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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, WELCOME
TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD
- PART OF OUR EXTENDED SABBATH
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SCHOOL CLASS - AND ALSO THE
MEMBERS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH AND THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE
VISITING - A VERY WARM WELCOME
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TO YOU. WE'RE
GLAD TO SEE YOU ALL
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HERE AGAIN TODAY, AS WE STUDY
TOGETHER. NOW, OUR NEW LESSON
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QUARTERLY IS DEALING WITH
THE BOOK OF JOB. TODAY WE FIND
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OURSELVES ON LESSON #4, WHICH IS
ENTITLED GOD AND HUMAN SUFFERING
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SO THAT'S GOING TO BE THE FOCUS
THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING
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AT HERE IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS.
BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THE LESSON,
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I'D LIKE TO LET THOSE OF
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY, AS WE NORMALLY DO, I'D
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LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS
TO COME JOIN ME HERE ON STAGE
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AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN BY
LIFTING OUR VOICES IN PRAISE.
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(PIANO MUSIC) >>LIKE A
RIVER GLORIOUS IS GOD'S
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PERFECT PEACE, OVER ALL
VICTORIOUS, IN ITS BRIGHT
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INCREASE; PERFECT, YET
IT FLOWETH FULLER EVERY DAY,
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PERFECT, YET IT
GROWETH DEEPER ALL THE WAY.
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TRUSTING IN JEHOVAH, HEARTS
ARE FULLY BLEST FINDING AS HE
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PROMISED,
PERFECT PEACE AND REST.
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HIDDEN IN THE HOLLOW OF
HIS BLESSED HAND, NEVER FOE CAN
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FOLLOW, NEVER TRAITOR STAND; NOT
A SURGE OF WORRY, NOT A SHADE OF
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CARE, NOT A BLAST OF
HURRY TOUCH THE SPIRIT THERE.
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TRUSTING IN JEHOVAH, HEARTS
ARE FULLY BLEST FINDING AS HE
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PROMISED,
PERFECT PEACE AND REST.
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EVERY JOY OR TESTING COMES FROM
GOD ABOVE, GIVEN TO HIS CHILDREN
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AS AN ACT OF LOVE; WE MAY TRUST
HIM FULLY, ALL FOR US TO DO;
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THOSE WHO TRUST HIM
WHOLLY FIND HIM WHOLLY TRUE.
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TRUSTING IN JEHOVAH, HEARTS
ARE FULLY BLEST FINDING AS HE
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PROMISED,
PERFECT PEACE AND REST.
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TRUSTING IN JEHOVAH, HEARTS
ARE FULLY BLEST FINDING, AS HE
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PROMISED,
PERFECT PEACE AND REST.
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>>AMEN. THANK YOU
FOR SINGING WITH US.
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THIS MORNING WE HAVE A SPECIAL
MUSIC BY CHUCK HOLTRY, SO I'D
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LIKE TO WELCOME HIM UP
AT THIS TIME. (GUITAR MUSIC)
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>>THERE IS A ROAD THAT LEADS US
FROM THE LOWLANDS OF THIS LIFE
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TO GATES OF PEARL AND STREETS
OF GOLD, IMMORTAL HAPPY LIFE.
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AND ONE HAS GONE BEFORE US SO
WE SURELY KNOW THE WAY AND WITH
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ARMS OUTSTRETCHED HE LEADS
HIS CHILDREN HIGHER EVERY DAY.
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COME HIGHER, MY CHILDREN, COME
HIGHER THE GUIDE LIGHT IS MOVING
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ON. COME
HIGHER, MY CHILDREN COME
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HIGHER EVERY STEP YOU
TAKE GOES DEEPER IN MY HEART.
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RICH OR POOR WILL FIND THIS ROAD
TO THEM AN OPEN DOOR FOR THE
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RICHEST AND THE POOREST
JESUS CHRIST HAS GONE BEFORE.
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AND ONLY AS IT NARROWS THAT, FOR
US, A CHOICE IS MADE EITHER DROP
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THE TREASURE OR MYSELF
FALL IN THE OPEN GRAVE.
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COME HIGHER, MY CHILDREN, COME
HIGHER THE GUIDE LIGHT IS MOVING
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ON. COME
HIGHER, MY CHILDREN COME
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HIGHER EVERY STEP YOU
TAKE GOES DEEPER IN MY HEART.
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SOME MAY CHOOSE THE TREASURES,
MAYBE HOUSES MAYBE LANDS OR A
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SELFISH HEART A CHERISHED SIN,
GRASPED TIGHTLY IN THEIR HANDS.
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WHAT WILL YOU GIVE FOR JESUS?
WHO'S THE RIVAL IN YOUR HEART?
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THE CALL COMES TO SURRENDER
OR FOR US THE ROAD WILL PART.
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COME HIGHER, MY CHILDREN, COME
HIGHER THE GUIDE LIGHT IS MOVING
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ON. COME HIGHER,
MY CHILDREN, COME
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HIGHER EVERY STEP YOU
TAKE GOES DEEPER IN MY HEART.
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EVERY STEP YOU TAKE
GOES DEEPER IN MY HEART.
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>>AMEN. >>BEAUTIFUL SONG.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY, I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR
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HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER.
DEAR FATHER, WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT
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IS FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GATHER
IN YOUR PRESENCE TO TALK ABOUT A
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SUBJECT THAT TOUCHES ON ALL OF
OUR LIVES - THAT OF SUFFERING.
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SOMETIMES WE ASK QUESTIONS AS TO
WHY WE'RE GOING THROUGH TRIALS
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AND DIFFICULTIES, BUT YOUR WORD
DOES GIVE US THE ANSWERS, SO WE
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ASK THAT YOU BLESS OUR TIME
TOGETHER, IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AGAIN, WELCOME TO OUR SABBATH
SCHOOL STUDY HOUR THIS MORNING.
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE REGULAR
ATTENDEES HERE AT OUR SABBATH
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SCHOOL TIME AND ALSO THOSE OF
YOU WATCHING ONLINE AROUND THE
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WORLD, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THINGS
LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT TODAY ON
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STAGE, KIND OF GOING
ALONG WITH A SOLDIER-TYPE THEME.
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THERE'S A REASON FOR
THAT. THIS WEEKEND WE'RE DOING A
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SPECIAL SERIES
ENTITLED MIGHTY MEN OF GOD .
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IT ACTUALLY STARTED LAST NIGHT
- IT'S A MEN'S MINISTRY EMPHASIS
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SERIES AND WE'LL CONTINUE WITH
THAT DURING OUR 11:00 WORSHIP
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HOUR THIS MORNING AND
THEN, ALSO, THIS AFTERNOON.
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THUS, YOU CAN SEE THE STAGE
LOOKS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN
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MAYBE WHAT YOU'RE USED TO.
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NEVERTHELESS, WE DO HAVE OUR
REGULAR SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
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AND WE WANT TO BE
STUDYING THAT TOGETHER.
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TIME, OUR FREE OFFER FOR TODAY
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DO CHRISTIANS SUFFER?
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NOW, OUR LESSON FOR TODAY IS
LESSON #4 AND IT'S ENTITLED: GOD
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AND HUMAN SUFFERINGS . WE
DO HAVE A SCRIPTURE READING
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THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING
AT TOGETHER, AND IF YOU HAVE
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YOUR LESSON QUARTERLIES, I'LL
GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO OPEN
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TO IT - I BELIEVE IT'S ON PAGE
30, WHERE YOU'LL FIND LESSON #4.
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OUR SCRIPTURE READING IS
MATTHEW CHAPTER 6, VERSE 34.
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IT IS THE WORDS OF JESUS IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 6, VERSE 34 -
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JESUS SAID, "THEREFORE DO
NOT WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW, FOR
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TOMORROW WILL WORRY ABOUT ITS
OWN THINGS. SUFFICIENT FOR THE
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DAY IS ITS OWN TROUBLE."
NOW, IN SABBATH AFTERNOON - IN
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THE LESSON QUARTERLY - WE HAVE
JUST A FEW COMMENTS THAT I WANT
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TO MENTION THERE
OUT OF OUR READING.
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IT SAYS, 'UNLIKE EVERY OTHER
BOOK IN THE BIBLE, THE BOOK OF
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JOB IS COMPLETELY REMOVED FROM
THE CONTEXT OF THE LAND AND THE
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PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. AND
THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT.
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IT SAYS THE MOST IMMEDIATE
REASON IS THAT MOSES WROTE THE
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BOOK OF JOB AND THE BOOK OF
GENESIS WHEN HE WAS IN MIDIAN.
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NOW, YOU REMEMBER THE STORY,
HE FLED FROM EGYPT AFTER KILLING
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THE EGYPTIANS AND HE WENT
TO MIDIAN, AND THAT'S WHERE THE
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HOLY SPIRIT MOVED UPON
HIM AND HE WROTE THESE BOOKS.
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THERE'S ANOTHER REASON WHY
YOU DON'T FIND ANY REFERENCE, IN
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JOB, TO ISRAEL OR TO THE EXODUS
- OBVIOUSLY, THE EXODUS HADN'T
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HAPPENED AT THAT POINT,
BUT THERE'S ANOTHER REASON.
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ONE OF THE KEY THEMES IN
THE BOOK OF JOB IS THAT OF HUMAN
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SUFFERING. AND HUMAN
SUFFERING IS UNIVERSAL.
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IT'S NOT LIMITED TO
ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE.
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IT'S NOT LIMITED TO ONE SPECIFIC
POINT IN TIME, SO THE BOOK OF
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JOB IS FOR EVERYONE.
IT'S NOT ONLY THE HISTORY OF
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GOD'S PEOPLE, ALTHOUGH THEY
ENDURED SUFFERING, BUT IT'S FOR
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ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE
THROUGHOUT ALL OF TIME.
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SO OUR SCRIPTURE READING THEN,
MATTHEW CHAPTER 6:34, JESUS
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SAYS, "THEREFORE DO
NOT WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW."
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NOW, IS THAT A SUGGESTION BY
JESUS OR IS THAT A COMMAND BY
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JESUS? IT'S A COMMAND.
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JESUS SAYS, 'DON'T
WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW.'
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IT'S NOT ALWAYS THE
EASIEST THING NOT TO WORRY ABOUT
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TOMORROW OR THE FUTURE, JESUS
SAYS, "SUFFICIENT FOR THE DAY IS
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ITS OWN TROUBLE."
NOW, WHY IS IT THAT
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CHRISTIANS ARE NOT TO
WORRY? THERE ARE THREE REASONS,
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IN PARTICULAR, WHY WE AS
CHRISTIANS, SHOULD NOT WORRY.
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THE FIRST IS IN ROMANS CHAPTER
8, VERSE 28, WHICH SAYS, "ALL
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THINGS" - CAN YOU FINISH
THE VERSE? - "ALL THINGS WORK
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TOGETHER FOR" - >>GOOD.
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>>"FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO LOVE
GOD, TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED
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ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE."
SO THE PROMISE THAT WE FIND IN
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SCRIPTURE IS THAT ALL THINGS
WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD FOR THOSE
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WHO ARE CALLED
ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
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WHAT IS THE PURPOSE THAT
GOD HAS FOR US, AS BELIEVERS?
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THERE ARE REALLY TWO THINGS THAT
GOD HAS PURPOSED FOR EVERY ONE
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OF US. NUMBER 1:
THAT WE REVEAL THE
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LIKENESS OF CHRIST'S CHARACTER.
CAN SUFFERINGS HELP TO REVEAL
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CHRIST'S
CHARACTER IN OUR LIVES? YES.
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THE SECOND IT TO WORK FOR
THE ENLARGEMENT OF HIS KINGDOM.
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SO, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE GOING
THROUGH TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES,
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GOD HAS A PURPOSE IN ALLOWING
THESE THINGS TO COME TO US.
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NUMBER 1, IT'S REVEALING
CHRIST'S CHARACTER TO THE WORLD
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THROUGH SUFFERING, BUT IT'S ALSO
WORKING FOR THE ENLARGEMENT OF
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HIS KINGDOM BY WITNESSING,
ESPECIALLY IN TRIALS WHEN WE
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HAVE FAITH AND
PATIENCE AND CONFIDENCE IN GOD.
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THERE'S ANOTHER REASON WHY A
CHRISTIAN IS NOT TO WORRY - 2
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CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 12, VERSE
9 SAYS, "MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT
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FOR THEE." ISN'T
THAT A WONDERFUL PROMISE?
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WHATEVER THE TRIAL, WHATEVER THE
DIFFICULTY, GOD SAYS, "MY GRACE
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IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE."
NOW, THE WORD GRACE THERE IS NOT
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ONLY GOD'S UNMERITED FAVOR,
BUT IT ALSO HAS THE CONNECTION
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OF GOD'S SUSTAINING POWER.
SO GOD'LL GIVE US STRENGTH -
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HE'LL GIVE US POWER TO FACE
EVERY TRIAL AND DIFFICULTY THAT
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COMES OUR WAY, IF WE KEEP
OUR HEARTS CENTERED UPON HIM.
