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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL 00:37 STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:40 ADVENTIST CHURCH. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR 00:43 FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD AND 00:46 ALSO TO OUR MEMBERS AND VISITORS RIGHT HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY 00:49 CHURCH - DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU ALL HERE THIS MORNING. 00:52 WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH 00:54 THE BOOK OF JOB. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON THE 00:57 FINAL LESSON - IT'S LESSON #14 ENTITLED SOME LESSONS FROM JOB . 01:03 SO, FOR THOSE WHO ARE JOINING US ONLINE OR WATCHING ON THE 01:07 VARIOUS NETWORKS, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF OUR LESSON TODAY, 01:10 IT'S LESSON #14 IN OUR STUDY OF THE BOOK OF JOB, YOU CAN 01:14 DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON BY JUST GOING TO THE AMAZING FACTS 01:17 WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . AND THEN NEXT WEEK WE'RE 01:22 STARTING A BRAND-NEW QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 01:26 SO, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE HERE AND YOU'LL BE BACK NEXT 01:29 WEEK, YOU CAN PICK UP THE NEW QUARTERLY IN THE FOYER AS YOU 01:33 LEAVE. AND ALSO, FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE JOINING US, YOU CAN ALSO 01:36 GET THE LESSON BY GOING TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE AND YOU 01:39 CAN DOWNLOAD THE LESSON FOR NEXT WEEK. 01:42 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR TIME OF SINGING THIS MORNING, A FREE 01:46 OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY - A BOOK ENTITLED 01:50 THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS , WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS. 01:53 AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING IN NORTH AMERICA, WE'LL BE HAPPY 01:55 TO SEND YOU THIS BOOK FOR FREE. 01:57 JUST GIVE US A CALL ON OUR RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER AND THAT 02:00 NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #156. 02:08 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN 02:11 BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN PRAISE AND WE'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG 02:14 LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN ME HERE ON STAGE. 02:19 >>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS. YOU KNOW, (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) 02:22 I WILL SAY, WHILE - HANDERSEN IS WITH US TODAY AND IF YOU HAVE 02:26 BEEN FOLLOWING ALONG ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AT GRANITE BAY, 02:30 YOU HAVE SEEN HIS STORY OF A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE. 02:34 AND WE ARE JUST SO THANKFUL AND PRAISING THE LORD FOR THE MAN 02:39 THAT IS SITTING AT THE PIANO TODAY, WHO IS SHARING HIS 02:43 BEAUTIFUL MUSIC WITH US HERE AT GRANITE BAY AND AROUND THE WORLD 02:46 - #118 - THE FIRST NOEL . (MUSIC) 05:50 >>OUR NEXT SONG IS #137 - WE THREE KINGS - OF ORIENT ARE 05:56 BEARING GIFTS WE TRAVERSE AFAR. (PIANO MUSIC) 06:00 O STAR OF WONDER, STAR OF NIGHT, GUIDE US TO THY 06:04 PERFECT LIGHT - #137. (MUSIC) 08:19 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SINGING ALONG WITH US. 08:21 AND NOW PASTOR ROSS WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER. 08:31 >>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 08:33 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE AGAIN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO BE 08:35 ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR HOUSE TO STUDY YOUR WORD 08:37 TOGETHER. AND, AS WE'VE BEEN STUDYING TOGETHER ON THE 08:40 BOOK OF JOB, WE HAVE LEARNED MANY LESSONS. 08:42 AND AS WE FINISH UP OUR TIME OF STUDYING THIS BOOK, WE PRAY THAT 08:46 ONCE AGAIN YOUR SPIRIT WILL GUIDE OUR HEARTS - OUR MINDS - 08:48 HELP US TO SEE THE MESSAGES AND TRUTHS REVEALED IN THIS STORY 08:52 FOR US, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 08:56 OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 09:01 >>OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO BE DEALING WITH THE LAST STUDY 09:05 IN THE BOOK OF JOB. WE'VE BEEN STUDYING JOB NOW, 09:07 THIS'LL BE THE FOURTEENTH WEEK. AND THE LESSON TODAY IS 09:11 SOME LESSONS FROM JOB . AND OUR MEMORY VERSE IS FROM THE 09:14 BOOK OF JAMES CHAPTER 5, VERSE 11. IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU 09:19 MAY WANT TO READ IT WITH ME. IT'S IN THE NEW KING JAMES 09:22 VERSION JAMES 5, VERSE 11 - READY? 09:27 "INDEED WE COUNT THEM BLESSED WHO ENDURE. YOU HAVE HEARD OF 09:32 THE PERSEVERANCE OF JOB AND SEEN THE END INTENDED BY THE LORD - 09:37 THAT THE LORD IS VERY COMPASSIONATE AND MERCIFUL." 09:41 YOU KNOW, JESUS REFERS TO JOB AND JAMES REFERS TO JOB AND IT'S 09:46 PRETTY CLEAR FROM THE OTHER BIBLE WRITERS THAT JOB IS A REAL 09:49 CHARACTER, AND THAT EVEN THOUGH JOB WENT THROUGH THIS TERRIBLE 09:55 PERIOD OF SUFFERING - IT'S HARD TO SAY HOW LONG IT WAS BUT, YOU 09:59 KNOW, I JUST - IN MY MIND - SEE THAT THE TRIALS THAT JOB WENT 10:03 THROUGH WERE ABOUT AS LONG AS THE PLAGUES THAT FELL UPON 10:07 EGYPT, WHICH HAPPENED IN MATTER OF A FEW WEEKS. 10:10 IT WAS VERY TOUGH, VERY FAST, VERY HARD, BUT COMPARATIVELY 10:14 BRIEF FOR A MAN THAT LIVED OVER 200 YEARS. 10:20 SO WHEN A PERSON SAYS, 'WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE THE LIFE OF 10:22 JOB?' WHAT WOULD YOU THINK? 10:27 EVERYONE THINKS ABOUT THE FEW WEEKS OF TERRIBLE SUFFERING, BUT 10:31 WHAT ABOUT THE TWO HUNDRED AND, YOU KNOW, ONE YEARS OF 10:35 BLESSINGS? DOESN'T EVERYBODY HAVE A CERTAIN 10:39 AMOUNT OF SUFFERING IN THEIR LIFE? 10:42 THE THING THAT MAKES JOB'S LIFE ESPECIALLY BAD IS IT ALL CAME AT 10:45 ONCE AND IT JUST SEEMED LIKE HE LOST EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE, 10:52 BECAUSE THE DEVIL WAS TRYING TO BREAK HIM BY FOCUSING ALL OF HIS 10:56 PRESSURE ON ONE POINT. BUT JOB DID NOT LOSE HIS FAITH. 11:02 SO WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN BY TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE 11:04 FAITH OF JOB IN OUR STUDY TODAY - BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT - 11:10 JOB DID NOT KNOW WHY THESE SUFFERINGS AND TRIALS WERE 11:14 COMING UPON HIM. YOU AND I READ THE BOOK AND 11:16 IT STARTS BY EXPLAINING THE CURTAINS BEING PULLED ASIDE AND 11:20 THE DEVIL COMES TO SOME HEAVENLY MEETING AND GOD SEES THE DEVIL 11:23 AND SAYS, 'YOU THINK YOU OWN THE WORLD.' THE DEVIL SAYS, 'I'VE 11:26 COME FROM WALKING TO AND FRO UP AND DOWN IN THE WORLD. THE WORLD 11:29 IS MINE.' GOD SAYS, 'IT'S NOT ALL YOURS. WHAT ABOUT JOB? 11:33 JOB SERVES ME.' 'OH, THE ONLY REASON HE SERVES YOU IS YOU'VE 11:37 JUST PROTECTED HIM ON EVERY SIDE. 11:39 YOU WON'T LET ME AT HIM.' GOD SAID, 'NO, I BELIEVE THAT JOB 11:43 LOVES ME REGARDLESS OF THE PROTECTION.' AND SO GOD 11:48 WITHDRAWS HIS PROTECTION AND THERE'S THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY. 11:51 THE BOOK OF JOB REALLY ILLUSTRATES THE GREAT 11:54 CONTROVERSY BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 11:57 MOST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD DO NOT KNOW - PEOPLE IN THE WORLD DON'T 12:02 KNOW WHY WE ARE CAUGHT UP IN THIS BATTLE - 'IF THERE'S A GOOD 12:06 GOD, WHY IS THERE SO MUCH SUFFERING?' 