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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR, COMING TO YOU FROM
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HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH -
ALWAYS A JOY ON SABBATH MORNING
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TO BE ABLE TO GATHER
TOGETHER TO STUDY THE BIBLE.
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NOW THIS QUARTER, WE HAVE BEEN
STUDYING THE FIRST AND SECOND
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BOOKS OF PETER. OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY IS ENTITLED
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FEED MY SHEEP AND, FOR THOSE WHO
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
THIS MORNING, AS WE NORMALLY DO,
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WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY LIFTING
OUR VOICES IN SONG, SO I'D LIKE
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TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO
COME AND LEAD US IN OUR PRAISE
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THIS MORNING. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>WE ARE SO GLAD YOU
ARE JOINING US TO WORSHIP
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TOGETHER AND TO SING
TOGETHER AS WE DO EVERY WEEK.
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SO I INVITE YOU, THOSE THAT
ARE AT HOME, TO PULL OUT YOUR
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HYMNALS - THOSE THAT ARE HERE
- WE'RE GOING TO SING HOW SWEET
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ARE THE TIDINGS THAT GREET THE
PILGRIMS EAR - AND IF THERE WAS
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NEVER A TIME THAT WE WANTED
TO HEAR GOOD NEWS, IT IS NOW, ON
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THIS PLANET EARTH, AS
WE ARE WRAPPING IT UP.
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AND I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR GOD'S
WORD AND THE TIDINGS THAT WE
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FIND IN THERE - HYMN #442 - HOW
SWEET ARE THE TIDINGS - WE'LL
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SING THE FIRST, THE
SECOND, AND THE LAST VERSES.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>I AM SO GRATEFUL,
THIS MORNING, THAT WE
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HAVE THAT HOPE THAT SOON HE
IS COMING AND THAT WE CAN, RIGHT
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NOW, MAKE THE DECISION TO
BE THERE WITH HIM AND RECEIVE
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ETERNAL, EVERLASTING
LIFE. I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THAT
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AND I HOPE YOU ARE TOO. AT
THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL
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LEAD US IN OPENING PRAYER.
>>DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
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PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO OPEN
UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER.
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AND, AS YOU LOOK AT COUNSEL
GIVEN TO US THROUGH THE APOSTLE
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PETER MANY YEARS AGO, WE
UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE
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RELEVANT TRUTHS FOR US FOR
THE TIME IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING.
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SO WE PRAY, ONCE AGAIN, FOR
THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND GIVE
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GUIDANCE TO OUR HEARTS AND
MINDS - LEAD US INTO A CLEARER
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UNDERSTANDING OF BIBLE TRUTH
TODAY, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS'
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NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>OUR LESSON THIS MORNING
IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY
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PASTOR DOUG. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>GOOD MORNING.
>>HOW IS EVERYBODY?
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>>GREAT. >>IT
IS GOOD TO BE HOME.
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YOU DON'T KNOW I LEFT
AGAIN SINCE I SAW YOU LAST WEEK
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(LAUGHTER) AND CAME BACK AGAIN.
AND I WANT TO WELCOME OUR CLASS
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THAT IS STUDYING
SABBATH SCHOOL WITH US.
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BY THE WAY, I KNOW THAT THEY
MENTIONED THIS BOOK ALREADY, BUT
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I'LL MENTION IT AGAIN -
IT REALLY IS A GOOD BOOK.
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THE SUBTITLE GOES WITH
OUR LESSON TODAY, IT'S WHY DO
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CHRISTIANS SUFFER?
AND OUR LESSON TODAY IS #6
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IN OUR STUDY GUIDE OF
PETER, TALKING ABOUT THE
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SUBJECT OF SUFFERING.
AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO BE
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DEALING WITH STUFF - WHO
WANTS TO TALK ABOUT SUFFERING?
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SHALL WE HAVE A VOTE?
IT'S PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA TO
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TALK ABOUT IT,
BECAUSE HOW MANY SUFFER?
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>>ALL. >>WE ALL DO.
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SO IT'S - IT'S
IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND.
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THE LESSON, THOUGH, IS REALLY
TITLED THE SUFFERING FOR CHRIST
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- AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND
THE MEMORY VERSE IS 1 PETER 2:21
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- HERE IT'S IN THE NEW KING
JAMES VERSION, IF YOU'D READ
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THAT WITH ME. ARE YOU READY?
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"FOR TO THIS YOU WERE CALLED,
BECAUSE CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED FOR
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US, LEAVING US AN EXAMPLE, THAT
YOU SHOULD FOLLOW HIS STEPS:"
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NOW, YOU GO BACK TO THE
VERY BEGINNING AND YOU'LL FIND
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SUFFERING COMES
IMMEDIATELY AFTER SIN COMES.
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NOT ALWAYS, BUT MOST OF THE
TIME WE ENTER THE WORLD WITH
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SUFFERING. AND, NOT
ALWAYS, BUT MANY TIMES,
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PEOPLE LEAVE THE
WORLD IN SUFFERING.
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I KNOW THAT WHEN KAREN GAVE
BIRTH I SAID, 'DO YOU WANT TO DO
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NATURAL?' AND SHE SAID, 'NO'.
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SHE SAID, 'GIVE ME
AN EPIDURAL'. >>AMEN.
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>>IT'S WONDERFUL THAT THEY HAVE
THINGS, NOW, THAT WHEN PEOPLE
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ENTER THE WORLD - YEAH, IT
WAS NATURAL - THEY WERE NATURAL
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DRUGS. (LAUGHTER)
AND THEN, YOU KNOW -
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I SUPPOSE - PEOPLE WONDER,
YOU KNOW, YOU READ THOSE FIRST
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VERSES IN THE BIBLE - IN
GENESIS 3:15, ONE OF THE FIRST
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PROPHECIES AFTER THE FALL -
AFTER SIN ENTERED THE WORLD -
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GOD SAID, 'I'LL PUT ENMITY
BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN;'-
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SPEAKING TO THE SERPENT -
'BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER
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SEED;' - NOW THIS IS TALKING
ABOUT - THERE WOULD BE A WAR,
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BASICALLY - ENMITY - THERE WOULD
BE OPPOSITION - THERE'D BE A
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STRUGGLE. IT SAYS, 'YOU WILL
BRUISE' - "HE SHALL BRUISE YOUR
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HEAD, AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS
HEEL." HIS HEEL BEING THE SEED
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OF THE SERPENT - OR JESUS.
AND SO, YOU'VE GOT TWO BRUISES
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RIGHT THERE IN THE
VERY FIRST PROPHECY.
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NOW MOST OF YOU KNOW WHEN A
BRUISE DEVELOPS, WHAT CAUSED
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THE BRUISE IS USUALLY
SOME PAINFUL EXPERIENCE.
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AND SO, YOU SEE
PAIN RIGHT THERE.
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AND IN THE NEXT VERSE - AND IT
SAYS THERE IN GENESIS 3:16, "TO
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THE WOMAN HE SAID: 'I WILL
GREATLY MULTIPLY YOUR SORROW AND
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YOUR CONCEPTION;" - NOW THE WORD
'CONCEPTION' THERE IS SOMETIMES
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CONCEPTION - WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT
BATHSHEBA CONCEIVING, THAT WAS,
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YOU KNOW, NINE MONTHS
BEFORE THE CHILD CAME.
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AND, IT IS TRUE THAT IN
CONCEPTION MANY WOMEN GET SICK
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AND - BUT THEN HE GOES ON AND
SAYS, "IN PAIN YOU SHALL BRING
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FORTH CHILDREN; YOUR DESIRE
SHALL BE FOR YOUR HUSBAND, AND
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HE SHALL RULE OVER YOU."
SO, RIGHT THERE IN THE VERY
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BEGINNING PAIN
AND BRINGING FORTH.
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NOW WHAT DOES A WOMAN
REPRESENT? >>A CHURCH.
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>>A CHURCH. DOES
THE CHURCH BRING FORTH
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CHILDREN WITHOUT PAIN? OR
IS THERE A STRUGGLE INVOLVED
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IN CHILDREN BEING BROUGHT FORTH?
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
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BORN AS A NATION, THAT'S
AN ALLEGORY OF SALVATION.
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WAS THERE A STRUGGLE? >>YES.
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>>THERE WAS A
TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE.
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THERE WERE PLAGUES AND THEY
DIDN'T WANT TO LET THEM GO AND
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THEY CHASED AFTER
THEM TO KILL THEM.
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AND SO, YOU FIND PERSECUTION
AND STRUGGLE RIGHT THERE IN THE
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BEGINNING WHEN THEY WERE TRYING
TO COME FORTH AS A NATION.
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IT MAKES YOU WONDER THOUGH, WHEN
GOD SAYS TO EVE, 'IN PAIN YOU'LL
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BRING FORTH'. WHAT
WOULD IT HAVE BEEN LIKE,
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IF THERE HAD BEEN NO SIN,
FOR A WOMAN TO HAVE A BABY?
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WOULD SHE ELBOW ADAM IN THE
MORNING AND SAY, 'YOU'LL NEVER
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BELIEVE WHAT
HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?'
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(LAUGHTER) I MEAN, I GUESS, YOU
KNOW, IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM IT
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LOOKS LIKE SOME OF THE ANIMALS -
NOT ALL, BUT SOME OF THE ANIMALS
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- LOOKED LIKE IT JUST -
YOU KNOW, BABIES KIND OF -
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THERE'S NO CRYING - IT DOESN'T
LOOK LIKE IT'S TERRIBLY PAINFUL,
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BUT - I GUESS IT WAS TO BE
PAIN FREE IN THE BEGINNING.
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AND THEY'VE GOT DRUGS NOW -
WHEN YOU LEAVE LIFE, MANY TIMES
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PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING AND
SOMETIMES THEY'VE GOT THINGS
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THAT WILL MAKE
THAT MORE BEARABLE.
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IN MANY CASES, THE PAIN
DRUGS THAT THEY GIVE YOU, WHEN A
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PERSON'S IN THEIR FINAL
ILLNESS, IS A COUP DE GRAS.
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IT ACTUALLY DOES MORE DAMAGE.
I KNOW WITH MY MOM, SHE HAD
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CANCER AND THEY JUST GAVE HER SO
MUCH MORPHINE, WE'RE PRETTY SURE
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IT WAS THE
MORPHINE THAT DID HER IN.
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BUT THERE'S PAIN IN
LIFE. THERE'S SUFFERING.
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AND WHAT'S THE
PENALTY FOR SIN? >>DEATH.
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>>THAT'S TRUE, BUT IS
THERE MORE TO IT THAN THAT?
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WILL THE WICKED WHO
ARE LOST DIE FOR THEIR SIN?
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YES. RIGHT? YEAH.
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DO THEY ONLY DIE OR IS
THERE SUFFERING AND DEATH?
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SO THAT SUFFERING IS IN
PROPORTION TO - EVERY MAN
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SUFFERS ACCORDING
TO WHAT HE DESERVES.
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JESUS SAID, 'HE WHO HAD DONE
MANY THINGS WORTHY OF STRIPES
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WILL BE BEATEN
WITH MANY STRIPES.
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HE THAT HAS DONE FEW THINGS -
FEW STRIPES.' STRIPES WERE, WHEN
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THEY WHIPPED YOU, IT
LEFT A STRIPE ON YOUR BACK.
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AND SO THERE'S VARYING DEGREES
OF SUFFERING, VARYING DEGREES OF
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REWARD, VARYING
DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT.
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AND SOME PEOPLE, THOUGH,
THEY COME INTO THE WORLD.
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THEY HAVEN'T DONE
ANYTHING WRONG AND THEY SUFFER.
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THIS IS ALL THE
CONSEQUENCE OF SIN.
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AND SO, YOU SEE THIS RIGHT FROM
THE VERY BEGINNING - THAT THERE
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IS SUFFERING - BUT WHERE
DID IT ORIGINALLY COME FROM?
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WAS SUFFERING
PART OF GOD'S PLAN?
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>>NO. >>WHEN GOD
FINISHED MAKING THE
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WORLD EVERYTHING WAS
'GOOD, GOOD, VERY GOOD'.
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GOD TOOK MAN AND
PUT HIM IN A PARADISE.
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SO, NOW, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE
GOING TO BE TALKING A LITTLE
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BIT, ABOUT THE SUFFERING
THAT COMES AS A RESULT OF
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CHRISTIANITY. WHY
DO CHRISTIANS SUFFER
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FOR BEING CHRISTIANS?
THE DEVIL HATES JESUS AND, IF
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YOU TAKE THE NAME OF JESUS AND
IF YOU SEEK TO LIVE THE LIFE OF
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JESUS, HE'LL HATE YOU.
AND CHRIST SAID, 'PRETTY MUCH'
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HE SAID, 'LOOK, IF THEY HATE
ME THEY'RE GOING TO HATE YOU.'
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AND THE SUFFERING THAT JESUS
ENDURED, WHICH IS REALLY THE
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WRATH OF THE DEVIL, IS BECAUSE
OF OUR COMMITMENT TO CHRIST.
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NOW THE WORDS 'SUFFER' AND
'SUFFERING' APPEAR SIXTEEN TIMES
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IN 1 AND 2 PETER, SO I WAS JUST
WAITING FOR THIS STUDY TO COME
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ALONG, BECAUSE WHEN I READ 1
AND 2 PETER, IF YOU'RE TO ASK
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SOMEBODY 'WHAT IS THE CENTRAL
TEACHING OF 1 AND 2 PETER?'
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- IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU
STUDY THE BOOK OF DANIEL -
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WHAT'S THE MAIN
TEACHING IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL?
