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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT YOU
HAVE JOINED US, FROM ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD,
TO STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER.
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WHAT AN EXCITING
TIME WE ARE LIVING IN.
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JESUS IS ABOUT TO COME AND
WE JUST KEEP STUDYING TOGETHER,
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SINGING TOGETHER, PRAYING
TOGETHER - AND SOON WE WILL SEE
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HIM TOGETHER IN THOSE
CLOUDS. I'M SO LOOKING
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FORWARD TO THAT DAY.
THERE'S A LITTLE BOOK BY JOE
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WITH SALVATION, AMEN?
REJOICE THE LORD IS KING!
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WE HAVE EVERY REASON TO REJOICE
BECAUSE HE IS KING AND HE IS
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COMING TO GET US. WE'RE
GOING TO SING THE FIRST,
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THE SECOND, AND THE LAST VERSES
OF HYMN #221. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>LET'S PRAY. OUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE DO
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HAVE SO MUCH TO REJOICE
ABOUT. EVEN THOUGH WE LIVE IN A
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SIN-SICK AND DARK WORLD, YOU
HAVE PROMISED US IN YOUR WORD
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THAT YOU ARE COMING SOON AND WE
LOOK AROUND AND WE KNOW THAT IS
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TRUE BECAUSE YOUR WORD IS TRUE.
SO, KEEP US REJOICING, LORD.
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KEEP US WINNING SOULS FOR
YOU. GIVE US YOUR SPIRIT IN OUR
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HEARTS THAT PEOPLE
SEE YOU LIVING THROUGH US.
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AND NOW, AS WE STUDY ABOUT PETER
AND HIS CONVERSION AND WHAT HE
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WAS ALL ABOUT, LORD, IT GIVES US
HOPE THAT YOU CHANGE HEARTS FROM
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THE INSIDE OUT AND YOU
CAN MAKE US MIGHTY FOR YOU.
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SO WE PRAY THESE THINGS, LORD,
IN YOUR PRECIOUS AND HOLY NAME.
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IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN.
AT THIS TIME OUR STUDY WILL BE
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BROUGHT TO US BY
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH,
JO AND OUR MUSICIANS.
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MORNING, FRIENDS. >>MORNING.
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>>I WANT TO WELCOME, ALSO, THOSE
WHO ARE PART OF THE EXTENDED
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CLASS THAT ARE WATCHING
WITH US RIGHT NOW, VIA SATELLITE
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TELEVISION AND OTHERS AROUND THE
WORLD AND THROUGH THE INTERNET.
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AND WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS
BECAUSE WE'RE JUST NOW INTO THE
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SECOND CHAPTER IN OUR NEW
QUARTERLY DEALING WITH 1 AND
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2 PETER. IT'S
CALLED FEED MY SHEEP.
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AND, OF COURSE, THAT PHRASE,
'FEED MY SHEEP' IS NOT FOUND IN
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1 AND 2 PETER. IT'S
ACTUALLY FOUND IN THE END
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OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, WHERE
THREE TIMES JESUS SAID, 'PETER,
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IF YOU LOVE ME, FEED MY SHEEP;
FEED MY LAMBS; FEED MY SHEEP'
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- HE SAYS IT THREE TIMES.
SO, WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE FOR
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TODAY'S LESSON AND THE MEMORY
VERSE COMES TO US FROM 1 PETER
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1:22, AND I HOPE
YOU'LL SAY THAT ALONG WITH ME.
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HERE IN YOUR LESSON IT'S GOT
IT IN THE NIV VERSION, BUT IT'S
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1 PETER 1:22 - ARE YOU READY?
"NOW THAT YOU HAVE PURIFIED
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YOURSELVES BY OBEYING THE TRUTH
SO THAT YOU HAVE SINCERE LOVE
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FOR EACH OTHER, LOVE ONE
ANOTHER DEEPLY, FROM THE HEART."
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SO, PART OF THIS LESSON, OF
COURSE, IS TALKING ABOUT LOVE.
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IT'S ALSO REALLY A LESSON
ABOUT HOW TO HAVE HOPE AMIDST
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THE TRIALS. NOW,
LAST WEEK, WE REALLY JUST
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DID AN INTRODUCTION
TALKING ABOUT PETER.
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THIS WEEK, WE'RE
GOING TO GET INTO THE BOOK.
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AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO, SINCE
OUR MISSION TODAY - I REALLY
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LIKE WHEN THINGS ARE DONE IN
CLEAN SEGMENTS, AND OUR WRITER
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OF THE LESSON, BASICALLY, IS
DEDICATING OUR STUDY TODAY INTO
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THE FIRST CHAPTER. THAT'S REAL
EASY. SO, YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT
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TO DO? JUST TO MAKE SURE WE
AT LEAST GET THROUGH THE FIRST
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CHAPTER? LET'S READ IT.
SO, IF YOU GO TO 1 PETER - THE
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FIRST LETTER OF PETER - CHAPTER
1, I'M GOING TO READ THROUGH
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THOSE 25 VERSES THERE, THEN
WE'RE GOING TO BACK UP AND WE'RE
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GOING TO TAKE THEM APART PIECE
BY PIECE IN OUR LESSON STUDY.
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"PETER, AN APOSTLE OF
JESUS CHRIST," - BY THE WAY, I'M
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READING FROM THE NEW KING JAMES
VERSION HERE - "TO THE PILGRIMS
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OF THE DISPERSION IN PONTUS,
GALATIA, CAPPADOCIA, ASIA, AND
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BITHYNIA, ELECT ACCORDING TO THE
FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER,
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IN SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT,
FOR OBEDIENCE AND SPRINKLING OF
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THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST: GRACE
TO YOU AND PEACE BE MULTIPLIED.
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BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO
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ACCORDING TO HIS ABUNDANT
MERCY HAS BEGOTTEN US AGAIN TO A
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LIVING HOPE THROUGH THE
RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST
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FROM THE DEAD, TO AN INHERITANCE
INCORRUPTIBLE AND UNDEFILED AND
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THAT DOES NOT FADE AWAY,
RESERVED IN HEAVEN FOR YOU, WHO
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ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF
GOD THROUGH FAITH FOR SALVATION
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READY TO BE
REVEALED IN THE LAST TIME.
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IN THIS YOU GREATLY REJOICE,
THOUGH NOW FOR A LITTLE WHILE,
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IF NEED BE, YOU HAVE BEEN
GRIEVED BY VARIOUS TRIALS, THAT
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THE GENUINENESS OF YOUR FAITH,
BEING MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN
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GOLD THAT PERISHES, THOUGH IT IS
TESTED BY FIRE, MAY BE FOUND TO
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PRAISE, HONOR, AND GLORY AT THE
REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, WHOM
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HAVING NOT SEEN YOU LOVE.
THOUGH NOW YOU DO NOT SEE HIM,
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YET BELIEVING, YOU REJOICE WITH
JOY INEXPRESSIBLE AND FULL OF
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GLORY, RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR
FAITH - THE SALVATION OF YOUR
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SOULS. OF THIS
SALVATION THE PROPHETS
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HAVE INQUIRED AND SEARCHED
CAREFULLY, WHO PROPHESIED OF THE
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GRACE THAT WOULD COME TO YOU,
SEARCHING WHAT, OR WHAT MANNER
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OF TIME, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST
WHO WAS IN THEM WAS INDICATING
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WHEN HE TESTIFIED BEFOREHAND
THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST AND THE
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GLORIES THAT WOULD FOLLOW.
TO THEM IT WAS REVEALED THAT,
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NOT TO THEMSELVES, BUT TO US
THEY WERE MINISTERING THE THINGS
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WHICH NOW HAVE BEEN REPORTED
TO YOU THROUGH THOSE WHO HAVE
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PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO YOU
BY THE HOLY SPIRIT SENT FROM
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HEAVEN - THINGS WHICH
ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO.
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THEREFORE GIRD UP THE LOINS
OF YOUR MIND, BE SOBER, AND REST
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YOUR HOPE FULLY UPON THE GRACE
THAT IS TO BE BROUGHT TO YOU AT
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THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST;
AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN, NOT
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CONFORMING YOURSELVES TO
THE FORMER LUSTS, AS IN YOUR
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IGNORANCE; BUT AS HE WHO CALLED
YOU IS HOLY, YOU ALSO BE HOLY IN
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ALL YOUR CONDUCT, BECAUSE IT
IS WRITTEN, 'BE HOLY, FOR I AM
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HOLY.' AND IF YOU CALL ON THE
FATHER, WHO WITHOUT PARTIALITY
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JUDGES ACCORDING TO EACH
ONE'S WORK, CONDUCT YOURSELVES
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THROUGHOUT THE TIME OF YOUR STAY
HERE IN FEAR; KNOWING THAT YOU
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WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH
CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, LIKE SILVER
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OR GOLD, FROM YOUR AIMLESS
CONDUCT RECEIVED BY TRADITION
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FROM YOUR FATHERS, BUT WITH THE
PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF
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A LAMB WITHOUT
BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT.
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HE INDEED WAS FOREORDAINED
BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE
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WORLD, BUT WAS MANIFEST IN THESE
LAST TIMES FOR YOU WHO THROUGH
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HIM BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO RAISED
HIM FROM THE DEAD AND GAVE HIM
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GLORY, SO THAT YOUR
FAITH AND HOPE ARE IN GOD.
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SINCE YOU HAVE PURIFIED
YOUR SOULS IN OBEYING THE TRUTH
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THROUGH THE SPIRIT IN SINCERE
LOVE OF THE BRETHREN, LOVE ONE
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ANOTHER FERVENTLY WITH A PURE
HEART, HAVING BEEN BORN AGAIN,
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NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED BUT
INCORRUPTIBLE, THROUGH THE WORD
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OF GOD WHICH LIVES AND ABIDES
FOREVER, BECAUSE 'ALL FLESH IS
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AS GRASS, AND ALL THE GLORY OF
MAN AS THE FLOWER OF THE GRASS.
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THE GRASS WITHERS, AND ITS
FLOWER FALLS AWAY, BUT THE WORD
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OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.'
NOW THIS IS THE WORD WHICH BY
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THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED
TO YOU." OKAY? WE CAN GO NOW.
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WE DID OUR STUDY. I
WANTED TO MAKE SURE AND GET
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THROUGH THAT FIRST CHAPTER
SO WE, NOW, HAVE KIND OF A BROAD
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CONTEXT OF WHAT
PETER IS TALKING ABOUT.
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ALRIGHT, WHAT
BOOK ARE WE STUDYING?
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>>1 PETER. >>1
PETER. WHERE YOU SAY, '1
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PETER' WHAT DOES THAT INDICATE?
>>THERE'S MORE THAN ONE.
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>>THERE'S MORE THAN ONE.
YOU'VE GOT A SEQUENCE HERE.
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HOW DO WE KNOW THAT YOU
CAN TRUST THAT THIS IS THE BOOK
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CALLED 1 PETER? YOU
KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, IF
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YOU LOOK IN 2 PETER, HE ACTUALLY
REFERENCES - LOOK IN 2 PETER
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CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1 - IN 2
PETER HE SAYS, 'NOW, THIS IS THE
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SECOND LETTER THAT I'M WRITING
TO YOU, BELOVED - HE ADDRESSES
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TO THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE.
AND WHERE THERE'S A SECOND
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THERE MUST BE A WHAT? >>FIRST.
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>>SEE, WHEN YOU HAVE A FIRST,
THERE COULD BE A THIRTIETH, BUT
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WHEN YOU HAVE A SECOND YOU
KNOW THERE IS AT LEAST A FIRST.
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AND SO, WE - THIS IS, OF COURSE,
THE FIRST LETTER THAT PETER
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WROTE. AND WE'RE
JUST GOING TO GO POINT
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BY POINT, NOW,
THROUGH THESE VERSES.
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THE FIRST THING WE REALLY WANT
TO TALK ABOUT IS 'WHO IS THE
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LETTER WRITTEN TO?'
'WHO'S HE SPEAKING TO?'
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THE FIRST THING HE TELLS US
THERE IS, 'PETER, AN APOSTLE OF
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JESUS CHRIST, TO THE PILGRIMS
OF THE DISPERSION IN PONTUS,
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GALATIA,
CAPPADOCIA, ASIA, AND BITHYNIA'.
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NOW, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT
THE PILGRIMS - 'TO THOSE WHO ARE
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AMONG THE DISPERSED' - YOU'VE
PROBABLY HEARD THE TERM BEFORE
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'TO DISPERSE' AND THERE IS A
WORD DIASPORA - IT MEANS - OR
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THE DISPORIA - IT'S TALKING
ABOUT A GROUP WHO HAS BEEN
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SPREAD ABROAD. FOR
INSTANCE, YOU'VE GOT - LET
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ME LOOK AT THE WORD DEFINITIONS
FOR YOU - PART 1, 'THE
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SCATTERING OF THE JEWS TO
COUNTRIES OUTSIDE OF PALESTINE,
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AFTER THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY'
WAS CALLED THE DIASPORA.
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AND THEN YOU HAVE 'ANY
GROUP MIGRATION OR FLIGHT FROM A
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COUNTRY OR REGION DISPERSED
OUTSIDE ITS TRADITIONAL
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HOMELAND'. I
REMEMBER - TWO DIFFERENT TIMES
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NOW - THIS LAST YEAR
WE WERE IN PUERTO RICO.
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DO YOU KNOW THERE ARE
MORE PUERTO RICANS THAT LIVE IN
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AMERICA THAN
LIVE IN PUERTO RICO?
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THERE ARE MORE PUERTO RICANS
DISPERSED - THE ECONOMY IN
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PUERTO RICO IS VERY POOR RIGHT
NOW - I FORGET - YOU KNOW, 16
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BILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT OR
SOMETHING - AND, SO, A LOT OF
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PEOPLE LOOKING FOR A BETTER LIFE
HAVE LEFT AND THERE ARE NOW MORE
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PUERTO RICANS
NOT IN PUERTO RICO.
