Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021720A
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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME, AGAIN, TO SABBATH 00:36 SCHOOL STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:39 ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:43 I'D LIKE TO WARMLY WELCOME OUR ONLINE MEMBERS AND ALSO THOSE 00:46 JOINING US ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS, TUNING IN 00:49 TO STUDY GOD'S WORD. ALSO, TO THE MEMBERS AND 00:52 VISITORS RIGHT HERE IN GRANITE BAY, A VERY WARM WELCOME TO YOU. 00:55 IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU WEEK AFTER WEEK, COMING EARLY FOR 00:58 SABBATH SCHOOL TO STUDY GOD'S WORD. 01:01 NOW, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING 01:03 WITH THE FIRST AND THE SECOND BOOKS OF PETER, IT'S ENTITLED 01:06 FEED MY SHEEP AND TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #8. 01:10 OUR LESSON IS CALLED JESUS IN THE WRITINGS OF PETER , BUT 01:14 BEFORE WE GET TO OUR LESSON, WE LIKE TO LET THOSE VIEWING KNOW 01:18 ABOUT A FREE OFFER THAT WE HAVE. 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WELCOME, AND THANK YOU. 02:09 >>(FEMALE VOICES) ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, 02:11 ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA - AL - LE - LU - IA - 02:19 >>(MALE VOICES) AL - LE - LU - IA - 02:23 >>(FEMALE VOICES) AL - LE- LU - IA - 02:28 >>(MALE VOICES) AL - LE - LU - IA - 02:35 >>(ALL VOICES) ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - 02:50 ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - 03:21 ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - 03:47 ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - 04:07 ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA - ALLELUIA >>AMEN. 05:02 (PIANO MUSIC) 05:22 >>THE TIMELESS THEME EARTH AND HEAVEN WILL PASS AWAY. 05:31 IT'S NOT A DREAM, GOD WILL MAKE ALL THINGS NEW THAT DAY. 05:42 GONE IS THE CURSE FROM WHICH I STUMBLED AND FELL. 05:51 EVIL IS BANISHED TO ETERNAL HELL. 06:02 NO MORE NIGHT, NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE TEARS, NEVER CRYING 06:17 AGAIN. PRAISES TO THE GREAT, 'I AM' WE 06:27 WILL LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE RISEN LAMB. 06:41 SEE ALL AROUND, NOW THE NATIONS BOW DOWN TO SING THE ONLY SOUND 06:52 IS THE PRAISES TO CHRIST, OUR KING. 06:59 SLOWLY THE NAMES FROM THE BOOK ARE READ. 07:07 I KNOW THE KING, THERE'S NO NEED TO DREAD. 07:17 NO MORE NIGHT, NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE TEARS, NEVER CRYING AGAIN. 07:34 PRAISES TO THE GREAT, 'I AM' WE WILL LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE 07:46 RISEN LAMB. SEE OVER THERE, THERE'S A 07:54 MANSION PREPARED FOR ME. WHERE I WILL LIVE WITH 08:02 MY SAVIOR ETERNALLY. NO MORE NIGHT, NO MORE PAIN, NO 08:19 MORE TEARS, NEVER CRYING AGAIN. PRAISES TO THE GREAT, 'I AM' WE 08:33 WILL LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE RISEN LAMB. 08:43 WE WILL LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE RISEN LAMB. 08:58 HALLELUJAH TO THE RISEN LAMB. >>AMEN! 09:11 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS AND THANK YOU TO THE AUBURN ACADEMY. 09:14 THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL, WASN'T IT? >>AMEN. 09:16 >>AMEN. WE SURE APPRECIATE THAT AND - I PROMISED - PASTOR ROSS 09:20 AND I WERE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS LAST WEEK - AS 09:23 OF THE TIME WE'RE RECORDING THIS - AND THERE WERE ABOUT 8,000 09:26 PEOPLE THAT CAME TO AN EVANGELISM CELEBRATION FESTIVAL 09:30 THERE AND A LOT OF THEM SAY THEY WATCH SABBATH SCHOOL. 09:34 I SAID, 'NEXT TIME WE'RE ON WE'LL WAVE AT YOU.' 09:37 SO JUST LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'RE WATCHING WITH YOU AND WE'RE GLAD 09:40 YOU'RE TUNING IN. BECAUSE OF THE TIME DIFFERENCE, 09:42 SOME OF THEM CAN WATCH AFTER THEY GET HOME FROM CHURCH. 09:45 AND SO, IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT THE EXTENDED CLASS. 09:50 I WANT TO WELCOME EVERYBODY - BOTH HERE AND GRANITE BAY AND 09:52 ABROAD - WE ARE CONTINUING OUR STUDY ON THE FIRST AND SECOND 09:56 BOOKS OF PETER. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S A BLESSING 09:59 FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS, BECAUSE I LEARN AS 10:02 I PREPARE FOR YOU. I SAY, 'OH, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT.' 10:05 I'M LEARNING THINGS ALL THE TIME AND SO WE'RE LEARNING TOGETHER 10:09 AND HOPEFULLY TODAY I WON'T BE THE ONLY ONE THAT'S LEARNING. 10:13 I'LL BE ABLE TO SHARE SOMETHING WITH YOU. 10:15 BUT WE'RE IN LESSON 8 DEALING WITH JESUS IN THE WRITINGS OF 10:19 PETER. NOW, YOU MIGHT SAY THIS IS KIND 10:22 OF UP MY ALLEY BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING FOR JESUS IN 10:26 ALL THE STORIES OF THE BIBLE. AS SOME OF YOU KNOW, I WROTE 10:29 A BOOK AND DID A SERIES A FEW YEARS AGO CALLED JESUS IN ALL 10:32 THE BIBLE AND SO, WHEN I'M STUDYING ABOUT JESUS IN THE 10:35 WRITINGS OF PETER, IT'S JUST WHAT I LOVE TO DO. 10:41 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE ANALOGIES OF CHRIST THROUGHOUT THE OLD 10:47 TESTAMENT. YOU KNOW, JOSEPH IS A TYPE 10:50 OF CHRIST AND DAVID, WE'RE LEARNING, IS A TYPE OF CHRIST, 10:55 AS IS MOSES AND GIDEON AND SAMSON AND - YOU CAN FIND THE 11:01 TYPOLOGY OF JESUS IN MANY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT STORIES, BUT YOU 11:05 CAN EVEN FIND TYPOLOGY OF JESUS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT STORIES. 11:10 FOR EXAMPLE, JESUS WAS FALSELY TRIED, HE WAS BROUGHT OUTSIDE 11:16 THE CITY, THEY TOOK AWAY HIS CLOTHES - THEY HAD THE CLOTHES 11:20 THERE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS - HE WAS EXECUTED AFTER THREE AND 11:25 A HALF YEARS OF MINISTRY, AND HE PRAYED FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF 11:29 THOSE THAT KILLED HIM. THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER, 11:35 STEPHEN IS FALSELY TRIED, AFTER MAKING A DEFENSE, HE'S TAKEN 11:40 OUTSIDE THE CITY, THEY LAY THE CLOTHES DOWN AT THE FEET OF 11:43 SAUL, STEPHEN PRAYS FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF THOSE THAT ARE 11:48 ABOUT TO KILL HIM. AND SO, EVEN IN STEPHEN, AND WHAT 11:51 HE DOES THREE AND A HALF YEARS AFTER CHRIST, YOU SEE TYPE. 11:55 SO THERE'S EVEN THESE TYPES OF CHRIST WITHIN THE NEW TESTAMENT 11:58 - JOHN THE BAPTIST IS ONE AND SO FORTH. 12:01 BUT PETER, HE'S NOT REALLY SPEAKING OF TYPOLOGY IN HIS 12:04 LESSON, HE'S COMING RIGHT OUT AND TALKING ABOUT JESUS. 12:07 WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE - I HOPE YOU'LL 12:10 READ IT WITH ME - IT'S IN THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION - IT'S 1 12:13 PETER 2:24. I'LL GIVE YOU A MINUTE TO FIND 12:16 THAT SO I CAN HEAR YOU ALL SORT OF ECHO IT WITH ME - 1 PETER 12:21 2, VERSE 24 - ARE YOU READY? >>YES. 12:25 >>"WHO HIMSELF BORE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE, THAT 12:31 WE, HAVING DIED TO SINS, MIGHT LIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS - BY 12:36 WHOSE STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED." OKAY. 12:40 NOW, WE'VE LEARNED, IN SOME PREVIOUS LESSONS, THAT PETER IS 12:42 TALKING TO BELIEVERS THAT ARE FACING A GREAT DEAL OF 12:47 PERSECUTION AND STRUGGLES AND SUFFERING AND, IN THE MIDST OF 12:52 THAT ALL, HE HOLDS UP JESUS, WHO IS AN EXAMPLE FOR THEM - MATTER 12:57 OF FACT, FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END OF PETER'S WRITINGS, HIS 13:00 FOCUS IS JESUS, AS I'LL TRY AND PROVE IN A MINUTE. 