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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME, AGAIN, TO SABBATH 00:37 SCHOOL STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY 00:40 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THE 00:43 MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH, OUR REGULAR MEMBERS HERE FOR OUR 00:46 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY TIME, AND ALSO OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL 00:50 CLASS - THOSE WATCHING ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD 00:53 - AND, ESPECIALLY, A WARM WELCOME TO OUR ONLINE MEMBERS 00:57 WHO FAITHFULLY TUNE IN EVERY WEEK AND PARTICIPATE IN OUR 01:00 SERVICES HERE. WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE JOINING US AGAIN. 01:03 WELL, WE'VE STARTED A BRAND-NEW LESSON DEALING WITH THE BOOK OF 01:06 JOB AND TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON #2, WHICH IS ENTITLED 01:10 THE GREAT CONTROVERSY. BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, WE'D 01:14 LIKE TO REMIND YOU ABOUT A FREE OFFER THAT WE HAVE - A BOOK 01:17 ENTITLED IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE WITHOUT SINNING? 01:20 IF YOU'D LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS BOOK, THE NUMBER TO CALL IS 01:23 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #187. AGAIN, THE NUMBER TO 01:30 CALL IS 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER #187. 01:36 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU THIS BOOK. 01:38 IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA, JUST SIMPLY GO TO THE 01:41 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG 01:44 AND YOU CAN READ THE BOOK FOR FREE ONLINE. 01:47 AGAIN, THAT'S AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND THE FREE OFFER IS: 01:51 IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE WITHOUT SINNING? 01:53 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY THIS MORNING, I'D LIKE TO INVITE 01:56 OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN ME AND WE'RE GOING TO START 01:58 BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN PRAISE. (PIANO MUSIC) 02:04 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 02:06 AS ALWAYS, WE LOVE TO SING TOGETHER BEFORE WE GET INTO THE 02:09 MEAT OF THE LESSON. SO TODAY IS NO DIFFERENT. 02:12 WELCOME TO THOSE THAT ARE JOINING US. 02:14 PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND WE'RE GOING TO SING A FAVORITE ACROSS 02:17 THE WORLD - AMAZING GRACE - HOW SWEET THE SOUND THAT SAVED A 02:22 WRETCH LIKE ME. HYMN #108 - WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST, 02:26 THE SECOND, THE FOURTH AND THE FIFTH VERSES - HYMN #108. 02:32 (PIANO MUSIC) >>AMAZING GRACE! 02:42 HOW SWEET THE SOUND, THAT SAVED A WRETCH LIKE ME! 02:55 I ONCE WAS LOST, BUT NOW AM FOUND, WAS BLIND, BUT NOW I SEE. 03:13 'TWAS GRACE THAT TAUGHT MY HEART TO FEAR, AND GRACE MY FEARS 03:26 RELIEVED; HOW PRECIOUS DID THAT GRACE APPEAR THE HOUR I FIRST 03:44 BELIEVED! THROUGH MANY DANGERS, TOILS, AND 03:56 SNARES, I HAVE ALREADY COME; 'TIS GRACE HATH BROUGHT ME SAFE 04:12 THUS FAR, AND GRACE WILL LEAD ME HOME. WHEN WE'VE BEEN THERE TEN 04:28 THOUSAND YEARS, BRIGHT SHINING AS THE SUN, WE'VE NO LESS DAYS 04:44 TO SING GOD'S PRAISE THAN WHEN WE'D FIRST BEGUN. 04:59 >>YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES FOR FUN I LIKE TO JUST THINK ABOUT WHAT 05:02 ETERNITY FEELS LIKE AND I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE. AND YOUR MIND JUST 05:06 KIND OF GETS LOST IN SPACE THINKING WHAT THAT IS GOING TO 05:10 BE. WHAT A BLESSED HOPE WE HAVE THAT 05:12 WE CAN SPEND FOREVER WITH JESUS AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF HIS 05:17 GRACE THAT HE POURED OUT FREELY FOR US - THAT WE DO NOT DESERVE, 05:21 BUT WE ARE SO GRATEFUL THAT HE LOVES US THAT MUCH. 05:26 HYMN #109 - WE'RE TALKING AND SINGING ABOUT GRACE TODAY - 05:31 MARVELOUS GRACE OF OUR LOVING LORD. WE'RE GOING TO 05:34 SING ALL THREE VERSES - HYMN #109. (PIANO MUSIC) 05:48 >>MARVELOUS GRACE OF OUR LOVING LORD, GRACE THAT EXCEEDS OUR 05:57 SIN AND OUR GUILT! YONDER ON CALVARY'S MOUNT 06:04 OUTPOURED - THERE WHERE THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB WAS SPILT. 06:13 GRACE, GRACE, GOD'S GRACE, GRACE THAT WILL PARDON AND CLEANSE 06:23 WITHIN; GRACE, GRACE, GOD'S GRACE, GRACE THAT IS GREATER 06:33 THAN ALL OUR SIN! SIN AND DESPAIR, LIKE THE 06:41 SEA WAVES COLD, THREATEN THE SOUL WITH INFINITE LOSS; GRACE 06:51 THAT IS GREATER - YES, GRACE UNTOLD - POINTS TO THE REFUGE, 06:59 THE MIGHTY CROSS. GRACE, GRACE, GOD'S GRACE, GRACE 07:10 THAT WILL PARDON AND CLEANSE WITHIN; GRACE, GRACE, GOD'S 07:20 GRACE, GRACE THAT IS GREATER THAN ALL OUR SIN! 07:29 MARVELOUS, INFINITE, MATCHLESS GRACE, FREELY BESTOWED ON ALL 07:39 WHO BELIEVE! YOU THAT ARE LONGING TO SEE HIS 07:46 FACE, WILL YOU THIS MOMENT HIS GRACE RECEIVE? 07:54 GRACE, GRACE, GOD'S GRACE, GRACE THAT WILL PARDON AND CLEANSE 08:05 WITHIN; GRACE, GRACE, GOD'S GRACE, GRACE THAT IS GREATER 08:17 THAN ALL OUR SIN! >>AMEN. 08:26 AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER. 08:34 >>LET US BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 08:36 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS FOR US TO BE 08:38 ABLE TO GATHER TOGETHER ON THIS THE SABBATH, TO OPEN UP YOUR 08:41 WORD AND STUDY. AND TODAY, AS WE LOOK AT THE 08:43 STORY OF JOB AND CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, THE 08:47 EVENTS TAKING PLACE ARE UNSEEN AND, YET, AROUND US. 08:51 I DO PRAY THAT WE WOULD HAVE INSIGHT AND UNDERSTANDING - THAT 08:54 THE SPIRIT WOULD LEAD US, SO BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER, FOR WE 08:57 ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO BE 09:01 BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 09:07 HERE, LET ME GIVE YOU THIS EXTRA LESSON - OR - I GOT TOO MANY AND 09:11 I'LL HAVE TO TEACH IN STEREO. MORNING EVERYONE. 09:14 >>MORNING. >>HAPPY SABBATH. 09:16 >>HAPPY SABBATH. >>I WANT TO WELCOME, AGAIN, OUR 09:17 CLASS THAT IS WATCHING VIA THE INTERNET OR, PERHAPS YOU'RE 09:22 WATCHING ON SATELLITE AND WE HAVE AN EXTENDED GROUP OF 09:25 MEMBERS THAT ARE AROUND THE WORLD. THERE'S PEOPLE THAT, FOR 09:28 SOME REASON, THERE'S NO LOCAL CHURCH THAT THEY CAN ATTEND AND 09:31 SO THEY'VE BECOME SOME OF OUR ONLINE MEMBERS. 09:33 WE WANT TO WELCOME THE ONLINE GRANITE BAY MEMBERS. 09:36 MAYBE YOU'RE A VIEWER AND YOU'RE IN THAT CATEGORY WHERE THERE'S 09:39 NO LOCAL CHURCH YOU CAN ATTEND; YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW 'HOW DO I 09:42 BECOME CONNECTED TO THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH?' 09:45 JUST GO TO GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG AND WE'LL - CONTACT US THERE AND 09:51 WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION ON THAT. WE DON'T WANT ANYONE 09:53 TO BE OUT THERE BY THEMSELVES. WE'RE IN OUR LESSON DEALING WITH 09:58 THE SUBJECT OF JOB AND THIS IS - THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT, 10:03 SPLENDID, OUTSTANDING BOOKS IN THE BIBLE. 10:05 LITTLE PREVIEW: AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, JOB IS PROBABLY THE 10:10 FIRST BOOK THAT WAS WRITTEN, PROBABLY WRITTEN BY MOSES WHILE 10:13 HE WAS IN THE WILDERNESS EVEN BEFORE HE WROTE GENESIS. 10:17 SOME OF THE SIMILAR, ANCIENT LANGUAGE THAT WAS USED - AND IT 10:21 TALKS ABOUT A MAN, WE LEARNED IN OUR LAST LESSON, WHO WAS LIVING, 10:26 ROUGHLY DURING THE TIME OF ESAU'S DESCENDENTS AND WHERE THE 10:31 EDOMITES SETTLED IN THE LAND OF UZ, WAS THERE IN THE LAND OF 10:36 EDOM. IT WAS - THEY CALLED HIM ONE OF 10:39 THE GREATEST OF THE MEN OF THE EAST - AND THAT'S TALKING ABOUT 10:42 EAST OF EGYPT - EAST OF WHERE THE LAND OF ISRAEL WAS - AND 10:47 THAT'S WHERE EDOM WAS, SORT OF SOUTHEAST - THAT'S WHAT 10:49 THEY CALLED THAT TERRITORY. