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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE
FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH. A
VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
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FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD AND
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ALSO TO OUR MEMBERS AND VISITORS
RIGHT HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH - DELIGHTED TO SEE
YOU ALL HERE THIS MORNING.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
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THE BOOK OF JOB. TODAY
WE FIND OURSELVES ON THE
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FINAL LESSON - IT'S LESSON #14
ENTITLED SOME LESSONS FROM JOB .
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SO, FOR THOSE WHO ARE JOINING
US ONLINE OR WATCHING ON THE
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VARIOUS NETWORKS, IF YOU DON'T
HAVE A COPY OF OUR LESSON TODAY,
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IT'S LESSON #14 IN OUR STUDY
OF THE BOOK OF JOB, YOU CAN
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DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON BY
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. AND THEN NEXT WEEK WE'RE
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STARTING A BRAND-NEW QUARTERLY
DEALING WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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SO, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO
ARE HERE AND YOU'LL BE BACK NEXT
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WEEK, YOU CAN PICK UP THE NEW
QUARTERLY IN THE FOYER AS YOU
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LEAVE. AND ALSO, FOR OUR FRIENDS
WHO ARE JOINING US, YOU CAN ALSO
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GET THE LESSON BY GOING TO THE
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN
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BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN PRAISE
AND WE'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
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LEADERS TO COME AND
JOIN ME HERE ON STAGE.
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>>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS.
YOU KNOW, (SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
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I WILL SAY, WHILE - HANDERSEN
IS WITH US TODAY AND IF YOU HAVE
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BEEN FOLLOWING ALONG ON OUR
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YOU HAVE SEEN HIS STORY
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AND WE ARE JUST SO THANKFUL AND
PRAISING THE LORD FOR THE MAN
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THAT IS SITTING AT THE
PIANO TODAY, WHO IS SHARING HIS
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BEAUTIFUL MUSIC WITH US HERE AT
GRANITE BAY AND AROUND THE WORLD
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- #118 - THE
FIRST NOEL . (MUSIC)
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>>OUR NEXT SONG IS #137 -
WE THREE KINGS - OF ORIENT ARE
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BEARING GIFTS WE
TRAVERSE AFAR. (PIANO MUSIC)
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O STAR OF WONDER, STAR
OF NIGHT, GUIDE US TO THY
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PERFECT LIGHT - #137. (MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR SINGING ALONG WITH US.
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AND NOW PASTOR ROSS
WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET'S BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE
AGAIN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO BE
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ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR
HOUSE TO STUDY YOUR WORD
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TOGETHER. AND, AS WE'VE
BEEN STUDYING TOGETHER ON THE
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BOOK OF JOB, WE HAVE
LEARNED MANY LESSONS.
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AND AS WE FINISH UP OUR TIME OF
STUDYING THIS BOOK, WE PRAY THAT
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ONCE AGAIN YOUR SPIRIT WILL
GUIDE OUR HEARTS - OUR MINDS -
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HELP US TO SEE THE MESSAGES AND
TRUTHS REVEALED IN THIS STORY
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FOR US, FOR WE ASK
THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE
BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO
BE DEALING WITH THE LAST STUDY
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IN THE BOOK OF JOB.
WE'VE BEEN STUDYING JOB NOW,
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THIS'LL BE THE FOURTEENTH
WEEK. AND THE LESSON TODAY IS
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SOME LESSONS FROM JOB . AND
OUR MEMORY VERSE IS FROM THE
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BOOK OF JAMES CHAPTER 5, VERSE
11. IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU
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MAY WANT TO READ IT WITH
ME. IT'S IN THE NEW KING JAMES
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VERSION JAMES 5,
VERSE 11 - READY?
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"INDEED WE COUNT THEM BLESSED
WHO ENDURE. YOU HAVE HEARD OF
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THE PERSEVERANCE OF JOB AND SEEN
THE END INTENDED BY THE LORD -
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THAT THE LORD IS VERY
COMPASSIONATE AND MERCIFUL."
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YOU KNOW, JESUS REFERS TO JOB
AND JAMES REFERS TO JOB AND IT'S
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PRETTY CLEAR FROM THE OTHER
BIBLE WRITERS THAT JOB IS A REAL
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CHARACTER, AND THAT EVEN THOUGH
JOB WENT THROUGH THIS TERRIBLE
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PERIOD OF SUFFERING - IT'S HARD
TO SAY HOW LONG IT WAS BUT, YOU
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KNOW, I JUST - IN MY MIND - SEE
THAT THE TRIALS THAT JOB WENT
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THROUGH WERE ABOUT AS LONG
AS THE PLAGUES THAT FELL UPON
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EGYPT, WHICH HAPPENED
IN MATTER OF A FEW WEEKS.
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IT WAS VERY TOUGH, VERY FAST,
VERY HARD, BUT COMPARATIVELY
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BRIEF FOR A MAN THAT
LIVED OVER 200 YEARS.
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SO WHEN A PERSON SAYS, 'WOULD
YOU LIKE TO HAVE THE LIFE OF
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JOB?' WHAT WOULD YOU THINK?
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EVERYONE THINKS ABOUT THE FEW
WEEKS OF TERRIBLE SUFFERING, BUT
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WHAT ABOUT THE TWO HUNDRED
AND, YOU KNOW, ONE YEARS OF
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BLESSINGS? DOESN'T
EVERYBODY HAVE A CERTAIN
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AMOUNT OF
SUFFERING IN THEIR LIFE?
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THE THING THAT MAKES JOB'S LIFE
ESPECIALLY BAD IS IT ALL CAME AT
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ONCE AND IT JUST SEEMED LIKE
HE LOST EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE,
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BECAUSE THE DEVIL WAS TRYING TO
BREAK HIM BY FOCUSING ALL OF HIS
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PRESSURE ON ONE POINT. BUT
JOB DID NOT LOSE HIS FAITH.
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SO WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN BY
TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE
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FAITH OF JOB IN OUR STUDY TODAY
- BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT -
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JOB DID NOT KNOW WHY
THESE SUFFERINGS AND TRIALS WERE
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COMING UPON HIM. YOU
AND I READ THE BOOK AND
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IT STARTS BY EXPLAINING THE
CURTAINS BEING PULLED ASIDE AND
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THE DEVIL COMES TO SOME HEAVENLY
MEETING AND GOD SEES THE DEVIL
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AND SAYS, 'YOU THINK YOU OWN THE
WORLD.' THE DEVIL SAYS, 'I'VE
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COME FROM WALKING TO AND FRO UP
AND DOWN IN THE WORLD. THE WORLD
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IS MINE.' GOD SAYS, 'IT'S
NOT ALL YOURS. WHAT ABOUT JOB?
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JOB SERVES ME.' 'OH, THE ONLY
REASON HE SERVES YOU IS YOU'VE
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JUST PROTECTED
HIM ON EVERY SIDE.
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YOU WON'T LET ME AT HIM.' GOD
SAID, 'NO, I BELIEVE THAT JOB
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LOVES ME REGARDLESS OF
THE PROTECTION.' AND SO GOD
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WITHDRAWS HIS PROTECTION AND
THERE'S THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY.
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THE BOOK OF JOB
REALLY ILLUSTRATES THE GREAT
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CONTROVERSY
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
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MOST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD DO NOT
KNOW - PEOPLE IN THE WORLD DON'T
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KNOW WHY WE ARE CAUGHT UP IN
THIS BATTLE - 'IF THERE'S A GOOD
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GOD, WHY IS THERE
SO MUCH SUFFERING?'
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THE BOOK OF JOB IS GREAT FOR US
BECAUSE IT PEELS ASIDE THE VEIL
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SO WE SEE WHAT'S
GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES.
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YOU ALSO SEE THIS IN THE BOOK
OF ZECHARIAH WHERE IT SAYS THERE
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YOU'VE GOT JOSHUA THE HIGH
PRIEST AND THE DEVIL IS THERE TO
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ACCUSE HIM BECAUSE
OF HIS FILTHY GARMENTS.
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THEN YOU GO TO REVELATION AND
IT TALKS ABOUT THE WAR IN HEAVEN
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AND SATAN IS CALLED 'THE
ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN'.
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SO JOB IS THE FIRST PLACE
IN SCRIPTURE WHERE YOU SEE VERY
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VIVIDLY THERE'S A DEVIL WHO
IS THE ACCUSER AND HE'S NOT ONLY
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THE ACCUSER, THE DEVIL WILL
TEMPT YOU TO DO SOMETHING WRONG
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AND THEN HE WILL TURN YOU IN AND
POINT HIS FINGER AT YOU AFTER
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YOU DO IT. AND SO,
HE'S A TEMPTER, HE'S THE
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ACCUSER - AND WE'LL LEARN MORE
ABOUT THAT, BUT JOB - JOB DIDN'T
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KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON, BUT
HE SAID, 'THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET
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WILL I TRUST HIM.' SO JOB IS
TELLING US THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE
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FAITH IN GOD EVEN
WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.
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NOW, IT IS TRUE THAT FAITH IS
BASED UPON A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF
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EVIDENCE. JOB
HAD RECEIVED EARLIER
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EVIDENCE OF WHO GOD
WAS THAT GAVE HIM FAITH.
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BUT THEN, ONCE YOU'VE GOT THAT
EVIDENCE, YOU NEED TO BELIEVE
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WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.
LET ME EXPLAIN: GOLIATH COMES
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AFTER DAVID AND DAVID SAYS,
'I'LL FIGHT THIS GIANT.' KING
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SAUL SAYS, 'YOU'RE CRAZY.
YOU CAN'T FIGHT THE GIANT.
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HE'S A WARRIOR.
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK
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YOU CAN FIGHT THE
GIANT? HOW MANY GIANTS
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HAVE YOU KILLED?' HE
SAID, 'WELL, I HAVEN'T KILLED
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ANY GIANTS.' 'WHY DO YOU
THINK YOU CAN KILL THIS ONE?'
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WELL, BECAUSE I HAVE
EVIDENCE FOR MY FAITH.
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DAVID SAID, 'THERE WAS A BEAR
THAT CAME AND TOOK A SHEEP AND
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GOD GAVE ME STRENGTH
AND I KILLED THE BEAR.
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AND THERE WAS A LION THAT CAME
AND TOOK A LAMB AND GOD GAVE ME
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STRENGTH AND I KILLED THE LION.
AND, BASED ON THE EVIDENCE OF
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THE PAST, I HAVE FAITH THAT
GOD CAN HELP ME KILL THE GIANT.'
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AND SO DAVID HAD FAITH
THROUGH PAST EXPERIENCE.
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WHEN WE COME TO THE LORD, IS THE
LORD ASKING US TO JUST BLINDLY
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BELIEVE OR DOES HE GIVE
EVIDENCE IN HIS WORD THAT HE'S
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TRUSTWORTHY? >>AMEN.
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>>SO OUR FAITH IS BASED UPON, 'I
KNOW WHOM I BELIEVED IN AND I AM
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PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE.'
WE'VE SEEN EVIDENCE BEFORE.
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SO FAITH IS ABSOLUTELY
CRUCIAL TO OUR SALVATION.
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NOW, SEVERAL VERSES WE'RE GOING
TO READ ON THIS AND I THINK I'M
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GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY HERE
HELP ME READ A VERSE - IN JUST A
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MOMENT WE'RE GOING
TO DO HEBREWS 11:6.
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IN THE MEANTIME, I'LL DO 2
CORINTHIANS 5:7 WHERE YOU READ,
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"FOR WE WALK BY
FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT."
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'WALK' MEANS 'WE
LIVE - IT'S OUR WALK'.
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WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT.
YOU CAN'T GO BY WHAT YOU SEE.
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DO WE SEE THE DEVIL? DO
WE SEE GOD? GOD'S A SPIRIT.
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DO WE BELIEVE IN
THINGS WE CAN'T SEE?
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DO YOU BELIEVE IN PHONE
SIGNALS? CELLULAR PHONE - SMART
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PHONE - RADIO SIGNALS? SURE.
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AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU WON'T
HAVE RECEPTION SO YOU STAND UP
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ON YOUR CHAIR BECAUSE YOU KNOW
THEY'RE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE.
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MAYBE IF YOU CAN GET A LITTLE
HIGHER YOU'LL GET THE TOWER.
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YOU DON'T SEE THEM
BUT YOU BELIEVE IN THEM.
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YOU DON'T SEE WIND - NOT
UNTIL IT HITS SOMETHING -
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WIND IS
INVISIBLE. YOU BELIEVE IN IT.
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WE DON'T SEE GRAVITY BUT YOU
DON'T WANT TO WALK OFF A HIGH
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BUILDING BECAUSE YOU
KNOW THAT GRAVITY'S THERE.