13:06 YOU EVER MET SOMEBODY THAT BECAME INFATUATED WITH SOME 13:10 HERBAL REMEDY AND - SOMETIMES THEY'RE CONNECTED WITH, YOU 13:15 KNOW, IT'S MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING? I'M NOT SAYING 13:18 THERE'S NO GOOD HERBAL REMEDIES OUT THERE, SO DON'T COME AFTER 13:20 ME AFTER THE PROGRAM. YOU'LL BE WASTING YOUR TIME. 13:24 I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME GOOD HERBAL REMEDIES OUT THERE, BUT 13:27 I'VE MET SOME PEOPLE - AND WHEN THEY GET INTO A MULTI-LEVEL 13:29 MARKETING SCHEME, THEY'LL TELL YOU THAT THAT HERBAL REMEDY 13:33 HEALS EVERYTHING AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE - YOU KNOW, THEY SAY, 'OH 13:38 YEAH, IT'S GOOD FOR THIS AND IT'S GOOD FOR THAT AND IT'S GOOD 13:41 FOR THIS AND IT'S GOOD FOR THAT.' I WAS LOOKING ONLINE AND, 13:45 JUST TO SEE IF IT'S STILL TRUE, AND I SAW THIS THING ABOUT ROMAN 13:50 CORIANDER - BLACK CARAWAY SEED OR BLACK CUMIN - THESE TINY 13:54 BLACK SEEDS HAVE BEEN CALLED THE REMEDY FOR EVERYTHING BUT DEATH 13:58 AND RESEARCHERS ARE STILL UNRAVELING MORE USES FOR THEM 14:02 AND BENEFITS, AS WE SPEAK: HEART HEALTH, TYPE 2 DIABETES, 14:07 EPILEPSY, ASTHMA, COLD AND FLU, MUSCLE CRAMPS, SPASMS, RADIATION 14:12 CONTROL, TOOTHACHES, PSORIASIS - IT'LL TREAT AND PREVENT SEVERAL 14:17 TYPES OF CANCER AND GROW HAIR ON A CUE BALL. 14:21 NO, I THREW THAT IN. (LAUGHTER) 14:22 BUT I'VE RUN INTO THEM BEFORE THAT THEY SAY THAT. 14:25 IT'S THE ALL IN ALL. WELL, THAT IS NOT TRUE OF HERBS. 14:30 I HAVE FRIENDS WHO USED TO BELIEVE THAT ABOUT GARLIC TOO - 14:33 AND THEY LIVED BY IT, YOU KNOW, YOU DIDN'T WANT TO GET TOO CLOSE 14:37 WHEN YOU WERE VISITING WITH THEM. 14:38 BUT ANYONE MET THAT PERSON? BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE A 14:46 BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN AND YOU REALLY BECOME AWARE OF JESUS 14:49 IN THE BIBLE, YOU HAVE JESUS SIGHTINGS EVERYWHERE. 14:55 YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE THAT LOVED ELVIS HAD ELVIS SIGHTINGS. 14:58 THEY JUST MISSED HIM SO MUCH THEY MANAGED TO SEE HIM 15:01 EVERYWHERE. BUT WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH 15:03 JESUS, YOU SEE JESUS ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE AND PETER SEES CHRIST 15:09 - HE IS THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE FIRST AND THE LAST. 15:13 NOW, IN A MOMENT, SOMEONE IS GOING TO LOOK UP FOR ME 2 PETER 15:18 2 - NO, 2 PETER 3, VERSE 18 - AND YOU'LL HAVE THAT HAFDIS - 15:23 IN JUST A MINUTE? HOW DOES THE BIBLE BEGIN? 15:26 WHOSE NAME BEGINS THE NEW TESTAMENT? 15:30 WELL, GOD'S NAME BEGINS THE OLD TESTAMENT - 'IN THE BEGINNING 15:33 GOD...' AND WHO CREATED THE WORLD? JESUS. 15:37 'ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE, WERE MADE BY HIM.' 'IN THE BEGINNING 15:40 WAS THE WORD...' SO WHEN YOU READ, IN THE FIRST VERSES OF THE 15:42 OLD TESTAMENT, 'IN THE BEGINNING GOD' - YOU CAN SAY 'JESUS' TOO, 15:46 RIGHT? AND THEN YOU START THE NEW 15:48 TESTAMENT AND IT BEGINS BY SAYING, 'THE BOOK OF THE 15:52 GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST. SO HIS WORDS ARE THE BEGINNING 15:57 OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. HOW DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT END? 16:01 'THE GRACE OF OUR LORD, JESUS CHRIST, BE WITH YOU ALL, AMEN.' 16:06 SO THE NEW TESTAMENT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH JESUS. 16:08 NOW, LOOK AT PETER'S WRITINGS AND SEE IF YOU SEE A SIMILAR 16:11 PATTERN HERE. 1 PETER 1:1, "PETER, AN APOSTLE 16:15 OF JESUS CHRIST," - THAT'S HIS INTRODUCTION. 16:19 OF COURSE, A NUMBER OF THE APOSTLES STARTED THAT WAY, BUT 16:22 LOOK AT HOW HE ENDS - 1 PETER 5:14 - "GREET ONE ANOTHER WITH A 16:27 KISS OF LOVE." - NOW, YOU KNOW, I NEED TO DO A SERMON ON THAT 16:30 ONE DAY WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR 27 FUNDAMENTALS - 16:33 >>TWENTY-EIGHT. >>28 FUNDAMENTALS, THANK YOU. 16:35 (LAUGHTER) WE NEED TO MAKE IT 29, HUH? 16:39 WE'VE HEARD SERMONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BAPTISM AND COMMUNION AND 16:42 FOOT WASHING, BUT I HAVE NOT HEARD THE SERMON ABOUT GREETING 16:46 EACH OTHER WITH A KISS OF LOVE - A HOLY KISS. 16:50 ANYWAY, I WON'T TAKE THAT TOO FAR. 16:52 AND THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY, "PEACE TO YOU ALL WHO ARE IN 16:55 CHRIST JESUS. AMEN." HOW DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT END? 16:58 'JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU ALL, AMEN.' HOW DOES PETER END HIS 17:01 BOOK? 'CHRIST JESUS. AMEN.' GO TO 2 PETER 1:1 - NOW, 17:07 WE'VE LOOKED AT THE 1 PETER - HE STARTS AND ENDS WITH JESUS. GO 17:10 TO 2 PETER 1:1, "SIMON PETER, A BONDSERVANT AND APOSTLE OF JESUS 17:15 CHRIST, TO THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED LIKE PRECIOUS FAITH 17:18 WITH US BY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF OUR GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS 17:22 CHRIST:" - YOU CAN JUST TELL THAT HE'S - HE'S IN LOVE WITH 17:24 JESUS - JESUS IS EVERYTHING TO HIM. 17:26 GO AHEAD, HAFDIS, READ THE NEXT PASSAGE. 17:29 >>"BUT GROW IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR 17:33 JESUS CHRIST. TO HIM BE THE GLORY BOTH NOW AND FOREVER. 17:38 AMEN." >>AND, OF COURSE, THAT'S HOW HE 17:40 ENDS 2 PETER AND THAT'S CHAPTER 3, VERSE 18. 17:44 SO IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT PETER WAS OBSESSED WITH JESUS. 17:51 YOU KNOW, THAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMETHING - IS 17:55 IT'S - YOU CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT IT AND PETER WAS THAT WAY. 18:00 WHY WAS PETER OBSESSED WITH JESUS? 18:05 WHY WAS JESUS EVERYTHING TO PETER? 18:10 WHAT MAKES A PERSON THE FOCUS OF WHAT YOU TALK ABOUT? 18:14 THIS ISN'T A HARD ONE. COME ON, GUYS. IT'S A FOUR-LETTER WORD. 18:19 >>LOVE. >>LOVE. MARK 16:7 - JESUS, WHEN 18:26 HE RISES FROM THE DEAD - NOW PETER'S MADE A BIG MISTAKE. 18:29 HE HAS BETRAYED - HE'S DENIED SOMEBODY THAT HE REALLY LOVED. 18:34 HE WAS SCARED AND HE WAS TIRED AND HE WAS CONFUSED AND HE 18:38 DENIED JESUS. DID CHRIST FORSAKE HIM? 18:43 WHEN JESUS WAS BEING BEATEN AND TRIED AND PETER, THE THIRD TIME 18:47 HE DENIED JESUS THERE IN THE COURTYARD AND HE WAS SWEARING 18:50 AND CURSING, HE SAID, 'I'M TELLING YOU, I DON'T KNOW WHO HE 18:53 IS' AND THEN THE ROOSTER CROWED FOR THE SECOND TIME - 18:57 AFTER PETER DENIED HIM THREE TIMES. 18:59 JESUS TURNED AND LOOKED AT HIM AND IT BROKE HIS HEART. 19:02 IT SAYS HE WENT OUT AND HE WEPT BITTERLY. 19:05 PETER WENT THROUGH, I THINK, A GENUINE CONVERSION AT THAT TIME. 19:08 SO, WHEN CHRIST RISES FROM THE DEAD - YOU READ THIS IN THE BOOK 19:12 OF MARK - BY THE WAY, MARK IS LARGELY THE GOSPEL OF PETER 19:16 DICTATED TO MARK. WHEN CHRIST RISES HE TELLS THE 19:21 WOMEN, 'GO TELL HIS DISCIPLES AND PETER' - WHY DID JESUS 19:25 SPECIFY - WHY DID THE ANGELS SPECIFY 'GO TELL THE DISCIPLES' 19:29 - WHY DIDN'T HE JUST SAY THE DISCIPLES? 19:30 AND WOULDN'T THAT HAVE INCLUDED PETER? 19:33 WHY DID HE ALSO MENTION PETER SPECIFICALLY? 