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JAMAICA - JAMAICA
HAS A GREAT DISPERSION.
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THE PHILIPPINES - ALMOST
EVERYWHERE I GO IN THE WORLD I
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FIND FILIPINOS. WHEN
I WENT TO - YOU GO TO
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EUROPE - IN ENGLAND THEY'VE
GOT A FILIPINO CHURCH. GERMANY -
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FILIPINO CHURCH - IN THE
MIDDLE EAST - SEVERAL FILIPINO
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CHURCHES, BECAUSE THEY OFTEN
GO AND THEY TAKE SOME OF THE
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REGULAR JOBS THERE. AND SO,
WHEN WE DID EVANGELISM IN THE
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PHILIPPINES, WE REALLY
WERE DOING GLOBAL EVANGELISM,
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BECAUSE THEY THEN STREAMED
IT TO THEIR FRIENDS ALL OVER THE
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WORLD - THAT ARE DISPERSED.
AND THAT'S WHERE YOU ALSO GET
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THE TERM 'DISPERSED' AS IN
SEEDS. NOW, IN A SECOND, I'M
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GOING TO ASK SOMEBODY TO READ
JAMES 1:1 - WHO'S GOING TO HAVE
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THAT? WE'LL GET YOU READY FOR
THAT, JOE, BUT BEFORE WE GET TO
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IT, I'M GOING TO READ EPHESIANS
1:1, "PAUL, AN APOSTLE OF JESUS
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CHRIST BY THE WILL OF GOD, TO
THE SAINTS WHO ARE IN EPHESUS,
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AND FAITHFUL IN CHRIST JESUS:"
- NOW, PETER ALSO IDENTIFIES
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HIMSELF AS 'PETER, AN APOSTLE'
- HOW MANY APOSTLES WERE THERE?
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TWELVE. BUT, WHEN
PAUL WROTE THIS, DID
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PAUL CALL HIMSELF
AN APOSTLE? >>YES.
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>>HOW MANY DOES
THAT MAKE? >>THIRTEEN.
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>>BUT, WHEN PAUL WROTE
THIS, JAMES HAD BEEN KILLED.
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SO HOW MANY DOES
THAT MAKE? >>TWELVE.
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>>WELL, YOU KNOW, WE WONDER
IF THEY TRIED TO MAINTAIN THE
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NUMBER TWELVE. OTHERS
HAVE ARGUED THAT APOLLOS
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BECAME REFERRED
TO AS AN APOSTLE.
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WHAT WAS THE CRITERIA TO BE
AN APOSTLE IN THE EARLY DAYS?
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YOU NEEDED TO BE SOMEBODY -
TECHNICALLY - TYPICALLY - WHO
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ACTUALLY HEARD
PERSONALLY FROM JESUS.
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HOW DOES PAUL QUALIFY?
WHEN - DID PAUL PERSONALLY
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GET A MESSAGE FROM JESUS? >>YES.
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>>YEAH, AND SO THE WRITINGS
OF THE APOSTLES HAD HIGHER
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CREDIBILITY AND THAT'S WHY
PAUL ALWAYS SAYS, 'AN APOSTLE OF
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JESUS CHRIST, BY THE WILL
OF GOD' - 'JESUS TALKED TO ME.
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HE CALLED ME
PERSONALLY TO BE AN APOSTLE'.
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BUT SOME HAVE ALSO SAID THAT
EVEN APOLLOS, WHO WAS SORT OF A
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SECOND GENERATION APOSTLE - BUT
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT
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PETER, YOU KNOW,
HE WALKED WITH JESUS.
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HE HAD FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE
HERE - AS JOHN SAYS, YOU KNOW,
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'WE LEANED ON HIS BREAST - HE
BROKE BREAD AND HANDED IT TO US
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- SPIRITUALLY AND LITERALLY'.
SO WE KNOW WHO WROTE IT AND,
00:14:35.44\00:14:38.47
NOW, WHO IS HE WRITING TO?
GO AHEAD, READ - WE TOLD YOU
00:14:38.47\00:14:41.91
HE'S WRITING TO THE DIASPORA,
BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:14:41.91\00:14:44.21
READ JAMES 1:1
FOR US, JOE. >>OKAY.
00:14:44.21\00:14:47.72
JAMES 1:1, "JAMES, A BONDSERVANT
OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS
00:14:47.72\00:14:53.99
CHRIST, TO THE TWELVE TRIBES
WHICH ARE SCATTERED ABROAD:
00:14:53.99\00:14:57.63
GREETINGS."
>>ALRIGHT, SO PETER'S WRITING TO
00:14:57.63\00:15:00.90
THE DISPERSED - TO THE PILGRIMS
- AND THEN JAMES IS ALSO SAYING
00:15:00.90\00:15:05.87
HE'S WRITING TO THE TWELVE
TRIBES. MOST SCHOLARS BELIEVE
00:15:05.87\00:15:10.44
THAT PETER IS WRITING TO THESE
CHURCHES THERE IN ASIA MINOR
00:15:10.44\00:15:15.78
THAT HAVE SYNAGOGUES IN
THEM WHERE THERE ARE JEWS.
00:15:15.78\00:15:20.45
NOW, I JUST WANT YOU TO NOTICE
SOMETHING - I'M GOING TO READ
00:15:20.45\00:15:23.75
GALATIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 7,
"BUT ON THE CONTRARY, WHEN THEY
00:15:23.75\00:15:29.66
SAW THAT THE GOSPEL FOR THE
UNCIRCUMCISED" - THE GREEKS -
00:15:29.66\00:15:32.69
THE GENTILES - "HAD BEEN
COMMITTED TO ME," - PAUL SAYS -
00:15:32.69\00:15:36.63
"AS THE GOSPEL FOR THE
CIRCUMCISED" - THE JEWS - "WAS
00:15:36.63\00:15:39.93
TO PETER (FOR HE WHO WORKED
EFFECTIVELY IN PETER FOR THE
00:15:39.93\00:15:44.51
APOSTLESHIP TO THE CIRCUMCISED
ALSO WORKED EFFECTIVELY IN ME
00:15:44.51\00:15:47.24
TOWARD THE GENTILES)" - NOW WHAT
IS - WHAT IS PAUL SAYING HERE?
00:15:47.24\00:15:51.91
IS PAUL SAYING THAT 'I REALLY
BECAME A SPECIALIST TO THE
00:15:51.91\00:15:55.92
GENTILES'? 'PETER
WAS A SPECIALIST IN
00:15:55.92\00:15:58.82
PREACHING THE GOSPEL TO THE
JEWS' - THAT'S SORT OF WHAT HE'S
00:15:58.82\00:16:01.69
SAYING, BUT WAS THAT EXCLUSIVE?
WHEN PAUL FIRST ENTERED A TOWN,
00:16:01.69\00:16:07.36
WHERE WAS THE FIRST
PLACE HE STARTED PREACHING?
00:16:07.36\00:16:09.90
HE'D GO TO THE SYNAGOGUE
AND, IF THEY LISTENED, GREAT.
00:16:09.90\00:16:13.10
IN BEREA THEY WERE NOBLE - THEY
STUDIED THE SCRIPTURES - THE
00:16:13.10\00:16:16.04
PEOPLE IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
SOME WERE NOT SO NOBLE AND PAUL
00:16:16.04\00:16:18.91
SAID, 'YOU PROVE YOURSELVES
UNWORTHY OF THE WORD OF GOD, LO
00:16:18.91\00:16:22.74
WE TURN TO THE GENTILES.'
HE'D GO TO A COMMUNITY - OUT OF
00:16:22.74\00:16:26.05
RESPECT FOR THE JEWS THAT
ALREADY HAD THE WORD, HE'D START
00:16:26.05\00:16:29.38
WITH THEM BECAUSE THEY
ALREADY HAD THE FOUNDATION.
00:16:29.38\00:16:33.49
AND THEN HE WOULD GO
NEXT AND TALK TO THE GENTILES.
00:16:33.49\00:16:36.89
AND SO, IN THE SAME WAY, PAUL,
HE WOULD PREACH TO GENTILES AND
00:16:36.89\00:16:42.43
JEWS, PETER WOULD DO BOTH AS
WELL. BUT PETER HAD A SPECIAL
00:16:42.43\00:16:46.07
MINISTRY TO THE JEWS UP THERE
IN ASIA MINOR. LET ME READ SOME
00:16:46.07\00:16:49.40
MORE TO YOU FROM GALATIANS.
GO TO GALATIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE
00:16:49.40\00:16:52.97
11 - STILL TALKING ABOUT WHO THE
BOOK WAS WRITTEN TO, "BUT WHEN
00:16:52.97\00:16:56.51
CEPHAS" - WHO WAS
CEPHAS? DO SOME OF YOU, IN YOUR
00:16:56.51\00:16:59.38
TRANSLATION,
DOES IT SAY 'PETER'?
00:16:59.38\00:17:01.12
>>YES. >>"BUT
WHEN CEPHAS CAME TO
00:17:01.12\00:17:03.15
ANTIOCH, I OPPOSED HIM TO
HIS FACE, BECAUSE HE STOOD
00:17:03.15\00:17:06.05
CONDEMNED. FOR BEFORE CERTAIN
MEN CAME FROM JAMES, HE WAS
00:17:06.05\00:17:10.69
EATING WITH THE GENTILES;"
- NOW, WHO WAS PETER WITH?
00:17:10.69\00:17:13.36
>>THE GENTILES. >>THE GENTILES.
00:17:13.36\00:17:15.33
"BUT WHEN THEY CAME" - FROM
JAMES - THAT WAS THE JEWS FROM
00:17:15.33\00:17:18.00
JERUSALEM BEING SENT BY THE
BROTHER OF JESUS, NAMED JAMES -
00:17:18.00\00:17:20.97
HE WAS SORT OF THE CHAIRMAN
OF THE BOARD DOWN THERE IN
00:17:20.97\00:17:22.37
JERUSALEM - "BUT WHEN THEY CAME"
- FROM JAMES - "HE DREW BACK" -
00:17:22.37\00:17:25.91
HE SAID, 'OH
WHAT WILL THEY THINK?'
00:17:25.91\00:17:27.21
- AND THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF
PREJUDICE GOING ON THERE AND SO
00:17:27.21\00:17:29.74
THEY STARTED SAYING, 'WELL, I
CAN HANG OUT WITH THE GENTILES
00:17:29.74\00:17:33.11
BUT WHEN THE JEWS COME, I'M
GOING TO ACT LIKE THE GENTILES
00:17:33.11\00:17:35.05
AREN'T CLEAN.' YOU REMEMBER WHEN
PETER FIRST WENT TO THE HOUSE OF
00:17:35.05\00:17:39.52
CORNELIUS, AND HE SAID, 'I JUST
NEED TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW, IT'S
00:17:39.52\00:17:43.29
NOT LAWFUL FOR ME, BEING A
JEW, TO COME INTO THE HOUSE OF A
00:17:43.29\00:17:47.23
GENTILE, BUT GOD HAS TOLD ME NOT
TO CALL ANY MAN UNCLEAN.' YOU
00:17:47.23\00:17:51.73
KNOW, THAT VISION PETER HAD
ABOUT THE SHEEP - THE SHEET THAT
00:17:51.73\00:17:54.87
CAME DOWN AND HAD THE
UNCLEAN ANIMALS IN IT?
00:17:54.87\00:17:58.17
AND HE, EXPLAINING THAT VISION,
HE SAID, 'GOD HAS TOLD ME NOT TO
00:17:58.17\00:18:01.01
CALL ANY MAN UNCLEAN.' AND SO
- BUT HE KNEW THAT SOME OF THE
00:18:01.01\00:18:05.88
JEWS STILL STRUGGLED WITH THAT,
AND SO, WHEN THE DELEGATION CAME
00:18:05.88\00:18:08.55
FROM JERUSALEM, PETER WOULDN'T
HANG OUT WITH THE GENTILES THEN
00:18:08.55\00:18:11.85
AND PAUL CONDEMNED HIM FOR THAT.
00:18:11.85\00:18:13.72
HE SAID, 'YOU'RE BEING A
HYPOCRITE - YOU'RE ACTING ONE
00:18:13.72\00:18:15.32
WAY WHEN THE JEWS AREN'T AROUND;
YOU'RE ACTING ANOTHER WAY - AND
00:18:15.32\00:18:17.99
YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS
SAYS ABOUT HYPOCRISY.
00:18:17.99\00:18:20.06
SO THE REASON I WENT THROUGH
ALL OF THAT IS TO TELL YOU THAT
00:18:20.06\00:18:23.37
PETER AND PAUL BOTH
MINISTERED TO JEWS AND GENTILES.
00:18:23.37\00:18:28.70
THE LETTER OF 1 PETER IS
PROBABLY WRITTEN, PRINCIPALLY TO
00:18:28.70\00:18:32.54
THE DIASPORA; THE JEWS HAD BEEN
DISPERSED, NOT ONLY THROUGH THE
00:18:32.54\00:18:37.28
BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, BUT
ALSO THROUGH THE, YOU KNOW, THE
00:18:37.28\00:18:42.92
ROMANS AND THE
GREEKS, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY.
00:18:42.92\00:18:46.79
NOW THAT VERSE THAT JOE JUST
READ IN JAMES - JAMES IS WRITING
00:18:46.79\00:18:49.79
TO THE TWELVE TRIBES - WHEN
JAMES WROTE, HOW MANY TRIBES
00:18:49.79\00:18:53.33
WERE THERE? WHAT
HAPPENED TO TEN OF THE
00:18:53.33\00:18:57.23
TRIBES WAY BACK BEFORE
JESUS WAS BORN? (INAUDIBLE)
00:18:57.23\00:19:00.74
BACK AFTER THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH?
THE BABYLONIANS CONQUERED JUDAH,
00:19:00.74\00:19:06.07
BENJAMIN, AND THE LEVITES.
