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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE'RE SO GLAD
THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN.
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IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU'RE
JOINING US FROM, WE'RE JUST GLAD
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THAT YOU ARE JOINING US AND
YOU'RE A PART OF OUR SABBATH
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SCHOOL FAMILY HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH. IF
YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE
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RADIO, WE DON'T
WANT TO FORGET ABOUT YOU.
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YOU ARE SPECIAL RADIO LISTENERS
AND, OF COURSE, IF YOU'RE
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WATCHING US LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE
OR ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION
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NETWORKS, WE HAVE A WONDERFUL
PROGRAM FOR YOU TODAY, AND OUR
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PASTOR IS BACK FROM TRAVELING
AROUND THE WORLD - PASTOR DOUG -
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SO HE IS BRINGING US
OUR LESSON STUDY TODAY.
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BUT, BEFORE WE GET TO THAT,
WE'RE GOING TO DO WHAT WE DO
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EVERY WEEK, AND WE SING YOUR
FAVORITE SONGS - #538 - GUIDE ME
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O THOU GREAT JEHOVAH - #538
- AND WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL
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THREE STANZAS. JOIN
WITH US. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THAT IS ONE OF MY
FAVORITES AND I ALWAYS LIKE
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IT WHEN WE GET TO SING THAT
ONE. I HAVE A BOOK OFFER FOR YOU
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TODAY AND IT'S CALLED HEROES OF
FAITH: - AND IT IS A BIGGER BOOK
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THAN WHAT WE USUALLY GIVE
OUT - INSPIRATIONAL STORIES OF
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SALVATION AND IT IS WRITTEN BY
PASTOR DOUG, HIMSELF, AND SO THE
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GOOD NEWS IS YOU CAN CALL IN TO
866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER
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#826, BUT THE BAD NEWS IS
YOU CANNOT GET THIS ONLINE.
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SO, IF YOU'RE IN NORTH AMERICA,
IT IS YOUR DAY: CALL IN AND - OR
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YOU CAN GO TO OUR
WEBSITE - AMAZINGFACTS.ORG -
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AND REQUEST HEROES OF FAITH
- SO IT IS A NICE BIG BOOK AND
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IT IS AN
AUTHENTIC, INSPIRING GLIMPSE
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INTO THE LIVES OF
REAL BIBLE HEROES.
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SO, IT IS - YOU'RE GOING TO
ENJOY THIS - SO GO AND ASK FOR
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OFFER #826 - HEROES OF FAITH
. JOIN ME IN PRAYER, WOULD YOU?
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, YOU ARE THE
GOOD SHEPHERD AND WE ARE YOUR
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LITTLE CHILDREN AND WE ARE
LIKE SHEEP AND WE NEED A LOVING
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SHEPHERD WHO BRINGS
US BACK WHEN WE STRAY.
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PLEASE BE WITH US.
BE WITH OUR SPEAKER.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT
THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
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WILL BE BROUGHT TO US
BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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HE DOESN'T LIKE TO BE CALLED
A SENIOR PASTOR SO, PASTOR DOUG,
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WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU'RE
BACK FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND
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BRINGING US OUR
LESSON STUDY TODAY.
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>>THANK YOU,
DEBBIE AND OUR MUSICIANS.
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GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. I
WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS
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WHO ARE ALSO STUDYING -
PART OF OUR ONLINE CLASS - AND
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IT IS GOOD TO BE HOME. I
HAVE BEEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY
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WITH KAREN AND I FOR, OH,
A COUPLE WEEKS NOW AND HAVING
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SOME GREAT ADVENTURES.
A LONG TRIP - WE WERE IN
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA.
AND, I THOUGHT BEFORE I DOVE
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INTO THE LESSON STUDY TODAY,
WITH YOUR PERMISSION, I'LL MAYBE
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GIVE YOU JUST A LITTLE MISSION
LOG OF WHAT WE WERE DOING AND
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WHAT WAS GOING ON
IN THE TIME WE WENT.
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SO, I'VE GOT A FEW PICTURES AND
WE'LL END UP WRITING OUT, MAYBE
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A LITTLE BIGGER ARTICLE ON THIS
TRIP BUT, WHILE IT'S STILL FRESH
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IN MY MIND, WHICH PROBABLY HAS
ABOUT A 24-HOUR SHELF LIFE, I
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OUGHT TO SHARE WITH YOU
(LAUGHS) WHAT JUST HAPPENED.
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WE WENT TO NEW ZEALAND
[AUSTRALIA] AND, OUTSIDE OF
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BRISBANE THEY'VE GOT A CITY
THERE - BEAUTIFUL - IT'S ON THE
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COAST - IT'S CALLED THE GOLD
COAST - AND THERE WE WENT AND
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DID A SPECIAL PROGRAM, SORT
OF AN EVANGELISTIC REVIVAL-STYLE
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PROGRAM AND IT WAS IN TWO
LOCATIONS, THE CENTRAL GOLD
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COAST ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THEN,
ON SABBATH MORNING, THERE WERE
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SO MANY PEOPLE THEY ANTICIPATED
THAT THEY GOT A NEW LOCATION -
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WE BASICALLY RENTED A
CHARISMATIC CHURCH CALLED THE
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DREAM CENTER AND ABOUT TWO
THOUSAND PEOPLE CAME OUT, WHICH,
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IN AUSTRALIA, IS A GREAT GROUP.
AND SO, WE HAD A WONDERFUL
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PROGRAM THERE. KAREN AND I
ACTUALLY GOT TO WALK ALONG THE
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BEACH - LET'S TAKE A LOOK
AT WHAT WE'VE GOT NEXT HERE.
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THEN, FROM THERE, WE FLEW TO NEW
GUINEA AND WE HAD OUR AMAZING
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FACTS AUSTRALIA TEAM - SAM AND
ELLEN GODFREY - PLUS A COUPLE OF
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OUR MEDIA CREW, YOU KNOW,
JARED COLANGELO, WHO WORKS HERE,
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SOMETIMES YOU'LL SEE HIM ON
SABBATH ON THE CAMERA AND IN THE
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STUDIO. AND WE
WENT TO DO A SPECIAL
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WEEK OF MEETINGS IN NEW GUINEA.
STOPPED FIRST AT THE PACIFIC
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ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY
THERE OUTSIDE OF PORT MORESBY.
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AGAIN, JUST A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM
- KAREN AND I HADN'T BEEN THERE
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IN OVER TEN YEARS AND HAD, OH,
ABOUT TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE CAME
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TO THE UNIVERSITY AND THEN
WE MET IN THE CITY CHURCH THAT
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EVENING - OR THE NEXT EVENING
- AND THEN ABOUT ANOTHER TWO
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THOUSAND PEOPLE CAME THERE.
VERY WELL ATTENDED AND GOOD
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ENTHUSIASM, BUT WE WERE NOT
PREPARED FOR WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.
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THEN WE FLEW, FOR THE MAIN
MEETING, UP TO THE CENTRAL PART
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OF NEW GUINEA - VERY FEW PEOPLE
GO INTO THE INTERIOR, THEY
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USUALLY GO TO PORT MORSEBY
OR ONE OF THE COASTAL TOWNS.
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THIS IS RIGHT UP IN
THE HIGHLANDS - THE WESTERN
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HIGHLANDS - AND I WASN'T
AWARE HOW COOL IT WOULD BE.
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YOU KNOW, YOU THINK, 'OH,
GOING TO NEW GUINEA, IT'S SEVEN
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DEGREES FROM THE EQUATOR - DON'T
BRING ANY WARM CLOTHES.' WELL,
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THIS IS OVER A MILE HIGH AND SO
- THINK LIKE DENVER - IT'S MUCH
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COOLER UP THERE AND SO
WE HAD QUITE A BIT OF RAIN.
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WHEN WE GOT OFF THE PLANE - NOW,
I'VE TRAVELED TO MANY PARTS OF
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THE WORLD AND SOMETIMES A CHURCH
WILL SEND A SMALL DELEGATION TO
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WELCOME YOU AND THEY'LL TAKE
A PICTURE AND THEY'LL, YOU KNOW,
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YOU GO TO HAWAII THEY'LL PUT
A LEI AROUND YOUR NECK AND, YOU
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KNOW, THERE'S SOME
REALLY NICE THINGS THAT HAPPEN.
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WE WERE NOT AT
ALL PREPARED FOR THIS.
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THERE WERE 60,000 PEOPLE.
NOW, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME -
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AND, FROM THE AIRPORT, WHEN THEY
- THEY HAD THE GATES CLOSED.
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THEY HAD A STRING OF ABOUT
FIVE CARS - TWO POLICE CARS WITH
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ARMED ESCORTS AND TWO CARS
CARRYING, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE
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DIGNITARIES - THEY MET US AT
THE AIRPORT. ONCE WE LEFT THE
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AIRPORT GATES, FOR TWO MILES,
SOLID, TO THE CAMPGROUND, THERE
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WERE JUST ROWS AND ROWS OF
PEOPLE THAT - JUST LIKE YOU SEE
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HERE - JUST LINING THE STREETS,
SINGING, CRYING, SHOUTING,
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WAVING THEIR ARMS - AND THEY HAD
DEACONS THAT LINED THE ROADS.
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MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN YELLOW
ARE IN THE PATHFINDER GROUP.
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YOU CAN SEE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE
WEARING YELLOW HATS OR WITH THE
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COMMUNITY SERVICE, AND
SOME OF THE DEACONS HAD STICKS.
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I NEVER KNEW THIS WAS A
JOB DESCRIPTION FOR A DEACON.
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(LAUGHTER) BUT, AS PEOPLE GOT
A LITTLE TOO CLOSE TO THE CARS,
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THEY WERE SWATTING
THEM WITH THE STICKS.
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WE DIDN'T KNOW - NO ONE SEEMED
TO MIND, BUT THAT'S - THEY WERE
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JUST HITTING THE FOLKS AS THEY
GOT TOO CLOSE AND FOLKS WERE
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REACHING IN THE WINDOWS AND
SHAKING HANDS AND I FINALLY HAD
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TO ROLL THE WINDOW UP HALFWAY
BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE WERE
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SHAKING OUR HANDS AT ONE TIME
IT WAS PULLING MY ARM OUT THE
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WINDOW - (LAUGHTER) - AND THEN
I JUST HAD TO, YOU KNOW, WAVE.
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BUT IT WAS PRETTY AMAZING.
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NEXT PICTURE - AND YOU CAN LOOK
THIS UP - THIS WAS THE - I THINK
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IT WAS THE FRONT COVER OF THE
MAIN NEWSPAPER IN THE COUNTRY.
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WE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WE CAME
JUST BEFORE THE ELECTIONS, WHICH
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HAPPEN IN APRIL, SO ONCE THE
POLITICIANS IN THE COUNTRY FOUND
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OUT THAT THERE WAS GOING TO
BE OVER 100,000 PEOPLE AT MOUNT
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HAGEN, WHICH IS WHERE WE WENT,
SEVERAL OF THEM SHOWED UP AND
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WANTED TO WELCOME US - AND
THEN THEY WOULD MAKE POLITICAL
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SPEECHES BEFORE
THEY WELCOMED US.
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AND, THOSE ON BOTH SIDES -
AND THIS WAS WHAT THEY CALL THE
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OPPOSITION PARTY - THEY HAVE
THOSE IN POWER AND THEN THEY
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HAVE WHOEVER THE OPPOSITION
PARTY - THIS IS THE OPPOSITION
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PARTY - DON POLYE - HE
MET US AND THAT MADE NEWS -
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AND THEY SAID 60,000 IN THEIR
REPORT. AND SO, YOU CAN LOOK
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THAT UP ON THE INTERNET IF YOU
WANT. NEXT - THIS IS JUST THE
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WELCOME GROUP. WE GOT
THERE AND I FELT SO BAD
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BECAUSE THEY HAD A NICE COVERED
AREA FOR US TO SPEAK, AND A
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LITTLE BIT COVERED FOR SOME
OF THE CHOIR, BUT THE PEOPLE SAT
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OUTDOORS - AND THIS IS THE
RAINIEST MONTH OF THE YEAR -
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WELL, APRIL AND MAR - MARCH AND
APRIL. AND THE FIRST EVENING IT
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WAS JUST POURING DOWN RAIN
AND THEN ANOTHER EVENING WE TOOK
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THIS PICTURE - IN SPITE OF
THE RAIN, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN
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20,000 PEOPLE OUT THERE.
AND WHEN I FIRST SAW THE RAIN
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LIKE THIS - I MEAN, IT'S JUST
COMING DOWN HERE IN SACRAMENTO
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AND WE HAD A REALLY HEAVY RAIN.
I DON'T KNOW, SOME OF YOU -
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IT WAS COMING OFF THE
ROOF IN SHEETS YESTERDAY.
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WELL, IT WAS RAINING LIKE THAT
AND THEY WERE SITTING OUT THERE.
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THE PEOPLE IN THE FRONT ROWS HAD
SOME BENCHES AND SEATS, BUT THEN
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- AND THAT'S LIKE FIVE ROWS -
THEN THE OTHER 15,000 - 18,000
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PEOPLE, ON THOSE RAINY NIGHTS,
THEY'RE SITTING ON THE GROUND -
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AND IT WAS MUDDY - AND I
THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN
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CALIFORNIA, THEY LOOK OUT
THE WINDOW FROM THEIR HEATED DRY
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LIVING ROOM THEY - IF IT'S
CLOUDY THEY THINK, 'I BETTER NOT
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GO TO CHURCH TODAY; I MIGHT GET
WET GOING TO THE CAR.' AND THESE
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DEAR PEOPLE SAT THROUGH THE
SERMON - I SAID TO THE PASTOR -
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ONE OF THE CONFERENCE PRESIDENTS
- I SAID, 'I'LL PREACH A REAL
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SHORT SERMON.' HE SAID, 'OH
NO, THEY'LL BE REALLY UPSET.
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THEY CAME ALL THIS WAY AND
THEY'RE SITTING IN THE RAIN.
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THEY WANT A SERMON.'