19:37 HE WAS SPECIFICALLY DISCOURAGED. IT SAYS THEY ALL FORSOOK HIM 19:41 AND FLED, BUT PETER DID IT WITH ENTHUSIASM. 19:44 HE REALLY DENIED HIM AND SO HE NEEDED SOME ENCOURAGEMENT. 19:49 NOW NOT ONLY - DID JESUS - LET'S SEE - LET ME JUST - I'M NOT 19:54 GOING TO ANSWER THAT, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU. 19:57 WHO DID JESUS APPEAR TO FIRST WHEN HE AROSE FROM THE DEAD? 20:01 >>MARY. >>MARY MAGDALENE. 20:04 WHO DID HE APPEAR TO NEXT? DISCIPLES, I'M HEARING, 20:12 IN THE UPPER ROOM. MAYBE. >>AT EMMAUS. 20:17 >>ALRIGHT, LOOK - LOOK - GO TO LUKE 24 REAL QUICK. 20:20 I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING. THIS ALL FITS IN WITH WHAT WE'RE 20:21 TALKING ABOUT PETER, BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO KNOW MORE ABOUT 20:23 WHERE HE'S COMING FROM AND WHY HE LOVED JESUS SO. 20:28 AND IF YOU GO TO LUKE CHAPTER 24 AND - LET ME SEE HERE - GO TO 20:37 VERSE 33. NOW, ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, WHAT 20:47 DAY OF THE WEEK DID THIS HAPPEN? >>SUNDAY. 20:50 >>IT'S A SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THEY'RE WALKING DOWN THE ROAD, 20:52 JESUS APPEARS TO THEM - IT'S AFTER HE'S APPEARED TO MARY - 20:55 ARE YOU WITH ME? AM I RIGHT SO FAR? 20:58 AND CHRIST REVEALS HIMSELF TO THESE TWO DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD 21:01 TO EMMAUS AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHO IT IS, THEY INVITE HIM IN TO 21:06 EAT, HE EATS WITH THEM, AND WHILE THEY'RE BLESSING THE 21:08 BREAD, HE OPENS HIS HANDS, THEY SEE THE SCARS - WHATEVER REASON, 21:10 HE OPENS THEIR EYES AND THEY KNOW HIM. 21:13 THEN HE DISAPPEARS AND THEY ARE SO EXCITED - VERSE 33 - I'M IN 21:17 LUKE 24:33, "SO THEY ROSE UP THAT VERY HOUR" - IT'S DARK - 21:20 THEY'VE GOT TO GO BACK TO JERUSALEM SEVEN MILES UPHILL, 21:22 TELL THE DISCIPLES HE'S ALIVE - "SO THEY AROSE THAT VERY HOUR 21:25 AND RETURNED TO JERUSALEM, AND FOUND THE ELEVEN AND THOSE WHO 21:29 WERE WITH THEM GATHERED TOGETHER, SAYING, 'THE LORD IS 21:33 RISEN INDEED, AND HAS APPEARED TO SIMON!'" 21:37 NOW WHO IS SIMON? >>PETER. 21:39 >>PETER. WHY ARE THEY SAYING THAT? 21:43 BECAUSE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE RESURRECTION, WHEN HE SAW MARY, 21:47 AND THE UPPER ROOM, AND THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, HE HAD A 21:50 PERSONAL MEETING WITH PETER. I BELIEVE - ISN'T THAT - WHAT 21:55 ELSE DO YOU READ FROM THIS? HE MET WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE. 22:00 ANOTHER VERSE SAYS HE MET WITH THE WOMEN. 22:03 REMEMBER, FIRST HE MET WITH MARY MAGDALENE, BUT LATER THE ANGELS 22:07 TOLD THE WOMEN HE WAS ALIVE AND THEN ON THEIR WAY TO TELL THE 22:09 MEN, HE MET WITH THE WOMEN AND - BUT AT SOME POINT DURING THE DAY 22:12 HE SPECIFICALLY PERSONALLY APPEARED, NOT ONLY TO MARY 22:15 MAGDALENE, HE APPEARED TO PETER AND PETER SAID, 'I SAW HIM. 22:18 HE'S ALIVE.' THEY SAID, 'NAH, YOU DIDN'T 22:20 REALLY SEE HIM.' AND THE DISCIPLES COME TO THE 22:22 UPPER ROOM AND THEY SAID, 'YEAH, HE DID APPEAR TO PETER.' 22:24 AND SO JESUS PERSONALLY APPEARED TO PETER. 22:28 NOW, AFTER PETER, JESUS MEETS THE DISCIPLES OUT FISHING, IN 22:35 JOHN CHAPTER 20, AND THEY SEE SOME STRANGER ON THE SHORE WITH 22:38 SOME COALS ON A FIRE AND HE - THEY HAVEN'T CAUGHT ANYTHING AND 22:42 THIS STRANGER SAYS, 'CAST YOUR NET TOWARDS ME' ON THE RIGHT 22:46 SIDE OF THE SHIP AND THEY SAID, 'OH, WE FISHED ALL NIGHT.' SO 22:49 THEY CAST THEIR NET ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE NET AND IT'S FULL OF 22:51 FISH, AND THEN ONE OF THOSE FISHERMEN SUDDENLY REALIZES WHO 22:54 THAT MAN IS. WHO IS THAT? >>PETER. 22:57 >>PETER. AND SO DOES HE WAIT FOR THE BOAT TO CALMLY LOAD UP THE 23:01 FISH AND PADDLE TO SHORE? >>HE JUMPS IN. 23:03 >>HE DOESN'T EVEN WAIT FOR THEM TO FINISH HAULING IN THE CATCH, 23:06 WHICH IS VERY HARD FOR A FISHERMAN. 23:09 FOR A FISHERMAN TO LOVE SOMETHING MORE THAN FISH, 23:10 HE REALLY MUST LOVE IT. AND SO PETER EVEN LOVED JESUS 23:15 MORE THAN A GOOD CATCH. AND SO, HE - HE TUCKED IN HIS 23:19 SWIMMING GEAR AND HE DOVE IN THE WATER AND HE SWAM ASHORE. 23:22 AND THEN WHAT DOES JESUS ASK PETER - AFTER THEY EAT TOGETHER 23:26 - THREE TIMES? >>DO YOU LOVE ME? 23:29 >>HE SAYS, 'DO YOU LOVE ME? DO YOU LOVE ME? 23:32 DO YOU LOVE ME?' AND HOW DOES PETER RESPOND? 23:36 >>YES. >>HE SAYS, 'LORD, 23:37 YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU. YOU KNOW EVERYTHING. 23:39 YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU. YOU KNOW MY HEART. 23:41 YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.' AND SO PETER LOVED JESUS. 23:44 AND SO THE CENTRAL CORE OF WHAT PETER TALKS ABOUT - THAT WAS, 23:47 ACTUALLY, MY INTRODUCTION - WAS - IS THAT CHRIST WAS IN AND ALL 23:54 AND EVERYTHING. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE SECTION 23:57 UNDER WHERE IT SAYS JESUS OUR SACRIFICE - AND THIS WAS A THEME 24:01 IN PETER'S WRITING WAS JESUS OUR SACRIFICE . 24:04 SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, IS GOING TO READ ACTS 3:6 - OKAY? 24:08 1 PETER - I'LL READ - 1 PETER 1:18 AND 19, "KNOWING THAT YOU 24:13 WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, LIKE SILVER 24:16 OR GOLD, FROM YOUR AIMLESS CONDUCT RECEIVED BY TRADITION 24:21 FROM YOUR FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF 24:24 A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT." 24:26 WHY DOES PETER SAY 'YOU WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH GOLD OR SILVER'? 24:32 WHY EVEN MAKE THAT CONTRAST? DID ANYBODY BELIEVE THEY WERE 24:35 REDEEMED WITH GOLD AND SILVER? >>INDULGENCES. 24:40 >>WELL, THAT WAS - THE INDULGENCES, SHE SAID - YEAH, 24:43 THAT CAME LATER, BUT EVEN IN CHRIST'S TIME DID THEY SOMEHOW 24:48 THINK THEY GOT CREDIT FOR GIVING? 24:50 >>YES. >>DID JESUS TEACH ABOUT WHEN YOU 24:53 GIVE, IF YOU WANT YOUR REWARD, DON'T LET YOUR LEFT HAND KNOW 24:56 WHAT YOUR RIGHT HAND IS DOING? DON'T BLOW THE TRUMPET BEFORE 24:58 YOU LIKE THE HYPOCRITES DO, BUT DO IT SO YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN 25:02 SEES. WHAT ABOUT WHEN YOU READ IN MATTHEW 12? 25:08 KEEP IN MIND, PETER WAS A WITNESS OF THESE THINGS - 'AND 25:11 JESUS ENTERED THE TEMPLE AND HE DROVE OUT ALL THAT SOLD AND 25:15 BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE AND OVERTURNED THE TABLES OF THE 25:18 MONEY CHANGERS AND THE SEATS OF THOSE WHO SOLD PIGEONS AND HE 25:21 SAID TO THEM, 'IT IS WRITTEN, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A 25:23 HOUSE OF PRAYER BUT YOU'VE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES!''' 25:26 NOW THIS IS IN THE TEMPLE. WHY DOES JESUS DRIVE 25:28 THEM OUT OF THE TEMPLE? WHAT WERE THEY DOING 25:31 WITH THE GOOD NEWS? >>SELLING IT. 25:34 >>YEAH, THEY WERE MAKING MERCHANDISE OF IT. 25:36 HE SAID, 'YOU'VE MADE THE HOUSE OF GOD - A PLACE THAT SHOULD BE 25:38 A HOUSE OF PRAYER - YOU'VE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES.' 25:40 BUT THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED SINCE THEN, RIGHT? 25:45 DOES THAT STILL HAPPEN? 25:46 WELL, WE KNOW IT HAPPENED DURING THE ARK AGES. 25:48 SUSAN SAID INDULGENCES, CERTAINLY, THAT'S WHAT REALLY 25:51 WAS THE TRIGGER FOR THE REFORMATION IS THAT A PRIEST 25:56 NAMED TETZEL WENT THROUGH GERMANY AND HE WAS SELLING, 25:58 BASICALLY, LICENSES FOR FORGIVENESS, FOR MONEY. 