Participants: David DeRose MD
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021716A
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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY 00:37 HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:39 ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:42 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THOSE JOINING US ON THE VARIOUS 00:44 TELEVISION NETWORKS. ALSO WATCHING ONLINE, OUR ONLINE 00:48 CHURCH MEMBERS THAT TUNE IN EVERY WEEK TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR 00:51 STUDY TOGETHER - A VERY WARM WELCOME TO YOU. 00:54 AND, OF COURSE, A WARM WELCOME TO OUR REGULAR CHURCH 00:56 MEMBERS HERE AND THOSE WHO ARE VISITING. 00:59 WE ARE DELIGHTED THAT YOU'RE HERE AND YOU CAME EARLY ENOUGH 01:01 TO BE PART OF OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY THIS MORNING. 01:04 WELL, WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR LESSON. 01:08 IT'S ENTITLED ALONE IN THE CROWD , AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE 01:10 WATCHING, IF YOU'D LIKE TO RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF THIS BOOK 01:14 ALONE IN THE CROWD , JUST GIVE US A CALL ON OUR RESOURCE PHONE 01:17 NUMBER. THAT NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND 01:22 YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #714. THAT NUMBER, ONE MORE TIME, IS 01:26 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR OFFER #714. 01:31 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO ANYBODY IN NORTH AMERICA THAT 01:34 CALLS AND ASKS. IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH 01:36 AMERICA AND YOU'D LIKE TO READ OUR FREE OFFER, JUST GO TO THE 01:38 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 01:42 YOU CAN ACTUALLY JUST TYPE IN THE SEARCH BAR ALONE IN THE 01:45 CROWD AND YOU CAN READ THE BOOK FOR FREE ONLINE. 01:48 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN 01:51 WITH A MOMENT OF SINGING - RAISING OUR VOICES IN SONG, SO 01:55 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN ME HERE 01:57 ON STAGE. (PIANO MUSIC) 02:05 >>HAPPY - HAPPY SABBATH, CHURCH FAMILY, BOTH FAR AND NEAR. 02:09 WE INVITE YOU TO SING WITH US SOME HYMNS, AND THE FIRST ONE IS 02:13 GOING TO BE MY FAITH LOOKS UP TO THEE . 02:17 AND HOW WONDERFUL IT IS THAT WE CAN HAVE THE FAITH IN OUR LORD 02:21 JESUS CHRIST AND ALL THE PROMISES HE HAS GIVEN US IN THE 02:23 BIBLE. THIS SONG IS A PRAYER THAT WE 02:27 MAY BE WHOLLY DEDICATED TO HIM AND NEVER STRAY FROM HIS SIDE. 02:32 WE WILL SING ALL THREE VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC) 04:17 >>OUR NEXT SONG IS ALSO A PRAYER - FATHER LEAD ME DAY BY DAY - 04:22 AND I BELIEVE THAT IS WHOLEHEARTEDLY THE PRAYER OF 04:25 ALL OF US. THE SONG SAYS 'KEEP ME SAFE BY 04:29 THY DEAR SIDE, LET ME IN THY LOVE ABIDE, THEN, AT LAST, GO 04:34 HOME WITH THEE, EVERMORE THY CHILD TO BE'. 04:39 ISN'T THAT THE PRAYER OF ALL OF US? 04:40 WE WILL SING ALL FOUR VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC) 06:29 >>WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR LESSON STUDY, FROM 06:31 TIME TO TIME HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH, WE LIKE TO DO A 06:33 MISSION SPOTLIGHT - SORT OF AN UPDATE ON SOME MISSION ACTIVITY 06:36 THAT SOME OF OUR CHURCH MEMBERS ARE INVOLVED IN. 06:38 ONE OF OUR CHURCH MEMBERS IS OSTAP AND HE IS INVOLVED IN A 06:42 MINISTRY TRAVELING AROUND, DOING MISSION WORK ALL AROUND THE 06:45 WORLD. I KNOW THERE ARE SOME MEMBERS RIGHT HERE AT THE 06:47 GRANITE BAY CHURCH WHO ARE ALSO INVOLVED IN SOME OF THE 06:49 PROJECTS, SO WE ARE JUST DELIGHTED, OSTAP, THAT YOU ARE 06:52 HERE. AND YOU'RE GOING TO KIND OF GIVE US A LITTLE UPDATE ON 06:54 SOME EXCITING PROJECTS YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING ON AND SOME OF THE 06:57 THINGS COMING ALONG. >>YES, THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING 07:00 CHURCH FAMILY. IT'S A BLESSING TO BE HERE WITH YOU THIS 07:03 MORNING. I'D LIKE TO SHARE ON A PROJECT THAT WE JUST CAME BACK 07:06 FROM, IN CAMBODIA, AND WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN WITH 07:11 VOLUNTEERS FROM THE UNITED STATES, FROM CANADA, AND OTHER 07:13 PARTS OF THE WORLD TO COME TOGETHER FOR A TIME OF BUILDING. 07:17 WE HAD A BUILDING PROJECT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS DEAR AND 07:22 NEAR TO OUR HEARTS AND IT WAS A BRAND-NEW SCHOOL FOR THE 07:25 CHILDREN THERE IN CAMBODIA AND YOU'LL SEE ON THE SLIDE HERE 07:29 SOME PICTURES THAT WE WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU. 07:31 THIS IS A YOUNG GROUP OF KIDS THAT ARE STUDYING, FOR THE VERY 07:36 FIRST TIME, IN AN ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN ENVIRONMENT RIGHT 07:39 THERE IN THEIR OWN VILLAGE IN CAMBODIA. 07:42 AND, WHAT WAS NICE, IS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO NOT ONLY SPEND TIME 07:47 BUILDING, BUT WE ALSO HAD SOME TIME TO SPEND WITH THE CHILDREN 07:50 - TO DO A VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL FOR THEM, TO ORGANIZE A PROGRAM 07:54 THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR THEM TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW, TO SEE 07:57 SOMETHING NEW, TO HEAR NEW BIBLE STORIES, AND EVERYBODY WAS SO 08:02 EXCITED, THEY WERE COMING OUT WITH THEIR PARENTS. 08:04 MOST OF THE FOLKS THERE ARE USING SCOOTERS AS TRANSPORTATION 08:08 AND SO, YOU'D SEE EITHER A FATHER OR MOTHER TRAVELING DOWN 08:11 THE ROAD WITH A WHOLE BUNCH OF KIDS ATTACHED TO THE BACK AND 08:14 THEY'RE JUST ALL HOLDING ONTO ONE ANOTHER. AND SOMETIMES YOU'D 08:18 SEE THREE PEOPLE ON A SCOOTER, SOMETIMES YOU'D SEE FOUR OR 08:20 FIVE, AND SO, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM WAS COMING OUT. 08:24 HERE YOU'LL SEE ON THE PICTURE SOME OF THE BUILDING PROGRESS - 08:28 THIS IS THE - THE SKELETON FOR THE SCHOOL. 08:31 WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FILLING IN FOR THE WALLS AS WELL AND 08:34 GETTING THE ROOF PUT ON, AND SO, IN AUGUST, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 08:38 THE GRAND OPENING FOR THIS BRAND-NEW SCHOOL. 08:41 NOW, SOME OF YOU ARE MAYBE WONDERING, 'WELL, HOW IS THIS 08:45 PROJECT GOING TO IMPACT THE COMMUNITY?' 08:47 YOU SEE, IN THAT REGION, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE 08:50 GOVERNMENT HAS ALLOWED FOR US TO BUILD A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AND SO 08:54 WE BELIEVE THAT THE CHILDREN THAT ARE GOING TO BE COMING AND 08:57 STUDYING AND LEARNING AT THE SCHOOL WILL HAVE A REALLY BRIGHT 09:00 FUTURE AND IT'LL BE A FIRST FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ONLY 09:04 STUDYING, THEY'RE ALSO LEARNING ENGLISH, THEY'RE ALSO LEARNING 09:06 FROM THE BIBLE, AND THEY'RE SHARING THAT WITH THEIR FAMILY 09:10 MEMBERS. THEY'RE SHARING THAT WITH THEIR 09:12 SIBLINGS, AND SO, WE BELIEVE IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT IMPACT 09:15 FOR THIS COMMUNITY IN CAMBODIA. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER FAMILY 09:19 THAT'S GOING TO BE TRAVELING DOWN IN MAY TO STAY THERE AND TO 09:22 RUN THE SCHOOL, AND SO, WE'RE EXCITED THAT THE LORD HAS GIVEN 09:26 US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MINISTER IN CAMBODIA. 