THE ASSYRIANS CONQUERED THE
00:19:06.07\00:19:09.81
NORTHERN
KINGDOM WITH TEN TRIBES.
00:19:09.81\00:19:12.18
YOU'RE TALKING 500 YEARS
BEFORE JESUS - LONG TIME AGO.
00:19:12.18\00:19:15.58
THE BABYLONIAN
CAPTIVES CAME BACK.
00:19:15.58\00:19:18.89
THERE WAS NO TIME WHEN
THE SYRIAN CAPTIVES WERE TOLD,
00:19:18.89\00:19:22.19
'YOU'RE FREE TO COME BACK.'
THEY, BASICALLY, INTERMARRIED,
00:19:22.19\00:19:27.10
AND A LOT OF THEM KIND OF
LOST THEIR DISTINCT IDENTITY.
00:19:27.10\00:19:30.17
SOME OF THEM TRIED
TO STAY IN SMALL GROUPS,
00:19:30.17\00:19:32.53
BUT THEY
INTERMARRIED WITH EACH OTHER.
00:19:32.53\00:19:33.94
THERE WERE NO CLEAR DEFINED
LINES OF TEN TRIBES BY THE TIME
00:19:33.94\00:19:40.01
OF JESUS. THE PEOPLE FROM
ISSACHAR INTERMARRIED WITH
00:19:40.01\00:19:43.48
ASSYRIANS AND THEY INTERMARRIED
WITH OTHER TRIBES FROM MANASSEH
00:19:43.48\00:19:46.58
AND ZEBULAN AND - SO THE IDEA
THAT THERE WERE TWELVE DISTINCT
00:19:46.58\00:19:49.72
TRIBES - SO WHY DOES
JAMES SAY TWELVE TRIBES?
00:19:49.72\00:19:54.56
WHEN YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN, YOU
BECOME A JEW - THAT'S BIBLICAL.
00:19:54.56\00:20:01.76
IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S THEN
YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED AND HEIRS
00:20:01.76\00:20:05.27
ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE.
PAUL SAID, 'WE' - GENTILES -
00:20:05.27\00:20:08.50
ARE GRAFTED INTO
THE STALK OF ISRAEL.
00:20:08.50\00:20:11.97
AND SO, BOTH PAUL AND JAMES
- AND PETER - WHEN THEY STARTED
00:20:11.97\00:20:15.34
TALKING AND WRITING LETTERS,
THEY ALWAYS FIGURED THAT THE
00:20:15.34\00:20:19.25
CHRISTIANS WERE SORT OF
BEING ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY.
00:20:19.25\00:20:23.08
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
AND SO DON'T TAKE THESE
00:20:23.08\00:20:26.72
TERMS TOO SERIOUSLY. I
THINK THE APOSTLES - AND
00:20:26.72\00:20:30.39
JAMES, WHEN HE SAYS, 'I'M
WRITING TO THE TWELVE TRIBES'
00:20:30.39\00:20:32.69
AND 'I'M WRITING TO THOSE
THAT ARE DISPERSED' ARE SOMEWHAT
00:20:32.69\00:20:35.30
SPEAKING IN METAPHORICAL TERMS,
SAYING - WHAT HAPPENED IN JOHN -
00:20:35.30\00:20:41.67
I'M SORRY, WHAT
HAPPENED IN ACTS CHAPTER 8?
00:20:41.67\00:20:43.67
WHEN STEPHEN WAS STONED, IT
SAYS, 'A GREAT PERSECUTION AROSE
00:20:43.67\00:20:47.88
AND THE BELIEVERS WERE SCATTERED
EVERYWHERE.' THEY LOOKED UPON
00:20:47.88\00:20:52.55
WHAT WAS HAPPENING, THROUGH THE
PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS AND THE
00:20:52.55\00:20:55.62
ROMANS, AS A SECOND DISPERSION.
THEY WERE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE -
00:20:55.62\00:21:00.99
JEW AND GENTILE - THE CHRISTIANS
WERE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.
00:21:00.99\00:21:04.23
THEY SAW THEMSELVES AS BEING
SCATTERED LIKE THE EARLY JEWS
00:21:04.23\00:21:07.83
HAD BEEN SCATTERED AND SOMETIMES
THEY REFERRED BACK TO THAT AS A
00:21:07.83\00:21:11.40
METAPHOR. ALRIGHT, THAT
WAS A LONG ANSWER, SORRY.
00:21:11.40\00:21:14.80
ALRIGHT, ONE MORE - I'LL GIVE
YOU ONE MORE VERSE - JOHN 7:35 -
00:21:14.80\00:21:19.24
WHEN JESUS SAID, 'WHERE I GO YOU
CAN'T COME.' THE JEWS ANSWERED
00:21:19.24\00:21:22.31
AND SAID TO THEMSELVES, "WHERE
DOES HE INTEND TO GO THAT WE
00:21:22.31\00:21:25.15
SHALL NOT FIND HIM?
DOES HE INTEND TO GO TO THE
00:21:25.15\00:21:27.08
DISPERSION AMONG THE
GREEKS" - AND GENTILES - "AND
00:21:27.08\00:21:30.35
TEACH THE GREEKS?" THEY
SAID THAT TO JESUS - THEY
00:21:30.35\00:21:33.05
DIDN'T KNOW - YEAH, HE WAS
GOING TO GO TO THEM, THROUGH HIS
00:21:33.05\00:21:35.86
APOSTLES, AND
TEACH THE GENTILES.
00:21:35.86\00:21:38.96
SO THAT DID ACTUALLY HAPPEN.
ALRIGHT, THE NEXT SEC - OH,
00:21:38.96\00:21:42.23
WAIT, LET ME TELL
YOU ONE MORE THING.
00:21:42.23\00:21:43.43
JUST SO YOU HAVE THE PICTURE
HERE - ACTS CHAPTER 2 - STILL
00:21:43.43\00:21:46.53
I'M GOING TO FINISH OFF WHO HE'S
WRITING TO - ACTS CHAPTER 2,
00:21:46.53\00:21:49.64
VERSE 5 - THIS IS A
CHAPTER ABOUT PENTECOST.
00:21:49.64\00:21:53.81
WHEN PENTECOST HAPPENS IT SAYS,
"AND THERE WERE DWELLING IN
00:21:53.81\00:21:56.95
JERUSALEM JEWS, DEVOUT MEN,
FROM EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN."
00:21:56.95\00:22:04.62
AND YOU GO TO VERSE 8, "AND HOW
IS IT THAT" - THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:22:04.62\00:22:07.72
WAS POURED OUT - "HOW IS IT
THAT WE HEAR, EACH IN OUR OWN
00:22:07.72\00:22:10.29
LANGUAGE IN WHICH WE WERE
BORN? PARTHIANS AND MEDES AND
00:22:10.29\00:22:15.03
ELAMITES, THOSE DWELLING
IN MESOPOTAMIA, JUDEA AND
00:22:15.03\00:22:18.33
CAPPADOCIA, PONTUS AND ASIA,
PHRYGIA AND PAMPHYLIA, EGYPT
00:22:18.33\00:22:21.50
AND THE PART OF LIBYA ADJOINING
CYRENE, VISITORS FROM ROME, BOTH
00:22:21.50\00:22:25.67
JEWS AND PROSELYTES, CRETANS
AND ARABS" - SIXTEEN DIFFERENT
00:22:25.67\00:22:29.91
LANGUAGE GROUPS ARE MENTIONED
AND THAT'S NOT ALL OF THEM.
00:22:29.91\00:22:33.21
WHAT DOES IT SAY
IN ACTS CHAPTER 2?
00:22:33.21\00:22:34.62
THERE WERE JEWS, DEVOUT MEN, WHO
WERE DWELLING IN EVERY NATION
00:22:34.62\00:22:38.39
UNDER HEAVEN. THE
JEWS REALLY HAD BEEN
00:22:38.39\00:22:41.16
SCATTERED ALL THE WAY TO SPAIN.
THEY - YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY
00:22:41.16\00:22:45.29
BEFORE - MY
MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME, SHE WAS
00:22:45.29\00:22:47.86
JEWISH, WAS TARSHIS. YOU
REMEMBER WHERE JONAH FLED?
00:22:47.86\00:22:52.03
THAT WAS THE FARTHEST MOST
PORT IN THE PHOENICIAN EMPIRE.
00:22:52.03\00:22:56.20
IT WAS OFF THE COAST OF SPAIN,
BEFORE YOU SAILED OFF INTO THE
00:22:56.20\00:22:58.27
ATLANTIC. IN
AMERICA WE SAY 'TIMBUKTU'.
00:22:58.27\00:23:01.78
'WHERE YOU GOING?' -
'I'VE BEEN TO' - THAT WAS THE
00:23:01.78\00:23:03.45
FARTHEST PLACE A MARINE COULD
BE STATIONED MANY YEARS AGO, WAS
00:23:03.45\00:23:07.25
ACTUALLY IN AFRICA, A
PLACE CALLED TIMBUKTU.
00:23:07.25\00:23:09.78
SO IT BECAME A METAPHOR FOR THE
ENDS OF THE EARTH - TARSHISH WAS
00:23:09.78\00:23:13.32
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
AND SO, THEY HAD JEWISH
00:23:13.32\00:23:15.86
SETTLEMENTS ALL THE WAY IN
TARSHISH - ALL THE WAY DOWN IN
00:23:15.86\00:23:20.33
EGYPT, IN ALEXANDRIA, IN - OVER
TOWARDS INDIA - BUT THEY WOULD
00:23:20.33\00:23:24.67
COME TO JERUSALEM TO
WORSHIP. WHAT KIND OF JEWS CAME?
00:23:24.67\00:23:28.80
THE DEVOUT ONES WHO WERE COMING
TO KEEP THE FEASTS ACCORDING TO
00:23:28.80\00:23:32.67
THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.
AND SO, I'M SAYING THAT BECAUSE
00:23:32.67\00:23:35.38
THESE WERE THE PEOPLE
THAT GOD FILLED WITH THE HOLY
00:23:35.38\00:23:39.15
SPIRIT AT
PENTECOST. THEY WENT BACK
00:23:39.15\00:23:40.92
PREACHING ABOUT JESUS.
THESE WERE THE SAME PEOPLE, NOW,
00:23:40.92\00:23:43.85
THAT PETER AND PAUL WOULD
GO TO - THE DEVOUT JEWS WHO
00:23:43.85\00:23:47.49
HAD ACCEPTED JESUS. THIS
IS WHO THE LETTER IS BEING
00:23:47.49\00:23:51.09
WRITTEN TO; BUT I'M SURE
THERE WERE GENTILES SPRINKLED
00:23:51.09\00:23:54.03
IN AMONG THEM.
OKAY? WE READY TO GO ON?
00:23:54.03\00:23:57.43
NOW VERSE 2 - DIDN'T
GET VERY FAR, DID WE?
00:23:57.43\00:24:00.37
VERSE 2 - "ELECT ACCORDING
TO THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE
00:24:00.37\00:24:05.44
FATHER, IN SANCTIFICATION OF
THE SPIRIT, FOR OBEDIENCE AND
00:24:05.44\00:24:08.98
SPRINKLING OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS
CHRIST: GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE
00:24:08.98\00:24:13.58
BE MULTIPLIED."
HOW MANY OF YOU SPOTTED
00:24:13.58\00:24:15.48
SOMETHING
INTERESTING IN THAT VERSE?
00:24:15.48\00:24:18.19
WHAT WAS IT,
VICKY? >>FOREKNOWLEDGE.
00:24:18.19\00:24:21.02
>>FOREKNOWLEDGE ARE THERE THREE
PRIMARY CHARACTERS MENTIONED IN
00:24:21.02\00:24:24.69
THAT VERSE? GOD IS MADE
UP OF WHAT THREE PERSONS?
00:24:24.69\00:24:29.63
>>GOD THE FATHER, THE SON -
>>FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT - NOW
00:24:29.63\00:24:32.60
LOOK AT THAT VERSE AGAIN.
GOD - FATHER, SPIRIT, JESUS
00:24:32.60\00:24:37.57
CHRIST - THERE YOU HAVE
ALL THREE OF THEM RIGHT THERE.
00:24:37.57\00:24:41.78
AND SO, YOU'LL FIND THEM
MENTIONED, ALL THREE, AGAIN
00:24:41.78\00:24:44.35
LATER IN THE CHAPTER
- THIS FIRST CHAPTER.
00:24:44.35\00:24:46.88
IF YOU DIDN'T SPOT IT. NOW
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
00:24:46.88\00:24:49.68
ME 1 TIMOTHY 2:3 AND 4 - YOU'LL
HAVE THAT, SUSAN, JUST A MINUTE.
00:24:49.68\00:24:54.99
ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO
READ ANOTHER VERSE FIRST.
00:24:54.99\00:24:57.16
IS PETER SAYING - MY MIC DROPPED
OFF, SORRY - WHEN PETER SAYS,
00:24:57.16\00:25:05.27
"ELECT ACCORDING TO THE
FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER"
00:25:05.27\00:25:09.60
DOES 'FOREKNOWLEDGE' MEAN THAT
GOD HAD DECIDED AHEAD OF TIME
00:25:09.60\00:25:12.84
WHO WAS GOING TO BE SAVED
AND WHO WAS GOING TO BE LOST?
00:25:12.84\00:25:14.71
>>NO. >>OR IS
IT SIMPLY SAYING HE
00:25:14.71\00:25:16.58
KNOWS? BUT DOES
EVERYBODY STILL HAVE A CHOICE?
00:25:16.58\00:25:20.28
>>YES. >>LOOK AT 2
PETER 3:9, "THE LORD
00:25:20.28\00:25:24.82
IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING
HIS PROMISE, AS SOME COUNT
00:25:24.82\00:25:27.66
SLACKNESS, BUT IS LONGSUFFERING
TOWARD US, NOT WILLING THAT
00:25:27.66\00:25:31.93
ANY SHOULD PERISH BUT THAT
ALL SHOULD" - HOW MANY DOES GOD
00:25:31.93\00:25:34.93
WANT TO COME TO REPENTANCE? ALL.