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AND THEN, THIRDLY - THE THIRD
REASON WHY CHRISTIANS OUGHT NOT
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TO WORRY: 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER
10, AND VERSE 13, "BUT GOD IS
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FAITHFUL, WHO WILL NOT ALLOW YOU
TO BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU
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ARE ABLE, BUT WITH THE
TEMPTATION WILL ALSO MAKE THE
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WAY OF ESCAPE, THAT YOU
MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT."
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JESUS KNOWS OUR
HEARTS. HE KNOWS OUR FRAME.
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HE KNOWS WHAT WE CAN ENDURE.
AND SO GOD IS NOT GOING TO ALLOW
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US TO BE TEMPTED OR TESTED
OR TRIED TO THE POINT WHERE WE
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CANNOT ENDURE, BUT WITH THE
TRIAL HE ALWAYS HAS A WAY OF
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ESCAPE TO SUSTAIN AS WE
TRUST IN HIM. THREE REASONS WHY
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CHRISTIANS OUGHT NOT TO WORRY
- GOD IS WORKING ALL THINGS OUT
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FOR OUR GOOD, HIS GRACE IS
SUFFICIENT FOR US, AND HE KNOWS
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WHAT WE CAN ENDURE. AMEN?
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THE QUESTION IS OFTEN ASKED, AND
TIES INTO OUR LESSON HERE, 'IF
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GOD IS GOOD, WHY DOES GOD ALLOW
BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN TO PEOPLE.'
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HAVE YOU HAD
THAT QUESTION BEFORE?
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I DID A LITTLE RESEARCH ON THAT
- MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN JUST
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GO ONLINE AND YOU CAN TYPE
IN 'WHY DOES GOD LET BAD THINGS
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HAPPEN TO PEOPLE?' AND
YOU'LL COME UP WITH ALL
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KINDS OF ANSWERS, BUT THERE
WERE FOUR IN PARTICULAR THAT I
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NOTICED THAT I
WANTED TO MENTION.
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THE FIRST REASON THAT'S GIVEN
AS TO WHY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO
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PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY GOOD PEOPLE,
OR CHRISTIANS, ONE OF THE
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REASONS IS: 'ALL ARE SINNERS
AND THEREFORE DESERVING OF SOME
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DEGREE OF SUFFERING.' WHAT
DO YOU THINK OF THAT ANSWER?
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WE'RE ALL SINNERS AND SO,
IF WE SUFFER, WELL, WE PROBABLY
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DESERVE IT. NOW,
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THIS WAS
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THE PREDOMINANT VIEW
IN THE TIME OF JESUS.
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THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS FELT THAT
IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED TO YOU
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OR IF YOU WERE SUFFERING, IT WAS
BECAUSE OF SOME HIDDEN SIN THAT
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YOU HAD IN YOUR
HEART OR IN YOUR LIFE.
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IT WAS ALSO THE VIEW THAT WE SEE
REVEALED WHEN JOB'S FRIENDS CAME
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AND SAT DOWN TO
CONSULT WITH JOB.
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WHAT DID THEY SAY TO JOB?
THEY SAID, 'YOU MUST HAVE SOME
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TERRIBLE WICKEDNESS WITHIN YOU
BECAUSE OF ALL OF THESE TERRIBLE
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THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO
YOU.' BUT IS THAT THE POSITION
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THAT THE BIBLE GIVES WITH
REFERENCE TO WHY BAD THINGS
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HAPPEN TO
PEOPLE? NO, NOT AT ALL.
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IN JOHN, CHAPTER NINE, VERSE 1 -
FROM VERSE 1 TO VERSE 3 WE HAVE
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THESE WORDS - IT SAYS, "NOW
AS JESUS PASSED BY, HE SAW A MAN
00:16:45.77\00:16:49.77
WHO WAS BLIND FROM BIRTH." -
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY - "AND
00:16:49.77\00:16:52.84
HIS DISCIPLES ASKED HIM, SAYING,
'RABBI, WHO SINNED, THIS MAN OR
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HIS PARENTS, THAT HE WAS BORN
BLIND?'" - DO YOU UNDERSTAND
00:16:57.15\00:17:01.25
THEIR QUESTIONING HERE? THIS MAN
IS BLIND, THEREFORE HE MUST BE A
00:17:01.25\00:17:05.52
GREAT SINNER. BUT IF
HE WAS BORN BLIND, HOW
00:17:05.52\00:17:09.46
COULD HE BE GUILTY OF
SIN BEFORE HE WAS EVEN BORN?
00:17:09.46\00:17:12.66
WELL, THEN, IT MUST BE THE SINS
OF THE PARENTS AND THAT'S THE
00:17:12.66\00:17:15.90
REASON HE'S SUFFERING.'
HOW DID JESUS RESPOND TO THIS?
00:17:15.90\00:17:19.07
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID,
'NEITHER THIS MAN NOR HIS
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PARENTS SINNED.' - AND THEN HE
SAID, 'BUT THAT THE WORKS OF GOD
00:17:22.30\00:17:26.31
SHOULD BE REVEALED IN HIM.' SO
JESUS MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT
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NOT ALL SUFFERING IS THE RESULT
OF OUR OWN SINS; SOMETIMES THESE
00:17:30.51\00:17:35.32
THINGS HAPPEN. NOW,
THE ANSWER - SPECIFICALLY
00:17:35.32\00:17:37.82
AS TO WHY THESE THINGS HAPPEN
- WE'LL GET TO IN JUST A FEW
00:17:37.82\00:17:40.26
MOMENTS, BUT NOTICE JESUS SAYS
EVEN IN THE MIDST OF SUFFERING,
00:17:40.26\00:17:43.36
GOD IS ABLE TO WORK
THINGS OUT TOWARDS HIS GLORY.
00:17:43.36\00:17:47.36
AND, OF COURSE, THAT VERSE
THAT WE LOOKED AT EARLIER, 'ALL
00:17:47.36\00:17:50.17
THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD
TO THOSE WHO LOVE GOD.' ALRIGHT,
00:17:50.17\00:17:54.17
ANOTHER REASON THAT'S
OFTEN GIVEN AS TO WHY BAD THINGS
00:17:54.17\00:17:56.91
HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE, AND THIS
IS THE REASON: 'GOD'S REASONS
00:17:56.91\00:18:00.64
CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY HUMANS
SO DON'T EVEN ASK.' WHAT DO YOU
00:18:00.64\00:18:05.18
THINK OF THAT REASON? SO
BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO YOU,
00:18:05.18\00:18:08.05
WELL, YOU CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND
GOD'S REASONS - DON'T EVEN ASK.
00:18:08.05\00:18:11.72
IS THAT KIND OF THE WAY GOD
FEELS? NO, NOT AT ALL. WHAT DOES
00:18:11.72\00:18:14.96
- ISAIAH CHAPTER 1, VERSE 18
- GOD SAYS, "'COME NOW, AND LET
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US'" - DO WHAT? - "'REASON
TOGETHER,' SAYS THE LORD."
00:18:17.76\00:18:21.90
AND THEN WE ALSO FIND IN JOHN
CHAPTER 15, VERSE 15 - JESUS,
00:18:21.90\00:18:25.07
SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES
SAID, "NO LONGER DO I CALL YOU
00:18:25.07\00:18:27.70
SERVANTS, FOR A SERVANT DOES NOT
KNOW WHAT HIS MASTER IS DOING;
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BUT I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS,
FOR ALL THINGS THAT I HEARD FROM
00:18:33.17\00:18:36.81
MY FATHER I HAVE
MADE KNOWN TO YOU."
00:18:36.81\00:18:40.42
ISN'T THAT AN INTERESTING VERSE?
00:18:40.42\00:18:42.05
JESUS REFERRED TO HIS DISCIPLES
AND HE SAID, 'YOU ARE FRIENDS.'
00:18:42.05\00:18:44.72
MEANING, 'I AM REVEALING TO YOU
WHY GOD IS ALLOWING THINGS TO
00:18:44.72\00:18:49.06
HAPPEN. I'M
PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN TO
00:18:49.06\00:18:51.86
REVEAL THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
IN GOD'S DEALINGS WITH MANKIND.
00:18:51.86\00:18:54.93
WELL, ANOTHER REASON THAT'S
SOMETIMES GIVEN, AS TO WHY BAD
00:18:54.93\00:18:57.60
THINGS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE:
'GOD DOESN'T NEED TO JUSTIFY HIS
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ACTIONS TO THOSE THAT HE
CREATED.' WHAT DO YOU THINK OF
00:19:01.50\00:19:06.01
THAT REASON? GOD
DOESN'T HAVE TO JUSTIFY HIS
00:19:06.01\00:19:08.74
ACTIONS TO US BECAUSE
WE WERE CREATED BY HIM.
00:19:08.74\00:19:12.45
WELL, THAT'S NOT IN
HARMONY WITH THE BIBLE EITHER.
00:19:12.45\00:19:14.98
ROMANS CHAPTER 14, VERSE 11,
"FOR IT IS WRITTEN: 'AS I LIVE,
00:19:14.98\00:19:18.72
SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL
BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE
00:19:18.72\00:19:22.96
SHALL CONFESS TO GOD.'" NOW
THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THAT FINAL
00:19:22.96\00:19:26.63
JUDGMENT THAT OCCURS AT THE END
OF THE 1000-YEAR PERIOD, KNOWN
00:19:26.63\00:19:29.60
AS THE MILLENNIUM, WHERE THE
GREAT CONTROVERSY IS REVEALED TO
00:19:29.60\00:19:33.97
EVERYONE, EVEN THE WICKED, AND
THEY GET TO SEE GOD'S DEALINGS
00:19:33.97\00:19:38.17
WITH MANKIND. AND, AS
A RESULT OF SEEING GOD'S
00:19:38.17\00:19:41.44
COMPASSION AND GOD'S
LOVE, THROUGHOUT THE GREAT
00:19:41.44\00:19:44.35
CONTROVERSY, AS IT HAS
BEEN REVEALED, EVERY KNEE ENDS
00:19:44.35\00:19:47.62
UP BOWING AND EVERY
TONGUE CONFESSING THAT
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JESUS CHRIST IS LORD.
SO GOD WANTS US TO CHOOSE
00:19:50.09\00:19:53.29
TO SERVE HIM BASED
UPON UNDERSTANDING.
00:19:53.29\00:19:56.79
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? BASED UPON
REASON. OUR FAITH HAS EVIDENCE.
00:19:56.79\00:20:00.90
EVIDENCE IS BASED UPON
GOD'S CHARACTER - GOD'S LOVE.
00:20:00.90\00:20:04.63
ALRIGHT THEN, A FOURTH REASON
THAT IS GIVEN - I THINK THIS IS
00:20:04.63\00:20:07.00
THE BEST OUT OF THE REASONS
THAT I'VE GIVEN THIS MORNING:
00:20:07.00\00:20:09.84
'GOD VALUES FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
THAT'S WHY THERE IS SUFFERING IN
00:20:09.84\00:20:15.31
THE WORLD TODAY.' LET'S
THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE.
00:20:15.31\00:20:18.61
GOD VALUES FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
00:20:18.61\00:20:21.65
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF EVERY TIME
SOMEBODY CHOOSES TO DO SOMETHING
00:20:21.65\00:20:25.09
THAT'S GOING TO BRING SUFFERING
UPON THEMSELVES OR SOMEBODY
00:20:25.09\00:20:28.36
ELSE, GOD VETOES THAT CHOICE
AND DOESN'T ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN?
00:20:28.36\00:20:33.86
WHERE IS FREEDOM?
RIGHT? ARE YOU WITH ME?
00:20:33.86\00:20:36.87
SO GOD HAS GIVEN US FREEDOM, NOT
ONLY TO CHOOSE TO DO THE RIGHT
00:20:36.87\00:20:39.87
THING, BUT GOD HAS GIVEN
US FREEDOM TO CHOOSE TO DO THE
00:20:39.87\00:20:42.14
WRONG THING. AND IF
WE CHOOSE TO DO THE WRONG
00:20:42.14\00:20:45.37
THING, THAT NATURAL CONSEQUENCES
OF THOSE BAD CHOICES IS
00:20:45.37\00:20:49.08
SUFFERING. AND, NOT
ONLY IS IT SUFFERING
00:20:49.08\00:20:51.81
THAT COMES TO US, BUT
THE CHOICES WE MAKE OFTEN
00:20:51.81\00:20:55.85
BRING SUFFERING TO
OTHERS. ISN'T THAT TRUE?
00:20:55.85\00:20:58.62
I MEAN, THINK OF THE CHOICE THAT
ADAM AND EVE MADE BACK IN THE
00:20:58.62\00:21:00.96
GARDEN OF EDEN.
DID THAT MAKE SUFFERING
00:21:00.96\00:21:02.79
UPON US AND UPON
THE WORLD? YES IT DID.
00:21:02.79\00:21:05.99
BUT GOD VALUES FREEDOM OF CHOICE
AND, IF GOD WERE TO REMOVE ALL
00:21:05.99\00:21:10.90
BAD CHOICES OR ALL SUFFERING,
WELL, THEN, WHERE WOULD BE THE
00:21:10.90\00:21:14.44
FREEDOM TO CHOOSE?
