(MUSIC)
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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE'RE SO GLAD
THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN.
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WE HAVE A SPECIAL
PROGRAM FOR YOU TODAY.
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WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL SONGS
AND PASTOR DOUG IS GOING TO BE
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PRESENTING OUR
LESSON THIS MORNING.
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LET'S START WITH #294 - IF YOU
HAVE A HYMNAL AT HOME, PULL IT
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OUT AND JOIN WITH
US. WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL
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THREE STANZAS -
#294. (LIVELY PIANO MUSIC)
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>>WOULD YOU BE FREE
FROM THE BURDEN OF SIN?
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THERE'S POW'R IN THE BLOOD,
POW'R IN THE BLOOD; WOULD YOU
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O'ER EVIL A VICTORY
WIN? THERE'S WONDERFUL
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POW'R IN THE BLOOD.
THERE IS POW'R, POW'R,
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WONDER-WORKING POW'R IN
THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB; THERE IS
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POW'R, POW'R, WONDER-WORKING
POW'R IN THE PRECIOUS
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BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
WOULD YOU BE FREE FROM
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YOUR PASSION AND PRIDE?
THERE'S POW'R IN THE BLOOD,
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POW'R IN THE BLOOD; COME FOR
A CLEANSING TO CALVARY'S TIDE?
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THERE'S WONDERFUL
POW'R IN THE BLOOD.
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THERE IS POW'R, POW'R,
WONDER-WORKING POW'R IN THE
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BLOOD OF THE LAMB; THERE IS
POW'R, POW'R, WONDER-WORKING
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POW'R IN THE
PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
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WOULD YOU DO
SERVICE FOR JESUS YOUR KING?
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THERE'S POW'R IN THE BLOOD,
POW'R IN THE BLOOD; WOULD YOU
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LIVE DAILY HIS PRAISES
TO SING? THERE'S WONDERFUL
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POW'R IN THE BLOOD.
THERE IS POW'R, POW'R,
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WONDER-WORKING POW'R IN
THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB; THERE IS
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POW'R, POW'R, WONDER-WORKING
POW'R IN THE PRECIOUS
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BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
>>AREN'T YOU THANKFUL FOR THE
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POWER IN THE BLOOD OF THE
LAMB? IF IT WASN'T FOR THAT, I
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DON'T THINK I WOULD BE
HERE. I KNOW I WOULDN'T BE HERE.
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AND I'M SURE MANY OF
YOU HERE WOULDN'T BE EITHER.
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OUR NEXT SONG IS #292 -
BEAUTIFUL SONG - JESUS, I COME -
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WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST,
SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS -
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#292. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>OUT OF MY
BONDAGE, SORROW AND NIGHT,
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JESUS, I COME, JESUS, I COME;
INTO THY FREEDOM, GLADNESS AND
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LIGHT, JESUS, I COME TO THEE;
OUT OF MY SICKNESS INTO THY
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HEALTH, OUT OF MY WANT AND INTO
THY WEALTH, OUT OF MY SIN AND
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INTO THYSELF,
JESUS, I COME TO THEE.
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OUT OF MY SHAMEFUL FAILURE AND
LOSS, JESUS, I COME, JESUS, I
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COME; INTO THE GLORIOUS GAIN
OF THY CROSS, JESUS, I COME TO
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THEE; OUT OF EARTH'S SORROWS
INTO THY BALM, OUT OF LIFE'S
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STORMS AND INTO THY CALM, OUT
OF DISTRESS TO JUBILANT PSALM,
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JESUS, I COME TO THEE. OUT
OF THE FEAR AND DREAD OF THE
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TOMB, JESUS, I COME, JESUS, I
COME; INTO THY JOY AND LIGHT OF
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THY HOME, JESUS, I COME TO
THEE; OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF RUIN
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UNTOLD, INTO THE PEACE OF
THY SHELTERING FOLD, EVER THY
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GLORIOUS FACE TO
BEHOLD, JESUS, I COME TO THEE.
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>>JOIN WITH ME
IN PRAYER, PLEASE.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, JESUS, WE
COME TO YOU TODAY OUT OF OUR
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SICKNESS, OUT OF OUR RUIN, OUT
OF OUR DESPAIR, AND WE ASK YOU
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TO TAKE US AS WE ARE AND CHANGE
US AND CREATE IN US SOMETHING
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THAT WE CANNOT DO OF OURSELVES.
IT IS ONLY THROUGH YOU THAT WE
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CAN BE READY FOR WHEN YOU COME.
SO MANY TIMES WE THINK THAT WE
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HAVE TO BE BETTER BEFORE WE COME
TO YOU, BUT THE BEAUTIFUL THING
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IS THAT YOU ACCEPT US JUST
THE WAY WE ARE AND THEN YOU
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TRANSFORM US TO BE LIKE YOU.
FATHER THAT IS OUR PRAYER TODAY.
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I PRAY YOU'LL BE WITH US AS WE
OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY
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TOGETHER. BE WITH
OUR EXTENDED FAMILY
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AROUND THE WORLD AND
THOSE THAT ARE HERE WITH US.
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AND WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
PASTOR DOUG AND HIS MINISTRY AND
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I PRAY THAT YOU'LL GIVE HIM THE
WORDS AS HE BRINGS US OUR LESSON
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STUDY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR
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SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH,
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU - DEBBIE,
OUR MUSICIANS - SINGERS.
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MORNING EVERYBODY. >>MORNING.
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>>I WANT TO WELCOME YOU HERE TO
GRANITE BAY AND I ALSO WANT TO
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WELCOME OUR
FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING.
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WE HAVE FOLKS WHO ARE WATCHING
VIA SATELLITE AND INTERNET FROM
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ALL OVER THE
WORLD. HOW DO I SAY THIS?
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I GOT A BEARD.
THAT'S ONE WAY TO SAY IT.
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>>I NOTICED.
>>THAT'S BECAUSE WE'RE - I'M
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GOING ON A MEN'S
RETREAT CAMP OUT THIS -
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ABOUT THIRTY PERCENT OF
THE MEN AT GRANITE BAY ARE
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CAMPING OUT THIS WEEKEND THERE
UP IN THE SIERRAS ABOUT TWO AND
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A HALF HOURS FROM HERE AND
SOMEONE NEEDED TO MIND THE FORT
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SO WE'VE GOT SOME OF THE
FAITHFUL ARE ENDURING AND THEN
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OTHERS ARE GOING TO BE DRIVING
UP AFTER THE SERVICE AND JOINING
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THEM, AND SO I'M LOOKING OUT AND
SEEING A LOT OF LADIES IN THE -
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PROBABLY THE SAME NUMBER OF
LADIES THAT WE ALWAYS HAVE, IT
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JUST SEEMS LIKE MORE BECAUSE
SO MANY OF OUR MEN ARE UP AT THE
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CAMPOUT RIGHT NOW. LOOKING
FORWARD TO GETTING INTO OUR
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STUDY TODAY. I WANT TO JUST
REMIND YOU THAT WE HAVE A FREE
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CALLED A LOVE THAT TRANSFORMS .
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A LOT OF OUR LESSON TODAY IS
TALKING ABOUT THE THEME OF LOVE
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AND WE'D BE HAPPY
FOR YOU TO HAVE THIS.
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LOOK AT IT AND THEN
SHARE WITH A FRIEND.
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TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #7 TALKING
ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN
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THE COMMUNITY AND THE LESSON
TODAY IS JESUS DESIRED THEIR
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GOOD . A LOT OF GOOD
ELEMENTS IN OUR STUDY TODAY.
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WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE
MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US FROM
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MATTHEW 23:37 - I BELIEVE IT'S
QUOTED HERE FROM WHAT WE CALL
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THE AUTHORIZED VERSION - KING
JAMES VERSION - AND IF YOU WANT
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TO SAY THAT WITH ME, THAT'D BE
GREAT - MATTHEW 23:37 - ARE YOU
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READY? O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM,
THOU THAT KILLEST THE PROPHETS,
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AND STONEST THEM WHICH ARE SENT
UNTO THEE, HOW OFTEN WOULD I
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HAVE GATHERED THY
CHILDREN TOGETHER, EVEN AS A HEN
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GATHERETH HER CHICKENS UNDER
HER WINGS, AND YE WOULD NOT!"
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YOU COULD HEAR JESUS' HEART
IS BREAKING, HE HAS TEARS IN HIS
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VOICE, HE'S PLEADING FOR HIS
PEOPLE. JUDGMENT WAS COMING, BUT
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IT'S NOT WHAT HE WANTED.
THE LORD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY
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SHOULD PERISH BUT HE
WANTS ALL TO BE SAVED.
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YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME
WHO BELIEVE IN A SORT OF A
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PREDESTINATION VIEW OF SALVATION
- THAT GOD HAS ARBITRARILY
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PRE-CHOSEN WHO'S GOING TO BE
SAVED, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
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HE DOESN'T WANT ANY TO BE LOST -
'GOD, WHO WOULD HAVE ALL MEN TO
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BE SAVED.' ISN'T
THAT WHAT IT TEACHES?
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AND 'WHOEVER WILL' LET HIM COME.
AND SO THIS LESSON TALKS ABOUT
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THAT GOD'S DESIRE
IS NOT TO DESTROY.
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JUDGMENT COMES BECAUSE PEOPLE
HAVE PERSISTED IN REJECTING
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MERCY. THE LORD
GOES THE SECOND MILE
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TIME AND TIME AGAIN IN
THE BIBLE TO SAVE AS MANY AS
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HE POSSIBLY CAN.
NOW THIS WAS NOT ALWAYS
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UNDERSTOOD BY HIS CHURCH IN
THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK
ABOUT SOME EXAMPLES OF THAT.
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TO BEGIN WITH, WE'RE GOING TO GO
TO THE BOOK OF JONAH AND, IF YOU
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LOOK IN JONAH CHAPTER 3, I THINK
WE'RE GOING TO START WITH VERSE
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4, WE'RE GOING TO READ THIS
STORY. NOW WE'RE NOT GOING TO
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TALK ABOUT THE PART OF JONAH
SO MUCH WHERE HE'S IN THE FISH.
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POST-FISH:
AND AFTER JONAH CAME OUT OF THE
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FISH AND GOD'S WORD SAID, ONCE
AGAIN, 'GO AND PREACH TO THE
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NINEVITES' - REMEMBER,
HE DIDN'T WANT TO DO THAT.
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HE THOUGHT IF GOD WAS GOING TO
JUDGE THEM, GOOD RIDDANCE - THEY
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WERE THE ENEMY OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
AND YOU GO TO VERSE - OH, I TELL
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YOU WHAT, LET'S START WITH VERSE
3, "SO JONAH AROSE, AND WENT TO
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NINEVEH, ACCORDING TO THE WORD
OF THE LORD. NOW NINEVEH WAS AN
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EXCEEDING GREAT CITY
OF THREE DAYS' JOURNEY."
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NOW SOME VERSIONS WILL SAY 'A
THREE DAYS' JOURNEY IN EXTENT' -
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THERE'S A MYSTERY HERE
ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY THAT MEANT.
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WE'RE NOT SURE IF IT JUST
BASICALLY SAID 'THREE DAYS'
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JOURNEY'. YOU'LL
NOTICE IF IT SAYS 'IN
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EXTENT' IT'S IN
ITALICS IN YOUR BIBLE.
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WE DON'T KNOW IF THAT MEANT THAT
JONAH WENT THREE DAYS' JOURNEY
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TO NINEVEH FROM WHERE
THE FISH BURPED HIM OUT.
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IF HE DID THAT, HE WOULD HAVE
HAD TO RIDE FULL SPEED LIKE A
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PONY EXPRESS RIDER TO GET THERE,
BUT AFTER GOING THROUGH THE
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FISH, HE MAY HAVE DONE THAT. TO
SAY IT'S AN EXCEEDING GREAT CITY
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OF THREE DAYS' JOURNEY - THAT
COULD MEAN THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF
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THE CITY AND THAT WOULD
BE INCLUDING ITS SUBURBS.
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THAT WOULD BE A VERY
BIG CITY. SO WE'RE NOT SURE.
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AND IT SAYS, "AND JONAH BEGAN
TO ENTER INTO THE CITY A DAY'S
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JOURNEY." NOW,
BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER,
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DON'T FORGET A VERY IMPORTANT
STATEMENT OF JESUS: JESUS SAID,
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'IT'S AN EVIL AND AN ADULTEROUS
GENERATION THAT SEEKS AFTER A
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SIGN AND NO SIGN WILL BE
GIVEN BUT' - WHAT WAS THE ONE
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EXCEPTION JESUS MADE
WHEN PEOPLE ASKED FOR A SIGN?
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'NO SIGN'LL BE GIVEN BUT THE
SIGN OF JONAH.' AND, HE SAYS,
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'FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND
THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE
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GREAT FISH, SO THE SON OF
MAN WILL BE THREE DAYS AND THREE
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NIGHTS IN THE
HEART OF THE EARTH.'
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THAT'S WHAT HE
SAYS IN MATTHEW 12.
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IN LUKE, JESUS SAYS, 'FOR
AS JONAH WAS A SIGN TO THE
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NINEVITES, SO THE SON OF MAN
WILL BE TO THIS GENERATION.' NOW
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THERE'S MANY WAYS JONAH'S A
SIGN. JESUS SLEPT IN A STORM;
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JONAH SLEPT IN A STORM.
THEY WOKE UP JESUS AND SAID,
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'MASTER, WE'RE PERISHING!'
THEY WOKE UP JONAH AND
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SAID, 'CAREST NOT
THAT WE'RE PERISHING?
