING. IT WAS THE CHURCH.
00:48:57.80\00:49:00.57
SO HE HAD A - HE DID
CHURCH-BASED MINISTRY AND HE DID
00:49:00.57\00:49:04.81
ALL THIS HEALING - ALL KINDS
OF DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE.
00:49:04.81\00:49:07.98
AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, IN VERSE
6 - I'M STILL IN MATTHEW 9:35-38
00:49:07.98\00:49:15.85
- "BUT WHEN HE SAW THE
MULTITUDES, HE WAS MOVED WITH
00:49:15.85\00:49:18.15
COMPASSION FOR THEM, BECAUSE
THEY WERE WEARY AND SCATTERED,
00:49:18.15\00:49:21.42
LIKE SHEEP HAVING NO SHEPHERD.
THEN HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES,
00:49:21.42\00:49:25.09
'THE HARVEST TRULY IS PLENTIFUL,
BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW.
00:49:25.09\00:49:28.66
THEREFORE PRAY THE LORD OF
THE HARVEST TO SEND OUT LABORERS
00:49:28.66\00:49:32.37
INTO HIS HARVEST.'"
PROBLEM ISN'T THAT PEOPLE
00:49:32.37\00:49:34.24
DON'T WANT TO
HEAR. WE NEED MORE PEOPLE
00:49:34.24\00:49:36.37
WILLING TO SHARE. >>AMEN.
00:49:36.37\00:49:38.64
>>FINAL SECTION IS UNDER CHURCH
PLANTING - MATTHEW 10:5-10,
00:49:38.64\00:49:44.58
"THESE TWELVE JESUS SENT OUT AND
COMMANDED THEM, SAYING: 'DO NOT
00:49:44.58\00:49:48.52
GO INTO THE WAY OF THE
GENTILES,'" - NOT YET - THAT
00:49:48.52\00:49:50.72
HAPPENED AFTER PENTECOST - "'DO
NOT ENTER'" - AND, BY THE WAY,
00:49:50.72\00:49:54.79
IT DIDN'T GO IN THE WAY OF THE
GENTILES, REALLY, UNTIL AFTER.
00:49:54.79\00:49:59.53
THEY DID START PREACHING
IN SAMARIA, BUT THEY DIDN'T GO
00:49:59.53\00:50:01.50
REALLY TO THE GENTILES UNTIL
AFTER THE STONING OF STEPHEN -
00:50:01.50\00:50:05.03
AFTER THAT 490-YEAR PROPHECY
THERE WAS A GREAT PERSECUTION
00:50:05.03\00:50:08.90
AND THEY WENT
EVERYWHERE PREACHING THE GOSPEL.
00:50:08.90\00:50:11.04
- HE SAID, "'DO NOT GO IN
THE WAY OF THE GENTILES...
00:50:11.04\00:50:12.91
BUT GO RATHER TO THE LOST
SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL."
00:50:12.91\00:50:15.48
- "'AND DO NOT ENTER A
CITY OF THE SAMARITANS.
00:50:15.48\00:50:18.28
BUT GO RATHER TO THE LOST
SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
00:50:18.28\00:50:20.75
AND AS YOU GO, PREACH, SAYING,
'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT
00:50:20.75\00:50:24.35
HAND.'" - THEY WERE PROBABLY
ALSO SAYING, 'REPENT FOR THE
00:50:24.35\00:50:27.06
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND
- "'HEAL THE SICK, CLEANSE THE
00:50:27.06\00:50:30.26
LEPERS, RAISE THE DEAD, CAST
OUT DEMONS.'" - WE'LL TALK ABOUT
00:50:30.26\00:50:33.53
THAT DURING OUR SERMON -
"'FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED,
00:50:33.53\00:50:36.10
FREELY GIVE. PROVIDE
NEITHER GOLD NOR SILVER,
00:50:36.10\00:50:39.47
NOR COPPER IN YOUR MONEY BELTS,
NOR BAG FOR YOUR JOURNEY, NOR
00:50:39.47\00:50:43.17
TWO TUNICS, NOR SANDALS, NOR
STAFFS; FOR A WORKER IS WORTHY
00:50:43.17\00:50:47.08
OF HIS FOOD.'" YOU
KNOW WHAT HE WAS SAYING?