09:30 WE ALSO HAVE A PROJECT THAT'S GOING TO BE COMING UP FOR THE 09:34 MONTH OF APRIL AND WE'RE PLANNING ON LEAVING APRIL 9TH TO 09:38 HERMOSILLO, MEXICO, WHERE WE CAN BUILD ANOTHER CHURCH BUILDING 09:42 THERE. THERE'S A CONGREGATION THERE 09:44 THAT'S MEETING RIGHT NOW IN A RENTED FACILITY, AND SO, WE 09:47 WANTED TO HELP THEM TO JOIN WITH THEM - AND SO, YOU'LL SEE 09:51 ON THE SCREEN HERE SOME PICTURES OF THE BUILDING PROGRESS. 09:54 THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO PURCHASE THE LAND. 09:57 THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO FINISH THE FOUNDATION. 09:58 AND THEY'VE STARTED ON BUILDING THE WALLS. 10:01 AND SO, ON APRIL 9TH, SOME OF THE CHURCH MEMBERS HERE AT 10:04 GRANITE BAY - ALSO, A FEW FAMILIES FROM ARIZONA AND OTHER 10:07 PARTS OF THE WORLD - ARE GOING TO BE COMING TOGETHER FOR A WEEK 10:12 OF BUILDING. WE'RE HOPING THAT THE LORD'S 10:14 GOING TO LEAD AND TO GUIDE ALONG AS WE ALL TRAVEL IN OUR 10:18 VEHICLES DOWN TO MEXICO - IT'S ABOUT A 15-HOUR DRIVE - AND OUR 10:22 GOAL IS TO FINISH THE WINDOWS, FINISH THE ROOF ON THE CHURCH, 10:27 ALSO DO THE FLOOR INSIDE THE CHURCH, AND GET AS MUCH WORK 10:30 AS WE CAN FINISHED, THAT THIS COMMUNITY WILL HAVE THEIR OWN 10:34 CHURCH BUILDING TO MEET AND TO WORSHIP TOGETHER. 10:38 AND SO, IT'S OUR DESIRE TO HAVE AS MANY VOLUNTEERS AS POSSIBLE 10:42 COME WITH US, TO BUILD, TO EXPERIENCE THIS PROJECT FOR 10:46 THEMSELVES, AS WELL, AND I WANTED TO THANK THE CHURCH 10:48 FAMILY. MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN PRAYING 10:51 WITH US AND PRAYING FOR US FOR THE EFFORTS THERE IN MEXICO. 10:55 MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN SPONSORING OUR PROJECTS AS WELL AND WE 10:58 THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND SO, THIS MORNING I GIVE YOU 11:03 A SHORT - SHORT GLIMPSE - A SHORT UPDATE ON THE PROJECTS 11:06 THAT ARE GOING TO BE HAPPENING AND WE THANK YOU, AGAIN, FOR 11:09 YOUR SUPPORT - FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND WE KNOW THAT THE LORD IS 11:13 GOING TO LEAD AND TO GUIDE AND LEAD US IN THIS WORK THAT WE 11:17 HAVE, YOU KNOW, ENCOUNTERED WITH MEXICO, AND ALSO WITH THE FUTURE 11:21 PROJECTS THAT ARE COMING UP. THANK YOU. 11:23 >>AMEN. >>THANK YOU, OSTAP. 11:28 IT'S EXCITING TO SEE THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING. 11:29 THAT WAS A BIG SCHOOL THAT THEY FINISHED BUILDING IN CAMBODIA, 11:32 DID YOU NOTICE THAT? USUALLY ON THESE MISSION 11:33 PROJECTS THEY'RE A LITTLE STEEL-FRAME BUILDING, BUT THAT 11:36 WAS A BIG SCHOOL WITH SOLID CONCRETE BEAMS. 11:39 I WAS IMPRESSED. SO, AGAIN, KEEP THE WHOLE 11:42 MINISTRY IN YOUR PRAYERS AS THEY MOVE FORWARD WITH THE 11:44 PROJECTS IN MEXICO. TODAY OUR LESSON IS GOING TO 11:47 CONTINUE IN OUR STUDY OF THE BOOKS OF 1 AND 2 PETER. 11:51 TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON #4 ENTITLED SOCIAL 11:54 RELATIONSHIPS AND DR. DEROSE IS GOING TO BE BRINGING US OUR 11:57 LESSON THIS MORNING BUT, BEFORE HE COMES FORWARD, LET'S JUST BOW 12:00 OUR HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE ARE 12:03 GRATEFUL THAT WE CAN GATHER TOGETHER HERE IN YOUR HOUSE ON 12:05 SABBATH TO OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY THESE IMPORTANT LESSONS 12:09 GIVEN SO LONG AGO AND, YET, ARE SO IMPORTANT AND PERTINENT TO 12:12 THE TIME IN WHICH WE LIVE. SO, BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER AS 12:16 WE ASK THIS ALL IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 12:19 THANK YOU, DR. DEROSE. >>WELL, IT'S GOOD TO BE 12:33 WITH YOU THIS MORNING. HOW'RE WE DOING? 12:36 IT'S GOOD TO BE WITH YOU THIS MORNING AND IT'S GOOD TO BE 12:39 CONTINUING OUR JOURNEY IN 1 AND 2 PETER. 12:44 WE'RE ON LESSON #4, AS PASTOR JËAN INTRODUCED IT, DEALING 12:48 WITH SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS . AND, I DON'T KNOW, AS YOU LOOK, 12:52 SOMETIMES, AT THESE LESSONS, I AM SO THANKFUL THAT WE'RE IN A 12:56 CHURCH THAT IS PREACHING THROUGH THE BIBLE. 13:01 IF YOU'RE FINDING YOURSELF, AS YOU'RE TUNING IN TODAY, AT A 13:06 CHURCH THAT'S NOT PREACHING THROUGH THE BIBLE, I'LL TELL 13:09 YOU, YOU'RE MISSING SOMETHING. >>AMEN. 13:11 >>BECAUSE IT IS SO EASY - I CAN TELL YOU - AS A PREACHER AND AS 13:14 A TEACHER, IT'S SO EASY TO PICK WHAT I WANT TO TEACH ABOUT IF 13:18 I'M GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AT A CHURCH. 13:21 BUT HERE AT GRANITE BAY, WE'RE PREACHING THROUGH SEQUENTIALLY, 13:25 AS THE ADVENTIST WORLD CHURCH IS, BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. 13:30 NOW, I TELL YOU THAT BACKGROUND, BECAUSE IF SOMEONE WERE ASKING 13:35 ME A TOPIC TO PREACH ON, I PROBABLY WOULD NOT CHOOSE THE 13:39 ONE WE'RE ABOUT TO STUDY. THIS REALLY - REALLY, THIS IS A 13:43 DIFFICULT PASSAGE, AT LEAST FOR ME, AND I THINK IT SHOULD BE 13:47 FOR ALL OF US BECAUSE IT'S CHALLENGING US. 13:52 IT'S MUCH EASIER TO SPEAK ABOUT WHAT JESUS IS DOING FOR US - 13:56 WHAT HE'S DOING IN OUR LIVES - WHAT HE'S DONE - THAN IT IS TO 13:59 SPEAK ABOUT OUR PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. 14:03 HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS? SO LET'S JUST STEP BACK 14:05 AND GET THE CONTEXT. I KNOW WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 14:07 THREE WEEKS, BUT WE CANNOT - I DO NOT FEEL WE CAN DO JUSTICE TO 14:11 TODAY'S LESSON JUST BY JUMPING RIGHT IN TO 1 PETER 2, VERSE 13. 14:16 WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHERE WE'VE BEEN. 14:18 I DON'T WANT TO SPEND TOO MUCH TIME DOING THIS, BUT IF WE DON'T 14:21 DO THAT, WE WILL TOTALLY MISUNDERSTAND WHERE PETER'S 14:24 COMING FROM. LOOK AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF 1 PETER. 14:28 WE'RE GOING TO GIVE A QUICK REVIEW OF THE LAST THREE LESSONS 14:32 THAT WE'VE BEEN SPENDING TOGETHER. 14:33 1 PETER CHAPTER 1, HE BEGINS BY ADDRESSING, AS WE'VE FOUND, THE 14:39 DIASPORA - THE JEWS WHO'VE BEEN SCATTERED. 14:43 AND WHETHER THAT'S METAPHORICAL OR WHETHER IT'S LITERAL, PASTOR 14:48 DOUG GAVE A NICE BACKGROUND ON THAT A FEW WEEKS AGO. 14:51 BUT THE POINT IS, PETER IS EXPRESSLY SPEAKING TO PEOPLE WHO 14:56 CONNECT THEMSELVES WITH GOD'S REVELATION TO THE JEWISH NATION. 15:01 SO THAT'S THE CONTEXT. THAT'S WHO PETER IS WRITING TO. 15:04 HE'S WRITING A GENERAL EPISTLE, NOT JUST TO A SPECIFIC CHURCH, 15:09 BUT TO CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE BEEN SCATTERED ABROAD IN THE 15:13 NEW TESTAMENT WORLD, IF YOU WILL. 15:16 BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING, AS YOU READ THE VERY FIRST TWO VERSES 15:20 IN PETER - 1 PETER - AS HE'S GIVING THIS INTRODUCTION, LISTEN 15:24 TO WHAT HE SAYS - VERSE 2, "ELECT ACCORDING TO THE 15:28 FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER, IN SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT, 15:33 FOR OBEDIENCE AND SPRINKLING OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST:" THAT 15:39 SINGLE VERSE, INTRODUCING US TO THE TRINITY, ALSO INTRODUCES US 15:44 TO A GREAT THEME IN 1 PETER THAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH OUR LESSON 15:47 TODAY, AND IT'S AN INTERPLAY BETWEEN TWO THINGS: WHAT JESUS 15:52 HAS DONE FOR US, AND WHAT WE ARE CALLED TO BE AS CHRISTIANS - 15:59 WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE FOR US AND, THEN, HOW WE ARE TO LIVE. 16:03 DO YOU SEE IT THERE IN THOSE VERSES? 