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CALL UPON YOUR GOD.' IT GOES ON
TO SAY THAT JONAH WENT THREE AND
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A HALF DAYS AND THEN HE PREACHED
IN NINEVEH, YET - MATTER OF
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FACT, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF
MYSELF. LOOK AT VERSE 4, "AND
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JONAH BEGAN TO ENTER INTO THE
CITY A DAY'S JOURNEY," - THAT
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MEANS ONE DAY - "AND HE CRIED,
AND SAID, 'YET FORTY DAYS, AND
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NINEVEH SHALL BE OVERTHROWN.'"
SO JESUS - HOW LONG WAS JESUS'
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MINISTRY? THREE AND A HALF
DAYS OR THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
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AND THEN JESUS SAID, 'THIS
GENERATION WOULD NOT PASS AWAY
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TILL ALL THESE THINGS BE
FULFILLED.' - SPEAKING OF NOT
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ONE STONE BEING LEFT
ON ANOTHER IN JERUSALEM?
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SO JONAH PREACHED THREE AND
A HALF DAYS THAT IN FORTY DAYS
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NINEVEH WOULD BE
DESTROYED, BUT THEY REPENTED.
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JESUS SAID 'THE NINEVITES WOULD
RISE UP IN JUDGMENT AGAINST THE
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PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM BECAUSE THEY
REPENTED AT THE PREACHING OF
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JONAH. AND HE SAID, 'A
GREATER THAN JONAH IS HERE' -
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YOU GET IT? THREE AND A
HALF YEARS JESUS MINISTERED.
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FORTY YEARS LATER
THE CITY WAS DESTROYED.
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THREE AND A HALF DAYS JONAH
BEGAN TO PREACH - FORTY DAYS
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LATER GOD HAD MERCY. AND
SO THAT'S, I THINK, ONE OF
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THE MOST STRIKING SIGNS
THERE. BUT LET'S READ ON.
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AND SO, THE PEOPLE OF
NINEVEH, DID THEY LISTEN?
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THEY BELIEVED GOD. THEY
PROCLAIMED HIM - AND JONAH
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WAS PROBABLY VERY
EARNEST IN HIS PREACHING.
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HE WASN'T AFRAID OF VERY
MUCH AFTER GOING THROUGH HIS
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EXPERIENCE. AND HE
WAS VERY CONVINCING.
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"SO THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH
BELIEVED GOD, AND PROCLAIMED A
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FAST, THEY PUT ON SACKCLOTH,
FROM THE GREATEST OF THEM EVEN
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TO THE LEAST OF THEM. FOR
WORD CAME UNTO THE KING OF
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NINEVEH, AND HE AROSE FROM
HIS THRONE, AND HE LAID HIS ROBE
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FROM HIM, AND COVERED HIM WITH
SACKCLOTH, AND SAT IN ASHES."
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- THE KING - "AND HE CAUSED IT
TO BE PROCLAIMED AND PUBLISHED
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THROUGH NINEVEH BY THE DECREE OF
THE KING AND HIS NOBLES, SAYING,
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LET NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST, HERD
NOR FLOCK, TASTE ANY THING: LET
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THEM NOT FEED, NOR DRINK WATER:
BUT LET MAN AND BEAST BE COVERED
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WITH SACKCLOTH, AND CRY MIGHTILY
UNTO GOD: YEA," - I DON'T KNOW
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HOW THE BEASTS WERE GOING TO CRY
MIGHTILY TO GOD - "YEA, LET THEM
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TURN EVERY ONE FROM HIS EVIL
WAY, AND FROM THE VIOLENCE THAT
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IS IN THEIR HANDS. WHO
CAN TELL IF GOD WILL TURN" -
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THEY'RE TRUSTING IN GOD'S MERCY
- "WHO CAN TELL IF GOD WILL TURN
00:15:29.36\00:15:32.99
AND REPENT, AND TURN
AWAY FROM HIS FIERCE ANGER,
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THAT WE PERISH NOT?"
THAT WORD 'PERISH' AGAIN - GOD
00:15:36.13\00:15:41.70
SO LOVED THE WORLD -
THAT'S WHY JESUS CAME.
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"AND GOD SAW THEIR WORKS, THAT
THEY TURNED FROM THEIR EVIL WAY;
00:15:43.87\00:15:48.21
AND GOD REPENTED OF THE EVIL,
THAT HE HAD SAID THAT HE WOULD
00:15:48.21\00:15:50.85
DO UNTO THEM;" - HERE YOU
HAVE THE GREATEST REVIVAL IN THE
00:15:50.85\00:15:53.62
BIBLE. THE
AMAZING THING IS THE BEST
00:15:53.62\00:15:56.42
EVANGELIST IN THE BIBLE
THAT BROUGHT REVIVAL TO A WHOLE
00:15:56.42\00:15:59.89
CITY, WAS NOT EVEN
THOROUGHLY CONVERTED HIMSELF.
00:15:59.89\00:16:04.29
SO IS IT THE EVANGELIST THAT
MAKES THE REVIVAL, OR IS IT THE
00:16:04.29\00:16:07.23
POWER OF GOD? IT WAS THE POWER
OF THE WORD. HE TURNED. BUT LOOK
00:16:07.23\00:16:14.40
AT VERSE 4, CHAPTER 1 - OR
CHAPTER 4, VERSE 1, "BUT IT
00:16:14.40\00:16:17.77
DISPLEASED JONAH EXCEEDINGLY,'
WHAT IS HE DISPLEASED ABOUT?
00:16:17.77\00:16:23.11
'WHAT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN TO MY REPUTATION?
00:16:23.11\00:16:25.15
I SAID FORTY DAYS AND THEY'D
ALL BE BURNED UP OR DESTROYED
00:16:25.15\00:16:28.22
SOMEHOW AND
WHAT'S WITH THIS LORD?
00:16:28.22\00:16:31.02
NOW YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME LOOK
BAD.' - IT'S NOT - WHO'S JONAH
00:16:31.02\00:16:33.82
CARING ABOUT? ALL THE PEOPLE WHO
ARE SURVIVING AND GOING TO HAVE
00:16:33.82\00:16:38.59
LIFE NOW? OR IS HE CARING ABOUT
HIM? AND HE'S WORRIED, MAYBE
00:16:38.59\00:16:42.63
THEY'RE GOING TO ATTACK ISRAEL
LATER. THEY'RE OUR ENEMIES.
00:16:42.63\00:16:44.83
WE WANTED VENGEANCE.' WHO KNOWS
WHAT HE'S THINKING, BUT HE'S NOT
00:16:44.83\00:16:47.00
THINKING ABOUT THE
SOULS. AND SO HE'S MAD.
00:16:47.00\00:16:50.54
HE SAYS, 'OH LORD, ISN'T THIS
WHAT I SAID WHEN I WAS STILL IN
00:16:50.54\00:16:52.77
MY COUNTRY?
THEREFORE, I FLED, THIS IS WHY I
00:16:52.77\00:16:55.18
RAN AND WENT TO
TARSHISH: FOR I KNOW YOU'RE A
00:16:55.18\00:16:57.95
GRACIOUS AND A MERCIFUL GOD,
SLOW TO ANGER AND ABUNDANT IN
00:16:57.95\00:17:01.05
LOVING KINDNESS - ONE WHO
RELENTS FROM DOING HARM.' 'HERE
00:17:01.05\00:17:03.65
I WAS GOING TO PREACH TO ALL
THESE PEOPLE AND YOU'D FORGIVE
00:17:03.65\00:17:05.39
THEM ANYWAY. AND
HERE I RISK MY LIFE FOR
00:17:05.39\00:17:08.36
NOTHING.' 'NOW THEREFORE, O
LORD, PLEASE TAKE MY LIFE FROM
00:17:08.36\00:17:12.66
ME; FOR IT'S BETTER FOR
ME TO DIE.' HE WANTS TO DIE.
00:17:12.66\00:17:16.30
HE'S FIGURING SOMEONE'S SUPPOSED
TO DIE AFTER FORTY DAYS.
00:17:16.30\00:17:20.07
AND THE LORD SAID, 'IS IT
RIGHT FOR YOU TO BE ANGRY?'
00:17:20.07\00:17:22.60
BOY, TALK ABOUT A TANTRUM.
AND JONAH'S ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT
00:17:22.60\00:17:27.11
GOD DIDN'T BURN UP THE WHOLE
CITY. YOU THINK HE WOULD BE
00:17:27.11\00:17:31.11
PRAISING THE LORD FOR
THIS SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL.
00:17:31.11\00:17:34.95
HE SAID, 'IT ISN'T RIGHT FOR YOU
TO BE ANGRY.' "SO JONAH WENT OUT
00:17:34.95\00:17:37.79
OF THE CITY, AND SAT ON THE EAST
SIDE OF THE CITY, AND THERE MADE
00:17:37.79\00:17:40.19
HIM A BOOTH, AND SAT UNDER IT
IN THE SHADOW, TILL HE MIGHT SEE
00:17:40.19\00:17:42.89
WHAT WOULD BECOME" - HE THOUGHT,
'MAYBE IF I GET LUCKY, GOD'LL
00:17:42.89\00:17:44.93
STILL BURN THEM UP.' - 'AND THE
LORD PREPARED A PLANT AND MADE
00:17:44.93\00:17:48.86
IT COME UP OVER JONAH, THAT IT
MIGHT HAVE SHADE OVER HIS HEAD,
00:17:48.86\00:17:51.93
TO DELIVER HIM FROM THE MISERY'
- IT WAS A HOT SUN BEATING DOWN
00:17:51.93\00:17:54.90
ON HIM. JONAH WAS
VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE
00:17:54.90\00:17:56.57
PLANT, BUT AS MORNING DAWNED THE
NEXT DAY, GOD PREPARED A WORM
00:17:56.57\00:18:01.04
AND SO IT DAMAGED - THE WORM ATE
AWAY - YOU KNOW, IT'S A GOURD,
00:18:01.04\00:18:04.88
IT SAYS IN ONE PLACE, AND YOU
KNOW, A GOURD IS ON A LONG OLD
00:18:04.88\00:18:07.02
VINE AND YOU JUST - ALL YOU HAVE
TO DO IS NIBBLE AWAY AT THE VINE
00:18:07.02\00:18:09.25
AND THE WHOLE PLANT DIES ALMOST
INSTANTLY - BIG LEAVES - AND HE
00:18:09.25\00:18:16.56
WAS UPSET BECAUSE THE
WORM ATE THE GOURD AND IT DIED.
00:18:16.56\00:18:19.63
HE SAID, "IT IS BETTER
FOR ME TO DIE THAN TO LIVE."
00:18:19.63\00:18:21.80
NOW HE'S MOURNING THAT THE
NINEVITES DIDN'T DIE AND THE
00:18:21.80\00:18:25.83
GOURD DID DIE. "THEN
GOD SAID TO JONAH, 'IS IT
00:18:25.83\00:18:30.07
RIGHT FOR YOU TO BE
ANGRY ABOUT THE PLANT?'
00:18:30.07\00:18:32.57
AND HE SAID, 'IT IS RIGHT FOR
ME TO BE ANGRY, EVEN TO DEATH!'"
00:18:32.57\00:18:35.11
- WHAT A MISERABLE LIFE HE'S
GOT - "BUT THE LORD SAID, 'YOU
00:18:35.11\00:18:38.15
HAVE HAD PITY ON THE PLANT FOR
WHICH YOU HAVE NOT LABORED, NOR
00:18:38.15\00:18:40.45
MADE IT GROWN, WHICH CAME UP IN
A NIGHT AND PERISHED IN A NIGHT.
00:18:40.45\00:18:43.35
AND SHOULD I NOT PITY NINEVEH,
THAT GREAT CITY, IN WHICH ARE
00:18:43.35\00:18:46.12
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
THOUSAND PERSONS WHO CANNOT
00:18:46.12\00:18:48.86
DISCERN BETWEEN THEIR RIGHT
HAND AND THEIR LEFT - AND MUCH
00:18:48.86\00:18:51.39
LIVESTOCK?'" NOW JUST A
LITTLE FOOTNOTE: MANY OF THE
00:18:51.39\00:18:54.83
COMMENTATORS BELIEVE
THAT STATEMENT 'CANNOT DISCERN
00:18:54.83\00:18:58.00
BETWEEN THE RIGHT HAND AND THE
LEFT' - THAT IS OFTEN REFERRING
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TO CHILDREN. WHEN THEY TALK
ABOUT CHILDREN THEY WOULD OFTEN
00:19:01.30\00:19:05.51
SAY - IN SOME OF THE
ANCIENT WRITINGS - 'AND
00:19:05.51\00:19:08.18
THERE ARE MANY THAT CAN'T TELL
FROM THE RIGHT HAND TO THE LEFT'
00:19:08.18\00:19:10.68
- AND THEY WERE TALKING
ABOUT HOW MANY CHILDREN.
00:19:10.68\00:19:12.35
SO IT'S SAYING THERE WAS
120,000 CHILDREN AND ANIMALS.
00:19:12.35\00:19:16.28
HE SAID, 'IF YOU DON'T
CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE
00:19:16.28\00:19:17.95
REACHED THE AGE OF
ACCOUNTABILITY, THESE LITTLE
00:19:17.95\00:19:20.29
CHILDREN THAT DON'T EVEN KNOW
THE RIGHT FROM THE LEFT - DON'T
00:19:20.29\00:19:22.62
YOU HAVE MERCY ON
THEM?' AND SO IT IS A MUCH
00:19:22.62\00:19:25.69
GREATER CITY THAN 120,000.
THAT'S JUST THE YOUNG CHILDREN
00:19:25.69\00:19:29.70
WHO DON'T KNOW BETWEEN
THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT.