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOU FIND HIS 10:53 NAME MENTIONED AS A KING OF EDOM NAMED JOBAB. 10:58 WE DON'T KNOW THAT, BUT THERE WAS A KING - BECAUSE WHEN YOU 11:00 READ ABOUT JOB - MAYBE WE SHOULD GO THERE. 11:02 WE'RE GOING TO BE READING SOME OF THE FIRST VERSES OF JOB. 11:05 TURN TO THE BOOK OF JOB, CHAPTER 1 AND MAYBE I'LL READ 11:09 VERSES 1 THROUGH 4, "THERE WAS A MAN" - THE WHOLE BOOK IS ABOUT 11:14 THIS INCREDIBLE MAN - "IN THE LAND OF UZ," - NO, NOT OZ, 11:19 DIFFERENT PLACE - "WHOSE NAME WAS JOB; AND THAT MAN WAS 11:25 BLAMELESS" - AND THE WORD 'JOB' WE LEARNED MEANS 'SOMEONE 11:27 AFFLICTED' OR 'PERSECUTED' - "AND THAT MAN WAS BLAMELESS" - I 11:33 THINK KING JAMES SAYS 'PERFECT' AND THAT KIND OF MAKES US 11:35 NERVOUS. OF COURSE, JESUS SAID, 'BE YE PERFECT THEREFORE AS YOUR 11:39 FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT.' HE ALSO SAID, 'BE YE THEREFORE 11:41 MERCIFUL AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS MERCIFUL' - "AND 11:46 UPRIGHT," - NOW LET ME STOP BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER. 11:48 CAN YOU NAME SOME OTHER PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE THAT ARE IDENTIFIED 11:51 AS BLAMELESS? I CAN'T HEAR, I'M SORRY. 11:57 >>DANIEL. >>DANIEL. 11:58 WHERE DOES IT SAY HE'S BLAMELESS? 12:04 I BELIEVE HE WAS - I BELIEVE HE WOULD QUALIFY, BUT IT SAYS 'HE 12:07 WAS GREATLY BELOVED OF HEAVEN.' DO YOU REMEMBER ZACHARIAH AND 12:12 ELIZABETH? 'THEY WALKED IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD 12:16 BLAMELESS.' AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF OTHER CHARACTERS - NOT TOO 12:21 MANY - IT SAYS OF HEZEKIAH, 'HE WALKED IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS 12:24 OF THE LORD, BLAMELESS AS HIS FATHER DAVID' - BUT THEN LATER 12:27 HEZEKIAH, HE HAD A BOUT WITH PRIDE, IF YOU REMEMBER. 12:31 BUT DOES THAT MEAN THEY WERE PERFECT OR SINLESS? NO, 12:35 BECAUSE HOW MANY HAVE SINNED? >>ALL. 12:37 >>ALL EXCEPT WHO? >>JESUS. 12:39 >>RIGHT, SO LET'S MAKE SURE THERE'S THAT ONE EXCEPTION. 12:42 IT SAYS, 'WHO DID NO SIN' - JESUS IS THE ONE WHO DID NO SIN. 12:45 SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT JOB BEING A PERFECT OR UPRIGHT OR 12:48 BLAMELESS MAN, IT MEANS HE WAS CONSISTENTLY A GODLY PERSON. 12:54 AND HOW IS THAT CATEGORIZED? 12:57 HE FEARED GOD AND HATED OR ESCHEWED OR SHUNNED EVIL. 13:03 HE HAD REVERENCE FOR GOD AND HE HATED EVIL. 13:07 AND THEN IT GOES ON AND TELLS US A LITTLE MORE ABOUT HIM, BUT 13:09 WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET INTO THAT JUST YET IN OUR LESSON. 13:12 SO WHEN YOU FIRST READ THIS, OUR FIRST SECTION - OH, YOU KNOW 13:15 WHAT I FORGOT? YOU GUYS HAVE TO HELP ME - OUR MEMORY VERSE. 13:20 ALRIGHT, WE'VE GOT A MEMORY VERSE - ZECHARIAH 3:2 - AND HERE 13:25 IT'S FROM THE, I BELIEVE IT'S THE KING JAMES VERSION IN THE 13:30 LESSON - ARE YOU READY? ZECHARIAH 3:2 - SAY THAT WITH 13:32 ME, "AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SATAN, THE LORD REBUKE THEE, O 13:38 SATAN; EVEN THE LORD THAT HATH CHOSEN JERUSALEM REBUKE THEE: IS 13:43 NOT THIS A BRAND PLUCKED OUT OF THE FIRE?" 13:47 YOU'VE HEARD THE EXPRESSION 'A BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING'? 13:50 SO THE WHOLE LESSON HERE IS REALLY DEALING WITH THE GREAT 13:54 CONTROVERSY BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL AND THIS IS - THE STORY OF 13:59 JOB REALLY DOES SHOW THESE TWO GREAT, TITANIC FORCES - ONE OF 14:04 GOOD AND ONE OF EVIL - IN THIS CONTEST THAT IS GOING ON. 14:08 YOU KNOW, NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE, I THINK, UNDERSTAND THE THEME OF 14:13 THE GREAT BATTLE - THE GREAT CONTROVERSY BETWEEN GOOD AND 14:17 EVIL - LIKE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. 14:19 YOU KNOW, AMAZING FACTS, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, 14:21 WE PUT OUT A DVD CALLED COSMIC CONFLICT . 14:24 WELL, IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT'S THE NAME OF ONE OF OUR SECTIONS 14:26 HERE IN A MINUTE AND I WAS AT A RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS 14:32 CONVENTION, WHERE ALL THESE DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS 14:35 COME TOGETHER AND WE BUY STATIONS AND WE TALK ABOUT 14:38 UPHOLDING FREEDOM TO BROADCAST AND IT'S A NEAT CONVENTION. 14:42 AND THIS ENTOURAGE - SUSAN WAS THERE AND SHE WAS WALKING - SHE 14:47 WAS TAKING CARE OF THE BOOTH - AND THIS ENTOURAGE OF A COUPLE 14:52 OF PRIESTS AND ABOUT FIVE NUNS WAS WALKING UP THE AISLE AND 14:55 THEY CAME BY THE AMAZING FACTS BOOTH AND THEY ALL BEGAN TO TALK 14:59 TO EACH OTHER IN FRENCH AND WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE 15:03 SAYING. AND THEN THEY CAME OVER AND 15:05 THEY SAID, 'OH, WE LOVE AMAZING FACTS.' THEY SAID, 'WE REALLY 15:09 LIKE YOUR COSMIC CONFLICT DVD THAT TALKS ABOUT THE BATTLE 15:13 BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. WE WATCH IT ALL THE TIME. WE SHARE IT 15:16 WITH OTHERS.' I GOT TO THE BOOTH AND SUSAN WAS ALL EXCITED. 15:20 SHE SAID, 'SEE THAT GROUP OF PRIESTS AND NUNS OVER THERE? 15:23 THEY SAID THAT JUST LOVE OUR COSMIC CONFLICT DVD' - BECAUSE 15:26 THERE'S REALLY NOTHING IN THERE THAT THEY DISAGREE WITH. 15:28 IT ALL TALKS ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF EVIL AND SATAN'S DESIRE FOR 15:31 PRIDE AND THEY JUST - SO I WENT AND I GOT A PICTURE WITH THEM. 15:33 I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU EVER SAW THAT. 15:35 I HAD A PICTURE OF THEM HOLDING THE COSMIC CONFLICT DVD AND I'M 15:38 STANDING THERE WITH ABOUT EIGHT PRIESTS AND NUNS. 15:41 THEY WERE FROM A DIOCESE THAT - NEAR THE CANADIAN BORDER, I 15:44 THINK - THAT SPOKE FRENCH AND ENGLISH. 15:46 ANYWAY, BUT THIS IS A SUBJECT THAT MOST CHRISTIANS SAY, 15:51 'ALRIGHT, GOD IS GOOD. THERE'S EVIL IN THE WORLD. WHY?' 15:57 AND THE BOOK OF JOB IS DEALING WITH WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND THE 16:01 VEIL. WHAT'S CAUSING THIS BATTLE? 16:03 WHY IS - IF GOD IS GOOD AND GOD IS LOVE AND GOD IS POWERFUL, WHY 16:07 DO INNOCENT PEOPLE SUFFER? AND WHY DOES IT MEAN ONCE YOU 16:10 ACCEPT JESUS, YOUR SUFFERING DOESN'T STOP? 16:13 WHY, WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO BE GODLY AND FEAR GOD AND HATE 16:16 EVIL, ALL THESE THINGS MIGHT HAPPEN? 16:18 AND THE BOOK OF JOB REALLY GIVES US SOME ANSWERS OF WHAT'S 16:21 HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES. ALRIGHT, IT TELLS US THAT THIS 16:26 MAN WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST MEN OF ALL THE EAST. 16:29 YOU GO TO VERSE 3, "ALSO, HIS POSSESSIONS WERE SEVEN THOUSAND 16:33 SHEEP, THREE THOUSAND CAMELS, FIVE HUNDRED YOKE OF OXEN, FIVE 16:39 HUNDRED FEMALE DONKEYS, AND A VERY LARGE HOUSEHOLD, SO THAT 16:44 THIS MAN WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST. 16:47 AND HIS SONS WOULD GO AND FEAST IN THEIR HOUSES, EACH ON HIS 16:51 APPOINTED DAY, AND WOULD SEND AND INVITE THEIR THREE SISTERS 16:55 TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THEM." SO HE HAD SEVEN SONS, THREE 16:59 DAUGHTERS - HAVE YOU NOTICED SOMETHING ABOUT THE NUMBERS 17:01 THAT WE'VE JUST READ? YOU EVER OBSERVE, IN THE BIBLE, 17:06 CERTAIN NUMBERS APPEAR MORE FREQUENTLY THAN OTHERS? 17:11 WOULD YOU AGREE THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN NUMBERS THAT APPEAR TO 17:14 BE SYMBOLIC NUMBERS, OR NUMBERS THAT AT LEAST HAVE A SYMBOLIC 17:19 MEANING TO THEM? WHAT WOULD SOME OF 17:23 THOSE NUMBERS BE? >>SEVEN. 