12:08 THE BOOK OF JOB IS GREAT FOR US BECAUSE IT PEELS ASIDE THE VEIL 12:12 SO WE SEE WHAT'S GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES. 12:15 YOU ALSO SEE THIS IN THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH WHERE IT SAYS THERE 12:19 YOU'VE GOT JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST AND THE DEVIL IS THERE TO 12:24 ACCUSE HIM BECAUSE OF HIS FILTHY GARMENTS. 12:26 THEN YOU GO TO REVELATION AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE WAR IN HEAVEN 12:29 AND SATAN IS CALLED 'THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN'. 12:32 SO JOB IS THE FIRST PLACE IN SCRIPTURE WHERE YOU SEE VERY 12:35 VIVIDLY THERE'S A DEVIL WHO IS THE ACCUSER AND HE'S NOT ONLY 12:39 THE ACCUSER, THE DEVIL WILL TEMPT YOU TO DO SOMETHING WRONG 12:42 AND THEN HE WILL TURN YOU IN AND POINT HIS FINGER AT YOU AFTER 12:45 YOU DO IT. AND SO, HE'S A TEMPTER, HE'S THE 12:49 ACCUSER - AND WE'LL LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT, BUT JOB - JOB DIDN'T 12:53 KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON, BUT HE SAID, 'THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET 12:55 WILL I TRUST HIM.' SO JOB IS TELLING US THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE 13:00 FAITH IN GOD EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. 13:04 NOW, IT IS TRUE THAT FAITH IS BASED UPON A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF 13:10 EVIDENCE. JOB HAD RECEIVED EARLIER 13:13 EVIDENCE OF WHO GOD WAS THAT GAVE HIM FAITH. 13:19 BUT THEN, ONCE YOU'VE GOT THAT EVIDENCE, YOU NEED TO BELIEVE 13:22 WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. LET ME EXPLAIN: GOLIATH COMES 13:28 AFTER DAVID AND DAVID SAYS, 'I'LL FIGHT THIS GIANT.' KING 13:33 SAUL SAYS, 'YOU'RE CRAZY. YOU CAN'T FIGHT THE GIANT. 13:35 HE'S A WARRIOR. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK 13:37 YOU CAN FIGHT THE GIANT? HOW MANY GIANTS 13:38 HAVE YOU KILLED?' HE SAID, 'WELL, I HAVEN'T KILLED 13:40 ANY GIANTS.' 'WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CAN KILL THIS ONE?' 13:43 WELL, BECAUSE I HAVE EVIDENCE FOR MY FAITH. 13:46 DAVID SAID, 'THERE WAS A BEAR THAT CAME AND TOOK A SHEEP AND 13:50 GOD GAVE ME STRENGTH AND I KILLED THE BEAR. 13:52 AND THERE WAS A LION THAT CAME AND TOOK A LAMB AND GOD GAVE ME 13:55 STRENGTH AND I KILLED THE LION. AND, BASED ON THE EVIDENCE OF 13:59 THE PAST, I HAVE FAITH THAT GOD CAN HELP ME KILL THE GIANT.' 14:05 AND SO DAVID HAD FAITH THROUGH PAST EXPERIENCE. 14:10 WHEN WE COME TO THE LORD, IS THE LORD ASKING US TO JUST BLINDLY 14:13 BELIEVE OR DOES HE GIVE EVIDENCE IN HIS WORD THAT HE'S 14:17 TRUSTWORTHY? >>AMEN. 14:19 >>SO OUR FAITH IS BASED UPON, 'I KNOW WHOM I BELIEVED IN AND I AM 14:24 PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE.' WE'VE SEEN EVIDENCE BEFORE. 14:28 SO FAITH IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL TO OUR SALVATION. 14:32 NOW, SEVERAL VERSES WE'RE GOING TO READ ON THIS AND I THINK I'M 14:34 GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY HERE HELP ME READ A VERSE - IN JUST A 14:36 MOMENT WE'RE GOING TO DO HEBREWS 11:6. 14:39 IN THE MEANTIME, I'LL DO 2 CORINTHIANS 5:7 WHERE YOU READ, 14:45 "FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT." 14:48 'WALK' MEANS 'WE LIVE - IT'S OUR WALK'. 14:51 WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT. YOU CAN'T GO BY WHAT YOU SEE. 14:55 DO WE SEE THE DEVIL? DO WE SEE GOD? GOD'S A SPIRIT. 15:01 DO WE BELIEVE IN THINGS WE CAN'T SEE? 15:05 DO YOU BELIEVE IN PHONE SIGNALS? CELLULAR PHONE - SMART 15:08 PHONE - RADIO SIGNALS? SURE. 15:10 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU WON'T HAVE RECEPTION SO YOU STAND UP 15:12 ON YOUR CHAIR BECAUSE YOU KNOW THEY'RE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE. 15:14 MAYBE IF YOU CAN GET A LITTLE HIGHER YOU'LL GET THE TOWER. 15:17 YOU DON'T SEE THEM BUT YOU BELIEVE IN THEM. 15:20 YOU DON'T SEE WIND - NOT UNTIL IT HITS SOMETHING - 15:24 WIND IS INVISIBLE. YOU BELIEVE IN IT. 15:27 WE DON'T SEE GRAVITY BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO WALK OFF A HIGH 15:31 BUILDING BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT GRAVITY'S THERE. 15:34 YOU'VE SEEN THE RESULTS. YOU'VE GOT EVIDENCE OF WHAT 15:36 HAPPENS IF YOU IGNORE GRAVITY, RIGHT? BUT YOU CAN'T SEE GRAVITY 15:41 AND SO, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS WE BELIEVE IN THAT WE CAN'T SEE. 15:43 IT'S ACTUALLY VERY LOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC TO BELIEVE IN THINGS 15:46 THAT YOU CAN'T SEE, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING. 15:50 AND, YOU KNOW, I HEARD SOMEBODY ILLUSTRATE THAT, YOU KNOW, A DOG 15:56 CAN LOVE YOU, BUT IT'S HARD TO EXPLAIN PHYSICS TO A DOG. 16:04 THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE DOG CAN'T LOVE YOU AND YOU CAN'T 16:07 LOVE THE DOG, THERE'S JUST SOME THINGS A DOG CAN'T COMPREHEND. 16:09 BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN PHYSICS DON'T EXIST BECAUSE THE DOG 16:12 CAN'T COMPREHEND IT. YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN? 16:15 THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU AND I MAYBE DON'T COMPREHEND 16:18 WE'VE GOT TO TAKE BY FAITH. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18, "WHILE WE DO 16:24 NOT LOOK AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS 16:26 WHICH ARE NOT SEEN. FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN 16:29 ARE TEMPORARY, BUT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL." 16:34 GOD IS OFFERING US AN ETERNAL THAT WE DON'T SEE RIGHT NOW, BUT 16:37 IT'S VERY REAL. AND IF WE LIVE OUR LIVES ONLY 16:39 FOR THE PHYSICAL THAT WE SEE NOW, WE'RE GOING TO MISS OUT. 16:44 ROMANS 8:24, "FOR WE WERE SAVED IN THIS HOPE, BUT HOPE THAT IS 16:50 SEEN IS NOT HOPE; FOR WHY DOES ONE STILL HOPE FOR WHAT HE 16:53 SEES?" I MEAN, WHY WOULD I SAY, 'I HOPE I CAN GET A BIBLE FOR 16:56 TODAY'S LESSON'? I'VE GOT IT RIGHT HERE. 16:58 I'M NOT HOPING FOR IT, I HAVE IT. 17:00 AND SO YOU HOPE FOR WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE AND WE BELIEVE IN 17:03 SOMETHING THAT IS COMING THAT WE DON'T HAVE YET. 17:06 THAT'S WHAT THE HOPE IS ALL ABOUT - THE FAITH. 17:09 AND IN HEBREWS 11 - AND WE'RE GOING TO DO HEBREWS 6 IN JUST A 17:12 MOMENT, BUT WHOLE CHAPTER OF HEBREWS 11 IS ABOUT FAITH, "NOW 17:16 FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF 17:20 THINGS NOT SEEN." ISN'T THAT WHAT WE JUST READ? 17:24 BUT YOU NOTICE THE WORD 'EVIDENCE'? 17:26 THERE'S EVIDENCE FOR THINGS THAT ARE NOT SEEN. 17:28 WE'VE GOT EVIDENCE, AS I'VE MENTIONED, FOR RADIO WAVES. 17:32 YOU TURN ON THE RADIO, A VOICE COMES OUT. 17:33 HOW DID IT GET TO THE BOX? YOU CAN WALK ALL AROUND THE BOX 17:37 AND YOU CAN PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND THE BOX AND IF IT'S RUNNING ON 17:39 BATTERIES YOU'D SAY, 'HOW DOES THIS VOICE COME OUT OF THIS BOX? 17:44 YOU'VE GOT EVIDENCE FOR RADIO WAVES IN WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE. 17:48 AND SO, WE BELIEVE IT. GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, PLEASE, 17:53 HEBREWS 11:6. >>"BUT WITHOUT FAITH IT IS 17:57 IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM, FOR HE WHO COMES TO GOD MUST BELIEVE 18:03 THAT HE IS, AND THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THOSE WHO 18:07 DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM." >>NOW WHEN I LOOKED OVER THE 18:11 LESSON I THOUGHT, 'WE'RE HERE.' WE'VE REACHED THE END OF THE 18:14 BOOK OF JOB AND I'VE GOT LIKE FIVE POINTS, TYPICALLY - SUNDAY 18:19 THROUGH THURSDAY - THAT I HIGHLIGHT IN THE LESSON. 