00:25:34.93\00:25:37.30
HOW MANY DOES
GOD WANT TO PERISH?
00:25:37.30\00:25:38.57
>>NONE. >>NONE.
00:25:38.57\00:25:40.20
WILL SOME PERISH? >>YES.
00:25:40.20\00:25:42.30
>>SO, THIS IS THIS GREAT DEBATE
IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD AND THERE
00:25:42.30\00:25:47.74
ARE GOOD CHRISTIANS ON BOTH
SIDES OF THIS DEBATE, BUT IT'S
00:25:47.74\00:25:51.51
THE ONE ABOUT PREDESTINATION
- ONCE SAVED/ALWAYS SAVED - AND
00:25:51.51\00:25:55.12
YOU'VE GOT BAPTISTS - MANY
BAPTISTS THAT MAY BELIEVE IN
00:25:55.12\00:25:58.95
ONCE YOU'RE SAVED YOU CAN'T
BE LOST AND THEN THERE ARE WHAT
00:25:58.95\00:26:01.59
THEY CALL 'FREEWILL BAPTISTS'
THAT DON'T BELIEVE THAT - OR
00:26:01.59\00:26:06.09
THEY BELIEVE A MORE
METHODIST VERSION OF IT.
00:26:06.09\00:26:09.73
AND THEN, OF COURSE, METHODISTS
BELIEVE LIKE WE DO, THAT YOU
00:26:09.73\00:26:11.93
HAVE FREE WILL AND THAT, WHILE
GOD KNOWS WHO'S GOING TO BE
00:26:11.93\00:26:15.37
SAVED, GOD IS NOT SAYING, 'WELL,
I'M JUST GOING TO ALLOW SOME TO
00:26:15.37\00:26:18.94
BE SAVED' BECAUSE THAT GOES
AGAINST THIS VERSE THAT SAYS
00:26:18.94\00:26:21.21
HE'S NOT WILLING
THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH.
00:26:21.21\00:26:23.48
THE OTHER THING THAT CALVIN
TAUGHT IS THAT THE SACRIFICE OF
00:26:23.48\00:26:25.91
JESUS WAS NOT FOR EVERYBODY -
THAT JESUS ONLY SUFFERED FOR THE
00:26:25.91\00:26:29.85
SINS OF THOSE WHO WOULD BE
SAVED - CALLED 'THE ELECT'.
00:26:29.85\00:26:33.49
BUT THE BIBLE'S PRETTY CLEAR
THAT HE SUFFERED FOR ALL AND HE
00:26:33.49\00:26:36.83
DIED FOR ALL.
AND DOESN'T IT SAY,
00:26:36.83\00:26:39.16
'WHOSOEVER WILL'?
WHOSOEVER IS WILLING, EVEN IN
00:26:39.16\00:26:43.37
JOHN 3:16 -
'WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM'.
00:26:43.37\00:26:45.90
GO AHEAD, READ YOUR
VERSE IN 1 TIMOTHY, SUSAN.
00:26:45.90\00:26:48.90
>>1 TIMOTHY 2:3 AND 4, "FOR THIS
IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE IN THE
00:26:48.90\00:26:53.71
SIGHT OF GOD OUR SAVIOR, WHO
DESIRES ALL MEN TO BE SAVED AND
00:26:53.71\00:26:57.61
TO COME TO THE
KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH."
00:26:57.61\00:27:00.22
>>SO GOD WANTS
ALL MEN TO BE SAVED.
00:27:00.22\00:27:03.52
HE'S NOT WILLING
THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH.
00:27:03.52\00:27:06.82
AND SO, THIS IDEA THAT THE LORD
HAS AN ELECT GROUP AND WHAT THAT
00:27:06.82\00:27:09.96
ELECT GROUP MEANS IS THAT,
'WELL, WE'VE CHOSEN SOME TO BE
00:27:09.96\00:27:14.00
SAVED - WHETHER YOU LIKE IT
OR NOT, WE'RE GOING TO SAVE YOU.
00:27:14.00\00:27:16.36
AND, ONCE YOU ARE SAVED, YOU
CAN'T BE LOST.' AND I GUESS IT
00:27:16.36\00:27:20.27
COULD BE LOOKED AT AS
A WHOLE DIFFERENT ISSUE.
00:27:20.27\00:27:23.04
LET ME READ SOME
MORE VERSES ON THAT.
00:27:23.04\00:27:24.51
GO TO EZEKIEL - AND THIS IS
IN YOUR LESSON - EZEKIEL 33:11.
00:27:24.51\00:27:28.61
EZEKIEL'S GOT SOME REALLY CLEAR
STATEMENTS ABOUT SALVATION AND
00:27:28.61\00:27:31.95
GOD'S WILL. "SAY
TO THEM: 'AS I LIVE,'
00:27:31.95\00:27:35.42
SAYS THE LORD GOD, 'I HAVE
NO PLEASURE IN THE DEATH OF THE
00:27:35.42\00:27:38.85
WICKED, BUT THAT THE WICKED TURN
FROM HIS WAY AND LIVE.'" - HE
00:27:38.85\00:27:43.16
HAS NO PLEASURE - "TURN,
TURN FROM YOUR EVIL WAYS!
00:27:43.16\00:27:46.09
FOR WHY SHOULD YOU
DIE, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?"
00:27:46.09\00:27:48.66
DO WE HAVE A CHOICE? WHY
WOULD GOD PLEAD LIKE THAT
00:27:48.66\00:27:51.77
FOR US TO MAKE A CHOICE,
IF WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE?
00:27:51.77\00:27:54.44
OBVIOUSLY, WE HAVE A CHOICE.
WHY WOULD JOSHUA SAY, 'CHOOSE
00:27:54.44\00:27:57.84
YE THIS DAY WHO YOU WILL SERVE.
BUT, AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE,
00:27:57.84\00:28:01.04
WE'RE GOING TO SERVE THE
LORD.' IT'S IMPLIED, WE ARE
00:28:01.04\00:28:04.11
CHOOSING TO SERVE THE
LORD. YOU CAN'T HAVE LOVE
00:28:04.11\00:28:08.18
WITHOUT CHOICE. FORCED LOVE IS
00:28:08.18\00:28:12.05
SOMETIMES CALLED
'RAPE'. GOD DOES NOT FORCE
00:28:12.05\00:28:15.19
US TO LOVE HIM.
IT STOPS BEING LOVE.
00:28:15.19\00:28:18.83
GOD MAKES ALL HIS CREATURES,
INCLUDING HIS ANGELS, FREE.
00:28:18.83\00:28:22.70
THAT'S WHY LUCIFER AND A THIRD
CHOSE NOT TO LOVE GOD AND TO
00:28:22.70\00:28:27.04
TRUST GOD. THEY MADE A DIFFERENT
CHOICE. AND I REMEMBER HAVING A
00:28:27.04\00:28:31.01
LONG CONVERSATION
WITH SOMEBODY THIS WEEK.
00:28:31.01\00:28:33.04
'WELL, COULDN'T GOD HAVE CHOSEN
PEOPLE THAT HE KNEW WOULD CHOOSE
00:28:33.04\00:28:36.95
HIM FREELY, SO HE WOULDN'T
HAVE ALL THIS PROBLEM WITH SIN?'
00:28:36.95\00:28:41.18
THE VERY FACT THAT GOD MADE SOME
CREATURES THAT CHOSE NOT TO LOVE
00:28:41.18\00:28:44.52
HIM IS PROOF THAT
WE REALLY ARE FREE.
00:28:44.52\00:28:48.26
AND SO, IT'S A
VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT.
00:28:48.26\00:28:50.96
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER VERSE
ON THIS PREDESTINATION ISSUE.
00:28:50.96\00:28:54.13
ROMANS 6:6, "KNOWING THIS, THAT
OUR OLD MAN WAS CRUCIFIED WITH
00:28:54.13\00:28:58.97
HIM, THAT THE BODY OF SIN
MIGHT BE DONE AWAY WITH, THAT WE
00:28:58.97\00:29:02.87
SHOULD NO LONGER
BE SLAVES OF SIN."
00:29:02.87\00:29:06.24
GOD, WHEN WE COME TO HIM, HE
IS WILLING TO CRUCIFY THE OLD
00:29:06.24\00:29:10.31
NATURE, BUT WE MUST COME
TO HIM AND ASK HIM FOR THAT.
00:29:10.31\00:29:14.02
SO, WHEN HE IS WRITING,
HE'S WRITING TO THE ELECT.
00:29:14.02\00:29:17.69
I'VE HEARD IT PUT THIS WAY:
MANY ARE CALLED, FEW ARE CHOSEN.
00:29:17.69\00:29:22.12
SOME SAY, 'WELL, SEE, SOME WERE
CHOSEN - MANY ARE CALLED.' MANY,
00:29:22.12\00:29:26.16
WHOSOEVER WILL, ARE CALLED; THE
CHOSEN ARE THE ONES WHO RESPOND
00:29:26.16\00:29:31.23
AND ACCEPT THAT CALL.
GOD CALLS YOU - IF YOU ACCEPT
00:29:31.23\00:29:35.07
HIS CALL, YOU'RE
ELECTED. YOU ARE THE ELECT WHO
00:29:35.07\00:29:38.21
RESPOND TO THE CALL. >>AMEN.
00:29:38.21\00:29:40.71
>>SEE, THAT'S ALL THAT MEANS.
SO - IT'S SO IMPORTANT, I THINK,
00:29:40.71\00:29:43.88
TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE
THE PREDESTINATION - IF GOD HAS
00:29:43.88\00:29:49.85
ALREADY DECIDED WHO IS GOING
TO BE SAVED AND WHO'S GOING TO
00:29:49.85\00:29:52.19
BE LOST, WHY DO
MISSION WORK? WHY GO?
00:29:52.19\00:29:57.83
HE'S ALREADY DECIDED THEY'RE
GOING TO BE SAVED - WHETHER WE
00:29:57.83\00:29:59.49
GO OR NOT HE'S
GOING TO SAVE THEM.
00:29:59.49\00:30:01.73
NOW, IT IS A DIFFICULT SUBJECT
BECAUSE YOU NEED TO CONCEDE 'ARE
00:30:01.73\00:30:06.10
THERE SOME PEOPLE THAT GOD
SAVES, LIKE PAUL, WITHOUT A
00:30:06.10\00:30:08.40
MISSIONARY? GOD
JUST SLAPS PAUL DOWN AND
00:30:08.40\00:30:11.77
SAYS, 'HERE I AM' -
GETS HIS ATTENTION - GOD GOES
00:30:11.77\00:30:14.78
TO HIM DIRECTLY.
DOESN'T THE LORD, SOMETIMES, DO
00:30:14.78\00:30:17.81
IT THROUGH ANGELS EVEN THOUGH
A MISSIONARY MIGHT BE THERE
00:30:17.81\00:30:21.12
- MIGHT NOT BE THERE? BUT
THAT IS THE RARE EXCEPTION.
00:30:21.12\00:30:24.79
MOST OF THE TIME GOD DOES WHAT
HE DID WITH PHILIP, WHERE HE
00:30:24.79\00:30:27.56
SAID, 'PHILIP, I'VE GOT
SOMEONE I WANT YOU TO PREACH TO.
00:30:27.56\00:30:29.62
I NEED YOU TO GO TELL THEM.
I COULD TELL THEM, OR I CAN
00:30:29.62\00:30:33.06
HAVE AN ANGEL TELL THEM, BUT
MY CHOSEN METHOD OF SAVING THE
00:30:33.06\00:30:36.50
LOST IS FOR YOU TO PRESENT THE
GOSPEL, FOR YOU TO WORK WITH ME,
00:30:36.50\00:30:40.24
FOR YOU TO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF
SEEING SOMEONE SAVED.' AND MANY
00:30:40.24\00:30:44.24
WILL BE LOST
BECAUSE NO ONE TOLD THEM.
00:30:44.24\00:30:47.31
IT IS TRUE. IT
MAKES A DIFFERENCE
00:30:47.31\00:30:48.54
WHETHER WE GO OR NOT.
GOD WANTS THEM SAVED, BUT HE
00:30:48.54\00:30:51.91
WANTS - JESUS SAID TO
ISAIAH, 'WHOM SHALL I SEND?
00:30:51.91\00:30:56.25
WHO WILL GO?' AND
HE SAID, 'HERE AM I.
00:30:56.25\00:30:58.75
SEND ME.' AND SO, GOD IS WAITING
FOR US TO VOLUNTEER FREELY AND
00:30:58.75\00:31:04.19
THE LOST MUST HEAR THE
MESSAGE AND CHOOSE FREELY.
00:31:04.19\00:31:07.10
ELECTED MEANS WE'VE
RESPONDED TO THAT CALL.
00:31:07.10\00:31:10.20
ALRIGHT, LOOK AT
SOME OF THE KEY THEMES.
00:31:10.20\00:31:13.74
NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO TO 1
PETER, VERSES - CHAP - 1 PETER
00:31:13.74\00:31:18.81
CHAPTER 1 STILL - I'M GOING
TO READ VERSES 3 THROUGH 8,
00:31:18.81\00:31:21.58
"BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO
00:31:21.58\00:31:24.55
ACCORDING TO HIS ABUNDANT
MERCY HAS BEGOTTEN US AGAIN TO A
00:31:24.55\00:31:27.98
LIVING HOPE THROUGH THE
RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST" -
00:31:27.98\00:31:31.65
DID PETER SEE HIM RISE? >>YES.