00:50:47.08\00:50:51.01
DON'T PACK A LOT OF EVERYTHING
SO YOU HAVE ALL YOUR SUPPLIES
00:50:51.01\00:50:55.95
TAKEN CARE OF. GO
LIGHT SO THAT YOU CAN GO FAR.
00:50:55.95\00:51:00.66
TRUST THAT I WILL PROVIDE FOR
YOU THROUGH THE PEOPLE THAT YOU
00:51:00.66\00:51:04.66
PREACH TO. THERE WILL BE
SOME THAT WILL TAKE YOU IN.
00:51:04.66\00:51:08.86
THAT'S WHY HE SAID - GO TO MARK
6, FOR INSTANCE, VERSE 7, "AND
00:51:08.86\00:51:15.07
HE CALLED THE TWELVE TO HIMSELF,
AND BEGAN TO SEND THEM OUT TWO
00:51:15.07\00:51:17.67
BY TWO," - SO HOW DO WE GO?
SEE, MATTHEW 10 LEFT THAT OUT.
00:51:17.67\00:51:21.08
HE SENT THEM OUT - SO THE TWELVE
DISCIPLES, HE SENDS THEM OUT
00:51:21.08\00:51:23.41
TWO-BY-TWO. HOW MANY
GROUPS IS THAT? SIX GROUPS.
00:51:23.41\00:51:26.72
AND THEN HE SENT OUT SEVENTY,
LATER, TWO-BY-TWO, WHICH IS 35?
00:51:26.72\00:51:33.99
YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I
THOUGHT. YOU'VE GOT 35 GROUPS.
00:51:33.99\00:51:37.79
WHY DID HE SEND
THEM OUT TWO-BY-TWO?
00:51:37.79\00:51:42.16
SO WHILE ONE IS
PREACHING, ONE CAN PRAY.
00:51:42.16\00:51:44.47
YOU CAN ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER.
00:51:44.47\00:51:46.03
IT'S A LOT EASIER TO STAND
ON TWO LEGS THAN ONE LEG, RIGHT?
00:51:46.03\00:51:49.90
IT JUST GIVES YOU SUPPORT - AND
HE SENT "THEM OUT TWO BY TWO,
00:51:49.90\00:51:55.51
AND GAVE THEM POWER OVER UNCLEAN
SPIRITS. HE COMMANDED THEM TO
00:51:55.51\00:51:59.18
TAKE NOTHING FOR THE JOURNEY
EXCEPT A STAFF" - THAT'S WHAT
00:51:59.18\00:52:02.62
MOSES AND AARON HAD - "NO BREAD,
NO COPPER IN THEIR MONEY BELTS -
00:52:02.62\00:52:06.89
BUT TO WEAR SANDALS, AND
NOT TO PUT ON TWO TUNICS.
00:52:06.89\00:52:09.96
ALSO HE SAID TO THEM, 'IN
WHATEVER PLACE YOU ENTER A
00:52:09.96\00:52:12.76
HOUSE, STAY THERE.'" - SO
THEY WERE TO DO - TEACHING BIBLE
00:52:12.76\00:52:15.90
STUDIES IN THE HOUSE, BUT
HE ALSO SAID, 'GO AND PREACH' -
00:52:15.90\00:52:19.87
"'STAY THERE TILL YOU
DEPART FROM THAT PLACE.
00:52:19.87\00:52:22.74
AND WHOEVER WILL NOT RECEIVE YOU
NOR HEAR YOU, WHEN YOU DEPART
00:52:22.74\00:52:25.44
FROM THERE, SHAKE OFF THE DUST
UNDER YOUR FEET AS A TESTIMONY
00:52:25.44\00:52:29.04
AGAINST THEM.'"
HAVE YOU EVER DONE THAT?
00:52:29.04\00:52:33.82
I HAVE ONCE OR TWICE, WHERE
SOMEBODY JUST SLAMMED THE DOOR
00:52:33.82\00:52:38.22
AGAINST THE GOSPEL AND I JUST
SAID, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBERED
00:52:38.22\00:52:42.96
THAT VERSE AND I DON'T KNOW HOW
MUCH DUST I HAD ON MY FOOT, BUT
00:52:42.96\00:52:45.83
I SHOOK MY FEET
AS I WALKED AWAY.