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IT'S THE KINGDOM OF
GOD WILL WIN IN THE END.
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EVERY CHAPTER IS TALKING ABOUT
A BATTLE BETWEEN THE KINGDOMS OF
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THE WORLD AND
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
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AND YOU LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT
BOOKS AND THERE'S LIKE A THEME.
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THE THEME IN 1 AND 2 PETER IS HE
IS WRITING TO CHRISTIANS WHO ARE
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ENCOUNTERING PERSECUTION AND
SUFFERING AND HE'S TELLING THEM
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HOW TO BEAR IT PATIENTLY.
SIXTEEN TIMES IN 1 AND 2 PETER
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YOU FIND 'SUFFER', 'SUFFERING',
OR SOME DERIVATIVE OF THAT.
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THAT'S MORE THAN ANY
OTHER BOOK OF THE BIBLE.
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AND SO, THIS IS
REALLY A THEME HERE.
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AND PART OF THE REASON IS, BY
THE TIME PETER WROTE HIS BOOKS,
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SOME OF THE ROMAN PERSECUTION
AGAINST CHRISTIANS HAD ALREADY
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BEGUN. NOW, HOW DID PETER DIE?
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IT DOESN'T SAY - WELL,
IT DOES SAY IN THE BIBLE.
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IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT HIS DEATH
AS - YOU KNOW, WE'VE HEARD HE
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WAS CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN DURING
THE TIME OF NERO, BUT JESUS DID
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TELL PETER, 'WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG
YOU GIRD YOURSELF AND WENT WHERE
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YOU WANTED, BUT WHEN YOU ARE OLD
ANOTHER WILL GIRD YOU AND YOU
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WILL STRETCH FORTH YOUR HANDS' -
INDICATING THE KIND OF DEATH HE
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WOULD DIE, WHICH,
ULTIMATELY, WAS CRUCIFIXION.
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BUT YOU CAN READ IN ACTS 18 -
NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
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ME IN JUST A MOMENT. IF
WE GO THE WAY WE USUALLY DO,
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HAFDIS, YOU'D BE FIRST, I THINK.
THAT'S 1 PETER 5:10, RIGHT?
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OH YOU'LL - WE'RE
GOING - YOU GUYS FOOLED ME.
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YOU'RE DOING IT LEFT TO RIGHT.
BUT I WANT TO READ ACTS 18:2:
00:14:50.22\00:14:57.19
AND IT SAYS, "AND HE FOUND A
CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN
00:14:57.19\00:15:00.16
IN PONTUS, WHO HAD RECENTLY
COME FROM ITALY WITH HIS WIFE
00:15:00.16\00:15:03.03
PRISCILLA" - AND THEN HERE'S
WHAT'S A PARENTHETICAL STATEMENT
00:15:03.03\00:15:06.23
- IT SAYS, "(BECAUSE CLAUDIUS
HAD COMMANDED ALL THE JEWS TO
00:15:06.23\00:15:11.54
DEPART FROM ROME);" - NOW HERE
YOU SEE THE BEGINNING OF THIS
00:15:11.54\00:15:15.21
PERSECUTION THAT ENDED
UP GOING AGAINST THE JEWS.
00:15:15.21\00:15:18.35
THEY WERE CAUSING SOME PROBLEMS
AND THERE WAS SOME REBELLING
00:15:18.35\00:15:20.85
AND, FINALLY, THERE WAS A MAJOR
REBELLION AROUND 68 AD THAT
00:15:20.85\00:15:25.49
FINALLY RESULTED IN JERUSALEM
BEING DESTROYED IN 70 AD, AS
00:15:25.49\00:15:29.99
CHRIST HAD FORETOLD.
THEN, FOR MANY YEARS AFTER THAT,
00:15:29.99\00:15:33.96
THE JEWS WERE PRETTY MUCH
ON THE OUTS WITH THE ROMANS.
00:15:33.96\00:15:37.17
MANY OF THEM HAD BEEN
CARRIED OFF AND MADE SLAVES.
00:15:37.17\00:15:39.53
THEY WERE SEEN AS TROUBLEMAKERS
- AND THEN CHRISTIANS - BECAUSE
00:15:39.53\00:15:42.17
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION WAS SO
CLOSELY ALIGNED WITH THE JEWISH
00:15:42.17\00:15:45.57
RELIGION - CONSIDERED TO
BE A MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION -
00:15:45.57\00:15:48.81
WORSHIPING THE SAME GOD, THEY
USED TO KEEP THE SAME SABBATH,
00:15:48.81\00:15:53.38
AND THEY USED TO OBSERVE THE
SAME CLEAN AND UNCLEAN FOODS.
00:15:53.38\00:15:56.85
EVEN THOUGH MANY CHRISTIANS
DON'T TODAY, THEY DID BACK THEN.
00:15:56.85\00:15:59.52
THEY WERE SEEN AS A
BRANCH OF JUDAISM AND THEY WERE
00:15:59.52\00:16:03.66
PERSECUTED. AND SO,
THEY WERE EXPERIENCING
00:16:03.66\00:16:07.13
THIS AND PETER IS WRITING TO THE
BELIEVERS WHO ARE GOING THROUGH
00:16:07.13\00:16:10.67
SOME OF THIS PERSECUTION.
YOU CAN READ IN 1 PETER 1:6,
00:16:10.67\00:16:15.97
"IN THIS YOU GREATLY REJOICE,
THOUGH NOW FOR A LITTLE WHILE,
00:16:15.97\00:16:19.87
IF NEED BE, YOU HAVE BEEN
GRIEVED BY VARIOUS TRIALS" -
00:16:19.87\00:16:24.28
NOW, DOES
SUFFERING LAST VERY LONG?
00:16:24.28\00:16:28.08
>>SOMETIMES. >>SEEMS LIKE IT.
00:16:28.08\00:16:32.39
I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE IN INDIA
AND - I KNOW DEBBIE REMEMBERS
00:16:32.39\00:16:38.56
THIS DAY - WHEN WE WERE VISITING
WITH SOME OF THE DOCTORS, WE
00:16:38.56\00:16:41.60
TOOK SOME - THIS WAS ON OUR
SECOND TRIP TO INDIA - WE TOOK
00:16:41.60\00:16:45.47
SOME DOCTORS WITH US AND THEY
HAD A MEDICAL CLINIC OUT THERE
00:16:45.47\00:16:48.54
IN ONE OF THE VILLAGES AND THIS
ONE LADY CAME UP AND SHE WAS -
00:16:48.54\00:16:53.78
SHE WAS INTELLIGENT ENOUGH, BUT
SHE WAS DEFORMED IN SOME WAY AND
00:16:53.78\00:16:59.65
SHE WAS CRYING AND SHE
WAS ASKING US, THROUGH THE
00:16:59.65\00:17:01.58
TRANSLATOR, 'WHY DOES
GOD LET ME SUFFER SO?'
00:17:01.58\00:17:04.69
I MEAN, SHE LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS
FIFTY YEARS OLD - MAY HAVE BEEN
00:17:04.69\00:17:06.76
YOUNGER, JUST LOOKED THAT OLD
- AND SHE HAD OBVIOUSLY SUFFERED
00:17:06.76\00:17:10.49
FROM GREAT PHYSICAL
PAIN HER WHOLE LIFE.
00:17:10.49\00:17:12.69
IT LOOKED, TO ME, LIKE SHE
WAS BORN WITH SOME DEFORMITY.
00:17:12.69\00:17:16.26
AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD
TO ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE THAT.
00:17:16.26\00:17:19.77
'WHY IS GOD
MAKING ME SUFFER SO?'
00:17:19.77\00:17:21.80
SHE WAS JUST CRYING. AND
THEN DEBBIE STARTED CRYING
00:17:21.80\00:17:25.37
AND SOME OF THE OTHERS WERE
CRYING - AND IT JUST, SORT OF,
00:17:25.37\00:17:29.14
REPRESENTED THE
SUFFERING IN THE WORLD.
00:17:29.14\00:17:31.48
BUT COMPARED TO ETERNITY, HOW
LONG DOES ANYONE REALLY SUFFER?
00:17:31.48\00:17:40.29
DOESN'T PAUL SAY THAT THE
SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT WORLD
00:17:40.29\00:17:45.93
ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED
WITH THE ETERNAL GLORY THAT GOD
00:17:45.93\00:17:50.50
HAS FOR THOSE THAT LOVE HIM.
SO, AFTER YOU GET THROUGH YOUR
00:17:50.50\00:17:53.44
FIRST ZILLION YEARS OF PARADISE,
AND YOU LOOK BACK ON THE SEVENTY
00:17:53.44\00:17:59.61
YEARS OF SUFFERING, ASSUMING
THAT YOU JUST, YOU KNOW, LIVED A
00:17:59.61\00:18:02.91
LIFE OF TERRIBLE
SUFFERING, HOW MUCH IS IT?
00:18:02.91\00:18:08.32
NOW THAT'S EASY TO SAY,
PHILOSOPHICALLY, IT'S HARD WHEN
00:18:08.32\00:18:10.85
YOU'RE SUFFERING FOR
YEARS. AND I'VE GOT SOME FRIENDS
00:18:10.85\00:18:14.89
THAT STRUGGLE WITH RHEUMATOID
ARTHRITIS AND THERE'S LIKE -
00:18:14.89\00:18:17.49
THE QUESTION IS
NOT 'ARE YOU HURTING?'
00:18:17.49\00:18:20.00
THE QUESTION IS
'HOW BAD IT IS TODAY?'
00:18:20.00\00:18:22.56
AND THEY'RE JUST ALWAYS IN SOME
KIND OF PAIN AND YOUR HEARTS GO
00:18:22.56\00:18:25.40
OUT TO THEM. AND MY
BROTHER WAS LIKE THAT.
00:18:25.40\00:18:27.44
HE STRUGGLED TO BREATHE
HIS WHOLE LIFE - HE HAD CYSTIC
00:18:27.44\00:18:30.47
FIBROSIS AND HAD A VARIETY
OF PROBLEMS AND I USED TO JUST
00:18:30.47\00:18:33.74
WONDER - I ALWAYS FELT A LITTLE
GUILTY BECAUSE I WAS SO HEALTHY.
00:18:33.74\00:18:38.31
HE USED TO SAY, 'DOUG, GOD'S NOT
FAIR, YOU'RE HEALTHY AND STUPID;
00:18:38.31\00:18:41.28
I'M SMART AND SICK.' (LAUGHTER)
AND SO I KNOW, YOU CAN SAY, 'OH
00:18:41.28\00:18:47.89
WELL, BUT IT WON'T LAST LONG' -
BUT THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE BIBLE
00:18:47.89\00:18:51.56
TEACHES: 'WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR
A NIGHT, BUT JOY COMES IN THE
00:18:51.56\00:18:55.93
MORNING.' AND SO, ALL THE
SUFFERING IS GOING TO JUST LOOK
00:18:55.93\00:18:59.90
LIKE A GLIMMER WHEN
YOU'RE IN ETERNITY LOOKING BACK.
00:18:59.90\00:19:02.57
SO HAVING THAT PERSPECTIVE - I
REMEMBER BONNIE SAYING, ONE TIME
00:19:02.57\00:19:06.54
- SHE'S IN BOSTON RIGHT NOW SO
I CAN TALK ABOUT HER - SHE SAID,
00:19:06.54\00:19:10.28
'YOU CAN HANDLE ALMOST ANYTHING
IF YOU KNOW IT'S NOT GOING TO
00:19:10.28\00:19:12.25
LAST.' YOU CAN HANDLE ALMOST
ANYTHING IF YOU KNOW IT'S NOT
00:19:12.25\00:19:16.45
GOING TO LAST. AND SO YOU
JUST, KIND OF, GRIN AND BEAR IT.
00:19:16.45\00:19:20.99
SO PETER IS SAYING, "THOUGH NOW
FOR A LITTLE WHILE, IF NEED BE,
00:19:20.99\00:19:26.49
YOU HAVE BEEN
GRIEVED BY VARIOUS TRIALS".
00:19:26.49\00:19:29.06
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US, PLEASE, 1 PETER 5.
00:19:29.06\00:19:32.30
>>"BUT MAY THE GOD OF ALL GRACE,
WHO CALLED US TO HIS ETERNAL
00:19:32.30\00:19:37.37
GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS, AFTER YOU
HAVE SUFFERED A WHILE, PERFECT,
00:19:37.37\00:19:42.98
ESTABLISH,
STRENGTHEN, AND SETTLE YOU."
00:19:42.98\00:19:46.45
>>VERY GOOD. NOW YOU
NOTICE AGAIN, PETER SAYS
00:19:46.45\00:19:48.52
YOU SUFFER 'FOR AWHILE', BUT
WHAT IS THAT SUFFERING DOING?
00:19:48.52\00:19:54.59
IT SAYS, 'PERFECT' - PERFECT -
I'M SORRY - "PERFECT, ESTABLISH,
00:19:54.59\00:20:00.50
STRENGTHEN, AND
SETTLE" - SO WHAT IS HAPPENING?
00:20:00.50\00:20:02.96
WHAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS
THAT GOD ALLOWS US TO GO THROUGH
00:20:02.96\00:20:05.37
SUFFERING? >>SPIRITUAL -
00:20:05.37\00:20:08.34
>>IT'S SPIRITUAL GROWTH, YEAH.
NOT ONLY THAT, SOMETIMES GOD
00:20:08.34\00:20:12.17
ALLOWS US TO SUFFER BECAUSE
IT HELPS THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING.