26:02 YOU COULD BUY YOUR SALVATION AND BUY YOUR WAY OUT 26:05 OF PURGATORY IF YOU HAD ENOUGH MONEY. 26:08 AND THERE ARE SOME THAT ARGUE THAT IN NORTH AMERICA, THE LEGAL 26:10 SYSTEM'S BECOME CORRUPT - THAT IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY 26:13 GOOD LAWYERS, YOU GET A MUCH BETTER DEFENSE. 26:16 MORE LIKELY YOU'LL BE FOUND INNOCENT THAN A POOR PERSON. 26:18 AND I THINK SOME HAVE SHOWN THAT, STATISTICALLY. 26:23 BUT DO WE ALSO SEE, IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD, PEOPLE SELLING 26:30 SALVATION? YOU EVER FLIP THROUGH THE CHANNELS AND SEEN A 26:36 TELEVANGELIST - NOT THIS ONE (LAUGHTER) - THAT WERE SAYING - 26:40 THEY'RE WEARING THE, YOU KNOW, THE GOLD ROLEX AND THE GAUDY 26:45 CLOTHES AND THE GAUDY STAGE AND THEY'RE SAYING THAT IF YOU'D 26:49 SEND IN YOUR SEED FAITH, GOD IS GOING TO BLESS YOU AND IF YOU 26:52 JUST HAVE ENOUGH FAITH YOU WILL BE HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND WISE. 26:55 AND THE WAY THAT YOU PROVE YOU'VE GOT FAITH, YOU JUST WRITE 26:58 OUT A CHECK AND MAIL IT TO THIS ADDRESS. 27:01 ANY OF YOU RUN INTO THAT BEFORE? >>YES. 27:03 >>AND IT'S - I GUESS THE GENERIC TERM FOR IT IS THEY CALL IT 27:07 'PROSPERITY PREACHING' - BUT THEY'RE MAKING MERCHANDISE OF 27:10 THE GOSPEL. I'VE ALSO HEARD IT CALLED THE 'BLAB IT AND GRAB IT 27:18 PREACHING' (LAUGHTER) AND, YOU KNOW, THEY 27:23 CALL IT 'CLAIM IT THEOLOGY' BUT, BASICALLY, WHAT THEY'RE DOING 27:28 IS THEY ARE - THEY'RE MAKING MERCHANDISE AND TURNING THE 27:32 HOUSE OF GOD INTO A DEN OF THIEVES. 27:34 IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY, AND YOU CAN'T SELL THE GOSPEL. 27:38 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER - MATTER OF FACT, I WANT YOU TO 27:40 READ THAT ONE - GO AHEAD, READ YOUR VERSE NEXT, ALBERTO, 27:43 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT. 27:45 >>ACTS 3:6, "THEN PETER SAID, 'SILVER AND GOLD I DO NOT HAVE, 27:50 BUT WHAT I DO HAVE I GIVE YOU: IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OF 27:54 NAZARETH, RISE UP AND WALK.'" >>YOU REMEMBER WHEN PETER GOES 27:59 TO THE GOLDEN GATE - AND THIS IS ACTS CHAPTER 3 - AND THERE'S 28:01 THIS MAN WHO'S BEGGING THERE - AND YOU READ THE WHOLE STORY 28:05 FROM THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES AND HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT TO 28:08 JERUSALEM, HOPING THAT JESUS WOULD HEAL HIM. 28:12 HE HAD COME FROM A LONG DISTANCE. 28:13 BY THE TIME HE GOT THERE, THOUGH, HE FOUND OUT THAT THE 28:16 ONE HE HAD BEEN HOPING FOR HAD BEEN EXECUTED. AND SO, HE 28:19 THOUGHT ALL OF HIS HOPE WAS GONE. SO HE'S AT THE GOLD GATE, 28:22 SOME PEOPLE HAD PITY ON HIM AND THEY WOULD CARRY HIM TO THE 28:24 GOLDEN GATE AND HE WOULD SIT THERE AND HE'D BEG. 28:26 AND HE SEES PETER AND JOHN GOING INTO THE TEMPLE AND THEY PAUSE 28:32 AND LOOK AT HIM AND HE'S THINKING, 'OH, I'LL' - YOU KNOW, 28:36 HALF THE BATTLE IS IF YOU CAN GET THEIR ATTENTION WHEN YOU'RE 28:38 PANHANDLING - JUST TALK TO THEM. TELL THEM WHAT YOUR NEEDS ARE. 28:41 YOU KNOW, IF YOU GET THE SYMPATHY ENOUGH WHERE THEY'LL 28:42 SLOW DOWN, THEN YOU'VE GOT A CHANCE. 28:46 SO WHEN PETER AND JOHN LOOK AT HIM HE THINKS, 'OKAY, I'VE GOT A 28:48 CHANCE HERE.' AND THEN PETER REALIZES 'HE MISUNDERSTANDS WHY 28:52 WE'RE STOPPING AND LOOKING AT HIM. 28:54 HE'S THINKING WE'RE GOING TO GIVE HIM SOME SPARE CHANGE.' I 28:58 USED TO PANHANDLE AND THAT'S WHAT WE'D SAY, 'WOULD YOU HAVE 29:01 ANY SPARE CHANGE?' AND A LITTLE TIP: IF YOU WANT 29:06 TO DO WELL PANHANDLING, GET A PUPPY. (LAUGHTER) 29:10 BECAUSE I FOUND THAT IF I SAID, 'COULD YOU PLEASE HELP? 29:14 I HAVE NO FOOD FOR MY PUPPY.' 29:16 >>AWW. >>PEOPLE OFTEN CARED A LOT MORE 29:18 ABOUT THE PUPPY THAN THE PERSON. IT'S TRUE. 29:22 AND SO WE HAD A PUPPY WHEN I LIVED ON THE STREETS, THAT WE'D 29:24 PASS AROUND. ONE PERSON WOULD PANHANDLE WITH 29:27 THE PUPPY AND SAY, 'COULD I BORROW THE PUPPY?' 29:29 THE OTHER PERSON'D PANHANDLE WITH THE PUPPY. 29:33 BUT - SO, HE'S EXPECTING SPARE CHANGE. 29:37 BUT WHY IS HE BEGGING? IS HE BEGGING BECAUSE HE'S POOR 29:39 OR IS HE BEGGING BECAUSE HE'S CRIPPLED? 29:42 SO IS HIS PROBLEM A LACK OF MONEY OR IS HIS PROBLEM HIS 29:47 CRIPPLED LIMBS? AND SO, WHEN PETER STOPS, HE'S 29:51 INTERESTED IN GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE REAL PROBLEM. 29:53 IT'S NOT JUST TODAY'S PROBLEM, IT'S A PROBLEM THAT'S GOING TO 29:57 BOTHER HIM FOR A LONG TIME. SO OFTEN WHEN WE PRAY, WE ASK 30:01 FOR JUST OUR IMMEDIATE NEEDS INSTEAD OF WHAT THE REAL 30:03 NEED IS, AND PETER SEES HE MISUNDERSTANDS AND HE SAYS, 30:08 'SILVER AND GOLD I DON'T HAVE.' NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK LOOKED - 30:09 WHAT DO YOU THINK HIS EXPRESSION LOOKED LIKE WHEN HE SAID THAT? 30:13 OH YEAH. AND WHAT IF PETER HAD SAID, 'LOOK, BUT I'M GOING TO 30:17 PREACH TO YOU'? I'VE STOPPED BEFORE, WHERE I SAW PEOPLE WERE 30:24 PANHANDLING - I DIDN'T REALLY - SOMETIMES ALL I HAD WAS A CREDIT 30:27 CARD - AND I SEEMED - BUT I HAD A TRACT. 30:31 OR, YOU KNOW, I PICKED UP A HITCHHIKER, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, 30:35 AND I SAID, 'HERE, I'VE GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU'. 30:36 AND THEY GET ALL EXCITED AND SAY - IT'S A BOOK - AND THEY LOOK 30:38 DISAPPOINTED - 'I DON'T WANT A BOOK!' 30:43 - 'I'VE GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU.' AND SO THE LAST THING THAT HE'S 30:48 EXPECTING IS A TRACT, BUT HE SAID, "SILVER AND GOLD I DO NOT 30:52 HAVE, BUT WHAT I DO HAVE I GIVE YOU: IN THE NAME OF JESUS...RISE 30:56 UP AND WALK." NOW, DID IT WORK? >>AMEN. 30:59 >>WAS IT JUST BECAUSE PETER SAID IT, OR DID THAT MAN HAVE FAITH? 31:04 >>HE HAD FAITH AND HE GOT UP AND HE NOT ONLY WALKED, HE WALKED 31:07 AND HE JUMPED AND HE LEAPT AND HE WAS SHOUTING AND HE WENT INTO 31:11 THE TEMPLE AND HE WAS PRAISING GOD HE WAS SO EXCITED - AND 31:14 CREATED SUCH A RUCKUS IT DREW A BIG CROWD AND EVENTUALLY PETER 31:18 AND JOHN WERE BROUGHT BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN AS THOUGH THEY HAD 31:21 COMMITTED A CRIMINAL ACT, BECAUSE THEY HAD HEALED THIS 31:25 MAN, IN JESUS' NAME. BUT ANYWAY, SO WHEN PETER SAYS, 31:28 'YOU WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS LIKE SILVER 31:30 AND GOLD', HE'S SAYING THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL IS WORTH 31:34 MUCH MORE THAN THAT. LOOK IN ACTS 8, CHAPTER 18 - 31:39 ACTS 8 - NO, SORRY, ACTS CHAPTER 8, VERSE 18. 31:44 THIS IS ANOTHER FAMILIAR STORY AND I DON'T WANT TO OVER DWELL 31:47 ON THIS, BUT IT IS WORTHY OF OUR MENTION. 31:52 "AND WHEN SIMON" - REMEMBER, SIMON IS THIS SORCERER WHO'S 31:55 BEEN CONVERTED - AT LEAST OSTENSIBLY HE'S BEEN CONVERTED 31:57 BY THE PREACHING OF PETER AND MAYBE PHILIP - "AND WHEN SIMON 32:01 SAW THAT THROUGH THE LAYING ON OF THE APOSTLES' HANDS THE HOLY 32:06 SPIRIT WAS GIVEN, HE OFFERED THEM MONEY, SAYING, 'GIVE ME 32:10 THIS POWER ALSO, THAT ANYONE ON WHOM I LAY HANDS MAY RECEIVE THE 32:14 HOLY SPIRIT.'" WELL, BECAUSE WHEN HE OPERATED AS A MAGICIAN 32:18 AND A SORCERER BEFORE, HE ALWAYS SAID, 'LOOK, I CAN SELL THIS TO 32:21 YOU.' YOU COULD MAKE A PROFIT ON THIS. 32:23 THAT'S HOW HE GOT HIS INCOME. IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON, IN 32:26 BIBLE TIMES, FOR YOU TO PAY, ESPECIALLY AMONG THE PAGANS. 