16:05 IT'S SPEAKING BOTH OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS - HIS CLEANSING BLOOD 16:09 THAT WE - IN WHICH WE STAND TODAY AS BELIEVERS, BUT IT ALSO 16:14 SAYS WE ARE CALLED TO OBEDIENCE. DO YOU CATCH IT THERE? 16:20 THE VERY FIRST TWO VERSES, AS THIS BOOK IS INTRODUCED. 16:25 AND THEN, AS YOU READ THROUGH THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN 16:27 STUDYING TOGETHER THE LAST FEW WEEKS, YOU SEE - LOOK IN VERSES 16:31 3 THROUGH 5 - IT'S SPEAKING - LISTEN TO PETER'S PRAISE, 16:37 "BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO 16:40 ACCORDING TO HIS ABUNDANT MERCY HAS BEGOTTEN US AGAIN TO A 16:44 LIVING HOPE THROUGH THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST 16:47 FROM THE DEAD," - REJOICING IN WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR US - BUT 16:52 THEN WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER THAT? 16:54 IN VERSES 6 AND ON WE'RE CALLED TO BE FAITHFUL IN THE MIDST OF 16:58 TRIAL. ARE YOU CATCHING THIS INTERPLAY 17:01 - GOING BACK AND FORTH - WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR US AND THEN 17:05 HOW WE ARE CALLED TO LIVE? LET'S PICK THAT UP - WE'RE GOING 17:08 TO READ FROM - SOMEONE'S GOT A BIBLE VERSE FOR US. 17:13 WE'RE GOING TO GO, IN JUST A MOMENT, TO A SECTION IN 1 PETER 17:18 THAT WE'VE BEEN STUDYING ALREADY TOGETHER AND IT'S GOING TO BE 1 17:23 PETER CHAPTER 1, VERSES 18 THROUGH 21 BUT, BEFORE WE GO 17:28 THERE, JUST - JUST PICK UP A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THIS STREAM 17:32 IN CHAPTER 1 - SO THIS CALL TO LOOK AT WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR 17:36 US - STANDING IN HIS BLOOD - STANDING IN FAITH IN HIM AND 17:40 THEN OUR CALL. NOW LOOK AT VERSES 10 - IN CHAPTER 1 - 10 17:44 THROUGH 12 - SPEAKING ABOUT GOD'S REVELATION THROUGH THE 17:47 PROPHETS - HOW ANGELS LONG TO FATHOM THE MYSTERIES OF 17:52 REDEMPTION. BUT THEN LOOK AT VERSE 13 IN CHAPTER 1, 17:56 "THEREFORE GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR MIND, BE SOBER..." 18:00 - VERSE 14, "AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN..." 18:03 - VERSE 15, "...BE HOLY...FOR I AM HOLY." 18:08 NOW LET'S GO TO OUR SCRIPTURE THERE IN 1 PETER CHAPTER 1, 18:12 VERSES 18 THROUGH 21. WE HAVE A READER HERE. 18:16 >>1 PETER 1, VERSES 18 THROUGH 21, "KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT 18:23 REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, LIKE SILVER OR GOLD, 18:27 FROM YOUR AIMLESS CONDUCT RECEIVED BY TRADITION FROM YOUR 18:30 FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB 18:34 WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT. 18:36 HE INDEED WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE 18:40 WORLD, BUT WAS MANIFEST IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU WHO THROUGH 18:45 HIM BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD AND GAVE HIM 18:49 GLORY, SO THAT YOUR FAITH AND HOPE ARE IN GOD." 18:53 >>HEAVENLY REALITIES WERE BOUGHT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF 18:57 CHRIST AND, VERY INTERESTING, BECAUSE THIS THEME IS GOING TO 19:00 COME UP SEVERAL TIMES AND WE'RE GOING TO PICK IT UP IN OUR 19:03 SECTION FOR TODAY. IT COMPARES JESUS' SACRIFICE TO 19:08 THE PRECIOUS GOLD - THE PRECIOUS - DO YOU SEE IT THERE? 19:13 PRECIOUS GOLD AND WHAT ELSE? WHAT ELSE DO YOU SEE THERE? 19:16 PRECIOUS SILVER. IS GOLD AND SILVER PRECIOUS? 19:22 YES, BUT THAT IS NOTHING, REALLY, IN COMPARISON TO THE 19:27 PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS. DO YOU CATCH IT THERE? 19:32 AND SO, AGAIN, THIS PICTURE OF HEAVENLY REALITIES - AND THEN 19:35 LOOK AT THE VERY NEXT VERSE - VERSE 22 - "SINCE YOU HAVE 19:40 PURIFIED YOUR SOULS IN OBEYING THE TRUTH THROUGH THE SPIRIT IN 19:46 SINCERE LOVE OF THE BRETHREN, LOVE ONE ANOTHER FERVENTLY WITH 19:50 A PURE HEART," - DO YOU SEE THIS INTERPLAY? 19:53 SO, AS PETER IS WRITING THIS LETTER, AND - WE'RE GOING IN 19:57 THIS LESSON TODAY - WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE STRUCTURE - THE 20:00 CONTEXT - IN WHICH PETER'S WRITING. 20:02 HE'S FOCUSING US ON THESE HEAVENLY REALITIES AND THEN HE'S 20:05 SAYING, 'BUT HERE'S HOW YOU'RE TO LIVE' - WE'RE TO LIVE 20:08 OBEDIENT LIVES - WE'RE TO LIVE LIVES OF FAITH. 20:10 ARE YOU CATCHING THAT - THAT SENSE THAT AS WE'RE REVIEWING 20:13 WHAT WE'VE BEEN STUDYING SO FAR? 20:16 AND THAT CONTINUED WITH WHAT WE STUDIED LAST WEEK. 20:19 AGAIN, THERE'S THIS AMAZING THEME THAT COMES UP BECAUSE 20:23 THERE'S A COMPARISON THAT'S PLAYING OUT HERE AND IT'S A 20:26 COMPARISON BETWEEN EARTHLY RICHES - BETWEEN THE RICHES OF 20:31 EARTH AND THE RICHES OF HEAVEN AND THE CALLING THAT WE HAVE. 20:36 THIS, TO ME, IS SO FASCINATING BECAUSE IT'S COMING TO US FROM 20:40 THE WORDS OF PETER - AND WE STUDIED PETER'S LIFE EARLIER IN 20:44 THIS LESSON. WHAT DID PETER HAVE A GREAT 20:47 PROBLEM WITH IN HIS OWN LIFE? IN MATTHEW 16 WE LOOKED AT ONE OF 20:53 PETER'S TRYING MOMENTS. HE HAD JUST - JUST REVEALED - HE 20:57 HAD CONFESSED JESUS' MESSIAHSHIP AND, RIGHT AFTER THAT, JESUS 21:03 TRIES TO DIRECT THE ATTENTION OF THE DISCIPLES TO THE CROSS. 21:10 AND HOW DID PETER RESPOND TO THAT? 21:11 >>DON'T TALK LIKE THAT. >>DON'T TALK LIKE THAT. 21:14 HE REBUKED JESUS, RIGHT? AND JESUS HAD TO REBUKE HIM. 21:22 SO PETER HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE CROSS, IN MATTHEW 16. 21:27 IN MATTHEW 26 HE HAD A PROBLEM WITH JESUS' WORD, REMEMBER? 21:33 JESUS SAID, 'BEFORE THE COCK CROWS YOU WILL DENY ME THREE 21:39 TIMES' - REMEMBER THAT? HOW DID PETER RESPOND TO THAT? 21:43 >>NO, NOT ME. >>NO, IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. 21:46 THAT'S RIGHT. HE HAD A PROBLEM ACCEPTING JESUS' WORD. 21:50 SO WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN 1 PETER? 21:52 AS WE'RE READING THROUGH THIS, THE FOCUS IS ON THE POWER OF THE 21:55 WORD AND ON THE POWER OF THE CROSS - THE TWO VERY THINGS THAT 22:00 PETER TRIPPED UP OVER. AND SO, HE'S LAYING THIS 22:03 BACKGROUND AND HE'S SAYING, 'IN LIGHT OF THIS' - IN LIGHT OF THE 22:06 PROPHETIC WORD - IN LIGHT OF THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS - IN LIGHT OF 22:11 THE CROSS - 'HOW THEN ARE WE TO LIVE?' 22:15 AND THAT'S THE BACKGROUND FOR THESE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS. 22:18 AND, IF WE MISS THAT, WE ACTUALLY CAN TAKE A GOSPEL OF 22:24 GOOD NEWS AND A CALL TO BE LIKE OUR SAVIOR, AND WE CAN TWIST IT 22:29 INTO A MESSAGE OF LEGALISM. REALLY, IT'S A DANGER THAT WE 22:34 STRUGGLE WITH IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TODAY. WELL, WITH THAT 22:39 BACKGROUND, LET'S LAUNCH IN TO WHERE WE NEED TO GO. 22:44 AND, MAYBE BEFORE WE DO, WE HAVE TO PICK UP THIS ONE OTHER 22:48 POWERFUL ILLUSTRATION, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE 22:51 DOTS, I DON'T THINK WE FULLY SEE WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT LED PETER. 