00:20:12.17\00:20:18.51
I REMEMBER - I THINK I'VE
MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, I READ A
00:20:18.51\00:20:20.75
BOOK YEARS AGO, WRITTEN BY
MARVIN MOORE, CALLED WITNESSING
00:20:20.75\00:20:24.15
THROUGH TRIALS AND IT JUST HAD A
VARIETY OF STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO
00:20:24.15\00:20:28.46
WENT THROUGH A NUMBER OF TRIALS
IN THEIR LIFE AND THEY WERE
00:20:28.46\00:20:30.86
WONDERING, 'WHY IS
GOD LETTING ME DO THIS?'
00:20:30.86\00:20:34.63
WELL, IT WASN'T JUST FOR THEIR
DEVELOPMENT, BUT OTHERS WERE
00:20:34.63\00:20:37.03
WATCHING THEM BEAR THEIR
SUFFERINGS PATIENTLY AND IT WAS
00:20:37.03\00:20:40.50
PREACHING TO
THOSE WHO WATCHED THEM.
00:20:40.50\00:20:44.44
IF WE COMPLAIN WHEN WE'RE
SUFFERING, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I'M
00:20:44.44\00:20:50.61
A BIG BABY. I JUST -
I GET A SPLINTER AND I
00:20:50.61\00:20:53.75
WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO KNOW.
AND YOU GET A FLAT TIRE AND YOU
00:20:53.75\00:20:57.69
THINK THE
WORLD'S COMING TO AN END.
00:20:57.69\00:20:59.15
I MEAN, SUFFERING IS NOT
ALWAYS PHYSICAL SUFFERING.
00:20:59.15\00:21:01.92
THERE'S TRIALS WE GO THROUGH
- SOME PEOPLE - TERRIBLE STRESS.
00:21:01.92\00:21:04.56
SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING
THROUGH FINANCIAL STRUGGLES AND
00:21:04.56\00:21:07.86
SUFFERING - THERE'S ALL
KINDS OF DIFFERENT SUFFERING.
00:21:07.86\00:21:10.07
WE DON'T JUST
MEAN PHYSICAL PAIN.
00:21:10.07\00:21:11.90
BUT IF YOU BEAR IT PATIENTLY,
AND PEOPLE WATCH THAT - I'VE
00:21:11.90\00:21:18.84
GONE TO SEE FOLKS IN THE
HOSPITAL THAT WERE SICK AND THEY
00:21:18.84\00:21:21.31
WERE STRUGGLING AND FOLKS WOULD
COME IN AND TALK TO THEM AND
00:21:21.31\00:21:24.95
THEY WERE ALWAYS SO POSITIVE,
IN SPITE OF THEIR SUFFERING.
00:21:24.95\00:21:28.52
PEOPLE WALKED AWAY AND
SAID, 'BOY, THEY'VE GOT TO BE
00:21:28.52\00:21:30.22
CHRISTIANS. WHAT DOES
IT MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN?
00:21:30.22\00:21:32.09
JUST LOOK AT THOSE PEOPLE -
THEY'RE SO OPTIMISTIC, IN SPITE
00:21:32.09\00:21:34.82
OF THEIR SUFFERING. SO,
BEING A CHRISTIAN DOESN'T
00:21:34.82\00:21:37.59
MEAN YOU'RE
NEVER GOING TO SUFFER.
00:21:37.59\00:21:39.49
I HAVE BIG ISSUE WITH THESE
PROSPERITY PREACHERS THAT SAY IF
00:21:39.49\00:21:42.30
YOU'VE JUST GOT ENOUGH FAITH,
YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE PLENTY OF
00:21:42.30\00:21:44.07
MONEY - YOU'LL ALWAYS BE
HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND WISE.
00:21:44.07\00:21:46.70
DOESN'T - THAT'S NOT
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE APOSTLES.
00:21:46.70\00:21:49.54
THAT'S NOT WHAT
THE BIBLE TEACHES.
00:21:49.54\00:21:51.51
AND - BUT WE ARE TO WITNESS
THROUGH OUR TRIALS, AMEN?
00:21:51.51\00:21:57.21
AND THEN, IN THAT SECTION,
IT SAYS THERE IN REVELATION 2,
00:21:57.21\00:22:00.92
VERSE 10 - JESUS, SPEAKING TO
THE CHURCH, SAYS, "DO NOT FEAR
00:22:00.92\00:22:06.55
ANY OF THOSE THINGS" - AND
THIS IS THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA, I
00:22:06.55\00:22:09.99
BELIEVE - "DO NOT FEAR ANY OF
THOSE THINGS WHICH YOU ARE ABOUT
00:22:09.99\00:22:12.49
TO SUFFER." SO DOES IT - IS
THE CHURCH FREE FROM SUFFERING?
00:22:12.49\00:22:17.47
JESUS IS TALKING TO A
WHOLE AGE OF THE CHURCH HERE.
00:22:17.47\00:22:20.07
- "INDEED, THE DEVIL" - NOW THAT
TELLS YOU SOMETHING RIGHT THERE:
00:22:20.07\00:22:22.64
HE SAYS YOU'RE ABOUT TO SUFFER
AND THEN HE SAYS THE DEVIL.
00:22:22.64\00:22:24.67
WHO'S BEHIND IT? >>THE DEVIL.
00:22:24.67\00:22:26.41
>>WHO IS BEHIND
THE SUFFERING OF JOB?
00:22:26.41\00:22:28.28
>>THE DEVIL. >>WHO IS BEHIND THE
00:22:28.28\00:22:29.94
SUFFERING OF JESUS? AND
IT'S IN MOST CASES - NOT IN
00:22:29.94\00:22:34.05
ALL CASES, BUT IN MOST CASES
THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO HEAP
00:22:34.05\00:22:37.09
SUFFERING ON THE
CHURCH. DO NOT FEAR ANY OF THOSE
00:22:37.09\00:22:40.42
THINGS YOU'RE ABOUT TO
SUFFER. ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT.
00:22:40.42\00:22:42.62
WHAT DOES JESUS
TELL US ABOUT SUFFERING?
00:22:42.62\00:22:45.39
'DON'T FEAR.' YOU KNOW, I DO
A PROPHECY PROGRAM AND YOU TALK
00:22:45.39\00:22:48.60
ABOUT THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES
AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION - AND,
00:22:48.60\00:22:51.90
YOU'VE GOT TO ADMIT, THERE'S
SOME FRIGHTENING WORDS IN THERE
00:22:51.90\00:22:54.24
- "SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN
KNOWN NOR WILL THERE EVER BE" -
00:22:54.24\00:22:58.24
SO JUST THINK OF THIS TROUBLE
- IT'S THE WORST TROUBLE - AND
00:22:58.24\00:23:00.58
AFTER YOU THINK YOU'VE IMAGINED
IT, YOU CAN'T IMAGINE IT.
00:23:00.58\00:23:03.14
THAT'S ACTUALLY A QUOTE FROM
ELLEN WHITE - AND THE BIBLE.
00:23:03.14\00:23:08.02
SO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE
TRIBULATION AND I'VE TALKED TO
00:23:08.02\00:23:10.32
FOLKS AND THEY SAY, 'OH,
PASTOR DOUG, WHERE DO WE HIDE?
00:23:10.32\00:23:12.99
WHAT DO WE DO? I'M SO AFRAID.'
AND OUR CHARISMATIC FRIENDS HAVE
00:23:12.99\00:23:17.69
JUST DEVELOPED A WHOLE NEW
THEOLOGY TO ESCAPE THAT AND THEY
00:23:17.69\00:23:20.20
SAY, 'WE'LL JUST GET RAPTURED
UP BEFORE THE TRIBULATION.
00:23:20.20\00:23:22.13
YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY
ABOUT IT.' BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T
00:23:22.13\00:23:23.83
HANDLE THE FEARS SO THEY
DEVELOPED A WHOLE NEW THEORY.
00:23:23.83\00:23:26.57
YES, WE WILL BE HERE DURING THE
TRIBULATION, IF YOU'RE ALIVE IN
00:23:26.57\00:23:30.21
THE END OF TIME, BUT
DO WE NEED TO FEAR IT?
00:23:30.21\00:23:33.07
WHAT HAS JESUS SAID? 'DO
NOT FEAR' - HE SAYS, 'I'VE
00:23:33.07\00:23:38.55
OVERCOME, YOU CAN OVERCOME.
THE THINGS YOU'RE ABOUT TO
00:23:38.55\00:23:41.88
SUFFER, INDEED THE DEVIL WILL
THROW SOME OF YOU INTO PRISON
00:23:41.88\00:23:45.95
THAT YOU MAY BE TESTED AND
YOU'LL HAVE TRIBULATION TEN
00:23:45.95\00:23:48.49
DAYS.' NOW, HE'S TALKING
SPECIFICALLY ABOUT A TRIBULATION
00:23:48.49\00:23:54.00
THAT HAPPENED DURING THE TIME,
I THINK IT WAS OF DOMITION -
00:23:54.00\00:23:57.03
FROM WAS IT 303 TO 313 - PASTOR
ROSS, HERE? I'M PRETTY SURE
00:23:57.03\00:24:03.64
THAT'S CORRECT, YEAH.
>>AND SO THEY HAD TEN YEARS OF
00:24:03.64\00:24:08.11
TERRIBLE
SUFFERING DURING THAT TIME.
00:24:08.11\00:24:11.08
BUT, "BE FAITHFUL UNTIL DEATH,
AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE CROWN OF
00:24:11.08\00:24:14.72
LIFE." YOU KNOW,
WHAT'S THE WORST THING
00:24:14.72\00:24:16.52
THAT THE WICKED CAN DO TO US?
JESUS SAID, 'DO NOT FEAR THOSE
00:24:16.52\00:24:20.39
WHO DESTROY THE BODY
AND THAT'S ALL THEY CAN DO.
00:24:20.39\00:24:23.36
RATHER, FEAR HIM WHO
CAN DESTROY SOUL AND BODY.'
00:24:23.36\00:24:26.23
SO, IF YOU'RE GOING TO
FEAR SOMEONE, FEAR GOD.
00:24:26.23\00:24:28.26
AND IT'S LIKE WESLEY USED TO
SAY, 'IF YOU FEAR GOD, YOU WON'T
00:24:28.26\00:24:32.77
FEAR ANYTHING ELSE, BUT IF
YOU DON'T FEAR GOD, YOU'LL FEAR
00:24:32.77\00:24:35.40
EVERYTHING.' SO NOTICE THE
WORDS JUST IN REVELATION 2:10:
00:24:35.40\00:24:41.51
'SUFFER', 'PRISON', 'TESTED',
'DEATH', 'TRIBULATION' - AND
00:24:41.51\00:24:46.05
HE'S WRITING TO THE CHURCH.
SO, WE DO GO THROUGH HARD TIMES;
00:24:46.05\00:24:51.35
WE OUGHT TO BE PRAISING GOD FOR
THE GOOD TIMES. WHAT'S GOING TO
00:24:51.35\00:24:55.22
BRING REVIVAL TO THE
CHURCH? >>PERSECUTIONS.
00:24:55.22\00:24:59.63
>>DO WE NEED REVIVAL? >>YES.
00:24:59.63\00:25:03.16
>>I THINK THAT THERE'S GOING
TO BE TRIALS THAT WILL COME.
00:25:03.16\00:25:07.80
AND IT'S NOT GOING TO - I
DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET
00:25:07.80\00:25:09.10
PERSECUTED RIGHT AWAY BECAUSE
YOU GET PERSECUTED FOR GODLY
00:25:09.10\00:25:11.37
LIVING AND THERE'S NOT A LOT OF
GODLY LIVING RIGHT NOW, TO JUST
00:25:11.37\00:25:15.34
BE HONEST WITH YOU. I
THINK THE TRIALS ARE GOING TO
00:25:15.34\00:25:18.11
TURN US TO GOD AND WE'LL HAVE
GODLY LIVING AND THEN YOU MAY
00:25:18.11\00:25:22.72
GET PERSECUTED FOR
RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE.
00:25:22.72\00:25:25.12
BUT RIGHT NOW, IF TROUBLE COMES,
IT'S JUST GOING TO BE PUNISHMENT
00:25:25.12\00:25:29.06
FOR WORLDLINESS. I'M
JUST BEING HONEST WITH YOU.
00:25:29.06\00:25:32.03
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU AGREE WITH
ME BUT, YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT THE
00:25:32.03\00:25:33.56
CHURCH TODAY AND I LOOK AT
THE CHURCH IN THE TIME OF THE
00:25:33.56\00:25:35.46
APOSTLES AND THERE'S A BIG DELTA
BETWEEN THE HOLINESS AND THE
00:25:35.46\00:25:40.17
LIVES THEY LIVED AND
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN GENERAL
00:25:40.17\00:25:42.87
CHRISTIANITY TODAY.
AND I THINK THERE'S GOING
00:25:42.87\00:25:45.07
TO BE TRIALS THAT WILL COME
INDISCRIMINATELY ON THE WORLD
00:25:45.07\00:25:48.08
THAT ARE GOING TO TURN PEOPLE
TO GOD, THEN THERE'LL BE GODLY
00:25:48.08\00:25:51.08
LIVING, THEN THE
PERSECUTION WILL COME BECAUSE
00:25:51.08\00:25:53.31
OF GODLY LIVING. BUT I
DON'T THINK THAT THE GODLY
00:25:53.31\00:25:56.82
LIVING IS A REAL
THREAT TO THE DEVIL.
00:25:56.82\00:25:58.65
YOU START LIVING
GODLY AND IT BOTHERS HIM.