AND SO, I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT
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KIND OF COMMITMENT TO THE WORD.
THEY JUST SAT THERE FOR AN HOUR
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BEFORE I EVEN GOT UP TO PREACH,
LISTENING TO ALL THE FANFARE
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AND THE PRELIMINARIES.
AND THEY SEEMED HAPPY - THAT'S
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THE THING THAT STRUCK ME.
THEY DIDN'T LOOK MISERABLE,
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THEY WERE SMILING.
MATTER OF FACT, SOME PEOPLE
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OPENED THEIR UMBRELLAS; THE
PEOPLE BEHIND THEM WOULD YELL
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BECAUSE, THEY SAID, 'WE CAN'T
SEE NOW BECAUSE YOUR UMBRELLA' -
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YOU'D HEAR ALL THIS NOISE THEY'D
SAY, 'WHAT'S THAT?' THEY'D SAY,
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'WELL, THEY'RE COMPLAINING
BECAUSE SOMEONE OPENED THEIR
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UMBRELLA AND THEY CAN'T SEE
NOW.' BUT THEY'RE VERY, VERY -
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I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE
IT - ENTHUSIASTIC. NEXT PICTURE.
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WHILE WE WERE THERE WE WANTED TO
SEE SOME OF THE REAL NEW GUINEA
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AND SO I WAS VERY HAPPY THAT THE
ADVENTIST AVIATION SERVICES -
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THEY'RE A PART OF THE SOUTH
PACIFIC DIVISION - IN NEW GUINEA
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THERE ARE NOT ROADS THAT
JUST COVER THE COUNTRY, LIKE OUR
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INTERSTATE SYSTEM.
THERE ARE A FEW ROADS THAT GO
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THROUGH THE COUNTRY AND THERE
ARE A LOT OF PLACES YOU CANNOT
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GET TO BECAUSE THERE ARE A
LOT OF STEEP - THEIR TALLEST
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MOUNTAIN IS 14,000 FEET,
WHICH IS UNUSUAL FOR THESE
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EQUATOR ISLANDS.
THAT'S TALLER THAN THE TALLEST
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MOUNTAIN IN HAWAII,
MAUNA LOA OR MAUNA KEA.
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AND SO, THEY HAVE SOME VERY TALL
MOUNTAINS AND RIDGES - THERE ARE
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ABOUT SIX TO EIGHT HUNDRED
DIFFERENT LANGUAGE GROUPS IN
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NEW GUINEA. IT'S
TWICE THE SIZE OF ENGLAND.
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IT'S THE BIGGEST ISLAND IN
THE WORLD, IF YOU DON'T - YEAH,
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ISLAND - ANTARCTICA
IS, I GUESS, A CONTINENT.
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AND SO THERE ARE - ALL
THESE VALLEYS SEPARATE DIFFERENT
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TRIBES AND THEY'VE
GOT REALLY STEEP HILLS.
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AND THEY HAVE RUNWAYS UP ON
TOP OF THE HILLS AND SO WE WENT
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FLYING WITH OUR LITTLE GROUP
IN A TEN-SEATER SINGLE ENGINE
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PLANE. VERY
SKILLED PILOTS - AND,
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BY THE WAY, IF YOU WANT
SOME ADVENTURE, THEY ARE LOOKING
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FOR PILOTS IN NEW GUINEA.
AND, BOY, THEY HAVE SOME REALLY
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INTERESTING
ADVENTURES, I'M SURE.
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BUT WE LANDED ON - I DON'T KNOW
IF YOU CAN SEE IN THAT PICTURE,
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THERE WAS, KIND OF, A GRASS
RUNWAY THAT THE VILLAGERS CUT
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OUT OF THE JUNGLE - A
LITTLE BIT ROUGH GOING UPHILL.
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YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS YOUR
APPROACH OR YOUR TAKEOFF BECAUSE
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YOU ONLY HAVE ONE CHANCE,
DEPENDING ON WHICH WAY YOU'RE
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GOING, AND THEY COME DOWN,
THEY KIND OF BOUNCE TO A STOP.
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AND, WHEN WE LANDED -
NEXT PICTURE - THEY WERE JUST -
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STARTED OUT - IT LOOKED LIKE -
YEAH - IT LOOKED LIKE YOU - THIS
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WAS MOUNT TAWA,
IS WHERE WE LANDED.
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IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WERE
JUST, YOU KNOW, A DOZEN PEOPLE
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ON THE RUNWAY, BUT AFTER WE
LANDED AND STARTED TO VISIT WITH
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THEM, THEY JUST CAME OUT OF THE
JUNGLE IN EVERY DIRECTION UNTIL
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THERE WERE A COUPLE HUNDRED
PEOPLE GATHERED ON THE RUNWAY -
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KIDS - AND THEY WERE ALL SO
EXCITED AND JUST SHOUTING AND -
00:14:04.01\00:14:06.68
YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HOW EXCITED
THEY GOT WHEN OUR MEDIA CREW
00:14:06.68\00:14:09.84
BROUGHT ONE OF THESE DRONE
CAMERAS UP THERE AND THEY TOOK
00:14:09.84\00:14:13.08
THAT THING OUT AND STARTED TO
FLY IT. OH MAN, IT LOOKED LIKE
00:14:13.08\00:14:16.32
THE SECOND COMING. THEY
WERE SO EXCITED, THEY WERE
00:14:16.32\00:14:18.22
SHOUTING AND WAVING THEIR ARMS
AND - THOSE KIDS WERE - IT WAS
00:14:18.22\00:14:22.46
A LOT OF FUN,
LET ME JUST TELL YOU.
00:14:22.46\00:14:24.39
AND - NEXT PICTURE - AND SO WE
WENT OUT AND WE VISITED SOME OF
00:14:24.39\00:14:28.10
THE VILLAGES AND - THIS WAS
SABBATH MORNING AND I ASKED THE
00:14:28.10\00:14:32.23
PRESIDENT - HE SAID, 'THERE ARE
200,000 PEOPLE HERE' - I DON'T
00:14:32.23\00:14:36.74
KNOW THAT IT WAS THAT MANY, BUT
IT WAS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 150,000
00:14:36.74\00:14:40.48
AND 200,000 AND ALL
YOU CAN DO IS JUST GUESS.
00:14:40.48\00:14:44.48
THEY TOOK THE DRONE UP AND THEY
FLEW OVER THE AREA AND THERE
00:14:44.48\00:14:46.65
WERE JUST PEOPLE THAT WENT
AS FAR AS YOU COULD SEE IN EVERY
00:14:46.65\00:14:48.82
DIRECTION. IT WAS WONDERFUL -
00:14:48.82\00:14:50.99
A WONDERFUL SABBATH. WE
REALLY PRAYED THAT GOD WOULD
00:14:50.99\00:14:53.09
BLESS THE WEATHER THAT
DAY BECAUSE IT WAS POURING
00:14:53.09\00:14:55.59
THE NIGHT BEFORE.
BUT, IF YOU'VE LIVED IN THE
00:14:55.59\00:14:57.79
TROPICS, YOU KNOW IT MAY
POUR AND THEN IT STOPS AND IT
00:14:57.79\00:15:01.06
CLEARS AND IT POURS AGAIN.
AND WE JUST NEVER KNEW FROM
00:15:01.06\00:15:04.40
HOUR TO HOUR WHAT
WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:15:04.40\00:15:06.60
AND HAD A GREAT PROGRAM - NOW,
THESE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING - THE
00:15:06.60\00:15:10.24
REASON THE CROWD CAME IS THEY
ARE WATCHING AMAZING FACTS ON
00:15:10.24\00:15:13.84
TELEVISION, PRINCIPALLY ON 3ABN,
SOMETIMES ON HOPE CHANNEL AND,
00:15:13.84\00:15:18.05
WHILE WE WERE THERE WE DEDICATED
- THEY ASKED US IF WE WOULD HELP
00:15:18.05\00:15:20.92
DEDICATE A 3ABN RADIO STATION,
WHICH, OF COURSE, AMAZING FACTS
00:15:20.92\00:15:23.65
IS ALSO ON BUT WE
WERE THRILLED TO DO IT.
00:15:23.65\00:15:26.19
THREE HOURS OF SPEECHES SITTING
OUT THERE - AND THEN IT RAINED
00:15:26.19\00:15:30.53
AND THEY KEPT GOING AND - VERY,
VERY INTERESTING - BUT JUST - SO
00:15:30.53\00:15:35.90
THE PEOPLE THEY'D
BEEN WATCHING FOR YEARS.
00:15:35.90\00:15:39.10
THEY ALL WERE
ACQUAINTED WITH THE PROGRAMS.
00:15:39.10\00:15:40.67
THEY WERE SO EXCITED THAT WE
WOULD COME TO THE INTERIOR - AND
00:15:40.67\00:15:43.77
THEN WE HAD A BAPTISM AND THERE
WERE 1,700 PEOPLE BAPTIZED AND
00:15:43.77\00:15:48.64
ANOTHER 5,000 THAT WERE GETTING
BAPTIZED IN THEIR DISTRICTS WHEN
00:15:48.64\00:15:52.35
THEY WENT HOME. AND
WE WENT INTO THE RIVER
00:15:52.35\00:15:54.32
THERE, WHICH IS A LITTLE CHILLY
BECAUSE, LIKE I SAID, THIS IS
00:15:54.32\00:15:56.65
HIGH COUNTRY. THEY TOLD US
'BE VERY CAREFUL, THE CURRENT IS
00:15:56.65\00:15:59.72
STRONG.' YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE
THE CURRENT THERE AND IF YOU GET
00:15:59.72\00:16:02.02
OUT IN THE CURRENT
YOU GET SWEPT DOWNSTREAM.
00:16:02.02\00:16:06.93
AND, SO THAT WAS JUST -
NEXT PICTURE - I THINK WE GOT TO
00:16:06.93\00:16:10.00
PARTICIPATE IN
THAT IN A SMALL WAY.
00:16:10.00\00:16:12.27
YOU KNOW, WE JUST BAPTIZED A FEW
PEOPLE SO THAT WE COULD BE PART
00:16:12.27\00:16:15.70
OF IT, BUT THE PASTORS DID ALL
THE HEAVY LIFTING - I MEANT THAT
00:16:15.70\00:16:19.31
AS A METAPHOR. SO,
YOU KNOW, PASTORS WERE
00:16:19.31\00:16:23.38
BAPTIZING FIFTY - A HUNDRED
PEOPLE - BUT IT WAS A WONDERFUL,
00:16:23.38\00:16:26.82
WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. A
LOT MORE I COULD TELL YOU.
00:16:26.82\00:16:29.18
WE'LL WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT,
BUT I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A
00:16:29.18\00:16:31.12
LITTLE MISSION UPDATE
ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING.
00:16:31.12\00:16:32.99
THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE
FOR AMAZING FACTS AND OTHER
00:16:32.99\00:16:36.16
GROUPS TO GO THERE AND
DO THIS KIND OF MINISTRY.
00:16:36.16\00:16:39.19
WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
AND I TALKED TO OUR MEDIA CREW
00:16:39.19\00:16:42.20
AND THEY SAID, 'WE WILL NEVER
BE THE SAME.' IT JUST REALLY
00:16:42.20\00:16:45.10
CHANGED THEIR LIVES.
ANYWAY, WE'VE GOT FRIENDS - I
00:16:45.10\00:16:47.87
PROMISED WHEN I GOT THERE I
WOULD WAVE - THEY WATCH SABBATH
00:16:47.87\00:16:49.94
SCHOOL SO I WANT YOU
TO WAVE AT THE CAMERA.
00:16:49.94\00:16:52.21
WAVE TO OUR FRIENDS IN NEW
GUINEA AND SAY 'HAPPY SABBATH'.
00:16:52.21\00:16:55.51
>>HAPPY SABBATH.
>>AND IT'S JUST AMAZING THAT
00:16:55.51\00:16:57.71
THEY'RE
WATCHING ON THE INTERNET.
00:16:57.71\00:16:59.08
THEY GET, LIKE I SAID,
3ABN AROUND THE COUNTRY THROUGH
00:16:59.08\00:17:01.32
SATELLITE AND IT'S JUST EXCITING
TO SEE WHAT THE LORD IS DOING
00:17:01.32\00:17:04.92
THERE. ALRIGHT,
NOW, WITH THAT LONG
00:17:04.92\00:17:07.32
MISSION REPORT I STILL THINK
I HAVE TIME TO GET TO OUR STUDY.
00:17:07.32\00:17:10.36
WE'RE ON LESSON #5, CONTINUING
IN 1 AND 2 PETER, TALKING ABOUT
00:17:10.36\00:17:14.36
FEEDING MY SHEEP AND WE HAVE
A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY
00:17:14.36\00:17:17.70
VERSE IS FROM 1 PETER 3, VERSE
12. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY
00:17:17.70\00:17:22.64
THAT WITH ME I'LL GIVE
YOU A CHANCE TO FIND IT.
00:17:22.64\00:17:24.71
1 PETER 3:12, NEW
KING JAMES VERSION -
00:17:24.71\00:17:27.04
IT'S IN YOUR LESSON,
YOU CAN READ IT RIGHT OUT
00:17:27.04\00:17:28.34
OF YOUR QUARTERLY, READY?
"FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE ON
00:17:28.34\00:17:33.35
THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ARE
OPEN TO THEIR PRAYERS; BUT THE
00:17:33.35\00:17:37.59
FACE OF THE LORD IS
AGAINST THOSE WHO DO EVIL."
00:17:37.59\00:17:41.42
AND YOU'LL SEE, THROUGH THIS
STUDY, ABOUT LIVING FOR GOD, HE
00:17:41.42\00:17:44.43
IS CONTRASTING IT WITH NOT
LIVING THE FORMER EVIL LIVES
00:17:44.43\00:17:48.76
THEY HAD IN THE DAYS BEFORE
THEY HAD ENCOUNTERED JESUS.