22:55 NOW, SOME OF YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, DR. DEROSE, YOU'RE GIVING 22:57 US A LOT OF REVIEW. YOU KNOW, OUR - OUR - THE CLOCK IS 22:59 TICKING. BUT, JUST BY WAY OF DEFENSE, YOU 23:04 DO KNOW I AM A PHYSICIAN AND MY SPECIALITIES ARE INTERNAL 23:08 MEDICINE AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. 23:11 AND SO, IN THOSE SPECIALITIES, WE HAVE TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE. 23:15 SO, I'M NOT INTO GIVING PEOPLE RULES ABOUT HOW THEY SHOULD TAKE 23:19 CARE OF THEIR HEALTH. NOW, I KNOW SOME PEOPLE WANT 23:21 THAT, BUT I FIND THAT PEOPLE ARE MUCH MORE MOTIVATED BY SEEING 23:25 THE BIG PICTURE - ARE YOU FOLLOWING ALONG WITH ME? 23:28 SO HERE'S WHY WE DO THESE THINGS. 23:30 SO I'M VERY INTERESTED IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH, AS A 23:34 PHYSICIAN. I'M VERY INTERESTED IN 23:36 PHYSIOLOGY - HOW THE BODY WORKS - HOW WE COOPERATE 23:40 WITH THE BODY. SO, AS A BIBLE STUDENT, WHEN 23:43 I COME TO THE BIBLE, I'M VERY INTERESTED IN THE STRUCTURE. 23:46 WHAT IS THE - AND THEN - WHAT IS THE LOGIC OF THE BIBLE WRITER? 23:49 WHAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRING THE BIBLE WRITER TO 23:53 WRITE? WHY DOES THIS FIT TOGETHER? 23:56 AND, IF WE DON'T SEE THAT, I THINK WE MISS THE POWER OF 24:00 WHAT'S GOING ON. AND, IN FACT, THIS 24:02 LESSON DOES THAT FOR US. SO LET'S DO SOMETHING BECAUSE 24:06 THIS LESSON ACTUALLY TRIES TO GIVE US SOME VERY GOOD CONTEXT. 24:09 I THINK IT ACTUALLY DID A GOOD JOB. 24:11 AND MY MIND WANTS TO JUMP A LITTLE BIT AS WE'RE LOOKING AT 24:17 THE CONTEXT, BECAUSE THE CONTEXT LAST WEEK WAS STUDYING ABOUT 24:22 THIS CALL TO BE PRIESTS. LET'S JUST LOOK AT 24:25 THAT FOR A MOMENT. REFRESH OUR MEMORY AND IT REALLY 24:29 LEADS US RIGHT INTO THE HEART OF CHAPTER 2. 24:34 YOU SEE, PETER HAS BEEN CALLING US TO LIVE HOLY LIVES AND IT 24:37 STARTS AGAIN THAT WAY IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1, "...LAYING ASIDE ALL 24:42 MALICE, ALL DECEIT, HYPOCRISY, ENVY, AND ALL EVIL SPEAKING," - 24:47 AND THEN, IN VERSE 4 IT GIVES US A GLIMPSE, AGAIN, OF HEAVEN RE - 24:50 HEAVENLY REALITIES: "COMING TO HIM" - TO JESUS - "AS TO A 24:54 LIVING STONE," - WE STUDIED THIS IN DETAIL LAST WEEK AS PASTOR 24:58 MARSHALL WALKED US THROUGH SOME OF THIS AMAZING PASSAGE WHERE 25:03 WE'RE CALLED TO BE A HOLY PRIESTHOOD - A HOLY PRIESTHOOD. 25:09 AS WE READ THIS INTERPLAY, IT'S AN INTERPLAY THAT SPEAKS TO US 25:13 TODAY. AND, IN MALACHI CHAPTER 3 IT 25:16 GIVES US A WONDERFUL GLIMPSE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN HEAVEN AND 25:21 HEAVENLY REALITIES AND HEAVENLY TRUTH. 25:23 IN MALACHI 3 - I'M BEGINNING WITH VERSE 16 - MALACHI 3, VERSE 25:28 16, "THEN THOSE WHO FEARED THE LORD SPOKE TO ONE ANOTHER, AND 25:34 THE LORD LISTENED AND HEARD THEM; SO A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE 25:38 WAS WRITTEN BEFORE HIM FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE LORD AND WHO 25:41 MEDITATE ON HIS NAME." - VERSE 17 - "'THEY SHALL BE 25:47 MINE,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, 'ON THE DAY THAT I MAKE THEM 25:52 MY JEWELS.'" - I MAKE THEM MY SPECIAL TREASURE - I MAKE 25:57 THEM MY PRECIOUS JEWELS. ARE YOU PICKING UP ON THIS? 26:03 THIS IS FASCINATING BECAUSE GOD IS SAYING, 'I AM INVESTED IN 26:07 YOU, PERSONALLY.' AND PETER IS PICKING UP ON THIS GREAT THEME 26:11 THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, THAT WE ARE PRECIOUS. 26:13 TODAY, AS YOU SIT HERE, YOU ARE REDEEMED WITH THE BLOOD OF 26:17 JESUS. TODAY, AS YOU TUNE IN, YOU ARE 26:20 JESUS' PRECIOUS CHILD AND WE CAN REJOICE IN THAT REDEMPTION. 26:26 BUT IT DOESN'T STOP WITH REJOICING. 26:29 JUST AS IT WAS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD SAYS, 'YOU'RE MY 26:32 REDEEMED PEOPLE. I'VE SAVED YOU. YOU'RE PRECIOUS TO ME. 26:35 NOW, HERE'S HOW TO LIVE.' AND SO IT IS WITH PETER. 26:40 AND SO WE FIND OURSELVES WITH THAT BACKGROUND IN 1 PETER 26:44 CHAPTER 2 BEGINNING WITH VERSE 13, WHICH IS THE FOCUS FOR OUR 26:50 LESSON TODAY. LET'S LOOK AT 1 PETER CHAPTER 2 26:54 AS WE TRY TO UNDERSTAND, WHAT I THINK ARE, SOME - ACTUALLY 26:58 DIFFICULT COUNSEL, IF WE'RE GOING TO BE HONEST. 27:01 AND I'M BEING HONEST, IT'S DIFFICULT COUNSEL FOR ME. 27:05 1 PETER CHAPTER 2 BEGINNING WITH VERSE 13, "THEREFORE SUBMIT 27:11 YOURSELVES TO EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN FOR THE LORD'S SAKE, 27:18 WHETHER TO THE KING AS SUPREME, OR TO GOVERNORS, AS TO THOSE WHO 27:22 ARE SENT BY HIM FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF EVILDOERS AND FOR 27:24 THE PRAISE OF THOSE WHO DO GOOD. 27:26 FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, THAT BY DOING GOOD YOU MAY PUT 27:32 TO SILENCE THE IGNORANCE OF FOOLISH MEN - AS FREE, YET NOT 27:37 USING LIBERTY AS A CLOAK FOR VICE, BUT AS BONDSERVANTS OF 27:41 GOD. HONOR ALL PEOPLE. LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD. FEAR GOD. 27:46 HONOR THE KING." - OR HONOR THE EMPEROR. WHO WAS THE EMPEROR? 27:52 WHO WERE SOME OF THE EMPERORS IN THE DAYS OF THE EARLY CHURCH? 27:56 >>NERO. >>NERO WAS ONE OF THEM. 27:59 THE EMPERORS ACTUALLY KILLED CHRISTIANS. 28:03 AND SO, PETER, HERE, IS CALLING FOR RADICAL OBEDIENCE, I WOULD 28:08 SAY - RADICAL OBEDIENCE TO THE POWERS THAT BE. 28:12 HE'S ANSWERING THIS QUESTION, 'HOW THEN SHALL WE LIVE AS 28:16 BELIEVERS IN A WORLD THAT SEEMS UNDER SIEGE, EVEN WHEN 28:23 GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ARE ENACTING LAWS?' 28:30 >>CALIGULA. >>CALIGULA, YES. DOMITIAN, YES. 28:34 I MEAN, WE'VE GOT ALL KINDS OF THESE ROMAN EMPERORS THAT WERE 28:37 NOT MODEL CITIZENS. NOW, I'M GLAD THAT THE LESSON 28:43 GIVES US SOME BALANCE BECAUSE THE APOSTLES THEMSELVES GAVE US 28:46 BALANCE AND, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT IN AMERICA, THE TERM 28:51 'SUBMISSION' DOES NOT USUALLY RESONATE WITH MOST OF US. 28:56 IN SOME CULTURES THERE IS A GREATER VALUE PLACED ON 29:00 SUBMITTING THAN THERE IS IN AMERICA. AMERICA, WE SEEM TO 29:04 VALUE THOSE WHO ARE BOLD, DON'T WE? OR IS THAT JUST ME? 29:09 I MEAN, HOW - THE LESSON DOESN'T STOP WITH PETER'S WORDS, IT ALSO 29:15 TALKS ABOUT PETER'S EXAMPLE. AND WE ARE GOING TO JUMP AHEAD A 29:19 BIT, AS WE'RE TRYING TO GET THIS BROAD CONTEXT, BECAUSE WE WANT 29:23 TO GET THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AS WELL. 29:25 AND THURSDAY'S LESSON, ACTUALLY, SPEAKS ABOUT THE HISTORICAL 29:29 CONTEXT IN WHICH PETER IS WRITING, UNLESS WE MISUNDERSTAND 29:33 WHAT PETER IS SAYING, BECAUSE IN ACTS CHAPTER 4 AND 5, PETER IS 29:39 ONE OF THE CENTRAL FIGURES - ACTS CHAPTER 4 AND ACTS CHAPTER 29:43 5 - AND THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING IN MY BIBLE. 29:45 WE'RE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS CONCEPT OF SUBMISSION TO THE 29:48 POWERS THAT BE AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT SOME VIGNETTES IN 29:52 PETER'S LIFE AND ALSO IN THE LIFE OF JESUS. 