00:25:58.65\00:26:01.49
IF YOU TAKE THE NAME OF CHRIST
AND YOU LIVE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE,
00:26:01.49\00:26:04.36
HE SAYS THAT'S
EXACTLY WHERE I WANT YOU.
00:26:04.36\00:26:06.86
YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH RELIGION TO
FOOL YOURSELF, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO
00:26:06.86\00:26:10.13
BE A THREAT TO ME. DID YOU CATCH
THAT? THE DEVIL LOVES IT WHEN WE
00:26:10.13\00:26:15.00
TAKE THE NAME OF CHRIST - WE
HAVE A NAME THAT WE LIVE, BUT
00:26:15.00\00:26:17.17
WE'RE DEAD SPIRITUALLY.
BUT WHEN WE REALLY START LIVING
00:26:17.17\00:26:20.41
HOLY, THAT'S
WHEN HE GETS NERVOUS.
00:26:20.41\00:26:23.48
THAT'S WHY YOU'VE GOT THAT - I'M
GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF HERE.
00:26:23.48\00:26:27.05
SO JESUS SAID, AND I QUOTED THIS
TO YOU IN MATTHEW 10:28, 'DO NOT
00:26:27.05\00:26:30.62
FEAR THOSE WHO KILL THE BODY BUT
THEY CAN'T DO ANY MORE.' 1 PETER
00:26:30.62\00:26:33.69
4 - SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING
PETER AND I'M READING ALL THE
00:26:33.69\00:26:36.19
OTHER VERSES - 1 PETER
4:12, "BELOVED, DO NOT THINK IT
00:26:36.19\00:26:40.26
STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY
TRIAL WHICH IS TO TRY YOU, AS
00:26:40.26\00:26:44.70
THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING
HAPPENED TO YOU; BUT REJOICE TO
00:26:44.70\00:26:48.17
THE EXTENT THAT YOU PARTAKE
OF CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS..."
00:26:48.17\00:26:51.91
SO WHAT DID
JESUS SAY WE SHOULD DO?
00:26:51.91\00:26:53.78
HE SAID, 'IF YOU ARE PERSECUTED
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE' - THAT'S
00:26:53.78\00:26:57.95
MATTHEW 5, VERSE 10, "BLESSED
ARE THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED FOR
00:26:57.95\00:27:02.58
RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE, FOR
THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
00:27:02.58\00:27:05.92
BLESSED ARE YOU WHEN THEY REVILE
AND PERSECUTE YOU, AND SAY ALL
00:27:05.92\00:27:09.52
KINDS OF EVIL AGAINST
YOU FALSELY" - SO CHRISTIAN
00:27:09.52\00:27:13.16
SUFFERING IS NOT JUST SOMEONE
PUTTING, YOU KNOW, BAMBOO SHOOTS
00:27:13.16\00:27:16.83
UNDER OUR TOENAILS, RIGHT?
IT SAYS IT'S ALSO JUST PEOPLE
00:27:16.83\00:27:20.94
TALKING ABOUT YOU
AND HURTING YOU THAT WAY.
00:27:20.94\00:27:22.80
THEY SAY ALL KINDS OF EVIL
THINGS AGAINST YOU FALSELY, FOR
00:27:22.80\00:27:26.34
MY SAKE. WHEN THIS
HAPPENS, WHETHER IT'S
00:27:26.34\00:27:28.64
PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ANGUISH,
HE SAYS, "REJOICE AND BE
00:27:28.64\00:27:33.55
EXCEEDINGLY GLAD" - NOW,
YOU KNOW WHAT IS DIFFERENT HERE?
00:27:33.55\00:27:37.62
WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE
BEATITUDES HE SAYS BLESSED ARE
00:27:37.62\00:27:39.75
THE PEACEMAKERS, BLESSED ARE THE
MERCIFUL, BLESSED ARE THE POOR
00:27:39.75\00:27:44.46
IN SPIRIT, BUT WHEN HE GETS
TO PERSECUTION HE SAYS, 'THIS IS
00:27:44.46\00:27:48.36
THE GREATEST BLESSING -
REJOICE AND BE EXCEEDINGLY GLAD.
00:27:48.36\00:27:53.27
NOW HOW MANY OF YOU WANT TO
BE ABLE TO REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY?
00:27:53.27\00:27:58.37
YOU KNOW WHERE I'M GOING WITH
THIS. YOU DON'T WANT TO ANSWER.
00:27:58.37\00:28:02.71
WHAT IS - 'WHAT'S
THE PRICE, PASTOR DOUG?'
00:28:02.71\00:28:05.25
IF YOU WANT TO REJOICE
EXCEEDINGLY, HE SAID, 'WHEN YOU
00:28:05.25\00:28:08.02
SUFFER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' - NOW,
I DON'T THINK WE OUGHT TO BE
00:28:08.02\00:28:10.02
KOOKY MASOCHISTICS GOING AROUND
LOOKING FOR SUFFERING SO WE CAN
00:28:10.02\00:28:12.69
REJOICE WITH JESUS, JUST
LIVE GODLY, IT'LL HAPPEN.
00:28:12.69\00:28:17.56
HE SAYS, "REJOICE AND BE
EXCEEDINGLY GLAD, FOR GREAT IS
00:28:17.56\00:28:22.26
YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN, FOR SO
THEY PERSECUTED THE PROPHETS WHO
00:28:22.26\00:28:26.43
WERE BEFORE YOU." NOW SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ, FOR ME, MATTHEW
00:28:26.43\00:28:29.64
17:12 - WHO'S THAT? YOU'LL HAVE
THAT? OKAY, I WANT TO READ -
00:28:29.64\00:28:33.78
BEFORE YOU GET THERE I
WANT TO READ MATTHEW 10:24.
00:28:33.78\00:28:38.21
AND WE'RE TALKING, NOW, ABOUT
THE SUFFERINGS AN EXAMPLE OF
00:28:38.21\00:28:40.18
CHRIST - MATTHEW 10:24,
"A DISCIPLE IS NOT ABOVE HIS
00:28:40.18\00:28:43.92
TEACHER, NOR A
SERVANT ABOVE HIS MASTER."
00:28:43.92\00:28:47.66
JESUS SAID, "IT IS ENOUGH FOR
A DISCIPLE THAT HE BE LIKE HIS
00:28:47.66\00:28:49.69
TEACHER, AND A
SERVANT LIKE HIS MASTER.
00:28:49.69\00:28:51.29
IF THEY HAVE CALLED THE MASTER
OF THE HOUSE BEELZEBUB, HOW MUCH
00:28:51.29\00:28:55.26
MORE WILL THEY CALL
THOSE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD?"
00:28:55.26\00:28:57.97
SO, AGAIN, SOME SUFFERING
IS VERBAL - IT'S JUST BEING
00:28:57.97\00:29:01.24
REPROACHED AND FALSELY ACCUSED.
DOESN'T IT HURT WHEN YOU'RE
00:29:01.24\00:29:04.31
ACCUSED OF DOING SOMETHING
TERRIBLE YOU DIDN'T DO?
00:29:04.31\00:29:06.64
>>YES. >>BECAUSE,
YOU KNOW, YOU WORK TO
00:29:06.64\00:29:08.71
HAVE A GODLY REPUTATION
AND THEN PEOPLE SLANDER YOU.
00:29:08.71\00:29:11.95
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ,
FOR US, MATTHEW 17:12, PLEASE.
00:29:11.95\00:29:15.85
>>"BUT I SAY TO YOU THAT ELIJAH
HAS COME ALREADY, AND THEY DID
00:29:15.85\00:29:19.99
NOT KNOW HIM BUT DID TO
HIM WHATEVER THEY WISHED.
00:29:19.99\00:29:23.89
LIKEWISE THE SON OF MAN IS ALSO
ABOUT TO SUFFER AT THEIR HANDS."
00:29:23.89\00:29:29.46
>>SO JESUS WAS AS CLEAR AS
HE COULD BE THAT HE WOULD BE
00:29:29.46\00:29:33.10
SUFFERING. NOW,
THIS WAS ONE OF THE BIG
00:29:33.10\00:29:35.60
CHALLENGES THE DISCIPLES HAD IN
THE EARLY DAYS IS THEY WERE SO
00:29:35.60\00:29:38.34
SURE THE MESSIAH WAS GOING
TO COME AND JUST RAIN LIKE KING
00:29:38.34\00:29:42.58
DAVID AND OVERTHROW THE ENEMIES
AND THEY WERE GOING TO BE A
00:29:42.58\00:29:45.91
GLORIOUS KINGDOM, LIKE IT
WAS IN THE DAYS OF SOLOMON AND
00:29:45.91\00:29:48.62
EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO BE HUNKY
DORY - THERE'S NOT A WORD IN THE
00:29:48.62\00:29:52.12
BIBLE THAT SAYS 'HUNKY DORY' BUT
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY THAT.
00:29:52.12\00:29:55.52
I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT 1 PETER
3:13 AND, AS WE GO THROUGH - I'M
00:29:55.52\00:30:01.13
GOING TO READ THROUGH VERSE
22 - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
00:30:01.13\00:30:03.63
SUFFERINGS AN EXAMPLE OF CHRIST
- "AND WHO IS HE WHO WILL HARM
00:30:03.63\00:30:07.70
YOU IF YOU BECOME
FOLLOWERS OF WHAT IS GOOD?
00:30:07.70\00:30:10.64
BUT EVEN IF YOU SHOULD
SUFFER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE,
00:30:10.64\00:30:13.41
YOU ARE BLESSED. 'AND
DO NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR
00:30:13.41\00:30:15.84
THREATS, NOR BE TROUBLED.'" -
AND HE'S QUOTING FROM THE BIBLE
00:30:15.84\00:30:18.48
THERE - BUT HE SAYS THERE'S
A BLESSING IF YOU SUFFER FOR
00:30:18.48\00:30:21.22
RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE - "BUT
SANCTIFY THE LORD GOD IN YOUR
00:30:21.22\00:30:24.42
HEARTS, AND ALWAYS BE READY TO
GIVE A DEFENSE TO EVERYONE WHO
00:30:24.42\00:30:27.29
ASKS YOU A REASON FOR THE HOPE
THAT IS IN YOU, WITH MEEKNESS
00:30:27.29\00:30:30.33
AND FEAR;" - NOW WHY
DID PETER INCLUDE THAT IN
00:30:30.33\00:30:33.16
CONNECTION WITH SUFFERING?
WAS PAUL IN PRISON AND HE HAD
00:30:33.16\00:30:38.70
TO GIVE TESTIMONY FOR
HIS FAITH SEVERAL TIMES?
00:30:38.70\00:30:43.14
DID JESUS SAY THAT YOU'LL BE
PERSECUTED AND YOU'LL BE BROUGHT
00:30:43.14\00:30:47.21
TO TRIAL - DON'T WORRY ABOUT
WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SAY, THE
00:30:47.21\00:30:50.21
HOLY SPIRIT WILL TELL
YOU WHAT TO SAY IN THAT HOUR?
00:30:50.21\00:30:53.28
THAT VERSE IS NOT JUST FOR
CHRISTIANS THAT KNOW HOW TO GIVE
00:30:53.28\00:30:56.72
BIBLE STUDIES - BE READY
ALWAYS TO GIVE AN ANSWER.
00:30:56.72\00:30:59.95
THAT'S A GOOD VERSE FOR
BIBLE STUDIES BUT YOU KNOW WHAT
00:30:59.95\00:31:02.19
PETER'S TALKING
ABOUT WHEN HE WRITES THAT?
00:31:02.19\00:31:04.19
CHRISTIANS WHO ARE BEING TRIED
FOR THEIR FAITH THAT ARE GIVING
00:31:04.19\00:31:07.36
A DEFENSE FOR THEIR FAITH.
AND SO HE SAYS, YOU KNOW, BE
00:31:07.36\00:31:12.30
READY TO SHARE - TO
DEFEND WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
00:31:12.30\00:31:15.07
HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE GOING TO BE
FALSELY ACCUSED - SANCTIFY THE
00:31:15.07\00:31:17.94
LORD GOD IN YOUR HEART -
AND VERSE 16, "HAVING A GOOD
00:31:17.94\00:31:21.21
CONSCIENCE, THAT WHEN THEY
DEFAME YOU AS EVILDOERS, THOSE
00:31:21.21\00:31:25.51
WHO REVILE YOUR GOOD CONDUCT
IN CHRIST MAY BE ASHAMED."
00:31:25.51\00:31:29.68
YOU KNOW, ONE REASON THAT NERO
STARTED THE GREAT PERSECUTION OF
00:31:29.68\00:31:33.15
ROME - NERO WAS KIND OF A
PASSIONATE BUILDER, AMONG OTHER
00:31:33.15\00:31:37.86
THINGS, AND, IN THE TIME OF
NERO, ROME WAS A CITY OF WOODEN
00:31:37.86\00:31:42.03
TENEMENTS AND THERE WERE
LARGE SWATHS OF THE CITY THAT HE
00:31:42.03\00:31:45.63
WANTED TO REBUILD IN MARBLE AND
STONE, SO HE HAD HIS SOLDIERS
00:31:45.63\00:31:48.94
SET IT ON FIRE. WELL
THAT CAUSED GREAT OUTRAGE.
00:31:48.94\00:31:51.61
THERE WAS GREAT LOSS OF LIFE
AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE FIRE TRUCKS
00:31:51.61\00:31:54.64
BACK THEN AND IT JUST BURNT
THROUGH WHOLE SECTIONS OF THE
00:31:54.64\00:31:56.85
CITY AND HE SAID, 'THE
CHRISTIANS DID IT.' NOW THEY
00:31:56.85\00:32:00.75
CONTROLLED THE PRESS BACK THEN -
IT'S WHAT YOU CALL 'FAKE NEWS' -
00:32:00.75\00:32:05.69
AND SO HE SAID,
'THE CHRISTIANS DID IT.