18:21 AND WHAT WOULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO HIGHLIGHT IN 18:24 THIS LESSON? IT WOULD BE THE SUBJECT OF 18:26 FAITH, BECAUSE WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH. 18:33 'THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH' - RIGHT? 18:38 ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, IT DOESN'T 18:41 USE THE WORD 'FAITH' AS MUCH AS IT DOES 'BELIEVE'. 18:44 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IT OFTEN USES THE WORD 'FAITH' BECAUSE 18:46 ONE'S COMING FROM HEBREW AND ONE'S COMING FROM GREEK. 18:49 HOW WERE PEOPLE SAVED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 18:51 >>BY FAITH. >>BY FAITH. 18:53 HOW WAS JOB SAVED? >>BY FAITH. 18:55 >>'THOUGH HE SLAYS ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM.' AND SO IT WAS HIS 19:00 FAITH THAT HE WAS SAVED. ABRAHAM - HIS FAITH. 19:04 IT SAYS 'DANIEL BELIEVED GOD.' AND SO, EVERYONE IS SAVED BY 19:07 FAITH. IT'S CRUCIAL THAT WE TRUST GOD. 19:09 NOW, IT'S EASY TO BELIEVE IN GOD WHEN YOU'RE 19:11 SURROUNDED BY THE EVIDENCE, BUT YOU DON'T NEED HOPE THEN, 19:14 BECAUSE YOU HAVE IT. WHEN DOES IT TAKE FAITH? 19:17 WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND; WHEN IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE; WHEN 19:23 YOU'RE TEMPTED TO DOUBT - WAS ANYONE TEMPTED MORE THAN JOB IN 19:28 THAT DEPARTMENT? AND HE STILL BELIEVED. 19:30 HIS FAITH TRIUMPHED IN SPITE OF ALL OF THE EVIDENCE THAT HE HAD 19:35 SOMEHOW BEEN ABANDONED BY GOD. AND THAT'S WHAT HIS 19:38 FRIENDS WERE THINKING TOO. ALRIGHT, ENOUGH ABOUT FAITH. 19:42 NEXT SECTION TALKS ABOUT THE - AN EVIL BEING - NOT TO BE 19:48 (CONFUSED) WITH A PINTO BEAN - AND THE EVIL BEING IS WHO? 19:52 >>SATAN. >>THE ARCH FIEND - THE DEVIL. 19:57 NOW, YOU DON'T FIND AS MUCH ABOUT THE DEVIL IN THE OLD 19:59 TESTAMENT. MATTER OF FACT, I'LL JUST - 20:02 YOU CALL IT OUT; I'LL REPEAT IT - WHERE DO YOU FIND THE DEVIL 20:05 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? ALRIGHT, GENESIS, 20:09 LET'S START THERE. WHERE DOES IT SAY 20:10 'DEVIL' IN GENESIS? IT'S TALKING ABOUT 20:15 THE SERPENT, RIGHT? NOW WE KNOW NOW - YOU GO TO 20:17 REVELATION IT SAYS, 'THAT OLD SERPENT THE DEVIL AND SATAN.' 20:20 WE KNOW WHO IT IS NOW, BUT THEY DIDN'T CALL HIM THE DEVIL THEN. 20:23 WE SORT OF KNEW IT - SOMEONE SAID JOB - YOU FIND HIM, OF 20:25 COURSE, IN JOB. WHERE ELSE? 20:27 >>ZECHARIAH. >>ZECHARIAH - SATAN STOOD TO 20:32 ACCUSE THE HIGH PRIEST. WHERE ELSE? 20:34 >>ISAIAH. >>WELL - 'O LUCIFER' - 20:39 IT DOESN'T SAY 'SATAN' - 'I WILL CAST YOU OUT OF HEAVEN, 20:41 LUCIFER' IN ISAIAH. EZEKIEL? 20:46 IT'S EZEKIEL 28 - IT DOESN'T REALLY CALL HIM THE DEVIL, 20:49 IT CALLS HIM THE CHERUB THERE, BUT YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT. 20:53 HE'S A FEW PLACES BUT YOU NOTICE HOW YOU'RE HAVING TO THINK? 20:56 YOU'RE - HOW ABOUT WHEN SATAN STOOD UP TO TEMPT DAVID TO 21:00 NUMBER ISRAEL? YOU GOT THAT EXAMPLE? 21:03 NOT MANY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 21:06 THAT'S WHY THE STORY OF JOB IS SO IMPORTANT. 21:08 YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT WHEN JESUS BEGINS HIS MINISTRY, 21:11 IT'S LIKE SATAN WENT BALLISTIC AND YOU SEE THE DEVIL EVERYWHERE 21:14 - HE'S JUST OOZING OUT OF EVERY CHAPTER. 21:16 I MEAN, I CAN'T COUNT ALL THE REFERENCES TO SATAN IN THE NEW 21:18 TESTAMENT. BUT - AND THIS ISN'T - THE 21:22 KNOWLEDGE WE HAVE OF THE DEVIL DID NOT JUST COME TO US IN THE 21:26 LAST HUNDRED YEARS - AND THE FALL OF LUCIFER AND THE 21:29 REBELLION IN HEAVEN AND THE GREAT CONTROVERSY. 21:31 ANY OF YOU GO TO COLLEGE AND WERE REQUIRED - MAYBE IF YOU 21:34 TOOK LITERATURE - REQUIRED TO READ THAT EPIC POEM BY JOHN 21:39 MILTON CALLED PARADISE LOST ? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE 21:43 HEARD OF PARADISE LOST ? MAN, THAT'S - I TELL YOU - 21:48 THAT'S GOT A LOT OF PROFOUND WORDS IN IT. 21:50 I'M GOING TO READ TO YOU JUST ONE SECTION NEAR THE BEGINNING - 21:52 THESE ARE VERSES - IT'S LIKE THE BIBLE, IT'S IN VERSES - THIS IS 21:55 IN SECTION - OR CHAPTER 1, VERSES 32 TO 49, WHERE JOHN 21:58 MILTON IS TALKING ABOUT THE DEVIL'S FALL. 22:03 AND YOU PRAY FOR ME BECAUSE THIS IS KIND OF THE OLD ENGLISH HERE, 22:07 "FOR ONE RESTRAINT, LORDS OF THE WORLD BESIDES? 22:10 WHO FIRST SEDUCED THEM TO THAT FOUL REVOLT? 22:14 THE INFERNAL SERPENT; HE IT WAS, WHOSE GUILE STIRRED UP WITH ENVY 22:18 AND REVENGE, DECEIVED THE MOTHER OF MANKIND, WHAT TIME HIS PRIDE 22:22 HAD CAST HIM OUT FROM HEAVEN, WITH ALL HIS HOST OF REBEL 22:25 ANGELS, BY WHOSE AID ASPIRING TO SET HIMSELF IN GLORY ABOVE HIS 22:30 PEERS, HE TRUSTED TO HAVE EQUALED THE MOST HIGH, IF HE 22:34 OPPOSED; AND WITH AMBITIOUS AIM AGAINST THE THRONE AND MONARCHY 22:38 OF GOD RAISED IMPIOUS WAR IN HEAVEN AND BATTLE PROUD WITH 22:41 VAIN ATTEMPT. HIM THE ALMIGHTY POWER HURLED 22:44 HEADLONG FLAMING FROM THE ETHEREAL SKY WITH HIDEOUS 22:48 RUIN AND COMBUSTION DOWN TO BOTTOMLESS PERDITION, THERE TO 22:51 DWELL IN ADAMANTINE CHAINS AND PENAL FIRE, WHO DURST DEFY 22:56 THE OMNIPOTENT TO ARMS." THAT'S JUST ONE LITTLE 23:01 SECTION OF A VERY LONG POEM. AND IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO READ 23:05 THAT FOR COMMUNICATIONS, YOU SHOULD BE THANKFUL. 23:08 BUT IT IS - IT'S REALLY PROFOUND - BUT WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT 23:10 HERE - JOHN MILTON - HE WAS ACTUALLY A BLIND WRITER. 23:15 IT'S AMAZING, HE HAD SUCH AN INCREDIBLE VOCABULARY - HE 23:17 TURNED BLIND IN HIS YOUTH, BUT - SO HE WAS ABLE TO READ - BUT HE 23:22 DESCRIBES HERE THE FALL OF LUCIFER, WHO WANTED TO BE GOD, 23:25 AND WAS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN AND ALL OF THAT WAS VERY CLEAR. 23:29 AND SO, EVEN BACK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THEY UNDERSTOOD THE 23:33 STORY OF WHERE EVIL CAME FROM, THOUGH IT ISN'T ARTICULATED AS 23:37 WELL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY KNEW WHAT THE STORY WAS. 23:43 YOU READ IT, OF COURSE, IN GENESIS 3 - WE TALKED ABOUT THAT 23:46 A MOMENT AGO. "NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE 23:49 CUNNING THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE 23:52 LORD GOD HAD MADE. AND HE SAID TO THE WOMAN, 'HAS 23:54 GOD INDEED SAID,'" - WHAT'S THE FIRST QUESTION IN THE BIBLE? 24:02 THE DEVIL QUESTIONING THE WORD OF GOD. 24:05 AND ALL OF THE MISERY WE SEE IN THE WORLD TODAY FLOWS FROM 24:10 DOUBTING - THAT INSIDIOUS DOUBT OF THE WORD OF GOD - AND WHAT 24:15 DOES THE DEVIL SAYS TO JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS? 24:19 'IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD' - CREATING DOUBT AGAIN THROUGH 24:24 INSINUATION. THAT'S WHERE HE SPECIALIZES - 24:27 BUT WE KNOW WHO HE IS - YOU GO TO REVELATION 12:9, "SO THE 24:31 GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT SERPENT OF OLD, CALLED THE DEVIL 24:34 AND SATAN, WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD; HE WAS CAST TO THE 24:37 EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM." 24:41 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME IN A MOMENT MATTHEW 13:39. 24:45 I'LL ALSO READ MATTHEW 4:1, "THEN JESUS WAS LED UP BY THE 24:49 SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS TO BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL." 24:53 WHY WOULD THE SPIRIT LEAD HIM TO BE TEMPTED? 