AND, AFTER ALL, GOD IS LOVE.
00:21:14.44\00:21:18.94
LOVE CANNOT BE FORCED. YOU
HAVE TO CHOOSE TO LOVE GOD.
00:21:18.94\00:21:23.95
AND SO, GOD RESPECTS FREEDOM.
00:21:23.95\00:21:25.81
WE FIND IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER
30, VERSE 19, GOD SAYS, '"HAVE
00:21:25.81\00:21:29.78
SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND DEATH,
BLESSING AND CURSING; THEREFORE
00:21:29.78\00:21:34.12
CHOOSE LIFE, THAT BOTH YOU AND
YOUR DESCENDANTS MAY LIVE.' AND
00:21:34.12\00:21:38.79
THAT FAMOUS VERSE IN JOSHUA
CHAPTER 24, VERSE 15, "...CHOOSE
00:21:38.79\00:21:42.73
FOR YOURSELVES THIS
DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE."
00:21:42.73\00:21:47.00
NOW WE CAN SEE AN EXAMPLE OF
THIS IN THE EXPERIENCE OF JESUS.
00:21:47.00\00:21:51.41
WHEN JESUS WAS BEING
ARRESTED THERE IN THE GARDEN OF
00:21:51.41\00:21:55.58
GETHSEMANE, THE SOLDIERS CAME
AND, AT FIRST, PETER PULLED THE
00:21:55.58\00:21:59.51
SWORD AND WENT UP AGAINST THE
CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ROMANS AND
00:21:59.51\00:22:04.42
BEGAN SWINGING HIS SWORD AND
CHOPPED OFF THE HIGH PRIEST'S
00:22:04.42\00:22:07.59
SERVANT'S EAR. AND JESUS SAID
TO PETER, 'PUT AWAY THE SWORD.
00:22:07.59\00:22:11.49
HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD SHALL
DIE BY THE SWORD.' AND THEN
00:22:11.49\00:22:14.50
JESUS SAID
SOMETHING INTERESTING.
00:22:14.50\00:22:16.13
HE SAID, 'DO YOU NOT NOW KNOW
THAT I CAN CALL TWELVE LEGIONS
00:22:16.13\00:22:19.27
OF ANGELS TO COME AND DELIVER ME
FROM THE ROMANS - FROM THE CHIEF
00:22:19.27\00:22:23.54
PRIESTS?' NOW, A
LEGION WAS 5,000 SOLDIERS.
00:22:23.54\00:22:27.88
TWELVE WOULD BE 60,000, SO JESUS
COULD HAVE CALLED FOR 60,000
00:22:27.88\00:22:32.51
ANGELS TO COME AND DELIVER HIM
FROM THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS - THE
00:22:32.51\00:22:36.79
JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADERS - AND
THE ROMANS, BUT WHY DIDN'T JESUS
00:22:36.79\00:22:41.16
DO THAT? BECAUSE JESUS RESPECTED
00:22:41.16\00:22:44.43
THE FREEDOM OF
CHOICE. ARE YOU WITH ME?
00:22:44.43\00:22:48.23
JESUS ALLOWED HIS
ENEMIES TO CHOOSE TO REJECT HIM.
00:22:48.23\00:22:54.04
JESUS ALLOWED HIS ENEMIES TO
CHOOSE TO EVEN BRING SUFFERING
00:22:54.04\00:22:57.34
UPON HIMSELF BECAUSE
JESUS RESPECTS FREEDOM.
00:22:57.34\00:23:01.31
DOES THAT MAKE
SENSE WITH EVERYBODY?
00:23:01.31\00:23:04.08
NOW SOMEBODY MIGHT ASK
THE QUESTION: 'WELL, IF JESUS
00:23:04.08\00:23:07.65
RESPECTS FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND
HE LETS EVERYBODY CHOOSE AND, AS
00:23:07.65\00:23:11.15
A RESULT, THERE'S SUFFERING OR
THERE IS BLESSING, BASED ON OUR
00:23:11.15\00:23:13.89
CHOICE, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES
INTERCESSORY PRAYER MAKE, RIGHT?
00:23:13.89\00:23:18.59
IF SOMEBODY'S GOING TO GO AHEAD
AND MAKE A DECISION AND GOD'S
00:23:18.59\00:23:20.96
GOING TO LET THAT PERSON MAKE
THE DECISION, WHAT DIFFERENCE IS
00:23:20.96\00:23:24.13
INTERCESSORY PRAYER? WHY SHOULD
I PRAY FOR SOMEBODY ELSE?'
00:23:24.13\00:23:27.30
WELL, INTERCESSORY PRAYER DOES
MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND HERE'S
00:23:27.30\00:23:30.17
WHY: IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, THERE ARE
00:23:30.17\00:23:33.81
CERTAIN RULES OF
ENGAGEMENT, SO TO SPEAK.
00:23:33.81\00:23:36.34
THERE ARE THINGS THAT GOD
WILL NOT ALLOW SATAN TO DO.
00:23:36.34\00:23:39.75
WE CAN BE VERY
GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
00:23:39.75\00:23:41.52
DO YOU REMEMBER
THE STORY OF JOB?
00:23:41.52\00:23:42.82
THERE WAS THIS GATHERING IN
HEAVEN AND GOD WON'T ALLOW SATAN
00:23:42.82\00:23:46.45
TO TAKE JOB'S LIFE, ALTHOUGH
HE DID ALLOW HIM TO SUFFER?
00:23:46.45\00:23:49.72
SO THERE ARE CERTAIN RULES -
THINGS THAT GOD WILL NOT ALLOW
00:23:49.72\00:23:52.29
SATAN TO DO. NOW,
WHEN IT COMES TO THIS GREAT
00:23:52.29\00:23:54.73
CONTROVERSY, WHEN WE PRAY AND
INTERCEDE ON BEHALF OF SOMEBODY
00:23:54.73\00:23:59.23
ELSE, THAT ENABLES GOD TO DO
MORE TO INFLUENCE THAT PERSON,
00:23:59.23\00:24:03.54
TO HELP ENCOURAGE THAT
PERSON TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE.
00:24:03.54\00:24:07.28
AND WHEN THE DEVIL SAYS, 'FOUL
PLAY! YOU'RE BREAKING THE RULES.
00:24:07.28\00:24:11.78
YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT.'
GOD SAYS, 'YES, I HAVE A RIGHT
00:24:11.78\00:24:14.08
TO DO THAT BECAUSE SOMEBODY'S
INTERCEDING FOR THAT PERSON.'
00:24:14.08\00:24:17.49
YOU UNDERSTAND? SO
INTERCESSORY PRAYER
00:24:17.49\00:24:21.02
DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT IN THIS
00:24:21.02\00:24:24.13
GREAT CONTROVERSY THAT
WE'VE BEEN STUDYING ABOUT.
00:24:24.13\00:24:27.23
ALRIGHT, WELL MOVING RIGHT ALONG
THEN, ON SUNDAY THE LESSON IS
00:24:27.23\00:24:30.20
ENTITLED GOD IN NATURE AND
WE HAVE A SCRIPTURE THAT WE'RE
00:24:30.20\00:24:33.60
GOING TO READ HERE, ROMANS
CHAPTER 1, VERSES 18 THROUGH 20
00:24:33.60\00:24:37.07
AND WE'LL GET TO
THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:24:37.07\00:24:38.97
BUT IN SUNDAY'S LESSON,
THE SECOND PARAGRAPH SAYS "NO
00:24:38.97\00:24:42.68
QUESTION, THE NATURAL DOES
REVEAL MUCH TO US ABOUT THE
00:24:42.68\00:24:46.38
EXISTENCE OF GOD.
MODERN SCIENCE, TOO, HAS
00:24:46.38\00:24:49.38
REVEALED TO US DETAILS ABOUT
THE MARVELS OF CREATION THAT OUR
00:24:49.38\00:24:53.59
ANCESTORS, EVEN JUST 300 YEARS
AGO, MUCH LESS 3,000 YEARS AGO,
00:24:53.59\00:24:57.59
COULD NOT EVEN
HAVE BEGUN TO IMAGINE.
00:24:57.59\00:25:01.16
IT'S INTERESTING, THERE IS AN
IRONY HERE AND THAT IS, THE MORE
00:25:01.16\00:25:04.77
COMPLEXITY THAT SCIENCE FINDS
IN LIFE, THE LESS LIKELY BECOMES
00:25:04.77\00:25:09.34
THE MEANS SCIENCE CLAIMS FOR ITS
ORIGIN - THAT OF ACCIDENT AND
00:25:09.34\00:25:12.64
CHANCE." NOW ISN'T THAT
INTERESTING? THE MORE WE
00:25:12.64\00:25:15.54
DISCOVER ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY
OR THE CELL OR THE THINGS OF
00:25:15.54\00:25:18.21
NATURE, THE MORE IT TESTIFIES OF
A MASTER DESIGNER THAT ORGANIZED
00:25:18.21\00:25:23.18
AND PUT ALL OF THESE THINGS
TOGETHER. ALRIGHT, LET'S READ
00:25:23.18\00:25:25.55
ROMANS CHAPTER 1,
BEGINNING IN VERSE 18.
00:25:25.55\00:25:28.69
>>"FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS
REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL
00:25:28.69\00:25:32.76
UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
OF MEN, WHO SUPPRESS THE TRUTH
00:25:32.76\00:25:38.47
IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE WHAT
MAY BE KNOWN OF GOD IS MANIFEST
00:25:38.47\00:25:45.47
IN THEM, FOR GOD
HAS SHOWN IT TO THEM.
00:25:45.47\00:25:49.71
FOR SINCE THE CREATION OF THE
WORLD HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES
00:25:49.71\00:25:55.52
ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING
UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT
00:25:55.52\00:26:00.19
ARE MADE, EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER
AND GODHEAD, SO THAT THEY ARE
00:26:00.19\00:26:07.60
WITHOUT EXCUSE."
>>ALRIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU.
00:26:07.60\00:26:10.70
NOTICE THE PART IN THE VERSE
THERE, IT SAYS, "FOR SINCE THE
00:26:10.70\00:26:14.17
CREATION OF THE WORLD HIS
INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES ARE CLEARLY
00:26:14.17\00:26:17.37
SEEN." SO THERE
IS EVIDENCE OF GOD'S
00:26:17.37\00:26:20.84
CREATIVE WORK IN
THE THINGS AROUND US.
00:26:20.84\00:26:23.48
NOW HOW DOES
CREATION REVEAL TO US GOD?
00:26:23.48\00:26:26.08
AND I'M JUST GOING TO GIVE
YOU FOUR QUICK OR FIVE QUICK
00:26:26.08\00:26:29.12
EXAMPLES OF HOW CREATION REVEALS
GOD: #1) THE LOCATION OF THE
00:26:29.12\00:26:34.16
EARTH. IT'S
PRETTY IMPORTANT THAT
00:26:34.16\00:26:36.46
PLANET EARTH BE LOCATED
JUST WHERE IT IS, ESPECIALLY
00:26:36.46\00:26:39.49
IN RELATION TO THE SUN.
WE'RE AT JUST THE RIGHT DISTANCE
00:26:39.49\00:26:42.66
FROM THE SUN TO GET EXACTLY THE
AMOUNT OF HEAT NEEDED TO SUSTAIN
00:26:42.66\00:26:46.84
LIFE HERE ON THIS PLANET.
#2) THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH.
00:26:46.84\00:26:51.97
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE
FOR THE EARTH TO TURN?
00:26:51.97\00:26:53.94
24 HOURS. HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED
TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
00:26:53.94\00:26:56.95
IF THE EARTH SLOWED DOWN?
LET'S SAY IT TOOK 36 HOURS FOR
00:26:56.95\00:27:02.32
THE EARTH TO MAKE
A COMPLETE CIRCUIT.
00:27:02.32\00:27:04.65
THAT WOULD RESULT IN INTENSE
HEAT - LONGER DAYS - AND INTENSE
00:27:04.65\00:27:09.99
COLD - LONGER NIGHTS.
SO EVEN THE ROTATION OF THE
00:27:09.99\00:27:13.90
EARTH IS
PERFECTLY DESIGNED BY GOD.
00:27:13.90\00:27:16.10
WHAT ABOUT THE
SIZE OF THE EARTH?
00:27:16.10\00:27:18.07
THE SIZE OF THE
EARTH IS RATHER IMPORTANT.
00:27:18.07\00:27:20.47
IF THE EARTH WERE THE SIZE
OF THE MOON, THERE WOULDN'T BE
00:27:20.47\00:27:24.27
SUFFICIENT GRAVITATIONAL PULL
FOR US TO HAVE AN ATMOSPHERE.
00:27:24.27\00:27:27.44
WE WOULDN'T BE
ABLE TO HAVE WATER.