32:31 IF YOU WANTED SOME MIRACLE, OR IF YOU WANTED SOME PRAYER FROM 32:34 THE PRIEST, YOU MADE AN OFFERING. 32:36 WHEN NAAMAN WENT TO ELISHA TO BE HEALED, WHAT DID HE BRING WITH 32:40 HIM? A BAG OF MONEY - SILVER, GOLD, 32:44 AND CLOTHES - WELL, I THINK IT WAS MOSTLY SILVER AND CLOTHES, 32:47 BUT HE BROUGHT A LOT OF MONEY TO PAY FOR IT. 32:50 IT WAS - AND ELISHA SAID - HOW MUCH WOULD HE TAKE? 32:53 >>NOTHING. >>NONE. 32:54 THAT WAS PRETTY - THAT TOOK A LOT OF SELF CONTROL BECAUSE HE 32:57 BROUGHT ABOUT 50 MILLION DOLLARS TO PAY FOR HIS HEALING, BY 33:00 TODAY'S STANDARDS. MAYBE NOT THAT MUCH, BUT 33:02 IT WAS A LOT OF MONEY. AND - BUT HE WOULDN'T TAKE 33:06 ANYTHING BECAUSE IT WAS A SYMBOL OF SALVATION, WHICH IS FREE. 33:10 AND SO SIMON, HE'S, YOU KNOW, A SAMARITAN AND HE THINKS THAT, 33:15 'OH YEAH, THIS IS GREAT POWER SO HERE, I'LL GIVE YOU MONEY - THIS 33:18 IS, YOU KNOW, HOW - IT'S A LITTLE HONORARIUM THAT I'LL PAY 33:20 YOU IN ORDER TO GET THIS POWER SO THAT I CAN LAY MY HANDS ON 33:23 PEOPLE TOO AND THEY'LL GIVE ME OFFERINGS TO RECEIVE THE HOLY 33:26 SPIRIT.' AND WHAT WAS PETER'S REACTION? 33:29 DID HE JUST GENTLY TELL HIM 'NO, LET ME EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU'? 33:32 OR DID HE COME OUT PRETTY STRONGLY? 33:35 HE SAYS IN PRETTY PLAIN TERMS - "BUT PETER SAID TO HIM," - I'M 33:40 IN VERSE 20 - "YOUR MONEY PERISH WITH YOU," - NOW SOME VERSIONS 33:44 TRANSLATE THAT IN A VERY STRONG WAY - "BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THAT 33:48 THE GIFT OF GOD COULD BE PURCHASED WITH MONEY!" 33:52 - HOW MUCH MONEY WILL YOU GIVE FOR THE LIFE OF CHRIST? 33:56 CAN IT BE BOUGHT WITH SILVER AND GOLD? NO. COLOSSIANS 1:13 - IT 34:03 SAYS, "HE HAS DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS AND 34:06 CONVEYED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF THE SON OF HIS LOVE, IN WHOM WE 34:10 HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS." 34:15 AND SO, JESUS, OUR SACRIFICE, IT'S THROUGH HIS BLOOD THAT WE 34:20 HAVE FORGIVENESS. CHRIST IS OUR SUBSTITUTE. 34:24 AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN SOMEBODY, IF THEY GIVE YOUR - THEIR CHILD - 34:29 YOU JUST CAN'T REALLY PUT A MONETARY AMOUNT ON THAT. 34:33 AND THIS IS WHAT PETER WAS TALKING ABOUT. 34:36 ALRIGHT - AND THEN THE NEXT SECTION HE TALKS ABOUT THE 34:38 PASSION OF JESUS , AND WE'VE GOT A COUPLE VERSES HERE. 34:41 SOMEONE IS GOING TO LOOK UP, FOR ME, IN JUST A MOMENT, 34:43 ACTS 10:39. OKAY. 34:46 FIRST I'D LIKE TO READ 1 PETER 2:21 TO 25, "FOR TO THIS YOU 34:52 WERE CALLED, BECAUSE CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED FOR US, LEAVING US AN 34:57 EXAMPLE, THAT YOU SHOULD FOLLOW HIS STEPS: 'WHO COMMITTED NO 35:01 SIN,'" - NOW I WANT TO JUST STOP THERE - THERE ARE A COUPLE OF 35:04 VERY IMPORTANT POINTS PETER IS MAKING. 35:07 ONE IS, THERE'S SUFFERING IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 35:12 I REMEMBER VISITING WITH A BROTHER WHO WAS A BELIEVER AND 35:21 INVOLVED IN MINISTRY - HAD A TRAVELING MINISTRY - AND HIS 35:26 WIFE GOT ALZHEIMER'S AND IT WAS YEARS OF HIM CARING FOR HER 35:33 UNDER VERY DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES. 35:36 IT, BASICALLY, TOOK ALL OF HIS TIME. AND THEN, ON TOP OF THAT, 35:41 HE GOT CANCER AND THEN HE HAD SOME KIND OF SKIN DISEASE - 35:47 A TYPE OF VERY AGGRAVATED HIVES OR PSORIASIS, SO HE WAS - POOR 35:51 GUY WAS SUFFERING AND - JUST TERRIBLE STRUGGLES. 35:55 AND I REMEMBER TALKING TO HIM AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I READ 35:59 IN THE BIBLE THAT CHRIST SUFFERED AND IT'S A PRIVILEGE 36:03 FOR US TO SUFFER WITH HIM.' AND HE SAID, 'IT IS THROUGH MUCH 36:06 TRIBULATION WE ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.' AND THAT 'IT IS VERY 36:11 FEW OF US WILL GET TO THE KINGDOM WITHOUT TASTING SOME 36:13 SUFFERING.' WE'LL NEVER SUFFER LIKE JESUS DID, BUT HE SAID, YOU 36:17 KNOW - WHAT DID JOB SAY WHEN HE BEGAN TO SUFFER AND HIS WIFE 36:21 SAID, 'CURSE GOD AND DIE'? HOW DID JOB RESPOND? 36:25 (INAUDIBLE) HE SAID, 'YOU'RE SPEAKING LIKE ONE OF THE FOOLISH 36:28 WOMEN. SHALL WE NOT RECEIVE GOOD FROM 36:30 THE HAND OF THE LORD AND EVIL ALSO?' 36:31 - AND THE WORD 'EVIL' MEANS THAT TRIALS WILL COME. 36:36 AND HE SAID, 'YOU CAN'T JUST PRAISE GOD WHEN EVERYTHING IS 36:39 GOOD, YOU NEED TO PRAISE GOD EVEN WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH 36:42 TRIALS. WE ARE THE BEST WITNESSES WHEN 36:45 WE CAN PRAISE GOD THROUGH OUR TRIALS. 36:48 IT'S REALLY EASY TO PRAISE GOD WHEN EVERYTHING'S GOING FINE, 36:51 BUT WHEN YOU CAN PRAISE GOD WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A TRIAL - 36:54 AND THAT, SEE, I NEVER REALLY FORGOT WHAT THAT BROTHER TOLD 36:57 ME. I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU HIS 36:58 NAME BECAUSE MANY OF YOU WOULD RECOGNIZE HIS NAME. 37:02 BUT I NEVER FORGOT WHAT HE SAID BECAUSE I, PERSONALLY, KNEW HIM 37:05 - I KNEW HOW MUCH HE WAS STRUGGLING AT HOME, PHYSICALLY - 37:09 HE ULTIMATELY DIED FROM HIS ILLNESS, BUT HE NEVER 37:13 COMPLAINED. AND I THOUGHT, 'WOW, IF I WAS 37:16 GOING THROUGH WHAT HE WENT THROUGH, I WONDER IF I COULD 37:17 HAVE THE SAME POSITIVE ATTITUDE. AND HERE PETER IS TRYING TO 37:21 ENCOURAGE THE BELIEVERS. HE SAYS, 'REMEMBER, YOU WERE 37:25 CALLED TO THIS BECAUSE CHRIST SUFFERED FOR US.' 37:29 NOW HOW MANY BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE BEEN CALLED TO SUFFER? 37:36 CHRIST SAID, 'WHOEVER WOULD COME AFTER ME, LET HIM TAKE UP HIS' - 37:38 WHAT? >>CROSS. 37:40 >>HIS VIBRATING LOUNGE CHAIR? (LAUGHTER) NO. WHAT IS A CROSS? 37:45 IS A CROSS COMFORTABLE? A CROSS INVOLVES SELF-DENIAL. 37:51 AND THE - YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY - I DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK THAT 37:53 WHEN PETER TALKS ABOUT SUFFERING - I THINK WE ADDRESSED THIS 37:56 BEFORE - THAT WE'RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT SOME TYPE OF 37:58 PHYSICAL AGONY OR SOME KIND OF SICKNESS. 38:03 THE WAY THAT A LOT OF US SUFFER IS JUST THE TRIALS OF LIFE - THE 38:07 FIGHT AGAINST EVIL. THERE'S A BATTLE. 38:10 MOST OF JESUS' LIFE - THE TRIALS THAT HE SUFFERED - I MEAN, YOU 38:13 THINK ABOUT THE CROSS - THE CROSS WAS A FEW HOURS AT THE 38:15 END. SIX HOURS OUT OF 33 YEARS. 38:20 BUT MOST OF THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST'S LIFE WAS THE CONSTANT 38:23 BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL AND THAT'S - WHEN YOU DECIDE TO FOLLOW 38:27 JESUS, YOU INVITE THE WRATH OF THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. 38:33 ALRIGHT, ENOUGH ABOUT THAT. I DON'T WANT TO DISCOURAGE YOU. 38:36 ISN'T THIS A TERRIBLE MARKETING PROGRAM? 38:38 (LAUGHTER) COME FOLLOW JESUS AND SUFFER. 38:42 YOU KNOW WHAT A LOT OF PASTORS ARE DOING? 38:45 THEY'RE TRYING TO CHANGE THE GOSPEL AND SAY, 'COME FOLLOW 38:48 JESUS. YOU'LL BE HEALTHY, YOU'LL BE 38:50 WEALTHY, YOU'LL BE WISE, YOU'LL BE BLESSED, YOU'LL BE HAPPY' 38:53 - AND THERE IS SOME OF THAT. IT IS - THE GOSPEL IS GOOD NEWS, 38:58 BUT THEY TRY TO MAKE - YOU KNOW, THEY PUT OUT SURVEYS AND 39:01 THEY FIND OUT 'WHAT DOES THE COMMUNITY WANT?' 39:04 AND IT SAYS, 'WELL, THE COMMUNITY, THEY DON'T WANT TO 39:06 DRESS UP WHEN THEY COME TO CHURCH'. 