00:17:48.76\00:17:52.93
AND SO, WHAT OUR STUDY IS GOING
TO REALLY BE DEALING WITH TODAY
00:17:52.93\00:17:56.04
IS WE'RE GOING TO BE COVERING
1 PETER 3:8, IF YOU JUST WANT TO
00:17:56.04\00:17:59.17
KNOW WHAT OUR ASSIGNMENT IS, 1
PETER 3:8 THROUGH 1 PETER 4:11.
00:17:59.17\00:18:04.81
SO WE'RE GOING TO BE
LOOKING AT THOSE VERSES.
00:18:04.81\00:18:06.61
NOW, SOMETHING YOU'LL NOTICE IS
PETER, PAUL, THE OTHER APOSTLES
00:18:06.61\00:18:11.99
KNEW THAT WE BATTLE WITH SIN.
THEY'RE GOING TO TALK, IN THIS
00:18:11.99\00:18:14.96
LESSON, ABOUT HOLINESS, BUT THEY
REALIZED THEY WERE SINNERS AND
00:18:14.96\00:18:18.43
THEY STRUGGLED WITH IT JUST
LIKE WE DO. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
00:18:18.43\00:18:21.26
WE'RE, I THINK, INFLUENCED BY
THIS - OH, I REMEMBER I USED TO
00:18:21.26\00:18:25.13
GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND IT'S
LIKE YOU HAD THE SAINTS AND THEY
00:18:25.13\00:18:28.80
PRAYED TO THE SAINTS AND
THE APOSTLES WERE SAINTS, WHICH
00:18:28.80\00:18:31.54
MEANS 'HOLY ONES'. BUT THE BIBLE
SAYS WE'RE ALL CALLED TO BE
00:18:31.54\00:18:34.54
SAINTS. AND IT'S
ALMOST LIKE THEY WERE
00:18:34.54\00:18:36.71
ALIENS, OF A SORT, BUT
THEY STRUGGLED WITH SIN.
00:18:36.71\00:18:39.75
YOU REMEMBER, PAUL WROTE,
1 TIMOTHY 1:15, "THIS IS A
00:18:39.75\00:18:43.28
FAITHFUL SAYING AND WORTHY
OF ALL ACCEPTANCE, THAT CHRIST
00:18:43.28\00:18:46.59
JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD
TO SAVE SINNERS, OF WHOM I AM
00:18:46.59\00:18:49.92
CHIEF." NOW WHY
DID HE FEEL THAT WAY?
00:18:49.92\00:18:53.26
HE WAS - YEAH, HE PERSECUTED THE
CHURCH, HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR
00:18:53.26\00:18:56.36
THE DEATH OF STEPHEN.
WHAT WOULD PETER SAY IF YOU
00:18:56.36\00:19:00.70
ASKED HIM IF HE WAS
THE CHIEF OF SINNERS?
00:19:00.70\00:19:03.24
HE'D PROBABLY SAY, 'I DENIED THE
LORD IN THE HOUR OF HIS TRIAL.'
00:19:03.24\00:19:07.74
AND HE KEENLY FELT IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, PETER FAILED SOME
00:19:07.74\00:19:11.45
OTHER TIMES EVEN BEYOND THAT,
BUT HE WAS PRETTY THOROUGHLY
00:19:11.45\00:19:14.72
CONVERTED JUST BEFORE PENTECOST,
AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION.
00:19:14.72\00:19:17.99
SO THEY KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO
STRUGGLE WITH SIN, BUT GOD HAD
00:19:17.99\00:19:21.72
GIVEN THEM THE VICTORY.
THEY HAD CONSISTENT LIVES.
00:19:21.72\00:19:24.26
REMEMBER, A CHRISTIAN IS NOT
A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE THEY NEVER
00:19:24.26\00:19:27.66
MAKE A MISTAKE. YOU
READ IN THE BOOK STEPS
00:19:27.66\00:19:29.80
TO CHRIST - AND I FORGET
THE REFERENCE - 'IT IS NOT THE
00:19:29.80\00:19:32.57
OCCASIONAL GOOD DEED OR
THE OCCASIONAL MISDEED THAT
00:19:32.57\00:19:35.07
DETERMINES WHO SIDE WE
ARE, BUT IT'S THE HABITUAL
00:19:35.07\00:19:37.97
WORDS AND ACTS. IF
YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN YOU WANT
00:19:37.97\00:19:41.08
TO HABITUALLY BE
FOLLOWING THE LORD.
00:19:41.08\00:19:43.31
IT NEEDS TO BE THE
PATTERN OF YOUR LIFE.
00:19:43.31\00:19:44.71
IF YOU FALL, AT SOME POINT
ALONG THE WAY, AND YOU TURN AND
00:19:44.71\00:19:47.35
REPENT, IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU WERE
NOT A CHRISTIAN AND YOU ARE NOT
00:19:47.35\00:19:50.02
A CHRISTIAN. SO WE
ALL WRESTLE WITH - THERE'S
00:19:50.02\00:19:54.69
A SPIRITUAL BATTLE THAT GOES ON.
NOW, PETER, HE'S APPEALING TO
00:19:54.69\00:19:58.23
THE CHURCH AND, IN VERSE
8, LET'S READ THIS TOGETHER.
00:19:58.23\00:20:00.66
I'M GOING TO READ VERSES
8 THROUGH 12 AND THEN, IN A
00:20:00.66\00:20:03.26
MOMENT, I'M GOING TO HAVE
SOMEBODY READ FOR ME VERSE 15.
00:20:03.26\00:20:07.00
AND WHO WILL
THAT BE? HAFDIS, OKAY.
00:20:07.00\00:20:09.24
IT SAYS, "FINALLY," - 1 PETER
3:8 - "ALL OF YOU BE OF ONE
00:20:09.24\00:20:13.78
MIND," - THIS IS UNDER THE
SECTION BEING OF ONE MIND -
00:20:13.78\00:20:17.11
"HAVING COMPASSION FOR ONE
ANOTHER; LOVE AS BROTHERS, BE
00:20:17.11\00:20:20.82
TENDERHEARTED, BE COURTEOUS;
NOT RETURNING EVIL FOR EVIL OR
00:20:20.82\00:20:25.52
REVILING FOR REVILING, BUT ON
THE CONTRARY BLESSING, KNOWING
00:20:25.52\00:20:29.59
THAT YOU WERE CALLED TO THIS,
THAT YOU MAY INHERIT A BLESSING.
00:20:29.59\00:20:33.23
FOR" - NOW PETER
BEGINS TO QUOTE FROM PSALM 34.
00:20:33.23\00:20:36.73
YOU'LL NOTICE A LOT OF WHAT
PETER SAYS HE IS QUOTING FROM
00:20:36.73\00:20:39.00
THE BIBLE - "FOR 'HE WHO WOULD
LOVE LIFE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, LET
00:20:39.00\00:20:43.57
HIM REFRAIN HIS TONGUE FROM
EVIL, AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING
00:20:43.57\00:20:47.24
DECEIT. LET HIM
TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND
00:20:47.24\00:20:50.05
DO GOOD; LET HIM
SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT.
00:20:50.05\00:20:53.18
FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE ON
THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ARE
00:20:53.18\00:20:55.85
OPEN TO THEIR PRAYERS; BUT
THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST
00:20:55.85\00:20:58.72
THOSE WHO DO EVIL.'" NOW, DO
YOU NOTICE A WORD THAT POPPED UP
00:20:58.72\00:21:01.82
ABOUT FIVE
TIMES IN THAT PASSAGE?
00:21:01.82\00:21:04.99
NOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT
AGAIN - THAT'S GOOD. EVIL.
00:21:04.99\00:21:11.87
NOTICE THERE IN VERSES 8 - 9
- 'RETURNING EVIL FOR EVIL' AND
00:21:11.87\00:21:18.04
THEN IT SAYS, 'LET HIM REFRAIN
HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL,' 'LET HIM
00:21:18.04\00:21:20.98
TURN AWAY FROM EVIL' 'THE LORD
IS AGAINST THOSE WHO DO EVIL'.
00:21:20.98\00:21:24.55
WHAT WAS THE CHALLENGE
THAT PETER WAS GIVING THE EARLY
00:21:24.55\00:21:27.62
CHURCH? HE HAD TWO CHOICES: GOOD
AND EVIL. AND THE LESSON, OF
00:21:27.62\00:21:32.62
COURSE, IS TITLED LIVING FOR
GOD - AS OPPOSED TO DOING EVIL .
00:21:32.62\00:21:36.73
AND SO, WHERE DID
EVE GET IN TROUBLE?
00:21:36.73\00:21:39.49
SHE ATE FROM THE
TREE OF GOOD AND EVIL.
00:21:39.49\00:21:43.23
AND SO, PETER, THROUGH
THIS LESSON, HE'S CONTRASTING -
00:21:43.23\00:21:45.53
THERE'S TWO KINDS OF LIVES - AND
HE'S CALLING US TO LIVE A GODLY
00:21:45.53\00:21:48.20
LIFE AND HE'S SAYING
THAT 'DON'T FOCUS ON EVIL'.
00:21:48.20\00:21:51.64
NOTICE, PETER IS CONTRASTING
IT WITH GOOD. HE SAID,
00:21:51.64\00:21:56.38
'RETURNING A BLESSING''
INHERIT A BLESSING IF YOU
00:21:56.38\00:22:00.25
WOULD LOVE LIFE AND SEE GOOD
DAYS AND DO GOOD.' SEEK PEACE -
00:22:00.25\00:22:06.02
PURSUE IT - SO THERE'S A LOT OF
POSITIVE THAT HE HAS, BUT HE'S
00:22:06.02\00:22:09.06
SAYING THE POSITIVE COMES
BY TURNING AWAY FROM EVIL.
00:22:09.06\00:22:12.49
AND SO, HE CONTRASTS THOSE TWO
THINGS IN A VERY DRAMATIC WAY
00:22:12.49\00:22:15.90
HERE. NOW, IN
THE FIRST PHRASE HE
00:22:15.90\00:22:18.37
SAYS, "FINALLY, ALL OF YOU BE
OF ONE MIND," - WHAT DOES THAT
00:22:18.37\00:22:21.30
MEAN FOR CHRISTIANS
- 'ALL BE OF ONE MIND'?
00:22:21.30\00:22:23.47
ARE WE ALL TO BE CLONES - >>NO.
00:22:23.47\00:22:26.31
>>OF ONE ANOTHER? IS
GOD A BIG COOKIE CUTTER AND
00:22:26.31\00:22:31.55
EVERY CHRISTIAN - YOU KNOW,
THE COOKIE CUTTER CHRISTIAN?
00:22:31.55\00:22:33.48
WE ALL NEED TO JUST
THINK EXACTLY THE SAME.
00:22:33.48\00:22:35.78
WHEN JESUS CALLED THE TWELVE
APOSTLES, WERE THEY UNIQUE?
00:22:35.78\00:22:41.26
WHEN YOU THINK OF
THOMAS, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF?
00:22:41.26\00:22:43.99
>>DOUBTING. >>POOR GUY.
00:22:43.99\00:22:45.86
WE GAVE HIM, YOU
KNOW, HE GETS A BAD RAP.
00:22:45.86\00:22:48.36
DID GOD - DID JESUS CHOOSE
THOMAS BECAUSE OF SOME OF HIS
00:22:48.36\00:22:51.60
UNIQUE EVALUATION
SKILLS? YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:22:51.60\00:22:56.74
DOUBTERS, THEY - THE REASON
THEIR DOUBTERS IS THEY'RE NOT
00:22:56.74\00:23:01.44
GULLIBLE, WHICH IS,
SOMETIMES, A GOOD THING.
00:23:01.44\00:23:04.25
SOME PEOPLE ARE GULLIBLE AND GOD
WANTS LEADERS WHO ARE WISE AS
00:23:04.25\00:23:09.58
SERPENTS AND HARMLESS AS DOVES
AND - BUT THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT
00:23:09.58\00:23:13.46
IS YOU ALWAYS THINK THE
WORST OF EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW?
00:23:13.46\00:23:16.69
AND SO, JESUS CHOSE THEM BECAUSE
OF THEIR UNIQUE - WHEN YOU THINK
00:23:16.69\00:23:20.33
OF PETER, WHAT DO YOU
THINK OF? WHAT DID I HEAR?
00:23:20.33\00:23:24.93
>>IMPETUOUS. >>IMPETUOUS.
00:23:24.93\00:23:27.00
HE WAS JUST KIND OF A LITTLE
BOMBASTIC AND SPOKE AND THEN HE
00:23:27.00\00:23:29.77
THOUGHT AND HE - HE JUST ALWAYS,
YOU KNOW, HE WAS NOT - HE WAS
00:23:29.77\00:23:34.24
BOLD - HE WAS AUDACIOUS - HE WAS
READY TO SPEAK UP AND THAT GOT
00:23:34.24\00:23:38.71
HIM IN TROUBLE, BUT WHO PREACHED
THE FIRST SERMON AT PENTECOST?
00:23:38.71\00:23:43.15
PETER WAS - BECAUSE HE WAS BOLD
AND OUTSPOKEN, HE WASN'T ASHAMED
00:23:43.15\00:23:47.19
TO SPEAK UP FOR JESUS.
WHEN YOU THINK OF ANDREW,
00:23:47.19\00:23:49.42
WHAT DO YOU THINK
OF? THE APOSTLE ANDREW?
00:23:49.42\00:23:52.69
>>LEADING PEOPLE TO JESUS.
>>HE WAS ALWAYS MAKING FRIENDS.
00:23:52.69\00:23:55.43
YOU NOTICE, YOU NEVER HEAR OF
ANDREW PREACHING A SERMON, BUT
00:23:55.43\00:23:57.87
ANDREW FOUND THE
GREEKS, HE BRINGS THEM TO JESUS.
00:23:57.87\00:24:00.30
ANDREW FINDS A LITTLE
LAD, HE BRINGS HIM TO JESUS.
00:24:00.30\00:24:02.57
ANDREW FINDS JESUS, HE
BRINGS HIS BROTHER TO JESUS.
00:24:02.57\00:24:05.07
ANDREW'S ALWAYS BRINGING
PEOPLE. HE'S LEADING BY EXAMPLE.