00:27:27.44\00:27:29.88
IF THE EARTH WAS DOUBLE THE
SIZE THAT IT CURRENTLY IS, THE
00:27:29.88\00:27:33.78
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE WOULD
INCREASE TO ABOUT 30 POUNDS PER
00:27:33.78\00:27:37.29
SQUARE INCH.
THAT'S LIKE LIVING 70 FEET
00:27:37.29\00:27:40.52
UNDER WATER - THAT WOULD
BE THE ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE.
00:27:40.52\00:27:43.46
SO THE SIZE OF THE
EARTH IS IMPORTANT.
00:27:43.46\00:27:46.13
POINT #4) THE MOON IS JUST THE
RIGHT DISTANCE FROM THE EARTH -
00:27:46.13\00:27:50.87
NOT TOO CLOSE, NOT TOO FAR.
IF THE MOON WAS 50,000 MILES
00:27:50.87\00:27:56.40
CLOSER OR FURTHER THAN THE 280
- 238,900 MILES FROM EARTH, THE
00:27:56.40\00:28:04.68
OCEAN TIDES WOULD COMPLETELY
SUBMERGE THE CONTINENTS TWICE A
00:28:04.68\00:28:09.02
DAY, BUT THE MOON IS JUST THE
RIGHT DISTANCE AWAY. AND THEN,
00:28:09.02\00:28:13.15
OF COURSE, THE ATMOSPHERE
ON EARTH IS PERFECT FOR LIFE.
00:28:13.15\00:28:17.33
IF IT WASN'T FOR OUR ATMOSPHERE,
WE WOULD HAVE DEADLY RADIATION -
00:28:17.33\00:28:21.40
NOTHING TO SHIELD US FROM
THE RADIATION FROM THE SUN.
00:28:21.40\00:28:24.30
NOW JOB CHAPTER 12, VERSE 7 SAYS
THIS: "BUT NOW ASK THE BEASTS,
00:28:24.30\00:28:30.24
AND THEY WILL TEACH YOU; AND THE
BIRDS OF THE AIR, AND THEY WILL
00:28:30.24\00:28:33.74
TELL YOU; OR SPEAK TO THE EARTH,
AND IT WILL TEACH YOU; AND THE
00:28:33.74\00:28:37.41
FISH OF THE SEA
WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU.
00:28:37.41\00:28:40.08
WHO AMONG ALL THESE DOES NOT
KNOW THAT THE HAND OF THE LORD
00:28:40.08\00:28:43.42
HAS DONE THIS, IN WHOSE HAND IS
THE LIFE OF EVERY LIVING THING,
00:28:43.42\00:28:47.42
AND THE BREATH OF ALL MANKIND?"
SO THERE, JOB, WE READ THAT
00:28:47.42\00:28:51.43
NATURE REVEALS TO US
THE AUTHOR OF ALL CREATION.
00:28:51.43\00:28:56.80
IT IS GOD. IT IS THE CREATOR.
00:28:56.80\00:28:59.00
NOW SCIENCE REVEALS THE CREATOR
- AND HERE'S WHY: SCIENCE IS
00:28:59.00\00:29:05.14
GOVERNED BY CERTAIN LAWS,
FOR EXAMPLE: THE LAW OF GRAVITY.
00:29:05.14\00:29:09.51
AND A DEFINITION OF SCIENCE
THAT WE HAVE IS THE STUDY OF THE
00:29:09.51\00:29:12.28
NATURAL WORLD BASED UPON FACTS
LEARNED THROUGH EXPERIMENTS AND
00:29:12.28\00:29:17.45
OBSERVATIONS. SO, IN
LOOKING AT THE NATURAL
00:29:17.45\00:29:20.02
WORLD, WE CAN TAKE NOTE
OF CERTAIN OBSERVATIONS AND
00:29:20.02\00:29:24.19
WE CAN DO EXPERIMENTS.
THERE ARE THREE, IN PARTICULAR
00:29:24.19\00:29:27.03
THAT HELP TO
TESTIFY OF A CREATOR.
00:29:27.03\00:29:29.26
THE FIRST IS THAT ALL
MATERIAL HAS A SOURCE.
00:29:29.26\00:29:32.03
ISN'T THAT TRUE? I
COME HOME ONE EVENING AND
00:29:32.03\00:29:36.04
THERE IS A PLATE OF FOOD IN THE
MICROWAVE READY TO BE HEATED.
00:29:36.04\00:29:41.71
WELL, THAT'S EVIDENCE THAT MY
WIFE HAS MADE A SPECIAL MEAL AND
00:29:41.71\00:29:45.48
PUT IT IN THE MICROWAVE
FOR ME TO EAT WHEN I GET HOME.
00:29:45.48\00:29:47.68
I WOULDN'T COME AND OPEN UP
THE MICROWAVE AND SEE A PLATE OF
00:29:47.68\00:29:49.85
FOOD AND GO, 'OH, LOOK AT THAT.
PLATE OF FOOD MADE ITSELF.'
00:29:49.85\00:29:54.22
ALL MATERIAL COMES FROM
SOMEWHERE, RIGHT? IT HAS A
00:29:54.22\00:29:57.49
SOURCE. SO THAT'S A LAW OF
SCIENCE. ANOTHER IS THAT LIFE
00:29:57.49\00:30:01.30
ONLY COMES FROM
LIFE. LIFE COMES FROM LIFE.
00:30:01.30\00:30:07.50
NOW, SOMEBODY MIGHT SAY,
'WELL, WHAT ABOUT A SEED?
00:30:07.50\00:30:09.77
ISN'T A SEED
DEAD?' WELL, WHERE DOES
00:30:09.77\00:30:11.77
THE SEED COME FROM?
THE SEED COMES FROM LIFE.
00:30:11.77\00:30:14.94
IT COMES FROM A
PLANT, DOESN'T IT?
00:30:14.94\00:30:16.48
BUT YOU DON'T GET LIFE FROM
SOMETHING THAT IS NOT LIFE OR IS
00:30:16.48\00:30:19.85
NOT LIVING. SO
THAT'S ANOTHER PRINCIPLE
00:30:19.85\00:30:22.05
- ANOTHER LAW OF
SCIENCE. AND THEN, THIRDLY,
00:30:22.05\00:30:24.39
INTERDEPENDENCY COMES FROM
DESIGN. ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT
00:30:24.39\00:30:28.39
LAW OF SCIENCE.
AND THE GREATER THE
00:30:28.39\00:30:30.66
INTERDEPENDENCY, THE
GREATER THE NEED FOR A DESIGNER.
00:30:30.66\00:30:34.20
THINK OF A WATCH - THESE
OLD-FASHIONED WRIST WATCHES WITH
00:30:34.20\00:30:36.80
ALL OF THE
DIFFERENT COGS AND THE GEARS.
00:30:36.80\00:30:39.90
IN ORDER FOR THAT TO WORK NICELY
TOGETHER, HARMONIOUSLY, SOMEBODY
00:30:39.90\00:30:44.07
HAD TO DESIGN THAT
AND PUT IT ALL TOGETHER.
00:30:44.07\00:30:47.64
I THINK OF THE AUTOMOBILE WITH
ALL OF THE DIFFERENT PARTS WITH
00:30:47.64\00:30:50.98
MANY OF THEM MOVING AND THEY'RE
INTERACTING WITH OTHER PARTS.
00:30:50.98\00:30:53.85
SOMEBODY HAD TO DESIGN
THAT. SOMEBODY HAD TO PUT
00:30:53.85\00:30:55.65
THAT ALL TOGETHER.
THAT IS A LAW OF SCIENCE.
00:30:55.65\00:30:58.82
AND WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT
THE HUMAN BODY AND TALKING ABOUT
00:30:58.82\00:31:01.12
THE CELLS AND HOW ALL OF THIS
WORKS TOGETHER, THAT'S EVIDENCE,
00:31:01.12\00:31:04.79
INDEED, THAT
THERE IS A CREATOR GOD.
00:31:04.79\00:31:07.50
SOMEBODY PUT THIS ALL TOGETHER.
00:31:07.50\00:31:09.10
SO CREATION
TESTIFIES OF THE CREATOR.
00:31:09.10\00:31:13.10
ONE OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS THAT
I LIKE TO USE, WITH REFERENCE TO
00:31:13.10\00:31:17.47
GOD'S CREATIVE POWER IN PUTTING
THINGS TOGETHER, IS SOMETHING
00:31:17.47\00:31:20.84
THEY DON'T OFTEN THINK ABOUT,
BUT IT'S THE EAR OF THE BAT.
00:31:20.84\00:31:25.55
A LITTLE ANIMAL - A LITTLE
INSECT - NOT INSECT BUT EATS
00:31:25.55\00:31:28.15
INSECTS - A LITTLE -
IT'S NOT A RODENT, IS IT?
00:31:28.15\00:31:31.49
>>MAMMAL.
>>FLYING - IT'S A MAMMAL.
00:31:31.49\00:31:33.66
THE BAT, FLYING AROUND EATING
THESE INSECTS, HE HAS THESE
00:31:33.66\00:31:37.66
GIANT EARS. NOW HOW DOES THE
00:31:37.66\00:31:39.96
BAT LOCATE ITS PREY? IT
USES ECHOLOCATION, RIGHT?
00:31:39.96\00:31:44.47
SENDS OUT THESE HIGH-PITCHED
SQUEALS AND, AS THESE SOUND
00:31:44.47\00:31:49.54
WAVES BOUNCE BACK FROM WHATEVER
IT IS THAT HE'S TRYING TO GET,
00:31:49.54\00:31:53.48
THE BIG EARS OF THE BAT PICK
UP THAT ECHO THAT COMES BACK.
00:31:53.48\00:31:57.55
BUT AS SCIENTISTS STUDIED THIS,
THEY BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT THE
00:31:57.55\00:32:00.72
EARS OF THE BAT ARE VERY, VERY
SENSITIVE - AND THEY HAVE TO BE
00:32:00.72\00:32:05.22
IN ORDER TO PICK UP THOSE FAINT
ECHOS THAT COME BACK FROM THEIR
00:32:05.22\00:32:07.99
HIGH-PITCHED SCREAMS. BUT
THE QUESTION WAS ASKED, 'IF
00:32:07.99\00:32:11.33
THE EARS ARE SO SENSITIVE TO
PICK UP THE ECHO, WHY IS IT THAT
00:32:11.33\00:32:16.10
THE LOUD NOISES THAT THE BAT
MAKES DOESN'T DEAFEN THE BAT?'
00:32:16.10\00:32:20.54
THEY DID SOME STUDIES AND FOUND
OUT, SURE ENOUGH, THE VOLUME OF
00:32:20.54\00:32:24.37
THE NOISE MADE BY THE BAT, BASED
UPON THE SENSITIVITY OF ITS EAR,
00:32:24.37\00:32:28.21
WOULD INDEED DEAFEN THE BAT.
SO THEY DID SOME FURTHER STUDY
00:32:28.21\00:32:32.25
AND WHAT THEY FOUND IS THERE ARE
THREE LITTLE BONES IN THE EAR OF
00:32:32.25\00:32:35.85
THE BAT THAT CONNECT THE
EARDRUM TO THE INNER EAR.
00:32:35.85\00:32:38.75
AND, ON THE MIDDLE BONE, THERE
IS A TINY LITTLE MUSCLE AND JUST
00:32:38.75\00:32:42.59
BEFORE THE BAT LETS OUT ONE OF
THOSE HIGH-PITCHED SCREAMS, THE
00:32:42.59\00:32:47.30
LITTLE MUSCLE PULLS TIGHT AND
IT SEPARATES THE BONE FROM THE
00:32:47.30\00:32:51.43
EARDRUM TO THE INNER EAR.
SO WHEN THE BAT SCREAMS, IT
00:32:51.43\00:32:55.80
ACTUALLY DOES
NOT HEAR THE SCREAM.
00:32:55.80\00:32:58.17
AND, AS SOON AS IT'S DONE
SCREAMING, THE LITTLE MUSCLE
00:32:58.17\00:33:00.98
RELAXES AND ALL THE BAT
HEARS IS THE ECHO BOUNCING BACK.
00:33:00.98\00:33:06.35
AND THE BAT CAN DO THIS MORE
THAN A HUNDRED TIMES A SECOND.
00:33:06.35\00:33:11.09
NOW THAT'S
MASTER DESIGN, ISN'T IT?
00:33:11.09\00:33:13.19
>>AMEN. >>THAT
TESTIFIES THAT THERE IS A
00:33:13.19\00:33:15.19
CREATOR THAT IS CONCERNED
EVEN ABOUT THE LITTLE CREATURES
00:33:15.19\00:33:18.89
THAT HE HAS MADE.
ALRIGHT, ON MONDAY'S LESSON WE
00:33:18.89\00:33:22.60
HAVE THE THEME CALLED
NOTHING CAME FROM ITSELF .
00:33:22.60\00:33:27.84
AND WE HAVE A VERSE HERE -
REVELATION CHAPTER 4, VERSE 11,
00:33:27.84\00:33:31.44
AND I'M GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY
READ THAT FOR US - REVELATION
00:33:31.44\00:33:33.44
CHAPTER 4, VERSE 11.