00:31:31.65\00:31:34.26
>>HE APPEARED TO HIM THAT
DAY AND SPOKE TO HIM - "FROM THE
00:31:34.26\00:31:37.36
DEAD, TO AN INHERITANCE
INCORRUPTIBLE AND UNDEFILED AND
00:31:37.36\00:31:41.06
THAT DOES NOT FADE AWAY," - WHAT
KIND OF INHERITANCE HAS GOD GOT
00:31:41.06\00:31:43.77
FOR US? NOTICE THE WORDS HERE:
INCORRUPTIBLE, UNDEFILED - OUR
00:31:43.77\00:31:47.60
BODIES GET OLD, THEY CORRUPT
- THAT DOES NOT FADE AWAY - IT'S
00:31:47.60\00:31:51.37
NEVER GOING TO FADE - "RESERVED
IN HEAVEN" - THE DEVIL CAN'T
00:31:51.37\00:31:54.84
TAKE IT - "FOR YOU, WHO ARE KEPT
BY THE POWER OF GOD" - DOES GOD
00:31:54.84\00:31:58.45
PROMISE TO KEEP US? >>YES.
00:31:58.45\00:32:00.72
>>THROUGH
FAITH" - WHAT KEEPS US?
00:32:00.72\00:32:02.38
WE'RE KEPT THROUGH
FAITH - WHAT ARE WE KEPT FOR?
00:32:02.38\00:32:05.25
- "FOR SALVATION READY TO
BE REVEALED IN THE LAST TIME."
00:32:05.25\00:32:09.19
- NOW, WHY DOES
PETER SAY 'LAST TIME'?
00:32:09.19\00:32:11.09
WELL, WHEN YOU'RE LIVING IN, YOU
KNOW - HE PROBABLY WROTE THAT,
00:32:11.09\00:32:15.80
MAYBE, 40 A.D.,
YOU'RE LIVING IN THE FUTURE.
00:32:15.80\00:32:20.30
THERE WAS NO 2017 BACK THEN.
THEY SAW THAT THEY HAD BEEN
00:32:20.30\00:32:25.17
LIVING, AFTER 4,000 YEARS OF
BIBLE HISTORY, AND THEY SAW, 'WE
00:32:25.17\00:32:28.38
ARE IN THE LAST DAYS.' THEY SAW
THAT ALL THE PROPHECIES ABOUT
00:32:28.38\00:32:32.08
THE COMING MESSIAH POINTED TO
THEIR DAY. AND SINCE THEY WERE
00:32:32.08\00:32:35.25
IN THE FUTURE, THEY
SAW THEM IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:32:35.25\00:32:38.09
NOW, RIGHT NOW, WE
BELIEVE WE'RE IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:32:38.09\00:32:40.12
BUT WHAT IF THE WORLD
GOES 12,000 MORE YEARS?
00:32:40.12\00:32:42.42
ARE WE IN THE LAST DAYS? I
THINK WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:32:42.42\00:32:47.86
SO, YOU UNDERSTAND
WHY PETER IS SAYING THIS.
00:32:47.86\00:32:49.96
'HERE WE ARE IN THESE PRESENT
TIMES' IS WHAT HE'S SAYING -
00:32:49.96\00:32:54.60
'THAT IT'S BEEN REVEALED TO US'
- "IN THIS YOU GREATLY REJOICE,
00:32:54.60\00:33:00.24
THOUGH NOW FOR A LITTLE
WHILE, IF NEED BE, YOU HAVE BEEN
00:33:00.24\00:33:02.54
GRIEVED BY VARIOUS TRIALS,"
- NOW, WHEN PETER WROTE, THE
00:33:02.54\00:33:06.28
BELIEVERS WERE GOING THROUGH
SOME PERSECUTION, BOTH FROM THE
00:33:06.28\00:33:09.35
JEWS THAT DID NOT ACCEPT JESUS
AND - EVEN THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT
00:33:09.35\00:33:12.59
JOINED IN, IN SOME CASES - "THAT
THE GENUINENESS OF YOUR FAITH,
00:33:12.59\00:33:17.26
BEING MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN
GOLD THAT PERISHES, THOUGH IT IS
00:33:17.26\00:33:20.10
TESTED BY FIRE, MAY BE FOUND TO
PRAISE, HONOR, AND GLORY AT THE
00:33:20.10\00:33:24.47
REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST."
NOW, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
00:33:24.47\00:33:27.24
ME JOHN 20:29 IN
JUST A MOMENT HERE.
00:33:27.24\00:33:30.87
NOTICE WHAT PETER SAID -
HE SAID, 'YOUR FAITH IS BEING
00:33:30.87\00:33:34.71
TESTED BY FIRE'.
HOW DO YOU PURIFY GOLD?
00:33:34.71\00:33:40.15
>>FIRE. >>IT'S THROUGH FIRE.
00:33:40.15\00:33:42.42
PETER SAYS, 'DON'T BE AMAZED AT
THE FIERY TRIALS THAT TRY YOU AS
00:33:42.42\00:33:45.49
THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING HAS
HAPPENED.' WHO CAN YOU THINK OF
00:33:45.49\00:33:48.19
THAT WENT THROUGH A TRIAL
BY FIRE, SO TO SPEAK OF, IN THE
00:33:48.19\00:33:52.26
BIBLE? >>JOB.
00:33:52.26\00:33:53.50
>>JOB DID - YEAH,
SOMEONE - I WAS WAITING.
00:33:53.50\00:33:55.83
SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO
- WAS IT A METAPHOR FOR A TRIAL
00:33:55.83\00:34:00.30
BY FIRE, OR DID THEY
REALLY GO THROUGH THE FIRE?
00:34:00.30\00:34:04.71
BUT DID IT END UP
WORKING OUT FOR A BLESSING?
00:34:04.71\00:34:06.57
>>YES. >>I READ
A GREAT BOOK BY MY
00:34:06.57\00:34:08.81
FRIEND MARVIN MOORE, WRITTEN
YEARS AGO - I WISH THEY'D
00:34:08.81\00:34:11.05
RE-PRINT IT - IT'S CALLED
WITNESSING THROUGH TRIALS .
00:34:11.05\00:34:14.52
AND HE TAKES A BUNCH OF STORIES
FROM HISTORY, OF PEOPLE WHO WENT
00:34:14.52\00:34:17.35
THROUGH GREAT TRIALS, AND IT -
GOD, TYPICALLY, ALLOWS US TO BE
00:34:17.35\00:34:23.43
THE BEST WITNESSES, NOT BECAUSE
HE SAVES US FROM TROUBLE, BUT
00:34:23.43\00:34:26.26
THROUGH TROUBLE. THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, COULDN'T
00:34:26.26\00:34:30.40
GOD JUST HAVE - MOSES COULD HAVE
GONE TO PHARAOH AND SAID, 'LET
00:34:30.40\00:34:33.37
MY PEOPLE GO' AND THEN MOSES
COULD HAVE GONE - OR THE PHARAOH
00:34:33.37\00:34:35.47
COULD HAVE GONE, 'OKAY.' WOULD
YOU HAVE THE GREAT EXODUS STORY
00:34:35.47\00:34:40.54
IF THE PHARAOH
HAD JUST SAID, 'SURE.
00:34:40.54\00:34:41.84
GOODBYE.' HE DIDN'T DO THAT.
BUT, BECAUSE THERE WAS A TRIAL
00:34:41.84\00:34:46.21
THERE, YOU HAD - THE POWER OF
GOD WAS MANIFESTED AND THEY DID
00:34:46.21\00:34:50.32
GO THROUGH A HARD TIME, BUT
IT BECAME A GREAT DELIVERANCE.
00:34:50.32\00:34:53.29
THE STORY OF JOSEPH IS
ESPECIALLY GREAT BECAUSE OF THE
00:34:53.29\00:34:55.72
TRIAL HE WENT
THROUGH. THE STORY OF JOB - THE
00:34:55.72\00:34:58.89
TRIAL HE WENT THROUGH.
THE WRESTLINGS OF JACOB - I
00:34:58.89\00:35:02.40
MEAN, YOU JUST - YOU CAN GO
THROUGH ALL THESE GREAT STORIES
00:35:02.40\00:35:05.13
IN THE BIBLE AND YOU'RE GOING TO
SEE, THERE WAS A TRIAL INVOLVED.
00:35:05.13\00:35:08.57
BUT GOD'S PEOPLE ARE PURIFIED,
NOT BECAUSE HE SAVES US FROM
00:35:08.57\00:35:12.34
TRIAL, BUT THROUGH TRIAL.
THE BIBLE SAYS THE LORD IS
00:35:12.34\00:35:15.54
COMING FOR A BRIDE
WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE.
00:35:15.54\00:35:18.71
HOW DO YOU GET OUT
WRINKLES? A COLD IRON?
00:35:18.71\00:35:22.32
I'VE TRIED IT; IT DOESN'T WORK.
(LAUGHTER) YOU NEED A HOT IRON.
00:35:22.32\00:35:27.19
AND IT'S THE FIERY
TRIALS. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ,
00:35:27.19\00:35:32.53
FOR US, JOHN 20:29.
>>JOHN 20:29, "JESUS SAID TO
00:35:32.53\00:35:37.70
HIM, 'THOMAS, BECAUSE YOU
HAVE SEEN ME, YOU HAVE BELIEVED.
00:35:37.70\00:35:41.74
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE NOT
SEEN AND YET HAVE BELIEVED.'"
00:35:41.74\00:35:46.01
>>NOW, I'M READING THAT VERSE
BECAUSE 1 PETER 1:8 SAYS, "WHOM
00:35:46.01\00:35:51.78
HAVING NOT SEEN YOU LOVE.
THOUGH NOW YOU DO NOT SEE HIM,
00:35:51.78\00:35:57.09
YET BELIEVING, YOU
REJOICE WITH JOY INEXPRESSIBLE
00:35:57.09\00:36:00.19
AND FULL OF GLORY." IS
IT POSSIBLE TO FALL IN LOVE
00:36:00.19\00:36:04.06
WITH SOMEBODY YOU
HAVEN'T SEEN? >>APPARENTLY.
00:36:04.06\00:36:09.20
>>INTERNET DATING.
>>YEAH, INTERNET DATING - I WAS
00:36:09.20\00:36:11.60
WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SAY THAT.
(LAUGHTER) YOU KNOW, IN THE OLD
00:36:11.60\00:36:14.64
DAYS - I'VE GOT SOME FRIENDS
THAT THEY BEGAN TO CORRESPOND
00:36:14.64\00:36:20.04
WITH SOMEBODY - AND THEY
ACTUALLY DID IT THROUGH SNAIL
00:36:20.04\00:36:23.51
MAIL - THE OLD, YOU KNOW, PUT
A STAMP ON IT AND LIPSTICK - I'M
00:36:23.51\00:36:27.38
NOT RECOMMENDING THAT
BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
00:36:27.38\00:36:30.02
THEY USED TO KISS IT - MY MOTHER
USED TO SEND ME CAMP - LETTERS
00:36:30.02\00:36:33.69
WHEN I WAS AT SUMMER CAMP, AND
SHE'D KISS IT WITH A BIG OLD RED
00:36:33.69\00:36:35.96
LIPSTICK THING. BUT -
AND SOLDIERS' WIVES WOULD
00:36:35.96\00:36:40.66
OFTEN DO THAT - THEY'D SEAL
IT WITH A KISS, YOU KNOW, BUT I
00:36:40.66\00:36:45.30
KNOW PEOPLE WHO HAVE COURTED
THROUGH THE MAIL AND THEY'VE
00:36:45.30\00:36:48.80
NEVER MET PEOPLE AND THEY FELL
IN LOVE - THEY OFTEN DID IT FOR
00:36:48.80\00:36:52.61
MONTHS - SOMETIMES THEY WERE IN
ANOTHER - AND THEY GOT TO KNOW
00:36:52.61\00:36:55.64
PEOPLE AND, BOY, THEY WROTE JUST
WONDERFUL LETTERS. I REMEMBER
00:36:55.64\00:37:01.58
WHEN KAREN AND I WERE DATING,
WE WERE SEPARATED FOR A WHILE
00:37:01.58\00:37:05.05
BECAUSE I WAS IN PONAPE IN THE
SOUTH PACIFIC. I MEAN, IT IS OUT
00:37:05.05\00:37:08.32
IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE IN THE
SOUTH PACIFIC AND LETTERS TOOK
00:37:08.32\00:37:12.49
WEEKS TO GET BACK TO THE
U.S. FROM PONAPE, MICRONESIA.
00:37:12.49\00:37:15.96
HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN TO -
DO YOU KNOW HOW FAR - YOU'VE GOT
00:37:15.96\00:37:19.90
TO TAKE - THEY CALL IT THE
GREYHOUND OF THE PACIFIC - YOU
00:37:19.90\00:37:22.17
TAKE ABOUT - STOPS IN ALL THESE
ISLANDS BEFORE YOU GET THERE -
00:37:22.17\00:37:24.84
IT IS A LONG RIDE - BUT I MET
SOMEBODY ON THE ISLAND THAT HAD
00:37:24.84\00:37:28.58
A HAM RADIO AND SO I COULD
COMMUNICATE WITH KAREN THROUGH
00:37:28.58\00:37:32.81
HAM RADIO, BUT THEY HAD TO
OPERATE THE RADIO AND SHE NEEDED
00:37:32.81\00:37:35.58
TO FIND A HAM
OPERATOR IN THE U.S.
00:37:35.58\00:37:38.72
AND SO, SHE WOULD GO MEET WITH
A HAM OPERATOR AND I WOULD GO TO
00:37:38.72\00:37:41.09
THE HAM OPERATOR IN PONAPE AND
OUR CONVERSATIONS WENT SOMETHING
00:37:41.09\00:37:44.73
LIKE THIS: 'HELLO,
KAREN, HOW ARE YOU?
00:37:44.73\00:37:49.60
OVER.' AND THIS GUY WOULD
BE CLICKING HIS SWITCH AND HE'D
00:37:49.60\00:37:54.47
CLICK OFF AND HIS FRIEND - SHE'D
CLICK IT ON AND SHE'D SAY, 'I'M
00:37:54.47\00:37:57.77
FINE, DOUG. HOW ARE YOU?