24:56 HE WAS LED BY THE SPIRIT TO PRAY AND FAST IN PREPARATION FOR OUR 24:59 MISSION, BUT HE ALSO, IN THE SAME WAY DAVID WENT DOWN TO THE 25:03 VALLEY TO FIGHT WITH GOLIATH, JESUS WENT OUT IN THE WILDERNESS 25:05 TO FIGHT WITH THE DEVIL AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF HOW WE CAN HAVE 25:09 VICTORY OVER THE THREE PRIMARY AREAS WHERE ALL ARE TEMPTED: THE 25:13 LUST OF THE FLESH, THE LUST OF THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE 25:16 WERE THE AREAS WHERE CHRIST WAS TEMPTED, WHERE EVE AND ADAM 25:19 FELL, AND WHERE JESUS WAS VICTORIOUS. 25:23 AND HOW DID HE MEET EVERY TEMPTATION? 25:25 YOU CAN READ IN MATTHEW 4, VERSE 10, "THEN JESUS SAID [TO HIM], 25:29 'AWAY WITH YOU, SATAN! FOR IT IS WRITTEN'" - IT IS 25:33 WRITTEN - THREE TIMES HE SAID, 'IT IS WRITTEN' - "'YOU SHALL 25:36 WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND HIM ONLY YOU SHALL SERVE.' 25:39 THEN THE DEVIL LEFT HIM, AND BEHOLD, ANGELS CAME AND 25:41 MINISTERED TO HIM." NOW THAT'S A PATTERN FOR US. 25:44 THE TEMPTATIONS THAT CAME TO JESUS AND JOB CAME IN WAVES. 25:50 YOU NOTICE THAT WITH JESUS, IT WAS ONE TEMPTATION AFTER ANOTHER 25:55 - THREE TEMPTATIONS. WITH JOB HE HAD THESE TRIALS - 25:59 HE HAD - HE LOST HIS FAMILY, HE LOST HIS SUBSTANCE, HE LOST HIS 26:03 HEALTH, AND THEN HE LOST HIS FRIENDS, BUT IT CAME 26:06 LIKE A BLITZKRIEG. YOU KNOW WHERE THE WORD 26:08 BLITZKRIEG - SOME KIND OF GERMAN WORD THAT TALKS ABOUT A RAPID 26:12 WAR AND HITLER'S IDEA WAS ATTACK SO FAST AND KEEP ATTACKING - 26:17 KEEP HITTING - THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE - THEY WON'T 26:19 KNOW WHAT HIT THEM. THEY CAN'T PREPARE. 26:21 AND YOU JUST CATCH THEM WHILE THEY'RE DOWN. 26:24 AND IT WAS VERY EFFECTIVE FOR A WHILE. 26:26 WELL, THAT'S WHAT THE DEVIL DOES. 26:28 IT'S PROBABLY WHERE HITLER GOT IT. 26:30 HE HIT JOB WITH A BLITZKRIEG HOPING TO OVERWHELM HIM, AND 26:33 THAT'S WHAT THE DEVIL DID TO JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS. 26:36 READ FOR US, PLEASE, MATTHEW 13:39. 26:39 >>MATTHEW 13:39, "THE ENEMY WHO SOWED THEM IS THE DEVIL, THE 26:45 HARVEST IS THE END OF THE AGE, AND THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS." 26:48 >>SO SOMETHING ELSE IN JESUS' PARABLES, HE EXPLAINS THAT THE 26:52 DEVIL IS OUT THERE TRYING TO SOW SEEDS OF DISCORD AND HE WAS 26:56 SPREADING THE TARES AMONG THE WHEAT TO TRY TO CAUSE PROBLEMS. 27:02 AND SO YOU GET A LOT CLEARER PICTURE ABOUT WHO THIS ARCH 27:05 FIEND IS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 27:08 YOU CAN READ IN LUKE 22, VERSE 3, "THEN SATAN ENTERED JUDAS, 27:14 SURNAMED ISCARIOT, WHO WAS NUMBERED AMONG THE TWELVE. 27:17 SO HE WENT HIS WAY AND CONFERRED WITH THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND 27:20 CAPTAINS, HOW HE MIGHT BETRAY HIM TO THEM." 27:24 THE DEVIL SOMETIMES WILL OPERATE BY HAVING AN INSIDE MAN. 27:29 THERE, RIGHT AMONG THE TWELVE APOSTLES, SATAN HAD A 27:31 REPRESENTATIVE WHO - AND DOES THE DEVIL STILL FIND PEOPLE IN 27:35 THE CHURCH? YEAH, SOMETIMES THEY'LL FIND 27:39 SOMEBODY THAT HE CAN MANIPULATE AND USE - AND SOMETIMES IT'S 27:43 UNKNOWN TO THEM - TO USE AND BRING PROBLEMS AND DISRUPTIONS 27:47 AND TO SCANDALIZE THE NAME OF CHRIST, BRINGS THAT PERSON INTO 27:53 THE CHURCH TO CAUSE PROBLEMS. THAT'S WHAT HE DID WITH JUDAS. 27:57 AND YOU READ IN ACTS 5:3, PETER SAID TO ANNANIAS, 'WHY HAS SATAN 28:01 FILLED YOUR HEART?' NOW HOW MANY OF US WANT THE 28:03 LORD TO FILL OUR HEARTS? BUT IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THE 28:07 DEVIL TO FILL A HEART TOO? YEAH, HIS - ANNANIAS' HEART 28:11 WAS FILLED WITH GREED AND COVETOUSNESS. 28:14 HE SAID, 'WHY HAVE YOU ALLOWED SATAN TO FILL YOUR HEART? 28:17 SO YOU'VE LIED TO THE HOLY SPIRIT AND KEPT BACK PART OF THE 28:20 PRICE OF THE LAND FOR YOURSELF.' HE SAID, 'YOU HAVEN'T LIED TO 28:22 MAN, YOU'VE LIED TO GOD IN DOING THAT.' 28:26 AND THEN, OF COURSE, IN 1 PETER 5:8, "BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT; 28:30 BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL WALKS ABOUT LIKE A ROARING LION, 28:34 SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR. RESIST HIM STEADFAST IN THE 28:38 FAITH," - SO WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? 28:40 >>RESIST HIM. >>WHAT DID JESUS DO? 28:43 RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE LEFT. THE BIBLE SAYS RESIST THE DEVIL 28:46 AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU. AND SO, THIS IS WHAT THE LORD IS 28:49 TELLING US THAT WE CAN DO. THROUGH FAITH - HOW DO WE RESIST 28:53 HIM? "RESIST HIM, STEADFAST IN THE FAITH, KNOWING THAT THE SAME 28:57 SUFFERINGS ARE EXPERIENCED BY YOUR BROTHERHOOD IN THE WORLD." 29:00 ALL CHRISTIANS BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL. 29:02 IF YOU SAY, 'I'VE NEVER REALLY STRUGGLED WITH TEMPTATION. 29:04 I'M GLAD TO BE A CHRISTIAN.' YOU'RE NOT A CHRISTIAN, 29:06 PROBABLY. BECAUSE IF YOU'RE TRYING TO LIVE 29:09 A HOLY LIFE, THE DEVIL IS GOING TO OPPOSE YOU. 29:12 IF YOU'RE TRYING TO WITNESS UNTO THE LORD, JESUS SAID, 'WOE UNTO 29:15 YOU WHEN ALL MEN SPEAK WELL OF YOU.' SOMEBODY SHOWED ME A 29:18 LETTER THIS WEEK WHERE SOMEONE SAID SOME THINGS THAT WERE NOT 29:20 VERY NICE, ABOUT ME. AND, YOU KNOW, I GET THOSE 29:23 LETTERS AND SOMETIMES THEY'RE TRUE. 29:25 AND I SOMETIMES THINK, 'OH, I'VE GOT TO MAKE SOME CHANGES.' BUT 29:27 SOMETIMES THEY'RE CRITICAL OF THE MESSAGE, AND JESUS SAID, 29:31 'WOE UNTO YOU WHEN ALL MEN SPEAK WELL OF YOU, FOR SO THEY DID OF 29:35 THE FALSE PROPHETS.' AND SO, IF YOU LIVE A GODLY LIFE, THE BIBLE 29:40 PROMISES 'ALL THAT LIVE GODLY' - WILL WHAT? 29:44 - 'SUFFER PERSECUTION.' SO DON'T BE DISCOURAGED, YOUR BRETHREN IN 29:48 THE WORLD SUFFER - ALL OF US ARE TOGETHER IN THAT. 29:51 WE ALL SHARE THAT. NOW THE NEXT SECTION TALKS 29:54 ABOUT WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE . YOU EVER HEARD THAT EXPRESSION? 29:58 'WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE WHO NEEDS AN ENEMY?' 30:03 AND LET'S TURN AND READ QUICKLY, AGAIN - YOU CAN READ IN JOB IN 30:11 CHAPTER 8 - IT TALKS ABOUT THE - YOU KNOW, BILDAD, ONE OF HIS 30:16 FRIENDS, KIND OF LIGHTING INTO HIM HERE. 30:20 "THEN BILDAD THE SHUHITE ANSWERED AND SAID: 'HOW LONG 30:23 WILL YOU SPEAK THESE THINGS, AND THE WORDS OF YOUR MOUTH BE LIKE 30:26 A STRONG WIND? DOES GOD SUBVERT JUDGMENT? 30:29 OR DOES THE ALMIGHTY PERVERT JUSTICE? 30:31 IF YOUR SONS HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, HE HAS CAST THEM AWAY FOR 30:34 THEIR TRANSGRESSION.'" - 'YOUR SONS DIED BECAUSE THEY WERE 30:36 SINFUL.' CAN YOU IMAGINE TELLING YOUR FRIEND THAT AFTER HE'S LOST 30:38 ALL HIS CHILDREN? - "IF YOUR SONS HAVE SINNED 30:42 AGAINST HIM, HE HAS CAST THEM AWAY FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION. 30:45 IF YOU WOULD EARNESTLY SEEK GOD AND MAKE YOUR SUPPLICATION TO 30:48 THE ALMIGHTY, IF YOU WERE PURE AND UPRIGHT, SURELY NOW HE WOULD 30:51 AWAKE FOR YOU," - YOU KNOW, THEY SAID THAT TO JESUS ON THE CROSS, 30:55 'IF GOD'S YOUR FATHER, WHY DOESN'T HE COME DOWN AND HELP 30:57 YOU, IF YOU'RE PURE?' THE SAME THING THAT JESUS WENT 31:01 THROUGH, JOB WENT THROUGH. HE WOULD THEN PROSPER YOU. 31:05 AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT IN OUR LESSON, NOT ONLY HAS IT GOT A 31:09 REFERENCE HERE TO JOB CHAPTER 8, YOU GO TO JOHN CHAPTER 8 NOW. 31:13 YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF ADULTERY? 