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YOU'VE SEEN THE RESULTS.
YOU'VE GOT EVIDENCE OF WHAT
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HAPPENS IF YOU IGNORE GRAVITY,
RIGHT? BUT YOU CAN'T SEE GRAVITY
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AND SO, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS
WE BELIEVE IN THAT WE CAN'T SEE.
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IT'S ACTUALLY VERY LOGICAL AND
SCIENTIFIC TO BELIEVE IN THINGS
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THAT YOU CAN'T SEE, BECAUSE
WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING.
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AND, YOU KNOW, I HEARD SOMEBODY
ILLUSTRATE THAT, YOU KNOW, A DOG
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CAN LOVE YOU, BUT IT'S HARD
TO EXPLAIN PHYSICS TO A DOG.
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THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE
DOG CAN'T LOVE YOU AND YOU CAN'T
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LOVE THE DOG, THERE'S JUST SOME
THINGS A DOG CAN'T COMPREHEND.
00:16:07.13\00:16:09.93
BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN PHYSICS
DON'T EXIST BECAUSE THE DOG
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CAN'T COMPREHEND
IT. YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN?
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THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT
YOU AND I MAYBE DON'T COMPREHEND
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WE'VE GOT TO TAKE BY FAITH. 2
CORINTHIANS 4:18, "WHILE WE DO
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NOT LOOK AT THE THINGS WHICH
ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS
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WHICH ARE NOT SEEN. FOR
THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN
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ARE TEMPORARY, BUT THE THINGS
WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL."
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GOD IS OFFERING US AN ETERNAL
THAT WE DON'T SEE RIGHT NOW, BUT
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IT'S VERY REAL. AND
IF WE LIVE OUR LIVES ONLY
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FOR THE PHYSICAL THAT WE SEE
NOW, WE'RE GOING TO MISS OUT.
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ROMANS 8:24, "FOR WE WERE SAVED
IN THIS HOPE, BUT HOPE THAT IS
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SEEN IS NOT HOPE; FOR WHY
DOES ONE STILL HOPE FOR WHAT HE
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SEES?" I MEAN, WHY WOULD I SAY,
'I HOPE I CAN GET A BIBLE FOR
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TODAY'S LESSON'?
I'VE GOT IT RIGHT HERE.
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I'M NOT HOPING
FOR IT, I HAVE IT.
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AND SO YOU HOPE FOR WHAT
YOU DON'T HAVE AND WE BELIEVE IN
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SOMETHING THAT IS
COMING THAT WE DON'T HAVE YET.
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THAT'S WHAT THE HOPE
IS ALL ABOUT - THE FAITH.
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AND IN HEBREWS 11 - AND WE'RE
GOING TO DO HEBREWS 6 IN JUST A
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MOMENT, BUT WHOLE CHAPTER OF
HEBREWS 11 IS ABOUT FAITH, "NOW
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FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS
HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF
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THINGS NOT SEEN."
ISN'T THAT WHAT WE JUST READ?
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BUT YOU NOTICE
THE WORD 'EVIDENCE'?
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THERE'S EVIDENCE FOR
THINGS THAT ARE NOT SEEN.
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WE'VE GOT EVIDENCE, AS
I'VE MENTIONED, FOR RADIO WAVES.
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YOU TURN ON THE
RADIO, A VOICE COMES OUT.
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HOW DID IT GET TO THE BOX?
YOU CAN WALK ALL AROUND THE BOX
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AND YOU CAN PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND
THE BOX AND IF IT'S RUNNING ON
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BATTERIES YOU'D SAY, 'HOW DOES
THIS VOICE COME OUT OF THIS BOX?
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YOU'VE GOT EVIDENCE FOR RADIO
WAVES IN WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE.
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AND SO, WE BELIEVE IT. GO
AHEAD, READ FOR US, PLEASE,
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HEBREWS 11:6.
>>"BUT WITHOUT FAITH IT IS
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IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM, FOR
HE WHO COMES TO GOD MUST BELIEVE
00:17:57.91\00:18:03.55
THAT HE IS, AND THAT HE
IS A REWARDER OF THOSE WHO
00:18:03.55\00:18:07.95
DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM."
>>NOW WHEN I LOOKED OVER THE
00:18:07.95\00:18:11.85
LESSON I THOUGHT, 'WE'RE HERE.'
WE'VE REACHED THE END OF THE
00:18:11.85\00:18:14.52
BOOK OF JOB AND I'VE GOT LIKE
FIVE POINTS, TYPICALLY - SUNDAY
00:18:14.52\00:18:19.36
THROUGH THURSDAY - THAT
I HIGHLIGHT IN THE LESSON.
00:18:19.36\00:18:21.80
AND WHAT WOULD BE THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING TO HIGHLIGHT IN
00:18:21.80\00:18:24.10
THIS LESSON? IT
WOULD BE THE SUBJECT OF
00:18:24.10\00:18:26.53
FAITH, BECAUSE WE ARE
SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH.
00:18:26.53\00:18:33.64
'THE JUST SHALL
LIVE BY FAITH' - RIGHT?
00:18:33.64\00:18:38.98
ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD. IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT, IT DOESN'T
00:18:38.98\00:18:41.62
USE THE WORD 'FAITH' AS
MUCH AS IT DOES 'BELIEVE'.
00:18:41.62\00:18:44.35
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IT OFTEN
USES THE WORD 'FAITH' BECAUSE
00:18:44.35\00:18:46.99
ONE'S COMING FROM HEBREW
AND ONE'S COMING FROM GREEK.
00:18:46.99\00:18:49.49
HOW WERE PEOPLE
SAVED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:18:49.49\00:18:51.73
>>BY FAITH. >>BY FAITH.
00:18:51.73\00:18:53.26
HOW WAS JOB SAVED? >>BY FAITH.
00:18:53.26\00:18:55.43
>>'THOUGH HE SLAYS ME, YET WILL
I TRUST HIM.' AND SO IT WAS HIS
00:18:55.43\00:19:00.60
FAITH THAT HE WAS
SAVED. ABRAHAM - HIS FAITH.
00:19:00.60\00:19:04.47
IT SAYS 'DANIEL BELIEVED GOD.'
AND SO, EVERYONE IS SAVED BY
00:19:04.47\00:19:07.91
FAITH. IT'S
CRUCIAL THAT WE TRUST GOD.
00:19:07.91\00:19:09.78
NOW, IT'S EASY TO
BELIEVE IN GOD WHEN YOU'RE
00:19:09.78\00:19:11.81
SURROUNDED BY THE EVIDENCE,
BUT YOU DON'T NEED HOPE THEN,
00:19:11.81\00:19:14.12
BECAUSE YOU HAVE IT.
WHEN DOES IT TAKE FAITH?
00:19:14.12\00:19:17.82
WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND;
WHEN IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE; WHEN
00:19:17.82\00:19:23.02
YOU'RE TEMPTED TO DOUBT - WAS
ANYONE TEMPTED MORE THAN JOB IN
00:19:23.02\00:19:28.00
THAT DEPARTMENT?
AND HE STILL BELIEVED.
00:19:28.00\00:19:30.60
HIS FAITH TRIUMPHED IN SPITE OF
ALL OF THE EVIDENCE THAT HE HAD
00:19:30.60\00:19:35.80
SOMEHOW BEEN ABANDONED
BY GOD. AND THAT'S WHAT HIS
00:19:35.80\00:19:38.67
FRIENDS WERE THINKING TOO.
ALRIGHT, ENOUGH ABOUT FAITH.
00:19:38.67\00:19:42.18
NEXT SECTION TALKS ABOUT
THE - AN EVIL BEING - NOT TO BE
00:19:42.18\00:19:48.02
(CONFUSED) WITH A PINTO BEAN
- AND THE EVIL BEING IS WHO?
00:19:48.02\00:19:52.85
>>SATAN. >>THE
ARCH FIEND - THE DEVIL.
00:19:52.85\00:19:57.33
NOW, YOU DON'T FIND AS
MUCH ABOUT THE DEVIL IN THE OLD
00:19:57.33\00:19:59.76
TESTAMENT. MATTER
OF FACT, I'LL JUST -
00:19:59.76\00:20:02.33
YOU CALL IT OUT; I'LL REPEAT
IT - WHERE DO YOU FIND THE DEVIL
00:20:02.33\00:20:05.53
IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT? ALRIGHT, GENESIS,
00:20:05.53\00:20:09.40
LET'S START
THERE. WHERE DOES IT SAY
00:20:09.40\00:20:10.67
'DEVIL' IN
GENESIS? IT'S TALKING ABOUT
00:20:10.67\00:20:15.08
THE SERPENT, RIGHT?
NOW WE KNOW NOW - YOU GO TO
00:20:15.08\00:20:17.85
REVELATION IT SAYS, 'THAT OLD
SERPENT THE DEVIL AND SATAN.'
00:20:17.85\00:20:20.62
WE KNOW WHO IT IS NOW, BUT THEY
DIDN'T CALL HIM THE DEVIL THEN.
00:20:20.62\00:20:23.55
WE SORT OF KNEW IT - SOMEONE
SAID JOB - YOU FIND HIM, OF
00:20:23.55\00:20:25.99
COURSE, IN JOB. WHERE ELSE?
00:20:25.99\00:20:27.49
>>ZECHARIAH.
>>ZECHARIAH - SATAN STOOD TO
00:20:27.49\00:20:32.53
ACCUSE THE HIGH
PRIEST. WHERE ELSE?
00:20:32.53\00:20:34.93
>>ISAIAH. >>WELL - 'O LUCIFER' -
00:20:34.93\00:20:39.77
IT DOESN'T SAY 'SATAN' - 'I
WILL CAST YOU OUT OF HEAVEN,
00:20:39.77\00:20:41.60
LUCIFER' IN ISAIAH. EZEKIEL?
00:20:41.60\00:20:46.84
IT'S EZEKIEL 28 - IT DOESN'T
REALLY CALL HIM THE DEVIL,
00:20:46.84\00:20:49.54
IT CALLS HIM THE CHERUB
THERE, BUT YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT.
00:20:49.54\00:20:53.42
HE'S A FEW PLACES BUT YOU NOTICE
HOW YOU'RE HAVING TO THINK?
00:20:53.42\00:20:56.18
YOU'RE - HOW ABOUT WHEN
SATAN STOOD UP TO TEMPT DAVID TO
00:20:56.18\00:21:00.09
NUMBER ISRAEL?
YOU GOT THAT EXAMPLE?
00:21:00.09\00:21:03.12
NOT MANY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:21:03.12\00:21:06.09
THAT'S WHY THE STORY
OF JOB IS SO IMPORTANT.
00:21:06.09\00:21:08.40
YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
WHEN JESUS BEGINS HIS MINISTRY,
00:21:08.40\00:21:11.23
IT'S LIKE SATAN WENT BALLISTIC
AND YOU SEE THE DEVIL EVERYWHERE
00:21:11.23\00:21:14.74
- HE'S JUST OOZING
OUT OF EVERY CHAPTER.
00:21:14.74\00:21:16.60
I MEAN, I CAN'T COUNT ALL THE
REFERENCES TO SATAN IN THE NEW
00:21:16.60\00:21:18.91
TESTAMENT. BUT -
AND THIS ISN'T - THE
00:21:18.91\00:21:22.21
KNOWLEDGE WE HAVE OF THE DEVIL
DID NOT JUST COME TO US IN THE
00:21:22.21\00:21:26.31
LAST HUNDRED YEARS - AND
THE FALL OF LUCIFER AND THE
00:21:26.31\00:21:29.08
REBELLION IN HEAVEN
AND THE GREAT CONTROVERSY.
00:21:29.08\00:21:31.42
ANY OF YOU GO TO COLLEGE
AND WERE REQUIRED - MAYBE IF YOU
00:21:31.42\00:21:34.86
TOOK LITERATURE - REQUIRED
TO READ THAT EPIC POEM BY JOHN
00:21:34.86\00:21:39.33
MILTON CALLED PARADISE
LOST ? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
00:21:39.33\00:21:43.47
HEARD OF PARADISE LOST ?
MAN, THAT'S - I TELL YOU -
00:21:43.47\00:21:48.50
THAT'S GOT A LOT OF
PROFOUND WORDS IN IT.
00:21:48.50\00:21:50.64
I'M GOING TO READ TO YOU JUST
ONE SECTION NEAR THE BEGINNING -
00:21:50.64\00:21:52.94
THESE ARE VERSES - IT'S LIKE THE
BIBLE, IT'S IN VERSES - THIS IS
00:21:52.94\00:21:55.34
IN SECTION - OR CHAPTER 1,
VERSES 32 TO 49, WHERE JOHN
00:21:55.34\00:21:58.78
MILTON IS TALKING
ABOUT THE DEVIL'S FALL.