00:19:29.70\00:19:32.50
AND HE SAYS, 'IF YOU DON'T
CARE ABOUT THEM, WHAT ABOUT THE
00:19:32.50\00:19:34.04
ANIMALS?' AND
THAT'S THE BOOK OF JONAH -
00:19:34.04\00:19:36.74
JUST STOPS RIGHT
THERE, ABRUPTLY WITH A LESSON.
00:19:36.74\00:19:40.38
HERE YOU'VE GOT A RELUCTANT
PROPHET - DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE.
00:19:40.38\00:19:43.04
AND, YOU KNOW, BEFORE I RACE
ON TO THE NEXT SECTION IN THIS
00:19:43.04\00:19:45.91
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON, LET ME
JUST GIVE YOU SOME THOUGHTS ON
00:19:45.91\00:19:48.82
THE BOOK OF JONAH. THE
BOOK OF JONAH NOT ONLY TELLS
00:19:48.82\00:19:51.79
US ABOUT JONAH, WHO SLEPT IN
A STORM AND THEY WOKE HIM UP AND
00:19:51.79\00:19:55.46
THEY WERE SAVED BY OFFERING
JONAH. IT'S LIKE JESUS, WHO
00:19:55.46\00:19:59.66
SLEPT IN A STORM AND THEY
WOKE HIM UP AND THEY WERE SAVED.
00:19:59.66\00:20:02.13
AND THEN, AGAIN, HE PREACHES
THREE AND A HALF DAYS AND FORTY
00:20:02.13\00:20:05.40
DAYS AND JESUS - THREE AND A
HALF YEARS AND THEN FORTY YEARS.
00:20:05.40\00:20:08.34
JONAH REPRESENTS THE JEWISH
NATION WHO DID NOT CARE TO
00:20:08.34\00:20:13.38
PREACH THE
GOSPEL TO THE GENTILES.
00:20:13.38\00:20:15.98
AND - HOW THE JEWISH NATION -
EVEN THOUGH IT LOOKED LIKE THEY
00:20:15.98\00:20:20.18
WERE DESTROYED, THEY
MIRACULOUSLY ROSE AND, OF
00:20:20.18\00:20:23.45
COURSE, JONAH BEING THREE DAYS
AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF
00:20:23.45\00:20:27.59
THE GREAT FISH IS A TYPE OF THE
SUFFERINGS OF JESUS WHO, FROM
00:20:27.59\00:20:31.76
THURSDAY WHEN HE WAS BETRAYED
- THURSDAY NIGHT, FRIDAY NIGHT,
00:20:31.76\00:20:34.60
SATURDAY NIGHT - WAS BURYING THE
SINS OF THE WORLD - ROSE SUNDAY
00:20:34.60\00:20:37.23
MORNING - THREE
DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS.
00:20:37.23\00:20:39.03
IT'S NOT JUST THE TIME IN THE
TOMB IT'S TALKING ABOUT THERE.
00:20:39.03\00:20:42.67
AND SO, IT'S ALSO AMAZING THAT
EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK OF JONAH
00:20:42.67\00:20:48.18
LISTENS TO GOD - THINK ABOUT
IT NOW - YOU'VE GOT A FISH - GOD
00:20:48.18\00:20:52.95
PREPARES A FISH;
THE FISH LISTENS TO GOD.
00:20:52.95\00:20:55.42
THE FISH SWALLOWS JONAH WHEN
HE'S SUPPOSED TO; BURPS HIM UP
00:20:55.42\00:20:57.35
WHEN HE'S SUPPOSED TO - TAKES
HIM WHERE HE'S SUPPOSED TO -
00:20:57.35\00:20:59.79
PUTS HIM RIGHT ON DRY
LAND. THE STORM LISTENS TO GOD.
00:20:59.79\00:21:03.53
THE SAILORS LISTEN TO GOD.
THE CAPTAIN LISTENS TO GOD.
00:21:03.53\00:21:08.56
THE NINEVITES LISTEN TO
GOD. THE KING LISTENS TO GOD.
00:21:08.56\00:21:11.17
THE ANIMALS LISTEN TO
GOD. THE WORM LISTENS TO GOD.
00:21:11.17\00:21:14.17
THE PLANT LISTENS TO GOD.
EVERYTHING OBEYS GOD IN THE
00:21:14.17\00:21:17.71
BOOK OF JONAH BUT
JONAH. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:21:17.71\00:21:24.18
JONAH'S SORT OF A SYMBOL FOR THE
JEWISH NATION THAT WAS NOT DOING
00:21:24.18\00:21:29.48
THE WILL OF GOD. JONAH
WAS THE ONE, IN THE WHOLE
00:21:29.48\00:21:32.59
STORY, THAT WAS A PROPHET OF
GOD - LIKE THE NATION - THEY HAD
00:21:32.59\00:21:36.52
THE WORD OF GOD
TO GO TO THE NATIONS.
00:21:36.52\00:21:39.29
AND SO - AND THE JEWS OFTEN
REFERRED TO THE GENTILES AND
00:21:39.29\00:21:43.30
LOST AS ANIMALS AND THEY -
AND SO GOD WAS TRYING TO TELL A
00:21:43.30\00:21:46.70
MESSAGE - 'I CARE ABOUT THEM
TOO. I WANT THEM TO BE SAVED.'
00:21:46.70\00:21:49.70
AND THAT'S WHAT OUR LESSON
IS ALL ABOUT IS GOD DESIRES THE
00:21:49.70\00:21:53.04
GOOD - NOT JUST OF JEWS, BUT OF
GENTILES AS WELL. AMEN? ALRIGHT,
00:21:53.04\00:21:58.38
SO THAT'S JONAH. YOU
CAN READ - EZEKIEL THE
00:21:58.38\00:22:01.18
PROPHET SEEMED TO
UNDERSTAND THIS PRINCIPLE.
00:22:01.18\00:22:03.18
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
ME IN JUST A MOMENT, ACTS 3:19.
00:22:03.18\00:22:06.69
AND I THINK
YOU'VE GOT THAT THERE.
00:22:06.69\00:22:08.62
I'M GOING TO READ EZEKIEL 33:11,
"SAY TO THEM: 'AS I LIVE,' SAYS
00:22:08.62\00:22:13.73
THE LORD GOD, 'I HAVE NO
PLEASURE IN THE DEATH OF THE
00:22:13.73\00:22:16.33
WICKED, BUT THAT THE WICKED
TURN FROM HIS WAY AND LIVE.
00:22:16.33\00:22:20.94
TURN YE, TURN YE FROM YOUR
EVIL WAYS! FOR WHY WILL YOU DIE,
00:22:20.94\00:22:25.51
O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?'"
THE LORD IS PLEADING - HE
00:22:25.51\00:22:29.14
DOESN'T WANT US TO DIE, HE WANTS
US TO LIVE. THAT'S WHY GOD SO
00:22:29.14\00:22:32.41
LOVED THE WORLD HE SENT HIS
SON. PLEASE READ FOR US ACTS -
00:22:32.41\00:22:37.59
I THINK IT'S 3:19.
>>"REPENT THEREFORE AND BE
00:22:37.59\00:22:40.99
CONVERTED, THAT YOUR SINS MAY
BE BLOTTED OUT, SO THAT TIMES OF
00:22:40.99\00:22:44.83
REFRESHING MAY COME FROM
THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD."
00:22:44.83\00:22:48.20
>>AND SOME OF YOU - THANK YOU
- WILL HAVE SOME VERSIONS THAT
00:22:48.20\00:22:50.53
ACTUALLY SAY, 'TURN, THEREFORE,
THAT YOU MIGHT BE CONVERTED AND
00:22:50.53\00:22:56.07
YOUR SINS' - SO
GOD WANTS US TO TURN.
00:22:56.07\00:22:58.71
HE WANTS US TO REPENT AND REPENT
IS A U-TURN ON THE ROAD OF LIFE.
00:22:58.71\00:23:02.21
ALRIGHT, THE NEXT SECTION WE'RE
LOOKING AT IS THE - WHAT THEY
00:23:02.21\00:23:05.08
CALL THE ANY WAY PRINCIPLE AND
JESUS - LET'S - SEVERAL VERSES
00:23:05.08\00:23:12.09
OR EXAMPLES HERE
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT.
00:23:12.09\00:23:14.09
IF YOU GO TO MATTHEW 8, VERSE 1,
"WHEN HE HAD COME DOWN FROM THE
00:23:14.09\00:23:18.23
MOUNTAIN, GREAT
MULTITUDES FOLLOWED HIM."
00:23:18.23\00:23:20.66
- THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST
MIRACLES OF HEALING THAT JESUS
00:23:20.66\00:23:23.13
PERFORMED, IF NOT THE FIRST - "A
GREAT MULTITUDE FOLLOWED HIM AND
00:23:23.13\00:23:28.04
BEHOLD, A LEPER CAME AND
WORSHIPED HIM, SAYING, 'LORD, IF
00:23:28.04\00:23:32.01
YOU ARE WILLING, YOU CAN MAKE ME
CLEAN.'" - NOW, BEFORE I GO ON
00:23:32.01\00:23:36.21
ANY FARTHER, THIS MAN WAS
SUPPOSED TO WALK AROUND AND HE'S
00:23:36.21\00:23:41.62
SUPPOSED TO VEIL HIS FACE
SO THAT SOMEONE WOULDN'T BE
00:23:41.62\00:23:44.32
CONTAMINATED. WHEN
YOU HAD LEPROSY, IF THERE
00:23:44.32\00:23:46.35
WERE OTHER PEOPLE
AROUND, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO
00:23:46.35\00:23:48.06
DECLARE 'UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!'
00:23:48.06\00:23:51.13
- WOULDN'T THAT BE
TERRIBLE IF YOU WERE SICK?
00:23:51.13\00:23:52.96
CAN YOU IMAGINE IF
THEY HAD A LAW LIKE THAT?
00:23:52.96\00:23:54.83
IF A PERSON HAD SOME - YOU'VE
GOT THE FLU OR IF YOU'RE HIV
00:23:54.83\00:23:58.23
POSITIVE AND YOU HAVE TO
WALK AROUND AND SAY, 'UNCLEAN!'
00:23:58.23\00:24:01.50
THAT WOULDN'T GO
VERY WELL, WOULD IT?
00:24:01.50\00:24:05.04
AND THIS MAN HAD TO ANNOUNCE
HIS DISEASE FOR EVERYBODY AND -
00:24:05.04\00:24:12.25
JESUS FINISHED TEACHING AND THIS
LEPER REALIZES THIS IS MY ONLY
00:24:12.25\00:24:16.82
HOPE AND HE COMES TO JESUS -
HE'S GOT GREAT FAITH - AND HE
00:24:16.82\00:24:20.12
FALLS DOWN BEFORE HIM AND HE
SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU ARE WILLING
00:24:20.12\00:24:24.76
- IF YOU WANT TO - YOU CAN
MAKE ME CLEAN.' HE BELIEVED IT.
00:24:24.76\00:24:29.50
NOW JESUS COULD HAVE RUN
FROM HIM, BUT JESUS, INSTEAD, HE
00:24:29.50\00:24:33.60
REACHES OUT TO HIM - HE TAKES A
RISK - AND HE TOUCHES HIM AND HE
00:24:33.60\00:24:38.51
SAYS, 'I AM WILLING. BE
CLEANSED.' COULDN'T JESUS HAVE
00:24:38.51\00:24:41.94
CLEANSED HIM
WITHOUT TOUCHING HIM?
00:24:41.94\00:24:43.65
>>YES. >>YEAH.
WHY DID HE GO TO THE
00:24:43.65\00:24:47.05
TROUBLE OF TOUCHING HIM?
ANY OF YOU EVER SUNG THAT SONG -
00:24:47.05\00:24:52.15
I THINK THE GAITHERS
WROTE IT - HE TOUCHED ME ?
00:24:52.15\00:24:54.62
YEAH, SO JESUS TOUCHED THIS
MAN AND HE SAID, 'I AM WILLING.
00:24:54.62\00:24:58.09
BE CLEANSED.' NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT
JESUS SAID TO THAT MAN - WHEN
00:24:58.09\00:25:01.86
GOD SAYS, 'BE' WHY IS THERE
POWER IN THAT TWO-LETTER WORD?
00:25:01.86\00:25:07.84
HOW DID THE WORLD
COME INTO EXISTENCE?
00:25:07.84\00:25:10.77
LET THERE BE LIGHT - LET THERE
BE THE ANIMALS, THE LAND, THE
00:25:10.77\00:25:17.08
AIR - EVERYTHING. GOD SPOKE
AND THE WORD OF GOD HAS CREATIVE
00:25:17.08\00:25:20.18
POWER. JESUS SAID, 'BE' CLEAN.
NOW, WHAT HE SAID TO THE LEPER
00:25:20.18\00:25:24.39
- WHAT IS LEPROSY
A SYMBOL OF? >>SIN.
00:25:24.39\00:25:26.99
>>SO IF THE LORD SAYS, 'BE
CLEAN' IS THAT JUST TALKING
00:25:26.99\00:25:31.89
ABOUT LEPROSY OR CAN
HE PRONOUNCE US CLEAN?
00:25:31.89\00:25:35.23
HE TOUCHED THAT MAN - HE EXPOSED
HIMSELF TO THE RISK OF LEPROSY
00:25:35.23\00:25:41.07
THAT HE MIGHT KNOW HE CARED AND
HE TOUCHED HIM - DIDN'T HAVE TO
00:25:41.07\00:25:44.44
TOUCH HIM. DID
JESUS COME INTO OUR WORLD
00:25:44.44\00:25:47.24
AND RISK CONTAMINATION
TO CLEANSE US FROM SIN?
00:25:47.24\00:25:51.25
SO THERE'S SOMETHING IN THAT
STORY - AND HE WAS CLEANSED.