>>"YOU ARE WORTHY, O LORD, TO
00:33:33.44\00:33:38.15
RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR
AND POWER; FOR YOU CREATED ALL
00:33:38.15\00:33:41.48
THINGS, AND BY YOUR WILL
THEY EXIST AND WERE CREATED."
00:33:41.48\00:33:46.79
>>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.
YOU'LL NOTICE, THE READING HERE
00:33:46.79\00:33:48.46
IS FROM REVELATION CHAPTER 4 AND
REVELATION CHAPTER 4 IS REALLY
00:33:48.46\00:33:51.69
A DESCRIPTION OF THE
HEAVENLY THRONE ROOM.
00:33:51.69\00:33:53.43
THE CHAPTER BEGINS BY DESCRIBING
GOD SEATED UPON HIS THRONE,
00:33:53.43\00:33:56.70
SURROUNDING THE THRONE ARE THE
FOUR LIVING CREATURES, ALL WITH
00:33:56.70\00:33:59.70
DIFFERENT FACES - THE FACE OF
A LION, THE FACE OF AN OX, THE
00:33:59.70\00:34:03.34
FACE OF A MAN, THE FACE OF A
FLYING EAGLE. AND THEN, IN FRONT
00:34:03.34\00:34:06.27
OF THE THRONE, THERE ARE
SEVEN BURNING LAMPS OF FIRE.
00:34:06.27\00:34:09.11
THEN THERE'S THE DESCRIPTION OF
THE 24 ELDERS AND THEN YOU HAVE
00:34:09.11\00:34:12.55
ALL THE ANGELS
THERE ON THE SEA OF GLASS.
00:34:12.55\00:34:15.42
AND WHEN ALL OF THE CREATED
BEINGS SEE GOD IN HIS GLORY - IN
00:34:15.42\00:34:19.79
HIS MAJESTY - THEIR RESPONSE IS
'YOU ARE WORTHY TO RECEIVE GLORY
00:34:19.79\00:34:24.09
AND HONOR AND POWER; FOR YOU
HAVE CREATED ALL THINGS.' NOW,
00:34:24.09\00:34:28.60
THERE ARE TWO THINGS IN THE
VERSE THAT I WANT YOU TO NOTE:
00:34:28.60\00:34:30.83
NOT ONLY IS GOD THE CREATOR,
BUT IT ALSO SAYS THAT HE IS THE
00:34:30.83\00:34:34.84
SUSTAINER. YOU HAVE
CREATED ALL THINGS, IT
00:34:34.84\00:34:39.31
SAYS, 'AND BY YOUR WILL
THEY EXIST' - MEANING GOD
00:34:39.31\00:34:42.48
SUSTAINS ALL THINGS.
SO HE'S THE SOURCE AND THE
00:34:42.48\00:34:45.45
SUSTAINER OF ALL THINGS.
IT'S ONE THING TO, YOU KNOW,
00:34:45.45\00:34:51.99
CREATE A CHILD; IT'S ANOTHER
THING TO SUSTAIN THAT CHILD
00:34:51.99\00:34:56.22
- ESPECIALLY WHEN
THEY'RE TEENAGERS.
00:34:56.22\00:34:58.43
LIKE ME, I HAVE TEENAGERS - BOY,
MY BOYS, THEY EAT - THEY CAN EAT
00:34:58.43\00:35:02.10
A LOAF OF BREAD AT ONE SITTING.
IT TAKES A LOT OF MONEY, RIGHT,
00:35:02.10\00:35:04.97
TO SUSTAIN THE CHILDREN.
AND SO GOD NOT ONLY CREATED
00:35:04.97\00:35:08.20
THINGS IN THE BEGINNING,
BUT HE SUSTAINS ALL THINGS.
00:35:08.20\00:35:11.47
HE SUSTAINS HIS CREATION.
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 1, VERSES 16
00:35:11.47\00:35:15.11
AND 17 SAYS, "FOR BY HIM
ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THAT ARE
00:35:15.11\00:35:19.11
IN HEAVEN AND THAT ARE ON THE
EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE,
00:35:19.11\00:35:22.15
WHETHER THRONES OR DOMINIONS
OR PRINCIPALITIES OR POWERS.
00:35:22.15\00:35:25.15
ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THROUGH
HIM" - SPEAKING OF CHRIST - "AND
00:35:25.15\00:35:28.12
FOR HIM. AND HE
IS BEFORE ALL THINGS,
00:35:28.12\00:35:30.73
AND IN HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST."
- ALL THINGS HOLD TOGETHER.
00:35:30.73\00:35:35.40
SO GOD IS NOT ONLY THE
CREATOR BUT HE IS THE SUSTAINER.
00:35:35.40\00:35:37.90
HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT OUR LIVES.
HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT ALL OF HIS
00:35:37.90\00:35:40.94
CREATION, FROM THE SMALLEST ATOM
TO THE LARGEST SUN OR STAR, GOD
00:35:40.94\00:35:46.74
IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE
THINGS THAT HE HAS MADE.
00:35:46.74\00:35:49.51
ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT IS
EVERY SECOND THE SUN EMITS FOUR
00:35:49.51\00:35:53.72
HUNDRED TRILLION TRILLION
WATTS OF POWER - EVERY SECOND.
00:35:53.72\00:35:58.79
NOW ALL THAT POWER DOESN'T REACH
EARTH, BUT THAT IS ENOUGH POWER
00:35:58.79\00:36:02.36
EMITTED BY THE SUN EVERY SECOND
TO POWER EVERYTHING ELECTRIC ON
00:36:02.36\00:36:06.56
EARTH FOR FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND YEARS. THAT'S THE
00:36:06.56\00:36:10.17
AMOUNT OF ENERGY RELEASED
BY THE SUN IN ONE SECOND.
00:36:10.17\00:36:13.07
AND, OF COURSE, WHERE DID
ALL THAT ENERGY COME FROM?
00:36:13.07\00:36:15.14
WELL, GOD IS THE
ONE THAT SUSTAINS THAT.
00:36:15.14\00:36:17.11
GOD KEEPS THE SUN BURNING,
PROVIDING LIGHT AND HEAT FOR OUR
00:36:17.11\00:36:20.48
WORLD. JOHN
CHAPTER 1, VERSES 1 TO 3 -
00:36:20.48\00:36:24.28
IT SAYS, "IN THE BEGINNING
WAS THE WORD," - WHO'S THE WORD?
00:36:24.28\00:36:27.15
>>CHRIST. >>THE
WORD IS JESUS - "AND THE
00:36:27.15\00:36:30.15
WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD
WAS GOD. HE WAS IN THE BEGINNING
00:36:30.15\00:36:34.19
WITH GOD." - THEN IT
SAYS, "ALL THINGS WERE
00:36:34.19\00:36:36.16
MADE THROUGH HIM, AND WITHOUT
HIM NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS
00:36:36.16\00:36:40.63
MADE." NOW THERE
ARE SOME INTERESTING
00:36:40.63\00:36:43.10
PARALLELS BETWEEN THE ACCOUNT
THAT WE HAVE OF CREATION IN JOHN
00:36:43.10\00:36:46.33
CHAPTER 1 AND WHAT WE READ
IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1. BOTH BEGIN
00:36:46.33\00:36:51.77
WITH 'IN THE BEGINNING'.
GENESIS CHAPTER 1 - "IN THE
00:36:51.77\00:36:54.88
BEGINNING GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH."
00:36:54.88\00:36:57.18
IN JOHN CHAPTER 1, "IN
THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD."
00:36:57.18\00:37:01.22
HOW DID GOD CREATE
IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1?
00:37:01.22\00:37:04.75
IT SAYS, "AND GOD SAID,
'LET THERE BE LIGHT.'" IN JOHN
00:37:04.75\00:37:09.36
CHAPTER 1 IT SAYS, "IN THE
BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE
00:37:09.36\00:37:13.50
WORD WAS WITH GOD,
AND THE WORD WAS GOD."
00:37:13.50\00:37:15.96
IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE
THAT LATER ON IN JOHN CHAPTER 1,
00:37:15.96\00:37:19.27
SPEAKING OF THE WORD - SPEAKING
OF JESUS - SAYS, "IN HIM WAS
00:37:19.27\00:37:22.50
LIFE, AND THE LIFE
WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN."
00:37:22.50\00:37:25.57
IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1, WHAT'S
THE FIRST THING THAT GOD CREATES
00:37:25.57\00:37:28.48
AFTER CREATING THE
EARTH? "'LET THERE BE LIGHT.'
00:37:28.48\00:37:32.08
AND THERE WAS LIGHT."
SO JOHN IS DIRECTING OUR
00:37:32.08\00:37:34.58
ATTENTION BACK TO GENESIS
CHAPTER 1, AND HE'S EMPHASIZING
00:37:34.58\00:37:37.45
THE FACT THAT JESUS, THE
WORD, IS INVOLVED IN CREATION.
00:37:37.45\00:37:42.32
SO NOT ONLY IS JESUS
OUR CREATOR, HE IS ALSO OUR
00:37:42.32\00:37:45.03
REDEEMER. WE BELONG
TO JESUS TWO TIMES -
00:37:45.03\00:37:49.03
FIRST BY CREATION,
AND THEN BY REDEMPTION.
00:37:49.03\00:37:52.63
ALRIGHT, MOVING ON THEN, WITH
TUESDAY'S LESSON, IT'S CALLED
00:37:52.63\00:37:56.64
THE EARLIEST BOOKS AND WE'RE
GOING TO LOOK AT A VERSE HERE IN
00:37:56.64\00:37:59.44
JUST A MOMENT. IT'S
JOHN CHAPTER 16, VERSE
00:37:59.44\00:38:01.84
33, SO IF YOU WANT TO GET
THAT READY. IN THE MIDDLE OF
00:38:01.84\00:38:05.91
TUESDAY'S LESSON THERE IT SAYS,
"JOB DEALS WITH THE UNIVERSAL
00:38:05.91\00:38:09.08
ISSUE OF HUMAN PAIN AND
SUFFERING. AND GOD KNEW THAT
00:38:09.08\00:38:13.22
THIS WOULD BE A BIG QUESTION FOR
HUMANS AND, THUS, RIGHT FROM THE
00:38:13.22\00:38:15.86
VERY START IN HIS WORD HE
HAD MOSES PEN THE STORY OF JOB."
00:38:15.86\00:38:19.93
GOD LET US KNOW, VERY EARLY ON,
THAT WE ARE NOT LEFT ALONE IN
00:38:19.93\00:38:24.17
OUR PAIN AND IN OUR
SUFFERING, BUT HE'S THERE.
00:38:24.17\00:38:27.50
HE KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT AND HE
- AND WE CAN HAVE HOPE THAT HE
00:38:27.50\00:38:31.24
WILL MAKE THINGS
RIGHT IN THE END.
00:38:31.24\00:38:33.78
ALRIGHT, LET'S LOOK AT
JOHN CHAPTER 16, VERSE 33.
00:38:33.78\00:38:38.25
>>THESE THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN
TO YOU, THAT IN ME YOU MAY HAVE
00:38:38.25\00:38:41.85
PEACE. IN THE WORLD YOU WILL
HAVE TRIBULATION; BUT BE OF GOOD
00:38:41.85\00:38:46.65
CHEER, I HAVE
OVERCOME THE WORLD."
00:38:46.65\00:38:49.69
>>ALRIGHT, SO HERE JESUS MAKES
IT VERY CLEAR - HE SAYS, 'IN THE
00:38:49.69\00:38:52.23
WORLD YOU SHALL
HAVE' - WHAT? TRIBULATION.
00:38:52.23\00:38:54.93
WHY IS IT THAT WE HAVE SUFFERING
AND TRIBULATION IN THIS WORLD?
00:38:54.93\00:38:57.57
BECAUSE PEOPLE
HAVE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE.
00:38:57.57\00:39:00.14
AND, BASED UPON THE CHOICES THAT
PEOPLE MAKE, WELL, THAT BRINGS
00:39:00.14\00:39:03.20
SUFFERING AND PAIN. AND
WE'RE ALL SHARING A CERTAIN
00:39:03.20\00:39:05.94
DEGREE OF SUFFERING BECAUSE OF
THE CHOICE THAT OUR PARENTS MADE
00:39:05.94\00:39:09.64
- ADAM AND EVE - WAY BACK
THERE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
00:39:09.64\00:39:12.15
BUT, DESPITE THE TRIBULATION
AND THE PAIN THAT WE SEE IN OUR
00:39:12.15\00:39:15.02
WORLD TODAY, JESUS PROMISES
TO GIVE US COURAGE AND STRENGTH.
00:39:15.02\00:39:19.15
HE WILL SUPPORT
US. HE WILL EMPOWER US.
00:39:19.15\00:39:22.16
THERE IS THE PROMISE,
THOUGH, THAT GOD WILL NOT ALLOW
00:39:22.16\00:39:24.99
SUFFERING TO CONTINUE FOREVER.