00:32:05.69\00:32:07.99
FURTHERMORE, THEY LIVE
UNDERGROUND SO THEY COULD HAVE
00:32:07.99\00:32:11.36
THESE SECRET CEREMONIES WHERE
THEY PRACTICE CANNIBALISM' -
00:32:11.36\00:32:14.83
BECAUSE THEY TOOK WHERE THE
CHRISTIANS SAID 'THIS IS MY BODY
00:32:14.83\00:32:17.77
- THIS IS MY BLOOD' - EATING THE
BREAD AND THE GRAPE JUICE - AND
00:32:17.77\00:32:20.20
THEY SAID, 'THEY'RE CANNIBALS
AND WE HEARD THEM - WE OVERHEARD
00:32:20.20\00:32:23.64
THEM TALKING ABOUT 'THIS IS
MY BODY, EAT IT' - AND THEY WERE
00:32:23.64\00:32:28.14
TERRIBLY DISTORTED.
AND WOULDN'T THAT GRIEVE
00:32:28.14\00:32:30.61
YOU BACK THEN IF
YOU WERE A CHRISTIAN?
00:32:30.61\00:32:32.08
YOU'RE A PEACE-LOVING PERSON -
YOU'D NEVER PRACTICE CANNIBALISM
00:32:32.08\00:32:34.68
- AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S
IN THE HEADLINES: 'WATCH OUT FOR
00:32:34.68\00:32:36.05
THE CHRISTIANS,
THEY'RE CANNIBALS!'
00:32:36.05\00:32:37.65
AND 'THEY'RE ARSONISTS!'
AND SO THEY WERE BEING ACCUSED
00:32:37.65\00:32:42.32
OF THESE THINGS EVEN BACK THEN -
TERRIBLE THINGS - "...WHEN THEY
00:32:42.32\00:32:46.90
DEFAME YOU AS EVILDOERS, THOSE
WHO REVILE YOUR" - THEY'LL LOOK
00:32:46.90\00:32:51.13
AT YOUR - "GOOD CONDUCT
IN CHRIST MAY BE ASHAMED."
00:32:51.13\00:32:53.70
- THEY'LL SAY, 'YOU KNOW, IN
SPITE OF WHAT NERO SAYS, THEY
00:32:53.70\00:32:55.67
SURE SEEM LIKE GOOD PEOPLE' -
"FOR IT IS BETTER, IF IT IS THE
00:32:55.67\00:32:59.74
WILL OF GOD, TO SUFFER FOR
DOING GOOD THAN FOR DOING EVIL."
00:32:59.74\00:33:04.75
- AND THEN HE GOES INTO JESUS
- "FOR CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED ONCE
00:33:04.75\00:33:08.12
FOR SINS, THE JUST FOR THE
UNJUST, THAT HE MIGHT BRING US
00:33:08.12\00:33:11.69
TO GOD, BEING PUT TO DEATH IN
THE FLESH BUT MADE ALIVE BY THE
00:33:11.69\00:33:15.46
SPIRIT," - AND, YEAH,
WE'VE STUDIED THAT OTHER SECTION
00:33:15.46\00:33:21.43
PRETTY THOROUGHLY IN A PREVIOUS
LESSON, SO WE'LL STOP THERE.
00:33:21.43\00:33:24.20
CHRIST SUFFERED FOR
SINS. WAS JESUS A WITNESS
00:33:24.20\00:33:27.14
THROUGH HIS SUFFERING? YOU
KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
00:33:27.14\00:33:30.74
MADE THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH JUST
EXPLODE BACK IN THE EARLY DAYS
00:33:30.74\00:33:33.91
OF THE GREAT PERSECUTION?
WHEN THE CHRISTIANS WERE TOLD
00:33:33.91\00:33:37.98
'YOU CAN LIVE IF YOU
DENY CHRIST; IF YOU DON'T DENY
00:33:37.98\00:33:42.95
CHRIST, YOU'RE
GOING TO THE COLISEUM.
00:33:42.95\00:33:45.15
YOU'LL EITHER BE SPORT FOR THE
GLADIATORS OR FOOD FOR THE LIONS
00:33:45.15\00:33:51.73
OR SOME FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT
THAT WILL KILL YOU.' THEY WERE
00:33:51.73\00:33:55.13
WILLING TO DIE - AND WHEN THEY
BROUGHT THEM TO THE COLISEUMS
00:33:55.13\00:33:58.17
AND THEY WERE EITHER BURNED OR
FED TO THE LIONS, THEY CONDUCTED
00:33:58.17\00:34:02.94
THEMSELVES WITH THIS
SPIRIT-FILLED PEACE THAT THE
00:34:02.94\00:34:08.18
PAGANS KNEW THAT
THEY DID NOT HAVE.
00:34:08.18\00:34:10.28
THEY WOULD SEE THEM PRAYING -
THEY'D SAY, 'YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT
00:34:10.28\00:34:13.21
LIFE.' MATTER OF FACT, I
REMEMBER SEEING THIS ENGRAVING
00:34:13.21\00:34:18.02
IN THESE MINES THAT
THEY'VE GOT IN NORTHERN AFRICA.
00:34:18.02\00:34:21.62
THEY USED TO SEND THE CHRISTIANS
TO WORK IN THESE MINES AND THEY
00:34:21.62\00:34:26.63
PUT ON THE WALLS, 'VIDA, VIDA,
VIDA' AND THEN SOME OTHER LATIN
00:34:26.63\00:34:32.23
WORD BUT, BASICALLY, IT SAID,
'LIFE, LIFE, WE HAVE LIFE'.
00:34:32.23\00:34:34.60
AND THEY'D WORK THEM IN
THE MINES UNTIL THEY DIED.
00:34:34.60\00:34:36.94
BUT THEN, YOU LOOK IN THE
PAGANS' GRAVES AND THEY WERE
00:34:36.94\00:34:40.58
VERY DEJECTED AND HOPELESS;
THEIR GRAVE INSCRIPTIONS WOULD
00:34:40.58\00:34:43.08
SAY, 'GOODBYE FOREVER - ENTERING
THE ETERNAL NIGHT' AND IT WAS
00:34:43.08\00:34:47.15
ALL, YOU KNOW, VERY HOPELESS.
WHERE THE CHRISTIANS HAD AN
00:34:47.15\00:34:52.59
ENDLESS HOPE, THE PAGANS HAD
A HOPELESS END - AND THEY'D SEE
00:34:52.59\00:34:55.79
THE CHRISTIANS DYING WITH HOPE
AND THEY'D SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW,
00:34:55.79\00:35:00.10
WHAT DO THEY GOT
THAT I DON'T HAVE?'
00:35:00.10\00:35:02.23
AND SO, IN SPITE OF THE
PERSECUTION - IT'S LIKE THE
00:35:02.23\00:35:05.23
CHURCH FATHER TERTULLIAN SAID,
'THE SEED' - I'M SORRY - 'THE
00:35:05.23\00:35:09.00
BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS IS SEED FOR
THE GOSPEL.' THE MORE THEY MOWED
00:35:09.00\00:35:13.41
THEM DOWN IT SEEMED TO JUST
SPREAD, BECAUSE THEY CONDUCTED
00:35:13.41\00:35:17.81
THEMSELVES PATIENTLY, THROUGH
THEIR SUFFERINGS, WITH FAITH.
00:35:17.81\00:35:23.75
OKAY, AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT
- YOU READ THE ONE ABOUT ELIJAH,
00:35:23.75\00:35:29.09
RIGHT? YEAH, WAS
ELIJAH PERSECUTED?
00:35:29.09\00:35:36.67
AND THEN HE SAYS THAT ONE WOULD
COME IN THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF
00:35:36.67\00:35:39.27
ELIJAH. WHO WAS
THAT? JOHN THE BAPTIST.
00:35:39.27\00:35:42.47
WHAT DID THEY DO
TO HIM? >>BEHEADED.
00:35:42.47\00:35:45.67
>>HE'S IN PRISON - HE'S
PERSECUTED - AND THEN YOU LOOK -
00:35:45.67\00:35:51.31
LOOK IN HEBREWS - IT TALKS AGAIN
ABOUT THE SUFFERING OF JESUS -
00:35:51.31\00:35:54.48
HEBREWS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9 - AND
THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON, "BUT WE
00:35:54.48\00:35:59.42
SEE JESUS, WHO WAS MADE A LITTLE
LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, FOR THE
00:35:59.42\00:36:03.06
SUFFERING OF DEATH CROWNED WITH
GLORY AND HONOR, THAT HE, BY THE
00:36:03.06\00:36:08.36
GRACE OF GOD, MIGHT
TASTE DEATH FOR EVERYONE."
00:36:08.36\00:36:12.20
- BRINGING MANY SONS TO GLORY -
"FOR IT WAS FITTING FOR HIM, FOR
00:36:12.20\00:36:16.20
WHOM ARE ALL TINGS AND BY WHOM
ARE ALL THINGS, IN BRINGING MANY
00:36:16.20\00:36:21.28
SONS TO GLORY, TO MAKE
THE CAPTAIN OF THEIR SALVATION
00:36:21.28\00:36:24.58
PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS."
CHRIST, THE CAPTAIN OF OUR
00:36:24.58\00:36:29.22
SALVATION, WAS MADE
PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS.
00:36:29.22\00:36:32.45
HE SUFFERED - IS THERE ANYONE
WHO WILL EVER SUFFER MORE THAN
00:36:32.45\00:36:36.02
JESUS? WHAT WAS IT THAT BROUGHT
THE GREATEST ANGUISH ON HIM? WAS
00:36:36.02\00:36:43.33
IT THE NAILS OR THE WHIPPING
OR THE MOCKING? ALL OF THAT, I'M
00:36:43.33\00:36:51.84
SURE, HURT. AND IT WAS ALL
THERE, BUT I THINK THE THING
00:36:51.84\00:36:56.14
THAT WAS THE HARDEST ON JESUS
WAS THE SEPARATION FROM THE
00:36:56.14\00:36:59.31
FATHER THAT HE EXPERIENCED
THAT BROKE HIS HEART AND - ARE
00:36:59.31\00:37:05.89
CHRISTIANS GOING TO SOMETIMES
GO THROUGH A TIME OF JACOB'S
00:37:05.89\00:37:08.39
TROUBLE WHERE WE FEEL SEPARATED
FROM GOD AND WE FEEL ALONE?
00:37:08.39\00:37:13.33
I THINK THAT EVERY BELIEVER,
AT SOME TIME, GOES THROUGH
00:37:13.33\00:37:15.36
WHAT JESUS AND JOB WENT
THROUGH, WHEN YOU JUST FEEL LIKE
00:37:15.36\00:37:18.23
EVERYTHING
EARTHLY HAS BEEN CUT OFF.
00:37:18.23\00:37:20.54
I THINK THERE'S A STATEMENT
WHERE ELLEN WHITE SAYS THAT, AT
00:37:20.54\00:37:24.07
SOME POINT, WE'RE GOING TO SENSE
THAT EVERY EARTHLY SUPPORT HAS
00:37:24.07\00:37:27.38
BEEN CUT OFF AND ALL WE
HAVE IS TO HANG BY FAITH ON GOD.
00:37:27.38\00:37:31.38
THAT'S A ROUGH
PARAPHRASE OF THAT.
00:37:31.38\00:37:33.98
ANYWAY, LET'S GO TO THE
NEXT SECTION - FIERY TRIAL -
00:37:33.98\00:37:36.28
NOW, WE'VE READ THIS VERSE
BEFORE, BUT WE'RE GOING TO READ
00:37:36.28\00:37:38.25
IT AGAIN AND DRAW
SOMETHING ELSE OF OUT IT.
00:37:38.25\00:37:40.02
AGAIN, 1 PETER 4:12 TO
14, "BELOVED, DO NOT THINK IT
00:37:40.02\00:37:45.23
STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY
TRIAL WHICH IS TO TRY YOU, AS
00:37:45.23\00:37:49.36
THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING
HAPPENED TO YOU; BUT REJOICE TO
00:37:49.36\00:37:53.34
THE EXTENT THAT YOU PARTAKE OF
CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS, THAT WHEN
00:37:53.34\00:37:56.81
HIS GLORY IS REVEALED, YOU MAY
ALSO BE GLAD WITH EXCEEDING JOY.
00:37:56.81\00:38:00.38
IF YOU ARE REPROACHED FOR THE
NAME OF CHRIST, BLESSED ARE YOU,
00:38:00.38\00:38:04.48
FOR THE SPIRIT OF GLORY AND
OF GOD RESTS UPON YOU. ON THEIR
00:38:04.48\00:38:07.92
PART HE IS BLASPHEMED, BUT
ON YOUR PART HE IS GLORIFIED."
00:38:07.92\00:38:12.45
CAN YOU THINK OF A TIME IN
THE BIBLE WHEN THE DISCIPLES
00:38:12.45\00:38:14.92
REJOICED ABOUT
SUFFERING? WHERE WAS THAT?
00:38:14.92\00:38:21.43
YOU REMEMBER IN ACTS WHEN
THEY HAD BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE THE
00:38:21.43\00:38:24.13
SANHEDRIN AND TOLD NOT TO
PREACH IN JESUS' NAME ANYMORE?
00:38:24.13\00:38:28.47
AND PETER SAID, 'WE OUGHT
TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN'.