00:21:58.78\00:22:03.75
AND YOU PRAY FOR ME BECAUSE THIS
IS KIND OF THE OLD ENGLISH HERE,
00:22:03.75\00:22:07.46
"FOR ONE RESTRAINT,
LORDS OF THE WORLD BESIDES?
00:22:07.46\00:22:10.99
WHO FIRST SEDUCED
THEM TO THAT FOUL REVOLT?
00:22:10.99\00:22:14.40
THE INFERNAL SERPENT; HE IT WAS,
WHOSE GUILE STIRRED UP WITH ENVY
00:22:14.40\00:22:18.03
AND REVENGE, DECEIVED THE MOTHER
OF MANKIND, WHAT TIME HIS PRIDE
00:22:18.03\00:22:22.00
HAD CAST HIM OUT FROM HEAVEN,
WITH ALL HIS HOST OF REBEL
00:22:22.00\00:22:25.21
ANGELS, BY WHOSE AID ASPIRING TO
SET HIMSELF IN GLORY ABOVE HIS
00:22:25.21\00:22:30.88
PEERS, HE TRUSTED TO HAVE
EQUALED THE MOST HIGH, IF HE
00:22:30.88\00:22:34.68
OPPOSED; AND WITH AMBITIOUS AIM
AGAINST THE THRONE AND MONARCHY
00:22:34.68\00:22:38.02
OF GOD RAISED IMPIOUS WAR
IN HEAVEN AND BATTLE PROUD WITH
00:22:38.02\00:22:41.92
VAIN ATTEMPT. HIM
THE ALMIGHTY POWER HURLED
00:22:41.92\00:22:44.53
HEADLONG FLAMING FROM
THE ETHEREAL SKY WITH HIDEOUS
00:22:44.53\00:22:48.53
RUIN AND COMBUSTION DOWN TO
BOTTOMLESS PERDITION, THERE TO
00:22:48.53\00:22:51.97
DWELL IN ADAMANTINE CHAINS
AND PENAL FIRE, WHO DURST DEFY
00:22:51.97\00:22:56.27
THE OMNIPOTENT TO
ARMS." THAT'S JUST ONE LITTLE
00:22:56.27\00:23:01.31
SECTION OF A VERY LONG POEM.
AND IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO READ
00:23:01.31\00:23:05.18
THAT FOR COMMUNICATIONS,
YOU SHOULD BE THANKFUL.
00:23:05.18\00:23:08.25
BUT IT IS - IT'S REALLY PROFOUND
- BUT WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:23:08.25\00:23:10.75
HERE - JOHN MILTON - HE
WAS ACTUALLY A BLIND WRITER.
00:23:10.75\00:23:15.69
IT'S AMAZING, HE HAD SUCH
AN INCREDIBLE VOCABULARY - HE
00:23:15.69\00:23:17.93
TURNED BLIND IN HIS YOUTH, BUT -
SO HE WAS ABLE TO READ - BUT HE
00:23:17.93\00:23:22.60
DESCRIBES HERE THE FALL OF
LUCIFER, WHO WANTED TO BE GOD,
00:23:22.60\00:23:25.97
AND WAS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN
AND ALL OF THAT WAS VERY CLEAR.
00:23:25.97\00:23:29.87
AND SO, EVEN BACK IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT THEY UNDERSTOOD THE
00:23:29.87\00:23:33.31
STORY OF WHERE EVIL CAME FROM,
THOUGH IT ISN'T ARTICULATED AS
00:23:33.31\00:23:37.95
WELL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
THEY KNEW WHAT THE STORY WAS.
00:23:37.95\00:23:43.15
YOU READ IT, OF COURSE, IN
GENESIS 3 - WE TALKED ABOUT THAT
00:23:43.15\00:23:46.15
A MOMENT AGO. "NOW
THE SERPENT WAS MORE
00:23:46.15\00:23:49.96
CUNNING THAN ANY
BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE
00:23:49.96\00:23:52.13
LORD GOD HAD MADE. AND
HE SAID TO THE WOMAN, 'HAS
00:23:52.13\00:23:54.76
GOD INDEED SAID,'" - WHAT'S
THE FIRST QUESTION IN THE BIBLE?
00:23:54.76\00:24:02.14
THE DEVIL
QUESTIONING THE WORD OF GOD.
00:24:02.14\00:24:05.91
AND ALL OF THE MISERY WE SEE
IN THE WORLD TODAY FLOWS FROM
00:24:05.91\00:24:10.05
DOUBTING - THAT INSIDIOUS DOUBT
OF THE WORD OF GOD - AND WHAT
00:24:10.05\00:24:15.15
DOES THE DEVIL SAYS TO
JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS?
00:24:15.15\00:24:19.72
'IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD'
- CREATING DOUBT AGAIN THROUGH
00:24:19.72\00:24:24.93
INSINUATION. THAT'S
WHERE HE SPECIALIZES -
00:24:24.93\00:24:27.96
BUT WE KNOW WHO HE IS - YOU
GO TO REVELATION 12:9, "SO THE
00:24:27.96\00:24:31.47
GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT
SERPENT OF OLD, CALLED THE DEVIL
00:24:31.47\00:24:34.64
AND SATAN, WHO DECEIVES THE
WHOLE WORLD; HE WAS CAST TO THE
00:24:34.64\00:24:37.87
EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS
WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM."
00:24:37.87\00:24:41.51
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
ME IN A MOMENT MATTHEW 13:39.
00:24:41.51\00:24:45.68
I'LL ALSO READ MATTHEW 4:1,
"THEN JESUS WAS LED UP BY THE
00:24:45.68\00:24:49.62
SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS
TO BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL."
00:24:49.62\00:24:53.42
WHY WOULD THE SPIRIT
LEAD HIM TO BE TEMPTED?
00:24:53.42\00:24:56.06
HE WAS LED BY THE SPIRIT TO PRAY
AND FAST IN PREPARATION FOR OUR
00:24:56.06\00:24:59.09
MISSION, BUT HE ALSO, IN THE
SAME WAY DAVID WENT DOWN TO THE
00:24:59.09\00:25:03.40
VALLEY TO FIGHT WITH GOLIATH,
JESUS WENT OUT IN THE WILDERNESS
00:25:03.40\00:25:05.97
TO FIGHT WITH THE DEVIL AS AN
ILLUSTRATION OF HOW WE CAN HAVE
00:25:05.97\00:25:09.54
VICTORY OVER THE THREE PRIMARY
AREAS WHERE ALL ARE TEMPTED: THE
00:25:09.54\00:25:13.68
LUST OF THE FLESH, THE LUST OF
THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE
00:25:13.68\00:25:16.71
WERE THE AREAS WHERE CHRIST
WAS TEMPTED, WHERE EVE AND ADAM
00:25:16.71\00:25:19.61
FELL, AND WHERE
JESUS WAS VICTORIOUS.
00:25:19.61\00:25:23.52
AND HOW DID HE
MEET EVERY TEMPTATION?
00:25:23.52\00:25:25.92
YOU CAN READ IN MATTHEW 4, VERSE
10, "THEN JESUS SAID [TO HIM],
00:25:25.92\00:25:29.66
'AWAY WITH YOU, SATAN!
FOR IT IS WRITTEN'" - IT IS
00:25:29.66\00:25:33.13
WRITTEN - THREE TIMES HE SAID,
'IT IS WRITTEN' - "'YOU SHALL
00:25:33.13\00:25:36.23
WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD,
AND HIM ONLY YOU SHALL SERVE.'
00:25:36.23\00:25:39.30
THEN THE DEVIL LEFT HIM,
AND BEHOLD, ANGELS CAME AND
00:25:39.30\00:25:41.97
MINISTERED TO HIM." NOW
THAT'S A PATTERN FOR US.
00:25:41.97\00:25:44.64
THE TEMPTATIONS THAT CAME
TO JESUS AND JOB CAME IN WAVES.
00:25:44.64\00:25:50.48
YOU NOTICE THAT WITH JESUS, IT
WAS ONE TEMPTATION AFTER ANOTHER
00:25:50.48\00:25:55.35
- THREE TEMPTATIONS.
WITH JOB HE HAD THESE TRIALS -
00:25:55.35\00:25:59.15
HE HAD - HE LOST HIS FAMILY, HE
LOST HIS SUBSTANCE, HE LOST HIS
00:25:59.15\00:26:03.39
HEALTH, AND THEN HE
LOST HIS FRIENDS, BUT IT CAME
00:26:03.39\00:26:06.46
LIKE A BLITZKRIEG.
YOU KNOW WHERE THE WORD
00:26:06.46\00:26:08.86
BLITZKRIEG - SOME KIND OF GERMAN
WORD THAT TALKS ABOUT A RAPID
00:26:08.86\00:26:12.83
WAR AND HITLER'S IDEA WAS ATTACK
SO FAST AND KEEP ATTACKING -
00:26:12.83\00:26:17.81
KEEP HITTING - THE
ELEMENT OF SURPRISE - THEY WON'T
00:26:17.81\00:26:19.87
KNOW WHAT HIT
THEM. THEY CAN'T PREPARE.
00:26:19.87\00:26:21.84
AND YOU JUST CATCH
THEM WHILE THEY'RE DOWN.
00:26:21.84\00:26:24.11
AND IT WAS VERY
EFFECTIVE FOR A WHILE.
00:26:24.11\00:26:26.61
WELL, THAT'S
WHAT THE DEVIL DOES.
00:26:26.61\00:26:28.42
IT'S PROBABLY
WHERE HITLER GOT IT.
00:26:28.42\00:26:30.65
HE HIT JOB WITH A BLITZKRIEG
HOPING TO OVERWHELM HIM, AND
00:26:30.65\00:26:33.62
THAT'S WHAT THE DEVIL DID
TO JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:26:33.62\00:26:36.02
READ FOR US,
PLEASE, MATTHEW 13:39.
00:26:36.02\00:26:39.76
>>MATTHEW 13:39, "THE ENEMY
WHO SOWED THEM IS THE DEVIL, THE
00:26:39.76\00:26:45.10
HARVEST IS THE END OF THE AGE,
AND THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS."
00:26:45.10\00:26:48.97
>>SO SOMETHING ELSE IN JESUS'
PARABLES, HE EXPLAINS THAT THE
00:26:48.97\00:26:52.17
DEVIL IS OUT THERE TRYING TO
SOW SEEDS OF DISCORD AND HE WAS
00:26:52.17\00:26:56.61
SPREADING THE TARES AMONG THE
WHEAT TO TRY TO CAUSE PROBLEMS.
00:26:56.61\00:27:02.52
AND SO YOU GET A LOT CLEARER
PICTURE ABOUT WHO THIS ARCH
00:27:02.52\00:27:05.52
FIEND IS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:27:05.52\00:27:08.92
YOU CAN READ IN LUKE 22, VERSE
3, "THEN SATAN ENTERED JUDAS,
00:27:08.92\00:27:14.40
SURNAMED ISCARIOT, WHO
WAS NUMBERED AMONG THE TWELVE.
00:27:14.40\00:27:17.43
SO HE WENT HIS WAY AND CONFERRED
WITH THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND
00:27:17.43\00:27:20.27
CAPTAINS, HOW HE
MIGHT BETRAY HIM TO THEM."
00:27:20.27\00:27:24.14
THE DEVIL SOMETIMES WILL
OPERATE BY HAVING AN INSIDE MAN.
00:27:24.14\00:27:29.14
THERE, RIGHT AMONG THE
TWELVE APOSTLES, SATAN HAD A
00:27:29.14\00:27:31.08
REPRESENTATIVE WHO - AND DOES
THE DEVIL STILL FIND PEOPLE IN
00:27:31.08\00:27:35.55
THE CHURCH? YEAH,
SOMETIMES THEY'LL FIND
00:27:35.55\00:27:39.05
SOMEBODY THAT HE CAN MANIPULATE
AND USE - AND SOMETIMES IT'S
00:27:39.05\00:27:43.29
UNKNOWN TO THEM - TO USE AND
BRING PROBLEMS AND DISRUPTIONS
00:27:43.29\00:27:47.86
AND TO SCANDALIZE THE NAME OF
CHRIST, BRINGS THAT PERSON INTO
00:27:47.86\00:27:53.10
THE CHURCH TO CAUSE PROBLEMS.
THAT'S WHAT HE DID WITH JUDAS.
00:27:53.10\00:27:57.21
AND YOU READ IN ACTS 5:3, PETER
SAID TO ANNANIAS, 'WHY HAS SATAN
00:27:57.21\00:28:01.31
FILLED YOUR HEART?'