00:52:45.83\00:52:48.23
I SAID, 'JESUS, YOU TOLD ME TO
DO IT.' SHAKE THE DUST OFF YOUR
00:52:48.23\00:52:54.10
FEET FROM THAT PLACE.
HE'S SAYING, 'BOY, DON'T EVEN
00:52:54.10\00:52:56.77
WANT THE DUST.'
WHY DOES HE SAY THAT?
00:52:56.77\00:52:58.21
HE SAYS, 'THAT HOME - THERE'S
A CURSE - IF THEY REJECT YOU AND
00:52:58.21\00:53:01.84
YOU ARE BRINGING THE GOSPEL
- THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE IN
00:53:01.84\00:53:05.38
THE WORLD AND THEY'RE
REJECTING THE BLESSINGS OF GOD.
00:53:05.38\00:53:08.12
THEY'RE REJECTING - WHAT'S LEFT
IF YOU GET RID OF THE BLESSING
00:53:08.12\00:53:10.42
AND THE LIGHT?
DARKNESS AND CURSING.
00:53:10.42\00:53:13.29
HE SAYS, "'IT WILL BE MORE
TOLERABLE FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH
00:53:13.29\00:53:16.79
IN THE DAY OF
JUDGMENT THAN FOR THAT CITY!'
00:53:16.79\00:53:19.76
SO THEY WENT OUT AND PREACHED
THAT PEOPLE SHOULD REPENT.
00:53:19.76\00:53:22.46
AND THEY CAST OUT MANY DEMONS,
AND ANOINTED WITH OIL MANY WHO
00:53:22.46\00:53:25.37
WERE SICK, AND HEALED
THEM." NOW, YOU'LL NOTICE
00:53:25.37\00:53:28.94
THEY WENT INTO HOMES.
MY LAST VERSE HERE IS ACTS
00:53:28.94\00:53:31.31
16:14, "NOW A CERTAIN
WOMAN NAMED LYDIA HEARD US.
00:53:31.31\00:53:35.38
SHE WAS A SELLER OF PURPLE FROM
THE CITY OF THYATIRA," - THIS
00:53:35.38\00:53:38.35
HAPPENED IN PHILIPPI
- "WHO WORSHIPPED GOD.
00:53:38.35\00:53:44.15
THE LORD OPENED HER HEART TO
HEED THE THINGS SPOKEN BY PAUL.
00:53:44.15\00:53:47.42
AND WHEN SHE AND HER HOUSEHOLD
WERE BAPTIZED, SHE BEGGED US,
00:53:47.42\00:53:50.39
SAYING, 'IF YOU HAVE JUDGED ME
TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD, COME
00:53:50.39\00:53:53.16
TO MY HOUSE AND
STAY.' SO SHE PERSUADED US."
00:53:53.16\00:53:56.77
SO THAT OFTEN
HAPPENED BACK THEN.
00:53:56.77\00:53:58.43
NOW, AS EVANGELISTS TRAVEL, THEY
TYPICALLY STAY - YOU KNOW, WHEN
00:53:58.43\00:54:00.97
I FIRST STARTED DOING
EVANGELISM, SEVERAL TIMES
00:54:00.97\00:54:03.14
I WOULD STAY IN SOMEONE'S
HOUSE. UP IN PARADISE, I STAYED
00:54:03.14\00:54:05.77
IN SOMEONE'S HOUSE.
IN SANTA ROSA I STAYED
00:54:05.77\00:54:08.24
IN SOMEONE'S HOUSE.
UKIAH - THEY HAD A - YEAH, IT
00:54:08.24\00:54:11.58
WAS A GUEST HOME ATTACHED TO THE
CARETAKER'S HOME - A ROOM - AND
00:54:11.58\00:54:14.58
YOU'D OFTEN STAY WITH PEOPLE.
NOW IT'S JUST A LOT MORE COMMON
00:54:14.58\00:54:18.42
PEOPLE STAY IN
HOTELS AS THEY TRAVEL.
00:54:18.42\00:54:22.09
BUT THEY USED TO STAY IN HOMES.
THEY'D GIVE BIBLE STUDIES.