29:56 SO, IN ACTS CHAPTER 4, WE HAVE THIS VERY INTERESTING BACKGROUND 30:01 BECAUSE, IN ACTS 3, YOU MIGHT REMEMBER, PETER AND JOHN HAVE 30:06 BEEN USED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO DO A MIRACULOUS WORK. 30:11 IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ALONG IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - IN ACTS CHAPTER 30:14 3, VERSE 1, PETER AND JOHN FIND THEMSELVES AT THE TEMPLE - THERE 30:19 IS A LAME MAN THERE WHO GOD WORKS THROUGH THE TWO APOSTLES 30:24 TO HEAL THIS MAN. THIS SETS OFF A CHAIN REACTION, 30:28 IF YOU WILL, ON THE LEADERS AND, BY THE TIME WE COME TO 30:31 CHAPTER 4, PETER AND JOHN FIND THEMSELVES ARRESTED. 30:36 AND IT'S INTERESTING, AS WE'RE LISTENING TO THE DIALOGUE IT 30:41 SAYS, IN VERSE 13 OF ACTS 4, THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS - THE 30:46 DESIGNATED RELIGIOUS LEADERS - THE JEWISH LEADERS - THEY 30:50 OBSERVE SOMETHING - ACTS 4, VERSE 13, IT SAYS, "NOW WHEN 30:55 THEY SAW THE" - WHAT? - "THE BOLDNESS OF PETER AND 30:59 JOHN, AND PERCEIVED THAT THEY WERE UNEDUCATED AND UNTRAINED 31:02 MEN, THEY MARVELED. AND THEY REALIZED THAT 31:06 THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS." YOU KNOW WHAT? 31:12 AS WE SPEND TIME WITH JESUS, WHAT HAPPENS TO US? 31:15 >>WE CHANGE. >>THAT'S RIGHT, WE ARE CHANGED. 31:18 WE ARE EMBOLDENED TO SPEAK THE TRUTH WITH LOVE. 31:22 AND THAT'S WHAT THEY SAW IN THESE MEN. 31:24 AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENS IN VERSE 18: THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS - IT 31:29 SAYS IN VERSE 18, "SO THEY CALLED THEM AND COMMANDED THEM 31:32 NOT TO SPEAK AT ALL NOR TEACH IN THE NAME OF JESUS." 31:38 OKAY, SO THIS IS THE SAME PETER, NOW, WHO'S WRITING IN 1 PETER 31:43 AND HE'S TELLING US WE NEED TO BE SUBJECT TO THE POWERS THAT BE 31:46 - THOSE ARE PAUL'S WORDS, ACTUALLY, VERY SIMILAR, THERE IN 31:49 ROMANS 13 AND OTHER PLACES THAT THE LESSON POINTS US TO. 31:53 THIS IS NOT JUST PETER, THIS IS THE HOLY SPIRIT TEACHING US TO 31:56 LIVE IN HARMONY WITH WORLDLY AUTHORITIES. 31:59 AND NOW HERE HE IS, PETER AND JOHN, THEY'RE TOLD THEY CANNOT 32:03 SPEAK OR TEACH IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 32:06 NOW, BY THE WAY, HAD SOMEONE ELSE TOLD PETER AND JOHN AND THE 32:12 DISCIPLES AND, BY EXTENSION, ALL OF US, THAT WE SHOULD DO 32:16 SOMETHING WITH RESPECT TO THE NAME OF JESUS, ARE WE TOLD THAT 32:20 WE SHOULD HAVE ANY RELATION TO THE NAME OF JESUS? 32:25 I KNOW SOMETIMES I ASK QUESTIONS THAT ARE KIND OF OBTUSE. 32:28 I MUST HAVE REALLY SUCCEEDED BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL LOOKING QUITE 32:30 BEWILDERED AT WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS. 32:32 I'M REFERRING TO THE GREAT COMMISSION, AMONG OTHER THINGS. 32:36 >>GO AND TEACH. >>THAT'S RIGHT, WE'RE TO GO AND 32:38 TEACH EVERYTHING THAT THE LORD COMMANDED, RIGHT? 32:42 SO WE WERE TO TEACH IN JESUS' NAME. 32:45 AND SO PETER AND JOHN HAVE A COMMISSION FROM JESUS AND NOW 32:50 THE WORLDLY AUTHORITIES, WHO WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE IN 32:52 SUBJECTION TO, ARE SAYING NOT TO TEACH IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 32:57 SO THIS IS WHAT WE CALL A CASE STUDY. 32:59 WHAT IS THE APOSTLE GOING TO DO? OKAY? BECAUSE HE'S TELLING US 33:03 THAT WE SHOULD OBEY THE WORLDLY AUTHORITIES. 33:06 BUT NOW THE WORLDLY AUTHORITIES ARE BASICALLY SAYING YOU SHOULD 33:08 NOT OBEY WHAT JESUS ASKED YOU TO DO. 33:11 AND LET'S LOOK AT HOW THEY RESPONDED. 33:13 IN VERSE 19 PETER AND JOHN ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM - THIS 33:17 IS, BY THE WAY, A VERY RESPECTFUL ANSWER - "WHETHER IT 33:21 IS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD TO LISTEN TO YOU MORE THAN TO GOD, 33:27 YOU JUDGE." WASN'T THAT RESPECTFUL? VERSE 20, "FOR WE 33:34 CANNOT BUT SPEAK THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD." 33:39 AND SO THEY FURTHER THREATENED THEM. 33:41 THEY LET THEM GO, FINDING NO WAY OF PUNISHING THEM BECAUSE OF THE 33:44 PEOPLE, SINCE THEY ALL GLORIFIED GOD FOR WHAT HAD BEEN DONE. 33:50 WE'VE GOT ANOTHER SCRIPTURE THAT RELATES TO THIS. 33:53 IT COMES UP IN ACTS 5 AND IT'S QUOTED, ACTUALLY, IN THURSDAY'S 33:57 LESSON. SO SOMEONE HAS - THAT'S GOING 33:59 TO READ FOR US RIGHT NOW FROM ACTS 5, VERSES 27 THROUGH 29. 34:04 NOW, BY THE WAY, IT'S THE SAME CONTEXT - IT'S PETER AND JOHN, 34:08 THIS - THIS REALLY - COMMOTION THAT HAS BEEN STIRRED UP IN 34:12 JERUSALEM OVER THEIR HEALING AND THERE IS STILL THIS CONFLICT NOW 34:17 WITH THE POWERS THAT BE AND PETER AND JOHN AND LET'S LOOK AT 34:22 WHAT HAPPENS NOW IN ACTS CHAPTER 5, VERSES 27 TO 29. 34:28 >>"AND WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM, THEY SET THEM BEFORE THE 34:31 COUNCIL. AND THE HIGH PRIEST ASKED THEM, SAYING, 'DID WE NOT 34:36 STRICTLY COMMAND YOU NOT TO TEACH IN THIS NAME? 34:40 AND LOOK, YOU HAVE FILLED JERUSALEM WITH YOUR DOCTRINE, 34:44 AND INTEND TO BRING THIS MAN'S BLOOD ON US!' 34:47 BUT PETER AND THE OTHER APOSTLES ANSWERED AND SAID: 'WE OUGHT TO 34:51 OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN.'" >>"WE OUGHT TO OBEY GOD RATHER 34:56 THAN MEN." DO YOU SEE WHAT'S PLAYING OUT HERE? 35:00 PETER IS CALLING US, IN HIS LETTER, TO HONOR THE POWERS THAT 35:05 BE, BUT THE POWERS THAT BE CANNOT USURP THE AUTHORITY OF 35:10 GOD, HIMSELF. SO, IF GOD HAS GIVEN US A CALL, 35:15 WE CANNOT SURRENDER THAT CALLING BECAUSE OF EARTHLY LAWS, BUT 35:21 WE'RE TO DO ALL IN OUR POWER - WE'RE TO DO ALL IN OUR POWER TO 35:24 BE IN HARMONY WITH THE POWERS THAT BE. 35:28 NOW, I KNOW THIS MAY SOUND LIKE A DIFFICULT LINE TO WALK, AND I 35:32 WOULD BE THE FIRST TO ADMIT IT IS, AND, IN FACT, IF YOU'RE 35:37 WANTING TO SEE HOW MY MIND WORKS, MY MIND GOES TO 35:40 WEDNESDAY'S LESSON RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY BEEN 35:43 ALLUDING TO IT. THIS IS NOT A UNIQUE CALL 35:47 THAT PETER GAVE NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVERS. 35:50 PAUL ALSO ECHOED THE NEED TO BE SUBJECT TO THE POWERS THAT BE. 35:56 I'M TURNING IN MY BIBLE TO ROMANS CHAPTER 13 - ROMANS 36:01 CHAPTER 13 - AND THIS IS THE LANGUAGE THAT I'VE BEEN 36:06 BORROWING AS WE'VE BEEN PARAPHRASING PETER'S COUNSEL IN 36:10 1 PETER CHAPTER 2, OKAY? 36:14 ROMANS CHAPTER 13, BEGINNING WITH VERSE 1 - THIS IS NOW PAUL 36:19 WRITING, SO IT'S NOT PETER, IT'S PAUL - "LET EVERY SOUL BE 36:25 SUBJECT TO THE GOVERNING AUTHORITIES. 36:29 FOR THERE IS NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT FROM GOD, AND THE AUTHORITIES 36:32 THAT EXIST ARE APPOINTED BY GOD." 36:35 NOW, HERE'S WHY IT'S SO DIFFICULT: FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S 36:37 THIS CONFLICT, RIGHT? BETWEEN 'WHAT IS GOD CALLING US TO DO?' 36:42 AND 'WHAT ARE HUMAN ORGANIZATIONS' - HUMAN 36:45 GOVERNMENTS - HUMAN REGULATIONS - 'CALLING US TO DO?' 36:48 AND WHY IT'S SO DIFFICULT IS BECAUSE IT IS SO EASY FOR US TO 36:53 EXCUSE OUR OWN WEAKNESSES UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF FOLLOWING GOD. 37:01 LET ME GIVE YOU A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE - WE'LL LOOK AT JESUS' 37:03 OWN EXAMPLE. I INVITE YOU TO TURN TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 22. 