NOW HOW MANY OF US WANT THE
00:28:01.31\00:28:03.75
LORD TO FILL OUR HEARTS?
BUT IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THE
00:28:03.75\00:28:07.42
DEVIL TO FILL A HEART TOO?
YEAH, HIS - ANNANIAS' HEART
00:28:07.42\00:28:11.99
WAS FILLED WITH
GREED AND COVETOUSNESS.
00:28:11.99\00:28:14.19
HE SAID, 'WHY HAVE YOU ALLOWED
SATAN TO FILL YOUR HEART?
00:28:14.19\00:28:17.46
SO YOU'VE LIED TO THE HOLY
SPIRIT AND KEPT BACK PART OF THE
00:28:17.46\00:28:20.16
PRICE OF THE LAND FOR YOURSELF.'
HE SAID, 'YOU HAVEN'T LIED TO
00:28:20.16\00:28:22.46
MAN, YOU'VE LIED
TO GOD IN DOING THAT.'
00:28:22.46\00:28:26.07
AND THEN, OF COURSE, IN 1 PETER
5:8, "BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT;
00:28:26.07\00:28:30.61
BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL
WALKS ABOUT LIKE A ROARING LION,
00:28:30.61\00:28:34.51
SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR.
RESIST HIM STEADFAST IN THE
00:28:34.51\00:28:38.38
FAITH," - SO WHAT
ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO?
00:28:38.38\00:28:40.68
>>RESIST HIM.
>>WHAT DID JESUS DO?
00:28:40.68\00:28:43.95
RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE LEFT.
THE BIBLE SAYS RESIST THE DEVIL
00:28:43.95\00:28:46.49
AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
AND SO, THIS IS WHAT THE LORD IS
00:28:46.49\00:28:49.59
TELLING US THAT WE CAN DO.
THROUGH FAITH - HOW DO WE RESIST
00:28:49.59\00:28:53.56
HIM? "RESIST HIM, STEADFAST IN
THE FAITH, KNOWING THAT THE SAME
00:28:53.56\00:28:57.03
SUFFERINGS ARE EXPERIENCED BY
YOUR BROTHERHOOD IN THE WORLD."
00:28:57.03\00:29:00.04
ALL CHRISTIANS
BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL.
00:29:00.04\00:29:02.80
IF YOU SAY, 'I'VE NEVER REALLY
STRUGGLED WITH TEMPTATION.
00:29:02.80\00:29:04.81
I'M GLAD TO BE A CHRISTIAN.'
YOU'RE NOT A CHRISTIAN,
00:29:04.81\00:29:06.78
PROBABLY. BECAUSE IF
YOU'RE TRYING TO LIVE
00:29:06.78\00:29:09.41
A HOLY LIFE, THE DEVIL
IS GOING TO OPPOSE YOU.
00:29:09.41\00:29:12.35
IF YOU'RE TRYING TO WITNESS UNTO
THE LORD, JESUS SAID, 'WOE UNTO
00:29:12.35\00:29:15.35
YOU WHEN ALL MEN SPEAK WELL
OF YOU.' SOMEBODY SHOWED ME A
00:29:15.35\00:29:18.65
LETTER THIS WEEK WHERE SOMEONE
SAID SOME THINGS THAT WERE NOT
00:29:18.65\00:29:20.92
VERY NICE, ABOUT ME.
AND, YOU KNOW, I GET THOSE
00:29:20.92\00:29:23.16
LETTERS AND
SOMETIMES THEY'RE TRUE.
00:29:23.16\00:29:25.59
AND I SOMETIMES THINK, 'OH, I'VE
GOT TO MAKE SOME CHANGES.' BUT
00:29:25.59\00:29:27.93
SOMETIMES THEY'RE CRITICAL
OF THE MESSAGE, AND JESUS SAID,
00:29:27.93\00:29:31.57
'WOE UNTO YOU WHEN ALL MEN SPEAK
WELL OF YOU, FOR SO THEY DID OF
00:29:31.57\00:29:35.70
THE FALSE PROPHETS.' AND SO, IF
YOU LIVE A GODLY LIFE, THE BIBLE
00:29:35.70\00:29:40.51
PROMISES 'ALL THAT
LIVE GODLY' - WILL WHAT?
00:29:40.51\00:29:44.48
- 'SUFFER PERSECUTION.' SO DON'T
BE DISCOURAGED, YOUR BRETHREN IN
00:29:44.48\00:29:48.72
THE WORLD SUFFER - ALL
OF US ARE TOGETHER IN THAT.
00:29:48.72\00:29:51.02
WE ALL SHARE THAT.
NOW THE NEXT SECTION TALKS
00:29:51.02\00:29:54.22
ABOUT WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE .
YOU EVER HEARD THAT EXPRESSION?
00:29:54.22\00:29:58.73
'WITH FRIENDS LIKE
THESE WHO NEEDS AN ENEMY?'
00:29:58.73\00:30:03.70
AND LET'S TURN AND READ QUICKLY,
AGAIN - YOU CAN READ IN JOB IN
00:30:03.70\00:30:11.47
CHAPTER 8 - IT TALKS ABOUT THE
- YOU KNOW, BILDAD, ONE OF HIS
00:30:11.47\00:30:16.21
FRIENDS, KIND OF
LIGHTING INTO HIM HERE.
00:30:16.21\00:30:20.52
"THEN BILDAD THE SHUHITE
ANSWERED AND SAID: 'HOW LONG
00:30:20.52\00:30:23.52
WILL YOU SPEAK THESE THINGS, AND
THE WORDS OF YOUR MOUTH BE LIKE
00:30:23.52\00:30:26.22
A STRONG WIND? DOES
GOD SUBVERT JUDGMENT?
00:30:26.22\00:30:29.26
OR DOES THE
ALMIGHTY PERVERT JUSTICE?
00:30:29.26\00:30:31.53
IF YOUR SONS HAVE SINNED AGAINST
HIM, HE HAS CAST THEM AWAY FOR
00:30:31.53\00:30:34.20
THEIR TRANSGRESSION.'" - 'YOUR
SONS DIED BECAUSE THEY WERE
00:30:34.20\00:30:36.13
SINFUL.' CAN YOU IMAGINE TELLING
YOUR FRIEND THAT AFTER HE'S LOST
00:30:36.13\00:30:38.40
ALL HIS CHILDREN? -
"IF YOUR SONS HAVE SINNED
00:30:38.40\00:30:42.07
AGAINST HIM, HE HAS CAST THEM
AWAY FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION.
00:30:42.07\00:30:45.24
IF YOU WOULD EARNESTLY SEEK GOD
AND MAKE YOUR SUPPLICATION TO
00:30:45.24\00:30:48.51
THE ALMIGHTY, IF YOU WERE PURE
AND UPRIGHT, SURELY NOW HE WOULD
00:30:48.51\00:30:51.48
AWAKE FOR YOU," - YOU KNOW, THEY
SAID THAT TO JESUS ON THE CROSS,
00:30:51.48\00:30:55.38
'IF GOD'S YOUR FATHER, WHY
DOESN'T HE COME DOWN AND HELP
00:30:55.38\00:30:57.05
YOU, IF YOU'RE PURE?' THE
SAME THING THAT JESUS WENT
00:30:57.05\00:31:01.59
THROUGH, JOB WENT THROUGH.
HE WOULD THEN PROSPER YOU.
00:31:01.59\00:31:05.46
AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT IN OUR
LESSON, NOT ONLY HAS IT GOT A
00:31:05.46\00:31:09.10
REFERENCE HERE TO JOB CHAPTER
8, YOU GO TO JOHN CHAPTER 8 NOW.
00:31:09.10\00:31:13.03
YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE WOMAN
CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF ADULTERY?
00:31:13.03\00:31:16.04
AND HER OWN PEOPLE SET HER UP
AND BROUGHT HER TO THE TEMPLE TO
00:31:16.04\00:31:23.18
MAKE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF HER.
THEY DIDN'T CARE WHAT HAPPENED
00:31:23.18\00:31:25.68
TO HER. THEY BRING
THIS WOMAN TO JESUS
00:31:25.68\00:31:27.95
AND SAID, 'YOU KNOW, MOSES
SAID SHE SHOULD BE STONED.' -
00:31:27.95\00:31:30.32
INSTEAD OF THE
PRIESTS SHOWING MERCY -
00:31:30.32\00:31:32.32
"BUT JESUS WENT TO THE MOUNT OF
OLIVES" - JOHN 8, VERSE 1 - NOW
00:31:32.32\00:31:36.32
VERSE 2 - "NOW EARLY IN THE
MORNING HE CAME AGAIN INTO THE
00:31:36.32\00:31:39.06
TEMPLE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE
CAME TO HIM; AND HE SAT DOWN AND
00:31:39.06\00:31:42.76
TAUGHT THEM. THEN
THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES
00:31:42.76\00:31:45.60
BROUGHT TO HIM A
WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY.
00:31:45.60\00:31:48.17
AND WHEN THEY HAD SET HER
IN THE MIDST, THEY SAID TO HIM,
00:31:48.17\00:31:51.07
'TEACHER, THIS WOMAN WAS CAUGHT
IN ADULTERY, IN THE VERY ACT.
00:31:51.07\00:31:54.64
NOW MOSES, IN THE LAW, COMMANDED
US THAT SUCH SHOULD BE STONED.'"
00:31:54.64\00:31:57.98
- OF COURSE, YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO
ASK A QUESTION: IF THEY SAY THEY
00:31:57.98\00:32:00.38
CAUGHT HER IN THE VERY ACT OF
ADULTERY, DOESN'T THAT, SORT OF,
00:32:00.38\00:32:03.32
IMPLY THERE WERE AT
LEAST TWO PEOPLE INVOLVED?
00:32:03.32\00:32:06.15
>>YEAH. >>YOU'RE IN
CALIFORNIA, IT COULD
00:32:06.15\00:32:07.69
HAVE BEEN MORE, BUT BACK
THEN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AT
00:32:07.69\00:32:09.66
LEAST TWO PEOPLE. IF SHE
WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT AND
00:32:09.66\00:32:12.69
THEY CAPTURED HER,
WHERE WERE THE OTHERS?
00:32:12.69\00:32:16.40
WHERE'S THE OTHER
PARTY? MAKES IT SOUND LIKE
00:32:16.40\00:32:20.07
THIS WAS A SET UP.
THEY WANTED TO STONE HER.
00:32:20.07\00:32:23.07
THEY HAD NO PROBLEM STONING HER
AND THEN GOING TO THE ROMANS AND
00:32:23.07\00:32:25.34
SAYING, 'JESUS PRONOUNCED
THE DEATH PENALTY AND ONLY THE
00:32:25.34\00:32:29.18
ROMANS CAN DO THAT.' AND
THEY WERE HOPING TO TRAP HIM.
00:32:29.18\00:32:33.28
THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT HER.
THEY WERE JUST GOING TO USE HER.
00:32:33.28\00:32:37.22
NOW MOSES SAID THAT
"'SUCH SHOULD BE STONED.
00:32:37.22\00:32:40.12
BUT WHAT DO YOU SAY?'
THIS THEY SAID, TESTING HIM,
00:32:40.12\00:32:42.56
THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING
OF WHICH TO ACCUSE HIM.
00:32:42.56\00:32:45.49
BUT JESUS" - HE IGNORED THEM
- AND HE "STOOPED DOWN AND WROTE
00:32:45.49\00:32:48.00
ON THE GROUND...AS THOUGH HE DID
NOT HEAR." BUT THEY PERSISTED,
00:32:48.00\00:32:53.03
ASKING HIM - "HE STOOD [RAISED
HIMSELF] UP AND SAID TO THEM,
00:32:53.03\00:32:59.94
'HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG
YOU, LET HIM THROW A STONE AT
00:32:59.94\00:33:02.38
HER FIRST.'" HE STOOPED
DOWN AND CONTINUED WRITING.
00:33:02.38\00:33:06.78
AND THEY MAY HAVE NOTICED
WHAT HE WAS WRITING, WHICH WAS
00:33:06.78\00:33:08.42
PROBABLY THE LAW OR THEIR
BREAKING OF THE LAW - THEIR
00:33:08.42\00:33:11.89
PARTICULAR SINS - AND
VERY PERSONAL THINGS, ALL OF A
00:33:11.89\00:33:16.19
SUDDEN, WERE BEING WRITTEN
AND THEY WERE OVERWHELMED WITH
00:33:16.19\00:33:18.53
GUILT. 'HE WHO IS
WITHOUT SIN, THROW
00:33:18.53\00:33:21.20
THE FIRST STONE.' WHO OF THEM
DARED THROW THE FIRST STONE?