17:25 >>SEVEN APPEARS - YEAH, SIX-SIX-SIX IS ONE OF THEM - 17:28 SEVEN APPEARS - THAT'S LIKE GOD'S NUMBER. 17:32 YOU GO TO REVELATION AND COUNT HOW MANY SEVENS ARE IN 17:34 REVELATION. YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, SEVEN 17:37 THUNDERS, A LAMB WITH SEVEN EYES, YOU'VE GOT SEVEN CHURCHES, 17:40 SEVEN TRUMPETS, SEVEN - YEAH, SOMEONE SAID SEVEN SINS - THAT'S 17:46 SEVEN SEALS - OH, THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. 17:48 (LAUGHTER) THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS - ANOTHER NUMBER - I HEARD 17:53 SOMEONE SAY TEN. >>FORTY. 17:55 >>TWELVE. >>FORTY - TWELVE IS THE NUMBER 17:56 FOR THE CHURCH, FORTY IS THE NUMBER FOR A GENERATION - 17:58 WHAT ARE - TEN? BUT WHAT ABOUT FIVE? 18:02 DO YOU REMEMBER IN THE PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS HE 18:06 SAID, 'I HAVE FIVE BROTHERS. GO WARN THEM LEST THEY COME TO 18:09 THIS PLACE OF TORMENT.' HOW MANY BOOKS OF THE TORAH? 18:13 THE PENTATEUCH - PENTAGON - FIVE SIDES - FIVE BOOKS IN THE TORAH. 18:18 FIVE YOU'LL OFTEN FIND - AND THE OTHER ONES ARE THREE. 18:23 HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW MANY TIMES THREE APPEARS? 18:25 IF YOU'VE GOT A COMPUTER PROGRAM WITH THE BIBLE SOFTWARE, IT'S 18:28 REALLY EASY TO SEARCH THESE THINGS RIGHT NOW. 18:29 YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THAT THE NUMBERS SEVEN, FIVE, TEN, 18:34 TWELVE, FORTY, THREE - APPEAR MANY TIMES MORE, STATISTICALLY, 18:40 THAN THEY SHOULD APPEAR IF THE BIBLE IS JUST A RANDOM 18:43 COLLECTION OF NUMBERS. BUT IF NUMBERS HAVE A MEANING, 18:47 THEN IT MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT SOMETHING. 18:50 HOW MANY OF THESE UNUSUAL NUMBERS HERE ARE CONNECTED WITH 18:54 JOB? SEVEN SONS, THREE DAUGHTERS, FIVE THOUSAND CAMELS, 18:58 FIVE THOUSAND DONKEYS - AM I GETTING THE DONKEYS AND CAMELS 19:01 MIXED UP HERE? LET'S SEE HERE - THAT'S RIGHT. 19:05 YEAH, SEVEN THOUSAND SHEEP, THREE THOUSAND CAMELS, FIVE 19:11 HUNDRED YOKE OF OXEN, FIVE HUNDRED DONKEYS - VERY - SO IT'S 19:14 A LOT OF BIBLICAL NUMBERS. NOW, DOES THAT MEAN, BECAUSE 19:16 THESE NUMBERS ARE ALL UNIQUE, THAT THE STORY IS AN ALLEGORY? 19:20 HOW MANY SONS DID JACOB HAVE? >>TWELVE. 19:24 >>TWELVE. IS THAT A BIBLICAL NUMBER? DID HE REALLY LIVE? 19:28 YEAH, SO THESE PEOPLE REALLY LIVED. 19:31 THESE EXPERIENCES REALLY HAPPENED. 19:32 BUT IT'S INTERESTING THAT THE NUMBERS THAT ARE RECORDED OFTEN 19:35 MEAN THAT THERE'S A DEEPER MEANING - IT DEPICTS THAT 19:38 THERE'S A DEEPER MEANING HERE. 19:40 OKAY, AND IT SAYS - IT GOES ON TO SAY - "AND HIS SONS WOULD GO 19:43 OUT AND FEAST IN THEIR HOUSES, EACH ON HIS APPOINTED DAY," - 19:46 NOW, WE DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A CYCLE, MEANING THEY'RE YEARLY 19:49 BIRTHDAY OR IF THEY JUST HAD A ROTATION AND THEY SAID, 'LOOK, 19:53 ONCE A MONTH YOU COME AND YOU EAT WITH US' AND THEY'D INVITE 19:55 THEIR SISTERS TO DRINK WITH THEM - "SO IT WAS, WHEN THE DAYS OF 19:59 FEASTING HAD RUN THEIR COURSE, THAT JOB WOULD SEND AND 20:02 SANCTIFY THEM," - HE'D CALL HIS FAMILY TOGETHER AND HE'D OFFER 20:05 SACRIFICE "AND HE WOULD RISE EARLY...AND OFFER BURNT 20:08 OFFERINGS ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THEM ALL. 20:10 FOR JOB SAID, 'IT MAY BE THAT MY SONS'" - AND, OSTENSIBLY, HIS 20:14 DAUGHTERS - "'HAD SINNED AND CURSED GOD IN THEIR HEARTS.' 20:18 THUS JOB DID REGULARLY." SO HE'S A RIGHTEOUS MAN. 20:23 HE'S CONCERNED FOR HIS HOLINESS AND THE HOLINESS OF HIS FAMILY 20:26 AND HE WANTS TO BE A WITNESS IN HIS COMMUNITY. 20:29 AND HE'S AN UNUSUALLY GODLY MAN. AND IT TELLS US THAT HE 20:34 LOVES GOD AND HE FEARS GOD. NOW WHAT DOES FEARING GOD MEAN? 20:39 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY READ, IN A MOMENT, PROVERBS 20:42 14:27. ALBERT, YOU HAVE THAT? GET YOU READY. 20:47 YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY DOES IT SAY JOB FEARED GOD THERE IN THE 20:49 FIRST CHAPTER - YOU LOOK IN JOB 23:15 IT SAYS, "THEREFORE I AM 20:54 TERRIFIED AT HIS PRESENCE; WHEN I CONSIDER THIS, I AM AFRAID OF 20:58 HIM." NOW GODLY FEAR IS NOT BAD. 21:04 IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU LIVE IN TERROR, BUT THERE IS SOMETHING 21:07 HEALTHY ABOUT BEING AFRAID TO OFFEND A HOLY GOD. 21:11 'IT'S A FEARFUL THING,' THE BIBLE SAYS, 'TO FALL INTO THE 21:14 HANDS OF A HOLY GOD.' MEANING 'IN JUDGMENT'. 21:16 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, PLEASE, PROVERBS 14:27. 21:20 >>"THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS A FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, TO TURN 21:25 ONE AWAY FROM THE SNARES OF DEATH." 21:29 >>CAN FEAR SOMETIMES BE REDEMPTIVE? 21:33 IF A CHILD IS PLAYING ON A SIDEWALK BY A BUSY STREET, WOULD 21:40 YOU WANT THEM TO HAVE A HEALTHY FEAR OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES THAT 21:44 GO WHIZZING BY? YEAH, THAT CAN KEEP THEM ALIVE. 21:48 THAT'S A GOOD THING - IT'S NOT A BAD THING. 21:50 I DON'T WALK AROUND SCARED OF SNAKES, BUT I HAVE A HEALTHY 21:54 RESPECT FOR VENOMOUS SNAKES - I'M NOT GOING TO REACH OUT AND 21:58 GRAB THEM ON A WARM DAY. SO, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN KINDS OF FEAR ARE 22:03 ACTUALLY VERY HELPFUL. KAREN AND I LOST A COUPLE OF DOGS. 22:10 WE HAD FOUR DOGS - WE'RE DOWN TO TWO - AND THEY - IT HAPPENED 22:14 WHEN - WHAT WE CALL RATTLESNAKE SEASON - WE DO KNOW THE ONE DOG 22:17 DID GET BIT BY A SNAKE, THE OTHER ONE JUST DISAPPEARED, BUT 22:22 WHEN OUR CARETAKER SAW THE DOG, HE WAS PROVOKING A SNAKE THAT HE 22:25 HAD TRAPPED AGAINST THE GARAGE DOOR AND SO, WE WISH THEY HAD 22:30 BEEN MORE AFRAID, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 22:36 IT'S - IT'S A GOOD THING TO BE AFRAID OF SIN - OF THE SERPENT 22:43 IN THAT SENSE. NOW, WHEN THE LORD'S WITH YOU, 22:46 IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU LIVE IN FEAR. 22:48 YOU CAN READ IN ECCLESIASTES 12, VERSE 13, "LET US HEAR THE 22:52 CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER: FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS 22:55 COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN." 22:58 - HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES - REVELATION 23:00 14? WHAT IS THE FIRST 23:03 ANGEL'S MESSAGE? >>FEAR GOD. 23:05 >>"FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT 23:08 IS COME." AND IT MEANS TO, FOR ONE THING, 23:11 REVERENCE GOD - TO BE IN AWE OF GOD. 23:14 YOU CAN LOVE GOD AND STILL BE AFRAID. 23:18 AND IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE LOVE THAT A YOUNG CHILD MIGHT HAVE 23:21 FOR THEIR FATHER, WHERE YOU'RE AWED BY THEIR STRENGTH, YOU 23:25 DON'T WANT TO DISOBEY THEM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU LOVE THEM 23:28 AND YOU CAN CLIMB UP IN THEIR LAP. 23:30 AND SO, JOB REALIZED GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD AND HE HATED EVIL. 23:36 AND YOU CAN READ THERE WHERE HE NOT ONLY INTERCEDED FOR HIS SONS 23:40 - READ IN MATTHEW 6:13 - IT TELLS YOU RIGHT HERE, EARLIER IN 23:44 THE BOOK OF JOB, IT USES THE WORD 'EVIL'. 23:47 IT TALKS ABOUT GOD - YOU KNOW WHERE WE GET THE WORD GOD? 23:50 IT'S A DERIVATIVE, IN ENGLISH ANYWAY, OF THE WORD 'GOOD'. 23:54 AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU USED TO TELL A PERSON, 'GOOD DAY', YOU 23:58 WERE REALLY SAYING 'GOD DAY'. HAVE A DAY IN GOD. 24:01 AND SO, WHEN THE BOOK OF JOB IS TELLING US ABOUT GOD AND EVIL, 24:07 IT'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL. 24:08 DOESN'T JESUS SAY, 'ONLY GOD IS GOOD'? SOMEONE CAME TO JESUS AND 24:13 SAID, 'GOOD MASTER.' HE SAID, 'NONE IS GOOD BUT ONE AND THAT 24:15 IS GOD.' AND SO, RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING OF JOB YOU SEE THERE'S 24:21 A CONTRAST BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL AND HE'S INTERCEDING FOR HIS 24:25 SONS, LEST THEY SIN IN THEIR HEARTS. 