00:24:05.07\00:24:09.08
AND SO, YOU COULD GO THROUGH,
YOU KNOW, NOT ALL THE DISCIPLES
00:24:09.08\00:24:11.85
ARE APOSTLES. WE
DON'T HAVE A LOT OF
00:24:11.85\00:24:13.35
INFORMATION ON THE
INDIVIDUALITY OF ALL OF THEM.
00:24:13.35\00:24:16.85
WE KNOW JAMES AND JOHN ARE
CALLED THE SONS OF THUNDER.
00:24:16.85\00:24:18.95
JOHN IS THE APOSTLE OF
LOVE. AND SO, THEY DID HAVE
00:24:18.95\00:24:21.59
THEIR UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES.
AND JESUS CHOSE THEM TO BE
00:24:21.59\00:24:25.59
UNIQUE. HOW MANY
APOSTLES? TWELVE.
00:24:25.59\00:24:29.00
HOW MANY STONES WERE ON THE
BREASTPLATE OF THE HIGH PRIEST?
00:24:29.00\00:24:32.57
>>TWELVE. >>WERE
ANY TWO STONES THE SAME?
00:24:32.57\00:24:35.37
NO. WERE THEY
ALL PRECIOUS? >>YES.
00:24:35.37\00:24:38.04
>>YOU CAN BE UNIQUE, BUT WE'RE
ALL TO BE OF ONE MIND; MEANING
00:24:38.04\00:24:43.41
THEY WERE ALL ON THE
HEART OF THE HIGH PRIEST.
00:24:43.41\00:24:46.05
HOW MANY FOUNDATIONS
IN THE NEW JERUSALEM?
00:24:46.05\00:24:47.75
>>TWELVE.
>>TWELVE DIFFERENT STONES.
00:24:47.75\00:24:51.52
ARE THEY PRECIOUS? >>YES.
00:24:51.52\00:24:53.12
>>ARE THEY DIFFERENT? >>YES.
00:24:53.12\00:24:54.79
>>THE TREE OF LIFE - HOW
MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT?
00:24:54.79\00:24:56.79
>>TWELVE. >>ARE
THEY ALL GIVING LIFE?
00:24:56.79\00:24:59.73
>>YES. >>BUT THEY'RE DIFFERENT.
00:24:59.73\00:25:02.46
AND SO, WE CAN LOVE PEOPLE THAT
ARE DIFFERENT AND GOD WANTS US
00:25:02.46\00:25:07.97
TO YET BE UNITED IN OUR PURPOSE.
00:25:07.97\00:25:10.84
WE SHOULD BE UNITED IN OUR
THEOLOGY - YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T
00:25:10.84\00:25:14.44
SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL
DIFFERENT, SO YOU BELIEVE THIS
00:25:14.44\00:25:16.91
AND I BELIEVE THIS' AND
THERE'S CONFLICTING BELIEF.
00:25:16.91\00:25:19.65
THE BIBLE'S PRETTY CLEAR WE
SHOULD BE UNITED IN TRUTH BUT,
00:25:19.65\00:25:23.18
YOU KNOW, ALLOW PEOPLE TO
HAVE THEIR PERSONALITIES AND
00:25:23.18\00:25:25.69
CHARACTERISTICS. AND GOD MADE
00:25:25.69\00:25:28.29
US UNIQUE AND
DIFFERENT. WHAT DOES IT MEAN
00:25:28.29\00:25:31.83
TO BE OF ONE MIND? THE
BIBLE SAYS, 'LET THIS MIND
00:25:31.83\00:25:35.40
BE IN YOU.' IT'S
THE MIND OF CHRIST.
00:25:35.40\00:25:38.93
SO, WE CAN BE DIFFERENT AND
STILL HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST
00:25:38.93\00:25:42.37
MANIFESTED THROUGH US
AND OUR UNIQUE DIFFERENCES.
00:25:42.37\00:25:45.27
PAUL USES THE ILLUSTRATION
IN 1 CORINTHIANS 12, "AND IF ONE
00:25:45.27\00:25:49.51
MEMBER SUFFERS, ALL THE MEMBERS
SUFFER WITH IT; OR IF ONE MEMBER
00:25:49.51\00:25:53.72
IS HONORED, ALL THE
MEMBERS REJOICE WITH IT."
00:25:53.72\00:25:56.52
KAREN AND I, WHEN WE GOT
MARRIED, SOMEONE - IT MAY HAVE
00:25:56.52\00:25:59.09
BEEN HER GRANDMA - GAVE US A
PILLOW AND IT'S GOT EMBROIDERY
00:25:59.09\00:26:01.29
ON IT AND IT SAYS, 'LOVE DOES
NOT MEAN WE THINK ALIKE, BUT WE
00:26:01.29\00:26:05.43
THINK TOGETHER' AND
THAT'S THE IDEA FOR THE CHURCH.
00:26:05.43\00:26:09.03
ALRIGHT, THEN IT MAKES A
STATEMENT ABOUT BEING READY TO
00:26:09.03\00:26:12.23
ANSWER. WHY DON'T YOU GO
AHEAD AND READ YOUR VERSE?
00:26:12.23\00:26:15.44
>>"BUT SANCTIFY THE LORD GOD IN
YOUR HEARTS AND ALWAYS BE READY
00:26:15.44\00:26:20.44
TO GIVE A DEFENSE TO EVERYONE
WHO ASKS YOU A REASON FOR THE
00:26:20.44\00:26:24.45
HOPE THAT IS IN YOU
WITH MEEKNESS AND FEAR."
00:26:24.45\00:26:28.78
>>SO - AND THEN, BY THE WAY,
THAT'S 1 PETER 3:15 - SANCTIFY
00:26:28.78\00:26:32.65
THE LORD GOD IN YOUR HEART;
BE READY TO GIVE AN ANSWER TO
00:26:32.65\00:26:35.39
ANYONE. NOW, DOES
THAT MEAN WE HAVE TO
00:26:35.39\00:26:39.23
ALL BE THEOLOGIANS AND YOU
CAN ANSWER THEOLOGIANS ABOUT
00:26:39.23\00:26:42.20
DOCTRINAL QUESTIONS?
NO, HE DIDN'T SAY THAT.
00:26:42.20\00:26:45.10
HE SAID, 'GIVE AN ANSWER TO
ANYONE WHO ASKS YOU THE REASON
00:26:45.10\00:26:49.07
FOR THE HOPE THAT IS IN YOU.' DO
YOU KNOW THE REASON FOR THE HOPE
00:26:49.07\00:26:52.44
THAT IS IN YOU? I
MEAN, YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT
00:26:52.44\00:26:55.51
IT: 'WHY DO I HAVE THIS
HOPE?' AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO
00:26:55.51\00:26:58.55
SHARE WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
NOT EVERY CHRISTIAN IS A PASTOR.
00:26:58.55\00:27:02.35
NOT EVERY
CHRISTIAN IS AN EVANGELIST.
00:27:02.35\00:27:03.95
SOME OF US ARE NOT TEACHERS,
BUT EVERY ONE OF US CAN GIVE AN
00:27:03.95\00:27:07.89
ANSWER TO SOMEONE WHO
SAYS, 'WHY ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN?'
00:27:07.89\00:27:10.29
'WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS HOPE?'
00:27:10.29\00:27:11.59
BEFORE OUR SERMON, EVERY WEEK,
WE SING WE HAVE THIS HOPE - WHY?
00:27:11.59\00:27:16.60
YOU SHOULD BE ABLE -
EVEN - AND, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:27:16.60\00:27:19.17
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH
PRACTICING TELLING SOMEONE WHY.
00:27:19.17\00:27:22.50
WHEN WE HAVE OUR EVANGELISM
TRAINING PROGRAM, AFCOE, WE ASK
00:27:22.50\00:27:25.91
PEOPLE - WE HAVE A WHOLE
SESSION ON - DON'T WE CARISSA?
00:27:25.91\00:27:28.64
- TEACH PEOPLE HOW WOULD
YOU SHARE YOUR TESTIMONY?
00:27:28.64\00:27:30.95
SHARE YOUR FAITH - AND BE ABLE
TO EXPLAIN TO A PERSON - AND IT
00:27:30.95\00:27:34.65
DOESN'T MEAN EVERYBODY IS GOING
TO, MAYBE, BE ELOQUENT AND - BUT
00:27:34.65\00:27:38.55
BE READY TO GIVE AN ANSWER
FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE - A SIMPLE
00:27:38.55\00:27:42.56
DEFENSE FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER YOU DO
00:27:42.56\00:27:45.33
THAT, YOU GET BETTER AT
IT. YOU KNOW, I'VE SHARED MY
00:27:45.33\00:27:48.93
TESTIMONY ALL OVER THE WORLD AND
YOU KIND OF POLISH IT UP AFTER
00:27:48.93\00:27:52.17
AWHILE - YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
GOING TO SAY NEXT AND YOU'VE GOT
00:27:52.17\00:27:55.47
YOUR ILLUSTRATIONS AND YOUR GOOD
STORIES AND - AND THE MORE YOU
00:27:55.47\00:27:59.11
SHARE, SOMETIMES YOU THINK OF
THINGS YOU LEFT OUT - IT EXPANDS
00:27:59.11\00:28:02.01
- IT GETS BETTER AND - THE FIRST
FEW TIMES I SHARED MY TESTIMONY
00:28:02.01\00:28:05.58
PEOPLE PROBABLY GOT UP
AND WALKED OUT - IT WASN'T
00:28:05.58\00:28:07.55
THAT INTERESTING. BUT THEN,
AS TIME GOES BY, EVERYTHING
00:28:07.55\00:28:10.79
YOU DO, YOU GET BETTER AT IT.
SO BE READY TO SHARE YOUR FAITH.
00:28:10.79\00:28:14.66
AND THEN HE SAYS NEXT, IN 1
PETER 3:16 AND 17, "HAVE A GOOD
00:28:14.66\00:28:18.13
CONSCIENCE, THAT WHEN THEY
DEFAME YOU AS EVILDOERS, THOSE
00:28:18.13\00:28:23.70
WHO REVILE YOUR GOOD CONDUCT
IN CHRIST MAY BE ASHAMED.
00:28:23.70\00:28:26.94
FOR IT IS BETTER, IF IT IS
THE WILL OF GOD, TO SUFFER FOR
00:28:26.94\00:28:29.34
DOING GOOD THAN FOR DOING EVIL."
00:28:29.34\00:28:31.91
IT'S BETTER - I REMEMBER ONE
TIME I WAS SHARING WITH A VERY
00:28:31.91\00:28:36.64
DEVOUT CHRISTIAN THAT I HAD TO
SPEED TO GET TO AN APPOINTMENT.
00:28:36.64\00:28:39.81
HE SAID, 'CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T
SPEED.' I SAID, 'WELL, HERE IN
00:28:39.81\00:28:42.52
CALIFORNIA, IF YOU GO TOO SLOW,
YOU CAN GET A TICKET.' AND HE
00:28:42.52\00:28:47.66
SAID, 'BETTER TO SUFFER FOR
DOING GOOD THAN DOING EVIL.'
00:28:47.66\00:28:51.33
(LAUGHTER) HE SAID, 'YOU NEED
TO OBEY THE LAW.' WELL THAT, I
00:28:51.33\00:28:53.46
THOUGHT, WAS MAYBE AN EXTREME
APPLICATION OF THAT VERSE.
00:28:53.46\00:28:57.30
BUT IT IS TRUE THAT, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE, HOW
00:28:57.30\00:29:01.17
MANY OF YOU WOULD RATHER GET
IN TROUBLE FOR DOING THE RIGHT
00:29:01.17\00:29:03.24
THING THAN FOR
DOING THE WRONG THING?
00:29:03.24\00:29:05.54
IS WHAT PETER'S SAYING THERE
- HAVING A CLEAR CONSCIENCE THAT
00:29:05.54\00:29:10.21
THEY DEFAME YOU AS EVILDOERS
THAT THEY MIGHT BE ASHAMED.
00:29:10.21\00:29:15.48
NOW THE NEXT VERSE - THE LESSON
DOESN'T SAY A LOT ABOUT THIS,
00:29:15.48\00:29:18.85
BUT I TOOK SOME TIME BECAUSE IN
EVANGELISM, I GET MORE QUESTIONS
00:29:18.85\00:29:22.22
ON THIS VERSE THAN ANYTHING ELSE
IN THE STUDY TODAY, AND THAT IS
00:29:22.22\00:29:25.83
1 PETER 3, VERSES 18 THROUGH 20.
00:29:25.83\00:29:28.40
NOW, I'M GOING TO READ THIS TO
YOU, "FOR CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED
00:29:28.40\00:29:31.83
ONCE FOR SINS, THE JUST FOR THE
UNJUST, THAT HE MIGHT BRING US
00:29:31.83\00:29:35.77
TO GOD, BEING PUT TO DEATH IN
THE FLESH BUT MADE ALIVE BY THE
00:29:35.77\00:29:38.57
SPIRIT, BY WHOM ALSO HE WENT
AND PREACHED TO THE SPIRITS IN
00:29:38.57\00:29:42.81
PRISON, WHO FORMERLY WERE
DISOBEDIENT, WHEN ONCE THE
00:29:42.81\00:29:46.31
DIVINE LONGSUFFERING WAITED IN
THE DAYS OF NOAH, WHILE THE ARK
00:29:46.31\00:29:49.78
WAS BEING PREPARED, IN WHICH A
FEW, THAT IS, EIGHT SOULS, WERE
00:29:49.78\00:29:52.89
SAVED THROUGH WATER." NOW
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
00:29:52.89\00:29:56.09
QUESTIONS ABOUT
THIS VERSE BEFORE?