37:09 I JUST HAVE TO TELL YOU, I LOVE THESE STORIES IN THE GOSPELS 37:13 WHERE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO NAIL JESUS - THEY'RE TRYING TO PUT 37:16 JESUS IN A CORNER, OKAY? AND WHAT HAPPENS EVERY TIME THEY 37:20 TRY TO PUT JESUS IN A CORNER? THAT'S RIGHT, THEY LOSE. 37:26 YOU CAN'T - YOU CAN'T TRIP JESUS UP BECAUSE HE IS SO CONSISTENT 37:32 AND HE'S SO RIGHT. JESUS IS THE TRUTH. SO LOOK HERE - AND THIS 37:37 IS SO INTERESTING - IN - SPEAKING OF JESUS BEING THE 37:41 TRUTH - MATTHEW CHAPTER 22 - I'M BEGINNING WITH VERSE 15. 37:46 IT SAYS, "THEN THE PHARISEES" - BY THE WAY, THE RELIGIOUS 37:48 LEADERS WENT AND PLOTTED HOW THEY MIGHT ENTANGLE HIM - JESUS 37:54 - IN HIS TALK - "AND THEY SENT TO HIM THEIR DISCIPLES WITH THE 37:58 HERODIANS, SAYING, 'TEACHER, WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE TRUE, AND 38:02 TEACH THE WAY OF GOD IN TRUTH; NOR DO YOU CARE ABOUT ANYONE, 38:05 FOR YOU DO NOT REGARD THE PERSON OF MEN. 38:08 TELL US, THEREFORE, WHAT DO YOU THINK? 38:10 IS IT LAWFUL TO PAY TAXES TO CAESAR, OR NOT?'" 38:15 AND, YOU KNOW, THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD THE PERFECT TRAP FOR 38:17 JESUS, RIGHT? BECAUSE IF HE SAID, 'YEAH, PAY 38:21 TAXES TO CAESAR, THEY'D SAY, 'WELL, HE'S, YOU KNOW, SAID IT. 38:23 HE'S DEFERRING TO THE ROMAN POWER, YOU KNOW?' 38:27 AND IF HE SAID, 'NO, DON'T PAY TAXES,' THEN THEY'D SAY HE'S 38:33 INCITING SEDITION AGAINST ROME. JESUS DOES JUST WHAT PETER 38:40 AND PAUL CALL US TO DO. HE HONORS THE SECULAR 38:45 AUTHORITIES AND HE DID IT, YOU KNOW, IN A VERY COMPELLING WAY. 38:49 IT SAYS IN VERSE 18, HE PERCEIVED THEIR WICKEDNESS - 38:53 THEIR LACK OF INTEGRITY. "'WHY DO YOU TEST ME, YOU HYPOCRITES? 38:58 SHOW ME THE TAX MONEY.' SO THEY BROUGHT HIM A DENARIUS. 39:04 AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'WHOSE IMAGE AND INSCRIPTION IS THIS?' 39:09 THEY SAID TO HIM, CAESAR'S.' AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'RENDER 39:13 THEREFORE TO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE CAESAR'S, AND TO GOD 39:17 THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S.' WHEN THEY HEARD THESE WORDS, THEY" - 39:20 DID WHAT? >>MARVELED. 39:21 >>"THEY MARVELED, AND LEFT HIM AND WENT THEIR WAY." 39:25 YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN A SITUATION RIGHT NOW IN YOUR OWN 39:29 LIFE, WHERE YOU FEEL THAT YOU'RE IN A CORNER AND MAYBE THERE ARE 39:34 PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT FRIENDS OF JESUS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD OR IN 39:39 YOUR WORKPLACE OR, DARE I SAY IT, MAYBE EVEN IN YOUR OWN 39:43 FAMILY, AND IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE TRYING TO PUT YOU IN A 39:46 CORNER, LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU BECAUSE, IF YOU PRESS CLOSE TO 39:51 JESUS, HE WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY OUT. 39:56 NOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WAY OUT LOOKS LIKE. 39:58 THE WAY OUT MAY BE INTO PRISON LIKE JOHN THE BAPTIST. 40:03 OR IT MAY BE A WAY OUT LIKE PETER WHEN HE WAS IN PRISON WHEN 40:07 THE CHAINS FELL OFF HIM AND THE ANGELS LED HIM OUT OF THE 40:10 PRISON. WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW THE END OF 40:12 THE STORY, BUT WE KNOW THAT WE CAN TRUST JESUS TO BE 40:15 FAITHFUL, DON'T WE? SO HERE WE SEE JESUS HONORING 40:23 THE SECULAR AUTHORITY OF HIS TIME. 40:26 AND AGAIN, THERE'S ANOTHER STORY YOU MAY REMEMBER IT: PETER, 40:29 MISTAKENLY, SAID THAT HE AND JESUS WOULD PAY THE TEMPLE TAX. 40:33 DO YOU REMEMBER THIS? AND THE TEMPLE TAX WAS NOT 40:37 TO BE PAID BY THE PRIESTS SO, BASICALLY, PETER'S 40:41 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PAYING THIS TAX WAS BASICALLY 40:44 SAYING THAT JESUS WAS NOT A PRIEST. SO JESUS DIDN'T 40:47 SAY, 'DON'T PAY THE TAX'. HE SAID, 'PETER, GO FISHING. 40:51 AND WHEN YOU PULL UP THAT FISH' WHAT WILL YOU FIND? 40:54 THAT'S RIGHT, IN THE MOUTH OF THAT FISH YOU'LL FIND THE EXACT 40:57 AMOUNT YOU NEED TO PAY THE TAX FOR THE TWO OF US.' 41:00 SO JESUS, AGAIN, SHOWING US TO LIVE IN SUBJECTION TO THE POWERS 41:05 THAT BE. BUT HERE'S THE DANGER, RIGHT? 41:07 AREN'T YOU STEWARDS OF JESUS? YEAH, WE'RE STEWARDS. 41:12 SO COULD WE REASON, 'WELL, I'M GOD'S STEWARD OF MY RESOURCES; I 41:16 SHOULD NOT GIVE ANY MONEY TO THE GOVERNMENT IN TAXES BECAUSE IT'S 41:20 GOD'S MONEY.' COULD WE REASON THAT WAY? 41:22 >>YES. >>WE COULD REASON THAT WAY, BUT 41:25 THIS WOULD NOT BE A BIBLICAL WAY OF REASONING. 41:28 BY THE WAY, IT COULD, ALSO, LAND YOU UP IN SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS. 41:33 I KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY HAD THIS PHILOSOPHY THAT HE WAS 41:38 GOD'S STEWARD; THE GOVERNMENT DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO HIS 41:40 MONEY, AND HE WASN'T GOING TO PAY HIS TAXES. 41:43 GUESS WHAT HE ENDED UP HAVING THE PRIVILEGE OF DOING? 41:47 >>JAIL TIME. >>THAT'S RIGHT - 41:49 PRISON MINISTRY. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S RIGHT. 41:51 THAT'S TRUE - THIS IS REALLY TRUE - TRUE STORY. 41:55 SO IT IS - GOD IS ASKING US TO BE MODEL CITIZENS AND I DON'T 42:00 KNOW HOW FAR I WANT TO GO WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS BECAUSE MY 42:04 WIFE MAY START TALKING WITH ME ABOUT THE RULES OF THE ROAD. 42:09 NO, I'M SERIOUS - I'M SERIOUS. ARE WE EXEMPLARY 42:16 CITIZENS IN EVERY WAY? ARE WE? I MEAN, THESE ARE SOBERING 42:20 THINGS TO THINK ABOUT. AND SO, SPEAKING ABOUT SOCIAL 42:23 RELATIONSHIPS ARE SOBERING, BUT WE COME TO, PERHAPS, THE MOST 42:28 SOBERING OF THE DISCUSSION AS WE MOVE INTO TALKING ABOUT MASTERS 42:34 AND SLAVES AND THEN HUSBANDS AND WIVES. 42:37 NOW, YOU SAY, MASTERS AND SLAVES, THAT SOUNDS PRETTY FAR 42:40 DISTANT TO MANY OF US TODAY, BUT LET'S GO TO 1 PETER AGAIN AS 42:46 WE'RE TRYING TO PICK UP THIS LOGIC OF PETER. 42:50 THIS IS A FASCINATING EXAMPLE, AGAIN, OF THIS COUNTER PLAY 42:55 BETWEEN WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR US AND THEN HOW WE ARE TO LIVE. 42:59 SO, IN 1 PETER CHAPTER 2, BEGINNING WITH VERSE 18 IT SAYS 43:03 THIS: "SERVANTS, BE SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR MASTERS WITH ALL FEAR, 43:09 NOT ONLY TO THE GOOD AND GENTLE, BUT ALSO TO THE HARSH. 43:13 FOR THIS IS COMMENDABLE, IF BECAUSE OF CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD 43:16 ONE ENDURES GRIEF, SUFFERING WRONGFULLY. 43:19 FOR WHAT CREDIT IS IT IF, WHEN YOU ARE BEATEN FOR YOUR FAULTS, 43:24 YOU TAKE IT PATIENTLY? BUT WHEN YOU DO GOOD AND SUFFER, 43:26 IF YOU TAKE IT PATIENTLY, THIS IS COMMENDABLE BEFORE GOD." 43:31 NOW LOOK AT - WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, AGAIN, THIS CALL TO HOLY 43:34 LIVING, AND THEN LOOK WHAT PETER DOES RIGHT IN THIS CONTEXT 43:39 BECAUSE HE, AGAIN, GIVES US THIS GLIMPSE OF HEAVENLY REALITIES, 43:42 LEST WE MISS THE WHOLE FOCUS OF PETER'S LETTER. 