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00:35 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:37 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN. 00:39 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU'RE JOINING US FROM, WE'RE JUST GLAD 00:42 THAT YOU ARE JOINING US AND YOU'RE A PART OF OUR SABBATH 00:45 SCHOOL FAMILY HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:47 ADVENTIST CHURCH. IF YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE 00:50 RADIO, WE DON'T WANT TO FORGET ABOUT YOU. 00:52 YOU ARE SPECIAL RADIO LISTENERS AND, OF COURSE, IF YOU'RE 00:55 WATCHING US LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE OR ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION 00:58 NETWORKS, WE HAVE A WONDERFUL PROGRAM FOR YOU TODAY, AND OUR 01:01 PASTOR IS BACK FROM TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD - PASTOR DOUG - 01:04 SO HE IS BRINGING US OUR LESSON STUDY TODAY. 01:07 BUT, BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, WE'RE GOING TO DO WHAT WE DO 01:09 EVERY WEEK, AND WE SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS - #538 - GUIDE ME 01:14 O THOU GREAT JEHOVAH - #538 - AND WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL 01:17 THREE STANZAS. JOIN WITH US. (PIANO MUSIC) 03:16 >>THAT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES AND I ALWAYS LIKE 03:18 IT WHEN WE GET TO SING THAT ONE. I HAVE A BOOK OFFER FOR YOU 03:23 TODAY AND IT'S CALLED HEROES OF FAITH: - AND IT IS A BIGGER BOOK 03:27 THAN WHAT WE USUALLY GIVE OUT - INSPIRATIONAL STORIES OF 03:30 SALVATION AND IT IS WRITTEN BY PASTOR DOUG, HIMSELF, AND SO THE 03:36 GOOD NEWS IS YOU CAN CALL IN TO 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER 03:43 #826, BUT THE BAD NEWS IS YOU CANNOT GET THIS ONLINE. 03:49 SO, IF YOU'RE IN NORTH AMERICA, IT IS YOUR DAY: CALL IN AND - OR 03:54 YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE - AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - 03:56 AND REQUEST HEROES OF FAITH - SO IT IS A NICE BIG BOOK AND 04:02 IT IS AN AUTHENTIC, INSPIRING GLIMPSE 04:05 INTO THE LIVES OF REAL BIBLE HEROES. 04:07 SO, IT IS - YOU'RE GOING TO ENJOY THIS - SO GO AND ASK FOR 04:10 OFFER #826 - HEROES OF FAITH . JOIN ME IN PRAYER, WOULD YOU? 04:18 FATHER IN HEAVEN, YOU ARE THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND WE ARE YOUR 04:22 LITTLE CHILDREN AND WE ARE LIKE SHEEP AND WE NEED A LOVING 04:28 SHEPHERD WHO BRINGS US BACK WHEN WE STRAY. 04:32 PLEASE BE WITH US. BE WITH OUR SPEAKER. 04:34 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY 04:39 WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 04:42 HE DOESN'T LIKE TO BE CALLED A SENIOR PASTOR SO, PASTOR DOUG, 04:45 WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU'RE BACK FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND 04:48 BRINGING US OUR LESSON STUDY TODAY. 04:52 >>THANK YOU, DEBBIE AND OUR MUSICIANS. 04:55 GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS 04:57 WHO ARE ALSO STUDYING - PART OF OUR ONLINE CLASS - AND 05:01 IT IS GOOD TO BE HOME. I HAVE BEEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY 05:06 WITH KAREN AND I FOR, OH, A COUPLE WEEKS NOW AND HAVING 05:10 SOME GREAT ADVENTURES. A LONG TRIP - WE WERE IN 05:14 AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA. AND, I THOUGHT BEFORE I DOVE 05:18 INTO THE LESSON STUDY TODAY, WITH YOUR PERMISSION, I'LL MAYBE 05:22 GIVE YOU JUST A LITTLE MISSION LOG OF WHAT WE WERE DOING AND 05:27 WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE TIME WE WENT. 05:29 SO, I'VE GOT A FEW PICTURES AND WE'LL END UP WRITING OUT, MAYBE 05:32 A LITTLE BIGGER ARTICLE ON THIS TRIP BUT, WHILE IT'S STILL FRESH 05:37 IN MY MIND, WHICH PROBABLY HAS ABOUT A 24-HOUR SHELF LIFE, I 05:41 OUGHT TO SHARE WITH YOU (LAUGHS) WHAT JUST HAPPENED. 05:46 WE WENT TO NEW ZEALAND [AUSTRALIA] AND, OUTSIDE OF 05:49 BRISBANE THEY'VE GOT A CITY THERE - BEAUTIFUL - IT'S ON THE 05:51 COAST - IT'S CALLED THE GOLD COAST - AND THERE WE WENT AND 05:55 DID A SPECIAL PROGRAM, SORT OF AN EVANGELISTIC REVIVAL-STYLE 06:00 PROGRAM AND IT WAS IN TWO LOCATIONS, THE CENTRAL GOLD 06:08 COAST ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THEN, ON SABBATH MORNING, THERE WERE 06:11 SO MANY PEOPLE THEY ANTICIPATED THAT THEY GOT A NEW LOCATION - 06:14 WE BASICALLY RENTED A CHARISMATIC CHURCH CALLED THE 06:17 DREAM CENTER AND ABOUT TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE CAME OUT, WHICH, 06:21 IN AUSTRALIA, IS A GREAT GROUP. AND SO, WE HAD A WONDERFUL 06:25 PROGRAM THERE. KAREN AND I ACTUALLY GOT TO WALK ALONG THE 06:28 BEACH - LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE GOT NEXT HERE. 06:31 THEN, FROM THERE, WE FLEW TO NEW GUINEA AND WE HAD OUR AMAZING 06:36 FACTS AUSTRALIA TEAM - SAM AND ELLEN GODFREY - PLUS A COUPLE OF 06:40 OUR MEDIA CREW, YOU KNOW, JARED COLANGELO, WHO WORKS HERE, 06:44 SOMETIMES YOU'LL SEE HIM ON SABBATH ON THE CAMERA AND IN THE 06:47 STUDIO. AND WE WENT TO DO A SPECIAL 06:49 WEEK OF MEETINGS IN NEW GUINEA. STOPPED FIRST AT THE PACIFIC 06:54 ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY THERE OUTSIDE OF PORT MORESBY. 06:57 AGAIN, JUST A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM - KAREN AND I HADN'T BEEN THERE 07:00 IN OVER TEN YEARS AND HAD, OH, ABOUT TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE CAME 07:05 TO THE UNIVERSITY AND THEN WE MET IN THE CITY CHURCH THAT 07:09 EVENING - OR THE NEXT EVENING - AND THEN ABOUT ANOTHER TWO 07:12 THOUSAND PEOPLE CAME THERE. VERY WELL ATTENDED AND GOOD 07:15 ENTHUSIASM, BUT WE WERE NOT PREPARED FOR WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. 07:21 THEN WE FLEW, FOR THE MAIN MEETING, UP TO THE CENTRAL PART 07:25 OF NEW GUINEA - VERY FEW PEOPLE GO INTO THE INTERIOR, THEY 07:28 USUALLY GO TO PORT MORSEBY OR ONE OF THE COASTAL TOWNS. 07:32 THIS IS RIGHT UP IN THE HIGHLANDS - THE WESTERN 07:34 HIGHLANDS - AND I WASN'T AWARE HOW COOL IT WOULD BE. 07:38 YOU KNOW, YOU THINK, 'OH, GOING TO NEW GUINEA, IT'S SEVEN 07:40 DEGREES FROM THE EQUATOR - DON'T BRING ANY WARM CLOTHES.' WELL, 07:44 THIS IS OVER A MILE HIGH AND SO - THINK LIKE DENVER - IT'S MUCH 07:49 COOLER UP THERE AND SO WE HAD QUITE A BIT OF RAIN. 07:53 WHEN WE GOT OFF THE PLANE - NOW, I'VE TRAVELED TO MANY PARTS OF 07:56 THE WORLD AND SOMETIMES A CHURCH WILL SEND A SMALL DELEGATION TO 07:59 WELCOME YOU AND THEY'LL TAKE A PICTURE AND THEY'LL, YOU KNOW, 08:02 YOU GO TO HAWAII THEY'LL PUT A LEI AROUND YOUR NECK AND, YOU 08:06 KNOW, THERE'S SOME REALLY NICE THINGS THAT HAPPEN. 08:08 WE WERE NOT AT ALL PREPARED FOR THIS. 08:11 THERE WERE 60,000 PEOPLE. NOW, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME - 08:17 AND, FROM THE AIRPORT, WHEN THEY - THEY HAD THE GATES CLOSED. 08:21 THEY HAD A STRING OF ABOUT FIVE CARS - TWO POLICE CARS WITH 08:24 ARMED ESCORTS AND TWO CARS CARRYING, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE 08:28 DIGNITARIES - THEY MET US AT THE AIRPORT. ONCE WE LEFT THE 08:31 AIRPORT GATES, FOR TWO MILES, SOLID, TO THE CAMPGROUND, THERE 08:36 WERE JUST ROWS AND ROWS OF PEOPLE THAT - JUST LIKE YOU SEE 08:39 HERE - JUST LINING THE STREETS, SINGING, CRYING, SHOUTING, 08:44 WAVING THEIR ARMS - AND THEY HAD DEACONS THAT LINED THE ROADS. 08:47 MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN YELLOW ARE IN THE PATHFINDER GROUP. 08:50 YOU CAN SEE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE WEARING YELLOW HATS OR WITH THE 08:52 COMMUNITY SERVICE, AND SOME OF THE DEACONS HAD STICKS. 08:56 I NEVER KNEW THIS WAS A JOB DESCRIPTION FOR A DEACON. 08:58 (LAUGHTER) BUT, AS PEOPLE GOT A LITTLE TOO CLOSE TO THE CARS, 09:01 THEY WERE SWATTING THEM WITH THE STICKS. 09:04 WE DIDN'T KNOW - NO ONE SEEMED TO MIND, BUT THAT'S - THEY WERE 09:07 JUST HITTING THE FOLKS AS THEY GOT TOO CLOSE AND FOLKS WERE 09:10 REACHING IN THE WINDOWS AND SHAKING HANDS AND I FINALLY HAD 09:14 TO ROLL THE WINDOW UP HALFWAY BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE WERE 09:16 SHAKING OUR HANDS AT ONE TIME IT WAS PULLING MY ARM OUT THE 09:19 WINDOW - (LAUGHTER) - AND THEN I JUST HAD TO, YOU KNOW, WAVE. 09:24 BUT IT WAS PRETTY AMAZING. 09:27 NEXT PICTURE - AND YOU CAN LOOK THIS UP - THIS WAS THE - I THINK 09:31 IT WAS THE FRONT COVER OF THE MAIN NEWSPAPER IN THE COUNTRY. 