39:08 AND THEY SAY, 'OH, DON'T DRESS UP.' AND THE COMMUNITY, THEY'D 39:10 COME TO CHURCH, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TIME TO GET A BREAKFAST. 39:12 'YOU COME. WE'LL GIVE YOU DONUTS AND 39:13 COFFEE.' AND THEY SAID, 'THEY'D COME TO CHURCH BUT SOMETIMES 39:16 IT'S BORING.' 'WE WILL ENTERTAIN YOU.' AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, YOU 39:19 KNOW, WE'D LIKE TO COME, BUT' - AND SO, WHAT THEY'RE DOING IN A 39:22 LOT OF THE CHURCHES IS THEY'RE BASICALLY JUST TRYING TO MAKE 39:25 THE CHURCH MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY, AND SO, THEY'RE - 39:30 BUT IS THAT THE GOSPEL? >>NO. 39:32 >>SO IT'S AMAZING THAT CHRIST SAID, 'TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND 39:36 FOLLOW ME' AND A MARKETING SPECIALIST WOULD HAVE LOOKED AT 39:39 HIS PROGRAM AND SAID, 'THAT'S NEVER GOING TO FLY.' 39:44 SO WHY WAS IT SO SUCCESSFUL? 39:47 BECAUSE HE SAID, 'I LOVE YOU AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ETERNAL 39:53 LIFE AND YOU WILL HAVE ULTIMATE SATISFACTION BECAUSE YOU WILL 39:58 LOVE GOD AND YOU'LL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.' AND HE REALLY GOT TO 40:00 THE CORE NEED OF EVERY HUMAN SOUL. 40:03 IT WASN'T THE SUPERFICIAL BUSINESS THAT A LOT OF CHURCHES 40:05 ARE DOING TODAY TO TRY AND GET A GROUP TOGETHER. 40:08 YOU KNOW, WE COULD GREATLY INCREASE OUR ATTENDANCE HERE - 40:14 BRING DONUTS, TURN UP THE VOLUME, SHOW VIDEOS, AND GIVE 40:21 EVERYBODY THAT COMES A HUNDRED DOLLARS EVERY DAY THAT THEY 40:25 COME, AND WE COULD INCREASE ATTENDANCE. 40:27 DO YOU KNOW, IT'S A FACT THAT YOU ALWAYS HAVE A BETTER 40:29 ATTENDANCE WHEN THERE'S A CHURCH POTLUCK? 40:33 THERE ARE STILL SOME WHO COME FOR THE LOAVES AND THE FISH. 40:39 I HOPE I DIDN'T OFFEND ANYBODY BY SAYING THAT. 40:45 ALRIGHT, MOVING RIGHT ALONG HERE - OH, LET ME KEEP READING. 40:49 "FOR TO THIS YOU WERE CALLED BECAUSE CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED FOR 40:51 US, LEAVING US AN EXAMPLE, THAT YOU SHOULD FOLLOW HIS STEPS: 40:55 'WHO COMMITTED NO SIN,'" - THAT'S ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT 40:58 POINT: IF YOU'VE EVER WONDERED 'WAS CHRIST SINLESS?' 41:00 PETER'S PRETTY CLEAR HERE, WASN'T HE? - 41:03 "'NOR WAS DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH'; WHO WHEN HE WAS REVILED, 41:07 DID NOT REVILE IN RETURN;" - NOW PETER IS SAYING 41:09 'THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WE SHOULD ACT'. - 41:11 "WHEN HE SUFFERED, HE DID NOT THREATEN," - HE DID NOT 41:14 RETALIATE - BUT COMMITTED HIMSELF TO HIM WHO JUDGES 41:17 RIGHTEOUSLY; WHO HIMSELF BORE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE 41:24 TREE," - HE BORE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE - THIS IS 41:29 TALKING ABOUT THE PASSION OF CHRIST. 41:34 SO, CAN YOU COMPREHEND THAT? ALRIGHT, LET'S JUST SEE HERE: 41:40 IMAGINE THAT YOU HAD TO SUFFER FOR ANOTHER PERSON. 41:46 WE COULD PROBABLY IMAGINE A SCENARIO WHERE YOU'VE DONE 41:50 SOMETHING WRONG AND ANOTHER PERSON SAYS, 'I'LL TAKE YOUR 41:52 PUNISHMENT' AND SO THEY TAKE YOUR TEN LASHES OR YOUR FIVE 41:56 MONTHS IN JAIL OR WHATEVER IT IS. 42:00 SUFFERING FOR TWO PEOPLE, WELL THAT WOULD BE PRETTY HARD. 42:03 SUFFERING FOR A HUNDRED - THAT'S HARD FOR US TO COMPREHEND. 42:09 SUFFERING FOR A MILLION PEOPLE - OUR MINDS CAN'T REALLY WRAP 42:13 AROUND THAT. SUFFERING FOR A BILLION PEOPLE - 42:18 NOW WE'RE JUST KIND OF OUT THERE - AND HOW DO YOU CONCENTRATE ALL 42:23 OF THE SUFFERING THAT MIGHT BE DESERVED BY A BILLION REBELS AND 42:28 SAY, 'I WILL TAKE ALL THAT PAIN IN MY BODY ON THE CROSS'? 42:34 WE CAN'T COMPREHEND THAT. BUT THE ONLY WAY A PERSON COULD 42:38 DO THAT IS THEY'D HAVE TO SUFFER LIKE ONLY A GOD COULD SUFFER. 42:44 AND SO JESUS, HE DIDN'T JUST SUFFER LIKE A MAN ON THE CROSS, 42:47 HE SUFFERED LIKE GOD BECAME A MAN ON THE CROSS, "WHO BORE OUR 42:51 SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE, THAT WE, HAVING DIED TO 42:56 SINS," - NOW PAUL TALKS ABOUT THAT - "MIGHT LIVE FOR 42:59 RIGHTEOUSNESS" - NOW, IN CASE THERE ARE SOME LISTENING WHO 43:05 BELIEVE THE NEW THEOLOGY THAT JESUS DIDN'T SAVE US FROM OUR 43:08 SIN, HE JUST KIND OF GIVES US A LICENSE OF FORGIVENESS SO WE CAN 43:12 CONTINUE IN SIN, PETER'S PRETTY CLEAR HE TOOK OUR SINS IN HIS 43:16 OWN BODY SO THAT WE, WHO ARE NOW DEAD TO SIN - PAUL SAYS IN 43:21 ROMANS 6, 'HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREE'. 43:25 IF WE'RE DEAD TO SIN WE'RE FREE FROM IT. 43:29 HE WANTS US TO LIVE AS THOUGH WE ARE DEAD TO SIN, WHO WALKED NOT 43:32 AFTER THE FLESH BUT AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS - "BY WHOSE 43:36 STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED. FOR YOU WERE LIKE SHEEP GOING 43:40 ASTRAY, BUT HAVE NOW RETURNED TO THE SHEPHERD AND OVERSEER OF 43:43 YOUR SOULS." PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST 43:45 POWERFUL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE THAT OUTLINES THE PASSION OF 43:51 CHRIST IS ACTUALLY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 43:54 AND, IF YOU LOOK IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 53, YOU KNOW WE'VE JUST 43:59 STARTED RECORDING, THIS WEEK, A NEW DVD AND WE'VE GOT A WHOLE 44:05 SECTION IN THE DVD ABOUT THIS. GO TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 53 - 44:10 "WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM 44:13 OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED? FOR HE SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM 44:16 AS A TENDER PLANT, AND AS A ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND. HE HAS NO 44:20 FORM OR COMELINESS; AND WHEN WE SEE HIM, THERE IS NO BEAUTY THAT 44:23 WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM." - AND HERE'S WHERE IT BEGINS - "HE IS 44:26 DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN, A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED 44:31 WITH GRIEF. AND WE HID, AS IT WERE, OUR FACES FROM HIM; HE WAS 44:35 DESPISED, AND WE DID NOT ESTEEM HIM. 44:39 SURELY HE HAS BORN OUR GRIEFS AND CARRIED OUR SORROWS; YET WE 44:43 ESTEEMED HIM STRICKEN, SMITTEN BY GOD, AND AFFLICTED. 44:46 BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSION, HE WAS BRUISED 44:50 FOR OUR INIQUITIES; THE CHASTISEMENT OF OUR PEACE WAS 44:53 UPON HIM, AND BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED." 44:56 DIDN'T PETER JUST REFER TO THAT? >>YES. 44:59 >>THROUGH WHOSE STRIPES WE ARE HEALED - "ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE 45:02 GONE ASTRAY; WE HAVE TURNED, EVERY ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY; AND 45:05 THE LORD HAS LAID UPON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL." 45:08 THERE'S THE GOSPEL. WE'VE ALL TURNED ASTRAY AND THE 45:12 LORD PUT ALL OF OUR INIQUITY UPON HIM. THAT OUGHT TO TOUCH 45:16 YOUR HEART AND, OUT OF LOVE FOR HIM, IMPRESS WITHIN YOU A DESIRE 45:21 TO FOLLOW HIM. WELL I - I'M NOT GOING TO READ ALL OF THAT 45:24 BECAUSE WE WON'T HAVE TIME. LET ME SEE HERE - I THINK 45:28 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR US, A VERSE IN - WHAT WAS IT? 45:31 ACTS 10:39. >>"AND WE ARE WITNESSES OF ALL 45:35 THINGS WHICH HE DID BOTH IN THE LAND OF THE JEWS AND IN 45:40 JERUSALEM, WHOM THEY SLEW AND HANGED ON A TREE." 45:44 >>NOW, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT THIS: PETER 45:48 ESPECIALLY LOVES THE TERM 'HANGED ON A TREE'. 