24:28 AND SO, HE WAS AFRAID OF THE EVIL THAT MIGHT HAPPEN. 24:33 ISAIAH 33:15, "HE WHO WALKS RIGHTEOUSLY AND SPEAKS 24:38 UPRIGHTLY, HE WHO DESPISES THE GAIN OF OPPRESSIONS, WHO 24:42 GESTURES WITH HIS HANDS, REFUSING BRIBES, WHO STOPS HIS 24:45 EARS FROM HEARING OF BLOODSHED," - SOMEONE WHO HATES EVIL - "AND 24:50 SHUTS HIS EYES FROM SEEING EVIL: HE WILL DWELL ON HIGH; HIS PLACE 24:55 OF DEFENSE WILL BE THE FORTRESS OF ROCKS; BREAD WILL BE GIVEN 24:58 HIM, HIS WATER WILL BE SURE." TALKS ABOUT A PERSON WHO 25:02 GESTURES WITH HIS HANDS, REFUSING BRIBES - IT'S LIKE 25:04 YOU'RE OFFERING HIM A BRIBE AND HE SAYS, 'NO! 25:07 DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.' AND HE CLOSES HIS EYES FROM SEEING 25:11 EVIL. THIS IS DESCRIBING A PERSON THAT 25:14 LOVES GOD, BUT THEY ESCHEW - OR THEY DESPISE - EVIL. 25:17 PSALMS 119:37, "TURN AWAY MY EYES FROM LOOKING AT WORTHLESS 25:21 THINGS, AND REVIVE ME IN YOUR WAY." 25:25 WOULD WE ALL AGREE THAT, ESPECIALLY IN OUR DAY AND AGE, 25:28 WITH THE MULTIPLE SCREENS THAT ARE AVAILABLE - YOU KNOW, WE'RE 25:31 SURROUNDED BY SCREENS. IF YOU'VE GOT A SMART 25:34 PHONE YOU'VE GOT A SCREEN. IT'LL USUALLY GIVE YOU AUDIO 25:37 AND VISUAL INFORMATION. IT'S LIKE A MINI TV SCREEN. 25:40 AND YOU PROBABLY, MANY OF YOU, HAVE A TELEVISION IN YOUR HOME. 25:45 WE'RE RECORDING THIS FOR BROADCAST - TELEVISION IN AND OF 25:48 ITSELF IS NOT AN EVIL THING ANYMORE THAN A BOOK IS EVIL. 25:52 YOU CAN HAVE A BOOK THAT COMMUNICATES GOOD; 25:54 YOU CAN HAVE A BOOK THAT COMMUNICATES EVIL. 25:56 A TELEVISION USES VISUAL AND AUDIO TO COMMUNICATE. 25:59 YOU CAN USE PRINT TO - YOU CAN READ OFF A TELEVISION - SO IT 26:02 COULD BE GOOD OR IT COULD BE EVIL. BUT LET'S FACE IT, THERE'S 26:06 A LOT OF BOOKS OUT THERE THAT SHOULDN'T BE READ AND THERE'S A 26:08 LOT OF TELEVISION PROGRAMS THAT SHOULDN'T BE SEEN. 26:11 A LOT OF YOU HAVE COMPUTER SCREENS AND, I THINK I TOLD YOU, 26:17 I WAS SURPRISED - IT WASN'T TOO LONG AGO I WAS AT A GAS STATION. 26:21 IT WAS LATE AT NIGHT AND - BY MYSELF - ALL OF A SUDDEN I 26:24 STARTED PUMPING GAS AND I WAS HEARING VOICES AND I LOOKED AND 26:26 THERE WAS A SCREEN ON THE - ON THE GAS PUMP. IT WAS PLAYING A 26:30 COMMERCIAL AND THEN IT WOULD PLAY THE NEWS - A LITTLE BIT OF 26:34 NEWS AND THEN ANOTHER COMMERCIAL BECAUSE THEY HAD TO DO IT REAL 26:36 QUICK - THEY TIMED IT FOR HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE YOU TO PUMP 26:38 GAS. THEY'VE GOT SCREENS EVERYWHERE NOW, YOU WATCH, 26:43 YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO A PUBLIC RESTROOM SOON - YOU CLOSE THE 26:45 DOOR AND THERE'LL BE A MONITOR. YOU MARK MY WORDS. 26:50 ANYWHERE THAT THEY'VE GOT YOUR ATTENTION, THEY'RE GOING TO TRY 26:52 AND GIVE YOU A MESSAGE - ADVERTISING. 26:57 SO WE'RE SURROUNDED BY ALL THESE SCREENS. 26:59 AS A CHRISTIAN, SINCE A LOT OF IT IS FOOLISHNESS, WE NEED TO 27:02 PRAY AND MAKE A COVENANT WITH OUR EYES AND CLOSE OUR EYES TO 27:05 SEEING EVIL. AND YOU'VE GOT TO CONSCIOUSLY 27:07 BE PROTECTING WHAT YOU THINK AND WHAT YOU SEE, BECAUSE THE BIBLE 27:12 SAYS THE PURE IN HEART WILL SEE GOD. 27:15 JOB LONGED FOR THAT PURITY OF HEART. 27:16 HE HATED EVIL. ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE RIGHT ALONG. 27:20 COSMIC CONFLICT - WE'RE IN THE SECOND PAGE NOW - YOU READ 27:24 VERSES 6 THROUGH 12 OF JOB - AND I'LL DO THAT WITH YOU - JOB 27:28 CHAPTER 1, VERSES 6 THROUGH 12, "NOW THERE WAS A DAY WHEN THE 27:33 SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD, AND 27:36 SATAN ALSO CAME AMONG THEM. AND THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 27:39 'FROM WHERE DO YOU COME?' SO SATAN ANSWERED THE LORD AND 27:43 SAID, 'FROM GOING TO AND FRO ON THE EARTH, AND FROM WALKING BACK 27:47 AND FORTH ON IT.'" - ALRIGHT, RIGHT AWAY, LET'S STOP. 27:49 WHERE DOES THIS MEETING TAKE PLACE? 27:54 NOT ON EARTH. IS THAT RIGHT? 27:57 IN ORDER FOR JOB - IT'S CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD - IN ORDER 27:59 FOR JOB TO SAY TO THE LORD 'I HAVE COME FROM EARTH' - 28:02 >>SATAN. >>I'M SORRY. 28:04 THANK YOU VERY MUCH - IN ORDER FOR SATAN TO SAY, 'I'VE COME 28:06 FROM EARTH', HE CAN'T BE ON EARTH, RIGHT? 28:10 AND THE LORD HAS GATHERED, SOMEWHERE IN THE COSMOS - WE 28:14 DON'T KNOW THAT IT WAS SPECIFICALLY HEAVEN - IT SAYS 28:17 THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD - IT 28:20 COULD HAVE BEEN - THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A MEETING BEFORE SATAN 28:23 WAS COMPLETELY CAST OUT OF HEAVEN, BECAUSE YOU FIND THOSE 28:27 WORDS IN REVELATION 12 AND THEN JESUS SAID, 'I SAW SATAN CAST 28:30 OUT' AND - BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN - GOD CAN MEET WHEREVER HE 28:34 WANTS. WHO KNOWS WHERE THIS CONVENTION WAS? HE SAID, 28:38 'WHERE'D YOU COME FROM?' 'I HAVE COME FROM GOING TO AND 28:41 FRO ON THE EARTH AND WALKING BACK AND FORTH.' WHY DOES THE 28:44 DEVIL SAY 'TO AND FRO/BACK AND FORTH'? 28:49 HE IS ACTUALLY BRAGGING TO THE LORD THAT 'THE EARTH IS MINE. 28:54 I FREELY ROAM IT. IT'S MY TERRITORY. 28:56 I GO TO AND FRO AND BACK AND FORTH BECAUSE THE DOMINION YOU 29:00 GAVE TO ADAM, ADAM GAVE TO ME WHEN HE DECIDED TO SERVE ME 29:05 INSTEAD OF YOU.' AND SO THE DEVIL CLAIMS THIS WORLD IS HIS. 29:08 DOES JESUS ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT? 29:12 DOESN'T JESUS CALL THE DEVIL THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD? 29:16 AND SO SATAN HAS HIJACKED THE WORLD. 29:18 JESUS CAME TO REDEEM IT - TO BUY IT BACK. 29:21 AND SO HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'I'VE COME FROM MY PLANET.' AND 29:25 THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 'YOU THINK' - I'M PARAPHRASING HERE - 29:29 HE SAYS, 'YOU THINK IT'S YOUR PLANET, BUT NOT EVERYBODY THERE 29:31 SERVES YOU. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB? 29:35 HE'S NOT YOUR SERVANT, HE'S MY SERVANT. 29:37 "THAT THERE'S NONE LIKE HIM ON THE EARTH, A BLAMELESS AND 29:40 UPRIGHT MAN, ONE WHO FEARS GOD AND SHUNS EVIL?" 29:43 - REPEATING THE EARLIER WORDS. NOW, PROBABLY FOR ME, ONE OF THE 29:48 MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE BOOK OF JOB IS WHAT I JUST READ. 29:51 THIS MAY NOT BE FOR YOU, BUT IT IS FOR ME. 29:54 THAT GOD IN HEAVEN WOULD BEAR TESTIMONY OF SOMEBODY ON EARTH - 29:59 THAT GOD WOULD CONFESS THE NAME OF SOMEONE ON EARTH AND BRAG TO 30:03 OTHER UNFALLEN BEINGS ABOUT SOMEONE ON EARTH, IS REALLY 30:09 REMARKABLE. WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO BE THAT 30:11 PERSON THAT GOD WOULD TELL ANGELS ABOUT? 30:15 THAT GOD WOULD SPEAK YOUR NAME IN HEAVEN? 30:19 JUST THINK ABOUT THAT. THAT YOU ARE LIVING SO CLOSE TO 30:21 GOD THAT GOD IS ANNOUNCING YOUR NAME. 30:25 THINK ABOUT GOD SAYING ANYTHING, BUT THAT HE WOULD SAY YOUR NAME 30:29 AND HE WOULD REFER TO YOU AS HIS SERVANT. 30:31 I THINK, IF YOU DON'T GET ANYTHING OUT OF THIS QUARTER'S 30:34 STUDY, IF YOU CAN BE INSPIRED BY THE IDEA THAT 'I AM LIVING IN 30:38 THE SIGHT OF A HOLY GOD AND I WANT TO PLEASE HIM. 30:40 I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD SHAME HIM. 30:43 I WANT TO GIVE GOD EVERY REASON TO BE ABLE TO MENTION MY NAME IN 30:46 HEAVEN.' YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THAT AND JESUS SAID 30:51 - AND I MAY BE JUMPING AHEAD OF HIMSELF - MYSELF - LUKE 12, 30:55 VERSE 8, HE SAID, "ALSO I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER CONFESSES ME BEFORE 31:00 MEN, HIM THE SON OF MAN ALSO WILL CONFESS BEFORE THE ANGELS 31:05 OF GOD. BUT HE WHO DENIES ME BEFORE MEN 31:08 WILL BE DENIED BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD." 31:11 I THINK IN ANOTHER VERSION OF THE GOSPEL IT SAYS, ACTUALLY, 31:14 HE'LL CONFESS HIS NAME - OUR NAME BEFORE THE FATHER. 