43:47 LOOK AT IT - VERSE 21 - "FOR TO THIS YOU WERE CALLED, BECAUSE" - 43:53 BECAUSE CHRIST THE MESSIAH - "ALSO SUFFERED FOR US," - HE 44:00 SUFFERED FOR ME - HE SUFFERED FOR YOU - "LEAVING US AN 44:04 EXAMPLE, THAT YOU SHOULD FOLLOW HIS STEPS: 'WHO COMMITTED NO 44:09 SIN, NOR WAS DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH'; WHO, WHEN HE WAS 44:12 REVILED, DID NOT REVILE IN RETURN; WHEN HE SUFFERED, HE DID 44:15 NOT THREATEN, BUT COMMITTED HIMSELF TO HIM WHO JUDGES 44:18 RIGHTEOUSLY; WHO HIMSELF BORE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE 44:25 TREE, THAT WE, HAVING DIED TO SINS, MIGHT LIVE FOR 44:30 RIGHTEOUSNESS - BY WHOSE STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED. 44:35 FOR YOU WERE LIKE SHEEP GOING ASTRAY, BUT HAVE NOT RETURNED TO 44:37 THE SHEPHERD AND OVERSEER OF YOUR SOULS." 44:42 SO PETER, GOING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THESE HEAVENLY REALITIES 44:47 - WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR US AND THEN HOW WE SHOULD LIVE. 44:51 DO YOU SEE HOW THIS IS GOING BACK AND FORTH? 44:53 AND IF WE JUST FOCUS ON HOW TO LIVE, EXCLUSIVE OF HOW JESUS HAS 44:58 LIVED AND WHAT HE'S DONE FOR US, WE END UP WITH A LEGALISTIC 45:01 FOCUS. AND SOME PEOPLE THROW OUT GOD'S COUNSEL BECAUSE THEY SAY 45:06 ALL YOU TALK ABOUT ARE RULES. BUT PETER AND PAUL, WHEN THEY 45:11 WROTE THEIR LETTERS, WROTE THEM IN THE CONTEXT OF JESUS' LOVE, 45:18 HIS COMMITMENT, HIS SACRIFICE TO US. 45:20 THE LESSON IS, IT'S DRAWING THESE PARALLELS IN WEDNESDAY'S 45:23 LESSON - ATTRACTED OUR ATTENTION - DIRECTED OUR ATTENTION, NOT 45:28 ONLY TO ROMANS 13, BUT ALSO TO THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS, AND I 45:32 INVITE YOU TO TURN THERE REALLY QUICKLY BECAUSE THESE VERY SAME 45:35 THEMES ARE FOUND IN PAUL'S LETTER TO THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS 45:40 THAT WOULD BE THERE IN TURKEY TODAY - ONE OF THOSE SEVEN 45:43 CHURCHES ACTUALLY MENTIONED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 45:47 SO I'M TURNING TO EPHESIANS - GALATIANS, EPHESIANS, 45:49 PHILIPPIANS, AND COLOSSIANS. THEY'RE IN SEQUENCE, THESE 45:54 LETTERS THAT PAUL WROTE TO SPECIFIC CHURCHES. 45:57 AND, AS YOU BEGIN THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS, AGAIN, I JUST WANT 45:59 YOU TO CATCH THIS THEME - IT'S NOT JUST PETER, IT'S PAUL - THE 46:03 HOLY SPIRIT IMPRESSING THE BIBLE WRITERS AS YOU BEGIN THE BOOK OF 46:07 EPHESIANS. NOW, BY THE WAY, EPHESIANS IS WRITTEN ESPECIALLY 46:10 TO GENTILE BELIEVERS. AND THE THEME IN EPHESIANS IS YOU READ 46:15 THE EARLY CHAPTERS - LOOK AT, WITH ME, VERSE 3 OF EPHESIANS 1, 46:20 "BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO 46:24 HAS BLESSED US WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING IN THE 46:27 HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST," - VERSE 7, "...WE HAVE REDEMPTION 46:30 THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS," - AND AS 46:33 YOU READ THROUGH THIS YOU ACTUALLY HAVE THE VERY SAME 46:37 PATTERN THAT PETER SHARES WITH US BECAUSE HE GIVES US THESE 46:42 GREAT TRUTHS - THESE HEAVENLY TRUTHS OF REDEMPTION AND THEN 46:45 CALLS US HOW WE THEN SHOULD LIVE. 46:49 JUMP WITH ME, IF YOU WILL - IF YOU WILL, TO CHAPTER 4 IN 46:55 EPHESIANS, "I, THEREFORE, THE PRISONER OF THE LORD, BESEECH 47:01 YOU TO WALK WORTHY OF THE CALLING WITH WHICH YOU WERE 47:05 CALLED, WITH ALL LOWLINESS AND GENTLENESS, WITH LONGSUFFERING, 47:10 BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE, ENDEAVORING TO KEEP THE 47:13 UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE." 47:15 HE IS WRITING, NOW, TO BELIEVERS - TO GENTILE BELIEVERS - SAYING 47:19 THAT 'YOU ARE PART OF GOD'S FAMILY, WITH THE JEWISH 47:22 BELIEVERS.' AND HE'S SAYING WE ARE TO LIVE IN UNITY. 47:25 AND, AS YOU READ THROUGH THIS LETTER, ESPECIALLY APPEALING TO 47:27 THE CHURCH, YOU COME TO CHAPTER 5 AND IN CHAPTER 5 WHAT ARE YOU 47:32 GOING TO READ ABOUT? YOU'RE GOING TO 47:34 READ ABOUT MARRIAGE. YOU'RE GOING TO READ ABOUT 47:36 CHILDREN AND PARENTS. YOU'RE GOING TO READ, IN 47:38 EPHESIANS 6, VERSE 5 ABOUT BONDSERVANTS AND MASTERS. 47:43 SO THE VERY SAME COUNSEL THAT PETER GIVES IS GIVEN IN A 47:47 DIFFERENT CONTEXT BY PAUL IN THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS AND IN ROMANS 47:52 AND IN OTHER PLACES. NOW WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT? 47:55 WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE WE'RE IN DANGER, AGAIN, OF 47:59 MISSING SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL COUNSEL. 48:02 WE'RE GOING, NOW, TO TUESDAY'S LESSON HUSBANDS AND WIVES . 48:05 PERHAPS THE MOST DIFFICULT PASSAGE IN THIS LESSON, AND 48:09 WE'VE WAITED TO HEAR - TO SEE THIS STRUCTURE - 48:11 BECAUSE THIS STRUCTURE IS SO IMPORTANT. 48:13 GOD IS NOT JUST GIVING RULES, BUT HE'S GOING TO SPEAK VERY 48:16 SPECIFICALLY ABOUT CHRISTIAN LIFESTYLE - CHRISTIAN LIFESTYLE. 48:22 LET'S LOOK AT IT VERY CLOSELY BECAUSE I'M GOING BACK TO PETER 48:26 - I COULD JUST AS WELL STAYED IN EPHESIANS 5, BECAUSE THERE IT 48:30 SPEAKS ABOUT - WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? 48:32 SINCE I HAVEN'T TURNED ALL THE WAY OVER, MAYBE SOME OF YOU 48:35 HAVE, BUT I'VE GOT TO READ TO YOU EPHESIANS 5, VERSE 21 - 48:39 BEFORE HE GIVES ANY OF THE COUNSEL, PAUL, THAT IS, IN 48:42 EPHESIANS, HE GIVES THIS PRINCIPLE: 48:45 "SUBMITTING TO ONE ANOTHER IN THE FEAR OF GOD." 48:50 HE'S SPEAKING OF MUTUAL SUBMISSION - MUTUAL SUBMISSION 48:55 AND ONE OTHER VERSE IN EPHESIANS 5 - AND, BY THE WAY, SOME OF 49:00 YOU, AS WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THIS NEXT PASSAGE, 49:02 IT'S GOING TO BE SPEAKING ABOUT ATTIRE. 49:06 WE DO HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER - WE'LL MENTION IT AGAIN - ALONE 49:09 IN THE CROWD BY JOE CREWS - WE'LL MENTION IT BEFORE WE 49:11 FINISH, BUT SOME OF YOU MAY ALSO KNOW THE FOUNDER OF AMAZING 49:15 FACTS WROTE A BOOK ABOUT COLORFUL COSMETICS AND JEWELRY 49:19 THAT LOOKS AT THIS TOPIC IN DETAIL - AND HE HIGHLIGHTS THIS 49:23 VERSE - PASTOR CREWS DID - EPHESIANS 5, VERSE 10 - MY 49:29 VERSION SAYS, "FINDING OUT WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD." 49:34 OTHER TRANSLATIONS READ THINGS LIKE, 'ALWAYS SEEKING TO DO WHAT 49:39 BEST PLEASES THE LORD.' IS THAT OUR FOCUS? 49:43 THAT'S WHAT THE CALL IS THAT PAUL IS GIVING - AND WHAT PETER 49:46 IS GIVING. SO QUICKLY, NOW, BACK TO PETER 49:49 - I'M BACK IN 1 PETER AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS COUNSEL 49:52 TO HUSBANDS AND WIVES. NOW, AS PETER IS WRITING, HE'S 49:55 WRITING ESPECIALLY ABOUT WITNESS TO NON-BELIEVERS. 49:58 THE LESSON DOES POINT THAT OUT, BUT PAUL IS ESPECIALLY, IN 50:02 EPHESIANS, WRITING TO THE CHURCH AND GETTING ALONG BETWEEN JEWS 50:07 AND GENTILES IN THE CHURCH. SO WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT WE 50:10 DON'T MINIMIZE THE COUNSEL THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT RIGHT NOW 50:13 AND SAYING IT JUST APPLIES TO WOMEN WHO ARE MARRIED TO 50:15 UNBELIEVERS, EVEN THOUGH THAT IS THE IMMEDIATE 50:17 CONTEXT IN 1 PETER. LET'S LOOK AT IT TOGETHER. 