00:37:57.77\00:37:59.17
OVER.' 'I LOVE YOU,
DEAR. OVER.' 'I LOVE YOU TOO.
00:37:59.17\00:38:02.04
OVER' AND EVERYBODY'S
LISTENING TO OUR CONVERSATION.
00:38:02.04\00:38:04.31
(LAUGHTER) THAT WAS
AWFUL. LETTERS WERE MUCH BETTER.
00:38:04.31\00:38:08.25
I ACTUALLY - I PROPOSED TO HER
IN A LETTER AND I SAID, 'BY THE
00:38:08.25\00:38:14.02
TIME YOU GET THIS LETTER' -
I WAS REALLY ARROGANT - I SAID,
00:38:14.02\00:38:17.13
'BY THE TIME YOU GET THIS LETTER
I WILL HAVE PROPOSED AND YOU
00:38:17.13\00:38:18.99
WILL HAVE ACCEPTED.' (LAUGHTER)
ISN'T THAT TERRIBLE? BUT I KNEW
00:38:18.99\00:38:23.33
THE LETTER WAS COMING FROM
MICRONESIA BEFORE I GOT BACK.
00:38:23.33\00:38:27.04
IT WOULD COME, RATHER,
AFTER I ACTUALLY GOT BACK.
00:38:27.04\00:38:29.84
BUT, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE TIME
WHEN A GUY FINALLY PROPOSES,
00:38:29.84\00:38:33.11
YOU'VE ALREADY TALKED THINGS
THROUGH PRETTY WELL AND YOU HAVE
00:38:33.11\00:38:36.54
A PRETTY GOOD SENSE.
NO ONE LIKES REJECTION.
00:38:36.54\00:38:39.41
ANYWAY, YOU GET A GOOD READ
ON IT BEFORE YOU GO THAT FAR.
00:38:39.41\00:38:44.82
(LAUGHTER) ANYWAY, BUT CAN
WE FALL IN LOVE WITH THE LORD?
00:38:44.82\00:38:49.82
HAS HE WRITTEN
US A LETTER? >>AMEN.
00:38:49.82\00:38:51.83
>>YEAH, 'WHOM, HAVING NOT
SEEN, WE LOVE' AND WE KNOW JESUS
00:38:51.83\00:38:56.80
BECAUSE WE TALK TO HIM EVERY DAY
THROUGH PRAYER AND HE SPEAKS TO
00:38:56.80\00:39:00.87
US THROUGH HIS WORD.
AND SO, THERE'S THIS LOVE
00:39:00.87\00:39:03.61
RELATIONSHIP
THAT HE TALKS ABOUT.
00:39:03.61\00:39:06.61
YOU CAN READ IN 2 CORINTHIANS
4:18, IT SAYS, "WHILE WE DO NOT
00:39:06.61\00:39:11.58
LOOK AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE
SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH
00:39:11.58\00:39:14.72
ARE NOT SEEN. FOR
THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN
00:39:14.72\00:39:17.42
ARE TEMPORARY, BUT THE THINGS
WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL.
00:39:17.42\00:39:21.72
AND GOD IS A SPIRIT
AND WE MAY NOT SEE HIM.
00:39:21.72\00:39:24.23
JESUS SAID, 'BLESSED ARE THOSE
WHO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING.' AND
00:39:24.23\00:39:27.76
YOU READ IN 2 CORINTHIANS 5:7,
"FOR WE WALK BY FAITH NOT BY
00:39:27.76\00:39:32.63
SIGHT.' GOD'S PEOPLE
ARE LIVING LIVES OF FAITH.
00:39:32.63\00:39:37.01
WE DON'T NECESSARILY SEE BUT WE
LIVE - WE LIVE BY FAITH, NOT BY
00:39:37.01\00:39:40.71
SIGHT. AND THEN
PETER SAYS, IN VERSE 9,
00:39:40.71\00:39:43.85
RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH,
THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS.
00:39:43.85\00:39:48.72
WHAT IS THE WHOLE
PURPOSE FOR CHRISTIAN FAITH?
00:39:48.72\00:39:50.79
>>SALVATION. >>WHY DO WE BELIEVE
00:39:50.79\00:39:52.75
WHAT WE BELIEVE? IT'S
THE SALVATION OF OUR SOULS.
00:39:52.75\00:39:55.62
THAT MEANS YOUR LIFE - ALL
THAT YOU ARE - BEING SAVED.
00:39:55.62\00:39:59.93
AND YOU CAN - YOU READ IN ROMANS
VERSE - CHAPTER 6, VERSE 22,
00:39:59.93\00:40:08.97
'BUT NOW, HAVING BEEN SET FREE
FROM SIN, AND BECOMING SLAVES TO
00:40:08.97\00:40:13.14
GOD, YOU HAVE FRUIT TO HOLINESS
AND TO THE END - THIS END TO
00:40:13.14\00:40:18.15
EVERLASTING LIFE.' IF YOU READ,
ALSO, NOW VERSE 10 OF 1 PETER -
00:40:18.15\00:40:23.55
I'M KIND OF PLOWING THROUGH
ONE VERSE AT A TIME - "OF THIS
00:40:23.55\00:40:28.76
SALVATION" - OF OUR SOULS
THAT WE JUST READ - "OF THIS
00:40:28.76\00:40:30.99
SALVATION THE PROPHETS HAVE
INQUIRED AND SEARCHED CAREFULLY,
00:40:30.99\00:40:34.73
WHO PROPHESIED OF THE GRACE THAT
WOULD COME TO YOU" - NOW, DO YOU
00:40:34.73\00:40:40.24
FIND JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
ONE OF MY FAVORITE STUDIES IS
00:40:40.24\00:40:44.77
ALL OF THE TYPES AND
STORIES ABOUT CHRIST THAT YOU
00:40:44.77\00:40:47.84
FIND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
AND PETER, WHEN PETER WRITES,
00:40:47.84\00:40:52.35
WAS THE NEW
TESTAMENT WRITTEN YET?
00:40:52.35\00:40:55.18
THEY HAD SOME, YOU KNOW,
PROBABLY THE GOSPEL OF MARK WAS
00:40:55.18\00:40:57.55
WRITTEN - SOME OF IT WAS
WRITTEN, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF IT
00:40:57.55\00:40:59.29
WAS ALL IN BOOK FORM, PER SE.
PETER, WHEN HE WOULD GO AND HE'D
00:40:59.29\00:41:02.52
PREACH IN THESE CHURCHES IN ASIA
MINOR, HE WOULD OPEN THE OLD
00:41:02.52\00:41:06.06
TESTAMENT AND PREACH TO
THEM ABOUT JESUS. AND PETER IS
00:41:06.06\00:41:10.23
BASICALLY SAYING, 'ALL THAT THEY
WROTE ABOUT AND SEARCHED FOR IS
00:41:10.23\00:41:14.20
IN THIS BOOK - IT'S IN THE BIBLE
- "WHO PROPHESIED OF THE GRACE
00:41:14.20\00:41:19.37
THAT WOULD COME TO YOU" - YOU
ARE THE ONE WHO IS LIVING AND
00:41:19.37\00:41:21.94
EXPERIENCING ALL THAT
THEY PROPHESIED ABOUT.
00:41:21.94\00:41:24.95
GO, FOR EXAMPLE, TO HEBREWS
CHAPTER 11, VERSE 13, SPEAKING
00:41:24.95\00:41:29.88
ABOUT ALL THE FAITHFUL - HEBREWS
11 TALKS ABOUT ALL THE FAITHFUL
00:41:29.88\00:41:32.32
- IT SAYS, "THESE ALL DIED IN
FAITH, NOT HAVING RECEIVED THE
00:41:32.32\00:41:35.89
PROMISES, BUT HAVING SEE THEM
AFAR OFF" - THEY LOOKED INTO THE
00:41:35.89\00:41:39.36
DISTANT FUTURE AND THEY "WERE
ASSURED OF THEM, EMBRACED THEM
00:41:39.36\00:41:43.87
AND CONFESSED THAT THEY WERE
STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS ON THE
00:41:43.87\00:41:46.74
EARTH." WERE PEOPLE
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
00:41:46.74\00:41:49.84
SAVED BY WORKS AND
PEOPLE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ARE
00:41:49.84\00:41:52.27
SAVED BY FAITH? >>NO.
00:41:52.27\00:41:53.94
>>YES. >>YOU THINK 'YES', MIKE?
00:41:53.94\00:41:57.01
>>I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE.
(LAUGHTER) WILL ANYONE GET
00:41:57.01\00:42:00.15
TO HEAVEN AND SAY, 'I'M
HERE BECAUSE OF MY GOOD WORKS'?
00:42:00.15\00:42:02.25
>>NO. >>NO.
00:42:02.25\00:42:04.75
THE PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
- AND WE HEAR 'THE OLD COVENANT'
00:42:04.75\00:42:09.46
AND WE SAY, 'WELL THAT'S
THE LAW, WRITTEN ON STONE' - BUT
00:42:09.46\00:42:13.70
WHERE DO YOU FIRST
FIND THE NEW COVENANT?
00:42:13.70\00:42:15.63
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
OR IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:42:15.63\00:42:17.13
>>OLD. >>YOU FIND IT IN
00:42:17.13\00:42:18.27
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 33.
IS ANYONE SAVED UNDER
00:42:18.27\00:42:23.41
THE OLD COVENANT? >>NO.
00:42:23.41\00:42:25.74
>>YES. >>WELL,
THE OLD COVENANT WAS
00:42:25.74\00:42:30.21
FIRST GIVEN TO MOSES -
ABRAHAM IS BEFORE MOSES.
00:42:30.21\00:42:33.95
ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD AND
IT WAS COUNTED TO HIM FOR
00:42:33.95\00:42:37.89
RIGHTEOUSNESS. WAS
ABRAHAM SAVED - WAS
00:42:37.89\00:42:40.66
ANYONE SAVED BY WORKS?
IS REALLY WHERE I'M GOING.
00:42:40.66\00:42:44.13
IF ANYONE'S SAVED, IS
IT BY WORKS OR BY FAITH?
00:42:44.13\00:42:47.03
>>FAITH. >>IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT WERE THEY
00:42:47.03\00:42:49.23
SAVED BY WORKS OR
BY FAITH? >>FAITH.
00:42:49.23\00:42:51.47
>>FAITH IN WHAT?
>>THE COMING MESSIAH.
00:42:51.47\00:42:54.27
>>THEY ARE SAVED IN -
FAITH IN THE COMING MESSIAH.
00:42:54.27\00:42:57.47
HE HADN'T COME YET. WHEN
THEY SACRIFICED LAMBS, DID
00:42:57.47\00:42:59.34
THEY REALLY BELIEVE
LAMBS WERE SAVING THEIR SIN -
00:42:59.34\00:43:01.28
SAVING THEM FROM SIN?
>>NOT BY THE BLOOD OF LAMBS.
00:43:01.28\00:43:04.11
>>YEAH, IT SAYS 'LAMBS AND
OFFERINGS YOU DID NOT DESIRE; A
00:43:04.11\00:43:08.72
BODY YOU'VE PREPARED.' IT'S, YOU
KNOW, WHAT IS IT - IN THE BOOK
00:43:08.72\00:43:13.66
OF MICAH - 'WHAT SHALL I
GIVE FOR THE SIN OF MY SOUL?
00:43:13.66\00:43:16.22
SHOULD IT BE A
THOUSAND BURNT OFFERINGS?'
00:43:16.22\00:43:18.23
GOD SAID, 'NO, I DON'T DESIRE
THAT.' ALL OF THAT POINTED TO
00:43:18.23\00:43:21.83
WHAT? POINTED AHEAD TO - DID
00:43:21.83\00:43:24.43
THEY KNOW THAT BACK THEN?
THAT'S WHAT PETER IS SAYING.
00:43:24.43\00:43:28.07
HE'S SAYING, 'OF THIS SALVATION
THE PROPHETS HAVE INQUIRED AND
00:43:28.07\00:43:31.14
SEARCHED CAREFULLY IN PROPHECY.'
THEN HEBREWS: 'ALL THESE DIED IN
00:43:31.14\00:43:34.18
FAITH HAVING NOT RECEIVED
THE PROMISE BUT HAVING SEEN THEM
00:43:34.18\00:43:38.41
AFAR OFF. WHAT PROMISE?
00:43:38.41\00:43:40.52
THE PROMISED SEED.
REMEMBER THE PROMISE THAT GOD
00:43:40.52\00:43:43.49
GAVE TO ADAM AND
EVE IN THE GARDEN?
00:43:43.49\00:43:46.45
THAT THE SEED OF THE WOMAN
WOULD BRUISE THE SERPENT'S HEAD.
00:43:46.45\00:43:49.99
THEY LOOKED FOR THE MESSIAH THAT
WOULD COME - THE SEED OF THE
00:43:49.99\00:43:52.53
WOMAN. AND THEY
ALL SAW IT AFAR OFF.
00:43:52.53\00:43:55.13
THEY WERE SAVED - VERY SIMPLY,
THEY WERE SAVED, IN THE OLD
00:43:55.13\00:43:58.53
TESTAMENT, BY FAITH
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CROSS.
00:43:58.53\00:44:02.44
WE ARE SAVED, NOW, BY FAITH
LOOKING BACK TO THE CROSS; BUT
00:44:02.44\00:44:06.51
EVERYBODY IS SAVED BY FAITH.
PETER IS SAYING, 'WHAT THEY ALL
00:44:06.51\00:44:09.98
LOOK FORWARD TO, YOU
CAN NOW LOOK BACK ON.
00:44:09.98\00:44:13.85
THEY WERE SAVED BY
FAITH LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
00:44:13.85\00:44:15.98
YOU NOW SEE THE
REALITY OF IT. >>AMEN.