00:38:28.47\00:38:31.01
AND THEY WERE GOING TO ARREST
HIM - THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO
00:38:31.01\00:38:32.44
DO - AND FINALLY GAMELIEL SAID,
'BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DO WITH
00:38:32.44\00:38:35.78
THESE MEN BECAUSE YOU MIGHT
BE FOUND TO BE FIGHTING AGAINST
00:38:35.78\00:38:38.61
GOD. SO, AS A
COMPROMISE, THEY SAID,
00:38:38.61\00:38:41.42
'WE'LL JUST WHIP THEM AND LET
THEM GO'. AND THEY WHIPPED THEM
00:38:41.42\00:38:44.52
AND THEN AFTERWARD IT
SAYS THE DISCIPLES REJOICED.
00:38:44.52\00:38:47.69
THEY CAME OUT OF THAT WHIPPING
TOGETHER REJOICING THAT THEY
00:38:47.69\00:38:50.59
WERE WORTHY TO SUFFER FOR
CHRIST. NOW, THAT WAS ESPECIALLY
00:38:50.59\00:38:54.73
KEEN FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE
FIRST-HAND WITNESSES OF JESUS
00:38:54.73\00:38:58.17
HANGING ON THE CROSS FOR THEM.
AND BECAUSE THEY HAD ACTUALLY
00:38:58.17\00:39:01.17
SEEN JESUS SUFFERING LIKE THAT
FOR THEM, TO SUFFER FOR CHRIST'S
00:39:01.17\00:39:05.74
NAME, THEY REALLY
DID REJOICE IN THAT.
00:39:05.74\00:39:10.05
YOU EVER SEEN A CHRISTIAN
REJOICE FOR THEIR SUFFERINGS?
00:39:10.05\00:39:14.32
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A BABY
CHRISTIAN AND I WAS READING THE
00:39:14.32\00:39:18.92
BIBLE AND I REMEMBER READING
WHERE IT SAID, 'IN EVERYTHING
00:39:18.92\00:39:22.99
GIVE THANKS' - I ALWAYS
THOUGHT, 'HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?'
00:39:22.99\00:39:26.49
I MEAN, SOME THINGS,
HOW CAN YOU BE THANKFUL FOR?
00:39:26.49\00:39:28.90
AND NOT LONG AFTER READING THAT
I STOOD UP ONE EVENING IN THE
00:39:28.90\00:39:33.87
CAVE AND THE CAVE HAD A SLOPING
ROOF AND I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW
00:39:33.87\00:39:36.60
FAR BACK I WAS AND I BONKED MY
HEAD ON THE ROOF OF THE CAVE -
00:39:36.60\00:39:40.08
AND IT'S HARD - IT'S A ROCK
CEILING - AND I, YOU KNOW, THE
00:39:40.08\00:39:43.78
OLD NATURE - I HAVE THAT WHOLE
VOCABULARY STILL - THERE'S A
00:39:43.78\00:39:47.68
WHOLE FILE OF WORDS FOR
OCCASIONS LIKE THAT AND I JUST
00:39:47.68\00:39:51.59
GOT READY TO BLURT OUT ALL OF
THESE WORDS AND THEN I THOUGHT
00:39:51.59\00:39:56.39
ABOUT PAIN - I THOUGHT ABOUT
WHERE GOD SAID, 'BE THANKFUL FOR
00:39:56.39\00:40:00.70
EVERYTHING'. I THOUGHT, 'HOW
CAN YOU THANK GOD AT A TIME LIKE
00:40:00.70\00:40:04.73
THIS. I THOUGHT, 'ALRIGHT, I'VE
GOT TO TRY THIS.' I SAID, 'LORD,
00:40:04.73\00:40:07.97
I DON'T KNOW WHY I
JUST BONKED MY HEAD.
00:40:07.97\00:40:10.07
I DON'T KNOW WHAT GOOD WILL EVER
COME FROM THIS BUT I'M GOING TO
00:40:10.07\00:40:13.24
THANK YOU ANYWAY BECAUSE
YOU TOLD ME TO THANK YOU IN ALL
00:40:13.24\00:40:15.34
THINGS'. AND IT STARTED FEELING
00:40:15.34\00:40:17.71
BETTER RIGHT AWAY. IT
WAS BETTER THAN CURSING.
00:40:17.71\00:40:22.38
BUT EVEN WHEN YOU'RE SUFFERING
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE AND YOU
00:40:22.38\00:40:26.02
DON'T KNOW WHY - YOU DON'T
KNOW WHAT GOOD IS GOING TO - YOU
00:40:26.02\00:40:29.42
KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU CAN SEE - 'I
CAN SEE WHERE GOOD CAN COME FROM
00:40:29.42\00:40:32.19
THIS' - BUT EVEN IF YOU CAN'T
SEE WHERE ANY GOOD CAN COME FROM
00:40:32.19\00:40:35.73
IT, THAT'S WHERE YOU
TRUST GOD AND YOU THANK HIM.
00:40:35.73\00:40:38.47
WELL, WE ALL GO
THROUGH FIERY TRIALS.
00:40:38.47\00:40:41.44
THERE'S A VERSE IN THE LESSON,
MALACHI CHAPTER 3, WHERE HE
00:40:41.44\00:40:44.97
TALKS ABOUT THAT - MALACHI 3:1,
"BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER,
00:40:44.97\00:40:50.31
AND HE WILL
PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE ME.
00:40:50.31\00:40:52.75
AND THE LORD, WHOM YOU
SEEK, WILL SUDDENLY COME TO HIS
00:40:52.75\00:40:55.08
TEMPLE, EVEN THE MESSENGER
OF THE COVENANT, IN WHOM YOU
00:40:55.08\00:40:58.12
DELIGHT. BEHOLD, HE
IS COMING," - THAT'S
00:40:58.12\00:41:01.49
A PROPHECY, OF
COURSE, ABOUT CHRIST COMING.
00:41:01.49\00:41:03.49
HE CAME TO THE TEMPLE WITH HIS
ZEAL AND HIS WHIP, BUT IT'S ALSO
00:41:03.49\00:41:07.13
TALKING ABOUT CHRIST COMING TO
THE TEMPLE OF GOD - HIS PEOPLE -
00:41:07.13\00:41:10.37
"SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS.
BUT WHO CAN ENDURE THE DAY OF
00:41:10.37\00:41:14.24
HIS COMING? AND WHO
CAN STAND WHEN HE APPEARS?
00:41:14.24\00:41:18.17
FOR HE IS LIKE A REFINER'S FIRE
AND LIKE A LAUNDERER'S SOAP."
00:41:18.17\00:41:22.24
- OKAY, TALKS ABOUT THE
MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT COMING
00:41:22.24\00:41:24.65
TO THE TEMPLE. SO
WHAT IS THE TEMPLE?
00:41:24.65\00:41:27.45
WELL, JESUS TAUGHT IN THE
LITERAL TEMPLE, BUT WHAT ELSE IS
00:41:27.45\00:41:29.82
A TEMPLE? >>YOUR BODY.
00:41:29.82\00:41:31.75
>>YOUR BODY IS THE
TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:41:31.75\00:41:34.22
WHO CAN ENDURE
THE DAY OF HIS COMING?
00:41:34.22\00:41:36.73
SO WHAT DOES HE
DO WHEN HE COMES?
00:41:36.73\00:41:38.26
IT SAYS HE WORKS LIKE A REFINER.
AND HOW DOES A REFINER REFINE?
00:41:38.26\00:41:45.07
DOES HE USE BANANA
SPLITS TO REFINE US?
00:41:45.07\00:41:48.84
OR DOES HE USE - YEAH, FIRE -
LIKE YOU'RE MELTING DOWN GOLD -
00:41:48.84\00:41:52.87
"BUT WHO CAN ENDURE
THE DAY OF HIS COMING?
00:41:52.87\00:41:55.14
AND WHO CAN
STAND WHEN HE APPEARS?
00:41:55.14\00:41:56.98
FOR HE IS LIKE A REFINER'S FIRE
AND LIKE A LAUNDERER'S SOAP.
00:41:56.98\00:42:00.68
HE WILL SIT AS A REFINER AND
A PURIFIER OF SILVER; HE WILL
00:42:00.68\00:42:04.29
PURIFY THE SONS OF LEVI," -
YOU'RE A NATION OF KINGS AND
00:42:04.29\00:42:07.52
PRIESTS - "AND PURGE THEM AS
GOLD AND SILVER, THAT THEY MAY
00:42:07.52\00:42:11.19
OFFER TO THE LORD AN OFFERING IN
RIGHTEOUSNESS." SO THIS IS NOT
00:42:11.19\00:42:16.16
THE COMING THAT IS GOING TO
DESTROY, THIS IS A COMING THAT
00:42:16.16\00:42:19.70
IS GOING TO SANCTIFY AND THAT'S
WHEN HE COMES INTO OUR LIVES.
00:42:19.70\00:42:23.30
THAT'S WHEN HE ALSO CAME TO HIS
PEOPLE AND HE BROUGHT REVIVAL.
00:42:23.30\00:42:27.71
SO, STILL TALKING ABOUT THE
FIERY TRIALS, JOB 23:10, JOB
00:42:27.71\00:42:34.95
SAID, "BUT HE KNOW THE WAY THAT
I TAKE; WHEN HE HAS TESTED ME, I
00:42:34.95\00:42:39.79
SHALL COME FORTH AS
GOLD." HOW WOULD YOU TEST GOLD?
00:42:39.79\00:42:43.73
YOU'D PURGE OUT THE
DROSS - AGAIN, IT WAS BY FIRE.
00:42:43.73\00:42:48.00
THERE'S A STATEMENT HERE FROM
THE BOOK ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ,
00:42:48.00\00:42:51.07
WHERE ELLEN WHITE SAYS, "SO IT
WILL BE WITH ALL WHO LIVE GODLY
00:42:51.07\00:42:55.50
IN CHRIST JESUS.
PERSECUTION AND REPROACH AWAIT
00:42:55.50\00:42:59.11
ALL WHO ARE IMBUED
WITH THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST."
00:42:59.11\00:43:02.14
HOW MANY? >>ALL.
00:43:02.14\00:43:03.68
>>THERE'S GOING TO BE ALL KINDS
OF PERSECUTION AND REPROACH.
00:43:03.68\00:43:05.95
SHE'S NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT
PHYSICAL, ALTHOUGH IT MAY BE -
00:43:05.95\00:43:09.12
"THE CHARACTER OF THE
PERSECUTION CHANGES WITH THE
00:43:09.12\00:43:12.09
TIMES, BUT THE PRINCIPLE AND THE
SPIRIT THAT UNDERLIES IT IS THE
00:43:12.09\00:43:17.06
SAME THAT HAS SLAIN THE CHOSEN
OF THE LORD EVER SINCE THE DAYS
00:43:17.06\00:43:20.73
OF ABEL. IT'S THE
HATRED OF SATAN FOR
00:43:20.73\00:43:23.60
CHRIST THAT
INSPIRES THIS PERSECUTION."
00:43:23.60\00:43:26.50
IT'LL MANIFEST
ITSELF MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.
00:43:26.50\00:43:28.97
AND, IN THE SAME WAY THAT
THE LORD KNOWS - WHAT'S THAT?
00:43:28.97\00:43:33.17
>>IT'S THE HATRED OF CHRIST
FOR SATAN NOT SATAN FOR CHRIST.
00:43:33.17\00:43:35.51
>>OH, DID I SAY IT
BACKWARDS? >>I THINK SO.
00:43:35.51\00:43:38.35
>>YEAH, IT SAYS THE SAME
PERSECUTION EVER - THAT THE LORD
00:43:38.35\00:43:42.75
HAS - HE'S PERSECUTED THE CHOSEN
OF THE LORD SINCE THE DAYS OF
00:43:42.75\00:43:47.69
ABEL - YEAH, SAME THING THAT THE
DEVIL HAS DONE AGAINST THE LORD.
00:43:47.69\00:43:52.83
THAT'S WHAT I MEANT TO
SAY. JOHN 15:20- NOW, SOMEONE'S
00:43:52.83\00:43:56.33
GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN JUST
A MOMENT, MATTHEW 24:9, OKAY?
00:43:56.33\00:44:00.84
JOHN 15:20, "REMEMBER
THE WORD THAT I SAID TO YOU,
00:44:00.84\00:44:04.57
'A SERVANT IS NOT
GREATER THAN HIS MASTER.'
00:44:04.57\00:44:06.71
IF THEY PERSECUTED ME,
THEY WILL ALSO PERSECUTE YOU."
00:44:06.71\00:44:10.81
- AND IF WE LIVE LIKE JESUS
WE'LL BE PERSECUTED - "IF THEY
00:44:10.81\00:44:13.88
KEPT MY WORD, THEY
WILL KEEP YOURS ALSO.
00:44:13.88\00:44:16.62
BUT ALL THESE THINGS THEY WILL
DO TO YOU FOR MY NAME'S SAKE,
00:44:16.62\00:44:19.45
BECAUSE THEY DO NOT
KNOW HIM WHO SENT ME."
00:44:19.45\00:44:23.12
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, PLEASE,
READ FOR US MATTHEW 24:9.
00:44:23.12\00:44:27.40
>>"THEN THEY WILL DELIVER YOU UP
TO TRIBULATION AND KILL YOU, AND
00:44:27.40\00:44:30.90
YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL
NATIONS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE."
00:44:30.90\00:44:34.44
>>IS THAT OBSCURE OR IS
THAT EASY TO UNDERSTAND?