ISAIAH CHAPTER 65, VERSE 17,
00:39:24.99\00:39:30.07
"FOR BEHOLD," - GOD SAYS -
"I CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW
00:39:30.07\00:39:33.34
EARTH; AND THE FORMER SHALL NOT
BE REMEMBERED OR COME TO MIND."
00:39:33.34\00:39:37.74
THAT'S GOOD NEWS, RIGHT?
00:39:37.74\00:39:39.97
ONE DAY JESUS IS GOING TO COME
AND HE'S GOING TO PUT AN END TO
00:39:39.97\00:39:42.14
SUFFERING AND PAIN AND SORROW.
THE QUESTION IS, 'WELL, WHY
00:39:42.14\00:39:45.18
DOESN'T JESUS COME AND PUT
AN END TO THESE SUFFERINGS?'
00:39:45.18\00:39:48.52
WELL, 2 PETER CHAPTER 3,
VERSE 9, "THE LORD IS NOT SLACK
00:39:48.52\00:39:52.89
CONCERNING HIS PROMISE," - IT'S
TALKING ABOUT THE SECOND COMING
00:39:52.89\00:39:55.89
- "AS SOME COUNT SLACKNESS, BUT
HE IS LONGSUFFERING TOWARD US,
00:39:55.89\00:40:01.46
NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD
PERISH BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME
00:40:01.46\00:40:04.70
TO REPENTANCE." WHY
HAS JESUS NOT YET COME?
00:40:04.70\00:40:07.47
THE BIBLE SAYS HE'S
LONGSUFFERING, NOT WILLING THAT
00:40:07.47\00:40:10.24
ANY SHOULD PERISH BUT THAT
ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.
00:40:10.24\00:40:13.34
JESUS IS WAITING 'TIL THE VERY
LAST MOMENT, WANTING TO GIVE
00:40:13.34\00:40:15.61
AS MANY PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY
TO RESPOND TO COME TO REPENTANCE
00:40:15.61\00:40:19.75
BECAUSE HE'S NOT
WILLING THAT ANY BE LOST.
00:40:19.75\00:40:22.45
BUT, HAVING SAID THAT, THE BIBLE
IS QUITE CLEAR THAT THE TIME
00:40:22.45\00:40:25.49
WILL COME WHERE JESUS SAYS, 'HE
THAT IS HOLY, LET HIM BE HOLY
00:40:25.49\00:40:29.86
STILL; HE THAT IS FILTHY,
LET HIM BE FILTHY STILL.'
00:40:29.86\00:40:32.53
AND PROBATION
CLOSES AND JESUS COMES.
00:40:32.53\00:40:35.16
MATTER OF FACT,
THAT'S OUR NEXT VERSE.
00:40:35.16\00:40:36.77
DANIEL CHAPTER 12, VERSE 1 -
IT SAYS, "AT THAT TIME MICHAEL
00:40:36.77\00:40:40.30
SHALL STAND
UP," - WHO'S MICHAEL?
00:40:40.30\00:40:42.44
- THE PROPHETIC NAME OF JESUS
- "MICHAEL SHALL STAND UP, THE
00:40:42.44\00:40:45.94
GREAT PRINCE WHO STANDS WATCH
OVER THE SONS OF YOUR PEOPLE;" -
00:40:45.94\00:40:49.11
NOTICE, JESUS STANDS WATCH OVER
HIS PEOPLE - "AND THERE SHALL BE
00:40:49.11\00:40:52.98
A TIME OF TROUBLE, SUCH AS NEVER
WAS SINCE THERE WAS A NATION,
00:40:52.98\00:40:55.68
EVEN TO THAT TIME. AND
AT THAT TIME" - HERE'S THE
00:40:55.68\00:40:58.42
PROMISE - "AND AT THAT TIME YOUR
PEOPLE SHALL BE DELIVERED, EVERY
00:40:58.42\00:41:02.92
ONE WHO IS FOUND WRITTEN IN
THE BOOK. AND MANY OF THOSE WHO
00:41:02.92\00:41:06.39
SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE EARTH
SHALL AWAKE, SOME TO EVERLASTING
00:41:06.39\00:41:08.90
LIFE, SOME TO SHAME
AND EVERLASTING CONTEMPT."
00:41:08.90\00:41:12.87
SO THERE IS COMING A TIME WHERE
JESUS SAYS PROBATION IS CLOSED.
00:41:12.87\00:41:17.64
'HE THAT'S HOLY, LET HIM BE HOLY
STILL; HE THAT'S FILTHY, LET HIM
00:41:17.64\00:41:20.68
BE FILTHY STILL.' THE SAME
IDEA IS PORTRAYED IN REVELATION
00:41:20.68\00:41:23.55
CHAPTER 7, WHERE IT DESCRIBES
FOUR ANGELS HOLDING BACK THE
00:41:23.55\00:41:27.15
FOUR WINDS OF THE EARTH AND
AN ANGEL IS SEEN COMING FROM THE
00:41:27.15\00:41:30.59
EAST AND SAYS TO THE FOUR
ANGELS, 'DON'T LET THOSE FOUR
00:41:30.59\00:41:33.39
WINDS OF STRIFE GO 'TIL WE HAVE
SEALED THE SERVANTS OF GOD ON
00:41:33.39\00:41:37.16
THEIR FOREHEADS.' SO GOD IS
HOLDING BACK THIS FINAL TIME OF
00:41:37.16\00:41:41.90
TROUBLE SO THAT THOSE PEOPLE
CAN MAKE A DECISION FOR HIM.
00:41:41.90\00:41:46.17
THAT SEALING HAS TO TAKE PLACE.
MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, VERSES 7 AND
00:41:46.17\00:41:50.41
8 - IT SAYS, "FOR NATION
WILL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND
00:41:50.41\00:41:52.81
KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM.
AND THERE WILL BE FAMINES,
00:41:52.81\00:41:55.04
PESTILENCES, AND
EARTHQUAKES IN VARIOUS PLACES.
00:41:55.04\00:41:57.91
ALL THESE ARE THE
BEGINNING OF SORROWS."
00:41:57.91\00:42:01.15
SO, BEFORE JESUS COMES,
THERE WILL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE.
00:42:01.15\00:42:04.12
THERE WILL BE A
TRIBULATION HERE ON THE EARTH.
00:42:04.12\00:42:07.42
ALRIGHT, WELL THEN THAT BRINGS
US TO OUR WEDNESDAY LESSON
00:42:07.42\00:42:10.33
ENTITLED THE DILEMMA .
THE DILEMMA WE SEE HERE IN THE
00:42:10.33\00:42:13.40
BOOK OF JOB AND, BASICALLY, IT'S
THE QUESTION: 'IF GOD IS GOOD,
00:42:13.40\00:42:16.77
WHY DOES HE ALLOW BAD
THINGS TO HAPPEN TO PEOPLE?'
00:42:16.77\00:42:19.97
AND OUR VERSE THERE IS
JOB CHAPTER 6, VERSE 4.
00:42:19.97\00:42:23.04
WOULD SOMEBODY READ THAT
FOR US? JOB CHAPTER 6, VERSE 4.
00:42:23.04\00:42:27.01
>>"FOR THE ARROWS OF THE
ALMIGHTY ARE WITHIN ME; MY
00:42:27.01\00:42:31.85
SPIRIT DRINKS IN THEIR POISON;
THE TERRORS OF GOD ARE ARRAYED
00:42:31.85\00:42:38.12
AGAINST ME."
>>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.
00:42:38.12\00:42:40.02
HERE IS JOB SPEAKING IN HIS
SORROW AND HE SAYS IT SEEMS THAT
00:42:40.02\00:42:43.63
'THE ALMIGHTY IS AGAINST ME' AND
'THE TERRORS OF GOD ARE ARRAYED
00:42:43.63\00:42:47.46
AGAINST ME' - MEANING, 'LORD,
WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THESE
00:42:47.46\00:42:50.43
THINGS TO HAPPEN?' NOW,
JOB NEVER QUESTIONED THE
00:42:50.43\00:42:53.97
EXISTENCE OF GOD, NOR DID HE
QUESTION GOD'S CREATIVE POWER
00:42:53.97\00:42:58.54
AND GOD'S ABILITY TO SUSTAIN.
JOB WAS ASKING, 'LORD, WHY?
00:42:58.54\00:43:02.84
WHY ARE THESE
THINGS HAPPENING TO ME?'
00:43:02.84\00:43:05.18
AND, OF COURSE, HIS FRIENDS,
THEY WERE - THEY WERE SPEAKING
00:43:05.18\00:43:09.38
WORDS OF DISCOURAGEMENT BY
SAYING, 'JOB, YOU MUST BE A
00:43:09.38\00:43:11.69
GREAT SINNER. THERE
IS SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE
00:43:11.69\00:43:13.89
HIDING IN YOUR HEART.' WE READ
ON IN JOB CHAPTER 10, VERSE 8 -
00:43:13.89\00:43:17.63
JOB SAYS, "YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE
ME AND FASHIONED ME," - AND THEN
00:43:17.63\00:43:22.46
HE GOES ON TO SAY, "YET YOU
WOULD DESTROY ME. REMEMBER, I
00:43:22.46\00:43:26.13
PRAY, THAT YOU HAVE MADE ME LIKE
CLAY." SO HERE, JOB THINKS THAT
00:43:26.13\00:43:31.04
IT'S GOD THAT IS
TRYING TO DESTROY HIM.
00:43:31.04\00:43:33.74
WELL, IF YOU GO BACK A LITTLE
EARLIER IN THE BOOK OF JOB AND
00:43:33.74\00:43:35.94
YOU READ ABOUT THIS
MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE WITH THE
00:43:35.94\00:43:39.25
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
UNFALLEN WORLDS AND SATAN CAME
00:43:39.25\00:43:41.75
REPRESENTING EARTH.
WHO WAS THE ONE THAT WAS
00:43:41.75\00:43:44.42
REALLY TRYING TO
DESTROY JOB? IT WAS SATAN.
00:43:44.42\00:43:47.72
IT WAS GOD THAT WAS
PROTECTING JOB FROM SATAN.
00:43:47.72\00:43:51.19
BUT, AT FIRST, JOB DOES NOT
UNDERSTAND THIS AND HE BEGINS TO
00:43:51.19\00:43:54.50
ASK THESE QUESTIONS AND
HE'S WONDERING, 'WHY LORD?
00:43:54.50\00:43:57.53
WHY ARE THESE
THINGS HAPPENING TO ME?'
00:43:57.53\00:43:59.93
AND GOD KEEPS QUIET AS
JOB ASKED THESE QUESTIONS.
00:43:59.93\00:44:03.91
AND, FINALLY, AFTER JOB
IS THROUGH ASKING ALL THESE
00:44:03.91\00:44:06.44
QUESTIONS, GOD
FINALLY RESPONDS TO JOB.
00:44:06.44\00:44:08.98
AND YOU FIND THIS
IN JOB CHAPTER 38.
00:44:08.98\00:44:11.35
I REALLY LIKE THIS PASSAGE.
GOD DOES NOT EXPLAIN TO JOB
00:44:11.35\00:44:15.72
ABOUT THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY
AND THE MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE.
00:44:15.72\00:44:18.75
INSTEAD, GOD SAYS, "THEN
THE LORD ANSWERED JOB OUT OF THE
00:44:18.75\00:44:22.22
WHIRLWIND," - THIS IS JOB
38, VERSE 1 - "WHO IS THIS WHO
00:44:22.22\00:44:25.49
DARKENS COUNSEL BY WORDS WITHOUT
KNOWLEDGE? NOW PREPARE YOURSELF
00:44:25.49\00:44:32.10
LIKE A MAN; I WILL QUESTION
YOU, AND YOU SHALL ANSWER ME.
00:44:32.10\00:44:35.54
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I LAID
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH?"
00:44:35.54\00:44:39.37
AND THEN GOD GOES ON TO TALK
ABOUT HOW THAT THE SONS OF GOD
00:44:39.37\00:44:42.88
SANG FOR JOY WHEN THE EARTH
WAS MADE AND HE TALKS ABOUT THE
00:44:42.88\00:44:45.91
POWER AND THE GLORY AND THE
MAJESTY OF ALL THE THINGS THAT
00:44:45.91\00:44:48.75
GOD HAD CREATED. AND
HE SPEAKS OF HIS CARE AND
00:44:48.75\00:44:51.89
COMPASSION FOR ALL THE
THINGS THAT HE HAS MADE.
00:44:51.89\00:44:54.72
AND, AFTER GOD GETS THROUGH
TALKING ABOUT HIS POWER AND HIS
00:44:54.72\00:44:57.13
GLORY AND HIS CREATIVE
ABILITY, FINALLY JOB RESPONDS.
00:44:57.13\00:45:01.13
HE SAYS, 'I'VE HEARD ABOUT YOU
WITH MY HEARING, BUT NOW MY EYES
00:45:01.13\00:45:05.37
HAVE SEEN YOU.