00:54:22.09\00:54:24.16
AND THERE'S AN INFLUENCE THAT
YOU HAVE WHEN YOU'RE IN A HOME
00:54:24.16\00:54:26.66
WITH SOMEBODY AND YOU SEE THEM
LIVING OUT THEIR CHRISTIANITY.
00:54:26.66\00:54:30.00
SO HERE HE'S TALKING ABOUT
PUBLIC PREACHING, HE'S TALKING
00:54:30.00\00:54:32.87
ABOUT DOING HOME MISSION WORK
AND HAVING AN INFLUENCE IN THE
00:54:32.87\00:54:36.57
COMMUNITY THROUGH THESE
- THESE DIFFERENT METHODS.
00:54:36.57\00:54:40.54
TIME IS UP BUT I WANT TO REMIND
THOSE WHO, MAYBE, MISSED THE
00:54:40.54\00:54:42.48
OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT,
WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER.
00:54:42.48\00:54:45.15
CALL 866-788-3966 - READ
STEPS TO CHRIST - I READ THIS
00:54:45.15\00:54:50.05
SOMETIMES - ONCE A YEAR.
00:54:50.05\00:54:51.82
IT IS A WONDERFUL BOOK AND IT'LL
REALLY HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE
00:54:51.82\00:54:55.32
GOSPEL AND THEN SHARE
IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE.
00:54:55.32\00:54:57.43
GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, UNTIL
WE STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN
00:54:57.43\00:55:00.36
NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC)
00:55:00.36\00:55:13.21
>>EVERY NOW AND THEN, IN
THE PANORAMA OF HISTORY, WE HEAR
00:55:13.21\00:55:15.68
ABOUT INDIVIDUALS THAT GO FROM
THE LOWEST DEPTHS TO THE HIGHEST
00:55:15.68\00:55:19.08
PINNACLES. THEY
EMERGE FROM THE SHACKLES
00:55:19.08\00:55:21.28
OF PRISON TO LEAD
AND INSPIRE A NATION.
00:55:21.28\00:55:25.12
TAKE JOSEPH, FOR INSTANCE: HE'S
SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS AS A SLAVE,
00:55:25.12\00:55:29.56
THEN FALSELY ACCUSED
AND THRUST INTO PRISON.
00:55:29.56\00:55:32.39
YET, THROUGH A SERIES OF DIVINE
CIRCUMSTANCES, HE MIRACULOUSLY
00:55:32.39\00:55:35.80
GOES FROM THE PRISON TO THE
PALACE, RULING THE ONES WHO ONCE
00:55:35.80\00:55:38.97
IMPRISONED HIM.
SOUND FAR-FETCHED?
00:55:38.97\00:55:41.74
IT'S HAPPENED IN
HISTORY MORE THAN YOU THINK.
00:55:41.74\00:55:44.47
SOUTH AFRICA IS THE
HOME OF JUST SUCH A LEADER.
00:55:44.47\00:55:47.78
NELSON MANDELA WORKED TIRELESSLY
TO ESTABLISH PEACE AND FREEDOM
00:55:47.78\00:55:51.35
IN HIS COUNTRY AND HIS INFLUENCE
WAS FELT AROUND THE WORLD.
00:55:51.35\00:55:55.92
BEFORE FREEDOM,
THERE MUST BE FORGIVENESS.
00:55:55.92\00:55:58.79
LIKE JOSEPH, WHO WAS UNJUSTLY
ACCUSED FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT
00:55:58.79\00:56:01.76
COMMIT, NELSON MANDELA
WAS ACCUSED OF TERRORISM AND
00:56:01.76\00:56:04.83
SENTENCED TO LIFE IN
PRISON ON ROBIN ISLAND.
00:56:04.83\00:56:08.03
HE WAS OFTEN EXPOSED TO
CRUEL PUNISHMENT AND ABUSE.
00:56:08.03\00:56:11.00
BUT EVEN IN THE MIDST
OF APPARENT FAILURE AND
00:56:11.00\00:56:12.87
DISCOURAGEMENT, HE NEVER
LOST HEART AND HE NEVER GAVE UP.