00:44:34.44\00:44:39.07
JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT, IN THE
DAYS OF THE SECOND COMING, HE
00:44:39.07\00:44:42.71
SAYS, 'HE THAT ENDURES
TO THE END WILL BE SAVED'.
00:44:42.71\00:44:45.08
WHAT ARE YOU ENDURING? HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE TO ENDURE A
00:44:45.08\00:44:50.22
GREAT DAY - A
BEAUTIFUL DAY WITH GREAT FOOD?
00:44:50.22\00:44:55.22
YOU DON'T HAVE TO
ENDURE THAT, RIGHT?
00:44:55.22\00:44:57.33
WE USUALLY HAVE
TO ENDURE TROUBLE.
00:44:57.33\00:45:00.40
HE SAYS THEY'RE GOING TO
DELIVER YOU UP TO TRIBULATION.
00:45:00.40\00:45:03.90
HE SAYS, YOU KNOW, FAMILY
MEMBERS WILL TURN ON EACH OTHER,
00:45:03.90\00:45:06.70
THEY'LL KILL YOU. MANY OF
THE DISCIPLES WERE KILLED.
00:45:06.70\00:45:10.47
DID THAT KEEP
THEM FROM PREACHING?
00:45:10.47\00:45:13.44
IT'S AMAZING, IN SPITE OF
JESUS SAYING YOU'RE GOING TO BE
00:45:13.44\00:45:15.44
KILLED, SHOULD A BELIEVER
BE AFRAID OF BEING KILLED?
00:45:15.44\00:45:20.35
I REMEMBER HEARING THE STORY
OF JOHN PATTON, MISSIONARY THAT
00:45:20.35\00:45:23.62
WENT DOWN TO - THEY CALLED IT
THE [NEW] HEBRIDES BACK THEN, I
00:45:23.62\00:45:26.86
THINK IT WAS - SOME OF THE
SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS WHERE THEY
00:45:26.86\00:45:29.06
PRACTICED CANNIBALISM AND
SEVERAL MISSIONARIES BEFORE HIM
00:45:29.06\00:45:33.29
HAD BEEN KILLED
AND EATEN BY CANNIBALS.
00:45:33.29\00:45:35.83
KAREN AND I WERE JUST IN NEW
GUINEA WITH JARED IN THE STUDIO
00:45:35.83\00:45:40.24
AND WAYNE - THEY WERE STILL
PRACTICING CANNIBALISM THERE
00:45:40.24\00:45:45.27
SIXTY YEARS AGO IN SOME AREAS
- ANYWAY, THEY TOLD JOHN PATTEN,
00:45:45.27\00:45:49.78
'DON'T GO! THE
SAVAGES WILL EAT YOU!'
00:45:49.78\00:45:54.55
AND HE SAID, 'LOOK, IF I DIE
HERE I'LL GET EATEN BY WORMS.
00:45:54.55\00:45:57.42
IF THEY KILL ME THERE I'LL GET
EATEN BY CANNIBALS.' - HE SAID,
00:45:57.42\00:45:59.62
'I DON'T CARE WHETHER I'M EATEN
BY WORMS OR EATEN BY CANNIBALS.'
00:45:59.62\00:46:03.16
HE SAID, 'ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
YOU'RE GOING TO BE EATEN.'
00:46:03.16\00:46:06.70
AND SO HE WENT. HE
NEVER DID GET EATEN BY
00:46:06.70\00:46:08.60
CANNIBALS, BUT HE
HAD A LOT OF CLOSE CALLS.
00:46:08.60\00:46:12.33
SO THE DISCIPLES WEREN'T AFRAID.
THEY FIGURED 'WE'RE DYING
00:46:12.33\00:46:14.24
ANYWAY.' YOU EVER
THINK OF IT THAT WAY?
00:46:14.24\00:46:17.57
WHETHER YOU SERVE GOD AND PREACH
AND LIVE THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN
00:46:17.57\00:46:20.28
OR NOT, YOU'RE DYING, SO WHY NOT
MAKE THE MOST OF IT AND LIVE FOR
00:46:20.28\00:46:24.88
GOD? ANYWAY, I'M
GOING TO READ - LET ME SEE -
00:46:24.88\00:46:31.85
REVELATION 12:17 - THIS
SUMMARIZES WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
00:46:31.85\00:46:36.46
THE LAST DAYS, "AND THE
DRAGON" - THAT'S A SYMBOLIC
00:46:36.46\00:46:40.53
NAME FOR WHO? >>SATAN.
00:46:40.53\00:46:42.63
>>THE DEVIL - "WAS ENRAGED"
- WROTH - "WITH THE WOMAN," -
00:46:42.63\00:46:46.74
HE'S FURIOUS. WHO'S THE WOMAN?
00:46:46.74\00:46:48.47
>>THE CHURCH. >>THE
CHURCH. "AND HE WENT TO
00:46:48.47\00:46:50.74
MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF
HER OFFSPRING," - HER SEED - THE
00:46:50.74\00:46:54.78
DESCENDENTS - THE REMNANT - "WHO
KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND
00:46:54.78\00:46:59.18
HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS
CHRIST." SO, IF YOU WOULD LIKE
00:46:59.18\00:47:01.85
TO WELCOME THE ANIMOSITY OF THE
DEVIL, WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?
00:47:01.85\00:47:06.55
TWO THINGS: THE LAW AND THE
PROPHETS - KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS
00:47:06.55\00:47:10.09
OF GOD AND HAVE
THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS.
00:47:10.09\00:47:12.36
IF YOU'RE LIVING FOR CHRIST - IF
YOU'RE LIVING OUT HIS WORD, HE'S
00:47:12.36\00:47:15.30
GOING TO BE ANGRY - ESPECIALLY
WITH THOSE IN THE LAST DAYS WHO
00:47:15.30\00:47:18.57
ARE PREACHING THE TRUTH WHEN
THERE ARE SO MANY COUNTERFEITS.
00:47:18.57\00:47:21.87
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PROBABLY
SOMETHING THAT IS GOOD FOR US TO
00:47:21.87\00:47:25.74
THINK ABOUT FOR JUST A MOMENT IS
THERE ARE SO MANY COUNTERFEITS
00:47:25.74\00:47:28.38
OUT THERE THAT
THE DEVIL'S HAPPY;
00:47:28.38\00:47:31.05
AND WHEN WE START PREACHING
THE TRUTH, HE'S THREATENED.
00:47:31.05\00:47:34.58
BUT, IN THE SAME WAY, DO WE
NEED TO THINK THAT THE DEVIL'S
00:47:34.58\00:47:37.05
GOING TO BE MORE
SUCCESSFUL THAN GOD?
00:47:37.05\00:47:40.06
IN THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND
EVIL, DON'T FORGET, GREATER IS
00:47:40.06\00:47:42.82
HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN
HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD.
00:47:42.82\00:47:45.09
NOW, I DON'T WANT TO SCARE YOU
WITH THIS LESSON ON SUFFERING.
00:47:45.09\00:47:47.93
I WANT TO JUST SPREAD THAT
LAST THOUGHT A LITTLE FURTHER.
00:47:47.93\00:47:53.34
MOST OF US ARE
BLESSED MOST OF THE TIME.
00:47:53.34\00:47:59.34
YOU THINK OF JOB AND EVERYBODY
- YOU KNOW, YOU SAY, 'WOULD YOU
00:47:59.34\00:48:02.81
LIKE TO BE JOB?' 'OH NO, MAN.
00:48:02.81\00:48:04.98
HE SUFFERED LIKE - WOO
HOO' - I'D LIKE TO BE JOB.
00:48:04.98\00:48:07.92
JOB WAS BLESSED FOR LIKE 220
YEARS AND HE SUFFERED FOR THREE
00:48:07.92\00:48:13.15
WEEKS. SO THAT'S NOT BAD.
00:48:13.15\00:48:17.46
I MEAN, HE WAS FABULOUSLY
WEALTHY AND HAD A GREAT FAMILY
00:48:17.46\00:48:20.96
AND HE WAS DOUBLY BLESSED IN
THE LAST - YES, HE DID HAVE -
00:48:20.96\00:48:23.37
EVERYONE THINKS ABOUT THE
SUFFERING - YOU EVER HEARD THE
00:48:23.37\00:48:25.23
EXPRESSION 'ONE GUNSHOT IS HEARD
MORE THAN A THOUSAND PRAYERS'?
00:48:25.23\00:48:29.37
AND SO, THERE'S A
LOT OF GOOD IN LIFE.
00:48:29.37\00:48:31.34
AND ONE REASON THAT THE
SUFFERING STANDS OUT IS BECAUSE
00:48:31.34\00:48:33.41
THERE'S SO MANY BLESSINGS -
THERE'S SO MANY GOOD THINGS IN
00:48:33.41\00:48:36.38
LIFE - AND THERE'S SO MANY
THINGS THE DEVIL WOULD LIKE TO
00:48:36.38\00:48:38.91
DO TO US THAT HE CAN'T DO TO US
BECAUSE GOD'S ANGELS PROTECT US.
00:48:38.91\00:48:43.02
SO I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE - MAKE
YOU WALK OUT OF HERE THINKING,
00:48:43.02\00:48:45.22
'OH, WHEN IS IT GOING TO
HIT ME?' - THIS PERSECUTION.
00:48:45.22\00:48:49.89
WHEN THE DEVIL CAME TO TEMPT
JESUS THERE WERE THOSE THREE
00:48:49.89\00:48:52.73
GREAT TEMPTATIONS AND
JESUS, I MEAN, HE'D BEEN FASTING
00:48:52.73\00:48:56.06
FORTY DAYS AND FORTY
NIGHTS SO HE WAS SUFFERING.
00:48:56.06\00:48:58.17
BUT HE RESISTED THE TEMPTATIONS
- YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS?
00:48:58.17\00:49:01.60
'THE DEVIL LEFT HIM.' HE LEFT
HIM FOR A SEASON, BUT HE LEFT
00:49:01.60\00:49:05.01
HIM. AND SO, IF WE ARE FAITHFUL,
00:49:05.01\00:49:07.88
THE LORD GIVES US REPRIEVE.
JUDGMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD
00:49:07.88\00:49:14.58
- UNDER THIS NEXT SECTION HERE.
IF YOU LOOK IN 1 PETER 4:17,
00:49:14.58\00:49:19.49
"FOR THE TIME HAS COME FOR
JUDGMENT TO BEGIN AT THE HOUSE
00:49:19.49\00:49:22.29
OF GOD; AND IF IT BEGINS WITH US
FIRST, WHAT WILL BE THE END OF
00:49:22.29\00:49:25.79
THOSE WHO DO NOT
OBEY THE GOSPEL OF GOD?
00:49:25.79\00:49:28.23
NOW 'IF THE RIGHTEOUS ONE IS
SCARCELY SAVED,'" - OR BARELY
00:49:28.23\00:49:31.00
SAVED - "'WHERE WILL THE
UNGODLY AND THE SINNER APPEAR?'
00:49:31.00\00:49:34.57
THEREFORE LET THOSE WHO SUFFER
ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD
00:49:34.57\00:49:37.51
COMMIT THEIR SOULS TO HIM
IN DOING GOOD, AS TO A FAITHFUL
00:49:37.51\00:49:41.88
CREATOR." DO GOOD
NO MATTER WHAT AND -
00:49:41.88\00:49:45.01
BECAUSE OF - EVEN THOUGH
YOU MAY GO THROUGH TRIALS.
00:49:45.01\00:49:47.75
NOW HE SAYS, 'JUDGMENT
BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF GOD'.
00:49:47.75\00:49:50.12
WHAT IS PETER TALKING
ABOUT? FIRST OF ALL, THERE IS A
00:49:50.12\00:49:54.26
PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT, WE ALL
KNOW. HAVE YOU READ EZEKIEL 9?
00:49:54.26\00:49:59.63
YOU KNOW, EZEKIEL 9, IT TELLS
US THAT THESE ANGELS ARE TOLD TO
00:49:59.63\00:50:05.63
PLACE A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS
OF THOSE WHO ARE PRAYING AND
00:50:05.63\00:50:08.24
TRUSTING GOD. THIS IS A
GOOD MARK, NOT A BAD MARK.
00:50:08.24\00:50:11.17
YOU'VE GOT, IN
REVELATION, TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE:
00:50:11.17\00:50:13.27
ONE GET A BAD MARK,
ONE GET A GOOD MARK.
00:50:13.27\00:50:15.31
YOU'VE GOT THE SEAL OF
GOD AND THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
00:50:15.31\00:50:17.45
THIS IS A GOOD MARK, IN 1 PETER
4:17 AND HE SAID, 'IF' - NO, I
00:50:17.45\00:50:26.55
WANT TO GO TO, RATHER, EZEKIEL
9:5, "TO THE OTHER HE SAID IN MY
00:50:26.55\00:50:30.89
HEARING, 'GO AFTER HIM THROUGH
THE CITY AND KILL; DO NOT LET
00:50:30.89\00:50:34.13
YOUR EYE SPARE, NOR HAVE ANY
PITY. UTTERLY SLAY OLD AND YOUNG
00:50:34.13\00:50:38.27
MEN, MAIDENS AND LITTLE CHILDREN
AND WOMEN; BUT DO NOT COME NEAR
00:50:38.27\00:50:41.44
ANYONE ON WHOM IS THE MARK;
AND BEGIN AT MY SANCTUARY.'"
00:50:41.44\00:50:46.37
WHERE DOES THIS
JUDGMENT BEGIN? >>THE CHURCH.
00:50:46.37\00:50:48.44
>>THE HOUSE OF GOD -
BEGIN AT MY SANCTUARY.