31:18 AND IT JUST - THAT, TO ME, IS AN INSPIRING THOUGHT. 31:23 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME ROMANS CHAPTER 8:14. 31:27 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT 'WHO ARE THESE SONS OF GOD?' 31:29 WE'LL GET YOU SET UP. I'M GOING TO READ JOB 38:7 - 31:34 A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SONS OF GOD. 31:36 YOU FIND 'SONS OF GOD' MENTIONED THERE IN GENESIS CHAPTER 6. 31:39 IF YOU READ JOB 38:7, "WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER, AND 31:43 ALL THE SONS OF GOD SHOUTED FOR JOY" - WHO ARE THESE 'SONS OF 31:47 GOD' THAT SHOUT FOR JOY IN HEAVEN? WHEN THE WORLD WAS 31:51 CREATED? PROBABLY ANGELS. THEY'RE NOT PEOPLE. 31:55 IT'S TALKING ABOUT WHEN GOD LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD AND 31:57 ALL THE SONS OF GOD - SO THESE ARE, MAYBE, THE LEADERS OF 32:02 UNFALLEN WORLDS. NOW GO AHEAD AND 32:05 READ ROMANS 8:14. >>"FOR AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE 32:09 SPIRIT OF GOD, THESE ARE SONS OF GOD." 32:12 >>NOW THE SONS OF GOD IS A TERM THAT IS USED TWO OR THREE 32:16 DIFFERENT WAYS IN THE BIBLE, AND SO, IT'S CAUSED SOME CONFUSION. 32:19 IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE UNDERSTAND THIS, BECAUSE WHEN 32:22 YOU READ, IN GENESIS CHAPTER 6, IT SAID THAT WHEN THE MEN BEGAN 32:28 TO MULTIPLY ON THE EARTH, THAT 'THE SONS OF GOD SAW THE 32:34 DAUGHTERS OF MEN, THAT THEY WERE FAIR, AND TOOK THEM WIVES OF ALL 32:37 WHOM THEY CHOSE.' AND THEN IT LATER SAYS THAT THEY HAD 32:41 CHILDREN THAT WERE GIANTS - NEPHILIM - AND YOU'RE GOING, 32:47 'WHAT IS THIS?' AND SOME OF YOU, YOU MAY EVEN HAVE A BIBLE 32:49 TRANSLATION THAT IF YOU LOOK THERE IN GENESIS CHAPTER 6 IT'LL 32:54 SAY, 'AND WHEN THESE FALLEN ANGELS SAW THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN, 33:00 THAT THEY WERE FAIR' - THAT'S NOT AT ALL WHAT IT'S TALKING 33:03 ABOUT. SO UNDERSTANDING THE SONS OF GOD IS IMPORTANT. 33:07 IN GENESIS 6 - OH, LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE VERSE - IN 1 JOHN 33:12 CHAPTER 3, "BEHOLD WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HAS BESTOWED 33:16 ON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED SONS OF GOD!" 33:18 THAT, OF COURSE, MEANS SONS AND DAUGHTERS - CHILDREN OF GOD. 33:22 'BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS, THEY WILL BE - THE CHILDREN - IT 33:27 SAYS 'SONS OF GOD' THEY'RE THE CHILDREN OF GOD. 33:29 SO RIGHT AWAY WE KNOW THAT WHEN YOU ACCEPT CHRIST, YOU BECOME 33:34 CHILDREN OF GOD. YOU ARE SONS AND 33:36 DAUGHTERS OF GOD, OKAY? BUT THERE'S ANOTHER GROUP. 33:41 WHEN IT SAYS, IN LUKE, AND IT GOES - 3 - CHAPTER 3 - AND IT 33:46 GOES THROUGH THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS AND IT TALKS ABOUT ENOS 33:50 WHO WAS THE SON OF LAMECH - OR WHO WAS THE SON OF SETH, WHO WAS 33:55 THE SON OF ADAM, WHO WAS THE SON OF GOD. 33:59 NOW, HOW WAS ADAM DIFFERENT FROM OTHER PEOPLE? 34:02 WELL, PROBABLY SEVERAL WAYS, BUT ONE PRINCIPLE WAY ADAM IS 34:06 DIFFERENT IS YOU WERE ALL BORN. ANYONE HERE NOT BORN? 34:10 YOU'RE ALL BORN - IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN A TEST TUBE, BUT YOU'RE 34:14 STILL BORN, WHEREAS ADAM WAS CREATED. WE ARE BORN BABIES; 34:20 ADAM WAS CREATED FULL GROWN. ADAM WAS CALLED THE SON OF GOD. 34:24 WE ARE SONS OF ADAM AND EVE - IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 34:28 AND SOME, KNOWING THAT, THEY SAY, 'POSSIBLY THAT MEANS THEN 34:32 THAT WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THESE SONS OF GOD, THESE ARE, LIKE 34:35 ADAM, OTHER LEADERS OF OTHER WORLDS - UNFALLEN WORLDS - 34:40 BECAUSE THIS IS THE ONLY FALLEN WORLD. 34:42 AND THEN THERE ARE A FEW TIMES WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT SONS OF GOD 34:46 AND IT'S TALKING JUST ABOUT HOLY ONES - THE OTHER CHILDREN OF GOD 34:48 - IT MEANS ANGELS. BUT MOST OF THE TIME, WHEN IT 34:52 SAYS SONS OF GOD, IT'S TALKING ABOUT REDEEMED PEOPLE. 34:54 SO, WHAT DOES IT MEAN IN GENESIS 6 - THE SONS OF GOD SAW THE 34:57 DAUGHTERS OF MEN AND TOOK WIVES? 35:00 UP UNTIL GENESIS 6, AFTER CAIN SINNED AND HE LEFT - HE TOOK HIS 35:03 WIFE - ONE OF HIS SISTERS - AND HE LEFT AND HE STARTED A WHOLE 35:06 RACE, BUILT A CITY, NAMED IT AFTER HIS SON, THEY GREW AND 35:10 MULTIPLIED, YOU KNOW, A THOUSAND YEARS WENT BY - MORE THAN THAT - 35:14 BEFORE THE FLOOD - 1500 YEARS WENT BY - AND THERE WERE, YOU 35:17 KNOW, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. YOU DO THE MATH AND, IF YOU'RE 35:21 HEALTHY, AND GOD TELLS YOU TO BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY, AND YOUR 35:27 REPRODUCTIVE APPARATUS IS ALL IN ITS PRIME EFFICIENCY AND YOU 35:34 LIVE HUNDREDS OF YEARS, HOW MANY CHILDREN COULD YOU HAVE? 35:39 I JUST READ - I WAS VISITING WITH A FRIEND WHO IS AMISH THAT 35:45 ACCEPTED THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST TEACHING. 35:48 WE'LL PUT OUT A TESTIMONY ABOUT IT. 35:50 AND HE'S NOW - HE AND HIS WIFE ARE DOING MINISTRY AMONG THE 35:53 AMISH PEOPLE. AND, YOU KNOW, THE AMISH ARE 35:55 ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING POPULATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA. 35:58 THEY HAVE GONE FROM 1984, WHERE THERE WERE ABOUT 80,000 OF THEM, 36:04 TO RIGHT NOW, THERE'S ABOUT 300,000. 36:06 THAT'S QUITE A GROWTH. WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY BELIEVE IN 36:10 VERY BIG FAMILIES - MATTER OF FACT, THIS ONE, HE'S STILL A 36:13 YOUNG MAN, HE'S GOT SEVEN KIDS ALREADY, LIKE JOB - SEVEN 36:17 SONS - JOB HAD TEN, SEE? SO THEY HAD BIG FAMILIES. 36:19 ONE OF THE REASONS ISLAM IS GROWING SO QUICKLY IS NOT 36:23 THROUGH PUBLIC EVANGELISM, IT'S THROUGH BIOLOGICAL GROWTH. 36:28 THEY HAVE VERY BIG FAMILIES. AND, I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR 36:32 THIS POINT, BUT DO YOU KNOW WHY ISRAEL IS CONSTANTLY BUILDING 36:37 SETTLEMENTS AND INVITING OVERSEAS JEWS TO MOVE TO ISRAEL? 36:42 BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO KEEP ENOUGH JEWISH VOTERS TO OFFSET 36:46 THE INCREDIBLE GROWTH OF THE MUSLIM FAMILIES IN ISRAEL THAT 36:50 ARE PROLIFERATING. NOW, YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD IT 36:53 PUT TO YOU THAT WAY, BUT THINK ABOUT IT. 36:56 THEY'RE TRYING TO KEEP THE NUMBERS UP TO COMPETE. 36:59 YEAH. NOW, WHERE'D I GET THAT? BACK TO THE - SO, YOU HAD ALL 37:06 THE CHILDREN OF GOD - THESE WERE THE DESCENDENTS OF SETH - 37:10 REMEMBER CAIN KILLED ABEL SO ABEL DIED. 37:12 ADAM AND EVE HAD ANOTHER GODLY SON THEY TREATED LIKE THEIR 37:15 FIRSTBORN BECAUSE CAIN LEFT - THAT WAS SETH. 37:18 SETH SERVED THE LORD, HIS DESCENDENTS SERVED THE LORD, 37:22 ADAM AND EVE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS - THEY WERE ALL 37:24 FAITHFUL. THEY GREW AND THEY TRUSTED GOD 37:27 AND THEY SACRIFICED TO GOD AND THEY REMAINED SEPARATE FROM 37:29 CAIN, WHO HAD SORT OF REJECTED GOD - AND HIS DESCENDANTS - THEY 37:33 WERE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF MEN. I THINK IT'S ENOS AND IT MEANS 37:35 'MORTAL' - THEY'RE DYING - THEY'RE LOST. 37:38 WHEN THE SONS OF GOD, THAT HAD THE INHERITANCE OF GOD, SAID 37:42 'THE DAUGHTERS OF CAIN ARE REALLY PRETTY' - THE DAUGHTERS 37:44 OF MEN - THEY BEGAN TO INTERMARRY - THAT WAS UNEQUALLY 37:48 YOKED - YOU'LL NOTICE THE NEXT THING IT SAYS IN GENESIS WAS 37:52 'EVIL BEGAN TO MULTIPLY AND THE THOUGHTS OF MEN'S HEARTS WERE 37:55 ONLY EVIL AND VIOLENCE FILLED THE LAND' THEY LOST THEIR HOLY 37:58 DISTINCTION. AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, WHY 38:01 WERE THE CHILDREN GIANTS? THAT'S JUST CALLED 38:03 GENETIC VITALITY. WHENEVER YOU HAVE PEOPLE MIXING 38:07 THEIR GENES, YOU'LL OFTEN HAVE MORE VITALITY AND HEALTH THERE. 