00:25:51.25\00:25:54.22
AND THEN JESUS SAYS, 'NOW,
GO SHOW YOURSELF - DON'T SAY
00:25:54.22\00:25:58.55
ANYTHING TO ANYONE.' OF
COURSE, HOW COULD HE KEEP THAT?
00:25:58.55\00:26:00.82
"SHOW YOURSELF TO THE PRIEST,
AND OFFER THE GIFT THAT MOSES
00:26:00.82\00:26:04.39
COMMANDED AS A TESTIMONY TO
THEM." - MEANING THE UNCLEAN.
00:26:04.39\00:26:09.33
YOU KNOW, HE TOOK A RISK -
MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF HUMAN
00:26:09.33\00:26:13.27
SOULS - I'M READING A QUOTE FROM
THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES - THIS
00:26:13.27\00:26:15.74
IS PAGE 640 - "MILLIONS
UPON MILLIONS OF HUMAN SOULS ARE
00:26:15.74\00:26:20.81
READY TO PERISH, BOUND IN CHAINS
OF IGNORANCE AND SIN, WHO NEVER
00:26:20.81\00:26:25.15
SO MUCH AS HEARD OF
CHRIST'S LOVE FOR THEM. WERE OUR
00:26:25.15\00:26:28.18
CONDITION AND THEIRS TO
BE REVERSED, WHAT WOULD WE
00:26:28.18\00:26:30.92
DESIRE THEM TO DO FOR US?
ALL THIS, SO FAR AS LIES IN OUR
00:26:30.92\00:26:35.59
POWER, WE ARE UNDER THE
MOST SOLEMN OBLIGATION TO DO FOR
00:26:35.59\00:26:38.59
THEM. CHRIST'S RULE OF LIFE, BY
WHICH EVERY ONE OF US MUST STAND
00:26:38.59\00:26:42.03
OR FALL IN THE JUDGMENT, IS
WHATSOEVER YOU WOULD THAT MEN
00:26:42.03\00:26:45.57
SHOULD DO TO YOU,
DO EVEN SO TO THEM."
00:26:45.57\00:26:49.30
THAT'S A HIGH STANDARD - THE
GOLDEN RULE: WHATEVER YOU WOULD
00:26:49.30\00:26:52.41
HAVE OTHERS DO FOR
YOU, DO ALSO FOR THEM.
00:26:52.41\00:26:57.78
MATTHEW CHAPTER 5:43, "YOU HAVE
HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID, 'YOU
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SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AND
HATE YOUR ENEMY.' BUT I SAY TO
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YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES,
BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU,'" -
00:27:04.79\00:27:09.79
YOU EVER TRIED THAT? THAT'S HARD
- "DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE
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YOU, AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO
SPITEFULLY USE YOU AND PERSECUTE
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YOU, THAT YOU MAY BE
SONS OF YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN;
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FOR HE MAKES HIS SUN RISE ON
THE EVIL AND ON THE GOOD, AND
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SENDS RAIN ON THE JUST AND
THE UNJUST." - YOU KNOW, INTO
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EVERYBODY'S LIFE, EVERY
NOW AND THEN, YOU'LL MEET
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SOME ORNERY INDIVIDUAL THAT WILL
MAYBE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU OR
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DO SOMETHING VERY UNKIND OR
CRUEL OR BETRAY YOU IN SOME WAY
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AND YOU BECOME ANGRY AND, YOU
KNOW, THE ONLY WAY TO COPE WITH
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THAT IS TO SAY, 'JESUS LOVES
THAT PERSON AS MUCH AS HE LOVES
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ME. EVEN THOUGH
WHAT THEY DID MAY BE
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DASTARDLY, JESUS LOVES
THEM AS MUCH AS HE LOVES ME.
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JESUS WANTS THEIR SALVATION AS
MUCH AS HE WANTS MINE, I NEED TO
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PRAY FOR THEM.' AND, YOU KNOW,
YOU MAY NOT FEEL LIKE IT, BUT
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YOU'LL FIND WHEN YOU PRAY FOR
THOSE WHO HAVE WRONGED YOU, YOUR
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ATTITUDE ABOUT THEM STARTS TO
CHANGE BECAUSE, AFTER ALL, WHEN
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SINNERS ACT SINFUL, THEY'RE
DOING EXACTLY WHAT IS EXPECTED.
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WHEN LOST PEOPLE ACT MEAN AND
CRUEL, THAT'S WHAT YOU'D EXPECT.
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THAT'S WHY THEY NEED
JESUS, RIGHT? LOVE YOUR ENEMIES.
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HE SENDS THE RAIN ON THE EVIL
AND THE GOOD - "FOR IF YOU LOVE
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THOSE WHO LOVE YOU,
WHAT REWARD HAVE YOU?
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DO NOT EVEN THE TAX
COLLECTORS DO THE SAME?"
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- HE SAID, YOU'RE, AS A
CHRISTIAN, CALLED TO DO MUCH
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MORE THAN JUST LOVE YOUR
FRIENDS, EVERYONE DOES THAT -
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"AND IF YOU GREET YOUR BRETHREN
ONLY, WHAT DO YOU DO MORE THAN
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OTHERS? DO NOT
EVEN THE TAX COLLECTORS"
00:28:37.95\00:28:40.12
- MEANING THE PUBLICANS -
"DO SO? THEREFORE YOU SHALL BE
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PERFECT, JUST AS YOUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT."
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LOVING THE LOST - TAKING A RISK
AND SHOWING KINDNESS TO THOSE
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THAT MAY NOT BE
ABLE TO PAY YOU BACK.
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I HAD AN INTERESTING
EXPERIENCE LAST NIGHT.
00:28:59.10\00:29:03.14
WE WERE FINALIZING PREPARATION
FOR THE SABBATH AND KAREN WAS
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GOING TO DROP OFF - BABY -
THAT SHE LATER PICKED UP AGAIN.
00:29:08.61\00:29:13.01
AND SHE CALLED - AND NATHAN
PICKED UP THE PHONE AND SHE
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SAID, 'UP HERE ON MADISON AVENUE
THERE IS A MAN WHO HAS A CART
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THAT HE'S PULLING AND IT LOOKS
LIKE THE WHEEL FELL OFF AND HE'S
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STRUGGLING, RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF
THIS BUSY STREET, TO TRY TO GET
00:29:26.06\00:29:28.73
HIS WHEEL BACK ON. MAYBE YOU AND
DAD COULD HELP.' AND SO NATHAN
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TOLD ME AND I SAID, 'WELL, LET'S
THROW THE TOOLS IN THE CAR.
00:29:33.80\00:29:37.21
AND, YOU KNOW, FOR A FLEETING
MOMENT I THOUGHT, 'WELL, IT'S
00:29:37.21\00:29:40.18
JUST BEFORE SABBATH.' BUT THEN
I THOUGHT, 'THIS GUY, HE'S GOT
00:29:40.18\00:29:43.88
AN OX IN THE
DITCH.' WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
00:29:43.88\00:29:48.62
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I KNEW RIGHT
AWAY THAT THE LORD WOULD WANT US
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TO CARE, SO WE THREW OUR - I
HAD A LITTLE TOOL BOX I THREW IN
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NATHAN'S CAR AND WE WENT UP AND
THERE WAS NO PLACE TO PULL OVER.
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WE SAW THE MAN THERE. HE HAD
- YOU KNOW THOSE LITTLE BUGGIES
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THAT THEY PULL BEHIND BICYCLES
AND THEY PUT A KID IN IT?
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WELL, HE HAD ONE OF THOSE AND
THEY'VE JUST GOT - THEY'VE GOT
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WHEELS WITH PLASTIC AXLES AND HE
HAD THE THING JUST LOADED DOWN
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WITH, YOU KNOW, GROCERIES AND
MILK AND A LOT OF HIS GEAR AND
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WE COULD SEE THAT IT WAS REALLY
ALL OF HIS EARTHLY POSSESSIONS.
00:30:17.61\00:30:21.15
SO WE HAD TO PASS AND
PARK UP ON THE STREET.
00:30:21.15\00:30:22.98
NATHAN RAN UP AND
SAID, 'DO YOU NEED HELP?'
00:30:22.98\00:30:24.95
AND HE SAID, 'DA.' AND SO
NATHAN RAN BACK AND GOT ME.
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I SAID, 'LET'S PULL AROUND.
I'LL JUMP OUT WITH THE TOOL BOX'
00:30:28.49\00:30:30.33
- THERE'S NOWHERE TO STOP -
NOWHERE TO PULL OVER. HE'S RIGHT
00:30:30.33\00:30:32.43
ON THE SIDEWALK AND CARS
ARE RACING BY - SO HE PUT HIS
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EMERGENCY BLINKERS ON, I JUMPED
OUT, I GRABBED MY TOOLBOX.
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I STOPPED - NATHAN WENT TO
PARK AND THEN CAME AND HELPED.
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AND HIS OVERLOADING THIS LITTLE
CART PROBABLY MADE TO HOLD, YOU
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KNOW, A 15-POUND KID AND HE HAD
LIKE 90 POUNDS OF GEAR IN IT AND
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THE PLASTIC HAD
FINALLY BROKEN IN THE AXLE.
00:30:53.68\00:30:57.85
AND HE HAD MASKING TAPE - I'M
NOT EXAGGERATING - POOR MAN, HE
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HAD ALL HIS LIFE'S POSSESSIONS
ON THIS BIKE AND IN THIS CART
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AND HE HAD SOME MASKING TAPE AND
HE'S TRYING TO MASKING TAPE THIS
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WHEEL TOGETHER SO IT'S
GOING TO HOLD 90 POUNDS OF GEAR.
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AND SO WE LOOKED AT IF FOR
AWHILE AND THEN I SAW HE HAD
00:31:13.20\00:31:15.74
SOME WIRE THERE AND SO I HELD
UP THE WIRE AND HE SAID, 'DA!
00:31:15.74\00:31:18.71
DA!' I SAID, 'YOU'RE RUSSIAN.'
'DA!' HE SAID, 'YOU SPEAK
00:31:18.71\00:31:20.58
RUSSIAN?' YAH PANIMIO
NIMNOSHKA RUSKI? - AND SO HE'S
00:31:20.58\00:31:23.71
AN OLD RUSSIAN MAN AND SO
WE BEGAN TO WRAP HIS WHEEL UP.
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I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.
I DIDN'T HAVE A SPARE BICYCLE.
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WE BEGAN TO WRAP HIS WHEEL UP
WITH BAILING WIRE - WEAVING THE
00:31:31.65\00:31:36.83
WIRE IN AND OUT OF THE GOOD PART
OF THE AXLE WITH THE BAD PART OF
00:31:36.83\00:31:39.26
THE SPOKES AND KIND OF
RECREATING A NEW SPOKE WITH
00:31:39.26\00:31:43.03
BALING WIRE AND TWISTING IT.
AND THEN I DID SOMETHING THAT I
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LEARNED FROM DAVE,
WHO'S SITTING HERE.
00:31:46.13\00:31:47.60
REMEMBER, YOUR INNER
TUBE TRICK YOU TAUGHT ME?
00:31:47.60\00:31:50.34
HE HAD A SPARE INNER TUBE IN HIS
STUFF - I REMEMBER ONCE, DAVE
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BOATWRIGHT SHOWED ME, YOU CAN DO
ANYTHING WITH INNER TUBE - YOU
00:31:54.11\00:31:56.01
JUST CUT UP LITTLE STRIPS OF
INNER TUBE, WRAP IT - YOU CAN
00:31:56.01\00:31:57.91
PATCH PIPES - HIS CAR WAS
HELD TOGETHER WITH INNER TUBES.
00:31:57.91\00:32:00.62
(LAUGHTER) I REMEMBER GOING
AROUND A TURN IN THE CAR WITH
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DAVE AND CINDY AND CINDY WOULD
BE SCREAMING AND SAYING, 'SLOW
00:32:05.45\00:32:07.86
DOWN, DAVE, THERE'S JUST THE
INNER TUBES HOLDING OUR FRONT
00:32:07.86\00:32:10.09
TIRE ON. (LAUGHTER) THEY'RE
00:32:10.09\00:32:13.40
NOT DENYING IT.
THEY KNOW IT'S TRUE.
00:32:13.40\00:32:16.36
AND SO I TOOK SOME INNER
TUBE AND I CUT IT UP IN LITTLE
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SLIVERS AND I SAID, 'WAIT, LOOK
AT THIS.' AND SO NATHAN HELD THE
00:32:19.17\00:32:21.60
TIRE AND I BEGAN TO WRAP OVER
THE WIRE WITH THE INNER TUBE AND
00:32:21.60\00:32:25.87
WE TUCKED IT IN AND PUT IT
TOGETHER AND HE PUSHED IT UP AND
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DOWN THE ROAD AND THE WHEEL KIND
OF WENT LIKE THAT GOING DOWN THE
00:32:31.45\00:32:33.75
ROAD, BUT IT WAS HOLDING THE
CART TOGETHER AND, YOU KNOW, NOW
00:32:33.75\00:32:38.09
IT'S - THE SUN IS DOWN AND HE
BEGINS TO PILE EVERYTHING BACK
00:32:38.09\00:32:43.49
IN AND HE'S SAYING 'THANK YOU'
'SPASIBO' AND I THOUGHT, YOU
00:32:43.49\00:32:49.96
KNOW, MAYBE WE COULD GIVE HIM
A LITTLE MONEY BECAUSE HE NEEDS
00:32:49.96\00:32:52.23
ANOTHER CART OR SOMETHING AND SO
WE TRIED TO TELL HIM, 'HERE, LET
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ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE SOMETHING.'
HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND - I SAID,
00:32:57.01\00:32:58.41
'RUPLES' - HE TURNED AROUND AND
SO WE GAVE HIM A LITTLE MONEY
00:32:58.41\00:33:04.28
AND HIS EYES BEGAN TO
MOISTEN AND HE SAID, 'CAMELLIA -
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CAMELLIA - PASTOR'
- BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
00:33:09.48\00:33:13.69
FOR 20 YEARS I
PASTORED ON CAMELLIA AVENUE.
00:33:13.69\00:33:16.66
HE SAID, 'ADVENTISTA'
- HE KNEW WHO WE WERE.
00:33:16.66\00:33:22.50
HE HAD COME TO CENTRAL CHURCH.
ISN'T THAT RIGHT, NATHAN?
00:33:22.50\00:33:25.67
AND SO HE SAID, 'PRAY FOR ME.'
AND SO WE DROVE AWAY, YOU KNOW,
00:33:25.67\00:33:32.54
WE JUST FELT REALLY BLESSED
TO BE ABLE TO HELP THE GUY.
00:33:32.54\00:33:34.48
I MEAN, I HAD A FLEETING THOUGHT
OF MAYBE WE'LL BRING HIM HOME
00:33:34.48\00:33:36.85
AND HELP HIM, BUT I'M LEAVING
- I DIDN'T FEEL QUITE RIGHT
00:33:36.85\00:33:38.95
BRINGING A MAN INTO THE HOUSE
AND I'M LEAVING, BUT GOD GIVES
00:33:38.95\00:33:42.25
US OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP PEOPLE.
00:33:42.25\00:33:45.59
AND, YOU KNOW,
THE SABBATH HAD BEGUN.
00:33:45.59\00:33:50.09
THIS GUY, YOU KNOW, ALL HIS
EARTHLY POSSESSIONS WERE STREWN
00:33:50.09\00:33:52.86
ON THE SIDEWALK
BECAUSE HIS AXLE CAME OFF.
00:33:52.86\00:33:55.40
THAT'S KIND OF LIKE
THE OX IN THE DITCH.
00:33:55.40\00:33:57.33
SO YOU SAY,
'WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?'
00:33:57.33\00:33:59.10
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO
IN THOSE SITUATIONS?
00:33:59.10\00:34:02.57
NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, LUKE 6:35 -
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OKAY, YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
I'M GOING TO READ LUKE 6:27 -
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JUST BEFORE THAT - "BUT I SAY TO
YOU WHO HEAR: LOVE YOUR ENEMIES,
00:34:11.28\00:34:16.99
DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU,
BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU, AND
00:34:16.99\00:34:20.96
PRAY FOR THOSE WHO
SPITEFULLY USE YOU."
00:34:20.96\00:34:24.03
THIS IS THE SAME
THING THAT JESUS SAID.
00:34:24.03\00:34:25.79
NOW, WHAT I ESPECIALLY WANT YOU
TO NOTICE IS THIS NEXT VERSE.
00:34:25.79\00:34:28.43
GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US LUKE
35 AND 36 - LUKE 6:35 AND 36.
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>>"BUT LOVE YOUR ENEMIES,
DO GOOD, AND LEND, HOPING FOR
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NOTHING IN RETURN; AND YOUR
REWARD WILL BE GREAT, AND YOU
00:34:38.44\00:34:41.78
WILL BE SONS OF THE MOST
HIGH. FOR HE IS KIND TO THE
00:34:41.78\00:34:46.51
UNTHANKFUL AND EVIL.
THEREFORE BE MERCIFUL, JUST AS
00:34:46.51\00:34:50.52
YOUR FATHER ALSO IS MERCIFUL."
>>NOW DID YOU NOTICE WHEN WE
00:34:50.52\00:34:54.16
READ THAT VERSE IN MATTHEW
HE SAYS, 'THEREFORE BE PERFECT,
00:34:54.16\00:34:57.39
JUST AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN
IS PERFECT.' NOW HOW MANY OF YOU
00:34:57.39\00:34:59.93
KIND OF CRINGED
WHEN YOU READ THAT VERSE?
00:34:59.93\00:35:01.96
BE PERFECT -
EVERYONE HERE QUALIFY?
00:35:01.96\00:35:06.67
BUT WHEN HE SAYS IT IN LUKE HE
SAYS 'BE YE THEREFORE MERCIFUL'.
00:35:06.67\00:35:11.34
SO THE PERFECTION GOD IS TALKING
ABOUT - RIGHT WHEN JESUS SAYS
00:35:11.34\00:35:13.78
'BE PERFECT' HE'S
TALKING ABOUT LOVING YOUR ENEMY.
00:35:13.78\00:35:16.98
THE LORD WANTS US TO HAVE
PERFECT LOVE - TO DO UNTO OTHERS
00:35:16.98\00:35:20.82
AS WE WOULD
HAVE THEM DO UNTO US.
00:35:20.82\00:35:23.08
IN KEEPING WITH THIS
- THAT MEANS FORGIVING.
00:35:23.08\00:35:29.42
IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
LUKE 23, VERSE 34, JESUS SAID,
00:35:29.42\00:35:33.53
"'FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY
DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY DO.' AND
00:35:33.53\00:35:38.03
THEY DIVIDED HIS GARMENTS AND
CAST LOTS" - FOR HIS CLOTHING.
00:35:38.03\00:35:41.27
EVEN THOSE WHO WERE DESTROYING
HIM, HE SAID 'FORGIVE THEM'.
00:35:41.27\00:35:45.81
NOW, CAN CHURCH MEMBERS
SOMETIMES MAKE MISTAKES?
00:35:45.81\00:35:50.55
DOES GOD SHOW MERCY? YOU WONDER
WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF
00:35:50.55\00:35:54.05
JUDAS HAD COME TO JESUS
AND SAID, 'LORD, FORGIVE ME.'
00:35:54.05\00:35:56.62
INSTEAD, HE THREW THE MONEY IN
THE TEMPLE AND WENT OUT AND HUNG
00:35:56.62\00:35:59.05
HIMSELF. ALL OF THE DISCIPLES
FORSOOK JESUS THAT NIGHT WHEN HE
00:35:59.05\00:36:05.59
WAS BETRAYED, BUT
PETER WENT THE SECOND MILE.
00:36:05.59\00:36:08.76
THEY NOT ONLY LEFT, HE
KIND OF LEFT JESUS TWICE.
00:36:08.76\00:36:12.63
HE LEFT AND HE CAME BACK AGAIN,
AND THEN HE DENIED KNOWING HIM
00:36:12.63\00:36:15.47
AND LEFT. AND HE
DIDN'T JUST DENY KNOWING
00:36:15.47\00:36:17.87
HIM, HE DENIED KNOWING HIM THREE
TIMES AND THEN THE THIRD TIME HE
00:36:17.87\00:36:21.18
PUNCTUATED IT WITH SWEARING
AND CURSING THAT HE DID NOT KNOW
00:36:21.18\00:36:25.75
JESUS. RIGHT THEN JESUS TURNED
AND LOOKED AT HIM AFTER THE
00:36:25.75\00:36:29.28
ROOSTER CROWED. WE
BELIEVE THE SECOND TIME THE
00:36:29.28\00:36:31.75
ROOSTER CROWED, HE HAD FINISHED
DENYING HIM THREE TIMES.
00:36:31.75\00:36:35.26
SO YOU WOULD THINK THE
LORD WOULD SAY, 'GOOD RIDDANCE.
00:36:35.26\00:36:37.63
I'M GOING TO DENY YOU TOO' -
BECAUSE THERE IS A VERSE THAT
00:36:37.63\00:36:40.20
SAYS 'THOSE WHO DENY ME I WILL
DENY.' BUT DID JESUS SHOW MERCY
00:36:40.20\00:36:45.47
EVEN AFTER THAT? >>YES.
00:36:45.47\00:36:47.87
>>YOU NOTICE WHEN PETER WENT
OUT WHEN HE REALIZED WHAT HE HAD
00:36:47.87\00:36:50.24
DONE - HE SAW THE SOLDIERS
BEATING JESUS - HE REMEMBERED
00:36:50.24\00:36:53.61
WHAT JESUS HAD TOLD HIM THAT
NIGHT AND PETER HAD - PETER HAD
00:36:53.61\00:36:56.98
BOASTED AND BRAGGED AND SAID,
'THOUGH ALL MEN FORSAKE THEE, I
00:36:56.98\00:36:59.88
WILL NOT FORSAKE THEE.' AND
JESUS SAID, 'OH YEAH, PETER,
00:36:59.88\00:37:03.69
THIS - TONIGHT YOU'RE GOING
TO DO THE BEST AT DENYING ME -
00:37:03.69\00:37:07.36
THREE TIMES.' AND HE
REMEMBERED THAT AND HE
00:37:07.36\00:37:10.36
WENT OUT AND HE WEPT BITTERLY.
00:37:10.36\00:37:12.33
SO AT THE RESURRECTION WHEN THE
ANGELS TELL THE WOMEN - NOTICE
00:37:12.33\00:37:16.73
WHAT THEY SAY - MARK 16, VERSE 7
- THE ANGEL SAID, "BUT GO, TELL
00:37:16.73\00:37:22.34
HIS DISCIPLES - AND PETER" -
NOW WHY DID THEY INCLUDE PETER?
00:37:22.34\00:37:28.44
HE MAY HAVE - FOR ONE THING,
HE WAS KIND OF AN OUTCAST.
00:37:28.44\00:37:30.31
HE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN WITH THE
DISCIPLES BECAUSE HE DIDN'T FEEL
00:37:30.31\00:37:33.48
WORTHY SO THEY HAD TO
HUNT DOWN PETER AND TELL HIM.
00:37:33.48\00:37:36.45
THE LORD SAW PETER PRAYING AND
HIS REPENTANCE FOR DENYING THE
00:37:36.45\00:37:40.92
LORD - AND GOD WANTS TO SAVE.
00:37:40.92\00:37:43.16
PETER, OF COURSE, BECAME
ONE OF THE GREAT APOSTLES.
00:37:43.16\00:37:45.83
AND THEN YOU LOOK - NOW,
JESUS WASN'T QUITE DONE JUST BY
00:37:45.83\00:37:48.86
SAYING, 'I'M GOING TO
TELL YOU THE GOOD NEWS OF THE
00:37:48.86\00:37:50.90
RESURRECTION.' PETER WAS ONE OF
THE FIRST TO THE TOMB - OF THE
00:37:50.90\00:37:53.70
MEN - I THINK JOHN OUTRAN
HIM BUT PETER WENT IN FIRST.
00:37:53.70\00:37:57.94
AND IT SAYS HERE - JOHN 21:15 -
NOW ONE OF THE LAST TIMES JESUS
00:37:57.94\00:38:04.88
APPEARS TO THEM UP AT GALILEE,
THEY'RE FISHING AND WHEN THEY'D
00:38:04.88\00:38:08.75
EATEN BREAKFAST HE GOES FOR A
LITTLE WALK WITH PETER AND JOHN.
00:38:08.75\00:38:12.09
HE SAYS TO SIMON - "SIMON, SON
OF JONAH, DO YOU LOVE ME MORE
00:38:12.09\00:38:15.32
THAN THESE?" -
GESTURING TO THE OTHER
00:38:15.32\00:38:17.06
APOSTLES BECAUSE PETER
SAID, 'THOUGH ALL THESE FORSAKE
00:38:17.06\00:38:20.40
YOU, I WILL NOT FORSAKE YOU.'
SO IN THE PRESENCE OF THE OTHER
00:38:20.40\00:38:23.40
APOSTLES JESUS SAID, 'DO
YOU LOVE ME MORE THAN THESE?'
00:38:23.40\00:38:25.93
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU PUBLICLY
SIN, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO PUBLICLY
00:38:25.93\00:38:28.10
REPENT -
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
00:38:28.10\00:38:32.07
"HE SAID TO HIM, 'YES,
LORD; YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU."
00:38:32.07\00:38:34.31
- HE DIDN'T SAY, 'MORE THAN
THESE'. 'YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.'
00:38:34.31\00:38:37.25
"HE SAID TO HIM, 'FEED MY
LAMBS.' HE SAID TO HIM AGAIN A
00:38:37.25\00:38:41.28
SECOND TIME, 'SIMON, SON
OF JONAH, DO YOU LOVE ME?'
00:38:41.28\00:38:46.02
HE SAID TO HIM, 'YES, LORD; YOU
KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU.' HE SAID,
00:38:46.02\00:38:49.76
'TEND MY SHEEP.'" - FIRST
HE SAYS 'FEED MY LAMBS' THEN HE
00:38:49.76\00:38:52.63
SAYS 'TEND MY SHEEP' - "HE SAID
TO HIM THE THIRD TIME," - THEY
00:38:52.63\00:38:56.10
MAY HAVE SPOKEN A LITTLE ABOUT
OTHER THINGS, BUT HE BLURTS OUT
00:38:56.10\00:38:58.03
AGAIN A THIRD TIME, "'SIMON,
SON OF JONAH, DO YOU LOVE ME?'
00:38:58.03\00:39:02.70
PETER WAS GRIEVED BECAUSE
HE SAID TO HIM THE THIRD TIME,
00:39:02.70\00:39:05.84
'DO YOU LOVE ME?' AND
HE SAID TO HIM, 'LORD, YOU
00:39:05.84\00:39:08.54
KNOW ALL THINGS; YOU KNOW THAT
I LOVE YOU.' JESUS SAID TO HIM,
00:39:08.54\00:39:11.81
'FEED MY SHEEP.'" - SO HE SAYS,
'FEED MY LAMBS, TEND MY SHEEP,
00:39:11.81\00:39:15.05
FEED MY SHEEP.' ONE IS TO
SHEPHERD THE FLOCK AND THE YOUNG
00:39:15.05\00:39:19.42
- THE YOUNG MEANING NOT ONLY
CHILDREN BUT BABY CHRISTIANS.