31:16 AND HER OWN PEOPLE SET HER UP AND BROUGHT HER TO THE TEMPLE TO 31:23 MAKE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF HER. THEY DIDN'T CARE WHAT HAPPENED 31:25 TO HER. THEY BRING THIS WOMAN TO JESUS 31:27 AND SAID, 'YOU KNOW, MOSES SAID SHE SHOULD BE STONED.' - 31:30 INSTEAD OF THE PRIESTS SHOWING MERCY - 31:32 "BUT JESUS WENT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES" - JOHN 8, VERSE 1 - NOW 31:36 VERSE 2 - "NOW EARLY IN THE MORNING HE CAME AGAIN INTO THE 31:39 TEMPLE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO HIM; AND HE SAT DOWN AND 31:42 TAUGHT THEM. THEN THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES 31:45 BROUGHT TO HIM A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY. 31:48 AND WHEN THEY HAD SET HER IN THE MIDST, THEY SAID TO HIM, 31:51 'TEACHER, THIS WOMAN WAS CAUGHT IN ADULTERY, IN THE VERY ACT. 31:54 NOW MOSES, IN THE LAW, COMMANDED US THAT SUCH SHOULD BE STONED.'" 31:57 - OF COURSE, YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO ASK A QUESTION: IF THEY SAY THEY 32:00 CAUGHT HER IN THE VERY ACT OF ADULTERY, DOESN'T THAT, SORT OF, 32:03 IMPLY THERE WERE AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE INVOLVED? 32:06 >>YEAH. >>YOU'RE IN CALIFORNIA, IT COULD 32:07 HAVE BEEN MORE, BUT BACK THEN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AT 32:09 LEAST TWO PEOPLE. IF SHE WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT AND 32:12 THEY CAPTURED HER, WHERE WERE THE OTHERS? 32:16 WHERE'S THE OTHER PARTY? MAKES IT SOUND LIKE 32:20 THIS WAS A SET UP. THEY WANTED TO STONE HER. 32:23 THEY HAD NO PROBLEM STONING HER AND THEN GOING TO THE ROMANS AND 32:25 SAYING, 'JESUS PRONOUNCED THE DEATH PENALTY AND ONLY THE 32:29 ROMANS CAN DO THAT.' AND THEY WERE HOPING TO TRAP HIM. 32:33 THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT HER. THEY WERE JUST GOING TO USE HER. 32:37 NOW MOSES SAID THAT "'SUCH SHOULD BE STONED. 32:40 BUT WHAT DO YOU SAY?' THIS THEY SAID, TESTING HIM, 32:42 THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING OF WHICH TO ACCUSE HIM. 32:45 BUT JESUS" - HE IGNORED THEM - AND HE "STOOPED DOWN AND WROTE 32:48 ON THE GROUND...AS THOUGH HE DID NOT HEAR." BUT THEY PERSISTED, 32:53 ASKING HIM - "HE STOOD [RAISED HIMSELF] UP AND SAID TO THEM, 32:59 'HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU, LET HIM THROW A STONE AT 33:02 HER FIRST.'" HE STOOPED DOWN AND CONTINUED WRITING. 33:06 AND THEY MAY HAVE NOTICED WHAT HE WAS WRITING, WHICH WAS 33:08 PROBABLY THE LAW OR THEIR BREAKING OF THE LAW - THEIR 33:11 PARTICULAR SINS - AND VERY PERSONAL THINGS, ALL OF A 33:16 SUDDEN, WERE BEING WRITTEN AND THEY WERE OVERWHELMED WITH 33:18 GUILT. 'HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN, THROW 33:21 THE FIRST STONE.' WHO OF THEM DARED THROW THE FIRST STONE? 33:24 AND ONE BY ONE THEY WENT OUT BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST TO THE 33:27 LEAST, ASHAMED. YOU KNOW, JUST WHILE I'M 33:32 THINKING AOBUT IT, I READ THIS VERSE AND HERE - WHAT DOES 33:37 A WOMAN REPRESENT IN BIBLE ANALOGIES, OFTEN? 33:42 >>A CHURCH. >>A CHURCH. DOES IT REPRESENT 33:44 ALWAYS THAT THE CHURCH IS GOING TO BE SPOTLESS AND PURE? 33:48 IS GOD'S CHURCH SOMETIMES - IN THE OLD TESTAMENT HE COMPARED IT 33:51 TO A HARLOT - AND EVEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT; 33:56 THAT'S WHY HE SAYS, 'COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE'. 34:00 YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A STORY IN EZEKIEL WHERE JUDGMENT WAS GOING 34:03 TO COME UPON THE CHURCH AND GOD PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS OF 34:09 THOSE WHO SIGH AND CRY FOR THE ABOMINATIONS DONE IN THE LAND. 34:13 IT SAYS, 'BEGINNING WITH THE ANCIENT MEN.' IT BEGAN WITH THE 34:16 ELDEST, THEN TO THE YOUNGER. WHY WITH THE ELDEST? 34:20 WELL, THEY'VE HAD THE LONGEST OPPORTUNITY. 34:23 A SHIP IS GOING DOWN AND THEY'VE ONLY GOT SO MUCH ROOM IN THE 34:25 LIFEBOAT - THIS MIGHT SOUND KIND OF BRUTAL - NOBODY WANTS TO 34:30 THINK ABOUT THIS MORAL SCENARIO, BUT THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH ROOM IN 34:34 THE LIFE BOAT; WHO GETS THE LIFEBOATS? 34:37 YOU KNOW, THEY SAY WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST, BUT YOU MIGHT 34:41 THINK THE YOUNGER ONES THAT HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO LIVE. 34:47 YOU KNOW, NONE OF US SENIOR CITIZENS WANT TO THINK ABOUT 34:50 THAT, RIGHT? BUT WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO SAVE THE YOUTH? 34:54 AND SO JUDGMENT WOULD BEGIN AT THE ELDEST, AND THE ONES WHO HAD 34:58 LIVED THE LONGEST, WHEN JESUS WAS WRITING OUT THE SINS, 35:01 THEY'RE THE ONES WHO'VE GOT THE LONGEST RECORD OF SIN AND IT WAS 35:03 THE QUICKEST FOR THEM TO IDENTIFY THAT - 'OH MAN, I HAVE 35:06 NO RIGHT TO THROW A STONE AT ANYBODY.' AND THEY WENT OUT. 35:11 TURNING ON THEIR OWN - THEY WERE READY TO STONE HER TO MAKE A 35:13 POINT, BUT DO YOU SEE A LOT OF EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF PEOPLE 35:17 TURNING ON THEIR OWN? WITH FRIENDS LIKE THIS 35:20 - WHO SOLD JOSEPH? >>HIS BROTHERS. 35:25 >>HIS BROTHERS SOLD HIM AS A SLAVE. 35:27 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE WANTED TO SELL YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER 35:30 BEFORE? (LAUGHTER) COME ON, THERE 35:31 MUST HAVE BEEN A TIME. WHO TURNED IN SAMSON? 35:37 >>DELILAH. >>BEFORE EVEN DELILAH? 35:40 HE HAD DELILAH, BUT LISTEN TO THIS: JUDGES 15, VERSE 11 - 35:44 JUDGES 15:11 IF YOU'RE LOOKING ANY OF THESE UP. 35:47 "THEN THREE THOUSAND MEN OF JUDAH" - AFTER SAMSON WENT AND 35:49 KILLED A BUNCH OF PHILISTINES, HE WAS UP LIVING IN THE ROCK 35:53 ETAM AND "THREE THOUSAND MEN OF JUDAH WENT DOWN TO THE CLEFT OF 35:57 THE ROCK OF ETAM, AND SAID TO SAMSON, 'DO YOU NOT KNOW 36:02 THAT THE PHILISTINES RULE OVER US? 36:04 WHAT IS THIS YOU HAVE DONE TO US?' 36:07 HE SAID TO THEM, 'AS THEY DID TO ME, SO I HAVE DONE TO THEM.' BUT 36:11 THEY SAID TO HIM, 'WE HAVE COME DOWN TO ARREST YOU THAT WE MAY 36:13 DELIVER YOU INTO THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES.'" 36:17 ISN'T THAT WHAT GOD'S PEOPLE DID WITH JESUS? 36:20 HIS OWN PEOPLE - "THEN SAMSON SAID TO THEM, 'SWEAR TO ME THAT 36:25 YOU WILL NOT KILL ME YOURSELVES.' SO THEY SPOKE TO 36:27 HIM, SAYING, 'NO, BUT WE WILL TIE YOU SECURELY AND DELIVER 36:29 YOU INTO THEIR HAND; BUT WE WILL SURELY NOT KILL YOU.' AND THEY 36:33 BOUND HIM WITH TWO NEW ROPES AND BROUGHT HIM UP FROM THE ROCK." 36:36 AND YOU KNOW THE STORY; HE ENDED UP BREAKING THE ROPES AND HE 36:38 SMOTE THEM HIP AND THIGH AND - BUT TURNED OVER BY HIS OWN 36:41 PEOPLE, THEN LATER BY DELILAH. WHAT ABOUT DAVID? 36:47 WAS DAVID BETRAYED BY HIS OWN SON? 36:50 THERE'S AN INTERESTING STORY ABOUT DAVID - YOU LOOK IN 1 36:53 SAMUEL 23, VERSE 2, "THEREFORE DAVID INQUIRED OF THE LORD, 37:00 SAYING, 'SHALL I GO AND ATTACK THESE PHILISTINES?'" 37:03 - NOW THIS IS WHEN DAVID IS LIVING OUT IN THE - HE'S LIVING 37:07 OUT IN THE WILDERNESS, HIDING FROM KING SAUL AND SOME PEOPLE 37:11 IN A VILLAGE CALLED 'KEILAH WERE BEING ATTACKED BY THE 37:14 PHILISTINES - THEY WERE ON THE BORDER AND THEIR TOWN WAS ALWAYS 37:18 VULNERABLE. DAVID THOUGHT, 'THEY'RE OUR PEOPLE. 37:20 I SHOULD SAVE THEM.' DAVID AND HIS THREE - I DON'T KNOW IF HE 37:24 HAD 400 OR 600 MEN - HIS ARMY WAS GROWING - HE SAID, 'SHOULD I 37:28 ATTACK THEM AND SAVE KEILAH?' AND DAVID'S MEN SAID, 'WELL, HOW 37:34 CAN WE SAVE KEILAH, WE'RE AFRAID HERE IN JUDAH. 37:36 WE'RE RUNNING FROM KING SAUL. HOW MUCH MORE IF WE GO TO 37:38 KEILAH AGAINST THE ARMY OF THE PHILISTINES? 37:39 WE'RE JUST A SMALL LITTLE ARMY.' "THEN DAVID INQUIRED OF THE 37:42 LORD" - GOOD THING TO DO WHEN YOU'RE NOT SURE - 37:45 "THEN DAVID INQUIRED OF THE LORD ONCE AGAIN. 37:47 AND THE LORD ANSWERED HIM AND SAID, 'ARISE, GO DOWN TO KEILAH. 37:52 FOR I WILL DELIVER THE PHILISTINES INTO YOUR HAND.' AND 37:56 DAVID AND HIS MEN WENT TO KEILAH AND FOUGHT WITH THE PHILISTINES, 37:58 STRUCK THEM WITH A MIGHTY BLOW, AND TOOK AWAY THEIR LIVESTOCK. 