45:53 YOU NOTICE THAT WE JUST READ THAT HERE? 45:56 THAT YOU GO TO ACTS 5:30 - "THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS RAISED UP 46:00 JESUS WHOM YOU MURDERED BY HANGING ON A TREE." 46:03 AND, YEAH, I THINK THERE'S ANOTHER PLACE - YEAH, THERE'S AT 46:08 LEAST THREE PLACES WHERE PETER SAYS THAT. 46:12 ANY OF YOU EVER DONE A BIBLE STUDY WITH JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES? 46:17 IF YOU LIVE IN A SUBURB, I'M SURE THEY'VE BEEN AT YOUR DOOR. 46:20 ONE OF THE POINTS THAT THEY FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT IS JESUS DID 46:23 NOT DIE ON A CROSS, AND THEY MAKE A BIG ARGUMENT THAT JESUS 46:27 DIED ON A TORTURE STAKE. I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT THE 46:32 POINT IS OF ARGUING THAT, BECAUSE HOW WOULD THAT CHANGE 46:37 THE PLAN OF SALVATION TO SAY THAT YOU DIED WITH YOUR HANDS 46:41 LIKE THIS, AS OPPOSED TO OVER YOUR HEAD? 46:44 THEY CAN MAKE AN ARGUMENT THAT THERE WERE OCCASIONS WHERE 46:49 ROMANS CRUCIFIED PEOPLE ON A STAKE, BUT THERE'S ALSO PLENTY 46:55 OF EVIDENCE, BOTH IN ANCIENT ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY THAT THEY WERE 46:59 CRUCIFIED EITHER ON A T OR THE TRADITIONAL CROSS. 47:03 THAT DOESN'T MATTER. WE BELIEVE JESUS - IT WAS A 47:06 TRADITIONAL CROSS BECAUSE THEY NAILED SOMETHING ABOVE HIS HEAD 47:10 AND CHRIST SAID TO PETER, 'WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG YOU GIRD YOURSELF 47:14 AND YOU GO WHERE YOU WANT' - THIS IS JOHN 20? 47:17 21 - 'BUT WHEN YOU'RE OLD ANOTHER WILL GIRD YOU AND YOU 47:19 WILL STRETCH FORTH YOUR HANDS.' NOW YOU MIGHT STRETCH FORTH YOUR 47:23 HANDS LIKE THAT AND YOU MIGHT STRETCH FORTH YOUR HANDS LIKE 47:25 THAT, BUT YOU WOULD NOT STRETCH FORTH YOUR HANDS UP. 47:28 AND SO, WE BELIEVE PETER AND JESUS, THEY WERE CRUCIFIED. 47:31 BUT THEY MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT THAT. BUT IT IS TRUE THAT JESUS 47:34 DIED, IT SAYS, ON A TREE. WHY DOES PETER KEEP 47:37 EMPHASIZING THE TREE? THREE TIMES, AT LEAST - THAT I 47:40 KNOW OF - HE SAYS HE DIED ON A TREE. 47:43 IF YOU LOOK IN DEUTERONOMY - NOW WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE 47:45 PASSION OF CHRIST - DEUTERONOMY 21 AND YOU LOOK IN VERSE - 47:50 SORRY, CHAPTER 21, VERSES 22 AND 23 - MOSES IS GOING THROUGH THE 47:54 LAWS, "IF A MAN HAS COMMITTED A SIN DESERVING OF DEATH, AND HE 47:57 IS PUT TO DEATH, AND YOU HANG HIM ON A TREE," - EVIDENTLY THEY 48:00 BELIEVED IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BACK THEN - "HIS BODY SHALL NOT 48:04 REMAIN OVERNIGHT ON THE TREE, BUT YOU SHALL SURELY BURY HIM 48:07 THAT DAY, SO THAT YOU DO NOT DEFILE THE LAND WHICH THE LORD 48:11 YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU AS AN INHERITANCE; FOR HE WHO IS 48:14 HANGED IS ACCURSED OF GOD." NOW, YOU REALIZE THAT THAT IS 48:19 QUOTED BY PAUL IN GALATIANS AND REFERENCED BY PETER? 48:25 GALATIANS 3:13, "CHRIST HAS REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF 48:30 THE LAW, HAVING BECOME A CURSE FOR US (FOR IT IS WRITTEN, 48:35 'CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE')," - YOU SEE THE 48:40 CONNECTION HERE? SO WHY IS PETER EMPHASIZING 48:43 JESUS DIED ON THE TREE? HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT 48:45 PEOPLE MAKE A CONNECTION THAT HE TOOK THE CURSE FOR US. 48:49 THIS IS WHAT PAUL IS EMPHASIZING HERE. 48:51 AND, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS - JUST A LITTLE PERSONAL THING - OFTEN 48:54 YOU SEE, IN THE FRONT OF THESE CHURCHES, THEY'LL HAVE A 48:56 CROSS AND THE CROSS IS USUALLY VERY NICE, YOU KNOW, PLANED 6X6 49:01 OR 8X8 LUMBER. THE ROMANS NEVER USED 49:04 QUALITY MATERIAL LIKE THAT. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS 49:07 TO MILL LUMBER BACK THEN? THEY HAD TO SAW IT BY HAND. 49:09 THEY DID HAVE SAWN BOARDS BUT IT WAS A - VERY LABOR INTENSIVE FOR 49:14 THEM TO SAW A BOARD. THEY DID NOT USE THAT 49:16 ON THEIR CRIMINALS. WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED PEOPLE, 49:20 THEY JUST CUT DOWN A TREE. THEY MADE AN INTERSECTION IN THE 49:22 TREE - THERE MIGHT STILL BE BARK ON IT - AND THEY'RE STRAPPED 49:25 TOGETHER AND THEN THEY HUNG PEOPLE ON IT. 49:29 JOSEPHUS TALKS ABOUT WHEN THE ROMANS DESTROYED JERUSALEM. 49:31 HE SAID, 'YOU COULDN'T FIND A TREE ANYWHERE AROUND THE CITY 49:33 BECAUSE THEY HAD CRUCIFIED SO MANY OF THE JEWS THAT REBELLED. 49:37 THEY DEFORESTED THE AREA AROUND JUDAH. 49:40 THEY DID NOT MILL ALL OF THAT LUMBER. 49:43 SO JESUS DIED ON A PRETTY CRUDE PIECE OF TREE. 49:48 ANOTHER REASON I EMPHASIZE THAT IS HOW WAS IT THAT ZACCHEUS SAW 49:52 JESUS? >>HE CLIMBED A TREE. 49:54 >>CLIMBED A TREE. HOW DO WE SEE JESUS? 49:57 WE TAKE UP OUR CROSS. WE CLIMB A TREE - AND 50:00 WE WILL SEE CHRIST. AND SO, I'VE GOT MY OWN TREE 50:03 THEOLOGY I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW ABOUT. 50:06 THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS . 50:10 "BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER" - THIS IS 1 PETER 1:3, "BLESSED 50:15 BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO ACCORDING 50:18 TO HIS ABUNDANT MERCY HAD BEGOTTEN US AGAIN TO A LIVING 50:21 HOPE THROUGH THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST FROM THE DEAD, TO 50:25 AN INHERITANCE INCORRUPTIBLE AND UNDEFILED AND THAT DOES NOT FADE 50:29 AWAY, RESERVED IN HEAVEN FOR YOU," - HE TALKS ABOUT THIS 50:33 LIVING HOPE AND HE'S OFTEN EMPHASIZING, YOU KNOW, 'THIS IS 50:37 REASON TO BE ENCOURAGED BECAUSE WE HAVE A LIVING GOD. 50:40 AGAIN, 1 PETER 1:21, "WHO THROUGH HIM BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO 50:48 RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD AND GAVE HIM GLORY, SO THAT YOUR 50:52 FAITH AND HOPE ARE IN GOD." HOW CERTAIN WAS PETER THAT JESUS 50:57 LIVED AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION? >>POSITIVE. 51:02 >>WHAT EVIDENCE - WHAT MORE EVIDENCE COULD PETER HAVE ASKED 51:05 FOR THAT JESUS WAS ALIVE? FIRST OF ALL, HE KNOWS HE WAS DEAD. 51:10 HE WAS AT THE CROSS. HE WAS AT THE TOMB. 51:14 HE CAME TO THE TOMB WHEN IT WAS EMPTY. 51:16 HE SAW JESUS PERSONALLY. HE ATE WITH HIM BY THE SEA. 51:20 HE ATE WITH HIM IN THE UPPER ROOM. 51:22 HE KNEW JESUS WAS ALIVE. HE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH HIM. 51:25 HE WAS WITH HIM WHILE OTHERS WERE TALKING WITH HIM. 51:27 I MEAN, WHAT EVIDENCE COULD YOU ASK FOR THAT'S MORE - [PETER] 51:30 SAYING, 'I'M TELLING YOU HE DIED AND HE ROSE AGAIN'? 51:33 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME ACTS 10:40 - JUST A MOMENT. 51:37 I'M GOING TO READ ACTS 2:23 - AND THIS IS, OF COURSE, PETER'S 51:40 PENTECOST SERMON AND HE SAID, "HIM, BEING DELIVERED BY THE 51:44 DETERMINED PURPOSE AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD, YOU HAVE 51:47 TAKEN BY LAWLESS HANDS, HAVE CRUCIFIED, AND PUT TO DEATH; 51:50 WHOM GOD RAISED UP, HAVING LOOSED THE PAINS OF DEATH, 51:54 BECAUSE IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE THAT HE SHOULD BE HELD BY IT." 51:57 - AND PETER'S REFERRING TO THE STATEMENT OF DAVID, 'YOU WILL 52:00 NOT LEAVE YOUR HOLY ONE IN THE TOMB TO SUFFER CORRUPTION.' 52:04 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, PLEASE READ ACTS 10:40. 