00:33:21.20\00:33:24.47
AND ONE BY ONE THEY WENT OUT
BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST TO THE
00:33:24.47\00:33:27.10
LEAST, ASHAMED. YOU
KNOW, JUST WHILE I'M
00:33:27.10\00:33:32.21
THINKING AOBUT IT, I READ
THIS VERSE AND HERE - WHAT DOES
00:33:32.21\00:33:37.38
A WOMAN REPRESENT IN
BIBLE ANALOGIES, OFTEN?
00:33:37.38\00:33:42.52
>>A CHURCH. >>A
CHURCH. DOES IT REPRESENT
00:33:42.52\00:33:44.65
ALWAYS THAT THE CHURCH IS
GOING TO BE SPOTLESS AND PURE?
00:33:44.65\00:33:48.92
IS GOD'S CHURCH SOMETIMES - IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT HE COMPARED IT
00:33:48.92\00:33:51.26
TO A HARLOT - AND
EVEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT;
00:33:51.26\00:33:56.06
THAT'S WHY HE SAYS,
'COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE'.
00:33:56.06\00:34:00.40
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A STORY IN
EZEKIEL WHERE JUDGMENT WAS GOING
00:34:00.40\00:34:03.87
TO COME UPON THE CHURCH AND GOD
PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS OF
00:34:03.87\00:34:09.11
THOSE WHO SIGH AND CRY FOR THE
ABOMINATIONS DONE IN THE LAND.
00:34:09.11\00:34:13.18
IT SAYS, 'BEGINNING WITH THE
ANCIENT MEN.' IT BEGAN WITH THE
00:34:13.18\00:34:16.82
ELDEST, THEN TO THE
YOUNGER. WHY WITH THE ELDEST?
00:34:16.82\00:34:20.12
WELL, THEY'VE HAD
THE LONGEST OPPORTUNITY.
00:34:20.12\00:34:23.56
A SHIP IS GOING DOWN AND THEY'VE
ONLY GOT SO MUCH ROOM IN THE
00:34:23.56\00:34:25.76
LIFEBOAT - THIS MIGHT SOUND
KIND OF BRUTAL - NOBODY WANTS TO
00:34:25.76\00:34:30.87
THINK ABOUT THIS MORAL SCENARIO,
BUT THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH ROOM IN
00:34:30.87\00:34:34.94
THE LIFE BOAT; WHO
GETS THE LIFEBOATS?
00:34:34.94\00:34:37.54
YOU KNOW, THEY SAY WOMEN AND
CHILDREN FIRST, BUT YOU MIGHT
00:34:37.54\00:34:41.84
THINK THE YOUNGER ONES THAT
HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO LIVE.
00:34:41.84\00:34:47.68
YOU KNOW, NONE OF US SENIOR
CITIZENS WANT TO THINK ABOUT
00:34:47.68\00:34:50.52
THAT, RIGHT? BUT WOULDN'T
YOU WANT TO SAVE THE YOUTH?
00:34:50.52\00:34:54.32
AND SO JUDGMENT WOULD BEGIN AT
THE ELDEST, AND THE ONES WHO HAD
00:34:54.32\00:34:58.79
LIVED THE LONGEST, WHEN
JESUS WAS WRITING OUT THE SINS,
00:34:58.79\00:35:01.36
THEY'RE THE ONES WHO'VE GOT THE
LONGEST RECORD OF SIN AND IT WAS
00:35:01.36\00:35:03.47
THE QUICKEST FOR THEM TO
IDENTIFY THAT - 'OH MAN, I HAVE
00:35:03.47\00:35:06.57
NO RIGHT TO THROW A STONE
AT ANYBODY.' AND THEY WENT OUT.
00:35:06.57\00:35:11.11
TURNING ON THEIR OWN - THEY WERE
READY TO STONE HER TO MAKE A
00:35:11.11\00:35:13.68
POINT, BUT DO YOU SEE A LOT OF
EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF PEOPLE
00:35:13.68\00:35:17.11
TURNING ON THEIR OWN?
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THIS
00:35:17.11\00:35:20.68
- WHO SOLD
JOSEPH? >>HIS BROTHERS.
00:35:20.68\00:35:25.55
>>HIS BROTHERS
SOLD HIM AS A SLAVE.
00:35:25.55\00:35:27.86
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE WANTED
TO SELL YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER
00:35:27.86\00:35:30.26
BEFORE?
(LAUGHTER) COME ON, THERE
00:35:30.26\00:35:31.93
MUST HAVE BEEN A
TIME. WHO TURNED IN SAMSON?
00:35:31.93\00:35:37.50
>>DELILAH.
>>BEFORE EVEN DELILAH?
00:35:37.50\00:35:40.67
HE HAD DELILAH, BUT LISTEN
TO THIS: JUDGES 15, VERSE 11 -
00:35:40.67\00:35:44.41
JUDGES 15:11 IF YOU'RE
LOOKING ANY OF THESE UP.
00:35:44.41\00:35:47.18
"THEN THREE THOUSAND MEN OF
JUDAH" - AFTER SAMSON WENT AND
00:35:47.18\00:35:49.51
KILLED A BUNCH OF PHILISTINES,
HE WAS UP LIVING IN THE ROCK
00:35:49.51\00:35:53.01
ETAM AND "THREE THOUSAND MEN OF
JUDAH WENT DOWN TO THE CLEFT OF
00:35:53.01\00:35:57.59
THE ROCK OF ETAM, AND SAID
TO SAMSON, 'DO YOU NOT KNOW
00:35:57.59\00:36:02.89
THAT THE
PHILISTINES RULE OVER US?
00:36:02.89\00:36:04.89
WHAT IS THIS YOU
HAVE DONE TO US?'
00:36:04.89\00:36:07.03
HE SAID TO THEM, 'AS THEY DID TO
ME, SO I HAVE DONE TO THEM.' BUT
00:36:07.03\00:36:11.13
THEY SAID TO HIM, 'WE HAVE COME
DOWN TO ARREST YOU THAT WE MAY
00:36:11.13\00:36:13.60
DELIVER YOU INTO THE
HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES.'"
00:36:13.60\00:36:17.04
ISN'T THAT WHAT GOD'S
PEOPLE DID WITH JESUS?
00:36:17.04\00:36:20.84
HIS OWN PEOPLE - "THEN SAMSON
SAID TO THEM, 'SWEAR TO ME THAT
00:36:20.84\00:36:25.78
YOU WILL NOT KILL ME
YOURSELVES.' SO THEY SPOKE TO
00:36:25.78\00:36:27.78
HIM, SAYING, 'NO, BUT WE WILL
TIE YOU SECURELY AND DELIVER
00:36:27.78\00:36:29.38
YOU INTO THEIR HAND; BUT WE WILL
SURELY NOT KILL YOU.' AND THEY
00:36:29.38\00:36:33.52
BOUND HIM WITH TWO NEW ROPES AND
BROUGHT HIM UP FROM THE ROCK."
00:36:33.52\00:36:36.32
AND YOU KNOW THE STORY; HE ENDED
UP BREAKING THE ROPES AND HE
00:36:36.32\00:36:38.06
SMOTE THEM HIP AND THIGH
AND - BUT TURNED OVER BY HIS OWN
00:36:38.06\00:36:41.86
PEOPLE, THEN LATER BY
DELILAH. WHAT ABOUT DAVID?
00:36:41.86\00:36:47.00
WAS DAVID
BETRAYED BY HIS OWN SON?
00:36:47.00\00:36:50.84
THERE'S AN INTERESTING STORY
ABOUT DAVID - YOU LOOK IN 1
00:36:50.84\00:36:53.24
SAMUEL 23, VERSE 2, "THEREFORE
DAVID INQUIRED OF THE LORD,
00:36:53.24\00:37:00.12
SAYING, 'SHALL I GO AND
ATTACK THESE PHILISTINES?'"
00:37:00.12\00:37:03.79
- NOW THIS IS WHEN DAVID IS
LIVING OUT IN THE - HE'S LIVING
00:37:03.79\00:37:07.82
OUT IN THE WILDERNESS, HIDING
FROM KING SAUL AND SOME PEOPLE
00:37:07.82\00:37:11.19
IN A VILLAGE CALLED 'KEILAH
WERE BEING ATTACKED BY THE
00:37:11.19\00:37:14.20
PHILISTINES - THEY WERE ON THE
BORDER AND THEIR TOWN WAS ALWAYS
00:37:14.20\00:37:18.50
VULNERABLE. DAVID
THOUGHT, 'THEY'RE OUR PEOPLE.
00:37:18.50\00:37:20.90
I SHOULD SAVE THEM.' DAVID AND
HIS THREE - I DON'T KNOW IF HE
00:37:20.90\00:37:24.01
HAD 400 OR 600 MEN - HIS ARMY
WAS GROWING - HE SAID, 'SHOULD I
00:37:24.01\00:37:28.54
ATTACK THEM AND SAVE KEILAH?'
AND DAVID'S MEN SAID, 'WELL, HOW
00:37:28.54\00:37:34.22
CAN WE SAVE KEILAH,
WE'RE AFRAID HERE IN JUDAH.
00:37:34.22\00:37:36.28
WE'RE RUNNING FROM KING
SAUL. HOW MUCH MORE IF WE GO TO
00:37:36.28\00:37:38.12
KEILAH AGAINST THE
ARMY OF THE PHILISTINES?
00:37:38.12\00:37:39.99
WE'RE JUST A SMALL LITTLE ARMY.'
"THEN DAVID INQUIRED OF THE
00:37:39.99\00:37:42.96
LORD" - GOOD THING TO
DO WHEN YOU'RE NOT SURE -
00:37:42.96\00:37:45.26
"THEN DAVID INQUIRED
OF THE LORD ONCE AGAIN.
00:37:45.26\00:37:47.03
AND THE LORD ANSWERED HIM AND
SAID, 'ARISE, GO DOWN TO KEILAH.
00:37:47.03\00:37:52.07
FOR I WILL DELIVER THE
PHILISTINES INTO YOUR HAND.' AND
00:37:52.07\00:37:56.14
DAVID AND HIS MEN WENT TO KEILAH
AND FOUGHT WITH THE PHILISTINES,
00:37:56.14\00:37:58.94
STRUCK THEM WITH A MIGHTY BLOW,
AND TOOK AWAY THEIR LIVESTOCK.
00:37:58.94\00:38:02.34
SO DAVID SAVED" - NOTICE -
"DAVID SAVED THE INHABITANTS OF
00:38:02.34\00:38:06.55
KEILAH." AND THEY CARRIED
THEM UP THE STREETS ON THEIR
00:38:06.55\00:38:09.38
SHOULDERS AND THEY WERE JUST
SO THANKFUL FOR DAVID, THEIR
00:38:09.38\00:38:12.29
SAVIOR. BUT NOTICE WHAT HAPPENED
- SOMEONE'S GOING TO GET READY
00:38:12.29\00:38:16.56
TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT,
LUKE 23 - JUST - OKAY - LISTEN
00:38:16.56\00:38:20.56
TO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. I'M
IN 1 SAMUEL 23:11 - NOW KING
00:38:20.56\00:38:25.40
SAUL COMES
LOOKING FOR DAVID AGAIN.
00:38:25.40\00:38:27.74
HE'S IN THE TOWN OF KEILAH
BECAUSE THEY HAD A PARADE FOR
00:38:27.74\00:38:29.90
DAVID BECAUSE DAVID SAVED
THEM, AND HE SAYS TO THE LORD,
00:38:29.90\00:38:33.41
"WILL THE MEN OF KEILAH
DELIVER ME INTO HIS HAND?
00:38:33.41\00:38:36.21
WILL SAUL COME DOWN,
AS YOUR SERVANT HAS HEARD?
00:38:36.21\00:38:39.05
O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, I PRAY,
TELL YOUR SERVANT.' AND THE LORD
00:38:39.05\00:38:41.85
SAID, 'HE WILL COME DOWN.'" -
KING SAUL WAS HUNTING FOR DAVID
00:38:41.85\00:38:45.85
- "THEN DAVID SAID, 'WILL THE
MEN OF KEILAH DELIVER ME AND MY
00:38:45.85\00:38:49.32
MEN INTO THE HAND OF SAUL?'
AND THE LORD SAID, 'THEY WILL
00:38:49.32\00:38:52.53
DELIVER YOU.'" HE SAID, 'YOU
BETTER GET OUT OF THAT TOWN.