09:34 WE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WE CAME JUST BEFORE THE ELECTIONS, WHICH 09:37 HAPPEN IN APRIL, SO ONCE THE POLITICIANS IN THE COUNTRY FOUND 09:43 OUT THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE OVER 100,000 PEOPLE AT MOUNT 09:47 HAGEN, WHICH IS WHERE WE WENT, SEVERAL OF THEM SHOWED UP AND 09:50 WANTED TO WELCOME US - AND THEN THEY WOULD MAKE POLITICAL 09:53 SPEECHES BEFORE THEY WELCOMED US. 09:55 AND, THOSE ON BOTH SIDES - AND THIS WAS WHAT THEY CALL THE 09:59 OPPOSITION PARTY - THEY HAVE THOSE IN POWER AND THEN THEY 10:01 HAVE WHOEVER THE OPPOSITION PARTY - THIS IS THE OPPOSITION 10:03 PARTY - DON POLYE - HE MET US AND THAT MADE NEWS - 10:07 AND THEY SAID 60,000 IN THEIR REPORT. AND SO, YOU CAN LOOK 10:10 THAT UP ON THE INTERNET IF YOU WANT. NEXT - THIS IS JUST THE 10:13 WELCOME GROUP. WE GOT THERE AND I FELT SO BAD 10:17 BECAUSE THEY HAD A NICE COVERED AREA FOR US TO SPEAK, AND A 10:22 LITTLE BIT COVERED FOR SOME OF THE CHOIR, BUT THE PEOPLE SAT 10:25 OUTDOORS - AND THIS IS THE RAINIEST MONTH OF THE YEAR - 10:30 WELL, APRIL AND MAR - MARCH AND APRIL. AND THE FIRST EVENING IT 10:36 WAS JUST POURING DOWN RAIN AND THEN ANOTHER EVENING WE TOOK 10:40 THIS PICTURE - IN SPITE OF THE RAIN, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN 10:43 20,000 PEOPLE OUT THERE. AND WHEN I FIRST SAW THE RAIN 10:46 LIKE THIS - I MEAN, IT'S JUST COMING DOWN HERE IN SACRAMENTO 10:49 AND WE HAD A REALLY HEAVY RAIN. I DON'T KNOW, SOME OF YOU - 10:51 IT WAS COMING OFF THE ROOF IN SHEETS YESTERDAY. 10:54 WELL, IT WAS RAINING LIKE THAT AND THEY WERE SITTING OUT THERE. 10:56 THE PEOPLE IN THE FRONT ROWS HAD SOME BENCHES AND SEATS, BUT THEN 11:01 - AND THAT'S LIKE FIVE ROWS - THEN THE OTHER 15,000 - 18,000 11:05 PEOPLE, ON THOSE RAINY NIGHTS, THEY'RE SITTING ON THE GROUND - 11:08 AND IT WAS MUDDY - AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN 11:13 CALIFORNIA, THEY LOOK OUT THE WINDOW FROM THEIR HEATED DRY 11:17 LIVING ROOM THEY - IF IT'S CLOUDY THEY THINK, 'I BETTER NOT 11:19 GO TO CHURCH TODAY; I MIGHT GET WET GOING TO THE CAR.' AND THESE 11:24 DEAR PEOPLE SAT THROUGH THE SERMON - I SAID TO THE PASTOR - 11:27 ONE OF THE CONFERENCE PRESIDENTS - I SAID, 'I'LL PREACH A REAL 11:29 SHORT SERMON.' HE SAID, 'OH NO, THEY'LL BE REALLY UPSET. 11:31 THEY CAME ALL THIS WAY AND THEY'RE SITTING IN THE RAIN. 11:34 THEY WANT A SERMON.' AND SO, I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT 11:38 KIND OF COMMITMENT TO THE WORD. THEY JUST SAT THERE FOR AN HOUR 11:41 BEFORE I EVEN GOT UP TO PREACH, LISTENING TO ALL THE FANFARE 11:44 AND THE PRELIMINARIES. AND THEY SEEMED HAPPY - THAT'S 11:48 THE THING THAT STRUCK ME. THEY DIDN'T LOOK MISERABLE, 11:50 THEY WERE SMILING. MATTER OF FACT, SOME PEOPLE 11:53 OPENED THEIR UMBRELLAS; THE PEOPLE BEHIND THEM WOULD YELL 11:55 BECAUSE, THEY SAID, 'WE CAN'T SEE NOW BECAUSE YOUR UMBRELLA' - 11:58 YOU'D HEAR ALL THIS NOISE THEY'D SAY, 'WHAT'S THAT?' THEY'D SAY, 12:00 'WELL, THEY'RE COMPLAINING BECAUSE SOMEONE OPENED THEIR 12:02 UMBRELLA AND THEY CAN'T SEE NOW.' BUT THEY'RE VERY, VERY - 12:07 I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT - ENTHUSIASTIC. NEXT PICTURE. 12:11 WHILE WE WERE THERE WE WANTED TO SEE SOME OF THE REAL NEW GUINEA 12:15 AND SO I WAS VERY HAPPY THAT THE ADVENTIST AVIATION SERVICES - 12:19 THEY'RE A PART OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC DIVISION - IN NEW GUINEA 12:22 THERE ARE NOT ROADS THAT JUST COVER THE COUNTRY, LIKE OUR 12:25 INTERSTATE SYSTEM. THERE ARE A FEW ROADS THAT GO 12:29 THROUGH THE COUNTRY AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PLACES YOU CANNOT 12:32 GET TO BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF STEEP - THEIR TALLEST 12:35 MOUNTAIN IS 14,000 FEET, WHICH IS UNUSUAL FOR THESE 12:38 EQUATOR ISLANDS. THAT'S TALLER THAN THE TALLEST 12:41 MOUNTAIN IN HAWAII, MAUNA LOA OR MAUNA KEA. 12:44 AND SO, THEY HAVE SOME VERY TALL MOUNTAINS AND RIDGES - THERE ARE 12:47 ABOUT SIX TO EIGHT HUNDRED DIFFERENT LANGUAGE GROUPS IN 12:50 NEW GUINEA. IT'S TWICE THE SIZE OF ENGLAND. 12:53 IT'S THE BIGGEST ISLAND IN THE WORLD, IF YOU DON'T - YEAH, 12:56 ISLAND - ANTARCTICA IS, I GUESS, A CONTINENT. 12:58 AND SO THERE ARE - ALL THESE VALLEYS SEPARATE DIFFERENT 13:02 TRIBES AND THEY'VE GOT REALLY STEEP HILLS. 13:05 AND THEY HAVE RUNWAYS UP ON TOP OF THE HILLS AND SO WE WENT 13:08 FLYING WITH OUR LITTLE GROUP IN A TEN-SEATER SINGLE ENGINE 13:12 PLANE. VERY SKILLED PILOTS - AND, 13:15 BY THE WAY, IF YOU WANT SOME ADVENTURE, THEY ARE LOOKING 13:17 FOR PILOTS IN NEW GUINEA. AND, BOY, THEY HAVE SOME REALLY 13:21 INTERESTING ADVENTURES, I'M SURE. 13:24 BUT WE LANDED ON - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE IN THAT PICTURE, 13:27 THERE WAS, KIND OF, A GRASS RUNWAY THAT THE VILLAGERS CUT 13:30 OUT OF THE JUNGLE - A LITTLE BIT ROUGH GOING UPHILL. 13:34 YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS YOUR APPROACH OR YOUR TAKEOFF BECAUSE 13:37 YOU ONLY HAVE ONE CHANCE, DEPENDING ON WHICH WAY YOU'RE 13:39 GOING, AND THEY COME DOWN, THEY KIND OF BOUNCE TO A STOP. 13:43 AND, WHEN WE LANDED - NEXT PICTURE - THEY WERE JUST - 13:46 STARTED OUT - IT LOOKED LIKE - YEAH - IT LOOKED LIKE YOU - THIS 13:50 WAS MOUNT TAWA, IS WHERE WE LANDED. 13:52 IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WERE JUST, YOU KNOW, A DOZEN PEOPLE 13:55 ON THE RUNWAY, BUT AFTER WE LANDED AND STARTED TO VISIT WITH 13:57 THEM, THEY JUST CAME OUT OF THE JUNGLE IN EVERY DIRECTION UNTIL 14:01 THERE WERE A COUPLE HUNDRED PEOPLE GATHERED ON THE RUNWAY - 14:04 KIDS - AND THEY WERE ALL SO EXCITED AND JUST SHOUTING AND - 14:06 YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HOW EXCITED THEY GOT WHEN OUR MEDIA CREW 14:09 BROUGHT ONE OF THESE DRONE CAMERAS UP THERE AND THEY TOOK 14:13 THAT THING OUT AND STARTED TO FLY IT. OH MAN, IT LOOKED LIKE 14:16 THE SECOND COMING. THEY WERE SO EXCITED, THEY WERE 14:18 SHOUTING AND WAVING THEIR ARMS AND - THOSE KIDS WERE - IT WAS 14:22 A LOT OF FUN, LET ME JUST TELL YOU. 14:24 AND - NEXT PICTURE - AND SO WE WENT OUT AND WE VISITED SOME OF 14:28 THE VILLAGES AND - THIS WAS SABBATH MORNING AND I ASKED THE 14:32 PRESIDENT - HE SAID, 'THERE ARE 200,000 PEOPLE HERE' - I DON'T 14:36 KNOW THAT IT WAS THAT MANY, BUT IT WAS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 150,000 14:40 AND 200,000 AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS JUST GUESS. 14:44 THEY TOOK THE DRONE UP AND THEY FLEW OVER THE AREA AND THERE 14:46 WERE JUST PEOPLE THAT WENT AS FAR AS YOU COULD SEE IN EVERY 14:48 DIRECTION. IT WAS WONDERFUL - 14:50 A WONDERFUL SABBATH. WE REALLY PRAYED THAT GOD WOULD 14:53 BLESS THE WEATHER THAT DAY BECAUSE IT WAS POURING 14:55 THE NIGHT BEFORE. BUT, IF YOU'VE LIVED IN THE 14:57 TROPICS, YOU KNOW IT MAY POUR AND THEN IT STOPS AND IT 15:01 CLEARS AND IT POURS AGAIN. AND WE JUST NEVER KNEW FROM 15:04 HOUR TO HOUR WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. 15:06 AND HAD A GREAT PROGRAM - NOW, THESE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING - THE 15:10 REASON THE CROWD CAME IS THEY ARE WATCHING AMAZING FACTS ON 15:13 TELEVISION, PRINCIPALLY ON 3ABN, SOMETIMES ON HOPE CHANNEL AND, 15:18 WHILE WE WERE THERE WE DEDICATED - THEY ASKED US IF WE WOULD HELP 15:20 DEDICATE A 3ABN RADIO STATION, WHICH, OF COURSE, AMAZING FACTS 15:23 IS ALSO ON BUT WE WERE THRILLED TO DO IT. 15:26 THREE HOURS OF SPEECHES SITTING OUT THERE - AND THEN IT RAINED 15:30 AND THEY KEPT GOING AND - VERY, VERY INTERESTING - BUT JUST - SO 15:35 THE PEOPLE THEY'D BEEN WATCHING FOR YEARS. 15:39 THEY ALL WERE ACQUAINTED WITH THE PROGRAMS. 15:40 THEY WERE SO EXCITED THAT WE WOULD COME TO THE INTERIOR - AND 15:43 THEN WE HAD A BAPTISM AND THERE WERE 1,700 PEOPLE BAPTIZED AND 15:48 ANOTHER 5,000 THAT WERE GETTING BAPTIZED IN THEIR DISTRICTS WHEN 15:52 THEY WENT HOME. AND WE WENT INTO THE RIVER 15:54 THERE, WHICH IS A LITTLE CHILLY BECAUSE, LIKE I SAID, THIS IS 15:56 HIGH COUNTRY. THEY TOLD US 'BE VERY CAREFUL, THE CURRENT IS 15:59 STRONG.' YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE CURRENT THERE AND IF YOU GET 16:02 OUT IN THE CURRENT YOU GET SWEPT DOWNSTREAM. 16:06 AND, SO THAT WAS JUST - NEXT PICTURE - I THINK WE GOT TO 16:10 PARTICIPATE IN THAT IN A SMALL WAY. 16:12 YOU KNOW, WE JUST BAPTIZED A FEW PEOPLE SO THAT WE COULD BE PART 16:15 OF IT, BUT THE PASTORS DID ALL THE HEAVY LIFTING - I MEANT THAT 16:19 AS A METAPHOR. SO, YOU KNOW, PASTORS WERE 16:23 BAPTIZING FIFTY - A HUNDRED PEOPLE - BUT IT WAS A WONDERFUL, 16:26 WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. A LOT MORE I COULD TELL YOU. 16:29 WE'LL WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT, BUT I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A 16:31 LITTLE MISSION UPDATE ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING. 16:32 THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR AMAZING FACTS AND OTHER 16:36 GROUPS TO GO THERE AND DO THIS KIND OF MINISTRY. 