52:07 >>"HIM GOD RAISED UP ON THE THIRD DAY, AND SHOWED HIM 52:10 OPENLY, NOT TO ALL THE PEOPLE, BUT TO WITNESSES CHOSEN BEFORE 52:14 BY GOD, EVEN TO US WHO ATE AND DRANK WITH HIM AFTER HE AROSE 52:20 FROM THE DEAD." >>YEAH, HE JUST IS PRETTY CLEAR. 52:23 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU LOOK IN ACTS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 37, YOU 52:29 CAN JUST SEE ALL THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF PETER AND, YOU KNOW, 52:33 YOU FIND A NUMBER OF PETER'S SERMONS ARE IN THE BOOK OF ACTS 52:36 - YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE PETER PREACHING OTHER THAN THAT. 52:38 YOU HAVE HIM TALKING A LOT, BUT HE'S NOT REALLY PREACHING UNTIL 52:39 YOU GET TO ACTS AND YOU GET TO HIS BOOKS. 52:43 YOU LOOK IN ACTS CHAPTER 10:37, "THAT WORD YOU KNOW, WHICH AS 52:47 PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT ALL JUDEA, AND BEGAN FROM GALILEE AFTER 52:51 THE BAPTISM WHICH JOHN PREACHED:" - NOW PETER SAYS THAT 52:54 'WORD WHICH YOU KNOW' - WHO'S HE TALKING TO IN ACTS 52:56 CHAPTER 10? A JEW OR A GENTILE? 52:59 >>GENTILES. >>JEW. 53:00 >>CORNELIUS - ACTS CHAPTER 10 - HE'S TALKING TO A GENTILE AND HE 53:08 SAID, 'YOU KNOW' - 'THAT WORD YOU KNOW' - IT WAS SUCH COMMON 53:12 KNOWLEDGE THAT - WHAT HAD HAPPENED WITH CHRIST. 53:14 IT WAS THE HEADLINES. EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT IT. 53:18 HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD THAT DONALD TRUMP WAS ELECTED? 53:23 NOW DO YOU THINK THAT'S A SILLY QUESTION? 53:25 IN OUR CULTURE, WOULDN'T YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE A SILLY 53:27 RESPONSE IF SOMEONE SAID, 'WHAT? REALLY?' THAT'S NOT A POLITICAL 53:31 QUESTION, I'M JUST USING AN ILLUSTRATION HERE, YOU REALIZE. 53:35 I'M SAYING IT WAS COMMON KNOWLEDGE. 53:36 AND SO, PETER COULD EVEN SAY TO A ROMAN, 'YOU KNOW WHAT 53:40 HAPPENED' - "WHICH WAS PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT ALL JUDEA, 53:43 AND BEGAN FROM GALILEE AFTER THE BAPTISM WHICH JOHN PREACHED: HOW 53:47 GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT" - 53:51 NOW WHAT DOES THE WORD 'MESSIAH' MEAN? 53:54 THE ANOINTED - "GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY 53:57 SPIRIT" - HE IS THE MESSIAH - THE CHRIST - "WITH POWER, WHO 54:01 WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD AND HEALING ALL WHO WERE OPPRESSED 54:05 BY THE DEVIL, FOR GOD WAS WITH HIM. 54:07 AND WE ARE WITNESSES OF ALL THINGS WHICH HE DID BOTH IN THE 54:11 LAND OF THE JEWS AND IN JERUSALEM, WHOM THEY KILLED" - 54:14 HERE HE GOES AGAIN - "BY HANGING ON A TREE." 54:17 - AND I TOLD YOU, HE LIKES THAT PHRASE. 54:20 ALRIGHT, LET'S GO AHEAD AND LOOK IN - WE'RE LOOKING - ABOUT JESUS 54:26 THE MESSIAH - OF COURSE WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT ONE IN ACTS 54:29 CHAPTER 10 - PSALM 2, VERSES 2 AND 3, "THE KINGS OF THE EARTH 54:33 HAVE SET THEMSELVES, AND THE RULERS TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER, 54:37 AGAINST THE LORD AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED, SAYING, 'LET US BREAK 54:41 THEIR BONDS IN PIECES AND CAST AWAY THEIR CORDS FROM US.'" 54:44 TAKING WAR AGAINST THE ANOINTED - THIS IS WHAT THE NATIONS HAD 54:49 DONE. YOU GO TO PSALM 18:50, "GREAT DELIVERANCE HE GIVES TO 54:54 HIS KING, AND SHOWS MERCY TO HIS ANOINTED, TO DAVID AND HIS 54:58 DESCENDANTS FOREVERMORE." THIS IS A STATEMENT THAT'S, 55:01 BASICALLY, A DUAL PROPHECY ABOUT DAVID AND JESUS. 55:07 AND THEN YOU CAN LOOK IN DANIEL 9:25, "THEREFORE, NO ONE 55:11 UNDERSTAND, THAT FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE 55:14 AND BUILD JERUSALEM UNTO MESSIAH THE PRINCE, THERE WILL BE SEVEN 55:18 WEEKS AND THREE-SCORE AND TWO WEEKS;" - THAT'S A PROPHECY, 55:21 AGAIN, ABOUT THE ANOINTED. AND SO, THEY WERE ALL LOOKING 55:24 FOR THE MESSIAH TO COME AND - AND I LOOK AT THE CLOCK 55:30 AND SEE I AM OUT OF TIME. LET ME JUST CLOSE WITH THIS - 55:34 TWO VERSES - REAL QUICK - PETER SAYS HERE, "NOR IS THERE 55:38 SALVATION" - ACTS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 12 - "NOR IS THERE 55:42 SALVATION IN ANY OTHER, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER 55:46 HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED." 55:50 CAN WE BE SAVED THROUGH BUDDHA? >>NO. 55:53 >>CAN WE BE SAVED THROUGH MOHAMMAD? 55:55 >>NO. >>OR KRISHNA? 55:56 >>NO. >>OR ANY OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADER? 55:59 THERE IS NO OTHER NAME GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST BE 56:02 SAVED. IT IS ONLY THROUGH HIS NAME. 56:04 ACTS 10:43, PAUL - PETER SAYS, "TO HIM ALL THE PROPHETS WITNESS 56:10 THAT, THROUGH HIS NAME, WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL RECEIVE 56:14 REMISSION OF SINS." ISN'T THAT GOOD NEWS? WHOEVER BELIEVES, 56:18 THROUGH HIS NAME, WE CAN RECEIVE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. 56:21 WELL, I'M ENJOYING STUDYING THE BOOK OF PETER. 56:23 I WANT TO REMIND THOSE THAT, IF YOU MISSED IT AT THE BEGINNING, 56:26 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR TODAY. 56:28 IT'S CALLED THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS . 56:30 IT'S FREE - THE NUMBER TO CALL IS 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR THE 56:36 HIGH COST OF THE CROSS . GOD BLESS YOU. 56:38 WE'LL STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 56:41 (MUSIC) >>FRIENDS, ONE OF THE 56:52 AMAZING THINGS THAT YOU'LL OFTEN FIND IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC 56:55 ISLANDS, LIKE HERE ON FIJI, IS THE VAIVAI PLANT. NOW, IN NORTH 56:59 AMERICA, IF YOU WANT TO BUILD A FENCE YOU'VE GOT TO GET FENCE 57:01 POSTS AND THEN YOU PUT THE WOODEN FENCE POSTS IN THE GROUND 57:04 AND THEN AFTER A FEW YEARS THEY'RE GOING TO ROT AND BREAK 57:06 OFF, UNLESS THEY'RE SPECIALLY TREATED. BUT HERE, THEY'VE GOT 57:09 THESE TREES - THE VAIVAI TREE - THEY CAN CUT THEM RIGHT OUT OF 57:12 THE WOODS, THEY'LL TAKE A STICK, THEY STICK IT IN THE GROUND, AND 57:16 BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO MUCH RAIN AND PRECIPITATION, IT BEGINS TO 57:19 SPROUT AND TURNS INTO A LIVING FENCE POST. 57:22 IT MAKES UP ITS MIND THAT IT'S GOING TO FLOURISH WHEREVER YOU 57:24 STICK IT, WHICH IS A GOOD LESSON FOR YOU AND ME. 57:27 SO YOU MIGHT WONDER SOMETIMES IF YOU'VE GOT A PURPOSE IN LIFE. 57:30 YOU MIGHT FEEL LIKE YOU'RE GROWING SORT OF SPORADICALLY IN 57:32 EVERY DIRECTION, AND THEN ALONG COMES THIS PERSON WHO CUTS YOU 57:35 DOWN AND CARRIES YOU OFF, HE STICKS YOU IN THE GROUND BUT YOU 57:40 LOOK BACK AND SAY, 'THERE WAS A PLAN. 57:42 THERE WAS A PURPOSE.' GOD KNOWS HOW TO TEACH US HOW TO PROSPER 57:46 WHERE HE PLANTS US. YOU MIGHT WONDER WHY THE LORD 57:49 HAS PUT YOU WHERE HE HAS IN LIFE, BUT YOU CAN PUT DOWN ROOTS 57:52 AND YOU CAN GROW AND YOU CAN SERVE A GREAT PURPOSE FOR GOD. 57:55 YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE GOD SAYS IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 29, 'I KNOW THE 57:59 PLANS THAT I'VE GOT FOR YOU TO GIVE YOU A FUTURE.' GOD HAS A 58:02 PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE, FRIENDS, AND HE CAN HELP YOU TO PROSPER 58:05 AND GROW WHEREVER YOU'RE PLANTED. 58:07 (MUSIC) |
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