00:38:52.53\00:38:55.96
THOSE PEOPLE WHO JUST CARRIED
YOU ON THEIR SHOULDERS AND
00:38:55.96\00:38:58.43
THANKED YOU FOR SAVING THEM ARE
GOING TO HAND YOU OVER IN A SNAP
00:38:58.43\00:39:01.94
TO KING SAUL. WITH
FRIENDS LIKE THAT -
00:39:01.94\00:39:07.31
SOMETIMES THERE'S
NOT A LOT OF LOYALTY.
00:39:07.31\00:39:09.78
LOYALTY'S A VERY
VALUABLE COMMODITY.
00:39:09.78\00:39:14.05
WHEN YOU HAVE FRIENDS YOU KNOW
YOU CAN TRUST - THEY SAY ONE OF
00:39:14.05\00:39:17.62
THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS
IN A SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZATION -
00:39:17.62\00:39:21.16
WHETHER IT'S A CHURCH
OR A COMPANY? IT'S TRUST.
00:39:21.16\00:39:24.86
PEOPLE CAN WORK WELL AND BE
PRODUCTIVE IF THEY'RE WORKING
00:39:24.86\00:39:27.60
WITH PEOPLE THEY CAN
TRUST. IT'S TRUE IN A CHURCH.
00:39:27.60\00:39:32.47
YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT
EVERYBODY HAS YOUR BACK.
00:39:32.47\00:39:35.60
IT'S - HOW DOES IT FEEL WHEN YOU
HAVE - YOU DISCOVER FRIENDS ARE
00:39:35.60\00:39:39.17
GOSSIPING ABOUT YOU?
THEY'RE FRIENDS WHEN THEY'RE IN
00:39:39.17\00:39:41.11
YOUR FACE, BUT THEN YOU
FIND OUT, AS SOON AS THEY'RE NOT
00:39:41.11\00:39:44.18
AROUND, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT
YOU. BY THE WAY, LET ME GIVE YOU
00:39:44.18\00:39:46.65
A CLUE: IF YOU'VE GOT FRIENDS
THAT ARE ALWAYS TALKING TO YOU
00:39:46.65\00:39:50.05
ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE, JUST BE
PRETTY SURE THAT WHEN YOU'RE NOT
00:39:50.05\00:39:53.39
AROUND, THEY'RE
TALKING ABOUT YOU.
00:39:53.39\00:39:55.92
IF YOU'VE GOT FRIENDS THAT
ARE TELLING YOU OTHER PEOPLE'S
00:39:55.92\00:39:57.83
SECRETS, DON'T TELL THEM ANY
SECRETS, BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE NOT
00:39:57.83\00:40:01.76
AROUND, THEY'RE GOING TO BE
TELLING YOUR SECRETS TO SOMEONE
00:40:01.76\00:40:04.53
ELSE. ALRIGHT, READ FOR
00:40:04.53\00:40:06.20
US, PLEASE, LUKE 23.
>>LUKE 23:20-21 - "PILATE,
00:40:06.20\00:40:14.84
THEREFORE, WISHING TO RELEASE
JESUS, AGAIN CALLED OUT TO THEM.
00:40:14.84\00:40:19.65
BUT THEY SHOUTED, SAYING,
'CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM!'"
00:40:19.65\00:40:22.82
>>NOW, YOU KNOW, YOU READ
IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES AND
00:40:22.82\00:40:25.65
OTHER PLACES, IN THE CROWD
THAT WAS CALLING FOR JESUS TO BE
00:40:25.65\00:40:28.29
CRUCIFIED, WERE THEY
ALL LONG-TIME ENEMIES?
00:40:28.29\00:40:31.69
OR COULD IT BE IN THAT CROWD
THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE THAT
00:40:31.69\00:40:33.70
JESUS FED WITH MIRACULOUS BREAD?
00:40:33.70\00:40:37.03
COULD IT BE IN THAT CROWD -
BECAUSE THE JEWS CAME FROM ALL
00:40:37.03\00:40:40.24
OVER FOR THE PASSOVER FEAST,
SO THERE WERE - THEY'RE FROM
00:40:40.24\00:40:43.14
GALILEE - THAT'S HOW JESUS
CAME DOWN - THEY CAME DOWN FROM
00:40:43.14\00:40:45.71
GALILEE WHERE HE DID HIS
MIRACLES - THEY CAME FROM
00:40:45.71\00:40:47.71
NAZARETH, AND THERE MAY HAVE
BEEN PEOPLE IN THAT CROWD THAT
00:40:47.71\00:40:50.31
HE HAD HEALED. YOU
THINK, 'I'LL BE LOYAL FOREVER.
00:40:50.31\00:40:54.35
THIS GUY HEALED ME.'
PEOPLE HE FORGAVE AND DID
00:40:54.35\00:40:58.92
MIRACLES FOR - AND WHEN
THE POPULAR OPINION TURNED,
00:40:58.92\00:41:03.69
THEY SAID,
'CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM!'
00:41:03.69\00:41:06.83
SO JOB'S FRIENDS, WHO
ORIGINALLY CAME TO COMFORT HIM -
00:41:06.83\00:41:11.23
AND JOB MAY HAVE
HELPED HIS FRIENDS BEFORE.
00:41:11.23\00:41:14.40
HE MAY HAVE SET THEM UP IN
THEIR BUSINESS AND MADE THEM
00:41:14.40\00:41:16.10
SUCCESSFUL. THEY -
HE PROBABLY DID THEM
00:41:16.10\00:41:17.87
FAVORS AS FRIENDS, BUT
THEN THEY TURNED ON HIM.
00:41:17.87\00:41:22.41
ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: MORE THAN
THORNS AND THISTLES - AND IN
00:41:22.41\00:41:27.28
YOUR LESSON THERE'S ACTUALLY
A QUOTE FROM THE HISTORIAN
00:41:27.28\00:41:30.95
HERODOTUS AND HE TALKS ABOUT
A CULTURE OF PEOPLE, THAT WHEN A
00:41:30.95\00:41:34.26
BABY WAS BORN, THEY'D GATHER
TOGETHER AND THEY'D MOURN FOR
00:41:34.26\00:41:37.59
THE BIRTH OF A BABY BECAUSE THEY
KNEW THE INEVITABLE SORROW AND
00:41:37.59\00:41:41.70
SUFFERING THE CHILD WOULD
ULTIMATELY FACE AND SO THEY
00:41:41.70\00:41:45.73
THOUGHT, 'NOW WE'RE GOING
TO MOURN HIS BIRTH.' IT'S VERY
00:41:45.73\00:41:48.60
DIFFERENT FROM THE JEWISH
MENTALITY, BUT YOU CAN SORT OF
00:41:48.60\00:41:50.07
UNDERSTAND IT. BABIES
ARE BORN AND THEY'RE SO
00:41:50.07\00:41:52.67
INNOCENT AND THEY'RE SO PURE
AND YET YOU LOOK AT THEM AND YOU
00:41:52.67\00:41:55.81
KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO FACE
SOME TRIALS IN THEIR LIVES.
00:41:55.81\00:41:59.48
AND YOU WONDER IF MARY
UNDERSTOOD, WHEN JESUS WAS BORN
00:41:59.48\00:42:04.62
- YOU KNOW, THE JOY - THE ANGELS
TALKED ABOUT JOY, AND YET SIMON
00:42:04.62\00:42:08.76
SAID 'A SWORD WILL PIERCE YOUR
OWN SOUL' AND SIMON SAID, 'THIS
00:42:08.76\00:42:13.93
CHILD IS FOR THE RISING
AND FALLING OF MANY IN ISRAEL.
00:42:13.93\00:42:17.83
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THERE
WAS A CROSS IN HIS FUTURE.
00:42:17.83\00:42:23.07
BUT WHAT
HAPPENED IN GENESIS 3:16?
00:42:23.07\00:42:28.14
LET'S LOOK AT THAT TOGETHER -
AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
00:42:28.14\00:42:29.81
ME, IN A MOMENT,
JOB 2, VERSE 8, OKAY?
00:42:29.81\00:42:34.28
I'LL GET YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.
LET'S READ GENESIS 3:16, AFTER
00:42:34.28\00:42:37.22
MAN AND WOMAN SINNED IT SAYS,
"TO THE WOMAN HE SAID, 'I WILL
00:42:37.22\00:42:42.42
SURELY MULTIPLY YOUR PAIN
IN CHILDBEARING; IN PAIN YOU
00:42:42.42\00:42:46.63
WILL CONCEIVE AND BRING FORTH
CHILDREN.'" - SOME HAVE WONDERED
00:42:46.63\00:42:50.63
IF THAT WAS A REFERENCE TO MAYBE
EVEN MORNING SICKNESS BECAUSE
00:42:50.63\00:42:55.74
IT'S TALKING ABOUT PAIN IN
CONCEPTION, NOT JUST THE BIRTH.
00:42:55.74\00:42:59.54
THE FIRST PART'S TALKING ABOUT
THE PAIN IN THE DELIVERY AND
00:42:59.54\00:43:02.31
THEN IT'S ALSO TALKING ABOUT
PAIN IN CONCEPTION AND IT GOES
00:43:02.31\00:43:06.78
ON AND IT SAYS HERE, 'YOU'LL
BRING FORTH YOUR CHILDREN.
00:43:06.78\00:43:10.22
NOW WHAT DOES A
WOMAN SOMETIMES REPRESENT?
00:43:10.22\00:43:12.32
>>CHURCH. >>DOES
IT SOMETIMES REQUIRE
00:43:12.32\00:43:16.19
LABOR FOR A CHURCH TO
BRING FORTH NEW SOULS?
00:43:16.19\00:43:22.26
DID THE CHURCH OFTEN GROW
DURING TIMES OF PERSECUTION?
00:43:22.26\00:43:25.53
>>YES. >>IT WAS
DURING THESE TIMES OF
00:43:25.53\00:43:27.84
TRAVAIL THAT
THE CHURCH WAS BORN.
00:43:27.84\00:43:32.07
THE NATION OF ISRAEL, WAS
IT BORN EASILY OR WAS IT BORN
00:43:32.07\00:43:36.58
THROUGH PLAGUES? BUT
THERE WAS - THE BIRTH OF
00:43:36.58\00:43:41.02
A NATION CAME
OUT OF THOSE PLAGUES.
00:43:41.02\00:43:43.35
AND SO, SOMETIMES, YOU
KNOW, THERE'S NEW LIFE THROUGH
00:43:43.35\00:43:46.62
STRUGGLES. WHEN A
PERSON IS CONVERTED,
00:43:46.62\00:43:49.52
IS THERE SOMETIMES A
BATTLE - A FIGHT THAT GOES ON TO
00:43:49.52\00:43:52.89
SURRENDER YOUR LIFE?
YEAH, AND PEOPLE, YOU KNOW,
00:43:52.89\00:43:56.20
SOMETIMES PASTORS MAKE IT
SAY - 'JUST SAY THIS PRAYER AND
00:43:56.20\00:43:59.03
EVERYTHING'S GOING TO
BE OKAY.' WELL, IT IS TRUE.
00:43:59.03\00:44:01.60
YOU CAN COME TO JESUS JUST WITH
A SIMPLE PRAYER, BUT YOU'RE NOT
00:44:01.60\00:44:04.17
BEING TOTALLY HONEST WITH PEOPLE
IF YOU DON'T TELL THEM 'THE
00:44:04.17\00:44:06.68
DEVIL IS GOING TO TRY TO SINK
HIS CLAWS IN YOU AND KEEP YOU
00:44:06.68\00:44:09.24
FROM COMING TO CHRIST' - JUST
LIKE THE PHARAOH TRIED TO KEEP
00:44:09.24\00:44:12.18
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM
COMING OUT. SO, WITH THE FALL OF
00:44:12.18\00:44:15.72
ADAM, THERE WERE TRIALS. A
CURSE CAME ON THE CREATION.
00:44:15.72\00:44:20.09
AND TO ADAM HE SAID, 'BECAUSE
YOU HAVE LISTENED TO THE VOICE
00:44:20.09\00:44:22.72
OF YOUR WIFE AND HAVE EATEN OF
THE TREE THAT I COMMANDED YOU,
00:44:22.72\00:44:25.56
'YOU SHOULD NOT EAT,' CURSED
IS THE GROUND FOR YOUR SAKE.
00:44:25.56\00:44:29.13
IN PAIN YOU WILL EAT OF IT ALL
THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE; THORNS
00:44:29.13\00:44:32.40
AND THISTLES IT
WILL BRING FORTH." -
00:44:32.40\00:44:34.97
NOW, IS SOUL WINNING SOMETIMES
COMPARED TO FARMING IN THE
00:44:34.97\00:44:38.74
BIBLE? IS
FARMING HARD WORK? >>YES.