16:39 WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. AND I TALKED TO OUR MEDIA CREW 16:42 AND THEY SAID, 'WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.' IT JUST REALLY 16:45 CHANGED THEIR LIVES. ANYWAY, WE'VE GOT FRIENDS - I 16:47 PROMISED WHEN I GOT THERE I WOULD WAVE - THEY WATCH SABBATH 16:49 SCHOOL SO I WANT YOU TO WAVE AT THE CAMERA. 16:52 WAVE TO OUR FRIENDS IN NEW GUINEA AND SAY 'HAPPY SABBATH'. 16:55 >>HAPPY SABBATH. >>AND IT'S JUST AMAZING THAT 16:57 THEY'RE WATCHING ON THE INTERNET. 16:59 THEY GET, LIKE I SAID, 3ABN AROUND THE COUNTRY THROUGH 17:01 SATELLITE AND IT'S JUST EXCITING TO SEE WHAT THE LORD IS DOING 17:04 THERE. ALRIGHT, NOW, WITH THAT LONG 17:07 MISSION REPORT I STILL THINK I HAVE TIME TO GET TO OUR STUDY. 17:10 WE'RE ON LESSON #5, CONTINUING IN 1 AND 2 PETER, TALKING ABOUT 17:14 FEEDING MY SHEEP AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY 17:17 VERSE IS FROM 1 PETER 3, VERSE 12. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY 17:22 THAT WITH ME I'LL GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO FIND IT. 17:24 1 PETER 3:12, NEW KING JAMES VERSION - 17:27 IT'S IN YOUR LESSON, YOU CAN READ IT RIGHT OUT 17:28 OF YOUR QUARTERLY, READY? "FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE ON 17:33 THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ARE OPEN TO THEIR PRAYERS; BUT THE 17:37 FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST THOSE WHO DO EVIL." 17:41 AND YOU'LL SEE, THROUGH THIS STUDY, ABOUT LIVING FOR GOD, HE 17:44 IS CONTRASTING IT WITH NOT LIVING THE FORMER EVIL LIVES 17:48 THEY HAD IN THE DAYS BEFORE THEY HAD ENCOUNTERED JESUS. 17:52 AND SO, WHAT OUR STUDY IS GOING TO REALLY BE DEALING WITH TODAY 17:56 IS WE'RE GOING TO BE COVERING 1 PETER 3:8, IF YOU JUST WANT TO 17:59 KNOW WHAT OUR ASSIGNMENT IS, 1 PETER 3:8 THROUGH 1 PETER 4:11. 18:04 SO WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THOSE VERSES. 18:06 NOW, SOMETHING YOU'LL NOTICE IS PETER, PAUL, THE OTHER APOSTLES 18:11 KNEW THAT WE BATTLE WITH SIN. THEY'RE GOING TO TALK, IN THIS 18:14 LESSON, ABOUT HOLINESS, BUT THEY REALIZED THEY WERE SINNERS AND 18:18 THEY STRUGGLED WITH IT JUST LIKE WE DO. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES 18:21 WE'RE, I THINK, INFLUENCED BY THIS - OH, I REMEMBER I USED TO 18:25 GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND IT'S LIKE YOU HAD THE SAINTS AND THEY 18:28 PRAYED TO THE SAINTS AND THE APOSTLES WERE SAINTS, WHICH 18:31 MEANS 'HOLY ONES'. BUT THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE ALL CALLED TO BE 18:34 SAINTS. AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY WERE 18:36 ALIENS, OF A SORT, BUT THEY STRUGGLED WITH SIN. 18:39 YOU REMEMBER, PAUL WROTE, 1 TIMOTHY 1:15, "THIS IS A 18:43 FAITHFUL SAYING AND WORTHY OF ALL ACCEPTANCE, THAT CHRIST 18:46 JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE SINNERS, OF WHOM I AM 18:49 CHIEF." NOW WHY DID HE FEEL THAT WAY? 18:53 HE WAS - YEAH, HE PERSECUTED THE CHURCH, HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR 18:56 THE DEATH OF STEPHEN. WHAT WOULD PETER SAY IF YOU 19:00 ASKED HIM IF HE WAS THE CHIEF OF SINNERS? 19:03 HE'D PROBABLY SAY, 'I DENIED THE LORD IN THE HOUR OF HIS TRIAL.' 19:07 AND HE KEENLY FELT IT. AND, YOU KNOW, PETER FAILED SOME 19:11 OTHER TIMES EVEN BEYOND THAT, BUT HE WAS PRETTY THOROUGHLY 19:14 CONVERTED JUST BEFORE PENTECOST, AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION. 19:17 SO THEY KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO STRUGGLE WITH SIN, BUT GOD HAD 19:21 GIVEN THEM THE VICTORY. THEY HAD CONSISTENT LIVES. 19:24 REMEMBER, A CHRISTIAN IS NOT A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE THEY NEVER 19:27 MAKE A MISTAKE. YOU READ IN THE BOOK STEPS 19:29 TO CHRIST - AND I FORGET THE REFERENCE - 'IT IS NOT THE 19:32 OCCASIONAL GOOD DEED OR THE OCCASIONAL MISDEED THAT 19:35 DETERMINES WHO SIDE WE ARE, BUT IT'S THE HABITUAL 19:37 WORDS AND ACTS. IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN YOU WANT 19:41 TO HABITUALLY BE FOLLOWING THE LORD. 19:43 IT NEEDS TO BE THE PATTERN OF YOUR LIFE. 19:44 IF YOU FALL, AT SOME POINT ALONG THE WAY, AND YOU TURN AND 19:47 REPENT, IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU WERE NOT A CHRISTIAN AND YOU ARE NOT 19:50 A CHRISTIAN. SO WE ALL WRESTLE WITH - THERE'S 19:54 A SPIRITUAL BATTLE THAT GOES ON. NOW, PETER, HE'S APPEALING TO 19:58 THE CHURCH AND, IN VERSE 8, LET'S READ THIS TOGETHER. 20:00 I'M GOING TO READ VERSES 8 THROUGH 12 AND THEN, IN A 20:03 MOMENT, I'M GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY READ FOR ME VERSE 15. 20:07 AND WHO WILL THAT BE? HAFDIS, OKAY. 20:09 IT SAYS, "FINALLY," - 1 PETER 3:8 - "ALL OF YOU BE OF ONE 20:13 MIND," - THIS IS UNDER THE SECTION BEING OF ONE MIND - 20:17 "HAVING COMPASSION FOR ONE ANOTHER; LOVE AS BROTHERS, BE 20:20 TENDERHEARTED, BE COURTEOUS; NOT RETURNING EVIL FOR EVIL OR 20:25 REVILING FOR REVILING, BUT ON THE CONTRARY BLESSING, KNOWING 20:29 THAT YOU WERE CALLED TO THIS, THAT YOU MAY INHERIT A BLESSING. 20:33 FOR" - NOW PETER BEGINS TO QUOTE FROM PSALM 34. 20:36 YOU'LL NOTICE A LOT OF WHAT PETER SAYS HE IS QUOTING FROM 20:39 THE BIBLE - "FOR 'HE WHO WOULD LOVE LIFE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, LET 20:43 HIM REFRAIN HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL, AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING 20:47 DECEIT. LET HIM TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND 20:50 DO GOOD; LET HIM SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT. 20:53 FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE ON THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ARE 20:55 OPEN TO THEIR PRAYERS; BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST 20:58 THOSE WHO DO EVIL.'" NOW, DO YOU NOTICE A WORD THAT POPPED UP 21:01 ABOUT FIVE TIMES IN THAT PASSAGE? 21:04 NOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT AGAIN - THAT'S GOOD. EVIL. 21:11 NOTICE THERE IN VERSES 8 - 9 - 'RETURNING EVIL FOR EVIL' AND 21:18 THEN IT SAYS, 'LET HIM REFRAIN HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL,' 'LET HIM 21:20 TURN AWAY FROM EVIL' 'THE LORD IS AGAINST THOSE WHO DO EVIL'. 21:24 WHAT WAS THE CHALLENGE THAT PETER WAS GIVING THE EARLY 21:27 CHURCH? HE HAD TWO CHOICES: GOOD AND EVIL. AND THE LESSON, OF 21:32 COURSE, IS TITLED LIVING FOR GOD - AS OPPOSED TO DOING EVIL . 21:36 AND SO, WHERE DID EVE GET IN TROUBLE? 21:39 SHE ATE FROM THE TREE OF GOOD AND EVIL. 21:43 AND SO, PETER, THROUGH THIS LESSON, HE'S CONTRASTING - 21:45 THERE'S TWO KINDS OF LIVES - AND HE'S CALLING US TO LIVE A GODLY 21:48 LIFE AND HE'S SAYING THAT 'DON'T FOCUS ON EVIL'. 21:51 NOTICE, PETER IS CONTRASTING IT WITH GOOD. HE SAID, 21:56 'RETURNING A BLESSING'' INHERIT A BLESSING IF YOU 22:00 WOULD LOVE LIFE AND SEE GOOD DAYS AND DO GOOD.' SEEK PEACE - 22:06 PURSUE IT - SO THERE'S A LOT OF POSITIVE THAT HE HAS, BUT HE'S 22:09 SAYING THE POSITIVE COMES BY TURNING AWAY FROM EVIL. 22:12 AND SO, HE CONTRASTS THOSE TWO THINGS IN A VERY DRAMATIC WAY 22:15 HERE. NOW, IN THE FIRST PHRASE HE 22:18 SAYS, "FINALLY, ALL OF YOU BE OF ONE MIND," - WHAT DOES THAT 22:21 MEAN FOR CHRISTIANS - 'ALL BE OF ONE MIND'? 22:23 ARE WE ALL TO BE CLONES - >>NO. 22:26 >>OF ONE ANOTHER? IS GOD A BIG COOKIE CUTTER AND 22:31 EVERY CHRISTIAN - YOU KNOW, THE COOKIE CUTTER CHRISTIAN? 22:33 WE ALL NEED TO JUST THINK EXACTLY THE SAME. 22:35 WHEN JESUS CALLED THE TWELVE APOSTLES, WERE THEY UNIQUE? 22:41 WHEN YOU THINK OF THOMAS, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF? 22:43 >>DOUBTING. >>POOR GUY. 22:45 WE GAVE HIM, YOU KNOW, HE GETS A BAD RAP. 22:48 DID GOD - DID JESUS CHOOSE THOMAS BECAUSE OF SOME OF HIS 22:51 UNIQUE EVALUATION SKILLS? YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE 22:56 DOUBTERS, THEY - THE REASON THEIR DOUBTERS IS THEY'RE NOT 23:01 GULLIBLE, WHICH IS, SOMETIMES, A GOOD THING. 