00:39:19.42\00:39:22.72
SO JESUS IS WANTING TO
AFFIRM THAT LOVE FOR HIM.
00:39:22.72\00:39:27.13
NOW LOVE NEVER FAILS IS OUR NEXT
SECTION AND IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE
00:39:27.13\00:39:33.17
10:28 THERE'S THAT GREAT
COMMAND: "'YOU SHALL LOVE THE
00:39:33.17\00:39:37.47
LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR
HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, WITH
00:39:37.47\00:39:41.11
ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL
YOUR MIND,' AND 'YOUR NEIGHBOR
00:39:41.11\00:39:43.21
AS YOURSELF.'" NOW HOW DOES
JESUS ILLUSTRATE THIS PARABLE?
00:39:43.21\00:39:49.55
THIS - HE USES THE
PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
00:39:49.55\00:39:51.82
YOU REMEMBER THE LAWYER -
HE SAYS, 'WHAT MUST I DO?'
00:39:51.82\00:39:55.12
AND HE SAYS,
'WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?'
00:39:55.12\00:39:56.79
AND HE SAYS, 'WELL, YOU SHOULD
LOVE THE LORD.' AND JESUS SAID,
00:39:56.79\00:39:58.49
'YOU HAVE ANSWERED RIGHT'.
ANOTHER PLACE HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE
00:39:58.49\00:40:00.63
NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM.' 'LOVE
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF - LOVE
00:40:00.63\00:40:06.27
THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART.
AND THEN HE USES THE PARABLE
00:40:06.27\00:40:09.54
THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT
BEFORE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
00:40:09.54\00:40:12.61
JOHN - IN 1 JOHN 4:7-9,
"BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE
00:40:12.61\00:40:17.25
ANOTHER, FOR LOVE IS OF GOD;"
- YOU KNOW THERE'S A SONG - I
00:40:17.25\00:40:21.92
DON'T KNOW THAT I'VE HEARD
THIS SONG MUCH IN THE ADVENTIST
00:40:21.92\00:40:25.35
CHURCH, BUT WHEN I USED TO -
I WAS A BABY CHRISTIAN GOING TO
00:40:25.35\00:40:28.76
SOME PENTECOSTAL EVANGELICAL
CHURCHES, THEY USED TO SING THAT
00:40:28.76\00:40:32.23
SONG, 'LOVE, LET US LOVE ONE
ANOTHER, FOR LOVE IS OF GOD AND
00:40:32.23\00:40:35.83
EVERYONE THAT LOVETH IS
BORN' - I WON'T SING IT FOR YOU.
00:40:35.83\00:40:38.07
ANYONE ELSE HEARD THAT? OH YEAH,
SEVERAL OF YOU HAVE HEARD THAT.
00:40:38.07\00:40:41.64
SO THERE'S A WHOLE
SONG ABOUT THIS VERSE.
00:40:41.64\00:40:44.14
"HE WHO DOES NOT LOVE DOES
NOT KNOW GOD, FOR GOD IS LOVE."
00:40:44.14\00:40:49.18
- YOU MAY GO TO CHURCH.
YOU MAY BE VERY RELIGIOUS.
00:40:49.18\00:40:52.98
YOU MAY KNOW A LOT OF DOCTRINE,
BUT IF YOU DON'T LOVE, YOU DON'T
00:40:52.98\00:40:57.35
REALLY KNOW GOD. THE
GREATEST LITMUS TEST OF
00:40:57.35\00:41:00.79
CONVERSION IS AGAPE LOVE -
"IN THIS THE LOVE OF GOD WAS
00:41:00.79\00:41:08.86
MANIFESTED TOWARD US, THAT GOD
HAS SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON
00:41:08.86\00:41:12.03
INTO THE WORLD, THAT WE
MIGHT LIVE THROUGH HIM."
00:41:12.03\00:41:15.47
IT'S THROUGH OUR LOVE FOR CHRIST
THAT WE DEMONSTRATE WHAT IT
00:41:15.47\00:41:20.48
MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, YOU'VE GOT
00:41:20.48\00:41:22.48
1 CORINTHIANS 13 - THAT GREAT
VERSE IN - READ VERSES 1 THROUGH
00:41:22.48\00:41:26.72
3 - YOU COULD READ THE WHOLE
CHAPTER - "THOUGH I SPEAK WITH
00:41:26.72\00:41:29.45
THE TONGUES OF MEN AND ANGELS,
IF I DON'T HAVE LOVE I HAVE
00:41:29.45\00:41:32.92
BECOME SOUNDING BRASS
OR A CLANGING CYMBAL."
00:41:32.92\00:41:34.89
THE NEXT CHAPTER HE TALKS ABOUT
TONGUES BECAUSE THE CORINTHIANS
00:41:34.89\00:41:37.99
WERE ALL ARGUING ABOUT TONGUES
AND PAUL SAID, 'IT'S NO GOOD IF
00:41:37.99\00:41:40.23
YOU SPEAK IN MANY
LANGUAGES IF YOU DON'T LOVE.
00:41:40.23\00:41:42.63
EVEN IF I SPOKE IN THE TONGUE
OF ANGELS AND I DON'T LOVE, IT'S
00:41:42.63\00:41:46.10
NOTHING. ALL I AM IS A SOUNDING
BRASS OR A CLANGING SYMBOL.
00:41:46.10\00:41:50.21
AND THOUGH I HAVE A GIFT OF
PROPHECY, AND UNDERSTAND ALL
00:41:50.21\00:41:53.51
MYSTERIES AND ALL KNOWLEDGE,"
- DID PAUL UNDERSTAND ALL
00:41:53.51\00:41:54.84
MYSTERIES AND
HAVE ALL KNOWLEDGE?
00:41:54.84\00:41:56.91
NO, HE'S SAYING, 'EVEN IF' -
THAT'S WHAT 'THOUGH' MEANS - AND
00:41:56.91\00:42:00.58
I DON'T HAVE LOVE, I'M NOTHING -
"AND THOUGH I HAVE ALL FAITH, SO
00:42:00.58\00:42:05.55
THAT I COULD REMOVE MOUNTAINS,
BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I AM NOTHING.
00:42:05.55\00:42:08.56
AND THOUGH I BESTOW ALL MY GOODS
TO FEED THE POOR, AND THOUGH I
00:42:08.56\00:42:12.46
GIVE MY BODY TO BE BURNED," - IS
IT CLEAR THAT HE'S SAYING 'EVEN
00:42:12.46\00:42:14.93
IF'? HE DIDN'T
GIVE HIS BODY TO BE
00:42:14.93\00:42:16.90
BURNED, HE WAS BEHEADED
-"IT PROFITS ME NOTHING."
00:42:16.90\00:42:20.04
AND SO THEN HE GOES ON AND
HE TALKS ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL
00:42:20.04\00:42:22.74
ATTRIBUTES OF LOVE - WHAT
CHRISTIAN LOVE IS ALL ABOUT -
00:42:22.74\00:42:26.51
PUTTING OTHERS FIRST. NOW, IT IS
POSSIBLE TO BE RELIGIOUS AND NOT
00:42:26.51\00:42:31.18
HAVE LOVE. IN FACT, IN THE
LAST DAYS, THE PEOPLE WHO WILL
00:42:31.18\00:42:35.35
PERSECUTE GENUINE
CHRISTIANS - ARE THEY RELIGIOUS?
00:42:35.35\00:42:38.19
>>YES. >>THEY
JUST DON'T HAVE LOVE.
00:42:38.19\00:42:41.52
DANIEL 7:25 - AND SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ FOR ME IN JUST A
00:42:41.52\00:42:44.16
MOMENT, JOHN 16:2
- YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:42:44.16\00:42:47.50
DANIEL 7:25, "HE SHALL SPEAK
POMPOUS WORDS AGAINST THE MOST
00:42:47.50\00:42:51.23
HIGH, SHALL PERSECUTE THE
SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH, AND
00:42:51.23\00:42:54.74
SHALL INTEND TO
CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS.
00:42:54.74\00:42:57.54
THEN THE SAINTS SHALL BE GIVEN
INTO HIS HAND FOR A TIME AND
00:42:57.54\00:43:00.31
TIMES AND HALF A TIME."
THIS BEAST POWER IS GOING TO
00:43:00.31\00:43:02.98
BE A VERY RELIGIOUS POWER.
IT'S GOING TO BE A BLASPHEMING
00:43:02.98\00:43:06.35
POWER, BUT THEY'RE
NOT GOING TO HAVE LOVE.
00:43:06.35\00:43:08.85
GO AHEAD, READ
THAT NEXT VERSE FOR US.
00:43:08.85\00:43:11.35
>>"THEY WILL PUT YOU OUT OF
THE SYNAGOGUES; YES, THE TIME IS
00:43:11.35\00:43:14.49
COMING THAT WHOEVER KILLS YOU
WILL THINK THAT HE OFFERS GOD
00:43:14.49\00:43:17.79
SERVICE." >>AND
THAT'S JOHN 16:2.
00:43:17.79\00:43:20.50
YOU WONDER: 'HE WHO KILLS
YOU WILL THINK HE OFFERS GOD
00:43:20.50\00:43:23.90
SERVICE.' WERE THERE SOME OF
THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES THAT
00:43:23.90\00:43:27.77
SINCERELY BELIEVED
THAT JESUS WAS A DECEIVER?
00:43:27.77\00:43:31.47
>>YES. >>SO YEAH,
EXACTLY - PAUL WAS
00:43:31.47\00:43:35.01
ONE OF THEM - AND
THERE MAY HAVE BEEN OTHERS.
00:43:35.01\00:43:38.81
NICODEMUS WASN'T SURE AT
FIRST. GAMALIEL - IT SEEMS
00:43:38.81\00:43:42.08
LIKE THE JURY WAS OUT. HE
SAID, 'BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU
00:43:42.08\00:43:43.95
DO TO THESE MEN, YOU
MIGHT BE FIGHTING AGAINST GOD.'
00:43:43.95\00:43:46.86
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA, HE WAITED
UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO COME
00:43:46.86\00:43:49.96
OUT OF THE CLOSET AND - SO THEY
WERE STRUGGLING AND THEY - SOME
00:43:49.96\00:43:53.53
WERE SINCERE
AND THEY WERE WRONG.
00:43:53.53\00:43:56.90
AND SO, THE REAL TEST
IS 'DO YOU HAVE LOVE?'
00:43:56.90\00:44:02.64
WILL THERE BE PEOPLE IN HEAVEN
WHO WENT TO CHURCH ON THE WRONG
00:44:02.64\00:44:06.01
DAY? >>YES.
00:44:06.01\00:44:08.08
>>WILL THERE BE PEOPLE IN
HEAVEN THAT SMOKED TOBACCO?
00:44:08.08\00:44:12.25
>>YES. >>YOU WEREN'T AS HEARTY
00:44:12.25\00:44:14.58
AS THAT - SURE THERE WILL. I
THINK I'VE TOLD YOU, THE GUY,
00:44:14.58\00:44:18.99
JOHN NEWTON, WHO WROTE AMAZING
GRACE, HE SMOKED UNTIL THE DAY
00:44:18.99\00:44:21.69
HE DIED. OF COURSE, THEY
RECOMMENDED IT FOR LUNG AILMENTS
00:44:21.69\00:44:23.86
BACK THEN. THEY DIDN'T
KNOW. >>WILL THERE BE PEOPLE IN
00:44:23.86\00:44:27.83
HEAVEN WHO DRANK ALCOHOL? >>YES.
00:44:27.83\00:44:30.80
>>MARTIN LUTHER
DRANK BEER HIS WHOLE LIFE.
00:44:30.80\00:44:32.63
WATER WAS BAD, I GUESS, AND
SO HE FIGURED THAT WAS SAFER.
00:44:32.63\00:44:36.57
I EXPECT TO SEE
HIM IN THE KINGDOM.
00:44:36.57\00:44:39.14
YOU SEE WHERE
I'M GOING WITH THIS?
00:44:39.14\00:44:40.51
WILL THERE BE PEOPLE IN HEAVEN
WHO HAD MULTIPLE WIVES AT THE
00:44:40.51\00:44:42.34
SAME TIME? >>YES.
00:44:42.34\00:44:44.28
>>DAVID, SOLOMON
SOUNDS LIKE HE REPENTED.
00:44:44.28\00:44:49.78
WILL THERE BE ANYBODY IN
HEAVEN THAT DOESN'T LOVE?
00:44:49.78\00:44:52.49
>>NO. >>NO. SO OF
ALL THE THINGS YOU
00:44:52.49\00:44:56.59
NEED TO GET RIGHT -
AND I BELIEVE IN ALL
00:44:56.59\00:44:58.13
THE DOCTRINES AND I'VE GOT,
YOU KNOW, IF I START DRINKING,
00:44:58.13\00:45:00.70
SMOKING, AND TAKING EXTRA WIVES,
I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE IT - AND
00:45:00.70\00:45:03.47
I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW - SO
WE'RE NOT SAYING THOSE THINGS
00:45:03.47\00:45:07.44
ARE OKAY, WE'RE SAYING THAT OF
ALL THE QUALITIES, LOVE IS THE
00:45:07.44\00:45:14.44
SUPREME THING - AND THIS
IS WHAT PAUL WAS SAYING THERE.