00:29:56.09\00:29:58.56
PETER SAYS HERE THAT 'BY WHICH
SPIRIT HE WENT AND PREACHED TO
00:29:58.56\00:30:04.33
THOSE SPIRITS IN PRISON - IN THE
DAYS OF NOAH' AND THE WAY THAT A
00:30:04.33\00:30:09.50
LOT OF EVANGELICALS VIEW THIS
VERSE - SOME OF YOU KNOW THE
00:30:09.50\00:30:13.58
APOSTLES' CREED, WHICH
IS RECITED BY CATHOLICS -
00:30:13.58\00:30:17.08
AND THERE'S A PROTESTANT VERSION
OF THE APOSTLES' CREED AND IT
00:30:17.08\00:30:20.25
SAYS THAT JESUS
DIED, HE WENT INTO HELL -
00:30:20.25\00:30:24.42
AND THEY THINK HE WENT
DOWN INTO HELL AND HE PREACHED
00:30:24.42\00:30:26.72
TO LOST SOULS TO SORT OF
GIVE THEM A SECOND CHANCE.
00:30:26.72\00:30:30.93
I JUST THOUGHT, NOW I HOPE
I'M NOT GETTING THIS WRONG.
00:30:30.93\00:30:32.99
I LOOKED UP AT A VERY POPULAR
EVANGELICAL WEBSITE CALLED GOT
00:30:32.99\00:30:37.03
QUESTIONS WHERE PEOPLE ASK BIBLE
QUESTIONS AND IT SAYS, 'THE
00:30:37.03\00:30:39.87
SPIRITS IN PRISON MENTIONED IN
THE CONTEXT OF WHAT JESUS DID IN
00:30:39.87\00:30:43.20
THE TIME BETWEEN HIS DEATH AND
RESURRECTION (NOTE - JESUS' BODY
00:30:43.20\00:30:46.71
WAS DEAD AND AWAITING
RESURRECTION, BUT HE WAS
00:30:46.71\00:30:48.71
SPIRITUALLY ALIVE DURING THAT
TIME, HE VISITED THE SPIRITS IN
00:30:48.71\00:30:52.08
PRISON' AND THEY SAY THAT THIS
WAS ONE OF TWO THINGS: THAT HE
00:30:52.08\00:30:55.38
EITHER WENT TO PEOPLE DURING
THE TIME OF NOAH WHO DID NOT
00:30:55.38\00:30:57.69
UNDERSTAND THE GOSPEL, SO HE
COULD PREACH TO THEM AND GIVE
00:30:57.69\00:31:00.32
THEM ANOTHER CHANCE - WHICH
MEANS JESUS WASN'T REALLY DEAD -
00:31:00.32\00:31:04.46
THAT HE KIND OF JUST
TRANSMIGRATED WHEN HE DIED ON
00:31:04.46\00:31:07.60
THE CROSS, OR THEY SAY THAT
HE WENT TO SPEAK - TO PREACH TO
00:31:07.60\00:31:12.03
FALLEN ANGELS THAT WERE
IMPRISONED - BECAUSE IT TALKS
00:31:12.03\00:31:16.50
ABOUT ANGELS AND CHAINS OF
DARKNESS - THAT SOME OF THOSE
00:31:16.50\00:31:19.87
WHO FOLLOWED LUCIFER NEEDED A
SECOND CHANCE. THERE'S ALL KINDS
00:31:19.87\00:31:23.01
OF WEIRD THINGS THAT
ARE TAUGHT ABOUT THIS.
00:31:23.01\00:31:24.95
WHAT DOES THIS VERSE MEAN
AND WHAT DOES IT NOT MEAN?
00:31:24.95\00:31:27.95
WELL, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT
IT DOESN'T MEAN: JESUS, ON THE
00:31:27.95\00:31:30.75
CROSS, WAS DEAD. THE
PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH.
00:31:30.75\00:31:34.69
THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS NOT TO
TRANSMIGRATE INTO ANOTHER PHASE.
00:31:34.69\00:31:38.06
JESUS DIED. IT'S REALLY CLEAR,
IT SAYS HE DIED FOR OUR SINS,
00:31:38.06\00:31:41.36
AND THEN IT SAYS HE ROSE, WHICH
MEANS BEFORE HE ROSE HE WAS
00:31:41.36\00:31:43.50
DEAD. SO - AND PEOPLE - BUT -
I CAN UNDERSTAND PEOPLE HAVE A
00:31:43.50\00:31:48.10
STRUGGLE. HOW CAN
THE SON OF GOD DIE?
00:31:48.10\00:31:52.37
GOD CEASING TO BE CONSCIOUS.
WELL, HOW COULD HE BE A BABY?
00:31:52.37\00:31:56.68
I MEAN, YOU HAVE THE
SAME PROBLEM THERE TOO.
00:31:56.68\00:31:58.68
IT IS A MYSTERY.
IT'S CALLED THE MYSTERY
00:31:58.68\00:32:00.62
OF GODLINESS THERE. BUT
WHAT DOES THE VERSE MEAN?
00:32:00.62\00:32:05.32
IF YOU LOOK, IT SAYS, 'BY
WHOM HE WENT AND PREACHED TO THE
00:32:05.32\00:32:08.79
SPIRITS IN PRISON, WHO WERE
DISOBEDIENT IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.
00:32:08.79\00:32:11.96
GO TO THE BOOK OF GENESIS AND IF
YOU TURN TO GENESIS CHAPTER 6 -
00:32:11.96\00:32:15.66
THIS IS A VERSE THAT
IS OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD.
00:32:15.66\00:32:21.47
PETER IS REFERRING BACK TO THIS
VERSE, I BELIEVE, "AND THE LORD
00:32:21.47\00:32:26.78
SAID, 'MY SPIRIT'" - GENESIS 6:3
- "MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT STRIVE
00:32:26.78\00:32:30.95
WITH MAN FOREVER, FOR HE
IS INDEED FLESH; YET HIS DAYS
00:32:30.95\00:32:34.22
SHALL BE ONE
HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS."
00:32:34.22\00:32:36.35
IT'S TALKING A HUNDRED AND
TWENTY YEARS - HOW LONG DID NOAH
00:32:36.35\00:32:38.95
PREACH WHILE HE BUILT THE ARK?
(INAUDIBLE) YOU'LL NOTICE IN
00:32:38.95\00:32:41.66
THE NEXT VERSE IT SAYS NOAH
IS CALLED AND HE PREACHES FROM
00:32:41.66\00:32:45.73
THE TIME HE'S CALLED, WITH HIS
HAMMER, WITH HIS VOICE, TO THOSE
00:32:45.73\00:32:49.20
WHO ARE IMPRISONED
BY THE DEVIL IN SIN.
00:32:49.20\00:32:52.23
THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR THAT
THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE CHRIST ARE
00:32:52.23\00:32:55.97
IMPRISONED BY SIN, AND HE
PREACHED TO THOSE - GOD IS
00:32:55.97\00:33:01.34
SAYING, THE SAME SPIRIT THAT
ROSE JESUS FROM THE DEAD IS THE
00:33:01.34\00:33:05.55
SAME SPIRIT THAT GOD USED
TO PREACH TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:33:05.55\00:33:08.82
DISOBEDIENT IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.
IT'S THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST THAT
00:33:08.82\00:33:12.75
WAS PREACHING THROUGH NOAH -
THAT SAME SPIRIT THAT ROSE JESUS
00:33:12.75\00:33:15.92
- THAT'S ALL
THAT PETER WAS SAYING.
00:33:15.92\00:33:17.63
HE'S NOT SAYING THAT JESUS
DIDN'T REALLY DIE ON THE CROSS
00:33:17.63\00:33:20.73
BUT HE WENT TO PREACH TO PEOPLE
THAT WERE IN A CHASM - A CAVERN
00:33:20.73\00:33:23.37
SOMEWHERE IN PRISON AND
HE'D GIVE THEM A SECOND CHANCE.
00:33:23.37\00:33:26.10
DO WE GET A SECOND CHANCE?
DOES THE BIBLE TEACH THAT ONCE
00:33:26.10\00:33:29.10
YOU DIE YOU CAN HEAR THE GOSPEL
ONE MORE TIME? HEBREWS 9:27,
00:33:29.10\00:33:33.84
"...IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN
TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE
00:33:33.84\00:33:38.78
JUDGMENT" - NOT 'DIE, HEAR THE
GOSPEL ONE MORE TIME', RIGHT?
00:33:38.78\00:33:44.12
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR
PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
00:33:44.12\00:33:45.82
SO, THAT DOCTRINE THAT JESUS
WASN'T REALLY DEAD ON THE CROSS
00:33:45.82\00:33:49.66
SORT OF RELEASED ALL
KINDS OF STRANGE HERESIES.
00:33:49.66\00:33:52.19
ANOTHER SIMPLE RULE IS DON'T
BUILD THEOLOGY ON ONE VERSE.
00:33:52.19\00:33:57.50
IF YOU TAKE ONE VERSE THAT SEEMS
OBSCURE, DON'T SAY, 'I'M GOING
00:33:57.50\00:34:00.10
TO BUILD THIS WHOLE DOCTRINE
ABOUT THAT.' IT'S LIKE YOU'VE
00:34:00.10\00:34:02.14
GOT THAT ONE REFERENCE TO
ABRAHAM'S BOSOM, IN LUKE 16 -
00:34:02.14\00:34:06.14
AND I'VE RUN INTO PEOPLE WHO'VE
BUILT A WHOLE PROTESTANT VERSION
00:34:06.14\00:34:09.18
OF LIMBO OR PURGATORY
OUT OF THAT ONE VERSE.
00:34:09.18\00:34:11.75
IT'S NOT SAFE TO DO. YOU
WANT TO HAVE TWO OR THREE
00:34:11.75\00:34:14.05
WITNESSES IF YOU'RE GOING
TO START DEVELOPING A DOCTRINE.
00:34:14.05\00:34:16.89
ANYWAY, DOES
THAT MAKE SENSE THEN?
00:34:16.89\00:34:19.25
PETER'S TALKING ABOUT [1 PETER
3:18] - LET ME READ IT TO YOU
00:34:19.25\00:34:22.76
ONE MORE TIME, "FOR CHRIST
SUFFERED ONCE FOR SINS, THE JUST
00:34:22.76\00:34:26.19
FOR THE UNJUST," - THAT'S REALLY
CLEAR - "THAT HE MIGHT BRING US
00:34:26.19\00:34:29.50
TO GOD, BEING PUT TO DEATH
IN THE FLESH BUT MADE ALIVE" -
00:34:29.50\00:34:33.20
RESURRECTED - "BY THE
SPIRIT, BY WHOM" - BY WHAT?
00:34:33.20\00:34:36.37
- BY THE SAME SPIRIT - "HE"
- JESUS - "WENT AND PREACHED TO
00:34:36.37\00:34:40.61
THE SPIRITS" - PEOPLE - "IN
PRISON," - BACK IN THE DAYS OF
00:34:40.61\00:34:44.11
NOAH - "WHO [FORMERLY]
WERE DISOBEDIENT, WHEN ONCE THE
00:34:44.11\00:34:46.55
DIVINE LONGSUFFERING WAITING IN
THE DAYS OF NOAH, WHILE THE ARK
00:34:46.55\00:34:49.48
WAS BEING PREPARED" - MY SPIRIT
WILL NOT STRIVE FOREVER, BUT FOR
00:34:49.48\00:34:52.55
A HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS - "IN
WHICH A FEW...EIGHT SOULS, WERE
00:34:52.55\00:34:55.82
SAVED..." SO,
THROUGH THE PREACHING OF
00:34:55.82\00:34:56.96
JESUS THROUGH NOAH,
HOW MANY WERE SAVED?
00:34:56.96\00:34:59.49
>>EIGHT. >>ANY DEAD SPIRITS? NO.
00:34:59.49\00:35:01.60
EIGHT WERE SAVED.
THAT'S NOAH - IT'S NOT TALKING
00:35:01.60\00:35:05.13
ABOUT OTHERS - NOT
TALKING ABOUT FALLEN ANGELS.
00:35:05.13\00:35:07.74
I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR.
NOW, I'M NOT JUST DOING THIS
00:35:07.74\00:35:09.97
FOR YOU, BECAUSE I THINK YOU
UNDERSTAND, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE
00:35:09.97\00:35:12.31
WATCH THIS SABBATH SCHOOL THAT
ARE NOT MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH
00:35:12.31\00:35:15.18
THAT STRUGGLE WITH THESE THINGS.
WE GET THIS QUESTION ALL THE
00:35:15.18\00:35:17.91
TIME ON BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE.
ALRIGHT, AND THEN WE GO TO THE
00:35:17.91\00:35:21.28
NEXT SECTION - IT TALKS
ABOUT SUFFERING IN THE FLESH.
00:35:21.28\00:35:25.05
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
FOR ME ROMANS 8:13, OKAY?
00:35:25.05\00:35:28.76
IN JUST A MOMENT.
FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO READ
00:35:28.76\00:35:31.66
TO YOU A PROMISE FROM THE
BOOK STEPS TO CHRIST PAGE 62.
00:35:31.66\00:35:35.10
YES, JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS,
AND OUR HOPE OF SALVATION IS
00:35:35.10\00:35:38.67
FOUND ONLY IN HIM - IN HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH COVERS US
00:35:38.67\00:35:42.17
AND CAUSES US TO BE ACCOUNTED
RIGHTEOUS IN THE EYES OF GOD.
00:35:42.17\00:35:45.74
BECAUSE OF JESUS, YOU ARE
ACCEPTED BEFORE GOD - THIS IS
00:35:45.74\00:35:50.71
THE QUOTE, ACTUALLY, "ACCEPTED
BEFORE GOD JUST AS IF YOU HAD
00:35:50.71\00:35:54.35
NOT SINNED." SO,
REGARDLESS OF OUR PAST, WHEN
00:35:54.35\00:35:57.69
WE GENUINELY CONFESS AND REPENT,
HOW DOES GOD LOOK UPON US?
00:35:57.69\00:36:02.39
WE'RE ACCEPTED AS
THOUGH WE HAD NEVER SINNED.
00:36:02.39\00:36:05.69
WE HAD THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS.
00:36:05.69\00:36:07.50
WE'RE LOOKED UPON AS
BEING PURELY INNOCENT.