23:04 SOME PEOPLE ARE GULLIBLE AND GOD WANTS LEADERS WHO ARE WISE AS 23:09 SERPENTS AND HARMLESS AS DOVES AND - BUT THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT 23:13 IS YOU ALWAYS THINK THE WORST OF EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW? 23:16 AND SO, JESUS CHOSE THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR UNIQUE - WHEN YOU THINK 23:20 OF PETER, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF? WHAT DID I HEAR? 23:24 >>IMPETUOUS. >>IMPETUOUS. 23:27 HE WAS JUST KIND OF A LITTLE BOMBASTIC AND SPOKE AND THEN HE 23:29 THOUGHT AND HE - HE JUST ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, HE WAS NOT - HE WAS 23:34 BOLD - HE WAS AUDACIOUS - HE WAS READY TO SPEAK UP AND THAT GOT 23:38 HIM IN TROUBLE, BUT WHO PREACHED THE FIRST SERMON AT PENTECOST? 23:43 PETER WAS - BECAUSE HE WAS BOLD AND OUTSPOKEN, HE WASN'T ASHAMED 23:47 TO SPEAK UP FOR JESUS. WHEN YOU THINK OF ANDREW, 23:49 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF? THE APOSTLE ANDREW? 23:52 >>LEADING PEOPLE TO JESUS. >>HE WAS ALWAYS MAKING FRIENDS. 23:55 YOU NOTICE, YOU NEVER HEAR OF ANDREW PREACHING A SERMON, BUT 23:57 ANDREW FOUND THE GREEKS, HE BRINGS THEM TO JESUS. 24:00 ANDREW FINDS A LITTLE LAD, HE BRINGS HIM TO JESUS. 24:02 ANDREW FINDS JESUS, HE BRINGS HIS BROTHER TO JESUS. 24:05 ANDREW'S ALWAYS BRINGING PEOPLE. HE'S LEADING BY EXAMPLE. 24:09 AND SO, YOU COULD GO THROUGH, YOU KNOW, NOT ALL THE DISCIPLES 24:11 ARE APOSTLES. WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF 24:13 INFORMATION ON THE INDIVIDUALITY OF ALL OF THEM. 24:16 WE KNOW JAMES AND JOHN ARE CALLED THE SONS OF THUNDER. 24:18 JOHN IS THE APOSTLE OF LOVE. AND SO, THEY DID HAVE 24:21 THEIR UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES. AND JESUS CHOSE THEM TO BE 24:25 UNIQUE. HOW MANY APOSTLES? TWELVE. 24:29 HOW MANY STONES WERE ON THE BREASTPLATE OF THE HIGH PRIEST? 24:32 >>TWELVE. >>WERE ANY TWO STONES THE SAME? 24:35 NO. WERE THEY ALL PRECIOUS? >>YES. 24:38 >>YOU CAN BE UNIQUE, BUT WE'RE ALL TO BE OF ONE MIND; MEANING 24:43 THEY WERE ALL ON THE HEART OF THE HIGH PRIEST. 24:46 HOW MANY FOUNDATIONS IN THE NEW JERUSALEM? 24:47 >>TWELVE. >>TWELVE DIFFERENT STONES. 24:51 ARE THEY PRECIOUS? >>YES. 24:53 >>ARE THEY DIFFERENT? >>YES. 24:54 >>THE TREE OF LIFE - HOW MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT? 24:56 >>TWELVE. >>ARE THEY ALL GIVING LIFE? 24:59 >>YES. >>BUT THEY'RE DIFFERENT. 25:02 AND SO, WE CAN LOVE PEOPLE THAT ARE DIFFERENT AND GOD WANTS US 25:07 TO YET BE UNITED IN OUR PURPOSE. 25:10 WE SHOULD BE UNITED IN OUR THEOLOGY - YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T 25:14 SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT, SO YOU BELIEVE THIS 25:16 AND I BELIEVE THIS' AND THERE'S CONFLICTING BELIEF. 25:19 THE BIBLE'S PRETTY CLEAR WE SHOULD BE UNITED IN TRUTH BUT, 25:23 YOU KNOW, ALLOW PEOPLE TO HAVE THEIR PERSONALITIES AND 25:25 CHARACTERISTICS. AND GOD MADE 25:28 US UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT. WHAT DOES IT MEAN 25:31 TO BE OF ONE MIND? THE BIBLE SAYS, 'LET THIS MIND 25:35 BE IN YOU.' IT'S THE MIND OF CHRIST. 25:38 SO, WE CAN BE DIFFERENT AND STILL HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST 25:42 MANIFESTED THROUGH US AND OUR UNIQUE DIFFERENCES. 25:45 PAUL USES THE ILLUSTRATION IN 1 CORINTHIANS 12, "AND IF ONE 25:49 MEMBER SUFFERS, ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT; OR IF ONE MEMBER 25:53 IS HONORED, ALL THE MEMBERS REJOICE WITH IT." 25:56 KAREN AND I, WHEN WE GOT MARRIED, SOMEONE - IT MAY HAVE 25:59 BEEN HER GRANDMA - GAVE US A PILLOW AND IT'S GOT EMBROIDERY 26:01 ON IT AND IT SAYS, 'LOVE DOES NOT MEAN WE THINK ALIKE, BUT WE 26:05 THINK TOGETHER' AND THAT'S THE IDEA FOR THE CHURCH. 26:09 ALRIGHT, THEN IT MAKES A STATEMENT ABOUT BEING READY TO 26:12 ANSWER. WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND READ YOUR VERSE? 26:15 >>"BUT SANCTIFY THE LORD GOD IN YOUR HEARTS AND ALWAYS BE READY 26:20 TO GIVE A DEFENSE TO EVERYONE WHO ASKS YOU A REASON FOR THE 26:24 HOPE THAT IS IN YOU WITH MEEKNESS AND FEAR." 26:28 >>SO - AND THEN, BY THE WAY, THAT'S 1 PETER 3:15 - SANCTIFY 26:32 THE LORD GOD IN YOUR HEART; BE READY TO GIVE AN ANSWER TO 26:35 ANYONE. NOW, DOES THAT MEAN WE HAVE TO 26:39 ALL BE THEOLOGIANS AND YOU CAN ANSWER THEOLOGIANS ABOUT 26:42 DOCTRINAL QUESTIONS? NO, HE DIDN'T SAY THAT. 26:45 HE SAID, 'GIVE AN ANSWER TO ANYONE WHO ASKS YOU THE REASON 26:49 FOR THE HOPE THAT IS IN YOU.' DO YOU KNOW THE REASON FOR THE HOPE 26:52 THAT IS IN YOU? I MEAN, YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT 26:55 IT: 'WHY DO I HAVE THIS HOPE?' AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO 26:58 SHARE WITH OTHER PEOPLE. NOT EVERY CHRISTIAN IS A PASTOR. 27:02 NOT EVERY CHRISTIAN IS AN EVANGELIST. 27:03 SOME OF US ARE NOT TEACHERS, BUT EVERY ONE OF US CAN GIVE AN 27:07 ANSWER TO SOMEONE WHO SAYS, 'WHY ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN?' 27:10 'WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS HOPE?' 27:11 BEFORE OUR SERMON, EVERY WEEK, WE SING WE HAVE THIS HOPE - WHY? 27:16 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE - EVEN - AND, YOU KNOW WHAT? 27:19 THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH PRACTICING TELLING SOMEONE WHY. 27:22 WHEN WE HAVE OUR EVANGELISM TRAINING PROGRAM, AFCOE, WE ASK 27:25 PEOPLE - WE HAVE A WHOLE SESSION ON - DON'T WE CARISSA? 27:28 - TEACH PEOPLE HOW WOULD YOU SHARE YOUR TESTIMONY? 27:30 SHARE YOUR FAITH - AND BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN TO A PERSON - AND IT 27:34 DOESN'T MEAN EVERYBODY IS GOING TO, MAYBE, BE ELOQUENT AND - BUT 27:38 BE READY TO GIVE AN ANSWER FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE - A SIMPLE 27:42 DEFENSE FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE. AND, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER YOU DO 27:45 THAT, YOU GET BETTER AT IT. YOU KNOW, I'VE SHARED MY 27:48 TESTIMONY ALL OVER THE WORLD AND YOU KIND OF POLISH IT UP AFTER 27:52 AWHILE - YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SAY NEXT AND YOU'VE GOT 27:55 YOUR ILLUSTRATIONS AND YOUR GOOD STORIES AND - AND THE MORE YOU 27:59 SHARE, SOMETIMES YOU THINK OF THINGS YOU LEFT OUT - IT EXPANDS 28:02 - IT GETS BETTER AND - THE FIRST FEW TIMES I SHARED MY TESTIMONY 28:05 PEOPLE PROBABLY GOT UP AND WALKED OUT - IT WASN'T 28:07 THAT INTERESTING. BUT THEN, AS TIME GOES BY, EVERYTHING 28:10 YOU DO, YOU GET BETTER AT IT. SO BE READY TO SHARE YOUR FAITH. 28:14 AND THEN HE SAYS NEXT, IN 1 PETER 3:16 AND 17, "HAVE A GOOD 28:18 CONSCIENCE, THAT WHEN THEY DEFAME YOU AS EVILDOERS, THOSE 28:23 WHO REVILE YOUR GOOD CONDUCT IN CHRIST MAY BE ASHAMED. 28:26 FOR IT IS BETTER, IF IT IS THE WILL OF GOD, TO SUFFER FOR 28:29 DOING GOOD THAN FOR DOING EVIL." 28:31 IT'S BETTER - I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WAS SHARING WITH A VERY 28:36 DEVOUT CHRISTIAN THAT I HAD TO SPEED TO GET TO AN APPOINTMENT. 28:39 HE SAID, 'CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T SPEED.' I SAID, 'WELL, HERE IN 28:42 CALIFORNIA, IF YOU GO TOO SLOW, YOU CAN GET A TICKET.' AND HE 28:47 SAID, 'BETTER TO SUFFER FOR DOING GOOD THAN DOING EVIL.' 28:51 (LAUGHTER) HE SAID, 'YOU NEED TO OBEY THE LAW.' WELL THAT, I 28:53 THOUGHT, WAS MAYBE AN EXTREME APPLICATION OF THAT VERSE. 28:57 BUT IT IS TRUE THAT, IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE, HOW 29:01 MANY OF YOU WOULD RATHER GET IN TROUBLE FOR DOING THE RIGHT 29:03 THING THAN FOR DOING THE WRONG THING? 29:05 IS WHAT PETER'S SAYING THERE - HAVING A CLEAR CONSCIENCE THAT 29:10 THEY DEFAME YOU AS EVILDOERS THAT THEY MIGHT BE ASHAMED. 29:15 NOW THE NEXT VERSE - THE LESSON DOESN'T SAY A LOT ABOUT THIS, 29:18 BUT I TOOK SOME TIME BECAUSE IN EVANGELISM, I GET MORE QUESTIONS 29:22 ON THIS VERSE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE STUDY TODAY, AND THAT IS 29:25 1 PETER 3, VERSES 18 THROUGH 20. 29:28 NOW, I'M GOING TO READ THIS TO YOU, "FOR CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED 29:31 ONCE FOR SINS, THE JUST FOR THE UNJUST, THAT HE MIGHT BRING US 29:35 TO GOD, BEING PUT TO DEATH IN THE FLESH BUT MADE ALIVE BY THE 29:38 SPIRIT, BY WHOM ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED TO THE SPIRITS IN 29:42 PRISON, WHO FORMERLY WERE DISOBEDIENT, WHEN ONCE THE 29:46 DIVINE LONGSUFFERING WAITED IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, WHILE THE ARK 29:49 WAS BEING PREPARED, IN WHICH A FEW, THAT IS, EIGHT SOULS, WERE 29:52 SAVED THROUGH WATER." NOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD 29:56 QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS VERSE BEFORE? 