00:56:12.87\00:56:16.14
AFTER YEARS IN PRISON, A GROWING
NUMBER OF SUPPORTERS RALLIED FOR
00:56:16.14\00:56:19.87
HIS RELEASE AND
EVENTUALLY IT TOOK PLACE.
00:56:19.87\00:56:22.61
AND GOD USED HIM SO THAT HE
WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING TO
00:56:22.61\00:56:25.21
ABOLISH RACIAL SEGREGATION
IN THE COUNTRY OF SOUTH AFRICA.
00:56:25.21\00:56:29.32
INCREDIBLY, HE NOW WAS,
VIRTUALLY, THE ABSOLUTE LEADER
00:56:29.32\00:56:32.95
IN THE COUNTRY
THAT HAD IMPRISONED HIM.
00:56:32.95\00:56:35.06
HE HAD ALL THE TOOLS AND
THE POWER AT HIS DISPOSAL TO GET
00:56:35.06\00:56:37.59
EVEN WITH THE PRISON GUARDS AND
OTHERS THAT HAD MISTREATED HIM.
00:56:37.59\00:56:40.96
INSTEAD, MANDELA
CHOSE FORGIVENESS.
00:56:40.96\00:56:44.13
IT REMINDS ME OF THAT VERSE IN
THE BIBLE IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER
00:56:44.13\00:56:46.87
4, VERSE 31, "LET ALL
BITTERNESS, WRATH, ANGER,
00:56:46.87\00:56:50.84
CLAMOR, AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT
AWAY FROM YOU, WITH ALL MALICE.
00:56:50.84\00:56:54.44
AND BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER,
TENDERHEARTED, FORGIVING ONE
00:56:54.44\00:56:58.45
ANOTHER, EVEN AS GOD
IN CHRIST FORGAVE YOU."
00:56:58.45\00:57:02.85
I'M SO THANKFUL THAT NELSON
MANDELA, LIKE JOSEPH, CHOSE TO
00:57:02.85\00:57:06.55
FORGIVE THOSE WHO WERE ONCE HIS
ENEMIES, AND TO SERVE HIS NATION
00:57:06.55\00:57:09.59
WITH LOVE AND COURAGE.
YOU CAN FIND A NUMBER OF
00:57:09.59\00:57:12.29
EXAMPLES OF THIS
HAPPENING IN THE BIBLE.
00:57:12.29\00:57:14.73
YOU HAVE DANIEL, WHO WAS A
CAPTIVE FROM THE LAND OF JUDAH,
00:57:14.73\00:57:17.63
AND YET GOD ARRANGED THINGS
WHERE HE BECOMES THE PRIME
00:57:17.63\00:57:19.93
MINISTER IN THE KINGDOM OF
BABYLON. YOU HAVE ESTHER, WHO
00:57:19.93\00:57:23.00
WAS A POOR ORPHAN GIRL IN
PERSIA, AND YET GOD WORKED
00:57:23.00\00:57:26.01
THINGS OUT WHERE SHE BECOMES
THE QUEEN OF THAT COUNTRY.
00:57:26.01\00:57:29.08
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH ENDS WITH
AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF A YOUNG
00:57:29.08\00:57:32.18
KING NAMED JEHOIACHIN, WHO WAS
IN A BABYLONIAN DUNGEON FOR 37
00:57:32.18\00:57:36.05
YEARS AND THEN KING
EVIL-MERODACH HAS MERCY ON HIM
00:57:36.05\00:57:39.32
AND HE HAS A NEW STATUS, GOING
FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE.
00:57:39.32\00:57:43.12
THIS IS WHAT THE LORD WANTS
TO DO FOR YOU AND ME, FRIENDS.
00:57:43.12\00:57:45.39
HE GIVES YOU THE BREAD OF LIFE.
00:57:45.39\00:57:46.73
HE GIVES YOU THE ROBE
OF JESUS' RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:57:46.73\00:57:49.00
HE GIVES YOU A
SEAT AT HIS TABLE.
00:57:49.00\00:57:50.77
IF YOU ACCEPT HIS FORGIVENESS
AND YOU'RE WILLING TO PASS IT
00:57:50.77\00:57:53.50
ON, YOU AND I CAN
LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST.
00:57:53.50\00:57:56.44
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE
THAT EXPERIENCE? (MUSIC)
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CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT
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