00:36:07.50\00:36:10.40
SO, WITH THAT IN MIND - YOU READ
IN 1 PETER 4, VERSES 1 AND 2,
00:36:10.40\00:36:15.64
"THEREFORE, SINCE CHRIST
SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH,
00:36:15.64\00:36:18.91
ARM YOURSELF ALSO WITH THE SAME
MIND, FOR HE WHO HAS SUFFERED IN
00:36:18.91\00:36:24.41
THE FLESH" - THERE YOU'VE GOT
THE SAME MIND AGAIN - "...HE WHO
00:36:24.41\00:36:27.42
HAS SUFFERED IN THE FLESH HAS
CEASED FROM SIN,' - NOW, I'VE
00:36:27.42\00:36:30.72
READ THAT VERSE MANY TIMES. I
REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I READ
00:36:30.72\00:36:33.02
IT, I JUST STOPPED LIKE
YOU'D SLAMMED ON THE BRAKES.
00:36:33.02\00:36:36.32
HE THAT - FIRST OF ALL, THE
THING THAT JUMPED OUT FOR ME WAS
00:36:36.32\00:36:38.59
'CEASED FROM SIN'. YOU HAVE
VERSES, LIKE IN 1 JOHN, 'WHOEVER
00:36:38.59\00:36:44.10
ABIDES IN HIM SINNETH NOT' - AND
THE IDEA OF SINLESSNESS ALWAYS
00:36:44.10\00:36:50.71
ARRESTED MY ATTENTION. I
THOUGHT, 'IS THAT POSSIBLE?'
00:36:50.71\00:36:54.01
AND PETER SAYS, 'CEASED
FROM SIN' - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:36:54.01\00:36:56.01
'SUFFERED IN THE FLESH' WELL,
I DIDN'T LIKE THAT VERY MUCH -
00:36:56.01\00:36:59.51
ANYONE HERE LIKE THE
VERSE 'SUFFERED IN THE FLESH'?
00:36:59.51\00:37:02.28
- THAT CONCEPT? I
DON'T LIKE TO SUFFER.
00:37:02.28\00:37:05.72
YOU'D SORT OF HAVE TO BE A
LITTLE MASOCHISTIC TO SAY 'I
00:37:05.72\00:37:08.39
LIKE TO SUFFER'
- BUT IT'S THERE.
00:37:08.39\00:37:11.73
WHAT DOES IT MEAN? DOES
THAT MEAN THAT YOU NEED TO
00:37:11.73\00:37:14.83
GO THROUGH SOME TERRIBLE PAINFUL
TERMINAL ILLNESS AND THEN YOU
00:37:14.83\00:37:18.03
WILL ACHIEVE SINLESSNESS?
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:37:18.03\00:37:21.64
THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSES I THINK
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IN A
00:37:21.64\00:37:23.77
MOMENT THAT EXPLAIN
WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.
00:37:23.77\00:37:26.64
THERE IS A BATTLE PAUL, PETER,
THE OTHER APOSTLES DESCRIBE -
00:37:26.64\00:37:30.18
AND THE OTHER BIBLE WRITERS -
BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH
00:37:30.18\00:37:33.11
AND IT IS PAINFUL TO
RESIST YOUR OWN DESIRES.
00:37:33.11\00:37:40.52
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE REFERENCE
BUT, AGAIN, I THINK MAYBE -
00:37:40.52\00:37:42.96
STEPS TO CHRIST - ELLEN WHITE
SAYS THE GREATEST BATTLE THAT
00:37:42.96\00:37:46.06
JESUS FOUGHT WAS
THE BATTLE OF SELF.
00:37:46.06\00:37:48.40
IT'S IN - IN DESIRE OF AGES IN
THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE WHEN HE
00:37:48.40\00:37:52.63
SAID, 'NOT MY
WILL, THY WILL BE DONE'.
00:37:52.63\00:37:54.77
IT WAS A TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE.
HE WAS PERSPIRING BLOOD.
00:37:54.77\00:37:58.41
THERE WAS AN AGONY THERE.
IT WASN'T BECAUSE ANYBODY WAS
00:37:58.41\00:38:01.34
PUTTING BAMBOO SHOOTS UNDER HIS
FINGERNAILS, IT WAS THE AGONY OF
00:38:01.34\00:38:06.61
SELF-DENIAL THAT HE WAS
GOING THROUGH - THE AGONY OF
00:38:06.61\00:38:10.65
SEPARATION FROM GOD, ALSO, I
THINK, WAS WEIGHING ON HIS SOUL.
00:38:10.65\00:38:15.12
BUT GO AHEAD, READ FOR
US, PLEASE, ROMANS 8:13.
00:38:15.12\00:38:20.40
>>"FOR IF YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO
THE FLESH YOU WILL DIE; BUT IF
00:38:20.40\00:38:24.10
BY THE SPIRIT YOU PUT TO DEATH
THE DEEDS OF THE BODY, YOU WILL
00:38:24.10\00:38:27.60
LIVE." >>IT IS HARD TO PUT TO
00:38:27.60\00:38:31.04
DEATH THE DEEDS OF THE BODY.
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE
00:38:31.04\00:38:33.61
WHERE PAUL TALKS ABOUT THIS
- 1 CORINTHIANS 9:27, "BUT I
00:38:33.61\00:38:38.85
DISCIPLINE MY BODY" - AND YOU
KNOW WHAT THAT WORD 'DISCIPLINE'
00:38:38.85\00:38:41.52
IS, IT'S USING THE WORD
OF A PARENT SPANKING A CHILD.
00:38:41.52\00:38:44.92
IT MEANS 'WHIP'. NOW
SOME HAVE READ THAT - YOU
00:38:44.92\00:38:48.46
REMEMBER THE CATHOLIC MONKS AND
MARTIN LUTHER, THEY WOULD FLOG
00:38:48.46\00:38:53.29
THEMSELVES FOR THEIR SINS.
THEY TOOK - THEY HAD THIS LITTLE
00:38:53.29\00:38:57.73
CAT-O-NINE TAILS AND
THEY WOULD WHIP THEMSELVES.
00:38:57.73\00:39:00.24
I WAS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND
I REMEMBER I WAS THERE DURING
00:39:00.24\00:39:03.77
EASTER - BRIAN, WHO'S BEHIND
THE WALL THERE IN THE STUDIO
00:39:03.77\00:39:07.78
LISTENING RIGHT NOW, HE WAS
THERE WITH ME - AND BRIAN WAS
00:39:07.78\00:39:10.35
VIDEOTAPING. WE WENT
TO THIS TOWN WHERE THEY
00:39:10.35\00:39:12.18
REENACT CRUCIFIXIONS AND
PEOPLE ACTUALLY GET CRUCIFIED.
00:39:12.18\00:39:17.35
AND, BEFORE YOU GET THERE, YOU
WALK UP THE STREET AND YOU SEE
00:39:17.35\00:39:20.12
PEOPLE ARE GOING UP THE STREETS
AND THEY'RE WHIPPING THEMSELVES
00:39:20.12\00:39:23.46
WITH THESE BAMBOO CATS-OF-NINE
TAILS, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM
00:39:23.46\00:39:29.23
- AND THEIR BACKS ARE JUST
BLEEDING AND THEY'RE ATONING FOR
00:39:29.23\00:39:33.60
THEIR SINS. AND, AT ONE POINT,
I REMEMBER BRIAN WAS GETTING THE
00:39:33.60\00:39:40.41
VIDEO FOOTAGE AND
BLOOD SPATTERED ON THE LENS.
00:39:40.41\00:39:44.11
IT JUST - BECAUSE WE WERE DOING
A DOCUMENTARY SAYING 'GOD DOES
00:39:44.11\00:39:47.25
NOT WANT US TO DO THIS' AND HE
HAD, YOU KNOW, GOT THAT FOOTAGE.
00:39:47.25\00:39:50.82
IS THAT WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT?
HE WHO HAS SUFFERED IN THE
00:39:50.82\00:39:53.12
FLESH IS CEASED FROM SIN? NO.
PAUL SAID, 'I BEAT MYSELF AND
00:39:53.12\00:39:58.16
BRING MY BODY INTO SUBJECTION,
"LEST, WHEN I HAVE PREACHED TO
00:39:58.16\00:40:00.93
OTHERS, I MYSELF
SHOULD BECOME DISQUALIFIED."
00:40:00.93\00:40:03.63
HE MEANS 'I BEAT DOWN
THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH'.
00:40:03.63\00:40:08.87
PAUL SAID, 'I DIE DAILY' -
RESISTING THE DESIRE OF - THAT -
00:40:08.87\00:40:13.68
ANY DESIRE THAT GOES
AGAINST THE WILL OF GOD.
00:40:13.68\00:40:15.64
LET ME GIVE YOU MORE: GALATIANS
6:8, "FOR HE WHO SOWS TO HIS
00:40:15.64\00:40:19.88
FLESH WILL OF THE FLESH REAP
CORRUPTION, BUT HE WHO SOWS TO
00:40:19.88\00:40:23.52
THE SPIRIT" - FEED THE SPIRIT
- "WILL OF THE SPIRIT REAP
00:40:23.52\00:40:26.89
EVERLASTING LIFE."
ROMANS 8:18, "FOR I CONSIDER
00:40:26.89\00:40:31.59
THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS
PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY TO
00:40:31.59\00:40:34.56
BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY
WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US."
00:40:34.56\00:40:39.23
AND SO, THERE'S THIS BATTLE
BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH
00:40:39.23\00:40:42.10
AND WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE THAT
BATTLE AND YOU'RE WILLING TO SAY
00:40:42.10\00:40:46.14
'YES' TO GOD - 'NOT MY WILL,
THY WILL BE DONE' - THAT'S AN
00:40:46.14\00:40:49.78
ONGOING BATTLE EVERY DAY.
THERE'S SUFFERING INVOLVED IN
00:40:49.78\00:40:54.35
SELF-DENIAL AND I THINK THIS
IS THE - THIS IS THE SUFFERING
00:40:54.35\00:40:57.32
EVERY CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCES
BEFORE YOU EXPERIENCE HOLINESS.
00:40:57.32\00:41:03.43
1 PETER 2:20, PETER SAYS, "FOR
WHAT CREDIT IS IT IF, WHEN YOU
00:41:03.43\00:41:08.10
ARE BEATEN FOR YOUR
FAULTS, YOU TAKE IT PATIENTLY?
00:41:08.10\00:41:10.97
BUT WHEN YOU DO GOOD AND SUFFER,
IF YOU TAKE IT PATIENTLY, THIS
00:41:10.97\00:41:14.94
IS COMMENDABLE BEFORE GOD.
FOR TO THIS YOU WERE CALLED,
00:41:14.94\00:41:19.67
BECAUSE CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED FOR
US, LEAVING US AN EXAMPLE, THAT
00:41:19.67\00:41:23.75
YOU SHOULD FOLLOW HIS STEPS:"
NOW, HERE PETER'S ALSO SAYING,
00:41:23.75\00:41:26.78
'YOU MAY ACTUALLY SUFFER
PHYSICALLY FOR YOUR FAITH.
00:41:26.78\00:41:31.39
THERE ARE
CHRISTIANS THAT ARE PERSECUTED.
00:41:31.39\00:41:34.32
THEY ARE IMPRISONED.
THEY ARE EVEN, IN PARTS OF THE
00:41:34.32\00:41:36.76
WORLD, BEHEADED FOR THEIR FAITH.
THERE'S ALL KINDS OF TRIALS
00:41:36.76\00:41:41.53
THAT PEOPLE MAY GO
THROUGH. AND SO, THERE
00:41:41.53\00:41:44.40
COULD BE SUFFERING.
JESUS WENT THROUGH PERSECUTION.
00:41:44.40\00:41:47.37
MOST OF HIS TRIALS WERE
CONCENTRATED IN THAT LAST 24
00:41:47.37\00:41:51.21
HOURS OF HIS LIFE, BUT HE HAD A
LIFE OF SELF-DENIAL AND PROBABLY
00:41:51.21\00:41:54.84
BEING MOCKED AND RIDICULED
FOR HIS DEVOTION. ROMANS 6 - NOW
00:41:54.84\00:41:59.41
THIS VERSE SUMS UP, I THINK,
BEST WHAT PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT.
00:41:59.41\00:42:03.39
PETER, SORRY, "THEREFORE DO
NOT LET SIN REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL
00:42:03.39\00:42:08.32
BODY, THAT YOU
SHOULD OBEY IT IN ITS LUSTS.
00:42:08.32\00:42:11.29
AND DO NOT PRESENT YOUR
MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF
00:42:11.29\00:42:14.10
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS TO SIN, BUT
PRESENT YOURSELVES TO GOD AS
00:42:14.10\00:42:17.37
BEING ALIVE FROM THE DEAD, AND
YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF
00:42:17.37\00:42:20.77
RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GOD. FOR
SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION
00:42:20.77\00:42:24.54
OVER YOU, FOR YOU ARE NOT
UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE."
00:42:24.54\00:42:29.14
BEFORE YOU'RE
SAVED, WHO HAS DOMINION?
00:42:29.14\00:42:32.98
BEFORE YOU'RE SAVED,
WHAT POWER HAS DOMINION?
00:42:32.98\00:42:35.55
>>SATAN. >>SIN.
00:42:35.55\00:42:37.75
AND, YEAH, YOU'RE
UNDER THE CURSE OF THE LAW.
00:42:37.75\00:42:40.66
DOES ONE POWER GIVE
UP ITS DOMINION EASILY?
00:42:40.66\00:42:46.36
WHEN YOU HAVE ONE POWER TRYING
TO SEIZE DOMINION FROM ANOTHER
00:42:46.36\00:42:49.16
POWER, IS THERE A BATTLE?
YEAH, ANY KIND OF STRUGGLE YOU
00:42:49.16\00:42:53.47
GO THROUGH TO TRY AND
GAIN VICTORY, THERE'S GOING TO
00:42:53.47\00:42:55.87
BE - THERE'LL BE A
BATTLE. PRAISE GOD.