THEREFORE, I REPENT IN DUST AND
00:45:05.37\00:45:09.10
ASHES.' WHEN GOD REVEALED HIS
POWER AND HIS GLORY, SUDDENLY
00:45:09.10\00:45:12.84
JOB BEGAN TO REALIZE, 'A GOD
THAT CARES SO MUCH TO CREATE ALL
00:45:12.84\00:45:17.21
THESE THINGS;
SURELY HE CARES FOR ME.
00:45:17.21\00:45:20.62
AND EVEN THOUGH I DON'T
UNDERSTAND WHY THESE THINGS ARE
00:45:20.62\00:45:22.75
HAPPENING TO ME, I CAN HAVE
CONFIDENCE THAT GOD LOVES ME AND
00:45:22.75\00:45:26.15
THAT THERE IS A REASON FOR THIS
AND THAT ONE DAY GOD WILL REVEAL
00:45:26.15\00:45:30.03
HIS PLAN TO ME.' OF COURSE,
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, READ 'ALL
00:45:30.03\00:45:34.00
THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO
THOSE THAT LOVE GOD.' SO, YES,
00:45:34.00\00:45:38.97
AS A CHRISTIAN, WE DO
FACE TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES.
00:45:38.97\00:45:41.94
TROUBLES COME OUR WAY.
AND YET, WE HAVE THE PROMISE
00:45:41.94\00:45:44.87
THAT GOD WILL BE WITH
US THROUGH EVERY TRIAL.
00:45:44.87\00:45:48.11
YOU KNOW, OUR FAMILY HAD AN
EXPERIENCE A NUMBER OF YEARS
00:45:48.11\00:45:50.41
AGO; MY DAD GOT DIAGNOSED WITH
A VERY RARE AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE.
00:45:50.41\00:45:55.35
AND FINALLY WE GOT THE DIAGNOSIS
AND IT WAS A BIG WORD AND I
00:45:55.35\00:46:00.59
THOUGHT, 'WELL,
THAT'S INTERESTING.
00:46:00.59\00:46:01.76
AT LEAST WE KNOW WHAT IT
IS. I WONDER WHAT THE TREATMENT
00:46:01.76\00:46:03.09
IS.' WELL, THEN, LATER ON THAT
EVENING, MY SISTER GAVE ME A
00:46:03.09\00:46:06.29
CALL AND SHE SAID,' DID
YOU LOOK UP WHAT DAD HAS?
00:46:06.29\00:46:09.10
ON THE INTERNET?
DO SOME RESEARCH?'
00:46:09.10\00:46:10.30
I SAID, 'NO.' SO I WENT ALONG
AND I GOOGLED THIS BIG WORD:
00:46:10.30\00:46:13.07
POLYCHONDRITIS AND I
BEGAN TO DO SOME RESEARCH ON IT.
00:46:13.07\00:46:16.57
AND THE MORE I STUDIED
THIS, THE MORE MY HEART SANK.
00:46:16.57\00:46:21.68
IT WAS A DISEASE THAT THEY HAD
NO CURE - AND THE BODY, SORT OF,
00:46:21.68\00:46:26.92
ATTACKS THE CARTILAGE AND
IT DESCRIBES THAT AFTER SO MANY
00:46:26.92\00:46:30.59
MONTHS YOU END UP GOING BLIND.
THEN, AFTER SO MANY MONTHS, YOU
00:46:30.59\00:46:35.89
CAN'T BREATHE - OR YOU CAN'T
BREATHE RIGHT - AFTER SO MANY
00:46:35.89\00:46:39.26
MONTHS YOUR HEARING GOES
BAD AND EVENTUALLY YOU DIE
00:46:39.26\00:46:43.03
AND THERE'S NO CURE. I
TELL YOU, OH MAN, I PRAYED
00:46:43.03\00:46:46.33
THAT NIGHT LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
I SAID, 'LORD, HOW CAN THIS BE?'
00:46:46.33\00:46:50.27
YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT UNTIL WE FACE
TRIALS AND SUFFERINGS THAT OUR
00:46:50.27\00:46:53.94
PRAYERS TAKE ON A GRAVITY AND
AN URGENCY - ISN'T THAT TRUE?
00:46:53.94\00:46:58.81
WE DON'T PRAY THE WAY WE SHOULD
PRAY UNTIL WE HAVE A SENSE OF
00:46:58.81\00:47:01.88
OUR NEED - THAT WE REALLY NEED
GOD'S HELP. SO OUR FAMILY BEGAN
00:47:01.88\00:47:06.29
PRAYING - I BEGAN PRAYING -
AND WE DID EVERYTHING WE COULD.
00:47:06.29\00:47:09.72
FORTUNATELY, HE WAS ABLE TO
GO TO MAYO CLINIC AND THEY FOUND
00:47:09.72\00:47:13.06
OUT THAT THIS AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE
WAS ACTUALLY PIGGYBACKING ON
00:47:13.06\00:47:16.83
ANOTHER DISEASE - AUTOIMMUNE
DISEASE - THAT COULD BE TREATED.
00:47:16.83\00:47:20.64
SO, AS THEY TREATED THE OTHER
DISEASE, IT ALSO TOOK CARE OF
00:47:20.64\00:47:23.94
THE POLYCHONDRITIS,
AND WE PRAISE GOD FOR THAT.
00:47:23.94\00:47:26.01
HE'S DOING WELL. IT
WAS ANSWERED PRAYER.
00:47:26.01\00:47:27.94
BUT, THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE,
WE ALL LEARNED A LESSON.
00:47:27.94\00:47:31.38
I REMEMBER MY DAD SHARED A DREAM
HE HAD RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF
00:47:31.38\00:47:34.25
THIS AND IN THE DREAM HE SAW
HIMSELF STANDING WITH A SMALL
00:47:34.25\00:47:38.82
GLASS OF WATER IN HIS HAND.
AND HE REALIZED THAT THE WATER
00:47:38.82\00:47:43.19
IN THE GLASS REPRESENTED HIS
LIFE. BUT, AS HE LOOKED A LITTLE
00:47:43.19\00:47:46.36
CLOSER, HE NOTICED A CRACK
ON THE SIDE OF THE GLASS AND THE
00:47:46.36\00:47:48.90
WATER WAS SEEPING OUT OF
THE CRACK AND IT WAS BEGINNING
00:47:48.90\00:47:51.83
TO LOWER IN THE GLASS.
AND, OF COURSE, HE WAS TRYING TO
00:47:51.83\00:47:53.84
STOP THE WATER FROM COMING OUT
OF THE CRACK AND HE PRAYED AND
00:47:53.84\00:47:56.64
HE SAID, 'LORD, PLEASE,
MY LIFE IS DRAINING AWAY.
00:47:56.64\00:47:59.64
PLEASE DO SOMETHING.' BUT IT
SEEMED ALL - THE MORE HE TRIED
00:47:59.64\00:48:02.51
TO STOP THE WATER, THE MORE
IT RAN UNTIL FINALLY HE HEARD A
00:48:02.51\00:48:06.95
VOICE, 'LOOK UP.' AND HE LOOKED
UP AND HE WAS STANDING ON THE
00:48:06.95\00:48:10.45
BEACH AND SPREAD OUT
BEFORE HIM WAS THE GIANT OCEAN.
00:48:10.45\00:48:15.22
AND THE MESSAGE WAS: 'YOU'RE SO
WORRIED ABOUT YOUR LITTLE LIFE,
00:48:15.22\00:48:18.63
BUT GOD'S GOT AN ETERNITY
WAITING FOR YOU.' YES, WE GO
00:48:18.63\00:48:23.57
THROUGH TRIALS AND SUFFERINGS,
AND IT'S DIFFICULT FROM OUR
00:48:23.57\00:48:26.10
POSITION WHERE WE ARE, BUT LET'S
TRUST IN GOD'S GOODNESS BECAUSE
00:48:26.10\00:48:30.41
HE SEES THE BIG PICTURE, AMEN?
HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING FROM
00:48:30.41\00:48:34.44
THE BEGINNING TO THE END
AND WHATEVER THE TRIAL, WHATEVER
00:48:34.44\00:48:36.88
THE CHALLENGE, WHATEVER THE
DIFFICULTY, WE CAN TRUST IN GOD.
00:48:36.88\00:48:41.32
HE WILL SEE US
THROUGH. THAT'S THE MESSAGE -
00:48:41.32\00:48:43.69
>>AMEN. >>OF THE
GREAT CONTROVERSY.
00:48:43.69\00:48:45.72
WE CAN PUT OUR
CONFIDENCE IN GOD.
00:48:45.72\00:48:48.69
WELL, FRIENDS, WE'RE OUT OF
TIME FOR OUR STUDY THIS MORNING.
00:48:48.69\00:48:51.39
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YOU ABOUT OUR FREE OFFER, A BOOK
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WELL, LET'S CLOSE OUR TIME OF
00:49:05.84\00:49:09.04
STUDY WITH A WORD OF
PRAYER. DEAR FATHER, THANK
00:49:09.04\00:49:12.21
YOU FOR YOUR WORD.
THANK YOU FOR REVEALING TO US,
00:49:12.21\00:49:15.25
IN SCRIPTURE, YOUR GREAT LOVE.
THAT, NOT ONLY DID YOU MAKE US,
00:49:15.25\00:49:18.29
BUT YOU SUSTAIN US
AND YOU CARE FOR US.
00:49:18.29\00:49:21.76
AND, EVEN THOUGH WE GO THROUGH
TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES, YOU
00:49:21.76\00:49:24.33
HAVE PROMISED TO BE WITH US, TO
GIVE US GRACE - BUT, ULTIMATELY.
00:49:24.33\00:49:27.76
YOU HAVE PROMISED A NEW HEAVEN
AND A NEW EARTH - WHERE THERE'LL
00:49:27.76\00:49:30.53
BE NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE SORROW,
NO MORE DEATH, BUT FOREVER WE'LL
00:49:30.53\00:49:33.90
BE WITH YOU AND
WITH THOSE THAT LOVE YOU.
00:49:33.90\00:49:36.30
KEEP US FAITHFUL, FOR WE
ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:49:36.30\00:49:40.64
(MUSIC) >>FRIENDS, IF YOU'RE
SCARED OF SNAKES, THIS MAY NOT
00:49:40.64\00:49:53.72
BE FOR YOU. I'M
HERE AT A REPTILE PARK
00:49:53.72\00:49:56.83
OUTSIDE OF DURBIN, SOUTH
AFRICA AND I'M HOLDING MY FRIEND
00:49:56.83\00:49:59.76
HERE, WHO'S A RED-TAIL BOA.
SNAKES ARE FOUND ALL OVER THE
00:49:59.76\00:50:03.80
WORLD AND THEY
COME IN ALL SIZES.
00:50:03.80\00:50:06.03
SNAKES CAN BE FOUND THROUGH THE
TREES, THEY CRAWL ON THE GROUND,
00:50:06.03\00:50:09.07
THEY LIVE UNDER THE GROUND,
AND THEY SWIM IN THE WATER.
00:50:09.07\00:50:11.97
VERY INTERESTING CREATURES.
SOME SNAKES ARE VENOMOUS.
00:50:11.97\00:50:16.18
NOT MY FRIEND HERE. BUT THE
BLACK MAMBA - VERY POISONOUS.
00:50:16.18\00:50:20.12
MATTER OF FACT, THEIR BITE IS
OFTEN REFERRED TO AS 'THE KISS
00:50:20.12\00:50:23.08
OF DEATH'. THEY CAN
GROW 15-FEET LONG AND
00:50:23.08\00:50:25.89
CAN TRAVEL UP TO
SEVEN MILES AN HOUR.
00:50:25.89\00:50:28.16
THEY DON'T CALL THEM BLACK
MAMBAS BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF
00:50:28.16\00:50:30.03
THEIR SKIN, BUT THE INTERIOR
OF THEIR MOUTH IS BLACK.
00:50:30.03\00:50:33.56
SNAKES ALSO COME IN ALL SIZES -
LIKE THIS BOA OR A PYTHON - THEY
00:50:33.56\00:50:37.47
CAN GROW TO GREAT
SIZES. MATTER OF FACT, IN SOUTH
00:50:37.47\00:50:39.80
AMERICA, THEY FOUND SOME
FOSSILS OF A SNAKE THAT THEY
00:50:39.80\00:50:43.34
CALL 'TITANIBOA'. THEY
BELIEVE IT WAS AS BIG AS
00:50:43.34\00:50:46.98
50-FEET LONG AND WEIGHED AS
MUCH AS A CAR. SAY 'CHEESE!'
00:50:46.98\00:50:52.21
A LOT OF PEOPLE
ARE SCARED OF SNAKES.
00:50:52.21\00:50:53.95
I USED TO LIVE ON A MOUNTAIN
IN A CAVE AND I RAN INTO SNAKES
00:50:53.95\00:50:56.05
FREQUENTLY. THEY
NEVER BOTHERED ME
00:50:56.05\00:50:57.85
UNLESS I WAS BOTHERING
THEM. IN THE BIBLE, THE SNAKE IS
00:50:57.85\00:51:01.12
OFTEN A SYMBOL OF THE DEVIL.
IN REALITY, IT'S JUST A SYMBOL.