00:44:15.98\00:44:18.75
>>AND LOOK BACK. MATTER OF FACT,
HERE'S ANOTHER VERSE: JESUS SAID
00:44:18.75\00:44:22.29
- JOHN 8:56 -
SPEAKING TO THE JEWS, "YOUR
00:44:22.29\00:44:25.06
FATHER ABRAHAM REJOICED TO
SEE MY DAY, AND HE SAW IT..."
00:44:25.06\00:44:29.86
JESUS SAID ABRAHAM SAW 'MY DAY'.
WHEN DID ABRAHAM SEE CHRIST'S
00:44:29.86\00:44:33.87
DAY? WHEN DO YOU THINK ABRAHAM
GOT THE CLEAREST PICTURE OF THE
00:44:33.87\00:44:36.60
SACRIFICE OF GOD'S
BELOVED SON? >>ISAAC.
00:44:36.60\00:44:40.21
>>WHEN HE WENT UP ON THE
MOUNTAIN AND HE OFFERED HIS SON
00:44:40.21\00:44:43.65
AND GOD SAID, 'ABRAHAM, BECAUSE
YOU HAVE NOT WITHELD YOUR SON'.
00:44:43.65\00:44:46.72
I THINK GOD GAVE ABRAHAM AN
EPIPHANY THAT DAY, THAT 'YOU ARE
00:44:46.72\00:44:51.82
- YOU HAVE LIVED OUT
WHAT I AM GOING TO DO.
00:44:51.82\00:44:53.52
I'M GOING TO GIVE MY SON'. AND
WHEN ABRAHAM SAID TO ISAAC, 'GOD
00:44:53.52\00:44:59.33
WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF A
SACRIFICE' ABRAHAM SAW, THAT
00:44:59.33\00:45:03.30
DAY. AND THIS IS WHAT
JESUS WAS REFERRING TO.
00:45:03.30\00:45:06.53
SO, MOVING ON IN PETER, GO
TO VERSES 11 AND 12, "SEARCHING
00:45:06.53\00:45:10.57
WHAT, OR WHAT MANNER OF TIME,
THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST WHO WAS IN
00:45:10.57\00:45:14.34
THEM WAS INDICATING WHEN
HE TESTIFIED BEFOREHAND THE
00:45:14.34\00:45:17.31
SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST AND
THE GLORIES THAT WOULD FOLLOW.
00:45:17.31\00:45:20.82
TO THEM IT WAS REVEALED THAT,
NOT TO THEMSELVES, BUT TO US
00:45:20.82\00:45:23.75
THEY WERE MINISTERING THE THINGS
WHICH NOW HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO
00:45:23.75\00:45:27.72
YOU THROUGH THOSE WHO HAVE
PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO YOU BY
00:45:27.72\00:45:31.86
THE HOLY SPIRIT SENT FROM HEAVEN
- THINGS WHICH ANGELS DESIRE TO
00:45:31.86\00:45:35.90
LOOK INTO." PETER'S
SAYING THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:45:35.90\00:45:37.63
SENT FROM HEAVEN TO
PEOPLE WHO PREACH THE GOSPEL.
00:45:37.63\00:45:41.24
WHY DOES GOD GIVE THE SPIRIT?
JESUS SAID, 'WAIT IN JERUSALEM
00:45:41.24\00:45:45.44
AND I'LL SEND MY SPIRIT
THAT YOU MIGHT BE MY WITNESSES.
00:45:45.44\00:45:49.31
WHY DID GOD SEND THE HOLY
SPIRIT? HE SAID, 'SO THEY CAN
00:45:49.31\00:45:51.95
PREACH TO YOU THESE THINGS.' IF
YOU'RE WILLING TO BE A WITNESS -
00:45:51.95\00:45:56.05
IF YOU'RE WILLING TO HAVE CHRIST
SHARE THROUGH YOU, HE WILL
00:45:56.05\00:45:58.72
ESPECIALLY GIVE YOU
THE SPIRIT TO DO THAT.
00:45:58.72\00:46:01.42
EVEN WHILE I STAND UP HERE
TEACHING TO YOU, I PRAY THE HOLY
00:46:01.42\00:46:04.63
SPIRIT WILL BRING THINGS TO MY
MIND AND MY REMEMBRANCE, BECAUSE
00:46:04.63\00:46:08.13
IT'S - IT'S NOT ABOUT ME,
IT'S ABOUT GOD AND YOU WANT THE
00:46:08.13\00:46:11.70
SPIRIT OF GOD TO
REVEAL THOSE THINGS.
00:46:11.70\00:46:14.74
EPHESIANS 3:10, "TO THE INTENT
THAT NOW THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF
00:46:14.74\00:46:20.44
GOD MIGHT BE MADE KNOWN BY THE
CHURCH TO THE PRINCIPALITIES AND
00:46:20.44\00:46:25.65
POWERS IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES,"
- PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS?
00:46:25.65\00:46:29.18
WHEN DOES PAUL TALK ABOUT
PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS LATER
00:46:29.18\00:46:32.15
ON IN EPHESIANS? 'WE
DON'T WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH
00:46:32.15\00:46:35.32
AND BLOOD BUT WE WRESTLE
AGAINST - PRINCIPALITIES -
00:46:35.32\00:46:39.13
WHAT'S HE TALKING
ABOUT? THERE IT'S TALKING
00:46:39.13\00:46:40.83
ABOUT THE DEVIL. IN
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10
00:46:40.83\00:46:43.63
HE'S TALKING ABOUT GOOD
ANGELS. DO YOU - DID YOU
00:46:43.63\00:46:46.80
CATCH WHAT PETER SAID?
THE GOSPEL, SENT FROM HEAVEN,
00:46:46.80\00:46:51.94
THINGS WHICH ANGELS
DESIRE TO LOOK INTO'.
00:46:51.94\00:46:56.41
ARE ANGELS
INTERESTED IN THE GOSPEL?
00:46:56.41\00:46:58.98
>>AMEN. >>DID
ANGELS COME DOWN AND
00:46:58.98\00:47:03.02
ANNOUNCE THE
BIRTH OF CHRIST? >>YES.
00:47:03.02\00:47:05.45
>>DID ANGELS COME DOWN AND
ANNOUNCE THE RESURRECTION OF
00:47:05.45\00:47:07.52
CHRIST? DID
ANGELS COME DOWN AND TALK
00:47:07.52\00:47:10.29
TO THE DISCIPLES DURING THE
ASCENSION OF CHRIST TO HEAVEN?
00:47:10.29\00:47:14.30
ARE ANGELS INTERESTED IN
WHAT'S HAPPENING DOWN HERE?
00:47:14.30\00:47:17.90
PETER SAYS GOD'S GIVING YOU THIS
SPIRIT AND YOU'RE PROCLAIMING
00:47:17.90\00:47:21.97
THE MYSTERIES OF SALVATION THAT
THE ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO.
00:47:21.97\00:47:28.84
THESE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS
- HEAVEN IS INTERESTED IN WHAT'S
00:47:28.84\00:47:31.65
HAPPENING HERE. A GOOD
PART OF THE INVESTIGATIVE
00:47:31.65\00:47:34.52
JUDGMENT THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE
LAST DAYS IS BECAUSE - IT'S NOT
00:47:34.52\00:47:38.09
FOR GOD TO KNOW
ANYTHING, GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING.
00:47:38.09\00:47:40.82
GOD IS TELLING ANGELS, 'YOU
SEE ALL THOSE CRAZY PEOPLE DOWN
00:47:40.82\00:47:43.32
THERE? I'M GOING
TO SAVE SOME OF THEM.
00:47:43.32\00:47:44.76
I'M GOING TO LET THEM COME BACK
TO HEAVEN.' AND THE ANGELS ARE
00:47:44.76\00:47:47.56
THINKING, 'LORD, YOU
REMEMBER WHAT LUCIFER DID?
00:47:47.56\00:47:49.30
YOU SURE THAT'S A GOOD IDEA?'
AND GOD'S SAYING, 'LOOK, I'LL
00:47:49.30\00:47:51.90
SHOW YOU, THEY'VE REALLY
BEEN CHANGED.' GOD'S NOT -
00:47:51.90\00:47:54.74
GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING.
NOTHING'S SO GOD CAN FIND OUT
00:47:54.74\00:47:57.61
ANYTHING, ISN'T
THAT RIGHT? >>AMEN.
00:47:57.61\00:47:59.77
>>ANGELS ARE INTERESTED IN
WHAT'S HAPPENING DOWN HERE, YOU
00:47:59.77\00:48:02.08
KNOW WHY? WE'RE GOING TO BE
THEIR NEIGHBORS AND THEY WANT TO
00:48:02.08\00:48:05.95
KNOW, 'ARE THEY -
THEY'VE GOT THE VICTORY?
00:48:05.95\00:48:09.08
THEY'RE GOING
TO BE GOOD UP HERE?
00:48:09.08\00:48:10.22
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO START
WHAT LUCIFER DID, ARE THEY?'
00:48:10.22\00:48:12.72
I MEAN, IF YOU WERE AN
ANGEL, WOULDN'T YOU BE A LITTLE
00:48:12.72\00:48:14.49
CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT'S
HAPPENING TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD?
00:48:14.49\00:48:16.86
ARE THESE PEOPLE GOING TO
MOVE BACK IN AND START ANOTHER
00:48:16.86\00:48:18.83
REBELLION? ANGELS
WANT TO KNOW THE BLOOD
00:48:18.83\00:48:22.10
OF CHRIST IS WASHING
THEM FROM THEIR SINS.
00:48:22.10\00:48:26.53
SO THEN YOU GO TO - ONE MORE
VERSE OF THIS IS DANIEL 8:13 -
00:48:26.53\00:48:31.24
TALKS ABOUT THAT JUDGMENT
- "THEN I HEARD A HOLY ONE
00:48:31.24\00:48:34.38
SPEAKING; AND ANOTHER HOLY ONE
SAID TO THAT CERTAIN ONE WHO WAS
00:48:34.38\00:48:37.18
SPEAKING, 'HOW LONG WILL THE
VISION BE," - YOU'VE GOT THESE
00:48:37.18\00:48:40.05
PICTURES ALL THROUGH PROPHECY
OF ANGELS TALKING BACK AND FORTH
00:48:40.05\00:48:42.75
ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE
ON EARTH. ALRIGHT, LET'S KEEP
00:48:42.75\00:48:45.15
MOVING HERE. LIVING THE LIFE
OF SALVATION - NOW WE'RE READING
00:48:45.15\00:48:50.09
VERSES 13 THROUGH 16 -
AGAIN, WE'RE IN 1 PETER 1:13-16,
00:48:50.09\00:48:54.30
"THEREFORE GIRD UP THE LOINS OF
YOUR MIND, BE SOBER, AND REST" -
00:48:54.30\00:48:58.90
WHAT DOES HE MEAN WHEN HE
SAYS 'GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR
00:48:58.90\00:49:00.70
MIND'? YOU KNOW
WHAT A LOINCLOTH IS?
00:49:00.70\00:49:06.51
THAT WAS BIBLICAL UNDERWEAR.
THEY USED TO - THEY USED TO
00:49:06.51\00:49:11.28
WRAP 'EM - THEY'D
JUST WRAP THEMSELVES UP.
00:49:11.28\00:49:13.38
YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN PEOPLE
FISHING IN INDIA AND THEY'VE GOT
00:49:13.38\00:49:15.58
A PRETTY SIMPLE, YOU KNOW - IN
BIBLE TIMES, THEY HAD KIND OF A
00:49:15.58\00:49:20.29
BELT AROUND THEIR LOINS AND,
WHEN YOU WALKED - TYPICALLY THEY
00:49:20.29\00:49:23.96
HAD A ROBE - IT ALSO
COULD BE THEIR BLANKET AT NIGHT.
00:49:23.96\00:49:26.80
IT KEPT THEM FROM BEING BIT BY
MOSQUITOS AND BURNT BY THE SUN,
00:49:26.80\00:49:30.23
AND - BUT WHEN YOU WERE WALKING
OR WORKING, YOU WOULD TUCK THAT
00:49:30.23\00:49:33.67
INTO YOUR BELT AROUND YOUR
LOINS SO THAT YOU WOULDN'T TRIP.
00:49:33.67\00:49:38.24
YOU HAD NO LOOSE LIKE BATHROBE
BELTS AND EXTRA GARMENTS HANGING
00:49:38.24\00:49:42.34
DOWN THAT WERE
GOING TO TRIP YOU UP.
00:49:42.34\00:49:43.78
PETER IS SAYING, 'DON'T HAVE
LOOSE DOUBTS THAT ARE HANGING
00:49:43.78\00:49:49.25
THAT YOU'RE TRIPPING OVER ALL
THE TIME; GIRD YOURSELF UP SO
00:49:49.25\00:49:53.12
THAT YOU CAN RUN THE RACE AND
NOT BE TRIPPED UP WITH DOUBT ALL
00:49:53.12\00:49:56.89
THE TIME.' THERE'S A MENTAL
PICTURE THAT HE HAS - THE LOINS
00:49:56.89\00:50:00.43
OF YOUR MIND GIRDED UP -
BE SOBER - "REST IN YOUR HOPE
00:50:00.43\00:50:03.77
FULLY" - SEE, THEY WERE HAVING
DOUBTS - "REST IN YOUR HOPE
00:50:03.77\00:50:07.64
FULLY UPON THE GRACE" -
THEY WERE GOING THROUGH TRIALS
00:50:07.64\00:50:09.80
SAYING, 'HOW COME
JESUS HASN'T COME YET?