29:58 PETER SAYS HERE THAT 'BY WHICH SPIRIT HE WENT AND PREACHED TO 30:04 THOSE SPIRITS IN PRISON - IN THE DAYS OF NOAH' AND THE WAY THAT A 30:09 LOT OF EVANGELICALS VIEW THIS VERSE - SOME OF YOU KNOW THE 30:13 APOSTLES' CREED, WHICH IS RECITED BY CATHOLICS - 30:17 AND THERE'S A PROTESTANT VERSION OF THE APOSTLES' CREED AND IT 30:20 SAYS THAT JESUS DIED, HE WENT INTO HELL - 30:24 AND THEY THINK HE WENT DOWN INTO HELL AND HE PREACHED 30:26 TO LOST SOULS TO SORT OF GIVE THEM A SECOND CHANCE. 30:30 I JUST THOUGHT, NOW I HOPE I'M NOT GETTING THIS WRONG. 30:32 I LOOKED UP AT A VERY POPULAR EVANGELICAL WEBSITE CALLED GOT 30:37 QUESTIONS WHERE PEOPLE ASK BIBLE QUESTIONS AND IT SAYS, 'THE 30:39 SPIRITS IN PRISON MENTIONED IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT JESUS DID IN 30:43 THE TIME BETWEEN HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION (NOTE - JESUS' BODY 30:46 WAS DEAD AND AWAITING RESURRECTION, BUT HE WAS 30:48 SPIRITUALLY ALIVE DURING THAT TIME, HE VISITED THE SPIRITS IN 30:52 PRISON' AND THEY SAY THAT THIS WAS ONE OF TWO THINGS: THAT HE 30:55 EITHER WENT TO PEOPLE DURING THE TIME OF NOAH WHO DID NOT 30:57 UNDERSTAND THE GOSPEL, SO HE COULD PREACH TO THEM AND GIVE 31:00 THEM ANOTHER CHANCE - WHICH MEANS JESUS WASN'T REALLY DEAD - 31:04 THAT HE KIND OF JUST TRANSMIGRATED WHEN HE DIED ON 31:07 THE CROSS, OR THEY SAY THAT HE WENT TO SPEAK - TO PREACH TO 31:12 FALLEN ANGELS THAT WERE IMPRISONED - BECAUSE IT TALKS 31:16 ABOUT ANGELS AND CHAINS OF DARKNESS - THAT SOME OF THOSE 31:19 WHO FOLLOWED LUCIFER NEEDED A SECOND CHANCE. THERE'S ALL KINDS 31:23 OF WEIRD THINGS THAT ARE TAUGHT ABOUT THIS. 31:24 WHAT DOES THIS VERSE MEAN AND WHAT DOES IT NOT MEAN? 31:27 WELL, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IT DOESN'T MEAN: JESUS, ON THE 31:30 CROSS, WAS DEAD. THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 31:34 THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS NOT TO TRANSMIGRATE INTO ANOTHER PHASE. 31:38 JESUS DIED. IT'S REALLY CLEAR, IT SAYS HE DIED FOR OUR SINS, 31:41 AND THEN IT SAYS HE ROSE, WHICH MEANS BEFORE HE ROSE HE WAS 31:43 DEAD. SO - AND PEOPLE - BUT - I CAN UNDERSTAND PEOPLE HAVE A 31:48 STRUGGLE. HOW CAN THE SON OF GOD DIE? 31:52 GOD CEASING TO BE CONSCIOUS. WELL, HOW COULD HE BE A BABY? 31:56 I MEAN, YOU HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM THERE TOO. 31:58 IT IS A MYSTERY. IT'S CALLED THE MYSTERY 32:00 OF GODLINESS THERE. BUT WHAT DOES THE VERSE MEAN? 32:05 IF YOU LOOK, IT SAYS, 'BY WHOM HE WENT AND PREACHED TO THE 32:08 SPIRITS IN PRISON, WHO WERE DISOBEDIENT IN THE DAYS OF NOAH. 32:11 GO TO THE BOOK OF GENESIS AND IF YOU TURN TO GENESIS CHAPTER 6 - 32:15 THIS IS A VERSE THAT IS OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD. 32:21 PETER IS REFERRING BACK TO THIS VERSE, I BELIEVE, "AND THE LORD 32:26 SAID, 'MY SPIRIT'" - GENESIS 6:3 - "MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT STRIVE 32:30 WITH MAN FOREVER, FOR HE IS INDEED FLESH; YET HIS DAYS 32:34 SHALL BE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS." 32:36 IT'S TALKING A HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS - HOW LONG DID NOAH 32:38 PREACH WHILE HE BUILT THE ARK? (INAUDIBLE) YOU'LL NOTICE IN 32:41 THE NEXT VERSE IT SAYS NOAH IS CALLED AND HE PREACHES FROM 32:45 THE TIME HE'S CALLED, WITH HIS HAMMER, WITH HIS VOICE, TO THOSE 32:49 WHO ARE IMPRISONED BY THE DEVIL IN SIN. 32:52 THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR THAT THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE CHRIST ARE 32:55 IMPRISONED BY SIN, AND HE PREACHED TO THOSE - GOD IS 33:01 SAYING, THE SAME SPIRIT THAT ROSE JESUS FROM THE DEAD IS THE 33:05 SAME SPIRIT THAT GOD USED TO PREACH TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE 33:08 DISOBEDIENT IN THE DAYS OF NOAH. IT'S THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST THAT 33:12 WAS PREACHING THROUGH NOAH - THAT SAME SPIRIT THAT ROSE JESUS 33:15 - THAT'S ALL THAT PETER WAS SAYING. 33:17 HE'S NOT SAYING THAT JESUS DIDN'T REALLY DIE ON THE CROSS 33:20 BUT HE WENT TO PREACH TO PEOPLE THAT WERE IN A CHASM - A CAVERN 33:23 SOMEWHERE IN PRISON AND HE'D GIVE THEM A SECOND CHANCE. 33:26 DO WE GET A SECOND CHANCE? DOES THE BIBLE TEACH THAT ONCE 33:29 YOU DIE YOU CAN HEAR THE GOSPEL ONE MORE TIME? HEBREWS 9:27, 33:33 "...IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE 33:38 JUDGMENT" - NOT 'DIE, HEAR THE GOSPEL ONE MORE TIME', RIGHT? 33:44 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT. 33:45 SO, THAT DOCTRINE THAT JESUS WASN'T REALLY DEAD ON THE CROSS 33:49 SORT OF RELEASED ALL KINDS OF STRANGE HERESIES. 33:52 ANOTHER SIMPLE RULE IS DON'T BUILD THEOLOGY ON ONE VERSE. 33:57 IF YOU TAKE ONE VERSE THAT SEEMS OBSCURE, DON'T SAY, 'I'M GOING 34:00 TO BUILD THIS WHOLE DOCTRINE ABOUT THAT.' IT'S LIKE YOU'VE 34:02 GOT THAT ONE REFERENCE TO ABRAHAM'S BOSOM, IN LUKE 16 - 34:06 AND I'VE RUN INTO PEOPLE WHO'VE BUILT A WHOLE PROTESTANT VERSION 34:09 OF LIMBO OR PURGATORY OUT OF THAT ONE VERSE. 34:11 IT'S NOT SAFE TO DO. YOU WANT TO HAVE TWO OR THREE 34:14 WITNESSES IF YOU'RE GOING TO START DEVELOPING A DOCTRINE. 34:16 ANYWAY, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE THEN? 34:19 PETER'S TALKING ABOUT [1 PETER 3:18] - LET ME READ IT TO YOU 34:22 ONE MORE TIME, "FOR CHRIST SUFFERED ONCE FOR SINS, THE JUST 34:26 FOR THE UNJUST," - THAT'S REALLY CLEAR - "THAT HE MIGHT BRING US 34:29 TO GOD, BEING PUT TO DEATH IN THE FLESH BUT MADE ALIVE" - 34:33 RESURRECTED - "BY THE SPIRIT, BY WHOM" - BY WHAT? 34:36 - BY THE SAME SPIRIT - "HE" - JESUS - "WENT AND PREACHED TO 34:40 THE SPIRITS" - PEOPLE - "IN PRISON," - BACK IN THE DAYS OF 34:44 NOAH - "WHO [FORMERLY] WERE DISOBEDIENT, WHEN ONCE THE 34:46 DIVINE LONGSUFFERING WAITING IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, WHILE THE ARK 34:49 WAS BEING PREPARED" - MY SPIRIT WILL NOT STRIVE FOREVER, BUT FOR 34:52 A HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS - "IN WHICH A FEW...EIGHT SOULS, WERE 34:55 SAVED..." SO, THROUGH THE PREACHING OF 34:56 JESUS THROUGH NOAH, HOW MANY WERE SAVED? 34:59 >>EIGHT. >>ANY DEAD SPIRITS? NO. 35:01 EIGHT WERE SAVED. THAT'S NOAH - IT'S NOT TALKING 35:05 ABOUT OTHERS - NOT TALKING ABOUT FALLEN ANGELS. 35:07 I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR. NOW, I'M NOT JUST DOING THIS 35:09 FOR YOU, BECAUSE I THINK YOU UNDERSTAND, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE 35:12 WATCH THIS SABBATH SCHOOL THAT ARE NOT MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH 35:15 THAT STRUGGLE WITH THESE THINGS. WE GET THIS QUESTION ALL THE 35:17 TIME ON BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE. ALRIGHT, AND THEN WE GO TO THE 35:21 NEXT SECTION - IT TALKS ABOUT SUFFERING IN THE FLESH. 35:25 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME ROMANS 8:13, OKAY? 35:28 IN JUST A MOMENT. FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO READ 35:31 TO YOU A PROMISE FROM THE BOOK STEPS TO CHRIST PAGE 62. 35:35 YES, JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS, AND OUR HOPE OF SALVATION IS 35:38 FOUND ONLY IN HIM - IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH COVERS US 35:42 AND CAUSES US TO BE ACCOUNTED RIGHTEOUS IN THE EYES OF GOD. 35:45 BECAUSE OF JESUS, YOU ARE ACCEPTED BEFORE GOD - THIS IS 35:50 THE QUOTE, ACTUALLY, "ACCEPTED BEFORE GOD JUST AS IF YOU HAD 35:54 NOT SINNED." SO, REGARDLESS OF OUR PAST, WHEN 35:57 WE GENUINELY CONFESS AND REPENT, HOW DOES GOD LOOK UPON US? 36:02 WE'RE ACCEPTED AS THOUGH WE HAD NEVER SINNED. 36:05 WE HAD THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS. 36:07 WE'RE LOOKED UPON AS BEING PURELY INNOCENT. 36:10 SO, WITH THAT IN MIND - YOU READ IN 1 PETER 4, VERSES 1 AND 2, 36:15 "THEREFORE, SINCE CHRIST SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH, 36:18 ARM YOURSELF ALSO WITH THE SAME MIND, FOR HE WHO HAS SUFFERED IN 36:24 THE FLESH" - THERE YOU'VE GOT THE SAME MIND AGAIN - "...HE WHO 36:27 HAS SUFFERED IN THE FLESH HAS CEASED FROM SIN,' - NOW, I'VE 36:30 READ THAT VERSE MANY TIMES. I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I READ 36:33 IT, I JUST STOPPED LIKE YOU'D SLAMMED ON THE BRAKES. 36:36 HE THAT - FIRST OF ALL, THE THING THAT JUMPED OUT FOR ME WAS 36:38 'CEASED FROM SIN'. YOU HAVE VERSES, LIKE IN 1 JOHN, 'WHOEVER 36:44 ABIDES IN HIM SINNETH NOT' - AND THE IDEA OF SINLESSNESS ALWAYS 36:50 ARRESTED MY ATTENTION. I THOUGHT, 'IS THAT POSSIBLE?' 