38:02 SO DAVID SAVED" - NOTICE - "DAVID SAVED THE INHABITANTS OF 38:06 KEILAH." AND THEY CARRIED THEM UP THE STREETS ON THEIR 38:09 SHOULDERS AND THEY WERE JUST SO THANKFUL FOR DAVID, THEIR 38:12 SAVIOR. BUT NOTICE WHAT HAPPENED - SOMEONE'S GOING TO GET READY 38:16 TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, LUKE 23 - JUST - OKAY - LISTEN 38:20 TO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. I'M IN 1 SAMUEL 23:11 - NOW KING 38:25 SAUL COMES LOOKING FOR DAVID AGAIN. 38:27 HE'S IN THE TOWN OF KEILAH BECAUSE THEY HAD A PARADE FOR 38:29 DAVID BECAUSE DAVID SAVED THEM, AND HE SAYS TO THE LORD, 38:33 "WILL THE MEN OF KEILAH DELIVER ME INTO HIS HAND? 38:36 WILL SAUL COME DOWN, AS YOUR SERVANT HAS HEARD? 38:39 O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, I PRAY, TELL YOUR SERVANT.' AND THE LORD 38:41 SAID, 'HE WILL COME DOWN.'" - KING SAUL WAS HUNTING FOR DAVID 38:45 - "THEN DAVID SAID, 'WILL THE MEN OF KEILAH DELIVER ME AND MY 38:49 MEN INTO THE HAND OF SAUL?' AND THE LORD SAID, 'THEY WILL 38:52 DELIVER YOU.'" HE SAID, 'YOU BETTER GET OUT OF THAT TOWN. 38:55 THOSE PEOPLE WHO JUST CARRIED YOU ON THEIR SHOULDERS AND 38:58 THANKED YOU FOR SAVING THEM ARE GOING TO HAND YOU OVER IN A SNAP 39:01 TO KING SAUL. WITH FRIENDS LIKE THAT - 39:07 SOMETIMES THERE'S NOT A LOT OF LOYALTY. 39:09 LOYALTY'S A VERY VALUABLE COMMODITY. 39:14 WHEN YOU HAVE FRIENDS YOU KNOW YOU CAN TRUST - THEY SAY ONE OF 39:17 THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN A SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZATION - 39:21 WHETHER IT'S A CHURCH OR A COMPANY? IT'S TRUST. 39:24 PEOPLE CAN WORK WELL AND BE PRODUCTIVE IF THEY'RE WORKING 39:27 WITH PEOPLE THEY CAN TRUST. IT'S TRUE IN A CHURCH. 39:32 YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT EVERYBODY HAS YOUR BACK. 39:35 IT'S - HOW DOES IT FEEL WHEN YOU HAVE - YOU DISCOVER FRIENDS ARE 39:39 GOSSIPING ABOUT YOU? THEY'RE FRIENDS WHEN THEY'RE IN 39:41 YOUR FACE, BUT THEN YOU FIND OUT, AS SOON AS THEY'RE NOT 39:44 AROUND, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT YOU. BY THE WAY, LET ME GIVE YOU 39:46 A CLUE: IF YOU'VE GOT FRIENDS THAT ARE ALWAYS TALKING TO YOU 39:50 ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE, JUST BE PRETTY SURE THAT WHEN YOU'RE NOT 39:53 AROUND, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT YOU. 39:55 IF YOU'VE GOT FRIENDS THAT ARE TELLING YOU OTHER PEOPLE'S 39:57 SECRETS, DON'T TELL THEM ANY SECRETS, BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE NOT 40:01 AROUND, THEY'RE GOING TO BE TELLING YOUR SECRETS TO SOMEONE 40:04 ELSE. ALRIGHT, READ FOR 40:06 US, PLEASE, LUKE 23. >>LUKE 23:20-21 - "PILATE, 40:14 THEREFORE, WISHING TO RELEASE JESUS, AGAIN CALLED OUT TO THEM. 40:19 BUT THEY SHOUTED, SAYING, 'CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM!'" 40:22 >>NOW, YOU KNOW, YOU READ IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES AND 40:25 OTHER PLACES, IN THE CROWD THAT WAS CALLING FOR JESUS TO BE 40:28 CRUCIFIED, WERE THEY ALL LONG-TIME ENEMIES? 40:31 OR COULD IT BE IN THAT CROWD THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE THAT 40:33 JESUS FED WITH MIRACULOUS BREAD? 40:37 COULD IT BE IN THAT CROWD - BECAUSE THE JEWS CAME FROM ALL 40:40 OVER FOR THE PASSOVER FEAST, SO THERE WERE - THEY'RE FROM 40:43 GALILEE - THAT'S HOW JESUS CAME DOWN - THEY CAME DOWN FROM 40:45 GALILEE WHERE HE DID HIS MIRACLES - THEY CAME FROM 40:47 NAZARETH, AND THERE MAY HAVE BEEN PEOPLE IN THAT CROWD THAT 40:50 HE HAD HEALED. YOU THINK, 'I'LL BE LOYAL FOREVER. 40:54 THIS GUY HEALED ME.' PEOPLE HE FORGAVE AND DID 40:58 MIRACLES FOR - AND WHEN THE POPULAR OPINION TURNED, 41:03 THEY SAID, 'CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM!' 41:06 SO JOB'S FRIENDS, WHO ORIGINALLY CAME TO COMFORT HIM - 41:11 AND JOB MAY HAVE HELPED HIS FRIENDS BEFORE. 41:14 HE MAY HAVE SET THEM UP IN THEIR BUSINESS AND MADE THEM 41:16 SUCCESSFUL. THEY - HE PROBABLY DID THEM 41:17 FAVORS AS FRIENDS, BUT THEN THEY TURNED ON HIM. 41:22 ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: MORE THAN THORNS AND THISTLES - AND IN 41:27 YOUR LESSON THERE'S ACTUALLY A QUOTE FROM THE HISTORIAN 41:30 HERODOTUS AND HE TALKS ABOUT A CULTURE OF PEOPLE, THAT WHEN A 41:34 BABY WAS BORN, THEY'D GATHER TOGETHER AND THEY'D MOURN FOR 41:37 THE BIRTH OF A BABY BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE INEVITABLE SORROW AND 41:41 SUFFERING THE CHILD WOULD ULTIMATELY FACE AND SO THEY 41:45 THOUGHT, 'NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOURN HIS BIRTH.' IT'S VERY 41:48 DIFFERENT FROM THE JEWISH MENTALITY, BUT YOU CAN SORT OF 41:50 UNDERSTAND IT. BABIES ARE BORN AND THEY'RE SO 41:52 INNOCENT AND THEY'RE SO PURE AND YET YOU LOOK AT THEM AND YOU 41:55 KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO FACE SOME TRIALS IN THEIR LIVES. 41:59 AND YOU WONDER IF MARY UNDERSTOOD, WHEN JESUS WAS BORN 42:04 - YOU KNOW, THE JOY - THE ANGELS TALKED ABOUT JOY, AND YET SIMON 42:08 SAID 'A SWORD WILL PIERCE YOUR OWN SOUL' AND SIMON SAID, 'THIS 42:13 CHILD IS FOR THE RISING AND FALLING OF MANY IN ISRAEL. 42:17 AND SO, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A CROSS IN HIS FUTURE. 42:23 BUT WHAT HAPPENED IN GENESIS 3:16? 42:28 LET'S LOOK AT THAT TOGETHER - AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR 42:29 ME, IN A MOMENT, JOB 2, VERSE 8, OKAY? 42:34 I'LL GET YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. LET'S READ GENESIS 3:16, AFTER 42:37 MAN AND WOMAN SINNED IT SAYS, "TO THE WOMAN HE SAID, 'I WILL 42:42 SURELY MULTIPLY YOUR PAIN IN CHILDBEARING; IN PAIN YOU 42:46 WILL CONCEIVE AND BRING FORTH CHILDREN.'" - SOME HAVE WONDERED 42:50 IF THAT WAS A REFERENCE TO MAYBE EVEN MORNING SICKNESS BECAUSE 42:55 IT'S TALKING ABOUT PAIN IN CONCEPTION, NOT JUST THE BIRTH. 42:59 THE FIRST PART'S TALKING ABOUT THE PAIN IN THE DELIVERY AND 43:02 THEN IT'S ALSO TALKING ABOUT PAIN IN CONCEPTION AND IT GOES 43:06 ON AND IT SAYS HERE, 'YOU'LL BRING FORTH YOUR CHILDREN. 43:10 NOW WHAT DOES A WOMAN SOMETIMES REPRESENT? 43:12 >>CHURCH. >>DOES IT SOMETIMES REQUIRE 43:16 LABOR FOR A CHURCH TO BRING FORTH NEW SOULS? 43:22 DID THE CHURCH OFTEN GROW DURING TIMES OF PERSECUTION? 43:25 >>YES. >>IT WAS DURING THESE TIMES OF 43:27 TRAVAIL THAT THE CHURCH WAS BORN. 43:32 THE NATION OF ISRAEL, WAS IT BORN EASILY OR WAS IT BORN 43:36 THROUGH PLAGUES? BUT THERE WAS - THE BIRTH OF 43:41 A NATION CAME OUT OF THOSE PLAGUES. 43:43 AND SO, SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NEW LIFE THROUGH 43:46 STRUGGLES. WHEN A PERSON IS CONVERTED, 43:49 IS THERE SOMETIMES A BATTLE - A FIGHT THAT GOES ON TO 43:52 SURRENDER YOUR LIFE? YEAH, AND PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, 43:56 SOMETIMES PASTORS MAKE IT SAY - 'JUST SAY THIS PRAYER AND 43:59 EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE OKAY.' WELL, IT IS TRUE. 44:01 YOU CAN COME TO JESUS JUST WITH A SIMPLE PRAYER, BUT YOU'RE NOT 44:04 BEING TOTALLY HONEST WITH PEOPLE IF YOU DON'T TELL THEM 'THE 44:06 DEVIL IS GOING TO TRY TO SINK HIS CLAWS IN YOU AND KEEP YOU 44:09 FROM COMING TO CHRIST' - JUST LIKE THE PHARAOH TRIED TO KEEP 44:12 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM COMING OUT. SO, WITH THE FALL OF 44:15 ADAM, THERE WERE TRIALS. A CURSE CAME ON THE CREATION. 