00:50:09.80\00:50:12.17
- "REST IN YOUR HOPE FULLY UPON
THE GRACE THAT IS TO BE BROUGHT
00:50:12.17\00:50:15.31
TO YOU AT THE REVELATION
OF JESUS CHRIST; AS OBEDIENT
00:50:15.31\00:50:18.48
CHILDREN," - DON'T LOSE FAITH
RIGHT ON THE BORDERS OF THE
00:50:18.48\00:50:20.95
PROMISED LAND AS ISRAEL DID ONE
TIME, BUT "AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN
00:50:20.95\00:50:24.99
NOT CONFORMING YOURSELVES
TO THE FORMER LUSTS, AS IN YOUR
00:50:24.99\00:50:28.29
IGNORANCE;" WHEN YOU WERE
IGNORANT OF THESE THINGS YOU
00:50:28.29\00:50:30.96
KIND OF LIVED IN A
WICKED WAY LIKE THE WORLD.
00:50:30.96\00:50:33.46
DON'T GO BACK TO THAT - "BUT AS
HE WHO CALLED YOU IS HOLY, YOU
00:50:33.46\00:50:39.57
ALSO BE HOLY IN ALL YOUR
CONDUCT, BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN,
00:50:39.57\00:50:43.67
'BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.'" NOW,
IS PETER MAKING THAT UP OR IS
00:50:43.67\00:50:47.51
PETER QUOTING THE BIBLE?
SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME LUKE
00:50:47.51\00:50:52.11
1:74 - YOU'RE
GOING TO HAVE THAT, MIKE?
00:50:52.11\00:50:54.85
ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ
LEVITICUS 11:44, "FOR I AM THE
00:50:54.85\00:50:58.39
LORD YOUR GOD. YOU
SHALLL THEREFORE CONSECRATE
00:50:58.39\00:51:01.19
YOURSELVES, AND YOU
SHALL BE HOLY; FOR I AM HOLY.
00:51:01.19\00:51:03.76
NEITHER SHALL YOU DEFILE
YOURSELVES WITH ANY CREEPING
00:51:03.76\00:51:06.73
THING THAT CREEPS ON THE EARTH.
FOR I AM THE LORD WHO BRINGS YOU
00:51:06.73\00:51:09.63
UP OUT OF THE LAND OF
EGYPT, TO BE YOUR GOD.
00:51:09.63\00:51:12.70
YOU SHALL THEREFORE
BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY."
00:51:12.70\00:51:14.70
HE SAYS IT TWICE
THERE - 'BE HOLY; I'M HOLY'.
00:51:14.70\00:51:17.77
HOW DOES HE WANT US TO BE
HOLY? WELL, HOW DO WE KNOW
00:51:17.77\00:51:21.84
HOW HOLY GOD IS? GOD
SAID, 'WELL, LOOK, I'LL COME
00:51:21.84\00:51:23.98
DOWN AND GIVE YOU AN
EXAMPLE. HIS NAME IS JESUS.
00:51:23.98\00:51:26.95
I WILL COME DOWN AND LIVE AMONG
YOU AND SHOW YOU WHAT IT MEANS
00:51:26.95\00:51:30.75
TO BE LIKE GOD. SO
WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS 'BE
00:51:30.75\00:51:34.46
GODLY' WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN? BE LIKE JESUS, RIGHT?
00:51:34.46\00:51:38.29
BE CHRIST-LIKE. SO WHAT
HE'S REALLY SAYING IS WE
00:51:38.29\00:51:42.16
THINK, 'OH MAN,
GOD IS SO FAR OFF.
00:51:42.16\00:51:44.13
HOW CAN I BE LIKE GOD?
ISN'T THAT BLASPHEMOUS TO
00:51:44.13\00:51:45.90
THINK I COULD BE LIKE GOD?
HE'S SAYING, 'BE LIKE JESUS.
00:51:45.90\00:51:48.64
THAT'S A CHRISTIAN.' THAT
FEELS BETTER SAYING IT THAT WAY,
00:51:48.64\00:51:51.77
DOESN'T IT? HE'S CALLING US TO
HOLINESS. READ FOR US, PLEASE,
00:51:51.77\00:51:55.21
LUKE 1:74 AND 75. >>LUKE
1:74 AND 75, "TO GRANT US
00:51:55.21\00:52:01.72
THAT WE, BEING DELILVERED FROM
THE HAND OF OUR ENEMIES, MIGHT
00:52:01.72\00:52:06.15
SERVE HIM WITHOUT FEAR,
IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:52:06.15\00:52:10.89
BEFORE HIM ALL
THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE."
00:52:10.89\00:52:13.96
>>SO HOW CONSISTENTLY DOES HE
WANT US TO SERVE HIM IN HOLINESS
00:52:13.96\00:52:17.07
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS? ALL OUR DAYS.
00:52:17.07\00:52:19.63
HOW CAN WE SERVE HIM IN
HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS?
00:52:19.63\00:52:22.00
BEING DELIVERED FROM
THE HAND OF OUR ENEMY.
00:52:22.00\00:52:25.77
CAN THE LORD DELIVER YOU
FROM THE CAPTIVITY TO THE DEVIL?
00:52:25.77\00:52:28.84
>>AMEN. >>HE CAN.
00:52:28.84\00:52:31.11
AND HE - AND, BY THE WAY, THIS
IS THE PRAYER OF ZECHARIAH WHEN
00:52:31.11\00:52:35.15
HIS MOUTH WAS OPENED AFTER JOHN
THE BAPTIST WAS BORN, BUT IT'S A
00:52:35.15\00:52:39.85
PROPHETIC STATEMENT THAT WE,
BEING DELIVERED FROM THAT - WHY
00:52:39.85\00:52:43.36
DID GOD DELIVER THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM PHARAOH?
00:52:43.36\00:52:47.00
THAT THEY MIGHT BE A HOLY NATION
- THAT THEY MIGHT SERVE HIM IN
00:52:47.00\00:52:50.50
HOLINESS. WHY DOES GOD
SAVE US FROM THE DEVIL?
00:52:50.50\00:52:52.97
THAT WE MIGHT BE HIS
HOLY REPRESENTATIVES.
00:52:52.97\00:52:55.47
PETER'S SAYING, 'DON'T GO BACK
TO YOUR FORMER WAYS.' AND THE
00:52:55.47\00:52:58.61
FINAL SECTION
HERE, LOVE ONE ANOTHER .
00:52:58.61\00:53:01.48
1 PETER 1:22, "SINCE YOU HAVE
PURIFIED YOUR SOULS IN OBEYING
00:53:01.48\00:53:06.15
THE TRUTH THROUGH THE SPIRIT
IN SINCERE LOVE OF THE BRETHREN,
00:53:06.15\00:53:10.05
LOVE ONE ANOTHER FERVENTLY
WITH A PURE HEART," - NOW HERE'S
00:53:10.05\00:53:13.05
WHERE PETER SOUNDS LIKE JOHN
- JOHN IS THE APOSTLE OF LOVE.
00:53:13.05\00:53:15.86
HE'S ALWAYS
SAYING, 'LOVE IS OF GOD.
00:53:15.86\00:53:17.46
HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU LOVE GOD
AND YOU DON'T LOVE EACH OTHER?
00:53:17.46\00:53:19.19
LOVE EACH OTHER.'
PETER'S SAYING, 'LOVE EACH OTHER
00:53:19.19\00:53:21.13
FERVENTLY WITH A PURE HEART.
HAVE A HEARTFELT LOVE.' WHEN
00:53:21.13\00:53:26.97
JESUS ASKS PETER, AT THE
RESURRECTION, THREE TIMES,
00:53:26.97\00:53:30.11
'PETER, DO YOU LOVE ME? DO
YOU LOVE ME? DO YOU LOVE ME?'
00:53:30.11\00:53:32.77
- AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S WHERE
YOU GET THE TITLE FOR OUR STUDY
00:53:32.77\00:53:34.38
GUIDE, FEED MY SHEEP , IS
BECAUSE THREE TIMES JESUS SAID,
00:53:34.38\00:53:38.45
'PETER DO YOU LOVE ME?'
ALL THREE TIMES PETER SAID,
00:53:38.45\00:53:41.02
'LORD, YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU'.
JESUS SAID, 'FEED MY SHEEP'.
00:53:41.02\00:53:44.89
SO HOW DO WE SHOW
LOVE? BY LOVING EACH OTHER.
00:53:44.89\00:53:48.42
AND ONE OF THE MOST LOVING
THINGS YOU CAN DO IS TO SHARE
00:53:48.42\00:53:51.23
THE TRUTH WITH SOMEONE. >>AMEN.
00:53:51.23\00:53:53.16
>>JOHN 13:34, "A NEW COMMANDMENT
I GIVE TO YOU, THAT YOU LOVE
00:53:53.16\00:53:58.47
ONE ANOTHER; AS I HAVE LOVED
YOU, THAT YOU ALSO LOVE ONE
00:53:58.47\00:54:02.67
ANOTHER." (WHISTLES) THAT'S
PRETTY HARD - TO LOVE EACH OTHER
00:54:02.67\00:54:08.98
THE WAY JESUS LOVES US.
AND JESUS SAYS, 'FATHER, I PRAY
00:54:08.98\00:54:12.51
THAT AS YOU LOVE ME AND I
LOVE YOU, THEY'LL LOVE EACH
00:54:12.51\00:54:15.15
OTHER' - JOHN
CHAPTER 17. DOES IT GET ANY
00:54:15.15\00:54:19.05
BETTER THAN THAT?
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY LOVE
00:54:19.05\00:54:22.46
PEOPLE THE WAY JESUS DOES?
YOU CAN'T - WITHOUT HIS SPIRIT.
00:54:22.46\00:54:28.26
BUT, NOTICE THIS: YOU CANNOT NOT
LOVE PEOPLE LIKE GOD IF YOU HAVE
00:54:28.26\00:54:34.34
GOD'S SPIRIT. IF YOU
HAVE GOD'S SPIRIT, YOU
00:54:34.34\00:54:38.91
WILL LOVE LIKE GOD LOVES.
SO, WHAT'S OUR GREATEST NEED?
00:54:38.91\00:54:43.08
>>THE HOLY
SPIRIT. >>THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:54:43.08\00:54:46.01
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT
YOU'VE BEEN CONVERTED?
00:54:46.01\00:54:50.02
1 JOHN 3:14 "WE KNOW THAT WE
HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH TO LIFE,
00:54:50.02\00:54:54.19
BECAUSE WE LOVE THE BRETHREN.
HE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER
00:54:54.19\00:54:57.69
ABIDES IN DEATH." THAT'S
A PRETTY SERIOUS INDICTMENT.
00:54:57.69\00:55:00.63
I MEAN, IF YOU'VE GOT HATRED IN
YOUR HEART FOR SOMEBODY - AND,
00:55:00.63\00:55:03.40
YOU KNOW, IT'S EASY TO SAY, 'OH,
I LOVE PEOPLE' - AS LONG AS YOU
00:55:03.40\00:55:06.17
DON'T MENTION
ANYONE SPECIFICALLY.
00:55:06.17\00:55:07.80
(LAUGHTER) I -
'GENERALLY I LOVE PEOPLE.
00:55:07.80\00:55:11.07
I'M A PEOPLE PERSON BUT THERE'S
A LOT OF INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE I
00:55:11.07\00:55:16.24
DON'T LOVE VERY MUCH.' WELL,
THEN YOU'RE IN THAT CATEGORY OF
00:55:16.24\00:55:19.95
SOMEONE THAT DOESN'T LOVE.
SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT IF THE
00:55:19.95\00:55:25.12
HOLY SPIRIT CAN BRING SOMEONE TO
YOUR MIND THAT YOU HAVE HATRED
00:55:25.12\00:55:29.59
IN YOUR HEART FOR, THEN YOU'RE
NOT PASSING THE TEST, BECAUSE
00:55:29.59\00:55:34.60
GOD IS LOVE AND HE
WANTS US TO LOVE OUR ENEMIES.
00:55:34.60\00:55:39.47
SO, THAT WOULD COVER
EVERYBODY, WOULDN'T IT?
00:55:39.47\00:55:43.84
IF YOU LOVE YOUR ENEMIES -
'WELL, BUT I'VE GOT THIS SPECIAL
00:55:43.84\00:55:45.81
ENEMY ENEMY' - NO, YOUR ENEMIES
- YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE THEM.' AND
00:55:45.81\00:55:51.21
HE SAYS, 'HE THAT DOES NOT LOVE
HIS BROTHER ABIDES IN DEATH'.
00:55:51.21\00:55:54.08
YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF
SUPERNATURAL TO LOVE THAT WAY,
00:55:54.08\00:55:56.75
ISN'T IT? BUT THAT'S WHAT
THE LORD'S CALLING US TO DO.
00:55:56.75\00:55:59.35
I'M GOING TO READ THE LAST VERSE
NOW, "HAVING BEEN BORN AGAIN," -
00:55:59.35\00:56:02.46
THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT -
"NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED BUT
00:56:02.46\00:56:05.19
INCORRUPTIBLE, THROUGH THE
WORD OF GOD" - WE GET THIS POWER
00:56:05.19\00:56:08.03
THROUGH HIS WORD - WHICH LIVES
AND ABIDES FOREVER, BECAUSE 'ALL
00:56:08.03\00:56:12.60
FLESH IS AS GRASS,'" - NOW HE'S
QUOTING ISAIAH - "'AND ALL THE
00:56:12.60\00:56:15.44
GLORY OF MAN AS THE
FLOWER OF THE GRASS.
00:56:15.44\00:56:17.74
THE GRASS WITHERS, AND ITS
FLOWER FALLS AWAY, BUT THE WORD
00:56:17.74\00:56:20.64
OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.'
NOW THIS IS THE WORD WHICH BY
00:56:20.64\00:56:25.55
THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO YOU."
00:56:25.55\00:56:28.18
HE PREACHED THE WORD
ABOUT CHRIST THE LIVING WORD.
00:56:28.18\00:56:31.25
ANYWAY, I LEARNED SOME THINGS
STUDYING AND I HOPE YOU LEARNED
00:56:31.25\00:56:34.29
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