00:44:38.74\00:44:43.41
>>IS THERE TRAVAIL
AND PAIN IN FARMING?
00:44:43.41\00:44:46.38
BUT IT'S REALLY GOOD
TO GET THE FRUIT, RIGHT?
00:44:46.38\00:44:48.55
>>RIGHT. >>DO YOU
HAVE TO HAVE PATIENCE
00:44:48.55\00:44:50.25
IF YOU WANT TO BE A FARMER?
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE PATIENCE TO
00:44:50.25\00:44:53.12
HAVE A BABY - NINE MONTHS
- AND THOSE LAST FEW WEEKS
00:44:53.12\00:44:58.39
SEEM TO TAKE FOREVER.
SO THERE'S THOSE TRIALS.
00:44:58.39\00:45:03.06
AND THEN HE GOES ON AND IT SAYS
HERE, 'THORNS AND THISTLES IT'LL
00:45:03.06\00:45:06.47
BRING FORTH TO YOU' - ARE THERE
GOING TO BE THORNS IN HEAVEN?
00:45:06.47\00:45:12.11
DO YOU THINK, RIGHT WHEN SIN
HAPPENED, ALL OF A SUDDEN THORNS
00:45:12.11\00:45:15.81
SPRANG OUT OF ALL THE
PLANTS? I THINK IT WAS A
00:45:15.81\00:45:19.21
LITTLE DIFFERENT.
DID GOD HAVE MOSQUITOS
00:45:19.21\00:45:20.88
IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? >>NO.
00:45:20.88\00:45:25.39
>>WE'RE NOT GOING TO
GET BIT BY THEM IN HEAVEN.
00:45:25.39\00:45:28.02
YOU MIGHT THINK - NOW I CAN'T
PROVE THIS, BUT JUST A KOOKY
00:45:28.02\00:45:30.19
THOUGHT THAT I'VE GOT IS
THAT CACTUS ARE BEAUTIFUL.
00:45:30.19\00:45:34.63
THEY JUST HURT WHEN YOU TOUCH
THEM BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT THORNS.
00:45:34.63\00:45:37.43
THEY HAVE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS.
THEY'RE VERY INTERESTING -
00:45:37.43\00:45:40.47
I THINK IN HEAVEN - DO YOU
KNOW WHAT MAKES A THORN HURT?
00:45:40.47\00:45:43.30
THE END IS HARD AND DEAD. DO
YOU REALIZE THAT WHEN A THORN
00:45:43.30\00:45:46.98
IS ALIVE - YOU EVER TOUCH
A ROSE THORN WHEN IT'S STILL
00:45:46.98\00:45:48.78
YOUNG AND GREEN? IT WON'T
HURT YOU. IT'S LIKE A HAIR.
00:45:48.78\00:45:51.88
IT'S WHEN THEY
DIE AND THEY GET HARD.
00:45:51.88\00:45:54.25
SO, IN HEAVEN, SOME OF THESE
PLANTS MAY HAVE FUZZ ON THEM,
00:45:54.25\00:45:57.75
BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO HURT.
NOW, I CAN'T PROVE THAT AND IT
00:45:57.75\00:46:00.69
DOESN'T REALLY MATTER,
DOES IT? IT'S JUST MY THEORY.
00:46:00.69\00:46:05.13
AND THE MOSQUITOS
WILL EAT FRUIT IN HEAVEN.
00:46:05.13\00:46:07.73
(LAUGHTER) THEY WON'T MAKE THAT
ANNOYING 'NEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' THAT
00:46:07.73\00:46:13.07
GOES AROUND YOUR HEAD.
ALRIGHT, READ FOR US JOB 2,
00:46:13.07\00:46:16.50
VERSE 8. >>"AND
HE TOOK FOR HIMSELF A
00:46:16.50\00:46:19.94
POTSHERD WITH WHICH TO
SCRAPE HIMSELF WHILE HE SAT IN
00:46:19.94\00:46:25.68
THE MIDST OF THE ASHES.
>>YOU KNOW, IT WAS TYPICAL, IN
00:46:25.68\00:46:30.69
BIBLE TIMES, FOR A PERSON,
WHEN THEY WERE IN A STATE OF
00:46:30.69\00:46:32.72
MOURNING, SOMETIMES
THEY PUT DUST ON THEIR HEADS.
00:46:32.72\00:46:35.79
THEY'D THROW DUST IN THE AIR AND
THEY'D GO SIT IN THE DUST OF THE
00:46:35.79\00:46:40.16
- YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAD CAMPFIRES
AND THEY'D TAKE THE DUST OUTSIDE
00:46:40.16\00:46:42.33
THE CAMP AND THEY'D
DUMP IT IN A BIG ASH PILE.
00:46:42.33\00:46:44.40
WE'VE GOT ONE OF THOSE
BEHIND OUR HOUSE UP IN THE HILLS
00:46:44.40\00:46:46.53
BECAUSE WE GOT THE STOVE ASHES
AND YOU TAKE IT OFF A LITTLE
00:46:46.53\00:46:49.40
WAYS FROM THE
HOUSE - YOU JUST DUMP IT.
00:46:49.40\00:46:51.37
AND THEY WOULD GO OUT AND SIT
IN THE ASH PILE AND THEY'D THINK
00:46:51.37\00:46:54.18
ABOUT THIS - DUST/ASHES - DUST
AND ASHES - THE WORD IS OFTEN
00:46:54.18\00:46:57.31
SYNONYMOUS IN THE BIBLE, "DUST
AND ASHES YOU ARE; UNTO DUST YOU
00:46:57.31\00:47:00.72
ARE GOING TO RETURN." AND
SO, JOB, WHEN HE SAT ON THE
00:47:00.72\00:47:04.05
PILE OF ASHES, HE'S SAYING,
'LOOK, I AM DUST AND ASHES.'
00:47:04.05\00:47:07.12
IT'S A SIGN OF HUMBLING
YOURSELF BEFORE THE LORD.
00:47:07.12\00:47:10.53
YOU CAN READ IN JOB 42,
VERSE 6 - SAME PRINCIPLE.
00:47:10.53\00:47:14.63
IN JOB 42, VERSE 6 IT SAYS,
'THEREFORE, I ABHOR MYSELF AND
00:47:14.63\00:47:18.10
REPENT IN DUST AND ASHES.
AND SO, ALL THE WAY FROM THE
00:47:18.10\00:47:22.14
BEGINNING TO THE END OF THE
BOOK, JOB IS HUMBLING HIMSELF
00:47:22.14\00:47:25.44
AND SO GOD BLESSES HIM.
LAST SECTION - NOW I'VE ALREADY
00:47:25.44\00:47:28.24
TALKED ABOUT THIS A
LITTLE BIT. IT'S A SECTION
00:47:28.24\00:47:30.38
ABOUT JESUS AND JOB. WE
STUDIED IN A PREVIOUS WEEK,
00:47:30.38\00:47:33.58
JESUS OUR REDEEMER , AND I WENT
THROUGH, NOT ALL, BUT A NUMBER
00:47:33.58\00:47:37.02
OF PARALLELS THAT YOU FIND IN
THE BIBLE BETWEEN JESUS AND JOB.
00:47:37.02\00:47:42.36
AND, FOR ONE THING, AND I MIGHT
EVEN CALL OUT AND LET YOU FILL
00:47:42.36\00:47:46.46
IN SOME OF THE GAPS FOR ME.
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JOB WAS A
00:47:46.46\00:47:50.60
PERFECT AND AN UPRIGHT MAN; ONE
WHO LOVED GOD AND HATED EVIL.
00:47:50.60\00:47:55.27
JESUS - THE BIBLE TELLS US
THAT HE WAS PERFECT; HE WAS AN
00:47:55.27\00:48:00.38
INNOCENT MAN THAT HAD BEEN
FALSELY ACCUSED - JAMES 5:6,
00:48:00.38\00:48:05.05
"YOU HAVE CONDEMNED AND
MURDERED THE RIGHTEOUS PERSON.
00:48:05.05\00:48:08.38
HE DOES NOT RESIST YOU."
IN LUKE 11, SOMEONE SAID THAT
00:48:08.38\00:48:13.49
JESUS WAS - HE WAS
TURNED ON BY HIS FRIENDS.
00:48:13.49\00:48:16.42
THEY MISUNDERSTOOD HIS MISSION.
THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE CASTING OUT
00:48:16.42\00:48:19.53
DEVILS BY THE PRINCE OF DEVILS.'
INSTEAD OF BEING THE SON OF GOD,
00:48:19.53\00:48:23.06
THEY SAID THAT HE WAS
A PARTNER OF THE DEVIL.
00:48:23.06\00:48:26.77
AND YOU JUST LOOK AT A LOT OF
THE EXPERIENCES OF JOB AND YOU
00:48:26.77\00:48:30.41
FIND THAT HE IS
ECHOING THE TYPES OF CHRIST.
00:48:30.41\00:48:34.54
AND THE FAITH OF JOB IN THE
MIDDLE OF HIS TRIALS - WHAT JOB
00:48:34.54\00:48:38.45
WENT THROUGH IS LIKE CHRIST ON
THE CROSS - IT'S LIKE, ALSO, THE
00:48:38.45\00:48:41.78
GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE - 'THOUGH
HE SLAY ME' - 'FATHER INTO YOUR
00:48:41.78\00:48:44.22
HANDS I WILL COMMEND MY SPIRIT'
HE SAYS ON THE CROSS AND THEN HE
00:48:44.22\00:48:49.09
SAYS, 'NOT MY WILL, THY WILL
BE DONE.' CAN YOU THINK OF ANY
00:48:49.09\00:48:52.73
OTHER WAYS THAT JOB AND JESUS
THERE ARE SOME PARALLELS OR SOME
00:48:52.73\00:48:57.30
SIMILARITIES? HUH?
>>THEY SUFFERED A LOT.
00:48:57.30\00:49:03.17
>>A LOT OF SUFFERING,
ESPECIALLY DURING - THERE WAS A
00:49:03.17\00:49:06.21
CONCENTRATED TIME OF SUFFERING
IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST - FROM
00:49:06.21\00:49:10.61
THURSDAY NIGHT - THAT'S THE
THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS -
00:49:10.61\00:49:13.11
FROM THURSDAY NIGHT TO SUNDAY
MORNING - THE DEATH AND THE
00:49:13.11\00:49:15.38
SUFFERING. JOB FACED THE
SECOND DEATH, YOU MIGHT SAY.
00:49:15.38\00:49:18.65
IT SEEMED LIKE HE WAS
TOTALLY SEPARATED FROM GOD.
00:49:18.65\00:49:22.36
DID JESUS ASK 'WHY?' ON THE
CROSS? 'MY FATHER, MY FATHER,
00:49:22.36\00:49:27.03
WHY?' - NOW, OF COURSE,
CHRIST HADN'T LOST FAITH.
00:49:27.03\00:49:29.96
HE WAS UTTERING PSALM 22,
BUT HE DID THAT AS A SYMBOL.
00:49:29.96\00:49:32.80
JOB WAS WONDERING, 'WHY
HAS THIS HAPPENED TO ME?'
00:49:32.80\00:49:36.40
DID HIS OWN FRIENDS
SORT OF TURN ON HIM?
00:49:36.40\00:49:40.24
WAS JESUS BETRAYED BY ONE OF
HIS FRIENDS? WAS JOB STRIPPED?
00:49:40.24\00:49:45.71
WAS JESUS STRIPPED? >>YES.
00:49:45.71\00:49:49.18
>>WHEN HE WENT TO THE CROSS -
IT SAYS, 'JOB TORE HIS CLOTHES.'
00:49:49.18\00:49:53.19
THE PHYSICAL SUFFERING OF JOB,
THE PHYSICAL SUFFERING OF JESUS.
00:49:53.19\00:49:58.16
ONE OF THE RICHEST MEN - SEEMED
TO OWN EVERYTHING - JESUS HAD
00:49:58.16\00:50:02.73
EVERYTHING
BEFORE HIS SUFFERINGS.
00:50:02.73\00:50:04.50
HE LEFT HEAVEN - JOB LEFT THE
CITY AND WENT OUT TO THE DUMP.
00:50:04.50\00:50:08.30
JESUS LEFT GLORY AND HE
WENT TO THIS WORLD, WHICH IS, BY
00:50:08.30\00:50:11.54
COMPARISON, A DUMP.
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:50:11.54\00:50:14.04
ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB.
FINALLY TALKS ABOUT JOB - ONE OF
00:50:14.04\00:50:17.61
THE LAST CHAPTERS IT TALKS ABOUT
THIS BATTLE WITH LEVIATHAN AND
00:50:17.61\00:50:20.65
CHRIST BATTLES WITH THE DEVIL.