36:54 AND PETER SAYS, 'CEASED FROM SIN' - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 36:56 'SUFFERED IN THE FLESH' WELL, I DIDN'T LIKE THAT VERY MUCH - 36:59 ANYONE HERE LIKE THE VERSE 'SUFFERED IN THE FLESH'? 37:02 - THAT CONCEPT? I DON'T LIKE TO SUFFER. 37:05 YOU'D SORT OF HAVE TO BE A LITTLE MASOCHISTIC TO SAY 'I 37:08 LIKE TO SUFFER' - BUT IT'S THERE. 37:11 WHAT DOES IT MEAN? DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU NEED TO 37:14 GO THROUGH SOME TERRIBLE PAINFUL TERMINAL ILLNESS AND THEN YOU 37:18 WILL ACHIEVE SINLESSNESS? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 37:21 THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSES I THINK WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IN A 37:23 MOMENT THAT EXPLAIN WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. 37:26 THERE IS A BATTLE PAUL, PETER, THE OTHER APOSTLES DESCRIBE - 37:30 AND THE OTHER BIBLE WRITERS - BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH 37:33 AND IT IS PAINFUL TO RESIST YOUR OWN DESIRES. 37:40 I CAN'T REMEMBER THE REFERENCE BUT, AGAIN, I THINK MAYBE - 37:42 STEPS TO CHRIST - ELLEN WHITE SAYS THE GREATEST BATTLE THAT 37:46 JESUS FOUGHT WAS THE BATTLE OF SELF. 37:48 IT'S IN - IN DESIRE OF AGES IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE WHEN HE 37:52 SAID, 'NOT MY WILL, THY WILL BE DONE'. 37:54 IT WAS A TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE. HE WAS PERSPIRING BLOOD. 37:58 THERE WAS AN AGONY THERE. IT WASN'T BECAUSE ANYBODY WAS 38:01 PUTTING BAMBOO SHOOTS UNDER HIS FINGERNAILS, IT WAS THE AGONY OF 38:06 SELF-DENIAL THAT HE WAS GOING THROUGH - THE AGONY OF 38:10 SEPARATION FROM GOD, ALSO, I THINK, WAS WEIGHING ON HIS SOUL. 38:15 BUT GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, PLEASE, ROMANS 8:13. 38:20 >>"FOR IF YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH YOU WILL DIE; BUT IF 38:24 BY THE SPIRIT YOU PUT TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF THE BODY, YOU WILL 38:27 LIVE." >>IT IS HARD TO PUT TO 38:31 DEATH THE DEEDS OF THE BODY. LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE 38:33 WHERE PAUL TALKS ABOUT THIS - 1 CORINTHIANS 9:27, "BUT I 38:38 DISCIPLINE MY BODY" - AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WORD 'DISCIPLINE' 38:41 IS, IT'S USING THE WORD OF A PARENT SPANKING A CHILD. 38:44 IT MEANS 'WHIP'. NOW SOME HAVE READ THAT - YOU 38:48 REMEMBER THE CATHOLIC MONKS AND MARTIN LUTHER, THEY WOULD FLOG 38:53 THEMSELVES FOR THEIR SINS. THEY TOOK - THEY HAD THIS LITTLE 38:57 CAT-O-NINE TAILS AND THEY WOULD WHIP THEMSELVES. 39:00 I WAS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND I REMEMBER I WAS THERE DURING 39:03 EASTER - BRIAN, WHO'S BEHIND THE WALL THERE IN THE STUDIO 39:07 LISTENING RIGHT NOW, HE WAS THERE WITH ME - AND BRIAN WAS 39:10 VIDEOTAPING. WE WENT TO THIS TOWN WHERE THEY 39:12 REENACT CRUCIFIXIONS AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY GET CRUCIFIED. 39:17 AND, BEFORE YOU GET THERE, YOU WALK UP THE STREET AND YOU SEE 39:20 PEOPLE ARE GOING UP THE STREETS AND THEY'RE WHIPPING THEMSELVES 39:23 WITH THESE BAMBOO CATS-OF-NINE TAILS, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM 39:29 - AND THEIR BACKS ARE JUST BLEEDING AND THEY'RE ATONING FOR 39:33 THEIR SINS. AND, AT ONE POINT, I REMEMBER BRIAN WAS GETTING THE 39:40 VIDEO FOOTAGE AND BLOOD SPATTERED ON THE LENS. 39:44 IT JUST - BECAUSE WE WERE DOING A DOCUMENTARY SAYING 'GOD DOES 39:47 NOT WANT US TO DO THIS' AND HE HAD, YOU KNOW, GOT THAT FOOTAGE. 39:50 IS THAT WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT? HE WHO HAS SUFFERED IN THE 39:53 FLESH IS CEASED FROM SIN? NO. PAUL SAID, 'I BEAT MYSELF AND 39:58 BRING MY BODY INTO SUBJECTION, "LEST, WHEN I HAVE PREACHED TO 40:00 OTHERS, I MYSELF SHOULD BECOME DISQUALIFIED." 40:03 HE MEANS 'I BEAT DOWN THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH'. 40:08 PAUL SAID, 'I DIE DAILY' - RESISTING THE DESIRE OF - THAT - 40:13 ANY DESIRE THAT GOES AGAINST THE WILL OF GOD. 40:15 LET ME GIVE YOU MORE: GALATIANS 6:8, "FOR HE WHO SOWS TO HIS 40:19 FLESH WILL OF THE FLESH REAP CORRUPTION, BUT HE WHO SOWS TO 40:23 THE SPIRIT" - FEED THE SPIRIT - "WILL OF THE SPIRIT REAP 40:26 EVERLASTING LIFE." ROMANS 8:18, "FOR I CONSIDER 40:31 THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY TO 40:34 BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US." 40:39 AND SO, THERE'S THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH 40:42 AND WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE THAT BATTLE AND YOU'RE WILLING TO SAY 40:46 'YES' TO GOD - 'NOT MY WILL, THY WILL BE DONE' - THAT'S AN 40:49 ONGOING BATTLE EVERY DAY. THERE'S SUFFERING INVOLVED IN 40:54 SELF-DENIAL AND I THINK THIS IS THE - THIS IS THE SUFFERING 40:57 EVERY CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCES BEFORE YOU EXPERIENCE HOLINESS. 41:03 1 PETER 2:20, PETER SAYS, "FOR WHAT CREDIT IS IT IF, WHEN YOU 41:08 ARE BEATEN FOR YOUR FAULTS, YOU TAKE IT PATIENTLY? 41:10 BUT WHEN YOU DO GOOD AND SUFFER, IF YOU TAKE IT PATIENTLY, THIS 41:14 IS COMMENDABLE BEFORE GOD. FOR TO THIS YOU WERE CALLED, 41:19 BECAUSE CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED FOR US, LEAVING US AN EXAMPLE, THAT 41:23 YOU SHOULD FOLLOW HIS STEPS:" NOW, HERE PETER'S ALSO SAYING, 41:26 'YOU MAY ACTUALLY SUFFER PHYSICALLY FOR YOUR FAITH. 41:31 THERE ARE CHRISTIANS THAT ARE PERSECUTED. 41:34 THEY ARE IMPRISONED. THEY ARE EVEN, IN PARTS OF THE 41:36 WORLD, BEHEADED FOR THEIR FAITH. THERE'S ALL KINDS OF TRIALS 41:41 THAT PEOPLE MAY GO THROUGH. AND SO, THERE 41:44 COULD BE SUFFERING. JESUS WENT THROUGH PERSECUTION. 41:47 MOST OF HIS TRIALS WERE CONCENTRATED IN THAT LAST 24 41:51 HOURS OF HIS LIFE, BUT HE HAD A LIFE OF SELF-DENIAL AND PROBABLY 41:54 BEING MOCKED AND RIDICULED FOR HIS DEVOTION. ROMANS 6 - NOW 41:59 THIS VERSE SUMS UP, I THINK, BEST WHAT PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT. 42:03 PETER, SORRY, "THEREFORE DO NOT LET SIN REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL 42:08 BODY, THAT YOU SHOULD OBEY IT IN ITS LUSTS. 42:11 AND DO NOT PRESENT YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF 42:14 UNRIGHTEOUSNESS TO SIN, BUT PRESENT YOURSELVES TO GOD AS 42:17 BEING ALIVE FROM THE DEAD, AND YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF 42:20 RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GOD. FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION 42:24 OVER YOU, FOR YOU ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE." 42:29 BEFORE YOU'RE SAVED, WHO HAS DOMINION? 42:32 BEFORE YOU'RE SAVED, WHAT POWER HAS DOMINION? 42:35 >>SATAN. >>SIN. 42:37 AND, YEAH, YOU'RE UNDER THE CURSE OF THE LAW. 42:40 DOES ONE POWER GIVE UP ITS DOMINION EASILY? 42:46 WHEN YOU HAVE ONE POWER TRYING TO SEIZE DOMINION FROM ANOTHER 42:49 POWER, IS THERE A BATTLE? YEAH, ANY KIND OF STRUGGLE YOU 42:53 GO THROUGH TO TRY AND GAIN VICTORY, THERE'S GOING TO 42:55 BE - THERE'LL BE A BATTLE. PRAISE GOD. 43:00 I MENTION IT OFTEN BECAUSE IT WAS VERY DRAMATIC IN MY LIFE, 43:04 BUT I STRUGGLED WITH CIGARETTES FOR YEARS - AND I SEE DAVE AND 43:08 CINDY SITTING HERE - HOW ARE YOU GUYS DOING? 43:11 DAVE - WHEN I FIRST MET DAVE AND CINDY, THEY WERE ONE OF THE 43:12 FIRST ADVENTISTS I MET IN COVELO - I WAS SMOKING - AND I 43:15 STRUGGLED. I QUIT AND I STARTED - I QUIT 43:17 AND STARTED - IT WAS A STRUGGLE. FINALLY, I QUIT AND IT WAS A 43:20 STRUGGLE FOR SEVERAL WEEKS - STRUGGLE FOR A FEW DAYS AND THEN 43:25 IT GOT EASIER FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEKS. 43:28 THEN IT GOT MUCH EASIER FOR, ACTUALLY, A FEW MONTHS. 43:30 I WOULD, OCCASIONALLY, GET TEMPTED FOR THE FIRST YEAR. 43:33 I'M NOT TEMPTED AT ALL ANYMORE, SO HAS TOBACCO LOST ITS DOMINION 43:38 OVER ME? IT DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE IT UP - 43:40 ANY HABIT IS THAT WAY - YOU CAN JUST INSERT WHATEVER YOUR 43:42 PARTICULAR STRUGGLE IS. AND SO, WHEN PETER'S TALKING 43:46 ABOUT 'HE THAT HAS SUFFERED IN THE FLESH IS CEASED FROM SIN', I 43:50 THINK HE'S TALKING, PRINCIPALLY, ABOUT THAT BATTLE AGAINST THE 43:53 CARNAL NATURE THAT WE ALL HAVE. OH, WHERE'D I LEAVE OFF? 43:57 ALRIGHT - BORN AGAIN - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME - DIDN'T 43:59 GIVE YOU MUCH WARNING - 1 PETER 1:23. 44:04 >>"BEING BORN AGAIN, NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED BUT 44:08 INCORRUPTIBLE, BY THE WORD OF GOD WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH 44:13 FOREVER." >>BEING BORN AGAIN - NOW, HOW 44:16 MANY TIMES IN THE BIBLE DO YOU FIND THE PHRASE 'BORN AGAIN'? 