00:51:01.12\00:51:04.86
THEY'RE ANIMALS JUST LIKE OTHER
ANIMALS, BUT IT SAYS THEY WERE
00:51:04.86\00:51:07.23
CURSED TO GO UPON THEIR BELLY
BECAUSE THEY WERE THE FIRST
00:51:07.23\00:51:09.63
MEDIUM THAT THE DEVIL
USED TO TEMPT ADAM AND EVE.
00:51:09.63\00:51:12.73
IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS CHAPTER
21, IT TELLS THE STORY OF HOW,
00:51:12.73\00:51:16.17
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS,
00:51:16.17\00:51:18.84
THEY BEGAN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT
GOD'S MANNA AND IT SAYS THE LORD
00:51:18.84\00:51:22.18
ALLOWED THESE FIERY SERPENTS
TO GO AMONG THE PEOPLE AND MANY
00:51:22.18\00:51:25.45
WERE BITTEN AND
THE VENOM WAS DEADLY.
00:51:25.45\00:51:28.25
I SHOULD PROBABLY MENTION AT
THIS POINT, THAT BREAD THEY WERE
00:51:28.25\00:51:30.79
COMPLAINING ABOUT IS A
SYMBOL FOR THE WORD OF GOD.
00:51:30.79\00:51:33.42
AS MANY OF THE PEOPLE WERE DYING
FROM THIS PLAGUE OF SERPENTS,
00:51:33.42\00:51:36.49
THEY WENT UNTO MOSES AND
SAID, 'WHAT SHALL WE DO?'
00:51:36.49\00:51:39.19
GOD TOLD MOSES TO MAKE A BRONZE
SERPENT AND PUT IT ON A POLE AND
00:51:39.19\00:51:42.70
LIFT IT UP, THAT
WHOEVER LOOKED UPON THE SERPENT,
00:51:42.70\00:51:45.50
THEY WOULD BE
HEALED OF THEIR VENOM.
00:51:45.50\00:51:48.00
THIS IS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT,
BECAUSE JESUS SAYS, IN THE
00:51:48.00\00:51:50.51
GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSES
14 AND 15, "AS MOSES LIFTED UP
00:51:50.51\00:51:56.21
THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS,
EVEN SO THE SON OF MAN MUST BE
00:51:56.21\00:51:59.58
LIFTED UP, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES
IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT
00:51:59.58\00:52:03.39
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE." THEY
NEEDED TO LOOK AND TO LIVE.
00:52:03.39\00:52:07.49
YOU SEE, THOSE ANCIENT
SHEPHERDS, WHEN THEY WOULD KILL
00:52:07.49\00:52:09.42
A VENOMOUS SNAKE, THEY WOULD
CARRY IT OFF ON THEIR STAFF AND
00:52:09.42\00:52:12.73
BURY IT, SO A SERPENT ON A POLE
REPRESENTED A DEFEATED SNAKE.
00:52:12.73\00:52:17.57
IT'S TALKING ABOUT
DEFEATING THE DEVIL, FRIENDS.
00:52:17.57\00:52:20.30
HAVE YOU BEEN BITTEN BY
THE SERPENT? WE ALL HAVE.
00:52:20.30\00:52:22.97
THE ONLY CURE FOR THE VENOM
OF SATAN IS TO LOOK IN FAITH AT
00:52:22.97\00:52:26.71
JESUS. HE THEN
DEFEATED THE DEVIL.
00:52:26.71\00:52:29.14
HE TOOK THE VENOM OF SIN IN HIS
BODY TO PROVIDE THE ANTIDOTE IN
00:52:29.14\00:52:33.52
HIS BLOOD. SO
FRIENDS, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO
00:52:33.52\00:52:35.72
LOOK TODAY AND LIVE. (MUSIC)
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>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED
LIVES. >>I WAS HEADING SOUTH
00:52:47.46\00:52:58.61
ON INTERSTATE 5. THIS
COMMERCIAL COME ON KFBK
00:52:58.61\00:53:02.84
RADIO ABOUT A REVELATION
SEMINAR BY AMAZING FACTS.
00:53:02.84\00:53:06.85
I BEGAN - MY CHEST
BEGAN TO TIGHTEN UP.
00:53:06.85\00:53:09.65
I BEGAN SWEATING PROFUSELY.
I HAD DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING.
00:53:09.65\00:53:14.26
THERE WAS THIS BIG REST AREA
AND, AT THIS TIME, I PULLED INTO
00:53:14.26\00:53:17.99
THERE - I THOUGHT 'WELL, MAYBE
I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK.'
00:53:17.99\00:53:20.76
I GOT OUT OF MY TRUCK, WALKED
INTO THE MEN'S RESTROOM THERE
00:53:20.76\00:53:24.93
AND PUT COLD WATER ON
MY FACE. AND THEN, FINALLY,
00:53:24.93\00:53:27.67
THINGS SUBSIDED. A
WEEK LATER, AGAIN, I HEARD
00:53:27.67\00:53:30.61
THIS AMAZING FACTS COMMERCIAL
COME ON THE RADIO - IN FACT, THE
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MEETINGS WERE GOING
TO START THAT VERY NIGHT.
00:53:33.94\00:53:36.04
THIS - AND, AGAIN, IMMEDIATELY
I HAD THESE SAME SYMPTOMS.
00:53:36.04\00:53:39.65
I THOUGHT, 'YOU
KNOW, THIS ISN'T MY HEART.
00:53:39.65\00:53:41.45
I HAVE TO GO TO THAT MEETING.'
AND, AS I WAS GOING DOWN TO
00:53:41.45\00:53:44.89
SACRAMENTO, I DECIDED
TO PARK AND GO INSIDE.
00:53:44.89\00:53:48.59
WELL, I GOT IN AND (CHUCKLES)
WALKED INTO THE FURTHERMOST REAR
00:53:48.59\00:53:53.13
SEAT THEY HAD - IN THE PEW
THERE - AND THIS PARTICULAR
00:53:53.13\00:53:59.07
EVANGELIST, HIS NAME WAS KIM
KJAER - IT WAS LIKE TAKING ONE
00:53:59.07\00:54:03.17
LAYER OFF AT A
TIME - OF AN ONION.
00:54:03.17\00:54:06.71
HE LAID IT OUT SO PERFECTLY
THAT WE COULD ALL UNDERSTAND IT.
00:54:06.71\00:54:09.91
AND I WAS REALLY MOTIVATED.
I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
00:54:09.91\00:54:12.35
WELL, I FINISHED. I
DIDN'T MISS A MEETING.
00:54:12.35\00:54:14.48
IN FACT, ON THE FIFTH NIGHT THEY
HAD AN ALTAR CALL AND MY KNEES
00:54:14.48\00:54:19.25
STOOD RIGHT UP AND I WALKED
FORWARD AND I GAVE MY HEART TO
00:54:19.25\00:54:21.92
JESUS CHRIST. I'VE
LEARNED, THROUGHOUT THIS
00:54:21.92\00:54:25.46
WHOLE THING, THAT WHEN YOU
- WHEN YOU LEAVE THE DEVIL'S
00:54:25.46\00:54:28.63
TERRITORY, HE GETS PRETTY ACTIVE
IN CAUSING A LOT OF PROBLEMS.
00:54:28.63\00:54:33.47
WELL, I HAD THE EVANGELISTS COME
OUT AND THEY HAD PRAYER WITH ME
00:54:33.47\00:54:38.14
ABOUT MY BUSINESS. I
WOULD FIND A SICK BUSINESS AND
00:54:38.14\00:54:41.41
MAKE IT WELL AND THEN MARKET
IT. I FINALLY ENDED UP WITH A
00:54:41.41\00:54:45.41
BUSINESS THAT I REALLY
ENJOYED - THAT WAS ONE THAT WAS
00:54:45.41\00:54:48.78
BUILDING EQUESTRIAN CENTERS.
AND THEY SAID TO ME, 'STEVE,'
00:54:48.78\00:54:52.72
HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO REALLY KEEP THE SABBATH
00:54:52.72\00:54:55.09
YOU'VE GOT TO SHUT YOUR
DOORS ON SABBATH.' WELL, I DID.
00:54:55.09\00:54:58.99
AND SO, I SOLD THE BUSINESS TO
MY BROTHER. IT TOOK ME 22 YEARS
00:54:58.99\00:55:02.30
TO BUILD THAT BUSINESS
AND HE LOST IT IN 33 MONTHS.
00:55:02.30\00:55:07.34
MY SON, WHO WAS MY BUSINESS
PARTNER, I'D BEEN GIVING HIM 10
00:55:07.34\00:55:10.34
PERCENT OF THE
BUSINESS EVERY YEAR.
00:55:10.34\00:55:12.34
HE THOUGHT I'D JUST
FALLEN OFF THE BRIDGE.
00:55:12.34\00:55:17.31
MY SON DIDN'T TALK TO ME
FOR FIVE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:55:17.31\00:55:20.72
AND THEN A FEW
OTHER THINGS HAPPENED.
00:55:20.72\00:55:22.65
I HAD AN EX-EMPLOYEE
LIVING IN MY GUEST HOUSE -
00:55:22.65\00:55:25.22
HE KIND OF
WATCHED AFTER OUR PLACE.
00:55:25.22\00:55:27.42
AND HE SAID, 'STEVE,' HE SAID,
'THERE'S AN ALLIED MOVING VAN
00:55:27.42\00:55:30.99
BACKED UP TO YOUR FRONT DOOR
OF YOUR HOME.' I SAID, 'YOU'RE
00:55:30.99\00:55:34.46
KIDDING!' I SAID,
'WHAT DO YOU MEAN?'
00:55:34.46\00:55:36.40
HE SAID, 'THEY'RE MOVING
EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR HOUSE
00:55:36.40\00:55:39.30
INTO THIS TRUCK AND YOUR WIFE IS
OUT THERE SUPERVISING THEM.' AND
00:55:39.30\00:55:43.74
WHEN I WENT HOME AND OPENED THE
FRONT DOOR, MY VOICE ECHOED IN
00:55:43.74\00:55:46.64
THAT HOUSE. THERE WASN'T
ANY FURNITURE LEFT ANYWHERE.
00:55:46.64\00:55:49.31
THERE WAS ONE BED
LEFT IN THE HOUSE.
00:55:49.31\00:55:52.21
I KNEW MY WIFE WAS UPSET BECAUSE
OF MY COMING TO THIS CHURCH, BUT
00:55:52.21\00:55:56.95
I HAD NO IDEA THAT SHE
WOULD MOVE OUT LIKE THIS.
00:55:56.95\00:55:59.89
THAT WAS A TOTAL SHOCK TO
ME. IT WAS SOME TIME THERE - I
00:55:59.89\00:56:03.12
LOCKED MYSELF IN THE BEDROOM
AND I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE.
00:56:03.12\00:56:07.03
I SPENT ABOUT A HALF A YEAR -
JUST EVERY NIGHT, GETTING HOME
00:56:07.03\00:56:10.43
AND I WOULD STUDY. IT
ALLOWED ME TO HAVE A PERSONAL
00:56:10.43\00:56:14.77
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
WELL, TO MAKE A LONG STORY
00:56:14.77\00:56:18.14
SHORT, I MET CRYSTAL
AND SHE WAS A GODLY WOMAN.
00:56:18.14\00:56:22.44
THAT WAS THE
LORD'S DOING, NOT MINE.
00:56:22.44\00:56:25.05
AND HE WAS JUST THERE TO LET ME
KNOW, 'I'M WITH YOU ALL THE WAY.
00:56:25.05\00:56:28.58
EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE
SOME TRIALS AND YOU'RE GOING TO
00:56:28.58\00:56:30.59
HAVE SOME HARDSHIPS, I WANT YOU
TO KNOW THAT I'LL BE WITH YOU.'
00:56:30.59\00:56:34.96
BECAUSE, NO MATTER WHAT
I DO NOW, HE IS MY LEADER.
00:56:34.96\00:56:39.36
HE'S THE LEADER OF MY MARRIAGE,
HE'S THE LEADER OF EVERYTHING IN
00:56:39.36\00:56:41.96
MY LIFE TODAY. THAT
ONE MEETING WITH THE
00:56:41.96\00:56:45.00
AMAZING FACTS SEMINAR CHANGED
MY ENTIRE LIFE AND, TO THIS DAY,
00:56:45.00\00:56:50.11
I'M STILL ON FIRE FOR
GOD. I'M STILL WITNESSING
00:56:50.11\00:56:52.54
TO MY NEIGHBORS. MY
NAME IS STEVE JOHNSON, AND
00:56:52.54\00:56:55.44
IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU THAT AMAZING
FACTS HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.
00:56:55.44\00:57:07.39
>>CAN'T GET ENOUGH
AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY?
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
00:57:37.32\00:57:41.29
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:57:41.29\00:57:45.09
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
00:57:45.09\00:57:48.06
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:48.06\00:57:52.00
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:52.00\00:57:54.07
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:54.07\00:57:56.94
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
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00:57:56.94\00:58:00.41
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(MUSIC)
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