00:45:14.44\00:45:17.91
ALRIGHT - AND, BY THE WAY, THAT
LAST VERSE WAS JOHN 16:2, THEY
00:45:17.91\00:45:21.15
WILL PUT YOU OUT OF THE
SYNAGOGUES; THEY'LL THINK
00:45:21.15\00:45:22.65
THEY'RE SERVING GOD AND THEY'LL
KILL YOU.' THAT STARTED WAY BACK
00:45:22.65\00:45:25.29
IN THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES AND
IT'S GOING TO BE EMPHASIZED IN
00:45:25.29\00:45:28.16
THE LAST DAYS AGAIN. THE
SECOND TOUCH - MARK 8:18 -
00:45:28.16\00:45:32.53
WE LOOKED AT THE FIRST TOUCH
WHEN JESUS TOUCHED THE LEPER,
00:45:32.53\00:45:35.06
LET'S LOOK AT THE SECOND TOUCH -
AND THIS IS BASED ON - YOU GO TO
00:45:35.06\00:45:39.03
- WELL, LET ME - YEAH, LET ME
START OUT BY READING MARK 8:22
00:45:39.03\00:45:44.71
- THIS IS THE
MIRACLE WE'RE CONSIDERING.
00:45:44.71\00:45:47.04
'HE CAME TO BETHSAIDA, AND
RIGHT AFTER THAT A BLIND MAN WAS
00:45:47.04\00:45:50.48
BROUGHT TO HIM AND HE
BEGGED HIM TO TOUCH HIM.
00:45:50.48\00:45:53.62
SO HE TOOK THE BLIND MAN BY THE
HAND AND HE LED HIM OUT OF TOWN'
00:45:53.62\00:45:56.62
- HE'S DOING THIS MIRACLE,
HE TAKES HIM OUT OF TOWN - 'AND
00:45:56.62\00:46:00.39
WHEN HE HAD SPIT ON HIS EYES AND
PUT HIS HANDS ON HIM, HE ASKED
00:46:00.39\00:46:04.63
HIM IF HE SAW ANYTHING.'
NOW THERE AGAIN YOU'VE GOT THE
00:46:04.63\00:46:07.13
REVERSE HAPPENING. WHAT
NORMALLY MAKES A PERSON UNCLEAN?
00:46:07.13\00:46:11.00
WOULDN'T YOU THINK THAT IF
SOMEONE SPIT ON YOU IT WOULD BE
00:46:11.00\00:46:13.64
UNCLEAN? BUT IF
THE CREATOR SPITS ON
00:46:13.64\00:46:15.60
YOU, THAT'S A GOOD
THING. JESUS JUST EXUDED LIFE.
00:46:15.60\00:46:20.78
INSTEAD OF MAKING HIM
UNCLEAN, IT MADE HIM CLEAN.
00:46:20.78\00:46:24.35
NOW, YEAH, LET'S NOT TRY THIS
- AFTER THE SERVICE - ON OUR
00:46:24.35\00:46:27.25
NEIGHBORS. THIS WAS JESUS.
00:46:27.25\00:46:32.52
SO HE TOOK THE BLIND MAN BY THE
HAND, LED HIM OUT, HE SPIT ON
00:46:32.52\00:46:35.52
HIS EYES AND SAID, 'DO
YOU SEE ANYTHING?' HE LOOKED
00:46:35.52\00:46:38.36
UP AND HE SAID, 'I SEE
MEN LIKE TREES, WALKING.' HE
00:46:38.36\00:46:41.63
HEARD THESE MEN WALKING AROUND
IN AND OUT OF THE TOWN, BUT THEY
00:46:41.63\00:46:44.33
WERE ALL FOGGY - MEN LIKE
TREES - IS WHAT HE WAS SAYING.
00:46:44.33\00:46:47.94
IT'S ALL BLURRY, YOU KNOW?
"THEN HE PUT HIS HANDS ON HIS
00:46:47.94\00:46:53.04
EYES AGAIN" - THIS IS THE SECOND
TOUCH - "AND MADE HIM LOOK UP
00:46:53.04\00:46:57.78
AND HE WAS RESTORED
AND SAW EVERYONE CLEARLY.
00:46:57.78\00:47:01.78
THEN HE SENT HIM AWAY TO HIS
HOUSE, SAYING, 'NEITHER GO INTO
00:47:01.78\00:47:04.42
THE TOWN, NOR TELL ANYONE...'"
HE KNEW THIS MIRACLE - THIS MAN
00:47:04.42\00:47:06.49
HAD GONE FROM PERFECTLY
BLIND TO PERFECT SIGHT.
00:47:06.49\00:47:08.96
WHY DID JESUS
HEAL HIM IN DEGREES?
00:47:08.96\00:47:12.43
COULDN'T JESUS - DID JESUS SAY,
'OH, I MUST HAVE DONE IT WRONG
00:47:12.43\00:47:14.56
THE FIRST TRY. I
BETTER TRY AGAIN?'?
00:47:14.56\00:47:17.13
OR WAS IT DELIBERATE?
WHY DO YOU THINK HE DID THAT?
00:47:17.13\00:47:22.20
WELL, FOR ONE THING, NOTICE JUST
BEFORE THIS MIRACLE TAKES PLACE
00:47:22.20\00:47:25.21
- LOOK IN MARK 8:18 - SEE, THE
MIRACLE IS MARK 8:22 - MARK 8:18
00:47:25.21\00:47:32.08
HE SAYS, "HAVING
EYES, DO YOU NOT SEE?
00:47:32.08\00:47:35.12
AND HAVING EARS,
DO YOU NOT HEAR?"
00:47:35.12\00:47:37.32
SO HEALING THIS MAN'S SIGHT
RIGHT AFTER JESUS SAYS THAT
00:47:37.32\00:47:40.86
THERE ARE SOME WHO HAVE
EYES - THEY DON'T SEE, DOES OUR
00:47:40.86\00:47:44.36
SPIRITUAL VISION
SOMETIMES COME BACK IN DEGREES?
00:47:44.36\00:47:48.80
PEOPLE LIKE PAUL DID NOT - PAUL
- NOT EVERYONE HAS A DRAMATIC
00:47:48.80\00:47:53.47
EXPERIENCE LIKE HIM ON THE ROAD
TO DAMASCUS, WHERE SUDDENLY HE'S
00:47:53.47\00:47:57.34
GOT PERFECT SIGHT - AT LEAST
WHEN THE SCALES FELL FROM HIS
00:47:57.34\00:48:01.31
EYES. SOMETIMES THE LORD
HEALS IN DEGREES. SOMETIMES OUR
00:48:01.31\00:48:06.25
UNDERSTANDING COMES - OUR
VISUAL SIGHT COMES IN STAGES.
00:48:06.25\00:48:10.19
AND THE LORD
SOMETIMES HEALS IN STAGES.
00:48:10.19\00:48:12.89
WHEN YOU PRAY FOR SOMEONE'S
HEALING, HE MAY NOT DO IT ALL IN
00:48:12.89\00:48:15.26
ONE DAY; HE MIGHT
DO IT WITH A PROCESS.
00:48:15.26\00:48:18.13
AND SO THIS MAN WAS
HEALED WITH A PROCESS.
00:48:18.13\00:48:20.26
DON'T LOSE PATIENCE WITH PEOPLE
IF THEIR SPIRITUAL SIGHT IS
00:48:20.26\00:48:23.87
FUZZY AND THEY SEE MEN AS
TREES WALKING, IN THE BEGINNING.
00:48:23.87\00:48:28.04
ALRIGHT, LAST SECTION - IT'S THE
OTHER-CENTERED CHURCH - ALRIGHT,
00:48:28.04\00:48:32.74
SOMEONE'S GOING TO LOOK UP FOR
ME 1 THESSALONIANS 4:9 AND I'M
00:48:32.74\00:48:37.85
GOING TO READ PHILIPPIANS 2:3,
"LET NOTHING BE DONE THROUGH
00:48:37.85\00:48:41.95
SELFISH AMBITION OR CONCEIT, BUT
IN LOWLINESS OF MIND LET EACH
00:48:41.95\00:48:46.86
ESTEEM OTHERS
BETTER THAN HIMSELF."
00:48:46.86\00:48:49.42
SO HOW DO YOU PUT THAT
INTO PRACTICE IF WE'RE ALWAYS
00:48:49.42\00:48:54.46
CLAMORING FOR THE FIRST
PLACE IN LINE AT A POTLUCK?
00:48:54.46\00:48:58.60
NOW EVERYONE'S GOING TO FEEL
GUILTY AND NO ONE'S GOING TO
00:48:58.60\00:49:00.34
WANT TO GET IN LINE AT
ALL. I KNOW LAST WEEK I
00:49:00.34\00:49:05.51
WAS AT TWO DINNERS. WE
HAD THE CHURCH POTLUCK AND I
00:49:05.51\00:49:09.94
WAS THE LAST IN LINE - I'M
NOT BRAGGING, IT JUST WORKED OUT
00:49:09.94\00:49:12.85
THAT WAY BECAUSE, YOU
KNOW, PASTORS SHAKING HANDS.
00:49:12.85\00:49:14.62
AND SOMETIMES THERE'S NOT AS
MUCH LUCK LEFT IN THE POT AT THE
00:49:14.62\00:49:17.59
END OF THE POTLUCK. AND
THEN WE HAD A YOUTH PROGRAM
00:49:17.59\00:49:21.29
THAT NIGHT AND I TOLD EVERYONE
- I SAID, 'LOOK, I WAS LAST
00:49:21.29\00:49:23.73
TODAY.' I SAID, 'I'M
FIRST TONIGHT.' AND SO I - I WAS
00:49:23.73\00:49:29.16
TEASING - THEN I WENT
TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE.
00:49:29.16\00:49:30.90
BUT IN THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION,
IT'S REALLY THINKING ABOUT THE
00:49:30.90\00:49:35.37
OTHER PERSON, WHETHER IT'S
IN YOUR FAMILY AND BEARING EACH
00:49:35.37\00:49:40.68
OTHER'S BURDENS, WHETHER IT'S
THE RESPONSIBILITIES IN A CHURCH
00:49:40.68\00:49:44.18
FAMILY, OR THERE'S A MEMBER THAT
MAYBE NEEDS TO MOVE AND YOU'VE
00:49:44.18\00:49:47.45
GOT SOME PERSONAL ITEMS AROUND
YOUR HOUSE AND YOU SAY, 'I'VE
00:49:47.45\00:49:50.59
GOT MY HONEY-DO LIST HERE AT MY
HOUSE, BUT I'VE GOT A BROTHER OR
00:49:50.59\00:49:52.82
SISTER THAT NEEDS
HELPING MOVING' AND SAYING,
00:49:52.82\00:49:55.89
'YOU KNOW, GOD'LL PAY ME BACK.
00:49:55.89\00:49:57.56
GOD'LL COMPENSATE SOMEHOW.' I
- YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW IT
00:49:57.56\00:50:00.73
WORKS BUT I'VE SEEN IT -
MAYBE YOU'VE SEEN IT TOO - THAT
00:50:00.73\00:50:05.40
WHENEVER I HAVE A STRUGGLE
AND SAY, 'LORD, I KNOW THAT THE
00:50:05.40\00:50:07.27
RIGHT CHRIST-CENTERED THING TO
DO WOULD BE THIS, BUT I'VE GOT
00:50:07.27\00:50:10.41
THIS OTHER LIST.' AND I SAY,
'ALRIGHT, LORD, I'M GOING TO DO
00:50:10.41\00:50:13.11
WHAT I THINK YOU'RE IMPRESSING
ME TO DO.' SOMEHOW, THE OTHER
00:50:13.11\00:50:16.14
THINGS ON THE
LIST STILL GET DONE.
00:50:16.14\00:50:18.15
>>AMEN. >>IT
DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT YOU
00:50:18.15\00:50:20.75
WOULD WAKE UP EARLIER SO YOU
COULD PRAY AND HAVE MORE ENERGY.
00:50:20.75\00:50:25.95
IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT YOU
WOULD TAKE MORE TIME TO PRAY AND
00:50:25.95\00:50:28.76
END UP GETTING MORE DONE,
BUT GOD, SOMEHOW, COMPENSATES.
00:50:28.76\00:50:33.73
I REMEMBER MARTIN LUTHER USED TO
SAY, 'UNLESS I SPEND THREE HOURS
00:50:33.73\00:50:36.03
IN PRAYER, I CAN'T GET ANYTHING
DONE.' DOESN'T THAT SEEM
00:50:36.03\00:50:39.53
ANTITHETICAL TO
THE WAY WE WOULD THINK?
00:50:39.53\00:50:43.67
ALRIGHT, PLEASE READ
FOR US 1 THESSALONIANS 4:9.
00:50:43.67\00:50:46.47
>>BUT CONCERNING BROTHERLY LOVE
YOU HAVE NO NEED THAT I SHOULD
00:50:46.47\00:50:50.11
WRITE TO YOU, FOR YOU YOURSELVES
ARE TAUGHT BY GOD TO LOVE ONE
00:50:50.11\00:50:54.58
ANOTHER;" >>YOU
KNOW, JOHN, HE WAS ALWAYS
00:50:54.58\00:50:57.29
SAYING, 'BELOVED, LOVE
ONE ANOTHER. LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
00:50:57.29\00:51:00.79
BY THIS ALL MEN WILL KNOW
YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES: BY YOUR
00:51:00.79\00:51:04.79
DOCTRINE, BY YOUR BUILDING, BY
YOUR MUSIC, BY YOUR CHILDREN'S
00:51:04.79\00:51:07.13
PROGRAM, BY YOUR ELOQUENT
PREACHER - BY THIS ALL MEN WILL
00:51:07.13\00:51:10.37
KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY
DISCIPLES' - BY WHAT?
00:51:10.37\00:51:12.60
>>YOUR LOVE. >>BY YOUR LOVE.
00:51:12.60\00:51:15.27
THAT IS THE MOST
IMPORTANT LITMUS TEST.