44:19 THREE TIMES. HOW MANY TIMES IN CHRISTIAN 44:23 LIFE DO YOU HEAR IT QUOTED? A LOT. 44:27 I THINK JIMMY CARTER WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PRESIDENTS THAT OPENLY 44:29 SAID, 'I AM A BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN'. 44:32 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE REFER TO BEING BORN AGAIN. 44:35 AND SOMEONE MIGHT ASK YOU, 'ARE YOU A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER?' 44:38 YOU REALLY FIND THAT ONLY IN JOHN CHAPTER 3 - IT'S MENTIONED 44:42 TWICE - THE PHRASE IS MENTIONED TWICE - AND IN PETER. 44:45 OF COURSE, IN JOHN 3, JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO NICODEMUS, 44:48 "MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU," - AND THIS IS VERSE 3 - "UNLESS 44:52 ONE IS BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD." 44:55 NICODEMUS WAS TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, GET A MENTAL PICTURE OF 44:58 WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE. HE SAID, "'HOW CAN A MAN 45:00 BE BORN WHEN HE IS OLD? CAN HE ENTER A SECOND TIME INTO 45:02 HIS MOTHER'S WOMB AND BE BORN?' JESUS ANSWERED, "MOST ASSUREDLY, 45:07 I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS ON IS BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT, HE 45:11 CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH 45:15 IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT." 45:18 DO NOT MARVEL THAT I SAY TO YOU, 'YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.'" HE 45:21 DOESN'T SAY 'IT'D BE GREAT' 'IT'D BE HELPFUL' - HE SAYS 'YOU 45:24 MUST BE' - IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE SAVED YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN. 45:27 SO, HOW ARE WE BORN AGAIN? JESUS SAID YOU'RE BORN OF THE 45:30 SPIRIT - PETER ACTUALLY TELLS YOU, DID YOU NOTICE THAT? 45:35 HE SAID, 'BORN THROUGH THE WORD WHICH LIVES AND ABIDES IN YOU'. 45:40 HOW MANY OF YOU CAN TRACE YOUR NEW BIRTH, IN SOME WAY, TO THE 45:44 READING OR PREACHING OF THE WORD? 45:47 ISN'T THAT HOW IT TYPICALLY HAPPENS? 45:48 THAT'S WHY PETER SAYS - WHAT DOES A BABY EAT WHEN THEY'RE 45:51 FIRST BORN? >>MILK. 45:52 >>MILK. PETER SAYS, 'DESIRE THE SINCERE 45:55 MILK OF THE WORD THAT YOU MAY GROW THEREBY.' 45:59 AND IT'S THE WORD THAT CAUSES THE BIRTH - IT'S THE WORD THAT 46:02 CAUSES THE GROWTH. EVENTUALLY IT'S THE MEAT OF THE WORD, 46:05 AS YOU MATURE, BUT IT'S ALL THE WORD OF GOD. 46:09 AND SO, IT CREATES - IT STIRS - WITHIN US AND IT BRINGS US TO 46:12 UNDERSTAND THE GOODNESS OF GOD THAT LEADS US TO REPENTANCE. 46:16 WE SEE HE LOVES US SO WE LOVE HIM. IT ALL COMES THROUGH 46:19 LOOKING AT CHRIST AND HIS WORD. AND SO, THERE'S A NEW - THE NEW 46:24 BIRTH THAT'S TALKED ABOUT THERE. AND THEN PETER, HE DEALS WITH 46:28 THE SINS OF THE FLESH IN THE NEXT SECTION HERE. 46:31 AND THAT COMES TO US FROM 1 PETER 4 AND I'M GOING TO READ 46:35 VERSES 3 AND 4, "FOR WE HAVE SPENT ENOUGH OF OUR PAST 46:40 LIFETIME IN DOING THE WILL OF THE GENTILES" - NOW IT'S NOT 46:43 JUST THE NON-JEWS, HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE LOST HERE - PAGANS 46:47 THAT DON'T KNOW GOD - WHEN WE WALKED IN LEWDNESS, LUSTS, 46:51 DRUNKENNESS, REVELRIES, DRINKING PARTIES, AND ABOMINABLE 46:55 IDOLATRIES." - NOW, I'M READING THE NEW KING 46:58 JAMES VERSION THERE WHERE IT SAYS 'DRINKING PARTIES' - SO 47:01 HE'S TALKING ABOUT IMMORALITY, PARTYING - AND I REMEMBER WHEN 47:05 I FIRST WAS THINKING OF BEING A CHRISTIAN, YOU KNOW, I 47:07 LIVED THAT KIND OF LIFE. I DRANK AND USED DRUGS AND WENT 47:10 TO PARTIES AND I THOUGHT, 'WELL, IF I'M A CHRISTIAN I WON'T 47:13 BE ABLE TO DO THAT ANYMORE. WHAT WILL I DO FOR FUN? 47:16 ANYONE EVER THINK THAT BEFORE? 'WHAT WILL I DO FOR FUN? 47:19 CHRISTIANS DON'T HAVE ANY FUN.' AND THE - SO GOD DOESN'T FORCE 47:23 YOU TO BE A CHRISTIAN SO I KEPT PARTYING, AS THEY CALL IT, AND 47:28 YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE HUNG OVER AND YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE IN 47:30 JAIL AND YOU WAKE UP AND YOU MADE A FOOL OF YOURSELF - 47:33 YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE ASHAMED. 47:35 YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE SICK - HUNGOVER - AND I HEARD THIS 47:40 VOICE SAYING, 'ARE YOU HAVING FUN DOUG?' 47:43 AND I REALIZED THAT'S NOT REALLY THAT MUCH FUN. 47:47 IT MIGHT FEEL GOOD AT THE MOMENT BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST SUCH A 47:50 SHAME - AND SICKNESS AND MISERY AFTERWARD THAT IT'S NOT WORTH 47:55 IT. AND I HAVE - I REALLY DO, I HAVE MUCH MORE FUN AS A 47:59 CHRISTIAN. BOY, I TELL YOU, THIS LAST TRIP WE WENT ON, WE HAD A 48:01 LOT OF FUN. AND IT WAS - IT WAS REALLY FUN. YOU KNOW, WORKING 48:06 FOR GOD IS AN ADVENTURE. >>AMEN. 48:09 >>AND SO, HE SAID, 'WELL, WHEN YOU HAVE THE NEW LIFE, YOU DON'T 48:12 WALK - YOU DON'T LIVE LIKE THAT ANYMORE. PAUL - PETER, 48:14 RATHER, IS CALLING US TO TURN FROM THE OLD CARNAL LIFE. 48:19 AND THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSES HERE WHERE HE BEARS THAT OUT. 48:22 AND, IN PARTICULAR, HE TALKS ABOUT PURITY. 48:26 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1, PAUL SAYS, "IT IS ACTUALLY REPORTED THAT 48:30 THERE IS SEXUAL IMMORALITY AMONG YOU, AND SUCH SEXUAL 48:33 IMMORALITY AS IS NOT EVEN NAMED AMONG THE GENTILES" - COULD 48:37 THAT EVEN HAPPEN IN THE CHURCH? >>YES. 48:39 >>YOU EVER HEAR SOMEONE SAY, 'WELL, CHRISTIANS ARE ALL 48:41 HYPOCRITES'? WERE THERE HYPOCRITES IN THE 48:43 CHURCH BACK IN PAUL'S DAY? >>YES. 48:45 >>YEAH, EVEN IN THE APOSTLE'S TIME THEY DEALT WITH PEOPLE WHO 48:48 TOOK THE NAME OF CHRIST - IN THE CHURCH - AND WERE DOING SHAMEFUL 48:51 THINGS THAT THE PAGANS WERE POINTING TO AND SAYING, 48:54 'THAT'S CHRISTIAN?' SO DO YOU MEET PEOPLE THAT SAY, 48:57 'I DON'T GO TO CHURCH BECAUSE THERE'S HYPOCRITES'? 48:58 WELL, THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN. THAT'S NOTHING NEW. 49:02 BUT HE CALLS US TO REPENT OF THOSE THINGS. 49:04 1 CORINTHIANS 10:8, PAUL SAYS, "NOR LET US COMMIT SEXUAL 49:08 IMMORALITY, AS SOME OF THEM DID, AND IN ONE DAY TWENTY-THREE 49:12 THOUSAND FELL;" - MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU READ IN 1 49:14 CORINTHIANS 6:9, PAUL GETS VERY SPECIFIC. HE'S VERY CLEAR - HE 49:19 SAID, "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT 49:22 INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED. 49:26 NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR IDOLATERS," - THE PAGANS DID 49:29 THAT TOO - NOR ADULTERERS," "NOR HOMOSEXUALS, NOR SODOMITES, NOR 49:35 THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR 49:40 EXTORTIONERS WILL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD." 49:42 NOW, IF YOU STOP RIGHT THERE A PERSON MIGHT READ THAT AND SAY, 49:46 'WELL, THEN THERE'S NO HOPE FOR ME.' AND, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT 49:50 THERE'S PEOPLE WHO STRUGGLE WITH IMMORALITY. 49:53 SOME STRUGGLE WITH HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES AND THE BIBLE IS 49:57 PRETTY CLEAR - I KNOW, IT'S JUST TOTALLY POLITICALLY FORBIDDEN TO 50:00 TELL THE TRUTH ON THAT ANYMORE, BUT THE BIBLE HASN'T CHANGED 50:03 EVEN THOUGH THE CULTURE HAS RADICALLY CHANGED. 50:05 SIN IS STILL SIN. ALDULTERY'S WRONG. 50:08 HOMOSEXUALITY IS WRONG. THE BIBLE'S VERY CLEAR. 50:11 BUT YOU NOTICE WHAT PAUL SAYS WHEN HE GOES ON? 50:13 - "SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU." HE GOES ON TO SAY - YEAH, SOME 50:18 OF YOU PRACTICED ALL OF THESE THINGS - "BUT YOU WERE WASHED, 50:22 BUT YOU WERE SANCTIFIED, BUT YOU WERE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF 50:25 THE LORD JESUS AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD." SO THE CHURCH IS 50:28 COMPOSED OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALL KINDS OF SORDID THINGS IN THEIR 50:31 BACKGROUND. GOD SAVES US FROM OUR SINS. 50:34 AND THAT LIST IN IS THE BIBLE BECAUSE PAUL SAID, 'IF YOU DO 50:38 THESE THINGS, YOU WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 50:41 AND I WILL NOT BE FAITHFUL TO YOU AS A PASTOR IF I WATER DOWN 50:44 THAT LIST. >>AMEN. 50:46 >>THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH AND PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW. 50:49 ALRIGHT, AND THEN HE SAYS, CONNECTED WITH THESE THINGS, 50:53 PAUL SAYS, THEN, IN VERSE 5 - WE'RE ALMOST DONE - THERE'S A 50:56 JUDGMENT DAY. IT SAYS, IN 1 PETER 4:5, "THEY 51:00 WILL GIVE AN ACCOUNT TO HIM WHO IS READY TO JUDGE THE 51:03 LIVING AND THE DEAD. FOR THIS REASON" - NOW, IS THERE 51:06 A JUDGMENT THAT HAPPENS EVEN WHILE PEOPLE ARE ALIVE? 