00:42:55.87\00:43:00.38
I MENTION IT OFTEN BECAUSE
IT WAS VERY DRAMATIC IN MY LIFE,
00:43:00.38\00:43:04.25
BUT I STRUGGLED WITH CIGARETTES
FOR YEARS - AND I SEE DAVE AND
00:43:04.25\00:43:08.48
CINDY SITTING HERE -
HOW ARE YOU GUYS DOING?
00:43:08.48\00:43:11.22
DAVE - WHEN I FIRST MET DAVE
AND CINDY, THEY WERE ONE OF THE
00:43:11.22\00:43:12.89
FIRST ADVENTISTS I MET IN
COVELO - I WAS SMOKING - AND I
00:43:12.89\00:43:15.89
STRUGGLED. I QUIT
AND I STARTED - I QUIT
00:43:15.89\00:43:17.43
AND STARTED - IT WAS A STRUGGLE.
FINALLY, I QUIT AND IT WAS A
00:43:17.43\00:43:20.80
STRUGGLE FOR SEVERAL WEEKS -
STRUGGLE FOR A FEW DAYS AND THEN
00:43:20.80\00:43:25.73
IT GOT EASIER FOR
THE FOLLOWING WEEKS.
00:43:25.73\00:43:28.20
THEN IT GOT MUCH EASIER
FOR, ACTUALLY, A FEW MONTHS.
00:43:28.20\00:43:30.14
I WOULD, OCCASIONALLY, GET
TEMPTED FOR THE FIRST YEAR.
00:43:30.14\00:43:33.14
I'M NOT TEMPTED AT ALL ANYMORE,
SO HAS TOBACCO LOST ITS DOMINION
00:43:33.14\00:43:38.01
OVER ME? IT DIDN'T
WANT TO GIVE IT UP -
00:43:38.01\00:43:40.52
ANY HABIT IS THAT WAY - YOU
CAN JUST INSERT WHATEVER YOUR
00:43:40.52\00:43:42.78
PARTICULAR STRUGGLE IS.
AND SO, WHEN PETER'S TALKING
00:43:42.78\00:43:46.76
ABOUT 'HE THAT HAS SUFFERED IN
THE FLESH IS CEASED FROM SIN', I
00:43:46.76\00:43:50.06
THINK HE'S TALKING, PRINCIPALLY,
ABOUT THAT BATTLE AGAINST THE
00:43:50.06\00:43:53.23
CARNAL NATURE THAT WE ALL
HAVE. OH, WHERE'D I LEAVE OFF?
00:43:53.23\00:43:57.47
ALRIGHT - BORN AGAIN - SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ, FOR ME - DIDN'T
00:43:57.47\00:43:59.87
GIVE YOU MUCH
WARNING - 1 PETER 1:23.
00:43:59.87\00:44:04.91
>>"BEING BORN AGAIN,
NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED BUT
00:44:04.91\00:44:08.68
INCORRUPTIBLE, BY THE WORD
OF GOD WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH
00:44:08.68\00:44:13.18
FOREVER." >>BEING
BORN AGAIN - NOW, HOW
00:44:13.18\00:44:16.28
MANY TIMES IN THE BIBLE DO YOU
FIND THE PHRASE 'BORN AGAIN'?
00:44:16.28\00:44:19.72
THREE TIMES. HOW
MANY TIMES IN CHRISTIAN
00:44:19.72\00:44:23.96
LIFE DO YOU HEAR
IT QUOTED? A LOT.
00:44:23.96\00:44:27.56
I THINK JIMMY CARTER WAS ONE OF
THE FIRST PRESIDENTS THAT OPENLY
00:44:27.56\00:44:29.63
SAID, 'I AM A
BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN'.
00:44:29.63\00:44:32.80
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE
REFER TO BEING BORN AGAIN.
00:44:32.80\00:44:35.54
AND SOMEONE MIGHT ASK YOU,
'ARE YOU A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER?'
00:44:35.54\00:44:38.27
YOU REALLY FIND THAT ONLY IN
JOHN CHAPTER 3 - IT'S MENTIONED
00:44:38.27\00:44:42.44
TWICE - THE PHRASE IS
MENTIONED TWICE - AND IN PETER.
00:44:42.44\00:44:45.05
OF COURSE, IN JOHN 3, JESUS
ANSWERED AND SAID TO NICODEMUS,
00:44:45.05\00:44:48.95
"MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU,"
- AND THIS IS VERSE 3 - "UNLESS
00:44:48.95\00:44:52.45
ONE IS BORN AGAIN, HE
CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD."
00:44:52.45\00:44:55.82
NICODEMUS WAS TRYING TO, YOU
KNOW, GET A MENTAL PICTURE OF
00:44:55.82\00:44:58.13
WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK
LIKE. HE SAID, "'HOW CAN A MAN
00:44:58.13\00:45:00.20
BE BORN WHEN HE IS OLD?
CAN HE ENTER A SECOND TIME INTO
00:45:00.20\00:45:02.43
HIS MOTHER'S WOMB AND BE BORN?'
JESUS ANSWERED, "MOST ASSUREDLY,
00:45:02.43\00:45:07.24
I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS ON IS
BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT, HE
00:45:07.24\00:45:11.54
CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH
00:45:11.54\00:45:15.34
IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS
BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT."
00:45:15.34\00:45:18.35
DO NOT MARVEL THAT I SAY TO YOU,
'YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.'" HE
00:45:18.35\00:45:21.48
DOESN'T SAY 'IT'D BE GREAT'
'IT'D BE HELPFUL' - HE SAYS 'YOU
00:45:21.48\00:45:24.42
MUST BE' - IF YOU'RE GOING TO
BE SAVED YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.
00:45:24.42\00:45:27.76
SO, HOW ARE WE BORN AGAIN?
JESUS SAID YOU'RE BORN OF THE
00:45:27.76\00:45:30.83
SPIRIT - PETER ACTUALLY
TELLS YOU, DID YOU NOTICE THAT?
00:45:30.83\00:45:35.33
HE SAID, 'BORN THROUGH THE WORD
WHICH LIVES AND ABIDES IN YOU'.
00:45:35.33\00:45:40.77
HOW MANY OF YOU CAN TRACE YOUR
NEW BIRTH, IN SOME WAY, TO THE
00:45:40.77\00:45:44.81
READING OR
PREACHING OF THE WORD?
00:45:44.81\00:45:47.58
ISN'T THAT HOW IT
TYPICALLY HAPPENS?
00:45:47.58\00:45:48.74
THAT'S WHY PETER SAYS - WHAT
DOES A BABY EAT WHEN THEY'RE
00:45:48.74\00:45:51.61
FIRST BORN? >>MILK.
00:45:51.61\00:45:52.91
>>MILK. PETER
SAYS, 'DESIRE THE SINCERE
00:45:52.91\00:45:55.38
MILK OF THE WORD THAT
YOU MAY GROW THEREBY.'
00:45:55.38\00:45:59.22
AND IT'S THE WORD THAT CAUSES
THE BIRTH - IT'S THE WORD THAT
00:45:59.22\00:46:02.19
CAUSES THE GROWTH. EVENTUALLY
IT'S THE MEAT OF THE WORD,
00:46:02.19\00:46:05.73
AS YOU MATURE, BUT
IT'S ALL THE WORD OF GOD.
00:46:05.73\00:46:09.10
AND SO, IT CREATES - IT STIRS
- WITHIN US AND IT BRINGS US TO
00:46:09.10\00:46:12.57
UNDERSTAND THE GOODNESS OF
GOD THAT LEADS US TO REPENTANCE.
00:46:12.57\00:46:16.87
WE SEE HE LOVES US SO WE
LOVE HIM. IT ALL COMES THROUGH
00:46:16.87\00:46:19.47
LOOKING AT CHRIST AND HIS WORD.
AND SO, THERE'S A NEW - THE NEW
00:46:19.47\00:46:24.61
BIRTH THAT'S TALKED ABOUT THERE.
AND THEN PETER, HE DEALS WITH
00:46:24.61\00:46:28.65
THE SINS OF THE FLESH
IN THE NEXT SECTION HERE.
00:46:28.65\00:46:31.79
AND THAT COMES TO US FROM 1
PETER 4 AND I'M GOING TO READ
00:46:31.79\00:46:35.02
VERSES 3 AND 4, "FOR WE
HAVE SPENT ENOUGH OF OUR PAST
00:46:35.02\00:46:40.53
LIFETIME IN DOING THE WILL
OF THE GENTILES" - NOW IT'S NOT
00:46:40.53\00:46:43.53
JUST THE NON-JEWS, HE'S TALKING
ABOUT THE LOST HERE - PAGANS
00:46:43.53\00:46:47.60
THAT DON'T KNOW GOD - WHEN
WE WALKED IN LEWDNESS, LUSTS,
00:46:47.60\00:46:51.81
DRUNKENNESS, REVELRIES,
DRINKING PARTIES, AND ABOMINABLE
00:46:51.81\00:46:55.88
IDOLATRIES." - NOW,
I'M READING THE NEW KING
00:46:55.88\00:46:58.45
JAMES VERSION THERE WHERE
IT SAYS 'DRINKING PARTIES' - SO
00:46:58.45\00:47:01.32
HE'S TALKING ABOUT IMMORALITY,
PARTYING - AND I REMEMBER WHEN
00:47:01.32\00:47:05.39
I FIRST WAS THINKING OF
BEING A CHRISTIAN, YOU KNOW, I
00:47:05.39\00:47:07.82
LIVED THAT KIND OF LIFE. I
DRANK AND USED DRUGS AND WENT
00:47:07.82\00:47:10.73
TO PARTIES AND I THOUGHT, 'WELL,
IF I'M A CHRISTIAN I WON'T
00:47:10.73\00:47:13.63
BE ABLE TO DO THAT
ANYMORE. WHAT WILL I DO FOR FUN?
00:47:13.63\00:47:16.73
ANYONE EVER THINK THAT
BEFORE? 'WHAT WILL I DO FOR FUN?
00:47:16.73\00:47:19.87
CHRISTIANS DON'T HAVE ANY FUN.'
AND THE - SO GOD DOESN'T FORCE
00:47:19.87\00:47:23.47
YOU TO BE A CHRISTIAN SO I KEPT
PARTYING, AS THEY CALL IT, AND
00:47:23.47\00:47:28.54
YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE HUNG OVER
AND YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE IN
00:47:28.54\00:47:30.88
JAIL AND YOU WAKE UP AND
YOU MADE A FOOL OF YOURSELF -
00:47:30.88\00:47:33.35
YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE ASHAMED.
00:47:33.35\00:47:35.62
YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE SICK
- HUNGOVER - AND I HEARD THIS
00:47:35.62\00:47:40.06
VOICE SAYING, 'ARE
YOU HAVING FUN DOUG?'
00:47:40.06\00:47:43.16
AND I REALIZED THAT'S
NOT REALLY THAT MUCH FUN.
00:47:43.16\00:47:47.20
IT MIGHT FEEL GOOD AT THE MOMENT
BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST SUCH A
00:47:47.20\00:47:50.13
SHAME - AND SICKNESS AND MISERY
AFTERWARD THAT IT'S NOT WORTH
00:47:50.13\00:47:55.44
IT. AND I HAVE - I REALLY
DO, I HAVE MUCH MORE FUN AS A
00:47:55.44\00:47:59.21
CHRISTIAN. BOY, I TELL YOU, THIS
LAST TRIP WE WENT ON, WE HAD A
00:47:59.21\00:48:01.34
LOT OF FUN. AND IT WAS - IT WAS
REALLY FUN. YOU KNOW, WORKING
00:48:01.34\00:48:06.15
FOR GOD IS AN ADVENTURE. >>AMEN.
00:48:06.15\00:48:09.32
>>AND SO, HE SAID, 'WELL, WHEN
YOU HAVE THE NEW LIFE, YOU DON'T
00:48:09.32\00:48:12.39
WALK - YOU DON'T LIVE LIKE
THAT ANYMORE. PAUL - PETER,
00:48:12.39\00:48:14.82
RATHER, IS CALLING US TO
TURN FROM THE OLD CARNAL LIFE.
00:48:14.82\00:48:19.49
AND THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSES
HERE WHERE HE BEARS THAT OUT.
00:48:19.49\00:48:22.03
AND, IN PARTICULAR,
HE TALKS ABOUT PURITY.
00:48:22.03\00:48:26.13
1 CORINTHIANS 5:1, PAUL SAYS,
"IT IS ACTUALLY REPORTED THAT
00:48:26.13\00:48:30.34
THERE IS SEXUAL IMMORALITY
AMONG YOU, AND SUCH SEXUAL
00:48:30.34\00:48:33.17
IMMORALITY AS IS NOT EVEN NAMED
AMONG THE GENTILES" - COULD
00:48:33.17\00:48:37.21
THAT EVEN HAPPEN
IN THE CHURCH? >>YES.
00:48:37.21\00:48:39.75
>>YOU EVER HEAR SOMEONE
SAY, 'WELL, CHRISTIANS ARE ALL
00:48:39.75\00:48:41.12
HYPOCRITES'? WERE
THERE HYPOCRITES IN THE
00:48:41.12\00:48:43.52
CHURCH BACK IN
PAUL'S DAY? >>YES.
00:48:43.52\00:48:45.39
>>YEAH, EVEN IN THE APOSTLE'S
TIME THEY DEALT WITH PEOPLE WHO
00:48:45.39\00:48:48.09
TOOK THE NAME OF CHRIST - IN THE
CHURCH - AND WERE DOING SHAMEFUL
00:48:48.09\00:48:51.66
THINGS THAT THE PAGANS
WERE POINTING TO AND SAYING,
00:48:51.66\00:48:54.56
'THAT'S CHRISTIAN?' SO
DO YOU MEET PEOPLE THAT SAY,
00:48:54.56\00:48:57.43
'I DON'T GO TO CHURCH
BECAUSE THERE'S HYPOCRITES'?
00:48:57.43\00:48:58.80
WELL, THERE'S ALWAYS
BEEN. THAT'S NOTHING NEW.
00:48:58.80\00:49:02.04
BUT HE CALLS US TO
REPENT OF THOSE THINGS.