38:11 ANYWAY, SO THESE SONS OF GOD, THOUGH, IN JOB ARE MORE 38:14 LIKELY THE LEADERS OF UNFALLEN WORLDS THAT HAVE COME TOGETHER. 38:19 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN REVELATION 4:4, "AND ROUND ABOUT 38:23 THE THRONE WERE FOUR AND TWENTY SEATS: AND UPON THE SEATS I SAW 38:27 FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS SITTING, CLOTHED IN WHITE RAIMENT; AND 38:31 THEY HAD ON THEIR HEADS CROWNS OF GOLD." 38:33 THESE MAY BE SOME OF THOSE SONS OF GOD. 38:35 ALRIGHT, SO WE'VE SEEN A LITTLE BIT OF THIS CONFLICT IN HEAVEN. 38:38 THE DEVIL IS CHALLENGING GOD ABOUT JOB AND GOD IS SAYING, 38:44 'JOB IS - HE'S NOT YOUR SERVANT.' NOW YOU READ ABOUT 38:48 CONFLICT ON EARTH. SO THERE - WE KNOW THERE'S A 38:51 CONFLICT IN HEAVEN - IT STARTED IN HEAVEN - REVELATION 12 SAYS A 38:54 WAR BEGAN IN HEAVEN, BUT WE SEE WE HAVE CONFLICT ON EARTH. 38:57 GO TO GENESIS CHAPTER 3 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE READING VERSES 39:01 1 THROUGH 5. IN A MOMENT SOMEBODY IS GOING 39:05 TO BE READING 1 PETER 5:8. GENESIS 3, "NOW THE SERPENT WAS 39:12 MORE CUNNING THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE 39:14 LORD GOD HAD MADE. AND HE SAID TO THE WOMAN," - 39:18 NOW WAIT A SECOND; DID GOD MAKE SERPENTS TALKING? 39:21 HOW WAS IT THIS SERPENT CAN TALK? 39:25 THE SAME WAY BALAAM'S DONKEY TALKED. 39:28 GOD CAN INSPIRE AN ANIMAL TO TALK AND SO CAN THE DEVIL. 39:34 IT SAYS THE SERPENT - THE DEVIL DECIDED TO USE A BEAUTIFUL, 39:38 HYPNOTIC MEDIUM. NOW, ANY OF YOU 39:42 SCARED OF SNAKES? ANY MEN OUT THERE 39:47 SCARED OF SNAKES? YOU WON'T ADMIT (LAUGHTER) I 39:53 MEAN, I'LL PICK UP A SNAKE, I'M NOT AFRAID OF SNAKES. 39:56 KAREN, I DON'T THINK IS SCARED OF SNAKES. SHE'LL - WE HAD A PET 39:59 SNAKE WE CAUGHT - OUR KIDS CAUGHT A LITTLE ROSY BOA - 40:02 THEY'RE HARMLESS - IN THE BACKYARD - LITTLE, PINK - LOOKS 40:04 LIKE A BIG GLORIFIED WORM - AND THEY PLAYED WITH IT FOR A FEW 40:07 DAYS AND NATHAN FOUND OUT WHEN THEY ATE THEY HAD OTHER ISSUES 40:15 AND SO HE MADE A DIAPER FOR THE SNAKE - HE PUT A BAND-AID ON IT. 40:19 (LAUGHTER) SO WE TOOK A PICTURE OF THIS LITTLE SNAKE CRAWLING 40:22 AROUND WITH A BAND-AID - A LITTLE PAMPER - SNAKE PAMPER - 40:26 ANYWAY, BUT BACK IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, NOBODY WAS AFRAID OF 40:29 SNAKES. EVE WASN'T AFRAID OF ANYTHING. 40:33 AND THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES AND THEY MOVED IN A 40:35 VERY HYPNOTIC WAY AND SO THE DEVIL CHOSE THIS MEDIUM. 40:40 AND HE BEGAN - FIRST QUESTION IN THE BIBLE WAS THE DEVIL 40:42 QUESTIONING THE WORD OF GOD. DON'T FORGET THAT. 40:46 ALL THE TROUBLE THAT WE HAVE IN THE WORLD SPRINGS FROM DOUBTING 40:49 THE WORD OF GOD. 'HATH GOD SAID?' 'DID GOD REALLY SAY, 'YOU 40:56 SHALL NOT EAT FROM ALL THE TREES OF THE GARDEN?' 40:59 "AND THE WOMAN SAID TO THE SERPENT, 'NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT 41:01 HE SAID. WE MAY EAT THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE GARDEN; BUT 41:04 OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN, 41:06 GOD HAS SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT EAT IT, NOR SHALL YOU TOUCH IT, LEST 41:09 YOU DIE.' THEN THE SERPENT SAID TO THE WOMAN, 'YOU'LL NOT SURELY 41:13 DIE. GOD'S JUST TELLING YOU THIS. 41:15 GOD'S JUST LYING TO YOU.' "FOR GOD KNOWS THAT IN THE DAY YOU 41:18 EAT OF IT YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED, AND YOU WILL BE LIKE 41:20 GOD," - YOU KNOW HOW MANY RELIGIONS TEACH THAT? 41:23 THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU JUST MEDITATE ENOUGH AND YOU'LL BE AT 41:26 ONE AND YOU STAY WITH THIS RELIGION, AFTER A FEW 41:28 REINCARNATIONS OR RESURRECTIONS, YOU THEN BECOME GOD. 41:33 THIS WHOLE THING ABOUT MAN BECOMING GOD SPRINGS FROM 41:36 PAGANISM. 'YOU WILL NOT DIE. YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED YOU'LL 41:44 BE LIKE GOD KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.' NOW, DID GOD 41:46 WANT ADAM AND EVE TO KNOW GOOD AND EVIL? 41:48 DID GOD WANT US TO EXPERIENCE EVIL? NO. 41:53 AND YOU NOTICE HOW THE DEVIL TEMPTS? 41:55 HE MIXES GOOD AND EVIL IN HIS TEMPTATION. 41:58 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US - THE BIBLE TELLS US THERE'S AN 42:01 ENEMY ROAMING OUT THERE WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF. READ FOR US, 42:04 PLEASE, 1 PETER 5:8. >>1 PETER 5:8, "BE SOBER, BE 42:09 VIGILANT; BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL WALKS ABOUT LIKE A 42:13 ROARING LION, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR." 42:16 >>'UP AND DOWN, TO AND FRO' IS WHAT THE DEVIL SAID TO GOD. 42:20 'I'M WALKING UP AND DOWN TO AND FRO IN THE EARTH.' IT'S KIND OF 42:22 LIKE A PACING LION ROAMING HIS TERRITORY, LOOKING FOR HIS NEXT 42:28 VICTIM. HE'S ALSO CALLED 'THE ACCUSER'. 42:31 GO TO ZECHARIAH 3 - AND THIS WAS IN OUR MEMORY VERSE - ZECHARIAH 42:35 3:1, 2, "THEN HE SHOWED ME JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST STANDING 42:39 BEFORE THE ANGEL OF THE LORD," - HOW DO YOU SAY JESUS' NAME IN 42:42 HEBREW? >>JOSHUA. 42:43 >>YASHUA - JOSHUA - SAME WORD. "HE SHOWED ME JOSHUA THE HIGH 42:48 PRIEST STANDING BEFORE THE ANGEL OF THE LORD, AND SATAN STANDING 42:50 AT HIS RIGHT HAND TO OPPOSE [TO ACCUSE] HIM." NOW, DO YOU SEE A 42:56 GREAT CONTROVERSY HERE? SOMEONE NAMED JOSHUA AND SOMEONE 42:59 NAMED THE DEVIL OPPOSING HIM? AND IS JESUS OUR HIGH PRIEST? 43:04 THE WHOLE PLAN OF SALVATION IS IN THIS VERSE. 43:07 "AND THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU, SATAN!'" 43:11 - WHAT DID JESUS SAY - REMEMBER WHEN MICHAEL COMES TO 43:13 RESURRECT MOSES AND THE DEVIL COMES TO OPPOSE HIM AND SAYS, 43:17 'YOU CAN'T HAVE MOSES, HE SINNED.' AND MICHAEL SAYS, 'THE 43:22 LORD REBUKE YOU.' AND HE DIDN'T LISTEN. 43:25 MOSES WAS RESURRECTED, WE KNOW, BECAUSE HE APPEARS TO JESUS IN 43:28 MARK CHAPTER 9. "THE LORD REBUKE YOU, SATAN! 43:33 THE LORD WHO HAS CHOSEN JERUSALEM REBUKE YOU! 43:35 IS THIS NOT A BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE FIRE?" IT'S A VERY 43:38 INTERESTING VERSE BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT JOSHUA - AND THAT MEANS 43:41 JESUS - YOU'VE GOT JERUSALEM - YOU'VE GOT THE NEW JERUSALEM. 43:43 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THIS BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE FIRE. 43:46 IT'S SET FOR BURNING BUT IT'S SAVED - RESCUED FROM THE FIRE. 43:49 NOW HERE HE IS - IT SAYS, "NOW JOSHUA WAS CLOTHED WITH FILTHY 43:53 GARMENTS," - AND THE DEVIL'S POINTING TO THE DIRTY GARMENTS. 43:56 HE'S THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 43:57 YOU READ ABOUT THAT IN REVELATION 12:9. 44:00 NOW YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT - LAST BOOK - "SO THAT GREAT 44:03 DRAGON" - WHO'S THE DRAGON? 44:06 - KEEP READING - YOU DON'T HAVE TO GUESS - "WAS CAST OUT; THAT 44:08 OLD SERPENT" - WHEN IT SAYS 'OLD SERPENT', IT'S POINTING US BACK 44:11 TO GENESIS - "CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN." 44:14 NOW, IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHO THE DRAGON IS AND WHO THE SERPENT 44:17 IS, DOES IT MAKE IT CLEAR IN THIS VERSE? 44:19 BECAUSE IT TIES THEM ALTOGETHER IN ONE VERSE. 