44:20 AND TO ADAM HE SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU HAVE LISTENED TO THE VOICE 44:22 OF YOUR WIFE AND HAVE EATEN OF THE TREE THAT I COMMANDED YOU, 44:25 'YOU SHOULD NOT EAT,' CURSED IS THE GROUND FOR YOUR SAKE. 44:29 IN PAIN YOU WILL EAT OF IT ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE; THORNS 44:32 AND THISTLES IT WILL BRING FORTH." - 44:34 NOW, IS SOUL WINNING SOMETIMES COMPARED TO FARMING IN THE 44:38 BIBLE? IS FARMING HARD WORK? >>YES. 44:43 >>IS THERE TRAVAIL AND PAIN IN FARMING? 44:46 BUT IT'S REALLY GOOD TO GET THE FRUIT, RIGHT? 44:48 >>RIGHT. >>DO YOU HAVE TO HAVE PATIENCE 44:50 IF YOU WANT TO BE A FARMER? YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE PATIENCE TO 44:53 HAVE A BABY - NINE MONTHS - AND THOSE LAST FEW WEEKS 44:58 SEEM TO TAKE FOREVER. SO THERE'S THOSE TRIALS. 45:03 AND THEN HE GOES ON AND IT SAYS HERE, 'THORNS AND THISTLES IT'LL 45:06 BRING FORTH TO YOU' - ARE THERE GOING TO BE THORNS IN HEAVEN? 45:12 DO YOU THINK, RIGHT WHEN SIN HAPPENED, ALL OF A SUDDEN THORNS 45:15 SPRANG OUT OF ALL THE PLANTS? I THINK IT WAS A 45:19 LITTLE DIFFERENT. DID GOD HAVE MOSQUITOS 45:20 IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? >>NO. 45:25 >>WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET BIT BY THEM IN HEAVEN. 45:28 YOU MIGHT THINK - NOW I CAN'T PROVE THIS, BUT JUST A KOOKY 45:30 THOUGHT THAT I'VE GOT IS THAT CACTUS ARE BEAUTIFUL. 45:34 THEY JUST HURT WHEN YOU TOUCH THEM BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT THORNS. 45:37 THEY HAVE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS. THEY'RE VERY INTERESTING - 45:40 I THINK IN HEAVEN - DO YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES A THORN HURT? 45:43 THE END IS HARD AND DEAD. DO YOU REALIZE THAT WHEN A THORN 45:46 IS ALIVE - YOU EVER TOUCH A ROSE THORN WHEN IT'S STILL 45:48 YOUNG AND GREEN? IT WON'T HURT YOU. IT'S LIKE A HAIR. 45:51 IT'S WHEN THEY DIE AND THEY GET HARD. 45:54 SO, IN HEAVEN, SOME OF THESE PLANTS MAY HAVE FUZZ ON THEM, 45:57 BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO HURT. NOW, I CAN'T PROVE THAT AND IT 46:00 DOESN'T REALLY MATTER, DOES IT? IT'S JUST MY THEORY. 46:05 AND THE MOSQUITOS WILL EAT FRUIT IN HEAVEN. 46:07 (LAUGHTER) THEY WON'T MAKE THAT ANNOYING 'NEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' THAT 46:13 GOES AROUND YOUR HEAD. ALRIGHT, READ FOR US JOB 2, 46:16 VERSE 8. >>"AND HE TOOK FOR HIMSELF A 46:19 POTSHERD WITH WHICH TO SCRAPE HIMSELF WHILE HE SAT IN 46:25 THE MIDST OF THE ASHES. >>YOU KNOW, IT WAS TYPICAL, IN 46:30 BIBLE TIMES, FOR A PERSON, WHEN THEY WERE IN A STATE OF 46:32 MOURNING, SOMETIMES THEY PUT DUST ON THEIR HEADS. 46:35 THEY'D THROW DUST IN THE AIR AND THEY'D GO SIT IN THE DUST OF THE 46:40 - YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAD CAMPFIRES AND THEY'D TAKE THE DUST OUTSIDE 46:42 THE CAMP AND THEY'D DUMP IT IN A BIG ASH PILE. 46:44 WE'VE GOT ONE OF THOSE BEHIND OUR HOUSE UP IN THE HILLS 46:46 BECAUSE WE GOT THE STOVE ASHES AND YOU TAKE IT OFF A LITTLE 46:49 WAYS FROM THE HOUSE - YOU JUST DUMP IT. 46:51 AND THEY WOULD GO OUT AND SIT IN THE ASH PILE AND THEY'D THINK 46:54 ABOUT THIS - DUST/ASHES - DUST AND ASHES - THE WORD IS OFTEN 46:57 SYNONYMOUS IN THE BIBLE, "DUST AND ASHES YOU ARE; UNTO DUST YOU 47:00 ARE GOING TO RETURN." AND SO, JOB, WHEN HE SAT ON THE 47:04 PILE OF ASHES, HE'S SAYING, 'LOOK, I AM DUST AND ASHES.' 47:07 IT'S A SIGN OF HUMBLING YOURSELF BEFORE THE LORD. 47:10 YOU CAN READ IN JOB 42, VERSE 6 - SAME PRINCIPLE. 47:14 IN JOB 42, VERSE 6 IT SAYS, 'THEREFORE, I ABHOR MYSELF AND 47:18 REPENT IN DUST AND ASHES. AND SO, ALL THE WAY FROM THE 47:22 BEGINNING TO THE END OF THE BOOK, JOB IS HUMBLING HIMSELF 47:25 AND SO GOD BLESSES HIM. LAST SECTION - NOW I'VE ALREADY 47:28 TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT. IT'S A SECTION 47:30 ABOUT JESUS AND JOB. WE STUDIED IN A PREVIOUS WEEK, 47:33 JESUS OUR REDEEMER , AND I WENT THROUGH, NOT ALL, BUT A NUMBER 47:37 OF PARALLELS THAT YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE BETWEEN JESUS AND JOB. 47:42 AND, FOR ONE THING, AND I MIGHT EVEN CALL OUT AND LET YOU FILL 47:46 IN SOME OF THE GAPS FOR ME. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JOB WAS A 47:50 PERFECT AND AN UPRIGHT MAN; ONE WHO LOVED GOD AND HATED EVIL. 47:55 JESUS - THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT HE WAS PERFECT; HE WAS AN 48:00 INNOCENT MAN THAT HAD BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED - JAMES 5:6, 48:05 "YOU HAVE CONDEMNED AND MURDERED THE RIGHTEOUS PERSON. 48:08 HE DOES NOT RESIST YOU." IN LUKE 11, SOMEONE SAID THAT 48:13 JESUS WAS - HE WAS TURNED ON BY HIS FRIENDS. 48:16 THEY MISUNDERSTOOD HIS MISSION. THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE CASTING OUT 48:19 DEVILS BY THE PRINCE OF DEVILS.' INSTEAD OF BEING THE SON OF GOD, 48:23 THEY SAID THAT HE WAS A PARTNER OF THE DEVIL. 48:26 AND YOU JUST LOOK AT A LOT OF THE EXPERIENCES OF JOB AND YOU 48:30 FIND THAT HE IS ECHOING THE TYPES OF CHRIST. 48:34 AND THE FAITH OF JOB IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS TRIALS - WHAT JOB 48:38 WENT THROUGH IS LIKE CHRIST ON THE CROSS - IT'S LIKE, ALSO, THE 48:41 GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE - 'THOUGH HE SLAY ME' - 'FATHER INTO YOUR 48:44 HANDS I WILL COMMEND MY SPIRIT' HE SAYS ON THE CROSS AND THEN HE 48:49 SAYS, 'NOT MY WILL, THY WILL BE DONE.' CAN YOU THINK OF ANY 48:52 OTHER WAYS THAT JOB AND JESUS THERE ARE SOME PARALLELS OR SOME 48:57 SIMILARITIES? HUH? >>THEY SUFFERED A LOT. 49:03 >>A LOT OF SUFFERING, ESPECIALLY DURING - THERE WAS A 49:06 CONCENTRATED TIME OF SUFFERING IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST - FROM 49:10 THURSDAY NIGHT - THAT'S THE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS - 49:13 FROM THURSDAY NIGHT TO SUNDAY MORNING - THE DEATH AND THE 49:15 SUFFERING. JOB FACED THE SECOND DEATH, YOU MIGHT SAY. 49:18 IT SEEMED LIKE HE WAS TOTALLY SEPARATED FROM GOD. 49:22 DID JESUS ASK 'WHY?' ON THE CROSS? 'MY FATHER, MY FATHER, 49:27 WHY?' - NOW, OF COURSE, CHRIST HADN'T LOST FAITH. 49:29 HE WAS UTTERING PSALM 22, BUT HE DID THAT AS A SYMBOL. 49:32 JOB WAS WONDERING, 'WHY HAS THIS HAPPENED TO ME?' 49:36 DID HIS OWN FRIENDS SORT OF TURN ON HIM? 49:40 WAS JESUS BETRAYED BY ONE OF HIS FRIENDS? WAS JOB STRIPPED? 49:45 WAS JESUS STRIPPED? >>YES. 49:49 >>WHEN HE WENT TO THE CROSS - IT SAYS, 'JOB TORE HIS CLOTHES.' 49:53 THE PHYSICAL SUFFERING OF JOB, THE PHYSICAL SUFFERING OF JESUS. 49:58 ONE OF THE RICHEST MEN - SEEMED TO OWN EVERYTHING - JESUS HAD 50:02 EVERYTHING BEFORE HIS SUFFERINGS. 50:04 HE LEFT HEAVEN - JOB LEFT THE CITY AND WENT OUT TO THE DUMP. 50:08 JESUS LEFT GLORY AND HE WENT TO THIS WORLD, WHICH IS, BY 50:11 COMPARISON, A DUMP. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 50:14 ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB. FINALLY TALKS ABOUT JOB - ONE OF 50:17 THE LAST CHAPTERS IT TALKS ABOUT THIS BATTLE WITH LEVIATHAN AND 50:20 CHRIST BATTLES WITH THE DEVIL. SO YOU SEE ALL THROUGH THE BOOK 50:24 OF JOB THERE'S THESE PARALLELS. JOB IS REALLY TEACHING 50:27 US ABOUT JESUS. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS THAT YOU HAD 50:30 ABOUT PARALLELS THAT YOU SEE BETWEEN JOB AND JESUS. 50:34 NOT USED TO HAVING ME PUT YOU ON THE SPOT LIKE THIS, ARE YOU? 50:37 YOU GOT ONE? >>AFTER THE TRIAL HE 50:41 BECAME RICH AGAIN. >>YEAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 50:44 (INAUDIBLE) YEAH, AFTER JOB SUCCESSFULLY WENT THROUGH HIS 50:49 TRIALS, THEN HE WAS RESTORED WITH EVEN GREATER BLESSINGS. 