00:49:02.04\00:49:04.01
1 CORINTHIANS 10:8, PAUL
SAYS, "NOR LET US COMMIT SEXUAL
00:49:04.01\00:49:08.84
IMMORALITY, AS SOME OF THEM
DID, AND IN ONE DAY TWENTY-THREE
00:49:08.84\00:49:12.28
THOUSAND FELL;" - MATTER
OF FACT, IF YOU READ IN 1
00:49:12.28\00:49:14.88
CORINTHIANS 6:9, PAUL GETS VERY
SPECIFIC. HE'S VERY CLEAR - HE
00:49:14.88\00:49:19.89
SAID, "DO YOU NOT KNOW
THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT
00:49:19.89\00:49:22.59
INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF
GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
00:49:22.59\00:49:26.23
NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR
IDOLATERS," - THE PAGANS DID
00:49:26.23\00:49:29.96
THAT TOO - NOR ADULTERERS," "NOR
HOMOSEXUALS, NOR SODOMITES, NOR
00:49:29.96\00:49:35.44
THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR
DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR
00:49:35.44\00:49:40.18
EXTORTIONERS WILL
INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD."
00:49:40.18\00:49:42.91
NOW, IF YOU STOP RIGHT THERE A
PERSON MIGHT READ THAT AND SAY,
00:49:42.91\00:49:46.68
'WELL, THEN THERE'S NO HOPE FOR
ME.' AND, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT
00:49:46.68\00:49:50.45
THERE'S PEOPLE WHO
STRUGGLE WITH IMMORALITY.
00:49:50.45\00:49:53.42
SOME STRUGGLE WITH HOMOSEXUAL
TENDENCIES AND THE BIBLE IS
00:49:53.42\00:49:57.16
PRETTY CLEAR - I KNOW, IT'S JUST
TOTALLY POLITICALLY FORBIDDEN TO
00:49:57.16\00:50:00.76
TELL THE TRUTH ON THAT ANYMORE,
BUT THE BIBLE HASN'T CHANGED
00:50:00.76\00:50:03.13
EVEN THOUGH THE
CULTURE HAS RADICALLY CHANGED.
00:50:03.13\00:50:05.43
SIN IS STILL SIN.
ALDULTERY'S WRONG.
00:50:05.43\00:50:08.04
HOMOSEXUALITY IS
WRONG. THE BIBLE'S VERY CLEAR.
00:50:08.04\00:50:11.87
BUT YOU NOTICE WHAT
PAUL SAYS WHEN HE GOES ON?
00:50:11.87\00:50:13.94
- "SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU."
HE GOES ON TO SAY - YEAH, SOME
00:50:13.94\00:50:18.75
OF YOU PRACTICED ALL OF THESE
THINGS - "BUT YOU WERE WASHED,
00:50:18.75\00:50:22.68
BUT YOU WERE SANCTIFIED, BUT YOU
WERE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF
00:50:22.68\00:50:25.22
THE LORD JESUS AND BY THE SPIRIT
OF OUR GOD." SO THE CHURCH IS
00:50:25.22\00:50:28.89
COMPOSED OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALL
KINDS OF SORDID THINGS IN THEIR
00:50:28.89\00:50:31.86
BACKGROUND. GOD
SAVES US FROM OUR SINS.
00:50:31.86\00:50:34.93
AND THAT LIST IN IS THE BIBLE
BECAUSE PAUL SAID, 'IF YOU DO
00:50:34.93\00:50:38.43
THESE THINGS, YOU WILL NOT
INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:50:38.43\00:50:41.37
AND I WILL NOT BE FAITHFUL TO
YOU AS A PASTOR IF I WATER DOWN
00:50:41.37\00:50:44.51
THAT LIST. >>AMEN.
00:50:44.51\00:50:46.07
>>THE TRUTH IS THE
TRUTH AND PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
00:50:46.07\00:50:49.08
ALRIGHT, AND THEN HE SAYS,
CONNECTED WITH THESE THINGS,
00:50:49.08\00:50:53.01
PAUL SAYS, THEN, IN VERSE 5
- WE'RE ALMOST DONE - THERE'S A
00:50:53.01\00:50:56.32
JUDGMENT DAY. IT
SAYS, IN 1 PETER 4:5, "THEY
00:50:56.32\00:51:00.36
WILL GIVE AN ACCOUNT TO
HIM WHO IS READY TO JUDGE THE
00:51:00.36\00:51:03.29
LIVING AND THE DEAD. FOR
THIS REASON" - NOW, IS THERE
00:51:03.29\00:51:06.53
A JUDGMENT THAT HAPPENS
EVEN WHILE PEOPLE ARE ALIVE?
00:51:06.53\00:51:09.96
OR, HE SAYS, 'JUDGMENT
BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF GOD'.
00:51:09.96\00:51:12.63
BEFORE CHRIST COMES THERE ARE
LIVING THAT ARE JUDGED - "FOR
00:51:12.63\00:51:16.24
THIS REASON THE GOSPEL WAS
PREACHED ALSO TO THOSE WHO ARE
00:51:16.24\00:51:19.14
DEAD, THAT THEY MIGHT BE JUDGED
ACCORDING TO MEN IN THE FLESH,
00:51:19.14\00:51:22.08
BUT LIVE ACCORDING
TO GOD IN THE SPIRIT."
00:51:22.08\00:51:24.75
THERE AGAIN - YOU SEE WHERE WE
TALKED ABOUT THOSE WHO WERE DEAD
00:51:24.75\00:51:27.48
- SPIRITS THAT WERE IN PRISON?
00:51:27.48\00:51:29.02
PETER SAYS THE GOSPEL WAS
PREACHED TO THOSE WHO ARE DEAD
00:51:29.02\00:51:33.79
AND - "THAT THEY MIGHT BE JUDGED
ACCORDING TO MEN IN THE FLESH,
00:51:33.79\00:51:37.39
BUT LIVE ACCORDING
TO GOD IN THE SPIRIT."
00:51:37.39\00:51:41.76
LOOKING AT THE TIME, I'M GOING
TO JUMP DOWN TO LOVE COVERS ALL
00:51:41.76\00:51:46.33
BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT VERSES - OR PASSAGES.
00:51:46.33\00:51:49.27
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME - YOU'VE
GOT GALATIANS CHAPTER 5:14 -
00:51:49.27\00:51:52.67
MANJEET? YOU'LL
HAVE THAT IN JUST A
00:51:52.67\00:51:53.64
MOMENT - I'M
GOING TO READ ROMANS 13.
00:51:53.64\00:51:55.94
SO, HOW DOES PETER SUMMARIZE
WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT?
00:51:55.94\00:51:59.51
HE SAYS IT - IT'S REALLY
- IS ALL WRAPPED UP IN LOVE.
00:51:59.51\00:52:04.99
"OWE NO ONE ANYTHING EXCEPT
TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR HE WHO
00:52:04.99\00:52:08.56
LOVES ANOTHER HAS
FULFILLED THE LAW.
00:52:08.56\00:52:11.03
FOR THE COMMANDMENTS, 'YOU SHALL
NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU SHALL
00:52:11.03\00:52:14.30
NOT MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL
NOT STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR
00:52:14.30\00:52:17.40
FALSE WITNESS,' 'YOU SHALL
NOT COVET,' AND IF THERE IS ANY
00:52:17.40\00:52:20.50
OTHER COMMANDMENT, ARE
ALL SUMMED UP IN THIS SAYING,
00:52:20.50\00:52:23.41
NAMELY, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' LOVE DOES
00:52:23.41\00:52:27.11
NO HARM TO A NEIGHBOR; THEREFORE
LOVE IS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE
00:52:27.11\00:52:30.81
LAW." NOW, IS PAUL SAYING THAT
IF YOU LOVE YOU DON'T NEED TO
00:52:30.81\00:52:33.48
KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
OR IS HE SAYING THE OPPOSITE?
00:52:33.48\00:52:36.62
IF YOU LOVE, YOU WILL
KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:52:36.62\00:52:39.09
LOVE DOES NO HARM TO HIS
NEIGHBOR - AND HE CITES ALL THE
00:52:39.09\00:52:41.52
TEN. SO LOVE IS
THE EMBODIMENT OF THAT.
00:52:41.52\00:52:45.13
GO AHEAD, PLEASE, AND
READ FOR US GALATIANS 5:14.
00:52:45.13\00:52:49.10
>>GALATIANS 5:14, "FOR THE WHOLE
LAW IS FULFILLED IN ONE WORD,
00:52:49.10\00:52:54.74
'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'"
00:52:54.74\00:52:59.04
>>ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL? AND
DOES JESUS SAY THE SAME THING?
00:52:59.04\00:53:02.44
MATTHEW CHAPTER 22, VERSE 37,
"YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR
00:53:02.44\00:53:06.45
GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH
ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR
00:53:06.45\00:53:09.22
MIND.' THIS IS THE
FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT.
00:53:09.22\00:53:12.42
AND THE SECOND IS LIKE IT:
'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
00:53:12.42\00:53:15.09
YOURSELF.' ON THESE TWO
COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW
00:53:15.09\00:53:19.66
AND THE PROPHETS.'" HE'S SAYING
ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS CAN
00:53:19.66\00:53:21.40
BE SUMMED UP IN LOVING THE
LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART AND
00:53:21.40\00:53:24.80
LOVING YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
00:53:24.80\00:53:26.87
AND THEN JESUS SAID, IN JOHN 14,
VERSE 15, HE SAYS, "IF YOU LOVE
00:53:26.87\00:53:31.71
ME," - DO WHAT?
>>KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
00:53:31.71\00:53:33.88
>>"IF YOU LOVE ME,
KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS."
00:53:33.88\00:53:35.54
NOW, I JUST WANT TO CONCLUDE BY
READING A VERSE IN - LET ME SEE
00:53:35.54\00:53:43.22
HERE - CLOSING OUT OUR SECTION
HERE BY READING 1 PETER CHAPTER
00:53:43.22\00:53:49.22
4 AND IF YOU READ - OH, I'M
GOING TO READ - YEAH, VERSE 8,
00:53:49.22\00:53:55.83
"AND ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE
FERVENT LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER,
00:53:55.83\00:53:59.23
FOR 'LOVE WILL COVER
A MULTITUDE OF SINS.'" -
00:53:59.23\00:54:02.10
AND THIS IS WHAT WE'VE
BEEN HIGHLIGHTING HERE -
00:54:02.10\00:54:04.11
"BE HOSPITABLE TO ONE
ANOTHER WITHOUT GRUMBLING.
00:54:04.11\00:54:07.04
AS EACH ONE HAS RECEIVED
A GIFT, MINISTER IT TO ONE
00:54:07.04\00:54:10.01
ANOTHER, AS GOOD STEWARDS
OF THE MANIFOLD GRACE OF GOD.
00:54:10.01\00:54:13.95
IF ANYONE SPEAKS, LET HIM
SPEAK AS THE ORACLES OF GOD.
00:54:13.95\00:54:17.69
IF ANYONE MINISTERS, LET HIM DO
IT AS WITH THE ABILITY WHICH GOD
00:54:17.69\00:54:21.06
SUPPLIES, THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD
MAY BE GLORIFIED THROUGH JESUS
00:54:21.06\00:54:26.80
CHRIST, TO WHOM BELONG THE GLORY
AND THE DOMINION FOREVER AND
00:54:26.80\00:54:30.50
EVER." AND
FOREVER AND EVER IS ALWAYS
00:54:30.50\00:54:32.77
A GOOD WAY TO END
THE LESSON, RIGHT?
00:54:32.77\00:54:35.50
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>>SO WHAT IS THE
BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD?
00:55:21.32\00:55:24.22
WELL, NATURALLY, YOU'D SAY
THE SUN, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
00:55:24.22\00:55:26.92
THE BRIGHTEST
MAN-MADE LIGHT IN THE WORLD.
00:55:26.92\00:55:29.29
IT'S THE LIGHT THAT
SHINES OUT OF THE ROOF OF THAT
00:55:29.29\00:55:31.53
PYRAMID-SHAPED HOTEL IN
LAS VEGAS CALLED THE LUXOR.
00:55:31.53\00:55:35.73
THERE, IN THE CAP OF THAT HOTEL,
THERE'S A ROOM THAT CONTAINS 39
00:55:35.73\00:55:39.67
WASHING-MACHINE SIZED XENON
BULBS; AND EACH OF THOSE BULBS
00:55:39.67\00:55:43.94
REQUIRES ABOUT 7,000 WATTS.
ALTOGETHER, THEY PRODUCE ABOUT
00:55:43.94\00:55:48.08
40 BILLION
CANDLE POWER OF LIGHT.
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CAN YOU IMAGINE GETTING THAT
ELECTRIC BILL AT THE LUXOR HOTEL
00:55:51.58\00:55:54.55
EVERY MONTH? THAT
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00:55:54.55\00:55:57.09
PLANES CAN SEE
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00:55:57.09\00:56:00.96
THEY'RE SHOOTING LIGHT TEN MILES
UP INTO SPACE, MEANING, IF YOU
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HAPPEN TO BE FLOATING BY, YOU
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AND, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED,
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BRINGING IN MOTHS, BATS, AND
00:56:11.60\00:56:15.37
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ECOSYSTEM THERE AT NIGHT, ABOVE
00:56:15.37\00:56:18.47
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00:56:18.47\00:56:20.51
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00:56:20.51\00:56:24.18
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00:56:24.18\00:56:27.02
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THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN
THE WORLD ILLUMINATES NOTHING.
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YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS
US THAT THERE'S ANOTHER GREAT
00:56:36.26\00:56:37.93
WASTED LIGHT, AND
THAT'S THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD.
00:56:37.93\00:56:41.63
IT SAYS IN PSALM 119, VERSE 105,
"THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET
00:56:41.63\00:56:46.70
AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.' AND
YET, SO MANY PEOPLE ARE WALKING
00:56:46.70\00:56:50.11
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00:56:59.18\00:57:02.88
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00:57:02.88\00:57:06.92
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00:57:06.92\00:57:10.09
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00:57:10.09\00:57:14.10
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