00:51:15.27\00:51:17.94
ROMANS 12:10, "BE KINDLY
AFFECTIONATE TO ONE ANOTHER" -
00:51:17.94\00:51:21.98
I'VE GOT A SERMON I DID ONE TIME
CALLED ONE ANOTHER AND I TOOK
00:51:21.98\00:51:24.95
ALL THE ONE ANOTHERS THAT I
COULD FIND IN THE BIBLE AND I
00:51:24.95\00:51:27.42
WENT THROUGH - AND THERE'S QUITE
A FEW OF THEM, ESPECIALLY FROM
00:51:27.42\00:51:29.35
PAUL, AND HE TALKS ABOUT HOW WE
SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER AND PRAY
00:51:29.35\00:51:32.22
FOR ONE ANOTHER AND CARE FOR
ONE ANOTHER AND CHRISTIANITY IS
00:51:32.22\00:51:35.66
BEING PART OF A BODY WHERE
WE ALL SHARE THIS JOINT LOVE.
00:51:35.66\00:51:41.20
"BE KINDLY AFFECTIONATE TO ONE
ANOTHER WITH BROTHERLY LOVE, IN
00:51:41.20\00:51:45.07
HONOR GIVING
PREFERENCE TO ONE ANOTHER."
00:51:45.07\00:51:48.87
1 PETER 1:22, "SINCE YOU HAVE
PURIFIED YOUR SOULS IN OBEYING
00:51:48.87\00:51:53.31
THE TRUTH THROUGH THE SPIRIT
IN SINCERE LOVE OF THE BRETHREN,
00:51:53.31\00:51:57.51
LOVE ONE ANOTHER FERVENTLY WITH
A PURE HEART" - HAVING FERVENT
00:51:57.51\00:52:02.78
LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.
AND THEN HEBREWS 13:1, "LET
00:52:02.78\00:52:07.29
BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUE."
THIS WAS THE HALLMARK OF THE
00:52:07.29\00:52:10.89
EARLY CHURCH THAT
MADE IT GROW SO MUCH.
00:52:10.89\00:52:13.19
THE EARLY CHURCH, THEY WERE
WILLING TO DIE FOR ONE ANOTHER.
00:52:13.19\00:52:16.87
THEY CARED AND
LOVED ONE ANOTHER.
00:52:16.87\00:52:19.97
AND THIS NEEDS TO BE
THE STANDARD FOR US AS WELL.
00:52:19.97\00:52:22.40
CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? AND
THAT'S WHY THIS IS A GREAT
00:52:22.40\00:52:25.04
OFFER FOR TODAY - A LOVE THAT
TRANSFORMS - IT TALKS, REALLY,
00:52:25.04\00:52:28.18
ABOUT THE GOSPEL AND IF YOU'VE
NOT READ THIS - THIS IS ONE OF
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THE BEST AMAZING FACTS STUDY
GUIDES AND - YOU KNOW, WHEN WE
00:52:31.08\00:52:33.98
HOLD THESE THINGS UP,
THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL LESSONS.
00:52:33.98\00:52:35.88
THEY'RE FULL OF PICTURES AND
SCRIPTURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
00:52:35.88\00:52:38.55
AND SO, YOU ASK FOR IT,
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE.
00:52:38.55\00:52:41.59
AND THAT PHONE NUMBER
866-788-3966 AND THAT ADDS UP TO
00:52:41.59\00:52:47.03
866-STUDY-MORE AND
JUST ASK; WE'LL SEND.
00:52:47.03\00:52:50.97
YOU KNOW, WE TRUST THAT WE MAIL
THESE THINGS OUT EVERY WEEK FROM
00:52:50.97\00:52:53.97
AMAZING FACTS, JUST BELIEVING
THAT PEOPLE WILL SAY, 'HEY, YOU
00:52:53.97\00:52:57.27
KNOW, I WANT TO KEEP THIS
HAPPENING.' IF YOU SUPPORT OUR
00:52:57.27\00:52:59.84
LITERATURE
MINISTRY, WE APPRECIATE THAT.
00:52:59.84\00:53:02.34
THAT'S ALL THE TIME WE
HAVE FOR OUR STUDY TODAY.
00:53:02.34\00:53:04.55
WE WANT TO THANK YOU
FOR JOINING US, FRIENDS.
00:53:04.55\00:53:06.72
I ALSO WANT TO GREET THOSE
WHO ARE EXTENDED MEMBERS OF THE
00:53:06.72\00:53:08.65
GRANITE BAY CHURCH FAMILY OUT
THERE AND OUR REGULAR VIEWERS -
00:53:08.65\00:53:12.42
GOD BLESS YOU AND WE'LL
STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:53:12.42\00:53:15.79
(MUSIC)
00:53:15.79\00:53:27.40
>>EVERY NOW AND THEN, IN
THE PANORAMA OF HISTORY, WE HEAR
00:53:27.40\00:53:29.87
ABOUT INDIVIDUALS THAT GO FROM
THE LOWEST DEPTHS TO THE HIGHEST
00:53:29.87\00:53:33.27
PINNACLES. THEY
EMERGE FROM THE SHACKLES
00:53:33.27\00:53:35.58
OF PRISON TO LEAD
AND INSPIRE A NATION.
00:53:35.58\00:53:39.45
TAKE JOSEPH, FOR INSTANCE: HE'S
SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS AS A SLAVE,
00:53:39.45\00:53:43.75
THEN FALSELY ACCUSED
AND THRUST INTO PRISON.
00:53:43.75\00:53:46.55
YET, THROUGH A SERIES OF DIVINE
CIRCUMSTANCES, HE MIRACULOUSLY
00:53:46.55\00:53:49.66
GOES FROM THE PRISON TO THE
PALACE, RULING THE ONES WHO ONCE
00:53:49.66\00:53:53.23
IMPRISONED HIM.
SOUND FAR-FETCHED?
00:53:53.23\00:53:55.86
IT'S HAPPENED IN
HISTORY MORE THAN YOU THINK.
00:53:55.86\00:53:58.17
SOUTH AFRICA IS THE
HOME OF JUST SUCH A LEADER.
00:53:58.17\00:54:02.04
NELSON MANDELA WORKED TIRELESSLY
TO ESTABLISH PEACE AND FREEDOM
00:54:02.04\00:54:05.61
IN HIS COUNTRY AND HIS INFLUENCE
WAS FELT AROUND THE WORLD.
00:54:05.61\00:54:10.58
BEFORE FREEDOM,
THERE MUST BE FORGIVENESS.
00:54:10.58\00:54:13.05
LIKE JOSEPH, WHO WAS UNJUSTLY
ACCUSED OF A CRIME HE DID NOT
00:54:13.05\00:54:16.02
COMMIT, NELSON MANDELA
WAS ACCUSED OF TERRORISM AND
00:54:16.02\00:54:19.19
SENTENCED TO LIFE IN
PRISON ON ROBIN ISLAND.
00:54:19.19\00:54:22.22
HE WAS OFTEN EXPOSED TO
CRUEL PUNISHMENT AND ABUSE.
00:54:22.22\00:54:25.36
BUT EVEN IN THE MIDST
OF APPARENT FAILURE AND
00:54:25.36\00:54:27.20
DISCOURAGEMENT, HE NEVER
LOST HEART AND HE NEVER GAVE UP.
00:54:27.20\00:54:30.40
AFTER YEARS IN PRISON, A GROWING
NUMBER OF SUPPORTERS RALLIED FOR
00:54:30.40\00:54:34.14
HIS RELEASE AND
EVENTUALLY IT TOOK PLACE.
00:54:34.14\00:54:37.07
AND GOD USED HIM SO THAT HE
WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING TO
00:54:37.07\00:54:39.57
ABOLISH RACIAL SEGREGATION
IN THE COUNTRY OF SOUTH AFRICA.
00:54:39.57\00:54:43.51
INCREDIBLY, HE NOW WAS,
VIRTUALLY, THE ABSOLUTE LEADER
00:54:43.51\00:54:46.95
IN THE COUNTRY
THAT HAD IMPRISONED HIM.
00:54:46.95\00:54:49.22
HE HAD ALL THE TOOLS AND
THE POWER AT HIS DISPOSAL TO GET
00:54:49.22\00:54:51.85
EVEN WITH THE PRISON GUARDS AND
OTHERS THAT HAD MISTREATED HIM.
00:54:51.85\00:54:55.22
INSTEAD, MANDELA
CHOSE FORGIVENESS.
00:54:55.22\00:54:58.36
IT REMINDS ME OF THAT VERSE IN
THE BIBLE IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER
00:54:58.36\00:55:00.96
4, VERSE 31, "LET ALL
BITTERNESS, WRATH, ANGER,
00:55:00.96\00:55:05.13
CLAMOR, AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT
AWAY FROM YOU, WITH ALL MALICE.
00:55:05.13\00:55:09.04
AND BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER,
TENDERHEARTED, FORGIVING ONE
00:55:09.04\00:55:13.01
ANOTHER, EVEN AS GOD
IN CHRIST FORGAVE YOU."
00:55:13.01\00:55:17.51
I'M SO THANKFUL THAT NELSON
MANDELA, LIKE JOSEPH, CHOSE TO
00:55:17.51\00:55:20.78
FORGIVE THOSE WHO WERE ONCE HIS
ENEMIES, AND TO SERVE HIS NATION
00:55:20.78\00:55:23.69
WITH LOVE AND COURAGE.
YOU CAN FIND A NUMBER OF
00:55:23.69\00:55:26.55
EXAMPLES OF THIS
HAPPENING IN THE BIBLE.
00:55:26.55\00:55:28.92
YOU HAVE DANIEL, WHO WAS A
CAPTIVE FROM THE LAND OF JUDAH,
00:55:28.92\00:55:31.86
AND YET GOD ARRANGED THINGS
WHERE HE BECOMES THE PRIME
00:55:31.86\00:55:34.03
MINISTER IN THE KINGDOM OF
BABYLON. YOU HAVE ESTHER, WHO
00:55:34.03\00:55:37.27
WAS A POOR ORPHAN GIRL IN
PERSIA, AND YET GOD WORKED
00:55:37.27\00:55:40.24
THINGS OUT WHERE SHE BECOMES
THE QUEEN OF THAT COUNTRY.
00:55:40.24\00:55:43.37
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH ENDS WITH
AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF A YOUNG
00:55:43.37\00:55:46.37
KING NAMED JEHOIACHIN, WHO WAS
IN A BABYLONIAN DUNGEON FOR 37
00:55:46.37\00:55:50.35
YEARS AND THEN KING
EVIL-MERODACH HAS MERCY ON HIM
00:55:50.35\00:55:54.22
AND HE HAD A NEW STATUS, GOING
FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE.
00:55:54.22\00:55:57.42
THIS IS WHAT THE LORD WANTS
TO DO FOR YOU AND ME, FRIENDS.
00:55:57.42\00:55:59.79
HE GIVES YOU THE BREAD OF LIFE.
00:55:59.79\00:56:01.09
HE GIVES YOU THE ROBE
OF JESUS' RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:56:01.09\00:56:03.32
HE GIVES YOU A
SEAT AT HIS TABLE.
00:56:03.32\00:56:05.29
IF YOU ACCEPT HIS FORGIVENESS
AND YOU'RE WILLING TO PASS IT
00:56:05.29\00:56:07.96
ON, YOU AND I CAN
LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST.
00:56:07.96\00:56:10.77
WOULDN'T YOU
LIKE THAT EXPERIENCE?
00:56:10.77\00:56:13.50
(MUSIC)
00:56:13.50\00:56:20.74
>>AMAZING FACTS
HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE.
00:56:20.74\00:56:22.71
>>AND I JUST PRAISE
GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS.
00:56:22.71\00:56:24.65
>>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY
DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE.
00:56:24.65\00:56:27.12
>>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING
WHERE I AM TODAY - I FELT GOOD
00:56:27.12\00:56:30.49
ABOUT THAT. I
DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED.
00:56:30.49\00:56:31.95
>>I BEGAN
READING THE BIBLE AND -
00:56:31.95\00:56:34.62
>>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST -
00:56:34.62\00:56:36.73
>>I REALIZED THAT
THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE.
00:56:36.73\00:56:39.13
>>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS.
>>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME.
00:56:39.13\00:56:41.50
>>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO
POWERFUL. >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST
00:56:41.50\00:56:43.30
WHEREVER HE GOES.
>>AMAZING FACTS. MORE THAN 45
00:56:43.30\00:56:48.17
YEARS OF PROCLAIMING
GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
00:56:48.17\00:56:52.04
>>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS
ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS.
00:56:52.04\00:56:56.01
I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS
00:56:56.01\00:56:58.48
WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S
ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE
00:56:58.48\00:57:01.52
I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND
ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE
00:57:01.52\00:57:04.79
NEVER HEARD THIS
BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK
00:57:04.79\00:57:07.66
THROUGH AND FIND THIS. AND
I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH.
00:57:07.66\00:57:09.72
>>AND SO I STARTED
DOING BIBLE STUDIES.
00:57:09.72\00:57:11.73
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS
STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING
00:57:11.73\00:57:15.73
MYSELF. >>MY
QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID
00:57:15.73\00:57:18.57
THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?'
THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT
00:57:18.57\00:57:21.90
AND - AND I
ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A FATHER.
00:57:21.90\00:57:24.41
>>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS
WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD
00:57:24.41\00:57:28.74
MISSING IN MY LIFE.
>>I WENT TO A PROPHECY
00:57:28.74\00:57:30.95
SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT.
THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND
00:57:30.95\00:57:36.22
SO IRREFUTABLE, I
JUST WENT, 'THIS IS REAL.
00:57:36.22\00:57:38.92
THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.'
>>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS
00:57:38.92\00:57:44.86
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