50:54 JESUS HAS HAD EVEN GREATER GLORY IN THAT HE'S SHOWN HIS FIDELITY 50:59 BEFORE THE FATHER AND ALL THINGS ARE GOING TO - ARE PUT UNDER 51:02 CHRIST. CHRIST ASCENDED TO THE HEAVENS - 51:04 TO THE TEMPLES ABOVE AND - YEAH, SO THE GREATER GLORY AT THE END 51:08 YOU FIND IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST - YOU FIND IN THE STORY OF JOB. 51:10 MANY, MANY PARALLELS FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK. 51:13 WELL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, FRIENDS, BUT I'VE REALLY ENJOYED 51:14 THIS LAST 14 WEEKS STUDYING THE BOOK OF JOB BECAUSE IT GIVES US 51:19 A BETTER PICTURE OF JESUS, AMEN? I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO ARE 51:22 WATCHING, WE DO HAVE A FREE GIFT. 51:24 IT'S CALLED THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS . 51:26 IT'S AN INSPIRING BOOK BY JOE CREWS - IT IS FREE. 51:29 IT'S ON THE CONDITION YOU CALL, ASK FOR IT - ASK FOR OFFER #156 51:34 - YOU'VE GOT TO PROMISE TO READ IT AND THEN WE HOPE YOU'LL SHARE 51:36 IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. THE NUMBER TO CALL: 866-788-3966. 51:42 I KNOW IT'S ON THE SCREEN, BUT SOME PEOPLE RE-BROADCAST SABBATH 51:44 SCHOOL ON THE RADIO AND SO I'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE AND READ THE 51:47 NUMBER - 866-STUDY-MORE. GOD BLESS YOU. 51:50 WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT 51:53 WEEKEND - WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! - DON'T GO OFF THE AIR YET. 51:55 DON'T FORGET, GET YOUR QUARTERLY FOR THE NEW STUDY NEXT WEEK ON 52:00 THE HOLY SPIRIT. IF YOU'RE MEMBERS HERE AT 52:01 GRANITE BAY, WE'VE GOT COPIES OUT THERE. 52:03 IF YOU GO TO A LOCAL CHURCH, WE'RE FOUR WEEKS AHEAD. 52:06 YOU MAY WANT TO WAIT AND PICK THEM UP AT YOUR LOCAL CHURCH. 52:08 AND FOR OUR FRIENDS THAT WATCH ONLINE OR ON TV - THAT YOU CAN 52:12 OFTEN GO TO THE SABBATH SCHOOL WEBSITE - JUST TYPE IN 'SABBATH 52:16 SCHOOL' AND YOU CAN READ THESE ONLINE AS WELL. GOD BLESS YOU. 52:19 WE'LL STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 52:23 (MUSIC) >>FRIENDS, HAVE YOU EVER 52:33 HEARD OF THE BOWHEAD WHALE? THIS ENORMOUS LEVIATHAN IS THE 52:37 SECOND-LARGEST CREATURE IN THE WORLD. DARK AND STOCKY, IT ROAMS 52:41 THE FERTILE ARCTIC NORTHERN WATERS. THESE MASSIVE CREATURES 52:46 CAN BE MORE THAN 65-FEET LONG AND WEIGH MORE THAN 75 TONS. 52:50 THAT'S HEAVIER THAN THE SPACE SHUTTLE. 52:53 YET, IN SPITE OF THEIR TITANIC SIZE, THEY'RE ABLE TO LEAP 52:56 ENTIRELY OUT OF THE WATER. CAN YOU SAY 'BELLY FLOP'? 53:02 THE BOWHEAD WHALE GETS ITS NAME FROM ITS BOW-SHAPED SKULL - AND 53:05 THEY'VE GOT ONE GINORMOUS NOGGIN. 53:08 MATTER OF FACT, THEIR HEADS ARE ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THEIR BODY 53:10 SIZE, WHICH COMES IN HANDY WHEN YOU FIND OUT HOW THEY USE THEIR 53:13 HEADS. THEY'VE GOT VERY THICK SKULLS. 53:16 SOMETIMES THEY GET TRAPPED UNDER THE SURFACE AND THEY USE THEIR 53:20 HEADS TO RAM THE ICE. THEY CAN BREAK A BREATHING HOLE 53:23 IN THE ICE THAT IS A FOOT AND A HALF THICK. 53:26 FRIENDS, YOU HAVE TO JUST IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO 53:29 BE WALKING AROUND ON THE ARCTIC ICE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HAVE THE 53:32 GROUND BENEATH YOU CRACK AND SPLIT AND RISE AS ONE OF THESE 53:36 SEA MONSTERS PUSHES ITS HEAD UP TO BREATH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53:40 90 MINUTES. BECAUSE BOWHEADS MAKE THEIR 53:43 HOME IN THE COLDEST PART OF OUR WORLD, THEY HAVE THE THICKEST 53:46 BLUBBER OF ANY WHALE. BUT THIS, PLUS THEIR FRIENDLY 53:49 AND CURIOUS NATURE, MADE THEM PRIME TARGETS WHEN THE EUROPEAN 53:53 WHALERS DISCOVERED THE BOWHEADS. THEY HUNTED THEM 53:56 NEARLY TO EXTINCTION. FORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF 54:00 CONSERVATION EFFORTS, WE'VE SLOWLY SEEN THEIR NUMBERS BEGIN 54:03 TO INCREASE SINCE THE 60S. ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING FACTS 54:07 ABOUT THE BOWHEAD WHALE IS ITS LONGEVITY. 54:10 SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED, BY EVALUATING HARPOON TIPS FOUND IN 54:14 THEIR SKULL, AND EXAMINING THEIR EYE TISSUE, THERE ARE BOWHEAD 54:17 WHALES OUT THERE THAT ARE PROBABLY OVER 200 YEARS OLD. 54:22 YOU REALIZE THAT MEANS THERE ARE BOWHEAD WHALES SWIMMING THE 54:25 OCEANS RIGHT NOW THAT WERE ALIVE BEFORE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS 54:29 ELECTED PRESIDENT. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? 54:32 AMONG THE OTHER AMAZING MEGA-FACTS ABOUT THE 54:35 BOWHEAD WHALE, IS ITS MEGA-MOUTH. 54:38 THEY HAVE THE LARGEST MOUTH OF ANY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 54:41 AND WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR PIE HOLE FULL EXTENDED, IT'S LARGE 54:44 ENOUGH TO PARK A MEDIUM-SIZED SUV INSIDE. 54:48 YET, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THEY'VE GOT SUCH BIG MOUTHS, 54:51 THEY SURVIVE BY EATING THE VERY SMALLEST CREATURES IN THE OCEAN 54:54 - PLANKTON, KRILL, AND OTHER MICROSCOPIC ANIMALS. 54:59 FRIENDS, I'M ALWAYS AMAZED BY THE CREATURES GOD HAS MADE. 55:02 THIS BOWHEAD WHALE IS ABLE TO DIVE TO THE DEEPEST OCEANS. 55:05 THEY CAN BREAK THROUGH THE ICE AND MOVE MOUNTAINS WITH THEIR 55:07 HEAD AND COMPLETELY LEAVE THE WATER AND FLY THROUGH THE AIR. 55:11 AND YET, THEY DO ALL THAT BY GAINING STRENGTH FROM ALMOST 55:14 MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS. IT HELPS US REMEMBER THAT WE 55:18 SURVIVE THROUGH THE LITTLE PROMISES IN GOD'S WORD. 55:21 JESUS, WHEN TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL, HE QUOTED JUST A FEW 55:24 LITTLE VERSES AND HE SENT THE ENEMY RUNNING. 55:27 YOU CAN ALSO HAVE THAT SAME DURABILITY AND LONG LIFE AS THE 55:30 BOWHEAD WHALE, BY TRUSTING IN GOD'S WORD AND HIS PROMISES. 55:38 (MUSIC) 55:46 >>AMAZING FACTS. CHANGED LIVES. 55:56 >>I GREW UP IN A FAMILY THAT WAS VERY SATURATED WITH GOD. 56:00 WE HAD MORNING WORSHIP; WE HAD EVENING WORSHIP. 56:03 WE WERE TAUGHT FROM YOUNG CHILDREN TO HAVE PERSONAL 56:06 DEVOTIONS EACH DAY. BUT, FOR WHATEVER REASON, I 56:09 SEEMED TO ALWAYS FIND MYSELF ALONE. I NEVER REALLY HAD A BIG 56:16 GROUP OF FRIENDS AND IT ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE LIKE FRIENDS WERE 56:19 JUST TAKEN AWAY FROM ME. I WOULD PRAY FOR FRIENDS AND THEN I'D 56:23 MEET SOMEONE AND SIX MONTHS LATER THEN THEY'D MOVE TO 56:25 WASHINGTON, YOU KNOW, ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. 56:28 AND, SO FINALLY I WAS JUST LIKE, 'I'M NOT - I'M NOT GOING TO PRAY 56:31 FOR ANYMORE FRIENDS BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO LOSE THEM. 56:39 BUT OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS, AS I GOT CLOSER TO GOD, I STARTED 56:41 TO BE ABLE TO BE THANKFUL FOR THE ALONE TIMES BECAUSE I WAS 56:46 FORCED, IN THAT ALONENESS, TO SEEK GOD. 56:52 THAT IS PROBABLY WHAT HAS MADE ME WHO I AM AND GIVEN ME THE 56:57 EXPERIENCE WITH GOD THAT I HAVE NOW. 57:01 THE PLACE WHERE I FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE IS BEING ALONE WITH 57:05 GOD. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE 57:11 QUESTIONS ABOUT 'WHERE IS GOD WHEN IT HURTS?' 'IF GOD IS SUCH 57:15 A LOVING GOD, WHY IS THE WORLD SO BAD?' EMBRACE THE PAIN. 57:25 EMBRACE THE HARD TIMES AND LET GOD REVEAL HIMSELF THROUGH THAT, 57:33 BECAUSE HE HAS ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW 57:36 HOW TO ASK. 57:46 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 57:50 BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 57:59 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM 58:04 OR CALL 1-800-538-7275. 58:09 (MUSIC) |
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