44:21 THE DRAGON, THE SERPENT, DEVIL, SATAN - BEELZEBUB, APOLLYON - 44:26 HE'S GOT A LOT OF NAMES, BUT IT MAKES IT REAL CLEAR, HE'S THE 44:29 EVIL ONE - "WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD" - MOST OF THE 44:32 WORLD'S FOOLED. SOME THINK THE DEVIL EXISTS BUT HE'S GOOD. 44:38 THE DEVIL LOVES IT WHEN PEOPLE LAUGH AND THINK IT'S JUST ALL A 44:42 JOKE AND, YOU KNOW, WE EAT DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE AND IT'S JUST 44:48 - PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THIS GUY IN RED LEOTARDS AND THEY JUST THINK 44:52 IT'S A SPOOF. AND IT SAYS HE DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD. 44:57 HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM. 45:00 "THEN I HEARD A VOICE SAYING, 'NOW SALVATION AND STRENGTH AND 45:03 THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD AND POWER OF HIS CHRIST HAS COME FOR THE 45:07 ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN, WHO ACCUSED THEM BEFORE OUR GOD DAY 45:12 AND NIGHT HAS BEEN CAST OUT. SO YOU GET A PICTURE HERE FROM 45:15 JOB AND REVELATION - ACCUSED THEM BEFORE OUR GOD. 45:20 HERE YOU'VE GOT, IN ZECHARIAH, THE DEVIL, OSTENSIBLY NOT ON 45:24 EARTH, IS ACCUSING JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST. 45:28 HERE, YOU HAVE, IN REVELATION, THE DEVIL IS CALLED 'THE ACCUSER 45:31 OF OUR BRETHREN' ONCE OR TWICE OR DAY AND NIGHT? 45:34 AND THEN IN THE BOOK OF JOB - 'OH,' - THE DEVIL SAYS - 45:36 'HE DOESN'T SERVE YOU FOR NOTHING. 45:38 YOU'VE PUT A HEDGE ABOUT HIM.' WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT NEXT WEEK. 45:41 AND SO, HE'S CONSTANTLY ACCUSING US. 45:43 THERE IS A BATTLE GOING ON AND SO, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER I'M - I 45:50 WISH I'D ALWAYS THINK ABOUT - I CAN'T HONESTLY SAY I DO, BUT 45:53 SOMETIMES WHEN I'M TEMPTED TO SIN, I KNOW THERE'S ANGELS 45:57 WATCHING AND GOD IS WATCHING - I'M THINKING, DO I WANT TO GIVE 46:02 THE EVIL ANGELS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HAPPY AND POINT TO GOD AND 46:07 SAY, 'OH, DOUG SAYS HE'S YOUR SERVANT. WHAT A HYPOCRITE! 46:10 THIS IS HOW ALL YOUR SERVANTS ARE.' OR DO I WANT GOD TO SAY, 46:15 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT?'? YOU EVER THOUGHT 46:18 ABOUT IT THAT WAY? ARE YOU EVER OFF CAMERA? 46:23 I WAS WORKING THIS WEEK WITH OUR CREATIVE PRODUCTIONS DIRECTOR, 46:27 WAYNE AND HIS PHONE BEEPED IN THE MIDDLE - WE WERE DOING 46:32 SOMETHING - HIS PHONE BEEPED HE SAID, 'I'M SORRY, I'VE JUST GOT 46:34 A PACKAGE.' WELL, HE LIVES IN FLORIDA, HE WAS OUT DOING SOME 46:36 TAPING. I SAID, 'YOU JUST GOT A PACKAGE?' 46:38 HE SAID, 'YEAH,' HE SAYS, 'I'VE GOT A CAMERA AT MY FRONT DOOR. 46:42 EVERY TIME ANYBODY COMES TO MY FRONT DOOR, THIS ALARM GOES OFF 46:45 AND IT TELLS ME AND I CAN LOOK AND SEE.' HE SAID, 'IT'S JUST 46:48 THE MAILMAN.' AND HE'S WATCHING WHAT'S HAPPENING AT ALL OF HIS 46:52 DOORS WHILE HE'S AT THE OTHER END OF THE COUNTRY. 46:55 NOW YOU - SOME OF YOU PROBABLY KNOW ABOUT THAT SOFTWARE. 46:57 I'D HEARD ABOUT IT BEFORE BUT I'D NEVER SEEN IT IN OPERATION. 47:00 IT'S PRETTY COOL. OF COURSE, WE SET UP SOME 47:06 WILDLIFE CAMERAS UP IN THE HILLS IN COVELO BECAUSE WE WERE HAVING 47:10 PROBLEMS WITH MARIJUANA GROWERS PLANTING POT ON OUR PROPERTY. 47:14 SO WE PUT THESE WILD - YOU KNOW WHAT A WILDLIFE CAMERA IS? 47:16 IT'S A MOTION-ACTIVATED CAMERA. 47:19 AND, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN DO IT TO TAKE PICTURES OF WILDLIFE, BUT - 47:23 AND WE PUT SIGNS UP THAT SAID, 'PROPERTY MONITORED BY HIDDEN 47:27 CAMERAS'. AND THAT'S REALLY ALL WE NEEDED. 47:28 WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY PROBLEMS SINCE THEN. 47:30 JUST THE IDEA THAT THERE ARE HIDDEN CAMERAS OUT THERE, THE 47:32 POT GROWERS NEVER CAME BACK BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE 47:35 THEY ARE. YOU PUT IT IN THE KNOTHOLE OF A 47:36 TREE AND IT'S WATCHING EVEN WHEN YOU WALK DOWN A TRAIL. 47:39 YOU'LL SAY, 'AH, I KNOW WHO IT IS THAT'S TRYING TO GROW.' THEN 47:43 WE PLUGGED IN THE CHIP FROM ONE OF THESE CAMERAS INTO THE LAPTOP 47:46 TO WATCH AND SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON AND IT WAS ALL THESE COWS 47:51 WALKING BY - COWS, COWS, COWS, COWS, COWS - AND I THOUGHT, 47:56 'WHAT, NO BEAR, A DEER, SOME YETI - BIGFOOT - SOMETHING GOING 48:01 BY, BUT JUST COWS.' SO I LOST INTEREST IN THE WILDLIFE CAMERAS 48:05 AT THAT POINT. YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU PUT THEM. BUT 48:09 GOD SEES EVERYTHING, DOESN'T HE? YOU'RE NEVER OFF CAMERA. 48:16 YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WERE IN PROMINENT PLACES AND 48:19 THEY FORGOT TO TURN OFF THEIR MICROPHONE? 48:21 >>YES. >>AND THEY SAID SOMETHING THEY 48:24 DIDN'T WANT EVERYBODY TO HEAR? SOMETIMES ON NATIONAL 48:27 TELEVISION? I THINK I'M VERY SENSITIVE TO THAT. 48:32 YOU'LL SEE ME - WHEN I SAY, 'AMEN' YOU'LL SEE ME REACH BACK 48:34 HERE. IT'S A HABIT. TURN IT OFF. 48:39 WELL, WITH GOD, THE MICROPHONE'S ALWAYS ON. 48:44 THIS IS A PRINCIPLE THAT WE FIND IN THE BOOK OF JOB MANY TIMES. 48:48 SO WE READ ABOUT THE CONFLICT ON EARTH. 48:50 MATTHEW 4 - JESUS WAS LED UP INTO THE WILDERNESS TEMPTED BY 48:54 THE DEVIL. WHO DOES THE DEVIL ESPECIALLY HATE? IT'S JESUS. 49:00 SO THE BOOK OF JOB IS A MICROCOSM OF THIS GREAT 49:03 CONTROVERSY THAT WE FIND GOING ON IN THE WORLD. 49:06 HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN? 49:08 ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ - THERE ARE TWO PRINCIPLE OLD 49:11 TESTAMENT PASSAGES THAT TELL ABOUT THE FALL OF LUCIFER. 49:13 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE? 49:14 YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS BY HEART AS A CHRISTIAN. 49:17 ISAIAH 14, EZEKIEL 28 - YOU DOUBLE 14, WHAT DO YOU GET? 49:23 28 - THAT'S ONE WAY TO HELP YOU REMEMBER. 49:27 SO HERE IT TALKS ABOUT THESE TWO PROPHECIES AGAINST TWO KINGS AND 49:31 THE DEVIL'S BEHIND THE KING. THE PROPHETS BEGIN TALKING ABOUT 49:34 THESE KINGS - ONE THE KING OF BABYLON, THE OTHER - KING OF 49:36 TYRE AND HE GOES AND HE SEES THE POWER BEHIND THE KING. 49:40 WHO WAS BEHIND KING HEROD WHEN HE KILLED THE BABIES IN 49:43 BETHLEHEM? WHO DO YOU THINK WAS BEHIND THAT? 49:45 IT SAYS THE DRAGON TRIED TO DEVOUR THE MAN-CHILD AS SOON AS 49:48 HE WAS BORN - REVELATION. IT WAS THE DEVIL WORKING THROUGH 49:51 THAT ROMAN - THAT CORRUPT ROMAN KING. 49:56 AND SO, IN THESE PROPHETS IT SAYS THE SAME THING. 49:59 ISAIAH 14:12, "HOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, 50:03 SON OF THE DAWN! YOU HAVE BEEN CAST DOWN TO THE 50:05 EARTH, YOU WHO ONCE LAID LOW THE NATIONS. 50:08 YOU SAID IN YOUR HEART, 'I WILL ASCEND TO THE HEAVENS; I WILL 50:11 RAISE MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I WILL SIT ENTHRONED ON 50:14 THE MOUNT OF ASSEMBLY, ON THE UTMOST HEIGHTS OF MOUNT ZAPHON. 50:19 I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE TOPS OF THE CLOUDS; I WILL MAKE MYSELF 50:22 LIKE THE MOST HIGH.'" IT SAYS 'TO THE SIDES OF THE NORTH' - 50:25 THAT'S ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE HIGHEST PLACE. 50:28 WHO IS THIS TALKING ABOUT, THE KING OF BABYLON OR TALKING ABOUT 50:30 LUCIFER? IT'S THE DEVIL 50:33 WANTED THIS POSITION. THE DEVIL WANTED TO BE GOD. 50:36 NOW, YOU AND I PROBABLY ARE THINKING, 'HOW CRAZY DOES A 50:39 CREATURE NEED TO BE TO THINK THAT THEY CAN OVERTHROW THE 50:43 CREATOR? YOU KNOW, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP 50:48 IN MIND HE WAS THE HIGHEST OF THE CREATED BEINGS. 50:55 WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG HE EXISTED. 50:56 WE DON'T KNOW WHEN, ON THE CONTINUUM OF GOD'S CREATION - 50:59 WAS LUCIFER #1 OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE? 51:02 AND HE'D BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME AND HE HAD SO MUCH POWER AND SO 51:04 MUCH WISDOM AND HE WAS SO GOD-LIKE - OTHER THAN THE FACT 51:07 THAT HE WAS CREATED. ANGELS ARE LIKE GODS TO US. 51:11 SUPERNATURAL BEINGS - THIS IS THE CHIEF OF THE ANGELS AND HE 51:14 JUST BECAME SO FULL OF HIMSELF BECAUSE HE WAS BEAUTIFUL. 