SO YOU SEE ALL THROUGH THE BOOK
00:50:20.65\00:50:24.65
OF JOB THERE'S THESE PARALLELS.
JOB IS REALLY TEACHING
00:50:24.65\00:50:27.49
US ABOUT JESUS. ANY
OTHER THOUGHTS THAT YOU HAD
00:50:27.49\00:50:30.13
ABOUT PARALLELS THAT YOU
SEE BETWEEN JOB AND JESUS.
00:50:30.13\00:50:34.46
NOT USED TO HAVING ME PUT YOU
ON THE SPOT LIKE THIS, ARE YOU?
00:50:34.46\00:50:37.30
YOU GOT ONE?
>>AFTER THE TRIAL HE
00:50:37.30\00:50:41.54
BECAME RICH AGAIN.
>>YEAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:50:41.54\00:50:44.67
(INAUDIBLE) YEAH, AFTER JOB
SUCCESSFULLY WENT THROUGH HIS
00:50:44.67\00:50:49.68
TRIALS, THEN HE WAS RESTORED
WITH EVEN GREATER BLESSINGS.
00:50:49.68\00:50:54.55
JESUS HAS HAD EVEN GREATER GLORY
IN THAT HE'S SHOWN HIS FIDELITY
00:50:54.55\00:50:59.09
BEFORE THE FATHER AND ALL THINGS
ARE GOING TO - ARE PUT UNDER
00:50:59.09\00:51:02.06
CHRIST. CHRIST
ASCENDED TO THE HEAVENS -
00:51:02.06\00:51:04.83
TO THE TEMPLES ABOVE AND - YEAH,
SO THE GREATER GLORY AT THE END
00:51:04.83\00:51:08.03
YOU FIND IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST
- YOU FIND IN THE STORY OF JOB.
00:51:08.03\00:51:10.80
MANY, MANY PARALLELS
FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK.
00:51:10.80\00:51:13.10
WELL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU,
FRIENDS, BUT I'VE REALLY ENJOYED
00:51:13.10\00:51:14.77
THIS LAST 14 WEEKS STUDYING THE
BOOK OF JOB BECAUSE IT GIVES US
00:51:14.77\00:51:19.31
A BETTER PICTURE OF JESUS, AMEN?
I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO ARE
00:51:19.31\00:51:22.41
WATCHING, WE DO
HAVE A FREE GIFT.
00:51:22.41\00:51:24.45
IT'S CALLED THE
HIGH COST OF THE CROSS .
00:51:24.45\00:51:26.98
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BY JOE CREWS - IT IS FREE.
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00:51:36.52\00:51:42.10
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SOME PEOPLE RE-BROADCAST SABBATH
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00:51:47.84\00:51:50.74
WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING
HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT
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00:52:16.00\00:52:19.50
WE'LL STUDY HIS WORD
TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:52:19.50\00:52:23.00
(MUSIC) >>FRIENDS, HAVE YOU EVER
00:52:23.00\00:52:33.62
HEARD OF THE BOWHEAD WHALE?
THIS ENORMOUS LEVIATHAN IS THE
00:52:33.62\00:52:37.72
SECOND-LARGEST CREATURE IN THE
WORLD. DARK AND STOCKY, IT ROAMS
00:52:37.72\00:52:41.76
THE FERTILE ARCTIC NORTHERN
WATERS. THESE MASSIVE CREATURES
00:52:41.76\00:52:46.13
CAN BE MORE THAN 65-FEET LONG
AND WEIGH MORE THAN 75 TONS.
00:52:46.13\00:52:50.60
THAT'S HEAVIER
THAN THE SPACE SHUTTLE.
00:52:50.60\00:52:53.44
YET, IN SPITE OF THEIR TITANIC
SIZE, THEY'RE ABLE TO LEAP
00:52:53.44\00:52:56.54
ENTIRELY OUT OF THE
WATER. CAN YOU SAY 'BELLY FLOP'?
00:52:56.54\00:53:02.14
THE BOWHEAD WHALE GETS ITS NAME
FROM ITS BOW-SHAPED SKULL - AND
00:53:02.14\00:53:05.88
THEY'VE GOT ONE
GINORMOUS NOGGIN.
00:53:05.88\00:53:08.45
MATTER OF FACT, THEIR HEADS ARE
ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THEIR BODY
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SIZE, WHICH COMES IN HANDY WHEN
YOU FIND OUT HOW THEY USE THEIR
00:53:10.79\00:53:13.92
HEADS. THEY'VE
GOT VERY THICK SKULLS.
00:53:13.92\00:53:16.69
SOMETIMES THEY GET TRAPPED UNDER
THE SURFACE AND THEY USE THEIR
00:53:16.69\00:53:20.10
HEADS TO RAM THE ICE.
THEY CAN BREAK A BREATHING HOLE
00:53:20.10\00:53:23.30
IN THE ICE THAT IS A
FOOT AND A HALF THICK.
00:53:23.30\00:53:26.84
FRIENDS, YOU HAVE TO JUST
IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO
00:53:26.84\00:53:29.24
BE WALKING AROUND ON THE ARCTIC
ICE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HAVE THE
00:53:29.24\00:53:32.41
GROUND BENEATH YOU CRACK AND
SPLIT AND RISE AS ONE OF THESE
00:53:32.41\00:53:36.85
SEA MONSTERS PUSHES ITS HEAD UP
TO BREATH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
00:53:36.85\00:53:40.45
90 MINUTES.
BECAUSE BOWHEADS MAKE THEIR
00:53:40.45\00:53:43.59
HOME IN THE COLDEST PART OF OUR
WORLD, THEY HAVE THE THICKEST
00:53:43.59\00:53:46.45
BLUBBER OF ANY WHALE.
BUT THIS, PLUS THEIR FRIENDLY
00:53:46.45\00:53:49.66
AND CURIOUS NATURE, MADE THEM
PRIME TARGETS WHEN THE EUROPEAN
00:53:49.66\00:53:53.33
WHALERS DISCOVERED THE
BOWHEADS. THEY HUNTED THEM
00:53:53.33\00:53:56.03
NEARLY TO EXTINCTION.
FORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF
00:53:56.03\00:54:00.74
CONSERVATION EFFORTS, WE'VE
SLOWLY SEEN THEIR NUMBERS BEGIN
00:54:00.74\00:54:03.74
TO INCREASE SINCE THE 60S.
ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING FACTS
00:54:03.74\00:54:07.61
ABOUT THE BOWHEAD
WHALE IS ITS LONGEVITY.
00:54:07.61\00:54:10.61
SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED, BY
EVALUATING HARPOON TIPS FOUND IN
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THEIR SKULL, AND EXAMINING THEIR
EYE TISSUE, THERE ARE BOWHEAD
00:54:14.15\00:54:17.99
WHALES OUT THERE THAT ARE
PROBABLY OVER 200 YEARS OLD.
00:54:17.99\00:54:22.06
YOU REALIZE THAT MEANS THERE
ARE BOWHEAD WHALES SWIMMING THE
00:54:22.06\00:54:25.43
OCEANS RIGHT NOW THAT WERE
ALIVE BEFORE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS
00:54:25.43\00:54:29.63
ELECTED PRESIDENT.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?
00:54:29.63\00:54:32.87
AMONG THE OTHER
AMAZING MEGA-FACTS ABOUT THE
00:54:32.87\00:54:35.54
BOWHEAD WHALE,
IS ITS MEGA-MOUTH.
00:54:35.54\00:54:38.44
THEY HAVE THE LARGEST MOUTH
OF ANY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
00:54:38.44\00:54:41.71
AND WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR PIE
HOLE FULL EXTENDED, IT'S LARGE
00:54:41.71\00:54:44.91
ENOUGH TO PARK A
MEDIUM-SIZED SUV INSIDE.
00:54:44.91\00:54:48.45
YET, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT
THEY'VE GOT SUCH BIG MOUTHS,
00:54:48.45\00:54:51.02
THEY SURVIVE BY EATING THE VERY
SMALLEST CREATURES IN THE OCEAN
00:54:51.02\00:54:54.96
- PLANKTON, KRILL, AND
OTHER MICROSCOPIC ANIMALS.
00:54:54.96\00:54:59.33
FRIENDS, I'M ALWAYS AMAZED
BY THE CREATURES GOD HAS MADE.
00:54:59.33\00:55:02.33
THIS BOWHEAD WHALE IS ABLE
TO DIVE TO THE DEEPEST OCEANS.
00:55:02.33\00:55:05.37
THEY CAN BREAK THROUGH THE ICE
AND MOVE MOUNTAINS WITH THEIR
00:55:05.37\00:55:07.70
HEAD AND COMPLETELY LEAVE THE
WATER AND FLY THROUGH THE AIR.
00:55:07.70\00:55:11.37
AND YET, THEY DO ALL THAT
BY GAINING STRENGTH FROM ALMOST
00:55:11.37\00:55:14.78
MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS.
IT HELPS US REMEMBER THAT WE
00:55:14.78\00:55:18.18
SURVIVE THROUGH THE
LITTLE PROMISES IN GOD'S WORD.
00:55:18.18\00:55:21.65
JESUS, WHEN TEMPTED BY THE
DEVIL, HE QUOTED JUST A FEW
00:55:21.65\00:55:24.49
LITTLE VERSES AND HE
SENT THE ENEMY RUNNING.
00:55:24.49\00:55:27.46
YOU CAN ALSO HAVE THAT SAME
DURABILITY AND LONG LIFE AS THE
00:55:27.46\00:55:30.43
BOWHEAD WHALE, BY TRUSTING
IN GOD'S WORD AND HIS PROMISES.
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>>AMAZING FACTS. CHANGED LIVES.
00:55:46.78\00:55:56.35
>>I GREW UP IN A FAMILY THAT
WAS VERY SATURATED WITH GOD.
00:55:56.35\00:56:00.69
WE HAD MORNING
WORSHIP; WE HAD EVENING WORSHIP.
00:56:00.69\00:56:03.26
WE WERE TAUGHT FROM
YOUNG CHILDREN TO HAVE PERSONAL
00:56:03.26\00:56:06.13
DEVOTIONS EACH DAY.
BUT, FOR WHATEVER REASON, I
00:56:06.13\00:56:09.90
SEEMED TO ALWAYS FIND MYSELF
ALONE. I NEVER REALLY HAD A BIG
00:56:09.90\00:56:16.10
GROUP OF FRIENDS AND IT ALWAYS
SEEMED TO BE LIKE FRIENDS WERE
00:56:16.10\00:56:19.21
JUST TAKEN AWAY FROM ME. I WOULD
PRAY FOR FRIENDS AND THEN I'D
00:56:19.21\00:56:23.68
MEET SOMEONE AND SIX
MONTHS LATER THEN THEY'D MOVE TO
00:56:23.68\00:56:25.55
WASHINGTON, YOU KNOW,
ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
00:56:25.55\00:56:28.55
AND, SO FINALLY I WAS JUST LIKE,
'I'M NOT - I'M NOT GOING TO PRAY
00:56:28.55\00:56:31.65
FOR ANYMORE FRIENDS BECAUSE
IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO LOSE THEM.
00:56:31.65\00:56:39.63
BUT OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS, AS
I GOT CLOSER TO GOD, I STARTED
00:56:39.63\00:56:41.83
TO BE ABLE TO BE THANKFUL FOR
THE ALONE TIMES BECAUSE I WAS
00:56:41.83\00:56:46.00
FORCED, IN THAT
ALONENESS, TO SEEK GOD.
00:56:46.00\00:56:52.97
THAT IS PROBABLY WHAT HAS MADE
ME WHO I AM AND GIVEN ME THE
00:56:52.97\00:56:57.91
EXPERIENCE WITH
GOD THAT I HAVE NOW.
00:56:57.91\00:57:01.48
THE PLACE WHERE I FEEL MOST
COMFORTABLE IS BEING ALONE WITH
00:57:01.48\00:57:05.72
GOD. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE
00:57:05.72\00:57:11.29
QUESTIONS ABOUT 'WHERE IS GOD
WHEN IT HURTS?' 'IF GOD IS SUCH
00:57:11.29\00:57:15.53
A LOVING GOD, WHY IS THE
WORLD SO BAD?' EMBRACE THE PAIN.
00:57:15.53\00:57:25.21
EMBRACE THE HARD TIMES AND LET
GOD REVEAL HIMSELF THROUGH THAT,
00:57:25.21\00:57:33.31
BECAUSE HE HAS ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW
00:57:33.31\00:57:36.38
HOW TO ASK.
00:57:36.38\00:57:46.90
>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
00:57:46.90\00:57:50.47
BEFORE. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
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