00:50:48.44\00:50:52.15
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE
JESUS SAID, 'HE WHO IS WITHOUT
00:50:52.15\00:50:54.75
SIN AMONG YOU LET HIM CAST
THE FIRST STONE' WITH THAT WOMAN
00:50:54.75\00:50:58.25
CAUGHT IN ADULTERY - MANY
BELIEVE WAS MARY MAGDALENE?
00:50:58.25\00:51:00.89
WHERE DID THAT TAKE
PLACE? >>AT THE TEMPLE.
00:51:00.89\00:51:03.56
>>IN THE SANCTUARY. AND
IT SAYS HERE, IN EZEKIEL 9,
00:51:03.56\00:51:06.83
'BEGIN WITH THE ANCIENT MEN'
- SO THEY BEGAN WITH THE ELDERS
00:51:06.83\00:51:10.87
- THEY BEGAN WITH THE OLDEST.
YOU REMEMBER IN JOHN CHAPTER 8,
00:51:10.87\00:51:14.04
WHEN THE WOMAN WAS
GOING TO BE STONED?
00:51:14.04\00:51:16.71
IT SAYS THEY WENT OUT ONE BY
ONE, BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST,
00:51:16.71\00:51:19.81
EVEN UNTO THE LEAST.
AND SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS
00:51:19.81\00:51:23.31
JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE
OF GOD THAT HE TALKS ABOUT.
00:51:23.31\00:51:27.08
AND SO, THERE NEEDS TO BE
FAITHFULNESS AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE
00:51:27.08\00:51:32.05
BECAUSE THERE'S A JUDGMENT
THERE. LET ME MOVE ON HERE.
00:51:32.05\00:51:35.72
FAITH AMID TRIALS - SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ FOR ME JOB 2:7 -
00:51:35.72\00:51:41.20
YOU'LL HAVE THAT, JOHN? OKAY.
00:51:41.20\00:51:42.96
HEBREWS 11:24, "BY FAITH MOSES,
WHEN HE BECAME OF AGE, REFUSED
00:51:42.96\00:51:48.14
TO BE CALLED THE SON OF
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, CHOOSING
00:51:48.14\00:51:50.71
RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION
WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD THAN TO
00:51:50.71\00:51:53.84
ENJOY THE PASSING
PLEASURES OF SIN."
00:51:53.84\00:51:56.51
SO YOU'VE GOT AFFLICTION; YOU'VE
GOT PLEASURE - WHAT'S LASTING?
00:51:56.51\00:52:01.38
THE PLEASURE IS LASTING FOR
GOD; IT'S PASSING IN THE WORLD.
00:52:01.38\00:52:06.09
THE AFFLICTION IN THE WORLD IS
TEMPORARY AND MOSES SAID, 'I CAN
00:52:06.09\00:52:11.09
DO THE MATH ON THIS. I'D
RATHER SUFFER AFFLICTION FOR
00:52:11.09\00:52:15.20
AWHILE - FOR A SEASON - WITH THE
PEOPLE OF GOD AND HAVE ETERNAL
00:52:15.20\00:52:20.20
PLEASURE IN GOD'S KINGDOM.
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR
00:52:20.20\00:52:24.14
US, PLEASE - JOB 2:7.
>>JOB 2:7 - "SO SATAN WENT OUT
00:52:24.14\00:52:28.71
FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD,
AND STRUCK JOB WITH PAINFUL
00:52:28.71\00:52:31.78
BOILS FROM THE SOLE OF HIS
FOOT TO THE CROWN OF THIS HEAD."
00:52:31.78\00:52:36.42
>>WHEN WE WERE IN NEW GUINEA,
WE WERE TALKING WITH ONE OF THE
00:52:36.42\00:52:38.62
MISSIONARIES THAT WAS THERE
AND THE ROADS WERE AWFUL AND -
00:52:38.62\00:52:43.32
JUST POTHOLES EVERYWHERE AND
YOU JUST - YOU'RE JUST GETTING
00:52:43.32\00:52:46.09
THROWN AROUND LIKE YOU'RE BEING
BODY SLAMMED BY A WRESTLER IN
00:52:46.09\00:52:48.93
THE BACK OF THESE CARS.
AND HE SAID ONE DAY HE HAD TO
00:52:48.93\00:52:52.27
TAKE THIS REALLY LONG TRIP AND
HE HAD BOILS - SOMETIMES IN THE
00:52:52.27\00:52:56.34
JUNGLE YOU GET THESE BOILS.
AND A BOIL IS VERY PAINFUL -
00:52:56.34\00:53:00.08
I WON'T ASK IF YOU'VE HAD
ONE BEFORE, BUT I JUST COULDN'T
00:53:00.08\00:53:03.24
IMAGINE - I MEAN, HERE HE'S ON
THE LORD'S SERVICE AND HE'S IN
00:53:03.24\00:53:05.48
THE BACK OF A LAND CRUISER
GETTING BOUNCED FROM WALL TO
00:53:05.48\00:53:07.62
WALL WITH BOILS. JUST, YOU
KNOW, GOD'S PEOPLE SOMETIMES
00:53:07.62\00:53:13.29
GO THROUGH TRIALS AND THE
DEVIL TRIES TO DISCOURAGE THEM.
00:53:13.29\00:53:16.86
LOOK AT HEBREWS 11:35, SPEAKING,
AGAIN, OF THE FAITHFUL, "WOMEN
00:53:16.86\00:53:20.86
RECEIVED THEIR DEAD
RAISED TO LIFE AGAIN.
00:53:20.86\00:53:23.57
OTHERS WERE TORTURED, NOT
ACCEPTING DELIVERANCE, THAT THEY
00:53:23.57\00:53:26.30
MIGHT OBTAIN A
BETTER RESURRECTION."
00:53:26.30\00:53:28.30
- SEE, AGAIN, THEY'RE LOOKING
BEYOND - THEY'RE EVEN BEING
00:53:28.30\00:53:30.67
TORTURED, BUT THEY DON'T DENY
THE LORD BECAUSE THEY WANT A
00:53:30.67\00:53:34.24
BETTER RESURRECTION. -
"STILL OTHERS HAD TRIAL OF
00:53:34.24\00:53:37.01
MOCKINGS AND SCOURGINGS, YES,
AND OF CHAINS AND IMPRISONMENT."
00:53:37.01\00:53:40.45
AND THAT VERSE GOES ON -
IT TALKS ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS.
00:53:40.45\00:53:43.25
HAVE YOU READ
ABOUT WHAT PAUL SAID?
00:53:43.25\00:53:45.49
1 CORIN - I'M SORRY, 2
CORINTHIANS 11:23 - PAUL IS
00:53:45.49\00:53:49.26
TALKING TO SOME OF THE ELDERS IN
THE CHURCH THAT ARE QUESTIONING
00:53:49.26\00:53:51.69
HIS APOSTLESHIP AND HE BECOMES
A LITTLE INDIGNANT AND HE SAYS,
00:53:51.69\00:53:55.10
"ARE THEY MINISTERS OF CHRIST
-" - AND YOU DON'T THINK I AM?
00:53:55.10\00:53:58.03
- "I SPEAK AS A FOOL - I AM
MORE: IN LABORS MORE ABUNDANT,
00:53:58.03\00:54:02.40
IN STRIPES ABOVE MEASURE,
IN PRISONS MORE FREQUENTLY, IN
00:54:02.40\00:54:05.94
DEATHS OFTEN. FROM
THE JEWS FIVE TIMES I
00:54:05.94\00:54:09.24
RECEIVED FORTY
STRIPES MINUS ONE.
00:54:09.24\00:54:11.25
THREE TIMES I WAS BEATEN WITH
RODS; ONCE I WAS STONED; THREE
00:54:11.25\00:54:14.55
TIMES I WAS SHIPWRECKED; A NIGHT
AND A DAY I HAVE BEEN IN THE
00:54:14.55\00:54:17.52
DEEP; IN JOURNEYS OFTEN, IN
PERILS OF WATERS, IN PERILS OF
00:54:17.52\00:54:20.92
ROBBERS, IN PERILS OF MY
OWN COUNTRYMEN, IN PERILS OF THE
00:54:20.92\00:54:24.19
GENTILES, IN PERILS IN THE CITY,
IN PERILS IN THE [WILDERNESS],"
00:54:24.19\00:54:28.10
- TALK ABOUT COUNTRY
MINISTRY, HE - CITY MINISTRY -
00:54:28.10\00:54:30.93
HE HAD PERILS BOTH
PLACES. "IN PERILS IN THE SEA,
00:54:30.93\00:54:33.90
IN PERILS AMONG FALSE
BRETHREN; IN WEARINESS AND TOIL,
00:54:33.90\00:54:38.04
IN SLEEPLESSNESS OFTEN, IN
HUNGER AND THIRST, IN FASTINGS
00:54:38.04\00:54:41.58
OFTEN, IN COLD AND NAKEDNESS
- BESIDES ALL THE OTHER THINGS,
00:54:41.58\00:54:45.48
WHAT COMES UPON ME DAILY:
MY DEEP CONCERN FOR ALL THE
00:54:45.48\00:54:48.32
CHURCHES." YOU KNOW, IN THE
MILITARY, IF YOU HAVE SERVED A
00:54:48.32\00:54:54.26
LONG TIME, YOU OFTEN HAVE
STRIPES ON YOUR SHOULDER AND
00:54:54.26\00:54:59.83
YOU'VE GOT MEDALS AND EACH
OF THOSE MEDALS REPRESENTS THIS
00:54:59.83\00:55:02.73
BATTLE, THAT BATTLE, THIS
CAMPAIGN, THAT STRUGGLE - AND
00:55:02.73\00:55:07.17
YOU'RE BASICALLY WEARING ALL
OF YOUR STRUGGLES AND - TO BE A
00:55:07.17\00:55:11.51
SOLDIER AND BE RESPECTED BY
THE OTHER SOLDIERS, THEY WANT TO
00:55:11.51\00:55:16.75
KNOW, 'WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN
THROUGH?' AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT
00:55:16.75\00:55:20.15
GIVES YOU CREDIBILITY,
SOMETIMES, AS A CHRISTIAN, IS
00:55:20.15\00:55:22.85
NOT WHEN YOU'VE JUST BEEN
BLESSED ON EVERY SIDE, LIKE
00:55:22.85\00:55:25.05
THESE PROSPERITY PREACHERS -
LOOK, GOD'S BLESSED ME, SEE MY
00:55:25.05\00:55:27.96
ROLEX? THAT MEANS YOU NEED TO
FOLLOW ME.' JESUS SAID, 'HERE'S
00:55:27.96\00:55:33.36
MY SCARS. IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW
ME' - HE SHOWED THEM HIS SCARS
00:55:33.36\00:55:38.27
AND THAT WAS EVIDENCE OF
HIS LOVE AND HIS FAITHFULNESS.
00:55:38.27\00:55:41.60
AND, IN LIFE, WE'RE GOING
TO HAVE SCARS - OUR MASTER HAD
00:55:41.60\00:55:43.77
SCARS - BUT BE OF GOOD
COURAGE. HE SAYS, 'I'VE OVERCOME
00:55:43.77\00:55:47.34
THE WORLD.' AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:55:47.34\00:55:49.04
>>ALRIGHT, WE'RE OUT OF
TIME AND WE'RE OUT OF LESSON.
00:55:49.04\00:55:52.05
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WE HAVE A FREE OFFER.
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WE LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING
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MORE ABOUT PETER
NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC)
00:56:10.33\00:56:22.84
>>FRIENDS, WE'RE OUT
HERE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN NOT
00:56:22.84\00:56:24.91
TOO FAR FROM THE ISLAND OF FIJI,
AND WE'RE GETTING READY TO LOOK
00:56:24.91\00:56:27.88
AT SOME WONDERS IN THE DEEP.
THE BIBLE SAYS GOD MADE THE
00:56:27.88\00:56:32.29
HEAVEN AND THE
EARTH AND THE SEA.
00:56:32.29\00:56:34.19
AND THERE ARE THINGS UNDER THE
SEA THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL THAT MANY
00:56:34.19\00:56:36.39
PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SEEN.
SOME FOLKS MIGHT JUST SKIM ALONG
00:56:36.39\00:56:39.53
- SNORKEL ON THE SURFACE, BUT IF
YOU WANT TO SEE THE REAL MAJESTY
00:56:39.53\00:56:42.90
OF THE OCEAN, YOU'VE GOT
TO GO DEEPER. (LIVELY MUSIC)
00:56:42.90\00:56:59.25
>>BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE
GILLS LIKE FISH, WE HAVE TO DO
00:56:59.25\00:57:02.22
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY TO
BE ABLE TO BREATHE BELOW THE
00:57:02.22\00:57:04.95
SURFACE. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO
BREATHE ALL THE TIME, WE NEED
00:57:04.95\00:57:08.36
THIS SPECIAL EQUIPMENT.
(SOUND OF BREATHING APPARATUS)
00:57:08.36\00:57:12.49
IN THE SAME WAY, THE BIBLE
SAYS A CHRISTIAN NEEDS TO PRAY
00:57:12.49\00:57:14.96
WITHOUT CEASING. WE
NEED TO ALWAYS BE BREATHING
00:57:14.96\00:57:18.10
THE ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN IF
WE'RE GOING TO LIVE A CHRISTIAN
00:57:18.10\00:57:20.57
LIFE IN THIS
WORLD BELOW. (MUSIC)
00:57:20.57\00:57:49.13
>>WOW, WHAT A
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00:57:49.13\00:58:04.18
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