50:22 I'M IN 1 PETER NOW, CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1, "WIVES, LIKEWISE, BE 50:27 SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS, THAT EVEN IF SOME DO NOT OBEY 50:31 THE WORD, THEY, WITHOUT A WORD, MAY BE WON BY THE CONDUCT OF 50:35 THEIR WIVES, WHEN THEY OBSERVE YOUR CHASTE CONDUCT ACCOMPANIED 50:39 BY FEAR. DO NOT LET YOUR ADORNMENT BE 50:42 MERELY OUTWARD - ARRANGING THE HAIR, WEARING GOLD, OR PUTTING 50:45 ON FINE APPAREL - RATHER LET IT BE THE HIDDEN PERSON OF THE 50:50 HEART, WITH THE INCORRUPTIBLE BEAUTY OF A GENTLE AND QUIET 50:54 SPIRIT, WHICH IS VERY PRECIOUS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD." 50:58 NOW, WE WOULD MAKE A GREAT MISTAKE TO SAY THAT THIS IS JUST 51:01 COUNSEL FOR WOMEN WHO ARE MARRIED TO UNBELIEVING HUSBANDS. 51:07 CONTEXTUALLY, THAT IS WHAT'S BEING TALKED ABOUT, BUT YOU KNOW 51:10 IT'S NOT JUST SPEAKING OF THAT, BECAUSE LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE THAT 51:13 NEXT FOLLOWS: "FOR" - BECAUSE - "IN THIS MANNER," - I'M IN 1 51:18 PETER 3, VERSE 5, "FOR IN THIS MANNER, IN FORMER TIMES, THE 51:22 HOLY WOMEN WHO TRUSTED IN GOD ALSO ADORNED THEMSELVES, BEING 51:26 SUBMISSIVE TO THEIR OWN HUSBANDS, AS SARAH OBEYED 51:29 ABRAHAM, CALLING HIM LORD, WHOSE DAUGHTERS YOU ARE IF YOU DO GOOD 51:34 AND ARE NOT AFRAID WITH ANY TERROR." 51:39 DO YOU REALIZE THE STRUCTURE THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT? 51:43 DID YOU CATCH - DID YOU CATCH EXODUS 19 - THE CONTEXT OF BEING 51:49 CALLED KINGS AND PRIESTS, WHICH IS THE IMMEDIATE CONTEXT OF 51:53 THESE PASSAGES? WE ARE GOD'S JEWELS - 51:57 WE'RE HIS HOLY PEOPLE. HE DOES NOT WANT US TO BE 51:59 ARRAYED WITH JEWELS, HE WANTS US TO BE HIS JEWELS. 52:07 MANY YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS WORKING IN HOSPITAL MEDICINE, 52:10 NOW I JUST DO OUTPATIENT WORK, I WAS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT 52:15 AND I HEARD A SCREAM GO OUT FROM ONE OF THE OTHER ROOMS IN THE 52:19 ICU. NOW, OF COURSE, I RUSHED OVER THERE BECAUSE I WASN'T 52:23 DOING SOMETHING THAT URGENT. WHAT WAS GOING ON? 52:27 AND I SAW A NURSE RUSHING OUT OF ONE OF THE PATIENT'S ROOMS. 52:32 I LEARNED WHAT HAD HAPPENED: THE PATIENT IN THAT ROOM, THAT THE 52:39 NURSE WAS CARING FOR, WAS QUITE ILL AND HE HAD VOMITED ALL OVER 52:45 THE NURSE. THE SCREAM WAS NOT FROM THE 52:49 PATIENT BUT FROM THE NURSE. AND WE DIDN'T SEE THAT 52:54 NURSE FOR THE LONGEST TIME. SHE JUST VANISHED. 52:58 AND, AS I THOUGHT ABOUT IT, I REALIZED SOMETHING ABOUT THAT 53:01 NURSE. SHE ALWAYS HAD, IN HER MIND, I 53:05 GUESS, THE PERFECT MAKE UP AND JEWELRY AND EVERYTHING - SHE 53:08 JUST LOOKED SO GOOD, SHE THOUGHT, I MEAN, I'D NEVER BEEN 53:11 STRUCK BY THAT BEFORE, BUT THAT WAS HER MINDSET. 53:16 AND SO HERE SHE WAS IN A POSITION OF MINISTERING TO 53:19 SOMEONE WHO WAS SICK AND, INSTEAD OF COMFORTING THE 53:23 PERSON, WHAT DID SHE DO? SHE ADDED TO THEIR MISERY, RIGHT? 53:28 THE PERSON PROBABLY FELT BAD THAT THEY VOMITED ON THE NURSE. 53:33 NOW WHY DO I TELL YOU THAT STORY? 53:36 YOU KNOW, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, HISTORICALLY, HAVE 53:39 UNDERSTOOD THESE BIBLE STATEMENTS IN 1 PETER 3 AND IN 1 53:45 TIMOTHY 2 IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS CALL TO BE A HOLY PEOPLE - A 53:50 SET-APART PEOPLE THAT GOD WANTS TO ADORN WITH HIS CHARACTER, NOT 53:55 WITH EARTHLY JEWELRY AND THE LIKE. 54:00 ARE YOU FOLLOWING ALONG WITH ME? NOW, BY THE WAY, THIS IS NOT TO 54:03 MAKE ANYONE FEEL UNEASY AND NO ONE DEFERRED THIS TOPIC TO ME 54:07 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO PREACH IT. 54:09 IT JUST HAPPENED BY THE LUCK OF THE DRAW THAT I HAPPENED TO BE 54:12 AVAILABLE WHEN SOME OF THE OTHERS WERE TRAVELING, LIKE 54:14 PASTOR DOUG. BUT HERE'S THE INTERESTING 54:18 THING: THE INTERESTING THING IS WE MAKE EXCUSES ABOUT WHY THIS 54:24 COUNSEL NO LONGER APPLIES, WHEN WE'RE MISSING A GREAT 54:30 TRUTH IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS CALLING FOR US TO BE 54:34 FOCUSED ON HOLY SURRENDER TO HIM. 54:38 AND, YOU KNOW, THESE THINGS THAT WE SOMETIMES CLING TO, WHETHER 54:44 IT'S OUR MONEY - NOT WANTING TO GIVE IT TO THE GOVERNMENT - 54:48 WHETHER IT'S OUR AUTHORITY, WHEN WE'RE WORKING IN A PLACE WHERE 54:51 WE NEED TO BE SUBMISSIVE TO THOSE WHO WE'RE WORKING UNDER, 54:55 WHETHER IT'S IN THE HOME, GOD IS CALLING FOR HUSBANDS TO BE 55:00 SUBMISSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF THEIR WIVES AND WIVES TO BE SUBMISSIVE 55:04 TO THEIR HUSBANDS AND TO TAKE OFF THE OUTWARD ADORNINGS AND 55:10 FOCUS ON THE INNER PERSON OF THE HEART. 55:13 YOU WANT TO EXPLORE THIS MORE? THAT IS THE THEME OF OUR FREE 55:17 OFFER: ALONE IN THE CROWD . YOU CAN READ IT ONLINE OR YOU 55:21 CAN REQUEST IT, IF YOU'RE IN NORTH AMERICA, BY CALLING 55:24 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S 866-788-3966. 55:33 OUR TIME HAS SLIPPED AWAY, BUT HOPEFULLY WE'VE LEFT WITH A 55:36 CLEARER GLIMPSE OF HOW JESUS LOVES US - HOW HE'S GIVEN 55:40 EVERYTHING FOR US AND HE ASKS US TO DO THE SAME FOR HIM. 55:45 WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING AGAIN TOGETHER NEXT WEEK AS WE 55:49 TAKE ON LESSON 5 IN 1 AND 2 PETER - FEED MY SHEEP . 55:55 JOIN US THEN. (MUSIC) 56:07 >>ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS SCIENTISTS HAVE DEMONSTRATED 56:10 THAT PEOPLE, AND EVEN CREATURES, CAN STRUGGLE WITH DEPRESSION 56:14 WHEN EXPOSED TO CONTINUAL DARKNESS. 56:16 THIS CAN BE SEEN EVERY YEAR IN THE WINTER MONTHS IN THE ARCTIC 56:19 REGIONS. THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF RJUKAN, 56:23 NORWAY IS SITUATED IN A DEEP VALLEY WHERE MOUNTAINS BLOCK THE 56:27 SUN'S RAYS FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS EVERY YEAR. 56:29 THIS, OF COURSE, KEEPS THE 3,400 RESIDENTS IN A STATE OF SHADE 56:33 AND, SOMETIMES, DEPRESSING DARKNESS THROUGHOUT THE WINTER. 56:37 THEN THE TOWN LEADERS GOT A BRIGHT IDEA TO HELP ILLUMINATE 56:40 THEIR VILLAGE DURING THE MURKY MONTHS. IN OCTOBER 2013 RJUKAN 56:46 INSTALLED AN ARRAY OF THREE GIGANTIC 550-SQUARE-FOOT MIRRORS 56:51 ON A NEARBY MOUNTAIN 1,000 FEET ABOVE THE TOWN. 56:54 THE COMPUTER-CONTROLLED AND SOLAR-POWERED MIRRORS TRACK THE 56:59 SUN THROUGH THE WINTER MONTHS AND REFLECT A GIANT BEAM OF 57:02 SUNSHINE DOWN TO THE TOWN SQUARE, BRIGHTENING THEIR LIVES. 57:07 IF YOU VISIT RJUKAN IN THE WINTER MONTHS TODAY, YOU CAN 57:10 OFTEN SEE THE PEOPLE GATHERED OR SITTING ON BENCHES AROUND THE 57:13 TOWN SQUARE, BATHING IN THE REFLECTED SUNSHINE. 57:17 LIKE THOSE MIRRORS ON THE MOUNTAIN, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 57:20 CHRISTIANS ARE TO REFLECT THE LIGHT OF JESUS, WHO IS THE LIGHT 57:23 OF THE WORLD, INTO THIS DARK PLANET. 57:25 MATTHEW 5:14 SAYS, "YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 57:29 A CITY THAT IS SET ON A HILL CANNOT BE HIDDEN. 57:31 NOR DO THEY LIGHT A LAMP AND PUT IT UNDER A BASKET, BUT ON A 57:34 LAMPSTAND, AND IT GIVES LIGHT TO ALL WHO ARE IN THE HOUSE. 57:38 LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE MEN, THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD 57:42 WORKS AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN." 57:45 SO FRIENDS, USE TODAY TO BRIGHTEN THE LIFE OF SOMEONE 57:48 ELSE BY REFLECTING JESUS. 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