51:09 OR, HE SAYS, 'JUDGMENT BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF GOD'. 51:12 BEFORE CHRIST COMES THERE ARE LIVING THAT ARE JUDGED - "FOR 51:16 THIS REASON THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED ALSO TO THOSE WHO ARE 51:19 DEAD, THAT THEY MIGHT BE JUDGED ACCORDING TO MEN IN THE FLESH, 51:22 BUT LIVE ACCORDING TO GOD IN THE SPIRIT." 51:24 THERE AGAIN - YOU SEE WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT THOSE WHO WERE DEAD 51:27 - SPIRITS THAT WERE IN PRISON? 51:29 PETER SAYS THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO THOSE WHO ARE DEAD 51:33 AND - "THAT THEY MIGHT BE JUDGED ACCORDING TO MEN IN THE FLESH, 51:37 BUT LIVE ACCORDING TO GOD IN THE SPIRIT." 51:41 LOOKING AT THE TIME, I'M GOING TO JUMP DOWN TO LOVE COVERS ALL 51:46 BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VERSES - OR PASSAGES. 51:49 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME - YOU'VE GOT GALATIANS CHAPTER 5:14 - 51:52 MANJEET? YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JUST A 51:53 MOMENT - I'M GOING TO READ ROMANS 13. 51:55 SO, HOW DOES PETER SUMMARIZE WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT? 51:59 HE SAYS IT - IT'S REALLY - IS ALL WRAPPED UP IN LOVE. 52:04 "OWE NO ONE ANYTHING EXCEPT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR HE WHO 52:08 LOVES ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW. 52:11 FOR THE COMMANDMENTS, 'YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU SHALL 52:14 NOT MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL NOT STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR 52:17 FALSE WITNESS,' 'YOU SHALL NOT COVET,' AND IF THERE IS ANY 52:20 OTHER COMMANDMENT, ARE ALL SUMMED UP IN THIS SAYING, 52:23 NAMELY, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' LOVE DOES 52:27 NO HARM TO A NEIGHBOR; THEREFORE LOVE IS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE 52:30 LAW." NOW, IS PAUL SAYING THAT IF YOU LOVE YOU DON'T NEED TO 52:33 KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? OR IS HE SAYING THE OPPOSITE? 52:36 IF YOU LOVE, YOU WILL KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 52:39 LOVE DOES NO HARM TO HIS NEIGHBOR - AND HE CITES ALL THE 52:41 TEN. SO LOVE IS THE EMBODIMENT OF THAT. 52:45 GO AHEAD, PLEASE, AND READ FOR US GALATIANS 5:14. 52:49 >>GALATIANS 5:14, "FOR THE WHOLE LAW IS FULFILLED IN ONE WORD, 52:54 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'" 52:59 >>ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL? AND DOES JESUS SAY THE SAME THING? 53:02 MATTHEW CHAPTER 22, VERSE 37, "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR 53:06 GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR 53:09 MIND.' THIS IS THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT. 53:12 AND THE SECOND IS LIKE IT: 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS 53:15 YOURSELF.' ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW 53:19 AND THE PROPHETS.'" HE'S SAYING ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS CAN 53:21 BE SUMMED UP IN LOVING THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART AND 53:24 LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. 53:26 AND THEN JESUS SAID, IN JOHN 14, VERSE 15, HE SAYS, "IF YOU LOVE 53:31 ME," - DO WHAT? >>KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. 53:33 >>"IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." 53:35 NOW, I JUST WANT TO CONCLUDE BY READING A VERSE IN - LET ME SEE 53:43 HERE - CLOSING OUT OUR SECTION HERE BY READING 1 PETER CHAPTER 53:49 4 AND IF YOU READ - OH, I'M GOING TO READ - YEAH, VERSE 8, 53:55 "AND ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE FERVENT LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER, 53:59 FOR 'LOVE WILL COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS.'" - 54:02 AND THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN HIGHLIGHTING HERE - 54:04 "BE HOSPITABLE TO ONE ANOTHER WITHOUT GRUMBLING. 54:07 AS EACH ONE HAS RECEIVED A GIFT, MINISTER IT TO ONE 54:10 ANOTHER, AS GOOD STEWARDS OF THE MANIFOLD GRACE OF GOD. 54:13 IF ANYONE SPEAKS, LET HIM SPEAK AS THE ORACLES OF GOD. 54:17 IF ANYONE MINISTERS, LET HIM DO IT AS WITH THE ABILITY WHICH GOD 54:21 SUPPLIES, THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD MAY BE GLORIFIED THROUGH JESUS 54:26 CHRIST, TO WHOM BELONG THE GLORY AND THE DOMINION FOREVER AND 54:30 EVER." AND FOREVER AND EVER IS ALWAYS 54:32 A GOOD WAY TO END THE LESSON, RIGHT? 54:35 SO NEXT WEEK WE'LL BE DOING LESSON #5. 54:38 I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING THAT, I THINK DEBBIE 54:41 MENTIONED IT BUT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED THE BEGINNING. 54:43 WE HAVE A SPECIAL BOOK WE'D LIKE TO OFFER FOR FREE, AND THIS IS 54:47 ONE THAT IS NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE, SO YOU NEED TO CALL. 54:50 CALL 866-788-3966 - IT'S CALLED HEROES OF FAITH - 866-788-3966 - 54:57 THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE AND ASK FOR OFFER #826 - WE'LL SEND IT 55:02 TO YOU FOR FREE. WE ONLY ASK THAT YOU READ IT 55:04 AND THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS. 55:07 AND, THE LORD WILLING, WE'LL STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN 55:10 NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC) 55:21 >>SO WHAT IS THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD? 55:24 WELL, NATURALLY, YOU'D SAY THE SUN, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 55:26 THE BRIGHTEST MAN-MADE LIGHT IN THE WORLD. 55:29 IT'S THE LIGHT THAT SHINES OUT OF THE ROOF OF THAT 55:31 PYRAMID-SHAPED HOTEL IN LAS VEGAS CALLED THE LUXOR. 55:35 THERE, IN THE CAP OF THAT HOTEL, THERE'S A ROOM THAT CONTAINS 39 55:39 WASHING-MACHINE SIZED XENON BULBS; AND EACH OF THOSE BULBS 55:43 REQUIRES ABOUT 7,000 WATTS. ALTOGETHER, THEY PRODUCE ABOUT 55:48 40 BILLION CANDLE POWER OF LIGHT. 55:51 CAN YOU IMAGINE GETTING THAT ELECTRIC BILL AT THE LUXOR HOTEL 55:54 EVERY MONTH? THAT LIGHT IS SO BRIGHT THAT 55:57 PLANES CAN SEE IT 250 MILES AWAY. 56:00 THEY'RE SHOOTING LIGHT TEN MILES UP INTO SPACE, MEANING, IF YOU 56:04 HAPPEN TO BE FLOATING BY, YOU COULD READ A NEWSPAPER UP THERE. 56:08 AND, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED, THAT BRIGHT LIGHT HAS BECOME THE 56:11 WORLD'S BEST BUG ATTRACTOR, BRINGING IN MOTHS, BATS, AND 56:15 OWLS - CREATING IT'S ON ECOSYSTEM THERE AT NIGHT, ABOVE 56:18 THE HOTEL. BUT THE SAD THING ABOUT THE 56:20 BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD IS ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NIGHT AIR IS 56:24 CLEAR - WITHOUT ANY PARTICLES - THE LIGHT DOESN'T HIT 56:27 ANYTHING AND IT'S INVISIBLE. IT SHOOTS UP INTO EMPTY SPACE. 56:32 THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD ILLUMINATES NOTHING. 56:36 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THERE'S ANOTHER GREAT 56:37 WASTED LIGHT, AND THAT'S THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD. 56:41 IT SAYS IN PSALM 119, VERSE 105, "THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET 56:46 AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.' AND YET, SO MANY PEOPLE ARE WALKING 56:50 IN DARKNESS. FURTHERMORE, JESUS SAID, IF YOU 56:53 DO HAVE THAT LIGHT, MAKE SURE YOU DON'T PUT IT UNDER A BUSHEL, 56:56 BUT YOU LET IT SHINE AND ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS. 56:59 JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, 'SET YOUR LIGHT UP ON A HILL, 57:02 LIKE A CITY, SO THAT ALL MIGHT SEE IT.' LIGHT ONLY BENEFITS 57:06 OTHERS WHEN IT REFLECTS OFF OF SOMETHING. 57:10 GOD WANTS OUR LIGHTS TO ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS. 57:14 SO, ARE YOU GLOWING FOR GOD? REMEMBER, JESUS SAID, 'LET THERE 57:17 BE LIGHT.' (MUSIC) 57:28 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 57:30 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE 57:33 TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY 57:37 AT 'AFTV.ORG'. AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY 57:42 VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL 57:46 FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR 57:51 COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 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