51:17 AND THAT TAKES US TO EZEKIEL 28:12 - ISAIAH 14:12 - 51:21 EZEKIEL 28:12 - WE CAN REMEMBER THOSE. 51:24 "SON OF MAN, TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR THE KING OF 51:27 TYRE, AND SAY TO HIM, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD: 'YOU WERE THE SEAL 51:31 OF PERFECTION, FULL OF WISDOM AND PERFECT IN BEAUTY. 51:34 YOU WERE IN EDEN, THE GARDEN''" - IT'S NOT - THE KING OF TYRE 51:36 WAS NOT IN EDEN SO WHO IS HE TALKING ABOUT? THE DEVIL. 51:41 "YOU WERE IN EDEN, THE GARDEN OF GOD;" - WAS THE DEVIL IN THE 51:43 GARDEN OF GOD? DID HE TEMPT EVE THERE? 51:47 - "EVERY PRECIOUS STONE WAS YOUR COVERING:" - COVERED WITH 51:49 GLITTERING JEWELS AND LIGHT - AND IT LISTS THEM ALL THERE - 51:54 "FROM THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED YOU WERE THE ANOINTED CHERUB" - 52:00 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE HIGHEST CHERUBS WERE THERE BY 52:03 THE THRONE OF GOD. YOU - IN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT THERE ARE 52:06 TWO CHERUBS. THEY'RE CALLED THE COVERING CHERUBS. 52:08 ISAIAH 6 - YOU'VE GOT THESE TWO ANGELS THAT SAY 'HOLY, HOLY, 52:11 HOLY' BY THE THRONE OF GOD. LUCIFER HELD THAT POSITION 52:16 AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. IT SAYS 'YOU WERE PERFECT ON 52:19 THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED AND I PLACED YOU SO ON THE HOLY 52:24 MOUNTAIN IN THE MIDST OF THE STONES OF FIRE. 52:26 YOU WERE BLAMELESS IN ALL YOUR WAYS TILL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WAS 52:30 FOUND IN YOU. IN THE ABUNDANCE OF YOUR TRADE 52:33 YOU WERE FILLED WITH VIOLENCE IN YOUR MIDST, AND YOU SINNED; SO I 52:37 CAST YOU OUT' - WAS SATAN CAST OUT? - 52:41 'AS A PROFANE THING FROM THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD; I DESTROY YOU - 52:44 I WILL DESTROY YOU, O COVERING CHERUB, FROM THE MIDST OF THE 52:47 STONES OF FIRE.' IT SAYS HE'LL BE BROUGHT TO THE PIT - AND 52:50 SATAN IS GOING TO BE CAST INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. 52:54 SO, THE WHOLE GREAT CONTROVERSY CAN BE SEEN IN THE STORY OF THE 53:00 BOOK OF JOB. AND ALL OF THIS IS A SPECTACLE. 53:05 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME HEBREWS 4:13. YOU'LL HAVE THAT HAFDIS? 53:09 ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ TO YOU - AND THIS GOES ALONG WITH 53:11 THAT THEME THAT ALL THINGS CAN BE SEEN. 1 TIMOTHY 3:6 - PAUL'S 53:17 TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU PICK A BISHOP OR AN ELDER, HE SAYS, 53:19 'DON'T LET THEM BE A NOVICE' - A BEGINNER - 'LEST BEING PUFFED UP 53:23 WITH PRIDE, HE FALL INTO THE SAME CONDEMNATION AS THE 53:27 DEVIL.' HOW DID THE DEVIL GET INTO TROUBLE? PRIDE. 53:31 SOMEONE SAID, 'YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE THE DEVIL THAN WHEN YOU'RE 53:35 PROUD.' OFTEN, WHEN PEOPLE ARE SELF-CONSCIOUS, IT'S ANOTHER 53:39 FORM OF PRIDE, BECAUSE THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT THEMSELVES - 53:43 THEY'RE CONSUMED WITH THINKING ABOUT THEMSELVES. 53:45 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US HEBREWS 4:13. 53:51 >>"AND THERE IS NO CREATURE HIDDEN FROM HIS SIGHT BUT ALL 53:55 THINGS ARE NAKED AND OPEN TO THE EYES OF HIM TO WHOM WE MUST GIVE 54:00 ACCOUNT." >>HOW MUCH IS OPEN TO THE LORD? 54:03 >>ALL. >>THE BIBLE SAYS 'THE EYES OF 54:05 THE LORD RUN TO AND FRO THROUGH THE WHOLE EARTH.' ALL THINGS ARE 54:09 NAKED - GOD NOT ONLY SEES WHAT WE DO, HE LOOKS INTO THE HEART 54:14 AND HE CAN SEE WHY WE'RE DOING WHAT WE DO. 54:16 SO CAN A PERSON LOOK LIKE THEY'RE PRAYING AND FASTING AND 54:19 GIVING FOR GOOD MOTIVES AND GOD CAN LOOK AT THE HEART AND SAY, 54:22 'YOU'RE ALL DOING IT' - OR - 'YOU'RE DOING IT ALL TO BE SEEN 54:25 OF MEN.' AND JESUS SAID HE'S MORE INTERESTED IN THE ATTITUDE 54:30 THAN THE ACTION. WHY ARE WE DOING IT? IS IT FOR LOVE? 54:35 1 CORINTHIANS 4:9 - PAUL SAYS, "FOR I THINK THAT GOD HAS 54:38 DISPLAYED US, THE APOSTLES, LAST AS MEN CONDEMNED TO DEATH, WE 54:42 HAVE BEEN MADE A SPECTACLE TO THE WORLD TO BOTH ANGELS AND 54:47 MEN." ALL - HE SAID - ARE LOOKING. 54:52 EVEN ANGELS ARE WATCHING. 54:54 AND YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 3, VERSE 5, "HE WHO OVERCOMES 55:00 WILL BE CLOTHED IN WHITE RAIMENT AND I WILL NOT BLOT HIS NAME OUT 55:03 OF THE BOOK OF LIFE" - BUT IT SAYS, "I WILL CONFESS HIS NAME" 55:10 - THIS IS THE VERSE I WAS TALKING ABOUT BEFORE - HE SAYS, 55:12 "I'LL CONFESS HIS NAME BEFORE MY FATHER AND BEFORE HIS ANGELS. 55:16 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO HAVE JESUS DO WHAT GOD DID FOR JOB AND 55:20 CONFESS YOUR NAME BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD? AND THEN YOU 55:24 CAN READ - I READ THAT VERSE TO YOU - 1 - 2 CHRONICLES 16:9, 55:28 "THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN TO AND FRO THROUGH THE WHOLE EARTH." 55:30 AND THE LAST SEGMENT HERE TALKS ABOUT ANSWERS AT THE CROSS . 55:35 IT TELLS US NOW - JOHN 12:31 - JESUS SAID, "NOW IS THE JUDGMENT 55:40 OF THIS WORLD; NOW THE RULER OF THIS WORLD WILL BE CAST OUT." 55:44 AND I'M GLAD WE CAN KIND OF FINISH THIS LESSON ON A GOOD 55:46 NOTE. SATAN HAS CLAIMED THIS WORLD AS 55:49 HIS DOMINION, BUT DID SOMETHING HAPPEN AT THE CROSS? 55:52 >>AMEN. >>SATAN'S COMING DOWN WITH GREAT 55:55 WRATH BECAUSE HE KNOWS HIS TIME IS SHORT. 55:58 HE KNOWS HIS DOOM IS SEALED. HE IS ON DEATH ROW. HE IS TRYING TO 56:04 RIP AND TEAR AND CAUSE AS MUCH HAVOC AS HE CAN - TAKE AS MANY 56:09 WITH HIM AS HE CAN - BUT HE KNOWS HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED. 56:14 AND, AT THE CROSS, JESUS THROUGH HIS SUCCESSFUL, VICTORIOUS, PURE 56:18 LIFE, HE DEFEATED THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. 56:21 HE MADE A WAY OF ESCAPE FOR EACH ONE OF US. 56:23 AND YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 12, VERSE 10, "THEN I HEARD A 56:28 LOUD VOICE SAYING IN HEAVEN, 'NOW SALVATION, AND STRENGTH, 56:32 AND THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD, AND THE POWER OF HIS CHRIST HAVE 56:35 COME, FOR THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN, WHO ACCUSED THEM 56:38 BEFORE OUR GOD DAY AND NIGHT, HAS BEEN CAST DOWN.'' IT SAYS, 56:42 'I WILL CAST YOU OUT.' HE WAS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN. 56:45 'I WILL CAST YOU DOWN.' AND THE FINAL VERSE I'LL READ TO YOU IS 56:49 HEBREWS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 14, "INASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN 56:54 HAVE PARTAKEN OF FLESH AND BLOOD, HE HIMSELF [CHRIST] 56:57 LIKEWISE SHARED IN THE SAME, THAT THROUGH DEATH HE MIGHT 57:02 DESTROY HIM WHO HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE DEVIL." 57:10 WHAT DO YOU HAVE WHEN YOU TAKE THE WORD 'D' OFF DEVIL? 57:13 OR THE LETTER 'D'? EVIL. 57:16 THE DEVIL IS CONSUMMATE EVIL. WHO? 57:17 JESUS DESTROYED THE POWER OF THE DEVIL AND THE POWER OF THE DEVIL 57:22 IS DEATH. THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. JESUS DESTROYED THAT 57:25 POWER. HE IS OFFERING US WHAT? >>LIFE. 57:28 >>ETERNAL LIFE - THE OPPOSITE OF THAT. 57:30 SO THE WHOLE PLAN OF SALVATION - THE WHOLE GREAT CONTROVERSY CAN 57:33 CLEARLY BE SEEN IN THE BOOK OF JOB. 57:35 I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS THAT ARE WATCHING, WE DO HAVE A 57:37 FREE OFFER. YOU MAY HAVE MISSED THIS AT THE BEGINNING - I WANT 57:40 TO MENTION TO YOU AGAIN - IT'S A GREAT BOOK. 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